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The Washington times., 1939-01-23
DR.. CaIiver Speaks
On Neqro Problems

Gen. Samuel Armstrong; con-
tribution to the development Of
Negro cultural opportunities was
the theme, last night, of DR.. Am
brose Caliver, United States Office
of Education, at Hampton Insti-
tute alumni exercises in Phyllis
Wheatley Y. w. C. A. DR.. Caliver
declared if the colored leaders of
today had utilized the methods
laid down by General Armstrong,
much of the economic problem
confronting colored citizens would
be minimized.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
WATER CUT OFF
TO THOUSANDS
AS GALE RACES
Two Men Injured in
Auto Accidents

Washington is today recovering
from the worst gale of the year
as damages done by a 65-mile-an-
hour wind are being repaired and
traffic conditions slowly returned
to normal.
Thousands of residents were
without water for IL hours as the
severe cold burst a 43-inch water
main at Rhode Island Avenue
and Summit Street Northeast.
The main was not fully repaired
until 9 a. M, some "a hours after
it had burst.
MANY ACCIDENTS
While firemen guarded the
waterless area with water tank
trucks, police were kept busy in
vestigating numerous traffic acci-
dents and answering trouble calls
brought on by the gale.
One small fire occurred in the
waterless area, but was beaten out
with rugs. Other areas through
out the city reported uprooted
trees, broken show windows and
innunmerable signs blown down.
nAVu TNYTIpEn
Most seriously injured in traffic
accidents resulting from icy roads
were John R. Gran, of the 21OO
block of Huidekoper Pl. N. W., and
Wilson Lawlor, SO, Of the 300
block of L. st. N. E., Gran suffered
lacerations of the head and a
pssible fractured skull when the
car in which he was riding
skidded on ice on Reno Roao
Northwest, and crashed into q
tree. His condition Is reported
Undetermined at Emergency Hos
rital. Lawlor, the victim Of a
lhit-and-run driver which struck
him at North Capitol and L
Streets Northwest, suffered a
broken collarbone and severe
decorations Of the head. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital.
AUTO CRASH
A washington youth and two
Maryland companions were seri'
ously injured when the car in
which they we're riding collided
with tree on the Marlboro Pike
near Forestville, Md. after they
failed to make a curve.
They are Raymond Walker. 16
of Meadows, Md, possible frac'
tured skull; Glen Woodruff, IT.
of the First block of Benning Pl
N. E., severe lacerations and a
broken arm, and John WEIGH, 19
of Maryland Park, Md, lacera'
tions of the face and body bruises
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Randolph Plans
'Get-TOgether'

A general get acquainted" ses-
sion will probably feature the first
meeting of the House District
Committee Wednesday.
Representative Jennings Ran
'dolph CD Of w. Va, committee
chairman, indicated today that
he is considering inviting the Dis.
trict Commissioners to attend
Wednesdays meeting, so that the
many new members of the COM
mittee may get to know them.
The committee has been vir.
tually reorganized, with the ap-
pointment of seven new House
members, and MI. Randolph be-
lieves that these men will get q
better understanding Of the Dis
trict if they can meet its officials.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
LEADERS MEET
TODAY TO MAP
new C. SETUP
President Reported to
Favor One-Man Rule

A congressional four-man parley
was summoned this afternoon to
discuss the long-awaited report on
reorganization of the District gov
ernment.
The conference is being attended
by Senator William H. King CD
of Utah, chairman of the Senate
District Committee: Representa-
tive Jennings Randolph CD Of
West Virginia, House District Com
mittee chairman; Representative
Ambrose ]. Kennedy CD of Mary
land, sponsor of the reorganization
investigation, and E. o. Griffen.
hagen, a municipal expert prepar.
ing the reorganization report.
FOR ONE-MAN RULE
Although the report is not yet
ready for publication, it is under
stood today's discussion will deal
with probable recommendations as
to means of coordinating and con.
Solidating District government de-
partments, as we'll as a possible
change in the administrative
setup.
It is reported that President
Roosevelt has indicated his desire
for one-man rule in the District,
either by city manager form Of
government or a business agent,
who would have control over the
government.
SITUATION CHANGED
Mr.. Griffenhagen, last week,
stated his report would concern
itself chiefly with recommends
tions for general reorganization Of
departments, in the interest OF
efficiency as we'll as economy. He
stated at that time that reorgani-
zation of the Board of CommiS-
sioners form Of government would
assume secondary importance.
However, with the Presidents
reported interest in a change in
the three-man commissioner SyS-
tenn, it is understood considerable
attention would be given to this
phase of the report.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Egg Market Topic
Of Poultry Par|ey

Q.N.S.) The Department o.
Agriculture announced today that
representatives of poultry produ
GERS, market men, Government
agencies and other interested
groups" will meet at Cleveland
February / "to consider the pres
ent egg market situation" As
result Of recent sharp declines in
egg prices, the department said
Hobart Creighton, president OF
the National Poultry Producers
Federation requested the confer
ence.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
$SS,556 is LOST
BY DEPOSITORS
IN BANK APPEAL
Preferential Payment to
U. S. Agencies Upheld

Depositors of the closed Com
mercial National Bank will lose
$88,556.56 under an opinion Of the
Court of Appeals today which re-
versed a District Court order,
directing the Attorney General of
the United States, as successor to
the Alien Property Custodian, to
return to the bank receiver
preferential deposit payments
which the bank had enormously
paid after the receivership was
declared.
The Alien Property Custodian,
together with the Shipping Board,
Inland waterways Corporation,
and other Government agencies
maintaining deposits with the
bank. had required the bank to
pledge it's own assets as collateral
for the full payment of their de-
poSitS. When the bank closed
these agencies received full pay
ment on their deposits while other
depositors only obtained pro
rata share.
DEPOS1TOR FIGHTS
A depositor Of the bank, how
ever, brought suit against the
Comptroller Of the Currency to
require the agencies to accept pro
rata payments the same as pri-
Vate depositors. This suit was up
held in the Court of Appeals on
the ground that national banks
had no authority to pledge their
own collateral, to insure full pay
ment of Government deposits, un-
less the bank had been designated
q Federal depository.
The present suit is one of sew
eral which the receiver filed as a
result of the earlier suits and was
directed against the Attorney
General.
GRONER'S OPINION
In reversing the lower court,
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner
pointed out that when the Attor-
ney General received the prefer
entail payment from the receiver
of the bank the money had been
deposited with the Treasury and
passed beyond his control.
Accordingly the suit is, in et-
feet, a suit against the United
States since the deposited fund
can be disbursed only through an
act of Congress. The same rule
does not apply in the case Of the
other agencies which are corpora
tions, maintaining control Of their
funds, the court implied.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
LAYMEN HONOR
CURLEY TONIGHT

Eight hundred men. including
list of distinguished Catholic
church and political leaders, will
gather tonight in the Mayflower
Hotel for the annual dinner OF
the Manresa Laymen's Retreat
League, onoring g Archbishop
Michael j. Curley of Baltimore.
Archbishop Curley and Senator
James M. Mead of New York Will
make the principal addresses.
The list of guests include: Gov.
ernor Herbert R. O'Conor, OF
Maryland, Senator Pat McCarran,
of Nevada, Justice Harold d
Stephens, of the District Court OF
Appeals; Attorney General Frank
Murphy, Bishop John Mcnamara,
the Rev. James Nsa-A~l, v. A..
prior of the Dominican House OF
Studies; the Rev. Arthur OLeary,
S. j., president of Georgetown
University, and the Rev. James
P. Sweeney, S. j., vice provincial
of the Maryland New York Prov
ince If tine i, Il.
The occasion will mark the
twenty-fifth anniversary Of the
etort cH retreat movement in
Washington.
Inc - at house at ManreSa-
on-the-Severn was constructed
through the efforts of Archbishop
Curley and each year has seen
Une nloVcl4lunU sAUW w greaUer pro-
portions in Washington.
TIL Rev. Robert S. Lloyd, S. j.,
is in charge of the retreat house
He will make his annual report
at the celebration. Last year
1,719 men made the retreats, the
greatest number in the history OF
the local movement.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
DR.. Dawber Presides
At Dedication Rites

DR.. Mark A. Dawber, executive
secretary of the Home Missions
Council of the United States, pre-.
sided at the dedication exercises
for the Potomac Heights Commu-
nifty Church yesterday. DR.. Oscar
j. Randall, pastor, welcomed Is
new members to the $4,000
church. Herbert L. Willett, jr., di.
rector of the Community Chest,
was guest speaker at last nights
services.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
TeleUiSiOn
FOrD.C 6.

The Capital is to have its
first glimpse Of televisiOn this
week.
Frank M. Russell, vice
president of the National
BrOadcaSting Company, today
promised a five-day "ShOw-
ing" beginning Friday, for
Government officials and
the press.
Receivers installed at the
National Press Club will re-
produce Sight-and-SOund pro-
grams transmitted from the
Department of Agriculture,
about a mile distant.
The programs, the first to
be transmitted outside the
New York area will be solely
for Informative purposes,
Russell said.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Shoes and Clothing
Asked for D. {. Needy

Shoes and clothing for needy
children were appealed for today
by The Old Woman in the Shoe,
representing the American ASso-
citation of University Women,
Women'S City Club, Twentieth
Century Club, Junior League and
the Women's Council Of the Fed
Grafton of Churches. Receiving
stations have been set up at Con-
necticut Avenue and Albemarle
Street Northwest and in the
Woodward Building.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Fe||er Urges an End
To LeqaI Resolutions

Members of the National Law
yers Guild, in a conference at the
Carlton yesterday, were told by
A. H. Feller, of the antitrust divi-
sion of the Department of Justice,
that they should concentrate their
efforts on concrete problems and
should quit drafting resolutions,
urging administrative heads to
take an active part in legislative
matters. Administrative Govern
ment agencies, Feller said, must
not be bound by legislative restric-
tions while they are still in their
infancy.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
JACKIE COOGAN
"I Wouldn't LiUe On My
Wife's Money"

the idea of living off my wife's
money"
The kid will do comedy patte1
and will dance in his act, which
opens January 81 in Ell PaSo
There will be no references, he
said, to his money troubles with
his family or to his recent separa,
ton from his young wife.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Gas Station Robbed

More than $50 in bills and
change was stolen from a service
station in the TOO block of Mime
sofa Ave. N. E., last night, it was
reported today by James Hart
man. manager of the station. Hart
man said the thief gained entrance
by reaching through a broken win.
dow and releasing the lock.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
100000, O,OOO Housing
Note Issue Announced

0.N.S.) The Treasury Depart
ment on Wednesday will offer fol
sale 500, 900, 900 worth of five-yeal
notes of the United States Hous
ing Authority, it was announced
today. Interest rates and other
details will be disclosed WedneS
day.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Cayton TO Speak
On Claims Court

Functions of the Small Claims
Court of the District will be de-
scribed to Washington Monarch
Club members by Judge Nathan
Cayton at a luncheon at the Will
lard Hotel Wednesday noon.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Hurt on Street Car

Lloyd F. Hoppe, so, of the 5000
block Oliver ST. N. E., suffered
a lacerated scalp. brain concus'
sion and abrasion today when
thrown to the floor as Capital
Transit Company street car
started near the Union Station.
He was treated at Casualty Hos
Toifol
The Washington times., 1939-01-23
Mario Weds Bourbon
AS Mussolini Beams

ROME Jan. % S.)-Royal pomp seldom witnessed in
Italy since Fascsm put Eopes oldest regnng house into
eclipse surrounded the wedding today of Princess Maria de
Savoy To PRINCE Innis Bourbon Parma.
The Washington times., 1939-01-23

corned beef and cabbage all his hosts wanted to
serve him the dish.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21

keep the rich richer and the poor
producing class poorer, the agents
OIL preoatory wealth. VINO manage
this great oemocrauc country OF
ours want the people 10 nave no
more money now tllan When, III tlle
long past, There was not near tne
need Tor II.
We may talk all we please ABOUT
the love OF God and the great good
ness Of democracy, but the time is
here when ali the people must nave
more money, and not just ten IN each
hundred have it all. Religion and de-
mocracy may satisfy the desires OF
some but all the people | ever knew
prefer money to either or both.
1t is a waste Of breath to talk
of farmers and working people get
ting the money they deserve and
should have by working for 1t,
while under our present capltallStic
system Of government a few can
make millions without moving hands
or feet. 1t seems to me, there is no
way out Of our present mess except
with system Of pensions that Will
put billions in circulation each year,
and that is exactly what would be
done if it benefited organized wealth
as it will the people who produce all
our wealth.
1t does seem to me, the doctors and
teachers who are the best and most
needed Of all our professional folks,
and the other learned and profess
sional people who have to live on
the labor of farmers and workers
even though they are only barnacles
on our civilization, would earnestly
seek to get money into the hands Of
those who feeds, clothes and houses
them, in order that these poor peo-
pie could have at least the neces-
sary things Of life Any one who
would deny them at least that much
of the fruits Of their labor has the
heart Of a brute and should be
driven from among decent people.
Jas. H. Wright.
Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
To-day
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

1785-William Beaumont, famed
army surgeon and St. Louis physl-
clan. whose research into the diges-
tive processes marks an epoch IN
medical annals, born at Lebanon,
Conn. Died in st. Louis, April 20
1853
1818-Lewis H Morgan, the Ro-
chester, N. Y. lawyer who became
a noted ethnologist, born near
Aurora, N. Y. Died Dec. II, 1881.
1834-Henrietta H. r. Green
(Hetty Green}, the great woman IL
nancier. whose inherited million
was rolled up into 100 millions
through Wall Street and money
lending, born at New Bedford, Mass.
Died July 3, 1916.
1835-Rose Eyetinge, actress, born
il, Philadelphia. Died Dec. 20, 1911.
1839-OOO years ago) William
Keith, California artist, called the
most industrious and most repre-
sentative, born in Scotland. Died
April Is, 1911.
186O-Tom Horn, Government
Apache war scout-interpreter, dep
uty sheriff and detective, born Scot
land county, Mo. Hanged for muir
der, at Cheyenne, Nov 20, 1908.
1870 = Mary Johnston, noted
rCvelist, born at Buchanan, Va. Died
May 9, 1886
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
NOTICE OF SALE.

Under and by virtue Of the power
and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust executed by A. B. Falkner,
Jr and wife, Annie L. Falkner, re-
corded in the office Of the Register
of Deeds of Vance County in Book
172, page GLIB, default having been
made in the payment of the debt
therein secured, at the request of the
holder of the note, | shall sell at pub
lie auction, to the highest bidder, for
cash, at the Courthouse door in Hen
derson, N. c., at twelve o'clock,
Noon, on Friday, December %, 1889,
the following described real estate:
Begin at 2 Maple trees, Pucket's
(noW Currin's) corner, on the East
side of Conaconary Creek; and run
thence along Pucket's (noW Currin's)
line S 68 E 1925 chains to stone
Pucket's corner on the West side of
the road; thence along the road S
20 IL w 1912 chains to a T iron
stake or railroad iron, O. S. Falkner's
corner; run thence along Falkner's
line N SO w SO chains to a stake on
the West side Of Conaconary Creek;
thence up said branch or Creek as it
meanders to the place of beginning,
containing 5C.7 Acres. For further de-
scription see deed from O. S. Falk-
ner to A. B. Falkner, Jr, recorded in
Book So, at page 407, Vance County
Registry.
This the 21st day of November,
1882
T. P. GHOLSON, Trustee.
21-28-5-12
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
OTHERS VIEWS
MIR. WRIGHT REITERATES

To the Editor:
Back in the long past, when !
was a boy, each year after the crop
were laid by great wave Of re-
ligion would strike the community
as the protracted meetings got under
way. l remember how the preachers
and articulate laiety harped on the
great love God had for fallen man
whom He had made. Yet I would
look around the neighbOrhood and
see families who were the most con-
sistant Christians and best neigh
bors suffer all the pains and pesti-
lences known to man.
, So it is now with the democracy
we hear so much Of these days. The
ten percent who have all the ma
tons wealth, and got it under the
rule of this same democracy, are
trying to keep the people content by
preaching the benefit this democracy
is for all the people Intelligent folks
know that for more than a hundred
and sixty years this people have
cherished and protected this democ-
racy, yet only ten percent Of them
have anything to show for its good
ness.
After more than six years rule by
the best president the country ever
had about ninety percent Of the peo-
pie are in dire poverty in the rich
est country on earth
Here in the fine tobacco belt Of
North Carolina that for generations
has stood at the top as a farming
section of the State there is today
more poverty than we have had
since the war Of the sixties. 1t is
true that in the early nineties under
the rule Of Grover Cleveland and
his Republican allies money was as
scarce as it is now, but we had not
near the need for it we have today.
Then a tract Of land could be bought
for what one case Of appendicitis
costs now. Sixty years ago one could
buy a plantation for the price of a
1889 "tin Lizzie', yet, in order to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
Party Leaders, Officials
Join In Opening Nov. 20
Governmental Laboratory

Chapel Hill, Nov. 21.-Public Of
ficials may run the government, but
it is their parties which put them in
office and the election boards which
administer the machinery Of selec-
ton, and it takes all three, working
together, to make popular govern
1nent.
Or that is the way it looks to AL
bert Coates, Director of the Institute
of Government, which is formally
opening its new four-story govern
mental laboratory here November
1880, with appropriate exercises key
noted by Speaker William B. Bank
head and North Cardinals Congress
sional delegation.
And so it was Mr. Coates announc-
ed today that the various county
party and election chairman had been
invited to take part in the program
as well as local state, and federal Of
ficials, and moreover, that the State
heads of the various groups had all
joined in the invitation.
The invitat tons covered the local
election, Democrat, Republican,
Young Democratic, and Young Re-
publican heads, and were joined in
by the respective State heads, w. A.
Lucas, Gregg Cherry, J. F Newell,
Forest Pollard, and E. NJ. Stanley.
All members of the General AS
sembly had been previously invited
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21

by Lieutenant Governor w. P, Hor-
ton and Speaker D. L. Ward to meet
with Speaker Banl1head and the Tar
Heel Congressman and to take part
with their local officials in the event.
The program for the opening of
the new laboratory, which is the first
Of its kind in America and which is
unique in that it serves city, county,
state, and federal officials and also
private citizens and students of gov
eminent, will open with registration
and inspection of the building and
exhibits from to $50 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon.
After supper meeting Speaker
Bankhead will be the main speaker
at joint night session on the chang
ing relationships Of federal, state, and
local governmental units. A reception
for MIR. Bankhead will follow.
Members Of the States Congress
SIGNAL delegation will accompany
Speaker Bankhead to Chapel Hill
and will preside over joint meetings
of officials from their respective dis
tricts Thursday morning. These will
terminate in time for Thanksgiving
dinner and the Carolina-Virginia
football game.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

162O-Historic Mayflower Com
pact signed by Pilgrim Fathers be-
fore landing at Plymouth by which
they agreed to be governed by such
rules and regulations as should be
made by common consent for tbs
good Of all.
England paid some $780,
600 to the Landgrave of Hesse for
the Hessian soldiers killed in the
American War Of the Revolution.
1789-G50 years ago) NORTH
Carolina the 18th State to ratify the
Constitution.
1859-The Grand Trunk Railroad
opened E Port Huron, Mich.
1918-German war fleet Of Is
battleships, 6 cruisers and 49 de-
stroyers formally surrenders TO Brit
aims Grand Fleet.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
NOTICE.

Pursuant to an order of the Court
dated the goth day of November, 1890
IN that special proceeding entitled
"Cephus Jones v. Robert jones'. the
undersigned Commissioner will offer
for sale and sell to the highest bid
der for cash at the Courthouse door
IN Henderson, North Carolina. at y
o'clock midday on Friday, December
IL. 1889, the following described real
estate:
mat property located near Hen
derson, North Carolina, known as the
nome place OF the Late Louisa Badger
Jones; said property having been
bought by Louisa Badger Jones from
Mr. Chavasse by deed recorded in
Vance County Registry in Book II
at page SOB and adjoins the lands Of
harriet Cotton Mills on the North
on me East the Harriet Cotton Mills.
on the South the lands of Arch;e
coleman and on the West the Estate
OF the Late J. D. Cooper. For flJrther
qescrlp1lon see Will OF Louisa Badger
Jones recorded in Vance Countv
registry 5gl IN Book "B" at page 452
,o1 inns the 10th day of November
J. P. ZOLLICOFFER
ID O. :, Commissioner.
20-27-4-11 1A''olneyS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-21
ANSWERS.

/. The Department of Justice. The
power given the legislature for Great
inc this department was in a con-
stitlltiOnal amendment adopted No
vember s, 1888.
2. The special session TO consider
calling a secession convention met on
Nav |, 1861 Within two nouns me
house had adopted a resolution cali
ING the convention. Not a single mem
Der voted against the resolution.
When the resolution reached vote
in the Senate three members, l.. q.
Sharpe, of Iredell, Jonathan Worth,
of Chatham, and Josiah Turner, OF
Orange, voted against II.
3. Reports from practically all OF
the tWenty-four Orphanages in the
State show the average cost is
seventy-one cents per day for each
child in their care.
4. To accept the appointment as
United States District Judge III North
Carolina rendered him by President
James Buchanan.
5. According to the North Carolina
Department OF Conservation and De-
velopment, $500, 100000.
b. Inc dClo Oh II 10 IeQulISO
"Quakers, Dunl,ers, Moravians and
Menonists' 10 furnish men to serve
in their steads. In event of their fail
ure to do this the commanding Of
ficer of the district was empowered
to hire substitutes for DIRECTORS who
failed to report, and then levy thro-
ugh the sheriff on any property the
objectOr might have for funds to pay
the wages Of the substitutes hired