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Evening star., 1937-01-08
gu" OF RADIO TEAM
DEAD OF pneumonia
"Em" Is Also Ill and Under Care
Of Physician in Evan
stop, Ill.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January 8 tP.-Mrs.
Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, the
"Lu" Of the radio team, Clara, Lu
and EN-" died in an Evanston Hos.
pital today.
In private life she was the wife Of
Prof. Howard Berolzheimer Of the
Northwestern University School Of
Speech. She had been Ill several days
Of pneumonia and a streptococcic in
fection.
.'Em" Of the radio trio-in private
life, Mrs. John Mitchell Of Evanston
was Ill and under the care Of phy-
siciaa toa1.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
RUSSIAN SHIP SEIZED
Lloyds Reports Insurgents Escort
Vessel to Ceuta.

LONDON. January @.-An
armed Spanish insurgent trawler
seized an unidentified Russian steamer
bound westward In the straits of
Gibraltar and conducted her to Ceuta,
spanish Morocco. Lloyd's reported to-
Gay. n
Evening star., 1937-01-08
NelD Tax Burden
OF $4,000, 900 Faces
D. 6. in '38 Budget

Although the 1888 District budget
of $45, ,736, ,285 leaves local residents
facing the threat OF a new $4,000, 900
tax burden, they stand to gain COM
paratively few major Improvements
In return.
The supply bill total would exceed
that of the current year by only
slightly more than 100000 and of
the sum recommended for all purposes
permanent improvements would not
exceed $3.50, 900. Even this figure does
not represent that amount of new
Improvements because it includes
81 300, 900 Of reimbursement to the
Federal Government for projects
already started.
As 1t goes to Congress the budget Is
$l2,484,073 below the original esti-
mates Of the municipal department
heads who recommended a total of
$5S,220,35s The Commissioners early
in the Fall cut these requests to q
total of $48,090.475 or by more than
$10,000,000. The Budget Bureau in
turn has made a further slash of
81, 1854, 100.
School Plan Wrecked.
Hopes Of school authorities for the
starting Of a fve-year $4,000. GOO
school expansion program are wrecked
despite the suggested new tax burden
the District would have to bear If the
findings of the Fiscal Relations Com
mittee are sustained.
While the budget allows for three
new school buildings and three addi-
tions and less than $500, 900 for school
sites, the sum Of these would be but
81 SOC, 600, wherea: the five-year pro-
gram would have required $5.4s2 900.
Whereas school officials asked for 185
more teachers Immediately, they were
allowed but 80.
Police, fire and health estimates OF
the Commissioners also felt Budget
Bureau pruning knife. The District
heads had asked for so additional
policemen, but the bureau provided
none, except that it proposed six civ
ilian aides who would relieve oficers
from having to drive police cars.
Thirty additional firemen had been
asked to enable the department to
grant the increased annual leave, but
this was rejected.
Health Recommendations Slashed.
DR.. George C. Rutland, health ON
Ger, proposed . budget Of $l,117,492,
more than double the current appro-
priation, and the most Of the in
crease was for construction of the
first two of q series of health centers.
The Commissioners asked $3.50, 900
for building Of one next year, but the
bureau slashed this item to $l50.000.
For all purposes. the health estimates
proposed by the Commissioners to-
tailed $751; $50, which would have
been $243,960 over current appropria-
tions. The bureau recommended but
$e47, $50, an increase Of $lS9,960 over
the current appropriation of $507,97
Although q net increase Of $4,000
for the Free Public Library was al
lowed, no provision was made for
added personnel for new buildings as
originally requested by the Board Of
So TAX E.REAI. Rsss A-lS5
Evening star., 1937-01-08
"Net Amount" Due District
Under New Formula Totals
$2,533,357 for Next Year.
RECOMMENDED
ON LOCAL SUFFRAGE QUESTION
National Representation Requires
Observation-Disclosures Say New
Taxes Would Still Leave Deficit.

report fiscal relations conclusions Pages A16
Evening star., 1937-01-08

20, g. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Rain beginning late 6night or tomor-
row morning; lowest temperature tonight
about 50 degrees; colder late tomorrow
and Sunday. Temperatures Highest, 81.
at 10 80 am. today; lowest As. at 10 pm.
yesterday. Full report on page A.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

Continued on Page A-18.)
Evening star., 1937-01-08

(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-01-08

(see DEENo4 Page
Evening star., 1937-01-08

(see MATTsoN, Page A-4.)
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Misbehaving Waters
Take LOwland Toll

Misbehaving streams cause an
enormous amount of damage to fer
tile bottom-land farms, according to
the Soil Conservation Service. Some
times these streams wander out of
their courses and cut new channels
across fields and pastures; or they
undercut the banks and eat back in
to valuable farmland or overtop the
banks and leave heavy deposits OF
sand on unharvested crops.
At sharp bends streams are parti-
cularly likely to kick over the
traces. At the outside of the bend
where the thrust of the flowing wa
ter is greatest they usually gnaw
away a the bank. On the inside they
often deposit soil matter washed
down from farther upstream. In this
way, a gravel bar is sometimes built
up on the inside of the bend which
tends to shove" the stream farther
toward the outside bank and in
crease the cutting on that side.
AS part of its demonstration pro-
gram OF erosion control, the Soil
Conservation Service is helping
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} First Installnlent

Marian Dunn was Horse Dunn's
niece. Once, for a couple of months
two years ago, Wheeler had seen
her every day. He had used every
persuasion he knew of, all he had,
to make this girl love him-and had
failed. Sometimes he could still hear
her low, cool voice: "rm sorry
truly sorry" The sincere regret in
that was pretty hard to take.
In everything else he had sue
ceeded. He had come up from moth
ing in COWS, and tripled in land, and
switched back to cows to double
again. He had liquidated everything
at the peak of cattle prices, and at
twenty-seven had nothing to worry
about. But in this one thing he car
ed most about he had met only COM
plete blank defeat. He would not
have come here, to raise again the
bitterness of that defeat, if he had
known she was here.
And now there was certain awk-
wardness between them, since she
inevitably knew all that, too.
Il think he's going to ask favor
of you," Marian said.
Il don't know if you know this"
Billy Wheeler said slowly; ''but his
wire made out as if he was offering
me a job"
''Yes-I knew that"
81 owe a lot to old Horse Dunn"
Billy Wheeler said. ''He picked me
up when was fourteen years old,
halfway starved and all the way
maverick. He carried me along four
years. If it wasn't for him, I'd be in
the wild bunch-or in the pen. And
he showed me my start in cattle"
Il suppose then" Marian said,
you won't turn him down in this
thing now"
''I've got things to see to, Marian"
he stalled. Il couldn't take on anoth-
er job now"
He supposed she might know that
this was not so. For the present he
was out from under; he could afford
to do anything he wanted to, to fill
his time or to help a friend. But to
take a job in which he would see
this girl every day, while yet tight
cinched by the knowledge that she
was not for him, and never would be
that was something else.
II don't know how much he needs
you," Marian said; NOR who else he
could get, instead But I know this
he has more enemies than friends,
by three to one"
Billy Wheeler stirred restlessly,
and began to build a cigarette. He
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C. A TILE KINGDOM

knew it was true that the 81 had
manv enemies, few friends. Here in
this dusty, mesa-broken land Horse
Dunn had set out to build a cow
kingdom-a kingdom on the grand
scale of the old days.
But you can't build a cow king
dom, buying up the range rights of
little brand after little brand, with
out annoying and disturbing the
brands that are left; and the bought
out brands are forever trying to
edge back.
Here and there in the world were
perhaps half dozen graves COM
memorating the drawn-out, inevita-
BILE conflict. There had never been
a general open war. But more than
one lone-riding cowboy of the "a
had come to his end by the gunfire
of persons unknown, and one or two
others who would force the issue no
more. And at Ace Springs had died
two men of four-hired gun-fighters
all-who had jumped Horse Dunn
from ambush. The "a could have
started it's own Boot Hill.
More effectual than those brief,
unofficial bursts of action was the
enmity of certain cooler, more wise
ly watchful men, like Link Bender,
Pinto Halliday, Sam Caldwell-the
defeated contestants for the Red
Hills ranges. Nowadays the expand
ing "a found itself encircled by a
veritable wolf ring of enemies-a
wolf ring biding it's time with a
malevolent optimism.
81 don't even know what the stu
alton is" the girl went on. "But it's
worrying him deeply; he can't hide
that, not from me. And his first
move was to turn to YOU"
ooh, shucks now, Marian :"
II shouldn't like to Think" the
girl said oddly, as if with difficulty,
that you turned him down because
I'm here"
For an instant he sat perfectly
still, silent. He hadn't expected her
to come out with it, direct and
straight like that.
She put both hands on the rail
between them and leaned toward
him. I'D never forgive myself if
thought you let Horse Dunn down
on account of me. I'll-get out of
here, if you want me to-"
He looked straight at her-and
lied. Nothing farther from my
mind" he assured her. "No call to
even think of such a thing"
He paused, listening to the stam-
pede Of hoofs beyond a big barn
which obscured the riders as they
swung into the layout.
And now rescue came, as Horse
Dunn Numbered around the corner
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State Among IL
to Get Aid for
Social Security
$4,000 Aged North Carolinians to
Benefit by $236,25O From
National Government

North Carolina is included among
IL States receiving Federal grants
of public assistance from the social
security board aggregating $685.
562.67, of which North Cardinals al
lotment was $236,25O for $4,000 aged
persons.
Of the grants announced by the
board those to North Carolina and
Alaska represent initial allotments
under recently approved plans for
old-age assistance. Grants to North
Carolina under its plans for aiding
the needy blind and dependent chill
dren already have been made.
The grants are to be extended
over the first quarter of the current
fiscal year which commenced on
July l.
According to the boards an
nouncement, total of 1887, 100 in
dividuals will be aided in July in
the AZ States and territories now
participating in one or more Of these
three programs.
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Service to Be Given
to State Beekeepers

RALEIGH, June 13.-Appoint-
ment of P. G.. Craddock, instructor
in bee keeping at Virginia Polty-
technic Institute, Blacksburg, Va,
as apiary inspector for the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture
was announced today by Commits
sioner of Agriculture w. Kerr Scott.
A newly created position in the
departments division of entomology,
Craddock's duties will be to protect
the 100000 colonies of bees in the
state fro foulbrod and other danger
GUS diseases which threaten an in
dustry returning to the beekeepers
more than $1,5OO,OOO annually.
Craddock will be charged with the
enforcement of a new set of bee dis
ease regulations which have been
drawn up by the department to pre-
vent the movement of diseased colo
MES within North Carolina. Hence
forth, colonies can only be moved
within the state after they have
been certified as being free from
disease" c. H. Branno'o, chief ento'
mologist of the department., said.
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By Alan lie May .

gunbelt from the wall, and strapped
it on.
Bring your saddle"
AT the corralS Horse Dunn pointed
out a stocky buckskin pony, and
when Bill Wheeler had roped and
rugged this animal, Dunn led the
way out of the layout. Promptly
Horse Dunn pushed his own tall sor-
rel into hard lamming trot.
II want to join up with the sheriff
somewheres about Chuck Box
WASH" Dunn explained. I'm right
anxious to be with him when he
makes his look-see at Short Crick."
Horse" said Billy Wheeler,
whats happened here?"
You'll see for yourself, better
than I can tell you, knowing the lay
of country like you do. But I'll tell
you what I know"
In abrupt sentences he told
Wheeler what had happened.
Morning of the day before, Horse
Dunn had been riding Short Creek
in the course of making a cattle
count. The range of the "a was far
flung and broken; the first step to-
ward count was to read the water
holes, to find out what part of the
range the big punches were fire.
quenting. Reading sign on Short
Creek, Dunn had come upon the
double trail of short horse and an
unshod horse, ridden side by side.
The trail was going his way. He
rode along it without attention-un-
til he came upon blood-stained
ground.
81 studied the ground very care
full, tracing the trails" Dunn said.
''In five minutes I knew for sure
I'd come on the place where a man
met his DEATH"
'But there was no body?"
Dun shook his head. ''The dead
man keeled out of the saddle as he
was shot," re reported the sign. ''But
I guess he got stirrup hung, for he
was dragged. His pony pulled him
through the crick. I followed across,
and found where he come loose. But
the dead man was no more there"
II don't know as I get this"
Wheeler said
Dunn gave it as his opinion that
the man on the other horse had fol-
lowed and picked up his victim.
"When I saw that" said Dunn, II
knew I was looking at the beginning
of something. Maybe-at the begin
ming of the end"
Ito Be Continued
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are all counted as employees. In
such case the corporation is the en-
ployer, not the individual.
Employers who have less than the
required eight employees to bring
them under the Unemployment
Compensation Act, or whose class of
work is excluded from the act, in
most cases, may elect to come under
thea CIV oluntarily, if the applica-
ton is approved by the Commission.
Such employers are required to re-
main under the act for two calendar
years and to give advance notice of
withdrawal.
The N. c. Unemployment Com
pensation Act provides for the
pooled fund" plan, by which all
contributions go into a general
fund. Individual employer accounts
are kept separate for bookkeeping
and statistical purposes only. Some
states have the reserved fund"
plan, in which funds paid by an
employer, or percentage of the
funds, are reserved for their own
employees, and some have the
merit rating" plan, by which an
employer pays less if he has little
unemployment and more if he has
more unemployment. The North
Carolina Commission is studying
these two plans, with the possibility
that they may be adopted later.
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take wider swing than Gil, and to
the east. Scout the edge of the bare
rock below Red Sleep Ridge"
The cowboys waited. 'Is there any
guess yet" Tulare asked after a
moment, "aS to who it is we're look
ing for?"
Unexpectedly the Old Man flared
up. "How the hell do I know!" he
roared. "And what do you care?
You'll know him when you find him
because he's dead! Amt that enough
for you? What you waiting for
now? Get on with it,"
They moved off.
Horse Dunn turned to Billy
Wheeler. Get your war bag. You
got to get into horse pants and
boots. You and I got some riding of
our own to do, no later than now!"
Billy Wheeler jerked suitcase and
saddle from his roadster and fol-
lowed Horse Dunn to room in the
rambling weathered house-the only
room the Old Man used when he
was alone.
Here, while Wheeler changed to
cow-country work clothes, Horse
Dunn stood looking out across the
range. He turned to Billy Wheeler,
his crinkly-bearded face unreliable.
'Look out the window. Look over
at Lost Whiskey Buttes. You see a
signal there?"
Wheeler obeyed. Four miles off,
on high place, he made out thin
vertical line against the brassy sky.
''That's Steve Hurley's smoke"
Horse Dunn told him. Last night
Steve was in Inspiration, checking
up. This morning-he's been on that
butte since before daybreak.'
whats the smoke mean, Horse?"
ut means the sheriff is on the
ride-he's left Link Bender's, head
ed for Short Crick. Maybe you think
he's getting slow start. He is
That's the nature of the man. You
ready?"
Lead out" said Wheeler, buck
ling his chap belt.
wait"
Horse Dunn reached down a
broad cartridge belt whose holster
carried heavy six-gun, and swung
this about his waist. 'Pick yourself
a gun," he told Wheeler.
whats this for?" Wheeler de-
manded.
I'm case of emergency, boy"
Wheeler stared at him. Then he
shrugged, picked up a weighted
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Story Begins on
Front Page

''Can't find who? The man who
was killed."
That's it"
Billy Wheeler grinned slowly
boyishly. well, I'll be darned!"
81 don't think it's funny. I think
it's-horrible."
"Well, yes; guess it is"
He looked away, estimating again
the .nearness of the approaching rid
ers. John RED Horse" Dunn, Old
Man of the "a, at whose summons
Wheeler had come 800 miles, had
not been on hand to receive him,
having set out before daylight on an
an unknown mission with three of
his cow hands. But they were COM
ing in now; across the dry morning
Wheeler could identify the individ-
ual riders at the half mile as they
jog-trotted in, their ponies abreast.
''When did all this happen?" he
asked
''Uncle John found the sign, as he
calls it, yesterday morning"
''Then he must have wired me
right after that"
81 guess So"
She hadn't known, then, that her
uncle had sent for him. She hadn't
know that he was coming he
hadn't known she was here. That
made a difference.
s'Uncle John hasn't wanted to talk
about this thing-to me-" the girl
now said. perhaps he'll give you a
different, clearer story, Billy
They fell silent Billy Wheeler let
his eyes run over casual, familiar
things-the roadster he had come
in, the tall barns, the low-sprawled
house, clubhouse, and grub shack.
But as Billy Wheeler's eyes drifted
out over the vast rolling ''flats" of
the plain, resting here and there on
a broken, flat-topped mesa or far
up-thrust mountain of gaunt red
rock, all that he saw, excepting only
the far peaks, was under the dicta-
torship of Horse Dunn's brand-the
"a.
Billy Wheeler looked at these IA
miliar things, but he was not think
ing about them. He was thinking
about the girl at his side, whom he
hardly looked at at all.
Billy Wheeler had not seen Mari
an Dunn for two years. Had he
known that she was here, he would
not have come here now.
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About
Social Security Act
Problems Rendered
Unemployment Compensation Act
Provides for Pooled Fund Plan,
by Which All Contributions Go
Into a General Fund.

A MERCHANT who has six regu-
IA lar employees and adds two
clerks or delivery boys, either or
both, on Saturdays for 20 weeks, has
a sufficient number, eight, to bring
him under the Unemployment Com
pensation Act. The same is true of
drug stores or eating places with
part-time curb service boys.
The ABC's of the Social Security
program: A stands for Assistance;
B stands for Benefits, Old Age
Benefits; c stands for Compensa-
ton, Unemployment Compensation,
the three major provisions of the
program. D stands for Dependent
Children and ABB for Aid to the
Blind.
If, in case of an individually own
ed firm, the owners wife or minor
child works for him, neither of the
three, owner, wife or minor child, is
counted in Unemployment Compen-
sation. If the firm is corporation
the principal owner, president, Sec
rotary or other officer, his wife and
a minor child working for the firm
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of the barn and slid his pony to a
stop before them in a great upjump
of dust.
To old-timers John Dunn was
known as RED Horse Jack-or
more commonly, just Horse" Dunn
partly because he was big as a
horse, and partly because of the
coarse sorrel name he had had in
his youth. Nobody knew how old
Horse Dunn was; they thought he
must be sixty-eight at least, and his
mustache and curly beard were at
last roaned with gray. But he SEEM
ed to have an Indian medicine on
him which cheated time, for he was
powerful and barrel-chested yet,
straight as lodgepole pine.
Half an hour after his return
Dunn was to be seen leaning against
post of the open gallery which ran
along the front of the cook-shack;
he was chewing a blade of burro
grass. Said he, eve all grant a man
is dead. Any of you still doubling
that?" He watched the cowboys,
who lounged along the open edge of
the gallery floor, but none of them
answered.
Breakfast had been set out by a
little withered old woman known as
Tia Cara. She had fed them prompt
ly-and they ate the same way.
'rLook here" Dunn went on. Look
here! I'm going to ask you once
more-and this is the last time. If
any of you is good enough man to
have blasted cow thief, say so
now! I'll back any boy of mine that
shot in defense of the brand. You
know that"
He paused, and waited. Val Doug
las, Dunn's thirty-year-old range
boss, let mild eyes dream on dis
tant peak, and Tulare Callahan spat
over his shoulder through his teeth.
Cali right" the Old Man said. II
amt doubling you, any of you. Now
I'm telling you what l want you to
do. You've seen the killers trail at
Short Crick-the trail of cup-hoof-
ed pony, long in the toe; been shod,
and the shoes pulled off. We've
missed out on locating that trail
where it left Short Crick. Now I
want you to start in and comb this
range. Somewhere, somehow, we got
to cut that rail. And especially we've
60 to find the man that's dead"
"Anybody checking back on the
dead mans horse?" There'll be plen-
ty checking done on that horse! Tu-
lare, you take the flat country to
the south"
"Okay."
''Gil, you sweep northwest be-
tween Short Crick and the Spotted
Range" Dunn went on. oval, you
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many farmers make these streams
behave. On the outside bend of a
stream where considerable amount
of cutting has occurred, Service en-
gineers assist in building structures,
such as jetties, which divert the
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flow away from the damaged area
and give protective vegetation a
chance to become established. Such
tres as osier, willow, or dogwood are
recommended for permanent pro-
lection.
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NOTICE
Ordered by the County
Board of Education:

That the county school buses be used for other pur
pose than the transportation of school children to and
from school, that the bus drivers strictly forbidden
haul anybody except school children teachers that
the district committee and district principal will be held
responsible for enforcing this order
Mr. Bob Sells ordered county school mechanic
to begin work immediately The county garage will be
located in the Jefferson Garage Building opposite the
courthouse in Jefferson
(Signed) ASHE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
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Ten of the President of the United
States owned slaves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-08

travel along this road Q short dis- tance and you will see Kirhy's Inn
 Kirby's Is 0 comparative new place but when 1t opened about foui months ago, almost over night be- came Q successful restaurant.
 Whether this Is true because oi the fine service, or whether 1t is true because of the fine delicious meals which are served regularly at