Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 26

POSTAL WORKERS ASSAIL ANNUITY Will Discuss “Utterly Inade- quate” Retirement Pay at Parley. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, August 15.—The present retirement act for postal em ploves will be the chief topic of speak- ers at ti.e meetings of eight ¢ ani 2ations that will celebrate *Postal week'’ here August 23 to 29 At present clerks and carriers re tire at 65 and supervisors at 70 are paid $60 a month, providing they have spent 30 vears in the serviee If they have served less tan 30 years the pay is pro rated Local postal workers say the provi- sions of the act are ‘‘utterly inade- quate to meet reasonable service and employment nee The _annuity granted is so small that employes ap Ppear to accept it only under pressure. and the age for retirement is fixed so high as to practically defeat the very purpose for which the law was intend ed The discus: = on retirement act are expected to take place ut the meetings of the National Assoclation of Postal Supervisors. the United Na tional Association of Post Office Clerks and the National Rural Letter Car riers' Assocition the Other Subjects Listed. Other subjects ing the week include the New Postal Rates.” and “The -Ex pansion of the Air Mail vice More than 6.000 postal officials anc emploves are expected to atiend ‘the econventions. In addition to the organi 2ations mentioned there will be the Natlonal Association of Postal Motor Vehicle Emr and thé Ohio Post masters’ Association. There will also to be discussed dur The Effect of be a general conference of post office | tnspectors Congressman Theodore E. Burton who will act as chairman of the gen: eral meeting: United States Senatos George H. Moses of New Hampshire chairman of the Senate committee on post office and post roads: Representa- tive Charles A. Mooney of Ohio, Rey sentative Clyde Kelly of Pennsviva Senator Simeon 1. Fess of Ohio. Sena tor Frank B. Willis of Ohio, Repre sentative Calvin D. Paige of Masss chusetts, John H. Bartlett. first as. sistant postmaster zeneral. and Post master General Harry 8. New the program for addresses. ave on BOY, 12, FINDS $12,000 ALLOWANCE T00 SMALL Servants Alone Cost $400 Monthly, | Guardian of Heir to Million Tells Court. Cerrespondence of the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 21.—Mrs. Eliza- beth Knight of Los Gatos, Calif., re. cently appeared with her 12.vear-old grandson, Richard Parker Smart, be- fore Judge John R. Desha of the court of domestic relations and complained that it has been very difficult for young Richard-to live within his an- nual allowance of $12,000. The boy, owner of the large Parker ranch on the Island of Hawali, is reputed to be 4 millionaire. The. grandmother, as his guardian, petitioned the court, to increase the allowance * t4 - $16,400, which was granted, Mrs. Knight told the court that the servants employed in her home for the benefit of young Richard cost approxi- mately $400 a month. In addition to the increased annual allowance the court authorized an expenditure of $2.500 to cover the cost of the boy's vacation in Hawaii and $1,800 for dis- tribution by the voungster among the employes of his cattle ranch when he visits his property to be the guest of the staff and cowboy RADIO TRUST CHARGED. Senator Brookhart Asks Probe of A. T. & T. Co. Methods. Senator Brookhart's office has asked the Department of Justice for information as to the practices of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the radio broadcasting fleld Norman Baker, proprietor of a broadcasting station at Muscatine, Towa. complained to the Senator that the company refused him a license although such a license would been granted had he purchased equipment from the company’s sidlaries. He charged the company was violating the anti-trust law and WAS operating in restraint—o? trade. Senator Brookhart forwarded Ba Ker’s letter to the Attorney General ave his sub. 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Grant found his way to the bridge and walked for an hour in the roar of the wind and with the spray dashing continually in his face Towards the hour of twilight there was a faint “yellow line of light west ward—the only parting in the ever gathering clouds What do you think of it Grant asked “I'm thinking she's the ndest little weather hoat 1've ever heen on the latter replied. *All the same. as well we're on the southern route. We might have lost # boat or two. it will be down before morning, sir Grant. curiously excited by storm, changed for dinner a little be fore his usual time and made his way to the tiny kmoke room. Brookes was already there, mixing cocktails “We will' hiive a bottle of the spe- cial Clicquot tonight,” Grant ordered Her Highness is dining, 1 believ sir,” the man told him. “She said that she feit much better Grant nodded, furious with himself that the indifference with which he replied was only assumed. He stood in the swaving holding on to one of the fixed chairs, bitterly resent the sudden a weakness h made him b for, half her coming. Then he heard an expected sound - tHe sound of her laughter. silvery, almost gav, as she ime geautiously holding on to the He stepped forward 1o meet her and led her o # chair. She looked at him swonderinzly “Whatever have - vou Grant?” she - exclaimed something marvelous had e shook his head Just the storm.” he answered. "It this afternoon Captain ool long been doing, What a is though happened She nodded T watched it from my a wav it excited me, you sent vour little message. Grant She looked at him and the fingers She was dress even than porthole. Tr 100. 1 was glad wearing a simpler the night before—a gown of black and silver brocade. whose only fastening was a girdle around her waist. It was cut low at the throat and she was wearing no jewelry. not even her pearls. to conceal the white softness of her neck.. When he looked at her arms he saw that sleeves were wide and loose “I am afrald churlish last ntght.” he ‘and T didn’t mean to be She caught at his fingers them for 3 moment the that 1 was a little confessed ertrude ind held You are a dear, Grant carry the exec vou. T let us she said, but vou do tione knife “with for get. I think I, too, have the storm in my heart. Let us forget the pain that comes when remembers when one passes on to solitude. Yo shall be my le_companion dinnertime, and we will fma afterwards—well, what shall I say? Otto s waiting for me in the lounge You are on vour way up to bridge problems at Lord Yeovil's we dine together. “If we dine at all as the spray the porthole out. “The bugle has gone anyhow answered But Grant laughed suddenly beat against This may put the fires she She was forced to cling to him along | the passage. He had. even. once to support her. In the saloon evervthing had been made fast as far as possible, and deep fiddles were upon the table. The service of the meal. hoiever. was unimpaired. Gertrude had found appetite. So also had Grant versation became suddenly a pleasure. 1€ was as though the whole awkward ness. the whole tragic significance of | their presence alone in the middle of the Atlantic had been She began to talk of Berlin of the aristocracy to swept away reinstate thems SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW CLEARANCE SALE OF HSED PIANOS AND PLAYERS It Is Better to Buy a High-Grade Used Pigno Than a Cheap New One 88-Note Used PLAYER PIANOS With Bench And up to $465 TERMS $2 Open Evenings IF YOU CANNOT CALL MAIL THIS COUPON Without obligation please send me full particulars about your specially reduced Plaver Piano Name Address THE PIANO SHOP THE WRATH TO COM by Little B presently on | the | ne that | the efforts | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©. AUGUST 16, 1925—PART T. —_—— should have stayed on where I was? T think that I should have died. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Brown & Co.) | | selves, the silent influence of Lutrecht, Blunn and his wonderful love of life {and dark background of unserupiulous ambition. full of one or of his steel, Grant, who was | veserves. told her what | two people in the world knew visit to Berlin bld her how he had staved at a com mercial hotel and dodged the fashion able quarters of the city, of how he had seen her once in the distance, driving. He even told her what she wore. She laughed into his face, with glad eyes You remember my ermines. You remember just what I wore. And yet vou pretend that you don’t cares 1 have never pretended guite so much as that,” he answered The wine danced in their glusses “Wonderful!” Gertrude declared No one ever has such wondsrful wine as vou, Grant. Or is It drinking with you makes me think se, | wonder | When you can leave off heing severe, when you can look like & human bx ing, something like the dear Grant of only a few vears ago-then vou make life seem too thrilling. -~ Oh, if only 1 had the power to soften vour heart just a little. 10 awaken memories in | your brain, to make vour eyves soften and have you feel—wel felt | things for me. Grant And vou for me? he As for no one else then and, alas, now He feli a sudden rebeilious stirring {of the pulses, und he set his teeth She laughed ‘at him, haif provoca- tively, half insolently “Grant.” she begged. “jus | nIght may we have some more Hearing ‘the thunder of those e breaking outside excites me. 1 had no lunch and I'm hupgry and thirsty.’ Brookes hastened away. They were ilone for 4 moment. She leaned to ward him. He quite still. Her 1ips rested for a_second delicately, yet tenderly, upon his, and passed away. “The storm,” she whispered it down to that. All the strange things that one can't see at normal times seem 1o be calling out inside one fo. night. Grant, dear, do you know really have got better-looking during the last three vears? I like the way | You part your hair. and those tiny | little bits of gray at the, sides “Are you trying to turn my be replied uneasily ‘I T could, T would.” she confessed Why think of it? \Why speak of 117 T love the excitement of this great motion, the thrill of beinz here alone with you. We are somewhere in the the Atlantic Oh. 1 wonder thinking about eaned back and laughed perfect teeth. the faint more back in her pale cheeks ‘I think I must have evil na ture.” she went on, “because I love to think of him now, tearinz his hair and cursing—impotent. If there's | anvthing' in the world really detest bie, it's a jealons man who takes no pains to keep what he has—a jealous man who thinks that what he has { bought—bought at the altar—is his by divine right Grant rose to his supreme effort He braced himself and fought against the personal note which had crept into their conversat He tried to dis cuss the future of the nations, but she would have none of that. He told stories_and she suffered -herself to be amused. But all the time the at | mosphere which she had created seemed (o remain. Her.eves were con tinually. seeking his, begginz for that answerinz flash which bespoke n com: mon understanding i “Ah ant.” she: sald onée.sas | they lingered for a moment over their | last glass of wine, “how happy T.am | tonight. You were adorable to tetch | me from my solitude. Do you know that. if you had me no word, 1 usually =0 anly s a traveler in you have she answered this one wine” vou | head? aren't what show sent Used Guaranteed PIANOS With Stool And up to $165 PER WEEK 88-Note Used PLAYER PIANOS With Bench As Low As *162 Until 9 o’Clock outfit, simply. “Dear man™ she murmured. vou look as though I were an intruder, as though T forgivable sin. some who will never forgive me. hour or should never greatest He had the sudden feeling of a ter- rified animal seemed closed, and with was the hateful singing in his blood, the crude insistence of primitive pas to be watching him from afar off, & little sad—just swung himself jnto battle. dinner as I with you,” the difficult the smokeroom?” Easily, They made their way, holding on to tables. and re “and see. how “Presently into the music room for s to my coffee there.” They rose-and-white music room. through liqueurs difficulty heavily “The captain Brookes reporied. on deck o the harteries supplying the electric hour or s work Grant 1 shall * he sald The louder waves sistent music stool “Now,' to you above 2217 Pennsylvania Ave. Southeast missed you,” he acknowledged “And were trving all the time to him, had committed some un- | YoIX." I suppose 1 have she went on. “‘Thers are An two ago I thought that 1 forgive myself. The lite seemed so an shame of blood. Every door of escape it all there usan seemed to be receding. a dream. Again he delightful dinner, and such a |To™M never dreamed of alone he declared. ‘“Now comes part. Can we get {nto she scoffed. Her denly madly ‘The yacht was plunging olling even more than ever. ought to go on deck,” he told things are look she pleaded. “Come a minute or e me only a step We can have our will lea room That tnto the little | G Opposite door, was The stew coffee and himself with e of the lights was laft made their way the hooked e of her own suite brought them in He steadied Suddenly « Only the standard nd at shaded and obscured ing 10ld me o say, sir,” | ble. “that all was well | They but there has been a mishap ont we may he short for an The electriclan is already and repairing.” me on deck before 1 go (o roaring of the wind and the beating of the great over. the portholes more She felt her way to I'm shall storm. if 1 You the hear my ainging have enough voice left. Come near, Grant. where I can see you.” Her fingers wandered over the keys, then struck a few familiar chords. ‘"Hackneyed," “but s0 apposite. man of surpassing strength.” Bhe agng “Mon coeur souvre a ta sang with her voice sometimes drowned by the booming of the sea and wind, sometimes rising clear and insistent through lences, always with that faint note of passion When she held out her arms. Iy into his. but he held her away. “Don't begged Her head sank back of absolute terror was like “I am faint,’ me across.” He staggered across hooked her door, and bent over Suddenly there was a shock greater than they had felt before. The light in door slammed blaze up at him through the darkness. arms around his neck were sud vise actual limp burden alarmed the sta Grant.” she kiss me now. BOOK TWO CHAPTER 1. returning Il in the sireets of New the morning after with dismay at the three capable and determined-looking chairs in the one young lady, placed her was deeply all Havers of tha New the first to announce himself. “Glad to meet “Tarleton of the Moon, bor apnounced occupled nodded | back to New York, Mr. Slatter. [ | “Booker of the Chronicle.” the 'h(rd*bnnrd my vac voung man echoed seemed | loo early Phoebe in- | lady told him, with the air of one who the | imparts information which should be unnecessary. I dare say rant shook hande with all of them. entirely she announced, “1 shall flnxllhnul me. 00k Come ahe laughed up at Listen, dear headlines out Tarleton rep the momentary i Eether. different | _“But I'm Grant protest which fired his had stopped she He teok her gent this, Gertrude,” he | fact, He saw a look | in her eyes. She| in his arm: ‘arry rat of a Tarleton sugg: she whispered of the un- her, with her out the passageway, them. nificently praise. We a eroom went out, thefand. as you He saw her eyes open “That's She clung to him o ahead The three other. “you have ta ¢ be the end cried, This may newspaper from an early There ha {ing around.” about a “Really haven't York on his arrival, looked voung men who his sitting room. a stowaway’ who, hav-| “A lady,” notebook upon the 1a- up immersed in a novel who h at his_entrance. Jim from York Letter wax Is “What Slattery.” The his neigh Grant stared hee vou., M ‘Glad to welcoms you Da ‘Hops we're not round “The you.” Smiles.”” the voung idea “You know | out.” he said, “I'm very! Smiles murm Closing Out All Porch Furniture and A Suggestive List of the Many Cozy Porch Pieces “Old Hickory” chair Arm- $3.50 §7.75 $7.25 $5.75 $3.85 $6.25 $6.95 arge “0Old Hickory"” Armchair.......... “Old Hickory” Sette Woven back “Old Hickory” Rocker. ... “‘Old Hickory” Arm Roeker............ Windsor Hickery" tvpe “Old Chair..... Windsor type “Old Hickory” Rocker..,. 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Martin and every one of my officers really deserve a word of idn’t know, liners got badly knocked about.” ar interesting, mitted, making a few notes. just one other Httle thing about the Slattery.” " Gran men 1 ‘Tarleton appeared (o be almost an un man | pushed a box of cigars across the ta | ble, lit a cigarette and threw himself into an easy chair. | e heen some rumors go- Tarleton stowaway." Grant heard of them. | Booker interposed. taking | his ghare of the burden missl Monte Carlo.” that 8o was her Princess iat h YOu mean o suggest Princess von Diss was a passenger bn he demanded. “That's the story that's been going Tarleton acknowledged. ht 2" seems smuggled herself on board without | vour knowledge,” Havers intervened, and was discovered on the third dav ured. A e oagar S als “Of course,” Tarleton suggested dif- fidently, “this might very reasonably seem fo be a subject upon which vou | might not care to talk. Say the word, | and we'll quit. Put it to us that on w|the subjset of the missing Princess von Diss Mr. Slattery had nothing to say, and down it ®oes in our bhooks and we’ll pass on to the next.” Grant smiled “I think you can go a little further than that,” he said. “You can assure the millfons in New York, who are in terested in this sort of thing, that 1 dined with the Princess von Diss on the night before I left Monte Carlo, | at a dinner party given bv Mr. Cor neljus Blunn, the multi-millionaire—a dinner which included her husband, the Prince von Diss, the King of Gothland, the English prime minister and varfous other distinguished peo. ple. Since that evening I have not #een or heard of the princess The penclis were, busy. “One may take it, then," Tarleton | ventured, “that these stories of a ro manvxl:“!::,.;lj ay on board your yacht n inquired Entirely Grant assured them. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) “There was a large black cat discov < . ered when we were three davs out.| Thers are 317 She was the only stowaway I know |te about ing “Good hpading, served. “Romantic Stowaway on Mr. Slattery’s Yacht swers to the Name of Lizzle. “Well portant declared. “Can us, Mr. Slattery. ference of the there to this country?” You can't get of our visit,” yon about t the Pact of object cheerfully. “We ations, Grant replied of meeting Lord Yeovil often. upon the invitation a= one of Ereatest events of this decade. as soon In But forward. progitoeirsin heard, opposition of expectancy made itself felt. ‘Some hurricane which countries opposed tion?" black only alls, tell yor e ioeiant ant explatned. ’ that “Did which the motion?” Jim Haver You hear any rumo: . even lose a boat Sy TUIICES AN some of the big Tarleton “There's t invited ooked at capacity of 124,000. 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Grant Discovered—An- that disposes of the less fm Havers say anything to e Nice con end invitation which was sent from “I was at Monte Carlo at the time,” “and T had the privilegs 1 look the Lord Yeovil ran a great risk in bringing it There was, as you may have Pencila were poised and an eager alr Can you,” Tarleton asked, “tell us the finvita “The negative votes are recorded by “T can three were given No one could say who put them in countries probably did oppose moving picture thea in Berlin with an aggregate seal new screen theaters are in course of con PP PIIT I AL IO P 22222 777 2272202