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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-04
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applied directly to President Wash.
ington and, although ne was only 10
years old, he was commissioned an
ensign. His gallant conduct during
Mad Anthony" Wayne's campaign
won the favor Of his commander. a
promotion to captaincy and COM
mand of Fort Washington, later Gin
cinnati, Ohio.
In 1913 Harrison resigned from
the army but President Adams inn
mediately appointed him secretary
Of the Northwest Territory.
In 1900 President Jefferson made
him the first governor of the new
Territory of Indiana, an office which
he held for IL years. AS governor
he was also charged with negotiat-
ing treaties for the cession of Indian
lands. 1t was his activity in this
regard which caused the famous
Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, to unite
the tribes to resist further encroach-
ments upon their hunting grounds.
But Tecumseh's plans were ruined
when his brother, The Prophet,
made a premature attack on the
force OF 1000 soldiers which Harri-
son had assembled on the banks of
the Tippecanoe river. That victory
MADE the young governor a popular
military hero. The War of 1872
added to his reputation, eliminating
as II did in his victory at the Battle
OF the Thames at which Tecumseh
was killed In 1915 Harrison was
elected to congress and after serv-
ing one term retired from politics.
however, he was elected to the SEN
ate in 1925, but, during the admin
lStratIon Of President jackson his
fortunes, both political and financial
sank to such a low state that he
was glad to accept a position as
county recorder in order to support
his large family. (He was the father
OF 10 children, more than any other
President before or since his time)
In 1886 Harrison returned to the
political arena as the Anti-Masons'
candidate for President. Although
he received only 70 electoral votes
ne apparently was the strongest Of
Van Buren's prospective opponents
This belief was justified in the cam
paign of 1910 which sent him TO
the White House for his short and
Inflated stay there.
Few of our Presidents have had
more nicknames than William Hen
~ Harrison. Because he had lived
on a farm near North Bend, Ohio.
he was called the Honest Farmer
OF North Bend" also the Buckeye
Who Follows the Pillow" Significant
of his role in opening the Old North
west to settlement we're his two
of Hero of the West
and Father of the Great West. D."
But his favorite nicknames we're
those which reflected his career as
q military hero and an Indian fight
er-"The Hero Of the Thames" and
"old Tippecanoe.
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lMhh;hS
First Presidential Death
by Elmo Scott %d14o.t
Releaxed b. Western Newspaper Union.

|
|nNE hundred years ago Ameri-
~ cans were mourning the loss of
their Chief Exec William Hen
ry Harrison. When he died on April
4, 184l, il marked the first presi-
Dental dealt IN the White House and
the end of the shortest presidential
term in history exactly one month.
Harrison ~as also the oldest man
ever chosen 70 that high office He
was nearly So years old when he
won his victory over President Mar
tin Van Buren. candidate for re-elec-
ton, in the campaign Of 1910. The
rigors of that campaign undermined
his health and the long tiresome
journey to Washington from Ohio,
made by canal-boat and on horse
back, told heavily on his strength
March 4, l94l, the day Of his in
auguration, was cold and disagree
able. While delivering his inaugural
address, the longest ever given by
any President, Harrison stood out
doors barehcaded. He caught a Sc
we're cold which developed into pneu.
monla and resulted in his death.
Despite the fact that Harrison is
chiefly remembered as the leading
figure in the exciting Log Cabin
Hard Cider" campaign of 1910, he
had many other real claims to dis
tinction that are little known to most
Americans. Born in Virginia Feb
ruary 3, l773, the son of Benjamin
Harrison, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, he be-
came the ward of Robert Morris,
the "Financ!er of the Revolution. >"
after his fathers death.
Prophetic of Harrison's later role
In the development of the West was
his determination to enlist in the
army for service against the Indi-
ans in the Ohio country Morris OPP
posed this plan. but young Harrison
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Vacation Trips

Two friends we're talking One al.
ways takes trip in the summer
and the other has to stay at home.
The one who goes tried to console
her friend by saying:
We'll, the incest part OF trip is
being so glad to get home. It GER
tainly feels good to be back again"
Il suppose then you think | have
a better time than you do because
l get to stay home" was the un.
happy reply.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-04
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

OME are muCh more
Nv generous to each other
w than they used to be, the
old "catty" femininity has gone
pretty we'll out of fashion, and
still the very hardest thing for a
woman to do is to admit that
another woman is more attrac-
tive than she is. You never hear
woman say: We'll, to tell you
the truth, she is really nicer
than / am. She has better man.
ners and more charm. People
like her better"
OF course men don't admit
this of other men, either, but /
am writing of women at the
moment.
II girl wins away another girls
beau, the second girl never con-
cedes that the first girl is anything
but designing and a flatterer and
two-faced and INSCRIPTIONS. That
Is human nature; unless we may
console ourselves that the vampire
is a thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS ,crea-
ture, we have to admit that we our
selves are rather second rate.
And yet some wives really ARE
second rate, they really are whining
and stupid and unattractive, and a
man might reasonably turn from
them to the friend in whom he finds
sympathy and gentleness and affec-
ton. Just because a man marries
woman at 20, when she is sweet
and fresh and laughing and devot-
ed to him and his plans, doesn't
mean that he is going to adore her
IA years later, when she has lost
all bloom and charm, when her
voice is disconnected and her house
keeping disgraceful
SalIy's Problem.
The problem of the woman am
going to call Sally Waters has some
thing to do with this situation; Sally
is 81 now, and hers is a real tragedy,
sadder perhaps even than death
This is part of the letter.
Paul and / were married when
/ was % and he two years older.
/ had good job teaching and for a
year / kept it. Then his anxiety
for real home with a wife in it.,
and child, persuaded me to stop
work, and year later Jean was
born. Money was rather scarce at
the time and the baby was delicate;
had a hard year or two, when
Paul, who never paid the slightest
attention to the child or helped me
in any way with the homework,
was wasting most of his evenings
with a crowd at the club. and com
ing home so late that he was ex-
hausted in the mornings and was
continually losing jobs.
When Jean was two, he suddenly
discovered that he adored his daugh-
ter, but by that time / was thorough
~ discouraged. / was offered the
job of house manager in a home
for defective children at a good
salary, and Paul and l we're di-
vorced. He went to live with his
mother, who came twice to me aft
erward to help her get him a Job,
which l gladly did. The arrange
ment was that they should have
Jean for two months a year, pure
generosity on my part, for l could
have asked different terms. Paul.
without job and with a bad record
OF intemperance was not in a posi-
ton to question anything. At that
time his father, a most exacting in
valid, was living.
Daughter Wants to Leave.
II managed my job and my child
keeping a little girl to watch her in
business hours, and stealing everv
minute / could to be with her. She
grew lovelier and lovelier, and at
about six, her invalid grandfather
having died, began TO spend sum-
mer vacations with her Rrandnoth-
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PERPLEXED

Consider Sally Waters problem
Scorned by her husband after her baby
tcas born, Sally became discouraged
and finally t0as divorced from Paul.
Sally went to york, giving Paul and his
mother the baby daughter for ttUo
months each year. Not0 at the age OF
10, the daughter tOdnts to liue Uith her
father and grandmother. Should Sally
De obliged to give up her only child?
Read Kathleen Norris startling repLy.
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LIST St.Joseph
ASPIRIN IN
HIll!IlCE3 WORLDS LARGEST SELLER At IUs
Time to Reflect

The solitary side of our nature
demands leisure for reflection
upon subjects on which the dash
and whirl of daily business, so long
as its clouds rise thick about us,
forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
-Froude.
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HE HAS ONE

Solicitor-We are Offering our new
perfected talking machine on easy
monthly payments.
Henry Peck-I don't need one. I'm
married.
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1000 B. C..

What's old Flint toting all those
tablets for?"
says ne has new idea for .
comic strip"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-04

er and father. They fed her then,
naturally, but clothed and educat-
ed her, worried over her when she
was i'll.
Nov she is 10, and she wants to
live with her grandmother. That is
the long and the short of it. She
loves her father; he is managing
the small farm now, and he and her
grandmother worship Jean. She
wants to go to school with little
girl who lives near, she wants to
help Granny cook, and she and Dad
dy manage everything and have so
much fun.
Il admit that it is a more nat
ural life for her than living in a san
itarium filed with detectives and
psychopaths, but what about me?
Have no rights? Now that she is a
fine, independent, self-reliant little
human being, rather than an exact
ing and delicate baby, Paul wants
her, of course.
A Bitter Blow.
THE thought that she wanted to
go to him was so bitter to me at first
that l could not conceal it from her.
She cried for days, but when she
finally gave in it was with the air of
a martyr, and she made no secret of
the fact that her interest was out at
the farm. She telephoned her father
every night, and nothing that I did
or offered in the way of movies or
new frocks interested her.
What shall / do? Give I'D nv
child, the very light of my life, or
keep her and trust that after a time
she will turn to me again? We have
most of our meals in the big dining
room, but have a nice suite Of
three rooms, including a small
kitchen where I can arrange an &C.
casional little feast for Just the two
OF US. We have many perquisites,
rent, light, service, meals, hot wa
ter, linen, but Jean says lately that
she hates the institution, the wards
and the smells of the halls and Gle
vators. Is it fair that after ignor-
ing his responsibility for her when
she most needed him, her father
should have the pleasure of her
company now? His mother, I will
say, is a wonderfully fine woman.
and L am not surprised that Jean
adores Granny. Perhaps if / had
had Granny's sheltered life and
comfortable home l might be the
same sort of woman"
Let Jean Go.
This is really a sad letter. and q
hard one to answer. But | think
that the answer is that Jean is the
person to consider, and that her
mothers best chance of winning the
child's heart is to be generous now.
Life with a loving father and won
derful grandmother on a farm is
child's ideal of perfect happiness.
especially when it is contrasted with
the bleakness and bigness of institu-
ton life. Jean probably suffers from
constant association with the defec-
tive and afflicted children, and finds
the coziness Of her grandmother's ia
bic delightful by comparison.
So / would give her up, if l were
Sally, as we all have to give I'D our
children sooner or later, and re-
Joice that so pleasant and safe a
haven is ready for her, in a world
IN which so many hundreds of chill
dren are neither safe nor happy.
Let that be the arrangement for
the present, Sally. But be very sure
that the future holds changes that
you cannot possibly anticipate.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
(By The Associated PrcSS,)

Wy inc NSNbtlllcQ Press.
Military and civil guards stood
watch today at defense plants from
coast to coast, summoned overnight
by civilian authorities who spoke of
sabotage and military officers who
talked only of tactical maneuvers.
Highlighting the sudden activitv
from New England to California was
cancellation of leaves of $4,000 Fort
Dix, N. j., soldiers and a ''practice
alert at Fort Custer, Mich, which
was so realistic that officers confess
ed 1t eve fooled us"
Los Angeles harDOr ships were
tloodlighted, police guards were aug
mented in several cities, and west
coast "patriotic bodies were asked to
stand by.
In southern California;, anti-air-
craft guns and army pursuit planes
We're established at aviation plants,
but military authorities said the
moves were tactical maneuVers."
In San Francisco, extra guards pa
trollcd the Waterfront and city of.
tlclals spoke of possible sabotage eff
forts over the holiday week end.
Armed guards went on duty at the
Huntington Beach oil fields mean Los
Angeles. The captain of the Los An
geleS harbor police said officers had
been placed at strategic points in the
harbor, and added:
EVERY steamship company and
major industrial unit in the port arcG
has called special patrolmen and
have 1loodlIghtcd their properties"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Schmeling
Not Killed

Berlin, May 30.-(AP)-MaN Sch
meetings. words were quoted IN
the German press today to relate ms
part IN the nazi invasion ct Crete
after reports that he had been killed
were officially spiked.
An interview with the former
heavyweight champion told how
SchmeIlng had wandered alone half
a day IN the Crete wilderness alter
becoming separated from his com
p7njonS, then rcjomcd them and help
ed IN the capture of AN mp rtan!
load.
The official denial Of Something's
death aid he was in an air force
hospital with a minor attack OF a
tropical disease.
GA New Zealand ambul nee driver
arriving at Alexandra from CHc)c
sad yesterday SchmeIjn& had been
captured by imperial forces and IN
an attempted escape had been shot)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Wayne Murder
Arrest Made

Raleigh, May 3o.-(AP)-S. Is. ].
Director Fred Handy said today eN-
tradition papers yer beng prepared
for a MAJ whom he listed as Richard
Lee Robinson, wanted in GoIdsbolo O
in connection with n killing which
occurred four years ago.
Handy said Robinson was being
held IN Washington, d. c., under d
North Carolina warrant charging
murder.
The dead man was Fred MCGEE
son-in-IaW Of Tom Melvin, who is
now beng held on death row at Cen
trail Prison here following his CON
Niction of the murder of Irby Hol-
mes of G~oldSbOrO. MelVin'S cXccu-
ton has been postponed so that he,
too, may be questioned about the
McGcC staying.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Tar Heel
Soldier Shot


Athens, Ga, May 80. -( Ap) Coz
poral Charles Branton. q, OF Wash.
ingtOn, N. G.. Was struck and serious
~ wounded by a riCOchct bullN tlred
by military police as he entered 4
restricted zone here, Police CHEF +
W. Wood sand today.
Branton vas N route t" mancuV-
erS in Tennessee with Battery I
18th Field Artillery.
Chief Wood SAID military po'lc'
told him that a restricted zone had
been set up near the depot here and
that Branton entered the zone against
orders. Military police, SAID WOOD
fired the shot as a warning.
Attaches at the general hoSplta'
here SAID the bullet entered the right
side III the rss!on Of the kidney.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Strike Outlook Is Brighter
Fort Bragg
On "Alert"

F~aycttrNlilc. May 30.-(AP)-
Extraordinary military prccau-
tion> were being observed at
nearby Fort Bragg today and
in the absence of any official eN-
planatlOn the opinion gained
crcdenCc here that ii was a
''practicc alert such as dis
patches told OF being ordered in
other military enCampmrntS.
Reports said automobiles an
tcrinG the reservation were halt
cd and that some were searched.
Major JOHN Murphy, officer in
charge, said the guards G
operating with the state highway
patroimcn. Patrolmcn crdinar-
lily on duty in this area were re-
ported to have been sent 10 Will
mInGtOn in connection with rum
~ of possible sabotage attempts
i'll the shipyards there.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Nazi Diplomat
Arrested

New York, May 3O.-(APN-
The German diplomat who lost
his Job for mcddling in the Aus
trian crisis which followed the
assassination of Chancellor Dol
fuss in 1884 wa a prisoner to-
daN-hcld on Ellis Island for de
pOrtation because. federal au-
thoriticS said, he did not state
the true reason for his visit when
he entered the United States.
DIR. Kurt Heinrich Ricth, the
mcddlins minister to Austria,
was arrested yesterday at the
Waldorf Astoria hotel and taken
TO Ellis Island where he is held
without bond. Officials of the
department of Justice asserted
he was the number one nazi
in the United States" whose clam
to be here Oh private business
VA false.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
New Agency
Created
Roosevelt O r d ers
Formation of Office of
Transportation as De-
Tense Organization.

Washington, May 30.-(AP)-Pres-
ldcnt Roosevelt today ordered crea-
ton of an office OF transportation,
end thereby terminated the work of
the natlonal defense advisory COM
mission exactly a year after it first
met,
Transportation was the only aCtiv-
ity lcit in the commission as the fast
growing office of emergency man
agcmont sWaIl we'd up all of its 9th
e. dutIes-IN new agencies, particular
~ the office for production manage
mcnt.
The President, it was learned from
authoritative sources, has approved
tine now agency as a planning and Co
Continued on Page SeVen)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Precautions
Taken Over
Entire u. S.
Military and Civil
Guards Stand Watch
At Defense Plants:
Wilmington Officers
Instructed to be on
Alert.

Wilmington, May 30.-(HP)-
Mayor Thomas 4, (oOmr -. vii
m'ngtnn, IN response 70 Il cues
ton, said today that law en-
f0rccment Officers here had been
instructed t" keep a close watch
for possible sabotage in the Will
m'hgt"n ShipyardS over the
Memorial Day holiday.
Cooper confirmed the fact that
rumor> of attempted sabotage
bad been circulated here but said
That he does not believe there is
much to them.
however,. VIC are well or
gained and m the alert for
anything that may happen" nc
said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY
HALTS DEFENSE
Little Rain
Is Forecast

Atlanta, Nay 80. -(AP)-
Scattered thundershoWcrs may
afford some relief today or to-
morrow to The sWcitering south
east. but WIZ be of little value
to rain-huugry crops or drought
depleted rivers, the weather bu-
rcau said.
Rain fell today at Mobile,
N~iCksburg and Bristol, Tenn,
and appeared to be advancing
eastward toward the Atlantic on
all fronts.
Clouds oVcr most of the area
today brought cool temperatures
To the >~iin-Srarcd section with the
mercury Showing a tendency to
dInp 'rom thc highs OF yesterday.
Inc power emergency facing
the southeast continued and
hiut> we're heard i'm Washington
and elsewhere that unlc>, the
drOu< 1T, nov in its 3Jth day,
breaks o r%ltioning of cleo
tricilE is Just around the CUrner.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Surrender
OF Crete
Seems Near
Germans Claim Deci-
sive Victory, Asserting
British Resistance Has
COLLAPSED + G y
where in Crete.

New York. MAY 30.-tAP)-
British imperial troops and
Greeks fleeing before the Ger
man conquest of Crete now are
attempting to REACH Egypt
aboard small fishing boats III an
other Dunkcrquc, the German
radio declared today.
THE first group of fugitive
soldiers already has arrived in
Egypt said the broadcast. heard
by the Columbia Hroadcastine
System.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30

IOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Considerable cloudinc>> anh
not 50 warm this afternoon ana
tonight; scattered showers tins
afternoon ana early tonight. Sat
urday fair and cool.
Extended weather forecast tor
the period from 1880 y. Ia. May
50 to 1880 p. M. June 4: Lism
showers in Car"linas tonight
tcmpcr,turcs falling to hclo"
Normal III Caruiilas Saturday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
julie Warren
Defends Text

Raleigh, May 30.-(APD-Julc Is.
WARREN. whose North Carolina his
tory book for ntth graders VIII be
withdrawn from schools, asserted to
day that virtually all of the alleged
errors in the book were of minor I'M
portance.
Governor BlouGhton said yesterday
that cost Of correction of the errors
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Evening star., 1941-02-07
France PubIicizes
Pledges Nazis Will
Get No Tunis Base
Admiral DurIon on Way
Back to Vichy With
LuvuI's Latest Word

Earlier Story on Page A-1)
By the Associated Press.
VICHY. France. Feb IA pledge
by Gen. Maxine Weygand that Ger
many will get no TuniSian base
from France was published widely
today through the unoccupled zone
on orders from the government.
This statement. made in a radio
broadcast from AlgierS by the Vichy
governments African generallSSimo,
was injected into the French-Ger-
man political crisis at time when
Admiral Jean Darlan, the navy min
lister, was on his way back from
Paris with the latest word on the
position of Pierre Laval, ouSted vice.
premier.
1t was reported here that M. Laval,
on whose return to the government
French-German collaboration de-
pends, might be willing to accept
something less than the status OF
premier.
Only a short resume of Gen. Wey-
gand's broadcast was released here.
1t said there were no negotiations
with the Germans for the cesslon
of Bizerte. Tunisia, and that the
French had no intention of giving
them this naval-military base for
action against the British in Libya.
The government ordered all the
newspapers to give this dispatch the
most prominent display. Informed
persons here always have con-
tended that the Darlan-Laval con-
versationS went no further than
attempting to find a way to bring
M. Laval back to the government.
Persons returning from Paris said
it appeared likely that after M.
Laval was back in the fold his
project to move most of the gov
ernment to Versailles and Paris
would be pressed.
These sources also said that while
M. Laval's maximum demands were
for presidency of the council,
equivalent to the premiership, and
the right to choose his own Minis
tiers, he also had submitted mini
mum demands for the establish
ment of two vice presidents OF
council-himself and Darlan.
Admiral Darlan is due back to-
morrow and will attend a cabinet
meeting in the afternoon. He may,
however, have to make third trip
to Paris, depending upon the re-
ception given to M. Lavals latest
representation by Marshal Philippe
Petain. the chief of State.
A German economic delegation,
meantime, is reported en- route to
Paris, looking forward to future
German-French economic collabora7 ;
tion.