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HENDERSON DAILY DISPATCH
Established August 12. 1314
Published Every Afternoon Except
Sunday by
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OUR DUMB ANIMALS: A righteous
man regardeth the life of his beast,
but the tender mercies of the wicked
are cruel.—Proverbs 12:10.
x TODAY a
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
2500 —James Crichton, Scottish pro
digy-adventurer. born. Died July 3,
1582. . . =
—Madame du Barry, notorious
French figure, born. Executed Dec ,
7, 1793. _ ’
1780 —pierre Jean de Berangei. f
national song-writer of France, born
Died July 16, 1857.
>1793 —Samuel G Goodrich < Peter
Parley) Boston-New York editor and
author of about 170 popular books,
born at Ridgefield. Conn. Died May
9, 1860. .
Igo6 Agnes Strickland English his
torical writer. born. Died July 8,
1833 —Richard P. Bland, noted Mi»-
couH congressman of his day. known
as “Silver Dick - ’ for his advocacy of
free silver, near Hartford. Ky.
Died June 15 1899.
Ig36—John Rock, pioneer Califor
nia nurseryman, who came there in
1866. born in Germany. Died Aug.
9. 1904.
1865—Abbert F. Ohlmacher, noted
Ohio and Detroit physician and patho- j
legist, born at Sandusky. Ohio. Died
Nov. 9. 1916.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1607—First settlers began coming
to Maine.
1699 —Rev. George Burroughs of
Salem, Mass., hung for witchcraft
accused and convicted of preaching
at a witches’ communion.
1780 — Died, aged 59. Baron de Kalb
German-born French major-general in
the A.merican Army of the Revolution
in South Carolina, from mortal
wounds received on the battlefield.
1781 — Americans and French on the
Hudson, N. Y., began their historic
march south to Virginia culminating
in surrender of Cornwallis and end of
war.
1814 —English landed about 50 miles
from Washington, D. C., in second
war with us.
1902 —Martinique, West Indies, de
vastated by cyclone and earthuake.
TODAY’! BIRTHDAYS
Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, co
inventor with his brother of the air
plane, born in Dayton. 64 vears ago.
U. S. Senator Tom Connallv of
Texas born in McLennan Co., Tex..
58 years ago.
Bernard M. Baruch of New York
financier, born at Camden, N. J.. 65
years ago.
Judge Sam G. Bratton of New
Mexico, of the 10th U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, born at Kosse.
Texas, 47 ’’•ears ago.
Major Elihu Church of New York
City, noted civil engineer, born there,
54 years ago.
Elsie Ferguson, actress born in New
York, 52 years ago.
Colleen Moore. actress, born at
Port Huron, Mich., 33 years ago.
TODAys HOROSCOPE
The one born on this day will prob
ably be fortunate. but ; unless other
aspects are strong, never very prom
inent. You will be a close student,
under most conditions and gifted with
patience capable of close research.
The mind is a little too retiring and
modest, and with the intelligence that
it posesses, should land the native
higher than seems generally the case.
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
HnrU Pag*
i
1. One In which trade-union mem
bers refuse to allow non-unionists
to obtain permanent employment.
2. Thirty-two.
3. A district in the Swiss canton of
Fribourg, famed for its cheese.
4. It is for men only.
5. Mobilization.
6. The Carolines.
7. Cloud-burst.
8. Ho was retired by special act of
Congress as a full General
9 West Indies.
30. Fren.'k, fieri,urn and Italian.
Today is Hie Day
B, CLARK KINNAIRD U’l’aft 14 15 10 17
Copyright, IW4. for »hl* Newspaper |l 1 UJp 2 I 22 23 24
by Crnlr.l Praee Aeaoelatlon 7 2»|2»|3Q 31
Monday. Aug. 19: Ab 20, 5695 in
Jewish calendar. 231st day of the
year; 35 days till Autumn; 128 days
till Christmas. Moon: last quarter
tomorrow.
Forecast: This is the typhoon sea
son in the East; look for stories of
typhoon disasters there. In all like
lihood there will be 60 of these hurri
cane-like disturbances before the
season is over, and 10 probably will
be serious. Tlie News Forecaster.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Orville Wright, b. 1871, airplane
pioneer . . • Bernard Mannes Ba
ruch. b. 1870, international finan
cier . . . Tom Connally, b. 1877, sen
ator from Texas . . . Elsie Fergu
son. b. ISB3. actress . . . Fred Stone
b. 1873. actor ... June Collyer, b.
1907, cinemactress.
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
Aug. 19. 14 A. D. .Gaius Octavius.
Emperor Augustus. first crowned
head of Rome, died at 77. A numer
ologist born in September (7th month'*
he thought the 6th (Sextilis) was his
lucky month. He took a day fi om
February to add to it and renamed
it August in his honor. And then he
died in it! „ ~ ,
Aug. 19. 1607—The first English
colonists in what is now New Eng
land settled at Stage Island in Maine
—l3 years before the Pilgrims came
to piyniouth! There were 100 of
them under George Fopham and Ra
leigh Gilbert.
The colony broke up after George
Popham died and its storehouse was
burned, nevertheless, the first colony
of the Plymouth company was in
Maine, not in Massachusetts.
Aug. 19. 1692 —'Five women were
hanged at Salem as witches. They
were only five among many.
Susannah Martin was hanged be
cause: “On a rainy day she walked
over a good bit of country without
getting her skirts or hose muddy, and
it was sagely concluded that such
neatness could only have been at
tained through the aid of the devil!
Aug. 19. 1812—What British news
papers had sneeringly referred to as
a “bundle of pine boards sailing un
der a bit of striped bunting” cap
tured the pride of the British fleet,
n r this day the Constitution and
1 Guerriere met alone. They had met
I before, in July, and the Constitution
had run away because the Guerriere
was accompanied by four oher Brit
ish warships.
“A few broadsides from England’s
wooden walls would drive the paltry
striped bunting from the ocean,” the
British newspapers had said. A few
broadsides and the Guerriere had
struck its colors, and the U. S. had
won one of its most notable naval vic
tories. The battle lasted only 15
minutes!
Captain of the Constitution was 37-
vears-old Isaac HuU of Derby, Conn.
His uncle, Gen. William Hull, almost
Simnltaneonslv surrendered Detroit
without a fight. Because he did he
was court-martialed and condemned
to death for cowardice!
THE WORLD WAR 20 YEARS
AGO TODAY
Aug. 19—lust 30 days after Pres
ident Woodrow (He kept us out of
war> Wilson had solemnly warnea
Germany that any further convention
of our rights at sea as neutrals would
be regarded as an act “deliberately
unfriendly,” the British liner Arabic
was sunk by a German submarine
without warning off the south coast
of Ireland.
She was bound from Liverpool to
New York—so there could be no
question of her carrying contraband
—and there were <29 Americans,
amon her 181 passengers. The Ame
ricans were among the 59 lost.
The same day, the German subma
rine U-27 was sunk in St. George’s
Channel by the British decoy-ship
Baralong, as the U-boat was attack
ing the cattle transport Nicosian.
Several German sailors had boarded
’he latter for a search, and American
cattlemen, when they saw the sub
marine disappear, threw the Ger
mans overboard. Germany roared
In 1891 a rebellion arose in Hawaii,
one of a small group of islands in the
Pacific ocean of volcanic origin, dis
covered by Captain Cook, and origi
nally called the Sandwich islands.
After setting up a new government,
an application was made to the Unit
ed States for admission to the Union.
President Cleveland refused to rec
ognize their action, saying it was not
truly representative. In 1898, how
ever, under President McKinley, the
Hawaiian islands became a territory
of the United States. There now is
—•— a movement under
way seeking state
stnsCHA RCED hood for Hawaii as
Hawaii the forty-ninth state.
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HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY.DISPATCH, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1935
as loud a protest about this as the
American government did about the
sinking of the Arabic.
WRITING WRONGS
You’re in error if you suppose—
That women spies aren’t as numer
ous or as highly regarded by espion
age services as men.
Actually, of 500,000 persons estimat
ed to be serving as espionage agents
today, at least 300,000 are women.
Yet, because women are less liable to
suspicion than men. women are pre
ferred as spies.
That don’t. They grow (upside
down) on a plant, each plant produc
ing only one bunch.
FOOTNOTES ON TODAY’S
HISTORY
Eight out of 10 of all new boons
published this year will sell less than
10,000 copies, and earn their authors
less than SI,OOO. One in every two
books sells less than 4,000 copies.
The speediest snake moves at the
rate of only 3.6 miles an hour, the
tattler usually travels 1-3 m. p. h.
A New York resort staged a forest
fire as an entertainment.
In Germany in 1934, 84.525 persons
were sterilized, and more will be ster
ilized this year. However, the num
ber sterilized is smaller than the
number of applications for the opera
tion; the courts reject many volun
tary applications.
The rays of the Aurora Borealis, the
“northern lights,” has an electrically
exhilarateing effect on Arctic dwell
ers. On nights when the display of
the aurora is at its zenith, they find
it difficult to sleep.
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY
1. What appointment did Judge
Thomas Settle receive a.fter his de
feat by Governor Vance for the gov
ernorship?
2. What did Governor Burrington
claim was the usual way of razing
! buildings in 1733?
J 3. What South Carolina officer was
H H They * 'were paddled until their
# BHHi backside and legs were a mass of
M TOM GERAK
' No. 47887
IS T o. 2 —The Reform School
The second of eight articles
written exclusively for Central
Press hy a “lifer” who was par
doned after 16 years in prison.
Cleveland. Aug. 19—The system got
me young. I was 13 when I was first
caught in the act of committing a
oetty theft. That meant the boys'
reform school.
When I arrived at the Lancaster
Reform school, I was promptly hult
led through the Regular routine: All
my hair was clipped off; then the
luartermaster, a tall man with an
Vliotic face and fishy eyes, gave me
an ill-fitting uniform; a shower hath,
x hurry-up physical examination hy
the institutional doctor, who acted
overhearing and important -when
mastered what I hoped was the
proper degrc of awe and respect, for
the Doc was rough on boys w o
weren’t ouick enough to realize tha
'hey were standing in the augus
oresence of medical loyalty.
Hard Labor
When I had been completely do
individualized and reduced to t a
common level of dull sameness so
characteristic of our refs“tnatoi ie*
and penitentiaries, I was assignee
granted money by North Carolina to
raise troops?
4. How many automobile accidents
were reported during the first half
of this year?
5. What happened to Caswell coun
ty's scalawag senator?
6. How long was North Carolina
under civil government following the
end of the provisional government
and before the reconstruction govern
ment began?
ANSWERS
1. Judge Settle was a personal
friend of Governor Vance, who re
gretted his defeat and tendered him
the appointment of United States
Judge for the District of Florida.
2. In a speech before the house of
burgesses he mentioned that it was
a “common practice for the people
in this province to burn their houses,
as burning is a cheaper way than
pulling them down.”
3 Colonel James Williams who fell
during the battle of Kings Mountain.
Colonel Williams, a native of Gran
ville county, North Carolina, had
moved to South Carolina. On his aj»-
Dlication North Carolina allowed him
$25,000 to raise troops. His men pro
bably came from both states. In is
suing his call for men he headed it,
“A call to arms; beef, bread and po
tatoes ”
4. A total of 2262 accidents in whicn
180 persons were killed and 2,895 in
jured.
5. John W. Stephens, Caswell coun
ty was Governor Holden’s
right hand man and detective. He was
L he leader in the Union League, and
it was charged that he hda given
’wentv negroes boxes of maters with
instructions to burn the barns ol
Southern leaders. That night nine
barns went up in smoke. A public#
-peaking was held in the Yancyville
ourt house oil the night of May 4,
1870. Following the meeting Stephens
missed. Later that night his body
was found in a locked hoom of the
court house securely tied with a rope,
showing two knife wounds. His mur
ter was a mystery.
6. President Johnson directed, pro
visional Governor W W. Holden, to
turn over the office to Governor
Jonathan Worth, elected by the peo
ple, December 28, 1865. The second re
construction act was passed over the
President’s veto March 2. 1867, ana
Governor Worth was removed July ±,
1868, Holden again becoming gover
nor under reconstruction appoint
ment
mem.
RECORDER HAS TWO
CASES FOR TRIAL
Recorder R. E. Clements had two
cases up for trial in Recorder's court
today, one of them being drunken
driving,
Melvin Weaver and Woodrow s4eth
erv. both white, were charged in a
warrant with curing in a public-
io pick and shovel work. I was ask
ad no questions about my schooling
or general home background. I was
given no choice in the matter of work.
I was a big husky boy for my age,
and the institution needed boys to
swing picks and shovels—to take the
place of horses and mules as much
as possible.
During all the time that I was
there I was given no instruction in
social education. But I was given
repeated assurance that I wojuld be
whipped if T didn’t keep my head up,
shoulders back, eyes in front, sit
straight, march straight, keep quiet
and work hard.
The chaplain there was always
ready to prepare us for the next
world, but he never seemed to have*
the time or inclination to give us in
structions regarding an orderly life
rn this world.
What I learned
When the juvenile judge .sentenced
me to the reform school, he told me
that I would learn things there I
should have been taught at home.
Yes. I learned things there —the same
things that most of the younger boys
learned from their older delinquent
companions. I learned how to steal
gangway*
place. W. B Harris, pros outor, has
the warrant withdrawn and paid the
costs.
Alex Hawkins, Negro, was found
guilty of driving while drunk, and
was fined SSO and costs and his li
cense revoked for 90 days. Failure to
pay the fine would mean a 90 day
stretch on the roads for the defen.
dant.
welt*.
and operate a car from pencil draw
ings made for me by an older and
more experienced boy. I learned how
to remove a window-pane without
making an audible noise. I learned
bow to make and use steel picks with
which to open doors and pad-locks.
Yes, I learned things at the re
form school. But they weren’t the
hings I would have learned at home.
And I learned bitterness against a
society that placed me in the hands
of brutal, ignorant, bullying guards,
who beat and lashed young boys for
he slightest infraction of rules.
Instead of pursuing an intelligent
end humane policy of rehabilitation
and social education in the treat
ment of their juvenile charges, the
official attitude of the institution’s
personnel was —and still is—one of
repression, cruel indiffer
mce, and shocking brutality.
The Paddle
Os all the inhumanities practiced
31 the reform school, the paddle is the
most vicious and barbaric. That pad
lie! How many hardened criminals
t has made out of young hoys who
may have otherwise grown to be good
citizens.
This paddle was shaped like a ra
zor strop: It was about five inches
vide, a quarter of an inch thick, and
about two and a half feet long, with.,
i heavy handle.
For the slightest infraction of rules
he offending boys were taken into a
znck room.- v. s hore their piercing erief
>f agony were muffled by the thic.H^
walls and heavy doors. In this room
they were compelled to strip naked.
Then, shackled to a ring in the wall,
they were lashed with the paddle un
til their back looked like raw beef
steak. They were paddled until their
backside and legs were a mass of
great black and blue welts, bruises,
gashes, and oozing blood.
Not only have I seen mere boys
whipped in this manner. I have
gone to the post and been lashed on
numerous occasions.
Once Too Often
Does +his sound exaggerated? List
en. Only 10 years ago R. U. Hast
ings, for many ypars superintendent
of the Lancaster Reform school, and
a group of his guards were ousted aft
er a legislative inquiry revealed that
such brutality was common practice
and that two or three boys had died
as a direct result of brutal treatment.
And only a few years ago the body
of a boy who had died at the reform
school was sent to his parents who
found it covered with bruises and
great black and blue welts. The of
ficial record of the boy’s death was
pneumonia.
Yes, I learned a lot at the reform
school. Like most of the boys there.
I learned to hate the society that
sent me there: I learned to hate the
law and reform school officials that
, ep»'eser>(ed that society.
Next: Boyhood Days Behind Bars.
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without children, Phone 587. 19-4
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perience unnecessary. Dignified
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SEE J. C. GARDNER AT FIRST
National Bank for insurance on To
bacco Curing Barns, Tobacco Pack
Barns and Tobacco in Pack Barns.
Good Companies, Prompt Service.
Phone 212 and 454-J. Insurance of
all kinds. EOD-tf.
SALESWOMAN WANTED MUST
be neat in appearance and a hard
worker. Good pay to right party,
strictly commission. Apply Alford’s
Print Shop. 19-2tl
FOR SALE MAPLE BED, SPRINGS
and dresser. Apply to Pauline Jen
kins, 267 Charles street. 19-lti
AN INVESTMENT IN BUSINESS
training will pay you ibig dividends
all your life. The fall term at the
Henderson Business School begins
September 9.
ANOTHER BIG SHIPMENT OF
Woolsey’s good paint just arrived
at “The Place of Values.” Jt keepa
coming and going. Alex S. Watkins
“Where quality tells and prices
sell.” 19-lti
LIMEADES, LEMONADES AND
orangeades are just the thing to
satisfy that thrist on these scorch
ing days. Come to the Green Grill
for yours. 19-lti
LOST MAN’S LIGHT TAN CHECK
ed body coat between Henderson
and Williamsboro Sunday. Finder
return to Dispatch Office. Reward
13-ti
BUY OLD NEWSPAPERS Kill,
wrapping purposes and kindling j
fires. Big bundle for 10c. three so
25c at Dispatch office. U-ti (
I' SPECIAL THIS WEEK
Tobacco Twine 28c lb.
161 prct. Dairy Feed $1.50 bap
Horse and Mule feed $1.05 bag
Blue Belle Flour is Delightful
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS.
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk.
State of North Carolina:
County of Vance:
T. P. Gholson, Administrator of the
Estate of Lucy B. Kearney. De
ceased.
vs.
Lottie Davis and Husband, Samuel
Davis, Willie Kearney and Wife,
Ros# Ella Kearney, a«d David L.
Kearney.
The defendant David L. Kearney
will take notice that an action en
titled as above, in the nature of a
Special Proceeding, has 'been com
menced in the Superior Court of
Vance County, North Carolina, for the
sale of real estate for parition; and
that the said defendant will further
take notice that he is required to ap
pear at the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Vance County, in
the Courthouse in Henderson, North
Carolina, on the 6th day of September,
1935,, and answer or demur to the
complaint in said action, or the plain
tiff will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in said complaint.
This the sth day of August. 1935.
E. O. FALKNER.
Clerk Superior Court Vance County.
Reduced Fares for
Tobacco Curers to
Canada
Buffalo $13.00 s2l.7 r
Delhi 15.7" 2625
St. Thomas 15.75
Simco 15.45 25.50
Tilsonburg 16.10
Detroit.. 13.8 t 23.10
Atlantic Greyhound
Union Bus Station Phone 11
Attention! Tobacco
Curers
Special Round Trip Fares
FROM
Raleigh-lJurham-Norlina and
Intermediate Stations
—TO—
Buffalo $26 00
Detroit 23 70
St. Thomas 28-<0
Toronto 30.10
Tilsonburg 2870
Delhi 28.70
London 28 70
Waterford 28 70
Tickets on Sale Daily July 15th in
.September 10th, Inclusive —Limited.
.. to Return as Date as October 31
For Information See Agent or Writs
C. G. WARD, D. P. A.
505 I. O. O. F. Temple Raleigh. N. Cl.
Seaboard