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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29


foolish inhibitions. To cover also the
matter of money, explain the payment
of workmen-Jack knew now who had
paid them, Bruce Kenning. To make
Jack believe that she was a trifle
nearer him, and thus, fevered by her
approach, make him the more insen-
sible to trickefy.
But Mckenzie Joe had labeled the
first nugget sniper gold; which could
not possibly have come from her
claim. The mistake had not been
made again; the gold with which that
gravel had been sailed thereafter had
been the sort of gold that would come
from gravel, nothing else.
Continued next week
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29
were at the pit.

were at the pit.
Jeanne had reported truthfully. The
dump had grown considerably; Jack
reached forth a hand and picked up
some of the soil, rubbing it between
his fingers.
"They've gone down into another
strata" came at last. "This isn't the
soil Mckenzie Joe was working in"
He looked about him. Must work at
might've never seen anyone around
here when I went up the hill trail
Some way, I wouldn't notice unless
they came out into the open-all these
trees"
ooh, they've worked here, all right.
Look at these footprints"
Jack bent and, with a great heave,
threw back one of the logs which COW
cred the mouth of the pit. He went
to his knees, peering downward. The
faint light penetrated only short
distance. Rising, he threw aside the
other coverings. Then with glance
downward:
81 guess I'd better take look at
the bottom. They've gone down a
long ways"
eyes, see how they've built up the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29

bedi'
For the first time in his life, Jack
heard Kay stammer. Then she be-
gan to rage, her clenched hands ex-
tended. But Jeanne Towers cut in
with:
"Shall I give you the hours, days
and dates? And perhaps you sneak
out at nights just for the exercise? In
your pajamas?"
"Jack!" Kay tried appeal. care you
going to believe this wretched little
liar? If you only knew"
"He knows" Jeanne cut in, eff you
are referring to my life with Lew
Slade."
"Kay," the man interrupted dazedly,
"has all this been just game with
you?" He was cropping, like man
staggering to his feet after uncon-
sciousness. you've been just play
ing me-you never intended to marry
me? Just holding me at arms
length"
Men are easier to handle that
way" Jeanne supplied.
"You should know!" Kay was pac-
ing. Her eyes glared; her usually
smooth hair was in disarray.
II couldn't help watching YOU"
Anger conquered Kay completely.
"Think what you please, both of
you!" she Exploded. eff her word
means so much to you-go ahead
only don't come to me with It'll" A
queer laugh passed over her thin
drawn lips. "Thank God for one thing.
won't have you paving me any more
that's a consolation"
"Kay!"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29

"Don't speak to mel" she shot at
him. you've got your own informa-
ton bureau beside you-talk to her!"
"And you know it's right informa-
tion," Jeanne insisted.
you've cooked it up-every word
of it."
"Then why do you admit ii? 2" The
Northern girl advanced step toward
the veranda. "Call out Mrs. Carewe.
She's tired of her job; she won't be
afraid to answer questions. She'll tell
how many times she's seen you go
over to Bruce Kenning's - nights
when she couldn't sleep and watched
you"
ooh, the cooks word"
"a good woman's word! If she had
only come to me before Mckenzie Joe
left, Kenning never would have gotten
his hand on that property!"
Kay Strengthened. White-featured.
her hands half extended as though
they longed to claw the brown eyes of
the woman who accused her, she stood
moment transfixed with anger.
"But he's got it," she snapped at
last. "And what are you going to
do about it,"
She whirled. The door slammed
Jack and Jeanne stood alone in the
deepening night.
"I'm going to find Bruce Kenning, u
he said abruptly. "This time I'd bet
ter see him alone"
She begged him to wait for morn
ing; Jack countered with hastily franz
ed excuses. At last he was alone,
moving through the shadows toward
Mckenzie Joe's test shaft, progressing
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29

ladder"
cts nearly twice as long as it
was"
He swung over the side and clam
bered down the rough ladderway, fash
toned of barked spruce. For long
time there was no sound from below.
Then the ladder bent again with his
weight. :.
Jeanne" he called from somewhere
in the depths. "Take this-be care
full with it."
She bent over the edge, both hands
extended for the hat which he handed
up. 1t was filled with yellow earth,
mixed with gravel. Then the man
climbed out, his features a mixture
of grimness and bewilderment. He
said, blunly:
to the creek where l can find a gold
pan."
At the stream Hammond worked
wordlessly. Jeanne watching over his
shoulder. Light was fading, there
was barely sufficient to allow them to
finish their experiment; autumn now
had brought days as short as the
nights had been; darkness came by
4:3O. Time after time, the refuse
content was flowed away. Then, as
both the water and the residue became
lower, Jeanne reached forward.
"Look!" She picked up something
from the bottom of the pan. 1t was a
gold nugget, twice as large as pea.
Further work brought forth a dozen
more. At last Hammond stuffed them
into a pocket and, disregarding the
flakes and finer gold at the bottom Of
the pan, washed it's contents away in
the stream. He Strengthened.
"Well, jeanne" came slowly, II
guess you're right. Mckenzie Joe
knew what he was doing, after all"
There was a desperate quietness to
!; his tone; the world was swimming.
This puzzling find could mean many
things.
Of only one was Jack certain-that
he had signed away valuable rights.
He hoped that was all-this action
was beyond recall; it was the pounding
of suspicion that hurt, suspicion which
could point in only one direction.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29
more by instinct than by direction.
Mentality had concentrated upon

HWY Ny AAA0SAAAOt CA1oAA ny O4LCCtAOue
Mentality had concentrated upon a
sequence of events which now were
becoming horribly, truthfully clear
Mckenzie Joe had been right after all
from the very beginning!
Now the episode of the sniper gold
was explained and the reason that he
never again had found such nuggets
at Kay's claim. He knew now that
her placer workings had been worth
less and that they had been sailed with
metal from Kenning's workings up the
creek. 1t was her alibi, her excuse
to thwart any plea that Jack might
make to give up this quixotic idea, to
marry him now, and forget pride and
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29
Before 1 do or say anything" he
give got to see Bruce Ken

Before 1 do or say anything" he
muttered, give got to see Bruce Ken
Ming"
Jeanne Towers looked up. A change
had come over the girl, queer, awak
ening sort of metamorphosis. She
seemed stalwart, determined, as tho
doubts and fears which long had ha-
raised her had disappeared. There
was crispness in her voice, almost
command.
"I'll go with you, jack" she said.
81 think you should see several per-
sons. Kay Joyce, for instance"
They reached the top of the hill and
followed it's crest to Kenning's cabin.
He was not there. At last they turn
ed away, Jeanne in the lead, heading
for Kay Joyce's cottage. Jack Ham,
mond acquiesced; horrible thoughts
were running through his brain; he
could not thrust them away.
"Kay!" he called at the edge of the
veranda. "Kay! Come out here"
The door flew open and Kay came
bubbling forth. Her expression chang
ed at the sight of Jeanne, and Jack
Hammond, grimly silent, beside her.
"Kay!" he demanded. where's
Bruce Kenning?"
"Isn't he is his cabin?" Then,
whats come over you-so excited"
you've a good idea of what's come
over him!" Jeanne interjected coldly.
Kay shot her glance of unconceal-
ed enmity.
"So?" she asked and dismissed her
for the man. "Jack, whatever is all
this about? Is something terribly
wrong?"
Terribly. That's why I've got to
find Bruce Kenning."
HE wants to tell him" Jeanne added
sthat he's found out how you two have
been tricking him."
Kay Joyce advanced sharply.
what do you meant"
Curiously, Hammond found himself
hurrying to Jeanne's defense. It amaz-
ed him as much as it amazed Kay
Joyce, now staring from one to the
other.
"She MEANS" he snapped, chat
someone's been working Mckenzie
Joe's old claim"
Suppose someone has? 2" She stamp
ed foot. 81 can't help it if people
go wandering around other peoples
claims. Just why you should come
storming up to me about it"
"I'm not storming., And I'm not
making accusations. But Kenning got
me to deed that property over to him
this afternoon"
She gestured futiley.
"A lot of nonsense about some worth
less old hole in the ground"
Strange" interjected Jeanne. "Ken-
ming knew it wasn't worthless"
Kay blazed with anger.
Gam I talking to you, Jack? Or
to this little tramp?"
"Kay, don't say that!" Jack was
half up the steps. She turned defiant
ly from him; suddenly Hammond real
lied that her indignation had been too
carefully timed, her amazement un-
real.
$50 the pot calls the kettle black p"
asked Jeanne, with tense calmness.
Hammond turned amazedly.
you've no cause to say that"
No? Ask Miss Joyce how many
nights a week she spends in Bruce
KenninpS cabin Tn Rr,ca Kann;oo.,s
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-29
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS
SOIL CONSERVATION LAWS

President Roosevelt has requested
all 48 States to enact soil conserva-
ton laws to bulwark the Federal
fight against dust storms and floods
"The nation that destroys its soil
destroys ITSELF" he said in identical
letters to State Governors.
With the letters went copies of a
State soil conservation bill prepared
by the Agriculture department in
cooperation with representatives of
many States.
It provides for organization of soil
conservation districts to carry on
erosion control projects, with the aid
of Federal funds, and for enactment
of land-use regulations after they
are approved by local referenda.
The suggested State laws would
have no bearing on the Federal soil
conservation benefit. payments, but
their enactment would be necessary
before States could receive any Fed
eral funds for conservation demon
stration work.
IT hope that you will see fit" the
President wrote, ito make the adop-
ton of legislation along the lines OF
the standard act part of the agricul-
tural program for your State"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
DEMOCRATS TO FEAST
Chairman Austin Completing Plans
for Getting Speaker

w. B. Austin, chairman of the vic
tory dinner committee for Ashe
county, has announced that Demo-
cratic victory dinner in honor of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Vice President John N. Garner will
be held at the Tucker Hotel, West
Jefferson, on Thursday, March 4,
at 7:30 o'clock p. m.
Arrangements are being made to
have an outstanding speaker for
the occasion, and other entertain
ment will be given. The President of
the United States will deliver VIC
tory address from Washington which
will be brought by radio to this
dinner.
The cost of admission will be
$3.50, SO cents of which is to pay for
the meal and one dollar to help pay
off the expenses of the last Demo-
cratic National Campaign.
All Democrats in Ashe county, in
Guiding men and women, are cordl-
ally invited and requested to be
present.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
Sequel to Lindbergh
kidnapping in S. A.
Armed Guards Prevent Hobo
Arrested as Suspect From
Being Lynched

Baby Eugenio Peyrera Iraola, Ar
gentina's 'Lindbergh baby" was
found Saturday, the life choked out
of his little body, five years almost
to the day after Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr., was kidnapped from Jer-
sey's Sourland hills.
Like Baby Lindbergh, two-year-
old Eugenio, the seventh child of
baronial cattle wealth, was killed by
his kidnaper. He was stripped of his
little suit, choked and wounded, and
left, his arms crossed on his chest,
in the slime of pigpen at the edges
of beautiful ''La Sorpresa," his par
ents' estate.
Prevent Lynching
Police armed with rifles averted
what might have been lynching
attempt when a menacing crowd,
with ire mounting against hobo
suspect, Jose Grancedo, gathered
around the Mar del Plata Jail after
news spread that Eugenio's body had
been found.
Grancedo later admitted the
crime. There is no death penalty for
such an offense in South America.
A strong guard was thrown
around the Jail, but the crowd re-
in the vicinity throughout
the afternoon.
It was believed the blue-eyed
child, bearing marks of strangula-
ton as we'll as scalp and leg wounds,
had been slain Thursday, the day
after he disappeared. On that day,
and the day afterwards, provincial
and Federal officers spread vast
dragnet over the fashionable Mardel
Plata resort countryside near the
great Estancia.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
New Angles to Girls
Death in Allegheny
New and Startling Developments
Reported That Change the
Theory of Tragedy

North Wilkesboro, March New
and startling developments that
change the theory of the crime and
point more definitely to the guilt OF
an unnamed suspect in the Elva
Brannock assault-murder case in AL
leghany county have been uncover
ed, it was learned here.
That the 16-year-old school girl
was not killed or assaulted at the
place where her body was found and
that her body, lifeless for hours, had
been carried there by more than one
person is indicated by the new evil
dence.
When asked about the reports cur
rent here, R. c. Jennings, special
Wilkes deputy who has been assist
ing Shelf Irwin of Allegheny in the
investigation, did not deny that the
new evidence had been found, but
refused to elaborate, saying that
Sheriff Irwin heads the investigation
1t was reported here that Mr.. Jen-
nings and other members Of Sheriff
ErWin's force of Investigators found
an old washing tub about 200 yards
from where the body was found and
evidence tending to show that the
girls body had been carried in the
tub to where it was found on Febru-
airy IL, five days after she disappear
ed while on her way to school.
The body was not lying flat on the
ground but on the face with the alb
domen about eight inches from the
ground, indicating that the body had
been put there after rigor morris had
set in and that she had been dead a
considerable length of time.
Officers have not confirmed re-
ports of other evidence that would
more definitely link one or more of
the suspects with the case.
It is authoritatively learned that
Sheriff Erwin has prepared de-
tailed report of the investigation and
evidence to date and will present the
report to Allen Gwyn, solicitor Of
the eleventh judicial district, of
which Allegheny county is a part.
Mr.. Jennings did state here to-
night that Sheriff Erwin and his
splendid corps of deputies have been
untiring in their efforts to bring the
guilty party to the bar of justice and
that he feels that one of the obsta-
cles has been removed and which
uncovers, in his opinion, and points
unerringly to the guilt of one of the
suspects who is now in Jail. He de-
clined to state who the suspect is
and where he is in Jail, saying that
such information and making public
of the evidence might hinder the ap-
prehension of the other party or par
ties to the crime and that Sheriff
Erwin was bending every effort to
unravel the mystery.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
Soil Conservation
Program Underway
Farmers Urged to Fill Out Work
Sheets by March Is; No
Obligation Insured
(BRUCE DENT)

All that is necessary for you to
Soil Conservation program is for you
to fill a work sheet. This usually
takes about Is minutes. You may
come in to the county office or see
one of the community committee
men. Committeeman for the county
are as follows: Chestnut Hill, j. B.
Pierce; Clifton, T. A. Sutherland;
Creston, V. c. Lillard; Elk, ]. T.
Brown; Grassy Creek, G. D. Cox;
Harrigan, Fred Blevins; Helton,
Howard Blevins; Horse Creek, Mon
roe WEIGH; Jefferson, Wiley Weaver;
Laurel, T. j. GRAPHICAL; North Fork,
c. c. Sutherland; Obids, J. c. Craw-
ford; Old Fields, j. R. Grub; Peak
Creek, w. M. Transou; Pine Swamp,
c. M. Yates; Walnut Hill, J. r.
Phipps; West Jefferson, G. M.
Campbell.
We urge you to fill out your work
sheet by the 18th of March if posi-
BILE, so that your bases may be COM
pleted and adjusted. You will then
be notified as to what you may do
to earn the largest payment possible.
Unless we receive your work sheet
by that time we will be unable to
give you the information before
seeding time.
There is absolutely no obligation
on anyone's part. You have nothing
to lose and everything to gain. If you
earn a payment you get it, if not,
you get nothing.
Here are some of the ways you
may earn payment if you wish.
Seeding clover or grasses, turning
under rye or other green manure
crops, applying lime or fertilizer.
For further information see your
committeeman or come into the
county office. Only those who did
not fill work sheets last year will do
so at this time The participants of
the 1887 program are still members
of the association.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
LATE NEWS
FROM THE
State and Nation
MYSTERY SHROUDS
GIRLS DEATH

Sheriff J. Mason Smith declares he
is definitely satisfied" 18-year-old
Cleo Sprous, whose chloroformed
body was found near the University
OF Virginia cemetery the first of the
week, was a murder victim.
The girl had been missing from
her home since Monday afternoon.
She told her mother then she was
going to attend a downtown movie.
Her whereabouts were not known
until Jesse Stocker and NJ c. Clarks
went to the graveyard to view the
grave of friend.
They came upon the body of the
pretty brunette, lying about Is feet
outside of the cemetery wall, at the
edge of the university golf course.
Wads of cotton had been TANNED
into her mouth and nose and satu-
rated with chloroform. A small lin
en- towel lay over her face, and her
scarf covered this.
An empty chloroform can was
balanced, opening down, on the
cloth.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
FavOrs Social
Security Without
Levyingg Land Tax
AShe Representative Member of
Appropriations Committee
in General Assembly

Representative J. B. Hash, mem
Der OF the House appropriations
committee, has taken a strong stand
for arranging social security pay
ments without resorting to a prop
erty tax levy This stand of Mr..
Hash's is in line with his campaign
promises to vote against any land
tax levy.
The chairman of the appropria-
tons committee is also against a
property tax.
The social security measure as
passed in Washington provides for
the federal government to match the
money each state calls for, which
would cause the state to pay half of
the necessary amount and the Unit
ed States to pay the other half. The
present legislature is now consider
ing whether to have the counties as
sumo the obligation of taking care
of their Individual social security
and old age pension money, or
matching the government money
from the state treasury. Governor
Hoey approves the county PROPOSE
ton.
In the event the counties provided
the money, property tax would
have to be made The richer Pied
mont counties favor letting each
county take care of itself. The poor
er western and eastern counties ia
vor payment from state funds.
Governor Hoey uses as his main
argument that the counties would
handle the situation more fairly
than if it were handled through a
state office, which argument has
much truth to it, but the idea of any
further taxes in Ashe is most I'M
popular.
A strong bloc in both houses agree
with Mr.. Hash's stand not to put the
the tax on the Individual counties.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-04
Save the Children
Fund Pleased with
5 Years of Work
Supplying Books, Food, Clothing
to Needy Children Object
of Organization

Mrs. White and Miss Gates of the
Jefferson Community House have
just received report of five years
activity of the Save the Children
Fund of America, Inc, made at the
fifth anniversary meeting held re-
Gently at the Hotel McAlpin, New
York City.
For five years, the organization
has been ministering to needy chill
dren, principally in mountain and
mining regions of Tennessee, Ken
lucky, North Carolina and Virginia,
providing food, clothing, shoes,
books, medical aid and other welfare
assistance, together with character
al programs.
The Fund whose headquarters are
at 1856 Fifth Avenue, New York, has
organized work in FL counties, with
II professional workers. In % addi-
tional counties, part of the service
has been initiated, and the first steps
toward organization taken in some
of them. The Fund is non-profit-
making agency and has no endoW-
ment, being compelled to depend on
the public for contributions with
which to carry on its work. It oper-
ateS in communities where there are
no local organized charities.
eve have had the active help of
the teachers of more than 500
schools, and the school superinten-
dents in all counties in which we
have worked" the report says. eve
have aided more than 10000 children.
A great percentage of these have been
kept in school because of clothing,
food, shoes and other necessities sent
by the Save the Children Fund.
Many schools every year would have
been closed had it not been for this
work"
A total of $71, 639.53 in cash and
commodities valued at $64,852 were
received during 1886, the report
shows. To aid in the distributing of
clothing, supplying of cod liver oil,
serving of a hot meal daily to pupils
in isolated schools, stimulation of
garden raising, etc., the following
commodities were sent to the field
last year: Is tons of clothing; cod
liver oil; carload of Ovaltine; "a
cases of Carnation milk;whole wheat
biscuits, cereals to be cooked for
school luncheons; several tons OF
seeds for gardens; thousands OF
pairs of shoes; several tons of books.