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ATTENDS SISTERS FUNERAL

Mrs. June Jones of Memphis,
Tenn, arrived here to attend the
funeral of her sister Mrs. Harriet
Naomi Smith.
Mrs. Harriet Naomi Smith, age
So, 72S Rondo, died at Ancker Hos
pital from an acute attack of ap-
pendicitis following an operation.
She was i'll only one week. Sur
vivors are a son, Carl James
Haynes, a sister, Mrs. June Jones
of Memphis, four brothers, Elex,
Jesse, Ulysses and Swift Spight,
a husband William E. Smith and
other relatives.
Funeral was held Tuesday, April
4, with Rev. G. Hayden officiating.
Interment was at Oakland Gene
terry.
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THANKS!

The Youth Service Department
of the St. Paul Urban League
wishes to thank those who helped
to make the Youth Conference a
success both in attendance and
financially.
The following names are the
sponsors that did not appear on
the Conference program: Cameo
Social Club, Credjafawn Social
Club, Mrs. Rose Davis, Elite Social
Club, Mr.. H. E. Hilyard, Father
Charles ]. Keefe, Mr.. A. B. Lewis,
Mr.. Ed. Moore, Rev. JAIME
Phelps, Phyllis Wheatley House,
and Steichens Food Market.
NJ. o. Harris,
Director, Youth Work.
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Minneapolis Urban ague
WOmen's Auxiliary Bazaar, Mime
sofa Iowa Club, May 3.-Adv.
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ATTENDS UNCLEs FUNERAL

Mrs. Bertha Finley and Mrs.
Henrietta Henderson of Chicago
were here to attend the funeral of
their uncle, Stephen L. Hopkins,
Monday, April 3.
Both nieces visited the Twin
Cities in September, 1887.
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identifying the grounds.

identifying the grounds.
Left to right across the middle
strip of pictures is Mrs. Julia w.
Davis, supervisor of the WPA prof.
ect at the shrine, giving three of
the Historical Records Project
workers the facts concerning the
relics on display at the Home. The
walking stick she holds once be-
lOnged to Abraham Lincoln. Next
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-07

is a photograph of Frederick Doug
lass. The picture to the right shows
a project worker checking the sig
nificance of the books in the Doug
lass library valued between $751;
900 and $4,000.
The gold spoons presented to
Frederick Douglass by Queen Vic
tOria are shown to the left in the
bottom row of pictures. The bed
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-07

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the many friends, neigh
bors and organizations who so kind
ly remembered US during the sud-
den and tragic death of our dear
father, grandfather and uncle,
Stephen Lytle Hopkins, who depart
ed this life March 80, 1889.
The sympathetic expressions,
beautiful flowers and each act of
kindness shall never be forgotten.
Mrs. Magletta Jenkins, daugh-
ter; Alonzo and Stephen, Jr.,
sons; and family.
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COLORED AGENT

The Acme Hospital and Life In
surance Company, 819 Pioneer
Bldg, st. Paul, has added to their
sales force Mr.. Lee Turpin, 683
Carroll Ave-, phone Dale 3347. Mr..
Turpin has proved to be a very
energetic and capable salesman for
this reliable company.
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YPA photos Cwilson) Douglass photo. courtesy
ASSN. foe the Study Il Negro Life and HiStoW.
The Frederick Douglass Home and
grounds are open to the public
daily. The projects of the WPA
and NYA at the shrine fulfill a
dream and end a long struggle to
maintain the Home as a fitting
memorial, a shOwplace for sight
seers and a source of historical re-
search and study for historians and
students.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-07

Spring and summer pilgrimages
to the Nations Capital will have
an added meaning to the countless
admirers of Frederick Douglass.
Through the joint efforts of the
Historical Records Survey Projects
of the Works Progress Administra-
ton and the National Youth Ad-
ministratiOn, the Frederick Doug
lass Memorial Home and its fifteen
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acres of surrounding grounds are
being restored into a fitting shrine
in memory of the life and work of
the famed AbOlitiOnist.
The top row of photographs
Cleft to right show a view of the
Nations Capital from the north
entrance to the Home; a view of
the Home from the main approach,
and some of the fifty NYA workers
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SPEAKS AT ~"

Roy Wilkins addressed group
of university students Tuesday,
April 8, at the Minnesota Union.
Among those from st. Paul were
Mines. George Brooks, ST., Eugene
Cough, Thomas Neal, Edgar Muir
ply, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence NJ.
Mitchell, Jr., and the Misses Kath-
crime Jones, Mildred Brooks and
Albreta Neal
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CLUB OBSERVES
18th ANNIVERSARY

The Oak Leaf Art Club observed
its 18th Anniversary Monday,
March 81, at Welcome Hall, st.
Paul.
Mrs. C. Tabor, president of the
Maxfeld P. T. A., was guest speak
er. Mrs. E. Harris read a brief
history of the club.
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room of the AbOlitiOnist is next.
To the right is WPA worker in
specting the condition of a flag
carried by John Brown at Harper's
Ferry, 1859.
All of the books, documents, let
tiers, furnishings and art objects in
the Home are being recorded for
their historical significance by
seven workers on the WPA project,
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CARD OF THANKS

We deeply appreciate and with
heartfelt thanks gratefully &C
knowledge the kind expressions of
sympathy shown US in our recent
bereavement.
Mrs. Gladys Calender and
Family.
CARD OF THANKS
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ALL CHURCHES PLAN
EASTER SERVICES

All Twin City churches plan
special Easter services. Easter
Sunday is one day when every citi-
zen whose health permits should
head for some church.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Loyalists To
Carry On In
Their Battle

Figueras SPAIN Feb. 1-(By Courier
to the French Border)-(AP)- The
Parliament of government Spain, the
Cortes. assembled today for a secret
session to display it's determination
for continued resistance to the insur-
gents. The parliament was convoked
somewhere in Catalonia" Just behind
the battlefront in northeastern Spain,
where the government succeeded in
establishing it's lines after last week S
rout from Barcelona, the former
capital.
The agenda and the exact time and
place of the meeting were kept secret
lest insurgent air raiders break up
the proceedings and endanger the
lives of government leaders. Deputies
from central and southeastern Spain,
however, were known to have flown
north for the session, as evidence of
solidarity between the separated gov
ernmental regions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Another Wintry Blast
Races Across The East

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Della
ware, Maryland and the District of
Columbia. Colder weather was ex-
pected to follow today's rising tenn
peratures.
A 24-hour northeast blizzard which
crippled transportation in New Jer-
sey moderated A raging surf batter
ed seaside homes and cottages and
endangered shipping in New England.
Thirty-nine deaths were attributed
to weather conditions in northern
states east of the Mississippi river.
Icy streets caused score of minor traf-
fic accident in New York City. Mayor
LaGuardia sought to facilitate snow
removal by announcing that police
would arrest motorists who left cars
parked for more than an hour.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Senate Body
Unfavorablv
Reports Bill
Overwhelming Vote
Against Measure That
Would Prevent Di-
verting Hi g h w "
Money. Sweeping Vic
tory for Governor
Hoey's Administra-
ton

Raleigh, Feb. 1-(AP)-The
Senate Finance Committee, by
an overwhelming majority, un-
favorably reported today the
good roads bill" introduced in
the legislature. to pledge the AS
sembly against any highway
fund diversion.
The Senate portion of the joint fl
nance committee met earlier than
representatives, who have an identi-
cal bill.
Senator Larkin, of Jones, made the
motion for an unfavorable report,
which usually means a bill is dead.
Senator Hatcher, of Burke, made a
substitute motion proposing a favor
able report. He got no second On
the Larkins motion, Hatcher cast
lone negative vote.
Later, after Senator Umstead, of
Orange, arrived at the committee
meeting, another vote was taken and
only Senators Hatcher and Umstead
opposed the unfavoraIble report UNI
stead indicated he might take the
fight to the floor on a minority re-
port, which would require a two
thirds favorable vote to be consider
ed for debate
The joint legislative finance COM
CONTINUED on Page SiX.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Weinberg's
Prints Not
On His Gun

New York, Feb. 1.-(AP)-Governor
Herbert Lehman was urged today by
Nassau county lawyer to investigate
a report that the fingerprints OF
George Weinberg, a key witness in
the re-trial of Tammany District
Leader James J. Hines were not found
on the gun with which he allegedly
committed suicide last Sunday.
George E. Mulry, of Mipeola, L. l.,
sent the following telegram to the
governor:
Informed believable source that
Weinberg's fingerprints are not on re-
volver of Dewey n1reling. Check. Con-
fiscate revolver for confirmation"
The gun used by Weinberg, it was
reported at the time of the shooting,
had been taken from the coast of one
of District Attorney Thomas Deweys
detectives guarding Weinberg and two
other witnesses, J. Richard Davis and
Harry Schoenhaus, at a White Plains.
N. Y, retreat
Mulry said client in New York
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
nv HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh, Feb. 1.-Anti-diversionists
had their day in court-committee, to
be exact--yesterday afternoon and
they made the best of it, too.
For a full hour and a half they lam
basted the administration proposal to
divert 100000 of highway funds in
the next biennium, and lambasted it
with a fervor almost religious.
Beginning with a brief introduction
by Representative Clarence E. Stone,
of Rockingham, and closing with the
unscheduled and unsolicited contribu-
ton of self-styled "dirt farmer" the
speakers opposed to the proposed
transfer marshalled long array of
facts, figures and argument.
They presented it before a tremen-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Roosevelt Is
Ready toad
De1rlocraciies
President Tells Senate
Committee o f Ar
rangements To Sell
Planes on Cash Basis;
France Jubilant Over
u. S. Stand; 'Unbe-
lievable," Berlin Says

Berlin, Feb. 1.-(AP)-The Berliner
Interchangeable splashed the headline.
Americas Frontier on the Rhone,"
across its front page tonight and de-
scribed President Roosevelt's meeting
with the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee yesterday as without example
since the days of the World War"
In two-column dispatch under a
New York dateline, the paper quoted
American newspapers as saying Roose
welt had told committee members
that the United States must back up
cemocracies in any war against the
totalitarian states with arms de-
lveries.
Unbelievable agitation of Roose-
welt after the fuehrer's peace ad-
Dress" was a sub-head on the dis
patch.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Says Social Security Can Be
Broadened Without E xtra Cost
Board Chairman Says
Benefit P YIN e mt s
Have Helped Sustain
Purchasing P ow e r
During Recession; No
Cotton S O uti O n
Reached Yet

Washington, Fep. l. (AP)-COn-
gfess was told today by Chairman Ar
thur Altmeyer that millions more
Americans could be brought under
the social security system without in
creasing the ultimate cost Of the pro-
gram.
Unemployment compensation, the
Social Security Board chairman testi-
fled before the House Ways and
Means Committee, is not only a So
cial obligation, but a matter of eco
nomic self-interest to the nation and
it's communities.
Experience has already proved,
Altmeyer said, "that benefit payments
helped to maintain workers purchas-
ing power, and thereby to stimulate
tagging business and industrial &C
tivity."
This is particularly true, he added,
in small one-industry communities
where benefit payments to the unem-
ployed during the last recession "has
prevented serious losses to retail bust
ness and the service industries"
Says u. S. Forced To Arm.
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary
of war, declared, meanwhile, the
United States was forced to arm ga
gainst those who are determined to
dominate world affairs by military
power" The administrators defense
program, he told a radio forum OF
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, is the nations sole road tt
safety in a disordered world.
ITO some people," he said, "the in
vasion of America may appear a mad
dream, but even they will have tc
admit that the wild fantasies of yes
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Pays Homage To His
Fighters in Spain and
r eviews Soldiers;
Failure To Speak No
Great Surprise; Wait
ing Definite Victory
in Spain

Rome, Feb. 1-tAP)-Premier Mus
solini paid ceremonial homage to fas-
cism's' blackshirt fighters in Spain
and reviewed 10000 fascist militiamen
today without indicating on what
front they might fight again.
II Duce RETAINED from saying even
a few words to his followers as he
distributed medals to survivors Of the
Spanish and Ethiopian war dead in
services at the great national monu-
ment, and later watched the troops
march past in the broad Via
Nazionale.
The events were in observance OF
the 10Th anniversary of the fascis!
militia's organization. While a briet
speech had been expected by many
the lack of one occasioned no great
surprise. Diplomatic quarters in the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
(By The Associated Press.)

10Y uc A0SOCldL0O 1ISSS.J
The now-clogged middle west
braced itself today for another win
try onslaught as a storm raced across
northern United States from the
Rockies.
Early today the disturbance was
general over the western plains states.
and by tomorrow, the bureau said. the
storm would be felt as far east as the
Atlantic seaboard. A strong northwest
wind whipped falling snow into hard
packed drifts throughout western Ne
braska, eastern Wyoming, and the
Dakotas. The storm, which marooned
many motorists at roadside taverns
approached blizzard proportions in
those states.
Train or snow was forecast for tc-
morrow in New England, New York,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Mussolini Silent About
His Future War Plans
On Fascist Anniversary
State Is Near Top
In Job Placements

Raleigh, Feb. 1.-(AP)-NOrth
Carolina ranked as the sixth state
in the nation during December in
persons placed in jobs by state en-
ployment services, Director Wayne
Albright said today.
Placements during the tlrst Is
days in January were up 1,175 over
a year ago, Albright said, and job
seekers dropped by 1905.
There were $3.50 placements in
the State during December, and
the percentage drop under NOvem-
her was only four percent, while in
the nation it was down IL percent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Flue-Cured
Exports Gain
For 6 Months

Washington, Feb. l. (AP) = The
Bureau of Agricultural Economics re-
ported today that exports of flue-cured
tobacco during the last six months of
1888 totalled 256, 562 1923 pounds, COM
pared with 233,262,679 in the like pc
Rod Of 1887.
The bureau said this increase was
due principally to purchases by Brit
ish manufacturers to replenish stock.
Consequently the export rate may not
continue during the next few months,
it said.
Exports to China, the second most
important foreign market for United
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ti-Diversionists Are
Vigorous In Arguments
Governor, Meanwhile, Follows in Fighting De-
Tense of Proposal of His Administration; Exc
cutive Faces First Major Legislative Revolt

dous crowd that packed to the point
of suffocation the big finance COM
mittee hearing room on the fourth
floor of the Revenue Building. At
least a thousand persons tried to jam
their way in. Most succeeded, but
those who couldn't stood outside the
door and held indignation meetings of
their own.
From the time that Capus Way
nick, former highway commission
chairman and now editor of the High
Point Enterprise, opened fire to the
very end committee members, as well
as the crowd, listened intently and
the only time that attention Jagged
was when there was a cOunter-diver-
sion in the form of a believing and
billowing speech by Nash's Represent
/Cnu4in,r0d IN Dorm Throol
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Diversions
Friends Warn
OF Troubles

Raleigh, Feb. 1.-(AP)-Administra-
ton supporters pointed warning fin
ger today to Governor Hoey's asser-
tions that failure to divert money
from the highway fund might lead
the state into serious trouble.
The governor told the Legislature
last night that school children, needy
aged persons and handicapped indi-
viduals might suffer unless a pro-
vision were made for the possible
transfer during the next 80 months OF
<No1x;ouad an Dooa Thraal
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
WILSON MANAGER NAMED.

Wilson, Feb. 1-(AP)-Frank Rog-
ers, manager of the Ayden club of the
Coastal Flains League baseball team
last season, will pilot the Wilson en-
try in the same league this season.
He lives in McKees Rock, Pa.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
Belk Stores
Liable For
Chain Tax
Supreme Court Rules
in Favor of State on
Levy; Must Pay Five
Years Accumulated
Levies Under Decision
of State High Tri-
bunal

Raleigh, Feb. 1-(AP)-The State
Supreme Court ruled today that the
s'Belk' stores were subject to the
North Carolina chain stores tax.
In one of the Al opinions, the tri-
bunal held that the 1888 legislatures
enlargement and expansion" of the
revenue act was clearly made for
the purpose of bringing the "Belk''
stores and others similarly situated
within the purview of the chain store
license tax"
Directly involved was the $500 the
"Belk system paid under protest as
a tax for the 1933-34 fiscal year, and
Wade Bruton, assistant attorney gen.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing clOudiness and war
mer tonight; Thursday unsettled,
scattered showers in north pOr-
ton; slightly warmer in east and
central portions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
City Limits
Fight RACES
For Raleigh
Daily Dispatch Bureau:
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Nv LYNN NTSRET

Raleigh, Feb Lone of the most
colorful public hearings of the session
thus far was that before the House
Committee on Counties, Cities ana
Towns yesterday on the issue of sub
hitting to voters the matter OF ex-
tending the corporate limits of the
capital city.
Although the specific question is lc-
((tonfinuad on pa oe Eival
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-01
FRANCE is JUBILANT. AT
POSITION OF ROOSEVELT

Paris, Feb. 1.-(AP)-First editions
of afternoon newspapers in Paris used
scare. headlines today to proclaim that
President Roosevelt had declared the
frontiers of the United States are in
France. -
Although members of the govern
ment refused. to comment on reports
of the Presidents meeting with the
Senate Military Committee yesterday,
on the ground that his statements
were to a closed session, there was
undoubted jubilation in official cir
cles.
MOVE INTERPRETED HERE
AS WILLINGNESS TO AID
Washington, Feb. 1.-(AP)-P
dent Roosevelt's account of French
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-02-10

home of Mr.. Harold Holland of 4S1
Thomas street. Old and new bust.
ness was discussed and plans were
made to give card party in the
not-too-distant future. A lovely
luncheon was served by the host,
The meeting adjourned to meet
next time at the home of Mrs. Hill,
Birthday Party
Little Miss Dorothy Marguerite
Payne was the guest of honor at a
birthday party given Saturday,
February A, by her mother, Mrs.
William Payne, of 754 st. Anthony
avenue. A Valentine motif of dec
grafton was used. Games and re-
freshments featured the after
Moons entertainment. Dorothy
Marguerite was two years old.
Among the guests were Dicky and
Judy Merle Travis, Shirley Raw
Inns, Harold Salters, Gloria Rob
erts, Crystal and Maurice Watts,
Patty and Johnny Lee, Anita Hill,
Arthur Hill, Robert Hickman, Mary
Edna Payne, Sylvia and Joseph
Byrd, and Kenneth and Jack Rob
inson.
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Cameo Sports Party

Saturday, February A, about
twenty guests left from the home
of Miss Evalyn E. Kelly, $50 St.
Anthony avenue, for Powderhorn
Park for the Cameo Mid-Winter
Sports Party. Other guests joined
the party at the Minnesota-Iow
Club and at Bells Cafe in Mime
apolis. Among those who took part
in the skating and tobogganing
parties were Messrs. and Mesdames
Herbert F. Foster, Artie E. Boyd,
Charles Hargrave, John L. Banks,
Theodore Ruffner, Roscoe James,
George W. Brooks, Jr., Adele Ora
ham, Evalyn Kelly, Evalyn Austin,
Edward Byron Doty, Lawney
Thompson, Beneta- Edwards, and
several others. Cora Belle, Charley,
and the other "old folks" are nurs-
ing lame backs, legs, etc., from the
outing.
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Social and Personal
q MINNEAPOLIS -

Mr.. and Mrs. Russell 5. Under
wood and daughter, Hazel, of 1920
4th avenue south, will leave Satur-
day, February II, for Pasadena,
California, to visit their son-in-law,
daughter and grandson, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Mitchell, Jr., and
Darryle. They will also visit Los
Angeles, the Fair at San Francisco,
and Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Arts of
Seattle, Wash. The Underwoods
will be out of~the city for about
three weeks.
Mrs. Audrey T. Mccullough,
Family Welfare Assn. executive,
has returned home from North
western Hospital where she has
been i'll for several weeks.
RETURNS FROM TRIP
Everett Law, Alb Bryant Ave.
No., returned from weekend trip
to Chicago where he was one Of
the attendants at the wedding of
Miss Gladys Gilbert, former Min
neapolis girl. She was married to
Mr.. Frank Boyd of Chicago, Janu-
airy 81.
Mrs. Roy Williams spent the
weekend in Madison, Wis, visiting
her daughters, Mrs. Lorraine Goth
ard and Mrs. Airline Miller. DON
aid and Billie Gothard, grandsons
of Mrs. Williams, came to the Twin
Cities with her to spend a couple
of months with their grandparents
and uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Williams.