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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
Marshals Are
Chosen From
Honor Group

Commencement marshals in Hen
derson high school are chosen each
year on the basis of scholarship at
tainments. The marshals are take4,
from the junior, sophomore ano
freshman classes.
This year, Doris Andrew is chief
marshal. Besides her, there are
nine marshals from the junior class
or tenth grade. From the ninth grade
or sophomore class, there are also
ten marshals, while the freshman
class furnishes six, these being from
the eighth grade.
The entire list of marshals follows
Doris Andrew, Chief Marshal
Paul Daeke, tenth grade.
Scottie Ayscue, tenth grade.
Ned Adams, tenth grade.
Ralph Murray, tenth grade.
George Eppes, tenth grade.
A. c. Virgins, tenth grade.
Mildred Whitley, tenth grade.
Evelyn Baker, tenth grade.
Dorothy May, tenth grade.
Julia Zollicoffer, ninth grade.
Elizabeth Laws, ninth grade.
Gus Zollicoffer, ninth grade.
Billy McCracken, ninth grade.
Mary Ann Cooper, ninth grade.
Doris Dennis, ninth grade.
Deloris Hinton, ninth grade.
Alma Melton, ninth grade.
Jeanette Falkner, ninth grade.
Eliza Boyd, ninth grade.
Edith Brown, eighth grade.
Thomas Falkner, eighth grade.
Albert Grissom, eighth grade.
M. w. Wester, eighth grade.
Josephine Newell, eighth grade.
Katherine Legg, eighth grade.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
Honors Won
By Many In
1889 Class
r. J. Jones, Jr., Vale
dictorian; Honor Roll
of Beta Club and 9th
ers Is Large

Many members OF the senior class of
1889 have attained high honors in
scholastic work and otherwise. They
will be recognized at commencement
for the work they have done.
Richard j. Jones, Jr., is valedic-
torian of the class of 1899, and is
closely followed in scholarship "a
chievements by Mary Louise Patter-
son, who is salutatorian. Both will
speak on the graduating exercises
program Thursday night.
George A. Rose III was selected
by vote of the faculty as the best
all-round boy of the class, and the
faculty chose Carolyn Duke. as the
best all-round senior girl.
Excellence of their work re-
suited in the choice of the five speak
ers who will appear on the gradual
ion night program, these being Jane
Newell, c. Barton Hoyle, Carolyn
Duke, Jane Thompson and George
A. Rose III.
Richard Jones' achievement as
valedictorian marks the first time in
many years that a boy has won this
high honor.
These seniors have scholarship
averages of 80 or more on all sub
jects for the entire four years of
high school, and constitute the senior
honor roll:
XJosephine Cole Basket
Laurel Madeline Atkinson.
x Dorothy Louise Brinkley.
Olivia Lenora Gupton
Eugene Bobbitt
X Anna Mae Bruin.
Rosalind Brummitt.
Jamie Conn.
X Carolyn Duke.
Edna Fallkner.
Dorothy Hughes. M
Ruth FARRELL. y.
X Dick Jones.
Ora Parham.
x Agnes Patterson
x Mary Louise Patterson.
William Tarry.
x Jane Thompson.
Jane Newell.
Gertrude Tanner.
x Charles Stewart.
Frances Vinson.
x Antigone Zapantis.
x George Rose.
x Members of the National Beta
Club. School honor society. In addi-
ton to the names starred Dorothy
Patterson is also a senior member Of
the Beta Club.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
Title CLASS OF 1859
JAMES MILLARD COGHILL, President.
HARRY MURRAY CLAYTON Vice-President.
MARY LOUISE PATTERSON Secretary

AGNES MEREDITH PATTERSON, Treasurer
Vaedictoran, Richard Jemson Jones, Jr
Salutatorian, Mary Louise Patterson
FACULTY SPONSORS
Miss Mary Harrison Benson Mrs Julia B. Nanny L. L. Miller
Glass Coors Red and White
Class Flowers Red and White Roses.
Glass Motto To Strive To Seek To Find Yield
Glass Mascots, Mishew Cooper and Edwards Eonghn.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Frances Hight, Ollie Mae Mullins,
Bulldog, Myrlon Johnson, Charles
Stewart, Jane Thompson, Pete Hob
good.
Eighth Row-Billy Fogleman, We'll
don Ellis, Rosa Belle Hughes, Robert
Satterwhite, C. Barton Hoyle, Mil
dred Harris, Clifton Edwards, Car
oline Miles, L. A. Jackson, Dorothy
Brinkley, Reynolds Smith, George
Rose, Nelson Satterwhite, and Car
Olyn Hardee.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

From the N. E. A. Commencement
Packet.
Wednesday Evening, May II, 1899,
Eight O'Clock
Scene l.: Keep Fit-Reader, Myr-
Ion Johnson.
Scene II: Develop Skills- Read
er, Dick Jones.
Scene III: Attach Importance to
the Family-Reader, Agnes Patter-
son.
Scene w: Make Friends Read
er, Jane Thompson.
Scene V: Be Loyal-Reader, Mar
garet Faris.
Scene vi: Enjoy Life-Reader,
Sunny Martin.
Scene VII: Exert influence
Reader, Leonard Hobgood.
Scene VIII: Keep On Learning
Reader, Myrlon Johnson.
Music Furnished by Mrs. E. F..
Shaw.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
.Oppenheim.

Oppenheim.
New copies of old favorites recent
ly catalogued, include. Lord Bacon's
Essays, "The Lamplighter" by Maria
S. Cummins and "The Hound of the
Baskervilles" by A. Cannon DOYLE.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Two night club fights same night
between Hollywood film stars. Sort
OF an after-hours double feature?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

North Carolina peanut growers are
busy seeding this years crop, re-.
ports Enos c. Blair, agronomist of
the State College Extension Service.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
SENIOR PAGEANT
your LIFE IN THE MAKING"
An Educational Pageant.

From the N. E. A. commencement
Packet.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
German Gain
In Rounlania
tremendous

Bucharest, Roumania, March "a
(AP)-Germany has won the right
to all products of German-Rouman-
ian companies to be established in
Roumania to exploit new oil fields
and other industries. This is the
nearest approach to monopolistic con
cessions given to Germany in the
five-year trade agreement reached
Wednesday, a synopsis of which was
issued yesterday.
The agreement, in effect, extends
German commercial enterprise to the
Black Sea by giving the Nazi states
free ports on the Danube and the
Black Sea.
Roumania, meanwhile, continued
defense precautions today and re-
servists proceeded to concentration
points under the movement ordered
Monday. It appeared that the func-
tioning of the German-Roumania
companies would be more or less out
of Roumanian control, but Bucharest
authorities said Roumanian commits
sioners would be in position to put
the brakes on the operation of other
features of the plan should German
influence become too great.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Army Supply
Bill Given
Group 0:kay
$513,188,782 Meas
ure Favored by SEN
ate Committee; Doug
las Approved for SUI
preme Court Unani-
mously by Committee
in Five Minutes

Washington, March 24.-(AP)-
The Senate appropriations Commit
tee approved today a $515, ,188, 1872
army supply bill. providing some Of
the money for the administration
ornaments program.
Adding $1,000,000 for experimental
research work, the committee left
otherwise unchanged an appropria-
ton of $94, ,737 ,281, plus contract au-
thorizations of $19,505,988 for the
army air corps Included in this a.
mount were funds for a construction
program that will add 1890 fighting
and training planes to the air corps
present equipment by June 30, 1910.
All told, the Senate committee
boosted the bill $13,330,938 above the
sum voted by the House. The total
appropriation compared with $780,
2O1 ,254 for the war Department for
the last fiscal year.
Other developments:
A Senate judiciary subcommittee
unanimously approved the nominal
ton of William O. Douglas to be an
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Bill to Ban
Markers Is
On Calendar
By 26 to Ii Vote, Sen
ate Agrees To Con
slider Measure Given
Unfavorable Report
by Committee; Earlier
Primary Dates Ap-
proved

Raleigh, March 24.-(AP)-The
House refused, 73 to "a today to
grant any tax exemption to home
teads.
The division vote followed more
than an hour Of debate on an amend
ment to the biennial revenue mach
inery act which would have grant
ed an exemption under a 1886 con-
st;tutional amendment to half the
first $1,000 valuation of homesteads.
Then, without major argument,
the act was passed on two readings
and went to the Senate.
Representatives. berry of Cas-
ton, Murphy Of Rowan and McBryde
of Cumberland argued for the eX-
emption, with Bryant of Durham,
Taylor of Durham, and Page Of
Bladen opposing. Cherry offered
it would place in effect "the man
date of the people adopted in 1885,,
to grant homestead exemptions from
taxes
Senators ordered enactment into
law bill imposing license fee on
nonresident menhaden fishermen,
and to permit adjoining and adja-
cent municipalities to cooperate in
constructing and operating sewage
systems
The Senate, bySsa 26 to IA vote, put
a House bill to abolish professional
markers in primaries and elections
on its calendar for ''full, free and
frank consideration" Its elections
committee rejected the measure this
morning, but Senators Lumpkin of
Franklin and Umstead of Orange
brought out minority favorable
report, which the Senate adopted
The Senate Elections Committee
ur1favorably reported today a House
bill which would have abolished pro
fessional markers, though Governor
Hoey had called for enactment of
such a measure. The vote was five
10 Two.
Senator Lumpkin of Franklin and
UmStead of Orange announced their
intention of bringing in a minority
favorable report, but other commit
teemen said they would have to get
another signer before they could do
SO.
State Elections Chairman Lucas
had just told the committee that
the marker contributes more to
corruption of elections than any
other feature"
Yesterday Governor Hoey said he
was Every anxious for the legisla-
ture to adopt at this session a mea-
sure improving the methods now OBJ
tanning with reference to markers
for primaries and elections. 1 men
toned this matter in my message to
the General Assembly, and 1 regard
it as vital.'
The committee recommended pas
sage of the House Bill to advance
the date of the primaries by one
week due to enactment of new law
prohibiting use of absentee votes in
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Madrid To
Surrender
On Saturday
Dispatch Says Franco
To T AXE Loyalist Cap
ital Within Few Hours
on Uncon ditiona |
Basis

Rome, March 24-(AP) = The
newspaper II Piccolo, in dispatch
today from Burgos, Spanish national
ist capital, said the surrender of
Madrid to General Franco, was plan
ned for tomorrow.
Hendaye, France, reports, mean
while, said the Spanish nationalists
made ready to accept virtually un-
conditional surrender by the Madrid
government, which would end the
32-months-old civil war. and the
long siege of the republican capital.
1t was reported that a Madrid
radio speaker had said surrender of
Madrid was but "a question of min
utes," but this was denied in Madrid
by Defense Minister General Casado.
Obvious plans for transfer of Ma
drid authority from the hands of the
defense council under General Miaja
which seized power March 5, were
being made by both republicans and
nationalists. In Madrid newspaper
campaign was started to create IA
voFable atmosphere for the surren-
der. The press called peace the great
est of victories.
CA dispatch from Burgos to the
Italian newspaper II Popolo di Roma
said republican mission had flown
there secretly to negotiate the sur
render.)
Plans for capitulation of Madrid
were reported SO complete that ar
arrangements had been made for erec-
ton of loud speakers in the principal
plaZaS to provide music for dancing
in the streets.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
BY ROGER w. BABSON
1889, Publishers Financial
Bureau Inc

Palm Beach, Fla, March 24.-Pro-
fit margins Of many companies are
very good. In view Of the sharp in
crease IN wages and taxes in recent
years, many people will be astonish-
ed to discover how good profit mar
gins are when first quarter reports
are printed. This, of course, is not
true Of all companies. In some con-
Germs, margins are about as low as
they have ever been, but these are
special situations In this connection,
readers may recall that one-third of
all companies lost money even in
1929.
The reasons for improved profit
margins are two-fold. First is the
gain in industrial efficiency through
the wider use of labor-saving ma
chinery and processes. 1t is estimated
that the output of goods for one man
in one hour has jumped IL per cent
since the end of 1885. ct has gone
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Memel Grab
Gives Reich
Ring In East
For First Time Since
World War, Germans
Claim They H a " e
Only Friends on East
ern Frontier; Hitler
Now Ruler of 8O,OOO,-
600 Persons

Berlin, March 24.-(AP)-Adolf
Hitler returned to Berlin today from
his triumphal visit to Memel, his
latest acquisition, entering the cap
ital of his expanding realm without
the, fanfare of previous homecom-
ings.
The special train which brought
Hitler from Swinemuende, his Baltic
naval base, where he had landed
from a pocket battleship, reached
Berlin at 1:30 p. m. (7:3O a. m. east
ern standard time).
His Nazi followers saw in develop
ments of the two days since Hitler
left for his battleship dash across the
Baltic to Memel significant new ac-
cretions to the strength of greater
Germany.
Incorporation of Memelland into
greater Germany and negotiation of
a Roumanian. trade treaty have
clinched the last links in a band of
friendly neighbors along Germany's
eastern frontier as a buffer against
her potential foe, Soviet Russia.
For the first time since the World
War, Germans held today that they
had only friends on the immediate
east, from the Baltic to the Black
Sea.
Adolf Hitler, fuehrer of 10000, 900
persons in 245,000 square miles of
territory, thus had improved Ger
many's central position not only by
solidifying his empire in the past
year, but also by diminishing the
old Germany worry about a possible
sudden destructive attack from the
east.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
6 White Men
In
So. Carolina
Largest Mass Execu-
tion for Single Crime
i n States History;
Convicted In Prison
Guard Staying

Columbia, S. e., March 24-(AP)
Six white men who killed a prison
guard in an attempt to escape from
the State penitentiary Is months ago
died for the crime today shortly
after dawn.
The prisoners were Unconditional
as they walked to the chair to pay
for the Staying of Captain Olin San
ders December 12, 1887.
George Wingard, 10, youngest of
the sextette, was the first to die. He
sat in the chair at 6:28 a. M, and was
pronounced dead three minutes, %
seconds, after the switch was thrown
at 6:31 a. m.
All made brief statements, all ex-
cept Wingard, saying that Sanders
was not harmed until tear and
nausea gas shells were hurled into
the captains, office, where the pri-
soners held him as hostage in hopes
of gaining their freedom.
William B. Woods, alias Gentry,
25, of Biloxi, Miss, who testified at
the trial that he was the one who
stabbed the penitentiary guard, said:
81 can only say that five men in
I411O OctOC l1dVC ICCClV0Q dill 1uJuSIlC0
at the hands of the State of South
Carolina"
Looking straight ahead at Captain
c. A. Sullivan, who succeeded San
ders, Woods said calmly:
"You should know about the pri-
soners' testimony. You participated
in it yourself"
The other four men, Roy Suttles,
20, of Simpsonville; Herbert Moor
man, AZ, of Detroit, Mich; Clayton
Grams, 20, of Rochester, N. Y, and
J. V. Blair, %, of Sumter, died in
that order in the largest mass cleo
trocution for one crime in South
Carolina penal history.
Approximately 80 spectators, in
cluding about ten newspaper men,
physicians, officers and other Off
cials witnessed the electrocutions,
which required only so minutes. Each
convict walked into the death cham
Der with virtually little support from
accompanying officers.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
100000 PERSONS ON HAND
TO SEE "WORKMAN" WIN

Aintree, England, March 24-(AP)
Workman, one of the Irish-bred
favorites, owned by Sir Alexander
Mcguire, today won the 1O1st grand
national steeplechase before crowd
of more than 25O,O0O Captain L.
Scott Briggs Mac Moffatt was Sec
ond, and the highly regarded Kilstar,
from Dorothy Paget's stable, third.
Coolleen, carrying the silk of J. V.
Rank, and fourth last year, again
finished in the same position, with
A. Donn's Dominick's Cross fifth, in
the field of thirty-seven that started
the four and half mile trip.
Workman, which went to the posi-
at the odds of 100 to 8, finished three
lengths in front of MacMoffatt after
running with the leaders from the
start MacMoffatt, 81 to outsider,
was another Is lengths in front OF
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24

folks will put an extinguisher on
his greed, regardless of any effort
by outsiders? That's the thought
back of Treasury Secretary Nor
genthau's order slapping 25 per-
cent punitive tariff upon a lot of
German imports into this coun-
try. The intention is to make the
Berlin dictator gag and regurgi-
tate over his Czecho-Slovakian
gobble. While he's doing so he
isn't likely to have breath to do
any additional gobbling. In fact,
he may have to let go of what he's
got already.
Adolf himself is authority for
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
A. A. HERGENROTHER
PASSES IN RALEIGH
Was Retired Postal Worker and Once
Acting Postmaster at Whining
ton Years Ago

Raleigh, March 24.-(AP)-A. A.
Hergenrother. 60, retired Whining
ton postal employe, died here this
morning at the home of his sister,
Mrs. James Mallett. The funeral will
be held from st. Mary's church, Will
mington, Monday morning. Hergen-
rother was native of Germany. His
parents moved to Wilmington when
he was a child. He once served as
acting postmaster there.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24

Body Is Found In
Burning Station

Aberdeen, March 24.-(AP)-
Tommy Moore, 30-year- old farm
er, was found shot to death today
in filling station in which he
had been sleeping. Officers sought
to link his Staying with series
of rObberies here. A slot machine
and some merchandise were TAX
en- from the station. A window
had been broken to gain entrance.
Officers also reported more
than $40 in cash and an undeter-
mined amount of merchandise was
taken from the Bernie Hardware
Company last night. A robbery
attempt at a store in Ashley
Heights, suburb, was frustrated,
officers said, by an attendant.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Slight Drop
For Cotton

New York, March 24-(AP)-Cot-
ton futures opened two to four
points lower under Bombay and
Liverpool selling of new crop months
and hedge selling of nearbys. At the
end of the first hour, prices held
close to their opening range, and
were one to four points lower. Ar
round midday futures were traded in
a listless market at prices around the
opening level, ranging two to four
points net lower.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Slovaks Say
Town Bombed
By Hungarians

Bratislava, Slovakia, March "a
(AP)-The Slovak defense minister
today declared the Hungarian-held
town of Sobrance had been bombed
and one Hungarian plane brought
down in fighting in eastern Slovakia.
SObrance is seven miles west of the
Carpatho Ukraine border, from
which Hungarian forces have pene-
trated Slovakia.
A defense ministry communique
said the Hungarians were Slowly
retreating under pressure from our
air forces. Our fliers are very active,
and have had important successes.
The Hungarians are putting up heavy
resistance"
A second communique said: ::Our
fliers early today made observation
flights over the region around Kosice
Michelovce and Trebisov."
(This was the first indication Hum
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Poland Not
Join In
Any "Blocs"

Warsaw, Poland, March a.
(AP) The Warsaw Express
POranny, considered to be
mOutnDiece of the foreign Of
flee, said today Poland would not
join any International bloc.
Political circles considered this
as tantamOunt to rejection of the
British "stOp Hitler" plan.
Poland, the newspaper said, won
dered whether the conception of in
ternational cooperation under Soviet
Russian auspices was not based on an
illusion.
(T'he Russian government has pro-
posed a conference of interested
powers to discuss common action in
event Of possible German aggression.
The British government, in a coun-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24

Ing 10. 1AC . OIL
ambitious bitter but
the White House
suspects that this
time he'll choke on
his own mouthful
unless he's left to
masticate it very
gradually. And the
notion is to joggle
and annoy him un-
til he strangles.
Dropping the meta
phor, can't he be
bothered, just as
he's trying to swal-
low, to such an ex-
tent that his home
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
IL Pay Days
-
For Teachers
Is Probable
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
IL the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv HENRY AVERTTT,
Rv HEN

Raleigh, March 24.-Unless it gets
lost somewhere in the shuttle before
final enactment, there will be pro-
vision in the school machinery act
whereby it will be possible for school
teachers to get their annual salaries
paid to them in twelve, rather than
eight, installments.
The stipulation is permissive, not
mandatory, and putting it into effect
will depend upon securing the sane
ton Of "the governing board, the SUI
perintendent and a majority of the
(C0ntin11nd on page E011rl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Drys Resent
Attitude Of
Wet Counties
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv HENRY AVERTTL
RY HEN

Raleigh, March 24.-Those legisIa-
tors who desire to make real Sa-
haras out of their localities by means
of prohibition of beer and wine sales
are not yet ready to admit complete
defeat in this session of the General
Assembly.
They are also laying the founda-
ton for dry campaign based large
ly upon refusal of the lawmakers
to concede to them the "local op-
ton" that has been accorded coun-
ties under the State ABC act
So far, every effort to ban the
sale of wine and beer in any county
or other local unit has been baked
by the finance committee upon the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Blocking Of
Exports Blow
ToGernlany
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, March "a. The
Washington administrators opinion
is that Herr Hitler has bitten off
more than he can chew, as the say
inc is He's an
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
10 Americans
Win $150,00O
In Irish Race

New York, March 24.-(AP)-Ten
ticket holders in the United States
won prizes of $15O,0OO each today
in the Irish hospital sweepstakes
when Workman crossed the line first
in the grand national steeplechase at
Aintree, England.
Nine of the winners were from
New York City and vicinity and the
tenth from Philadelphia.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Stocks Climb
At the-Start

New York, March 24.-(AP)-
Stocks resumed the forward tilt in
today's market, with leaders adding
fractions to more than two points to
Thursdays recoveries. Extension of
the advance was negotiated on rela-
lively small dealings, however, and
a little profit taking near the fourth
hour brought price shading. Bonds
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, slightly warmer in in
terror of east central portion to-
night; Saturday partly cloudy.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Higher Taxes and Labor
Are Absorbing Profits
Savings Resulting from Economies That Once
Were Passed to Consumers Now Going Into
These Channels; Living Standards Threatened

up more than SO per cent in Is
years.) Higher wages and union
activities have spurred arrangements
into combing every possibility where
they could install a new machine or
a new process to save on labor costs.
Insofar as union activities and high
er wages have caused this, the unions
have only hurt their less efficient
workers.
Raw Materials Cheap
Second major reason for better pro-
fit margins is a lower cost for raw
materials. The following figures show
this clearly:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24

These lower costs are particularly
important in the baking, food, cop
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Evening star., 1939-11-02

Books and magazines for the
troops are arriving at a Red Cross
library in London at the rate of
1000 day.