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Some of the merchants are try in n
to get something' started in the way
of some decorations in the shopping;
district lot Christmas. Well, that’s
what there ought to be, and every
htisincss house on main street ought
to chip in on tlmt program. It's no
use for anybody to say it can’t be
done —it can. Can’t nobody ever again
say Henderson can't do anything it
wants to do, it it wants to do it bad
enough That was proved in that
(treater Henderson celebration last
month. Some turned up*their noses at
that, and said they wouldn’t be any
thing worth shaking a finger at. but
when 15.01)0 folks, phis the governor
and one 1 nited States senator and a
(vngrcssmnn, and a lot of other folks
canto hero, a lot of eyes were rubbed
and a lot of folks woke up.
Naw, sir. don't ever say again we
can't do what wo want to do hero in
thi< town. Everybody here knows wo
can.
Now. ns foi this Christinas stuff,
it's just a question of whether we
want to or not. It can be made a big
tiling for the town.
It does look like a pity the way the
world has come to commercialize
Christmas, especially we folks here in
the good old I'. S. A Most business
folks depend on the fall and Christ
mas trade to stay in business the rest
of the year; at least it spells the dif
ference . etween profit and loss. And
since tlnit's the established order of
things we might as well make the
no st of it. Then, why not mix a little
religion with business? It can't do tin
much harm,
*'ure thing, if we make our main
-•nit attractive and fix it so it will
verily breathe the spirit of Christ
mas. it's going to get a lot of folks
in thr same sort of feeling. And that
won't hurt the business house that’s
yet something to sell.
Hack there in October, when we put
nr. tha. < ■ renter Henderson celebra
tion. it -et mini pretty well agreed by
all hand.-- that no effort would be
made to commercialize on our guests
that day. and we didn't. We just ask
• d them to come lieu* and have a
yia '.l time—sorter a good will pro
po.-ition. And it sure helped. Course,
some nf thr eating - and drinking es
tablishments dio a good usincss. Hut
that was all ri "hi. Everybody has to
:nve something to eat and to drink
when they're out for a time: fact,
that's part of the good time, l'ut tho
point is Henderson didn't a-k ih •
outsiders to come here and look at
the white way and the new street and
then when we got them here fry to
hold them up. We just wanted them to
come and have a good time, and
there's plenty < f time left afterwards
to soil them stuff.
NVw. let's decorate in the spirit and
th,. ■•'tno.sphere of Christmas and ask
them to come here and buy. We’ve
got to let them know they can get
what thev want right close home, and
HENDERSON’S OLDEST I
I HENDERSON’S NEWEST I
OPENING FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd
I IN OUR NEW BUILDING I
TOYLAND PAINTS I
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I CHINA WARE SPORTING GOODS I
HARDWARE HOUSEWARES I
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ESTABLISHED 1878 INCORPORATED 1033
| For 3 Generations - At The Post Office |
?)\ them a lot of service, and wait
on them wirh a smile. This is the time
for that.
So. lot's all chip in and do what we
are asked to do. if we possibly can.
toward making it the greatest Christ
mas—yes, just be plain about it, the
greatest Christinas business— Hender
son has ever had. Can’t be done? Well,
just remember that Greater Hender
son day celebration, and go into this
I thing just like wo did that time.
! WHAT HE MISSED.
A man came into our office down
here at the Dispatch last week and
said he wanted to take the paper. He
said he used to take it all the time,
but times got so hard lie just had to
let up. But ho saw in a neighbor’s
paper where something was offered
that he could have bought and saved
himself $25 if he'd just known about
it, and he could have known if ho
had been taking the paper. So he war
going to take it from now on and not
miss such opportunities again.
By not taking the paper at the
time., he lost enough on a deal to pay
for the Dispatch for five years.
Well, there's a good moral in that.
The moral is you just don’t know
what you ate missing nor when you’ll
miss it if you try to get along with
out your hornelown paper. Polks
have got the money now. And
we are getting the paper out for them
md trying to do out dead levolest best
to serve them in every way we can.
'So. come on. folks, and give us your
’scription. Wo guarantee your money’s
worth.
DEFER SENTENCES
FOR 2 DEFENDANTS
Three Before Bar in Mayor’s
Court on Separate
Allegations
Suspended sentences were imposed
in two cases tried by Mayor Irvine
B. Watkins in police court today.
Harvey Williams, colored, was charg
j od with abandoning his minor child,
i failing to provide support, and pray
i for judgment was continued two
I years- - on condition that ho provide for
j the child's care.
Clifton Abbott and Edna Mae Mat
thews, white were charged with dis
: orderly conduct and Abbott charged
with boating the woman. She was dis
charged and Abbott received a con
tinued judgment for two years on con
! (lit Lon of keeping the peace toward
| the woman and pay the costs.
On last Saturday one case was tried
i Edward Terry, colored, being fined
j .SI and costs for being' drunk.
i Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, afmed Mt.
Wilson Observatory astronomer, born
I at Marshfield. Mo., -15 rears ago.
HENDERSON, (N. C.)' DAILY DISPATCH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934
O/i# Q&mda CbuniMd,■
J -—by Herbert 0.. Yardley
CHAPTER
Y FIT THEBE were not many in
whom Greenleaf could confide. The
ojeeretnrv o! war would become agi
tated and would, in blaming him and
Ids subordinates for the theft of the
I'ode hook, waste time that should he
*;>eni in (Hanning to meet the enter
"ency. however great the misfortune
vH it,- occurrence. There was only
Jake to whom he could turn in a
matter such as this, .loel Carter,
Mary Burns. Bl,? no. Weaver—he
trusted them sufficiently, but their
grasp of the larger situation was not
sufficient, nor would they be able to
aid him in the practical way that
lake could. Within the next few
days there would be dangerous en
terprises afoot.. enterprises that
asked not. only courage but intelli
gence.
He summoned .lake to him.
“Pm on youi coat.” ordered Green
leaf. “and come along with me. I’ve
things I want to discuss.”
“I’ve some important experiments
on.” .Take said mildly.
“This is even more important,”
Greenleaf said
Jake shrugged unmilitary shoul
ders, as though to say that, the ways'
ot the boss were past finding out.
obediently donned his coat, and fol
lowed Greenleaf to a taxi. He cast
a mildly speculative eye at Green
leaf. but as Greenleaf said nothing
during the drive Jake likewise re
mained silent and was content to re
gard gray streets and the monu
ments of Washington through the
soiled window of the cab.
It was only when Greenleaf had
shown him to a chair with whiskey
and cigars ready to hand that Jake
ventured a sigh of relief.
“1 thought maybe I’d lost the
war.” he remarked, “and was about
to be executed. The sight of the
whiskey improves my morale.”
Greenleaf pouring himself a drink,
swirled the contents of his glass,
drank it down decisively, and said.
“No. But the war may very well he
lost if we make a false move. I
want to make the situation clear ‘o
you and hear what you have to sav.”
“Shoot,” .Take replied and gravely
drank.
Greenleaf, walking up and down
and looking now and then at his
auditor, laid the facts before him.
Jake raised a protesting hand when
Greenleaf came to a momentary
pause.
“Let me have it straight. You
break the German cipher and infer
that only yesterday have the Ger
mans read ours. Therefore the mys
terious explosion is probably con
nected with German intelligence
work. Re-examination shows code
hook missing. It could have been
taken in the confusion incident to
the explosion. It sounds reasonable
to me that it was.”
“The poini o! it all is reallv this."
cipher to -southern destinations. Some i
of these ciphers we can read. Others !
we'd have to learn. We’d have ro j
examine every message, translate . t .
find that chain which connects it I
with the German agents, and m enn- j
while—”
“And meanwhile.” interrupted ;
.Take, “the whole American convoy i
system can be blown to hell.”
“'Exactly.” said Greenleaf. “i’ll
suppose, for instance, tli at some
clerk in the legation of some South
American country which is secretly
friendly to Germany is in the pay of
German agents or is a German
agent. By the time | find ju m nnfi
stop his activities the war may ti»
over. But yon see why | say that
Washington is the natural place o
look for the rode hook anti the thief
i hat uses it.”
.Take looked thought fully at th'
open fire on the hearth tor some
moments before he asked, “Are you
going to use the same cipher as be
fore? Can't yon switch over to
something else””
“And if I do.” pointed out Green
leaf, “the cat is out of the nag.”
Jake looked at him suddenly with
a gleam of admiration.
“I get you." he said softly. “They
don’t know that you know of the
theft. If you continue with the old
explained Greenleaf. “If the code
hook is the source of the German
information *ve don't, l think, have
to concern ourselves with other pos
sible leaks. It becomes a practical
question of where our despatches
are deciphered, by whom, and how
t.he translation gets into Mexico."
“Some practical question.” said
.lake ironically.
“But not impossible to 'answer.”
returned Greenleaf. "Certain things
can be argued. 1 think.”
Jake nodded slowly.
“For one thing, the code book
didn't stray far from Washington, if
at all. We get the stuff going out of
Mexico within 12 hours of the theft.
Ts that right?”
"Yes. Whoever has t.lie book
makes his intercepts in or near
Washington. There’s another reason
for that.”
He looked questi.oningly at .Take
“You mean.” Jake asked, “that
Washington offers the means of get
ting the stuff to Mexico?”
Greenleaf nodded.
“It seems likely to me. There ate
only two ways of getting the stuff
out quickly as T see it: Either In
direct wireless or by cable. If it
were a portable wireless set we'd
have intercepted the stuff. It would
be in cipher and the place of send
ing would vary from day to day.
We'd have evidence on all that.
We've none. Therefore iq goes liv
eable and goes out openly, either to
some South American country or to
Mexico. Consider the opportunities,
A dozen or 15 legations send out
their despatches at anv time and jn
Dispatch Advertising Pays
Hi
code they’ll be sure you don’t. An’
then—”•
“Then. If we move fast, maybe we
can lay bold of them And some or
the messages we send might be de
liberately misleading. But that's clit
lien It and dangerous, and in vo I vet
bringing jn the secretary of war and
others. He doesn't.” Greenleaf
laughed harshly, “he doesn't yet
know of t.he loss of our code bock.
1 don't think I’ll tell him just yet.
We've two or three days yet before
the absolutely vital message goes
out. the one that gives the place
where the English convoy meets our
troop transports. That place the
enemy must not know. It doesn't
matter so much that they know
when the transports sail. We may
have to let them know that.”
“Not. I guess, with the secretary’s
permission.”
“I’m not going to ask it,” Green
leaf said quietly.
Jake nodded.
“You are likely to lose your lob,”
he said, “if not your hide.”
Greenleaf shrugged.
“Nothing new in that,” he said.
“It’s a powder magazine, the whole
thing. 1 get used to the idea of go
ing skyward at any time.”
“And who better fitted for
heaven?” Jake demanded of the
universe at large. ■ •
“Have another drink,” invited
Greenleaf, “and help me with a
practical problem: How to discover
the means ot communication between
X, our thief of the code book. who.
somewhere in or near . Washington
j is deciphering our despatches, and
i V. our hypothetical legation which
j sends ils messages to Mexico,
| whether directly or indirectly, I in
cline to the belief that the receiving
apparatus is in some secluded spot
safe from prying eyes and accidental
discovery. If 1 were doing it I’d
pick a likely place within 50 miles
of Washington.”
“That’s a lot of country,” Jake
so id gravely.
Greenleaf agreed to that, and out
lined plans for secret service aid.
The war department, without know
ing all, could be told the general
nature of the job; secret service
men could be put to watch certain
legations carefully: certain attaches,
already suspected, could be looked
into more thoroughly.
“Takes time,” Jake objected. “You
haven't much time.”
“No," Greenleaf said. “These are
general precautions. The real line
of campaign is something else. I’ve
got a hunch there, as I had with the
German cipher this morning. But
| I’ve got to prove it —and in time.”
j “Well, go on,” Jake said amiably.
| “Hunches may be sound. They de
] pend on some actual fact you've no
ticed and forgotten. The hunch >s
j a reminder you’ve overlooked sou -
i tiling.”
fTO BE COKTtNUF.rti
MATESMf
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Carolinas, Inc., From
Distant States
i Charlotte, Nov. 20.—Numerous In
quiries regarding manufacturing sites,
farm properties and Lustiness estab
lishments are listed in the latest is
sue of the regular weekly bulletin is
sued by The Carolinas. Inc., and in
addition the organization has receiv
ed many communications from indi
viduals and corporations throughout
the two states offering various types
of propprty.
One inquirer seeks any information
regarding real estate busines in the
Carolinas. Another wishes to repre
sent meritorious products uitable fox
| department and chain store outlets.
! Several parties wish drapery material
or other products of small textile
mills such as Jacquard bedspreads.
Turkish towels, cotton piece goods,
drapery damask, slip cover cloths and
kindred lines. A corporation asks if
j there a woolen mill in the Caro
j linaH in operation or ready for opera
tion that can be purchased or leased.
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I One party in the retail men's-clothe.
1 Ing business is interested in opeging
I stores in the South and desires 11--
; ormaiion regarding Carolina location
j Two inquirers wish to lease hotels,
j golf clubs and night clubs. One party
- writes he has machinery for a bever
age plant and desires a partner! with
capitali Information regarding vav
iofus grades of lumber ts requested as
well ns dolomite deposits,
j The Carolinas, Inc., ha,-- informed
j inquirers of a number of factory build
tings and many desirable sites that
ran be bought or leased, ft also has
supplied many requests for inform,',
ion regarding the varied minerals
:variable in North Carolina. Many pro
pel t ies suitable for truck farming,
dairying and other purposes are avail
j able. Also listed is an apiary, modei :•
i 'sundry, two shirt and garment mami
fact uring plants, timber lands, or
namental tile, stucco and wall plaster
| plant and a furniture or chair fan*
I lory.
; Norman Thomas of New York,
i noted Socialist leader, born at Marion,
! 0.. 50 years ago.
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