The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NO. 12
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Is;{ TANGLED TVA
The tangled and confused affairs
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
including the bickering between
Chairman A. E. Morgan and his two
associated directors, will be thor
oughly explored by a Congression
al committee. Senator Norris, spon
sor and friend of the TVA, origir
"nally sought an investigation by the
Federal Trade Commission but last
week proposed that the inquiry be
conducted by a Senatorial committee.
This met with prompt counter-ac
tion on the part of those leading
the attack on the Authority who in
sisted that the investigating body
be a joint committee representing
both houses of Congress.
OLD FEUD BREAKS OUT
Simmering for many months, the
feud between Chairman A. E. Mor
gan and the other Board members,
Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan and David
E. Lilienthal, was brought into the
open by a spectacular meeting at
the White House where President
Roosevelt, in an open session, at
tempted to ascertain the facts be
hind the charges involved in the
Board's rumpus. Chairman Morgan
refused to submit any evidence ih
support of hi* charges, taking the
position that he was merely an "ob
server" and apparently determined
to force a Congressional investiga
tion. The other directors gave the
grounds upon which they had accus
ed the Chairman of undermining the
activities of the TVA.
ROOSEVELT INQUIRES
The President told the
that it was their duty not to con
tinue the "personal" row but tho
data brought into the open reveal
ed a chasm of professional and per
sonal feeling that seemingly makes
it impossible to reconcile the atti
tudes of the Chairman and his fel
low Board members. Mr. Roosevelt
went so far as to suggest to the
Chairman that if he were unwilling
to support with facts his accusations
that "fairness" and "decency" wero
impossible in the TVA administra
tion with jthe other two members of
the Board,' that he should resign.
CHAIRMAN IS SILENT
However, Dr. A. E. Morgan, for
mer president of AnAioch College
and an engineer who had built
flood control and reclamation works
insisted that he would have nothing
to do with the President's person
al inquiry and his attitude indicat
ed very plainly that he would re
sist any effort to remove him. The
President was stern and the scene
in the White House unusual. Mr.
Roosevelt had ordered a mimeograph
transcription made of the proceed-1
ifcgs and stenographers recorded the
questions and answers. At intervals,
the notes were transcribed and im
mediately passed to waiting newspa
permen.
VAST UNDERTAKING
Mr. Roosevelt is known to be
j>roud of the TVA, which he consid
ers the nation's first experiment in
regional planning. He has held it
cut as an example of "What wj
have done and what we ar e try
ing to do." Set up in May, 1933,
the TVA was provided for flood
control and improved navigation of
the Tennessee River, for the conser
vation of soil and natural resources.
I Huge dams were necessary for flood
i control and navigation, and power
' power was to be developed as a
consequence. Soil conservation in-
better fertilization and,
L. therefore, fertilizer studies were in
cluded within the scope of the ua
dertaking.
\
Chairman Morgan was one of
three men placed in charge of the
'undertaking. The others included
Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan, president
of the University of Tennessee, an
entomologist and horticulturist, par
ticularly interested in the fertili
, zer program, and David E. Lilien
thal, Wisconsin lawyer and former
public service official, who gave his
attention to the power problems in
l volved.
I UNDER MANY ATTACKS
L The TVA ha g been constantly un-
attacks from critics on the out
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WEATHERSBY
GETS VICTORY
IN WILS. COURT
Former Wilson Sheriff Acquitted Of
Charge Of Drunken Driving
Wilsop, March 22.—For the third
time since 1935, former Wilson Coun
ty Sheriff W. A. Weathersby today
walked out of court room here freed
of a drunken driving charge.
A six-man recorder's court jury,
after deliberating not more than 10
minutes, returned a verdict of not
guilty.
Immediately after the trial,
Weathersby retracted his intention
to run for sheriff in the coming
primaries. '
At the end of evidence for both
sides attorneys agreed that no ar
guments would be made in the case
and Recorder Charles B. McLean
made a short charge to the jury.
In 1935, while sheriff, Weathers
by wag arrested by a State Highway
Patrolman and charged with driv
ing drunk. He was acquitted of the
charge. In 1936 he was removed
from office by Judge Marshall
Spears after a group of Black Creek
citizens had petitioned the county
commissioners here to remove him
on the grounds that he had appear
ed drunk at the polling place on
May 4, 1936, in Black Creek.
In the fall of the same year he
came back into office with an over
whelming victory in the county
elections. Last year he wag again ar
rested for driving drunk but when
the case came up in court it was
nolle prossed after it had been an
nounced that Weathersby had resign
ed as sheriff.
Both drunken and reckless driv
ing charges had been made against
the former sheriff today but Solici
tor Wade Gardner agreed this morn
ing to waive all charges except the
one for drunken driving.
Sunday Movies
Bring Protest
In Mt. Olive
Mt. Olive, . March 17.—Sunday
movies were shown in Mount Olive
for the first time on Sunday,
March 13, under franchise granted
for a six week's trial by the local
board of aldermen in a special call
ed meeting.
Attendants at the theatre in re
sponse to a question regarding th 2
Sunday attendance said they "had
a right good crowd."
There is objection to
the innovation and an effort was
made to prevail upon the board o
rescind their action. A group of
interested citizens circulated a peti
tion which bore about two hundred
names when it was presented to the
boari' meeting again in special ses
sion Saturday morning.
6. D. Broadhurst and Elias Sut
ton, who presented the petition for
the opponents of the Sunday show,
were excused from the meeting be
fore the matter was discussed by
board members.
The body declined to rescind their
order and voted to permit the Sun
day shows at least until the next,
regular meeting of the board.
Members of the Board of Alder
men are June Martin, James Glenn,
C. C. Henderson, Walter Cherry and
Faison Lee.
"If all orchardists in North Caro
lina followed the good methods used
in the Leatherman and Sains' or
chards of Lincoln County, my work
would be easy," commented H. R.
Niswonger, extension horticulturist,
recently.
Dr. C. F. West of Kinston has
planted two acres of badly eroded
land to pine trees in testing tho
recommendation of the Extension
Service on one way to reclaim aban
doned land.
More than 300 tons of ground lime
stone have been used on Macon
County farms lands sinee January 1
of this year.
ROCKY MOUNT. NORTH CAROLINA. FR'DAY, MARCH 25, 1938
TWO NEGROES
IN NASH CRASH
Third Painfully Injured When Car
Smashe# Into Telephone Pole
Two Negroes met instant death
and a third was painfully injured
late Sunday night when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
crashed into a telephone pole at a
curve on the Nashville highway near
here.
Local, county and State officers,
who investigated the accident said
Ihrit Oharlie ,McCory, 25, and Louis
Macklin, 18/ both of Kocky Mount,
apparently were killed at the time
of the impact and the third mem
ber of the party, John Townsend,
20, also of Rocky Mdunt, received
cuts and bruises.
McCoy was driving the car, Town
send told officers, when it hit a
telephone pole, and th e vehicle
belonged to Townsend. Coroner M.
C. Gulley of Nashville was called to
the scene but held no inquest.
Bishop Dedicates
Catholic Church
New Fayettevilie Structure Replaces
107-Year-Old Building There
Fayettevilie, March 17.—Assisted
by more than a score of Catholic
prelates from all parts of North
Carolina and from point* beyond
th e State, the Most Reverend Eu
gene J. McGuinness, D. D., bishop
of Raleigh, blessed and dedicated
the new St. Patrick's Catholic churcn
here today with impressive ceremon
ies on the birthday of the saint
for whom it is named.
Tho sermon was preached by the
Very Rev. Charles F. Barry, rec
tor of the Oblate College, Washing
ton, D. C., who took his theme from
the life of St. Patrick.
Tke new edifice, located at Brad
ford and Arsenal Avenues, was th*
last church to be built under Bish
op Hafey, lately transferred to
Pennsylvania, and the fi rs t to be
dedicated by the new bishop. It re
places the old St. Patrick's on Bow
Street, used by Fayettevilie Catho
lics for 107 years, the oldest Cath
olic church iu North Carolina.
Among the distinguished men who
have served St. Patrick's are Cardi
nal Gibbons, Bishop John England
and Father Thomas Price.
The parish is now in charge of
the Oblates of Mary Immaculato,
the pastor and assistant pastor be
ing tho Rev. William H. Kelleher
and the Rev. Walter F. Mack. They
live in a handsome rectory adja
cent to the church, which was a
gift from the Oblate Order to the
parish. Nearby is a new parochial
school under the supervision of the
Sisters of Providence.
Final Rites Held
Resident
Services Conducted For Mrs. Pattie
Dunn Price
Funeral services for Mrs. Pattie
Dunn Price, 79, who died at her
home on the Benvenue country
club road, were held at 3 o'clock
from the home. Elder A. B. Den
son, of the Primitive Baptist church
officiated. Burial followed in the
family burying ground.
Mrs. Price was born in Halifax
county in 1859, the daughter of
David Dunn and Henrietta Price
Dunn. She was married to George
Price in 1901.
Survivors include: A sister, Mrs.
Bettie Dunn Boseman; three nieces,
Mrs. R. B. Brown, Mrs. J. I. Brake,
and Mrs. Mary Dunn Cobb; five
nephews, W- Boseman, J. T.
Boseman, Lee Boseman, Robert
Boseman, and L. W. Boseman of
Nashville; and a number of great
nieces and nephews and four great,
great nephews.
Pallbearers included six great ne
phews: J. T. Boseman, Jr., John L
Brake, Jr., Bob Ricks Boseman, and
Spencer, Elmer, and Offie Brown.
John Shields of the Hothouse com
munity of Cherokee County treated
his lespedeza field with a coating of
manure from his dairy barn and ee
cured better lespedeza as well as a
stand of blue grass and White
Dutch clover.
Bermuda's Latest in Transportation
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Mrs. George Sherwood of Bermuda with her three-year-old daughter,
Mable, pedaling along the highway en route to do a little shopping in
the city of Hamilton, Bermuda.
Effc rt Being Made To Remove
Judgeslfrom the People
There seems to be a desire among some of our politicians
to remove the election of Judges from the people and place
it in the hands of a hand picked convention. Too much al
ready has been taken from the people and we wonder if
the citizens of North Carolina propose to sit at ease and
let this governmental right be taken from them.
The whole trouble seems to have originated because
some of the Judges appointed by the Governor to fill out
unexpired terms of Judges who have resigned or died are
having opposition.
There are many Judges in the state that are being op
posed by outstanding lawyers but even if they are hav
ing opposition the Judgship does not belong to any person,
it is within the gift of the people and our citizens and
voters should see the Legislators and Senators and ask
them how they stand on this question. The citizens of
Edgecombe and Nash counties should interview their
prospective candidates on th e question, for the Legislature
and Senate.
Why should a judge be taken out of the primary and put
into the hands of log rolling group and deny
to the people the right to have any part in the selection.
We have never seen any reason why a judge should be
pensioned any more than a school teacher or any other
public servant. Judges in North Carolina are being paid
salaries around .SB,OOO per year and even though it may
appear small to some it appears to us to be a sizely
amount and much above the general living standard. A
Judge who has been elected by the people has the high
est form commission given hi mby those under whom he
serves. And should giv e him more satisfaction than hav-
ing been appointed. Let the voters of the districts give at
tention to this matter "to your tents O Israel"
YOU CAJN VOTE THE DEAD BUT CAN'T SERVE
ON JURY
According to press reports appearing in the Mt. Airy
News Surry County has been having difficulty in obtain
ing a jury for the court. This press article stated that
when the jury was drawn by the Clerk of Court and sent
into the Sheriff to be summoned, the wife of the Sheriff
made an investigation of the list and found that most of
those drawn were not in existence, or otherwise, passed
on and sent word back to the Clerk that a new list must be
drawn that these people had been voting though dead and
gone but they could not use them on the jury. So a new
list was drawn and when Judge Sink came, even this sec
ond list would not appear to suit him and he ordered a new
jury list to be drawn under his direction. Surry County is
famed far and wide for its manner of holding elections and
voting.
REST ROOMS NEEDED
We have had many communications from interested cit
izens relative to our editorial on the needs of the city for
rest rooms especially for ladies and children.
There is no question that there was created in the pub
lic minds the understanding that the front of the old
Municipal building was to be used as a rest room and there
should be a woman employed to take care of this room. It
would not mean much cost to the city, in fact, some of the
WPA money could be used to a good purpose in that way.
The Chamber of Commerce should be moved from down
stairs and put up stairs if they desire to stay in the build
ing since they are there without rent they ought not to
be choosers. Several citizens have told us that they have
sought to use the toilets in the department stores and they
have been told they were for employees only. Of course,
this is not general in Rocky Mount, for the merchants
are generally obliging. Several tolds us they had even had
to walk up as far as the depot. We have been informed
that many ladies and children from the country have learn
ed that there were toilet facilities in the depot and thought
that was the only public toilet in town which really is not
a public toilet.
LOCAL BOY IS
AG. CLUB PRES.
Van 8. Watson, Jr., of Roclty
Mount, who last fall made the high
est individual score ever made at
an International Collegiate Crops
Judging Contest, is serving as pre*-
ident of the State College Ag Club
during the spring term.
He was a member of th e college
crops judging team that went to
Chicago last fall to compete in i'.ho
1937 Internaional Collegiate Crops
Judging Contest.
He ig a senior in agronomy, and
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Van 8.
Watson of Rocky Mount. His father
is a former member of the State
House of Representatives.
CONGRESSMAN COOLEY IS
WORKING ON QUOTA ITEMS
Endowment Aid
To Churches
Total of $114,410 Contributed To
Preachers, Churches In '37
Durham, March 22.—The Duke En
dowment contributed $114,410 during
1937 to rural churches and preach
ers and superannuated ministers, it
is announced at Duke University
whero the funds of the rural church
section of the endowment are ad
ministered. Country churches and
preachers aided are in this state,
and tli e superannuated ministers ti
receive checks are members of the
two North Carolina conferences Of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
South.
Prof. J. M. Ormand, executive
secretary of the local committee, in
his annual report points out thai
the endowment appropriated $46,110
to 40 churches which, it is estimat
ed, had planned building and re
pair expenses totalling $206,510.
At the same time the endowment
supplemented the salaries of 149
country preachers to the extent of
$42,300, for an average appropriation
of $283.89. The individual appro
priations were according to the need
in the average preacher's salary for
the year was $1,112.25. These preach
ers represented a church membership
of 69,598 persons.
Just before Christmas checks total
ling $26,000 were sent to the super
annuates and the widows of preach
ers in the two conferences
of the State.
In providing in the Duke endow
ment for rural preachers and their
churches and for aged ministers and
their widows, James B. Duko made
permanent a custom he had carried
on personally for many years before
his death. Each year he distributed
Christmas checks totalling SIO,OOO to
"worn-out" preachers.
Tarboro P.-T.
Sets Fine Record
Fosters Many Civic Projects; Raises
S4BO For School Lunches
Tarboro, March 19.—The local Par
ent-Teacher Association, under the
direction of its president, Mrs. J.
T. Sadler, points with pride to its
record of activities during recent
weeks.
In order to lay foundation for a
working civic organization the teach
ers and the parents held a get-ac
quainted tea, and then the work
began under full force.
The P. T. A. sponsored a S4BO
drive to raise money for lunches
for the needy school children, and
endowed the Edith Whitlark bed at
the county tubercular preventorium.
Even the school policeman was hon
ored with a fruit shower.
Tho group has gone forward to
promote a safety-conscious student
body, erecting safety signs for the
school zones and placing needed en
trance light at the front and rear
of the school buildings. The im
portance of milk week was stressed,
and a group of girls of pre-court
age was organized into a Brownie
troop.
Prizes were given Christmas dec
orations in the mill village homes,
and Governor Hoey was the special
speaker at the dedication of .the new
sigh school auditorium.
The P. T. A. has sponsored work
for the peace legislation and a tru
ant officer was added to the wel
fare organization.
An application of nitrate of soda
applied as a top-dresser to small
grain at this season usually means
profitable, increased yields per acre,
report those farmers who have con
ducted such demonstrations.
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Seeking To Ekute Drastic Curtail
ments Imposed Upon Large Cot
ton Growers
Washington, March 22.—Arriving
here today after protracted week
end conferences with Stato and Fed
eral agricultural officials and great
ly-perturbed cotton growers, Bep-»
resentative Harold D. Cooley spent
all of today in conference with
members of the House and Senat3
agriculture committees, who called in
J. H, Hutson, assistant administrator
of AAA and other officials hero.
Both the House and Senate com
mittees have reported bills amend
ing the 1938 farm act and carrying,
among other provisions, a two per
cent increase in- the total cotton al
lotment for the nation, which would
amount to some 500,000 acres, or
about 200,000 bales, to the first goal,
which was set at about 26,000,00?
acres and 10,400,000 bales.
The object of this amendment i»
to reduce the drastic cuts on large
producers made necessary by the
five-acre exemption for all growers.
In many instances, farmers with
past production of 100 or more bales
face reduction to 10 bales.
The first advice of Mr. Hutson
was that the pending amendment
would be sufficient, but after pres
sure by Mr. Cooley for data on ex
act quotas, it was agreed either to
support the Cooley proposal for
four per cent increas or increase the
exemption from the tilled-acres ba
sis. That exemption now applies to
counties where the cotton quota is
less than 15 per ciyit of all tilled
acres. If that plan is adopted, the
figure will be raised to 25 or 30
per cent, thus taking many North
Carolina counties out of the restric
tion.
Mr. Cooley still is advocating also
his plan to release cotton not de
sired by farmers who will receive
increased quotas under the tilled
acre provision.
The exact plan of procedure will
be determined tomorrow and the
bill may receive attention in the
House during today.
Senator John H. Bankhead of
Alabama, who sat in on the con
ferences today, at first was inclin
ed to resist all plans which would
increase total production, but indi
cated later that he might accept
the four per cent provision, which
seems the moat likely solution.
Security Checks Go
To 24,300 Old Folks
February Payments Totaled $228,-
079 To A Red And $84,836 To
Children
Social security payments of $223,-
070.99 were made to 24,330 aged
needy persons and .f54.536.57 to 15,-
246 dependent children during Feb
ruary, Public Assistance Director
Nathan H. Yelton reported yester
day. February payments averaged
$9.")7 to aged needy and $5.56 to
dependent children.
For the eight months during which
social security has been operative in
North Carolina, July through Feb
ruary, a total of $1,141,548.17 in oil
age assistance and $350,278.95 in aid
to dependent children has been dis
tributed, Yelton said. He estimat
ed that by July 1, the end of the
fiscal year, 29,000 would be receiving
old age assistance and 21,000 aid t>>
dependent children.
While the number of qualified
eligibles hag far exceeded original
estimates and monthly averages have
dropped 7,000 of the 12,000 former
ly carried on outdoor relief rolls
have been absorbed by social secur
ity, Yelton said.
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