davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
Reorganization To
Pass In Congress
Continued from Page Oce.)

CONTINUED from Page Ore.)
ization urged administration after ad-
ninistration-never to get any Earth
err.
But as :. few days have passed. it
seems to me that the adverse guessers
are not as adversely conf lent as they
were.
ADOPTION "SURE"
THIS is not to imply that the plans
opponents are any less rampageous
in their opposition to it. However, I
they were of their ability TO block it.
That it will be adopted in is en-
tirety probably is unlikely. but I be-
gin to doubt that it will fail to be
adopted substantially AS pfeslden-
tally outlined.
If the program were one which the
White House tenant had recommend
a only tentatively-as what he be-
loved to be desirable but nothing
that his heart was -et on-lt would
fizzlc unquestionably.
AN OUTSTANDING ISSUE
Instead +. D. evidently is deter
mined to make governmental rcorgan-
zation tLe outstanding issue Of mis-
TWO administrations.
It will be pretty hard for as over
wheln1ingly Democratic Congress
as the present one to turn down
Democratic admin stration on SO vital
a proposition.
It would amount, in effect, to
Democratic party split up.
I suspect that Democratic poiitl-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
AUTO DEMOLISHED
MOBILE CROSSING
Three Men Escape from
Overturned Automobile
Before Train Strikes

An automobile in which Elmus
Twisdale, Bill Johnson and Thomas
Eurham were said to have been rid
ing was demolished this morning
about 6:25 o'clock at Mobile crossing
about a mile south of the city, by the
Seaboard Air Lines crack tourist
train, the Orange Blossom Special,
which was north bound at the time
of the crash.
It was stated by railroad officials
that the automobile had over turned
at the crossing and onto the tracks,
aid that the men were not in the
vehicle at the time of the smash.
The automobile was merely pile
Of junk after the train had plowed in
to it, scattering it along the tracks
Captain Lassiter was the conductor
on the train, and he made his report
to the local offices of the railroad.
It was not learned whether the men
were injured when the automobile
overturned.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
CAFETERIA DOING
LITTLE BUSINESS
Average for Week of It's Operations
Only About $40 Per Day
at High School

The cafeteria at She Henderson
high school completed it's first week
of operations yesterday, and for the
first week has done a comparatively
small business. Prof. w. D. Payne,
principal of the school, said today the
average gross sales had been about
$40 a day, few times little over
and other times a trifle under that
figure.
Mrs. George Rowland is in charge
and the menu and preparation OF
the food has been commented on for
it's excellence and quality. Mr.. F'ayne
said the children apparently had not
gotten out of the habit of going home
for their meals, and he expected the
volume to increase from time to time
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Three cage games will be offered
tonight in Henderson high school
gymnasium with the high school
teams meeting EPSON in doujle-
header, the contests being followed
by a tilt between the TeXaco HI
Speeds and Rougemount five.
Tonights clashes will mark the first
meeting of Epson and Henderson on
the courts this season, and tough
games are in prospects for the Bull
dogs.
EPSON girls are headed by Miss
Mildred Wilson in the goal shooting
department. She plays centertorWard
and is an outstanding member of the
aggregation. She gets ample support
in the scoring department from Miss
Elizabeth Smith, while all OF the
guards are very strong in their po-
stiOns.
Edgar Edwards PAGES the boys. He
is considered one of the best high
school forwards in his section. Claude
Dickerson aids him much in account
ing for EPSON victories.
EPSON boys walked off with a vic
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
HOLDING TWO FOR
Theft OF TOBACCO
Sheriff Hamlett Seeking
Third Man for Warren
County Thefts

Jack Oakley and Bruce Grissom,
both said to be of this county, are be-
ing held under bonds for their ap-
rearance in Warren county court to
answer charges of receiving stolen to-
bacco, knowing it to be stolen and aid
ing and abetting in the hauling of the
same.
A third man is being hunter, but
Sheriff J. E. Hamlet declined to
give his name, pending his arrest.
1t was alleged the men removed the
tobacco from Warren county to the
Market in Oxford
Sheriff w. ]. Pinnell, of Warrenton,
forwarded papers here for the arrest
of the men.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
Expect Big Crowd
For State,, Duke
Game Thursday

College Station, Raleigh, Jan. 20
Athletic officials at North Carolina
State College look for another capa-
city crowd Saturday night when
States basketball team meets Duke
IN Frank Thompson gymnasium in a
Southern Conference and Big Five
court feature.
The gymnasium was packed last
night for the State-Carolina game and
last week for the State-Duquesne
game.
Dukes Blue Devils are leading the
Southern Conference race and come
to State with one of the best teams in
several years. State defeated the
Blue Devils twice last year.
1936-Britain's King George V. died
just before midnight London time.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
WATKINS AND BUM
AT MUNICIPAL MEET

Mayor Irvine B. Watkins and City
Attorney A. A. Bum attended the
conference and banquet of the North
Carolina Municipal Association in
Raleigh Monday afternoon and even
ing. At the meeting there were sew
eral addresses and much discussion
of the associations legislative pro-
gram, including State aid for street
maintenance, the ALLEGATION of tax
divisions and the like. Several prom
inent mayors and other officials were
on The program.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
Three Games Tonight AT
High School Gymnasium
High School teams Play Do ubleheader With Epson
While H-Speeds Will Tia Ike Rougemont Five;
EPSON Teams Are onsidered Strong

tory over Benvenne last night with
Edwards and Dickerson showing the
best form.
Rougemount will bring a strong
team to meet the Hi-Speeds. Last year
the Hi-Speeds required two extra pc
RODS to defeat Rougemount, and this
tells a close game tonight.
The girls tilt will get under way at
7:3O o'clock with the boys following,
and the Si-Speeds closing the even
ing's play with their contest.
Henderson teams will go to Law
renceville Friday night for double
header.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
Child Labor Act
Doomed In Assembly
CONTINUED from Page One.)

(COntinued from Page One)
clared himself emphatically opposed
to ratification.
1--WE don't want a bunch of long
nosed folks from Washington COM
ing down here poking into our own
business" he commented bitingly.
At the same time he made it amply
clear that he does favor q North
Carolina child labor law, one which
will outlaw the working of children
under sixteen years old in any indus
try or ordinary business which might
prove injurious to the child's health
or progress mentally or physically.
There is need for such law as
that" he declared.
A survey of Senators shows that
Mr.. Hills viewpoint has the concur
renee of considerably more than
majority of members.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.

Raleigh, Jan. 2O.-Imposition of a
zoe per gallon on wine would "stifle
in it's infancy the development of
viticulture in North Carolina" it is
contended by Paul Garrett, president
of Garrett & Company, Inc. of Brook
lyn, N. Y.
Mr.. Garrett is head of the pioneer
American Wine Growers" but he isn't
lobbying, he says SO himself and so it
must be true.
81 am in my 74th year, and while
my continual campaign may have the
aroma of self-interest, l assure you
my intention is solely to help develop
a worthwhile industry in my native
State he says in a letter to Rep. G.
sentative Thomas E. Cooper, of New
Hanover.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Continued from Page One)
ern Knox county, Indiana, early to-
day, after flood waters of White river
tore through a levee near Decker.
A second break in the levee near
large bridge over White river loosed
additional flood waters over the area.
A small army of workmen fought
to save the levees guarding thousands
of acres Of rich farm lands in south
ern Indiana.
Anxiety for the safety of thousand
of other persons was heightened py
forecasts of extra rains in parts OF
Ohio, Indiana, Missouri Illinois and
Arkansas.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Those legislators who are not above
average in tidiness soon find their
desks piled so high they can't see
the presiding officer. Every morning
pages rush about distributing a mass
of literature of all kinds and descrip-
lions.
Yesterdays crop, as an example
contained a copy of the Dare County
Times, a letter from the Y. M. G. A.
enclosing a complimentary ticket en-
titling the holder to privileges of the
Y. M c. A. Health Club, a speech
from the Congressional Record (not
printed at government expense, it is
plainly stated by Senator Edward F..
Costigan urging ratification of the
Federal child labor amendment, re-
print of the Readers Digest article
why Don't We Stamp Out Syp-
hilis?', the Brookings Institute daily
resume CT legislative proceedings, an
invitation to a reception by Governor
Eoey, and a mimeographed poem by
James Monroe Downum, Boone and
Lenior, N. c., in which the law max
ers are beseeched Gin very bad verse;
not to vote for booze.
Galleries Wcle filled for the first
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Poor folks of New Hanover county
should no longer be quite as "indig-
nant'' as the Senate reading clerk had
them recently when he read the bill
providing authority to give $4,000 an
nually for the "indigent sick" The
measure, passed by the House, has
been favorably reported by the Senate
committee
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Perquimans people must in future
refrain from profanity on the high
ways, if a bill introduced Tuesday by
Representative Benton passes. It
strikes out Perquimans from the list
of counties now exempted from OPP
Grafton of the Statewide law
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

The Dare County News, distribution
of which has been mentioned, featur-
ed a story on the proposed Albemarle
Sound bridge, heading it thus, 1.-TWO
Millions of Highway Funds for Bridge
While Thousands are Mudbound."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Representative Walter Murphy, Sal
isbury veteran of many legislative
battles, occupies the No. ID seat in
the House. He asked for it nearly 40
years ago, he says, and still sits in it.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
Prayer Meeting Tonight

The regular midweek prayer service
will be held at the First Nicholas
church tonight at 7:30 o'clock rain
or shine" according to the pastor
Rev. r. E. Brown.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

The office tightwad has thought of
a new one. Because he failed ia o.
| new muffler for Christmas h. no
wears his bathing suit tied around ~,
neck
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
LEGHXA ALIVE CHATTER

House and Senate. Reason was the
early arrival of farmers interested in
the tobacco compacts hearing in the
afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

The Duke of Windsor (ex-king Ed,
to YOU'D has become almost complete
ly Americanized, a news story says.
We won't believe it until we learn
whether he likes his hamburger sand
WITCH with or without grilled onion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Now that Kentucky has become the
site of Uncle Sans stored hoard of
gold bullion we expect the state to be
known as the home of the blue grass
and the long green.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

winter in Florida is the fact You dor,4
need to listen to discussions of aolf
scores.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
cia.ps IN Congress will lack the nerv
to face so grave a peril.
OPPOSITION'S HOPE

1t is safe betting that the President
will not get more than a small frac-
ton of his plan enacted before the
congressional elections of 1888.
If he suffers severe setback then
a CORRESPONDENCE severe crimp will
be thrown into Roosevelt reorganiza-
ton. But just now the White House
is dominant. In the meantime it will
make considerable progress.
Until then the other folks must
fight for time; that is their only re-
course.
Present indications favor the admin
istration-and reorganization.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

What speeders forget is that some
times those who own the speediest We
hicles in town wind up riding in the
sloWest-wheel chairs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

The transport industry apparently
has gone in for streamlining every
thing but the passengers who sit next
to us in a crowded street car.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Life becomes more complex. If you
live in trailer you dare not put the
cat out nights without first fastening
it to a roller skate.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
XoSine Telling Mel
By WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writ

Foreign influence is apparent even
in the lowly sandwich. You now may
have Polish ham along with Swiss
cheese on Hungarian rye bread.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Another good excuse for remaining
in the north and not spending the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

Galleries wcie filled for the first
time at Tuesdays sessions of both
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20
N. G. Rivers Over
Banks In Sections

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-20

.VEssIR, me an my pals
i who drink Silver Dol
lar always wake up cheer
full like an whistlin'. This
gentle, rich, straight
Bourbon was jest made for
good mornings!
That's because Silver
Dollar is aged right-in
charred oak barrels. It's
LINCOLN INN DISABLING CO., INC. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05

my flight to the military capitals
convinced that the outbreak of a
major war in Europe is further
away now than it has been in sev-
eral years past.
I reached that conclusion after
visiting France, Germany, Italy.
Soviet Russia, Poland. Czechoslo-
vakia and OF course England where
1 live. In both the political and
military domains confusion and
doubts are SO serious that to start
a war anywhere is a risky gamble
at present One British expert put
it this way:
ITO launch a war nowadays is
like backing a horse that has
never run and whose breeding even
is unknown"
The military expert is Capt. Lid
dell Hart. His comment aptly de-
scribes the plight of the Euro
pean nations. 1t is an attitude
which probably will go far toward
restraining headstrong leaders and
deferring the cataclysm of a ma
Jor European conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05

will increase the anual revenues
from power by $4,000. The four
feet already added, therefore, has
increased the potential earning
capacity of the plant by $4,000
year. Stated in another way, ST.
100000 has been added to the value
of the power plant. In the inStalla-
ton of turbines, provisions were
made for the utilization, as it de-
veloped, of a total of 20 feet of
additional head to be gained by
securing in the river.
Observations covered q 26-miie
reach of the river last year and late
ly have been extended to Search
light Ferry 43 miles downstream
Virtually no suspended matter is
now found in the water passing
Searchlight Ferry, all fine silt hav-
ing been carried away by the clear
waters from Lake Meade. The re-
naming coarSer material appears
to show erosion of about one foot
Ingenious devices and methods
were employed by the engineers in
recording changes in .the river bed
At intervals along the river light
cables marked off in 10-foot sec.
tions were stretched across the
canyon. Soundings were made from
a boat which crossed the river al
these cables and from time to time
were repeated at the identical To-
cation, thus providing data for plot.
ting the changing river cross-sec-
tionS.
A flat bottom sea-sled type OF
boat was built for the survey. II
was powered with an aeroplane mo-
tor and propeller. This boat was
we'll adapted to sounding over sane
bars and close to shore, as well as
for general river navigation. 1t is
anticipated that in the course o.
many years all the fine silt will
have been removed from the river
bed below Boulder Dam and thai
the Colorado River will be cleal
stream from Black Canon to the
Gulf of California.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05
COLORADO RIVER BED SECURED
BY WATER FROM LAKE MEAD

Clear water Spouting from Lake
Mead through outlets at Boulder
Dam in two years has secured out
of the bed of the Colorado River
100000 cubic yards-more than
10000 tons-of silt.
Every day three dirt laden freight
trains, each eighty cars long, would
have had to rattle out of Black
Canyon to do this job.
The securing of the river bed be-
low Boulder Dam was cited today
by John G. Page, Commissioner of
Reclamation, in a report to Secre-
tary Harold L. Ickes, as an inter
esting illustration of the changes
wrought in the character of the
Colarado River. It is important to
the project because it increases the
effective head of the turbines, and.
therefore, the power they produce
Where once the tepid waters of
the Colorado River rolled sluggishly
in a sanded channel, now a cold,
clear stream ripples from pool to
pool over rocky rapids.
Coffee-colored water still is pour
ed by the Colorado from the Grand
Canyon into Lake Meal, the world s
largest reservoir, created by Boul-
der Dam But the silt is settled
out in a catch-b basin 115 miles long
in the bottom of the lake.
The regulated flow Of clear water
below Boulder Dam picks I'm the
fine silt and a part of the coarse
materials which were deposited in
its bed in past ages by the over
burdened river. In two years it has
cleaned the bed to an extent that
for 43 miles below the dam the
stream is clear.
Rocky barriers, formed by boul-
ders washed into the main channel
by floods in feeder canyons, have
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05
Rv WE'RE MILLER
Copyright 1887 by United Press

Copyright 1887 by United Press
LONDON, April ). U.P)-After a
month spent in visiting the fever
ishly rearming capitals on the con-
tinent I am convinced that the
nations of Europe are literally
afraid To go to war.
Large and small they are spend
ing $70O0OOO,0OO this year in the
race to rearm But they are afraid
to fight. They don't dare to risk
it-yet
Fear of war is the cause of the
armaments race. I saw nations
building up their armies, their
navies, their air forces-fear driv-
ing them on in the greatest arms
race in history
The threat of war is ever pres
ent. 1t is in the air, and the de-
fensivc forces are piling higher
and higher. Someday they must
fall-but the threat of immediate
war seems slight No one will start
it
I found that Europe has 5,000,-
600 men actually under arms seven
days a week-a tremendous fight
ing force There are 36,000,000 more
who have military training Eu-
rope also has millions of children
who soon will reach military serv-
ice age.
Yet 1 returned to London after
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05
Man Stays Wife,
Takes Own Life

PHOENIX, April 5. U.P,-Police
today blamed an unsuccessful at
tempt to effect reconciliation for
Arthur M. Connally's murder of his
pretty estranged wife and his sui
eide beside her body.
Connally, 46, clerk in market
here, and his wife, Dona, 81, a
waitress, had been estranged for
some time, police said He went
to her small apartment Sunday to
talk with her. With him, he car
ried a revolver wrapped in news
papers.
They quarrelled again. Then,
Mrs. Mary Doran, a neighbor, told
police, she heard Mrs. Connally
scream and rushed downstairs to
aid her. AS she entered the wait
ress' apartment, she said, she saw
ConnallY raise the revolver to his
Wife's head ana pull the trigger. AS
she fell to the floor Mrs. Doran
said, he sent second bullet into
his own head.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05
Central Future
Farmer Teams
Awarded Honor

Centrals Future Farmers judg-
ing teams won high honors in the
annual judging contest at Perris
this weekend, the dairy Cattle A
team winning first place with 926
points. Eleven teams competed
In this contest Excelsior high
school was second with 902 points
and Chaffey Union, third.
Eugene Bucket of Central was
high individual in this contest,
wining 1853 points, while Henry
House, also of Ell Centro won sec
ond place with 327 points and E..
Fietz of Chaffee, third.
In the team awards in judging
Jerseys, Ell Centro was first and
Eugene Bucket was the high in
dividual with Henry House second.
In the judging of GuernSeyS, El
Centro again had the high team
with Grossmont second and Chino
third. Here also Eugene Bucket
was high individual, being Sec
ond high in the Holstein judging.
Members OF Central's Dairy Cat
tie A team are: Eugene Bucket,
Henry House, Bob ProcSal with
Hames House, alternate.
In the Dairy Cattle B contest.
in which seven teams competed,
Escondido was first, Ell Centre win
ming third place. Ell Centro won
second place in team judging of
Guernseys with Robert King as
the high individual. In the judg-
ing of Holsteins FL Centro was
first. Members of the team are:
Dick Wyatt, Stanley Scaroni, Bob
Wyatt with Robert King as alter
nate.
In the Livestock A judging con-
test, II teams competing, Excelsior
was first, Chaffee, second; Puente
third and Ell Centro fourth. In
hogs, San Bernardino was first in
the team judging and Ell Centre,
second; Jack Adams of Ell Centre
was high individual in the judging
of horses, tying with five others.
Members of the team are Stanley
Russell, Jack Adams, Lloyd Edgar.
In the Livestock B judging seven
teams were in competition, Valen-
cia winning first place and Ell
Centro third.
Ell Centre won third place in
the judging of sheep by teams and
second, for horses, Jack Mcconnell
being second high individual in
the judging of sheep and Ronald
Swerdfeger third. Members of the
team are John McCaslin, Ronald
Swerdfeger Leonard Stephens,
with Jack Mcconnell alternate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05

been uncovered below the dam.
These form the new rapids.
The Colorado River for a long
distance below Boulder Dam now
does not even look like the river
in which construction began in 1881.
Far more important, however,
than the change in appearance Of
the stream are other alterations
made by Boulder DAM The Colorado
River now is a perennial stream,
with a flow which remains almost
constant throughout the year. Be
fore Lake Mead was created by
Boulder Dam to store and conserve
its water, the Colorado River
fluctuated from floods as great as
100000 cubic feet per second in
the spring to a flow of only one
thOusandth of that amount in the
summer ana fall
Regulation of the river has elimi-
mated both floods and drouth for
more than 300 miles along the lower
course of the Colorado River. Tens
of thousands Of farmers are depen-
dent upon that section of stream
for their livelihood, since all of their
domestic and irrigation water is
obtained from it.
Studies made by the Bureau of
Reclamation engineers of the ero-
SiVe effects of clear water on the
materials deposited in the Colorado
River he'd hplouy RnIIldnr Dam chou
that during the first year 98 feet
of silt was secured from the channel
immediately below the dam and an
average of Sc feet for distance OF
twelve miles downstream.
The securing to date has added
about four feet to the effectiveness
on the turbines. When the power
plant is fully equipped, each foot
of head obtained in this manner
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05

Gedeon nome, was missing from st.
Lawrence university at Canton, N.
Y, where he Was studying for the
ministry after luckless career as
an artist. The police said he for
merly had been an inmate of the
Rockland State hospital for the
insane.
According to Investigators, Irwin
was in New York during the hours
saturday night and Easter
morning when Veronica and her
mother, Mrs. Gedeon, Sd, were
Strangled and Frank Byrnes, their
lodger, was stabbed to death. Yer
onica had once posed for the young
sculptor and a mask of her made
by him was found in the Gedeon's
five room apartment.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-05
WOrkmen Lined
For Canal Jobs

Workmen are being lined up by
the National Unemployment Asso-
citation for assignment to the Dor
an company, holders of a piling
contract for the All American
canal near CaleXico.
Recent construction assignments
went TO the LeWis-Chalmers COM
bridge construction along the cam
al in the CaleXico area.
Orders for agricultural workers
for harvesting carrots and peas were
completed recently and few addi-
tional orders for this type of la
borer are being received.