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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
Wind Storm,
Deaths Are
AZ In South
Over 10 Injured and
Damage in Hundreds
of Thousands of Dol
lars During Weekend
(By The Associated Press J


TOrnadoes ripDed into five south
crn states, killed at least AZ persons.
Injured more than ITO, and wreaked
weekend damage estimated at hun
dredS of thousands Of dollars.
Searchers picking their way thro-
ugh wind-torn debris in Texas. Okla
bona, Louisiana. Arkansas and Ala
bama. slowly raised the death toll
through early Monday darkness.
Greatest toll was counted at the
small cattle-raising community of
Center Point, near Collins, Ark,
where at least 20 persons were killed
and an undetermined number were
injured as a twister demolished a
church soon after completion of a
Sunday afternoon funeral service,
and swept siX-mile area nearby.
Several houses torn from their
foundations splintered into the air.
CCC workers from a nearby camp
joined rescue work.
Rev Thomas West was among the
dead at the Center Point church.
Nearly 200 attended the service, but
many had left when the tornado hit.
Rain of near cloudburst propor-
tons accompanied the winds in Ar
kansas where nearly a dozen COM
munities were struck. The mud it
left made rescue work precariously
slippery. Flood warnings were issued
for the Ouachita and Petit Jean
rivers
In louisiana, seven persons were
killed when a twister struck at
Haynesville residential and business
property. Texas counted six deaths.
One person was killed at Pillar, Ark,
yesterday, and in northwest Okla
homa early Saturday seven persons
died when tornado struck Capron
and its vicinity.
AT least one woman was killed in
western Alabama early today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
Douglas Sworn In
AS Court Justice

Washington, April 17.-(AP)-
An oath to support the COnstitu-
ton and to administer justice i'm
partially today made William 0.
Douglas, 40, the youngest member
of the Supreme Court in over 127
years.
The former chairman of the Sc
curities Commission, who rose in
life from a newsboy and a janitOr
took his seat on the nations
highest tribunal before a packed
court room. Clad in the traditional
black robe he marched into the
chamber with his colleagues and
swOre with upraised right hand to
give justice to every one.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
Farm, Act OF
1888 Upheld
By Ruling
Georgia and Florida
Flue Cured Tobacco
Growers Lose Appeal
to Supreme c o ur t
Over Control Feature

Washington, April H. (AP) =
Provisions of the 1893 agricultural
adjustment act, limiting the amount
of major farm products to be placed
on the market, were held constitu-
tional today by the Supreme Court.
Justice Roberts delivered the op-
inion that sustained the provisions
against an attack by group Of Geor-
gia and Florida flue-cured tobacco
growers. Justices Butler and Mercy
nolds dissented. Under the legisla-
ton, the secretary Of agriculture is
is empowered to fix national mar
keting quotas for major agricultural
products and to make an allotment
to each grower.
The quotas would be established
in order to get rid Of any excessive
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
Shortage Of
$158,OOO In
Newton B 81

Newton, April H. (AP) =
George Crone, deputy insurance
commissioner, announced today
that a shortage of approximate
Iy S15S,OOO had been found by
examiners in the accounts of the
Citizens Building & Loan AssO-
citation of Newton. Simultan-
eOusly, directors of the assOcia-
ton announced the resignation
of David Gather, for rs years
secretary and treasurer.
CrOne said Gather had turn
ed over to the Association all his
personal property and estlmat-
ed that it would be virtually SUI
ficient to cover the amount OF
the alleged shortage.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
SENATOR'S OPENING
GAME RAINED OUT

Washington, April 17.-(AP)
President Clark Griffith, of the
Washington Senators, today call
ed off the opening game of the
American League between the
Senators and the world cham
piOn New York Yankees. Wet
grounds was the reason. The
two teams will meet Friday. The
White House has not annOunc-
ed whether the President will
throw out the first ball, but it
was reported unOfficially that
other engagements would pre-
vent his attendance.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17

Durham, April. 17.-[AP)-Every
department of. the huge Liggett &
Myers Tobacco Company's Durham
plant, except the office, was at a
standstill today as the strike order
involving the manufacturing division,
went into effect
Approximately 5000 persons, in
Guiding some 900 members of the To-
bacco Workers International Union,
directly involved, were affected by
the shutdown.
Gates leading to respective fac
tories of the plant were shut tight
as pickets manned the entrances
early today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
Claims u. S.
Could Tie Up
Japan's Army

Washington, April 17.-(AP)-The
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
was advised today that economic
pressure from the United States
could tie up the japanese army in
China.
If we cut off the flow of war ma
terials to Japan" said DR.. Charles
Fenwick, professor Of international
law at Bryn Mawr, "the japanese
war machine would probably bog
down in a few weeks
In the present situation in the
Orient, Fenwick said, the present
law would have worked so badly that
it was not invoked.
"Our people do not realize that it
is we who have made it possible for
Continued on Page Fourl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
nonthQh

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Showers, slightly warmer in
north and west central portions;
cooler in extreme southeast por-
tiOn tonight; Tuesday partly
cloudy, except probably clearing
in east portions in early morn
ing, cooler in extreme west and
extreme south portions, cooler
Tuesday night.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17

W POOOlO1C QlliO1ANt
ment of the Wag-
ner Labor Rela-
tons Act is as
compli c a t e d as
anything that Cap
itol Hill has listen
ed to in at elast a
decade. That capi-
tai and labor dis
agree as to that
laws d e STABILITY
i S n t surprising;
they generally do
disagree. However,
capital d i S agrees
somewhat within
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
WAYNE FARMER, 46
is SUICIDE VICTIM

Goldsboro, April 17.-(AP)-John
T. Price, 46-year-old Wayne county
farmer, died of a gunshot wound in
tie stomach today in park at
Mount Olive. Coroner T. R. Robin
son said he committed suicide.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
Russia Will
Aid Move To
Stop Hitler
Soviets Promise Brit
ish-French Front at
Least Material Help;
Poland and Roumania
Fear Eastern Neigh
bors, However

London, April 17.-(AP)-
Turkey, Germany's ally during
the World War, was reported re-
liahly sonight to have joined the
British-French front against ag-
grcssiOn.
Soviet Russia had been report
ed earlier to have promised "at
least material aid," presumably
war planes and other arma-
ments, in the event of war.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
was expected to announce in the
House of Commons tomorrow
that Britain and France have
guaranteed Turkeys independ-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
5000 Workers In Durham Idle
AS Result OF Tobacco Strike
Every Department of
Liggett & M y er S
Plant at Standstill, Ex-
cept Office; Pickets
Patrol Entrances to
Large Factories

Washington, April 17.-(AP)
Secretary Perkins sent ]. A.
MOffett, of the United States
Cancellation Service, to New
York today in an effort to med
late a strike of $500 employees
of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco
Company.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17

Itself, and labor is split Violently. Ihe
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the National Association of Man
ufacturers concur in the opinion that
the law itself is all to the bad and
that the personnel of the managing
board which it created, under the
present Craftsmanship of j. Warren
Madden, is worse yet Nevertheless
the Senate committee has heard sew
eral employer witnesses who contend
(COofiyo,,oJ O,, Daoo EO,1r\
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17
ChangeNeeded
In Labor Act
Or Its Board
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, April 17.-Testimony
by witnesses before the Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Committee relative
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-17

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Evening star., 1939-02-26
the VlTAMlNS YOU need
AND HOW TO GET THEM

Are vitamins essential to health? Every au-
thority says: "Emphatically yes!" Vitamins
help give us the THREE Vs"-vim. vigor and
vitality. But what vitamins do we need and
how to get them? We need, principally, vita
Minis A. B, c. d and G.
For vitamin A, good sources are milk. eggs.
carrots, spinach and other green and leafy
vegetables.
For vitamin B. eat PEP. Each one-ounce
serping OF PEP no,O gives rs OF an adults and
1/2 OF a child's daily requirement OF this i'm
portant pitdmin. This is all the safety margin
you need with a normal diet Vitanin is
also present in various vegetables, fruits and
meats
Among the good sources for vitamin c are
oranges. lemons. grapefruit. tomatoes.
In the important vitamin D, the famous
sunshine" vitamin. PEP is particularly rich
single serping OF this delicious cereal contains
as much uitamin D as a teaspoon OF cod-lirer
oil (USP). In natural foods, vitamin D is
present in significant quantities only in eggs
and fish oils For vitamin G, good sources are
liver, eggs, milk.
Here Is q sensible rule: CD Eat PEP NTH
milk or cream at least Cnce a day. (2) Drink
a daily glass OF orange or tomato Juice. 90 Eat
plenty OF green vegetables.
Do these three things and you won't have
to worry about selecting foods for vitamins.
You'll find this sensible routine most econom-
ical Just do these three things and learn what
vitaminS can do for you
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, June Says John Har-
den in his Postscript column Of the
Salisbury Post:
"Just below Charlotte near Rock
Hill, the North Carolina-SOuth Caro-
lima line makes a ''V'' angle
Because many years ago a dear old
lady owned a plantation partly in
both states and persuaded the sur
veyers laying the line to make that
dip SO all her land would be in one
state"
That's pretty good, Johnny, but
that amt the way we heard it.
The way l heard it the surveyors
had been instructed to run a line due
west almost along the whole border.
They carried out their instructions
literally until they arrived at North
Corner, where the dipping and ang-
ling begins. There they were caught
by storm and they holed up at a
grocery store which seemed to pro-
mise and ample supply Of liquor. But
their demand for exceeded the supply
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
INCOMPETENT HANDLING
OF INSANITY
durham Herald)

Besides the prohibitory law on
the subject, it is unanimously agreed
that the average county Jail is no
place to incarcerIte the mentally
sick or the tubercular. Even those
who recognize that under certain
circumstances it is more sensible to
keep such patient-prisoners in coun-
~ jails than to leave them at large,
agree that no cell is large enough
for two such persons and that it is
carelesSness of the first water to
leave potential weapons within
reach of mentally sick persons wher-
ever they are housed.
So, the first thing to be said about
the Vance county incident which
presents two mentally sick persons
in a single Jail cell and the one
beating the other to death with a
table leg is that officials who put
them there not only ignored the law
but the lesson of common sense.
The next thing is that while Vance
county officialdom has earned a
share of the blame, state official
dom has earned a larger share and
is perhaps the greater culprit
1t is not as if there had not been
foreknoWledge and foreWarnings 1t
was not just last week, state insti-
tutions for the care of the mentally
sick became so crowded that wait
ing lists came into being and men
tally sick persons had to be put in
county jails to await their turn on
the state waiting list. That condi-
ton has obtained for some time
and North Carolina has been warn
ed repeatedly of the dangers of that
situation
Almost coincident with the Vance
incident, word was passed out from
Raleigh that some hundreds of men,
tally sick persons languish in county
Jails because the state has no place
to put them. The state hospital al
Raleigh, the report adds, is being
remodelled but not on dimensions
calculated to take care of patients
already awaiting admissions.
Once more, then, we have before
us the not uncommon spectacle OF
the state failing to live up to its
promise and in doing so placing the
local units unwillingly in bac
spot. Which, Of course, doesn't af-
ford the responsible parties an out
in the Vance case but does expose
the altogether too common habi
OF the state saying to the local units
the state will do this job and ther
failing to do that job.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
bility to him, not one per cent an
Milk and Asphalt.

Representative Randolph's trou-
bles started with complaints that
milk producers surrounding the Dis
trict of Columbia framed up regula-
lions to keep western milk out OF
the District-by so-called health re-
gulatiOns.
What asphalt regulations have to
do with milk I'm darned if l know.
Nevertheless, it's charged that, as
a milk administrator, he's shown a
preference to Trinidad asphalt, fol
Washington paving purposes, over q
u. S. petroleum substitute.
A little while back it was alleged
that numbers racketeering was ram
pant in the District of Columbia.
But the racketeers couldn't be
caught, as racketeers. But they
might be caught as income tax dod-
gers, like Al Capone, The Warning
brothers were grabbed on that
ground. Their defense was that they
were entitled to tax deduction, on ac-
count Of graft paid to Washington
police.
The Warnings were stung. They
went to the pen. The police? Hush
ed up!
That's Washington's local politics.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05

place-about half a million. 1t also is
Uncle Sans capital. 1t ought to be a
model. If it's the antithesis of that,
it's a countrywide scandal. That's
what it is, moreover. Yet nobody with
any influence cares a boot any more
than Miamis city council cares about
the administration of Juneau, Alaska.
Absentee Management.
The place is run by kind of city
council consisting of the District of
Columbia committee of the national
Senate and House of Representatives
National legislators don't like serv-
ing on these committees. They're
thankless jobs. They're not helpful
to the members at home and the Dis
trict of Columbians can't vote for
tn ~ Senator William H. King of
Utah is chairman of the upper house
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
ANSWERS.

|. Five per cent paid on three is
sues of 1921. The lowest rate is two
and one-half per cent on an issue
of 1888.
2. The assembly Of 1856 repealed
an act in force in the State at that
time which prohibits any citizen of
this State from receiving or passing
any bank note of less than $500 de-
nomination" The penalty was $500.
8. According to the report of the
State Auditors office, S108,967, 785
Of this amount tax from gasoline
amounted to approximately one
fourth of the total income.
4. Immediately after the killing of
former Governor Richard Dobbs
Spaight by Congressman John STAN
ley at New Bern in 1902 the legisla-
ture passed an act making ineligible
to any office of trust, honor or profit
anyone sending, accepting or bearing
a challenge, and he shall be liable
to be indicted, dispute any pardon or
reprieve; and in case of duel, and
either party is killed, the survivor
shall suffer death and all aiding and
abetting shall likewise suffer death. y
5. The per capita cost at Western
Carolina Teachers College, Cullowee
is S4O9; at the State Home and In
dustrial School for Girls, Samarcand
1854
6. Ashe county. The act, which
created this county in 1899. reads
"All that part of Wilkes county west
of the extreme height of the APP
palachian mountains shall be a sep
arate and distinct county by the
name of AShe."
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as executor of the
estate of Mrs. Emma Crozier Carter,
deceased, late of Vance County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the eS-
tate Of said deceased to exhibit them
to the undersigned executor, or my
attorney at Henderson, NJ c., on or
before the 1st day of June, 1910, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar Of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make i'm
mediate payment
This the 29th day of May, 1899 /
J. R. CARTER, SR., !
Executor of Mrs. Mrs Emma
Crozier Carter, Deceased.
R. B. Carter, Attorney
For Executor
29-5-12-19-26-4
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05

it gradually decreases in size, and
by the time of adult life it is en-
tirely atrophied.
To emphasize, note that it's most
active state is at the time OF Adde'S
cence, in the sudden growth period
and period of maturity.
From this it may be argued that it
is concerned with growth. 1t pre-
serves the infantile contour, pre-
vents any rapid growth in infancy,
then assumes full activity during
the growth period. But when its in
fuence is removed growth stops or
proceeds at very leisurely pace.
But the matter is not so simple as
that. Other organs, notably the
pituitary gland, have to do with
growth, and perhaps the thymus
works simply by assisting them. It
looks under the microscope more
like lynphoid-such as the tonsils
Tissue than glandular tissue. And
it has some connection with the re-
productive organs also, because
when maturity occurs, coincident
with growth, it is largest.
Proposed by Paltauf
The question Of It's connection
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
NOTICE OF SALE.

Under and by virtue of an order on
the Superior Court Of Vance County
in the special proceeding entitled
Clifton Richardson, Harold Richard
son, Addie r. Robertson, petitioners,
VS.. Ed Richardson, Clyde Richard
son, Willie Mae Richardson, Helen
Boone, George Boone, Elizabeth
Rlcha d o n, j. H. Zollicoffer.
Guardian ad Litem for Elizabeth
Richardson, and all persons whose
names and addresses are unknown
to petitioners who may have or claim
any interest in the real estate of the
late w. Henry Richardson defend
ants, the same being Number 1850
upon the Special PROCEEDINGS docket
OF said court, the undersigned Com
missioner will, on Monday the 18th
day OF June 1889 at II o'clock, noon.
at the Court House door in Hender-
son, Vance County, N. C. offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash
That certain tract or lot of land lying
and being in the City of Henderson.
IN Vance County, N. c. Adjoining
the lands Of ~ Arts and others, and
more particularly described as fol-
lows:
Begin at N. Arts corner nearest
Breckenridge Street and run thence
northerly about 700 feet to stone.
thence Easterly about ninety feet to
Wyche line, thence along his line in
a westerly direction about eighty
five feet to the beginning, known as
the old w. Henry Richardson home
place as described in book Is at page
sos in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Vance County.
This 18th of May, 1889.
I. S. KITTRELL, Commissioner
15-22-29-5
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
PUREBRED RAMS ARE
SHOWN TO BE BEST

College Station, Raleigh, June S
Experiment designed to show the
advantage of using pure-bred rams
and native, or grade, ewes have been
successfully completed by the North
carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station, it was announced todav bv
Prof. Earl Hostetler and Dr. John
+. Foster Of State College, who were
IN charge Of tic york. :
IN Experiment station Technical
l bulletln NO. 20, just published, thew
'eporleo that, az weaving time, the
'fimoS produced by pure-bred Hamp-
were PIG pounds heavier than thor1'
from native rams and ewes. At nroS
ent prices, this would mean 49,
purc-ored rams increased the vs s,n
OF each lamb $2.19 over those bv
native rams. 'o'e ny
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
TO CREDITORS.

Having qualified as administrative
of the estate of Zebedee w. Wright,
deceased late of Vance County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to I'M
dersigned or my attorney at Hender-
son, N. c., on or before the 9th day
of May, 1910, itemnized and verified
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment
This the 9th day Of May, 1899.
MATTE WRIGHT, /
Admrx. Of the Estate of
Zebedee w. Wright
B. H. Hicks, Attorney.
8-15-22-29-5-12
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05

committee. Representative Jennings
Randolph of West Virginia is chair
man of the lower mouse committee
Senator King is a corking con-
scientious, capable administrator, but
what good does that Washington
craftsmanship do him with the Utah
voters?-though it works him like a
horse locally.
Representative Randolph has q
mean local investigation on hand. He
can't resign while it's pending, but
he says he will, as soon as it's fin
ished, and he can do it with a clean
slate. I've no doubt of his states
clearness, but he's bothered by COM
plants that arise solely from squaWks
that he has no personal or political
interest in. That committee chair
manship has been a 100 per cent liza
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as Administrators
of the estate of Benjamin S. Urqu-
hart, deceased, late of Vance County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate Of said deceased, to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Hender-
son, North Carolina, on or before
the 9th day of May, 1910, or this
notice will be pleaded in Bar of their
recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This 9Th day of May, 1899.
J. M. PEACE,
Administrator of Benjamin S.
Urquhart, deceased.
8-15-22-29-5-12
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-06-05
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED III. MAY

1. What is the highest rate OF in
terest paid on any State bonds?
2. When would it have cost you S.
to use a bill of less than So in North
Carolina?
3. What was North Cardinals total
cash income last year?
4. When was dueling outlaWed in
North Carolina?
5. What is the comparative insti-
tutional cost of maintaining stu
dent at Cullowee and an inmate at
Samarcand?
6. What North Carolina county
was created by the shortest act on
record?