Henderson daily dispatch., January 02, 1933, Image 6

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ASSOCIATED AND CENTRAL! PRESS SERVICE
New Year Greeted
Here With Hope Os
Better Day Ahead
Improvement Looked for by
Reason of Adjustments
and Some Increase
* In Business
PROCESS EXPECTED
TO BE SLOW GOING
Usual Noisy Welcome To
New Year Given Saturday
Night; Holiday Had To
day by Those Taking It
Since New Year’s Day Fell
on Sunday Yesterday
The Now, Year 1933 was welcomed
in this community today with the hope
that It holds better things for every
dne. :
' Sortfe improvement in business is
looked for, confing largely by further
adjustments to changed conditions,
and which at best maybe slower than
could be desired.
As the stroke of midnight sounded
Saturday night, bells tolled the pass
ing of 1932 and bells, whistles, horn 1
and the exploding of fireworks wel
Corned the new year 1933. There wa
little out of the ordinary from othc
New Year events, eveept that possibt
■fireworks were shot in greater pro
fusion than in many recent years, a
was also the case at Christmas. Th
fact that it was a week-end and Sa 4
urday night may have accounted fo
more people still out of bed and soein , ~
antoher milestone clicked off in thr
march of time. That fact, however
may have prevented some of the cu?
fcomary parties held at that hour.
! The New Year holiday was being 0 b
served today, since New Yjbar’s da}
fell on Sunday, marking the beginning
of a new year, a new month and a nev
week all in one. Banks were close'
for the entire day, and the post of
fice observed its usv.al holiday hours
with no city or 1 rural delivery o'
mails, and with the stamp and gen
era! delivery windows open for onl*
an hour, from 10 to 11 a. m. Other
wise, business wont on as usual.
JUDGE PARKER 10
SPEAK FOR B. P. W
Plans Shaping Up For Jan
! uary Meeting in Mrs.
S. P. Cooper’s Home
The program committee of he Bus
iness and Professional Women's Clul
announces that plans aire about com
pleted for the January meeting o'
the club, which will be hold at the
home of Mrs. Sydney Perry Coopci
on January 10, which is the regulai
time of meeting. The meeting wil’
be in the nature of a courtesy to the ■
club, which honored Mrs. Cooper wit!
an honorary life membership in th'
club because of her usefulness in com- i
munity and club life.
The clu bis fortunate ni having for
the speaker of (he evening Judge R.
Hunt Parker, who will be presiding
over the superior court here that
week. I He will speak on some phase
of economic life and will be heard
with much pleasure by members and
guests.
The club is having a most compre
hensive program of work, carrying out
the ten-year objective of the National
Federation, and at present time ir
making a study of economic condi
tions, their cause and cure.
MEETING DEFERRED
BY COMMISSIONERS
The regular monthly meeting of the
Vance Boar d of Commissioners, set.
for today, was deferred until tomor
row because some of the members
wished to attend a funeral and be
cause records and bills had not been
prepared or received on account of
the year-end and the holidays. The
. members assembled, read the minutes
and then adjourned until tomorrow, j
NOMINATION BALLOT
Merchants Popularity Contest
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NAME j , ;
ADDRESS
18 NOMINATED AND IS TO BE CREDITED WITH 1000 VOTES
Write your name or the name of your favorite In the space above and
deposit this Ballot in one of the Official Ballot Boxes at Kerner Drug
Co., Parker’s Drug Store or Miles Pharmacy.
Ballots may be secured by Trading with the Business Firms whose
names appear in a half page advertisement in this paper.
Be Sure To Ask For Ballots
Temperature Hits
12 Degrees During
Week-End Decline
A week-end temperature drop to 12
degrees Sunday night, brought the
thermometer to one of the three low
est levels of the winter, 12 above zero.
The drop followed a. week of mild
temperatures, dyring m'ost of which
time there was a slow, steady rain
in this section. »
On December 20, according to, John
P. Rcnn, official Weather Bureau
observer here, the mercury was down
to 9 above zero the night of Decem
ber 20, and was at 11 the following
night.
SSooo
Well Known Henderson
Man Died Saturday Night
of Heart Trouble
Wallace White, 62. resident of Hon
'erson for many years, and nativev
•f Vance county, died at Maria Par
tarn hospital at 10:35 p. m. Saturday
fter an illness of ten days with a
leart ailment. His passing was rat hen,
udden and came as a surprise ant j
hock to his friends, who, though
mowing of his illness, had no thought
t was so serious.
Funeral services were held at 11 a
n. today from the Burwell avenut
esidence of the late Mr. and Mrs. T
. Harris, parents of his wife, wh
ied 12 years ago. The service was i,
harge of Rev. D. E. Earnhardt, pat
or of the First Methodist church o.
lenderson, of which the deceased ha
een a member many years. Inter
lent was in Elmwood cemetery ii
his city.
Mr. White was born May 28, 1870
a this county, where he had lived a!
iis life. He is survived by thre,
aughters, Misses Mary x Boyd anc
iallie Hill White, and Mrs. W. R
/aughan, Jr., all of this city; tw<
irothers, Charles and H. B. White, o
.lanson, and a sister, Miss Nem.
Vhite. also of Manson. His wife war
Miss Annie Lee Harris.
Mr. White had engaged in business
a Henderson many years, and at om
ime was a deputy register of deeds
’’or the past five years, however, h(
iad been bookkeeper for the Scoggii
>lotor Company, here.
Pallbearers for the funeral were an
lounced as follows:
Active, George Scoggin, R. B
J owell. Leonidas Joyner, John Wol
lon Mayfield, W. R. Vaughan, Sr.
ind L. M. Bullock; honorary, R. G
3urroughs, Dr. A. P. Newcomb, Johi
2. Boyd, John Bullock, Hope Bullock
2. L. Fleming, L. C. Bragg. E. C
?owell, J. H. Bridgers, James W. Jen
tins, G. V.. Jenkins, R. H. Duke, Pal
ner Scoggins, J. D, Williams.
| AROUND TOWN |
No Police Court. No session of th<
lolice court was held today.
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No Realty Deeds. —No real estate
leeds were filed Saturday with the re
gister of deeds.
Council To Meet. —The City Council
vill meet tonight at 8 o’clock in its
regular monthly meeting for Decern
her, the meeting having been defer
red from last Monday night on ac
lount of Christmas.
Fire Does SSO Damage.— Damage es
timated at SSO was done to the dwel
ling occupied by John Townes on
Vaughan street early Sunday. A blaze
had apparently started under the kit
chen. The house belongs to S. B
Burwell and was insured forth.
amount of the damage. Townes'
houeshold effects were not damaged.
Class To Meet.
The True Blue Class of the First
Christian Church will meet tonight,
at 7:30 o’clock with Miss Sallie Lou
Burchette on Breckenridge street
with Miss Lucile Hamm as joint
hostess.
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TStun&ersMtt jOmlij Despair!}
Victims of Crazed Soldier
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Jlei-e are the three Unitea Stated Army officers who were the Victims ot*
the insane murder orgy of a colored private soldier at Fort Huachuca
A 1 ,z " Wes'Sely (left), of San Antonio, Texas, was*
shot to death, as was his wife; Captain David'A. PaTmer (center) of*
be ve r !y,_ M ass., a Iso shot t 0 death with his. wife, and Lieutenant Ha rvie*
K Matthews (right), shot through both legs, but not fatally. James H.
Abernathy the negro slayer, who, it is believed, wa§ temporarily insane,
was himself killed by Corporal Peter Hardley. When Abernathy killed
Captain and Mrs. Palmer, the two children of the officer, David. 12, and'
Polly, 10. escaped, death by hiding in a closet.
Explode Theory of
Truckmen Sighting
R. S. McCoin’s Body
(Continued lioni Page One.)
22. summed up today in little more
than the discrediting of reports of
Friday and Saturday and the reitera
tion of his closest friends that he is
lead, a view from which they have
never been shaken by reports during
the ten days the active search has
been in progress.
Chief of Police J. H. Langston,, of
Henderson, and -H. Colvin Linthicum,
>f Raleigh, nephew of Mrs. CcCoin.
returned here Sunday night and told
of activities in the vicinity of Hagers
town, Md., where an anonymous let
er signed “A Boy in Distress” and
nailed from Chicago Christmas night,
;aid the body of a man reported held
ip and killed between Petersburg and
Richmond on the day ' McCoin left
lere had been buried. Mr. Linthicum
;aid he believed the finding of traces
of a man in a sedan bearing a North
Carolina license who spent the night
at Clear Springs, Md.. and left there
the next morning without register
ing and bought sandwiches at Han
cock, Md., a few miles further west,
constituted a hot trail, which he said
vas being pushed. He expressed th
belief that McCoins body would be
ound somewhere in the desolate
vastes in the next 30 miles between
Hancock and Cumberland, Md., and
both he and Chief Langston said con
siderable interest had been aroused
in the vicinity by tne SSOO reward of
fered here for the location and iden
ificalion of the body.
Discredit Truckmen’s Story.
Chief Langston exploded the ,story
told by two truck drivers at Mt,
Ranier, Md., of seeing a body prop
ped up in a car in Richmond the
norning of December 23, by reporting
that Virginia authorities had found
lial body was the one of a boy 21 or
52 years old, and that the two or three
youths with the car in which it was
leen were held for investigation of
he death but there appeared to be
io connection with the McCoin case.
The two truck drivers after seeing
photographs of McCoin said they were
positive it was a picture of the man
A'hose body they had seen in the car,
in front of a restaurant in South
Richmond, where they stopped for
sanwiches that morning.
Nothing to “Yergin” Story.
Meantime, J. Harry Edwards, de
putized as a special officer, returned
from Roanoke, Va., where he was
sent Saturday afternoon in connec
tion with the questioning of a man
there who gave his name as “Dr. M.
E. Yergin,” and who claimed he had
a machine which would locate the
body of a dead person. He said Roa
Sportsmanship by an Expert
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One of the gridiron s mo it heroic figures, Amos Alortio .-a rg. veteran
football ,’oacb of the University of Chicago and the oldest grid mentor,
in point of service, in America, is shown as he addressed the luncheon
party of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood at New York’s, Town Hall
tecently. Stagg. who spent fifty years of his life as athletic director at
the University of Chicago, was the guest of honor. His address was,
appropriately, “Fifty Years of America A College Sporf-”
noke authorities concluded the man
was a crank and attached no signi
ficance to his claims. Yergin tele
graphed here Friday evening that
McCoin was murdered 90 miies north
of Roanoke and said he could locate
the body if expenses from Roanoke
and back were provided. Authorities
there took him into custody when he
called for the telegram sent from ,’here
in reply and questioned him during
the day Saturday.
Mr. Edwards said the man had a
machine he claimed would locate dead
bodies. While the Henderson deputy
did not see the machine, he said a
picture of the subject was put un
der the machine and a pendulum
started to working, and that the di
rection in which the pendulum sWung
furthest was the direct, n wlure the
body could be found, and that the
succeeding strokes represented five
miles each, designating the distance
away. Roanoke authorities said Yer
gin claimed to have come to Roanoke
to find a dog belonging to a Dr. F.
E. White, of Chicago, which had been
lost in that vicinity. He had wired
White he ha 1 located the dog, and
V/hite reached Roanoke Saturday
n'ght onfy to find there was no trace
of his dog. iergin, Edwards said, de
clared it was the first time his ma
chine had ever failed. The man was
not detained. ’
Nothing from Columbus.
There was no late word today from
the investigation' at Columbus, Ohio,
where McCoin’s car was found last
week, nor were there any further
reports of individuals in.that, section
having seen a man identified by the
photograph as being McCoii\. who was
said to be trying to pawn a watch
and clothing. Descriptions of the
watch sent from here did not con
form -to that of the watch the man
was said to have exhibited. Further
information was requested by Colum
bus police as to the clothing McCoin
wore when hie left here, including his
underwear. The reason for this re
quest was not disclosed, but descrip
tions were sent.
Pythians Join Search.
Colonel Walker Taylor, of Wilming
ton, supreme representative from
North Carolina to the Supreme Grand
Lodge Knights of Pythias of the Unit
ed States, and ,R. L. Meares, also of
Wilmington, master of the exchequer
of the Supreme Grand Lodge of Py
thians, came here Sunday with
George S. Lovell, of Clpyton, grand
keeper of records and seals of the
Nortb Carolina Grand Lodge of Py
thians .to extend whatever aid they
could in the search. It. was Mr.
Lovell’s second visit. McCoin was
prominent in the Pythian fraternity,
and for ten years has been supreme
representative from North Carolina
to the national council, and is well
known to prominent leaders of the
REALTY TRANSFERS
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Fewer Than 1931 But Num
ber 271, Compared With
313 For 1931
'• i i .
The slump in real estate transfers
in this county 'in 1932 was rather
slight by comparison, with 1931. The
year just ended saw 271 such deeds
recorded in the office of the regis
ter of deeds, as compared With 313
and 1931 and 386 in 1930. In 1929 the
number was 476.
In December the total was 21. com
pared with 17 in December, 1931, and
14 in November, 1932. The December
total was the largest since May. with
the lone exception of 30 in August.
order throughout tjie country. He is a
past grand chancellor of the North
Carolina grand lodge and at the pre
sent time is and for years past has
been chairman of the board of trus
tees of the Pythian orphanage at
Clayton. Pythians throughout the
country have been requested by Su
preme Chancellor Harp of Maryland
to he on the lookout for McCoin.
Friencs ana associates of the miss
ing man here cling to the theory that
he is dead and that there is strong
likelihood that his body may be found
somewhere between Hagerstown and
Cumberland, Md., where the search is
continuing. There are those here who
believe that McCoin is not dead, but
that his mind has snapped and he
is wandering about over the country
somewhere. The theory is that if he is
still alive, he is the author of the
■‘Boy in Distress” letter sent from
Chicago to ‘‘The Supreme Justice of
the Supreme Court” at Raleigh, and
whicn was turned over to local au
thorities by Chief Justice Walter P.
Stacy, who received it on Tuesday
morning of last week, and which re
sulted in the location of McCoin’s
ear in a garage in Columbus.
SAYS ROADS CAN’T
GIVE $2,000,000
(Continued from r-age One.)
which he maintains show that the high
way fund cannot be dipped into for
other purposes and 'highways still be
maintained. • ,
‘‘With a prospective decrease of $3,-
000,000 in highway fund revenue in
sight this year as compared with last
year, we are not planning on any new
highway construction for the next
two years, since the amount of reve
nue in sight will be> barely enough for
maintenance,” Chairman Jeffreys said.
“The 'fact thaT no new construction
can be carried on will also mean that
a definite increase in the cost of main
tenance on old roads that otherwise
would be reconstructed. So if any
portion of the highway revenue is di
verted -the next two years, it must
come out of maintenance of the coun
ty roads.
“If the highway fund could be as
sured of as much revenue as it has
icceived in former years, the recom
mendation of the Tax Commission
that $2,000,000 a year be diverted from
this fund to the genera fund as a tem
porary emergency measure might be
a good one, provided the transfer could;
be made in accordance with the Con
stitution. But under present condi
tions; with the highway fund reve
nues showing a decrease of $3,000,000
in a single year, the plan seems to be
impractical and impossible since it
will either make it impossible for the
State to continue t 0 maintain the
county roads o rmake it necessary to
turn th e maintenance of these sec
ondary roads, back to the counties.
And I can see where no economy
would result from that."
The highway revenue for the past
three years, as shown in the report, is
as follows: | ,
For 1930-31 (actual) $18,750,482
For 1931-32 (actual) 20,628,923
For 1932-33 (estimated) 17,566,315
The revenue for the Highway Com
mission is derived from two principal
sources, the tax on gasoline and the
automobile license tax, the report
points out. The detailed report also
shows that the revenue from the gas
oline tax will be approximately $2,-
000,000 less this year than last, while
lere is a decrease of mor e than si,_
000,000 in the revenue from the sale of
automobile license plates, making a
total decrease of slightly more than i
$3,000,000 within one year’s time.
“We must respectfully call your at
tnetion to the fact that n view of the
declining revenue of the State High
way Commission, further burdens
must not be placed upon the highwtay
funds at thds time,” the report says.
“The highway bonds are coming due
in increasing amounts for the next
several years and the principal and
interest payments must first' b e met
from highway revenue. Next come
maintenance of the state and county
highways, and the roads cannot be
neglested. The investment in these
roads must be protected and the high
ways kept in such condition as to in
vite traffic. Highway revenue depends
largely upon the use of gasolin e and
that use is possible only by means of
motorvehickf operations. * So good
maintenance is economy in its every
respect.”
The report Tecommends additional!
egislatdon to make the evasion of the
gasoline tax more difficult, especially
by the adulteration of gasoline with
non-taxable petroleum products. More
stpingest inspection laws along this
line are advocated. A large number
of changes in the present laws that
would provide additional revenue, es
pecially from franchise truck and bus
lines and from trucks and buses, gen
erally,” are recommended.
MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1933
City Schools Will Open
Thursday; County Monday
Further Delay In County Due to Condition of Highways;
: City Opening To Stand for Npxt Thursday, as Pre
viously Planned and Announced Here
. While the white and colored schools
in Henderson wul roopa-i Thursday
of this week, following the long
bhriijtmas recess, a further postpone
ment of the county schools from
Thursday until next Monday was or
dered today by the Vance County
Board of Education at its regular
monthly meeting.
The postponement was due to the
almost impassably condition of many
of the rural highways which it was
thought constituted too great a haz
ard for the operation of the school
trucks.
jThe order applies only to rural
schools. All city schools will open on
next Thursday as planned.
Original plans for the holiday sea
son called for a suspension of the
schools for only one week, from Fri
day before Christmas, December 23,
to Monday, January 2.> The seven
inch snow of December 16 caused the
Suspension of schools the week be
fore Christmas because of the condi
tion pf the highways. Then followed
the slush resulted from the snow, with
a week of incessant rains after that,
and a postponement was ordered until
Thursday of this week. When the
County Board of Education met today
it was decided to delay further until
Great Britain Pays
if
Above is a scene in Mew York as
some $14,600,000 in gold bullion
brought over from England on the
liner Majestic is loaded into
v trucks, to be taken to the Federal
Reserve bank. The gold repre
sents a part of Great Britain’s
more than $1)5,000,000 payment
• v on the war debt.-
WeThankYou
Together, this bank and its de
positors have come through the
past year successfully _ , It
was a of our strength and
good management; it was a test
of your loyalty t and co-operation.,
Good .companions help to smooth
any trail. Our depositors have
.been good companions. We
thank you. We are glad to have
been able to give you in the past
twelve months the measure of
service and financial protection
which you have so well deserved.
The sign-posts on the road
ahead are encouraging. It will be
a pleasure to travel with you
through another year.
W. A. HUNT, President.
Citizens Bank
and Trust Company
Henderson, N. C.
leading bank in this section*
Monday of next week, to avoid the
hazards of operating school trucks
over the rural roads.
three licenses to
MARRY ARE ISSUED
Three marriage licenses were issued
by the register of deeds Saturday.
■One went to a white couple. James
E. Powell and Sally, both of Warren
county. The others, all Negroes and
all of Vance county, were: James Bh||
and Dillle Mae Jones; Jessie E. Als
ton and Annie Bell Russell.
Guest of Mrs. Gholson.
Miss Hesta Kitchin, John Robert
Crawford and Paul Woodfin, of
Scotland Neck, spent the week-end
with Mrs. W. P. Gholson on Burweli
avenue.
Honored at Party.
Misses Nellie Breedlove and Mabel
Patterson, of Oxford, and Miss Esther
Jane Weldon, of Henderson, Route
T, were honored at a. party given last
Friday night by Miss Marie Puckett.
FLYING BOAT DOWN,
BUT CREW IS SAFE
Fernandino, Fla., Jan. 2 (AP) —The
Coast Guard flying boat Arctures, so i c
ed down Saturday at sea ten miles off
Fort Pierce with six men aJboa r
washed ashore in a badly damaged
condition at San Sebastian creek to
day, Commander John McCann, 0 f the
Coast Guard base here, was advised
by radio. The crew was saved.
Japs Wage Big
Battle On Chinese
(Continued \rom r*age One.)
o’clock p. m.- today a Japanese ait*
squadron bombed the walled city of
Shanhaikwan.
Chinese accounts said the Japanese
opened fire on Chinese troops without
procation. The Japanese reported that
they had found two bombs in a Japan
ese police station on Sunday, that
thereafter a detachment of troops was
sent to Shanhaikwan to protect the
residents and that the Chinese fired
on the detachment.
This morning it was reported that
four Chinese troop trains were mov
ing northeastward toward Shanhaik
wan to reinforcement Change Hsiao-
Liang’s regulars, who apparently were
holding the walled city against tiie
Japanese attack.
One Japanese officer was reported
to have been killed, leading a
which attempted to storm the wails
after the gates had been closed.
Don’t Trifle With Coughs
Don’t let them get a strangle hold. Fight
germs quickly. Creomulsion combines the 7
best helps known to modern science. Power
ful but harmless. Pleasant to take. No narcot
ics. Your druggist will refund your money if
any cough or cold no matter long stand
ing is not relieved by Creomulsion. (adv.)