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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

According to the April accident
port OF the highway safety dn,is; re-
only one driver with less tb.n i1 i9ion'
months experience was in,olvaa u'iee
was fatal one
Drivers with from three to
months experience had two crashes ~ -
which there were casualties. and ol u
was a fatality. oile
OF the 80 deaths ii, April higbw.,
accidents, no less than 30 of 10y tb
slain were pedestrians. Eight u.aD a'e
killed crossing highway sa,'ae @qne
walking along the road and five. u,o,a ~
children at play in the street :
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

sufficient supply of milk available
in other nearby counties, the. States
vile plant will be completed and
North Carolina will have its first
milk cOndenSery.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

company. He is a director OF five
other businesses including Pan
American Airways Company. eg
He is governor of the AerOnautical
Chamber of Commerce Of America.
Mr.. Morgan is also a member OF
about dozen other boards and clubs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Explorers have discovered a Ne
gro tribe in Africa which has a day
king and night king. Royalty, it
seems, after many years struggle
has finally gained a 12-hour Shift.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Statistics show that people smoke
most from dinner to bedtime. Of
course-isn't it the fag end Of the
day? saIhm
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AvERILL
Daily Dispatch Bureau, .
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, May 27.-The sales tax,
it is contended in some quarters, is
dead as a political issue in North
Carolina; but yesterdays oral argu-
ments of Paul Leonard's legal at
tack on its validity seem to sustain
any such thesis.
1t is the exception rather than the
rule for the reporters in Raleigh to
sit through any Supreme Court ses-
sion, but when Fred Parish, of Win
ston-Salem, opened fire on the sales
tax yesterday morning there were in
the court chamber at least half a
dozen news men.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Getting back to the possibility that
the court will dodge the main issue,
Judge Stacy made one ominous and
possibly prophetic remark when he
said:
"This court never passes upon a
constitutional question unless it is
absolutely necessary for the decision
of case"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

former State Senator Georoa M
ti1ns mem0er Of the State Board Of sIst.ll Eiep-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

| the calendar.
Forsyth's Virgil Wilson and Spruill
Thornton, and Avery's Republican
State Senator Jack Bowers were the
1939ers, while Durham's Oscar Bar
ker was the 1887 representative.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Making commencement speeches
isn't the only thing that takes Crit
fin out of Raleigh, however. Once il
a while he turns bill collector and
goes out to call on counties to stand
and deliver"
He told Of going to one western
bailiWick recently to collect for two
buses they bought last fall and
haven't paid for yet, but added
hastily don't you write anytbina
about it or I won't have a friend left
in that county"
If the bill isn't paid within tba
next five days or SO, maybe this
column will let you in on the secret
of which county owes it.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Likewise, if the. justices declared
the, sales tax void they might all
seven have to go back to the practice
of law.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Even Leonard's counsel doesn't
really expect to win, certainly not in
North Cardinals jurisdiction.
cts going up to the United States
Supreme Court-that's where we
want to get it,, Mr.. Parish said in
the corridors after the argument.
Raleigh, May 27.-ColOnel Edgar
H. Balm resigned as member of the
North Carolina State Senate before
becoming the States "beer car, but
he has not resigned as a member OF
the Wayne County Welfare Board
according to Mrs. w. T. Bost, COM
missioner of public welfare
Members Of the Wayne borad, in
cidentally, are paid $5 per diem (but
no expense money! for each meet
ing; but meetings must not exceed
one for each month. Thus the maxi
mum compensation for any yeal
would be $50.
Until the recent assembly session
Mecklenburg' welfare board was
the only one in the State to receive
per diem; but Senator Balm introduc-
ed the bill which authorized pay
mcnt to the Wayne board
Speaking of electricity rates, a.
has been done right frequently ir
the State, Wake Forests 14-cent pei
kilowatt hour charge is pretty close
to stops'', if not actually so.
State Rural Electrification Au-
thority Engineer J.. M. Granger tell.
(refusing to Identify of the rura
line owner and operator who tolc
him recently of the tremendous
slash" he had made in. his rates
which he said had been reduced
from 20 cents per kilowatt hour tC
| 10.
Knowing that the man buys his
current, wholesale, at something
like cent and a half, Mr.. Granger
thinks the fellow may be able tc
bear up under the shock of the re-
duction. - -
Of the 88 projects listed on the
State Highways detour bulletin of
May Is, no less than 27 were slated
to be completed not later than June
|, while eight others are due to be
finished before the middle of next
month.
incidentally, the SO repair pro-
jects under way as of May Is were
a dozen more than two weeks earlier.
Going society for a note: Invita-
tions are out for the wedding, June
10 at 8 p. m. of Miss Flora Mcpherson
Mcneil and Harold Judson Dillehay
at the First Presbyterian church in
Fayetteville.
The bride-to-b is the daughter of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

o'clock and Rev. Charles B. Howard,
Baptist minister of Buie's Creek and
teacher Of Bible at Campbell College,
will preach the missionary sermon
that evening.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Three members of the 1899 Gen.
eral Assembly, and one from the 1887
legislature, were in the court room
throughout the sales tax arguments.
All had cases to argue further along
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Oddly, perhaps, only seven oie tbo
80 pedestrians were killed w,tbir
the limits of city or an incorDorataa
town. The country road seems = hit
deadlier than the city street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Lloyd Griffin, School Commission
secretary, has been breaking IN :, :
few schools himself, but, comparad !
with Governor Hoey and S,lperin
tendent of Public instruction Clydo
Erwin, he admits he's only a bush
Lacquer"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Nothing except intense interest
throughout the State could have ac-
counted for the reporters attendance,
as it's as certain as anything in a
court case can be that Leonard will
not be sustained in his contention
that the three per cent levy does
violence to State and Federal Con-
stitutions.
Attorney General Harry Mcmillan
wishes he were as certain to win all
his other cases as he is to win the
tax argument.
AS a matter of fact, you can gel
even money in Raleigh that the Leon
ard plea will be tossed out without
the courts ever passing on the con-
stitutional question at all.
Indication of some such disposition
were the repeated questions by Chief
Justice Walter Stacy as to "How is
the plaintiff hurt?"
That the justices would go very
very slowly in tossing out the tax
was clearly indicated by remark
of Judge Herior Clarkson that
Judges have been impeached in this
State for overriding the legislature y
On the question of unconstitution-
ality because the General Assembly
has never been reapportioned since
the 1880 Federal census, the attorney
general contended that cts purely
political question:" and one which
the. courts have no authority to re-
view. H
eff they did, North Carolina might
lose its attorney general, because he
couldn't be here without a salary"
he said.
Likewise, if the justices declared
the sales tax void they might all
seven have to go back to the practice
of law.
Three members of the 1889 Gen.
eral Assembly, and one from the 1887
were in the court room
throughout the sales tax arguments.
All had cases to argue further along
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Even Leonard's counsel doesn't
really expect to win, certainly not in
North Cardinals jurisdiction.
cts going up to the United States
Supreme Court-thats where we
want to get it,, Mr.. Parish said in
the corridors after the argument.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

Going society for a note: Invita-
tions are out for the wedding, June
10 at 8 p. m. of Miss Flora Mcpherson
McNeill and Harold Judson Dillehay
at the First Presbyterian church in
Fayetteville.
The bride -to-be is the daughter OF
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Plan Radio To
Further Peace

Washington, May 1O.-A powerful
new short wave radio station to
broadcast messages of peace to En-
rope and other nations throughout
the world will be constructed at
Swannonoa, the million-and-a-h
dollar estate in the Blue Ridge noun
tains of Virginia, recently purchased
by Mrs. Lois H. Mcclure, under an
application to be presented within
the next few days to the Federal
Communication Commission. Mrs.
MCGUIRE, former Asheville, North
Carolina society matron, is now liv-
ing in Washington.
The estate, built in 1912 near Way
nesboro, Virginia, by the late Major
James Dooley of Richmond, Virginia,
will be retitled the "Swannonoa
Peace on Earth Foundation" and
will be dedicated through the medium
of the short wave radio to sending
the Peace Messages Of Christ to all
the world. Mrs. Mcclure said today
that she believes such a foundation
can render a particular service at
this time in view of the troubled
condition of the world, when nations
are turning to arms and away from
Christ, and when war-minded ma
tons are sending their doctrine of
hate throughout the world by short
wave radio.
The 7OO-acre estate, which will be-
come the home of the new "Temple
of TRUTH" has a great marble man
sion, standing atop Granite Noun
tain, 1850 feet high, along the ia
nous Skyline drive AT the Santiago
Exposition it won a prize as the sec
ond most beautiful estate in America.
Mrs. Mcclure said she feels that
such a beautiful, quiet setting will
make perfect place for the founda
ton OF her new "Temple of Truth"
The foundation will be non-politi-
cal, non-sectarian, non-racial, and
nOn-commercial, Mrs. Mcclure said.
The movement, she added, will have
the backing of outstanding religious
and social leaders throughout the
nation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
FORECLOSURE SALE.

Under and by virtue of the au-
thority conferred upon the under
signed as trustee, in a certain deed
of trust executed by Ida Richardson,
dated 9th day of August, 1886, and
recorded in Book lat, Page 1853,
Register of Deeds Office Of Vance
County, default having been made
in the payment of the debt therein
secured, at the request of the holder
of the same 1 will offer for sale at
the courthouse door in Henderson, N.
c., on the 10th day of June, 1899,
at II O'clock, by public auction, the
following described real estate:
Begin at an iron stake on John
street, 147 feet from Rockspring
street, run thence S 113 feet to an
alley, thence S 80 deg. As Min E, so
feet to an iron stake, thence N 113
feet to an iron stake on John street,
thence along John street so feet to
the place Of beginning. See deed
book SO, page 40.
This 9th day of May, 1899.
A. A. BUM, Trustee.
10-17-24-31
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
ANSWERS.

|. Court records for the past two
years show 1890 fewer Negroes trieC
on criminal cases in North Caroline
courts for 1888 than for 1887. Tho
total for 1888 was 16,4035 as against
17,625 for 1887.
2. Van H. Manning, born in Mar
tin county July &c, 1889, represent
ed a Mississippi district in congress
from 1877 to 1883.
g. According to the report of the
State Auditor, 14,68299. This in
cludes salaries of a houSekeeper, GER
tain servants, supplies, insurance
One item of 1900 for public enter
tainment is also included.
! 4. According to a rigid investiga-
ton by Congress the Khan first be-
gan operations in the State in 1867
two years after it had been organiz-
ed in Tennessee The investigation
found the Khan more or less active
tons, or "viSitations" were reported
5. Hooper wrote in 1776, 1.-The gov
ernor was given just enough powe,
to receipt for his salary"
6. In 1871 when the State was in
vaded by the British, and the diff
ficulty of holding another session of
the general assembly foreseen, the
assembly at Halifax provided thai
at the expiration of the term of Gov
ernor Abner Nash, that he should
succeed himself, if the British pre-
vented the elections to be held.
Should this occur and Governor
Nash should die, or be incapacitated,
then the council with the aid of two
delegates to the Continental Congress
were empowered to elect a governor
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

ton, calcium phosphate deficiency,
the work of the glands Of internal
secretion, the reaction Of the saliva
and the operation of bacteria in the
mouth.
Of these, nutrition and it's asso-
citation with calcium phosphate de-
ficiency have received the greatest
amount of attention. Research into
the part that calcium phosphate de-
ticiency and vitamin D deficiency
play in causing dental carries close
ly parallels the Investigations that
have been made in the cause and
treatment of ricketts,.
Prevent ricketts,
There is little doubt that calcium
phosphate and vitamin D play an
important part in the prevention
and treatment of ricketts,. Since
ricketts, is disease of the bones, and
since the teeth can be regarded as
skeietal structures, there is a nat
uraiefeason to believe that what
ever will prevent or cure ricketts,
Will also act favorably on the teeth.
In attempting to take advantage
OF this knowledge. it is logical to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS
SALE

Pursuant to powers contained in
Judgment recorded in Book 181 page
800 in the office of the Register Of
Deeds of Vance County, and in
Minute Book Is page $40 to 557 in
the office of the Clerk of Superior
Court of Vance County wherein the
undersigned are named as Commits
sioners to sell property with the same
power and authority as set forth in
certain deeds of trust as fully as if
named trustees in said instrument,
and pursuant to the powers set forth
in deed of trust Of r. H. Workman
recorded in Book ISL page 145 in the
office of Register of Deeds of Vance
County bearing date of September 5,
1923, the undersigned will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash at the Court House door in
Henderson, N. c., on Monday, May
10Th, 1889, at IL O'clock, Noon, the
following described property:
1t is the tract of land in Sandy
Creek Township, Vance County,
North Carolina, containing 107 acres,
more or less, and known as the
Eugene Seaman tract on which War
rem Perry long resided, and is bound
ed at this time by the lands of Miss
Mary Steed, A. J. Register, A. II.
Hoyle, Mrs Edward Allen, E. L.
Farmer, and David l.. Hoyle, less ten
acres heretofore sold from this tract.
leaving amount Of land hereby con-
veyed 81 acres, more or less. For
further description see Trustees
Deed from Edison T. Hicks, Trustee.
to w. c. Hight, duly recorded in
Book 139 page 40, Registers office
of Vance County, N. c. See also deco
OF, even date herewith from w. c..
Hight and wife to r. H. Workman.
A. A. BUM,
B. H. PERRY,
Commissioners.
April 25, 1899.
26-3-1O-l7
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Man Who Arrested
First MOtOrist Is
At Seminar Meet
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Ry HENRY AVERTLL

Raleigh, May 10.-The man who
made the first arrest of an automo-
bilist for speeding in North Carolina
is attending the c. l. T. Safety Semi
mar in progress here.
Maybe if the ancient car hadn't
sprayed mud on his spick, span,
freshly cleaned uniform, Durham
Patrolman j. r. Pendergrast would
not have made that pinch thirty-two
years ago; but it did and so he did
Today Mr.. Pendergrast, who says
he has grown up with the automo-
bile, is drivers license examiner for
the State Highway Patrol. He is an
interested spectators at the seminar
The speeding arrest was made on
Sunday on one of Durham's main
streets, which then was about as
muddy as some of North Cardinals
worst secondaries at the present
and that's bad enough for anybody
/ according to Mr. Pendergrast.
The "horseless carriage, as it was
then called, came. careening down
the street, zig-zagging from side to
side and travelling at ga terrific
speed, which must have been nearly
twenty miles an hour, Mr.. Fender
| grast said.
1t spattered mud in every direction
and the Pendergrast uniform was
one of the things spattered Where
upon the Pendergrast wrath rose
and the patrolman went into action.
The speeder was overhauled as he
made stop, and was hauled to the
calaboose.
There wasn't any automobile
speed law-cars didn't even have to
have a license, or anything; but there
was a city ordinance which prohibit
ed driving on city streets at more
than six miles per hour.
And so when the States first
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
ESTATE IS .
LEFT TO HIS FAMILY

Goldsboro, May 10.-In the will of
the late Judge Frank A. Daniels, dis
! tinguished jurist who died recently
at his home in Goldsboro, his entire
estate, after several provisos, was
left to his three children, Frank B.
and George S. Daniels and Mrs. Mary
Cleaves Stenhouse, all of Goldsboro
Judge Daniels willed lot on S.
George Street to Mrs. Stenhouse;
his gold watch to his grandson,
Frank B. Daniels, Jr.; and to Mary
Harrison and John Holloway 500
each Gin recognition Of their faith
full service"
The seidue of the estate was left
to be divided equally among his three
children after all expenses and taxes
had been paid. The tive sons were
made executors Of the will
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

177-Ethan Allen and his Green
Mountain Boys. take Fort Ticonder-
oga from British.
1783-Order of the Cincinnati
founded by American officers of
the Revolution encamped on the
Hudson.
1838-Gen. Winfield Scott &C
complishes what is called "the most
difficult ordeal of Justification ever
confronted an individual in the
United States"-leads out Indians
OF South Carolina and Tennessee
westward, the Indians infur1ated by
vile treatment of whites
1849-Astor Place, New York,
riot-rivalry Of two actors, the Eng
lish Macready and the American
Forrest, caused rioting by their re-
spective adherents and friends ne
cessitating the militia-22 dead
1869-Central Pacific completed
to union with the Union Pacific
and last spike, golden one, drove
IN historic ceremony completing the
junction
1913-Congress resolved to recon-
mend Mothers ay for IGNORING
mothers.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Mordecia j. B. Ezekiel, adviser to
he secretary of agriculture, born
IN Richmond, Va, 40 years ago
David O. Seltznick, movie pro-
Queer, born in Pittsburgh, 81 years
ago
DR.. Samuel M. Lindsay of Column
Dla, professor OF social legislation.
born in Pittsburgh, 70 years ago
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, San
francisco Federal jurist, born at
Boonesboro, Iowa, 70 years ago
Fred Astalre, dancer and actor
born at Omaha, Nebr., 40 years ago
Dr. Howard J. Savage, secretary
of the arnegie Foundation for the
Advancement Of Teaching. born
at Meriden, Conn, So years ago
Admiral Samuel S. Robson. re-
tired, born in Juanita Co., Pa, II
years ago
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED III. MAY

|. Are Negro criminals in. North
Carolina increasing or decreasing?
2. When did a Martin county man
represent Mississippi in Congress?
8. What did it cost the State to
maintain the Governors Mansion last
year?
4. How long was the Ku Klux
Khan active in North Carolin?
S. How much power did William
Hopper say had been given the gov
ernor by the first constitution?
6. When were delegates to Con-
tinental Congress empowered to aid
in the naming of a governor?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Oday...
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

1735-Aobert Gray, ur-trader,
captain of the Columbia" first to
carry the flag around the world,
first to enter the Columbia River,
born at Tiverton, r. l. Died at sea
in. 1906 q MM
Sparks, noted explorer into and
writer of American history, presi-
dent of Harvard, born at Wilmington,
Conn. Died March IA, 1866
1789-James l.. Petigru, South
Carolina ever Produced born in
Abbeville District, S. c. Died in
Charleston, May 3. 1863
1800-Saran w. K. Peter, Gin
cinnati's noted Catholic benefactor
and philanthropist, born at Chilli
cothe, Ohio. Died Feb. 6, 1877
1813-Montgomery Blair, law
yer, Lincoln's first postmaster-gen-
eral, son of a famed statesman,
born in Kentucky. Died July 27,
1888
1823-John Sherman, Ohio's fam
ed lawyer, congressman, senator,
secretary of the treasury and Of
state, born at Lancaster, O. Died
Oct. %, 1900
1841-James Gordon Bennett, sue
cessor to his father of the N. Y.
Herald, able editor and picturesque
figure of his day, born in New
York. Died May IA, 1918.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

But the limit was reached yester-
day. Into our sanctum came storm
ing Miss Parker, indignation written
large on every feature.
'Now what do you suppose 1
found right by my desk this morn
ing'', she exploded. "Of all things,
you'd never guess a casket"
1t was true, too, the morticians
were holding their convention-per-
haps not inappropriately at the same
time that the Highway Safety Semi
mar was meeting downstairs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
NAV 10. 1894.

Rev. Albert S. Hale, pastor of the
Baptist church at Salem, Va, was
extended call to the pastorate of
the First Baptist church of this city,
by unanimous vote of the congrega-
ton at a meeting held last night.
The congregation has been without
a pastor nearly nine months, and this
is the first formal call that has been
extended by the congregation dur
ing that period.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
5000 YEARS AGO
(Taken from Daily Dispatch Files)

riages have recently been announced.
Last Tuesdays municipal election
in Henderson was considered unique
in the city's history. This year there
was no opposition for mayor, seek
ing reelection, or for five aldermen,
also seeking reelection.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
TODAY,S HOROSCOPE

Today gives ability of execution
and resource, plus a receptive and
dissective mind. There is an indi-
cation of Incidence or an inclina-
ton to depend too much upon 9th
ers. Do not allow this to get con-
troll OF you. There is indication. al
so, OF considerable means, without
much desire to add to them
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
May 10, 1919.

A number Of front porches of the
homes in the southern part of the
city beyond Chavasse avenue have
been pilfered of milk bottles this
week in what might be called a
milk raid". 1t seems that the pilfer
conceals himself somewhere in that
part of the city until the milk wagon
passes and then lifts the bottles off
the front porcheS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

Ronald Hocutt, director of the
highway safety division, received a
neat compliment from His Excel
lency:
81 don't know anybody who has
done a better job than Ronald Ho-
cutt', said the governor of North
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
NAV 10. 1929.

May 10, 1929.
A delightful bridge luncheon was
given by Mrs. J. H. Brodie Thurs
day morning honoring Miss Mary
r. Harris and Miss Nellie Perry
Cooper, whose approaching mar
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

speeder (Pendergrast wouldn't give
the name, because the mans dead
and gone these many years. was
handed cline and costs" by Mayor
Paul G.. Graham.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

RENT OUR FLOOR REFINISHING
machine and have beautiful floors
in your home at small cost The
machine is easy to operate. Let us
show you. Daniel Hardware, Inc.
phone so. 1O-2ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

Mems straw hats this summer, we
read, will be oddly shaped and gaily
colored. 1t looks like he who laughs
last is really she.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

WE ARE OFFERING REAL
values in used cars. All makes and
models. Used car lot at rear of our
garage. Scoggin Chevrolet Co.
mOn-Wed-fri-tf
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

AUTO BATTERIES RECHARGED
for only SOC. It's a real bargain
Bring us your battery the next
time it needs recharge. Western
Auto Associate Store, 4O1 South
Gdrnett Otreet. Wed-tf
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

BIG VALUES IN LAWN MOWERS
Ball bearing, easy cutting priced
at $685., SITS and 1915. New
style lawn rakes Use. Good oualitv
rubber hose SO feet at 1895, Aley
S. Watkins "The Place of Valrec y