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Evening star., 1937-04-23
new YORK COTTON
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 23.-Cotton was
easy today under further May liquida-
ton, combined with Wall Street,
Western and foreign selling.
July, which had sold off from 1920
to 1913 and then recovered to 1922
on trade buying, reacted in midafter-
noon to 1914, with prices generally
10 to IA points net lower.
Futures closed steady 4 to S lower
Evening star., 1937-04-23
BANK AUDITORS
OPEN CONVENTION
Capital Clearing House Chief
Welcomes Group From
Eastern States.
BY EDWARD C. STONE

More than $50 out-of-town repre-
sentatives were present at the opening
session this morning of the Fifth
Eastern Regional Conference of the
National Association of Bank Audi
tors and Controllers at the Wardman
Park Hotel. The attendance at later
Evening star., 1937-04-23

Dividend rates e1ven in the table the annual
based the latest quarterly
larations.
Unit Of TRADING than tAnnual rate
not including extras. Paid last Paid this
Companies reported In reeseEshp being reorGsnssd
Z X dividend.
Evening star., 1937-04-23
MONEY MARKET.

steady; l per cent all day; prime COM
mercial paper. l per cent: time loans
steady; 5000 days. ~; As months y
per cent: bankers acceptances unchanged !;
rediscount rate, New York Reserve Bank,
/ l2 per cent
The times-news., 1937-01-12
Scores OF Americans In Chinese
Province Endangered By Growing
Communist Control; See Red Rule

armies in declaring war on Japan
Marshal Chang HSu"h-Llang'
former Manchurian commander'
who arranged GcncraIlsslmo
Chiang's release and later was
tried. sentenced, and then par
dOned, for kidnapping him, still was
in Nanking and was said to nave
sent representatives to Sian-ru TO
attempt to restrain his former fol-
lowers.
Revised diplomatic reports TO-
day said that there are about "a"
American and British residents IN
Shensi and Kansu provinces, both
of which are largely under Com
munist control. Other foreigners
include groups of Italians, Bel
gians and French totaling about
100.
Most of the occidentals are mis-
sionaries.
One German, a physician, al
ready has been killed in Sian-fu
and diplomats feared the posslbil-
ity of second incident such as
that Of March, 1927, when undis,,
ciplined Chinese soldiery, inspired
by Soviet propagandists, looted
Marking, destroying foreign, dip-
lomatic and business establish
ments, and killing a number OF oc-
cidentals inclding Americans.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
Waters Is Chosen
Vice President
OF Scout Council
Mayor Edwards Named to
District Executive Board
in Meeting

+. NJ. Waters Of Hendersonville,
was elected vice-president of Dan
icl Boone council, Boy Scouts of
America, at the annual meeting
held last night at the Battery Park
hotel in Asheville. DR.. JOS. r. Sc
vicr of Hendersonville, was the
chief speaker at the meeting,
which was attended by $50 per-
sons.
Granville Taylor Of Asheville
was elected president Of the coun-
ell, which comprises ID counties.
Mayor A. V. Edwards Of Hender-
sonville. chairman of the Hender-
SON county district, was elected to
membership on the executive
board.
District commissioners met
from 3 to 6 o'clock in a confer
once presided over by Mr.. Waters,
while Scoutmasters and assistant
Scoutmasters met during the same
= Attending the meeting from
uendnrsonville were Mr.. Waters,
Navor Edwards, DR.. Sewer, Com
missioner o. Y. Brownlee, DR.. Gil
bart R Combs, Nathan Patla, John
Stevens. o. Y. Brownlee, Jr., Ken
meth Williamson, H. B. Drake and
RAYMOND Flicker. E
The times-news., 1937-01-12
BY ROBERT BERKOV
United Press Staff Correspondent

SHANGHAI, Jan. ~. (UP)'
Scores of Americans were en-
dangered in Shcnsi province today
as result of increasing Communist
control of the region.
The assistant u. S. military at
tache, Capt. David d. Barrett;
reached Loyang from PcipinG ana
planned to continue to Sian-fu H.
the Provincial capital, to arrange
for evacuation of the Americans
if necessary.
Representatives Of the CommuIn-
ist Generals Chu Teh and Mao
Tese-Tung were reported to have
reached Sian-Fu to assist II or,
ganization of a red provncai,
regime. IL also was confirmed
that the American Communist
Miss Agnes Smedley, is in SIAN
Flu organizing propaganda corps
of student communists.
The situation in Shensi has been
confused since Christmas whGh
Generalissimo Chang kai,Shehi;
Marking dictator, was retea'eu
after being held prisoner for d
fortnight by rebellious prot om-
munist soldiers of the old Nan.
churian armies who demanded ina.
he join the Chinese Commun'S'
The times-news., 1937-01-12
MRS. COOLIDGE is
VOTED PENSION BY
SENATE ON MONDAY

WASHINGTON, Jan. ~. (UP)
The senate. four years after for
mer President Calvin Coolidge S
death, passed a resolution author
izing a $4,000 annual pension to
his widow, Mrs. Grace Coolidge.
The resolution, one Of the
shortest ever introduced in con-
grcss, read:
"Bc it enacted that the admin
istrator of veterans affairs is au-
thori2cd and directed to place on
the pension rolls the name OF
Grace C.. Coolidge, widow OF Cal
vim Coolidge, late president of the
United States, and to pay her
pension of $4,000 per annum.'
The former first lady is living
quietly with friend, Mrs. Flor
encc Adams, in Northampton,
Mass, where Mr.. Coolidge estah-
lished his home a few months be-
fore his death. She is one of seven
living widows Of former preSi-
1pntc
The times-news., 1937-01-12
'HOEY'SBUDGET MESSAGE CALLS
FOR 10 PCT. RAISE FOR STATE
SALARIES, TEACHERS INCLUDED
Urges Strictly Balanced
Budget, no More Sales
Tax on Basic Foods

RALEIGH, Jan. 12.-(UP).--
Governor Clyde Hoey today sub
mitted the budget to the North
Carolina general assembly and
firmly urged the necessity of keep
ing it in balance, despite the in
crcasing demands for greater ap-
preparations, despite the improved
economic conditions.
Coz. Hoey's financial program
provided for a ten per cent salary
Increase for all state employees,
including public school teachers;
would abolish the 3 per cent sales
tax on meals and basic food COM
modities, and provides appropria-
tions $S,24S,914 greater than for
those Of the current blennlum,
ending next July 1St.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
GUARD CALLED
FOR RIOT DUTY
IN CAR STRIKE
Police and Strikers Battle
Late Monday; Many go
to Hospital

LANSING, Jan. ~. (UP).-
Mobilization of one regiment OF
the Michigan national guard for
riot duty has been ordered here in
connection with the General Mo-
tors strike.
FLINT. Jan. II. (UP)-Gov-
ernOr Frank Murphy, of Michi-
gan. today mobilized a sizeable
detachment of Michigan state po-
lice and an adequate number OF
national guardsmen to prevent
further disorders in the General
Motors strike.
The governor emphasized he Is
not proclaiming martial law and
acted after 10 men were injured
last night in a fight at Fisher
Body plant number two. between
police and strikers.
Attempts Of union members
outside the plant TO carry food TO
the sitdOwn strikers caused the
riot.
Flint police. company guards
and strikers battled last night at
the gates of plant No. 2 with bull
let's. tear gas, fire hose and mis-
siles when at attempt was made
to take food to "sit down strlk-
ers inside the factory.
Attendants at Hurley hospital
reported 10 or ~ men had been
injured, none seriously.
Two were identified as Fred
Stevens, so, leader Of the striking
Continued on page four)
The times-news., 1937-01-12

EVERETT, Wash, Jan. H.
(UP).-The nude body of Charles
Mattson, 10, kidnapped Is days
ago from his Tacoma home, was
found in an alder thicket yester-
day.
The body, the head crushed,
was identified by Paul H. Sceva,
intermediary, after police took
photographs of the body and e.
men raced to the scene from Ia
coma.
The body was dumped into a
thicket six miles from here by the
kidnaper. Fresh footprints and
tire prints in the snow indicated
the boy was killed elsewhere and
the body brought here.
DR.. William w. Mattson, OF Ia
coma, was already en- route to Ev-
erctt from his home when the
body was identified.
Sceva was active in raising the
s2S, 900 ransom the bearded kid
naper had demanded.
HEAD CRUSHED WITH
CLUB OR A BULLET
The body was found by Gordon
Morrow, 10, 200 feet off the Ed
monds-Everett highway, six miles
south of here. The head was
crushed as though it had been
struck with a club or an explosive
bullet.
Chief Criminal Sheriff Ray Ry-
an said tire tracks and fresh foot
prints in the snow indicated that
the body was thrown into the
thicket Sunday night. 1t was nude
and there were no bloodstains on
it or the ground. 80, :,
RYAN said the boy was killed
elsewhere and the body brought
here.
DIR. William Mattson was imme-
diately notified. Only Sunday he
inserted an advertisement in the
Seattle Times asking the kidnaper
to give "new proof that my son
is alive and we'll"
The advertisement was the
of communication the kid.
naper demanded in the $4,000
ransom note he dropped on the
floor of the Mattson home after
The times-news., 1937-01-12
BODY DUMPED in THICKET,
AWAYFROM WHERE BOY SLAIN
he broke in and seized the boy,
KIDNAPER'S NOTE
Is SIGNED Tim"

he broke in and seized the boy.
KIDNAPER'S NOTE
IS SIGNED Tim"
The kidnaper signed the note
"Tim." Three other children pres
ent that Sunday night two weeks
ago said he was a brutal, beard
ed man." Police thought he may
have been insane, under the IN
fluence of drugs or liquor.
The kidnaper carried Charles
away in bitter cold weather even
though the boy was dressed only
in sneakers, bathrobe and light
trousers. The boy had just recov-
cred from a cold and the family
feared he might not survive.
The ransom note was old ana
worn and typed with a chlld6
printing press or a large type
writer. Police said the kidnaper
carried it with him, possibly Tor
weeks, and said ne may have IN
tended to use ] IN another KID
naping threat.
The note demanded that all re-
ooiiations be made through the
Seattle Times and asked for S28,-
OOO in small old bills. II added
that the boy would not be harmed,
but warned that the ransom would
double each week.
DR.. Mattson inserted half a
dozen pleas in the personal col
umns Of the paper, asking ior
more details and confirmation that
the boy was alive. For two weeks
attempts to contact the kidnaper
fell through and hope faded that
the boy ever would be seen alive
again.
The search ended when Sceva
glanced at the broken figure
brought here in a hearse and said:
eyes, that's Charles"
]. Edgar Hoover, chief Of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
said in South Bend, Ind, that he
was going to Chicago last night,
presumably to organize the great
est manhunt since the Weyer-
haeuser boy was kidnapped in 1885,
THIRD KIDNAP MURDER @
IN RECENT YEARS t .pu.,.r
The Mattson boy was the third
kidnap victim to be killed in re-
CONTINUED on page three) iH,'
The times-news., 1937-01-12
F.H.WaldropBuys
Thompson's Shop

Frank II. Waldrop, former man.
agcr of Scruggs drug store, has
bought Thompson's Soda and
Sandwich Shop, at Five Points,
and will be in active charge of
the business, it was announced
today. ,
The store is being renovated
and re-stocked, and will continue
TO handle sandwiches. fountain
drinks. candy. cigars and tooacco,
etc. Harry Williams will be in
charge of the sandwich depart
ment.
Mr.. Waldrop is county Repub-
lican chairman and is widely
known. The change in ownership
took place today.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
NAzISSEEKINC
NEGOTIATIONS
ON FINANCES
Give France Word no Afri-
can Disturbance Will
Be Promoted
By UNITED PRESS

PARIS. - ReichSleadcr Hitler
wants France to invite DR.. HAL
mar. Schacht, Gcrmany's most
eminent authority on economies
and finances, to Paris to engage
in political, economic and finan-
cial conversations. II was learned
authoritativcly that French au-
thoritieS are not eager for such
a conference unless the German
government is prepared TO give
France political guarantees, such
as negotiations for an arms limi-
tation agreement, and assurance
that Germany has no designs on
Morocco.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler some
what eascd the tension of Eu-
ropes war fears Monday when he
assured the French ambassador in
Berlin that Germany has no de-
signs on Spanish Morocco.
More grave complications ap.
peared in other continental capi-
tails. however:
LONDON.-Soviet Russia ask
ed England to support drastic in.
ternational naval action against
the Spanish insurgents on the
high seas. --.....---.. -----....>-
GENEVA. = Diplomats heard
that 5000 japanese volunteers
were en- route to Spain, mobillzed
as part of an anti-Bolshevik cru
sade.
LONDON. - Suspicious spread
that Hitler might be seeking a
foothold in Morocco as a means
of cnlarging the German empire.
GIBRALTAR. - Ten German
submarines were reported in the
rebel port of Ceuta, Spanish Mo-
rocco. Another report said lO
German military experts arrived
from Naples and were taken into
Spain by insurgent officials.
MADRID.-Loyalists claimed to
have smashed the rebels big
push" on the capital and to have
forced the enemy to retreat into
the Guadarrama mountains.
PARIS.-Officials said neither
France nor England would con-
slider ceding any territories TO
Germany,
The times-news., 1937-01-12
OFFER z BILLS TO
CHILD LABOR

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. (UP)
n, bills aimed az eliminating
y products Of child labor from
,.gS,a.e commerce were intro
tnst IN congress yesterday by
tta.or Bennett c. Clark, D., Mo-,
p. Chairman William P. Con-
fsT D., Mass, Of the house H.
P9 committee.
lie measures seek to apply the
xI'gtonally valid principles
ss IaT regulating prison-made
oS 70 child labor. Senator Lew
s. ShwellenbaCh. D., Wash.
n'0lS,y introduced a bill of
nSEsly the same nature.
Cara agreed with Schwcllen-
4, that while such a measure
'Ed require state legislation TO
'So,e effective. il would not
V'atin1ed on page three)
The times-news., 1937-01-12

Police teletypes cracked orders
through the state Of Washington
for authorities to investigate all
suspicious automobiles. Dcscrip-
tions of the heavily bearded kid
naper named Tim" were broad
cast.
The search was concentrated in
Seattle 30 miles north Of here.
Charles lroken body was
brought back to Tacoma from
Everett, where it was found in a
shallow grave. Following the body
was DR.. William w. MattsO;i,. .tiss'
boys father.
In the $50, 900 Mattson home
DR.. William w. Mattson and his
wife collapsed last night after the
physician returned home from
viewing the body Of his son,
friends Of the family told the
United Press.
Superintendent C. j. Cummings
of the Tacoma General hospital,
where DR.. Mattson practices. said,
"Mrs. Mattson just crumpled. Her
courageous constitution was shat
tered" IT., D.
DR.. Mattson "is in a pathetic,
tragic condition." Cummings said.
Mrs. Mattson has been treated
and sent to her bed. Sedatives
were administered to prevent hys-
terra. DR.. Mattson was described
as being in a virtual Stunned
stupor." J.,
Fourteen-year.old Muriel Matt.
son, sister of the murdered boy,
cried but recovered to assume her
mothers former duties of greet
I..-.I -. .,aun fnnrl
The times-news., 1937-01-12
DuBose Hayward
Elected To Inst.
OF Arts, Letters
Thomas Wolfe Also Among
Writers Receiving
Invitations

Dugose Hayward, Charleston
and Hendersonville author, has
been notified of his election as a
member of the National Institute
Of Arts and Letters: The mem
; = ,rsbin Of the organization is re-
stricted to $50, of whom only 100
are representatives OF the held OF
literature. Others are artists ard
musicians. ,...
In the field of literature be-
sides Mr.. Hayward, this years in,
vitation list includes sherwood
Anderson, Charles Mclean An
drews, Claude G. Bowers, James
Rranch Cabell, John Dos Passos,
Douglas Southall Freeman, Robin
SON letters, Jos. w; Krutch, Rob
ert Sherwood, and Thomas Wolfe.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
RUSSIA URGES CURB
ON REBELS AT SEA

Copyright 1897 oy Oni'eo
LONDON, Jan. 12.-(UP)-,
Soviet Russia yesterday urged
drastic international naval acton
70 curb activities Of the Spanish
rebels at sea. g
Ambassador Ivan MaisEy OF
Russia made this strong recon-
mendation in a talk with Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden. Brit
aims response was not known I'M
mediately.
The brown-bcardcd Russian en-
yoy said his government had con
cludcd that the activities ot the
rebel ships-which allegedly have
captured several Russian vesSelS
must be curbed by prompt in-
ternational action.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
|'MES NJ. LANDIS
HARVARD LAW DEAN

s,,,5 J5SloN' Jan, l2. (UP).-The
r,v...G?it r 81 Cverseers of Harvard
J S,s.y ,s,Sy ate yesterday official
|l,... .11,med \, the appointment of
ses, 81 e. ! Lands, 37-year-old di-
S,,,,. S, oI the Securities and TX
\ - commission and member
-,,,i, ,i',,aent va. Roosevelt's original
Lr S.sS,' ls'uS,' as dean of Harvard
L,,Ss;a,o saoo., o., effective Sept. 1.
h ,.s p..,Wi VIII succeed Dean-Emer-
AZ SsD.S.oe SS,SSoe Pound, who resigned
The times-news., 1937-01-12
TREMBLORHITS
TWOPROVINCES
Belated Reports do Not Re-
veal Loss of Life in
Chinese Quake

NANKING, Jan. 12.-(UP).-
Violent earthquakes devastated
parts of Chinghai and Kansu
provinces Thursday night, accord
ing to belated reports today.
Loss of life was not known.
Shining, capitai of Chinghai, was
shaken severely, but no loss of
life was reported.
The southwestern part oF Kan
SUI, which was worst hit, is sparse
ly inhabited and it was not be-
licved. there was much loss of life
there.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
"URAL ot CLUB MEETS
W WEDNESDAY, EVE

a ,irsa saendersOnville Civic Cho-
',si,c' '' WI; %l!l meet tomorrow, We'd
Y Pre,5.,.t, J,sat, at $3.50 o'clock at
u aDSogtan aDrSDy,erian church house, it
4 i,,sra, So,s OF the club urged that
y s,SsssIed sS.esIed in singing attend
NJ s,yaa in addition to those
h, already been present.
'rsiysS SI,.e:SS,tor, ..:S, Alva Lowe, has
ssSc ~ SUI another shipment of
sSx VI. ~ use by the club and
a, ,bo 10 nave heard this saw
si a,,,,..e;l selections are all novel
The times-news., 1937-01-12
and
|9BLIC WORKS
|I[P7S. SOUGHT
!. .Iloeste 100 Agencies
V;,S One Of II Fed
sral Departments
kIy AIDES SOUGHT AS
P'' ASST. EXECUTIVES
kouIJ Free President OF
|D,t,l Leaving More Time
for Other Work

VlSglyGTON, JaN. -. (UPC
-. Roosevelt, today asked
-, for almost unlimited
-, 70 give the executive
-. oi ,hg federal government
Z ~1,. complete reorganization
- +, founding, including the
L, ;, D'ags 100 different agcn-
4. i,.o ~ major departments
f., direct control Of the White
tEs.
/ Tss pYsden,'S plan was pre-
- IN a special message and
f--aisei Eve chief points:
| Creation Of a new depart
r., Il 0cial welfare. and 4 new
E,atnsn. Of public works, max
{; /? tabine, posts. The govern
- 100 boards, commissions,
It-nisra.ionS, cOrpo ratio n ;,
k.-ri,,ss and agencies would be
r.; ,tsss twelve departments.
. Assignment Of six executive
kwtl,s % the president, giving
b. ror tine for other work.
I Development Of the present
I.tsr. bureau with greatly en-
lllgst fractions.
1 Extension Of the civil SER
ra y,em TO all government,
sNiss excepting top rank, pol
'g -iiirg jO5 holders.
s Elimination Of the comptrOl-
si arerarS office.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
CHILD STOPS TRAIN

SHIMIZU, Japan, Jan. l2.--
(UP).-Thc crack Tsubamc EX-
press bearing Field Marshal Prince
Hotohito Kanan, chief of the army
general staff, suddenly screeched
to stop yesterday. Crew mem
bcrs dashed out. On the tracks
was a baby thumbing his nose III
Japanese fashion.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
Iharge He Tried
To Steal Train

svSLlNA, Jan. l2.-(UP).-
I. -ssa with attempting to steal
, t,oad ~, train, Plummcr Hardy,
=, JF youth. explained to Off
!! ~ = ! wanted to 20 to Roanoke
!. oeclded a train offered the
me-. =. means Of transportation. A
'~.aa.'er '.,..l. found the youth in a
= ,,'s',lSe 1. cab pulling all the lev
The times-news., 1937-01-12
w. FRANK EDWARDS
DEPUTY COLLECTOR

w. Frank Edwards of Hender-
sonville, has been added to the
staff of deputy collectors at the
internal revenue office in the fed
eral building at Asheville.
Mr.. Edwards took up his duties
yesterday and will devote part of
his time to social security matters.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
CHARGE WIFE SOLD"

TOKYO, Jan. 12. (UP).-The
roysnaper Yomiuri yesterday &C
nnsad Hiroshi Watanabe, 27, of
SseIl;ng" his wife for $50 to
snanee his political campaign.
p 6. Watanabe won,
The times-news., 1937-01-12

Copyright, 1887, United Press)
TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 12.-
(UP).-Dr. William W. Mattson
revealed through an intermediary
last night that attempts had been
made to collect $4,000 ransom
after 1O-year-old Charles Mattson
had been slain.
Paul Sceva, manager of the
Rainier Park company and inter-
mediary in efforts to free the boy,
whose body was found near Ever
EFT yesterday, told the United
Press some Of the inside details
of the case.
Sceva quoted DR.. Mattson, now
near collapse at his home, as fol-
lows:
"The ransom was not paid, al
though made every effort to pay
it, and put forth every endeavor
to try to follow instructions. The
instructions were so elusive, how
ever, and there was such a con-
fusion of notes / was unable to
pay the ransom.
at is quite evident the boy was
killed instantly and had been dead
a considerable time.
"The kidnaper became exceed
ingly wary during the last few
days and judging from the condi.
ton of Charles body he was still
trying to collect the ransom after
Charles was dead"
TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 12.-
(UP). - Federal agents, state
troopers and police of the nations
cities last night launched a great
manhunt for the killer of Charles
Mattson, 10.
The times-news., 1937-01-12
GREAT MANHUNT FOR SLAYER
OF BOY BEGUN: GOVERNMENT
Mobiles ALL RESOURCES
President Deplores Chastity Crime as Government
Posts $4,000 Reward for Apprehension Of Crimi.
nal in Mattson Death; Mrs. Mattson Remains in
Near Collapse After Tragedy

TACOMA, JAM IL. (UP).-The Federal Bureau Of
Investigation today threw its scientific crime detection
laboratory into the drive to trap the kdnaper and
derer of 1O.year.old Charles Mattson.
Agents maintained their customary silence but it is
learned that expert techncans checking 6ngerprns
footprints tire markings and descriptions of the bearded
kdnaper furnished by Charles paymates 1t report
ed that agents identity the kdnaper
Charles body found frozen and battered in snow
drift 60 miles north of Tacoma late yesterday.
Mrs. Mattson it reported, remained in a state Of
collapse.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. (UP).-President Roosevelt
today described the Matson murder a ghasty crime,
while the federal government offered $4,000 reward
for information leading the capture Of the criminal
President Roosevelt ordered the full Of the
Justice department mobilzed apprehend the criminal
The times-news., 1937-01-12
WEATHER

.,,,., might and !, wsS":'Sss ,si"' ao,
ID oc;.,,S.'ii oS.aSs in temperature
.ssh snS"
The times-news., 1937-01-12
GOOD AFTERNOON

"John Barrymore is staying with
his trainer, Ken Kelly" Isn't
that customary, anyway, between
rounds?"
La gaceta., 1937-02-22

malicia mi padre, despues que
todos han desfilado, y la mira
a los ojos, con una ternura BIZ
blica.
De pronto me acomete I'm mic
do inexplicable de este salon, de
estas gentes, de sus ~cortesias y
conversaciones, Y cuando voy a
chocar con mi madre, me ITEM
bla la mano y derramo sobre Ell
suelo encerado cast TODD ell con-
tenido de la copa. Todos hacen
como 81 no 10 hubiesen visto, y
hasta mi padre olvida, en- una
noche como esta, srs sagrados
deberes hacia ell piso relucien-
te. Cada veg es mayor mi mic
do. Coloco suavemente Ia copa
en- Ia ventana, y oigo al juez de-
cir:
La gaceta., 1937-02-22

sonrisa, vnelven todos Ia cara
a SUI ~interrumpida converse
ci0n.
-iToma l-me dice mi pa
DIRE, alargandome una copa re-
1bosante de champaha.
La pongo sobre Ell alfeizar de
la ventana, y me siento junto a
mi madre, que, con ell crerpo
edhado hacia atras y los, ojos
entornados, acaricia las teclas
de marfil amarillento. lie vuel-
vo la pagina, y me sonrie, Su
pelo rubio, sombreado por al
ganas ondas suaves de color cas-
taho, tiene un perfume miste-
rioso. Me lleno de tristeza, PEN
sando en- Ferd y en- 10 que me.
contaba de las muohachas.
Los invftados, rodeados a la