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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-02
MARRIAGE LICENSE
ISSUED TUESDAY

A marriage license was issued
Tuesday to William Keith, AZ. Cal
ipatria, and Regenia Rowland, 81,
BraWley.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19

MIN.
BY this time, or during this
time, we had been joined by Stall.
Norris and Fellowes both said
afterwards that he had arrived be-
fore Williams had first pushed up
the window, but I did not notice
him come. He was, incidentally,
the only one of us who was al
ready in pajamas. He wore an
ugly wooden dressing gown, and
seemed to be shivering, though the
evening could not have been called
cold.
Presently Williams, whose law
yer's mind was best equipped for
the situation, said, 1--WE must get
a doctor. And the police. There's
no point in staying here. Better
search the ground. I'll telephone. Z"
Then Thurston joined us. "Have
you 'phoned, Sam?" he asked.
His voice was low and tired.
Doctor? And everything?"
Just going to-" said Williams,
and patted his arm.
And then-perhaps you will be
shocked-the first thing we did was
to have stiff whiskey. Williams
poured one out for DR.. ThurstOn,
who had sunk into a chair in the
lounge, and gave one each to Eel
loves and Stall. Alec Norris
teeth ratified on the rim Of his
glass as he drank. Strickland had
not spoken yet, but drank greed
lily.
Look here, Townsend" said
Williams, "you take Norris, Strick-
land and Fellowes and make a
thorough search Of the grounds"
Certainly" I said, though had
little hope Of discovering anything.
But I felt I could no longer bear
the atmosphere Of that house. The
thought of Thurston, the rotund
and cheerful, looking puffy and
drawn, and Alec Norris with his
white face and thin trembling
frame, was too much for me. The
man most respected was VIII
liams, who never lost his head, and
handled the hideous situation adj
mirably.
In the hall were Fellowes, the
chauffeur, and Stall, the butler
and we decided to take the
chauffeur with us, leaving Stall in
case he should be wanted.
what about the women serv-
ants?" ] asked. do they know
1t had struck me that it woulc
be cruel to let Enid, the young
parlormaid, go into that room un-
prepared.
| Eyes. sir. The parlormaic was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19

Chapel Hill, Jan. 19-Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, publisher of the New York
Times, who will address the opening
session of the North Carolina Press
Institute at the University tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock in Hill Music Hail.
is one of Americas foremost defend
ers of a free and unbiased press.
When Mr.. Sulzberger succeeded his
father-in-law, the late Adolph Ochs,
as publisher of the Times, he pledged
himself from the first to abide by the
principles set down by his predecessor;
He declared that his paper would
give 1.-The news impartially, without
fear or favor, regardless, of any party,
sect or interest involved
In April 1886, in an address before
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association in New York on the free
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
There's q twenty-foot Drop"

upstairs while we were at the
door, and I sent her down to the
Kitchen" Fellowes said.
swell, stay with her and the
cook" I told Stall. "And don't let
either Of them leave the kitchen"
Very well, sir" said the butler.
We had just arranged our routes
when Williams called me from the
little cloakroom off the hall TO
which he had gone to telephone for
the police. II think the phones
out of order," he said, "or the wires
have been cut. I can't get an an
swer, anyway. Better tell Fell
loves to take the car and fetch
DR.. Tate and the Sergeant at once.
AS quick as he can"
"All right"
It'll have another try at this
thing. But it seems pretty dead"
he said. returning to the cloak
room.
So Fellowes went off to the vii
lage, and Strickland, Norris and I
out into the grounds. We had de-
clded that Norris was to go around
by the stable-yards, Strickland was
to make an outer circuit, in the
remote hope that he might find
someone, or something, among the
trees which would help us. You
will understand that we had little
confidence in this chase of ours into
the open air. But the fact that
Mary Thurston's door had been
bolted, her windows inaccessible,
and her room empty; already
seemed to us so fantastic and in
explicable that we no longer be-
haved, or tried to behave, logically.
I could realize little more than
that a murder had been committed
by some means which seemed to
me almost supernatural. was so
much distressed, and so much at a
loss, that any course Of action
which had been suggested to me
as likely to capture the murderer
would have done as well as this
mad rush into the grounds. If
Williams had told me to search the
garage, or the village church, or to
take a train to London, I would
have obeyed as readily. I had to
do something. When I remem-
bered that poor, kindly, stupid
| woman. who had always been so
gently foolish and free from any
sort Of malice, lying as I had seen
her, I was eager enough for work
which might avenge her. So that
I did not wait to calculate the
i chances of any success for Norris
Strickland and me in the garden
4 / ran out blindly.
' Ito Be Continued;
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19

Surveyors and Institute for Engi-
neers, DR.. Dugald c. Jackson, profess
sor emeritus of electrical engineering
at the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology and president of the Am
erican Academy of Arts and Sciences,
is expected to arrive in Raleigh Thurs
day afternoon, his first lecture will
be given Friday evening, January q,
at 8 o'clock. The subject will b.
Civilization, Engineering, and the
Earliest Men" DR.. Frank Porter Ora
ham, president of the Greater Univer-
sity of North Carolina, will preside.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
FARMERS WARNED OF
MAIL ORDER CATTLE

College Station, Raleigh, Jan. 81.
7. Case. extension beef cattle and
sheep specialist at State College, warn
ed farmers today to buy their mail
order cattle only from dealers known
to be reputable.
The recent appearance of advertise
ments in this State offering stocker
and feeder cattle at prices consider
ably below market prices recalled in
cidents of about ten years ago, Case
said
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
ENGINEERS WEEK Be.
OBSERVED AT STATE
DR.. Frank Graham to Pre-
size, ..osk's Activities
to Begin on Friday

College Station, Raleigh, Jan. 49,
Lectures and talks by three nation
ally famous engineers will feature a
week of engineering activities and
study at N. C. State College, starting
Friday, January 81.
Scheduled to give a series of six lee
lures Before the annual Institute for
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
CHAPTER 5

THINK 1T was the frultleSS
click Of the electric light that
turned my attention from the real
ization of Mary Thurston's death,
to the necessity of discovering her
murderer. In the agonizing sec
onds during which we had stared
at what lay on the bed, had
thought how dreadful, how tragic,
as though it had been an accident.
But when Williams pressed the
switch and the room became no
lighter, something woke me to see
that this this horror was hui
man work, and that its agent must
be discovered.
Still, it could only have been
two or three minutes at the most
after the time of the first scream.
By no means could the murderer
have escaped.
"Stay in the doorway, Town
send" Williams said again, and be-
gan to search the room.
I stood with Strickland and Eel
loves behind me, watching him.
He crossed first to the window, and
Ipeered out, and up and down, then
went to large cupboard, built
into the wall beside the fireplace,
and searched it quickly. I saw
him look up to the roof Of it, and
down in the farthest recess. He
crossed to the fireplace, and briefly
Examined it. He looked under the
bed, and at the mattresses; he
opened wardrobe.
1.-THE window again." I shouted
suddenly. Though there were two
windows in the room, only one of
them was made to open, and to-
wards this Williams hurried again.
1t is true that I had already seen
him look out of it, but some in
stinct had made me beg him to do
so once more.
Impossible" he said. There's
a 20-foot drop. And" he looked
out again, 40 feet to the window
above"
Williams continued his search,
as though oblivious of Thurston,
who was standing beside the bed.
Very low sounds like buried sobs
came from him, and he did not
move. Presently Williams had
finished his first investigation.
IF there's any place of conceal
ment in that ROOM" he said, lit
is a specially constructed one"
That was true enough. l had
been eager to point out any posi-
BILE space left unexamined by Will
liams. if he gave me an opportu-
nifty. I suppose that the hunting
instinct is still strong in us, and
though never moved from the
door my eyes and mind were occu-
pied with the search. There was
nowhere left to probe in the room
itself.
"Fellowes, help me move this
carpet" Williams said suddenly.
We'll leave nothing to chance"
They pulled up the carpet and
examined the floor boards. They
looked over every foot Of wall
space. They re-examined the cup
board, the floor of the cupboard,
and the upper part of it. The bed
was a single one, light, and high
above the floor. They scrutinized
the boards beneath it. They went
again to the fireplace, as though to
see whether it might not conceal
a means Of escape. They moved
the furniture and looked behind it.
Williams was white, and his
teeth were clencEed as though he
were depressing emotion. "It's un-
believable." he said to me; then,
in lower voice, TITS unnatural"
And I was inclined to agree with
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
READ THIS FIRST:

READ THIS FIRST:
Alex Norris, writer who objects
to detective stories, is theorizing on
the subject of crime fiction, during
a weekend party at the home of DR..
Thurston, near London. Other guests
are Townsend, the author; Williams,
the family lawyer, and Strickland,
woman present. Townsend observes
that Mrs Thurston appears strangely
flushed after a conversation with Eel
loves, the chauffeur. Mr.. Rider, the
vicar, is another guest for dinner.
Strickland begs to be excused so
as to retire early. Then. few mo-
ments after the hostess excuses her
self, three piercing screams from up
later. Mrs. Thurston is found dead in
bed, her throat cut.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
Free Press Defender TO
Address Newspapermen
Arthur H. Sulzberger, Publ Usher of New York Times
Who Is to Speak At Open ing Sessions AT Chapel
Hill Thursday Night AT Hill Music Hall

dom of the press, he declared the
press not only had a right to fredeom,
but that it also had a duty to the
public.
1--WE have called insistently and just
ly for full maintenance of the freedom
of the press" said the publisher on
that occasion. The people, in sup
porting this call, have emphasized the
Vmutuality involved therein. 1t is
their right, this freedom of the press;
their right to have accurate news,
fairly presented"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19


NN1 ~ e 0
MA &0AN $50 - II.
bedrooms; bath; lIvlng-room; dlnmg-foom;
kitchen; modern lighting plumbing, heating
just normal American home
Yet where, amid all the castles of Europe you
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
Bar Association Expected To Favor
Reestabishment OF Recorders Court
Recommendation For Step Through Legislative Act
Anticipated, With Resident Judge Naming Recorder

The Henderson County Bar as
ISOLATION, when a meeting is held
for such a purpose, is expected to
favor the re-establishment of the
Henderson county recorders
court, it was indicated today.
A meeting of the association
will be held on Friday afternoon
at 8 o'clock, but what matters
this meeting will consider were
not learned today. The bar may
or may not consider the matter
of re-establishment of the court
at this meeting.
However, a special committee,
named some time ago to consider
the court question, has not been
asked to be prepared to report
tomorrow.
While the bar is expected to
favor re-establishment of the
court, is is expected to be oppos-
ed to establishment of the tri-
bunal through resolution of the
county commissioners.
Indications are that, If approx
al of the court is given by the
bar, the association will recon-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
Sees New Deal In Final Desperate
Bid For Absolute Political Power
Industrial Conference Head Says Change to "lnterna
tional Emergency" Like "All Dictatorship Drives"

Their absorption into the state"
The convention previously had
heard Charles R. Hook, associa-
ton president, assert that govern
ment participation in and compe-
tition with industry cannot reduce
unemployment or hasten recov-
ery. He urged cooperation of bus
mess, labor, government and ag-
riculture.
DIR. George w. Gallup, director
of the American Institute of Pub
lie Opinion, expressed doubt that
President Roosevelt could be
elected to a third term.
"Our interest in the underpriv-
ileged classes at home has been
expanded to concern for the OPP
pressed abroad" Jordan said. "ln
it's very nature, as well as by
force of the actual facts of the
foreign situation, the emotional
and financial seduction of this
new theme song of the fourth
New Deal, is irresistible.
"No political party or econom-
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08

mend that the court be re-estab-
lished through legislative act,
probably with the power OF ap-
pointment vested in the resident
judge of the 18th judicial district
who is Judge J. Will Pless, Jr.,
of Marion.
The bar, however, will prob
ably 90 as far as recommending
certain men to, fill the court po-
sitions.
In all probability, the special
committee appointed to study the
court question, when it reports to
the Bar association, will not make
specific recommendations but will
content itself with a comparison
Of the volume of work done by
the recorders court and the mat
ter of costs to the county in try
ing cases in recorder and super
ior courts.
Indications are that some MEM
bers of the Bar association will
be opposed to the re-establish-
ment of the court under any con-
ditions, but these members are
expected to be in the minority.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
City Debt Cut Nearly One Million In 8 Year.
u. S., BRITAIN AND FRANCE
SHOULD ACCEPT OPEN DOOR
POLICY CHANGE, SAYS JAPAN
Indications Increase That
Tokyo Would Make Chi
ma Part of Asiatic Bloc

TOKYO, Dec. 8. (UP)-Japan
today informed the United States
and Great Britain that they
should accept as inevitable the re-
vision of the open door policy in
China. the usually well-informed
newspaper Asahi stated.
The American and British am
bassadors, Joseph c. Grew and
Sir Robert Craigie, attended a
conference with Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita, at the latter's in
vitation, and it was at this meet
ing that Arita was said to have
conveyed Japan's view Of the
"out-moded nine-power treaty" to
the ambassadors.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi, in
connection with parliamentary de-
bates, asserted that Japan would
not tolerate British efforts to
block "the new far-eastern or
der"
The Japanese press generally
is asserting that third bowers can
not expect continuation of special
privileges in China, which here
after must be regarded as indie
pendent instead of having a
"semi- colonial status.
Both the United States and
Britain, and France as we'll, have
protested to Japan against clos
ing China's great waterways to
their ships, asserting that free
commerce was guaranteed by the
nine-power treaty affirming the
open door principle. Japan's reply
was that the rivers were not safe
asd that military necessity caused
their closing to foreign ships.
There are increasing indica-
tions, however, especially in view
of most recent developments, that
Japan does not intend to allow
the economic activities of western
powers to interfere with Japan's
plans to make China member OF
her East Asia bloc, economically
and militarily.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08

NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (UP)-
The nations leading industrialists
yesterday heard Virgil Jordan,
president of the National Indus
trial Conference board, compare
the United States to Nazi Ger
MANY and assert that the New
Deal is preparing "a final desper-
ate bid in the name Of patriotism
for absolute political power over
enterprise, property and personal
liberty"
As in all drives toward estate
dictatorship" Jordan told the con-
vention of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, "this do
nestle economic emergency has
now been replaced by an inter-
national political emergency. :,
GAS a slogan" he continued
1--WE are now substituting the
more abundant strife for the
more abundant life Military pre-
paredness has now succeeded eco
nomic depression as basis both
for further inflationary stimula-
ton of business and for its fur
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
HULL CONFERS WITH
ARGENTINE MINISTER
By HOBART c. MONTEE

By HOBART c. MONTEE
United Press STAFF Correspondent
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 8. (UP)-
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull,
heading the United States delega-
ton to the eighth Pan American
Conference which opens here Fri.
day, following his arrival here
Yesterday Immediately began .
series Of informal talks designed
to line up New World democra.
cies in a common front against
totalitarianism.
Hull will speak Saturday af-
ternoon at the first plenary seq.
sion Of the conference and it
was believed that he would -uti-
lie the opportunity to emphasize
the freedom and liberties enjoyed
in the New World under Demo-
cratic government as opposed TO
the expressions prevailing in the
dictator states Of Europe.
It was said he might even 90
so far as to specifically name the
Nazis in denunciatory terms.
He was not expected to dwell
in detail, at least in his firss
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08

BTU. Will Meet
In City Sunday
Rev. Y. {. Elliott Coming !;
Session Will Be at
Calvary Church

The Rev. Yancey C. Elliott, re,
gional director, will be the chief
speaker at a meeting of the Asso'
ciational B. T. U. to be held Sun
day at Calvary Baptist church
The program as announced by
Miss Ethen Presley, associationaI
director, follows:
2:3O p. m.-Song service-Jun'
JUS Higgins. Associational choris-
ter in charge.
2:4O D. m.-Devotional-Rev'
George Pennell.
$3.50 D. m.-Special music; East
Hendersonville quartet.
2:55-Roll call of churches:
3:O5 p. m.-Special music
saxaphone solo-Junius Higgins:
$40 D. m.-"The Best B. T. u
President 1 Know"-Miss Annie
Bell Raines.
3:15 p. m.-Special music
Star Bethel colored church.
$3.50 p. m.-Address by Rev
Yancey c. Elliott, regional B. T.
U. director.
3:55 D m.-Special music
East Flat Rock B. T. U.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
G. W. TIDD, 3 FORMER
STUDENTS LISTED in
"MEN OF SCIENCE

G. w. Tidd, city electrical in
spector, is listed in the 1888 pub
LEGATION of American Men Of
Science" as a sort of Who's Who
in this field of endeavor.
The 1888 publication is the
sixth edition of the reference
book, and Mr.. Tidd has been list
ed in all editions since the sec
ond, published in 1910. The first
edition was published in 1906.
Mr.. Tidd stated that he was
gratifed to note that three of his
former students at Kansas State
Teachers college were not listed
in the publication. p 80.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
NO SURRENDER
OF COLONIES, IS
BRITISH STAND
Nazi Germany Held to
Be Unfit to Govern
Backward Peoples"

LONDON, Dec. 8. (UP)-The
house of commons last night re-
jected, by a vote of 252 to 1877,
the arbitrary surrender of any
british colonies or inundated ter
ritories to Nazi Germany which
was described as "a nation unfit
to govern backward peoples"
The overwhelming vote, cast In
favor of a conservative amend
ment to a laborite motion oppos-
ing such territorial concessions as
the price of European appease-
ment, followed an announcement
by Colonial and Dominions Secra-
tary Malcolm Macdonald reject
ing Adolf Hitler's colonial de-
mands. ...
Great Britain, he said, is mot
disposed at present" to forfeit q
single acre of her far-flung en-
pire to Hitler. w
The 1877 votes cast against the
motion constituted merely pal-
tisan gesture because the conser.
vative amendment deleted a la
borite proposal that all "bacA
ward" British colonies be placed
under an international mandate
perhaps under the League of Ma
tons, to protect them from ag-
gression.
The debate before the vote was
marked by violent attacks on the
Nazi drive against Jews who, la
borites said, had been driven into
slavery more fearful than the
world has known since the Ro-
man galleys."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
ASATIAN STUDENT
DEMONSTRATION FOR
COLONIES Is STAGED

STRASBOURG. France, Dec,
.. lUP)-Alsatian students par
T Eed through the streets of this
t,Ianeo-German frontier city yes
Ssrday answering Italy's colonial
uemandS with shouts of "We
"Snt Sardinia! We want Sicily"
HE students sang the Marsseil-
,alse and, after police had dis
9grSed them, sent the following
S Ssegram to Premier Edouard
u, The Alsatian students have re-
E Pa IN kind to the Italian anti
DLsench demonstrations and en-
SSu1IeaIly express their indigna-
s s'Tn and assure you of their in
''ISo'e attachment to France"
No. STaSbourg formerly was Ger