rUNEiL IS HELD
FOR P. D. REID, 60
South Henderson Man Had
Been in Failing Health
Fore More Than Year
|. iiii iml services were held from the
hnnie in South Henderson this after
noon ut 3:30 o’clock for P. D. Reid,
r,n who »li n d «l his home Sunday aft
in,,,n ni 3:10 o’clock, after an illness
~i more than a year. Complieatlona
jjven as cause of the death.
Interment was made at Rock
cemetery. South Henderson.
Mr. Reid is survived by three sons,
W M . H\ F., and .1. W Reid and
ndojited son. Untold Four tlnugh
,j nh«> survive. They are Mrs. Sally
Ivinb r^ras-, Mrs. May Lassiter, Mrs.
Lawson and Miss Aileei, Reid.
ll.' has two sisters, Mrs. Mit Myriclc,
~)• Soul h Henderson, and Mrs.
I'.l.inehe Core, also of South Hender-
Two brothers also survive. Guy
K. id, of South Hill and Hunt Reid, of
liridsville.
’l'h,- active pallbearers were named
, r , |: 11«1 <1 y Parrish, Robert House,
I nly Parrish, Eddie Robertson, ,J. W.
Suiiih stud Hayes Robertson.
'Three Defendants
Were Tried Today
Before Recorder
Three defendants faced Recorder R.
]? (' rtin ids iii recorder's court roday,
a ll ( ,f them facing charges of being
dnink.
juiit* Knight, white, paid $5 and
it,.'..- so! being drunk.
Alf!i*’ llimly, white, was sent to tiie |
r o;iiL fur 60 days for being drunk and
:i sault.
Luiii' Carpenter, white, was eharg- j
~| wi: : being drunk and damaging j
I,i ;\ The charge was adjudged
jViVoiiii. ; :tit <l malieiotis and tlte prose
, , witness was taxed with the |
cost.' or 30 days.
ROSE STORES GIVE
LAVADENTA ORDER
Rose's 5-10 and 25c Stores, with I
hfudqunrters in thin city, today plac- |
.'ll an older with T. E. Stainhack. j
local druggist and manufacturer, for I
a shipment of Lavudentu, :t product !
made by Mr. Stainhack for the clean- |
i"g of false teeth, for every store in
the eh tin. it was stated today.
Mr. Stainhack recently perfected 1
h formula for the cleaner, and pre- !
dieted that its sale would he wide- '
-mead as soon as his product became 1
known.
Cordiality Rules Arms
Meeting, But Success
Unlikely
(Lor.iirt:ed from Page One.)
presented President Roosevelt’s sug
gestion so rpt ogressive reduction of j
sea armaments.
If no reduction were possible. Pres- j
idrnt Roosevelt recommended strong- |
ly continuance of present fleet limi
tations .
Failing all else, Davis, chief of the
.'.me: iron delegation, advocated a
♦ trank nnd friendly discussion of I
ve w to find other paths of mutual ;
understanding to prevent a naval I
race.”
Davis’ address followed a concilia- |
hoy welcoming speech by Great Bri- j
tain’ Prime Minister Stanley Bald- i
win, calling upon principal sea. powers !
to yield ome of their demands in "an 1
attempt to avert the calamity of tin- \
i' Dieted naval competition.”
The chief Japanese delegate, Ad- I
iniral Onami Nagano, followed with it. j
request for a "just and fair agreement j
on disarmament,” setting forth thus !
lii nation’s demands for equality
with Great Britain and the United
States in naval strength.
The opening of the conference cli
aiuxed a year of British diplomatic ef
lo'ts to mend last year’s futile cf- j
lo ts to discover a formula for an j
m i cement to displace the Washing- j
>un and London naval agreements
expiring with 1936.
Despite the conciliatory tones, the
au 1 ',uok for success still was dark.
Informed naval sources attributed
thi pessimism to the Japanese de-
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A quarter-century of advancement
in the field of higher education will
he reviewed for Duke university (and
Trinity college) tonight when the
twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Wil
liam Preston Few’s inauguration as
president of Trinity college is observ
ed as a university “family dinner.”
k acuity members, trustees, university
officers, alumni officers and student
organization leaders will attend. The
•speaker will he l)r. Bruce Payne,
president of George Peabody College
lot Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., a mem
ber of the Trinity class of 1896.
W. F. Howland, Jr., president of
his class at Duke, and Henry A. Den
!■*-. president of the Vance county
alumni group, were among those in
vited to the dinne rand went to Dur
ham this afternoon to attend the an
niversary event.
mand for equality to replace its ratio
ol three to five for the United States
and Britain under present limitations;
k t ench and Italian rivalry in the
Mediterranean; sactions developments
tension arising from the North China
autonomy movement and other con
troversies.
Bill
Location of Broadcast Out
fits for State Police to
Be Decided
Daily Dispatch Huranu
In the Sir Waller Hotel
KV J. C. IIASKEHVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 9.—The survey of the
State to determine the best locations
for the five highway patrol radio sta
tions, -which has been in progress for
several months under the supervision
of radio engineers, will be completed
about the middle of this week. Cap
tain Charles D. Farmer said today.
The portable transmitter and the en
gineers are now testing a location
about two miles east of Asheville,
where State Highways 10 and 20 fork,
about a mile east of Biltmore, with
Route 2o crossing the Swannanoa
river. Numerous locations on almost
all tin- highways radiating from Ashe
ville have been tested within a radius
of GO miles, hut this new location
seems to be about the most satisfac
tory. Captain Farmer said.
"We expect tDo radio survey crew
and equipment to return here about
Wednesday or Thursday of this week,
with all their tests completed,” Capt.
Farmer said. "Chief Radio Engineer
Paul Rosekrans and his assistant, J.
W. Smith, will then start compiling
their report and recommendations
which will he submitted to Commis
sioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell and
Assistant Commissioner M. C. S.
Noble, Jr. They will then decide on
when to call for bids on equipment.”
As a result of the tests made in
this radio survey, the best transmis
sion results have been obtained in
the vicinity of Williamston, Elizabeth
town, Chapel Hill, Mooresville and
Asheville, Captain Farmer said. It is
possible however, that the central
transmission station may be located
nearer to Raleigh than Chapel Hill
Henderson, (n. c.) daily dtspatch, Monday, December. 9, 1935. ’
because of the need of close contact
with the Raleigh office of the high
way patrol. Locations have been test
ed within a radius of five miles, ten
miles, 15 miles and on up to 60 miles
of Raleigh and these other places and
the results recorded.
S.nce bids will probably not be call
ed for the equipment for these sta
tions for at least 60 days and since
some time will he required for their
construction, it will probably h e
spring before the radio control sys
tem for the highway patrol is ready
for active operation.
Skilled Convicts
Saving the Prison
Huge Cash Outlay
Daily Dis|iat«ti Rur.-iau
In llu- Sir Walter Hotel
BY .1. f. It ASKER VIM.,
Raleigh, Dec. 9.—Prisoners skilled
in various crafts and trades arc sav
ing the prison division many hun
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars by
being able to make various things in
the prison which otherwise would cost
a great deal to 'buy, it was pointed
out by Dr. George S. Coleman, phy
sician at the Central Prison here.
‘‘Take this operating table here tts
an example,’’ Dr. Coleman said, point
ing to a special operating table for
applying plaster casts to fractured
arms, legs hips, backs or even necks,
which looked as new, bright and
shiny as if it had just come from a
modern surgical supply house. “That
table, if bought from a surgical sup
ply company, would have cost at least
$450, perhaps*, more. But two of our
prisoners, Warren Moore, from Wil
mington, a former steam-fitter, and
Tracey Hart, from Rienmond county,
a sheet metal worker, made that
table for us at a total cost c
more than SSO, from pipe and metal
that had been thrown away—except
for the nickel fittings. Several sur
geons who have seen it say it is the
nest they have ever seen.”
By having skilled prisoners make
equipment that is needed, Dr. Cole
man is gradually furnishing the new
F ire-proof hospital ward with the lat
est and most modern hospital equip
ment at almost no cost to the State.
Mussolini Is Prepared
for Bitter Fight
(Continued from Page One >
gent views of the Italian campaign
evident on the two sides of the Eng
lish Channel at the start of the war,
extended far beyond the Italo-Ethio
pian conflict, diplomatic sources in
Haris said.
News from Italian and Ethiopian
bivouacs was punctuated by unoffi
cial teports of casualties and a dis
pute In army circles at Addis Ababa.
A Reuter’s (British) News Agency
lispatch from the Ethiopian capital
unofficial reports related 850 Ethio
pians and 700 Italian Somalis were
killed in a battle north of Dolo on
.he southerrT front.
All Belgian officers connected with
the Ethiopian army turned in their
resignations today in Addis Ababa be
cause of a clash in views with high
Ethiopian officials, threatening to
leave soon unless the dispute was set
tled.
"We’re Here” Again
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Ve’re Were, Gloucester, Mass.,
chooner made famous by Kipling in
.is story Captains Courageous ,
»aves port again for Grand Banks
to play a part in a movie.
fCentral Press)
F. D. R.’s Farmer
j&Bsm I?’;
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Here’s the man who gives President
Roosevelt first hand information on
farm problems. He is Otis Moore
manager of the President’s farm
Warm Springs, Ga.
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B MURDER UPSTAIRS'S*
1 ADAM BLISS V^g^/
[{HAD TTltfl FIRST:
Lieutenant Kirk harrabee is in
vestigating Hi*'- nmicier of Andrew
Darien, a middle-aged bachelor who
teas stabbed to death with a carving
knife as he slept i n hoarding
house of A licit. Few 7? y. After ques
tioning Alice, her seven remaining
boarders, the maid and cook in de
tail. harrabee learns that Darien was
generally disliked and that he pos
sessed a small fortune. Alice is
a m a~ed when the detective tells her
she trill inherit $ 200,000 through
Darien's will . While fjarrabee and
Alice are talking, they * surprise
ilrace, the cook, listening at the door.
Alice has to explain a list of anec
dotes she has compiled about every
one in the house to harrabee,
(xow an ox with run story)
CHAPTER 21
“THIS CASE Isn’t an easy one,
Mrs. Penny." Lieutenant Larrabee
continued. "There are a lot of things
I can’t put into the jigsaw puzzle.
That’s why I’m so thankful for your
information. It might have taken
me a day or two to break down
Withers, and find out about that
voice. With that I have something
to work on."
"The voice puzzled me, too. I can’t
see why the murderer would stay ?n
Hie room. I can’t see why when he
finished he didn’t go ”
"Unless he was looking for some
thing, Airs. Penny, and hadn’t been
able to find it. We have that phase
to consider."
"Looking for something for a cou
ple of hours? For maybe four hours?
Is that reasonable?"
The idea was ridiculous.
"No, it isn’t reasonable, but we
must account for the voice some
way. Unless Conrad Withers was
mistaken, there was someone in the
room when he entered, and in his
near-sighted way he didn’t even see
at first that Darien was dead. After
his discovery lie wouldn’t stay around
to search. He’d get out, so he missed
the chance of knowing who was in
the room. Unless, Mrs. Penny, the
voice belonged to Martin Hemingway,
and Mr. Hemingway had found the
body before Withers did, and was
doing a little research work on his
own, and in the moment when there
was a knock on the door, dashed
hack into the closet and called out
‘come in’.”
“What about prints on the closet
door?" I inquired.
“Blurred. The kind that are on
every closet door in the house.
Darien’s mostly. His bathroom door
is the same. No help there. The
panel door holts are blurred, too, on :
both Darien’s side and Hemingway’s.
If the people in your house weren’t
such consummate liars, I could make
a little headway,” he answered half
smiting.
"I’m not lying, Lieutenant Larra
bee. and you have everything I know
on that piece of paper.” I pointed
to the desk where it lay.
"Yes. but if I hadn’t come into the
kitchen tonight, and found you ,
writing. 1 wouldn’t have known any
thing about the information you <
had. Yon see what T mean?”
T did. I wouldn’t have told him
about Janet’s hairpin, but I think I
would have about Mr. Withers’
“voice".
"It’s a funny household you have,
Mrs. Penny. An old maid school ;
teacher who threaten* to report me
Here’s Another Etta Kett Cut-Out
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Just as he promised, the editor of The Henderson Daily Dispatch today prints another Etta
Kett cut-out paper doll showing the famous heroine of the comic strips with several new items in
her winter wardrobe. First is Etta’s new evening gown which is a honey. It’s the very latest
style, too. And isn’t that a smart little hood and cape to be worn with the gown ? Also, the coat
and white fur collar should keep Etta comfy this season. Try them on her.
Ito her principal " 1 smiled and
he smiled with me.
“Typical of Miss Cambridge to do
that.” I interrupted.
“I thought so. Well, we have the
old maid school teacher, and another
school teacher, a man, who nn.il
three months ago was a creature of
sedate habits, and who in the last
three months has changed into a
night owl; we have a young girl who
certainly isn’t telling me the truth
That’s Janet Bell; but the mere fact
that a man who is only ah acquaint
ance has been murdered in this
house, shouldn’t have sent her into
the hysterics she had this morning
when 1 was talking to her in this
room—-”
“Did Janet break down?"
"She did. and l finally had to dis
miss her, she was crying so. Any
reason why she should cry?”
I shook my head. "1 can’t think
ot any. Mr. Darien and she had lit
tle to do with each other.”
"Then w# have a rather Interest
ing lady"—T knew he meant Mrs.
Conrad Wither*
Starmont—"who when I try to take
her fingerprints, deliberately blurs
them, not once but three times. An
interesting lady whose nerves are at
the breaking point, although out
wardly she is trying to be calm.
Any reason why Mrs. Starmont
shouldn’t want her fingerprints
taken? Any reason you can think
of?”
“I can’t think of any. But I know
so little about her.”
"And we have Mr. Hemingway
whose room is so close to Darien’s,
and who claims that he heard not a
sound in Darien’s room all night—at
least from 11:30 on.”
“The walls are pretty thick.” I in
terposed.
He didn’t pay any attention to
what I said. “Then we have Mrs.
Upham who is being treated by a
psychiatrist. I’m interested in Mrs.
Upham, Mrs. Penny. Can you tell
me anything more about her?"
"Lucy wouldn’t kill anybody. She
goes to Doctor Ttudemar for her
nerves and her—dreams.” I had to
stick up for Lucy. Larrabce’s stts
picions were ridiculous.
“What kind of dreams?”
"I don’t know, lately. At first
Lucy used to tell me. but she hasn’t
for a couple of months.”
“What kind of dreams did she tell
you about?”
I hesitated. They seemed so silly
to explain. Besides Lucy had told
me them in confidence.
“I shan’t tell Mrs. Upham, Mrs.
Penny, but I shall of course consult
with Doctor Rudemar,” Larrabee as
sured me.
“Oh, they’re so simple that only
Lucy, who has nothing 1 else to do.
worries about them. She stopped
telling me about them because i ridi
culed her, I guess. 1 couldn't help
it. Goodness knows 1 dream once In
a while, but 1 don’t make anything
of my dreams. J fotget them as soon
as they’re dreamed.”
“And the dreams. Mrs. Penny?"
Lieutenant Larrabee was tenacious
when he wanted you to come to the
point.
“Well, the ones she told me about
haven’t anything to do with this caw
as far as i can see. Lucy said that
night after night she seemed to be
in a flower garden and that in her
dreams the garden extended miles
and miles. She couldn’t see the end
of it for the end was lost in the
horizon. She knew she was In the
garden for one purpose, and that was
to cut the flowers, for she had a pair
of shears in her hand, but they were
heavy, almost too heavy for her to
handie, more like hedge shears than
flower shears. The dreams were tf
most always the same, except that
sometimes the flowers were poinset
tias, with big thick stems, and some
times she was in a field of daffodils,
or daisies. She was working her
fastest and best with the big shears
to cut them down, seeming to work
against time. On her back she hail
a big basket that grew heavier m
she loaded it with the flowers she
had cut. Only of course, as In
dreams she never seemed to get any
place. 1 can’t see anything to get
worried about. Once 1 dreamed that
I had 10.000 pies to make, and 1 was
knee deep in dough. I was ill at the
time, flu, and 1 blamed my pie dream
onto my illness.” I’d told Lucy to
forget her dreams the first time she
told me about them, but she said she
couldn’t, fl'hey came back and back
. nearly every night.
: Curious dreams.” Larrabee mnr
i mured slowly. llis eyes bad a far
: away look in them, and the tips of
his fingers made an arch as they
touched over his knees. “Curious,**
he repeated. “Are you sure that
i Mrs. Upham didn’t tell you anything
more about her dreams?”
“No, they always seemed the same
except for the flowers, and of course
I tried to laugh her out of them.
She’s very serious about anything
that pertains to herself. She hasn’t
much else to think about but herself,
for her son is married, and she’s
careful about not imposing hersejf
too much on him and his wife. She
only spends a month each summer
with him.” I saw that he was still
reflecting on what I had told him
about Lucy’s dreams, for he con
tinued to sit staring ahead of him
with that far-away look in his eyes
for some time.
“And since Mrs. Upham has been
consulting Doctor Rudemar?” he
said at last.
“She hasn’t told me any more of
her dreams and I haven't asked her.
He has helped her, though, for her
nerves haven’t been so bad. The
dreams got her nervous, if you know
what I mean. She thought about
them too much.”
(TO Bn cONTixunn*
PAGE THREE
MANY DRUNKS TRIED
BEFORE THE MAYOR
Elmore Burnett Convicted
Os Driving; Ford to Su
perior Court.
Drunks played important part in
the Municipal Court docket today be
fore Mayor Irvine B. Watkins.
Eugene reiser, whit \ was tried for
being drunk in a public place four
times, and was given 30 days on the
roads in each case, making a total of
four months. lie was i three
times in two days
Charlie Sneed, while, was fined sr»$ r »
and costs for being drunk as was
Clarence Boyd, white, Raymond Al
len, white anti Fred McFarland, white.
Elmore Burnett, white was fined
$lO and costs and given six months on
the roads, the road sentence suspend
ed if lie does not drive an automobile
in I lie state of North Carolina for ihc
next 12 months, for driving an auto
mobile while under (he influence of
whisky, morphine or other opiates.
11 is driver’s license was revoked for
one year.
Ben Chavis, Negro, was fined $. r >
and costs for being drunk and dis
orderly, and was dismissed on a.
charge of theratening to kill Police
Sergeant W. N. Strickland.
Johnnie Jackson, Negro, was charg
ed with threatening to kill Police
Officer W. N. Strickland, but the
case was uni grossed.
Bigie Bullock, white, was fined $>
and costs for being drunk and dls-t
orderly.
Jessie Fold, white, was bound over
to the next term of Vance county
Superior Court under a S3OO bond
when probable cause was found on a
larceny charge of parts from an auto
mobile of Milton Bullock.
F. W. Sadler and Cevil Ellis, both
white, was fined $5 and costs for as
saulting each other.
WILL ROGERS
MEMORIAL FUND
Local Committee for Henderson
Date
TO THE EDITOR:
Wishing to have a part in per
petuating tiie memory of one of
our most beloved and useful cit
izens, I enclose herewith mv eon
trihut ion of
to the Will Rogers Memorial Fund.
I understand that this gift will be
added to others from Henderson,
and will go without any deuctions
whatsoever to the National Fund
to be expended, also without any
deductior, as the Memorial Com
mittee may determine.
Name
Address
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