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The Washington times., 1934-09-15

took my bracelet?' she retorted.
Il don't want to think i'll of you,
Joe. But I can't help worrying
about you. I know you have lots
of temptation. It's not a sermon
I want to preach you. Only on
the common sense side, maybe
you'll listen to me.
"These men you've been going
with lately, some of those I've
seen, anyway, look like crooks
and gangsters and not fit for a
decent person to know. They've
got you to gamble with them,
I'm sure, if it's nothing more.
Don't you know, Joe, the jails
are full of young fellows like you
and half the time it's the ones
not really to blame, who hardly
know what they're getting into,
that get sent up or shot?
"You know it would just break
mothers heart, and dads too, and
I don't say it wouldn't go some
way towards breaking mine---if
anything happened to you {.
Even the gang leaders hardly ever
live to- be 80, and what's the
good OF being buried at 30, even
if it's in a silver coffin?'
yeah, but, baby, they live
while they're at it" Joe said. He
was glad to see the elevated stair
way near at hand and escape
from his tormenter only a matter
of moments.
I'm goin' to cut 'em out, Cath.
You're a good kid not to raise
more hell about the bracelet.
Maybe at that. it saved me from
stopping a bullet. because once
you get in bad with those birds
anything can happen. You're
right, it amt healthy. I'll get
out now. I've paid the wop.
S'long, kid"
Cathleen, a little comforted,
and a tiny ray of hope shining
in her heart, went confidently
toward her work. Her brother,
meanwhile, glad to be rid of her,
walked on seriously pondering the
excellent advice she had given
him
Having squared his account
with the cash obtained for the
miraculous bracelet. he was not
obliged, this morning, to dodge
the gang. Indeed, he rather hoped
he would run into some of them;
hoped they'd again suggest that
he go along as lookout man on
the "job" they'd planned. If they
did, he was now in a position
to tell them where to go.
Fate was in cynical mood
when she handed Joe Mccarthy a
collectors job. Natural enough
that he should have got 1t, how
ever, since he appeared with
Jasper Tngram's personal card in
his hand. What stronger recon-
mendation could an applicant
have? Under such circumstances,
how could the head of the depart
ment guess his complete unfitness
for the place. Discipline at the
hands of a trained superior was
what he needed. But here there
was no supervision. no regularity
of hours, no association with So
Der and capable fellow.employes
In spite of his Job he was still
free to roam the streets as he
pleased. Free to abandon business
for love making if a pretty girl
opened the door to him. Free to
humor a natural Incidence and
refuse to climb long flights OF
stairs to call on a top-floor ten
ant. Free to cross off the names
of an inaccessible client. and re-
port that his bell-ringing had
gone unanswered.
His immediate superior. who re
ceived and banked his collections
was not surprised, in that fall oi
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CHAPTER XVI

N44AG l GGk NN4
Once Alspaugh began to con.
template the possibility of bor-
rowing from this account, it was
not long until he had convinced
himself that neither daring nor
dishonesty need enter the trans
action. The thing was safe and
secure.
Further brooding over the
calamitous total of his debts
screwed Homer's courage to the
sticking point. He went without
lunch in order to visit the up
town banks in which 1ngram'S
money was on deposit. After
ward, he visited the office Of a
stockbroker. He got back at his
usual time.
The whole thing was so easy
that he marvelled at his own
meticulous honesty in never hav-
ing done the like before. But he
woke sweating toward dawn OF
the next morning, and had trou-
BILE in getting to sleep again be-
cause of the haunting visions Of
handouts and prison cells.
BY the time the distracted Cath
leen had convinced herself the
bracelet was not in her bureau,
she knew, with shocking certainty,
what had become of It.
From his childhood Joe had
been guilty Of thievery in the
home. The last of his known
thefts, however, had occurred
three years ago.
She went now directly in search
of him. but he had not come
home, had not returned for din
ner. She had to sit through the
meal, giving no outward evidence
of perturbation.
It seemed to Cathleen that 1t
would be easier to die than tc
fail to return the bracelet tc
Seward ingram. The briefest de
lay in doing this appeared to hel
an admission Of cheapness and
guilt.
The home evening, usually toe
short, seemed unending as she
listened through the hours FOL
Joe's return. It was after Il
when she heard his key in the
door. Instantly she was in the
hall and, grabbing his coat with
her small hand, she whispered
fiercely, You come with mel'
She led him into the kitchen
where, with the doors closed, she
could talk without being hearc
upstairs.
"Joe Mccarthy, you give me
that bracelet you took this morn
ftng!" she commanded.
II don't know what you're talk
ing about" he said with a fine
air of injured innocence.
you're lying. You took tina
bracelet"
Joe sat down, lighted a cigar
cite, pushed his hat onto the bacl
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Of his head, suggesting, by pose
and gesture, utter unconcern.
What would you be doing with
a bracelet anyhow? What sort Of
bracelet was it? Where'd you get
it?" he demanded.
That's not the question, I
know you took it. You've got to
give it back-thiS minute!"
"It is, too, the question:" he
said. "A valuable bracelet like
that"
80 you did see it, then"
He had made a slip, and. seeing
it was to late to recover himself,
he adopted a righteous tone. Its
the business of the men of a
family to see that their women
behave themselves. Why should
you have jewelry unless you
either stole it or"
How do you dare say things
like that to mel" she cried. Il
have not done wrong and I never
will. That's why must have the
bracelet back!"
She had no choice now but to
take him into her confidence.
What makes you think had
anything to do with it?' Joe de-
manded.
Don't you care anything about
your sisters honor?" she asked.
"1've got to have it back, tonight.
You've got to give it to mel"
In the face of her moral
strength, so much greater than
his, Joe's resistance crumbled.
II haven't got the damned
thing" he admitted. II had to
get some money. I've been nearly
crazy for a week, wondering
where I'd get it. I didn't have a
red, not even cigarette money. I
remembered about those cigarettes
you said you were going to keep
as a souvenir, and went through
your bureau looking for them.
When I found the bracelet, it was
an answer to my prayers. I
hooked it for three hundred dol
lars"
Cathleen said, "Give me the
ticket and the money"
Haven't you heard what
said? Do you think I wanted to
jingle the money in my pockets?
was on the spot. Understand?
If 1 hadn't got the money, God
knows what would have happened
to me. It's gone, the whole of 1t!
I can give you the ticket if you
want it"
Choked by chagrin and re.
morse, she silently accepted the
pawn ticket.
There was some truth in Joe's
claim that punctuality was not
essential to his Job, for the ad-
dresses at which he had to call
in making his collections were all
on the Long Island side Of the
river. But the next morning, i'm
mediately after a hurried break,
fast, he left the house.
Cathleen, who had slept little,
and whose face still bore unlnis
taxable marks of prolonged weep
ing. sprang up and ran after him
I'm sorry about last night,
she told him. II was upset and
could think of nothing but my
own affairs, and forgot your
trouble entirely. Tell me, Joe
why were you so desperate for
money--so much money-three
hundred dollars? One would
think you'd robbed somebody and
the police were after you. Are
you all right now, and safe?"
"Sure, I'll be all right after
this" he assured her hastily. "It'S
too long a story, Cath. to tell
you now. But I wouldn't steal
and you've no business to say a
thing like that to me-"
] What was it then when you
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the private office until Ingram
returned. She was given, mean
while, some special work to do
including verifications from the
files in Alspaugh's charge.
AS Cathleen went in to get q
file she needed, Alspaugh looked
UP to say, II guess I'll have to
keep you late tonight, Miss Nc
Carthy. All right with you?"
"Why-yes-" she answered,
not too eagerly. Then at that
instant a wild hope was born in
her mind. If Mr.. Alspaugh could
be persuaded to help her! He
had always been friendly.
Evidently he regarded her as a
valuable employe. He knew that
she was getting $40 q week. ana
that Mr.. Ingram was satisfied
with her work, so that even if the
office staff would have to be cut
down, as every one now expected,
she almost certainly would be
retained.
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MORE MONEY :

Note The financial details contained this novel, while
purely fctiona have been testified to accurate and
vncng by B. O. Forbes editor of Forbes Magazine and dis
tnguished financial writer and by Harry Pringe who
recently investigated the activities of var Kreuge Hugo
SHINES and Alfred Lowenstein.)
WHAT HAPPENED
Young pretty Mccarthy secretary the Weahy
attracts her employers son, SeDdrd
Realizing the difference their social positions C1then dScnr
SewCrds attentions but he persistent and finally makes a"
appointment 10ith him.
presents her h expensive bracelet Which Caheen plans
to return but the gift disappears from her dresser.
Marian Apauoh UoouS Uie Homer Ap1ugh Migrants con-
jdentd becomes infatuated Wh the Marques dAhue
She buys new impress the Marques and the first time she
takes him out IN they haze accident and the destroyed
CHAPTER
Opportunity herself Had
Apagh such time acted inside knowledge would he real
lied have made killing His caution born Of the small mans
timidity, had stopped him.
inside knowledge sufficiently fool
else the boodhng Specer possible loss Obviously Homer
not sport He would gamble certainty but nothing ese
Fuuatng thus between avarce and terror he watched with
boundess admiration and the magnificent pungng of his chief
Superb indifferent to maxmS tottering financial
structure Ingram gambling his fortune ventures and
expanding dream.
He seemed able to smell out hundred topping enterprises
the one that could be captured remuneraey reorgand
Jumping with of others and capitalizng them all again
from above, he would
NOW READ ON
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obvious that presently Homer,
frightened of speculation as he
was, seriously considered taking
the plunge.
IF I could lay my hands on
two or three thousand dollars"
he thought, IT could clean up
enough to get square with the
world!"
Tempted
Having no money of his own
with which to speculate, it is
hardly surprising that almost at
once he found himself toying
with the idea of risking money
that was not his. OF course, he
wouldn't lay down a dollar except
on a sure thing. Well, then, If
he should walk out in his lunch
hour and cash check on that
private account of Ingram'S which
stood in Homer's name, why could
he not use that money to buy
stock?
This private, and hidden, &C.
count was never audited. Once in
great while, Ingram asked to
see the balance sheet, which Ho-
mer always had ready for him.
Usually about a hundred thou
sand dollars was carried in this
account. In general, checks were
drawn on it only in favor of Miss
Virginia Russell. Lately, however,
a big one had gone to Mrs. Aga
tina Crane. Alspaugh wasn't sure
who these women were, but he
had his suspicious. There had
been other names in the past.
Ingram trusted Homer, who at
any time might have drawn all
the money out and absconded
with it. Or he might have lent
himself to a blackmail suit for a
big cut of the possible profits.
Ingram was sure he would do
neither. Alspaugh's position and
his prospects were worth more
than he could hope to make by
such methods.
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1882, to learn that tenant had
been unable to pay but had prom
ised to have the money next week.
Frequently this was true and it
was this fact that put a danger
Gus idea into Joe'S head. If one
failed to pay, why not say that
two had failed and so appropriate,
temporarily, the money he re-
ceived?
Evening star., 1934-01-24
PERSH|NG AMONG
HERS[Y MOURNERS
General to Attend Services
Friday Morning at Fort
Myer Chapel.

Gen. John J. Pershing will be among
the pallbearers attending funerel services
which will be reid Friday at Fort Myer
Chapel at 10 am for Maj Gen. Mark
Leslie Hersey, it was announced today
Burial will follow in Arlington National
Cemetery with full military honors.
PallbearerS also include Brig. Gems,
Michael j. Lenihan, Thomas H. Slavens,
N j. Mcclure and Frederick D. Evans,
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Martin and Col
Alonzo Gray. all retired. and Lieut.,
Col George E. Ijams and Lieut.. Col.
Resolve P Palmer.
The Rev. Arlington A. McCallum,
rector of st. Paul's Episcopal Church
and national chaplain of the Military
Order of the World War, of which Gen.
Hersey was a former commander in
chief, will officiate at the services.
Gen. Hersey died Monday night in
the Davis Islands Hospital at Tampa,
Fla. where he had been visiting with
Mrs. HerSey. He had served in many
Army posts and had been in command
of the 155th Infantry Brigade at ST.
Mihiel and at BOiS deS Loges in the
Meuse-A -Argonne during the World War.
He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta
Fraternity. the George Washington
Post of the American Legion and the
Spanish-American War Veterans As
Sociatlon.
Surviving Gen. Hersey are his widow,
Mrs. IneZ Emerson Hersey; son.
Comdr. M. L. Hersey, U. S. NJ. on duty
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; daughter,
Evening star., 1934-01-24
MISS PERKINS HITS
PAUPERS' VOTE BAN
Secretary Also Says District
Residents Should Be Given
Franchise.

Labor Secretary Perkins today at
tackled obsolete pauper disenfranchise-
inent laws in IA States and at the same
time indicated justification for disen-
franchisement of District of Columbia
residents never existed and still does
not exist. ........
Miss Perkins said she saw no reason
why the Government employees and
other residents OF the District should
not have a vote. She expressed her
opinion while explaining statement
issued by her office on pauper laws OF
States.
Among the injustices on which the
depression has returned new light are
the pauper laws in some of the States,
she said. These are innerltanceS from
the Elizabethan poor law, which reflect
q point of view on the causes OF pov-
erty long since proven unsound. Then
it was believed that men were individ-
ually responsible when they were un-
able to find work and that society
should punish them. II there were
any left in 1929 who held to this old
doctrine they have now abandoned it
Some few Workmen may be unem-
playable. but punishment is rarely the
road 10 reform. even 1Or IneSe. AS lOr
the others who may be destitute be-
cause of social or industrial conditions
over which, as individuals, they have
no control, I find that in some States
legal penalties which are so unjust
that their removal from our State con-
stitutions and statute books should be
g first concern.
There are. I find. IA States which
deprive the person who has the legal
status of pauper of the right to vote
or hold office These are Virginia,
Delaware, Louisiana. Maine. MaSsachu-
eetts, Missouri, New Hampshire. New
Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Texas and West
Virginia
In each of these States this depriva-
ton of the right of suffrage is in the
constitution. In Louisiana, Missouri
Oklahoma and Pennsylvania the con-
stitutional disenfranchisement applies
only to those receiving institutional aid.
In Louisiana it applies to inmates of
charitable institutions, in Missouri and
Oklahoma to poorhouse inmates and
In PENNSYLVANIA to inmates of poor
houses except those who are under
contract for hire"
Evening star., 1934-01-24
H. F. FLEISHMANN DEAD
Rubber Expert Expired Suddenly
After Operation.

NEW YORK, January "a OP).-Henry
Fry Fleischmann, SO. internationally
known in the crude rubber trade under
the name of Henry Fry. died suddenly
last Monday night after an operation at
the Fitch Private Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
DAWSON ANNOUNCES
AS COUNTY ASPIRANT
Young Political Leader to Seek
Republican Nomination for
States Attorney.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. January 24.-The
first Montgomery County Republican
to make known his desire for county
Office this Summer is Walter w. Daw-
son.
Dawson. who is chairman Of the Re-
publican State Central Committee for
the county and president of the Young
Peoples Republican Club of Montgom-
cry County has announced he will
seek the Republican nomination for
States attorney to succeed Stedman
Prescott. When Prescott was elected
in 1880 the Republican candidate was
r. Bernard Welsh, who was defeated
by 327 votes. Welsh. it is understood,
does not wish the nomination this time.
Dawson was the only Republican can
didate to be elected in the county in
the election Of 1890 He was chosen
as one Of the five representatives in
the House of Delegates, winning with
several hundred votes to spare.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
MYSTERY SHOT FATAL
TO BOY AFTER MONTH
Martinsburg Youth Dies From
Effects of Bullet Lodged in
Brain.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


MARTINSBURG. W. Va. January
e4-Luther Lamb. 13. mysteriously shot
December 13 on his way home from
school, but who left a hospital after a
months treatment apparently on the
way back to normal health despite the
fact that the bullet was lying on the
fringe of the brain. died at his home
here this morning.
Infection developed from the wound
An autopsy was performed, the bullet
removed and given to State police. who
are undertaking to run down the source
of the shot. Surgeons hesitated to
operate because of the danger.
The bullet entered the boys head
. from the right rear. Investigating
officers earlier accepted theory that
q shot intended for a bird or from a
practicing marksman had hit the lad
The person who fired the shot has not
been found, however.
The earlier apparent recovery OF the
boy caused interested attention among
surgeons here.
Evening star., 1934-01-24

butter market. The scrapped codes had
provided limitations on milk sheds and
certificates of necessity before being
permitted to deliver milk to already
glutted markets. There will be none of
this under his regime, Mason has de-
clared.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
Woman Lives in Piece of House

PHILADELPHIA tF).-In the one
room OF her home which was left by a
wrecking crew lives Mrs. Mana E. Scott,
65 Awarded $25,000 damages in a
street-widening project, she refused to
vacate because the city could not pay
her in cash. and the contractors demol-
ished all but the kitchen where she sat.
Hundreds Of people stop here to see
me and I've received letters from all
over the country" Mrs. Scott says.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
|DA|RYMEN PREPARE
FOR 2-DAY SESSION
Richmond Meeting of Great
Importance to Market in
Capital Milk Shed.

Confronted with marketing problems
closely connected with the Washington
milk shed, the Virginia State Dairy
mems Association will meet tomorrow
in Richmond for a two-day session in
an effort to find some means of re-
storing prosperity to the Old Dominion
dairy farmer.
Overlapping OF the Richmond and
Washington milk producing areas. to-
gether with the fact that lower farm
prices are paid for milk in the Viz
ginia capital, makes the meeting Of
great importance to dairy farmers who
supply the Nations Capital with milk
For some time. the attractiveness of
higher producer prices here has con-
stituted threat to the stability Of
this market. already overburdened with
heavy surplus. and 1t is with keen
interest that farmers of the Capital
area will watch the Richmond pro-
ceedings.
Dairy Assistant to Speak.
p. B. Derrick Of the Agricultural Ad-
juStment Administration, principal as
sistant to j. H. Mason. new chief OF
the dairy section. will be one of the
principal speakers at tomorrow morn
ing's meet. Because Of the fact that
Mason and Chester Davis, farm admin
strators. have scrapped all milk mar
keting agreements promulgated by their
predecessors. Administrator George N
Peek and Dairy Division Chief Clyde l.
King. great significance is attached to
Derrick's participation in the conven-
ton. Milk producers in both the Rich
mond and Washington markets hope
to obtain some clue from him as to
what the A. A. A. intends to do for
them.
Derick's topic is "Order From Chaos
Under the Federal Milk Code" but
| dairymen on this market are fearful
| that present policies of the new adjust
ment administration portend even
| greater chaos. Mason has stated fatty
there will be no closed markets and
that milk prices will be built on the
Evening star., 1934-01-24
SILVER SPRING LIQUOR
ASSISTANT RESIGNS
BY a staff Correspondent Of The Star.

By SIAN C0rrtSpUhutHt UI IHt otHf,
ROCKVILLE, Md, January a.
Louis A. Yost, sr, of Silver Spring,
Yesterday submitted to the Board Of
County Commissioners his resignation
as assistant manager Of the Montgom-
cry County liquor dispensary at Silver
Spring.
In accepting the resignation Of Yost,
who leaves to accept a position with a
private concern. the commissioners an
nounced that the vacancy would not be
filled at the present time.
The commissioners voted to rent the
store building at 8402 Georgia avenue
in Silver Spring, adjoining the dis
pensary and warehouse in that COM
munity, to provide additional space
said to be needed for those branches
Of the dispensary system.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
AUTHORIZE DIRECTORATE
I. c. c. Gives Astor Right to Accept
Railroad Posts.

William Vincent Astor Of New York
was authorized by the Interstate Com
merce Commission today to become .
director Of the Chicago, St. Louis &
New Orleans Railroad Co. and the
Dubuque g. Sioux City Railroad Co.
Astor already is a director of the
Illinois Central and the Great North
ern The two new roads are subsidi-
aries of the Illinois Central
Evening star., 1934-01-24
Skin-Itch Torture Ends;
Millions Praise Zemo

The first application of soothing,
healing zemo quickly relieves the tor
ture of Itching Rashes, Eczema, Ring
tvorm and similar skin troubles. For
as years Zemo has been used and
praised by millions as a clean. safe,
dependable remedy for family use to
relieve and clear away skin irritations.
A trial will convince you OF its great
merit. Insist on genuine Zemo; it's
worth the price because you get relief.
S5c, soc, 81. AL druggists.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
FILM CELEBRITIES TO WE'D

Mrs. Alice Hersey Wick; 4 sister, Mrs.
Agnes o. Hersey and four grand
children.
Evening star., 1934-01-24
SPEAKER BLOCKS VOTE
ON DE PRIEST MOTION
Action Held Up, Temporarily at
Least, on Colored People Eat
ing in House Cafe.
~ the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press,
The threat of Representative De
Priest Republican. of Illinois. onlv
Negro in Congress, to force a vote on
whether Negroes can eat with the
white in the House restaurant wa,
blocked. temporarily at least, today by
Speaker Rainey.
The Speaker called De Priest to his
Office for a conference later In the day.
Rainey told him: Don't you do any
thing about that matter until I see
you"
Evening star., 1934-01-24
Many to Go on Honor Roll.

Several Prince William dairy farmers
will be accorded honors at the Rich
mond meeting including T. r. Hurst
and son. Broadview Farm, Manassas;
the johnson Brothers, Clover Hill Farm,
Manassas; j. F. Miller, Nokesville; F.
NJ Swartz, Nokesville; r. S. Hynson,
Manassas; N. A. Wheeler, wellington;
w. G. White, C. F. NJ Lewis, E. r.
Conner and j. j. Conner Of Manassas
These producers names will be placed
on the honor roll of the association at
the annual banquet tomorrow evening.
Other speakers, in addition to Der
rick, are C. Nelson Beck. association
president; Wade H. Adams. president Of
the Richmond Chamber of Commerce;
Prof. c. w. Holloway. c. H. Baldwin,
chairman Of the New York State Milk
Control Board DR.. Clarence Poe. edi-
tor, Progressive Farmer: A. j. Glover,
editor. Hoard's Dairyman: John r.
Hutcheson, v. P l.; T. B. Symons,
agricultural extension director, UNI
versity Of Maryland.