ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
White Way Celebration Is Set For Thursday, Sept. 6
Committee Is Organized
And Names Other Groups
To Arrange For Details
Governor Ehringh&us, Jeff
ress and Other Notable#
To Be Invited To
Participate
PARADE, MUSIC AND
DANCING PLANNED
Free Refreshment# To Be
Provided; Garnett Street
To Be Roped Off and Gayiy
Decorated; Program Is
Planned for Evening jof
Big Celebration
Thursday evening, September 6,
v/as agreed upon as the date for the
communitywide celebration here mark
ing the completion of the street im
provement and white way undertaking
for Garnett street by the central com
mittee having the matter in charge,
and which held Its first meeting today
and organized.
Plans call for extending an invita
tion to attend and speak to Governor
J. C B. Ehringhaus and Chairman E.
B Jeffress, of the State Highway Com
mission, and probably to United States
Senator J. W. Bailey and R. R. Rey
nolds and Congressman Harold D.
Corley of this district.
It is proposed to have the entire,
stretch of the white way district,
from Spring to Church streets roped
off for the evening’s ceremonies, with
a big parade, street dances, plenty of
music and free refreshments.
A committee was named to handle
the participation of the colored people
and they will be asked to attend. The
street will be gayiy decorated, and
ther*} will be a general merry-making
for the evening.
M. C. Miles, who was named, by the
Kiwanis club as chairman of the move
ment, which that organization set go
ing some weeks ago, was named gen
eral chairman of the central commit
tee at today’s meeting, Henry A. Den
nis was named general secretary and
chairman of publicity and advertising.
Other members of the committee are
S. S. Stevenson, at whose office today’s
meeting was held' D. C. Lough ini, J.
Harry Bryan, R. G. S. Davis, Mayor
Irvine B. Watkins and D. L. Cannon.
The mayor v/as out of the city and Mr.
Cannon was added to the committee at
today’s meeting, so that they were the
only members of the group not pres
ent.
It was the sense of the meeting that
the celebration be put on in a big way,
so as to attract attention and to make
this entire section of the State “Hen
derson-conscious.”
Tentative plans, which may, of
course, be modified, call for the parade
to start somewhere on South Garnett
street and move northward to a
speaker’s stand in the Seaboard park
area. At Spring street a ribbon would
be! stretched across the thoroughfare,
and the governor would cut this ribbon
Hashing on the lights in the white way.
Refreshments of a nature not yet
definitely and finally determined will
be provided free for every one attend
ing the festivities. The merchants
will make no effort to sell goods
since their stores will be closed. The
event is to be staged at night by rea
son of the fact that that will be ne
cessary for the inauguration of th'
white way lighting system.
All committee chairmen named at t
day’s meeting are requested to attend
a further meeting to be held tomor
row evening at 8 o’clock in Mr. Stev
enson’s office for the further project
ing of the plans. The committee in
tends to push its program with all pos
sible speed and to do It in as big away
as possible. From now on, events arr
intended to move fast, so that there
may be no hitch in the plans.
Committee chairmen are asked to
complete the appointment of the per
sonnel of their groups by tomorrow
right., if possible and to include women
where possible.
Chairmen of various committee?
were named as follows:
Parade and floats —W S. Corbitt.
Representing tobacco industry—W
M. Young and G. W. Knott.
Finance —J. Harry Bryan.
Amplifying service—S. S. Stevenson
Speakers—Mayor I. B. Watkins.
Decorating—lS. S. Stevenson.
Dance—C. B. Sturges.
Refreshments—'"Red" Taylor.
Music—(Ben Urquhart.
Negro participation—C. C Poole. Dr
J. A. Cotton, Professor R. H. Adams.
THREE LICENSES TO
MARRY ARE ISSUED
Three marriage licenses were issuer'
Saturday byb the register of deeds
One was to a white couple and the
other two to colored couples, one o'
which was withheld from publication
The other two were:
OR. R. Dixon and Elizabeth Mae Hor
ton, white both of Wake Forest.
Lawrence Person and Oracle Green,
colored, both of Kittrell.
To Timmonsville, 0. C.
William Bailey left yesterday for
Timmonsville, S. C., where he Will be
floor for Hite-Motley Ware
house. _ _ > rrirr:- >- y
First Wires
Underground
Put Into Use
First of the underground cabbies of
the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company were switched into service
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, and the
process will continue from day to day
until by the end of the week it is
expected the entire underground sys
tem will be i=i operation.
The first conversation to be held
over an underground circuit after it
went officially into service was held
at 2:30 o’clock when H. A. Dennis
talked from the Daily Dispatch office
to S. H. Baker, construction supervis
or of the telephone company .who was
at the Gulf .filling station at the cor
ner of Church and Garnett streets.
That block of the underground cables
from Young to Church streets was tho
first to be cut in. It was said by R.
H. Bailey, manager of the company’s
office here, that some 40 to 50 local
stations would be cut into the under
ground circuits by night and tho pro
cess would Continue until the entire
Garnett street area was switched by
about the end of the week.
As soon as the service is all cut into
the underground cables, the telephone
company will begin immediately to dis
{mantle the surface poles and wires,
(this probably starting next week.
MAYOR PROTEM IS
PRESIDING JUDGE
T W. Ellis, mayor protem, presided j
in police court today in the absence !
from the city of Mayor Irvine B. Wat- 1
kins. Three cases were docketed, but i
the mayor protem couldn’t handle but j
one of them, for the two others failed 1
to put in their appearance when called.J
■Harry W. Dumeer and Edward I
Palmer, white men, were charged in '
two separate warrants with speeding
in the city. When they failed to ans
wer when their cases were called, cap
ias was ordered issued for them.
Lawrence Davis, colored, was sent
to the roads for 30 days for possessing
liquor.
eren that’s not all
there is to it
.Jjfsjjr A FTER you receive the tobacco The Chesterfield process of biend
iJHr il. from the farmers you have to log and cross-blending tobaccos is
\HHSi&>«-aHHr * £ ust then store it different from others, and we be-
IJr aWay sos ° Vef tW ° yea ”‘ lieve il hel P s to make a milder and
Then you take the different types better tasting cigarette.
of home-grown and Turkish tobac- Down where they grow tobacco
cos and weld them together in such -in most places-Chesterfield
away as to make a balanced blend. is the largest setting cigarette,
<£ M. luOXt & Ihnt -T^
Henderson Daily Dispatch
TRIBUTE IS PM
Union Service Is Memorial
To Late Methodist Pro.
testant Pastor
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
Other Churches Send Expressions Os
Their Organizations; Large Con
gregation and Special
Music Given
High tribute was paid Dr. L. W.
Gerringer, late pastor of the First
Methodist Protestant church here, at
union services of all Protestant
churches of the city held last night In
the First Baptist church. Dr. Ger
ringer, who died last Tuesday after
an illness of just one month, was ex
tolled as a man of high standing as a
Christian, as a pastor, citizen and
gentleman.
It was the regular Sunday night
union service participated in by the
churches during July and August.
Resolutions from the several churches
were read in tribute to Dr. Gerringer,
and the sermon of the evening was
Rev. W. C. CunTming, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, and was
itself a tribute to the late minister.
Rev. A. ,S. Hale, pastor of the host
church, presided. The invocation was
by Rev. S. E. Madren, pastor of the
First Christian church, and the Scrip
ture reading by Rev. I. W. Hughes,
•rector of Holy Innocents Episcopal
church. They read the resolutions
from their official boards, and that
for the First Baptist was read by
Clarence E. Green, secretary of the
board of deacons. Rev. Mr. Hale read
the resolution from the First Metho
dist church, in the absence of the
pastor.
Miss Aliene E. Hughes sang. “There
Is a Green Hill” as a solo, and a quar
tette consisting of Miss Emma Jones,
Mrs. A1 B. Westei and Pittman Davit;
and W. B. Harrison sang “One
Sweetly Solemn Thought”. Miss Dor
othy'' Jones, church organist, accom
panied for both numbers.
The church was well filled for the
service.
Rev. Mr Cumming took as the text
for his brief sermon the first verse of
Proverbs 22 “A*goodnna e is rather
to be chosen than great riches and
loving favor rather than silver and
gold”.
The question, “What’s in a name?”
is asked sometimes, and the answer
may be much or little, said the .
preacher. “When a baby is born, he
has no name. When a name is given,
Total Os 170 Examined In 1
Tuberculosis Clinic Here
Exclusive of Fluroscope Tests, 108 White and 12 Colored
Persons Examined; Two White, Two Colored New
Positives Discovered; Skin Tests Given
Statistics on the two weeks of tub
erculosis clinics held at Scott Parker
Sanatorium here, ending last Satur
day, were made public today by Z. P.
Mitchell, health officer, who reported
on the findings of Dr. W. T. Thornton,
of State Sanatorium, who conducted
the clinic. It was shown that a total
of 170 persons received tests of one
kind or another for tuberculosis, and.
it has no meaning, but as the years
pass by he puts a meaning into his
name. All that he does and all that
he is gives meaning to his name until
the time comes when the name is an
expression of the man. Some names
are rich in association and full of
meaning”.
Numerous names of history. Bibli
cal and secular, were named by the
preacher as illustrating his point.
‘Most of us, ’ he said, ‘‘will never
b e able to make for ourselves great
names, but we can, by the grace of
God, make make for ourselves good
names—and a good name is better
than a great name that is not good.
*‘We have been thinking tonight of
t?he name of L. W. Gerringer. Not a
great name someone may—not a name
that will go down in history like the
name of Benedict Arnold or a John
Dill.inger—no, but a good name, and I
would rather have it than many name
that has gone down in history, for it
brings to mind the memory of a true
servant of Christ, who loved his Lord
with ai real devotior.. it is the name
of one who was faithful to his Lord
in unremitting and indefatigable serv
ice. one who used his talents to the
best of his ability.
“The highest praise that Jesus ever
"mentioned as being given to any of his
servants is the praise that he said
would be given to those who faith
fully used the talents God had com
mitted to them. Could anything be
finer than to have that from the lips
of Jesus!—and we believe that our
brother has it, for he was constant
and faithful in his service.
“As we think of our brother let this
thought iemain: He won souls for
Christ who shall greet him in Heaven,
he left the world better for having liv
ed in it; he left example to every one
of us that should stir us to use to the
best of our ability the talents that
God has given to us and he left a
good name, whose memory is blessed’’.
Dr. Mitchell said it was the best clinio
he had ever been connected with.
Included in the 170 total were 50
fluroscope examinations. An analysis
of the 120 others, who were given more;
minute examinations, showed 108 white
and 12 colored patients tested. Os that
number, two white and two colored
reacted positively as having tubercu
losis; thit is, four new cases that had
not been previously examined. There
were six suspicious cases of white peo
ple, but no suspicious cases of colored
Negative white patients were 76 and
negative colored nine, a total of 85,
meaning that no evidence of the dis
ease was found.
Twenty-four white and one colored
patients who had previously been ex
amined were tested again at this clinic.
Skin tests were given to 55 children,
46 of them white and nine colored, and
of that group 17 white and seven col
ored reacted positively, indicating an
infection. All of them had been in
contact with the disease.
'Of the childrn found with the dis
ease, X-Rays were given to ten white
and four colored.
The fluroscopic test alone is not as
sufficient and not as accurate as the
more complete examinations, but were
given because there was not time for
the more detailed work, Dr. Mitchell
explained today.
MEDICALSOLOiERS
BACKIN THE CITY
Camp One of Best Ever Had,
Some Think; Return
In Week-End
Some 80 to 90 citizen soldiers, mem
bers of various units of the 105th
Medical Regiment stationed in Hend
erson, returned home over the week
end from Camp Jackson, Columbia,
S. C., where they have been forth
past two weeks on their annual en
campment. Colonel Hodge A. Newell,
of Henderson, was in command of the
MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1934
entire regiment.
Included in the units from this city
were the service company, the regi
mental band, and the regimental staff
organization, nearly all members of
which are Hendersondoctors and oth
ers.
Some of those who were at the camp
said it was one of the best the regi
ment had ever had, and they were
greatly pleased with the stay.
Fire Alarm Today.—-Firemen were
called out this morning shortly be
fore 12 o’clock to James Allen’s house
on Green street. A small fire on the
roof, caused from a spark, did no re
portable damage, according to Fire
Chief E. T. Shepherd.
Accepts Position
Edwin P. Finch has gone to Peters
burg, Va., to accept a position with
the Brown-Williamsbn Tobacco Co.
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four
1. State the third law of motion.
2. What is a silhouette?
3. Where is United States paper money
printed? ,
4. What is a seismograph?
5. In which country is Ruth Bryan
Owen, daughter of William Jen
nings Bryan, the American Minister.
6. Who was Virginia Dare?
7. What is water called whn in a gas
eous state?
8. Name the capital of Bulgaria.
9. What does philharmonic mean?
10. Where is Antioch Colltge.
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Will Seek To Make Adjust
ment of Debts as Farm
Obligatio in#
Personnel of the farm debt adjjust
ment committee of Vance County has
just been completed, and consists of
W. A. Hunt, B. H. Perry, J. H. Brodie,
of Henderson, and E L. Fleming, of
Middleburg, and J.’ A. Kimball, of
Townsville. The committee, though
named, has not started functioning
here, but is expected to immediately
Groups are being organized all over
the State as rapidly as men can be
obtained to serve.
Dr. G. W. Forester, of State Col
lege, is directing the work in the State
The purpose of the committees is to
help debtors and creditors find an
agreement whereby the debts can be
settled to the be6t advantage of both
parties, Dr. Forster said.
Attend Cheatham Funeral
Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Watkins, Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Watkins, Mrs. W. T
Cheatham, Mrs. H. E. Chavasse and
J. T. Cheatham were in Brevard today
for the final rites for Dr, Goode
Chetham, who diec Friday morning
at Endicott, N. Y., with a heart ail
ment. He was interred by the side of
a son, James. »