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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
COMMITTEE DIGS
INTO CONDITIONS
IN COAL SECTION
Relation of Harlan County
Officials and Coal Com
panies Shown In
Testimony
SOUTHERN SENATORS
BATTLELYNCH BILL
States Rights Issue Will Be
Fought All Over Again in
Senate After House Passes
Drastic Measure Over
whelmingly; Talk Court
Compromise

Washington, April 16.-(AP)-The
Senate civil liberties committee in
vestigating 'anti-union terrorism,
sought new evidence today on the re-
lationship between Harlan county,
Kentucky, officials and % coal com
nanies which have defied uniOniza-
ton for Is years.
Chairman LaFollette, Progressive,
wisconsin. recalled officials OF the
United Mine Workers, who testified
COMMUNICABLE" sheriffs commission
cd has wrecked all efforts to union
ize the Harlan miners.
Middleton told the committee ne
had financial interests in a mining
firm and a company store, which mas
Maid him dividends of $1,000 annually
since 1884 on a $4,000 investment.
Southern senators prepared states
rights arguments against the Gavagan
anti-lynching bill, which passed the
House 277 to 119 yesterday after neat
ed sectional debate.
The measure would provide 1ines
and Imprisonment for participants IN
n,ob violence and for officers who al
low prisoners to escape their CUSTODY
and be injured or put to death.
AS the Senate Judiciary Committee
considered ending hearings on the
Presidents court bill, new talk OF a
compromise developed.
Both houses were in recess Tor the
weekend.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
Sheriff's Brother, a Deputy,
Declared Man of "Viol-
ent and Lawless
Habits
FOURTEEN DEPUTIES
FORMER PRISONERS
Roosevelt Declines Com
ment on Wagner Act Deci-
sions, but Issue Is Discuss
ed Variously In Parts of
Capital; President To Go
Fishing

Washington, April 16.-(AP)- A
Senate committee heard today for
mer convicts helped enforce the law
in Harlan county, Kentucky, where
death and terror for years hung spec
coal fields in the country.
Read before the Senate civil liber-
ties committee was a Harlan circuit
court statement the county sheriff's
brother, who was also one of his de-
putieS, was man of violent and law
less habits"
The sheriff. Theodore Middleton,
whose brother, Slemp, was the sub
ject of the court criticism, was on the
stand when the evidence with regard
to the organization of his force was
introduced.
Cmomittee Investigators produced
records to the effect 80 of Middletons
deputies had served time in Kentucky
prisons and three had been convicted
on Federal charges. Committee Chair
man LaFollette, Progressive, of Wis
consin, asserted IA deputies now in
active service in the county had SER
we'd prison sentences.
Elsewhere in the capital the Wag-
ner act decision continued a subject
of frequent conversation. 1t was
brought up at President Roosevelts
press conference, but the chief execu-
tive declined to discuss it, saying he
lacked time to read the opinions care
fully
He said he had decided to leave
April % for New Orleans to start his
tarpon fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
HIGHWAY SAFETY is
TAGGING IN STATE
Fulk Says Good Roads Provided Bus
People Not Educated as to
Their Usage

Raleigh, April 16 (AP)-Arthur
Fulk, director of the highway safety
division, said today North Carolina
took the lead in building modern high
ways, but has Tagged in giving aoe-
quate attention to the protection Oh
the people in the safe use and en-
joyment of them"
On July 1, 1885, Fulk said, the
States 57,787 miles of roadways in the
State system represented an invest
ment of $269, 1852.
Fulk said accident report records
kept since 1928 showed 696 persons
killed in 1928, with a steady increase
to 986 in 1886, and 1,O95 in 1885, but
there was drop to 1,O25 in 1896 after
the drivers license law became effec-
tive.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
Unemployment Insurance
Tax and Old Age Assist
ance Provisions Are
Involved
RULING is MADE BY
THREE-TO-TWO VOTE
Holds Issue Is Not What
Powers Congress or Pres
ident "Ought To Have"
But What Constitution AL
lows Them; Hints at
Amendment as Method

Boston, Mass, April 16.-(AP)-The
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
TODAY ruled unconstitutional both the
unemployment insurance tax provl-
sion and the old age assistance pro-
vision of the social security act.
Two of the three justices held the
provisions illegal.
Both provisions had been challeng-
cd bv George P. Davis, public utility
stockholder.
The court, in ruling the unemploy-
mont insurance tax unconstitutional,
said: "The issue is not what powers
Congress ought to have to meet con-
ditions. as viewed by the executive
and legislative branches of the gov
eminent. but what powers are vested
in Congress under the Constitution.
The Supreme Court, through a long
series of opinions, has defined those
mowers and the limitations upon them.
If the Constitution as construed thro-
noh the years requires amendments TO
meet new conditions, the way is pro-
yided therein"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
COTTON is WEAKER
ON EASIER CABLES
May Liquidation Is Depressing Influ-
ence; Net Losses for Period
Are Shown

New York, April 16.-(AP)-Cot-
ton futures opened barely steady, 6
to Is points lower, influenced by east
ness of Liverpool and liquidation.
May liquidation was depressing
influence July, which had recovered
from 1882 to 1888, eased to 1927
shortly after the first hour, when
prices showed net losses of IL to %
points.
July, which had eased to 1924, was
selling at 1929 early in the noon hour,
when the market was net 10 to 15
points lower.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
Premier Hepburn of Onta-
rio, Meanwhile, Reiter-
ates Decision To
Move Alone
BARS MARTIN FROM
OFFICE CONFERENCE
Refuses To See Him or
"Any Other Hireling of
John L. Lewis; Southern
Pacific Employees on West
Coast Ready To Go Out on
Strike
(Bv The Associated Press.)

L
President Roosevelt declined again
TODAY to discuss sitdown strikes, while
Premier Hepburn, of Ontario, reiterat-
ed his intention to handle the Gen
eral Motors of Canada strike indie
pendent of the Dominion government
and in defiance of the G. l. ..
Deputies escorting nOn-strikers IN
to the Holabird Company factory were
showered with barrage of eggs from
pickets in Bryan, Ohio. Four strikers
were arrested without charge.
A strike of seamen and wireless
operators, which threatened to handl-
cap ships communications systems,
was settled in New York last nlght'
but the international Seamens Union
announced at Norfolk, Va, two SHIPS
would be held in port unless demands
for higher wages were met.
c.. 7. o. leaders charged the Amer
lean Federation of Labor had cnar-
tered a company controlled, union
in the tri-State lead and zinc tleios
bv accepting into membership an IN
dependent blue card organization
which claimed 80 percent OF the min
ers in the area.
Homer Martin, U. A. w. A. head
reached Oshawa, Ontario, seeking set
+1ament of the Canadian car strike,
but Premier Hepburn at Toronto an
nounced that neither Martin nor any
other hireling of John l.. Lewis
would be admitted to the strike con-
ference in his office.
On the west coast strike OF $500
Southern Pacific employees was sche-
duled to start at p. m. unless de-
mands of the workers were met by
that time
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
MOTHER, DAUGHTER
GIVEN SENTENCES
Mrs. Phifer Goes to Penitentiary,
Mrs. Wright Suspended in
Filling Station Death

Wadesboro, April 16-(AP)-Mrs
Bessie Phifer and her daughter, Mrs
Frank Wright, were convicted OF
manslaughter here today in connec-
ton with the death of Sidney Hyatt
at filling station near, here last
Thanksgiving.
Judge Wilson Warlick sentenced
Mrs. Phifer to from two to two and
a half years in States Prison, and the
daughter received a two-year suspend
ed sentence on condition she violate
no liquor law and be on good behavior
for five years. She has two young
children.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
-FOUR KILLERS DIE
&, BY ELECTROCUT|ON
Three in Chicago by "Hum-
anized" Method; One
Victim in Tennessee

Chicago, April 16.-(APD-Three
murderers of policemen died in the
electric chair today in Cook county's
first test of it's "humanized" execu-
ton.
Hidden behind a panel back OF the
chair, their Identifies carefully con-
ceaIed, four regular Jail guards pull
ed four switches for the electrocution,
but only one of them sent the electric
current coarsing through the bodies
of the doomed men. None OF the
guards knew which was the actual
executioner of the three slayers,
Joseph Schuster, 30; Frank Whyte'
Al: and Stanley Muranski, 81, all ex-
convicts.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
(By The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated PreSS.)
Merchant ships flying the United
States flag will be forced to submit
to examination in Spanish waters, Of
ficials of the neutrality committee
disclosed today.
American ships will have to prove
their papers are in order, but they
will not be searched. The inspection
will guard against ships of other ma
tions masquerading under the Stars
and Stripes to slip past the interna-
tional blockade with contraband
cargoes.
The blockade to enforce the hands
off-Spain' committees embargo a.
gainst further foreign arms and men
has been ordered to start at mid
night Monday, April 10. 1t will be COM
posed of British French, German and
Italian war vessels.
The civil war front shifted back to
the Bay of Biscay, where insurgent
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
ALFRED E. SMITH, JR.
CITED IN CONTEMPT
Court Action Grows Out OF Order 1Or
Payment of AlimOny to Es-
tranged Wife

Syracuse, N. Y, April 16.-(AP)-
Alfred E. Smith, Jr., son of former
Governor Alfred E. Smith, has been
cited to appear before Justice zoller
IN Srnreme Court April % to show
cause why he should not be punish
ed for contempt of court.
The justice issued the order for
failure of young Smith to make
a1;noonv navments to his wife, Mrs.
Bertha Scott Smith, OF syracuse
Justice Zoller last September direct
cd Smith to pay his wife 500 per
month pending trial of her suit for a
sonaration. The amount due Mrs.
smith. according to the petition, is
about $500.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
BOY is KILLED IN
SAND PIT CAVE-lN
Preparing To Remove Sand at Time
of Tragedy in Martin County,
Sheriff Reports

Williamson, April 16.-(AP)-Sher-
iff C. B. Roebuck said today Marshall
Mendenhall Il, son of Claude Men
denhall, of the eastern part of Mar
tin county, was crushed to death when
a sand pit near GAINESVILLE caved IN
on him late yesterday evening.
Roebuck said young Mendenhall
and a playmate were preparing to
take some sand to the formers home
when sandbank caved in, fell on
Marshall, and mashed him all to
pieces"
No inquest was held, the sheriff
said. although some of his deputies
investigated the death.
Marshall, one of several children,
was in high school. He was buried late
this afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
RY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1887, Publishers
E.no;oI Bureau. Inc.

washington, April To- am a lrts
,n,s,;sad nv the disappointing reports
SURF pn ,JT retail trade recently turn
Oh >; S oil over the country. Latest flg-
ca III s % unit sales only slightly
ules ' last wears level; while genera
i apov. is running 20 per cent above
the same period. There are va sh Nv
reasons for this unsatisfactory SLY. LII,
ing, such as cold weather e;,+ al bi H
Easter, labor unsettlement, nisroe
nr;ces and the heavy sales voiui ,le
curing February. AS the season W., woi IN IN
'31Ase however, the current lag IA
ss1 sls1,o1,ld bolster volume IN May
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
TRADING IN STOCKS
VERY MUCH SLOWER
Buyers Show Little Appetite for Lead
ers; One of SlOwest Sessions
In Weeks

New York, April 16.-(AP)-Buying
forces nibbled at a few specialities in
today's stock market, but showed lit
tie appetite for most leaders. 1t was
one of the slowest sessions in the past
several weeks.
The ticker tape dozed frequently
and quotations were mildly mixed
near the fourth hour.
Bonds emulated the share list with
minor losses and gains being about
evenly divided.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
.LOU|SBURG OPENS
NEW COURT HOUSE
Governor Hoey and Others
Speak at Exercises Dur
ing Afternoon

Louisburgs April Is (AP)-Witn
Governor Clyde R. Hoey as the prln-
cipal speaker, Franklin county deol-
Gated its court house here this after
noon. d. T. Swithwick, county histo-
ran, spoke on the historical BACK
ground of the county, and Charles r
Green, county attorney, presented the
building to the people. II was accept
ed by w. H. Marlborough, veteran at
torney, and Judge w. G. Harris, OF
Raleigh. r.
W. L. Lumpkin, former FraH4<lln
county legislator, introduced Covering
Hoey.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
SOLDIERS MEDAL TO
Fl. BRAGG TROOPER

Washington, April 16 (AP)-The
army awarded the soldiers medal to-
day by the Private Curtis Tanning, at
tached to Battery D, 83rd Field Artli-
lery, for heroism in rescuing CCC en-
rollee from drowning on the Fort
Bragg reservation, N. c., June 5, 1884.
Fannings home is in Neeses, 5. u
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
Will Have To Prove Their
Papers Are In Order, but
They Will Not be
Searched
BLOCKADE BECOMES
EFFECTIVE MONDAY
Civil War Front Shifts Back
to Bay of Biscay Sector,
Where Insurgents Make
Determined Push; Govern
ment Repels Insurgents at
Madrid

st. Jean de Luz, April Is, (AP)-
A British merchant vessel was re-
ported today to have been stopped
by a British destroyer from at
tempting to run the insurgent
blockade off Bilbao, Spain.
Sixteen miles off Bilbao, diplO-
matte sources said, the Mary
Ilewellyn was stopped by Brit
ish destroyer and ordered to re-
turn here. She came back to this
port.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
TENNESSEE YOUTH DIES
AS WIFE WAITS OUTSIDE

Nashville, Tenn, April 16.-(AP)--
Sallow-faced Roy Eatman, "a, died
calmly in Tennessee's electric chair
at dawn today while his wife and year
old baby waited outside the death
house to take his body back to their
farm home near Osceola, Arak.
The frail but composed youth was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
Babson Cautions Against
Wild Installment Selling
Time Sales at New High nd Credlt,iyramld Is Sr6~
;na Ton-Heavv: Prices Ar Going Higher and cash
ing R,,v;ne Now Urged; Spring Sales Off
and June.
Prices Still Climbing.

Prices Still Climbing.
Retail trade is our most sensitive
index of public sentiment. In the final
analysis, public sentiment rules the
volume of business. Viewed from this
angle, the present stalling of Amer
lean buying is not a good omen. Fac
tories are running day and night.
Warehouses are filling up with goods.
Merchants have the biggest supply OF
stocks on hand in five years. All this
is based on the theory that much
higher prices and favorable trade are
ahead. Actually, latest reports snow
denartment store sales only five to ten
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

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ROOMS-FURNISHED

To fill an empty purse, rent an empt
room. Phone District $3.50 or DIstric
1000 and ask for Ad Taker.
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ETwORTH-Attractive, front room, or
3 young men, large closet, garage, phone,
G h w n sanare to bus. Adams 2O93.
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THE CHANCELLOR

214 Mass. Ave- NJ e,
2 rms, kit. and bath. ..... $50 90
2 rooms, Junior dining room. kitchen,
bath and reception hall. -. .$62.50
Flea Refg. on q. @. Res. Mgr.
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PETwORTH-l Blk from trans, single
rm., = good meals; also double, twin
beds $50 so, priv. bath. AID. 6O74.
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DOUBLE-QUICK SERVICES
TILE WORK
TRASH REMOVAL

TILE SETTING repairing, work guar. Est.
Wright, 1852 Fla. Ave. n. E. Ii. 1908.
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TYPEWRITERS, PORTABLES
UPHOLSTERING
VACTJJJM CLEANERS
VALET

1O.PoINT REPAIR SERVICE, 81. Parts
BRANDS CO.. sos 18th st. Ma. 7773
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TYPEWRITERS

l REMOVE trash from stores apts.. homes
reasonable. Buckner. WE. O649.
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2S12 CONN. AVE.
4 rooms, kitchen, bath and
porch 97Z.oU
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4913 FIRST ST. N. w.
2 rooms, kitchen, dinette, bath
and porch .........S4 2 90
Gas heat by tenant.
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1901 21ST n. w. NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
(Under New Management)
Studio vacancies; some with private
baths single or double: new dining room.
expert chef: switchboard service; phone in
room your calls taken care of: social at
mOsphere; rates most reasonable. Phone
Lieutenant whitman for fmll particulars.
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18th ST N. W., 313"-1 very large front
room for Q; also roommate for young
lady; priv. home, . baths; excellent meals
served; also table dinners board. AID. 5O96
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A ST. n. E., 614-2-rm. apt, nicely furn
running water: also Ink rm., running
water; reasonable.
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RHODE ISLAND AVE. N. E.. 36-Large
double rm separate beds. excellent
meals congenial home atmosphere, $35.
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GENTLEMAN desires well-furnished room
and phone privileges in Arlington county
Va. vicinity post office. with refined adult
family by Dec. l. Box MIA. Times-Herald
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RO CAR HOUSE

RHODE ISLAND AVE. n. W., 1515-At-
tractive double basement room, private
bath, convenient location. excellent meals.
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OKLA Summer Rugs Washed and QO TX
Stored for the Season DE -
star Garnet worka 1916 P n " WE 222O
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p ST. n. w, 2l31-Apt. ,. Nice large
frt rm for boys home-cooked meals,
So so ca. home comforts and privileges;
unlimited phone service. Decatur 3Ol9.
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ROOMS WITH BOARD

NEAR DUPONT OIhODE
1882 10Th St. n W.-Newly furnished
rooms, social atmosphere, for young peo'
Pile; excellent food. Pot. 1926.
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CHILDREN BOARDED
ROOMS-WANTED

EXCELLENT board and care for chlidre
priv. home, S25. Shepherd 1852.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

The Prince CT Wales Theater. Lon
don, will be rebuilt at a cost of ST.
100000.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

Lee Knowing that her older sister,
Mollie Bannister, was to be q brides
maid. Gen. Lee said, concerning Anne,
"Of course this young lady Is to be
at the wedding?" Indeed I am"
Mrs. Pryor says merrily. you should
have heard me answering for myself,
launching as well into q description
Of my first long party dress, which
had been made for me out Of one
Of those In mothers cherished bridal
outfit. resurrected for this great oc-
casion."
"Then," she said. Gen. Lee COM
mented, "as your aunt is sick and
not able to come downstairs, am 60
ing to give myself the honor Of TAX
ing you into aupper. Ask your escort
II he will lend you to me-"
That night the proudest 16-year-old
girl in the whole Southland was Anne
Bannister, as she went into that men,
orable wedding supper en- the arm OF
Gen. Robert E. Lee, with her escort
Mr.. J. B. Robertson of Baltimore, fol-
lowing right after and sitting down to
table with them.
II you would read for yourself sew
eral other Of Gen. Lees comments
upon the little Anne Bannister you
may find them In the letters Of Gen
Lee, published by his son Bob.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
$2.70 H0LD.UP OF BOY
CHARGED TO PRISONER
Judge Hit Fixes $4,000 Bond,
Sending Harold w. Mckay, 27,
to Grand Jury.

Harold w. Mckay, 81, colored
1910 Blagden court, was held fol
grand jury action under $4,000 bond
by Police Judge Isaac r. Hit, yester-
day on a charge of robbing a l0-year-
old colored newsboy last Saturday
night.
The complainant, Robert Brooks
GAL o street, told the court Mckay at
tackled him. put belt around his neck
stuffed his cap in his mouth and
robbed him of $l.95 in collections and
rs cents belonging to himself.
Mckay, who was arrested Sunday
by Pvt. Harold T. Greer, second pre-
cinct, has been identified by Carltir
Corbin, grocer at Ninth and M streets
as the man who stole $50 from the
grocer last Summer. A charge OF
larceny was placed against Mckay in
this case.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

grave face as he added, half to him
self: my conscience is not entirely
at ease aboint using these animals
for this extra service. They are on
half rations like the rest Of U.s."
Even now, ! can remember how
quiet I was for the rest of that ride.
That night as was sobbing out the
story to my mother as ! was saying
my prayers, said, II believe Gen.
Lee thinks we are not going to win
this war;" Folding her arms about
me my mother said, win? OF
course, we cannot win. We are all
starving"
Just after that, her brother Blair
died. Then, Unexpectedly, Gen. Lee
came over from headquarters one
morning a week later with a little
photograph of himself. on the back
of which he had written, For Anne
to ever member her best, best friend
r. e. Lee" Mrs. Pryor never would
have it framed because she so greatly
treasured this inscription as muck
as the face of the portrait itself.
The firing of the great warehouses
of tobacco in Petersburg had been
privately agreed upon by the forces in
Gray as the signal for the aban-
donment Of Petersburg and the evac-
uation Of Richmond to those IN Blue
One morning in April great clouds OF
acrid, stinging smoke began to swirl
skyward from designated points. Pet
ersburg and the South were making
their last sacrifice to cause that was
indeed lost.
All that day, those who had with
stood the siege of Petersburg watched
the Confederate troops 60 quietly by
Their clothes were in tatters," Mrs.
Pryor said, but their heads we're held
high, even as they marched in defeat
toward the surrender" at Appomatox.
LAS they passed Gen. Lee had sew
eral men carry and leave on the lawn
of a neighbor's house a chair which
had been loaned him for his use at
headquarters. OF its comfort and con-
venience he hao often spoken to US
This chair belonged to the Rev. DR.
4uCOuOLlSh oOAi
Archibald Campbell Pryor, I later
married."
Chair Used by Lee.
The chair was a big Sleepy Hollow
type often used by DR.. Pryor when
writing his sermons. One of the arms
has an extended writing table. Under
meath is q little desk drawer and on
the other arm you could swing
small collapsible table in front OF you
for reference books. On the arms
Gen. Lee wrote many of the orders
of the Army of Northern Virginia
Several years ago Mrs. Pryor gave this
chair to her daughter Carrie, who is
the wife of Gibbs L. Baker of the
Stoneleigh Court Apartments. She in
turn presented it to the Society fol
the Preservation of Virginia Antiqui-
ties
Mrs. Pryor also has several recol.
lections of Gen. Lee after the Close
of the Civil War One has to do with
his visit to their home at the time
that her beautiful cousin, Mary Tabt
Boiling. was to be married to Rooney