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Howe. lr-\ WoOO_ / i J J * ~ Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1937, for this Newspaper by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Monday, May 10; Iyar 29, 5697 in J. C. Independence Day in Rumania. Confederate Memorial Day in Ken tucky, North Carolina, South Caro lina, New moon. Zodiac sign: Tau rus. TODAY’S YESTERDAYS May 10, 1752—The identical nature of lightning and electricity was estab lished for the first time by M. Dali bard, French physician, in a demon stration that preceded Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite experiment, though Franklin usually is errone ously identified as the discoverer. May 10, 1848—Tragic acting of Wil liam Charles Macready, 56 caused a tragedy—a bloody riot in Aster Place New York. Admirers of Macready and of Edwin Forrest, who was presenting “Macbeth” at the same time, clashed and 22 persons were killed, 36 wound ed, mostly by militiamen trying to re store order. May 10, 1859 —John H. Gregory dug up gold ore on the north fork of Clear Creek, Colo., and uncovered one of the richest veins in the world. He didn’t know about its richness until later. A lazy fellow who was attracted from Gordon county, Ga., by news of dis covery of gold in Colorado the pre vious January, he quickly sold his mine for $22,500. “I’ll find another,” ne declared after he realized his error. He didn’t. AMERICA AT WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The first mer chant ship convoy left Gibraltar for England. It got through safely, and the occurrence was a turning point in the war. April had been the peak month in Germany’s submarine campaign. The Allies lost nearly a million tons of shipping, the largest part of it in the approaches to the Englash ohannel and the Irish sea. Yet only five or six submarines on an average were ope rating in this area at any one time. Five or six German submarines were bringing the whole of the British isles nearer to starvation! Yet one obvious method of combat ing the menace was still untried—the , corivoy. Why hadn’t it been used? B. • H. Liddell Hart, the British historian, j 1 ANSWERS TO ! ! TEN QUESTIONS See Back Page i I. A:i apparatus to register the shocks * ’•''id undulatory motions of earth- j -makes. j 2 Scotland: j 3. Court of Cassation. 4. Revenue obtained by the U. S. gov emment from other sources than imports. j 5. Nicholas 11. G. A system of instruction in the * truths and duties of the Christian religion by means of question and , answer. | 7. Amelia Earhart. 8. God of Fire. 1 9. Sleeplessness. ■ 10. Seward Peninsula. ■ ! What Do You l Know About ! North Carolina? By FRED H. MAY 1. When did North Carolina adopt I the Lame Duck constitutional amend ment? 2. When was the office of commis sioner of pardons created? 3. Who was the North Carolinian to become the first governor for the State of Texas? 4. When did North Carolina recog nize a razor as a concealed weapon? 5. What was Governor Morrison’s “Bundle Day” proclamation? 6. When did North Carolina offi i cially adopt Arbor Day? ANSWERS 1. June 5, 1933 by joint resolution of the North Carolina legislature. The | amendment to the Constitution of the j United States provides “That Con-1 ■ gress shall assemble at least once in j I every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of Jan l uary, unless they shall by law appoint I another day.” | 2. The legislature of 1925, on the I recommendation of Governor McLean created the office. A salary of not over $4,000 per annum was provided, with an allowance of $l5O per month for a stenographer, and not over S2OO iper annum traveling expense. The office is an appointive one and sub ject to the will of the governor. The I first commissioner was H. Hoyle Sink of Lexington appointed by Governor McLean April 1, 1925. 3. James Pinckney Henderson, of T incoln county. Governor Henderson irst went to Mississippi where he ’•racticed law, and in 1836 to Texas. From 1837 for two years he was secre tary of state of the Republic of Texas, and was sent to England and France to secure recognition of the republic. In 1844 he was sent to Washington to secure annexation by the United States. Two years later he was elect ed the first governor. 4. The legislature of 1883 gave it this recognition and added it to the •:;t cf concealed weapons for which rr’ictments could be made. V “Bundle Day”, May 1, 1923, was •lay for North Carolinians to gather carded winter clothing and turn it ver to the Near East Relief commit i o to be sent to the Armenians. 6. The legislature of 1913 gave first •cognition to Arbor Day. It was ob- Jtved early in November until the ate was changed in 1927 to the first 'riday after March 15, each year. Ar •r Day was first observed in Ne •l’aska on April 10, 1872 when one I lillion trees were planted. HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1937 MAY | MIN MOW TUB WIP "THU HI CTT *2 A /4L51 1^5^262728^1 says: “The Admiralty had the fixed pro fessional opinion that convoy was the oretically unsound; and this opinion, like all doctrinal beliefs, was hard to shake, growing stiffer the more the idea was urged from outside.” Lord Jellicoe, fleet commander, stated “they would never be able to keep merchant ships sufficiently to gether to enable a few destroyers to screen them.” Sir Henry Jackson, First Sea Lord, declared that in any case it would be impossible to “protect by escort even a small proportion of the sailings.” Consequently, months passed before the Admiralty gave the convoy of merchant ships a chance. With the starvation of Britain and the collapse of her armed effort in sight, Lloyd George demanded that the convoy plan, or anything, be experimented with. American flotillas detailed to the Britfish fleet provided the de stroyer strength necessary. So convoys were started on this date, at night. Not a light was shown on any ship. The vessels knew of each other’s presence only by the phosphorescence that played about their propellers. The ships got through safely, but Lloyd George had to intervene once more to force the Admiralty to adopt the system as a regular practice. Highway Board to Divide the State (Continued from Page One.) sioners, none of these ten knows yet just what counties are in his district. Incidentally, the House and Senate Roads Committees tried for three months to work out districts that would be satisfactory, but finally gave it up and passed the buck to the new commissioners. For the law as final ly passed stipulates that the ten com missioners, after their appointment, shall divide the State up into ten high way districts. “We are going to stay in session until we get the districts finally de termined ,even if the meeting runs late in the night,” Chairman Dunlap said today. “For until we get these districts set the various commission ers cannot make a move or do any thing—in fact, the hands of the en tire commission are tied until we get the State districted. The determina tion of all future policy and methods of procedure center around the dis tricting question. So it is going to be decided first.” The job of dividing the State is not expected to prove so difficult, however since both Governor Hoey and Chair man Dunlap have been studying seve ral different sets of maps for some days now, all of which show the State divided into ten districts, but with some variations. It is now generally agreed that the matter has boiled down to one of three different maps, that an effort will be made to lay out the districts along geographical lines rather than political and to keep them as nearly the same size as pos sible on the basis of square miles, population and road mileage. The new commission has already decided that no changes will be made in the administrative divisions into which the state is now divided for en gineering purposes, until after July 1. Defense For Bilbao Given Into Council