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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-22
CHAPTER "a

CHAPTER 81
I WAS SURPRISED at the
brisk pace that M. Picon set as
we set out for Morton Scone. His
legs were short, but his remark
able agility made it hard for me
to keep up with him. However, I
had set myself to see as much Of
the methods of all three Of these
great men as I could, and was
willing enough to make the effort.
Now that they were nearing the
end of the chase, every move they
made should be interesting.
I'm afraid haven't been able
TO help you much, Monsieur Pr
con-" said after long silence.
"Au contraire. my friend, your
evidence has been of the greatest
service to me. You remembered
something of the utmost impor-
lance, which you might well have
forgotten.
what was that?"
"You do not know? But natu-
rally, your own part in this af-
fair"
my part ?" I almost shouted.
"But yes. You, too, had a hand
in it. Oh, but quite unconscious,
I assure you. Still, part"
"Good Lord. What on earth
was that?"
did you not rise and open the
door,"
(Which door? When?"
But naturally. The door Of
the lounge. Just before the
screams were heard"
"Well, yes. I did. But fail
to see what that could have to do
with it. Unless :" A new and
horrible idea flashed into my
brain. "Unless there was some
devilish mechanism in that room
which I set in motion"
fortunately" said M. Picon,
"the machine is not yet invented
which will cut a 1ady's throat
while she lies waiting for it, and
throw the knife from the window,
then disappear from the face OF
the earth"
II suppose not" admitted.
We marched on in the sunlight,
which had begun to pale a little.
T was glad Of the fresh air ana
exercise, and glad, too, Of some
activity which filed in the after
noon, for my impotence to know
the murderer's identity would
otherwise have become feverlsn:
To think that at last, after All
this guesswork, I was to know the
truth. I resolved to think no
more about the murder, for other
wise I should start once again TO
suspect each in turn Of the people
1t the Thurstons'. .
We must have been within half
"a mile of Morton Scone when M.
Picon suddenly took my ARM ana
said. 'Vite! This way"
I was so much taken by sur
.prise that for moment hest
fated. He pulled me quite fierce
Nv however, to the side Of the
road. and almost bundled me
through a hole in the hedge. He
had scarcely time to follow, when
car approached. I had been
aware Of it a moment before,
when it had been in the distance
and beyond dip which had taken
it out Of sight. but I had paid no
attention to it. The little detec-
tive, however, seemed to be in q
state Of tremendous excitement.
"Observew he snapped, as he
stared at the roadway we had left.
It was once again DR.. Thurs
toms dark-blue car, and since it
was not travelling fast had ample
time to recognize its occupants.
Fellowes was driving, and beside
him sat the girl Enid, while in the
rear seat, smoking q cigar, was
Miles.
"You seeR" said M. Picon. as
soon as the car had gone past.
what I have said! Look in the
heart, my friend. When the mind
no longer tells tales. look in the
heart"
"But Monsieur Picon," I ex-
claimed. this is too much! This
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-22
PHYSICAL ED CLASS
is NOT TO GATHER

The Mems Physical Education class,
usually held each Tuesday evening at
Henderson high school gym, will not
meet tonight, due to the Kiwanis
Bridge Tournament in the gymnasium
Members of the class will be noti-
fled of the next meeting date.
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Henry Fords Celebrating Memorable Golden Wedding

Dearborn, Mich, April 1l-(UP) The Henry Fords celebrated their golden wedding anniversary today, commemorating the day when he, a gawky youth of B, and she, Clara Bryant, plump girl of 19 who lived on an adjoining farm, took the VOWS in the presence of their families as- scmbled in the parlor. Ford planned to be in his office as usual, but an informal party will be held tonight at the home of Edsel Ford, their only son. A few close friends and mem bers of the families were invited. It was also Mrs. Ford's 69th birthday
 They had been childhood sweet hearts but their courtShip was in the winter of 1887 when Ford re- turned from the city where he had been earning $2.50 week and what extra money he could mak~ repair ing watches at night, and accepted his fathers offer of few acres of timbered land if he would stay at home and settle down. The billion aire industrialist's sentimental at- tachment for barn dances, f1ddlers contests and box suppers dated from that winter of his courtship with Clara Bryant, when Turkey in yhe Straw" was the popular tune. The clapboard farmhouse where he grew up and was married has been re- stored in recent years in every de- tail.
 On their honeymoon. the Fords
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went from the Wayne county farm to nearby Detroit, put up i'll lodg- ing house and Ford went to work for the Detroit Electric company at nights. With them, they took Ford'S embryonic plans for gasoline bug BY to sell for so little, that the aver age family could afford one.
 Tomorrow, Dearborn will celebrate the Fords' anniversary with a party attended by 100 of their schoolmates, The Dearborn Pioneer club is spon- soring it. A petition to President Roosevelt, bearing 50000O names and two miles long, requesting that the government cease attacks" on Ford and other business men, will be dedi- cated at tomorrow's ceremonies. The celebration will be restricted to resi- dents of Dearborn.
 Mrs. Ford is a stocky, matronly woman, with graying hair and a dark, smooth complexion. Sh e dressed modestly, wears little jewell ", and is reserved in public al- though her friends know her as warm hearted and congenial. Her outside interest is gardening. In 1927 she was elected president of the Women's National Farm and Gar den association whose purpose was the promotion of roadside market ing by farmers.
 Ford is active and seldom misses day from his Detroit offices, from where his gigantic industrial empire is directed.
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Worst Japanese Bombing h Canton Chinese Theater

cd into a factory to make uniforms for the Chinese armies. Hundreds of women were employed there as seamstreSSeS. Two Japanese naval planes apepared over the city at :3O D. m. and began dropping bombs on a congested area of the city, within sight of the United States consulate general.
 The area was especially congest- ed because the Chinese were stag ing a wild celebration of recent vic tories on the central front, the new offensive against TSinan. recapture of Taierhchwang and removal of the Japanese threat against Hankow the provisional capital.
 Early reports indicated that at least 300 persons were killed and more than 500 wounded. It was i'm possible to get an accurate figure of the number injured as many who managed to escape went to their homes to treat their wounds. Of ficials estimated that at least 100 persons outside the building were injured seriously, and that most ot those killed were in the open. Of- ficials warned the people that they could expect additional bombingS Early today the bodies of 200 vic tirns had been removed from the ruins of the theater building. II was feared that many more would be found. ..
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Canton, China, April 1l-(UP)- Chinese soldiers and civilians dug through the ruins of the PoWah the ater today for the bodies of addi- tional victims of yesterdays air plane bombing by the Japanese which took an estimated toll of 800 dead and wounded. Rows Of rough collins, left open to reveal burned and mangled bodies, were placed in a prominent position ill the center of the city. On them were signs, reading: After looking at this, what do you think of the JapaneSe?" Hundreds of sorrowing men, women and children filed by, tearfully at tempting to identify relatives. Many of the bodies were mangled beyond recognition.
 Robert Murphey of Salina, Kan, a professor at the Lingnan university here, reported to the United Press that he believed that the bombing, the first inside the city since last September, was one of the worst in Canton's history. Chinese military authorities charged that the Jap anese were reSorting to civilian bombings in retaliation for last weeks Chinese victories ill lower Shantung province. Such bombings they said, were intended to terror ize" the Chinese populace.
 The theater recently was convert
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L0YAL|STS ARE
 WIDELY SPLIT
General Franco Separates Their Armies Into Three
 Parts By Drive
By HARRISON LAROCHE United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan COrreSpOnuchtj yHepdsye. Branch Spanish gfrontier, April il (UP)-GeneraliSsimo Fran cisco Franco's Nationalists have vir- tually completed movement to split the Loyalists armies into three parts on the Catalonian front, Nationol- ist dispatches said today.
 Coincidently a brief dispatch from Barcelona indicated that the Loyal ist diversional offensives in the Gau- dalajara and Talavera de La Reina zones, the first northeast of Madrid and the second west of Toledo, had ended without effective gains.
 Reports from Nationalist army commanders showed that the Nav arre troops operating up near the French frontier had completed the encirclement of the thousands of Loyalist troops who retreated north ward from the Huesca front and had finally separated them from the main Catalonian armies.
 Question of Time
 On the Morella front at the Ma tionalists right (southern) wing, It was said, the Loyalist coastal roads were under such heavy fire that the armies of the Catalonian and Valen- cia areas were virtually separated and it was question of time alone before the Nationalists reached the coast.
 Nationalists said that reports from prisoners who entered their lines on the Morella front indicated that the Loyalists had tacitly conceded the eventual loss of 30 miles of coast line between Tortosa and Benicarlo. It was asserted that the people of the entire 30 mile area were being evacu- ated and sent southward toward Valencia.
 Control Light System
 United Press dispatches from Barcelona showed that the Nation alist capture of the hydro-electric power stations in the Tremp sector north of Lerida was having its ef- feet. Electric lights in buildings and homes were only 50 per cent effec-
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GOV. CROSS IS
 BACK AT DESK
Oldest Chief Executive in United States at Work
 After Celebrations

Hartford, Conn.,, April 11-(UP) -Gov. Wilbur L. Cross, 75 and the oldest governor in the United States, returned to his state capitol desk to- day after a round of birthday an- niversary parties during which he blamed Cicero for his entrance into politics in 1880.
 The governor said he always be- lieved, with Cicero, that the test of all knowledge lies ill its applica- ton to public affairs.
 This remark" Gov. Cross added, T have often recalled as I have seen during long lifetime men known as statesmen trying out one economic or social experiment after another of a kind that is doomed from the start to utter failure"
 He spoke at a party held in his home here and attended by prom!- nent Connecticut Italians.
 Given Many Gifts
 The governor was given 76 red roses, a birthday cake, an English coat and a bill-foid by the group.
 City Court Judge Philip Pastore called the governor "one of the most illustrious sons of our com- monwealth; one may well say of our country.
 When most men at this same day ill their lives would be riding at anchor enjoying a state of ease, your day is filled with the burdens of state craft, and demands of cul- tural research and the broil of po- litics and these you carry with all the cheerfulness and buoyancy of one in the spring of life"
 Among the presents received by the governor was Panama hat, from the Connecticut Federation of Democrat Women. The hat, it was believed, was to be thrown into the ring for fifth term.
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STREET TRAFFIC
 RESEARCH STUDY

New Haven, Conn, April Il (UP)- A bureau for street traffic research will be established at Yale univer- sity July 1, it was announced today by President Charles Seymour.
 Its purpose will be the scientific study of accident and congestion problems and the training of grad uate students in traffic engineering.
 with 29OOO,OO0 motor vehicles in operation by 4O,0O0000 drivers over 3,00O,000 mile highway system, Seymour said, the automobile has become the dominant transportation mechanism in America"
 He announced that beginning this year there would be 8 graduate fellowships made available through the automotive safety foundation and a grant by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
 "There is a further need at this time" he announced, "to make a searching examination of the pos abilities of achieving . better CO., ordination between the various means of transportation available to the American people,"
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today and the movement is spread ing in opposition to the "Old Guard v to Republican Town Chairman J. Warren Upson and others who sought to quasn the drafting of other than "a registered Republi- can-essentially a man of the peo- ple."
 Some Pinch Hitter
 Chairman Upson was batting first for himself and another attempt at Congress; next, for Publisher William J. Pape, with view to the governorship; third, for Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn, Sr., either for the senate or for gov ernor. His delegates, some of them employees of the publisher were not "heard"-above whisper at any rate-when the candidate oi Harry E. Mackenzie, potent Fair field county leader, James B. Lowell of Canton. was swept into chair manship of the Young Republicans
 Turn Thumbs Down
 And the combine, J. Kenneth Bradley-Samuel F. Pryor, Jr.. which once Chairman Upson believed his best bet, turned thumbs down on the Waterburians who instl- tuted the investigation which has churned the Republican party ill the state into factionaliSm such as never before has been apparent
 Disgruntled Republicans in Wa terbury today are pointing the finger of blame at Publisher Pape. con- menting without regret over the po- litical death of the publisher, the town chairman and the special pros ecutor whose calling before the grand jury of the states most pow erful Republican leaders paved the way for Mayor McLevy to be called as the savior of the party.
 His First Blunder
 The blunder was primarily that of Chairman Upson's belief in support of the Pryor combine, his failure to take into consideration the possibility of alliance of the Fairfield county Young Republicans with the old Guard" maestro, Mackenzie. Thus, with his down. fall, tumble, too, Publisher Pape. jointly blamed for the summonsing of the Republican chieftains. That the senior Alcorn committed politi- cal hara kiri when he called be-
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SIX MET VIOLENT
 DEATHS IN CONN
lBy United PreSsl

Violent deaths claimed the lives of six persons in Connecticut over the weekend. Patrick Behan, Wa terbury garage mechanic, was in jured fatally when the car in which he was riding struck the rear end of a truck at Waterbury. August Suess, 82, New Britain, died of in- juries suffered when he was struck by car while crossing street near his home. Andrew Sudesky, Bridge port boat-hand, was injured fatally when he fell from a dock into Long Island sound. He was employed by the Thomas River Line. Dr. Ed ward c. Daley, 65, New Haven den- tist, died of a fractured skull suf- fered in fall April 3. John Kuch- ta, 50, New Haven, committed sui eide by hanging in Woodshed near his home, according to the medical examiner. The body of an infant was found in Waterbury woods. The medical examiner said the baby girl was alive when abandoned.
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1. A 99-to-1 Nazi victory in Sun days plebiscite on union of Austria and Germany.
 conservative cabinet under Premier Edouard Daladier in France, which indicated greater emphasis on na- tional defense and less active threats against Nazi expansion ill central Europe.
 3. Action by Great Britain to have the League of Nations consider recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, indicating an impending accord between Britain and the Ro- man partner of Nazi Germany.
 European Events
 Other European events also shaped up favorably toward new Nazi move, which probably will be an in- filtra tion by peaceful economic ma neuvers-ba by the threat of force-against Czechoslovakia.
 The difficulties, if not impossibll- ity, of immediately blocking the Nazi expansion are most wildly ll- lustrated by the position of France, which after the World war built up a ring of steel around Germany in an effort to keep her forever under the yoke of the Versailles treaty.
 Today the situation is almost re- versed. Struggling to keep from being reduced to minor league power, France could not definitely be expected to lift a finger against the Nazis except in the remote pos sibility of an attack on her own or Belgium'S frontier.
 Poland, which France built up as the eastern guard against postwar Germany, has joined in the Nazi cry against CzechoSlocakia's alleged mis- treatment of minorities. Rumania and Yugoslovia, which were Frnch allies in central Europe, have come directly under the Nazi- Fascist. sha- dow and their position in crisis would be highly doubtful.
 France Encircled
 Great Britain's realistic policy of dealing with the dictators and the sweep of insurgent armies backed by
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DELADIER DROPS
 POPULAR FRONT
French Premier Ignores Socialists, Communists
 in His Cabinet
BY RALPH HEINZEN

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Paris, April II - (UP) - Premier Edouard Daladier called the initial meeting of the third republics 1o3rd cabinet today to map plans to bol- ster Frances international influ- ence, to settle widespread labor dif1i- culties which have halted rearma- ment, and to cope with a grave fi- nancial crisis.
 Known as the nations strong man"-he has been the war chief since June, 1936-Daladier appealed for national support.
 President Albert Lebrun signed a decree empowering the new govern ment at 8 critical moment-when Austrians and Germans were dem- onstrating solidarity and their sup port to Adolf Hitler, amid hostility from French Communists and So- cialists, and with 68,000 workers on strike in key industries vital to na- tional defense.
 Faces Opposition
 Daladier formulated policies for
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Hurry! Obtain Free
 Contest Pix Today!!
Great Most Popular Baby Contest Pictures Being Taken Now By Thomas StudiO-lf Rain Caused
 Delay, Make New Appointment at Once!

APRIL rains may mean that BABY can't come out to have his picture taken on days, say, like Saturday. But TODAY finds THE MOST POPULAR BABY CON- TEST of 1888 in FULL SWING, with lots of APPOINTMENTS BEING MADE with the official photographer, THE THOMA s STUDIO in the Brown building, Al South Main street or 20 East Main street, the telephone number, 3-1062.
 There was good reason Saturday why several mothers cancelled ap- pointment for BABY'S picture to be taken FREE by the Thomas Studio, so that BABY could be en- tered in the GRAND CONTEST for $200 cash and other valuable prizes, being run under the spon- sorship of THE WATERBURY DEMOCRAT.
 Rain Good Reason
 No, sir! The studio camera ex- perts have had enough experiences
 T IN
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Entered Court to Take His Punishment Alone and
 Almost Friendless UNASSIGNED PLEA
 MADE BY ATTORNEY When Sentence Was Pro. nounced Whitney Took
 It Without FIinching
BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, April 11-(UP) Richard Whitney, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, was sen- fenced today to from five to 10 years in prison for steal- ing securities belonging to relatives and his former aSSO- ciates in the highest financial circles of the nation.
 General Sessions Judge Owen Bohan gave Whitney, once bond broker for the powerful house of Morgan, the same sentence on each of two indictments for grand lar- ceny. He ordered, however. that the two terms should run concurrently after hearing an eloquent plea for mercy from Charles H. Tuttles Whitney's lawyer.
 T will remind your honor" Tut- tie said, "that there is joy III heaven over the repentance of one transgressor.
 Futile was referring to the fact that Whitney had pleaded guilty and had cooperated with five gov- ernmental agencies which inyesti- gated the affairs of Richard Whit ney and company.
 Alone, FriendleSs
 Whitney came alone and friend- less to the most dramatic moment of his life since the day he strode across the New York Stock Ex-
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HITLER SWEEPS
 GERMAN VOTING
Greatest Triumph of His Career Is Experienced
 in Sunday Plebiscite
By FREDERICK c. DESIGNER UInited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Berlin, April 11-(UP)-Adolf Hit Ter received "go ahead" signal for his policies from nearly 49,000,000 qualified voters of greater Germany in what proved today to be the greatest plebiscite triumph of his five years in office. Provision final figures in Sundays plebiscite showed that 99082 per cent of voters in greater Germany voted ives" on the question of Austrian union with Germany. In Austria itself, the vote was 99.75 per cent. This is the proudest hour of my life," Hitler said when informed of the vote-a vote which surpassed the expecta- tionS of NaziS themselves in size and percentage of approval for union.
 AS the result it was forecast that Hitler would proceed at once to ex- pand and modernlze the Austrian army and strengthen Austria's from tier defenses.
 It was forecast in Vienna that CO., incidentally Nazis would intensity the anti-Jewish part of the Ger
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y Patrick Behan, 24, of the Y. M. c. A., died on the way to St. Mary's Hospital early yesterday after the car in which he was riding ran into the rear of truck owned by Greco's Express Go. on the highway in West Cheshire.
 In Critical Shape
 John Dineshuk, about 50, en- ployed as a caretaker at the home of Dr. Herbert J. Corbett, was in a critical condition at Waterbury hos p:tal today from injuries suffered when struck by the Greco truck on the same highway, over the Water bury line. He lay unconscious in a thicket off the road for almost five hours before he was found.
 Under arrest are:
 John Gwiazdowsky, 21, of Stanley avenue, Oakville, driver of the Greco truck, held under bond Of S,0OO as coroner's prisoner.
 Hinman White, driver of the car in which Behan was riding, free on bonds of $2,000 as coroner's prisoner.
 Held by Police ......-.. Edward Miller, 24, of the Stag hotel, charged with breaking into the Greco Go. office on Burral court and stealing $80, held as a police prisoner.
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TOWNSEND MUST PAY

Washington, April 11-(UP)-The supreme court today refused to re- view validity of the 30-day jail sentence imposed on Dr. Francis E, Townsend, old-age pension advocate, for conviction on charges of con- tempt of house Investigating en- mittee. The courts action means Townsend must serve the sentence, barring executive intervention.
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PRESIDENT IS
 ASSUMING LEAD
Takes Personal Command of Efforts to Defeat
 Recession

Washington, April 11.-(UP)- President Roosevelt met with his relief and congressional aides today to take personal command of new administration effort to check business recession with a $4,O00,00O,- 900 pump-priming campaign.
 The chief executive subordinated all other business to efforts to ham, mer his new lending and spending program into shape as a major New Deal offensive against reces- sion and unemployment.
 The congressional "big four President John Nance Garner, Speaker William B. Bankhead, Sen ate Majority Leader Alben w. Bark ley and House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn-opened a full day of White House conferences on the broad outlines of the forthcoming program.
 Program in Part
 Revealed indirectly through con- (rontip,,oJ o,, Dooa Al