The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NO. 8
ACCIDENTS VERY COSTLY
HERE LAST WEEK END
Negro Pedestrian' Killed And Negro
Woman Driver IB Placed Under
Bond
{Saturday night accidents on the
streets of Rocky Mount killed one
Negro pedestrian, caused SI,OOO pro
perty da triage in another' instance,
caused the conviction of one driv
er in city court today and caus.
several injuries.
Julius C. Mills of Kingston ave
nue, 43, was charged in city ra
corder's court this morning with
drunken driving as result of a.
truck smash-up on South Church
Street Saturday night.
Finding Mills guilty* Judge Ben
H. Thomas sentenced him to serve
four months on the roads or to
pay SIOO.
Mills, who according to testimony
is married and has six children, was
an inspector with the state highway
department until the accident.
Tom Scott Evans, 70, Nash county
Negro, died in a local hospital about
midnight Saturday after an opera
tion to amputate his leg, which was
fractured when he was hit by a car
. on Thomas Street.
Miasie Payton, 34, Negro living on
H. Gnrganus' farm on Rocky Mount
Route 1, was arrested as driver of
the ear that hit Bvans. First
charged with driving with bad
brakes, ehe was released under SIOO
bond. Wthen Evans died a few hours
lajter the charge was changed to
manslaughter.
The Negro woman told officers that
Evans stepped out in front of her
car in the 400 block of "West Thom
as Street as she was driving weac.
Officers reported that th 0 man was
on the concrete when hit.
Police Officers H. C. Sellers and
Grover L. Pittman investigated the
accident, which occurred at 6:35
o'clock Saturday night.
Evans lived on a farm in Nash
county owned by Frank Avent.
In another accident, a car driven
by R. B. Sims of Clark Street Tan
into a local Negro boy on a bicycle
at the Washington and Bassett
Street intersection at 8:15 o'clock
Saturday night. The Negro boy,
George Garrett, 22, of Pender Street
received bruises over the left eye.
In the truck collision on South
Street an International trailor
transport truck loaded with glaas
pickle-jars was overturned just south
of the Nashville branch railroad
crossing, causing damage estimated
at SI,OOO.
The transport truck, driven by
Moody Taylor of Dunn, was going
south on Church Street, Police Offi
cers C. E. Warren and G. L. Pitt
man reported, when it was hit by
a pickup truck driven by Julius
Mills.
As Mills was driving north oh
Church Street, they reported, Jiis
truck swerved across the center of
the street and hit the transport truck
in the body of the trailer, turning
it over. The truck driven by Mills
belonged to the state highway de
partment.
Ray Reaves, local man who was
riding with Mills, was taken to a
, local hospital with cuts and bruises
about the chin. He testified in
court today that Mills bad been
drinking beer, and that a bump in
the street caused tho highway truck
to swerve left. _
Mills admitted he had been drink
ing. Officer Warren testified that a
pint of whiskey, almost full, was
found \n Mills' truck.
MillsANaylor and Henry Chapman,
a Negro helper who was riding wit.i
Naylor, were reported to have receiv
ed no appreciable injuries.
Employees Now
65 Should Report
Employees who have reached 33
since January 1, 1837, and who
have earned wages in "covered em
ployment" since that time should
report such facts to the Social Se
curity Board Field Office, Munici
pal Building, Rocky Mount, North
Carolina. Such workers are entitl
ed to 2 1-2 percent of the wages
which they earned in covered em
ployment since December 31, 1936,
and prior to reaching age 65, ac
cording to George N. Adams, Mana
ger of the Rocky Mount Field Of
fice which serves this county. An
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JUNIORS HOLD
INITIATION FOR
16 DISTRICT
Whltevllle, Feb; 22.—The Junior
Order held its regular Spring initia
tion for the Sixteenth District here
February 15. The district
torn prises Bladen, Columbus, and
Brunswick Counties.
' Officers f° r t,ie district are as
follows: District Deputy, Rev. Gar
land Slngletary, of Whiteville; R.'J.
Hester, of Elizabeth town, County
Councillor, Bladen County, Dr. R
Idneberry, of Chadbourn, County
Councillor for Columbus County
and Dr. C. Ed Taylor, of Southport,
County Councillor for Brunswick
County.
The meeting was held in the Ju
nior Order, hall here. It was attend
ed by representatives and members
from practically th© whole district
as well as local Juniors. The crack
degree teams from Lumberton and
Chadbourn initiated the new mem
bers into the mysteries of the or
der.
Representatives from the National
Council Beneficiary Degree Depart
ment, representatives of the State
Council, as well as District Officers
were in attendance.
Essay And Oratorical Contest
The Essay and Oratorical Contest
for the 16th District was held Feb
ruary 11 at tho Chadbourn High
School. The Eighteenth District
contest was held the same day at
Fayetteville High School, and the
Twenty Sixth District Contest was
held at" Wallace High Seliool, it, toj,
on the same day.
The subject was Americanism, and
the need for undeflled ajlegianca
to the country sitd itg go.venjmsat,
Gold medals will bo awarded to the
district winners, while scholarships
will go to the State contest win
ners.
JUNIORS HOST
AT BARBECUE
The Rocky Mount Council No. 41
Jr. O. U. A. M. entertained the 23rd
District on February 15th. A Dutch
Barbecue Supper was served at the
Recreation Hall on Tarboro Street.
Following the class initiation there
was a very entertaining program of
short snappy addresses. The meet
ing was largely attended and a
general good time was enjoyed.
y
Dr. Ivan Battle
Passes at Home
Dr. Ivan Proctor Battle, 57, mem
ber of a prominent Eastern Caro
lina family and first city healta
officer of Rocky Mount, died at hi 3
homo early Sunday after an illness
of several years.
Funeral services were conducted
at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at
tho Church of tho Good Shepherd
The Rev. F. H. Craighill, rector of
the church, conducted the services,
assisted by the Rev. Worth Wicker.
Burial followed in Pineview Ceme
tery.
Surviving Dr. Battle ar 0 his wife,
who was before marriage Miss Em
ily Marriott, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Henry B. Marriott of Battle
boro, and four children, Ivan P. Bat
tle, Jr., of Rocky Mount; Emily
Elizabeth Battle, in training at
Johnston Wills Hospital at Rich
mond; Henry Marriott Battle and
Edward Graham- Battle of here.
Other relatives include two broth
ers and three sisters: Edward G.
Battle, Hattie B. Battle, Dr. George
C. Battle of State Park, 8. C., Su
san 8. Battle and Ella Battle.
Dr. Battle had been in ill healtii
since a heart attack in Kingston,
Jamacia, in November, 1935. Since
that time he had not spent more
than six months in active practice.
He was a member of the Ameri
can, Southern, Nash and Edgecombs
Medical associations, and w(ha an
honorary fellow in the Tri-State
Medical Association.
Ho had been advisory surgeon for
the Atlantic Coast Line Hospital hers,
for 25 years.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROL
IN WASHINGTON
I WHAT
IS
I TAKING
I PLAGE
BY
(Sty fj,
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Before Congress adjourns, a deci
sion must be made as regards fu
ture Federal policies on expenditur
es for public roads. This decision
will be of prime importance to North
Carolina which has counted heavily
on Federal-aid. For example, the
state now receives approximately $4,-
750,000 a year as its share of Federal
participation in building main high
ways, secondary roads and the elimi
nation of grade crossings.
Obviously, if this fund is elimi
nated it will vitally affect construc
tion of roads in North Carolina. It
would perhaps fall heaviest on rural
communities off the state trunk
lines. It would also delay the build
ing of much-needed farm-to-market
roads of great importance to the
farmer. Whatever else may be said
of farm conditions, members of Con
gress are in agreement that improv
ed highways have added to farm
values and bettered the status of ag
riculture.
The situation in Washington is
briefly as follows. Up to the pres
ent, Federal-aid funds have been
authorized two years in advance of
actual appropriation of tho money.
This has been done so that state
highway departments might plau
ahead and so that legislatures might
arrange for the Federal funds tJ
be matched. Under this plan, there
lia s been developed a great systein
of interstate highways criss-crossin.j
the country.
Last November, President Roose
velt recommended to- Congress that
authorizations already made for the
fiscal year 1939 be cancelled and
that Federal road funds for the fis
cal years 1940 and 1941- be limited
to $125,000,000. This amount is ap
proximately one-half of the total
authorized for the fiscal years 1938
and 1939. The President's recom
mendation is still before Congress,
although allottment of the 1939
funds has been made to the state?.
Secondary or farm-to-market roads
are involved along with all other
Federal-aid highway projects.
In the face of this unsettled sit
uation, proposals are now made for
the government to use its credit in
sponsoring the building of transcon
tinental and North and South super
highways, to be financed by tolls
and profits from excess right-of
way. There is general agreement
that super-highways are desirable.
But a few important questions are
presented. These are:
Can the government afford at this
time to issue new billions of high
way bonds? Would super -highways
draw sufficient traffic and sufficient
tolls to pay interest and retire tbu
bonds? What would be the effect on
the Federal-aid system and state
highways? Would the Federal high
way bonds affect state highway
bonds? Would supor-highways les
sen the work on secondary or farm
to-market roads? Can motorists, now
paying more than a billion dollars
in special taxes bear a new burden
of a half billion or more a year in
tolls?
To get answers to these questions
and help determine Federal policies
with reference to road expenditures,
hearings will be held by Congression
al committees and will be followed
with interest by everyone concerned
with the development and mainta
nance of adequate highways.
It may also be anticipated that tho
President will make further state
ments as regards his thoughts on the
subject. As Governor of New York,
he had ample opportunity to gain
first-hand information on the im
portance of Federal-aid to the statej
Moreover, he has long been a high
way enthusiast.
Whatever may finally result in tho
way of new Federal road policies,
it is evident that highway progress
is vitally linked with the welfare
of the nation and there is agree
ment that everything possible must
be done to keep it moving on a
sound basis.
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A, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938
Waner G
its New Bat for "Dead Ball"
WHffiMKy'r JBWP" farmmar'—T^ —r iwsp ® om£* , V
After pondering:Hhe effects the new "dead ball" the National league
plans to use next 84ason will have on his batting: average, Paul Waner,
slugging outfielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has decided to use a lighter
bat. Here he is coniparing his new 34-ounce model with the 37-ounce bat
he used last season^
Farmers Should Vote
For Crop Control
The farmers Of North Carolina will have an opportunity
on March 12 to decide whether they want Governmental
Crop Control. Congress has legislated giving the farmers
the right under the new farm act to vote on whether they
want Governmental Crop Control or whether they are wil
ling to continue without any legislative help.
It is up to the farmers and if the farmers fail to adopt
and work under this law we do not see how they can af
ford to go to Washington and ask the government for any
further help until they have given this law a trial.
What would be the effect if the farmers turned down
this new farm act and the tobacco companies proceeded to
buy the crop at prices confiscatory as has happened in
times past, and the farmers should descend on Washing
ton and ask the President and Congress to give them aid
without having first given this new law a working trial.
The President would be compelled to say to these farmers,
Congress has law which the Congress thought
will help you and you have turned it down by failing to
vote for Crop Control under this act. We have heard of
just a few farmers who have said they would not vote
for crop control and we are glad to say a Very few, and
many of these had money invested in other enterprises
and farming was a side line. We hope that the real dirt
farmer will not be misled by this talk of preserving indi
vidual liberty to the farmer when every other business in
the country is highly organized.
SHOULD PROVIDE REST ROOMS FOR PUBLIC
When the contract for the construction of the city
municipal building was first discussed there was an under
standing that with the great amount of money that was
being spent the city was going to install toilets for both
races. With the number of country people, especially la
dies, coming to town with children there is a serious need
in Rocky Mount that accomodations of this kind be pro
vided. It was the public's understanding that such a place
would be provided in the old Municipal Building but in
stead of the public having rights in this building the
Chamber of Commerce has taken over the front part of
the building and if a lady should desire to visit the pub
lic toilet she would have to go through the office of the
Chamber of Commerce which would produce such an em
barrassment it is known that she would not use it. In the
back part of the building the offices of the State Highway
Patrol have been installed. It is not our object to bring
criticism upon these services but it is our desire to call to
the attention of the Board of Aldermen and the City Man
ager that a large building in which the whole of the City
government of Rocky Mount was housed has now been tak
en over by two agencies, the secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce and the Highway Patrol and the public is be
ing denied the toilet facilities which were promised them,
and in place of this public service the whole thing has been
taken over by the Chamber of Commerce and Patrol.
"Good Neighborhood
Policy" Germany Says
Ambassador Dieckhoff Declares Ger
many Want® Peace Above All
Chapel Hill, Feb. 16. —Germany ' 3
foreign policy is a ''good neighbor
hood policy with all neighboring
states and even those which are not
neighbors," Ambassador Hans Dieck
hoff, envoy to the United States
from Germany, told an audience
which filled Memorial Hall at the
University of North Carolina to
night.
"A 3 far as Germany i 8 concerned
we much prefer peace to war. Wo
have gone through war for centuries
and all the men who have the say
in Germany at present, including
Chancellor Hitler, hav e been wound
ed and have known the horrors of
war." Ambassador Dieckhoff stated.
"We are building roads, building
houses for workmen and creating a
totally new social scale— w© would
be the last ones to jeopardize our
domestic work by war," he added.
In connection with this plan for
peace, therefore, Germany is car
rying on her policy of neighborly
ness, was the Ambassador's observa
tion, "Germany is carrying out her
policy through immediate bilateral
negotiations or by negotiations wicb
three countries —not by collective
security which may be a good, idea
but which doesn't work in practice
since nations only come to agree
ments when they have the same in
terests," he asserted. "The League
of Nations can testify to this."
Touching on the colonial policy cf
Germany, Ambassador Dieckhoff sai l
that "Germany considers colonies
which Bh o possessed in Africa and
the South Seas as her own, taken
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CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
APPROVES NEW CONTRACTS
DEMOCRACY IN
DANGER-SAYS
Judge John D. Parker, senior
judge of the fourth district of
appeals, was the guest speaker at
Monroe Tuesday night at a meet
ing of tho Merchants Association of
that city. Monroe is Judge Parker's
native city and ho is always wel
comed with open arms and given
the greatest of attention every time
he returns there.
Judge Parker told the merchants
that democracy (little "D") was "in
greater danger today than it has
been since the fall of Napoleon
Bonaparte."
The greatest problem today, he
said, is "tho preservation of the
life of democracy against soma
form of totalitarianism." He ex
pressed gratitude that "the greatest
thing in the life of our republic is
liberal democracy."
HANCOCK ON
LIQUOR ISSUE
(Editorial from, the Journal and
Sentinel, Winston-Salem, Feb. 6.)
When Congressman Frank Han
cock, who is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the
United States Senate, was asked the
other day to state his views on ths
liquor issue, he replied that "the
regulation of the manufacture and
sale of liquor is primarily a matter
for the State Legislature."
But he did not stop at that. He
placed himself on record as favor
ing the "enactment of proper and
effective federal laws to protect
-to rtgiiUt^,
control and prohibit the liquor traf
fic." At the same time, Mr. Han
cock made it clear that he did not
believe "federal laws should under
take to supersede state regulations."
That was not the most important
thing, however, which the candi
date for the Senate said in pre
senting his views on the question.
His most significant statement was
the following:
"I believe that every citizen in
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Attended Battle
Rites Here Monday
Among the host of sorrowing rela
tives and friends who came to the
city from out of town to attend fu-J
neral rites for the late Dr. Ivan P.
Battle on Monday were the follow
ing:
Dr. and Mrs. George C. Battle, Dr.
Randolph Farmer, Mrs. Funderburk,
Mrs. Childcre, all of State Park,
South Carolina; Mrs. R. M. Proctor
Miss Jennie Procter, William S.
Proctor, of Baleigli; Dr. and Mrs.
James K. Hall, Mrs. Cordona, of
Richmond, Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Rose, of Chapel Hill; Dr. and
Mrs. Fred Parker, of Enfield; Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Powell Pippen,
Miss Mary Powell Pippen, and Miss
Emily Pender Pippen, all of Little
ton ; Mr. and Mrs. Dewey B. Shef
field, Mrs. William Johnston King,
of Wilson; Mrs. Martha Dorth Be
lote, of Goldsboro, Dr. and Mrs. F.
C. Whitaker, of Enfield; Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Yelverton, of Raleigh;
H. Neal Howard, of Farmville.
Mrs. D. T. Briles, of Fayettevillj
who came also to attend the funer
al services, is remaining in the city
to bo with Mrs. Battle. Mrs. Bat
tle's daughter, Emily Battle, a stu
dent at the Johnston-Willis Nursing
School, in Richmond "Virginia, is also
in the city, and plans to remaia
with her family for a short time.
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SI.OO PER YEA*
The directors of the Nash Countjr
Mutual Soil Conservation Aasocift-*
tion, Inc., went on record in & re
cent meeting as favoring the cob*
tracts submitted for their approval
by the President of the
J. S. Sugg, County Agent, which
states definite requirements of tha
individual farmers for whom terrac
ing work will be done with tha
I heavy tractor terracing outfit which
| is being operated under the direc
tion of R. F. Shearin, Assistant
Counyt Agent.
There are two contracts, one
which sets forth the conditions un
der which summer terracing will b»
done. The other sets forth the con
ditions of the winter terracing
work. Under tho winter contract
the farmers will b 0 required to pay
$3.00 per hour for the services of
the tractor which gives a complete
terrace as may be seen on. tha»
farm of C. W. Lassiter near Spring-
Hope and on tho farm of W. P.
Braswell of near Nashville.
Tho summer contract sets forth,
the condition of strip cropping
where a 30 foot strip is left free
of row crops and tho terraces on
structed on this area during tho
summer at a cost of $2.75 per hour
for a complete terrace.
The directors at this meeting elect
ed a routing committee to be re
sponsible for the routing of tha
tractor from farm to farm, there
fore, relieving the county agent of
the responsibility of designating
whose farm should be next. Tha
routing committee elected were Mr.
M. F. Morgan, J. \V. Moore and Z.
C. Mann. There will be absolutely
no partiality shown in the selec
tion of the routes by the commit
tee. Each contract will be number
ed, and tho number placed on tue
county map in the general locality
of the farm and the routing com
mitlee wiir route the tractor accord
ing to tho most economical and prac
tical route. The routing committee
will not at any time know whoso
farm the tractor will be on due to
the fact that they will work only
with numbers placed on the map.
Tho committee will not designate
any person on the route for ter
racing work unless their contract
has been signed at the time the
routing committee selects the route.
Farmers wishing to get terracing
work done may secure contracts by
applying to the county .agent's of
fice.
Waldensians
To Celebrate
The annual Emancipation Day
celebration of the Waldesians at
Yaldese, Burke county, was held
Saturday, February 19. Dr. J. O.
Mann, director of religious educa
tion for (he Synod of North Car
olina prominently identified with
the work of the Southern Presby
terian church, was the speaker. Rev.
James Caligan, pastor of the Wald
ensian Presbyterian church presid
ed. Rev. John Jons, former pastor,
spoke on the historical significance
of the occasion. The Women's Aux
iliary served the supper which in
cluded favorite Waldensian dishes.
The Waldensian celebration com
memorates the granting of a consti
tution by King Charle s Albert, Feb
ruary 17, 1848, admitting the Wald
ensians to full civil and religious
rights, putting an end to the stata
of inferiority to which these peo
ple had been subjected for ages. Ac
cording to one writer, "Th© King,
a fervent Romanist, was led to
mako this concession by preseure of
public opinion, guided by the au
thorative judgments of illustrious
contemporaries, who bore cordial
and emphatic witness to the mor
al and civic qualities of the Wald
ensians."