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Evening star., 1939-09-04
Miss Ruth MCGEE NickerSon
Weds Mr.. w. F, Leffler.

The wedding of Miss Ruth MCGEE
Nickerson, niece of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy w. Thaxton of Bethesda, Nd,
to Mr.. William Franklin Leffier, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Carr Lefiier of
this city, took place Sunday, August
n, at 4 o'clock, when the Rev. Robin
Gould performed the ceremony In
the Francis Asbury Methodist
Church, which was decorated with
gladioli, tall candles and a profusion
OF palms. Mrs. Robin Gould played
the organ.
Mr.. Thaxton gave his niece in
marriage. The bride wore a fall
model OF burnt sugar-color wool,
with brown accessories and a cor
sage Of white gardenias.
Miss Jane Wilson of WASHINGTON
was maid of honor, in a brown crepe
dress with brown and gold acces-
sories. Her corsage was of talisman
roses.
Mr.. Harris Palmer Leffier was
his brothers best man and the ush-
ers were Mr.. Winfred Lee and Mr.,
Elwood Russ.
Mrs. LETTER was graduated in June
from Winthrop College, Rock Hin,
S. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lenler will make
their home at 1920 Clydesdale place.
Evening star., 1939-09-04
New European Termini
Allowed u. S. Planes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
gave Pan American Airways per-
mission yesterday to make Foynes,
Ireland, the eastern terminus of its
transatlantic service via the north
ern route. Similarly, permission
was granted to terminate the south
ern line at Lisbon, Portugal.
The termini have been South
ampton, England, and Marseilles
France, but war in Europe may
make service to these points i'm
practical. officials said.
The American Clipper left Port
Washington, Long Island, yesterday
morning on a northern route fight
with "a passengers, II of them
British, one French and six Ameri-
can. She is due back in New York
Thursday.
Evening star., 1939-09-04

-Saxony. Germantown. Wonder
Lustre. She. .l1nd Floss and Low
er's Twist! All-wool and wool
and-rayoh. Assorted colors.
Evening star., 1939-09-04
Calcutta Conference
To Decide Indian Stund
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHUNGKING, Sept. 4.-The In
dian Nationalist leader, Jawaharlal
Behru, cutting short his visit In
China, will speed homeward today
to summon the All-India Congress
at Calcutta to decide the Indian
attitude in the European war.
He will leave in a plane provided
by Chang Kai-shek, the Chinese
generalissimo with whom he has
been comforting.
Chungking newspapers rejecting
all shades of political opinion spoke
out today in favor of a sympathetic
attitude toward Britain and France.
Evening star., 1939-09-04
Clipping Brings Sons
Reunion With Father
BY the Associated Press,

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.-A news
paper clipping paved the way for
reunion of Tom Shields of Bowling
Green and his son, living in st.
Louis, Mo, after a separation of %
years.
The younger Shields, now 80, is
Mr.. Shields son by a former mar
IMAGE. The father saw newspaper
article recently telling about his
son and began corresponding with
him.
Evening star., 1939-09-04
Suburban
Continued From Page B-3.)

turn tomorrow to her home In Fair
fax, Va. Mr.. Beard has returned
from weeks conference at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
Blacksburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bready OF
Herndon. Va, have as their guests
for a week Mrs. M. A. White Of
Washington and Miss Betty Blair of
Beverly Hills. Calf.
Evening star., 1939-09-04
Weddings
Continued From Page B-3)

make their home.
The bride, who attended George
Washington University, is employed
in the Public Relations Department
OF the H. o. L. c. She is we'll known
in dance circles in this city.
Mr.. Taylor is employed by the Ma
tional Park Service and is a member
OF the faculty of the Washington
Musical Institute. He attended the
College of Idaho.
Evening star., 1939-09-04
THE EVENINGS HIGH LIGHTS

THE EVENINGS HIGH LIGHTS
70pm-WRC Jose Echaniz Cuban solo,
is tonight. The orchestra S
Alfred Walenstein. S
orchestra in LISTS Hungarian Fantasy" Orchestral
numbers include the prelude to Bzet's Carmen"
senets Under the Linden Tree" and Raves "Bolero.'
SWpm.-WMAL Barbara Stanwyck William Holden Adolphe
Menou and Lee Cobb heard Magic Key
S30pm.-WMAL Senator David l. Walsh chairman
Naval Affairs Committee, is speaker tonight
the National Radio
90pm-WJSV broadcast by the Chicago
brings to a close the series of Grant Park
930pm-WOI the Pageant Melody, Henry
and featuring Attiio Baggore Selections
include Thomas "Mignon";
Themes From Martha"
SHORT-WAV PROGRAM
73opm-RoME, in English 2RO meg 254 M; 1RF,
983 meg, 305 m.
1880 0pm-BERLN, Today in Germany, meg,
745 pm-LONDON, B. c. Empire Orchestra meg,
1913 m; GSD, l175 meg, 255 m 951 meg. m.
s3opm-PAR1s, light music TPB11, meg 252 M; TPA4
I'LL 256 n.
1880 pm-BERLIN, news in English DJD, meg,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
Mental Troubles Greatest
Problem, Doctor Declares

On any one day, he said, pei
cent of the population is in mental
hospitals. About 100000 adults
or 10 per cent of the population, will
at some time in their lives be more
or less incapacitated by mental i'll
ness.
He sketced the chief mental trou-
bles in detail. Epilepsy, or falling
sickness, has been known since
Homer, yet medical progress toward
relief is still "very slight.
Softening of the brain can only be
helped when diagnosed early, but the
early discovery is difficult. 1t may
take several lifetimes before ply
sicianS know how to control demen-
tia praecox, the insanity of adoles-
cence, and schozophrenia, the spill
personality phobia.
There are other mental troubles
he said, with names so technical the
public does not even know the words
Feeblemindedness, one Of the Wors
mental curses, must look to the scien-
lists investigating gemetics ano
heredity for hope in limiting produc-
ton of children unable from birth
to meet the mental needs of civiliza-
ton.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
No War While Royal Pair
Are In u. S.; Washington
Fears Public Reception
Continued From Page Onel

safeguarded from cranks as no two
national guests ever were before. In
this respect they'll be a decided
nuisance. They'll upset all the nor
NAL life of the capital. Traffic will
be shot entirely to pieces. Local bust
ness will be completely disorganized
The citizenry will consider 'em an
internal bother. But what does the
entertainment committee care for or
binary folks! John Doe won't be able
to get to his office Crossing Pennsy-
lvania Avenue will be like crossing
the Polish Corridor.
There'll be terrific crowds along
both sides of the street.
The authorities want a reasonable
amount of applause from these ag-
gregations. They're not afraid Of
many boos, but they're slightly ap-
prehenSive of clammy Indifference.
"Sassiety' is another headache.
The tony bunch is literally crazy
10 get in on the receptions and things.
Invitations to 'em are more valuable
than United States senatorships. The
| British embassy's vicinity will be a
war zone.
Washington has entertained roy
atty before, but never royalty of this
pairs caliber.
Wallie and Husband.
It's suspected that the recent broad
cast by the Duke of Windsor lex
king and former Prince of Wales)
has sucked some of the life out of
the welcome expected for his young
er brother and sister, in-laW.
The former prince has BEEN here
a time or two before and was great
ly liked.
My guess would be that the Wind
sors dropping in for a weekend
their Britannia majesties. They
wouldn't get such an official blow
out, but I'll bet they'd get a lot of
public clamor.
Probably that's why the British
| government was SO cold toward the
dukes radio broadcast. 1t didn't en-
JOY having the duke swiping SO
much of the kings thunder-parti-
cularly at this juncture.
Dispatches keep saying that the
duke and duchess are coming over
here shortly.
II they do, they won't get the same
official holler as the king and queen
but I'll bet they'll get more general
attention than the royal couple.
Nevertheless, the two royalties
will gum up the streets worse.
Gosh! What a pest these moguls
are-obstructing traffic, the way they
do-in a republic!
l. It's enough to make 3nvhodv
democrat.
The worst of it is that they, sloE
over into our midst.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
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| kitchen and dining room and Flea.
nor's work room.
The rent was six thousand a
year.
It was easy for Eleanor to pay
it after that first year. It was easy
for her to pay the cook, the house.
man, the maid, Sonny's nurse and
her secretary.
Phil paid the food and liquor
bills. And for the telephone and
lights. The rest of his money was
piling up in the bank. The "rest
of his money" was not the money
he earned at the paper-it was the
matter of commissions Eleanor in
sisted he accept. True, he was her
agent, her manager, her critic and
her sage, but he would not give
up his job to be any Of these.
They'd had terrific scene over the
matter of commissions and he had
finally agreed to accept them, He
did not tell her that he put the
money in the bank in her name.
There was a great deal of money
that flowed into her hands from the
magazines for which she wrote Sc
rials. They were not very good
serials, but they were popular and
the public bought the magazines to
read her stories. She never read
them in print. She didn't have the
time or the appetite for them.
She worked, during those years,
like one possessed. She had to
keep up with her contracts. Yet
she managed her home and her
family with the efficiency that had
marked her every project.
With her business managed
adroitly by her husband, she was
free to devote herself to story tell
ing.
It was grind that told on her
after the first three years and Phil
was insistant upon another holiday
for them. When she refused, he
took matters into his own hands.
He bought cottage in the coun-
try. It wasn't very large, but it
was charming. A Cape Cod type
Of white house, filled with lovely
antiques, with big hearths and a
smell of spice about it. He showed
it to her proudly.
"You can work here as well as
in town." he told her. "And I will
keep the garden blooming for you.
See what I have here"
He showed her a row Of brave
little hyacinths, first floral har-
bingers of spring, gay and bright
and heady with perfume.
Hyacinths," she murmured.
Remember the day you brought
a pot of them to me before we were
married ?"
IT haven't much to give you,
Nell, but you'll have hyacinths
every spring of our lives"
She was to remember that.
| (TO Be Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
Daily Dlspatcn Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, May 17.-Parole Commis-
sioner Edwin Gill this morning ended
a long investigation of the Charlie
Smith case with announcement that
the Columbus Negro will not be pa
rolled or pardoned in view chiefly of
the fact that Mrs. Sarah Lyles, pro-
secutrix in the case, which original
ly ended in a death verdict has
changed her mind again and now
says that Charlie did invade her
home at night and attempt to at
tack her.
The commissioner said the matter
has been one of the most trying and
complicated ever to come before him.
1t has been under investigation for
months.
What made it so tough was the
inability of the prosecutriX to stick
to any one story for any length Of
time. There were many cross-cur-
rents of opinion and influence from
Columbus and reports and rumOrS
regarding the motives of those seek
ing clemency for the Negro were nu-
merous and varied, running from
stories that prominent white men
were seeking to get him out of pri-
son because he was d good "stiller"
to assertions that petty jealousies be-
tween officers who did and did not
participate in Smiths capture were
at the bottom of the rumpus.
But above all the difficulties were
the frequent Veerings Of the prose-
cutriX. AT the trial she positively
identified Smith as her assailant.
Later, when application for commu-
tatiOn of the death sentence was uln-
der consideration, she said: There
is possibility that there was a mis-
take made in the identification of my
assailant." Still later she came to
Raleigh and made to Commissioner
Gill the positive assertion: II admit
l made a mistake. Charlie Smith is
innocent"
If it had ended there, or if there
had been no other angles to the case,
Smith would likely have been set
free very soon after this sort of de-
claration.
But, as Commissioner Gill said in
statement issued today: "It must
be remembered that Charlie Smith
was iOI COllNICteu SOIely on LIle IeS-
timony of Mrs. Lyles There were
other circumstances including the
positive identification made by her
son, Clarence Lyles, who was IA
years of age at the time the crime
was committed"
Also there was a caution from Su-
perior Court Judge John J. Burney
(Who was solicitor at the Smith triaD
that everything wasn't as simple as
the Mrs. Lyles exoneration of the
prisoner might imply.
And so Commissioner Gill let
things rock along in order that there
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
By HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE.
Associated Press Science Editor.

st. Louis, May 17.-Evidence is
available that at least 100000 Of
the 130,00O,000 people in this country
bear in their bodies the seeds which
may occasionally, result in a feeble
minded child
This assertion was made to the
American Medical association yester-
day by its new president, Dr. Rock
Sleyster, of Wauwtosa, Wis, one of
the nations foremost brain author
tiles.
He said mental troubles are the
nations greatest unsolved medical
problem and that an understanding
of the human mind and the human
way of thinking may aid in solution
of problems of government.
He sketched medicines miracles in
prolonging life, but he asserted if
protection against hazards of sickness
brings unwillingness to battle against
economic troubles, then the price
paid is ''far more than the goods are
worth"
These declarations were made dur
ing DR.. Sleyster's presidential ad-
dress, at a meeting to which the pub
lie was invited
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17

something beautiful behind you,
you are naturally afraid youH
never experience it again"
His words were almost pro-
phetic.
Eleanor said: I'D like to stay
up here all night, but we dock
early and I've got to pack"
''Tll help" he offered.
"No, stay up here until you're
sleepy. I don't need you."
He was in such a mood that her
last words seemed written across
the stars he looked at after she had
gone below.
Suddenly he wanted no more of
the night. He went into the bar
and ordered a nightcap for him
self.
"It's a dreadfully long way out,
isn't it?" she said in the cab that
took them to Great Neck.
"But it's home," he said with a
smile. The smile was intended to
convey the idea to her that he was
kidding about his sentiment.
Eleanor wouldn't like sentimental
ity about a house.
The post had piled up during
their absence. It was a very inter-
esting post. It contained letters
from agents who wanted to handle
her material. It contained bids
from magazines to see her stories.
There were offers and invitations
for her to speak before women's
clubs.
She said: Lets not renew the
lease on this place. I really ought
to move back to New York, Phil.
It's terribly inconvenient for me to
leave my work and rush into town
to keep<an engagement. And then
that awful slavery of time tables.
It isn't as if we had to move back
to some dark, pokey fiat. We
could really manage something
quite comfortable"
"But we can't take Jessica out
Of school here. She's getting along
DeauClfully.
She looked at her husband with
an air of faint amusement. "Dar-
ling, you're so cute when you get
paternal. Jessica has been out of
school here since the first of No
vember. Besides, I want her to go
to a good private day school. I
was thinking of Miss Maidstone's.
It's only three thousand a year."
The Parishes moved into an
apartment in the East Fifties near
the East river. Eleanor had said
they needn't move into dark,
pokey place. This new one was
not. There was a drawing room
with a balcony that ran around it
from which other rooms were en-
tered. Jessica's room, Sonny's
room, Eleanor and Phil's room. On
the first floor of the duplex there
were two servants rooms, the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS
SALE.

Pursuant to powers contained in
Judgment recorded in Book l8l naaa
$50 in the office Of the Register Of
Deeds of Vance County. and in
Minute Book 18 page 549 to 557 in
the office of the Clerk Of Superior
Court Of Vance County wherein the
undersigned are named as CommiS-
siOnerS to sell property with the same
power and authority as set forth in
certain deeds of trust as fully as if
named trustees in said instrument
and pursuant to the powers set forth
in deed of trust of R. H. Wortbam
recorded in Book Isl page 145 in the
office of Register Of Deeds of Vance
County bearing date Of September 5.
1923, the undersigned will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash at the Court House door in
Henderson, N. c., on Monday, May
29th, 1889, at II O'clock, Noon, the
following described property:
It is the tract of land in Sandy
Creek Township, Vance County,
North Carolina, containing lO7 acres,
more or less, and known as the
Eugene Scanlan tract on which War
rem Perry long resided, and is bound
ed at this time by the lands of Miss
Mary Steed, A. J. Royster, A. H.
Hoyle, Mrs Edward Allen, E. L.
Farmer, and David L. Hoyle, less ten
acres heretofore sold from this tract,
leaving amount of land hereby con-
veyed 81 acres, more or less. For
further description see Trustees
Deed from Edison T. Hicks, Trustee,
to w. c. Hight, duly recorded in
Book 139 page 40, Registers office
of Vance County, N. c. See also deed
of even date herewith from w. C.
Hight and wife to R. H. Wortham.
A. A. BUM,
B. H. PERRY,
Commissioners.
April 25, 1889.
26-3-1O-17
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17
First Ruler to Set
Foot In America
Continued From Page One)

home to come to another; that we
are all of one household Macken-
zie-King said. Free institutions
and democratic ideals are. as dear
to the hearts of your people in
Canada as to the people in any 9TH
er part of the empire. We regard
their preservation and perpetuation
is the common concern of ALL"
King. &c orge vi became the first
reigning British monarch to. set foot
on North American soil, when he
and Queen Elizabeth landed at
Quebec for their tour of Canada and
the United States. The king and
queen made their landing from
liner Empress of Australia at 9:34
a.. m. to be welcomed by Prime
Minister King and leaders of Can
ada and the province of Quebec.
"a The ceremonial welcomes took
place in the shadow of the giant
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17

General objective Of A.
Maai thalo De to disassociate beer OrNe rive
t, nose VINO handle it comnlotnld ana
from the low type of dive tDa,dlpiIetey and
iieeg JOINT with which if is :" ooot-
t.mes connected, at least in tbo 'oine- oe-
nc mind. Colonel Balm WHY lG pub
this sort of drive and v,in n mead
little connection with trade nroaVe nave
within the industry P''cuces
He will devote his entire o4,
TO his new post, and it is ,,cnIlon as'a.,n
he will open headquarters nroSlaad S'.,9e'lned
in Raleigh; though the coIonaI 1a1Ipaoly
self is slated to retain his lNi rol;d Illin-
in Goldsboro. 0'iuehce
The whole set-up is in limo -,
the policy recently adonted !, WIN
beer industry all over tho oo DS Ihe
A nationwide ADVERTISING cao''ily. 9o'uiuy.
has been conducted in an offaya fr,pa'sh
acquaint the public with the Il, N.Y. 70
ficial results claimed to flow yelle- fnd
the breWeries and their nrodnaI lLoln
and organizations similar ~ 90ac''' H
one planned for North Carolina uie
been set up in numerous dtbee nbee
states. oliier
It goes without saying that =.
new organization will do its s. von ule
best to keep from the appearapcyS aoey
ol being a huge political lobby 'l,ut h,'t
like other organizations fo, o+I pu'
industries, it will probably '',et aet
credit in the public eve for iust tbst se'
Witness, for example, the NortE o,al
Carolina Petroleum Industries 70, Con. u
ncittee during the recent legioIn Si.,-
ture, when it was assailed as 'eI6o tbo
"oil lobby" Purely by coinciderooe ,le
the N. c: P. c. is headed bv >
former State senator, S. GiImer
Sparger, who represented Stol,o.
and Surry in two assemblies. mo
If, as is probable, the group goa.
into action as an ally Of law en-.
fcrcement officers, things are goino
to happen on big scale.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-17

might be time for cooling of pas
sions. reflection on the whole a11alr
and clearer, calmer examination ol
the whole picture.
Then when Mrs. Lyles was visited
and interviewed again there was an
other story According to the Gil
statement of today:
I'm connection with our further
investigation, an agent of the com
missioner of paroles recently talked
with Mrs. Lyles. During this inter-
view she frankly stated that she had
lied to the commissioner of paroles
when she came to Raleigh, and re-
affirmed her belief that Charlie
Smith was the guilty man.
Clarence Lyles, upon being re-
Gently contacted by this office" also
said the Gill statement, 'reaffirmed
his testimony at the trial and stated
that he has never doubted that Char
lie Smith was the man who came
into the house and made the at
tack on his mother Clarence Lyles
does not live with his mother, but
resides in South Carolina with re-
.atives.O
There were intimations at the time
)f Mrs. Lyles statement that Smith
is innocent that she had been in
luenced by Henry Britt, whom she
lad married after the trial and con-
fiction Of Smith,
When the last investigation of the
matter was made by Gilrs office,
Britt was in Jail in Robson county
(his offense was not indicated on
the commissioners report and Mr..
Gill said he did not know what the
charge Was). AT this time Britt said
that Mrs. Lyles Cor BritD doesn't
seem to know her own mind about
the matter.
In more or less informal comment
IN the case, Commissioner Gill in
Iicated belief that the jury which
iirst convicted Smith did not act pri-
narily-certainly not altogether-on
the testimony of Mrs. Lyles.
The identification by Clarence
Lyles-who said he saw the Negro
very clearly by the light of lamp
IN the Lyles homeland other cir
cumstances connecting Smith with
the crime were sufficient, Mr. Gill
aid, to have convicted the Negro
without Mrs. Lyles' testimony.
In view of Mrs. Lyles' flat re-
pudiation Of her court testimony, the
case excited statewide interest and
here was more than little editorial
comment that the Negro should be
released Immediately because, it was
said, his innocence has been estab-
lished"
There was also some adverse COM
ment on the length of time consum-
ed by the paroles office in investiga-
ton; but delay in final decision un-
til such time as the various parties
could be given time for reflection
seems to have been justified by the
result.
A brief chronology of the affair
shows that the crime was commit
ed in the summer of 1886; Smith was
convicted at the August term that
year; there was appeal to the Su-
preme Court, where the verdict was
upheld. Immediately thereafter there
was petition for clemency which
ended in a Communication ION account
of doubt that has arisen in the minds
of some people concerning his guilt"
Mrs. Lyles made her statement of
exoneration on October 27, 1888.