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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 3. NO. 30 ilarboro Struck By Cloudburst Somes And Stores Flooded By Heavy Stormry Crops Badly Da l n aged Tarboro, July 21.—A cloudburst iccompanied by lashing winds dil nuch damage to property, flooding tomes and stores and uprooting iany trees here this afternoon. Telephone and power lines went [own in many sections of the city mt no immediate estimate of the lamage could be obtained. City au horities blocked off sections where irires were down to prevent accl lents. The «torm, which struck at 3 ''clock and lasted about 15 minutes, ?as accompanied by hailston»s, ome of which were three quarters n an inch in diameter. A hurried heckup showed extensive crop dani ge in surroundng sections. Water ose to a depth of four feet in the itreets in several parts of town, tailing a number of automobiles, feveral downtown stores had water everal inches deep on their floors luring the downpour as storm drains ailed to carry off the water. The storm was ushered in by ightning and deafening thunder. \>ne farmer, James Riiffin, report ed that four mules and a horse were ; killed by lightning. Throngs Attend Bureau Meeting I 4, Nashville—July 14—Approximate ly one thousand Nash county far mers and their wives thronged the local high sehool grounds yesterday for the first annual meeting of the Nash Co. Bureau. Following an inter esting program, the entire audience l&npi served a barbecue dinner. m The conference opened shortly af * tar eleven o'clock yesterday in the auditorium of the Nasheviile high school building with W. F. Wood- El ruff, President of the County or f ganization, calling the meetng to order. Addresses were delivered by the > following named gentlemen: Mayor J...D. W. Perry delivered the address rji[ fit welcome. Congressmen Harold D. •Cooley, C. F. Holsinger, President of the Virginia Farm Bureau, E. F. Arnold, Secretary of the North Carolina Buroau, County Agent IL G. Wharton, J. E. Creswell from State College, E. B. Sellers, Jr., and C. J. Matthews of Spring Hope. There were representatives from ' Franklin, Wilson, Pitt and Halifax counties. f meeting was enthusiastic and • "Nearly showed that the farmers of tiffs section are determined in their »> 'ifforts through cooperation to try to put agriculture on a more sub | stantial basis. ■ Congressman Cooley, who is a member of the Congressional Agri t cultural Committee, and has run [dered distinctive services to the farmers of the Nation pointed out that within the past decade the tendency in every line of activity is toward group organization. He said **siat the nation has been breaking into the old age group, the youth l ((roup, the industrial group and numerous other groups among which the farm group is high in import ance. It is through their respective Vi organizations, he stated, that these j\ groups are able to exert pressure yCT to gain ther ends. yjil Without organization, he said, '.he iff nation has witnessed agriculture |l wrecked upon the shoals of bank t,~ ruptcy, mortgages foreclosed and [j the farmer hopeless and helpless. If Now, he said, the farmers of North R Carolina and the nation are turn , ing to an organization in order LI that their cries may be coordinate! Lm and their pleas heard. In Washing- Ljl ton, he said the farmer now has |H organization representatives acquain i y ted with the machinery of legisla- L tion while at home that same orgau- I ization holds a hand upon the very I pulse of the people. Such an or ganization, he asserted, is qualified I to on for the farm welfare. I Reviewing parts of recent federal L farm legislation, Cooley said, "I k am not willing to accept a program of scarcity as a permanent policy. *We must find a market for the sur | plus farm produce." y Orthcfldic Clinic In Tarboro Monday Tarboro, July 22.—The Tarboro Rotary Club will conduct its regu ,-lar Orthopedic Clinic, Monday, Ju- Fiy 27, 1936, beginning at 1 P. M. in the Presbyterian Sunday School building in Tarboro. The club is anxious to reach the unfortunate cripples who are un able to pay for treatment. o SINK GEORGE'S YACHT \j ■" ' '■ l Cowes, England.—Carrying out the terms of—the will of the late King George, of England, which specified that his yacht, Britannica, - was to be destroyed ir neither the new King Edward nor his three brothers desired to use her, the fa mous yacht, wreathed in white daisies and red roses, was sunk in the English channel, i BR More Jobs Given In Industry | Placements in private industry I during the 1935-36 fiscal year gain :ed 3,20!) over the preceding year and total placements were up by (11,603, Mrs. May Thompson Evans, director of the North Carolina State Employment Service stated. i ut-re were 142,547 placements of all kinds in 1935-36, she reported, compared with 75,828 in 1934-35. To tal registrations were 79,451 during 11934-35, and 174,682 during last fiscal year, with the active balance of registrants being 97,813 during 1934-35 and 103,322 during 1935-36. Mayor Attends League Meeting Oxford Man Head of Committee on Resolutions At Wilmington Session Mayor George Iseley of Raleigh, was named president of the North Carolina League of Municipalities at the closing session of the 86th 1 annual convention in Wilmington last Friday, Mayor James A. Tay lor said upon his return to the city from the cdnvention. Mr. Taylor is a former president of the league. Other officers are Mayor Ben E. Douglas of Charlotte, vice presi dent; J. E. L. Wade of Wilming ton, second vice-president, and Mayor Marvin Blount of Greenville, third vice president. Capus M. Waynick of the North Carolina Hghway Coramssion, ask ed' that the municipal authorities use their infuence in having the General Assembly appropriate a half million dollars of highway funds for advertising the resorts and tourists advantages of North Carolina. Following is the legislation pro gram adopted by the league: Planks in the legi*Utive platfofm are: 1. Social security in accordance with the Federal program. 2. State funds for direct relief and, failing this, authority for a countywide relief tax. 3. Continued diversion of State highway funds for maintenance of hghways wthin municipal limits. 4. Home rule for cities, with all charter changes to be subjected to a vote of the electorate rather than to the will' of the Legislature. 5. Retention of liquor profits by cities and counties, the division to be made on a per capita basis. 6. Delinquent water rents to be made liens against property. 7. A simplified tax collection act. 8. The assurance of city school district debts by the counties. The report of the resolutions committee, of which Mayor Taylor was chairman, was adopted without change. It placed the league on record as .desiring or advocating continuance of highway fund allottments for street maintenance; simplified tax collection laws and defeat of the proposed SI,OOO homestead exemp tion. o William Howell Is Buried Here Gatea County Native Died At Home Here—Was 64 William J. Howell, 64, longtime local resident and employe of the Rocky Mount Mills, was buried in the Falls cemetery here. Rev. Ruius Bradley, pastor of Marvin Metho dist church, conducted the funeral from the home, No. 2 Elm street. Mr. Howell was the victim of heart trouble early Sunday. Mr. Howell, employed at the Mills for about 23 years until a few months ago when his health made it desirable for him to stop, was a native of Gates county. He had lived here nearly 23 years, and moved here from Hertford county. He was a Methodist, and was the son of the late John W, Howell, of Gates county, and Mrs. Molly Wilder Howell, now of this city. He had been il lseveral months and died at home about 1 o'clock. Besides his wife, formerly Nannie Taylor, he leaves his children, Jesse W-, Otho G., and Elmer W. Howell, all of Rocky Mount; three brothers, N. E., W. M., and L. N. Howell, also of this city; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Ellis, also a local resident. Pallbearers included J. E. Wil liams, J. E. Wilder, A. B. Casey, G. F. Ramsey, Milton West, and M. S. Strickland. o TOBACCO BAIT CATCHES FOX Hagerstown, Md.—While walking through a field with several com panions, Dewey Cutshaw saw a fox take to its den. Placing a chew of tobacco on the end of a stick, ho thrust it into the hole and drew it out with an angry fox da/ngling on the other end. He repeated this process four times, .each time draw ing out a fox which had gragbed the end of the tobacco-coated stick in a rage at having it pushed iu his face. ■ o— "Walter, is your corn tender t" "Very sir, and the sooner you take your foot off the better I'll like it." ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936 Comm. Approves Fare Increase Two Cent Rate To Be Effective Af- I ter IS Days Notice Given To Public ! The State Utilities Commission , approved tlie increase in passenger fares, from one and a half cents 10 ! two cents per mile, sought by the I Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in a j hearing here last July 13. I The increase will be effective some time after 15 days' notice to the public as required by law, C. H. Noah, assistant director of rail road transportation, said. The commission's order declared the increase was granted because the A. O. L. liad demonstrated taat the one-and-a-half-cent fare did not allow "a fair return on its invest ment.'" Expenditures by the rail road amounting to more than a half million dollars for air-conditioning, also were taken into consideration. | The increase brings the railroad's fares up to the level prescribed by | the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. The A. C. L. put the lower rate into effect to meet motor com petition. officials of the Utilities Commission said. Moore Predicts Wilson Sales Wilson, July 22.—M. Z. Moore, independent tobacco buyer, who*o predictions on the local market have proved correct for a number of years now, predicted Tuesday that the local market would sell around 53,000,000 pounds of tobacco this year or around 20,000,000 less than last year. Moore also said Tuesday that good tobacco would bring better than ths average price this year while the majority of the tobacco would bring very poor priceß. Liberty League Issues Statement Washington, July 19.—Contending that the New Deal had been "thwarted in its attempt to extend the authority of the Federal gov ernment through laws held uncon stitutional by the Supreme Court," the American Lberty League assert ed todav the Administration had turned to the use of taxing power to attain those ends. The league, in a statement, said that "the New Deal has prostituted the taxing power under the Con stitution to accomplish social and economic ends remote from tho raising of revenue." The League contended that "thru the power of taxation the New Deal has sought to experiment wth econ omic theories, regiment industry, penalize Big Business, redistribute wealth and otherwise interrupt and obstruct the free flow of individual initiative and busness activity." "Use of the taxing power to tigh ten the hold of the government on industry ig one method of accom plishing regulation which the Su preme Court in the NBA case re fused to sustain under the Commetco clause of the Constitution." Brothers Arrested On Assault Charges Robert And Atlas Boy kin Give Up Without Resistance; One Hunted For Year Wilson, July 22.—Two young Wii son Countv brothers, one of whom I has been hunted by the local au thorities for the last year for as sault, were arrested in the woods near the Johnston County line this morning by a posse of Wilson dep uties. The two, Robert Boykin, 25, and Atlas Boykin, 19, gave up to tho officers without resistance after th-? deputies had waited for an hour or so in the woods. Robert is charged with assaulting Purvis Hawley, Wilson County man twice in the last year, while he is also charged with driving drunk last September. Atlas is charged with assaulting Daniel Hawley, bro ther of Purvis, on July 4, and as saulting a third Hawley brother, Vernice, last night, at which time, according to charges, lie made ano ther assault on Daniel Hawley. A hearing for the brothers on five warrants will be held before Squire L. C. Barnes hero tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Atlas, who is under a suspended sentence for forgery in Superior Court, is being held under S2OO bond, while Robert is being held under S3OO bond. The deputies, Frank Carter, R. M. Page, J. A. Gregory and A. C. Hinton, said that the assault on the Hawley brothers during the year could be attributed to "pure mean ness." They discredited the theory of a feud between the two families who live near together in Wilson County near Kenly. Bob—Well, Joe your sister has promised to become my wife. Joe—l knew something would hap pen to you if you kept coming around every night. Taxi Driver's One Man Exhibition HCr BK \h V' ,V .V -- . - , : -^^r ■ •'"-aSS: .: ••: ■■■■■■; * jc ...... ; 'W - Edward Van Baerle, a taxi driver In New York city, la also an artist and does his art work while waiting for fares. He Is shown here with his one-man exhibition ota the hood of his cab. Rocky Mount Needs Place To Sit Down Rocky Mount has developed into one of the largest trade centers in the eastern part of the State. People come here from adjoining and distant counties to trade and it has been called to our attention by many of these citizens that the progressive city of Rocky Mount has not provided any kind of benches or seats where the visitors as well as our own local citizens may sit down and rest after shop ping. A very honorable local citizen mentioned a few days ago that he always walked up town and liked to take a little rest before starting back, but there was not a place where one could sit down and not feel that he was probably in the way of someone. New York City, the most populous place in the world to the square inch, has made provisions to meet this need by providing every few blocks a seat or grass nook where the weary may sit down. Rocky Mount has plenty of land, yet we have not provided for this necessity and comfort. There is a serious need for rest rooms in Rocky Mount for both white and colored. We have not provided for that. Why not take some of the relief money and spend it for these necessities and comforts. Let Rocky Mount take the lead in this respect, in fact we. must try to catch up be fore we can lead, for there are many other cities in North Carolina, that have already provided these necessities. NEED OF MORAL TRAINING The Asheville crime is so shocking and horrible that it makes one shudder to read about it. In this day of sup posed enlightenment and progress and civilizatiota, it would seem that such a crime as this would be impossible. Is it not probable that our schools have laid too much stress upon books and book knowledge rather than moral and religious training? Should not the character of the teacher be the first qualification and the degree which she or h eholds secondary rather than the degree first and moral training secondary? If this crime had taken place in the slums of New York and Chicago, we might charge it to ignorance, but this crime took place in one of the leading Hotels of the coun try and in the beautiful mountain city of Asheville, N. C. OLD AGE PENSION DISPLACES COUNTY HOME With the putting into effect the Old Age Pension law, it is expected that the inmates of the county home will be greatly reduced, in fact, we do not believe that many of the counties will operate a home at all. We stand in favo rof each county providing a comfort able place for its infium and aged people, but we believe it would be a mistake for Edgecombe County to build a large county home at this time with the almost certain as surance that the Old Age Pension law will be put into ef fect next year. If the county does build a new county home, it should be a small plant which could be enlarged as the needs re quire it. Statesmen Visit Atlantic Beach Washington, July 31.—North Car olina has 129 registered aircraft and 119 pilots, according to figures J released today by the Bureau of | Air Commerce. Of the aircraft 79 are licensed by the bureau and 50 are unlicensed All are powered planes, none glid ers, and the state has no glider pi lots, the tabulation shows. Of tho pilots 71 hold transpor' licenses, the highest rating given S 41 have private licenses and sevei have amateur licenses. The figures also show that th«--. Tar Heel State lias 30 registered airports, in all eight of which are partly or fully lighted. Thirteen ol — these 30 are municipal ports, fivi commercial, three intermediate, !: auxiliary and one army port. South Carolina has 50 aircraft, 53 pilots and 29 landing fields, ei&hi of which are lighted. o 50,000 CROSS NEW BRIDGE New York.—ln the first twenty four hours of its operation, more than 50,000 vehicles, unhampered bj intersections or red lights, paid to cross the gigantic structure, tifying the prediction made for i' as a method of relieving traffic conJH gestion between Manhattan, Bronx] and Queens. | Tobacco Crop To Be Short In N. C. l r . S. Crop Reporting Board Shows Yield Of About 450 Million Pounds In State . I $10.95 $7.50 Nunn Bush Sport Shoes. On Sale .... $5.95 One Lot of Suits, year round weight. On Sale $12.50 OUNT SHOE fHING CO. PARAGRAPHS PROBLEMS AT W W —i—i— —i —ll i—1I—i1 —i n n _n_r j~ir Northampton Is Struck By Storm Seaboard, July 22.—A check-up of Monday's electric, hail, and wind storm, one of the worst ever to visit this section, shows that farmers in the Gumberry and Bethel com munities suffered considerable loss from crop and property damage. A path approximately four miles wide cut through northeast Northampton, with Seaboard ju9t escaping by about two miles. Lightning struck the house of Z. L. Davenport in Gumberry and several trees in the | storm area. In the lowlands, roads and many acres of cotton were cov ered b.v the heavy rain, and houses were flooded when the wind blew out windows. Orchards and farm buildings were destroyed, corn and cotton torn to ribbons by the hail. Roland Massey of the Bethel com munity reported that when he went out to check up his 17 pigs, he found them swimming over his pasture fence, only one being drowned. In spite of the severity of the storm, nobody has been re ported injured. First Wife Seeks Dr. Howe Estate Claims Divorce Granted Late Uni versity Professor Was Not Bind ing Richmond, Va., July 20.—Mrs. Ethel C. Howe, second wife of the late Dr. George Howe, nephew of President Wilson and for many years head of the classical language department of the University of North Carolina, today gave surety bond as executrix of Howe's estate, valued at $15,000. She was required to furnish the bond after Mrs. Margaret Flinu Howe, the first wife, had obtained a temporary injunction to prevent her from disposing of any portion of the estate. The first wife con tends that Howe's divorce, obtain ed in Arkansas in 1934, was not binding. Howe died here recently leaving his entire estate to his sec ond wife and naming her as execu trix. R. E. Payton, attorney for the first wife said today that tho is sues' in the case would not be heard until next October after Judge Wil liam A. Moncure of Chancery Court returns from his vacation. Mean while the temporary injunction will remain in effect. Dr. Howe established his residence here a year or two ago and had since been making his home in this city. He was a resident of North Carolina when he obtained the di vorce. o Greenville Men Seek Warren Post Greenville, July 20.—Pitt Coun ty's list of aspirants for the posi tion of Congressman from the first district to succeed Lindsay C. War ren, should he be offered and ae capt the position of Comptroller General was increased to six this morning when Jack Edwards, loc-il attorney, who represented Pitt County in the General Assembly of 1933 and served as secretary to Congressman Hallet S. Ward when he represented this district, indi cated that he would probably be come a candidate should a vacancy occur. Ho stated that he was inter ested foremost, however, in the se lection of a Pitt County candidate for the post and would willingly forego any personal ambition to support a Pitt candidate. DRIVERLESS CAR KILLS MAN ... - _ lueai column tins tan. rne iv'puo sZ.y» - - $4.95 ALL COTTON AND LINEN Dresses GREATLY REDUCED ALSO CREPES, NETS AND CHIFFONS GREATLY REDUCED SMART SHOP 112 TARBORO STREET SI.OO PER YEAR ON NATIONAL WASHINGTON GUEBSING THE VOTE THE ELECTION RECORDS ESTIMATES ARE CONJECTURE! "NOBODY KNOWS" FIGHT FOR THREE STATES LABOR BOARD CHARGES COOPERATIVES ABROAD TRADE WITH RUSSIA RECIPROCAL PACTS IS RELIEF LEGAL? By Hugo Sims, Special Wuhlngtoa Correspondent Guesaing the popular vote of the Presidential election this year continues to be an interesting pas time that will be tried by all pol itical writers before November. Sound reasoning, apparently, will follow every deduction until tho reader is assured of the result, which nine times out of nine, will bo about in line with what the reader is hunting. We have no idea of indulging in this ancient sport but «our readers may be interested ia 1 the figures of recent contests. The figures here given are taken from ] the World Almanac for 1936. I 1932 Roosevelt 22,821,857 Hoover 15,761,841 1928 Hoover 21,392,190 Smith 15,016,443 1924 Coolidge 15,725,016 Diavis 8,380/>B6 1920 Harding 16,152,200 Co* 9,147,353 1916 Wilson 9,129,606 Hughes 8,538,221 reat shifting of votes, such aa Applying these figures to 193 ft it is apparently possible for « gr4at shifting of votes, such *a that which occurred between 1928 ' and 1932, to sweep President Rooae velt out of office. Mind you, wa I do not predict any such thing. W% merely point out that it is possi ble, provided there has been a ground swell against Mr. Roose velt and in favor of a change sue|) us was apparent when the ballots were counted in 1932 and Mr. Hoov er ousted from the White House. Republican prospects are based upon the belief that many Repub licans who voted Democratic- in 19- 32 will return to the party this fall and that they will be augmented by many conservative Democrats, who do not like the New Deal or any of its works. Any good calculator can prove anything that he wants to establish and that the reader or listener wants to believe. It is all a matter of opinion. Whether tha Republican farmers of the West, who left their party when relief was not given them, will rejoin lha ranks, remains a matter to be de termined. How many conservative Democrats will cast their ballot against their party nominee is also conjecture, pure and simple. Another question that bobs up is whether President Roosevelt con tinues to be stronger than his par ty. In 1932, when he polled 22,821,- 857 votes, his party's for congress managed to get only 20,494,152, or more than ten per cent less than the President. In the same year Republican candidat es for Congress polled 15,896,895 votes. Since that time many things have happened but the only one that is positive in evidence is the Con gressional elections of 1934. In 'he mid-term elections Democratic can didates for Congress polled only 17 - 520,432 ballots and Republicans 13,- 434,477 —a decline of nearly 3,000,- 000 for the Democrats and nearly two and a half million for the Re publicans. What changes of senti ment have taken place sinco 1934t The answer, "nobody knows!" While political leaders on both sides o fthe great presidental de bate continue to claim everything in sight and look for new areas to possess vocally, all signs point to epochal struggles in several States, notably Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, which, together, have 111 votes n the electoral college. Pennsylvania, long a Republican stronghold, is witnessing a strenu ous effort to land it in the Naw r»A!ll onlm.in tl.ia fn 11 Tim Rjvnnh-
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