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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
ARNOLD

u-understand all that, Shot! OF
course / do! I am grown. am not
s-stupid"
"Then what are you doing out
here? You just want to be a nurse1
Why, Lorena, men can do"
mo. No, Shot," !
'"Then Why?"
He was angry with her and 10
showed it now. He asked that and
rrasped her arm in his vehemence,
hurting her more than he knew.
3ul : g didn't answer. S'1e Just
s,,.oolS her head slowly and wiped
o,t her tears. And he saw t.la- same
dApth in her eyes again and it con.
fused him.
my lordy, Lorena" he muir.
INJURED in anger now, turning away.
Nor did he speak to her again
there. He walked back to his horse
men, leading his own mount, and
gravely ordered them to conceal
their horses among the shrubs Of
Miners arroyo, then see tier about
the tops of surrounding hills. If and
when the frs: sign OF EscoDar's
raiders should be seen. the man
who spotted it should give sig-
nal. All would come to their horses,
save Shot. IIe would remain an
outpost, and signal with his hand
kerchief when they were to ride out
for the attack. They would lead out
his own horse and he would take il
when they came near him. He Or
dered one Of his men to go back to
Lorena and tell her to lay low
where she was.
Lorena did not question the COM
mand.
She would have preferred it diff
ferently. She thought she nigh. do
some active scout service OF her
own if given the chance. There
would be no grave danger if she
kept out Of range when the thieves
did come-if they did. But she con-
tented herself to wait.
The men moved out from her inte
the low-lying hills that extended
eastward, surrounding and dotting
the valley that constitutes this
east range Of the vast Phantom
acreage. Nobody could say, she
knew, from just what direction
up just what canyon or passage
any raiders mightS come. But out
there lay the fattest, most termpts
ing cattle. In two hours Escobar's
vaqueros could drive off enough to
feed a regiment for days; and Luis
.Escobar's growing army, Of course.
needed food.
Lorena had long wearisome hours
to think of these things. At noon
nothing had happened. BY n1id-aft-
ernoon she was cra,nped and inef-
fably bored, and when nightfall
was nearing agair she realized that
nothing was likely to happen, after
all.
Then it was she looked back
down Miners arroyo toward home
and saw Jerry Dale coming.
ITO Be Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Roosevelt Might Not Get
Neutrality Next Session

Continued From Page One)
rious home towns throughout the
country.
Dependable tionists,
of course, will support the President,
but the last session of congress re-
vealed the unreliability of the ma
jority party as hackers of the exc
cutive mansions recommendations.
1t will be tight squeak anyway.
What About Japan?
While government spokesman en-
phatically don't like the Hitler-Stalin
dicker on general principles, few of
them very confidentially do voice a
modicum of satisfaction at the fix it
has left Japan in. There's been no
doubt in Washington at any time that
the Japs have intended to make
China as disagreeable a place for
Americans as for the English as soon
as they considered the occasion ripe
for it, Now, with Russia free to deal
with them, it's foreseen that the is
landers will be lucky to maintain any
foothold at all in continental Asia
That Stain will lend all the aid
possible to the Chinese is considered
a certainty. In short, military men
are mostly of the opinion that the
Jap cause on the mainland is as good
as lost already. If the mikado could
Mt lick Chang Kai-Shek without the
Soviets helping him, what chance
will he have, critics ask skeptically,
to handle a Russo-Chinese combina-
ton?
Indeed there are observers who
suggest that the Tokyo government
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28

Lorena's brown curls had been
combed in the current piled up"
mode, literally stacked above her
forehead in the manner she liked
because it gave her added height.
Over them this morning she had
tied a red silken square, peasant
fashion, to keep the hair under con-
troll.
Strong Mr.. Shot Rogers was
trembling when he dismounted.
Trembling even though his lips
were colorless and tight and tn
knuckles of his. hand showed white
For a long time he said nothing
further. He just stared at Lorena,
and swallowed, and glanced at his
followers, and then looked back at
her as she stood before him and
showed him where his bullets had
gone.
"It-I might have killed you!"
he whispered, at last.
"All right, Shot? You want us
there ?" one Of the older men called
out to him.
He looked at them and shook his
head. NO." he called back. "It's
just--oh, my god, men, don't never
shoot without being sure! Never!
Lorena, what in the world"
II had to come, Shot! There1l be
trouble. Men hurt. Death and-suf-
fering. You might be badly wound
ed! II brought some things for
tirst aid. Bandages, sheets I can
tear up. And I could--I could
well, I just had to come! I wanted
tor
She was crying then, quite be-
yond the realm of self-control.
Her lower lip tucked in slightly
in the manner characteristic of
her, quivering in her sobs, and her
eyes looked at him in that trust
ing, worshipful, but thoroughly
frightened expression he had seen
in fawns or young buck that he
had wounded once on the Tonic
range.
Its no good" said he, sensibly,
"to cry. You-well, you're here.
Now say for you to get back in
hiding safe somewhere if you won't
go on back home. I ought to take
and send two men with you, !
guess. We'd still have nine and"
mo"
"Hunh? You don't know yet
what you're messing into out here,
Lorena. You are a stranger in this
country. And a girl! My lordy,
don't you understand? Can't you
understand that Luis Escobar is nc
story book somebody? Can't you
understand that people have been
killed dead? Didn't you see those
coffins at Blanco? See the rewards
offered? Didn't you see the MeMi-
cans we had to kill? Why, just
this morning we came across the
body Of another one, all stripped
Of it's flesh and lying there half
skeleton in it's own bloody horror
with buzzards all around. Don't you
realize that"
mo! Yes! I mean. Of course
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
WRITTEN FOR AND RELEASED BY
CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

MEN WHO have been reared in
the outdoors see many things that
a city man misses.
Does bird jump from one twig
to another? The city man won't
notice but the country man can
tell you that it was a sparrow with
a droppy left wing. Has a "bug"
walked across the sand in the
trail? The city man won't know,
but the outdoor man saw the
tracks, knew that a horned lizard
made them. Are rocks stacked and
piled around fantastically as if ma
ture had gone completely crazy on
some prehistoric date? Surely, but
IOne fist-sized rock stacked on an
;other marks trail or warning
to the rancher, whereas his dude
guest won't observe it at all.
! Young Shot Rogers wasn't medi-
tating on such things as that, but
he was instinctively alert now for
the slightest untowar0 thing. He
and his riders moved up Miners
arroyo three abreast, horses at a
slow walk. Rifles were held in
readiness. Shots keen eyes moved
constantly, attentively, right and
left and back again.
CRACK! CRACK CRACK!
He had fired once, then twice
more, before his fellows quite real
ized it.
Ready now to shoot again, he
lgazed intently at a spot off to the
right. "Whoa-ho-o-o, boy, ho-o-o"
he murmured soothingly to his
horse. "Heads up, men. He's in the
rocks yonder, SO yards or so. It's
"a Mexican, all right. I caught a
glimpse Of his red shirt. If he
shoots Or moves again, We'll ride
him down."
They stared intently a few Sec
,onds. Nothing moved.
"COme out of it, hombre!" Shot
called loudly. "Manos arribaw
"Shot! Mr.. Rogers!"
The men were dumbfounded.
Shot himself became statuesque in
color and silence, striving to verify
what his ears told him.
"W-who is it?" he demanded
then, crisply.
"Glo-ree, stop shooting at met!
the voice answered, from the rocks.
It was a high voice, undeniably a
woman's. "Tm just about scared
crazy!"
my lord! My lord!" breathed
Shot, still incredulous. "Men, it's.
it's-oh, lordyw
Alone he rode out then.
His ten followers, amazed, could
only watch while he rode to Lorena
and bade her come out of hiding.
He was almost incoherent in de-
nanding to know if she was hurt,
if his bullets had struck her. And
she was equally excited in answer
ing him.
"M-my hair, Shot! My hair! 1t
went through my h-h-hair, see? 1t
tore off my handkerchief and
lOOk!"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
SEASONS, LIMITS
SQUIRRELS NAMED

Open seasons and bag limits for
hunting in this section have been
announced by the North Carolina
Department Of Conservation and De-
velopment through notification
sent to R. L. Burroughs, county game
protector.
The protector pointed out that
squirrel season opens in this county
September l, closes September 80
for a split season, with the other
dates being Nov. 20 to Jan. 81. The
bag limit is 10 per day.
Burroughs has asked the coopera-
ton of hunters in keeping the dates.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28

he said, was lessering, adding, "ho
bright hope should be drawn" from
the current waiting phase.
The British governments reply to
Hitler 'may bring useful element to
the orientation of international posi-
tions, if not to the solution of pend
ing questions" Gayda observed.
"But it also is certain that if the
adversaries do not deliberately want
war, they should refrain from mix
ing with the elementary limits of the
problem and it's solution, their own
questions Of prestige and calculations
of unconfessable aspirations"
Mussolini was in contact with both
ment
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28

settlement of European problems,
but indicated that Great Britain and
France would have to satisfy both
Germany and Italy of their good will.
Virginio Gayda, often the unoffi-
cial spokesman of the government,
said Mussolini alone could not "ac-
complish the miracle expected of
him." "He has need," Gayda wrote,
"of responsible men of good will who
listen to his words and understand
with honesty the spirit in which he
speaks them"
Gayda, like other Italian commen-
tators, remains pessimistic as to the
outcome of the exchange of notes be-
tween London and Berlin. The mar
gin of time in which to avert war,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28

1881. Passenger revenue for July
1889 was $393,917 as compared with
$266,571 for July 1888, an increase
of S127, ,346 or Att percent, and was
higher than for any corresponding
month since 1928 Net railway op-
Grating income for July 1889 shows
a deficit of 5000 which compared
with the deficit of $185, ,161 for July
1888 represents an Improvement OF
$176,O62.s
The Seaboard's earnings for the
seven months ended July 1889 as
compared with the same period of
last wear are shown below:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Sharp Decline
Hits Cotton

New York, Aug 28.-(AP)-Cot-
ton futures opened six to eight points
down on foreign selling, Wall Street
liquidation and hedge sales. Prices
around midday registered losses of
ten to fifteen points, October was
down the most at 8.44, and July lost
ten at 1888.
Professional selling and southern
liquidation carried prices to their
lowest level in the last ten minutes
of trading. Support came principally
from short covering and scaled down
prlce-fixing orders. Final prices were
20 to "A points lower. Middling spot,
1892.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
RAIN BLOCKS GAME
IN !SOFTBALL SERIES

Rain blocked the fourth game of
the series between the Gro-Swifts
and an All-Star aggregation sche-
dulles for this afternoon.
The series stands two to one in
favor of Gro-Swift, champions of
the city softball circuit.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Stocks Rallv
After Decline

New York, Aug. 28.-(AP)-Under
the leadership of steels and motors,
stocks rallied selectively in today's
market after an early tumble of one
to four points, attributed mainly to
a revival of European war tension
Offerings, however, were compara-
lively light, and this, brokers said,
tended to bring in a little support
Transfers for the five hours ap-
prOXimated 100000 shares.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Duke Freshmen To Report
Sent. II For OrientationI
,1.,erclassmen Return Sept ember FL to Begin New
Opp Scholastic Year Whic Promises to Be In
teresting Active

number of professional and aca-
dcmic conferences to be held on
the campus.
Some of the countrys best known
clergymen from time to time will
be guest preachers at the univer-
sity chapel
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
GREYSTONE ROCKIES
POSTPONE CONTEST

"A baseball game between Gtey-
stone Rockies and the Durham
Lucky Strike nine, scheduled for
Sunday afternoon at Greystone
park, was postponed, due to the
deaths in the Greystone COM
nunity to two highly respected
residents. The teams will likely
meet at a later date.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Parliament of Russia
Will Ratify Pact
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aggression pact-the two bills maxi
ing it likely the tax would not reach
formal ratification before tomorrow
The upper house was called intn
session at 4 p. m. G a. m. eastern
standard time) and the two houses
were summoned for joint meeting to-
night. Stal, War Commissar M:.lsf1a1
Klement; Voroshiloff, French Am
bassador Paul Magyar and the Brit
ish envoy, Sir William Seeds, were
absent at the first session. A num-
Der of diplomats attended.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
LEARN A TRADE

HIGH SCHOUL GRADUATES: Print
ing offers many opportunities foi
advancement to young men. Skilled
workmen in this industry are in de-
mand. THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL
OF PRINTING's facilities for
teaching the mechanics of the trade
are the best. For particulars write
to v. G. Garriott, Secretary-Treasur-
er. 1514-16 South Street. Nashville.
Tennessee IL. ii sasa1w
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Washington 8-4, St. Louis 7-3.
New York 13, Detroit 3.
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 0.
Cleveland 1-5, Boston 0-3.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Philadelphia 4-3, Chicago 50.
Cincinnati Z, New York 2.
Boston 1915, st. Louis 4-6.
Brooklyn 3-5, Pittsburgh 2-9.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE

Durham 5, Asheville 1.
Richmond 5, Charlotte 4. Go in
nings).
Only games played.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE

Durham at Portsmouth.
ASheVille at Richmond.
Norfolk at Charlotte.
Rocky Mount at WinSton-Salem.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York at Detroit.
Boston at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
Washington at st. Louis.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Earnings OF
Seaboard On
The Increase

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 2S.-Total op-
tfalIng revenues for the Seaboard
lRaalIWay for July amounted to $3,-
q52 ]5 2,96l, an increase of $416,O37 or
1865 10 percent over July, 1888, L. R.
Powell, Jr., chief executive officer,
reported today.
ooI fei4ht revenue amounted to ST.
99o, % -, an increase Of $279,18 or
i''z2 percent over the same month
ioSV year, and was higher than that
IoI any corresponding month since
freight revenue
!, ,oasehger revenue
loldl operating revenue
~ railway operating income -.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
Hitler Ready to Accept
Mussolini as Mediator
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part, to exert influence in the direc-
ton of reasonableness upon Poland" :"
the fuehrer declared.
He did not comment directly on
Daladier's suggestions that the
French premier was ''ready to make
every effort which an upright man
can undertake" toward a peaceful
solution.
Had Hitler intended to ask media
ton by Daladier, he would, it was
argued in political circles here, have
asked Daladier in his reply.
Official quarters said nothing was
known in Berlin about a second let
ter to Hitler which Paris dispatches
said Daladier was drafting.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28
RATIONAL LEAGUE

Cincinnati at New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
St. Louis at Boston.
Only games scheduled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-28

MUSSOLINI WOULD AGREE
TO ESSAY MEDIATOR ROLE
Rome, Aug. 28.-(AP)-Fascists
said today Premier Mussolini was
ready to lend his good offices to a
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Berserk Seaman Kills
Shipmate, Hurts One,
Then Leaps Into Sea
Maniac Rescued Against
His Will After Attacks
With d Hammer
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July PA seaman
aboard the Texas oil tanker Dun
cannon went suddenly berserk yes
terday, bludgeoned to death one
shipmate, left another in critical
condition, and then jumped over
board II miles of Diamond Shoals,
near Norfolk, Va. He was rescued
against his will.
A Coast Guard plane flew from
Cape May, N. j., to the ship and
removed the body and the injured
man to the Marine Hospital in Nor
folk.
The assailant was identified by
the Coast Guard as Bee Swami, AZ,
a second pumpman from GladWater,
Tex; the dead man as Jesse Ortego,
q, steward, and the injured man
Robert L. Dean, an oiler.
1t. Richard L. Burke, who flew
the Coast Guard plane, reported the
incident on his return from Norfolk
The ship was en- route from Port
Arthur, Tex, to Providence, R. l.,
when Swami attacked his shipmates
1t. Burke said both victims were
In terrible condition. According to
reports made to U.s." 1t. Burke said,
"Swann suddenly ran amuck while
the steward, Ortego, still was occu-
pied with his chores. He had just
started taking large chunk of
beef from the ice box when Swami
set upon him.
Without warning Swami drove
a large hammer into the top of his
skull. He struck 10 or IL times,
each time so powerfully as to pierce
the skull and smash it.
Swami turned around just as
Dean entered the pantry. Then he
set upon Dean, hammering the oiler
viciously about the head. The at
tack attracted other members of the
crew, and their approach frightened
Swami, who threw away his hammer
and leaped into the ocean
The master of the ship, Capt.
Joel A. Swanson, Immediately Or
dered a lifeboat crew to rescue
Swami. This they did, although
Swami fought fiercely against them.
Swami then was put in irons in the
paint locker and will be turned over
to the United States marshal in
Providence"
Evening star., 1939-07-24

and the passengers trunks were
placed on top of the silver. Members
Of the Falco's crew explained the re-
covery of pieces of broken trunks
by declaring the tremendously heavy
silver must have broken through
the trunks as the overturned liner
settled to the bottom of the sea.
With theri goal so near at hand.
Comdr. l.. Faggian, director of the
Italian salvage company and skipper
of the Falco, and his men have been
pushing operations in spite of choppy
seas, which endanger the lives of
divers and snap powerful grapple
lines. They plan to place several
small bombs around the opening al
ready made into the baggage room.
Then, with smooth seas, they hope
to be able to hoist the treasure
aboard.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Salvage Ship Crew
Reaches Merida
Baggage Room
Recovery Of Treasure
Off Norfolk Expected
In Two Days

NORFOLK, Va, July "a (NANA)
The baggage room Of the wrecked
liner Merida, where millions in silver
Is believed to lie, has been broken
into by the crew of the Italian sal
wage ship Falco.
The Falco. which put into Norfolk
Saturday morning, left yesterday to
return to the site of the wreck, of
Cape Charles, where two more work.
ing days are expected to bring re-
covery of the treasure.
Proof that their blasting oper-
ations had penetrated the baggage
room was seen in the contents of the
last load that was hoisted aboard
by the ships grapples before stormy
weather forced the Falco to seek the
shelter of Norfolk's harbor. Pieces
of broken trunks, an d-fashioned
silver watch case, a Mexicon CEN
tavo, dated 1888; some spools of silk
and silk stockings that had success
fully survived % years in salt water,
and some feminine undergarments
fell to the deck when the claws
of the grapple were opened.
These articles were blown into the
water by the last bomb that had
been exploded in the wreck, which
is lying upside down on the bottom
of the sea in 224 feet of water. The
bomb tore a hole in the floor of the
baggage room, but the hole was
too small to admit a grapple into
the treasures resting place.
According to officers who were
aboard the Merida when she sank,
80 miles from Norfolk, after having
been hit by the freighter Admiral
Farragut In May, 1911. the silver,
estimated to be worth anywhere
from 81 ,000, 900 to IS 100000 was laid
on the floor of the baggage room
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Kellogg Pact OutIowing War
Signed by Hoover 10 Years Aqo

threats, international uncertainty
and tension. Mr.. Kellogg and his
co-author, Foreign Minister Aris-
tide BRAND of France, are dead.
Undeclared wars have been waged
on three continents-Japan against
China, Italy against Ethiopia and
the civil war in Spain. Germany
has acquired large additions to her
territory. Some historians say that
the undeclared war is the stepchild
of the Kellogg pact.
In the stirring events of recent
months, with war still raging in
Asia and a balance Of military
power rapidly forming in Europe,
the Kellogg pact is embalmed in
silence.
Only in the hopes of few diplo-
mats, including Secretary Hull, does
the Kellogg pact still linger as an
instrument that eventually may
come to the fore. No nation, what
ever its acts, has denounced the
pact.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
SeIf-HeIp Exchange
Serves 300 at Dinner

Almost 300 people were served at
the special Sunday dinner yesterday
at the U street branch of the Wash
ington Self-Help Exchange, it was
announced at the headquarters Of
the organization.
During the week of July 9 to Is
over $500 meals were served to an
average daily attendance of 234.
The sewing room produced 1877 new
pieces of clothing and renovated
and repaired 318 garments.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Frenchmun Accused
As Nuzi Aide Dies
Py the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 24.-Julien Poirier.
one of two Paris newspaper en-
ployes arrested in the government
investigation of Nazi propaganda,
died last night in the Clamart Mil
itary Hospital following an opera
ton for stomach ulcer, the news
paper LIE Figaro reported today.
M. Poirier had held q position In
the advertising department of lie
Figaro until his arrest about two
weeks ago.
"Poirier's death wipes out judicial
action in what concerned him per-
sonally,' LIE Figaro said, but the
motives of the charges against him
still remain to be made public"
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Rotton and Peel Furniture

"a Peel Moeozine TobIes. Were $3.50.
NOW S4.75
8 Peel Round Coffee TobIes. We're sS7s.
SO Small Peel Stools. We're S2.25. Now 81 .65
loree Peel Arm Chairs. We're SI2. Now SO
Rotton Chairs, blue scot and bock cushions
We're $3.50.
Rotton Soto, blue and yellow scot and back
cushions. Vas s92. Now---- -S68.5O
Rotton Settees, blue ond yellow trimmed color
ful homespun cover. We're SIS. Now-SlS.75
Evening star., 1939-07-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ten years ago this afternoon Pres
ident Hoover proclaimed, in the east
room of the White House, the Kel-
logg Pact designed to end war by
outlawing it.
Beside the President were several
microphones ready for a national
broadcast of the ceremony. They
were removed for moment while
pictures were being taken.
Mr.. Hoover, forgetting the alb
sence of the microphones, began
reading his speech. The words for
which a Nation was waiting died
within the walls of the room.
Announcers snatched up copies of
the proclamation and hastily began
reading it into the microphones.
What had been intended to be a
solemn ceremony became confusion.
And what had been intended to
be an era of peace has become, 10
years later, an era of war and war
Evening star., 1939-07-24

treated for minor injuries.
The blaze started last night in
the pharmacy on the lower floor of
the palace and quickly spread to
great proportions from exploding
chemicals and inflammable ma
terial.
Isidore Cardinal Coma y Tomas.
after saving the valuable library at
the risk of his life, consented to
abandon the burning building short
ly after midnight.
The palace, built in the 18th CEN
tury, connects with the cathedral
through an arch across the inter-
vening street. This at one time
caught fire and firemen prepared
to dynamite it to save the cathe-
dral, but the flames were brought
under control there before it be-
came necessary