Henderson daily dispatch., August 30, 1934, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

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ffF.AD THIS FIRST:
Donald Reeves, young instructor,
M found shot to death in his office
on the campus of Center City uni
versity. Inspector Lee arrives at the
scene of the tragedy with his fre
quent co-worker, Timothy hiade,
newspaper reporter, and discovers
the gun that was beside the body,
found by the janitor, has disappeared,
inspector Lee meets Professor Wil
son, head of the English department,
and his secretary, Ruth Turner, as
well as Miss Edwards, another mem
ber of the department, and Jamieson,
an instructor who shared the dead
man's office. On the third floor of
the English building the police find
an attic room that shows signs of
inhabitance. Miss Edwards tells Lee
of a recent quarrel between the dead
man and Jamieson. Blade, the re
porter, announces to Lee that lie has
just called on Mrs. Reeves. Both go
to see the icidow who is convinced
her husband committed suicide be
cause he told her the evening before
that he was "going away". Return
ing to the campus, Iwe and Blade
meet the other two members of the
English staff, young Walker and
elderly Dr. Henderson. Lee examines
several members of the staff about
their whereabouts on the previous
evening and knowledge of Reeves and
his past.
(NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY)
chapter 10
LEE ASSIDUOUSLY attacked an
imaginary spot on his coat lapel.
Rubbing it between thumb and fore
finger he said slowly, "Dr. Hender
son, I don’t know much about how
colleges work but I’d think a boy’d
get through every once in a while
without knowing what he was sup
posed to. Would you mind explain
ing to me just why you made an
issue of this case?”
"I felt it was a shameful piece of
work on the part of any teacher,"
came Dr. Henderson’s prompt reply.
"That boy didn’t bluff his way—he
couldn’t. He didn’t know as much
grammar as a grade school child.
Any teacher would have spotted
him." He shrugged a little. “I
might as well admit it before some
one else does it for me.” His glance
(ell on Walker who bowed ironically.
“I thought Reeves was a very bad
teacher and I have said so to both
Dr. Wilson and Dr. Walker. I felt
that he ought not to remain on the
staff. I hope you will believe, officer,
that these remarks are difficult for
me to make about the man now. But
nothing less explains my attitude‘in
this case about Giovinni."
“Why was he such a bad teacher?"
Lee ignored the man’s apology and
pushed ahead.
Dr. Henderson pondered for a
minute before replying. "You prob
ably know that when any older man
is put in a position of authority over
a group of younger people, the rela
tionship between them is governed
far more by the unspoken sympathy
and understanding that exists be
tween them than by anything the
older man does or says. They must
be en rapport. That’s the way it is
with a teacher. But Reeves, I think,
would just as soon have lectured to
an empty classroom as to his stu
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“I know nothing, nothing at all.”
dents. He treated them with the
most instilting indifference and ab
sehtmindednesar,"Varied only by vio
lent outbursts of temper against
them.”
“Then you did not like Reeves?”
asked Lee.
The answer came carefully. “I
never made any special effort to
know him personally, but as a teach
er I did not approve of him. How
ever.” he finished smiling, “one does
not murder a man because he is a
poor teacher.’
Walker lounged back in his chair
with wicked grace and chuckled at
that. Lee ignored him and continued
with Henderson.
“Where were you last night?”
"At my apartment.”
“Can anyone else swear that you
were there?”
“I really don’t know, Inspector. I
live alone and I saw no one during
the evening.”
Lee waited until Ruth Turner had
finished recording the last remark.
Then he growled at Walker, with
heavy irony, "All right, my dear pro
fessor, go ahead and give us the an
swer. You’ve probably got an ex
cellent solution In your pocket some
where.”
“Not at all, my dear Sherlock, not
at. all,” Walker replied airily. “All
I’m sure of Is that I didn’t do It I
dislike disappointing you but I was
at home all evening with my wife.”
Lee grunted noncommitally and
went on to regulation questions.
“What do you know of Reeves per
sonally?”
*‘l doubt if any of us knew much
about him personally, unless it was
young Jamieson here with whom he
shared an office. He didn’t take very
kindly to our overtures of friendship.
Perhaps he wasn’t such a good
teacher. But I could never under
stand why Dr. Henderson disliked
him so for that.” He grinned
companionably at the man of whom
he spoke.
“You see, he showed signs of being
an excellent research man and that’s
what Dr. Henderson is. He was
young of course, but his thesis on
Ambrose Bierce was a most arrest
ing piece of work. A poor teacher
but a good research man. That’s
about all I know of him.”
Lee turned away in disgust.
“What’s that got to do with the
case?” He was to remember his
question later.
“Nothing, absolutely nothing.”
With that. Walker resumed his indo
lent lounging position.
Lee turned a little to face Miss
Edwards but before he could speak
she said in a shaken voice, “I know
nothing, nothing at all.”
“That’s quite all right. Miss Ed
wards,” Lee said. “Just tell me first
where you were last night.”
“At home, where I usually am at
night.”
I’ll wager you are, thought Lee.
Aloud, “And you know nothing of
last night’s incidents?” She shook
her head. “Then suppose you tell
me about the quarrel you overheard
yesterday afternoon.”
“Mr. Jamieson will tell you that,
I’m sure,” she snapped.
"But we should like your version
of the affair.”
Jamieson broke in on her reply.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 193*
“Oh. I’ll tell you all right. Why rag
her about it? I couldn’t very well
lie about it when there were two
witnesses, could l?” he damended
bitterly.
"Two?” asked Lee.
“I was in my office. Inspector.’’ the
girl said quietly, looking up from
her notebook.
“I see. Were you at home last
night, too?” he asked preparing to
take notes on the girl's testimony.
“Yes, sir."
"Alone?”
She hesitated a moment. "After
nine o’clock, yes.”
“And before that?"
“Mr. Jamieson was there for din
ner but he left shortly before nine.”
She looked appealingly at the in
spector.
“Come, Miss Turner, don’t look so
frightened. I know you had nothing
to do with it,” he rallied her. But
the fear stayed in her face. It
wasn’t for herself she was frightened,
and he knew it. “Do yon know
where he went when he left?”
She shook her head dumbly.
“Well, Jamieson, suppose you tPll
us about this quarrel," he ordered
turning to the last man about the
table.
“It’s simple, so darned simple I
don’t suppose anybody will believe
me.” Jamieson faced the policeman
with a desperate defiance. “Reeves’
birthday was the end of the month
and Mrs. Reeves wanted to have a
surprise party for him. She asked
me to help her plan it. 1 had seen
her several times about it. always, of
course, when Reeves was in class or
having conferences.
“He evidently found out ahout it
and yesterday afternoon he raised
Holy Ned because I’d been seeing
her. I told him to forget it. that it
wasn’t important and he’d under
stand soon enough. That was when
he threatened to —to kill me if I saw
her again.” His voice faltered.
“Do you remember just what he
said to you?” asked the detective.
“I’ll never forget it.” replied
Jamieson with a shiver. * “He kept
shouting ‘So it’s unimportant that
you make love to my wife behind my
back, is it? By God. I'll kill vou for
that!’”
"And what did you answer?”
“Nothing. I didn’t want to tell
him, because she was so anxious to
make it a surprise. She was devoted
to him,” he added with sudden bel
ligerence. “Besides he disgusted me
with his face all knotted with anger
I just walked out.."
“I see.” Lee sat in silence a mo
ment digesting Jamieson's statement
Then he went ahead. "Last night
after you left Miss Turner’s, where
did you gq?”
“I walked over to the Reeves’
apartment,’’ the young man replied
without hesitation. “I was in the
office yesterday afternoon when
Reeves told Dr. Wilson he'd be work
ing at the English House at night.”
He glanced for confirmation toward
his superior who nodded assent. “I
wanted* to see her to tell her ahout
the quarrel and to suggest that she
explain to him ahout the party."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Side Roads
Get Coating
Tar, Gravel
Pumphouse, County
Hospital, Railroad
and Country Club
Roads Treated
A number of so-called “side roads”
but all of which lead to important
destinations, have been tggred and
gravelled and on the outskirts of
Henderson in the past few days by
corps of workers of the State High
way Commission. There has been on
cost to the city or county for the
work.
Importunities of local t authorities
have finally obtained approval by
highway authorities of these projects
some of which were asked for a year
or more ago.
One of the roads. treated is that
from the end of the hard-surface on
the Andrews avenue extension on out
to the waterworks pump station. An
other is that from the State highway
prison camp on the eastern outskirts
of the city back into the eastern end
of, Montgomery street around by t!
Vance bounty Hospital and the Scott
Parker Sanatorium. The road from
the paved highway of the Oxford road
westward to the West End Country
Club, something less than quarter o r
a mile, has also been given a tar and
gravel coating, as has the road that
parallels hte Southern Railway tracks
from the Raleigh highway to the
point where it comes into the Oxford
road at the bend at the Harris cor
ner. The road from the Raleigh high
way back to the I. J. Young residence
has also been treated.
All of this work makes for greater
ease of traffic and eliminates the
hazards and discomforts of dust o
these roads.
Rainey 'Successor
Brings A Problem
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wouldn’t say that) but the facf~r : e'-
mans that his death WOULD have
telieved them of a serious embarrass
ment, but for the circumstance that
Byrns seems so sure to follow him,
except at the cost of a fight that
would split the party wde open—and
Byrns is not much more satisfactory
to the administration than Rainey
was.
Thus the situation is Democratic
ally very awkward.
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The Democrats are no more puz
zled, however, than the Republicans
are non-plussed.
G. O. P. strategy was to beat Rainey
for re-election.
Maybe (indeed, probably) they
couldn’t have done t, but they were
concentratng every ounce of their
national energy on an effort to defeat
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Cary Grant, as the handsome young
beauty surgeon, and Genevieve To
bin, as the plastic beauty, in Para
mount’s “Kiss and Make-Up”, com
ing Friday to the Stevenson Theatre
find each other almost irresistible un
til they marry and discover the
amusing, if disconcerning, truth
about each other.
the speaker in November ?n his home
district (the 20th) in Illinois.
They were prepared simply to pour
money.
It is not a very dependable Demo
cratic district. In normal political
times districts all around it are Re
publican. The 20th, to be sure, has
been congressionally Democratic for
a long time, but rather because of
Rainey’s personal popularity than for
partisan reasons. Even Raineyi lost
it for two years in 1920.
The G. O. P. was willing tp gamble
high stakes on the corning election.
White House Now Last Bul
wark For Avoiding Conflict
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pects to decide today whether to call
030,000 silk, rayon and woolen work
ers out at the same time. If the two
fold walkt-out takes place, they esti
mate it will involve more than 2,00-
000 persons, counting workers and
dependents.
The manufacturers prepared to
fight, although some apparently plan
ned to shut their mills if a strike
is called. George A. Sloan, head of
the Cotton Textile Institute, said the
owners in general proposed to keep
operating. s
Denying the workers want a strike
he said he had authoritative informa
tion that only ten or 15 percent would
walk out unless intimidated.
Hints of violence were heard.
Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the
strike committee, declaring the own
ers were hiring private detectives and
fortifying their plants, said:
“We are prepared for trickery and
violence. We have reports which in
dicate planned violence. I refer to re
ports from our representatives about
the stacking of arms and tear gas
Private detectives are also hovering
over the fields like vultures.
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Friends and Foes of New
Constitution Claim Add
ed Strong Support
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 30 —Offsetting the
Charles A. Jonas acquisition by the
anti-new State constitutionalists, the
revised constitutionalists announce
their gain o fDr. &rf§yiit>ald Johnson,
of Thomasville, etjfftqr of Charity and
Children
i When jdftnson cast his lot
with Cameron Morrison in the Page-
Gardner-Morrison contest for govern
or in 1920, Col. Wade Harris, of the
Charlotte Observer, declared the
Johnson championship would be
worth 60,000 votes to Mr. Morrison.
While that contribution was pretty
steep, Mr. Morrison did get a lot' of
help from the original
preacher.” The revisde constitution
alists now have the greatest pair of
North Carolina preachers listed on
their side. They have Rev. Dr. Rich
ard Tillman Yann, of Raleigh, the
greatest of the ordained ministers in
the Baptist faith, and Dr. Archibf
Johnson, the greatest of the unor
dained dividers of the “Word.”
Mr. Johnson was a much needed
gain. The Biblical .Recorder, which
has had a lot of its recent editing
done by Dr. George W. Paschal, of
Wake Forest, opposes the revised
draft. The attitude isn’t new. There
have been times when the two John
son brothers, Dr. Divvy, editor of the
Recorder, and Dr. Arch, of the Thom-
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