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The Rocky Mount Herald VO] IUME 3, NO. 8 New Deal Wins Smashing Victory In T. V.A. Case 1 Supreme Court By A Decision Ren dered By An Eight One Vote Up- Hold Government Right to Build Plants—S«-ll Power. i 1 " 1 A smashing victory in the Supreme I Court for the new deal was regis ' tered Tuesday when the nine justic es upheld the TVA set-up by a vote of 8-1. Celebrations on a large scale were carried out in the Tennessee Val ley'when the decision was made known, and plans, temporarily held * up, were put in operation again for other vast power projects. The court in a clear-cut manner made it plain that the government could sell surplus electricity at dams constructed for national de * fense or for any other constitution al purpose. Speaking for the administration, Chairman McNineh, of the Power Commission, made a formal state -1 ment on the meaning of the deci sion to the country. Among other North Carolina pro jects that can now be constructed is the Hiawassee River Dam in the western part of the state. J. C. Ruffin Was Buried Wednesday Tarboro, Feb. 18.—Joseph Clifton Ruffin, well known Tarboro resident, largjs Edgecombe county planter and former proprietor of a leading mer cantile store, died suddenly at his home after suffering a paralytic stroke. He was 53 years old. Mr. Ruffin had been in ill healta ( for a number of years but had tak en no recent turn for the worse and was thought to have been as well as usual when he wjs stricken. Funeral services will be held Wed nesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from Howard Memorial Presbyter ian church with Rev. Chester Alex ander, pastor, in charge. Burial will follow in Greenwood cemetery. Mr. Ruffin was born in Edgecombe county July 4, 1882, the son of the late James H. Ruffin and Mrs. Joan na Braswell Ruffin. Surviving are his widow, the for mer Miss Sallie Knight; two son 3, James Clifton and Julian Foxhall Ruffin of thiß city; a daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Stovall, Lexington, Ky., three brothers, M. T. Ruffin, Lee Ruf- I fin and Mark Ruffin of this city, and two sisters, Mrs. Ben Lawrence of Tarboro and Miss Ida Ruffin of Rocky Mount. o Sues For Possession ( Of Corpse Claim and delivery papers were resorted to in an unusual manner the past week to recover the dead body of a 102-year old Stanly Ne gro woman, Leanna Sibley, who died at the home of a relative near Rich field 10 days ago. It happened like this: Following her death January 25 the body of "Aunt" Leanna, as ev eryone knew her, was turned ovor i to a Negro undertaker of Salisbury, who alleged that the deceased had been protected by burial insurance. The funeral had been set for the following Tuesday afternoon, uud when relatives and friends gather >d at the grave and no body showed up after many hours of waiting some of the brethren set out for Salisbury to ascertain the reason. Calling at the establishment where the body had been carried, they were! told by the Negro undertaker that the woman's insurance dues had not been duly paid, and that she was not in good standing witu the association, and therefore the body was being held for the under taking charges, amounting to SSO. Thus the brethren were faced with a peculiar situation as "Aunt" Lean na had no immediate survivors from the 18 children who had been born to her except one son, aged 70, now being cared for by the county, and there was no one to pay the un dertaking charges. Days passed by, and still no bur ial service. Last Saturday some of the Negroes decided that something must be done. In sympathy with their plight, an Albemarle attorney prepared a claim and delivery ac tion, placing the value of the body at and these papers were ser ved upbn the Salisbury undertaker. In lieu of putting up SIO,OOO bond to fight the action, he surrendered the body, and "Aunt" Leanna was brought to lier home and buried in due form Sunday afternoon. o Wife to absent minded husband: Cant I trust you to do anything right? First you sit' in the lunch, • then you miss the trolley—then you lose the key—and now you-ve given the tickets to Willie to tear up for confetti. TOO BIG TO USE DOOR New York.—Police were compell ed to knock out a window and lower Mrs. Sarah Jackson, 66, three stories to the ground in a sack when the elderly woman had to be taken to a hospital for treatment. She w:>i~hed 350 pounds and egress thru the door was impossible. Wilson Robbery Is Discovered About S3OO In Cash, Checks, Securi ties Taken From Safe Wilson, Feb. 18.—About S3OO in cash checks and securities were re ported missing today from the sale of County Auditor W. J. Boykin here as police endeavored to find some clue which would lead them to the men wqo presumably opened the combination safe during the night. The cash, amounting to about S2OO, was that of Tax Collector Carl Batts, as were the checks and securities, it was stated here. Unofficially, opinion was express ed it was an "inside" job. Two saf es, very silpilar in appearance, were in the office, and one contained noth ing and the other the money, checks and securities. The first was aljedge edly untouched and the second open ed by discovering the combination, — reportedly, Many Attend Rites, For Hyman Bradley Among a throng of grief stricken relatives and t'riends who attended funeral services for the late Wil liam Hyman Bradley, popular young business man of this city who suc cumbed of pneumonia on Friday of last week, were many from out of the city. Services were conducted from the late residence on Western avenue oa Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. Norman Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Among those who came from else where were H. R. Bradley, of Prov idence, Rhode Island, a brother of the deceased; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bradley, of Columbia, South Caro lina; Herbert 4Jox, of Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. Fountain Cox, of Roberson ville; Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Rouse, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Rouse, of Golds boro; Louis Brown of Oak City; Amber Brown, of Wiiliamston; W. ii, -Row* of,j»Un4toiu £U. and JMo. Robert Weeks, Murray Stancil, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Edmondsou, Mrs. R. H. Denton, Miss Louise Denton, Miss Ruth Denton, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Gay, Jj;., Henry Kellum, of Tarboro, and Miss Lela Bowling of Durham. N. W. Walker Dies At Chapel Hill N. W. Walker, 61, for many years head of the Department of Educa tion and director of the Summer School at the University of N. C., died at his home in Chapel Hill, Thursday afternoon. Private funeral services were held from the home Saturday afternoon at 2:30, followed by public services in the Chapel Hill Cemetery, at 3 o'clock. o Body 01 Baker Not yet Found Searchers Drag Muddy Waters Of Flooded Neuse Without Results As SIOO Reward Is Offered For Re covery Of Body Searchers in boats and walking up and down the banks of the swollen waters of the Neuse river, augment ed by the offer of one hundred dollars reward, have as yet failed to find any trace of the body of Henry Baker, who, it is believed, went into the river following a wreck Monday night, February 10. The family of the missing man of fered the reward hoping thus to lo cate the body of Baker. However, search has been made very difficult by the rapid rise in the waters of the Neuse, which is now out of its bank in many places. Some of the searchers went in boats as far down the river as Smithfield, and others have made a thorough search near the scene of the accident, but all without result. u FEET FROZEN TO PLATFORM Paris, Mo.—While attempting to thaw a pump with the thermometer at 15 below zero, Mrs. Roy Purvis, farmer's wife, had the unique expe rience of having her feet frozen to the concrete platform of the pump. Her husband had to pour hot water around her overshoes in order to free her. Green asks for restrictions on the Supreme Court. Reich insists she owns colonies lost In war; Britain disagrees. Soviet canal will open the Cas pian Sen to ocean traffic. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1936 Fitts Is Oat For Prosecutor I would like very much to have the office of Nash County Solici tor this time in view of the fact that many men and women through hut the country have asked me to run. 1 have lived in Nash County twen ty six years have supported ev ery democratic movement in the County of consequence during that period of time, it is further well known that 1. have practiced law with offices in Rocky Mount—tin both State and Federal courts for the last past eight years. The office of County solicitor of any county is a very 'important one, and therefore should always be fill ed by a man of long practical ex perience in life and in law, one who is seasoned enough to understand its application as well as the law it self. If the people favor me with the office, I shall feel very grateful to them for the recognition and will under-take to give to the office the kind of service it requires and thai which the tax payers and people in general have a right to expect. F. W. Fitts, Attorney, Rocky Mt., N. C. Tarboro Merchant Pleads Ignorance Shugar Says Re Did Not Know They Were "Hot Stuff" Tarboro, Feb. 16.—Phillip Shugar, local merchant, named in a written confession by Sam Needleman of G-oldsboro as one of several persons to whom he sold stolen goods, as serted today he was unaware at the time of his purchase that the goods he bought were stolen. "If I had known Needleman was selling me "hot stuff," I'd have knocked his teeth down his throat," said Mr. Shugar. Seeking to clear up assertions con necting liira with a widespread ring believed to have stolen and sold thousands of dollars worth of good 3 in North Carolina, Mr. Shugar said he had been buying goods from Needleman for many years. He said Needleman once worked for a repu table wholesale house in Baltimore and that therefore when Needleman came to his store several weeks ago and offered to sell him a quantity «f- soeks, -it newer occurred to "him that the goods might have ' been stolen. "I bought the socks at 10 per cent below the market price and paid Needleman $460 cash" said the mer chant, "I asked him for a bill of sale and he said 'l'll bring it to you later. So I never thought any more about the matter until afterwards when I found out t! e socks were stolen." 1 Shugar, who still has the socks, is not charged with any crime in con nection with the case, he declared. BETTER ENGLISH PLEDGE "I promise that I will not dis honor my country's speech b. leaving off the last syllable of words; that I will say a good American "Yes" and "No" In place of an Indian grunt, "unhh and "huhunch;;" that I will do\ my best to improve American speech by avoiding loud rough tones, by enunciating distinctly and by speaking pleasantly and sincerely; that I will try to make my country's language beautiful.' NATIONAL LEADERS TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCE "Thj Health Officers and Sanitur mns who come to Raleigh next week will hear many recognised author ities in the field of public health discuss the various problems .in gen eral sanitation, milk sanitation and Malaria Control," stated War re a IT. Booker, Director of the D.vision of Sanitary Engineering of the North Carolina State Board of Health." Dr. Cris P. Segard of the Wiscon sin Alumni Research Bureau will speak Thursday, February 20 .n subjects relating to diet, milk, min erals and vitnmines. On Friday February 21, Dr. L. L. Williams, Jr. of the IT. S. Public Hea-th Service, rnd Dr. Z. P. Metcalf of the Depart ment of Entomology of State Col lege will speak on Malaria Control. The faculty of the N. C State Co'- lcge and the staff of th-j State Board of Health and several men who are prominently identified with national organizations w'l take im portant parts on the program. More than one hundred health of ficers, sanitary engineers, health workers, public health nurses, sani tariums and others interested in public health are expected to attend. This year's conference bids fair to be the largest and most interesting of any that has been held so far. TRAIN WRECKED BUS Sound Brook, N. J.—Standing in the snow at a safe distance, the 33 passengers of a bus which had stall ed on a train track saw the engine of the train plow into the bus and hurled it off the tracks into a gulley. When the back wheels of the bu« become locked on the tracks, the driver ordered hi* passengers to get on*. Mongolians Guard Their Borders Frequent clashes between the Outer Mongolians and the Munchukuans lead to the belief that before long war will break out. Involving Soviet Russia and Japan. The group of Mongolians shown above are guarding the frontier. These tribesmen are fine cavalrymen and hard lighters. • $ To The Mayor And Aldermen TO THE HONORABLE Mayor and the Board of Alder men of the city of Rocky Mount. We feel it our duty to bring it again to the attention of your honorable body, the serious need for a playground and recreational space in Rocky Mount and especially is this so on the Edgecombe side. The Lutheran church which has herebefore provided breathing and playground space for our children is plan ning to begin the erection of a church building. There is a vacant lot just across the street from this church, within three blocks of the center of the town which may be ac quired by purchase or condemnation. We address this letter to you in the interest of the ba bies, and the young children. This is a group that largely can not speak for themsel ves and we are urging this need upon you in their behalf. This group can not vote but should be able to have their appeal heard. We have provided bountifully for those who have air ships, if there be one in the town. The field cost $50,000. We have built a lake for the sportsman, and beautified it with flowers arotlnd the river. It cost about SIOO,OOO. Plans have been made for providing suitable space for the city offices and recreation, at a cost of around SIOO,OOO. According to the press reports, the main objective of the Chamber of Commerce this year will be to try to get Big League Baseball. We have already voted $30,000 fpr a stadium which sup plemented by the government bounty will make an expen diture of around SIOO,OOO. Now, we are not registering any complaint about these expenditures, they speak for themselves, but we do say that not on of the above expenditures were needed one tenth as much as a playground space in Rocky Mount. Now, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the Board, will you not appoint a committee to look into this park site which has been mentioned above and other sites which may be found. Now, we know that it has been contended that the Board is short of money, but with the above expenditures having been made, we feel certain that the Board could not turn this request down for the lack of funds. Aunt Of Local Women Is Dead Mrs. Mary Vines Cooke, 85, aunt of three local women, died in Youngsville of infirmities of old age, relatives learned here. Mrs. Cooke, widow of the late Dr. Walter Cooke, Of Franklin coun ty, succumbed at the home of her son, Walter Jones Cooke. Funeral services were conducted at the son's home Wednesday after noon at 3:30 o'clock with interment in the family plot. Two sons, Walter Jones and Char les Vines Cooke, of Savannah, Ga., survive as do three nieces here, Mrs. H. M. Avent, Mrs. E. P. Bunn, and Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon. o Garner Club Showers Library An outstanding activity of the Garner Woman's Club during the fall was the book shower spon sored by the library committee. Members of the Junior Woman's Club, dressed to represent famous book characters, served punch and wafers. An interesting contest was held to determine who could iden tify the largest number of book characters represented. Miss Frances Thompson was the winner. Forty-six books were donated to the library at that time. From "The North Carolina Club Woman." MYSTERY EPIDEMIC Rio de Janeiro. —An epidemic, un identified but relieved to be chole ra, is claiming "hundreds of vic tims" in the village of Santa Rom on the Tapajos river. The village has a population of about 5,000 in habitants. Funeral Rites For Mrs. Mary Emerson Mrs. Mary Emerson, 77, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. R. Saunders of 415 South Washing ton street, from an illness contract ed at the beginning of the year. Funeral services were held from the South Washington street home with Rev. George W, Perry, pastor of the First Methodist church, offi ciating. Burial followed at Luray, Va., Mrs. Emerson's former home. She had lived with her daughter here for the last three years. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. W. R. Saunders of this city, Mrs. J. K. Ambrose of Woodstock, Va., Mrs. Tom Brown and Mrs. Ir vin Coats of Luray, Va.; and three sons, Milton E. Emerson, N. A. Emerson, and T. M. Emerson, all of Luray. o BURGLERS USE GAS Tulsa, Okla. —Apparently using gas to keep their victim, Policeman Frank Todd, asleep while they worked, burglars chisoled the lock off the door to Todd's homo and rob bed him of $640. TEXAS INVITES NATION Texas is inviting the nation to Dallas for the Texas Centennial, op ening June 6. Muriels, prizes, bas reliefs, works of Sculpture and other artistic touches costing more than a half million dollars are provided for in plans of the Texas Centennial Expo sition. DYNAMITES CROWS OklahomaCity.—Dynamite thrown into the blackjack thickets killed more than fifteen thousand crows, in the most extensive attack ever made by the State Game and Fish Depart ment on the crow PARAGRAPHS PROBLEMS AT Mrs. Ruffin Buried In Edgecombe Go. Tarboro, Feb. 18.—Mrs. Hattie Ruffin, highly esteemed Tarboro wo man, died at her home on St. An drew street Sunday night follow ing a short illness. Funeral servic es were held from the First Baptist church at 3:30 o'clock this after noon. A native and lifelong resident of Edgecombe county, she was 65 years old at the time of her death. Surviving are two sons, Robert Ruffin of this city and Jimmie Ruf fin of Rocky Mount; and two broth ers, James Hodge of Winston-Sal em and E. B. Hodges of Norfolk, Va. Fountain-Hart Mills United Hart, Fountain Mills To Be Grouped Together—Annex Contract To Be Let Tarboro, Feb, 18.—With plans complete for the grouping together of Hart and Fountain cotton mills here, a buildiug committee went forward today with plans for let ting contracts on an annex which of ficers claim will make the new plant the largest print cloth mill in East ern North Carolina. At a recent meeting of stockhol ders directors of the mill were el ected as follows: John Young blood, C. A. Johnson, S. N. Clark and R. P. Cherry of this city; John H. Rogers, John T. Rich and H. C. Cunningham of Norfolk, Va., H. M. Leslie of New York City and John Yancey of Marion. The directors named Mr. Rogers, who was president of Hart Mill, and Mr. Youngblood, who was vice president, president and vice presi dent respectively of the new mill. R. J. Walker was elected secretary and treasurer and Jimmie Britt as sistant secretary and treasurer. The two mills previously had beeu brought together under one head when Fountain mill stock was bought in by Hart mill stockholders. Mr. Youngblood said $150,000 will be in periling the pliysical changes necessary, of which $50,000 will go for new machinery. Foun tain mill, now offered for sale, will be abandoned and all operations will be carried on at the presert Hart mill plant after erection of an annex and installation of the new machinery. Fountain mill work ers will be transferred to Hart mill. o Davenport Group Vote Today College Board Favors Reopening Of School in September Charlotte, Feb. 18.—Trustees of Davenport college at Lenoir, which was closed three years ago, voted here today to reopen it next Sep tember if at all possible. "Things look encouraging," said the Rev. J. H. Barnhardt, of Raleigh, vice chairman of the board, follow ing the meeting. "Of course, th problems, as always, are largely financial. It looks as if the reopen ing can be managed this year." Mr. Barnhardt presided over the meeting in the absence of F. C. Sherrill, of Cornelius, chairman. The trustees did not take under consideration the plan suggested by the general missions board of the Methodist Episcopal' church, South, for the use of the mission build ing at Junaluska for the college. Mr. Barnhardt said no considera tion was given to it because the college already had a plant at Le noir and because the Junaluska lo cation was quite near Brevard where the Methodist church already is op erating a junior college. A committee was named to confer with the board of Christian educa tion of the Western North Carolina Methodist conference on the question of financing the reopening of Dav enport. The Rev. J. W. Hoyle, presiding elder of the Statesville district, was made chairman of the committee. Serving with him will be the Rev. R. M. Courtney, of Shelby, and Thad H. Ford, Shelby Layman:, FIANCEE HEARS FATAL SHOT Los Angeles.—Charles Gilbert shot and fatally wounded himself while the girl he was to marry listened at a telephone. 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 Meunt, N. C. Name Town State , Route No SI.OO PER YEAR ON NATIONAL WASHINGTON Br Hop Sims, Special Washlagtea Correspondent TO ADJOURN MAY IST? SEEKING AMERICAN UNITY NO TAX ON ADVERTISING MONEY FOR FARMERS NAVAL AGREEMENT * PITTMAN ON JAPAN NEW HOUSING PLAN GREEN FOR AMENDMENT TO PROTECT INDEPENDENTS Last week congressional leader virtually abandoned all efforts to pass a permanent neutrality meas ure and thus took a step toward securing an early adjournment. A brief "must'' list included new farm aid legislation, a tax bill to raise $500,000,000 for the farm program, an appropriation for work relief and the regular departmental sup ply bills. Other legislation may be called for as a result of future decisions' of the Supreme Court and while this may prolong the session, some leaders have tentatively set May Ist as the approximate end of the session. r* President Roosevelt has taken up with all American Republics the possibility of organizing peace ma chinery for the Western Hemis phere with the idea of carrying out the "policy of the good neigh bor." The idea is to provide meth ods of settling disputes by peaceful, means and possibly to re-define the Monroe Doctrine in a way agreeable to the other nations and thereby to secure multi-lateral endorsement. That the famous doctrine will be the subject of discussion is certain even if Washington wishes to avoid it. Possibily the new doctrine will in clude genera! responsibility of all Western nations for a warning to the rest of the world to keep their bands off. In a unanimous opinion, the Un ited States Supreme Court abolish ed the effort of the State of Louis iana to tax the gross advertising revenue of the larger newspapers in that state. The Court held that the luw was a "deliberate and cal culated device" to withhold informa tion from the people of Louisiana and that ita plain purpose was to penalize a selected group of newspa pers. Holding that newspapers, mag azines and other journals shed light on the public and business affairs of the nation and that hny sup pression or abridgment of such publicity cannot be regarded other wise than with grave concern, the Court lost little time in throwing out the tax imposed which affect ed only thirteen newspapers pub lished in the larger centers »f Louisiana. Last week it seemed probabla that the Administration, in financ ing the stop-gap farm relief pro gram, would use a schedule of ex ercises covering a broadened list of agricultural commodities. In addition to wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice and hogs, subject to processing taxes heretofore, similar taxes were being considered on beef, corn, rye, oata and hops. Moreover, compensatory levies on products competitive with those to be taxed were being stu died. The idea seems t-o be to wid en the base of the taxes so that tho levies will not be as high as the in dividual processing taxes. Last week the United States, Great Britian, France and Italy agreed not to build any crusiers over 8,000 tons in size or mounting heavier guns than fi.l inches in cal ibre for a period of five years, with the success of the pact depending on whether Japan and Germany are willing to accept its rules. This means a waiver on the part of the United States on its big cruiser policy which the Navy Department has insisted upon in the face of for eign opposition since the end of tho Washington Naval Conference four teen years ago. The existing 10,000-ton cruisers will not be scrapped and may bo replaced by others of the same size when they become over-age. At pres ent, the United States and Great Britian have nineteen Class A cru isers, with guns of more than 6.1 in ches, fourteen for Japan, eleven for Italy and ten for France. In small er cruisers Great Britain, with 43, leads the parade, followed by Ja pan with 26, the United States and Italy with 19 and France with 14. On the Army's side of the pre paredness record, it should noted that Congress took up last week tho War Department supply bill, carry ing $374,981,521 for military activi (Please tarn to page eight)