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NUMBER 4.>

ton Sends € Representatives to

Maj. Lynch’s IF ;.y sni Washington, I). C. Nov. G. —

John Hamilton, Chairman of the

Republican National Committee, took cognizance of the burial of

Major Jahn R. Lynch, retired

Paymaster of the U. S. army, in

Arlington national cemetery, with miltary honors, on Mon-

day, November G, 1939, by de-

signating the Honorable Perry W. Howard, a member of the

Republican National Committee from the state of Mississippi, and Dr. Emmett J. Scott, of the

Publicity Division of the Nation

al Committee, and a former

Special Assistant to the Secre-

tary of War, to represent the

Committee at the ceremonies.

Major Lynch was a member of the Republican National Com- mittee from 1884 to 1388, and

was a delegate to the Republican National conventions from Miss,

in 1872, 1884, 1888, 1892 and

and 1890.

His political career embraced

serving as a Justice of the. Peace, as a member of the state

legislature of Mississippi for 4

years, serving his last term as

speaker of the house of repres-

entatives of Mississippi. He was elected to the 43rd

congress in 1872, re-elected to I

the 41th congress in 1874, and to the 47th congress in 1880.

He was temporary chairman of the Republican National con-

vention- in 1884 and was the cen-

ter of a spirited contest between 1he followers of Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont, and

James G. Maine of Maine, Re-

APPRECIATION Nov. 4. 1939

Mrs. Mary Sue Calloway Northfork, W. Va.

Dear Mrs. Calloway.— We note in your card of thanks

published in the last issue of thej McDowell Times, the kind ex-1

pression in which you mention

our company for the service

rendered in connection with the

burial of the late Mrs. Mary Char’otte Green.

We take this time to thank

you and if at any time you can

help us we will greatly appreci- ate it.

Kimball Cndertaking Co., Inc.

Rev. R. P. Johnsonfi Mgr. • • • •

Kimball Cndertaking Company Highly Commended

I shou’d have to think long if 1 were asked to name one who

had done more valuable service.

I am deeply indebted to you. Mrs. Gertrude Wright.

• pubilcan candidates for tae nomi nation. Mr. Lynch was nominat- ed by the Edmunds forces fur

j temvorary chairma as a substi- tute for the National Committee •recommendation.

Theodore Rocseve’.t, beginning his national political career and

serving as Chairman of the New York state delegation, took the

platform and urged the election of Mr. Lynch in the following statement:

“I trust that the motion made

by the gentleman from Massa- chusetts (Mr .Lodge) wi 1 be a-

dopted, and that we will select as chairman of this convention that representative Republican, Mr. Joh R. Lynch, of Mississippi. Mr. Chairman, it has been said

by the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Stewart that it is without precedent to reverse Iheac ation of the Na- tional Committee. Who has not known of numerous instances where the action of a state com-

mittee has been reversed by the state convention. Not one of us

, but has known- such instances. Now there are, as I understand

it, but two delegates to this con-

vention who have seats on the ! National Committee; and I hold it to he derogatory to our honor to our capacity for self-govern- ment, to say that we must ac-

cept the nomination of a pre-

siding officer by another body;! and that our hands are tied, and j we dare not reverse its action It is now, Mr. Chairman, less than !

a quarter of a century since, in this city, the great Republican party for the first time organiz- ed for victory, and nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, who broke the fetors of the slaves and rent them asunder forever. It is a fitting thing to do to choose to preside over this convention one of that race

whose right to sit within 1hose wafs is due to the blood and the

treasure so lavishly spent by the founders of the Republican party. And it is but a further vindication of the principles for which the Republican- party so

long has struggled. I trust that he Honorable John R. Lynch

v 1 be elected Temporary Chair- man of this convention.”

Mr. Lynch was elected Tem-

po: ary Chairman over General

Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, by a majority of 40 votes.

He was Auditor of the Treasu-

ry for the Navy Department !

during the administration of

President Benjamin Harrison, which covered the period from

1880 to 1803.

He was appointed Major Pay-

master of the L\ S Volunteers. July 13P8, and served until he was appointed Captaii. and Pay- master in the regular I'nited States army, then promoted to

Major and Paymaster. Septem- ber 11, 1900. lie retired Sint.. 13, 11)11.

Major Lynch was 32 years < 1

age. His body was accompanied from Chicago by his widow. At

Arlington, there gathered a1 large concourse of outstanding' citizens of Wash in ton including Congressman- Arthur W. Mil-

I chcll, of l linois; Judge Arn.ond W. Scott, former Judge James1 A. Cobb, William J. Tompkins, Recorder of Deeds; William L.

Houston of the L\ S. Depart- ment of Justice, William C.'

Hueston of t he Education De-1 partment of the Elks organiza-J tion; Dr. Ila ly B. Taylor of the \ 1th Street Presbyterian-church;! W e s t A. Hamilton, Colonel of ; the 423th Infantry U. S. army

reserves; Major Arthur C. New- man C, Capt. Frank* Coleman, Id. Col. Harry T. Atwood, Capt. Charles II. Fearing, Major II O.

Queen, Capt. L. IL Mehlinger, Capt. William E. MeCrimmon. Profesor Lafayette .VI. Ilershaw of the Terre 1 Law School anil re-

presentatives of James* Reese i

Europe and .Tame.-; K. Walker I

Posts, American I.?«:ien; and aj large number of oth'*;* Washing- ton friends of the Lynch family, including many worn* n friends of Mrs. Lynch. I

The services at Arlington were concluded by I)r. .1. E.

Elliot, Rector of St. Luke’s

Episcopal church, Washington.

KOPPERsVilIIPS NEW SOAl WASHING PLANE j

Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 4th.— i

Hoppers Rhoolaveur Company^ has been awarded a contract for | approximately $100,0()f) by the

Hoppers Coal company to pro- vide the first unit of a coal

washing plant at the company’s new mine at Hoppers to, Wyom- ing county, W. Ya.

he unit consists of a Meir/.iY cone separator. 10 feet in djamet er and capable of washing ap-

proximately 17-» tons of ihrec

by three eighths inch coal an

hour. This initial unit is being design

< d to permit i he ii. dallal ion of additional washing ei|uipmen{ as the mine deveY-ps.

An aerial tramway will he in- | stalled to dispose of refuse fror

[ the washing plant and lov/e ! tipple. I Construction' will be comp'ofed [ in about f.mr months

roll tics is ralMoh ta

Ay Mrs. Chsuncy D. lluierman

1 see by the papers that o: *-

eyed Connelly, the world’s dm'i-

pion gate crash r. \va a

active at this year’s world -er

It is well that he stick t<» hi-

trade for since the comii m' t’n

New Dea1 he is more than !• tv

1 would not he sucet sM'ul at

any other business for 11.» \.

good reasos that the eruh s

bnsiiiesnven must h ive on.* **w

on Washington and on<* <■' ! :

business in order to Ik* ue.

ii 1.

Seriously, me of the graw

indictments th;d *•*s.»!.I b>* lode

ed against the Now Deal is the

: triel control that ile* F< derT

government has assumed over

our e\ery day lives during the*

presort administration. That i

wh:it we call Regimentation It

leads to confusion. It brags a-

bout hesitative, doubt and de-

lays in industry. 1 have before

rae a copy of (section 1)02 of the

S. rh A. Amendments of IDT), which is a two-page promulga- tion of rules. It is so complicat- ed that I doubt very much whe-

ther many business men arc

ab’eto understand it,either with < r without the advice of their

attorney. T h a.t is the rule for today.]

What of tomorrow? Nobody j knows what a politician is most

likely to attempt to hold his

office Nevertheless, if you in-! lend to conduct a business in ; these Now Deal times you must ;

attempt to guess, .especially ifj you are making long range1 plans. Your plans arc* full of IFs and IFs do not. breed confidence

or profits. We must rid our < 1- ! ves of all of these New De.dj rules and reu’atiorvs that stiflle

individual initiative and eiiter-

prise. We canot afford to bind

ourselves against progress.

I \\. \ a. Stab College Debates

Oxford Inivc/sitv’s Tea nil I

.-— I i. mi. iiiii imeresi is winj/ man

fested i:i the debate yesterday] bet wee members of the Kappa Kp i or.- dehat in," Society of t he

West Vir/inia State college and

representatives of Kn/land’r r« nown university, Oxford. Miss

Lore*, i Kemp, of the depart- ment of Ln/lish, faculty ad

visor of tin West Vir/inia /roup,

announced that the subject v.a

"Shall Ana rica Act a- Mediator

n European Affair-V"

The I’t'/li h dehat e d f< ud

in/ tie* allii mative, are Edward

L (]. Heath, an honor studei

of do'iiol colle/c, Oxford, and

Ifon Ilu/h Eraser, secoi 1 -on

of the 1 “iti 1 baron Lovet ot Lon-

don. < f t h arr.e colle/e. The W. Va. team will be sel •(•

ted from William Howard, 12;

Sh( rm. r. Smith. ’-11 ; L; wivnee

lotus. M2 and James Slater, MO.

Mat r is a veteran ..tar d Later

who was out of school la t year. Prof 1) P. Lincoln of the

Department of History will pre- i An Eng ish tea wi.l Ik* serv j

1‘iv.N.i! nt John W. Davis has r vfpte 1 an invitation from'

| iIn* Ii. uorable Cordt 1| Hull,

j Secretary of State i f the I’nit- I i S5a*e.* to participate in aeon-

i

j tore, a* « a ini r-American Re-

|!a.whi h v.as held in Wash- : < November D and 10.

I I’re-idii ! Davis and Prol’os-

j r I. » Ilvans, administrative a i t.lot. will aDo attend the 171h

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j:i:11 ,;al convention cf presiilents j'»! Negro ad-erat colleges, also

I lo me* t i:i Washington, on Nov.

[ I t. i I and l.Y

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J Choir* e orces Chalk I 'p Another Major Victory

Chungking, China, Oct .’U)—

(CNA) Tin* Chiu* so this week chalked up another major win over tile Japanese to put lieside that of Changsha earlier this

month. 'This time the Japanese v. iv driven hack in southeast

|Shansi \ rovince, the rock-ribbed

.North China province which the

Japanese li a v e been unable to

conquer in more than two years of uremitting battle.

The Japanese defeat, in the

billy Changt/.i-l<aopihg lector, stretched through a ten day period.

Following the Japanese defeat

on the Changsha sector of the

Central China front, the Chinese

forces shifted toward the center

of their attacks to the sector I J

west of the Nanchan-g Kiukian'

rai Way in northern Kiangsi province, where they have rout- ed t lie Japs in several engage-

ments and captured ;• number of

important towns. Su successful have been the

recent Chinese offensives that

'orei/n military experts ii. China ire now freely predicting a Jap

d< feat in the war against China. -o-

F. S. Refuses to Protest Ran

On If. S. Negroes in Panama

New York, Oct. 20.- The U.

S. Slate Department has express

cd if u-lf as unwilling to m a k*e

represent at ions at the present time to the Republic of Panama

concerning 1hat country’s re-

fusnal to admit non-Spanish peaking American- Negro citi-

zens, the NAACp announced to

dav it. New York.

The ban is included in the

current laws of Ihe Republic, dec! ion 15 governing imrriigra- t ion.

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Americanism: flettintf all

ho* and bothered over the ruin of Kurope; listlessly watching from be sidelines while craek-

p .* and bo s» ; make a mess of

our own country.—Uobt. Quil’n. -j)-

Texas Once “Phllisabella” Texas onco v/xs called "Philisa-

beli.’,” alter the Spanish sover-

eign?', I hil.p ern Isabella.

cd in the lonpre of Hill Hall on the *

jafternom of the day or the de-

bate.

Phi Beta Sigma Es- say Contest Has

Been Given Start TURKIC KOPPKRS MKN WIN

AKRON TRIPS IN t'ONTKST

Jack Duncan, Long Branch; ( M. Shabduo, Powellton; ami

W. W. Hell, Keystone; have just returned from an all-ex-

pense tip to Akron, Ohio, award- ed them in tin* recent Firestone

contest, Paul R. tJmberger, Vice President of Koppers Stores un-

nounced today. While in Akron, members of

the group -service station mana

Kers were guests of the Fire- stone Tire and Rubber company, and were conducted on several lours ot the ollicos of that com-

pany, visits to the model store and warehouse and through the

rubber manufacturing and re-

treading plants, and research laboratories.

I Special prizes of $5 in cash

wt‘iit to the second-in-command it the winning service stations — R. C. Fitzpatrick, I»ng Hr.; R. H. Smith, Powellton; and, Louis Southworth, Keystone.

The winners were judged ac-

cording to their high ratings In stock keeping, knowledge ef

merchandising and salesvolumc in p.contest that lasted eight weejc/L

‘'Rurning superior perform- ance among twenty-one station

partieiptnas, these department managers are to be commended lor their well-balanced perform- ance, Mr. Umberger concluded.

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Kentucky School C a s c up Soon

Louisville, Oct. 27. — A peti- tioi. filer! in the Muhlenberg Co., Circuit Court by Harbin English and Wi liarn A. Hocker Oct. Id, enjoining the school boards of Central City and Creenville, Ky.,

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from proceeding with a contract1 with tin? county for consolidat- ing the Negro high >chords in these two cities with a high school in Drakeshoro, will come

up for hearing in the January term of court.

W.VA STATE STUDENT WINS SCHOLARSHIP

John F. Cuyjet, W. \ra State

Junior, recently received an a-

ward of one hundred dollars from the Alpha Phi Alpha frat-

ernity for excellence in scholar- ship. An honor student, tapped for admission to the Alpha Delta Sigma Honorary Society, a mem-

ber of the John Dewey Society find one of the campus student leaders, Cuyjet is majoring in trade and technical education. He is a native of Philadelphia and historian of Alpha Zeta chap, of the Phi Alpha fraternity.

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Mr. James L. Armstrong, Director of the Phi Heta Sigma Essay (’ontost, today formally opened the essay contest to be held in conjunction with the

fraternity’s Silver Jubilee con-

clave, December 27-21) at IIow- I ard university in Washington, D. (’.

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Mr. Armstrong stated that re-

ports from * lie regional direct- ors indicated that the contest is

attracting considerable atten-

tion in a'l sectios of the country. Letters contninig the rules and

other information have been sent to all county superinten- dents, high school principals, and senior class presidents thru out tin* states. The director fur- ther said that inquiries are beinb received from all sections of

the country and that he expected a large number of entrants. A

first prize of $75.00 will be award ed the best essay..There will he a

second prize o/ $50.00 and a

third prize of $25.00. Dean Deo A. Parker, Educational Director of th% fraternity announced ten additional prizes of $5 each for the next best ten essays.

This conntest is open to all seniors in approved secondary high schools throughout the

country. A keen- riva'ry between studentr of the north ad south will no doubt develope due to

the various interpret ions of the

subject. Several prominent educators

and labor leaders among the, race

have consented to act as judges of the contest. Heading this .list is I)r. Alin Leroy Locke, prof os

ror of philosophy and Rhodes scho'ar of Howard university; Others are Dr. .John LaveJo

Department of English, Howard

university; Mrs. R. O’ara Lan- ier, Ass.t Director of the divi- sion of Negro afTais, NYA; Dr. Horn Asst on Racial Affairs, and Miss Elsie Austin, Executive

Secretary to the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Colum-

bia, and prizes will be awarded at the Silver Jubilee Conclave of the l*hi Beta Sigma fraternity to bo held at. Howard university /Jeccmber 27-20.

Democracy on the Wane?

The orderly proceses of demo-

cracy have been suspended in both England and Frasce for the duration of the war in that there wont be no elections nor ques- tioning actions of the govern-

ment now in office. What next? -O-

The Executive Board of the Kimball ITA will meet at th** School, Tuesday afternoon i 1:30 o’clock.

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