ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
NEW BUILDING IN
AUGUST INCREASES
Im i ~
Month's Total $9,050, or
Ten Times July; None
In August, 1933
New building for Henderson took an
upward spurt in August over the same
month a year ago and also over Jxf?y
of htis year, according to figures an
nounced today by Fire Chief E. T.
Shepherd. The figure for last month
was $9,050, as compared with none at
all in "August last year, and S9OO in
July this year.
Mrs. A. C. Wiggins’ new house on
North Garnett, street, where the old
D. Y. CO'Sper home stood .took the
biggest permit, $7,800. Repairs to J.
M. Baity's home on Southall street
accounted to SBOO of the total figure,
while a dwelling on Parham street,
carried a permit to J. B. Knight for
$450.
Total new building for the first
eight months of 1934 for Henderson
is $42,389 in 16 permits. For the cor
responding period last year the total
was $28,740 in ten permits.
SLIGHT GAIN TOR
POSTAL RECEIPTS
$2,816 for August, Against
$2,795 Last Year, In
crease of $31.07
Receipts of the Henderson post of
fice last month amounted to $2,816 52.
which was a gain of $31.07 over the
figures for August, 1933, Postmaster
C P. Wright announced today. It was 1
a slight drop, howfever from the
July figures, which were $3,438.17. but
this is customary, and the compara
tive figure used is always for the
corresponding month a year ago.
Receipts for the first eight months
of 1934 an $24,777.74. as $23,170.01 for j
the corresponding period a year ago,
a gain of $1,607.73 this year.
RECORDER’S CASES
FOR DAY RUN AFOUL
Two defendants faced Recorder R.
E. Clements in county court today,
but the cases failed to bring definite
convictions at the time, and one was
continued. Both dfeendants were col
orde.
Ed Steed was charged with an as
sault with a deady weapon, namely
a shotgun, on Robert Glover, also
colored. The case Was continued to
next Wednesday for final disposition.
Joe Christmas was charged with
being drunk, but the officer who
made the arrest frankly stated to the
court that he lacked sufficient evi
dence to convict, and the action was
nolle prosed.
To Open Business School
The office of the Henderson Busi
ness school will be open each morning
during the week of September 3 from
9 to 12 so that those interested in
entering school September 10 may
register or secure desired informa
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CONVERSATION
HAS CHANGED
When a group of women get together, dry cleaning and
experience with cleaners has always proved an inters
esting topic of conversation.
Today the subject has changed to dry-cleaning
VALUE. Price comparison has taught the fact that
the only bargain in dry cleaning is QUALITY.
T ake note of how maiAy women today are recommend
ing VALET Cleaning as the best in town.
Our Prices Are Very Reasonable.
If you want the very best in Dry Cleaning. Phone 464.
Valet Cleaning Co.
Unde Sam’s Gold Hoard Stored in Few Places
Movement i i gold ingots, estimated as worth between $1,500,000,000 and $2,250,000,000, from San Fran
cisco to Denver mint (lower), is part of Government program to concentrate gold supply in the few places,
shown on map. Treasury in Washington (top left) has about $18,000,000 worth. Assay Office, New
York (upper right), is the depository for the New York and New England districts. Seattle and Phila
delphia stocks are small compared with the Denver total. All gold stocks, constituting largest supply in
world, are under ihe supervision of a woman. Mrs. Nellie Tavloo Ross (insert). Director of the Mint.
rf'rvtrol Pres?,)
Another Perfect
Month For Fires
For the third successive month,
no fires were reported in Hender
son in August. In May the total
was only $35 and in April only $25.
There \*ere no fires likewise in
August last year nor in July a
year ag >.
For the first eight months of this
year the fire loss for the city is
$91,701, which was almost a'l ac
counted for in the Month of March
with two large fires. In the firs’, .
eight months last year the tota'
’ was only $4,800.
Marriages Slump
Month of August
By Slight Margin
slumped In August in
Vance county, when there were only
ten, according to the records in the of
fice of the register of deeds, as com
piled today. It was the first time this
year the white couples outnumbered
colored, there being six white and
four colored couples. In August last
year there were 14 licenses, 11 of them
going to white and three to colored
couples. In July this year there were
five white arfd six colored couples
licensed.
For the year through August the
total number of licenses issued was
155, as compared with only 102 for the
same period a year ago.
Henderson Daily Dispatch
FLOYD EXONERATED^
Colored Woman’s Death In
Wreck July 20 Is Held
Unavoidable
T. P. Floyd, Jr., who had been un
der bond in connection with an auto
mobile wreck on the Oxford highway
the night of July 20, in which Euia
Clack, wife of William Clack, Negro,
was fatally injured, was exonerated by
a coroner’s jury at a final hearing of
the matter Friday afternoon. Coroner
P. B. I light said the jury decided the
accident was unavoidable after a last
session which held from 2 o’clock un
til after 6 p. m. The jury was sitting
in the capacity of a committing mag
istrate.
Clack and his wife and their infant
child and Ed Branch, all Negroes, wers
riding on v a wagon returning from a
church meeting, when the car in
which Floyd and a companion round
ed the curve and struck them from
the rear. Branch and the infant were
badly injured. Clack was less seri
ously hurt.
The white boys in the car suffering
only minor injuries.
PETE BAKER ASKING
PARDON FROM ROADS
Material is being assembled by an
attorney to back up an appeal for a
pardon for Pete B’aker, Hungarian
resident of thin city, who is serving a
two year term on the county roads for
assaulting his wife and another wo
man in their apartment here last
spring. He was given a hearing April
10 before Mayor Irvine B. Watkins in
police court, and was given two sent
ences of two yeai’3 each, but to run.
concurrently. Pete is making the ap
peal for clemency in his own name.
The papers will be presented to, State
Parole Commissioner Edwin M. Gill
in Raleigh when completed.
LISBON SNEED DIED
HERE ON THURSDAY
Lisbon Sneed, 73 year old Negro,
died at Jubilee hospital Thursday aft
ernoon at 5:45 o’clock of complica
tions, being in failing health for some
years.
He was well respected by whites
and colored, having been jaintor of
the court house for a number of
years as well as served in that cap
acity at the First Methodist Protes
tant church and other places.
iFuneral services will be conducted
tomorrow afternoon at Kesler Temple
A. M. E. Zoin church at 3:30 o’clock
with interment here.
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See sage Four
1. Name the hero of Homer’s Iliad.
2. What nickname has been given
to Faneuil Hall, Boston?
3. What is the name for the doc
trine that life is, or tends to become
wholly undesirable, or that the. world
s essentially evil?
4. On what 'body of water is the
French port of Dieppe?
5. What new divinity was set up
by the French Revolutionists in
1793?
6. Which is the largest of the five
Great Lakes?
7. What is the fruit of the oak
tree.
8. What is hydrated oxide of iron?
9. Whom do Roman Catholics rec
kon as the first Bishop of Rome, and
the first Pope?
10. In which state is Rainbow Na
tural Bridge?
Second Shipment
Os Cows Received
A second shipment of relief ad
ministration cattle from the
drouth regions of the west was re
ceived here today, and the ani
mals were trucked to the W. B.
Tarry farm in Townsville township
where they will be grazed on pas
tures in the Lowlands of Nuthush
creek, off Roanoke river.
Today's shipment came from Ra
leigh, where they had been sent
first for inspection. There were
26 head in the shipment. Addi
tional shipments are to be sent
here at an early date, nearly 400
more having already been allotted
to this county.
Local Tribe To Send Dele
gation to Roanoke Rap.
ids Convention
Red Men of the district that em
braces this part of the State will mee,
for their semi-annual gathering next
Monday at Roanoke Rapids, and Mo
hawk Tribe, No. 58, of Hendefson, ex
pects to send"some 25 or more mem
bers to the meeting. The district com
prises tribes in Henderson, Epsom
Durham, ocky Mount and Roanoke
Rapids.
The first session of the meeting
Monday’ will begin at 5 p. m. The prt
gram calls for an address of welcome
by Kelly Jenkins, mayor of Roanoke
Rapids, and the response by Mayor
Irvine B. Watkins, of Henderson, whc.
is sachem of the local tribe. J. B
Gee, past sachem of the Henderson
tribe and also past great sacherp oi.
the State .is on the prgoram for an
address.
A banquet at 6:30 p. m. will be held
followed by an evening session, at
which time the officers for the yea;
will be elected and the place for the
next semi-annual meeting will be
chosen.
Preparations for sending a large de
legation to the convention were made
b tyeh local council Friday evening,
at which time the local tribe had a
program in honor of its past sachems
with several timely talks. Refresh
ments were served at the conclusion
of tfie program. *v
Opposition to Strike Is
Widespread In Carolinas
(Continued from Page One.)
ville-Jencks Company, scene of the
bloody 1929 communist strike, pre
dicted disorder there. The mill man
agement said a large percentage of
its employees, howver, were opposed
to th strike.
WORKERS AT GOLDSBORO
ARE AGAINST STRIKING
Goldsboro, Sept. 1 (AP)—The
Goldsboro News-Argus said today that
a canvas sos the employees of the
Borden Manuwacturing Company here
indciated they were opposed to the
general textile strike. The plant is
the only textile mill in Wayne county.
PACOLET EMPLOYEES ASK
MANAGEMENT TO RUN MILL
Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. 1 (AP)—
Nine hundred and fifty of the 1,100
employees of the Pacolet mills of
Spartanburg county have signed a pe
tition opposing the general strike
called by the United Textile Workers
of America, and requestin gthe man
agement of the mills to keep the
plants open, according to G. W. And
erson, mill treasurer.
“We expect no trouble whatsoever,
and will be open Monday morning as
usual,” Anderson said.
ERA Pay
Hits New
Top Here
Nearly 300 persons, or 298 to be
exact, shared the $1,901.42 distribut
ed today for work done during the
past week on projects sponsored by
the relief administration of the coun
ty, it was announced by D. S. Bryan,
disbursing officer of the county ad
ministration. This is a new record
high for both men employed and the
amount of money paid out since the
present relief set-up began function
ing.
There were no new projects, it was
stated, but a few more men worked
on the same projects, which account
ed for the increased payroll.
KIWANIS PREPARES
FOR S ELECTION
Officers To Be Chosen At
Meeting Next Friday;
Hypnotism Program
Preparations fort he annual elec
.-.ion of officers were made by the
Kiwanis club last nigh tat its week
ly luncheon meeting. The election will
be held at next Friday’s meeting. Bal
lots were distributed to the members
last nigh tto be marked and handed
in during the week.
Mr. Perry, dry cleaner, entertain
ed the members with a hypnotism
program, which was something very
unusual and held the interest of the
membership closely. The program for
the evening was in charge of G. S.
Webb and D. T. Dickie. Mr. Dickie
as vice-president presided over the
meeting in the absence of T. S. Kit
trell, the president.
W. R. Brice, new manager of the
Rose 5, 10 and 25c Stores here, joined
the club. He was a Kiwanian at Bur
lington, where he managed a Rose
store before coming here.
Mr. Perry, who put on the hypnot
ism numbers, was a guest of the club
for the evening, and the attendance
was 83 percent of the membership.
to getTljdgments
ON TAX ARREARAGES
Papers have been prepared for the
securing of judgments in 60 instances
in winch back taxes have not been
oaid on property to claim* by
he county of Vance, it was stated
today at the office of Clerk of Super
ior Court E. .O. Falkner. Advertise
ments will be made of the purpose to
obtain judgments. Accounts involved
i these actions date as far back a 3
i S3O in some insta res.
300,000 Workers From Silk
industry Called From Jobs
(Continued Iron* Page One.)
and worsted industries, Some of these
are now unemployed.
Employers have contended, how
ever, that not more than 15 percent
of the workers would be nvolved.
DEADLINE FOR STRIKE TO
BEGIN SET FOR TONIGHT
(By the Associated Press.)
The deadline for the textile strike,
its scope broadened to include more
f han half a million cotton, wool, and
worsted workers, falls at 11:30 p. m.
tonight.
The nation’s textile centers await
tensely the first test of the strike.
The hours are when work would nor
mally be resumed Monday r in parts of
the South and Tuesday after the holi
day In the northeast.
The union had called out 425,000
cotton workers and 100,000 wool and
worsted workers from about 1,500
mills in 21 states, most of them in
the east; the managements say not
more than 15 percent will strike.
Developments:
Washington- Hope of averting the
walk-out abandoned; strike leaders
warned against communist agitators;
National Labor Board seeks early set
tlement.
Macon. Ga. Mill managements de
termined to open Tuesday; strikers
"esolved to permit no workers to en
ter the plant; pickets blocked train
yesterday for more than an hour be
fore it was able to move several cars
of finished products.
Pawtucket, R. I.—New England of
ficials of the United Textile Workers
Union called conferences, planning to
make the strike here 100 percent ef
fective.
Manchester, N. H.—Amoskeag Mill
officials announced shutdown, but
other New England mill owners main
tained thye will .resume operations
Tuesday.
Chicago—(lnternational Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union threatens gen
eral strike October 1 of cotton gar
ment workers.
Wife Preservers
To prevent stoppers from coining
out of bottles when traveling, fas
ten the stopper with adhesive tap#
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER l, 1934
SHARP INCREASE IN
REALTYTRANSFERS
Were 25 In August Against
14 Years Ago and 19 July
This Year
A sharp increase in real estate ac
tivity in the count yis revealed in the
figures for papers filed for record
with the register of deeds during Aug
ust, when the total was 25. In August
a year ago the total was only 14, and
in July this year was only 19.
For the first eight months of this
year there have been 224 real estate
deeds filed, as compared with only 135
for the corresponding period last year
May was the biggest month this year
so far, with 40, while March had 31
and April 33. July’s 19 was the small
est business for an ymonth of 1934.
|aroundtown
No Court Held.— No session of
of police court was held today, there
being no cases set for trial.
Wrecks Are Reported.— Two minor
wrecks were reported early today
near Middleburg, one north and the
other south of the village. No one
was injured in either affair, but cars
involved were slightly iamaged.
Man Is Injured. —A white man
"’whose name was not learned suffer
ed a very painful injury to his right,
foot when trying to get off a Sea
board freigh there early Friday 1
night. He said he was on his way
back to his home in Connecticut aft
er being in the South. He was given
medical attention.
Announcing
The Opening of the
CAROLINA SHOE 6c
HARNESS REPAIR
(Nat Mitchell’s Old Stand.)
Expert Shoe and Harness Repair Work by
Experienced Workers.
OPENING SPECIAL
f
Sept. 3 to 6, vve are offering new heels free with every
half sole job for men and women.
H. C. Anderson
(Jeweler and Watch Repairman.)
Will be located in same building with us.
W atches—Jewelry—Diamonds
Expert Repair Work of All Kinds.
The Busiest Days
Os The Business Year
1 begin for Henderson and the dis
trict on the 11th day of Septem
ber, 1934, when the Tobacco
Market opens.
For 45 years Citizens Bank and
Trust Company has been serv
ing the tobacco growers, dealers
and warehousemen of the Hen
derson section. Its complete fa
cilities and long experience
make it a particularly valuable
business ally at this season
Whatever your connection with
the tobacco industry, or your re
quirements in service, you will
find an alliance here a source of
satisfaction and profit
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Citizens Bank & Trust
Company
HENDERSON, N. C.
Established in The Year 1889
Labor Day
Only Part
A Holiday
Labor Day Monday will be only part
ly observed by business here, it was
learned today.
All the banks, the opst office and
the railroad freight offices both Sea
board and Southern, will be closed
for the entire day. Inquiry todav
revealed, however, that most retail
concerns would operate as usual on
the holiday. Two o the largest said
they expected to operate.
There will be the usual opening of
the stamp and general delivery wind
ows at the post office from 10 to 11
a. m., but there will be no city or
rural deliveries. Box mail will be put
up as usual, and outgoing mails will
be dispatched as on any other day.
W ije Preservers
A clean steel pot scraper may be
used to scrape carrots. Use with a
circular movement. It is quicker
and more effective than a knife.
Potatoes for baking may
scrubbed in the same way.