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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 2, NO. 14 1 Inaugural Date fSet For June 1 Former Gov. Neff, of Texas, To Be • Chief Speaker For Greenville » Occosion Greenville, April I.—The iaaugu '' ration of Dr.- L. R. Meadows as president of East Carolina Teachers College will take place on the morning of June 1, during the com mencement exercises -1 The speaker will be ex-Gov ernor, Patt M. Neff, now president of Baylor University, Waco, Texas. This is the University in which Dr. Meadows did much of his under graduate work and from which he received his A. B. degree. The alumnae, which usually have the whole of Saturday during com mencement as their day, will have their meeting in the afternoon. The . alumnae luncheon will be held as « *' usual with the guests attending the inaugural exercises as guests of hon * or. Dr. Oliver J. Hart, rector of St. John's church, Washington City ► who is chaplan of the Wenate, will preach the bacculaureate sermon on Sunday, June 2, and will take part in the Y. W. C. A., Vester services at six o'clock that evening. , The graduation exercises will take £j 4 place on Monday merning, June 3. i Following the plan of last year, there /will be no address at this hour. The opening event of commonce i ment will, as usual, be the music recital on Friday night, May 31. Other details of the inauguration exercises and commencement will be . announced later. ♦ COTILLION CLUB SETS DATE FOR FIFTY-FIFTH GERMAN Carolina Cotillion Club Announces Traditional Event For June 21 i ' * I With the setting of the date, Fri ly, June 21, as the day for the fty-fifth annual June German, hich was done at a recent raeet ig of the Carolina Cotillion club, resident Edward U. Lewis put in i motion the numerous committees hich will take up the task of per scting the details which will be ecessary to bring "about the sue !ss of the. gigantic event which will ring to Rocky Mount "thousands of embera. of society from all parts ! North Carolina, and from prac« cally every state in the Union, as IRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST "Reality" was the subjdSt of the esson-Sermon in all churches and jcieties of Christ, Scientist, on linday, March 31.' The Golden Text was from Psalms )2: 12. "Thou O Lord, shalt endure >r ever; and thy remembrance un i all generations. 1 Among the citations which com rised the Lesson-Sermon was the illowing from the Bible: "Remem sr the former things of old: for I n God, and there is none else; I n God, -and there is none like me. eclaring the end from the begin ing, and from ancient times the ingB that are not yet done, say g, My counsel shall stand, and I ill bring near my righteousness; shall not be far off, and my sal ition shall not tarry: and I will ace salvation in Zion for Israel y glory." (Isaiah 46: 9, 10, 13) EORGE R. POU GOES IN LAW PARTNERSHIP George Ross Pou, former State rison superintendent and former sistant chairman of the State ighway and Public Works Commis on, has become a member of the w firm of Abell and Shepherd, it is announced night. Pou has been practicing law in Ra igh since his defeat last year by mgressman Harold D. Cooley in a .mpaign to succeed Pou's father, e late Edward W. Pou who was member of Congress for 33 years. Colonel Ed. S. bAell and Norman shopherd have been associated in e practice of law at Smithfleld for n years. The new firm of Abell, tepherd and Pou will maintain of :es in Raleigh and Smithfleld. LOSES MUSTACHE Morgantown, W. Va.—Years ago M. Brand declared he would shave f his mustache if his first grand ild was a boy. It was—the son of s daughter, Mrs. Thomas Earl )ggess—and off went his mustache. lURIED IN COFFIN HE BUILT New £sern. —William W. Cook built s own coffin from choice cypress jed, and for the past threo years has 'stood on his front porch. The her day, however, he was buried Gross revenues of 14 railroads up ,600,000 in February. Readers, when you pur chase goods advertised In these columns tell the merchants you saw it in THE HERALD Advisory Board For Curb Market Wilson, April I.—An informal gathering of persons interested in the' local curb market has just been held with the purpose of forming an advisory board for the market. Miss Lois Rainwater, home demon stration agent presided at the gath ering. Three women customers three men customers, three sales women, and three salesmen were selected to act as the board for the coming year.. They were: Mrs. Frank Lea, Mrs. M. P. Clrurchwell, Mrs. John Gold, J. M. Fitzgerald, George Kao&ney, Elmer Oettinger, Mrs. Frank Whitley, Mrs. Charles Watson, Mrs. George Dew, William WRitehead, J. M. Poole, and k R. H. Boswell. Miss Rainwater was elect ed chairman of the board and Mrs. Dew, secretary. The boaTl will meet from time to time to conduct meetings on con structive criticise and discussion of the problems of the market. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mr. Boswell. CHESSONS SPRING PROMENADE Chesßons Will Opon a Spring Prom enade Next Week A fashion event that rivals Spring itself fn color and gayety is next week's feature at Chessons. "Tho important position that American designers have earned in recent years is again indicated by the striking display of Spring Fash ions being shown by Chessons. Each of the dresses is an exclusive de sign from the studio of Anne Wel lesley, famous American designer of young fashions for the Miss and Junior Miss." MISS JENKINS ELECTED HEAD ' OF E. C. T. C. STUDENT BODY • Rocky Mount friends of Miss El len Jenkins will be interested to know that she has been elected pres ident of the atudent government of Eastern Carolina Teachers' College. Miss Jenskins, who is the daughter 'of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jenkins, is popularly known in this city, as well as elsewhere in Eastern Caro lina. She is spending the week-end with' her parents at their home near here. AHOSKIE GIRL WINS STATE BEAUTY HONORS Winston-Salem, March 30.—Miss Nancy Jernigan, 17-year-old senior at Ahoskio High School is "Miss North Carolina." She t was selected over 65 other beautiful girls from all sections of North Carolina last night at the third annual Statewide Beauty Pag eant held at Pepper's warehouse and sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club. Miss Ruby Gillis, "Miss Durham," and Miss Mary Agnes Rogers, "Miss Creedmoor" were the runners-up in the Anals. As natural as tho day she was born, her complexion free from rouge and with only a faint trace of lipstick clinging to her lips, Miss Jernigan is the personification of natural beauty. She was entirely devoid of any of the artificial beau ty aids resorted to by so many mod ern girls and women. With a smile guaranteed to win the friendship of any person with whom she might converse, Miss Jer nigan admitted that she was "over whelmed," and sought refuge with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Jernigan, who accompanied her to Winston-Salem for the pageant. Miss Jernigan is five feet seven inches tall and weighs 126 pounds. She has dark blue eyes and a fair complexion. GYPSY TAKES $1,700 Baltimore, Md.—Acting on the ad vice of a gypsy fortune teller, who claimed she could cure her of her physical ailments, Louise Tyler, Ne gro, drew all of her money, $1,700, from the bank. Taking a handkerchief from her pocket, the gypsy woman presumably wrapped the money in it, mumbled a charm over it and gave instructions for Louise to wear the bag on her wrist overnight, which she did. When she opened the bag in the morning, she found in place of the money a neatly folded newspaper. HORSES ATTACK AUTOS Sacramento, Cal.—Exhausted after they had broken from their corral artd galloped for some distance down the road, tlrtee horses owned by John Lee rested in the middle of the high way. They refused to allow any traffic to pass, rearing in protest and damaging one automobile. They were finally captured and returned to- their stable. o SLIPS ON MAT; FALLS TWO STORIES New York.—When Dr. Qeorge Ed win Dorsey, 41, oil company official, rose from bed, he slipped on a mat, plunged through open French win dows in his apartment and fell two stories to the street. He suffered a fractured skull, and lacerations of the head and right leg. Pitman Inflationary Bonus Bill chosen by House, 202 to 191. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. APRIL 5, 1935 Plant Many Trees In North Carolina Washington, April 1. —The plant ing of 163,000,000 trees on 161,000 acres of land in 1934 was announc ed today by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree As sociation. Of the total, 85,586,000 were plant ed on 84,000 acres of state forest land and more than 78,000,000 on 77,000 acres of national forest land. Credit for the record plantings was given almost entirely to the Civilian Conservation Corps by Pack. "The 1934 plantings on national forest areas are more than three times the average planting of the years previous to 1933, at which time, owing to the creation of the CCC it was found possible to step up the planting from 24,000 acres in 1932, and about the same aver age in previous years, to 69,000 ac res in 1033 and 77,367 acres in 19- 34," he said. The planting of trees on state for est lands included. South Atlantic 656,209, divided as follows: Maryland 360,000, .Virginia 118,519, North Carolina 214,750 South Carolina 100,000. FOUR-H CLUB WORKERS HAVE DISTRICT MEETING Wilson, April 1. —Miss Edna Webb of the Edgecombe County 4-H Co.- uncil, was elected president of the council of this distfict, which in cludes Nash, Wilson, Edgecombe and Johnston counties, at a meet ing of the council held Friday night at the Charles L. Coon high school here. The meeting was attend ed by the officers of 4-H councils of the four counties, and the home demonstratipn agents and assistant farm agents of those counties. Other officers of the district council elect ed at the meeting were John F. Mobbey, Wilson county, vice-presi dent; Miss Ida Elizabeth Johnston, Johnston county, secretary; and Rus sell Pridgon, Nash county, treasur er. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Mobbey, as president of the local council and temporary chair-1 man of the district one. It was decided that the next meeting would be held in Smith field on April 19, with a program sponsored by the" Johnston county council. ———o L. B. Gunter Is Commended Raleigh, April 3.—A unanimous rising vote of appreciation and con fidence was given to L. Bruce Gun ter, director, and M. G. Mann, gen eral manager, by around 150 Wake County members of the North Caro lina Cotton' Growers Cooperative As sociation at the annual membership meeting in the court house here yes- : terday. The vote was given at the sugges tion of J. T. Shearon, prominent farmer of Wake Forest, after he had told the members that "the way in which the cotton association has been operated during the past year has bolstered my faith in coopera tive marketing." Mr. Gunter is director of the fifth district which is composed of Wake, Franklin and Warren counties. In his report to the membership Mr. Gunter pointed out that th'e associa tion during the past year has op erated on a budget which is one third less ti'an that of the preceding year and that at the same time it has handled a larger per cent of the State cotton crop. Dr. B. W. Kilgore, of Raleigh, a leader in the cooperative movement and a farmer director of the cot ton association, and J. R. Medlin, of Cary, both made short talks in which they endorsed the cotton association and the Farmers Cooperative Ex change and pledged their support to both. At the beginning of the meeting, at which R. T. Melvin presided and H. S. Britt acted as secretary, seven delegates were elected to attend the district convention in Louisburg on April 26 at which time candidates for director of the district will be nominated. The nominees will then be voted upon by postcard ballot by the entire membership in the district. The following delegates were elected: H. M. Croome, Knight dale; Frank N. Shearon, Wake For est; J. R. Medlin, Cary; J. C. Hol land, Fuquay Springs; C. L. Wrenn, Garner; W. E. Mattox, Wendell, route 2; and B. B. Turner, Raleigh, route 2. Mr. Gunter is well known in Wen dell, where he was for a number of years superintendent of schools, serving in this capacity on two dif ferent occasions. TRIPLE COLLISION Kings Langley, Hertshire, Eng land.—Debris was piled thirty feet high when a southbound freight train smashed into the wreckage of two other trains—n milk carrier and a freight which had crashed a short time before. Thousands of gallons of milk bound for London flowed like a river from the tracks. Two guards were seriously injured, a fire man scalded and the engineer of the southbound freight believed to have been killed. Nature's Greatest Experiment This picture, made ten years ago by R. H. Beck, and given out by courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, shows one of the homes on Pltcalrn island, 3,000 miles west of the coast of Chile, and the master and mistress of it. Over 200 persons reside on the island, speaking a mixture of English and Tahitlan. They are descendants of the nine British seamen and the twelve Tahltian women who landed on the island from 11. M. S. Bounty 146 years ago. Each of the 200 persons is a descend ant of the original 21. Although each person Is related to each other, as a result of this close inbreeding, no ill effects can be detecte'd, every man, asked by the Islanders, they being content to live off the land. A new museum expedition is now returning to the island, after making new finds. — What Will They Do About It? The people of Redgate Avenue recently went before the Board of Aldermen and asked that the Board provide a street or alleyway so that their children going to school at Edgemont could get from Redgate Avenue to School Street without having to go long distances out of their way to Cokey Road, where traffic is dense and dangerous to old people, and much more so to children. Yet the Board continues to refuse to grant this simple request of good citizens, tax-payers and property owners. This ward is rep resented by two aldermen, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Williamson. This street should have been opened several years back, and requests have continually come up for this street to be opened, and yet the Board refuses to take any action on this matter, with more than a quarter of a million dol lars already in Rocky Mount, which has gone in an air field, the O'Berry land, and Taylor Lake, and money at this take is being poured right into this lake. These are some of the questions that we feel the candi dates of the Board who are seeking election or re-election should answer, and we feel constrained to believe that some of these citizens are going to want to know something about these questions that are so vital. WHO WAS.OUT OF HARMONY? We notice in one of the recent editorials of the News and Observer that the editor, in commenting on the resig nation of Judge Biggs, states he thought the trouble was that the young men of the administration Hid not harmon ize with the Judge. We always have the greatest respect for these editorials, and most of the time agree with him, but, in this instance we are constrained to believe that the editor is mistaken about the Judge being out of harmony with the young men. In the instance of the judge, it looks like from what we have been able to read and learn in the newspapers, that he was out of harmony with the old men, and the nine judges of the Supreme court of the United States. And, according to press comments, the suggestion was that his work did not satisfy these judges. We agree with the distinguished editor of the News and Observer that Judge Biggs is an able man, but it is prob able that he looked after the duties of the Solicitor Gener al like he did the office of Chairman of the Board of Ele:- tions. The conduct of the Board of Election under his chairmanship, received more criticism and changes of neg lect, and even fraud was suggested in many instances by election officials, which "was never investigated by the Chairman. But in North Carolina we all knew tbe Judge and liked him, and overlooked it, but the nine judges of the Supreme Court are somewhat sufficient unto themselves, and were not as charitable as North Carolinians are. Avon Privette Sued For 50,000 A suit was filed in the Wake County Superior Court Saturday against Avon Privette, filling sta tion operator of Zebulon, asking $50,000 damages for the death of H. C. Choplin. The administrator of the dead man's estate, W. L. Chop lin brought suit. It is said that Mr. Chaplin died from result of injuries received when hit by a car driven by Mr. Privette, March 18. Mr. Chaplin was working on highway 64 near Sam Griffin's Service Station when the accident occured. Ho was rushed to Rex Hospital and died there a week later. -i After an investigation by Coroner Waring he said that Mr. Choplin's death was caused by heart trouble. And that his injuries were not the direct cause but probably contribu tary cause. The new terracing outfit being operated in Alamance County under the supervision of the farm agent has been used to terrace 120 acres of eroded fields to date. Zebulon Will Have Depository The bill introduced by Senator Weathers, creating a cash depository with a $1,500 capitalization for the Town of Zebulon has been passed. Since the failure of the Page Bank and Trust Company, Zebulon has had no banking facilities. The measure was ratified and be came a law Monday night. o RESCUED IN TWO HOURS Baltimore, Md.—ln about two hours after receiving a message that Irvin Armistead, a salesman aboard the freighter Cornelia, bound from Now York to Florida, had been seri ously injured, Lieut. Richard Burke, aviator, with a mechanic and radio operator, brought the injured man ashore and to a hospital. The ship was ninety miles at sea. o— WOMAN'S CLUB CHANGED The Womans Club meeting will be April 9th in the home of Mrs. H. F. Tunnell with Mrs. Tunnell and Mrs. Worth Dodd as hostesses at 7:80 in the evening instead of the afternoon. PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON Legislature Has Been Very Busy r Multitude Of Local And Quaai-lo cal Bills Passed -By Lawmakers. Moat Important Bills Still Pend ing In spite of the fact that the fi nance and appropriations bills have not as yet received the final approval by the General Assembly the lawmakers have passed and put on the statute books a large number of more or less important laws. Many of the bills have a purely lo cal charcater. In fact the vast ma jority of the nearly five hundred bills passed come under the cate gory of local measures. Below is partial list of the most important and interesting measures of state wide application: An act abolishing walkathons and marathon dancing contests. An act removing the tolls from tlir# Chowan, Northeast and Cape Fear river bridges in eastern North Carolina. An act prohibiting slot machines in the state. An act making an emergency ap propriation of 3,000,000 for use on the state highway system. This ii in addition to the regular appro priation carried in the appropriation bill, which has not yet passed. An act requiring every automo bile driver in North Carolina to be licensed after November 1, 1935. An act establishing a commission for the aid of the blind and mak ing an appropriation therefor. An act prohibiting nude or simi lar exhibitions within the state as indecent. An act regulating the practice of optometry or eye doctoring. An act making it obligatory on insurance companies to take all risks assigned under the workmen's compensation act. An act removing double liability from bank stock. An act authorizing the investiga tion partially made, of the state's prison camps. An act establishing a state hospi tal for tuberculosis in western North Carolina. An "act providing, for the contin uance of free employment service for the state. STATE-WIDE DRAMA CONTEST The 12th annual Drama Festival sponsored by the University of N. C. and the Carolina Dramatic Asso ciation held in Chapel Ilill was brought to a close Saturday evening with the announcement of the win ners in the finals. Frederick 11. Koch, Playmaker di rector announced winners of the three contests and Dean R. B. House presented the awards. Tabor was the winning county high school; Southern Pines the winning City High School; the Wayne Play ers of Goldsboro won among the Adult Community group, in play pro duction. Play production winner among Ju nior Colleges was Biltmore Junior College, while the winning Senior College was Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Walter Spearman, well known Charlotte news paper man and crit ic was elected President of the Car olina liramatic Association at the annual business session. Dr. E. W. Knight told of plans for a centennial pageant to be held in Chapel Hill in 1937 to celebrate the progress of education in North Carolina. Much interest has been manifested in the drama and folk plays since the coming of Dr. Koch to the Uni versity several years ago. Especial ly has interest been noted in the Christmas pageants and in the type of class plays in high schools and colleges. o TO USE OIL BURNERS FOR CURING TOBACCO Kinston, March 31.—A large part of the Eastern North Carolina to bacco crop this year will be cured with an oil-burning apparatus be ing manufactured here. Furnaces burning wood or coal are being tak en out of barns all over the section and oil burners substituted. One result, it is said, will be that many thousand pounds will be more nniformly cured and bring a pre mium on the market. Assistants of Forrest Smith, inven tor of the apparatus who is manag ing the factory, today said he "will be a wealthy man in a year after laughing at poverty and ill health 20 or 25 years." SLUGS FATHER New York.—When his father tried to get him out of bed with a shoe in time to attend church, Gerald Kelly, 23, became enraged, grabbed n. hammer and struck his father in the chest. It was found that the wall of his left lung had been punctured. It is expected he will recover, how ever. -O . ! Poll of leaders shows two-months business gain up to 30 per cent. '' $l.OO PER YEAR ROOSEVELT'S VACATION LEAVES CONGRESS UNSETTLED HOOVER ISSUES A CALL HULL'S TRADE POLICIES LEADS TO TARIFF FIGHT CONCERNING ADVERTISING FLYNN'S PLAN FOR WAR , ELIMINATES ALL PROFITS THE PEACE WITH LABOR SENATE VOTES HUGE FUND By Hugo Sims, Special Washingtoa Correspondent President Roosevelt took his ten day fishing cruise without apparent ly being much concerned with the status of legislation in Congress. He seeks to rest from the tiring task of making daily decisions, many of them hard to determine and involv ing compromises that are not always preferred. He left the capital with most of the country feeling that a definite sag had appeared in his popular support and with many ob servers feeling that Congress might run wild over various contested leg- I islative matters. I I i However, last year the President ! left Washington for a vacation on I the same day that a rebellious House i overrode his veto of the veterans* pension bill, which led many to be lieve that the Chief Executive was losing his grip. Later, he returned, much refreshed, and secured from the Congress, in about two montVß, many legislative grants of power a£d much legislation. Just now, when there is an idea that nothing has. bee' ndone and that not much will be done, it might be well to list what happened after the Presidential vacation in 1934. Congress empowered the President to negotiate reciprocal tariff treaties, revised the bankruptcy laws, estab lished the Securities Exchange Com mission, created the Federal Hous ing Administration, authorized the R. F. C. to make direct loans to in dustry, set up the Federal Communi cations Commission, passed the Bank head cotton act, and the Jones-Cos tigan sugar act, as well as a revenue act and the ratification of a new treaty with Cuba, abrogating the Piatt amendment. Today the situation seems much the same as it was then. The House has passed the Patman bonus meas ure in the face of the American Le gion's preference for the Vinson bill, and in the teeth of a certain veto. The Senate has just ended a pro longed wrangle over the work-relief bill, with the result that other ad ministration proposals are in the "be ing considered" stage. What will happen in a few weeks is uncertain and all that the average citizen can do is to wait and see. Former President Hoover recently addressed a letter to a group of Cal ifornia Republicans which is gen erally taken to mean that he intends to assert something like leadership. Taken in connection with his utter ance last month at Tucson advocat ing resumption of gold payments and stabilization of the dollar at its present value, it seems to indicate that he will actively attempt to un seat President Roosevelt and cause the defeat of his policies. The nation, says Mr. Hoover, is entitled to pass judgment upon the present adminis tration and the Republicans must give thetn that opportunity at the ballot box by raising the standard in defense of "fundamental Ameri can principles," including the main tenance and perfection of our system of orderly individual liberty under constitutionally conducted govern ment. Secretary Hull is eloquent and consistent in pointing out the evils of nationalism. He makes out the intimate relationship between pros perity and our foreign trade, saying that the depression accompanied the fall of our exports from $5,000,000,- 000 in 1929 to about $1,000,000,000 in 1932, and that partial recovery was seen in 1934 when our exports rose to $2,133,000,000. This theory has been admirably presented by the Secretary of State a number of times and the question arises, after two years in office, what has been done to remedy the situation that is said to exist? Mr. Hull is able to hold up reci procal trade agreements with only three nations, Cuba, Brazil and Bel gium, and these affect a very small percentage of 'our foreign trade. His critics, and some of them friendly, point out that his most-favored na tion principle seemingly militates against ready bargaining agreements, involving worth-while concessions from otlu - nations. They say the time has come to attack the least excusable sections of our own tariff wall, regardless of what other na tions do, and thus secure immediate increases in trade while continuing the country-to-country tariff bar gaining as a supplementary policy. Auction of this sort would bring about the hottest fight that the country is apt to sec for some years. Some Democrats and many Republicans would leap to the defense of the tariff wall, and the lobbies maintained in Washington, by the interests affected would set/up such a propaganda machine that the nation weuld be engulf ed in the wrangle ensuing. Still,, (Phwn tan W yape elgkt) i
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