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Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
July Fourth
IsObserVed
AS Holiday
Business Virtually at
StandstilI as People
S e e k Recreation
Pursuits /

The Fourth of July was virtually
observed here today in characteristic
fashion, with virtually every business
house closed all or part of the day,
and most of them all day. Banks,
freight depots and the post office
took complete time off. There was
no delivery at the post office, and the
windows were not even open for the
customary hour from 10 to II a. m.
County and cit yoffices were closed
most of the day, and there were no
petty courts held. independence Day
brings probably the most complete
shutdown of bushes for any day in
the year, except Christmas.
Recreation claimed the attention of
of most of the people. There were
two baseball games, one in the fore
noon and the other in the afternoon
both with Oxford. The big home
coming celebration and cornerstone
laying of the community house at
Williamsboro, attended by great pic
mic drew many people from the city
Others hied themselves away to the
beaches for cooling dip in the ocean.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

jobs turned by the wholesale to the
library for good reading.
At the present time, the report
s'4owed, there are 3,72O borrowers
registered at the Perry library and
the two station libraries at Towns
vile and South Henderson. That is
157 les than the number the previous
year, but represents sharp revision
of the records, wedding out those who
have moved away, and including a
new registration. The Perry library
proper showed an increase of 2O1 for
the year.
The Perry library proper had a cir
culation last year of 64,082 volumes.
the Dunbar branch for colored had
4, 572 volumes circulated. The Dun
bar branch also had registration OF
1920, or a percentage of s.4 of the
colored population. That branch had
1882 volumes at the end Of the year.
The Perry library proper had q to-
tai of 8,711 volumes. at the end of the
year. Both showed increases.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Library Has Circulation
1864 Volumes For Year
Perry Library Alone Has 8,7 II Books and Dunbar
Branch 1482, Total of 10, 1913; Membership of Both
Is 4,74O; Average Giro ulation 2O2 Books

A circulation of 1864 volumes for
the Perry library and the Dunbar
branch library in the fiscal year end
ing last Saturday, June 80, was re-
ported to the library's board of trus-
Gees Tuesday at their annual meeting
held at the library. That was an
average daily circulation of 2O2.8 vol
umes, and per capita circulation of
4.2 for the white population of the
county, and 172 volumes per borrower.
1t also represented a circulation Of
7.35 per volume; that is, each volume
in the library was taken out many,
times, on the average.
While the past years circulation
represented a decrease of 4,414 from
the all-time peak of 76,06S reached in
the year 1928, it was 1922 more
than the circulation for the 1882
year, showing a normal increase last
year. The year 1928 was the bot
tom of the depression, with the great
est unemployment, and people without
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

tainly has q cooling effect on the
body, and Is, therefore. beneficial on
hot day.
Any loss Of heat, however, which
might do harm to the body. rapidly
is made up because the foods are
very digestible, rapidly absorbed and
extremely nutritious
In fact. instead of having danger
signals put OH them, ice cream and
ices, and ice cream soda and lemon
ade. should be labeled as ftting,
proper and hygienic summer foods.
Let us praise Joseph Grove, there
fore, who on June 8, 1885. stated in
an advertisement in the Post Boy
that ice cream was obtainable from
your humble servant at his CITY
Tavern in New York;.
EDITORS NOTE: Six pamphlets
by DR.. Clendening can now be ob.
tained by sending 10 cents in coin, for
each, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp,
to DR.. Logan Clendening, in care Of
this paper. The pamphlets are:
Indigestion and Constipation, "Re-
ducing and Gaining" Infant Feed
ing" instructions for the Treatment
of Diabetes" Feminine Hygiene"
/! and "The Care Of the Hair and Ska .
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

and oil companies who attended this
conference were, of course, powerless
to bring about any reduction in prices,
since the prices are controlled entire
ly by the home offices and the exc
cutives in those offices in New York,
Pittsburgh and other places. But
Governor Ehringhaus told these rep
resentatives that the people of North
Carolina are becoming increasingly
restless at the discrimination against
this State and at the increasingly
high prices which are being charged
for gasoline and advised them to let
their home offices know this.
ct am sure that you are glad to have
this price war in Virginia ended and
that you are hopeful another one will
not develop" Governor Ehringhaus
said. And the representatives of the
gasoline companies smiled and nod
ded. IT think you will also agree that
I have probably had something to do
with ending this price war;.
The gasoline company representa-
tives smiled and nodded again.
ct am also quite sure that you would
notI ike to get into another gasoline
war with the State of North Caro-
lima.
The representatives of the gasoline
companies again smiled and nodded
but rather sheepishly Nor some in
terpreted this statement as meaning
that if they did not do something to
reduce prices in North Carolina that
the State might decide to go into the
gasoline business and open State
owned filling stations to sell gasoline
to the public at from four to six cents
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
46 6DEFENDANTS|N
THE COUNTY COURT
Al Convictions Obtained At
Hearings, Only Five
Discharged

A total of 46 cases were tried in re-
corder's court in June, as compared
with 25 in May and 81 cases in June
last year. E. o. Falkner clerk of sup
e1ior court announced today. Mr.
>Falkner is clerk also of the recorders
court.
Seven defa ldants we're sent to the
roads last month and 81 others were
taxel with the costs. Three appealed
the recorders Gscisiurs. and five were
discharged after the evidence was
heard. Convictions were had in all
but five Of the 46 cases.
Fines in recorders court amounted
to $40 for the month. Fees listed in
GUIDED all those from the superior
court as well, with the recorders totals
being separated and amounted to
$278 As. Fines were $3.50 in May this
year and fees reported at $241.65.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
STREET LIGHTS TO
Be PLACED SHORTLY
Much of Material Is Already
Here and Other Is Ex-
pected Soon
TO POUR SIDEWALKS
Telephone Company Hopes To Have
Its Wires Entirely Removed from
Garnett Street In
About Month

With the paving completed, work is
expected to start shortly, perhaps with
in FIVE days, on the installation of
the metal standards for the new street
lighting and white way system to be
erected on Garnett street in connec-
tion with the improvement of that
leading Henderson business thorough
fare.
Most of the posts have been receiv-
ed, it is said, and arriva lof the base
pieces is now being awaited. When
they arrive, it is thought that the con-
struction crew of the Carolina Power
and Light Company will at once be-
gin on the erection of the white way.
Repairing of the sidewalks and pat
ching the edges where the sidewalks
were narrowed to widen the street
has already started. That is being
done by the city under the direction
of w. M. Coffin street superintendent
He hopes to have that work con1plet-
ed in month or a little more.
Officials of the Carolina Telephona
and Telegraph Company said today
they expecte dto have all of their
wires removed from poles on Garnett
street. the poles removed and the cir
cults strung underground within little
more than a month
1t is now believed that the entire
Garnett street improvement project
may be completed in a turn kew" ia
shion by the first of September, or
later, provided there are no unfore
| seen delays
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
MONTHS BUILDING
S9,959 TOTAL HERE
Second Largest Month of
Year; Was None in June
Last Year

New buildings in Henderson during
June amounted to 99959 in five per-
mits, as compared with $4,000 in one
permit in May this year, and none at
all in Jure last year, the monthly re-
port of Fire Chief e. L. Sheppard
showed today
For the first half of 1884 a total Of
IL permits have been issued for new
construction aggregating $32 ,439, com,
Jared with eight permits for the cor
responding period of 1885 for an ag-
gregate of $25 9OO
A residence by Mrs. L. D. Wall on
Harg1ove street costing -8,459 was the
biggest single item. Mrs. Ollie Hughes
obtained permits for a $400 dwelling
on Pettigrew street and another like
structure on Walnut street, while J.
Harry Bryan obtained a permit for
addition of room to a residence on
Belle street for $3.50. Remodeling of
he Super Service Station opposite the
tire house was listed at $3.50.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
ak Values Night
Rise Trifle Here

There is some possibility that tax
valuations for both the city and the
county, in the 1884 assessments,
may be p trifle larger than last
year according to estimates by tax
officials S. b. Burwe1s, city clerk,
who supervised and did most of the
city's listing said he had not made
an addition of his figures as yet,
but that he thought there was a
possibility of a slight increase.
County officials were less vOcative,
and said they mad no additions and
could not be specific, but added
that if there were an increase of
any kind it would most likely be in
personal property as real estate re-
mains practically on the same basis
az last year, whenthe<e was re-
valuation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04


sleep before hurrying back to Berlin.
Finckenstein is owned by Count Her.
mann Donna, intimate friend of Won
Hindenberg.
Whether Franz Won Papen vice
chancellor, Hitler's stern critic and
Won Hindenburg's staunch friend.
would continue in the cabinet was
paramount issue discussed by the two.
Not only was it important to Germany.
but to the world.
If Won Papen stays Hitler will be
hindered in a reported scheme for
Tightening the Nazi reins on the gov
ernment; if ne does not. a sweeping
cabinet shakeup is predicted. A big
question mark remaining from the
second Navi revolution both of plots
and tloodshed, was whether the vet
eran Won Pdpen has already quite and
Vol HirGenblrg called Hitler to Neu-
deck to demonstrate.
Circles close tC the vice chaa aactIlor
declared he mad not resigned. but
tF 1T Won Pay II always the soldier,
told Hitler of his willingness to st.p
out should Won Hindenburg see fit.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

1. On what island is the town of Oys-
ter Bay, New York.
2. Who wrote the play, LAS You Like
TIP"
3. Who wrote can Essay on Man?"
4. In which century are we now liv-
ing?
5. In the cabinet of which President
did George w. Wickersham serve
as Attorney-General?
6. Where was President William Nc
Kinley born?
Z. What mountains lie in the Missis-
sippi Valley between the Missouri
and the Arkansas rivers?
8. What is Chippendale furniture?
9. Which book of the Old Testament
contains the story of the deliver
ance of the Jews of Persia from
destruction planned by Haman
Grand Vizier of Ahasuerusq
10. What is chiromancy?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
New Examination
On Postmaster at
KittrelI Likely

With the Kittrell post office drop
ped into the fourth class and put on
a Commission" basis, it is thought
by some that a new examination for
postmaster will likely be held by the
Civil Service Commission before a Sc
lection for the office is made. The
fact that the rating is lowered to
fourth class, removes the office from
Presidential appointment. Whoever is
appointed will only receive a commits
sion on stamp sales as compensation.
An examination held last spring was
taken by some eight or nine persons
a number OF them women. but there
never was list certified from that
examination. Until some disposition
is made Of the appointment, w. II
Finch continues in office as postmas-
ter, to which he was appointed while
the office was still third class.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
POSTAL RECEIPTS
DECLINE IN JUNE
Total Is $2,535.28, or $145.62
Less Than Same Month
Last Year

Postal receipts for the Henderson
office showed slight decline in June,
with total of $2,5S528 as compared
with $2,6SO.9o in June last year, a
drop Of $145.62. Postal officials did
not undertake to explain the. decline,
although it is seasonal, June last year
being the second smallest of the year.
Receipts of the post office for the
first half" of 1884 amounted to $18,-
523.05. as compared with 1768038 the
first half of 1893, or gain this year
of $842.67. ~June's figures are not only
the smallest of tt year thus far, but
the only month of 1884 when the to-
tai was under $4,000
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
More Marriages
For Last Month j.
Than June, 1888

Marriage licenses continued in
June to climb above the figure for
the corresponding period last year, a
compilation of records in the register
Of deeds office showed today. Last
month saw eleven white and Il col
ored couples a total of %. obtain
licenses to marry. In June last year
nine white and eleven colored couples
were licensed a total of 20.
For the first half of 1884 there have
been 134 licenses issued in this coun-
ty, as compared with only 79 in the
corresponding period last year, or
close to twice the number this year.
The June total of % compares with
Is in May this year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Democrats To Go To Polls
To Elect Harold D. Cooley
To Short Term In
The House
LIGHT VOTE LIKELY
ALL OVER DISTRICT
Very Little Has Been Said
About the Election; Hobart
Brantley, of Spring Hope,
Is Republican Opponent of
Cooley in the Balloting on
Saturday

Voters in Vance and the other
six counties of the fourth congress
sional district will go to the polls
next Saturday to elect a represen-
tative to fill out the uneXpired
term of the late Congressman Ed
ward w. POu. HAROLD D. Cooley.
of Nashville, nominated in the
June primary by the Democrats
for the short term and the full
term beginning next January, will
undoubtedly be elected for the
short term, expiring with the con-
vening of the 74th Congress short
ly before Christmas. Hobart
BrantIey, of Spring Hope, is the
Republican candidate for the Of
flee.
Both candidates are from Mash
Election officials called attention
,oday to the voting, and felt under
he necessity of directing the public
% this duty, as very little has been
said about it, and it is believed that
most people have forgotten that ar
election is to be held. While it will be
'ather perfunctory, it is essential tc
ill the vacancy that exists. An; eX
remely light vote is expected, but nc
matter how small. if there are more
Democratic votes than Republican, as
will in all probability be the case
Cooley will be elected.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Becomes Anger4d !.
When Summons Served

tCont1nued from Tage One.o
sential part to tbs case. Federal
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut denied the
petition but said tbs secretary of agri-
cultures appearance at the hearing
would be necessary.
Judge Chestnut said the challenge
of the governments rights to investi-
gate the dairy's books raised the
most fundamental question that had
arisen in his court in years, and he
did not wish to make any decision as
the one at issue without the full and
complete hearing of the merits of the
case. 80!
Detectives for the dairy learned that
Secretary Wallace was leaving last
night for Chautauqua, NJ Y to make
a speech so court officials with
Charles G. Page attorney for the
dairy, boarded the train in Washing
ton and and approached Wallace's
berth at Odenton.
u S. Deputy Marshal E. Norris
Becker said Secretary Wallace looked
at the summons and hurled it in nv
face.
Il picked it up off the floor, the Of
ficer related land handed it back to
him and told him that I wanted him
to understand that he was under or
ders to appear in the United States
district court at Baltimore July 23
"He threw the summons back at me
again. So then I just laid it down on
top of him in his berth and walked
off,.
Secretary Wallace also was served
with a summons by Deputy Sheriff B.
Hannegan of Baltimore City, to appear
at hearing on a similar suit insti-
tuted by the dairy company in the cir
cult court No. 2 of Baltimore
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

use of ice cream and other frozen
summer foods and iced beverages
has grown. but dyspepsia has not
grown with it. The Great American
Disease has been named almost as
often as the Great American Novel,
But, like the Great American Novel,
1t changes from decade to decade.
Quite the contrary, from being a
harmful food, ice cream and it's
cousins are very good foods. SO far
as chilling the stomach is concerned,
IL is remarkable how rapidly the
stomach reduces all foods which
enter it to the same temperature. In
the process Of ingestion, ice cream
first enters a cavity-the mouth
nearly SIS degrees warmer than itself,
The cavity is surrounded by sub
stances which have very high speci-
fc heat, aa the physicists say, so
that they can reduce the temperature
of frozen foods very raDidly. It then
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
THOMPSON RECEIVES
GIFTS ON RETIRING
Daily Dispatch 9urcMW,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
nv e. OASK ERVTTTT

Raleigh, July 4.-Stedman Thomp-
son, former assistant commissioner of
revenue who ended % years Of serv-
ice with the State Monday as the re-
suit of being releasd from the Depars
ment of Revenue as a result of the
reorganization still in progress there,
was presented with a handsome travel
ling bag and bath robe yesterday by
employees of the Motor Vehicle Bureau.
With these gifts was a note signed
by 66 employees of the bureau, which
read as follows:
Because you have been a friend
a real friend-to us. because you have
always been fair just and straight
from the shoulder, we love you and
we will miss you, not Just for a day
but always.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Bids For Dabney
School Are To Be
Opened Wednesday

Bids will be opened next Wednesday,
July II for the construction of the
fqur-roona addition to the Dabney
high school and a. contract is expect
ed to be awarded immediately there
after The. project is to. cost around
$4,000 of which nearly 30 per centsis
donation by the Federal Pubic
Works Administration with bonds cf
S12 500 being issued by the county.
which are being taken by the govern
ment.
It is hoped the work can get under
way in time for the new rooms to ba
completed by the opening of the fall
term in September.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
REVIVAL AT CAREY
HAS LARGE CROWDS

The revival meeting now in progress
at Carey's Baptist church three miles
east of the city is attracting large
crowds and interest is growing, it was
stated today by the pastor Rev L. B.
ReaVis.
Rev. ]. H. Bum pastor of the Bap-
tist church at Lawrenceville, Va, is
doing the preaching. Services are held
at p. m. and o'clock in the evening
each day. The meeting began last
Sunday and runs through Friday night
Of this week.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Legion's S Meeting
Is In Greensboro
Early Next Month

The annual convention of the Ame-
rican Legion of North Carolina, to
which delegates were elected Monday
night by the Henderson post, will be
held in Greensboro, and the date is
early in August, it was learned today.
Three delegates were chosen to at
tend the convention from Henderson,
+. /. Brantley, the nwe commander
II. E. White, adjutant, and George B.
Blum, with DR.. H. A. Newell, E. w.
Woolard and G.. w. Furqueron as al
ternates. A number of others are al
so expected to attend.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

less than the advertised service sta
tion price. For the State can purchase
gasoline wholesale in large lots at
prices from to cents gallon less
than the advertised retail price.
"At the present time, of course, 1
do not have authority to do anything
specific" the governor further told the
gasoline company representatives
But would like to remind you that
the General Assembly meets within
the next six months and that it is
likely to do something
Currants, raisins and sultanas are
dried cranes
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
INSTALL OFFICERS
AT JUNIOR MEETING

Officers for the new year will be
installed at the regular weekly meet
ing Of the Junior Order tomorrow eve
ming at 8 o'clock in the orders han it
was stated today.
Other than the installation of Off
GERS. committees will be appointed for
the year, 3nd all old and new Off
GERS as well as much of the member
ship as possible is urged to be pres
enl Cor the meeting.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Henderson Had No
June Fire Damage

Henderson had a perfect record
for fires in June, with not a single
blaze that had damage sufficient
to be recorded, it was announced
today by Fire Chief e. T. Shepherd
There were four calls and all of
them were fires, but insignificant.
One was truck, ignited by gaso-
line, two due to defective wiring
and one defective fIue, the chief
said. The city's fire loss in May
was $35 and June last year was
1925.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Realty Transfers
Show Increase In
June Above 1888

Real estate transfers numbered
22 in Vance county in June, and
were the smallest for any month
of 1884, but at that showed an in
crease of four over the 18 in June
last year. That makes a total of
$50 realty transfers for the first
half of 1894, as compared with
only 1O7 in the first half Of 1888
May was the largest month of
this year so far, with 40 transac-
tiOns.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

long the OeSO-
phagus-that is
e n t ly sur
rou n d e d q nd
insulated by hot
organs. 1t finally
arrives on the
restless surface
of the stomach
itself. which soon
Churns all the
e ira coldnesa
out of it. The
SIS OF h e a
which is used In
r Q q u Gin & the
temperature Of
A.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

drove the temperature down 16 de-
grees from 81, which had left several
heat deaths in it's wake.
Two heat deaths were reported yes
terday near Boston, and one in Penn
sylvania.. Another heat fatality oc-
Cured in Ohio, while the total in st.
Louis rose to % after Is days. of un-
relenting heat.
Four died in st. Louis yesterday as
the city suffered under temperature
of 100.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

SJOp Cne process
es Of digestion.
The same thing
applied to lem
onade. Ice cream
sodas and ices
were the worst.
There we're once
dissertations in
t e x { b o o ks of
m e d icin e on
these articles of
diet as the cause
Of t h 9 Great
American Di s.
e d Sc - dyspep-
sia.
Most of these
fears have been
nnrA nr:ln nNA
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Around Town

No Courts Held.-No sessions of the
police or recorders courts were held
today both observing the Fourth OF
July holiday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

One License Issued.-One marriage
license was issued by the register OF
deeds yesterday, the papers going to
Charles H. Midget, of Henderson, and
Margaret S. Midget of Pittsburgh
Pa, a white couple.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
ey LOGAN CLENDENINC. M. D.

IN THE EARLY days of it's ca
ceer. ice cream was regarded as an
extremely dangerous food. 1t was
thought to chill the stomach and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Another Cotton Bloom

ANUUHtK OOUCOH bIOOIN
John B johnson, near WILLIAMSBURG,
e. Negro farmer was exhibiting a full
cotton bloom in the Daily Dispatch Of
flee today. Three reported cotton
blooms yesterday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
President Holds Long Con-
ference With Herr Hitler

CONTINUED from rage r1ne.D
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
North Carolina Is Joining
Nation In Observing Fourth

Continued from Page one.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Governor Means Business
In Gasoline Price Fight

CONTINUED from Page One.l
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04
Ice Cream, Once Regarded
AS Dangerous, Is Beneficial

}. passes down a tube nearly two feet
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-07-04

tCont1nued from r.age One.o