The Rocky Mount Herald
PLUME 5, NO. 10
FARMERS URGED TO VOTE SAT.
NDUSTRIAL
BANK HAS AN
ANNIVERSARY
■cal Industrial Bank Passes 10th
Year With Unusual Record In
Loan Loss
Pausing to reflect upon the prog
ia of his bank as it observed its
Hi anniversary, W. Marshall
ears, vice president and cashier of
» City Industrial Bank, remarked
it among other things the insti
tion Had made what is probably a
souo record in tho gmallness of its
r cent of lose through loans,
rhe total amount charged off as
is during 10 years was less than
e-one hundredth of one per cent,
i figures revealed. Out of 20,564
ins totalling $3,559,051.60, (he said,)
> bank has lost only five loans
[Minting to $311.83.
rhe City Industrial Bank was
Sued at its present location March
JD2B. It succeeded the First
Ik and Trust Company, which
i been located in the same build
j. The first Bank and Trust Com-
By was consolidated with the
st National Bank, of which it
s the trust subsidiary.
Ifter the consolidation Spears,
o had been secretary of the Firs;
nk and Trust Company, and C.
rlyle Ward organized the City In
itrial Bonk. Selling stock to raise
capital of $30,050, the City In
itrial Bank began operation wita
ird as president and Spears as
liier. They have retained the
le positions throughout the bank's
years of existence, Spears ba
ling also vice president,
n its 10 year 8 the City Industrial
it has paid stockholders cash
i (lends totalling $25,380 and has
up a surplus account of $25,000.
reached its 10th anniversary yes
day with $40,000 capital and is
s exceeding $400,000.
rhe 11 present directors are T. A,
era, 8. E. Ballentine, D. O. Bui
:k, L. F. Campbell, B. T. Fountain,
W. Gregory, Dr. B. P. Hunt, H.
Littrell, Dr. E. M. Perry, W. M.
Jars and C. C. Ward.
esident of City
Is Buried Here
noral Service® Are Conducted For
Miss Yettle W. Bulluck
funeral services for Miss Yettie
Bulluck, well known local Tesi
nt who died here Monday after
!>n at the age of 78, wero con
'ted from the First Methodist
ireh Wednesday.
iev, J. M. Culbreth, Methodist pre
ing elder, conducted the funeral,
ich was followed by burial in
leview cemetery.
tfiss Bulluck died about 1 o'clock
nday in .a local hospital, whero
' had beon seriously ill for sever
weeks. She had been stricken
in December.
tfiss Bulluck, who lived at 302 S.
mklin street and had been a resi
nt of tho city for many years, i«
'vived by one brother, R. D. Bui
lt of this city.
Surviving relatives included u
mber of nieces and nephews,
mg whom are Miss Delia Rives,
o lived with Miss Bulluck; Read
k Bulluck, Robert Bulluck, and
rs. C. A. Cochran of here; Mrs.
lude Kimball, Rebecca and Claude
mball, Jr., of Enfield, Miss Maud
lluck and Dr. E. S. Bulluck of
ilmington; Mrs. B. C. King, Reeves
ug and Miss Betty Harper of
>rence, S." C.; William Bulluck
•chville and John and Leigh
lluck of New York, N. Y.
Miss Bulluck was born in Edge
nbe county April 11, 1859.
Pallbearers included N. P. Edge,
. G. Weeks, Sr., T. E. Jenkins,
W. Gup ton, J. S. Gorham, George
lithson, G. A. Wilkinson, W. W.
•ks and J. W. Matthews.
Vmong thoso who attended the
leral besides many local friends
d relatives, were Mrs. Erie
rnill of Portsmouth, Va., Mrs. Wil
m Bulluck of* Leechville, Mrs.
®nie Harrison and Miss Kate Car
tnt Weldon.
FARMERS VOTE
IN 24 STATES
Agriculture Department Sets Up
Machinery For Battling To Be '
Held Saturday
Washington, March 9. —The Agri
culture Department set up machin
ery today to take a farmer vote
Saturday on invoking control prov
isions of the new farm law for thei
first time.
Polling places wore established in
20 states where more than 2,000,000
cotton and tobacco growers can say
whether they want a quota system
to hold surplus yields of tlmir crops
off the market.
Approval of two-thirds of the
farmers participating in the refer
enda—one for cotton and one each
for flue-cured and dark types of
tobacco —would put the quota devic-;
into operation.
Secretary Wallace expressed con
fidence last week that farmers
would approve the quota system,
but AAA chieftains said today they
received reports of "strojng"
opposition in Texas and Oklahoma
to cotton restrictions and in the
Carolinas to quotas on flue-cured to
bacco.
The quota program would limit
sales of 1938-grown cotton to about
11,000,000 bales compared with last
year's record crop of 18,746,000. Tho
quota for flue-cured tobacco would
be 705,000,000 pounds, and for dark
-tobacco 145,000,000 pounds.
States in which cotton referenda
will b e held and" an estimate of the
number of farmers in each eligible
to vote:
Alabama, 231,170; Arizona, 2,370;
Arkansas, 183,500; California, 3,-
800; Florida, 12,000; Georgia, 199,-
000; Illinois, 560; Kansas, 110; Ken
tucky, 3,390; Louisiana, 126,175;
Mississippi, 268,500; North Carolina,
140,000; New Mexico, 3,260; Okla
homa, 126,250; South Carolina, 133,-
000; Tennessee, 91,100; Texas, 365,-
000; and Virginia, 12,190.
States in which the flue-cured to
bacco referenda will be held and
estimated of the number of farmers
eligible to vote; Virginia, 40,000;
North Carolina, 175,000; South Car
olina, 40,000; Georgia, 40,000, Flori
da, 5,000 and Alabama, 600.
States in which the dark tobaco
referenda will be and the esti
mate of number of farmers eligi
ble to vote; Virginia, 20,000; Ken
tucky, 55,000; Tennessee, 25,000, and
Indiana, 500.
Sinclair Takes
Name From Race
■
Fuyetteville, March s.—Judge N.
A. Sinclair, one of the ranking
members of the North Carolina Su
perior Court judiciary, tonight an
nounced that he will not be a can
didate for renomination.
Judge Sinclair announced beforj
Christmas that he would ask re
nomination, but he stated tonight
that he has been warned by "com
petent medical authority" that a
man of his age "cannot assume- the
additional physical strain of con
ducting a long and strenuous poli
tical campaign while at the same
time engaged every day in the ar
duous and exacting work of the su
perior courts."
"For these reasons," concluded
the veteran jurist, "my name will
not appear in tho primary."
Judge Sinclair's statement fol
lows:
"Last fall many of the lawyers
of the district, without any sug
gestion from me, requested me to
stand for reelection, it being be
lieved then that no other candidate
would offer. Since that time four
candidates have announced, and it
is reported that there will be, two
or three others. Notwithstanding I
these announcements, I am receiving
and have been receiving practical
ly every day, letters from all over
the district as well as from mem
bers of the bar in different sec-!
tions of the Stato urging me not
to retire, and I feel that I ought
to express to them my deep appre
ciaion of their confidence and loy
alty, and frankly state my present
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1938
YOUTHS ON
MOVE TOWARD
WASHINGTON
State College Group To Join Pil
grimage Requesting Youth Legis
lation
The Youth Movement is headed
toward the National Capital.
Students at State College, the
University at Chapel Hill and other
institutions in North Carolina and
throughout the country are planning
to become a part of the "Youti
Pilgrimage for Peace, Jobs and Rdu
cation" which will descend upon
Washington, I). C., March 10-12.
Sponsored by the Americai
Youth Congress, which represent*
36 youth and student organizations
throughout the United States, the
pilgrimage apparently will besome
one of the most concerted efforts
the young people of this country
liave ever made. The pilgrimage
i g timed so that the youth may ap
pear before the Senate Committee
on Education and Labor when it
begins hearing on the Americau
Youth Act this week.
Harry F. Comer, secretary of tha
Y. M. C. A. 4t Chapel Hill, and Ed
ward S. King, secretary of the Stat?
College Y. M. C, A., are actively
urging the young people in their
organization to join in the Youth
Pilgrimage.
From State College, J. C. Frink,
president of the Student Body, R. V.
McPhail, editor of the Technician;
D. L. Gilbert, president of the Senior
Clasq, S. B. Moss, president of the \.
M. C. A., H. R. McSwain, member of
State's debating team; and R. L. Stal
lings, self-help secretary of the Y, M.
C. A. are among those planning to
lead the movement out of North Car
olina-
Howard Lee, field secretary of the
American Student Union, who was
in Raleigh yesterday, said delega
tions were being formed at other
colleges as follows:
At Guilford College, Mis* Flora
Huffman is president of the Ameri
can Student Union Chapter.
Miss Letan e Bartlett of Woman's
College in Greensboro is forming a
delegation there and Dnke Univer
sity will be represented by Robert
Arbough, theological student and
member of the A. S. U. Chapter at
Dnke.
Negro colleges will also be rep
resented, with Frances Joneg lead
ing a Bennett College delegation
and Julius Belcher a group from
Agricultural and Technical College
in Greensboro. Dr. N. D. Eason of
Shaw University is organizing a
group to make the trip. Delegates
from other North Carolina Negro
colleges are being by
Louis Burnliam on behalf of the
Southern Negro Youth Congress.
"Between three and five thous
and pilgrims are expected to come
from all over the country to the
nation's Capital for the Pilgri
mage," Lee said yesterday.
The purpose of the pilgrimage is
to prevent a cut in NYA appropria
tions, to demand extension of NYA
and the passage of the American
Youth Act. The Pilgrimage will Also
seek passage of the Harrison-Fletch
er-Black bill which would provide
Federal assistance to states and ter
ritories in establishing more effec
tive programs of public education.
The students will also urge passage
of the Nye-Kvale bill to make R.
O T. C. optional, of the Bernard
Bill to put CCC camps under Civi
lian control and will seek defeat
of the industrial mobilization plans
for wartime as embodied in the
Sheppard-Hill bill-
Mrs. Overton Suiter and her son
Overton, Jr., of Garysburg are vis
iting Mrs. 'J. T. Tyree her sister.
Miss Martha Longest, student at
Peace College, Raleigh, spent last
week-end with her parents on Tar
boro Street.
Mrs. A. P. Thorpe and Mrs. Sam
Henry have returned to their homss
following a month's visit to interest
ing points in Florida.
Miss Connie Lee Thigpen and Miss
Lyal Boice, students at U. N. C.
will arrive in Rocky Mount todav
to spent the week-end with the'.r
parents.
WPA Teacher Wins Sculpture Award
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W aBBi
Hp..; * ft' ll jvmjsU
Michael Lantz, works progress administration instructor in sculpture
i who won a $45,600 competition en his designs for two large sculptures
to be placed at each side of the terrace in front of the Federal Trade
Commission, or Apex, building, now nearing completion at the conjunc
tion of Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues in Washington, D. C., is
shown at work in his home and combination studio. Mr. Lantz's models
were chosen from among those submitted anonymously by 247 artists.
Each of the Lantz works depicts a heroic work-horse held in control by
a powerful man. The artist was born in 1908. He studied at the National
Academy of Design and later won first prize at the Beaux Arts institute,
New York, for the best composition in the year 1927-28.
Farmers! Vote For Crop Control
Tomorrow
$
We cannot go to pt*Aa this week without again calling
attention to the tobacco and cotton growers to the import
ance of tomorrows' election on the crop control act. The
power is in your hands and not in the hands of urban or
city dwellers. It is of major importance that every tobac
co and cotton raiser in the south go to the polls tomor
row and cast their vote for crop control. The economic
welfare of the south, in fact, the country at large will
be effected by your vote tomorrow. Do not fail to vote
for crop control.
WHICH |S THE LOUSIEST?
The President of the North Carolina Association
spoke in Raleigh some days back, spoke of the Justice of
Peace system as being "lousy," however, when we ana
lyze the address we find that the trouble is that allowing
the governor to fill the country with Justices of Peace by
appointment instead of letting the people elect their own
Justices. It looks like the Justices that the people elect
generally are very good and that the whole trouble is with
those appointed out of Raleigh, and the Justices of Peace
that the people elect are being denounced along with
those that the governor appoints. It looks like the Presi
dent of the Bar Association should direct his criticism
to the governor's office rather than lay out all of the time
honored Justices of Peace. You take the Superior Court
Judge, the average is much higher in every way that the
people elect than the ones appointed out of Raleigh. It
looks like the combined wisdom of the citizenship is always
best rather than the act of one individual.
The News and Observer propounds a new question—
which is the worst? The Justice of Peace appointed out
of Raleigh, for it is admitted that those elected general
ly do well or the ambulance chasing lawyer and suggests
that the Bar Association clean its own house. Now this
question, the public will have to answer for our paper does
not assume to pass on this question. The News and Ob
server did not undertake to answer it therefore, we are
not but there is something to be studied in this question.
Then there is another kind of lawyer, the one that al
ways appears where the most money is.
NASH COUNTY
FARM NEWS
The week ending March 5 has
been a very busy week r for tho
county agent of Nash County,- Ten
community meetings were held on
tho nights of Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. The County
Agent, 8. B. Sellers, Jr., Chief Clerk
and J. L. Cooper, Assistant Clerk
conducted these meetings and ex
plained to the farmers attending the
features of the program. There were
1551 farmers who attended these
ten meetings. There are ten meet
ingn remaining to be held in the
following week. The farmers are
very anxious to know the conditions
set forth in the bill in order that
they might intelligently cast their
vote. Tho sentiment at the meetings
seems generally to be in favor of
the control feature.
Terraces were staked for Dr. A.
It. Denton, Castalia, H. W. Evans.
Nashville, Route 1, A. S. Harris,
Nashville, Route 1, R. E. King, Nash
ville, Route 1> J. E. Upchurch,
Spring Hope and K. E. Bone, Nash
ville, Route 2 amounting to a total
of 20,000 feet. These terraces will
b e constructed with light equip
ment.
A committee meeting was conduct
ed on Monday, February 28, rela
tive- to the referendum.
T. T. Brown, Poultry Specialist,
from State College and I visited E.
D. Bass, A. M. Carmean and Frank
Thorpe relative to their poultry
flocks on which production records
are being kept. The flocks were
found to be in good shape.
C. L. Sams, Bee Specialist, from
State College and I visited F. R.
Joyner who is producing honey with
Italian and Caucasian bees.
Attended meeting with my coun
ty committee and chief clerk in
L/ouisburg on Saturday morning.
Referendum on Establishment of
Quotas for Tobacco and Cotton
Proclaimed by Wallace. Those
Reusing Tobacco and Cotton in
1937 Eligible to Vote
NASI! EDGSCOMBE COUNTY
OFFICERS PLAN FOR VOTING
Referendum Called Most Important
Act Ever To Face Farmers Of
Country
AGENTS LIST POLLING
PLACES FOR COUNTIES
Crop Control Meetings Slated At
Three Places In Nash Tonight,
While County-Wide Gathering For
Edgecombe Will Be Heidi At Tar
boro Tomorrow Morning
Nash county polling places for
the farmer's referendum Saturday
on cotton and tobacco control were
announced today by J. 8. Sugg, Nash
County, farm agent.
Urging farmers to go to their
township polls Saturday and to'
vote on the proposed marketing quo
tas, County Agent Sugg stated: "Tho
referendum is one of the most im
portant acts the Nash county farm
ers have ever faced, and each
farmer who is entitled to voto
should make an effort to go to the
polling places and cast his ballot
a g he desires."
Two meetings in Nash county to
night and one in Edgecombe to
morrow morning will conclude a se
•ries of farmer's gatherings held by
the county agents of both counties
to acquaint cotton and tobacco grow
ers with the 1938 crgp control bin.
Final Meetings
Nash County Agent Sugg and his
assistants, C. B. Sellers and J. I.
Coopers, will hold crop control meet
ings tonight in the Battleboro
school, South Whitakers township
and in the Oak Level school, both
which they produced in 1937.
Edgecombe County Agent Joe
Mrs. Cronenberg
Taken By Stroke
Resident Of City For Past I# Tears
Dies At Hom« Of Daughter
Mrs. Cronenberg, resident of this
city for 39 years, died here early
this afternoon from the effects of a
stroke of paralysis suffered on Sun
day.
Mrs. Cronenberg, who was 69 year s
of age, died at the home of a daugh
ter, Mrs. J. G. Hammond, shortly
after one o'clock. She had been in
failing health for tli® past two years.
While funeral arrangements had
ijot been completed this afternoon
relatives indicated that rites probab
ly would be conducted from tho
home, No. 321 South Howell Street,
on Wednesday aXternoon.
Born in Effingham, S. C., and
roared at Florence, Mrs. Cronenberg's
father was the late A. W. Thompsou
and her mother, Mrs. Emily Kelley
Thomson of Florence. She was mar
ried in 1886 to John Cronenberg
of Columbia, S. C., and they ca-me
here to live 39 years ago. Mr. Cro
nenberg died here a year ago.
Mrs. Cronenberg was a member of
the First Methodist church.
Survivors include two sons, A.
Thomson Cronenberg and F. Albert
Cronenberg, both of Rocky Mount
and three daughters, Agnes Cronen
berg and Mrs. J. G. Hammond, both
of this city, and Mrs. J. F. MeCor
mac of Columbia, South Carolini.
Two grandchildren, Mary Louiße Me-
Cormac of Columbia and Fritz Al
bert Cronenberg of Rocky Mount,
also survive.
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Powell and Assistant County Agent
H. E. Alphin will top off a series
of township meetings with a co«*-
ty-wido gathering in Tarboro at 11
o'clock tomorrow morning to discuss
the farm bill.
Eligibility of farmers to vote «a
the control question Saturday was
explained by Nash Agent Sugg "-s
follows:
"Only farmers who were engag
ed in th 0 production of cotton or
tobacco in 1937 are entitled to rota
on the commodity or commoditiei
whic hthey produced in 1937.
"No farmer, regardless of how
many farms are owned whether ia
on e or more communities, counties
or states is entitled to more than
one vote. It is suggested that each
farmer vote in the polling place ia
the community in which he lives.
"There shall be no voting by
proxy or agent but a duly author
ized official of corporation, film as
sociation or legal entity shall be al
lowed to cast its vote..
"In the case of a family produc
ing a crop of cotton or tobacco t>a
ly the head of the family will be
permitted to vote for the entire
family unless individual members of
the family had a specified interest
in the crop.
"In the event two or more per
sons engaged in producing cotton
or tobacco jointly, in common or
in community each person is entitl
ed to* vote.
"Landlords and tenants interest®4
in a crop will cast their ballot re
gardless of sex, color or age. Wag
hands are not eligible to vote in tk#
referendum."
Pollin* Places
Polling places in Nash eouaty,
which will open at 7 A. M. and «ka«
at 7 P. M. Saturday, March 12, havt
been announced as follows:
North WJhi takers township, Sateai
town South Whitakers tow*
ship, Battleboro; Stoney Creek tov«
ship, Benvenue; Rocky Mom
township, Sharpsburg; Oak Lsrei
township, Oak Ixjvel school; Nash
ville township, Nashville; Castalia
township, Castalia; Mannings towa
ship, Spring Hope; Coopers towa
.|hip, Coopers; Drywells township.
Middlesex; Ferrells township, Samar
ia; Jackson township, Stanhope;
Griffin township, Taylors store;
Bailey township, Bailey, Bed
Oak township, Bed Oak.
Edgecombe county ftirtners will
vote at tho following places, Coun
ty Agent Powell has announced:
Township number one, Tarborj
courthouse, number two, Whitehurst
filling station at Conetoe, numbe
three, Cokley's store; number four,
Long store at Lawrence; number
five, Lawrence store in Leggett;
number six, Whitakers; number aev
en, Battleboro school; number eight,
George Webb's store in Old Spar
ta; number nine, an old drug store
next to the bank in Macclesfield;
number ten, Parker's old barber
shop in Pinetops; number elevea,
M. A. Killebrew's filling statioa;
number twelve, West Edgccombs
school; number thirteen, Hinton fill
ing station; number fourteen, L A.
Gay's store.
Approximately 3,500 farmors at
tended the 20 public discussions »a
crop control held in Nash county
since March 1, County Agent Sate
estimated.