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PAGE TWO Spun GhwfiMfeimM, A TALE Os SCOTIANP YARD 6y " READ TBit FIRST: John Tait, stepson of wmathy Lady Tait, is engaged to marry Lacy Burnham. a widow. In France, where the three were sojourning, Lady Tait takes a dislike to Gillian Dundas, a beautiful girl who, it is disclosed, is blackmailing Tait for a past indiscre tion. Book in London Lady Tait shows her stepson a letter from her dead son’s wife, an Italian woman she despises, demanding . toney for her son. Lady Tait’s grandson. Tait becomes alarmed when his business associate, Lord Mills, is found shot to death. Mrs. Burnham takes Miss Dundas "under her wing ", much to Lady Tait’s annoyance, after the girl is released from the employ of a Mrs. da Sousu. A luncheon given by Lady fait in honor of Tait arid his fiancee, ond attended by John's cousins, Aly sia, Etta and Claud Baylor, is a poor success, owing to Tait’s apparent un aasiness. Tea is interrupted by the discovery of John Tait’s body on the Sidewalk in front of Lady Tait's horhe. He had collapsed and died in the arms of a cab driver. Chief In spector Pointer of Scotland Yard is dispatched to investigate Tait’s death, suspecting he has been poisoned. (BOW GO OB WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER 23 A FEW KEY questions brought no further Information from the driver. He did not know any other members of the household by sight. He had not seen the dead man. Mr. Tait, in company with any one this morning. The constable’s report was practical ly the same. Pointer went back to the shut-off port of the dining room where the medical men had finished their inspection of the dead man’s face. The family doctor was openly Impatient. Tait, according to him. "had a heart”, and the cause of death would undoubtedly prove to be due to that organ having been over taxed by hurry, possibly on top of « heavy lunch. The Home Office expert listened in silence. Both were waiting for Pointer to order the body to be stripped. One by one the gar ments were taken off. after a care ful look nt each before It was dis turbed. The clothes offered no clues •f any kind. Pointer then went through the pockets. There was •othing in them of any Interest ex cept what the taximan had called the "gold trinket”. It was the top of a lady’s fountain pen. Without Initials of any kind, but of rather an uncommon pattern of chasing, Pointer thought—or rather hoped. Th* taximan identified it unhesi tatingly as the object that had dropped from Tait’s hand as he held him up, and the dust in the chasing bore this out. He was now allowed to go after being asked on no ac count .to mention the fact that Mr. Tait had dropped anything whatever, should the pressmen question him on the matter. The taxi driver, who looked a man of his word, promised, adding that it made him laugh the way papers printed every sort of silly little trifle however unimpor (Mfct. When 1m was gone the con* Stale Sales Tax Collections May Equal Estimates (Continued from Page One.) tions today will bring that amount up considerably more, since there are •ome 17,000 merchants thar have no, STEVENSON’ Sir Comedy—News Oomlne: Wf-dna-lay ami Thursday SLIM SUMMERVILLE fc ‘l«OVe Birds" and ZASU PITTS I Last Call Before Adding I I 2%-PENALTY-2% I I To All 1933 Unpaid I I CITY TAXES I Pay Up On Or Before the Last Day I Tuesday, May 1, 1934 I And Save Additional Cost Fast due street assessments must also be paid now to f* prevent foreclosure suits. B Call Phone 203 for any Information I S. B. BURWELL, I City Clerk and Tax Collector stable also Identified tne gold object as the one which he had seen picked up by the driver and dropped into the dead man’s waistcoat pocket. He hlmsel# had stepped on It. fortu nately very lightly, and showed the dent that his glancing boot had made. “Whoever is the owner is evident* ly in the habit of biting his or her pen.” the constable added, eager to •shine before the Scotland Yard offi cer. Pointer agreed, and put it away in an envelope, but that gold chased top, though a lady's, presumably, from its slender size and ornate work, showed the marks of a man’s teeth, he thought, and unusually large and tine teeth they must be even at that. He asked for a wax candle and ob tained the prints on it of all the dead man’s teeth. They were not in the least like those on the gold top. Tait had rather small and blunt teeth. The man who valeted Tait was called into the half of the din ing room w.hose double doors Pointer had had efosed so that the doctors could make their examination in pri vate. All the objects shown to him as found on Tait were identified by him as ones which the dead man usually carried. Pointer had not in cluded the “trinket". “There’s nc fountai.. pen,” Pointer said finally. He was told that Mr. Tait never used one. Stooping, Pointer seemed to pick something up from the carpet.. It was the little gold top. The man had never seen any pen to which that would fit. All the inmates of the house, if they used fountain pons, had either black or colored ones. He couldn’t say for certain about the young lady who had just come to the house —it might belong to Miss Dundas. Pointer asked him about Mr. Tait’s apparent health, which the man thought was quite good. The doctors fancied from his teeth that he had a habit of biting pen or pencil; if so, that would show a certain amount of nerves, Pointer thought. The servant rather indignantly scoffed at the notion of such a habit on Mr. Tait’s part. Proof was to be found on his writing table, where the chief inspector would find pens and pen cils in plenty and none of them bit ten. At this moment Dr. Merridew opened the double doors and the man was dismissed. “Heart failure,” he murmured, passing through into the hall where he met Naylor and repeated the two words. “Strictly speaking, of course, med ical etiquette demands that Doctor Hardy should acquaint the family with the cause of death, but”—and here Merridew expressed his sincere sympathy and regret at the terrible loss to every one in that house with great feeling, adding, “Os course, no pronouncement can be made until after the Officially, that is. Yes, It’s a dreadful necessity, but it’ll be quickly over. Just a necessary formality,” and with a few more words h* hurried away. He was due at an operation. Naylor’s eyes went over hia shoul (Copyright, 198 D made any sales tax returns during April. Only $150,000 of additional sales tax revenue needs to be collected to day to bring the total sales tax collec tions for the first nine months to $3,- 000,000, . since the cumulative total through Saturday was $4,858,137.07. Director Scott is confident that at least $500,000 will be collected for the HENSEKSOI3, TN. CJ MW DISPATCH, MONDAY, APRIL 30,1933 der, through the open door, to the chief inspector, but ne said nothing. Pointer stepped back into the shut off part of the room where the Horn* Office expert was still bending over the body. Something in the rigidity and intentness of his figure made tha other move close to him. “I want Angelli.” Hardy said, with out lifting his eyes from the *ressur* which he had made in the skin with his fingertip. "Angelli of the Italia» hospital. Ask him to hurry." “Doctor Angelli?" Pointer asked. Hardy only nodded. Apparently ha assumed that the name would con vey as much to any layman as it did to himself. Pointer got the Italian hospital on the telephone, and in an other moment got Dr. Angelli, who. on being told that Dr. Harvey as the Home Office asked him to come at once, assured Pointer that he would he there as fast as his car «*uld carry him. Pointer returned to the dining room. “Dr. Angelli le ooming at once. Your suspicions confirmed, sir?*’ “Yes. But suspicions only. I wish Angelli would hurry up. See that one rigid eyeball and one loose? ‘ See the tint of the pressure pits made by my fingers. Angelli read a paper not many months ago on a poison in use in Mediterranean countries and South America which showed those two symptoms after death. It’s rather his specialty. Seen plenty of it when he was medical officer of health on a Brazil cofTee plantation." Pointer had a word with the but ler. The man gave a brief account of Mr. Tait’s goings and comings that morning. He had had break fast at half-past nine, and left the house shortly afterwards. Then he had not returned until about a quarter to two, when he had gone on into the room where lunch was served and had sat on with hin cousin, Mr. Naylor, after lunch over thejr coffee, then he had sent word by him to Mrs. Burnham, who wae with the rest of the ladies listening to the broadcasting, that he would like to have a word with her alone. The butler saw him walking up and down the library waiting for her, aa though in a great hurry. When Mrs. Burnham came in the door was shut for perhaps five minutes or so. then Mr. Tait opened it, and calling back that he wouldn’t be more than a few’ minutes, was hurrying out, when Mr. Naylor met him in the hall, and insisted on drawing him into the little room by the door “for a word”. That seemed to be literal, for, after a couple of minutes at most, Mr. Tait hurried on out. The exact words the butler had heard him call back to Mrs. Burnham were, "Well, darling, I shan’t keep you waiting more then a few minutes.” “And the lady, what did she do?” "She waited a minute or two in the room. I could hear her humming to herself as she moved about, and then she went upstairs, smiling and looking very happy.” (TO BS OOMTIBVEDJ next two months, so that the total for the eleven months of this fiscal year will be in excess of $6,000,000. That will still be $1,775,000 less than thfc. amount originally estimated by the 933 General Assembly, however. But Director Scott believes that not less than $1,500,000 and possibly $2,- 000,000 additional will be collected from merchants who have already made returns, but who apparently did not understand all the regulations about deductions and deducted too much, when all the returns made for this fiscal year have been audited. The resulting total collections for the en tire year from the sales tax is hence expected to be at least $7,500,000 and may run as high as $8,000,000, it is be lieved. Not All Remitted ' “We have not yet had time, of course, to audit anything like all the returns that have been made so far in; the first nine months the sales tax .has been in effect," Director , Scott said.. . ‘‘But, we .have.madej a t p,reUmm-y ary< 'survey l <*f - lining off 4.h<&! £ . This,' purvey; that jfcwi hie' basts 5 s^lready j fi i by mer chants and without any regard to - those to be sent in during May and June, merchants have sent in fully $1,500,000 less than they have collected and less than the amount due the State as a resutl of having maae ex cessive and improper deductions, t is notu nreasonable to suppose that this amount may be increased to $2,000,000 by une 1. As a result, I feel confident that the sales tax collections tor the first, year will be at least $7,500,000 and probably more.” When asked if it would be possible to complete the audit of the more than 300,000 monthly returns that have been made by merchants by the end of the present fiscal year on June 30, Direc tor Scott said it probably wou:e not, but that all assessments made even after that date would be credited back to this fiscal year. “t must ibe remembered by both the public and the merchants, that under the State sales tax law, the Depart me t of Revenue has authority to make assessments against any mer chants who may be pound to nave underpaid their sales taxes,” Scott said. "They should also remember that our auditors have full authority to examine their books, invoices and bills of lading and, if necessary, to even examine the books and recoras of the wholesalers from whom they have purchased goods, In order to de termine their volume of business. Much time will be required, of course, to audit more than 300,000 returns of some 30,000 merchants. But wftenever we find a merchant who has sent in less than he should have, an assesa mentment will be made and the amount collected.” This survey already made of col- Moon Theatre today “ELYSIA” THE VALLEY OF THE NUDE Added Comedy Adults Only—Admission 26c Tobacco President jwEKiSmßly :V . ..:. ... :s§<& . ’S-ts . S'-: CLAUDE. *T. it ALU * College Station, Raleigh, April 30— When the tobacco growers of North Carolina were in distress last fall, they found an aggressive and ener getic leader in Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdale, Person county, whom they selected for president of the To bacco Advisorry Association, formed to work with the Agricultural Exten sion Serrvice of State College and the Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration jn promoting the adjustment program in this State. Mrr. Hall is p voting man. only 34 vears old, but known in North. Carolina as a suc cessful farmer and tobacco grower. He owns a 3400-acre farm in Person county and ha gsrown as much as 250 acres of Tobacco a year. He grows about an average of 130 acres now. Much of his farm land wooded. »» V In addition to his duties at home, he is president of the Hillsboro Pro duction Credit Association, a member of the agriculture committee recent ly appointed by Dr. Frank Graham to study agricultural needs in the State, a member of the Person Coun tv Board of Education, and active in farming affairs over the State. State Since his election as president of the! Tobacco Advisory Association last fall, he has spent much time in Wash ington and Raleigh at his own expense looking after the interests of the to bacco growers of the State. He i& considered a thoughtful leader with sound ideas as to the needs of to bacco farmers. His work at Washington has been particularly fruitful to the growers of the State, according to extension, officials at State College. lections indicates that them erchants in Charlotte and Mecklenburg county alone still owe the State fully $200,- 000 more than they have turned in as a result of excessive deductions, wott said. Right here in Wake county, the merchants should have paid in at least $50,000 more than they have, while in Guilford and Forsyth counties the merchants who have already sent in returns have underpaid the collections to the State by at least SIOO,OOO in each county, Scott believes. Most of this has resulted from a lack of under standing of the law .and from ceduc tion3 made that are not in accordance with the law, Scott said. There is very little indication of any willful viola tions of the law on the part of mer chants, however, although they nat urally want to get the benefit of all the deductions the law may allow, he said. Looking Backward At This Date in History fljSflr: ’iei MHf m& JM* ■ r ■ ‘ v ]|&| Bobby Leach By an irony of fate, Bobby Leach who in 1911 safely went over Niag ara Palls in a barrel, died seven years ago today of injuries received when he slipped on a banana peel! Wife Preservers Here la a new sandwich filling which ia very good for luncheon or supper: Drain oil from can of sar dines, take out bones, mash weM with one-fourth head of cabbage, boiled, and one tablespoon horse radish. Spread on white or rye bread, Dr. Allen Think* New PWA , Funds Will Soon Be Made Available Dally Dlanatek #»««». . In tke Sir Waller Hotel. BY J C, UANKGRVILL. Aaleigh, April 30. —While the out look is not so bright to secure as much Federal aid for schools as had been hoped, the chances for getting the Public Works Administration to set aside 10 per cent of all future appro priations to be used in making loans or grants to states and counties for needed new buildings, are decidedly bright, in the opinion of Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of putblie instruction. This is the fifth point in the six point program for Federal aid for schools adopted, by the committee rep resenting 32 nation-wide organizations appointed a year or so ago by U. S. Commissioner of Education George F*. 2|ook, and of which Dr. Allen is a member. This same program also would have Congress make a direct appropriation of $100,000,000 to be used during the school year of 1934-35 to help pay teachers in states where school funds are not adequate to keep all the schools open. At the present time, however, the outlook for this appropriation does not seem to be so bright. But Dr. Allen is very hopeful that Administrator ekes and Congress will agree to set aside 10 per cent of all future appropriations for the PWJA. to be used in either building new school houses or repairing and enlarging present ones. Those would probably mean about $2,000,000 that could bo used in North Carolina in the con struction of new buildings or repair ing of old ones, provided the next ap propriation is as large as the present. “Another provision the committee wants contained in any legislation or agreement with regard to the allot ment of PWA money for schools, is that where grants are made to coun ties or districts not able to borrow the money, that they cover the total amount of the cost of the building, rather than only 70 per cent,’* Dr. Al len said. “Where the counties or the districts have credit left, they will, of course, be required to borrow this money and pay it back later. But a great many counties and districts cannot borrow anything, in which cases we believe the PWA should make outright grants for senool build ings.’' Cannon At Method. Ist Gathering (Continued from Page One.) branches of Methodism an plans for unity and solidarity. Just before the vote was taken O”. the resolution, Bishop James Canr.on, Jr., entered the auditorium and too m i his seat on the rostrum among his fellow bishops. Bishop Cannon came to the con ference after being delayed several days in reaching here because of his court tria in Washington, where he was acquitted on a charge of violating the Federal corrupt practices act in connection with the handling of 1928 campaign funds. His entry, his first appearance <*t the 1934 General Conference, was greeted only by faint murmur through the conferenece hall as hew as recog nized. Bishop Cannon has aken public no tice of a movemnt Among certarn groups of th delegates to retire him and has announced that he would re sist any attempt. The 9-year-old church head is slat ed for automatic retirment at the 193 ft, quadrennial conference under the 72- year age limit. .THREE DRUNK CASES - BEFORE THE MAYOR Three drunkenness cases were tried in police court today by’ Mayor Irvine B. Watkins. Algie Henley, white man, was sent to ther oads for 30 days for being drunk. Solon Southerland, colored, was fin ed $2.50 and costs for being drunk, •and George Bullock, colored, got the same judgment on the same charge. On (Saturday Theodore Norman was discharged when accused of attempt ing to steal a battery valued at $7 and belonging to Donnie Green. The case was disposed of after being brougnt over from April 23. Don’t Forget To Pay COUNTY TAXES 2% —PENALTY—2% Will be charged on all 1933 County Taxes not paid on or before TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934 Pay up on time. Don’t miss this opportunity to make a saving on your tax account. J. E. HAMLETT, Sheriff of Vance County WhatsWhat-ataGiai^l hMI WASHINOTONtTWORLD^ By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, April 30—Congress will miss Representative Clarence J. Mc »Leod of Detroit if Michigan Republi cans draft him as their next Novem ber’s candidate for governor. There appears to be considerable prospect thatthey will do so, judging from the fact that G. O. P. voters in the Wolverine commonwealth are signing petitions toy tens of thousands, demanding his name at the head of their state ticket. As to the question of his own preference between Capitol Hill and \he executive mansion at Lansing the repiesentative simply in timates that an individual who is con scripted doesnt do the choosing; lie accepts what is handed to him. * * * Representative McLeod’s is a color wul personality. Throughout his entire career in Washington he has toeen a conspicu ous lawmaker. Se began, In 1920, when he suc ceeded the late Congressman Charles A. Nichols by being the “baby of the house of representatives” —just 25 years and 4 months old, the young est person ever elected, up to that time, to the lower branch of the na tional legislature. He was an attractive “baby”; bright, too. On the floor he wasn’t particularly talkative, but he proved to be an ex cellent committee worker, which is what makes a congressman really in fluential. The public hears more about a speech-making lawmaker but a good Committee worker accomplishes things. Today the Michigan statesman, though no gr aytoeard, isn’t so much of a baby, but, now in his seventh term (there was once when his law prac tice at home took som uch of his at tention that he wasn’t a candidate), he has had a deal more expertenc*. Despite the circumstance that, as a Republican, he is on the minority (and a mighty small minority) side of tn» representatives’ chamber, he has been a source of grave anxiety to the ad ministration. For various reasons the administration opposes his plan to have the government pay off all de positors in banks which,, closed by presidential mandate in March 1933, are atill closed, but it is the hardest plan to squelch that a majority party has had to wrestle with in recent legis lative memory. Notice To AH ■ Telephone Subscribers We will issue a new Telephone Directory corrected to May 10, 1934. All subscribers desiring changes of any kind are asked to notify this office imme diately. Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. Telephone 9000 By LESLIE EICHeI New York, April 30,-The as tration is concerned over strik » because they are strikes. This istration believes in collective The administration is cause wages do not keen n n ‘ K living costs. ' e w >th That is the matter in a nutshell Leaving out any discussion (f economic or an industrial evolur leaving out union recognition \ v • out a growing consciousness of'!?' rights of the individual even thr, the individual obtains these r j , through collectivism .the question ' 1 ' hand remains the age-old probiem Can men make ends meet? 11 The day is past (or isn’t it?) w) . “agitators” are blamed for “la-or v *“ rest”. That, in the opinion of present administration, isl ike by ' e to cure a raging fever by incantatij instead of a specific remedy. Men at a large body plant in Ciev land, for example, went on strik, The plant, is owned by General ij tors. Living costs have risen greats in Cleveland. Men with families tia,. been working for sums considerahi' below what government labor econo, mists say is the “subsistence line.- The owners of such plants say: ‘‘Vf must have profits—or we. shall not stay in business.” The workers say: “You must shaa your profits with us, even all y ollr profits if necessary, or we can’t live That is the problem. Such stria? will increase. The New Deal has as yet provided no economic spread to false care of both contending gr,,;,.,. Critics say that it. cannot unless \> nationalizes industry—and that draw qvW denials from the administratis, Critics of inflation add that k,. present system of forcing prices zt through artificial means is a form., inflation, and that real currency m flatten would intensify the present struggle. “Men must live!” is a cry that ob servers in the field say will hecoai, increasingly persistent as the ;tru? gle goes on. 1823 —Henry O. Houghton, Boston book publisher, born at Sutton, Vt, Died Aug. 25, 1895, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr , U. S. N., born at Vallejo, Cal., 62 years ago. GEORGE H. PARRISH Will appreciate your vote and support in the Democratic Primary, June 2, 1934 for County Commissioner Four Year Term—Vance County
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