ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Auto Plates
Sales Well
Ahead Now
2,933 Sold to Christ
mas, 826 More Than
2,071 Total Last
Season
Sales of automobile license plates'
were about 40 percent ahead of the
same period last year up to Christ- j
mis day, it was announced today by]
Mis Mill Jordan, manager of the 10-j
cal branch effi'-e of the Carolina |
Motor Club, vvhitv. i s dispensing the
State plates here. Sales of plates for
the city were laigcr also, although
exact statistics were not immediately
available.
Miss Jordan said that through
Chtistmas eve day, last Thursday, she
had fold 2.933 State license plates, a
gain oi BG2 over the 2,071 sets of plates
sold to the corresponding date last
year.
Ac neon today, some 200 city plates
had been disposed of.
At both offices there was a rush
and congestion today, it being rather
spasmodic at the city clerVs office,
but an all-day affair for the State
licenses. The city expects to sell a
round 1.200 plates in all, where the
State license totals will run probably
clo e to 10,000.
The local branch office of the motor
club serves not only Vance county,
but this, entire section of the State,
and motorists from many surround
ing and nearby counties come here to
obtain their licenses.
The motor club office and the city
clerk's office were beth closed from
Christmas Eve day until this morn
ing. takin goff the Saturday holiday
as well as Christmas day itself.
The plates went on sale December
15. and from that time until the close
of business today, which was 4 o’clock
this afternoon for the State agency,
approximately one-third of the expect
ed total sales were made. Only three
days remained in which the other
two-thirds of the plates were to 'ze
sold, as the law requites that auto
mobiles must be equipped with the
new plates if operated after the first
day of the year.
POSTALVOLUi IS
RECORDHIGH HERE
Trucks Still Delivering Par
cels Today, But Clear
ing Up Jam
The last of the accumulation from
the holiday rush of mails was being
cleared up by the post office today,
with a couple of trucks distributing
packages over the city to their own
ers. Two trucks worked all day Sat
urday in clearing up last-minute ar
rivals of mails.
Postmaster J. R. Teague sa:d to
day that the incoming mail volume
as well as the outgoing was the great
est probably in the history of the
post office. He said present indica
tions were that the cash receipts for
the office for December would be in
excess of the total for December last
year, though he would not be speci
fic as to the amount until the end of
the month.
Indications were, he said, that the
year’s volume would be between $48.-
000 and $49,000 for by far the biggest
volume of cash business ever done by
the local office in a single calendar
year. An increase in 1936 of about
eight to ten percent over last year
was indicated.
PLUMBERS HERE ON
POST OFFICE WORK
Starting Preliminaries On Contract
for Enlarging and Remodeling
of Structure
Plumbers who are to have charge
of the plumbing work in the new post
office building were here today to
start preliminaries toward carrying
out their contract, it was learned. The
concrete basement floor for the new
part of the building has been com
pleted and the erection of the walls
is to be begun shortly. With the rise
of the bu.lding, the plumbing work
will go hand in hand so far as that
is necessary.
From this time on, work will be
pressed to completion as rapidly as
possible, although the enlarged and
renovated building is not expected to
be ready for occupancy before late
spring or early summer. The addi
tion virtually doubles the size of the
post office building.
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CHRISTMAS FUNDS
FOR ARMY $290.60
Kettles Yielded $58.20;
Many Children Remem
bered at the Tree
Christmas funds raised and expend
ed in caring for needy families at the
Yuletide season by the Salvation
Army amounted to a total of $290.60,
Adjutant Joseph Willett, in charge of
the local corps, announced today.
Os the total. $172.40 was from what
was known as the Christmas fund;
$58.20 was contributed by the public
through the kettles on the street, and
S6O was realized from the sale “The
War Cry,” official Salvation Army
publication.
Adjutant Willett today voiced his
thanks and appreciation to all who
gave cash and to those who provided
for needy families presented as "Op
portunities,” and also to the Hender
son Daily Dispatch for presenting the
facts about the needy families.
All of the “opportunities” were
taken, he said, and in addition many
children were provided with toys,
fruits, raisins, nuts and candies at
the Army's annual Christmas tree
event held Christmas night in its hall
at South Henderson.
It was believed that all of the most
needy families were provided for at
the season.
DISORDERLY, DRUNK
CASES ARE HEARD
Number Defendants Before
Mayor I. B. Watkins In
City Court
Drunk and disorderly cases made
up the docket today before Mayor
Irvine B. Watkins in city court, it be
ing the first season since last Wed
nesday, and carried most of the cases
docketed durng the Christmas holiday
period.
Thomas E. Faulkner was convicted i
of being disorderly and cursing and
abusing Bonnie Smolensky, and judg
ment was suspended upon payment of
he costs and staying away from Cen
.ral case.
R. B. Morton. Negro, drew a fine of
55 and costs of court when he pleaded
guilty to being drur.k.
Elncra Mcknight was charged with
disorderly conduct, and prayer for
judgment was continued upon pay
ment of the costs and staying away
from the Fields home.
Entering a plea of guilty, Sandy
Eaton. Negro, was fined $5 and costs
for being drunk.
George L. Jones, Negro, of New
York City, was fined 32.50 and costs
for speeding.
Harry Hayes, Negro, was fined $5
and costs for being drunk. He plead
ed guilty to the charge.
Duke Patterson was convicted of
being disorderly in the Busy Bee case
and with damaging the property of
the case to the extent of SIOO, and also
with resisting an officer. He was sen
tenced to 12 months. An appeal was
noted, the bond being set at S3OO.
Willie Davis entered a plea of guilty
to a charge of being drunk, and was
fined $5 and costs.
Page Thorp, charged wth exposing
his person indecently in a public
place, was called and failed. His bond
of $8 was ordered forfeited.
Frank B. Bowling paid $2.50 and
costs when tried for speeding.
Jack Bassey, Negro, was guilty of
being drunk, and was fined $5 and
costs.
Emmett Obey, Negro, charged with
being drunk and disorderly at the
home of Ben Kearney, had prayer for
judgment continued upon keeping the
peace and paying the costs.
Rena Hatch and Hattie Allen, Ne
groes, were charged with shoplifting
at J C. Penney Co., and each was sent
to jail for five days.
John Roberts went to the roads for
30 days for "being drunk.
Will R. Grissom was fined $5 and;
costs for being drunk.
COUNCIL MEETING
WILL BE DEFERRED
December City Meeting Will Not Be
Held Until Thursday Night
of This Week
Because of the absence of several
members from the city and the fact
that for seme the Christmas holiday
was not. wholly a thing of the past,
, the regular monthly meeting of the
l Henderson City Council was postpn
; ed from tonight, the fourth Monday,
j until Thursday night of this week.
Viayor Irvine B. Watkins said today
j he did not know of any urgent busi-
I ness, ercept that the Council would
probably act. on the resignation of J.
P. and J. H. Zollieoffer as city attor
neys and elect their successor. It is
generally supposed that the office will
go to A. A. Bunn.
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four
1. In Greek mythology, who was De
meter?
2. Has the U. S. ever had a Homan
Catholic President?
3 Wh.ch country has the “Marseil
laise” for its national anthem?
4 In law, what is a defendant?
5. Os what country is Lima the capital
6. Who wrote, “The Song of the Shirt”
7. What was the name of the charac
ter played by Ginger Rogers in
“Flying Down to Rio?”
8 How are Justices of the U. S. Su
preme Court chosen?
in h ° Was aro^ne Howard Gilman?
10. Name the largest river in South
America.
Henderson Daily Dispatch
This Truck Will Take Books To Rural Section
This is the North Carolina Library Commission Book Truck that will be used by the H. Leslie
Perry Memorial Library in Vance County during the month of January to take books to the
rural residents.
Library Commission
Book Truck Will Visit
County In January
The H. Leslie Perry Memorial Lib
rary will use the North Carolina Lib
rary (Commission Book Truck the
month of January to take books to
the rural residents of Vance county.
The trips will begin Monday, Jan. 4,
1937.
The books that will be distributed
will be those belonging at the library.
Each day the book truck will visit a
section of the county and make regu
mMM
SERIOUSLY INJURED
D. O. Langston, of Franklin
ton, Under SSOO as
Drunken Driver
Mrs. Addie Harper, of Franklinton,
was reported to be in a serious con
dition at Maria Parham hospital as
result of injuries sustained in an au
tomobile accident Sunday afternoon
about 5 o'clock about two miles south
of Kittrell, and D. O. Langston, of
Franklinton, is being held under a
$530 bond for his appearance at Jan
uary criminal term of Vance Superior
Court to answer to a charge of reck
less and careless driving of an auto
mobile while under the influence of
whisky and failing to stop and render
aid after injuring a person.
Walton Smith, of Bobbitt, driver of
the automobile in which Mrs. Harper
was riding, was not injured in the
crash.
At Maria Far ham hospital today, it
was said that Mrs. Harper had a frac
tured oelvis.
State Highway Patrolman T. E.
Cooke, Jr., who investigate 1 the ac
cident, stated that Langstm was com
ing toward Henderson, an J Smith
was proceeding Inward Franklinto l at
the time of the crash.
Both jf ■ * a i'.i n »■were badly
damage.'
MRS. C. A. BLACKNALL
DIES IN NEW YORK
News of the death of Mrs. C. A.
Blacknall, a sister-in-law of W. H.
Blacknall, and Miss G. C. Blacknall
was received in the city this morn
ing from New York.
Mrs. Blacknall died of an attack of
pneumonia. No details were learned
here of the funeral arrangements.
VICTIMS OF SPANISH WAR—BUT THEY DIDN’T FIGHT^
Death—to innocent children —in Madrid
Nothing could depict the trageity of the Spanish | of two children, a boy and a girl, blasted to their
. Bivii war more than this pitiful sight of the bodies J deaths in Madrid by bombs from Fascist planes,
lar book stops. The following sche
dule will be observed. Residents of
the county are asked to keep a copy
of this and let their friends and neigh
bors know of the book truck service.
Books may be borrowed free of
charge.
MONDAYS
Kittrell. Zeb Vance School 9:30-11:30
Kittrell. Smith’s Store 11:45-1:00.
Bobbitt-Poe Store 1:30-2:00.
Sandy Grove Church 2:15-2:30.
Epsom School 3:00-3:45.
Dickey’s Store 3:45-4:15.
G liburg 4:30-4:40.
Mt. Carmel Church 5:00-5:15.
TUESDAYS
Aycock School 9:15-11:15.
Amos Mill 11:30-12:00.
Baptist Church.
Sidney Faulkner’s Store 12:30-1:00.
Cokesbury Church 2:15-3:00.
Adcock’s Store 3:30-4:00.
Grey stone 4:15-4:45.
WEDNESDAYS
Townsville byway Corbitt’s and
St. Andrews’ Church
Mrs. Elbert Wilson’s 10:-10:45.
Williamsboro 11:00-11:15.
Rock Spring Church 11:45-12:15.
Townsville School 12:30-2:30.
Townsville Drug Store 2:30-4:00.
Back by Drewry.
THURSDAYS
Middleburg
Farm Life School 9:30-11:30.
Community House 11:30-12:4!5.
Drewry Walton’s Store 1:30-2:00.
Drewry School 2:00-2:30.
Bullock’s Store 2:45-3:00.
Flat Rock Church 3:304:00.
Wortham’s Store 4:15-1:30.
FRIDAYS
Dabney School 9:15-11:15.
Renn Bros. Store—Watkins
Township 11:45-12:30.
Bearpond 2:15-2:30.
Circle Egypt—Mrs. L. E. Barnes
4:00-4:30.
EARLIER SERVICE
NORTH FOR MAILS
A much faster mail service to the
north was made effective here today
for business people of Henderson,
Postmaster J. R. Teague announced.
The post office will put pouch mail
on train No. 20, from Raleigh to Rich
mond, every week-day evening at 5:30
o’clock. Mail for this train must be
in the post office not later than five
o’clock. This pouch will put business
mail into New York by 6 o’clock the
following morning in time for deliv
ery for attention that day. Several
weeks ago an arrangement was made
for pouching on this same train south
bound for Raleigh, passing here a lit
tle after 11 a. m.
UTTLE NEGRO GIRL
Catherine Bullock, Three,
Dies at Jubilee: Clothes
Ignited In Home
•Catherine Bullock, three-year old
daughter of Ed Bullock, Negro, of
Middleburg, succumbed Sunday night
at Jubilee hospital to burns sustained
Saturday afternoon at her home when
her clothes became ignited while play
ing around a fire.
The child was rushed to the hospi
tal, but was so seriously burned that
little hope was entertained for her
recovery. |. iff
OAN CUPIDAGTTvE
DURING CHRISTMAS
Ten Marriage Papers Issued
Christmas Eve; Addi
tional One Reported
Eleven marriage license were report
ed as having been issued at the Vance
Registry, ten of them being given on
Christmas Eve.
On December 23, Willie Verne
Avent, of Franklinton, secured license
to wed Dorothy Lee Branch, of Hen
derson.
Seven of the papers issued Christ
mas Eve went to colored couples.
Henry P. Hughes, and Myrtle P.
Lowry, both of Henderson, James
Austin Graeber, of Concord, and
Evelyn Pirie Barcel, of Henderson
and Leonard Ralph Kerley, of Kit
trell, and Lady Elizabeth Barnes, of
Henderson secured license. The color
ed couples were James Hicks and
Helen Williams, both of Manson, J. H.
Eaton and Ola Capp, both of Kittrell,
Daniel Fogg, Henderson, and Polly
Towns, Elberon, George Allen Branch
and Mary Towns, both of Elberon,
Hal Martin and Josephine Howard,
both of Henderson, Samuel Harris
and Bertha Grant, both of Henderosn,
and James C. Cheatham and Blanche
Wright.
LOCAL MAN’S FATHER
DIES IN BURLINGTON
Rev. and Mrs. T. J. Whitehead left
this morning for Burlington, where
they were called on account of the
death of G. W. Lednum, 80, grand
father of Mrs. Whitehead. They ex
pect to be gone a few days. R. D.
Lednum, also of this city is a son of
the deceased.
MONDAY,'DECEMBER 28. 1936 ~~^j
SECURITY RECORDS
ASKED BY DEC. 31
Post Office Trying To Close
Up Lists by End
of the Year
Postmaster J. R. Teague warned
employers and workers today that he
had received instructions from Social
Security Board sources to have rec
ords) on individuals completed and
forwarded to the regional office in
Baltimore by the end of December,
which is next Thursday.
The postmaster said there were
many who had not turned in their
cards and some who had not even re
ceived them by making request. He
adcised all such to act quickly.
All records that have been sent to
the postmaster have been worked up,
and numbers have been assigned, with
the final report on them now ready
to be sent to the regional office. The
tour extra helpers in charge of this
work have caught up with all the
work so far, and for that reason the
urge has been sent out to those not
yet complying to act immediately.
CAOTiIES
Miller Will Resume Drilling
High School Lads Wed
nesday Night
Coach Bing Miller, here over the
week-end, after spending the Christ
mas holidays in Portsmouth, Va.,
stated that he would call out his Hen
derson high school Candidates for re
newal of their drills at 7 o’clock
Wednesday night in the school gym
nasium.
[ Miner is sounding his call a few
days before the reopening of school
after the holidays, but he realizes
that he must push his boys to the
limit to get them ‘■hape for the sea
son. Drills were starting this sea
son.
The first game of the season will
probably be with Lawrenceville, Va.,
said the mentor.
Miss Temple, director of the girls
team will likely call her candidates
for drills after the opening of school
following the holiday vacation.
9 LYNCHISOCCUR
DURING PAST YEAR
Number Least in Any Re
cent Year; All of Vic
tims Were Negroes
Nine lynchings occurred in 1936, all
of the victims being Negroes, and five
of the total in Georgia, according to
a compilation furnished by Tuskegee
Institute in Alabama, and sent out by
F. D. Patterson, president of the col
lege. Dr. Patterson’s statement fol
lows :
I send you the following
tion concerning lynchings for the year
1936. I find according to the records
compiled in the Department of Re
cords and Research of the Tuskegee
Institute that there were nine persons
lynched in 1936. This is 11 less than
the number 20 for 1935; six less than
the number 15 for 1934; and 19 less
than the number 28 for 1933. Six of
the persons lynched were in the hands
of the law; two were taken from jails,
and four from officers of the law out
side of jails.
There were 35 instances in which of
ficers of the law prevented lynchings.
Five of these were in Northern States
and 30 in Southern States. In 30 of the
instances the prisoners were removed
or the guards augmented or other pre
cautions taken. In the five other
instances, armed force was used to
repel the wouldbe lynchers. A total of
69 persons. Seven white and 62 Negro,
were thus saved from death at the
hands of mobs.
Os the nine persons lynched, all
were Negroes. The offenses charged
were: rape, three; attempted rape,
three; murder, one; activity in share
cropper strike, one; charge not report
ed, one.
The states in which lynchings oc
curred and the number in each state
are as follows: Arkansas, two; Flor
ida, one; Georgia, five; Mississippi,
one.
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R. D. SKENES DIES
AT THE AGE OF 55
Funeral at Home Tuesday
With Interment i n Elm
wood Cemetery
Robert Donald Skenes, 65 f amT
ly known in the city as “Doc Sk ( > ,
died at hi s home i n the South if'"
derson community at 11 o’clock tv*
morning after a long period of f. u ,.
health. He was a native o; Alam
county, where he was born nr/?
28, 1871, but had lived in and ,
Henderson for the past 3o vm, lear
more. years °r
“Doc” Skenes had been i n
health for several years. For th,.
several weeks he had been
to his bed, and his condition ha? h
considered critical for the past ; et ' n
His death was not unexpected °u'
had been a sufferer from a h
ailment.
Hi s wife died several months ■ ,
but surviving are three sons Rnhf;
Donald Skenes, of Norfolk; \y p
Skenes, of Henderson, anil n 7
Skenes, of New York City: two dausth
ters, Mrs. W. L. Mullen, and Mrs j u
Hinton; both of Henderson; and thr
sisters, Mrs. Susie Burke and M*
Martha Burke and Mrs. Tessie RoC
all of Alamance county. His pa ,. ent *’
John and Harriett Hughes Skene 5 '
both of Alamance, have been dead for
many years.
Funeral services were announced
for 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon from
the home, in charge of Rev. A s
Hale, pastor of the First Baptk
church, with interment in Elmwood
cemetery here.
For many years “Doc” Skenes was
engaged in the trucking business do
ing a large portion of the local haul"
ing in the community. He also had
other interests and was well known to
many people. Hi s long platte of hair
that hung down his back, the big
cowboy hat he always wore and his
enormous build and stature made him
a familiar and rather outstanding
figure in any group.
Pallbearers for the funeral Tuesdav
afternoon were announced today as
follows:
Active, Hubret Muliin, B. S. Pope,
Jack Collins, John Vernon, North Col
lins, W T. Riley; Honorary, T. W.
McCracken, Sinclair Newman, Char
lie Harris, T. P. Gholson, C.
M. Hight, J. F. Lassiter, M. L. Wood,
M. J. O’Neil, E. O. Falkner, J. E.
{ Hamlet, E. L. Fleming, I. B. Watkins,
• E. L. Bridgers, H. M. Robinson, Jack
Claiborne.
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JOEL T. CHEATHAM, Pres.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND.
By virtue of the power of sale con
tained in a Deed in Trust executed by
J. E. Boyd and wife, dated December
21, 1932, and recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Vance Coun
ty in Book 166 at page 23, default hav
ing been made in the payment of tbe
debt therein secured, on request of
the holder of the same, I shall sell sot
cash, by public auction, at the Court
House door in Henderson, N. C., to
the highest bidder, at 12 o’clock, Noon,
on Monday, the 18th day of January,
1937, the following described property:
Begin\at a stone in Little Nut bush
Creek; thence down said Creek to the
Rock Arch; thence along the rail*
road to a stone, Mrs. Spratley’s cor
ner; thence S 45 W 36 ch. to a stone
in Mrs. S. V. Boyd’s corner; thence N
45 W 35.50 chains to the beginning,
containing 98 acres, more or less, less
14 acres sold to R. E. Scott of Rich
mond, Va., said 14 acres being deeded
by R. E. Scott to Roanoke River
Power Company, both of said deeds
duly recorded in Register’s Office of
Vance County, N. C. For further de
scription see deed from Mrs. Salhc V •
Boyd to J. E. Boyd, duly recorded > n
Book 43, page 137, Register’s Office,
of Vance County, N, C.
GEORGE A. HARRIS,
• Trustee.
MRS. SALLIE H. BOYD.
Henderson, N. C.,
December 15, 1936.