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The Rocky Mo VOLUME 2, NO. 32 Postal Receipts Show Good Gains Seven-Month Period In 1935 HUB Increase of $3,500 Over Same Time In 1934 Postal receipts from January through July, 1935, show an increase of about $3,500 over the same per-, iod in 1934 and a gain of more than SSOO for July over June. Postmaster E. Carr Speight's monthly report indicated today. ' If the receipts continue to in crease as have been for the past months of the year, the total at the end of the year will be the largest in several years, Postmas ter Speight pointed out as he spoke enthusiastically of the gains made in every month except February of this year as compared to the same months last year. July's receipts for the postoffice were $6,014, an increase of $873.88 over July, 1934, and one of $518.14 over June, 1935, his report shows. The total gain in receipts this year so far over the same period in 34 is recorded as $3,497.99. The figures for the receipts monthly for 1935 and last year run like this: .Note: The first sets of figures following the month are for 1935, the second for 1934): January—ss,Bll.43, $4,997.72; Feb ruary—ss,lol.46, $5,663.45; March $5,787.71, $5, 301.38; April—s6,l4l.o3, $5,456.53; May—55,576.08, $5,220.42; * June—55,459.86, $4,649.96; and July j —56,014.00; $5,140.12. I* ° " Guy B. Adams With Conoco Sta. Angus B. Joyner well known cit izen of Bocky Mount and now ope rator anfl manager of the Conoco Service Station at the corner of Hanynond and South, Church streets, has recently associated with him as assistant in operating the Conoco Station. Guy B. Adams is a wekk known young man. Mrt. Adams has for the past year j been connected with the Lighthouse Service Station on Church Street comer of Bassett Street,where he was well and favorably known. : FIRST CHURCH OP CHRIST, SCIENTIST "Love" was the subject of the i Lesson-Sermon in all churches and Societies of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, August 4, 1935. ! "The Golden Text was from Jere- I miah 31:3. "The Lord hath appear | ed of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting I love: therefore with loving kind ness have I drawn thee." i Among the citations which compris ed the Lesson-Sermon was the fol lowing from the Bible: "And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, j there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm. And it cajne to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: ; , to whom Paul entered in, and pray- I ed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. So when this was done, i others also, which had diseases in the island came, and were healed." -Acts 28: . . .3,5. . .8,9.) t| The Lesson-Sermon also included th e . following passages from the • Chris* Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "The £ divine Love, which made harmless i. the poisonous viper, which deliver ed men from the boiling oil, from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in ev ery age and triumph over sin and i death. It crowned the demonstra tions of Jesus with unsurpassed pow er and love. But the same "Mind . . . which was also in Christ Jesus! must always accompany the letter of Science in order to confirm and repeat the ancient demonstration of prophets and apostles." (Page 243.) o- BNAKE BITE REMEDY 1 Cox's Mill, July 31.—When H. M. I Cox went to his stables to turn j out the cows Sunday morning he noticed that one young calf was acting in a peculiar manner. Step ping into the stable, he saw a huge rattlesnake pilot coiled up in one ■J corner. The calf had already been / bitten on its lower lip which was I swelling rapidly. Mr. Cox got his turpentine bot tle and commenced applying turpen j tine. About dinner time, someone came along and suggested whiskey, | and during the afternoon the calf >' was drenched with whiskey. It i looked like a hopeless case for the calf was past standing and the mouth swollen three times its nor mal size. After battling for its life for three days, the calf now stands a chance of living. The swelling ■is beginning to suage, and the . calf can stand on its feet again. . Readers, when you pur chase goods advertised in these columns tell the merchants you saw it in i THE HERALD , ■ Board Considers Many Applicants Candles Request Post To Be Va cated by Norton The local board of health is con sidering the applications of candi dates tor the post of superintendent of the city health department, but ' has made no definite decision about who will succeed Dr. Roy Norton, the incumbent who only & few days ago requested that he be released from his duties as of October 1, City Manager L. B. Aycock said to day. The board convened last night in recorder's court room and consider ed the application of a man whose identity was not disclosed. Mr. Ay cock revealed. At least one other man has already applied for the post, and a considerable number of oth ers will be expected to apply with in a short time, he showed. Dr. Norton's plans are to take an eight-months course of post prad uate work in public health work in Boston, Mass., at Harvard school of public health. He has been here four years in the capacity of super intendent. Scotland Neck Opens New Bldg. Scotland Neck, Aug. 6.—Wednes day evening August 7, the $25,000 Community House in Scotland Neck will be formally opened. Prominent state and local leaders will be present, among whom will be Mrs. Thomas O"Berry, NCERA administrator, Philip Swartz, of Raleigh, state ERA engineer,. T. W. Morse, of Raleigh, W. R, Wyatt, of Rocky Mount, W. T. Mattox, or Elizabeth City, J. B. Hall, of Scot land Neck P. E. Shields, of Scot land Neck, N. J. Shepherd, of Wel don, and other county workers who have helped put the project through. There will be a dinner at the lo cal hotel honoring these guests given under the auspices of the Ki wanis club and the Woman's club at 6:30 and at 7:30 a reception will be held at the Community house to which the public of the county is invited. A short program will be giv en at 8 o'clock,.and at 10 o'eloek there will be a dance with music by Bob Jones and his Southerners from Buckroe Beach, Va. It is expected that fully 600 hun dred people will be in attendance. John D. Johnson Dies In Raleigh John D. Johnson, 59, father of Burt P. Johnson, principal of the Goldsboro High School, died in Rex Hospital, Raleigh, Tuesday night following an illness of several weeks. Funeral was to be held in the Lillington Methodist church at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Johnson lived in Lillington many years before moving to Raleigh. Surviving Mr. Johnson are his wife, the former Miss Norma Burt; two sons, Burt and John D. John son, Jr.; three sisters, Mrs. Alfred Smith of Buie's Creek, Miss Lora Johnson and Miss Lillian Johnson, both of Fuquay Springs, and one brother, Archie Johnson of Raleigh. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations as follows: Chief explosives chemist, $5,600 a year, Pittsburgh (Pa.) Exper ment Station, Bureau of Mines. Area medical director, $5,600 a year, Indian Service. Full information may be obtained I from the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Exam- I iners at the post office or custom house n any city which has a post office of the first or the second class, or from the United States Civil Ser vice Commission, Washington, D. C. 3 FINED ' Chelsea, Mass.—The Western Un ion Telegraph Company was fined j $500.00 by Judge Samuel R. Cutler, | who held it in contempt of court foi handling two telegrams addressed tc him protesting the arrest of certain defendants. o ARREST MIDSHIPMAN f Berlin.—E. W. Wood, Midshipman k on the U. S. Battleship Wyoming „ was arrested during anti-Jewish riots 3 He got into a fist fight after ex . pressing disgust at police who hil women with their bare fists. o B ROBBER PRACTICES ; 3 Chicago.—Cornelius Schoonder mark was recently robbed of elev' en dollars but a few minutes latei the robber came back to his stor and gave him the money. The ban dit said "I was just practicing." CRUSIER ROBBED Seward, Alaska.—More than sl, 000 was stolen from the safe of th Crusier Houston while anchored ii the harbor here. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935 Looking Over a Canadian Gold Mine ;i; : |i ; , . . . •) Stuyvesant Fish of New York, right, and Col. Charles McCrea, for mer minister of mines for Ontario, are seen examining a piece of gold bearing ore at the Afton mine in the Temagaml district In the back -1 ground are other members of Mr. Fish's party of financiers who were making an Inspection tour of mining properties In northern Ontario. Rocky Mount Parks We have recently been informed that consideration of the ac quiring of park site on the Edgecombe side has been delayed upon the grounds that this site would cost some money. ~ Now our information is that this site can be acquired for . a reasonable sum and much less than was paid for the Bas sett school site. This to our minds is nothing but common i justice for the people on the east side to have a playground for their chldren, and air space for their older people. Rocky Mount has recently spent of its own money between ; thirty five and forty thousand dollars on the airport out ' of the city treasury. Some of our people in fact all of our people, have been led to believe that this airport was paid for solely by relief money, which is not so. Our information is about one hundred thousand dollars was furnished by the i national government for relief, and about forty thosuand dollars Rocky Mount's money. Now it comes with poor , grace for the board of aldermen to deny playground and park space to the citizenship of Rocky Mount, who pay the taxes, when one hundred and forty thousand dollars has been spent for an airport, for which ther ewas no need, ; certainly .up oo the present. It only has two planes to be stall ed, and they are not here all the time. ' TOBACCO MARKET OPENS Rocky Mount's tobacco markets open on August 26, on ly about two and one-half weeks off. From what we are able to learn, this section has somewhat above an average crop. Previous report from the Georgia market indicates on average of 20c there which is about 2c per pound higher over last years average, so it looks like the eastern belt ought to receive prices in the neighborhood of what we received last year, certainly as much. Three new sales tobacco warehouses have been built and , enlargement and repairs to other houses which gives j Rocky Mount ten large warehouses which makes it possible . for the Rocky Mount markets to handle the largest in : creased volume of busness without block sales. The average I in Rocky Mount was the highest in the state last year. i CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION The congressional investigation of the conduct of some , of the offifficials of some our our great Corporations shows' to ; what low depths some unscrupulous concerns have gone - in trying to put forth their own policies. I This clearly shows that the time has arrived for the , government to take the lead in preventing these recurrent e practices, unspeakable to think of business concerns organ • izing a propadanda league to discredit the head of this 3 nation and to destroy the effct of his leadership by propa ganda meliciously put out that the chief magistrate of this e nation was insane, and not clothed in his right mind. ° Liquor Offences I Are Outstanding d l _ Police Reports Show July Arrests ' Involving Liquor Most Outstand ing 8 > Chief of Police O. P. Hedge peth's report to the board of alder men for the month of July disclos es statistics that 55 of the 160 ar rests made by the police during the , month involved the common evil, "whiskey." r ' Twenty-nine were arrested for be ,r ing drunk, seven for' being drunk 0 and disorderly, 10 for driving auto n mobiles while under the influence of whiskey, two for selling whis key and seven for receiving and posession of whiskey. Assaults of various descriptions ranked second among the chief of " fenses of this nature. For simple as- Sl sault 14 arrests were made. For en gaging in an affray eight arrests II were made. Two were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and eno charged with assault with intent to commit rape. r " WROTE LEAGUE DRAFT 7- Boston—Col. Edward H. House, n _ 77, who was President Wilson's con fidential adviser, recently revealed that the first draft of the League of Nations was completed by Presi dent Wilson and himself at a sunl it _ mer home in Massachusetts, le u In Japanese Army severs links to po litical affairs. j Challenge State Cuke Raisers Not satisfied with besting'all of Scotland Neck's cucumber impressa rios 8. Nayef, whose garden appar ently would grow pumpkins from tur nip seed, this week issued a chal lenge to anybody in the State to show a cucumber as large as his latest. The giant vegetable measured 20 inches in length, 10 1-2 in circum ference and weighed 4 1-2 pounds. Last yreek he presented an 18 1-2 inch "cucumber to oust the entries of J. A. McDowell and Dr. H. O. Thigpen in the local garden con test. o HORSE DAY "ASSET" Philadelphia.—The City Controller recently told the City Couneil that the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company still carries on its books as assets 4,200 horses valued at $465,000. The Controlled expresses the opinion that the animals died and were sent to tho glue factory about 1874, BREAKS LEG 13 TIMES » ———_____ ' Hollidaysburg, Pa.—William Erb, 5, has broken his leg thirteen times. ' Thysicians say his bones are brittle due to lack of calcium. The last fracture occurred while he was wait ing in the car for his mother to re turn from a shopping expedition, i- When she got back he said, "I have broken my leg again." Qiieen Of Gypsy Tribes Is Dead Interesting gypsy tribal customs came to light the past week with the death of Queen Elizabeth Marx. For 20 years Elizabeth,, with, her husband, King Joseph, had ruicu over the 60,000 Brazilian gypsies in America. The entire tribe, widely scattered, will mourn her death for one year. During that time they will discard their ornaments and give up all their dancing and singing. Gypsy custom, according to King Joseph, demands that whenever a member of the ruling house dies, ev ery member of the tribe must at tend the funeral. Sometimes burial has been delayed as long as six months to permit them to congre gate. But because of the depres sion and the long journeys involv ed, a change has been authorized, he said. Only chiefs, district chiefs and delegates will make the pilgri mage to Detroit. At the end of the six weeks per iod a dinner will be given at which a woman resembling the queen will be the guest of honor. She will wear the queen's clothes. This cus tom will be repeated on every gyp sy holiday during the next year. Queen Elizabeth, 55, was a mem ber of the dynasty that dates back more than 200 years. She left 10 children. Bailey ABC Store To Open Thur. Jack Collie, Former Local Tobacco Man, Will Be Manager, Rich Says The Bailey alcoholic beverage con trol store will be opened Thursday of this week. W. W. Ricks, of this city, member of the Nash county control board, revealed late today. Bailey, which will be the sixth Nash town to have an ABC estab lishment, will have Jack Collie, a former local tobacconist now living in Bailey, as its manager. Mr. Ricks further stated. A strong possibility of establishment of the seventh in the group of Nash stores, one at Shiifyeeburg, exists, but nothing defi nite has been decided on tho advis ability thereof. A shipment of liquor will be sent to Bailey Wednesday in preparr tion for the store opening which will take place sometime the next day, possibly around noon. Present plans of the control board Mr. Ricks indicated, are to have this a one man store as is the one recently opened in Battleboro. Already in operation are stores here in Nashville, Middlesex Spring Hope and Battleboro in Nash county. o GYM DEDICATION, PICNIC AND DANCE FRIDAY Wendell, August 8. Elaborate plans are now being per fected for one of the largest cel ebrations ever attempted in Wen dell which will take place Friday evening, August 9, on the occasion of the dedication of the new gym nasium at the school ground here. As the feature of the occasion ev ery effort is being put forth to make the picnic a huge success. It is i hoped that every family in the school district, both in and out of town will co meand bring a bas ket. The dinner will be spread on tables especially prepared on the lawn just in front of the grammar school building. Committees have I been appointed and are actively at work, but they will, naturally toe unable to see all the patrons of the school, and citizens of the school district. They wish to take tihs occa sion to invite every white person resident in the Wqndell school dis trict to come to this picnic and i bring a basket of food for the occa -1 sion. This applies to all, whether they have children in school or not. The program aa tentatively set f will start off with the picnic sup . per, which will be spread . at five thirty. A short concert will be played by . the Wendell State Modern Woodmen j of America Band prior to the sup -3 per, and a longer concert will be played by this organization follow ) ing the formal dedication exercises. After the supper the building will be presented by Mrs. Thomas O'Ber- J ry on behalf of the Wake County 9 ERA and will be accepted by County . Supt. John C. Lockhart for the Wake - County school system, and by May or J. Harold Griffin for the town and community. CROWD CALLS DOCTOR; r PRONOUNCES SON DEAD t t New York. —Spectators made way g for Dr. Nicholas Arabian as the phy t sycian shelled off his coat and went a tc work for four hours on the still j form of a boy lying on the beach. f A.'ter working calmly with all the professional skill the doctor pro nounced the boy dead. A policeman asked who could identify the body, and the doctor said 'I can. It's , my son, Nubar." '» g BOY, 11, OUT ON BAIL it Wartburg, Tenn. —George Snow, ! 11, is out on bail after being con i. victed of fatally stabbing Johnny e Holt, 16, during a childish row. His sentence waa fixed &t five years. PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON First Cotton Bale Sells For $127 The first bale of 1935 cotton from Goorgia was auctioned at Atlanta yesterday for $127.50, the proceeds going to Warm Springs Foundation as a tribute to President Roose velt. A motorcade of citizens from Terrell county, where the cotton was grown, joined Atlanta leaders at the sale. The tribute was paid Mr. Roosevelt to show appreciation to his administration for the bene fits of the AAA program, the Ter rell delegation said. The cotton was bought by an Atlanta business man at 25 cents a pound. Looks For Good Tobacco Prices J. B. Hutson, Chief Of AAA Tobac co Division, Thinks Belt Out look Favorable J. B. Hutson, chief of the AAA's Tobacco Division, thihks "prospects seem favorable for a reasonable in come from flue-cured tobacco this season" in the border belt. There are several factors, savs Mr. Hutson, which lea dhim to this con clusion. "Due to the splendid coope ration of growers in all parts of the belt, which resulted in a re duced crop last season, the excess supplies of this type of tobacco have been eliminated," he states. "World consumption," Chief Hut ton continues, "is being maintain ed at around last years levels, it is larger in the United States and United Kingdom which are the world's two leading consumers. "The acreage planted to flue-cur ed tobacco is larger than that plant ed last year. Plantings this year are around 900,000 acres as compared with 700,000 acres last year. Up to this time, growing conditions over the entire belt have averaged less favorable than during 1933 and 1934, but favorable enough to indi cate n. fairly good yield with favor able growing conditions during tlu rest of the season." "All of us remember the favor able prices of last season, particu larly those that prevailed during the middle and latter part of last season. If the crop this year should be around 675,000,000 pounds, the total income, if it averaged around 21 cents per pound, would ap proximately equal that of last year." P. H. Gaston To Accept Position P. H. Gaston, who has been di rector of vocational agriculture at West Edgecombe school for the past I few years, has accepted a position with the federal government in soil erosion with headquarters in Salis bury, according to a letter receiv t ed today. Quins Bring Boom To Ontario Area i , North Bay, Ont., Aub. 6. —The [ Dionne quintuplets are bringing a 3 fcooin to this part of northern on > tario. | Tourists from all provinces of Canada and the United States head by thousands for the Dafoe hospi tal, 12 miles from here. Traffic po lice estimate 5,000 have Visited the hospital on a single Sunday pre ceding a holiday, and about Vie same number on the following day, On an average Sunday, they esti mate, more than 3,000 visit the hos pital. The average daily crowd is N placed at more than 1,000. j Resort proprietors and others de ! pendent on touris traffic are exper . iencing the biggest season since this 8 business became a major factor in . the commercial life of the dictrict, i. Dr. A. R. Dafoe, physician to the ] famous babies, reported there waa - no accomodation for tourists last f night anywhere in the district be f tween Huntsville and North Bay. 3 Some 50 automobiles were parked . on the streets of Callander througli i out the night, motorists trying to get some sleep before they went out to see the first of the babies' "ilour a day" shows at 8 A. M, ) today. a - Another Man Out I For Lieut. Gov. e George McNeil, Fayetteville busi- II ncss man, has announced himsell '> as candidate for the Democratic 8 nomination for Lieutenant Govern' or in. 1936. This makes three announced can didates in the face, the other tw being Senator Paul D. Grady, o v, Johnston county, and Senator W. P i- Horton, of Chatham county. Repre y sentative W. L. Lumpkin, of Frank is liu county, is also expected to ge in the race. SI.OO PER YEAS FARMERS FIGHT BACK TO PUSH FOOD INQURY ADJOURNMENT GUESSING BILLS IN CONFERENCE TAX BILL HOLDS KEY SENATORS WANT ACTION NEUTRALITY PROBLEMS A CREDITOR NATION > ______ By Hugo Sims, Srpecwl Washington Correspondent With backing companies, cigarette makers and cotton mills vigorona* ly pushing suits against the pro* ceasing taxes, the bedrock upon which the AAA stands, farmers kit beginning to look around for a way to strike back. Fro mTexas comet word of intentions to test the con* stitutionality of protective tariffs as a retaliation for legal conteata over the agricultural "tariff equiTt* lent." However, the amended AAA might be able to stand up in tht courts, it is thought, and, if thi* ; happens, the farm fight WOUI4. probably end. One move by administration foro« es indicated that there would b« no surrender on the processing tax* es and that the fight would be c«* ried on without quarter. This waa> ' the decision to push the $150,000- 1 investigation of food processing, by which it is hoped to show purch* ' asers that the tax is not responsi« ble for the prices they pay. The ex* ' pcctation is that a wide spread will be shown between what the farm* » er gets and what the middle-man receives and that the average buyefc will be surprised at the distribution J of the food dollar. Nobody knows when Congreat. will adjourn but with action under* ' way on the tax bill, generally held, | to be the key measure of the leg* islative tangle, it is barely possibVa that the representatives of the peo* pie may be able to speed up tj* fairs and go home before long, un* less, and this is the point, new mat* ter —like the bonus for the veteran®- or the Frazier-Lemke farm-mort* gage plan—succeeds in forcing con* sideration. As last week began the Congress was in sight of the end, although no man could predict just; when the gavel would fall to t4% journ the session. What was the lay-ont last week* Well, in conference for the adjust* ment of differences were the ament* ments to the AAA, the omibu% banking bill, the Social Security legv islation, the utility holding coa> puny regulatory bill and the TVA measure. The latter was almost ready for the President, the Seen?* ity bill conferees Were in disagree*, ment on one point and serious di ferences threatened delay on the banking, utility and AAA measures^ However readers should under*, stand that once major legislation gets out of the two houses and, into the hands of the conference committee there is no way of tell* ing how long it will take for thein to reach an agreement or how quick* ly the Congressmen will decide to. | quit wrangling and go home. There\ ' fore, the main bills requiring &C\ tion in either house, as the week, opened, indicated the real work that lay ahead and some idea of when the task would be pver. ' The regulation of motor truekt in interstate commerce ha sbeen pro* I vided for by a Senate measure ap« proved three months ago; tht House had passed the bill prohibit* 1 ing suits against the Government a for damages resulting from the ab* rogation of the gold clause; the , Guffey Coal bill, which the Preai* * dent urges without regard to ita possible standing before the Su» preme Court, had not been aete& upon; the bill creating a new ayv e tem of Federal liquor control to. ~ replace the FACA still needed tht " action of one house, the Senate. r. Chief issues between the two houses were on the bank bill, thi 18 utility holding company bill, the Social Security bill and the AAA measurd, but difficulty was expect* cd mainly in connection with tht 18 latter pair. The Security measure ™ was put into conference on Juno '• 20, but the wrangle continues ovet e a provision inserted in th eSenate 18 permitting the continuation of pri« vate pension systems in industry under governmental sanction. Tho holding company bill sent to con» ference July 12, presents the well* remembered battle over the Senate ° provision for the compulsory disao* lution of "unnecessary" holding 1 companies by 1942, but the confe* rees have been fighting so hard to decide whether Ben Cohen, counsel of the Federal Power Board, woul4 tbe allowed tb sit in on the sessions that they have not gotten far. Dit* putes over losing the courts to suit for recovery of processing taxei * by those who can show that the tax was not passed on ties up the i- AAA measure and the TVA bill If involves a restriction of the $50,000,• ic 000 fund to production of power. l- ——— Now then, we come back to the l- tax bill, introduced in the House ro early last week, at the same time if that the Senate began hearings on P. the measure. How long it will take e- the two houses to dispose of thia k- bill, designed to raise $275,000,000 et a year depends largely upon what (Please turn to page eight)