Tfie Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 2. NO. 48 ; Dr. McDonald ; To Address Club , Dr. Ralph. McDonald, candidate for Governor, addressed the Current Top ics Club of Rocky Mount in the Y. M. C. A! on last Monday night. The meeting was attended by full mem | fbership and with a large number ■ of extra invited guests. His topic being "Current Political Events." Much of hia speech was ' donated to taxation. After his address he met a group 1 of friends in the Recorders Court • room. He spent the next day visit many points in Nash and Edge combe counties in the interest of his candidacy. MRS. JEFFRYS DIES IN LOCAL HOSPITAL fc % Widow Of W. E. Jeffreys Succumbs f ' In Plnehnrst—Funeral Here r Mrs. W. E. Jeffreys, 42, well n known former local resident, died lTuesday morning in Pinehurst at a hospital following an illness which i began in January of this year, friends learned here. 'Mrs. Jeffreys, who lived here sev «ral years, numbered many friends . in this city. : v le ' uner al services will be con y ducted Friday afternoon at throe ' o'clock from the R. T. Jeffreys resi dence, No. 822 Hill Street, and in t terment will follow at Pineview cem | ptery. Mrs. Jeffreys lived in Oxford be- E fore her husband, the late W. E. Jeffreys, succumbed. L Her church affiliation was Metho dist, and she had her membership t here at the First church. P Sho leaves her children, Margaret i Jlnd Evelyne, both of whom lived here with R. T. Jeffreys; one broth ' er, J. E. Cooper of Raleigh; and three sisters, Mrs. Horace Harda f way, of Durham; Mrs. R. B. Camp s', bell, of Taylorsville; and Mrs. Jesse Congdon, of Three Rivers, Michigan. A. O. DICKENS l * ' Wilson, Nov. 24.—A. O. Dickens, t prominent attorney of Wilson, today announced his candidacy for the j Democratic .nomination to Congress ( in the Second District in the 11)36 primary. He seeks the seat now held by Congressman John H. Kerr, who defeated the Wilson attorney a majority of about 3,000 in the *" *>B4 primary. Jr. Dickens carried Greene, Wilson and Halifax coun- I ties by a substantial mapority ip each county. j» • The Wilson attorney said today he i would issue a formal statement as i to his platform in the near future. "Mr. Dickens was born and reared on a farm in Halifax County, where }j he was educated in the public schools. * He received his. law degree at Wake Forest College. During th World War ho served in France with the 30th Division, was cited by General John J. Perishing for distinguished military service and was promoted i to a captaincy. He has been an ac i tive member and officer of the Amer ican Legion. o REYNOLDS COMPANY SEEKS REFUND ,»The question of whether a taxpay [• rr may sue the collector of inter nal revenue for refund of an ex ' port tax before he applies to the commissioner of internal revenue at Washington for such refund was laid before the U. S. Circuit court i of appeals at Baltimore Thursday. |,The case involves a carload of cigarettes shipped by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., to Norfolk, Va., for shipment abroad. On the way to Norfolk the cigarettes were stolen. government demanded pay ment of more than $6,000 tax on the tobacco, because it never had been ( exported. The company contended that no tax was due, since the cigar ettes had been designed for export fad sought an injunction in United t States district court at Greensboro. The injunction was denied, the company paid the tax and instituted suit for its recovery. The suit was dismissed, the government contend ing it did not conform with le gal procedure and that the company j should have asked the refund from commissioner of internal reve nue at Washington. URGES MORE BUYING POWER FOR tVORKERS AND FARMERS / Washington, Nov. 20.—Secretary "of Labor Perkins advocated expan sion of the purchasing power of the farmer and wage earner as a means 6f balancing "the mass production of the present machine civilization.' She told tho Land Grant College Association that farm income in the (first eight months of 1935 rose ?266,000,000 over the same period s year ago. The increase, she said has been a "substantial factor in speeding l up production in indus -1 tjial centers with a consequent rise in fa«tory employment and pay rolls." HOPKINS FLAYS CRITICS »» Harry Hopkins, WPA Administra tor, does not like much of the cri ticism directed gainst his program assorting that most of it is ignor ant, malicious and Partisan in th political sense. o : United States petroleam export: to- Italy have risen 600 per cent. Whitaker Pleads For Use Toxoid Dr. Allen Whitaker, health depart ment superintendent, today issued a plea to the people of this city, asking that the.y realize fully the iinprotance of the diphtheria toxoid. Dr. Whitaker, who has served in the capacity of health officer for about a month and a half, said, "The importance of the diphtheria toxiod. can't be over emphasized." He went on to remark that only one doge is given, and that the reaction to the dose is generally rather small. Advising the people who have not had the toxoid to see their family doctors, Dr. Whitaker indicated that when a child gets the disease, "some one is to blame." EXAMINE TEETH OF COLORED CHILDREN Tarboro, Nov. 26. —Dr. Robert M. Bell, of the State health department, is working among the Negro school children making examinations of their teeth, Dr. A. D. Gregg, Edge combe health officer announced. Dr. Bell is a Negro dentist and is doing work similar to that done recently by Dr. Robert Byrd, also of the State health department, for white children. DEAN OF LAW SCHOOL STRICKEN IN CHURCH Wake Forest, Nov. 25.—Dr. N. Y. Gulley, 80, dean emeritus of the Wake Forest College Law School, fainted during church service yes terday morning and has been in bed since. His physician stated that the at tack was due to digestive disturb ances and an overheated building. Dr. Gulley rested comfortably to day and expects to resume his teach ing within a few days. MARRIES HIS 105 TH WIFE BY PROXY The marriage by proxy of King Ibon Saud, of Saudi, Arabia, to the only daughter of the powerful Sheik Nouafel Shellan, has brought the number of the king's wives up to 105. Until the advent of the latest ad dition to the harem it was a popu lar jest that the king had two wiv es for each week of the year. Now it is guggcstprt Unit in-taking un to himself another, he is providing for the extra day of leap year, 19- 36. It is said that the king paid the .highest price ever actually handed over for a wife in that part of the world, no less than 5,000 head of cattle and a largo number of cam els. King Ibon Saud is a strict non drinker and non-smoker. His gift of camels is regarded as particularly significant because of his partiality to these animals owing to their er puted abiliyt to go for a long time without a drink. The king has not yet seen his latest wife, who is believed to- be more advanced ifl years than many of his brides. The union was prob ably more of a political arrange ment than a love match. The name of the new bride was kept a secret at the time of the wed ding, but it is now revealed that she bears the name of Aiclia, which Rider Haggard immortalized. The king, who is 55, makes nn secret of the fact that his favorite wife is the poor beauty of Damas cus, whom he married in 1927. "She is a woman in a hundred," he has been heard to declare more than once. Naturally the other wives are mad ly jealous, and some time ago there was a rovot in the harem. The less favored wives went on strike. They only capitulated when the king threatened to have them sent back to their parents, the greatest dis grace a Mohammedan husband can put on a wife. But if the king has little thought for any but his Damascus beauty, he has much thought for would-be Don Juans. He has doubled the guard, who have orders to shoot without challenge persons found in side the outer defenses. MOVE 90-YEAR-OLD TREES In the old days trees used to stay put —at least until they felt the sting of an ax. With the aid of modern tree-moving machinery, how ever, tree men now move and trans plant 60 and 70-foot trees like so many pots of crocuses. In other words, if you want a ninety-year-old tree in your front yard, you don't need to wait for a sapling to £Toup up You can have a veteran elm moved in tomorrow. The mover, is used to maneuver specimens weighing up to 30 tons or more. It's all steel and it's all-electric welded. The smaller mover carries loads up to around ten tons. —Scientific American. NRA STAFF CUT The personnel staff of NRA has been cut to 2,348, as compared with over 5,000 at the peak of activity, according to Georce L. Berry, coor dinator of industrial cooperation. o REJECTS MANY CASES Out of 931 cases considered by the Sunreme Court last year only 256 were granted. The others were turned down flat, without a hear ing. i ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1935 Miller Freed In Investigation Tarboro, Nov. 26. J. R. Miller, assistant forester of district five, was acquitted of blame for having struck and injured a 12 year old Negro boy, James Pittman, Jr., Sat urday near Leggett. The boy ran into the side of the truck driven by Mr. Miller and he had both legs broken and lacerations about his face, hands and head. It was said that the boy was playing with an other boy and rushed in front of the truck. The boy is in a hospital here for treatment of his injuries. Captain Hill Dies At Virginia City Former Conductor Lived Here Once —Rites Were Held Wednesday At LaG range Robert Hill, 60, former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad conductor and Rocky Mount resident, died in Rich mond Monday, friends learned here Tuesday night. , Mr. Hill, ktyown to many people in the city as "Captain Robert Hill," who retired as a cb'nductor only two years ago, had given more than forty years of his life in the Coast Line service. He numbered) many friends up and down the line. He was considered a special friend of former General Superintendent W. H. Newell and Superintendent of Transportation W. B. Darrow, who died here only about a year ago. "Captain" Hill, who succumbed Monday morning, will be brought through here on train No. 83 en route to LaGrange where funeral rites were held at 3 o'clock Wednes day afternoon. The funeral party left Richmond Tuesday night, ar riving here at 1:20 A. M. Wednes day. The body was transferred then to train No. 41, which left South Rocky Mount at 3:50 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Hill, a Bertie county native, was born near Windsor, November 18, 1875. He entered the service in 1898 on the Norfolk district, serv ing several years as passenger and frieght conductor between here and Norfolk. About January 1, 1906 he was,transferred to the old Fayette ville aistrict, and had iiis run on the Spring Hope branch train between here and Spring Hope. He was called a very popular conductor. Several years later he moved to Richmond, working as passenger con ductor on the through line trains un til about two years ago when his health failed. He owned considerable real estate here and in Richmond, and belong ed to the Baptist church, the local Y. M. C. A. and the Order of Rail way conductors. His wife, formerly Miss Nora Sut ton of LaGrange; an aunt, Mrs. Jeff Sumner, of Hertford county; and an uncle, S. J. Hill, also of Hertford county survive.' He was an only child, and his parents died while he was still a 'youth, 465 DIVORCES IN FIVE DAYS In five days in an Atlanta court the past week, 465 diverces were granted which led Judge Mpore, who signed the decrees, to advance a few new theories on the matrimon ial situation—one of them that feminine apparel may have some thing to do with it. When women wore pantaloons and skirts which swept the ground fore and aft, he said, they behav ed finely. Dignity has grown scantier with clothing, he feels. Then he voiced another theory— that perhaps women are more attrac tive than they used to be. "My husband told me he did not love me any more, that he had found someone else who was more attractive than I and that she was sweeter," was a frequent plaint in divorce court this week, he pointed oue. He added that he believes women take more interest in married men than formerly, too, and this also has a good bit to do with the increase in divorces. "Man is the pursuer and the wom an is pursued,the judge said. "He woos anj she is wooed. But the male will never stop pursuing until she calls a halt. The trouble now seems to be too few halts are called. PEOPLE ARE RIDING For the first 10 months of the year 6,000 mo're niew automobiles and 2,000 more newt trucks were sold in North Carolina than were sold in a like period last year, car sales numbering 46,197 an dtruck sales 11,834 so far this year, as against 40,046 cars and 9,700 trucks last year to November 1, R. R. Mc- Laughlin, director of the Motor Ve hicle bureau, reports. October sales of new cars increas ed and trucks decreased as compar ed with the previous month. In Oc tober, 4,838 cars and 1,091 trucks were sold, as against 4,384 cars and 1,364 trucks in September, while the sales in October, 1934, wore 6,978 cars and 1,915 trucks. Total registration of all automo biles and trucks up to November 6 was 501,662, which is less than 2,000 cars below the high water mark for the entire year 1929, when i registration reached 503,590. Memory of a Squirrel Is Honored Standing In solemn dignity ndjucent to a statue of Beethoven and a majestic figure memorializing Los Angeles soldier dead, a bronze plaque was erected la Pershing square, Los Angeles, In honor of "Benny, a Squirrel." For many years Benny was one of the most popular and widely known of the denizens of Pershing square. A year ago, while on one of his trips across • busy street, Benny was killed by a speeding motorist. Friends burled his broken body In Pershing square and a mock orange tree was planted to mark his resting place. Through local civic officials, a bronze plaque was engraved In honor of the late squirrel. President Not Due Criticism There is much criticism throughout the country of the manner in which the WPA and the PWA is functioning and most of the criticism is directed to the marther of which these agencies are being administered. This criticism should in no way affect our admiration for President Roosevelt in handling a most difficult situation. The President never intended that politics should enter into the administration of these agencies, but there appears to be serious criticism throughout the nation because cer tain Governors Representatives and Senators have under taken to build political machines through relief work which is repulsive to all right thinking people, but this is not the fault of the President. He has pledged to the people that the worthy hungry should not go unfed and to do this he has to deal with the frailties of human agencies who are responsible for the short-comings. SHOULD BE THANKFUL The greater part of the 1935 tobacco has been sold. The farmers did not receive as much per pound as last year but yield more in dollars and cents than was paid to the farmers last year* by reason of the lower prices of to bacco, selling has been somewhat slower than last year, which has caused the fall trade to be as good as last year, but after all the Nash and Edgecombe counties have every thing to be thankful for. We have a fine farming section, with a splendid rainfall, and generally delightful weather' which has caused us to have an abundant crop not only of cotton, tobacco, peanuts and grain, but truck of every va riety for our tables. So in this season of Thanksgiving through which we are passing, let us enumearte the great blessings and bene fits whjch have been ours during the past year. Manv of which the population of other sections have not been bless ed with. Planting Lawns Subject Of Talk Tarboro, Nov. 26.—Edgecombe home demonstration club women gathered in the office of Miss Cath erine Millsaps, home demonstration agent Saturday to fctudy yard im provement and the beautification of homes. J. G. Weaver, horticulturist from State College, Raleigh, dis cussed the planting of lawns and transplanting of native and nursery plants. Miss Pauline Smith, district agent, and yard improvement specialist, urged the women to start their yard imnrovement work with a clean-up campaign. The plan should ir«lude laying out drives and walks, 'Mid filling in with woods mold and rich dirt where the top soil has been al lowed to wash away, she said. Wom en were urged to start rooting beds in order that they might grow their own plants at a nominal cost. o TUTTLE'S WORK IS REVIEWED Retired Minister Performs A Num ber Of Services Rev. D. H. Tuttle, seventy-eight year-old retired Methodist minister, though not in active pastoral work, does each year considerable minis terial work. The habit of keeping records has continued through the years and for this reason a sum mary of his activities for the past year is available. It is fitting to review his work of the year just closed when other Methodist ministers are rounding up their activities at the annual confer ence now in session at Wilmington. An important part of Mr. Tuttle's work is the distribution of religious literature. Last year he gave out 22 Bibles, 478 one and two cent por tions of the Bible, 18 Testaments and Psalms for aged, 433 religious papers, more than 1250 tracts, 30 assorted booklets. He performed during the year 11 marriage ceremonies, conducted 13 funerals, and preached eight ser mons. o AAA opens an inquiry into bread price rises in nine cities. Commends Work Of Boy Drivers Gaddy Says They Have Good Record For Freedom From Accidents Tarboro, Nov. 25.—1n addressing a county-wide meeting of teachers here Saturday. Claude F. Gaddy, as sistant executive secretary of the State School Commission, asserted that boys as bus drivers had made a wonderful record in freedom from accidents. "In the State today 265,000 chil dren are daily transported to the schools in 4,000 buses; there are some defects," Prof. Gaddv stated, "but we are working to remedy them. While the system has not reached perfection it is better today than at any time since it was es tablished. The equipment eventually will meet all requirements," Mr. Gaddy explained in detail the meth od of operation of the School Com mission. He dwelt at length on the taxation question to raise adequate funds to operate the schools and pointed out the serious divisions in sentiment among legislators as to the best way in which to raise the funds. He said the State School Commission is the best friend the teachers have. He stated that 250,- 000 children today are transported at less cost than half that number in 1929. N. E. Gresham, superintendent of schools in Edgecombe County, pre sided. FALC BUNN INJURED IN AUTO COLLISION Falc E. Bunn of Zebulon, clerk at the State Local Government Com mission was injured inl an auto mobile accident at Wakefield Satur day afternoon. Mr. Bunn's car collided with that of Bud Perry, Negro, at the Wake field crossroads on Highway No. 91. Neither Perry nor the Negro riding with him were injured seriously. Mr. Bunn who was Jiuffeving from shock received a serious head injury. At the last reports he was responding satisfactorily to treat ment. PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON Sanford To Run For School Post Black Mountain Man Announces Can didacy As Superintendent Of Instruction Asheville.Nov. 25.—Jordan H. San ford, of Black Mountain, has an nounced tfiat he will be a candidate for Superintendent of Public In struction of North Carolina in the Democratic primary election of the State next June. Mr. Sanford, prominent in educa tional circles of the State for many years, attended Georgia Military Col lege at Milledgeville in 1891 and en tered Mercer University in 1892. In Mercer, Mr. Sanford organized the University's first baseball team and was its captain for four years. He also played right end on the varsity football team and once had as op position in a game with Georgia Tech, General Leonard Wood, a half back. Mr. Sanford was twice a champion debater for Mercer and won the first sophomore declamation medal. He was the anniversarian in 1897 and the commencement speaker in the same year. Mr. Sanford represented the student body at the banquet held in Macon to add $1,000,000 to Mercer's endowment. After graduat ing at Mercer, Mr. Saqford attend ed Cornell University, Ithica, N. Y., where he studied under Dr. Decar no, education instructor, Dr. Charles Bennett, Latin instructor, and Dr. Hiram Corson, English instructor, three internationally known educa tors. Wilson Farmers Buy Certificates Wilson, Nov. 26.—Wilson tobacco farmers have bought surplus certi ficates from the office of Farm Agent W. L. Adams, here totalling 1,875,000 pounds to date, according to the figures of Mr. Adams made known Monday. The crop in the county is larger, according to the farm agent, than it lias ever been before. The certificates bought by the Wilson farmers to date cost them $75,000. They' have to pay 4 cents a pound for them to the government. o HOMEMADE MATTRESSES BEING BUILT IN STATE Raleigh, Nov. 25.—The extra al lotment of 110 pounds of tax-free cotton allowed growers for their own use is stimulating interest in home made mattresses among Catawba county home demonstration club wo men. Some time ago, as the women were outlining their club projects, a num ber of them decided to make mat tresses to replace straw ticks now on their beds, reported Miss Ruth Current, district home agent at State College. Mrs. Marie Coxe Matheson, Cataw ba home agent, told them that un der the Bankhead act each grower is allowed for home use an addition al allotment of 110 pounds above his regular tax-free quota. She also told the women that they could use the cotton themselves to make the mattresses, or they could secure the services of a commercial mattress manufacturer. Since there are still a number of straw ticks being used over the country, Miss Current said, a large number of women immediately ex pressed their desire to take advan tage of this opportunity to utilize their husband's extra cotton allot ments. Although the process of making a mattress at home is not au easy task, she added, it is not beyond the abil ity of the club members who are willing to work slowly and carefully. o A dog cemetery, with seven tiny graves and small tombstones, is lo cated high on the parapet of For tress Monroe, the oldest continuous garrison in the United State. WATCH BORAH The attitude of Senator Borah is causing some concern to conserva tive Republicans who do not relish a Borah attack upon their candidate if they are able to put him across at the Convention. o Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minneso ta, believes the New Deal will col lapse and that by 1940 things "will be right" for a third party. 1 NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Name Town State —Route No. SI.OO PER YEAS FOR FOREIGN MARKETS WILL IT DOUBLE TRADE? WALLACE ASSURES FARMERS OPPOSITION IS VOCAL THE PROBLEM OF GOLD MAYOR'S WANT DIRECT AID By Hugo Sims, Srpecml Wuhlngtaa Correspondent Swinging definitely toward the de velopment of foreign markets for American goods, the Administration has accepted in full the trade pol icy of Secretary Hull. The treaty recently made with Canada has been received with mixed sentiment in this country, although officials have made every effort to reassure the interests affected. The President took the unusual course of explain ing the pact to correspondents and predicted that it would double the commerce between the two nations within two years. Generally following the outlines reported in this column, the agree ment includes concessions of three fourths of our dutiable exports to Canada during the predepression years and offers a revived market in this country for about two-thirds of Canada's total exports by voluma to us. The principal favors to Can ada, however, were the assuranee that newsprint, pulp wood and wood pulp would be duty-free and that tariffs on certain types of whis kies, lumber and beef cattle would be reduced. . However, quota restrictions are placed upon the lumber which may I come into this country under the reduced duty. Similar restrictions limit the cattle calves, dairy cows, cream and certified seed potatoes which may take advantage of the reduced rates. Th e President, prob ably with an eye to agricultural sen timent, emphasized that the quotas for these commodities were a very small percentage of our domestic production. Along the same line, Secretary Wallace insists that the pact will mean the improvement of the posi tion of farmers in this country in the long run and that it will be "beneficial to all people of the Unit ed States and especially to farmers." Admitting that a few groups will fear they are being hurt, he says the reductions are moderate and the quota restrictions are of such a na ture that Canadian imports cannot affect our price structure by more than one per cent and that this will be more than offset by the increas ed payrolls which will stimulate the demand in this country for the farm products that will be slightly affect ed. Opposition, however, is heard from some lumber associations which de nounce tlie reduction on Douglas fir and western hemlock, amounting to four dollars per thousand hoard feet but limited to 250,000 feet per year of importations under this du ty. The lumber interests of the Northwest have been out-spoken in their criticisms of this concession. Regarding the reduction on cat tle, this relates only to those weigh ing seven hundred pounds or more each, with the duty cut from three to two cents a pound. In addition, the agreement provides that entrance from all countries at this rate may not exceed three-fourths of one per cent of our average annual total do mestic slaughter of cattle and calv es from 1928 to 1932. The lower du ty on calves is limited to a small percentage of domestic production and that on dairy cows to 20,000 head. Limits were also set for cream and seed potatoes to protect American producers—in the case of cream 1,500,000 gallons a year or about one pint for every fifteenth person in the country, and 150,000 bushels of seed potatoes. Canada reduced its duties on 180 commodities and guaranteed lowest rates for any non-British country on 767 items. Widespread reductions on agricultural products included a cut from thirty to twelve cents a bush el on fresh fruits, vegetables and wheat, the transfer of potatoes to a free list, with orange or it for for parts of the year and raw cotton "bound" to it. The President thought that the concession made on fresh vegetables was very important because Cana da has long distinguished between season and off-season marketing of vegetables. He felt that this would be of particular benefit to the North eastern and some border states and that the adjustment in connection with citrus fruits would benefit Florida and California growers. The (Please turn to page eight)