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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
Beaufort Hoping
To Become Center
OF Marine Study
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Aug. 6.-Reports reachine
here from Beaufort, down in Carteret
county, are to the effect that the
thriving coastal city is hopeful that
within five years it will be the center
of marine biology and botany study
in the South.
All this because of it's three seaside
summer schools which have created
a mariners pipe dream of college
campus life.
Class sessions which rise and fall
with the swell of the Gulf Stream;
lectures delivered knee-deep in mud !;
sketching groups working in the hus-
tie and hustle of fishing dock
these have been characteristic of the
summer schools which have come to
the sea. Extra-curricular activities
mostly have been oceanic, ranging
from sport fishing to catboat sailing.
Portly professors in shorts, a class
of students in bathing suits, a cam
pus marine and gusty, rather than
green and quiet-all are vigncttes of
Beaufort's curious cultural season,
which has made it combined Wood
shole and Provincetown of the South.
The three schools are held by Wo7
mans. College University of North
Cardinal, Duke University, and a
unit of Greensboro College for Wo-
men. 4
At the U. NJ C.. fifth summer ses-
sion marine school was held this sum-
mer, with six earnest young women
digging up the mud flats, dredging
the channel and riding to. the Gull
stream in search Of specimens.
The Duke summer unit has featured
a score of men and women students
under Dr., Arthur Sperry Pearse, one
of the foremost biologists in America
The Greensboro College unit was the
first coastal art summer school in the
South. A course in outdoor painting
at this branch gave an artistic touch
to the colony of scientists.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, Aug. 6.-When the extra
session was first called, this CORES
pendent predicted that some publicity
seeking member of the assembly
would introduce a bill to abolish the
absentee ballot.
Comes now State Senator w. c..
Ewing of Cumberland county accord
ing to Washington news dispatches t.
prove the prophecy.
1t may be noted that the Cumber-
lander hedges his proposal about with
a number of "ifs" and "provideds'.
On the merits and dement's of the
absentee ballot there seems to be q
growing demand for a complete re-
vamping of the laws permitting vot-
ers to participate in elections when
they are away from the county Or
physically unable to go to the polls.
A day or so ago, the Asheville Cit
izen came out editorially for repeal
of the absentee ballot law, a fact
which may be significant in it's indi-
cation that even the West is begin
ming to tire of the all too frequent
stenches which arise from use of the
absentee voting provisions.
By the way, is the State Board of
Elections delaying any report on its
findings until the extra session has
become a thing of the past? Is it just
timing it's report so that it will
come with the most telling effect just
as the legislators are getting down to
work here?
Either is possible, but a better guess
is that Chairman w. A. Lucas isn't
influenced by either consideration and
will release his report of inveStiga-
ton just as soon as all the facts are
gathered.
Another thing. Was the absentee
ballot law enacted for the benefit of
the soldiers, or wasn't it? Some cor
respondents aver without reservation
that it was. Others just as stoutly
deny it. Not having been in North
Carolina at the time, or for many
years thereafter, this scribe wouldn't
know.
In the famous session of 1881, Sena-
which prevented adoption of a sales
tax by the general Assembly.
EXECUTORS NOTICE.
l have this day qualified before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance
County as executor under the will OF
I. c. Hicks, deceased, late of Vance
County.
This is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said de-
ceased to present them to me on OF
Before the 7th day OF August, 1889, OF
this notice will be pleaded in bar OF
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate of T. c. Hicks viii
please make. immediate payment.
This 9th day of August, 1888
A. A. BUM,
Executor of the Will of T. c.
Hicks, deceased.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
Farm And Home Week Attracts
Rig Crowd

With the return of approximately
I 200 delegates to their homes, books
wore closed today on the 35th chap
Tor Of Farm and Home Week, one OF
he most successful ever held.
Mrs. Hattie F. Plummer, Home
monstration Agent, together with
Mrs NJ. d. Tillotson, Mrs. 1. D. Hart,
Mrs l.. E. Barnes, and Mrs. G. w.
collins were those attending from
Vance County.
Most of the delegates remained at
state College, scene of the annual
event. the entire week, while others
attended only a part of the program.
SEPARATE and joint sessions of the
men, and women were arranged, as
we'll as classroom work, and recrea-
ton.
George Sockwell, prominent Gull
ford County farmer, will head the
mems division of Farm and Home
Week in 1889. President of the We
mems division for next year is Mrs.
w. E. Neal, Mecklenburg County
farm woman. Both were elected una
nimOusly.
Entertainment was mixed with edu-
cation so as to produce a well-bal-
anced program. Group singing, con-
tests, and other forms of recreation
were features of the evening sessions.
Joint sessions and classroom work
occupied the delegates during the
morning, and demonstrations, exhi-
bits, and tours were featured during
the afternoon
Among the resolutions adopted by
the delegates were those calling for
sufficient State appropriations to
match Federal funds for agricultural
research, Federal aid to the public
schools, the early establishment of q
18th grade in the public schools of
the State, a better farm marketing
program for North Carolina, and the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
RAIN BLOCKS GAME
OF LIONS; BANKERS
Next Weeks Play I'm City
Circuit Promises Some
Hard Contests

Rain blocked the scheduled sottpall
game in the city softball circuit yes
terday between the second place Lions
and the league leading Bankers.
The game was heralded as one
that would go long way toward
deciding the Lions chances OF ever
reaching the top of the standing lad
der. The contest will likely be run or
on the first available date.
Next weeks play in the circuit pro-
misses some good contests. 4
Bankers and Wall Street clash on
Monday with the Kiwanis team and
the Gro Swifts.
Underwriters and Rose are sche-
du.ed for Tuesday Kiwanis meets
Wall Street Wednesday, and Bankers
and Rose get together Thursday. Gro
Swifts and Lions bring the week to
close on Friday. -
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
Traffic Toll OF
Heavier Percent
For Pedestrians
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, August ct depends on
whether you're going to kill some one
or just injure him.
If the automobile accident you may
have next week is going to be a lethal
lob, the chances are your car will
strike a pedestrian.
On the other hand, if only non-fatal
injuries are inflicted, it's an odds-on
bet that you'll bump smack into an
other. motor vehicle.
Both State and. national statistics
for 1887 prove these statements, with
the figures Of the National Safety
Council and the State Bureau of Mo-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06

Since then he's been converted. Fri
day he told your correspondent that
the tax is a good one and has worked
out well for the State.
Mule dealers of the State, however,
don't think their subjects for barter
and sale should be subjected to the
sales tax. Meeting here Friday under
presidency of Wilmington's activist
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper, they de-
clared mules are just as much agri-
cultural necessities as fertilizer and
should. therefore, be exempted from
provision of the sales tax statute.
If the States highways are so OBJ
solete that they need $4O,O00,O0O for
the primary system only, and the
Highway Department has solemnly
told the Budget Bureau just that
why not have the extra session next
week authorize expenditure of what
ever sum Cts probably about So,
000O00) is now being held against the
contingency of diversion under the
1887 revenue. act?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06

transfer of the State prison farm
near Meredith College to, State Col
lege for the Development Of real
livestock work"
LcafspOt Diseases Hit Tobacco CrOp
Leafspot diseases, aided by recent
extended rains, have become general
and destructive in many tboacco
fields throughout the State, according
to Dr.. Luther Shaw, extension plant
patho- ogist at State Colleg.
The most prominent and destructive
of these diseases is blackfire. This
disease causes spots on the leaves,
beginning small yellowish specks
which enlarge rapidly to one-fourth
to one half inch in width. The attack
causes the tissues to turn brown and
die
Black fire is always most prevalent
and destructive during periods of ex-
cessive rains. This results from two
factors. First blowing rain appa-
rently is necessary for the rapid and
abundant spread of the BACTERIAL pa
raSlte which causes the disease; and
second, tobacco plants are more sus-
ceptlble to attack by the parasite dur
ing conditions of high moisture.
DR.. Shaw pointed out that there is
no known control for the disease
once it has appeared in the field.
However, he said, it has been observ-
ed that plants growing under condi-
lions of high nitrogen are more SUI
sceptible than those growing under
conditions of low nitrogen.
Such practices as growing plants
in new sites, using new or sterilized
old covers, and seed treatment will
tend to reduce infection of plants in
the bed. This, in turn, will reduce
the amount of infection in the fled
However, the State College patholo-
gist said, it is evident that careful
application of these practices will not
guarantee control in the field
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
[RegNlfs:
CITY SoFTBALL LEAGUE
No games played.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE

Rocky Mount 3; Portsmouth 2.
Richmond z; Asheville 6.
Only games played.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cincinnati 4; Brooklyn 1.
st. Louis 3; Philadelphia 0.
New York 5; Pittsburgh 3.
Only games scheduled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06
Vance County Weekly
Extension News
Sponsored by Sanders County Agent; T Richardson
Assistant County Agent; and Hattie F. Plummer
Home Demonstration Agent

transfer of the State prison farm
! near Meredith College to. State Col
lege for the Development OF. real
livestock work"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-06

In the famous session of 1881, Sena-
tor Francis Clarkson cast the. vote
which prevented adoption of a sales
tax by the general Assembly.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Wre-Tapping'
Lost in Rush

Q.N.S0 After weathering every
earlier test, a far-reaching bill to
empower Federal department and
commission chiefs to tap telephone
wires and intercept the radio mes
sages of persons suspected of vio-
lating Federal criminal laws, was
lost in the congressional adjourn
ment rush.
Having passed the house, the
bill was ready for a Senate vote,
but it remained suspended in mid
air as the adjournment gavelS fell
last night. Earlier in the day,
opponents of the measure failed
to force reconsideration in the
House. The Senate had approved
the bill, previously, in different
form and only concurrence in
House amendments was required.
The bill would have nullified
the effect of a decision by the
Supreme Court in 1887, which
held that evidence obtained by
wire tapping was not admissible
in Federal courts.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
CarderOck CCC
Barracks Begun

CARDEROCK, Md, June II.
Construction of permanent bar
racks at the newly established
CCC camp here was begun yes
terday, it was announced today
by c. Marshall Finnan, superin-
tendent of National Capital
Parks.
The enrollees, who will be en-
gagged in working on the old c. &
o. canal from the District line 70
Seneca, Md. will live in tents until
their barracks have been COM
pleted. The camp site is about.
half way between the District line
and Great Falls, in Montgomery
county, Md.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Abandoned
Rail Haul Bill Drop
ped by Senate

O.N.SO The Pettengill long
And,short haul railroad bill was
aband done d by Administration
leaders last night after Senator
Ashurst CD of Arizona. threat
ened a Senate filibuster to de
feat it.
AShurst praised filibusters in one
of his infrequent speeches. Years
ago, he conducted one of the long
est In Senate history while fight
ing Boulder Dam legislation. He
said:
"ThiS is the last forum of
freedom in the world. Filibus-
terS really tone up the Senate.
They are a good thing"
The bill would have made it un
lawful for a railroad to charge a
higher through rate between two
distant points than the total OF
all intervening rates. The House
passed it weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Club Del Rio
Opens for Season on
South RiUer

If you want to combine your
fishing, swimming and boating
these sumer days with dancing,
entertainment and all that goes
with good hot night club-well,
Club Del Rio has opened for the
season on South River.
Only a few miles away from
Washington, and reached by good
roads, either the Defense Highway
to Parole, and then across the
South River Bridge, or else right
out Central Avenue, the club has a
delightful setting on the edge of
the river.
It's always cool down there, and
one may combine sports with dane
ing, and see a good floor show.
There are also hotel accommoda-
tions for those who want to spend
the night or a week end.
Abram Rose is running the club
this year.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
FUND FOR LOBBY
PROBE is LOST

UN.s) The fishing expedi.
tion its critics call it that which
the Senate Lobby Investigating
Committee has been conducting
into the activities and private
affairs of persons against various
New Deal proposals, was drastic.
ally curtailed today.
Adjournment of Congress was
delayed two hours last night by a
filibuster against the committees
request for a fund of $12,500 with
which to initiate new investiga.
tions. Finally, the Senate allowed
the appropriation resolution to
die, leaving the committee only
81 500 with which to wind up its
present inquiry into lobbying
against the ill-fated government
reorganization bill.
Urged by President Roosevelt,
this measure was passed by the
Senate but was killed by the
House.
The filibuSter against further
appropriations for the committee,
headed by Senator Minton DD of
Indiana, was started by Senator
Burke 3D. of Nebraska.
Burke particularly singled out
the committees attacks on certain
sections Of the press and its re-
puted Intentions to continue the
campaign. He said he would
show the press "is one Of the
great glories of our country some
thing of which we have every
reason to be justly proud"
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
2 GOLF BAGS,
CLUBS STOLEN

Two parts Of Washington's
underworld" were probably on
the golf links this morning.
The sudden desire for the old
Scotch game overlook them yester,
day. according TO two police re-
ports.
Allen E. Evans. a Washington
visitor from Flint, Mich, parked
his car at First and C Streets
Northeast, he told police, and $35
worth of golf clubs and q bag
were taken.
A similar report was made by
May Hill, of 5303 Fourteenth st.
N. w. She said a bag and set OF
clubs we're stolen from her Car,
parked at Eighteenth and Calvert
Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Camera Stolen
On Capitol Hill

Congress is gone today-and so
is william r. Walton'S camera
valued at $400.
Walton, a photographer for a
news service, was at the Capitol,
taking pictures of the closing ses-
sion. He left his camera in the
office of Speaker Bankhead. When
he returend the camera, case and
equipment were gone.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Diploma Gone
Virginia Miss Misses
HGrd-WOn Sheepskin

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June II
LoSt-one high school diploma.
Miss Thelma Edith Backus
recent graduate of Manassas High
School, worked four years for her
"SheepSkin." Her proud parents,
watching, she received it last
week, signed sealed and ready for
framing.
Then. a few hours later, the
diploma disappeared while Miss
BackuS was riding a bus between
Alexandria and Washington.
In event the lost document is
found, there's a reward for return
ing it to Mrs. Marie BackuS,
Woodbridge, Va, Box II.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
2 Men Die in Chair
For Girl Assaults

HUNTSVILLE. Tex, June II
d.N.S0.-Two Negroes, both con.
v:cted of assault, were executed
in the electric chair at the State
penitentiary here early this morn
ing.
7ommie Wells, of Bowie county,
was the first to be executed, and
Mark Henry Calhoun, 10, Of Dal-
las, followed Immediately. The
Dallas Negro died for attacking a
13-year-old Dallas school girl
whom he dragged into an empty
school building.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
WORDEN'S BODY
FOUND IN BAY

JAMESTOWN, r. l., July II
H.N.S).-The body of John L.
Worden, wealthy New york
broker, missing since Sunday
night from the New York-to-
Providence Steamship Comet, was
found today in Narragansett Bay.
Worden was a grandson of John
L. Worden, commander of the gun
boat Monitor during the Civil
War.
Chief OF Police Green, who took
the body to Newport. said Worden
apparently was the victim of
drowning.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
II Deaths, Toll
OF Blood Feud

MEXICO CITY, June II G.N.S.)
A blood fued dating back hun
dredS of years took a toll of II
lives at Chilapa, State of Oaxaca
today. The II were maSsacred, 26
mounded, and SO carried off as
prisoners when a tribe of Indians
rounded up from eight nearby vii
lagos descended on Chilapa with
out warning.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Spain Showdown
Fought by France

PARIS, June II Q.N.SO.-Ad
jouIhment of the French parlia
ment by tonight to avoid a gov
ernmental crisis over Spain ap
peared likely today. Deputies who
yesterday demanded immediate
debate of the Spanish question
withdrew their requests, indi.
eating official pressure. The gov,
ernment is anxious to avoid a
crisis until after King George and
Queen Elizabeth of England have
completed their visit to Paris late
this month.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Younger Lehman
On HONEYMOON

NEW YORK, June II G.N.SO
Peter G. Lehman, son of New
York'S governor, and his bride
were honeymooning today. bound
for Hawaii. With Governor Leh-
man acting as best man, Lehman
and Miss Peggy RoSenbaum were
married late yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Dixie Sites Bought
By Chemical Firm

NEW YORK, June II O.N.S0.
American Cyanamid and Chem
ical Corporation has purchased q
site in Mobile, Ala, for conStruc-
ton of a chemical plant there to
be used chiefly for the manufac-
ture of sulphate of alumina. The
company also has bought a tract
in Savannah, Ga, on which to
build a plant for manufacture of
various heavy chemicals.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Cantor Family
Hailed to Court

LOS ANGELES, June II GIN.
SO.-Marilyn Cantor, 17-year-old
daughter of the comedian, Eddie
Cantor, was accused of negligent
driving in a $20,192 suit on file
today by Morris Lavine and his
14-year-old daughter, Evelyn. La
vine asserted that Cantor and his
wife, Ida, were owners Of the car
and named them as defendants in
the suit.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
PLANES HARRY
COASTAL CITIES
IN FRANCO DRIVE.
Many Killed or Injured
in Alicante, Valencia

MADRID, June II GNS0.
Allowing no respite in their cam
paign against government coastal
cities, nationalist air squadronS
late today raided AliSante and
Valencia.
Twelve persons were killed and
II wounded when so bombs were
dropped on Alicante. Several
houses were destroyed. Details of
the attack on Valencia were in
complete, but 1t was known sev-
eral persons were killed and
wounded.
HENDAYE, FRANCO-SPANISH
BORDER, June II G.N.SO-While
nationalist troops pressed to the
south in maSSed offensive
against Valencia, a Salamanca
communicate claimed today that
two government warShipS had
been hit in Wednesdays raid on
Valencia by General Frances war
planes.
DRIVE CONTINUES
One of the vessels was sunk and
the other damaged, according to
the announcement.
Meanwhile, it was stated, gov
ernment forces retreating to the
south on the CaStellon province
front left 400 of their dead and
large quantities of war materials
as they fled before the nationalist
drive down the Mediterranean
coast.
With the Franco advance still
under way, according to the com.
munique, the nationaliStS captured
the Patuda and Noria mountain
ranges and the villages OF ValSe'
quillo and La GranjuleS on the
Cordoba front to the south.
At the same time, it was re-
ported 1850 members of the Span
ish governments forty-third So
called "loSt" division arrived at
Cerbere from Perpignan and en-
trained for Barcelona to continue
their activities in the Spanish
war.
Many members of the division
yesterday crossed into France
after having been trapped by ma
tionaliSt troops in the Pyrenees
Mountains, near the Franco-Span-
1Sh border.
Capture of the government
stronghold of Villareal frightened
Francois grip on Castellon prov
ince. villareal is six miles south
of the important port Of Castellon
de Ia Plana, which fell earlier in
the week.
NEW AIR RAIDS
Nationalist forces, despite stub.
born resistance, this morning were
In control of the entire Mediter'
ranean coastal area between Cas-.
tellon de Ia Plana and Villareal
War planes carried out new air
raids against both Valencia and
Barcelona. Three new attacks on
Valencia have given that city a
total Of nine airplane lombard
meats in 48 hours.
The southern suburbs OF Barcel-
ona were bombed by raiders.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
Back to the Skyways!

MRS. BENNY MIKE"
HOWARD, a heroine Of
the air lines, is in Washing
ton today celebrating the
return of her Bureau of the
Air Commerce license, lost
when she and her husband
cracked up in an air race
two years ago. The de-
partment decided that the
crash was the fault of the
propeller.
Washington Times Staff Photo
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
DUPONT Bonuses
Total S2,SS2.4OO

WILMINGTON, DEL, June II
Q.N.SO-E. I. dupont de NemourS
& Co. paid Al officers and employees
bonuses aggregating $2,332, 400 in
1887, according to an announce
ment today by the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The bo-
muses. were paid in either stock or
cash.
The Washington times., 1938-06-17
19 GRADUATE
At EMERSON

Nineteen students, graduating
from Emerson Institute last
night, were given their diplomas
by Conway P. Cole, United States
Commissioner of Patents, follow
ing exercises at 1924 Eighteenth
st. N. w. Mr.. Cole made a brief
speech.
The graduates were:
Willis r. Adams Harold NJ. Marks
John Alexander MN. Med. Miller
Philip r. Compton Rob. E. K. Morgan
Hazel s. Conaghan A. K. Murrell, jr.
T. M. Cunningham Earl r. Parsons
William E. Doolan Richard w. RICHTER
s. c. Eaton Sd Henry A. Webster
Patrick ]. Foley, jr. Robert M. Wilson
Esthermae Fox c. R. Young, jr.
Irving Kobin
(Photogra on Picture Page.)
The Washington times., 1938-06-17

"Ffghting Women" Another paint
ing in the series by Edmund Dulac,
the distinguished English artist, ElOri-
fyinR the warrior women in history.
This week he pOFtrays ThOmyris, who
defeated Cyrus, the great Persian con-
0uerOr, Reproduced in full cOlOr in
The American Weekly, the magazine
distributed with next Sundays Herald