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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23
MALFORMED BABY
 IS OPERATED ON
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 sary. The first will be within two montlas, Dr. Eastman, chief of staff ct the hospital, said. Junior" was born September 17, apparently normal. Then imperfections ape peared in his digestive processes and Dr. Eastman performed an explora- tory operation and discovered that part of the lower colon was missing. If the condition were allowed to re- main, the child would starve to death.
 Mother Love Wins
 The mother, Eve, 22, was quick to choose. She wanted her boy. She has 30-months- daughter, Cor nelia. But somehow, in the con- fusion, the father, a garage me" chanic, understood that the child could live only six months even with an operation. He had no money to pay for operations. He did not want 6 crippled son to monopolize all the mothers care which his daughter should share. He feared the child would be thankless and Respondent even if he lived. He refused to give his permission for an operation. Then for three days-Saturday, Sunday and Monday - the mother pleaded with him. She had the Sup- port of Dr. Eastman, 8 family friend, and of their Catholic advisors. The father was alone in his choice for a mercy death"
 Father In Despair
 Tafel walked the streets despair ingly, became haggard and worn. He tossed on his bed at night. He saw his son only glimpsed at him through the window of the hospital nursery. The mother sobbed on her hospital cot. The child wasted away slowly. Dr. Eastman warned the parents that the time for 8 life- saving operation was going fast, and summoned the father to the hos pital room to talk things over. When Tafel arrived yesterday aft- ernoon, he did not know that his wife had decided to follow his wishes and let the child die. But Dr. Eastman had conferred with att torneys and had been told that he would not be liable if he operated in this emergency to save a life. Dr. Eastman had decided to op- crate.
 Six Operations
 When Tafel entered his wife's room, Dr. Eastman, Mrs. Alice Lef- Ter and Richard Lefler, 4, followed. Tafel was introduced to the healthy, high-spirited Richard. He listened, astonished, when Dr. Eastman told him Richard was born with the same handicap as his son. There were six operations-four on the bladder, two on the intestines. There will be one more, and Rich ard will be normal. Tafel turned to Dr. Eastman and said: "Go ahead"
 Operation Started
 Dr. Eastman was assisted by DrS. Marco F. Petrone, William Lloyd Kennedy, and Elmer Hancock. A saline solution was injected into the child's body as he lay on the op- erating table. He was given whisky as a heart stimulant. Then without further anaeSthetic the operation began. Dr. Eastman cut into the child's left side, just above the hip, and brought the long bowel to the surface of the abdominal wall, where an outlet wa& provided.
 Julian, Jr, lay wide-eyed on the operating table, his blue eyes wan- dering from one patch of glaring white light to another. Dr. Eastman explained that an infants nervous system is 50 undevc,oped that he felt no pain. In IT minutes, it was over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23
CITY EMPLOYE IS
 SERIOUSLY HURT
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 the grade, gathering momentum as it went, and struck both men before they were aware it was moving. Pa trolman Carl Hespelt, on duty near by. summoned the police ambulance and Skistimas was taken at once to Waterbury hospital. Shaknaitis, who had a deep laceration over one eye, drove to police headquarters where he reported the accident to Captain Hugh Flaherty, desk officer, then went to St. Mary's hospital where his wound was dressed in the emer- gency room and he was discharged.
 Not on Danger Lii:
 Waterbury hospital authorities said it was at first feared that Skis timas had received fractures of the skull and pelvis but that X-rays disclosed that he had not. Although he is not on the danger list. his cons dition is described as serious. Police are Investigating the accident and a complete report was not available this morning.
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Ellis. "Go right ahead"
 Daniel prayed in monotone which witnesses did not understand readily. He seemed to be express ing faith that he would be in heaven shortly. He had prayed but a few seconds when Ellis dropped a moose around his neck.
 "Oh," he cried. That's too tight. I can't pray"
 His brother, his voice infected heavily with irony, said:
 "See that mine is tight enough"
 A second later the trap banged. Arthur was pronounced dead 4 l-2
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COP. JUDGE OF
 PROBATE FIGHT
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SOOnClnueo rom PaRo 1J John Fogarty, Lillian Bergin and Sherwood Rowland.
 Special c. O. P. Drive
 The republicans plan to make a special drive for the probate judge ship here this year because of the fact that they believe Judge Den- his J. Slavin, democrat incumbent, will lose many votes when union party supporters pull the straight ticket for their organization. When democrats of the city pull . straight union party lever they will not be voting on the probate judgeship at all because the union party has not nominated anybody for that post. The republicans feel that . vote lost by Judge Slavin in this man. ner will be vote for their candi- date.
 Splitting Is Danger
 Union party supporters are being warned that in order to exercise their franchise rights fully they
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23
BY IRVING PFLAUAE

(Copyright 1939 by United Prees)
 Toledo, Sept. 2S.--CuPl-Ten acres of historic soil perched on a gigantic rock overlooking the Ta- susthe Alcazax ccnstituta thsl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23

Four different men once held the office of governor of Georgia within a single year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23

heart of the civil war today. The government forces must take it, or run the risk of being caught be- tween two rightist armies and iso- lated from Madrid. The rightists were but few miles from the city, and driving on. Leftist officers awaited an order from Madrid for a mass attack on the citadel-an attack in the face of whitening ma chine gun fire-and they said that if the order came the fight would be the bloodiest of the entire civil war.
 May Prove Impossible
 They awaited the order with sober realization that it may prove impos- sible of realization. The rightists have fought week after week stub- bornly against seemingly hopeless odds. The leftists asked, frankly, what might be expected of them to- day when the rightists know that a fascist army is only a few miles, 8 few days perhaps at most, away. storm guards-the tough national police whom the leftists strengthened in the knowledge that the old civil guard might lean toward any right wing uprising-put themselves in the Alcazar enclosure firmly yesterday. They drove the leftists out of the grounds of the military governors headquarters, adjoining the Alcazar on the northeast, and established themselves in the Alcazar gardens on the east side.
 Leftists Fought Bravely
 They have led every attack and have fought with heroism equal to that of the defenders. But they can not take the Alcazar alone. An order for mass attack would send against the ruins of the great building the men and boys of the militia, who have enjoyed themselves for weeks by taking occasional pot shots at the defenders. Unless the AlcaZar is taken, the besiegers must with draw from Toeldo or be cut oil from the main army defending the Madrid highway.
 That was the situation this morn ing as an order for attack was await ed. It was admitted that the situa- ton was grave one. But there was no sign of defaetism.
 Police Head Executed
 Madrid, Sept. 23-(UP)-Rafael Salazar. former minister of the in- terior, and as such head of the na- tional police was executed at dawn today.
 At exactly 6:1o a. m. (2:10 8. m. EDT) in the model prison, firing squad of IA ended the former police offlcials life with bullets. y
 Salazar was composed. He was not blindfolded.
 He was doomed when the cabinet despite numerous petitions, includ- ing many from abroad, refused to commute his sentence. He was tried by jury before the peoples" court. Neutral observers here believed that Salazar's execution makes it vir- tually certain that if and when the "rightist" (rebeD forces enter the capital they will not spare single "leftist' '(government) adherent.
 May Be in Toledo
 BurgoS, Spain, Sept. 23-(UP)- Rightist (rebeD headquarters heard unofncially today that rightist troops had reached Toledo and were fight ing the leftist defenders in the streets.
 The reports said nationalist vanguard of fascists, foreign legion naires and MoorS reached the fa- nous gate of blood" in Toledo late yesterday afternoon and pushed into the city immediately vvithoilt oivIf1C
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LOCAL MAN IS
 HELD AS ALIEN

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WATERBURY TOPS
 WHOLE NATION

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TWO BROTHERS
 WERE HANGED

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REV. CHARLES E.
 COUCHLIN IS ILL

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
r TODAY y

1sOs-Hamilton Fish, New York's
famed governor, U. S. senator and
secretary of State under Grant, born
in New York Died Sept. 6, 1898.
1811-Elisha G.. Otis, inventor OF
the safety devices making the eleva-
tor possible, born at Halifax, VT. Died
at Yonkers, N. Y. April 8, 1861.
1S21-Uriah S. Stephens, Philadel-
phia tailor who, with several others
founded the knights of Labor, 1889.
forerunner of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, born near Cape May,
N. ]. Died in Philadelphia, Feb. 1S,
1882.
1836-Greene V. Black, noted pro-
fessor-dean- of the Northwestern Uni
versity School of Dentistry, born in
Scott Co., Ill. Died Aug. 81, 1915.
1836-Augustus H. Strong, profess
sor-president of the Rochester, N. Y.
Theological Seminary, born at Roch-
ester. Died Nov. 20, 1921.
1867-Augustus NJ Herring, pioneer
in aviation in America, born at Gov
ington, Ga. Died in Brooklyn, N. Y.
July II, 1926.
18S7-Rupert Brooks, English poet,
born. Died April %, 1915.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
Heels Must Break
Precedent to Beat
Vols Next Oct. 3

Chapel Hill, Aug. 3.-If North Caro-
lima is to beat Tennessee this year in
the colorful early-season game here
October 3, it will have to break all
precedent. Never before. has a Tar
Heel eleven defeated Tennessee on
two consecutive years. Last year Caro-
lima won 1918. However, Carolina did
beat the Vols on three straight meet
ings, but that was way back at the
turn Of the century In 1893 (their
first meeting,) in 1897 and in 1900 the
two teams met and the Tar Heels
emerged victorious each time.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
ANSWERS

l. Almost seventy-five out of every
one hundred, according to the 1880
census.
2. The migration of families and
neighbors to western territory be-
tween 1880 and 1910 was a serious
threat to North Cardinals population
A special legislative committee in 1888
reported that nine-tenths of North
Carolina farms were for sale.
3. Judge Common resigned in 1893
giving as his reason that one so fall
lible and frail a being as himself
should be unwilling longer to pass
judgment upon any of Gods crea-
lures" At that time Judge Conner
was only Al years old. Later he served
six years as associate justice Of the
North Carolina Supreme Court, 1903
to 1909, and then fifteen years as a
federal judge.
4. At a funeral near Wilmington
in ITS "a hogshead of rum and
broth, and vast quantities of pork,
beef and corn-bread were set forth"
3. Five. The first was at New Bern
in August 1774, the second at New
Bern in April ITS, the third at Hills
boro in August and September ITS,
the fourth at Halifax in April and
May 1776, and the fifth at Halifax in
November and December 1776. On De-
cember 10, five days before the fifth
congress came to an end, State con-
stitution was adopted. Then Richard
Caswell was named governor to hold
office until the legislature should con-
vene and elect a governor.
6. 1t was discovered in 1929 that
jefferson had written John Adams a
letter in which he expressed the opin-
ion that the Mecklenburg resolves of
May 90 ITS, were spurious Follow
ing this the legislature appointed a
committee to collect and examine evil
dence concerning the event.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Charles Edison of New jersey pres
ident of the Thomas A. Edison Indus
tries, son of the late famed inven-
tor, born at West Orange, N. j., 46
years ago.
Arthur A. Ballantine, former I'M
dersecretary of the u. S. treasury,
born at Oberlin, Ohio, SO years ago.
Clara E. Laughlin of Chicago, trav-
ell book author, born in New York, 81
years ago.
Rt. Rev William D. OBrien, aux
iliary Catholic bishop of Chicago,
born in Chicago, SO years ago.
Lester H. Woolsey of Washington.
d. c., lawyer, onetime solicitor of
State, born at Stone Ridge, N. Y,
SO years ago
King Haakon VII of Norway, born
"a years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
HENDERSON, IN CO. DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY AUGUST g. 1886

pie, the railroad only owns rights of
easement. The land is owned large
ly by the town. Why buy more land
instead of using what is already our
own.
Instead of decreasing accidents.
the proposed underpass will increase
and multiply accidents Personally
l would not have the underpass If
rendered on a silver platter. "All is
not gold that glitters." There was
once a man who bought white ele-
plant cheap.
Our mayor and city aldermen are
in control and we ask their most
serious consideration and we ask FOR
their protection against folly.
S. T. PEACE.
Henderson, Aug. l. 1896.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
TODA YIN HISTORY

1492-Columbu left Palos, Spain,
on the epochal trip which opened the
New World.
1795-Gen. Anthony Wayne, soldier
of the Revolution, now general-in-
chief, concluded treaty with the In
dians at Greenville, Ohio, securing
peace in the Northwest.
1848-Womens Rights Convention
assembled at Rochester, N. Y, two
weeks after first historic women's
convention at Seneca Falls-this sec
ond meeting in Rochester unique in
that women conducted all sessions
themselves
1S86-Congress authorized further
increase of Navy-lifted navy out of
class of South American countries
and got it ready for Spanish-Ameri-
can war.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
DR.. Warren w. Wilson
Osteopathic Physician
e21 S. Garnett st. (SecOnd Floor
Henderson, N. C. Phone Civ
FORECLOSURES SALE.

BY virtue of the power contained in
a Deed in Trust executed by j. r.
Aston (single) dated Dec 9Th, 1925
and recorded in the office of the Re-
gister of Deeds of Vance County in
Book 88 at page PA, default having
teen made in the payment of the debt
therein secured, on request of the
holder of the same, shall sell for
cash, by public auction, at the Court
House door in Henderson, N. c., to
the highest bidder, at II o'clock, Noon
on the 31st day of August, 1886, the
following described property.
Tract No. 1. That tract of about 90
acres situate in Townsville Township
and bounded by the lands of j. E.
Aston Est. j. G. Aston, E. o. Tay-
lor, and Others Sixty-nine' acres of
this tract are subject to a prior mort
gage to the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia.
Tract No. 2. Also one-eighth I'M
divided interest in tract of 80 acres
belonging to the children of the late
]. r. Aston, ST., and bounded by the
lands of ]. r. Aston, Jr., E. o. Tay-
lor, and others.
zee OeeuS CI recoru IOr Iurlner de-
scription of the above tracts of land.
The SO acres of tract No. 1 describ-
ed above will be sold subject to the
mortgage of record to the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia as recorded
in Book 88 at page 70.
B. H. HICKS, and
(MRS) BEELE H. PURVIS,
Executors T. T. Hicks, Trustee.
Henderson, N. c.,
July co. 1886.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE OF LAND.
In Superior Court.

In Superior Court.
State of North Carolina:
County Of Vance
The Federal Land Bank of Columbia.
Plaintiff.
j. Il. Aston (dccease y, w. NJ Coffin,
and wife, Henrietta Coffin, B. HI.
Hicks and Belle III. Purvis, execu-
tors, Of 7. t. Hicks, Trustee for 2.
C. Smith, holder of Notes; /. b. Wat
kins, Trustee for Bearer, De-
PENDANTS.
Pursuant to a judgment entered in
the above entitled action on the goth
day of July, 1886, in the Superior
Court of Vance County by the Clerk,
1 will on the Oath day of August, 1896
at II o'clock, Noon, at the County
Court House Door ir said County. sell
at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash, the following described
lands situate in said county and state
in Townsville Township, comprising
about SO acres, more or less. and
bounded and described as follows:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land, containing sixty nine
acres, more or less, situate, lying and
being about two miles South OF
Townsville, in Townsville Township.
County of Vance, State of North Car
DINA, having such shapes, metes,
courses and distances as will more
fully appear by reference to a copy of
a plot thereof made by Thomas Tay-
lor, Surveyor, March 4th, 1908 which
said copy is on file with the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia, and being
/ ounded on the North by the lands of
j. T.. Aston, on the East by the lands
of E. 0. Taylor, and the lands of ].
f. Aston, on the South by the lands
of J. E. Aston and j. c. Aston and
on the West by the lands of j. J.
White. This being the J. R. Aston
homeplace heretofore conveyed to the
said ]. R. Aston by j. E. Aston ct
recorded in the Office of the Register
of Deeds of Vance County, in Book
SO at page 1T.
All bids will be received subject
to rejection or confirmation by the
Clerk of said Superior Court. The sue
cessful bidder will be required to de-
post $4,000 as a forfeit and guaranty
Of compliance with his bid. imme-
diately after sale. If deposit is not
made, notice is now given that said
lands will re re-sold at the same place
and upon the same terms at 2 o'clock,
p. M, of the same day. Every deposit,
not forfeited or accepted, will be re-
turned promptly.
Thi- oath daV of JULY, 1896.
r. G.. KITTRELL,
Commissioner.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
BY FRED H. MAY

l. What part of North Carolina
1olks live outside of incorporated
towns?
2 At what time during the nine
teenth century were nine-tenths of
North Carolina farms for sale?
s. What reason did Judge Henry
Groves Conner give for resigning as
superior court judge
4. What entertainment was provid-
ed at early funerals?
3. How many provincial congresses
did North Carolina hold?
8. What serious error did Thomas
Jefferson make in reference to Char
lotte, N. c.?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
TODAY'S YESTERDAYS


Aug. 3, 1492-Cristobol Colon. nee
Colombo, aged Al, sailed from Palos,
Spain, in command of three ships,
bearing 100 men, baggage, provisions,
merchandise for trading, artillery,
and royal letter Of introduction
from the king of CASTLE and Aragon
to the grand khan of Cathay (China)
where Colon thought he was going.
The Girl Columbus Left Behind
Him was Beatriz Enriquez de Arana,
who had borne him an illegitimate
son four years before. He never mar
ried her.
Aug. 3, 1S21-Uriah S. Stephens
was born near Cape May, N. j., son
of farmer who wanted him to be a
Baptist clergyman and induced him
to study for the ministry. Uriah,
however, never occupied a pulpit, for
he visualized greater opportunity for
service in preaching the rights of
labor. He was 48 when with 10 Phil
adelphia garment cutters, he finally
succeeded in starting the knights of
Labor, the forerunner of the pres
ent-day American Federation of La
Dor.
stephens objective was not an
American federation of labor, it was
a worldwide organization of toilers
under one directing and controlling
international head. This was the idea
that his acquaintance and contempor-
airy, Karl Marx, was to expand into a
plan for a communist international.
Ironically, American encyclopedias
consider Uriah Stephens less note
worthy than a senator, historian,
an Irish agitator and a poet of the
same name.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
OTHERS VIEWS
THE UNDERPASS

To the Editor:
1 have been away from Henderson
nine years and may not understand
all the circumstances leading up to
the underpass, but I am still wond-
ering if our town fathers have ex-
hausted all efforts to solve the prob
lem of traffic before deciding on the
s,nderpass.
It would seem that the underpass
would solve, or in a small part solve,
the problem of accidents caused by
the trains. There is a law already
on the books, town ordinance, re-
gulating the speed of trains within
the city limits. I, myself, had this
ordinance passed when I was a town
commissioner, If this present law
was enforced there would be no need
for an underpass. There would be no
accidents with trains running six to
eight miles an hour. It would be
much easier to enforce the laws and
much less expensive.
I am satisfied that the railroad will
be moved from the center of our
town sooner or later. What our town
is contemplating spending for the
underpass now will be very small
compared with what it will later cost
to put the streets back like they now
are. 1t is going to cost us lots of
money to undo what we are now do
ing.
I do not exactly understand the
blessings to be derived and had hop
ed that some one advocating the I'M
derpass would explain. Take the
case of a high school boy living in
the section of Episcopal church for
instance. In order to get to the high
school he would still have to cross
main street traffic. Now the bulk of
passenger traffic goes from north to
south but the bulk of the truck traf-
flee goes from east to west and would
not use the underpass at all. Ger
tainly very large part of the truck
traffic, cotton, tobacco, ETC., goes
from the interior of the state to Nor
folk for cheap freight rates by water
Norfolk routes trucks not by Raleigh
but by Durham, Greensboro, Char
lotte. So the high school boy would
still have the hazard of main street
traffic. Then he finds himself in the
tunnel under the railroad. How is he
going to get out and across? He
would have to cross over to C. M.
Cooper's corner. Remember now
that exactly where he crosses the
street, Williams street, the street is
going to be on a steep decline and
motor vehicles are hard to control on
lsteep declines. Then the high school
boy has to cross over Charles street,
another step decline, also imagine
five or six hundred children turned
out of school at one time and going
through a tunnel to which underpass
cars are entering from the school
side from three directions and all
three on steep declines. Under such
circumstances we would have many
more accidents and deaths than by
train going at a regulated speed. I
know that the pedestrian will have
a separate passway under the rail-
road tracks but they will have to
cross the streets to get to those
passes
I understand that the Seaboard rail,
road was not in sympathy with the
idea of the underpass but through
spirit of cooperation consented.
In case the Seaboard was request
ed to move it's tracks to the edge Of
town, I call attention to the we'll
known fact that the land on which
the tracks in the city now rests IS
not owned by the railroad in fee SIM
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
ROANOKE RAPIDS
COMING WEDNESDAY
West End Golfers Will Be
Attempting to Hand
Visitors Second Defeat

Roanoke Rapids linksmen will be
the opposition for West End Golfers
hare Wednesday afternoon when
they tee off at 2 o'clock in an inter-
city golf match.
Henderson whipped Wednesdays
visitors last week on the Roanoke
Rapids course by a lone point with
rain interfering with the match. The
visitors will be cunning to get re-
venge when they tankle here We'd
nesday.
Captain D. j. Cooper wants as
many golfers as possible to be on
hand to match the players that Roa-
noke Rapids will bring with them.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

l. American Civil War.
2. France.
3. Boston, Mass.
4. English scientist.
5. California.
3. A dire want Of food affecting con-
siderable numbers of people at the
same time
Z. 1t is one of the Danish islands in
the Baltic
8. On the eastern slop of the Andes
in central Ecuador.
3. The first Sunday in Lent.
10. 1t is an abbrevation of the Latin
phrase pro tempore, which is
translated "for the time being"