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.
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Rites Conducted
For Lee Sanders
Well Known Tobacco Buyer Is Bur
ied After Funeral At Methodist
Church
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. . ." *
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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."
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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,
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Jasper jH
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Roosevelt tV
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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.
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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.