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‘read THIS FIRST:
Sandy Knight, in the temporary role
ot a radio announcer of a Children’s
'Hour program, has been misled by the
fan mail of "a lady named Madden .
Disgusted and humiliated, he Jumps
into his car and leaves town.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
CHAPTER 2
SANDY’S battered gray road
ster was on the ramp of the
garage, and he slipped it into gear
viciously, then zoomed out onto
Jthe street.
Hat pulled well down over his
I eyes, he followed picturesque Wil-
I shire boulevard over the bridge
land out the wide sweep toward
!the beach where he was quartered
(for the summer months. “A few
clothes, and I’m getting out of this
itown,” he thought to himself while
he zig-zagged his way through the
Saturday night traffic. As he
neared the intersection of Wilshire
and Wester, the Forty-second
street of Los Angeles, he caught
the blatant cries of the newsboys.
“Read all about the big radio
I hoax,” they screamed shrilly.
(“Announcer skips town. Read it
Iheah!”
| “That’s just the beginning,”
thought Sandy bitterly, and accu
rately he foresaw the newspaper
features which were classics of
journalism. They were to call him
the “Good Samaritan of the Air”,
the credulous announcer, and some
even less flattering names. Con
sidering the hubbub and confusion
created, the reaction was normal.
He stopped just long enough in
Santa Monica to pack a Gladstone
bag with necessaries, then headed
his car south. He wanted to get
the taste of his last experience out
of his mouth in the fortnight that
remained before it was time to
open the new Lcs Angeles offices
of Sullivan & Knight, Inc. Official
ly, he was a partner in this ad
vertising agency which had its
headquarters in San Francisco.
As he sped along the winding
coast highway with the cool ocean
air refreshing him, he thought
back over the events since June
Ist when he and Tim Sullivan had
decided to expand their profitable
little business. He had wound up
his affairs in San Francisco within
I the month, and said a regretful
ifarewell to the picturesque metro
politan city of the Golden Gate.
I With the usual misgiving of a
; northerner moving into the blatant,
hustling southern city, he had
“felt” his way around for a few
;days but experienced no difficulty
in locating a suitable office in the
heart of the printing district.
Sandy had signed his name to
(the lease with some misgiving,
i realizing that he was committing
himself to a job of pioneering in a
: highly competitive field where he
; had few friends. The office would
not be available for another month,
£nd Sandy faced empty weeks of
boredom until Aug. 1. Hence it
was a welcome relief when a casual
acquaintance, Mike Borst, made an
astounding suggestion over a
whiskey and soda in one of Los
Angeles’ shining cocktail bars.
“I’ve got to take a radio show
on a two weeks’ tour,” Borst com
plained. “Another bunch of
squawking amateurs. The devil
of it is that I can’t afford to give
up a job I’ve got over at KROX,
and I can’t afford to walk out on
my girls. Not bad lookers, either
—if they didn’t sound so awful.
Another drink?”
Drowning his grievances in a
deliberate and painstaking manner,
Borst suddenly banged his fist on
the bar. His eyes brightened and
he talked fast. “I’ve got it. Look,
why don’t you take over the radio
job for me for those two weeks?
You’ve got nothing to do, and
nothing to lose. Besides that, it’ll
help you get your bearings around
town and the practical experience
of announcing on the program
won’t hurt you. ’S a matter of
fact, I should charge you for the
training. It’s invaluable, man.
Invaluable!”
Sandy was amazed that Borst
would entrust his job to a man he
had met but casually at the Ad
club, but the crazy plan appealed
to him. Two weeks would pass
quickly, he’d reasoned, and he
might as well be working as
wasting the time until he could
take possession of his new office.
“I’ll do it,” he said suddenly, so
vociferously that Mike spilled half
his drink on his crimson tie. .
“Good boy,” he mumbled and
slumped down, seeming suddenly
disinterested now that the trans
action was complete. Sandy had
half expected him to forget the
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“Bring me my pup, will you, please?”
bargain when he called at the radio
station the next day, but a cold
sober Borst greeted him gratefully
and began to outline his new
duties.
Sandy remembered the first time
he had entered the shining glass
cage to address the grinning, sput
tering microphone. He’d felt rather
shamefaced to be aping the very
men he had termed “human noise
boxes”, and could not get the
knack of talking to an unseen
audience who might be cutting him
off in the middle of a word, for
all he knew. While he laughed
good naturedly when the office
staff teased him about the O’Day
letters, secretly he had been rather
pleased with this one tangible con
tact with his radio world. “His
public,” he had called them half
jokingly, half pridefully.
“Well, I’ve got a public now,”
he muttered miserably as he came
back to the present and remem
bered the newsboys’ screaming.
“I’m as bad as the fellow who ran
the wrong way to a touchdown:
everybody will be expecting me to
do things backwards all my life.
What a great start for a new busi
ness!”
Rounding a curve in the high
way his headlights picked up a
directional sign that announced
“La Cresta—l7 miles”. La Cresta.
A flood of hurt feelings submerged
him, then his pentup anger burst
forth and he determined to go to
La Cresta and meet face to face
the lady named Madden, whom he
had known as the mythical Alicia
O’Day. There might be a certain
satisfaction in telling such a per
son his honest opinion of her
thoughtless prank. But he had no
idea of the surprise that awaited
him under the peaceful palms.
Sandy arrived in the quaint hill
and-oceanside town of La Cresta,
and drew a reluctant breath of de
light at the sheer beauty of it. A
silver moon illumined the sparkling
crescent of the ocean, and tall
palms were silhouetted on the cliff.
Only an occasional light glimmered
in the sleepy little town, and
Sandy drove into one of the neat
little auto camps for which the
coast is famous. No chance to
satisfy his quest of vengeance now,
he decided, and he threw himself
on the bed and slept the balance
of the night.
The day was one of radiant
brightness, with -the sun high and
hot in the b! '2 sky. Sandy walked
down the streets of La Cresta,
stopping frequently to inquire the
way to the “great Palm Point”
mentioned in the telegram. As he
followed directions and walked
easily up the gradual incline to
ward the point he marveled at the
spic and span settlement of mod
'ern beach houses. The architec
ture was that queer combination
of Norman, French, Spanish adobe
and early American, so conven
iently known as “Californian”. The
amazing thing was the perfection
GWYNN DUE TO GET
NEWEST JUDGESHIP
McMichael and Sparger Speculated as
New Solicitors, With Forest
G. Miles
?n the Sir Walter Hotel,
By .1. r. 'rfASKKI*VIL.Ii
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
Raleigh, May 25. —Although Gover
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ncr Clyde R. Hoey is not expected to
announce the appointment of the new
judge and solicitor for the new twenty
first judicial district until the middle
of June or even later, the belief is
growing in informed circles here that
Allen H. Gwynn, at present the solici
tor in the eleventh judicial district,
has the inside track for the appoint
* ment of judge of the new district, also
that State Senator S. Gilmer Sparger,
of Danbury, Stokes county, is in line
for the appointment as solicitor in
the new district.
If Gwynn is appointed judge in the
new twenty-first, district created by
the 1&37 General Assembly, the gov
ernor will also have to appoint a new
solicitor in the eleventh district. Ac
cordingly, there is already consider
able speculation as to whom the gov
ernor will appoint as solicitor in the
■ eleventh district, where Judge J. H.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1937
and the completeness of these halt
dozen streets and their doll-like)
houses.
Standing on a vantage point of
high ground, Sandy searched for
landmarks, and was almost glad:
that he could find none, hence I
would have no unpleasant mem- >
ories of this quaint town. Then,
far to the left of him, on the peak
of the cliff, he saw a mighty palm
tree that fairly hid a tiny white
house in the shade of its queer
ballet skirts. Beyond a doubt this
was the place he sought. He
walked up and down in front of
the retiring cottage, having a
growing conviction that no prac-j
tical joker could live within its
kindly walls. A little white
haired lady * was snipping the
organdy-fluted flowers, and she:
alone was guarantee enough that
the people who lived there were
beyond heartless joking.
“No one here to fight with and
that’s that,” he breathed in relief.'
He mopped his perspiring brow,
for while his anger had cooled his
body had not. He looked enviously
down at the curving stretch of
beach below where blue-green j
waves were crashing on a sandy j
shore. With a hasty glance:
around, he started to break a trail
down the hillside, toward the se-1
elusion of the beach. Not a soul
was in sight, and he slipped behind
some rocks to strip for a swim.
Emerging in f wo seconds, he
plunged into the picturesque waves
to test their reality. A reassuring
cool shower slid over his warm
body, and he struck out a powerful
crawl.
“Dammit, come here!” and the
extremely annoyed tones of a
girl’s voice reached Sandy, shortly
followed by a mass of white fur,
splashing water, and the excited
yipping of a dog.
“Hi, purp! How’s things?”
Sandy greeted this unexpected in
truder, then added, “Haven’t you
strayed a bit from your girl
friend’s apron strings?”
“There’s no apron on this string.
The foolish thing is broken. See?”
And a slim girl in a scant white
suit waved the ridiculous inade
quate strap of red leather Which
once restrained the exuberance of
the wire-haired terrier.
“Bring me my pup, will you,
please?” she called.
Sandy grinned as he saw her
standing on the shore so ineffec
tually—but not ineffectively, he
thought, as he noted the adorable
slimness of her and the way the
sunshine brightened her short
curly hair. He started to swim l
toward the shore, then as his feet
touched bottom he realized his to
tal lack of clothing.
“Uh, oh! I nearly forgot,” he
stammered, shamefacedly. “You’d
better leave, miss. You see, I
thought I was alone and I am—er,
practically devoid of superficial
covering and ”
(To Be Continued)
Clement is the resident judge.
While a goodly number of lawyers
in the eleventh district are understood
to be in a receptive attitude for the
appointmnt, the field has already nar
rowed down to two, according to most
observers here. These are J. Earle Mc-
Michael and Forrest G. Miles, both
of Winston-Salem. But of these two,
McMichael is regarded as having
:n Tch the better chances due to the
fact he has been acting as assistant
solicitor in the district for several
years and is regarded as one of t’r.
most vigorous and business-like pro
secutors anywhere in the State.
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JOEL T. CHEATHAM, Pres.
Linksmen to Give West
Enders First Inter-City
Test of Year
West End Country Club golfers will
pit their best against a team from
South Boston, Va., here tomorrow aft
ernoon over the local course.
Captain Nathan Strause and assist
ant Stewart Finch will match the golf
ers against the visitors for the 18-
holes.
This is the first inter-city match of
the season for West End linksmen,
and another is on tdp before the qual
ifying rounds and play in the an
nual club championship tournament
begins.
Last year, local linksmen made a
very good showing against teams
from other cities, playing about on
even terms with all foes met.
Interest in golf has been steadily
mounting at the local club, and tour
naments with neighboring teams will
add a great deal more plasure tg the
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Asheville 21 9 .700
Norfolk 18 11 .621
Durham 16 12 .571
Richmond 17 14 .549
Portsmouth 16 14 .533
Rocky Mount ~15 15 .500
Charlotte 14 15 .483
Winston Salem 1 28 .034
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
New York 17 10 .630
Philadelphia 15 10 .600
Detroit 16 12 .571
Cleveland 12 11 .522
Boston 11 13 .458
Washington 13 16 .448
Chicago 11 15 .423
St. Louis 9 17 .346
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Pittsburgh 19 9 .679
St Louis 16 12 .571
New York 17 13 .567
Chicago 15 14 .517
Brooklyn 13 15 .467
Boston 12 15 .444
Philadelphia 11 18 .379
Cincinnati 10 17 .370
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Durham 1; Rocky Mount 2.
Richmond 7; Norfolk 6.
Portsmbuth 14; Asheville 8. *
Charlotte 13; Winston 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 3; Washington 1. j
Philadelphia 6; St. Louis 8.
Chicago 5; Boston 9. j
Cleveland 0; New York 14. '
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 4; Pittsburgh 3.
Boston 3; Chicago 1. F
Brooklyn 1; Cincinnati 0.
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Winston-Salem at Charlotte.
Rocky Mount at Durham.
Asheville at Portsmouth.
Norfolk at Richmond.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland at Philadelphia. ?
Chicago at’Washington.
Detroit at New York.
St. Louis at Boston.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
Boston at St. Louis.
W T hen a Cardinal pitcher winds up
nobody knows whether he is going to
let loose a curve for the batter or the
umpire’s chin.
It’s too bad Jack Dempsey, due to
advancing age, has retired from the
ring. He would make a honey of a
third baseman for the Red Birds.
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National league pennant the St. Louis
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for Baseball Here
Complete lack of Interest killed
whatever opportunity Henderson
had in becoming a member of the
Tobacco State League last night
when fans failed to turn out to a
called meeting at Hill Top tea
room to talk over baseball for Hen
derson during the coming months.
Two persons attended.
Ed Powell, baseball promoter, to
day said he was through, and that
it is plainly evident that Henderson
does not want baseball.
Big league ball players are courage
ous. Tq date no other National league
club has petitioned the president of
the president of the circuit for the
right to wear armor when playing' in
Sportsman’s park, St. Louis.
FORECLOSURE SALE.
Under and by virtue of authority
vested in the undersigned as trustee
in a certain deed of trust executed
by James Royster, unmarried, and
recorded in Book 147, Page 61, Regis
ter of Deeds Office of Vance County,
default having been made in the pay
ment of the debt therein secured, and
the owner of said debt having de
manded of the trustee a sale of the
security, I will offer for sale at the
courthouse door in Henderson, N. C.,
on Wednesday the 23rd day of June,
1937, one fourth undivided interest of
James Royster in and to the follow
ing described tract of land:
That tract of land containing 106
2-5 acres, being land bought by Henry
G. Royster from A. J. Harris and
more fully described in deed to Henry
Royster from B. S. Royster trustee,
see deed book 100, page 498, Vance
Registry, see also deed dated Oct. 14,
1930 by which Virginia A. Peace re
conveys this land to James Royster.
It having been sold from him under
attachment proceeding of E. A. Jor
dan, vs. Royster.
Dated and posted this 18th day of
May, 1937.
A. A. BUNN, Trustee.
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHnni*^
$17,000 REFUNDING RONDS
Be it ordained by the f\tv n
of the City of Henderson- ' C ° Uncil
Section 1. That the City of h™ ,
son issue its bonds, pursuant
Municipal Finance Act, as ami ;
in an amount not exceeding S? 7 S
for the purpose of refunding [
amount of the principal of valid t h
sisting bonded indebtedness of T
City of Henderson maturing Tu'v i
1937, which indebtedness was incuned
for necessary expenses of said Citv
and is evidenced by the following ’
D s ß ’ ooo 5 % Street Improvement
Bonds dated July 1 1992
SB,OOO 5 1-2% Street and Sidewalk
Bonds dated July 1, 1923.
SI,OOO 6% Sewerage Extension Bond
datetd January 1, 1921.
Section 2. That a tax sufficient to
pay the principal and interest of said
refunding bends shall be annually
> levied and collected. y
Section 3. That the holders of said
refunding bonds shall be subrogated
; to all th - rights and powers of the
, hollers of the indebtedness so refund
ed.
, Section 4. That a statement of the
debt of the City has been filed with
■ the Clerk and is open to public in
spection.
! Section 5. That this ordinance shall
take effect upon its passage and shall
. not be submitted to the voters.
The foregoing ordinance was pass
ed on the 24th day of May, 1937, and
was first published on the 25th day
of May, 1937.
Any action or proceeding question
ing the validity of said ordinance
must be commenced within thirty
days after its first publication.
S. B. BURWELL,
City Clerk.
AN) ORDINANCE
$3,000 FUNDING BONDS.
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Be it ordained by the City Council
of the City of Henderson:
Section 1. That the City of Hender
son issue its bonds, pursuant to the
Municipal Finance Act, as amended,
in an amount not exceeding $3,000 for
the purpose of funding a like amount
of interest payable July 1, 1937 upon
valid subsisting bonded indebtedness
of the City of Henderson, which in
debtedness was incurred for necessary
expenses of said City, the bonds upon
which said interest is payable being
as follows:
5% Street Improvement Bonds
dated July 1, 1922.
5 1-2% Street and Sidewalk Bonds
dated July 1, 1923.
6% Sewerage Extension Bonds dat
ed January 1, 1921.
Section 2. That a tax sufficient to
pay the principal and interest of said
funding bonds shall be annually levied
and collected.
Section 3. That the holders of said
funding bonds shall be subrogated to
all the rights and powers of the hold
ers of the indebtedness so funded.
Section 4. That a statement of the
dent of the City has been filed with
the Clerk and is open to public in
spection.
Section 5. That this ordinance shall
take effect upon its passage and shall
not be submitted to the voters.
The foregoing ordinance was pass
ed oil the 24th day of May, 1937, and
was first published on the 25th day
of May, 1937.
Any action or proceeding question
ing the validity of said ordinance
must be commenced within thirty
days after its first publication.
S. B. BURWELL,
City Clerk.
NOTICE.
Pursuant to a condemnation order
of the Recorder’s Court of Vance
County in the case of the State
against W. A. McDonald in which he
was convicted and sentenced for trans
porting corn whiskey in the auto
mobile hereinafter described, the un
dersigned will offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
at the Courthouse door at mid-day on
Wednesday, the 9th day of June, 1937,
the following described personal
property:
1. A Ford V-8 Serial No. 2847971,
License No. 524391.
This the 15th day of May, 1937.
J. E. HAMLETT,
Sheriff of Vance County.
FORECLOSURE SALE.
By virtue of authority vested in
the undersigned as trustee by Henry
G. Royster, Jr. and Fearl Griffin Roy
ster, widow, in a certain deed of trust
executed on the 24th day of January,
1928, and recorded in Book 146, Page
229, Register of deeds office of Vance
Cohnty, North Carolina, default hav
ing been made in the payment of the
debt therein secured, and the holdeis
of the debt having demanded of the
trustee a sale of the security, I will
offer for sale by public auction for
cash at the courthouse door in Hen
derson, on the 23rd day of June, 193 i,
at 12 O’clock, the one half undivided
; interest of skid Jlenry G. Royster, Jr.,
and Pearl Royster Griffin, in and to
1 the 1 following described tracts of land-
Begin at a pine stump in the for
of’the’road leading from Marrows
Chappel Church to Marrow’s mill and
’to Pruitt’s 'shop, and run thence s ■
E, 150 rods to a stake to the left ox
she public road, thence S 3 E,
rods to'a 1 small white oak on -
South side of the road from Marrows
ihiTl to Pruitts shop, thence W, 75
t 6; a stake and red oak stump on
small branch, thence N 62 1-- ”,
rddk' td, a Spanish oak on the a o
said road, thence along said roa
a Northerly direction to the _
hing, containing 102.2-5 acres Tno
less.'See deed of B. S. Royster
tee to the parties of the firs P
Book 100 Page 498.
Dated and posted this 18th a.
May, 1937. „
A. A. BUNN, Trustee, ,