i The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 3, NO. 12
Plans Are Comp
2nd Gallopade
Thursday, and Friday, May 28-29,
' were chosen, as the dates for the
4 second aanual Gallopade af >• meet
ing of the board of director' .of the
Gallopide association at which time
committees were appointed and a
tentative program, adopted.
These two days were found by an
investigating committee to be the
most advantageous to hold the good
4 will carnival which last year at
tracted thousands of visitors to th?
city.
A tentative program of entertain
ment was endorsed by the board, of
directors. The present plans £.ll for
a barn dance at a local warehouse
Wednesday night for the benefit of
4 the farmer friends of the city.
Thursday will feature the Gallopade
parade and in the afternoon the
new city stadium will be dedicat
ed with appropriate exercises. Tho
Rocky Moant Red Sox and Durham
* will play that afternoon. There will
also be a band eoncert at the sta
dium. Friday afternoon will feature
entertainment at the Rocky Mount
airport. The festival will close Fri
day night with the Gallopade 'ball,
which according to present plans,
will present a nationally known
dance orchestra. The ball will be a
. _ costnme affair.
*|t The various committees are'as fol
' lows: •
Finance—E. H. Reaves, chairr|an;
jjL;. B. Ay cock, R. W. Bauer, 0. G.
tj&mith, J. L. Cummings, W. G. Rob
bins.
j*. Publicity — ; George Arrington
chairman; Vernon Sechreist, Avery
C. M Edson.
Parade —B. H. Bunn, chairman;
Herman Blonnt, Arthur Weathers, D.
O. Bulluck, A. L. Tyler, and George
Arrington.
Dance—Ben Arrington and C. D.
Eatman, co-chairmen, George Arring
ton, A. L. Brandon and J. P. Bunn.
« Dedication—A. J. Mims, chairman;
J. L. Home, Jr., I. D. Thorp, R. R.
Gay, T. W. Coleman, L. B. Winslow,
and T. L. Simmons.
Amusement—C. M. Edson, chair
man; George Arrington, Ben Arring
ton, N. Y. Chambliss, C. G. Edger
ton, C. H. Arrington.
» Band —C. L. McCullers and H.
Vernon Hooker, co-chairmen; R. R.
Braswell, J. A. Harper, and R. S.
Confers.
Air circus—J. L. Hjrne, Jr., chair
man; M F. Jones, F. P. Spruill, R.
D. Wimberly, E. Epstein, L W. Man
gum, and R. C. Brake.
J. L. Williams is president of the
association, A. J. Mims, vice- pres
ident; L. B._Aycafik. treasurer; and
E. H. Austin, secretary.
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Doctor Says
Vaccinate Now
I* Dr. Allen Whitaker, head of tho
city health department, issued a
plea that the people of Rocky
Mount be inoculated against ty
phoid now instead of waiting until
the summer months.
Dr. Whitaker pointed out that the
dangers of attracting the typhoid
germ are greater in tho summer be
cause of the fact that one comes in
to contact with bad water during
that time. He said that the general
belief is that vaccination should be
v done during the summer and stat
ewored that this, in reality, is the
worst time to take the typhoid pre
ventative treatments.
The city health office will vacci
nate against typhoid without charge
and urges that the children especial
ly become inoculated within the
* next month.
Jesse Taylor
Laid To Rest
Tarboro. —Funeral services for
Jesse Taylor of Conetoe, Edgecombe
county were held from the home
Friday at 3:30 o'clock by Dr. J. L.
Peacock, pastor of First Baptist
» church.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Ida Taylor of Conetoe; four broth
ers, Jerry and. Clayton of Conetoe,
William Taylor of Weldon, and two
sisters, Mrs. Joe Satterwaite of Ay
den and Mrs. Bud Taylor of Conetoe.
Joe T. Burgess
Buried Saturday
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Tarboro.—Funeral services for Joe
T. Burgess, 70, were held from tho
home of his son, Walter Burgess, iu
No. 1 towrhlfip of Edgecombe co
unty at four o'clock Saturday af
ternoon. Burial followed in Green
wood cemetery.
Rev. Betram E. Brown, rector of
. Calvary Episcopal church, was in
charge of the final rites.
Mr. Burgess, a long time resident
of tho county, died Friday aftsr
more than a year's illness. His wi
dow survives him.
TEST PROVES EXPENSIVE
Columbus, Ohio. —Biting a quar
ter to make sure it was not coun
terfeit cost Charles E. Stoops, mana
ger of a concession stand at Ohio
State University, a tooth.
Dramatic Class
Wins At Raleigh
Local High School Wins Right Eo
Enter State Finals At Chapel
■ Hill
Receiving the unanimous vote of
the judges, the Rocky Mount hig.i
school won first place in the pre
liminaries of the state dramatic
tournament Saturday and thus won
the right to represent the eastern
section of North Carolina in the fi
nal competition at Chapel Hill dur
ing the state dramatic festival which
will be held during the first week
of April.
The dramatics class, which iB un
der the direction of C. M. Bdson,
presented "Drums of Death." Oth
er schools competing were Needham
Broughton high school of Raleigh
with "Madame Butterfly," Chapsl
Hill with "Peggy," and Henderson,
with "The Gypsy." The trials were'
held in the auditorium of Needham
Broughton high school in Raleigh.
Joe Hollowell, Nellie Speight,
Tom A vera, Jr., and Bobbie Wil
liams formed the cast of the win
ning production. The stage crew was
composed of A. W. House, Haywood
Taylor, and Allen Whitehead. Oth
er students connected with the pro
duction were Mary Osborne Elling
ton, business manager; Frances
Walker prompter; and Hilda Har
per, make-up assistant.
Judges for the preliminaries were
Professor A. T. West of Duke Uni
versity, Mrs. Everette of Seaboard,
and Miss Sarah Faulkner of South
ern Pines.
Mrs. C. C. Hunter
Buried Sunday
Well Known Young Matron Is In
terred At Spring Hope
Spring Hope, March 16.—Funeral
services were held Sunday afternoon
at 4:00 o'clock from the Spring Hope
First Baptost church for Mrs. Charles
Cree.Hunt?r, 32, formerly Miss Cath
erine Baines of this city, but who
had resided in Rich Square and
more recently in Oxford since her
marriage.
Rites were condjlctedL- bjr J>r. W,
R. Cullom, assisteT by Rev. M. 1.
Hodyes and fcev. Mr. Tarlton if
the Baptist church at Rich Square.
Interment followed in the lot of
her parents in Pineview cemetery
here.
Mrs. Hunter succumbed at near 6
o'clock Saturday evening in an Ox
ford hospital, following an attack of
influenza complicated by pneumonia
and low blood pressure.
She was the oldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Baines of this
city and is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Annie Cone Baines; her father,
well-known hardware merchant of
Spring Hope; two sisters, Mrs. Ray
mond K. Bass of Raleigh and Miss
Virginia Baines of Spring Hope and
the Goldsboro high school music de
partment. Mrs. Hunter's twin broth
er, Clarence, died in infancy. Ono
grand parent, Mrs. Octavia Cone of
Richmond, also survives. Mrs. Hun
ter's immediate family consists of
her husband, prominent in the mer
cantile business in Oxford, and ono
5-year old son, Charles Cree, Jr.
Pallbearers were friends of Mr-
Hunter's from Rich Square.
R* R. Taylor
Buried In County
R. R. Taylor, 73, of Castalia, who
died at home about 8 o'clock Sun
day night, was buried ia the family
grounds after rites at the grave
side with Rey.. F. G. Walker, pastor
of the Baptist church at Castalia, of
ficiating. Mr, Taylor was the bro
ther of Sid Taylor, Rooky Mount pa
lice officer.
The Castalia man had been in ill
health for some time but his death
came unexpectedly. Te had farmed
when he was physically able.
Besides Police Officer Taylor here,
Mr. Taylor leaves one daughter, Mrs.
Gladys Bowling, of Castalia; three
grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs,
Lucy Winston, Youngsville; and
Mrs. E. B. Johnson, of Dallas, Tex
as.
Services were conducted at 4
o'clock.
TO RIVAL CAPITAL
Cincinnati—Five thousand flower
ing Japanese cherry trees have been
presented to this city by the Jap
anese Government, giving it the
largest collection of blossoming Jap
anese cherry trees in the United
States, rivaling the famous cherry
trees along the tidal basin in Wash
ington, D. C.
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ROOMMATES IN HALL OF FAME
Athens, Ga.—Once roommates at
the University of Georgia, the
sculptored figures of Alexander H.
Stephens and Crawford W. Long
stand side by side in the nation's
Hall of Fame, in Statuary Hall, in
Washington.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA,
Nash-Edgecombe
Pension Group Is
Formed In City
Nearly 1,000 Persons Attend Gath
ering Here To Hear Well Known
Speakers
T. T. THORNE IS ELECTED
ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
Speaker* Include S. D. Daniels Of
Littleton, Charles U. Harris Of
Raleigh, R. T. fountain Of This
City And Bruce Carraway Of
High Point—Met On Sunday
Nearly 1,000 citizens of Rocky
Mount and vicinity poured into the
high school auditorium Sunday af
ternoon to hear well known eastern
and Piedmont North Carolina speak
ers discuss various phases of the pro
posed North Carolina old age pen
sion law and also to form a Nash-
Edgecombe old-age pension associa
tion.
Speakers of the meeting suggest
ed since the state government has as
sumed many functions in the past
quarter of century or more, it
should also assume the care of the
aged and infirm and indigent ov
er 60 years old by making a state
law to conforjn with the federal se
curity act.
Those speaking included Samuel G.
Daniels, of Littleton, the president
of the state association for old-age
pension laws; Charles U. Harris, of
Raleigh; R. T. Fountain, of this
city, and Bruce H. Carraway, of
High Point, Mr. Carraway presid
ed.
Leaders Named
Officers elected included T. T.
Thome, of this city, president; JO9
Cutchin of Wihitakers, vice-presi
dent from Edgecombe county; L.
L. Davenport of Nashville, vice
president from Nash county; and
W. C. Walston, this city, secretary
A board of directors of ten will
be named by the officials later.
This action followed the talks and
a successful motion to form a Nash-
Edgecombe unit of the old-age pen
sion association. Both white and No
gro people attended.
Mr. Thome, opening the meeting,
which had been moved from the re
corders court room, to the audi
torium in order to accomodate the
crowd, spoke of the purpose of thp
meeting. It was, as he explained to
help create sentiment for passage of
old-age pension, legislation to con
form with federal laws.
The federal lawn pwrW'iwyment
of up to $l5 per month for indi
gent people over 60 years, provided
the sum is matched frpm state
sources with an equal amount.
President Daniels, first to speak,
made his talk brief. He said old
people "are entitled to a. comfort
able ending of a useful life."
Harris Talks
Mr. Harris, relative of Superior:
Court Judge W. C.. Harris, of Ra
leigh, who has just' completed serv
ing in the sessions in Nsah and:
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Wilson Farmers
Seek. Control Plan
County Agent Says They Are IOOi
Per Cent For Tobacco Control
Wilson, March 16.—Wilson coun
ty farmers are almost a hundred
per cent behind any control pro
gram that will be presented to them
for tobacco, according to W. L.
Adams, county farm agent here Sat
urday, and he said that 90 percent
of the farmers will sign the new
government program when and if it
goes through.
"Wilson County farmers are be
hind anything," said Adams Satur
day, "that will control the acreage
this year, and I am sure that if
this new government program is a
good one and is put hefore them
that 90 per cent of them will sign
up with the voluntary program and
stick by it,"
Contrary to reports, according to
the farm agent, very few farmers
in this section will increase their
acreage this year or are even con
templating it, and this statement was
verified by a number of promi
nent Wilson county farmers Satur
day.
"If there is any increase," said T.
J. Wiggins, 68 year old Wilson co
unty farmer and one of the most
prominent in this section, Staurday,
"it will be so small that it will make
no difference at all. I have seen
and heard very little evidence of
an increase in production this com
ing year, even if the proposed gov
ernment program fails to go through.
There is less work being done in
this section at the time of year than
I have even seen and this is dm
to the recent bad weather. It Is
going to retard crops this year 1
am afraid.
He voiced his confidence in the
farmers of this section and said
that he was sure that there would
be very little if any increase in to
bacco acreage in this section during
the coming year.
Much interest is being evidenced
in this section over the newly or
ganized Federal Farm Bureau
branch here, and during the last
few woeks around 400 farmers have
joined this body with many more
expected to join before the season
actually starts this year.
Would You Call These Things Art?
Here are pictured two of the 19 pl«eea^of abstract arti which, the
Museum of Mordent An attempted to have.admitted to thifr oeuntry. under
a section of law which admits art objects luty free. Customs;lnspector*
In New York declared "those ain't art? Thfr object on the left l» oalledi
"A Head," and that on the ls supposed to> represent "spiral expan
sion of njnscles ln;:Bctfon." '*
Old Age Pension Act
Must Go Into Effect
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There is n6-doubt that our people are much concerned
over the question as to when the Social Security Act or
what is known on the streets, as the Old Age Pension Law,
is going into effect.
More thai* 800 are estimated to have attended the meet
ing here last Sunday with very little time given to advertise
the meeting.
Our old, .people are vitally interested in this act. Our
State should give (immediate consideration to this question.
A state that can spend $30,000,000 on roads„ can certainly
provide 12,000,000 for this Security of our elderly people.
We are-not opposed to roads, but we are more opposed to
having our old people go hungry and without the necessities
of life.
There was one thing that was noticeable about this
meeting. 95 per cent of the people that attended this meet
ing-walked; some with sticks, some with crutches.
We wish that more of the younger people could have at
tended;this meeting. It would have given them another
viewpoint on life. Many of these older people have helped
to build these fine highways and the great school buildings
throughout the state. •
Wet must put. this act into effect. Other States have done
it and North Carolina can do it, and must do it.
? WPA INVESTIGATION
Senator, Rush Holt, the Democratic Senator of West
Virginia, desires a "thorough and searching investigation of
the Works Progress Administration."
We trust that the pubdic will not confuse the attitude
of the President in trying to help the needy and unemploy
ed with: some' of the criticisms which have been aimed at
the Administration of the Act.
It is not expected that the President could give over
sight to the many details and from the many charges of
favoritism and politics under the act. Where there is so
much smoke there is probably some fire.
We were informed this week that WPA investigator was
going from county to county, writing poems magnifying
and praising high office holders in this state who had giv
en. him the job, giving the poems to county newspapers.
We are not advised as to whether he had any other du
ties or not, but certainly this is a matter of local concern,
because if the President knew about it, he would frown up
on it. There is no doubt that many people have resigned re
sponsibilities and lucrative positions to become connected
with the relief, who are not in need, when there are many
out of work and in need who can not get on.
This is local and state politics and should not under any
circumstances be imputed to the President and the Congress.
STATE BAR ACT QUESTIONED:
There is an intimation in the recent decision of the Su
preme Court, passing on the case of disbarment of James
D. Parker, Johnston County attorney,, that the constitution
ality of the North Carolina State Bar Act is questioned by
the court itself.
The decision of Chief JustiQe Stacy dismisses the case
against Mr. Parker, and reverses Judge Small's judgment.
We are not advised as to the grounds on which the court
questioned this act, but we expect the question that will
be raised will be the broad and general powers which this
act undertakes to give the bar committee. It almost under
takes to make this committee a legislature, and a court,
in addition to giving it general executive powers, added to
its status as an examining committee.
The Liberty Leatrue group, which has talked so much
about the constitution, might look into this act. It goes
farther than the AAA.
Many young would-be lawyers will watch this decision
with interest.
DOG RETURNS PURSE
Boonville, Mo.—Recently Mrs.
Powell Clayton lost her purse, con
taining some money and valuable
papers. A poli/j dog, owned by C.
Dyer, a policeman, who lived with
the Claytons, found the purse on a
downtown srteet, recognized it a3
belonging at his home and returned
it.
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AGED FATHER AND SON
Carlinville, 111.— F. M. Stayton and
his son, W. F. Stayton, applied for
old age pensions at the same time.
The father is 92 and hia son 67.
Cotton group asks $27,000,000 more
for soil act Compliance.
IDAY, MARCH 20, 1936
MISSES FIRST FIRE
Anchorage, Alaska.—John Andri
sen, new fire chief, celebrated tha
occasion by sleeping through the
first fire. Not even his wife, who
was a night telephone operator, nor
the first siren, which aroused the
whole town, could awaken him.
BANS ANTO HORNS
Greensboro, N. C.—The blowing of
automobile horns between the hours
of 10 P. M. and 8 A. M., except in
cases of emergency, is strictly forbid
den under the terms of a new ordi
nance rceently passed by the city
officials.
PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL
PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON
Local ( Bonds Are
Soli In Raleigh
Athletic Field And Nash School
BOnd» Soli By Commission
Bonds of three governmental sub
'di.viaions and notes of two others
were sold by the local government
commission, in the state capital Ra
leigh.
The fait commission met in a rou
tine session and approved a pro
posed $50,000 refunding bond issue
of Qoldsboro and a $65,000 Wilkes
county school issue.
Rocky Mount's $30,000 worth of
i. athletic field securities were sold to
Kirchofer and Arnold of Raleigh at
k ai premium of $57.20 with interest
, at 3 1-4 per cent and a Nash coun
ty $54,000 school issue went to the
:Nash county sinking fund at a pre
mium of $1,500 with interest to four
- jper cent.
Nash Superintendent L. S. Inseoe
explained the Nash school bond is
sue was for the county's portion of
the funds to be used in the school
building program of the Public
Works Administration.
The Rocky Mount issue is the one
i for the athletic field or stadium
r at Briles field.
A Kinston $27,000 school refund
> ing issue was sold the Branch Bank
ing and Trust company at a pre
. mium of $15.11 with interest at five
a per cent.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Tabor City bought a $9,000 note
r of Columbus county at par with in
, terest at 2.90 per cent and the Bank
r of Enfield took a Scotland Neck $4,-
500 note at six per cent interest.
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3 Numbers Operator
. Beaten And Robbed
Tarboro, March, 15.—Police today
- sought two assailants of Eddie Al
• len, Negro, of Newport News, Va.,
| alleged numbers game, operator,
while Allen, robbed of a large sum
of money, lay in a local hospital
in a critical condition, his skull
> beaten to a pulp with the butt of
a shotgun.
Allen, who was acquitted here
three weeks ago when he was trie.l
on charges of operating a lottery,
told police he thought he had be
; tween $5OO and $6OO on his person
f when two men waylaid him in the
hall of a Negro rooming house here
early Saturday morning and beat
i him over the head with the shot
. gun. Only $5O was found, after the
attack. This sum, found on the floor,
was overlooked by the robbers.
Officers questioned John Nelson.
- operator of a Negro cafe here, wh >
f admittedly was associated with the
Allen Negro in the numbers racket.
Nelsons vest and trousers revealed
brownish stains which police at
s first said was blood but later de
j cided was something else. Nelson
was released after showing he was
at home asleep at the time.
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WALLACE SAYS DECISION
; "LEGALIZED STEAL"
. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
' Wallace last week submitted to the
T Senate the evidence on which he
termed the Supreme Court's return
r of $300,000,000 in AAA taxes to
processors "the greatest legalized
'• isteat in American history."
The information was in reply to
a request by Senator George W. Nor
ris. Nebraska Progressive, who had
called the release to the processors
of the impounded taxes "the greatest
3 gift since God made salvation free."
Explaining that $180,000,000 was
r handed back directly as a result of
the court's ruling, and that $120,-
000,000 had been retained by delin
i quent taxpayers. Wallace said the
. money had enriched three principal
- groups—cotton ipanufacturers, mill
j ers„ and hog packers.
The "steal"' or "gift," according to
S Wallace, represents about three and
. a half times the profits of the threo
groups during their most prosper
' ous years.
1 For the hog processors alone the
unpaid taxes were approximately
i about eight times their average prof
, its from hogs before the depression.
By increasing their operating and
profit margins during the period
when the processing taxes were in
effect, Wallace contended, tho pro
cessors collected every dollar and
more from either producers or con
sumers..
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ABANDONS HOUSING CASE
SEIZING TELEGRAMS
BLACK DEFENDS COURSE
BUSINESS MEN GATHER
RAILROADS AND LABOR
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
PRE-CONVENTION STRATEGY
THE TAX DISCUSSION
By Hufo Special Wuhingta*
CmefMi^nt
The administration has abandon
ed its appeal to the Supreme Court
in the Louisville housing case ajid
apparently accepts the decision of
an Appellate Court, holding that the
Federal Government has no power
to condemn property for low-coat
housing purposes. The action of th®
Governmen resulted in considerable
speculation, some contending that it
was to avoid an adverse decision and
others maintaining that no such pow
er is now desired by the Adminis
tration, which plans to abandon, di
rect Federal construction and leave
the job to local, authorities, financ
ed through. Federal loans and grants.
While twenty States have paesel
enabling acts, permitting counties
and municipalities to set up hous
ing authorities, only twenty-threo
communities have done so. The De
partment; of Justice said the action
was takon because the cases "had
became moot" since no founds were
available for the Louisville and De
troit project under fire. However,
this is no explanation why, only
two week# before, the Government
filed,;its brief and that more than
a dozen State and local authorities
bad appeared as "friends of the
Court" in-.the two, cases.
Quite a stir has been raised by
the. discovery that the Black-Lobby
ing Committee had secured from the
telegraph companies copies of "lob
bying telegrame and that in many
dases the sendfer» of the messages
were unaware of the step taken by
the Committee. The issue was rais
ed by Silas H. Strowra, Chicago law
yer and former President of the
American Bar Association, and of tha
Chamber of Commerce of the Uuni
ed States, who secured a restrain
ing order to prevent the telegraph
companies from delivering to tho
Committee copies of the messages
to and from his law firm.
Tho right of the citizen to bo
free from unwarranted search and
seizures is asserted by the conten
tion fchitf no government official
should be permitted to go on a
"fishing expendition." The admis
sion is really made that the gov
ernmental agencies have the right
to size specified messages and
correspondence, but this,, say' tho
objectors, does not include any gen
eral examination of documents ii
order to ascertain whether or not
valuable information is to be found
in them.
Senator Black, of Alabama, head
of the Lobby Investigating Commit
tee, and defending the action talcen,
points to the revelation that many
companies which opposed the Hold
ing Company Bill, burned all tele
grams anil letters dealing with their
campaign. In such cases, information
as to messages sent and received
can only be obtained from the tela
graph companies' files. Moreover, tho
Alabamion insists that it is not
possible for an investigating com
mittee, seeking evidence of activity,
to give accurate information as to
telegrams which have been exchang
ed but destroyed and denied by
those concerned.
Around a thousand business men
recently gathered in Washington to
influence Congress to take favor
able action ou the socalled "anti
chain" measure, known as the Rob
inson fPatman bill. As precedents
they had the "farmers' march" last
year to support the amendments to
the AAA, and the '"business inent'3
march" for a revival of the NRA,
The measure concerned is presum
ed to benefit and protect small re
tailers, but is also being backed
by wholesalers who think it will help
them to regain business lost to the
chains and to buying pools which
secure quantity discounts and lower
prices through mass buying. The bill
applies to a huge range of commo
dities, including groceries and drugs,
and would apparently revive some of
the price controls of NRA.
Impetus to such legislation has
been given by revelations that cer
tain chain store organizations have
been receiving special prices, dis
counts, allowances and advertising
funds from manufacturers who mako
no such concessions to small purch
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