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The Rocky Mo VOLUME 3, NO. 32 Premium Lists Fair Ready books are now available to exhibitors who desire to enter competition at the Bocky Mount Fair, according to an announce made today by Norman Y. Chaui bliss, general manager of the North Carolina Fair Operating: Company. Prize money will total $1,500, an increase of $250 over last years' total premiums, and will be "limit ed strictly to residents of Nash and Edgecombe; counties. Premium books will be available at the fair grounds office of the resident mana ger, E. J. Gordon. Plans for the Rocky Mount fair, which will be held, the week of No vember 2, are rapidly rounding in to shape. Heretofore, the exposition has opened the last week in Septem ber. The date this year was movc-d back to enable farmers to devote more time to their exhibits and in dications are that a fine array of farm products will greet visitors to the Bocky Mount fair. In charge of the agricultural ex hibits is Mrs. E. J. Gordon, Nash County home demonstraton agent. K. H. Mclntyre of Red Oak is manager of the vocational agricul ture exhibit, always a popular dis play at the fair. A full week of entertainment and instruction is being arranged by Managers Chambliss and Gordon. On the midway of the Rocky Mount fair will be the Cetling-IWiUon Shows, a clean, wholesome outfit featurng 20 shows and 15 rides. Grandstand entertainment will be enlivened by plenty of novelty acts, and a revue. Tuesday of fair week has beea designated as the day for school children of Nash and Edgecombe counties. Children will be admit ted to the grounds without charge The day also* will bo observed as turners' homecoming day, und.?r sponsorship Of the Farm Federation Bureau of Nash County. Lucky Teeter and his Hell Driv ers, which proved so popular last year, will present a brand new program of thrills on Wednesday and Friday of fair week. Tho death-defying stunts presented by Teeter and his aggregation of dare devils created a popular demand for a return engagement at Bocky Mt. Harness racing will feature the arena program on Thursday and Friday. Races will be run under supervision of Joe McGraw, the vet • erao starter *tHnr •fnnctiow -t*w famed Hambletonian classic and also at the North Carolina State Fair. Professional automobile races will be held Saturday afternoon to top off the gala entertainment week. Many improvements have been made at the Bocky Mount fair grounds, including beautification of the grounds and repairs to the fence, grandstand and race track City Is Decked Out For Circus Barnett Brothers Circus To Come Here August 12—to be Elaborate Bocky Mount was being decked in bright circus colors today by tho advertising crew of Barnett Bros., three big ring circus which was "plastering" billboards, buildings, ■tore-windows, etc., with gaudy col ored posters announcing the coming of the "big show." The posters informed the curious public that the circus would erect its tented city here on Wednesday, August 12, for a one day engage ment. Advance notices indicate that the performance being presented by tiamett Bros., this season is one of the most elaborate that this show has ever attempted in the number of years that it has been on tour in the United States. Clowns, acrobats, tumblers, tra peze, artists, bare-back riders, aerialists, gymnasts equestriennes, tight-wire walkers, cowboys and cowgirls, besides the many trained animals, will perform in the three rings under the circus tent in an al most unending procession of thrills and feats of daring. Miss Vivian White, daring aerial ist, tops the list of headliners Bar nett Bros, will bring to Rocky Mt. August 12. This young lady completes from 75 to ,|PO one-armed plunges at eacn perfof, of the circus and it is thfeat of endurance which is fast heading her toward star dom as one of the leading aeri alists of her sex now on tour in the United States. Two performances will be present ed here. The matinee will start at 2 o'clock and the night show at 8 o'clock. Doors wil| be opened an hour previous to showing time. o .. AUTOISTB PAY $1,111,890,690 .. Washington.—Taxes amounting to $1,111,890,490 were paid by American motorists in 1935, accord ing to The American Petroleum In stitute Motor vehicle registration fees related items amounted to $322,776,536; State gasoline taxes, $616,851,671; and Federal gasoliue taxes added $172,262,483 to the to ta.. Increase in jobs and payrolls con tinued In June. Chest Officials To Be Selected Officers and Directors of Commun ity Chest To Be Named At Tues day Meeting Officers and directors of the Rocky Mount Community Chest will be elected at the annual meeting of the organization to be held at the Cham ber of Commerce office Tuesday at 10:30 A. M. President M. B. Bobbins appoint ed a nominating committee which will present candidates for the va rious positions. Heading the com mittee is J. C. Braswell with F. E. Winslow and T. W. Coleman as members. The present officers of the Com munity Chest are M. B. Bobbins, president; Mrs. J. B. Bennett, vice-president; Frank S. Wilkin son, treasurer; and E. H. Austin, secretary. On the board of directors are I. D. Thorp, W. J. Adams, F. E. Winslow,, Mrs. J. A. Speight, L. T. Bulluck, and L. B. Aycock. Each agency served by the or ganization's funds has a representa tive. At present T. A. Avera repre sents the Y. M. C. A., Rev. F. H. Craigrhill, Boy Scouts; Mrs. J. P. Whitehead, Associated Charities; E. I L. Lucas, Salvation Army; and ' Mrs. B. H. Taylor, Girl Scouts. The Community Chest officials are now engaged in an effort to col lect the pledges made in the last drive. It is reported by the organ ization that unless these pledgee are collected, the various agencies will suffer materially. The officers and directors who will be elected at the meeting Tuesday will assume their positions imme diately and lay all the plans for the next drive which will be held in October. Th 9 present board of di rectors, however, will go over the financial affairs ofi the welfare as sociation. Scouts Planning Several Events Board of Review, Court of Honor This Week, Swimming Meet Slated Next Week —fwwtr Boy Seotrts Wit* thefr lend ers were preparing for a series of events to be held here and in this immediate section within the next few weeks. Special sessions of all the Scouts together with inter-troop and intra-council athletic events were on the program. Headlining the list of events was the court of honor, which will get underway at 7:45 o'clock Friday night in the Parish House of the church of the Good Shepherd (Epis copalf. T. A. Avera, chairman, asked for a "good attendance" from the parents of Scouts at the court. Prior to the awarding court's ses sion, the monthly board of review will convene at 5:15 o'clock Wed nesday afternoon at the First Methodist church where A. T. Cron enberg, chairman, will supervise the examination of ail candidates for awards at the court of honor. Mr. Cronenberg said that there was a large number of applicants, for , various ranks ranging all the way i from tenderfoot to Eagle Scout, who are expected to appear before the board of review and the honor : court. On August 14, the annual Bocky Mount district swimming meet will ; get underway at the municipal pool at 8:30 o'clock. On the following Friday night, August 21, the Scouts will go to Tarboro for the annual council swimming meet with tho first place winners here competing against the winners from Wilson, Tarboro, Roanoke Rapids, Green ville, Kinston and Washington. Hutson Sees Half Way Price Raleigh, July 30— J. B. Huts.>n soil conservation program director for the east central region, pre dicted to tobacco growers they would get prices this year "about half way between what you coull get without any program and what ynu would have gotten under the IUIA and Ke'rr-Smith act regula tions. Hutson was head of the tobacco section of the old AAA. The tobacco growers held their special meeting in connection arith Farm and Homo Week and were to elect an advisory group to work on future plans to protect their inter ests. Hutson said his nformation indi cated tho crop now held by manu facturers was not quite as much as this season the previous years. He estimated stocks on hand would provide a supply for 34 months. LOAN SHABK CONVICTED Memphis, Tenn.—W. E. Newoll, manager of a loan company, was lined $375 after being convicted of extorting 520 per cent interest for a $5 loan made to a Negro woman in 1934. The woman testified that she paid $1 each two week's until January of this year, a total of 520 per cent interest- ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUSTW, 1936 Again Awarded 1 Americanism Cup - Miss Mattie Shackleford Of Tar boro Wins Honors At Legion Meetng. r Tarboro, Aug. I.—For the third i consecutive year, Miss Mattie T. ) Shackleford, Americanism officer of - the Eason Tiney post of the Ameri t can Legion here, has returned home from an annual State convention - with the Americanism cup tucked i away in her baggage. Largely due to the activities of - Miss Shackleford, Tarboro was . awarded the trophy at the recent t Legion convention in Asheville. The cup is given each year to tho • North Carolina post which has done , most in the preceding 12 months , to promote Americanism. As Amer ■ icanism officer of the post, Miss , Shackleford had done much in ths field, mainly through the local . chapter of "Young Americans'" . which she organized and kept ac . tive. Miss Shackleford, a registered • nurse who served in front line hos pitals in France during the World ■ War and who afterwards went to . Serbia and Armenia as member of . a corps of American nurses, serv . Ed one year as commander of clia I Legion post here. Local Legionnaires claim she is l the only woman in the country to ■ have been a post commander. ; o ' Winslow Named Federation Head i . Farm Organization Name* District i Coßumittep; To Seek New- Members Representatives from 57 countes met at State College to set up a permanent North Carolina Farm Bu reau EVdeination, replacing the temporary organization formed last fall. ' J. E. Winslow, of Greenville, out standing farm leader and acting chairman of the temporary organiza tion, was elected president. W. F. r Woodruff, of Nashville* was elect ed vice-president. Edwin A. O'Neil, militant presi dent of the national organization, Spoke briefly to the delegates, im ploring them to help in raising the income of the North Carolina far mer. Farmers north of the Mason- Dixon line are willing and anxious to cooperate with you in bringiug about better conditions," he de clared, "if you will only give them a chance." Four Districts The State has been divided up into four districts. An executive committee, composed of represen tatives from each of these districts, was selected at the meeting. From the Northeast sector, thoso elected were: W. W. Watson, Lake Landing; Alfonza Edwards, Hook erton; W. F. Woodruff, Nashville; and J. E. Winslow, Greenville. Southeastern members of the com mittee are: J. R. Morris, Wilming ton; A. J. Whitley, Smithfield; and J. D. Johnson, Garland. Those from the Northwest district are: R. F. Shaw, Greensboro; C. T. Hall, Woodsdale; and J. L. Chris tian, Surry County. From the Southwest district, the following, were elected: J. M. Wil cox, San ford; W. S. Patterson, Stony Point; and J. G. Craw ford, Cooleemee. Membership Drive President Winslow announced that the executive committee would meet about August 10 to perfect plans for a membership drive, and p to select a permanent secretary and treasurer. Since its inception in North Caro lina last fall, beginning with a mass meeting in Greenville at which O'Neil delivered a bristling address urging tobacco farmers to organize, the aggressive Farm Bureau has spread rapidly all over North Caro lina. Officers hope to organize per manent associations in each of the 1 State's 100 counties. Turn Down Grading Plan Smithfield, Aug. I.—A majority of the tobacco growers who voted on the referendum of mandatory government grading of tobacco on the Smithfield market, favored tho grading, but under the act of Con gress a market cannot be designat ed for the grading service unless two-thirds of the farmers voting in a referendum favor it. As thero was not that proportion favoring it, Smithfield will not have that ser vice. The defeat of the plan followed a vigorous campaign waged agains-t it by local warehousemen, who de clared that a fair trial of govern mnt grading on the market here four years ago had proved that the ■ service was of no benefit to tho j farmers. Tobacco farmers in 19 market areas in the United States have voted this summer on the manda • tory government grading of tobacco co and to date the grading plan has 1 been favored in every area except one. Down to the Last Small Puddle Dried up by the drouth," all that remains of this stream on a farm near Louisville, Ky., is this small puddle of water which must serve the wants of the farmer and his child, and his cattle pictured beside it. Edgecombe Entitled To Road Refund The last Legislature passed a joint resolution directing the Governor to appoint a commission to investigate the claims of Counties for money spent and advanced to build roads which go to make up the Highway system of North Carolina. These Counties are having to pay bonds for these roads, which form a part of the Highway system, while the 2 cent gasoline tax, which was first levied for the benefit of the Counties has been taken over by the State, while the counties have been left the burden of paying these bonds. The commission has been appointed and has requested the counties which have claims to file their claims with the commission. Edgecombe is one of the Counties that has bonded it self heavily for roads which have been taken over by the highway and form a part of the State Highway System. The road from Rocky Mount to Pinetops which cost around $350,000 is one of these roads. The road from Leggetts to Tarboro; the road leading from Tarboro to Oak City; the road leading? from Tarboro toward Pinetops, byway of Wiggin's Cross Road. These roads were built by the coun ty and the bonds are still outstanding and unpaid for their construction. It is expected that the County Cdmmission ers will present Edgecombe's claim before the commission. Edgecombe would have a splendid tax rate, but for the payment of these bonds and at the time of the construc tion of these roads, the county expected to get its part of the gasoline tax to pay the interest and sinking funds on the bonds. THE BAR EXAMINATION The examination for admittance to the bar for the prac tice of law is being held this week in Raleigh. The re sults of the examination have not been announced. The former examinations by the bar committee have been such as to cause many of the lawyers, old practitioners, to wonder if the committee was not undertaking to limit the number of lawyers rather than pass on the qualification of the applicant to practice law. We feel and have always felt that this committee should not have anything to do with the number of lawyers, but their sole duty is to examine into the applicant's qualifi cations, both morally and educationally. We still insist that the first qualification of a lawyer should be his character and the second his learning. A \ery learned lawyer who lacks character is a very danger ous instrumentality at large. The examination should be to test the applicant's ability to practice law and not to limit the number. Hospital Will Bel Air-Conditioned Air-conditioned operating rooms were envisaged today for a local hospital along with announcement' of awarding a contract for the | work to a local concern. The work,' if the contract is carried out, will be finished within about two weeks Officials of the Park View hospi tal today disclosed work will soon get underway for air-conditioning, their two operating rooms here, and they will have a system of fans to send out the hot air from the stet- | ilizing room nearby. The air will j be dehumidified, it was shown, thus making the amount of anaesthetics given smaller than before. With a local firm doing the job, the staff expressed the hope work will be finished by the middle of the month. This will be the only hospital of the immediate section so equipped, it was shown. A Richmond, Va., hospital is similarly equipped, and a Tarboro hospital is making use of the air-conditoning system to some extent. o 58,0«0 MORE GST JOBS Washington.—According to a re port by the Labor Department, there was an increase of 58,000 fr>oi May to June in the number of workers employed in ifldustry. Juue was the fourth consecutive month to show employment gains in bofi manufacturing and non-manufactur ing industry. Huge Amount Of Liquor Is Sold Total gross sales of liquor stores in 18 North Carolina counties ag j gregated $2,745,024 for the fiscal ! year ending June 30, not includ j ing the state's 3 per cent salos tax, I the revenue department reports. The stores were legalized in 17 counties and two townships in Moore county last year. New Hanover county led in .gross, with $3£9,644. Greene county report • ed the least sales $30,768. | Hales reported by other counties . j for the period were Pasquotank, $87,736; Carteret, $53,920; Craven, $73,340; Onslow, $43,373; Pitt, s2ll - Martin, $97,587; Beaufort, $106,960; Halifax, $238,4& i; Franklin, $45,569; Wilson, $273,912; Edgecombe, $276,998; Warren, $61,- 054; Moore, $167,436. n Martin Couny Asks Refunds Williamston, Aug. I.—Martin Cj unty will make immediate plans to file its claim to $401,908 road • refunds at the invitation of the , County Roads Claims Cemmissioa . received yesterday. The commission ! just recently appointed by Goveru i or J. C. B. Ehringhaus, perfect . Ed its organization at a meeting held in Raleigh Wednesday, with • Senator Carl L. Bailey, of Wash ington County, as chairman. PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON ------ ~i —1~1 ~i~i-M~M~innrM"»xi>iULru~u~u~LTW Georgia Tobacco Prices Pleasing Averages Reported Higher Than Last Year: Range Up To 50 Cents A Pound Tifton, Ga., Aug 4.—The first 19- 36 tobacco auctions in the nation began today in South Georgia and growers reported prices good. Offerings were heavy in each of the 15 market cities. Some markets had the heaviest offerings in the history of the crop which since the World War has become one of South Georgia's greatest and most prof itable agricultural products. Tho Georgia crop brought $13,- 582,912 in 1935. Some warehouse men predicted the 1936 crop would do even better. Opening prices ranged from 5 cents a pound for trash grades to more than 50 cents a pound for choice tobaccos. Warehouses throughout the belt were jammed. Much tobacco remain ed on wagons and trucks and in storage buildings. It will be sold later in the week. Double crews were put to work at many warehouses, giving work to hundreds of persons. Busy Places Opening of the auctions turned the tobacco market towns—Aled, Baxley, Blackshear, Douglas, Ha hira, Hazlehurst, Metter, Moultrie, Nashville, Pellham, Statesboro, Tif ton, Valdosta, Vadailia and Way cross—into the busiest cities in the state. o Liberty League States Position Denies Being Ally of Republican Party; Has No Love For The New Deal Washington, Aug. s.—The Amer- j ican Liberty League, which has, protested much of the New Deal iai the past two announced to- j night "it will endorse no candidate j or party, in the Presidential cam-1 paign." | "The league is neither an adjunct: nor an ally of the Republican, par ty," said a statiment by the le*- j guq's executive |committee in re- J defining the position to be held 'oc-, tween now and November. "It is not an adjunct of the Dem ocratic party, even though many of its principles harmonize with the excellent platform adopted by that party in 1932 and proclaimed as a covenant with the people to be faithfully kept." "Certainly the league is not an adjunct of the New Deal party which for the moment has unsurp ed control of the party of Jeffer son, Jackson, Cleveland and Wil son." The comjnittee, of which Alfred E. Smith is a leading member, said the league "will continue to empha size the protection of the rights of the masses which the Constitution affords and it will be true to the pledge embodied in its charter -*o uphold and defend the Constituton and the courts created to interpret it." No Contributions "It has not and wUI not contrib ute to any campaign fund," the statement concluded. Its issuance coincided with prep aration by another member ot' tho committee and a friend of Smith' 3, former Governor Joseph B. Ely o? Massachusetts, to attend the meet ing of anti-Roosevelt Democrats called for Friday in Detroit. Smit.i was invited to attend, but said to day in New York that previous en gagements would keep liini there. In a statement today at Westfiald, Mass., Ely said the Detroit confe rees would "discuss a plan for those Democrats who do not believe the New Deal is administering the country for the best interests of the people." ACCOMPLISHES AIM Blackwell, Okla.—Max Hawkins was determined to visit the hospi tal where his sister, Mary Ellouise, had gone to have her tonsil,> re moved, although his parents refused to let him go. He fell from a porch, broke his arm and had to be taken to the hospita. Max said he did it "just so he could get in the hospital." WO77CE 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 YEAH NO ARGUMENT ANY LONGER RECOVERY AND POLITICS COUGHLIN'S FAST TALK ANTI'S TO CONFER i I LAN DON'S ACCEPTANCE | LABOR LEADERS CRITICAL KANSAS RELIEF CONTEST INCOME TAXES IMPORTANT i THE TARIFF AN ISSUE By Hugo Sims, Special Washington Correspondent [ There is no longer any argu* ' ment about improved business eoa ( ditions. The depression is, for the most part, behind the nation and ' industry is going into a period of ' continuous recovery. Corporate 1 statements reflect increased earn.* 1 ings and there are other distinct ■ grounds for the optimistic attitude to the future no wevdent in bust ' Hess circles. ' The National Chamber of Coin* . merce concludes that 1936 will be ' "the best year in physical volume I of business" since 1929. Buildng ': construction in six months was 75 per pent ahead of last year, con ; sumption in several lines is back I I to the 1929 level and freight shows J j substantial gains. Employment iu ' manufacture, according to Labor Bureau records, is the largest siuce the fall of 1930 and the Chambur 1 estimates that the Autumn stimu lus will put it close to the 1927 and 1928 point. Incidentally, steel L makers are planning wages for over > time, showing how they regard the • prospects. The question arises, what effect will this recovery have on the pol -1 itical outlook f Usually, as every one knows, good business helps the party in power and bad business hurts it. Without participating 5o the partisan debate over the ques tion whether administration pell* cies have helped or hindered re covery, it might be noted, as a& amazing factor, that despite the improvement in business conditions there is no enthusiasm for the President in business and financial circles. The big leaders are against the administration and many smslU ■ or business men throughout the na ! tion will be influenced by their ex ample. ; It is obvious however, that the • recovery underway has, at. least, ! put a crimp in the prospects of par ties and policticians hoping to i capitalize on unrest. How ef'eo ' tive this obstacle will be in pre* i venting the development of wild eyed support for crazy remedies re- I mains to be seen. It depends upou ! the extent of employment, the ef ficacy of relief generally, and the condition of the agricultural class when the voters go to the polls. The Rev. Coughlin is addressing large crowds wherever he goes but seems to be tnlucky in speech. Af ter his initial breach, calling the President a "liar," the parson was quoted in the newspapers as urg ing tanners to repudiate their debts. His apology to the Chief Executive and his denial that he was correctly quoted in regard to debts will not remove the impres sion that the radio priest is losing some of his balance in the heat of his emotion. While he is undoubt* edly making a strong appeal to some portion of the voters there are lit tle indications that his campaign for Rep. Lemke will get very far at the polls. This situation may change as the campaign goes along, but for the present the third par ty threatens to do little nationally, although in some States the combi* nation of Townsend, Coughlin, Smith and Lemke may be the de cisive balance between the Demo crats and Republicans. Interesting is the announcement that anti-RoosagjfH Democrats will stage a cop?" soon to discuss how best o oppose the President. Any reauer who has kept up with national politics in the slightest measure will have no hesitation iu naming those '"associated" and "iu viu-i." James A. Reed, of Miss ouri, Joseph B. Ely, of Massachu setts, Bainbridge Colby and others will be there. As this is written no announcement has come about A 1 Smith, but our guess is that t Le "Happy Warrior'' will get the chance to make another speech. If it falls as flat as his Lib erty League dinner oration the Democrats supporting the President will probably want to do something to help the gathering along. It has been noted that, immediately alter the Smith oratorical effort at the dinner, the Liberty League faded from the political picture as an ef (Please turn to page four)