ORPHANAGE TRIO AT
KIWIISGATHERING
Group From Oxford Here
Friday Evening; School
Night Next Week
Three children from the Oxfrod Or
phanage at Oxford furnished the
majei part of the program of the
Kiwanis club at its weekly luncheon
Friday evening, the program being in
charge cf G. O. McPhail. The children
were James Carter, who gave a de
clamation, "The Unknown Speaker,”
and 'Misses Nina Ellis, reciting
"Cherokee Hoses,” and Martha Gar
mi, reciting "The Host Word.”
Mr. McPhail said these young peo
ple are the honor students of the
Masonic orphanage school and were
i evently awarded a sight-seeing trip
to Washington, D. C„ for their'work.
J, C. Gardner, president of the club,
presided, reminded the members that
on next Friday evening the club will
entertain the honor students of tho
senior classes cf the high schools of
the city and the county and Epsom.
Each year at this time the club has
one boy and one girl from each of
these schools as its guests, chosen as
the all-round students. Each principal
is also in attendance. The schools
participating will be Henderson, Midt
dleburg, Townsville, Aycock, Zeb
Vance, Dabney and Epsom.
Another guest of the club for the
evening was A. B. Timms, of Loch
haven. Pa., formerly of this city and
a former Kiwanis member here. He
was the guest of W. C. Cates.
Attendance at the meeting was 86
percent of the membership.
RECORDER CLEMENTS
HAS 2 DEFENDANTS
Recorder R. E. Clements tried two
defendants at today’s session of re
corder's court.
Thomas Richard Martin was con
victed of being drunk and disorderly
and of assault. He was sentenced to
the roads for four months, commit
ment not to issue if he pays a fine
of five and costs, remains away from
his wife for two years and is of good
behavior.
Add W. Harris, who was charged
With assault and non-support, was
freed when the State took a nol pros
with leave.
GOERCH BROADCAST
BOOSTS HENDERSON
Carl Goerch, publisher of “The
State,” weekly magazine issued at
Raleigh, paid high tribute to Hender
son and its people and institutions
in a radio broadcast from Station
WPTF in Raleigh at 6 o’clock Fri
day evening. Many people here heard
the talk, which lauded the hospitality
of the community, told of its business
enterprises, it government and the
county government, and called by
name many citizens who are active
i»i the affairs of the city and county.
50 GALLON STILL
TAKEN YESTERDAY
A fifty gallon steam whisky still
was captured yesterday by Enforce
ment officers E. A. Cottrell and L. A.
Jackson in cooperation with Sheriff
Pinnell of Warren county, the illegal
outfit being in Warren county about
200 yards from the Middleburg town
ship line. Local officers found the
outfit, and called upon Warren coun
ty officers for their aid.
Five hundred gallons beer were
poured out, and a quantity of jars,
cans and jugs were confiscated.
The outfit was being prepared for
a run, but no one was captured at
the scene.
Bailey Is Certain
Os A Victory
(Continued trom i-age One./
like campaign speeches for Dr. Mc-
Donald than in his own behalf, many
who have heard them maintain, while
Strain has recently gotten more no
tice for attacking Clyde R. Hoey than
lor assailing Senator Bailey. As a
result, many are confident that Bail
ey the Fox will easily win the nomi
nation, largely because his opponents
insisted in chasing rabbits instead
of staying on the trail of the fox.
Good Progress on
Roads Is Reported
(Continued from Y»age One.)
Most of these projects include regrad
ing of roads with tractors and road
machines and in most cases resur
facing with sand-clay and gravel or
with sand.
Twenty projects are always under
way, with others to be started soon, in
the five counties in District 3, com
posed of Carteret, Craven, Jones, Pam
lico and Lenoir counties. Three large
projects are nearing completion in
Carteret county, including the sand
surfacing of the Cedar Island road.
Seven projects have either been com
pleted or are » nearing completion in
Craven county while three more are
almost completed in Pamlico county.
Four extensive resurfacing and drain
ing projects are under way in Jones
county, the surfacing being of eith
er sand or sand and topsoil. Four
more big projects are about half com
pleted in Lenoir county, two of them
near LaGrange.
Eleven different road repair pro
jects are under way in the four coun
ties in District 4 of Division A, which
includes Northampton, Halifax,
Nash and Edgecombe counties. Two
°f these projects are in Northampton,
five in Halifax, three in Nash and
one in Edgecombe counties.
In District 5 of this same division,
composed of Wilson, Greene, Pitt and
n portion of Edgecombe counties, 12
mad improvement projects are un
« Jr way. Four of these are in Wilson,
<me in Greene, four in Pitt and three
in Edgecombe. Other projects will be
started as soon as these are com
pleted, Baise said.
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IVORTH is baffled by it all in Darryl F. Z.anuck’s Twentieth Century
production, “Half Angel,” the thrtlling story of a “sorrow girl,” FRAN->
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Court’s Decision
Worry for G. 0. P.
(Contmueo from Page One.*
him, furthermore, on the side of the
“underdog.”
The chief worry of the Republicans
is Pennsylvania. The adverse deci
sion on the Guffey coal act is reputed
to have solidified the workers of
Pennsylvania for the Democrats. The
Republicans cannot hope to win the
national election without Pennsylvan
ia.
BUSINESS ALARMED
In reality, these anti-New Deal de
cisions of the Supreme Court do not
affect workers as much as business.
That is a new view in Wall Street.
Workers organize and win anyway
(according to the Wall Street view.
But when permissive price fixing or
ganizations—such as the New Deal al
phabet agencies really have been
—are declared unconstitutional then
there is fear that price-cutting will un
dermine business.
That, of course, is the fear in the
coal industry.
Capitalism would fall quickly if the
old dog-eat-dog method were to be
indulged in generally. Collectivism
in business —Wall Street shudders at
that interpretation—is sought more
than outsiders or business itself real
izes.
FORCING ISSUE
The Roosevelt administration evi
dently is not pleased that the Supreme
Court or the Constitution becomes an
issue. It would rather win workers
and votes on some other ground—for
it is eager to win the votes of bus
inessmen, too.
But workers and liberals and farm
ers are forcing the isue on the admin
istration .
NEW PARTY—WHEN?
Talk has been drifting through
Washington and New York that a
farmer-Labor party will be ready for
the field in 1940. It hopes to absorb
progressive Democrats and progres
sive Republicans.
It hopes to make the amending of
the Constitution and the curbing of
the Supreme Court an isue. It be
lieves that would be popular.
It hopes to displace the Democrats
as the party opposite the Republicans
by 1944.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936
The Woman’s College of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, Greensboro, is
making ready for its 44th commence
ment which will be featured by the
first meeting of the Board of Trus
tees of the University of North Caro
lina ever to be held on the Woman’s
college campus. The meeting of the
board of 10C members, over which
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus (lower
left) will preside, is schedeuled for
Saturday morning, May 30, in Admin
istration building (shown in back
ground). •
Other prominent figures in com
mencement exercises will be Dr.
Frank P. Graham, president of the
University of North Carolina (upper
left); Dr. W. C. Jackson, dean of ad
ministration of the Woman’s college
(upper right); Dr. Russell Henry Staf
ford, pastor of Old South Church,
Boston, Mass, (lower right), who will
preach the baccalaureate sermon Sun
day morning, iMay 31, in Aycock au
ditorium; and Hon. William E. Dodd,
Dodd, United States ambassador to
Germany, who will deliver the com
mencement address Monday morning
June 1.
Saturday, May 30, is also Alumnae
Day at Woman’s College, and an all
reunion supper in which members of
44 classes will participate is planned
on the quadrangle of the west cam
pus at 6 o’clock.
He Belonged to Another Now —But Love Persisted
It was a trifle embarrassing, sitting must face the issue and Win admitted
there in the lunchroom with Win. The * he “dreaded this moment.” Worst of
last time Joan had been alone with him all Joan still cared for him, or felt she
they were making plans to be mar- did, although she wouldn’t even ad
ried. Os course, she had attending mit that to herself. Such predica
te wedding for decency’s sake, but ments as this will help to sustain your
there she had avoided him. Now she interest to the final chapter of
LADY, BE GALLANT
By MARIE BLIZARD
Beginning Monday in the
Henderson Daily Dispatch
Kips
BY CENTRAL PRESS _
CHAPTER 54
"ONCE LAURA RANDALL was
out or the house, Van Every set up
the cry that the ruby was lost.” I
explained to Keyes. ‘‘True, Laura
Randall had it around her neck. But
he knew she would have It there.
The anxiety he displayed—you re
member? He called me at least six
times In an hour and a half at my
hotel. Always telling the clerk to
have me call him at home as soon
as 1 came In. At home. I assumed
all the time, that he had been at
home when Laura Randall was killed.
In fact I would have sworn he was
home. I finally got him on the phone
when I came in—the clerk says our
calls came simultaneously. Van
Every calling me, I calling him. He
stressed his insistence that I was to
come to Ills house at once, letting me
believe that he was at home. In
truth, he was on Fifth avenue. A
man answering to his description
phoned from the drug store at
Twenty-ninth and Fifth avenue just
after the murder. One of the clerks
recalled him, because the store was
empty on account of the excitement
on the street. He was calling me,
then, presumably from his home.
Luck played into his hands every
time. My presence at first with
Margalo. Joyce happening on the
avenue when he wanted to kill Laura
Randall. If it had not been Joyce,
he would have managed it some other
way. Perhaps called Laura Randall’s
attention himself."
“He could not have left the house
without one of my men seeing him —”
Keyes Interrupted.
“He did. There is only one en
trance to the street, you know. The
front. The back door, the one
through the basement, leads into the
garden. There is no outlet there;
that is, you saw none. I found one
today. A sliding door in the fence,
behind the bushes. This leads into
the garden beyond. An exit can be
made to Seventy-fifth street through
a narrow passageway, barely big
enough for a man to squeeze through.
This passageway is between two
houses directly behind Dow Van
Every’s. I imagine he had used it
before. From there he took a taxi
to the library. However, I balked
his plans there.
“He had no time to kill Laura
Randall because I bundled her into
a taxi. Therefore he followed the
taxi.
"He was back at his house before
he was missed. He had left so in
obtrusively that no one thought he
was gone. You remember your men
said he was almost crazy with the
loss of the ruby."
“There’s no motive "
“No? Well. Edith Bryce told me
that Van Every suddenly evinced a
liking for Margalo A recent one.
He used his head here. too. He
praised Margalo to Edith, naturally
making Mrs. Bryce jealous. She ’’
“But why?”
“It’s simple, when you understand,
Keyes," I said patiently. “Margalo
had the real ruby. I know that now,
else Van Every would not have killed
her. He loved jewels, loved them
more than anything else In the
world. And he wanted the jewel she
had bought from Pietro Gonzales.
He admitted to shady transactions in
jewels. Perhaps he was too late to
buy the gem in Spain. His agent
was too late, I mean. He undoubt
edly had Pietro foPowed, and knew
that Margalo bought the jewel. He
had made another one, one just like
it. This was the jewel Margalo wore
the night she was murdered. He
whispered his purchase of the Cam
den ruby. It made the papers as he
knew it would. Margalo would see
it, wonder if the jewel she had
bought was real. She would probably
approach him in some way to see the
jewel. He cold-bloodedly decided to
kill her. You will say he might have
exchanged the jewels. He probably
thought of that, but there was a
chance that Margalo had had hers
examined by some jeweler, and some
time after the exchange she would go
again and find out she had been
duped. By whom? It would be easy
to trace him then. He would kill her
instead. After that it would be easy.
The police searching her belongings
would find the jewel—if he stood in
with them there was a chance they
would bring it to him for him to see.
He was an expert, too. and already
w'as the announced purchaser of the
Camden ruby.
“Easy, now, isn’t it? That’s just
what happened, and sometime while
we were both looking at him in his
laboratory, he exchanged the two
rubies, while we were looking on. I
said he was clever with his hands.
He was, for I’m sure he made the
copy of the Camden ruby. He must
have at one time handled It, meas
ured it, for when he made the copy
later, it was almost perfect. The
story he told? You remember he said
himself that the ruby was a very
good forgery, but not good enough to
fool an expert.”
“But the nuns? How do you ex
plain them?”
“He sent for them for a purpose.
They were to be seen in the house.
Seen by Soon, by Laura Randall.
Anyone. They had nothing to do
with the ruby. Undoubtedly Van
Every gave them a donation for their
church. Another false clue.”
“None of the bills, the numbers of
which he gave you, have been passed
at any bank in the state of New
York,” Keyes commented dryly.
“Os course not. because he gave no
PAGE THREE
such bills. Oh, Soon probably got
them from the bank, but they were
put back later into Van Every’s safe
ty deposit box, by Van Every him
self. His pretense was kept up even
before his servant.’’
"Yes, Soon told me he got the bills,
and took the numbers.” Keyes
agreed. “And now if you’ll explain
the telegram which was sent to Mar
galo? The fake telegram."
I admitted my failure there. I
couldn’t do it. It .stumped me.
“Maybe I can do that,” Keyes said,
a twinkle in his eyes. *T found out
this afternoon that the message had
been dropped in the street in front
of a telegraph office, across the street
from the Knickerbocker theater, it
was picked up by one of the boys
who thought a fellow of his had lost
it carelessly. Knowing the fellow
would be severely reprimanded, prob
ably fired, this boy. after he had
finished his own calls, took It upon
himself to deliver the message. He
took it to Miss Younger’s apartment.
Went on the subway, way out of his
route. Several months before he had
been stationed in the telegraph office
in Miss Younger’s district and had
often delivered messages to her
apartment house. .So he knew it
well. Instead of going to the front
he went to the service entrance,
found this unlocked, and himself
took the freight elevator up to Miss
Younger’s floor. He went down the
same way, the operator in the main
elevator in the front unaware. ’
“One thing more, Keyes.” I re
marked. “The needle on Van Every’s
door. It must have been there when
I came in. Van Every didn’t leave
the room while I was with him.
Dumb on my part not to have noticed
the needle when I came In."
“It couldn’t have been. The needle
was shot from the inside, while the
door was open! That’s the only pos
sible explanation. The gun pressed
hard against the door, It was done
while you were in the house, in the
hall, perhaps. Probably while Van
Every was taking you to the door.
Did he go ahead of you?”
“Yes, I was getting my hat "
“You heard nothing?”
“Nothing. And Keyes, another
thing. Ward was never sure hi
killed Roscoe. He made himself be
lieve he did, but he’s really not sure.
I dragged that out of him last night.
Dow might have killed Roscoe. He
was supposed to be abroad—and his
alibis ”
“Perhaps. Anyway, it’s over.”
“I’m going back tomorrow. May
I?" I laughed.
"You may. By the way, you didn’t
tell me what Edith Bryce was doing
in Van Every’s house the night of
the murder.”
So I plunged into that part of the
story.
(THE END)