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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-07-06

in bound and had the pistol. A
scream still resounded in the white
walled room, of mingled pain and fury.
Niles did not even turn his head. He
was storming for the door that led
into the passage of death.
Behind him Doctor Weston hung
over the acid-smeared table his right
hand skewered to it by Ramos stiletto,
the fingertps touching the ace of
spades.
Niles wrenched the corridor door
open and plunged through, hugging
the wall. Somewhere in the dark
ahead of him harsh voice rose.
"Who's that?" 1t was Benton.
"Down, Anita" shouted Niles. "I'm
going to shoot"
The glare of an electric torch Ian
ced down the passage from the other
end and the roar of an automatic
came with it. Benton was firing fast
and Niles, crouched down, felt the
wind of the bullets skimming his head.
The light dropped and thud followed
Until then Niles had hardly realized
that he had been shooting back, pump
ing bullet for bullet at the man be-
hind the torch. It's beams lay now
along the floor and he could see a
cloth-covered arm flung out besides
it. He ran forward and picked it up,
raging it from side to side. Behind
him in the room he had left voices
shouted and footsteps clattered. The
other gunner were hard on his heels.
Benton was prone, done for. The girl
was flattened against the wall, her
white, lovely face springing into the
flare of the torch. From near at hand
muffled blows were hammering.
"Thank God he didn't get you'll"
breathed Niles. "But we aren't out
of this yet. They'll jump us from the
laboratory in less than minute and
there's somebody trying to get in
through the next cellar"
They were caught, surrounded.
Niles braced himself to meet the first
rush from the rear. Then with rend-
ing smash the wall parted and light
poured through. A voice shouted.
"Niles! Are you there? It's We'd
der!"
Vedder-Sergeant Hallorans aid.
Niles gasped as big bodies shoulder
ed through the secret gap and he saw
men in plain clothes and blue uni
forms.
"The sergeant's breaking into the
other house. We found that door in
the wall just this minute"
"Then come on!" grated Niles.
"And be ready for a fight"
He sped along the passage and rip
ped open the door at the other end.
Amazed, he halted. Tracy, Gabriel
and another gangster covered in a
corner before the drawn guns of Ser
geant Halloran and group of detec-
tives. The sergeant grinned.
"Just about made it, Ell Niles?
Niles slipped his weapon away. 1t
was all over now. This was the clean
up.
"How-how did you know I was in
here?" he asked duly.
"There were hundred dollar bills
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
CONSOLIDATING COUNTIES

There is talk in the air again about the consol-
;dation of counties as matter of economy. The
idea is a most excellent one, suggested in the
Brookings report made under the Gardner admin
istration some four years ago.
With fine system of highways, automobiles
and other quick methods of reaching county seats
from the remotest corners, there is no need for
100 separate and distinct counties with their null
tipIied county governments. The two Obstacles
however that must be overcome IN CONSERVATION
are that the citizens of the various counties must
compromise their county pride and work out an
equitable plan of adjusting the county debts. we
believe it will be much easier for the citizens 10
smother their county pride than will be to adjust
the debts.
The consolidation does not contemplate ne"
county seats near what is now the boundary line
between counties, but the retention of the present
county seats except to abandon about half OF
them. Suitable use could be made Of abandoned
courthouses but when the time comes to forsake
them and move the center of county government
to an adjacent county, the citizens will go down
fighting.
1t will be interesting to watch developments
Oficeholders will be slow to advance specific con-
solicitations until sentiment has crystalized in IA
vor of the observation-disclosures Star
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is NRA ON ITS LAST LEGS?

in the Industrial News Review | read:
Just about everybody who is able to reaG knows
something of the drastic changes in NRA set-up
and policy that have been taking place for some
months. Price-fxing has been dropped in many
codes; business is being given power over its
own affairs; the era of ron-hand industrial die
tatOrshp is apparently coming to an end'
There may be drastic changes in the NRA set
up, but no relief for the business man who is conf
PEELED to pay men SO, OOO-a-year salaries 10 cad
minister the code" Also there are innumerable
underlings who draw down Salaries and expenses
of SIS day.
of large amounts to support Regional Code Au-
thorities l have been unable to find them The
truth of the matter is most business men are dis
gusted because of so-caled administrator Man.
ayers who in no manner serve any good purpose
Actually, is any business living up to the code?
First off The Enquirer ''to get on the code" was
asked to pay $25 for "The Franklin Price List -
and the requirement was that job printing prices
were to be boosted rs to 100 per cent.
This we did not do because it would have been
unjust and would work a hardship upon our Gus
toners. Later this order was rescinded.
Men and brethren, 1 believe the great majority
of you will agree with me when l say the NRA
as today administered, serves most in giving a
small army of men good salaries. And few fellows
who suck the public sap ever die and none resign
It's just too bad that must put up with bad
condition that now obtains for the next two years
or more.-Eugene Ashcraft in Monroe Enquirer
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is ALICE DEAD?

The thousands of US who delighted in "Alice in
Wonderland" when we were children, and then re-
discovered the book as a cunning and learned sa-
tirical work when we grew older, grieved last
week to learn that Alice is dead. Alice was Mrs.
Alice Hargreaves who as little girl used to go
boating and taks walks with the Rev. Mr.. Dodgson
who signed his name "Lewis Carroll" That was
more than 70 years ago. for Mrs. Hargreaves YVES
80 when she died.
But the real Alice of course, will live forever.
At least, we hope so. Perhaps children these days
are becoming too sophisticated for nonsense books,
too wise for fantasy, too smart to believe that
Alice actually did pop down a rabbit hole and play
croquet with flamingo. Sadly, we have to admit
that it is often the oldsters nowadays who read
such things with delight; the children far too
practical.-Cleveand Star.
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j, 5. RENTERS
KIDNAP CASE
Able Federal Sleuths Again
Assigned in the Lind
bergh Affair

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81. (UP)
Arthur P. Madden and Frank Will
son, two of the internal revenue
bureaus ablest sleuths, were or
dered yesterday to cooperate with
New Jersey authorities in the
Lindbergh kidnapping case.
They left Immediately for New
Jersey where Bruno Hauptmann
is held in Jail at Pennington,
awaiting trial on charges of kid
naping and numbering Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr. Elmer Trey, chief
of the internal revenue intelli-
gence unit, was in New York to-
day, but treasury officials declin-
ed to say whether he was work
ing on the Lindbergh case.
Assignment of Madden and
Wilson to the Lindbergh case
brings the federal government
back into the century's most no
torious crime. The department of
justice, whose agents helped cap
ture Hauptmann, retired from the
case after he was extradited from
New York to New Jersey. 1t an
nounced at the time it would have
no further interest in the case ex-
cept to produce witnesses.
The treasury department said
New Jersey authorities asked that
Madden and Wilson be assigned
to the case.
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eide that question. Are you willing
to put forth the necessary effort
and suffer the necessary amount
to accomplish that desire? Answer
that question. Having, decided
those two questions ON the 13de
Of action, you are ready to ge
ahead. But having made up your
mind to 90 ahead, FP9 must go
ahead and keep onFSoinG ahead,
or you will be one of the failures.
Just ore word about failure {:
Falling down does not mean fail
ure. It is the hot getting up again
and pressing on that is failure.
How many children would learn
to walk, if they quit trying when
they fell down? Learning to walk
consists of falling down, getting
up, falling down, getting up. hum
dreds and hundreds of times.
When you set out to do some
thing and you find yourself block
ed, or your plans peter out or go
awry, you should not consider that
failure. That merely means you
have not succeeded yet. You may
meet seemingly Sinsurmountable
obstacles over and over again in
any course you set out to pursue.
The more important the course,
the greater will be your obstacles,
The reason comparatively I Few
persons go far in important work
is that they consider an obstacle
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GIVE DIR. PRATT THE CREDIT

DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt was really the originator
of the national scenic highway to skirt the sum-
mits of the Blue Ridge and in the years ago when
first agitated he proposed that it be called 1.-THE
Crest-of-t the Bue-Ridge Road which 1 submit has
much more of resonance and residence in it than
Park to Park Better take it back to the bowl and
let him re-chrsten it like he wanted to in the first
place, and at the same time, throw few hats into
the air in his honor for seeing the Olympus of his
dreams reached-Jnlian S. Miller in Charlotte
Observer. &c -
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.O'CONNOR TO
QUIT POST OF
COMPTROLLER
Shakeup Will Pave Way
for Cooperation by
!. Treasury and Banks
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. CUP

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. CUP
J. F. T. O'Connor will resign rs
comptroller of the currency and,
effective Dec. 81, will become fed
eral reserve agent at San Fran
cisco, it was said in informed cir
cles last night.
Rumors have it that former
Congressman Charles West, Ohio
Democrat, will be made chairman
Of the board of the Federal De-
post Insurance Corporation. Leo
T. Crowley, who now holds that
position, will be appointed to fill
O'Connor's job as comptroller Of
currency.
O'Connor, who is an eX-officio
director of the Deposit Insurance
Corporation, is reported to have
been at odds with Crowley for
some time.
West has been mentioned for
some important federal post ever
since he made an unsuccessful
race for the Democratic senatorial
nomination in Ohio. Two weeks
ago he was believed to have a
good chance of becoming director
of the budget, succeeding Lewis
w. Douglas, who resigned.
The new lineup, it was pointed
out, would clear the way for close
cooperation between the treasury
department and the bankers. The
recent appointment of Mariner
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SHALL LIVES BE SAVED

The question before the house in North Caro-
lima in respect to this proposed drivers license law
is very simple: Are we willing to spend some of
the tax money going out for motor privileges
in trying to prevent an average of around 100
fatalities on the highways each month of the year,
or do we prefer to use the same money to keep
the roads in repair or build new ones instead? The
answer depends upon whether we believe life
perhaps our OWNS worth more than few extra
miles of bitulithic or in having few weeds scraped
Observer.
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THE WAY THERE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT-
thing which can stop them.

q thing which can stop them.
If you are going to reach your
objective, you must learn to
overcome obstacles or to go
around them or under them or
over them. If a plan of yours
peters out, or goes awry, that is
merely a challenge to you to de-
wise a new plan. 1t may be neces-
sary many times for you to create
or to employ plan after plan be-
fore you find one that will work.
The person who quits after an
unsuccessful attempt or after two
or three or a dozen or a hundred
unsuccessful attempts, simply has
not got the stuff in him of which
success is made.
Remember one thing: Fate can
not conquer the person who will
not be conquered. Adversely can
not overcome the person who re-
fuses to be overcome. The human
being can if he will, draw to him
self powers that are irresistible.
All he has to do is to keep on
keeping on.
Another thing: Don't forget
about sacrifice. 1t is required of
You if you are to accomplish any,
thing. And the moro you accom-
plish, the more you will be re-
nuired to sacrifice. That is one of
the prices of accomplishment.
All the mon and all the women
who have done great things in
this world, and who will probably
do greater things in worlds TO
come, have. made sacrifice upon
sacrifice for the causes for which
they were working.
Sacrifices may be anything.
They may be your feelings, your
time, your money, your physical
and mental energy. your health,
your life, your friends.
| know something about sacri-
ficing friends. In my fight for
good government, | find it neces-
sary every now and then to sacri-
flee 9 dear friendship. Someone
whose goodwill | deeply value,
may stand in the way of some
thing that should be done. He may
want a place he should not have.
He may insist ! follow a course |
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WASHINGTON

ask for an appointment. just
marches into the department
and fumes if someone else is with
Wallace.
Chief Sleuth j. Edgar Hoover,
whose dark, keen features might
make you think lie himself was
a gangster if you didn't know
better, at a cocktail party with
the Homer Cummingses in th[.r
new Rock Greek Park castle.
Explaining that of course his
agents never shot public en-
envy unless he ran or reached
for Il gun--and 1--WE mustn't
get zoo cocky about acting as
judge, jury, and cXccutiOnef
all ut once" .
Efrs. Woodrow Wilson, marcel.
ing briskly down Connecticut
Avenue in her new hat-a large
fiat black velvet beret, with a glis-
lSAlil5 OoliiS lSS'hHSl Cullll I'LL.
der one side. Tranccs Per.
iins has a new hat OF the same
type. Joe Turdity is taking
his fall walks In brown hat,
brown topcoat, brown shoes-and
cane to match.
SRA corridor scene: Miss
i Perkins and NIEB Member Sid
ncy HillnGan, walking with
heads together and i'm animat-
ed conversation about the La
Dor Advisory Board meeting
which she has just left and to
L which Hillman is abold to re,
turn.
RFC Chairman and Mrs. Jesse
Jcaes aackstage during the new
Kaufman-Ryskina rlay, bit eur.
prised as a chorus boy spanks a
chorus gal standing in the wings
and Misses, Eli there, cutie!"
Kilbourne Johnston and Bobby
Straus, MIRA Grown princes, !"
cocktailing rather lugubriously in
the Carlton lounge.
!tCopyriEht. 1894, NEa Service. Inc, {,
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THERE is STILL MUCH WORK LEFT
FOR US TO DO
CBv BRUCE CATTON)

Those sleeky, Streamlined trains that
the railway lines have been throwing
about the country lately come close to be-
ing the most encouraging single thing that
has happened since the depression.
Or, to be more exact, the public's re
Spouse to them does.
Since those trains appeared, the news
papers and magazines have been full o.
predictions of vast new railroad cOnStruc-
ton programs Hand in hand with this
has come great revival of interest in new
,tvpes of construction in other fields.
Makers of steel houses are stirring from
the long sleep Automobile makers are
playing around with new designs Even
the output of such things as refrigerators
and household furniture has been affected.
Now all this, to begin with, is simply the
process of putting. ourselves on tiptoe to
peer into an enormous new field that Is
fairly begging for industrial expansion.
A great opportunity awaits American
business, somewhere not far off; it begins
to look as if we would be moving into it
in the near future.
But there is more to it than that. 1t also
signifies the revival of the old, traditional
American spirit. We are discovering that
the world is not coming to an end, after
all-that there is work to be done, and
lots of it, and that we might just as well
roll up our sleeves and get busy on it.
We talked so much about over-produc-
ton, Over-eXpansiOn, and over-capitaliza-
ton in the last four years that We fooled
ourselves into thinking that we had left
our golden age away off behind US some
where.
Then we saw couple of brand-new
types of railroad train, did little medita-
ton, and discovered that it Just wasn't So.
There is enough work crying to be done
in this country to keep us all busy for gen.
erations.
When we have remade the worlds
greatest railroad system, rebuilt some mil
lions of homes, harnessed all our streams,
restored our failing forests, checked soil
erosion and performed a dozen other SIM
liar 5O-year jObs-then it may be time for
us to look around and ask, what next?'
But we won't see that time. Our grand
children may, if they live that long.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER


NEA Service STAFF Correspondent
Observation-Disclosures cleo
w tions and the opening of Con-
,ress, your nations capital is en-
Toying one of it's so-called crime
waves
It's a rather weak Iffort-the
kind Of crime wave where people
call mass meetings Of indignant
citizens and nobody comes except
4 few officials anxious to call
names or defend themselves.
But there's been some slight
clamor for ousting the police
chief, who is known as Duck
Legs" and the gamblers have
been seriously inconvenienced.
Also, the capital is finding out
what became of it's many ex-boot-
leggers who couldn't be crowded
into the legitimate liquor bust
ness. - --.. r-'-....
The crime wave really didn't
consist of much except the muir
der of a newspaper vendor whom
gunmen mistook for q gambling
house operator, ,
It was revealed that nearly all
the surplus bootleggers had gone
into the gambling racket and that
resultant ovefcfo%ding had lee
to bitter strife 81 -" stF ..
SO the police have raided man,
of the gambling joints and thu
bookies and numbers game, ID
orators are heading miserable
lives. Some of the sr1&ll-timt
boys, according to a direct tin !,
get from the underworld, have
now been driven back to bootleg
ging, beesase it's temporary,
much safer. There must be !;
moral somewhere in this.
| HEt1b = ris.,,m .arrl..~ -
G ENA TOR COTTON ED
SMITH of South Carolina 70,
OF AAA, arriving rs minutes lat
tor an appointment with secre
tary Wallace. II fell asleep.
Smith explained. He had been a
the movies. Usually Smith doesn'
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BIG I INDUSTRIES 49,,
CURB LABOR 1 "A 4
lNONtInued fro.

70 n,....,. 'S' from oaye ons'
sufficicn, evidence vic me Ground Of
t fHI der <.oec has b. been A I'D
cast TO IN" e. department and nsi' R 2fSs
vast a1t o?gi% action TUESDAY, a. .
f fSis i,'l. by the supreme ,las We ss,I &
R Rms issue a;I as soon as .'' 0 S.s
of ni" fhe sad. He feels cls Psss'l
m9 wi. ono cause So Of far isf torst]
hn ms u.s.. position was s subst y
by by Green who also is ', ,rsi.
&c get a verdict by tho p 5 anSa|
i ,. labor chieftain cxp I,i, +
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the the Labor boards ru aIiiSSS's, q
ton can be introduced '. y. q, y
ing congress to pcrfcct . ~ ss'
ure. 'he
Bi H! announced last MIL
er his conference with " ,ssi
Attorncv General E,r I'M /
stephen and other iust;@+ ]
cials that the dcpartm ao,,'
move quickly in brinrirg" ,
down on the IIoudc case
THE department is go,,
take very quick action S
1--WE are all ready to % -, j.
and we are going to 20 sSsij
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A TRIFLE DEAR

Comparing the Little House on Park Avenue
with model housing on the Tennessee Valley prof.
eet we find that commuters homes in the vicinity
of New York come much cheaper than working
mems homes on the Norris dam. Down there the
cost of accommodating 400 families has been ST.
500 900. 1t works out at very nearly $4,000 a
dwelling. The model house on Park Avenue costs
| So. 900 and has nine and two baths. The
workinsmen's homes in Norris are probably small
err and simpler-New York Times.
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BIBLE THOUGHT

p How to Pray-NoT LIMITING GOD
"He did not many mighty works there because
If their unbelief' Matt. 1889.
All Lord God! Thou hast made the heaven and
the earth by Thy great power; There is nothing too
hard for Thee. Behold, am the Lord; Is there
anything too hard for Me?" DER 32iI'Io)'
Beware in your prayer, above everything OF
limiting God, not only by unbehef but by 1ancE-
ing that you now what He can do Expect unex-
pected things, above all that we ask or think
Andrew Murray.
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IS HACKED TO DEA1v

ALEXANDRIA, La. N,
(uP).-Gcorgc D. Bcprst,
attendant al the Contra ],
ana Hospital for the Liam
hacked to death with a h.
Henry Cleveland, 10. Degm
mate, yesterday.
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Almost any undertaking that is
of Importance is not only difficult
and must be done through deter
mination and perseverance, but it
calls for sacrifice.
Are YOU willing to pay the
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price? That is
the big idea. And
the price may be
anything. If you
are not willing
to pay the price,
then you might
as well forget
the whole bust
ness. You will
not go far.
9 What do you
earnestly, c o n
seientiously de-
sire to do? De-
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New York's prisoners are getting five
days off a month for good behavior.
Which, beside their Sundays, gives them &
better break than labor with its fveday
week.
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Only those with vocabulary of 10000
words can understand world news today,
says Columbia professor. But only few
choice expressions are necessary to COM
ment on it.
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VETERAN BANQUETED

MASON CITY, Ia, Nov. 21.-
Edwin Haskin gave lock
of his snow-white hair to %
guests who helped him celebrate
his 99th birthday yesterday. Civil
war veteran, he was honor guest
at a banquet of Daughters Of
Union Veterans.
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Grandmother used to brag about her
new machine in the old days, just as
daughter does today. Only, it was a sew
ing machine then.
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Funny that Andrew Mellon should be
indignant over the governments suit for
$1,000, 900 back taxes, when most of us
would feel highly complimented.
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Another reason Princess Marina might
have for selecting only Is costumes for her
trousseau is that she'd like to devote a
Little of her time to Prince George.
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eraI > rcscr Ss chairman harm Of ii. !
one step in the cV cao,. was Sec,
about such co-oper r.,;IsN 70 b,