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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-03-14

Or some big shot. Carstairs
maybe. hired Dancer TO bumn off
syria and then Cynthia Lane. Pm
gong to have Il further talk with
him."
Have you found out vet whom
SYRIA was visiting in New .Icrscv?"
No. We've circulated her picture
around plenty. The local newspaper
D"yS nave been cooperative" lie
smiled rucfully. "Eut so far all
we've Melted has been three phone
calls from frantic housewives each
swearing that Syria's the hussy
their husbands ran or with"
And Cynthia Lane? What about
her past?"
Apparently she wasn't a ton
model. so her money (and she had
httlc) muSt'vc come from some
other source. The only serious bow
friend We could dis. out Of her past
was "a Russian scientist who's I'D
north near the pole, living on AN ice
bcfS and can't be located before tho
next ihaw. She has no family"
m sure she was shot because
she knew too much" Argus asserted.
lie took out the picture of Cynthia
he had been carrying under his arm
and handed it tn Grange. 81 wish
you'd inquire around Syria's build-
ing and ask the elevator men i! they
saw Miss Lane at any time ON Nom
I;iy, and II she went To Syrla's pcnt-
house."
sure" said Grange, rood-humor-
edlv. Nv" aim To please. But Why"
Argus told him about the paint
on Cynthia'S Min coat and also in
Syria's hallway.
Later at the Penguin Club, Argu.
mad Just returned To the bar when
nc heard a voice say: "lIcllo, Mr..
steele He turned. "RrmcuL.r
me! I'm Donna Grey. | had NV
picture taken with you the other
day IN Mr.. Flagg's Office"
oh" said Argus. "Of course.
VIII you have Il drinl; >"
Il m waiting for some one. but
yes, guess | will have one" She
was blonde, and had wide green
eyes and u small. rosy mouth. "lIon-
vStlN' we've all been SO upset about
what happened to Syria and Gym
thia."
Donna lowered her eyes so that
Argus could see the sweep of her
long lashcs. syria had lust gotten
her movie contract - and then to
get shot"
Argus had ordered drinks. "Ycs,
1t does seem too bad"
You know" chartered Donna,
Mr.: Fla%g didn't get Syria her
movie contract and she wasn't go
ing to pay him any commission.
They had fuss about it." She no.
tIced Argus brow contract. ooh
dear, maybe I shouldn't tell things
like that. You being a detective
and ALL"
"iou couldn't have picked Il more
sympathetic listener. my dear" said
Argus. The bartender set down the
drinks. Donna picked hers up and
slipped it, at the same time looking
deeply into the detectives eyes.
Just at that instant Il familiar
voice said: well. if it isn't Sher-
lock Holmes and his grandmother"
Ellen was laughing at him from
under huge brown hat.
Go be coItinucd)
Copyright. ~ Iah5 Lee:
hiirih"i"i b. hins seA'afrs Syndicate. LA
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-03-14
CHAPTER TwENTY-THREE

"Whilc you're checking up" Ar
gus continued, try to do it so thov
don't get suspicious"
Now You re telling me how to
conduct my Investigations! AIavbe
ought I" give you my badge. too. "
Argus ignored the Inspectors irri-
tation.
Il know that Bill Cars,oirs
phoncd Syria around IL 30 ON Nom
day night, but should also like tn
know whether he reached her"
whats the phone got Ia do with
il? How can | ask questions if |
don't know why I'm asking them ."
Argus explained in detail about
the machine he had found, All
So" he said, unless I'm very much
mistaken phone call played an i'm
p"rtant part IN this murder. I'd
also like To know ii any one placed
an order with any thcatricai conn
pany for that beard"
anything clsc?" Groruc ,sl,ol
What did You find out Yesterday
afternoon about the murder Of
Cynthia Lane"
=. ''nSu W inc DellbOy who de-
hrered that message to Flarg. lie
CLAIMS that woman called him and
gave nm the message. But he said
that her voice was peculiar and he
guessed that she had been cryin,,
So far | haven't been able to dis
cover whether any one saw Miss
Lane telcphoning. She didn't rs.
the phone in her room F."
And Derry Carstairs?"
I'VE had to let her 20. As for.
that husband of hers. NO haven,
been able to locate him Vet. lie
hasn't been home since Monday
night"
Just Keep trying all the bars"
Argus suggested, land you'll I'M
earth him. How about his old man p"
Grange chucklcd. That's a hot
onc,' he said. "Rcmcmbcr my toll
ing you about that robe we founL in
syria apartment? Well, we traced
1t to CarStairs, Senior. When we
tried to question him he practically
had us thrown ont Of his Office. But
we'll get him yet"
Where was he yesterday. when
Miss Lane was shot"
I'm an Office Of business friend
Inc secretary vuuchcd for him.
Been any attempts on Your life VET
steele? l pulled that mythical let
ter gag on everybody"
"Nonc," said Argus. "Tbc n,pr
dercr must'vc known that CYNTHIA
never wrote that letter. How about
Sturgis?" ''''"'
lie was on his way to the bar to
get drink. SO far we haven't bccn
able to break down his nIibi"
Grange sighed. This rcd-bcard
business puts Il new complexion ON
the Who'll, thing"
Grange stopped the car in front
OF Il Sombcr looking building that
took up half a block on Fifth Ave
huc-thc aristocratic Whitsun Club.
"This is it," he said, getting out.
Looks like the morguc."
Its always been Il MYSTERY 70
me why men want to coop them
selves up III Il place like this when
thrr" ar" So many nice places to
60. Argus said.
They walked Up a high, Of stcep
stone Sl>.s
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-03-14
by LOGAN CLENDENING. MID

THIS COLUMN by the very MI
turc of the field which il covers
does not deal with polite subjects.
We make no apologies. therefore,
for dealing with infcSia,ion with
lice, the more SO since war con-
dItiOnS have caused such AN in
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-03-14

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-03-14
Lice lnfestation Worse In Wartime

several hours ana tEcn COMP out
thoroughly with II iinr-tooth comb
l" remove the dead lice and c.srs
tnitS). Then wash head and hair
thoroughly with soap and water.
Repeat on two or three successive
nights. Inspect all other members
Of the family.
B0dy ice live in the clothing
and stay attached to the clothing
not the body. Their favorite
habitat is in seams and around the
collar and waist. They migrate at
night from one pile of clothing to
another. They can be introduced
into IL home by the laundry or by
transfer from one person tn an
Other III street cars, busscs, hotels
and sleeping cars.
Treatment For Clothing
To get rid of them the clothing
only need he treated. The clothes
should he boiled or put in an auto
clavc. Pressing or steamlng with
not IRON, or treatment with yas-
oilnc. turpcntinc or bcnZine will
yet rid o. them, but these methods
are not as reliable us the auto
clarc. Most insect powders do not
harm them: but sulphur powder
is most likely to.
Pubic. o. Grub, lice affect the
pubic region and sometimes stray
I" the arnpitS even the beard.
Infection comes from contact IN
lodging houses, hotels, strange
beds, toilet seats and bathtuhs.
Treatment is by mercury ONT
mcnt.
An ounce of prevention. to coin
phrase, is worth a pound of cure.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
First Antiaircraft Recruit
Signed at New Office

Mrs. Edward j. Mathews. 1920
Reservoir road NV, yesterday be-
came the first recruit to be enrolled
by the Antiaircraft Volunteers of
the Washington Military District at
Its new recruiting office in the Office
OF War Information Building, 14OO
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Mrs. Mathews was welcomed by
Maj. Gen. John T. Lewis, command
ing general, Military District of
Washington. The volunteers, all
women, will work directly with the
artiaircraft artillery command, re-
cciving information from soldier cb-
servers and detectors outside the city
and plotting the data on large
map. The course of all aircraft flying
i'll the vicinity of Washington is
traced by the charting, which goes
on "a hours a day.
Gen. Lewis pointed out the VOL
unteer work releases soldiers to man
guns and added, Il strongly urge
that all women who are able to
devote four hours of their time
daily enroll for this important serv-
Ice"
Information concerning the service
may be had by calling Executive
6688 Branch 9, or by visiting the new
recruiting office.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Wanamaker Heads
Police Department
Identification Unit
Inspector Barrett Orders
Transfer to Increase
Bureaus Efficiency

Seeking increased efficiency in
the Police Department Identified
ton Bureau, Inspector Robert j
Barrett, chief of detectives, yester-
day gave command of that unit to
1t. Herbert Wanamaker. formerly
in charge of the robbery squad.
Working directly under 1t. Wan
amaker, it was announced, will be a
policeman experienced in chemistry
and another qualified as pho
tographer and handwriting expert
1t. Wanamaker succeeds Detective
Sergt. Vigo Larsen. who retired Pvt
Lewis E. Hazard has been named
assistant to 1t. Wanamaker.
Command of the robbery squad
passed to Capt. Clyde N. Strange
assistant to Inspector Barrett. For
the first time in the memory of vet
eran police reporters, this move
places the assistant chief of detec-
tives in active charge of a squad
Detective Sergt. Richard Mccarthy
will serve as Capt Strange's as
SlStant.
Capt. Strange was promoted to
headquarters from the uniformed i
force after congressional investi-
cation several years ago when the
Detective Bureau was described by
probers as "the weakest link in the
police department"
His record in investigative work
resulted in his elevation to his pres
ent rank. He was made Inspector
Barrett's assistant when that Of
flcer advanced to the post left va
cant by former Inspector Richard
retirement.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Suburban Hospital
Extends Services
Two More Departments
Opened for Patients

The surgical and obstetrical de-
partments of the Bethesda Sub
urban Hospital, including an emer-
gency room, will open to receive
patients Monday, j. Dewey Lutes,
superintendent, announced today.
Mr.. Lutes said X-ray and path
illogical laboratory facilities have
been completed and services in these
departments are available He said
routine laboratory tests for obstet-
rical care during the prenatal period
are available without charge to pa
tients who make SIS deposit for
a room reservation
Miss Dorothy E. Glynn. director
of nurses, said general duty posi-
tions are now open in the delivery
room and on the maternity, medical
and surgical pavilions.
Mr.. Lutes said recent gifts to the
hospital include $500 from Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth T. Sullivan. Kenwood;
$500 from the Kenwood Citizens As
sociation. $500 from the Liberty
Milling Co., Germantown, Md 5000
for X-ray fund from Mrs. Eleanor
Ball Untiedt, $3.50 from the Ladies
Guild of St Johns Church, $50
from Joseph B. Weaver. Sl00 from
Mrs. R. M. Hcdgkins. Waverley San
atorium. and $25 from the Col.
Tench Tilghman Chapter, D. A. R.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Providence Hospital Group
Plans Benefit Card Party

The annual charity card party,
sponsored by the Ladies Board of
the Providence Hospital, will be held
at the Statler Hotel April IT, Mrs.
Magruder Macdonald, president of
the Ladies Board, announced yester-
day.
Emphasizing the increased needs
Of the hospital for this year, Sister
Rosa, head of Providence Hospital,
announced at the January meeting
of the Ladies Board that 10000
patients had been received at the
institution during 1943 and 1880
babies had been born there in the
same period.
Committee chairmen for the party
are Mrs. Macdonald, Mrs. Rozier
Biggs, Mrs. Amy c. Van Natta, Mrs
Nora F. Letter, Mrs. r. j. Conlon,
Miss Pauline Flannery, Mrs. James
P. Kane, Mrs. Gwynn Dent, Mrs.
Vincent Hungerford, Mrs. Catherine
Murphy, Mrs. Agnes S. Boyd, Mrs.
John Victory, Miss Purcell, Mrs.
Chester Brady and Josephine Tighe
Williams.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
|nter-American Lawyers
10 Map Meeting Plans

A special meeting of the Section OF
International and Comparative Law
of the American Bar Association
will be held in conjunction with a
meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Inter-American Bar Associa-
ton at pm. Friday at the Pan
American Union
Plans for the conference of the
Inter-American Bar Association, to
be held August 1-8 at Mexico City,
will be discussed at the opening ses-
sion from S to 7 pm.
A buffet supper will open the
second session at pm, followed
by talks by DR.. Leo S. Rowe, direc-
tor Of the Pan American Union:
DR.. Carlos S. Mejorada, president of
the Inter-American Bar Association
and of the Mexican Bar, and Sena-
tor Burton, Republican, of Ohio.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Mass Flight of 18O Worp|ones
To Mark DC. PARALYSIS Drive

A mass flight of 1870 of Americas
mightiest and fastest airplanes will
sweep over Pennsylvania avenue
shortly after 4 pm. Friday in a
formation of the general type the
Army Air Forces uses to batter at
Germany.
One of the few wartime mass
flights seen by American city dwell
ers, it will represent a combination
OF combat training flights which
normally would have various des-
tinations.
The Presidents Birthday Ball
Committee of Washington was in
strumental in having the AAF train
ing commands set the date for the
flight on Friday, the opening date
OF special weekend events to raise
funds for the campaign against
infantile paralysis. The time was
set for shortly after 1 pm. 30 as
Evening star., 1944-01-23
National Symphony
Plans Concerts for
Federal Workers

A new plan, tailored to fill the
requests of music loving Govern
ment workers, was announced last
night by E. R. Finkenstaedt, sec
retary of the National Symphony
Orchestra Associations board of
directors.
Out of series of conferences
between National Symphony off,
cials and representatives of two
Federal employe recreational groups
have come these arrangements for
next season:
The orchestra will give a series
OF three or more concerts eXclus-
lively for Federal employees.
The National Symphony Forum,
an advanced music appreciation
course, will be held in large audi
toriums and will be available to all
Federal employees and the public
without charge.
Special assistance will be given by
the symphony to the numerous
amateur musical organizations in
Government departments.
Committee Set Up.
Meeting with orchestra officials
were representatives of the Federal
Employees Recreation Council and
| the Federal Recreation Committee
and DR.. Henry F. Hubbard, assist
ant to the chairman of the Council
OF Personnel Administration.
! Mr.. FlnkenStaedt announced that
the nucleus of a permanent Gov
ernment committee had been set up
to cooperate with the symphony
in making its services more read
lily available to Federal employees.
Civil Service Commissioner Ar
thur S. Flemming will head the
permanent committee. Vice chair
men include Robert M. Holmes, lr..
Federal Employees Recreation Coun-
Gil president; Marshall Stalley, Fed
eral Recreation Committee presi-
dent, and Mrs. Hans A. Klags-
brunn, representing the National
Symphony Miss Laura Nicholson
OF the War Hospitality Committee
will be secretary
VIII Have Narrator.
Mr. Finkenstaedt said the con-
certs, exclusively for Federal en-
ployes, will be given in Constitution
Hall with a narrator to discuss the
music. Tickets, he said, will be well
within the budget of all Govern
ment workers.
! The National Symphony Forum
was Instituted primarily for Fed
eral employees a year ago, but has
reached only limited group. At
present it is held in the Phillips
Memorial Gallery, which has a ca
paclty of approximately $50 per-
sons. 1t is open to those who have
purchased season tickets to the Or
chestras Sunday series or have
bought a special ST ticket.
Next season, Mr.. Finkenstaedt
said, the forum will be held in au-
| dltoriums that can accommodate
500 to 1000 persons and will be
available without charge.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Home Accidents
| Kill More Here
Than Traffic

Home accidents still are taking a
heavier toll of lives in the District
than traffic, according to a survey
by the Red Cross Home Accident
Service.
One person died from injuries
received in a fall and 65 were
hospitalized because of various in
juries in home accidents during the
last week. In addition. the survey
showed, "a persons were injured
who did not require disqualification
Ten persons have died from home
accidents - five more than were
killed in traffic, since the first of the
year. Five deaths were caused by
falls. three by burns and two by
suffocation.
A tabulation of home accidents
last week taken from II hospital
records, reveals that of those hos
pitalized Is were the result of burns.
10 from falls, Is from severe cuts,
three from accidental poisoning. one
from accidental discharge of fire.
arms and one from a severe eye
injury.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Ensign Nancy Schetky
To Christen Submarine

Ensign Nancy Jane Schetky of
the WAVES, who lives at 1865
Thirty-eighth street NV, who is
on duty at the Navy Department
here, has. been named by the Sec
retary of the Navy as sponsor for
the U. S. S. Scabbardfsh, a sub
marine to be launched Thursday at
the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard.
Ensign Schetky is the fourth gen.
Grafton Of her family to serve with
the Navy. The daughter of Capt.
G. L. Schetky, U. S. N, on duty at
the Portsmouth Navy Yard, she is
the great great niece of Capt.
Charles Schetky, U. S. NJ, who
served aboard the U. S. S. Constitu-
ton, and the great niece of 1t.
Laurence o. Schetky, U. S. NJ, re-
tired, of Portland, Greg. Her BROTH
er, Malcolm, is enrolled in the Navy
Viz college training program
Dartmouth University. Ensign
Schetky enlisted after graduation
from Goucher College in Baltimore,
and was commissioned in August.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Mrs. Elicit Leads Forum
On Delinquency, Crime

Mrs. P. c. Elicit, president of the
District Congress of Parents and
Teachers, will be the discussion
leader at 10 am. today in the adult
forum on Juvenile and adult de-
linquency and crime" at Mt. Pleas
ant Congregational Church. Mrs.
Elicit, who heads the home subcom-
mittee of the Board of Education's
advisory committee on wartime and
postwar problems of the child. will
discuss delinquency in relation to
home and family.
Today's forum is third in a series
of five designed to lay the ground
work for community programs.
Sponsors also expect it to lead to
organization of neighborhood discus
sion groups. Representatives of a
number of schools are among those
attending. The forum is under the
Craftsmanship of Carleton r. Ball.
Lawson J. Cantrell, assistant
superintendent of schools, will be
the speaker January &c. and Miss
Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of the
Labor Departments Children's
Bureau, will lead the final forum
February 6.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Further Work on Cathedral Discussed
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.


Plans to resume building opera
tions at Washington Cathedral, fol-
lowing the conservation of the Very
Rev. Angus Dun as fourth bishop of
Washington in mid-April, are being
discussed in New York and Phila-
delphia as we'll as in the local
diocese.
No official announcement has
been made. but the Cathedral Chap
ter met Friday afternoon and the
proposed new campaign is believed
to have been considered.
The next integral phase of the
Cathedral proper to be attempted
Is the magnificent South Transept.
Final revised designs and working
drawings by Philip Hubert Froh-
man, Cathedral architect since 1919,
have been ready since 1890.
The cost of finishing the transept
and how long 1t would require de-
pend on conditions. Some materials
and some skilled labor are available,
A generous gift toward the expense
Is understood to have been pledged
by an anonymous friend of the
Cathedral.
Precedent Established.
Precedent for the revival of con-
struction on national basis is to
be found in the Maj. LEnfant de-
sign for the city of Washington in
which "a church for national pur-
poses" is provided According to
that concept, Washington Cathedral
never has been intended merely as
diocesan center. 1t always has
been "a house of prayer for all
people"
The Right Rev. Henry Yates Sat-
terlee, first Bishop Of Washington,
laid the foundation stone in 1907.
Ground was broken for the Bethle-
hem Chapel in 1908 and it's con-
continued under the direc-
ton Of the Right Rev. Alfred Hard
ing, second Bishop of Washington,
from 1909 to 1923.
The parts OF the Cathedral built
during the episcopate of the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, third Bishop
OF Washington, include: The crypt
chapels Of the Resurrection and St.
Joseph OF Arimathea, the Great
Choir, the North Transept and North
Porch, the Crossing, the Children's
Chapel, the chapels of st. John. st.
Mary and the Holy Spirit, the choir
stalls and organ, the reredos of the
Jerusalem Altar, many stained glass
monuments and other en-
bellishments and decorations.
Other Sections Built.
Bishop Freeman also presided over
the construction of the College of
Preachers, the first portions of the
Cathedral Library and Cloisters. the
Evening star., 1944-01-23
IA Fathers Urqed
To Attend Opening
OF Draft Aid Center
Mass Meeting Jon. 81
Will Launch Free
Service to Families

The mass meeting to launch the
Draft Aid Center, free service to
the families of prospective WASH
ington servicemen, will be held
January 81 at pm. in the United
States Chamber of Commerce at
Seventeenth and H streets NV. it
was announced last night.
Draft boards are preparing lists
OF Ia fathers as well as of wives of
men with families who were in
quoted after last October /. Per-
sonal invitations will be sent to
those on the lists.
Since some of the invitations may
not reach the men in time. District
Selective Service Director William
E. Leahy and Harry P. Someryille,
executive officer of Civilian War
Services. urged men who expect to
be inducted soon to attend the
meeting, whether they receive invi-
tations are not.
One of the features of the meet
ing will be question box. Into
this box, it was explained. those
who attend the meeting can drop
the type of questions they will want
answered at the Draft Aid Center.
which opens February l at the
United States Information Center,
Fourteenth street and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue NV.
Volunteers who will staff the CEN
ter already have spent a week learn
ing some of the answers. They have
been given information on rights
and privileges of servicemen and
their families. draft procedure, Red
Cross and other agency facilities,
and where to go for information.
1t was expected questions asked
at the center will vary from how
to share a home with another serv-
iceman's family to what to do with
the children when mother finds a
job. Problems requiring legal at
tention will be referred to the Sc
lective service registrants' advisers,
who have volunteered their services.
The functions of the advisory
service and the kind of service it
Is set up to perform will be dis
cussed by Mr.. Leahy and Mr.. Somer-
vile at the mass meeting. The COM
plete program of the meeting, how
ever, has not yet been announced.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Harvard Club to Hear
Talk on Communications

international Communications
will be discussed by Howard S. Le-
Roy, chairman of the Committee on
International Communications of
the Inter-American Bar Association
at the annual meeting of the Har-
ward Club CT Washington at $3.50
pm. Wednesday at the Washington
Club. He is secretary of the club.
Election of officers is scheduled.
Nominations include Ralph H. Hal
lett. president; Robert Woods Bliss,
first vice president; Eliot Wads-
worth, second vice president; Philip
Young, third vice president; James
Oliver Murdock, fourth vice presi-
dent; Howard S. Leroy, treasurer;
Bernard H. Conn, secretary, and
Robert Lincoln O'Brten, honorary
president.