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The Rocky Mount Herald PDLUME 2, NO. 25 ristoric June G&hnan Will Be Staffed Friday ' .Detail* Shaping Up Fo| Brilliant German To Be Preceded By Other Events fe * *— From a maze of details important i;, factors are being whipped inttf for the fifty-fifth annual June ■jtiirman, which will be given in ky Mount on Friday June SI. traditional German will be en ' -tertained by the Carolina Cotillion Mfub, one of the South's loldeit • (St IRCe clubs, which was organized l!ft~i880, and will take place in the } huge Mangum Warehouse on Church ' .Street between" the hours of 11 and f&MHi. Approximately 5,000 invita ' lions will be issued to the dance will be formal, and which will climax a series of gala events to oe given in city over a period «f ten days. ■ little Jack Little, one of radio's ♦J most versatile stars,. wjll play for the German, and prior to the dance !>.}r Hal Thurston and His Caro :jtnians| of Bocky Mount, will give M concert between the hours of 9 \®#d 11 No'clock. German will be opened n ( i)rfitoptly at 11 o'clock'with the hon orary club members, „ figure com posed of the older members of the fCotjllion Club, which ' will be lead |by Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Avera and jdirected by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. jFenner. Assistant leaders for the figure, which will include a number jpf distinguished' guests at the Ger inan, will be Mr. and Mrs. F. P. fepruill and Judge and Mrs. M. V. Barnhill. i President Edward TJ. Lewis will load the club» members' figure, fce will have as his dance partner to r the evening Miss Margaret Bat faa, of Tarboro. Assisting these twb will be Morris Phidgen, vice president, and Miss Mildred Joyner, and Matthewson Young, assistant * liecretaary, with Miss Grace Carr, of Washington, D. C. George P. Ar lington will direct the figure and his truest for the evening will be Miss ijeity Johnson, of New York, u tJeorge L. Weeks, Chief marshal I for the fifty-fifth annual June Ger man, will have as his guest for the tffair Miss Sarah Bradham, of Eden-1 . fcon, and other marshals of the ac tive membership, who will precede (be club members and their guests dpon the dance floor on the night if nights, will include Leßoy Sav t»i William Thurman, Harry Hfn- Wfc, Wendell Tyson, Alford Sanders, Bob Kornegay, Edward Pitt, K. D. p"eeks, Sam Gorham, Jr., William fcelrin, Ben L. Arrington, John Stugnes, Henry Cuthrell, A. L. Do ttier, Jr., Henry Toler, Dan Beach, graham Dozier, and Dr. C. D. Eat fcan. These will be distinguished »y rosettes of blue and white, col rrs of the host club, which will be totnbined in the elaborate decorative '.clieme for the scene of th Ball. The German Vill come as a fitting tlimax to a series of six other annu al dances to be given by social '{mits. _ Pike Fruit Co. Enlarges Store ,» i _ I Marvin Pike, owner of Pike Fruit Cbmpany on W. Main St., an ttoum'eq the opening of his newly •jnlarged business. The building has f)oeii enlarged, painted and re-fur lisheq, equipped with soda fountain, find is prepared to serve all kinds lif sandwiches, ice cream, drinks and ruit. I nthe rear of the building, t pavilion will be open to the pub ic, where they may be served in Ihe open air. An orchestra will be iU hand to entertain patrons. Curb will be offered both on Vlain Street and in the rear, as .veil as at both ends of the Howard Street alley. Both bottled and 41raught beer will be served. ■ * o TOBACCO GROWERS TO fVOTE ON REFERENDUM I Ballot on which growers may cast [heir votes in the flue-cured tobac co referendum are being distribut )d to If arm agants in the tobacco :ounties. t The question at issue is whether the growers wish to have the tobac »o a'djilstmeilt program yntinued in the future. The present program is 9ue to expire with the 1935 crop. E. Y. Floyd, of State College, an aoukced that all share-tenants, share-croppers, renters, and land owners who are actually engaged in the production of flue-cured to bacco are eligible to vote in the .referendum, regardless of whether "they, have signed adjustment con ! tract's. ' LILIES AND ROSES There are two kinds of girls: Those that walk home from auto mobile rides and those that automo -1 biles ride home from walks.—Judge. , l 1 ~~" (Readers, when you pur chase goods advertised in jchese columns tell the merchants you saw it in iTHE HERALD Foxhall Chosen Tobacco Mogul « _____ Kentucky Man Named President Of Natloigd Warehousemen Asheville, June 15. —John L. Buck ley, Lexington, Ky., today was elect ed president of the imtional tobac- association, in con vention here. Buckley succeeds Frank V. Da vis, of Winstan-Salem. H. P. Foi'all, of Rocky Mount was elected a vice president. The presidents of the various state and regional warehouse associations in the group serve also as vice resi dents. J. C. Lanier, Greenvlile, S. C., in an address at the closing ses sion, warned against the possibil ity of unrestricted competition as a result of abolition of NRA. Lanier formerly was administrator for the auction warehouse code and is a former tobacco specialist in the de partment of agriculture. He told of an agreement drawn up by the Eastern Carolina Ware house association last week to main tain the minimum wages and maxi mum hours provisions of the code and expressed the hope that other associations would take similar ac-' tion. Lanier said one general contract through all tobacco belts for main -tetance of code provisiono was im possible under the set-up since abol ition of NRA. Funeral Held For Nash Nan B. L. Bunn Interred In Family Burying Ground Final rites for B. L. Bunn, 80- year old Nash County nian who died at his home Thursday morn ing, June 13, were held Friday af ternoon at four o'clock from the home. Elder A. B. Denson, of the Primitive Baptist church, officiated at the service. Interment took place in the family burying ground. Among the survivors are three sons, B. L. Bunn, Jr., J. B. Bunn, and D. G. Bunn; three daughters, Misses Nettie and Lillie Bunn and Mrs. Blanche Proctor; two sisters, Mrs. Nell Edwards and Mrs. Betty Parker, five grandchildren. Active pallbearers, who were all nephews of the deceased, were as follows: G. S. Bunn, H. E. Bunn, ,and M. M. Bunn, of Rocky Mount, W. L. Edwards, C. Edwards and M. C. Edwards, of Spring Hope. Honorary pallbearers included the following men: Dr. George L. Wim berly, Jesse Vick, Sam Ezelle, Frank Barnes, George Womble, Joyner Wheless, and Billy Trevatlian. Mrs. C. H. Staub Treasurer To Be Local Woman Will Hold Office Next Year Mrs. C. H. Staub was elected as sociate treasurer of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty at the con vention which recently closed in Concord. The meeting next year will be held at Salisbury, whieh was chos en at the closing of the conven tion. Other officers elected are as fol lows: W. Lindsay Sapp, Winston- Salem, state councilor; Miss Vila Casper, China Grove, associate councilor; Carl W. Nease, Greens boro, vice councilor; Miss Thelma McAdams, Saxapaw, associate vice councilor; T. T. Stafford, Burling ton, secretary; Miss Kate Caddell, Spencer, associate secretary; H. H. Craven, Greensboro, treasurer; Miss Pauline Safrit, Salisbury, guide; Miss Ila Parker, Durham, inside guard; Miss Annie Mae Hauser, Winston-Salem, outside guard. L. L. Carter, Greensboro, was chosen national representative, with Mrs. W. J, Gilchrist, Durham, J. C. Kestler, Salisbury, and J. R. Wil liams, Durham, as laternates. J. O. Maynor, Durham, was elected dis trict deputy for eastern Carolina an dC. P. Idol) Winstou-Balem, for the west. EDGECOMBE SHEEP GROWERS DISAPPOINTED Tarboro, June 17. —Edgecombe sheep growers have been disap pointed at the prices received for spring lambs this season, reorts J. C. Powell, farm agent. Mr. Powell says the Edgecombe Mutual Live stock association sold a car of lambs last week which brought a net re turn to the shipers of only $512.20. However, growers of the county are pleased with the prospects for hog prices. Several lots of pigs are be ing fed according to the Shay meth od and rapid gains are being re corded, he said. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1935 Local Police After Assailant Negro Eaters Nurses Home And Chokes Nurse Rocky Mount police are making a determined though silent search for a Negro marauder whom they feel sure entered the nurses home of the Rocky Mount sanatarium about six o'clock Sunday morning and choked one of the nurses as she was about to cry out and then escaped when she pried his fingers loose from her throat. The young nurse, whose name was not disclosed, awoke to find the Negro standing over her and as she apparently started to scream, he grabbed her by the throat and began to choke her, it was said. She broke his hold and yelled, and he went from her room into the hall and through another room out a window. ( Officers, to whom the affair was reported about 6:30 o'clock, search ed in vain for the assailant. Chief of Police O. P. Hedgepeth and Assistant Chief of Police P. C. Zimmerman today revealed they had not located the man. Rites Held For Nary Gurganus Funeral Will Be Held From The Home at Three O'Clock Final rites for Mary Aldith Gur ganus, eight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gurganus, No. 526 Marigold street, who was fatally in jured yesterday morning when she was struck by a train on the Tar river bridge trestle, will be held from the home tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock, it was announced today. Rev. W. H. Skeels, pastor of the Uriiversalist church, will officiate at the services. Interment will be made in the Tarboro cemetery. Mary leaves her parents, four bro thers, James, Bill, and Melvin, of this city, and Woodrow Gurganus, of Waynesville, and her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Harreil, Tarboro. MONCURE NEGRESS EXPERIENCES HANGING Shackleford Was Hung Here On March 28, 1899. Negress Describ es Her Experience » An event that is still fresh in a large number of old folk mind in Chatham county is the Shackle ford hanging • which occurred on March 28, 1899 in Pittsboro. The hanging was held near the site of Chatham Mills just North of Pitts boro. Shackleford was liung for kill ing a man in Williams township. A number of people who attended the hanging tells us that over 5,000 people were in Pittsboro the day he was hung. Below we are publishing a de scription of an old Moncure neg re«s experience of the hanging: (As told to Esther Womble Adicks) "Yasmam I sho' remembers dat day—l never wants to see de like again—Dat wuz my first hanging— and my last. We went a whole wagon-load of us. Left home soon in de morning to git to Pittsboro on time. I never seed so many people in all my life. Dey wuz sitting on the house-tops, in de trees. Every where 'Folks' just like leaves on de Jrees. I seed him when he rode down de street. Mr. Nat Hills' hack wuz carryin' him, and dey made pictur es of him all do way from de jail-house to the gallows. Some of 'em said, dey give him a pint of liquor to drink befo' he left de jail. De Sheriff give it to him, I think. I ain't never seen so many folks. No m'm. And I can see him now riding down de street. He had de reddest head—'um— I aint never seed head so red—a young sort of looking fellow, too. Won't no strong looking man neither. There wuz de driver,, an another man with him in the hack. Well — when he got to de gallows, he walked up dem steps and set down, and read a long time —just read and read— and told all de meaness he had done. Acted like he didn't ex pect 'em to hang him den. But when dey put dat big old oily cap on his head, I seed dat he was sweating—big drops of sweat. De preacher shaken hands wid him be fo' dat, but dey say, he didn't 'spect nothin' but to go to Hell. Dat morning had been one of the prettiest. Sunshine and every thing, but just before dey hung him, the clouds got all dark, and de wind just blowed and blowcd. 'Tw'as just naturally a skeary time—l seed him when he jerked off—and seed him trembling hanging dere—yas'm, I heard dem bones crack in his neck. I aint NEVER wanted to see nobody else hanged." JOKE CAUSES FALL New York.—Stepping backward to avoid a glass of water thrown at her in a jest, Mrs. Annie Phil lips, 2J, broke through a guard rail on the roof of a building and fell five stories, seriously injuring herself. Song Of The Gallopade I You are invited, we'll be delighted, To have you join the Gallopade. Let's get together, regardless of the weather, And see the progress Rocky Mount has made. We'll have fun. Bring all your friends along, Join with the happy throng, We'll show our. hospitality. Yes, you're invited, we'll be delighted, To have you join the Gallopade. > " We're glad to have you, we'll try to give you, The best time that you've ever had. We'll entertain you, but you must help us, To celebrate the Gallopade. We'll thank you. If you will do your part, we're sure to make the start For years of celebration. v Nobody's slighted, you're all invited, To join the annual Gallopade. —Jack Cummings and Sudye Bailey. Cooley Justifies The Faith Of His I Fri Congressman Harold D. Cooley spoke in Congress Mon day afternoon for the pending amendments for the Agri cultural Adjustment Act, in his first real speech since he be came a member of Congress. He fully justified the faith that the voters of the Fourth Congressional District had in him when they nominated him for Congress last Spring. Eastern North Carolina is probably one of the greatest general agricultural sections in the United States, and Con gressman Cooley has the honor of being on the Agricul tural Compiittee, and in this position he is rendering incal culable service to the farmers of his district and through out the entire nation. Mr. Cooley is a great lawyer, well versed in the Constitution, but he recognizes his first duty is to the farmers and laborers of his commonwealth and nation, and his time and energies are being spent in trying to improve the condition of the farmer and of the laborer, giving support to the Kerr Tobacco bill and the Bankhead Cotton bill. While some representatives and senators are spending their time discussing the Constitution and taking pride in not doing anything for fear it might be unconstitutional, Mr. Cooley is going forward with the President, tryirig to do something for agriculture, for business and for the laborers. Some of these senators and representatives who are afriad they might do something unconstitutional, re minds us of the one talent man spoken of in the Scriptures. He failed to use his one talent, and went off and buried it for fear he would lose it. Our Government is organized under three heads: legislative, judicial and executive, and the Supreme Court is the body which usually passes on the constitutionality of an act. The Senate was never intended to be the Supreme Court. STILL NO PARK PROVIDED Squire J. H. Lucas, in his letter to the newspapers of Rocky Mount sounded a very pressing need in Rocky Mount, when he said that the city had not made provision for the visitors who come here to have a place to sit down and rest. Rocky Mount is recognized as being a forward looking and progressive town, yet as was so aptly said by Mr. Lucas, this town is sadly overlooking the convenience and necessity of a place to sit down, especially for the ladies. Yet we were able to spend over SIOO,OOO on an air port, and between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO on a lake down by the pumping station. Still the city has not provided for the necessary rest rooms for the weary. RESEARCH IN GRADUATE SCHOOLS We have always believed in study and research, but we are not prepared to go quite as far as the English Grad uate School, when according to press reports, they were telling about the great work and service performed by them and by reason of research they had found out that it was possible to grow men much larger in stature; that it would be possible to make cows give milk all their natur al life, and roosters made to lay eggs like hens. We are constrained to believe that some of this propaganda is put out in order to justify appropriations for some of these graduate institutions. They do not, claim to have accom plished this, but they do claim to have stopped hens from laying. Now there is a vast difference in the proposition of stopping hens from laying and making roosters lay. Also there is a great difference in having a rooster setting and having a rooster lay eggs. Propaganda has gotten to be k wonderful art in these days. Those who have been re sponsible for the state government, in speaking of benefits of a strongly centralized government, showing benefits that come fronj centralization, failed to state that when Gov ernor McLean went out of office there was $3,000,000 sur plus, and when his successor went out of office this $3,000,- 000 had been consumed and a deficit had been built up somewhere in the neighborhood of $18,000,000. Yet by rea son of the research of the Brookings Institution, the pa pers of the nation were carrying propaganda that North Carolina's feet had been taken out of the miry clay and placed on the rocks. Brookings Research! COAST IS SECURE San Diego, Calif.—Six weeks of manoeuvres have convinced Admir al William H. Standley, chief of Naval Operations, that the Ameri can navy can protect our coast from invasions. RELY ON U. S. COTTON Rio de Janeiro. —After a tour thru Brazil Japanese cotton experts an nounced that there is no immediate prospect that Brazil will displace the United States as the source of raw cotton for Japan. Rocky Mount Gallopade Begins With Parade Thur. Harris Is Elected To Head Scouts Succeeds Tom Cronenberg as Safa- More of Pow Wow Circle Donald P. Harris stood today as the ranking official of local Scout ers following his election last night at a meeting of the Pow Wow cir cle. Harris succeeds Thompson Cronen berg, who has completed two six months' terms as head of the or ganization since it was formed in 1930. The new official, whose title is that of sagamore, is scoutmas ter of troop No. 6 Cronenberg is scoutmaster of troop No. 5. Other officials chosen last night were as follows: William Draper troop No. 11, sachem to succeed O. R. Huskey, Jr.; while Huskey, troop No. 6, was chosen keeper of the tally and wampum to succeed Harris. Scouters here today were loud in their praise of the work accomplish ed by the organization since Cron enberg became its head. The circle met last night follow ing a flag day ceremony and par ade participated in by local troop ers. Among the measures considered by the scouters" group including the establishment of June 28 for the next session of the court of honor, and the fixing of next Tuesday as the starting date for the inter troop tennis tournament. State Gen. Fund Had Deficit Ist Shown To Be "In Red" $1,794,118 Despite Cash Balance of $16,- 762,488 On That Date Raleigh June 15. —Though the State of North Carolina had a cash balance of ..16,762,488.11 June 1, the general fund was in "the red" by $1,794,118.40 it was shown in the monthly statement of the auditor and treasurer. The highway fund had a balance June 1 of $17,515,919.36. General fund receipts for 11 months of the fiscal year were shown to be $40,126,045.16 but an over draft last July 1 of $2,601,372.28 plus expenditures of $39,318,791.28 threw it off balance. The highway and" special funds have received $64,252,623.61 this fis cal year which left the big bal ance after expenditures of $58,916,- 286.46 and addition of a balance of $12,179,564.21 which existed last Ju ly 1. The state debt June 1 was listed at $170,598,000. Paralysis Kills Nash Man D. W. Pittman, aged 73, died at his home in Coopers township in Nash county this morning at 6:30 rrom paiiajdis. Mr. Pittman w'as born in Nash county and lived there all of his life. His parents were Robin Pitt man and Annis Pridgen Pittman. He was a farmer and a member of the Primitive Baptist church. Survivors include his widow, Mat tie Pittman, three daughters, Mrs. E. J. Edwards, of Edgecombe, Mrs. W. H. Baker, of Edgecombe coun ty, Mrs. U. S. Pridgen, of Oak Lev el township, and one son, J. L. Pitt man, of Coopers township. The funeral will be held from the ihome tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock, and, interment will take place in the family burying ground. IMPROVED BUS SERVICE ON LINE TO RICHMOND The Virginia-Southern Coach Lin es, who are carrying an ad of their schedule, elsewhere in this paper have recently added another trip to the schedule. Heretofore, they have made two trips daily. On July Ist, they will inaugurate a three-trip schedule from Rocky Mount to Rich mond, Va., and return. These trips are now arranged to give the public practically a whole day in Richmond and return. They have up to date busses, with intel ligent and courteous drivers. Rea sonable rest stops for the comfort of the passengers are made along the route. The Virginia-Southern Coach Lines are now offering the low rates of 1 1-2 cents per mile. KILLS TWO BANDITS San Antonio, Tex.—Robbed by two men, Willie Sanchez, 24, a tax icab driver, regained consciousness after being put on the back seat of his cab. He * started slashing the men and then jumped from the ve hicle. Later police found the taxi, with the dead bodies of two uniden tified bandits. Federal departments ask $65,056,- 816 for work projects. SI.OO PER YEAft Program Given For Gallopade Thursday, June 20th, 10 A. M.J Crowning the Queen of the Gallo* pade at the Reviewing Stand whiefc will be built on Main Street to* tween the Planters Bank and Er«M Store. 11 A. M.: Street Parade. The liat of march. Assemble—Falls Road aad Braswell Street and down Fall* Road to Church Street, South oa Church Street to Hammond Street. Hammond Street to Main. North on West side of Main Street to Thomas Street. Cross Thomas St. to East side of Main St. South on East side of Main st. to Marigold. Acroea Marigold to Washington St. North on Washington to Thomas St. Parade to break up after crossing Thomas St. on North East Main St., or Fall* Road. 1:30 P. M.: Professional automo bile races at Fair Ground. From 2 to 5 P. M.: Band concert® at Reviewing Stand on Main St. 4 P. M.: Baseball game at Daugh tridge Park. 8 P. M.: Free costume street dance and frolic lasting until 12 o'clock. O n Friday the Municipal Air Port will l>e formally opcnßd and there will bp distinguished National and State Dignitaries present for this event. Friday night the time honored June German will take place with dancers and guests from all over the state and adjoining states. Norton Issues Plea Here Today Asks That. Public Gatherings. For Younjr Children Be Prohibited Temporarily Dr. Roy Norton, superintendent of the eity health department, issued a plea today for the temporary dis continuance of all public feathering! for children ten or twelve years of age and under as a precaution ary measure in connection with the infantile paralysis abroad in the state. "I think it would be a good idea to discontinue all Sunday .School classes for children under 10 or 12 years of age—not because there is any particular danger of coming to gether but because 85 to 90 per cent of the occuranccs come in chil dren between those ages and they are more likely .to come into con tact with a person having the dis ease," he said. Library To Be Open At Night By request from a large number of library patrons, it has been decid ed to restore night service to the public, according to announcement today by Mrs. Nell G. Battle, li brarian. Library hours for the rest of the summer, beginning Monday, June 17, will be: mormiig hours, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.; afternoon closed; night hours, 7 p. in. to 10 p. m. These hours will be effective every week day. SHORT TIME TO FILE FOR HOLC LOANS Salisbury, N. C. June 15, 1935.- The attention of home owners in distress who desire aid of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, was today called to the fact that under the amendment of the HOLC Act, re cently passed by Congress, the per iod for tiling new applications will expire at midnight, June 27th, 1935. At'ter that date, it was stated by T. C. Abernathy, State Manager of the Corporation here, no applications will be received from home owners who are in distress and who are eligible under the law for assist ance, and he urged that all those desiring assistance file their appli cations at once. Mr. Abernathy stated that regu lations, as to eligibility, remain vir tually unchanged, and those desir ing complete explanation of what cases are eligible may receive it either by calling at the State Office, Post Office Building, Salisbury, N. C., or one of the District Offices, or by writing for full information. Office hours of the Corporation, tor the summer, became effective two 1 or three weeks ago, and are from 8:30 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. Mr. Aber nathy stated that these hours have been changed, for the convenience of the public, and application clerks will be on hand in the State and District Offices until 5:30 and la tpr every afternoon until the time limit for filing applications expires. District Offices are located as fol lows: Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville and Greenville. 5 DIE IN CHURCH Larida, Spain—Collapsing walla killed five persons when Extremista burned a church at Surri.