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Evening star., 1936-09-05
Painted Furniture Historic.

Painted furniture has been notable
since the days of the Pharaohs and
beautiful painted pieces from that
period have been found. Because Of
its combination Of beauty and practi-
cality it will undoubtedly always con-
tinue in popular use 1t has a charm
and decorative loveliness distinctly its
own. The old French. English. Dutch
and Chinese masters and cabinet
makers for hundreds of years con-
tributed their skill to this ancient
art
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Finishing Wicker Furniture.

Wicker or reed furniture should be
perfectly clean before any paint or
lacquer is applied. Scrub it well with
washing soda and, when it Is thor
oughly dry, apply a good coat of thin
shellac to seal the raw surface. Fin
ishing wicker furniture with a brush
Is a task requiring great patience and
diligence. II you have a spray to
use for applying the finish you will
find your work remarkably lightened
and the finished results excellent.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
FARM TAXES CUT
TO 37e AVERAGE
36 Per Cent Reduction in
Real Estate Levies Re.
ported for Country.

A 36 per cent reduction in farm real
estate taxes per acre from the year
1929 through 1885 is shown by re-
ports of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
The tax last year averaged about 81
cents an acre the country over, al
though it varied widely in different
sections. This compared with So cents
in 1929. The 1929 rate was the high
est in the Nations history.
Farm taxes doubled between the
years 1900 and 1918, and doubled
again during the next seven years.
In 1920 the tax per acre was four
times that in 1900. In 1923 and 1929
1t was nearly five times that in 1900.
Now 1t is about three times the 1900
levy.
The sharp rise in taxes from 1900
through 1929 is attributed largely to
rapid expansion in local and State
services-chief1y road building and
education. There was, however, a rise
of about 73 per cent in the general
price level during this period, and
likewise a rise in the prices of things
and services which governments buy.
Economic depression from 1880
through 1882 sharply reversed the farm
taxation trend. Rates fell as local
expenditures were curtailed through
the elimination of some public services
and the shifting of the cost of others
to the State and Federal govern
ments
Education among other services suf-
fered during this period as many rural
schools were closed or put on part
time In addition rural school teach
ers' salaries were cut and various edu-
cational courses eliminated.
Road building and other public
works have expanded during the last
three years, but most of the cost, in
stead Of a charge upon farm real
estate, has been paid by the Federal
Government and by the State gen.
orally from sources other than prop
erty.
The bureaus compilations by re-
gions show that during the entire
period under review a peak of $127
an acre was reached in the East
North Central States in 1929. The
tax in this region in 1914 averaged IS
cents. For some individual States the
peak was much higher. The Massa-
chusetts average tax per acre in 1927
was $220; in 1884 it stood at $2.21.
New Jersey farm real estate taxes
averaged $3.50 per acre in 1880 and
by 1884 had decreased to S2O1.
Comparisons for all regions in 1929
and 1884 are shown below, and 1885
figures are estimated to be approx
imately the same as those for 1894:
Evening star., 1936-09-05
AIR DEHUMIDIFIED

Nine out of ten home owners do not
know the full meaning of the phrase
ir-conditioning." 1t is inaccurately
and generally thought of as cooling
process. Exceedingly few know that
complete air-conditioning cools and
dehumidifes, or heats and humidifes
and cleans and circulates air as well.
knowledge of its functions are grow
Ing with the increasing public knowl-
edge of the new American home, ac-
cording to General Electric engineers.
It's availability to the owners of old
houses as well is gaining ground more
slowly.
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HELP TO BUSINESS
Air Conditioning Popularity In
Shown in Figures.

No evidence Of popular liking for
air conditioning is more definite than
the way in which business increases
when motion picture houses, restau-
rants, beauty parlors, ETC., install air
conditioning equipment. Not only do
more people visit such interiors, but
they spend more, being seemingly in
better humor. An average increase Of
81 per cent in restaurant business, IS
per cent in movie patronage, and sim.
liar amounts in retail stores Is report
ed In recent publication Of the Gen.
eral Electric Air Conditioning Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Really . master bed rooms In size
and . third bed room of gener-
Gus proportions. Each with its
spacious closet.
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by LAWRENCE CROLIUS.

n EGARDLESS of how cool it is
- outside. it always seems that
the kitchen is pretty un-
n comfortable place in which tn
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Silver Star
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around doors. windows and paneling
The bamboo is a new decoration note.
Above the dade. interesting gay paper
is filled with golf scenes.
The color scheme is orange, copper,
brown and dull green.
The rug is natural colored Indian
drugget, the curtains are orange
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Home MOdernizatiOn
Modern Equipment Brings Comfort to Kitchen,
Ordinarily d Hot and Stnfy Work Room
of Housewife.
side drops below that of indoors.

side drops below that of indoors.
Another fan we saw with the same
feature achieved in a different way
had a fan and motor frame which
was pivoted at the bottom, permitting
a complete swing around of the air.
moving elements. If you want to re-
move cooking odors, you turn the
fan so that it blows outward. If you
want a stream of fresh cool air, you
turn it around, lock it in its new posi-
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Specially designed lighting fix
lures throughout; artistic wall
decorations; slate roof; fiagstone
walks across terraced lawn, pro-
fusely planted.
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1913 Brandywine St. n. w.

Dining room Of unusual proper
tions, with ample wall space for
furniture.
The Washington times., 1936-12-23
Gold Diggers'
Here Friday

"Gold Diggers of 1887" Warner
Bros. elaborate musical comedy,
will open Christmas Day on the
Earle Theater screen. York and
King, popular comedy pair, will
head the stage show.
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell
head the large cast in the new
Gold Diggers," which is the fourth
in the popular series begun several
years ago with Gold Diggers Of
Broadway" Like it's predecessors,
the new picture blends comedy
with hit songs and no end Of
dances by the famous Busby Berke'
ley girls.
Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell,
Osgood Perkins, Donald Meek,
Rosalind Marquis, Irene Ware,
and a sensational new dancer,
Lee Dixon, are prominent in the
supporting cast. Lloyd Bacon
directed the film, which was
based on Sweet Mystery of
Life" Broadway play.
On the stage, Chick York and
Rose King will present their
"Tintype Revue" with True York.
Other entertainers will include
Lee Sims and Ilomay Bailey,
popular radio songstTeSS; Bob
Ripa, Denmark's Juggling Gen
ius; and The Royal Swedish Bell
Ringers.
The Washington times., 1936-12-23
By LLOYD PANTAGES

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23.-Buster
Collier will go to England to take
charge of Warner Brothers Quota
Pictures, after a brief and Spectac'
ular career in the producing end
of the business. From popular
juvenile at twenty-five hundred a
week, he found jobs few and far
between, so he went into this other
branch of the business as a hard
working second or third assistant,
at fifty a week. He was soon raised
to seventy-five for his diligence,
then to a hundred and then to a
hundred and twenty-five, and in
the short space Of a year, has
reached the all-important point
where he is being sent abroad at
six hundred each and every sew.
enth day. What's more, the eX-
pected heir or heireSs to the Col
lier family will be born while over
there.
Ginger Rogers has managed to
conceal the fact completely from
her mother that she is giving her
a ten-room house in Beverly Crest
for Christmas. The Oldest feature
of the new chateau is that the ten
mis- court has large collapsible
hardwood roller-skating rink to lay
on it, so that she and Ginger can
zoom about in privacy.
Adolphe Menjou worked in 1914
for what is perhaps the lowest
movie salary yet on record. In
a mob scene in New York, he re-
ceived a dollar and a half, out of
which he had to spend fifty cents
for his agents fee, and sixty cents
The Washington times., 1936-12-23
Howard Lists
100 Revue

Beginning Friday, the Howard
Theater presents for its holiday
attraction, the 1887 edition of the
famous BLACK and White Revue"
Of 100 stars.
Fifty colored and fifty white.
IN the colored cast are the Three
Giants of Rhythm"-Mae John
son, Swami and Lee, Norman Asst
WOOD and the -Four Specks."
In the white cast, the Nathano
Bros. g. Co., Jack Bickel, Carol
and Rosa in what is called the
gayest and most outstanding Of
all holiday shows.
There will be a battle of dano
ing between the 16 Texas Centen-
nial girls and Ristina Banks and
her 16 dancing mermaids, which
is only one Of the many features
in this show.
The screen features Hollywood's
greatest lover, Clarke Gable with
Marion Davies in Warner Bros
spectacular screen hit, "Cain and
Mabel" Midnight show Saturday
with reserved seats.
Special announcement, begin
ming with a midnight show New
Year Eve, the stage attraction
will be Andy Kirk and his orches-
ira.
This band made popular the
seasons No. l song hit, which is
Ansiy Kinks own composition
Until the Real Thing Comes
Along"
The Washington times., 1936-12-23
Double Show
ForLittIe

The Little Theater'S Christmas
week bill, starting Friday, Decem-
ber 25, will feature "Scrooge," film
version of the best beloved Christ
mas story ever written, Dickens
"a Christmas Carol" In addition,
it will include "Chu Chin Chow"
based on the famous musica !
comedy success.
In the title role Of "Scrooge" Is
Sir Seymour Hicks, noted English
actor who brings to the screen q
character he has played more than
1000 times on the stage. His Bah!
Humbug" have delighted British
audiences since 1901; now movie
goers the world over are enjoying
one of the master characterize
tionS Of the theater today.
The picture was produced with
remarkable attention to the de-
tail as pictured by Dickens him.
self, and the costumes are exact
replicaS of the Leech drawings
which illustrated the original
edition of "A Christmas Carol"
The Arabian Nights tale Of "Ah
Baba and the 40 Thieves" was the
inspiration for "Chu Chin Chow"
With that old legend furnishing
the plot, the musical comedy "Chu
Chin Chow" was one Of the most
popular extravagances ever pro-
duced. The sly Oriental humor,
extravagant adventure, exotic set
ting, and eloquent musical score
are all retained in the screen YER.
sion. Anna May Wong, who
achieved her biggest hit in an
other Oriental film, The Thief Of
Bagdad" is the feminine star.
The Washington times., 1936-12-23
Miromovo Due
NextMondoy

Elena Miramova, who created
the role of the second Mrs. Carroll
in the London presentation OF
1.-THE Two Mrs. CAROLS" drama
by Marguerite WELLER, which B.
A. Meyer, noted British producer,
will install on the stage Of the
National Theater, for a weeks en-:
gagement opening December %,
will have the same role in the
American production.
Appearing in the same play on
two continents is an unusual
achievement and it is naturally
o tribute to the histrionic artistry
Of Miss Miramova.
Something in the nature of a
record has been established by
The Washington times., 1936-12-23

Earle Larimore, brilliant young
actor, who has appeared for the
Theaters Guild in twelve of their
productions, including "The Silver
Cord" Strange Interlude" and
Mourning Becomes Electra" He
will now be seen in one of the
leading roles in "The Two Mrs.
CAROLS"
The Washington times., 1936-12-23

Speaking Of salaries, Edward
Arnold has one of those delightful
contracts, with B. P. Schulberg,
whereby he gets half the differ
ence between his regular salary
and the sum for which he is
loaned, while Schulberg gets the
other half.
Paramount refused flatly to
loan Carole Lombard to M. G. M.
for Saratoga" in which she was
to have been coStarred with Clark
Gable. Instead, Joan Crawford
drags down the role.
When Ed Willis, Metro art di-
rector, came out Of his office
after lis Mexican marriage to
Nancy Lee, he found a pair of
stuffed love-birLS mounted on his
radiator cap on his car, and signs
all over it. Blushing, he tried to
drive it away, but was almost
overcome, since they had stuffed
the motor with smoke bombs.
Some kidding out here.
Gene Raymond's fan mail has
tripled since his co-starrer with
Ann Sothern, THE Smartest Girl
In Town" at R.-K.-O., hit the the
aters of the country. All of which
Just goes to prove that comedy
is what the public cares for this
season,
The Washington times., 1936-12-23
I Cover HOLLYWOOD

>for lunch, 50, for one days work
the munificient yield Of forty
cents. Times Rave changed for
Adolphe.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19
WESTMINSTER CHOIR
10 SING IN RALEIGH
Number of Local People
May Attend Concert in
Auditorium Tonight

A number of Henderson music
lovers were expected to go to Raleigh
tonight to hear the concert of the
Westminster choir, which is to be
given in the Raleigh Memorial ALL
ditorium. But for the weather it Is
believed that probably many others
would also attend
A group of Henderson people last
year attended the concert of this
choir in Raleigh and were so we'll
pleased that they desired to return
this season. Plans have been discuss
ed for taking portions of the glee club
organizations of the high school to
the concert, but it was not learned
definitely today whether these ma
tured.
The Westminster Choir gave it's
performance last night in the Wo-
mans College auditorium on the east
campus of Duke University, and re-
ports are that the singers pleased
even more than year ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19

ed as being the most outspOken On the
liquor issue, although he has not yet
said whether he favored State control
or county control and county stores.
The liquor control and liquor stores
plan advocated by McRae, if he is no.
minated and elected governor, is as
follows:
l. Education of the children and
youth of the State concerning the evil
and dangers of alcohol.
2. Adoption by the Legislature of a
local option State control and liquor
stores act, similar to the Virginia Ii
quor control law, which would pro-
vide that:
(a) Any county in the State might
have the right to say by a majority
vote whether liquor stores should be
set up in the county. No liquor store
could be set up in any of the 83 coun-
ties which voted against repeal of the
eighteenth amendment unless first
submitted to a vote of the people
CD All liquor stores must be man.
ned by persons of good moral char
acter, and sell good grades Of liquor
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19

Today's would-be boilers are as yet
reorganization both sides.
They are split, up and down the
middle, too.
Two middles, in fact-a Republican
middle and a Democratic middle.
In 1924 Republican progressives and
Democratic progressives could COM
bine, on the elder Senator La Toilette,
a Republican, and Senator Burton K.
Wheeler, a Democrat, for president
and vice president.
AS Of the present writing no such
alliance seems possible.
WHERE TO GO?
It may be taken as a foregone con-
clusion that President Roosevelt will
be renominated.
This would seem to imply boiling
Democratic ticket, headed by, say, Al
Smith. But a boiling Democratic
ticket couldn't win. Suppose then, a
Republican ticket headed by such a
nominee as ALT NJ Landon of Kansas.
Maybe that would give a chance to a
conservative Democrat to vote for
Landon rather than Roosevelt
But what if the Republicans were
to name Senator William e.. Borah!
Then where would a conservative
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19
Graham Plan Ties
Council At State
Continued from rage One.)

employing any more coaches" one of
marked afterwards. CAS- a result the
council decided to take no action at
all for the time being"
Council Not For Plan
While the State College faculty vot-
ed to uphold President Frank P. Ora
ham and the Graham Plan" largely
through courtesy, it is understood that
the athletic council has not been and
is not now in favor of some of it's
stringent regulations, designed to pro-
hibit the subsidizatiOn of athletes.
Many Of the members of the council
are reported to be convinced that the
Graham Plan" goes too far in it's eff
forts to purify college sports and that
some of it's provisions should be modi-
fled
The conviction is growing both in
State College circles and among
alumni Of both State College and of
the Chapel Hill unit that the board of
trustees of the Consolidated univer-
sity is eventually going to have to
take a hand in the situation, probably
in it's June meeting. Some feel that
the only reason the board of trustees
failed to act on the Graham Plan" in
it's recent meeting here was in the
hope that if it passed the plan back
to President Graham and the facul-
ties of Carolina and State, they would
modify it somewhat But since they
failed to modify the plan any. a good
many are now convinced that the
board of trustees will take charge of
the Situation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19
NOTICE OF RESALE.


An advance bid OF twenty GO per-
cent? percent having been placed on
the bid heretofore made on the pro-
perty described herein; and by virtue
OF an order of the Clerk of the Su-
perior Court of Vance County, and
y virtue of power contained in a
deed in trust executed by P. E. Reid
and wife, Addie Reid, to r. S. Nc
Com, Trustee,-Jasper B. Hicks, hav-
ing since been substituted as Trustee
IN the place of said r. S. McCoin, re-
corded in the office of the Register Of
Deeds of Vance County in Book 40
1T page 30, default having been made
III the payment of the debt therein
secured, on request of the holder of
the same, l shall sell by public auc-
tlon, to the highest bidder for cash, at
the Court House door in Henderson,
at L o'clock noon on Friday the 9Th
day of March, 1886, the following de-
Scilbed property:
FIRST Tract Begin at a stone in w.
I. Rowland's line; thence East 268
yards TO a stake in Mumford Eaton's
Lhe; thence running North along
humtord Eaton's line 1874 yards to a
stone in w. T. Rowland's line: thence
running west along w. T. Rowland S
me 268 yards to a stone in w. T.
bnllock's line; thence South along w
/. bullock's line 1874 yards to the place
OF beginning, containing Ten acres
more or less.
second Tract: Begin at a stone, w
|. Rowlands corner, and run thence
aIohg said Rowland's line N / IA L
% 10 poles to a stake, Rowland and
r r. Reid corner; thence along said
fields line N 1 IL E 80 2-5 poles to
stake; thence S SO e 122 2-5 poles
10 stake in w. T. Rowland line
enehce along said Rowland line S Ii
81 w 10 2-3 poles to the place OF
.eglnning, containing 80 acres, being
me land bought of Barnes and
Vaughan.
Bidding to begin at One Hundred
ana Twenty Dollars, ($12000), subject
10 deed in trust in favor of the Joint
'tock Land Bank.
JASPER B. HICKS,
Substituted Trustee.
henderson, N. c.,
FEBRUARY 18th, 1886.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19

tive conventions of the regular par
ties, if they decide to bolt.
In 1924 the La Toilette folk waited
until after the two major political
groups had made their selections
Calvin Coolidge Republican; John
w. Davis, Democratic) before arriv-
ing at the conclusion that neither
Coolidge nor Davis suited them. They
then assembled in Cleveland to put
their La Follette-Wheeler slate into
the field.
But the La Follette-ites were fairly
sure in advance that they would have
to have a convention of their own.
They did not believe, from the first,
that either major candidate would
satisfy them. Consequently they made
all their plans for a progressive con-
vention. They were ready to call it
off if. by any chance, Republicans or
Democrats named a standard-bearer
they could support. If not, however,
(and they thought noD, they were
ready to go ahead. They guessed &C
curately and did so ahead-though
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19

al reasonable profit III order 10 curb
oootlegging.
Co Advertising of liquor in news
papers and in the windows of liquor
stores would be prohibited in order to
reduce the appeal of the youth.
McRae said he would also advocate
better enforcement of the laws aginst
public drunkenness, driving while
drunk, hootlegging and other similar
Offenses.
The distribution of the profits from
the sale of liquor. he would leave to
the sound judgment and discretion
Of the members of the legislature"
McRae said with regard to whether
the state, the counties or both the
state and counties would share in the
revenue from the liquor stores. He in
timated that he would not be opposed
to dividing the revenue from the sale
Of liquor with the counties.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19
ROTARY OBSERVES
ITS LADIES' NIGHT
p.ooram in Form Of Anna
tevr Broadcast Was
Humorous, Enjoyable

Annual Ladies Night" was observ-
~ me Rotary Club last evening
ca - o'clock at West End Country
~ a,.,h with large attendance of MEM
and their ladies.
numerous program was present
dnrine the evening, and was filled
';th enjovment for the members.
WIZ q'hc progran was in the form of a
.o,ionallv known radio amateur hour
,th . Kittrell officiating as Ma
w. Bob" 7. B. Rose, Jr., was era
;,, LacNemee," and filled his part
TO perfection.
.;r," for the event, and a numerous
,,yrorted communication from that
civ was read.
nifferent members took part on the
aonateur program" and some of them
,'are given the gong all affording
rraat deal of amusement.
The entire program was numerous
~ every respect and very cleverly
,repared by the committee in charge.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19
TOBACCOS STOLEN
FROM PIGGLY WIGGLY

Thieves forced their way through
the rear door of Piggy Wiggly Groc-
cry on Garnett street last night and
stole cigarettes and tobaccos to the
value of $40 sometime during last
night, according to Charlie Hight, Jr
manager of the store.
Police officers are working on the
case, but had not uncovered a clue
Sam Afford, finger print expert, was
taking prints from the door for COM
parison in hope sof capturing the rob-
berS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19

a new government of radical political
complexion.
The resignation came shortly after
Premier Portela had investigated left
list changes that conservatives and
army officers might attempt a coup
detat to prevent the establishment
of a leftist government. Strong
guards were thrown around strategic
centers and five military officers
were arrested.
The leftists themselves went on
guard against any military movement
to seize power, the leaders of socialists
and syndicalist youth organizations
in Madrid advising their followers to
be ready to concentrate Immediately
upon the issuance of such orders.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19
To ATTEND MEETING
RALEIGH'S CHAMBER

group of local men plan to at
,ond the annual meeting and banquet
Of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
IN Raleigh tomorrow evening. They
will 60 as the guests of r. B. Crow
der. The dinner is to be held in the
main dining room at Meredith Col
lace and it is to be attended by sew
aral hundred Raleigh business men,
snemented by a number of visitors
from other sections of the state.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-19

man Herbert Harrington after the
three-alarm blaze, which threatened
an entire block, had been brought I'M
der control.
Lieutenant Harry McFadden died
several hours later.
Fifty workmen dug into a huge pile
Of bricks seeking the body of Fire
man Oliver Metzger, missing since
rear wall of the three-story Odd Eel
lows temple, a block from Ohio's cap
itol, caved in.
The wall collapsed following a des-
perate three-hour battle by firemen
tin sub-zero cold to keep the flames
from spreading to adjoining buildings
in the downtown area.