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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
.666 PERSONS ASK
JOB[ESS PAYMENT
1880 Appear At Unemploy-
ment Offices in Local
District in Week

During the first week in which
claims were received for unemploy
ment compensation payments, a total
of 666 claims were taken at the Hen
derson branch office, serving Hen
derson. Oxford, Norlina and Warren
ton. it was announced today by George
M. Suggs, manager. The week ended
last Saturday.
During the period 1,130 persons ap-
peared at the offices in the hope of
receiving payments and asking to file
applications. Not all were eligible, and
some of the claims accepted, or taken,
were from industrial plants on part
time work.
A representative of the local office
spends each Tuesday in Oxford and
divides the day on Fridays between
Warrenton and Norlina. The figures
announced include those points as
well as Henderson, although the bulk
of the applications were in Hender-
son.
The office force is swamped with
applications. Those that can be SO
handled are passed upon and approved
here and then forwarded to Raleigh
for the preparation of checks. Other
types are sent direct to Raleigh for
action, including both approval and
the handling of checks.
lSubsidence of industrial activity in
the past two months has given basis
for most of the claims that are being
filed, and sharp upturn in employ
ment would greatly tighten the load,
both as to clerical work and in finan-
cial outlays.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
SCOUT CHAIRMEN
TO MEET TONIGHT

The district committee of Boy
Scouts will convene this evening at s
o'clock in the office of the Master
Tire Company over Scoggin Chevrolet
Co., on South Garnett street.
This will be the first meeting of the
committee since it was named last
November An interesting session has
been planned.
The district officers are j. r. Biller,
chairman, Mayor Henry T. Powell
vice chairman, M. w. Wester, finance,
Lee D. Marbury, camping, D. L. Can
non, court of honor, DR.. A. D. Gregg.
health and safety j. w. Sanders
troop organization, R. J. Jones, civic
duty, Bob Falkner, publicity, Rev. A.
S. Hale, leadership training, Robert
B. Harrison, senior scout commission
er, and w. H. Bryan, commissioner
and neighborhood commissioner.
All of these men were urged to be
present, and any others interested IN
scouting.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
MRS. EDW. ROYSTER
DIES AT RESIDENCE
Funeral Held There This
Afternoon and Inter-
lent Is In Elmwood

Mrs Edward Royster, one of Hen
dorson's oldest residents, died at he!
home on Chestnut street at BE
o'clock Monday afternoon at the age
of II years. She had been in i'll health
for two years, and for several days
her condition had teen critical.
Funeral services were held at
o'clock this afternoon from the home
in charge of Rev. r. E. Brown, pastor
of the First Methodist Episcopal
church, assisted by Rev. A. S. Hale,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
and Rev. I. w. Hughes, rector of Holy
Innocents Episcopal church. Inter
ment followed in Elmwood cemetery
Mrs. Royster is survived by one son,
e. C. Royster, of Henderson, and
three daughters, Mrs. V. H. Campbell,
of Hackansaclz, N. j., and Miss Agnes
Royster and Mrs. J. j. S. Galloway,
both of Henderson. Her husband, the
late Edward Royster, died six years
ago.
Mrs. Royster was a native of War
rem county, and was born September
8, 1860. Before her marriage she was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

l. Which American city was named
in honor of William Pitt?
9 Name the largest known snakes.
3. Of which state is Boise the capital?
4. What was the recent decision OF
the Supreme Court in reference to
overlapping?
S. Did aliens who were drafted into
the U. S. Army during the World
War, automatically become Ameri-
can citizens?
6. Who was William Hogarth?
7. Name the highest natural eleva-
ton in the world computed from
sea level.
8. Which breed of chickens lays eggs
with blush shells.
9. What majority is required when
the Senate confirms the appoint
ment of Justices to the U. S. Su-
preme Court?
10. What is the International Date
Line?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11

PHARMACIST J. E.
Bayus says: 81 get in a lot
of Camel smoking. And
when I say I never tire of
Carnel's taste-it's expert
ence talking"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
Prison Terms Given BY
Judge Clawson Williams
Ed Cannon, Negro, Given 8 to 10 Years When Three
Theft Charges Are Consol idated; Tobacco Thieves
Get Terms of Tn rec to Five Years

given four months on the roads. He
lost his right to drive for the next IL
.nonths.
In another warrant, Starkey Ed
wards and c. L. Edwards were charg-
ed with possession of illegal whisky
for sale, and each was sent to the
roads for six months. Starkey Ed
wards sentence to begin at the ex-
piration of the four months term.
Garland Baxter, Negro, got six
months on the roads for burglary.
Ed Cannon, Negro, faces charges of
theft of an automobile, breaking and
entering and theft of an automobile
all of them being consolidated, the
Cannon was found guilty. He was SEN
fenced to eight to ten years in state
prison.
Sentences of from three to five
years were meted out to c. M. Dicker-
son and Oscar Cults, convicted OF
theft of tobacco.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
O. B. MOORE'S MOTHER
DIES IN WHITAKERS

Rocky Mount, Jan. 11.-Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. ]. G. Moore, 70, who
died at her home in Whitakers Mon
day. were conducted at o'clock this
afternoon. Elder r. H. Boswell of Will
son and Elder A. 3. Dcnson OF Rocky
Mount, both of the Primitive Baptist
Church, conducted the funeral Burial
in Whitakers followed. Mrs. Moore
died Monday afternoon after few
days of illness.
Surviving members of the family
are her husband, Elder ]. c. Moore; !;
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11

At mid-afternoon, Vance County
Superior Court, criminal term WIN
Judge Clawson Williams presiding, oe-
gan taking testimony in consolloat-
ed charge against George Baker ne
gro, charged with larceny OF TWO stiiis
of money, $1O4 and $84 respectively.
A court attache said that the court
was making an effort to get to the
case of T. A. Baxter, State nlgn"ay
patrolman, who is charged with man
slaughter, the case growing out of an u,
accident many months ago in North
Henderson in which the patrolman,
while off duty, ran over and Killed
a email child.
At Yesterdays session, starkey Ed
wards was convicted of drunken driv-
ing. after he had appealed from con-
viction in Recorders court, and was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11

CHAMPION TYPIST
Reno Poulsen: s'I enjoy
Camels from one end of
the day to the other. And
Camels are so mild, they
don't irritate my throat"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11

SALESGIRL Elsie Schumacher
works in a department store. She
says: "When the rush gets me to feel
ing worn outfits me for a Camel,
and I get a quick lift Practically all
of us girls in the store prefer Camels." i"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11

PERSONAL SHOPPER Irene Sher-
wood says: 81 guess every woman
knows how hectic shopping is. I'm up
against that six days week. When
I'm fatigued, I light up Camel. It
helps me to snap back"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11

one daughter, Mrs. A. G. Taylor, both
of Whitakers; two sons, j. H. Moore
of Wilson and o. B. Moore, of Hen
derson; two sisters, Mrs. J. D. Lee Of
Wilson and Mrs. r. H. Pittman Of
Luray, Va; and one brother, Frank
S. Barnes of Charleston, S. G.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
DEED rs FILED.

A deed to several lots on the Hen
derson-Louisburg Road was given to
G. G. Matthews by j. T. Adcox, ct al
for $40 and valuable consideration.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-11
undergoes Oneration.

Mrs. c. w. Collins, of Middleburg,
underwent an operation yesterday at
Maria Parham hospital, and was said
to he doing very nicely today.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
HAzEN INDICATES
NEWPARK|NGLAW
Commissioner to Confer
With Brown, Seal and
Van Duzer on Matter.

Commissioner Melvin C.. Hazen
today indicated possible revision OF
the contested traffic regulation limit
ing parking at intersections. The
rule compels parking 20 feet back
of the building line at the intersec-
ton, but specifies the distance from
the curb to the parking line may not
exceed so feet.
Mr. Hazen said he planned to con-
fer with Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown.
Corporation. Counsel Elwood H. Seal
and Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer on the matter when Mr.. Van
Duzer returns from his vacation.
Police have suspended enforcement
Of the regulation pending the out
come of a case in Police Court which
has been taken under advisement by
Judge Walter Casey.
Points introduced in the case were
that the three yellow markers at the
corners are insufficient warning. and
that, in many cases, the actual build
ing line at intersections does not con-
form with the official building line.
Mr.. Hazen said he favored solu-
ton involving direct measurement
from the intersection without regard
for building lines.
Meanwhile police. though not ticket
ing motorists violating the regulation.
have been placing warnings on cars
parked in violation of the order, call
ing attention to the infraction and
requesting that it not be repeated.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
c. |. 0. RENEWS FIRE
ON EUROPEAN STUDY
Commission on Labor Laws Was
Tom Girdler's Brain Child,
Newspaper Asserts.

By the Associated Press.
The G. I. O. has renewed its criticism
of President Roosevelt's European
labor law investigation, contending
the study was the "brain-child" of
Tom Girdler, chairman of Republic
Steel.
The Committee for Industrial Organ
ization newspaper asserted yesterday
that recent testimony before the SEN
ate Civil Liberties Committee showed
the origin of the Presidents plan to
appoint commission for the study.
Terming Mr.. Girdler an enemy Of
labor, the publication said the testi-
mony showed he first suggested to
John w. Hill, Cleveland public rela-
tions counsel. that a study of the
British labor laws be made.
Charles r. Hook, president of the
American Rolling Mill Co. and of the
National Association of Manufacturers,
was then approached to finance such
a survey" the newspaper said, adding
that subsequently, Mr. Hook became a
member of the Presidents commission.
The commission, appointed last June
~, has completed survey of Eng
lands labor laws and has undertaken
q similar study in Sweden.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
JEWELRY STORE
WINDOW SMASHED
Youth, 19, Is Arrested While
Walking Near Scene
by Police.

A 19-year-old youth from Suitland,
Nd, was arrested early today as he
walked near a smashed window of the
Charles E. Tribby jewelry store at
GIT Seventh street NV.
1t. Walter Thomas and Sergt. Ray
Eggleson were cruising in 1t. Thomas
car a block away when they heard
the tinkle of breaking glass. Speed
ing to the scene, they caught the sus-
pect nearby.
A rock had been hurled through the
store window, but nothing had been
taken from it. the officers said
The suspect was held at the flrst
precinct without charge while police
checked his fingerprints with those
found on parts of the broken glass.
Meanwhile. Mary G. Addison, 10,
colored, 246 Thirteenth street NE,
was being treated at Casualty Hospital
for a cut forehead and possible frac-
ture of the Jaw received when attacked
last night by a colored man who fled
with her bank book She told police
he struck her from behind while she
was showing him a room he had asked
to rent.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
LOANS ON HOMES UP
2 PER CENT IN June
Purchase, Construction and
Improvement Advances Total
$63.536, 900.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
Board announced today that advances
by savings and loan associations for
purchase. construction and improve
ment of homes totaled $63 1886, 900
in June, rise of 2 per cent over
May.
The board said home building is
on the upgrade after reaching a low
point last winter and early spring.
The June loan total compared with
$7s,e67 900 in June, 1887, and $751;
49,. 900 in June, 1885.
The June. 1898, loan total was di-
vided as follows: For new construc-
ton, $1s,591, 900; for home purchase.
$21 ,025,000; for refinancing, $12.-
303 900; for reconditioning, $4,517 900,
and for "other purposes" 100000.
State-chartered members Of the
Federal Home Loan Bank System
led all other types Of associations
in the recent amount Of loans made
in June accounting for 43 per cent
of the total. Federally chartered
members of the system made loans
accounting for Al per cent, while the
balance were made by non-members.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
MARINE RESERVES
TO Leave FOR CAMP
Fifteen-Day Program Planned at
Albert c. Richie, Beginning
Tomorrow.

Fully equipped and eager for the
l5-day program Of field training and
maneuvers, the 5th Battalion Or
ganized Marine Corps Reserve will
entrain at Union Station at am.
tomorrow for Camp Albert c. Ritchie
under command of 1t. COL Harvey
L. Miller.
Although the original orders called
for another trip to the Quantico
Marine Base this year, structural i'm
provements under way there sends the
battalion to Ritchie, where it trained
three years ago.
The majority of the SIG officers and
enlisted personnel. who are veterans
of the Reserve. have welcomed the
change in training site because 1t will
afford the outfit an opportunity to
engage in field maneuvers over hilly
terrain which will add to their valuable
combat experience.
In preparation for the strenuous
schedule, the first week at Camp
Ritchie will be devoted to record firing
and study of the various infantry
weapons as preparation for actual
use during the battalion and combat
maneuvers outlined for the second
week.
Assembly for the battalion will be
at $50 am. tomorrow at the Armory,
458 Indiana avenue.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
Runaway Girls
VIEW Capitol
In Police Car

Two young girls who left their
emall-town homes to "see the world"
with only a few dollars and their
thumbs to aid them. sought ride on
Rhode Island avenue N. E. yesterday
and got it-but not the kind they
sought.
Helen Loose, IS, and her playmate
and neighbor, Barbara Meyers, -,
both of Williamsburg, Pa, wanted a
ride toward the Capitol. so began
''thumbing" passing motorists. Some
one called police and the girls were
given a ride in scout car to the
Receiving Home, where they were
being held today pending word from
their parents.
On the way to the home, Policeman
lawrence I. Bolts pointed out the
Capitol dome to the wanderers.
The girls told story of having
shitch-hiked from Williamsburg to Al
stoona, Pa, where they paid train fare
TO Baltimore. Wanting to save their
ffew remaining dollars. they obtained
d lift" to the outskirts Of Wash
'lnston.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
'KERCHIEF' ROBBERY
SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Police Say Pair Worked Trick
With Currency Wrapped in
Rolls of Paper.

Police we're holding two colored
men today for investigation in con-
nection with numerous trick hand
kerchief" robberies during recent
months.
The suspects we're arrested in the
act of working their trick near Tenth
and F streets NV, yesterday by a
squad of officers headed by Detective
1t. Floyd Truscott.
Police said several rolls of paper,
with a few bills wrapped around the
outside to resemble large rolls of
money, were found on the prisoners.
They would show one of these rolls
to sucker" detectives said, tell him
they had found it and give it to him
wrapped in handkerchief to keep for
division later. taking whatever real
money he had with them as guaran-
tee he would keep faith with them.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
LAUD POLICE WORK
IN lands Staying
Parents of Fireman's Victim
Express Gratitude for Courtesy
and Efficiency.

A letter praising the courtesy. kind
ness and eficiency" of the officers
who Investigated the murder of Mrs.
Blanch Gertrude Landis was received
by Police Chief Ernest w. Brown last
night from Mr.. and Mrs. James w.
Beckert, parents of the slain girl
The couple expressed their gratitude
for the work OF Detective Sergts. Will
liam j. Liverman. Robert j. Barrett,
John Wise and George w. Thornton;
Precinct Detective James E. Ennis,
and Pvts. Otho L. Blackwell and AL
bert K. Frank.
In sending the letter to the officers,
Maj. Brown added he joined in COM
mending the "outstanding and eff
cient service rendered"
A District jury convicted James L.
Lands, former rookie fireman. and
estranged husband of Mrs. Lands,
for the murder, and he was sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
W.P.A. WILL AID
NEEDY.|N SOUTH
100000 to Be Added to
Rolls Pending Cotton
Picking Season.
BY tie Associated Press.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 6.-Harry
Hopkins arranged conferences today
with Southern State and regional
w. P. A. directors to lay before them
the initial step in President Roosevelt's S
frontal attack" designed to eradicate
causes retarding the South's develop
ment.
The Works Progress administrator
said the first move would be Inaugural
ton of between-seasons employment
program for needy farmers to provide
supplementary income to workers at
a period when income from private
sources would be at its lowest ebb."
He said he had given administrators
authority to add total of 100000
persons to the W. P. A. rolls pending
the time when labor would be needed
for picking cotton"
Lists Greatest Needs.
In a Nation wide broadcast from
Memphis last night, Mr.. Hopkins listed
the South's greatest needs as:
/. Increased farm income.
2. Equalized educational and health
opportunities.
3. Cheaper power to attract industry.
= Lauding the South's economic strug-
gle as saga of human accomplish
ment." he described its immediate
problem as lack Of purchasing
power"
He asserted there were thousands of
Southerners in rural areas whose diet
consisted of "grits. greens and gravy"
Handicaps Enumerated.
Handicaps to the South's develop
ment, Mr.. Hopkins said, are:
/. Concentration Of financial power
in too few people. most of whom live
outside the South.
2. Penalty of the existing freight
rate structure.
). Tariff policy.
4. The one-crop agricultural sys-
tenn and the credit system 1t entails.
In Washington last night Represen-
tative White, Republican, Of Ohio
referred to Mr. Hopkins trip South as
a journey to knock down a straw
man" created by vicious economic
meddling by New Deal theorists"
Asserting that the South's relief
problem developed as a result of the
New Deals agricultural program, Rep
resentative White said. 1T is to this
picture of the New Deal economic
execution that Harry Hopkins now
hies himself to play the role Of
savior"
Evening star., 1938-08-06
Stray Mule Eats
Too Much Green
Corn and Dies

A 3o-year-old stray mule paid with
his life yesterday for eating too much
green corn.
Found at Twenty-ninth street and
PENNSYLVANIA Sc. Thursday. the mule
was taken to the eleventh precinct and
hitched In front of the station for sew
eral hours while police hoped his own
er would turn up.
Meanwhile officers who had worked
with mules on farms before starting
their police careers decided this mules
swollen condition indicated he had
eaten a lot more green corn than vas
good for him.
They called a veterinarian. who did
what he could. The owner didn't show
up by nightfall. so the mule was taken
to the District Pound, where he died
yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
COMBINATION TAX
ON|NCOME, SALES
WEIGHED FOR D. c.
Advisory Committee Scans
Plan to Levy on Earnings
of Investment.
BROAD STRUCTURE
is HELD BODY'S AIM
Gasoline Tax Boost Considered.
No Decision Reached on
Any Program.

Proposals for some kind of a COM
bination of an income tax and sales
tax for the District are included among
many revenue plans being considered"
by the Commissioners Tax Advisory
Committee.
This was made known after a meet
ing of the group yesterday at the Dis
trict Building, when a general review
was given to the Districts financial
situation, No action was taken.
Colin F. STAN, counsel to the Con-
gressional Joint Committee on In
ternal Revenue Taxation, reported that
the Commissioners advisory group had
before 1t a suggestion for an income
tax that would be restricted to busi-
ness and investments. 1t was re-
ported this suggestion was coupled
with plan for sales tax.
All Types Considered.
These were not all the suggested
revenue sources considered. members
of the advisory group said. Maj.
Daniel j. Donovan, District auditor,
who heads the committee. said there
was discussion of all possible types of
taxation and that decision on any
recommendation as yet was far away.
DR.. Chester Pond, municipal finan-
cial expert assigned to make survey
for the Joint Committee on Internal
Revenue Taxation, said the group
was hoping to formulate broad tax
structure" for the District, indicating
some thought that real estate owners
of the District now were carrying too
high a percentage of the total revenue
demands.
Federal Payment Assumed.
DR.. Pond added that the group as
eumed Congress would continue some
Federal payment toward expenses of
the National Capital. but that he was
not yet ready to make any statement
on this point.
Among other possibilities, the sug-
gestion of an increase in gasoline taxes
and diversion of some of this revenue
to pay general District government
costs was raised, but no agreement was
reached, officials said.
Possible abandonment or further re-
vision of the embattled business priv
iiege tax will be considered by the
group, it was said.
Evening star., 1938-08-06

An inquest in the drowning Of
7-year -old Charles Bradley. jr.. whose
little body was found yesterday on the
bottom Of the Alexandria municipal
swimming pool. was scheduled for
noon today at Alexandria police head
quarters.
Mrs. Lorene Harrington Bradley's
fear that her missing son had gone to
the pool, which had been forbidden
him because of his inability to swim.
led to the discovery Of the body in
the deep end of the tank, which had
been closed earlier in the day because
of the heavy rain.
Charles apparently climbed the
fence, took off his clothes and leaped
into the deep water
He had been missing for several
hours-since II am.-when he had
Evening star., 1938-08-06
WELFARE GROUPS
MAP COOPERATION
Meeting Celebrates Third
Anniversary of Social
Security Act.

Coordination Of Washington's So
cial services was urged last night at
meeting Of more than $50 representa-
tives Of public assistance agencies.
The meeting, held in Barker Hall,
Seventeenth and K streets NV, cele-
brated the third anniversary Of the
signing Of the Social Security Act by
President Roosevelt and was keynoted
by William L. Kilcoin, acting regional
director of the Social Security Board,
who called on all social agencies to
cooperate in relieving distress.
Although we are working on diff
ferent phases Of the program, We have
common objective-to relieve dis
tress, to assist the needy aged and to
provide a measure Of protection
against the hazards and insecurity Of
old age" Mr.. Kilcoin said.
Placed 1888 Workers.
Though placement of 1888 workers
during the first half of this year was
less than the number for whom en-
ployment was found in the same
period last year. c. E. Lamson, direc-
tor of the District Employment Cen
ter, pointed out that the decline was
smaller than the country's average.
This does not mean that employ
ment conditions are better in Washing-
ton," he said, but it does indicate
more extensive use Of our Office by To-
cal employers"
The meeting was sponsored by the
Washington field Office of the S. S. B.,
the District Unemployment Compen-
sation Board, the District Unemploy-
ment Center, the District Health De-
partment and the Board of Public
Welfare. Commissioner Melvin C..
Hazen presided and introduced the
speakers.
Miss Lenroot Speaks.
Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief Of
the Labor Departments Children's
Bureau. outlined maternal and child
work being done. while DR.. Robert OLE
sen, Assistant Surgeon General, de-
clared that local health services have
been improved through Federal aid.
Other speakers included Daniel j.
Callahan, member of the District Un-
employment Compensation Board; Vic
tor Sadd, manager of the Washington
field office; DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger
assistant District health officer; DR.
Henry j. Cresson, vice chairman OF
the Board Of Public Welfare; Miss
Alice M. Hill, director of the Public
Assistance Division; Miss Doris An
drews, case supervisor of the same di-
vision, and Miss A. Madorah Dona-
hue. director Of the Child Welfare
Demonstration Unit.