North Carolina Newspapers

The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 4, NO. 3 \ Underpass Site ( „ Bought At Last I City Finally Reaches Agreements To J Buy Sites After months of trying to bridge vide gaps between offers and de mands negotiators for the city fin ally reached agreements with the owners of four pieces of property at the site of the Baleigh road— Jordan street railroad underpass. City Manager L. B. Aycock announc ed. Alderman J. Q. Robinson's under pass committee begun negotiations for the city to buy the necessary strips from the four lots which the state highway and public work com • mission will need to build the un derpass. When after a period of negotia tions with the property owners the committee reported it was unable to reach terms, the board of aldermen condemned three of the slices of property at their December 17 meet ing and condemned the rebiaining bit on January 7, after a delap ne ; cessltaled by the fact that some per sons interested in the fourth piece of property live outside North Car olina. Negotiations between the property owners and the underpass committee, City Manager Aycock and city at torneys continued after tho condem nation proceedings as before. Wide divergences between the prices de manded by the property owners and the figures offered by the city were pared down in both directions i until complete agreements were an nounced. Nothing remains now to prevent the highway commission's beginning construction immediately, Mr. Ay cock explained. With the purchase of the land needed for the project, the city's expense in the construction ends. The city* will provide for lighting the underpass and for pumping drainage water around it, however, r after it is completed. o Rites Conducted For Lee Sanders Well Known Tobacco Buyer Is Bur ied After Funeral At Methodist Church • Funeral services for Lee Sanders, well known tobacco buyer of Rocky Mount and Lumberton who died Saturday at the age of 50 in an automobile collision near Benson, were conducted from the First Meth odist church here. Burial followed in Pine View » cemetery. . Rev. R. Dwight Ware, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiated at the ceremonies with Rev. J. Mar tin Culbreth, presiding elder, assist ing. Active pallbearers were Temple Wishart of Lumberton, Walter Gran tham of Smithfield, Wilbus Turner, of Wilson, E. H. Reaves, John Har dy, and J. E. Fonville of Rocky Mount. Mr. Sanders is survived by two sons, well known in Rocky Mount, • Alfred and Hyman; and four sis ters; Mrs. Ed A. Holt of Prince ton, Mrs. J. p. Hood of Kinston, Miss Betty Lee Sanders of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. T. W. LeMay of Smithfield. Mr. Sanders was on his way to Rocky Mount to spend the week-end it is believed when a car driven by Willard I. Ross of Great Bejid, Pa., ran heo-d-on into his car. Ross who was passing another car, and his wife were also killed. o Rites Are Held For Enfield Man Simon Meyer, Prominent Merchant, Is Laid To Rest Iff, Enfieldi Jan. 12.—Funeral services for Simon Meyer ,who died here Saturday morning at the age of 80, were conducted by tile Masonic or der from the home Sunday. Burial followed in the family plot in tho k Jewish cemetery in New Bern. Dr. Frederick Frank of Raleigh as sisted in conducting the ceremonies. Before his death Saturday, Mr. Meyer had been ill for several weeks. He was born in Bremen, Germany '•and came to America at the age of 14. He had been one of the lead i iff* jmerchants here since he came \\j,,.,«-.3i}eld from New Bern three yK.rs later. He was a member of the Enfield Masonic Lodge since early manhood. Mr. Meyer's wife preceded him in '*1923 and a son, Joe Meyer, died last year. There are surviving seven sons: Dr. Willie Meyer of Herndon, Va.; Sigmuud Meyer, of Durham; Otto, Louis, Carl, Max and Edward Meyer of Enfield; and three daugh ters; Mrs. Leo Sultan of New Bern, Mrs. Fannie Steinberg of Roanoke Rapids and Mrs. Frank Howitz of Enfield. o Lt. Gov. W. P. Horton, whose *■ home is in Pjttsboro, was born in Kansas City, Kans., Sept. 1, 1889. He moved to North Carolina when a boy, attended the public schools, and the University of North Caro lina, from which place he received his law degree. He is a Methodist and a Mason. He la married and has no children. Land Donation t To Legion Post 0 Spring Hope Legionnaires Acquire Five-Acre Tract Spring Hope., Jan. 12. —Officials e of the Vester-Wheeless Post No. 91 of the American Legion met her last night for an important busi ® ness session. Commander Hobart Brantley presided over the meeting. Itimous Valentine, of Nashville, '• former resident of this city, charter member of the Post and comman der for many years, presented the organization, through a spokesman ® with the deed to his half interest In ■ the five-acre tract known as Hine's B Spring. This deed gave the Legion Post a clear title to the property, as they already owned half-interest. This presentation left the way B clear for plans for the erection of ' a Legion hut on the site. 1 Members of the post unanimously sanctioned pans to conduct their seynd annual Nash county fair this ' coming fall and voted to ask the local John W. Bryant U. D. C. chap el ter to assist in formulating these ? plans as it did last year. Of the district posts in region i 5, officials announced, the local 1 post was cited as th 0 post having se > cured the most now members above its allotted membership quota. • Mrs. Manning Dies Of Injuries > Martin Woman Hit by Solicitor Gil j linm's Auto Succumbs 5 Tarboro, Jan. 9.—Mrs. Claudia ' Manning, 52, criticalv injured when J a car driven by Solicitor Don Gil ' iam of this city struck her near ' her home in Martin county Tues day night, died in a local hospital yesterday and. was buried, this af ternoon. Funtral services were held from Fairview church in Martin county ' at 2 p. m. by the pastor, Rev. D. V\. Arnold. Burial followed in tho family cemetery. Mrs. Manning, who was rushed hero by ambulance after the accident, succumbed as a result of various in juries including a crushed leg, deep lacerations of the back and a kidney injury. From Williamston came the report that no charges had been brought against Gilliam but that they were being considered. It was stated officers planned to come here and talk with him before deciding what action to take. Before her death, Mrs. Manning was quoted by hospital attendants as taking all blame for the accident upon herself, declaring she stepped in front of the solicitor's car with out first looking to see if the wiy was clear. Mr. Gilliam, who was en route to Tarboro from Plymouth where he had been prosecuting a superior court docket, stopped and assisted in getting Mrs. Manning to Wil liamston from where she was brought here in an ambulance. Mr. Gilliam, unnerved by the experience, was confined to his home. o Conduct Rites For Mrs. W. G. Sellers Funeral Services Held From Home On Raleigh Road Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza beth Sellers, 57, werT held from the home at 957 Raleigh Road with Rev. A. E. Simerly, pastor of the First Christian church of which she was a member, officiating. Burial follow ed in the Griffin grave yard near Red Oak. Airs. Sellers died at the -home fol lowing an illness of several months. She was the daughter of the late Sam and Joanna Etheridge of the Red Oak community. She is survived by her husband, W. G. Sellers; two sons, John Sellers of Russell, liy.; and Vassal Sellers of this city; two daughters, Miss Lena Sellers and Miss Pauline Sel lers; and five sisters, Mrs. Flossie Etheridge, Mr. Deborah Etheridge, Mrs. Bob Taylor of Wilson, Mrs. Madison Tayor of Franklin coun ty; and Mrs. Bertie Griffin of Nash County. Johnston County School Receives Gift Over a hundred new volumes were recently presented the Cleveland School library in Johnston County, by David Tomlinson Pierce, a Se nior in the Rogers Preparatory School of Fairhaven, Mass. Young Pierce's mother was formerly Miss Hilda Tomlinson of the Cleveland, community- Sh 0 went to Boston in i 1912 to complete her education, and met and was married to Reginald C. Pierce of Fairhaven. David has ! spent several vacation with relatives in the Cleveland community. NO FIGHT—YET Tension seems to be easing in Europe as Germany apparently be gins to count the cost of war, and makes conciliatory gestures toward both France and Great Britian. The . Spanish powder keg, however, i 4 still an ever-present menace that may bring war at any minute, I i * •• f- ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15. 1937 Gay Re-elected ; Board Chairman ■ J. Henry Vaughan Takes Seat To Succeed J. D. Nelms , R. R. Gay of Rocky Mount was re-elected chairman of the board of . Nash county commissioners at a . meeting of the board yesterday, the t first meeting of a full board since the commissioners elected last June were to take their seats in Decem . ber. J. Henry Vaughan of Oak Level , township filled the seat of Commis , sioner John Dorsey Nelms, who died last Sunday of an illness which ! had prevented him from attending any of the meetings of the new Vaughan, who received the highest i number of votes among unsuccess ful candidates for commissioner last June, was appointed as Mr. Nelms • successor Saturday by Clerk J. N. Kills of Nash county superior court. Mr. Gay was elected temporary . chairman in December at the first meeting of the new board of com missioners, of whose five members only two were changed in the June election. Final election of chairman was deferred until a full board should meet, which was possible for the fliit time yesterday. The election of a chairman was the sole business of the meeting. o Rex Hospital Founded In 1840 Will Soon Occupy New Home Wor thy of Its Founder And State's Capital City Raleigh's first hospital was pro vided for under the terms, of tho will of John Rex in 1840. Mr. Rex recognized the supreme need of an institution to preserve the lives and health of . Raleigh citizens Under the terms of this will a hos pital bearing his name was estab lished by the city authorities on South Street.- For nearly a century this great life saving institution has served Raleigh. Of late years its capacity has been overtaxed. Although fre quent expansions of space and fa cilities liavo been made it has prov en impossible, on this site, to keep pace with the growth of Raleigh. Now through the untiring efforts of Manager W. E. Winston, the board of trustees, and city officials, Rex Hospital will soon be occupy ing a hom e worthy of its founder and the city. In short, it will be, when completed, one of the most moder n hospitals in the country. The site of the new Rex Hospital is on St. Marys Street, in the Hayes Barton section of the city. The plans call for a four story structure of granite and brick. It will bo equipped with the best life saving facilities that modern science has de veloped. The construction of the hospital involves an outlay of approximate ly $387,000, financed through tho PWA with a loan extending over u period of thirty years. The facilities of the hospital will include 200 beds, surrounded by all modern conveniences for the caro of the sick. Special entrances for ambulances have been provided for. Ample operating rooms, laboratories, instruction rooms, offices, physicians consulting rooms, kitchens for pat rons as well as nurses, receiving rooms, apartments for convalescents are all orovided for in the general plans. On e unusual feature which will bo highly appreciated both by patients and internes, is a roof garden where both air and sunshine may be en joyed. Internes will be housed in a special department on the top floor. Equipment, of course, is not pro vided for in the PWA loan and a campaign is now on to provide $50,- 000 for that purpose. It slfould meet with a prompt response. The new building is being con structed by the Win. Morehend Construction Co. of Durham, N. C. Plumbing and heating are in the capable hands of the Babwell Plumb ing and Heating Co. of Raleigh. Raleigh may well be proud of its greater Rex Hospital. Each citizen owes its support within the limits of his ability. o Neck Is Stretched Shanghai, Jan. B.—Doctors reveal ed tonight that the neck of Atma Singh, Sikh policeman who lived through a hanging," stretched two inches during the process. Phpsicians said his condition was improving and that his neck may 1 later bo restored to its original , length. Phyysicians said his condition was improving and that his neck may later be restored to its original ] length. No word was received concerning possible commutation of the death i sentence Atma Singh received . "for killing gr fellow officer. o STILL ARE SITTING Mr. Sioan's "sit-down" strikers, . now credited with practically bring ing tho gigantic General Motors Corporation to a standstill, like Poo's raven, still are sitting. Negotiations apparently are making little headway as the motor corpor- ! avion goes into a tight clinch with John L. Lewis United Automotive workers unien. Federal, state and pri vate efforts to settle the strike have so far been of no avail. Solves Algebraic Equations = j|i nraflLa Iff pbbsbmwpib ? rilwJP iPSfI BMjßßajf Jgagdjr |£|j| uU R§ - WJSii ■i ms 'IB'- F 29 BBTIjB M|V a . ■ v ' -f'l K ■' V. ■' C■■ ■ ■ .. ■ y - r, . ' The "Simultaneous Calculator" which has been developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. John B. Wilbur (shown) of the department of civil engineering. The machine will solve simultane ous linear algebraic equations to nine or more unknowns, producing a solution in a few seconds that might take hours or even days to reach by ordinary methods. Tho calculator has 13,000 parts, including more than 600 feet of steel tape and nearly 1,000 ballbearing pulleys. The Committee Failed A special committee was appointed to make recommen dations to the legislature as to needed reforms of election laws, on the account of the general dissatisfaction through out the state as to the way elections have been held. Instead of the committees dealing with the reforms ne cessary to have honest elections, they failed to consider the points that should have been dealt with, and recommend ed that the judges and solicitors be taken out of the primary law entirely and be nominated in a convention. The judges and solicitors, in our opinion, should be nominated by all offices by the people. Judge Clark contended through his long life that Federal Judges ought to be elected by the people and to hold office for a definite term rather than for life. All important offices should be in the control of the people. It appears to us that this commission absolutely failed in their duty and made recommendations relating to matters that were not the concern of the commission. CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT The President of the United States has recently address ed a very urgent and strong appeal to the governors of all the states that have not yet ratified the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, urging them to use their great influence in their states to get the legislators that are now in session to adopt the Amendment. The adoption of this Amendment will protect the child from the sweat shop and it will further protect the wel fare of the adalt laborer by not having to enter competi tion with the cheap child labor, which has been one of the drawbacks of the South and the country. While the South is one of the greatest agricultural sections throughout the • world, yet with such* opportunities, we have been cnarged with permitting our children of tender years to work in mills and factories. The President of the United States has his heart in the adoption of this Amendment. PLAY AND RECREATION GROUND NEEDED Plans are going forward for the construction of an un derpass under the A. C. L. R. R. tracks at large cost; the remodeling of the City Administration Building is going on; we are to have a new bridge over the River at the Falls; we have built an airport; we have constructed a city lake; all of these things in themselves are probably good, but with the vacant land being taken up in Rocky Mount, there is serious need for the city to take action toward acquiring playground and park space here. And that is more important than the things hereinbefore mentioned. In years passed the children used the streets for play grounds but with th coming of the automobile and the de struction and death that lies in its path, the use of the ' streets by children has become so perilous that it cannot- , be allowed. It is up to our governing authorities who spend i our tax money to provide necessary playground and park i facilities. .. / , W.O.W. Membersj Install Officers New officers for Tar River Camp No. 423 of W. O. W. have been In stalled, It was announced. Tho new officers are L. A. Parker, council commander; E. A. Johnson, advisory lieutenant; A. R. Elmore, banker; A. Elmore, financial and recording secretary; J. A. Winders, escort; J. W. Jackson, watchman; B. R. Waters, sentry; auditors —L. A. Parker (chairman,) W. C. Bras well, and B. R. Waters. The entertainmont committee an nounced plans for a supper and dance in the near future. o SOCIETY IS "OUT" Miss Doris Duk e Cromwell, worlds richest girl, states that so far as she is concerned society is, "out," and that she will devote her time to charity. | Notable Surgeon Dies Of Pneumonia 1 c c Berryyille, Ark., Jan. 13. —Funer- al services will be held here to- " 1 morrow for Dr. J. Rainey Parker, 59, | widely known surgeon and native of j North Carolina, who died yesterday . of complications resulting from , bronchial pneumonia. He was a surgeon about 30 years at Rainey hospital in Burlington, N. C., and also served as general surgeon of the Southern Railway. H© was born in Orange County, North Crolina, and was graduated • from Virginia Medical aollege at 1 Richmond. Ho became head of the Berryville hospital 16 years ago. H e came to northeast Arkansas eight years ago I i . nd for six years was surgeon at the J • f)on Sawyor Memorial hospital in i I Eureka Springs, Ark. p His widow and a son, Jam* ■ Rai ney P.wker, survive. , Transients Are Helped By Army Over 400 Given Free Lodging In Slx- Monthe Period Over four hundred transients were given free lodgling in the last six months at the Salvation army home, according to a report submitted by Major C. L. Frazeir at a meeting of the advisory board held. A wide variety of activities are included in the report of the char itable organization. The estimated value of all tho re lief given by the army during thet past six months total $304.70, The Salvation army was active dur ing the period conducting various re ligious meetings. Major Frazier es timated the attendance at the open air exercises at 35,396. Pood and clothing were distri buted to the needy of the city by the army. Seventy-three persons were given clothes and shoes. Vis iting tho hospitals was also an ac tivity of the Salvation army, 09 hours being spent by workers in this ac tivity. Falls Will Get Highway Bridge Highway Commission Has Plans For New Bridge By Rocky Mount Mills Rocky Mount will liav e the bene fit of a new highway bridge across tho Tar river at Rocky Mount Mills City Manager L. B. Aycock announc ed, according to plans revealed by the state highway commission. The highway commission already has plans for a new bridge at the Falls l'oad crossing, Mr. Aycock said. The bridge will be similar to the bridges at the western edge of town by the city water plant, and at the northern edge of town on the Battleboro highway, but will be widtr than either of them. The new bridge, with a 3d foot roadway from curb to curb, is being built because the present bridge is believed nof wide.enough to safe ly accomodate traffic in the futufe. State highway engineers told Mr. Aycock that the commission probab ly will award a contract for the job during the latter part of March. The construction is expected to re quire six months. -o Auto Crashes Take 35,708 Lives Total Of 1,021 North Carolinians Were Killed In Motor Accidents | In 1936 A tragic estimate that 35,708 per- ■ sons lost their lives in automobile in the United States was told Thursday night at the govern ment s accident prevention confer ence in Washington. The conference found some so-1 lace in the fact that this vear's total was 353 less than in 1935. California had the greatest in crease, from 2,797 last year to 3,- 050 this year. New York led in de creases—from 2,991 to 2,600. The conference said that the de crease in New York "was attributed largely to the enactment and strict enforcement of laws against reck less driving and speeding." The comparative table reported by the conference includes: North Carolina 1,021 In 1936. 1.053 in 1935. o Will Stop It Lincoln, Neb., Jan 9.—Senator George W. Norris (Ind.-Neb.) said here that "electricity will probably do more than any other one thing" to stop migration from the farm to the city. "Farm life should be attractive as well as profitable," the veteran sen- | ator told the Nebraska farm bureau 1 federation meeting. "It must be mde more attractive than ia is now if we i are to stop the migration from the 1 farm to th e city. i "The rural electrification act pass ed by the last congress is a step in this direction but the farmer I should realize that, in making this 'I step, he is met with the same op- i position the municipalities have met In trying to get electricity at a cost it is possible for the consum- i er to pay." ( Electricity, he said, should be t "supplied to our people without any person or privato corporation mak- c ing a profit out of its generation, s transmission or distribution. . ." * NOTICE y. > \ Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending $l.OO with name and address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Name i Town State Route No ' I ~, ii~ $l.OO PER YEA» Brooklyn Nan Is Held In Wreck Escobar Bound Over To Ed?ecotab« Court Under $3OO Bond Tarboro, Dec. 13.—Ernest Ebco bar, 34, Brooklyn, N. Y. clothing manufacturer's employe, was bound over under $3OO bond to Edgecombe county superior court on a charge of manslaughter in the highway acci dent death of S. P. Hale, 50, promi nent Aulauder farmer, in preliminary hearing before Magistrate J. P„ Koech. Halo died in a local hospital oi I fractured .skull shortly after his and Escobar's cars collided at a highway intersection between here and Pine lops January 8. Escobar and five others were injured. The New York man wag repre sented at the hearing by V. B. I Fountain, local attorney. E. R. Ty ler, Roxabcl lawyer, employed by the family of Ilale, appeared as private prosecutor. Four persons still remain in the hospital as result of the crash. They are: .Mrs. Christiana Escobar, wife of the defendant and a New York dress designer, Miss Josephine Bor goss, Mrs. Escobar's aunt; Emma Byrd, IS, of Edgecombe county and Lloyd Jernigan, 50, of Aulander, the latter two of whom were riding with Hale. Recuperating from various broken bones and other injuries, all the hospitalized victims were re ported as "doing nicely." i o—:— Presidents Ball Directors Named M. F. Jones And M. P. Dawson Are Co-Chairmen; Gay Event Is Planned Here Millard F. Jones and Milton P. Dawson, as co-chairmen, will direct arrangements for the fourth annual President's Birthday Ball, which will be presented January 29 in the Recreation ballroom for the benefit of inlantile paralysis victims. Colonel Henry L. Doherty, national chairman, of the Birthday ganization, has annowoSiaJMßl pointment of Mr. jSII I'a wson to h i n Rocky Moui^^J Represent!! Mrs. the Ml, Ben L. the ing tra to pla^H Jasper jH of here a be^H cent Roosevelt tV Springs Poi^B paralysj^^^^^^^^^^H "• s with the prWceds from Birthday Balls." Treasurer Cum tilings said, "and we hope everyone in Rocky Mount will help us make tha ball this year more successful than ever." The purpose of the Birthday Ball is to rais,> in each community, by the direct participation of the citi zens of that community, funds to aid victims of infantile paralysis in that community and to support national research efforts to wipe out the di«- sease entirely. • o Move To Cut Nash Representatives Raleigh, Jan. B.—A proposal to give Buncombe, Mecklenburg and Guilford counties each another mem ber of the house of representative® and to take one away from Nash, New Hanover and Rockingham, was introduced in the legislture today. The house proposal followed quickly on the recommendation itt his inaugural address by Governor Hoey that the legislature provided for reapportionment of its membership on the basis of th e 1930 census. Both divisions got bills to add two associate justices to the supreme court under a now admendment to the constitution. Each held a short meeting and re cessed for late afternoon sessions at which, committee appointments were announced.