The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5. NUMBER 36.
ASK MORE FOR AID
FOR AGED PEOPLE
*A * ———
A larger equalization fund to aid
counties under the public assistance
program will be sought at the 19-
39 session of the General Assembly,
4» the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare announced this week.
Meeting in Raleigh to consider
the biennial report to the governor
a4d the legislative body, the stale
board voted to ask for a quarter-mil.
' y lion dollar increase in funds for oil
age assistance and $150,000 more for
aid to dependent children.
For each year of the coming bi
ennium a total of one aud one
quarter millio's will be asked to
indigent old people while $650, 000
will be asked for each year for dis
tribution among North Carolina"
,' needy children.
Present at the meeting were Col.
W. A. Blair, Winston-Salem, chair I
man; E. Harvey Evans, Lauringhuig.
Mrs. Walter C. Crowell, Monroe, Miss
Carrie McLean, Charlotte, a-«d Rob
ert Hairston, Reidsville.
W. T. Boet, stated in discussing the
biennial report that ar.' attempt was
being made this year to make the
* booklet an interpretation of policies
and practices of the new services
the board is now renderi- 6, parti
cularly under federal, state and lo
cal cooperation in welfare work.
Miss lavinia Keys, regional direo
,, tor, public assistance division of the
-t Social Security Board, Washington,
was present at one session of the
state board and discuaril with the
Members progress masfhr the stat*
during the past year. '/•
'• . "North Carolina's greatest difficul
ty now is the smallness of grants
under the public assistance program,'
His« Keys said.
Birds
v Betoken Early Fall
Signs of an early fall, as indicat
ed by migratory birds, have been
noted by J. D. Chalk, state game and
inland fisheries commissioner.
Game Protector A. B. Baum, of
Currituck county, reports to the
game division of the Department of
Conservation a'tfd Development that
"quite a few ducks are coming Into
the marshes now."
In addition to the early duck mi
grants, Protector Baum also report
ed "plenty of grass," which means,
according to the game commission
er, that there should be ample feed
for ducks, geese and other migra
tory wild fowl. Prom other sources,
there have also been numerous ob
•- a servations that the supply of eel
grass which was reduced almost to
extinction several years ago has
come back o r > the coastal waters of
the state.
Regarding the reports of early arri
(•» val of ducks. Commissioner Chalk
asserted: "This is rather early for
ducks and it may be another indica
(tion of an early fall. I have heard
several older friends who pride
themselves on their ability to make
I weather forecasts say that we wilt
f have an early fall.
"One elderly man told me yes
terday that the Black Martins had
doparted early in August this year,
which is about 3o days earlier than
they took leave last season."
Hankow military chiefs suppress
organizations of students of work
ers sponsored by Communists.
FARMERS APPROVE CONTROL
Out of about 1000 tobacco farmers
/, "J who gathered at the Nashville court
house Saturday afternoon at the
call of Farm Bureau leaders to con
sider prices, only a few farmers were
heard to vote against crop concrol.
With only five dissenters in Nash
ville and two disse'ters in Tar
boro, the Nash and Edgecombe far
mers voted practically 100 per cent
in favor of continuing government
control programs.
Congressman Harold D. Cooley iraa
chief speaker at the Nashville meet
ing, and told the farmers he could
not understand how a farmer could
vote against his owl best interest
by opposing control. W. F. Wood
ruff, state vice-president of the
Farm Bureal, presided.
Control In Approved In Eaat At
L Eighth Regional Meets
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Crop control had the approval of
ASK COTTON
YARD FOR
ROCKYMOUNT
Mayor Name* Committee To Rem
edy Lack Of Space For Hand
ling Product
Mayor J. Q. Rohinson appointed a
cotton yard committee, to remedy
the city's lack of a space designated
for the sale of cotton by investi
gating possible sites, at the semi
monthly meeting of the board of
nldormen held last niglit in the city
courtroom.
City Manager L. B. Aycock, Alder
man D. C. Lewis and Alderma-( J/.
L. Williams were named as members
of the committee.
Raising the subject, Alderman
Lewis of the third ward reminded
the board, "We are completely with
out a cotton yard." The city's official
cotton yard for years was a down
town vacant area bounded •on the
north by Marigold street and on the
"west by the Atlantic Coast Lane
railroad tracks.
Recently the city extended Iho
east branch of South Main street di
rectly through the center of tliij
area. With beautification projects be
ing undertaken along the street, the
space formerly occupied by the cot
ton yard is no more.
In seeking a new site for the cot
ton yard the committee will not be
plowing new ground e- tirely, be
cause for year s past, even while
the former area was being used, the
question of moving cotton yard to
this site or that was one of the most
popular subjects of debate among the
aldermen. ,
Indications of dissatisfaction
among local private aviators, who
'btfftF'ttSldiiidnumerous in this
area during rece ft years, cropped
up at the board meeting last night
Alderman H. P. Hinson of the fourth
ward road a request from local pi
lots for a meeting in the near fu
ture with the aldermen and the aity
airport commission. As to the re
quest, aldermen commented that the
pilots and anyone else will be wel
comed at the regular meetings of
the board, a.'ld suggested that the pi
lots ask the airport commission to
come up with them.
Prom the written request, alder
men gathered the impression that the
private aviators wish to protest
against the rules of the city airport
concerning gasoline rates and con
cerning passenger-flying rates.
Placing traffic signs on streets
that intersect with main thorough
fares was suggested by Alderman
H. E. Bunn of the seventh ward,
and referred to the city manager,
Alderman Henry W. Cutchin of the
third ward suggested traffic sign#
for hospital zones and vacant lot*
for public parking.
The board approved payment of
city bills amounting to $21,989.18,
less a discount of $99.06.
COTTONSEED GRADING
Cottonseed produced and market
ed in North Carolina this year will,
foe the first time, be sampled and
graded u: Her supervision of the li
8. Department of Agriculture, ac
cording to J. A. Shanklin, extension
cotton specialist at State College.
a majority of the Eastern North
Carolina tobacco growers who attend
ed eighth regional meetings to dii
cusg the decline in tobacco prices at
Greenville, Wilson, Kenansville,
Tarboro, Nashville, Snow Hill, Kin
ston and Warrenton Saturday and
adopted resolutions advocating the
continuance of a crop control pro
gram.
Less ten votes at each meet
ing attended by hundreds of grow
ers, were cast against control.
The Federal crop reporting service
reported an average price of $21.10
on 14 new bright belt tobacco mar
kets last week.
E. F. Arnold, Executive Secretary
of the Farm Bureau Federation, an
nounced the organization's executive
committee of 16 members had been
called to meet at Wilson Wed-Jes
day night "to discuss the tobacco
situation and make further plans for
continuation of crop control." '
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938
With Downie Brothers Circus Here
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, Seno Carlos Carreon who appears with gparks-Downie Bros. Crircus at Rock
Mount on Monday, September 12th for two-performances.
Motion picture stars, whose popu
larity have made them of unestiin
able value to producers, have for
various reasons, substitute players
whom studio officials have termed
"stand-ins", who replace the "name"
artist in scenes of hazardous nature
and who must possess and display
the greatest of versitality. Just such
a personage is Carlos Carreo-', who
comes to Rocky Mount on Monday.
September 12, with the Downie Bros.
Circus, which fives an afternoon
and night performance.
Carlos Carreon's career in the
show business reads like chapters
fom Horatio Alger's works. A Mexi
can vaguero who was lured into the
show business by the illustrious'
"Bnffal® MB* dnrt-fc -a tottr of- thai*
famous wild west aggregation thru
Schools Enroll
Fewer Children
Sharp Decreases in Lower Grades in
City Indicate Declining Birth
Rate
Probably because of a dwindling
birth-rate, the Rocky Mount school?
opened today with "the smallest
first grade enrollment in several
years," Superintendent of Schools R.
M. Wilson stated today.
With increases in the upper grades
and high school enrollme - |fc almost
offset by the decrease in the first
grade, the total enrollment in ail
the city schools was 5,019 —52 more
than on the first day of the last
school year.
The increase was in the Negro
schools. The white schools, with a
total enrollment of 2,817, had four
less pupils than on the opening day
a year ago.
In the white schools, the higa
school enrollme: | of 1,026 was high
er than last year but the elemen
tary schools enrollment —totalling
1,791 —'wa g pulled down by the de
crease in the first grade.
The Negro schools, with a total
enrollment of 2,199 > reflected the
same trend. They showed an increase
in high school enrollment and a
slight decrease in eleme- (tary school
enrollment.
Edgecombe Seeks
Paving Of Roads
Hard-surfacing two stretches of
unpaved road in Edgecombe county
will be recommended by the county
commissioners, it was decided at the
commissioners' monthly meeting i - '
Tarboro yesterday.
The commissioners will ask hard
surface construction, it was stated,
for the Upper Coastal Plains Cast
farm road from the test farm to
Tarboro byway of Nobles Mill, and
also for the road from Leggetts to
the Scotland Neck-Enfield highway
The commissioners agreed to lend
their to impfrovting those
roads after hearing several delega
tions request road improvement in
various sections of the cou: ty.
Routine business was the main
concern of the Edgecombe commis
sioners, and also of the Nash coun
ty commissioners who met yester
-1 day in Nashville.
Mexico, Carreon later became on"»
of the outstanding featured artists
of that organization, as well as
chief of the cowboy*. Wild west ex
hibitions and rodeos thru out the
world offered fertile and lucrative
fields for Carreon to add additional
laurels to hi s prowess as an all
round "cow-hand". *>Twice acclaimed
world's champion roper a-'d tries
rider at Madison fcquare Garden
rodet) {contests, tkUgarv Stampede
awarded him similar honors; Aus
tralia honored him by voting him
the title of "ChaApion of Cham
pions" at Melbourne Round-Up in
1934.
Returning to the United States he
won the Pendletoa, Ore., frortier
daytr roping contest 'i.nd trick rid
ing belt. It was here that a scout
PERHAPS NASH OFFICERS FACED
REAL GHOST IN HAUNTED HOUSE
Two Nash County ABC Officers
a - H a Franklin County Deputy sher
iff had a tussel with a ghost of
Bluebeard in a 200 year old house
near Spring Hope Sunday night and
as a result they lost a prisoner.
The officers M. A. M&cklin and
R. W. Braswell, of Nashville, and
Deputy Sheriff Gilliam, of Franklin
county, we-1 to a home situated at
a point where,Nash, Franklin, War
ren and Halifax counties came to
gether, to search for liquor. The
house, 200 years old, is known in
the section as "The White House"
and is said to be haunted.
The ghost story is a long
one but to make this tale short it
seems that some 100 years ago a
man who was know in the section
as "Bluebeard" because of his pro
pensity for carrying off young girls
of the neighborhood and killing
them, was killed himself in this
house. Today a picture of Bluebeard
' remains carved in the steps of the
house. The legend goes that when
the carving was done it was painted
with the blood of the victim.
The three officers went to the
haunted place and found an Indian
half breed there. The Indian, while
some of the officers were searching
the house, tried to draw a gun on
one of the other officers, Braswell
by name. "The reason I carry the
gun," the I* ttian explained, is to
save me from haints here. Can't you
hear themf"
Braswell listened but couldn't
hear anything but the clump, clump,
clump, of his brother officers.
But while Braswell was "listening"
for the haints the Indian suddenly
broke away and ran out of the house
so quickly that, according to Bras
well, bullets could- ft have caught
him.
The officers came away without
oither the suspected liquor or a pri
eo' ter. —The Evening Telegram.
EDISON'S DAUGHTER
RUNS FOR CONGRESS
Tre' ton, N. J., Sept. I.—Sirs.
Madeline Edison Sloane of West Or
ange, daughter of the late Thomas
A. Edison, today became a candi
date for the Republican nomination
for Congress from New Jersey'*
Eleventh District.
for the Universal studios negotiated
with Carreon to enter pictures act
ing as a "stand-in" for several Wej
tern stars whom the studio officials
did not care to have injured duri° |g
the fluting of hazardous stunts iu
their respective pictures. Yet Car
reon, the Mexican vaquero, given
every opportunity to become a Wes
tern screen star in the cinema
world, stoutly refused because as ho
said, "I'm a cowboy not an actor,"
adding, "When my ropes and abil
ity to ride do*'t provide me With
a living—well I'll go back to my
country and become what I was be
fore all this publicity made me so
popular—a plain, everyday vaquerj,
to whose life I owe all of my sue
cess in this country."
Spanish Count Is
Accident Victim
Count of Covadonga Bleeds to Death
After Wreck Today in Florida
Miami, Fla., Sept. * —The Count
of Covadonga, 31, eldest son of for
mer King Alfonso of Spai%, bled
to death today from cuts about the
head suffered in an automobile ac
cident.
The injuries in themselves were
not severe but the Count's condition
was complicated by hemophilia, the
hereditary (disease of the Batten
bergs which causes excessive bleed
ing and prevents the blood from
coagulati'ig normally.
The former heir to the throne of
Spain died in a hospital about nine
hours after the accident in which
his companion and driver of the
car was night club cigarette giri,
Miss Mildred Gaydon, 25. They have
been friendly for some time.
Companion Injured
Miss Gaydon suffered slight chest
i - Juries. She was questioned by po
lice and then released. She related
that she and the titled Spaniard
were driving along Biscayne Bouie
vard about 3 a. m. when she swer
ved to avoid a truck, lost control
and hit a pole on the left side of
the street.
Dr. C. P. Lamar, who attended
the Count, ascribed his death to
traumatic shock. The flow of blood
had been checked shortly before the
victim died but he had been placed
in an oxygen te' t and given slight
chance for recovery.
Jack Fleming, the Count's secre
tary who remained at the bedside
cabled King Alfonso in Rome and
Queen Victoria, the Count's mothor
in London. Funeral arrangemerks
were not made immediately but
Fleming said the body might be
taken to Spain for burial.
Covadonga, the former Prince of
the Asturias, had made his home
in a Miami hotel since last fall,
when he and Marta Rocafort, his
second Cuban commoner wife, Bplit
up a few weeks after their marriage.
Meetings Show Farmer
Keeping Balance
The farmers showed good judgment in calling meetings
in the various tobacco producing counties last Saturday.
There had been much loose talk on the street and in public
places by many farmers themselves, and by many other
people who were not farmers, and false impressions were
being created, whether by accident or by premeditated prop
aganda, that the farmers were wholly dissatisfield with the
tobacco control act, and would not stand for its continuance
next year. This propaganda was having bad effect on crop
control and also on the price of tobacco. It was the general
opinion that prices were much lower a few days past than
they were at the opening sales. The farm leaders showed
good judgment in calling the farmers together to ascertain
the sentiment of the farmer and to nail this propaganda.
Meetings were held in the leading tobacco centers and reso
lutions were passed favoring continuance of control, being
practically unanimous. The farmers were urged where they
felt error had been made in allotments to take it up through
the County Review Committee, which of course is- the prop
er thing to do. No doubt errors have been made but cer
tainly no farmer who thinks seriously about the welfare of
agriculture would desire to junk the whole program be
i cause he thought somebody else might have gotten a larger
poundage or acreage than he. Now there may be a few
people who are not satisfied, but the leadership of the
President of the United States has given to the South help
through the farmer that was never given to the south be
fore in the history of the Republic. Manufacturing has been
helped and subsdized though tariff legislation almost from
the beginning of this Republic but the farmer has had to
carry his own burden and the illegal burden of consolida
tion in buying by many of the great purchasers of agri
cultural products. The anti-trust laws were violated and
very few prosecutions were presented. Now will the farm
er throw away this aid which is being given him by the
government and return to the poverty and degradation of
former years because of some little dissatisfaction of local
machinery. The meeting last Saturday showed that the
farmers continue in possession of their faculties and that
they are going to stick to a program that has saved the
agricultural interest of this section. There has been much
talk and loose talk but this talk was nailed last Saturday
when the farmers met with unanimous voice and let the
world know that they were not turning back. The Hoover
Cart is still in the minds of all farmers. Heard a gentle
man say that these carts almost caused him to weep if he
saw one. Sad Recollection!
TIME TO REPAIR FOR WINTER
There hag been much ne wconstruction in Rocky Mount
wheh we are glad to see but as the winter approaches our
loaning agencies and our building supply firms should be
gin to give consideration to the improving and repairing
of property already built before winter approaches. Theife
are many, many homes in Rocky Mount that need re P®j l
work and painting before the winter arrives. The months
of September, October and November are the months for
this kind of work. This year has brought forth many im
provements in Rocky Mount, many new residences but Rocky
Mount needs at this time the improvement of property al
ready built so as to prevent waste during the corning win
ter. In our effort to build new homes let us not forget the
problem of conserving the homes already built.
THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES FIGHT FOR LIBERAL
GOVERNMENT
The President of United States has given notice to thi
country at large that he proposes to coninue the fight for
liberal government regardless of the outcome of the elec
tion of Senators in the varous states, whether the Conser
vatives or Liberals win. This news should be the mos
welcome news that the country at large couW have ' received
tor the great masses of the people. The so-called Conserva
tive element means when you boil it down, mostly the pro
tection of property rather than the protection of the indi
vidual. The President of United States believes that hu
man rights take precedence over the rights of property.
He stands for the protection of both the rich and P°°*
that all should have a fair deal. The so-calledi Conserva
tive element had full sway under Hoover. The human ele
ment was entirely forgotten and the country was border
ing on a state of revolution. The country is loaded with
people who call themselves Democrats but who know not
or practice Democracy, and this is the class of people that
President Roosevelt spoke of when he called them c °PP e '"-
heads. Our own state has people within its .border who
called themselves JefFersoman Democrats. Thomas Jeffer
son would never recognize the mbv their acts.
Call For U. D. C.
Meet Is Now
Being Issued
Mrs. John H. Anderson, of Raleigh
president of the North Carolina divi
sion, United Daughters of the Con
federacy, this week is issuing her
call for the annual convention to be
held at New Bern, October 11-13.
The New Bern chapter will be hos-
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guest of the atate division a *1 will
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opening exercises, Tuesday evening,
October 11, which will be in the
form of get-to-gether dinner for all
the delegates.
Mrs. Anderson is urging chapters
to promptly in reports for the
various contests offered by the di
vision, which makes a pleasant ri
valry. Special awards are made for
the best chapter reports.