Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1935, Page 25

DAILY SHORT STORY MAIL ORDER LOVE Romance Rolled Up to the Spinster’s Door in a Shiny Car, and Stayed for Dinner, BY ARCHIE G. JOHNSON. 'HELMA GRAY watched “the carrier stop at her mail box, rum- mage in the mail bag. thrust his arm through the open car window, lift the box cover. She waited until the carrier pulled away. Then she headed for the mail box, half run- ning in her eager- ness to see what the delivery had brought. As she was cross- ing the wide farm vard, a terrifying thought came to her. What if it were only & circu- lar from one of the town stores, an almanac, a farm paper, a patent medicine adver- tisement? And that seemed more likely than that her enroliment in the matrimonial agency had brought results. “Thelma Gray,” she scolded her- self, “voure acting like a schoolgirl waiting for a letter from her beau. You aren't acting at all like an—old woman should.” But her heart told her she wasn't an old woman, and—she did want a husband. She forgot to think about how lonely the wind sighinz through the big pine in the front yard made her feel, now that Abner was gone and Betty had married and moved away to make 2 home of her own. Nervously she lifted the mail box cover, thrust her hand inside. She grasped a little sheaf of mail. On the very top was a letter ad- | dressed in unfamiliar handwriting. ‘The postmark was from another State, from a fairly large city where | she knew no one. She ripped open the fiap. Eagerly, Almost breathlessly, she read the con- tents. The note inclosed was short, terse. It read: “I will be in your town Saturday. | I will come out to your piace. Then | we can discuss matters of mutual | interest.” | “Ellery Merrick,” she mused. “It's & kind of nice name. Sounds like | he might be a real estate man, banker, | or something like that.” | Maybe he had been left alone, just Like she had been. Maybe they could ' find happiness and companionship to- | gether, in their sunset years. Then another realization came to her. Today was Saturday. He was | coming today. Maybe he would come | in time for dinner. And she hadn’t even started dinner yet? | A sleekly-feathered rooster crossed | in front of her. That was it! She would have chicken for dinner, She | planned hastily. And she could have | diced potatoes, buttered string beans, | apple pie. | Only last month she had won blue ribbons at the tri-county fair and at the Northern State exposition with her flaky-crusted apple pie. There was the old saying, “The way | to & man's heart—-" And if Ellery Merrick was anything like Abner, the pie would prove the old adage. ‘The morning fairly flew. It was a little past noon when a car turned into the driveway and broke her reverie. It was a shiny car, but old enough to have the com- fortable appearance of being paid for. SEARS, ROEBUCK PAY FIGURES REPORTED Rosenwald, Board Chairman, Re- ceived $85,139, While Wood Got $81,818. By the Associated Press. Lessing J. Rosenwald, chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., reported to the Securities Commis- sion yesterday that he received a salary of $85,139. Robert E. Wood, president of the company, who recently was appointed ehairman of a Business Men's Com- mittee to advise the Government on ‘work-relief expenditures, reported & salary of $813818. Emil J. Pollock, Chicago, controller; James M. Barker, Chicago, treasurer, and Thomas J. Carney, vice president, each received $40,000 from the com- pany. No one owned as much as 10 per cent of the company’s stock, but the | report said that if the Julius Rosen- wald estate exercised its option, it then would own 657,311 shares, or 1331 per cent of the capital stock. | The option agreement states that 188,235 shares of no par value capital stock are available at a price of $21.25 per share on or before December 31, 1936. 440-POUND MAN DIES Eight Men Needed to Remove Body to Funeral Parlor. EBight men were required yesterday to Htt the body of John Lee, 39, colored, when it was removed from his resi- dence in the 1300 block of C street northeast to the establishment of Alexander 8. Pope, funeral director, at 315 Fifteenth street northeast. Lee, who died early yesterday, weighed approximately 440 pounds, it is said. He was slightly less than 6 feet tall. A special casket may have to be made for him. MUTT AND JEFF— The morning fairly flew. ‘The driver was alone. And he was & stranger. Ellery Merrick! It could be no one else! A feeling of un- certainty came over her. What should she do? She had never thought before how diffi- cult it would be to meet & prospective nusbend who was a toral stranger. One thing e had to do, she knew, and that was to go out to the car. Things were easier than she had expected, once the step was taken. She saw a man with gold-rimmed spectacles, well past middle age. He had a pleasant smile. “You are Mrs. Gray?” he greeted. “I am,” she smiled. “You are Mr. Merrick?” He said he was. Both murmured “Glad to meet you,” and then shook hands. “Won't you come in?” Thelma Gray invitéd. “Dinner is ready.” She led the way into the house. They began talking about crops, | weather, markets. The meal pro- gressed. The roast chicken came and was passed until it was declined. As also did the potatoes, string beans, | bread, butter, pickles, coffee. Each ate a piece of ple. She reached for the pie tin. “Have another plece of pie,” she pressed hospitably. “I believe I will.” gratefully. | The conversation lagged. Then Thelma Gray switched the sub- Jject. She wanted to op=a the way for He accepted discussion of the “matters of mutual | interest.” “I've been widowed for two years,” she said. “I have a married daugh- ter. I could live with her. But it doesn’t seem to be the ‘hing to do.” “Too bad about your husband,” he sympathized. Her heart skipped a beat. He seemed to be so understanding. Maybe bis was a parallel case. Maybe he had been left alone. Hot tears came to her eyes. Maybe h. didn't even | have any children he could go to live with, He wiped & flaky crust crumb from his lips with his napkin. He folded the square of linen, laid it beside his plate. “Yes,” he said, “I'm more than sat- isfied. A great flood of happiness came to her. How like Abner he was. And how true was the old saying, “The 'ay to & man’s heart—" A soft flush came to her cheeks. “I'm glad.,” she half whispered. “So am 1" Ellery Merrick admit- ted. “I'm so satisfled that I'll do just twice as well as I had planned. | As head of the Diamond Baking Co. I'll give you $500 for your justly- famous pie recipe. It's just what we need for our advertising program fea- turing, ‘pies like mother makes.’” ;‘ (Copyright, 1935.) | Tomerrew: “The Tinhorn” by | Hugh Randall Aksley, is the story of a | gambler and his wife and a winning streak that eame just too Ia 'BILL TO CONTROL ! POWER CHALLENGED Hastings and White Quiz F. P. C. Witness on Rate Legis- lation. By the Associated Press. countered Republican opposition yester- | day to some phases of its bill to abolish | holding companies and extend its con- trol over wholesale rates of operating companies. | Dozier De Vane, commission solici- | tor, explained before the Senate Inter- | state Commerce Committee that the | commission sought, through enact- | ment of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill first, | to abolish large-scale holding com- panies in favor of regionally integrated power systems, and second to regulate wholesale rates as an assistance to States in governing consumer rates. “Would not we do well to ask power Just to control wholesale rates of elec- tricity and_end it there?” Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware | asked. “If we had to make a selection be- tween the two phases of the bill,” De Vane replied, “I think it would be in the public interest to drop the rates section and pass the other sections.” | “You'll have difficulty proving that,” Hasting retorted. Senator White of Maine also inter- jected a note of opposition. “I can't see why the regulation of one central group isn't easier than reg- ulsting groups scattered all over the Nation,” he said. —e SCOUTS TO COMPETE The annual inspection of Twelfth Redskin District Boy Scouts will take place tonight at 8 o'clock at the Boys' Club, Third and C streets. Each of the 10 groups in the District will contest for stunt awards and in- spection honors. Taking part are troops 18, 27, 58, 81, 89 and 94; ships 312 and 620, and cub parks 27 and 89, SECRETLY AND SHE TOLD ME THAT You P TOLD HER THE The Federal Power Commission en- | In the dark cavern, Balza led crystallized pebbles, of & ratural chimney formed by & cleft in the rock. Tarzan mounted to the top, then lowered his rope and raised the girls to his side, where they found themsclves in a gully which was filled with rough, them to the bottom can bring the Rhonda looked down. “The Valley of Diamonds! back to Hollywood.” s glutted market, they' “Diamonds!” she gasped. ‘We shall all be rich. We whole company and take truckloads Tarzan smiled. “Then, with so00n be as cheap as glasp. Better take only a few.” Rhonda laughed at her own foolishness. “From this moment on, so far as I am concerned, there is no Valley of Diamonds.” “Our own safety is more precious than diamonds,” nd we are not yet certain of that right,” she said. said Tarzan, by any means. “You are Guided by Balza they came at last to the towering escarpment, with its base hidden in mist. Tarzan swung Rhonda lightly to his back and began the dizzy descent. She gasped, for she knew that one slight misstep would plunge them to death in the terrifying abyss below! D CHAPTER XX, OPEN BREAK. i ,w HERE came Aunt Sarah, call- ing him again, and Jane| | I headed straight for him. A | | | moment more and he would | be caught. | Abruptly he dodged behind a big | llac bush and disappeared into the | night. Alone, until almost morning, | James waited in the woods. Who took Jane home he neither knew nor | cared. And his aunt, warned by some | rare intuition, never mentioned his absence to him. | James sent Leslie a great box of white Toses next morning and went that afternoon to see her. He saw, instead, Mrs. Harris, who | said that Leslle was out and insisted | | nervously upon apologizing for her | | husband’s behavior the evening be- fore—to James’ profound and acute embarrassment. Leslie was out next day when | James called—and the next and the | !next. When he happened to meet | her casually a week or two later he | |found a different Leslie entirely, a | proud, cold, aloof little Leslle he | found it impossible to reason with or | | comprehend. | At first he tried—tried desperate- | ly—and probably would have been | trying yet if his self-confidence had | not suddenly forsaken him and a sick gnawing doubt not whispered to him that perhaps after all Leslie | never had cared for him in the least, | | bad, indeed, rather welcomed a | | cifince to break off with him. | Sam Fletcher still went there and ! |Bud and Jack and half & dozen others. She did not refuse to see | them or to answer their letters. And | certainly it wasn't his fault that her | | father drank too much and made . acene, | He, himself, had done nothing— | not a thing that he could think of to ! deserve such punishment, although | he searched his conscience hour after hour. Surely, if Leslie liked him | | even a little bit she would not treat him so cruelly for nothing at all | except worshiping the ground she | walked on. Leslie, meanwhile, after a week of retirement, went everywhere she was | | asked, laughed even more than usual ,and never once mentioned James or | his party or made any excuses for her father. i However, not even her mother | knew of the scene she had through that night at bome Sam had gone when she faced sober, half maudlin and thoroughly repentant father and forced from | him bit by bit the reason that had sent him to bring her home. | “What was it, father? You've got to tell me,” insisted Leslie, standing | over him and shaking him now and again into wakefulness. “I won't go to bed or to sleep until you tell me what it was.” John Harris took refuge first in haughtiness and finally in self-abase- | ment. Leslie got it out of him finally that Dill Hawks had told him that | Mrs. Dill had heard that Miss Sarah | Stimson had told Miss Laura Thorn- | ton who told Jennie Sears that in | her day young Iadies were accustomed | to let the young men do the pur- | suing, but that nowadays it seemed the other way round, and that she | was thinking of having her telephone taken out because that flighty little | Leslie Harris was forever calling her | nephew on the phone and insisting that he go to see her when he wanted | to stay at home. Leslie remembered that she had called es on the telephone once | or twice some weeks earlier and that Miss Sarah had answered it each time. “Oh,” she said, “oh,” and her color flamed. “Is that all? Was there anything else?” she demanded almost flercely. “Did Miss Sarah say anything else?” “According to Dill, it's common knowledge that . . . old S8arah Stim- son thinks it would be unspeakably degrading for a Stimson to marry s Harris. I've been a bad father, Les- He, & very bad father, but I'd rather see you dead than married into a family that looks down on you. Why, if your grandmother—" “Yes? Tell me about my grand- mother,” said Leslie quickly. That evening was the first time in all her life Leslie had heard her father men- tion his mother. John Harris rose and, aside from a slight unsteadiness, seemed perfectly sober. “Your grandmother was a gentle- woman,” he said with more dignity than Leslie had believed possible. “She has been in hér grave many years and it seems best under the circumstances to leave her there in REAT RIGHES Mateel Howe Farnham peace. She was & proud woman and suffered a great deal before she died. I must ask you in all kindness never to mention her to me again. It brings back many memories I have spent a | lifetime trying to forget.” “I'm sorry,” said Leslie gently. | “r1l never speak of her after tonight. But mother told me once she thought you had named me for her. Is that true?” “Yes.” “Am I like her? Am I at all like her?” persisted Leslie. “In your tact and social gifts, yes. In your lack of pride, no. It has oc- his aunt with him before she would take him back. gay as during that Summer. There were other dances, many suppers and | dinners and picnics. Nine times out | of ten James found himself partnered on these occasions with Jane, while Leslie continued to be freezingly polite to him and made much of Sam or Bud or Jack—but particularly of Sam—under his very eyes. James never saw Leslie alone now and gradually had ceased to try to | force himself upon her, turning nat- | urally enough to the comfort of | Jane's presence. Jane at least was | always stimulating and entertaining. Jane made his evenings bearable and got him out of himself, Nevertheless, James looked so for- lorn and wretched and was so evi- | himself at Leslie's feet at her first Never had New Concord been s0 | dently pining to rush back and throw | curred to me occasionally that you |sign of softening, that Mrs. Millard, were rather lacking in proper pride. | after & conference with Miss Julia Aside from that——" | and her cohorts, took the bull by the He stopped, suddenly struck by | horns and invited Leslie to spend what he was saying, and shrugged the month of August with her at her his shoulders in a half Gallic, half futile gesture, “God knows you haven't much to be proud of,” he said mournfully and broke down and cried. Leslie had to call her mother finally and between them they got him to bed. But before she slept that night Leslie vowed that she, too, would be & gentlewoman, that she, too, would acquire a proper pride. She would die, oh, she would die a thousand times before she would let Miss Sarah | Stimson say she was running after James. Let James marry Jane Northrup if he wanted to. She would show Miss Sarah, she would show James, she would show New Concord! James would have to sue on his knees and "cun.qe on Lake Michigan, offering to pay all the girl's expenses there ! and back. Leslie, a little white, a little thin, her head held high, met James by chance one afternoon on Commercial street and told him. “Mrs. Millard has invited me to visit her at Harbor Beach.” she said, | smiling happily. “Isn't that lovely? | I've been crazy to go there and can hardly wait to start.” “Why, yes,” agreed James uneasily. “That's fine. And added as an afterthought, “Will you be the only one?” “No. Mrs. Millard expects her niece and nephew—he's just gradu- ated from Harvard Law School. And | Sam is planning to come up for his vacation, but, of course, he will stay | at s hotel.” | If Leslie had lingered a moment | | she might have noticed how whll.eJ {and sick James looked, but she had | caught sight of some one she knew | across the street and hurried off. Standing alone in the shade of Moyer's Drug Store awning, James | quite definitely abandoned Leslie | then and forever. She must love the | mutt—she must. And he had been | | s0 sure once that she cared for him. | If it had been some one else, some | | one more worthy, who could have | appreciated and understood her, it | would not have been so hard to bear. | But S8am wasn't a gentleman. He was coarse, common, supremely unfit to | |own so beautiful and rare a being | as Leslie. It was as bad as a Fiji | Islander owning Venus de Milo. | It was weeks before he could bear to hear Leslie and Sam's prospective | | engagement commented upon. It was | months before he could say without | his voice trembling that Sam was certainly one lucky man. Tomorrow, Jane takes an interest in her “poor fathe | ART ON EXHIBITION Landscape Club Sponsors Display at Mt. Pleasant Library. The Landscape Club of Washington is holding its annual exhibition in the sun room of the Mount Pleasant branch of the Public Library at Six- teenth and Lamont streets. according to an .announcement by Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian. The exhibition, which will close on March 31, shows representative work I by well-known local artists. i | CAPITAL'S RADIO PROGRAMS S aturday, April 20, (Copyright, 1938) Eastern Standard Time. | WRC 950k WMAL 630k WISV Lt60k WOL 1310k | | M AFTERNO | =1 1 | 1:30 1:45 2 2 2 2 | "5:00" Sundown Revue _ PROGRAMS Rex Battle's Ensemble | Farm and Home Hour Poetic Strings ‘The People’s Lobby 5 “World Pellowship" Rice Brothers 00 Saturday Melodies 0 Week End Revue Miniature Theater 00 1 15 3 45 {International Program Louis Panico’s Orch. Mickey of the Circus P.M. John Slaughter's Orch. |Radio Romeos : | Music in the Air |Old Favorites | Popular Hits |Symphonic Gems 3:00 Week 3:15 G 3:30 Music Guild ! 3:45 = 7 4:00 Music Guild 4:15 | Carol Deis 4:30 “Our Barn®™ 4:45 = b End Revue College Debate Buffalo Presents . 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T8 /In the Barn Loft Bulletins |Dance Parade |Reggie Child's Orch, Orville Knapp's Oreh. Leo Zollo's Orch. I }Rly Herbeck's Orch - Sign oft ) [Tet’s Dance Erx |Sign oft MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES, The address of Senator Borah of Idaho before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the National Press Club will be broadcast by WJSV at 10 o'clock. ‘The Paulist Choir, famous New York boys' vocal group, will be guests on Al Jolson's program on WRC at 9:30 o'clock. The choir will sing the “Sanctus” from Gounod's “St.Cecelia Mass.” Elissa Landi, screen star, and Vernon Gomes of the New York Yan- kees also will take part. Roxy and his Gang, on WJSV at 8 o’clock, will present an all-request pro- What Chance Has Jeff Got? WELL, You ToLD & TS siLLy Yo BREAK 1T AINT JUST gram. Songs and instrumental num- bers which recelved the greatest re- sponse during the present series will be repeated. [ Ford Frick, president of the Na- tional Base Ball League, and Willlam Harridge, president of the American League, will discuss the current base ball season during Thornton Pisher's “Sports Parade” on WRC at 7:45 o'clock. Richard Bonelli, baritone, will fea- ture Handel's “Largo” during his re- cital on WJSV at 9 o'clock. His pro- gram also includes the Mexican air THREE OTHER GUYS? - - How “La Paloma” and “Come to the Fair.” ‘The forthcoming stratosphere flight | will be discussed by Secretary of War Dern on WMAL at 10:30 o'clock. Capt. Albert W. Stevens, in command of the flight, and Capt. Orville A. Anderson, co-pilot, also will be heard. A new musical series called “The Hit | Parade,” will make its debut on WRC at 8 o'clock. These programs will be provided by Lennie Hayton's Orches- tra. Gogo DeLys. Kay Thompeon and Johnny Hauser. The 15 song hits of the week will be featured. —By BUD FISHER WE WERE SITTING IN HER FATHER'S LIBRARY WHEN SHE TOLD ME SHE «LOVED BROWNING, KIPLING AND MARK TWAIN! { DRAMATIC CALLS F | one of the calls to be included in the | were gage foreclosure. He had read in the paper something about President Roosevelt having said that people in mortgage difficulties should appeal di- rectly to the White House. So 8yl- vester got on the phone and called | for the President. The rest is his- tory—how Sylvester was put through to Mr. Roosevelt, explained his diffi- culties and gained Executive assur- ance that he would be taken care of. Finally, a telephone call between doctors at Caledonia Hospital, Brook- lyn, and Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Z00, wil be re-enacted. The physicians had a youthful patient who had been | bitten by a gila monster, deadly poisonous. Dr. Ditmars told them OUR telephone calls that were what to do. The treatment was suc- made during the last year— cessful. calls that either made history | The dramatizations will be given or played an important part in by a cast of veteran radio actors. some great human drama—will | Others who will take part in the anni- be re-enacted during a special pro- | versary broadcast are Edwin C. Hill, gram over Columbia, April 28. | journalist and radio commentator: The importance of the telephone in | Channing Pollock, dramatist; Andre present-day America, the drama and 'Kostelanetz and his orchestra, and T0BE RE-ENAGTED 4 Telephone Conversations | That Made History Will Go on Air. | pathos and humor it 'sometimes serves Ted Husing, Columbia’s sports an- | to produce, will be forcefully illus- nouncer. trated during the broadcast, which is being given in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co. A newspaper editor in a remote section of Ontario will never forget TONIGHT dramatizations. He was sitting at his desk in the offices of the Callander Weekly when the bell jangled. At the other end of the wire was one Ovila Dionne, at Lake Nipissing, who wanted to know how much it would cost to have a piece put in the paper about five babies being born. It was the first inkling the world had of an | event that later was spread across front pages throughout the world. The second call, in contrast to that announcing the birth of the world's most famous babies, was between Washington and Chicago. In Wash- ington sat J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation for the Department of Justice. Melvin Purvis, | director of the bureau’s Chicago divi- | sion, was talking in Chicago. Thi talking about George * Face” Nelson, then ranked as public enemy No. 1. As a consequence of that conversation, “Baby Face” Nelson died before the bullets of Government agents in an Ohio cornfield. The third c:]';‘horllmlled l? 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