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1. r ' jfk iu> The Rocky Mo ' VOLUME 5, NO. 15 BOY SCOUT CAMPOREE TO 9 S BE HELD SOON IN WILSON More Than 600 Scouts From 21 , j. ..V i Counties To Stage Annual , y Event April 22 /">) 1 J Wilson, April 11.—Plans for the V annual Scout Camporee of the East lit' Carolina Council of Boy Scouts J which is expected to attract over f I 600 scouts from 21 eastern counties ; here on April 22-24 are nearing completion, according to an announce ment made yesterday by Lester Rose Camporee chairman, who said M that a final meeting of the Camporee / committee would be held here on ;j Monday night. ff . The Patrol Camporee, which will ft "■ be on the same order of the Nation l al Jamboree in Washington last year , ' except on a much smaller scale, will a be hold here, in Gold Park and a number of prominent speakers are / scheduled to talk here during the three days of the affair. Already some 500 scouts have signified that they will attend the event and Executive John J. Sigwald of the council, said here yesterday ' f ythat he expects a hundred or more to attend the Camporee. The scouts ' will come here from Wilson, Pitt, Nash, Beaufort, Lenoir, Greene, Halifax, Edgecombe, Northampton, Martin, Bertie, Washington, Hert ford, Craven, Jones, Tyrrell, Dare, j Hyde, Cartaret, and Pamlico coun ties. In i injunction with the Camporee here' the Executive Board of the council will hold its quarterly meet ing here on the first day of the [ 'affair. The executive Board is composed of President F. C. Harding, Green ville; M. D. Fletcher, Washington, Rev. Leland Cook, Kinston, and Roy Campbell, Greenville, vice presi dents; B. F. Eagles, Wilson, nation al council representative; R. Frank Ruble, Washington, Commissioner; K. R. Curtis, Wilson, treasurer; M. G. Waters, Washington; Rev. C. Alexan der, Tarboro; L. W. Edwards, Snow Hill; Dr. E. L. Henderson, Green ville ; Rev.f Gordon Price, Roanoke Rapids; H. J. Landhauer, Kinston; Wheeler Martin, Williamstown; Rev. F. H. Craighill, Rocky Mount; Dr. A. Papineau, Plymouth; and W. H. Whitmore, Wilson. • The following operating chairmen are also members | of the committee; George M. Adams Rocky Mount; Guy C. Hardin, Tar boro; E, B. Manning, Roanoke Rap ids; Leo Johnson, Wilson; Dr. J. A. j Whitaker, Rocky Mount and 8. G. Chappeil, Wilson. The Executive Committee will meet in the afternoon of April 22 ,and at 3 o'clock that afternoon the Camporee will officially open for the boys. A model camp will be erected at | Gold park for the scouts with water and sanitary facilities and olej- I ,'tric lights. Through Town Manager W. W. Wiggins the town of Wilson is cooperating in helping to set this j model camp in order at the pres - time. On the night of April 22 a mon stor indoor campfire program will be y'jj» held in the WPA armory at l t i. , which time W. A. Dobson, Region- J al Scout executive from Atlanta, will I , speak to the scouts and several boys jf 1 of the council will be awarded ij Eagle badges in special ceremonies. The boys will camp for the night 1 at Gold park and the next morn ing will givo demonstrations of scout it craft to tho general public. There 31 ' will be contests in this line against fj scout standards. That afternoon the jf scouts will bo the guests of tho Wil i son theatre here at a showing of, ! "Tom Sawyer." After the picture mother demonstrations will be given rat the camp sight in tho open at ' Gold park will be held at whicn time a prominent speaker, who has S not»?et been announced, will talk i to the boys and tho public, which . has been specially invited. On tho morning of Sunday, April , 24 a special sunrise service will bo , h held at the camp under the super / vision of the Rev. E. C. Lynch of the Presbyterian church hero, and I the boys will break camp for honw I later in the morning. At this morn ing service on Sunday ribbons won in the demonstrations will bo award ed. f , Farmer s have learned from years B experience that a side dressing of 100 to 200 pounds of natural soda after chopping cotton, or when corn about kneo high pays real divi- The side dressing comes at B a time when the plants can take up V, tho nitrogen quickly. It feeds the crop —not grass. LOCAL MAN ELECTED TO BANK OFFICE Burlington, April 18.—L. D. Kirk land of Durham was elected yes terday a s chairman of the North Carolina Association of Industrial Bankers. The 55 delegates attending from 35 banks also elected. W. M. Sears of Rocky Mount, vice chairman; James! T. Poteer of Charlotte, treasurer; j and E. A. Laney of Wilmington and j B. H. Pont of Winston-Salem, mem-1 bers of the executive committee. Th'j I offico of secretary, an appointive post, will be filled later. J. R. Fain, president of the Mor ris Plan Bank in Winston-Salem, said that industrial banks had shown a large increase in resources in the last year. That, he said was in con traat to commercial bank records. Whitney Gets Ten Years In Prison New York—Richard Whitney, bankrupt broker and former presi dent of the New York Stock Ex change, was sentenced Monday to serve from five to ten years in pri son for grand larceny. Whitney whose brokerage firm Richard Whitney and Company, fail ed on March 8, had pleaded guil ty to two indictments charging first degree grand larceny in the misuso of, securities entrusted to his care by the New York Yacht Club and members of his family. Judge Owen W. Bohan, in Gener al Sessions, sentenced Whitney to the five to ten year sentence on each indictment, the sentences to run concurrently. Whitney Calm Whitney, who at no time since hig financial crash stunned Wall Street—his firm had done consider able business for J. P. Morgan and Company—had shown any outward emotion, took tho words of Judge Bohan calmly. He will serve the sentence in Sing Sing prison. His attorney, Charles H. Tuttlt, plead for leniency. Judge Bohan, however, had before him a memor andum, prepared by Thomas E. Dew ey, district attorney, recommending a "substantial punitive sentence." Under the time»off for good be havior system, a five to ten year sentence can be completed in about three and one half years. Final Rites Held For J. E. Johnson Funeral Services Conducted For Well Known Alderman And ACL Fore man Funeral services for Jasper E. Johnson, 45 year old alderman and Atlantic Coast Lino foreman who died late Thursday night after a sudden illness, were held at 11 o'clock from the hoine at 635 Clark Street. Dr. J. W. Kincheloe, pastjr of the First Baptist church, officiat ed at the rites assisted by Rev. J. A. Satterfield. Burial took placo in Pineview cemetery. Mr. Johnson had been re-elected to the board of alderman from his ward lor seven terms and for a time served as city treasurer. He had been employed by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad for more than twen ty years. Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. E. T. Moore, Mrs. C. A. Thom as, and Mrs. L. B. Hoggard, all of this city; one brother, William J. Johnson, also of this city; two nieces, Allena and Margaret Mooro; and three nephews, Charles, Jr., Irv ing, and Harvey Thomas, of this city. Active pallbearers for tho funeral were W. OJowell, C. H. Ellis, J. P. Rogers, C. N. Blackenship, W. Scott Holman, and E. L. Dudley. Instruction Welcomed Irate Parent—l'll teach you to make love to my daughter, sir. • Cool Youth—l wish yon would, old boy; I don't seem to l>e mak ing much headway. More lespedeza was seeded ia Granville county this season than in apy previous year, reports the conn- ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938 URGES QUICK LEGISLATION ON RAILROADS Washington.—President Roosevelt a#ked Congress Monday for "some immediate legislation" to forestall prospective operating difficulties of the railroads, l>ut made no specific recommendations. He gave the legislators a strong hint, however, that he believed any long-time legislation should provide for incorporation of all executive agencies dealing with transportation in one department. This, he said, "would seem to bo the part of common sense." He ad ded: "I refer to this, not byway of recommendation, but only as one method which should receive congres sional study." At -the same time he sent to the legislators the report of the'three man committee of the Interstate Commerce Commission he had asked to study the railroad situation and comments made on the report by secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruc tion Corporation, -Tail way executiv es, labor officials and others. This report recommended as meth ods of affording immediate relief: That $300,000,000 be made avail able from government equipment for the purchase of railroad equip ment, the equipment til be the secur ity for advances. That the RFC be empowered for 12 months to make railway loans without certification by the Interstate Commerce Commission that the rail road can meet its fixe 4 charges. That other forms of government credit be considered. The government traffic pay the full rate by eliminating land grant reductions. GIVE HITLER BIG MAJORITY Greatest Turnout Of Voters In Ger man History Ballot In Sunday Plebiscite Berlin, April 11.—The greatest turnout of voters in German his tory gave Reichfuehrer Adalf Hitler the biggest majority of his career in Sunday's anschluss plebiscite. Nearly 50,000,000 men and women marched to the ballot box or were carried there,, or had the ballot box carried to them if they were ill. Of these, 48,790,209 voted "yes" in approval of Germany's .annexation of Austria. There were 452,180 "no" vqtes and 75,342 were classified as invalid. The precentage of "yes" votes was 99.0827, as compared with 98,79 achieved in the Rhineland remilitar ization plebiscite of March, 193(5 when 44,952,476 Germans votod "yes" The highest pitch of affirmative expression was reached in Austria where the voters gladdened the Push rer' s heart with a 99.75 per cent "yes" vote. • Even so 11,263 Austi4ans voted "no." With the counting completed, there were rumors of a sweeping political amnesty—Hitler's gestur; of benevolence and gratitude. But t there was no official confirmation. Some persons, especially in Vien na, feared the aftermath might bo I strong action against former Chan i cellor Kurt Schusehnigg's enthusiasts | and the Jews. The vote, held less than a month after Hitler's armed forces marched into Austria, culminated an energet ic Nazi drive to stir popular enthu siasm. Hitler declared in a nation-wide broadcast that "this hour is the proudest of my life." The voting was orderly. Hitler's birthplace, Braunau, Aus tria, gave him 3,331 affirmative votes. Fiv e persons there voted "no." Jews were not allowed to vote. In Vienna, Joseph Buerckol— next to Hitler—was the big hero. As Hitler's Austrian lieutenant and propaganda chief for the plebiscite Buerckel received flowers and valu able presents, including an automo bile for an Ausrtrian factory. • Just Absent-Minded Judge—You maintain that you threw you wife out of the second story window through forgetfulnessf Prisoner—Yes, your honor. You see, we used to livo on the ground floor and I'd clean forgotten we'd The Beautiful Dancers of Bali IpWSSCL' IKP? !>, & dtfiP* * * xHI By MASON WARNER Den Pasar, Bali, Netherlands East Indies.—Hawaii has Us "hula hula" dances, the Fiji islands their "me-ke me-kes," the Solomon islands their "sing sings," but none of the dances of the natives of the South Sea* surpasses the "d.tanger" of the Balinese. The costumes are rich and colorful, and the dances are rhythmic, graceful and dramatic portrayals, almost always of religious or ceremonial significance. The music of the "gamelons," the native orchestras, is merry, robust, melodious, and inspiring. The dances are usually given at the temples after nightfall, but the "djanger," pictured above, is a daytime affair and can be viewed by foreign visitors to Ball. Men and women participate. The gamelon players for these dancers number 40 and they play native instruments. Help To Big Business Not Considered Paternalistic Certain groups of business men have made applications to the government for aid and the government has promis ed to give aid to business as it has done from the begin ning of this government) and w e have not heard any criti cism from any Senator in the United States Senate against giving this aid. However, when the bill was up in Congress to extend aid to the small home owner and the farmer and laborer there was a great hue and,cry and wail that went up from a number of Senators such as, Senator Bailey, Senator Byrd nd Senator Glass, in conjunction with the Liberty League that the government was becoming communistic and too paternalistic. Now what is the difference in the government helping business and helping the individual? The only difference that we can see is that they are one and the same yet these Senators seem to think it is the duty of the government and a fine thing to make contri butions to the wealth of the country yet they are unwil ling to help the down-trodden and poverty stricken. It was perfectly alright for people to be put out of their homes because they cannot secure long time loans. This is a mat-, ter of individual responsibility but not so with Big Busi ness. The Government should aid business. We believe when the time demands and the government can help it should help both business and the individual. SOCIAL DISEASE CRUSADE The crusade against certain social diseases which is be ing carried on by the health department with financial and active cooperation of the government, both national and state, is making great progress. The first thing in fmy crusade is to convince the citizen ship of the need of such an undertaking. The records in North Carolina according to reports coming in from cer tain counties show that. of those examined about 33 per cent of the colored race are in need of treatment and of those examined of the whites it shows that about 8 per cent are in need of treatment. This crusade deserves and needs the active cooperation of every citizen for with that number of people infected and in need of treatment un less something is done they will become a menace to so ciety. The disease can be cured and it is the duty of those in need of treatment to submit to treatment. No housewife should permit her child in the hands of a nurse without knowing that this nurse has been examined. The innocent child cannot speak for itself. ONE OUT OF EVERY THREE EXAMINED VICTIM SYPHILIS Its personnel complete, the Martin County Health department, operat ing on a full-time basis since tho first of March, reported a busy schedule during the period, that fea ture of the monthly report having to do with the campaign against syphilis commanding unusual atten tion. On an average, one out of every three persons examined by the health department during March is a vic tim of syphilis, Dr. E. W. Furgur son, health officer, explaining that this percentage was fairly represen tative of the colored t population. The doctor based his percentage es timate on 246 Wassermann tests made during the period. A review of tho tests shows that 80 were victims ot the disease. No accurate estimate is available for the whites, but it is believed that tho percentage of vic tims will not exceed eight per cent of the total. Considerable interest is being shown by the general public in the campaign against the scourge, and the department is reporting crowd ed clinics here and in other parti of tho county each week. It is quite evident that the present facilities battling the disease, but the present program for a more concerted drivo against the disease i s now pending in the National Congress, and State and local health officials arc hope ful the present program can be sup plemented in the future. Tho La- Follette-Bulwinklo bill, scheduled for consideration next Tuesday, is designed to create a fund of several millions of dollars for carrying on an anti-syphilis campaign, and in view of the great need for action it is believed the proposal will receive strong support when placed to a vote. , It's a Chronic Failing C. O.—You are on report for knocking this man unconscious. What have you to sayt Boatswain's Mate—Sir, I hit hira, but he was unconscious before he joined this man's navy. Kept His Promise Bride—Men are brutes. My hus band promised mo a surprise if I learned to cook, so I took lessons. Friend—You did I And what was the surprise t CONCLUDE FAT STOCK SHOW WITH SALE OF LIVE STOCK NASH FARMER TAKES FIRST PLACE IN SHOW Nash County Farmers have again taken a first place in the field of agriculture when Wiley Fisher of Babtleboro exhibited tho Grand Champion Gilt and tho top pen of 3 fat hogs in tho first annual East ern Carolina Fat Stock Show held ia Rocky Mount on April 7 and 8. M:. Fisher exhibited four of tho finest fat hogs that I have ever seen in this section of the state. C. E. Williams of Wilson, Route 1, in the Homes Church Community did hi s share by taking a fourth place With a pen of ten fat Poland China hogs. Wiley Fisher contributed further to the county's success by taking the third place in the individual class of fat hogs. C. S. Bunn of Spring Hope Route 1, took seventh place in a pen of ten hogs, ninth place in a pen of three hogs and fifltU place in tho individual • ft»t hog. Nash County did not show anr beef cattle this year. The salo was very satisfactory as the animals sold 95 points above the market quotations for the day based on the Richmond market. Swift and Company now located in Rocky Mount purchased the entire lot of hogs. The Grand Champion Gilt and barrow sold for 10c per pounJ. The Grand Champion Steer was purchased by I. W. Maflgum Of Rocky Mount at 13 l-4c. The Show was considered one of tho best beginning of any Show on tho Atlantic Coast Line Railroad by V. W. Lewis, Livestock Agent, of the A. C. L. i Several Nash County farmers have signified their intentions of produc ing fat hogs and steers which will be exhibited at the Fat Stock Show next year. Approximately 5000 farmers view ed the livestock on exhibit during the 7th and Bth even though tho weather conditions were not favor able. The Show was sponsored by the Rocky Mount Chamber of Com merce and was conducted under tho direction-of the Agricultural Exten sion Service of State Collego and Joe C. Powell, Edgecombe County Agent and J. 8. Sugg, Nash County Agent, Co-Chairman. REELECT KING MERCHANTS' KJJ)HERE Merchants Hear Henry Dwire In Plea For Business* To Employ New Technique Except for the election of Jacob Winstead as treasurer to succeed P. L. Thigpen, incumbent officers of tho Merchants Association were re elected at a meeting of tho new di rectors following the annual meet ing in the Ricks hotel, wliera Henry R. Dwire, director of public relations of Duke University, was principal speaker. R. A. King was reelected president of the Merchants Association. Other officers who were named to succeed themselves were Z. B. Bulluck, vice president; Miss Zolma Bradley, sec retary; and R. R. Gay, representa tive to the board of directors of the North Carolina Merchants Asso ciation. The full board of now directors was announced by Miss Bradley as follows: R. R. Gay, W. G. Robbins, Jasper Cummings, P. L. Thigpen, W. S. Johnson, Leon Epstein; A. L. Brandon, E. I. Fleming, F. P. Spru ill, J. A. Rosenbloom, R. D. Wim berley, W. G. Weeks, W. H. Sills, E. L. Taylor and David Davenport. NOTICE desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount I may do so by sending SI.OO with name and ad u. lO The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. 0. N _ Town Stat® Rant* No— SI.OO PER YBAJf Tobacco Auctioneer Turns Tfclemte To Show Animals; Urices Ron $8.95 And Up As the grand champion barrow and grand champion gilt went undeT the hammer at $lO a hundredweight, tho two-day fat stock show closed short ly before 3 o'clock and exhibitors from over half the state who came to Rocky Mount with hogs and steerg carried home prize money and buyers checks. Rennie D. "Tomcat" Jones of Nashville, regular tobacco auction eer for Planters warehouse hero, ap plied his magic chant to live pork and beef in the livestock auction which wound up the show. Ranging around ono side o." tho show ring, independent buyers and packing company representatives bid on the show stock as each group was driven into tho pen. A. P. Cole, ACL livestock agent who kept the official records on all animals in the show from the timo they were entered until they wore sold, announced the results of the sales this afternoon. Swift and Company bought tho whole entry list of 154 hogs for $8.95 a hundredweight, but bid on th 3 winners separately and paid high er prices for them. The winning pen of 10 hogs brought $lO a hun dredweight and the winning pen of three brought $9. M. B. Henning, an independent livestock speculator from Powhaton, Ya., bought most of the steers 4t prices from $9 to $lO. I. W. Man gum, Rocky Mount warehouseman, bought B, B. Everett's grand cham pion steer for $13.25 a hundred weight and Z. B. Bulluck, local market operator, bought the re serve champion at sl2. HOLD HEALTH INSTITUTE IN ROCKY MOUNT A health institute, sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in cooperation, with the State Board of Health, will be conducted April 19 at tho high school here, it was announced by R. M. Wilson, superintendent of city schools. Urging that school teachers and principals of Rocky Mount and sur rounding counties attend the insti tute, Superintendent Wilson ex plained that its purpose is to pro mote the effective teaching of health in the public schools. The institute will begin at '1 o'clock in the afternoon in the hign school auditorium. Superintendent Wilson announced that the program will begin with an address by a representative of the Department of Public Instruc tion, probably Dr. J. Henry High smith. The discussion will include a course of study in health and probably a pre-school clinic. Dr. Roy Norton of tho State Boar J of Health will discuss some health and their solutions, conta gious diseases, physical defects and their remedies and preventing un due emotional strains. Mrs. 11. P, Guffey, state public health nurse, will speak on services of health nurses in promoting the health of school children. Miss Mary E. Thomas,, nutrition ist of tho State College extension division, will discuss proper feeding of school children. The institute will be the last cf a series concerning various topics conducted here for educators of this area. Howard Watson \of Wilson County is using his 210-yard tobacco plant beddemonstrating the use of sprays and chemicals in the control of the blue mold disease. Check plots have been left in the center and at each end.