The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 4, NO. 11
' ROCKY MOUNT
MAN IS KILLED
CAR WRECK
William C. Lucas, Jr., Killed When
Thrown Through Car's Wind
shield
William Cf. Lucas, Jr., young gales
man for a local jewelry company,
wag almogt instantly killed when
the car in which he was riding glane
ed off a parked car and collided
with a early Sunday morning
on a highway just north of here.
Nathan Dawson, local young man
with whom Lucag was riding, and
two of the four occupantg of the
parked car were injured, but not
seriously. Dawson received cuts
about the face and ches k . bruises
but wag released at a local hospital
after treatment. J. A. Fii.rh and
Mrs. Russell Anderson, were
among those in the parked car, re
ceived slight injurieg.
f Russell Andergon and Miss Troy
Byrum, also in the parked car, re
ceived no appreciable injurieg. E. A.
Beach of Hawthorne, Fla., driver of
the truck which was involved in the
accident, also was not injured.
As Dawson was driving toward
the city of the Battleboro highway,
i State Highway Patrolman C. B.
Cavenaugh said, his ear struck the
rear corner of a car parked on the
i highway just beyond the city air
port in the path of Dawson's car.
The 'collision threw Dawson's car
across the highway, Patrolman Cav
anaugh reported, in front of a
truck going north. The truck, driv
en by Beaok, struck the left rear
section of Dawson's car.
The shock of the collision threw
* Lucas through the windshield of the
car and resulted in cuts and other
injuries which were almost instantly
fatal to Lucas.
All the occupants of the parked
car, which was stopped out of gas,
but had its lights on, had been drink
ing to various degrees, Patrolman
Cavanaugh said. A small amount of
liquor was found in the car. None
of the other persons involved in the
accident had been drinking, accord
ing to investigating officers.
SALVATION
ARMY FUND
IS GROWING
Local Organization Still Lacks $6OO
, Por New Buildings Needed
Slightly over $lOO in cash besides
k a quantity of building materials has
Pjbeen received in the local Salvation
army's drive to complete a building
fund for a new Salvation army
headquarters, the Army advisory
board announced in a meeting yes
terday.
A balance of $6OO needed to com
plete the $3,500 building fund will
be raiged in the city by voluntary
contributions during the next two or
three weekg, Major C. L. Frazier an
nounced that he bag hopes.
The cash and material contribu
tions already received were given
local citizens, business houses
and Sundav school groups.
Jasper L. Cummings at the Plan
ters Bank will act as treasurer of
the fund and will receive contribu
tions, which may be made also to
I Salvation Army officials.
The building fund is to finance a
new headquarterg building at 511 S.
1 Franklin street, which wi'l house
an auditorium, recreation room and
officers quarters, and also a transient
home already constructed at the site.
Toward the fund the Charlotte
Salvation Army headquarters has se
cured a $2,000 loan and local contri
butions have raised the remainder
except for $6OO, Major Frazier re
ported.
t NASHFARM
BUREAU PICKS
! NEW OFFICERS
Nashville, March 9.—The officers
who were elected when Nash coun
ty's Farm Bureau was organized hist
year were reflected by acclamation
last night at a meeting here of the
L county board of Farm Bureau di
rectors.
W. F. Woodruff of the Taylor's
Store section was reelected presi
de- v, '* the Nash Farm Bureau for
i t&N. Henry Vaughan will con-
I tinue to serve as vice president, C.
I J. Matthews as secretary and
I treasurer, and C. E. Bell' and J.
|. W. Bobbins as members of the
" icounty executive committee.
Mr. Woodruff, an active gponsor
of the Nash Farm Bureau when it
wag organized last year, served as
temporary chairman until organiza
tion of the Bureau was completed
and then as president during the
first year of the Nash Bureau's ex
istence. He is also vice president
of the state Farm Bureau Federa
tion.
Mr. Vaughan, a prominent Nash
farmer and cotton ginner, is also
| a member of the Nash tobacco ad
visory commission.
The Nash Farm Bureau directors
passed resolutions last night com
mending the state Farm Bureau
Federation for its stand in favor of
President Roosevelt's plan to reor
ganize the supreme court, and cen
soring Senator Josiah W. Bailey's
opposition t; the plan.
Facts Concerning
PUBLIC BEING LED TO BELIEVE REMOVAL OF THE
KAILROAD WILL COST THEM NOTHING
On the important question of the removal of the rail
road, we have felt it our duty aa a newspaper enjoying
the mailing privilege of the press, to give the public
facts relative to this catter which so vitally concerns
the public.
By reason of misinformation or propaganda which has
been issued in this matter many of the public have been
led to believe that it is not going to cost the taxpayers
anything. This is absolutely untrue. The whole cost of
the removal of the railroad will be placed on the backs
of the taxpayers of the city of Rocky Mount and the con
sumera of public utilities. Removing the railroad has
been reliably estimated by railroad construction engineers
to cost $1,304,750 besides eight miles of right of way and
the datfnages and cost incident to the acquiring of the
right of way. The estimate of the increased operating
cost and maintenance on the railroad is $1,975,000 and the
value of the land to be submitted to the city by the In
terstate Commerce Commission for $380,000. Then there
is another additional cost, when the railroad* is placed on
the eastern side of the town, a mile and a half away;
the city will have to secure another right of way which
will pass over many streets and through a populous sec
tion of the town to connect with the wholesale and manu
facturing plants of the city and it will create more haz
ards than we have at preaent. All of this must be done at
the expenae of the taxpayers, barring such moneys as it
might acquire from relief sources, which in the end will
practically amount to nothing in comparison to the above
mentioned enormous outlay.
Where Is The Money Coming From
There has only been $50,000,000 set aside for the elim
inating of railroad hazards in the United States by the Fed
eral Bureau for grade crossing elimination and only $l,-
000,000 has been alloted to North Carolina. Then out of
that just $1,000,000, how much could Rocky Mount rea
sonably expect to get? It would appear to us that $50,000
would probably be a most reasonable allowance, when you
take into the equation of the distribution of the rights
of the whole of North Carolina in a million-dollar fund.
This amount would not be a drop in the bucket of the
total sum necessary to eliminate all grade crossings
in Rocky Mount and remove the tracks from Main street
and belt the city.
$7,500.00 Expert Employed
At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen on the fourth
of March, the question of the removal of the railroad was
again up for discussion by the Board and by the so-called
Citizen's Committee and by members from the public. A
letter was read from Honorable George Elliott, President
of the Atlantic Coast Line Roalroad Company to the May
or of Rocky Mount.
He stated that a conservative estimate of the engineer
ing department of the railroad placed the cost of removal
of the railroad at the following figures:
Net cost of New Construction—sl,3o4,7so
Increased operating and maintenence cost with numer
ous credits allowed, per annum, $79,000, capitalized at
4 per cent per annum—sl,97s,ooo
Value of land to be surrendered to city, valued by In
terstate Commerce Commission—s3Bo,ooo
T0ta1—53,659,750.
He further stated that the matter was so stupendous,
even if the city furnished all of this, that he could not rec
ommend it to his board as a business proposition. In the
face of this letter, there was a resolution offered from the
Board to employ a railroad expert, now supposed to be lo
cated in the city of Norfolk, at the cost of $7,500 for
ninety days work, to be paid $l,OOO every ten days. The
whole of the balance of the payment to be paid two weeks
before the expiration of the ninety days and before his
report is to be submitted. This clearly shows tha the ex
pert is more interested in receiving his pay than he is in ]
the report. In this report the expert is to give a recom
mendation on where, and how, the railroad should be
removed and also he is to give an estimate on the loss of
time occasioned by the citizens passing from the east to
the west side by reason of the delay in the passage of
trains. After much discussion and opposition among the
eleven members of the Board present, six voted in favor
of the employment of the so-called expert, to wit: Thur
man, Williamson, Williams, Mimms, Wilkinson, Hinson.
Those who opposed: Aldermen, Brake, Cutchin, Ivey, John
son and Robinson.
It would appear that the city is about to embark, in fact
has already done so, on a very indefinite and vague under- 1
taking that will use up taxpayers money. The sums below'
have already been spent or obligated: •
$500.00 for securing contractors release from Jordan!
St. underpass.
$3900.00 Expenses of Highway Commission on same proj- j
ect.
$7500.00 for expert advice.
$1190.00 total.
and in addition to this loss an underpass worth $200,-
000.00 that was to cost the city nothing except land for
right of way.
Underpass In Danger Of Being Lost
The $200,000.00 which is being held in suspense on ac
count of holding up Jordan St. underpass will not be held
longer than July 1, we are informed. Note the $200,-!
000.00 is not funds from city or the Railroad but was an \
outright grant from the Federal Bureau of Roads, through j
Highway Commission. These experts hired by the city,
according to their egreement, will not complete the sur
vey and make recommendations until June Ist or a few
weeks thereafter. No one believes, if they will stop and,
think a moment, that a project costing many hundreds
of thousands of dollars, maybe a million or more, can be
handled with railroad and financial arrangements consum
ated in a definite way within three or four weeks (time
survey will be completed until July Ist,) at which time the
$200,000.00 ear marked money will no longer be held for
the city.
Rocky Mount paid $15,000 for two years work-to a man
by the name of Otis who came in town on a used car and
left on the same vehicle and his departure, but for having
been in the newspaper would never have been known. It
strikes us that this employment of the new expert is some
thing along the same line. This man agreed to begin
work within three days. It is most remarkable that a
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937
Railroad Removal
The Pie-Eating Judge of Vermont
m ■ Njf: - W
Pie for breakfast, long a good old New England custom, is hesitat
ingly admitted to by New Englanders these days. Not so by Judge
Charles S. Dana of New Haven, Vt., however, former speaker of the
house of representaUves and undisputed pie-eating champion of Vermont.
He says he eats pie for breakfast, for dinner and for supper (which is
the way meals run in rural Vermont), or even between meals if the
spirit moves him, and he can name more than 100 different kinds of pie
which he has consumed. Judge Dana is seventy-four years of age and
his claim is that he has eaten pie at least once a day every day of bis
life since he was a boy, Mrs. Dana is the expert behind the scene. She
makes them 100 different ways, and the judge eats them. As a result of
her skill, his reputation as a fancier of pies has spread throughout Ver
mont and even to Washington, from which city Representative Charles
A. Plumley of Vermont wrote him recently, that certain Washingtoni
ans, interested in pie-eating as a fine art, were thinking of inviting him
to the capital to explain how he became Vermont's expert. _L„
LOCAL MAN TO
GET POSITION
A. L. Dozier, Jr., Is Representative
Of Unemployment Commission
A. L, Dozier, Jr., of this city was
included among 10 field jrepresenta
tives'of Che state Unemployment
compensation commission appointed
today, according to information re
ceived here.
Raleigh, March 8. —Charles G. Pow
ell, chairman of the North Carolina
unemployment compensation commis
sion, announced appointment today
of ten field representatives to check
on employers of the state and see
that they "have compiled with the
new law.
Powell said 3,991 einployerg had
paid $2,687,713.55 to the state and
$298,634.84 to the federal govern
ment on 1936 payrolls.
The field representatives are: John
P. Cooper, of Raleigh; Sterling G.
Manning, of Raleigh and Charlotte;
A. L. Dozier, Jr., of Rocky Mount;
L. L. Umstead, of Greensboro; Hen
ry A. Hickman, of Gastonia; Mal
colm M. Young, of Durham; James
L. Blum, of Winston-Salem; Charles
A. Taylor, of Asheville; Menton II
Dixon of Elizabeth City and D. D.
S. Cameron of Southern Pines.
HAROLD BACKS FDR
Representative Harold D. Cooley,
popular congressman from the fourth
district ha s recently expressed whole
hearted endorsement of the proposal
to reorganize the Supreme Court as
proposed by the president. Mr. Coo
ley made a strong speech in the
lower house this week that left no
one in doubt as to his position and
the reasons thereafter.
man with such unusual talent could be procured within
three days time. Generally, a man who claims to know so
much, is engaged months and months and even years
ahead. Alderman Brake, in addressing the Board, stated
that he was opposed to spending the public's money for the
employment of this expert to make a report about something
that the city would never use as it was not in such finan
cial shape to put over an enormous proposition.
What Prompis The Removal Of The Tracks
It is rumored tha the procedure is gotten up with the
view of killing the underpass which had been unanimously
agreed on by the Board of Aldermen and also Mr. Woodall
Rose who was a member of the Board of Aldermen and the
leading spirit in the so-called Citizen's Committee which
is now opposing it.
Former Mayor Thorne was present at the meeting and
stated that he had failed to find any sentiment for the re
moval of the railroad and that the estimated cost of the
removal was so great that he did not see how the city
could afford to place this purden on the taxpayers. Fur
ther, that any estimate presented by Mr. Elliott, President
of the Coast Line Railroad, knowing the high character
and ability of the gentlemen, could be relied upon.
He felt that if it is undertaken, it will even cost more
than in estimated.
Greensboro has not recovered from such an undertak
ing several years back. The estimated cost of the removal
of the railroad from Greensboro and building a depot and
three underpasses was $900,000. When the work was final
ly completed they had spent $2,900,000 which hurt the
city's credit and was a burden upon its financial institu
tions. The proposition cost two million more than was es
timated. The Edgecombe side of Rocky Mount is burdened
with a bond issue of about three hundred thousand dollars
for the building of thirteen miles of road towards Pinetopa
which was conceived and born under the same kind of in
spiration but with more foundation than this present rail
road proposition. The taxpayer has become the goat of
the whole matter, and the taxpayer ia now becoming the
goat of this present proposition.
MINISTER TO
SPEAK MIND
Kinston, March 10.—The Rev. Dr.
Bartholomew Fuller Huskc may
turn farmer, Clergyman of the
Protestant Episcopal church who
was chaplain at the Naval Academy,
Annapolis, before he came to St.
Mary's church here some years ago,
he said today he is ready to retire
to a Cumberland County farm if
his congregation doesn't like "some
things I am going to tell it Sunday
evening."
Dr. Huske said he would explain
the Ministerial Association's request
that candidates for municipal offices
tell the public how they stand on
law enforcement. The ministers
would have three vice districts ill
and around the city closed. Dr.
Huske will defend the association's
request and excoriate, he indicat
ed, candidates who fail to state|
how they stand.
"I own a hundred acres of land
in Cumberland County, and if there
is objection to my remarks I will
go there, build a shack and live,"
lie said.
STUDENTS STRIKE
Students at Asheville Normal and
Teachers College began a "sitdown"
strike last Thursday in protest
against a decision depriving them of
any spring vacation this year.
Spokesmen for students who refus
ed to budge from the chapel said
practically all of the 400 members
of the student body wore partici
pating. The strike was settled ami
eally when a three-day leave was
granted, and calm was restored to
the campus.
CAMPOREE TO
BE STAGED AT
ROCKY MOUNT
500 Boy Scouts From All Over
Eastern Carolina Expected Here
April 30-May 1
Around 500 Boy Scouts from 21
Eastern Carolina counties are ex
pected to take part in the second
annual patrol Camporee to be held
here on April 30-May 1, Scout of
ficials have announced.
The site for the camporee will be
historic Battle park by the Tar
river falls.
John J. Wells, chairman of th»
Camporee committee, who investi
gated site, said that the scores of
tents to be brought by the visiting
Scouts, together with those of lo
cal Scouts, would be pitched on
"J'anther Island," the largest of the
group in the Falls area, while ano
ther island would be used for the
campfire circle.
During their two-day encamp
ment, the Scouts, who will repre
sent 107 troops in the Eastern Caro
-1 Una council, will test their skill in
cooking, fire-building, map-making,
stalking, signalling, nature study,
compass drills, knot tying, whitt
ling, judging, and miniature bridge
building.
The boys will camp in units of
eight, John J. Sigwald, Scout exe
cutive, has announced, and stream
ers will be awarded to the groups
winning the highest number of
points. Blue streamers will be
awarded to units scoring over 450
out of a possible 500 points; red
streamers will go to patrols scoring
between 350 and 499 points; and
yellow streamers will go to patrols
scoring between 250 and 349 pointg.
The firgt annual Camporee was
held successfully last year at Green
ville.
ROOSEVELT
HIGHLIGHTS
Washington, March 4. —Headlights
of President Roosevelt's Victory Day
Dinner speech:
"My . . . ambition ... is ... a
' nation clear in its knowledge of
what powers it lias to serve its
own citizens, a nation that is iu
a position to use those powers to
the full in order to move forward
steadily in order to meet the mod
ern needs of humanity . . ."
My great ambition on Jan. 20 19-
41 is to turn over ... to my suc
cessor ... a nation intact, a nation
at peace, a nation prosperous . . .
After the W>orld War there arose
insistent demands . . . that human
needs be met. The unthinking, or
those who dwell in the past, have
tried to block them.
I cannot tell you with complete
cundor that . . . democracy has
fully succeeded . . . For as yet
there is no definite assurance that
the three-horse team of the Ameri
can system of government (execu
tive, judicial and legislative) will
pull together.
If one horse lies • down in the
traces . . . the field will not be
ploughed.
I defy one to read the majority
opinion invalidating the AAA and
tell us what we can do for agri
culture in this session of Congress
with any reasonable certainty that
what we do will not be nullified as
unconstitutional.
The Ohio River and the dust
bowl are not conversant with the
habits of the interstate commerce
clause . . . We cannot afford . . .
to postpone or run away from that
fight on advice of defeatist lawyers.
Let tlieni try that advice on sweating
men piling sandbags on the levees
at Cairo.
In this fight, as the lawyers them
selves say, time is the essence. In
three elections . . • great majorit
ies have approved what we are try
ing to do . . . Those majorities mean
that the people themselves realize
the increasing urgency that we meet
their needs now.
If we do not have the courage
to lead the American people where
they want to go someone else will.
If we would keep faith with those
who had faith in us, if we would
make democracy succeed, I say we
must act—now.
I propose to follow my custom of
speaking frankly to the nation con
cerning our common problems.
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REGULATION
OFTOBACCO
SALE PROPOSED
Fenner Introduces Bill In House
To Establish Fair Trade Regula
tions
A bill to reestablish the fair trade
| regulation of NBA code days /or
the tobacco warehouse industry,
under supervision of a State com
mission, was introduced in the House
of Representatives on Tuesday by
.Representative W. E. Fennur of
Nash, leading warehouseman of
Rocky Mount and major operator on
the Georgia markets.
Bruce Suggs of Greenville, pres
ident of the Eastern Carolina Ware
house Association, has called a
meeting of warehousemen in Farm
ville tonight at 8 o'clock to consid
er the measure, Fenner said. Sev
eral members of the House from
tobacco counties jointed the Nash
representatives in sponsoring the
bill.
The measure would provide for
appointment by the Governor of a
Tobacco Commission of Fair Compe
tition, consisting of live warehouse
men, one from each of the five
belts in the State to license aad
regulate warehouses.
Paid $lO a day and travel ex
penses for each meeting, the com
missioners would employ a secre
tary and establish an office in Ra
leigh to be sponsored from a ware
house registration fee of $5O and
from a tax of 5 cents per 1,000
pounds on tobacco sold by ware
houses in excess of 1,000,000.
Authority would be given the
commission to revoko the license of
a warehouse violating fair competi
tion provision of the bill, which
include section prohibiting:
1. Soliciting tobacco for sale
while in transit from farm to mar
ket designation.
2. Soliciting tobacco in one town
for sale in another, after the sea
son opens.
3. Employing any person to solic
it tobacco for sale on any ware
house floor.
4. Employing an unreasonable
working force to solicit tobacco.
5. Reserving any particular floor
space for a tobacco producer or
consignor.
0. Making any resale for less than
full charges.
7. Permitting private sale, until
after the tobacco has been offered
at auction.
8. Mpving tobacco before ten
minutes has expired after sale.
9. Discrimination against any pro
ducer.
10. Giving rebates on warehouse
charges as inducements.
11. Paying anything for delivery
of tobacco to any warehouse.
12. Extending special privileges to
any customer.
13. Furnishing transportation for
tobacco.
14. Financing purchase of trucks
for tobacco producers.
15 .Giving rebates or prizes to
reduce warehouse charges.
16. Guaranteeing minimum prices
for tobacco.
Fines up to $250 and imprison
ment up to six months would be
provided for violations. i
The State act would not preclude
local regulations.
Doctors Find
Strange Collection
In Man's Body
Wilson, March B.—Doctors at a lo
cal hospital removed an open safo
ty pin and a diamond ring; from
the intestines of Percy Walston, 30
year old local man, in a curious
operation late Friday afternoon an
they sought to save the man from
death after he had attempted sui
cide ir. the local jail by placing
the pin, ring and a nail in some
bread here and ate it. The physi
cians did not remove the nail.
The man's condition was dtscrib
ed as "fine" by doctors at the hos
pital and they predicted he would
live Saturday.
Walston had been arrested on a
capias ordered by Judge J. Paul
Frizzell, of Snow Hill, after he
had failed to make his appearance
at the last term of superior court
here on charges of meat stealing,
H.> was in jail without bond when
he attempted suicide.
Dr. W. H. Anderson, county health
officer, ordered the operation per
formed after consulting surgeons and
examination of X-rays.
It was necessary to use amplifiert
at the Cleveland County courthouse
recently when farmers gathered t«
hear the 1937 farm program explain
ed could not all get into the audi
torium.