SOCIETY NEWS
LET SPRING SHINE THROUGH
The spring leaps lirst to life
In the hopeful hearts of all
Who bank their w mine sill.
With crowns ol white narcissus
And hyacinths ol pm.;. and blue.
They drive the winter on
by men braggadocio.
The snows ol March highlight ;
Their color. April pools
Retlect the heightened nue.
The south wind come .3 toss
Their fragrance on the a;r.
Oh, heap your windows.Its
With bloom. Let spring shine
through!
Helen McGaughey
Sans Souci Club.
The Sans S mi Literary club will
meet with Mrs. E. G. Gl.nn on Sat
urday, April "T, at 3:30 o'clock.
From Baltimore.
Miss Peggy Newman, Irom Balti
more. Md.. is visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. Lnui: e Jones, on llign
land avenue.
Here for Holidays.
Tommy Royster, from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, in Phila
delphia, is here for the holidays, and
has as his guest Brooke Roberts, of
Philadelphia.
Arrives for Holidays.
Miss Annie Hyman Bunn, student
at Salem College, Winston-Salem, is
here for the Easter holidays with
her parent-, Mr. and Mrs. A. A
Bunn, on Rowland street.
Expected from W. C.
Miss Minerva Falkner is expected
home tonight from Woman's Col
lege, Greensboro, to spend the Ea -
ter holidays with her parents, Mi
and Mrs. E. O. Falkner.
From W. C.
Miss Grace Hoyle, of Woman’s
college, Greensboro, is expected to
arrive Saturday to spend the spring
holidays here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. L. Hoyle.
Miss Royster Here.
Miss Helen Royster, who ntt nds
Marjorie Webster school in Wash
ington. I). (’.. is spending the week
end here with her mother, Mrs. T.
S. Royster, :t her home on Belle
street.
Arrives from Meredith.
Mis howena Daniel ha- coni'
home from Meredith College to
spend the ’Holidays with her par
ents, Mr. and Mr W. B. Daniel. She
is a member of the senior class at
Meredith and graduates late next
summer.
Home for Holidays.
Miss Carolyn Duke i.. at home
from Meredith College to spend the
Easter hoikin'..- with her parents. Mr
and Mrs. ft. li. Duke. Miss Duke was
recently elected president of the Stu
dent Government at Meredith for
next year, when .-lie will he a senior.
Rrturns from Mars llill.
Mrs. H. B. Parrott lias returned
from Mars Hill College, where she
spi lit several days with her daugh
ter. Miss Mary Elizabeth Parrot',
who is to graduate there next month.
Go to Mars Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Edwards plan
to go to Mars Hill College, near
Asheville, Sunday to spend the Eas
ter holiday, with their son. Clilton
Edwards, who is a member 01 this
year’s graduating class.
Here for Easter.
Miss Ann Upchurch i. spending
Easter her. with her p rents. Dr.
and Mrs. R T. Upchurch, at their
home on S-s'li Garnett street. Miss
Upchurch is a student at Hollins col
lege, m Virginia.
Mrs. Mustian Is
Honored at Ono
Mrs. O. ,J. Vcasev and Mrs. Delta
ikiyes were h-istrsse.- d >11 m na!
dinner at the Little Hotel We! :
day evening, linnoring Mrs. Douglas
M. Mu.-tian, the former Miss (. liris
tine Morris.
The table wa centered w'th a
lovely arrangement of spiing flow
ers. A three course dinner was ser
ved to the following guests: Mrs.
Mu tian, honoree, Mrs. E. M. Breed
love. Mrs. II. D. Bell. Misses Grace
Woodlief, Mary Speed, and Grace
Clopton.
The hostesses |i: csented the bride
silver in her chosen pattern.
Aycock News
By MRS. .1. II. KNOTT.
Mis es Lueile and Aline Knott
were Monday night guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Hicks.
Miss Hazel Stevenson . pent the
week-end with Miss Mamie Belle
Pegram.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hicks and sons,
Boby and Morris, spent Sunday wiln
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Comer, of
Wise. They also visited their grand
mother, Mrs. Martha Collins.
Mr. uid Mr . J. H. Knott and W.
T. Knott spent several days wit 1 re
latives near Morrisville.
Walter Stevenson is up and able
to be around in the house after b >
ing confined to his bed for several
weeks.
Mrs. Hattie Wortham has returned
to her home near Aycock school.
W. T. Knott spent Thursday night
with his brother, J. II. Knott.
Mr . Morris Dickerson spent Tues
day with her mother, Mrs. J. II.
Knott.
D. J. Clark, of Apex, spent Sun
day evening with his mother, Mis.
,J. H. Knott.
Mr. Bowling of Aycock school was.
the Sunday evening guest of Robert
Puckett.
Elsie Knott, daughter of Mr. ; nd
Mrs. J. D. Knott, spent Friday with
her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. .1.
H. Knott.
Marian Martin
Pattern '
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“ALL-DAY" FROCKS
FOR MATRONS
Just what you’re looking lor—'
a smartly simple style that you can
wear all day long; that you can
make of inexpensive cotton! Pat
tern 9986. designed by Marian
Martin, has gay details in a scal
loped neckline, curved shoulder |
'•okcs and matching si. eve tabs. I
Up-and-down panelling in the front
makes you slim and so do the long
side bodice sections. The tvv -piece ’
back takes : jiffy to cut and sew.
Pattern 8896 mav be ord red only
in women’s sizes 36, 38, 40, 42. 44,
46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 36 requires
> 5-8 yards 35 inch fabric.
Send fifteen cents (plus one cent
to cover cost of mailing) for this
Marian Martin pattern. Be sure to
vrite plainly your size, name, ad
Iress and style number.
Send your order to Henderson
Dailj Dispatch. Pattern Department,
232 \Y. ISth St., New York, N. Y.
.Main Attend
Demonstration
Sixty-two women representing
eleven \ etiee county home demon
■tration tin!-- were pre ent yesti'rday
at liie courthouse in Henderson for
a demon tration nl making slip cov
ers for furniture, it was reported to
day hy Mrs. H F. Plummer, Vance
home dei.ionstrat.on agent.
The demonstration was the second
of a series given this year in con
necti n with the home demonstra
tion clubs' major project of house
lurnishings ami home management.
Mi s Elizabeth Williams, assistant
Extension spicialist m house fur
nishing- 'Iiti i.■ >:::•• u.ai / ;emeilt, eoil
dueten t: • • (ii nriiistralum.
WITH THE SICK
Iitdergoes Operation.
V. . II. L. Minn is very ill, after
g . n operation at Maria
Pai.iam .hospital.
.firs. Majors III.
F. 11. M jors, who underwent
an i , lion at Maria Parham bus
pit ;1, v intinue. ((nito ill.
Improving.
Mrs. Esther Harp was said to be
improving today at Maria Parham
hospital where she r. cently under
went an operation.
Leaves Hospital.
F'ii.'Pds of I ten Oakley vv:ll he glad
to learn that he has returned to his
home at West End after undergoing
treatment at Maria Parham hospital
for burns he received a week ago.
Library to ( lose.
The I! Leshe Perry Memorial
Libr ry will ho eln ed Easter Mon
lay. and hook due that day will do
considered due Tuesday, it is an
nounced.
Library Gets
111 Volumes
During March
A total ot 111 new book were
added at the Perry library last
month, and at the Dunbar branch,
the library's service lor colored peo
1 pie, 27 new volumes were received,
| it was shown today in the monthly
report ot Mrs. H. Leslie Perry, lib
rarian.
Ynirty-iuur volumes at the Perry
library were fiction and 77 non-fic
lion. All of those at the Dunbai
branch were non-fiction.
The Perry library had a circula
tion of 5,232 books during the month,
3,099 being fiction and 2,133 non
action, and 3,274 taken out by
aiiuli.- and 1,9,48 by juveniles, the
report showed. At the Dunbar branch
the total was 1,887, including 48 1
volumes ol fiction and 1.383 ol non
liction, and 284 taken by adults and
1,823 by juveniles.
Average daily circulation at Ike
Perry library was 201.2 volumes, ol
which 40.7 percent were non-lictiun,
and the total circulation for both
libraries was 7.11!) for the 28 days
toe libraries were open.
| Membership at the Perry library
j was 4,082 at the end ol the month,
j after adding 88 new names and with
drawing .’4, The Dunbar branen ad
ded eight and withdrew none, anti
had a total ol 095 at the end of the
month.
Statistics for branch libraries am
mi aided in figures for the Perry
libraiy proper, and include: Middle
burg, 428: North Henderson, 340;
South Henderson, 818; Townsville,
184: Zeb Vance. 2o0. Membership at
South Header on was 592.
Reds Report 25,000
Nazis Slaughtered
(Continued from Page One)
ingrad fighting and 10,000 at
Stara.va Kussa, where the Ger
man Kith army had been trap
ped for weeks.
Adolf Hiller's field headquarters
reported a "noticeable lessening” of
the great Russian winter drive and
for the third successive day stress
ed German offensive operations, as
serting that nazi troops had captur
ed "a fairly large number of vil
lages.”
The Berlin radio boasted that
U-boats for Atlantic operations were
housed "like ears in a garage” in
new concrete-roofed dry docks built
along the west coast of Europe.
In aerial warfare, RAF night
bombers returned to the assult on
German war foundries in the
suburbs of Paris, attacking the Mat
lord truck works for the second
straight night, while na/.i raiders
pounded ‘‘hell's corner” on the soutn
cast English coast.
Cctton Mills
Hainpere£
(Continued from Paste One)
placement parts for their machinery.
The department aid cotton con
sumption \\a- running ot a record
ale of 12.00!',non baler a year, it
vi’iiid be higher, the department
-aid. if the industry’ had the neces
sary machinery or labor.
Government orders for cotton ma
terial for military uniforms, fight
ing equipment, sandbags and other
war needs were said by the riepart
nent to be taking a large proportibn
jf the current futput of the total
mills. Trade sources estimate that
45 per cent ot the total output is be
ing absorbed in military and defense
ises.
Liberals attach a special import
ance to 'lit liberty of the individual.
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Kaleign, April 3. —(AP) -The C ly
of Henderson today niecl i .v.g,• .■
iu an orucr issued uy me Cui.; . •
Commission ree. ally which ...
allow tne’ lienderso.i gas company lu
cease operations on April la.
The city maintained mat tne g...
company, winch lias been I > mg
money lor several y.ars, sluuiai no
required to pay its consumers m >ut ..
lor their appliance.- such as \.
and healers; and tnnt the U.mi.es
Commission should have mad. tne
Atlantic Gas Corporation ot JJiiila- i
delphia a party to the action.
The Atlantic Gas Corpor. t.on owns
stock and bonds o! the Henderson i
company, which were described by i
Utilities Commissioner Stanley Win
borne as “worthless.”
Two Majors
Shoot It Out
(Continued l'rom Page One)
officer’s widow. was seriously i
rounded. .
The two officer-, both social!
prominent, had organized a home
guard unit here. Tory disagreed on
-obey and Major Wenstrom stepped !
ut. Wenstrom repeatedly critie.se:. •
he unit; advocated affiliation with \
h. slate guard. He wrote letters to j
he Santa Barbara News-Press.
Last night, after a particuluily vie- j
cut criticism had appeared under
Venstrom’s name, Hammett tele
phoned to demand that he cea.-e his
attacks.
Police said W.nstrom replied:
"If you cmne over and tell that
to my face I’ll knock your beak oil.”
Hammett went, armed with two
.45 calibr'e '.automatic pis I ds and
vith a hammer stuck in his belt.
ALIENS’ FUTURE
San Francisco. April 3.—(AP) —
Japanese evacuees from the military
zones along the Pacific coast were
given their first pe k iuto the future
—they wil farm and make Aitny
good..
rniiippine oiiuation
nica: ccning
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(iii. a . : uid Iiavc been an
cu .. ere..tel setback.
A i . p'Aesrnan at Chung
• day the Japanese bad
nl cl a I -el's al in |
i p. ti.e Bi r.i.-b neeiarei.. !
■ i a,;.y .. v hiei "bean in dircci ,
■ n .a i . i.b Ai.yab tin. morning'
.am n.i la 1 . ng Had been attempted.
S.n iiiaai .Usiy, a Vichy broadcast
11 parted that ( mne.-e hirees in tin
i ist, cum. landed ny Lieutenant Ctei ■ j
oral .la .‘an \V. Stillwell, were re- I
li eating tardier is n th limn onenij - i
occupied Tmingou.
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All Prices May Be
Put Under Ceiling
(Continued limit rune One)
oils, holding them lo he too slow
to cheek an inflationary trend.
This feeling has been accent
uated with the flood of new \V1‘1>
curtailments anil production
stoppage orders of recent weeks,
aflecUng radios, phonographs,
vacuum cleaners, electrical ap
pliances and many other major
and minor consumer items. As
each curtailment order has ap
peared. a buying rush had oc
curred and prices have moved
up, resulting in such emergency
action as last night’s freezing of
bicycle sales.
C’APTl'RED
Concord, April 3.— (AP)—Engine
(Jake) Osborn, 24. leader of two
convict bands which since March let
have escaped from the Newton
Conover Prison camp, was captured
ey a posse yesterday at a farm house
in Stanly county.
The posse brought him to the coun
ty jail. Later, Osborn and another
escapee. Robert Powers, 19. who had
been picked up the day before, were
taken to Central Prison in Raleigh
id. fi.jitniy .nfinem.ut.
War Industry
MeetsDeman di
W::cl .... Ap
From ii, d a
servers to the gri ti u
effort ::i icy. Id :
Ci ngre.. '. icei d t:. .
tliut tilt1 United St tit .1 ,v .: .ii.:;
the b.. t.le of product ion.
They bused that uei. p u j ai
ously guarded in for:: ! . r. .!
,n closed House u.'l t ,.y ml ;ia i
committee sessions, from N ,-v .Sec
retary Knox. War I’r Ki.irt. m Cnici
Donald Nelson, Unde set ■ t.iry o'
War Patterson, and hign ranking
Army and Navy ofi;cial.~.
Sharing tnat opinion were Kepre
sentalives Thomason, I) mocrat, |
Texas, and Cla- n. Rep....lie r.
Massachusetts, both mt-mbcis of the j
military committee, and Represen
tatives Sutthin, Democrat. N w Jer
sey, and Mott, Republican, Oregon,
both of the naval committee.
“Such information a- has come,
to us indicates that both industry and j
labor arc keeping ; breast of thej
tremendous demands of the Presi- j
dent’s program,” declared Clason. |
It is sufficient for success in poli
tical life to be able to estimate what j
course veil produce the most votes. I
£. GARLAND BAGLEY
Liti IN DANVILLE
V. 11 nil • lagioy. brother of Mrs.
L. i .. i ; < . inis city, died at
i 1. ■ ji; ij.uiville. Va. this morn
.1 1 win! i i . ice. will be held
: ■ . on Itroad street,
I).. . .o' . t .'dock Saturday aft
. ni'.Miii. •
Morcfentctu’s Tax Prooosals
Te Be Rejected
t ('■ ,i.‘ :nu( ■■ i 11 — One)
1:.x adoj,! d: >.;i,crv!.-e accepted
i' r t.u u a t p; i". bill only as a tem
pi i mi y war ii.ensure.
Compel Hi..’ joint individual in
come i i\ return.' by husband and
v. lie: ncceplnble n a war measure.
Tn:-:n;i 'ii o' side and municipal
curitu . probably would be reject
ed.
\V tills uilnm incline- at the source
as a menu- of collection: opposed on
the ground that the average persun
would prefer to make hi' own plans
to meet bis tax payments next March
lo.
FLOWERS
FOR EVERY OCCASION
Phone 380 Day or Night
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MRS. A. f>. CARLTON j
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13.fore her marriage la.-t Saturday a*, in . n at Gr; u- C : ant Presby
terian church, Richmond, Va., Mrs. Allred Per.-lung Card n was Mis
Katherine Singleton, daughter of Mrs. Carroll Vaden Singleton and i
the late Mr. Singleton. 01 Henderson. Mr. Carlton too son of Mr. I
and Mrs. Alfred Patterson Carlton, of Durham.
First Aid Certificates
Ready For 42 More Here
Forty-five more standard first aid
certiticates for both men and women
who have completed Ked Cross
courses in the pa. t several weeks
nave been received lrom Ked Cross
national headquarters in Wasmng
ton, and are available for distribu
tion, bam AUord, chairman ol the
Vance county chapter, announceu
today.
One class that was taught at the
lire department by G. M. O Lary in
cluded policemen and firemen ana a
lew others, numbering lourteen in
all. One taught by Mrs. Edith O Lary
at North Henderson had thirteen who
qualified for certilicaies, ana i\iis.
iviac Bridgers Scott trained eighteen
in a clas.s in the Corbitt community.
Numerous other classes have been
taugru m the last several months,
ana certificates are expected to be
received lrom Washington lor them
vVitnin i- <iurt time.
Members of tne three classes ic
ceiving certificate.-- are as l'ohow. :
Class taught by G. M. O'Laiy, at
fire house:
Joe Hudgins, police department1
; G. A. Junes, street department: Kay
A. Wood, Pittman-Laiieastei Funoiui '
mime: It. H. bleed, Kuth-St. ., ,a i
S.O.; Joe C. MitCi.e.i, ponce Ckpail-j
incut; Tom Hardee. police depar.
mere. 4 nus. t. Harris, police de
paru.ienL; Josii Gupl >n, Haidce fun
oral Home; L I*'. .JacKson, water ae
pariment; \V. \V. Langston, lire de
partment; bam Eastwood, police de
partment; Joan tV. Hayes, tire de- ’
partment: Willie Casper, I Atman I
Lancaster Funeral Home; Thomas
Howell.
Class taught by Mrs. Edith O'Lary
at North Henderson:
Evelyn K. Baker, 100 Lowry street;
Eariine Baker. 100 Lowry street, Lou
Ella Eiurneu, North Henderson
Beauty Shop; Myrtle Crocker, ca;e
.5. L. lingers Store; Dorothy Hugr.es,
1288 Walters street; Bessie Hughes,
zi/U Lowry street; Minnie Lee Hull -
man, 128i Walters street; lViabei I
.layo , 242 Southall street; Mrs. K. j
A, Lowiy. Hazel Murphy. Edna!
Oliver, Vance County Health De
partment; Mrs. Sailie G. Slone, tax
coiLelors olTice; Nina Williams, loJ
Harris street.
Class taught by Mrs. Mae Bridget's
Scott at c iroitt Section:
Ha hen Ajseuc, Mrs. George
Ayscuc, Beauice Burnett, Huddle
Broaaslreet, Mis. K. L. Bradsher,
.vrr: . J. b. Dixon. Mrs. M. A. Flower. ,
Airs. S. 11. Fence, Mrs. W. W.
Faulkner, .or- E. R. Gnltith, Mrs. J.
L. Hamictt. Mi.-s Je.-sie D. Hamlett,
.ms. Fred ivhl-arland, Mrs. ii. C.
. luliam. ..ii.- J. W. Hulliam, Mrs.
.-a.lie l pi*.,u: Young avenue,
i.< ..-..ii.y .... i lone V nitl icld.
A AAVIU AIT V
School Lunches Served
At New Peak For March
Lunch ro"i i- ■ < i i-pciated m
Marcn in till school : tin city and
county, all v.'hiie nut ulie, and ..
total ui 28,191 lui i v ere .u in
lor a high record. 11/ monthly re
port • •! r*trs Nell B M ndy, uper
■, i.. .ir, showed today
Ol the total. In.717 lunrhe - wet e
free and 17,i :;tl vi i - |.,,id lor. The
-u . ,i vi a; pn . . ted at Jut ioi nigh,
Clarke treet. Cent al, N rth Ilen
,.i n and b h liendt n the
city, an,i A; .. 7.1 o he: i y
rown ville and /. Vane , h.e
rural areas, or ; I the i . < 1 -
o.turned cir ■ : i \i oj-1 IJut nicy
l 1|,||.. . Sjir.lie. I :I i .
school.
i,ii.eieti ■ ycu
n .ii', ii.g ihe i item ' .ui the
cmi 1 col:.birr d All hr'. IU1 iche
v. e. e -ervi d n 2 i 1 d: y
v«i re spun ' n u hy h e a:u.
Uie louii, v an ;;ivt n ..' • i.
1 i8.21 h ,j the ei ,
Mo 1 lunches wore served at
r; .ch»n i. tin tuial being 1,
..i.i. a unit i, 1.8.i 1 ..lie Iree and
v.f. i p,,ici. /.t \ .... i• next with
...fid... ,ncl id.ng 198 iree and 3,387
xi... v.' South Henderson,
..i.e.c i..c :■ :.o wa.-. 3.077. including
1,38a iree and 8 898 paid. Mlddle
our.-, i..ei 3.00.. v. ith l.oGo lice and
0. 0 1 ji.od. At .virth licndcr.-,on, 3,
1.98 .unchi-■- ..i'll' served, 1,830 ol
tiieiTi iree .... i 1.856 paid, l'ownsville
;ji ..tied 8.928 lunches, 551 tree and
-.37'/ paid, f'larltc Street s total was
1. '.00. with l.oJt; ficc and 093 pard.
initial in.""I total was 1.567, with
..•I i.e and 770 paid. Junior high
.',,i i 1.83 . mckid.ng 835 free and
88 i | aio .71 three schools, Junini
ll.gh. ( t nli ai ..oil Clarke Street, all
.e i■:iy. iiee lunches outnum
!.( :; .1 t: .< is" paid for.
The Cephas Springs colored school
c rvid 8.! .)•) i nches, all ol them
li ec.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ted Reaves an
nounce the birth of a 9-pound >n.
Thomas Clifton, on Thursday. April
2, at their home on William street.
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