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mhe Rocky Mount Herald M*d Cross Plans niftirjal Roll Call Thursday, Friday and Saturday Dates j 1 Set For Campaign To Get 1,000 j| Members m I. Postponed from the date set ear fcr Vn November, the annual Bed for the Rooky Mouut-Nash ttunty* chapter definitely was sche duled > today for Thursday, Friday fjul Saturday of this week. * 'Approximately 711 workers in Hocky Mount- and other Nash county towns 6j»d .'jeen assigned certain territor ies ,to canvass during the three-day rplj' call period and Red Cross of ficials were hopeful of reaching or , ufceeding their goal of SI,OOO or 1,000 " V'i+Heading the drive locally were H. Emore, chapter chairman; Frank P. Spruill, Jr., roll call chair pan; and Mrs. A. T. Croenberg, tfcupter secretary, k,' iMrs. Cronenberg announced tho •SWfollowing chairmen of different Nash ' pounty towns: Spring Hope, Mrs. §red May and D. H. Holiday; Red k, E. C. Jernigan; and Nashville, s. E. S. Paddison. Katharine Mlyers, field rep tjjsentative for the American Rod fposs, was in the city aiding in the Organization work. ffEarly on Thursday morning, ac- to the officials, the workers' take to the field with 1,000 members as their goal, j 'Reports on the progress of the el mpaign were to be made at the 0 Ice of Frank P. Spruill, Jr., in the Pfeople'B bank building. firing the past year, tli 6 Red s has sponsored several first aid, saving, home hygiene and other Bets, and has been instrumental iroviding relief in numerous Onh ther-Son Feed of the" & At Spring Hope Wednesu kt r* kt when M jjj. Vjifgost Attendance On Record At oil fi'oung Tar Heel Farmers Meeting b ,l Spring Hope, Nov. 28. —The ..J jpMl" banquet, held ynarl^' faWWL'"3tah 'Youiig -rHJ /fwtme 1 farmers/' this time far ex 1/ fc-tpded any attendance heretofore re-i • scsded with 127 people present and □ ,4©of these were fathers. The larg teMnumber ever counted before was ,33 .last yar. K barbecue and brunswick stew d itaer was served Wednesday even ■il 0 in the school dining hall. Dur :i g dinner the folowing program i •VI [g. carried out: Opening songs of A nerica and "How Do You Do?'' in-1 yvbeation by C. B. Barnes of Mace-' diftia; Y. T. H. F. opening ritual;! tijttome address by Edison Brantley, I tdSfident of the chapter; outline of i program by nine members; re-, th H||Kinn of the Y. T. H. F. creed by | fo i Jfwfard Lester; introduction of vis- L( itjrs by T. H. LeCroy, vocational U professor at Spring Hope, l M PSpbrary memberships awarded; Y. T. H. F. ritual. iMlA.'jßSgree of honorary inemberbhip etjßlfir conferred upon W. F. Wood . nJijiißiy, of Nashville, president of tho Imlwß' County farm bureau; J. S. Nashville, county agent; C. ~rr»«tthews, secretary of the Nash { eflMßy farm bureau; .T. F. Vester, aiid C. B.,Barnes, Ma«e --1 ,dpiyh, chairman of the local farm b'iiffcau; and Ralph Strickland cf Bailey head of the commission who ~ bfOUgllt ten"'. " , irj Nash. All of these men were cit ed for outstanding work in agrifeul tm •and Mr. Strickland also com mended for work in rural electri )* waa furnished for the eyeu ■Wiy the Pills I>;iihl of' Taylor's S ¥ eommunity, all members ' band beintr former members t Y. T. H. F. chapter. A vHH' N°gro buck dancer added : to the amusement of the group, prograin of work in this chap outined by members Hubert jk ' -MRtlinthy, .Willoughby Murray, Tom George Whitley, Russell Phillip Murray, Alec (Sme.in, Roseoe Joyner and Doug- QBißers of the Siajng Hope Y. T. W£)T. chapter are: jresident Edi i jilfl^rantley; vice president, Alec n » secretary, Mark Bunn; 1 . 'r®M|ror, G. W. Edwards; reporter, f • Jpl?Cooley; watchdog, Robie Bar | A. Tatutn Is Jaken By Death y tj. A. Tatum, 68 years of age, f.lther of Abner and Melver Ta ; Rocky Mount, died of heart at bis home in Shelter Neck, Tatum had suffered ill health services were conducted home. Burial followed at Mt. |HB church cemetery near the home, ■urviving are his wife, who was Fears; eight sons, Abner, , Julius, Clarence, Chancie, i ISppior, Marion and George; one . Mrs. Fitzhugh King, of if H%lter three brothers, George of .Waycross, Geor [jrm of cMley of Wilmington; (nd tied with whit Mrs. Isabella, Peter- L Mr». Griswold, mot Peterson and Mrs. las handsomely g>( with which o.vas the uncb of E. H (> ':y Mount. Seaboard Doctors Meet In Tarboro Approximately 400 Expected To At tend Meeting in Tarboro Tarboro, Nov. 30.—About 400 phy sicians are expected to attend the 41st annual convention of the Sea board Medical Association of North j . Carolina and Virginia which con venes here tomorrow night and: which will be ill session three days.! At the opening meeting, Dr. R. A. Vondurlehr, assistant surgeon general of the U. 8. Public Heaith Service, will speak on "The Hidden Scourge," and Dr. J. M. Rulfin of Duk e University, will discuss "Pel lagra." Other speakers on the program will be Dr. Charles W. Mayo of Roches ter, Minn., Dr. Howard A. Patter son and Dr. J. P. Hennessee, both of New .York City, Dr. R. L. Payne of Norfolk, Dr. John 8. Horsley of Richmond and Dr. A. R. Shands of Duke University. Dr. Spencer Bass of Tarboro is president _of the association. New officers will be elected and a con venti6n city chosei\ at the final busi ness session Thursday afternoon. o W. E. Tucker Buried At Pineview W. E. Tucker, 63, Interred After Services From Home W. E. Tucker, 63, retired employe of th> post office department, was buried in the family plot at the I Pineview cemetery following servic-1 es conducted from the hom e with Rev. C. H. Matthews officiating. Mr. Tucker, who had been ill for two months and i)f failing health for a year, died at his hoi#e, 213 Rose street. H e came to this city from Columbia, S. C., 23 years ago. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dol lie Tucker; two daughters, Mrs. Far ris Eppting of Columbia and Mrs. J. C. Roberson of this city; a sis ter Mrs. Mary Groom of Laurel Hill and a brother, Captain Tom Tucker of Florida. Pallbearers were W. H. Smith, H. Duty. J. R. Hill, Claude Liirab.. T. D. Davis, and Howard 01j*j. JtaßMf^!hers Passes AtH me Well-Known Rocky Mount Railroad Man To Be Interred Here Fuperal services for Thomas Croth i ers, who died at the age of 54, at his home, 409 Edgecombe st., were I conducted from the home. Rev. Norman Johnson of the First ! Presbyterian church, in which Mr. I Orothers was an active member, con | ducted the services. Interment was ■ be in Pineview cemetery here. I Mr. Crothrs died of pneumonia af ter a„ illness of more than a week. He would have been sf> years old . 1 Thursday. Mr. Orothers was born in Countv Down near Belfast, Ireland. He had lived in Rocky Mount for years, and during most of that time was a mechanic with the A. C. L. railroad. , Mr. Crotherg was a member of the Odd Fellows and the W. O. W. | here. In Ireland he was a member' (>f the Masonic Order. He is survived by his wife, who was Winnie Powell of Rocky Mount; a son, Francis, 14 years of age, a high school student here; one sis ' ter, Mrs. Stuart Lambs of Belfast, Ireland, and two brothers, Samuel and John, both of Belfast. Pallbearers will be Edgar A. Wil liams, D. L. Grady, W. N. Clark, George R. Edwards, M. Williamson, J. W. Jackson, H. H. Littrell and Thomas Dixon. Services Held For W. L. Vick Funeral services for William L. Vick, 54, of Whitaker, were held from the grave in tho Whitaker cemetery with the Rev. R. L. Je rome, Methodist minister of Ea fled, officiating. Vick, who wag connlected with a meat market- in Wliitakers, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Le vi Fountain, in Whitaker. Ha was stricken with paralysis and died about four hours later. Surviving are two sons, W. L. Vick, Jr., aiid Mason Vick;' a bro ther, J. A. Vick, of Enfield; and a sister, Mrs. Fountain of Whitaker. CUT ONLY INFERIOR OR DEAD TIMBER FOR FUEL At thig season farmers interested in improving their woodlands should go through their timber stands and secure their fuelwood by removing the dead, crippled and diseased trees. The healthy trees that remain should bo thinned lightly so that they can make straight, vigorous growth, advise the Stato College Ex tension Service and Charles H. FJory, forester of the Soil Conser vation Service. But do not thin too heavily, he warned, as tho light coming through the tops o fthe trees should reach the ground flbor of the forest only in small spots. As the sun passes overhead the lighted spots will gra dually move, thug any one place on the ground will not bo dried out too ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1936 Simerly Elected To Head Pastors First Christian Church Minister Nam. Ed President of Ministerial Group Rev. A. E. Simerly, pastor of tho i First Christian church, was elected president of the Rocky Mount Miu j isterial association at the regular ' meeting of that organization held at th o Y. M. C. A. Rev. F. 11. Craighill, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, was named vice-president; Rev. C. W. Goldston, Clark Street Methodist Church, was re-elected treasurer; and J. A. Harper, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., wag selected to servo another year as secretary. "Call to Service" was the title of a paper delivered at the session by Rev. Rufus Bradley, pastor of thfi North Rocky Mount Methodist church. Discussion of regular business and committee reports also claimed the attention of the ministers at the December meeting. A nominating committee appointed at the November session and com posed by Rev. O. N. Marshall, Ar lington Street Baptist church; Rev. W. 11. Skeels, First Universalist church; and Rev. George W. Perry, former pastor of the First Metho dist church, submitted the nominees for the offices at the meeting. Rev. C. Ross Ritchie, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church, ig the retiring president of the association, o Circus Magnate Taken By Death John Ringling Dies in New York at Ag e of 70 After Brief Illness New York, Dec. 2.—John Ringling, whose name was synonymous with tho "big top," sawdust ring and circus spangles from coast to coast died today. The circiv, magnate succumbed at the age of 70 to a brief illness of bronchial pneumonia, the last of se ven brjthers whose back-yard play time show in Baraboo, Wis., grew to become perhaps the nation's largest entertainment combine. At Ringing's bedside at his Park Avenue hom 0 when death came were Mrs. Ida Ringling North, his sister; John Ringling North, a nephew, Dr. Maurice Costella, his physician Frank Hennessh, a life-long friend, and his servants. Funeral arrangements were being made today. Ringling's interests during his last years were not devoted entirely to the show business, for h e owned ex tensive real estate in Florida, rail road stock, and was a collector of art masterpieces. Sarasota, Fla, be came the center of his interests. Son of Harness-Maker Ringling's first wife died in 192!), and i a December, 1930, he was mar ried to Mrs. Emily Haac Buck, from whom he was divorced. The son of a German-born harness maker whoso name originally was August Rungeling .John Ringling was born at McGregor, lowa, but his family moved to Wisconsin when ho was a small boy. At the ago of five ho collected pins . • for admission to the performances ' ho and his brothers gave in their fathor's backyard. John also play ed bass violin in these shows. In the early 70's a wagon show visited Baraboo, bought harness from the Ringling boy's' father, and departed without paying the bill. After them went four of the boys to collect. They joined the show in stead. The Classic Cencert Company was their first real venture in the show business. Successful in this, they formed the Ringlings Brothers' Com idy Concert company and a short while afterward bought a full-fledg ed circus of their own, three old spring wagons, home-made tents, stats, stakes and rigging. o Mrs. Baggette Is Buried Here Windsor, Nov. 30. —Mrs. Ida May Baggette died at her home near Windsor on Friday of pneumonia. She was sixty-seven years of age, was a membej of Si loam Baptist { church. She leaves nine children, four daughters and five sons as follows: Mrs. George Dunn of Goldsboro; Mrs. Luther Spruill of Windsor, Mrs. R. P. Brown of Wilmington and Mrs. R. 8. Whitley of Murfreesboro; Charlie, Willie, and James Allen all of Windsor, Joe Baggette of Roa noke, Va., and Fred Baggette of Murfreesboro. The funeral services were conduct ed by her pastor at Siloam Baptist church On Sunday, 1:30 o'clock. In terment was in the family burial ground near Windsor. Pallbearers were her sons and sons-in-law. Her granddaughters acted as flower girls. NO BANK FAILURES IN NORTH CAROLINA Durham, N. C., Nov. 25, 1936.—N0t one commercial bank in North Car olina has been forced to suspend operations since th e Federal Deposit • Insurance Corporation became effec tive January 1, 1934, according to information furnished R. M. Gnalt, State Director for the National Emergency Council for North Caro lina, b" the CornoreHon. Appropriate Setting for Beauty Jean and Martha Shintanl posed In a setting of chrysanthemums at the Garfield park conservatory in Chicago. The two little Japanese girls are friends of the Japanese consul at Chicago. Ccunty Control Is Better The Governor sometime back appointed a commission to study and make recommendations as to the manner of handling alcoholic beverages in North Carolina. This commission has been meeting from ti;me to time, but up to the present time there has not been any re port, but according to certain feelers, which appears to have been put out through certain press reports, more in the nature of suggestions, which are supposed to have come from the commission, it is expected that they will find the present manner of handling whiskey in the ABC under county management all wrong. But they have not, so far a swe have been able_ to learn let it be known what they intend to recommend," whether is is no liquor or mote liquor, or who they will reconrfmend to handle it. While we have not been an advocate of the sale of li quor, we believe that if it is to be handled, the control of it by counties is much better than the control of it by the State. For the citizens in the county have influence with their county officers and will see that the law is car ried out, but from the press reports, it is expected that they will find against the control of the county and rec ommend that it be centered in Raleigh with a new set up of State appointees, which added to the numerous appoin tees of the highway department, the prison department, game and conservation department, and the revenue depart ment, will make a condition worse than that spoken of by Governor Vance in olden days, when he said that federal officers had become thicker in North Carolina than grass hoppers. Until the new ABC control was centered in the counties the only appointments the county commissioners controll ed in the various counties were two; the janitors in the various court houses arid the keepers of county homes. We believe if whiskey is to be sold, it will be far better for the counties to select the officers, rather than make it a state political machine to bring about further circum stances in Raleigh. While we are making this suggestion, we are not taking the position for the sale of whiskey, but if it is to be sold it is better in the control of county commissioners, where the people can see that the law is enforced rather than create a political machine and football out of the matter. PASSING OF W. E. TUCKER The city of Rocky Mount in the passing of the late W. E. Tucker, lost one of its mpst beloved citizens and public servants. He served for years in the Post Office here, wait ing on the public in the duties of the Post Office always accomodating, genial, courteous and obliging, until his re tirement by reason of long service. We join with the citizenship of Rocky Mount in extend ing our sympathy to the members of his family in their sorrow. TOO CONSERVATIVE? North Carolinians are want to boast of her conservatism, being the last to join the union and last to secede. Now all of the other States of the Union, even Republican States have passed legislation to take advantage of the So cial Security laws, which have been proposed by the Presi dent, except North Carolina. The Governor said there was sufficient law on the books; the attorney general says other wise. Can North Carolina afford to run this risk, because she was conservative ? North Carolina was not too conserva tive to be one of the first and only states to put a consu/mp tion tax on meat, meal, fat back molasses and other things. PRESIDENTS TRIP WILL HELP We predict great good in the interest of the cause of Peace will come from the trip of President Roosevelt to Buenos Aires, the leading city of South America to open the Inter American Peace Conference. Heavy long trip, but somewhat using the language of the President, a great cause, "Peace" justified it. We recall the trip of President Wilson to France and his great work of leadership in trying to bring about a just and righteous settlement in the interest of world humanity, and his work was not in vain. While Europe is tvjubled and unrest is abroad, yet we I have had 18 years of comparative peace, and but for his • turn to page four) Court of Honor On Friday Night November Session To Get Underway At 8 O'clock—Pow Wow Circle j Meets With tho candidates for various, awards being examined at tho board ( of review session this afternoon, j plans went forward today for the' regular December meeting IViday j night of th e Rocky Mount district I court of honor for Boy Scouts. The session will get underway at I 8 o'eloek i n the Parish House of the! Church of the Good Shepherd (Bpis- j copal), according to information J from T. A. Avera, chairman of the eourfcr The various candidates were ex amined this afternoon in the board of review session held at 5:15 at tho Methodist church under the di rection of A. T. Croenbery, clinir man. Mr. Croenbery said that a large number of applicants would be on hand for various awards, including advancement in rank and numerous merit badges. Three local boys, Johnny Daught ridge, Fred Wenk, Jr., and Bill Greathouse, recommended last month to the national court of honor ; also were expecting to receive eagl> badges. All local troops which meet on Friday nights have dispensed with their meetings in favor of the court. Troop No. 13 also was slated to pre sent a short skit. Tho Pow Wow circle, Scoutmaster's organization, was slated to hold its monthly supper meeting at 6 o'clock at the Winstead cafeteria. o Students To Give Play Here Soon Hif;h School Dramatists Prepare "The Black Flamingo'' For Decem ber 11 "The Black Flamingo," a drama of the French Revolution, will be pre sented by high school students here December 11, according to an an nouncement from Cy M. Edson, high school dramatics director. • —Tim stony concerns the., disappear", ance of the Queen's necklace in an old inn near Paris, Edson disclosed, and nearly all of the cast of nine J men and four women are suspected: before the historiea drama has run its course. History is said to present no more mysterious character than Count Cagliostro, a contemporary of Ixmis XVI and Marie Antionette. Frank | Lee Greathouse plays the role, of I the count. Nolle Speight and Leroy Murchi-; son are the shadowy innkeepers. I Roles of fleeing aristocrats are ta- i ken by Bobbie Williams, Hilda liar-' per, Carol Gardner and Helen Saun ders. Carl Atkins and Frances Walker, a maid, provide humorous moments, Tom Avera plays the colorful bri gand who is the romantic lead. Jos eph Jones is a friend of the evil innkeepers. A. W. House is -the vill ainous Ravroche, leader of the re- j volutionists, and Thomas Easterlin.j; takes the part of an associate. The (entire dramatic department serves as supporting cast in the dra ma, which El so 11 describes as the most ambitious drama to be staged in the high school auditorium. Students Place In Judging Contest Chicago, Nov. 29*—The North Car olina Agricultural team placed second in identification, sixth in seed grad ing. and fifth in commercial grad ing in the collegiatff crops judging contest at the 10th annual Inter national Grain and Ha.v Show here. L. Hall of North Carolina tied for eighth place among the individual scorers. James A. Patterson of Salisbury won second prize for his mottled cowpeas and R. L. Patterson of Salisbury was third. The study of tuberculosis in in dustry has been another important link in the chain that Christmas Seals have helped to finance. In an effort to emphasize health as a fac tor in industry, the Chicago Tuber culosis Institute in 1911 started a campaign to detect tuberculosis among industrial workers. In 1907 the first Christmas Seal sale was launched in Delaware by Miss Emily P. Bissell. She raised .$3,000 to use toward |building' a hospital for children ill with tuber culosis. Much has been accomplish ed since then. NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Name | Town St»te , Route No ~ . •- > V%» .• SI.OO PER YEA* IVick Is Held For Cox Killing Kiler Of Tarboro Man Surrenders 1 And Claims Self Defense Shoot ing Tarboro, Nov. 29.—Berle Vick, 3#,'. f guard at the Edgecombe County ] Prison camp, was held without bond Ii n th e city jail here today for the j fatal shotgun shooting of Frank j Cox, 52-year-old textile worker, hero I last night. ! Cox died at a local hospital with I one load of shot in his abdomen and 1 another in the hip, 45 minutes af- I ter the shooting took place in front [ of the home of Luther Taylor, Vick'a father-in-aw, in the Hart Mill sec tion of Tarboro. Vick walked from Taylor's home to police headquarters, where li4 surrendered and said he fired in self defense following a fist fight, just as Cox leveled a shotgun at him. Cox, it was learned, had ac cused Vick of being too friendly with Cox's wife. "It was simply a matter of me beating him to the draw," Vick as serted. He said both he and Cox had been drinking and that they engaged in a fist fight in front of the Taylor house where he knocked Cox down several times and that Cox then departed with the threat he would return with a gun. Soon thereafter, Cox came back, demanded that Vick come out of the house anJ kicked a panel out of the front door when he refused, Vick stated. Vick said he took a double barrol shotgun, went out of the back door, and slipped around to the front. "I tod him to go on home," Vick said, "but instead he jumped off the porch and pointed his gun at me. I fired from the hip twice, then I cam P on uptown and surrendered." Police said there were no witness es to the shooting. Cox, for whom funeral service# will be held Monday, ltiives his widow, several sons and daughters and several grandchildren. o : Edgecombe Death Still A Mystery*" Coroner's Jfury I'unfile To Determine How Gardner Was Killed j Tarboro, Nov. 30. —How Ed Gard j tier, aged white man whose body was I found in a roadside ditch near | Fountain, met his death remained an. | enigma after a coroner's jury: brought its investigation to a closa j with the finding that the 70-year« ; old Macclesfield resident "came to | his death on November 23 at 11 P. M. at the hand or hands of a per ' son or persons unknown to the jury." Dr. J, G. Raby ,Kdgecombe Co untv coroner, said Gardner's neck was broken but that neither lie non the jury could determine whether ha sustained the fatal injury in a fall from a moving vehicle or whether; the dead body was tossed from a speeding car. Marks on the highway shoulder in dicated the possibility of both thesa j theories. They showed Gardner slid along for about 14 feet diagonally away from the highway before .stop ping in a crumpled heap in the ditch. Dr. Raby said it was not likely the man was struck by a hit-and-run driver, since there were no serious lacerations or bruises on the body. Gardner had no enemies as far as could be determined. He wandered about the county without apparent means of livelihood but made Mac-* clesfield hi* home. JOB OFFERED MAN—BUT IT'S FIFTY YEARS OFP Columbia, S C.—A man in Pitts burgh, Pa., lmiv have to wait "io| years for the job he wants. Chairman James H. Hammond ot the Columbia Sesquicentennial com mittee said the man applied for work in connection with the 15©tfJ anniversary celebration of the Sonta Carolina capital last spring. His let-* ter arrived after the festival. Hammond wrote, "The next cele-* bration of the founding of Colum— liia will begin March 22, 1986, when it will be the anniversary of its 200 years. If I have anything to do with, it. I shall be glad to have your ser vices. o CASH FOR ASHES ! Aberdeen, Dec. 2. —The Rev. M. Hall, who burned up $126 in currency his wife had hidden in an oil stove, sent the ashes to the Trearury Department in Washington and received a cneck for the full amount. Truthful teaching of history urgw ed upon educators by Van Loon.