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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17

!. The front one, Of fair size, he. made
into his surgery; the two at the
back considerably smaller, became
respectively a waiting room and
his dining, sleeping, and living
room. The wife Of the florist
downstairs gave him a little serv-
lice, but he performed most of his
simple domestic arrangements him..
self. He had no clerk or maid.
Patients were. encouraged to. climb
his separate stairway without ring
ing the, outside bell, and he himself
would open the upstairs front door
which he had built in.
He was poor in these early
years. He had settled at West.
Shilston for a variety of reasons.
a fancy for the place conceived ON,
cycling tour during a dental col-.
lege vacation, a sense that the
town was likely to grow, a. belief
that the high air would benefit q.
slight pulmonary trouble from
which he then believed himself to.
be suffering.
For the first few years patients
came along slowly, Mostly they
We're OF the working or small shop.
keeping class: he made little or no
progress with the upper bour.
geoisie and gentry. On this more
lucrative sort of patient-or rather
on those who did not get their.teeth
seen to in London-his rivals. had
"a, firm grip. Jameson, the Scots
man, had been in the town feH
nearly 40 years, and for those with
a fancy for more up-to- date clinical
methods, there were the. partners
Taylor and Evans, lusty, bold-faceds
young men, great cricketers, golf
ers and tennis players, very much
about with the younger set.
+ Nevertheless, Kennedy's practice
showed steady, If not spectaeulae
growth, and it was noted that he
kept his patients. For he was q
good dentist, slow but sure in dag
nosis, firm and decisive in action.
His strong, delicate fingers were Of
great service to him. He was inf
nitely painstaking, his filings never,
came out, and he never extracted q
tooth he saw any chance of saw
ing. He had a sensitive perception
about pain, would go to unlimited
trouble to avoid INJECTING It, and
was not afraid of using drugs.
He was his own dental mechanic,
and showed the same technical dex-
terityr and thoroughhess over the,
manufacture and fitting Of dem
lures as he did with his work on
living teeth. Also, he started the
custom-hitherto unknown in West
Shilston1aof periodically scraping
his patients teeth and cleaning
their dentures on his own Initial
tive. without making any charge.
Ito Be C0ntinued)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17
NAzf TALK ISN'T
. TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Washington Not Alarmed
Over Stories Of German
Activities Here
BY CHARLES p. STEWART

- u
| Washington, Sept. 17-Although
| Uncle Sans Omen are Investigating
stories of the existence of a formid-
able MAJ; organization in the United
States I cannot discover, from talks
with numerous government officials,
that these reports are taken very Sc
riously. at least in Washington.
/ Asinine speeches by Hitherto Lead
ers in Germany do give the impression
that Ma i-dom in it's native land is
ambitious to gather under it's banner
folk of Teutonic descent throughout
the world.
1t does not necessarily follow, how
ever, that any considerable number of
our so7called German-Americans are
bit in sympathy with this campaign.
FEW IMMIGRANTS
For one thing, few German immi-
grants. have been arriving in the Unit
ed States in approximately genera
ton.
Most citizens of German extraction
are sons of grandsons of original set
| tiers on this side of the Atlantic and
are as American, except for their in
heritedi family names, as our Smiths,
and Andersons, our O'Connors and
Mulligans and O'Neills.
Moreover, when Germans were
landing here in droves, they came
largely because they were driven from
! the fatherland by the comparatively
mild imperialistic tyranny of olden.
days. They were among the best lib
erty-lovers we had. They gift NIT
Siegel' in the war of secession. They
were the last kind of folks to have
anything in common with the oppres-
sions Of the Nazi regime. That is the.
background of our Schmidts and Sch
wartzes: and various "stein" families
of today.
INTOLERANCE CYCLES
It is true that this country is sus
ceptible periodically to epidemics of
/ intolerance.
recall four spells of it.
/. There was the Immediately post
Civil war Ku Klux Khan. Perhaps
there was an excuse for that. The
south, maybe, had to have some sort of
extra-governmental authority to deal
with peculiar conditions of that era.
+ g. There were the Know Nothings,
a UAC pC4OlC my Il1I1C. EllCy WClO duLA
nearly everything. A one time Ohio
senator, .Allan--G.l Thurman, was iden-
|, titled with it.N Later he was promin-
entity mentioned as a presidential pos
sibility. But meanwhile, Know Moth
ing-ism had Busted All rational
voters turned thumbs down on any
one who ever had had anything to do
with Know Nothing-ism. So that fin
ished Allan G..
g.. Then followed the American Pro-
tective Association anti-Catholic. It
ccntended that, every time Catholic
child was born, rifle was deposited
in the basement of his family's parish
church. in anticipation of a Roman
uprising"
4. At last there was revival, with
no excuse whatever, of the earlier Ku
Klux Klan. That was recent. We all
know it's history. It, also, fizzled.
Now we have this Nazi talk
do not believe our so-called Ger
man-Americans are appreciably inter-
ested in it, either. Nor do I believe
that it. merits much investigation by
our Omen.
It is just false alarm.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17

own will. His domestic character
was as urbane as his social one.
He was never importunate, never
angry, never upset.
On matters affecting his imme-
date desires he was Indifferent to
arguments, impervious to snubs,
and impossible to withs tamd.
please do this little thing for me, !"
he would say, by voice Or express
sion, and in the end you would
come to think that you were in the
wrong, that you had been ungentle
and accommodating. He would
accept your surrender with gra-
ciousness and tact. You could not
help liking him.
At the time under consideration
Tim had been established. for %
years with an interval for. war
service) as a dentist at the small
town of West Shilston, situated in
the high country toward the north
eastern part Of Sussex.
West Shilston has acquired some
Importance as being the only set
tlement Of any size on the main
road from London to Westbourne,
between which it is; almost exactly
halfway. The development Of mo-
tor traffic has brought it a rapid
growth along lines impossible to
justify esthetically. Bastard Tu-
dor villas and asbestos bungalows
have proliferated literally on and
off the main road, and in the course
of 20 years the population has
risen from 5000 odd to 5000.
Nevertheless, the town retains a
modest loneliness and decent dig
nifty at it's heart; and it's two main
streets, which are part Of the West.
bourne road and form a right
angle, afford in their broad and
quietly casual style a faint renai-
niscence Of coaching days.
The people are mainly Of the
middle class; pensioners Of all
grades find. it a convenient place
for retirement, and there is a
strong enough element Of gentry
to compose some sort Of local So
ciety. But the increasingly easy
accessibility of London is weaken
ing the hold of the latter class: it
is becoming ever more, urbanized,
and, dividing its interests between
West Shilston and the metropolis,
no longer retains sufficient concen-
tration to impose effectively it's will
and it's standards upon the COM
munity.
In 1911, after two years in a
London dental clinic, Tim Kennedy
came to this place-a slight, pleas
ant-looking but n conspicuou s
young man whose arrival made no
sort of a stir in the town. He put
up his plate in the High street,
where he occupied three rooms on
the top floor over a florists shop.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17
MORE REINFORCEMENT TO
JAPANESE SENT ASHORE

= Shanghai, Sept. 17-(AP)-Addi-
tional Japanese reinforcements for
the halted drive against the Chinese
defense, line. were reported today to
have been landed on the lower reaches
of the YangtZe river.
The japanese. spokesman declared
the troops had already started adj
vancing inland. This was taken to
mean considerable body of Japanese
had finally achieved foothold on the
Pootung coast, where they are oppos-
ed by an estimated two divisions of
Chinese.
Foreign military observers believed
this foreshadowed an imminent major
campaign in the Shanghai area on the
south side of the Whangpoo river,
which separates Pootung from the
Shanghai delta, where the major fight
ing so far has been.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17
MODERATE TRADING y
IN STOCK EXCHANGE.
Many Leaders Skid for Declines UP
To Three Points in Early
Part of Session

New York, Sept. 17.-(AP)-Rally-
ing rail stocks of yesterdays market
went into reverse today, and many
leaders skidded for declines running
to three points or so at the worst.
Transactions were around 100000
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17
Bitter Reaction In China
Against Aloofness4 In u. S
Continued from Page Onesy

it will render invocation of the neu-
.trality act unnecessary" y.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-17
THIS FIRST +.

Tim Kennedy has been writing, a
suicide note to himself in his vito :;
handwriting. He had graduated into
a would-be homicide from the school CT
armchair murde,e.s.
NOW GO ON WITH. THE STORY.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1887, Publishers
E;uouoioI Ruro9n Inc.

Babson Park, Mass, Aug. l5.-Re-
ports from Marking indicate that
Japanese soldiers started the trouble
in North China Presumably these re-
ports are true from a military stand
point. Actually, however, the great
western Powers set the stage for the
struggle. Tariff decisions of the Unit
ed States, England, France, and 9th
or industrial nations lie behind the
.Iapanese aggression in North China
T am not upholding the japanese but
cherry. I simply want to point out that
the roots of this trouble are economic
and deep. They must be dug up OF
tho conflagration will spread.
Last year $1,000. 100000 was spent
bv the leading nations of the world
for rational defense. This is four
times as much as was spent IN lSlS-,
Tho wear before the "war to end wars
began. Europe was described as an
arned camp in August, 1914. Today
,,aar1v a quarter of century latter
tbe standing armies of the Leading
. ~ are a full million men larger.
p Som nations are spending half their
BUDGETS on armies and navies. Even
th ns neaceful United States with the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
BIG GERMAN. PLANE .
FLIES FOR AZORES
Leaves Portugal on Flight
To New York; Expert
mental Journey

Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 13-(AP)-
The German seaplane Nordmeer took
off for the Azores islands today on
the second leg of her maiden survey
flight from Lubbock, Germany, to
New York.
The plane took the air at 1904 a.
m. Greenwich time (5:O4 a. M, east
ern standard time).
The streamline ship, her four Diesel
motors humming, took off after five
minutes run in the sunlit sky. She
circled the air base and then pointed
westward toward the Azores, 800
miles away.
The Nordmeer was escorted by two
military seaplanes and bomber re-
Gently bought by the Portuguese gov.
eminent. Wireless Operator Wilhelm
Kueppers arranged to give the planes
position hourly to the marine office
controlling the flight.
Besides the first pilot and radio
man, the plane carried a second pilot,
a mechanic and two passengers for
the Azores.
At the Azores, the Nordmeer will
be catapulted from her mother ship
Schwabenland for the 2,392-mile hop
to Port Washington, New York.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
Western World Started
Jap's Invasion Of China
Japan Is Being Clicked &c onomically by High Tariffs
Imposed by United States and Other Nations and
Markets Must Be Found Somewhere

thirteenth ranking army and the Sec
ond largest navy, is spending almost
twice as much on war preparations
as she did twenty-five years ago.
Japan Needs World Markets..
What is behind this mad race?
What has come over the world since
the constructive Washington peace
conference of fifteen years ago? The
answer is: Economic pressure. While
parts of the world are prospecting, 9TH
er parts are starving. Foreign trade,
the lifeblood of world prosperity,
dried up to just trickle in 1888 and
1884 1t has slowly been recovering
since then, but is still far under the
normal level. The economic systems
of those nations who depend on others
for their raw materials and markets
for finished goods have been thrown
completely out-of-gear. Three of the
so-called trouble-maker countries OF
the world today belong to this group
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
These nations are suffering des-
perate economic pains. Germany and
Japan particularly depend on world
commerce to maintain their pros
perity. Lack of credit, rising world
prices, currency devaluation - and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
Republican Attempt To
Block Alabaman's APP !.
pointment Squelched
In Committee !.
PERFECTLY LEGAL.
CUMMINGS STATES
Attorney General Tells
President He Is On. Safe
Ground in Naming Black;
Roosevelt Reveals Ruling
At Press Conference;
Events Move Fast

Washington, Aug. 49, (AP)-Ai
Senate Judiciary subcommittee swift
ly approved today the nomination of
Senator Black, Democrat, Alabama,
to the Supreme Court. =
It acted only minutes after Presi-
dent Roosevelt told a press conference
Attorney General Cummings had in
formed him it was prefectly legal and
constitutional to appoint Black to the
Supreme Court.
The judiciary subcommittee of six
members voted to report Blacks NOM
ination favorably after rejecting
move by Senator Austin, Republican,
Vermont, to hold up action pending
study of legal questions involved. az
All members of the subcommittee
except Austin voted for approval of
the nomination and rejection of the
New Englander's proposal for delay.
Chairman Ashurst, Democrat, Ari-
IONA, announced later the full judi
ciary committee would meet Monday,
when presumably IL will receive the
subcommittee report.
Ashurst predicted the Senate would
confirm the nomination by Thursday
of next week.
Austin questioned Blacks eligi-
bility under the recent act of Congress
providing for retirement of Supreme
Court Justices at full pay He suggest.
ed it might make any member of Con-
gress ineligible, either on the basis
of creating a new office or of increas-
ing the emoluments of the office.
Questions of his eligibility had been
kl1 t,,cA hxrc tor
who, like Austin, cited his member
ship in the Senate during action on,
the Supreme Court retirement bill.
1t was to answer these that the
President made known the opinion ex!
pressed to him informally by the at.
rorney general.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
METALLIC POISON
FOUND in CORPSE
Strange Death of Cincinnati Man As
sumes International Aspects
In European Angle ~.

Cincinnati, Aug. ID (AP)-City
Chemist o. Behrer reported to Prose
cutor Dudley Outcault today the dis
covery of positive traces of metallic
poison" in the body of George Gsell-
man, CT, one of several acquaintance
of Mrs. Anna Hahn, 81, whose sudden
deaths are under police scrutiny.
Outcault termed the report major
development" in the battling case
which assumed international interest
when Detective Lieutenant George
Shattle sent pictures and fingerprints
of Mrs. Hahn to Washington for for
warding to Munich, Germany, where
Mrs. Hahn formerly taught school,
and to Venice where her first 'hus-
band, DR.. Matschki, practiced medi-
cine.
Acting Detective Chief Patrick
Hayes said other developments were:
Mrs. Hahn admitted buying bottle
of poisonous oil, which was turned
over to police yesterday by her hus-
band, Philip Hahn, telegrapher.
She also admitted knowing four
men whose deaths are under police in
vestigation, and said she administered
to them during their illnesses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
BITTER FIGHTING
GOES ON IN SPAIN
First One Side and Then
Other Gains Upper Hand;
Rebels Withdraw

Madrid, Aug. 13.-(AP)-The olive
ToVefed slopes of the castled cities OF
Aopera and Jean province was report
Gu no-man's-land today after bit
.er lighting in which government and
nIa'Surgent troops alternately prevailed
- changed hands twice yesterday.
put the insurgent invaders were re
ported to have found their positions
uiitenable and to be moving out of the
southern city.
Government artillery went into ac-
tioh all along the long inactive front
DetWeen Lopera and Forcuna and the
Insurgents were reported evacuating
10th these cities.
Inc insurgent positions from Ar
Jona to Arjonilla likewise were de-
Scrloed as precarious, in view of new
eovernment activity.
II was reported the insurgents
Ilalmed complete success" agains.
me governments counter-offensive IL
1ne Cucalon mountains, but tat
strength of the governments attack
III The south was acknowledged.
Inc Madrid front remained qule+
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
Electricity
And Gas Kill
TwoNegroes
Both Methods Used
In Dual Executions
at State Prison IN
Forenoon

Raleigh, Aug 13 (AP)-The State
electrocuted James McNeill today for
murder in Harnett county and asphy-
xiated Leroy Mcneil for killing IN
Robson county. Both men were Ne
groes.
James (Boy) MCNEIL, %, was cleo
trocuted for the murder in June, 1885,
of his sweetheart, Sudie Eason.
The Negro entered the death cham
Der at 1923 this morning and at 1927
~ the current was turned on. After
shock of two minutes and 48 sec
onds he was dead.
James Mcneil, entering the cham
Der. declined to make any last state
ment about killing his sweetheart.
DR.. G. S. Coleman, prison medical
director, after the electrocution, said
there was no sign of action when ne
first placed his stethoscope over the
Negroes heart, but he examined him
for three minutes before he formally
pronounced him head at 1923.
After the electric chair had been
disconnected, Leroy MCNEIL, was led
into the chamber at 1885. He had nc
last statement and the gas machinery
was started at 1857. He was pro-
nounced dead 10 minutes and five sec
onds later at 11:O7.
Leroy, 10 years old, and q native
of Scotland county. admitted his gull
of the poison murder of Mrs. Andrew
Cox. in Robson county, last Feb
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
Rules Committee in No
Hurry To Report 1t and
Alternative Process
Is Long One
CONGRESS ANXIOUS
FOR ADJOURNMENT
Understanding May Be
Reached To Drop Bill I'm
til January; That and Con-
firmation of Black for SUI
preme Court Two Big OBJ
stacIes to Closing

Washington, Aug. 13.-(APO- The
two remaining big issues OF this ses-
sion Senate action on Senator Blacks
nomination to the Supreme Court,
and disposal of the wage-hour bill,
moved nearer final sediment today.
For the wage-hour measure, there
were indications this settlement
might mean delay until next session.
Black adherents, in a Senate Judi
ciarv subcommittee, OVERRIDE mo-
finn to delay action and voted to re-
commend confirmation of the Ala
bananas nomination to the full COM
mittee.
Meantime, the rules committee re-
commended a resolution which would
make it possible for the Democratic
leadership to bring the administra-
tion's wage-hour bill before the house
by suspending parliamentary rules,
provided a two-thirds vote could be
obtained.
Majority Leader Rayburn, Demo
Graf. Texas. who attended the rules
committee meeting with Speaker
Bankhead, told newsmen afterwards,
however, he had assured the commit
fee mo shenanaigans" involving the
wage-hour bill was contemplated I'M
der the resolution.
Chairman Norton, Democrat, New
Jersey, of the labor group, acknowl-
edged she was planning immediate
stems to take the bill from the rules
committee. where it has been tied up
for several days. She said, however,
the procedure she contemplated, the
only one possible if the committee
refused to relax it's stranglehold,
would not permit passage of the bill
unless Congress remained in session
until mid-September.
Since leaders are talking about ad-
journment by August Is, her state
ment raised the possibility of an un-
Outstanding the Till is out for this
Continued on Page Ski
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
Two Men OF
8 Fugitives
Are Caught
Trace Found Near
Fayetteville of 9th
ers In Escapes From
State Pen

Raleigh, Aug. 15.-(AP)-Two o.
the eight prisoners who escaped from
States Prison last night were caugh.
several miles from Raleigh this morn
ing.
A posse with bloodhounds took Carl
Mcknight and William Ralte, alias
Norman Harte, without struggle art!
continued search for a possible third
of the escapes.
Mcknight, "a, was sentenced from
Forsyth county for from IL to 16 years
for robbery with firearms, and Ralte
was sent up from nearby Davidson or
a similar charge for terms of Is to
20 years, and five to seven years.
The men, Warden H. H. Honeycutt
said, spent last night at a Negro
church on the Rhamkatte road.
The recaptured pair refused to say
Continued on Page Two).
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
TOBACCO FARMERS
FORGET ''CONTROL"
Prices So High They Are
Not Interested, New
Specialist Finds
Daily Dispatch Bureaus
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel.


Raleigh, Aug. 13.-Good opening
prices for their tobacco have salts
fled weed growers of the Border Belt
and have, temporarily at least, driven
all interest in crop control from their
thoughts, according to w. P. He'd
rick, new State Department of Agri-
culture tobacco specialist.
Mr.. Hedrick has just returned to
Raleigh after visit to practically
every market in the Border Belt. APP
pointed very recently, the weed ex-
pert left for the Border Belt on the
very day he reported for duty with
TIE department.
IL did not hear single mention
of crop control during my tour OF the
Border Belt" he said, "And every far
mer with whom I talked seemed sat
isfied with opening prices. There was
just too much interest in prices ana
too much satisfaction with the gen
eral trend to leave any opportunity
for crop control discussion"
The present North Carolina crop
in the Border Belt is of good quality
and should bring good prices, MI.
Hedrick said He was not in the State
last year and was therefore unable
to make any first hand comparisons
with 1886.
Mr.. Hedrick is now busiiy studying,
with r. B. Etheridge, Department OF
Agriculture marketing mead, tobac-
CO program designed to assist grow
ers in every phase of growing and
marketing the weed. Neither the new
expert nor the market chief could give
any specific details because, they SAID
thew had not decided just what ought
Continued on Page Two.l
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
MISS OLIVER WILL
LIKELY Be NAMED
Only Avowed Candidate
for President of Young
Democrats of State
Daily Dispatch Bureau.

Raleigh, Aug. 13-Less than a
month before the State convention in
Winston-Salem, Miss Mae Oliver, OF
Sanford, is still the only openly avow-
ed candidate for presidency of North
Cardinals Young Democratic Clubs.
There have been rumblings of dis
content with the precedent which
calls for a woman as president in al.
ternate years-this year is lady's
turn-and repeated reports that
young Arch Allen, Jr., of Raleigh leg
islator, and Tommy Gresham, Y. D.
national committeeman who lives
down Warsaw way, would toss their
hats into the ring. Neither of the
gentlemen, however, has yet made a
cleancut, fortnight declaration OF in
tentions. Gresham, present indications
are. will not be candidate. Allen, it.
appears, is being strongly backed by
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