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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
RICHMOND YOUTHS
HELD BY OFFICERS

Frank Potts and Claude Woolcott,
two youths who gave their ages AS
IA and addresses as Richmond, va,
were being detained at the police
station today while Mrs. E. r. Aus
tin, superintendent of public welfare
attempted to reach their parents in
Richmond, Va.
The boys told officers they left
Richmond yesterday, hitch-hiking to
Raleigh to visit relatives. They were
picked up last night about II o'clock
as they sat on a curb on South Will
liam street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
% BOYS ENJOYING
CAMP BALANCE ROCK
Group Sent There BY XII
wants Settles Into Camp
Routine With Vigor

Camp Balance Rock is humming
with activity as % underprivileged
boys, sent there by the Henderson XII
wants club, settle down into camp
routine that will continue for the
week. The boys entered camp Sun
day afternoon.
This is the first camping venture
for practically the entire group, and
everyone seems to be enjoying it to
the fullest.
An interesting camping program
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
ANOTHER AUTO is
STOLEN LAST NIGHT

A 1885 Ford VS. Coach belonging to
Dave Mangum was stolen from South
William street in the 300 block some
time during the early part of last
night, Desk Sergeant G. S. Eastwood
stated today.
Police were without clues as to
the whereabouts of the vehicle.
Mangum had parked his car there
to attend a theatre performance.
The automobile carried no extra
wheel
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
TWO ARE HELD FOR
WRECKING TOBACCO

Vincent Strumb and Charlie Wilson,
Townsville Young men, are being held
under $50 bonds fortheir appearance
before Recorder R. E. Clements in
county court Friday morning to ans
wer charges of maliciously breaking
down, cutting up and destroying a
lot oft obacco of David Strumb, no
relation to Vincent, in the Townsville
section last Friday.
b. A. Norwood, Townsville town
ship constable who arrested the men,
said there had been some hard feel
ing between the defendants and the
owner of the tobacco.
About one-half acre of tobacco was
DESTROYED
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
TWO CHARGES HEARD
IN COUNTY COURT

Two defendants were in county
court today before Recorder K. T..
Clements.
Jack Branch was charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon, and
threatening to assault, and was given
60 days on the roads.
Raymond Jones, charged with non :
support, came into court and agreed
to pay $40 each pay day for support
of his wife and family. The court
aSsented.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
FRED KESLER HERE
WITH HARDEE FIRM

Fred Kesler, of Laurinburg, has
arrived in the city and assumed
position with A. A. Hardee Funeral
Home.
Mr.. Kesler is a man in his late
twentie5, and comes to thei city
highly recommended, and joins one
of Hendersons two oldest funeral
establishments.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
COURT OF HONOR
WILL NOT BE HEIn

Court of Honor for Boy Scouts soh,
duied for this evening, has bean no ouo
poned' 1t was announced today bv
D. L. Cannon, head of the court d., n.y.
to automobile accident injuries Nt ~
Mr.. Calhoun, scout executive. WIN
was to be here for the event "''0
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
BAPTIST CONFERENCE
WILL BE WEDNESDAY

The First Baptist church will hold
its regular monthly church confer
ence Wednesday evening at 3 o'clock
at the church, it was stated, today.
j. r. league, chairman of the
board of deacons, will preside in the
absence of the pastor, who is con-
Quoting a revival series at Harris
Chapel. near Littleton
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09

being made each day, it is reported.
It is anticipated that the concrete
work will be finished by the end of
August. Shoulders of the road Will De
filled and leveled after the ROAD IS
open, it is said. Every effort is being
made, authorities stated, to get the
road open for traffic as early as pos
Eible.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
COLORED PROJECT
SUSPENDS 3 DAYS

The colored recreational project Of
WPA will be suspended for three
days, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, to enable the recreation workers
to attend a recreation conference at
BRICKS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

From which country was the Gads-
den Purchase made?
}. How many gills are in gallon?
!, Name the u. S. Secretary of Agri-
culture.
/. What is the unit OF weight Tor pre-
cious stones?
). What is the poisonous element in
the exhaust gases of an automo-
bile?
!. Into what body of water does the
Danube River empty?
Z What is another name for the
minor planets?
J. The mother of which European
King died recently?
!, Name the capital of Missouri.
10. On which continent is the Sahara
Desert? ~ r., .58ss. - -s
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
Stocks Slow
At Decline

New York, Aug. 9.-(AP)-After
downward drift during the greater
part of today's stock market session,
late buying support got behind the
list and substantially reduced or can
celled forenoon losses running to
more than three points. Even with
the comback in the closing period, the
pace Jagged appreciably. Transfers
were in the neighborhood of 100000
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1888

has been arranged, and Prof
DOC" Crowder, Kiwanian l. NJ,
charge of the group. ~ In
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
Will Speak Couple
Times In Hot Fight
Continued from Page One.)

Continued from Page One.)
Thursday afternoon, the chief execu-
tive will make an address at Athens,
Ca, Thursday morning after he re-
ceives an honorary degree from the
University of Georgia.
His remarks regarding candidates.
if any, were expected to develop dur
ing the GAINESVILLE speech. Mr.. Roose-
welt will return to Atlanta after his
GAINESVILLE speech and proceed direct
ly to Washington. There he will delve
into pressing economic problems as
soon as he returns He will find on his
desk a stack of reports telling, among
other things, of progress in the spend
ing-lending program, preliminary ar
rangements for wage-hour. admins
tration, and the. status of the anti
trust inquiry.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09

Lions to Meet-The weekly meet
ing of the Lions Club will be held
Wednesday evening at Z o'clock at
the. Capitol Cafe.
1934-President Roosevelt impounds
silver.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09

In Foochow, China, is bridge
about one-quarter of a mile long, built
in the year 1923, and known as the
Bridge of 10000 Ages
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
Cotton.Prices
ChangeLittle

New York, Aug. 9.-(AP)- Cotton
er on disappointing cables from Liver
pool, which was offset by trade buy
ing Shortly after the first half hour,
December recovered from 1925 to 8.31,
leaving prices four to six points net
lower. December sold up to 1886, and
at midday was 1888, when the list was
one to four points net lower.
Futures closed unchanged to two
points lower; spot steady, middlinS
500
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

education in the public schools
there.
The graduated from Gonzaga
High School here in 1925, took a
.prelegal course at Georgetown
University and graduated from
National University with his law
degree in 1929. He was admitted
to the District bar and the Mary
land bar within the next year
In 1888 he was appointed corpor,
alton counsel of Hyattsville. a
post from which he just resigned
FATHER ACTIVE
Young Wheatley became active
in Maryland politics as a boy. His
father, former president of the
District Bar Association and sen
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

veteran of three terms in the State
Attorneys office, had made it
known he was planning to run for
reelection.
YOUNGER MAN
Friends of Mr.. Wheatley, it Is
said, convinced the committee
that the post should go to a
younger and more vigorous man;
that if Wheatley was not given
the committees Endorsement there
was possibility Of fight in the
primary. Bowie changed his plans
in the interest of party harmony.
AS a reward he is being doomed
for the appointment as judge Of
the county police court.
Wheatley plunged into his cam
paign with enthusiasm. He made
81 speeches in two weeks in the
closing days of the campaign. He
met voters from the Patuxent to
the Potomac and from the Charles
county to the Howard county line.
NO PLEDGES
But not once did he pledge him
self to be a racket buster. Not
once did he discuss the fate of
"Jimmy's place." He merely told
the voters to elect him because he
would enforce the law. And they
believed him.
Since his election Wheatley has
steadfastly refused to discuss his
future course Of action.
1T would be unfair for me to
say what I am going to do be-
fore I even take office" says
Wheatley.
BORN IN d. C.
The new prosecutor was born
in Southeast Washington on
March %, 1908. His family moved
to Hyattsville while he was a
lsmall boy and he received his early
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
Will Have LNustriOus Guest Stars

A MOTHER, and one of our shyest newspaper
4 men, has been lured to the footlights. Dinty
Doyle, the radio colunnist, will have week at
Loews State and for the first time as measure
of their esteem for the goodnatured writer Kate
Smith and Fred Allen will make appearances as
guest stars. Doyle thus joins a group of fourth
estaters who have had their vaudeville fling, in
cluding Bugs" Baer Bide Dudley, Damon Run
yon, Dan Parker, Walter Winchell, Ed Sullivan,
Edwin c. HILL Nick Kenney, and Ted Friend.
TOUNTERPARTS of the Kentucky colonels are
~ the members of the Swiss Navy'-every man
an admiral. fun-making outfit organized a
dozen years ago, it now has on its roster such
notabes as John Charles Thomas Paul White
man, Ed Wynn, Robert L. Ripley, Vincent Ben
dix Guy Lombardo, and Floyd Gibbons. From
George Landon note of protest that it was not
John Kendrick Bangs who perpetrated the car
horse jest on society, but Bryan G. Hughes, famed
in his day for practical jokes. Not until the
other day, when William S. Hart sent me a copy
of the Law on Horseback" did know that the
famous tWogun man of the cinema -SilentS had
written several dozen short stories L should like
to meet now those people who followed faithfully
the Emile Coue credo: DAY by day, in every
way, etc., and see how much better they be-
came.
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
Modern Jean VGljean Career

WHEN President William S. Knudsen, of Gen
w eral Motors, danced the Lambeth Walk with
his beaming white:haired wife at the opening of
Harry Richman's Road to Mandalay," thought
I detected a CLINT Of envy in the eyes of affable
James A. Farley, watching from nearby table
.. But no envy, only amusement. when, to the
dismay of all concerned I, too, without benefit
of lesson or rhythm, slapped my knees and tossed
my thumbs over my shoulders. No fiction as
exciting as the bizarre developments in the
twisted Jean Vatican career of Philip Musica,
who was better known as F. Donald Coster..
Suggestion for cartoon, taken from real life at
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

operation of the machinery in the sugar refinery.
the bags bought or made to be filled with sugar,
the shipping of these bags all over the nation,
the mechanics required for their sale to
consumers?
Seeking to find the relationship of business
and industry to the people Of the nation and vice
versatile objective I have sought in $4,000
miles of wandering in the last two months-I
walked into beet sugar refinery near Denver.
Farmer No Farther Ahead
TNHE assistant foreman who took me around
= was a man who had started at the bottom.
"How many days per year are you operating"
wanted to know.
"Sixty-eight days this year, was his answer.
''Wallace fixed that for us!"
'Well, how many permanent employees have
you in this vast place?'
"ThirE.five men,"
What we're you running before Wallace put
his croplimitation schemes into effect?"
"About ITO days out of each year."
The sugar companies contract with the farmers
within 5Gmile area for their beet output
The farmer now is paid higher price for his
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
New States Attorney Silent
About His Plans

This is the second OF series OF articles set
ting forth conditions in Prince Georges county
lDhich ciUic leaders hope to stamp out nert
year. The 'NelD Deal 1DiH seek to destroy the
tlagrdnt uiolGtionS OF lGW such recited here.
They include Dide-open gambling houses.
toriouS roadside Joints" and clearing houses
for the nunbergGn1e operators.
H. Wnship Wheatley. jr., 30-year-old State
Attorney-elect of Prince Georges county, like
Thomas Dewey, New York's spectacular young
racket buster, is an amazingly astute politician.
When he takes his oath Of office, January 8,
many Of his Supporters believe, new era will be
launched in county law enforcement and years Of
uncontrolled racketeering will be smashed
And young Mr. Wheatley cannily refuses to say
yes and he refuses to say no.
At the moment he is the outstanding question
mark in Prince Georges county politics.
Upon his shoulders next month will be placed
a major share of responsibility for the continued
operation without legal interference of "Jimmy's
place" one of the largest and best known gambling
houses in the East.
Upon his decision may rest the fate Of several
hundred slot machines now operating openly in
virtually every tavern and cross roads store in
the county.
It will be up to him to decide whether scores
of taverns shall continue to wink at afterhours
drinking, gambling and lax morality.
In taking over the State Attorneys office
Wheatley is fulfilling of his great ambitions He
always wanted to be prosecutor.
| II think it affords a great opportunity" he
said "to serve the people in the profession which
have chosen as my life's work"
The nomination of young Mr.. Wheatley for the
job by the Democratic Central Committee Of the
county came as a surprise last fall. Alan Bowie
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

flor partner in the firm of Wheat
ley and Wheatley, has been active
politically ever since he moved to
Maryland. Young Wheatley re-
calls he started driving voters to
the polls just as soon as he
learned to operate a car.
Lansdale G. Sasscer, former
president of the Maryland State
senate and one of the Democratic
bosses of Prince Georges county,
became interested in the ener-
getic young lawyer and appointed
him as his executive secretary in
1885. For four sessions young
Wheatley sat behind the scenes
and watched the legislature func-
ton.
MARRIED IN 1929
In 1929 Wheatley married the
former Edith Coates Of Washing
ton. They have no children. His
only hobbies, Wheatley insists, are
studying law and riding horses. He
served as president of the Young
Democratic Club of the county in
1885 and 1886 and as chairman Of
the county NRA committee for a
year. He was chairman of the
Red Cross Roll Call and a member
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Of the county welfare board this
year, He has never held an elective
office before.
He has thick, light brown hair.
gray.blue eyes, weighs 180 pounds
and is five feet eight inches tall.
All his friends call him Winship.
He won't reveal that his first
initial stands for Henry. He will
serve until 1914 at an annual
salary of $4,000.
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

Of the jungle of obscurity and
be the man or woman of the
minute. There were those
months when everyone dis
covered Charlie Chaplin, when
kings and potentates sought
him out and society pleaded
for his favors. Mary Pickford
had her day and, together with
Douglas Fairbanks, found her
self mobbed in London and
Paris and New York. There
was the Lindbergh era and the
Garbo turmoil, Crowds fol-
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

But how many Of us who
daily make that simple de-
mand stop to realize that back
Of that wee quantity of white
crystals stand seeds, hours of
labor by the farmer, the fer
tilizer he uses, the implements
he employs to prepare his soil,
the extraction of beets from
the ground, railroad cars to
transport them, trackage over
which they are hauled, the ma
chinery designed by engineers
to turn beets into sugar, the
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

Taxes Continue to Mount
CONVERSELY, there are now more days per
" year than before when the beet sugar
refining industry is closed down. But the taxes
continue to go up and up. SO more and more is
this industry likely to install aborsaving devices
to offset losses in inactive times.
I trudged into vast warehouse piled high
with bags of sugar. Some bags were made Of
burlap, some of cotton. Why the difference, I
wondered.
"The burlap comes from Calcutta" explained
my guide. 1.-The cotton comes from the South.
The burlap is cheaper"
But he went on to add this little economic
lesson.
when Southern buyer contracts to buy our
sugar. he does so only on the basis that we ship
him the sugar in bags made Of cotton produced
in the South. The Southerner says to us, We'll
buy your sugar if you play ball with us and use
our cotton to make the bags in which you ship
the sugar. And that is what we are DOING
And how a collection of PROFESSIONAL parlor-
pinks from Washington can calmly sit down a
couple of thousand miles away and declare how
everything is to be run is one Of those mysteries
only egomaniacS can explain.
Copyright. Ledger syndicate)
(BoGke Carter'S opinions are his o,Un and net
necessarily those OF The Washington TtneSJ
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
Poster
Contest Opened

An exhibition of the 100 best
entries in the $3.50 Wildlife Week
Poster Contest opened today at the
Mayflower Hotel under the aus
pices of the National Wildlife Fed.
Grafton.
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
"WEDNESDAY, DEC. q, 1898
By E0alw W|abh Mclean

down to see our little friends. We used to spend
hours in this delightful place, and we really
loved Mr.. Schmid and the animals-he was
always so kind and patient with us.
My brother kept pleading for just one pair Of
little white mice. Finally, mother said he could
have them. Before long, there were many little
white mice. We had to have cage after cage to
keep them in. I never will know what hap
pened. Suddenly, one day all the white mice
were missing. The cage doors were wide open
This didn't make mother feel very happy but
during that time none of us ever saw trace of
the little animals around 2O2O. Many years
later, three or four of our servants told me they
saw little white mice come out at night and
scamper around the Railways.
Daughter Cried for Goat
A IL my children have also adored this store,
and one day, when took my small daughter
down. she cried so for small white Nanny goat
that we finally had to put it in a brown box,
deposit it at her feet in my lovely car, and
when we arrived home she took it straight up
to her room.
truly hope Mr.. Schmid lives to be 100 years
old as he wishes to be. There is no sweeter,
finer man in the country today and no one
person that I know of that has brought more
pleasure to children.
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

NASUAL FRAGMENTS: No one in recent
months has lured the beat Of the tomtoms,
but any day now some personality will slush out
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

Fortyninth Street and Fifth Avenue. Two shevr-
ing children illclad, eagerly studying the silver
whippet adornment on the radiator cap of Rolls
Royce-the toy dog snugly encased in a hand
knitted Angora sweater!
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

STORE.
Presidents may come and
Presidents may go, but this
emporium of pets keeps going
steadily along and has for over
half a century.
Edward Schmid, who started
1t, and Is now past 80 years
old, nevertheless is asking IAN
extension of 18 more years so
I can give a real party to my
friends"
You can see by his face,
with its kind, lovely express
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
My Say

THERE is one interesting place in Washington
- that every man, woman and child likes to
60 to sooner or later-and that is Schmids bird
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

sion, that he has lived his life with, and been
kind to- his family of animals of all descriptions.
When you go in there you realize how devoted
al the animals are to him. He can go to any
cage, and if the parrot is screaming, or dog is
barking, Mr.. Schmid has only to stroke it's head
and it quiets down in a very few minutes.
He once sold pig to little Quentin Roosevelt,
and Quentin insisted on its sleeping in the White
House. After that one night however, Mrs.
Roosevelt put her foot down, and Quentin took
the pig back down to the animal store.
Begged for White Mice
7 REMEMBER so well as child, the greatest
- treat my brother and had was to be taken
The Washington times., 1938-12-21

lowed Paul Whiteman wherever he went. Orson
Welles is probably the most likely candidate to
date for fuss-and-pother attention. The day Of
the limelighter is brief.
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
e|But''

nENvER, Colo.-"Pass me the sugar, please!"
~ And into the cup Of coffee goes teaspoonful
The Washington times., 1938-12-21
Says Boake Garter

beets 68 days per year in this instance-which
is fairly general in the beet sugar business. But
what he has gained in higher prices is soon
absorbed in the remainder of his old supply rate
of time-17O days per year. Many farmers con-
tend that they actually earned more year by year
before Wallace put his 'plow under schemes into
effect.
And realized that this was only one sugar
refinery among a great many, wherein the story
was repeated in each place.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-07-01
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/ woman in the East with d Ph.D.
degree having baby and having 1t
baptized We wonder il this fellow
knows that other women with lust az
outstanding a degree and with d
higher position and even more money
than this lady could ever dream OF
are having babies every day aud they
too, have them baptized, but they
don't tly to have II published ma
tionallg IN other words, they do it.
but not for publicity. And il doesn't
necessarily mean that this child will
be better than anyone elsess. 1--WE
hope the guy doesn't get mad)
We must doT our halls II the Day
ton Daily News for the splendid cdi-
torial they carried an juno 2a con-
corning Iamcs Wellpn Iolnson. Tile
editorial laQded johnson fof his
achievements and aid thaf he would
be Greatly missed hui that tEe mn
preston be made on both Caacasians
and Negfoes would linger far gene
ration8 10 come So araia Wa amI oue
hats e This daily and ~. as well
rs ou hfethefen appreciate bouquets
whore they belong regafdless oi'
race.
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AT RANDOM

AT RANDOM
We had the displeasure the other
night Of seeing some youngsters
smoking marajuana (reefers to you)
The things look like ordinary cigar
cites but the smell of the smoke i,
the most sickening, peculiar we've
ever experienced. They took a couple
of pufis and then would inhale deep
" (and when we say deeply, We
mean that smoke seemingly went
down almost to their toes). In ex-
haling they would make Kissing
sound or cup their hand over their
mouths and allow the smoke to go
back into the nose. After couple
D I inhales IL was '.iust dueky' One
guy thought he was bird and his
imitation Of flying was pretty good.
another danced like mad man. This
is feebly description Of the actions
Of reefer smoker. And it's our
advice to youngsters to keep away
from them. These guys would try TO
hers TO smoke them on the
pretense that they had Camels with
Lipton's tea mixed with tobacco.
We noticed last week that one Of
our columnists was bellyaching about