Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 56

" F-8 CAPITAL PRO Ranks Third in Number Of Autos to Population One Car to Every 3.05 U. S. Average—Trade Employs 25,000 Smallest of the country’s political subdivisions in point of size, the Dis- trict of Columbia manages nevertheless to be particularly conspicuous in the national automotive picture. Its rank is positively established in dom prepared annually by the Autol remarkable document which hides the title, “Automobile Facts and Figures.”s- In the preparation of the book not ' & single detail, however small, is over- looked in telling the many-sided story of the part of the automobile in American life. And in virtually every chapter the District of Columbia earns outstanding mention. To the District, for instance, is awarded the distinction of third place in the national standing with respect to population per motor vehicle. Were the suburban area included—that fs, those cars which find their major dai- ly use on Washington streets, but are registered in Maryland and Virginia— the District would be far ahead of the rest of the country. These vehicles are not so counted, however, so the | National Capital ranks immediately | behind Nevada and California, the former with one vehicle to every 2.92 | persons, the latter, one to 3.02. The| District’s ratio is one to every 3.05 persons, that for the country as a whole, one to 5.07. In the percentage of increase in | Tegistered vehicles last year the Na- tion’s Capital stood fourteenth among the 49 continental political subdivi- | sions. Registrations here gained 8.9 Per cent over the previous year, a numerical increase of 13.280 vehicles. The total number of cars and trucks ; registered in the District at the end | of 1934 was 163,070, which gave the city thirty-seventh position in the na- tional ranking; ahead of the States of North Dakota, Rhode Island, Mon- tana. New Hampshire, Idaho. Utah. Arizona, New Mexico, Vermont, Wyo- ming, Delaware and Nevada. The tabulation for the Nation as a whole shows that with a gain of 1,089,812 motor vehicles registered last Year the country returned close to the 25.000.000 vehicle mark for the first time since 1931. Aggregate registra- tions were 24933403, a percentage &ain of 4.6 over the previous year. In degree of use of their motor ve- hicles, Washingtonians also stand near the top of the national list. This is indicated in the fact that it re- quired 147.607.000 galicns of gasoline to provide power for the city’s huge motor vehicle fleet, on wiich a total tax of $2,063,000, after all deductions, was gald. Maryland gasoline con- sumption, according to the same tabu- lation, was 207.652,000 gallons, while Virginia motorists consumed 264,102,- 000 gallons. The sale and servicing of motor ve- hicles in the District is an enterprise giving employment to more than 25,- 000 persons annually, the compilation Teveals. Establishments engaged in the field here numbered 863 and their sales at retail attained a volume of approxi- mately $40,000,000. By far the ma- Jority of those earning their livelihood directly from the motor vehicle in Washington are engaged in driving trucks and busses. In this category the industry and trade gave employ- ment last year to 17,913 persons. Salesmen and those engaged in serv- {cing establishments numbered 6,763. Road work provided employment |ized unless use is made of the large | for a total of 783 persons. The stature of the automobilc busi- | ness establishment in the National | Capital is revealed in the fact that ! the city boasts today of 65 passenger | car dealers, 27 truck dealers and a total of 114 independent repair shops. In the wholesale field there are 20 dealers in automotive parts and an-| other 15 who handle accessories. | That the National Capital is not al- | together a metropolitan area brought out in some of the incidental | figures of the volume dealing with its motor vehicle fleet. One compilation | of this character lists the city as| having five rural mail routes covering | & total mileage of 203. 1 A total of 141 vehicles is listed as being in use on farms in the District, 81 of them motor trucks, the remain- der passenger cars, Additional figures are given to show that comparatively the motor vehicle is more popular with local farmers than either the telephone or the radio. Sixty-nine of the former, 35 of the latter. are listed | as in use by the agricultural sector | of the population. | The part of the motor truck in the city is indicated in the fact that a total of 17,263 cargo motor vehicles are in use here. Of this number, 9,197 are operated by 199 fleet owners. The remainder are individually owned and operated. Revenue busses operated in the city totaled 373, Like the District of Columbia, both Maryland and Virginia exceeded the national average with respect to percentage increase in registered ve- hicles in 1934. The latter, standing twenty-first on the national list with respect to total number of vehicles registered, scored an increase of 26,025 over the previous year for a percentage gain of 7.5. Maryland registrations gained 19,618 to raise the State's total to 332,892 vehicles, a percentage increase of 6.3. ‘With respect to population per ve- hicle, Maryland stands thirty-first in the national ranking with one car to every 5.02 persons. Virginia is thirty- ninth, with one car to every 6.54 per- sons. Have you ever wondered about filling stations? What proportion of them are privately owned and operated and w much business the average sta- oes in the course of a year? American Petroleum Institute 5 all figured out. statisticians rise to remark that t of every five stations are pri- wned; that the company- 4 stations merely seem more nt because they are bigger, r and more architecturally im- As to business volume, the annual sales of the average station total slightly less than $9,000. < * K K X ‘Motorists gradually are turning to the use of gasolines of higher volatility and greater resistance to knock or detonation. So say the petroleum. refiners who offer the following description of the different grades of their product to any motorist who has been puzzled as | Many of them contain tetraethyl lead Persons Far Ahead of Here. that huge statistical canvass of motor- mobile Manufacturers’ Association, a brightness of its story under the drab a demand for gasolines giving the utmost in power and performance. Usually they are higher in ‘octane number,’ the measure of knock re- sistance. They are used chiefly in high-compression motors and in mo- tors in which carbon accumulations have reduced the size of the com- bustion chamber, thus increasing the compression and causing a greater tendency to knock. Premium fuels also are used to obtain easier starting and more rapid acceleration. Gen- erally, they contain tetraethyi lead, a knock-suppressing element, or are blended with benzol, which gives the same effect. “Regular grades of motor fuel have been improved in anti-knock qualities and increased in volatility in recent years to assure satisfactory perform- ance in the average motor vehicle. | | but in smaller quantities than in the premium fuels. “Third-grade motor fuels are mar- | keted to satisfy the demands of con- sumers who seek economy rather than performance. Less volatile and lower in knock resistance, they are satis. | factory for many cars.” | Tyour trip much more and greatly de- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DOWN THE ROAD—Life’s Little Tragedies. i \) nl WHEN YOUR KITE CAUGHT ON THE FAST INTER-CITY EXPRESS —By FRANK BECK ) in connection with maps, tour books | and other information sought by mo- | | tor tourists. | The A. A. A. advises: 1. Take it easy. You will enjoy crease the likelinood of accident if per day. You will also save money | on gas, ofl, tires and motor wear if \ The tremendous volume of traffic | being carried by main highways in| these days of heavy tourist movement | their Summer travels, in the opinion | of officials of the Keystone Automo- bile Club. It is not to be denied that there has been a vast improvement in sign- marking the Nation’s highways in re- | | lead the tourist into the belief that | maps no longer are necessary. | to the great advantage of any one planning a Summer vacation voyage,” says a Keystone bulletin just issued. you don't drive too fast. 2. Stop and relax once in a while. | Always stop clear off the road. Fatigue takes the pleasure out of a | indicates that motorists are making trip and is the cause of many a | too little use of maps in planning | crash, so don't drive too many hours a day. 3. Slow down after sunset. Half | of our traffic deaths occur during dusk | | or darkness. | well after dark. \WOMAN: MOTORIST { you don't try to cover too many miles | HELPFUL HINTS FOR Trying Out Type of Car Buyer Desires Proves Sales Booster. BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. It is more expensive for the auto- It is impossible to see | mobile dealer to permit prospective | purchasers to try out the exact body 4. The open road invites speed. But | Mmodel which they consider buying, cent years, the club points out; this | the wise driver remembers that two |but there is much to be said for the rural areas. | circumstance, it is stated, should not | out of three fatalities now occur in|idea as a business booster. Always assume that some | the buyer select the car that suits her Letting | one may be trying to pass on your | Particular tastes is like fitting her to | crest or a curve. | what may be ahead. | 5. Watch overtaking and passing. “They very definitely can be studied | side of the road just beyond a hili-| & . Always anticipate dress that is her exact size. Automobiles of the same make and model often reveal wide differences in “feel.” This is due to slight differ- § O " in i rtant adjustments. When “The student of maps learns very| Wait until you're sure you can pass | ences in impo djus auickly that tne mghw‘fy network has | Safely the car ahead, particularly on l a buyer reveals dissatisfaction with | been so improved and expanded that | hillcrests and curves. Be particularly | her car she is certain to condemn the several routes are likely to be avail- |Careful at night when it is hard to| able to him, especially in the more populous parts of the country. “Each offers its particular ad- | judge the distance and speed of ap- | proaching headlights. | 6. Obey signs and signals! | Warn- vantages. In the case of one, it may|iD§ and stop signs and stop-and-go | be a shortening of the distance in- | volved with a resultant saving in gasolme and oil consumed, and in | time spent in actual travel. A second { highway may appeal from the stand- | point of scenic advantages, while a | third may offer relative freedom from traffic congestion and its attendant delays and dangers. “Oftentimes there is no distinc- | tion between alternate routes in those | primary considerations—smoothness, straightness and width. What may | appear to be a secondary road may | be just as fast, or faster, and as safe as the main trunk line. “The wide field of choice in high- | ways, however, is not likely to be real- | number of inexpensive maps avail- | able. That this is not being done is indicated by the distribution of tour- ist traffic on the various routes. “It is mnatural, of course, that the | main line should carry the bulk of the Summer tourist tide. It is not quite reasonable, however, that it should carry so large a percentage of it as is indicated in today's per- formance. A more studious use of | | i is| maps, it would seem, would result in| Mer opened the fish-story season to- a considerably better situation all| around.” | Eleven points of safety are specified | on a caution card which the American | Automobile Association is distributing | | tesy, signals are installed for your pro- | minutes obeying them. | at intersections; | ti = it is poor satisfac- ay if you crash. 8. Keep “John Barleycorn” out of your car. It goes hard these days | with a driver in trouble who has al- cohol on his breath. 9. Give hand signals. Let other drivers know well in advance when you are going to stop, change lanes, |or turn. Always get into the proper | lane some distance before you turn. | 10. Take care of your car. | ticular attention should be paid to such safety features as brakes, tires, tection and you won't lose many|mission to try one or two of particular make. Seldom does she assume that she merely happens to have delivered to her a car that isn't tuned to her taste. | One of the first things to do when dissatisfied with a car is to ask per- the demonstrators. Possibly friends will 7. Slow at cross roads! Watch out | e willing to offer their cars for a for approaching cars and slow down | short test, I t will require but a few minutes at the wheel of another car | on to know you had the right of of the same make and model to con- vince the complainant that she dis- likes, not the make of car, but the way her own car happens to be ad- ' justed. She will find that a difference of as little as half a degree in the camber or caster angles of the front end will be sufficient to change steer- ing from something that annoys to an arrangement that satisfies compietely. | If a driver likes a “high pedal” for Par- | the brakes she is certain to complain if she has to press her foot down too far before getting action. Changes in | | lights, steering apparatus and clean | adjustment are easily made. And un- | windshield. 11. Be a “road sportsman.” Cour- both to other drivers and to pedestrians, pays large dividends when | | practiced on the highways. | Death for Theft. NORFOLK, Nebr. (#).—Erwin Leh- day. He claimed he had three lines in Beaver Creek, baited with frogs. A turtle ate the bait from two lines, but | & catfish beat him to the third. Angered, the turtle seized the catfish, dragged it to the bank and killed it. til they meet the buyer's own par- ticular requirements the car is not really “her” car. In using various kinds of cleaners for the windshield be careful not to let them spread over to the front of the top where it comes down to meet | the glass. Most of these cleansers | are a mild abrasive, but when used so frequently are apt to overclean and dull the lacquer fnish. One mistake to make when taking | a view of other people’s troubles at a service station is to assume that be- cause tourists often are fixed up quick- | much less prone to such loss than are | is checked with | to do the work properly. ly the extra care given to local own- ers' troubles is unnecessary. The speedy work on the tourist'’s car is| usually a convenience and often, with | his knowledge, merely something to tide him over until he reaches his destination. Women who object to having the | garage floor smeared with drippings | irom the engine are helping to bring | about a reform in the design and | manufacture of cars. Already seve | eral companies have made public | declarations of their belief that most of the oil loss-is entirely unnecessary. | Investigations have led to the d covery that some makes of cars are AL D. C., AUGUST 18, 1935—PART FOUR. MINENT IN NATION CONDITIONS OF ROADS Construction on Va. 4, Near Richmond, Completed. Few changes in the condition of roads in the 100-mile area surround- ing Washington are reported in the | latest bulletin issued by the Washing- ton office of the American Automobile | Association. Bulletins list these ad- vises, all in Virginia: Va. 3—Two miles new grade | tween Culpeper and Grlmm_burg. no delay. Va. 4—Construction between Elkton and McGaheysville on new location | except where new and old roads cross which are rough in spots and will be} slippery if wet. | Va. 55—Construction from Front Royel to Linden, traffic maintained over old road ond short sections of construction. U. S. 1—South of Fredericksburg, widening road from Thornburg south, some one-way traffic. Va. 4—Construction east of Rich- mond is completed. MASONIC Robert P. Smith, potentate of Almas Temple, announces an excursion down the Potomac next Thursday evening. Shriners, their families and friends are invited. The steamer Potomac | will leave the wharf at Seventh and Water streets southwest at 8:45 p.m. Potentate Smith has made the fol- | lowing assignmenis of committee chairmanships: Allen H. Potts, ur-“ rangements; George M. Jackson, tickets; Ernest C. Guy, entertain- ment; Karl E. Jarrell, refreshments; | | and Edmund O. Carl, amusement. Master Joseph W. Marshall ln-‘ nounces the August 20 meeting of | King David Lodge will be devoted to | conferring the second degree. The officers will meet tomorrow at their temple at 7:30 o'clock to rehearse for this werk. On next Sunday. August 25, the members will be special guests at the | 4 o'clock services at Temple Heights, | others. | Drippings from the engine are due largely to loose gaskets and in too | many cases (o leakage past the rear main bearing. All engines have a | tendency to pump oil by this bearing and into the clutch housing, but it varying degrees of success by the use of special oil re- tainers and the design of the car itself. For instance by having suit- able vents in the clutch housing it is possible to eliminate the normal suc- | tion action of the clutch and thus | save considerable loss of oil. Because some engines tip at an angle toward the rear there is more likelihood of oil leaking out at the rear end of the valve compartment. One of the most important things in checking oil leak- age is keeping the cover of the valve compartment tight. The gasket between the crankcase and the oil pan should, of course, be tight at all times. The same is true of the gasket around the valve cover. Much oil is lost out of some engines at the timing gear cover which is lo- | cated at the front end. Usually this leakage is due to errors in tightening | the cover. On one car, for instance, it is necessary for the service man to use a special kind of wrench in order | If you are shopping for a new radio for the car I think you will find it interesting to note a new trend. They have finally developed radios that are protected against dust, heat, cold, humidity, road shocks and, of course, electrical disturbances. One concern producing such a radio speaks of the “fortified chassis.” That tells volumes. Too many motorists for- get that they can't get good results from their sets merely because they | are too careless in handling the car | over rough roads. | EOER Writes Songs While Fishing. While fishing at Kyle of Lochalsh, | Scotland, Harry Lauder is reported to | have put the finishing touches on two | new songs he has composed, one being | about “Mackay and Me" and the other concerning a certain “MacAllister.” MEM SAY WIS / ONE PRICE. DRYGOODS HOUSE 15423 N Y. AVE. TE to just what gasoliné offers him the most economic service: “Premium fuels customarily are sold at slightly higher- prices to meget ePoS! Raas BANK, \flAqueo‘, ¥, =\ 7 <EA, 13 \ LOVE —<HEY LOVE ME, WHEN SHE COMES HOME, “THE LOVE COFFEE AND | LOVE THE BOovYs AND STeELL MAMA N2z Grand Master Robert S. Regar, | members and associates of Masonic lodges left last evening for a week | end trip to Norfolk and Virginia | | Beach. The program includes several | special entertainment features and, | | at the Virginia watering place, there | will be bathing, fishing and boating. They will return tomorrow morning. JRO.UAM J The annual reunion was held at| Bay Shore Park, Md., August 3 under | the auspices of the Reunion Associa- | tion. There were more than 500 per- sons present at the park from Wash- ington. The guests and speakers con- | sisted of Representative T. C. Gracy, | national representative of Baltimore, Md.; State Councilor Edwin B. Pitts | of the District of Columbia, State Sec- retary John Prender, State Chaplain | George L. Myers and State Outside | Sentinel Clifford Long of the Dis-| trict of Columbia. | State officers and members of the councils of the States’ Boosters’ As- sociation attended the Junior Order day rally at Pen-Mar Park, Md., yes- terday. Councilor W. D. McBee presided over Star Spangled Banner Council at its last meeting. Harry Gorbutt of the | Reunion Association Committee and State Chaplain George L. Myers made addresses. | The United Boosters' Association | will meet August 31 at the Jr. O. U. A. M. Hall in Berkeley Springs. W. Va. | All councils are requested to be rep- resented. | obviously destined Edward J. Ross Council met, with Councilor Walter Hayden presiding. The council paid tribute to Past Councilors William P. Johnson and | George W. Turnburke. A committee was appeinted to recommend the plac- ing of a memorial at the grave of Edward J. Ross, the young man for | whom this council was named and Juan Hill, Cuba. T BOYyS WONT LET THE G\RLS ALONE ER 300 D Housg / EVENING ON MOST ANY SIDEWALK, ABOLT THIS TIME O’YEAR, NEVER SEE \T < ANYMORE AND MAYGE “THEY WOULDON™® CALL You A 1SI1SSY* \F THEY DID. THOSE WERE THE HAPPY DAYS! “Sdewalks of Yesteryer” —By Dick Mansfield \ ASKE| Movrer Fgg Y£ = FIFTY Cenv WATCHING T ORGAN G - gfz/av WITH 0, INK RIS LAGER. W) WHILE WE Sang e LIRS OF Tye \s G ILL ONE og -y S AR wWo OUND —o WHAT DA -~ CoPoLa DA\/ ~— = MOTOR PICTURE LOVELY LITTLE FOOL By Phyllis Moore Gallagher CHAPTER XV, ERRY paused for a moment and bit his lower lip. “John | Storm’s father has had a| stroke, Betsy,” he said. “John left right away for Boston. I drove him to the airport. He didn't say much, but he took the news hard. ‘Tough on him, starting a month late at the university and then having to lose this time, too. But to get back to the party—I could get Dizzy Nel- son for you if you're not so squeamish about a blind date as you used to be. That is—" “John Storm has gone to Boston!” Betsy said, more to herself than to ‘Terry, experiencing a pang of loneli- ness at the thought of John's being out of Washington mentally following every step of his dolorous journey—to the airport, getting on the plane, landing and hurrying to a hospital where the stern, gray- legs, and a soup-bowl derby was cocked on the side of his dark head. Terry’s teeth clenched. Why had Sonia asked Tige Williams? He un- derstood about the others . . . the manager of the burlesque house, the few chorus girls who had befriended Sonia and their boy friends . people she felt she wanted to enter- | tain. But Tige Williams! Why Tige | Williams? Sonia made the introduction with characteristic brevity. She said in & low, throaty voice, almost lost in the full blast of the orchestra, “Martha, Gladys, Iris, Henry, Butch, Charley, Tige—this is Betsy, Terry and Dizzy.” One of the girls, who called Charlie Chawley and Iris Iruss, chewed hard on her gum, stared at Betsy for a moment and said, “I seen your pitcher in the paper this mornin’. I knew you soon’s you come through the door. | haired man of the photograph lay ill, perhaps dying. Suddenly she felt that she would like to be with John, to comfort him, to say gentle little things that would help him to bear this trouble. “Yeah, Boston. And not the North Pole!” Terry laughed. “You sounded as if I'd said the North Pole, Betsy. Did you know that? Not falling for him, are you? I wish you would. He's a right guy.” “Terry, don't be absurd.” “Absurd, eh? Listen, tell me some- thing,” he asked, cocking a brow at | Strange, welfare; Monie Sanger, audit, | If they have 15 swell men to choose | What would you do?” from they always pick out the six- teenth, who is more than likely to be a louse!” “Terry! “I'm sorry,” he said quickly. “I told you I'd try to be more decent about Marshall Van Devanter, and here I go backing down on my word. Well, it won't happen again. I promise.” The Cat's Eye was at once a dis- reputable and a fashionable estab- lishment. People like Libby Stock- ton and Jennie Travers often sat there, Tight next to people like Sonia Karsoff, a burlesque queen whose father was & drunkard, and Tige Williams, a notorious New York killer, who had made a fortune in liquor before repeal, had done a stretch for income tax evasion and was now cleaning up in the “snatch racket.” Tige had kidnaped young Chauncey Willoughby, 4th, and the opulent Willoughbys had paid over $500,000 in cash to Tige and his gang of hot - shots — “quick-on-the-trigger men.” Upon receipt of the money Tige had sent a bullet through the young man's heart, had weighted him with rocks and had dropped him off the coast into the Atlantic. The night club occupied what had once been a ground-floor store of a cheap office building. By demolish- ing the plaster partitions the owners had made four dark cubby holes into one long, narrow room. The walls of this room the decorators had caused to be painted with the green eyes of = y eyes, glistening, yes, ves, small eyes. The windows and doors were the faces of cats distorted with bulging, prominent orbs—*Like pussies with thyroid trou- b as Terry had told Betsy that afternoon on the way home. That night when Betsy and Terry and Dizzy Nelson, a dark, studious young man, who looked as if he had been born wearing tortoise-shell glasses and reading “Cicero,” went into the Cat's Eye, Betsy saw Sonia seated in a far corner of the club. There were several young men and girls around her table, young men, who, in the vernacular of the hour, might be called “mugs.” and girls who were to become fat, frowsy women. Terry looked first at Sonia, ap- praisal and gentleness in his eyes Then he saw the man who stood be- hind her like a shadow an arrogant, squat, broad-shouldered man with heavy, pouting lips, rheumy lack eyes, shaggy brows. One thumb ‘was caught under broad, candy striped | who was killed July 1, 1898, at San | suspenders as he slouched in his chair, | balancing backward on the two hind ND THE O HER, < \ BeLieve - HERE OF THE o0 WAL, 2 Hurpy > D0 You REMEMRBER { ONSWER TO LAST WeeKs VESTION, HAT FAMOUS SOCIETY WAS LOCATED AT 1006 E-ST-N.wW> ONSWER., : HE FAMOOS ARION GER —MAN taal piEx SINGING SOCIET ) B T WEEKS: JER 2oty You're going to make a daybut, | aintcha? With Elizabeth Stockton. | It was like saying “with the Queen | of England.” | “Do you know the Stocktons, mo | foolin’> They're filthy with stuff, |ain't they? I seen their daughter here the other night.” “I know Libby Stockton,” Betsy said. “But I've never met her | mother.” And Dizzy Nelson, blink- ing behind his glasses, trying to say something that would make this strange group friendly with him, | added, “The Stocktons are many times millionaires, I believe. Wonder Warren W. Grimes, music; Clyde N.| her. “Why are girls always like you? | what I'd do if I had just one million. It was a | question for them all. They seized it carnivorously and went to work {on it. l Though Betsy joined in the ani- mated discussion, asking questions, answering. them, her attention was held by something else. For Terry had turned, frowning as he frowned only when very angry, to Sonia. They | whispered enigmatically for a few | minutes and Betsy. saying that she would build a charity hospital if she had a million dollars, managed at the same time to hear Terry asking Sonia why she had invited Tige Williams. Sonia was begging Terry to be nice to Tige, to forget something or other he had once done to Tige. Tige was right when he was sober, but g he was drunk and when Tige s drunk he was dangerous. She hadn't invited him. He had been at the Cat's Eye when she came in. She had thought that he was in New York. The snatch racket carried Tige everywhere these days and often out of Manhattan when things got hot. Betsy couldn’t catch all they said, but the pieces put together made a grim story. She stared at Tige then and saw | the fierce expression that was dis- torting his gorilla-like face as he glowered at Terry and Sonia. His look frightened her, and she wasn't usually one for being afraid of things. She hadn't been afraid the day a dog had bitten her, nor when she had had her appendix removed, nor the afternoon a car had crashed up on the sidewalk and had knocked her down. But she was afraid of this thing, this hideous, dark jealousy that | was closing in about Terry and Sonia. | Most of the crowd left the table to dance and Dizzy Nelson, putting his glasses in his pocket, bowed before Betsy and asked her if she'd care to take a chance with him on the floor. They were just leaving the table when Tige staggered to his feet and bawled: “Hey, you, I'm gonna dance with her, see?” And Tige danced with Betsy. Dizzy made one brief, friendly gesture to defy him and then swallowed hard before Tige's glare and backed away. Terry started up from the table, too, but Sonia caught his arm and drew him down to his chair. ! on the floor Tige perspired and | swore. He bumped and joggled Betsy against the other couples. When some one trampled his foot he said words for which men kill other men | when they hear them. He didn't speak to Betsy nor answer any of | the questions “she asked him. He danced silently, never getting far from Sonia, not once taking his eyes from the table where she sat talking with Terry. [ At the end of the dance the lights | were turned low and spotlights broke jout from the four corners of the | room. There was the rattle of kettle- drums and through the prodigious phosphorescent green eyes flanking the orchestra stand a chorus of girls trouped out on the floor. The or- chestra went wild. The girls began to dance, whirling veils in their fingers, unwinding them from around their bodies until at last they went through | their routine clad only in rhinestone- studded breastplates and ipfinitesimal jeweled pants. | After the girls had gone out there | was music again for the customers. Charlie and Gladys ran on the floor | to be the first to dance and to enjoy | the empty space and Iris and Henry, trying to beat them to it, stumbled and fell and sat on the floor doubled up with laughter. The music became deafening. So deafening that Betsy didn’t hear Tige Willlams cry out, “You two-timing little——!" Filthy, bestial words. But she heard Sonia's scream of warning and, with her heart choking in her throat, she saw Tige Williams, wide-eyed, flash a revolver from his pocket and aim it at Terry. Betsy never knew how she did it, but before Tige Williams had time to fire a shot she had picked up a champagne bottle from a silver bucket and Tige was swaying there on his feet, a jagged gash on his forehead, blood streaming over his eyes from it, the pistol sliding across the table and falling to the floor with a sick- ening thud. And the next thing Betsy knew she and Terry and Sonia were outside of the building, running like mad for Terry's car around the corner, pant- ing, climbing into it at last, only half hearing the police siren screaming in the night air, the panic and confusion and riot issuing from the Cat's Eye, And there was Sonia on the seat between them, her face buried in her hands, moaning, “Oh, Terry! Terry! Didn't you hear Tige! Just as the detectives grabbed him! He said he'd get you for this! Oh, Terry— Terry!” (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Speedometer Service We Repair All Makes CREEL BROTHERS 1811 M ST.NW.e+DEcarun 4220