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THE DAN BURY REPORTER
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1932
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Publl-IH-.l Weekly at Datibury. X. C'., by Pep|»er Bron., Pubs.
WHO KILLED SMITH REYNOLDS?
.
Up and down the dim aisles of thr deserted |
mansion, echo answers "Who?" "Who?"
Meantime, within the curtained seclusion of a 1
Pullman car, the beautiful woman around whose
head notoriety has buzzed so loudly for awhile, j
speeds toward the haven of her father's home
in Cincinnati.
And the victim rests quietly in Salem ceme
tery.
But the public's wonder is not satisfied, norj
its consuming curiosity appeased, and law and |
."justice, feeling- themselves grieved, outwitted,
nonplussed, mystified, have not perceptibly ad
vanced from where they stood when the investi
gations began.
Not for a long, long time have Winston-Salem
and North Carolina been so profoundly stirred,
while the horror and mystery of this thing has
spread far and wide, and engaged the attention
of the nation. Such is the consequence whenj
wealth and prominence are involved in scandal
or crime.
No attempt can be made here to review in de
tail the facts and circumstances hinging on this
affair, or to magnify the glimpse which high life
has shown us, of its ways—its devious ways; of
the remarkable actions which preceded and fol
lowed the catastrophe, when the midnight was
given over to debauch and revelry; when sparse
ly clad men and half nude women, too drunk
to give intelligible accounts of themselves orj
the acts of others, were put to bed in their stu- i
pors; when bacchantes accepted the embraces
of other men's wives; when women's
men's clothing was discarded in men's rooms, and
left there forgotten ;of the smothered shot, and
the woman's cry; of bloody splotches on door
posts and gore-stained towels, and nobody know
ing "how come;" and when the star actress in the
wild drama suffered a convenient lapse of mem
ory and consciousness, which alone drew a veil
over the pitiful and harrowing details of the
death chamber.
Thus the upper strata of society, when prompt
ed by the Sheriff, can illuminate us, if not edify.
Modesty may hide its mantled face, and the
churcn may look the other way; for money
covereth a multitude of sins. And the public, ever
thirsty for scandal, gloats over the voluptuous
details, and cries for more revelations.
Some Theories.
Crime must always have motive. And so
everyone wondered why this wealthy and hap
py boy should destroy himself. His life was so
full of something to live for, his plans for the
future so clearly defined, his outlook so promis
ing and certain, his interests so enthusiastically
engaged. The strongest support of the suicide
theory is _ nished by the person on whom suspi
cion rests most heavily—the wife of the dead
man, who testifies between her sobs that her hus
band was impotent. In the same breath she im
parts to the court the secret of her pregnacy, and
promises in due time another heir to Smith's
millions.
Did Libby fire the fatal shot, and why ? Was
she infatuated with Walker and desirous of re
moving this impediment to their loves? Suspic
ion that Libby killed Smith is materially lessen
ed if we believe that Smith did not object to her
affair with Walker, that Smith even encouraged
his wife to seek marital happiness with another
man.
Was there a clandestine meeting of Walker
and Mrs. Reynolds in which they were surprised
by the sudden appearance of "my lord," with a
gun in his hand? Then a scene, a struggle, a
shot. Frenzied efforts to hide the blood, ar
rangement of the revolver on the floor, the towel
snlotches of blood on the door, and
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Reynolds en dishabille, while Smith was fully
dressed?
There are many conflicting and criss-cross
currents of thought, circumstance, opinion, testi
mony and theory— a Sherlock Holmes here
.would find a subject fit for his best effort to un
ravel.
In the Meantime.
Who will get the money. Who will inherit the
vast fortune left by this unfortunate, untimely
death of one of America's rich men.
Is there a Cannon heir, and is there a Libby
heir enroute? It is said that the dead man had
made a settlement with his first wife and her
issue, estopping them from additional claims
upon his estate. But how can an infant child be
cheated of his rights, being incapable of making
a contract or of entering into a lawful and bind
ing agreement?
Will Concord and Cincinnati have equal claims
on this vast estate, when two children become
of age?
TO HIM THAT HATH IT IS GIVEN.
The fact that the Reconstruction Corporation
made the Pennsylvania Railroad a very liberal
loan of many million dollars, while the President
of that system receives more than 8150,000 a
year salary, does not sound pleasing to the ears
of the millions of men and women out of a job
and starving in the United States.
Quite a number of other railway executives—
heads of ramshackle, toppling systems, reeling
toward receiverships, are paid yearly wages in
excess of SIOO,OOO, and among- these are, of
course, numbered favored borrowers from
President Hoover's "relief fund."
The greatest single agency ever formed in the
United States for public relief is this 2-billion
dollar "reconstructon corporation." If we con
sider its value toward stopping the depression, it
is also America's major financial farce.
The lion's share of this money quickly found
its way into the great New York banks whose
master executives were expecting it, had plan
ned for it, and who did not err on their aim to
capture it. The act that created it was evidently
inspired by these wizards of high "feenance,"
who keep their weather eyes open for their own
interests rather than the public's. Very little
of the huge fund drifted South to aid sick agri
culture or to give employment to the unemploy
ed by opening up the silent factories. None is to
be had—certainly not—by the farmer, whose
land has been sold for taxes, and none is avail
able for the small business man who owns no
stocks or bonds to put up as "approved" collat
eral, having nothing but his name or his charac
ter left.
The bankrupt railway companies who owed
the New York banks past due notes were afford
ed convenient opportunity to shift their obliga
tions onto the broad shoulders of Uncle Sam,
who does not object to high salaries.
TO RESTORE THE FARMERS' BUYING
POWER.
No place anywhere would be more greatly and
quickly benefited by the restoration of the!
farmer's buying power, than the city of Winston-
Salem.
Fifteen counties, with their teeming agricul
tural populations, look to Winston-Salem
for a market for their products, and will buy
their supplies where their crops are sold.
One of President Roosevelt's first acts when
he takes the obligation of office should be, and
will be, the relief of agriculture and the rehabili
tation of the farmer. The first step would be to
call the best minds of European governments to
a council with us to agree on a sensible and equit
able trade arrangement, whereby all could buy
and sell each other to their mutual profit.
When the Smoot-Hawley-Hoover-Mellon greed
estranged the governments of the world, and
caused them separately to set up tariff walls to
keep each other's trade out, we were branded as
commercial sharks and outlaws.
Nothing now is keeping back prosperity and
nurturing the growth of distrust and destruc
tion, except the failure of the Washington ad
ministration to take the lead in undoing what
it so greedily and unwisely did when it offended
O CAMEL, WE SALUTE THEE.
A late fad is to make the cellophane belt. Have
you seen one ?
It is an example of rare craftmanship fashion
ed from the folds of cellophane wraps around
Camel cigarettes. It is slightly opaque, looks like
a string of pearls, compact as a steel cable, and
graceful as a rainbow; sometimes it reflects the
prismatic colors when the sun shines on it as
lant. It is an ornament fit to clasp the waistline
of a princess, so exquisitely woven together are
the links, yet it is charming in its simplicity.
But not for its intrinsic beauty alone is the
Camel belt so interesting: it is a thought, an
expression, an emblem—an emblem of that end
less Camel girth which reaches from a great
North Carolina city around the world; which
spans continents, vast oceans and lordly moun
tains; a belly-band enwrapping the huge avor
dupois of the globe.
But the Camel that wears the girth—it feeds
from the sun-kissed acres on a hundred thous
and farms in North Carolina, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and other States, and converts
its forage into milk and honey for the susten
ance of uncounted thousands of tillers of the
soil, and busy wage earners.
This Camel is almost übiquitous. It races up
and down the streets of every city and town in
America and Europe. It sniffs the breezes of the
Pacific slope, and chews its cud under the glam
orous moons of the Hawaiian group; it browses
the mosses on the steppes of Asia, and leaves the
imprint of its hoofbeats on the pampas of the
•desert; it finds pasture among the dim isles of
uncharted seas in forgotten lands—but where
ever Camel wanders, when milking time arrives,
it's Home for Camel.
FEATHERING THEIR NESTS.
Take care of the big corporations who contrib
ute liberally to the Republican campaign
funds. Let the little man, the farmer, the
home owner, the small business man, go to the
"demnition-bow-wows."
Is not this really the policy of President Hoov
er's 2-billion dollar "reconstruction corporation?"
Did not President Hoover secure the passage of
this act at the instance of the money lords of New
York and Chicago, that they might exploit the
people's money to their own advantage?
In another article we are showing where the
corporation is making loans to busted railway
companies, some of whose presidents are receiv
ing as high as $150,000 per year salary.
Now comes the news of how Mr. Chas. G.
Dawes, the great head of the "reconstruction"
fund, has resigned, but only after he had feath
ered his own nest. The Senate committee learns
that a loan of $80,000,000 was made by the corp
oration to the Central Republic Bank & Trust
Co., of Chicago, while Mr. Dawes was head of the
great fund, and that now Mr. Dawes is President
of the Central Republic Bank & Trust Co.
While Mr. is smoking his international
ly famous pipe, let the people put his clever Cen
tral Bank & Trust Co. "coup" in their pipes and
smoke it.
Cinnamon Toast Is Tea-Time Treat
CTTHEN a friend or two drops In
¥T unannounced and Informally
at tea time, do not be alarmed 11
the cookie Jar is empty and the
cake box vacant. Cinnamon toast
is one of the most delicious ac
companiments' to the hospitable
afternoon cap of tea and tbe ma
terials for It are always in the
kitchen. Sugar, too. Is a highly
efficient quick energy food and the
sweet browned coating will supply
fresh vigor for the rest of the day's
work.
T? are at home, cin
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1932
By Jane Rogers
namon toast with a glass of milk.
will make a wholesome and l
nourishing afternoon snack, and
they'll love it.
This is the way I have always
made it Cut and tcast slices o£
bread. Spread them with butter
and sprinkle generously with a mix
ture of cinnamon and sugar—two
tablespoons of cinnamon to the cup
of sugar. Place the slices in the
oven close to the flame. When th»
sugar has melted and bubbles
slightly, remove the toast from tha;
oven and cut off the cruste. t