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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
GOLDEN BELT FAIR
CLOSESXASUCCESS
Attendance for Week, With
Ideal Weather, Best
Since Depression
BIGGER FAIR NEEDED
Increased Facilities Would Permit
BIGGER FAIR NEEDED
Increased Facilities Would Permit
Larger Growth; Finances Boost
ed and Officials Wear
Smiles.

Favored all week with ideal wealth
er conditions, the 1896 Golden Belt
Fair closed last night after achiev-
ing what was considered a success
from all standpoints. The attendance
was declared the best for any year
since the depression began in 1929
One day alone Wednesday as school
day, drew an attendance placed by
c. M. Hight, secretary, at $4,000
Thursday and Friday also saw
large crowds on the grounds, adding
to the total attendance record.
All shows, rides and other attrac-
tons are understood to have enjoyed
a good business for the week. Off
Gals of the Cetlin g. Wilson Shows,
which played the Midway, were pleas
ed with their weeks stay here, and
commented that they thought Hender-
son was the best located of any city
Of moderate size Of their acquain-
lance for the building of a great fair
exposition.
The fair management this year, for
the first time since the depression,
had good reason to regret they had
no more space available than they did
Agricultural exhibits had to be turn
ed away for want of room. Several
Midway attractions could not set UP
because there was no space for them
And even then the array of entertain
ment attractions added up to the
greatest the fair has brought here in
many years.
Moreover, tie crowds sensed the
added bigness of the thing and gave
their patronage in the search for
amusement and felt they had receiv-
ed the worth of their money. There
was a great deal to be said for the
free acts and the nightly fireworks
were of high type and we'll in keep
ing with other seasons.
E. L. Fleming, president of the fair,
joined with MIR. Hight in expressing
appreciation to the public and to the
performers, as we'll as to the ex-
hibitors, for the fine type of exposi-
ton that was made possible. They
hope for an enlarged fair because OF
more room by the time for another
season. They wore smiles today with
the fair behind them, because of the
success of the weeks activities
Numerous expressions have been
heard that the fair is now in position
to grow and expand if only it were
provided with the facilities, meaning
greater exhibit space and greater
Midway quarters. There were those
who looked for something in that di-
rection before another season.
The Vance County Colored Fair will
be held on the grounds next wenlx
The grounds will be rented from the
Golden Belt Fair Association, and
preparations were made for the plac-
ing Of exhibits Monday in prepara-
ton for the opening on Tuesday.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
KittreU Man Is Suicide
Few Days Before Weddinp
Robert Thomas Overton Sh cots Himself Just lJnd..
Heart at Home of Parent S; Leaves Note With Pic.
lures of Intended Bri de Lying On 1t

Robert Thomas Overton, 28-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Over
ton, of near Kittrell, committed sui
eide at the home of his parents Fri
day afternoon shortly after o'clock
and just three days before he was to
have been married next Monday to
Miss Nora May Howell who lives
eight miles south of Louisburg. He
emptied the load from shotgun into
his chest just below the heart, and
died instantly.
Overton left a note scrawled with a
pencil lying on a dresser in his bed
room, and on the note were two pic
lures Of his intended bride and one
Of himself The note explained that
he did not wish to go on with the
wedding on account of the condition
Of his health. The marriage was to
have taken place at the home of the
brides parents in Franklin county.
Coroner j. S. Albright was summon
ed to the scene, and, after an inves-
LEGATION and reading the note held
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
OVER $15O,OOO OF
LOANS FOR COUNTY
CAN'T Announces Figures
for Three-Year Period
Ending June 80

In Vance county 108 loans were
closed in the amount of $15O,565 by
the Federal Land Bank and the land
bank commissioner, from May /, 1888,
through June 80, 1886, according to
information received today from
Robert NJ. CAN'T, of Durham, State
Council for North Carolina.
Of the loans closed in Vance coun-
ty, "a for $55,20O were made by the
Federal Land Bank and "a loans, total
ing sos, 1885, by the land bank COM
missioner.
Through the agency Of the Farm
Credit Administration in North Car
DINA $A7, 900 was loaned during
tie same period. These loans included
5.056 Of Federal Land Bank loans for
81, TAI, 100; 1905 land bank commits
sjoner loans in the amount of ST.
221 ,271; 46,054 production credit asso-
Citations loans totaling $12,562 ,243; and
82,269 emergency crop loans amount
ing to $6,345,476.
In addition to refinancing loans
through the Farm Credit .Administra-
ton, the farmers in North Carolina
were benefited also by a reduction in
mortgage principal which amounted
to $3,3S5,600. Further savings result
ing from lowered interest rates are
estimated at 100000 annually.
In the period May 1, 1888, through
June 80, 1886, ,674 mortgage loans
totaling $2,O56, 1886 were made and
81 ,391 ,373,603 was advanced in loans
to cooperativeS, while $318,878, O72 was
loaned to cooperatives by the agencies
of the Farm Credit Administration in
the United States.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
!. c. K|TTRELL IS
K|WAN|S SPEAKER
Club To Meet At High
School Nov. Is, CONNIE
morating Education
Week

]. G. Kittrell, former president of
the club, but now out on a temporary
leave of absence, spoke to the Xiv
anis club at it's luncheon meeting
Friday evening, enumerating the
major activities of the group since it's
organization. Mrs. George Louison
was also a guest of the club and gave
several vocal selections accompanied
at the piano by A. P. Barnes.
After Prof. w. D. Payne, principal
of Henderson high school, had in
formed the club Of the approaching
National Education Week in Novem-
Der, the club decided to hold its week
ly meeting the evening of Friday. No
vember Is, in the Henderson high
school in recognition of that event.
That program will be in charge of the
education committee, headed by Rev.
I. w. Hughes, chairman.
The program for the evening was in
charge Of President J. C. Gardner
who also presided. The attendance
was IS percent of the membership.
Mr.. Kittrell, in reviewing the clubs
activities in the past year, stressed
assistance given for underprivileged
Boy Scout movement, building the
Kiwanis hut at Camp Balance Rock,
and establishment of the students
loan fund, which has been used from
time to time in helping worthy stu
dents complete their education. He
also recalled the various Christmas
treats from year to year. He also re-
minded the club of the fact that that
Henderson won the silver cup for
making the best attendance at the
Carolinas district convention in Kin
ston a number of years ago, and told
of the club attending in a body in
terclub meetings in Fayetteville,
Ahoskie, Louisburg, Durham, as well
as holding sessions in surrounding
territory with farmer groups. He said
one of the principal activities of
Kiwanis is to develop a more friendly
relation between the people of the
city and the rural districts.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

that it was a clear case of suic;ao
did not order an inquest u' and
The young man was a not,,
Vance county, and was born ~ -, o.
trell township April % 1908 ~ h M
resided there his entire life having
Surviving are the parent. :.
brothers, John Henry Overto. ''s
Franklin county; and Ollie 'C a., o.
Benjamin and Lewis Oyerton ~ "e
Vance county; and three sisters q" " q
Allen Harkdey, of Creedmoor' WI ~rs'
John Woodlief, of Vance co,nt,. WIS
Mrs. Lawrence Matthews, of Dvr, aug
Overton had been a member ~ I o-l
Ridge Baptist church. Kittrpl ps osS
2, for the past eleven years, and tuv
eral services were held there Of a. tuu'
o'clock this afternoon, with interr,. .ss
in the church cemetery. The na ,neu'
Rev. Eugene Usry, conducted tho -' sO
vices. Pallbearers were selected fr r,''
among friends at the funeral w
Mr.. Overton had engaged in forn
ing all his life. ' ''
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

/. To which country do the islands of
Sardinia and Sicily belong?
.. Name the great artery which, on
each side of the neck, distributes
blood to the different parts of the
lead.
g. Where is Columbia University.
4. Where is the source of the Nile
River?
5. In Egyptian mythology, who was
the sister and wife of Osiris?
6. What is isinglass?
Z. What does ad Valorem mean?
8. Who was Max Roger?
o. In meteorology, what is the name
for lines that connect places hav-
ing the sane temperature, for a
day, month, or for any given in
terval of time?
TO- In which state is the Scioto River?
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
MANAGER NORL|NA
A. B. c. STORE DIES
Frank Weldon Drops Dead
In Establishment Thurs
day Afternoon

Frank Erwin Weldon, manager of
the Warren county A. B. G. store at
Norlina, dropped dead in the store
Thursday afternoon at APO o'clock
from heart attack Mr.. Weldon had
complained for several days prior to
his death of chronic indigestion and
had taken medicine to relieve his
pain, but his health was not consid
cred bad and his death was a shock
to his family and friends. He was
10 years old.
Funeral services were held from
the Weldon home in Norlina Friday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock by Rev. Mn.
Roach, assisted by Rev. w. G. Will
son, pastor of the Norlina Methodist
church. Interment followed at the
Warren Plains Baptist church, of
which the deceased had been mem
Der since childhood. Norlina Masons
were in charge Of the services.
Mr.. Weldon was born at Warren
Plains, the son Of the late George
Weldon and Mrs. Fannie Owens We'll
don. He had lived in Norlina for the
past Is years, and was a past master
of Francis S. Packard Lodge, No. $50,
A. F. & A. NJ, and was a World War
yeteran.
The deceased is survived by one
brother, Hugh Weldon, also of Nor
lima His parents died a number of
years ago.
Following the death of Mr.. Weldon,
Jim Liner became temporary man
ager of the Norlina A. B. c. store.
Mr.. Liner was already under bond
to the Warren county liquor control
board, having assisted in managing
various Warren county liquor stores
while regular managers took vacation
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
RALLY WILL Be AT
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
To Arouse Enthusiasm To-
ward Getting Out Big
Democratic Vote
WILL BE Countrywide
WILL BE Countrywide
Chairman II. p. Wyche Will Preside
mt Meeting Where Well Known
Orators And Speakers
Will Be Heard

Congressman Harold D. Cooley, of
Nashville, representative from the
fourth North Carolinad istrict, and
Judge r. Hunt Parker, of the third
judicial district, in both of which
Vance county is located, will be the
headline speakers at a great Demo
cratic rally to be held in the audi
forum of the Henderson high school
next Friday evening at 1870 o'clock,
it was announced today by Chairman
B. P. Wyche, of the Vance County
Democratic Executive Committee.
Both speakers are widely known in
this city and county, and the an
ncuncement that they would be on
the program has been met with much
favored comment and general APP
prevail Mr.. Cooley is candidate for
reelection on November 8, although
Judge Parker is not up this time.
Mr.. Wyche does not expect any
other speakers to be on the program
except those who will present the two
visiting officials.
Present plans call for j. M. Peace,
Democratic candidate for the State
House Of Representatives, to intro
duce Mr. Cooley. Judge Parker will
be introduced by some local Demo-
crat not yet definitely selected
Leaders of the party look to this
rally, the only one of the campaign in
this county, to bring out tremen-
deus vote on November 3. Because of
the tremendous Democratic margin in
Vance, no intensive campaign has
bee been waged here this fall The
normal vote here in a general election
is around 5000 Democratic and 500
Republican, or approximately ten to
one. 1t is anticipated that this years
turnout of voters will achieve a re-
suit fully in keeping with this record
of The past.
The rally is, of course, countrywide
in nature and is expected to bring
Democrats from all parts of the coun-
ty to hear two speakers who are very
popular among Democratic voters of
the county.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

Prices advanced on the Henderson
tobacco market during the week that
closed yesterday as season sales rose
to very near the 10000 00-pound
mark. Official statistics announced
today by j. r. McDuffie, sales super
visor for the market, showed the past
weeks sales to be 1,792,276 pounds,
which brought $484, 463.05 for an aver
age of $27O3 per hundred pounds.
This brought season sales to date
to 9,6O4,48 pounds, selling for ST.
516,762.3O, for an average price of
$500 per hundred. To the same date
last year the market had sold $685.
4e(3 pounds for $1,72O, 822.64 at an av-
erage of $2O.82 per hundred.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

Continued from Page One.)
cially catered to. Upon their return
home they naturally speak extreme
ly we'll of the manner in which the
mikados officialdom and the Japan
csc public generally entertained them.
Thus, it is said, a strong pro-Jap-
anese sentiment is being created thro-
ughout the islands.
STEWARDS EXPEREIENCE
The Japanese can be perfectly
heavenly to visitors.
When a visitor, however, falls foul
of regulations, he can have a terrible
time.
On my own couple of stays in Jap
an [ found the Japanese the most
hospitable hosts with whom I ever
was thrown into contact. They al
most overdid their hospitality; it was
oppressive.
l had camera.
Since then there have been cases
in which foreigners have involved
themselves in serious trouble by TAX
ing the most innocent snapshots. on
the theory that information was be-
AAI6 SdCuOA Gu 1Ol oil
1 shot pictures in every direction
and never was questioned.
l had access to cabinet members.
The sky was the limit.
GOOD INTRODUCTTONS
However, had exceptionally good
introductions.
I was correspondent for an Amer
lean news agency, affiliated with a
similar Japanese agency.
This news agency was (and is) a
powerful organization.
But I have heard of other foreign
ers who have not been so royalty
treated.
To an extent it has been their own
fault. Usually they have been Oc-
cidentals who, accustomed to treat
ing the meek Chinese roughly, have
treid to treat the Japanese similarly.
The Japanese won't stand for it.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
MINOR CHARGES IN
THE COUNTY COURT

Minor charges were heard today in
county court with S. B. Rogers, re-
corder protein presiding.
Oscar Harris, Negro, was not guilty
when tried upon a charge of non
support of an illitigimate child.
Dohbie Allen, alias Sidney Allen,
was given 80 days on the roads for
being drunk.
Jack Pearce, charged with being
drunk, was fined 81 and costs or 80
days on the roads.
June knight was guilty of being
drunk, and was fined 81 and costs.
Failure to pay meant 80 days on the
roads.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

Prices rose for the week as whole
$1.O7 per hundred ABOVE the previous
week, pushing up the season average
10 cents per hundred pounds from
the SIG OIL figure at the end of last
week
Fridays sale of 4O7.73O pounds was
bid in by buyers at the highest figure
of any day Of the week except Mon
day. Fridays average was $27.82 and
a total of $113,46O2 was paid out.
Mondays sale was 575,7O2 pounds and
went for $169,340.84 at an average of
$29.41 per hundred, the best price for
any day of the season and the most
tobacco ever sold on the Henderson
market on any one day The aggre-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

Washington, Oct. "a (AP)-Mem-
bers of the Workers Alliance of Ame-
RIGA were turned back at the White
House gates today when they sought
to see President Roosevelt to demand
increased wages for WPA workers.
A committee of nine headed by
David Lassiter, president, asked White
House police for admittance, but they
were barred at the entrance to the
grounds. With them were between
300 and 400 Alliance members, who
had walked from their assembly hall
in the Y. M. C. A. building two blocks
away.
LASER was told by members of the
White House police that the executive
offices were closed for the day, and
that it would be impossible for them
to see President Roosevelt or any of
his secretaries.
A committee of 25 had made plans
to seek an audience later with Harry
L. Hopkins, Works Progress admin
istrator.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

Tobacco Averages Rise Here
With Sales Near 10 Million

gate mony paid, a shade under $780,
600, has been eclipsed on only one
day before in the history of the mar
ket, so far as figures Immediately
available Indicate
AS warehouse floors had been clear
ed of all tobacco today, new loads of
the golden weed were streaming into
town and rapidly filling floors for the
sale of next Monday. Indications were
that Mondays sale would take rank
with the biggest of the season, with
possibly the best prices of any day
this year.
Tobacco men estimate that around
40 to IS percent of the crop has been
sold for this market.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
FOUR LOCAL BOYS
PLEDGED TO FRATS

Chapel Hill, Oct 24.-Two hundred
and forty-three freshmen have just
iteen pledged to fraternities at the
University of North Carolina, follow
ing a two-week period of silence. The
number reveals a substantial increase
over that of last year which was 211
Henderson boys were pledged te
the following fraternities: w. Y
Bryan and John Rose, Sigma Chi, j
D. Rose and Turner Workman, Zeta
Psi
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

Continued from Page One.)
before a non-intervention sub-commit-
tee for a blockade of Portugal to
"stop Italo-German arms shipments
to Spanish insurgents"
3. Portugal suddenly broke off dip
lomatic relations with the Madrid
government.
4. Madrid, in new charges against
Germany, declared Is German sub
marines had entered the Mediter-
ranean nine days ago and that on Oc-
tober 8, 100 German youths reached
Seville in an open boat with Is anti
aircraft guns for insurgent use.
5. Germany granted recognition to
italian Ethiopia, won by war which
the League of Nations stamped as
aggression"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

One Decd-One realty deed was fill
cd with the Vance Registry Friday
and it covered property in the city.
John D. Williams, ct. al sold to
Erie G.. Flanagan for $40 and con-
siJcrations a lot on Young Avenue.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24

License To Wed-A license to marry
was issued at the Register of Deeds
office of Vance county yesterday. It
went to a colored couple, Thomas
Davis and Bernice Peace, both of
Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
Workers On WPA De-
mand Higher Wage
ed back at the White House gates

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
Landon Processes
Good Government
Is His Objective

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
Portugal Blamed
For Drowning Of
Spanish Sailors

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-24
Japs Catering To
Philippine Nation

7ntinued from Page One.)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-01
World Copyright, 1886, By
United Press

PARIS, Dec. l. WP)-A general
war in Europe can and will be
avoided if the three great democra-
cies, Great Britain, France and the
United States, work together to
prevent it, and if normal economic
relations can be restored, Premier
Leon Blum declared today in an
exclusive interview with the United
Press.
But the menace of war is great,
he. said, as the arms race continues
and an effort must be put forward
constantly to escape a conflagra-
ton in the face of recurring provoc-
ative incidents.
The mass of people must do some
clear thinking, Blum pointed out
and they must not let themselves
drift into a state of mind that
various crises which follow one an
other necessarily mean that another
general European war is inevitable.
II do not think that war is in
evitable," Blum declared, in his
palatial offices in the Matignon
palace today.
In order to make progress in the
direction away from war. Americas
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-01

in progress in University City, in
the northwestern section of the
capital. Defense council sources
said the loyalists had dynamited
part of the hospital clinic of the
university where fierce fighting
continued.
1t was understood part of the
hospital was blown up but the
rebels still held other parts of the
building.
More fighting was going on in
the suburb of Bozuelo, several
miles northwest of University City
Loyalists affirmed that they had
elected rebels from outlying hous-
eS of the village, where a bonn
bardment which began during the
night continued at noon.
Both sides suffered heavy losses
there. Commandant Jose Maria
Galan, leading the loyalists, was
wounded slightly.
The loyaliSt offensive meantime
continued in the Asturias district
of northern Spain.
West and south of the capital
it was claimed that Loyalist planes
bombed the Talavera airdrome, de-
.stroying seven tri-motored planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-01
UF
$4,000 SUIT
STARTED OVER
ARREST CASE

Damages of $4,000 are sought by
Cornelia Christie from Judge and
Mrs. Thomas Anderson of Calexico
because Mrs. Anderson had her ar
rested for alleged theft of bath
mat and a dresser scarf.
A jury later declared her not
guilty of the petty theft charge
after trial conducted before Judge
Anderson in Calexico justice court.
Mrs. Anderson, proprietor of a
Calexico hotel accused her on jan
uary %, a warrant was issued by
Judge Anderson, and she was ar
rested and taken to Jail. AT an ar
raignment, bail was set at 5000. She
was acquitted February 10. She al
so asked for $50 paid an attorney
for defending her. The proceedings,
according to the complaint, injured
her reputation.
The case was filed in Los Angeles
county originally but by stipulation
of attorneys, was transferred to I'M
perial county.