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PAGE TWO Carolina Teams To Take Part In 13 Dual Meets Chape Hill, AprillO.—North Carp « lina’s varsity arfd freshman teams - face another busy program next * week when they are scheduled to en gage in 13 dual events and 'three > tournament contests. In tournament competition Caro lina will enter several leading indi vidual members of its tennis, track , and golf teams. ' Six of the varsity golfers will go to Athens, Ga., for the annual South ► ern Inter-collegiates to be held - there on Thursday, Friday and Sat " urday. Outstanding linksmen from both Southern and Southeastern are entered in the big - event. a:._ Fencing activities for the 1939 Season will be brought to a close 4 4iext Friday and Saturday at Wil vl liamsburg, Va., with the first South - ern Conference tournament in years. -Carolina will be represented by foil, ' fcpee and sabre- contestants. ii* Several of the leading members ...of the undefeated tennis team will Vie for honors with the North and *’South’s leading amateurs at the an “ jiual North-South tournament to be ..held at Pinehurst Monday through -Saturday. u • Varsity baseball will have as its feature the first of two scheduled ..games with N: C. State here Tuesday • The Tar Heel nine also Is scheduled to make its only out-of- State appearance this spring, moving into Virginia for games with V. M. I. Thursday, Washington and Lee ■* Friday, and the University of Vir „ ginia Saturday, m-. Scene of the Carolina-Virginia - track meet Saturday has been shift ed from Chapel Hill to Charlottes t>yille, stronghold of the Cavaliers. ...The lacrosse team will invade Wash ington, D. C., for an engagement V/ith the strong Washington, D. C., ’lacrosse club. GonvictMbaughter WRITTEN FOR AND RELEASED rflCs 1/AklC BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION JvC RU T H RAY K AIN t sfiy i CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE AS LON A struggled back to con sciousness again after fainting at the news that Jim was cleared, it seemed to hep-' that everybody in the world had crowded into that tiny room at the police station. Opening her eyes, she found her self sitting in a big easy chair with Jim bending over her anxiously. Behind him what seemed like a sea of faces pressed forward, laughing and excited. Two more policemen in uniform had bobbed up from nowhere. Mrs. Morriss was hover ing over her, stroking her cold hands, and Dinah, in her wheel chair, was being helped across the doorway. “I.thought I’d never get here,” Dinah was babbling. Her blue eyes were shining brighter than Lona had ever sfeen them, and her hair curled about her head like a golden halo. “The reporters told me the news as soon as they discovered that you had managed to run away from them, and I came right after you. Isn’t it wonderful? . . . Oh, Jim, I’m so glad!” She was bubbling over. Behind her crowded Ellis Langforth and his reporter friends, grinning and looking as important as if they, personally, had managed the whole thing. . . . The desk sergeant re ceived them, still looking surprised, his round eyes going to Lona over and over again as if she were some thing rare. , “She never knew a thing,” he still was marveling to anyone who would listen. “Imagine that! She come bustin’ in here, all excited, with her eyes poppin’ out, and wanted to know was he still alive.” Jim’s eyes as he bent over her were tender, and the strained, un happy look that had clouded them for so long had vanished. He was smiling, too, his appealing half smile, that always brought to her mind the thought of Tiny. “Jim!” His name rose to her lips in a choked whisper as she thought of Tiny. “Jim!” His name rose to her lips in a choked whisper as she clung to him feeling the need for re-assur ance. “It’s all over, girl,” he told her, his voice holding the husky drawl she had missed so much when he was ill. “No more worries for us.” “Are you sure, Jim?” She was still incredulous, still afraid to be lieve. It was as if the strain had been too tense to allow her to throw it off in a moment like this. There MUST be some catch to it, her tired mind was telling her. It couldn’t be true! This was too good to be happening to her. She was made for misfortune. She was afraid of this glimpse of heaven. “You wouldn’t—fool me, Jim?” she begged. , - “Why, girli Os course it’s true!” He laughed his old ringing laugh. “It’s all over, I tell you. We can forget it. We can be a regular fam ily ndw. No more hiding and dodg ing. It’s great!” “You mean we can stay here in Brighton, now?” Her mind was slowly taking hold in spite of her fears. *"We can stay here with Dinah and Mrs. Morriss, and all our —friends? We don’t have to leave ?” “We can stay nere forever if you feel like it.” “Oh, Jim.” She could say no more, but coult* only cling to him. Stoop ing suddenly lower, he gathered her into his arms and kissed her. There was happiness in that kiss; relief, too, and understanding. It made the staggering happenings of the last hour seem real to her for the first time, and she held him close while she kissed him back, The second Carolina’s AAU Gym naustics meet will be held here Wednesday in Woollen gym. Prior to leaving for Athens the varsity golfers will play Pennsylvania at the Hillandale Course, Durham, Tuesday afternoon. MOBILE WINS 13 TO 6 FROM GOOSE HOLLOW Mobile beat Goose Hollow this morning 13 to 6 in an Easter Mon day baseball game at Mobile between two Negro nines. Hight pitched for the winners, with Townes pitching for the losers. BAND TO APPEAR AT LIONS EXPOSITION Henderson high school band will give a concert Tuesday evening at 7:45 o’clock at the Greater Hender son exposition, and all band mem bers were asked to be at the High Price warehouse promptly at 7:30 o’clock. There will be a band practice at the schml T’’c p i' vv morning, accord ing to the announcement, and all band members were asked to be on hand for this event. Union Turns to Cattle Monroe, April 10. —Union county farmers are turning to beef cattle to supplement their income from price-sick cotton, reports T. J. W. Broom, farm agent of the State Col lege Extension Service. All over the county, growers are turning some of their cotton acreage over to pasture and hay crops and are buy ing cattle to start new herds. In many cases, the new enterprise is receiving as much attention as the cotton crop. “It’s all over, girl,” he told her. forgetful of the crowded room. “Hold it, will you!” somebody cut in, then, in a delighted voice. “Just a minute, pieces.” They both jumped to find Ellis Langforth and his photographer surveying -them happily. The cam era clicked even as Lona tried to shrink back, her old fears getting the best of her. “Please —■” she began, but Jim laughed and, catching her again in his arms, posed boldly. “Take another one,” he ordered. “Take all you want.” “Jim, they’re for the newspapers! They’ll be printed—” “Who’s afraid of the newspapers now?” He was jubilant. “Let them take all the pictures they want. Let them print anything they feel like printing!” “How about a statement, Mr. Rankin ?” Ellis Langforth broke in. “How does it feel to have a charge of murder lifted from your shoul ders?” “It feels grand,” Jim grinned back at him, and Lona, her fears of newspaper men and the tragedy they might bring into her life slip ping away before his new-found confidence, smiled with him. “What are you planning for the' future?” Langforth’s pencil was flying over his notebook. “Well, first we’re going to Cali fornia—on a honeymoon.” Jim sounded as if he were planning aloud. “My wife’s never been to California, you know. I have a sis ter out there I want her to know, now that—things have cleared up. Then we’re coming right back here to Brighton to live. Mrs. Rankin likes it here. Clark Martin and I probably will go into partnership on the net patent and everybody is going to be happy.” He waved a hand to include the whole room. “And now I wish you’d let me off. I’m hungry, you see, and I’d like to eat. This has been a tough day.” A laugh went up at that and a movement toward the door began. “Just one more thing,” Ellifi Plans Pushed For Junior Legion Unit Plans are being worked out for the formation here on April 24 of a Sons of the Legion unit of the American Legion, and in the evening of that day a dinner will be given to pros pective members of the new organi zation. J. R. Biller is chairman of the committee of the local post o! the Legion, named at the last meet ing to arrange for forming the or ganization. All sons of veterans, including de ceased veterans, will be invited to the dinner, which will be in the American It'gion hut at 6:30 p. m. April 24. Plans are being made to set up a tent in front of the American Legion hut next week to allow all eligible boys to register. Philip Harris is in charge of this project, it was stated. Jr. High P.-T. A. Installs Officers The Junior High Parent-Teacher Association will meet Tuesday after noon at 3:30 o’clock at the school. The installation of officers for the coming year will be had, after which the newly installed officers will take charge. Announcement of commit tees lor 1939-40 will be heard. The change of date is due to the fact that the State P.-T. A. conven tion will be held Wednesday through Friday, in Raleigh. A cordial invitation is given to in coming members of the association, as well as the regular members. A large attendance is urged. Adolph Hitler, apparently will try anything—even to attempting to keep a public speech of his a profound secret. Langforth stopped them to beg.! “How about Mrs. Rankin? Hasn’t she anything to say?” j For a moment Lona hesitated. It; was hard, discarding her old shrinking from publicity. Then; realizing that a silence had fallen on the room, and that they were all waiting for her to speak, she 1 looked up and smiled at Jim, a 1 proud, slow smile. “Just say I’m the happiest worn.-* an alive,” she told them easily. * * * She was to repeat that brave statement once more, when they were back again in the privacy of their own living room in the Mor riss home. This time it was so Jim alone, she spoke. “Do you really mean that, girl?” he asked, his arms straining her to him with new vigor. “Mean it! Why, you know I mean it, Jim!” A “And you don’t blame me for letting you in for all this? You’re going to—forget it?” His voice was anxious, and his eyes were tender. “Blame you! Jim, don’t be silly;! I’m so happy I could c-cry! I—I—” She broke off, to hide her head sud denly on his shoulder. “I believe I would have died, Jim, if they would have t-taken you away. I couldn’t live without you—” “Girl!” His voice was still hum ble. He bent his head to hers slow ly. “I’ll make it up to you,” be whispered. v - i He kissed her then, and the news boy who strolled by outside, still calling a raucous “Ex-tra! Read all about it” in the hope of culling <a few more cents from the day’s ex citement, went by unheeded by either of them. -') At the end of the block the news boy paused, tiredly, and felt of the papers still in his canvas bag. “Guess it’s all over,” he said, re gretfully, and sat down on the curb beneath the street light to count the pennies that were his evening’s earnings. (The End) HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, APRIL 10,1939 •Speak-s Tbnight 'V* HP - > Zte. 7?oge/?r Moser Dr. Robert Moses, city park com missioner of New York, will speak at Duke university on Monday night to be the sixth and final speaker in the university’s centen nial lecture series. His subject will be “Plan and Performance.” Dr. Moses’ task in New York is to con. solidate and administer city park and parkway systems and coordi nate wtih state and suburban sys tems. He is an authority on public works, recreation and similar gov ernmental functions. New York’s newest subway cars will feature full-length mirrors. What a break for the passengers! Now a fellow and his image can ride for the same nickel. READ THIS FIRST: , Eleanor Conroy, 18, decides to try for a newspaper job when she learns that her sister's approaching marriage will deprive her of a course at busi ness college. • tNOW GO ON WITH THE STORY), 1 CHAPTER TWO ELEANOR CONROY picked her way up the dark stairs that led to the city room of the Courier-Jour nal. The unfamiliar sweetish odor iof newsprint assailed her nostrils las she stood hesitantly before a | door marked: “Editorial Depart ment.” j Under the printed letters, some one had scrawled, “Keep Out! This Means You!” Eleanor opened the door. There were three men in the pa per littered room, One of them sat with hia W desk, his head buried in the last edition. Another was barking an unintelligible lan guage ihtcr a telephone. The third man was young. He sat at a desk near the window in his shirt sleeves. His hp£ was on the back of his head and he bent over a long sheet of paper, pencil in hand. There was & metal sign tacked to the side of his desk. It read: “Managing Editor.” Eleanor walked around the cir cular table that led to that desk and stood beside him without say ing anything for a moment. He turned his head sideways and saw her gray jersey dress, the neat linen cuffs at her wrists. “Sorry, sister,” he said, returning to his editing of a telegraph sheet, “No solicitors allowed." Eleanor bent down so that when he turned his head hers would be on a level with his. “I’m not soliciting anything,” she said. A He turned and looked Into a heart-shaped face and two serious gray eyes. He pushed his hat a lit-; tie farther back on his head and got up. He got up a long way. He was very tall and very thin. He said: “Well!” She said: “You’re the managing editor, aren’t you?” He looked about hastily. Kelly was looking at him. He said: “Not exactly. He isn’t in now." “Oh! Well .... I . . . I wonder if Mr. Parrish is in.” “What’d you want to see him about?” he asked warily. “I’m Eleanor Conroy. His sister Polly is a friend of mine. So I think he’ll see me if he’s in.” “He’s in,” he said. “What can I do for you? I’m Parrish.” Eleanor said gravely, “How do you do, Mr. Parrish. I won’t waste your time. I’ve come to get a job. Will you introduce me to the man .aging editor?” He scratched his ear with his pencil, wondering what questions Ed Thorne would be likely to ask. “Any—er—experience ?” he asked after a while. “No,” she said briefly. “But I was at the top in my class in Eng lish composition and I have—a—a news for nose ... I mean a nose for news, I think. And I learn very quickly.” “Oh, you’ve got to do better than that,” he said. * .“Well, tell me what to do and I will.” j That was the catch. He couldn’t think of anything, so he began to* explain carefully: “You see, a lead ing newspaper like this doesn’t have time to break in newcom ers . . .” “But newcomers have to start somewhere. I should think a news paper would consider it a good In vestment to train smart reporters.” “’At’s the spirit,” he agreed, wondering if , she was as delectable when she laughed as when she was so deadly serious. “Os course I know they have to be impressed by—by the newcom er, but I am ambitious and indus trious and I can do what I’m told.” “Well, you see that’s, a. point. You have to do more than vtfhat you’re' fcbld. You have to know how to get news that the paper will print Whi t Gjffigr cNQs WRITTEN FOR AND RELEASED fir W M ADITT V7 A DTI CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION / I V JLAVICIIIi ULI^AUCL/ Capital Gossip By HENRY AVF.RILL AND LYNN NISBET Raleigh, April 10. —At least two State departments are receiving many appreciative messages for the speed with which they got results of legislation out of the affected counties. Secretary of State Thad Eure makes no secret of the fact that he is proud of his department’s effici ency in getting the lists of justices of the peace appointed by the as sembly into the hands of the several clerks of court in less than three days. He has received many letters of appreciation for that speedy ser vice. And Dr. Carl Reynolds claims that the board of health staff did an even better job. under the circumstances in getting out temporary blanks for medical examination reports for marriage licenses. The fact that the new examination law became ef fective upon its ratification last Monday threw a monkey wrench into the plans of many a couple and the whole business of issuing licenses was held up for a day or two. Dr. Reynolds put his whole staff to work getting out the forms to registers of deeds, and typewriters, mimeographs and mailing machines worked far into the night—but the forms were in every court house by the second day. ( Adjournment of the legislature reduced the number Os school chil dren visiting Raleigh, but did not stop them. Every day since, there have been several classes from va rious points in the State looking over •Tie’s in,” he said.. “What can Ido for you?” without being told where to get it." Eleanor pondered on his words for a few minutes. Then she smiled slowly. Phil Parrish thought, what I’d give to hear her laugh. She said slowly, “1 think I know what you mean. . . . But look, Mr. Par rish, I can get lots of items for the society page.” “Yeah? How?” He asked cause he was reluctant to have her go. She said: "Everybody in this town—ail the young .people, I mean —goes to the local high school and I am president of my graduating class—we graduate next week, you know, and I’ll be free to go to work right away—and so I know some of the girls who’ll be in the Junior League, and going away to college, and all that. And I could make out a list of all the people who are In clubs and charity enterprises and arrange a list ...” He said: “Wait a minute . . . did you ever do this stuff before ?" Eleanor swallowed hard. She said, “Os course," He said: “Where?" Eleanor said, hastily: "And may be I could read proof, too. I wouldn’t mind doing any kind of work ... or long hours . . . or small pay. Please, Mr. Parrish, will you see what you can do for me ?” “Sure, sure. But, I’d try the other papers if I were you. Newspaper jobs are kind of hard to get.” “But if you can? Shall I come in to see you tomorrow ?” Phil got up and walked to the door with her. “I . . . I wouldn’t; come tomorrow. I’ll telephone you if anything turns up. Polly can tell ; me where you are.” “Oh, no!” she said. “We don’t have a telephone. But you could! call me at the drug store next doorj Miller’s drug store—7B6s—and ask them to call me.” “Okay,” he said, writing down the number. “Maybe I’ll give you a ring anyway.” ■ “Thank you," she said gratefully. Kelly looked up from under his eye shade. “Bessie Cahill was ask ing the boss if she could get the whole month of July for her vaca tion,” he said informatively. Bessie Cahill was the society editor. “Yeah?" Parrish asked inter estedly. He rubbed his hand over his chin thoughtfully. “Wonder ts Thorne’s up at the courthouse. It’s a long time since I bought him a drink.” “It’s a long time since he saw a looker like that,” McNeil said tc Kelly, as Parrish’s long legs cleared the gate rail. “Me either,” Kelly said succinct ly. “But I don’t approve of dames around a city room.” , , . t '"Put'her Wto the society editors office and the city room will re main pure and undeflled by lovely the State buildings, spending most of their time in the museum and the hall of• history, but also playing 'With the squirrels on Capitol Square. Leading them around is the Ichabod Crane-like figure of George M. Stell, recently named as official Cafcitol guide. The impression grows around the capitol that. when Governor , Hoey names the new member of the in dustrial commission, which by the way is the only really “decent” ap pointment he has to make, he will not name a member of the General Assembly. The custom had. grown almost to the point of seana&l of using appointments like that as a trading piece during the session, but the governor didn’t need to go that extreme and it is generally believed that he will not pick the commis sioner from the legislative roster. Major Arthur Fletcher, home for the Easter holidays, is well pleased with the co-operation shown by m wkk m Kraft m Chas. Boyer and Irene Dunne in “Love Affair” Stevenson Today and Tuesday. woman,” McNeil answered. “If it doesn’t move in there,” Kelly jerked his head toward the small office occupied by Mias Ca hill. / Joe Miller beckoned to Eleanor as she got off the trolley car In. front of his store two hours later, “Telephone for you, Nelly,” he said. Eleanor, her eyes shining,, her body aquiver, burst into the smasL Conroy house a few niinutes late&i “Behold the bringerhoihe of fthft bacon!*’ she announced from the door. “Parrish just called tip/and said the paper will take me on for a month as society editor. And, Fa I make good, they’ll find some other place for me when Miss Ca hill comes back. I’m to ; get four teen dollar a week!” Her mother caught her * underlip in her teeth. J ■ ‘ “Now, what’s the matter,;Mum-, mie?” Eleanor demanded. ‘ “You’re only 18, Nell, and I don’t like to have you down there,with those newspapermen. I hear they ' are gamblers ... and • . . a newspaperman’s wife leads'a . ..” “Bosh!” Eleanor said angrily, “Anyway, you don’t seem to un derstand that Pm going to work. I’m not going there to get a hus band. I never want a husband! Look what marriage has done to the girls in our family! Poor Peg walked from the altar to a kitchen. Not fox me. Men are out of my life. I’m going to be a career girLi A free woman. . . .Is there any hot water for. a bath?” “I can heat some,” her father, said. Her mother said: “Are you going out, Nelly?” “Yes. Mr. Parrish has asked me: to the movies.” “Eleanor! I thought you Weren’t’ going to take up with those peo ple.” •’Mother, I’m not ’taking up’ with anyone. Mr. Parrish is not tobtaii£fc» ! cally interested in me. He’s.just go ing to give me a few pointers sbe-: fore I meet Mr. Thorne. . . . Will you press my blue organdie?” “Not romantically, eh? Well, ts you weren’t so excited, you'd that there are six carnations on the dining room table. For you, from him.” “Honest? . . . Wei}, you still have no need to worry. I wouldn’t be interested in a twenty-dollar-a week reporter if he looked-like ... Valentino ... or . . John Gil bert. I don't even remember what! he looks like. I’m only interested in what he can do for me. Just you' wait and see how soon Pm going ta ; get on when I start to work. I’m going to let Mr. Parrish hSlp me. A woman can always get on by: herself, but its foolish wot-teMM*! - cept a little help sometimes/* (To Be Continued) dustry in making the new Federal wages and hours law work. Major "Fletcher, former commissioner of labor for North Carolina, is chief compliance officer in the national wage-hour set-up. However he Warns that the “honeymoon is over” and that his division will manifest less patience with violators of the act than they did during the early months when ignorance of provi sions was an excuse for failure to comply with them. The major is particularly pleased with the re sponse he has obtained from manu facturers in his home State. ? Fertilizer inspectors, working in cooperation with weights and meas ures men, have found that many fertilizer manufacturers have given short weights. The department of agriculture not only checks quality Os fertilizer to require compliance with announced formula, but also saves the farmers much money in correcting short weights. Sunshine Circle Meeting on Friday The Sunshine circle club held its regular weekly meeting at the home of the president, lena McGhee, Fri day night, on Southern street. After the business session she was hostess at a delicious supper served at a case. 'Greek Head Says "Nation Is Prepared (Continued From Page One! troops now in Rhodes, the largest of the 12 small islands off the south west coast of Asia Minor, now ex i < ceeded 45,000 in number. In addition, * there were said to be from 800 to i 1,500 soldiers in each of the islands which lie in the Aegean Sea and close to Greece. Much activity also was observed •in the Leros, which has become a '•formidable stronghold and air and ‘ submarine base since Italy’s cam paign in Ethiopia. Leros is one of the northernmost islands of the group which was occupied by Italians dur ing the Tripolitan war between Italy and Turkey and which Italians con tinued to occupy under the 1912 Lausanne treaty. .Albanians Give 'Pledge to Mussolini (Continued From Page One) unity. Our sole hope was that the beloved and genial person of II Dqce, who has made moral and ma terial sacrifices for us and has lib erated Albania from her peril. The army which comes today is an army sent by II Duce and it comes as a ' friend, not as an enemy. “Beloved Duce, you have made many sacrifices for us and have saved us from many perils, and for 'this reason .we address to you, for ; whom all is possible and of whom we have no right to ask anything, to you who has given us all that you save the Albanian people.” 'Congress Turns to Roosevelt In Alarm Over European Turn (Continued From Page One) t eign ships Pittman wants to place in this i category all arms and munitions, safe of which is banded entirely now, whenever the President finds as a state of war exists. Stevenson TODAY TOMORROW Matinee .... 26c—Night .... 36c Children 10c Plus: Selected Short Subjects 1 STATE Admission 10 and 25c Tonight—All Seats 25c I 'Barton McLane — Beverly Roberts —in “I WAS A CONVICT” ■Ne ws Novelty « - Tomorrow 16c and 15c Jack Randall —in “DRIFTING WESTWARD” Next Week ‘Alexander’s Rag Time Band”
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