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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14
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Ask Me Another
O 4 General Quiz
9 Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.

Coins, Old and New
l. What was a piece of eight?
2. What was a doubloon?
3. From what former German
coin does the word dollar come?
4. In what country is the Ira the
monetary unit?
5. What part of franc is a
centime?
6. How does ''d'' come to be the
abbreviation for the British pen
ny?
7. What large British dominion
uses the United States monetary
system?
8. What is double-eagle?
9. What was a napoleon?
10. Which has the higher value,
the guinea or the pound?
Answers
l. A Spanish silver coin worth
eight reals.
2. A Spanish gold coin worth
about So.
3. The Thaler.
4. Italy.
5. One one-hundredth.
6. From denarius, Roman
coin.
z. Canada.
8. A $40 gold piece.
9. A French gold coin, worth 20
francs.
10. The guinea.
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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14
MURDER MASQUERADE
tor Marden is gentleman and q
thoro,, hroI -

tor Marden is a gentleman and a
thoroughbred"
seI'm prepared to agree with you.
I'm only asking you-have you any
proof of the war record?"
"Only Doctor Marden's word" I
answered. 'And the fact that Ace
Blake talked World war with him
whenever they got together. They
were thrilling talks too, Patrick, I
can tell you. And when Bruce Hex
son was there, it was marvellous.
They never questioned the anthem
ITCHY of Doctor Marden's war rec
ord"
"Well, that's all 1 wanted to
know" Patrick said. stWell I must
be getting back to the P. S. Thank
you again, Mary, for letting me
spill everything to you like this"
That's all right, Patrick. I hope
you do. hope you come back to-
morrow"
"Pll probably be back this after
noon," Patrick declared, taking his
hat.
"Oh, one moment" I called as
with his swift, light boxers step,
he was hurrying across the piazza.
"Bessie's a little worried, l think,
and I've been saying to Sarah, so
that Sarah would repeat it to Bes-
sic, that I didn't think a woman
could have committed this murder.
In point of fact, I'm not at all
sure. That do you think, Pat
rick?"
IA woman might-that is, pro-
vided she was big and powerful.
I've seen women golfers Well,
woman of the build of Margaret
Fairweather for instance. Marga-
ret might
His breath died down. The words
dried on his lips. He stood staring
at me. I stood staring at him.
knew Patrick was seeing the pic
ture I saw-a big woman all in
black coming down the path from
the Little House. But I am sure
Patrick did what I did-blanked
that picture. Margaret Fairweath-
er had been in our class in school.
We had coasted, skated, picnicked
together. Then Patrick said, "I'l
be seeing you'll"
81 repeated, "Come any time you
want"
Presently I got up and put on
my hat, strolled down the steps
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14

lion dollar outfit. Make it yours in
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bust). Size 16 requires 21s yards
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and 27s yards for the skirt. The
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23s yards 80 inches wide.
A detailed sewing chart accom-
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every step of the way.
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ing 100 well-planned, easy-to-
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ions for children, young women,
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each.
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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14
MONDAY-Continued


"Eames house," Patrick went on,
putting another square. "Paul,
Florence and Molly accounted for.
The Fairweather house next
"Flora dying!" I threw in. "And
Margaret beside herself with
grief!'
''We don't have to think of them
at all" Patrick admitted. "Next
comes your Little House with Wal
ter-coming back, after the whole
things over, to sleep. If he had
just happened to discover Ace
Oh, but perhaps it's lucky he didn't.
With Ace and Molly and him all
mixed up in that love tangle, no
body'd given him break"
"Then you come to my house,"
I took up the count, with Bessie
and Sarah
I heard little voice talking to
its doll, as Sylvia, trotting briskly,
came into the room.
Patrick's eyes lighted up. "Come
over here, young lady," he ordered.
He lifted her up and Sylvia snug
gled down into his lap.
"Sylvia," said Patrick, "did you
have a nice time at the party at
the Stows'?"
"Oh, I had the most beautiful
time. I danced with Doctor Acct"
"Sylvia," Patrick asked playful
ly, "did you see anyone leave the
Stow house before the people took
off their masks?" And then, be-
fore Sylvia could answer him-and
a little as though he regretted this
whimsical impulse-"Oh Mary" he
exclaimed, "that reminds me"
He slipped Sylvia down from his
lap onto the floor. "Run away"
he ordered in gentle voice. 81
want to talk to your aunt"
If Patrick had only put his ques-
ton seriously to Sylvia-I mean if
he had listened to her answer, how
much we would have been spared.
What Patrick asked me was,
"Mary, what I want you to do now
is to tell me all you know about My
ron Marden and Caro- Prentiss.'
II know great deal about them, :"
I said in voice that, to my dis
gust, contained an acrid defensive
note. They're the loveliest kind
of people, Patrick"
"That may all be true" Patrick
agreed with me, 'but what 1 want
to know now is what you know and
all you know"
you're quite right, Patrick" I
admitted humbly, land I'm wrong.
Well to begin with, Doctor Marden
has practiced in Paris ever since
long before the war. Caro- was
born in France and has always
lived there. This is her first visit"
Elbow did they happen to come
to Satuit?"
Friends in Boston recommended
it to them"
"served as surgeon in the war,
I believer"
eyes"
"No doubt about that, I sup
pose?"
absolutely none. How could
there be? In the first place, Doc
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14
THE OTHER WOMAN LIVES
JUST AROUND THE CORNER

TT may seem unreasonable, but
lmost men cannot UNDERSTANDABLE
a woman who is usually happy
and loving should have recurring
periods when her whole character
seems changed. He cannot appre-
ciate the distress, the discomfort
that all women must endure. He
does not know what it Is to do
homework with an aching back
and failing energy. All he does
know is that other women seem
more cheerful by comparison.
Are you such a three-quarter
wife?
Don't let the ordeals that all
women face cause you avoidable
discomfort or endanger your home.
Do as so many wise women hove
try Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
For three generations one wom-
an has told another how to go
smiling through with Lydia T..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t helps Nature tone up the sys--
TEN, thus lessening the discom-
forts from the functional disorders
which women must endure in the
three ordeals of life: 1. Turning
from girlhood to womanhood, Q.
Preparing for motherhood. 3. APP
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-quarter wife;
take LYDIA e. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14
Total Feed Eaten Counts

Whether it be the all-rnash meth
cd, hopper feeding of grain and
mash, or hopper feeding of mash
and hand feeding of grain, the i'm
portant thing is the total pounds
of feed eaten each day. My stand
ard is not less than 80 pounds of
total feed day to each 100 Reds
or Rocks, and slightly less for Leg
horns. You can get the results
with any of the methods, says
poultry expert writing in the Boston
Globe.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-14
Protect the Poultry House

If the poultry house is badly ex-
posed to north winds, banking it
with a wall of straw or corn fodder
will give added protection even if it
is insulated inside. If lack of time,
inclination, money, or uncertain
tenure makes inside insulation out
of the question, remarkably eff
fective results may be obtained
through the use of liberal quantities
of corn fodder or straw be packed to
the caves and kept in place by boards
or fencing .-Wallaces Farmer.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
London Sees In Roosevelt's
Speech Invitation for
British Aid In
FAR East
STEINER ATTITUDE
is BELIEVED NEAR
Britain Would Play Bigger
Hand With American Aid:
Mussolini's Bold Thrust In
Spain Presents Grave
Threat to Anglo-French
Program

London, Oct 6.-(AP)-Britain'
ministers today weighed emergency
measures to curb the growing danger
of world war on either side of the
earth, with President Roosevelt's call
for action against military aggression
interpreted as inviting British coop
GRAFTON in the Far East.
Sentiment plainly was opposed to
the possibility of a lone-handed fight
against Japanese unitarian, but in
formed persons believed the cabinet,
with United States aid, might adopt
sterner attitude in the Sino-Japanese
war. What the cabinet sought was a
magic formula to quarantine the twin
contagious of war-as Mr.. Roose-
welt put it in his Chicago address,
both in European Spain and on the
Asiatic continent.
Mr.. Roosevelt's virtual termination
of the United States policy of dip
lomatic isolation marked the possible
turning point, British observers be-
lieved.
Premier Mussolini's bold new aerial
intervention in Spain, through a force
of aerial bombers, including his sec
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
ROOsevelt's
Decision Is
CivenPress
Substantial V i>c :
tory" Claimed in Its
First Major Politi-
cal Campaign

Hyde Park, N. ", Oct. 6 (AP)-
President Roosevelt strongly in
Dictated today he would call a spe-
cial session of Congress to con-
vene between November and 16
but said he would reserve deci-
siOns until after conferences in
Washington this week.
In a long interview at his Duchess
county home, at the end of his cross
country tour, he said it was little
premature" to say Supreme Court re-
organization would be included in his
program.
It was neither in nor out, was the
way he put it.
He placed at the top of his program
wages and hours, surplus crop con-
troll, government reorganization and
regional planning.
Surrounded by his aged mother, who
has just returned from a long vaca-
ton in Europe, his wife and other
members of the family, the President
answered a barrage of questions on
his trip and future detectives.
He refused to amplify his Chicago
speech, in which he suggested a
quarantine of aggressor nations, and
called for CONCERTED" and positive"
action by peaceful nations to restore
world stability.
He said he had found very little in
terest among the people as to me-
thods when asked about court reforms
but a great deal of interest in Objec-
Continued % Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
Berlin Warns President To
Remember Shipwreck"
of His Predecessor
Wilson
PRESIDENT CHIDED
ON HIS VAGUENESS
Peace Will Be Hard To Keep
If Demands of "Have Not"
Nations Are Refused,
Tokyo Replies; Japan Re-
calls u. S. Exclusion Law
Back In 1924

Tokyo, Oct. 6.-(AP)-Japan Of
ficfal1v answered. President Roose-
velt's war condemnation of agrees
sor nations today with a warning
"peace will be difficult to maintain"
if demands of the shave not" nations
are refused.
The foreign office spokesman said
in reply to the American Presidents
speech at Chicago yesterday: "The
ideals of right as conceived by west
ern peoples is incompatible to that
of the Orient"
He added Japan's demand was that
the Japanese people be permitted Ito
enjoy the freedom of movement and
happiness which is rightfully theirs"
Harking back to the Japanese ex-
clusion law passed by the United
States in 1924, the spokesman char
acterized it as lone which is against
the natural laws of mankind and is
greatly deplored by the Japanese peo-
pie"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
President Returns From
Western Trip Determin-
ed on Policy Against
Aggressors
PURPOSE is FIXED
FOR HOME REFORMS
Domestic Detectives, Includ-
ing Wage-Hour Bill and
Crop Control May Be
Pressed for at Probable Ex-
ira Session of Congress
During November

Aboard Roosevelt Train, Enroute to
HYDE Park. N. Y, Oct. 6.-(AP)-
President Roosevelt ended an 5000
mile cross-country tour today pledged
10 fresh foreign policy of isoIating
sggressor nations to prevent the
snread of the "contagion of war" to
the overwhelming majority of coun-
tries anxious to live in peace.
Encouraged by the sentiments he
found in ten northwest and central
states, in which he spoke on 80 oc-
casions. he also was determined to
press for domestic detectives, encom-
Passing wage-hour and surplus crop
control legislation, probably at an ex-
ira session of Congress to be called
next month.
After hia climatic foreign policy
speech and campRign-like parading
in Chicago he looked forward to two
DAYS of rest at Hyde Park in the COM
pany of his mother, who has just re-
turned from a long holiday in Eu-
rope.
He planned to return to Washing
ton Friday morning, but to go back
10 HYDE Park week from today to
dedicate a new post office at Pough-
keepSie.
Evidences that a special session may
continued on rage F1ve)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
ROOSEVELT WOULD
HALT CONGESTION
Wants Electric Power AS
Means of Stopping Cen
tralized Populace
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, Oct. S. = President
Roosevelts recent Bonneville Dam
speech evidently made a big hit with
old-time Americans the country over.
see commendatory articles con-
corning this talk in newspapers pub
lished in many of our relatively small
lish towns-towns up to, say, $4,000
to 100000 population. The very big
citv press is less enthusiastic. In our
sub-centers, however, the presidential
idea seems to have been generally well
received.
individuals whom l meet, here in
Washington, also speak most SYM
pathetically of "F. D.'s' Bonneville re-
marks. Washington is a peculiar
aburg.' 1t does not consist of con-
genital metropolitans Like New York,
Chicago, st. Louis, Pittsburgh, ct al.
1t hasn't any industries to amount
to much. It's citizenry comes largely
from the "sticks." 1t is q big city,
but most of it's residents come, With
in their own respective memories,
from the hinterland.
Presidents Thought.
Now. President Roosevelt argued at
Bonneville, not exactly for decen-
tralization of population, as many &C
counts have represented, but for a
check upon continued centrallzation'
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
WALTER CASE FALLS
TO DEATH TUESDAY
Head of Prominent Wall Street In
vestment House Repeatedly
Long In Ill Health

New York, Oct. (AP)-Walter S.
Case, president of Case, Pomeroy &
Company, well known Wall Street in
vestment concern, died in the fall
from the window of the firms offices
on the 26th floor at 120 Wall Street,
it was announced at the office of the
firm today.
Henry Johnston, vice-president OF
the company, said Case had been seen
bv associates around 5:15 p. m. yes
terday, when he was at his desk. just
when he fell had not been determined.
Johnston said Cases associates were
sure his death was accidental. Cases
health had been poor since he under
went an operation several months
ago. Johnston said, 1--WE feel he fell
to his death as result of an accident
as he sought air at a window"
The body was found on the roof
of an adjoining five-story building
shortly after o'clock this morning.
Case was in his 53rd year, and a oil
rector of the Southern Railway ana
resided at Essex Falls, N. J.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
GAS STANDARDS ARE
DISCUSSED BY BOARD
Regulations To Be Set Up; Many
Major Oil Companies Repre-
scented at Hearing

Raleigh Oct. 6.-CAP)-The new
board of gasoline standards and in
spections met here today to hear sug-
gestions on standards it should adopt
to regulate gasoline sales in North
Carolina.
Commissioner of Revenue A. J.
Maxwell and H. L. Shankle, head of
the division of gasoline and oil in
spection, along with Dave Buck, OF
Bald Mountain; r. M. Cox, of Win
ston-Salem, and Thomas Register of
Oxford, are the board members.
Some so representatives of major
oil companies and independent firms
heard technical presentations of stand
ards now used by the different COM
panies. The board then recessed to
draw up tentative standards for the
State. They were to be discussed late
in the afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
YANKEES 8
GIANTS /.
lst GAME

Yankee Stadium, New York, Oct.
After retiring fourteen consecutive
Yankees in order, the Rupert Rifles
turned on Carl Hubbell in the sixth
inning to shell him for five runs and
chase him in favor of Gumbert, who
pitched to Lazeri long enough for him
to single, scoring another run, and
Coffman took over the Giants hurting
only to yield another tally on walk,
and later in the game gave way to
Berger, a pinch hitter, and AL Smith
took over the hurting duties.
The Yankees won the World Series
game to the eighth tally being a
circuit clout in the eighth by Lazzeri,
the ball sailing into the stands in left
field.
Gomez kept the Giants at bay all
during the contest with the exception
of the sixth when the Giants got their
only tally.
Ripple opened the fifth with single
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06

Geneva, Oct. 6 (AP)-The League OF
Nations Assembly warned Japan to-
day of the possibility of international
action unless she agrees to peace
full nine-power settlement of the Sino-
Japanese conflict.
The assembly unanimously approx
ed resolutions containing the warn
ing. Poland and Siam abstained from
voting, but their attitude did not pre-
vent the unanimity, because states
which abstain in voting are consider
ed absent under Geneva practices.
Waves of applause broke over the
assembly hall as Aga Khan, Assem-
bly, president, announced adoption OF
the resolution, which condemns Japan
for invasion of China and provides
the conference of nine-power signato-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
PRISON PERSONNEL
ABOUT COMPLETED
Johnson Says Morale Has
Improved Since He Took
Over His Job
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
I'LL. e.. XNNlfnns HaAf 4


Raleigh, Oct Gan improved mo-
rale in the prison division and among
the States convict wards is seen by
Robert Grady Johnson, director OF
the penal division, since he assumed
his duties September l.
"Of course, really can't say that l
have even begun the work l want
to do said Mr.. Johnson, "but al
ready 1 think there has been an inn
provement in morale all around
81 do not contemplate any more
changes in prison division personnel,
though there may be some shifts in
j the medical department at Central
Prison." he added.
Any change there, he indicated, will
come only as the result of action by
the full highway commission and not
through him. When it was suggested
that the commission would likely fol-
low any recommendations made by
him, Mr.. Johnson said he doesn't in
tend to try to tell any doctor when
to operate or when to give a man a
(C~ntinued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06

their column had invaded Shantung
province and completed the capture
of the walled city Of Techow and was
pressing on against Tsinanfu, the
provincial capital.
Correspondents for The Associated
Press and other foreign observers at
Tsinanfu reported, however, a vigor-
Gus Chinese counter-attack had forced
the Japanese to abandon their siege
of Techow and retreat to the north.
Foreigners living in Tsinanfu de-
clared they felt no anxiety.
Farther inland the Japanese column
advancing along the railway from
Peiping to Hankow, was said to have
been outflanked at Pactingfu.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
Women Eligible AS
Jurors For State,
Is Seawell Ruling

The letter was written TO NiJuo
stancill. Mecklenburg county attorney
in resnonse to an inquiry. 1t was ac-
COMMANDED by a 13-page MEMORANDUM.
In his memorandum, Seaweli SAID the
nineteenth amendment to the Feoeral
Constitution, in comforting upon wo.
noan civil and political rights mas
rendered women eligible for jury ser
vice under our existing statutes VIII
out further legislative enactment IT,
IF our Supreme Court holds ina "a -
20 10 the law" he added, "the iast
ves+ioe of civil and political inequaii'y ),
Nth men will have been removed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
Japanese Advance
On Every Front Is
Halted By Chinese
Repeated Jap Thrusts Agai INST 25-Nile Line Near
Shanghai Beaten Back by Sheer Force of Numbers
in Hand Fighting; Sieg of Techow Is Lifted

Shanghai, Oct. 6.-(AP)-The Jap
anese advance on all China fronts
from Shanghai to the far north was
reported today to have been halted
by stiffened Chinese resistance.
In the Shanghai sector, the repeat
ed Japanese thrusts against the 25-
mile line running northwest from the
North Station were beaten back by
sheer force of numbers in hand-to-
hand combat.
Far to the north, in the strategical-
ly more important operations in the
rich provinces of Hopeh and Shan
tung, reliable foreign reports bore out
the Chinese claim Japan's push had
been halted.
In the eastern sector of the North
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
Two Negroes Face
Gas Death Friday
If Hoey Declines

Raleigh, Oct. 6.-(AP)-GOver-
nor Hoey studied today the cases
of Sam Rodman, Jr., and William
Bell, Beaufort county Negroes
sentenced to be executed Friday
for murder.
81 doubt if a decision will be
reached before tonight at the ear
lest" HOey commented.
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill
planned a conference during the
day with Sam BlOunt, Washing
ton lawyer, who was counsel for
the Negroes when they were con-
victed of the Staying of Hebar
Robinson last May. Gill indicated
before the conference the outlook
for clemency for the men was
SLIM
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06

elin;n' eleh, Oct. 6.-(AP)-Women are
Ca 1lie TO serve on juries in North
A l. ruled Attorney General A.
. II F. Seawell today.
a 1 Short letter, Seawell said:
irio- ou VIII see that l am of the op-
on i,,, mat women are eligible for duty
Ieo; 'Ilies IN this State without further
caso %'iVe action. suggest that test
d dase be made, which can easily be
inraa ny having summoned as tails
tbo women who are freeholders in
ana 0oahty and have paid their taxes
Of are are otherwise qualified Except,
serve on juries.'
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
League Warns Japs
OF World Reprisal
IF. War Continues

ries, including the United States, to
the pact guaranteeing the territorial
integrity of China.
Delegates of Norway and South AT
RIGA. who last night announced they,
too, would abstain, come to the sup
port of the resolutions adopted by the
assembly on recommendations OF It's
special Far Eastern advisory commit
tee. An American observer, Leland
Harrison, sat with the advisory COM
mittee.
The League president was empower
cred to take necessary action for con-
voking the nine-power treaty sigma
tories, including the United States.
The Assembly adjourned, but re-
NAMED subject to call whenever in
ternational situations warrant.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-06
Coggins In
fearful Plea
For His Son

Raleigh, Oct. 6 (AP)-Lonnie Cog
gins, elderly father of Melvin Coggins,
tearfully pleaded today with Governor
Hoey to spare the life of his son, fac
ing execution October Is for Murder
in Nash county of H. ]. Fogleman.
Coggins urged Hoey to commute the
death sentence imposed on his son,
arguing his son was not mentally
sound.
The governor said the case was
troubling him. He said he had re-
commentators from the trial jury
and many citizens of Nash county,
urging clemency, though there was
opposition. He said he expected to
announce a decision this week.
Hoey also said alienists reported
Coggins was not mentally normal.