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PAGE FOUR iaiiii SiHpatrl? Established August 12, 1914 Published livery Afternoon Except Sunday by HENDERSON DISPATCH CO., INC at 109 Voung Street HENRY A. DENNIS, Pres, and Editor M. L. FINCH. Sec.-Treas., Bus. Mgr. TELEPHONES Editorial Office *>oo Society Editor blO Business Office biu The Henderson Daily Dispatch is a member o! I lie Associated I less, Southern Newspaper Publishers As sociation and the North Carolina Press Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to a e for republication all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ered/ted in this paper, and also the local new s published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Payable Sirictiy in Advance One Year $5 00 Six Months 2-50 Three Months 1-59 Weekly (By Carrier Only) 15 Per Copy 9a Entered at the post oft ice in Hender son, N. C. as six ond class mail matter. cHF./?':FC r, ALC -A . RC M R^^ —rdi» al»ii?p iyleei,»ii|hl un<o my For. brethren. ye nave been called unto liberty: only list not liberty lor an occasion to , e Eesh, but by love serve one another. Galatians 5:13. ; lodti) ..... TODAYS ANNIVERSARIES 1800—Robert E. Rhett, South | Carolina's noted congressman, sena tor and Confederate statesman, a storm center of Southern politics, j born at Beaufort, S. C. Died Sept. 14, 1876. 1821—John C. Brant, co-founder with brother and brother-in-law, Henry B. Stratton, of the business college chain, Buffalo, N. Y. school ' head, physician, born in England. Died Nov. 6. 1901. 1829 — Laura D. Bridgman, Bos ton's Perkm's Institute's famed , blind, deaf, mute, who, like Helen Keller, made life's potentialities i greater for those similarly afflicted, j born at H n over, N. H. Died in s Boston. May 24. 1889. 1830— Mary V. Terhune ("Marion Harland") noted author, mother of Albert Pay-on, born in Amelia county, Ya. Dud Due 3. 1922. 1837—Joseph G. McCoy, pioneer cattleman, who established the great j overland cattle drives of the South west, Abilene. Kansas mayor, born Illinois. Died Oct. 19, 1915. 1849 James Lane Allen, famed 1 novelist, born near Lexington, Ky. 1 Died Feb. 18, 1925. 1854—Morton Prince, Boston j physician-pathologi t. born there. Died Aug. 31, 1929. TODAY IN HISTORY IS2o—The Pilgi'm Fathers land at Plymouth. Mass. 1798—Historic Virginia and Ken tucky resolution.-■ criticizing the in creasing powers (.if the Federal Government. 1807—The F-'-bargo Act passed by Congress forbidding American ships leaving port for foreign parts and closing our port; to British ships —British and French then at war ■ with each other and both seized i American ships on high seas. t 1850— Historic Hulsemann epi- ] sode—Daniel Webster, secretary of 1 State, writer message to answer , Hungary's envoy here, one Hulse- i mann. affirming right of U. S. to recognize any "de facto” revolu tionary government. 1866 Sioux Indians massacre ‘ and scalp 3 officers and 90 privates : 1 at Ft. Philip Kearney, near Big ( Horn, Wyo. 1911—Lb S. abrogates treaty with 1 Russia in prote t of treatment of •' in that country. ; 1919—More than 200 Communists ’ deported from country. I 1935—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh, 1 his wife an i ni• *! 1 son secretly L board freighter for England at mid- ■ night. b TODAYS BIRTHDAYS U. S. Senator Lynn J. Frazier ol ' 1 North Dakota, born Steele countv j' Minn., 65 y; air ago. ' ' : David A. Reed ol Pittsburgh, ( lawyer, ex-senator, porn in Pitts- * burgh, 59 years ago. Edward Hungerford of New York, b author, born at Dexter, N. Y. Ob' years ago. lienee Du Pont, officer in the ! noted company, bum ne ar Wil mington, 63 years ago. Albert Payson Terhune of New Yoi k, noted author, born in New- I ark, N. J., 67 years ago. Di. Edwaid C. Elliott, president of Purdue, Lafayette, I n d., born in Chicago. 65 years ago. Di. Hu mann J. ATullcr, noted geneticist, born in New York 49 years ago. ”■*- Henrietta Szold. American .Jew ish leader in Palestine, born in Bal timore, 79 years ago. TODAY’S HOROSCOPE Today endows with a somewhat lavish disposition, which may cause the native trouble. The mind appears to have considerable force and there is a strong turn for a di rect and honest course in life; but there is a twist in the condition which, under adverse aspects, may overthrow all the benefit that has accrued from honest and patient effort. INSURANCE RENTALS Real Estate—Home Financing Personal and courteous attention to all details. AL. B. WESTER Phone 139 McCoin Bldg What Do You Know About North Carolina? By FRED H. MAY L On what two days of the week ' do most automobile accidents in . North Carolina occur? 2. Who was the man of mystery who designated the official seal of ’ Davidson College? ’ 3. How many rural churches have ’ been aided by the Duke Endowment? 4. What surprise did the British ad -1 mit following the battle of Kings ’ Mountain? 5. When was an effort made to re -1 quire members of the legislature to . be vaccinated against smallpox? 6. Who was the Richmond county . man elected governor of Connecticut [ in 1866? [ ANSWERS. L Saturdays and Sundays. Ap . proximately one-half of all auto mobile accidents occur on these days. Out of 97 fatal accidents in October i 22 occurred on Sundays and 24 on i Saturdays. 2. Peter Stewart Ney, a school teacher*, believed by many to have been Marshal Ney, in the Great French war leader under Napoleon. History says that Marshal Ney was executed in 1815 in Paris. Many be lieve. however, that he escaped the | tiring squad through a ruse and came I to America, and that he was Peter ! Stewart Ney, North Carolina school 1 teacher. About 1840 Peter Stewart Ney was teaching school near Davd son when a committee from the col lege called on him and asked him to design the seal. Ney died in 1846 and I was burled at Fourth Creek Cnurch, i Iredell county. 3. Donations totalling $1,063,112.66 have been made to 1.577 rural churches. 4. Evidently the British officers I had not anticipated any resistance j to amount to anything from the west, | and General Ferguson’s defeat at j Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780, was I a complete surprise. Lord Rawdon, j I two weeks after the battle, wrote. “A - army now appeared on the ; frontier, drawn from Nolackucky, 1 and other settlements beyond the mountains, whos every names had been unknown to us.” 5. In 1861 when smallpox was pre- ! valent in Raleigh during a session ot the legislature. 6. Joseph R. Hawley, born in 1826. After serving the term he entered; the newspaper field. In 1873 Con- j necticut sent him to congress. ANSWERS TO TEN QUESTIONS See Back Page 1. The science of law. 2. John B. Upham. 3. Lock and lake type. 4. George H. Dorn. 5. University of lowa. 6. Ak-sen'-et; or ak -sent-ed. 7. Eleven a. m. 8. Gulf of Mexico. 9. Joey Archibald. 10. James Madison. Capital Gossip By HENRY AVERILL | Raleigh, Dec. 21.—Libby Ward,!/ Speaker of the 1939 House of Rep- 1 resentatives, was standing near the entrance to the Sir Walter lobby as j Lee Gravely, Rocky Mount contribu tion to the list of governors-suspect, walked rapidly by, obviously in a 3 hurry and with concern and deep • thought written large on his face. “I’m sure glad it’s him worrying and not me”, smiled Libby, adding , less cheerily, “A year ago I didn’t even know there was a Christmas.” < At that time the Craven county j: representative was neck deep in the speakership race, which he won by a scant two votes over Durham’s able Victor Bryant. i I State employees got their cheeks: yesterday; and some of them were | just a bit nervous when they noted that the non-cashable record end of , each was well smeared with red ' ink. There were versions of a treas- ! ury deficit, or the ‘‘pink slip”, or j something dreadful, but, the carmine 1 color was due to this little verse on each: “A Merry Old Christmas to You— George Ross Foil.” Partisans of Walter “Pete” Mur- i phv are suggesting that the incum- : bent secretary of state’s slogan does n 1 sound so good especially when said right rapidly. Try it, “The Peo ple's Man” Eure. Gilliam Grissom, perhaps the deepest dyed Republican in the State and certainly one of the ablest and quickest-witted, walked into the of -1 fice of a South Carolina-born Demo crat the other day, tossed down a new nickel bearing the portrait of Thomas Jefferson and began kiddin" about it. “Jefferson was the great champion of the masses, and was a constant advocate of minting small coins. If j it hadn’t been for him we probably j wouldn’t have had anything smaller than a dollar —but you denied Demo- j crats put his picture on the only small coin he didn’t suggest, the five- ! cent piece. And you waited an aw ful long time to do even that,” josh ed Gilliam. Slowly the Democrat reached into his pocket, pulled out a penny and j laid it on, the table beside the Gil \ liam nickel. “At that”, he countered, “I always i knew one Jefferson was worth five Lincolns, and if you don’t believe it j just inspect these.” J Here’s a novel but indisputably ex HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939 cellent Christmas dinner menu, as presented in “Christinas Recipes”, a mimeographed booklet of the Virginia Electric and Power Com pany ot Roanoke Rapids; Grace Conscience clear Kindness Good Cheer Charity Served with Discretion Peace Love Truth , Long Life Stuffed with Usefulness Hearts Fond and True in Very Large | Portions Affection Happiness Best Wishes for Absent Friends Too much publicity on the exploits ; of North Carolina’s educated beav ers who built a dam in the same spot that men engineers had pro ■ posed one brought too many visitors to the spot, with the result that the beavers have suspended operations ' and moved further up stream. Raleigh, Dec. 21. —State Senator Tom Gold of High Point indicated while in Raleigh Tuesday that he j likely will run for the General As sembly again next year. He was quite prominent in the • 1939 Senate as chairman of the Judi ciary No. 1 committee. The High Point law-maker said there seems to be practically no j chance that his home city will enter a serious candidate in the sixth dis trict congressional scramble next spring; and which ought to mean | that Greensboro's John Cal'fey will get a thumping big majority in Guil ford. “But you know it’s absolutely im possible to unite Guilford on any one candidate for anything”, warned Senator Gold. Closest competition in many moons marked sale of $413,000 in water re funding' bonds of the city of High Point by the Local Government ; Commission Tuesday. The successful i bidder's offer bested the next by (only $136.20 on a transaction which j involved more than $700,000, con sidering' both principal and interest, j Which is much too close for com- I fort. Sources which are none too re liable and which do not have the complete confidence of this bureau indicate a possibility that Clarence Poe will not run for governor, but .will announce his support of Com missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, j Could be. and there are some evi dences of authenticity; but not too many. Item chasing in these days and times in Raleigh is quite a difficult job, so if the pickings appear very I and exceedingly slim, blame at least j part of it on old Santa and the com- j ing New Year. State Departments are more or less ! marking time, with employees all j in a twitter over their Christmas snopping and their approaching holiday from Friday afternoon to Wednesday morning. Raleigh high school has decided to drop boxing from its sports calendar and program; ostensibly because Coach Jimmy Gerow moved away and there isn't anybody handy to replace him. As a matter of fact, boxing is marked for erasure from the entire North Carolina scholastic slate. Of ficials high in the Department of Public Instruction, notably Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, are dead set against it. Dr. H., for example, is quite openly ol' the opinion that oox ing is no part of a sport. He is against anything which, as he says “has for it's primary object the knocking cold of an opponent.” Jhe D. of P. I. folks are going to have more and more to say about j high school athletics as time goes 1 on, too. Appointment about a year ( ago of a physical education specialist i lor the State was the beginng of a ' movement to take the sports pro- I gram from the present hap-hazard j methods ol the so-called “confer- ; ences", and introduce something re sembling a unified program which : will embrace all schools; with equals , in various groups classified accord in'? to enrollment. When and if that is done, present | meaningless “titles” will became bona fide. 1 j Republics cf America Warn of Force Here j (Continued F r urn Page Onci Pnr>«, the United j-jiri 'Tnwn th<* mvie at, t?ie Fan-.* m°riea?i conference in Panama last summer. Amoiu the events occurring within t*-e 7fin n . and thus H'«. turbine; neutral nations, which mav want to beep the war off thefr doorsteps, are: The Gennnn-British naval battle off Uruguay; the pursuit o? the German freighter Arauea bv a British warsh'p into Fort * verglad"s, Fla.; the scuttling of the German liner Columbus within gam* hot, of a British de stroyer. and the helping of the American Iwr Santa Rosa h.y a French cruiser. In London it was said the Bri tish navy f It free to fight any where on the high seas, hut be lieved at the same tim- that if asms of the zone could he made ! t(> work it would he to the ad j vantage of the Allies. Red Attack On Isthmus Is Stopped 'Lontinned From Page One) around the capital. ■v F vV? 1 bombs fe!l in the five-block* ■2S™ . area ', ll WHS the third su<:- Ifnk'L„H ,y -°! ?. wial “‘tack on He!- sink, and vicinity. dmnnpH a n ?J d , not all of the bombs ed P bni th bospital area explcd struct L 1 dormitory, a five-story bon hTi, USt3 J nod a di »'eet hit. The two Hnn l apsed the roof and u PP f *r W ° * loors ’ wrecked the back of the CHRISTMAS WREATH, building and tore out the front. The clinic building, a five-story structure, was damaged heavily, as was the school for the blind, a build ing four stories high and a block! long. Most of the hospital patients bad been removed, but ten were too 11 to stand transfer and ('lie of these was injured seriously, while another, was shuck by stone hot through, a window by one bomb explosion. The Soviet Rus iwi forces, stretch- i ed on three sides like a great hand trying to clinch were stopped on the! Karelian 1 thrnus in the south and in die southeast after raging battles, in which the invaders used hundreds of tanks. Although temperatures 25 degrees below zero stalled the Russian drive in the far north, above the Arctic circle, the Finns acknowledged they had withdrawn. In the southeast, where the Rus sians apparently are attempting td split Finland at her narrowest, in a westward drive, the Finns said they had taken the initiative and were ad vancing. Gravely Move Wailing On Bill Fenner •Continued From i*ace One) that it would he practical political suicide for both to get in. Lee. it seems, has now received assurance th-M perennially ambitious Dick Fountain will not come out as a nuisance candidate; but he has no such as uranee about the Fenner fu ture. and any candidacy by Bill would be serious and bona fide, not ourely to annoy because he knows it teases, as the old jingle about the' sneezing little boy goes. So Gravely is still in the dark, ac cording to the reports, although lie lives almost across, the street from Fenner. B''" 1 ' : n the closing days of the legislature there developed a right sizable ■ Fenner for Governor” move ment. one of sufficient power, in fact to generate a dinner at which a num- , ber of the law-makers loudly ac claimed the House? finance chair-" man and proclaimed lbs availability I and suitability for the State’s No. 1 I post. i Bill didn't say yes, but he didn’t say no; and after a while the tumult! and shouting died away to less than the distant, rumble of a drum. For several months now there has j been practically no mention of Fen-j ner as one of the hordes of possible governorship hunters; but as the sit- At NLRB Hearing fig i w Simm K - *b- ill ■ tel, ■! jHH illll telfjk... ■?•••?&. IPjjjra} silk fllll mm mlmWw--, iWmmmm Phillip G. Phillips Regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, of Cincin nati, Ohio, Phillip G. Phillips denies to House committee investigating NLRB that he ever attempted to suppress a news story derogatory r . ( to the board. nation develops more and more it ha§ become evident that this campaign isn’t any part of a private fight, but one open to any and all corners. As a result, Fenner is said by some who ought to know what they’re talking about to be at least suf ficiently intrigued by the possibilities to prevent his giving Gravely an un conditional green light as Rocky Mount’s candidate. All this, mind you, is political gos sip and is not given to you as the law and the gospel. It is, however, not such nebulous speculation as to be pure moonshine. It is quite possible that even be fore this gets into the papers, Grave ly will have found out something and will even have made his public de claration of intention to run. Such things have before this happened to political writers who sat themselves down and peeked out a piece which they viewed as interesting, if no more. This possibility is increased by the very fact that this are beginning to pop with more or less unexpected suddenness, despite the lull which THIS WHISKEY IS 4 YEARS OLD teawfeTlli k Ml ipf waSsE. Mggs2? 90 PROOF COPR. 1939, THE OLD QUAKER CO„ LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA the holiday season ought to induce. It is still quite Irue that among the great mass of the Tar Heel populace there has been no crystallization o opinion—in fact there is .still little or no general interest in the governor’s race; but if you don’t think the po litically-minded are beginning to bestir themselves .just come to Ra leigh and talk to oi; > or two of them for as much as five minutes. FOR SALE CHEVROLET ’39 MASTER DELUXE TOWN SEDAN Equipped with -heater. 9,000 miles. Like new. $595.00 Call 692-W —ask for Barber WANT ADS Get Results HENDERSON OUSINK: —New Term, Januar-. not make any metal., a business training a big mistake NOT to ~ , STEAMED OYSTEI sauce, butter sauce, < crackers, at Termm. a and night. Phone 91 ; FOR EXPERT I 3( fender work, pair bolstering, g la ment, and radiate; e and repairing, brim car tv) Legg-Rarham FOR SALE; ONE BO\ cycle. Telephone 8»i. ALL STATE LICENS! operators. Phone 2: ment. Your patroin;;,< Bridgers Beauty S'.-.p, , FOR SALE: MEI land pony, old in. Ideal Chri: tma g over seven. Snduie eluded. Phone 9'J GET PRICES ON OCR before you buy. E. <>. a Douge and Plymouh ■ Chestnut street. CARS WASHED : until Dcct rn'x r . . . t „ *L2o. Legg-ParL m ; PLENTY OF I KS- - from sparkl. ,• , a( ,,.; a } bombs. Get , r , m \ y now. FireworU tween Rrecrea . Hiil-nl Parlor and Wir fj n ,„. St ore. :U i WE SPECIaLIZ : ] , [ kinds of body at: i CnT r re . pair work. Motor (< o< FOR SALE: FR V Universal Electr : c ■■ for quick buyer. 1 i , _ ; U-lti WANTED AT ONCE ! fTj] and reliable lady r. ' e, Xone other need apply. Add •. care Dispatch. OFFICES FOR RE Building— center >f ! •.. , l 0 stairs to climb fironv •■•! : w;; ..... Heat, light, and rrvice fur nished. Apply Erie G. Fi-mnagan, McCoin Building. tbur.—tf WE HAVE 5000 SI.OO £ * Theatre ticket books 1■ s We give one Free with cvny pur chase or accumulation yeoa-cs amounting to $10.0,). <. • ■ - and get yours. Men’s Shop. Im, J. II Tucker, Mgr. 19.4a FOR RENT: 5 ROOM HOUSE. 7,ob licoffer Avenue; 5 room F r<\ West End. Call 139. Ai M V\ ‘-i, Insurance-Rental.-Real K.-t A 2<)-3ti LOST: 1 WIDE ANGI E L Wollcnsack- -mount' d in v.-o d !nv board, marked property of \'k ■ Progress Administrat on. Tie property U. S. Gove• am • ■U, Findor please return to V. I) 11-'ffnev. Henderson. 19-3 ti FOR SALE: 200 C< )RDS \V< OD Al ready cut and corded within one mile of Henderson. AI. R. Wester, Insurance-Rental -R< 1 K fate. 20-3 ti FOR RENT: FAR : VHE tobacco allotment near Renders"!!. AI. B. Wester, Insuranco-Rentnl.s- Real Estate. 20-3 ii All keyed aus are strictly con fidential. Please do not call the office fo y their identity NOTICE OF FORM 1,0 U RE S'U Under and by virtue p* IVI1 * tained in a certain deed "I trsst executed by B. J. We t . mi T. A. West on the 26th day of 1935 and recorded in i ’ F'U at page 282, Vance County, having been made in t of the debt therein ecmv< request of the holder of F will sell, at public run. highest bidder, far <" sh. .' ' r : ' L|lt ‘ house door in if nAr- a. Vance County, N. C. at 12 < ’<! Monday the 15lh dry oi a the following describe 1 r 1 - "''y Ist Tract: Fifty-five on North by lands of 9 ’ *■: ■ n y and Fratik Vauglrm, on ! i- R. Abbott, on South Champion, and on vr.-n Daniel, being the tract- J. C. West by David V -15 page 105 and 43 page 235. 2nd Tract: Con tain big ten bounded by lands of lUebdllc !L y on north, Frank Spruill en 1 ‘ y R. Abbott on south and ■ the 55 acre tract ab" being bought from T. 5: evr see deed book 79 page !i 9 3rd Tract: Conb’ini ;; bounded on north by ; Daniel, East by Wo! South by William <■' West by Hamilton Sfev. lands bought of L. Bit book 93 page 168. This 14th of DeccmlK 1 T. S. KITTREI i. 14-21-28-4 B. H. * <lncorporated Cuntrartot ii < Builder “Builds B<tter Bui 1 ■Una ß " Also Wall Papering Roofing and Tern.de Exterminat'd! Phone *