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The Washington times., 1939-01-26


Winterbottom vanished from
the gay life of Hollywood last
week when, after he had hoaxed
all Hollywood, he was exposed as
having nothing to do with the
London newspaper.
ROSE is SURPRISED
No one was more surprised than
Miss Heitner, who appears nightly
on the stage of Hollywood night
club.
She revealed they had become
betrothed.
HE told me he was a count"
she said, "and that his father in
Ireland was wealthy and would
just love me. He told me he
wanted me to be his wife"
"AND NOW HE'S GONE"
sand now he's gone" she la
mented. Il certainly would like
to know what happened to him."
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
ShoWqirl Betrothed
To Fugitive 'Noblemdn'

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26 GN.s)-Rose Heitner, pretty
showgr dropped long eyeashes lmpd brown to-
day and added another chapter the of the amazing
Capt W. Wnterbotom ORelly selfasserted Hollywood
respondent of London newspaper and fugitive from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
. STORIES
 IN STAMPS
Stomp Helped Build The Panama Conol

A FRENCHMAN, a volcano and
 "A stamp played important roles in the selection of Panama as the route for the canal which today links the Atlantic and Pa- cifc.
 The Frenchman was Philippe Bunau-Varilla, for four years chief engineer of the intellectual French attempt to pierce the isth- mus. A devoted admirer of Fer dinand de Lesseps, Bunau-Varilla remained a staunch defender of the Panama route after France abandoned the project.
 President Theodore Roosevelt and public opinion favored the proposed Nicaraguan canal, and the price France asked for rights to the canal was no small ob- stacle. Then the volcano began to figure prominently in congress sional debates on the project.
 Eruption of Mont Pelee on May 6, 1902, focused American atten- ton on volcanoes, and reports of activity of Mount Momotombo, in Nicaragua, on May IA, gave pro- ponents of the northern canal a severe setback. Nicaragua coun- tered with the statement that the country had had no volcanic erup- ton since 1885, that reports of the eruption of Mount Momotom- bo were false.
 Bunau-Varilla played his trump "a stamp. He sent each senator one of the Nicaraguan stamps, pictured above, of the issue of 1900, showing Mount Momotombo. near which the canal was to pass, in eruption. With each he wrote: "An official witness of the vol- ranic activity of Nicaragua" The dramatic coup proved effec- tive and the bill approving the Panama waterway was passed on June 19, 1902, by a majority of eight vo"e'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
AHEARN ACCEPTED
 BY MARINE CORPS
WatertOwn Youth Enlists for Service; Sent to Par-
 ris island for Training

New York, Aug. 7-Thomas J. Ahearn, 18 years old, son of Mir. and Mrs. Timothy J. Ahearn, 245 Porter street, Watertown, Conn.,, was &C., cepted today at the U. s. marine corps recruiting station, 14l3 Federal Office building, 90 Church street, New York city.
 Private Ahearn left for Paris Island, s. C., where the marine corps maintains training center for recruits. The training period at Paris Island is at least one month after which Ahearn will be sent to the marine base, Quantico, Va., for advanced training. Sea or foreign duty will follow the Quantico train- ing.
 While at Paris Island and Quan- tico, Ahearn will receive thorough instruction in rifle and pistol prac- tice, drill, inspections, and the re- sponsibiliites of marine.
 He will have an immediate oppor- tunity of enrolling in extensive edu- cational courses maintained by the marine corps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
Q SERIAL STORY
 WAR AND A WOMAN ss!ss.ss sY ss1as '. M :I1sI .!.7
Thev eot into the taxi. Jimmy

They got into the taxi Jimmy told the driver, Just ride"
 Then he said, "The Rangers on the West Coast. I'm to join her day after tomorrow, I'm going in naval ship that's being flown across the continent. had a heck of a time getting the transfer, but I got 1t. What I want you to do is join me in San Diego"
 Tt isn't as easy as that Jim- my" she said sadly. We can't shove everything else aside"
 Linda, I didn't come all this way to hear the same arguments over and over" His smile took the sting out of his words. You love me. You can't deny it. I love you. We didn't ask for it, but here it is. know you've been all taken up with your fathers sick ness. Only tell me this - have you broken your engagement to George Cameron yet?"
 No" she confessed faintly. No"
 "Why didn't you?"
 "Why didn't you tell Marcia straight out, instead of having yourself ordered away before the wedding?" she asked desperately. Its the same thing. II just couldn't tell him.
 T know he said quietly. Tt takes lot of courage. But with Marcia -- she's a girl. I'd be jilting her. I thought if let 1t fall off, if I didn't write, and she"
 That's still cowardly," Linda told him honestly.
 "Marcia's more wrapped up in Bill Brooks than she thinks she is I've seen them together and he's head over heels in love with her Only he knows she's engaged"
 "You want that to happen. Il would make 1t easier for you anc me-" That quality of relentless honesty in her didn't permit hel to fool herself, or him.
 Linda, we haven't much time I don't know when I'll be able tC come back here, once I report fol duty on the Ranger. Promise mt that you'll marry mel Promise me, Lindap
 Carried outside himself by thu strength of his love, Jimmy gath cred her into his arms unmindfu of the cab drivers eyes in tht little mirror. Promise me, dar' ling. We must be married. w must bel"
 (To Be C0ntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
CHAPTER XI
fed, stunned.

"BrDy?" George cried, stunned. sWhat could possibly"
 Linda interrupted him swiftly by calling out, "Oh, Miss Rourke! Her square figure had appeared Tor a moment In the doorway, and Ike a coward, Linda grabbed at the res- bite her presence would offer. HOW is Daddy doing?"
 Hes real comfy. I'm not but ting in, am I? I declare, I've had such a whirl this morning I've just got to sit downl" She pumped herself in to a wing chair as Linda had known she would.
 Georges stern face reddened. sNo doubt we can discuss this matter some other time" he said stiffly, rising.
 Don't go on account of me-, Rourke told him in an offended tone. q can get up and go right out again." She stood up. The tension between them was evident to her now.
 Miss Rourkel" Linda clutched at her. Really, vel Do stay She had invited her in. If George wanted to leave, wasn't that ex- actly what she had planned on? She loathed herself.
 "professor Cameron is a sort oi doctor" she babbed, trying to put Miss Rourke at ease. He's sci enlist. His research with microbes and your work with them in the sickroom are rather close If you stop and think about 1t"
 Miss Rourke sniffed. "Person- ally. wasn't trained the new fangled way. In my day we had practical nursing, not bookWork Not that bookwork isn't all right I guess My cases, now. I've had funny cases! Used to, l didn go out on private duty. worked for years in veterans hospital you know. But lately it got under my skin. I'm not as young as used to be, and never got hard I guess. The poor wrecks in tho hospital wrung my heart. Private duty is much more cheerful"
 "A government, hospital?" Linds echoed slowly. "Oh."
 Like your father was saying it certainly gives me goose pim pIes to read the papers and se wheee they're talking war again He told me that the girl frien' you were visiting is marrying al aviator. I bet 1t looks good to hel poor silly child, handsome uni form and fancy airplanes. Blu when a bodys nursed whats Tel of men when trenches get througl with them -- men that can't set and men that can't walk"
 George broke in impatiently "I've got to get back to the lat Some cultures in the refrigerator"
 Linda walked with him to tn door. He was too proud to ques ton her again about what wa keeping her busy tomorrow. "1l see you Monday" he said.
 She went wearily back to the liv ing room. Why had she put of tn inevitable moment?
 Miss Rourke's shrewd eyes search ed her face. You two were fighting weren't you?" she asked outright Hes kind of an uppity guy, In m opinion. Puts me in mind of thes young internes who know all tn answers and think old nurses lik me ought to be retired. They're no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08

so smart, these young onesl They know things out of books, put know 'em out of life"
 "Yes." Linda rnurmured.
 "Maybe this is none of my busi- ness. honey, but I do take a per- ! sonal interest in my patients. Your daddy's no fool! He's up there with his eyes closed, but he knows something's going on. An, there, colleen, now don't cry. Nothing,s SO bad that getting 1t of your chest won't make 1t bet- ter"
 1T can't let Daddy know" Lin- da choked "He mustn't have any shocks and Tiff he guessed that I - that I don't love George - 1t would kill him"
 Rourke pursed her lips in soundless whistle. 50 that's 1t! And there's another man, I'll be boundw
 "Yes," Linda admitted miser- ably. He's coming tomorrow. Oh, what shall do? What shall l do?" Rourke smoothed her starched white skirt. Honey, when I was your age was in love with a doctor. He was poor and l was poor and we couldn't get mar ried." Her face took on a shining, remembering look. Five years we waited. Then he cut himself in the operating room and - and l lost him. All can tell you is, if I had it to do over again, l wouldn't let anything stop me from taking my happiness when l could"
 But Daddy"
 "Yes. You've got to wait, oi course"
 The tinkle of Daddy's bedside bell sounded. Rourke jumped te her feet, instantly professional.
 Linda thought, duly, that Rourke didn't know the most important part She didn't know that Jimmy was one of those aviators in tho handsome uniforms. She didn' know that he was Marcia's be- trothed.
 Linda stood on the flat, windy | field and watched silver airlinel swoop gracefully down for land ing. This was the one from Wash ineton. The only one Jimmy coult have taken. She had sneaked ou this morning, right after reading Daddy the highlights of the Sunday paper. Rourke was on hand, under. standing and sympathetic, to divert his mind If Linda stayed away toe long,
 Jimmy mustn't come to tho house. That had been her firs' thought. But now, as the porter rolled up the stairs for the pas. sengers to alight, she found her. self trembling. Her heart wa! singing. In another instant shet see him again! She hadn't ex' pected to be happy. But she was
 "Lindal"
 Jimmy"
 She was folded close in hi arms. How tall he was. Tallel even than. she had remembered She looked shyly up at him. Th' curve of his lips, the way hi nose was straight and his cheel lean She wanted to toucl his face with her hands. The ho blood surged upward, and sh , broke away from him, confused ; In their greeting, she had forgot ten what she must say to hin Now 1t would be doubly hard. We -- we can't go home" sh , explained. Daddy doesn't know His condition is so precarious tha any little shock may h-hurt him. Heres a cab. We can driv around. I haven't very long, Lin da."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
CRANlUM CRACKERS
WHO'S WHO

WHO Q VhO
 Only one of the answers in each case of this set of musical questions is correct. See how many you can pick.
 1. Adelina Patti was: (O child care specialist; (b) inventor Of a candy bar; Co opera singer; (O famous female chef.
 2. Walter Damrosch. conductor, at 77 is entering a new field of work. Is it (a) going in the movies; (b) abandoning conducting to com- pose; Co taking up mechanical re- production of music; (d) promoting nudism.
 3. A famous singer recently sang before an outdoor audience of near ly 250000 people. Was 1t (a) Lauritz Melchior; (b) Lawrence Tibbett; Co Kristen Flagstad; (d) Lily Pons.
 4. Two of these well-known per formers at the piano are blind. Whichp (a) Alec Templeton; tb) Fats Waller; Co Eddie Duchin; (d) Art Tatum; (e) Ignace Padedewski,
 fA~..,... u.. Tast pawnN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
SMALLPOX RISES IN KANSAS

Manhattan, Kansas - (UP) - pr. M. w. Husband. head of the student health services at Kansas State College, warns that smallpox in- cidence in the state is increasing, and urged all students who have not been vaccInated within the last live years to be iimmunized at once
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
WINNIPEG TRIES
 GERMAN BEER

Winnipeg, Man. - (UP) - Ger man-made beer went on sale in provincial liquor stores in Mani- toba, being purchased because of petitions presented by signers who promised to buy it. John Turnbull. chief liquor commissioner, said that the order was only experi- mental.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08

Bartholomew Chassenee. distin- as1ished French jurist of the 18th century, made his reputation de. fending some rats that were on trial for having destroyed the barley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
CAST OF CHARACTER

. l LINDA STORM - Fell in love
 with her best friends fiance. MARCIA KING-Navy girl, loved
 . flyer.
 JIMMY COOPER - Naval flying
 instructor at Pensacola. GEORGE CAMERON - Linda's !, fiance. Yesterday: Jimmy wires that he is flying to see Linda before re- porting for sea duty. Linda req lizes that It Is admiration, not love, she feels for George. She re- fuses to go on a picnic with him, tells him she will be busy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
SIDE CHANGES

Answers on Last Page)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
BEATRICE SUTHERLAND
DIES AT COEBURN FRIDAY

Mrs. Beatrice Sutherland, wild
ow of the late Cedric Sutherland,
who was killed in the Red Jacket
mine explosion at Keen Mountain
about two years ago, died at Coe-
burn, Virginia, last Friday and
was buried at Clintwood on Sun
day in the cemetery near the
home of her father-in-law, Walter
Sutherland.
Mrs. Sutherland, about thirty
four years Of age, had been in de-
clining health during the pas
year due to an enlarged thyroid
gland. 1t was learned that she
died shortly after undergoing an
operation. She is survived by
three children.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Addressing the Virginia Educa-
ton Association at it's annual
meeting in Richmond Thanksgiv-
ing Week, Governor Price limited
that additional revenue for schools
would be sought and that the state
budget for the next biennium
would be built around the needs
of schools. He made it unmistak-
ably clear that it is the duty of
the state to provide funds for the
schools if additional revenue could
be found. Gov. Price took the
position that school should be pro-
vided for first and that if there
were not sufficient funds for 9TH
er governmental agencies that
they could suffer a curtailment in
funds after the schools had been
provided for.
Educational leaders throughout
the state feel that the legislature
will provide sufficient revenue
during it's next session to raise the
salaries of teachers and also nee
essary funds to put in effect a
sound retirement system.
Supt. Hall in militant address
challenged the people of Virginia
to show why educational oppor-
tunity should not be equalized.
Children in rich counties and cit
les, he pointed out, were no more
privileged to better educational
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
THROUGH THE WE E.

on the public square in Clintwood,
and everybody was excited, for
they thought they were going to
have hanging at last.
The day before the hanging was
to take place dead calm, ominous
and charged with feeling, was ly-
ing over the town. The only tele-
phone in Clintwood began ring
ing and ringing, The governor
was on the line, calling for Rus
sell McFall. The lawyer heard of
the call and went flying to the
telephone. In a short while he
came rushing out and ran at full
speed toward the Jail, where they
were guarding the convicted man.
He was calling aloud, "God bless
old Montague. I'd kiss his feet
if he were heren'
The governor had committed the
sentence to life Imprisonment.
Only two men have ever been
sentenced to death in Dickinson
County. One was Lige Wright.
the other was Wilson Bryant. In
both cases the sentences were
committed to life imprisonment
by the governor. Governor Mon
tague committed the sentence of
Wilson Bryant. Bryant was later
killed while trying to escape from
the state penitentiary. Governor
Swanson. committed the sentence
of Lige Wright. Wright was re-
leased after serving several years
in the penitentiary and later was
known in the feud annals of Pike
County, Kentucky.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
KIWANIS ELECT w. L.
RUSH PRESIDENT

In a rather spirited contest
Walter Lee Rush, local attorney
and charter member of the Kiwan-
is Club was elected president for
the coming year at the regular
meeting of the club on last Mon
day night. Other contestants for
the office were Howard Clark and
J. M. C. Sutherland.
The new president will assume
office on January l and guide the
destinies of the club during the
year of 1910.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

This story came to US through
the week:
Lige Wright killed man down
on the lower end of Big Ridge
late in the year Of 1907. In the
leisurely manner Of that time, his
trial was coming on during the
next summer. AS time for the
ordeal approached, Lige's doubts
of the outcome crystallized into a
belief that he was headed for a
conviction for murder in the first
degree. His heart waxed small
within him, and he took much
thought on his condition. Lige
recalled that one Hunt Hall was
a shrewd man at law. He decided
to appeal to him for aid, even
though this was an old enemy. He
sent for Hunt to come and hold
speech with him in Jail.
Lige told Hunt that he knew
that they had not been friends.
But, he said, no mountain man
had ever called in vain to his kind
in the hour of his need. Now he
was facing the raw rim of dis
aster, and would Hunt let the past
be past and the dead be dead?
Would he give counsel how Lige
might keep the rope from around
his neck?
Though they had not seen eye
to eye in the past, Hunt said, he
could not turn down the plea of
a man who stood within the shad-
ow of the gallows.
"Lige," he said, "the thing for
you to do is have your tase moved
to Rise Tounty. You can't get
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Trinkle Dies
In Richmond

E. Lee Trinkle, Ex-Governor of
Virginia, died suddenly in Rich
mond last Saturday morning after
a very busy week in attendance at
the annual meeting of the Vir-
ginia Education Association.
His death occurred at 8 o'clock
in the morning at the Hotel John
Marshall of pulmonary edema and
heart ailment. DIR. William
Graham, who attended him, said
the accumulation of fluid within
the chest was the principal cause
of death.
Governor Trinkle's career in
Virginia public life had covered
two terms in the state senate, the
governorship of Virginia in 1922
26, and the craftsmanship of the
state board of education. A farm
er, lawyer and business man as
we'll, he was president of the
Shenandoah Life Insurance Com
pany which had headquarters at
Roanoke, Virginia.
His death came after a busy
day. On Friday he presided at a
meeting Of the state board of edu-
cation and then attended recep-
ton given by the Governor and
Mrs. Price for delegates to the
Virginia Education Associations
convention. After spending very
sociable evening with friends, he
complained of cold just before
retiring. DR.. Graham, his physi-
clan, did not at first believe his
condition to be serious. Later he
summoned another physician, and
the two of them had not been long
at the bedside before Mr.. Trinkle
passed away.
The body was returned to Roa-
noke and then to Wytheville, his
native town, for burial on Mon
day afternoon. Active pallbearers
were: Gov. James H. Price, State
Supt. Sidney B. Hall, and the fol-
lowing members of the state board
of education: Virginius R. Shake
ford, Joseph H. Saunders, w. N.
Nef, and Blake T. Newton. Hon
orary pallbearers were officers of
the Shenandoah Life Insurance
Co.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
Governor Recommends
More Money For Schools

opportunities than children in the
most poverty stricken county in
the state. He pointed out that
such inequalities did exist and
could only be eradicated by the
state paying a minimum salary of
at least $720 from state funds for
teachers regardless of their loca-
ton in the state or the position
held.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
aGsHIIENHNaI HEaHlzs hNH HMRz InwnHH MmlMR
Hospital Notes
EHg5uEmHaHsammE mHNMnHz Mm Hlm mmma

Mr.. and Mrs. Elvin French
were blessed with new son at
the Dickinson County Hospital
this week.
Born to Mrs. Edward Stanley
of Stratton a baby girl.
Jonah Mullins still continues to
improve and is now able to sit up.
Miss Ida Berry spent Thanks
giving, Nov. 80, with her mother
at Gate City.
Miss Beulah Phipps of Lynch
burg spent Thanksgiving with her
mother, Mrs. Columbus Phipps.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
ere where they know

justice here where they know
you"
Hunt went up the street and
told an old cfony Of his advice
to Lige. His friend wondered why
Hunt had advised moving the
case to Wise County, where it was
known to one and all that they
did not look upon murder with as
much leniency as in Dickinson.
Hunt lowered his voice, 81
wanted him to move the tase to
Rise Tounty so they'd break him
damn neck"
Cowan Smith, "the old war
horse" who also ran in the last
election, can tell this one with
great gusto:
Away back in 1902 or 1908,
they had sentenced Wilson Bryant
to hang for murder of Will Van
over. Appeals had been made to
Governor Montague, but nothing
had been heard from him. Rus
sell McFall, Wilson Bryant's law
yer and friend, had defended him
with every ounce of his energy
and was fighting right on to the
end
They were building a scaffold
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
HOMEMAKERS CLUB MEETS

The Homemakers Club of Dick
enson Memorial High will meet
Friday night at 1880 at the Home
Economics Cottage. The program
will consist of demonstrations of
Christmas cookery and sugges-
tions for Christmas gifts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
SERIOUSLY ILL

Lum Stanley, we'll known farm
er of the Brush Creek section, is
reported seriously i'll at his home.
He is suffering with an acute kid
ney disorder, and has been un-
able to get around for some
weeks.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

We are no other than a moving
row
Of magic shadow shapes that coma
anG go
Round The sun-illumined Lantern
held
In Midnight by the Master of the
Snow. OMAR.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Miss Marisue Skeen was pa
tient at the Norton Clinic on Sat
urday and Sunday after having
her tonsils removed. She was
brought home on Sunday after
noon and shows marked improve
ment. She has been visited by
her many friends.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
BAZAAR

Circle No. of the Methodist
Missionary Society will have their
annual Christmas bazaar at
Skeen's drug store on Saturday,
Dec. 2.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Miss Vivian Counts of Emory
and Henry spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr.. and W~s.
Wilson Counts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30
THE
PERSONAL
SIDE

Mrs. J. C. Damron, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. C. Smith and family spent
Thanksgiving with Mr.. Smiths
parents in Appomattox, Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Mrs. A. A. Skeen and Mrs. jess
w. Skeen spent Saturday in Bris-
toll.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Supt. J. H. T. Sutherland re-
turned home last weekend after
attending the annual meeting of
the Virginia Education Association
in Richmond. y
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Mrs. Stella Harris returned to
Pittsburgh, Pa, after spending a
few weeks in lClintwood following
che death of her mother, Mrs. J.
c.. Smith.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-11-30

Miss Edwards returned home
on Sunday after spending the
Thanksgiving holidays with rela-
tives in Williamsburg.