The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 2, NO. 31
Rites Held For
Reuben Dickons
Final rites for Reuben Dickens,
three months old son of Mr. and
. Mrs. J. I. Dickens, of Hickory
church in Nash county, who died
in a local hospital at 12:30 Tuesday
morning, were held from the home
of his grandfather, S. W. Fisher i
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. W. C.
Benson, pastor of the Norlh Rocky
Mount Methodist church, conducted
the services. Burial took place in
the family burying ground.
Surviving are the parents and
four small brothers and sisters.
The child had been sick for about
ten days prior to his death. He died
from colitis.
Benifit Checks
Go To Planters
North Carolina Farmers Receive
Over (12,00* In Connection With
Corn-Hog Plan
College Station, Raleigh, July 30.
—Benefit payment checks totaling
$12,497.40 have been mailed to
North Carolina farmers participating
in the corn-hog adjustment pro
gram.
The checks are in payment of
the first installment of the adjust
ment payments to be made on the
contracts this year, said W. W.
Bhay, of State college, who has
charge of the corn-hog program in
North Carolina.
The first installment includes $7.-
50 of the $l5 per head which is to
be paid on each hog by whifch an ad
justment'ln production is made. It
also includes 15 cents of the 35
cents a bushel to be paid on the
amount of corn by which production
has been adjusted.
The checks were sent directly to
"the county agents, who will dis
tribute them to the growers. Shay
stated that the agents will notify
growers as Boon as the checks ar
rive.
In the first installment of the
corn-hog payments, Shay pointed
out, 61,478 checks totalling $4,004,-
914.95 have been mailed from Wash
ington to growers over the United
States. This sum represents two
fifths of the corn payments and
one-half of the hog payments to be
made in 1935.
lowa, leading corn and hog produc
ing state, will receive the largest
payments. More than $1,195,000 was
sent to lowa growers in the first
installment, Shay stated.
Martin Co. Editor
Sails For Europe
Williamston, July 26.— W. C. Man
ning, editor of the Williamston En
terprise, and dean of journalists in
eastern Carolina will leave here
Sunday morning for New York,
from which place he is scheduled
to sail for England and Egypt and
other oriental points.
The Martin county editor and
churchman goes with a delegation of
members of the Christian denomi
nation for their August meeting in
Leicester, England. When their meet
ig is ended Mr. Manning will pro
ceed through France for a Medi
terranean tour and will spend some
time in Egypt. From that country
he will visit Palestine and return
through Italy and France to Eng
land, where he will sail for Amer
ica.
His tour will take about 75 days
The editor plans a series of dis
patches back to his newspaper here
which will, no doubt, he followed
eloaely. He is planning to spend
an entire week in the Holy Land
and hopes to write at length on that
aspect of his travels. Mr. Manning
is perhaps Martin county's first cit
izen, and his going is backed by
the well wishes of hosts of liis
friends here and throughout the
atata. He expects to return here
sometime in October.
INSECT KILLS MINE REFUGEE
Wilkesbarre, Pa.—John Tomashu
naa, 48, a miner, who was one of
two trapped miners rescued after
being bnried for six days in 1931,
is dead from an insect bite, follow
ed by complications.
ADMITS KILLING GIRL
Newark, N. J.—Walking up to a
policeman, Richard Weir, 35, an
nounced calmly, "I have just cut
my sweetheart's throat." Investigat
ion disclosed the body of a young
woman in his room.
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NO NEED
There are no swear words in the
Indian language. They dont need
them, as very few Indians play
bridge. —Birmingham News
Readers, when you pur
chase goods advertised
in these columns tell the
merchants you saw it in
THE HERALD
Accident Victim
Laid To Rest
Funeral services for J. E. Hull,
49, of Leggetts, who died in a Tar
boro hospital about 9:30 Monday
night from injuries sustained in an
automobile wreck near Tarboro Sun
day which instantly killed Dr. Geo
rge E. Newby, were held Tuesday
afternoon at Hilliardston. Burial
took place in Hilliardston.
Mr. Hull was injured Sunday
night when the car in which he
was riding with R. L. Dunn, also
of Leggetts, collided with a car
driven by W. A. Williams about
five miles out of Tarboro ou the
Rocky Mount-Tarboro highway. Dr.
Newby was instantly killed, and Mr.
Dunn and Mr. Williams were also
seriously hurt.
Mr. Hull had a fractured skull.
Mr. Williams and Mrs. Dunn were
repotted as being about the same to
day.
Surviving Mr. Hull are his widow,
Mrs. Maude Hull, four daughters,
Dora, and Ethel Hull, Mrs. John
and Mrs. Ben Adkin,
all of near Leggetts; and seven
sons, Dallas, Regal, Horace, Rufus,
Russell, John Henry, and Jessie Lee,
also all of near Leggetts.
Several Injured
In Collision Here
Two Local People Stay In Hospital
Two local people, Mrs. E. D. Skin
ner and C. H. Bizzell, today were
receiving treatment at a local hos
pital for injuries received in an
automobile accident about eight
o'clock last night on Cokey Road
at the School street corner when
two machines crashed in head-on
collision. ,
Mrs. Skinner, who received a
comminuted fracture of her right
arm, and Mr. Bizzell, whose injury
was a cut on his forehead, were re
ported as recuperating satisfactorily
today.
' Also in the car with Mrs. Skinner
were her husband, Mr. Skinner, their
children, Clarence Gibson, Edgar and
Skinner, and Elizabeth
Leach, 'also of this city. Mr. Skin
ner was driving, he said last night.
No one was hurt except for minor
cuts and bruisei, beside Mrs. Skin
ner, it was said.
In the machine with Mr. Bizzell
was Miss Elizabeth Meadows, ano
ther local citizen. She received a
laceration under the chin, but was
not kept in the hospital.
According to Mr. Skinner, the
> Skinner automobile was headed
scuth on Cokey road when it col
lided with the automobile operated
by Mr. Bizzell and headed north
wards.
FIRST CHURCH OF
CHRIST, SCIENTIST
"Truth" was the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all churches and
Societies of Christ, Scientist, on Sun
day, July 28, 1935.
The Golden Text was from Psalms
31:5. "Thou hast redeemed me, O
Lord God of truth."
Among the citations which com
prised the Lesson-Sermon was the
following from the Bible: "Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and
ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you: For every one
that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it Bhall be opened. Enter
ye in at the strait gate: for wide
is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and
many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and nar
row is the way, which leadeth unto
life, and few there be that find
it." (Matthew 7:7,8,13,14)
The Lesson-Sermon also included
the following passage fsom tho
Christian Science textbook, "Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "I
have demonstrated through Mind
the effects of Truth on the health,
longevity, and morals of men, and
I have .found nothing in ancient or
in modern systems on which to
found my own, except the teachings
and demonstrations of our great
Master and the lives of prophets
and apostles. The Bible has been my
only authority. I have had no other
guide in 'the stright and narrow
way' of Truth." (Page 126)
Paralysis Cases
Show Some Gains
Cases of infantile paralysis re
ported to the state health depart
ment for the past several days
have shown a sharp increase over
the coast several weeks. This in
crease was expected by health au
thorities, who have predicted all
along that the 'peak of infection
would be reached sometime in Aug
ust.
They predict a gradual decline in
the cases reported of this dread
disease in September and later
months. All citizens are being urg
ed not to relax precautions that may
prevent tie spread of this dread
disease.
GK M. Icenhour of Caldwell Coun
ty now has electrical power on hla
farm at a cost of about $35 for a
water wheel.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLIN
Wilson Infant
Loses And Gains
Wilson, July 30.—The smallest
baby ever to be born in Wilson
which was brought into the world
five days ago weighing two pounds
and 12 ounces, tipped the scales to
day at two pounds, nine and one-fifth
ounces, a gain of one-fifth of an
ounce over yesterday. The baby,
Betty Lou Jones, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Raymond Jones, of
Bailey, has lost three ounces since
its birth, but doctors claimed that
this is not unusual during the first
week of an infants life.
Doctors at the local hospital
where the baby was born said to
day that they felt confident the
child would pull through.
The child has been placed in a
homemade incubator made by the
hospital doctors out of a cardboard
box, the inside of which is kept
at a temperature of around all
the time. It is fed every four hours
with a medicine dropper and receiv
es an ounce of nourishment each
meal.
Sampson Man
Has Cow Of 25
Rev. W. J. Jones, principal of
the Pineland school at Salemburg,
Sampson county, tells of a cow that
he saw recently at the home of Miss
Maude Crumpler between Salemburg
and Roseboro that was 25 years old
last March and is still gbing strong,
giving enough milk daily for a fam
ily of grown people. Mr. Jones says
when he saw the cow she was fat
enough for beef.
Lobby Inquiry
Dead Man Writes
Small Insists He Signed Protest
On Utilities Bill
Vigorously asserting that he is
still alive, * Charles E. Small, of
York, Pa., has forwarded letters to
Representative Harry L. Haines,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania, and to
the Associated Oas and Electric
Company, protesting testimony of
fered before the Senate committee
investigating utility lobbying to the
effect that he was dead two years
before a telegram with his signature
attached was wired to Mr. Haines op
posing the Wheeler-Raybum bill. It
was testified Tuesday that an agent
of an Associated Oas and ElectMe
Company subsidiary signed Mr.
Small's name to the wire and that
the latter had died in 1933.
Mr. Small's letter to Mr. Haines
follows:
"I wish you to know that I am
the man that is supposed to be dead
who wrote you and wired you op
posing the Wheeler-Raybum legisla
tion.
"I am very much alive and wish
you to know that I am opposed to
this kind of legislation, and that
I am opposed to the government
going into business.
"I think you realize, as w«ll as
I, that if politicians run this busi
ness we will in all likelihood pay a
great deal more for our electricity
and power than we do now.
"I think it is entirely wrong that
newspaper reporters and telegraph
operators mislead the public by not
checking their information and not
cheeking addresses, etc. In fact, if
you had chocked your records you
would see where you replied to my
letter opposing the Wheeler-Raybum
bill an dstated emphatically you
would vote against it.
"I think in fairness to me and to
my people, who I know are not on
ly opposed to this bill but opposed
to this misleading information given
out by the newspapers, that you
should publish the information as
above given.
TTours truly,
"Charles E. Small."
John D. Berry
Dies Suddenly
John D. Berry, 51, well-known
church and fraternal leader died
suddenly at his home in Raleigh,
last Thursday.
Mr. Berry had been suffering
with heart trouble for about two
years, but his death was unexpect
ed.
In the Tabernacle Baptist church
of Raleigh he had served actively
and he had served as Moderator and
Clerk of the Raleigh Baptist Asso
ciation.
Funeral services were conducted'
from the Tabernacle church Friday
afternoon, with his pastor, Rev. For
rest C. Feezor, officiating.
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IN VAIN
Crime is still so hard to expose
that readers of fiction must reluc
tantly confess that generation* of
writers have labored in vain.—Wash
ington Evening Star.
Plowing under a crop of lespede
za on tho farm of O. W. Naile of
Barber, Rowan County, increased
his wheat yield 12 bushels per acre
this season, he reports.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935
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Here Is Miss Glna O'Brien of South Bend, Ind., with the trusty nag
on which she Is spending her summer seeing Ireland. The young lady
was bom In the Emerald Isle and was brought to America by her parents
when she was three years old.
Negro Lynched
In Franklin Co.
Go van "Sweat" Ward, young Neg
ro man, was lynched by a mob that
took him from the sheriff of
Franklin County Tuesday afternoon.
The Negro was accused of attacking
several people, and of chopping off
the head of Charles G. Stokes, 67,
well-known farmer of the Louisburg
section.
The mob formed shortly after the
arrest of the Negro, and when Sher
iff John P. Moore attempted to
take his prisoner to Naahville for
safe-keeping, he was intercepted on
the highway, and his prisoner taken
by the mob, which lynched the Neg
ro shortly afterwards, hanging him
to a scrub oak with a cotton plow
line. He hung there for considerable
time before he was cut down!
Edgecombe Has
Average Cr«p
Tarboro, July 30.—From reports
received here it is expected that
the tobacco crop will be about an
average in Edgecombe this year. In
some section heavy rains did con
siderable damage, but timely rains
in other sections materially improv
ed the condition of the crop.
The corn and peanut crops were
helped by timely rains. Cotton, un
less the boll weevils become numer
ous, will yield an average to the
acre.
Bob Reynolds In
Record Auto Trip
Washington, July 20. —Senator
Robert R. Reynolds today claimed
the all time record for travel from
Asheville to Washington, as the re
sult of his trip yesterday, when he
covered the 520 miles between the
two cities in ten hours flat, includ
ing all stops.
Senator Reynolds stopped for
fence building purposes and for
speechmaking at a half dozen cities
in Piedmont and Western North
Carolina in the four days he spent
in the State.
"I can't get a whole lot more
votes now than I can just before I
run again," remarked the Senator,
who will leave here Thursday for a
similar tour of Eastern North Car
olina. On which he will start at
Elizabeth City and go down the
coast as far as Wilmington.
Senator Reynolds will bo accom
panied on that trip by Senator
Sherman Minton, of Indiana.
POSSIBLY
Berlin astronomers are at a loss
to explain the rapid growth af new
spots on the sun. It might be just
a trick to embarass the astrono
mers.—San Diego Union.
Indicative of the good grain har
vest in Cabarrus County this sea
son, two new granaries with a ca
pacity of between 3 and 4 thous
and bushels eaeh have been built
within the past two weeks.
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Senate, by vote of 22 to 17, grants
seat to Holt.
Make Final Plans
For Chest Meet
Final details were being arrang
ed today for the Community Chest
board of directors annual meeting
Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock
at the Chamber of Commerce build
ing with election of officers and di
rectors and consideration of plans
to increase Community Chest pled
ges, officials revealed.
The Boy Scouts of America, the
Associated Charities, the Young
Men's Christian association, and the
Salvation Army will not get their
full allotments for the next few
months unless collection on the
pledges show improvement to a con
siderable extent, E. H. Austin, sec
retary of the Community Chest has
said.
Legal Liquor
Not So Good
Making the first purchase of le
gal liquor Friday, Lawrence Grifflin,
young white man, later stated that
he had had beter Martin corn than
that he got at the store. He explain
ed that the particular store brand
was of the cheaper grade, and ad
ded that he was going to purchase
one of the best brands and if that
was not a great deal better than
the first he would bo through with
the whole control business.
NASH LIQUOR STORE
HAS SALES OF $960.86
Edgecombe Store, Opens Since 10th,
Has Sales of $7,833.95 For En
tire Period
The Nash county legal liquor
store located in this city on How
ard street had a total sales of $960.36
up to Saturday night, according to
figures released by C. D. Benbow,
Jr., manager of the store. These
sales are for last week from the
day the store opened, Monday, Ju
ly 22, until Saturday night.
The Edgecombe store in this
city, which is located on Washing
ton street, had on Saturday night,
a total sales of $7,833.95 for the
period since July 10, the day on
which it opened, Kelly Gay, mana
ger of the store, announced.
The sales of the Edgecombe store
for last week, from July 22 until
Saturday night, were $2,074.85.
While the sales of the Edgecombe
store for last week surpass those of
the Nash store, it will be remem
bered that the Nash store has only
been open for a week, and the Edge
combe store has been doing busi
ness for two and a half weeks.
Yesterday sales are as follows:
Nash store, $139,45; Edgecombe
store $215.00.
The average day's sale at the
Edgecombe store, computed from
the total sales until last Saturday,
is $489.62, and for the Nash store,
$160.14.
TO FIGHT LONG
New York.—Norman Thomas So
cialist leader, says he will campaign
in Louisiana in October against
Huey Long's "demagoguery."
IMPROVED
The Johnson, Long and Conghlin
outbreaks at least havo improved
our censor-proof cussing vocabu
lary.—Greenville Piedmont.
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
Four Appointed
To Key Positions
Other Selections For WPA Jobs Al
so Announced By J. B. Roach
Winston-Salem, July 31. —The ap
pointment of four Winston-Salem
men to key positions on tho staff
of Works Progress Administration,
region six, wag announced here last
night by J. B. Roach, administrator.
H. Walker Powell, former Stok
es-Forsyth ERA district works su
pervisor, has been named WPA su
pervisor of the division of prog
ress and planning.
P. L. Withers, this city, is ap
pointed supervisor of the division
of finance and reports.
Planning and analysis of progress
service projects, under Mr. Powell,
will be in charge of J. E. Ellerbe,
Winston-Salem engineer.
I. A. Hines, of the Winston-Sal
em ERA district, will have charge
of planning and analysis of con
struction and materials under the
planning division supervisor.
Mr. Withers, likewise, will have
two assistants.
T. Edwin Moore, of the Wilkes
ERA district, will serve under him
in charge of the finance.
Guy R. Norman, also of the Wilk
es ERA staff, will have charge of
reports and research.
Three other key staff appoint
ments were announced by the ad
ministrator :
Georgo L. Burke, of Spencer, will
be supervisor of the division of la
bor relations and inventory.
B. C. Thompson, of Sparta, will
be personnel officer.
D. M. Kreswell, of the Iredell
ERA district, will be office mana
ger.
Mr. Roach, whose assistant in the
office is J. C. Cole, stated that his
office has been permitted a person
nel of 45 during August.
Youngest Court
Clerk In State
24 years old, A. Leonidas Hux
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Halifax County, was awarded a me
dal for being the youngest Clerk
in the State at the recent State
Convention of Clerks of the Super
ior Court held in Baleigh. His
youth does not detract from his ef
ficiency, those dealing with the of
fice saying he is one of the best
clerks in the history of the county.
He had plenty of experience before
elected clerk, having served as Dep
uty Clerk of the Court under th
late Ed Travis, Jr. The office todaj
is watched over diligently by the
young clerk.
White Drunks
Pay Fines Cots
Tarboro, July 30.—City Court
Judge James P. Keech had four
white me narrainged in his court
Monday charged with being drunk
and disorderly. They were required
to pay fines.
Mayor Of Athens
Asked To Wilson
Wilson, July 30. —Thomas K.
Zrakas, president of the local chap
ter of the American Hellenic Edu
cational Association and State sec
retary of the same body for North
Carolina cabled Mayor Kotziaa, of
Athens, Greece, Monday night in
viting him to visit Wilson next
month when he comes to this coun
try to attend the National Ahepa
Convention to be held in Chicago in
August.
The cable, which was written in
Greek, read as follows: "Demarchos
fas sas proskali engrafos." Translat
ed, this means "Our Mayor invites
you officially to visit our city."
PLANS MADE FOR
GASPROOF ROOM
London, July 30. —Brittons learn
ed for six pence today how to in
stall >a war gas-proof room in ev
ery home, office and foctory.
The home office published a book
let, "anti-gas precautions," which
promised to become a best seller.
It recommends that basement
windows be pasted over with brown
paper covered with planks on the
outside and ith blankets covered
with oil cloth on the inside. Stores
of water,, food, candles, books, bed
ding and sanitary utensils were sug
gested but smoking was banned.
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BOBBIN IN THBOAT
Boonville, Ind.—Removal of a
sewing machine bobbin which Louis
Severs, 12, swallowed in January,
cured a "sore throat" of which the
boy complained.
Speaking of holding companies—
what about the U.'S. Treasury!
$l.OO PER YEAS
ON NATIONAL
WASHINGTON ,
A FEW PERSONAL WORDS
CONGRESS SAWS WOOD
BORAH BACKS INFLATION
NEW DEAL IN COURTS
LONGEST SESSION
INQUIRY DISCLOSES FAKES
TVA GETS NEW LEASE
TO AVOID NEW ISSUES
By Hugo Sims, Waahlngta*
Correspondent
The writer of this column ktfi
been highly gratified at the reeep
tion accorded it by the newest*
per readers of the United Stated
As most of your probably know it
appears in scores of newspagna
representing every shade of politi
cal opinion. It is read by coneer*
vatives, liberals, radicals, and abovt
every other tint that differentiate*
the opinions of men and women
about tho government and it* at*
fairs. 1
. >
Obviously, the writer is not mak*
ing taffy to tickle the palate of any
particular group but attempts to
give each week an intelligent round*
up of important events and •*-
plain, to some extent, their signi
ficance. Naturally, he must, at timw,
discuss political effects and tho
outlook at various times. As a pro
fessional newspaper man he is DON
Interested in being right in his oon
elusions than in what these conclil
sions are. Their effect upon partiea
or candidates is not considered, and,
in truth, he does not wish to in
fluence his readers unless, per*
chance, the facts presented have %
persuasive influence upon the loft
cal processes of the individual.
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The above paragraphs are insert
ed in this space because a reader
in Illinois writes that this eol*
umn is "pro-administration." There
may be many others who agre«
with the idea. We know there art
many Democrats who do not under
stand why we are not more pro
nounced the other way. We cannot
please partisans—that is imposaibte'
iin any intelligent presentation el
Washington affairs. Unfortunately,
from the standpoint of a minority
party, the members of the party in
power make the news at the na
tional capital. Any weekly review
of Washington affairs will, of ne*r
essity, center rather largely upon,
what the President and his offleinla
say or do.
The writer has had, in the courte
of more than a year, some Are er
six "kicks from readers. Repub
licans didn't like our prediction of
last October that the President
might add to his huge House ma
jority, but it happened all the same.
Democrats were not pleased, last
December, when we were one of
the first columns •to report that
the President had lost ground lm
mediately after the success at the
polls. Nevertheless, the statement
has been amply confirmed. The
loss of prestige has continued, in,
our opinion (v.hich wont please the
Democratic .partisans' until we
state, simply as a matter of truth*
ful reporting on our part, that, for
an unknown reason, so far as we
are concerned, there has been a
check in the drift from the Chief
Executive, who seems to be gaining
ground recently—(this won't plea**
partisan Republicans)—but we in
vite you to check up on this state
ment a month from today.
Your newspaper editor in printing
this weekly department dooi not
endorse tho statements made by the
writer. He does stamp himself aa
an intelligent editor, however, by
giving his subscribers a Washington
correspondent who is serving not
party or person rather than print
ing the useless and worthless blurbt
that come out of the national cap
ital from the pens and typewriter!
of highly paid propagandists who
serve the master that pays them
off. He also pays a tribute to tha
intelligence and sincerity of big
subscribers by presuming that thejr
want an unbiased, truthful and hon»
est presentation of the things that
happen in Washington.
Congress continued last week to
attend to the President's program
although there is no doubt that
most of the members feel that it
is time to adjourn. The muchtooted
revolt against the Chief Executivg
is not in evidence when it cornea
to an open break with the party
leader whose renomination is cer
tain next year. So you may look
for action on most of the big bille
before there will be adjournment.
Senator Borah's announcement
that the Frazier-Lempke bill and
a veterans' bonus measure will be
proposed as amendments to pend
ing measures, and that Congrew
will be in session until November
first unless they are acted upon,
caused some surprise but Democrat
ic leaders do not expect the isruea
to materialize.
The first bill, by the author* of
the farm morotorium act set aaida
by the fiipreme Court would or
der an election to establish a far
mers' Congress in Washington witk
authority supervision of farm debt
relief agencies and give farmer*
large control over the Federal Re
serve Board, which is alleged to
have precipitated the farm crista
in 1920 by adopting a deflationary
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