Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1935, Page 9

SECON BY RICHARD HILL WILKINSON. stand you-all are lookin’ for & al?” Phil Osgood, city editor of the E Ledger, swung around in his chair and looked up at the girl. Wide, blue £ eyes stared at him from beneath a close-cropped head. She was hatless, and wore an egg- shell colored dou- ble-breasted linen suit. Very smart. “Well, well,” he sald. “So you're from the South?” “Yes, suh, Syca- more Landing, just south of Birming- ham, Alabam, suh.” “Do tell,” Phils’ eyes ran over the trim figure appraisingly. “And the name is2” “Diane Lee, suh.” Phil scratched his chin. He was thinking of the 150 other girls, New York born and bred, who aspired to the girl reporter’s position which was open on the Ledger. He wondered how Diane Lee got by the office boy, but decided not to ask her. He'd rather guess. Where 150 others had falled Diane had been successful. Hum. “1 suppose vou've had experience, Diane?” “Oh, yes. suh vears on the Commentator’ experience, suh.” Phil scratched his chin again. He was trying to make up his mind to some things, but before a decision asserted itself the girl asked: “You-all are from the aren’t you, suh?” Phil started. “How in the world did 1 know that?"” “Why, suh? We Southerners—-"" She broke off, staring at him in round-eyed significance. Phil cleared his throat “I'll tell you what,"” he said. “You run down to the Municipal Building and get me a story on Carlos de Sureda. He's up here from Mexico on business. Color it up and turn it in for the afterncon edition. If you've got something on the ball—" “Oh. thank you, suh. I'll get the story, suh.” Phil couldn’t think of any good reason why he should take Diane Lee to lunch, except that he wanted to talk to her about the story she'd writ- ten on Carlos, and because also he wanted to ask her more about Syca- more Landing. Both of which he thought sufficient excuse. “When T told you to color it up.” he explained over coffee, “I didn't mean to write an essay. After all. there are certain rules that every newspaper writer must abide by. Even the star reporter Landing. Alabam.” He went on pa- tiently to explain what those rules were, although he didn't know why. But after awhile, when the conver- sation shifted to Alabam and she told him about Sycamore Landing in the soft, drawly way she had, he felt repaid. “There’s one thing youll want to remember,” he said as they crossed the street back to the Ledger office. “Kimball--he’s the managing editor— comes from Virginia.” She flashed him a look of grateful understanding. “Thank you, suh,” she said. “Thank you.” “And don't,” said Phil, ‘suh’ Call me ‘Phil." " It was more than a week before Phil permitted anything of Diane Lee’s to appear in the Ledger. Then he did so in fear and trembling. But nobedy said anything, no reader wrote sarcastic letters to the editor asking whether the squib was a new humor- ous column or a treatise on the wild life in Central Park, and Phil felt that he'd passed a crisis. During the first week he spent three “Yes, suh, oirl said. T worked fo' two Sycamore Landing’s Yes, suh, I've had South, “call me evenings with Diane trying to explain | to her that news was supposed to be presented in boiled-down facts and not in a lot of gushy, flowery phrases. Her style of writing made him skepti- cal about the type of paper the Syca- DARTING DRAKE KNOTS _ INTERSECTION TRAFFIC Large White Bird, *“Arrested,” Awaits Owner’s Arrival at Police Station. A large white drake unsuccessfully essayed the role of traffic policeman at Wisconsin avenue and Albemarle atreet yesterday, tangling traffic. The bird darted back and forth I've had experience.” “I worked fo' two yvears om the Sycamore Landing Commentator.” from Sycamore | D BEST more Landing Com- mentator might be. And all the time Phil was conscious of a feeling of gilt. He felt that way especially when he read Diane’s stuff and thought of the 150 other pros- pects, New York born and bred. He expected momen- tarily that Kimball would come stomp- ing over and make some sarcastic crack about Gen. Lee's daughter and her mush, but Kimball didn’t. In fact, Phil saw the : managing editor | stop twice at Diane Lee’s desk and say something to her which caused the | | Sycamore Landing scribe to look at | him with her wide blue eyes and smile. A month passed. And then one | | night up in Diane’s apartment, with the remains of a steak on the table between them, Phil sald suddenly, impulsively and without preamble: | “Diane, I can't go on playing this game any longer. My conscience is | killing me by inches. And the fact remains that you're not a newspaper woman or ever will be. I could get one of a thousand females to do your work, better than you're doing it, for half the salary. You're fired.” Diane looked at him with her wide | blue eyes, bit one of her full red lips, | looked down at the table and said: “0. K. I expected it.” Phil dragged his chair around and sat down beside her. “Good. I knew you'd take it that way. And now that that's over, let's be honest with each other. Diane, I'm in love with you. I have been ever since the day you got by the office boy. You must have guessed.” | “I had to guess, didn't I?" She looked up at him. *Because you never mentioned it. You only talked about the—the darned old newspaper.” | “Excuses,” he said. “Excuses to be | with you. You knew that.” | She watched him steadily. “And | you knew I didn't come from Syca- more Landing, Alabam?” “I admired you for trying to get away with the gag. and for getting by the office boy. Because of that I thought you might make a good news- paper man.” “Is that hired me?” “No. Will you marry me?” Diane bit her full red lips again. “Mr. Kimball thought I was a Southerner. How did you know I wasn'’f i “Shucks. Kimball's a Southerner himself. You can fool him. That's why I warned you.” Kimball is——but. aren't you?” | “Nope. I hail from New York. Flatbush. Lived there all my life. Five years ago I heard Kimball was looking for a city editor. So I went in and told him I came from a little town outside of Richmond. Yes, suh. | And he swallowed it. That's why I| felt almost obliged to give you the same chance I had. Two people working the same gag, you know. But all the time I kept thinking of those other 150 newspaper women. All of them. And hang it, Diane, you weren't making the grade. You | weren't made to be a newspaper | woman. You were made for—other | things” He leaned toward her. | “Diane, why not try being a& news- paper man’s wife?” Diane considered. And Phil, watch- ing her, thought for a moment that he'd figured everything wrong. Then he saw the corners of her mouth be- gin to twitch, and he breathed again. She looked up at him. “Well, suh, I promised myself I'd get to work on a newspaper. But since I'm not cut out for it, maybe second best will have to do. Yes, suh.” Whereupon Phil took her into his arms and told her they'd spend their honeymoon in dear old Alabam. Sure enough. (Copyright. 1935.) the the only reason you | across the thoroughfare, with auto- ! mobiles barely missing it, until he was captured and taken to No. 8 po- lice station. There the drake was lodged in & basement room and today waited to | be “released in custody” of the owner, if he called. If not claimed, police say, the fowl will be jurned over to the property clerk. whose duty will be to sell it as quickly as possible as ‘“perishable property.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.. MONDAY, APRIL 8§, 1935. COUGHLIN BACKS SIX PENDING BILLS Social Justice Union, Five “Competing Systems” Contrasted. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 8—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin has thrown the support of his Union for Social Justice be- hind six pleces of legisiation now pending in Congress. | After a detalled contrast of the | principles of the union with five other “great competitor” systems of capi- | talism, the priest yesterday said his | organization was “prepared to as-! semble its ranks” for the “protection | of labor, of agriculture, of small in- dustry and of the mulcted American veteran.” He recalled that the union | was a factor in the defeat of the | World Court proposal. He listed the following bills as car- | GENERAL SPRING SHOWING rying the approval of the union: The Nye-Sweeney banking, the Frazier- Lemke farm bill, the Patman bonus measure, the Thomas-Massingale act, the Wagner labor bill and the Wheel- er-Rayburn public utilities control bill. During a discussion of Russian Communism he replied to charges hurled against him last week by the Methodist Federation for Social Serv- ice. The federation had asserted that he underpaid workers engaged in the construction of his church, that he employed non-union printers and that he underpaid clerical help. He denied the charges as ‘“three distinct lies.” FALL HURTS WOMAN Hurled From Car by Companion, She Tells Police. Dolly Swift, 30, giving her address as 2523 Fourteenth street, was taken to Gallinger Hospital from Maryland averue and Seventh street southwest early today and treated for a lacera- tion of her forehead. The injured woman told police she received the injury when ejected from an automobile by a man she knew only as Mike. DEATH IN AIRPLANE TO BE INVESTIGATED Autopsy Will Be Held on Paul Yackanicz, Bolling Field Mechanie. An sutopsy was to be performed to- day to learn the cause of the death | late yesterday of Pvt. Paul Yackanicz, 27, & mechanic at Bolling Field, who died yesterday afternoon while seated in the rear cockpit of an airplane m which he had been flying as pass- enger. Lieut. Joseph Caldara of Richmond, Va., an Air Corps Reserve officer, had been piloting the plane on a flight to “put in flying time,” with Yackanicz as a passenger. Upon landing he no- ticed Yackanicz slumped in the seat. The soldier was pronounced dead by Army physicians after first aid meth- ods had proved futile. Death was believed due to a heart attack, suf- fered while in the air. Yackanicz was a native of Beaver Meadows, Md., where his mother now lives. MOTORS Have you seen the brand new La Salles And the new Chevrolet Masters? Or the new Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs, and Cadillacs? Come to the General Motors Spring Showing where you can see them displayed under one roof amid colorful decorations. This is the first opportunity anyone has had to see these new 1935 General Motors cars all at one tir;\-. Come in—look around— make your own comparisons. You'll enjoy looking at the new colors, the new styles, the new models . . . sedans, coaches, coupes, convertibles. There are also interesting exhibits of other General Motors products, in- cluding the new Frigidaires with super- freezer. It is educational as well as entertain- ing. For your further enjoyment, music is provided by a popular dance orchestra. Admission free. Bring the family. CHEVROLET OLDSMOBILE LA SALLE BODIE PONTIAC BUICK CADILLAC BY FISHER FRIGIDAIRE UNITED MOTORS SERVICE DELCO-HEAT EQUIPMENT FOR HOMES APRIL 6-13 10:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. ADMISSION WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM 19th & E Sts. N.W. - - > b3 90’“ VINCENT LOPEZ and his Orchestra FREE! WILL ELECT OFFICERS Executive Council of Local 2, Fed- eral Employes, to Meet. The Executive Council of ‘Local 2, i the departmental local of the Na- tional Federation of Federal Em- ployes, will elect officers Friday night, end the installation will follow imme- diaely, in charge of Luther C. Stew- ard, national president. Several other meetings are sched- uled by units of the organization this week, at all of which the principal business will be to plan for the three- months membership campaign now under way. Missing Boat Found. TOKIO, April 8 (#) —A motor boat with 17 Japanese aboard which had been missing for five days was found by a freighter today drifting near the Coto Islands and was towed into port. All aboard were safe. ‘The vessel was chartered by a news- paper to send reporters and pho- tographers to meet Emperor Kang Teh of Manchoukuo while he was at i"' before his recent arrival in Tokio. 5 Send everything to MANHATTAN |MARIONETTES TO GIVE ’ AMBITIOUS PROGRAM | PR | Francis Shinn's Attraction to Present New Features in Extended Season. 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