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The Rocky Mount Herald ILUME 5, NO. 19 miIAMSTON 'LANS FORMAL OPENING FOR PLAYGROUND ul Arrangements Await Decisions $y Allstrict WPA Office. Much Sqnipment Has Been Placed On grammar School Ground W il 1 i a m st on, May 6. — tponsored by several of the iic organizations under the of the Williamston Refc, Executive Committee, a playground will be f»r ned to the youth of the r next Monday, the lead ning that there is a pos ! a delay in the event, final decision by the dis ks Progress Administra als. Much of the equip been placed on the nd everything will b'-i iy for the opening for >ut as yet the WPA has able to assign directors oject, it was learned to- Ir an $82.50 cash donation, m the Kiwanians, $5O Woman's Club and $l5 Junior Wiman's Club and allowances by Saunders Williamston Supply Critcher Brothers and Woodard Lumber Com recreational executive com -9 outfitted a very corn ground for the children, n the list are a tennis »y ball court, bourse shoe gs, see-saws, sand piles, urt and a soft-ball dia the children are flocking lygrounds, caring little formal opening scheduloj londay. Tho sponsors arc ng to formally open the B until supervisors of been assigned 'to the rground is recognized as ry venture, Mrs. D. N. man of the committee, it work is being contin ie plans for a propose! program. al report giving cost esti definite plans for tho project has been relea-3- ii in the making. on the executive com ; Mrs. E. P. Cunningham rent-Teacher association; >rt Taylor, Junior Wom- Mesdames R- H. Good , Ward and D. N. Hix, lub; Bill Spivey, Kiwanis; golis, Lions Club; Z. T. Ministerial Association; on, American Legion, and ing. Citizens [ear Governor tizens filled the auditor } Booker T. Washington 1 and crowded about the ,o hear Governor Clyde leak. rnor was principal speak neeting of tho Rocky c Forum, a civic organi pleting its fourth year. Hocy told tho audience, L to talk to you because iterest in public affairs ■s interested in audiences oquent spiritual address, i the philosophies of great races" and sug- America might produce The philosophies he re were the Greek, "know he Roman, "control thy he of white citi- > ited were M. V. Barnhill, fustice of the State Su rt; Senator L. L. Grave- Spruill, president of the lina Bankers Association ■ i islew, past president of Carolina Bar Association, Battle, past president of Carolina Bar Association, J. Q. Robinson, who we'.- I Governor. ence enthusiastically ap e Mayor's reference to Soey as "the greatest forth Carolina has had ;u nd hundreds shook hands jveraor after his address. - TWO BOUND IN , ASSAULT CASE E. B. High And W. I. Tanner Post Bond In Rocky Mount After Hearing E. B. High, local lawyer, and W. I T. Tanner, transfer trucker, had 1 posted $5OO bond each pending trial in Nash Superior Court on charges of waylaying and secretly assault ing Kemp B. Matthews, grocery store manager, the night of Mar.'n 12. In a preliminary hearing Satu"- 1 'day that lasted from 9 o'clock in the morning until 9:30 at nigh - , Jack Murchison, vice-recorder of the city court, found probable cause and bound the two over to Superior Court. Practically all of the crowd that filled the city auditorium remained throughout the sweltering day and returned for tho night session. The defense attorneys—fi". T. Thome, one-time mayor of Rocky Mount, Ben E. Fountain, and Nor man Gold—paraded 21 witnesses to the Btand to build up an alibi against Matthews' vigorous accusation from the stand that High and Tanner were the two men who attacked him in his back yard. The defense bore heavily on the point that not until six days after tho assault did Matthews name at tackers and that warrants for High and Tanner were not issued until 18 days after the assault. Police B. M. Tilghman testified that in in vestigating he asked Matthews who attacked him, Matthews answered, "I haven't any idea," the officer said. Miss Fannie Armstrong, office nurse at the hospital to which Mat thews was taken, testified that two days after the attack Matthews told her he didn't know who attacked him. On the stand for more than an hour, Matthews stuck to his accusa tions through cross-examination. He said, "Brooks High hit me with something from behind . . . Tanner came around my left and gave me a good lick in the mouth." He testified he fcn't tell police sooner who attacked him because "I -wanted something to back up my statement" and "I was scare! to death." High and Tanner took the stani to deny any knowledge of the at tack until two days after it occurred. Other defeae witnesses gave evi dence they were at their homes at the time Matttlicws said the attack occurred. BACK TO THE COURTS The High Point hydro-electrical project to bp built on the Yadkin river, 12 miles from Winston-Sal em at a proposed cost of $5,776,750, is headed back to the courtj as Mayor Grayson and eight members of the High Point city council were ordered by Judge Biven3, Mount Airy, to appear before the superior court in Greensboro, on May 4, and give reasons for not be ing adjudged in contempt of a re cent supreme court decree. The order was siged in Mount Airy, after J. Paul Williamson, High Point citizen, presented an affida vit stating that the defendants had committed acts proclaimed unlaw ful and in violation of a court judgment handed down last Febru ary. The affidavit alleged by stat ed action in a city council meeting on April 27 and by continual en gagement in the engineering acti vities the defendants have been op erating in contempt of the supreme court decree. Her 103 rd Birthday "Aunt" Zilphia Howell, as she is known, celebrated her 103 rd birth day Wednesday by eating heartily of a chicken dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Howell. Mrs. Howell lives at the Wayne county home— has been living there for , the paist five or six years. R. H. t Sutton, superintendent of the Coun- . ty Home, says that Mrs. Howell at tributes her living to such advanc ed age to the fact that she has never taken any medicine. He says , she has never taken any in the two years since he has been superintend ent at the Home. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA. "H'DA"', MAY 13, 1933 STATE GETS LION'S SHARE ALLOTMENT State Is Allowed 65 Per Cent Of The Total Leaf Tobacco Allot ment Under The New Production Order Allotments of 590,000 acres hav.. been mode to North Carolina flue cured tobacco growers under the ag ricultural conservation adjustment administration it was announced in Washington Saturday. Allotments of approximately 870,000 acres have been completed for growers in six states, and only about 2,000 acres remain to be set, the AAA said. North Carolina, far in the lead of the other states, holds about 65 per cent of the total alloted acre age. South Carolina was alloted 95,000 acres; Virginia, 90,000; Georgia, 83,000; Florida, 13,700; and Alabama, 500. The allotments equal the five-year average acreage of each state, adjusted for abnormal weather conditions, trends in ac reage, small farms, and conform ance fo the national total of 872,000 acres. "Present indications are that plantings by growers who did not receive allotments, and planting in excess of allotmets by some growers will result in a total flue-cured ac reage slightly in excess of 900,009 acres, or 30,000 to 40,000 acres in excess of total allotments," com mented J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA administrator. "Assuming a planted acreage of 910,000 acres and an averago yield of 840 pounds per acre, the crop would turn out to be approximat :- ly 760,000,000 pounds. "Tho averago yield for the last four years has been slightly above 840 pounds per acre. "This quantity of 760,000,000 pounds is 'in excess of the estima ed world consumption of flue-cured tobacco during the current yea", and is approximately 40,000,000 pouds in excess of the national marketing quota for flue-cured to bacco. "The market situation at the be ginning of the 1938 marketing set eon is expected to be less favor able than at the beginnig of the 1937 marketing season. With the above indicated acreage, which as sumes that relatively few growers will place in excess of their indi vidual acreage allotments, and av erage yields, in my judgment the resulting crop -will be as large as can be marketed at prices near the level of last year. "If any considerable proportion of tho growers plant in excess of their acreage allotments, and aver age yields are obtained, - a bad market situation is likely next fall unless there are unforseen devel j opinents in the demand situation. "During the past month I have visited county offices in different parts of the flue-cured area, in eluding counties in the old belt of Virginia and North Carolina, th-j new belt of Eastern North Carolini the border belt of North Carolina and South Carolina, and the new producing areas of Georgia and Flori da, and have reviewed the work that has been done by state, coun ty, and local committees in all parts of the belt. "On the whole, these committees have done an xcellent job of ap portioning th state acreage allot ments among the farms. The meth od used has been uniform through out the entire area." Do you know that —11,497 more vacationers a day visited Miami during the 1937-38 winter season than .in the 1936-37 season when nation-wide business conditions werj more prosperous. Eveening dresses without shoulder straps were re ported the outstanding fashion item during April by a leading New York department store, accounting for 39 per cent of all formal even ing wear sales. . John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman during the Smith-Hoover campaign, will sell his private railroad car for $25,000; it cost $llO,OOO in 1939, con tains three rooms, three baths and fourteen beds ... To encourage tour ist trade, France will issue tourist cards this year whereby visitors remaining more than six days will be allowed reduced railroad faxes and gasoline prices. . . SPEAKERS AT "CO-OP DAY*' MEETING Hp - HKH GOVERNOR HOEY 8. D. SANDERS M. G. MANN j Governor Clyde R. Hoey delivered 'he address of welcome to the nearly 5,000 farmers and farm women from all over the State who gathered in Raleigh on May 10 for the annual meeting of the State Cotton Association and the Farmers Co-operative Exchange. Principal speaker was S. D. Sanders, Co-operative Bank Commissioner, Farm Credit Administration, Washington, D. C. M. G. Mann, general manager, reported on activities of the past year, during which time the two cooperatives at tained a combined volume in excess of $7,000,000. The meeting was held in the City Auditorium in Raleigh and began at 10 o'clock. Judge Barnhill Opposes Election of Judges Judge M. V. Barnhill speaking before the North Caroli na Bar Association last week recommended that judges should be commissioned some other way than by being nom inated and elected. Just exactly what the judge meant we are unable to state for the only way the people can have any part in the selection of the judge is at the Ballot Box and when judges are removed from the Ballot Box it is quite natural they will not have much consideration for the people. Most of the judges in North Carolina have come by the route of appointment which route Judge Barnhill seems to refer but the people of North Carolina still believe in Democracy and they still want their judges nominated and elected rather than receive their commission from the executive which sometimes is more in consideration for pol itic work than judicial temperament. Many of our judges resent the fact that after serving their term, that they should again have to ask the people for reelection. There seems to be a feeling among the judges in the state that when they are once appointed a judge that it should be a continuous thing with an old age pension as a climax. MRS. WHEELESS PASSES The city of Rocky Mount was shocked and grieved to learn of the sudden passing of Mrs. George Wheeless who had been a resident of Rocky Mount since her early mar ried life. Mrs. Wheeless was the daughter of the late Rev. James Pitchford, noted minister and teacher throughout Eastern Carolina and state Senator from Warren County. Her mother was Miss Duke and a sister of that noted Bap tist preacher, Rev. George Duke who was the father of the Baptist denomination in Nash and Franklin counties. Mrs. Wheeless was a worthy descendant of these two fine pio neer families, full of good works herself and living their religion Mrs. Wheless only has one child, a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Wheeless, who is expecting to graduate within a few months from the Moody Bible School, in Chicago, which shows that the ministerial spirit of these pioneer ancestors still permeates the lives of their descendants. The sympathy of our community goes out to the husband and his daughter and the family of this good woman. Johnson Has Part Ili Seminary Finals I.ocal Minister Delivers Commence ment Address at Richmond Bev. Norman Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, had returned today from Bichmond where he delivered the annual com mencement address at Union Theolo gical Seminary. Mr. Johnson, a member of the board of trustees of tho institution headed by Dr. Ben B. Lacy, was appointed by the authorities to fill the speaker's poet at the 126t1i com mencement exercises. Twenty-three graduatd from tho Seminary, it was earned. The P r » gram was broadcast over the Bich mond Tadio station at 11:30 Tues day morning. Mr. Johnson recently was appoint ed to two important committees at the Seminary, the committees on scholastics and curriculum. The pastor was slated to conduct the regular prayer services at the local church at 7:45 o'clock tonight. Beginning with this week we are putting a quostion column under our Public Forum. These questions are being run from time to time Many questions are being present ed to us from time to time which we are unable to answer. Many of them are very worthy questions and have an educational value. A Pessimists View of Cotton Cotton is tlie overcoat of a see! that is planted and grown in the South to keep the producer broke and tho buyer crazy. The fiber varies in grade and sta ple, and the man who can guess nearest about these is called "a cot -1 ton man" by the public, a fool by the farmer, and a poor business man by his creditors. The price of cotton is fixed in New Yajrk, and goes down wfhen you have bought and up when you have sold. A buyer for a big cot ton mill was sent to New York to watch the cotton market. After a few days' deliberation, he wired his firm: "Some think it will go down, and some think it will go up. I do too. Whatever you do will be wrong. Act at once." Cotton is planted in the spring, mortgaged in the summer, and left in the the fields in the winter. Bowl of rice—The biggest move ment ever , undertaken in the United States to aid suffering non combatants of a war stricken coun try was launched last week by the United Council for Civilian Be lief in China, headed by Theodore Boosevelt Jr., On June 17th, in hun dreds, of cities an dtowns, thous ands of Americans will participate in a national Bowl of Bice Dinner and Ball, tho proceeds from which will be used to send food and me-i ical supplies to more than 30,000,000 Chinese civilian refugees. GHEVG _ (Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent) MANY POLITICIANS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER FLORIDA ELECTION SIGNIFIES TREND Presidet Roosevelt and liis New Deal liavo emerged triumphant from the first primary test in the 1938 political campaign. The overwhelming victory of Sen ator Claude Pepper, in the Demo cratic Primary in Florida., gives no comfort whatever to tho oppo sition. The Administration favoriia polled nearly sixty per cent. Of the votes cast. His chief opponent, Congressman Mark Wilcox, a fre quent New Deal critic, was backed by about twenty-eight per cent of the voters and most of the other votes went to former Governor Sholtz, generally regarded as a sup porter of the Administration. What Significance? Mr. Pepper considered his victory over four opponents as a vote of "confidence and approval" of the Administration. His view was accept ed by Chairman Farley, Roosevelt and such Now Deal stal warts as Majority Leader Barkley, Secretary Roper and others. The op position, including Conservative Democrats and Republicans, saw, "no national significant in the Florida results." Conservative Democrats, who are opposing tho President's policies, especially those of the South, how ever, will get a significant lesson from tho result in Florida. Con sidered together- with the victory of Representative Lister Hill a strong Administration man. tho Alabama senatorial election a few moths ago, tho implication is that the President is in continued favor with Southern Demcorats. Other Primaries The primary election in North Carolina, June 4, will give addition al information on this point. Sena- MONOPOLY AND ITS PRAC DEMOCRATIC GOVERN Declaring that "concentrated pri vate economic power" is struggling to "amster our Democratic govern ment," President Roosevelt, in his message to Congress on monopoly made it plain that he is not be ginning "any ill-considered 'trust busting" activity which lacks prop er consideration for economic re sults." The President called for "a thorough study of the oolncentTa tion of economic power in Amer'- can industry and the effect of that concentration upon the decline of competition" and asked for $500,- 000 to finance a study of the prob lem. Ho also requested $200,000 fjr tho Department of Justice "to pro vide for tho proper and fair en forcement of the existing anti trust laws." Borah Approves Senator Zorah, who recently con ferred with tho President on this subject, approved the investigation, but feared that it might "string along and finally reach tho desk or the upper shelf in the form of ten or twenty volumes which few will ever consult." The Idaho Sena tdr asserted that "we know that monopoly exists in this country" and that it is undermining our whole economic and social structure. "The President's statement of facts," says Mr. Borah, leaves only one question for study—that is how to deal with the subject." The President's message pointed out that the liberty of a Demo cracy is not safe if private power grows to a point where it becomes NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Herald may do so by send: * SI.OO with name and ad dress to The Rocky Mouiu .ierald, Rocky Mount, N. (J. Kama _ Town State Route N0...„ SI.OO PER YEA* tor Bob Reynolds is campaigning for reelection as a "redliot Rooso veltinn" and is generally expected to win. His opponent in the pri mary is congressman Franklin Han cock. After that, we will have to wait until August 6th when the vot ers of Kentucky choose between Senator Alben Barkley, open White House favorite ,and Governor "Hap py" Chandler, New Deal critic. Three days later, in Arkansas, tho voters will pass judgment on Senator Hat tie Caraway, a "100 per cent." Roose velt supporter, who is being oppos ed by two members of the House of Representatives.. President Still Powerful The significance of the Florida primary is not to be found in th-» fact that Senator Pepper won, ncr even in tho overwhelming nature of his renomination. The more im portant revelation is that, at the Florida polls, there was very lit tle evidence that President Roose velt has lost much, if any, of his popular support. If this inference is borne out by subsequent primaries in the Southern States, tho conclu sion will be obvious. The Florida result is welcomed by supporters of the Administration as an antidote for many "opinions" that are being widely circulated. It, in their opinion, will offset tho view that tho President is much weaker with tho people than ho was, that the Conservatives of the South are ready to cut his political throat, and elections held today would re veal wide spread dissatisfaction with tho Administration, that the current depression has alienated tho faith of his admirers and that they are now ready to abandon the New Deal as a sinking ship. ENDANGER ifMENT, SAYS ROOSEVELT stronger than the state itself. More • over, this liberty is not safe if tho business system does not produce employment and produce and dis tribute goods in such a way as to obtain an acceptable standard of living. Concentrated Power Asserting that a concentration of private power "without equal iu history" is growing in this coun try, the President cited statistics. In the year 1935, he said, one-; tenth of one per cent, of all cor porations owned fifty-two percent of the assets of all corporations. Less than five per cent of th? corporations owned eighty-seven per cent of all assets. In regards to corporate incomes, one-tenth of one per cent earned fifty per cent of tho net incomo of all; of the manufacturing corpor ations, less than four per cent of them earned eighty-four per cent of all the net profits of all of them. In 1929, three-tenths of one per cent of our population received seventy-eight per cent of the divi dends distributed. In regards to the distribution of the national income, in 1935-36 for ty-seven per cent of American fam iliea had incomes less than $l,OOO for the year and "at the other end of the ladder," less than one and one-half per cent, of the na tion's families received incomes equal to the total incomes received (Please turn to page four)
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