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Evening star., 1935-09-11

bills, from her bureau drawer with
out disturbing another thing. But
not Mildred!
There remained only the people to
whom might have given free whiffs
at the store or-wait-
And, suddenly, the whole mystery
lay clear and wished that the earth
would swallow me and my Sleuthing
noddle.
Jean! Jean had visited Mildred last
night. Gone up to her room for a
wrap. Jean loved that perfume. jeans
friend, Harry, was in jail, held for
bail. Jean knew her grandmother's
house like her own.
ATS o'clock turned again toward
Mrs. Duffy's.
AS I had feared, the law" was on
hand.
We'll, Sadie" bawled Donavan
cheerfully, have ye solved the case?"
1--WE clue" I said slowly, spar
ring for time.
Glue, girl! We've got the money!"
And, fairly Growing with triumph, he
dropped the small stuffed purse into
my lap.
They told their story, one interrupt
ing the other all the way through.
Jean had come in just as left. She
had asked if they'd looked care
fully over the yard. Perhaps the
thief had dropped it making his get
away.
I'VE reconstructed the crime, Sadie,
my lass said Donavan, pompously,
while O'Reilly stood by making little
gestures because he could not get a
word in edgewise, land we found the
thing in the bushes alongside the
porch steps, right where the scoundrel
dropped it. And can you believe 1t
Sadie? Mrs. Duffy here wanted us
to drop the whole business. After
Jeanie left she says to me, worried
like: Officer Donavan, let's just for
get about it. I don't need the money
so muchp Can you fancy Oflcer
Donavan closing an eye till he'd fol-
lowed a case to the finish? Well,
good-by to you, Sadiel And good-by
to you, Mrs. Duffy!"
I don't know what was in my mind
by that time, but I turned to Mrs.
Duffy, who sat very quiet in her
leather rocking chair, and took botn
her little old hands in mine
well, dear" said, Happy again?"
That sweet old lady looked up at
me. Her blinded eyes seemed to be
trying to see again as they must have
tried in those long ago days when
the world had first been blotted out
to them. She sighed gently.
Sadie" she said, 81 wish 'twere
yesterday"
Copyright. 1880
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INTERPRETATION
BACK|NC|SSOUGHT
Defense Highway Fight Will
Be Laid Before Body
at Next Meeting.

The combined weight of all civic
groups In the Washington area may
soon be thrown behind the drive for
a wider, safer, more adequate Defense
Highway.
Holding the present dangerous con-
dition of the road Is a matter OF vital
concern to residents of the entire
metropolitan district, Stephen James,
the Montgomery County delegate to
the mterfederation Conference, said
he would bring the matter to that
groups srtention at its next meeting.
Mr.. James is employed by the Highway
Education Board and is an authority
on highways.
The conference at present is COM
posed of delegates representing the
Civic Federations Of Arlington and
Montgomery Counties and the District
OF Columbia. The Prince Georges
County Federation, which is an ardent
advocate of the improvement of
Death Highway" is scheduled to af-
filiate with the conference this month.
The sympathetic attitude toward
the highway project displayed by Dele
gate James is expected to be shared
by the remaining Montgomery dele
gates as well as those from the other
Jurisdictions, who, after proper IN
vestigation in accordance with the
federation's rules, are expected to join
the Prince Georges County group in
its fight for betterment of the road
Several members of the conference,
like hundreds of other metropolitan
area residents. have Summer homes at
resorts which can be reached only over
the Defense Highway and are thor
oughly familiar with its perils. Some
said they make every effort to avoid
travelling 1t on week ends and holi-
Evening star., 1935-09-11

E. Redding for street between First
and Second streets. The purchase
price will not exceed $3.50.
A number of the property owners
we're warned to make sewerage con-
nections to their homes. Unless the
connections are made in the near
future, legal action will be taken.
All poultry owners were warned of a
chicken thief operating in the town.
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days because congestion makes 1t too
dangerous.
Yesterday members Of the Prince
Georges County Federation of Repub-
lican Women, meeting at the home Of
Mrs. B. F. Wade, in College Heights.
expressed approval of The Stars ef-
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chill of dismay down the backbone
at thought of the outrage.
Trade was slow that morning, so
when Mildred Gary came in for
fresh supply of her characteristic per-
fume we had time to chat. Girls
don't come any straighter and friend
lier than Mildred, if she does live in
the big white house on our famous
maple hill and have the president OF
the bank for her father. I always
liked to wait on her.
"HALF ounce of the usual, Sadie
- please" she said, dropping her
bag and gloves on the counter. Have
you heard about Mrs. Duffy?"
She began to tell me the story as
she had heard it, while 1 reached
down the. square bottle of perfume
from the top shelf, where kept it be-
cause it was quality and never used
except when Mildred asked for it. 1t
was a famous French brand, piquant
and family lemony, and the price tag
was bOO HULL 4OA N1opiN4lAA'
I corked the little bottle carefully
as Mildred finished her story. ANY
clues?" I asked, hungrily.
"One-a plain white hanky-per-
fumed. too. Donavan and O'Reily
are quite excited about it all. They're
going to catch that thief If it takes
them all Summer"
What does Jean think about it?"
called after Mildred as she started
down the aisle. Jean was Mrs. Duff
fy's granddaughter.
II haven't seen her today. She
stopped in last night to borrow a
wrap. Big date with Harry. She did
look sweet I always think it's such
a pity that Mrs. Duffy can't see hec.
Well, good-by," and she was gone,
THAT Harry Burt you was talking
about?" inquired the girl at cosmetics
across the aisle. Hes in jail, you
know. Yes" as 1 exclaimed, got run
in last night. Lost a good piece of
money gambling and there was a
fight"
r ATE my lunch in record time that
day and was running up Mrs Duff
fy's front steps before my hour was
half over. The "law" was back again
after morning of tracking down
unfruitful clues
We'll, Sadie" rumbled Donavan.
"Just the lass we're a-needin'. If you'll
just take sniff of this exhibit A"
and he held the white handkerchief
under my nose. Can We tell US what
1t is and who buys it?'
The scent was. by that time, very
faint, but spirits of ammonia could
not have produced a more violent re-
action. The handkerchief was scented
with Mildred's French perfume!
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SHORT STONY
GUILTY SCENT
I controlled my

I controlled my
self with an effort.
Here was q mys-
terry worth pene-
trating. "I'd have
to give 1t thought,
Officer Donavan," "
1 said carefully.
"I'll let you know
this evening II I
can"
I am glad to re.
member today that
/ never for q mo-
ment doubted Mil
dred. She was the
only girl in town
that bought that
perfume; that I
knew. And some
one in town had
committed h a t
robbery - walked
straight into the
old lady's bed room
and extracted the
small purse, wad-
dad uith IN S10
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TT ALL happened

IT ALL happened
so quickly that
I'm still not sure
what did happen.
I was dlLsting my
counter--the per-
fume counter in
Maplehill's one big
department store
as I have done six
mornings a week
for the last seven
years. Before I'd
quite finished. the
news came whis-
pering through the
store, from lip to
lip, from counter
to counter. Mrs.
Duffy had been
robbed!
Mrs. Duffy was
the most dearly be-
loved old lady in
Maplehill, and she
was blind. There
was no one of us
who did not feel a
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SEAT PLEASANT TO BUY
STREET RIGHT OF WAY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAT PLEASANT, Md, September
i1.-An appropriation was made Mon
day night by the Town Council to pur-
chase four building lots from George
Evening star., 1935-09-11

Only two ministers covering q span
Of 10 years Is the record Of the Third
Presbyterian congregation Of Cooks
town, Ireland.
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forts to have death traps along the
highway eliminated.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
LIFE TERM IS
COURT DECREE
DR.. Sarah Deans Sentence
in Poison Death Is
Sustained

JACKSON, Miss, April o.
UP).-The life sentence imposed
en- DR.. Sara Ruth Dean, "a, come
w Greenwood physician, for the
"poison highball' Staying of DR..
John Preston Kennedy, was af-
firmed yesterday by the Missis-
sippi supreme court.
1t was a dog fall" decision,
with the six justices dividing three
to-three over the verdict. A ma
jority decision was needed to re-
verse the verdict of the Green
wood court.
On his deathbed, DR.. Kennedy
was said to have made a state
ment accusing DR.. Dean of put
ting bichloride of mercury IN a
whisky highball that she served
him at tryst on the night Oh
July 81, 1888. This statement
featured DR.. Deans murder trial.
The defense contended that If Dr.
Kennedy were poisoned, he TOOK
the poison accidentally or with
suicidal intent.
DR.. Deans appeal was paseo
mainly on a contention that the
deathbed statement was not COM
petent, because DR.. Kennedy was
under the influence of drugs, ad,
n,;p;c+oroJ +o aaca his pain, and
that he had not yet given up nope
of living at the time.
The supreme courts majority
decision was that DR.. Kennedy
was rational when he made the
statement and that the statement
was properly admitted at the
trial. The dissenting opinion SAID
that part Of DR.. Kennedy's state
ment picturing a pathetic death
bed scene was prejudicial.
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BRILLIANT STAR
FADES COLOR NOW
SMOULDERING RED

PARIS, April 9. (UP)-The
celestial bad boy Nova Herculis
faded out rapidly last night and
was visible from only half the
observatories of Europe.
Nova last night was a mere dim
point in the sky, only 1-60Oth of
the brightness the star displayed
four months ago when ]. P. NJ.
Prentice, English astronomer,
called it to the worlds attention.
In the past two weeks, Nova dim
med to 1-60th of its briliance of
March %.
French astronomers said Nova
has changed color from the bril-
liant green-blue hue visible to the
naked eye to a smouldering red
difficult to find with ordinary
telescope lenses, showing that
mysterious explosions of energy
within the heavenly body have
ended.
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M,sWAIN, WAR PROFITS
BILL PASSES HOUSE
,o.:,od from page one)

Continued from va" TIT WOW
. lover court decision. Inc gov
rynent was upheld in most
eam, nt IN the complicated case,
f INIT was held to have overstepPe e.,
the Constitution in connect'ol!
nth UHt wage and hour provisions OF
'' Meanwhile, at the NRA hearlns
80 the senate finance commit
foo ea0 Abram F. Myers, counsel tol
t tSe' Allied States Association OF
Motion Mo Picture Exhibitors, charg-
o eU that the industry was being
ru u bv large producers against
tb be- will of small exhibitors. He
said sail the code authority was domi-
mated nate '' by the "big eight and its
decisions controlled by "Schenck,
warner and Aylesworth."
Frank A. Vanderlip, noted mon
etarv authority, appeared before
the house banking and currency
committee to urge establishment
Of the commodity dollar" as a
means of curing many of the ma
tion's economic ills.
Vanderlip held the 1885 bank
ing act to be sufficiently broad to
permit the federal reserve board
to manage the currency and said
all it needs is a mandate directing
the board to base the value of the
dollar in terms of commodities.
He insisted that the currency IS
sued by the board should not be
attached to gold, and that there
should be a free market for gold.
"This proposal of mine is not a
cure-all," he said. Don't ask too
much of a currency bill, but this
one will 60 a long way toward
healing the nations economic ills. "
The senate interstate commerce
committee voted a favorable re-
port on Sen. Burton K. Wheeler's
resolution for a $4,000 investi-
CATION of railroad financing, reor-
ganization, and mergers. 1t also
approved a bill placing regulation
of trucks and buses under the
interstate commerce commission.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
BRITAIN WILL URGE
AIR STRENGTH PACT

LONDON, April 9.-UP).-
The Daily Mail and the Daily Ex-
press today said that the British
cabinet has decided to urge an air
pact including Germany at the
three-power conference at Stresa,
Italy, this week.
object of the pact, the papers
said, would be to limit strength
of air forces in western Europe
and for mutual assistance in the
air against an aggressor.
1t was understood signatories
would be asked to set a limit on
air forces whereby the nations air
strength would be balanced.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
Snow Reported In
County Monday
Fell for Several Hours in
Asheville, in A. M.

With a forecast of still warmer
weather, though cloudy, Hender-
sonville may expect further re-
lief from the late spring coldsnap
which it experienced last night and
this morning, and in which snow
has been reported in this section.
Snow fell for several hours yes
terday morning in Asheville. In
this county, snow which covered
the ground was reported at Noun
tain Home, and there were fur
ries at Balfour yesterday, it was
also reported. :,
Where there was any CONSIDER
able snow, however, the succeed
ing rain melted it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
Mrs. Edna Davis
Shot Saturday,
Former Resident
Was the Former Miss Bald
win, a Frequent
Visitor

Mrs Edna Davis, Asheville resi-
dent. who was shot in the hip Sat
urday morning by her husband
Hugh Marshall Davis, and who al
terward shot himself to death IT. a
small house on Sunset mountain
at Asheville, was yesterday after
noon identified as a former resi-
dent of Hendersonville, the for
mer Miss Edna Baldwin, who of"
IN visited her brother and his
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Baldwin
at their home at 61S Ashe street,
this city.
. Mr.. Davis was World war vet
eran and had suffered from gass-
ing during the war. Friends Of
the family had no way of account
ing for his sudden action except
ing that it was the result of his
wartime injuries.
Mrs. Davis is in the Aston Park
hospital, and her condition is re-
ported to be improved, but it will
be some time before she will be
able to be out, it was said, as the
pistol bullet wounding her practi-
cally shattered hip bone.
Funeral services for Mr.. Davis
were held from the Asbury Merao-
rial church Sunday.
Besides his wife, he is survived
by two sons, Charles and Earl
Davis.
Ralph E. Baldwin, who is in the
CCC camp at High Point, was
called home Saturday because of
the serious condition of his aunt
at Asheville. He expects to re-
turn as soon as she is improved.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
TWO COUNTIES
ARE ISOLATED
Immediate Help Asked for
Section in Weekend
Twister

JACKSON, Miss, April o.
(UP).-Two counties in the low.
er Mississippi delta have been
completely isolated for AZ hours
by Saturday nights tornado which
killed 80 person and injured
more than 100 seriously in the
Mississippi valley, it was learned
last night.
Sheriff L. C. Hicks of Sharkey
county, reached the capitai with
first news of the further devas-
tation and appealed to Governor
NJ. S. Conner for immediate help.
The sheriff said large sections
of Sharkey and Issaquena coun-
ties were hard hit. The stricken
places were so isolated that news
of their plight did not reach Roll
ing Fork, the nearest town, until
Sunday night and was not relay
ed here until last night.
The sheriff said he had not
verified any reports of deaths
but several persons were missing
and many homes destroyed there.
The same section was isolated
by flood waters recently. The
sheriff said a youth carried the
message of the storm and an APP
peal for help to Rolling Fork,
and he had to make the trip on
foot and swim several streams.
Fielding Wright, state repre-
sentative in the area, DEPUTY
Sheriff T. T. Bailey, Mayor Sam
Rosenthal of Rolling Fork and
two plantation owners accompan-
led the sheriff here to seek help
from the governor. 49,
Hicks said he had counted 125
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infractions.
1.-The government favored re-
vising Britain's attitude toward
the proposed western European
air pact of mutual aid IN wartime,
presumably because of Hitler.s
disclosure that the German ar
force already equals the British
and soon may be superior.
st was decided that Britain
at Stresa should renew mediation
in the Italian-Abyssinian border
conflict in East Africa. ,
The prospects of success at
Stresa were viewed skeptically be
cause both the French and ltal-
ians evidently are anxious to take
a far stronger line in establishing
a three-power anti-German front
at Stresa than England is willing
to do.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
SAY NEW GERMAN
SHIPS ABOVE LIMITS
Continued from page one)

nomic assistance against any ag-
gressor nation. Won Hoesch left
patiently disappointed.
Prime Minister J. Ramsay Mac
Donald simultaneously announced
he would accompany Sir John to
the three-power parley Thursday
with Italy and France at Stresa,
northern Italy, to consider united
action on Berlin's rearmament. ,
Advices from Paris indicated
this would influence Premier
Pierre? Etienne Flandin to do like
wise, thus putting new life into
the parley, which is regarded skep-
ticallv in many quarters.
Officials were reticent OIL The
lengthy cabinet sessions, but per-
sons close to the government sum-
married. the deliberations as fol-
lows:
1.-The cabinet was inclined to
oppose the projected French-Rus-
sian-Czechoslovakian military ALI
ance without Germany AMI Po-
land, and indicated strong prefer
ence for the French-Italian pro-
posal to tighten up Articles 10 and
Is in the League covenant, calling
for action by members in the face
of war threats.
2-The cabinet agreed to sup
port a pact of nOn-interference in
Austria, including safeguards for
Austria'S independence, but reaf-
frmed that Britain's participation
would ne limited to consultation #
Austria's integrity is threatened.
3-The cabinet favored mod
Grafton of any league council con-
domination of Germany's defiance
of the Versailles treaty in re-arm-
ing, but agreed the council should
convene and automatically call for
consultation of members on meas
ures in case of further German
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
WILL SPEED UP NEW
RELIEF SPENDING
Continued from page one)

? NSOhLluuSu 1IOIh po-G O-f
that relief may not stop"
The action of the president IN
signing the measure came as a
great surprise to observers who
felt that when he did not imme-
diately put his Ok. upon it at
Jacksonville that he would wait
until he returned to Washington.
However, he hurriedly looked
over provisions of the bill that
swas passed in his absence, read
quickly through the appended rec
concentrations of governmental
agencies and then signed without
delay.
The signing ceremony actually
took place in South Carolina as
the presidential special speeded
for New York where Mr.. RoOse-
welt in the morning will attend the
funeral of his cousin, Warren Del
ano Robbins, American minister to
Canada.
He ordered the train to proceed
to New York as soon as he stepped
ashore from the destroyer Farra-
gut that brought him into Jack
Sonville at noon from the yacht
Nourmahal on which he had been
cruising in southern seas since
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powerful during next IS years.
1883-Married Effie Miriam,
daughter of DR.. Isaac M. Wise of
Cincinnati. ~
1896-Bought into laundering
New York Times. -.
1900-Obtained ownership and
control New York Times.
1901-B ought Philadelphia
Times. Next year bought Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, consoli-
dated the papers, sold them to
Cyrus H. X. Curtis in 1912.
1919-Made Chevalier French
Legion of Honor, promoted to
officer of legion in 1854, to COM
mander of legion in 1925.
1933-Yale conferred honor
ary degree, followed in 1924, and
1925 by Columbia and University
of Chattanooga. =,
1927-Received the gold medal
of the National Institute of So
cial sciences for promoting and
maintaining high standards of
journalism. -
1935-Died at Chattanooga on
April 8.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
PITTSBURGH STEEL
MAGNATE ENDS LIFE

ZELLWOOD, Fla, April g.
(UP)-James Laughlin, 3rd, So,
member of a Pittsburgh steel fam
lily, shot himself to death at his
palatial winter home here yester-
day. g.. .
Laughlin's wife found the body
lying across his bed after hearing
shot while in her adjoining bed
room. She Immediately called Sam
Sadler, manager of the estate,
who rushed to the home with a
physician and county authorities.
) Justice of the Peace F. F.
Witherby pronounced the death
suicide and said no inquest would
be necessary. Friends of the
Laughlins were unable to explain
the act.
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razed homes and on IN.
stretch was not a S y+i Wv
standing. Many fsri S1a.,ass
were without shel,s, q. =
bedding or food. 'Ni
Red Cross workers ;,.,,
some who have been !s.i'
G. Gloster, were ordered f iSn.i,
|" to the delta. "-"s'l
Governor Conner i,,rs,
nal proclamation urr, !"
buttons Of Money and ' ~ w
ties to the Ped 2ro~ ~ ;,4-'
in nno the storm-srricken ,a i II J
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
HIGHLIGHTS in LIFE
OF ADOLPH OCHS
By UNITED PRESS

1858-Born on March II at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1865-Moved to Knoxville,
Tenn, with parents.
1869-Agei IL, Ochs enters
newspaper business as carrier for
Knoxville Chronicle. Four years
later, he quit school and became
printers devil on Chronicle.
187S-Aged 20, was working
on the Chattanooga, Tenn, Daily
Dispatch when the paper failed.
Was named receiver, obtained
control recognized paper, which
he built to one of south's most
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
CALIFORNIA NEGRO
is HANGED AFTER
EXECUTION STAYED
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
muted to life Imprisonment"
The negro was accused OF way
laying and Staying Lawrence l..
Lyon, medical student, last No
vember IL. He admitted he shot
Lyon but insistde he was attacked
and shot in self-defense.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
KILL TWO NEGROES

THOMASVIALE, Ca, April 9.
UP).-Two sheriff's deputies
killed two negroes and wounded
another near here yesterday
when, they said, the negro at
tackled them while they were in
vestigating a report that a negro
had attempted to assault a white
woman in the community.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
FLORIDA SOLONS
STUDYING BILL TO
EXEMPT HOMES

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April 9.
(UP)-The house finance COM
mittee yesterday ordered a weeks
study of a bill extending the
homestead exemption amendment
to include widows, bachelors, all
single persons and persons already
contracting for homes.
The decision ended all likeli-
hood Of the bill speeding through
the house in the same manner it
passed the senate last week.
Members of the committee
challenged the bills constitutional
ity and expressed a belief that the
bill night be so broad as to allow
tax eyasions.
Senator John w. Watson, of
Miami, introduced a bill to legal
ize Jai Alai and Senator Henry
Tillman, of Tampa, offered a
measure taxing tire and rubber
goods on graduated scale, the
revenue going to the schools.
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NEGRO IS HELD FOR
HIT AND RUN DEATH

RICHMOND, Va, April 9.
(UP).-Oiiver ]. billiard, negro,
was arrested yesterday on invol-
untary manslaughter charges re-
sulting from the hit-and-run au-
tomobile death of H. R. Shoe
maker, construction engineer en-
ployed by a Daytona Beach, Fla,
firm. Police said billiard admit
ted driving the death car.