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ivm. rOjUXMAm WEEKLY. EXRTTORD. ,N.'. CL. FRIDAY, FTUARY 131B.1T " Romantic Leads In Football Thriller to Bobert M. Oantt, State Director for the National Emergency Council. Mr, Gftntt based bis statement on an official report by the President Of the UnHecL States ; to Congress re garding expenditures , nnder the Emergency Belief Appropriation acts North Cftrolina ' during the period were $76,680,776. '" -4 During1 the week ended December 12, 1936, employment ' was provided on' the Works Program for 45,462 residents of North Carolina of which 28,594 were employed by the Works Progress Administration, 9,223 by the sy I icmus MlTCHiUl of 1936 and 1936. From Anrit it. 1935 to December 81, 1936, i Works Program expenditures of $61,163,047 in North Carolina were reported. To tal allocations Jy the President to i Civilian Conservation. Corps and 7,64 by other Federal .agencies. V Chapter One THE BRIDEQROOM IS DELAYED. High above tha roaring of the gig&ntio I presses, turning out the second edition of the Few Tork Evening Star, ahrilled the In sistent clang of gong. The press room ! gang stiffened Into surprised attention. The j electrio power was instantly shut off, hut the presses continued to operate with a alow I -ing rhythm. with extreme deliberation the last copy of j the Star dropped from the dying preaa neatly I folded once, displaying a three-column picture ' I of Connie Allenbury, a socialite young wo man whose name and portrait had a habit of getting frequently Into print. i As .the machinery, came to a I standstill, the foreman of the. de ' livery room, thrust his head through . the door, yelling: "Hey. aten on it! ! We haven't got all day! What's wrong?" At tna same instant a wild-eyed ' Tounsr man rushed In from the adl- ' iorial rooms, barked a sharp order ! to the pressroom foreman. "Hold everything for a new front , page! We're killing the Allenbury ! yarn!" and dashed to the delivery I room. "Hey, Mac, any papers gone I out yet?" ! TU get the checker." Mac, the jmsnman in cnarge of loading the trucks, ordered his men to stop , their work, called the checker. "Have any trucks gone. Joe?" ' "Yeah, number seven." 'aD Wb back!" ordered the Tratltto young man from the edltor- lal TTne. "Unload all papers! "We're killing a story!' "But he's gone! Times Square and ' --Columbus Circle." "Ebbs; a motorcycle after him! "Wv got to get those papers back 1 Mac gave the order, got on the i nhone to call all newsdealers on ! that route tell them to sell no What's tha gag this time? demanded Gladys. papers. As the motorcycle phut phutted out of the building In pur suit of number seven, Allen, the wild-eyed young man, rushed beck into the city room, stopped at the desk of Walden, the city editor, vrtn v.vc yelling into a telephone: "Are you ringing Haggerty? Try him r-pin! Hey, boy! Hop ths sub way lj Haggerty 's apartment Fity ic -,d Sireet and " sir, I know!" eald the office bey. scooting for the door. . i.en looked worriedly at his WV ?.l watch. "But he's to be mar rkl at noon! Won't h? be at Uie eh., ch?" v allien, thin, be-spectacled, ran a hv i through his hair, pulling at it. "'i, you grab a taxi and beat it to church! Tell him what's hap- Uring mm here! I can't buat up his woC tho dismayed Allen almost d' dont, its our itinera:; St it!" Walden jabbed the re eci: .r agalnot his ear, yelled into the Mouthpiece: "Are you ringing K. ;Gerty? Keep on ringing him!" A'. :a disappeared Into the elo V: . . . ". .rren Haggerty in B.V.D.'s and a j .'.Iilrt, stood before the ni!r tc i his ma3culine!y disordered ti :.i r.O.ju'itlnB hU tie. Chinj, Ji liue- e houscooy, was ecitatic-.-.-.ishirr; a high silk hot. Ths tc '.in: on tha rght tab'e J- '. iiisL-tort'.y and Chiiig ctr.rL t lako it up. .. U ii'.g! ' ccmir2nded Ha3 gi . tr.ll, rrood-looking youn r;-- : caring thirty. "I've hai c sng3 pulled on me thio j. 5 Mias Benton cgaln," suj g . Ciiing diffidently. "I afraid n.. . j she " :J. e afraid?" interrupted Hag g: , grimly. "I'm marrying har, nn.l .ioa're afraid! Now, that's what I ca'l loyalty!" He took the receiver off the book, shoved it under a pil low on the bed. "She say before, if you late, she tear down church," said Ching du biously. "Even that won't stop It! Oh, It's no use, Ching. I said I'd meet her at the altar at the stroke of twelve. There'll be no reprieve from the (Governor this time." "I hope you be velly happy." Ching mournfully. He watched Hag- j gerty put oa the high hat and con- auit the mirror again. "Velly plitty." "Pretty! I'm supposed to be the rfcridegrooavnot the bride! Take my advice, Ching, don't ever .marry." t ' i "Maybe not so bad, Mr. Haggerty. ;9y mother and flather they get 'jnallled ..." , ' Haggerty poured himself a drink, i To&e last mile," he said, lUtlng i the glass. ci.;. i "A melly tnalllage and many hap i py comebacks." i ne aoor oeu suurea w ring, Kepi on ringing, and, Ching, after one startled glance, went Into the liv insvroom. As he opened the door the office boy Walden had despatch ad, ran past him to Haggerty who appeared in us ooorway. "Oh. Mr. Hssmrtr. come oulek! panted the boy, "Tou're wanted at fbe officer . 3Ung, rra wanted tX the pffloe! PATRONIZE OUR beamed Haggerty. "Good old Gov- ernor! Good old office! Hustle over . to the church. Chlnsr. and tell Miss Benton Tve been delayed. Tell her to call me at the office." When the Chinese had departed, shaking his head dubiously, Haggerty asked the boy what had happened. "It's awful to bust up your wed ding, but there was a story they had to kill and " "What story T" Haggerty became all attention. "The London correspondent cabled last night a swell story on the Al lenbury girl " -uonnie Aiienoury; wmax uina ox . story?" Haggerty was plainly worried. "Jackson cabled she was mixed up in some scrape at a garden party tried to steal another dame's husband Wot Connie Allenbury?" cried gerty increauiousiy. es. sir." replied the office boy. "All right; then what?" "Jackson cabled this morning It was all a mistake. It was somebody else. She wasn't even at the party. "And wejprlnted It! Good Jump ing ". He buttoned his coat and vest rapidly, and started to rush out, calling: "Come on!". "Wait . a minute, Mr. Haggerty. i ;"IT.:.f;';'ES)!5 yrs-H ,,-. --- V i They said not to as-ithing. but you gotta have your pants!'1 Haggerty pulled on the gray-striped trouccrs that xrent with his for mal attiro and made a run for the elevator. Reporters, re-wrlte men, copy readers all pretended to be busi'y at work as Hajprerty strode up to tho city editor's desk, but they cast covert glances at Walden, some in iynpathy, sorje in pleasure that he vas going to catch it from tho man aging editor. HaT?erly tejn to ohout twenty fset frcra Valdcn'a de3k: "Cau't I slay array from here for a day Tv-ithout somoona pulling a boner? You call yourself a newspaper man! Your nosa should have told you bet tor! Why, tho story fairly reeks of alcohol Jackson was drunk." "I fcnew ths boss hated her father," began Wa'den, en"r to clear himeclf. "And her father hates u;, jald Haggerty grimly. "He'd give ,ils right eyes to blow us up, and you hand him the dynamite! The one -girl in the world we must h?.nJ.a with gloves you smear clear cesa thj fiont page!" Tho ringing of a phone on his desk spared Waldan the rest c;" balling out, but his relief wan sheve, for ho began almost et once to ?.-: -tcr humble "Yej, sirs" and "No into the mout.'.yiDce. "The bos3 ij hsro. I-Iagsrty. He wants to ece you riht aray." "Dosa he went mo or a y ijb? Got a drirl:?" Allen, Hagsei-iy'a aietin , :aeit from h:3 tvy.tl trip to the churcii, eaid: ''ih:re'3 a fresh botila c.i your cecit. I thought you'd nacd "And fcoT:" Haggerty strode into his office, had poured a stiff drinli and was raking it to his lips when the door flew open and Glaovs Ben ten, a strikingly handsome 'blonde, in conventional satin wedding gown with train, carrying a huge bouquet of orchids and lilies, came wrath fully In. , "I knew Td find you with a glass In your hand!" "What are you doing here?" de manded Haggerty, putting down tho glass. "Didnt Ching teU you" . "Sure, Ching told me, and I told Mm, and now I'm telling you I wont stand for it! Ton can't do this to me! The first time it was that lire at eea, next time the kidnap ping . . . " She kicked the train of her sown out of the wav. arlarad at '. him, hands on hips. "What's the gag uus tuns r . , "It's not a gag. The paper's made a terrible -mistake." v ' i . "So has little Gladys! Ekigaged to a newspaper man! Joe Simpson never treated me like this!" Haearertv was atunr. 'Then whv did you divorce htm?" " ' , . -rye asked myself that plenty of times! First you said a trip to Ber muda,' Then you said Europe. If I wait another year It'll , be Uttle America - " : The door opened again and Mr.' Bane, . the . managing editor, ap , peered.'' : . 1 - "Get rid of that woman and coma to my office!" . t-Mkfsr owe, , . - ... . ADVEtTlSERS mm Here's a team that calls for action from the cheering section of motion picture audiences. Beautiful June Travis and Philip Huston, the latter making his screen debut, provide the romance in rapid-fire drama of Hie gridiron, "The Big Game." Huston is considered by Producer Pandro S. Berman as one of the most promising "finds" of recent years. Miss Travis is a former Chicago socialite who began her screen career barely a year ago. Nine All-Anverican football heroes go into action on the checkered field in "The Big Game," which comes to the State Theatre, Hertford, next Wednesday, Feb ruary 17. Ill IVASHIHGTOH I I WHAT IS TAKING K PLACE 1 I BY unIteVasenator Perhaps no legislation in Ameri can history has aroused such univer- sal interest and affects so many in dividuals as the Social Security Act passed by the la3t Congress. From the very first it was, and is now, an experiment in meeting one of the most pressing problems of the age the problem of enabling workers to build annuities toward the day when they are beyond the age of profit able employment, unemployment in surance and equally as important, to extend aid to the needy aged, to the blind and to dependent children. Obviously, no legislation of such scope could be perfect in all its de tails. Actual administration has de veloped loopholes and weaknesses. More will be found and corrected. Legal battles may be anticipated, particular with regard to those phases of the act pertaining to retirement annuities and unemployment insu ranee. Out of it all will come a stronger and 'better plan for the .future. But the public assistance features of the Act, aid for the needy aged, the blind and dependent children are already firmly established. ; These features are based on the long-stand ing principle of Federal-aid to the states. The Federal Government is. giving the machinery and funds vto help the states aid their needy. The states themselves, through state Jaws, must i , put the machinery in motion. The state of North Caroli na is at the moment engaged in die effort to write its law, in accord with minimum Federal reqirireirJents, and raise the necessary state" funds to match Federal moneys. -'"' In the brief .space 'of this" article, I shall endeavor to answer a few of the many questions that have come to me with regard to one phase jof the act, that which relates to as- ! stetance Tor aged persons who arc needy. One question stands out. ' Why must we have at this late date some form of Federal assistance for aged persons in dire circumstanc es? The answer is simple In, by gone days families were a , compact unit, with sometimes as many as three or four generations living to gether or at close call. Family re sources were pooled and the young er generations cared for those be longing to the older. .Today families are scattered. ,, Responsibilities arc heavier. ; Modern " life has becomfe more 'complex. As a result, many responsible persons,' million in fact, through no Jfault of their own are, at the .twilight of , life, in dire cir cumstances., States cannot solve the problem alone, ; . What is meant by aid for the aged needy ? . Cash payments by the state to aged persons who are -in need, and whose : applications for assis tance are approved by the state., . What is the basis of Federal parti cipation? , When a state has written into law an approved plan for aid to the aged needy, the Federal Govern ment makes grants -equal to one-half of the total xpenditares of the state or its subdivisions. However, Fede ral contributions may not , apply to any monthly payments exceedirr $30.00. Thus if the state of Nor... Carolina provides f.fCO per xnor.th . o..' v i.. ' i ; , ,f a . m r m m i : 'r.t .. . : I i ' .".4 ; - - lx wWi i - . i ficiary receives $30.00. Federal grants may not be used in making payments to persons under 65 or to inmates of public institutions, Who is eligible? All persons who mieet the requirements fixed by the state law. What are the requirements as to age, citizenship and residence? Until January 1, 1940, a state law may re quire that an applicant be as much as 70 years of age; after that date no state law may impose an age re quirement in - excess of 65 years, which is the generally approved minimum age. No citizen of the United States may be - excluded on the grounds that his or! her citizen ship is not of long enough standing. No one who has 'been a resident of a state for five out of the pine years preceding application, and who has J lived jn thestate continouslyfor the i year immediately before applying, may be denied assistance on the ground that they have not lived in the state long enough. What provisions with reference to property held by a beneficiary? States usually provide that persons with property not assessed above a certain value may receive old-age assistance, provided they do not have sufficient income for their own sup port. This provision 'makes it pos sible for the aged to continue living in their own homes. If there are a husband and wife, the home may, as a rule, remain in their possession until the death of both. Many states mjake some provision for col lecting from a beneficiary's estate after his death, any amount up to the total of assistance payments made to him during his lifetime. To re pay the Federal Government for its share in the assistance payments, one-half of all such collections made with respect to assistance furnished under an approved plan is deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of Federal old-age assistance appropriations. $37394.929 Spent In 1 N. C For Relief Work ! 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