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Jennie Bowen's.* forget that Jennie Bowen a few lovely coats at atly reduced prices. * WANTED -Help Wanted, Female ED—Youn? settled white man to coek. Third house J A she vi lie highway. I'hone ]-J. 8—Business Services Bs TO BLAME?—That's al H the question after an ac ■ 11. Let us assume your rc Bnsibility and you will not Hv> to worry. Ask the man B>~ has had one, or ask the man about our prompt v o. Ask Anybody! Ewbank H'i Ewbank. * B-RANCE policies should be Bieurrent, should have mort H clauses, if the property is Br aced, should have vacancy ■rmits, if the property is va Bnt—are yours up to the B ite and correct? We will Wdly check them for you. ■»one No. 181. F>rownIee In P?ance & Realty Company. * mo REPAIRING — We h«ve H'.> best of equipment. Me Hanic with 14 years exper Bice. Our charges are reason s'?. All work guaranteed. Birlee's Garage, just outside B. limits. Greenville highway. 1-—Good Thing# to Eat BLF.GE boys and girls wel Hr'o home. While you're ■ come down and loaf by ■ og tire. Shorty's Piir *N ■hist'e. "We doze but never H^e." * BUY HOME grown product* at tho Curb Market, King Street between Third and Fourth Avenue. Open Tuesdays and Saturdays. 7:30 a. m. * lOLEWOW IS CARRYING LOAD OF DEBT Writing Off Of Liquida tions Will Be Accen tuated In 1933, Said WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UP) Whethor to bo the corner grocer on Main street, with a file of un paid bills, or the United States government, with defaulted notes from France, Helium and other; countries, the extraordinary weight of present-day indebted ness is a chief problem before the world. It is a problem which unites in dividuals and nations. Theorists propose all sorts of solutions for the problem, from a wide-scale system of international inflation to the simple one of letting things work themselves out. Sam Smith, Main street grocer, and Uncle Sam, international banker, "nsive about the same difficulty. Meanwhile, as the discussion goes on. a gradual process of writing off indebtedness is under way. at home or abroad. The year 19I53 promises to be a voar of liquidation. At Washington, many of the efforts of the federal gov ernment seem directed to easing and cushioning the process, which to financial advisers seems inev itable. C.ofernment economists are frequently heard to assert that the sooner this impossible burden of debt is scaled down the better. DEBTS OF ALL KINDS There is city, state and federal debt; there is the local net bond ed debt; there is the gigantic bar den of farm mortgages; there is the city man who has mortgaged his home; there is the debt from the department store account, with an installment to pay on the automobile, or with borrowings against life insurance policies. The great mass of this debt was contracted when dollars were cheap: it is the world's great dif ficulty today that interest and amortization payments must be made with dollars that are "ex pensive." In other words, what has happened is that commodity Drices ir trrms of dollars have trone down, as they always do in the midst of business contraction. The men who are advising the j administration on this major sub-1 jeet of indebtedness forecast that j a great mass of the huge Ameri- j can debt total will be repaid, while another great mass can never be collected. It will either be written off as paper debt or it will be defaulted through fore closure. bankruptcy or other cum bersome process. Isolated in stances now frequently get into the paper of shopkeepers who de cide to put the pa>t behind them with a single bonfire of unpaid bills. DISASTROUS FOR SOMfc This may be good business for some, but for others would be dis astrous. The cumbersome process of scaling down the debt load is the major feature of this period of liquidation, effecting readjust ments in society on a deep and incalculable scale, but rarely form ing a subject for journalistic com ment. Meanwhile, public attention has been focused on war debts owed the United States, because of the dramatic elements involved; but no less an autho-itv than Mr. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Excnange, re cently in his annual report, said. "The most serious debt prob lems of the United States arc do mestic. rather than foreign." With the co-operation of gov ernment statisticians, an effort has been made to get some basis of measurement of the present size of American domestic indebt edness, with the sums itemized for compaiative purposes. Special thanks for the facts secured must go to the United States commerce department. It is emphasized that the total figure is by no means authorita tive, but represents a rough ap proximation, and that the figures included are probably chiefly val uable for mutual comparison. AMPLE ROOM FOR SOLVENCY Yet if the total of nearly $147, 000,000,000 American indebted j ness is accepted for purpose of comparison, this gigantic sum can still be placed against an even larger figure—that of national wealth. The National Industrial Conference board estimates that Qnswers 7 " totodayi „IEi. cum w«r ««e n.t f" r;ur: r kmc I a t-cwwQ r* I iowowteo?! ww qtv cnwts irs Mm mmstioi; HOURS 9 tk fcsiumpjr iwrcCMi'pv? Richard the lion-heart ed was a PLANTAGENET. VIENNA, AUSTRIA, operate# 64,000 apartment houses for over 200,000 workers. The map B.hov-u is ECUADOR. American wealth, as of 1930, was $430,000,000,000. compared with $362,000,000,000 the year before, the decline bein^ due to deprecia tion of values. In J 925, it is esti mated, national wealth was also $302,000,000,000. Many economists believe that the problem of what to do about domestic indebtedness is the en tire problem of the economic slump. At 5 per cent, the annual interest payment on the estimated $147,000,000,000 of debt is $7, 330,330,330 billions alone. This burden comes at a time when the dollar is about twice as "expen sive" in terms of commodities as in the midst of the preceding boom, and when current assets have so depreciated, along with ' real estate and similar values, that I it becomes difficult for the aver age man to secure collateral. CAROLINA BAPTIST MINISTERS TO MEET Announcement was made to day that the January meeting of the Carolina Baptist Ministers conference will be held in this city, a week from Monday, on January 9, at 10 a. m. at the First Baptist church here. It is stated that a large at tendance is expected, in as much as election of officers for 11)33 will be held and a report of the I committee, consisting of Rev. A. Presidential Question - - HORIZONTAL 1 Of what coun try is Alexan der Zaimis president? 6 What weight equals 60 grains? 10 Vehicle. 13 Carousal. 14 A northern state of Cen tral America. 16 Deficient in beauty. 15 Cripples. 19 Male. 20 To scold. 21 Clasp device. 23 Telluride of lead. 25 Put a shoe on. 26 3.14> 6. 27 Twelfth of a foot. 2S Legume plant. 2l> Matter from a sore. 30 Ditch millet. 32 To choose by ballot. 34 Marrow. 35 "Wrath. Answer to Previous Puzzle HlAiepvj AZU'R'Ej Bj HGOiT IjN lTe !MiO;N ETsIuTsIBrIE iDfE IE WAlRiA ni^;w [o;ria too |A Dp y;e:a;rjl, ARDOR pTRiOlsjEl Til TjEiLILlE'RHE'N ■ I SaSbtWSe [r ailCT AJMlUiLlEiT C'AM |A!GjO TLB A 5 zIe RE 5 RS 36 Small nail. 37 Demonstrative pronoun. r.O Northeast. 40 lted rcge tabic. 41 To encourage. 43 Lifeless. 44 Spore plant. 45 Fish. 46 Confined. 47 Varieties of granite. 49 Assumed. CI Occurrence. 5-' Turf. 53 Drove. 51 Green. VERTICAL 1 She-eats. 2 Pertaining to kidneys. 3 Evening. 4 Snaky li^li. 5 Clergyman. C> Ridge ot sand. 7 Rodent. S Preposition of plate. 9 V. S. ambassa dor to Great Britain. 10 Collection of tents. 11 Doer. 12 Sun god. 14 Fence door. 15 Girl. IT Congregated. 21 Prattles. 22 Fraud. 24 Collection of facts. 25 Dry. 26 To jilacc. 2S Cot. 29 Auditors lr» pits. :;i Native metal. 33 Upright shaft 31 Nominal vylue. 36 Pulping ma chine. 3c> To long. 40 Inclination. 41 Chief. 42 Paradises. 43 Action. 44 To rnn away from. 4G Golf teacher. 47 To total. 45 Bugle plant 40 Postscript. 50 Nay. THE NEWFANGLES (Mom '11 Pop) —By Cowan, WHEN VtX' GLT ^ YWPOUGH IN THr.Pt, DON T roPGET THOSE SHCUVC; iN THE K1TCMEN \ OH,HELLO LVDE\ \V\ <30 GLAD TO VOO_ \ JUST DDOPPED | ;n TO SAY HAPPY j MEW YEAP1. i-IEAVEN* W! <AT'S ALL THE j NOISE ABOUT ? j V f X«%! : sh sh! pop made a new yeap's \ RESOLUTION TO DO AMY THIMG AQOUNID \ . THC HOUSE THAT I ASKED HIM TO— / pflM \ ' —r-\ ir-r\K,-r-t uh.tr> nriMC" OUT OUR WAY By Willis r \F I HE.LP HAVJE A B\Cr FOSS OK» M^/ HAMOS-AMD \\r X melP her, Itt. snu. ^ A Fu^-AMO IP I <=>TA^ neutral , i'ul still HAv A Fuss - OH.NNHAT TO D< v *• or»f?wiLU VOU'lL Punch me OKI TH' NOSE., VMVAE.KJ VOO AGxREED MOT Tt) HtT WOSE , V>/»LL v/OO? ( «U_ ^oOL POMCH ME IM Th' 4TOMACH/ AFTER AGREEinGt NOT -To Hrr THERE , WILL yOL>? Grab him,ma! Hold hm FOR ME. ? / — . . . CANT, w»TH GLOMES OM-ER TAWE'EM OFF FEF? WE-eR HOLO TH' DOOR TiLLT C'N GiT outa here*, fer gosh sakEs do SomPm' TO HELP A GuV — SHE RUMS RIGHT .'MTo PokjciAEsJ MEM FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS —By Blosaet rSET vfo'jR STUFF, FRECKLES • • WE'RE LEAVING RIGHT AWAY * WE'LL HA\JE TO 6ET OUT i BEFORE IT ! STD2MS r Me BUT A MlNJUTE, UNCLE HARRY- I EVERYTHING WE'RE SOlW«;,TAS«| CALL OSSIE AN" tf-ll him to tell i 7H" OTHER KIDS I NEVER COULD READ THAT BLAME BAROMETER BV THE BOWES OF THE TEN! TIMERS SHE'S BELOW TV.'ENT/ NIWE...VNE BETTCh? SHOVE 1 gey* IF "THIS 1SMT starting iwe KJ&tf ve/tt OFF RI<3HT, 1 DOWT "g kMO\W WAT IS // .>€ f gegfi'M so nervous i FORSOT OSSIE'S NUMBER... M2RE I'M LOOK I Si' IN THE O'S VJWEN I SHOULD BE LOOKIN' FDR PLE-TZENBAOM GABRIRLEE. fORBUSH iiKOIN IIKKI2 TODAY Whrn elderly AMOS IMtAIIODY falls to liin death from the second atory balcony of TOM A V Hit ILL'S Long Island home I.I.MIA. Torn'a *lfe, bcllcvca it la murder. Pea body wna her roaxin. Rushing to the balcony, Linda feels something thrown abont her throat. almost strangles nnd faints. She and Tom decide to pretend Cousin Amos' death *van nn Occi dent. meanwhile devoting; them nelvea to aolving the crime. They have four i;ne>ti, all of whom be come suspects: MK. STATLAMD 12 It, hualneaa naaoclate of Tom'si CAPTAIN I)K VOS. handaome Hel elan I MARVIN I* It ATT, former anitor of I.inda'a: and LIAN Sll AL'GIIXESSKY, Irlah writer. On one excuse nnd then another the gucata nre persuaded to llnlah ont their week-end visit. Linda linda the lowel with which the attempt wna made to atrangle her (identified l»y n atnear of sun burn ointment) in Slntlander'a bathroom. Torn, auspicious of Shanghnesaey. searches bis room. The Irishman discover* thla and to act matters right Linda tella hint the whole story, asking him to help solve the myatery. Just before dinner Sunday eve ning Linda la alone with Stat lander. She la Inattentive until ahe hears him aay that when Cooaln Amos was found dead lie Voa appeared from the far end of the hall instead of his own room. This means DeVoa mnat he the guilty man. Dinner Is announced and Linda tins no opportunity to tell Torn what ahe has learned. DeVoa appears nnd Tom aaya, "Sorry, I'll have to keep you wait ing a moment." A little Inter they both depart. The telephone rinca nnd l.lnda answers. Returning; she tells her guesta, "That was police headquurtera. Mr. DeVoa la going to be arreated—for murdering Cor.ain Amos." NOW CO ON WITH THE ST Oil X CHAPTER XLVII »6T SUPPOSE if 1 leave you two young Idiots alone you'll talk ill night" Kathleen Averill, stand ing In th«j doorway, surveyed her son and his wife with marked dis favor. Torn looked nway guiltily and Linda, sitting up in bed, smiled disarmingly. "Wo will," she said. "Rut, Kath leen, don't you see I've got to? It's tho one thing I need. I'll hurst If I don't." "And you'll bo sick if you do. Well—I've nothing to say about it. Tom won't be turned out and once you get him alone he hasn't the backbone of a jellyfish." "Rackbone! I wish you'd seen him," cried Linda indignantly, "go ing off all by himself with that terrlblo man!" "Don't!" Under her delicate, be coming rouge Tom's mother turned white. "I shan't 6lecp a wink to night and you're a—a monster if you do." "All tho more reason—" "Thero's no reason in you—either of you." Ashamed of her momen tary weakness, Mrs. Averill spoke Bharply. "It was a crazy thing to do and It's a wonder you're both alive to tell the talo. Now don't argue with mo. Rosie's fixed me a shake-down in tho nursery and if you have hysterics or any of the things you should have arter such an experience, bang on the bath room wall and I'll wake right away That is, if I'm asleep." she added hastily, "which I doubt I shall be. Good night!" And slio firmly closed the door behind her, leaving neither of them at all misled as to her real anxiety and affection. "She's a lamb, isn't she?" com mented Linda, settling herself lux uriously among the cushions. "Uut, oh. Tommy—1 thought 1 never would have you all to myself! Now. for heaven's sake, talk. I'm frantic to know all about it." "Are you sure you ought?" "Don't be an absolute goat! Do you want mo just to curl up and dio?" I "Heaven forbid!" He still found it difficult to do anything but look at her rather hungrily. "Where shall I start?" "At the beginning. That Is, we went downstairs and that Stat lander man calight you and you went off to the garage. What 1 don't see, Tom, Is how you knew— because I found out while you were gone—and you thought it was poor Marvin." "Poor Marvin—poor me! I was having lita talking tennis to that man ana thinking you'd got the goods on him somehow and that 1 had to leave you and drive DeVos to the Stoners. How did you fiud out. Binks?" "One of those 'littlo things.' Stat lander was rambling on and sud denly he said something about the nursery. I was wool-gathering, but L mado him repeat what ho said and in that humorous;, careful way ho went over it again. About how curious It was that when 1 col lapsed in Cousin Amos' room, Mr. DeVos appeared from tho other end of the hall—our end. I never did know how ho got on the subject. That hit me, Tom, just like a real blow. I couldn't get my breath. There it was—tho small thing we'd been waiting for. 1 thought 1 must get to you—and then dinner was readr and Marvin came down and | Mr. Statlander had a sudden fit of i manners and went off to get you. 1 J was so full of excitement and sus I pense I thought I'd pop! While you, poor dear—" • • • I had Marvin picked for the ^ guilty ono, all right. I was afraid to look at you and all the time you were waiting to set me right If I did!" "That meal was ghastly. 1 kept waiting to hear—his step—in the hall and when 1 did and he came and stood behind me—! But then, Tom, something hit you. You start ed to get up perfectly cheerfully and naturally—" "Uinks—It came over me and 1 nearly gave the whole show away right there, lie stood there smil ing. with his eyes sort of droopy— you know—and a littlo mocking, somehow, a9 If be knew something I didn't 1 see now he has looked that way all the time but I Just put it down to his cool, superior foreign ways—" "But, Tom, what—?" "Oh—his white shirt front, Binks." "I!is what?" "That was It—what I saw from the raft, the 'something' 1 couldn't locate. As soon as 1 saw him there it came back to me in a Hash. 1 saw him just the way 1 did then, only not so far away. You see, Marvin had beon In undershirt and trousers and Statlander in a terry cloth bathrobe but JeVos hadn't undressed that night. He had bis coat off and a long, dark robe on, but from the raft 1 caught that splash of white—horseshoe shaped. It stood out from the black rest of him. In daylight it Just looked wrong. But I never could place It." "He didn't undress? But—" "Yes. He must have lied to you You told me that when he talked about It with you he said he tin dressed and sat and dozed In the big chair by the window—" l$« 146 WAIT a niomcnt» Torn. He j " didn't quito say that—but 1 did tavo that Impression." She hugged her knee3 and bent her head on them In concentrated effort to bring back the exact words. "He said, 'I made myself comfortable In the chair by the window and dozed off there—' That was It, Tom. 1 misled you. When he said 'made myself comfortable,' 1 took it for granted he meant he undressed and repeated to you thai way. I'm awfully sorry!" "That was perfectly natural. I'd have gone on the same assumption. I suppose ho took off his dress coat and put on the bathrobe. Now 1 think about it, remember some thing else that should have told me ! a lot When ho Joined us in Cousin | Amos' room ho had a very long j robo on and it was drawn close j across his cnest—lapped way over. : Of course that hid the white shirt j front and made him look entirely j different." "How—how did he take it?" In voluntarily Linda shivered violent ly and immediately his hand was laid over hers. "Well—badly—" "He was—violent?" "Cle«jr off his nut. I told you it'd be all a bunch of us could do to manage whoever it turned out jto bo, when the time came. They sent four men—thought I was 1 crazy when I called but somehow I put it over and we needed •▼CTJ man of them. It wasn't a prettjr scene." '• v« "I suppose he killed Bunty?" "He laughed about it—Jeered at rne—for caring about a fat old _do* 1 supposo. He was a maniac, Blakt. Yes, he went out that night and prowled about—" • m a 6&OUFFERED from insomnia. Att> ^ other thing I forgot. WhejS wo met In the city at the oAjfr early in the week he spoke of It*-" said he always slept badly lo hotel*. It was just an allusion and 1 forgot all about it. Added to this blatlM neat—this sort of spell alwajv strikes a European as direct from hell—he was probably all keyed n) from at least two and perhatw three or four nights without sleep. Tilt first night be went out and roamed around—and Bunty shffered for It You can Imagine she'd be right on the job with an unknown prowllflt* about after midnight, poor spool? little cuss! Then the next algbt after the row at the club and the dance he came back to that hdf room—it was the worst night of aft, you know—and knew hs hadn't • chance in the world to sleep. 86 he just 'made himself comfoftabfo' in the chair and probably sat then brooding over the quarrel and th< Insult he endured from Cousin Amos." "And the door went rork*rorlt rork—" "His window was parallel with that door and he could hear tf | louder than anyone else." She sighed. "Well—Tom—we 414 It. Thank heaven it's over!" "But by a very narrow marfla,? he added soberly. "The chance re mark of Statlander and my In* presslon of the shirt front." "Speaking of Mr. 8tatlander—1■ Linda's Impish grin was, lo a ngfr ment, as dauntless as ever. "Yoti'fl not very complimentary about y.Mi senior, are you, darling?" "Well, he is an old fool made more trouble, unnecessary trouble—" "Have you talked It over wltt him?" • Vt* "Lord, yes. We've all hashed and re-hashed. After you pulled ttH faint—don't be peevish, honejv i<H had plenty of provocation and lit* body blamed you!—Shaughnessej turned you over to Rosle and thi called up mother, and the hro 0! them bundled you off. MeauWhty our Irish friend had the limt of his young life—a grand yarn to tell and an audience that was pop-eyed with excitement. When I got ha£l -dog-tired, dishevelled and ajfci with worry about you—they alt'tlB on me liko wolves to hear the eftd of the story." • ''iffr. (To Be Concluded) i "< ' J - I. Justice and Dr 10. E. Uomar, of Tryon, on "Where the confer ence should meet and what sub jects should it consider for 1933" will be considered. The Rev. W. II. Davis is pres ident of the conference at this t'mc and the subject to be dis cussed by the ministers in their first meeting of the New Yoei'i will be "What should cach of us! ministers (lo to improve his own spiritual life, Js to reading God's word and habits of private pray er?" Dr. Bomar will lead this discussion. USE THE WANT ADS. Prolific Flies One well known authority on the house fly says that In (he latitude of Washington, 1). C., a single over winter female may have, by tue last last of Sept en* her, 5,598,720, 000,000 descendants, and nil that In about four or live months. Drunkard'* PunUhraaat The drunkard's cloak was snfoid English punishment for drunkaonqf. A spirits barrel was hung orirthi drunkard with holes la the'rfjtybc, through which his hands' ifcrl thrust. lie could neither trtt noiHW down. i