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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-04
Why was Mark Trent afraid to

have Henri, his tool-if he were his
tool - know what he was doing,
Brooke wondered, as, side by side,
they hastily mounted the winding
stairs. She felt as if she were in
dream, as if at any moment she
might waken to find herself snug
gled in the wing chair before the
fire. But the squeak of a tread
was real; Mark the Magnihcent's
muttered execration at the sound
was real; so was his grip of her
hand. Why was he so careful about
being heard? He appeared friendly
with her; was that part of his plan,
his and Jed Stewards?
On the second floor before the
door which opened into his house, he
stopped.
Look" he whispered. II tried
this, had a bunch / might get
through quickly this way. When it
opened, that ley was in your side"
He turned the knob. Better leave
it where it is. We don't want any
one to know that we have seen it.
Come"
He followed her into the hall of his
house and closed the door gently be-
hind him.
He pressed a button which
switched on a light in the floor
above and ran up the stairs.
She followed slowly. Where was
he taking her? It seemed hours
since they had left her iving-room.
Suppose Henri slipped back and
found her gone? Would he suspect
where she was? OF course he had
left the key in that connecting door.
Who else would have done it? What
business had he in Mark Trent's
house? Did he come for instruc-
tons?
She reached the question and
door at the same time. AS Mark
Trent opened it, slightly musty
smell, blend of camphor and old
books and ancient furniture, stole
out. He motioned with the flash in
his hand. Brooke's eyes followed
the light. She set her teeth hard in
her lips to keep back an exclama-
ton of establishment. On a large
table, illumined by the spotlight,
surrounded by boxes and trunks and
storeroom litter, was massive tea
service and perhaps dozen dishes
and pitchers of silver, furnished to
light copper color. A scrap of
paper drifted to the floor.
cts a great hide-out, isn't it?
She nodded in answer to the low,
amused question.
When did you discover it,"
Thought heard strange sounds
upstairs when Jed and were wait
ing for you in the living-roorn the
other afternoon. The Japs' rooms
are in the L on the first floor, and
when I had this house. opened /
told the caretaker not to touch the
third. After you and Mrs. Gregory
left, / investigated and found this
silver. I've been on the watch ever
since to discover who put it here.
This afternoon someone slipped a
cog, and left both keys; must have
been frightened off, or else they
were left purposely so that Sec
ond party might have access to the
loot"
"Who put the loot, as you call it,
in that room?"
"That's what you and will find
out"
That "you and I" was fuse to dy-
Mantle. Brooke leaned back against
the balustrade.
"You will, you mean, you and
your sleuth Jed Stewart You and
he are spies, aren't you? Amateur
detectives. Mark, to you,' you say
to Sam, and all the time you are
spying on his sister and accusing
her Of undue influence Of hypno-
thing an old woman into leaving
her a fortune. I ought to have
Evening star., 1937-04-26

after that White House conference
that he and his associates discussed
with the President various matters
for the improvement Of the classified
service.
President Roosevelt's newly adopted
policy Of putting . ban on employees
speculating In the stock and CON-
modify markets = expected to have
widespread effect. In the first place,
there are more than 500, 900 Govern
ment employees Of whom $4,000 are
in the classified service. 1t Is natural
to assume that the Presidents warn
ing will greatly reduce speculation
among employees inasmuch Is the lat
ter would not care to run the risk Of
losing their Jobs or else having their
ratings affected.
Sees Warning Against Imitation.
Although no explanation u forth.
coming at the White House as to the
reasons for the Presidents sudden
adoption Of this policy it Is believed
to be In line with his design to knock
down commodity and stock prices
In other words, the Presidents new
policy Is interpreted by some Is an
other warning against price imitation
which he fears may thwart economic
recovery.
1t Is recalled that the President at
press conference a few weeks ago,
gave lecture on what he considered
the excessively high prices on durable
goods. A few days ago the Depart
ment Of Justice announced the filing
Of suit against the Aluminium Trust
which is expected by many to have its
effect on other corporations. In this
Evening star., 1937-04-26

fThis is the second of a series Of
articles on symbolism and sidelight,
OF the coronation ceremony)
Evening star., 1937-04-26

taikin be inglismen and brocht out
Of scone to London and put into
Westmonister, quhaer it remains to
our dayes."
Longshanks left the stone as an
Offering at the shrine OF Edward the
Confessor. In the Kings accounts
there Is q record of 100 shillings for
q chair in wood" to enclose the stone
and Of Il pound, 10 shillings and I
pence for the wages OF carpenters
and Of the, painters and for colours
and gold employed; also for making
OF covering to cover the said chair" a."
Moslem subjects OF the empire are
not greatly impressed with the
legendry Of the stones migrations
They maintain that Jacobs stone was
finally deposited in the temple at
Jerusalem and still is preserved in 4
mosque there.
Neither are geologists The reddish
purple sand stone, they say, is sus-
piciously close in structure to the
rocks Of Perthshire 1t is a kind OF
rock unknown, or very rare, in Pales-
tine or Egypt. 1t may, however. have
come from the hill Of Tara, although
this is improbable
1t has the shape Of an irregular
oblong, rs inches long, leA inches
in breadth, and 1012 inches thick
At each end is an iron ring attached
to another iron ring set in the stone
itself. There Is deep groove or
one surface.
The weight Of evidence seems to be
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Speculation

Continued From First Page.)
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that the stone came from Perthshire
and that 1t probably was the corona
ton stone Of the ancient Pictish king
dom, which embraced southern and
central Scotland At the time of the
Roman conquest.
The oak chair which contains the
stone u the Identical seat made for
Edward the First. It Is covered with
cloth Of gold for . coronation and has
become greatly disfgured through the
centuries. Not the least Of these dis
hgurements in the legend: "P. Abbot
slept in this chair July, 1900" The
story is that "P. Abbot" was a daring
schoolboy who hid in Westminster
Abbey and remained there overnight
to win = bet.
Crowned Chair for $50 Years.
With = single exception every mon
arch Of England for $50 years has been
crowned in this chair. The exception
was the first Queen Mary. A devout
Catholic. she feared the coronation
paraphernalia had been spiritually pol
luted by the Protestantism Of her
father, Henry the Eighth, and her un-
fortunate brother, Edward the Sixth,
whom she succeeded. She was crowned
In a chair sanctified for the purpose
by the Pope. At the same time she
objected to the amounting oil. It
smelled bad. she SAID, having been pol
luted by her brothers heresy.
Only once have the chair and stone
been removed from Westminster Abb
bey This was for the Inauguration
Of Oliver Cromwell As Lord Protector.
For this purpose 1t was removed to the
Parliament Building. Contemptuous
Of most Of the trappings OF royalty,
even Cromwell was loath to nout the
stone Of fate"
Evening star., 1937-04-26
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
TOR nearly seven centuries all
- monarchS Of England. with one
exception, have been crowned
4 upon the stone of Scone."
This block of red sandstone, inclosed
in an oaken chair, is the most an
cient symbol OF British royalty. It
supposedly has served as the corona
ton seat of the Kings Of Ireland,
Scotland and England-in that order
for at least 5000 years.
The Celtic and Germanic tribes Of
northern Europe before the Christian
era appear to have attached great
significance to stones of govern
ment"-so much 50 that when one
Of these stones was removed the in
dependence of the tribe was supposed
to have gone with it. 1t was SYM
bolic of rulership. When a tribe was
beaten in battle the Kings stone was
one of the chief spoils of the con-
queror.
Thus this particular stone in West
minister Abbey is symbol of the gov
ernments of England, Scotland and
Ireland together. 1t is a direct link
between the monarch Of today and
the half-savage chieftains who ruled
before the Roman conquest on the
Hill Of Tara in Ireland, and from the
Pictish tribal headquarters at Scone
in Perthshire Wherever the stone goes
there, symbolically, goes the seat Of
government of the triple kingdom.
History Is Baffling.
The actual history of the stone Of
Scone" Is battling to antiquaries, but
naturally through the centuries a great
deal Of tradition has grown up
around It,
One legend attached to this stone
is that it is the identical rock upon
which the patriarch Jacob slept at
Bethel
Itswas carried into Egypt. 80 the
tradition goes, by the Israelites and
came somehow into the possession of
Pharoah's daughter, the Fairy Prin-
cess" Scotia. She married Greek
named Galethus, who established q
colony in Spain and used the stone
as his seat of government"
From Spain, according to the leg
end, it was brought to Ireland by
King Simon Brech about TOO B. c.
He placed it on the Hill of Tara,
where for nearly 400 years all Irish
monarchs were crowned upon it.
Around 800 B. c. 1t was removed to
Scotland by the ancient King Fergus
the First. From this point there Is
4 gap OF nearly 1000 years in the
chronology and the stone does not
appear again until well into the time
of recorded history-about $50 A. d.
Removed to Scone.
Presumably it had remained, how
ever, sn object Of great reverence in
Scotland. In the middle of the ninth
century it was removed by King Ken
meth the First from Dunstaffnage
Castle, where it had been built into a
doorway. to the monastery church ut
'Scone in Perthshire. In this church
all the succeeding Kings OF Scotland
were crowned up to the time Of Rob-
ert Bruce, nearly 500 years.
After Edward the First, Long
shanks," defeated William Wallace
Scotland lay at his feet and he pro-
ceeded to loot the country Of its treas
ures. Says the old Scotch historian
Hector Boece: "Besyde mony other
crueltt done be Kyng Edward Lang
Shanks the said char of mervyL wes
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gested the Presidents adoption of
this policy.
At the Civil Service Commission
President Mitchell of the commission
said he could not answer this ques-
ton. He stated that so far as he
knew 1t Is prompted by no specific
cases Of speculation Of the part of
employees, and that no particular case
or individual was involved. From his
viewpoint, 1t is merely 4 matter Of
= general policy being adopted by the
President.
President Mitchell and the other
two members of the Civil Service
Commission had long conference
with the President last week at which
time it is believed this policy was
agreed upon. President Mitchell said
Evening star., 1937-04-26
MISS LAURA B. GORDON
DIES HERE AT AGE OF rs

Miss Laura B. Gordon, rs, of Be-
thesda, Md, retired Government
Printing Once compositor, died today
In Garfield Hospital She had been
Ill about three months.
Miss Gordon came here about 40
years ago from Saginaw, Mich, and
she retired from the Government sew
eral years ago, after 80 years service.
She was a member Of Columbia Typo
graphical Union No. 10l.
She lived with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. c. c. Gordon, and a niece, Mrs.
j. r. Currey, in Bethesda.
Funeral services will be held at 3
pm. Wednesday in Gawler's chapel,
1850 Pennsylvania avenue. Burial
will be in Rock Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-04-26

same connection 1t Is expected that the
Presidents warning against gambling
in the stock or commodity markets
VIII also have its effect on prices in
these markets.
Evening star., 1937-04-26
5 HURT AS 2 CARS CRASH

Victims Taken to Winchester Hos
pital-Injuries Severe.
WOODSTOCK, Va, April 2e R.-
Five persons were severely injured in
. collision Of two automobiles early
Evening star., 1937-04-26

OF 4,l64 automobiles stolen In Lon
don In IL months, all but 112 were
restored to their owners.
Evening star., 1937-04-26

yesterday on the Lee-Jackson Highway
near Strasburg
The injured, who were taken to a
Winchester hospital, are Ted Funk
houser. Warrenton, fractured Jaw and
possible conclusion; w. A. Downs,
Warrenton, fractured foot and severe
head decorations; Sarah K. Ferguson,
fractured arm; Ruth Hopkins, frac-
tured nose and head lacerations. and
I. B. Camden. leg and arm injuries.
Evening star., 1937-04-26
Don't Cut Corns
Shed Them Off

You should never cut corns! E-z
Korn Remover softens hardest and
most troublesome corns Deadens
pain, loosens core, and entire corn
peels right off. Works fast. Rarely
ever fails. Thousands use it. Only
S5c at drug stores.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
GERMANY, ITALY TO
BLOCK VOLUNTEERS
Ready To Act When Others
Do, Similar Notes In
form Great Britain
(By The Associated Press)

Germany and Italy, in strikingly
similar notes to Great Britain, pro-
missed today to embargo further vol
unteers to the Spanish little world
war" as soon as other powers would
take like measures.
The flood of foreigners to Spain,
one that has made the civil conflict
a melange of European nationalities
would be halted when all powers con-
cerned concur and effective means of
control are decided upon, the notes
said in conciliatory tones.
The two Fascist nations, acting in
harmony apparently achieved through
long conferences between Premier
Mussolini and Nazi Air Minister Her
mann Goering, in Rome last week,
left action up to the London noninter-
vening committee.
British and France have already
acted. A long-standing statute was
invoked to prevent British enlistments
while France adopted measures to
keep Frenchmen out of the conflict.
Soviet Russia has declared she
would participate in a general check
on volunteers, but not in unilateral
neutrality.
Rain washed out the violent in
surgent bombardment of Madrid, and
the defense junta announced it had
succeeded in evacuating 100000 non
cOmbatants from the city.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
New Arrests For
Soviet Conspiracy,

Moscow, Jan. rs (AP)-Bydy MIDI
vani, identified by Soviet off cials
as a brother of the marrying Midi
wants was sFxeaSed today er
having been implicated as CO.
cOnspiratOr with IL Ousted COM
munist officials on trial on trea-
son charges.
Mdivani, former Soviet COM
mercial attache at Paris, and
known as a disciple of Leon TrOtz-
ky before the now baniShed boil
shevist fell from favor, was said
to be prisoner at Tiflis, Georgia.
Georgia is republic in the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
where in czarst days the Mdivani
family were princes of the realm.)
His arrest was ordered, official
said on the strength of testimony
yesterday by Karl Radek, former
editor, who linked the Mdivani
family with the alleged conspiracy
to overthrow communism by help
ing Russia and Japan defeat Rus
STA at war.
Radek said the TifIis bloc was
known as the Mdivani bloc, pre-
sumably because one of the MIDI
wants headed it.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
Some Motor
Plants Are
To Reopen
$4,000 of l25,OOO May
Return To Work if
Plans Meet w / t h
Success

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 25 (AP)-Gen-
eral Motors Corporation proceeded to-
day with preparations to reopen some
plants as it's executives awaited a
summons to meet in Washington Wed
nesday for a peace conference with
automotive strike leaders.
William Knudsen. executive vice
president of General Motors, said he
hoped to be able to return $4,000 of
the $4,000 idle employees to work
but made no announcement as to
which plants would resume operations.
The reopenings are scheduled to be-
gin tomorrow.
It was made clear, though, the re-
openings would be confined to plants
which have been shut because of
shortage of materials, and no attempt
would be made to operate any of the
II where the unionists called strikes
Altogether nearly SO plants have been
closed or operated on a restricted
basis because of the walkouts.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
HEARING THURSDAY
ON MAXIMUM HOURS
State NRA Sought by Advo-
Gates, But Sentiment
Not Crystalized
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
=, - MA CK ERVTTI



Raleigh Jan. 25.-First public ex-
preston of opinion on a North Caro-
lima NRA will he heard Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock when propon-
ents and opponents of a maximum
hour bill will appear before the House
Committee on Manufacturing, Com
merce and Labor.
introduced by Representative D.
Lacy McBryde, of Cumberland, the
measure provides for forty-hour
week and an eight-hour day in textile
and tobacco manufacturing plants in
North Carolina and a 48-hOur week
in all other places of employment.
Seek State MIRA.
Proponents of the measure contend
it would bring back to North Caro-
lima the standards of the MIRA in
respect to hours and that it would
place the State we'll in the forefront
in progressive labor legislation. The
bill according to spokesman for the
State Department of Labor, is in line
with the labor program of the Roose-
Welt administration.
Sentiment Not Crystalized.
It provides for certain exceptions
for mercantile establishments and fol
establishments engaged in seasonal
activities, but it is otherwise ALIEN
bracing and extends to activities te
which there now practically no houl
limit in the Statesmen as eoltorla
and reportorial work on newspapers
So far there has been no apparent
crystalization of sentiment in elthel
house of the assembly either for o.
against the measure and would o.
prophets have had little on which u
base any forecast of the bills chances
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
MOTOR STRIKE MAY
DELAY NEW BUSES
School Equipment Legisla-
ture Ordered Not Likely
Any Time Soon
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
r. MA SE[ VETRVTTT

Raleigh, Jan. 25-The automobile
strike now in progress may seriously
delay the school bus replacement pro-
gram of the State School Commission
Executive Secretary Lloyd Griffin
said today. Officials of the General
Motors Corporation have already adj
vised the school commission they are
not able to make delivery on single
truck chassis and that they have no
idea when they will be able to make
deliveries, Griffin said. Other COM
panies are behind in filling orders. so
that it will take much tine to get de-
livery from the companies not affect
ed by the strike. The body builders
are having a difficult time in getting
safety glass as a result of the glass
workers strike, with the result that
only safety glass they can now get
has to be imported from Belgium.
Three Months at Best.
Even under favorable conditions, it
would take from so to 80 days to get
delivery on these new buses, Griffin
said. But if the present automobile
strike continues much longer, it will
not be possible to get the $50 new
school buses authorized by the Cen
eral Assembly until late spring or
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
BURLINGTON MAN is
FOUND SHOT DEAD
William ID. Cook, 38, Had Bullet Hole
i'm Back of Head and Body
Was Still Warm

Burlington, Jan. 25 (AP)-William
D. Cook, 38, operator of pool room
in the Burlington mills section here,
was found shot to death at 4 a. M,
today, his body still warm and a bull
let hole in the back of his head.
Cook was known to have had $66
on his person yesterday. The money
was not found on him when his body
was discovered by Joe Cook, his broth
er, who had begun a search for him
after his long absence from home had
alarmed his family
An automatic pistol tentatively iden
titled as Cooks was found on a table
beside the body, and county officers
are holding it for fingerprint exami-
nation.
Two men, r. L. Harvey and Primith
Hamreck, of the mill section, are held
in Jail in connection with the crime.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
Only Six Of 20 Passengers
Aboard Vehicle Report
ed Escaped From
Highway Tragedy
RIGHT FRONT WHEEL
OF VEHICLE BREAKS
Bic Bus Lurches from Side
to Side, Rolls Over Twice
and Topples Into Canal
That Parallels Highway
Through Everglades; Most
of Bus Sinks

Miami, Fla, Jan. 25 (AP)-
A motor bus overturned in a
canal alongside the Tamiami
trail about 30 miles west Of here
today and the Negro porter,
Robert Singleton, reported %
Of the 20 passengers were killed.
The police station also received
report % had persisted. An ambu-
lance driver returning with four bo-
dies described the accident as "the
worst ! ever saw"
Bill Hammond, of Tampa, veteran
driver was brought in with lacera-
ton, Of the head. Another survivor
accompanied him.
Singleton said the right front wheel
broke the big bus lurched from side
to side rolled over twice and toppled
into the deep canal, which parallels
the highway through the everglades.
Only one corner of the bus remained
above water.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25
Legion Head Says
Pensions Will Not
Be Asked for Men

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. rs. -
(AP)-Harry COIemery, national
commander of the American Le-
giOn. announced here today the
Legion would not ask for general
pensions for World War veterans.
Expressing his views in the
American Legion monthly, Off
ciaI publication, COlemery said:
"The national convention of the
American Legion was scarcely adj
iourned at Cleveland last fall, the
convention that did me the high
honor of electing me national
commander by reclamation, be-
fore news stories began sounding
what to me was sour and jar
ring note. Entering wedge to gen.
eraI pensions ran the headlines"
Colemery explained the theme
song of these reports and numer-
GUS editorials supporting them ran
as follows: "NOw that the bonus
has been paid, the veterans have
begun their drive for general PEN
sions, just as we expected"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-25

At Cincinnati, where blazing gaso-
line tanks riding the swirling waters
brought an ever-preSent fire menace,
officials feared meagre lines carrying
electricity from Dayton and other
centerS might be cut off, leaving the
city to the mercy of the water and
flames.
Louisville In Darkness
Louisville, KY, was in darkness
overnight, with 100000 of its 100000
population homeless. National
Guardsmen threatened to use force
to carry 5000 more from Portsmouth,
Ohio. Flood waters swept through
the Kentucky State Reformatory at
frankfort, where unconfirmed re-
ports said Is convicts were slain in
rioting.
AS the area counted at least "A
flood dead, rivers continued to rise
farther upstream heightening the
menace. At Wheeling and ParKers-
burg, w. Va, flood-weary household
| ers again sought relief shelters as the
river rose. Northward at Pittsburgh,
it was feared the Monongahela and
Allegheny rivers again would reach a
| 33-foot crest.
Congress To Help
Word that Congress would be asked
to pay relief costs in the flood area
came from the White House.
At the same time the Red Cross
asked the nation to contribute $4,000
600 to aid flood sufferers.
The brightest dawn in four days
brought some revival of spirit to
Louisville, but all residents were
urged by Mayor Miller to evacuate
AS the rising Ohio reached a 791-
foot stage at Cincinnati, the worst
fire in the citv's 143-year history
broke out anew, put was controlled by
firemen.