The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NO. 2
WEST EDGECOMBE CAGERS
TRIUMPH OVER WHITAKERS
West Edgecombe high took both
games of a basketball double-header
from the Whitakers boys and girls
* ) here. The West Edgecombe lassies
woi? easily 35-17, but the boys were
v forced to the limit to defeat the
Whitakers boys in a rough game fea
tured by close guarding. The final
score was 10-8.
The following schedule has been
arranged for both boys and girls:
V Jan. 14—Battleboro at West Edge
combe.
Jan. 18 —West Edgecombe at Leg
gett.
Jan. 20—Tarboro at West Edge
combe.
Jan. 21—Conetoe at W. Edgecombe
Jan. 25 —W. Edgecombe at S. Edge
combe.
i Jan. 28—Speed at W. Edgecombe.
Feb. I—W. Edgecombe at Battle
boro.
'» Feb. 4—Leggett at W. Edgecombe.
J,) Fob. B—W. Edgecombe at Conetoe.
Feb. 11— S. Edgecomb© at W. Edge
combe.
Feb. 14— W. Edgecombe at Speed.
.Feb. 16, 17, 18 —County Tourna
ment.
Other games are being planned by
fK coaches Gaston and Austin.
I Rocky Mount Loses
A Leading Citizen
f ? '
' Cornelius Wesley Coghill, insurance
and real estate executive and out
standing citizen for many years, died
at his home hero late Saturday fol
\l lowing a long illness. He was 59
)■ y*** 9 of age
l|| Funeral services were conducted
V from the home at 11 o'clock Monday
f morning with the Rev. Norman John-
I son, pastor of the First Presbyter
ian church, in' charge. Burial follow
ed in Pineview cemetery here.
i-, -Mr. Coghill, who at the time of
*' his death was secretary-treasurer and
general manager of Wilkinson, Bul
luck and Company, large general in
j curance and real estate company here
also had been active in civic, reli
gious, and fraternal affairs. He
was a ishriner and a thirty-second
degree Mason and a Pythian. In 19-
33-34, he was president of the North
k Carolina Association of Insurance
Agents, and for many years was
president of the local Fire Under
*/iters Association.
Mr. Coghill had been chancellor
commander of the Grand Lodge in
the Knights of Pythias, grand chan
cellor of the State of North Caro
lina, and imperial representative of
Ziza Temple. He was also a mem
ber of the board of directors of the
Pythian Orphanago at Clayton.
In the Masonic order he was a
member of both the Scottish and
York Rites. Mr. Coghill also had
been active in Boy Scout work, be
ing at tho time of his death, a mem
ber of a local troop committee and
a trustee of Camp Cooper, which he
w.ts instrumental in establishing in
Nash County. Ho also was a former
member of the Rocky Mount Kiwanis
Club.
Survivors include his wife, tho for
mer Miss Rose Putney of Charles
ton, W. Va.; and three children,
Mrs. L. O. Dixon of Goldsboro; C.
W. Coghill, Jr., student at David
son College; and Henry Coghill of
Rftcky Mount; one brother, J. B. Cog
hill of Charleston, W. Va.; and three
sisters, Mrs. Josie Coghill Brewer
Rocky Mount; Mrs. Mamie Teague
W of Macon, Ga.; and Mrs. Carrie Har
ri 8 of Washington, D. C., also sur
vive.
Born in Vance County at Hender
son Mr. Coghill was the son of tho
** la'te Kiachen W. Coghill and Fannie
Lassiter Coghill. He camo to Rocky
Mount in 1889 and, at the age of
ten, started to work in the Bank of
Rocky Mount as an errand boy.
Around the turn of the century,
he entered the insurance field with
a business of his own. In 1906 Mr.
Coghill entered the insurance and
real estato business with the late W.
8. Wilkinson. He was secretary of
j an affiliated company, the Under
writers Fire Insurance Company un
til its liquidation (1929 to 1932) ;
Mr. Coghill was married first in 19-
04 to Miss Meta Capelle, mother of
Mrs. Pauline Dixon. She died in 1911,
and he married Miss Rose Putney in
1917.
V In his youth, Mr. Coghill was a
at Oak Ridge Military Aca-i
CY for a short time.
BISHOP OF
ALBANY IS
COMING HER|
Bishop Oldham And Bishop Penick
Head I.lst Of Dignitaries To Dio
cesan Meeting
Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, bishop of
Albany, New York, of the Episcopal
church, will be the principal speak
er and the Right Reverend A, E. Pe
nick of the diocese of North Caroli-.
11a, will be the presiding official in
a service to be conducted here next
week during the annual meeting of
the Woman's Auxiliary of the dio
cese of North Carolina, January 17
through 19.
Bishop Oldham's theme will be ac
tivities of religious conferences at
Oxford, England, and Edinburgh,
Scotland. Members of the congrega
tions of all Rocky Mount churches
will meet in the Church of the Good
Shepherd at 8 o'clock Tuesday night,
January 18.
Rev. F. H. Craighill, rector of tho
local church, and other dignitaries
of the Episcopal church will parti
cipate in the servico Tuesday night.
More than 200 delegates from Epis
copal church will participate in the
| servico Tuesday night.
More than 200 delegates from Epis
| copal churches of the state are ex
pected to attend the annual meeting
I here for which members of the
Woman's Auxiliary of the Church of
1 the Good Shepherd will b 0 hostess
es. Mrs. William J. Gorham of Spray
will preside as diocesan president of
the Woman's Auxiliary.
A supper meeting of the executive
board, including the district chair
man and the state officers, at the' par
ish house will open the program of
the annual meeting, Monday night,
January 17. A business meeting will
follow.
A union service will be conducted
at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning,
followed by addresses of welcome
and noon-day prayers. Members of
the local auxiliary will meet visit
ing delegates at a tea to be given
in the parish house Tuesday after
noon.
Closing the meeting, there will be i
business meeting and the bishop's
charge Wednesday. *
Tobacco Course To
Be Given At State
The four-day tobacco short course
to be held at State College, January
25-28, will offer North Carolina far
mers an opportunity for extensive
studies of tobacco production and
marketing.
Leading authorities on the weed
crop will discuss the best cultural
practices, new methods of insect and
disease control how to market leaf
to best advantage, and explain the
tobacco outlook for this year.
Laboratory work in grading tobac
co will be given Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons.
A high-light of tho first day's pro
gram Tuesday morning will be a,
talk by J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA
administrator and director of the
cast central region, on prospective
control legislation.
W. G. Finn, assistant regional di
rector, will go into the leaf outlook,
and E. Y. Floyd, extension tobacco
specialist and State AAA director,
will discuss the 1938 agricultural
conservation program in the after
noon Tuesday.
Plant pathologist, agronomists, en
tomologists, marketing specialists,
and other experiment station and ex
tension workers are also on the pro
gram to present various aspects of
the tobacco growers' problems and
point out the best known methods
of solving them.
Dan M. Paul, State College direc
tor of agricultural short courses, has
announced that there will be no tui
tion fee for the tobacco short course.
A $1 registration fee will be charg
ed.
Rooms and meals will bo avail
able at a moderate prico both on the
campus and in homes close by, ho ad
ded.
A number of small commercial or
chards are being started in Bladen
County this winter.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938
UNITED STATES SENATOR
■ —i
Of the many developments during
the first week of the final seamon
of the Seventy-fif.li Congress, two
stand out. They arc the construc
tive message of President Boosevelt
and th e action of seven Southeastern
Governors, including Governor Hoey
of North Carolina in endorsing a
wage and hour bill. This latter is
particularly significant in light of
the fact that opposition to the much
misunderstood wage hour bill come
from the South.
Some of the misunderstanding has
been due to methods of administer
ing the measure and in this connec
tion the Governors expressed confi
dence that the President and the
Congress would work out and "pro
vide satisfactory administratiove ma
chinery." The action of the Govern
ors gives new emphasis to an import
ant paragraph of the President's
message deserving of widespread at
tention. H e said:
"Government has a final responsi
bility for the well-being of its citi
zenship. If private cooperative en
deavor fails to provide work for will
ing hands and relief for the unfor
tunate, those suffering hardships
from no fault of their own have a
right to call upon the government
for aid; and a government worthy
of its name must make fitting re
sponso."
Another paragraph of the Presi
dential message strikes directly at
sectional opposition to tho wage and
hour bill. It says: "I have spoken
of economic causes which throw the
nation's income out of balance; I
have spoken of practices and abuses
which demand correction through the
cooperation of capital and labor with
the government. But no government
can help the destinies of people
who insist on putting sectional and
class-consciousness ahead of general
weal. There must be proof that sec
tional and class interests are prepar
ed more greatly than they are to
day to be national in outlook."
This statement by President Roose
velt is particularly important at a
time when seetional issues are raised
in connection with important legis
lation. Members of Congress now
realize that the farmer has been
given advantages through legislation
designed to raise the level of farm
prices and thereby increase farm in
come. Business and industry has
been assisted through loans and in
creased output and sales by means
of both Federal loans and Federal
expenditures. The upper strata of la
bor—the organized groups—have
been aided with legislation that
strengthens its bargaining position.
Obviously, something must bo don o
for the low-paid workers who toil
long hours and often under sweat
shop conditions. Thi s is where the
wage and hour bill would be a help.
And it should bo emphasized that
farm labor, employees of local mer
chants and many other groups would
not be affected. Only those indus
tries and businesses in interstate com
morce would be included in Federal
regulation of wages and hours. In
fact, strictly local businesses would
be helped through increased purchas
ing power in the community.
LION KILLERS ORGANIZE
Las Cruces, N. M.—A mountain
lion eradication program has been
launched in the Bteep-cliffed Organ
mountain territory because the car
casses of 18 deer, all killed by lions,
were found there recently. Game
wardens, with three packs of lion
dogs, will spend the winter hunt
ing the culprits.
Austrian winter peas planted by
W. W. Fielder of Richmond County
in October are now over four inches
tall and up to a perfect stand, he
says.
Three 4-H club members, C. L.
Frank and Dorothy Fleming of Yad
kin County have purchased and set
100 black walnut seedlings as a club
project.
Jordon Street Underpass
We have just been informed of the terrible accident
which occurred Thursday morning at the Jordan Street
crossing, where a car, driven by Mr. Felps, manager and
operator of Pomi Inn Hotel Church Street, with four oth
ers in the car was backed into by a switch engine which
demolished the car and seriously injured Mr. Felps to such
an extent the consequences may not be known for some time.
This is the very crossing that money was alloted for an
underpass by the government which would have eliminat
ed this crossing without cost to the taxpayers of Rocky
Mount but on account of a filibuster presipated in Rocky
Mount by a certain people who did not desire the under
pass, the money was lost to Rocky Mount and went to Elm
City, and Mt. Olive, and other places.
WHAT HAS BAILEY DONE TO BE PRAISED FOR?
Carl Georch, radio announcer for B. C. Headache Pow
der spent most of his time last Sunday in criticizing Mr.
Chatham the Jackson Day speaker for not having mention
ed Senator Bailey's name at the dinner.
If Mr. Chatham had mentioned Mr. Bailey's name, what
could he have said for him, if he had told the truth, what
has he done in a constructive way to be praised for? If the
speaker had told the dinner what Mr. Bailey had done the
public might have thought he was criticizing Senator Bai
ley which would have appeared to have been bad taste for
a guest speaker to have been put in the attitude of critici
zing an office holder of North Carolina,, even though he gave
his real record. The Bailey record is known in North Car
lina.
GOVERNOR PARDONS IN CONTEMPT CASE
Governor Hoey recently pardoned a man sentenced to
prison by Judge W. H. S. Burgwn for contempt of court.
The Attorney General ruled that there was no question
but what the Governor had this authority and power. We
agree with the Attorney General that we think the Govern
or has this power and authority and that if he does not
have it he should have it. There had developed an impres
sion among the laity and acquiesced in by the lawyers that
imprisonment for contempt was in the bosom of the court
and beyond the power of the governor to pardon. Now this
has been very largely judge made law, and judge made im
pression, if the Governor has a right to pardon for murder
it is ridiculous to think that he does not have the right to
pardon for contempt of a judge and especially where the
judge finds his own facts and does his own punishing.
We have known of many judges who develop dislikes
for lawyers to such an extent that the lawyer was afraid
to go into the court without carrying witnesses to sit in
court while they were trying their case for fear that some
irate judge might charge them with contempt find his own
facts and do his own punishing. We are glad that this
myth has been clarified by an attorney General. Oftentimes
the judge has been known to have been drunk or to have
stayed up late the night before and had a weak stomach
the next morning. Certainly the governor should give re
lief in such cases.
Funeral At Weldon
For Mrs. Mary Inge
Weldon, Jan. 11.—Funeral services
were held from the home here Sun
day afternoon for Mrs. Mary Delia
Inge, 79, who died following a. sud
den heart attack Friday night. The
rites were conducted by Rev. B. P.
Robiiwon assisted by Rev. R. S.
Fountain and Rev. J. H. Shore of
Hamlet. Interment followed in the
family burial plot in Cedarwoo:l
cemetery.
Mrs. Inge was born and reared in
Halifax county and had spent the
greater part of her life in Weldon.
Sho was one of the oldest citizens
in Weldon and was a faithful mem
ber of the Methodist church.
Surviving are six children, Mrs.
Mary IngQ Wheeler of Baltimore;
Mrs. Elias Carr of Tarboro; Mrs.
Linda Harris, Mrs. Harry W. John
son, Richard Ingo and Marion Ingt
all of Weldon. Also a sister Mrs.
Dora Purnell and a brother A. L.
Cochrane, both of Weldon, six grand
children and three great grandchil
dren.
How To Fertilize
Tobacco Plant Bed
Two pounds of a 4-8-3 mixture
with the potash derived from sul
phate of potash magnesia should be
applied to each square yard of to
bacco plant bed. The bed should be
thoroughly broken from four to
six inches deep and pulverized un
til the soil is very fine. Then apply
the fertilizer and thoroughly mix
with the soil for three to four inch
es in depth. Smooth the soil to make
sure there are no clods and sow the
seed. It is usually best to mix the
seed with about two gallons of fer
tilizer or cottonseed meal to make a
good carrier. This insures a moro
' even distribution of the seed.
Craven farmers are using the new
meat curing service of the Federat
ed Exchange abattoir at New Bern
to good effect with over 40,000
pounds of meat now in cure.
Whitakers Woman
Is Buried Today
Mrs. J. C. Moore Dies Of Brief Ill
ness at Ag 0 of 70
Funeral services for Mrs. J. C.
Moore, who died at her home in
Whitakers at the ago of 70, were con
ducted, Elder R. H. Boswell of Wil
son and Elder A. B. Denson of Rocky
Mount Primitivo Baptist churches
conducted the funeral. Burial took
place at Whitakers.
Mrs. Moore died at 2 o'clock Mon
day after a few days of illness.
Surviving members of tho family
are her husband, Elder J. C. Moore,
and one daughter, Mrs. A. G. Tay
lor, both of Whitakers; two sons.
J. H. Moore of Wilson and O. B.
Moore of Henderson; two sisters,
Mrs. J. D. Lee of Wilson and Mrs.
R. 11. Pittman of Luray, Va.; and
one brother, Frank S. Barnes of
Charleston, S. C.
I. E. Ready's Father
Passes In Columbia
Edgar Lowndes Ready Dies At South
Carolina Hospital
'Columbia, S. C., Jan. ll.Edgar
Lowndes Ready, father of I. E.
Ready, principal of the Rocky Mount
high school, died at a hospital hero
today after a week's illness. He was
63 years old.
Mr. Ready was a farmer living in
Johnston where he was active
member of the Methodist church.
Funeral services will be held at
Ward, near Johnston, tomorrow.
He is survived by his widow, a
daughter, Miss Ethel Lucretia Ready;
and four sons, L E. Ready of Rocky
Mount, N. C., William Judson Ready
of Columbia, Samuel L. Ready of
Spartanburg, and Edgar Lowndes
Ready, Jr., of Johnston.
T. B. Slado of Martin County has
ordered 1,000 cedar trees for setting
on his farm and W. Robert Ever
ette has ordered 1,000 black locust
trees for the same purpose.
TAR HEEL LARGE SALARIES
SHOWED INCREASE IN 1936
LOCAL MAN
IS ELECTED
DIST. DEPUTY
Junior OTder Delegates Elect George
R. Griffin Deputy At District
Meeting
George R. Griffin of Rocky Mount
was elected deputy of the 23rd dis
trict of the Junior Order last night
at a district meeting in Tarboro.
John Weaver of Rocky Mount pro
posed Griffin as candidate.
Victor R. Johnson of Pittsboro,
state councilor, delivered the princi
pal address. Dr. W. O. House of
Tarboro issued a welcome to visit
ing delegates, to which Troy Barnes
of Wilson responded.
Miss Lucy Nelms, Nashville high
school girl, won the girls' oratori
cal contest on the subject of "Ameri
canism." She will represent the dis
trict in state-wide competition at
Charlotte in August, it was announc
ed.
Presbytery Holds
Session At Tarboro
Noted Missionary Addresses Special
Session Church Men
Williamston, Jan. 13. —Representa-
tives from thirty churches in East
ern North Carolina are here today
for a special meeting of the Albe
marle Presbytery and to hear Rev.
Frank F. Baker, D. D., Missionary
of the Presbyterian church in Bra
zil.
The sessions got underway at 10:-
30 with the address by Dr. Baker
holding the spotlight on the program.
Dr. Baker spoke on conditions in
Brazil, a goodly number of laymen
being present at 11 o'clock for the
address. The group, to continue in
session a great part of the day, will
give attention to routine matters
of importance to the Presbytery.
Luncheon is being served the visitors
at the George Reynold Hotel.
Rev. Harold J. Dudley of Kinston
Moderator of the Presbytery, is pre
siding, with Rev. R. E. McClure, of
New Bern, serving in his office of
stated clerk. Rev. Z. T. Piephoff, pas
tor of the local church is host to the
gathering.
The special program on foreign
missions which is occupying a major
place on the morning program is
under Rev. W. F. Waddell, chair
man of this committee of the Pres
bytery, and Rev. Norman Johnson, of
Rocky Mount, who is chairman, by
requast, of a special committee of
the Presbyterian Synod of North
Carolina. This special committee was
set up to inform tho Presbyterians
of the situation of their mission
aries in China anil to endeavor to
raise a supplementary offering dur
ing January to meet emergency costs
of the work in China incident to the
war existing there.
Mr. Waddell in announcing this
special program sent the ministers
of tho Presbytery a prepared state
ment of Rev. C. Darby Fulton, D. D,
executive secretary of the foreign
mission committee of tho entire de
nomination, in which Dr. Fulton
says, "If one had deliberately plan
ned a war in China to interfere most
directly with the China Missions of
the Presbyterian church in the Unit
ed States, he could not have accom
plished this moro thoroughly than
has been done by the warring forc
es in tho Far East." Dr. Fulton is
the son of a missionary of this de
nomination in Japan. He himself was
born in that country.
Four thousand farmers attended
the first Surry County Tobacco Fes
tival at Mt. Airy on Tuesday after
noon before Christmas.
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SI.OO PER YEA*
Totalled 142 An Compared To 1W la
Preceding Year; Dribben Top*
List
Washington, Jan. 8. —The names of
142 officials of 76 North Carolina
corporations who received total
compensation of $15,000 or more dur
ing the calendar year 1936, or dur
ing fiscal year periods ending prior
to July 1, 1937, were made pub
lic today by Rep. Rogert L. Dough
ton, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House, to
whom all such salaries in the Unit
ed States have been made public
by th© Secretary of Treasury.
Representative Doughton piloted
through the House last year a bill
repealing the publicity provisions of
tlio 1934 act, but the repealer has
never been considered by the Senate.
A similar report last year listed
109 individual officei* of North Car
| olina corporations as compared with
' 142 this year. Last year's report
showed 58 corporations as against
76 this year.
The $84,215 paid to S. F. Dribben,
vice-president of the Cone Export
and Commission Co., of Greensboro,
was the highest compensation paid
by any North Carolina corporatioa
in 1936. Mr. Dribben also topped the
list for 1935 when his compensation
was $77,550.
Hanes Second
S. Clay Williams, chairman of the
board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co., of Winston-Salem, who ranked
second with a compensation of SOO,-
000 in 1935, received the same
amount in 1936, but his ranking was
iseveral points lower. Second place
in 1936 went to James G. Hanes,
president of the Hanes Hosiery Mills
of Winston-Salem.
Others in the state receiving $50,-
000 or more in 1936 were :
M. C. D. Carr, commercial vice
president, American Enka Corpora
tion, Enka; A. J. L. Mortiz, techni
cal vice-president of the same com
pany; W. H. Wood, president of the
American Trust Co., Charlotte. A. H.
Bahnson, president of the Baheneon
Co., of Winston-Salem, and also
president of the Washington Mills
Co.; William Klopman, sales mana
ger of the Burlington Millg Co.,
Greensboro; R. Thurmond Chatham,
president of the Chatham Mfg. Co.,
Winston-Salem; K. P. Lewis, presi
dent, Erwi n Cotton Mills, Durham;
and James A. Gray, president of the
$16,650; P. R. Albright, vice pres
ident, $15,972.58; H. L Borden, New
York, vico president, $15,965.
The Bahnson Company, Winston-
Salem —A. H. Bahnson, president,
$33,273; P. P. Bahnson, secretary,
$33,273, Barnwell Bros., Inc., Bur
lington—Wm. R. Lacey, manager,
$19,800. Beacon Mfg. Co., Swannnnoa
—Charles D. Owen, treasurer, $53,-
215; Charles O. Dexter, clerk, $27,-
925; Charles D. Owen, Jr., assist
ant trea-urer, $22,286. Blue Bell
Overall Co., Greensboro —R. W. Bak
er, president, SIB,OOO. Brown Bled
soe Lumber Co., Inc., Greensboro—
T. B. Bledsoe, president, $20,000.
Burlington Mills Company, Inc.,
Greensboro—E. P. Addis, treasurer,
$33,867; Duinont Bunker, salesman,
$36,484; W. J. Carter, vice president,
$20,109; Walter S. Horn, sales man
ager, $26,847; William Elopman, sales
manager, $61,484; J. Spencer Love,
$37,649; M. D. Smith, Jr., produc
tion manager, $22,653; E. P. Thomas,
Jr., salesman, $22,500; T. H. Burk
hard, general superintendent, $17,-
042.
Burnett and Co., Greensboro—O.
W. Burnett, president, SIB,OOO. Can
non Mills Co., Kannapolis—C. A.
Cannon, president, $31,689; A. L.
Brown, vice president, $27,600. Caro
lina Bagging Co., Henderson—W. P.
Gholson, secretary-treasurer, SIB,OOO.
Carolina Power knd Light Company,
Raleigh—L. V. Sutton, president,
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