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Evening star., 1938-03-29
COOper BeSSemer,

MOUNT VERNON. Ohio. March %
R-President B. B. Williams Of the
Cooper Bessemer Corp. OF Mount Ver-
non and Grove City, Pa, reported to
stockholders today that net profits for
1897 were s270,095, compared with
s5o2.6l5 IN 1896. All officers and di-
rectors were reelected.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
ArlncO DisclOses
S8,23l,335 Profit
In Twelve Months
BY the Associated Press.


CINCINNATI, March 2e.-American
Rolling Mill Co. and it's subsidiaries
reported today 1897 net income Of
S8,231, ,355, equal to $2.55 share on
the average number of common shares
outstanding.
This was comparable. the report
said, to S6,441, SIT in 1886, equal to
$273 a share on the average number
OF shares outstanding that year.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
BOARD TO BE NAMED.

BALTIMORE. March 20 (SpeciaD.
Ten directors of the Citizens Saw
ngs Bank of Baltimore City will be
elected at the annual meeting to be
held at the bank on April IL.
Evening star., 1938-03-29

Actua sales: unit Of trading
Ex dividend. Ex q extra 1.1o
share Of g preference stock Dreferenee
Paid last Cash Accumulated dividend psid
declared this NA'A1eA' o~io
In bankruptcy reorganzed unoer
BANKRUPTCY ACT or securities companes
Rates OF dividends tab annIa,
baed on the last
n ~o'~N 'S~oN~' VI
Evening star., 1938-03-29

r In oanKruptc1 or feceivership OF 0ein0
reorganiSed under the BANKRUPTCY Act or
securities assumed By such comnaniss
are annual disbursements based on the
last ouarterly or semi-annual declaration
Unless otherwise noted special or extra
Also extra OF extras. Declared or
paid so far this year no regular rate
PAYABLE IN stock -, E PAD last ,. y:ar;
paid or declared this year w With var.
rants. ~ Without wsrrsnta var War
yAntA
Evening star., 1938-03-29
Washington Exchange
SALES-AFTER CALL.

SALES-AFTER CALL.
Lanston Monotype-5 at So.
Peoples Drug Store com-l2 at 1921.
Washington Gas Light pfd.-5 at
1904, at 100A.
Potomac Electric 512To pfd.-3 at l12.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL. March % 0p.--silver fu-
lures opened 10 points lower. May. Al Dob:
July. AZ. .10a: September. 421Oa.
Asked. Bid.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. March 90 R).-Crude rub.
Der futures opened 46 to so lower May.
* 30-l2.32 July. 12.40-12.42; September
Evening star., 1938-03-29
U. S. TREASURY NOTES.

NEW YORK, March 90 LP.-Pric
quoted in dollars and thirty seconds:
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Also extra or extras
Declared or paid SO far this year.
6 Paid last year.
Evening star., 1938-03-29

NEW YORK BAR SILVER.
NEW YORK, March 20 P.-Bar
silver 42A, down / cent.
Evening star., 1938-03-29

WV With warrants. WV Without WA
1antS New. st tstp) STAMPED
sNeRotlability impaired by mafmritv
ICompanles reported in receivership.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
FEDERAL LAND BANKS

NEW YORK. March 30 R,.-redera
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
ONE-DAY MEETING
ON CONSERVATION


College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 49,
The North Carolina Garden Club, in
cooperation with State College, will
hold one-day conservation confer
ence at State on Friday, February IS.
DR.. William Vogt, editor of Bird
Lore" has been secured to make the
feature address. Dr.. Vogt is recogniz
ed as one of the leading ornithologist
in the country. He will speak during
the morning session and will be in
troduced by Col. John w. HARRISON.
administrative head of the college.
One of DR.. Vogt's most recent works
was the introduction and description
of birds for the latest edition of the
world famous bird book, Audubon
Birds of America"
Governor Clyde r. Hoey will open
the conference with an address of well
come. All meetings will be held ir.
the auditorium Of the State College
Y. M. G. A.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
PER CAPITA SALES
OF LIQUOR GO HIGH
$5.93 for Vance and $1O.36 in Durham
Which is Highest of All
Wet Counties
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Feb. 15-The composite Ii
quor sale figures for the eight months
from May to December, 1887, inclusive,
can certainly be made to adorn tale,
though it is questionable whether or
not they point moral.
Perhaps the most outstanding fea-
ture of these figures, which show that
the ABC stores of II counties sold
4,446, 541.36 worth of hard liquor, is
the fact that on a per capita per coun-
ty basis, Durham citizens spend more
than five times as much per head as
do the inhabitants of what Represen-
tative Wayland Spruill loves to call
Imperial BERTHE.
Durhamites, if it could be assumed
that the Durham stores sell only in
Durham county citizens, spent no less
than $10.36 each on hard liquor in the
eight months period, while in BERTHE
the average was only $1.85.
All of which, in fact, only goes to
show that Durham sells most of it's
liquor to thirsty visitors from legally
arid bailiwicks, to those who come to
football games at Duke and to thrifty
bootleggers from other counties who
get their supplies at the nearest
source.
When the liquor expenditures are
figured on a per capita basis, it is
obvious that those wet counties bord-
ering several ostensible "dry units are
the chief beneficiaries of the revenue
from liquor. On per capita basis
the first cudnty entirely surrounded
by other vet units is Edgecombe,
which stands tenth on the list. The
first nine all touch one or more dry
counties and all of them except Vance
are adjacent to at least three.
The STATE Liquor Boards figures
for the eight months sales, when di-
vided by the population of the respec-
tive counties, give the following per
capita amounts spent for liquor; Dur
ham $10.36, New Hanover 1914, Wake
$692, Moore $625, Dare $613, Lenoir
$601, Vance 1898, Pasquotank $3.50,
Johnston $3.50, Edgecombe $527, Will
son $5.25, Pitt $514, Halifax $4.O9, Cum
berland $4.94, Martin $4.52, Franklin
$685., Warren 1888, Beaufort 1927
Washington 1923, Nash, $3.13, Craven
$3.11, Chowan 2.77, Onslow $242, Tyr
rell 1929, Greene $21O, BERTHE $1.S5.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15

Resources of North Cardinals 1853
commercial State banks on December
81. 1887. were more than three times
the resources of the 43 national banks
within the State on June 80, 1887. The
figures were $339,S92, 52212 to $780,
O76 900.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
DIR. SHERWOOD EDDY
SPEAKER AT STATE
Author, Lecturer, World Traveller
Gives Series of Speeches on
World Situation

College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 15.-
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, author, lecturer,
and world traveller, will arrive here
today by plane to deliver a series OF
three lectures at State College.
His first lecture will be given to-
night at o'clock in the auditorium
of the State College Y. M. C. A. He
will speak on Europe Today" His
discussion will include the present
Spanish situation.
DR.. Eddy will also be heard tonight
over Radio Station WPTF on "The
International Situation" He will
speak from 10 o'clock until 1920
He will speak Wednesday at noon
in Pullen Hall at State on "The Delta
Cooperative Farm at Rochdale, Miss,
Report Of Progress"
His final address will be made
Wednesday evening at Z o'clock in
the Y M c. A. on Japan and Com
munism Battling for China All the
lectures will be open to the public.
Dr. Eddy lectured on the campus
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15

One Of the largest assert
merits Of ladies' silk, in solids
and prints, all new spring
pate rms. Be sure to see
these they have all the snap
Of much higher priced dresses
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
Woolard's Drug Store
offers FREE Sample
of new High Blood
Pressure treatment

Every High Blood Pressure Sufferer
in Henderson is urged to go to Wool
ards Drug Store and receive a free
sample of ALLDMIN Essence Of Garlic
Parsley Tablets for High Blood Pres
sure. These are the tablest used by DR..
Frederic Damrau, eminent physician
of New York City, in his now famous
clinical work, when he reduced the
blood pressure and relieved dizziness
and headaches in the great majority
of all cases treated. Get copy of DR..
Damrau's interesting report, along
with your free sample of ALLIMIN.
special new process by which these
tablets are produced makes thepa both
tasteless and odorless. A liberal treat
ment costs only SOC.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
IL STATE COLLEGES
ENTER STYLE SHOW

College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 15.-
Home economics departments of II
North Carolina colleges for women
have accepted invitations to parti-
cipate in the 1888 State College style
show to be held here April 81.
DR.. Thomas Nelson, dean of the
State College textile school, said that
the show would be held to further IN
terest in wearing of cotton and rayon
fabrics.
Fabrics designed by State Coliege
textile students will be made lneo
dresses of the latest styles by the
young women as a part OF their r.
gular home econ o.nics courses, Ll 81
models also will be home economies
students from the IL womens COZ
leges.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15

last April on "The Delta Farm, An
American Adventure in Cooperation
with Sharecroppers" Since that time
he and his group has purchased a
second farm in which the State Col
lege Y. M. c. A. Cabinet has small
part.
Each summer DR.. Eddy conducts a
travelling seminar. Last summer he
took a group through most of the Eu-
ropean countries and comes to State
College well prepared to speak or con-
ditions as they are today in Europe.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15

and she is not like the same girl now.
certainly am glad to recommend
POW-O-LIN." Have you tried this
melicine so many of your neighbors
recommend. Peoples Drug Store.
(Old Dorsey Stand), Henderson, N. G.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
Mrs. WEIGH Declares /:
"POW-O.LIN Brought Relief After
Other Medicines Failed"

throughout this en-
tire section, suffer
ing men and women
are finding relief
through the POW-O-
LIN treatment. Mrs.
J. G. WEIGH, 131 E.,
Martin ST., Raleigh,
N. c., says: My niece
suffered from conSti-
patton. N o t h i n g
seemed to help her
until I bought POW
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL

po1ajeh. Feb. 15-In his regular let
49, ~ weekly newspapers of the State
co,ator Robert r. Reynolds says ;het
.l,o crop control bill of mis- session
;.os the farmer "some promise Of
9is+ance where none prevailed be-
fore"
No one. ne remarks, seriously con-
4onds that TIE new bill is all that is
! .ired in The way Of .,elpful legisla-
.;o, COR = .cul:'irr. Tut hero is gen
o..l oareement that is does represent
some cams.
III insists, however, that what is
,ool,y needed to round out the agri
o,lt1raI program are changes in mar
tetine conditions and tariff protec-
zion for farm commodities.
OF applicants for drivers licenses in
1857 94 per cent were found profit
oiant Nv examiners. A total of 122, sos
,o,.sons asked for the permits. Of
tbem 114.16O got what they asked for.
The others got list of questions and
instructions to study them and come
back.
Resources of North Cardinals 1853
commercial State banks on December
q 1897. were more than three times
the resources of the 43 national banks
within the State on June 80, 1887. The
figures were $3.50 1892, 1922 to $780,
O76,000
The largest paintings of pine tree
seedlings ever made in the State are
being chalked up by the forestry di-
vision of the Department of Conser-
walton and Development this season,
largely as a result of prospective de-
mands of the paper pulp industry for
pulpwood. according to Assistant
state Forester F. H. Claridge.
Members of the 1887 North Carolina
House are virtually unanimous in de-
claring that their body will lose one
of its most valuable members by rea-
son of the fact that j. G. Hobbs of
New Hanover has decided to try for
clerk of superior court in his county
rather than to come back to Raleigh
in 1889 He was universally regarded
as one of the really Influential mem
bers of the 1885 and 1887 legislatures.
If Our Bob" Reynolds and Friend
" Frank" Hancock don't soon begin
some campaigning there is grave dan
ger that North Carolina voters will
forget all about the fact that they are
candidates for the United States Sen
ate.
A man who has just returned from
visiting 81 counties in the State told
your correspondent that he never once
heard the senatorial primary even
mentioned unless he first brought the
matter up Which is indifference with
a vengeance.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-15

Robert H. Jackson, assistant U. S.
attorney general, is shown listening
in" as members of the senate judiciary
subcommittee discussed his qualifica-
tons for U. S. solicitor general. One Of
the outstanding foes of huge mono
poles, Jackson was questioned con-
corning his economic views.
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her escort. She would wait
always until the last minute
for him to telephone and,
even if he didn't call her, it
wasn't very often that she
would 60 to a party with any
body else. I
Margaret was one of that
group of girls that danced
with the then Prince of Wales
when he came to Washing
ton in 1921, and she was at
the tea that Mrs. Marshall
Field gave the day Peggy ST.
monds won undying fame as
the girl he danced with often
est. (After the tea, pretty
Peggy, now Mrs. Charles W.
Warning, asked him across the
street to her home to meet
her mother, Mrs. G.. G. Cal
houn, equally pretty.)
QUT Margaret Harding,
- with Washington over
flowing with visiting digni-
taries and returning heroes,
had no thought for anyone
but Stanley Hawks, and he
fell in love with Margaret
Baldwin.
Even when her father went
to Boston, and she with him,
Margaret couldn't st ay
there. She came often to
Washington, where the after
math of war was reaching
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it's height. Skirts were get
ting shorter, paint was get
ting brighter, and the girls
and boys reared in the sober
dignity of prewar peace were
thinking it over and deciding
that they had better have
what fun they could before
disaster struck again.
Margaret Baldwin, who
lived in Italy, was a sister
of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane,
whose husband, like Hawks,
was in the State Department.
She came home for a visit,
and even those who loved
Margaret Harding n ever
blamed either M arg are t
Baldwin or Hawks for what
happened. They fell in love
at IlrSC SlgnG, Lnelr Ir1enQS
said.
This was in 1923, when
Josephine Hutchinson and
Bessie McKeldin and Betty
Byrne and Natalie Ham
mond held the debutante
spotlight, and the girls who
came out in 1918 were just
reaching maturity.
Tracy Lyon married Sid
ney Brewster, New York
real estate broker, that year,
and it was Margaret Harding
who visited Anna Hamlin
then. She made her last visit
just after Christmas.
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All the photographs
on this page lUere taken
by Harris and EWing.

them carried almost Identical
stories, headed:
Miss Margaret Baldwin to
Wed Stanley Hawks"
It was the one written, by a
coincidence, by Bertha Martin,
one of Hawks former dancing
partners, that was found ripped
from the page, over Margaret's
heart, its center torn by a bull
let hole, according to Washing
ton legend.
Harding was called at Mrs.
Thayer's, and hurried home. His
daughter had died instantly. The
gun was his own, kept in the
house for her protection when
he was absent.
The governor OF Boston Fed
eral Reserve was an old-faSh-
icned man, stern and kind and
devoted to his daughter. He
kept the news of her death frem
the papers, even the death GER
tiflcate, not filed until Monday,
carried only the notation "of
hemorrhage, to be investigated"
Margaret had been cremated be-
fore headlines broke news OF
her suicide.
A NINA HAMLIN, the faithful
"A friend, was called immedi.
ately, and went to Boston for
the funeral, before anybody
knew that Margaret had taken
her life. So did Stanley Hawks.
Washington never has known
whether Hawks was aware OF
her death, or whether he went
in response to a special delivery
letter delivered to him Sunday
from Boston. But it does know
that when he arrived, shortly
before the funeral, Anna would
not speak to him and Harding
told him there was mourning ne
could do, to go home.
Margaret left a note to her
father:
st am going to cause you more
trouble, and you have had
trouble enough, but I can't help
it. You don't know how am
suffering. Please forgive me.
I can't stand it any longer.
Good-by, and lots of love-"
Then for the first time Hard
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ing heard his daughters name
coupled with Hawks. The day
after the funeral he called re-
porters in, and with tears in his
eyes told them that, to stop
malicious gossip, he wanted to
make public the manner Of Mar
garet's death.
lie had asked her to give up
IL Washington and its gay
parties, to stay home, to take
care of her health, and she had
promised. She had wanted only
one last trip to Washington,
and he had given it to her.
Cigarettes and society, he said,
were to blame for her death.
Having no news of Margaret'S
death, Boston and Washington
papers that Sunday had carried
a story that "Mr. and Mrs. Sid
ney Brewster, of Long Island,
would arrive today to visit Miss
Anna Hamlin," and that Miss
Margaret Harding, who had
been visiting Miss Hamlln, had
returned to her home in Boston.
Mrs. Sidney Brewster was
Tracy Lyon. Two summers later
she was found shot to death IN
her home on Long Island. Her
husbands body was nearby. ,
Madly jealous, he had found
a letter from a 1ovesick swain IN
Mexico, innocent enough to
mildly flirtatious Tracy, accus-
toned to adulation. From some
where in Mexico, the boy had
written:
you dear, stray girl, Tracy,
whose name the wind sings In
the trees, and whose face fingers
in the depth of twilight that
clouds these old hills. All my
thought is with you and OF you
and I reach again for your hands
across the miles between U.S."
BREWSTER, seeing the letter
I'D the guileless Tracy hadn't
thought to hide, shot her and
killed himself.
Anna Hamlin died in the gov
errors palace at Bermuda. The
loyal friend of Tracy and Mar
garet had been guided by wise
and kind parents, had lived SEN
sibly and well On holiday,
she was taken suddenly Ill ana
died as doctors attempted TO
operate to save her life.
Stanley Hawks and Margaret
Baldwin were at first rumored
to have broken their engage
ment. Perhaps they did, for a
while. But reasoning at last
as their friends did that Hawks
could no more stop loving Mar
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THE last big party she went
l. to was Mrs. Richard H.
Townsend'S, on January 10,
1924. She was one of 800 guests
from England, Italy, Spain,
Washington, New York, Philadel-
phia and Boston and her friends
remember that she looked Ill.
She was. Margaret Harding
twice had had hemorrhages.
Short, thin dresses against
Washington's winter, late dane
ing, not bothering to eat and
sleep, had taken toll Of her
health.
Someone had told her, or she
had seen for herself, that Hawks
was in love with Margaret Bald
win. A few nights before she
left Washington, friends say, she
gave Olive Graef'S maid a half
dozen pair of stockings.
IT won't need them" she said.
On Thursday night, January
"a, she was taken i'll at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Waddy Wood,
and a doctor was called who said
that her nerves needed rest. 1t
was this nervous condition, the
constant smoking of cigarettes,
the hemorrhages, that her
father blamed later. She went
home to Boston.
She reached there Friday, a
bitter cold day, and told Har-
ding she was too tired to talk"
He told her that if she were i'll,
he would stay at home, but she
made him go on to Washington,
on a business trip, as he had
planned. That day Margaret
talked to her sister, MS. Thayer,
on the telephone, and asked her
to put her short suit" in her
fathers bag if he stopped in New
York on his way home.
$50
CATURDAY, at noon, Mrs.
~ Thayer called Margaret and
talked for a while. A few min.
utes later, a maid who had
been told by Margaret that she
was too i'll to see visitors,
brought her luncheon to her bed
room. On the tray were the
Washington papers, and both Of
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him when his appointment
ended, and Harding went to
Boston as governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank there.
DEFORE that happened,
- Margaret had four years
of Washington society. She
was a bridesmaid at Mar
garet Dunlop's wedding,
when she married Archibald
McRae, and she was in Peter
Gregg's amateur show at the
Marine Barracks, and,
dressed as a Norman milk
maid, she, with Leila Gordon
and Courtney Let's, auc-
toned dances at a milk fund
mardi gras ball at Wardman
Park.
Almost always, Hawks was
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In them, somewhere in the
space of five days between
the false Armistice and the
real, was a paragraph telling
that Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Sumner Hamlin and their
daughter, Anna, were closing
their summer home in Malta
poisett, Mass, and would be
in their home on New Hamp-
shire Avenue here within the
next few days.
The year after the Armis-
tice, when widows in black
danced at charity balls and
mothers still read the lists of
the dead, Anna Hamlin and
her two friends officially
grew up and became part of
a society caught between
two worlds.
0NE of these friends was
" Tracy Lyon, of New
York, and the other was Mar
garet Eliot Harding, young
est of three sisters left moth
erless eight years before
when the wife of William
Proctor Gould Harding COM
mitted suicide at her home in
Birmingham.
The three friends were to-
gether all that year, and for
a good many years after.
Tracy visited first one,
then another, of the years
dahutantes. but Margaret and
Anna were her d rest
friends. Margaret's father,
in charge of war time fl
nance, was governor of the
Federal Reserve Board, and
Annals father was vice gov
ernor.-
The three were very popu-
lar, especially with the bache-
Tor diplomats at the British
Embassy, and one of these
young men was in love with
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MARGARET BALDWIN,
beautiful sister of Mrs. Ar
thur Bliss Lane, Of whose
engagement to Stanley
Hawks, Margaret Harding
read the day Of her suicide.
Margaret. And it was a diff
ficult year to be popular.
Beautiful Courtney Let's came
out that year, and Olive
Graeth, and Peggy Simonds.
Millicent Rogers came down
often, and Ailsa Mellon.
Margaret, however, was
tall and dark, with glowing
color and a low Southern
voice. She was very femi-
nine and very sweet. Anna
was smaller, with plquant,
determined little face, and
Tracy won an audience with
an appealing way of really
playing the ukulele and sing
ing Hawaiian love songs.
+
THERE were qualities that
L all three shared. They
were sweet and child-like,
with little-girl ways and I'm
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STANLEY HAWKS was
chief of the information
service at the State De-
partment when Margaret
Harding met him. He was
her constant companion.
with Bertha Martin, society
editor Of a morning news
paper, famous for the num-
Der and the wealth and posi-
ton of her suitors.
But Washington took it for
granted that he and Mar
garet Harding were engaged,
especially after the mar
riages of her two sisters,
Elizabeth, first Mrs. Fred
erick Prince, jr., and then
Mrs. Eugene van Rennseler
Thayer, and Alice, who mar
ried and divorced Robert T.
Pell.
Harding, the bank clerk
who rose to the presidency
of a Birmingham bank and
then the leadership of the
country's financial structure,
at the last antagonized the
nation with a warning.
He warned America, mad
with Armistice rejoicing,
that it was living in a FOOLS
paradise" and urged della
ton to avoid the inevitable
panic. President Warren G..
Harding dared not reappoint