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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
August Tax
Is $7,411.42

Total taxes collected by F. M.
Dorsey, county tax collector, during
August were $7,411.32, he reported
to the Vance Board of County Com
rlissiOners Monday at their regular
monthly meeting for September.
The figure included $3,804.O8 Of
new 1899 accounts and S3,607.32 on
back taxes for 1888 and previous
2ears.
The books have not been turned
over to the collector for this year
as yet, IS they have not been COM
pleted, but payments are being re-
oeived on the basis of the came
levy as last year, which was 80
cents, and which has been fixed for
the 1939-40 fiscal year.
JailOr Ellis reported to the com
missioners that AS Jail days were
served in the county prison by
prisoners committed to his care
during August. He did not state the
number in jail at the end of the
month.
The commissioners transacted
mostly routine business at their
September meeting, and granted 3
beer license to S. G. Beard and a
free peddlers' license to Robert
Pope.
In the afternoon jurors were
drawn to serve during the regular
October sessions Of Vance Superior
Court.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
MAYOR DISPOSES OF
SEVERAL CHARGES

Mayor Mayor Henry T. Powell
disposed of several cases in city
'ourt Today.
Dewey Davis was guilty of bein :
trunk, and paid a fine of 81. ans
'OstS.
Emmanuel Aston, Negro, con-
'icted of operating a motor vehicle
Without operators license, was
iven 80 days on the roads, COM
nitment not to issue upon payment
# fine of $5 and costs.
William Butler, Negro, guilty of
possessing and transporting illegal
whisky, had prayer for judgment
continued upon payment of fine
IF SIS and costs of court.
Prayer for judgment was con-
tinued upon payment of the costs
as to Henry Aston, Negro, guilty OF
assault. .
Orange Williams, Negro. was dis
charged with being tried on charge
of permitting his automobile to be
,perated by an unlicensed driver.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
WILLIAM BURROUGHS
ON LINER ATHENA
Vance County Native, En-
route to Canada; Fear
Felt for Safety

News has been received in the
city that William Burroughs, who
is a buyer for the Canadian Leaf
Tobacco Company, was a passenger
on the ill-fated British liner, Athe-
MIA, which was torpedoed Sunday
night about 200 miles off the Scot
tish Coast with an undetermined
loss of life.
Mr.. Burroughs is a brother of
Miss Annie Gray Burroughs, a
member of the Oxford school fac
ulty, and son of Mrs. j. E. Bur-
roughs, Of Vance county.
Mr.. Burroughs Was enroute to
Canada from Rhodesia, Africa,
where he has been buying during
the summer.
Relatives have expressed fear for
his safety.
The British charge German sub
marine tOrpedoed the boat, with the
Germans counter-charging that the
British blew up the ship to gain
the support Of the United States in
the European war. There were about
3l1 Americans on the ship that was
carrying approximately 1,400 per-
sons.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
MARS HILL GROUP
OFF FOR OPENING

Students from here who will at
tend Mars Hill College this year left
Yesterday to resume their studies
There were five in all, three fresh
men and two upper claSsmen.
The upper class members, due to
graduate next spring, were Miss
Miriam Pinnell and H. B. ParrOtt,
both of whom graduated from Hen
derson high school in 1888. The 9TH
ers, all of whom graduated from
Henderson high last May, were c.
Barton Hoyle, Bobby Jones and Eu-
- Teiser.
This group is the first of the local
contingent to leave for college OF
university for the start of the fall
terms. Others later will go to the
University of North Carolina, Duke
Womans College at Greensboro, N
c. State College, Wake Forest, Mere
dith, Campbell, Eastern Carolina
College, Elon, and several colleges
or universities in Virginia.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
Negotiations
Started For
Fire Truck

Negotiations are under way be-
tween a committee of the Henderson
City Council and three manufacturers
for the purchase of new fire truck
for the municipal fire department.
it was learned today. The commit
tee is composed of Aldermen M. Y
Cooper, supervisor of finance, and
Il. w. Ellis, supervisor of public
works.
It is understood prices have been
sought from the American LaFrance
Company, The Corbitt Company OF
Henderson and the Seagrove Com
pany. Both of the trucks now in the
city's service were purchased many
years ago from the American La
France Company.
Best offers SO far received, accord
ing to information available today
are between $11, 200 and $12,OOO Eff
forts, are being made to shave these
prices as far as possible, but it ap-
peared probable that a purchase
would be made as soon as a salts
factory agreement could be had.
At its August meeting week ago,
the City Council named Aldermen
Cooper and Ellis as a committee to
negotiate with the manufacturers
and clothed them with the power to
act. Provision has been made in the
new city budget for funds for pur-
chase Of new truck and also other
equipment, including additional hose
supplies.
There was no information today
indicating just when a deal would
be consummated nor with what COM
pany.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
City To Use
Site Of Old
Prison Camp

An agreement has been reached
between city and county authorities
for the use by the city for period
of at least a year of the old county
convict camp site on the eastern out
skirts of the city, and possession is
expected to be given in the very near
future, it was revealed today by
Mayor Henry T. Powell.
The negotiations were carried on
by committees, with Mayor Powell
and Alderman T. w. Ellis as super
visor of public works representing
the city and Commissioners E. l..
Fleming and Henry w. Hight repre-
senting the Board of County Com
miSSionerS.
Street department trucks, the
machine shop and other equipment
will be transferred to the old camp,
which was vacated last week by the
State Highway & Public Works
Commission when the camp was
transferred to the new barracks and
reservation just completed at Gill
burg, four miles east of the city.
The terms Of the agreement call for
the city to give the county free water
for the court house, the Jail, the
county home an dthe Scott Parker
Sanatorium, and to keep the grass
moved and the hedges trimmed at
the county home and the sanatorium.
The arrangement was limite to one
year, but may be extended unless
the county sells the site, and in such
an event the city will be given the
refusal of an outright purchase.
With vacation of quarters now US
ed in the municipal building by the
street department., it is planned to
move the police court hall from the
second floor to the ground floor, and
to transfer the city Jail from the
present Quarters to the vacated room,
so that the present quarters can be
utilized by firemen, especially with
the purchase of a new fire truck.
This complete transfer may not be
fully consummated and carried out
for several months, but it is expect
= tine street department will move
to the convict camp site very shortly.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
WHY ATTEND Church
IS SERMON SUBJECT
Large Congregations At.
tending Series at Christ
Methodist

"Why We Should Go To Church
is the subject for the sermon at
Christ Methodist church tonight, in
it's series of revival services being
conducted this week. The pastor
Rev. T. J. Whitehead, will deliver
the EermOn.
The revival began with the II
o'clock service Sunday morning
with a service being held that eve
ming at o'clock. Each night dur
ing the week there will be an eve
ming service at o'clock
A very good congregation at
tended the church last night, and
much interest was displayed in the
revival. Special music was fea-
ture Of the service. The sermon
topic was thinking on Honesty"
with preaching by the pastor.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the services there this week.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
Jurors Named
For October
Court Term

Jurors drawn by the Vance Board
of County Commissioners Monday
afternoon to serve during the Oc-
tober term Of superior court were
announced today. Forty WeEe drawn
for the first week for trial Of
criminal cases and 25 for the civil
term to follow Judge c. E. Thomp-
son, of Elizabeth City, will pre-
side both weeks.
Jurors for the first week, by
townships, follow:
Henderson-Faul Henley, w. B.
Stone, H. A. Rainey, C. E. Stain
back, w. H. Henderson, c. E. Hight,
c.. M. O'Neil, c. P. Waddell, j. E.
Johnson, Shirley w. Knott, E. c..
Collin, w. E. Hicks, A. j. Jones, w.
J. Parham, J. w. Jenkins, Thos.
E. Parham, S. r. Chavasse.
Kittrell-P. H. Gill, j. P. Row.
land, N. F. Parham, B. N. Pace, r.
P. Stewart, Charles S. Smith, L. G..
Frazier, r. J. Edwards.
Williamsboro-S. E. Wilson, J. H.
Tippett, Carl NJ Green.
George M. Harris, B..
A. Norwood.
Nutbush-Henry B. White, Jr.
Middleburg- V. Duke, F. H.
Ellington, T. P. Floyd, E. Gill,
r. A. Paschall, Sr., w. w. Ellis.
Sandy Creek-C. NJ Watkins.
Dabney-J. H. Harris, S. T. Le-
May.
No jurors were drawn from Wat
kins township for the first week.
Those drawn for the second week,
for civil trials, were:
Henderson-G. M. Grissom, w. d.
Whitley, H. w. Whitmore. Frank S.
Page, c. M. Turner, j. P. Harris,
ID. T. Harmon, c. NJ Hight, G. It
Page, Carl H. Coghill, J. J. S.
Galloway, T. I. Gillian, Eugene r.
Nelson, j. C. Mann.
Kittrell-C. w. Grissom.
Williamsboro-H S. Woody, H.
Z. Clark.
Middleburg-C. R. sturges, P. O.
Jackson, ]. M. Tucker
Sandy Creek-Andrew Stevenson,
n. N. Harris, Roy T. Weldon.
Dabney-L. B. Wilkerson.
Watkins-D. M. Glover.
No jurors for the second were
drawn from either Townsville or
Nutbush townships.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05

After midnight of next Tuesday
September II, the City of Henderson
will forbid its fire-fightlng equip
ment to answer alarms and give pro
lection against fires beyond the mar
row confines of the city limits, Mayor
Henry T. Powell announced today
The trucks will be held within the
1.2OO-yard radius of the city limits
the mayor said.
The reason given was the persona
liability risks involved in going out
side. Mayor Powell explained tha
city authorities, in authorizing trucks
going outside the prescribed area
would be personally responsible fol-
damage to equipment, and work
mems compensation insurance does
not cover injuries or deaths incurred
in fighting fires on the outside.
It was explained that the last legis-
lature provided that county COM
missioners might request fire protec-
ton for outlying districts, but "for
reasons they deemed sufficient" the
county commissioners have not re-
quested the service. The mayor
pointed out that Sin fairness to its
officials and the tax payers, this free
fire protection "can no longer be
maintained at the expense of the tax
payers and at the risk of personal
loss of the officials and firemen."
The mayor explained that weeks
notice was given outside property
owners so that they could make nee
essary insurance adjustments.
Mayor PowelPs full statement fol-
lows:
Notice is hereby given, in ac-
cordance with the orders of the City
Council of the City of Henderson,
that on and after the 18th day of
September at II o'clock midnight,
the fire department will answer no
alarms outside of the city limits Of
the City of Henderson.
"The reason for this action is that
up until this date the City Of Hen
derson has adopted a good neighbor
policy of allowing its equipment to
fight fires outside of the city limits
because these people had no way
of securing fire protection. But there
were grave risks in carrying out this
policy because of the liability on city
officials for damaged equipment and
also because the workmen's COM
pensation did not cover injuries or
deaths occurring in fighting fires out
side the city limits.
But the last legislature provided
a means of protecting the outlying
districts by having the county re-
quest fire protection and the city
aCrhpino tO fl1rr1 oh II Eor roocOpc
that they deemed sufficient, the
county commissioners have not re-
quested this service And the city,
in fairness to its officials and the tax
payers. feels that free fire protec-
ton can no longer be maintained at
the expense of the tax payers and at
the risk Of personal loss of the Of
ficials and firemen.
This notice of one week is given
in order that those who desire to do
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page -Four

l. Has the United States Hver been
member Of the World Court?
2. When the Joker is used as a
wild card in Poker game, what
is the highest possible hand?
3. Name the capital Of Bolivia?
4. Which of Watteau's paintings
was stolen from The Louvre in
Paris, and later returned in re-
stored condition?
5. What is meant by ship that
draws 80 feet?
s. Name the U. S. Ambassador to
Great Britain.
7. What is the correct pronuncia-
ton Of the word ShOsnone?
g. To which royal princess was a
son born recently?
8. How many cubic feet are in
one cubic yard?
10. Name the principal river of
Nevada?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
CLOPTON, GUPTON
TRIAL THIS WEEK
Two Are Charged with Breaking and
Entering Newman and HOyle
Store on Saturday Night

Horace Clopton and Durwood
Gupton, South Henderson men,
charged with breaking and enter
ing, and held in Vance county all
in default of $1O0 bonds awaiting 4
hearing in county court, will likely
be brought to trial later in the
week, Sheriff L. L.. Swanson said.
The two were alleged to have
entered the store of Newman and
Hoyle, South Henderson, Saturday
night, and not Oakleys store as was
reported in error in yesterday S
Daily Dispatch.
The men took a quantity Of to-
bacco, cigarettes, chickens and part
Of a nam.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
Liquor Sales
Are $13,O44

Sales of Vance county's liquor
store during August amounted TO
$13,044.95, it was announced today
at the ABC boards offices. This
compared with $1O,59O9O in August
last year, and representing an in
crease of more than $4,000. July
figures this year were $12.645.75.
For eight months of 1899 the
sales of the store have amounted
to $102,005.35, as compared with
S101 ,042.35. The end of August was
the first time sales for 1899 have
exceeded gross sales for the like
period Of 1888, according to figures
available .oday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
Club Pool r
Close SUNDAY

The swimming pool at wo.t
Country Club will be cIaca5 Tesl End
the season Sunday nigh ''9go for
announced today. S4' II was
During the summer, the poo, -
proven verltable heaven for ", rol las
and old seeking relief D young
neat. 1t has been wen oatran;l g,n ne
and enjoyed to the fulloy, po~ o'.4oed 4onIzed
the members. eA'eht by
The pool was completed this v....
and opened in early sumn'a,. ~,,S year,
part OF an expansion progra,,, It Is
RED out at West End tbis ' & Vaf-
making the club one of tbo '1 h,. year.
eastern North Carolina ~ 'eSV IN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
w. l.. BEDDINCFIELD
JOINS THE u. S. ARMY

Walter L. Beddingfield, Jr, a
-,raduate of Henderson high school,
md son of Mr. and Mrs Walter L.
7eddingfield, Sr., of 851 North Gar
,ett street, has been accepted for
Enlistment in the Army by the U.
:. Recruiting Station in Raleigh,
'ecoming the 14th man to be ac-
,epted by that office last month.
Beddingfield was assigned to the
son youths will be humming the
stationed in Fort Bragg.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
TWO TRANSFERS ON
MONDAY ARE FILED

Two realty transfers were ne
corded with the Vance Registry
yesterday.
Sadie Ellington Hicks, ct al, sold
Annie B. Ellington 60 acres in
Dabney township for $40 and con-
.;iderations.
AL B. Wester and wife conveyed
land in the county to Thomas Sneed,
E. al, for $40 and considerations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
TWO CASES TRIED IN
RECORDERS COURT

Two cases were tried at today's
session Of county court.
Fred Garlic, alias Fred Carlillies,
charged with assault with q deadly
weapon, and carrying a concealed
weapon, was guilty of simple as
sault, and was given 80 days on
'ie roads, commitment not to issue
upon payment Of the costs, and
showing good behavior for the next
IL months.
Leonard Green, Negro, Was
charged with operating motor
vehicle after his license had been
revoked. The State took mol
pros.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
Fire Trucks To Be Kept
Inside The City Limits
After Next Tuesday No Protection Will Be
Accorded Property On Outside; Liability
Risks Involved Given By Mayor AS Reason.

so may readjust the insurance car
ried on their property.
"It is with regret that the City of
Henderson takes this step, but, since
the means of providing this protec-
ton has been provided by the legis-
lature and not accepted by the coun-
ty, we do not feel that we would be
fair to the tax payers of Henderson
should we continue this free service
to those outside the city limits
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
Sees New Dodge
Model at Meeting

T. w. Ellis of f & z Motor Com
pany has returned from Greensboro
where he attended a field conference
and gathering of sales officials and
Dodge dealers, and viewed the first
showing of the new 1910 Dodge
models, and heard sales and service
plans discussed for 1910
The new 1910 Dodge models will
soon make their appearance here,
Mr.. Ellis said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
16 Cases Of
Contagious
Last Month

During August Is contagious
diseases were reported in Vance
county, the county health depart
nent announced today Whooping
cough led the list, with IL, three
times as much as all the others
combined.
There were two cases of diph-
iberia, and one each of measles and
cariet fever.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-05
FIVE MORE PAY 81
TO THE CITY CLERK

Five more paid fines of ST into
the office of the city clerk, accord
ing to the records there, for viola
tions Of traffic ordinances. They
were Graham Grissom, A. c. Wig
gins, Clinton Fuller, S. r. Harris
and F.. M. Breedlove.
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Defenseless Are Sheled; Cities Set Afr
SPARKS WIFE
PLEADS GUILTY
TO INDICTMENT
Is Taken 10 Keflhikdn for
Sentencing on Charge
Of Being Fence

Pleading guilty to charge of re-
ceiving, concealing and disposing Of
goods which she knew to be stolen,
Mrs. James E. Sparks left Juneau
last night in the custody of Chief
Deputy Marshal Mrs. Flossie Doolin
to receive sentence at Ketchikan,
where the court is now in, session.
Mrs. Sparks at first denied the
charges and employed counsel, but
after few days decided to plead
guilty
Her husband, former elevator OPP
orator and night Waterman at the
Federal Building, has pleaded guilty
to a four count Grand Jury indict-
ment charging him with robbing the
mails and larceny in a public build
ing. He will be taken to Ketchikan
for sentencing probably next week
Marshal William T. Mahoney said
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King zog
Will Die
Fighting
Albanian Minister 10 u. 5.
Comments on Ruth
less Italian Act

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Alban-
ian Minister F'aik Konitza, said to-
day that King zog will die fight
ing.
THE italians have many admir-
able qualities" said Konitza, land
they are a great nation, but God
Almighty has deprived them of all
sense of chivalry in His inscrutable
design. Just when our Queen gave
birth to a son, the Italians dealt
this blow.
THE Queen mother had to leave
her sick bed with a two-day old
baby to seek safety.
What will this unproyoked ag-
gression bring them? They outnum-
Der us 40 TO l in numbers, a thou
sand TO one in equipment Such ag-
erosion will certainly bring no
durable profit and no honor.
"A prizefighter wishing to inn
press the world with his strength
doesn't knock down a child, but he
challenges another prize fighter
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PUBLIC ENEMY
SHOT BY FBI
AGENTS TODAY
Benny Dickson Killed on
Womdn's Tip as He
Reaches for Irons

ST. LOUIS, April OUTLAW Ben
ny Dickson was shot to death today
by special agents of the FBI as he
grabbed for two heavy revolvers he
was carrying in his pockets.
A tip sent officers to a shabby
hamburger stand where Dickson was
eating.
The outlaw died enroute TO a hos
pital without talking.
AS in the death of the notorious
John Dillinger, a woman was cred
tied by witnesses with trapping
Dickson.
AS the young outlaw walked out
Of the hamburger shop. another
customer said to woman in brown,
was that the right man?"
The woman in brown nodded and
a few seconds later Dickson lay dead
Usually, Dickson was accompanied
by his wife, pretty Estelle Dickson,
during his forays in crime, but he
was alone when shot.
Although only 81 years old, Dick
son was wanted for a long list of
crimes headed by a double kid
mapping and a $4,000 bank robbery
charge.
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ALBANIA INVADED

TIRANE, Albania, April 7-Of-
ficial Albanian reports state the
Italians invading Albanian soil,
have been repulsed four times with
heavy losses
Vlone, on the coast, has been
bombarded both from sea and air
and is reported burning but the
Italians have been unable to land
there
1t is officially stated however. that
the Italians have occupied Sar-
ande, at the southern tip OF Al
bania, close to the frontier OF
Greece.
Saint Joan is also reported to
have been bombed and incendiary
brands have set the city afire.
The italians are reported to have
advanced inland ten miles from
Saint John then stopped,
Further north the Italian Com
mander is reported to have landed
forces on the beach at Durazzo and
proposed a truce to save bloodshed.
This evidently has not been ac-
cepted.
Italian bombers are flying con-
tinuously over Tirane, dropping
proclamations demanding surren-
der.
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UNFRIENDLY FOR 20 YEARS

BY 1875 the Samoan business had
advanced far into diplomatic stages
and we bickered back and forth with
Germany until 1899 before reaching
an agreement to divide the islands,
we taking a pair and giving a pair
to Germany
All during that 20 years or more
we had fairly sour relations with
Germany, and only slightly better
with England. But by the time of
the American War we real
ly were at loggerheads with Ger
many.
Partly out of sympathy for Spain
and partly to restrain the United
States, Germany tried valiantly to
keep this country from going to
war. Germany didn't know just
how much we would claim of
SPANS colonial possessions in the
Pacific. Germany negotiated sub
rosa treaty with Spain to buy for
$5,000000 all its Pacific Islands ex-
cept the Philippines, even while we
were at war.
That affair between Commodore
Dewey and the German Admiral
Won Diederich in Manila Harbor
grew out of the German plan TO
grab the Philippines in event we
should not take them.
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SYDNEY, Australia, April 7. -
Premier Joseph A. Lyons is dead
from a heart attack after two days
of illness. The 59-year-old man had
been Premier of Australia since 1882
and was serving his shird successive
term.
Joseph A. Lyons, idealistic Aus
tralian labor leader, was given credit
as the founder of modern Australia
by many of his countrymen.
After breaking away from his
colleagues in Premier Scullin's labor
miniesyy in 1881, he founded the
united Australia party. swept Soul
lin from office at the polls, became
federal premier and started Aus
tralia on the way to national re-
covery.
Almost overnight Australia's cred
it, seriously damaged in the Lon
don money market by the Sullin adj
ministration's inflationist policy. and
tendency to repudiate financial COM
mitmentS, was restored.
Lyons, known down under" as
Honest joe" had lost no time in
announcing Australia would meet
her monetary obligations. He reor-
ganized the commemorative fl
nances and began period of sound
spending that soon lost for Aus
tralia the epithet: BLACK sheep of
the empire"
Tasmania's FayOrite Son
Lyons was so and experienced in
the administration of his native
Tasmania when he rocketed into
prominence as postmaster general
in the 1929 Scullin administration.
A labor man by upbringing, he had
been premier of Tasmania, 1929,
and to the end of his life could have
won any office in the state. 1t was
at Scullin's invitation that he left
fContip,tad IN pooa r7iUal