The Rocky Mount
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 37
THREE KftLEB, SK INJURED
IN COLLISION NEAR HAMLET
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Motor Slaughter Over The State
Continue*—Randolph Child A Vic
tim—Woman Loaea Life Neat
* Charlotte —Two Rutherfordl Mfcn
An Alt* Dead Ae Result Of Speed
im
Aa automobile collision during a
. heavy rainstorm near Hamlet, Rich
-1 mopd county, Monday, killed three
people and injured six other*, o'Xe
seriously.
The dead:
R. M. Gibson, Columbia, Pa.
fclrs. R. M. Gibson, liia wife.
Miss Helen Bridges, of Richmond
County, North Carolina.
The Gibsons formerly lived at
JBmckstock, S. C.
Gibson and Miss Bridges were kill
ed instantly, and Mrs. Gibson, who
suffered a broken leg and crushed
cheat, died at a Hamlet hospital sev
i eral hours later.
Mrs. J. A. Ritchey, of Richmond
fcou'ty was reported to be the most
seriously hurt of the injured. She
suffered a fractured skull "and se
vere lacerations.
| «Wm. J. Bankhead, 21, of Wasii
* ington, fractured hip.
Mrs. Edward Bankhead, 27, of
Washington, cute on head and fac?
and bruises.
Mias Grace Dunn, 20, of Richmond
bounty broker, leg.
"">Mlss Blanchft Dunn, 23, of Rich
mond county, concussion of brain,
split forehead.
The Dunn girls, and Mrs. Ritchey
are sisters.
crash' occurred' on United
States highway 'No. 1, four milos
•onth of Hoffman.
The Dunn sisters, MJS. Ritchey
and Miss Bridges were irf one car.
The Bfcßfchewdfc and Gibsons were
in the other.
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Eddie Monroe Hodgin, three yeat
j old son of KCr. and Mm Gage Hod
gin, of Rl, Ramseur, Randolph
county, waa instantly killed Saturday
afternoon when the car in Which ae
andhis father were riding was- struck
by an automobile frrveir by William
Dickens, of Asheboro.
The accident occurred daring
a rainstorm on Route 22 in the
part of Ramseur. Officer!
Said Hodgin and the child were
t coming into town and Dickers wa«
V headed out of Ramseur when ths
/ cars collided. The HodgH car wa*
overturned twice.
Hodgin escaped with minor bruis
es and injuries but the child wa3
dead when taken from the wreeked
car.
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Miss ' Kathleen KezziaU was iu
stantly killed Sunday in an auto
mobile collision at Newell Mecklen
burg county, when the car in which
she was riding collided with a car
, > ' driven by James Roach, of Charlotts
> Miss Kezziah was in a car occu
pied by her sister, Sarah, and June
Hagler, of Charlotte. Sarah suf
fered a back injury, but hospital
attendants Baid it had not been dc
whether her injury was se
rious. Hagler waa unhurt.
Passengers in the Roach car weri
released from the hospital after
treatment for minor cuts and bruis-
Deputy Sheriff Jack Williams and
Leslie Ta - taer, young Rutherfotrd
ton men, were fatally injured Satur
day when their car ran off a curve
' into a gulley on the highway near
Hendersonville. Williams was a son
of Sheriff J. Cal Williams of Rutli
erford county and had been acting
as sheriff due to the illness of his
I Father. He died in a Hendersoiville
hospital two hours after the acei
dent. Tanner, a son of former Sher
iff Ed Tanner, was kilted instant
ly-
*, John Pledger, 57-year old Tyrrell
county farmer, was found dead Tues
day morning in his automobile which
had landed in a ditch or' the high
way 10 miles from Columbia. Inves
tigation revealed that he had lost |
control of his car which whirled
off the highway into the ditch.
tCheeley Meredith, warehouseman,
of Carthage, for the past 15 year?
was killed Tuesday night when his
automobile sideswiped a tobacco
truck on the Aberdeen-Pinehurst
highway. He died almost instantly.
S Charlie Bumgafdner, 18, was run
over by a coal truck at Rhodhiss,
Caldwell county Tuesday and fatal
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UNION SHOPS
ARE TO GET
A&P PRINTING
Great Store Chain Agreement Covet*
The Entire Nation Jdrn B. Hag.|
gerty, Allied Printing Trades Pres
ident, Sayu Pact Is Of Tremen
dous Importance, Affecting Enor.
moang Volume Of Work
Washington, Sept. 7. —An agree
me-1 by the Great Atlantic and Pa
cific Tea Company that its print
ing, from coast to coast, will b
done hereafter only in printing es
tablishments entitled to use th*
union label was announced here by
President John B. Haggerty of th*
International Allied Printing Trade*
Association.
"This agreement, over the signi
ture of Ralph Berger, representing
the company, is the result of con
versations running over severa
weeks," said Mr. Haggerty.
Best Of Good Will Shown
"It is of tremendous importance
and significance. It i' fvolves aa
enormous volume of printing and
consequently an enormous amount
of work. It will affect printing es
tablishments in every area wher*'
the A. So P. has food stores.
"I want to pay high tribute t*
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BIG TOP SISTERS ADOPT
MOTHERLESS LION CUB TRIO
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High flyers, daring aerial per
formers who swing from trapeze to
trapeze in the dome of "The Big
Top," are Sonya and Jerry Carrol'
with the great Bobbins Brothers
Circus. But on terra firma they arc
thoroughly domesticated a'M as tnc
ordinary young women of their
ages, are overly fond of pets.
Several weeks ago three lion cubs
were born with the circus. The motu
er lion died and a menagerie super
intendent was placed in a quandary
he had never before faced. Jungle
beasts will not adopt the young of
another animal as will often domes
ticated animals like dogs and cats.
To raise the cubs was a problem.
Along came Sonya and Jerry Car
roll. The petite, young artists adopt
ed the three little lions, began a
course of bottle feedifc and solved
the harassed superintendent's wor
riea. Under care of these world ia
noua high flyers, the motherless
ROCKY MOUNT, WORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1988.
SHOOTING
IS FATAL TO
LOCAL NEGRO
Beer Garden Comes Under Close!
Scrutiny Again Following Anoth- '
er Murder
Whether or not city officials
"crack down" on Negro beer gar
dens as result of a fatal shootln?
Saturday night in Charlie Jones'
beer garden on Myrtle w.»s
an open question today.
Police today were still actively
investigating the shooting of Isaa.;
Slierrod, Negro about 26 years old.
Although the Negroes in the plac)
when police arrived on the scena
claimed to know nothing about tli!
shooting, Police Chief J. R. Thom
as said today that his officers were\
making progress in the-case.
The killi'tg of another Negro in
the same dance hall September 12
of last year, almost exactly a year
ago, precipitated a two-months in
vestigation by the board of alder
men. The inquiry resulted finally
last Dcember, in a new "blue law''
closing beer gardens from 11 P. M.
Saturday to A. M. Monday.
Police were called to the beer
garden at 11:22 o'clock Saturday
night to investigate Sherrod's death,
Chief Thomas stated.
Asked about the probability of ac
tion by the board of aldermen in
the matter, City Ma'tager, L. B. Ay
cock said today he did :ot know
whether it would be brought before
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cubs began to grow rapidly, gaia
ed weight in such fashion that ani
mal trainers marveled. Now at sever
al weeks age they are as gentle as
house kittens.
The Robbins Brothers Circus id
coming to Rocky Mount on Friday,
September 23 at'the Fairgrounds for,
two performances it 2 a'tt 8 P, M.
Doors to the menagerie will open at
1 and 7 P. M. An immense street
parade will be seen on the down
town streets at 11 A. M. There wi'.l
be hundreds of horses, rumbling
wagons of red and gold, tooting cal
liopes, trumpeting bands, 20 ele
phants a - id two caravans of camel?
from Asia and Siberia.
As an added feature attraction.
CLYDE BEATTY greatest wile
animal trainer of all time. Will pre
sent the world's largest wild animal
act. Battling 40 ferocious jungle
bred lions and tigers.
Must Look To Preacher
To Take Lead For Temperance
"We nave heard much favorable comment on the sermon
of Dr. Kincheloe, pastor of the First Baptist Church last
Sunday morning urging the people to take a firmer stand
against Sabbath desecration and against the liquor evil and
for improvement in our social conditions. We were not one
of the fortunate who heard it but we are glad to know that
t did not fall on stony ground. The pulpit and the church
must of necessity take the lead. The school teacher by rea
son of all drawing their money out of one pot is somewhat
handicapped in speaking out against conditions of local com
munity and the state because of our centralized Govern
ment. If you lose a job in one place you are handicapped
to find one in anotherplace where everybody is employed
put of Raleigh. The liquor question is becoming one of our
most complex social and economic questions. Those who
were .responsible for placing these stores in our mist said
they did it in the interest of temperance and not in the
name of..temperance but the way they have been running
and operating these stores shows that they are more inter
ested in the quantity and profits than they are in the in
terest of temperance. We have a concrete example here in
our own midst and what we are saying is not to be consid
ered a reflection on the keepers of these stores for they
have no control over the opening or closing. The regular
closing hour has been 6 o'clock but when the tobacco mar
ket opened and the factory opened up for the stemming of
tobacco the closing time was delayed until 7 o'clock week
day and 9 o'clock Saturday. Now what was the purpose
of this change? Was it for temperance or was it to sell
more liquor? The hour certainly was set with the view of
catching the coming and going of the factory and the pay
envelopes on Saturday nights. Many of these workers
in these factories have been on relief during th sumijicr
and the closing of the liquor store has been delayed appar
ently to catch this money and in a few more weeks these
same people will be on relief again and will be despised be
cause they are poor and the manufacturers of liquor in
Pennsylvania will have the money. Here is where the eco
nomics come in. The state is in the liquor business and
the school teacher dares not criticize it or she might have
to move on to some other territory so it is up to the preach
er and the church. Our memory goes back to two preachers
Rocky Mount had years ago: Dr. W. D. Morton and Rev. D.
H. Tuttle who is now retired living in SmithfiekL They were
preachers that spoke with boldness and the people lovad
them because they were bold Christian leaders. Some time
the congregation feels that th preacher ought to step light
ly for fear that the might step on somebody's toes*
who help 6 to give generous support to the church but this
did not effect these two old servants in Israel.
PARKS AND THE COST OF BASEBALL PARK!
Visited Charleston, South Carolina about two weeks ago
and as we had expected found it a most interesting- place.
Among the early settlers of Charleston were many French
Hugenots and the French influence on its architecture is
most noticeable and still the outstanding interest to visitors.
In the old section of Charleston the houses do not face the
street but the end of the house borders the street and they
have side porches, inner gardens walled rt to give privacy.
We were much struck by the attention even in the early days
that had been given to providing resting and parking spaces.
Sometimes a spot not much bigger than a small residential
site had been walled in so as to give protection and seats
placed therein. We remember one little park of this kind
especially in the. heart of Charleston in front of the St
Michael Church, not large enough to he called a park but
only a resting place. In this park were three old nurses in
splendid linen uniforms giving several small babies a morn
ing bath in the sunshine. In the heart of Charleston was
built the well known Citadel College. This college has been
removed to the edge of the city where it has more spacious
grounds. The old Citadel buildings have been torn down
with great expense and cost. The site has been cleared
away and a great monument has been placed in the center
of the old Citadel grounds in the heart of Charleston where
the public can enjoy the use of park space for generations
to come. It must have cost many hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Then my mind went back to Rocky Mount and
we began to think of what an opportunity Rocky Mount has
with expenditures of about $20,000 to buy a whole city block
within the heart of the city and yet it has not been done
and it is hard for the public to understand why the Board of
Aldermen can delay in purchasing this land. The Board
has spent more than one hundred and fifty thousand on an
airport much of it without authority by law, it has spent in
the neighborhood of one hundred thousand dollars on a lake
that can not be used by anyone and thousands and thous
ands have been spent where it is hard for one to find. A
small park between the high school and the Edgemont gram
mar school known as the Kite lot, just a small trianglar
place being the only place of public grounds on the East
sde of town has been very largely taken up by the
watar tank. It does look like the Board of Aldemen hav
ing taken this park for the city tank that they would make
an effort to replace this with some other place. A block
of ground should be purchased in the Hargrove section, a
block should be purchased in the Battle school section and
a block should be purchased in the Rocky Mount Mills sec
tion while property is cheap and can be acquired at little
expense. The city manager could give the public much light
if he would give the figures of expense for the enormous
amount of money that has been spent on the base ball park
and then also let the pubic know just what income the ten
ants are paying for the use of this park. What does it co3t
to light the baseball park and who pays for this lighting?
The Aldermen are trustees for the public and should make
a report.
Trouble Starts In Sudeten
Section Of Czechoslovakia
Pilotiess Plane
Demolishes Home
Rockingham County Boy Seriously
Injured When Struck By Unex
pected Visitor From The Skies
A pilotless airplane rode out of
the skies to demolish the home of
Harry B. Gann, 40-year old tenant
farmer near Reidsville in the fog
gy dawn, early Saturday morning,
leaving the building almost sham
bles.
Nine-year old Donald Ga - 'n, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gann, was
critically injured when the aban
doned plane burst into the bedroom
where he was sleeping and can e
to rest directly over his body. His
bed was twisted into a shapeless
mass. The boy is in a Reidsville hos
pital and the attending surgeon
said there were internal injurios
and that the boy's condition is se
rious. Fred Lee Gann, Donald's six
year old brother, asleep in the bed
with him, by a miracle, suffered on
ly a laceration of his right leg anl
severe shock. The baby of the fam
ily, two-year-old Sammy Gann, was
sleeping in another bed in the same
room. Although covered with som:
debris he suffered only a small lace
ration over one eye.
The Ganns live on a farm 11
allies southeast of Reidsville, near
the Caswell county line. At the time
the riderless plane paid its destruc
tive visit Gann, who o' Jy three
weeks ago returned from an eighc
months bout with tuberculosis at
Sanatorium, was in bed in a back
room. With him was another son,
Willie Gann, age 4. Both escaped In
jury.
Mrs. Gann was preparing break
fast in the kitchen a:'d conversing
with Fred Sana, Urothop -ei Harry
Oann, and also an occupant of the
house, shortly before the crash. Frel
Oann said he had just looked at
the clock and the time was 6:10. He
was standing on a side porch near
the kitchen door. He said he heard
the drone of the plarfc and remark
ed to his sister-in-law that he be
lieved its occupants had lost their
way. Mrs. Gann asked if he coulJ
see the plane and he replied "Yen.
It 100k s like its heading this way."
Mrs. Gann left the cook stove and
took a step toward the door. Before
she reached the door the battered
nose of the plane burst through the
partition separating the kitchen
from the bed room in which three
of her children had bee-1 sleeping.
The motor was not more than five
feet from Mrs. Gann when the plan>
stopped.
The airplane, a single-motor ar
my plane, was one of a squadron
of 12 that left Langley Feld, Va., at
2 o'clock Saturday morning on a
formation flight to San Antonia
Tex. Its triple-blade propeller was
found some 25 feet back of tne
house. A white oak tree at least 16
inches in diameter, standing by the
house in the path of the plane, wa3
neatly clipped off two feet from
the ground and the trunk of th-j
tree was throw?' approximately 3D
feet from the stump.
The Ga - »i home is a frame dwell
ing with three bedrooms and a kit
chen on the ground floor. A second
story was being used as a tobacco
pack room. The front porch, front
left bedroom and the kitchen back
of this bed room were a confusing
mass of twisted and splintered
wreckage.
Two men, a pilot and mechanic,
bailed out of the ship while it was
I still some 10,000 feet ir' the air, it
wa* said* One landed about three
miles northwest of the Gann house
in Rockingham county, and the
other came to earth about three
miles southeast of he house in Cas-
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Trouble, which had boon brew
ing since the highly inflammatory
address of Hitler a few days ago*
burst bounds in the Sudenten BVMB
of Czechoslovakia Wednesday.
Sude'ton Germans are reported U
have stormed a police station and
killed fifteen policemen in protent
against the arrest of rioting Nazis
Strict martial law was proclaim
ed by the Czech government, anfi
soldiers were being poured into th«
troubled area. The final outcome w»4
not known at presstinie, but all of
Europe was actively preparing for
war.
American citize'ls are being warn
ed by Consulate employees and of
ficii *o ~f> *> America if pa*
sag.' can ;• ? in 1 and unless thei*
presence in Europe is very urgent
I War is expected to break out at
any minute, the whoie world is ia
a nervous tension as development!
are watched.
TRAINING SCH.
GETSGRANTS
Allotments Totaling 15,255 For Sbap
And Sewage Disposal Announced
Allotment of two PWA grants to -
talling 15,255 to the Eastern Car
olina Traini'fc School near here was
announced, today in an Associate!!
Press dispatch from Washington, D.
C*
The grants were 12,555, the PWA'i
contribution toward a $27,000 shop
building at the training school, and
12,700, the PWA grant toward 1
$4,000 sewage disposal plant at tiio
school.
The grafts were for $12,555 an'i
$8,700. The larger grant will be u»-
ed, it was learned today from 8. K.
Leonard, superintendent of the
school, on a shop building that is OA
timated to cost about $27,000. Toe
smaller grant, he said, mil be used
on a sewage disposal plant, to be
built at the school at a cost of
about SI,OOO.
Th«( | allotments were announced
today among a number of others
from the large PWA funds rece-t
--ly made available for projects ap
plied for before September 30.
Roanoke Rapids received a $14,-
175 grant for a school i-' the liit
announced today.
New Drug Store
Opened Friday
Saunders Drug Store Represents
"Most Modern Type"—sso,ooo
Investment
Saunders Drug Store, described Dy
L. S. Saunders of Wilmington, the
owner, as "the most modern type
of drug store to be found i-l any
town of any size," opened here to
day in the site on Main street for
merly occupied by the Lyric theatric
Finished in structural glass ou;-
side and natural maple inside in a
modernistic design, the store repre
sents a $50,000 investment a - W of
fers many innovations in drug
store construction and management,
Saunders stated.
The soda fountain bar a - |l fixtur
es are entirely of stainless steel, and
the fountain and tablt's have tops
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well county. Both were unhurt.
l*red Gann, who, standing on a
side porch saw the plane descend
upon the home, said he leaped from
the porch just before the plane
struck the home. His shirt was
spattered With oil from the plane's
motor and a piece of hurtling wreck
age struck him on the leg inflict
ing a bruise, but aside from that
he suffered no injuries.