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Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
Committee Is Organized
And Names Other Groups
To Arrange For Details
First Wires
Underground
Put Into Use

First of the underground cabbles OF
the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company were switched into service
this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock, and the
process will continue from day to day
until by the end of the week it is
expected the entire underground sys-
tenn will be IL operation.
The first conversation to be held
over an underground circuit after it
went officially into service was held
at 2:3O o'clock when H. A. Dennis
talked from the Daily Dispatch office
to S.. H Baker, construction supervis-
or of the telephone company who was
at the Gulf filling station at the cor
ner of Church and Garnett streets.
That block of. the underground cables
from Young to Church streets was the
first to be cut in. 1t was said by r.
H, Bailey, manager of the company's
office here, that some 40 to so local
stations would be cut into the under
ground circuits by night and the pro-
cess would continue until the entire
Garnett street area was switched by
about the end of the week.
AS soon as the service is all cut into
the underground cables the telephone
company will. begin Immediately to dis
mantle the surface poles and wires.
this probably starting next week
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
TRIBUTE IS PAID
TO DR.. GERR|NGER
Union Service Is Memorial
To Late Methodist Pro-
testant Pastor
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
Other Churches Send Expressions OF
Their Organizations; Large Con-
gregatiOn and Special
Music Given

High tribute was paid DR.. L. w
Gerringer late pastor of the First
Methodist Protestant church here, at
union services of all Protestant
churches of the city held last night In
the First Baptist church. Dr. Ger
ringer, who died last Tuesday after
an illness of just one month. was ex-
tolled as a man of high standing as a
Christian, as a pastor, citizen and
gentleman.
It was the regular Sunday night
union service participated in by the
churches during July and August
Resolutions from the several churches
were read in tribute to DR.. Gerringer,
and the sermon of the evening was
Rev. w. G. Cumming, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, and was
itself a tribute to the la:e minister.
Rev. A. S. Hale, pastor of the host
church, presided. The invocation was
by Rev S. e. Madren, pastor of the
First Christian church, and the Scrip
ture reading by Rev. l. w. Hughes,
rector of Holy Innocents Episcopal
church. They read the resolutions
from their official boards, and that
for the First Baptist was read 6y
Clarence E. Green, secretary of the
board Of deacons. Rev. Mr.. Hale read
the resolution from the First Metho-
dist church. in the absence of the
pastor.
Miss Aliene E. Hughes sang, There
Is Green Hill" as a solo, and quar-.
tetta consisting of Miss Emma Jones,
Mrs. AL B. Wester and Pittman Davis
and w B. Harrison sang "One
Sweetly Solemn Thought. Miss Dor
othy Jones' church organist, accom-.
panied for both numbers.
The church was well filled for the
service.
Rev. Mr. Cumming took AS the text
for his brief sermon the first verse of
Proverbs % "a sgood name is rather
to be chosen than great riches and
loving favor rather than silver and
gold".
The question, Whats in a name?"
is asked sometimes, and the answer
may be much or little, said the
preacher. when baby is born, he
has no name. When a name is given,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06

it has no meaning, but as the wears
pass by he puts meaning into his
name. All that he does and all that
he is gives meaning to his name until
the time comes when the name is an
expression of the man. Some names
are rich in ASSOCIATION and full of
meaning"
Numerous names of history, Bioli-
cal and secular. were named by the
preacher as illustrating his point.
Most of us, he said "will never
be able to make for ourselves great
names, but we can, by the grace of
God. make make for ourselves good
names-and' good name is better
than a great name that is not good
1--WE have been thinking tonight of
the name of L. W. Gerringer Not a
great name someone may-not name
that will go down in history like the
name of Benedict arnold or a John
Dillinger-no, but good name, and
would rather have it than many name
that has gone down in history, for it
brings to mind the memory of true
servant of Christ, who loved his Lord
Will al ISdl OSNOClO1I. II Is The HdDQo
of one who was faithful to his Lord
in unremitting and indefatigable serv-
ice, one who used his talents to the
best of his ability.
''The highest praise that Jesus ever
mentioned as being given to any of his
servants is the praise that he said
would be given to those who faith
fully used the talents God had COM
mitted to them. Could anything be
finer than to have that from the lips
of Jesus!-and we believe that our
brother has it, for he was constant
and faithful in his service.
GAS we think of our brother let this
thought lemain: He won souls for
Christ who shall greet him in Heaven,
he left the world better for having liv-
ed in it; he left example to every one
of us that should stir us to use to the
best of our ability the talents that
God has given to us and he left a
good name, whose memory is blessed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
FARM DEBT GROUP
CONSTITUTED HERE
VIII Seek To Make Adjust
ment of Debts as Farm
Obligatio ms

Personnel of the farm debt adjust
ment committee of Vance County has
just been completed, and consists of
w. A. Hunt, B. III. Perry, j. II. Brod;e
of Henderson, and E. L. Fleming Of
Middleburg, and j. A. Kimball. of
Townsville. The committee, thoueb
named, has not started functionine
here, but is expected to Immediately
Groups are being organized all over
the State as rapidly as men can be
obtained to serve. ,
DR.. G. w. Forester, of State Col
lege, is directing the work in the State
The purpose of the committees is to
help debtors and creditors find an
agreement whereby the debts can be
settled to the best advantage of both
parties, DR.. Forster said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
Total Of no Examined In
Tuberculosis Clinic Here
Exclusive of Horoscope Tests 1Os White and IL Colored
Persons Examined; Two White, Two Colored New
Positives Discovered; Skin Tests Given

DIR. Mitchell said it was the best clinic
he had ever been connected with.
Included in the ITO total were sc
Horoscope examinations. An analysis
of the 12O others, who were given more
minute examinations, showed 1O8 white
and IL colored patients tested. Of that
number, two white and two colored
reacted positively as having tubercu-
losis; thit is, four new cases that had
not been previously examined. There
were six suspicious cases of white peo-
pie, but no suspicious cases of colored
Negative white patients were 76 and
negative colored nine, q total of 85,
meaning that no evidence of the dis
ease was found.
Twenty -four white and one colored
patients who had previously been ex-
amined were tested again at this clinic.
Skin tests were given to IS children,
46 of them white and nine colored, and
of that group II white and seven col
ored reacted positively, indicating an
infection. All of them had been in
contact with the disease.
OF the childrn found with the dis
ease, X-Rays were given to ten white
and four colored
The fluroscopic test alone is not as
sufficient and not as accurate as the
more complete examinations, but were
given because there was not time for
the more detailed work, DR.. Mitchell
explained today
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

l. State the third law of motion.
2. What is a silhouette?
3. Where is United States paper money
printed?
4. What is a seismograph?
5. In which country is Ruth Bryar
Owen, daughter of William Jen
nings Bryan, the American Minister
6. Who was Virginia Dare?
7. What is water called WIN in gas
eouS state?
8. Name the capital of Bulgaria.
g. What does philharmonic mean?
10. Where is Antioch Colltge.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
:. but even that's not all
there is to it

AFTER you receive the tobacco
"a from the farmers you have to
dry it just right and then store it
away for ageing for over two years.
Then you take the different types
ofhome-grown and Turkish tobac-
COS and weld them together in such
a way as to make balanced blend.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
MAYOR PROTEIN is
PRESIDING JUDGE

T w. Ellis, mayor protein, presided
in police court today in the absence
from the city of Mayor Irvine B. Wat
kins. Three cases were docketed, but
the mayor protein couldn't handle but
one of them, for the two others failed
to put in their appearance when called.
Harry W.. Dumeer and Edward
Palmer, white men, were charged in
two separate warrants with speeding
in the city. When they failed to ans
wer when their cases were called, cap
las was ordered issued for them.
Lawrence Davis, colored, was sent
to the roads for 80 days for possessing
liquor.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06

Statistics on the two weeks of tub
erculosis clinics held at Scott Parker
Sanatorium here, ending last Satur-
day, were made public today by z. P.
Mitchell, health officer, who reported
on the findings of DR.. W. T. Thornton,
of State Sanatorium, who conducted
the clinic. 1t was shown that a total
of ITO persons received tests of one
kind or another for tuberculosis, and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
White Way Celebration Is Set For Thursday, Sept

entire regiment.
Included in the units from this city
were the service company, the regi-
mental band, and the regimental staff
organization, nearly all members OF
which are Hendersondoctors and 9th
ers.
Some of those who were at the camp
said it was one of the best the regi-
ment had ever had, and they were
greatly pleased with the stay.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06

Fire Alarm TOday.-Firemen were
called out this morning shortly be-
fore IL o'clock to James Aliens house
on Green street. A small fire on the
roof, caused from spark, did no re-
portable damage, according to Fire
Chief e. T. Shepherd.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06

Some 80 to 80 citizen soldiers, mem
bers of various units of the 1O5th
Medical Regiment stationed in Hend-
erson, returned home over the week.
end from Camp Jackson, Columbia,
S. c.. where they have been for tn
past two weeks on their annual en-
campment. Colonel Hodge A. Newell,
of Henderson, was in command of the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
Attend Cheatham F,,u4ra,

Mr.. and Mrs. 1. B. Watkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Watkins, Mrs. w. r
Cheatham, Mrs. H. E. Chavasse and
]. T. Cheatham were in Brevard todav
for the final rites for DR.. Goode
Chetham, who died Friday morning
at Endicott, N. Y, with heart all
ment. He was inferred by the side of
a son, James.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
THREE LICENSES TO
MARRY ARE ISSUED

Three marriage Ilicenses were issueC
Saturday byb the register of deeds
One was to white couple and the
other two to colored couples, one Of
which was withheld from publication.
The other two were:
R. r. Dixon and Elizabeth Mae Hor-
ton, white both Of Wake Forest.
Lawrence Person and Oracle Green,
colored, both of Kittrell.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06

The Chesterfield process ofb1end-
ing and cross-blending tobaccos is
different from others, and we be-
lieve it helps to make a milder and
better tasting cigarette.
DO''w s0bere they gr0sv tobacco
lin most places = Chesterfield
IS The largest selling cigarette
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-08-06
Accepts Position

Edwin P. Finch has gone to Peters
burg, Va, to accept position with
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
Bell Lawyers Voice
Fails in Last Plea

three, three-and.a-half. and then
At 9::35 the jury returned to the
courtroom.
Foreman Dodd stood and said
simply that the body had been un.
able to reach verdict.
Judge Coleman asked if the
jury wished for further interpre-
tation of the law.
Foreman Dodd said 'No," and
repeated that an agreement was
impossible.
The tribunal stood seven for
conviction, five for insanity. There
they were deadlocked.
Mr.. Butzner, defense counsel,
asked permission to make a mo-
tion, which Judge Coleman
promptly denied, saying:
"You have contended this
man is insane and he must be
locked up"
The deacon seemed baffled. His
hands clasped and unclasped and
a dull flush spread over his face,
yet the inscrutable expression he
had maintained during the trial
remained.
Counsel made several attempts
to prevent their client from going
to Jail for the night, but the
judge was firm that an insane
man should not be at large.
Sergeant Chichester took Mr..
Bell in charge.
He led him through the rear
entrance of the courthouse. The
barred doors Changed.
So it was that the man who
has been described as the most
popular man in town was locked
up for the night.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
j. s. OPENS WAR
On UTILITIES

BY international News Service
Efforts to bring about more cor
dial relationship between the
giant utility interests of the coun-
try and the Roosevelt Administra-
ton appeared to have broken
down today and the Administra-
ton is going to carry the fight
to the utilities.
President Roosevelt champions
the move by Mayor F. H. La
Guardia, of New York, to obtain
reduction in the utility rates
being charged the city! Unless
they are forthcoming, the Federal
Government, through the PWA,
is ready to entertain an appllca-
ton for a loan to construct a
municipal power plant.
Mr.. Roosevelt has invited Mayor
LaGuardia and his utilities COM
missioner, Maurice P. Davidson, to
confer with him at the White
House,
This development followed
closely on the heels of the Edison
Electric Institutes offer to cooper
ate with the Government In a
test in United States Supreme
Court on the constitutionality OF
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
under which the Government is
creating a great power empire in
the Mid-South.
This offer was rejected in a
rather sharply-worded statement
by Frank McNinch, chairman OF
the Federal Power Commission.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
LEGION To PLAY
SANTA CLAUS

Members of the Fort Stevens
Post No. 80. American Legion.
will play host to hundreds of
children at a Christmas party
Saturday night in the posts new
clubhouse at 306 Kennedy
St. N. w.
Toys and sweetmeats will be
distributed to the children by
santa Claus, recalling to the
former soldiers how they once
played Santa to poverty-stricken
children in the battle-torn towns
of France.
Sunday the veterans will
distribute baskets Of food for
Christmas dinners to the needy
families of their neighborhood.
Cash gifts will be made to some
of the elderly patients at Emer-
gency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
BROKERS BOOM
WAR STOCKS

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them, but 1 believe that Con-
gress should be given an OppOr-
tunity to scrutinize them in
peace time"
Senator Clark also disclosed
that brokerage firms are ready
to stage a boom" in munition
stocks.
Arms Stocks Doomed
He produced a customers letter,
sent out by the Jensen Brokerage
House of Boston, in February,
1884, declaring conditions in
Europe" justify purchase of du-
Pont Hercules powder and other
munition stocks. The brokers
said:
while one would regret the
sorry side of warfare, the bust
ness possibilities are so tre-
mendOus, they must not be
overlooked"
Robert Wohlforth, committee
investigator, next sought to prove
ammunition could be made in
Government arsenals cheaper
than in private concerns. He
developed that a committee of
private munition manufacturers
in 1928 reported the Frankfort
Arsenal could make 30.06 caliber
ammunition cheaper than they
could. The average private cost
was $1,000 per thousand rounds
and the arsenal's $2318.
Du Pont, Remington and Win
chester officials challenged the re-
port. They argued with the com
mittee that the Frankfort Arsenal
charged only half what the priv.
ate manufacturers did for "over.
head"
Challenge Claim
Pierre du Pont also pointed out
the arsenal placed shrinkage at
zero" Colonel Harris said the ar.
senal had cost $2O,000,00O to con.
Struct. The private manufacturers
asserted that the arsenal, in esti
mating its cost of manufacturing
cartridges did not charge a penny
of depreciation against the $20,,
100000.
Edwin Pugsley, vice president
of winchester, declared his com
pany was so discouraged at the
failure to reach "a comparable
basis of cost" with the Govern
ment plant that they "gave ur
the business.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
D j T
SOONFOR 800
AAA WORKERS
"Christmas Present" Gloomy
One for Scores Who Hoped
Jobs Were Permanent

A dreary Christmas was in
prospect today for some $50 EN-.
ployes of the AAA, for it was an.
nounced they are to be dropped
from the Government payrolls
within the next few days.
Comptroller John B. Payne an
nounced that 305 names will have
been stricken from the payrollS
by January /, and about half Of
these will be discharged before
Christmas.
In addition, he said, IS en-
ployes who have either husbands
or wives in the Government ser.
vice also will be dropped.
Those to be dropped, Mr.. Payne
explained, are temporary EN-.
ployes taken on during the rush
about two months ago. They had
hoped that the work would become
permanent.
He said the staff of the AAA
will be maintained at about $500
employees next year. There are
now close to 1000 on the payrolls.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
DEACON HOPED
To LAST FOR
FREEDOM
Jury Hung, Judge Takes Case
In Own Hands, Sends the
Accused to Hospital
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believed the prosecution and held
he should go to prison.
When he discharged the jury,
Judge Frederick W. Coleman
hurled a bombshell by ordering
that Deacon Bell be placed in
Jail at once and taken to the
asylum today.
Deacon Bells brother, w. A.
Bell, former city councilman,
begged that he be allowed to take
his brother home for the night.
The Judge refused and Deacon
Bell was taken to the jail.
His brother sent down a
mattress and bedding so that he
might be comfortable during the
night.
Deacon Bells attorneys opposed
the court order, but Judge Cole
man replied:
"It has been the contention
of the defense that this man
is insane. Therefore, 1 order
him confined until such time
as there can be proper Obser-
vati0n and an official ruling
on his sanity"
Most of the trial yesterday was
given over to the final arguments
of the defense and the Common
wealth. The defense contended
Bell was insane and that the acts
assigned to him, if he did them
at all, we're the doings of an in
sane mind.
commemorative Attorney Al
bert V. Bryan struck back at the
defense, however, with the charge
that Bell was cunning and in
telligent"
Miss Ruth Hill, the nurse who
testified against Bell, said she
was glad he was going to a Sana-
torium.
No Other Comment
Members of the Bell household
refused to be quoted regarding
their attitude toward the out
come of the deacon's trial.
However, earlier in the week,
Mrs. Madge Bell, central figure
in one of Virginias most Spectacu-
lar crime cases, had disclosed that
she was in favor of sending her
husband to Jail and not to a sana-
torium.
1t was nearing 4 p. M, when Mr..
Bryan concluded his dramatic
plea to the jury to find Bell guilty
of attempting to poison his wife.
He attempted to shatter the
testimony of two alienists who
had testified in behalf of the de-
fense by stating that Bell, in their
opinion, was Of unsound mind for
the past three years.
AS the Wiry prosecutor battered
away at the salient points in the
defense structure Bell eyed him
closely.
1t was while w. Marshall King,
associate counsel for the defense,
was making his final plea to the
jury that the thin-lipped deacon
almost collapsed in the court
room. Tears streamed profusely
from his steel-grey eyes.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
BUILDINGS
4 To Be SAVED
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all. it will go for providing more
space for crowded bureaus.
The Administration intends to
leave the unsightly old Post Of
flee Department Building just as
it is rather than spend money
for Identification.
Studies Power Here
President Roosevelt showed to-
day that he is conversant with
the details of the power situa.
ton, electric light rates, ETC., in
the District of Columbia.
This part of his conference to.
day tied in closely with the devel
opments in the past "a hours in
the flare-up between the Admin.
istration and the power companies,
and between Mayor La Guardia
in New York city and the New
York Electric Light Company.
Mayor La Guardia conferred
with the President concerning the
confused power situation in New
York and the sharp contrast be-
tween the New York electric rates
and those in the District of Colum.
bia. Mayor La Guardia said:
"YOu pay two and One-fifth
cents per kilOwatt hours for
electricity in this city, 1 am
told. also understand that
the Government paws about one
and One-third cents per kilO-
watt hour for all the electric
power used here. Contrast that
with the six and One-tenth cents
per hour that the New York
householder pays and with the
five and eight-tenths cents that
the electric light company
wants the city of New York
to pay"
President Roosevelt said that
he knew the Government here
pays a very low rate for cleo
tricity, and indicated that sug-
gestion had been made in the
Navy Department to discontinue
the Government power plant at
the Navy Yard, but that the sug'
gestion had been dropped.
He understands, however, that
there is little difference between
the cost of Government-generated
electricity in Washington and the
rate at which the Government
buys it from the PEPCO.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
TURKEY

ISTANBUL, Dec. 19 Q.N.S0
Premier Mussolini's speech last
spring. in which he mentioned the
need for italian expansion in
Asia" was recalled with nervous
forebodings today when word was
received here that Turkish troops
were being mobilized in southwest
ern Anatolia, while Italian forces
were repeatedly being concentrated
in the Italian-owned Dodecanese
Islands, off the Turkish coast.
Great excitement was caused at
the Turkish capital, Ankara, when
it was officially confirmed that
mobilization tests not connected
with the political situation" were
being made in Anatolia and other
parts of Asia Minor.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
SWITZERLAND

GENEVA, Dec. 10 G.N.S).-Pa-
raguay today made it clear to the
League of Nations that she has no
intention of stopping the war in
the Gran Chaco so long as her
steady advances against the Boil
vianS continue.
In note received today, Para
quay did not flatly reject the
Leagues plan to end the war, but
called the method Impractical"
and said that, since the Para
guayan parliament was not now
in session. prompt approval would
be impossible. The Paraguayan
general staff, the note added,
would not consent to an immediate
halt to hostilities.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
ITALY

ROME, Dec. 10 Q.NS).-Thir-
teen hundred troops. the bulk of
Italy's contribution to the interna-
tional police force for the Saar
plebiscite period, entrained today
for the Saar basin. Premier Mus
solini gave the farewell address,
while a huge crowd cheered in the
mourning rain,
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
Tax Collections
High in Fairfax

FAIRFAX, Va, Dec. 19.-The
State Intangible property tax for
1884 as 90.5 per cent collected
prior to the December 6 deadline,
has set a new record in Fairfax
County, DR.. F.. w. HuddleSon,
county treasurer announced to-
day.
Sixteen thousand three hun
dred and forty-seven dollars of
the $4,000 total levy was re-
ceived at the treasurer's office
by December S, DR.. Huddleson
said.
The Washington times., 1934-12-19
"White Christmas"
Assured Middle West

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19 Q.N.S0.-A
white Christmas" seemed as
sured for st. Louis and vicinity
today following the heaviest snow
fall here in 10 years, measuring
6.8 inches at $50 a. m.
The snow is the heaviest here
since March 20, 1924, when the
city was covered by an 8.6-inch
blanket. However, in January,
1880, there was 90 inches of snow
on the ground at one time, but it
was an accumulation of several
SHOWS. A four-inch snow in Feb
ruary was the heaviest fall of last
winter.
CHICAGO, Dec. 10 G.N.S).
Virtually all of central and north
ern Illinois today was assured Of
a white Christmas.
Snow was still falling at noon
today in Chicago after starting at
2:30 a. m.
Champaign recorded six inches
Of snow at 7 a. m.