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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10
ANSWERS

1. On July a, 1888, with Masonic
ceremonies. The old Capitol building
had been destroyed by fire on June
Fl, 1881. The Members of the building
committee were William Boylan
Duncan Cameron, Henry Seawell and
Romulus M. Sanders, of Wake and
William S. Moon, of BERTHE.
2. In 1928 a proposal was made to
adopt laws in the various states i'm
posing a poll tax ranging anywhere
from $500 to $4,000 on persons of vot-
ing age, the tax to be automatically
cancelled when the duty of voting had
been exercised.
8. Chief Justice Walter Parker
Stacy, born in Ansonville, December
26, 1884.
4. DR.. Edwin Anderson Alderman,
who died at the University of Virginia
in 1881. Dr. Alderman was born in
Wilmington in 1861. He was a grad
uate of the University of North Caro-
lima, and became it's president in 1896.
After three years he accepted the pre-
sidency of Tulane University where
he remained four years beforee be-
coming president of the University
of Virginia
s. 1t was proposed to levy an an
! nual poll tax of 81 cents on Nhe poll.
AT that time there were $4,000 tax
, able polls in the State
g. Richard Dobbs Spaight, born at
Newbern March Is, 1853. was elected
! by the legislature to the one-vear
term beginning December ii, 1892. He
succeeded himself for the next two
terms. Governor Spaight was killed in
duel with Congressman John Stanlv
Just outside of New Bern on Septem
Der 2, 1902. He was so years of age.
i Stanly o.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

Thursday, June 10; Tammuz 1, 56s7
in J. C. Canoes Day in Portugal 70
diac sign. Gemini. Birthstone: pearl.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

their surplus tc the storage plants
where they would be available to-
large buyers when eggs became
scarce.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

described the polar committees re-
port as "a highly important document
dealing with territorial rights"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10
WANT ADS

STRAYED OR STOLEN, ONE NINE
month old Black Gordon Setter, an
swers to name NELL" Notify J. H.
Neathery, phone 662-W and receive
reward. 9-3ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY

l. When was the cornerstone of the
present State Capitol laid?
:. When was a proposal made 10
levy special poll tax on citizens who
failed to vote?
3. Who is the youngest of North
Cardinals Supreme Court justices?
4. What North Carolinian was pre-
sident of three outstanding Univer-
sites in the South?
s., What plan of financing was pro-
posed for building a railroad across
the State in 1928?
6. Who WIS the first native son
elected governor by North Carolina?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

TAUGHT OF GOD: 1t is written in
the prophets, And they shall be all
taught of God. Every man therefore
that hath heard, and hath learned OF
the Father, cometh unto me.7John
Gas.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

LOST OR STRAYED MONDAY.
Black and white collie dog, answers
to name of Mozart" Finder please
call 1921. 10-1t
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10
Britain To Claim Antarctic
Region Byrd Discovered

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New Complications Rise
Out of Non-Intervention
Policies in Spanish War

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

DESIRABLE OFFICE FOR RENT.
Stevenson Building. Phone Is. S. S.
Stevenson. 3-tf
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

WE ARE NOW READY TO SHAR-
pen your mower blades with MOI
ern equipment. E.,'.s them t. US
c.. w. Finch. 10-and-4?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

PHONE 800 PEOPLES MEAT AND
Grocery. Free delivery-Open six
a. m. to nine p. m. 332 Winder
street. Your patronage appreciated.
We specialize in cleanliness and
service. 7-26ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-10

DAMP WASH WITH FLAT WORK
finished sc pound. Damp wash
alone &c pound. Sanitary Laundry.
Phone SO9-W 10-1ti
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Chang Gets Ten Years
but Is Pardoned

M ARSHAL CHANG HSUEH-
1N1 LANG, who kidnapped Gene
ralissimo Chang Kai-shek, dictator
of China, and then repented, was
courtmartialed at Marking and SEN
fenced to ten years in prison. How
ever, the government listened to
Chiang's plea for mercy and agreed
to give Chang a full pardon. The
government rejected for the third
time Chiang's resignation of his mil
itary and civil posts.
There was much speculation in
Shanghai on probable political re-
adjustments. One newspaper pre-
dicted the early dismissal of six
so-called pro-Japanese officials of
the national government and the
appointment of a number of left
wingers including Nine. Sun Yat-
sen, widow of the Father of the
New China" She has advocated a
communist regime and alliance
with Moscow.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Spain Plans to Resist
German Aggression

ERMAN warships continued to
~ halt Spanish steamers, in re-
prisal for the seizure of the Nazi
freighter Palos by the Basques; and
the Spanish government made ready
to resist such action to the best Of
it's ability. Foreign Minister Julio
Alvarez del Vayo said: 1--WE are
firmly resolved, come what may.
not to permit another single aggres-
sion from the German fleet and to
reply as soon as they occur with
all the means at our command"
The Valencia government an
nounced through its Paris embassy
fiat refusal of German offer to
cease molesting Spanish shipping
if the cargo of the Palos and Spa
nish passenger were returned.
Fascist planes rained incendiary
bombs on Malaga, setting fire to
many buildings and killing or in
juring hundreds of men, women and
children. The loyalist forces were
reported to have recaptured Alma
drones on the Guadalajara front e.
ter three days of heavy fighting.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Robinson Wants Federal
Law on Basic Pay

UNLESS Joe Robinson is wrong
~ in his predictions, congress will
at this session adopt a constitutional
amendment to provide for the regu-
lation of wages and hours of work
either by the states or by the federal
government. The Democratic ma
jority leader of the senate promised
that this would be done, and at the
same time he bitterly attacked Su-
preme court decisions which, he
said, now make such regulation i'm
possible. The senator was especi-
ally severe in his comments on the
decision in the New York state wage
case, declaring:
ut is simply incomprehensible-it
is ridiculous-that there should ex-
iSt no legal means for protecting
a woman or a child from working az
long as anybody can eXtort money
from them. / don't hesitate TO say
that the Supreme court opinion in
the New York case ought to be re-
versed and the American bar by a
great majority supports that view
point. That opinion was bad law"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

The obligations include about $75,-
100000 owed to many Americans
who invested in public work gold
bonds which were issued during the
administration of President Gerar-
do Machado.
The new constitution which the
Cuban congress recently voted orig
inally prohibited any such negotia-
tions as those contemplated before
1910, but when it appeared in the Of
fetal gazette that article had been
radically altered. 1t now orders the
government to find a satisfactory
way to settle all debts to the United
States before 1910 and authorizes
the president to open negotiations
Immediately.
This error" in the gazette's COM
posing room is supposed to have
been ordered by Colonel Batista.
and though congress has the power
to correct it, a majority of con-
gressmen, after reading the arti-
Gle in the gazette, gave it their ap-
proval.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

Ships, authoritative naval yearbook,
the United States has 83 warships
under construction or planned; ;
Italy, 66; France, 43; Germany, 80;
Japan, 38.
Though no figures we're given for
soviet Russia, it is known the Reds
are planning to launch sea pro-
gram which will bring their naval
strength up to that of their land
forces, now the largest in the world.
Information in Washington says
the United States has and will have
under construction 95 Warships. 1t
expects to increase its personnel
by almost 10 per cent and build up
strong naval reserve. The ships
will include light and heavy cruis-
ers, destroyers, and submarines.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Milburn L. Wilson Gets
Rex Tugwell's Place

M ILBURN L. WILSON of Mon
A'A tana, who has been serving as
an assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, has been made undersecretary
of the department to succeed Rex
ford G. Tugwell, resigned. Wilson'S S
post was given to Harry L. Brown,
a dirt farmer who rose from herds
man on an Iowa hog farm to be di-
rector of Georgia's agricultural ex-
tension service.
William H. Moran retired as chief
of the secret service with the close
of the year and was succeeded by
Frank J. Wilson, whose detective
work was largely responsible for the
conviction of Al Capone on income
tax evasion charges.
Charles T. Fisher, Jr., resigned
as a director of the Reconstruction
Finance corporation to become
banking commissioner of Michigan.
He had been with the RFC since
its creation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Herbert Hitchcock New
South Dakota Senator

TOM BERRY, before retiring
l. from the governorship of South
Dakota, appointed Herbert Hitch
cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out
the term of the late Senator Peter
Norbeck. The new senator is Demo-
cratic state chairman and his ap-
pointment brings the Democratic
membership of the senate to 76, the
highest party total in history. The
Republicans now number 16.
Mr.. Hitchcock was born in Ma
quoketa, Ia, in 1867 and was edu-
Gated at Anamosa, Davenport and
Chicago. He went to Mitchell in
1894 and was admitted to the bar
two years later. He was president
of the school board in his home
town for ten years and states at
torney four years. He served as
state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Britain and Italy Sign
Mediterranean Pact

REAT BRITAIN and Italy signed
~ a treaty concerning the Medi-
terranean that is of the highest i'm
portance, Italy first pledging itself
to keep hands off Spanish territory.
In the public declaration are these
three leading statements:
The interests of Britain and Italy
in the Mediterranean do not con-
fict but on the contrary are
parallel"
The two powers announce they
recognize their respective maritime
rights in the Mediterranean, mean
ing that Italy will have free access
to the oceans by way of Gibraltar
and the Suez canal and that Brit
aims imperial trade route to India
will remain free and inviolate.
Britain and Italy announce to all
the world that they favor preserving
the status quo everywhere in the
Mediterranean.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Typhoid Mary"

'MHEN her Irish parents
w brought her to priest in New
York city one day, he christened her
Mary Mallon. But on hospital rec
ords in the East she became only
number, or more specifically, car
rier No. &c." For she was the
famous Typhoid Mary"
Back in 1904 there occurred mys-
terious outbreaks of typhoid fever
in certain sections of Westchester,
Long Island and other districts
around New York city. Examina-
ton of food and water failed to
give any clues to the origin of the
bacillli which were causing it.
But DR.. George Soper, a sanitary
engineer in the municipal health
service, remembered German
bacteriologist had proved that some
people, while immune themselves
to typhoid. carried the germ and
gave the fever to others. Tracing
the outbreaks he found that an Irish
cook named Mary Mallon had, in
every instance, been employed in
the stricken household. He learned
also that Mary, at the first hint of
each illness, fled from her job.
Finally the health authorities
caught up with her and in 1907 she
was detained and, against her will.
given an examination. She was
found to be infected with millions
of typhoid bacilli. She went to
court to gain her freedom but lost
her suit. Finally in 1910, she was
freed.
However, typhoid epidemics be-
gan again and in each case Mary
Mallon was found to have been the
cook. Again she was confined in a
hospital. Eventually she became re-
signed to her fate, was given lab
oratory job and then furnished lit
tie cottage of her own on North
Brothers island, where she lived in
semi-imprisonment for Il years.
She died a few years ago-but not
from typhoid. First there was a
stroke of paralysis from which she
rallied. During the next three years
she gradually failed and finally,
when she was Sixty-six years old,
Death opened the door for the frail,
gray-haired little woman and ''Ty-
phoid Mary's" long Imprisonment
was ended.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
President on Child Labor
and Starvation Wages

ELIMINATION of child labor,
IL long working hours and starva-
tion wages is necessity, and must
be carried out by the federal gov
ernment since it cannot be done by
state action So declared President
Roosevelt in his press conference.
He warned the correspondents not
to say he was planning to revive
the NRA and insisted all he could
say at present was that something
should be done to fix maximum
hours and minimum wages.
Since the day of the NRA, said
Mr.. Roosevelt, there has been a
steady decline in child labor, Cruel
ing hours and starvation wages by
80 per cent of American business.
AS for the other 10 per cent, he
said, they were still failing to live
up to the best standards since the
death of the NRA.
Attorneys for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor were reported to
be about ready to submit to the
President a bill designed to restore
labor protective features lost in the
death of NRA. 1t provides that
congress catalogue unfair "con-
duct which would be forbidden to
employers and assure workers ade-
quate protection. Violations would
be punishable by a fine. The fed
Grafton is expected also to back
federal licensing of interstate cor
porations as provided by the O'Ma-
honey bill.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

ions. Ten of the corporation's plants
already were closed by sit-doWn
strikes and walkouts, and $1,000 Of
its employees were idle.
Edward F. McGrady, assistant
secretary of labor, who has spent
three months in futile effort to stop
the maritime walkout on the Pacific
coast, hurried back to Washington
to take hand in the General Mo-
tors strike. After reporting to Sec
retary Perkins, this chief mediator
held a conference with John L. Lew
is. Miss Perkins already had dis
cussed the situation with Lewis,
seeking data on which conciliation
could be recommended, though she
said this would not be undertaken
a once.
The auto workers in their Flint
meeting, besides creating the board
of strategy with power to call a
strike, approved of eight demands
on the corporation ranging from rec
ognition of their union to higher
wages and shorter hours. They also
appointed a committee to negotiate
with the corporation.
William S. Knudsen, executive
vice president of General Motors,
declared the company never would
agree to collective bargaining on a
national basis and, despite strikes,
would continue to produce automo-
biles as long as possible.
The prime object of the c. I. o. is
organization of the steel industry,
and the crisis in the automotive in
dustry was not expected by Lewis
and his associates or wanted at this
time. However, they are giving the
auto workers their full support, NOR
ally and financially.
In the Youngstown district the
number of idle steel workers rose to
about 1000 when the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube company suspended
operations in its strip mill because
of stop" orders from automobile
customers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
States Get $2OO,OOO,OOO
for Road Improvement

CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
~ WALLACE has just apportioned
5000, 900, 900 to the states for road
improvement. Of this sum $685.
800, will go toward improvement
of the federal-aid highway system,
$25, 100000 for improving secondary
or farm-to-market roads, and $780,
100000 for grade crossing elimina-
ton.
The fund is for use during the fs-
cal year beginning July l, 1887, and
funds for improvement of roads
must be matched by the states.
Grade crossing elimination funds
need not be matched. Highway
projects selected, contracts and
specifications are subject to federal
approval after designation by state
commissions. XXI.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By Elmo @ Western
n Ty Newspaper
CCOLC ~ uLSOH Union
First Woman Painter

YOU'LL look in vain for her name
in the average encyclopedia or
dictionary of American biography.
Common as is the name of John
SON. in our national annals, Hen
rietta Johnson is the least known of
all of them.
In this era of the "emancipated
woman" all fields of human en-
1eGvor are open to feminine invad-
ers. But it was very different 200
ears ago. In those days woman's
place was very much "in the home'
and she might not leave it, even
for excursions into the arts. But
it was in that field th2. Henrietta
oy doing so she placed posterity
was Americas first woman painter.
We know her name but little else.
The date of her death is recorded
n the st. Philips church register
n Charleston, S. c., and that is the
,nly established date in her history.
BY the social code under which she
ived, "a lady's name should never
appear in public print but twice:
irst to announce her MAI iage and
again to announce her death" Since
she never married that leaves US
only the date of her death-March
3, 1928. When and where she was
oorn and whose daughter she was
i an unSolved mystery.
We know that she was a pastel
painter and in this medium she did
work that rivalled that of some of
the famous French masters. We
know that she was painting these
pictures between 1907 and 1920,
since the few surviving examples
of her art were made during that
period. And that is a fact which
gives her work importance. For
in her day the scheme of an heredi-
tary American aristocracy was be-
ing tried out in Carolina and the
people whose portraits she made
were colonial officers and repre-
sentatives of the landed gen.
try whose great plantations sur
rounded Charleston.
One of the notables she painted
was Col. William Rhett, colonel of
the provincial militia, receiver-gen-
eral of the Lords Proprietors and
the man who, in 1718, captured the
famous pirate, Steve Bonnet-a
feat which would make the name
of Rhett forever famous, even if
some of his descendants hadn't done
so in the more recent history of
South Carolina.
Just how many portraits Henri
eta Johnson painted is not certain,
but the known examples o. her work
that have survived for two cen
turies are so few that they command
prices which compare favorably
with those paid for the works of the
"oId masters" of Europe. Quite
aside from their artistic and his
toric value, they possess high
rarity value" they came
from the brush of Americas first
woman painter.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Nebraska's Unicameral
Legislature Opens

4 S NEBRASKA'S unicameral
"A legislature, unique in the Unit
ed States, was about to begin its
first session, Gov. R. L. Cochran de-
clared politics was out. He dis
couraged party caucuses among the
members and said he would have
no spokesman in the legislature.
The governor pointed out that the
constitution provides that the one
house chamber shall be non-parti-
san and that the voters had done
their part by electing, on non-poli-
teal ticket, % Democrats and 81
Republicans.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

ter. It will be submitted to con-
gress with the Presidents S favorable
recommendation.
The Mellon collection, part of
which is stored in the Corcoran art
gallery in Washington, includes
many paintings of highest impor-
tance and some fine works of sculp-
ture. Lord Duveen of Milbank, head
of a celebrated art firm, says that
its actual value is more than $780,
100000 and that it is the greatest
collection ever assembled by any
individual collector
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

to settle all Cuban
obligations in the
United States and is
expected soon to in
vite the bankers and
bondholders con-
cerned to enter
negotiations to that
end. Credit for in
ducing Bru to do
this is given to Col.
Fulgencio Batista,
who appears to be
largely in control of
Go,~1 - fL0 ;e1o~I
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Naval Treaty Expires;
Building Race Is On

a T THE close of 1886 the Wash
L \ ington and London naval treat
les expired, and a great naval con-
struction race started among the
powers. Great Britain got off well
in the lead, for on New Years day
she laid the keels of two huge bat
tleships, the George v and tn e
Prince of Wales. The British pro-
gram calls for the building of 78
new vessels at a cost of nearly a
billion dollars. The British also are
understood to be planning to rebuild
the Hongkong and Pacific bases.
According to James Fighting
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

magnificent art col
lection, valued at
S23, 900, 900, together
W i t h a SO, 900, 900
building for its hous-
ing in Washington
and a fund for it's
maintenance and in
crease. The offer is
made through Presi-
dent Roosevelt, with
whom Mr.. Mellon
has been in CORE
spondence and con-
ference on the mat
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

Whereupon 300 dele
gates from t h o S e
plants in ten cities
met in Flint, Mich. ,
and granted to a
board of strategy"
power to order a
general strike. The
board is headed by
Homer Martin, in
ternational president
of the United Auto
mobile Workers of
America, one of the
,eWiS G. T O. I'M
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14

Once a soldier, always a soldier,
is an old army belief, but once a
private. now a general, is a para
phrase that fits Brigadier-General
Kenyon Joyce, whose new rank was
announced recently by President
Roosevelt. General Joyce, once a
ranker, now commands the "Presi-
dents Own" third cavalry troop at
Tort Myer, Va. During the World
war he won the D. S. c., Order of
the Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre
and the French Legion of Honor.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Mellon Offers Great Art
Collection to Nation

a NDREW w. MELLON, Pitts
"A burgh multimillionaire and for
mer secretary of the treasury, has
offered to present to the nation his
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
General Strike Threatened
in General Motors Plants

y ENERAL MOTORS CORPORA
~ TION fatty refused to consider
collective bargaining in its SO plants
except through local management.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
Bru Plans Settlement
of Cuban Obligations

e EDERICO LAREDO BRU, the
l. new president of Cuba, proposes
The Washington times., 1937-04-07
PATTERN 1905

1905 contains q transfer pattern
of seven motifs averaging 5x7A
inches; color suggestions; ilustra-
lions of all stitches used; material
requirements.
Send 10 cents in stamps or coin
(cOin preferredD for this pattern
to The Washington Times, Needle
craft Dept, 81 Eighth Avenue, New
York, N. Y. Write plainly PAT
TERN NUMBER, your NAME and
The Washington times., 1937-04-07
BUBBLE GIRL TOWELS

Just let these merry Bubble
blowers" take charge Of your
kitchen. for they'll do a fine Job
Of drying your dishes. Right out
Of the scrap bag-their bouffant
skirts and poke bonnets, for each
is q simple patch to be cut and
appliqued, then finished off with
outline and running stitch. II you
prefer, you can omit the applique
and lust emhroider them. Pattern
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
PiclkuDS and PutOutS

Eagle scrap by putting the box
ing gloves on with Paul
Smith, American mentor. Smith
still prefers basketball I. . Curly
LentZ, the Catholic University
trainer, worked for Smith,
American us coach, during the
basketball season when both
were at Dickinson Seminary.
The Catholic University
American University game will
decide which team is to have a
winning season and which a los
ing one. Each has a 500 per-
centage at this time.
The Grande VOiture Post, No.
ia, of the District American
Legion, anticipates a record
crowd at its third oyster roast
Sunday at the Potomac Boat
Club John McCabe is chair
man of the entertainment COM
mittee .. Willie Hope and Jake
Shurman, members of the War
wick football team, are back
from their trip to Miami.