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The Rocky Mount VOLUME 4, NO. 25 foxhall Is Named As Director Of Association Warehouse Association Favors Eastern Markets Opening Earlier f Haywood P. Foxhall, prominent local warehouseman and former presi dent of the East Carolina Tobacco Warehouse Association, was named to the board of directors of the asso ciation at the annual meeting of 100 members of the association at the Greenville country club, an Associa ted Press dispatch announced. W. E. Fenner, also a well known warehouseman here and a representa >i tire to the state legislature, was a member of the nominating commit tee which suggested new officers for the association. . Presented by Mr. Foxhall, Presi dent J. B. Winslow of the state Farm Federation outlined the pro posed 1937 AAA program. The association favored the pro posed new AAA and voted to peti tion the United States Tobacco As sociation to have eastern tobacco [ markets open this year at the same time as tike border belt markets. E. V." Webb of Kinston was elect ed president of the association to suc ceed B. B. Sugg of Greenville. J. Con lanier, former tobacco ex pert with the old AAA, discussed control problems affecting tobacco growers. p -r, J. J. Gibbins of Wilson was made vice president. Tie board of direc tors included: W. Z. Morton, Green i ville; H. T. Laws, Kinston; W. H. Adkins, Bobersonville; EL P. Fox hall, Bocky Mount; J. C. Eagles Jr., Wilson; W. L. House, Tarboro; Holt Brans, Smithfleld; Garland Hodges, Washington ,and J. Y. Monk Farmville. RULES GIVEN FOR OLD AGE ASSISTANCE Hundreds Of Inquiries Made R Igardlng Old Age Assistance And Child Aid During the past few days the Ed-j ■ gecombe county welfare department R has had several hundred inquiries j - with regard to old age. assistance and aid to dependent children, officials stated today as the procedure for obtaining this aid was outlined. In Edgecombe county, it has been estimated that 373 citizens 65 years of age and over will be eligible for. Old Age Assistance and 531 chil dren, under age of 16, will be eli gible for aid to dependent children. Old Age assistance will be paid from federal, state, and county, funds as follows: one-half from fed eral, one-fourth from state and onc * fourth from county. In accordance with funds available, the average monthly grant for old age assist ance in this state will be $12.20. i Aid to dependent children will be paid from federal, state and coun ty funds as follows; one-third from federal, one-third from State, and one-third from county. In accord ance with funds available, the aver age monthly grant per child for North Carolina will be $5,65. Each applicant for old age assist ance will be required to make appli cation in person at the county fel fare department. In exceptional cas es (stich as illness), upon request of applicant, a case worker will re ceive application in applicant's home. No application blanks will be % issued. The applicant will be assist ed by a case worker in making appli cation. Parent or responsible rela tive will be required to ihake appli cation in person for aid to depend ent children. Out of the above mentioned 373 needy aged, there are approximately 100 on the already estimated pauper list, and out of the 331 children above mentioned, there are approxi mately 125 children receiving aid from public funds. k In commenting upon the work and in asking the cooperation of the pub lic, Mrs. Mary E. Forbes, superin tendent of public welfare in Edge combe county, makes the following observation: "In view of the fact that the law requires a thorough investigation of each case, ito will necessitate much time ajid work by employees of wel fare department. We trust that the public will understand this and will not crowd into the welfare depart-, ment on the first day of July. It | , is our desire to give as good ser vice as possible. However, we feel tlmi attention of the welfare depart ment should first be given to those people on the already established pauper liatt. We are, therefore, ask ing the people who are not already on the county pauper list to make application during the last week of | ► July or first of August.'' OPPOSES COURT REFORM An adverse report by the Senate' Judiciary committee this week has| cleared the decks for a bitter fight in the senate on the president's court proposal. Bitter opponents of the bill state they ar* ready to, "filibuster to the end of time," to prevent its passage. Administration forces ar 6 undecided when to call it up for debate. The spring hay crop of Rocking ham County, especially the barley crimson clover, oat and vetch mix tures -have yielded tremendous poundage of high grade hay, re ports the farm agent. ! TOBACCONISTS WANT OPENING DATE EARLIER The Eastern Carolina Warehouse Association at its annual meeting in Wilson Tuesday endorsed the 1937 AAA crop control plan, and went on record unanimously* as ask ing that Eastern Belt markets be opened with those of the border and South Carolina belts. The MSociation will make repre sentations to the national associa tion that Axes the opening dates loses much poundage because of a tending to show That the eastern belt delayed opening. In case they are nnable to secure identical dates with the border markets, the association will work for dates at the morft. on ly one week later than the border opening. BAP. VACATION SCH. STARTS Mr*. J. H. Stoke* la Principal For Two Weak* Simmer Training Classes of the First Baptist vaca tion Bible School, of which Mrs. J. H. Stoke* is principal, began Monday morning and will continue for two w«eks from 9 to 12 o'clock. Mrs. W. D. Joyncr is assistant principal, Mrs. F. B. P ridge n is su perintendent of beginners, with Miss Mary Batts teaching beginners and Miss Winifred Langley and Mrs. C. O. Simpson assisting. In the primary department, Mrs. 0. M. Arie is teacher; Mrs. C. N. Boone, teacher; Misses Frances An derson, Rebecca Morgan and Pansy Crowder assisting. Mrs. William Waters is superin tendent of the junior department, Mrs. Archie Mathis, Mrs. C. W. Park- 1 er and Mrs. W. W. Prim will as sist in the department. Mrs. O. W. Barrett is sueprintend ent of the intermediate depart ment. Miss Alma Louise Morchinson is teacher and assistant recreational leader. Mrs. Charlie Gibson is in charge of stories for the primary and junior departments. Miss Mary Oorham is recreational I leader in the primary and junior de partments. Mrs. Anzie Gaskili is chorister and Miss Doris Bobbins pianist. Le la Shearin and Miss Dorothy James ! ar e conducting handwork for begin- I ners and primary departments. Mrs. A. A. Shearin conducts handwork ; for junior and intermediate girls. I Handwork instruction for junior and intermediate bpys is provided by 8. L. Morgan. MRS. FLEET IS HONORED Local Woman Reappointed Worthy Grand Matron Of Society's Fourth -District Mrs. J. W. Fleet, well-known lo cal woman, has been reappointed deputy grand matron of the fourth district following a state convention at Asfceville of the Order of Vho Eastern Star. Mrs. Fleet served in that capac ity during the past year and was given another term by Mrs. Alice Culpepper of Elizabeth City who was elected worthy grand matron at the convention. The fourth district over which Mrs. Fleet will have charge includes Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, Wayne, Vance, Halifax, Northampton, Franklin, and Johnston counties. There are 12 dis tricts of the organization in Nor"h Carolina. Besides Mrs. Fleet, delegates to the convention from this city includ ed Mrs. E. C. Smith, worthy matron of the Lydia chapter here; Mrs. C. 8. Taylor, Mrs. H. H. Weathersbee, Mrs. Kelly Gay, Mrs. W. G. Home, Mrs. W. F. Hinson, Mrs. R. V. Snipes Mrs. W. R Sanders and Mrs E. E. Waters. William Herring Goes To Annapolis William Herring, son of Mr. ahd Mrs. J. T. Herring, No. 215 South Franklin Street, has been admitted to the United States Naval Academy, according to advices reaching here to day. Young Herring, a graduate of Central High School and a student at Clemaon College for the past two years, spent several days with his parents here after returning home from college. He then went to Annapolis and u message from the Naval Academy to day stated that he had been accept ed. John L. Arrington, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Arrington, Falls Road, al so is enrolled at Annapolis. o >— One North Carolina employer with several thousand employees reports to the State Unemployment Comjpen , sation Commission that his labor turnover over a period of years has not exceeded two per cent. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1937 IN WASHINGTON ■ WHAT TAKING . •? • UNITED RATES' SENATOR The degrees of Congressional interest in the labor situation, re flected in the current hearings on a proposed minimum hour and wage law, in the studies of strike devel opments, and in numerous legisla tive plans for stabilizing labor con ditions, is evidence that progress is being made in the effort to improve working conditions and strike a medium as to the respective rights of capital and labor. Already there are indications that under the drive for unionization of all workers and the plane of em ployers to meet this wider organiza tion of labor, the public generally will, through the forces of govern ment, be the arbiter of respective rights. In other words, employers and workers, must be and are pre pared to adjust their battle tactics to public sentiment. To put it still anoher way, agencies of government must be prepared to umpire labor difficulties..and see that the public interest is fully protected. This is the objective of all new legislation dealing with labor problems. It is interesting to note that the tremendous strides in labor organi zation today are under far different conditions than those of seventeen years ago, when trade union mem berships passed the five million mark. With the outbreak of the World War, political and economic conditions highly favorable to the growth of organized' labor were created. The flow of European or ders into this country and labor the heavy war purchases by our own gov ernment produced a state 6f great business activities and demand for labor. The stoppage of immigra tion and the withdrawal of man pow er for military purposes also helped ,to tighten the labor market and strengthen the bargain power of la bor. And with industrial peace essential to continued production, the Feder al Government encouraged the ex tension of trade unionism and col lective bargaining. Conditions for the present drive for th e stronger organization or la bor are, of course, entirely dif ferent from those of the war period. Instead of a shortage of labor we have a surplus and unemploy ment is wide. Personal contacts be tween employers and employees are fewer. The trend toward larger es tablish mentg employing great num bers of korkers continues. For 'a- 1 bor, this means that workers must place more dependence upon employe representatives. In a word, individu al bargaining over terms of employ ment is being replaced by mass bar gaining. Increased mechanization is a con tributing factor to maintaining fac tory output with fewer workers. Small and inefficient plants are be ing eliminated and regional shifts of factories and scientific manage ment are having great effect. Thus labor's powers of adjustment to changing conditions are even more demanded in the future than in the past. Obviously, the part o fthe gov ernment in these changes is tremen | dous. Maximum effort is necessary Ito the end that neither capital not I labor will encroach on the rights |of the public. The farmer, who is direcMy affected, must be protect -1 ed. Agriculture otocupies a domi nant place as a source of supply for i raw materials for factory and food for workers. And Congressional leaders are determined that the 1 rights of the farmer shall not be overlooked as our rural population watches the fight between the or l gunized forces of industry and the i organized forces of labor. There j are high hopes that Congress will, through desirable and equitable leg -1 islation now pending, contribute to (a solution of the problem with due i regard for the rights of all. JUDGES APPOINTED M. V. Barnhill, of Rocky Mount, and Wallace Winbourne, of Marion, were appointed to the Supreme Court of North Carolina Tuesday by Gov ernor Hoey. At the same time Ed ward C. Bivens of Mount Airy and Walter J. Bone, of Nashville were appointed to Superior Vourt vacan cies. Special Judges were appoint ed as follows: Luther Hamilton, of Morehead City, G. V. Cowper, of Kinston, Frank S. Hill, of Murphy, and Sam J. Ervin, Jr., of Morgan ton. North Carolina has 8,164 establish ments covered by the State Unem ployment Compensation Act. Of these 5,592 are single firms, while 445 employers, probably more than half of them oueside the State, ope rate 1,767 plants. Fourteen club boys who are mem bers of the 4-H club of Sladesville in Hyde -County were entertained at supper by Mrs. W. E. Noble, Jr., last week. The boys discussed their work, played games and had an en joyable evening. Let the People Decide The best way to have the railroad question settled and the cheapest, is to let the people themselves decide the question. We have just had a Mayor's election in which the railroad was one of the issues. The candidate who was out-spoken in his opposition to spend this money won the election. This however, still does not appear to satisfy a cer tain group in Rocky Mount, and our suggestion is, if they de sire the question directly decided, let us have an election and let the people vote whether or not they wish a large bond is sue for the removal of the railroad. We understand from press reports in the afternoon pa per that the railroad will insist on two main line tracks and the side track remaining, , but stated they were perfectly willing for the depot to be moved to South Rocky Mount, provided the city pay the expense of SIBO,OOO and take off all speed limits for trains and to do away with the crossing by the express office. That, if all this was done, they would be contented. And, why should not they be satisfied? We do not blame the railroad for wanting their side track to be continued. We have no quarrel with the railroad, for they have stated their position. The question that concerns us, is why does Rocky Mount want to bond itself to do something that will hurt it rather than help Rocky Mount. The people of Rocky Mount want a depot in Rocky Mount. They do not object to a depot in South Rocky Mount, but are going to insist on one being close by. A. group of people some years back wanted to sell Rocky Mount's Electric Light Plant and gave every aid and com fort to the Virginia Electric and Power Company in their efforts to purchase the plant. However, this day, we doubt if they would admit they were wrong. OLD AGE PENSIONS On July Ist, the Old Age Pension law and aid to depend ent children will go into effect. Under the law the Feder al Government will pay one-half of the amount put up by the state up to $30.00 per month. In North Carolina, the state has only assumed one-fourth, and the other one fourth is placed upon the various counties, leaving it large ly to the counties to say just what amount each depend ent shall receive. We trust that in the administration of this law it will be dispensed so that all worthy old people who have reached the age of 65 shall receive sufficient sum from this anfrunt to make them comfortable and pro vide for their necessities. It should not be the object of those administering the law to attempt to find technical ities in order to reduce the number on the roll; but it should be administered in justice, equity and in the spirit in which it was conceived and brought forth from the mind of our great President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It has been suggested that the average monthly grant for old age assistance in this state will be $20.20. We do not know how they arrived at this figure, but this amount seems to us very small compared to the $15.00 that the Federal Government proposes te-payi We believe that instead of this law being an economic drain upon the public, that it will be an economic benefit. It will keep our. old people, who have become unable to work, still consumers and taxpayers; and out. of this $20.- 20 per month these old age dependents and orphans will pay their three per cent which will round out about forty cents per month. This is not true in all the state, since North Carolina has the largest sales tax of any state in the Union, regardless of our boasting of North Carolina's great wealth and resources. It does seem in the exemptions that the last Legislature might have exempted these old folks from paying this tax, along with fat-back, self-ris ing flour and meal. Elsewhere in the columns of this, paper, j we have a statement from the Welfare Office of Edgecombe County giving instructions as to how to proceed in order to qualify under this law. EDGECOMBE SEEKING T. B. PREVENTION Former County Home Would Be Used Medical Society Approves Proposals to convert the former Edgecombe county home into a tu berculosis preventorium, endorsed by the Edgecombe-Nash medical so ciety at its regular monthly meet ing in Tarboro Wednesday night, are expected to be laid before the Edgecombe county commissioners at an early date. The tuberculosis preventorium, fa vored as a valuable addition to the county's public health facilities by the expressed opinions of many doc tors has been proposed since a new county home is being constructed in Edgecombe. Questions of policy and other bus iness matter# were discussed by the medical society at its meeting. STABLES ARE DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING Fire Near Fair Grounds Causes About $1,500 Damage During Storm Stables and a feedhouae near the fairgrounds at the edge of the city owned by Dr. M. L. Stone, were burn d several days ago. Lightning appar ently caused the Are, which * started about 10 o'clock. All the feed and grain in the feed house was burned and one mule was injured by the fire, causing total damage estimated by the owner at $1,200 to $1,500. Since the building* were far from an v water supply, no fire alarm was I turned in. Besides the stables and feedhouse, which were completely destroyed, another small . building, caught fire but was saved. MANAGER OF STORE IS HELD GUILTY Enfleldi Man Held Gnilty On Three Labor Law Violation Counts ■I Halifax, June 15. J. A. Horna day manager of the Rose's five-ten -1 and twenty-five-cent store in Enfield, was convicted in Halifax County Court today of three charges of vio , lation of State labor laws. 1 j Judge Charles Daniel reserved his sentence in the case, informing at ! torneys he desired an opportunity to study the evidence, i Hornaday was convicted of viola \ tion of the maximum-hour law »for women and on two counts of vio lation of child labor laws. He was i charged in one warrant with work ing women more than 55 hours a week, more than 10 hours a day, : and more than six hours at a stretch. j In one child labor warrant, he was charged with working a 15-year old girl more than eight hours a j day, after 7 o'clock at night, and i without a work certificate. In ano . tier he was charged with working a | 15-year-old girl after 7 o'clock at | night and without a work certificate. The maximum penalty in each : case is a SIOO fine or 60 days im prisonment. , C. P. & L. LOWEST Reductions in household rates within the past months have made the rates of the Carolina Power & Light Co. the lowest in the state reports Corporation Commissioner is 3.4 cents per kilowatt hour, while Winborne. The Carolina average rate the state average is 4.22 cento. BIG DAM ONLY 231 LEFT Only 234 of the thousands of Con federate soldiers in the state remain to receive pensions. Cheeks for $182.50 were mailed to each of these this week. Low yields and poor prices are reported by growers of Irish pota toes and snap beans in Carteret Countv. Barnhill Is Eleva Supreme SEN. BAILEY ATTACKS DEM. HANDBOOK Will Back Snell In Investigation; Praises Adverse Suprem e Court Report Washington, June 14. —Senator Jo siah W. Bailey today joined Repre sentative Bertrand Snell, Republican floor leader of the House, in at tacking the Democratic National Committee for its issuance of a con vention souvenir book last year which brought into the party treas urer around $150,000. The book was filled with adver tisements of large corporations, aome of which Bailey said sell their products to the government, and carried an autograph of President Roosevelt. Representative Snell last week at tacked the Democratic committee for publishing the book and said it was done to hide campaign contri butions. "The issuance of this book is just as plain a violation of the law as men who incorporate yachts to es cape income taxes," the senior North Carolina Senator said. Snell will this week introduce a resolution for an investigation of the manner in which the Democrat ic committee secured advertisements for the convention book and Bai ley stated Today he would support such a probe. He feels that the com mittee has clearly violated the cor rupt practices act. Senator Bailey today highly com mended the report of the judiciary committee attacking he President's court reform legislation. "It Is a great and immemorial report! and I hope every American will read it," he stated. Bailey said he would be glad to send copies of it to his constituents as long as the supply lasted. Senator Bailey staged that he will take part, in the debate on the re lief bill which the Senate will take up tomorrow. The North Carolinian favors the Byrnes amendment pro viding that local sponsors of WIPA projects must put up 40 per cent of of the cost unless they can show it is financially impossible for them to do so. "My only objection is that the Byrnes amendment does not go far enough," Bailey said. Early in the session he proposed that all WPA funds would be cut off to cities, counties and States unless they took what is referred to as the "pauper's oath." Bailey also favors cutting the re lief appropriation from one and one half billion to a billion dolors. "If no one else offers such an amendment, I will myself," he de clared. Senator Robert R. Reynolds today stated he is inclined to follow the administration, voting both against the Byrnes 40 per cent amendmen. and any amendment to reduce the $1,500,000,000 appropriation carried in the bill. LOCAL GIRL IS INJURED Miss Elina Bobbins, 18, is reeov [ ering in a local hospital from the effects of a slight brain concus sion and bruises received when a car struck her on Sunset Avenue Tuesday night. A hospital doctor described her . condition this afternoon as "good." [ Mrs. J. C. Stewart of this city was driver of the car in from of which, I police said, Miss Robbins stepped. , Police stated from their investiga- I tion that the accident was unavoid able. I Mrs. Stewart drove the injured girl I to a hospital. Miss Robbins was standing in the street i by a parked car talking to the oqcupanHs, police reported, as two cars were approaching from op posite directions. Watching one of the cars, Miss Robbins stepped in front of the other and was hit. MANY GREET FIRST LADY More than five thousand people at tended the Strawberry Festival at Wallace lafft Saturday and greeted Mr«. Franklin D. Roosevelt on her appearance and talk there. o— —— _ Growers of cotton in eastern Caro lina report that seed treated with the Ceresean dust is up to a beVter at4nd and shows less disease than un treated seed. NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and 1 address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, i N. C. ) ! Name Town State Route No | i - SI.OO PER YEAH McMichael Named Solicitor In 21st; Cherry For Party Chairmanship The Governor has appointed eight judges and a solicitor. They were: Supreme Court Justices M. V. Barn hill of Rocky Mount and J. Wal lace Winborne of Marion. Regular Superior Court Judges Ed ward C. Bivins of Mount Airy and Walter J. Bone of Nashville. Special Superior Court Judges Luther Hamilton of Morehead City, G. V. Cowper of Kinston, Frank 8. Hill of Murphy and Sam J. Ervin, Jr., of Morganton. Superior Court Solicitor Erl« Mi- Michael of Winston-Salem. All appointments are effective Ju ly I—the special judges for terms of two years; the regular judges until January 1939. The long-awaited appointments of Barnhill and Winborne answered the question of who would get the two extra bench positions made by the popular mandate that the Suprem* Court be increased from five to sev en; and at the same time opened two new vacancies. Governor Hoev temporarily ans wered the question of who would succeed Barnhill by naming Walter Bone of Nashville, law partner of Congressman Harold D. Cooley, to fill the term which expired in Decem ber 1938. The coincident announce ment that Itimous T. Valentine, Bone's fellow townsman and Cooley'a campaign manager, would seek the nomination next June left the ques tion answered temporarily only. LOCAL NEGRO HELPED SAVE UNIVERSITY i Rocky Mount, June 16.—One of th« jast of North Carolina's Negro Leg islators, elected to the General As sembly during the period beginning with Carpet Bag control following the Civil War and ending at the turn of the century with the Democratic party's return to power, died here today. Dred Wimberly, aged slave-born Negro, served three terms in the General Assembly during a 10-year period beginning in 1879, but he always admitted he was not quali fied to serve as a lawnmaker, but had "got in when nobody was look ing.' " However, he qualified as a "lib eral" when he reached the peak point, in his own estimation, of his career in casting the vote which kept open the reopened University of Nor h Carolina following the Civ il War. Wimberly was just 88 years old when he died. Funeral services will be held tomorrow. Twice married, he was the father of 18 children, only four of whom are still living. Wimberly was first elected to the Legislature in 1879 as a member of th e House of Representatives. Eight years la' er, he was returned to the House and in 1889 he was elected a member of the Senate. Wimberly, known and respected throughout Rocky Mount and the vicinity, was prouder of his vote to save the University than of any thing in his career and it became his favorite story. During his first Legislature. Dr. Kemp Plummer Bat tle, then president of the Univer sity, sought a $15,000 appropriation to keep the institution alive. The fight was heated in both Houses of the Assembly, but espe cially so in the House. When the roll wag called there, the count was i even for and against 'the appropria tion when Wimberley's name, last on the roll call, was reached. He voted "aye" and the appropriation carried. ' Following his retirement from, the Senate in 1889, Wimberly remained active in Republican party affairs in the Rocky Mount area until this century. In 1900, he was a North i Carolina delegate to the Republican convention in Philadelphia and cast his vote for Theodore Roosevelt. This was the second high spot in his own estimation of his political career. Following the election of Roose velt, Wimberly returned to Wash ington and served as janitor of the House of Representatives for two years. CURRITUCK DRY Currituck County made the Wet- Dry count since the the new coun ty law went into effect five to four in favor of the drys. Situated in the traditionally wet East, Curri tuck's defecation is reported to have some concern in the rank* of those favoring control stores. The count in Currituck was 569 dry to 437 wet on unofficial returns.