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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 4, NO. 8 LOCALYOUTHS) f • ARE INCLUDED IN HONOR ROLL 1 « ! Wake Forest Registrar Releases Stu- dent Honor List 14*,.. J. D. Christian, sophomore at Wake I |L.M'qfest, and E. M. Williams, first yeah medical student, both of this city, wore among the 130 students I at the college listed on the semester honor roll, released by Registrar Grady S. Patterson. J. E. I,awrenee, law student of t Scotland Neck and F. E. Bunn of Zebulon, junior, were also among those making requisite grades for honor roll placment for the semester just finished. Seven men turned in all "A" re ports signifying that all their work averaged betwefen 9.1 to 100 per cent perfect. They were James B. Cop . pie, Jr., of Albemarle, J. W. Gil more, of Mexia, Tex., and J. W. Now ell of Wake Forest, freshmen; D. F. Jordan, Laurinburg, junior; J. C. Bunn of Spring Hope and Oscar , Creech, Jr., of Alioskie, seniors; and V. L. Bauer of Andrews, S. C., medi cal student. The junior class placed 31 men on I the honor list, with the other classes ' following in this order: freshmen, 1 . 30; seniors, 29; sophomores, 27; med- I ical school 10; and law school, 3. When the University of North J Carolina students recently took a | . vote to determine the "sweetest V/boy" on the campus, the young man | chosen was Pete Ivey, director of j Graham Memorial, student activities center at the University and son of Alderman and Mrs. C. W. Ivey of i Rocky Mount. Pete was knighted at the recent coronation exercises on JL, the Student-Faculty day. In his stu ffjdcnt days, Pete was editor of the Carolina Buceaneer. 1 BELIEVEDOPE I RING ACTIVE INWILSON i Wilson Woman Bound Over For Pos sessing Dope Equipment r» ~ ~ - - J Wilson, Feb. 17.—Police here re vealed that a dope rin£, much the | swine as a ring that is bothering Federal authorities all over the J country at the present time, but on a smaller scale, was active in Wil son county. The revelation was made as Cath arine Barnes, local woman, wa9 bound lover to Superior court under S2OO bond yesterday by Judge O. P. Dick inson in county court on the charge if possession of dope and hypoder mic equipment. She pleaded guilty to the charge. Testimony revealed that the wom an had been arrested some time ago in Greenville on the same charge: but had been released when the evi- j ■ dence had been insufficient to hold' I her. I The woman was arrested here Mon-' I day by Detective C. P. Hocutt and | fIL A. A. Privett as she was coming out B of a local drug store where she had ■ purchased a quantity of morphine the strength of a forged doctor's The prescription was ■ signed with the name of Dr. Pear ■ son Cooper, of Pikeville, and ofti ■ cers here said that they believed ■ that the woman had traced the sig ■ nature and writing from an origi lnal at seme timo or another. I The officers disclosed to tho court ft hat federal Narcotic Agents had in jformed them that a great deal of dope peddling and such cases as the 'Barnes case had been going on in 'the state recently, and that a num 4ber of cases had come to light i around Asheville recently and that all the cases there had been bound *yer to Superior court and awaited disposition now. Detectivo Hocutt asked the .court to bind the Barnes woman over to the high court here and declared that lie was going to get in touch with' Federal authorities in the meantiin'; and see what disposition they wish ed to make of the case. , DIAMONDLOST TWENTY FIVE YEARS FOUND , i 4 ____ Twenty-three years ago Mrs. Min ■f; nie Haynes Edmonds lost her dia- I mond engagement ring while living j in the old W. G. Bradshaw home in i HigH I'oint. No trace was found of th\ Later she and her husband Judge W. R. Edmonds, moved to New * Mexico in the interest of Mr. Ed mond's health. He died there. Mrs. Edmonds returned to North Carolina and married a second time to William Avera, of Rocky Mount. She died later, leaving a son, Wil- Iliam Avera who is now 16 years old. The past week while razing the Bradshaw home to make way for the erection of the Guilford county | branch offlc e building, a workman I found the valuable ring in the attic *if the house. The grandparents of young Avera, •Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Haynes, of Mount Airy are taking steps to have the ! ring rest"red to the boy who is now . living with his father in Rocky l Mo 11 UNITED STATES*SENATOR ****** From the humble start of $23,000 appropriated by Congress for light houses in 1791, Federal expenditures tor public works soared to dizzy heights during the war period, drop ped for a brief period and arc now at the highest peace time mark in history. In 1935, the Federal out lay for public works amounted to the staggering sum of nearly $660,- 000,000. This is due, of course, to the fact that the definition of pub lic works has been materially ehang ed_ in recent years to include such things as forestry, past control, soil conservation, housing, rural electri fication and what not. As a result, securing of Federal grants ha s been one. of the great est activities in recent years and under the "prime the pump" the ory states, counties, cities and even isolated communities have secured, projects and activities that they never could have afforded if sup ported by local taxpayers. This has led to a growing belief that the ability of the Federal Government to finance these projects and activ ities is unlimited. Too many of our citizens condemned such expenditures in many sections while in Washing to to get funds for some locally sponsored public works. Let m e hasten to say that under the economic dark clouds of the depression activities were carried on, and rightly so, that have no place in normal times. However, the time is approaching when there must bo an overhauling of tho expenditures ! on the basis of public need and pub- I lie good. The whole interwoven fab ric of Federal activity must be in ' spected or months of waste that might in time weaken the threads of (this fabric. In other wuiiia, 't i° I more difficult to have on the one I hand, state rights, as we once knew them, and ever-increasing Fed eral grants on the other. If our ' people want enlarged public works or a maintenance of those at pres ent —and public wants are sovereign —our people must be prepared to study the implications and be ready to meet the cost. Federal grants to states now hon eycomb many Federal agencies. We have grants to states for old-age as sistance, unemployment compensa tion administration, aid to depend ent children and aid to the blind. Under the Veterans' Administration jwe have grants for state and ter ! ritorial homes for disabled soldiers ' and sailors. In the Department of Agriculture we aid agricultural ex ' perimenr stations, agricultural re- I search, cooperative dairy and live stock experiments, cooperative agri cultural extension work, cooperative conservation of agricultural and re sources, cooperative forest fire pro tection, cooperative distribution of forest planting stock, forest roads and trails and highways. In the Department of Interior wo hav e grrants for colleges for agri (Pleasc turn to page four) BLAMES WOMAN FORCAPTURE Negro Brought Back From Philadel phia Offerß Advice "If you don't ever want to get your neck broke, tell a woman noth ing," Oliver Griinos, 44-year-old col ored man, said this week behind the bars in the Martin County jail, where he is awaiting trial in the March court for the murder of Richard Smith in th e upper part of the coun ty 14 years ago. Grimes explained that he told his common-law wife in Philadelphia what he had done down in Martin County, that every thing was all right after that un til they quarreled. He slapped her ' and she turned him over to the Philadelphia police. "And if you do tell a woman something, don't ever quarrel with her after that," Grimes • added. Fleeing from justice 14 years ago, Grimes left his wife and from that ' tim 0 until now ho has heard noth ing from her. He does not know ' whether she is dead or alive, mar • ried again, or where she is. "I cer tainly would like to see her, but I i can't blame her if she does not 1 come to seo me and help me now," . Grimes said. The 44-year-old negro, a native . of Pitt County, talked about the re i cent d( pression in Philadelphia, ! pointing out that it was "plenty ' bad" there for a while, but that i conditions had improved considerab s ly. Grimes did not talk much about , the killing of Smith in a crap game t near Oak City, and did not appear i at all worried as he sat on his bunk 7 in the jail with a fellow prisoner, r nonchalantly smoking a cigarette and playing some game of cards. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937 TAXI STOLEN HEREFOUND NEAR COAST Bandit Who Held l/'p Taxi Driver Here Wrecks Taxi But Escapes The taxicnb taken from W. L. Ifaithei.ck, local taxi driver who was hi id up by a lone white passenger on ilie Nashville highway was found near Bayboro in Pamlico county, wrecked, police here were inform ed. The bandit was not found and still is not known. Haithcock told police that white man dressed in a brown suit and a dark gray overcoat, who had en gaged his cab downtown here, held him up shortly after 7 o'clock yes terday morning near Easonburg on the Nashville highway. The bandit drove him back to the city and put him out near" the old country club, Haithcock said, taking his cab and a small amount of mon ey which he had. Haithcock called police who picked him up a few minutes later and told them of the robbery. He described the bandit as about 28, five feet nine inches tall, of rud dy complexion, wearing a brown suit dark gray overcoat and dark hat, carrying a .38 nickle plated revolver, several pints of whiskey and a black raincoat. New Bern, Feb 17.—A taxicab taken from W. L. Haithcock of Rocky Mount in a hold up in Nash county early Tuesday was found wrecked in Pamlico county Tuesday after noon. Sergiant G. C. Bissette of the highway patrol, announced this morn ing. The driver, believed to have been the highwayman escaped serious in jury. He was brought to New Bern by two Negroes but has been un reported since having his clothes cleaned at a pressing club here about 5 P. M. DR. WILKINSON CONTINUES HIS MISSION HERE The Rev. Richard Wilkinson, D. D., of Montgomery, Alabama, will con tinue daily services in a Preaching i con duel el at the Church" of the Good Shepherd all this week, through Sunday evening, it is an nounced. Services are held each morning at 11 o'clock, with the exception of Saturday, and each evening at 7:30. On Thursday the morning service will be featured with the celebra tion of Holy Communion and the early Communion service will be celebrated at 7:30 on Sunday morn ing. Dr. Wilkinson is a mission preach er of long experience and extend ed reputation. For many years he was rector of St. John's church, Montgomery, but resigned recently in order to devote his entire timo to evangelistic work. Last week he conducted a highly successful mis sion in All Saints' church in Roa noke Rapids. In the mission services Dr. Wilkin son uvoids sectarianism and empha sizes the essential truths of the Christian faith and Christian life. Services here have been attended by members of various denominations and those who have heard Dr. Wil kinson have expressed themselves as deeply impressed and delighted with the style of his messages. CLAY 4H BOY CORN CHAMP Producing 136.8 bushels of corn on one acre of land, Howard Mar tin, 16, of Clay county, won the State 4-H corn growing contest for 1936 and has been awarded a four year scholarship to State College. The scholarship was given by the Barret Company to the North Caro lina 4-H corn club member mak ing the best record over a period of one or more years, said L. R. llarrill, 4-H club leader at the col lege. Martin's high yield, 7.4 times as great as the State averago 0f18.5 bushels to tho acre, was produced at a cost of only 19.8 cents per bush el, Harrill added. Tho corn was planted on land where rye had been grown the year before. In November, 1935, Martin broke the land to a depth of 12 inches with a tractor. H e harrowed the field on April 23, 1936, and tho next day he planted Holeombc's Pro lific corn seed. Ho applied 150 pounds of fertili zer- and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda. The total of labor, fertilizer, and rent on th e land was figured at $27.12. The corn was valued at $136.80. Martin's profit was $109.68 from one acre of land. His corn was grown as a 4-H club demonstration according to tho rec ommendations of D. G. Allison, coun ty agent, and W. D. Jetser, assist ant. Runners-up in the corn growing contest were: Charles Coats, of Johnston county, northeastern dis trict winner, who produced 119 bushels per acre. Edwin Blevins, of Wilkes county, northwestern district winner, 116.7 bushols per acre. Roger Pollock, of Jones county, southeast ern district winner, 82.5 bushels per acre. No FSying Tackles in Mongolia - p—on» Glaring at each other like a pair of fighting cocks about to spring, two Mongolian wrestlers are pictured meeting in combat at the recent peoples' holiday of the Mongolian Peoples' Republic. Note the uniforms of the wrestlers. Location Of New Gymnasium Is Vital Issue The Board of Graded School Trustees of the City of Rocky Mount has from the beginning of the graded school system in Rocky Mount been considered both constructive and conservative with what they had to do with and have always given a good account. There is a very se rious matter facing them at this time which should con cern every family in Rocky Mount—the location of the new gymnasium. It has been suggested that it is the in tention of the Board to locate this large building on the small vacant, uncovered piece of ground just in the back of the high school and the high school auditorium which would leave the whole high school group practically with out breathing or standing room, except in the class rooms. The City has already invested between three and four hun dred thousand dollars or probably more on a lot that is al ready too small. Then to take up what little ground is left with the gymnasium, in our opinion, it would be bet ter that the children have the air space rather than the gymnasium, as bad as we need the gymnasium. Can we afford to destroy the enormous investment and outlay that is already there by taking up the small vacant ground with another building. May we not offer a suggestion to the Board as those wtto are interested in the general wel fare that the Board acquire by purchase or condemnation the piece of tenant property which adjoins this lot and is large enough to hold the new gymnasium without destroy ing and taking up the small open air space that is so vital and necessary for our high school students. If the lot should cost several thousands of dollars, would it not be the cheapest money that Rocky Mount could spend in sav ing an investment that already approaches a half million dollars. With the location of this gymnasium back of the high school, in our opinion, the value of the plant will be destroyed fifty per cent so far as its usefulness as a high school and community center is concerned. We feel that the Board of Graded School Trustees should by all means acquire the property adjoining this lot for the location of this building, rather than crowd it on the back lot that is much too small. This is a matter that should seriously concern the Pa rent Teacher's Association, if their evistence is justified and we know it is. This organization should not be asleep at the switch when a matter so vitally concerns them is being worked out and the Board needs their cooperation and help. TWO PROMINENT CITIZENS PASS Rocky Mount has been saddened this week in the pass ing of two of its finest business citizens—men who had been in business from the time Rocky Mount was a small hamlet until the end of their life. Both dying in harness after long and useful lives—W. D. Joyner and Dr. P. W. Kyser. Mr. Joyner, being one of Rocky Mount's general merchants for many, many years, member of Board of Aldermen and an active church leader and head of a fine family; Dr. P. W. Kyser, for nearly fifty years a leading druggist in Rocky Mount, fine citizen and head of a talented family. All of our hearts join these two families in their sorrow. V.F.W. GIVES BENEFIT BALL The Rocky Moyit post 2057 Vot eran of Foreign Wars of the United States will give a benefit ball and entertainment on Monday evening, February 22, 1937, at the Recreation Hall on Tarboro Street. There will be a ti-n act floor show and danc ing from 10 o'clock until 2 o'clock. The money derived from this bene fit ball will be used for the deceas ed service men's families and those who are disable. The Spanish Ameri can War Veterans sometime back gave a ball which was highly enjoy ed by all who attended and it is expected that this will be equally as enjoyable. Whistle Is Removed Frcm Lung Of Child Atlanta, February 11.—Surgrons successfully removed a small metal ic whistle from the right lung of 10-year-old Kenneth Smith, of St. Simmons Island, Ga., today. Hospital attaches said after the bronhoscopic operation the boy "is doing well." He swallowed (ho whistle at a party Monday and was brought to a hospital h rc by his mother, Mrs. J. iD. Smith, Tuesday. J. J. JUDGE IS RESTING WELL Whltakers Man Struck While Hitch. Hiking Improves John Joseph Judge, 33-year-old Whitakers man who was hit by a car in the city Monday night, is re ported at a local hospital to be "rest ing well." _ Judge received a cerebral concus sion, and is also suffering from a broken jaw which he had before the accident. The driver of the car which in jured Judge was not known hero. Judge was standing in S. Church street signalling a car for a ride, according to a Weldon highway pa trolman who saw tho accident and brought Judge to a hospital here, and seemed to step in front of the car. The highway patrolman did not leave his name at the hospital, but said ho was under orders to join tho search for the escaped convicts from Caledonia prison farm. Mr. Arrington Reported Improved A host of friends will be grati fied to know that the condition of F. Y. Arrington is report d as show ing improvement. Mr. Arrington is at h'S homo on Tarboro street, hav ing been confined to his bed for the l>ast few days. BAR REFUSES CENSURE FDR Greensboro, Feb. 12. H. L. Koontz, solicitor of the 12th Judi cial District, was last night elected president of the Greensboro Bar for the ensuing year. The liar declined by vote of 19 to 17 to adopt a vote of censure for President Roosevelt's court re form proposals. ROUND AND ROUND THE ROLLER GOES (Rrom Under The Dome, in The News and Observer) DISTANT—How distant those days of political uncertainty last June and July seem now! McDonald is a law student at the University, and appears only inconspicuously on the Legislative fringe nowadays. His campaign manager and teammate in the nip-and-tuck battles with the administration two years ago, 1 sits silently in the House —too wise after five successive terms in that body to get in the path of a steam roller. Never has there been in this State since the days of tho Primary a ■legislative body so responsible to the crack of the majority whip. Do cilely as a well grazed bossy at work on her cud, and apparently as con tented, the House membership smiles at the roughshod tactics of Speaker Cherry, accepts for the most part without a murmur the dictates of those hard-driving young leaders, Vic Bryant and Libby Ward. When Ernest Gardner or some other go between comes upstairs with a word from Governor Iloey, that's all that seems necessary to make the steam roller to roll. The House could, at the pace it disposed of its liquor and money business, adjourn within a week. However it came about, the sin gle-mindedness of the House is the more strange because the 112 Dem ocratic members were named in the midst of a campaign that found the voters of tho State split nearly evenly between the conservative Hoey and the liberal McDonald. Out of no such bitterly contested campaign in recent memory has there developed any such welding of the elected representatives from 100 counties into certain majorities for the will of administration when such will is expressed in terms of desired action. Frankly amazed observers are try ing to figure out whether it means a new day in politics in this State, whether the mass of the people ap proves or not. Only time will sup ply the answer. Meanwhile the steam roller rolls on. Even the veriest Freshman has known since the first week that there was nothing in this Assembly approximating the militant McDon iiid-Lumpkin anti-administration bloc or' two years ago. Lumpkin is left, it is true, but lie never could ccunt m: re than a handful of follow 'rs, and his feeble assaults on the sr.les tax wero patently gestures flung without hope into the lap of a mech anical man with the opposite but ton already depressed. EDGECOMBE FARMER DIES FROM HURTS Tarboro, Feb. 15.—Ashley Lee Tay lor, 35, Edgecombe county farmer, was dead today and Claude Beach, 30, was in a local hospital receiv ing treatment for a fractured jaw after tho car Beach was alleged to have been driving while under the influence of liquor left highway 258 at high speed and overturned here early Sunday morning. Sheriff W. E. Bardin said Beach would be brought to trial on charges of manshlaughter. Rufus Whitley, 13, also an occu pant of tho car, escaped with minor injuries. The child was quoted as saying tho three had been at Paul Abrams' fil ling station near here and left to go home at about three o'clock Sunday morning with Beach under the steer ing wheel. Ho said, according to of ficers, that both Beach and Taylor had beon drinking and that he him self had had "some beer." The car ran off the highway soon after leaving the filling station and turned over on an adjacent field. Dr. J. C. Raby, county coroner, who accompanied Sheriff Bardin to the sceno of the accident at 4:30 Sun day morning, said Taylor died of a fractured skull and a broken neck. 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. Town State Route No SI.OO PER YEA* REP. HANCOCK EXPLAINS HIS COURT VIEWS ' Newspaper Comment With Respect To President's Suggestions On Ju dicial Reforms Grossly Misleading, Reports Congressman Hancock The President's message advocat ing modernization of the Judiciary was not as much of a surprise to Ime ag it was to many others. I think that a certain analysis of his speech shortly after the convening jof Congress was a definite fore-run- I ner of his views. Notwithstanding newspaper reports indicating my gen- I eral approval of his message, 1 have ( not reached any definite conclu i sidns. As you probably know, I I have for considerable length of time questioned the wisdom of permitting an inferior Court Judge to havo the power to suspend the operations of an Act of Congress until such, Act lias been declared invalid by the Supreme Court. To curb this power, I have already introduced .1 j Bill which is now before the Judi i ciary Committee of tae House. It 1 does not, however, question tho right, even of an inferior Court Judge, to pass upon the constitu tionality of an Act of Congress; but it does forbid him to suspend tho operations of an Act of Con gress until, as stated above, the Su i preme Court itself has determined the question of constitutionality. I MUCH of the newspaper comment in the last few days has been gross .ly misleading with respect to tho 1 President's suggestions concerning a change in the courts. As a mat ter of fact, he has probably adopt ed the mildest method of reform which has been considered by Con gress. His proposition does not in volve any tinkering with the Con stitution. It does not curb the Su preme Court's power in any re spect. There is no suggestion for requiring unanimous decisions of two-thirds majorities, or anything except the present simple majority. He suggests no retrietion upon ex isting appelate power, and the Su preme Court would continue to de cide, as now, what does or does not constitute interstate commerce. Its judicial veto remains unimpaired. This in as it should b according to inv present views. The President merely proposes to enlarge the present Judicial Oligar chy without restricting its power, and for this suggestion he has ex cellent precedents. When boiled down, one can readily see that his chief objective is a more efficient administration of justice by making the Court cognizant of and respon sive to the will of the people as reflected in rapidly changing econ omic and social conditions. ft is, of course, true that his pro posal, which sounds frightful to many persons, appears so much more because it comes at a time of high controversy over the Court rather than from any lack of distinguished ancestry. I cannot but feel that the gist of his proposal is aimed in the right direction, but it is not my purpo&j to reach a definite conclusion on any specific proposal until I have given the entir • message the best thought i of which I am capable. HEALTH DEPT HAS ACTIVE YEAR HERE Health Department Trucks Hauled 17,707 Loads Last Year City Health department truckers varted off and disposed of 17,707 loads of trash and garbage during last year, Sanitary Inspector Fran cis Patterson announced from the department's records. Tho health department operates six one-and-ahalf {on trucks to haul away trash and garbage free of charge. Some of the refuse it uses for grading and filling in low places and the rest it burns. Last year the healtn department recoived 919 calls, he said, most of them (432) for extra service; that is, calls for the health department trucks to make an additional trip for extra service after a truck has made one visit to a residence. Next most frequent were the calls (295) for the health department men to go after dead chickens aud rats and such. There were also 146 calls about dead dogs and cats that peo ple wanted hauled off. The health department will call for dead animals Mr. Patterson said, if bhe property owner will place them where the truckmen can easily get them. Only 46 of the department's calls last year were complaints.