North Carolina Newspapers

.: i-:s i aN>1 :>:nts MARRIAGES PARTIES SOCIAL ACTIVITIES :i the misty :i tho tunnel ■ mist of the ,.n the inscrut :ig hours. Charles Malum. i :;»1 at Bcach IV.mor spent Carolina Beach. ;;ur 1 inu U- ■ returned v a Burling ..t. :'u' Beach ;» i: a s returned , Bcach. Vir ! nil in Zelmlon spent the week :er. at her home i in KiltrcH .irker. of Bon M •.-> Mildred ,>IU .sml Baltimore. . B. Gee and Miss < ruhnt; the week , t,i New York •• last night fo»* \ t her brother, u v days. ; tur:: tiom Koper Stiell and Miss •I ::ned over th» ;; where they "h relatives. \t i oaelnng School ^i:ie to Durham ::ii school being . ersitv this week. \ i-n» Miv. Moran. - --r:. of Smithfield, .■ the guest of Miss • her home on Ghol Witk-lnd Here has returned to after spending the - parents. Mr. and \; Norfolk and Beaches n and Miss Marie • ■> iay for Xorfolk and Va. They expect to Ki tuMjN to Lakeland •• . Jr.. has returned Lakeland. Florida. vi>it here with 'harlic Blackburn. (.nests Here •\ Booker and Crutch Blackstone. Va.. csts «»i Will Tuggle. iverr c. for a few days. I \p«v-t«>d Tonight !.<-!:<■ Perry is expected :• it -"it tonight, after 11 v ■•eks to her sister, home near Laurin-i !:»-Hiru from Beach Jrs. A. M. Massenburg • ! a week's stay at no Manteo. While in •.'.••aded the Lost Colony '.iisiN from Blackstonc Louise aud Susie 1 y returned to theirj .M". after spend-; ■ Miss Doris Snead. i • ■ Va. I 'SPECIAL* DOUBLE ★ SIZE Tussy 0 o od orant Cream [ 5 o< P xNOT $100 - tl regular size —double to>- 50c| Tussy Deodorant oras under arm freshnes», '■> >O'j stoy dainty 1 to 3 days. ' convenient. No waiting Does not stain clothing. ' by Good Housekeeping L"vWTED TIME ONIYI Marian Martin ^ Pattern v PATTERN 9450 A wise ladv-on-a-budgct chooses ler mid-summer hocks with an eye i> the new season. Pattern 0450 is ;i Marian Martin dress that will carry you right into Winter. There are so many expert details: the slender izing, double-front skirt panels ... the flattering, pointed waist-girdle . . . the gently bloused bodice. Shir ring at the shoulders and tucks or gathers above the waist hold the :op fullness in where it's needed. If vou choose the high, curved neck line. do accent its smartness by a row of buttons. The other softer a self or ribbon bow. The sleeves version has turned-back rovers and :ire in three-quarter or short length. Here's a style you'll need right away! Pattern 9450 may be ordered only in women's sizes 34. 3(5. 38. 40. 42. 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 requires 3 1-8 yards 39 inch fabric. Send fifteen cents in coins for each Marian Martin pattern. Thirty cents (30c) for both. Be sure to write plainly your size. name, ad dress, and style number. Send your order to Henderson I Daily Dispatch. Pattern Department, j 232 W. 18th Street. New York. N. V. Visit Mrs. Harris Mi-s. Sal White Vickers. of Miami. I Florida, and Misses Ann and Frances j Siegling. of Charleston, S. C., are the, guests of Mrs. George A. Harris, at, her home on Young Avenue. Returns from Raleigh. Miss Peggy Rigsbee has returned i to her home on Weldon street, after; visiting her cousin. Miss Betty Lou I Smith, in Raleigh, and attending dav| camp there. She also spent some time at White Lake. Return from Walldcnc. Mrs. Laurence L). Wall ;mtl sons. Hob. Dick, and Laurence, and their guest, Edward W. Pou Moran, re turned to Henderson over the week end from "Walldene"', at Boyds. Maryland, where they spent about ten days. Visit Mrs. Kittrrll Joe Mills, i>r Charlotte, arrived yesterday to visit his sister, Mrs. '1'. S. Kittrell. at her home on Cooper avenue. Mrs. Kittrcll's mother, Mr.. Liza Mills, and her sister. Miss Li/a Mills, also of Charlotte, are expect ed Wednesday or Thursday, for a visit here. Vi^it Tommie Jenkins Alvah Chapman and Quad Jones, of Columbus, Ga., and Ritchie Fielsh er. of Columbia. S. C\. companions of Tommie Jenkins on a six weeks motor trip they took to the west coast, upon their return last week visited him for several days. They were joined here by Walter Webb, of Wilmington. All of the guests left for their homes the latter part of the week. From Marker's Island Eric G. Flannagan and Henry T. Morris have returned from Marker's Island, near Beaufort, where they spent several days at the Flannagan summer cottage. ratipjions Birth of Son Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Avent. of Louisburg. announce the birth of a son, John Edward, on Sunday, July 28. at Maria Parham. Mrs. Avent was formerly Miss Dorothy Branch, jf Henderson. At Virginia Beach I Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Hight and family spent the past week-end at Virginia Beach, Va. Visiting In North Stanley Norwich is spending some time in Atlantic City. New York and at the World's Fair. Returns from Louisburg Miss Mildred Garrett Mas return ed from Louisburg, where she spent several days visiting Mr. and Mrs. \V. A. Raynor. Returns from Vacation Howard Whitaker returned Sun day from his vacation, which he spent in New York. Hartford, Conn.. Detroit, Mich., and Toronto, Canada. From Fort Mill Miss Elizabeth Fo\ has returned from Fort Mill. S. C\. where she vis ited Mi. and Mrs. Henry Fox. Mrs. Fox and small son. Bill Henry, ac companied her to Henderson, and will her guests here for several days. With the Sick Leave Hospital Mrs. Eugene Adcock. Jr., and in fant son. Eugene Wesley, 111, left Maria i'arham hospital Sunday, and went to their home on S:mth Gar nett street. I'ndergoes Operation Mrs. Frank Bailey, who recently underwent an operation at Maria Parham hospital, is recuperating at the home of her mother. Mrs. R. Norwich. Carolyn Poole Is Hostess at Party Carolyn Clay Poole entertained a small group of her friends, at her home Saturday afternoon. July 27, •>n her seventh birthday. Ice cream. cakes, candy, and lemonade were served. The little hostess received many attractive presents. Those present were: Iris Adams, Garnett Taylor, Alma Lee Wallace, Mildred "**!illace. Alma Jean Brown, Alice Stalling*. Nellie Owens. Shirley Owens. Shirley Knight. Peggy Hook er, Joyce Ross, Charles Joyner, C. A. Rookrr. Walter Lee Hayes, Al ford Harris. George Parrish, Jerry Ross, and Sherwood Knight. Closs's Column Why Britain Fights: The New York Times for July 21, has the most clear-cut statement of any that has so far attempted to give Britain's reasons for fighting. The ar ticle was written by K. H. Tawney, Professor of Economic History, at the University of London. There are parts of it that should be familiar to all of us. Here are some of them: "W'e are not fighting in obedience to the orders of our government: our government is fighting in obedience to our orders." "We are not fighting for territory ...We expect no economic advan tanges: on the contrary, we shall be lucky if we are not mined." "We cherish no feeling of racial superiority. We have not ceased to be men because we are Englishmen." "We have lelt hitherto no animosity to the German people." "There are scandalous enough chapters in our history: there are still plenty of black patches which we are too slowly tidying up. But we see no reason to think concentration I camps... .would mean a change for the better for the peoples concern ed." (We are fighting) "a creed which holds that common men have no! rights at all. It is a system that treats ' them not as men but as cattle." "I have been a soldier .. I am not j shocked overmuch by brutality com-' mitted in the strain of battle (but) the massacre of refugees . . and the conduct ol Germans in Holland who j handed their hosts over to the Ges- : tapo .. are not the crimes of nerve wracked youths, half frantic with fear....they are done under orders of.... men in comfortable oft ices fifty miles behind the lines." "I have been visited in my home by a German scholar. . now a valu ed friend ...just released from a concentration camp, who trembled j when I spoke to him and shied when I lifted my hand to light my pipe, j That is another part of the same .-ys- I tern." "Though we dislike fighting, wi ! dislike it less than the alternative. We prefer dying on our feet to living on our knees." A certain redheaded young man was walking down the seawall night! before last when he heard horrible groans. It was dark, but someone was in trouble, so he searched the wharf and finally discovered a dark shape beneath one of the piers. Jumping down to the small spot of sand left uncoveied by the tide, he found a middle aged man in an ex tremely liquid condition. The young man helped him up, and managed to get him back upon the seawall, both of them well covered in salt water, seaweed, mud, and such things as are found beneath a wharf. The older man was extremely grateful. "Yoh saved m' life . . .yes. yuh did, yuh saved m' life!" he repeated over and over again. "Yuh ssaved m' life, 'cause the tide was coming in and I couldn't get up. Yuh saved m* life when I was about t' drown. Myl friend, how can I ever repay you for such a valuable servicc? Yuh suv-j ed m'life. an' I'm going to reward vuh... Yessir, m' friend, here's live dollars!" Things To Think About: "United States observers in the Orient are also convinced that when Hitler gets ready for his drive into South America, Japan will strike toward the Pacific coast ol South America simultaneously."—Washing ton Merry-Go-Round, July 29, 11)40. Hysteria Center In Congress, Says Senator Xorris Washington, July 30.—(AP)— Sen ator Morris. Independent, Nebraska, said yesterday that "Congress lias become the hysteria center of the country" and urged adjournment on the ground that further sessions would be "dangerous"', but others held that prospective defense meas ures made chances remote for leav ing the sizzling capital. "There is not a member of Con gress who is in shape to pass upon legislation." Norris said in an in terview, referring to a heat wave which has seen the temperature in the upper 90's for more than a week. "Congress has not done a damn thing since before the Republican convention and it's in no mood to do things right now. All this talking and bliekering only tends to produce hysteria." $ vvuu Democratic majorities both the house and senate. Norris aid that the leaders should force a The Empress Is Waiting Ex-Empress Zita of Austria is shown with her daughter, the Archduchess Elizabeth, at Royalston, Mass., while she was waiting arrival of four of her other children, who were en route to America in the Atlantic Clipper. (Central Press) When the Invitation Says Resort Wear Ilona Massey dons the latest in play clothes. After u dip in the pool, the star protects herself from the sun's rays with the voluminous rohc of soft, white terry cloth. The hood provides a frame for her lovely features and shields her lovely golden hair. tost vote on the adjournment ques tion. .Majority Leader Bark Icy, Dem ocrat, Kentucky, who unsuccessfully urged adjournment before the poli tical conventions, said that "no one can predict when Congress will adjourn " on account ol pending measures. Senator Harrison, Demo crat. Mississippi, thought it might be j iv-sihle to clear up defense tax legis lation for an adjournment "sometime in September." Senator McNary. Republican, Ore., leader and vice presidential nominee, was unchanged in his demand that Congress stay on the job even during the fall election campaign. Cancer Leads June Deaths Raleigh. July an.—Cunccr took more lives in North Carolina dur ing June than did any other disease listed in the monthly report recently made public by the State Health De partment's bureau of vital statistics It caused 20G deaths, which was an increase of nine over the toll l'oi June of last year, although the totai number of deaths from all cause; dropped from 2,799 in June of last year to 2,(i(i4 last month. "This is an ugly picture," observ ed Mrs. D. S. Coltrane, ol Raleigh, commander ol the North Carolina di vision of the Women's Field Army Against Cancer. "It- means," she pointed out, "that nearly eight per cent of all deaths in the State las' month were caused by this one dis ease. It means that cancer death: arc increasing in spite ol an import ant drop in the total death rate foi our State. "When we stop to think that th medical proles-ion lolls iis that Iron •.•>nc-ihird to one-half of all cance deaths could be prevented if individ uals would acquaint them elves wit certain simple danger signals whic" may mean cancer and seek medica help whenever one of the signal appear, the full significance of th i'igures in Hie health department' report can be appreciated. Teach ing people the signals and the im portance of early diagnosis anr treatment is an important part o the work of the Women's Field Army "The danger signals, usually pain less. are any persistent Jump or thickening, particularly in the breast any irregular bleeding or discharge from any body opening; a scon mm any body opening: a sore about the tongue, mouth, or lips uersi: tent and unexplained indiges 'ion: Midden change in the form o '•ate of growth of a mole or wart." Raleigh Fire Raleigh. July 30.—(AP)—Fire broke out in a laboratory in thr State-owned agricultural building here I; ' night, but was extinguish ed quickly by Raleigh firemen. Th' blaze was discovered at about f hv omnliivcs of the State De • rtr- ent "f T abor, which has head quarters in the building. No esti mate of the damage was available Defense Training Raleigh. July 30.—(AP)—Thirty ••;gh1 additional youths registered al C. State College today for train nR in occupations essential to na 'ional defence. Registrations, now -*•■1 1 r''i. and the college's quota o'' 113 will be Tiled by tomorrow. Di • ector Edward W. Ruggles of the ex •ension division said. TVSrRAXfF — RF.VTALS Real Estate- Home Financing Personal and courteous attention to all details AL. B. WESTER Phone 139 McCoin Bids Claims Of Chinese Medicine To Be Presented In Court By CHARLES P. STEWART , Central Press Columnist Washington, July 3U.—Fung Wan j is a Chinese drug company, in busi- ; ness in Oakland, just across the bay from Saa Francisco. It processes : herbs into such medicines as the I Chinese rely on. For a long time it advertised extensively and distribut- ; ed its products widely throughout the country, not only to Oriental residents in the United States but to many Americans also. However, a couple of years ago, a '< charge of using the mails to defraud was preferred against the concern ' and the postoffice department, promptly denied it the further use i of its facilities to continue in busi- | ness. A jury in the federal district ; court for Northern California threw ' out the case, but postal officials re- ! fused to lift their ban against the [ concern. The Federal Trade commis sion likewise has a case docketed against it. but hasn't seen fit to bring j it to a hearing. Now. Fon-4 vVan has rmnloyod counsel and proposes to do its ut most to get back into national ac- i tivity. ! It will be a queer kind of pro- [ (•ceding, soon to come up in Wash- j inglon. Chinese medical practicc and remedies will be contrasted with the Occident's, and Fung Wan hopes to prove that it isn't contrast at all to China's disadvantage. Futhcrniorc, the point will be made that, in the west itself, today's ; practitioners and their curatives arc of too recent origin to be much dc nnnrinri nn. Thousands of Years. Fong Wail's spokesmen remark thai, less than a century ago, there was almost no such thing as an Oc cidental dentist. It wasn't until 1K58 that Britain established supervision over all physicians and surgeons. It was about the same time that Ameri ca began to build up its present sys tem of checks and balances over the medical fraternity. On the other hand, lor thousands of years ordinary herbs, such as Fung Wan deals with, were the only cura tives for human ailments. Herbal studies and treatises were ! the first on record pertaining to curative influences upon the body. Some of them antedaTcT even Aes culapius and Hippocrates. That's the sort of a background of research that Fong Wan lays claim to. * Consider, for a minute, the soya .bean. Since time immemorial it's been an integral part of the vegeta ble and medical kingdoms in China. Yet it was unknown to all but a few Americans a few years ago. Today thousands of bushels of it arc grown in this counlry and the product is used for many purposes. That just goes to show, according to Fong Wan. how backward the Occident has been in delving into the possibilities of Traffic Toll Is Higher (Continued From Pac* One) linn in the like period of 1939. The June death toll of 2,82') was 15 percent greater than thai of June, 1939, and the largest for any month incc March, 1937. The council found that traffic Jeaths began to increase sharply al most simultaneously with the out break of war and that the rise reach ed .*> uo:>k in June when France sur rendered. Motor vehicle mileage was about' 7 percent greater this year than in he 1939 period, making the "mile- t ige death rate" for both periods vir tually the same. SON SHOOTS FATIIKR IN OXFORD SQI ABBIJ; Oxford, July 30. — Nathaniel. "Skimp" Lassiter. 35-year-old Negro, J is in the city jail and his fallier,. George Lassiter, about 55. is at hisj ,iome on Granville street .suffering: with gunshot wounds inflicted by the ■<<n yesterday morning about 10 o'clock. A heaiing will be held when, the wounded man can alfend. Officers said that Nathaniel La. 1 siter, ever since lie was a child, had lived with his aunt, who died Fri day and was buried Sunday. Nath aniel's lather was the woman's only brother living. , The elder Lassiter took a truck to; the woman's house on Alexander j street to move the furniture and j other things to his place. The young er man, said the officers, told hi.sj rather that they should have an tin-; lerstanding about what was lelt by! lis aunt. The father did not pay any ! ittention to his son, but went on j oading the furniture. Then the son | 'oaded his shotgun and fired at hisI lather, most of the shot taking c• 1 - feet in the truck body. Some hit the lather's arms and left side, and one'• or two hit his head. < Officers were called, and they said, the son had loaded his gun again when they arrived. He was taken to | the city jail to await hearing. The j condition of the father was not con- • siderod icrious. Not so very long ago New England j ind New York were the American j :enters of the lumber industry . vegetables. The west'.' Why, it wasn't until 1755 that Mcnghmi published his elaborate study of camphor's action upon different kinds of animals. It wasn't until 1 T7(» that Oaries deter mined, lrom experiments upon him self and cats, the actual effects of belladonna and other atropaeeous plants. George Washington, by the way. knew something of the merits of herbs. In his personal journal he recounts the use. in 17<52. of "Jesuit bark," this being another name for herbaceous restoratives. Chinese Doctors The Chinese consider their doc tors better trained that the Occi dent's. too. The Chinese "doc" isn't simply rushed through a medical school. He learns how to ireat disease through an apprenticeship system. His father was a doc before him, or his people paid money for him as an hpprentice. It takes years before he becomes proficient. He gets neither •a diploma nor a license. Anybody can call himself a doctor in China, but iie has to be a veteran before he can get patients. How can iie be identified as a veteran? Why, the Chinese dote on bearded men as medical practitioners, and. by Chinese custom, no man is permitted to wear chin-whiskers be fore lie's at least 50. He knows what herbs will do for invalids by that time. Occidental scientists Incline to laugh at Chinese medicine, but. as the late Thomas A. Kdison remark ed, "until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge." That thought makes cases like Fong Wall's puzzling to courts and commissions. They're a trifle uncertain as to whether western science knows so much more than Oriental science as •'it thinks it does. i DAVIS i Wednesday Specials 1/3 OFF Oil— All cotton drosses, play suits, slack suits, bath suits and all bcach apparel. Linoleum RUGS i).\12 regular $5.95 for Wednesday only $4.!)5. 4 x 0 Cotton Chennille RUGS Regular $().!)."> and $7.1)5, Wodnosde.v only, $4.95 and $5.1)5 NOTIONS Costume jewelry and flowers at \-l Price Powder and Toilet Water 1 -2 Price and Less Grocery Specials 1 pint Wesson Oil . . 21c ■ > ll>s. Snow Drift Lard 49c 5 r. & G. Soap .... 19c 2 cans Lobster . . 45c 2 14 (>'/. bottles Tomato Catsup .. 19c 1 lb. Tip Top Coffee 19c E. G. Davis & Sons Co. BLACKBURN'S Offering one rack of attractive dresses, Crepes, Chiffons, Cottons— $5*00 Vance Theatre Bldg. Phone 281