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Don't Let Our Boys Down Get In Your Scrap I THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER i u ksua x , UtTOBER 20 WAYNE CASE By ARTHUR BOERL ,1 C " CT VER !. man at the nifrht desk uug Up tne .loiinoiie wit" m, sharp click, swung around in his creaky chair, adjusted his heavy horn-rimmed glasses and peered in squinting fashion through office. At the far end of the room, hunched over a typewriter, he spotted the object of his speech. "Dale something good," he called in a throaty voice, Robin Dale straightened up, took one look at Pop Beacon and grabbed his coat. "What is it. Pop murder?" "Nothing less, boy. Go up to the Wayne place. Just off the Drive at about On Hundred and Eightieth. The old man's been . bumped off and there's a lot of mystery about it. "Reilly at the D. A.'s office just called me. There's a big story in this, Dale, and Til hold the spot in the first edi tion for it So 1 go ont and get vtr Rob la Dale hurried out into a misty rain-driven night. It was lata October and the rain, driven on 'the first chining blasts of oncom- ' In a. OTtntAV aanf coldness pen, trating to tha marrow, of the bones, Ee as baddies' ap a sv as it aped over the shimmering reflections of the street lights on the black-wet pavement of the Drive making a mental resume of old Silas Wayne. Silas : Wayne had figured m news reports on and off for many years, during which he had devel oped a little, second-rate hotel, the Wayne Lodging House, on lower Broadway, into the chain of mag nificent Wayne Hotels which were objects of pride in every large city in the country. But it was rather his eccentricities than his growing wealth through which he broke into print. He had permitted his brother to die a pauper's death because he detested failures. When a certain President invited him to join a conference for the better ment of general buuiness condi tions he refused to accept, stating he was interest) only in his own busi"", which needed no better ment. He sent a trusted employe io the penitentiary for defrauding him and then adopted the em ploye's homeless child. He was a confirmed bachelor, for his much-printed-and-disputed creed was that a woman gave nothing to a man but took everything his money, name. Dale had his time and even his framed a nice little ticafly and motioned Dale in and shut the door. ,, "Who killed the old man, Sarge?" "The chief and the D. A. him self are in there now trying to figure it out There's sdmathin queer about this whole thing." "Before you explain, let's have a cigarette. ' . , Jardin held out a pack of clgar ettas with a grimace of disgust which required no utterance of words, uale too one, it u u irameu u um-c "" r,. . , " j. . feature on the sidMi-hts of the , proppea rumu w. " - Silo. Wiimft trairetlv bv the time smpil taoie. his taxi turned into thf driveway of the estate. The hou.se was ait back a hundred yards from River side Drive on a jetty of land which stretched to the Hudson Uiver. The "Now let's have it" "Well, today Wayne sends for r '-y f im Central Office, says :"i h"re tonignt at eigni. .;. !, -io. At eipht we a he The t tray an ttKCJANT JAP.WN jJpO to fight rer ft. I enn stlB W that laugh wnea he said wan wouldn't anything U fight when he rot through givtag Oss their legacies. Then, as he reca to the desk for soma PW". suddenly collapsed and UO. tef down across It Jtot . onds no one more wB. tM siisMS? went to the eld man's Sd m took hold of hta pd?- look came over the doctors laasj as he lifted the U aaan ba into his chair. One e tha wonas jjave a piercing shriek Joe stuck in Wayne's heart, daffHln n&uaad. Dale the cigarette inte tie little tray stamped it on nerww. "Yon were there when ft ne right nndee yes of elgM watekUr ptf pleT" "Jast tha4sl , There's some thing nnnatarat about ft. Mobod nearer than test feet, no daggei thrown or we'd have soon itf eonldnt possibly have killed bins self, even If bad a reason to which he didn't, and yet there was right through his heart and not a chruice for trick contrap tions about the desk because I investigated." "Well, I might just as well get busy and figure it out if I want t- get the big story in the morning paper." "I suppose you'll tell us who duLfc. Between. MISi SMtEM MOUStKKPESi. As he reached the desk for some papers, be midif soHepseJ smi fell laee immm big, old-fashioned, turreted house set like a broad, horned spectre against a dull background of leaden sky. Dale dismissed the cab and hurried to the porch. The desola tion of the place, the moaning of the wind through the bare branches of trees, the incessant flatter of rain on the dry, dead eaves, all seemed to give grim forebodings of tragedy and sent a shiver through Robin Dale's body. He dropped the knocker and a sharp report echoed hollowly at the far end of the porch. It was a long moment before the door was opened, but finally it swung back and in the dimly lighted hallway stood Sergeant Jardin. from Central Office. "Lo, Sarge. Cheerful sort of a place, isn't it?" , . Jardin grunted unenthusias- go upstairs to musty old library that's enough to give a fellow the creeps. I still dont know why I was there because the old man never got that far. There was Wayne; bis nephew, Claude Wayne, who's bis secretary; Rob ert Wayne, another nephew ; Sarah Boulter, a niece, and her hus band; Gloria, the old man's ward; Miss Sheen, bis housekeeper; a Doctor Bailey, who had been at tending Hiss Gloria, and myself. Nine in all. First Wayne insists upon seeing that all windows and doors are closed and then the goes behind his desk. The minute he started to talk I felt creepy all over, not only at what he said, but the way he said it He told them he got them all together to let them know what he was going to do with his money so they wouldn't have sss k, Prln adviee am grubbht' eirar ettes, yonl be makha' yevraetf a pest.'' Suddenly. y4i-nitcheeV anrry words came io theca.from the Iiv ing room, "why dont yon let her alone T Ton see she doesnt know anything about hi. If Silas Wayne was murdered, it wnant any more than he deserved r "That's the doctor. 1 got a hanch he knows more about this whole affair than we think." "Let's go in and see what's de veloped. That's better than play ing hunches. If you're really in terested in crime, Sarge, I ought to tell yon that it's a very exact sci ence."1 Before Jardin conld reply Dale had opened the door to the living room, where the investigation was under way. (To Be Coatiaswd , TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate ( A. i Recorded to Monday Noon Of This Wek) Jones. Clyde Township Florence Jones, et al to R. J. Jones, et ux. Florence Jones, et al to H. M. Jones, et ux. K. J. Jones, et al to Florence Pigeon Township G. W. Williams, et ux to H. A. Osborne. J. B. Sentelle to W. W. Russell. ly'aynesville Township Board of Missions of the M. E. church to William J- Ashworth, et ux. Get In the Scrap It's A Fact It requires as much power to carry 20 tons of four-engine bomb er through the sky as is needed by a crack passenger locomotive to -haul 1,000- tons of cars and tender over the rails. Direct price control is one of the most formidable administrative tasks ever undertaken by our gov ernment, according to the Depart ment of Commerce. NOTICE Regarding Absentee Voting In General JElection of Nov. 3 Applications for Absentee Voter's Ballot May Be Made to the Chairman of the County Election Board. Before Making Application, All Persons Are Urged to Read the Following Sections of the State Law Concern ing Absentee Voting This Year: Section 1. Any qualified voter of the State who finds that he will be absent from the county in which he is entitled to vote during the day of the holding of any general election, or who by reason of sickness or other physical disability will be nn able to travel from his home or place of confinement, to the voting place of his pre cinct, may vote in any such general election, in the manner as hereinafter provided. Section 2. Such voter, not more than thirty days, or less than two days prior to the date of such general election shall make application, in person, by some member of his or her immediate family (husband, wife, brother and sister, parent and child only) or by mail, in writing, to the Chairman of the County Board of Elections of his county, for an official ballot to be voted in such general election. Provided that said two days minimum shall not apply to voters becoming unexpectedly physically disabled to attend the polls. . ' . 7 . ' ' "' 'i.7 C. G. BRYS0N, Chairman Haywood County Board of Elections. Seventeen Receive Grants From The Rationing Board Seventeen persons and firms re ceived favorable action on , their applications to the local rationing board during the past two weeks, it was learned from the clerk, Miss Winnie Kirkpatrick. The group includes the follow ing : Cicero Crawford, of Waynes ville, logging operator, 1 truck tire; Farmers Federation, of Way nesville, delivery of feed and ferti lizer, 1 truck tire and 1 truck tube; West Mining i Company, of Waynesville, mining operations, 1 truck tire; Grace Lumber Mills, of Lake Junaluska, lumbering oper ation, 2 truck tires and 2 truck tubes. Joe Welch, of Waynesville, lime and farm hauler, 1 truck recap; Underwood Lumber Company, of Waynesville, lime and lumber haul er, 2 truck recaps; W. E. Green, of Clyde, route 1, lumbering oper ations, 2 truck recaps. Rev. L. C. Stevens, of Dellwood, minister, 1 passenger tire (obso lete); B. E. Price, of Clyde, route 1, farmer, 1 passenger tire (obso lete); John M. Spivey, of Waynes ville, supervision and maintenance of orchard, 4 passenger tires, 2 tubes (obsolete). Mrs. Turner Gaddy, of Waynes ville, transportation of defense workers, 1 passenger tire (obso lete) ; George H. Ruff, of Waynes ville, general taxi, 2 passenger re caps; Raymon Blanton, of Way nesville, food supplier, 2 passenger recaps; : W. W. Davis, of Waynes ville, mining operation, 2 passen ger recaps. G. C. Hooker, of Waynesville, de fense worker, 1 passenger recap; John E. Barr, of Waynesville, food canning supervisor, 2 passen ger recaps; M. O. Galloway, of Waynesville, lumbering operation, 2 passenger recaps. LOOKING BACK TO AMER ICA 20,000 YEARS AGO A cavern discovered in Arizona reveals the presence of a strange tribe which may solve the mystery of the Folsam man of America's ancient past. Don't miss this in teresting article in the October 25th issue of The American Weekly The Big Magazine Distributed With The BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale At All Newsstands THE FLAG It's the sun of California - It's the rugged coast of Maine, It's the pines of Carolina, ' It's the covered wagon train, It's a bugle call at Yorktown, It's a clipper in the bay, It's a rustic bridge at Concord, It's a soldier lad away, It's a country's shining glory, It's red, white and heaven's blue, It's an emblem and a beacon, It's the banner of the true. It's the prairie and the forest, It's the hunter's lonely camp, It's a homestead on a hilltop, It's a housewife's evening lamp, Its' the joy of good companions, It's a pleasant evening's end, It's the happiness of children, It's the handclasp of a friend, It's the magic of the mountains, It's the rivers and the sea, It's tolerance and courage, It's a people brave and free. It's the kindly deeds of neighbors, 19. It's fortwHii I It's the gd worCdonrf It's a hand for one Its a lookout's lonely vig1 It's a worker at hk tj It's, haven for the TtvJh! 8tr ?6art dismayed.' Its the sunhght and the stariS It'B th r.inl .. Wn'8i T., 7 "'"ww m tne skies i If s humanity triumphant, I Its the grandest flag that flii COLTOtt 3 oomDerg, Bri has dispersed her huge produ( wuutry. rart i tanks are made in 6,000 nj shops and then assembled Unit ground quarries have been verted into factnrioo i Commercial information pertJ ing to 600,000 foreign buji3 " avauauie in tne files of Department of Commerce. NOTICE To All Voters Registration Books will be onen at the voting places in each precinct in XIsTn IT11TA 1 sOAlinffT AVI S 4r nH..n ' najwuuu vuuiiij uii iiic luiiuwing Saturdays: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 iy. An to vote Saturday, October 31, will be Challenge Day. voters who are not registered and who desire in the General Election to be held November 3, should see the Precinct Registrar on one of the two Satoj' days listed above. 7, C. G. BRYSON, Chairman Haywood County Board of Elections. r j THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT OVER N I N ETY PE R CE NT O F THE EMPLOYEES OF Carolina powcv & LiKi Comfunij ARE BUYING U. S. WAR BONDS THROUGH THE PAY ROLL SAVINGS PLAN V CCRrMKV OF THC YftfASVRY Qui. 7 , i f
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