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A WORLD OF LAW: A good man 1
obtaineth favor of the Lord: but a
man of wicked devices will be con
demn. —Prov. 12:2.
today*.**
TODAY S ANNIVERSARIES
1804 —Neal Dow, temperance re
former, trainer oi the law whicn
made Maide a temperance State
back in tool,, born at Portland,
Maine. Died Oct. 2, 1897.
1914 —George vV. Harris, Knox
ville, Tenn., numorist, oorn at Al
leghany, Pa. Died Dec. 11, 1369.
1828—Henrik Ibsen, famed Swed
ish piaywrignt, oorn. Died May 28,
1906.
1834 —Charles W. Eliot, Harvard'.;
famed president from 1869 to 190 y,
eminent citizen, born in Boston.
Died Aug. 22, 1926.
1839 —(100 years ago) James
Schouier, noted Boston iawyer, le
gal writer and American nistorian,
son of a toted editor-historian, born
at Arlington, Mass. Died April 16,
1920.
1844—ftooert Dollar, Pacific Coast
lumuer and : topping magnate, born
in Scotland. Died May 16, 1932.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1822 lOO ‘Enterprising Young
Men Wanted,” oegan what is called
the most listoric of neip wanted ado
in our history m the St. Louis Mis
souri Repuulican—the young men
were to go up the Missouri River
for fur minting.
1852—“Lincie Tom’s Cauin,” whicn
had Degun as a aerial in the Wasn- J
ington, D. C. National Era the pre
vious June, came out in book form
in Boston, in iwo volumes—lo,ooo
copies ;,oia me : irst week.
1862—Willie Lincoln, second sea
of the President, died of smallpox
in ihe vVhite House.
1886 —William Stanley, Westing
house ciiiei engineer, first demon
strated his multiple system of alter
nating-current distribution (A. G.)
at Great Barrington, Mass. Refused
financial assistance and experiment
ed at own expense in several stores.
1919—Bolsheviks in Russia said
to uc officered by Germans, while
American uoops were fighting : n
Siberia aganmx them in alliance
with the White Russians.
1929 —Coi. Lindbergh began tak
ing up legislators and their families
in Washington to make congressmen
more air-minded.
1933—Dr. Albert Einstein’s home
in Germany searched for arms and
ammunition.
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TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Wilfred J. Funk, president of the
noted New York publishing house,
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 56 years
ago.
Lauritz Melchior, famed tenor,
born in Denmark, 49 years ago.
Beniamino Gigli, opera tenor, born
in Italy, 49 years ago.
John J. Esch of La Crosse, Wis.,
lawyer, ex-congressman and ex-In
terstate Commerce Commissioner
born at Norwalk, Wis., 78 years ago.
Prof. Paul S. Epstein of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology, fam
ed physicist, born in Poland, 56
years ago.
Richard B. Hanson of New Bruns
>^ 1Ck ’ lawyer-statesman,
born 60 years ago.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
There is a certain lack of initia
tive and a v/cakness of concentra
tion on the part of the native of to
day, usually he is a little too vis
ionary. The day is near the divid
mg line ol two signs and a careful
study of both is necessary in deter
mining in which direction the wav to
success may be found. Much de
pends on the individual aspects of
the birth hour. OJ
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page
1. Niagara
2. MCMXXXIX.
3. The notes • above the natural
compass of the voice.
4. Former President of the Spanish
Republic.
5. “Jesus wept,” John 11:35.
6. The Orkneys.
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8. Ka’-dens; not ka-dense’.
9. Nonagcn.
10. North Carolina.
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED 11. MAY
1 Where did the quartz used in
the’ world’s largest telescope come
from?
2. How many foreign born person ;
did the last census enumerate in
North Carolina’s population?
3. How long has Rowan county
been sending Pete Murphy to the
legislature?
4. How much was the governor’s
salary reduced by the legislature of
1879?
5. How many states have more
farms than North Carolina?
6. Who was the founder of the
University of the South?
ANSWERS.
1. From the Chestnut Flat Mine,
near Newland, North Carolina. The
lense in which this North Carolina
product was used measures 200-
inches in diameter, and is the largest
in the world. It is being polished
now preparatory to being used in a
telescope at Mount Palomer, Califor
nia. It will be in use sometime in
1940.
2. A total of 8.788.
3. Walter Murphy’s first term in
the legislature was in 1897. With th r
exception of a few terms Rowan has
returned him to every session since
that time.
4. In April 1869 the carpetbag leg
islature, under Governor W. W.
Holden, had established the execu
tive’s salary at $5,000 per year. The
legislature of 1897 reduced this to
$3,000, with an. allowance of SSOO
and certain fees for a private secre
tary. The governor’s salary today is
SIO,OOO.
5. Only two —Mississippi with 31,1-
683 and Texas with 301,015, North
Carolina has 300,967.
6. Leonidas Polk, born in Raleigh
in 1801, founded the University of
the South at Sewanee, Tennessee.
He was the first Bishop of the Epis
copal church in Louisiana. During
the war between the states has was
known as the “Fighting Bishop” and
was killed at the battle of Pine
Mountain.
Maxwell Estimates
On State Revenues
To Be “Good News”
(Continued From Page One)
of $2,500,000 each year thereafter.
The unofficial rumor was that re
ceipts from income taxes indicated
a yield of $9,750,000 to $10,000,000
for this year.
Douglas Is Chosen
For High Court
(Continued From Page One)
voted. He said 7,000 would have to
be dropped in North Carolina.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
asked Congress for $7,300,000 to
train civilian air pilots.
The Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee recommended legislation to
prevent the use of machine guns and
offensive chemical weappns in indus
trial disputes.
Sentiment increased in the Senate
Finance Committee for independent
congressional action to overhaul
business taxes if President Roosevelt
fails to recommend their revision.
The President said last week the
Treasury was making factual stu
dies to ascertain effects of suggest
ed changes in the tax structure. H?
insisted that revenues remain at
their present level.
Roumania To Keep
Rights Politically
(Continued From Page One)
hands. The problem of getting re
placements for these armaments
was made difficult.
MEMEL GRAB IS QUESTION
OF DAYS, BERLIN BELIEVES
Berlin, March/ 20, (AP)—Jouzas
Urbsys, foreign affairs minister of
Lithuania, and German Foreign Min
ister Joachim von Ribbentrop con
ferred today on what government
spokesmen said was primarily the
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A man takes a wife for better or for worse, only
to find he has got her for good.
HENDERSON. (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, MARCH 20,1939
fate of Memel. ' “ ” *
It was announced at the same time
that Count Johannes von Welczeck,
German ambassador to Paris, had
been ordered to return to Berlin to
report. French Ambassador Robert
Coulondre, called back Saturday by
his government, already had left the
German capital.
Evidence indicated that the reun
ion of Memel with greater Germany
is only a question of days. Memel,
a Baltic district 1,099 square miles
in area, was detached from Germany
by the Versailles treaty and later
placed under Lithuanian sovereign
ty with a measure of autonomy.
With Chancellor Hitler back in his
chancellory and the press hinting at
a possible cancellation of the 1935
British-German naval treaty in re
ply to Britain’s stiff protest over the
Nazi absorption of Czechoslovakia,
this train of facts showed how the
wind was blowing:
1. German newspaper editors
told their foreign colleagues private
ly that the absorption of Memel was
practically assured.
2. Various travelers reaching Ber
lin from the northeast of Europe re
ported troop movements.
3. A meeting of the Memel Land- 1
tag. or diet, is scheduled for March
25, and the date is regarded in poli
tical circles as pivotal in Memel’s
future history.
4. The discussion between Von
Ribbenthrop and Urbsys was said
also to have touched upon the ques
tion of Lithuania’s role in the Eu
ropean concert of nations.
Uzzell andi Cassey
Want Speakership
(Continued From Page One)
and at this time is undoubtedly the
most likely prospect. ,
John W. Cassey, of Guilford, chair
man of the appropriations commit
tee this session, one of the routes
that generally leads to the speaker
ship, is believed to have more de
sire to occupy a back seat in the na
tional House of Representatives than
to have the highest seat in the North
Carolina House. Cassey almost ran
for Congress last year. It is a vir
tual certainty that he will enter the
field against Mr. Durham and all
other comers in the sixth district
next summer.
W. E. Fenner, finance commit
tee chairman, the other and more
sure route to the presiding office, is
eliminated by the east-west alter
nating agreement. The same rule
would eliminate Victor Bryant, of
Durham, who this year ran for the
place as an easterner.
But Uzzell is not likely to get the
honor without fighting for it. The
genial Pat Kimsey, of Transylvania,
a legislative veteran and a popular
one has some boosters. Spruill
Thornton, of Forsyth, would d~* a
very probable candidate and a for
midable one, but he will hardly ask
for the post in view of the fact that
his fellow townsman, Senator Gor
don Gray, is an avowed candidate
for lieutenant governor. By a sort
of fluke this time, control of agri
culture in both House and Senate
went to the same county, but the
membership is not likely to know
ingly select presiding officers of both
houses from the same town.
Rupert Pickens, bf Guilford, could
qualify in ability and legislative' ex
perience, as >vell as geographically.
Pickens has chosen the role of a
lone wolf in his assaults upon the
appropriations and while he has had
some strong support he has not at
tempted To organize any concerted
action or bloc. He would have noth
ing in the way of organization to
start with.
The fact that any prospective can
didate may have the inside track
at htis time doesn’t mean that he
will not be ousted later. Two
ago at this time it looked like a
cinch for Victor Bryant. At the
same stage in 1933 it looked like
Willie Lee Lumpkin. But by 1935
Robert Grady Johnson had left
Lumpkin so far behind that there
wasn’t much need to have the vot
ing. This year Libby Ward didn’t
leave Bryant very far behind, but
in the last few hours before the
caucus he did succeed in picking up
enough votes to disappoint Mr. Bry
ant very keenly.
Commitments of support from
members of this assembly, many of
whom will come back next time, are
desirable as a nucleus around which
to build or organization. George
Uzzell is getting some commitments.
On the other hand, too much show
of strength now may prove a handi
cap. It did for Jack Morphew in
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1937. There isn’t lacking the be
lief that some shenanigan work was
done to defeat Morphew in the 1936
election so that he would not have
to be contended with in the speaker
ship caucus. Remembering that and
other similar instances, the boys are
not being overt about their vote
hunting just now.
From the viewpoint of legislative
experience, leadership on important
committees, and 'geographic location,
the two most obvious candidates for
next speaker are Cassey and Uzzell.
If Cassey decides to remain in Ra
leigh rather than go to Washington,
the real race is likely to be between
these two. If Cassey eliminates him
self, Uzzell will probably be the fav
orite but will plenty of opposi
tion. !•> ■•d
Drys Again Are
Gaining In Congress
(Continued From Page One)
submit to it. They do yet.
Washingtonian Prohibition.
Washingtonian prohibition having
been decreed, prohibitionists imme
diately asserted that it was working
perfectly. It wasn’t true; I know,
having lived under it. But I’ve no
doubt that prohibitionists believed it,
not wanting a drink anyway.
Yet the American majority, being
then prohibitionistic, chose to gulp
the f whole story down bodily—and
we got wholesale prohibition mainly
on 1 the strength of Washington’s
trial of it.
As we know, a literal saturnalia
of racketeering followed.
Joseph B. Keenan, under Presi
dent Roosevelt, was appointed assis
tant attorney general, in the justice
departn'tent, especially to fight the
racketeers. Assuredly he did fight
them, and probably understands
them better than any prosecutor liv
ing.
I asked him then (he’s recently re
tired), what caused it all? —prohibi-
tion?—the depression?—or what?
“Prohibition,” answered unquali
fiedly. “It just shows what a bad law
v/ill do.” Nevertheless he fought li
quor racketeering like a wildcat. Just
npw, as previously remarked, he’s
out as a public official.
Dry Regime’s Aftermath.
The national dry regime being
ended now, its effects are only an
aftermath.
Perhaps we’re recovering.
But possibly, as indicated by Sen
ator irazjers and. Representative
Guyer’s activities we’re due for an-
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Don Amecho and the Ritz Bros. in-“ Three Musketeers”-
; fete —Teday and Tomorrow.
5-10-20 YEARS AGO
(Taken from Daily Dispatch Files)
March 20, 1934.
For the third time in ten days, and
all in the same month, and the lat
est since 1915, snow blanketed this
section during the forenoon today to
a depth of one inch, according to the
official measurement.
Dr. G. I. Humphries, president of
High Point College, has accepted an
invitation extended to him to preach
the graduating sermon to the glass
of 1934 of the Henderson High
school.
J. H. Bryan and E. M. Powell, of
the Henderson Furniture Company,
have returned from a meeting of sev
eral hundred dealers and field super
visors of Frigidaire held in Norfolk,
where the selling and advertising
plans for the next twelve months
other move in the old direction.
I wouldn’t think there was much
prospect of their move’s success on
a federal scale. Still, one might have
| said the same thing when the drys
| put across their initial program, as
per the 18th amendment. The Shep
pards and surviving Volsteads and
others won’t do it speedily, but
they’re diggers.
The Distilled Spirits Institute is
worried anyhow.
It issues bushels of publicity to
prove (so it says) how prohibition
fizzled.
It’s a funny thing that Dr. J. M.
Doran is the foremost of the Distill
ed Spirits Institute’s spokesmen. Be
cause, Dr. Doran was the chief dry
enforcement officer in the prohibi
tion era.
At this juncture, he’s the chief
anti-prohibitionist.
And Gene Tunny! ex-heavy
weight scrapper! He’s a congressional
witness on the liquor subjet. What,
in heaven’s name, does he know
about it?
All this is the national alcohol is
sue, via the District of Columbia.
Gosh help the District of Colum
bia.
Plans for this year’s Farm and
Home Week, to be held at State Col
lege July 31-August 4, are more elab
orate than ever, says John W. Good
man, assistant director of the State
College Extension Service.
! were presented.
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March 20, 1929.
Prospective players on the Hender
' i son baseball team are expected to
i begin arriving in the city in force
by tomorrow, and actual practice
work will begin immediately there
after, as soon as enough of the men
reach tne city to make that possible.
March 20, 1919.
Proposals for the immediate con
struction of a bitulithic highway be
, tween Henderson and Oxford, to “be
thirty feet wide and as smooth as
the streets of Oxford”, are contain
ed in a long article appearing in the
; current issue of the Oxford Public
; 1 Ledger.
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Curious Botanist
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Five-year-old Bobby Hetterly looks
over an unnamed tulip, grown by
John Scheepers, on exhibit at the
26th international flower show in
/ New York City.
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The Ides of March are gone and
now Uncle Sam must wait 12 more
months before he ?hits the jackpot
again.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
Notice is hereby given that I have
qualified as the Administratrix of
the Estate of W. M. Cbffin, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them pioperly itemized and verified
to the undersigned'TiWithin one (1)
year from the date of this notice, or
the same will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will make immediate
payment to the undersigned
D. Th l939 he 13th day ° f March - A
HENRIETTA A. COFFIN, Admrx
Pittman, Bridgers & Hicks,
Attorneys,
Henderson, N. C. - * -
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custom grind meal and feed and
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Mill moved to State Grocery Com
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Bridgers Beauty Shop. 14.^
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
that Ted Robinson is now with us
at Adcock & Johnson Garage, on
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NOTICE.
Default having been made in the
payment of that note secured by
that deed of trust dated the 21st
day of December, 1933, executed by
Alfred Christmas and wife, Elizabeth
Christmas, duly recorded in Vance
County Registry in Book 172, on page
334, and at the request of the hold
er of the note secured thereby the
undersigned Trustee will\ offer lor
sale and sell to the highest bidder
for cash at the Courthouse door in
Henderson, North Carolina at 12
o’clock midday, on Wednesday, April
12, 1939, the following described real
estate;
Bounded on the North by lands of
E. R. Abbott; on the East by L. R.
Royster Estate; on the South by A. S.
Scales property and on the West by
Hawkins Mill Road. Containing four
(4) acres. It being the property in
herited by Alfred Christmas from
his grandfather, Sam Christmas.
This the 11th day of March 1939.
J. H. ZOLLICOFFER, Trustee^
INSURANCE -• RENTALS
Real Estate —Home Financing
Personal and courteous atten
tion to all details.
AL. B. WESTER
Phone 139—McCoin Bldg.
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I Carolina Typewriter Co
Phone 540 119 S. Salisbury St.,
. » Raleigh, N. C.
A. D. Patterson
General Contractor
Henderson, N. C.
All kinds of building- paint
ing and remodeling,
219 S. William St.
Phones:
Office 433, 'esidence 768
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