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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-16

Siberia is rapidly becoming one of the great wheat growing regions of the world.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
Vance County Against Tobacco And Cotton Contro
1.3OOL|CENSESO OF
STATE DISPOSED OF
Number PA Ahead of Same
Date Last Year; III
City Tags Sold

Sales of State automobile license
tags for 1889 had exceeded by ia last
Saturday night the total for the like
period of time in December last year,
it was announced today by W.. c.
Gates, manager of the local branch
office of. the Carolina Motor Club
which is handling sales here.
Through last week total sales a
mounted to 1900 even, including L.
OCT automobile sets of plates, 83 for
trucks and 12O for trailers. For the
like period year ago sales amounted
to 1,O96, including 800 sets of auto
mobile licenses, 80 trucks and ia
trailerS.
At the office of the city clerk it was
said that 1T license tags had been
sold up to early today. There was no
comparative figure for the same date
last year. The city tag costs 81 flat
for all vehicles, and there is only one
tag. Annual sales are around 1880.
Sales here are expected to pick up in
the next week or two, but city Off
Gals urged car owners in the city to
get their tags Immediately.
There is no rush at the motor club
office for the State plates, and Mr..
Gates today urged that car owners
take advantage of this condition so
as to avoid congestion that is sure tC
law requires that all cars operating in
the State after midnight December 81
be equipped with the new tags.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
LARGE CROWD OUT
AT CREWS FUNERAL
Rev. l.. C. Brothers and Rev. A. S.
Barnes of Raleigh in Charge
of Services Sunday

An unusually large crowd OF friend
and admirers joined with the sorrow
ing family and relatives in a last tri
butte to the late Samuel f. Crews whe1
his funeral was held at Salem Metho
dist Episcopal church, near Dabney
Sunday afternoon. He died in Watt.
hospital in Durham Friday afternoo.
after long illness.
The services were in charge of Rev
L. c. Brothers, of Oxford, pastor O
the church, assisted by Rev A. s
Barnes, of Raleigh, uperintendent O
the Methodist Orphanage there, an
a former pastor at Salem. Intermen
was in the church cemetery.
Mr.. Crews, who was IS years OLE
was native of the Dabney sectio,
but had lived in Henderson for til,
past several. years after retiring from
his farming, in which he had engaeef
all his life.
He was for many years active i,
he affairs of Salem church. and wss
known as one of the substantial for
mers of the county. -''
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
Over 1000 Votes Cast
On Tobacco Issue Here
1888 for and $50 Against In Saturday Refer,
endum; 81 Vote for and 455 Against Control
of Cotton for Year: State Turns Down Both

1912 per cent majority; and l5l,o05
voted TOR and 1880 voted against to-
hacco quotas an 1877 per cent ma
jority.
A clear, cold day prevailed for vot-
ing, but the return was considerably
smaller than the March election.
CIcar-Cut DecisioH
E. Y. Floyd of State College, AAA
executive officer for North Carolina,
commented on the returns: There is
no question but that the 'antis' won;
as for the ultimate outcome of The
vote, we can only wait and see
Proponents of the measure had
warned farmers that there would DE
control-either of their own choosing
or through low prices that would drive
money crop growers out of Business
KcverSeS Position
Defeat of the tobacco quotas in
North Carolina came after four over
whelming expressions of confidence in
crop control. The latest, last March
y, endorsed both cotton and tobacco
control, by majorities of more than SO
per cent.
The first call for an expression on
the New Deal farm policy came in
1888 after tobacco warehouses were
closed at the request of farmers
aroused at low prices. Thereafter,
farmers almost to man embraced
voluntary program of reduction, and
farmers plowed up cotton, a sugges-
ton that had been laughed down q
short time previously under Hoover's
administration.
Balloting by mail, farmers adopted
he KerrSmith program of compul-
sorry control in 1885 by a majority d
go per cent. The Kerr-Smitb system
continued into 1886 until declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court.
In Saturdays voting, opposition was
not confined to any particular Sec
ton, having shown up strongest in
control counties and in the Piedmont.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
Church CELEBRATES
9th ANNIVERSARY
DR.. J. E. Prichard, Former
Pastor, Brings Morn
ing Sermon

The fifty-seventh anniversary of the
founding of the local Methodist Pro
testant church was celebrated at the
church Sunday morning. DR.. j. f.
Pritchard, of High FONT, president
of the North Carolina Conference of
that denomination, and a former pas
tor of the congregation, was visiting
minister and delivered the sermon
DR.. Pritchard spoke on the influence
of the local church in the community
and in the Methodist Protestant con-
ference, telling of the progress it has
made in the past half century.
Reading by the pastor, Rev. T. j.
Whitehead, of notes of greeting
which had been sent by former pas
tors of the church occupied a large
place on the program. Each of them
congratulated the church on it's his
tory, and spoke of the happiness they
had when they served as minister
here.
Appropriate anthems were sung by
the choir, and hymns in which the
congregation joined.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
MRS. CHAVASSE TO
GET BOARD PLACE
VIII Become Member OF
Welfare Body Succeed
ing E. L. Fleming

According to information being cir
cuated today, Mrs. H. E. Chavasse viii
be elected as a member of the Vanc
County Board of Welfare at meet
ing to be held tonight. She will sue
coed E. L. Fleming, who resigned t
become a member of the Vance Boar
of County Commissioners, to whic
office he was elected in Novembe
There was nothing Official about tn
announcement relating to Mr.:
Chavasse, but it has been heard fror
two very reliable sources that sh
would succeed Mr.. Fleming.
The vacancy created by Mr. Elem
ing is the one that IS Iiiied by u
other two members of the boare
,rhoso other two are designated or
by the Board of County Commission
ers and one by the State Board {
welfare. The two together then selec
the third member.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12

Vance county farmers on Saturday
voted against Federal crop controi
for both tobacco and cotton. A ma
iority of the votes cast were IN raw,
of both issues, but to be consioeleu
favorable, two-thirds of the vote ma
to be in the affirmative.
At the same time, the referendum
on cotton, in the South at large was
overwhelmingly favorable. That ZOE
tobacco lacked the two-lnirds MAJ *
itv needle, and there Will be no TO-
tacco control in 1889, with every
grower left to plant as much OF the
leaf as he pleases. North CaroI'ia
voted in the negative against oo1h
cotton and tobacco, as did vance
county. 81,
Tn Vance county, the vote was o't
for and 455 against cotton control. On
tobacco the vote was 1888 for contro.
and $50 against. The figures were
complete for the nine townships OF
the county.
In the II townships OF Warren
county. taken as a whole, the vote was
..572 for and 633 against cotton con-
troll. and 1922 for and 1913 against to-
tacco control. Granville's nine pre-
cincts voted 245 for and 20 against cot
ton control and 1886 for and al
against tobacco control. In Franklin
county, the election resulted IN U.s.
for and 1,721 against cotton controi
and LOOP for and 1890 against tobacco
control.
For the State as a whole, in S44 out
Of s53 voting places, the vote stood
1874 for and 64,514 against tobacco
control, and $4,000 for and 1882
against cotton control.
Pitt, Wilson, Edgecombe, Nash,
Robson, Lenoir and Greene counties
gave overwhelming majorities for
control. Johnston and Sampson coln-
ties, however were overwhelmingly
against control. Both counties, along
with Stanly, were hotbeds of oppoSl-
ton and anti-control sentiment.
In both referendG, held in 50 to-
tacco counties and 70 cotton corn-
ties Of the State, farmers gave ma
jority for control, but it failed TO
meet the two-thirds requirement UNI
Ger the AAA act.
On tobacco, with nine out of S44
townships not heard from 85,457 voted
for and 63,414 against marketing
quotas. On cotton, 1890 voted fer
and 1892 against quotas.
The return was sharp contrast to
last March when 127 534 voted Cor
and 1854 against cotton quotas, an
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
STATE PATROLMEN
TAKE MAN, WHISKY
Cooke And Baxter Make
Haul Near Roxboro; One
Man Makes Escape

State Highway Patrolmen T. E.
Cooke, Jr., stationed here, and W. A.
Baxter, stationed at Roxboro, captured
sixty five gallons of illicit whisky, an
automobile and one man Saturday aft
ernoon about o'clock about two
miles from leoxboro on the Oxford
highway, it was learned today.
Mitchell White, "a, of Oxford, wa
taken into custody by the Officers
who chased him down, after he hat
abandoned the automobile used ir
transporting the whisky. A second
man, said by Patrolman Cooke to be
a. S. Green, also of Oxford, made
good his escape, after abandoning
the automobile. Green was said to
have been the driver of the auto
mobile.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

1. Where is the Gulf of Alden?
2 What was the name of the first
American steamboat to cross the
Atlantic?
3. Name the famous pianist who re-
Gently died in New York City.
4. Are women eligible to the office
of President of the u. S.
5. What is the slang term for a ten
dollar bill?
g. Name the fast runner who carried
the message to Sparta for aid, ir
the battle of Marathon.
z. Can a patent be obtained for a
method of doing business?
s. Does Cuba require American tout
list to have passports?
9. Name the U. S. Ambassador TO
Great Britain.
10. Name the capital of Bolivia.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
Goal Is $4,000 To
Support Budget of
Like Amount for Com
ing Year; S. T. Peace
Is Leader

Workers selected late last week
started out today in soliciting funds
FOR the Vance County Community
Peace as chairman, and the goal is
$4,000, the amount of the budget for
1889, which is slightly less than the
$3.50 for 1888.
Dates for the campaign are Mon
day through Thursday of this week,
by which it is hoped that all of the
funds needed for the success of the
Undertaking can be had.
All workers were asked to see as
many of their prospects as possible
.oday and to report by telephone to
the chairman by tonight. A meeting
of the workers is to be held tOmor-
row night for personal reports and a
checking of the results of two days of
effort.
The $4,000 budget is divided as fol-
lows: Salvation Army, for local relief
work, $4,000; Boy Scouts, extension
and promotoional work, $780, Cir
Scouts. for like work, 5000; Cripple
Children Fund, $500; Vance count.
lnder-nourished children's fund, $3.50
Vance county recreational work, $3.50
county emergency relief fund, $500
operating expense fund, $500.
All equipment for their work was
furnished to workers last Friday
night at dinner meeting at tn.
Vance hotel.
This is the second annual com
munity chest drive Henderson has
ever undertaken The first was 70,
1888, and was declared a great sue
cess. All agencies sharing in the dis
tribution have been paid nearly 10
percent of their allotment, as the re
ult of exceptionally good collections
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
NEGRO GIVEN ROAD
TERM FOR ASSAULT
Mayor Henry T. Powell pra
sides Over Light Docket
In City Court

Jessie Williams, Negro, was oi,
six months on the roads in cit,. oi'eh
today before Mayor Henry r ponun
when he was convicted of assa,1t 9 wv,
deadly weapon, pistol. and o.na '"
ing a concealed weapon. - y
zoe Rainey' Negro, was discharged
when tried on an assault charge.
owen Johnson, charged with bejnp
drunk was called and failed, and >
capias was issued for him. "
}. r. Twisdale paid 81 and costs for
being drunk.
Joe Reavis, Negro, convicted Of As
sault, was fined S. and costs.
A capias was issued for Noel Smith
Negro, charged with being drunI
when he failed to appear in CONT
when the case was called for trial
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
Community Chest Drive
Is Launched By Workers
LOWRY UNDER BOND
ON WHISKY CHARGE

C. P. Lowry, Jr., who was given a
he airing Friday before U. S. Commits
sioner Wyles in Raleigh on a charge
OF transporting illicit whisky, was
ordered held for Federal court in Ra-
ie:eh under bond of $500.
Lowry was taken Wednesday aft
ernoon by State Highway patrolmen
T. E. Cooke, Jr., and w. C. Carter
with 100 gallons of corn whisky, after
the officers had chased him for some
distance on the Oxford highway.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
MARRIAGE PAPERS
SATURDAY ARE TWO

Two marriage papers were issued
Saturday at the Vance Registry Of
flee, one of the papers going to a col
ored couple.
Cleveland Eugene King and RUBY
billiard, both of Henderson, secured
license to wed as did a colored con-
pie. Tippo Bullock and Mary Lena
Wright, both of Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
P. 0. S. A. TO ELECT
OFFICERS TUESDAY

Patriotic Order Sons of America
will meet tonight at 1880 o'clock and
have election of 1889 officers. All
members are urged by the president
c. T. Neathery, to be present and to
be on time.
N. M. Jones has just returned from
the Salisbury pep meeting and mas
q special announcement to make at
the meeting tonight.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-12
POLICE GET PART
OF URQUHART LOOT

Having recovered most of the loot
city police are searching for the per-
son or persons who robbed Urquhart
Printery on South William street dur
ing Saturday night of a quantity Of
mems wearing apparel
Officers found four suits and an
overcoat in a secreted spot today, and
reported one overcoat as missing.
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He Wants Action

I would like to see this pub
lished in your peoples corner"
if it is possible for you to do so.
In the December 8 issue of this
paper, on page 8, there was an
article in which Major Brown
said latter a complete and in
tensive investigation Of the
police department" there had
not been discovered one scrap of
graft or corruption in the last
two years"
If that is true how can these
million-dollar-a-year rackets such
as the warnings" have existed.
If the pressure was put on the
Warnings they would talk and
talk plenty, but again maybe
they are too well entrenched for
such treatment, for I notice that
in spite of all the publicity their
trial has given them they are
still doing a big business in the
Third precinct.
I think Major Browns depart
ment could stand a good honest
to-God renovating, and believe
other people feel the same as I.
GLIB.
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Wants More Details

"In America men tend to de-
generate" said an Englishman
in the bitterness of $50 years
ago. From your editorial of
December 8, advocating mass
immigration, you manifestly
share his views. To restore
prosperity and ito rejuvenate
the country" with new ideas
and new hopes" you suggest that
we pour into the now curdled
melting pot unlimited quantities
Of the cream of Europe" which
is defined to exclude any upper
class European.
Mildly put, your opinions are
surprising, but my respect for
the present American people
may merely reflect old stock
prejudiceS. In any event the
plan should be elaborated before
adoption.
SO please advise if you would
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I didn't like her attitude, so I
replied:
That's just what I thought"
Which is what I still think
that the great majority of teach.
ers Of modern foreign languages
in our schools are wholly I'm.
fitted to supply a working
knowledge of the tongue in
which they are presumed to have
specialized. And that is why
study of foreign languages is at
present hitting a sharp decrease
throughout the high schools of
the entire country. And this at
a time when such knowledge is
more important than it has
ever been.
THE standard of achievement
L insofar as the teacher is
concerned has been set too low
and the intelligent boy or
girl with a flair for other
tongues is quick to grasp that
fact. 1t doesn't take him or her
long to realize that the teacher
can't teach beyond a prelimi-
nary phase. So, if they can't
find somebody who can do bet
ter for them, they either drop
the study or loaf on the job.
If the teachers could be
brought to admit this and de-
mand better groundwork and
qualifications for themselves, we
would get somewhere. The goal
should be a fair command Of
the foreign language both in
speaking-with stress on proper
accumulation, their main failing
and in reading. And if they
can't make those grades to the
satisfaction of an examiner
with thorough grip of his or
her own on the language, then
they should not be permitted to
teach.
Otherwise, they hold us up to
the ridicule of such as the
Paris taxi.driver aforementioned
and they accomplish nothing
for the adoleScent.
Copyright, 1888, by the Washington
Herald-Times)
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81 LiUes Sacrificed

According to your traffic toll
80 persons lost their lives this
year in the District. 1t is a dis
graceful shame that in humane
America the careless killing of
human beings shall go on.
Speed is to blame for it, moth
ing else. Why not copy the
Providence traffic laws? In a
city with half the population
of the District only eight were
killed this year. This whole
sale killing and destroying of
human lives ought to be stopped,
and the capital city should show
the way.
ALBERT BAJTAY.
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A Real Union

I am surprised to read that
intelligent Americans could pos
sibly believe that a native of
one section Of our glorious coun-
try is better, because of his resi-
dence in a certain locality, than
one from a different sector of
our United States of America.
Regardless of what part of
this country we come from, we
are all Americans first! In the
spirit of true Americanism, we
ought not to poke fun at each
other. The North, the East, the
South and the West are one!
Let the citizens of those parts
remain as one, in territory and
spirit alike.
It matters not whether we be
Jew, Catholic or Protestant, we
must join in the brotherhood
Of man and the liberty and
democracy of the United States
of America.
A few nice things said to and
about each other will go a long
way to fraternize our fellow
citizens. The use of tolerance
towards each other will mend
many a breach of unity in our
country. United we stand, d.
vided we fall.
WILLIAM SHEFRIN.
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put the arriving alien on relief
until he got some Americans job,
and explain the test for detec'-
ton of some upper-class schem-
ers who might try to sneak in.
Clearly, Hitler, Mussolini, and
Trotsky, being of humble origin
and fermenting with new hopes
and new ideas" would be cream,
while Sir James Jeans, the Bald
wins, and Chamberlains would
be no more desirable than Will.
lam Penn or Lord Baltimore.
But there is still a broad twi-
light zone.
Before deciding the land to
more worthy tenants, won't you
tell us more?
JOSEPH P. CROCKETT.
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ROllin' Along
By W. A. s. Douglas

MOT so long ago. summer afternoon, was walking
~ up the Boulevard des Capucnes in Paris intent i'm
proving an already sharp appetite in the matter of late
breakfast in of the smaller and better Montmarte
taurans had reached the intersection of the Boulevard
Hausman when attracted by the noise of four middle
aged American ladies who arguing with taxi driver
The Frenchman, usual trying to gyp the tourists
And the tourists who had studied their rate books knew it.
The driver also usual going through the motions of
not understanding And yet the four ladies addressing
him at and the time in French words-or what
passed with them French words.
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Your I. q.
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER


This is a geography quiz of
questions sometimes asked in
Civil Service examinations.
Score 10 for each of the first
6 questions, and 4 for each part
of No. Z.
/. What are the names of the
two islands in the Niagara
River?
2. Between what two lakes is
Niagara Falls?
8. What large river flows
through North and South Da-
kota?
4.-What river flows through
the District of Columbia?
S. What two large lakes bound
New York?
6. How many States bound the
District of Columbia?
7. What rivers are the follow.
ing cities on:
(a) Philadelphia -A--
Cd Pittsburgh
Co Cambridge
Id Trenton, N. j.
(e) New London, Conn.
Cd Washington, D. C.
(g) Utica, N. Y.
(h) Richmond, Va.
Cd Baltimore, Md.
Cd Annapolis, Md.
ANSWERS on Page 24)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-12

Referring to your editorial,
Two Canals for One" ! think:
that the Panama Canal and the
proposed Nicaragua Canal could
easily be put out of commits
sion in wartime by the recently
developed double-deck airplane..
This device consists of a large.
bombing plane carrying a
smaller one, which can be de-,
tached at the proper moment tor
drop its own load of pineapples.
What we should do is to gain
control of the Straits of Magel,.
len and Cape Horn as soon as,
possible, to safeguard this only
nfallible Pacific-Atlantic pas
sage. C. P. LENT.
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"ReasOning Together"

NO0OVsASSSS ~9 ~SNSS
BY a perusal of the Old Tesla
ment We find that King David,
Gideon, and other Hebrew patri-
archs of the past would go to the
mediums of that time and pro-
coed to make inquiry of the
Lord" to the benefit of not
alone themselves but to their
people as well.
With the foregoing in mind,
recently wrote to several teach
ers of the Jewish faith, suggest
ing:
That the voices of the de-
parted be radioed with the aid
of trumpet medium, giving op-
portunity to those in Spirit to
come and make use of the
vocal cords Of the medium, just
as the Spirit made use of those
Of Moses in the incident Of the
burning bush, etc., ETC., and
thereby prove the thought of re-
birth to be a truth, with a con-
sequent state of embarrassment
to both Hitler and Mussolini,
as many Of the prosecutors of
the Jewish race have had that
type of embodiment in the
past"
I received no response to my
suggestion. The lack Of response
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-12
Milk For MOscOw

I see by a news dispatch from,
Moscow that the Bolshevik's off,
fetal paper, Pravda, attacks
the Moscow milk distributing Or
ganization because the Russian .
plan calls for 343,947 quarts
daily for Moscow's 4,O00, 900 peo.'
pile, while only 10000 were
available for December /. This,
means that the total milk avail.
able in Moscow on December II
1888, was less than one-twen-
tieth of a quart per person
also, that the BoloS' planned
ideal is less than one-tenth of
a quart per day per person. Evil
IDENTIFY that's Utopia for the
Bolos. After 20 years of Soviet
planning, what have the little
Red brothers in this country
to say about this? =
NON-BOLSHIE. =.
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causes one to think; by failing
to embrace a proposition of that
nature, with the desperate situa-
ton of the Jews abroad to the.
fore, that they are above econ,
ferring with Deity, as he adj.
vises. and, in all probability
would serve as an affirmative
answer to the question the Spirit
asks Elipshaz as of the seven.
tenth verse of the fourth chap
ter of the Book Of Job, which, :
boiled down, should read: els,
mortal man greater than his
Maker?
JOSEPH S. EDGAR.