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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20
D STORIES
 IN STAMPS
St. Pierre-Fronce In North America

TWO solitary, tiny groups of is- A lands, located of the southern coast of Newfoundland, are all that remains today of the once vast French colonial empire in North America. They are St. Pierre and Miquelon, with a total area of about 93 square miles, most of it barren land, so rocky that dynamite is used to blast graves.
 But barren or not, the residents of these two groups cling tena- ciously to this last bit of France in the New World. From the mo- ment that you enter the harbor of St. Pierre and see the lifesize figure of the virgin in niche on a cliff you know you are in French territory. The boats fly the tricolor, the sailors wear berets, striped jerseys and crimson sashes, they drink French wine, sing French songs and talk, of course, in French.
 50 they preserve what IS left of the French colonial empire, but there is little left today even for St. Pierre and Miquelon except a bit of fishing. And this is falling off.
 But the people stay on, battling the raw climate, the lack of sum shine, the perpetual fog. So rocky is the land that soil must be im- ported for gardens. There are no trees. Food is expensive because it is imported, with the exception of fish.
 At present France still values St. Pierre as training field for her seamen and therefore as im- portant to her navy. But St. Pierre. counts little on this score. The islands are too far from France. Even at that the islanders reckon distances to and from France instead of Newfoundland or the United States. A stamp of the colony is shown above, one of new set.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20
LOCAL BOYS HELD
 FOR MAY ROBBERY
LaSilva, Zastaury Bound Over to Criminal Court
 Term

Two Waterburians charged with robbery with violence in connection with the theft of a carload of cigar cites from Connecticut and Bishop avenues, Bridgeport, May g, were bound over to the next term of Criminal Superior Court in bonds of el0,000 each when arraigned by Bridgeport City Court Judge Hugh !. lAvery. Thursday.
 The men are Frank zastaury, 28, and Joseph LaSelva, 32, both with long police records in this city. A third man, who eluded police when his companions were caught in Stratford, is still at large. Police believe he is Thomas La Selva, also of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20

times see in Victorian steel en- cravings. Hers was type of cold perfection that belonged to past generation. Her aquiline nose had the executive curce of a generals. She stepped quickly across the room and pressed a button.
 Miss Franklin will understand, I am sure, that neither Mir. French nor can talk at a time like this. The servant will show her out"
 All of the sympathy Mary felt for Janice's father vanished at the studied rudeness of the girls mother.
 An expression of contempt came over Mrs. French's face. "No member of my family has ever spoken to a reporter"
 The footman appeared in the door. "Jenkins, will you kindly show this young woman out?"
 Mary smiled. That isn't quite correct, Mrs. French. AS told your husband, Janice talked to me every time she came to the Dove. I thought you and your husband might be able to tell me why she had that apartment on East roth street"
 Mrs. French gasped. "This is unbelievable! Edward, are you going to stand there and let this girl tell us that our daughter didn't live here?"
 Mary turned to go. Her other address was 45 East roth street"
 Its 8 lie," cried Mrs. French. Mary's story was carried in a two-column spread on the front page next morning. With grow ing curiosity New York read the opening paragraph. "The motive for Janice French's suicide is as- suming the proportions of a first class mystery. Last night, her parents, MT. and Mrs. Edward French, denied all knowledge of the separate apartment which their daughter maintained at 45 East roth street. Yet the maid whom Miss French employed at that address, told detectives of the 67th street police station, early this morning, that her mistress had been there as late as nine o'clock of the night her body was picked up in the East River of Beekman Place. Police Commissioner Ar thur Fenelon, who has taken charge of the case, promises more startling disclosures tomorrow"
 (TO Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20
CHAPTER X

The telephone in Mary Franklin's bedroom buzzed unpleasantly. She reached lazily across the bed.
 Hello" her voice trailed oil vaguely.
 Mary, this is Tom Ladd." The Managing editors tones carried impatience. i've been trying to get you for IS minutes"
 q must have been asleep" she said drowsily.
 Don't you keep anyone there to answer the phone?"
 "Sonetimes. What do you want?"
 "See Janice's mother and father before you go to the Dove. l want an interview with them for tomorrow. We've got to spring this thing quickly after all. Step on it." The receiver banged up.
 Mary lay still. The phone had reused her from deep sleep. She glanced at the clock. It was half past six! She had gone to bed at nine that morning, too tired even to remember much about the breakfast at the Plaza. She re- called telling Freda, the maid, that she could have the evening of. Freda must have left at six. That
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20
CAST OF CHARACTERS

MARY FRANKLIN = society ed- tor.
 DUKE MARTIN = suave night club gangster. SANICE FRENCH - society deb. gENE SHIRLEY = playboy.
  Yesterday: Walking home, Ladd decides to launch an offensive on the Janice French case, orders Mary to write a follow-up for the next day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20
TAYLOR GOOD RISK

Robert Taylor today was informed by one of the largest insurance com- panies that he is considered among the best insurance risks of any of the Hollywood stars, due to his clean manner of living and the care he takes of his health and physique.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-20
CR ANslJM CRACKERS
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?

Gan you place the following char acters in the proper book, poem, or play from which they came? l. Macduff. 2. Uncas. 3. Silas Marner. 4. Hopeful. 5, Minnehaha. 6. AthoS.
 Answers on Back Page.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
SHOWS BENEFIT OF
FIGHT ON EROSION

College Station, Raleigh, MAY 27
IL an acre of land on a 10 per cent
slope always had a good grass cover
u would take 10000 years for ero-
sion to claim six inches of the ton
soil. wy
Yet, if the land were bare and No
crops allowed to grow on it. erosion
would sweep away the six inches of
Top soil in just 15.4 years, o. w
Gather, subject matter ANALYST of
the State College Extension Service
declared today.
The statement, based on studies
conducted at the soil erosion ex-
pertinent station near Statesvil1e
showed an annual loss of 129.160
pounds of soil to the care on the
pare land, and only a 25-pound loss
Oh the grass land.
The experiment also revealed that
lt would take As years for erosion
10 steal six inches of top soil from
land planted continuously in cotton
The annual loss from the 10 ner
cent slope in this case would be ID :
$50 pounds of soil.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
PO7EAT 7O'ADDRESS
MEREDITH SENIORS
Wake Forest College Profes-
sor to Bring Address
Monday Morning

Meredith Colleke, Raleigh, May 27
DIR. Hubert Poteat, professor OF
Latin at Wake. Forest College, will
deliver the 4Oth annual commence
ment address at Meredith College,
Monday morning, May 20, when de-
grees will be conferred on n SEN
iors. This will mark the fifth Mere
dith commencement at which mem
Der of the Poteat family has been a
feature speaker. Eaas.f. .tu
Meredith's Ruby Anniversary COM
mencement program will get under
way Friday afternoon, May 26, when
an exhibition of the work of the
students in the art department will
be displayed in the college parlors.
A concert by the music students
will be presented in the auditorium
that evening. Saturday, May 27, will
mark Alumnae Day, with the annual
meeting of the general alumnae as
sociation convening in the Astro Hall
at 1890 o'clock in the morning. Mrs.
M. Johnson of Winston
Salem, president of the alumnae as
sociation, will preside, and Mrs.
Frank Pool of Chapel Hill will be
the chief speaker. Mrs. c. 0. Aber-
nethy of Raleigh will serve as toast
master for the alumna luncheon that
will begin at l o'clock in the college
hall. Special reunion classes
slated to meet this year are those of
1902, 'O3, 'O4, IA, '19, 20, '21, 20, '23,
'29, and 81. Society night, an annual
event sponsored by the two literary
societies, will be observed Saturday
evening at o'clock in the college
with DR.. Walter Cutter.
of Chapel Hill giving the feature ad-
dress. .s,.s3 .
Dr. S. l.. Stealey, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Raleigh, will
preach the baccalaureates sehmon,
Sunday morning May %, at IL
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
IREDELL MILK PLANT
TO ENLARGE PROJECT

Statesville, May 27-John A. Arey
dairy specialist of the State college
extension service, announced today
that surveys are being made look
ing toward the expansion of the milk
plant which opened April at States
vile.
The plant is now providing sup
Elementary cash income of from $5,-
900 to $4,000 per month to more than
$50 farmers in Iredell, Mecklenburg,
Rowan, Yadkin, Alexander and Lin
coin counties.
Arey explained that the Statesville
plant is now a receiving station, with
the milk being tanked in refrigerated
trucks across the mountains to Galax,
Va, where the company has con-
densery. a.s.
If the surveys show that there is a
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
FUNDS AUTHORIZED
( FOR NEGRO COLLEGE

Releigh, May 27.-(AP) - The
Council. of State authorized allot-
naent today of $114,8OO to North Car
olina College for Negroes at Durham
to inaugurate graduate and profess
sional courses for Negroes during the
1939-41 biennium.
y The council voted to make $50 .OOO
available for the 1939-4O and S54 '4OO
for l940-41 from the emergency and
contingency fund.
The 1899 legislature authorized es-
tablishment of graduate and profes-
sional courses for negroes at the Dur
ham college and at the Agricultural
and Technical college at Greensboro.
No funds. were appropriated. The law
followed the opinion of the United
States SupremeaCourt in the Missouri
case, that a state must provide such
courses for Negroes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

| having a lead this week."
There was a suspicion Of mois-
ture in Jessica's eyes. She went
over to Kate and sat on the arm of
her chair. "And did you come up
to see me play?"
"What else for? You've always
been my favorite child and now,
I'm re,.you'll be my favorite ac-
tress. What's this? A smile of ap-
probation salted with tears? 2"
Jessica brushed them away. "I'm
sorry, Kate" she said with a grin,
"only I'm sort of used to being
treated as a very unimportant Par
rish and I can't. believe that any
one would come up just to see me.
Excusit please"
Consider it excusited. Now tell
me what you all do to have a good
time" She avoided reminding Jes-
sica of, her former phrase. Obvi-
ously the girl realized she had said
something she shouldn't have.
"Well, work. I adore it! We re-
hearse all morning-incidentally,
it's next week that I'm playing the
lead-and. we give q performance
every night except Sunday and a
Saturday matinee"
"All work and no play"
"But there's lots Of play, Kate,
darling. Charles and I swim every
day and play tennis and we go
dancing after the show and have a
glorious time. Don't you worry
about my not having a good time.
| Everybody's having a good time.
Even Sonny. He's in q perpetual
seventh heaven because Mother
doesn't have him watched every
moment"
Where is he, Jessica 2"
Down in a brook or up in a. tree
or Whooping over hills. He's brown
as an Indian and twice as noisy. He
leads a real boys life."
"And Phil"
dad? Oh, he's very busy be-
tween his garden and golf and a
putting green he is making out in
the field. He'll be back shortly" !.
"How's your mothers golf 2",,
"She's given it up"
"Work ~ i1s y !.
mo, she's quit work for the
summer"
Eleanor not working? I can't
believe it! What does she do with
her time 2" i'll w#v ..s.. 81.
"Oh. she's frightfully busy. She
has a beau,i Kate. He keeps her
busy. They toddle all over the
countryside admiring nature, rid
ing and doing very civilized things.
He's one Of those big outdoor men,
darling, that would probably faint
at the sight Of q worm on a fish
ing line. But he's terribly in love
with her and she's eating it UP. It's
her age, I suppose" she said with
the tolerant smile Of youth.
Kate was shocked, but she did
not show it to the girl.
Eleanor came in before dinner.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
MAREBLlZARD

wearing a silk shirt and jodhpur5.
She wore a silk handkerchief
knotted loosely over her hair. Her
eyes sparkled and she looked
younger than Kate had ever re-
membered her looking.
Late that night Kate sat on the
side Of her bed and they talked
about Kate's new job, about the
country place Kate was going to
buy, about the cost Of living, about
everything but the thing that was
closest to Kate's mind.
She said: 'Nell, who's this new
admirer Of yours 2"
II suppose you mean Dennis. His
name is Dennis Pryor. He's visit
ing near here. He's very interest
ing.
"Jessica says he is madly in love
with you."
Eleanor's guilt gave her away.
She said angrily: "The child is
talking too much. What does she
know of love ?''
Kate answered very gently. She
had had a long talk with Jessica
that afternoon. She said: Eleanor,
if I were her mother, I should try
to find out what she knows of it."
Eleanor looked at her with q
quick glance and decided that she
would do so.
She waited until Kate had gone
back to New York and she was
lalone with Jessica at breakfast.
She said: "Jessica, granted that
you are growing up there are
some things about which you know
nothing. You must not assume that
you can analyze the emotions Of
people who are strangers to YOU"
What are you getting at,
Mother?"
Let us say Tn thinking of love.
understand that you told Kate
Dennis was madly in love with
me-"
isn't he ?" she asked.
."'Of course not! And if he were,
what would you know of it? ]
think you are most impertinent."
i Jessica got up and looked. down
at her mother. Mother, don't be
silly. Don't try to pretend with me,
or about Dennis. You're not blind.
I don't know why you are leading
him on, but I know that you are.
And I think it's cheap"
"Oh, you think it's cheap? Sup
pose you wait until you find out
what love is before you talk too
much"
sJessica's face was white and
strained. She said rather strangely:
Mother"
Eleanor said: "Ask Annie where
the morning paper is. I've told her
a dozen times that I want 1t on the
breakfast table,"
Jessica ran out Of the breakfast
room with a hand pressed to her
mouth.
Ito Be ContinuedD
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

ards were in flower. She could see
herself in white lace on the stone
terrace, drenched in moonlight.
In the study Phil Parrish said
to his daughter: "Jessica, have you
got anything you'd like to tell any,
body?" ~
She shook her head. "Not ANY
BODY" she said, with twinkle
IN her eye. :
"When I was a newspaperman,
people used to say that 1 never
printed anything anyone asked me
not to-" m
She flung herself into his lap and
pulled his face to hers, laying her
cheek against his for a moment.
WHEN you WE'RE newspaper
man! Anybody'd think to hear you
talk that life had spilled you into
a backwash. You're a coop, Daddy.
Several kinds of first-class COOP!
Maybe that's why I like them.
Now, if it's true that you are so
ethical. I might tell you some
thing"
us it about boy or is it about
these =. er -. plans of yours 2"
Both. Daddy" she said SOM
berly.
He sighed because he knew some
day it would have to come.s
She said: do you suppose being
the daughter of two. very talented
people like you and Mother would
make me more mature than most
girls my age? Mentally, I mean 2"
He considered it carefully. II
think perhaps it might, daughter.
AT least being exposed to your
mothers good mind might have
had some effect of that kind.".
you're smarter than she is, Dad.
Wiser, mean. /. /. You're en-
barrassed when I talk that way,
aren't you 2" She tweaked his hair.
"All right, I won't do it any more. "
Are you, by any chance, put.
ting off telling me what you want
to tell me ?" g... ae
"No.sI'll tell you. The most I'M
portant thing is that I've decided
to be an actress. Of course, I want
to finish my schooling. An actress
needs an education to interpret IN
telligently., But, in the meantime,
I'm going to join the Long Ridge
Summer Theater group"
ss"YOu mean that old red barn the.
ater a mile down from our place
She said; "Yes, Daddy. It's GO
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
.E[ONDEGREEFOR
THOMAS ON !, J. S. MORGAN
Vance County Native to Be
Honored at Elon's 49th
Commencement

Elon College, May 27.-Eion Col
lege will confer honorary degrees up
on five outstanding leaders in the
nation, state, and church at the 49th
commencement exercises Tuesday,
May 80. The five men are Josiah
William Bailey, senior senator. from
North Carolina, and Jonathan DAN
iels, editor and author who is to
make the graduation address, who
will be awarded the honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Literature; Rev.
Robert Wood Coe, pastor OF Leyden
Congregational Church, Brookline,
Mass, and Rev. Roger Eddy Treat,
pastor of Bushnell Congregational
Church, Detroit, Mich, who will be
awarded the honorary degree of doc
tor of divinity, and Thomas Alfred
Morgan, chairman of the board of
directors of the Sperry corporation
who will be awarded the honorary
degree of doctor of science.
The degrees will be conferred by
Dr. L. E. Smith, president of Elon
College.
Mr. Morgan, native of Vance
county is one of the states most
outstanding contributions in the field
of science and engineering. After at
tending Littleton High School he be-
came an electrical engineer with the
United States navy. He was success
lively an engineer, general sales man
ager, general manager, president and
chairman of the board of the Sperry
Gyroscope Company. At present he
still holds the last mentioned posi-
ton in addition to being chairman
of the board and director of Wick
ers, incorporated, Ford instrument
company, and the Waterbury tool
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27

ing to be- wonderful. The Reper-
tory Theater group is taking it
over and I'm very lucky to be able
to join it. I'll live at homes OF
course, and work 1t will be IDEAL.
If it hadn't been for Charles -"
"Ah, I detect something in your
voice when you mention the name.
Who is Charles ?"
II want you to meet him, Daddy1
TIL bring him here as soon as yoEa
ask me to. But want you to pre-
pare Mother for him."
"WhO is he, Jessica ?"
"An actor. He's college gradu-
ate, Daddy, and he's lived in Eua
rope a lot. He feels the same way
about the theater that I do and
we =. we have lot in common"
"Does he eat with his knife? Use
profanity in a drawing room? Or
wear a red shirt ?"
"None of those things. Daddy.
He's gentleman"
s."Then why must Mother be pre-
pared?" aasf
"She won't like him becauss5 do.
She's clever and she'll knoWs all
about him and me and the way we
feel about each other" IN
II guess Eleanor could swallow
a bit of puppy love- 49,
I'm notssure it, is love, Dad. But
If it is, it isn't puppy love. Charles
is thirty And you might as we'll
know thiS-he'S been marriHdsand
divorced" ..,sg.s:. SSsas5M
Phil Parrish felt somethns ld
60 over him. This little gis hisl
was right when she ,sai 4 Was,
what she wanted and she'd take
what she wanted. But when that
time came, he wanted her to have
the best. A man of thirty who had
been married and divorced was not
his idea of the best for a girl in III.
| teens. iFwN
Eleanor laughed at the 'ideasstlfSA
Jessica might be serious Ak$at
him. - aM
She laughed at Phil for being
worried. We'll. give her plentystf
rope and she'll hang him With1ft9'
she told Phil. 'We'll encourage
her to bring him around and it viii
wear off. I was in love with man
Of sixty-five when I was fourteen.
"And I thought I was the onlv
man you ever loved" he said
ITO Be ContinueeA
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
WILLIAM CANT is
WITH MOTOR CLUB

Charlotte, May 27.-William
Cant, former North Carolina news
paper man who for the past several
years has been engaged in editorial
and advertising work in New York
City, has been appointed director of
public relations for the Carolina
Motor Club, it was announced here
today by Coleman w. Roberts, pres
ident of the club.
In addition to furthering better
motoring conditions in the two
Carolinas, Mr.. Cant will edit The
Car Owner, official publication Of
the club He has just completed a
study of activities of several of the
American Automobile Association
affiliates and, together with expert
ence in public relations work, re-
turns to the Carolinas we'll equip
ped for his new position.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-27
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
WRITTEN FOR AND RELEASED BY
CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

L = Oxe i i x14b41G
KATE DOUGLAS drove her bat
tered car out to Long Ridge one
Friday afternoon in June. She
brought it to a stop in the road
beside a white picket fence that
ran around the grounds of Twin
Chimneys, the Parish cottage.
Her stout walking shoes crunched
pleasantly on the gravel path that
led to- the front door. She bent and
picked a pink flower to put in the
lapel of her tailored silk suit.
The upper half Of the Dutch door
was open invitingly and she looked
into the cool interior before calling
out to announce her presence. Her
eyes swept the view within, set
ting briefly on tennis rackets, a
flower basket containing garden
gloves and shears in the hall, on a
bit of needlework and silver Thin
BILE on a rocker near the hearth.
She was thinking: Eleanor has
done well with her life; better than
I expected.
Absorbed in her reverie, she was
not conscious of quick, light steps
at her back. ~
Jessica threw her arms around
her, hugged the thick frame to her
own slimness.
Gosh! Gee, Kate! How very
grand to have you herew
Kate beamed her pleasure.
t'What a silly kind of hostess I
am! Letting you stand here in the
sun when you must be hot and
thirsty. Come in and let me get
you something nice and cool to
drink. How about a beaker Of but
termilk 2"
"Just the thing, Jessica, but it's
my eyes and not my tummie that
have been starved. I've just been
having along look at the evidences
of happy domestic life. Sit down
here and tell me about. it. Looks
as If you were all having a pretty
good time"
we re aWIully DuSy. AL OF us.
And having a good time, too, in our
own way"
There was something about the
way she said the last half of her,
speech that made Kate ask, "How
90 you mean, Jessica 2" s5
This is sort of Liberty Hail.,
Jesslca Informed her. eve each do
what we want to. We live like
characters in a play"
And are you -. isn't there
any family at home today?" "a
Don't you start thinking Of go-
ing pack! We've got you here and
It's, here you're going to stay all
them"
What's this Liberty Hair line?"
well, I'm an actress"
Ihat's4 one of the reasons Il
came up. I hear that you're doing
z perfectly swell job. Aren't YOU