Henderson daily dispatch., March 19, 1932, Image 6

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ASSOCIATED AND CENTRAL FRIES BUSH'S
Jobs Are Asked For 150
W ho Are AnxiousT o W ork
Placet Have Been Found For Only Six of That Number,
But Solicitors Will Make Personal Canvass
First of Next Week Throughout City
Finding jobs for the 150 who have
reguAcred in Che American Legion
Dt ive for employment is the big job
confronting the workers, from every
organized group of women In the city
who will start out Monday morning.
Recruit* from the Woman's Ctub, the
JB. P. W. club, Girl* Friendly, D. A.
R . U. D. C-. King's Daughters. P.
T. A. Under the leadership of Mrs.
James Jenkins, captain, and Mco
deines T. 3. KiftreM. W. 11. Fleming
L D. Walt and R. C. Gary, all of the
Legion Auxiliary, are giving Choir
•orv icej willingly for tins patriotic
piojevt of finding employment fur
tbun* who are anxious to work.
Ti»e committee realizes that tlus is
no sir tall task, but they are oountdng
on the help of every person in the
community. Men from the service
dub*. led by groups of Legionnaires,
will at the same time comb the bind
er**. districts and certainly by Tues
day night there should be some grati
fying news.
In each of the local churches tomor
row t-hfc- minute*, are to be spool in
presenting this matter to the con
gregations. Rev. D. E. Earnhardt
and Dr. H A Ellis wiU call it to the
attention of their people of the Mcfcho
dkt Epi copal and Ffcrvt Baptist
churches: F. M Harwwrd. at the
Christian, and John B. Crudup at the
Episcopal. Jasper B. Hicks Metho
dist Protestant; D. P. McDuffoe at
the Precbyiortan. Those In charge
believe that if this matter is properly
presented to the thinking men and
women, they will realize that It ie no
on«- man's responsibility, but that each
can and should hrve a part.
A resume of the applications already
registered show many klixfe of work
ers. Carpenters clerical workers, col
lect ora, delivery boys, fanners, me
chanics, garage helpers, general lab
orers. all kinds of domestic helpers.
Including rooks, cleaners, laundresses,
janitor* painters, plumbers, typeset
ter*. sales ladies, stenographers and
plowers. The first money was paid
out on Friday morning through the
use of the ticket books. To date jobs
have been provid'd for only six, but
a call at the central office this morn
ing revealed thit one oitizen had al
ready called for them to provide help
in her home.
It fa well, as our citizens are en
joying the comforts of their homes on
Sunday, for them to give a thought
to thcate Ins* fortunate and look over
The Place to Look
for
Good Banking Service
The fanners, merchants, and wage-earners generally
of Henderson and vicinity, know where to look when
they want financial information .or co-operation.
Our influence reaches out over a wide circle of terri
tory, but it is all a “home circle” so far as we are con
cerned. .We know the people we serve. They know
us. This helps us in rendering the kind of service that
benefits the community, and which benefits you as a
depositor here. , __
We shall be .very glad to serve you in every banking and
financial capacity., , v
Citizens Bank
and Trust Company
Henderson, N. C
“THE LEADING BANK IN THIS SBCTKHf”
Capital and Surplus $500,000.00.
WM. A. HUNT, President
the tiut of men and women who want
work. See if by making some sacri
fice of personal needs, maybe several
days of employment can be furaldhed
which in turn may mean warmth, food
clothing for those who are only ask
ing for a chance to earn tbcm through
honest toll.
Dangerous Auto
Thtevefc at Work
- -Over tile State
Daiil Ol*M<rk Rartia,
I* Ik* Sir W*H*r
st *. c. pasatwmvijuu
Raids’ll. Mardh 19— More automo
biles have been ttolen in North Caro
lina at the point of a gun within the
last wckc than in moiiths. Indicating
that some desperate or at any rate
dangerous automobile thieves are ope
rating tn the State, according to L.
8 Harris. Chief of the Theft Bureau.
"Both oar owners and taxi drivers
should be more careful than ever and
not pick up any one who looks in the
least suspicious.’' Harris said, while
Wednesday night a lone bandit hcM
up a salesman for the Packard
agency in Charlotte and stole a new
Packard eight sedan after taking the
salesman for a "ride" at the point of
a run as far as Albemarle.
One of the taxis, a new Chevrolet,
v/as stolen here in Raleigh by a lone
man who entered the taxi and bold
the driver to go to * sparsely popu
lated part of the city, when the man
pulled a gun on the driver, forced him
to get out and walk away, after
which the man drove off in the oar.
The same night a man and a woman
entered & taxi in Durham and told
the driver they wanted to go to HlHs
boro. When about half way to Hills
boro. the men pulled a gun on the
driver, ordered him to stop the car
and get out. after which the man and
women drove off wfth the taxi—also
a new Chevrolet.
"We have not had any thefts of this
sort for many months and Indicates a
gangster type of thief —the most dan
gerous type.” said Harris. “As a re
sult. car owners should be more care
ful than ever both to lock their cars
securely whenever parking them and
oct to give rides to Strangers.”
New Zealand's 3,200 miles of rail
ways are government-owned.
ftettftrcoufiailg Scepotrij
Fly Your Service Flag
T# yon help to put a
worker back an the Job, will be
issued a Service Star Emblem. '
That U part of the War Against
Depression Campaign.
If you have hired a man, you are
entitled to a Service Star.
If you have pledged weekly em
ployment to a man or woman, you
are entitled to put the' Service Star
In your window.
If yon are not displaying this
patriotic emblem It means that you
have not joined la this nation-
1.1. CRABTREE IS
OUT FOR SHERIFF
Formal Announcement Is
Made in Card; Hamlet
and Kearney Running
J I. Qrabtree today made-fomi.il
fmnoun cement cf hte entry Into the
campaign for (ttve Democratic nomina
tion for sheriff In the June primary.
|Io is a Vance county boy, has lived
here all ftfa life, and is at the pres
ent time employed at The Corbitt
Company truck factory.
, Mr. Crabtree’s announcement puts
three men Into the race. Sheriff J. E.
Hamlet having declared he would be
a candidate to succeed himself after
serving one term, and D. L. Kearney.
Jhcrtff during the term immediately
■>receding Sheriff Hamlet, having o
nmmeed that he would attempt to get
his old office back again.
SAYS PEOPLE ADD
UTH COMMANDMENT
Chapel Hill March 19.—“T0 ■ the
Lord's ten commandments the pre
sent civilization has added an elevnlh
one, namely, if we violate the law
and get caught, it’s all wrong; but
Ife we don’t get caught, it’s all right,"
A. H. Graham, of Hillsboro, candidate
for lieutenant-governor, told the mem
bers of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club
in an address at their regular weekly
meeting.
Mr. Graham said the church and
the home had lost much of their in
fluence. but through no fault of the
preachers.
Goes With J. C. Tenney.
D. Renn Hale, for several years con
nected with the Samuel Watkins De
partment Store, has resigned to ac
cept a position with the J. C. Penney
Company.
wide campaign to find Job* for a
million Americans n ow unemploy
ed.
It Isn’t the star that matter*—
It’s the worker that oounts. The
jobs that means wages, self respect,
flood and shelter fer soroeene leee
fortunate than yourself.
DO YOUR BIT. Let it not be
said that when everyone else Is
ItaritclpaOng In this campaign;
there Is no Service Star In your
window.
Do your bit In helping to put
America back to work.
MRS. WILLIAMS 1$
FREED OF MURDER
Court Orders Dismissal Os
Charge Against Political
Leader’s Widow
Smithfield, March 19.—(API-The
trial of Mrs. Ivey Hinton Williams
of Clayton for the murder of her hus
band Jesse J. Williams. Johnston
county political leader, came to an
abrupt end late yesterday when Su
perior Court Judge W. C. Harris or
dered a non-suit after the state had
presented its case.
After conclusion of the slate's case,
which revealed the sleuthing of
Coroner J. H. Kirkman Intended to
refute a suicide theory, Judge Harris
said he would accept the motion. The
lengthy coroner’s investigation result
ed in the indictment of the widow
last summer.
Mrs. Williams entered a plea of not
guilty when testimony was begun yes
terday morning.
Judge Harris’ decision came shortly
after 6 o'clock when lawyers and a
court stenographer returned from the
home of Mrs. Jesse Hinnant a state
witness who was ill and unable to
come to court. Her transcribed testi
mony was entered into the record.
Kirkman testified how he and Hugh
A. Pace of Clayton a member of the
coroner's jury draped the dead man's
shirt over a piece of raw meat and
fired into it with a pistol of the same
calibre as the one with which Wil
liams was killed last June. At a dis
tance of eight inches the discharge
set the shirt afire. Kirkman said.
The state’s three principal witnesses
Dr. Battle A. Hocutt, Clayton phy
sician, Sheriff R. H. Richardson and
Kirkman testified Williams shirt and
body were free from powder burns
when they went to the Williams home
in Clayton the night he was killed.
POLITICAL HORIZON
CLEARS SHARPLY IN
COURSE OF A WEEK
(Continued from Page One.)
tacks being made upon Morrison by
Frank D. Grist and to a leaner ex
*r«vt by Robert R. Reynolds and Tam
C. Bowie, the three candidates who
are opposing him for the nomination.
The Reynolds followers were espe
cially optimistic and active and pre
dicting that Reynolds would undoubt
edly defeat Monritton and win the no
mi nation.
But Morrison has n ot been fighting
political battik-s iti North Carolina for
in years for nothing and lias the add
ed advantage of appearing at his best
when ynder fire by his opponents
The stKrts which Grist and the oth
ers had been taking at Morrison for
several weeks were juat What he had
needed to get him sufficiently irritated
to be hi good form to deliver some
effective political speeches. The re
sult was IhaA he shook his white mane
and roared back at them in defiance -
and that is what North Carolina Dem
ocrats like. They want their candi
dates to show reme fight and to do
some roaring and hiring at each olher
Some tlmught that Morrison was so
sure of himself ai»d so concerted that
he would not ri>o wany fight. But
now that he has growled and roared
and showed his fangs, (hey like it and
are for him. The result Is that Mor
risbn is way out in the lead for the
Senatorial nominal on. qpntainly In
the section east of Charlotte, Raleigh
and Winston-Salem, according to re
ports reaching here.
One of the main troubles so far with
the gubernatorial campaign has also
been the lack of fight shown by the
candidates, with a consequent lack of
Interest on the part of the public.
Fountain has been too affable and
evasive. Ehringfhaue has been too
courteous and gentlemanly. Maxwell
h&s been too concrete and statistical.
AN three have circled and hovered
and hovered and circled about the va
rious issues but, none of them have
slighted and given battle. Yet what
the people have wanted to see and
hear was a oat fight, not polite pal
aver from the three candidates.
But during the pari, week Ehring
hau» scored another technical knock
out in this three-sided campaign by
being the first to Show any tight by
going after both Fountain and Max
well—hut especially Fouritato. He
branded Fountain’s platform as one
made up of false issues and proceed
ed to tear it down. He also pointed
out that if the laws passed by the Mat
six or rijphlfe were not
what they should be, that Fountain
and Max wall had much more to do
with them than any other*. So the
fight in “>•
sUght has the properties of a wave
motion, and lights oof different colors
ar* distinguished from one another
by different frequencies of vibration,
the frequency of the extreme visible
violet being very nearly twice that
o ft he extreme visible red.
SENIOR CLASS PLAY
IS WELL RECEIVED
A
Skits Between Acta Make
Hit, Too; Performance
At Southland
The senior >c)ass of the Henderson
high school- presented its annual
senior play at-the Southland theatre
last night before an appreciative au
dience that practically filled the audi
torium.
“When Jane Takes A Hand." a three
act comedy was the title of the play
given by the class. It is the story of
a girl who goes to New York from
Virginia to seek a one-time friend of
her father’s who had a deed to a mine
owned jointly by her father and him
self. She writes her aunt, who re
sides in New York, that she is coming
and her aunt .together with her cousin
Amelia, at once prepare to leave New
York so that Jane Dare, from Vir
ginia will leave as soon as she ar
rives.
Jane arrives in New York together
with her colored servant, Mammy
Josephine and her little imp of a
grandson, Archibald, and finds her
aunt, Mrs. Poffongton and her cousin,
Amelia, gone. She has no place to go
and no place to stay while In New
York. Jimmie Mortimer, the son of
John Mortimer, the man who Jane Is
seeking to obtain the deed from, has
gone away from home and changed
his name to Jimmie Mason. Jimmie
finds Jane at the Poffington’s home
and learns of her plight so he sug
gests that they open a high class
boarding house nad serve southern
cooked meals prepared by Mammy
Josephine. This is done and imme
diately the house becomes popular and
has a number of boarders. Jimmie
acts us adviser to Jane and falls in
love with her. Mr. Smith ,a boarder
at the house, falls for Jane too. This
complicates matters for this worries
JimriHe Mason verpy much and he
learns why Jane is in New York and
determines that he will get this deed
from his own father for her. He suc
ceeds and brings it to Jane's house
only to find his father already there
with the detective. Mr. Pendletone,
whom ail thought was just a guest of
the boarding house and Mr. Mortimer
says that he will gladly give the deed
to Jane's father who is there with
her. Here Jimmie tells his father that
he wishes to marry Jane and he con
sents to It offering SSOOOO to them on
their wedding day. Mammy Josephine
enters with a table and sets it for a
wedding feast to the surprise of all,
the wedding of Mrs. Bates, a former
servant of the Poffington’s and the
detective. Pendleton. The Poffington’s
return in the midst of the feast and
discover Jane there with all her guests
and learns that Jimmie Mortimer is to
marry Jane instead of Amelia
The play was very good, with clever
acting and many interesting situa
The High Cost of
X HOARDITC/^
j Hoarder Loses
Seven SIOO Bills
|J A fioldfeboro police have been asked f
|Y LA 111 |V by Greenville officers to help locale I II 1111
S* st-ven SIOO greenback*!, large size, but ¥ A
fresh and crisp, which were taken
from a Greenville woman this week,
Yrtl IR i,,to whk * ua add
| vUIV Tlm? woman-name not given—re- I Mil M |\|l
ported that 4 years ago uhe took seven
SIOO bills and sewed them into the
m lining of a short black coat and hung ___~£
llfll I |\| MY I the coai i n ‘ber wardrobe. The bills ¥ r |* I
iWI I 111 Is I I the old size, but frerth and orisp,
m ' 9 she said, for they had never been fold- A » •
ed or handled. The bills, she con
tinued. woul show needle holes
through each end. for both ends were
sewed securely to thf* coat—Golds
boro Neww-Axgus.
/ Let Your Money
/ Work For You At This Bank
/ WE PAY 5% INTEREST \
No Depositor Ever Lost A Dollar In An Industrial Bank.
The Industrial Bank of Henderson
JO£L T. CHEATHAM, President. j{ w. WESTER, Cashier.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932
tions to keep the audience on their
toes. The director* of the play should
be commended on their work done
with the principals of; the play. ,
The skits that were put on between
acts were very good, and added much
to the program, and eliminated the
long wait by the audience between
the acts that is sometimes incurred
with amateur shows. v
W. R. VAUGHAN NOT
SENATEGANDIDATE
C&nqot Content To Make
Race, Seaboard Freight
Agent Declares
W. R. Vaughan, Seaboard Air Line
freight agent, in a public statement
today, stated definitely that he is not
and will not be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the State
Senate from Vance and Warren coun
ties In tbe primary of June 4. He had
been mentioned as a contender for the
nomination, for which two candidates
are already in the field, W. S. Cor
bitt having been the first to announce,
and followed closely by D. P. Mc-
Duffee.
The following statement was made
by Mr, Vaughan:
“Fully appreciative of the very kind
thlngß that have been said about me,
both in the press and by my friends,
suggesting that I become a candidate
for senator from this district, and es
pecially my friends in Warren county.
I cannot consent to become a can
didate.
"I am intensely interested in the
affairs of our State and nation, but
In my opinion my place is here where
I can probably do more than I could
in the Senate, or for that matter in
any public office. e
“I hope to see a big Democratic ma
jority rolled up this fall, and I want
to be in the ranks doing a ‘buck pri
vate’s’ job.”
uons^audeVilLe
FAST TAKING SHAPE
The Lions Club vaudeville, which
is to be presented at the Stevenson
theatre Wednesday evening in con
nection with the featuvi picture. “The
Champ.” is fast taking shape. The
latest development is that Henry
Powell replaces Bob Falkner in the
cast of a tramp with Waddell Ghol
konj Work Is Agoing forward very
rapidly on the show, and everything
points to a big time Wednesday night.
For Better Printing Phone 62
ALFORD'S PRINT SHOP
The largest and best equipped job shop In town.
TALKS ARE HEARD
AT KIWANIS MEET
O’Neil Talk* on St. Patrick
Sander* Tell. About ’
Farm Loans
Several talks were heard by the
Mwanm club at its weekly lunrh.,
meeting held last night. The pro-ram
was in charge of Rev. I. w
J. B. Crudup and T. S. Kittreli e
Maurice J. O’Neil was a eu »»<i ,
the club and spoke on St Patrick
day, telling something of it* ori E jf
and history and the meaning of thl
event. nt
Another speaker was J. W. Sander
who told of the loans being made uj
farmers in the county at this time
Teams were appointed by the t, resl
dent to work on the stabilization n r „
gram foi the club. Each team hiy
two members and they were giw,
names of two prospective member* 1,
be seen by next Friday.
The club unanimously approved th*
unemployment program now b*in
carried on in the city, and voted 1"
give it all the support possible.
The club had two visitors. Dr. Rj Vf ,
Taylor, of the Oxford club and Mr*
Glenn, wife of "Dutch" Glenn, well
known tobacco buyer.
The attendance at the meeting *• a ,
reported to be 97 per cent of the mem
bership.
Harry F. Powers
Dies for Murders
At “Quiet Dell”
Moundsville, W. Va., March 19
(API —With an unconcerned smili
flickering across his pudgy face.
Harry F. Powers, the mountain "Blue
beard,’’ who Blew two women and
three children, died on the gallows
last night.
The trap was sprung at 9 p. m.
and Powers was pronounced dead by
four physicians at 9:11.
Powers was hanged for the slaying
as Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemkc,
Northboro. Mass., divorcee, but a few
minutes after he had plunged to hi*
<teail|, Dr. fi- H. Haynes. Clarks
burg. physician, announced that Pow
ers had confessed that he also killed
Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and her three
children of Park Ridge, 111.
The bodies of all five victims were
found in a ditch near Powers’ queerly
built “chamber of horrors” garage on
his wife’s deserted farm.