The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 43.
A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF
N C FAMILIES ARE NOW
ON COMMODITIES LIST
716 Pounds Of Food Distributed To
Average Family
While North Carolina has
per cent of the total national popu
lation it was found necessary to
certify for the receipt of surplus
t commodities in this state only 1.2/
per cent of all families certified in
the nation during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1938, according to
a report of the Federal Surplus
Commodities corporation received
this week by A. E. Langston, state
director of commodity distribution
with the state board of charities and
public welfare.
To tal amount of food distribut
ed to the average family service'!
during the year was 735 pounds in
North Carolina as compared witn the
547 pounds for the nation, with this
state ranking tenth in volume of
food distributed to the average fain
v ily, the report stated.
Only the Virgin Island, District
of Columbia, West Virginia, and tne
''dust bowl" states of North Duko
ta, Montana, South Dakota, Wyom
ing, New Mexico and Texas outrank
ed North Carolina in the average
amount of food distributed.
Of the 1,055,043,345 pounds of cor -
niodities valued at $62,210,000 dis
tributed in the nation, 16,338,397
' pounds Valued at $843,000 were giv
en to relief clients certified as eli
gible to receive the foodstuffs by
North Carolina county welfare of
ficials.
States with, the largest certified
carloads were New York with 293,
932 and Illinois with 184,622 fami
lies, while those with the smallest
were the Virgin Islands with 3W;
Nevada v,ith 2196, and Delaware with
2594 families.
In North Carolina 28,526 families
were certified for the receipt of sur
plus commodities, and an average
, of 22,229 families actually were Bar
viced each month.
Clothing and household articles al
-80 distributed by the commodity
distribution division in North Car
olina, were not included in the re
port.
FUNERAL CONDUCTED
FOR RESIDENT HERE
Mrs. Annie M. Gray, 78, Is Buried
In Nahal Churchyard
Rites were held Friday afternoon
for Mrs. Annie M. Gray from the
home of her son, J. G. Gray, at 811
j Clark Street. Mrs. Gray was 78
years old and had been in declin
•• ing health for several months. She
had been confined to her bed for a
week prior to her death, which w.i'
attributed to infirmities of old age.
Survivors include two sons, J. G.
and J. C. Gray of this city; one
daughter, Mrs. L. G. Viverette of
Portsmouth, Va.; four step-children,
Edward G. Gray, of Norfolk, Va.;
Mrs. J. H. Moore of Palmyra, Mrs.
W. E. Smith of Portsmouth, Va,;
and Mrs. George Garner of near
Rocky Mount. Mrs. Gray leaves 32
grandchildren and eight great-grand
children.
Funeral services were conducted
I from the home by Rev. E. C. Sex
ton, Rev. C. W. Goldston and Rev.
H. C. Lowder, Mrs. Gray's grandsons
serving as pallbearers and grand
daughters bearing flowers. Interment
followed in Nahala churchyard.
MRS. MAMIE WATERS
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral Rites Were Held From The
Home
Mrs. Mamie Woolard Waters, 47,
( fiied at a local hospital Monday from
a cerebral hemorrhage.
- Mrs. Waters spent her early life
in Washington, N. C. She had been
a resident of this city for the past
,17 years, making her home at 16
East Elm street.
She had been a member of the
Christian church sinco childhood
and since living in Rocky Mount had
been a member of the First Chriv
tion church.
Survivors include her husband, E.
O. Waters; her mother, Mrs. Julia
Woolard, of this city; one daugntjr,
Mrs. George Gilbert; one son, Joe
Waters, one sister, and four broth
ers.
Funeral services wore conducted
from the home Tuesday afternooa
at 4 o'clock. Rev. A. E. Simerly, pas
tor of the First Christian churea
officiated. Interment took place ia
| Pineview cemetery.
LOCAL WOMAN WINS
SUIT AGAINST STORE
Federal Court Awards Mrs. Baskin
$3,500 In $20,000 Suit
Wilson, Oct. 22.—After three hours
deliberation yesterday afternoon a
Federal Court jury here returned «.
verdict awarding Mrs. James M. Bas
kin, 47 year old Rocky Mount wom
an, $3,500 damages in a $20,000 su'.t
against the Montgomery Ward Co n
pany.
The verdict came at the end Of a
two days trial which was notable for
the fact that the plaintiff testified
from a hospital cot in the court room
that she had tripped over a platform
in the Bocky Mount tuore of tne
mail order house last Fffßruary and
that it was due to the negligence of
the company in putting the platform
in the aisle of the store that she had
fallen and seriously injured herself.
The jury said "yes" to the ques
tion as to whether the plaitniff wns
injured by the negligence of the de
fendant but failed to answer the sec
ond issue as to whether the pla"n
tiff contributed to her injury by
her own negligence. Because Judgo
I. M. Meekins, of Elizabeth City,
had charged the jury earlier in tn»
day that if they answered the firs:
issue "yes" they must answer the
second issue it was thought pos
sible* that the failure of the jury to
answer the second issue might lid
in a mistrial of the case.
Montgomery Ward officials ind
testified that the platform Mrs. B-:s
kin allegedly tripped over was a
moveable one that had been placed
in the store to display chicken
brooders on and that it was not in
the store at the present.
REMARKABLE RAILROAD
RECORD
A railroad engineer for 53 years
without an accident. That is the rec
ord left by John B. Wemyss when (
he died a few days ago in RRocky
Mount hospital the day after being
stricken with an attack of aeuf;
indigestion just after completing his
regular run from Florence, S. C., to
Rocky Mount.
Wemyss was the oldest engineer
in point of service in the Wilming
ton-Richmond district of the Atlan
tic Coast Line, probably the oldeit
on the entire system. His safety rec
ord is truly remarkable, according
to Owen H. Page, general superin
tendent of the A. C. L., who with
other officials of the road, attended
the veteran engineer's funeral in
Fayetteville.
"As far as I know, no train that
he pulled ever had even a sligljt
wreck," said Page.
Wemyss started railroading when
15 years old with the C. F. & Y.
V. He entered the service of the
A. C. L. when the former road wad
absorbed by the Atlantic Coast Line.
Ho was in the railroad service 56
years.
Edgecombe Farmer Shows
"Only Perfect Twin Leaf
W. D. Moody, farmer of number
14 township in Edgecombe countv,
announced this week-end that he Will
exhibit at the Rocky Mount Fai •
the first perfect twin leaf of tobar
co he has seen in 20 years of to
bacco raising. •
The leaf is a full sized leaf out of
the middle of the stalk, measuring
11 1-2 inches wide and 19 inches
long, Moody stated.
He estimated that it was "the ju
ly perfect twin leaf" out of 49,351,-
167,143 leaves, according to his cal
culations, in the 1937 tobacco crop,
from which it was taken.
24 PIGS IN ONE LITTER
Monday, a Poland-China sow be
longing to Edward Whitman, wh>
lives near Erwin, Harnett count/,
gave birth to a litter of 24 pigs.
All of the little animals. were per
fectly formed and apparently heal
thy but were smaller than usual.
The mother pig weighs 400 pounds
and has given birth to several lit
ters of pigs previously.
NICE CORN YIELD
Macbee Lawrence, 4-H club mem
ber of Bertie County, reports i
yiold of 77.7 bushels of corn on his
club acre using the Biggs Prali
fic variety.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938.
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Pictured above are three of the six designs of the Offi
ficial North Carolina Christmas Cards which are being
placed on sale today throughout the State by the North
Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with
the State advertising program. The scenes and their titles
are: Top: "Water at Play in the North Carolina Lake Coun
try" which has been reproduced in natural colors. Center:
The Bell Tower at Chapel Hill entitled "Christmas Chimes
at the University or North Carolina" also reproduced in
natural colors. Bottom: Hatteras lighthouse which is a
study in black and white bearing the title "The Night be
fore Christmas at Cape Hatteras." All of the cards have dif
ferent Christmas messages which are cleverly linked with
the picture appearing on the face of the particular card.
W. G. Robbins
Receives Honor
From Kiwanis
Local Club President Named Lieu
tenant-Governor at Spartanburg
W. Grover Robbins, retiring pros',
dent of the Rocky Mount Kiwanis
club, was elected lieutenant gover
nor of District No. 6, which includes
the two Carolinas, at the annual con
vention this week in Spartanburg,
South Carolina.
Mr. Robbins along with W. A. Bui
lock, president-elect of the local
club, returned to the city last night.
They represented the Rocky Mount
club as official delegates to the con
vention.
Brief reports were expected from
the delegates either at Thursday's
session of the local club or at a date
in the near future.
The regular luncheon session of
Kiwanis will get underway at one
o'clock Thursday at the Ricks hotel.
Norman Y. Chambliss, manager of
the Rocky Mount fair and active in
fair management in North Carolina
and other states ,will have charge of
the program and is expected to of
fer some highlight attractions us
features.
Gov. Talmadge
To Speak In Ral.
Former Governor Eugene Tal
madge of Georgia has accepted the
invitation of the North Carolina An
ti-Compulsory Crop Control Associa
tion to address a mass meeting of
farmers at Raleigh. He will speak
in the Memorial Auditorium at 11
o'clock in the morning of Saturday,
1 November 5, 1938.
E. C. WALLACE DIES
AT ASHEVILLE HOME
Prominent Former Resident Suc
cumbs; Rites Here Tomorrow
E. C. Wallace, former resident of
this city, died at his home in Ashe
ville last Tuesday. He had made irs
home in Asheville for the past few
years.
Survivors include one daughte-,
Mrs. W. Floyd Eryan, of Ashevil'.e;
a sister, Mrs. Joe Sitterson of Eliza
beth City; a granddaughter, Emma
Jean Bryan, of Asheville; a niece,
Mrs. J. W. Bell of this city; and sev
eral other nieces and nephews.
Funeral rites will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o'clock from
Quinn (formerly Thomas') funoi&l
home. Interment will be made >n
Pineview cemetery.
2,657 Italians
Killed In Spain
Italy, whose forces are being
withdrawn from Spain's civil war
announces that 2,657 Italian officers
and men had been killed in the con
flict "from the beginning of opera
tions in Spain until October 10, and
that an additional 278 legionnaires
had died from service causes.
The communique listed a total of
,12,147 officors and men killed,
wounded, and taken prisoners in t'no
war. They were divided as follows:
Officers killed, 227; wounded 697.
Legionnaires killed 2,430; wound
ed 8,161.
Officers captured, 3; soldiers 351,
Soldiers dead for service causes,
278.
The communique said 2,000 of the
wounded were permanently crippled
or made invalid.
It was announced also that a na
val division would escort retiring
Italian troops home fro mCadiz.
Spain.
Baptists To
Hold State
Convention
The program for the 108 th an
nual meeting of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina was
released this week by M. A. Hug
gins, executive secretary of th
convention.
The 1938 session will be held in
Raleigh, November 15-17. Host of the
convention is the Tabernacle Baptist
church, of which Dr. Forrest C.
Feezor is pastor. The closing nighi
session will be held in the Raleigh
Memorial auditofium, Huggins stat
ed.
Among-out-of-state speakers sche
diiled for the November meeting ars
Dr. L. R. Scarborough, president
of the Southern Baptist convention.
Fort Worth, Texas; Dr. Charles E
Maddry, executive secretary of the
foreign mission board, Richmond,
Va.; Dr. W. F. Powell, president
of the Baptist Sunday School board,
Nashville .Tennessee.
Other speakers are Louis S.
Gaines, Lexington; James D. Wil
lis, Hamlet; R. E. Hardaway, L'
noir; Wyman E. Wood, Swannanoa;
Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington; W.
D. Morris, Elizabeth City; Ira D.
S. Knight, Durham; Mrs. J. Clyde
Turnor, Greensboro; Frank K. Pool,
Chapel Hill; J. D. Simons, Louis
burg; Olin T. Binkley, Wake For
est; J. F. Gulley, Mount Olive; J.
W. Kincheloe, Rocky Mount; E. V
Hudson, Cramerton; J. Clyde Tur
ner, Greensboro.
R. N. Simms, Sr., of Raleigh is
president of the convention and
will preside at the November ses
sion. Vice-presidents are A. J. Bar
ton, Wilmington; George W. Pas
chal, Wake Forest, and Hoyt Bluck
-1 well, Mars Hill. Other officers are
Charles B. Deane, recording secre
tary; L. L. Morgan, statistical sec
retary; R. L. McMillan, J. R.
Weatherspoon, F. TH. Brooks, trus
tees.
The convention has met 16 time*
in Raleigh. The Tabernacle church
was last host to the convention iu
1924.
The Baptist State convention is
the official representative body of
471, 554 North Carolina Baptists ar.l
shapes the policies of the several
institutions of denominational work
in the state. Among questions up
for discussion in November will be
the advisability of establishing two
additional Baptist hospitals, one in
the eastern part of the state ana
one in the south central region. Bap
tists already have in Winston-Sal
em a hospital, of which Smith Hag
man is superintendent.
The convention met last year at
the First Baptist church of Wil
mington, Sankey L Blanton, pastor.
The 1938 program for the conven
tion was prepared by Claude F. Gad
dy, Raleigh; F. C. Feezor, Raleigh;
G. N. Cowan, Apex; Arch C. C.'oe,
Salisbury; Johnson J. Hayes, Greens
boro; A. J. Smith, Goldsboro; W.
G. Hall, Durham. Louis S. Gaines
of Lexington will direct music fea
tures of the Raleigh meeting.
DOUBLE
TROUBLE
"Double Trouble" had a very raal
meaning for Frank Savage, lanky
Negro defendant, in city court to
day.
Accusing Savage of being the
father of her illegitimate twins, boru
last month, a Negro woman was ask
ing for some money.
Attorney R. T. Fountain, repre
senting Savage, countered with tne
explanation that Savage, newly mar
ried, also had a new set of twins
at home.
"This man wants to do the best
he can," Attorney Fountain reasoned
with the court, "but consider his pre
dicament, with twins at home and
twins abroad."
Finally, Savage agreed that he
could pay the plaitniff $lO down and
a dollar a week.—From News and
Observer.
Poultry Outlook
A larger hatch and increased mar
ket and storage supplies of poultry
and eggs were cited by the U. 8. Bu
reau of Agricultural Economics as
among the important developments
expected in the poultry and egg git
uation in 1939.
N. C. Beats Pennsylvania
In Election Frauds
When it comes to holding elections Pennsylvania does not
have anything that beats North Carolina. In times past
when you thought of frauds in elections and corruption in
government your thoughts immediately turned to Phila
delphia and to the State of Pennsylvania. In the manner
of nominating candidates for office North Carolina has
gone further and taken the lead in her nomination of can
didates. The Democracy of the Bth Congressional District
will be called upon to vote for a Democratic nominee for
Congress that neither the executive committee or the people
themselves nominated. The nomination was made by thiee
men picked by somebody we do not know who, probably
the Governor, one living in Fayetteville, Charlie Rose, an
other living in Winston Salem, H. Gardner Hudson and the
third James G. Merriman of Asheville. All this committee
recognized as strickly machine men according to rumor.
The State Board of Elections after investigation found that
Mr. Burgin the candidate nominated by the committee was
not entitled to the nomination by reason of illegal votes.
The matter was carried to the Supreme Court and the Su
preme Court held that the State Board of Election had the
authority to investigate frauds in elections, and that it was
their duty to do so. The matter was again carried to the
Court and then a committee out side of the district was ap
pointed to make the nomination and the committee pr ••
ceeded to nominate and his so-called committee nullified
the act of the State Board of Elections and the Supreme
Court itself an dthe Court seems to be without authority to
enforce its own judgment, in fact, using the language of
Civil War days "the judiciary appears to be exhausted."
In Davidson County in many of the precincts as many as
43 per cent of the votes were absentee in fact in one of the
precincts a man according to rumor, Mike Henderson wa3
supposed to have voted and upon investigation, it was found
that Mike Hedenrson is a mule. The Police Judge of Greens
boro and High Point, and many of the County Judges, are
appointed by the Governor who does not live in either of
those cities or counties. The people are denied the right to
elect their judge and are treated like the territorial prov
inces before they were taken into the United States. This
is centralized government which the late lamented Dennis
G. Brummitt warned the people of North Carolina in one
of his addresses to the people of North Carolina. The News
and Observer sums up the matter in its editorial of October
26,,1938 to wit:
Name On The Ballot
By grace of an extra-official arbitration, the Demo
crats of the Eighth Congressional District will have in
November a candidate listed on the official ballot.
The unfortunate and inescapable truth is that neither
the State Board of Elections nor the courts—much less
this compromise-process by which the primary result
was determined for the purpose of ballot printing—has
given the people of the Eighth District any support
for a faith that the Democrat who will get their bal
lots in November and, presumably, will be elected, is the
Democrat representing the choice of the majority of
the votes of his party.
The whole Eighth District business—both as it was
revealed in the startling details of election irregularity
and as it was drawn out in the po.?t primary court battle
over the result—does the District and North Carolina an
unbearable discredit.
On the face of the returns as originally tabulated,
W. C. Burgin of Lexington was the nominee. As the
State Board of Elections comp etcd winnow ng fr udu
lant and irregular absentee ballo's, his opponent. C. B.
1 Deane of Rockingham, emerged with the c&rt'ficate of
nomination.
The referees to whom the contenders submitted their
issue without recourse in determining righ's und( r
points of law, repudiated the State Board of Elections
when they ignored the board's unequivocal findings of
fact in the matter of illegal ballots and iudged it bank
rupt of power where the Supreme Court, with all the
opportunity, has declined to so judge
Its failure may yet result in giving the State an elec
tion system under which it might have done and may yet
do the State a distinguished service. For what profit
or point is there in an honest and intelligent Election
Board if either the law as it is written or the courts as
they interpret the law, will not let it function?"
THE NEW WAGE-HOUR LAW
The new Federal wage and hour law went into effect Mon
day of this week. There has been some little confusion in the
minds of many of ou rpeople because it is a new law. and the
terms of the new law have not been fully understood. It is our
belief that when this law is tried out, and the public becomes
thoroughly acquainted with it, it will be a great benefit to
the south.
The south has been exploited because the farms in times past
have not had protection, and., many of., the., manufacturing
plants north have moved south with the hope of exploiting
southern labor. Rocky Mount has had some unpleasant pub
licity. It has been heralded over the country that 1500 people
have been thrown out of work. We have not seen anybody
who has been thrown out of his job because of the new wage
and hour law. The tobacco stemmery is purely a seasoniy
employment, and the tobacco in this section is practically
all sold and there will be practically none sold after two
weeks. It has been reported that a committee has visited
Washington in protest of the law. This of course, we are
not familiar with. Our information is that many people
have been put on the payroll that have not been there be
fore because some of our industrial plants that have been
running on double shifts have had to put on three shifts.
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