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| solved not to cry again and she
would not.
Because she was so tired she
fell asleep. She thought she heard
voice calling her name, but she
did not answer. She liked the cool
darkness of slumber. There was
something she must face in life
when she Weakened, her subcon-
scious mind told her, and she re-
fused to awaken.
The voice persisted, though, and
she opened her eyes slowly.
Billie Anne was seated in the
chair next to hers and her dark
eyes were genuinely friendly. She
was holding two white pills in one
hand and a paper cup of water IN
the other.
81 spied you when I started
down to the dinner" she said, $50
1 begged the porter for these. Take
them or you'll catch your death
of cold. You're drenched. tried to
find you when we had crossed the
river, but you were gone"
Linda swallowed the pills and
tried to thank this girl who was
being so kind, yet who stood in
the way of the one person she
wanted in life.
."I thought you would be flying
back" she said.
Couldn't. I did something to
the fuselage, landing in the rain
and the dark. I'll have the bill sent
to Rob. It's all his fault I had to
come. Anyway, he has plenty OF
money. He's his uncle's heir and
his uncle was blessed with lucre."
Linda studied the girl. This was
such a callous way to talk when
the man you loved had just been
saved from death. Or maybe Billie
Anne didn't love him, she reflect
ed. Maybe she wanted his fortune.
Robert is doing in his chair so
decided to roam around" Billie
Anne continued cheerfully. "Oh, by
the way, did you see your friend ?"
mo, but he's all right. 1t doesn't
matter"
"Goodw Billie Anne glanced at
the small jeweled watch on her
wrist. II hope we get in on time.
We're just 40 minutes out of New
York. I want to meet boat"
Robert won't feel like meeting
boat today, will he?" Linda
asked, and then bit her tongue
hard because what Robert did
would never concern her again.
"He doesn't have to. He'll go to
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
Less Liquor Sold
During Last Month

Raleigh, Aug. 81. lap ABC
store sales during July dropped to
s428.534.65, or $638O3.75 less liquor
than was sold during the same month
in 1889, Guitar Moore, chairman OF
the state board of alcoholic control
said today.
The sales for July by counties is
as follows: Beaufort Sl5,106.50, Ber-
tie S2,954.7O. Carteret Sl3,7l8.2O,
Chowan S4,655.4O. Craven $7.9O9.95,
Cumberland S28.755 60, Dare $8,743.-
20, Durham s76,4O295, Edgecombe
S18.945.25, Franklin S5,639.35, Greene
81 1901 20, Halifax $24,883.8O, John
ston S13.63O.15, Lenior S14,O5O.5O,
Martin S6,627.45, Moore $14,762.35,
Nash S13,951.2O New Hanover S62,-
1920. Onslow $3,756.45, Pasquotank
S16.981.1O, Pitt $18742.10, Tyrrel
S1,637.85. Vance $l0,982.1O, Wake
s68,921.25, Warren $6,024.7O, Wash
jngton $4,lO2.0O, Wilson $16,346.95.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
Rains Wash Out
Mountain Stills

Marion. Aug. 21.-The cloudburs'
last week dealt a severe blow to OPP
orators Of illicit liquor stills in NC
Dowell county, according to reports
reaching here today.
Hidden away in mountainous
coves, the stills are invariably Sc
I'D close to streams where the moon
sinners can secure the water needed
for operating their business.
As the floodwaters quickly sWellec
streams to numbering torrents, Varl-
Gus distilling outfits were torn from
their emplacements and swept down
stream.
No attempt was made to estimate
the number of stills thus destroyed
But at any rate" said Sheriff Grady
Nichols, I'VE can say that our WorF
of Kidding the county of moonshn!ns
has been helped by the storm"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
FSA Borrowers
Improve Status

North Carolina farm families on
the Farm Security Administration
program are tugging haN> ii the
OuotStrapS of opportunity. and slow
~ lifting themselves out Of debt and
up 10 Sclf-Supportlng status.
One hundred and eight-SiN low
income farm families Increased their
net worth by ~ per cent and re-
duced their debts owed To all others
, outside FSA by ID per cent during
1889.
This progress was shown by an
anlySiS Of 1876 record books, which
each of the $4,000 families on the
FSA rehabilitation program must
keep. according to lvey w. Day,
FSA supervisor for Vance County.
While this is small sample, Mr..
Day said it was considered Il fair
indication Of what all families are
doing.
FSA makes loans for the purchase
of tools. seed, fertilizer, livestock
and workStock. and for farm i'm
provcmcntS. Each family follows 4
planned operation of farm and
home. worked out between the family
and the FSA farm and home manage
ment supervisors. Dual purpose OF
this plan is subsistence for the fam
lily and conservation of soil and
water resources.
FSA announced recently that re-
habilitation borrowers WIRE repay
inc their debts to Farm Security Adj
mniStration satisfactorily, having
repaid about 83 per cent of MATURE
ties. and this survey indicates they
are making definite progress in re-
ducing their total debt burden.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21

his club and change. He's through
with this bridge project now. If
the men had listened to him and
built differently there wouldn't
have been this trouble. He's PLAN
ming to take off for South Ameri-
ca tomorrow night"
Tomorrow night just one
more night to be brave, then she
could forget him.
"Oh, that's soon," Linda man.
aged to say.
very! I'm glad he stayed long
enough to get me out of my jam.
You see" She paused. Come on
back to the diner and I'll tell you"
When they were seated at table
for two in the diner, with silver
pots of coffee and plates Of thin
toast in front of them: Billie Anne
took up the theme again.
II fell in love with a count last
year when I was abroad. And, well
when the blackouts came they
didn't cover him! He had some sort
of idea he'd get me, so, since Rob-
ert's father is my guardian-but
isn't we'll at the moment-he
turned me over to Robert. I had to
fly here and we've had long-dis-
lance calls and I think he'd like to
shake me.
"But I flew out when he was in
trouble to make up for it."
Long-distance calls Linda
was remembering two of them.
Robert had left word at his apart
ment for a call from Billie Anne to
be transferred to headquarters the
night Nina Nevins had confessed.
Then, too, he had been awaiting a
call at his club later that same eve
ming.
There was one question Linda
had TO ask. 1t was more important
than her pride, than Billie Anne's
ridicule, than life itself. She wanted
to say, quite casually, $50 you and
Robert are being married now?"
But she couldn't. The words
rolled into a small ball and stayed
in her throat. She drank some hot,
black coffee and tried to wash them
down.
She became aware that Billie
Anne was studying her. Now she
said, Maybe I'm prying, but Rob
erts crazy about you and I've had
bunch you like the lad. If you do
well, if you do, why don't you DO
something about it?"
Ito Be Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
Gandhi's Mystic Soul Holds
Secret Of India's Attitude

upon his soul passes on into some
subsequent critter. And then on and
on and on indefinitely.
Suppose Il sample OF the lowest or
der of creation is born. If it leads d
good life. It's promoted, in its rein
carnation, up to the grade, say, Of an
angleWorm. If a bad angleWorm, ne
rctrogrades, upon reincarnatlon. IL a
good one, he's promoted again in
stead. Presently he becomes a mon
key, next Il prehistoric man, next a
modern man; ultimately he'll grad
uatc into other things-higher and
higher and cverlastingly higher.
mean, that's what his soul will do.
Back to Creation.
As Of the right now, a candidate
for a mahatmaship sits down and
concentrates on remembering.
He remembers back to his own
birth: he remembers the career Of the
chap whose body his soul previously
occupied: he remembers his caveman
existence; he remembers his dolngS
as an angleWorm; he remembers
clear back to the moment OF his lnl-
tial appcarance-aS an amoepa ol
some such thing.
And then he remembers who OF
what gave him his original send off,
III short, he's solved the mystery
Of inGinity.
That's the stunt Mr.. Gandhi has to
his credit, if he's sure-enough ma
hatma-and they say he's 4 worlds
wonder.
Who knows what he'll think about
LondOn's representations?
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
CHAPTER FORTY-S SEVEN

FOR A LONG time Linda sat at
her table in the diner, where she
had gone Immediately upon enter
ing the train to return to New
York after she knew Robert was
safe.
Robert and Billie Anne rode in
some other part of the train. she
knew, and she did not want to see
them She did not want to leave her
seat for fear she would have to
pass them.
Robert would guess Thy she had
come. He would see her bedraggled,
soddcn, rumpleG. BY this time per-
haps he knew that Ronald and
Sarah were married. fie might not
understand that she had approved
that romance and aided it because
she had understood at last that her
mature love was not for Ronald.
At last, though. she had no eX-
cuse for sitting longer. She paid
her check, left a generous tip, and
started back to her chair. She
looked at the wilted black lace hat
whose brim had been so stiff and
gallant last night. 1t was limp and
lifeless now. So was she.
Her suit was wrinkled from the
rain and the last ruttie on her rose
blouse had collapsed.
"But that isn't important" she
told herself, walking down the
aisle. Robert won't even see how
I look if I bump into him. He will
have eyes only for Billie Anne.
When a man loves a girl, any 9TH
err girl can throw custard pies and
he'll just wonder what she's do
ing"
She went through the first car,
the second, and the third, trying
not to scan the passengers. There
would be nothing she could say to
Robert, anyway, in Billie Anne's
presence. Her own chair was in
the fourth car and she sat down,
swung it around, so she faced the
window, and studied the passing
fields. Quite probably Robert and
Billie Anne We're in one of the
back sections, she decided, and she
need not see them at all.
She was relieved that she need
not face a meeting, yet oddly dis
appointed.
She leaned back in the chair,
closed her eyes, and felt hot tears
under the lids. Defiantly she
winked them away. She had re-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
MOTHER KILLED IN RESCUE
ATTEMPT

Gainesville, Fla, Aug. 2l.-(AP)
Mrs. Avery c. Dennison, ~
parked her automobile, filled with
children, near a lake.
When she stepped away the car
oiled downhill. Mrs. Dennisor
.ushed back, tried frantically to stop
t. The car rolled over her, came to
stop at the bottom of the hill.
The children were unhurt.
Mrs. Dennison was killed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
States School Buses
Could Transport Army
Like Famous Taxicab Army That Saved Paris,
Buses Could Be Modified Quickly; Operation
Costs Are Low.

Raleigh, Aug. 2l.-(AP)-Likc the
famous taXicab army that once help
cd save Paris, 4 school bus army
could be used TO save the United
States from Il blitZkricg attack, North
Carolina officials predicted today.
In an emergency, North Carolina's
huge, state-oWned and operated
school bus fleet, the largest publicly
owned bus system in the country,
could be modified in Il few hours to
move 100000 men TO strategic posi-
tons. And even in these days Of me-
chaniZed warfare military authorities
agree it's still good idea to git thar
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21

questionably will
be an immense
help TO John Bull,
FOR h G subject
country not only is
enormously rich in
material resources;
it likewise has Il
prodigiouS popuIa-
ton, a great pro-
portion of which
consists of first
class fighters. It's
geographically well
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
COME WHAT MAY

Rcidsville, Aug. 2l.-The thlel
who robbed the office of DR.. W. A.
Johnson, Reidsville physician, was
evidently preparing for any kind OF
weather that might come for ne
took an electric fan, a suit of under
wear and quart Of fine Scotch
whisky which the "doc" had on
hand for medicinal purposes.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
"TWISTER"

Wilson, Aug. 21.-A crowd at a
Junior legion regional baseball game
here Monday spent a half hour,
while waiting for rain to stop,
watching 'tWister' Whirl through
the air near here that never hit
the ground. .v
The. "twister" was perfectly
formed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Aug. 2I.-II Brltaln
succeeds in winning India's support
in its pending campaign against total
itarianiSm it I'M
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
Woods Certified Abruzzi Rye

Made the highest yield on record
(e7e blu. per acre). in an Expert.
,ont station test. U. S. Dept. OF
agriculture tests showed ALL LoTS
"s W-OOD,S Abruzzi Rye were gem
nine and far superior for winter
pasture. while 1870 of the Aoluzz'
Pye sold was found misbranded'
,1 cATAJ,OG. Mailed Frea.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21

spot. When the Democratic majority
this year falls far short Of its over
whelming 1886 proportions, as it is
generally agreed it will, there are
sure to be those, ready to declare
that the slump was due TO absence OF
the guiding hand Of Gregg Cherry.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21

kidding him on what they please to
call his "ouster."
"Ah, ha," they crack "We told you
not to talk to Dr. Mcdonald like you
did in Chicago. Now see what hap
pened TO you"
Reports of the Chicago cOnVen-
ton say at one point a Vastly-lrrltat-
ed Gregg openly told DR.. Mcdonald
| "You're making nuisance of your
SELF"
Wade Bruton, assistant attorney
general, says he is writing a book"
As matter OF fact he is just about
doing it, too, in preparing the bien-
NAL report of the attorney generals
office. It's quite task, but MIR.
Bruton is used to it now.
The report, he says, will be pub
lished at least couple of months be-
fore converting of the General AS
sembly next January.
Here are the figures at which the
Border Belt tobacco markets are
shooting this year-last years pro-
ducers' sales totals in pounds and
the price average for 1889 on each
Of the seven marts:
Chadboun 6 warehouses;, 6,3l6,-
9O6 pounds at an average OF $l4.3O;
Clarkton 6 warehouses; 5,l64,822
pounds at an average OF $l5.26; Far
Bluff 6 warehouses; 4,oo0,l
pounds for an average Of $l6ll;
Fairmont G. warehouses; az, 403,71l
pounds at an average of $l5.77; Lum-
berton 6 warehouses;, 32,665,777
pounds at $l5.66; Tabor City g
Warehouses; 5,664,O28 pounds at
S15.74; and Whiteville e ware
houses) 26,469,219 pounds at $500.
The nickel is a most important
coin in the village Of Southport,
writes Bob Thompson Of the State
News Bureau.
It is not at all unusual for a mer-
chant to sell a basketful OF groceries,
or a dress or pair of shoes, and be
paid with a handful OF nickels. Some
of the towns leading business men
take water buckets full OF nickels
to their offices every morning.
It comes about from the shrimplng
business. No mei&od Of paying
shrimp pickers" other than giving a
nickel for each bucket OF shrimp
picked and as this shrimping is one
of the towns largest industries it has
made the nickel the most commonly
circulated coin by large majority,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21

If people never know the value OF
freedom till they suffer thraldom-
what a free and liberty-loVing peo-
pie will inhabit Europe when the
dictatOrs are gone.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
WOODS CERTIFIED
REARDLESS BARLEY

Field inspection by State Inspect,
ors showed practically no bearded
beads disease or noxious weeds.
Welded 62 bushels per acre IN q
state Experiment Station test.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21

GOODS Seed Oats and Barley are
treated With Ceresan FREE to insure
s'"a stands, eliminate diseases, and
".'-ase the yields 2OIS
n. FEtr ftr NHnnTNiC A TED
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
Wife Preservers

Don't be a button jerker if you want
,,o,,r Garments to last when they are laun-
dered Buttons which have been pressed
into the fabric respond to gentle loosen
inc by placing the thumb under the but,
ton he second finger on top OF It, and
then pressing the first and third fingers
Gently downward at the sides OF button.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-21
For GREATER YIELDS Of oe e FAsTU RE-
plant
WOODS
CERTIFIED IMPROVED
Lee No. 5 ColdprOOf Oats

Heaviest yielding oat for grain,
hay or winter pasture. Larger
heads Taller straw. 1t yielded
e5 bus. per acre in State Tx
periment Station test.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24

Seeking to have annulment of her
marriage set aside and to obtain ali
mony is Marianne Bernadsky, for
mer German actress and part owner
of a Union, N. j., animal hospital.
Her Russian eX-husband, Gregory
C. Bernadsky, seeks to wed Maria
Rasputin Solovieff, who claims to be
the daughter Of Russia's mad monk.
He was stopped by immigration Of
ficials who said she entered country
Illegally.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-24
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-" t''' 20 h'iit ana put q hanu on
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!l'''e Tie wrong ldea about this
%IEI CT ththF. II a disease, not d
i'aolC. AoGr brother was more to
os l''i'" IMAM blamed.
"Eut-but, | can't understand
It.. lie locked up at me with tr&-
| Gydy III his eyes.
1t probably began in the hos
/ p:tal after M:S accident" l en-
. rlair,i. "rhcy hat to keep him
: uray",u to Kill his pain. AflcrWard
. H.. took ours to prevent a rccur-
renee Of the torture. Finally, de-
! p"ivation Of the drugs themselves
tortured him. II was vicious cir
/ Gle. He was the helpless Vlctiia.
That Was why he was so interested
/ III drG% ad'hctS-Why lie wanted to
t''p 'h'hl, lie KNOW lhey were not
10 blame"
Eat oEt You know what a
/ quiet sort Of person he was. He
wasn't nervous. lie was q perfect
gentleman. II can't believe what
/ yrH say"
The drug wouldn't affect his
Z ppT,ifirt GErEDt nj tbp fine he was
Evening star., 1940-10-02

BY the Associa ted Press
BALTIMORE. Oct. Rear Ad-
miral Joseph Mason Reeves, U. S. N,
retired, was designated today as
recipient of the first annual scroll of
honor for distinguished service, to be
awarded by the Maryland branch of
the Navy League of the United
States.
Rear Admiral Reeves, former COM
mander of the United States Fleet
and a pioneer in developing the
fleets air arm, will receive the award
at Maryland Navy Day ceremonies
here October %. Admiral Reeves
resides at the Brighton Hotel in
Washington.
The affair is sponsored by the
Navy League and is one of several
scheduled throughout the country
on that date.
Robert E. Vining, chairman of the
Navy Day Committee, said Rear Ad-
miral H. E. Yarnell, former COM
mander in chief of the United States
Asiatic Fleet, would receive the 194l
scroll of honor. Rear Admiral Var
nell, now retired, was in command
of the Asiatic Fleet at the outset of
the current Sino-Japanese war.
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Japanese Says Spoin
Will Probably Enter War

TOXIC, Oct. 2 [P.-Domei Japa-
nese news agency quoted Shizuo
Sakamoto, former counselor at the
Japanese Embassay in Rome, as say
ing on his return to Moji en- route TO
Toxic today that Spain probably"
would go into the war on the side
of the axis powers Immediately prior
to any German attempt to invade
England.
Sakamoto declared he was unable
to say anything definite about the
possibility of Spain's joining the re-
Gently announced German Italian
Japanese alliance.
A letter to the newspaper Hochi
complained of what it called lack
of interest in the signing of the al
lance among Japan, Germany and
Italy.
Evening star., 1940-10-02

thought, would keep Britain's North
Sea fleet-including some of the
worlds most powerful battleships-
from turning south to fight Ger
many's Italian allies in the Mediter-
ranean.
Unofficial British sources said
Egypt probably would be the next
important land battlefield of the
war. They suggested that Germany
may move troops and mechanical
units to North Africa in the hope of
concluding the campaign there by
spring so the united powers of the
axis could be turned against the
fortress of Britain.
AN attempt at invasion, of course,
is always possible" military circles
said-but they asserted the almost
nightly British bombings of the in
vasion ports" plus increasingly un-
favorable weather, are whiting
down the chance such an attempt
could succeed.
Talk of Indian summer" invasion
udll6Ci ID lCSdid dCu ny SOIIic dS Ill.
tended primarily as a warning TO
the nations fighting services not to
relax their vigilance. Some spells of
better weather do come during
October. but they do not last long.
Heavy Submarine Toll.
Germany wants week-perhaps
two weeks-of really fine weather
if anything is to be done" one
source said.
The heavy submarine toll on
British shipping in the week ended
September % was not regarded gen.
orally as springing from the release
of Nazi submarines from invasion
Bases but to the coupling of a
spell of unusually good weather with
an increased number of bases from
which German submarines can
operate.
Submarines, it was pointed out,
are too slow to accompany the
speedy surface craft needed for an
invasion thrust and are not best
adapted for operations against such
naval forces as the British would
hurl against any invaders-light
cruisers, destroyers and motor tor
pedo boats.
Evening star., 1940-10-02

issued the comment a. what IT.
termed an answer to American
newspapers. which 1t said were
calling Japan's alliance with Ger
many and Italy threat against
which the United States would react.
Stefani attempting to answer the
question as to what aid Japan could
give the Axis or the Axis could give
Japan, declared:
IF America wanted to seek war
in the Pacific 1t Is clear that Japan
would not be displeased TO know
she was also engaged In the At
lantic. If she wanted to enter into
the European conflict the Axis would
not be inconvenienced to see her
engaged In the Pacific"
I'VE have no reason, however, to
suppose such a spirit of aggression
in American policy" the agency con-
dnued.
Because Of the three-power al
lance, peace between the United
States and Japan means in fact
peace between the United States
and the axis.
The maneuvers of American war
mongers could not be more ingenious
and open," Stefani said. IF the al
lance has any indirect warning val
ue 1t concerns them alone--it con-
Germs them precisely as war
mongers."
Evening star., 1940-10-02
Strategy
Continued From First Page.)

an invasion attempt, but that he
has not won aerial superiority makes
it less likely"
mo field of war is more important
to us than that in which We defend
Suez and our fleet bases in the Med
iterranean," it went on.
I'VE may have to send consider
able reinforcements of aircraft to
the Middle East when Italy begins
in earnes, particularly if she is
aided by German bombers."
Military sources declare vast Ger
man concentrations of men and
materials probably will be main
tained in the English Channel ports
along the Nazi-held coast of France
and the Low Countries throughout
the winter.
The threat of invasion, it was