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U CLUB
iWill Represent State In Na
tional 4-H Club Congress
There
College Station, Raleigh, Nov. 29.
Four of North Carolina's leading
4-H club girls will leave for Chicago
Friday morning to represent this
State at the national 4-H club con
gress.
They will be accompanied by Miss
Ruth Current, cf State College, girls’
club leader and a member of the na
tional executive committee of club
leaders, and Miss Willie N. Hunter,
of State Coliege extension clotning
specialist.
The girls will enter the national
contests as winner J of tne State con
tests as follows: Miss Jean Kerr, of
Washington, N. C., records contests;
Miss Vera Geer, of Rutherford coun
ty, canning contest; Miss Ida Eliza
beth Johnson, of Johnston county,
health contest; and Miss Mary Rose
Pickier, of Albemarle, clothing con
test.
.The girls will also enter the na
tional Judging contest against ap
proximately 1.000 contestants as fol
lows: Miss Pickier and Miss John
son, clothing judging contest; Miss
Kerr and Miss Geer, canning judging
contest.
Johtison Believed Leading
Race for Speaker in House
(Continued from Page One.)
is to the effect that Robert Grady
Johnson, cf Pender county is in the
lead in the race for the speakership,
there are many who believe that
Laurie McEachern. of Hoke county,
has been gaining much strength late
ly. and that McEachern is going to
be a close second. It is also agreed
that While there seems to be no pos
sibility that Willie Lee Lumpkin, of
Franklin county, can get enough
votes to get within striking distance
of the speakership he already has
enough votes to elect or defeat either
of the other two candidates, provid
ed he car. control them.
As a result, a good many observers
here who nave been following the
three-cornered contest for the speak
ership are about convinced that the
contest is a neck-and-neck race be
tween Johnson and McEachern and
that one of the biggest factors will
be how Lumpkin’s votes will split up
after it becomes apparent that he
cannot be elected Friends of John
son and McEachern maintain that
Lumpkin will not get more than 15
votes out of the possible 107 in the
Democratic caucus Tuesday night,
January 8, at which the speaker is
elected, although Lumpkin's friends
maintain he will get between 25 and
30 votes, with a possibility of getting
at least a third of the total number
cast. But very few are this optimistic.
Friends of Johnson maintain he al
dy has more than 60 members of
the House pledged to vote for him
and that he has the speakership al
ready in the bag since 60 votes will
give him a clear majority over the
other two candidates. In fact, a good
many observers here maintain that 50
votes will be enough to elect a speak
er this time, since only 107 votes can
be cast and not all of those are ex
pected to be present tne night of the
caucus. There is no doubt tnat John
son hassome very substantial sup
port and that a number of entire dele
gations from some of the larger coun
ties are supporting him and actively
working for him. Even though John
son does not have as many votes
pledged as his friends claim for him,
opinion here is that he undoubtedly
is in the lead and has more pledged
votes than either Lumpkin or Mc-
Eachern.
But McEachern is by no means out
of the picture and recent reports In
dicate he has made some substantial
gains m the last tnree or four weeks
and that he is likely to make still
more between now and the timet the
General Assembly meets. Friends of
McEachern maintain that neither-
Johnson nor Lumpkin has as many
pledged votes have been claimed and
that there will be a large number of
House members who will come here
for. the caucus entirely unpledged.
They also maintained that McEachern
already has at least :<0 members
pledged to vote for him and that he
has Just as good a chance to pick
th# independent or unpledged votes
as either of tht other candidates.
They also believe tha tmore of those
who are now pledged to Lumpkin on
the first or second ballets will even
tually vote for McEachern rather
than Johnson and that the contest is
already clearly between McEachern
and Johnson and getting closer everv
day, *
The supporters of McEachern are
ySlain in Mexico
1 Francis E. Ahern j
:tL S. Ambassador asked Mexican
government to investigate police
•laying o# Francis E. Ahern, 18,
; Arlington,a®las3., student in lobby
!af Mexico City hotel. The youth
Liraa visiting his uncle when shot
. to death. j 1
— sm, (N. U.) DAILY DiSJrATuiti, muKKDAY w
. O fa Bfonda CbunJbste,
l/. $»)— tv Herbert O. Yardley
CHAPTER S7
THE NEGRO rode on into the
gathering darkness, and Jake drove
slowly back to the place where he
had found the stony track which
climbed the hill. But it would never
do to be found here, or to leave his
car in sight. There was nothing to
do but go back again to the west,
drive hi* car aa far off the road
he dared, and trust to its not being
discovered. The place he found was
not wholly to his liking, but it
seemed improbable that, had the big
car turned into the old Baseom place,
it had done so by mistake, or that,
returning, it would take any road
other than the one to Washington,
the road to the east.
His guess proved correct, for aa he
neared the lane on foot lie saw the
headlights of a car far up the hill
side. As they approached, they be
trayed the curving, irregular charac
ter of the track. Jake, lying behind
a boulder, watched them turn into
the road, and soon the lights faded
from his view in the direction of
Washington.
Though the time had been no
more than half an hour since the
car had turned into the Basccm
place, it might readily have gone a
considerable way before turning
back. He dared not drive. Any ex
plorations he might make must ce
made with circumspection and on
foot. He set himself resignedly to
the Job, stumbling up the rock
strewn track until, as his eyes be
came more habituated to darkness,
be picked his way less painfully.
•The road led up and up, passed
over the shoulder of a hill through
thick woods so dark he had almost
to feel his way, and finally emerged
Into the open on a down slope. He
was coming into a little bowl among
the hills, a small cleared space In
which was a dark mass, a great old
bouse without the vestige of a light,
and seemingly deserted. Yet he
could not believe that bouse as dead
as It appeared. He did not for a
moment suppose that the big car had
tolled over that bumpy road for noth
ing. nor that It had mistaken its
way. He bad best explore a bit, but
cautiously.
He had an electric torch and a re
volver. The latter he slipped Into
his side pocket for ready use. The
torch he dared not employ. Quietly,
and In narrowing circles, he ap
proached the house set In an old
lawn overgrown with weeds now dry
that rustled aa he walked. There
was no crack emitting light, nor was
there any sound. Cautiously he
came close, peering into each blank
window until, at the back, he became
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V*., were Issued by police in an attempt to obtain identifications of the mystericmaljr slain children.
f C antral Presa)
also making much of the fact that
he is farmer and not a lawyer—both
Johnson and Lumpkin are lawyers—
and that a farmer has never been
elected speaker of the House. This
argument is reported as having a
good deal of effect with some of the
farmer members.
But in spite of all the claims and
counter claims of the friends of the
three candidates for the speakership,
the opinion in most circles here is
that Johnson undoubtedly holds the
pole position and is more likely to
be elected speaker than either Mc-
Eachern or Lumpkin.
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aware of a falnl; glow behind thick
, curtains.
He leaned over against the silt,
hearing at first nothing ami then the
faint sound of a fire snapping. An
odor, too, of things cooking pene
trated to his nostrils and made him
acutely hungry. He had not eaten
for six hours. Someone was within
who was more fortunate than he.
He would give a good deal to know
who that someone was and why be
shut himself In so securely. At 10
feet distance no one could suspect
the old house to be inhabited unless,
perchance, in daylight there should
be a thin wisp of smoke from the
chimney.
He leaned closer. There was the
subdued sound of voices. Two peo
ple at least there were within, and
one—yes —one was a woman. He re
membered the woman he had
glimpsed in the car and his momen
tary shock at thinking he had rec
ognized her. It was impossible that
his suspicion could be justified. He
strained his ears but all he could
determine was that the conversation
seemed natural and cheerful. There
was no hint, in that faint and equa
ble murmur, of violence. The wom
an, whoever she was, did not seem
to be a captive. Nor indeed had she
seemed so in the car.
He wondered if he was wholly at
sea, whether he might not be wasting
his time over some mare’s nest. There
was also the consideration that he
would be very uncomfortable were he
to be discovered where he was.
Withdrawing cautiously he at last
found the track by which he had
come and along this made his way,
meeting no one, until be found the
main road again and his car parked
where he had tried to hide it. Inas
much as he had some difficulty In
finding it, he judged it had been un
seen by any chance passer. And
now to return. Best not risk return
ing the way he had come. He must
find his way by roads farther west
to some good highway leading to
Washington.
It was three hours later that he
found himself again In the capital,
but he had marked the route very
carefully on the map and had kept
a record of his mileage. The location
of the Baseom place and of the filling
station should now be easy on any
large scale map. Though he was
hungry and the hour past 10 he put
in a ca/1 to Greenleaf’a house and
was commanded to come at once.
There be found the homely Sarah
and the Chief, the latter in some per
plexity of mind.
“Find anything?" Greenleaf de
manded.
"Maybe," Jake said. "But I’ve got
to eat before I can talk.”
Greenleaf found cold food for hiru
Peaches Picked for France
Pierre Sandrini, “Ziegfeld of France,” sailing from New foul
of the 10 American beauties he came over to choose for & forthcoming
production in Paris, where, he says, gentlemen prefer American blondesi
(Central PtBSSX
and talked with Sarah while Jake
ate.
"Do you mind," Jake asked ie
tween mouthfuls, "telling me what’s
up? It may have a bearing on other
things.”
“Well," said Greenleaf. "for what
it’s worth, and it seems to be worth
nothing at all, this is what has hap
pened.
“This afternoon I sent Miss Can*
tsr with a note to the Countess sum,*
moning the Countess to a conference
with me. This was for a purpose.
Sarah was In the room when Joel
arrived and overheard everything.
It seems the Countess was going
back with Joel but some telephone
call prevented her. So she wrote a
note which Joel was to take to me.
Sarah saw Joel start off about three
or a little later. Joel never arrived
at the office.”
Jake dropped his knife and stared,
Greenleaf waved a protesting hand.
“Wait. When Joel didn’t come I
telephoned the Counttss who told me
what I now tell ycu, an account
which Sarah has verified in every
particular. I then telephoned Joel’s
boarding house and learned from her
landlady that Joel had appeared very
shortly after she had left the em
bassy. That’s a curious circum
stance, too. Joel arrived and de
parted on foot, btt if the times are
right she must have been driven
across the city. Bjt leave that. The
extraordinary thirg is that Joel an
nounced she had a few days’ vacation
and was going hone on a visit.”
“And did she?” Jake asked.
“I wired to make sure. But Gted
knows when I’ll g?t an answer. H*s
family lives at the end of nowhere.
It may take all aight and more to
get an answer. Meanwhile I don’t
know what to nake of it. Why
should she go off in that way with
out informing mi? Had she some
sudden imperative message? I’d
think her father suddenly dead, or
something on that order, but Mrs.
Harris, the landlady, said she was m
gay spirits, excitid even. She might
be eloping with someone or making
one of these stdden wartime mar
riages."
Jake thought with a sinking heart
that such mighi indeed be the case.
The girl who resembled Joel, and In
whom he assured himself he had
been mistaken, mighi at that mo
ment be snatching her brief honey
moon with some officer slated to sail
at a moment’s *otice. Where better,
than in that old, seemingly aban
doned house, to be unobserved and
undisturbed ?
“Well?” Greenleaf demanded,
“what’s on your mind?”
Jake recounted his experiences of
(lie day.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
OUR YESTERDAYS
When McKinley Won Presidency
After “Front Porch ” Campaign
'%&s&sss& V .'’*
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'' t <f3jzß33ftjfi|ra§ sv|uß»f?j^ : :TO
William McKinley'
THE SUCCESSFUL campaign of
William McKinley for the presi
dency of the United States in 1896
■was unique in that the candidate
did not leave his home town of
O, for any campaign
Capture New York!
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in Now York, where conventions usually attract little notice, considerable
attention was given to welcoming United Daughters of the Confederacy
as they gathered in Manhattan’s Hotel Roosevelt for their 41st conven
tion, the first ever held outside of a Southern state. Mrs. William E.
Massey, of Hot Springs, Ark., president-general of the Daughters, and
Walter L. Hopkins, Richmond, Va., commander-in-chief of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, are seen at the convention.
(Central Presa)
Ether First Administered
Less Than 100 Years Ago
. By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
I AM WRITING this on Ether
day, which should, I think, be ob
served all over the world as a day
of thanksgiving.
On Oct. 10, 1846, in the old cupola
domed surgical
amphitheater of
the Massachu
setts General
hospital in Bos
ton, ether was
first publicly
given to a pa
tient who was to
undergo a surgi
cal operation. It
seems strange
that this great
blessing to hu
manity is less
than a hundred
years old.
The man who
gave it was Dr.
W. T. G. Morton,
i J)r, Ciendening
a dentist. He had been experiment
ing for years trying to find some
such substance. It is natural that a
dentist should have been looking for
it because of the dread of the pain
of tooth extraction. The best they
could do in the days when Dr. Mor
ton began to practice was to make
the patient druifk with beer or
whiskey. And when this result was 1
accomplished the patient often got
so belligerent that the operation had
to be postponed. i
Morton, in his early days, was in <
partnership with Dr. Horace Wells. 1
Dr. Wells was present at an accident 1
in which a jar of nitrous oxide was £
broken at a chemical lecture and the 1
fumes overcame a spectator who. in t
falling down, bruised h'mself severe- f
ly but felt no pain. Acting on this 1
hint, Wells and Morton used nitrous i
oxide (laughing gas), but the tech- 1
nique was not so well developed then 1
as it is now, and its use was aban
doned.
Morton and Wells separated, but fc
Morton kept hunting, hunting, hunt- t
irig. for the magic substance of his e
dreams. He finally came in contact s
with Dr. Charles Jackson, who had b
administered ether to himself, pro- t
ducing insensibility, several years “
before. d
It was in September, 1840, that ii
Morton first used ether on a dental o
patient named Eben Frost To his a
speeches. He conducted what be
came known as a “Front Porch”
campaign. He gave more than SQO
speeches from his front porch, ad
dressing in the aggregate more
than 1.000.000 peruana.
delight the procedure was a success,
and this encouraged him to demon
strate its value in all forms of sur*t
gery, the first public administration
being, as I said, Oct. 16, 1846.
In another part of the United
States another physician, Dr. Craw
ford Long of Athens, Ga., had been
using ether unknown to Dr. Mortofc
since 1842, but no public demonstra
tion of it had been given and no
widespread knowledge of Dr. Long’s
work appeared until after the
famous day at. the Massachusetts
General hospital.
We have a vivid picture of the
difference between a surgical oper
ation done before the use of anes
thesia and afterwards:
BEFORE
“She is brought into the amphi
theater. With a knowledge of merci
ful regard as to the intensity of the
agony which she is to suffer, opiates
and stimulants have been freely
given her, which, at this last stage
are again lepeated. But of what
avail are all her attempts at forti
tude. At the first clear, crisp cut
of the scalpel, agonizing screams
burst from her, and with convulsive
struggles she attempts to leap from
the table. But force is nigh. Strong
men throw themselves upon her and
pinion her limbs.”
AFTER
“How would the same case be
now? With a calm smile, her’eyes
closed fast as in, a gentle sleep; at
his leisure, not by the d©*
mands of pain to complete as soon
as possible, the surgeon can coolly
prosecute his work. When finished
the patient is awakened from her
slumber and receives the glad infor
mation that it is all over. The one
grateiul look which answers this
'iron lt- m have "° ,alUe
by Dr. Clendemng can now be ob
tained by sending 10 cents in coin, for
each, and a self-addressed envelope
tamped with a three-cent stamp,
o Dr. Logan Clendening, In car© of
this paper. The pamphlets are:
Indigestion and Constipation,” “R«-
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Vance County:
Notice is hereby given that I have
qualified as Executrix of the Estate
of L. W. Gerringer, deceased, All per
sons having claims against said de
cedent will exhibit same to me or
Messrs. Pittman, Bridgers and Hicks.
Law Building, Hendez-son, N. C., with
in one year from date hereof or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of re
covery. All persons indebted to said es
tate are requested to make immediate
payment.
This the 15th day of November A
D. 1934.
MARY OLIVER GERRINGER
Executrix
1113 Belleview St., Greensboro, N. C
RE-SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
An advance bid of 5 per cent having
been placed on the sale of the below
described land by authority of law
and by virtue of authority vested in
the undersigned as trustee in a cer
tain deed of trust executed by T. V
Bobbitt and recorded in Book 162,
Page 158, Register of deeds office of
Vance County, North Carolina, I will
again offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash, at the court house
door in Henderson. N. C. v on Satui
day the 15th day of December, 1924
at 12 O’clock by public auction, the
bidding to commence at $1428 00, the
following described land:
Bounded on the North by the lands
of T. V. Bobbitt, on East by lands or
T. V. Bobbitt, on South by lands of
H. E. Crews, on West by lands of l
V. Bobbitt, containing 70 acres mold
or less, being the same land that wss
conveyed to T. V Bobbitt by W E
Dement et al, May 14, 1930, to which
deed reference is made.
This 28th day of November, 1934
A. A. BUNN Trustee.