The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 4, NO. 12
EDGECOMBE TO VOTE MAY 1
ON $250,000 BOND ISSUE
I Erection of a colored elementary
hchool and an addition to the Rocky
(Mount high school will be determ-
Sb at a special election of Edge
county voters May 1.
Th\ two buildings in Rocky
Mount will aggregate $91,000 of a
$250,000 bond issue which will be
v6ted upon in the election called
by the Edgecombe board of commis
sioners.
The bond issue will call for SOO,-
JJOO for the colored school and for
to build the addition to the
: high school here.
The board of commissioners has
announced that an estimate of the
increased taxation necessary will be
made as the order will provide for
an annual levy "sufficient to pay
the principal and interest on said
bonds as the same shall become
due."
>. The Ricky Mount school trustees
applied in August, for funds with
i,which to build the two buildings in
city.
According to the present plans, the
'colored elementary building would
have 14 to 16 rooms and woij.4 be
located adjoining" Talbot park. If
the city officials approve, part of
the building may be located in part
of the playground area.
.3TIIO addition to the high school was
nrst proposed in order to provide
adequate quarters for the commer
~pl, industrial arts, and music de
partments, and" for an addition to
the library. The Rocky Mount
trustees asked for a larger sum than
$31,000 and hence a change will
havo to be made in the tentative
plans for the addition should the
[bond issue pass the voters. The ad-
Nition would be placed on the north-
S»t corner of the present building.
I The acute need for two propos
ed buildings was voiced today by R.
Si. Wilson, superintendent of scoois.
rTho colored schools need attention
[badly. The city is renting three
buildings elementary schools,
Laeither ot winch provide adequate
Pbpace, sewerage facilities, water,
right, and heat. It is imperativo
that Rocky Mount should alleviate
this condition.
''The addition of the twelfth
grade, the junior-senior plan which
we hope to put into effect, and the
increased enrollment generally,
flakes it necessary for us to provide
In addition to the high school."
Superintendent-Wilson pt>Hrted ou>
the Lincoln und Annie Holland
buildings were the only two colored
plementary schools owned by tfte
■ity. "If the new building is erect
-3d," he said, "we shall certainly
emove the students from the build
ngs where the existing conditions
ire the worst." The city rents the
lolly Street, South Rocky Mount,
ind Mt. Herman, buildings.
PARRY NAMED
ION BOARD OF
MUSIC CONTEST
■)irector Of* Music In City Schools
Is Chosen Contest Official
j: Harold T. Parry, director of mu
|ic in the city schools, has been
Bamed one of the district chairmen
In charge of the elimination con
jests slated for April 10, in prepara
tion for the 18th annual state high
School music contest and festival
which will be held at the Woman's
Snllege in Greensboro April 21, 22
■nd 23.
According to announcement made
lere today, enrollment blanks have
>een mailed to schools throughout
he state from the offibe of Dr.
Vade R. Brown, dean of the mu
ic faculty of the college, who has
:harge of the contest. Lnst year's
' •tat brought to the college a ree
ird-breaking enrollment of 3,697
lontestants, officials stated.
District elimination contests will
(e held in 16 different centers 011
pril 9 or 10. Dr. Brown indicated,
'our district elimination contests
till be held on April 9.
Chairmen of these preliminary
ontests are! Mis® Glenn MacDou
ald, of Fayetteville; Miss Mar
itet Partenlieimer, of Raleigh; W.
g. Twaddell, of Durham; and Miss
■artha Biggers, of Mars Hill Col
|ge.
J The remaining 12 elimination con-
Jests will be held the following day,
April 10. Chairman of these dis
tricts are : Miss Minnie Nash, of
S'fcabeth City; J. 11. Rose, of
Breenville; Harold T. Parry, of
H. B. Smith, of New
W. Smith, of High
Woinbi Arthur Rich, of Catawba col
lage, Salisbury; L. R. Sides, of
Sharlotte; Joseph T. Pfohl, of Win-
Wton-Salem; S. Ray Lowder, of Lin
*%lnton; A. D. Huffines, of Grauate
falls; George 8. Tracy, of Cullo
»hee; and Miss Virginia Wary, of
Appalachian State Teachers College,
Boone.
■ The executive committee for the
■far is composed of Brown; C.
B- Teague, assistant controller of
Woman's college Miss Virginia E.
Pmith, of Roanoke Rapids; Miss
Virginia Frank, of High Point; Mrs.
KHenn Parker, of Salisbury; L. R.
Ades, of Charlotte; and Mrs. C.
t. Batchell, of Greensboro.
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Senator F. M. Simmons, grand old
nan of the Democratic party of
forth Carolina, and an old man in
'ears, apparently still has progres
'ive ideag. He has just issued a
t tement strongly favoring the
•residemt's court proposal.
BOY HIT BY
TRUCK AND
BADLY HURT
Son Of Farmer Near Nashville Ac
cidentally Hit By Truck
Otho M. Strickland, 10 year old
son of W. O. Strickland of near
Nashville, was seriously injured in
a hospital here after a truck driven
by R. C. Killebrew of Rocky Mount
hit him last night.
Though the boy was in a criti
cal condition with a fracture at the
base of the brain and two breaks
jof the right arm, hospital attend
' ants expected him to recover.
Nash Deputy Louis Beal, who in
vestigated the accident, said it hap
pened near the Strickland boy's
home on the Nashville-Castalia high
way about 6:30 o'clock last night.
The boy was standing by the
highway talking to someone and then
started across the road as a truck
with a 24 foot lumber trailer was
approaching. The truck was driv
en by Killebrew, employe of Car
olina Building Supply Company
here.
As the truck blew its horn the boy
stopped in tho middle of the road,
Deputy Beal said, and then as the
truck swerved to miss him the boy
ran forward.
The truck hit the boy, •he said,
and threw him 15 feet. Immediately
stopping, the truck came to rest
with one wheel on the boy's leg, De
puty Beal said.
The accident was unavoidable as to
the driver, officers believed, and no
charges were brought.
BOOK TRUCK
WILL MAKE
TOUR SOON
North Crrollna Library Commission
Sponsors Traveling Library De
monstration
RafcUtaflts .of Nash County will
get a good peek into the glass en
closed North Carolina library com
mission's book truck, when Miss
Marjorie Beal, secretary and direc
tor, drives it through this vicin
ity March, 29, 30, and 31.
The book truck, which plays the
moßt important role in the cam
paign for wider reading facilities
being carried on by the library as
sociation, is making this scheduled
tour of the state to demonstrate how
easily the limited reading material
problem can be solved by the coun
ties. Officials of the association have
stated they believe the book truck
is the answer to that problem.
Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon, Nash co
unty home demonstration agent, and
! Mrs. Nell G. Battle, librarian of the
Braswell Memorial library, have
been invited to accompany Miss
Beal on the Nash county demonstra
tion trip.
L. 8. InßCoe, county superintend
ent of Nash county schools, Mrs.
Gordon and Mrs. Battle were ap
pointed a committee to work out an
itinerary of stops and hours for the
three-day trip. This is being done
and will be published in all Nash
county papers so that every citizen
of the county may be at one of the
stops at the time stated to see the
Library on wheels and book truck
service demonstrated.
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Wiley H. Pittman
Victim Heart Attack
Funeral lleld For Director of Divi
sion of Purchase And Contract
Wiley H. Pittman, 53, director of
the State Division of Purchase and
Contract, died at his home after
a sudden heart attack.
Former superintendent of schools
in Edgecombe County, Mr. Pitt
man succeeded A. S. Brower as di
rector of the Division of Purchase
and Contract in January, advancing
from assistant director. Ho had
been connected with the State gov
ernment since 1916.
Appearing in perfect health be
fore the attack, Mr. Pittman at
tended his regular duties last week
and had planned to go to church
last night.
Funeral services were conducted at
Pullen Memorial Baptist church
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock by
the pastor, the Rev. Dr. E. M. Po
tent.
Surviving are his wife, two daugh
ters, Miss Mary Dudley Pittman
and Miss Josephine Pittman, both
of Raleigh; a brother, C. W. E. Pitt
man of Raleigh; and two sisters,
Mrs. A. W. Harper and Miss Mary
R. Pittman of Whitakers.
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LEWIS TO EVADE
The Old North State is again to
feel the heel of a yankee invader.
This time it is John L. Lewis, of
sit-down strike fame, who, with his
aides hopes to organize the textile
workers of the state. It is rumored
that the first scene of attack will
be the Cannon Mills, at Kannapolis,
long recognized as one of the most
liboral textile mills in tho state to
its employees. Seems as though a
I North Carolinian could do a better
I job of organizing Tar Heels.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937
WHITAKERS
MAN KILLED
IN ACCIDENT
Otis I'arks Killed. When Car Crash
es Into Trailer Behind Parked
Park
Otis Parks, 30, of Whitakers was
killed almost instantly on the Bat
tleboro highway near here when the
car in which he was riding crash
ed into the rear of a trailer behind
a parked truck.
Joe Stallings, 38, of Whitakers,
driver of the car in which Parks
was riding, and C. U. Ramsey of
Kocky Mount, driver of the truck,
were formally charged with man
slaughter and placed under SSOO
bond each after local police and M.
C. Gulley, Nash County coroner, had
investigated th e fatal crash.
Police reported their investigation
showed that Ramsey had parked the
truck, which was owned by S. T.
Jones of near this city, near the
edge of the highway, but that a
trailer attached to the truck appear
ed to extend over the pavement.
When the Stallings car hit the
trailer, officers said, several boards
were ripped off the trailer and were
hurled through the windshield orf the
approaching car, striking Parks.
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Jewish Fraternity
Holds Annual Meet
Goldsboro, March 15. —An address
by Rabbi Bernard Seiger of Chapel
Hill featured today's sessions of the
61st annual convention of district
grand lodge number 5 of B'..ai
B'rith, Jewish fraternity, which op
ened here yesterday.
Delegates from Virginia, Maryland
District of Columbia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia and East
Florida are attending.
Election of officers and selection
of the convention city last today were
the remaining principal items of
business to be transacted before ad
journment.
Representatives from Charleston,
S. C., extended an invitation to meet
there next year.
Rabbi Zeigler is head of the Hil
lel Foundation work among Jewish
students at the University of North
Carolina, Duke University and Wo
man's College of the University of
Sortli Carolina, which started tliis
under a B'Nai B'Rith foundation.
Richard E. Gustadt of Chicago, na
tional director of the anti-defama
tion society, said in an address at
the opening last night that Germany
is pouring large sums of money in
to America, Mexico and Canada
for anti-Semitic propaganda but
declared efforts to ban such propa
ganda by law are unwise and in di
rect contradiction of rights of free
expression for which Jews have al
ways stood.
DRIVERS PAY
COURTCOSTS
Driving Violations Constitute Short
Docket
Four submissions to driving vio
lations were the docket in a brief
session of police court here.
Lemon Wilson submitted to $lO
fine for driving with improper brakes
and agreed not to drive in the city
for 30 days and to have the brakes
repaired.
Thurston Smith, E. H. Lewis and
C. W. Bradshaw each paid $1 cost
for leaving cars parked on paved
streets in the city from Ito 5
o'clock A. M.
Robert Bulluck, charged with
speeding, failed to appear in court
this morning, later today was re
apprehended and gave $lO bond for
appearance in court tomorrow.
No court will be held the Monday
following Easter, March 29, it has
been announced.
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Bradley Funeral
Conducted Here
Prominent Edgecombe County Man
Laid To Rest In Pinevlew Cemetery
Funeral services for George W.
Bradlej'j 50, were held from his
home on the Tarboro highway with
Elder A. B. Denson, Primitive Bap
tist minister, officiating. Interment
followed in Pineview cemetery.
Mr. Bradley died at home follow
ing an extended illness.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mar
tha Griffin Bradley; three sons,
George, Jr., James, and Russoll
Bradley; two brothers, Frank
Bradley and Lawrence Bradley, both
of this city, and two sisters, Mrs.
Leslie Calhoun and Miss Beulah
Bradley, also of this city.
Active pallbearers at the services
were R. C. Brown, W. W. Bulluck,
J. S. Hinton, H. L. Redmond, W. B.
Bradley, and W. H. Lanier.
Honorary pallbearers included Les
lie Calhoun, J. G. Feezor, R. B. Den
son, Dr. A. T. Thorp. W. M. Daugh
tridgo, P. C. Vestal, A. L. Dozier, W.
K. Kill&brew, J. B. Brake, J. Luther
Brake, J. A. Brake, A. F. Brake,
R. R. Brake, R. E. Cilrrin, J P.
Young, J. D. Robbins, J. S. Gor
ham, J. H. Pollard, W. W. Mears,
M. F. Jones, W. G. Weeks, Willis
Proctor, J, C. Daughtridge, 8. Rob
bins, A. T. Griffin, Dr. I. P. Battle,
J. P. Bunn, W. 8. Wilkinson, and.
iJ. L, Duprec.
Bust of Will Rogers in Ice
vy Jv. V
Carved out of solid ice at Hibbing (Minn.), is this bust of Will Rog
ers, humorist, who died 18 months ago in a plane crash in Alaska. The
bust is believed to be the largest ice statuary in the United States, being
22 feet high and weighing 100 tons. Under a floodlight, the bust appears
as if made of white marble.
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Rocky Mount Is Air-Minded
We do not know whether the $7500 expert has arrived in
the city, but we do see that four stools have been put up at
the main crossings at the railroad which is evidence that
the work has been begun; especially that part of estimating
how much economic loss there is to the citizens of Rocky
Mount occasioned by the waiting for trains. We wonder
just how they are going to be able to figure it. Many of our
people say their time has not been worth much and that the
waiting had given them a rest and a time for reflection and
under the rules of preceedings, the law re
quires you to figure the benefits as well as damages. Now,
we do not know if these experts who are keeping account
of the number of cars and the loss of time will figure whether
we are losing or winning by the stopping. It is generally
believed that more time is lost by waiting for red lights
than is lost by waiting for the train but no one would say
that we are not benefitted at times by waiting for red lights
instead of running through them. These are all very com
plicated matters which the expert who is being paid $7500
for ninety days may be able to solve and give some light.
The public does not seem to desire this light, but it may help
the Board of Aldermen arrive at a conclusion. The Board
of Aldermen spent $160,000 for an airport which shows that
Rocky Mount is air-minded at least to the amount of spend
ing large amounts of money.
WHY ARE LAWYERS OPPOSED
We have been asked recently why are the lawyers opposed
to the enlargement of the Supreme Court, advocated by
our President of the United States. We do not believe that
a majority of the lawyers of the country are opposed to
it. There is a tendency to use the names of two or three
so-called prominent lawyers in a community as being one
way or the other. Then going out and saying that all of
the attorneys are that certain way when those few have
been heard from.
We do not undertake to say that any lawyer does not act
and think on his own responsibility, but we generally find
that where a lawyer holds very large retainers and receives
very large fees from certain clients that their viewpoint
is with that of the client's or either the clients is with
his lawyer. This may give the explanation as to why many
of our prominent lawyers of the country who represent
the great special interest of the country feel that the Su
preme Court should not be enlarged; for it is easier to
have nine judges than perhaps fifteen when they know
what the nine are doing and would not know what the
six additional ones were considering,
* A REMEDY NEEDED
The unprecedented number of violent deaths in and
near Rocky Mount in the last two months calls for seri
ous consideration and immediate action from those in au
thority and entrusted with our welfare and from the pub
lic as a whole. The number killed and wounded by the
automobile and other violent means has been so large that
if this had taken place in London, the English Parliament
would at once have called forth an investigation to the end
that relief might be had. We dare say that more violent
deaths have taken place in this small area in the last two
hionths than took place in the whole of the city of London.
There is a cause for it and there must be a plan that could
give relief.
We have always felt in North Carolina that most of our
safety laws and devices have been too closely allied and
entwined with the Department of Revenue and the officer
entrusted with the safety of our lives has felt very large
ly that when he had collected a generous amount of taxes,
that he had discharged his whole duty to society. We have
no criticism of the officer. The criticism is aimed at the
duties of collecting revenue being pushed on our safety
officers where it should never be. How long will this con
tinue before something is done? The figures are horrify
ing. What is true of this locality, is prevalent through
out North Carolina.
AFTER 194 YEARS ASSEMBLY
AGAIN MEETS IN EDENTON
PROTEST MADE
AGAINST HOUR
EXTENSION ABC
Declares "Liberal Tendency" Should
Not («o Unchallenged
Registering a vigorous protest
against the extension of open hours
by the ABC authority Kev. R.
Dwight Ware at the B'irst Methodist
church Sunday night called upon
the authority to rescind its recent
action and return to the shorter
business hours. "I am willing," ho
said "that this liberal tendency in
the direction of encouraging intem
perance should go unchallenged.''
The minister was discussing the
recent ruling of the ABC authority
by which, beginning March 6, the
hours of business were lengthened
by two hours, so that the closing
hours for the operation of the
stores becomes eight o'clock daily
instead of six o'clock as previous
ly.
''The argument that the open
hours had to be extended in order
to compete with the ever active
bootlegger is entirely fatuous," Mr.
Ware continued, "because in the
first place the originators of the
whole plan contended that tho es
tablishment of the stores would do
away with bootlegging, and because
further, since this is not the case,
the logic of tho situation would call
for tho operation of the stores on a
24-hour schedule for every day in
cluding Sunday,—a practice that
public opinion would never begin
to tolerate."
The Methodist minister went on
to say that all who gave consci
entious thought to tho situation
could not escape the feeling that tho
extension is expired by a lust for
profit and taxes. "Coming as it
does, it is quite apparent that the
principal of legalized sale has de
generated from a program of tem
perance, control and supervision to
one where the drive for monetary
gain is uppermost."
"Kven where there may be respect
for the ABC system in theory," he
said, "the recent action extending
the open hours brings the whole
project under suspicion and opens
the iutegrity of the program to
very serious question."
TiMESBETTER
SAYS REVENUE
COMM. RITNER
"Times are better," observed De
puty Commissioner 11. Bart Ritner
of the state revenue office here to
day after a busy day with income
tax returns yesterday.
"We were twice as busy as last
year," Mr. Ritner remarked, and
j said that about twice as many per
' sons as last year filed returns.
Many people who had not filed re
turns for several years filed them
this year, he said.
Since the office was still busy to
day clearing away yesterday's de
luge of blanks, no figures were yet
available for Rocky Mount income
tax returns.
Though most folks finished making
out their returns yesterday, a few
stragglers came in this morning. And
Mr. Ritner added, "We expect a
few this afternoon." •
Edgecombe Farmer
Buried Near Tarboro
Funeral services for A. J. John
son, well known Edgecombe coun
ty farmer were conducted from his
home near Elm City with the Rev,
Mr. Smith of Elm City officiating.
Interment followed in Greenwood
cemetery at Tarboro.
Mr. Johnson died Saturday at the
age of 70 at h's home on the old
Dr. Mercer t'a-m, soven miles
,from hero. He had been ill twQ
weeks w H!i pneumonia.
Surviving are his widow, who be
fore tiittrrifsgo was Misa Mary
Frances Hardy of Mt, Tabor j four
daughters, Mrs. P. E. Busche, of
Washington, D. C., Mrs. C. h. Bot
toms of Norfolk, Mrs. J. E. Hart
of Norfolk and Mrs. C. W. T. Wom
ble of Elm City; five eons, J. T.
Johnson of New Orleans, W. E.
Johnson of Norfolk, J. C. Johnson
of Tarboro, A. C. Johnson of Pine
tops and G. D. Johnson of Rocky
Mount; three brothers, all living in
South Carolina, and fifteen grand
children.
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SI.OO PER YEAM
I The North Carolina General As
sembly moved Tuesday en masse on
Edenton via the Norfolk Southern
Railroad, and held tile first meet
ing of the legislature in th 0 historic
Chowan county court house for the
first time in 194 years. The last
time it was held in the year 1743,
when Samuel Swann of Onslow coun
ty was the speaker of the House
and Gabriel Johnson was the Gov
ernor.
Beginning in 1925, the Legislature)
alternated between Edenton and
New Bern. The first several ses
sions were held in Edenton und
then went to New Bern until the
last session was held in Rdenton in
1743.
Representative White of Chowan
was very instrumental in getting
the legislators to sojourn in the
very old town of Edenton for the
dav and the Norfolk Southern in
trigued the legislators by their low
puilman price and their air condi
tioned car—the price for the round
trip being $2:50 for the legislators
and $1.25 for the clerical staff. The
Railroad also provided a special ob
servation car for the Governor and
his Council of State.
Arriving in Edenton at noon ,the
Assembly went into immediate ses
sions and after holding these brief
sessions they went into a joint
session. After completing their
business a buffet luncheon was serv
ed. Following the luncheon the leg
islators were taken on a sight sew
ing trip to see all the historic sights
connected with the historic town.
Following the tour the members
were taken on a yachting trip on
Albemarle Sound. After the boat
ride, the Assembly boarded their
special train and headed for Ra
leigh, arriving there midnight.
EDWARD SAID
TO BE GOING
TO FRANCE
London, March 15. —An Easter
meeting in France with Mrs. Walli#
\Viirfieid Simpson is being planned
by the Duke of Windsor, trustwor
thy Austrian advices reaching Lon
don said today.
The former British monarch, it
was said, still is planning to wed
the woman for whom he gave up his
throne on about April 27 or May 1,
(Mrs. Simpson's divorce decree from
Ernest Aldrieh Simpson may become
final April 27.)
The informant said the Duke's
trip to France probably would be
announced from his Enzfeld, Aus
tria retreat as a "three or four day
Eastern excursion."
Windsor was reported planning to
start the trip next week, with the
reunion to be held in or near Par
is.
At Monts, France, Herman L.
Rogers, spokesman for Mrs. Simp
son, declared she knew nothing of
the reported reunion plans.
"Summer D. Parker of Baltimore,
Md. asserted today at Cherbourg,
Franco, that he is negotiating with
the Duke of Windsor for sale to
him of a Brooklandville, Md., es
tate. He indicated the sale was al
most completed).
It was reported the former king
is planning the late April or May
marriage after being persuaded by
his brother, the Duke of Kent, that
a change merely would arouse addi
tional publicity.
The Austrian period for publica
tion banns is expected to bo short
ened considerably for the Duke.
Meanwhile, reliable reports said,
he has withheld arrangements for a
residence for himself and his pros
pective bride until after he has dis
cussed the subject with Mrs. Simp
son.
Girl Found By Road
Said To Be Native
Point Pleasant, W. Va., March 17,
—Night Police Chief Orover Hite
said today a well-dressed young wo
man of about 20 years, found ly
ing beside tha Charleston-Point
i'ii>asant road, liad been identified
as Mary Hughes of Rocky Mount,
North Carolina.
Hite added she still was unable
to identify herself, and said she
had been remembered as a girl who
came to Point Pleasant after the
February flood, looking for a job.
Road commission workers found
her beside the road about six miles
from here.
When notified of the girl's being
identified as a fiical resident, police
here were unable to find anyone,
who knew her or any record that
[Sh O had lived in the city.