( APRIL 30, 1942
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SYNOPSIS: Peggy Horton, +.
working off her temper knocking i.
balls about the golf course, sha" ji
ters the windshield of a parked |:
automobile. Harry Wilson, the i
> owner, insists that she tell him |1
what is wrong. She explains that j:
she has written her school roommate
that she is engaged. Now
the room-mate is coming to visit I
her. Really Peggy is kept in such
strict seclusion by her grandmother
that she never meets any boys <
? and isn't engaged. Her sister,
Maxine Trueheart, is a successful 1
screen star. The young man insists
that Feggy borrow the ring i
his fiance has just returned and I
a pretend it is nor engagement 1
3^ ring. On her way home she meets
an attractive young man who in- i
quires the way to Rosewood.
i CHAPTER VI
j Nancy stood still a moment think !:
ing.
Oh. ail right," she said finally.
"Only 1 still don'' approve of hav- ;
ing that detective come. I just ,'
know he is .going to get us all in a
I lot. of trouble. How did he happen ;
to be here and know about you'.1" 1
she asked, turning to Maxine. ' I
"He works at the studio in Holly- 1
1 wood and he is driving to New ;
York. While he was in Chicago he j1
talked to the West Coast studios and
they told him that I was stopping
here for a little visit before 1 went
on east, so he came down here just
to make sure that there had been no i
' change in my plans. i
"He didn't think 1 would arrive
until tomorrow, but tonight he |
heard someone in the hotel say ho j i
had seen me today, so he called :
right away. He wanted to see me ' 1
anyway, so when Peggy suggested *:
I having him come out to look for the i1
ring, he said all right- And he is i i
coming out in the morning. I think i:
maybe 1 had better explain it to j
n Gran, so you all can be a few min-jl
utes late for breakfast. 1 think it |
would be best for Gran to ask mel:
most of her questions. Peggy would !)
probably got all mixed up."
Maxine had already made her ex- ;
planations the next morning when :
the two girls readied the dining
room. Mrs. Hoi ton looked up at
them as they entered.
"My dear," she said, addressing i <
Nancy, "1 feel so badly to hear that I;
your engagement ring has been mis- j.
placed while on a visit to us. 1
do trust that this young man?New- '
ton did you say his name was, Maxinc??will
be able to find it quickly 1
foe you. Maxme assures me he is I
among the best iri his line in Calx- i
fornia. Have you thought back :
carefully over your actions since J
you last saw your ring, Nancy?"
"Oh, yes, Mrs. Horton, quite care- 1
fully." 1
"You do seem to take the matter :
very sensibly, i am sure. Peggy I
looks more as if she had not slept
than you do." I
I It was true that Peggy had not i
I, slept well. She had been out of bed I
several times to look again among
MP the clothing she had worn to the I
irain. Could it be possible that she >
had dropped it on the old wooden I
platform of the station when she i
went to put it into her bag? Or had (
it just dropped in plain sight of any- ;
one who might come along and pick i
it up? But she remembered so well 1
putting it into the bag and closing I
it. What on earth was she going t
to say to Harry next Wednesday if 1
she had not found it by then? So t
her mind raced throughout the :
night. No wonder Gran thought she s
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juvuuu ?o n one; nciu nui blfpi.
"Of course I am worried. Gran. To <
have Nancy lose such a gorgeous i
ring here!"
Her grandmother smiled at her. <
"But, my dear, rings cannot run I
away. And we know that there is i
no one here who would have taken
it, so that leaves it simply misplaced, s
I feel sure that Mr. Newton will be . I
able to suggest the place where it ''
must be. Oh, that must be he. I 1
hear an automobile. We will go into i
the front parlor and see him there." 1
Maxine followed William to the | <
front door while Mrs. Horton and i
the two girls crossed the hall and !
- entered the front parlor. Peggy was s
surprised that her grandmother had
> chosen this place to receive a detec- t
tive. It was here that Gran usually
greeted her more important guests.
The old lady settled herself in a a
high backed chair with her back to i
the window, her tiny feet placed 1
daintily side by side on an ottoman, :
the covering of which had been :
woven by her mother-in-law. When
Mrs. Horton sat in that big chair <
with her feet on the ottoman she i
was like some little powerful judge
who passed sentence on those who >
were brought before him. Peggy '
understood that now. Her grand- 1
mother was going to judge this Mr. i
Newton whom Maxine was recom- 1
mending. Peggy had not thought of
judging a detective, except by his
v speed in taking over the job and |
finding the ring.
^ She smiled to herself as she :
f thought of some big Irishman? 1
weren't all detectives Irish, or did
that only apply to city cops??com- 1
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ing into this room of her ancestors
and being judged hy Gran. She remembered
a detective she had seen
in one. of Maxine's pictures. He was
a large fat man who wore a derby
hat on the back of his head, and who
seemed always to have a long cigar
stuck in the corner of his mouth.
Suppose that was the man she could
hear Maxine talking to now in the
nail. Could Maxine really know
someone like that? If a fat man with
i derby on the back of his head and
a cigar in the corner of his mouth
holered this rooin he might just as
tveil give up all thought of his helping
her lint! the ring. Gran would
got rici of him without giving him a
chance, she was sure.
"Oh, 1 hope he won't be too bad,"
she prayed fervently as she heard
footsteps crossing the hall. She shut
u:r eyes, waiting to hear how Gran
greeted him before she looked to
ee what he was like.
"Gran," Maxine was saying, "th is
Stanley Newton, .at friend of mine
from California. My grandmother.
iiirs. nonori, oiamey.
' J am delighted to meet you, Mr.
Newton,-' Gran sounded as if she
really meant it, and the muscles
around Peggy's tightly closed eyes
began to relax.
"I can t tell you?" Peggy didn't
tear any more. Her eyes were open
new. Wide open. She knew that
ecice. He wasn't fat, he wasn't
wearing a derby, and he did not
have a cigar in his mouth. Mr.
Newton was the man from California.
So that was what a real detective
was like.
"And my sister, Miss Margaret
tlorton," Maxinc was saying, after
die had introduced him to Nancy.
Peggy had been standing in the
shadows of the room and lie oviiently
had not seen her until Maxinc
spoke. Recognizing Her now he
started eagerly forward.
"How do you do?" was her chilly
,'reeling.
He stopped abruptly. "How do
sou do?" he answered with no inflection.
"Is the man crazy?" Peggy
thought. "Imagine Gran's expression
if I had rushed foiward and
sve had shaken hands. Nice explanation.
We had talked twice withDUt
either of us knowing who the
jthcr one was. Yes, that would h we
aone over big. I can see where he
and Gran will not get along at all."
But on the contrary he and Gran
seemed to be getting along famously.
She had been watching Mr.
Newton closely, and now smiled at
him?-one of Gran's nicest smiles?
and he smiled back, and Peggy felt
jure it was one of his very best,
llso.
"You won't think 111c presumplous.
will you, Mr. Newton," Gran
began, "if I ask you which you conlider
the greatest?Sherlock Holmes,
hilo Vance or Hercule Poirot?"
Mr. Newton drew liis chair a lit;le
closer to the high backed one
hat held his hostess and leaned
'orward with enthusiasm.
"Presumptuous? I should say not,
jut you see that is something I
vould much rather discuss with you
han just answer right off. As T see
t Sherlock Holmes had?" But Peg>y
lost track of the conversation as
she turned a puzzled face to Maxne.
who shrugged her shoulders and
ooked blank. What on earth were
hey talking about? Of course she
tad heard of Sherlock Holmes, but
.chat had he to tlo with these other
wo men? And what did Gran know
iboul detectives? Peggy felt sure
die had never seen one before.
"Well, putting it another way."
3ran began again, "which detective
nethod do you use?"
"To tell you the truth, I rather
;ontbine a little of each of them and
rom that make my own method. I
ind I get the best results that way."
Mrs. Horton nodded slowly. "Yes,"
;he agreed. "1 see how that might
ic done. Now in this case, of course,
ill you have to go on is that Miss
Sawyer arrived here with the ring
n her possession and last night
vhen she went to put it on it had
lisappeared."
"The servants?" the detective be?an
quickly, but Gran raised her
mall hand peremptorily.
"To doubt the servants, Mr. Newon,
is out of the question."
"So that is that,' he agreed.
"You are quite sure you had the
ing with you?" he continued, tuning
to Nancy. Peggy was feeling
/ery uncomfortable both for herself
ind for Nancy, but the latter merely
shrugged her shoulders.
"Of course I had it. And now no
ine can find it," she replied indif'erently.
He looked at her in silence for a
noment. "You make it sound like
Thimble, thimble, who's got the
himble'." he told her. "Now I shall
jse my own method," he explained
,o Mrs. Horton. "Miss Sawyer lost
her ring, but the first person I
should tike to question is Miss Margaret."
"Just as you think best," Gran
igreed, rising quickly, turning to
Waxine and Nancy. "Come, girls.
We shall wait on the back terrace
tor your next move."
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER
VMONDS ;
WBRIDGE"""?
"Can't we go outside some place j
tn talk?" he asked Peggy when the!
others had disappeared down the i
1 hall. She glanced through the par- j
lor windows at the rose garden. i
"We might go out there " she sug- |
j gested.
Leaving the house quietly they j
went down the front steps and turn- |
ing the eorrior of the house entered
| the rose garden.
"Whew!" he breathed ui relief.
] taking his cigarette case from his
i pocket and olfering it to Peggy, who
shook her head. "May I?" he asked. !
When she nodded her assent, he
stopped for a moment to light his
cigarette while she continued up the
walk toward the summer house.
"Your friend Nancy is a helpful iit't;<
soul, isn't she?" he asked, .join-I
ing her.
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vv rvurv : it v ;>u WISIU.U lO iX'S'A. i
I A)SV" Peggy asked him without re -J
: plying to his question about Nancy. ;p
He Inughed. "To tell you the i
.ruth I don't know. 1 only knew 1
wanted to talk to you and that j
jseemed the best way to do it. Things 1 r
1 have come so fast and furiously cl
i that 1 air, befuddle;!. Last night j v.
win n Maxuie said her sister had j p
lost net ring and for trie to come out Jst
I and help find it, it seemed all right, i Ci
Of course, I didn't know then that jg:
her sister was you. And I didn't i
know that you were engaged. And j U
now to be perfectly honest I don't , n
give a hoot about finding your en- \\
gagement iing. Couldn't we just g,
j forget that and talk about ourselves m
' for a while?" ir
-'Certainly not," Peggy said indig- ic
I nantly, stepping into the summer Ir
i house. "1 shall answer any questions ir
you care to ask about the ring, but
I that is ail." c;
"I suppose you're right," he sigh- a
j t.d, seating himself beside her. "Take vi
one thing at a time. Well, let's hur- ci
ry and get it over. Now let's see, a w
I ring is lost. By the way, what kind lc
i of a ring is it'."'
"An engagement ring." cl
"Yes, so 1 have been told, but you ir
needn't rub it in. What's all this big w
idea any v. ay about so much secrecy? w
If it's your engagement ring why ti
pretend to your grandmother that tl
j it's Miss Nancy's?" pi
"We can go into all that some
'.other lime." Peggv told him coldly, ai
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(Continued Next Week) w
CUT IS ORDERED IN w
AMOUNT OF COFFEE USED si
c)
Washington, April 27.?The war :i
production board today ordered a 2b ei
per conl cut in the consumption of ft
coffee, because of 'uncertainties m
about future supplies."
The cut was brought about by an is
order reducing the amount of coffee ei
. which may be delivered by roasters oi
and accepted by the wholesalers in pi
any month to 75 per cent of deliveries
in the corresponding period of tt
1941. It
The government will not attempt ni
to ration coffee at the consumer to
level. WPB said, but the wholesalers a;
are "expected to pass the cut along ti
to their customers as equitably as e\
possible."
"This action was taken to con- R
serve supplies now on hand for the
army, navy and civilian population
and to make future supplies go as
far as possible," the board's an- ai
nouncement said. G
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DON'T FEED THE BEAR bi
M
Raleigh. April 28.?There are few
people who haven't received a ticket ir
for speeding or passing on a hill or ],
similar traffic violations, but you k:
can get a ticket for feeding the w
bears on North Carolina state high- w
ways. It,
Why not feed the bears? The main
reason is they are wild and are just tl
a little too playful at times. Of ft
course, there are other unusual reg- u
ulations. such as not picking wild r
flowers, throwing stones at trees, not g,
taking your pet cat with you, or cj
dumping all trash into garbage cans.
Ready for Jerry ft
^ ^ ^ ^
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Armored cars, equipped with anti- a
aircraft machine guns, halt at side tl
of road somewhere in England dur- p
log maneuvers that keep the garrison
army on its toes. These cars
are used for advance reconnaissance
work. They are not as ma- o
ocuver- le as the O. S. Jeep car. j p
Y THURSDAY?BOONE, N. 0.
Bricklayer No. 1
Winston Churchill at his favorite
pastime?next to prime ministering?laying
bricks. During a visit
to an anti-aircraft battery, Churchill
saw some soldiers busy bunding
la brick wall. He took a hand. Premier
Churchill holds j bricklayer's
union card. '
BKiDsSfr oiTTi-riiEs Y'&EMS I
TO COMBAT INFLATION!
Washington. April ?7.--w s'ldenl
oosev-lt outlined to -rottgrcs to-1
ay a broad anti- inflation prdgrant I
hich v/ouJc) tix general price eel! j
igs, Irecfte most wages "at existing >
ales" and syphon into goyeriunont'
iffers ali individual incomes aver
25,000 a year.
These steps, with taxes that would
ip up all corporation profits not
ecessary to continued production,
ith a reduction in the present leil
maximum prices for farm pioucts,
with increased war botid buyig
and debt paying, and with ratming
of scarce essentials, would,
e predicted, avert the cost of liv-1
ig hardships of the lust World War
"We cannot fight Ibis war, we I
innot exert our maximum effort on
spend-as-usual basis," Mr. Rouse- j
sit said in a special message to
ingress. "We cannot have all we
ant, if our soldiers and saiiors are
i have all they need."
By implication he opposed any
lange in the wage-hour law. assertig
lliat most defense worses weie
aw working more than 40 hours a
cok, and that they should he paid
ino and a half for overtime, lest
icre be a reduction in their weekly
ay envelopes.
in addition to slashing higher salries
down to $25,000 by taxation, he
iresaw a process of stabilizing
ages through protests to and decions
by the war labor board, which
ould "continue to give due conderation
to inequalities and the
iminaticn of sub-standards of livig."
Existing contracts between
uployers and employees should, he
lid, be fully honored "in ali fuir2SS."
'i'He oltice ol price administration
expected to announce soon a gen al
price order, freezing prices as
! some time in the recent past,
obably March.
Except for taxes and for deducing
le limit on agricultural prices, Mr.
oosevelt said in his message that
i new legislation would be needed
i make the program possible. He
>ked for quick congressional aeon
on taxes and farm prices, how,'er.
EDS CLAIM BAG OF 1.500
NAZI PLANES IN 6 WEEKS
London, April 20.?Soviet pilots
id ground batteries destroyed 1,500
erman planes in the six weeks I
iding April 14, to amass one of the
iggest scores of the air war, the
[oscow radio announced tonight.
The reported bag was remarkable
i itself but all the more so because
000 of the Nazi craft were declared
nocked out during March alone,
hen blizzards caused some of the
orst flying weather encountered
y Red airmen.
Aerial warfare has exploded in
le far north with the Soviet air
>rce smashing heavy Nazi assaults
pon the Red northern fleet, the
ussians announced. In one enagement
15 German craft were delared
downed without a Soviet loss.
The biggest news from the eastern
ont was the report that the Rus
:aix rtimj' UL lite CCIUC1 ildU uwwu
s big guns up to within range of
molensk, center of German miliiry
power, about 230 miles west of
ioscow, while northern Russian
>rces were violently assaulting the
lain German and Finnish lines
oout Leningrad.
JAP DESTROYER DESTROYED
Washington, April 21.?The navy
might recorded another heroic exloit
by Lieut. John Bulkeley, the
torpedo boat terror," while the war
epartment reported the sombre tidlgs
that only 107 of an estimated
,000 American national guardsmen
r>t away from bloody Bataan.
Bulkeley, scourge of Japanese
lariners and the man who piloted
re torpedo boat which brought Gen.
touglas MacArthur safely out of
uzon, was revealed to have bagged
Jap cruiser in recent action near
ie southern Philippine island of
ebu.
The more grain included in the
aw's ration, the more milk the cow
roduces.
_ ??Mabel
News
Union Baptist Sund'-C" school is
progressing nicely under the management
of Superintendent Barney
o'livcr. '
The Mabel school closed on April:
;!5, Herman H. Henfner. who has'
been the principal fo r four years
with It is teaching force, has given an
excellent service. Mr. Heafner is a j
great principal; he kept the very,
best of order, looked after the wel- j
fare of the children, and made won- ;
deritt) improvements on lite reports j
of the children. Ho is considered as
being a great disclipinarian and goes
from us to his home in Lincoln ton
where ite will be inducted into the
IT. S. armed forces soon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Greer is seriously i
ill at her home here.
Dewey Thomas, son of Mr. .and
Mrs. Alfred Thomas, who is somewhere
in Ireland, with' the armed
forces of the United States, was
heard from recently.
V/illis South, who is with the
army in lite Hawaiian Islands, has 1
written to his grandfather, Mr.
John Olive r. His friends here will
be glad to know that he is well.
itf-v I .?UJolL,.-. HJECiHUllTNG
UNIT FOR STATE CA NCELLED j
Raleigh* April 2fi.?A projected j
month-long navy recruiting cruising
trailer trip through North*Carolina
scheduled for May has been cancelled,
it was announced today by
Lieut. C. B. Neely, office: in charge
of navy recruiting for North Carolina,
due te the urgent need for the
cruiser in northwestern United
Stales. i
All arrangements mode with mayors,
postmasters, tuperinterulpnls of i
schools and chiefs of police in the:
towns to be visited have also been
cancelled. The trip was to have
started May 4, ended June 2. with
three stops a day in practically every
leading town in the state which
does not have a navy recruiting station.
The rubber from four pairs of
men's overshoes would make a single
pair of army galoshes, 60 eon|
tamers fov 75-mm shells can be
made fre.m a pile of 100 old newspapers,
and one pound of brass pipe
contains enough metal to make 13
.30 calibre catridges.
The last states admitted to the
Union wore Arizona and New Mexico.
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PAGE SEVEN
LEGAL NOTICES"
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
North Carolina. Watauga County.
By virtue of a power of sak contained
in a deed of trust executed
by M. A. Main and wife. Bessie
Main to W. H. Graybeal. trustee for
J. N. Star.sberry and Hair. Gray beal.
which deed of trust is dated
November 25. 1940, and recorded in
the office of the register of deeds
of Watauga county in Book 36. page
106; default having been made in
the payment of the balance due on
the principal and interest of the said
deed of trust, and at the instance and
request of the said J. N. Stansbcrry
and Ham Graybeal, I W. H Graybe.-c,
trustee, will sell to the highest
bidder for cash at the courthouse
door in Boone. North Carolina, at 1
o'clock p. m., on Saturday. May 23
1042. the following described real
estate situate in Watauga county.
Beginning on a bitter birch, thence
with Dossie Main line to top of the
ridge to a cucumber; then with top
of the ridge. Dossie Main line to a
chestnut. Bud Johnson's comer:
then dc wn the hollow, and then up
to the tap of the ridge to an oak,
John Potter's corner; thence ith
fetter's iine to a stake. M A. Me n
corner thence with Boyd Main's
1 in. back to the beginning, containing
75 acres, more or less
Tins the 2Is< dav of April. J0l2.
W. H. GRAYBEAL
4-30-4).i Trustee.
COUNTY SCHOOLS TO BUY NF.XT
vtiD'c
Tile County Board of Education
I will receive bids ori coal furnished
[for tiie county schools Cor the 194243
school term on May 4, 19-12. Ail
bids must be presented by 11 3. m.
Bids will be received for delivering
coal into the school bins as follows:
30 tons of Stoker
311 tons of Run of Mine
105 Ions of Egg
Anyone wishing to present bids
[may receive the forms by applying
at the counly superintendent's office.
W. H. WALKER,
County Superintendent.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
Having qualified as the admnnistrators
of the estate of George W.
Caudill. late of the county of Watauga,
this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
tlio saiil deceased lo present them
to us for payment within twelve
months of the date hereof, or this
notice will be plead in bar ol their
I'fiPi'ilfiirti A 11 lUncn i'*3 ??
j -ii. muov. inv.'.'_wiC^i if LIU"
estate are asltcd to make immediate
payment. This March 27. 1942.
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