The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 4, NO. 49
CONVICT WARD
OF RAPE ATT.
Kirk Morris Submits In Murder Case,
Gets 28 to 30 Years In Nash
County Court
Judge Clawson L. Williams was ex
pected to pass sontence this after
noon on Luther Ward, Stoney Creok
white man charged with seizing Mrs.
Hattio Hollingsworth on her front
porch in Willifordtown and attempt
ing rape th© night of October 1, in
Nashville superior court.
The jury pronounced Ward guil
ty at 1:30 o'clock.
Ward, 44 years of age, was bound
over from here after a hearing be
fore Magistrate W. 8. Swain. Ho
was trailed and captured by Nash
Deputy J. R. Tanner after Mrs. Hol
lingsworth reported being seized by
a man who fled when she screamed.
Tanner stated that Ward is sus
pected of former night prowling of-;
fenses in the Willifordtown section.
Kirk Morris, Hunter's Hill Negro
eharged with shooting and killing his
neighbor, was submitted by hi* at
torney on a second degree murder
eount and received 28 to '0 year*
today.
Wash Alston, Nash county Negro
charged with the hit-run death of
Jim Bemus, Negro near Gold Bock
in Scptomber, was sentenced to a
term of from 18 months to three
years. ♦
James Battle, Negro accused by a
local Negro woman, Edna Muxphey,
of snatching her pocketbook after
making love to her, received five to
seven years.
Lonnil Parker, Negro charged with
stealing a car, received two 'A three
years.
Joe Parker and Jasper Gilmore
were sentenced to 18 months to three
year terms for housebreaking and
larceny.
Paul Doughtie of socky Mount
was found not guilty of a charge
of larceny from the person.
Jumee Jenkins was found not guil
ty of receiving stolen goods.
Although a true bill has been re
turned by the grand jury, Hubert
Cherry, Nash county farm Negro,
had not been tried at noon today in
a first degree burglary case. Ho was
charged with breaking into the house
of Avent Davis near Sandy Cross at
night, and after entering the bed
room where two of Davis' daughters
1 slept seizing one of the girls.
Wilson Plans
Big Christmas
Cele'* ration
pleted last night for tho monster
Christmas celebration that will be
held here Friday night, with a cho
rus of .several hundred voices includ
ed in the affair it bids to be one
of the largest affairs of its kind
that has even been held in Eastern
Carolina,
At 7 o'clock the school children of
the town will gather at the First
Methodist church here and at 7:30
they will form a parade and go
■through town singing Christmas,
jcarols. The parade will end at tho
'front of the Court house here.
At the court house the Glee Club
of Atlantic Christian College and tho
school children together with the
collego band and the band of the
Charles L Coon High School will
play and sing carols.
Santa Claus will be introduced to
the crowd during the services by
Mayor Charles B. McLean and San
will unveil the gigantic star and
'scene of the Threo Wise Men that
will adorn the front of the court
house this Yuletide Season. The
.star will contain some 400 electric
lights itself while Santa, while un
coiling and turning on th e star, will
also turn on the 'some 5,000 electric
lights that will decorate tho business
section of the town this Christmas.
ret Hearing
For Hose Plant
Greensboro, Nov. 27. —Charges of
intimidation and coercion of work
prs because of their union affiliation
[vill be aired against Mock, Judson,
\ r oehringer, Inc., makers of full
fashioned hosiery, in a National La
>or Board hearing here in the Guil
ford courthouse on Monday, Decem
ber 6. The name of tho examiner
who will hold the hearing has not
)ecn announced.
Charges wero preferred against the
Ireensboro firm, one of the largest
f its kind in the country, by
[enry L. Adams, district had of the
inerica Federation of Hosiery!
vbrkers. Adams and assistants have
icen engaged in organization work
■mong the 1,500 employes of the eon
em for a year or more. Bargaining
fforts have been nullified through
be compan'y consistent contention
hat no majority of the workers is
cpreßented by the union.
The Mock, Judson, Voehringer
ompany will shortly start construe
ion of a new mill in Siler City, one
) employ 200 or more people and to
spresent $200,000 or more in mach
lory and equipment.
More Duplin County farmers have
lanted winter cover crops thia fall
Vin in any previous season.
IN WASHINGTON
■ WHAT
IS
TAKINC
PLACE
BY
UNITED STATES'SENATOR
Editor's note —Senator Reynold's
column for this week is written at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the
Senator is being given final treat
ment for an acute ear condition af
fecting his hearing.
The cause of agriculture is now
bc-ing ably presented to the Con
gress. The arguments for and
against the proposed farm bill prom
ise to furnish new light on the con
ditions confronting the American
farmers and ways by which those
conditions may be corrected. In tho
first few days of debate, there ia evi
dence that whatever measure may bo
finally enacted will be drafted on
the basis of first-hand data.
In the course of hearings held
throughout the country, prior to the
convening of the speeial session,
farm witnesses from at least twenty
five states presented their viows!
Equally as important, these hearings
brought to many sections of the
country a now realizations that the
community storekeepers and tho
community bankers can not prosper
unless tie farmers in the outlying
areas share in our economic advan
tages. Thus the effort now under
way in Congress is more than an at
tempt td write a farm bill —it is an
attempt to bring stability to our
farm population, without which wo
cannot movo ahead as a country.
More than ever before, tho de
bate in Congress and tho letters
from my colleagues concerned with
the farm problem, reflect the
thought that the American people
a g a whole can enjoy the economic
benefits of our Democrary only in
ptoportiQn to the extent that our
farmers prosper.
Unfortunately, many of the con
ditions that retard agriculture will
not be corrected in the measure now
under consideration or any other
passed at this session. But the
foundation Is being well-laid for
giving our faimers new hope and
encouragement and at last the
knowledge that the Congress views
the problem of agriculture with un
derstanding. Too many temporary
expedients in the past have made
many of our farmers rightfully
skeptical of legislative remedies
for their disproportionate share of
our national wealth.
It is already evident that a farm
bill alone will not help the' farm
er, unless there is alqng with it
better control of marketing and dis
tribution. It is here that thj farmer
has been really hurt. It has re
sulted in the grower who nurses a
farm commodity from seed to sale,
getting far less for his commodity
than tho middleman who sells it. In
addition, it is also realized that any
permanent help for agriculture will
include a plan whereby the farmers
will not buy in a protected market
and sell in an unportected market.
This, of course, involves tariff
changes, always a highly controver
sial legislation subject.
It might also be pointed out that
farmers gonerally are getting a
better understanding of tho day by
day attempts to give them assist
ance. Tho American Farm Bureau
Federation and other farm groups,
through stato organizations, are
keeping the individual farmers and
their spokesmen advised of develop
ments. As a result, sentiment from
%aek home" reaches the! Capitol
almost daily and has an important
part in guiding the views of mem
bers desirous of protecting the best
interest of their constituents.
If I may add a personal note, it
is to say that it has been a source
of mnch regret to me that an ear
condition which required immediate
attention or the danger of serious
trouble later, has prevented me from
participating in the preliminary con
sideration of the farm bill. How
ever, I shall be on the floor within
a few days and give such humble as
sistance as I can, to tho cause of
agriculture—our most pressing na
tional problem.
Dig For Liquor In
Colored Cemetery
Investigating a report that a large
quantity of liquor had )>een buried
in the colored cemetery here, officers
over the week-end found the report
unfounded but not until they open
ed a newly-made grave. Immediate
ly upon learning their mistake, the
officers notified Coroner S. R. Biggs
who dismissed action after learning
the facts in the case.
The grave, 'that of a small child,
was in a strawbrush covered area,
and the rains had lowered the mound
even to the ground. The officers ex
plained the box was just under the
ground, leading them to give cre
odnce to the reports thev bad receiv
ed.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937
PARAGRAPHS
For But\j Folks
DESECRATE FLAG
Capturing an American-Owined
tug, the Feiting, late Tuesday, Jap
anese soldiers, according to witness
es, tore the American flag from its
place on the flagpole and threw it
into the Whangpoo River. Consul
General Clarence Gauss immediately
filed a vigorous protest to the Jap
anese government. Japanese are re
ported to be ready to return the
tug and apologize.
CUT
President Boosevelt has urged that
congress cut the customary appro-1
priation for federal aid to state
road-building programs in half.
Many Democrats have protCstod
against this proposed cut in federal
aid, while Senator Bailey, often
at variance with the president is
heartily in favor of the cut. The
president is urging retrenchment in
government expenditures looking to
a balanced budget.
SETTLEMENT
A final settlement between the
Norfolk-Southern Railroad and the
A. & N. C. Railroad was mad© by
a court decree recently. Thia clears
up the title of the state to the rail
road from Goldaboro to Morehead
City through New Bern. Both sides
made some concessions, and an am
icable settlement was finally worked
(out.
PERSISTENT CUSS
J. W. Cates of Edonton is certain
ly a persistent hunter, Wednesday,
according to a news item ia the
News and Observer, he wont after
quail and got none, Thursday ho
sought for deer and found none,
Friday he walked vainly through the
forest seeking squirrels or rabbits
and came back empty handed, but
Saturday he and a friond received
the reward of the persistent—they
killed twenty geese.
SELL TAGS
Beginning Wednesday fashion de
creed that the little oblong metal
plates displayed on each end of all
automobiles owned in the state shall
be black on gold instead of gold on
black, a s at present. The 1938 tags
wont on sale Wednesday morning,
and tags for all cars in the state
must be bought before January 1.
Mrs. N. W. Hatch Is
Hurt In Accident
Millbrook Postmistress And Two
Sons Injured When Car Leave®
Highway
Mrs. N. W. Hatch of Millbrook,
Wake County, was injured seriously
and her two sons, Representative
.William T. Hatch and A. B. Hatch
suffered painful hurts late Sunday
when their car left Highway 54 near
Graham and rolled down a 12-foot
embankment.
Mrs. Hatch, rushed to Alamance
General Hospital, Burlington suffer
ed severe cuts and bruises and it
wag feared her hip may have been
fractured. She was reported Mon
day, however, ae somewhat improv
ed. Representative Hatch and his
brother suffered cuts and bruise 3
about the face and head. A. B.
Hatch was driving. The Wake Repre
sentative Baid an approaching car
forcer the Hatch machine off the
road and that his brother lost con
trol due to the condition of the road's
shoulder.
Mrs. Hatch is postmistress at Mill
brook. Her son served in the 1937
Legislature from Wake.
James L. Cobb
Taken By Death
Tarboro.—James I. Cobb, 77, died
at his home near Pinetops Friday
night after a month's illness. Mr.
Cobb, a prominent farmer was born
and reared in this section of the
State. He spent his life in agricul
ture.
The funeral was held at his
home Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
with interment in tho family bury
ing ground nearby.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Em
ma Dunford Cobb; five daughters,
Mrs. S. R. Jenkins, Mrs. John Cher
ry, Miss Catherine Cobb, all of Pine
tops, Mrs. Clarence Spivey of Farm
ville and Mrs. A. S. Bynum of
Charlotte; two sons, George Cobb of
Louisburg and J. L. Cobb of Spar
tanburg, S. C.
Elder E. L Cobb of Wilson offi
ciated at the funeral.
ASHE TURKEYS
• The week before Thanksgiving
Ashe county farmers shipped ap
proximately 20,000 turkeys to market
centers both north and south. The
turkeys brought 19 cents a pound on
foot but the dressed fowls were high
er in price. The birds averaged 11
pounds each but the largest torn to
leave weighed 21 pounds.
Records submitted by Greene
County 4-H Club boys indicate that
one member produced 117.8 bushels
of corn on his acre, an increase of
11.7 bushels over the winning yield
last year.
Tree Cradles Menacing Nest
IVsss Austrian maehins gucnars rauted Mrds cut wt tkair aavta and
tacroad this traa into a macklaa-gua pott during rtasnt army manavrors
•aar Wanna. Tha added «ffe«tlvaness c nMtskina-fua Are feeaa an ala
▼ated pasltlea was studied during the war femee.
Time to Consult the Blueback Speller
We recall reading an editorial, a few days ago, our best
x-ecollection in the News and Observer, in which was rais
ed the question of the lack of ability of young newspaper
men to spell. There was a suggestion that the time had
arrived when the school should return to the Blue Back
Speller. It was suggested that newspaper writers, as a
class, are supposed to be amojig the best spellers and if
these could not spell then there must be something wrong
with the character of instruction. The system must be
wrong. We know that this has been a thought of many
capable educators "That Columbia University of New York
has foisted upon the nation the system of instruction, that
we are now using with the beginners which undertakes to
teach the child to read books before the 26 letter are taught."
In fact, the child is really not seriously taught his let
ters until he na's reached the third grade but is ex
pected to have read many books. This system of instruc
tion is clearly putting the cart before the horse. If the child
can not be taught 26 letters then the teaching of reading is
purely superficial and the first 2 years of instruction is
practically thrown away. The Chinese language is made
up of characters and the child mind is burdened with hav
ing to learn more than 9 thousand. Our system of learning
to read before learning 26 letters is practically foisting on
the young mind the Chinese system.
High school teachers, especially the older teachers will
admit that the child cannot spell. The children admit them
selves that they cannot spell and we heard a young man
recently out of school say the other day, that he could not
spell and that many of his teachers could not spell, but he
did not think the teacher ought to be blamed because many
of the teachers were taught the same system that was being
foisted on the pupils at this time. The Blufe Back Speller
teaches the letter, it teaches the sound of the letter, it di
vides the word into syllables, and it is impossible for a per
son to be a good speller without being able to sound the
syllables in the words. A teacher that goes to Columbia Uni
versity and takes this character of instruction at great cost,
even though she knows the system appears to be wrong, is
unwilling to admit when she returns to her school room
that her spelling training was not correct. For that reason
we believe this college has done an untold harm to our in
struction. We know in olden days the people who went to
school from 3 weeks to 3 months per year could spell as
well as the children that go to school 11 years and nine
months-to a year. We join with this editorial that it is
time to go back to the Blue Back Speller.
Noak Webster wrote the Dictionary and he wrote the
Blue Back Speller and his system was: learn the letter and
its sound and divide the word into syllables.
ROCKY MOUNT PLAYS GOOD BALL IN CHAPEL HILL
The Rocky Mount High School football team has made a
fine showing this year. They won the Eastern Carolina
Championship of the larger schools and the right to go to
Chapel Hill and contest for the state championship with
the high school of Charlotte, North Carolina, which had
won the Western Carolina Championship. The game was
well played, good football from start to finish and Rocky
Mount's team acquitted itself in fine shape all the way
through. The score being 20-7 in favor of Charlotte. Those
who witnessed the game from Rocky Mount, around 1,000,
were pleased with th e splendid playing of our team.
Charlotte had a fine team and played splendid football.
Charlotte team being somewhat heavier than ours. The
game was close and was interesting and exciting from the
beginning to the end.
113 Persons Killed
In Motor Accidents
Slaughter On The Highways Continu
es Deep its The Eagle Eye Of Ma
jor Arthur Fulk And His Under
lings
Automobile wrecks in North Caro
lina in October killed 113 persons.
The month's total brought to 887
the number of highway fatalities so
far in 1937, compared with 803 for
the same period year, the highway
safety division reports.
A total of 815 persons were injur
ed in 858 accidents last month, corn-
pared with 689 injuries in 626
wrecks in September. .
Thirty-three persons were killed in
October in automobil collisions, four
in collisions with horse-drawn ve
hicles, six with trains, six with fix
ed objects and two with bicycles.
Thirty-eight pedestrians were kill
ed and 114 injured, and there were
five fatalities among children play
ing in streets. Non-collision accidents
claimed 24 lives. Walking on the
road was blamed for 11 fatalities,
drunken driving for seven, reckless
driving for 15, speeding for 21„ hit
and-run drivers for 11, and speeding
on curves for 19.
Six drunken pedestrians were fa
tally injured. Fifty-nne fatal as
cidents occurred on straight roads
and four at jt aigh. h.'^rs-el-'ons.
Several Million
Pine Seedlings Are
Ready To Plant
Interested Persons Urged To Make
Plans Now For Tree Stock
P. W. Tillman, district forester at
Rocky Mount, announces that for
the fall of 1937 and spring of 1938
two and a half million tree soedljngs
are available at the State Forest
Nursery, near Clayton, N. C., which
is operated by tho Forestry Divi
sion of the Department of Conserva
tion and Development.
The district forester urges that
those who are interested in forest
tree planting mako their plans now
to apply for tho planting stock. Ap
plications and announcements of tho
terms of distribution are available
at tho district forester's oflico at tho
above address, or from the state for
ester at Raleigh. The applications
are filled in the order they arc re
ceived until tho supply is exhausted.
Hunters, campers, woodcutters and
any other persons frequenting the
woods are requested to be careful
with their smoking. Remember, there
is a law forbidding the starting of
any fire without securing a written
permit from the N. C. Forest Ser
vice. You may burn up somo one's
future crop of trees that they have
just planted and destroy their na
tural crop also.
Plans are underway to double the
capacity of the State Forest Nursery
for next year so that 5 million trees
will be available for the fall of 1938
and spring of 1939.
The species of trees now growing
at the nursery consist of loblolly or
old field pine, longleaf pine, short
leaf pine, black locust, white ash
and slash pine. The slash pine is not
a native tree of North Carolina and
its planting ia recommended only in
an experimental way in most of the
counties of the State.
Over 215 million forest trees were
planted in the United States lajt
year on Federal forest land and th e
southeastern states distributed 50
million trees to private • individuals
from state nurseries.
Fish and Milk Make
A Safe Combination
The popular superstition that fish
and milk make a dangerous combina
tion is just so much hooey, said Fred
M. Haig, of the dairy department of
State College.
This belief, he said, probably
started in days before refrigeration
when people who got sick from eat
ing fish that was not strictly fresh
happened also to drink milk at the
same meal.
No facts of food chemistry or phy
siology substantiate this old belief
he went on. Experience of years
disproves it.
Other people are afraid to drink
milk and eat acid fruits at the same
meal. They say that acid fruits will
curdle the milk in the stomach.
As a matter of fact, the first
thing the stomach does to milk is
to curdle it so it can be digested.
And curds formed from fruit acids
are finer and easier to digest than
those formed by stomach gastric
juices alone.
Another oft-told, admonition is
that sipping milk slowly instead of
drinking it naturally aids digestion.
Research studies have shown that
when milk is sipped slowly, the curds
formed are bigger and harder to di
gest than those formed when it is
drunk rapidly.
Milk is no more fattening than
any other food containing the same
number of' calories, Professor Haig
declared. Milk is the most nearly
perfect food.
H 0 said growing children need at
least a quart of milk a day, and
adults can drink a pint a day to good
advantge.
Rites Conducted
For Aged Farmer
Funeral rites wero conducted for
Habe Eason, 75, prominent Nash
county farmer who succumbed at a
local hospital here, following an ill
ness of several Weeks with paraly
sis.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs.
Martha Eason; three sons, L. C., W.
R., and M. R. Eason, all of this city;
one daughter, Mrs. G. R. Winstead,
also of Rocky Mount. Ono brother
survives, Henry Eason, and one sis
ter, Mrs. Rosa Parker.
Services were conducted at 2:30
from the Mount Herman Baptist
church by Mr. Eason's pastor, Rev.
R. L. Collins. Interment followed in
the churchyard.
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TARBOROCURB
MARKET MAKES
A FINE RECORD
Tarboro, Nov. 27. —The Home De
monstration Club Womon of Edje
combo County, who operate a emrk
market here in Tarboro, have had ft
successful season, according to Mrt.
Eugenia Van Landingham, newly ftp
pointed County Home Agent.
Tho club women of the cointy
havo sold $6,330.36 of their farm
produce, as follows, dairy producti
brought $530.30; meats, $430.71;
fruits and vegetables, $2,404.27;
poultry and eggs, $1,683.45; cake*
and breads, $836.02; flowers, $322.-
58; and plants, $150.03.
Most of the produce was surplu»
; from gardens and farms, and the
amount is the largest ever eold on
the local curb market sine© it *u
organized in 1923.
Mrs. C. C. Tynes, one of the "flrtrt
sellers on. the market in 1923" haa
continued to use it throughout tk*
years and in 1937 was one of the
largest sellers, having take*
$1,500 on the curb market.
Jail Syphilitica
Refusing Treatment
Arrests Of Syphilitic* Reported la
Many Counties Of 6tat«
Syphilitica refusing to take treat
ment have been arrested and jail
ed in several counties, Dr. Carl T.
Reynolds, State Health Officer, has
been advised by local health board
heads.
Mr. Reynolds, a few weeks ago,
in an interview pointed out the pro
visions of soction 3, chapter 20fl,
Public Laws of 1919, which provides
that a person who refuses 'to take
treatment may be jailed.
Arrests already have been made
in tho Chowan-Bertie health district,
and in Franklin, New Hanover, Sur
ry, Wilson and Craven counties.
Other arrests are expected to fol
low where patients are notified and
fail to appear.
Health Officers Active
Whiter people, Negroes, men and
women are all being made 'subject
to tho law, it is disclosed in letters
from health officers. Some of each
have been placed in jail.
In some instances the response
has been so satisfactoryy that it
was not necessary to make any ar
rests. However, the health officers
indicate they mean business and will
enforce the law more rigidly in the
future.
Fair Prices Lead
T« Good Farming
Stabilizing agricultural prices at
a "fair level" makes it possible for
the farmer to follow a balanced
cropping system that conserves the
soil.
There is a direct relation between
the up and down price of farm com
modities and the car e that is given
the soil, said E. V. Floyd, of Stato
College.
When prices are ruinously low, ho
said, farmers tend to grow all the
cash they can in an effort to wrest
a living from the land. They are
virtually forced to keep every pos-*
sible acre in cash crops.
And under the pinch of low in
come, few farmers are able to car
ry out the good practices neces
sary to enrich Jthe soil and conserve
it for future years.
Thus low prices work in two ways
to force a type of farming that
rapidly depletes' the soil, Floyd
pointed out.
On the other hand, high prices
induce farmers to raise all the cash
crops they can in their desire to
make money while the making is
good. And farmers tend to neg
lect their soil.
In places, the custom of growing
cash crops year after year with
few soil-building crops in rotation
or as a cover crop has so reduced
tho fertility of the land that it is
impossible to make a decent liv
ing farming this land, ho continu
ed.
The 1938 agricultural conservation
program, he said, is intended to
stabilize prices at a level that will
encourage farmers to carry out good
soil-conserving practices and cheek
the wasteful depletion of the lajid.
i
Yearly tho amount of feed for
livestock coming into Harnett Cona
ty is decreasing as farmers realize
more and more the savings they cum
mako by growing these foed crop* at
home.