The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NO. 20
Local Aviators
To Fly Air Mail
Three Kocky Mount Filers Will
Cover Mail Routes From Here
May 19
Four planes piloted by local avia
tow will carry air mail frcn
11/ inky Mount May 19 as a part of
tie national Air Mail Week pro
gram, Postmaster E. Carr Speight
announced today.
One plane will pick up mail here
k durjng a Norfolk-to-Knoxvillo flight
nw three planes flown by local pi-
Hctfl will fly mail routes through
• different sections of eastern North
Carolina, all three routes ending ia
Raleigh, he stated.
Two planes will bring mail to
Rocky Mount from Plymouth and
Elizabeth City, the postmaster an
nounced also, connecting with the
'schedules of the outgoing planes
here.
William C. Olse of Raleigh, con
sulting engineer for the Rockv
Mount city power plant and expe-
Ireinced amateur aviator, ia scheduled
Ito land in Rocky Mount May 19 as
B>ne stop on an air mail route from
B?orflok, Virginia, to Knoxville,
Olsen's plane will arrivo
Mount at 8:30 o'clock in
morning, Postmaster Speight
Baid, after leaving Norfolk at 7
■'clock.
H B. E. Lee, manager of the Rocky
Rlount municipal airport, will make
Kwc. air mail flights to Raleigh on
Hiay 19, the postmaster continued,
ftjeaving here at 9 o'clock in the
morning, Lee will fly to Raleigh by
I Ahoskie, Weldon and Roanoke Rap
ids, and leaving here at noon will
| maku another trip by w.iy of War-
F-XSiiton. ,».
\f J. D. Winstead, veteran local pi
[J lot, will fly an air mail route from
ju Rocky Mount to Raleigh May 19
byway of Wilson, Farmville, Green
ville, Qoldsboro and Selma, Post-
I. master Speight announced.
L *W. M. Tharrington, also a local
wnlot, is scheduled to make an air
■mail flight to Raleigh the same day
fcby way of Morehead and New Bern.
Sflnal Rites Held
For Mrs. Shearin
ihgtirae Resident Of City Dies At
Home After Extended Illness
Buneral services for Mrs. Bessie
tearin, who died at her home af
r a long illness, were conducted
om the home at 516 Western Ave
le at 4 o'clock. Dr. J. W. Kincho
e, pastor of the First Baptist
urch officiated. Interment was
afe in Pineview cemetery.
Mrs. Shearin, who was the widow
of the late Robert Elisha Shearin,
was 01 yeaf's of age. She was an
• active and devoted member of tho
First Baptist church. She had beeu
' aftesident of this city for more than
twenty-five years.
Survivors include three children,
Mrs. Kenneth E. Tucker and Edward
C. Shearin, of this city, and Mrs. C.
B. Gwaltney, of Louisville, Ky., an 1
a. Sam Mayo, of Tarboro.
Pallbearers for the service were
L. P. White, B. T. Dawson, W. A.
Bulluck, A. Arnold, G. D. Medlin,
and W. 8. Johnson.
Hopkins, in radio address, asserts
nelv frontier lies in idleness of men,
money, machines.
ANNUAL VISITATION DAY
AT JUNIOR ORDER HOME
L iTJhe State Council of the Junior
i>rler United American Mechanics of
North Carolina is staging the Third
Annual Visitation Day at the Lex
ington Orphan. Home, on Sundjay
May 29. The Order hopes to have
50#0 visitors.
The program will begin at 10:30 A.
M. Governor Clyde R. Hoey will bo
the speaker, and his address, will be
at • eleven o'clock. State Councillor
Victor R. Johnson will preside over
the entire program.
L Many attractive prizes are being
"offered and it is hoped that there
will be 5000 visitors.
Dinner will be served picnic stylo
tgueste are asked to bring a
:et lunch.
*0 hundred twenty-five children
being cared for at the Lexing-
Home.
Safety Crusade Prize Winners
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Contest for April u they receive award check* from Wiley L. Moore
prtiidtnl of Pure Oil Company of the Carolina*. Left to right—Wiley
tl Moore, president; P. A. Reynold*, Columbia, S. C, winner of first
prise of $250.00; Harold W. Wieters, Charleston, S. C„ winner of second
prize ol $100.00; L. C. Barkley, Nowton, N. C, winner of third prise
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Mrs. Hoey Speaks
To Wilson Group
First Lady Of State Deplores Drink
ing By Women' In Address To
Garden Club
Wilson, May 14. —Attacking "drink
ing by southern womanhood" Mrs.
Clyde R. Hoey, North Carolina's first
Lady, told the Garden Department
of the Wilson Woman's Club here
yesterday that "I don't like custom
made manners. Why do things just
because everyone else does themf"
Deploring the habit o£ drinking
liquor among women Mrs. Hoey urg
ed the women at the gathering here
not to "do what the crowd does"
and asked them to set an example
for the children of the state tj
follow by "not indulging" in the
drinking habit.
Mrs. Hoey also urged abolishment
of advertising signs along along the
highways of the state and pointed
to the fact that such things offered
a danger to the automobile drivers
in the state by pointing out that a
check up has showed that more acci
dents occur where drivers are en
dangered by signs that they read
than occur where there are no sign?.
The Governor's wife also urged
club women in the state to help poor
children through school where tha
(child hadn't enough money to get|
' through himself.
"There ought not to be a boy or
a girl in th estate, who wants to
go to school, who should be stopped
from going because of money," she
said.
Mrs. H. S. Hilley, president of the
garden department of the local club,
presided over the gathering.
It was announced that Mrs. John
D. Gold, of Wilson, had won the
Gardo Club prize for the year for
obtaining the most points for flor
al exhibits.
J. W. Holcomb of the Paint Gap
community in Yancey County says
he has been getting an average of
$76 a month from milk produced by
liis six cows and much of this in
come he attributes to the use of si
lage preserved in his trench silo.
Justice Black leads Court this
term as sole dissenter, standing
alone nine times.
Soil tests to determine the acid
ity of Transylvania County farm
lands has revealed the fact that
two tons of limestone is needed per
acre to securo the most luxuriant
growth of clovers, reports the farm
agent.
Best results in using permanent
pasture is secured when the cows are
kept off the sod until May 1, reports
J. P. McCrary of Emma, Buncombo
County. Mr. McCrary has divided his
28 acres of pasture into three sec
tions and rotates his grazing.
Recent cool night« have not only
retarded the growth of- young tobac
co but is also preventing the germi
nation of cotton seed, say Wilson
County farmers.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938
P. A. Reynolds of 1328 Lady St.,
Columbia, S. C., was the winner of
first prize of $250 in the Purol-Pep
Drive Safely Crusade slogan-writing
contest, for April, according to an
announcement made hero today by
Daughtridge Oil Compay, Purol-Pep
agent in this territory.
Harold W. Wieters, of 30-A Pinck
ney Street, Charleston, S. C., was
awarded a second prize of SIOO, and
L. G. Barkley of Co. 3415 OCC,
Newton, N. C., won third place anl
a prize of $75.
The following won prizes of $25,
each: Alton Hartman, 317 Steele St.,
High Point, N. C.; Fred T. Richard
son, 3451 Wheat St., Columbia, S. C.;
J. W. Kurfees, 421 S. Hawthorns
Road, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Roy C.
Heffner, 34 N. Main St., Greer, S. C.;
J. L. Neal, Henrietta, N. C.; Paul
W. Sullivan, Maxton, N. C.; I. V.
Orange, 521 Centennial Ave. High
Point, N. C.
The following were awarded $lO
each: W. G. Abbott, Spartanburg, 8.
C.; A. C. McFarland, Rt. 1, Box 180,
Columbia, S. C.; Rev. George A.
Meetze, Prosperity, S. C.; Charles
W. Tyree, 3-8 W. Hargett St., Apt.
2, Raleigh, N. C.; A. 'C. Haselden,
520 S. Coit St., Florence, S. C.; S. T.
Perry, 223 W. 4th St., Charlotte, N.
C.; E. E. Reid, Cherokee Ave., Gaf
fney, S. C.; Henry F. Snow, 510
Lockland Ave., Winston-Salem, N.
C.; Mrs. Theo Vaughn, 926 N. Main
St., Anderson, S. C.j W. Howard
Williams, Rt. 1, Box 57, Allendale,
S. C.; Fred Wingate, 55 Church
St., Box 757, Reidsville, N. C.; Jack
Bigger, 417 Ebenezer St., Rock Hill,
S. C.; Susie N. Fishbourne, College
of Charleston, George St., Charles
ton, 8. C.; H. C. Federal, Aberdeen,
N. C. s J. Bassett, 39 Lucrene Ave,
Asheville, N. C.
The following won $5 prizes: Rod
ney Breese, 220 S. 4th St., Wilming
ton, N. C.; D. C. Barbot, Florence,
S. C.; Samuel F. Bass, 2008 Green
way Ave., Charlotte, N. C.; Mrb.
Arline G. Brown, 112 Grove Road,
Greenville, S. C.; A. E. Butler, 531
N. East St., Raleigh, N. C.; Mrs.
Edw. E, Draper, Country Club
Rocky Mount, N. C.; B. W. Engle
man,99 Fairfax Ave., Asheville, X.
C.; G. R. Griffin, 310 Arlington,
Rocky Mount, N. C.; Barney E. Har
din, Gen. Delivery, Lamar, S. C.;
Albert P. Mcintosh, 423 Jones Ave.,
Greenville, 8. C.; Leonard Thomp
son, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, 8.
C.; C. M. Todd, Jr., Simpsonville,
S. C.; H. K. Whitesides, P. O. Box
979, Gastonia, N. C.; Mrs. Hazel Ro
sonbeck Beauian, 915 High Ave.,
Marion, N. C.; H. G. Bryant, 102 N.
10th St., Wilmington, N. C.; Oscar
W. Bush, 1244 Enderly Road East,
Charlotte, N. C.; Hugh Craiu, 12
Wood Apartments, Greer, S. C.; S.
P. Cuthbert, Summcrville, 8. C.;
James Q. Davis, 1516 Hermitage
Court, Durham, N. C.; A. N. Dick
ens, Box 231, Mt. Gilhead, N. C.;
Mrs. W. P. Dowd, Rt. 1, Garner, N.
C.; Margaret P. Fletcher, Fletcher,
N. C.; Mrs. J. L. Osborne, Lawn
dale, N. C.; Mrs. J. W. Gray, En
field, N. C.; J. F. Steeds, N. C.; J.
H. Tillotson, 109 Harrill St., Forest
City, N. C.; R. D. Weatherford, P.
O. Box 509, Florence, S. C.; Paul M.
Wheeler, 940 Park Ave., Extn. Rock
Hill, S. C.; John T. Wood, 85 Ver
mont Ave.,; W. Asheville, N. C.
Parks Workman, Fire Dept. No. 2,
Gastouia, N, C.; B. Rhett Chamber
lin, 1320 Biltmoro Drive, Charlotte,
N. C.; Sidney H. Hopkins, 68 Pop-
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Action Needed In North Carolina
As Well As Good Intentions
The chairman of the State Board of Elections, W. A.
Lucas, of Wilson, issued a statement on Wednesday morn
ing explaining the election laws, and calling for hones
ty in elections. He stated "that dishonest election officials
could not claim to be 'honest citizens and that the frauds
perpetrated at elections were due to the election officials
for there could be no dishonesty in elections where the
election officials held the elections properly.
He explained the election laws and specifically stated
that there be no markers but that any voter had a right
to request aid from a member of his or her family or any
other citizen upon the request to the election officials.
The Governor has also issued a statement requesting
honesty in elections. It will be remembered that Major
McLendon former chairman of the State Board of Elec
tions appeared before the Election Committee of the last
Legislature and stated that the manner of holding elec
tions in North Carolina in many places was a disgrace to
the state and its citizens and unholy before the Lord.
But the committee on elections refused to do anything.
It is hoped that these gentlemen who have charge of
the administration of the elections Will act as well as talk
in bringing about fair elections. There were many com
plaints before the State Board of Elections and fraud was
proven in many places but the State Board of Elections ex
cused themselves by holding them irregularities. In one
county it was proven that the citizen would go down to the
poles and cast a vote for the whole community. This was
brought out before the State Board of Elections but they
held this to be a custom and not fraud, Major McLendon
has been chairman of the State Board of Elections for
several years and has had complete control of the holding
of Elections. When he made the above statement he was
evidently conversant with what was done.
SCHAUB DEFENDS AGENTS
FROM UNFAIR CRITICISM
Negro Scouts
Hold Camp
Wilson To Be Scene Of Fourth An'
nual Encampment For East Car
olina Groups
Wilson, May 15; —East Carolina
Council of .Boy Scout*, • which has
the largest number of Negro scout*
on its rolls of any council scouts
o nits rolls of any council in the
Southeastern section of tho United
States, will hold its fourth annual
Negro Scout camporee here next
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the
Wilson fairgrounds, Executive John
J. Sigwald announced yesterday.
Several hundred Negro scouts
from Wilson, Tarboro, Greenville,
Rocky Mount, Grimeeland, Washing
ton, Ayden, Ahoskie, Kinston, Stokes
and Winton will gathor here for a
round of scoutcraft work and good
.
times.
George H. Thomason, assistant ex
ecutive of tho council, will have
charge of the camporee.
Scouts are expected to arrive here
by 5 o'clock Friday afternoon to
register and that night will hold a
fellowship campfiro at the fair
grounds. At that time Boy M. Camp
bell of Greenville, activities chair
man of the council, will speak to
the boys.
On Saturday various scoutcraft
events will bo held. On Saturday
afternoon a board of review will be
held for the Negro scouts and that
night a court of honor will bo held
at a campfire ceremony which will
bo presided over by Sigwald. F. C.
Hardin of Greenville, council presi
dent, will speak to tho gathering
at this time.
Tho Camporee will officially con
clude hero early Sunday morning
with a sunrise service conducted by
tho Bev. O. E. Sanders, Negro min
ister of Wilson.
Three New
Bulletins
The use of auxins in rooting plant
cuttings is explained in a new cir
cular published by the State Col
lege extesion service for distribu
tion to North Carolina farmers.
Soaking the cuttings in indolebuty
ric acid, known as an auxin, is a
big hip in propagating plants as the
acid causes cutting to put out more
and better roots at a faster rate.
This publication, extension circu
lar No. 221, "Use of Organiq Acid in
Rooting Cuttings," prepared by J.
G. Weaver, assistant horticulturist,
with the help of C. F. Williams, as
sociate horticulturist, may be ob
tained upon request.
The publication of two other new
bulletins by the extension service
has also been announced.
Dr. Luther Shaw, extension plant
The county agent, because of liis
close association with the now farm
act, has been the target of much
undeserved criticism since cotton an'l
tobacco allotments were announced,
says Dean I. O. Schaub, of State
College.
In a few communities, some dis
gruntled farmers have been clamor
ing for the agent's dismissal, basing
their argument on appprent "un
fairness.''
"Thus we have a strange situa
tion," the director of the Exten
sion Service said. "The county agent
is put in much the same position
as a tax collector. He has orders
which he muet carry out that were
formulated by the Congress of the
United States. His duties are pure
ly administrative."
Dean Schaub explained that coun
ty committeemen determined acre
age allotments for individual farms
after a careful study was made
of the county and according to a
formula set up in the Act.
After the allotments were com
pleted, they were announced through
the office of the county agent,
headquarters for the AAA program
in each county.
"National goals were set up in
Washington, and each state give.i
its proportionate share of acres,"
Dean Schaub said. "In the case
of cotton, even county goals were
established in Washington. For to
bacco, the State committee set each
county's quota, which waa approv
ed by the AAA regional office in the
nation's capital.
''We think that only a small part
of the growers are campaigning ac
tively against the program. Most of
the others are still willing to go
along with us in order to give con
trol a fair chance. If they don't
like it after the marketing season
is over, they can vote down the
program at the next referendum."
Hull opens series of broadcasts
to Latin America with plea for
American "solidarity."
pathologist, has explained the need
for treating cotton seed to control
damping off disease, and shown
how the treatment should be admin
istered.
The explanation is contained in
extension folder No. 39. "Why and
How to Treat Cotton Seed."
Extension circular No. 222, "Ter
racing to Reduce Erosion," was
prepared by David 8. Weaver, head
of the department of agricultural
engineering, and H. M. Ellis, exten
sion agricultural engineer.
It points out various methods of
constructing terraces on different
slopes and soil types, and illustrat
es the use of light V-drags and
heavy terracing equipment.
These publications may be ob
tained by writing the agricultural
editor at State College, Raleigh.
WALLACE CHARGES HUGHES
WITH REVERSING POSITION
More Claims 0
Approved J
t
The sum of $10,321.07 was certified a
for payment, during the month of 0
April, to 357 claimants in North
Carolina, who are entitled to old- ,
ago insurance benefits. This state- c
meat, which was issued today by (
the Social Security Board, also re- c
veals the fact that a total of 2,737 f
claims amounting to $58,58353, were ,
approved for payment, to North ,
Carolina residents during the first ]
sixteen months of toe operation of j
old-age insurance provisions.
In April, 19,370 claims, amount- j
ing to $824,234, were certified for i
payment to old-age insurance clai- i
mants in the United States. A total
of 134,297 claims, amounting to $4,- |
249,468, have been certified for pay- |
ment to persons throughout the
whole country, since January 1, 19-
37.
It is said that the Social Security
Board is now equipped to approve
one old-age insurance claim every
30 seconds of the working day and
is actually approving them at the
rate of 750 a day.
Lump-sum payments of old-age in
surance benefits are made to eli
gible workers who have reached 65
since January 1, 1937, and to the
relatives or estates of such work
ers who have died since that time.
A lump-sum benefit payment repre
sents 3 1-2 percent of the total
wages received.
The wife of a deceased worker
usually has a prior claim on the
lump-sum payment due her hus
band's estate. If no wife survives,
the children or parents are general
ly the preferred claimants. The
amount of the payment varies, of
course, since it is based on the
wages earned in covered employ
ment from December 31, 1936, up
to the date of the employee'*
death or the date that ho attained
age 65. The average amount of th*»
lump-sum payments in the United
States last month was $42.55. In this
State the average payment in April
was $28.91.
Attractive Porch
Asset to Home
"We have had various kinds o£
home improvement contests for
kitchens, living rooms, and gener
al home beautification, but a porch
improvement contest is something
' new.
"Now, home demonstration club
women have decided that something
' must be done sbout the porch of
1 the average farm home," said Ger
trude Bundy, Wayne County home
agent of the State College extension
' service.
"As I drove over the State this
' spring attending district Federation
of Home Demonstration Club
• meetings, I noticed many improve
ments in the porches of country
homes."
New porch furniture has been add
?
• ed in places. Old furniture .ias
' been repainted, and made more
comfortable. Porch floors have beeu
1 repaired and painted.
1 Porches eai. be made so com
i fortable and attractive, Miss Bun
dy said, that she hates to see new
homes being built without them,
i They lend charm to a homo, espe
• cially to a country home, and they
are useful, too.
To make a porch more attractive,
one should avoid drab colors such
as tans, buffs, and grays. On the
other hand, a vivid orange is un
-1 desirable as it clashes with nature.
Avoid yellow green. Use shutter
green for dark furniture. Soft greens
More Claims
Approved
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Washington, May 12.—Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace made public
tonight an unprecedented letter to
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,
telling him, in effect, that ho had
switched his position on an import
ant point of legal procedure.
Earlier in the day, Hughes had
made a speech in which, besides
criticizing unnamed judges as un
qualified, he called on administrates
agencies of the government to dis
play judicial "impartiality and in
dependence." Though ho did not
mention Wallace's dopartment, his
listeners were reminded of a Su
preme Court decision April 25 in
validating a Wallace order reduc
| ing rates charged by commission
men in the Kansas City livestock
market.
The order was invalidated on the
ground tho commission men were not
given opportunity to rebut findings
of fact made by an examiner of the
agriculture deportment.
Wallace, in addition to declaring
this was a reversal of a position
taken two years ago, sent a letter
to Senators saying the effect of th»
Supreme Court decision was to give
"the Kansas City commission men
and their attorneys $700,000 of im
pounded money which rightfully be
longs to the farmers."
Wallace said that in the case in
question, the findings were not
thrown open to rebuttal, but he con
teded that he inherited the case from
the Hoover administration; and that
20 months ago ho established the
practice of permitting such rebut
tals.
In his letter to Hughes, lie said.
"You will bo interested to kno>v
that the practice you now recom
mend, that the examiner conducting
a hearing mako a report which is
available to both parties for excep
tions and argument, was adopted by
this department about 20 months
ago. You v.ill recall that when you
remanded this same case to the low
er court in May, 1936, you discuss
ed this question and at that time
you wrote: ' x x x we cannot say
that that particular type of proce
dure was essential to the validity
of the hearing. The statute does not
require it and what the statute doys
require relates to substance and not
form.' Although you pointed out that
such procedure was ifot required,
we nevertheless felt that its adoption
would help to assure fair play to
all parties and made it a part of
our regular procedure in all cases
arising under the packers and stock
yards act and similar legislation.
; I am glad to know that the court
now has approved tho procedura
i which the department already lial
r inaugurated."
Car Kills Boy
At Play In Yard
Eddie Hunter, Jr., 11-year-old Ne
gro boy of near Mt. Olive, was play
ing in the yard at his home Satur
day afternoon.
Suddenly a car, driven by Edgar
Howell, while tryig to dodge ano
ther approaching car, dashed into
the yard and struck the boy. Ho died
a few minutes later.
Howell, who lives near Mt. Olive,
was released under a bond of SI,OOO
posted by hi 3 father.
According to eyewitnesses HoweU
had just passed a wagon on tha
road and swerved from the road just
i time to avoid a collision with
another car.
The child died at the office of a
Mt. Olive physician shortly after he
was struck by the car.
Coroner T. R. Robinson, Sr., in
vestigated the accident and stated
that an inquest was unnecessary.