Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1936, Page 28

DAILY SHORT STOR ANOTHER LINK By Janet THI old residents of Shelley were perplexed. No, Jim Bates couldn't be invited to the banquet ir honor of Bill Shel-* ley's home-coming. “Why, them two was sworn enemies when Shelley went East to Washing- ton,” said Mr. Bar- clay. “Inever shall forget it. It would . be murder, sure, to bring them to- gether. Let's say we forgot about Jim Bates when we tent out the invites. What d'ya say, fel- las?"” And so it was decided. Many vears be- fore, the only building on the site of the present ,town of Shelley was that of Shelley & Bates Lumber Co. | Shelley had been considered the brains of the partnership. Bates did all the manual labor. The going was uphill from the start. Both worked hard Finally their efforts showed results; | Shelley sat at his desk. M’Hugh. very nicely. The mayor rose to give the opening ad- dress. A very few words has escaped his lips when a small urchin strode boldly to the plat- form and handed . Bill Shelley a soiled note. The crowd was hushed as though it had been| struck by a thun- derbolt. The urchin | was Jim Bates' de- | livery boy. Bill Shelley read the note. He re- read it. Then he| rose and said he would not speak | that afternoon. The crowd went wild. All the gossips headed for Bates' drug store as soon as they could get away. Jim's business had been pretty | bad. As Shelley had grown, so had Bates' competition. And in recogni- | tion of the fact that Shelley was now | a metropolis a drug store with wide affiliations had opened—right next to | Bates. Ever since that time every one | used by THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936. ARMAENT PLANK URGED BY BONE Washington Senator Pre- pares Program for Adop- tion by Democrats. By the Assoclated Press. Senator Bone, Democrat, of Wash- ington, a member of the Senate Muni- tions Committee, announced today he would fight to have the Democratic platform include plans advocating na- tionalization of warship building and some arms manufacture and the en- actment of permanent neutrality legis- lation. He declared his action had the | approval of Chairman Nye, Repub- lican, of North Dakota, and Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. His munitions plank, tentatively worded, would call for “such national- ization as will give the Government & monopoly in fabricating war mu- nitions and instrumentalities into their final form for combat purposes.” He made clear this would include naval vessels, arms and ammunition the Army and Navy and| would apply during peace as well | as war. “This step would make the Gov- ernment sensitive to public reaction on these matters,” Bone said. “The among other nations, it is utterly impossible for our people to sell and deliver war materials and commodities to belligerents without imminent dan- ger of being drawn into the conflict. “I am going to fight for a pledge to pass a permanent law which would forbid loans or credits to belligerents unless we are allied with them, pro- hibit the sale of munitions to war- ring powers and forbid our citizens from traveling on ships of bellig- erents, except at their own risk.” He sald, too, the plank would in- clude s provision that when warring countries make purchases jn this coun- try they must transport them away themselves, Some of these points are embraced in the present temporary neutrality law. A0 R SR T R Sell Many Stockings. Nearly 107,000,000 pairs of artificial silk stockings were made in Great Britain in the past year. ‘MAD MONK’ LOSES $100,000 LIBEL SUIT Russian’s Action Against Publish- ers of Book Is Rejected in New York. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 19.—Sergius M. Trufanoff, once known as “Iliodor, the mad monk of Russia,” lost his $100,000 libel suit yesterday sagainst the publishers of the book “Rasputin, the Holy Devil,” in which Iliodor charged his character was defamed. Counsel for Iliodor, In his closing argument, charged that the book, written by Rene Fulop-Miller, de- picted his client “as a cheap, filthy, disgusting, horrible creature” and de- clared that “the laws of this country hold that one cannot just print of a Porch & Deck Enamel *3 Famous Foul enoug! Buitable Absolutely_ waterpry for Not every can with SPECIAL .49 gallon “FAIRFAX" r e to walk for wi Brand. Dries hard n in 1 hours. or cemen Be sure to “FAIRFAX" Brand. o paint living person things that will make it (a_book) sell.” In reply, counsel for the defend- ants, the Viking Press and Garden City Publishing Co., publishers of the book, contended that every statement about Iliodor contained in the book was true and authenticated. Scots Return Home. More than 40,000 Scots have re- turned to Scotland from other lands in the last five years, and the gov- ernment is studying plans for ing for many of them. NEWSPAPER MAN WED William W. Warfel, Chicago, For- merly of This City. CHICAGO, June 19 (#)—William Wyatt Warfel, well known in news- paper circles for his work on the Advisory Board and Chemical Com- mittee of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, was married yesterday to Janet C. Lamar, a Chi- cago profe.sional woman. ' Warfel, a native of Read:ng, Pa.,| was formerly associated with a news- paper engraving company in Wash« ington, D. C. At present he is an engineer with a newspaper machinery company here. Lined ISADORE MILLER 809 1ith St. NW. Nat. 5628 Repaired Cleaned The 3 0utstndé;ag Summer WAT-HI 7o~ label comtains ALL PAINT, Buy “FAIRFAX" Brand, and vou buy ALL PAINT!! the camp grew into a small town. | who entered his store got a strong ora- ple would be watching what the One afternoon in early Spring Jim | tion on the evils of chain stores. sl 5 Bates wandered into the lumber office | where Shelley sat at his desk. “Say, Shel, about how much do you : reckon this business is worth?" asked | about a thousand or two.| “Well, Shel, I knowed we was al- | ways lucky together, but right from | the first my heart wasn't in this busi- ness. Now that everything's pros- perin’, I reckon Il pull up stakes.” “Now, Jim, I can't give you a cold thousand. Every cent we have is sunk | in the camp.” : ! “I know, Shel. Give me & piece of l1and near the office. You can pay me the rest when you're able. I've al- ways wanted to be a druggist. Now, | I'm going to build a drug store here. | It's a good spot, for this'll be & flne} town some dav.” | * x *x % §O THEY agreed. But one day Shel- % ley sold the lumber yard and left | town without paying Bates. And Jim couldn't prove that he had been | cheated. Now Bill Shelley was returning from | Washington after 30 years. The| whole town and band were at his re- ception. He was & big man worth mil- | lions, it was whispered. Some guesced | he was a broker. Others held to the | rumor that he was an official in a | shipping company. At any rate he was a big man As the train pulled into the be- decked station, every loyal citizen ol‘ Bhelley gave three cheers. All but | Jim Bates. He wasn't there. The band played “America.” The chil- dren sang words that they had com- | posed in school. They squeaked out | phrases in honor of Shelley's greatest | citizen. The object of all this atten- | tion looked much the same after the | 30 years, a little more rotund possibly, | but otherwise quite unchanged. | There was to be & uncheon given by the Rotary Club, an address in the | park that afternoon. For that eve-‘ ning the committee had arranged & banquet. * % *x % 'rm: luncheon was followed by the 1= usual number of speeches. That bfternoon when the big car rolled up before the bandstand and the com- | mmittee took its place, things went along | | exploded. The young boys called him “Chain Store Bates” just to tease him. When the first inquisitive townsman | reached the store Jim Bates literally | “Of course I sent Him | out there takin’ all the gl Him with $745.16 of mine. He's more a| thief than half of them in the county jail right now. That's what the note says. Scared him, did it? It oughta.” | * % ¥ ¥ | THAT night the villagers wiggled | into their dress suits strongly | scented with moth balls. The town! of Shelley had never before seen such a complete turnout of finery. The dinner was over without mishaps and the speeches were now under way. The mayor spoke on indefinitely. The representative of the Commission of Public Works had his turn and was | followed by the representative of the | Bureau of Public Control. Eventually Bill Shelley was introduced. Most of the guests had to be awakened by this time. | “My friends, you do me great honor this evening,” Shelley began. “This is perfect, but for one thing: my friend, Jim Bates is not here.” | “Oh, yes he is," interrupted the man in question. “I'm here to tell you and these people just what kind | of a scoundrel you are, Bill Shelley.| I'l take you down a peg or two.” “Suppose you let me do that, Jim | Bates. I'm better able. As I was saying. my friends, this honor that| you give me is not mine alone. Half belongs to Jim Bates. Perhaps he is more deserving. When I left here 30 years ago, I owed Jim his share of our | lumber yard. I've returned to tell him | today that we're still partners. wealthy now and president of a large | ‘Without his money I could my own. Half of what I have today is rightfully his.” The hall was in an uproar. Bates was stunned. They hustled him up next to Shelley and demanded a| speech. He stammered and finally got out & few words: “I—ah—gee, folks! This is so sud- den—but it sure is fair. Shel, you're not s0 bad after all. Say, by the way, what company is it we own?” “The Chain Drug Stores,” proudly | asserted Bill Shelley. | RELATIVE IS KILLED MARION, IIl, June 19 (#).—Brakes ehrieking, an ear-splitting crash and | Engineer Tom Kelley stepped from the cab of his locomotive yesterday to investigate the damage. He found his engine had struck a car in which his nephew, Chesley | Kelley, and the younger man's two | daughters were riding. Melba Kelley, 14, was killed; Irene, ‘ 12, and her fa were injured. 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