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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-30
Duke Alumni Will
Gather In Oxford
On Friday, Oct. III

Duke university alumni Of the
three counties of Vance, Warren and
Granville viii hold their annual din
ner in oxford on Friday night OF
next week, October 10, It was an
nouccd today by T. W. McCracken,
president Of the Vance county chap
Ter. The dinner Will be in the dim
,ue room of the First Methodist
church in OXf I'd at 7 p m.
\ speaker from the university VIII
be on hand for the occasion to adj
dress the assembled alumni of the
institution, but his identity has not
been learned here.
Duke alumni in the three counties
maintain separate county organlza-
ton units, each with its wv officers,
but they hold their annual dinners
together, rotating oetWeea Hender-
son. Warrentcn and Oxford. Last De-
tober the meeting was in Warrenton
and wa largel, attended.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-30
MRS. Singleton IS
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Former Henderson Lady
Dies In Washington, N. c.;
Funeral Set.

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-30

Scout Work
Is Endorsed
Henderson Council
Ready TO Undertake
Bigger If
Three Other Counties
Willing To Cooperate
in Plans.

At a meeting Of Boy Scout leaders
of Henderson Monday night at the
FIRST Presbyterian church. it was de
cidCd TO request assignment f a full
time assistant Scout executive TO the
four counties of Vance. Granville,
Franklin and Warren. It was the cN-
pressed view Of those present that
Scouting could not attain its maxi
mum possibilities in this area with
out moro trained leadership of the
t.ypc such an executive could pro-
vide.
Tho new executive would live in
Iicndors n and devote his entire time
TO the four counties. The group last
night voted unanimously to launch
the venture if other cities and coun-
ties involved would cooperate,
Claude Humphries, Of Raleigh,
Scout executive for the O~cconeechcc
council f Boy Scouts, was present
at the meeting and explained in de
tail the new program. which includes
three new assistant executives for
0Cconeochre council. one Of these
would be in the southern area, n
in the central and II in the north
Crn area. the latter to include Vance
and the three surrounding counties.
A committee was appointed at the
meeting to confer with representa-
tiVeS fir m the other towns in the
northern area This meeting is plan
ned for Friday night of this week at
9 o'clock, according to Rev. W. d..
49,. n 1
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-30
Prices
Are Higher

New York, Sept. 30.-fAP)-Cot-
ton futures opened 5 to Il higher.
Noon prices were IS to 81 points
higher; October 1918; March l7.2G.
and July l7.40.
Evening star., 1941-02-11

that the authorities not close this
investigation, for the following rea-
sons:
1T is we'll known that the Ogpu
has specimens of handwritings of
Krivitsky-who was once in their
employ-in every language. They
are experts at forgery, as Krivitsky
pointed out in his writing.
II saw him in my Office last week.
He told me he was going to buy a
small farm near a university town
in Virginia. He complained that
he was being shadowed and asked
me TO help him get a permit TO
carry gun.
He asked me to help him get
protection from the F. B. I. He
wanted to change his name and l
took steps to accomplish this-in
secret proceedings.
Planned New Life.
"There was nothing TO indicate
that this was a man about to COM
NIT suicide. All his plans were laid
on the basis of starting new life
in the United States.
Il strongly urge that both the
local police and the F. B. I. be used
TO make sure this isn't another
Trotsky case" .
DR.. Macdonald replied that the
case would remain open. The cor
oner said that he was certain that
it was a suicide and had so certi-
fed. But if any new evidence was
developed he would consider a
change in his verdict.
During testimony before the Dies
Committee in October, 1899, Krl-
vitsky testified he was born Samuel
Ginsberg in the Russian Ukraine
in 1899. He said his official, legal
Soviet government name had been
. Krivitsky since 1919.
Krivitsky testified that he entered
the military intelligence in 1920
and from 1921 to 1923 worked in the
! third bureau of the Red army gen.
eral staff He returned TO general
SpdAl civ WI al AoOt d4lNA
holding several other positions. and
said he was chief of Soviet military
intelligence for Western Europe in
1861. He said he broke with
Stain over the 1897 purge A short
wiry individual with a lined, grim
face, ne gave the committee much
inside information of what he said
was the working of the international
Communist system.
Testimony Recalled.
Testifying in Russian through ar
interpreter, he declared that $4,000
members of the Russian Red army
corps were destroyed" by Stain
in 1887: that 100000 or 10000 other
persons were exiled or imprisoned
and millions" interned in concen-
tration camps.
He also testified that:
Communist party leaders in Ger.
Evening star., 1941-02-11
Coroner Macdonald Reveals
Texts Of Krivitsky Notes

Forgive It is very hard 10
write. Take care of him and be
a good mother to him and oe
always quiet and never get angry
at him. He is very good and AL
ways very pale. Good peopie
will help you, but not enemies.
MY sins are very big.
Il see you Tonia and Alex. I
embrace you.
Yours.
"Vela."
"On the Farm of Dobertov-r
wrote this yesterday. but / dld
not have any strength in New
York. ! did not have any busi~
ness in Washington. l went TO
see Dobertov because that Ia the
only place I could get firearms. !"
Name Unexplained.
No one was available last night
to explain who Dobertov Ii.
Neither the mans wife nor Mr..
Waldman had ever heard Of such
a person.
The third letter was written IN
German. II was addressed 10
Suzanne" who, Mr.. Waldman
explained. is Suzanne La Toilette.
cousin of the Wisconsin polit-
ical family and a liberal writer.
1t said:
Dear Suzanne:
u trust that you are well and
I am dying with the hope that
you will help Tonia and my poor
ooy You were a good friend.
Yours, Walter.
Il also think about your mother
and Dorothy"
Evening star., 1941-02-11

Notes which were found in the
room in which Gen. Walter Kri-
vitsky was shot to death were
read 10 newsmen at the Morgue
last night by Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald.
The letters, he explained. were
written on stationery bearing the
letterhead Charlottesville, Va,
and nothing more. The first.
written in English, was addressed
to Mr.. Waldman. 1t said:
Dear Mr.. Waldman:
MY wife and my boy will need
your help. Please do for them
what you can.
yours. Walter Krivitsky.
II went 10 Virginia because !
know that there I can get a gun.
II my friends get in trouble please
help them. They are good people
and they didn't know why I got
the gun"
Letter to Wife and Son.
The second letter was in Rus
sian and addressed to his wife
and their 7-year-old son. whose
address in New York has been
kept secret. It said:
Dear Roma and Alex:
1T is very difficult, but I want
to live very badly, but it is i'm
possible I love you. my only one.
1t is difficult for me To write,
but think about me and then you
will understand that I must go.
Don't tell Alex yet where his IA
ther is gone. I believe that in
time you will tell him, because
it will be best for him.
Evening star., 1941-02-11

Waldman to help him get protection
from the F. b L because he feared
for his life. He said he was thinking
of going to Virginia to look over a
farm property he wanted to buy as
hiding place for his family.
In Washington he appeared at
SAC pm. Sunday at the Bellevue
Hotel a small, quiet hostlry in the
first block of E street NV, and
registered as Walter Poret. This
was the name he had taken legal
steps to adopt-hoping that it would
deceive the assassins he believed
were seeking him.
No phone calls went from the room
nor to it and no visitors were known
to have called. Krivitsky ordered a
bottle Of sparkling water from the
room service-although nothing was
found in his room with which he
might have mixed it.
He was shot some time during
the night. A maid. unable to get
an answer when she knocked at
the room in the morning, used her
pass key to enter about $50 am.
She found the body on the bed.
1t was on top of the covers. Kriv-
itsky was wearing a sweater and
had taken off his shoes.
Pistol on Bed.
There was a gaping wound in the
right side of his head The right
arm lay across the body, the right
hand resting on the left arm. The
pistol-covered with blood-was on
the bed, to the left of the body.
A doctor was summoned and pro-
nounced the man dead Police
searching through the effects in the
room, found three notes. One was
in English, addressed to Mr.. Wald-
man in New York The second
was in German and the third in
Russian.
There was passport, issued by
the Canadian government, which
bore the name Ginsberg. There
was nothing to indicate anything
but suicide. The room was in order;
the door locked; the window-five
floors above the street and neal
no fire escape-was open a little.
Detective Sergt. Dewey Guest ot
the Homicide Squad, who handled
the investigation, concluded that il
was a routine case He closed hi!
investigation and certificate o.
suicide was prepared.
Late in the afternoon, there came
a call from Mr.. Waldman. He tolc
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson
that Ginsberg was in reality Gen
Krivitsky. He said that there WA
no doubt that the man had beer
murdered and stated that he woulc
come to Washington Immediately u
aid in the investigation.
Matthews Identifies Body.
Seeking Identification of the body
newspapermen located DR.. Matthew.
and took him to the Morgue. 1t wa.
the Dies Committee chief investi.
gator who had discovered Krivitsky
originally and persuaded him to tel
his story
DR.. Matthews viewed the body ane
said:
That's Krivitsky, And I'm sure
he's been murdered"
Talking to reporters, he told how
Evening star., 1941-02-11

to commit suicide. And they re-
peated again and again his warning
that he might be slain In such q
manner as to indicate he had killed
himself.
Police were convinced that the
death was a suicide. Their strong
est point was the notes which were
found in the dead mans room.
Mr. Waldman contended that it
would be no trick for the OGPU, to
which he attributed diabolical clev-
erness, to have forged the notes.
He contended that there was a
strange tone in the letters and said
they did not sound like they had
been written by his close friend.
Mrs. Tanya Krivitsky, wife of the
general, scoffed at the suicide ver-
sion. In New York City she said
that he had been happy in his home
life, was we'll fixed financially as
result of his writings and was in
good health.
He had come to Washington, Mrs.
Krivitsky said, to see Representa-
tive Dies and to look for home in
Virginia.
Previous Attempt Claimed.
She confirmed Mr.. Waldmans
statement about the mysterious as
sassin who was feared by the former
Russian agent. Mrs. Krivitsky said
the same man had attempted to kill
Mr.. Krivitsky in Marseilles in 1887.
As Samuel Ginsberg. the slain man
yesterday had been on the verge of
passing unnoticed into oblivion. A
/ certificate of suicide had been writ
! ten for him. The gun which had
| killed him was en- route to the police
property clerk.
But the revelation that Samuel
! GinSberg was Gen. Walter Krivitsky
put a new face on the matter 1t
was Krivitsky who, in series Of
! stories which appeared in the Satur-
day Evening Post a short time be-
fore the outbreak of the European
war. had predicted that Stain
would sign treaty with Hitler
Later, he came before the Dies
Committee to make other startling
revelations. He described his posi-
tion under the Russian regime of
Stain as chief of the Western Euro
pean division of the Ogpu, dread Sc
cret police.
| Ports of entry were canvaSSed to-
day to determine exactly where Gen.
Krivitsky entered this country. i'm
migra ton and natural alton service
records of incoming aliens being
maintained in the Offices at point of
arrival There was a report that
Krivitsky had come into the United
States on a visa which had been
renewed two or three times. He was
quoted as saying recently, however
that no more extensions would be
necessary.
Reconstruct Details.
Police. calling in translators to
interpret notes which we're found in
the dead mans room and going back
over the whole of their investigation
of the routine" suicide of Samuel
Ginsberg. pieced together the whole
story as follows:
In the early part of last week
KrivitSky called at Mr.. Waldman' 6
Office in New York He asked Mr.
Evening star., 1941-02-11

he had found the Russian In 1899 In
a hide-away in upper New York.
The place was 80 carefully hidden
that it took hours 70 reach 1t, Dr.
Matthews said.
He came to know Krivitsky well
and to believe implicitly in the mans
story Of his experiences as Russian
secret police chief.
He appeared before the commit
tee on October II. 1889" DR..
Matthews said. Il rode from Wash
ington to New York with him after
the hearings.
He said then There are two of
us they're after. Trotsky is one and
I'm the other. Don't ever believe
I committed suicide I went to
Mexico City a few weeks later to
talk to Trotsky.
"Trotsky told me There are two
of us they want to get. I'm one and
Krivitsky's the other Well. they
got Trotsky. And now it looks like
they got Krivitsky."
Returns TO Hiding.
DR.. Matthews told police that
Krivitsky had gone into hiding after
testifying before the committee, The
Dies investigator tried to talk Kri-
vitSky out of his fear of assasslna-
ton.
The Russian went TO Canada
about year ago when immigration
authorities told him his time as a
visitor in this country had expired.
He re-entered the United States
some months ago, DR.. Matthews
said, under a new passport and had
made plans TO become citizen.
1 Police commanders went into con-
! ference a short time later. District
Attorney Curran Joined the confer
ence and the foreign language let
terS were sent to the State Depart
/ ment for translation.
1t was after IL pm when Mr.
/ Waldman reached Washington. He
went to the Morgue and viewed the
body, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To-
cal as well as out-of-town papers
and press ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
at the Morgue.
After some time, DR. Macdonald
emerged and called the reporters
into the Morgue hearing room. HI
read them the notes found in the
Krivitsky room.
Waldman Makes Statement.
When the coroner had concluded
his reading of the letters and an
swered some of the questions which
came from the score of reporters
Mr.. Waldman stepped forward anc
asked permission TO make a state
ment.
II have looked at the body ant
I've been shown the notes" ne said
Physical appearance indicates sui
eide and the notes are very per
suasive.
LAS his attorney and for the pub
lie interest, I am asking, however
Evening star., 1941-02-11
DohIin Society to Meet

The National Capital Dahlia So
ciety will meet at 8 o'clock tonight
at the Sherwood Presbyterian
Church. Twenty-second street and
Rhode Island avenue NE. Color
slides of varieties Of dahlias will be
shown, and members will discuss
dahlia propa cation.
Evening star., 1941-02-11
Toft's Brother Named
To Defense Post
BY The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Charles P. Taft OF Cincinnati vas
named yesterday as assistant CO.
ordinator of ali health, welfare,
nutrition and recreation activities
affecting national defense.
Security Administrator Paul v.
McNutt, who is in charge Of the
activities, announced the appoints
ment.
Mr.. Taft is a son Of the late Presi-
dent Taft and brother Of Senator
Taft of Ohio.
Evening star., 1941-02-11

we've been on the lookout for you
constantly
Miss La Toilette. the Associated
Press reported, said Gen Krivitsky
had told at least two persons he
would be disposed Of by assassins
who would make it look like sui
eide"
Evening star., 1941-02-11

many, Poland and Hungary were re-
called to Moscow and shot, despite
the fact that they were not citizens
of Russia.
Stain is the absolute head of
the Communist party in the United
States.
Stain could not have accomplished
"the great purge" of 1867 without
moral support from other cOun-
tries because so many elements we're
against him in his own country.
The Oepu spies not only on for
eign governments and Oh Soviet
diplomats-"from Ambassadors to
the lowest Embassy officials but
on citizens of other lands who ex-
press displeasure with Moscow.
The Ogpu kidnaps and murders
persons. some Of them non Russians,
on foreign soil-in drives against
persons considered" -Stannites.
Writer Says He Was Hounded.
Meanwhile in New York. Miss
Suzanne La Toilette. writer for lib
eral magazines and A distant rela-
tive of the La Follettes of WIScon-
sin. said of Gen. Krivitsky's death:
IF it is a suicide, then il is a
murder he was bounded and
bounded"
One Of three notes found in the
I former agents room had been writ
ten to her. She explained she had
been a friend Of the Krivitsky
family since January Of 1899.
At one time, she said. Krivltsky
was approached by three agents OF
the OGPU. One of them told him
10 stay out Of the midtown area if
he didn't want to get into trouble
The man said, we work in threes
Evening star., 1941-02-11
Gen. Krivitsky Case
Checked CIoseIy;
Believed Suicide
Dies Calls Shooting
Of Ex-soviet Agent
Years Biggest Story

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star., 1941-11-16
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
Is COOP TASTE INFLExIBLE?

ican service and unquestionabiy
polite.
To return to other vexing questions
of service. One of the clippings says:
Serving dishes - passed by butler
or a waitress - are always passed
around the table to the right" dis
agree with the word always" In most
cases it is best to pass every other
course to the left. Otherwise the second
guest of honor Qhe one on the left of
the host or perhaps the hostess)
will be offered none but the almost
depleted dishes.
This second guest of honor should
have the honor of having at least one
or possibly two - fresh courses
served to her. In neither case should
the last and therefore the least
appetizing portion be presented to a
Evening star., 1941-11-16

about it. Similarly, to call person
bis in French is much worse than it
sounds in English. To one who. even
as a little child. was never permitted
to take the first choice piece of candy.
apple or of cake. it is shocking to see
hostess serve herself first. But l must
admit that the first requisite of good
manners is the consideration of the
feelings of others. and that it is social
skill of highest quality to divine what
feelings. quite other than ones own.
may be. And a letter such as the fol-
lowing shows that there can be mo-
tive of kindness in being served first.
This letter says:
I'VE live in a community where
guest who is served first is much
unset. She doesn't know how much to
take: consequently she either takes
Evening star., 1941-11-16
II, r. ahw - II f.s i6@

marc tiaa hr shae. U jaA . ktf1e
dab. Sometimes he paaes it BY NJ
toeethr. Nov Mrs Post. it is MI voy
fine il your friendk sre each md
everyone % expert that they don't
have to do mite of thinking. Then l
agree with you that the untouched
dish is the prettiest one to serve to
company. But when you know the
friend on your right or seated on
the right of your husband - would be
nervous if she even thought she was
going to have to serve herself first,
what would you do then? Would you
still say it is unforgivably rude of the
hostess not to make her guests do
what you think they ought to dor?
To this l agree, Of oomse. that If this
nervosnne. about helping one-self
6st ID true Of al your neiGhbors. then
you must adapt your service Accord
ingiy. But m the same, wonder Why
yu can't get around it2 Why can't
you choose q menu Of dishes which are
pat On individsal plata 10 which one
unsd ut save oneself at Ill - encpt
pcEhaps one main oouse? And for tbs
yuu night perfectly ven nale the
6rst Ont. Thrust the spooa under It
md ny the 6uk ovr It exncdy - yuu
would were you helping yoWseaf But
tin. msaead Of putting the food On
your plate you have it passed to your
guest of honor. AL she has to do n to
lift it Of.
WIZ NJ This Wsy7
u. Why not give up European
folmality and serve your meals the
American way? Have each dish put
in front of you at 4 luncheon and you
serve everyone. At dinner you serve
the soup. the salad, the dessert, and
the after dinner coffee: and let your
husband serve the cocktails, fish, and
the roast.
When the roast is put on the table.
your husband carves it, and asks each
person IN turn what she (and then he)
likes. Rare or we'll done?" Light
meat or dark meat?" He then puts a
piece of meat on plate and it is
passed. This is perfectly correct Amer
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Bend the rules q bit,
If you must but do
not break them, this
authority urges
% &''W %a<
Astka q "6isssftos Tbe Atss
Desk q Sseisi Us9Do"

q NUMBER of fresh questions
~ about weddings, names. and
4 = table service have just come
to me with a small packet of items
evidently clipped from articles On
etiquette in newspaper and maga-
zines. A teacher of social behaviU in a
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Sensational New Improvement IN Special preae
Sbanpee. .Wesdafd Hal Cssdfiess Now ADDED!
lesves HIEw l6ee. sneedthel. Easies tsAnmge!

supeE-cleansing actioa re.oves agiy
nnhes Of hose tlndEf - effectively =
any videly-advertined spocal d2
rean0v snup00.
Dat vaf q day b ty ~ Sesdl
Dvune i0Qoved vifA A1 esa1cH
Il Gv0 yoa n tie hssy t1Hs v4EA
Shao De- - t8 =
aA0R, a1lesC1lhgn1Deftllga0
- apG61IiosA II - k 2uriA
~ le u
Evening star., 1941-11-16

vurd u % shockmg b t.e Hriti6h TIT
il d referred to - ''the vUd n Bcr-
nard Shav's plny. PyEmalion-" )"
Though Elm Doolittle IN her ignO-
rance utters it without \ quAlm. the
others at the tea party squirm. Here
IN America it N not 4 pleasing word.
but there is nothing blasphemous
Evening star., 1941-11-16

0eoNlb0 q wedding I'D 0yS: lie
hide cnne up the aiaae On her fathers
left Hm." The word left" Is under
med md q notation reads: This i
the customary practice at many of the
fashionable weddings here"
So0e Ptekas k
! INCLUDE this because lately have
received letters from four different
clagymen. each telling me that he
prefers to have the bride take her
fathers left arm. Naturally 4 cldU-
man is above criticism on the subject
of how he may prefer to conduct \
service.
But l do want to quote part of one
of these letters: II always direct the
bride to come up the aisle On her
fathers left arm. She then stands with
her father. before me The father.
standing between her and the bride
groom. guards hin daughter through
the beginning Of the Ceremony. At the
question. Who giveth til. WOMEN.
&C. tihe father taan 10 tie hide-
RTuum, TAKES his hand. md stepping
back. places hs d1alGhter's hand n
t1hnt Of the bridegruom-
1t d emy enough to undeEst1nd the
sentiment Of emphasizing thu gesture
Of the fatter. but to be quite frank. I
do not like it. do not think that the
eznph1sis beloogs On the father. l do
not think the bridegroom should be
pushed ASIDE for Fath1's dramatic
moment. His part ends when they
reach the altar.
Surely the big dramatic moment
or romantic moment - should be
the bridegroom's greeting of his bride.
For this reason, like best the setting
where the vestry opens upon the chan
Gel. and the bridegroom. waiting at the
top of the chanoel steps, comes down
the steps to greet her as she approaches.
This is my chief objection to the left
arm innovation. And there is also the
fact that it has been the established
practice of millions of weddings for the
bride to walk up the aisle to the altar
on her fathers right arm.
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