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If I can’t break lb* curti, I*|| go too.”
/rr.tn Tins first:
l„ tf Adonis, jny Rruee , Pflfy
Tom rt firry and Larry
up' uilk /(V in Ch-cago.
fo+te to fete a trip to Ike South
(,14. moiliated by Ike riM.fuia of un
*l4 l n P. Point In MJ|, describ
es thr cruise ol a \nc England ship
nftiin In qaesl of pearls, lone. Jay
gm 4 Lnrrp. alt working for a netcs
fsprr. Q»M their fobs irk rn salaries
<r , r«| suit, Joined by the others,
r Tahiti In the South Seas.
f,t*rt soiling lone and Jay. and
ydly sn.l Tam are married. Attempts
trt mode $e • at ramie girl, knou n
f*i* m Miss Whitney, to obtain pus
irm-.n of the ships lop. On ship
yard Jay's cabin is ransacked, and
p. y 4*n»icr (/tat (Ae girl, bliss
u absmnL Arriving (jt /•<*-
prtr. Tahiti, they are met by Uan
r,e R- ihi, and his tc He. Ihlen. ohl
Mtk, irbo proceed to dhow them
(ir vised. As they make a round of
(if (i'll* In !*a licete, that night,
(*.•» ex the Whitney ptrl domino
lift t I'rgnpe man. Larry cut* In
ssd dsscct with her. Later that
■Pr«'Vf they have retired Jay Is
>y a tap at Irts Juar and dnds
tie Whitney girl there. The girl of
fers tie entire partva braise on her
phooner, the fitjudia. and early in
tie morning they atl set oat bound
for her Island home on Moatonga.
Jb 'ore lea ihip Papeete they discover
the l« an hereditary princess ot a
grot ip of U’auf/a On ike ship bliss
Mhtln.it. rt teals herself as Pauo.
p»mrt «i of the islands, and tells them
Or stnro st her great-grandfather,
i'rrn M'hPuey, the ship’s captain.
*A« mode the cruise for pearls 100
irori before. They shore her the log
bonk, trkfvk she examines. That eve
ning Tom, who ran read wireless
rod', b.-grs a mmaoe being sent la
another ship that the log book ts
te*f aboard.
[.VOW no O.V WITH THE STORY ]
CHAPTER 1*
MAKING A LANDFALL, particu
larly a tropical tarn I fall. U an expert
*e*e to remember.
Th* first Intimation that unusual
ttfb'i an a lte<l Ua came aa we made
rernly to stand la through the pass
la the smoking birrler reef where
emtnou* looking green water piled
steadily In a welter of foam. Pinga
shouted orders nn«l the crew jumped
to take In the great spreads of can
rasa Then a bell tinkled below, the
b**t of the screw picked op, and we
•ere moving in.
“Would you look at that pier, my
feed man," Tom said.
We were standing together In the
l'>». curiously watching, aa the
r'a-e which would be home to us for
■ while, developed and took shape.
I ? , ' w> k*d aa though It had been built
•o stnnd for all tlm*.
There, half a mile away across the
Ueoon a great finger of what seemed
to he coral blocks, extended a hun
dred feet out into the blue waters
** ,h * harbor. A little to the left
r'ood what appeared to be a boat
kofirf nleo a rocl- construction.
Higher, possibly three hundred
Tsris up from the di» k. we caught
r impfie, 0 f another building through
th* palm *rees and tropica! foliage.
Teiund this to the west, the hilla of
•** iflsnd began to tower.
W» had all been on deck early
♦h-u fifth morning out. for P&uo had
tp'ormed un liie night before that
'** would be raising Moatonga In
tom morning, with the wind holding.
A * came up shortly after day
"***■ the peaks of one of the out
• ng Islands of the Apostles group.
during the dark hours, was
•"♦ring astern, just visible now
** r '»igh the glam. An hour later a
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-'bout came from one of the crew
In the rigging.
"He has sighted Moatonga," Tauo
said.
Then for some three boura we
crutaed steadily eastward with the
50 mile length of the Island moving
past on our right Occasionally we
caught tight of little clusters of
thatched houses through the trees
where passes showed in the coral
reel, and bays jutted inland.
"What’s that" lone questioned as
we sighted another Island tying due
cast from whk-b two twin spires of
rock towered high like the beckon
inr lingers of a hand.
‘T hat Is Turea.” i'uuo said quietly.
And so. as wo sailed along beside
Moatonga. we saw for the first time
that btoody aloL But then we didn’t
know of the terrors that were to
stalk us there. We were yet to
learn that that twisted bit of moun
tain top. drowned a million years
ago. was ghost ridden, feared by na
tives and shunned by whites. We
only knew that in some strange way
It was linked with the Whitney girls
hta. through that old log book.
A crowd of natives was waiting
as wa stepped on the dock. Again
we felt that peculiar sensation as
we found ourselves on firm land and
!>egiin the slow recovery from “sea
legs" which bad become accustomed
to the perpetual movement of a
deck.
We saw instantly thut these na
tive* were a different sort from those
at Papeete, whose blood had been
crossed aod. re crossed -With adventur
ing whites Thr generations. The first
thing that struct uer berk was the
physical perfection Ultas Islanders,
with their intelligent fkcofc and Light
colored bodies.
"1 hope vou are not unduly
shocked at the undressed parade.”
Pauo laughingly said. Indicating a
group of children scampering about
as naked as the day they were born.
The girls denied any qualnia
But It was as we approached the
house up the 'vide, shaded path, that
we got our first real thrllL The ex
terior was startling enough, but the
interior left us speechless. Ptlly was
the first to recover her voice.
“Well!" she exploded. “What are
you. a princess? Why. this place Is *
palace." and she looked around ths
great cool, comfortable living room
and then at Pauo Inquiringly.
"Yea. In g way. 1 suppose. But I
had never thought of It In just that
fashion." ths girl answered lightly.
"What did you expect palm
thatch?"
That was It. 1 think we had all
been unconsciously expecting some
thing of the sort. We were vastly
surprised to discover an estate of
this magnitude so far from so-called
civilization.
No stretch of the Imagination
would have been required to have
erased from mind those thousands
of miles of rolling Pacific and seen
ourselves back In a lovely country
home In the Slates.
“We might have known we would
find something of this sort after see
ing the Sequoia." Holmes announced
"And even electricity," lone ex
claimed. looking to where electric
randies appeared around the walls,
and to the floor lamps that stood st
various strategic positions about the
room.
“We have our own plant for light
ing. for radio and refrigeration,"
Pauo admitted. "This place was built
many yearn ago by my grandfather,
and all 1 have done has simply been
to add a few modern touches here
and there."
The room In which we stood was
some 40 pot In length by half that
width, and a perfect blending of rich
colors Th- walls were left In smooth
natural salmon-colored nnrtl atone of
BgWDg * B ON. (N. C.J DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1992 •
which the place was constructed.
Tlic floors were all of polished rock
of various colors, laid In broken
bond, and covered with deep Chines*
and oriental ruga Great soft divans
and chairs, upholstered In s deep
wine brocade, stood about, together
with massive polished mahogany
tables.
There were long French windows
cut through ths two feet of solid
masonry of the walls, protected by
Iron bars, and draped with purple
und gold. At the rear of the living
room a winding wrought Iron stair
went up. and 1 remembered seeing a
cupola some fifteen feet square In
the center of the main section.
The palace which stood on rising
ground, faced east, with a great
wide, cool porch running the length
of the main section. In a north wing
were eight bed rooms, four on either
side of a central hall. The south
wing housed the servant's quarters
and the kitchen, to which access was
gained through the dining room.
A combination library and music
room, with s heavily carved grand
piano, was vtsuble through s wide
archway at the rear of the living
room on the right.
A smooth green lawn, rare In the
tropics, stretched sway In front to
ward the dock, ornumcnied by a
rock garden In which a small foun
tain splashed musically, and by palm,
mango, flamboyant, and alligator
pear trees, as well as hibiscus and
frangipunl. At the rear were conven
tional gardens, with shaded nooks
and rock seats.
From the house there was a gor
geous view through the foliage, of
tive sparkling lagoon, the heaving
asa. and beyond the high-flung peaks
of Tare a. To the south, and seem
ingly nearer. Appeared another atoL
Then wa wars being shown to our
rooms. A cool tub and fresh clothes
were pleasant. As the baggage „bod
been moved up I had seen Tom
keeping a close watch on the trunk
which contained ths log, a vigil
which had not relaxed until It was
safely in the stors room of our
wing, under lock and key.
"I’uuo. I'm simply amazed," Filly
announced breathlessly. "We land
here expecting palm thatch and find
a palace, and an ; Island empire of
which you are princess you. are
:really a pHncfcss. dren’l ydut*
"’Well, sort of." Pauo laughed.
"You see my family have lived oa
Moatonga tor many years. My
grandfather was adopted by the
childless old chief of this archipelago,
and when the French took over the
protectorate, my family was recog
nized just as were the head families
of other island groups. 1 am ths last
of the line and the government looks
to me to preserve order and attend
to official business for them. Possibly
thut makes me a princess.” she added
lightly.
"You have no family, then?" Toes
asked.
For a moment she didn’t answer
while she thosghtfuMy lit a cigar
ette: “Nu got them all, and If I
can't break the curse. I'll go. too."
she said.
Ws all looked up startled. Her
voice seemed to come from a dis
tance —dry and cricketlike. I think
we all remembered that the log book
had identified Nu as Polynesia’s god
of gods, which possessed a Bacred
Eye. which her great-grandfather
planned to capture,
“A curse," Tom questioned softly,
breaking a short silence.
She tossed her head as though to
shake away some vision before her
eyes In an instant she had regained
complete control and smiled, aa she
answered noncomitally:
"Strange things happen Is these
islands of the South Seas."
(TO Bft OOXTTXUEDJ
RENOMINATION OF
BRUMMITT CERTAIN
(Continued from Page One.)
rraliy thousands* of opinions explain
ing and interpreting the many laws
of the State. Because of the many
new and important laws enacted In
1929 and 1931. Mr. Brummitt has been
kept unusually busy interpreting
these laws and in setting forth the
proper procedure under them.
Among some of the more Impor
tant cases that have been handled by
Mr. Brummitt since he has been at
torney general, but concerning which
the public generally knows very lit
tle .are the telegraph rate case of
191'6. the carpetbag bonds negotiations
In 1928, the Pritchard-Bailey election
contest case, the chain store case and
many others.
Although the telegraph rate case
has probably been forgotten by moat
people, the petitions of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph com
panies would have increased telegraph
rates in the State from ? to 48 per
cent. Attorney General Brummitt ap
peared for the State in opoetng the
1 petitions before the State Corpoc&UiLt
LOUISBIIRG FINALS
TO START FRIDAY
Elaborate Plans Being Made
For College There
This Year
Loulaburg. May 18.-Letters are be
ing mailed to the members of the
Alumnae Association of Loulsburg
College, telling of Loulaburg's “first’
Home Coming Day. featuring a great
baseball game with the Carolina fresh
men. and bearing the following pro-,
gram for Saturday. May 21, which
contains some other “firsts. ’’ Barbe
cue for alumnae, friends, faculty, and
students at 12 30 o’clock; ceremony
attending the unveiling of the bronze
tablet which will mark the spot where
the “first'' Loulsburg College build
ing was erected, st 2 o’clock; base
ball gabe between the C lolina fresh
men and Louiaburg college's ’first’
baseball team at 2:30. Eight o’clock
Saturday evening will mark the pass
ing of the alumnae association into
the alumni association at 'he annual
banquet for alumnae and graduating
class.
The faculty. friend 3, and alumnae
are looking foi jvp-1 to a great home
coming, and are anxious for the
alumnae wherever they may be to
return to their alma ma’or on May
24.
People over the State generally will
be Interested in th features of the
commencement to be held at I<ouls
burg College this spring, beginning
on May 20. and ending on May 24.
The piogram is as follows: Friday,
May 20, 8 o’clock -Annual Concert;
Saturday, May 21. 2 o’clock -Home
Coming Exercises, 5 o’cloc Homs
Economics Exhibit, 5 o’clock -Art Ex
hibit. 8 o’clock -Alumnae Banquet;
Sunday. May 22, 11 o'clock—Baccalau
reate Sermon, 8 o'clock- Sermon be
fore the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M.
C. A.; Monday. May 23, 5 o’clock-
Class Day, 8 o'clock Play by the
School of Expression; Tuesday. May
24. Commencement Address. Award
ing of Diplomas and Certificates.
The commencement address will be
delivered by Col. Wade H. Cooper, of
Washington. D. C.; the baccalaureate
Hermon will bp given by Rev. H. B.
Porter, of Wilmington, and the ser
mon before the Y. W. C. A. and the
Y. M. C. A. by Dr. A. D. Wilcox, presi
dent of Louisburg College.
One of the largest crowds of alum
nae and friends of the College that
have ever gathered here for a com
mencement program Is expected this
year; therefore it is to the advantage
of those expecting to attend to make
reservations immediately.
Commission. The Corporation Com
mission, after hearing the arguments,
dismissed the petitions and the tele
graph companies did not appeal. Most
of the credit for defeating the peti
tions is given to Attorney General
Brummitt. The people of the State
have been saved hundreds of thou-,
sands of dollars as the result of the
denial of these petitions.
Another Important case in whick
Mr. Brummitt participated was the
carpetbag bonds cpse. when the State
of Connecticut in 1928 sought permis
sion from the United States Supreme
Court to sue the State of North Caro
lina for the payment of these bonds.
Mr. Brummitt and Governor A. W.
McLean went to Connecticut and so
forcefully presented the facts In the
case to the JConn Apt icut officials, that
they decided not to. go through with
their intention to sue this State. This
decision was reached after, a careful
study of the mass of evidence that
had tteeto Assembled by Attorney Gen
eral Brummitt. Since that time, sev
eral other states have considered ask
ing for permission to bring Butt for
payment of these bonds, but in each
case it has been deciuea not to pro
ceed after studying Mr. Brummltt'a
records in this case. Recently it has
been understood that the State of
Colorado was considering seeking per
mission to sue this State on these
bonds, although no official notice of
this intention has been received here.
If a suit should be brought and
won for payment of these carpetbag
bonds, the State would have to pay
out about $88,000,000 to redeem them
—513,318,000 in principal and $44,729.-
000 In Interest, since the bonds were
issued In 1888.
Another case In which Mr. Brum
mitt represented the State and won
was the so-called chain store case.
In which the chain stores attacked
the validity of the speclq} tax of SSO
per store on chain stores Imposed by
Penny A Poppy F or Needy Family
i » " t * — arr
Every popipy made means a penny
for a needy family at home. Although
fiat on hts back in a government hos
pital, thds disabled World War vete
ran and thousand* of fate comrades
are aWe to hrip support their depend
ents by making paper poppies for the
American Legtou Auxiliary's memorial
poppy sale, to be neta throughout the
country on May 28th, the Saturday
before Memorial Day. Disabled vet
crant. *uv for fbf Aua-
~ mbs
fKTT s
* -
BB » -IBB^fcfiMß
fiddie Cantor, in a seme from’Palmq Daqs*
AT THE STEVENSON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Years ago. Eddie Cantor found out
that anything he had to say, any joke
or any song, was always twice as
fun-ny if he worked between a couple
of beautiful girls. Thai tradition,
TO UNVEIL AYCOCIT
STATUE ON FRIDAY
State Delegation To Be Pre
sent For Function In
Washington
!>all>’ lltirr.in.
In the Sir IVnllt-r Hotel.
"V J C. KASKF.It V11,|,.
Raleigh, May Ift. Clarence Aycock,
of Gdldsboro, Wayne county, nephew
of former Governor Charles Brantley
Aycock. was appointed today by Gov
ernor O. Max GardnVr as a member
of the Aycock Memorial Commission,
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Captnin Nathan O’Beiry of
Goldsboro. This gives Wayne county,
the native county of Gbvernoi Aycock
representation upon the commission
again. Aycock will »c asked to at
tend the unveiling nml dedication of
the statue of Governor Aycock in
Washington Ftiday afternoon in
Statuary Hall. :
Governor Gardner and members of
the commission are expected to leave
here Thursday for Washington. Gov
ernor Gardner will make a brief ad
dress and present the statue to the
Federal government In behalf'of tjic
State of North Carolina. Josephus
Daniels, vice chairman of the com
mission, will also speak. The -etaUie
will be accepted on the part of the
Federal government by Uopresenta.
tlve Lindsay Warren. Dr. James Y.
Joyner, who was superintendent of
public Instruction during Governor
Aycock's administration, will also
speak briefly on the work of the
commission. The statue will be un
veiled by Charles Aycock Mclzendon
and Charles Brant ly Aycock. grand
sons of the late governor.
This statue was designed by Charles
Keck, noted New York sculptor, and
Is being erected at a cost of $15,000.
this amount having been appropriated
for this purpose by the 1929 General
Assembly when It created the Aycock
Memorial Commission. Aycock was
elected governor in 1900 during the
now famous "white supremacy cam
paign” and has gone down in history
as the State's "educational governor”
because of his interest In public edu
cation. He is credited with being the
father of the State's present public
school system.
Buddhism is more than thirty cen
turies old.
The type of our civilisation la based
on the good road.
the North Carolina General Assem
bly. This case was carried to the
United States Supreme Court and was
being watched by every state In the
Union. The attorney for the chain
stores was John D. Davis, recognized
as one of the leading lawyers in the
United States. But Attorney General
Brummitt argued the case and won
it and received the congratulations
of all who heard him. including Mr.
Davis.
Because of the record made by Mr.
Brummitt in these and other cases,
his friends are confident that he will
be renominated with ease.
I iliary this y**ar in b 3 hospitals and con
’ valeacant workrooms In 34 different
I states. By “Poppy Day" there will
have completed more than ten million
. of the Httle flower* and earned |IOO,-
000 for themselves and families The
poppies will be hold by volunteer
worker* from the Auxiliary to be
I worn in honor of the war dead, wfth
aH money received going to the wel
fare of the disabled and their fami
■ ie?.-Htuort€d. # ,
born through the successive Zoigfeta
“Follies" that first made him famous,
is continued in his ptoture career to
his newest “PuLmy Days.” whloh
Samuel Ooldwyn -is presenting at the
Stevenson theatre Thursday and Fri
day.
OaMon be*eve» that his beady-eyed,
cbuihenl. prancing person needs the
contrast of stately and shapely femi
hine pulchritude. HU effort has al
ways been not lo make himaelf funny
by baggy trousers or elongated makes,
but rather to make himself the home
ly 'unattractive kttle worm that is pun
sued and harassed by sN kind* of
strange human menaces. Nothing
helps so much. Cantor claims, as the
cool oahn ot a properly glorified
American girl.
"Then they can sec that. I’m a jknrr
fish,—a mult. People sympathise
with me." 1
jtmrmTi WHW
Every goes through five
deeming processes, before be
• , ,i»g roasted.
4 '
Xyz‘i^KW^a^WedTemable^With'
COUPONS j OCTAGON SOAP COUPONS
<SideDre±A^
And let the
weevil WORRY ?
IOOKS like a mighty bad weevil year. We had
J two bone-dry summers in 1930 and 1931 and
are about due for a wet one now. Owing to mild
weather, weevils had a picnic all winter and they
are just waiting for the squares to form.
It is going tb be a race between the cotfqh
and the weevifs. Cotton sure is going to haveia - •
job keeping ahead of the weevils without a little
help from you. Not much, if any* fertilizer under t,”
it, the crop is almost sure to be slow and sickly *1
• by Jane. Just the way the weevils want it. t
What they do to your', crop depends largely
on what you do for your crop!
Side-dress! Chilean Nitrate, 100 pounds per
acre (200 pounds would be much better) will set
the crop early, ahead of the weevil. Then you are
reasonably safe. But be sure you get Chilean.
Nothing takes its place for side-dressing cotton.
Your dealer has it or can get it on a moment's
notice. See him now!
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PAGE THREE
SHARP DEWS IN
STATE’S FIRE LOSS
April $285,515 Less Than
Same Month 1931; But
Larger For Year
Raleigh. May Is—(APl—Loos from
fires In North .Carolina in April ag
gregated $497,722 In 27S biases, which
was $285,815 leas than tba loos of
$750,237 In 238 fires In April. 1931.
Dsn C. Boney, Insurance commis
sioner. reported today.
The April loos was nearly SIOO,OOO
less than in March, when the record
breaking number of s7l fires occurred.
Loss for the first four months of
the current year aggregated $2,370.-
295. compared with damage of sl,-
946,110 during the same period lost
year, an Increase of 324.185 this yosr.
The April report showed 540 fires
In towns with total loss of $351,639.
and there were 33 rural fires with
loan of $140,183.
Twenty-six fires caused a loss of
$327,738. averaging $12,600 each, while
the other 247 firae averaged a toes
of only $663 each.
The frontier type of life till j>er
in the interior of the United
States. The weeßh of an Eokteno
largely depende on the number of doge
he poeoconcd.
W. H. Boyd I :
Registered Engineer and Surveyor V
Office In Law Building i
Office Phone 198 Home Phone 19
V