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in Barstow Wednesday morning she
was found dead in bed. killed with a
knife. The $4,000 note was missing
On the Monday before Sam Shepard
had left the distant city of Hayden
and driven by automobile to Barstow.
arriving Tuesday afternoon about 4
O'Clock and registering at an inn
| operated by Mrs. Bean. He had gone
directly to his room and retired, first
telling Mrs. Bean that he was ter
riflcally tired after his long drive At
o'clock that evening he had walked,
dressed and set out for walk in the
country, returning to the inn about
midnight. He admitted being in the
vicinity of Mrs. Hodges house.
Inspector Otis Jackson. assigned to
the case, learned these things before
he called on Shepard. Mrs. Saunders,
Mrs. Hodges housekeeper gave him
the added information that Mrs.
Hodges had pleaded headache upon
returning home on Tuesday and had
gone Immediately to bed, without eat
ing any dinner.
Inspector Jackson got in touch with
authorities in Hayden They and Mrs.
Hodges Office secretary provided him
with this information: Sam Shepard's S
affairs we're in bad shape He hadn't
been able to keep up interest payments
on his note. If Mrs. Hodges fore
closed he would be ruined. He had no
particular reason for visiting Barstov
in the middle of the week.
JACKSON assembled all this in
formation, sorted it out, thought
about it, and then went to the inn
where Sam Shepard was staying and
questioned him.
Why did you come to Barstow In
the middle of the week?'
For two reasons. First. nv health
was in pretty bad condition as a re-
suit of financial worries. Second, I
wanted to have talk with Mrs.
Hodges. I owe her $4,000. I was
going to ask her to extend the note
for three months"
Did you see Mrs. Hodges on Tues
day night?"
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Building
Continued From First Page.)

have assumed a wary attitude toward
the 90 per cent mortgage Despite
the fact that with F. H. A. insurance
these mortgages approach Government
bonds in security and surpass them in
earning power. banks hesitate to ac-
cept them.
THE reason is that 25-year mort
cages will continue into the next
major depression, will be held by
group Of comparatively low and un-
stable income. This circumstance
means IN the bankers minds that the
next wave of foreclosures will be the
heaviest in history. will freeze the
mortgage market more tightly and
Tor q longer period than ever before.
Further hesitance on the part of
lenders may be attributed to the tardy
esta blishment of national mortgage
associations. Discounting of 90 per
cent loans by these associations will
increase liquidity, may encourage the
bankers to play ball. But even 80 per
cent mortgages, which have been elig-
ible for F.. H. A. insurance since 1884.
have not been overworked.
Banks that in the past have been
lending more than rs per cent of ap-
praisal value have been outnumbered
by those that have set IS per cent as
the maximum. This conservative ma
Evening star., 1938-04-09

deep cream-colored underparts. The
does and fawns are q yellowish fawn
color above and on the outer sides
of the limbs and white underneath.
The two colors are distinctly defined
There is a circle Of white around each
eye and q tan patch at the nape OF
the neck. The tail is short and rather
fiat. The tufts Of hair on the knees
are unusual.
The grassy or cultivated lands close
to the home range of the bucks are
visited by the herd. for these bucks
are socially inclined. and as many as
so have been seen together. They
do not like dark woods and grass
that is high enough to impede flight.
Until frightened by the sound Of rifle
shot they are inclined to be fearless
and in fact friendly. They do not pay
much attention to moving objects.
When frightened or in frolics high
leaps are taken into the air. They
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Mrs. Hodges Office in Bridgwater.
Her secretary answered. She said Mrs.
Hodges hadn't been feeling well and
had gone home early"
Is that all?"
Yes"
Inspector Jackson didn't arrest Sam
Shepard. Instead he had talk with
Mrs Hodges secretary.
When Sheppard called did you tell
him Mrs. Hodges had taken his note
home with her?"
Why. no. Why should II"
That's the point. You wouldn't
in the general course of things"
JACKSON next visited Mrs, Saunders,
the housekeeper Did Mrs Hodges
tell you she had brought Sam Shep-
ards note home with her from the Of
flee before she retired on Tuesday
night?"
She didn't tell me nothing, except
that she had a headache and was
going to bed without her dinner"
Were you here all EVENING""
Nope. Mrs. Hodges told me could
have the evening off. so I went over
to see my sister Minnie"
And what time did YOU get back?"
About 7 o'clock this morning. In
time to get Mrs. Hodges breakfast" 4"
The buxom lady shuddered. 1T was
me who found her, y'know."
"Yes, I know"
Jackson returned to police head
quarters and explained his findings to
the chief.
"Of course" he said. 1.-The one who
killed Mrs. Hodges was the secretary.
I've sent man out to pick her up"
But hold on! How do you know?
Sam Shepard had the only motive.
Why would the secretary want to kill
her?"
Jackson shrugged That's a wrinkle
we'll have to iron out later. All I
know is Shepard couldn't have pos
sibly known that Mrs. Hodges took the
note from her Office to her home. And
the note was stolen. The only one
who knew about 1t being there was the
secretary.
(Copyright 1889
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jority will not readily up to the limit
to the authorized 80 per cent"
The center of the new building ac-
tivity in the East is Long Island, the
magazine reports, while a cross-sec-
ton of the South indicates that sub
division construction activity is un-
changed to lower in comparison with
last year.
"Sampling in the Middle West
covered nine Cities the magazine
states. -Four reported decreased ac-
tivity, one unchanged and four in
creased. Less optimistic are the re-
ports from the West, only two sub
dividers indicating that business is
better than that a year ago."
Evening star., 1938-04-09
NEW THEATER PLANNED

HYATTSVILLE. Md, April 9 (Spe-
ciaD.-Contract for the construction
Of a 1,000-seat air-conditioned mo-
ton picture theater on the Washing
ton-Baltimore boulevard, adjoining
the Justine Nicholson Motor Co. here
will be signed soon, according to Sid
ney Lust, who will. operate the theater.
Bids for the building. which will cost
about 100000, have been asked.
The theater building will contain
space for several stores, making 1t a
shopping center.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
serve to create the illusion Of coolness
and size,
Brings Garden Closer.

A room overlooking the graden may
bring the garden closer by painting
three walls Of the room . dark color
and using light color on the side
that holds the windows. Match the
curtains and draperies with the walls.
This will create the Illusion that the
gard IN has moved closer to the house.
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mo. I retired
the minute l ar
rived here. I
walked at 8 O'Clock,
dressed, walked out
to the Barstow
place, found it
dark and so re-
turned to the inn
and went to bed"
Inspector Jack
son locked at the
Y u ng m a n
t h o u & h t fully.
you're pret t y
frank about all
this"
Why shouldn't I
be? I have nothing
to hide" "
did you cantact
any one at all be-
fore you retired,
after reaching here
Tuesday night"
uves T ralloi
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Advance Information

SAM SHEPARD
was the logical
suspect for the
crime, Sam had
borrowed $4,000
from old Mrs.
Hodges. and had
given her a note
for the amount.
Mrs. Hodges was a
real estate operator
and maintained an
office on Fay street
in BridgeWater. Ac-
cording to the sec
retary, she kept all
her business papers
in a safe at the Of
flee. but according
to the secretary,
she had taken Sam
Shephard's note
home with her on
T u ues day night.
Mrs. Hodges lived
ont in tho country
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does are very docile and trot after
their master as would dog. The
bucks give no evidence of temper or
bad disposition except when the sea-
son for finding their mates is at hand.
Then they do not brook any desire
on your part to keep them prisoners
or within bounds.
(Copyrisht. 1e3sJ
Evening star., 1938-04-09
GLASS FOR INTERIORS
Effective Trick Still Used by
Decorators.

Modern decorators employ glass ex-
tensively IN small apartment and
house interiors. The use Of large mir
rors to reflect . room and increase its
apparent size has been q favorite trick
OF decorators for years and still re-
tainA its place because Of effectiveness.
Rooms entirely paneled with glass
Evening star., 1938-04-09
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
HIS handsome black buck

Aiuld ioVeS tne open plains, Cc
be found from the base OF the
4 Himalaya Mountains to within
short distance of Cape Comorin
and from the Punjab to Lower Assam
1t Is well known and fairly numerous
IN the northwest provinces. portions
OF the Deccan and Rajputaba.
1t has the distinction Of being the
sole representative of its genus and
at the present time is the last mem
Der Of the group it is in.
Not over 80 inches high at the
shoulders, 1t Is not . large creature.
The unusual twist Of the horns, which
are from Is to 20 inches. gives an i'm
preston Of much taller animal. The
males have 4 deep black coat. with
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-11-10
PERSECUTION AND ROBBERY

The mistreatment of Jews in Germany
and the extension of such brutality in
other countries has aoused the inaienation
of civilized people throughout the world.
We are at loss to understand this
modern persecution of the Jews in totali-
tartan states. but it seems significant to US
that it is accompanied by confiscation of
the estates of the Jews. Concealed by
camoufIage of racial propaganda, the pro-
gram looks like mass robbery to Us.
While it is the right of the German
nation TO decide who shall be allowed to
live in Germany, the campaign against the
Jews has been conducted with such ruth
less severity and downright barbaTity.
that the world quite properly condemns
and denounces the German methods.
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COUNTRY PASTURE

The sun shines hot upon the
brambletl fen,
And tired cattle cross the creek
to drink
Great draughts of GOODNESS from
the pool
Where flank TO flank they stand
against the brink.
White fennel, dusty from a hoof-
marked lane
Crowds close TO ruby clover, high
and sweet;
And wild rose clings with Stub
born might 10 rails
Crown gray and warped by sum
mes's restless heat.
The woods lie cool beyond the
heat-psrched field,
And fern end bloodroot inter
mingle there:
Where hooves may plunge into
the soft leaf mold.
And hchened rock Is hid from
noon-cay glare.
But soon the humid hillside lies
in shade.
And cattle stumble through the
suzzassc thorn:
The gray-furred rabbit sits In
vigil near
Until tfse ssln returns again 90
Morn
--Edyfh Hope Cgnes.
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can ordinance making it unlawful for
any person to work as a cook, nursemaid,
or other household servant, or to operate a
laundry. dry cleaning establishment, press
ing club or TO wash clothes for hire within
the city of Quincy without first obtaining
a certificate from licensed. registered
physician to the effect that they are free
from syphilis and tuberculosis in their in
fictitious stages and providing for the filing
of said certificates and providing penalties
for violations thereof" The foregoing is
the title of an ordinance recently passed by
the city commission of Quincy. Florida,
and shows the increasing interest over the
state in the promotion of an adequate
health program and of the control of COM
municable diseases. Every community
would do well to have an ordinance SINH
lar TO the one adopted in the Gadsden
county city.
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WINDS or CHANCE

So silently the winds of chance
Can change our earth born view,
And steal life's fragrance at a
glance
Our ways of life miscue.
The rhythm of the harp is stilled;
Fear hushed the voice of song;
problems God has
willed,
His love will right the wrong.
In every human heart our dreams
Swayed by each gentle breeze,
Would stroll along an idle stream
And live its life at ease.
But You and / must toll and spin
The winds of chance ignore;
just be content to do our task,
With God to keep the score.
Emma Stahler Smith. q
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KEY WEST IN
!, DAYS "A GONE BY
happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files of The Citizen

Frank H. Laid, Ross c. Saw
yer and Cuban Consul Jorge r.
Ponce left over the highway yes
terday for Washington where
they will represent Key West
and the Cuban government in
the motorcade which will leave
the capital city on November Is
enroute to Key West in celebra-
ton of the formal opening of the
Atlantic Coastal Highway, which
extends from Calais, Maine, to
Key West. The delegation went
in Mr.. Ponce's automobile. ].
Otto Kirchheiner, who was NOM
mated to make the trip, as rep
senting the county, declined to
go. Mr.. Kirchheiner is chairman
of the board of county commits
sioners. The motorcade, an
nouncements indicate, promises
to be one of the most pretentious
highway celebrations ever given
in this country. Just what part
of the parade will reach Key
West has not been stated, neither
is the rate of progress shown, so
that the time of arrival will not
be known until later. A fund of
$500 was raised to defray the ex
penses of the Key West delega-
ton. OF this fund the city do
mated $3.50 and the county a SIM
liar sum.
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production that took place last
spring and summer was a strong
depression factor. BY the same
token, the unlooked-for improve
ment in production and demand
now-which has caused some
makers to change their plans and
embark on more elaborate ven
lures than they thought wise
even a few months ago-is a
strong recovery factor. Import
ant by-product in this field has
been a substantial amount of
high-wage unemployment.
In brief, the barometerS give
the commentator every reason for
being buHiSh today. There may
be minor Enthusiastically in
security values, where consider
able profit-taking at intervals is
to be expected. But it seems GER
tain that next year will be as
good as any year since l93o-and
in all probability better
This government doesn't like
the dictator nations. And the
dictator nations don't like US.
That is the logical deducation
from the Presidents recent anti
fascist speech, coupled with the
State Departments blunt warn
ing to Japan to respect American
rights in China under the tradi-
tional open door" theory. News
papers in Rome and Berlin and
Tokyo promptly branded us as
war-makers, and denounced our
Qgreat rearmament program.
'sftfhzs government is gravely
concerned with recent develop
ments, Japan, at the beginning
of her Asiatic adventure. solemn
ly pledged maintenance of the
open-door policy. Apparently
she had her fingers crossed. For
that policy has been widely vio-
lated in fact--and so far as the
story goes, recent Nipponese an
nouncement said, in effect, that
Japan intends to dominate China,
and that other interested powers
can like il or lump il.
Still more important, possibly,
from the long-term standpoint,
is something on which this col
umn has commented before-the
nazi-fascist ambition to extend
its influence in South America.
It is reported that this govern
ment plans to establish large
radio station in the Canal Zone,
from which to broadcast pro-
American programs in an at
tempt to counterfeit the con-
tinuous pro-nazi programs that
are broadcast from powerful short
wave stations in Germany. A ma
jor strengthening of Canal Zone
defenses win in all probability
be started soon. II ever we are
attacked, military experts are
coming TO believe il viii be from
South America--where il would
be a relatively simple matter for
an ambitious foreign power TO es-
tablish air, army and naval bases.
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T ES r Y o u r
KIN OW L E ID G e
Can you answer seven OF these
test questions? Turn TO
PAGE 4 for the answers

1. What is an assay office?
2. Which American city was
named in honor of William
Pitt?
8. In which part of Asia Minor
has an Arab revolt been in
progress?
4. Did aliens who were draft
ed into the u. S. Army
during the World War,
aumatically become Amer
lean citizens?
S. Name the largest known
species of snakes.
6. What trade was pursued by
~ Paul Revere?
7. Whom did Henry Armstrong
defeat when he won the
featherweight BIO X 6
championship?
8. Where is the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes?
8. What is the plural of ne
bula?
10. Name the chief city of South
Dakota.
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The snishy

Inc SmtxnY
On rainy afternoons my father
used
To take me to his smithy in the
grove.
He stirred the fire and with the
bellows blew
The sparks until there was a
glowing bed
OF Goals. In these he placed a
blunted pillow
And when its color changed from
black to red
He took the heavy sledge and
beat it hard,
Then Then thrust the point into
a water pail,
"To temper it,, he said. 1t Sizzled
like
A slab of bacon cooking on a spit
Before the fire upon the kitchen
hearth.
The scent was unlike the whiffs
OktG 6G0
When passing by the railroad
shops today.
He stuck another pillow into the
Goals
And let me work the bellows UP
and down.
/ was no longer George Secpnr
dus Smith, 1sh
The runt that never made his
grade in school,
But mighty Vulcan at his mas
sive forge 81
Who shaped the golden chariots
for gods.
Elizabeth Charles Welborn.
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There are hints that like feath.
red dart D
Hit squareiy on the gold
While others quickly taking wing
Their messages have told
Before the archer draws his
string.
Then there are pointed keen
edged hints
That wildly fly astray
Though loosed from a bow of
Sherwoods band
And drawn as clean as day,
Yet miss their MARYLAND never
landi
--Beulah NJ. Sweetser.
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Economic Highlights

Nineteenth irty-nine will be
the best year for business and in
dustry in a decade. That SEN
tence accurately sums up the
views of numerous economic
foreasters today. In their opin-
ion, the recovery movement.
which was staggering and uncer-
tain when it began seven or eight
months ago, will continue to gain
both in strength and velocity.
The forecasters, of course, have
been wrong before, and grievous-
ly so. But it is a fact that at
present opinion is amazingly
unanimous as to the pleasant
prospects ahead for the immedi-
ate future. You can find many
an authority who is dubious over
the long-term outlook-who, for
instance, believe that govern
ment's greatly stimulated pump
printing activities are going to
cause the country plenty of trou-
i BILE in years shortly ahead. But
you'll have hard job finding an
authority who doubts that next
year will be the most prosperous
since the depression began. AS
the conservative Annalist puts it,
Recovery shows no signs of
slackening".
! Biggest recent optimistic news
was the announcement of a ire
mendous spending drive by the
nations electric utilities. Repre-
sentativesao of IA nnmaier systems
met with the President in Washs
ingtofiss and, naso an q APP 2dispateh1
phrases PHI. fnAmid . ndisphyn 81
dimess! which left fhs capital
ngsrsslng.D' .vsaanno pneedis q .farA
-reaetrinp program tosstrength ma
! tioAaP udefenses iand nstinsulate in
dustry by expanding private pow
er facilities. Details involve
spending at least $4,000, 600, 900 in
the next two years Ga sum dou-
BILE the recent rate of capital ex-
penditure by the industry and
buying sufficient equipmnt to
add 100000 horsepower to ex-
listing capacity. And this, it is
said, is only the first stage-if
plans 60 through as scheduled,
still greater expansion viii fol-
low.
/ On the red side of the ledger,
/ i'm the view of business gnerally,
is the Presidents Emergency
Boards report to the effect that
railroad wages should not be re-
duced, and that railway manage
ment withdraw its request for a
| Is percent cut. The President has
met with George Harrison, repre-
senting railway labor. and John
]. Policy. president OF the ASso-
citation of American Railroads,
for a conference concerning what
/ TO do in the future. The railroads
are unquestionabiy in the worst
position of any major industry.
But there is a possibility that
even this may have its brighter
side-the Administration is con-
sidered friendly to the lines. and
informed observers say that leg
islation to help the industry in
one way or another will lead
next Congress calendar.
Excellent augury is the auto
mobile industry's rapid emery
ence from the economic dog
house. The severe shutdown in
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In Miami it is suggested that univer-
sity be built with the $4,000, 600 that the
Florida Light and Power company is CON-
PEELED to rebate to users of its products by
order of the courts. That's fine idea and
for the sake of higher education we would
like TO see it go through, but it won't.
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Fascism and communism are threateul
ing thesreligions, of the world. 1t is up to
the church to stem the Tide of paganism
by a reinforced and renascent militancy;
it cannot be done by relaxing in soft
cushioned chairs and watching the Fords
go by"
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Today's Horoscope

Great care should be taken 10
train today's child in the paths of
morality and rectitude. for to-
days native VIII be a seeker aft
or pleasure. thirgling after new
delights and insistent IN their
pursuit He should be trained 10
find dae elements Of pleasure
along the higher planes Of Hfe.
ard the considerable abilities al
lowed 10 assert themselves
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Those voters who did not cast their
votes for Pepper and Cannon in the pri-
maries had chance to do so in Tuesdays
election. That squares everything and
determinations should be taboo, and will
be by broadminded office holders.
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Instead of the Duke and Duchess
visiting the United States, the King and
Queen of England will do us the honor next
year, and won't that swell the Worlds Fair
crowds
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FINES HIMSELF

SAN JOSE. calif.--No tardi-
ness would be tolerated in his
court room, said Judge E. N. Rec
tor of this city, who fined him.
self IS for being late.
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ssssssssesssssssssssssss
PIRATES GOLD
Edited BY
LEY LAWRENCE BOW

=
FAIR WARNING
La, you foolish man,
Asking me to marry!-
Me, whose feet, turned one way,
Want to go contrary;
Silly ears that harken
To every vagrant tune;
And eyes that never would see
- ; ; dust 80
. Fer yearning on ~the moon.
You'd not want me for a wife
fooled you at the start
Me with cloud banks in my eyes
And wish bone for heart!
-Hortense Roberta Roberts.
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LocUsTS WINGS

Those words of wisdom
Fall so easily from your lips,
Yet we who know the strum
OF locusts' wings in eclipse
OF sun do not eonfound
Them with the sage's truth.
Lily Lawrenc Bow.
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today that there would be .
meeting 81 tire fire department
members Sunday morning al 10
O'Clock al Number I fire house.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-11-10

Many Key West father says it's
about as hard to pronounce dirndl dresses
as it is to pay for them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-11-10

You can't dissipate ignorance by
wishing to be wise; it takes study and
thinking.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-11-10

Bachelors love to pet babies, es-
pecially if they are about 10 years old.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-11-10

Our children and grandchildren will
wonder what we did with all the money
they will have to pay back.