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ZEB VANCE, 11 TOO
Harris Allows Visitors Two
Safeties as Locals Lam
bast Clayton
By SEYMOUR DWORSKY
Today the Bulldogs played Dabney,
at League Park. It was doubtful as
to who would hurl the pill down to
the Bulldogs foe. And just how the
game cams out was also doubtful
when I wrote this article. This is the
first time that the Bulldogs have play
ed Dabney this year but we hope that
the final decision was in favor of
Coach Miller’s squad.
Once somebody asked me did I ever
see red and what it was, well I al
ways thought that it was a figure of
speech. But now I know that there is
such a thing, for I never saw so many
red-capped ball players in all my life,
it looked like the whole Zeb Vance
school was on the ball team, and they
all had that red cap. Well this didn’t
upset the Bulldogs at all, for they
went right out on that field and
fought like they have never fought be
fore. Harris went out to the mound
and pitched a two hit game, the first
hit was in the fourth, and the other
in the seventh. The outstanding play
er was Edwards who put five men out
unassisted, and six with some assist
ance.
The box:
Zeb Vance AbRHE
J. Kittrell ss 3 0 I 3
Breedlove lb 3 0 0 0
Brown c 3 0 0 1
Perkinson 2b 3 0 11
Clayton p 3 .0 0 0
Young 3b 3 0 0 0
Alexander cf 2 0 0 0
Renn If .2 0 0 0
A. Kittrell rs 2 0 0 1
24 0 2 6
Henderson Ab R H E
Hobgood ss 5 0 1 0
Edwards lb 5 2 2 0
Turner ‘ cf 5 2 2 0
Stewart 3b 4 1 2 0
Calloway c ..' 3 11 0
Jenkins rs 4 11 0
Rideout 2b 3 2 2 1
Coghill If 11 1 0
Smith If 3 0 2 0
Harris p 4 11 0
37 11 15 1
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Rocky Mount 9 1 .900
Norfolk 7 2 .778
Asheville 7 3 .700
Charlotte 5 4 .556
Portsmouth 4 7 .364
Durham 3 6 .333
Richmond 3 7 .300
Winston Salem 1 9 .100
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Detroit 7 2 .778
New York 6 3 * .667
Boston 4 3 .571
Philadelphia 4 4 .500
Cleveland 4 4 .500
St.. Louis 3 '5 .375
Chicago 3 6 .333
Washington 3 7 .300
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Pittsburgh 7 2 .778
St. Louis 7 3 .700
Philadelphia 6 5 .545
Boston 6 6 .500
New York 5 5 .500
Chicago 4 6 .400
Brooklyn 4 7 .364
Cincinnati 1 8 .111
Toda^Gftmes
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Portsmouth at Rocky Mount.
Winston Salem at Norfolk.
Charlotte at Richmond.
Asheville at Durham.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
New York at Detroit.
St. Louis at Boston.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati at New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.
St. Louis at Bostort.
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Norfolk 5; Winston Salem 4.
Rocky Mount 11; Portsmouth 5.
Richmond 11; Charlotte 4.
Asheville 6 Durham 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 12; Chicago 9.
Only games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 3; New York 1.
Philadelphia 14; Brooklyn B*,
Only games played.
CAROLINA MEETS
DAVIDSON MAY 6
Chapel Hill, May 4—Carolina’s var
sity baseball team will resume play
in the Big Five family circle when it
encounters Davidson in a return game
here Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
When the Tar Heels and Wildcats
played on Davidson’s Richardson
Field three weeks ago, the Tar Heels
dropped a heart-breaking 7 to 6 ver
dict. Daffy Parker, leading Carolina
pitcher, cut loose a wild throw in the
ninth with the bases full to present
the Cats with the winning marker. ,
Bunn Hearn, Jr., is slated to do the
hurling for Carolina against Dick
Hicks, who was credited with victory
in the first game.
CP*?d' , T CVf Tea - .! Here.
Jack and four other mem
bers of the golf team of the Citadel,
at Charleston, S. C., were the guests
last night of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jen- ,
kins. The other boys were Weldon, ;
Doe, of Montgomery, Ala., Dick
Daniels, of Augusta, Ga., Ben Mayo,
of Greenville, S. C., and Tommy
Thorne, of Charleston, S. C.
Security Job Is
Not So Enticing
(Continued Irom Page One.)
though there are no reliable reports
going the rounds to indicate this.
Not that there are not plenty of
applicants for the job. There are.
Most of these applicants are under
stood to be either former county wel
fare officers, with strong political
backgrounds, with a good sprinkling
of women welfare workers and pro
fessional lifter uppers who would be
only too willing to distribute some
$8,000,000 a year in old age pensions
and aid to dependent children at a
salary of $5,000 a year. Indications are
however, that few, if any of these ac-'
tive applicants for the job are being
seriously considered and the belief
is that Governor Hoey is quietly look
ing around in search for a man—not
a woman—of the type he wants for
this very important job. Those wlm
know Governor Hoey are convinced
that he is not going to entrust thei
direction of the old age pensions pro
gram, involving the expenditure of
more than $8,000,000 a year of Federal
State and county money, to any one
who is not well fitted by training and
past experience to handle the job.
They point out also that the director
of public assistance should have a
thorough and sound understanding of
county politics, since he must deal
with county welfare boards and
boards of county commissioners. Ac
cordingly, he should know how to
speak their language, as well as Un
derstand it, and not be the sort who
can easily be sucked in or t,e made
to respond to local political pressure.
One of the main reasons it is un
derstood Governor Hoey is having
some trouble finding the type of man!
he wants for the public assistance
jobs, is that the men of this desired
calibre do not fancy the idea of be
ing under the general direction of a
woman superior. For under the law as
it was finally enacted, the director of
public assistance wfll be finder the
general supervision and direction of
the commissioner of public welfare,
wjio at the present time is Mrs. W.
T. Bost, Not that they have any par
ticular objection to Mrs. Bost. In fact,
every one who knows Mrs. Bost and
comes in contact with her has the>
highest regard for her and the man
ner in which she has administered
her office.
But men as a rule do not like to
work for women superiors—to “takei
orders” from female bosses, It is just
naturally contrary to the nature of
the male animal, and his superiority
complex, especially here in the South.
Still another ' ctor is believed to be
the fact that i • years the wlefare de
partment has been regarded as more
or less of a political concession, if not
a political sop, to the women politi
cians, and sob sisters and the profes
sional women lifter uppers, in which
to test out their ideas, because “the
party’’ had to do something to keep
tiie women satisfied and make them
feel they were playing a vital part in
the government of the State. For sev
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eral years many observers here felt
that the welfare department was little
more than the plaything of Mrs. Kate
Burr Johnson. Miss Nell Battle Lewis
and the “faithful” that had to be
given jobs, though under Mrs. Bost it
■has gotten on a more businesslike
basis and has been doing good work,
observers agree.
Denhardt’s Fate
Now Nearing Jury
*
(Continued from Page One.)
Myers. He also denied Myers’ charge
politics had entered into the case.
Messmer had testified paraffin
tests showed Denhardt. had fired a
weapon shortly before the 41-year-old
widow, Mrs. Verna Taylor, was found
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CHAPTER 40
STILL NOT knowing where she
could be, Jacqueline thrust a foot
over the side, feeling for the floor,
but found nothing. Then she
turned so that she lay face down
ward on the mattress, gripping the
edge of the ledge, and gently low
ered herself. It seemed an im
mense distance, but eventually the
toe of her shoe touched something
solid. The next moment she was
standing on her feet, her hands
still gripping the ledge that was
now level with her eyes.
She stood very still, listening in
tently, not daring to move. If only
she had a light! If only there were
a faint glimmer somewhere to give
her some sort of guidance! i
Then suddenly she thrust her
hand into her pocket and gave a
little gasp of satisfaction as her
fingers located her cigaret lighter.
She took it out and snapped it
open, rubbing the wheel with her
thumb. There came a flash from
the flint, but the wick was dry and
refused to light, and though the
flint sparked a dozen times in rapid
succession; the wick refused to
light. She held the lighter above
her head, stared into the darkness
and thumbed the wheel again. In
the faint light of the spark she
caught a glimpse of what seemed
to be a door, and, with her hand
outstretched in front of her, she
went cautiously in that direction,
flashing her lighter as she went.
Her hand found the door, groped
round the handle and turned it.
Very gently she pulled and found
that the door gave. She opened it
a few inches and peered out. A
gust of wind met her. and, glancing
up, she saw the deep blue of the
sky, with a sprinkling of stars.
She stepped out through the
door, made out the dim outline of
a flight of steps on her left, and
moved cautiously toward it. There
was an iron handrail beside the
steps, and, as she gripped it and
placed her foot on the first step,
she paused suddenly and caught
her breath.
On the top of the steps, silhou
etted against the sky, a figure was
seated. As Jacqueline moved, the
beam of a flashlight stabbed the
darkness, shining full on her face
and dazzling her.
“So you’ve come to, dearie, ’ave
yer?” said a voice. It was a
rough, uncouth voice, but it was a
woman’s voice, and Jacqueline felt
a sudden rush of relief. “And
where will yer be goin’ now,
dearie ?” asked the voice.
Jacqueline blinked into the
dazzling beam of the torch, trying
to catch a glimpse of the speaker.
“Who are you?” she asked.
'“Who am I? Joplin’s my name,
dearie—Mrs. Joplin. Pleased ter
meet yer, I’m sure.”
“But I—l don’t know you. I’ve
never seen you,” exclaimed the
girl.
“Pleased ter meet yer, all the
same,” said Mrs. Joplin amiably.
“And as for seeing me—well, ’ave
a look at me now, dearie, an’ get
it over quick.” She turned the
flashlight upon herself.
Mrs. Joplin’s face, revealed by
the beam of light, was not a beau
tiful face. It was heavy and
fleshy, with small, beady eyes be
neath an untidy mass of greasy
black hair, and with a mouth
whose size, to say nothing of the
distinct suggestion of a mustache
on the upper lip, must have de
terred Mrs. Joplin, had her
thoughts turned in that direction,
from entering her name in any
beauty competition. Jacqueline
could not see the body to which
the face was attached, but she got
the impression that it must be a
short, thick-set body, with ample
bosom, broad hips, and arms ’and
legs fashioned more for service
than for aesthetic effect. At the
moment, the face was pleated into
a smile, and though the result of
the pleating was the exposure of a
particularly unattractive set of
discolored teeth, the Smile seemed
to Jacqueline to be a not unfriend
ly one.
“There you are, dearie—that’s
shot to death last November, and said
similar tests showed that he had not.
Turner declared that if Common
wealth’s Attorney H. B. Kinsolving,
Jr., “thought or knew Messmer had
falsified the evidence,” he would pro
secut him as hard and as vigorously
as he was prosecuting General Deni
hardt
Newcastle, Ky., May 4.—(AP) —
With the commonwealth demanding
the death penalty, attorneys prosecut
ing and defending Brigadier General
William Denhardt on a charge of
murdering his fiance, lined up today
for final arguments to the jury.
The jury which heard eight hoursi
of argument, at times bitter, yester
day, was instructed by the judge that
it could acquit the veteran officer or
return a verdict for sentence ranging
Mrs. Joplin’s face was not a beautiful face
me,” said Mrs. Joplin. “Not the
sort of face as shows up well with
floodlighting, but if you’d spend 20
years with my old man you
wouldn’t be looking so fresh your
self.” Her smile vanished. "Take
my advice, dearie,” she said, “and
don’t you go getting married to no
one. It’s wearing. My old
man . . .”
“Where am I?” Jacqueline in
terrupted.
Mrs. Joplin turned the beam of
the torch on Jacqueline’s face
again.
“Don’t you go worrying your
head about that, dearie,” she said.
“It don’t make no difference to you
where you are. You’re here, with
old Ma Joplin, an’ there’s no call
to be scared. Real scared you’re
looking, an’ the best thing you can
do is to ’ave a nice ’ot cup of tea
an’ a bit of a rest.”
“But I can’t stay,” exclaimed the
girl. “I don’t know where lam
or how I got here, but I must get
away at once.” '
She stepped forward and began
to ascend the steps. But she had
gone up only three of them when
a large black object suddenly rose
in front of her, barring her way,
and she paused abruptly. Her
hand' shot out to ward off the ob
ject from her face. As she touched
it she realized that it was Mrs.
Joplin’s foot and that it Was built
on the same massive scale as the
rest of her. ,
“Just you stay where you are,
dearie,” said Mrs. Joplin. “Just
you go back, and I’ll, come down
and light the lamp for you and see
you nicte and c|mfortable.”
“But I’ve no time . . . .”
“Plenty of time, my dear,” Mrs.
Joplin assured her- “Several days,
probably, the gentleman said, and
if it’s six months I’m not to let
you go until 'e gives the word.
Them’s my instructions, so if
you’ve a date with Some nice
young feller, he’ll be disappointed,
this evening.”
1 Suddenly Jacqueline grasped the
foot, thrust it aside atod stepped
quickly up two more steps. Audi
then there loomed out of tte (lark
ness a hand no le*
the foot, which was pUced against
her chest. It was placed there
quite gently but firmly, and Jac
queline got the impression that, no
matter what efforts she might
make, that hand would remain
from a jail sentence to the electric
chair.
Under the court’s instructions, the
jury of 11 farmers and one filling
station operator could convict the de
fendant of first degree murder, volun
tary or involuntary manslaughter or
a misdemeanor.
Family of Slain Union Or
ganizer Tells of Killing
(Continued from Page One.)
unable to meet it.”
With the Senate in recess and the
House devoting itself to minor legis
lation, principal congressional activity
was in committee roomsu.
Talk of compromise on court reor
ganization persisted in the Senate Ju-
fixed and immovable, resisting all
her puny attempts to * force it
aside.
“Now we don’t want no unpleas
antness, dearie,” said Mrs. Joplin.
“There’s no kind of need for it.
You just be sensible an’ do as I
say, an’ nobody’s going’ to hurt
yer. But you mustn’t try none o’
them tricks, because I’ve got me
duty to do, an’ when I start doin'
me duty somebody usually gets
hurt. I’m no beauty to look at,
dearie, but if it's a case of a rough
an’ tumble—well, ask my Alf.
Fourteen stone ’e weighs, but ’e’s
never ’ad the best of it yet, an’
he’ll be the first to admit it.”
“If you think you can keep me
here against my will . . began
Jacqueline furiously, but Mrs. Jop
lin cut her short with a wave of
her massive hand.
“I can, dearie. I could keep a
dozen like you 'ere against their
will if I gave my mind to it. But
we don’t want no yiolence. Peace
an’ ’armony’s my motter, an’ when
my Alf gets rampageous I never
'it ’im ’arder than I ’ave to.”
She got up, laid her hand on
Jacqueline’s shoulder and urged
her down the stairs.
“Go along now, dearie, before I
’ave to speak sharp to yer.”
So, under the guidance of Mrs.
Joplin’s massive hand, she Went
dOWn the stairs and back into the
roofii from which she had groped
her way. Mrs. Joplin followed her,
closed the door behind her, struck
a match, and lighted an oil lamp
that hung from a beam above her
head. Jacqueline glanced hastily
around, and saw a small table, a
couple of chairs, a shabby strip of
carpet on the floor, and a small oil
stove. On the wall in the corner
were two bunks, one above the
Other, and she realized that it was
in the top bunk that she had been
lying when she had returned to
consciousness. .
She turned suddenly to M*s.
Joplin.
1 “Where am I going?” she de-i
manded. • ». *
“Going? You’re going nowhere,
dearie. You’re staying here.”
“But I’m on board a boat.”
. “Maybe you are, my dear, but it
don’t follow as you’re goin’ any-'
where. This ’ere boat’s hardly the
boat to: take a cruise in. It’s what
you’d call a barge, dearie, knowing
no better.”
.(To Be Continued)
diciary Committee before which Sen
ator ivicGill, Democrat, Kansas, urged
adoption of his proposal to limit to
two except for replacements the num
ber of justices each President could
appoint to the court.
Washington, May 4 (AP)—A tow
headed boy of 12 told Senate investi
gators today he had Watched four
Harlan county, Kentucky deputy she
riffs fire a volley of rifle bullets
from ambush into a carload of United
Mine Workers organizers.
The boy, Markham Clouse, shyly tes
tified before the LaFollette civil lib
erties committee he was hunting
“scrap iron” along the wooded banks
of a mountain stream on February 8
when he saw the officers start shoot
ing from a nearby cliff.
Some of the five bullets fired splint
ered around his feet, the gum-chew
ing youngster related.
Earlier witnesses had told the com
mittee Thomas Ferguson, union or
ganizer, was severely wounded in the
shoulder by one of the rifle slugs.
John Clouse, IS, son of Lloyd, cor
roborated Markham’s story.
The two boys and Mrs. Minnie
Clouse, Lloyd’s widow, said the young
sters did not give their eye witness
account of the ambushing to a grand
jury because Pearl Bassham, manager
of the Harlan-Wallins Coal Company,
had informed Lloyd such an action
“was just to cause trouble.”
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