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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-01
CHAPTER 8

PERSPIRATION gathered on my
forehead. as I greeted Detective
Keyes, and introduced Joyce. Sus-
pected me! Well. let him go ahead.
Being q detective suppose he would
end by suspecting Everyone.
He is tall, as tall as /, and I am
slightly over six feet. Slightly say
because there is something Of half
an inch between me and six feet one
inch. His build. though. was heav-
Ter than mine. more stolid. am
thin. not alarningly so. but enough
to be ticketed thin. Homer Keyes is
robust. HIS muscles seemingly of
steel. the glance from his blue eyes
eyes. imagine they have frightened
more than one crook. and jimmied a
confession from him. Keyes' eyes
are peculiar. / have said they were
blue but the blue is nothing like
Joyce's. Hers is the blue Of larkspur.
deep. luminous, sometimes shading to
violet. Keyes' eyes are lighter. a
water blue. shallow, as if the blue Is
merely painted on the surface. They
never change.
Otherwise he is not bad looking,
for his features though Irregular, are
strong. and likable.
miss Van Every. you have been
away this EVENING"" he began.
EYES,"
when did you return?"
Joyce looked at him ready TO
speak. then closed her lips suddenly.
"Please. Miss Van Every"
81 think it was about o'clock. /"
One o'clock! And at in the
morning she was still dressed! Or
perhaps she had dressed to come
down here. 1t seemed unlikely.
though.
"You rang to get in?"
mo. let myself in with my own
key"
ibid you see anyone about the
house. outside or in. unfamiliar to
you?"
mo, I didn't"
spid you go up the stairs to your
room at once?"
:'Yes.r
"Fou passed this door when you
did so?"
There was trifle hesitation, and
then Joyce said quickly. Eyes"
'"The door, was open?"
She nodded =
"Did you hook IMP"
ct did,
A culver of smile played around
Keyes' lips. and 7 noticed his hand
his left hand. open and close.
"You are sure it was around 1 that
gou came in?"
Yves" S-4,.s.;
31ow do you know"
Because Allan looked at his watch
autside-and told me it was o'clock
had promised uncle to be in by IL
He worries about me-"
"Allan who?"
"Allan Foster went to the Club
Lido dancing with him"
"What did you see when you
looked into this roomo"
II saw-uncle. and Mr. Vaughan
whom I hadn't seen for some years
and whom I didn't recognize then.
because it was rather dim in the
room. and someone else. lady. whom
also 7 didn't recognize. as she was
sitting on the couch there with her
head turned away from me and with
her back to me-"
"What was your uncle doing?"
"He was talking"
"Could Won hear what he said?"
Joyce blushed "Yes. could !
stood listening for some ninutes.abe
fore ! went on upstairs " ~
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-01

Arch Loney, above, a federal
wood expert engaged by Governor
Harold G. Hoffman of New Jer-
sey, compared the flooring of the
attic in Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann's former house in The
Bronx, New York, with the lun-
Der used in making the kidnap
ladder and then informed Gov
ernor Hoffman that Hauptmann
had been framed. Loney's
statement stimulated an open
clash between Governor Hoffman
and Attorney General David =.
Wilentz.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-01

Hoping to overcome royal objec-
lions to his proposed marriage to
q shopgirl, Margarita Bambeck of
Stockholm, Sweden, Prince BERTH
of Sweden, above, "a, son of
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, went
to Nice, France, to plead his cause
before his grandfather, King Gus
tav v. Prince Bertil's cousin.
Prince Lennart, also grandson
of the king, married a commoner
four years ago after renouncing
his royal prerogatives.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-01

Making up his mind he was not
getting enough fun out of life,
James Miles, 105 years old, has
taken UP golf at his home near
Southampton, England. Probably
that's one Of Alex Morrison's text
books he's studying.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
CITY HEADS SEEK
TO KILL TAX BILLS
Send List of Measures They
Favor to Congress-0p-
pose Higher Levies.

The Commissioners sent to Congress
today list of pending District bills
they would like to have enacted at the
current session, together with report
vigorously opposing any measures de-
signed to increase taxes.
Eight tax-increaSe measures nave
been proposed. Three would provide
an inheritance tax and two an income
tax as substitute for the present tax
on intangible personal property. Two
others would increase the gasoline tax
from 2 to cents gallon and place a
weight tax on motor vehicles. The
eighth bill would rearrange the taxes
on earnings of public utility corpora
tions.
Point to Budget Cuts.
The Commissioners pointed out that
while the Budget Bureau has notified
them that none of the tax bills would
be in conflict with the Presidents
financial program, they cannot in
dorse the measures because the 1887
budget estimates now before Congress
have been cut SO severely that large
surplus in revenues will exist at the
close of the coming fiscal year.
With reference to the tax bills the
Commissioners said
These bills have been referred to
the director of the budget, who has
advised the Commissioners as follows:
While there would be no objec-
ton to your presenting to Congress
such reports on these bills as you may
deem appropriate at the present time
you are advised that in so far as the
Presidents financial program is con-
cerned the proposed legislation would
not be in conflict Herewith.
Report Adversely to All.
"Inssmuch as the budget for the
District of Columbia presented to the
Congress for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1887, would create a surplus
of funds to the credit of the District
of Columbia upon revenues collected
under existing laws, the Commission
ers report adversely upon all these
bills. They recommend that the bills
be not favorably reported"
The list Of approved bills in which
the Commissioners said they are
most interested" includes a lunacy
measure, a small loans bill, a new fire.
casualty and marine insurance code,
a uniform narcotic act, a police sal
ary act amendment and bill provid-
ing for establishment of a system of
magistrate courts.
The lunacy bill would provide that
(See D. c. BILLS, Page So
Evening star., 1936-02-05
Cold Takes Song Out Of Exhibit
Of American Canary Breeders

nipping Mr.. Fogg's plans to show how
he sings Yankee Doodle"
Lohengrin's son, Beethoven, how
ever, carried on bravely with a song
which an enthusiast might recognize
as "The Sidewalks of New York. :"
Sacrificing sleep. Mr.. Fogg has been
"doctoring" the birds with an eye
dropper.
MIR. Fogg explained:
i have been giving them prepara-
tion of-maybe you'd better take his
down-two-thirds castor oil and one
third syrup of Buckthorn mixed with
a few drops Of whisky. -Four drops OF
this, heated, twice day."
He expected to have 1900 birds IN
the show. but the sickness. cold weather
and all, caused many fanciers to keep
their canaries ct home. The opening
was delayed from Monday to yester-
day. The exposition closes pext Wed
nesdayt
Evening star., 1936-02-05
QUAKE AND STORM
STRIKE IN JAPAN
IS Believed Lost on Freighter.
Blizzard Cripples Central
Area.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, February 5.-The City Of
Kyoto, already suffering from the ter
rife blizzard sweeping Japan, felt a
fairly heavy earthquake at 4:10 pm.
today. No casualties were Immediately
reported.
Traffic and industry in the indus
trial area of Central Japan is crippled
by the snow.
It was feared that the storms pound
ing the coast of Japan had. claimed
the lives of the crew of IS Of the
Japanese freighter Unnan Maru Of
220 tons.
The Unnan Maru sent out an s o s
this morning that she was waterlogged
and sinking. Two steamers battled
the storm to reach the designated po-
sition of Wakayama Prefecture a few
hours after, but found no trace Of the
freighter.
The small whaler Fukushima Maru
wirelessed that she was In distress of
the east coast this afternoon.
Nothing has been heard since yes
terday of the Japanese fishing boat
Deshima Maru, which the American
steamer Byzantine reported in dis
tress. The Eglantine wirelessed that
1t was standing by hoping to effect a
rescue. The Eglantine, of 3,972 tons,
is bound from Galveston, Tex, to
Yokohama.
Snow which yesterday buried Toxic
a foot deep had ceased falling tonight,
but winds were still high and the tenn
perature low. &.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
Certified Milk Producers Clash
With Birth Control AdrOcates

of New York States Milk Control
Board.
Said Director Fee:
IT am inclined to agree with DR..
Rice that birth-control advocates are
partly responsible for the lower GER
titled milk sales. but feel that the
business depression had more to do
with it."
The Birth Control League responded,
''The mother, rather than tn milk
man, must be the Judge of how many
children her health and circumstances
will permit her to have"
It added, mot fewer babies, but
more babies, healthy and with good
start in life, Is the aim Of the Ameri-
can Birth Control League" Birth
control knowledge. contended the
league. helped families keep of public
relief rolls, raise their standards Of
living and thus purchase more milk
and other commodities.
The league last December engaged
In q controversy with anti-birth-con-
troll groups. championed by Patrick
Cardinal Hayes.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, February 5.-Birth-
control advocates, who have waged
spasmodic wars of words for two
months with persons opposed to birth
control, found themselves at cross
purposes today with another group
the Certified Milk Producers.
The American Birth Control League
said DR.. John L. Rice, New York
City's health commissioner, evidently
puts the COW before the mother and
the profits of the milk producers
before the health and security of New
York families"
DR.. Rice had declared: "A very
marked decline In the birth rate from
about IS per 1000 at the beginning
of the century to 13 per 1000 now
cannot have failed to lessen the de-
mand for milk used almost entirely
in infant feeding"
Backing DR.. Rice's stand before the
Metropolitan Certified Mix Producers,
Inc. was Kenneth T. Fee. director
Evening star., 1936-02-05
SECOND TRIAL STARTS
FOR ALLEGED PLOTTERS
Completely in King Alexander's
Assassination Charged to
Three-City Guarded.

by tlc AooOSAoSSa 1850
AIx-EN-PROvENCE, France. Feb
ruary 5.-Hundreds Of gendarmes
went on guard and this city bristled
again with barbed wire entanglements
and wooden barricades today as the
second trial of three alleged terrorists
charged with completely in the assas-
sination of King Alexander of Yugo-
slavia began.
The first trial was held in November,
ending in the disbarment of Georges
Desbons, defense lawyer, for insult
ing the court
At the new trial, Mo Kraj, zvonimir
pospechil and Ivan Rajtich, the al
legged Ustachi gunmen, were defended
by Maitre de Saint Auban, former
head of the Paris Bar Associa lion,
chosen by the prisoners because he
defended an anarchist In 1895.
A policeman succumbed in December
to wounds suffered at the side Of the
late Yugoslav monarch and Louis
Barthou more than year before at
Marseille.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
SMALL SIZE SHIP
URGED BY FRANCE
Naval Group Asks British
Aid for Program 0p-
posed by U. S.
BACKGROUND

b-4thOhOCND-
London Napdl Conference has
had stormy session since conDentng
last December Japan presented
major obstacle by insistance upon
parity w;th Britain and United
States in all classes OF ships; re-
tuSal by four other participants
resulted in japanese withdrawal
from parley.
Serious impdsSe then threatened
when Britain favored German par
tictpdtion in any agreement;
France, fearful of increasing poper
of Germany, opposed suggestion.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 5-A French
maneuyer to win British support for
a program of smaller battleships, OPP
posed by the United States, was dis
closed by authoritative sources close
to the International Naval Conference
today
The French move was made In an
unannounced discussion between dele
gates of France and Great Britain
last night. The bi-lateral conversa-
ton was mainly concerned with battle
ship tonnages.
A British source said the French
took the position of holding a strong
preference for 27,000-ton battleships,
but this source refused to indicate
whether the request was acceptable
to the British.
U. S, Favors Big Vessels.
The United States has long advo-
Gated 35,000-ton capital ships-the
limit incorporated in the Washington
Naval Treaty of 1922. The Americans
argue that larger ships are necessary
for the United States because of the
greater cruising range the American
Navy must accomplish due to the abb
sence of interlocking naval bases.
The Anglo-French talk closely fol-
lowed French move of calling on the
Americans to discuss the position of
Germany's participation in the Naval
Conference as advocated by Great
Britain.
1t was authoritatively stated that
the Anglo-French talk was "a full,
frank. and friendly discussion of
qualitative limitation is the
limitation of types and sizes of ships.
Move Proves Surprise.
The move was surprise to con-
ference observers, inasmuch as the
French previously had accepted a
British suggestion for larger battle
ships as a basis for qualitative dis.
cussion. That discussion probably will
not be raised officially for another two
weeks within the conference.
Observers said they believed the
French maneuver was tied up with
the clash between Great Britain and
France over whether Germany should
participate in the conference and the
possible treaty to follow. It was re-
garded as possible that the maneuver
might accomplish the exclusion Of
Germany without an actual show
down by stalemate on another issue,
or at least delaying progress until
after the forthcoming parliamentary
elections in France.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
British Concern
Made Last LethaI
Gas in World Var
Head of Chemical In.
dustries Testi6es Be.
fore Arms Hearing.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 5.-Sr Harry
MCGOWAN, chairman of Imperial
Chemical Industries, one of the coun-
try's leading chemical firms, testified
today that the company had made
no lethal gases since the World War.
His statement was made at a hear
ing of the royal commission investi-
eating arms traffic.
After saying that the company's
resources could quickly be turned
into the production of war material.
Sir Harry stated: None Of our re-
search people is busy on poison gases
for war use. There is an ill-informed
impression that the dyestuffs indus
try is interested in the production OF
poisonous gases. This Is entirely un-
true"
Sir Harry denied that Imperial
Chemical Industries was member of
the so-called "armaments ring" and
said its total sales Of military prod
ucts for the last five years amounted
to 18 per cent of its total business.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
Three Brothers Die
48 Hours Apart, 2
Following Funerals

BY the Associated Press.
MARSHALL, Md, February
5.-Methodically, death took the
three Trigg brothers at 48-hour
intervals.
John Trigg died Unexpectedly
Thursday of blood poisoning.
His brother, Steven, attended
the funeral Saturday, suffered
an attack of indigestion later
in the day and died before a
physician COULD reach him.
The third brother, George, at
tended Stevens funeral Sunday,
returned home i'll and died
Monday.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
VOTE ON GENERAL STRIKE.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 5-A gen.
eral strike in the dress industry hinged
today on vote Of the workers, who
make 80 per cent of the clothes worn
by American women.
Officials of the dress workers unions
said that such strike, affecting I05..
600 employees in $500 shops, would
cause serious shortage in flnery for
Easter parades throughout the country.
The strike threat centered mainly
in plants in New York City, New Jer-
sey, Connecticut and PENNSYLVANIA.
The workers were ordered last night
to stop work Friday at 2:30 pm. to
vote whether the general strike will be
called.
Issuance of the order followed a
meeting at which Julius Hochman.
general manager of the joint board.
announced "the complete breakdown"
with the employers association Of
negotiations which had been under
way for some time to renew agree
ments that expired last week.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
BY tho Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February 5.-Funeral
silence Knocked the gay red, white and
blue bunting over the tiny cages at
the National Canary Show today.
. Scarcely twitter came from the
coops of TOO rollers, warblers and
others in the annual show of the
American Canary Breeders Fedora
ton.
The cold wave has taken the song
out of the exposition, killing A birds
during shipment and spreading colds
and fever among the survivors.
But with a stiff upper lip, Howard
Fogg, 60-year-old national secretary,
ruled that the show would 60 on.
His eyes glistened suspiciously be-
hind thin-rimmed spectacles.
II had to cremate A little birds, :"
Mr.. Fogg swallowed.
His own pride and Joy. a roller
named Lchengrin, caught q bad .apld,
Evening star., 1936-02-05
BY REX COLLIER.

Reversing previous stand, Secre-
tary Of the Treasury McAdoo noti-
fed France in 1918 it could use Lib
erty Loan funds to pay of private war
debts in the United States, the Senate
Munitions Committee disclosed today.
The committee was seeking to sup
port its contention that American
Treasury advances were used by the
allies to bail out" j. P. Morgan &
Co. and other holders of allied obli-
cations.
Albert Rathbone, wartime Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, pointed out
however, that France was limited in
expending such advances to an amount
equal to her disbursements for the
United States troops on her soil.
Rathbone argued that such a re-
striction was equivalent to reimburs-
ing France for expenditures made for
our troops.
Rathbone Testifies.
The United States Treasury never
obtained any rights of subrogation of
securities pledged by the French for
loans fioated privately in this coun-
try prior to American entry in the
World War, Rathbone told the COM
mittee
j. P. Morgan. whose international
banking firm is alleged by committee
investigators to have benefited by
Liberty Loan advances to the allies,
listened in at the witness table with
out comment. With him were his
partners, Thomas w. Lamont, George
Whitney and Russell c. Lefingwell
The committee placed in the record
letter of March II, 1918, in which
Secretary McAdoo advised Andre Tar
dieu, French high commissioner. of
his reversal Of policy on American
loan uses.
Text Of M'Adoo Letter.
Tardieu had told McAdoo France
felt she should be permitted to use
the American money to pay interest
and principal of French debts in
CURED prior 10 entry of the United
States in the war. McAdoo replied:
i appreciate the force of this prop
osition and. although I have hereto
fore been unwilling to assent to the
use by the French government of
funds advanced to it by the United
States for such purposes, now ac-
cede to the principle that future dollar
advances that may be made to the
French government by that of the
United States may be used to nav.
when due, the interest upon and
principal of the obligations made BY
or for the French government, pay
able in the United States, or for other
like cash requirements of your gov
ernment in the United States, up to
the aggregate Of the amounts re e-eived
by the French government in reim-
bursement of the advances made by
that government for the United States
Army expenditures In France, together
with the amounts which NAV be re-
ceived by the French government from
sources other than United States
credits, and on the UNDERSTANDING
(See MORGAN, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-02-05
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House today passed the Senate
approved bill repeating the compul-
sorry cotton, potato and tobacco control
acts.
Further Senate action will be neces-
sary, however, to enact the measure,
which President Roosevelt requested
only few days ago.
The House added an amendment to
release from tax payments some 250,-
900 bales of cotton on which taxes
were levied under the Bankhead act
the cotton has been held for market
ing by farmers.
The amendment was by Repre-
sentative Fulmer, Democrat, of South
Carolina.
The vote on repeating the farm
statutes was l67 to S. Republicans
insisted there should be roll call.
Suggested by Roosevelt.
The repeal action was suggested by
President Roosevelt, in the light o.
the Supreme Courts lnvanoatIon OF
A. A. A.
The five voting against were Rep
resentatives Monaghan, Democrat, of
Montana; Marcantonio, Republican,
of New York, and three Wisconsin
Progressives, Amlie, Gehrmann and
Withrow.
In view of the congressional speed
on the farm acts repeal, the Supreme
Court postponed for one month sched-
uled arguments on a suit of Gov. Tai
madge of Georgia to invalidate the
Bankhead act.
1t was believed that when Congress
enacts the repeater the Talmadge case
would be quashed.
The potato-control law also was
(See AGRICULTURE. Page 81
Evening star., 1936-02-05
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEKIN, Ill, February 5.-Roving
committees of strike leaders visited
every business house in this indus
trial city today and issued ultimatums
that all doors must be closed at 8
pm. today or their windows would be
smashed.
AS the second day of a general
strike brought the city's business al
most to a standstill, the strikers, in
dividually and in groups of from two
to six. canvassed the city in Is below
zero weather.
Wherever a store, pool hall or shop
was found open, the committees called.
Sign this petition and close your
shop" the proprietors were told.
We're not fooling and if you don't do
as you're told your windows will be
smashed. You are to close at O'Clock. "
Early Settlement Forecast.
Meanwhile, at nearby Peoria where
peace negotiations were underway,
Federal and State mediators expressed
hope for a settlement within 48
hours"
The strikers carried petitions calling
for the custer of Chief of Police Harry
Donahue, whom they accuse of leading
a tear gas attack on strike pickets
Monday at the American Distilling
Co., where labor dispute precipitated
the general strike.
Only few storekeepers defied the
committee.
Even the telegram Offices were in
cluded in the order to shut down.
Their managers, however, said they
would remain open unless compelled
to close.
AS the business houses were visited
by the strikers, their employees tele-
phoned members of their families to
hasten to groceries and put in sup
plies of food.
Five companies of Illinois Nationol
Guardsmen were mobilized in nearby
Peoria.
Pickets Camp on Scene.
oSOlCo Vi StAlhC piChcS CdHlptu
in tents and an abandoned street car
in front Of the distillery plant despite
13 dgrees below zero temperature. Only
minor disorders were reported.
While the strike affected only 100
or more distillery workers, an esti-
mated 1000 sympathizers in other
unions remained away from their jobs
again today, strike leaders said
The general strike was called be-
cause Mayor w. E. Schurman refused
to demand the resignation of Donahue.
The National Guard companies were
ready to aid Sheriff Ralph Goar,
whose staff of special deputies has
been unable to maintain order.
Union distillery workers, who to-
tailed about $50, claimed seniority
rights were violated in releasing them
and employing some 500 nonunion
men and women during seasonal lay-
offs.
Evening star., 1936-02-05
TRIO FEARED DROWNED

Boat of Boys Found Overturned in
Southwest Texas Lake.
MARIA, Tex, February 5 P).-
Three missing youths, members of
prominent Maria families, were be-
lieved by searchers today to have
drowned in a large lake near here.
Discovery of an overturned boat
on the lake and an automobile parked
near the shore, narrowed a wide
spread search that began Monday.
The boys were Donald Nichols, 10,
son of the county treasurer; Leroy
Cleveland, jr, Is. and r. L. Stiles,
ir., Is.