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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-03
CHAPTER NINE

MALLORY NOW understood
Pepe's explanatory whistle. What
do you mean, 'clink' 2"
Just clink. scnorita. Not sissy
Jail stuff. but the bad clink. Old
DIR. Courvicr now is in the pen"
How awful" Mallory shuddcrcd.
She had wondered briefly about
him. had thought lie probably was
In the Army. But this! Couldn't
you be wrong, Pcpc?"
His mouth twisted to one side
and made little clicking sound.
lie was insulted. mo, I'm not
wrong! Everybody around here
knows the old coot was mixed up
III dope ring. Why, he used TO
come 2ooming back and forth
across the bridge in this high-pow-
cred buggy nearly every night"
This very carr" Mallory Baker
looked at her priced possession
with horror. "Good hcavens-I
don't want any Cope car" she cried.
Her voice held n hysterical note.
ITS not Il dope car" Pope told
Nilii l'stiItll- SlONlltS II.
Courvicr was too smart 4 guy for
that. lie had the stuff brought up
other ways. Und,r powder in wom-
ems powder boxes. He even had an
old woman bringing it up inside n
fish. He had all sorts of ideas. He
didn't use this pretty buggy for
anything except to drive over and
meet people" The boys eyes were
wide and glowing. He was too
smart guy for that"
Mallory remarked coldly, mot
too smart to get caught
"Yes. you're right" Pepe looked
uncomfortable at having to admit
that fact.
so don't get any racketeer
ideas!" To herself Mallory's words
sounded like the worst sort of prim
teacher. Well. what if they did &?
Pcpe had n good beginning with
his attempts to inveigle money
from a traveller.
Don't bawl me out" retortcd
Pepe. I'm not going to be any
dope pcddler. And don't get funny
ideas about your automobile. It's
0. *. l just hadT seen it in so
long. You see. it was left to the
docs wife and then, when she COM
mittcd suicide, her sister tried to
sell it and nobody"
Nobody wanted it," supplied
Mallory.
A dark flush spread over Pepc's
thin cheek. We'll. nobody around
here. But there's nothing the mat
ter" he insisted. Everything: is
o. X"
Yeh, thought Mallory grimly, ex-
ccpt that l have the sensation of
being in a haunted house with
something Juggling at my coat tails.
Again she found herself wanting to
go back to New York. But, as be-
fore, she couldn't bear to let Tod
Patrick have the satisfaction of
that retreat.
"Pcpc." she commanded, Tets
get some lunch. And if you must
talk, please make it pleasant"
AS ii turned out, the boy did not
talk at all. He just ate, ravcnously.
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delay. And II was not vet over.
The pictures had to he affixed to
nc various passports. Also. And
now your car. Miss Baker. or
course you understand you must
make Il 25O-pcso deposit OH it,"
"But why?"
BECAUSE you are going to work"
The girl did not care TO start that
argument all over again. so she Just
nodded. Its refunded to YOU when
you return" she was informed.
Now, your jewelry? What are you
taking?"
She moved her shoulders irrita-
bly,. This ruby and rcd gold wrist
watch, II string OF pearls ana dia-
mond bracelet"
The man looked At the coat slunc
over her arm. And Il mink coat"
he looked up from his writing 10
explain. "All this is I" protect YOU
Whcn you come back north. A
great many people buy jewels and
furs in the city. so we have 10 know
which is whi.h-now. about vour
smallpox vaccination. Have YOU q
certificate?
Heavens. no, But have been
vaccinatcd."
He llllcd her instantly. "An
right, Miss Baker. If you swear Won
have. Wen let that pass. It's all for
your own protection. The women
are inspecting your two bags now.
Let see if they have finished" To-
SctNcr they walked out to he far
thcr end of the bridge. Mallory's
luggage was on top a high wooden
shelf.
a sad-cycd Mexican woman OK
tended Mallory's pistol toward the
customs inspector. All. Miss Bak-
or, he dcplorcd. "NVhy?"
You were saying something
about protection"
1T is not permitted. And il is
not necessary. We" he assured.
nave most peaceful country. No
trouble whatsoever. The Highway ia
IKE walF!nS through your own liv-
ing room. You will have to leave
this with me. Miss Baker"
At last, at n little before
O'Clock. after having passed out
tips-a particularly liberal one to
Pope for his escort scrvicc-Mal-
Tory Baker drove over the Rio
Grandc. AS she left Nucvo La
rcdoS sun-bakcd buildings she came
10 an apparently uninhabited des-
crt-land. Mallory began to drive
faster. She had 146 miles to drive
to Monterrey. something she knew
she could not do before dusk.
She knew, too, that. although the
countryside appeared uninhabitcd,
1t could not possibly be. There were
too many herds of goats dashing
back and forth across the highway.
They were managed by sandal-foot-
cd or barefootcd mon in wide SOM
brcros and loose white cotton suits
that looked like pajamas. Little
boys. exact rcp!icas in identical
clothes, often were along, carrying,
as did their fathers, huge machctes.
Occasionally a woman. in bright
clothes, baby strapped across her
back. was the goat hcrder.
But. as dusk approached. the
goats and poems disappeared. They
have gone to their rough little
homes. decided Mallory. thinking
at the same time, The customs in
spcctor was right. This truly is a
peaceful country" AS abruptly she
changed her mind. The scene that
doomed up in the sEadowy daylight
was responsible. The men were
not fixing Il tire. as she had sur
missed. One was being thoroughly
and brutally murdered by the other
two.
Ito BE C0ntinuedN
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searching for word. Mallory
thought OF skill. That was what
such eating amounted to. She
watched Pope down. without any
trouble, a huge steak with chill
sauce. several cnchilades, salad.
three cups Of hot chocolate and
both his and her cake.
AS they walked out of the res
taurant onto the street, Pepe
paused significantly before a shop
iilled with scrapcs, small rugs
woven baskets. bright pottcry-all
sorts OF curios. "Curiosida,ics. in
big letters, outside the shop. pro-
claimed its wares.
want to buy n lot of things.
senorita?" he inquired innoccntiy.
The avaricious cunning showed
on ms lean features, however. 1t
made Mallory stern. mo, 1 don't.
i'cpc. And If you don't stop irving
to make money on me, Your tin is
going to get smaller and smaller
and smaller"
Curiously. her threat brought n
smile from Pope. "Oh, 10. The love-
~ scnorita wouldn't he so cruel
NOT the senorita with eyes blucr
than the flowers and hair golden
like an angels in heaven. Oh, nor'
ne SAID more eNcitcdly. Not when
I've given her so much of nv time
I've escorted her to have the pho
tographs. I've escorted her hack IN
her car for her dark glasses. rvc
escorted her to lunch. I've given hcr
inc comfort of my company in a
strange town. And now 1 try to
give her the help of MY expert ad-
vice so she will not he cheated in tho
SHOP He had been cnumcratins
on the tips of his slim tn fingers,
SO the lovely scnorita wouId
never do me such wrong whom 7
already revere her almost as do
the Virgin of Guadalupe"
AS he had during his earlier
plea, he grasped her hand with his
warm. sticky fingers. "Oh, scnorita.
please be generous with me. Give
me many pesos so that 1 may 90
to Mexico City to see my beloved
mother"
Your mother. Pope? You, an
orphan?"
The boy snapped his fingers with
self-disgust, mashed his Inns to-
eether and hit himself in the chin
all at once. Never will I learn not
10 open my mouth so wide. But do
open it and the words simply roll
out" Nevertheless, lie was not act
ually chagrined. "Lct'G have n
coky-coly, scnorita."
Not waiting for her answer. he
sent a peremptory whistle toward
boy lettering in the short street
at the end of the bridge. The tiny
fellow ran swiftly. his bare feet
making swirl of dust. Pepe's lord
illness lasted until they were in pos
session of the bottles. Then he mo-
toned to the baby-sized vendor
that the senorita would paw. and
stepped back to lean against an
adobe wall in pose of laziness
that came with no trouble whatso-
ever.
Rosa's hour was not go minutes.
1t extended over exactly two hours
and thirty-eight minutes. Mallory
knew this, because when she sent
Pope after her photographs she
watched for him to emerge from
Ross shop. At that instant she
looked at her watch. Pcpe's lazi-
ness as he proceeded along the
narrow sidewalk Made her want to
get back of him and boot him. Still,
what difference did it make? She
had lost so much time. Because she
had planned the customs inspec-
ton as a matter of minutes only,
she was doubly incensed over the
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SYNOPSIS

-"At.i.oNi bNhti. - '!.Scntcrcd but
young. beautiful and talented s,n,.,'r
las ",h!e\Gu SUCCESS -wiIn Tic and OF
TOD PATRICK. her u.analcr. A. has
bcth htt agent .s.nCe she wa; an en-
t.I'aihcr STRIVING To reach III. top.
r.h route To McNlco by plane. Mallory
meets an attractive, rather Iuystcri-
GUS young man.
RICHARD BLYTHE.
YESTERDAY: A Mexican boy. Pcpc
tells Mallory that the automobile she
has Just purchased formerly belonged
~ doctor who now is ia the ''Clink"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-03

DR.. Clcndcning will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-03
Wife Preservers

Try cleaning marble by rubbing with
salt: or mix salt with an equal quantity
of powdered pumicc stone and e:.Ough
water 10 make n thick cream. Wash mar
blc with this allow it 10 soak few mir
uics. then cleanse with salt water.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-03
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. MD.

WINTER is the season when
the home is the most dangerous.
Little Willie in the best of
sashes
Fell in the fire and burned to
ashes"
is not simply an example of the
mordant humour of Col. Slaugh-
Evening star., 1944-07-01
House Group 10 Study
Oil Drilling Regulations

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, July 1.-Representative
Fernandez. Democrat, of New Mex
leo, attending the summer quarterly
meeting of the Interstate Oil Com
pact Commission. said yesterday a
three-member subcommittee OF the
House Committee on Public Lands
will go to New Mexico, probably
in August, to hear recommendations
for revisions of laws regulating oil
leasing and drilling of public lands.
Congress and the Interior and
Agriculture Departments drew fire
from speakers at the commission s
opening session for oil regulations
which they charged are discour-
aging exploration of public lands
for badly needed crude reserves.
Representative Fernandez said the
subcommittee seeks to learn what
changes in the law are sought by
oil operators and to bring about
better cooperation" Representa-
tive Fernandez is chairman of the
subcommittee which includes Rep
resentative Chenoweth. Republican,
OF Colorado, and Peterson, Demo-
crat, Of Florida.
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel of Kan
sas, chairman OF the compact, told
the meeting that one of the impedi-
ments to@exploration of public lands
is excessive royalties charged by
the Government.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Col. D. Fiickinqer
OF Burma Fonel
Returns toe Copitoi

4 Col. Don Flickinger, Army air
surgeon who once parachuted into
the Burma jungles to aid victims
OF plane crash, has returned to
Washington for new assignment.
The 38-year-old surgeon Of the
Indio- China Wing Of the Air Trans
port Command, told War Depart
ment ofdcials yesterday that hum
|dreds Of Chinese casualties OF Tight
ing around Myitkyina are being
loaded aboard C-46s and flown back
to hospitals In the rear. The month";
ly total Of evacuations in Burma
alone, he said, has increased from
l,l06 patients in March to 1872 in
April. The May figure is still larger,
he added.
1t was last August that Col.
Flickinger. whose home is in Long
Beach, CALI. parachuted to rescue
the plane crash victims. He took
supplies and medical help to the
20 survivors. who included two
United States Government ofiicials,
a radio-news commentator and Chi
nese army officers.
Col. Flickinger was awarded the
Legion of Merit for his experiments
with devices to aid In sighting pilots
forced down at sea. Out Of these
experiments came a fiuorescent dye.
now part Of each flyers life vest,
that is easily visible for long dis
tances when released into the water.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Resolutions
Praised by 0smena

Welcoming the two joint resolu-
tions on the future of the Philip
pines, signed yesterday by President
Roosevelt, Sergio Osmena, vice
president of the Philippines. pre-
dicted the resolutions would bring
new hopes to the Filipino people.
now enslaved by the enemy. and
will instill in them renewed courage
and united determination to effec-
lively assist the liberating forces
when our D-day comes"
Vice President Osmena, in a state
ment here. characterized the resolu-
tions as of vital importance to the
welfare of our two peoples. and
a long step toward the real freedom
and independence of the Philippines
and its survival as q free and
Christian nation"
He said the new legislation, which
the advancement of the
recognition of Philippine independ-
ence from the date already fixed by
law, July 4, 1916, and provides for
naval and air bases, creates an
effective instrumentality for the
speedy consideration by the two
governments of matters affecting
postwar economy, trade, finance,
economic stability and rehabilitation
Of the Philippines, including dam
ages to public and private property
and to persons occasioned by enemy
attack and occupation"
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Wallace Tells By Flyers
Their Work Shortens War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A SUPER FORTRESS BASE IN
WESTERN CHINA, June 30 de-
layed Vice President Wallace got
acquainted last night with the
officers and men whose job it is to
smash japanese industry with B-29s
He told them their work would
greatly shorten the war"
Il know you want to go home" the
Vice President said. I'VE want YOU
to come home. That's why your
work here Is so important
Some American has said that the
Americans are fighting for the right
to throw pop bottles at the umpire
in Brooklyn. That's one way OF
looking at it. We're flghting for
our way of life.
That doesn't mean we are trying
to make the rest of the world like
America-plumbing isn't everything
But we can hope that the rest OF
the world will come to like many OF
our ways and adopt them"
Mr.. Wallace was the guest here of
Col. c. E. Duncan. The Vice Presi-
dent made himself Immediately at
home yesterday by stripping to
shorts and tennis shoes and playing
three fast games of volleyball before
eating with the soldiers.
One of Mr.. Wallace's teammates
was Capt. Henry D. Hank Green
berg, former Detroit Tigers baseball
star, now Special Services officer
in the 10th Command Headquarters
one of the 20th's wings.
Mr.. Wallace gave Capt. Greenberg
some pointers in timing net play.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
u. ). Publishers Advised
To Order 32-Pound Paper
BY the Associated Press.


Harold Boeschenstein, acting di-
rector of the Forest Products Bureau
Of the War Production Board, yes
terday advised" newspaper publish
ers who have placed orders for 30
pound newsprint from Canada for
manufacture after today to switch
the orders to 32-pound paper.
Mr.. Boeschenstein said WPB could
be expected to order into effect the
recommendations of a committee of
newspaper executives who on Tues
day urged that this country abandon
the 30-pound newsprint to avoid a
general cut in paper allotrents to
newspapers
Mr.. Boeschenstein noted that the
publishers group had recommended
that users Of the lightweight paper
be required to reduce their con-
sumption by So per cent from the
usage permitted at present.
The WPB official said recon-
mendations of the publishers com.
mittee would be presented to the
Newspaper Industry Advisory Com
mittee at its next meeting this
month, but "it is expected that the
War Production Board will amend
the present order. putting into effect
the recommendations with respect
to 30-pound newsprint." Mr.. Boes-
chenstein said he advised users tt
consider Immediately their orders
for manufacture after today in the
light of this expectation"
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Morse Envoy Fears
German Rearmament
rSha1 uerpoa

Reversing Marshal Hermann
Goering's famous phrase, "it's bet
ter to have guns than butter" Nor
wegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe
de Morgenstierne. just returned
after three-month visit to Great
Britain. believes that in the postwar
period the Reich should be allowed
to have butter but no guns"
The envoy. at press conference
at the Norwegian Embassy, 34O1
Massachusetts avenue yesterday. ex-
planned he meant the German peo-
pie should be allowed a decent live
llhood after the war, but kept under
extremely strict control to prevent
preparations for another conflict.
The fact that robot bombs are
being used by the Germans today
he said, indicates the danger If
Germany is permitted to rearm,
These weapons can be perfected and
with thousands of them in use could
be more serious menace than they
are today"
Ambassador de Morgenstierne's
return was delayed by the British
governments preinvasion order lin
lting the movements of foreign
diplomats. He was there during the
f1rst part of the robot" invasion
and saw one or two of the weird
flying bombs. but said they had
failed absolutely to disorganize the
LIE OF London or to shake the
courage or calmness of the British
people. for whom he expressed q
deep admiration.
Turning to postwar political plans
the envoy said he favored a general
world peace organization rather
than regional peace blocs. He ad.
vocated league in which member
ship would be open at first only tc
the United Nations, but in which
others. including the Axis powers
might belong eventually when they
had proved themselves peace
minded.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Reds Place Nozi Losses
At 1890 in Week

LONDON. July l (R.-The Rus
slams, asserting that 1880 of Hit
ler's eastern front soldiers had been
killed or captured in the first week
of the new Soviet drive, today re-
ported continued gains in the Tight
ing which ragged from the far
northern Finnish front to the CEN
ter Of the Pripyat Marshes on the
south.
The broadcast Moscow COM
munique disclosed that among the
towns captured by Red Army forces
was Slutsk, an important railhead
far to the south and about 10 miles
west Of Bobruisk, and Petrikov.
430 Populated Places Retaken.
The communique announced the
capture of Novoselki, on the railway
80 miles southeast Of Minsk on the
Minsk- Gomel line, and asserted
more than 430 populated places fell
inside the 350-mile White Russian
front.
Nearly so places were reported
captured on the two fronts IN Fin
land in the vicinity of viipuri and
between Lakes Lodoga and Onez-
zhskoe (Onega), with advances
scored in steady hammering of the
enemy.
A special announcement by Mos
COW detailing the destruction Of the
German forces said the 1st White
Russian Army fighting for Bobruisk
had killed $4,000 and captured 23,-
$50 and the second White Russian
army which took Mogilev killed 30,-
600 and captured $3.50.
Coupled with figures announced
previously for the Sd White Russian
and LIST Baltic armies. the NaM dead
alone In the weeks fighting amount-
ed to 132, 900.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
First 0PA Jail Term
Given Produce Dealer

Harry T. Silverfarb, vegetable
dealer at 1884 Fifth street NE, yes
terday became the first District
resident sentenced to Jail for violat-
ing OPA price ceiling regulations
when Municipal Court Judge
Thomas D. Quinn meted out
$4,000 fine and a sentence of so
days in Jail
Silverfarb was convicted Wednes-
day by a Municipal Court jury on
two counts of selling 50-pound bags
of onions at almost twice the ceiling
price. The violations both occurred
last April.
After passing sentence Judge
Quinn told the defendant that
money fines were not sufficient to
stop the practice and that the
violations were willful.
Silverfarb said he would appeal
the case, and was released on $4,000
bond. The case was prosecuted by
John M. Lane. assistant United
States attorney.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Albanian Government
Falls; Regency Board
Member Quits Post
By the Associated Press.

BARI, italy, June 80 Delayed -
The Albanian collaborationist gov
eminent. headed by Rexhep Mitrovica,
has fallen, 1t was reliably reported
here today. and Parliament has Just
concluded an extraordinary two-day
session after the resignation OF the
Rev. Anton Harapi, one of four
members Of the Regency Council.
The reasons behind the change in
government are not yet known in
Bari. The Tirana radio. which
normally broadcasts both Allied and
Axis news items, has not mentioned
the matter. although 1t reported the
Parliament session.
Partisans Abandon Bridgehead.
Meanwhile. other reports reaching
Bari indicate that Albanian par
tisans have abandoned a bridgehead
just north Of the Greek frontier.
Control of the north h-south roads In
the area also Is said now to be in
German hands.
The Mitrovica government-the
role Of which never was fully under
stood here-was formed last Novem-
Der 8, and originally was made up
for the most part of men who had
not previously collaborated with the
occupying Italians. Minister of In
terror Shafer Deba has held the
most important post. Openly friendly
to the Axis, he was reported visiting
Berlin three weeks ago.
Although processing neutrality at
the time it was formed, the Govern
ment later negotiated a trade agree
ment with Germany. sent a special
diplomatic representative to the
Reich and sanctioned a loan to Ger
man interests.
Enlistment for Nazis Supported.
Moreover, in recent months the
Government has supported the en-
listment of Albanians, among them
freed prisoners of war. in an SIS divi-
sion wearing German uniforms. and
has sent $500 gendarmerie national
army units, of1lcered by Germans, to
battle the Partisans within the
country.
The Partisans' national liberation
army Is estimated to consist of IS
brigades commanded by Enver
Hoxha, who also is president of the
Anti-Fascist Committee recently
chosen by the national liberation
element to administer territory freed
from German control.
Referring to Mr.. Harapi's resigna-
ton from the regency council, the
Tirana radio said he had been
asked to reconsider his resigna ton.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
Two Men Are Stabbed
During FIGHTS Here

Two colored men stabbed In
separate alterations last night were
IN serious condition in Washington
hospitals today.
Admiral D. Byers, SO, Of 7ls Thir-
teenth street NV. was stabbed in
the left side in fight in the rear
OF his home. Hamp Mathes, "a, COL
ored. Of 629 South Carolina avenue
Sc. was charged by police with
assault. The victim Is in Emergency
Hospital.
Lester Walker, IS, of 12s F street
NV. was stabbed in the back and
side. He was taken to Casualty
Hospital. The stabbing, police said,
resulted from an argument at 730
Sixth street NV. Pvt Add Whitaker,
SO. eolored, who lives at the Sixth
street address, was turned over to
military police after being charged
by police with assault.