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Evening star., 1938-02-04
MALE DOMINANCE
INCHURCH ALLEGED
Methodists Urged to Grant
: Larger Responsibility
to Women.
~ the Associated Press.

- tHe Associated pfeSS.
CHICAGO, Feb. "A larger share
OF responsibility in church leadership
was demanded for women today at
Methodisms largest gathering in
American history.
The demand came from the only
woman speaker at the denominations
meeting. Miss Georgia Harkness, pro-
fessor of religion at Mount Holyoke
College.
In prepared address to the United
Methodist Council on The Future
and Faith and Service" Miss Hark-
ness termed the church the last
stronghold of male dominance" and
charged it was being drained of
capable leadership by discrimination
against women.
The gathering, to which have come
$500 clergymen and laymen, repre-
senting 100000 communicates and
adherents. was hailed by Senior Bishop
Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington as
"one Of the greatest Protestant relig-
lous movements of the decade"
It provided an occasion for jubila-
tion over the impending unification Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, Meth
odist Episcopal Church South and the
Methodist Protestant Church after a
century Of division.
Minor Positions Offered.
Miss Harkness contended women
have "a very minor place" In the
church. No branch OF Methodism,
she added by way of illustration, sent
woman as an official delegate to the
Oxford or Edinburgh Conferences.
In the ministry the crux of the
problem is not that Of ordination but
the chance to preach after one gets
ordained" she said. 1T is now possi-
bic for a woman to secure excellent
theological training but next to i'm
possible for her to secure appoint
ment to any save small rural par
ish.'
Because of these restrictions, she
warned. women were turning to sec
ular enterprises for an opportunity to
demonstrate creative leadership and
for the recognition which they do not
find within the church"
Bishop G. Bromley Oman of Oma-
ha declared the church must quit
spending all its time preaching plati-
tudes and singing hymns and get down
to helping people meet the practical
problems that face them every day"
F0rums-Not Decisions.
He said the church was not quali-
fled to offer solutions for economic,
social and political problems but
should encourage study and debate,
provide forums for discussion of vital
subjects.
Former Gov. ALI NJ. Landon of
Kansas. one of the laymen scheduled
to speak at the conference, said in an
interview yesterday there '7as "a de-.
cided drift against the confusion and
uncertainty of the Roosevelt admin
istration.
The Presidents statements nave
caused confusion" he said We've
maybe had just little too much big
falkland not enough action"
He predicted gains for Republicans
in congressional elections west Of the
Mississippi.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
CONGRESS WARNED
WAR PROPAGANDA
Representative Summers Declares
Every Citizen Should Keep
Feet on Ground"

b tte Associated Press.
Chairman Summers of the House
Judiciary Committee warned the House
yesterday against dangerous propa-
eanda" concerning war He said such
propaganda was being circulated
throughout the country.
Now is the time" he said. when
every man and woman should keep his
or her feet on the ground.
THE primary danger now is that
our people will be swept of their feet
by propaganda. The danger is not
that Congress will do something
against the public will. but that the
American people will permit them
selves to do and say provocative
things"
Dangerous statements have been
published recently, he remarked.
Without mentioning any specific in
stance, he said the current propaganda
was similar to that preceding United
States entry into the World War.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
Chouffeurs Haze Night Out,
Turn Tables on EMPLOYERS

The city,s chauffeurs-the men who
customarily sit patiently behind the
wheels Of limousines waiting for other
folks parties to break up-had their
inning last night at the Raleigh Hotel.
The occasion was the 18th annual ball
Of the Private ChaufIeurs Benevolent
Association.
Exchanging their visored caps for
gay crepe paper headgear ana their
whipcord liveries for tuxedces. more
than $50 revelers stepped out in the
main ballroom to the strains Of Dave
Evening star., 1938-02-04

have your own party and not Be on
the outside looking in."
Investigation indicated there must
have been many = usually "chauf.
feured" family using taxicabs or stay
ing home last night. For all ques-
TONED said their employers had made
. special point Of arranging for the
night of for their drivers. Two ad-
mitted borrowing swanky limousir,es
Evening star., 1938-02-04

McWilliams' Swing band" Discreet
inquiry revealed that the Big Apple
was barred, but the Virgins Reel ap-
peared on the program 1T least three
times and was performed with swing
that historic dance has never known.
A list Of the employers Of the dancing
drivers would read like q blue book Of
Washington, with President and Mrs.
Roosevelt heading the list. But all
footed" it equally in the gaily dec
Grated ballroom. One enthusiastic
dancer summed 1t up, Its swell to
Evening star., 1938-02-04

to bring their best girls to the ball.
William F. Ebel headed the Dance
COMMITTEES which included Waldo r.
Cooper, Charles T. Garner, John H.
FRANKIE, William c. Becker, Clarence
E. Chamberlain, Frederick Eimbush,
Charles Volkman and Thomas Kildun.
The Floor Committee was COM
posed Of Laurence stombach. Charles
T. Garner, John Bell. Gordon Lack.
enby. Charles Fraser and Charles
Black.
Evening star., 1938-02-04
RENTS INCREASE

An increased demand for homes IN
lower-cost brackets brought = rise Of
27.s per cent in 1887 in the average
rentals Of homes owned by the Home
Owners Loan Corp.
The agency said today the average
rental rose from 320e2 . month on
January l. 1897, to s26.75 on Decen-
ber al 1897
Evening star., 1938-02-04
MASS FIGHT is URGED
ON TEXTILE TARIFF CUT
Gov. Hurley Pushes Move to Or
ganize Battle on Slash Pro-

posed in Trade Treaty.
By the Associated Press
BOSTON. Feb. 4-Spurred by a
united stand Of textile labor and in
dustry against tariff reductions for
their products, Gov. Charles F. Hur-
ley today pushed q move to organize
Evening star., 1938-02-04
Massachusetts opposition to 4 lower
ing Of textile tariffs in q proposed
trade treaty with Great Britain.

trade treaty with Great Britain.
Gov. Hurley, who opened 4 confer
ence Of textile interests yesterday on
the trade agreement, prepared to
name a committee to carry the fight
to Washington at hearings next
month on the pending treaty.
Meanwhile Massachusetts, labor
and industries commissioner. James
T. Moriarty, asked that city and town
committees be formed in protest
against any reduction In tariffs on
textiles.
Evening star., 1938-02-04

John Joseph Lorencik farmer and his bride
De- Henretta whitening Pieper 10 practical happily
pose o1 TIER picture Ihey said she ,0as too old for to
marry thdt ought to find age Lorencik
said in commenting on his forthcoming marriage "WeH,
one ho has out all night until in the morning running
around They reside in UnionUlle Conn-Wde Photo
Evening star., 1938-02-04
Rival Claims.

Rival Claims.
Although the Falkland Islands
have been held by Great Britain
since 1884, Argentina still claims
them.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
New York State
Is Out of Red:
Has Big Surplus

Albany. N. Y, July 6.-(AP)-
New York State was "Out of the
red" for the first time i'm seven
years today with a surplus of &c.
469, 3224e.
Democratic Governor Lehman,
who inherited $1OO, 100000 deficit
when he succeeded Franklin ID.
Roosevelt, January 1, 1888, an
nOumced that the State had wiped
out its Indebtedness at the begin
ming of the new fiscal year July
by an operating surplus of more
than $16,O0O,OOO.
While state revenues showed a
decrease of $1O,8S5, 742.21, from the
governors original estimate, Leh-
man said the loss was counter
balanced by the fact that the State
did not have to touch any of the
100000 reserve which was in
Guided in the financial plan of ex-
penditures.
The governor, who recently an
nOunced his candidacy for the
United States Senate, predicted
last January that the States re-
naming $1O,OO0,OOO debt would be
transformed into a $311,OO sur
plus providing business condi-
tiOnS improve"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
WORK ON PARKWAY
GOES ON RAPIDLY
North Carolina Links Pro-
crossing Rapidly in The
Great Smokes

Raleigh, July 6.-Work on the $780,
100000 Blue Ridge Parkway which
will extend for almost 500 miles from
the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park in Western North Carolina thro-
ugh to the Shenandoah National Park
IN Virginia, is progressing rapidly on
the North Carolina links, according
to information at tie highway COM
mission here.
10 date there are ia miles COM
pleted under construction or under
contract. BY the middle of the month
1t Is hoped that contracts will be let
for an additional 80 or 40 miles, so
that every link in it from the Vir-
ginia line to the Asheville area will
either be completed or under way.
Approximately 60 miles of the park
way have been completed in North
Carolina from the Virginia line south
west to Deep Gap, where it intersects
United States Highway 421 about ten
miles east of Boone. This portion of
the parkway is not open to travel this
summer, however, due to the fact
that it is now being surfaced and the
paving work will keep it closed until
about October IS. After that time it
will be open to travel.
Construction work has been started
on two segments of the parkway be-
ginning at Grandmother Gap, II miles
southwest of Blowing Rock on u. S.
Highway 221. known as the Yonah
lossie Trail, which will become a part
of the parkway when the State of
North Carolina deeds it to the Ma
tional Park Service.
The U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
and the National Park Service are
now considering letting contracts for
the last and final link in this seq
ment from Little Switzerland to Buck
Creek Gap, a distance of about eight
miles, where it will connect with the
segment which has been under con-
struction for almost two years, ac-
cording to the Highway Department
From Buck Creek Gap the parkway
extends southwest to Toe River Gap,
goes with ma few miles of the top
of Mount Mitchell, 1854 feet high and
the tallest peak east of the Missis
sippi, thence across the Craggies to
Bull Gap and intersects N. G. High
way 694, the baskerville Scenic High
way" several miles northeast of
Asheville.
If the contracts for all the inter-
vening links are let this summer, as
is indicated, the Blue Ridge Park
way will either be completed or un-
der construction all the way from the
Virginia line to the Asheville area, a
distance of approximately 100 miles,
with several links under way west
of Asheville.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
ASSAULT, GAMBLING
CASES ARE HEARD
Minor Fines and Suspended
Judgments Imposed by
Mayor Powell

Assault and gambling cases in city
police court today drew minor fines
and suspended sentences at the hands
of Mayor Henry T. Powell. All de-
PENDANTS were colored except one.
William Perry was charged with as
saulting Susabelle Jeter and kidnap-
ing and carrying her away against
her will. He was held guilty of the
assault charge and given a year on
the roads, commitment not to issue
on payment of the costs and staying
away from the plaintiff for two years
Thurston Hicks, named in the same
warrant, was found not guilty.
CASTOR Wyche, Jr., was charged
with assaulting Pearl Wyche, his
wife, and prayer for judgment was
continued on payment of the costs
Robert Gee, Willie Steed and James
Satterwhite in one case and William
Aston, James E. Harrington and
Eddie Glasgow in another, were all
charged with gambling in a crap
game, and each was fined one cent
and costs. Alex Carter, listed with the
second group, was discharged.
B. T. Adcock, white man of Route
1, Oxford, was convicted of drunken
driving, and was fined $50 and costs
and deprived of his driving license for
one year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
JOSEPH w. SECHREST
DIES AT HIGH POINT
Funeral For Prominent High Point
Citizen to Be Held Thursday.

High Point, July 6.-Joseph w.
Sechrest and Son Funeral home here,
died at 10:45 o'clock at Burrus Mem
orial hospital yesterday following q
long period of declining health. He
had been in a critical condition for
the past two weeks.
A native of High Point. Mr.. Sc
chrest was born May Is, 1860, son Of
Reuben and Nancy Boiling Sechrest.
In November, 1880 he was married
to Miss Elizabeth Welch, who died
in 1918.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Edward Gurley, of this city, and Mrs.
Alfred w. Bagley of Greensboro; one
son, Robert H. Sechrest, who has been
associated with his father for sew
eral years; two brothers, John G. and
]. L. Sechrest, both Of High Point
II grandchildren and two great grand
children.
For a number of yairs, Mr.. Sc
chrest served as a member OF the
local board of alderman He was 4
nIar1ber of the Wesl " Memorial
Church and served as II member Ct
the board of stewards of tie ola
Washington Street church. Affiliated
with the Guilford council No. %,
Junior order, he held at one time
or another all important officers in
that order.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
WORKSTOCK TO PULL
FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Raleigh, July 6-Horse and mule
pulling contests to determine district
workstock champions will be conduct
ed at all field days at the North Caro-
lima Department of Agriculture's test
farms this summer.
Owners of the champion animals
will be invited to participate in the
grand champion contest which will
be held in connection with the North
Carolina State Fair at Raleigh, Octob-
er Ills, DR.. J. S. Dorton, fair man
ager announced.
Contests will be conducted at the
Blackland Test Farm, Wenona, July
IA; Piedmont Farm at Statesville
July 21; Tobacco Test Farm, Oxford
July %; Upper Coastal Plain Test
Farm, August II; Mountain Station
Swannanoa, August 10; and Coastal
Plain Station, Willard, September 8.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
Quarter Million Tar Heels
To Share In Improvements
s3242117 Program in Vari Parts Of State Made Pos.
sibe Through WPA Ora nts to Communities Wat
crworks and Sewage Predominating Items

.,,iob July 6-MOre than a quar-
million people in North Car
'T e., municipalities, ranging in size
oii''' Urinston-Salem to Pikeville, will
lio~ d;roctly benefited by the $3.242,1 77
pr and sewerage improvement pro-
WEI" wen, made possible through PWA
si" said Warren H. Booker, di-
sls to, Of the State Board of Health 5
,:'.ision of sanitary engineering.
.I+ Is interesting to note that pa
cont of the projects in the entire
Pc ,,,y were for waterworks and Sc
coui,, or but that in North Carolina
,no y projects that were allotted
u"e nts represent 1853 of the total
sia a,bar for which ALLEGATIONS were
ia" Mr.. Booker pointed out.
ION, this" he continued, you will
that we are nearly twice as we'll
80 IN the number of projects for
" notorvorks and sewerage as the
other States
Over three years, he said, the State
I'D Of Health, through it's sanitary
,a;nepring division, began working
hohalf of this Improvement pro-
I'm designed to promote public
9Th aaltb representatives have address
:, civic clubs, mass meetings of cit
81 1,,s and various other groups, Civ
~ information as to what a water
forks and sewerage plant should be,
= order to meet the minimum require
n,snts for adequacy and the promo
inn of public health, always urging
he Importance of extending water
and sewer systems to eliminate the
fringe of privies' usually found on
tho outskirts of towns and cities. "a
nrivv has no social or sanitary stand
mo in any incorporated municipality
in North Carolina" is the slogan of
the Division of Sanitary Engineering,
Mr. Booker said. There are a few
ion per cent watered and severed
towns in North Carolina, including
Boone. Chapel Hill, Cooleemee, Cros-
more. Highlands, Carolina Beach,
Kures Beach, Proximity, Roanoke
Rapids. Roaring Gap, and Sanford.
Asheville rates 99.5 per cent in this
respect, Winston Salem 9e1, and
Charlotte 90, among the cities in the
larger brackets
The municipalities and the amounts
involved in their respective water and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
NEW BEETLE PEST
SOUGHT IN STATE

Raleigh, July = Scouting for the
white fringe beetle dangerous
enemy of more than a dozen field
crops, is now being done by the N.
c. Department of Agriculture's ento-
mology division which has been in
formed that hundreds of plants have
been shipped into the state from the
bettle-infested area of New Orleans.
c. H. Brannon, head of the en-
tomology division, said that the white
fringe beetle attacks cotton, corn, pea
nuts, velvet bean, cabbage, sweep po-
tatoes and other plants. The pest
works underground and is difficult
to poison the larvae he said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
CHANGES APPROVED
IN FEEDS STATUTE

Raleigh, July 6-The maximum
fibre guarantee in COW and dairy
feeds will be Is per cent and the max
imum fibre guarantee for hog feeds
will be eight per cent, effective Jan.
/. 1899, D. S. Co1trane, assistant to
the commissioner of agriculture, an
nounced today.
Changes in the law were unani-
mously approved by the State Board
of Agriculture. Previously the fibre
guarantee for dairy feed was 16 per
cent and for hog feeds was seven per
cent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
K|WAN|S DEFEATED
BY Underwriters

The Kiwanis softball team was de-
feated yesterday by the Underwrit-
ers to the tune of 6-5. The game was
close one as is indicated by the
score and featured a home run by
Boyd of the Underwriters.
AS result of the contest, the I'm
derwriters moved up to fifth place in
the league standing and the Kiwanis
dropped back to sixth.
Wick hurled for the winners, with
Howell behind the plate, and Mackey
pitched for the losers, with Hunter
catching.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
i4II-BALL TEAM COPS
COUPLE OF GAMES

The Hi-Ball softball team of South
Henderson yesterday defeated the
Rose team AZ, and in a second game
with the AllStars, BANKED that or
ganization 80. Gro-Swift has also been
beaten by the Hi-Ball club
The team was organized by a group
from the South Henderson playground
and is sponsored by the recreation
project. Fred McGhee is the manager
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
[Re!8gNlfs.

CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE
Kiwanis 5; Underwriters 6.
Gro-Swift IA; Wall Street 2.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Durham 10; Asheville 9.
Rocky Mount II; Richmond 10.
Norfolk 8; Portsmouth 4.
Winston-Salem 6; Charlotte 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06

sewer Improvement programs are.
A; cldale-Trinity, sewerage
system !. :. S17o 7o7
Asheboro, sewer imp. * noo
Battleboro, waterworks 20 ono
Burlington, waterworks
improvements :. 2e7 100
Creedmoor, water end sewer 75 o0o
D De wafer ana sewer -. 1929
~ iaH, water"ofKs imp. 100000
Falr Bluff, water and sewerage 76. ae3
gu, OAKS "aterworks ...... 5000
GoiuSooro' Waterworks imp. 95,545
Greensboro, iwaterworks and
sewerage :. ............ 373,659
Hickory, waterworks and
sewerage f...... .......... 275,OOO
nancointont iWaterworks -. 10000
Aehly, watefworks ......... 10000
Pikeville, waterworlzs and
sewerage T.. .......... $4,000
Rich Square, iwaterworks
and sewerage :. 1O3 6ae
Rockwell, waterworks and
sewerage :. :. =. 20 non
Rural Hall, waterworks and
sewerage :. .... 72727
Sparta, waterworks 56.OCo
Wilson, waterworks and
Winston-Salem, waterworks 10000
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
LOCAL CARRIERS AT
DURHAM CONVENTION

John S. Milne and Roy Tippett, ru-
raj letter carriers of this city, attend
ed the annual convention of the rural
carriers association of the State in
Durham on Monday and Tuesday Of
this week, and were back at home
last night following the close of the
gathering. Mrs. Milne was present
also with her husband.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
GRO-SW|FT BEATS
WALL STREETERS
Abbott Holds Wall Street to
Two Runs; Own Team
Makes Twelve

The Gro-Swift softball team yester-
day defeated the Wall Street aggre-
cation in a rather onesided game by
score of 14-2. Abbott held Wall Street
to two runs while his team mates
were running up a margin of twelve.
Batteries: for Gro7Swift, Abbott and
Pulliam; Wall Street, Parham and
LeMay
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-06
|Tda8Gd1!les,
CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE

CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE
Rose VS.. Wall Street.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Winston Salem at Charlotte.
Rocky Mount at Richmond.
Portsmouth at Norfolk.
Durham at Asheville.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
All4Star classic-No league games.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
All-Star classic-No league games.
Evening star., 1938-05-06
lO-Year-Old
Continued From First Page.)

year she grew and developed normally,
with velvety skin and silken. curly
hair. Then. following childhood
sickness, something went wrong with
the anterior lobe of the pituitary
gland at the base OF her brain which
secretes a hormone-controlling growth.
She stopped growing at once. Her fea-
lures remained fixed in their youth
full appearance.
This in itself is q rare but not un-
heard-of physiological phenomenon.
It is responsible for one class Of
dwarfs in whom all parts Of the body
are developed In good proportion to
each other. They look like children
In circus parades. But these dwarfs
like everybody else except this little
girl, grow old, since their minds and
the physiological processes Of their
bodies aside from growth continue As
in normal people.
But in this child the whole develop
ment of the individual. mind and body
seems to have stopped dead. Her mind
remains that of q normal 10-year-old
child. The degree Of development Of
the bones in her hands, an almost in
fallible criterion Of physical age. is that
to be expected in the 10th year. She
thinks end plays like . child and all
her interests are those OF child She
Is constantly romping and playing
with her dolls.
Now she has just passed her 30th
birthday. She is in ST. Elizabeth's as
a mental defective-defective as a 30
year-old woman. but not as a l0-year-
old child. Naturally she is no more
competent to make her own way in
the world than such little girl.
She is q fine. well-behaved little
girl" said DR.. Coyne. She always
minds and never gives US any trouble" +"
The doctors at St. Elizabeth's know
how to cure her"-to set the dWarfed
body growing again and probably
change her into 30-year-old woman
At least physically. All that would
be necessary would be to supply the
missing hormone. But they deliberate
ly withhold the magic drug that would
break this strange enchantment. The
child is happy. Why take a chance.
they say. on changing a happy little
girl into a miserably unhappy woman.
The great difficulty is that they do
not know what might happen to the
chlld's mind. They have little reason
to hope that it would respond to any
growth hormone as would the body.
About all they would accomplish would
be to produce a feeble-minded woman.
And at the same time the pSysical
development might be accompanied by
emotional changes which would make
her anything but a nice, we'll behaved
little girl"
The st. Elizabeth's doctors are at
loss to explain what has happened.
since there Is no known reason why
the effects OF the harmone lack should
have radiated TO every phase of the in
dividuals personality. There Is some
suspicion that some obscure mental
defense mechanism may have come
into operation when the physical
mechanisms went wrong to protect the
child from the tragic fate Of growing
up with the realiza ation that she was
different from everybody else and
never could hope to be again like her