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ings of men of corrupt minds, and
destitute of the truth, supposing the
gain is godliness: from such withdarw
thyself. But godliness with content
ment is great gain. For we brought
nothing into this world, and it is cer
tain we can carry nothing out. —1
Timothy 6:5-7.
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TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
1755—Robert Gray. New England
sea merchant and fur trader, who com
manded the “Columbia,” 1789-93, first
ship to enter the Columbia River,
born at Tiveton, R. I. Died at sea
in 1906.
1773 —William Ladd, New England
ship captain, farmer, “apostle of
peace,” pioneer in international peace
activities, hern at Exeter, N. Y. Died
April 9, 1841.
1789 —Jared Sparks, historian, cler
gyman Harvard professor and its
president, born at Willington, Conn.
Died March 14, 1866.
1813—Montgomery Blair, Maryland
farmer, Lincoln’s first postmaster-gen
eral, son of a famed statesman, born
in Kentucky. Died July 27, 1833.
1328—jame. Bryce, Britain’s famed
ambassador to vVashington, author of
the “American Commonwealth”, born
Died Jan. 22, 1922.
TODAY IN HISTORY '
1775—bore. Ticcnderoga, New York,
surpri -ed and captured at dawn by.
Americans under Ethan Allen.
1783—Order of the Cincinnati found
ed by officers of the Continental army
encamped on the Hudson at the close
of the War of the Revolution.
1837—Banks suspended sj.- pay
ments in blackest day of par:-., year.
1849 —Rioting in Astor Place. New
York City, when militia fired on mob
killing 22 and wounding 36 —due to riv
airy between American actor, Edwin
Forrest, and British actor, Macready.
1857 —Great Mutiny in India broke i
out.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur of the 9th
U. S. Circuit Court, San Francisco,
onetime secretary of the navy, born at
Boonesboro. lowa, 70 years ago.
Admiral Samuel S. Robison, U. S. N.,
retired, of Tom’s River, N. J., born
in Juanita Co., Pa., 70 years ago.
Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser
tc the Secretary of Agriculture, born
at Richmond, Va., 38 years ago.
Dr. Howard J. Savage, secretary of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad
vancement of Teaching, New York,
torn at Meriden, Conn., 51 years ago.
Dr. Karl Barth of Switzerland, fam
ed exiled German +heologian, born 51
years ago.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
Today’s native is endowed with both
a receptive and dissective mind and
should be able in execution with pow
ers of resource. There is, however,
an indication of indolence or an in
clination to depend too much upon
others; do not allow this to get con
trol of you. There is also indications
of considerable means, without much
desire to add to them.
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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
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ANSWERS TO ! !
TEN QUESTIONS
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’•''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.
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What Do You
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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 |
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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
<Cont|nuHQ from Page One.)
lar to that set up for Madrid when
the siege of the capital began during
the early months of the civil war.
The committee includes five high
army officers, who will he aided by
their own technical assistants.
As a further step toward coordina
tion of the government military opera,
tions in northern Spain, Lieutenant
Colonel Gabriel Aizpuru, was given
widespread powers as head of the
newly-combined police forces of the
provinces of Asturias, Santander and
Bizcaya.
Aizturu was charged with respon
sibility for keeping public order in the
refugee-swollen basque capital.
Bilbao’s defenders mobilized both
men and women for the work of dig
ging new trenches outside the city,
and government battalions rallied
north and east of Bilbao to block in
surgent regions on the Begona and
Galdacano roads.
Fighting of ferocious intensity still
rolled over the charred slopes of
Mount Sollube to the northeast. An
Austrian brigade, fighting for the gov
ernment, was reported to be regaining
lost ground.
The number of refugees evacuated
from Bilbao within five days reached
7,400 when the British freighter Mar
via put outo sea with 400 refugees.
A. F. of L. to Try to
Sign State Labor
(Continued from ’’’age One.'
unions and to form the nucleus of a
strong conservative labor organiza
tion in the state if it will proceed care
fully and cautiously and admit only
the cream of the workers to member
ship and refuse to accept the more
hot-headed extremists. If this is done,
with the principal objective the bet
terment of the workers and their con
dition rather than the fomenting of
'trikes,* the belief is that the A. F. of
L. can eventually become much strong
■'*’ than the younger ana more radical
C. I. O. unions. Some think the C. T.
O. is heading straight into trouble and
plenty of it and point to the unau
horized strike in South Carolina the
latter part of last week, which Law
’■ence hastened to investigate. A gooc
many think that the C. I. O. organiz
ers are going to have a hard time to
prevent the more radical element in
some industries, especially in the tex
tile industry, from striking withou'
authorization, although the C. .I. D
leaders insist that they are not or
ganizing for strikes and do not wan'
any.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey is known
to be watching the situation with i
great deal of interest and some con
cern, although he is said to be of the
opinion that there is no immediate
danger of any strikes in the ’ state.
STATE TO CONTRACT
at mm COAL
Bids to Be Asked on 30-Day
Basis, Chairman Way
nick Announces
Dali? illsuntch Bnren
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
lit J C. PASKEKVIIif
Raleigh, May 10.—The Division of
'Purchase and Contract has just asked
for bids on coal on a 30-day basis, in
an effort to buy as much coal as pos
sible for the public schools and tho
state before an expected increase in
coal prices goes into effect, Capus M.
Waynick, director of the division, said
today. By calling for short term con
tracts, instead for an entire year, Di
rector Waynick hopes to get much bet
ter prices, since higher coal prices are
expected as soon as the Guffey coal
act goes into effect. Under this act,
the Federal government is expected to
publish a schedule of coal prices
which are then expected to become
I standard for the entire industry. This
schedule is expected to be published
soon after June 1.
| “By calling for bids now on 30-day
contracts, we are hoping to get the
I benefit of the lowest prices obtain
-1 able and be protected against any in
creases that may go into effect within
, the next 30 days,” Waynick said. “An
other important factor is that the new
contracts will not go into effect until
4he first order is placed. So if we do
not place our first order until May
25, say, we can get the 'benefit of the
same prices until June 25, regardless
of any increase in prices that may
take place between now and that
time.”
Due to limited storage capacity at
state institutions and in the schools,
indications are that not more than 30,-
000 tons of coal will be purchased un
der these contracts, if they are found
satisfactory, Waynick said.
Duke Makes Final
Plans For Wedding
(Continued from Page One.)
ding plans being worked out by the
former King Edward VIII and his
fiance. Plans for the ceremony will
be announced soon after the Wednes
day coronation, which was originally
planned for Edward..
The opening of the week found I
Windsor settling down to the daily
routine of a country gentleman, oc- 1
cupying his time mostly with golf with *
in a strengthened ring of guards plac
ed on the alert by a series of threat
ening crankletters. |
How the duke will spend coronation \
day has not been disclosed, but fre- j
quent sessions at the radio during re- j
cent evening strengthened the belief
he will be among the listeners to the
coronation Inoadcast.
Probers Usually
GrincJ Their Axes
(Continued from Page One.)
in the back of his head.
EXTRA-LEGAL METHODS?
Adverse critics also contend that)
congressional investigators are over-!
hearing and extra-legal in their meth- |
ods; that they bully witnesses, resort-'
ing to tactics that no court of law*
would tolerate.
Well, this is more or less true, too.
Illustratively, young Senator Rob
ert M. La Follette has been pretty •
much the “whole thing” in connection i
with his civil liberties “probe,” es- 1
pecially into the state of affairs in {
Harlan county, Kentucky.
BUT FACTS ARE THERE
Now “young Bob’’ unquestionably
has prosecuted that Harlan county
case against the coal owners (some of
them, anyway), and the local adminis
trators of so-called order and justice.
Nor have the defendants been per- 1
minted to say anything on their own '
side, as they would in an ordinary |
court—for “young Bob” has been
judge as well as prosecutor. He has
been jury, likewise, in convicting that 1
county of permitting the existence of I
a system that no outsider would have j
believed possible in any community in J
the United States.
This could not have occurred be
fore a formal court, and it makes con- j
servatives sore. They have to agree :
that it is awful, but they fight the ir
regulantv of the revelations. j
KILLING NO EXAGGERATION j
Kentucky representatives assert,!
indeed, that the Harlan county story
is exaggerated, hut it is hard to show
that an actual killing is an exaggera
tion. j
Yes, admits the defense, but there 1
have been killings on both sides.
Yet, even while the La Follette 1
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Actual Scene 3 of the Hindenburg
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WEDNESDAY
Jane Withers
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“THE HOLY TERROR”
JACK POT $25.00
Coming Thursday and Friday
“GREEN LIGHT”
CIRCUS DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN'
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hearings were in progress, terrorism
against union men was resumed —or
continued. At least one union man
was killed, it was testified.
It almost seems like a federal situa
tion. No protection seemingly is given
by state or county.
Greensboro Leads
In Shorter Hours
(Continued from Page One.)
week for all employes, men as well as
women, Commissioner of Labor A. I*
Fletcher, pointed out today, although
the new state law, which goes into ef
fect July 1, calls for a 48 hour week
for women, places no limit on the
working hours for men.
“The action taken by the Greens
boro merchants association in volun
tarily shortening the work week for
all employes to 46 1-2 hours and for
men as well as women, is the most en
couraging thing that has happened
yet and is of great significance for the
state as a whole,” Commissioner Flet
cher said today. “I believe it means
that we are going to be able to do by
mutual agreement what we have fail
ed to do by legislation and that event
ually many other groups of merchants
are going to follow the lead of the
Greensboro merchants in bringing a-
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bout more reasonable working hours.
I also feel that the merchants who
voluntarily agree to the shorter hours
are going to prosper just as much, if
not more, than if they adhered to the
longer hours.”
Linder the plan adop'ed by the
Greensooro merchants, the stores will
open at 9 a. m. and close at 5:30 p.
m. the year ’round, and not just dur
ing the summer months, except on
Saturdays when the stores will remain
open from 9 a. m. until 7 p. m. Com
missioner Fletcher was informed of
the plan ty R. G. Trosper, general
manager and vice president of the
Greensboro Merchants Association.
Under the present law, employers may
require their women employes to
work 55 hour? a week, with no limit
on the hours of men employes. .
The STATE
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TODAY TOMORROW
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given that I have
qualified as executor, under the will
of the late John W. Harris and all
persons having claims against the de
cedent are hereby notified to exhibit
the same to me, on or before the sth
day of May, 1938, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to the late John W.
Harris are hereby notified to make
immediate payment of the same.
This the 3rd day of May, 1937.
R. H. WILSON,
Executor of John W. Harris, decedent.
Pittman, Bridgers & Hicks,
Attorneys.
We Sell |
Real Estate—lnsurance
And collect rents.
List your property with us.
“•Service That Satisfies”
Citizens Realty and
Loan Co.
Phene 628
JOEL T. CHEATHAM, Pres. ,
Firestone
PTI«
1 ires
Will last longer and give
more safe and trouble-free
miles than any other tires.
Trade your old tires now for
new Firestones.
(Tires sold on budget plan).
CAROLINA
Service Station
Distributors—Phone 504.
WANT ADS
PHONE 820 THE PEOPLE’S MEAT
and Grocery for cleanliness, quality
and service. We carry a full line
of western meats. Free delivery.
Your patronage appreciated. Open
6 a. m. to 9 p. m. daily. We arc in
business for yovr health. 31-26 U
FOR SALE—MY HOME ON Row
land street. Alex C. Watkins. 10-3li
TAMS INN, OCEAN FRONT, MYR
tle Beach, S. C„ wishes guests after
opening May 20th. Call 285 or write
for derails about special rates for
June. Misses i’eu’ah Thomas, Ruby
Steelman, Sarah McCallum. 7&10
WE HAVE PLENTY OF GOOD
guaranteed used tires and tubes,
at bargain prices. Most all sizes and
makes. Get our prices before you
buy. Carolina Service Station. 14-ts
FOR SALE OR RENT STORE
building and fixtures size of build
ing 18 by 22 sees. See O. C. Jones,
Dispatch office or 311 Breckcnridge
street. 10-6 t
NOTICE! TO ALL IT MAY CON
cern. You love your children, I lov*
mine; You want to take care of
your children, I want to take care
of mine; You want your money, I
want mine; When you get your
money, please let me have mine. G.
W. Burwell. 10-10
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WE SPECIALIZE IN BODY
and fender work, painting,
windshield and door glasses.
Legg-Parham Company. 14-ts
FOR RENT. TWO ROOMS AND
sun parlor for light housekeeping.
Conveniently located. Furnished or
unfurnished. Call 747-J.
FRESH COW FOR SALE, GIVING
three gallons* SSO. Three miles be
low Epsom on Louisburg route 3. C.
A. Dunn. 8-3 ti
FOR RENT ONE FURNISHED
bed room, close in, call 997-W or
302 Zene street.
YES! WE HAVE JUST UNLOADED
a whole car of super channeldrain
galvanized roofing at “The Place
of Values.” Our roofing sales have
doubled with channeldrain because
it is better. Alex S. Wlatkins. 10-1
WE NOW HAVE A COMPLETE
line of trunks, suit cases, bridles,
saddles and harness. We also do
watch, shoe and harness repairing.
Carolina Shoe Shop. 21-
SALE! OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE,
Wednesday and Thursday, May
and 13, at Farmer’s Cooperative
Exchange (Curb Market Stand »•
Beautiful display grandfather
chairs, love seats, chest of draw'
mirrors, etc. "_1
BLACK PONY CAME TO MY
place two weeks ago. Owner ca
get same by paying for this a<
keep of pony. S. R- Eicketso .
Route 1, Kittrell.
YOU CAN GET A BETTER
used car from a Buick ( ' r -
Look our stock over. Eegg
Parham Company. * '
LOCALCONCERN WANTS BRIGHT
young man between ages of •
25 for permanent position. *
have high school education. ___
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