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CHAPTER I

CdAf L EN-
The day was gloriously hot. AS
far az the eye could see baby
white clouds scudded across a sky
deeply blue. The houses along the
shaded streets of Larchneck were
picked out in glare and shadow,
Glare and shadow, like toy houses
emf out of bristol board and posed
against a back drop in theater
set Like a girl strolling upon a
stage, too, Boots Raeburn seemed
as dazzling white from her tennis
dress TO her low-heeled shoes, she
came out of the door of No. 30
Poppy Lane and dawdled grace
fully toward a roadster waiting
under the dropping maple tree.
n was rather a dilapidated
roadster, stripped to the frame,
ornamented here and there with
sketches of the owners making:
A counterfeit presentment OF
Mickey Mouse appeared on the
hood of the engine, dashlngly
sketched in white paint. Behind
tailed a blue and white banner
marked "Larchneck High"
The young man in the driver
seat did not spring lightly to the
ground like a knight of old, ASSIST
ing his lady to her place. He mere
" nodded casually to her, shifting
the cigaret in his mouth ever SO
slightly to permit the words, 'aHo"
are your" to issue therefrom. AS
he pronounced it, the sentence
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fashionable big veranda and high
gabled look predated the pseudo
Colonial farmhouses and Englsn
cottages that doomed on every
corner. But Boots was used to II
she seldom thought about it, IN
fact, except when she paused TO
envy someone like Sylvia Rivers
whose house on the very borders
of the blue Sound was a snow
place of pale stucco and PINK tiles
with loggias, patios and mission
bells to confound the casual WIS.,
itor.
Sylvia and Boots had been ri,
walls at high school. Boots hao
walked off with the valedictory
address-and Sylvia hadn't yet
forgiven her for that. SylVlas
frock, of course, had been by lar
the loveliest of all worn by the
graduating class; sheerest organ
die, delicately flounced, ruttied,
artfully made. Sylvia, with mel
long neck, silky black hair done IN
a Madonna knot, her almost too
prominent swimming blue eyes
had looked exquisite in it and tne
"crowd" had raved about it. Boots
had tried not to be envious OF Syii-
via that night-she had so mucn
to be happy about-but somehow wv
Sylvia almost always managed TO
distil the poison of envy with her
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CALENDAR
OF Local Events
Arranged BY Mrs. Fred Justus,
Chamber Of Commerce Hostess.
Telephone 474
Thursday, August 9

Thursday, August 9
Lucy Laney Choral group, high
school auditorium.
Meeting of Hendersonvi e
II,hapter Sc Royal Arch Masons,
Masonic Hall. 500 p. m. All
visitors invited.
Square dance, American Legion
nall, 9 o'clock.
- Friday, August 10
Ohamber Of Commerce pro-
gram S.S by Miss Dicie Howell, high
SchooI auditorium.
H. Saturday, August IL
-, lance, city gym. music by Jim
" MLEngston's orchestra.
1 ap5; tss,Gnette show, high school
auditorium, night,
! C.b, Monday August Is
mns;c @ I dance, Skyland hotel,
chest I 0y Jimmy Livingston's or
Street dance.
Florida Hendersor,,;,1o .Irh
meeting Chamber Of Cornnerce.
DIXIE BlaGkbirds Minstrel
p0,ol tuesday Angus, IA
ana nc, councillors, SkyIand hotel,
Gixle !, BiaGkbirds Minstrel.
0y Jimmy Livingston'sS orchestra r, ,trsI
Ro,S Wednesday August IS
note, p. m. s' oAsiahu
Hill. V mans. club benefit, Druid
guest house, 3:15 p. m.
Fir.i thursday, August Is
Fss,f,s", annual Indian Summer
c INA! Pageant, "The Fire
afts,,od0 p. m. Water sports in
Coming Events
city gym, 1"' NO"ef s''O"'
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OPEN WORK TODAY ON STAGE
IN LAKE FOR BIG FESTIVAL

tions are proceeding and it was
stated that the work OF con-
struction of booths, stands ana
several thousand seats to accom-
modate the crowd which is ex-
pected to witness the pageant,
was started today. President
Strong stated, as an indication
of the magnitude of this under.
taking, that three car loads OF
lumber will be required for this
construction work.
It was indicated at the meeting
last evening that all pageant COM
mittees will have a busy week
from this date until the 10th.
All arrangements are now COM
plete and work will be the order
of each day for the large num-
Der of men and women who are
assisting the Chamber of Com
merce and Mrs. D'Arante in
planning for and presenting this
spectacular entertainment fea-
ture.
It is said that probably as
many as Is of the summer camps
for boys and girls, located in the
Hendersonville territory, will par
ticipate in the pageant, and in
addition several hundred young
people and men and women OF
the community will be connected
with the presentation, either as
active participants or as members
of committees.
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3 Carloads of Lumber Will
Be Needed; c. c. Direc-
tors, Festival and Pag-
cant Chairmen Confer

Directors of the Chamber OF
Commerce and chairmen of COM
nittees of the organization en-,
gagged in planning the carnival
and pageant, the "Indian Sum-
mer Festival" which will be stag
ed at Laurel Park lake on August
18th, met Wednesday evening IN
the office of the Chamber OF
Commerce. Two hours were given
to discussion Of the plans for the
event. H. K. Hoover, general
chairman of the festival organi-
zation, presided and the discus
sion was led by President Milo
Strong of the Chamber of Com
merce. Present and participat-
ing in the discussion were Wade
H. King, E. R. Sutherland, Harry
Buchanan, Raymond Station, and
a number of other citizens who
are taking an active part in this
effort to present Hendersonville's
browning achievement Of the
amusement season.
Mrs. Robert D'Arante, who is
directing the pageant. "The Fire
God" to be staged next Thurs
day night, reported that prepara-
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FRIDAY NIGHT
Howell Summer School to
Offer Tourist Pro-
gram Here

The program presented by, the
Chamber of Commerce at the
city high school auditorium Fri
day night as a courtesy to our
visitors will be offered by the
Dicie Howell School of Music.
Miss Howell, who operates q
school of music in New York Is
conducting a summer school at
Asheville and the Chamber OF
Commerce is offering a treat TO
the public in this free concert by
artists of outstanding note.
Assisting Miss Howell will be
concert dance numbers by Misses
Sally and Betty Silcox, Of St. Pc
tersburg, who are here assisting
in the presentation of 1.-THE Ere
God" in the Indian Summer Fes-
tival being produced by the Cham
Der Of Commerce.
The Misses Silcox are dancers
of very artistic nature and are
different from those heretofore
presented to our audiences.
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STOLEN DYNAMITE
JUST A COINCIDENCE

ROCHESTER,, Mimi, Aug. 9.
(UP)-President Roosevelt's spe-
cial train was due in SO hours.
Fifty pounds of dynamite was
stolen from the powder house at
the Rochester State Asylum for
the Insane.
Secret service officers spent a
busy time making sure the miss
ing dynamite was not used against
the president, local officers re-
vealed last night. The secret
service, Rochester police and rail-
way employees searched in vain
for the missing explosives
Every foot Of railroad track
between the twin cities and Ro-
chester was patrolled. Secret
service men and the police kept
a special watch all the time the
president was here. Nothing hap
pened.
Today it was admitted that it
probably was q coincidence.
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.LYDAY Held IN
SIMMS DEATH
jury Recommends Charge
of Involuntary Man
slaughter

BREVARD, Aug. 9. Especially
Virgil Simms, 12-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Shelton Simms of
the Enon section of Pennsylvania
county, died in the Lyday Memoir
ial hospital here yesterday after
noon as a result of injuries which
he sustained when he leaped from
an automobile being driven by
Wilson Lyday, %, on highway No.
2S about four miles north of here.
At a lengthy inquest held last
night by Coroner G. c. Fitzpatrick,
verdict that young Simms came
to his death through contributory
negligence of Wilson Lyday by al
lowing said Virgil Simms to ride
on the outside of the car, was re-
turned and it was recommended
that Lyday be held to the next
criminal term of superior court to
face a charge of involuntary man.
slaughter.
The automobile on the running
board of which young Simm's was
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CONSULAR INVOICES
NEW IMPORT RULE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. CUP
Consular invoices will be required
on all shipments of silver into the
United States, exceeding 500, un-
der an order promulgated last
night by Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Exceptions are made in favor
of silver now in transit, silver i'm
ported into the United States for
re-export and crude silver.
The order is similar to one is
sued ten days ago by the secre-
tary calling for consular invoices
on importations of gold. At that
time, officials said the reason for
the move was so that a check
could be kept on amounts of the
metal brought into the country.
They explained that without this
step no check at all can be made
on importations.
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GIVES NOTICE
NO WEAKENING
OF PROPOSALS
Prescription" Will Rather
Be Strengthened,
He Declares
LAFOLLETE BACKED
BY IMPLICATION

GREEN BAY, Wis, Aug. O.
(UP)-The "new deal" is here to
stay President Roosevelt declared
in q nationwide address delivered
in connection with Wisconsin's
tercentenary celebration. He de-
nounced those who would return
to the "old law of tooth and claw"
He said that in one year and five
months the people Of the United
States had received at least a par
tial answer to their demands for
action and that neither demands
nor action had reached the end Of
the road. He indicated that he is
banking on the support of the
great masses in his forwarding gil
gantic recovery program. "Those
who would measure the confidence
Of this country in the future must
look first to the average Citizen"
be said.
The blunt warnings of the chief
executive needed little or no inc
depreciation as he served notice
that the prescription would be
strengthened instead of weaken
ed.
The president clearly indicated
that he was banking wholeheart-
edly on the support Of the great
masses in carrying forward his
gigantic program Of recovery
when he added significantly:
"Those who would measure con-
fidence in this country in the fu-
ture must look first to the aver
age citizen"
The address contained also pc
litical implications of national inn
portance in that by indirection
Mr.. Roosevelt gave what observ-
ers regarded as an endorsement to
United States Senator Robert NJ.
La Toilette, saying he had receiv-
ed excellent cooperation from
"your two senator's"
In fighting words he summed up
briefly the new deal, pointing to
obstacles which may hinder COM
plete fulfillment. He said the new
deal is carrying forward pioneer.
ing methods to better the use Of
vast land and water resources. He
said action may be delayed by two
types of individuals, first the man
whose detectives are right and
progressive but who declines to
cooperate; second, the man who
demands continual messages to
the people Of the United States
so as to restore "confidence."
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new DEAL IS
GAINING VOTES
3 Primaries Captured, But
Administration Anxi-
GUS Over California
By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE
Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (UP)
With the "new deap' emerging
unsullied from three more primary
contests, the administration today
turned anxious eyes toward Call
fornia where hot battle for the
gubernatorial nomination has I'M
perilled the entire Democratic
congressional delegation.
A successor to the late Cover
nor James Rolph, Jr., Republican,
will be nominated on August 20.
Four Republicans and nine DEM
ocrats are in the race. The DEM
ocratic choice lies between George
Creel, director of propaganda for
the government during the World
war and Upton Sinclair, author
and Socialist. ,
Reports reaching the Capital at
this stage of the campaign lndl-
cate the vote will be close. Party
leaders admit privately they are
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NRA CONTROL
SHIFT LOOMS
Johnson Indicates He's
Ready to Quit as More
Codes Signed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (UP)
Recovery Administrator Hugh S.
Johnson grasped the loose reins
of the NRA in firm hand today
as he directed last minute prepa-
rations to shift administration of
the agency to another body.
Rested after a western trip on
which he combined relaxation
with work, Johnson spent most Of
yesterday obtaining reports on
developments during his absence,
including the task of completing
codifcatiQn of industry.
This is the last major problem
confronting Johnson. AS soon as
it is disposed of, the administrator
will be ready to turn over the job
of administering the NRA to
someone else. He is ready to step
down from the turbulent throne
and has recommended to Presi'
dent Roosevelt that commission
be selected for the task.
In one stroke last night the ad-
CONTINUED on page four)
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Ten From Tuxedo
Camp Canoeing to
Atlantic Ocean
8 Campers and 2 Counsel.
lors of Mondamin on
350-MiIe Trip

TUXEDO, Aug. 9. - Eight
campers and two counselors left
Camp Mondamin, at Tuxedo, Wed
nesday morning, headed for the
Atlantic ocean in canoes, trip
of $50 miles. -,
The journey, which will be
made mostly through South Car
DINA, has never been made before
from this distance. Recently a
group of five Boy Scouts made
the trip from Charlotte. The
journey to the ocean will take
approximately 10 days, with the
last three or four days being made
through swamp country. =,
Only two towns will be passed
through on the entire trip-Gaff-
T.: Continued on page four.
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SILVER STOCK
NATI0NALIZED
BY ROOSEVELT
Executive Order Calls for
All Metal in Nation to
90 to MINIS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (UP).
President Roosevelt today nation
allied silver in a monetary policy
PRONUNCIATION which gives the
government complete ownership
of gold and silver.
By executive order and proc
lamation all silver in the nation,
with but few exceptions, is or
dered turned over to the United
States minis. Gold is already in
government vaults under a SINH
lar order. The move permits the
government to save money in q
silver purchase plan under the
silver policy act passed by the
last congress, requiring a build
ing up of silver reserves to a
one to three ratio with gold.
Monetary experts applauded
the naturalization but warned
this is not currency initiation
maneuver.
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RITES
L Am. FRIDAY
AT FLETCHER
Funeral Will Be From Late
Residence, Interment
at Mount Zion

Funeral services for the late G
w. Lance, serving his thirteenth
year as postmaster at Fletcher
and who was Republican nominee
for Henderson county commits
sioner, will be held from the home
at Fletcher tomorrow, Friday
morning at II o'clock. Interment
will follow in the cemetery at
Mount Zion Methodist church
near Skyland.
The body was brought to Hen
Jacksonville and prepared for bur-
ial at the establishment of j. M,
Stepp and Son, and was returned
to the home this morning at nine
O'Clock, where it will remain until
the funeral.
Mr.. Lance was the son of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Lance,
and was So years old, a member
of family, all of whom were
, born in this county. He had en-
gagged in mercantile business and
in farming before he became
postmaster at Fletcher.
He entered business for him.
self when he bought a merchan-
dising business at lockwood from
Esquire E. E. Lance, his brother
The business was later moved to
Arden and maintained for three
or four years, after which it was
sold cut, the deceased having sue.
ceeded his father as manager OF
the Westfeldt farm. The late Har.
| vey Lance had been manager OF
that farm for period of 33 years
The son, his successor, was en-
gagged in that capacity for two OIL
/ three years and then became post
master at Fletcher.
Mr.. Lance had stepped from the
postoffice yesterday afternoon
and gone to the Fletcher Supply
store where, seated, he was talk
ing with friends when he was
stricken with cerebral hemor.
rhage. Collapsing, he fell back in
his chair. DR.. L. P. Russell, who
was in the next store, was hur'
riedly called, and death came
within a moment after he arrived
The funeral service will be hello
by the Rev. Edgar Neff, rector
of Calvary Episcopal church, as
sisted by the Rev. E. B. Howell
pastor of the Fletcher Methodist
church, and the Rev. M. L. Kir'
stein, pastor of the Fletcher Bap'
fist church, and of which the de-
ceased was a member.
Active pallbearers will be: M
T. Presley, G. c. Sales, Over
Lancaster, C. M. Cogdill, N. B
Baldwin and j. E. Lewis.
Honorary pallbearers will be
DR.. L. P. Russell, DR.. T. w. Sum
, ner, DR.. J. H. Brownsberger, DR.
w. E. Baker, B. H. Youngblood
C. R. Sorrell, B. L. Shuford R. w
Fletcher, J. P. Fletcher, H. M
Roberts, w. E. Ward, G. P. Nc
| Mimi, Frank Smith. BrownloW
Jackson, billiard Station, Richard
| Albritton, Martin Garren, Clifford
Field, ]. J. Pace, Morris N. Orr
| King Lanning, j. R. Crye, Blake
Ward. w. w. Owens, w. M. Hill
Frank Waldrop and w. c. Meek
ms.
Music will be in charge of w
D. Galyean.
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LEGION AUXILIARY
TO MEET TONIGHT

Announcement of the August
meeting of the American Legion
auxiliary has been made, the
group to gather at the Legion
clubhouse at 8 o'clock this eve
ming. Mrs. Paul Johnson requests
that all chairmen of committees
be present with their annual re-
ports. All members are urged to
be present and all visiting auxil-
iary women are invited.
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REPORT HARRY BOVINE
IS CRITICALLY ILL

Harry Bovine, we'll known as
electrical inspector for this city
and Spanish-American; war vet
eran is in a critical condition at
Oteen hospital, where he will UNI
dergo q major operation Friday
morning at 8 o'clock. Mr.. BOVINE
has been in Oteen hospital for
about two weeks. He has been i'll
for the past two months.
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cotton PRICES
lump NEARLY
ESQ Per BALE
Is Cent Cotton Meaning
Wealth for South Is De-
clared Looming
rARRYOVER in 1885
10 APPROACH NORMAL

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9. (UP)
A gain of s1s6,3oo,0oo in the
clue Of the cotton crop, inelud-
:. eOstonseed, to the South in
\. year ending Aug. l, 1884, as
,omoared with the previous year,
Va, reported by Col. Henry G.
g,,,.r, secretary emeritus of the
Ne, Orleans Cotton Exchange, in
bn annual report released yester-
day,
The report showed the average
uric. for middling cotton for the
1884 season to be 1912 cents
, pound as compared with 7.o5
cent, in the preceding year, and
sss cents for 1882.
The total of the l933-34 COM
n.reial crop was placed at 49,
357,s62 bales.
In grade, which averaged mid
ding the report states the crop
"a, rather better than the previ-
gu, year, and of good staple.
The report placed the value of
h. crop at $685., 2o7, 900 against
s1s, 3ss,75l for last year.
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b. WILLIAM A. BELL, JR.
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (UP).
Cotton prices jumped nearly $3.50
a bale Yesterday when the depart
ment of agriculture estimated the
1894 production at 9,195,000
bales, surprising the trade and
government officials and fore
Shadowing prosperous days for
the South.
October contracts were listed
at 1851 cents a pound, a gain of
43 points. Fifteen cent cotton,
which would be mamma from
Heaven to the rural South, loom
ed in sight.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace conceded that carry
over supplies would be reduced to
almost normal level next year
and that the AAA may seek an
increase in planted acreage.
If the crop turns out as pre-
dicted on the basis of August l
conditions it will be the smallest
since 1895. with the exception of
1921, when only 7,945,000 bales
were harvested.
The drouth which ruined the
nations grain crops also destroy
ed much cotton. Nearly half Of
al cotton acreage is in Texas and
Oklahoma. Texas farmers grew
44lS,000 bales last year and
Oklahoma farmers, 100000. But
this year, the report indicated
their baked fields will yield only
2,302,OOO and 100000 bales re-
spectiyely.
Wallace pointed out however
that these states sometimes snap
out Of the drouth in a very extra
ordinary way and produce a big
crop" Adequate" rains in sue
Continued on page fiye)
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GuNEIRE KILLS LAD

BURWELL, Neb., Aug. -
(UP).-Billy Snyder, seven, was
killed and three others wounded
when q troop of cavalry from Fl.
Riley, Kas., last night ended q
wild west rodeo show with burst
Of gunfire. Blanks were supposed
to have been used. Army and
county authorities are Investigate
Ing. 600
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UNDERGoES OPERATION

Betsie Burke, daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. James P. Burke
was operated on this morning at
the Patton Memorial hospital for
the removal of tonsils.
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HOWARD SMITH. RETURNS

Howard Smith, who has made
this his home for the past several
years, has returned to Henderson,
Vile, following a ten-months visit
with his family at Quitman, ia.
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WEATHER

Fair tonight; partly cloudy with
,,,.red thundershowers Friday.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

New Yerks police dumped a
years supply Of eonfseated weap.
ons into the ocean. This still
make. it an even fight with the
sangsters,
Evening star., 1934-09-16
BYRD PLANE OUT
| OF SNOW HANGAR
Expedition Force Begins
Uncovering Huge Biplane
for Polar Flights.
BY the Assoeiated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica,
September Is tvia Mackay Radio) -
The second of the five aircraft Of the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the mono
plane Miss America Airways, has been
hauled out of its shroud of ice and
snow at the head Of Ver-Sur- Mer
Inlet.
Preliminary steps toward releasing
another craft, a giant biplane, are al
ready under way.
The monoplane was brought to the
surface late Wednesday afternoon.
The camp had put In a full days work
breaking down the fortress-like walls
Of snow blocks which had sheltered
the plane during the polar night and
shoveling out long ramp to bring II
to the surface. The temperature was
81 degrees below zero.
Anchored in Snow.
After tractor had hauled 1t out
OF the pit 1t was hauled back into its
old position and secured to dead-men
sunk in the snow.
Chief Pilot Harold June, in charge OF
aviation, inspected the craft and said
that except for the breaking of the
fork between the shock absorber and
the tail skid the machine was undam-