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The producers news., 1936-08-07
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Mr.. Eng Torstenson, formerly
county, treasurer of Sheridan
county, passed thru the city last
Sunday, on the way to Littlefork,
Minnesota, where he has a farm,
from the southwest where he has
been working during the winter,
coming to Raymond to pick up his
son, Donald, who was visiting his
uncle, Jack Stuart at that place.
and then proceeding to northern
Minnesota. Many Of Mr.. Torsten-
sons old friends regretted that ne
could not stay for a longer visit.
The producers news., 1936-08-07
LOCAL NEWS

Clarence OVERLY of Redstone left
for the Fort Peck Dam on FRIDAY
Judge S. E. Paul and family re-
turned from a business and plea.
sure trip to the western part OF
the state. where they visited their
son. Levi, who is working at HAM
ilton the first part Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Kurtz and
daughter Korine and Karol leIC
THURSDAY morning for a weeks
vacation trip in Montana and Wyo-
ming. Mr.. Kurtz will attend the
Fireman's convention which is be-
inc held in Roundup. After the
convention the family will visit
Yellowstone and Glacier parks.
A group of young people held 9
picnic Sunday afternoon at Eagles
Nest, near Redstone. The day was
spent in picnic fashion, and q
picnic lunch was served. Those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
Schnitz, Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Lane
Gene Antonson, Gladys Krebsoacr
and Jack Holmes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Brown
daughter, Doris of Waconda. SoutE
Dakota, Mrs. Albert Brown o.
Plentywood, and Gladys Carlson O
Vermillion, S. OAK, left on Sat
urday to visit the Fort Peck Dan
and friends and relatives at Glas
gov, returning on Tuesday.
DR.. and Mrs. C. M. Leonard o
Providence, R. l., we're guests a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Car
Peterson Friday and Saturday. D1
and Mrs. Leonard are on a trans
continental tour by auto and hous
trailer. They were former resident
of Minot, N. D.
The producers news., 1936-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Pethr and
daughter, Mabel of Detroit, have
Eeen visiting at the MCGOWAN
home at Raymond. They left Fri
day for SDokane, Seattle and
Charleston, Washington, where thev
will visit Mr.. Pethr's mother and
Mrs. Pethr's sister. Mrs. Pethr IS
a sister Of Mr.. MCGOWAN,
The producers news., 1936-08-07

Lois Kent, member of the 1886
graduating class, and Leah Mich
els, county superintendent's assis-
tant, left Wednesday morning for
New York City. Miss Kent will at
tend school and Miss Michel will
spend few weeks there on her
vacation. They were accompanied
by Olaf Aasheim and Clair Mich
els.
The producers news., 1936-08-07

Eunice Olson returned Mon9I
from Minneapolis, where she D. y
been attending school for the P''
year.
The producers news., 1936-08-07

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
IT'S TRUE

The Allied armies didn't use ma
chine-guns in airplanes until the
World War was months old, yet the
U. S. Army had plane equipped with
machine gun as early as 1912
Electric light was first used on a
ship, 25 years before Edison perfect
ed his magic lamp.
An idea for Hollywood: When pretty
Catherine Langton was convicted of
highway robbery in England in the
18th century, and sentenced to be
hanged, in accordance with the Gus
tom of the time, sentimentalists sue
ceeded in having her sentence chang
ed to Punishment. Barbary pirates
attacked the ship on which she was
bound to- Australia, and she was
taken to Constantinople as a prisoner.
The Grand Seignor of Turkey fell in
love with her and married her.
Frau Barbara Schmotzerin of Boen-
nigheim is shown by German pension
records to have borne 38 sons and Is
daughters, including four sets of trip
lets. ,....,
She would have been a fitting mate
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
NEGROES ABANDON
POLITICAL SORT|E
Militant Group in Raleigh
and Durham Lack Suf-
ficient Strength
Daily Dispatch Burenn.
In The SIR Walter Hotel.
Nv Il q NJ SK ERVILL

a. VI.
Raleigh, May 1S-The group of Ne
groes here which had been boasting
that it would attend the Wake Coun-
ty Democratic Convention here Sat
urday and force the election of at
least two Negro delegates to the
State Democratic Convention rallied to
show up. The result was that the con-
vention was entirely harmonious and
the question of Negro participation
was not injected into it's deliberations.
Before the convention was held, the
Rev G. A.. Fisher, Negro rector of St.
Ambrose Episcopal church here, stat
ed that he and a group of Negroes
from Precinct Is would protest a.
gainst the seating of the white dele
cation from that precinct and ask
that a Negro delegation be seated in
stead. He also predicted that at least
two Negro delegates to the State con-
vention would be named from Wake
county and two from Durham. Fisher
admitted that he and his group of
younger Negro leaders are supporting
DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald for the Dem
ocratic nomination for governor be-
cause they regard him as being more
liberal in his attitude towards the
i. Negroes than: any of the other can
didates. He said that he and his group
of younger Negroes are definitely
opposed to the old leadership both in
the colored and white races in North
Carolina"
The reason Fisher failed to appear
at the county convention here Sat-
urday wars because, he could not get
amy of the more substantial leaders
in the precinct to join with him and
make a protest, according to w. H.
Sawyer, one of the principal white
leaders in Precinct Is.
"None of the better element among
the Negroes in this precinct, which
includes Shaw University and in
which most of the Negro professors
i'm Shaw and in thee olored high
, school here live, would join in with
Fisher or make any protest. Sawyer
said. "They told me that they were
perfectly satisfied to leave the situa-
tion in the hands of the white dele
gates and that they had complete con-
fidence in the white delegates named
in the precinct meeting"
Sawyer said he had heard that
Fisher worked until midnight Friday
night trying to get together a group
that would make a protest, but that
. none would agree to go with him to
the county convention to make a pub
lie protest, so that he was compelled
to abandon it. .-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
= TODAY 4
TODAY,S ANNIVERSARIES

1785-John Wilson christopher
North Scottish essayist, born. DIED
April 8, 1854.
1834-Sheldon Jackson, Presbyte-
rian clergyman, missionary OF the
Far West and Alaska, U. S. General
agent of education in Alaska, his last
rs years, pioneer in the upbuiiding OF
Alaska, born at Minaville, N. Y. Died
at Asheville, N. c., May 2, 1909.
184O-Alphonso D. Rockwell, N. Y.
physician, pioneer in electro-theapeu-
tics, regulated inventor of the electric
chair, born at New Canada, Conn.
Died April II, 1888.
1849-William T. Bull New York's
noted surgeon of his day, born at
Newport, r. 1. Died Feb. %, 1909.
1852-Gertrude E. Kasebier, New
York City photographer, pioneer of
artistic photography in America, born
at Des Noises, Iowa. Died Oct. 10,
1884.
1866-Edward Lucas White, Balti-
more teacher of Greek and Latin, not
ed novelist, born at Bergen, N. J. Died
March 80, 1884.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
THE WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY

20 Years Ago Today-Kiffen Rock
well, North Carolinian, spotted plane
behind the German lines, and with
his machine-gun sent it spinning to
earth-first of the So victims of the
Lafayette Escadrille, famed American
stated unit of the French flying corps
The Escadrille, which had gone into
action for the first time in April, was
now with the defense forces at Yer
dun.
Most active of the Americans there
was to be Victor Chapman of New
York. An account of him says, Fear
less, he always flew deeper into Ger
man territory than any of his cohorts,
sometimes fought as many as four
enemy planes single-handed, never
landed until his fuel was nearly ex-
hausted. His plane was a patched
sieve of bullet holes. One afternoon
Chapman, Norman Prince and Raoul
Lufberry encountered a number of
German planes. To divert the enemys
fire from his comrades planes, Chap
man nosed his plane into the midst OF
the German planes, sent one into a
tailspin, forced two others off,"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
ANSWERS

1. Richard Caswell, who distinguish
ed himself during the battle at
Moore's Creek Bridge, February 81,
l776, was honored by being elected
presiding officer at the Halifax con-
gress ON November IL, of that year.
This congress adopted the first state
constitution, and then elected Caswell
governor.
2. The Western North Carolina Rail-
road between Salisbury and the Ten
nessee line. Governor Jarvis on Jam
uary l, 1885, reported to the legisla-
ture that the road had been complet-
ed to the Tennessee river, near the
mouth of Nantahala river, as reuuir-
ed by the legislature of 1885 saving.
SO this great work, so long a tax
upon the tax payer and the ingenuity
OF the politician, is completed"
3. In 1900 there were % states out
ranking North Carolina was estab-
lished by act of the legislature of
1891. To secure it's location Green's
boro gave $4,000 in money and a ten
acre tract of land, the land being dom
ated by r. S. Pullen, r. T. Gray and
e. P. Wharton, and others. Later the
" N'o|CCo OOuSliC dIlOCIl0T OF lilo
acres. DR.. Charles Duncan McIver,
who was the moving spirit in the es-
tablishment of the institution, became
it's first president when it was open
ed in the fall Of 1892
g. That of Secretary of Interior in
the cabinet of President Grover Cleve-
land from 1893 to 1896. Hoke Smith
was born at Newton, N. c. September
z, 1855, educated by his father, DR.
n. II. Smith, later moving to Atlanta
He was admitted to the bar at the age
of seventeen years, twice elected gov
ernor of Georgia and then sent to the
United States senate.
g. Aside from the pardoning power
There was very little power given him
by the constitution of 1776. William
Hooper, member of the convention
from Wilmington, said that the gov
efnor was given "Only power enough
to sign a receipt for his salary" Later
constitutions have made very little
change in this respect. s>,4 ~ IL p
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, N. G.
Ambassador to Mexico, onetime Sec
rotary of the Navy, born at Wash
ington, N. c., IA years ago.
u. S. Senator j. Hamilton Lewis of
Illinois, born at Danville, Va, 70 years
ago.
Mary Boyle O'Reilly or Boston, hui
manitarian, daughter of the Irish
American author, born in Boston, SO
years ago.
DR.. Albert w. Palmer, president of
the Chicago Theological Seminary,
born in Kansas City, Mo-, 81 years ago.
DR.. John G.. Bowman, Chancellor of
the University of Pittsburgh, born at
Davenport, Iowa, SO years ago.
Rt. Rev. Edward l.. Parsons of San
Francisco, Protestant Episcopal BIZ
shop, born in New York City, SO years
ago.
Bertrand Russell 1rl RusselD
famed English writer,
born 81 years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
Good Progress Is
Made in Northeast
In Road Building
Daily Dispatch BWre1W.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
nv i I

-.
Raleigh, May 18.-Work is already
under way or will be started within
a few days ON % different road bet
terment projects in ten counties IN
Division A, in the northeastern part
of the State, Chief Engineer w. Vance
Baise, of the State Highway and Pub
lie Works Commission, announced to-
day. Additional projects are being
prepared and will be begun just as
soon as the ones now in progress are
completed, he said.
In Chowan county approximately
two miles of road have been machined
and shaped and sand-clay surfaclng
put down. Two other similar projects
are now under way. In PaSquotank
county three projects are under way,
two almost completed, involving DIT
ching, draining and surfacing. A float
ing gang with trucks, tractor and
road machine is working on a grad
ing and shaping county road prOJect
in Perduimans county, where another
similar project will be started as SOON
as this one is completed.
In BERTHE county about five miles
of road is being machined and shaped
with one mile of new sand-clay sur
facing. while another project of rive
! miles of machining and shaping with
three miles of surfacing is also I'M
der way. Two sand surfacing projects
| are under way in Gates county, while
a third widening and machining pro
iect with a tractor outfit is also I'M
der way. A big machining and snap
! ing project is also under way in Cam
! den county, to be followed with sanos
CLAW surfacing. Some resurfacing OF
an old asphalt road in Dare county is
also under way. -
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
Roosevelt Helping Cuban
Conditions, Editor Says

versity when they attended a varsity
baseball game, a stunt night given by
the Senior Class, and the Junior-Sen-
ior dances. ~,
1.-The organization of this University
the zeal with which it's professors
work, the composure and industry of
the students, the degree of RESPONSE
sibity which they assume in the gov
eminent of the University, the size
of the campus, and the wide variety
of architecture-all arouse in me first,
admiration, and then pride, because
my ncphews have come here to re-
ceive a background of American Gull
ture and education" commended Edi-
tor Zayas.
"In Chapel Hill everything is pleas
ant: the general atmosphere. the
crowds of Students. the scenery-yes,
everything. 1t seems pity there are
so few goods. The fact that there are
twelve boys to one girl would be a
matter of despair to any CUBAN" he
said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

ers here now than ever before, and
that, despite the efforts of both the
Mcdonald and Hoey groups to count
Graham out, his managers are more
determined than ever to put him in
second place in the first primary.
Here in Wake county and other sur
rounding counties, it is agreed that
there has been a tremendous move
ment to Graham within the past week
The Mcdonald leaders are still con-
fident that their man will either be
nominated in the first primary with a
clear majority, or else be in first
place with Hoey in second place, in
which case they are confident that
Mcdonald will win in the second pri-
mary by a tremendous majority A
few of the more conservative McDon-
aid supporters, however, are showing
some concern at the gains Graham
has been making and are becoming
fearful that he may be able to get
i'm second place, rather than Hoey.
This would make it more difficult
for Mcdonald in the second primary,
most of his supporters agree, since
most of them frankly admit they
think he can defeat Hoey more easily
than Graham in a run-off vote.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

speaking tour Through the eastern
counties, tcgether with other factors
which have been at work, are caus-
ing a definite break in the Mcdonald
SUPPORT and a heavy trend towards
Hoey, his State manager, Hubert
Olive, is convinced. The Hoey forces
also are convinced that Sandy Ora
ham is no longer a dangerous factor
iii that he is trailing so far back in
third place that he will never be able
to overtake either Hoey or Dr. Nc
Donald.
Factors Against Mcdonald.
The factors which are serving to
weaken the Mcdonald support in the
eastern counties especially, but over
the entire State generally, according
to his managers here, are:
/. The realization by the people that
his substitute tax program is unsound
and will not produce the revenue
needed.
2. The belief that if the sales tax
is removed, some form of Statewide
property tax will have to be imposed.
g. The realization by the school
teachers and those interested in the
welfare of the schools that the Nc
Donald program will provide less
money for schools instead of more, as
he is promising.
A. The opposition of the merchants
to- his heavy merchants license tax
plan.
5. The fear that he will attempt to
revive his occupational tax on small
incomes of $40 a week or more, such
as he proposed in the 1885 legislature.
"The people of the State are at last
waking up to the fact that taxes can
not be removed at one end and ex-
penditures increased at the other,
without the imposition of new and
equally unpopular taxes somewhere
along the line" Campaign Manager
Olive said today. "They are beginning
to see that if DR.. Mcdonald should he
elected, the next legislature would
have to enact either a heavy State
wide property tax or a series of diff
ferent sales taxes, such as have been
enacted in Kentucky since the repeal
of the general sales tax there. The
people of North Carolina are not go
ing to elect young professor from
Illinois and Arkansas as governor of
North Carolina just so he can expert
ment ON the State with his bagfull of
untried tax theories. That explains
the heavy. trend to Mr.. Hoey every
where in the State''
Graham Partially Agrees.
While the Graham managers and
supporters agree with the Hoey forces
that Dr. Mcdonald is slipping and
heading down hill fast, they do not
agree with the contention that Mr..
Hoey is making any gains. They con-
tend that it has been Graham who
has put 1.-The skids under DR.. McDon-
aid and who lis gradually hammering
his once solid bloc into pieces. The
Graham managers maintain that
Sandy is making deeper and deeper
inroads into the Mcdonald following
every day, and that Hoey is scarcely
denting it at all, in spite of the Hoey
claims. They are perfectly willing for
/ the Hoey managers to think Graham
is trailing so far in third place that
he will never catch up or have a
chance, but are convinced that some
body is going to get big jolt after
,, the votes are counted on June 6.
Graham MiIitancy.
There is no doubt that there is more
militancy in the Graham. headouart-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

Chapel Hill, May 18-"Under the
Roosevelt Administration, conditions
in Cuba are steadily improving" &C
cording to DR.. Jose M. Zayas, prom
inent lawyer of Havana, who. with
his brother, DR.. Oscar Zayas, publish
err and editor Of "Anance" Cuban
newspaper, are here for visit with
DR.. Jose's two sons, who are students
in the University.
Discussing the resources of Cuba,
DR.. Jose Zayas pointed out that the
islands position as the worlds largest
sugar producing country makes her
dependent upon this product for eco
nomic stability.
Cuba is the third largest foreign
market for American products" he
said, land since practically all her inn
ports come from the United States,
more reciprocal trade treaties would
be advantageous to both nations"
The zayas brothers were given an
insight into student life at the Uni
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
Scene Of Playmak ers' 'Iysisttata'

presidential candidates. The man with
the popular vote in primaries ought to
have no trouble being nominated at
all, for it is evident that he has
strength, but he may not be exactly
suitable to certain party leaders and
to interests behind them.
At the moment there seems little
question to the public at large that
Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas
will win the Republican nomination
but one still can hear opinions diff
fering from that in Cleveland. To
which the average man responds:
How can it be true? He leads in the
primary voting"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
BY FRED H. MAY

/, l. Who was the States first war
hero to be honored?
2, The huilding of what railroad was
pet political football for thirty odd
years?
8. How much better does the State
rank today in agriculture than she
did in 1900?
4. What donation did the City OF
Greensboro make to secure the Wo-
mans College?
5. What was the first political Of
flee Hoke Smith held?
6. How much power did the con,
stltution of 1776 give the governor?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

Monday, May is, Iyar 26, 1896 in J.
c.. International Peace Day: National
Flag Day in Haiti. Zodiac sign: Tau
rus. Birthstone: emerald. New moon
Wednesday.
Scanning the skies: 1t might be
supposed that the more heat the Sun
sends out the warmer we are. This is
true in the long run for the earth as
a whole, but not for brief periods Pre-
cipitation, cloudiness, prevailing winds
a dozen factors upset what would
seem to be a natural law.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
TODAY IN HISTORY

1904 Napoleon proclaimed Emper-
or of the French.
1896 Congress authorized an ex-
ploring expedition to the Antarctic
the Wilkes expedition 183842) first
scientific expedition fitted out by gov
eminent.
1S62-Siege of Vicksburg, began.
.1S99-Opening of the First Hague
Peace CONFERENCE.-THE by Russian
Car and attended by delegates from
20 countries.
,1934-President signs new laws OF
war on crime.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See BGck Page

Scotland.
g. The wife of Geraint.
3. A musical instrument of the harp
sichord family, and an important
step in the evolution of the piano.
4. American genre painter.
5. Four.
6. Woodrow Wilson.
7. New York.
s. Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va
9. Threadneedle Street.
10. Christmas Carol
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
TODAY'S HOROSCOPE

The indications for toGay are for a
peculiar vocation, or strange expert
ence in environment, with some sue
cess attending it. It carries industry
and inventive faculty, coupled with
patience and thrift. There will be
more wealth than the native will
really need for the qualification of
the simple tastes indicated. There
is also good fortune by marriage.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

or five apiece to Vanderberg and
Knox
SECRET CONFERENCES
But who can say what will take
place at conferences in Cleveland
Union club, begrimed rendezvous of
iron, steel, coal and oil barons, in the
heart of the convention city? Or per-
haps there will be consultations on
yachts out on Lake Erie, beyond sight
of Cleveland?
1t is at this period every four years
that people begin to realize-later to
forget-that they do not choose their
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
TODAY'S YESTERDAYS

May Is, 1631-The first election in
America was conducted. Not by a
democracy, but by theocracy. Prior
to election of John Winthrop as gov
ernor, the general court of Massachu-
sets Bay colony had debarred all non
Puritans and non-churchgoers from
citizenship.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

1923-Florida's Legislature resolves
that "Darwinism, Atheism, and Agnos
ticism" not be taught as truths in the
public schools and State institutions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAlRD
Copyright, 1886. for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association

for one of the famous II century
Grosius brothers of Germany. It is
recorded that the five brothers had a
total of exactly 100 children, and all
five families lived in the same house!
Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom-
ed by Clark Kinnaird
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18
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New York, May 18.-Randomusing
There's new profession for the gals,
these last few years professor of
knitting. :. Most of the big depart
ment stores here hire ladies to teach
knitting, crocheting and even quilt
patching as a wave of revived inter
est in the domestic arts sweeps the
town. Jack Dempsey's eleven room
flat in Central Park West will be one
of the most eye-filling digs" in town
after decorations are complete. Dem
psey, by the way, still watches his
weight and exercises regularly, now
that the life of a restaurateur i'm
wolves rich food and late hours.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-18

REGISTERED DRUGGIST WITH
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