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AJW mrmlHir J. .1 V' 1 II) as Mil LI i ji in 1 v' clean REFRESHING JP jjj'Q jj SURGED! I picwre of Henrietta dismukes hospital, operating room and dr. dismukes tf15 PMrtfEfl I J. m'U ly. U' 31 JOSEPHINE DAKER Now of FarU, Frtnoe, owner of a lUUtu valued at 13,000,000 Xranca (ilmoit a million dollarj, Amor lean money), with a prlyatu tennla toutl, a garMge for her automoblloa ul a utable for her, iaddle horace, ad who la etui thVjdol of PariM, treated a real aenaatlon when ahe Vroujiht her pet panther, "Chl filU," Into the box ot a Par la tho itir.

The animal bounded from tho toiand created quite a furore be fore being recaptured. Mlee Baker being atarred In a topical sketch ef tie Caalno de.Parla' new "CbJiuiltat appeare with her la the act. PISTOLS USED IN LABOR DISPUTE 1UVKR, Oct. 23 IA.NP) In a clash between white and colorrd road construction work on tho Honey Island highway, at colored man wan ahot and a vhlU man waa arrested. The trouble tarted when a gang of More men irrivtd by trucks from Pontchatoula.

to work. The white men warned turn nut to tako tbe Jobs. Whend refused, tho Ncgroca were fired ipan from the swamp, one bullet Mrlklng a colored driver In, tho arm. irmed Ruards were then placed on Im trucks and the town marshal CWwnce Crawford, arrested U. M.

hrtrr, a whltn man. Time, tld, Kurd drivers and notes the bnnk wait for no man. Hotpita! Named After Hu Mother at Kimball, W. Has 50 Beds, Assistant Surgeon and Fire Graduate Nurses Construction of Most Advanced Design, With Radios In Private Rooms Dr. Dismukes' Career Exciting.

By FLOYD J. CALVIN, Special Feature Writer NEW YORK, Oct 23 Comfortably reclining in room 712 or the palatial Pennsylvania Hotel. Seventh avenue and 34th street, partakincr of French enlalne and reeilvincr French serv ice, Dr. IL Dodf ord Dismukes, of KlmbaU, W. told a Courier reporter or rns new $75,000 hospital recently opened at Kim bail, in the heart of tho famous McDowell county, noted for btlng ruled by Negroei.

Tna hospital, which 1 named tho Henrietta Dlsmuke Hospital for the doctor's mother, has 60 beds, an as latent surgeon. Dr. Joseph Brown, and five graduate nurses. It has all modern conveniences. Includlnar the moat advanced design In conatruc tlon, radio In private rooms, etc.

Mrs. Dismukes, the former Mlas Grace Sanford of Washington, D. for several years cashier of the old Standard Life Insurance Company In waaningion, assists the doctor In the management Dr. Brown is also coroner and health officer of McDowell county. Tho career of.

Dr. Dismukes has been exciting ever alnco his birth at Troy, Ala. He wae educated at the old State' Normal at Montgomery, Selma University at. Selma, and at Howard. He took M.

D. from Howard In' '21, and finished his In terne work Hospital, ur, iJismuKes' euucation was gotten by piecemeal. Me secured a run In tne railway man service when a youth from Montgomery to Selma, a distance of about 40 miles, which tabled friarr to leave Montgomery at a. m. and arrive at fielma at 9.

He attended school all day, and left Sol ma at 0 on the return trip. When Dr. Dismukes went to Howard he was In his Junior college year. He was appointed tutor of English In the college department under Prof. David Houston In his senior college year.

While studying medicine he worked an a night watchman, yet finished the course with the highest honors, winning every prlzo offered during tho four years. He was ap pointed assistant surgeon to Dr. Wll lard M. Lane on tho surgical staff at Frcedman'a after his Interneahlp. In 1624 Dr.

Dismukes resigned from the surgical staff at Frecdman's to go to Kimball and tako over the Harris Memorial Hospital. Ho has resided at Kimball since, specialising In surgery, doing from one to four major operations a day, covering tho whole field of surgery. has worked for many Industrial corporations, doing the principal surgery for as many as 20 coal mines In McDowell county His practice haa Included as many us seven different nationalities. A Turk Is In his hospital now, and Just before coming to New York he am putated a white woman's In August Dr. Dismukes was sent to Pittsburgh by Edward OToole, general manager of the United Statea Coal Company, to confer with Dr.

William O'Neill Sherman, one of the world's leading surgeons, and was shown courtesies In the Weat Penn Hospital and St. Francis Hospital, two of the leading hospitals In Pittsburgh, by Dr. Wagner and Dr. Fos ter, Dr. Sherman's aids.

Dr. Dis mukes also has recently confened with Dr. Joaeph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. another world renowned surgeon and a "member of the famoua Colt family, manufacturers ot Colt firearms, and Dr. Max Kahn, premier radiologist at Johns Hopkins, concerning tbe am putation of limbs of patients seen together.

Dismukes was In New fork on a business and professional trip. While in the city he cruised in Long Island Sound last Tuesday and on Wednesday came to Harlem, where he saw his ota ftundr Drt Jose N. Cesteros, 1943 Seventh avenue, de voted exclusively to Spanish practice, and Roscoe Conklln Bruce, resident manager of Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, project financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dr.

Dismukes IS a member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, and of the Chi Delta Mu. He is secretary of Lambda, the graduate chapter of the Chi Delta. Dr. Dismukes was formerly president of the Flat Top Medical Society of West Virginia, la a member of the Medico Chiurglcal Society ot Washington, D. and Is a member of tho National Medical Association.

The doctor enjoyed seeing Bill Robinson in "Brown Buddies' on Broadway before he reserved a drawing room and started back to Kimball. Tho New York trip climaxed his vacation for tho year. He spent several days at Buckroe Beach, with Mis. Dismukes In September. "Yoj know 'haste makes "It reduced my waist:" DR.

DISMUKES AND HIS HOSPITAL STAFF and the taff which rum the hospital. 1 0 FAMILIES AS MOB Three Confens Alle ed Slaying Of Two White Men Troop ers Arrive to rrevent Further Trouble. STE. GENEVIEVE. Oct 2 SWITCH; KILLED MARSHALL, Oct.

(ANP) Two unidentified colored boys, about 18 ears old, were killed while sitting on thi track hy a northbound Texas fc Pacific passenger train about two miles weat ot Sulphur Riv er bridge. The men were evidently asleep when Engineer Briruon sound ed his whistle, as neither one moved before the engine struck themj MEMPHIS, Tenn Oct. 2S (ANP) Two men were arrested here charged with murder over the week end and efforts will be made to ex act the supreme penalty when the trials are held here next month. Louie Rico, age 28. shot and killed his landlady, Mrs.

Blanche Cot ran. when ebe urged hint to pay at least a part of his back rent. According to the etory of tbe defendant he did not owe the amount designated and was unsble to pay tbe amount dus. When the landlady "got nasty" about it. he shot her and killed the woman.

The second arreat for murder oc curred when Griffith Suggs wse taken into custody charged with kill Ing his uncle, Luke Sugs, a CO ysar old man. Saturday night. Young Suggs claimed that hie uncle walked into the back yard without giving the customary warning and then made a noise returning which led blm to believe that he was a burglar and he shot him. STOCKHOLDERS GET NEWSPAPER DIVIDEND NEW YORK. Oct 2J (CNS) The board of directors of tbe E.

A. Warren Davis Publishing Co, Inc. publishers ot the New York Amster dam News, have declared a quarterly dividend of 7 per cent per annum on the per cent preferred stock of tbe company, payable Oct. 1, IBM, to stockholders ot record at tbe close of business Sept. 80, 1930.

7ir iin i I V. i. II 7 v. rf The Henrietta Dismukes Hospital, built at a cost of $75,000 by Dr. H.

DUmukei of McDowell County, W. and the Nurses Home. More t.jan one hundred cltlttna, practically the whole colored population, had left town following the alleged coufesslon ot three men and a woman, to the murder of Harry Panchot and wounding of Paul A. Rltter, both white. I The only two Negro families left Ipere were guarded by militiamen, called out by Gov.

CaulAeld at the request of Sheriff Zlegler to prevent mob action. The three prisoners were taken secretly to the HUlsboro Jail, thirty miles away, after they had con fessed killing Panchot, a limekiln laborer, and shooting Rltter and throwing him Into the Mississippi in the course or the haudup. The accused bandits, J. B. Lee and Guy Taylor, and their woman companion, Vera Rogers, are suppoaed to have confessed that they killed Harry Panchot.

white limekiln laborer, and wounded his companion, Paul Rltter, stationary engineer. Authorltlea first took them to Jail In 8te. Genevieve. A mob there threatened to tear down the Jail. The pal oners were next spirited to HUla boro, where another mob formed.

The Governor then ordered out the troops and the three were hurried to St. Louis. After they had been smuggled out of town and after the national guardsmen arrived under orders from Governor Henry 8. Caufleld, Chief ot Police John Harter announced that he believed there would be no trouble. Panchot, a service car driver, was engaged by the trio to take them to Little Rock Landing, and Rltter went along for the tide.

On reach ing the landing tho men paid Pan chot. Rltter said, and then etarted ahootlng. They took and a watch from Rltter and email amount of money from Panchot's pocketa. Panchot was killed by a bullet through the heart, and Rltter was shot through the abdomen by a bullet which entered his spine, paralysing me legs. A watchman on a boat heard his cries and rescued Rltter while the culprits fled.

The watchman also recovered Panchot'e body from shallow water. Rltter Is in a St. Louis Hospital In a critical condition. FALLS ASLEEP AT HOLD 2 FOR W1EIPH1S MURDERS Operating Room of the Henrietta Dismukes Hospital. h.esr i Dr.

Dismukes at work la fclj. office at tho hospital 1 1 1.

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