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(.. \ TOK CUNTON CHRONICIJ. CLINTON. 1 C. PAGE «ETKir shots, but I didn’t know Amos Eth- rid^ hsd been killed until the next tnorninfr* As soon as I heard about it I burned there and h«mf arotmd aN day. 'Hiat’s- the truth, so help me God!” ' -- A question of two wm voiced, but the woman did -not answer. ”1 talked to* some ot you boys that morning and told you all I knew, but you went out of your way to treat me 'contemptuously — make fun of me. I was furious when I saw your stories. . . . When I was on the stage I used to get a thrill out of interviews; I INSTALLME!^ Washington, May 25.—In its d^civ ion declaring the Guffey bituminous wVcrasy for'publicity. Peopleinm unconstitutional, the su- profession-frequently iret that way. Ijpreme court of the United States ’IJ|***^ loved to see my name in print. I saved, lowed -in the main the .same line ofT^Former*”i>re3ident Hoover’s public reasoning ^which led to the death of statement that he is not and will not cided stiffening of R^ublican mbrale in the past fortnight. How much Bruoe Barton’s selection as the' party’s publicity adviser has had to do with this is debatable, but mostpb^rVers believe that his influ* ence has been considerable. I^ss is.being heard ^w of the pos sibility of, Senator Botch’s ^throwing a monlcey wrench into the party ipa- ohinery. There appears to -1^. a more general acceptance among party lead<> ers of Gov. Landon, who is now re garded as alniost certain to be nomi nated oif the third or fourth Jballot at Cleveland, with the good will of all of the important factors in the party TENTH Synopsis: Amoa Ethridge is found mordei^' in a country lane wi^ a crude cross of twigs on his breast a acented sheet of m 'every notice, every criticisn^ 1 col- lected tfaoussmds of clippings and pre*- lote paper in Jii broke in: “I understand yoU-perfect-j served them. It’s s mild form of dis- Ty, and your feelings do^ you credit, j ease and lots of. actors have it, for But I am a servant of the people and] they’-re always playing to an audi- the law' must be uphMd. 1 sincerely regret that in doing your duty you pocket He eras the ne^at man in the j placed your son in jeopardy, but it’s 'state writh power and inHuence enough I not the first time such a thing has ^ make himself a candidate for gov- happened. Justice .must be served and emor. With his death caihe hints of' mu^er will out.~Truth is more sacred an unsavory private life, of scandal even than a^ mother’s love. If's my that might conse to light if the mttr- |task to drover the truth.” der Is investigated too closely. Mary “But yA haven’t. I was—mis^- Holmes, a former opera singer whose env” the woman protested. “I’m not insurance Wf'offw iZ|lfn senrlcc and protection. Agent for some of the strongest Fire Insurance Companidi hi America. ‘ REAL ESTATE —Town and country prop< erty. Prices attractive. Clinton Realty & Insurance Go. K~H. BOYD, Acent ~ career was wrecked at the birth of her son, called “the goose woman” by newrspaper reporters, livm nearest the scene of the crime A>a-a small chicken farm where she ekes out a poor living aiKi tries to find in drink the forget fulness of past glories when she eras Maria di Nardi, world-renowned op era singer. . . . Gerald Holmes, a tal-^ ented young artist, is hated and loved “But yoi env” the wo; goiivg to let aAinnocent person suffer for my mistak^ “Mistakel” —— “Well, 'call it Whatever ygu want to. I gave wrong testimony. I—^lied!” ence . . . I’ve been acting all my life, on the sti^, at home, before my friends, to myself. When you’re in print, you’re acting in a way, only to a different audience. When I lost my voice X lost my audienOe. That was the hardest thing to bear. I used to think I was the most tragic fig ure in the world, but — tfte speaker smiled bitterly — “I guess it was largely because t”never waw my name- in printr never heard it mentioned i^any more. What is a career except— applause? What does a person get 1 out of it except food for his vanity ? j NRA. The grounds for throwing out both of these acts, NRA and the Guf fey coal act, are ^t the production of coal, like slaughtering of chickens, not inter-state commerce and IS therefore congress has no power toi regulate it. On this point the su-!.. prerae court divided, sirto thr*,. *>'* »”'y comprotni.. be a candidate for the nomination, cleared the pplitlcal air, while his declaration that he is not opposed to any candidate is taken to mean that he will put no obstacles in the way{ of Gov. Landon^ nomination. Senator Vandenberg is now prac- actly the'bsme line-up as in the NRA decision, with Justices Brandeis, Car- dozo and Stone in the minority. The mfjority opinion held that the regu lation of wagesP hours and conditions of labor in the soft coal industry is a - local* matter to be settled locally. It J ^ also held that the law delegated leg>^! V islati.ve authority unconstitutionally. | The court also ruled against an- choice in case Landon does no!t gain the nomination, but political strate gists are suggesting that it would s«Jtrengthen the ticket to nominate him for vice-president, with an eye to 1940 in case of a Republican defeat this , j I’m telling you this to explain what j other mjijor feature of the Guffey Indeed. It’s ^ bad you re so late i next, for if you don’t un- act, the taxation provision. The law Gonfei^brng it. Now see here — i derstand the sort of person I am— I the theatrical temperament — you this foolishness right now. not go-1 understand what I Joanna Mill News by bU mother,whi U embittered be- * monkej^t of|jij eiuee bU birtb caused tbe IM, ot her " hatever your natural .;i«)ul,e voice and wrecked her operatic ca- ?'*>' *'«• * f , peer. He has been befriended by the;' “Well^'after 1 got over my first re sentment at being ridiculed, the old disease came back. It pleased me to provided for an excise .tax of 15 per cent of the total value of coal mined, to be paid by the mine operators; but operators who signed the soft coile were to receive a rebate of per cent t»f thi.^ tax. -This, the preine court he4d, was an ihurdcred Ethridge, and is engaged ®^:be written about and te have my j aPd xinconstitutionat use of the taxing] spent to another of Amos Ethridge’s P^te-j i words quoted, even though you called power ta imimse^ a penalty ui>on op-1 ace I’ gee. Hazel Woods, lovely and brilliant young actress. She has been helped to success by Ethridge. She lives in a small cottage owned by Ethridge. Jacob Riggs,' eccentric old-time actor, now a doorman at the theatre where Hazel Woocb plays, has appointed hianruself her guarrdian and lives,in a room over her garage. (Now Go On Wth the Story). “1—only told what I saw,” Mrs. Holmes declared, uncertainly. “I swere to iT^ and you know whaj^ it means when you swear to a thing. Why—r'they’ll arrest me, for all 1 9f “But there’s a terrible mistake * somewhere,” tiie girt earnestly as serted. “I can’t explain the car with you going to play straight, do I your duty as a citizen and stick to; whkt you said, or—?” , “No. I can’t. I’m going to tefl’^the truth.” Vogel rose. “Thanks for letting me know'. If you <^KX>se to discredit your self in any such manner I’ll make a good job of it. You see. I’ve looked, up your whole history and I’ll make you tell it to the jury, with your own lips. It won’t help the defendant.amy, believe me.” “WTuit do you mean?” Mrs. Hohnes faintly demanded. ^Yoa understand plain English. You’U-hear a lot of it if you maintain this attitude.” There was a pause. “You”must have some affectioF^or niu^ this—this ‘son’ of yours. That’s noth ing more than animal nature! But the Annulment Expected The annulment of the Guffey act by the supreme court was not unexpect ed. It was commonly referred to in Washington as “The # Little In ppinoiple it differkl in no way from the National Recovery act, and serious doubts as to its constitution ality were held by leaders of both parties in congress at the time of its more lies you tell, thFmore the jury \ one haadlight7-<the car that passed you after the shooting—and yet Jerry declares he left your house an hour before the murdef and drove straight to town. He’s telling the truth: I know lia-is.”i-^^ - *— “They claim he" laid in wait.” “But they couldn’t prove it with out you! It’s your evidence that con tradicts him. You didn't actually rec ognize him—you* said so! And if it Sad been Jerry youYT have known him. Of course you would! You’d know your own boy#anywhere—” “1—^was too far away.” Hazel protested breathlessly: “No, nci! Think! Oh, God, think of some thing to show it wasn't he! Some ac tion, some geeture, some peculiarity! Maybe there were two headlights on that last car and you were mistaken. It’s so easy to be mistaken and just that one point might save him. Think! If it were me Ed—think of some thing. I’d — But they've discredited me; there’s nothing I can do. I’m ut terly helpless.” She broke down now and, hiding her face in her hands, she sobbed wretchedly; the tears came through* her fingers. There was a 'pedgnant quality to her grief. She was very young and very frail. Mrs. Holmes realized that this tragedy had broken her like a butterfly. A curse on men like Amos Ethridge! Yes, and on men like Vogel! After a while the mother said, roughly: “Go away! Give me a cha^ to think. Mind you, J don’t believe it’s any use but—” Ajpain she broke out in gusty vexation. “Oh, why d<^ ev- erytliiilipf""^-tom ottt wrong It^ will believe in the story you told me and swore to; the more firmly you will convince them that you are swearing falsely to save your ille gitimate child.” ' “1 sea. If I don’t do what yon^say you'll tell all about—Jerry?” , “And you! Exactly. I’d like to spare you both, but—’’ the speaker shrug ged. “Better grit your teeth and go goose woman,' ’a bedraggled’erators who refused old hag,’ ‘a drunken harridan.’, When | into signing up. ' I realized how far , I’d gone back a lot of A^d hopes and ambitions cafne to 'life. aJmbers I thought "wete cold. . . . The^oose woman’! It’s a good name for m “All at onbe I dropped out of the papers entirely- I got no more thrills; had nothing to think about, nothing to* occupy me; I had to quit acting. I was awfully lonely. I’d had a taste of the drug: the habit wa^ back on me fiercer than ever, if you know what I mean ... I dare say ifter this you can follow my motives. I pi®c®<I • story to fit my theory of the kiiling, studied the ground so as no\to conr Tradict myself^ planl;ed”an”old gTove^t president It was very simple; it looked perfect ly easy; I didn’t think I was doing harm to anybody for I felt sure the murder would never be solved and I was merely bringing Maria di Nardi back to life—Uying roses on a for gotten shrine. I don’t know and I don't care who killed Amos Ethridge. Whoever did it had a geqd reaaon, no doubt, for he was a bad man. “Mr. Vogel believed me. He brought me here, put me up, dressed me up. to ' GoMviHe, May 22. — Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnston and little son, Wal- coal' ter lA‘e, of Greenville, visited Mr. and 90^ Mrs. Jack Gilliam Sunday, su-1 Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Poag, Willliam improper, Poag, and Mr. and Mrs, Calvin Poag Sunday m CoIumbTa with Hor- oag, who is a patient in the Co- be - coerced luumbia hospital., Mrs. Onivia Stallings and little «laughter of Atlanta, are spending a few weeks with Mrs. M. H. Manley. Mr. and Mrs. Hayne Willingham were called tiT Greenville Tuesday on NRA.” j ^^‘^otint of the illness of a nephew. Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Gardner and family, Freddiia Gatxlner and Huey Gardner attended the birthday dinner of their uncle, J. P. Crowe, at Hol lis, N. C., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M.' L. Crouch of D. E. Tribble Co. FUNERALi DIRkCTOBS EMBALMERS Licensed Embalmera, Coapleto Modern Eqaipaeat Day Phone 94 Night Phone* 24. 233'W 255 Clinton, s. a enactment. It was pending at the . . . „ . v i time of the NRA decision last sum-1 W-i mer, and the tendency then was to C. Gardner^^Mon^y drop it because it so clearly .seemed to be exactly parallel to NRA. It was at that* critical moment that the w'rote to Representative Hill, chairman Of the ways and means committee, expressing the hope that Sunday. - the committee would not let any' Dr., and Mrs. Douglas Ross and lit tle daughter of Greenville, spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ross. ”lYr arid Mrs. Eynn Watts offJreen- ulle, visited Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Man-’ doubts of the constitutionality of the Guffey bill prevent its hedng. report ed to the hou.se for action. The_ real reason behind the bill’s; Columbia hospital pasMge was the threat of the Unit-' irae Workers* of » general creri strike op September 15, last year, un less congn*ss passed some law that In Hospital Friends of Horace Poag will regret to know that he is a patient in the THE HAPPY MEDIUM Many persons are either— Over-insured ^ or Under-insured Our experience can aid you in finding the happy medium where your insur- aiice is just right. Consult us today. No obli gation, of course. ^ H.^D. Henry & Company INSURANCE CLINTON, • • ~S,C, SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE would com|)el the mine owners and and I got so I believed my own story, j operatdTs to accede to the demand through with it. You can’t save him,; It was wonderful to ‘come back,’ to! of the union for shorter hours and] no matter what you do.” With these words Vogel left. Hazel Woods was surprised late that night to receive a telephone re quest to come at once to the hotel where Mrs. Holmes was stopping. On account of the hour, she took old Ja- •coh Riggs with her. She had taken Jacob about with her a good deal this paat week, not merely as an es- cort, but also because he displayed such pathetic ‘ eagerness to comfort and to protect her. In these' troubled circumstances she was grateful for sympathy and faith from whatever souree, and 6f all her friends he aloM remained loyal; hs was ind^red a fatn- er. He was, if possible,’ /‘queerer’’ than ever, more given to melancholy quotations from the fljble; neverthe less ehe had a tender feeling for him and her misfortune had drawn them close together. ^ Hazel found a number of reporters waiting in the ’ hotel lobby and was surprised to learn that Mrs. Holmes had likewise sent for them. Her sur- prire deepened, hope stirred, when the two attorneys ehe had hired for Jer ry hurried in, explaining, that they, toor-had been summoned. It was quite creep out* of my shell and become higher pay. There w'as no doubt that tsIT me to lie^ to perjure for you to myt-elf-” “I don’t. I merely say what Td—be willing—to do.” “AH right! All right! Go along . now. I’ll let you knovr if I can think of anything. btit.I’fe slckr 'Tbat’*^ Marla dl Nardi Itgain, even though it was all make-beHeve. There’s a crab — the Ihermit crab — that does some, thing Mke that. He’s an ugly, soft, misshapen thing, but he crawls into empty shells, beautiful shells, the owners of which have died, and he lives there . . . ,I had a glorious time in my new, beautiful shell until I realiz^ that I had put a noose around ^my boy’s neck.” Mary Holmes fell silent. Nobody spoke for a moment; then somebody inquired: • # the miners wer«» desperate and that they meant busineiis. There was talk of riots extensive enough to be called rebellion among tlie Pennsylvania miners unless some^ng was done arid done quickly. Excise Tax Refund? Many Taige mine owners who re fused to sign the code paid\the excise tax under protest, at the same time starting legal proceeding's to have the law declared unconstitutional. $700,000 of these taxes collect^ or depa>(ited in court may have to\^ RADIO SERVICE I ^ “Service With Satisfaction” ™~ All Work Guaranteed Phone 36 RADIO EXCHANGE What did Vogel say when you told j refunded, him this?” / Chief Ju.stice Hughes, while concur- “He said I was lying to save Jerry ring in the majority opinion of the and he had expected .something of the Court, wrote an individual opinion in sort. Then he threatened me—” j which he held that some features of “Threatened you?” It was <yne of, the Guffey law might he constitu- the law'yers speaking. Frigidaire Unharmed After Plunge from Blimp into Bay “Yes. He’s holding something over me. Now that I’ve defied him, I’ve got to tell you -what it is—^that means telling the woYld—and it isn’t easy tional if they could be separated from the unconstitutional phases of it. Resettlement Decision On the same day that the Guffey act decision was handed down, the hw fault as much as mine. It's eaajr) a group that finally rode upstairs and filed into the sick womhin’o xbom. — luet SickliW’t Kpw ktory coming. I ^ a|trmin«^ me. I—wish I were dead! That afternoon Vogel called at tlie hotel in aooordance with a request from Mrs. Holmes, and after she had beat about the hush ior a while she told him haltingly that she wished to make a new afYidavit 'There were oertsin points in her first one that she resdized, upon careful, thought, needed explanation, tnodffication. Vo- gS listened until Ae had rinished, then jhs for the triaL” “But—the trouble ts, Jerry’s being tried how,', in the newspapers. The venfict will he in before the jury out.” “Don’t you believe he’s guilty?” •Hie" woman averted her .eyes. “There are some people who coiildn^ commit a * murder,^ and. he’s one, ‘There’s nothing -vicious about him. He liked Mr. Ethridge and he knew noth ing whatever ehout the Woods af fair.” Mrs. Holmes was up and dressed, but she looked desperately ill. As soon as her visitors had .disposed of themselves ^ ^be 'began, in a voice harsh and puipoeefuir - “ ' “Get out your pencils, boys. There’s talk with Mir. Vogel today 'and told him I had made a false affidavit I told him my account of the Ethridge murder was a pure inveptiop.*’ The correspondents exchanged fiances, the attorneys leaned forward eageriy. Hazel felt old Jacobis bo^ fingers upon her arm and heard him mutter some scriptuiml philkse of thanksgiving. “I’m going to tell you the whole truth and I wwit you'tb print it. 1 even for a ‘bedraggled old harridan’ j court of appeal.^ of the District of like me. You see—I wss never mar-1 Columbia handed down a decision that ried! . . . Well, gentlemen, there youfthe Rural Resettlement administra- have the whole story. Mr.. Vogel doesn’t beIi«ve.Jt,. but you do, don’t you? And the ptiMic will believe It. Why, you must know I’m telling the truth.” The speaker stared eagerly at first bile then another of her *hearer8. One of the older-men, answered her: » “It makes no difference, Mrs. H<^mes, what we fellows think.- We’re “Tve been this. it sent for Jerry’s lawyers so they ean “Notiiiiw vicious,-* eh? Nothing vicions about his BM^her, either, I euppose?” Vogel griimed derisively. “IWl to^ the reporter you ’ shot at" Ufa. Hobnes argued feebly until he have it pat down in proper form and I can swear to it I don’t know bow such things ought to be done, but—" “Never mind. Go ahead,” one <rf the attorneys mged. “I’M start at the beginning and go along in my own way. Please don’t interrupt me — you can straighten it out later. Well, then, I did see an au tomobile with one headlight pass my house that night—I was waiting for Jerry—and it stopped in the pine grove up by the lane. But that’s all I actually saw. I didn’t see the mur der; I didn’t see the car come back. I dint know ‘when it came back, for I never stepped outside my door af ter Jerry t^ me good night After he left 1 want to bed. I heard some news. We’lTsend out this story, you ssy so, but are you sure you want us to? Will it do any good?” ‘“rten you—dont believe me?” “Let’s put it jthis way: we dont think tile piiylic will believe you. The circumstantial evidence is too strong and you haven’t really destroyed any part of it. Am I right, boys?” (Clonclnded Next Issue) < get tiir “Which Cbugress gave tirthr" president RUBBER STAMPS Any kind, to fit any businesa. 24-hoar ser vice. Reasonable prices. Telephone 74. The Chronicle Printers - Stationers tion, croa(ted*"by the president under the Works -sProgrssst-iodwM tustration, with Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell st its head, was an unconstitutional delega tion of power under the WPA act. While this decision is not final, and will be carried to the supreme court, it is notable as the first judicial re- xorsal of any of the applications of the 14,300,000,000 Works Relief fund eariy last year, to use in his own-dis cretion. NaturaJly, the question whddi ev erybody in Washington is asking is as to the political effects of these new anti-administration court decis ions. Coming as they did, almost on the eve of the party conventions, it is to be expeceitd that every possible effort to utilize them for party ends will he made by the Republicans. G. O. P. Harmony Republican leaders are talking more confidently than they were a few weeks ago. 'There has. been a de- Refreshing Relief Whan You Need a Because of the refreshing relief It has brought them, thouaande of men and women, who could afford much more expensive laxatives, use Black- Draught udien needed. It is vixy economical, purely vegetable, highly effective. . . Mr. J. Lester Roberson, well known hardware dealer at Ifar- ttDwiUa. Va.. wntM: "1 Mnatnly can mommend Blaek-Oraucbt aa a apleodld Siadlclna. Z bar* takan It for oonaUpatloo and tha dall faaUa«a that follow, and baf« lounS tt vary aatlafaotory< BLACK-DRAUO \ Look out there! It’s a flying Frigidaire falling from a Goodyear dirigible Into salty Biscayne ^y at Miami, Fla. Subjected totone of the most severe tests ever given an electric refrigwator, this,stock model unit built by Frigidaire Division of General Mqtots was dropped' 100 feet from a blimp into Florida waters. Towed around by a speed- ^ boat to guarantee complete submersion, it was hauled out, found sealed as tightly as when it left the factoiry and was put into immediate oper ation freezing ice-cubes. Aeronauts who witnessed the spectacular test were amiTzcd that the refrig^erater survived the terrific impact- of thal drop and carnu' out Without a single leak in its permanently sealtil mechanism or a break in its cabinet, hecause,“after all, they reasoned; household refrigerators ere not suppoMd tg be znanhandled that a .'1. > -Tr.