ihc Second Installment SYNOPSIS: Johnny Breen, 16 years old. who had spent all of his life aboard a Hudson river tugboat plying near New is tossed into the river in a terrific collmon which sinks the tug. drowns his mother and the man he called father Ignora it, un schooled, and fear driven, he drags nimselt ashore, hides in the friendly darkness 01 a huge covered truck? only to be krckc l out at dawn ? and into the raiilst of a tough gan< of river rat boys who beat and chase him. He escapes and, exhausted, tumble:, into a basement doorway. I.atcr. he hears ihe trap door slammed, a padlock snapped down? and he is trapped. NOW GO ONT WITH THE STORY! "Becka! Becka!" i "Yes, Pa." J "Vill you shud de vawter off?" ' "Papa, it iss off." "Vot you dell me, Becka? Id dond run? I heared id. Do vot I told yP?j vill you?" Channon Lipvitch hobbled back through the basement, to the rear room. He shuffled, his feet at an angle, his bearded lace assuming an air of comical severity. It was an occasion and Channon Lipvitch, certain of his ground, determined to correct his daughter. Conversation, in the rear living-sleeping room, came to a stop; the loud voices quieting while the splash of running water sounded from without. "So, you told it lies to me on Shabbas?" He bristled, but Becka, more voluble than her father^ instantly replied. 'it's in back, Pa. Don't be so sud dent with calling me a liar. It's in the house in back. I hear it splashing, like you." Hut Channon Lipvitch was right. Water was splashing, if , r.ot in their apartment, then near by. Ha, he was right; his ears were not stuffed ?!'? Water taxes were ever in his mual when faucets flowed. "Veil."' he said, "shud id off. vy don'd you? Dell ntv, who iss making sooch a splasch in Shabbas-" He was a strict man/Witii his fannlv? ir: the presence of visitors. The girl hit f>,r ',?>r a,!r' plump, with an almost premature deyel. p ment. laughing and giggling. chm.H ! ti. . V 1 1^r wi,Mlow rt' tIle " vi ciM. -me. the living-, sleeping-, c..'- j ii.g-ruom i.-. tv i il* Clothing Li,; porium? New and Secorc; Hand. She | had to make a high step, a very high . t step, for they were on thp busemeht floor, and the sills we e high. Hit I skirl was tight and long, in tact, as ; she stretched one leg t'.uougli the win- j , dow, the other was uncovered far | above the knee : a pi imp shapely leg. j' Becka, standing on tiptoes, her j skirts lifted unnc-.vssinh hit>h, peered i across the narrow area between the buildings. Through a broken window pane she saw a hoy sph^hing over a rusty sink, under a tap of running water. He held a piece of hard yellow laundry soap and was workiivg up a lather ; his hair and face were stream ing wet. The buy (flight n glimpse of her, his eyes were, wide with fear ? blue eyes. She smiled at him. Then she turned hurriedly, her skirts up over her knees ? her stockings were new and she made the most of the occasion. Breathlessly she jumped down into the Lipvitch living-room. "It's a hoigler," she declared, almost fainting. Tremendous excitement pre vailed in the Lipvitch home. "Quick, Papa, quick." Mrs. Lipvitch and Mrs. Yartin were urging and helping the ^reluctant Lipvitch at the window. Suddenly the water stopped. Lipvitch, in the area, caught a glimpse of a boy's face at the broken window. The little man, he was a head shorter than his wife, struggled tc command his voice. He did not look formidable in his black silk skull cap. His features worked convulsively. "Vot iss! Vot iss!" He exclaimed excitedly. The boy looked harmless, frightened. "Vill you come oudt?" Lip vitch screamed. "Or if you don'd, I ? I ? call polize!" "Papa, it's only a boy." Becka was again climbing through the window. "Here, boy, come out to us." S':e rapped and rattled the weathered sash. "Id's only a poy. Only a poy," Mr. Lipvitch announced, as if terribly dis appointed. He greeted Johnny with a smile, and held out a scrawny hand to the strong fist of the boy who leaped up without effort, a ragged, desperate waif with wet hair and shining eves. But Channon Lipvitch was triumphant. He had proven himself, with the help of circumstances. Before one's family and friends, bravery is a virtue. The Lipvitch Clothing Emporium ? "New and Second Hand" ? was not unlike the barge Cavalier, in shape, at least. It was a nice little business, buying and selling. In the back, branching from a dark, narrow hallway with a splintered pine floor, were the work rooms lit by naked yellow gas jets and crowded during ten hours of the day with operators on pants and vests. Lipvitch took in piece work on the less difficult parts of manufacture, hir ing his helt> from the tenements of t' e street." i lis stock did not spoil, he bought cheap and sold at a profit, even and took to his heels before a gang. He rather liked fighting, it added to his popularity. He began to absorb the philosophy of the Ghetto, the kindly brotherhood of those who live within ihe pale. He also absorbed a tremen dous stock of self-conceit and confi dence. Once he hit a rash young man rurh a terrific crack, the blow landed < n his chin, that the victim lay for a half hour unconscious. The story grew by telling and the fame of John Breen fook on added stature. Fighting kept his mind alert and made him wary, while dim thoughts He was suddenly confronted by a crowd of toughs. N In the living room there were two beds, covered by colored spreads l y day and shoved against the wall farth est from the windows, to net away1 trcm the night air. Recka and the twins slept on one of these ;?;* :l Mr. an 1 Mrs. I.ipvitch occupied the t 'her. W ith the advent of Johnny I';ven ci t, from a nearby >ec ::d hand store, was placed beneath o:.c of tlsc v.in dcAS. Chariton Lipviteh, like the heads of ^ many families preponderant in the female sid life, and lit'-.- depe.-ded up n ti e I tccitiing, t roAuing nr.:!tk:;?je who j swanncd and s?iuirmcd in the alleys ;?> the town;-- it was a good pla'cp, this city, so full A customers always close at baud. On the Saturday atternorn of John ny's intro'.u; tun to the city his recep tion in the hack room of the Chithing Emporium took on the proportions i f an event. Johnny's story, given amid,, greedy ir.asiicatio!* of seed rolls and j:ul;fs oi tears and Inker. a m eolfee, thrilled the comp: l.y will: a sympathy grown cjnick t!v.*:.i:gh the age-Song persecution of th'S'r race ? a synr. athy leading to monumental works of char ity within (lie city. Tears coursed d >wn his cheeks as he repeated. "My mother is drowned, my mother is drowned!" The ov, oy"of Mrs. l.ipviuh and Mrs. Vartin punctuated the story. Mrs. lilumgren, with large, vtrondering h'mvn eyes, cried in sym pathy, while Bccka dried his clothes and sewed on buttons. "You arc staying by us, now," Becka spoke to Johnny, smiling, her face close to his. Tears welied in his eyes. He was terribly tired; kindness cut through him like a knife. Johnny slept on a cot in the corner, lie drifted otT into oblivion, exhaus tion and exaltation crowding hack the events of vhe previous day and night. Days ef bewildering complexity fol lowed on his establishment in the family of Gannon l-ipvitch, as a cousin from the farm, for so Elkan Nesser, a malamud, advised. Slowly the river dimmed. Johnny Breen learned of synagogues and rabbis. He thought the whole world consisted of the river and the Ghetto, nothing else. Becka became a dominant force in the direction of his emotions. He burst out of bis clothes, his strong body never tired. He could lift Bccka high up so she might reach the top shelves in the shop; she was often needing things there, and then, suddenly, he refused to lift her, but climbed up him self and found nothing. John had achieved a prime requisite for worldly success. He was known four and five I locks away as "Fight ing Lipvitch." He became a celebrity, nothing less, elevated above the boys on the street; on a par, in fact, with young men four and five years his sennr in point of age and a decade j beyond him in worldly lore. The Gro- j Ran Ganp. i.ut for revenge, cruised | the Ghetto. John Breen, with brass I knuckle dusters in his pockets, a reck- j less light in his eyes, fought when : there were no more than tw. or three. ? j i f tilings beyond the tenements, of v, iife avenues and great mansions, i r'?ssed his consciousness in dreams. !>hn learned that millionaires were i:i t!ic cinth in the I'Sothini: Iviipr.rium . ? \\u and S^Ji'.d ilu:id - Ni.ii J/hn Breen part of a rutine that included every i hase of the business, thai is, i very phase ol" it hut the receipt of v.-agtf?. J ihn lay awake at night rc \ iewinir the bitter struggle and worked l':c harder by day. He arose at five thirty, an hour before Lipvitch, and in the dark, murky room he slipped i ll his tr users, and with shirt in hand, \i:cnt to the littered tub. In those mornings John worked hard : rrl fast to j'.et out >ti the street and t icn he idled about until the coming of Lipvitch. The street was an endless . how. a constantly changing tapestry with hunan figures hung on frames of jl-Vick. As the fn^rnings followed each other I and his fame expanded, John Breen I !:c;>t a wary eye for. ruffians trudging j to and from the river. His stay at the Clothing Ktnporium became more and ni; ire perilous. The Grogau (?ang was "laying" for him. He avoided the river front and kept away from the Bowery. Once, on a Saturday night, walking with I'tcka. arm in arm. and deep in llie m j -.tcrics of river lore, for John 'old her everything he could remem ber, he was suddenly confronted by a crowd of toughs. "That's 'im ! That's tha fightin* kyke !'" Set on from front and back he was unmercifully beaten, kicked and mauled. Becka, screaming, ran to the corner crying, "Moidcr, perlicc! ? moider! ? perl ice!" Her frantic screams were heard for a block and a cop, povidentially near, rushed to the scene in time save John Breen from complete annihilation. B(?cka supported him, carried him home, a bloody battered gladiator. Becka was his nurse, tended him, washed his cuts and bruises, and got raw beefsteak from Mrs. Yartin for his blackened eyes. She sat on his couch and cried over him, caressed him, her hero. And so the months went by in a smother of smells and chatter and ' continuous struggle. As the summer waxed to its fullest heat and high humidity thickened the air with oppressive damp, the Lipvitch family moved out of their back room into the rear area of the tenement. Here, with their mattresses close to gether, they lay gasping through the nights. John, prone on his back, gazed upward on clear nights at a slit of heaven. Frequent domestic arguments sounded back and forth down crowded light shafts and weird fancies filled John's mind as he fretted through the h^t nights amid the close incest of the city slums. Continued Next Week NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the auth ority conferred l?y deed tit' t rust ex CCUtrd liy by ('. It. Sutton and wile, Dortha Sutton, dated tlw 7tli day of May, V.fjs, and recorded in Itook 106. yiage in the office of the Regis ter of I) ?eds for Jackson County, James W. Nations, Trustee, will, at 12 o'clock noon, on Saturday October ?t lft!VJ, at the court house door Jackson County in Silva. North Car olina, sell at public auction for i?ash, to the highest bidder, the following land, to-wit: Beginning on a stake in Dortiii Sutton's line running thence south fi'J degrees East 8-i jwdes to a stake in i Kast boundary line of th?? ill acre tract at the bank of the public load | loading from Barker's Creek to Wil mot, thence a N. W. direction running ' with the meanders' of the public road j leading toward Wilinot to a stake in! Dortha SuM'Ws lino, tWr.ci: with Dortha Sutton's line to the beginning, containing three acres more or less This sale is made on account of de fault in payment of the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust. A ten per cent (10) cash deposit will be required of tin* highest bid der ;? t the sale. This September 1, 10.12 . JAMKS \V. NATIONS, Trustee | 9-1 -4ts JCco. J TRESPASS NOTICE Notice is hereby given that hunt ing and other trespassing upon our lands in Sylva township is hereby for hidden, and that wc will prosecute trespassers, v ? A. B. DILLS, A. ,). DILLS, !?. V. GARRETT. NOTICE OF RESALE UNDER . ORDER OF COURT ? TIIAT WHEREAS, the lands here inafter described was duly sold at public sale on the first day of Aug ust, 1932, to J. A. Miller for the sunt of $'{,300.00; a'"1 ????? on th< il)th day of August, 1932, to Nelli Mae Klter for the sum of $3,815.00: iiiul tliat whereas, said bid was re ,?oitcd 1?: the Court, and within te? livs thereafter was raised tne sun d five p t cent, and the Court hav in*; made an order to the under -;i?rn <1 Coinniissioner to readvertis iiid resell said lands: NOW, TflEKKKOKK, Under an< by virtue of an order, judgment am decree of the Superior Court of Jack ?ion County, North Carolina, mad .11 a case or proceeding entithd: Atlantic Joint St.)ck l^ind Bank ol Raleigh, A Corporation plaintiff Against Lewis .?. Smitli and wife, (fCi'trud Smith, Ida J. Smith, Mrs. F. \\ Mcduire, Adniiiiistiatrix of the E.* tale of F. W. MeOnire deceased ' Mrs. Nel'io Mae Ritrr, llerber' Jloop:>r and wife, Ethel Hooper If. II. lfooper, T. C. Smith & Co I ( has. C. C d eu & 'Co., Faucett & Co., It. M. Munipower, Allier" Drag Co., Palm Olive Co., Mouii Aiiy Owrall Co., Cincinnati Caj ( o, Lamest L. Rhodes Co., H. 1' 15:-:s!>-.- S!io- (??., Wlijttaker lli-llsiiigt-r Hardware Co., Deve Xe'son. (Jo., S. 11. Christian Co ami Iwcr Best Products Co., d? fendanfs. S lid judgirciif being duly doeketcr ii I'm- Office of the Clerk of th. Jnp-rior ('(mil of Jackson County ii ))ockcf ? '' at page wliicl I ;aid judgment appoints and full) authorizes and empowers the under ?ign d ciiiiimissioner to sell the land icre -natter described to satisfy sai? ludgnent ; Nnvt Therefore, 1, V\. It. Sherril 'oiu nifjsioinT of Court, will, o. Won lay, Oct olier -?r2'.4 dep. E.t 22 j?ol] ditr. E., 21 poles to a stake: hem:' East 21 poles to a white-oak* thence X. 49 deg. E., 401/*; l>olcs t< a black-oak; thence X'. 81 deg. E. t-1 poles to a stake-; th.-ncc X. 3 iivg. R.f 12 po'cs ti? a stake; thence S. S7 de^. W., 50 poles to a stake; thence X. 4]/2 oles to a black-oak: thence S. 091/; 27, by Wade Oa owaiy and wife, Kulah Calloway, t V. ?). Dills, Trustee for the Svlv. .'oal and Lumber Company, whic) leed of trust is recorded in the of ice of the Register of Deeds fo Jackson County, North Carolina, i #ook 101, at Page 129, default ha* ng been made in the payment of th ideht; diu rs thereby si cured: Now, therefore, I, A. J. Dill: Yust(e, ni'l on Monday, Septembe he 20th, 1932, at 12:00 o'clock, nooi ?it the Court Housw door in the tow ?f Sylvn, North Carolina, offer fo sale to the highest bidder for casli the following described real estate Being lots Numbers 4, 5, 6, 7 anr S of the W. L Ilcnson farm, in Cu! lowhee Township Jackson ^ Count} North Carolina, as shown by a plo of said farm made by 0. B. Co war*1 Surveyor, November, 1924 and record ^d in the Office of the Register of Deeds for .Jackson County, Nortl Carolina, In Book of Maps No. 1 ft page to which said plot ref reiice is made for a further descrij ion of .said lots. This p:-op"rty wns sold on th'' 29tl lay of A.igust, 1932, and the highest ')id h;is been duly raised as required iy law, and the Clerk of the Superioi Court of said County has ordered 'and io lie re-sold to satisfy the in debtedness secured by saitl deed of trust. Tins the 9th day of September, 193il A. J. DILLS, Trustee. 9-15-2t-dkm NOTICE OP SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the author ity conferred by deed of trust exc cuted by B. 0. Painter and wife, Letiorb Painter dated the I5th day of January, ] 929, and record* d in Book 108, Page 208, in the office o' the Register of Deeds for Jackson County, Jefferson E. Owen*, subsli tuted Trustee will at twelve o'clock noon on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 10.1:' at the Court House door of Jackso? County in Sylva, North Carolina, s ' at public auction for cash to the highest bidder, the following lam1 to-wit: I BEGINNING lit r.n iron stak? 450 1 feet from the intersection at Alio Street; thence South 07 degrees, 30 mins. East 100 feet; thence South 22 dcgs. 30 mins. West 150 feet thence North 67 deg. 30. min West 100 feet; thenee North 22 degs 30 mir.: Kast 150 feet to th* VeT'iiMin?. P ng all of lot No. 10 and nn*t of l/> No. 17 of the McCombs Addition t' he town of Sykfl. X. C. This sale is mlfcle on aeeount of lefau't in payment, of the indebted less secured hv said deejj of trust A ten percent (10) ensh deposit ?vill be required of the highest bid ler at the sale. This the 16th (lav of Aujrnst. 1JN1 JEFFERSON E. OWENS, ? SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 8-184t.-dkm NOTICE OT BALt By virtue of the jxjwir (|j contained in a d?*r?, sunt >??? ??* oi th, Jacks Book of 1),^ - 262, and default ,on iv * . M-iif to .. i",. HI sVl. f, ,?J ,I^T.li, to the highest |,;i|,|, 1'|'J11I."",l!r described piece lying and I,,.;,,., ;|( ? , Jackson, Xor'h '!""t as follows: BE01XXINU w, stump soutlnv.M and Mill. saps survey; alllj ri|!u " 3 dep. 30 east | 'j ,, thence south St; .i, ?>)? '* poles to a locust stii,;i,,; 3 deg.16' east '1X1 p ,|.\ ^ thence south St; P?les <0 a stake: dep. 36* east |.*,(? K t)i thcn?e north s,; Doles to n lai-,. j | 3 dep. 3(>' we?t .*,()?; , thence south *??>. !, poles to the I ? f i ? : j ; i - ? 1 797 acres as per . \, v ?i Parker, made .Ir.'y jj ]<,] Tliis, August Is, i;t -j 0. L. Jo\|x Tni,|( notice oy TAX sal; Bv virtue of tin- l.ix |,.i UlV hands for collection tin- ;|i. 1931, by the Board o| t on.ini" , of .Tackson Comity, 1 will if, t:r first Monday in October it !k.. ing the 3rd d.iy thereof, at the i , r House door in the Town of Syl\;., ,:I 12 o'clock noon, exjiose fur , ?, the highest bidder fur cadi, I" ? isfy the delinquent taxe< ai. I r the following real estate: 8YLVA TOWNS////' I.H. Powell, .1. T. Powell fc V. W Denning, 4 lots H'.W I. H. Powell, 3 lots ?2'4'i.*7 H. E. Buchanan & T. 11. IW> li '. lot H. E. Buchanan, ( 4 years) 3 !?.f? . fV.:? CAXEV FORK TOWNSIfH' Fred Queen 11 acres _ . . ? ? VM DILLSBOKO TOWN SHIP Lec Con lev estate ,"> aens WEBSTKH TOWSSIIW T. IT. Brad lev 1U