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Evening star., 1938-01-22

It seemed 80 long ago. Maybe It had
been just . dream. Then she felt
again the tremble Of his hand on hers
as he had kissed her, and she. in turn,
quivered with its reality.
Phil lounged up against the wall
looking at her. Something had hap
pened to the Christine Sherman he
had met only last January. This new
girl was provocative. appealing. Down
the front Of the sheer dress marched
shiny buttons that twinkled wickedly
as she breathed. She seemed . little
wistful, q bit breathless as he watched
her.
Penny for your thoughts" he said.
Her cheek burned.
What is 1t. Duchess7 Tell Uncle"
His eyes were searching as he said.
HAS the love bug hit you. Chris?"
The dimple in her chin peeked at
him amusedly, but she did not quite
look at him. If I were a writer of
novels" he said slowly, and II I knew
anything about women, I'd say you
were in love-"
"Me?" She laughed easily but her
fingers frightened on her purse. In that
quiet little moment she had been
thinking about Ernest Boscombe, and
she had been wondering what Phil
would do If she kissed him suddenly
and completely on the mouth.
1T couldn't be your boss?" he asked
Phil, you're talking nonsense Hon.
estly you are. I'm not in love with any
one, That's why look so happy"
The answering grin on his face faded
away. His eyes grew tender. You
know what, Christine? I'm going to
miss you awfully."
Her heart thudded under the silver
buttons. Maybe-perhaps to-
night.
Three months. That's going to be
terribly long time for me to carry
on without you and your shoulder,
Chris"
11i-1ll tell Babe to adopt you for
me while I'm gone"
An odd look crossed his face,
Don't do that. I'll write you every
day or so and weep on you that way,
and then you write me back long let
tiers of advice which I'll read and
sniffle over and then totally disregard"
The invisible wall settled between
them again. Chris frightened her lips.
Not tonight, either, then. All. well,
some other evening.
1t was very still in the hallway.
He watched the top of her bent head
and the white flower on her hat.
Chris sighed and held out her hand.
We'll, I'd better 60 in. I've a long
trip tomorrow It's been q grand eve
ming, as always, and thanks for every.
thing"
He took her hand and clung to it
as she turned to 60.
Aren't you going to kiss me good
by?" he asked wistfully.
Chris knew suddenly how a prisoner
feels getting a last-minute reprieye.
The floor rocked under her feet, but
she threw back her head and ga7ed at
him steadily, smiled and held his hand
tighter
'Why-I-of course!"
Very quickly his arms were about
her.
"Bles you'll" he whispered, and for a
brilliant moment his lips pressed softly
on her cheek. The next minute he was
running down the stairs and Chris
Evening star., 1938-01-22

was swayins against the door. her eyes
filled with tears.
He had surmounted the wall 1T last.
He was hers.
THE following afternoon they stood
IN the station, Chris and Babe
and Phil and Mr.. Boscombe and Mr..
Boscombe's little boy. On the left
lapel of her trim gray suit were two
corsages. a clumsy and fragrant clump
OF flowers. One was mass Of Law
ender and pale pink sweet pets; those
were from Phil. The other was of
three fragile. waxy gardenias, their
heavy odor clinging to her hair and
drifting over the others as q sort
Of voluptuous benediction. The gar
denias had come from Mr.. Boscombe,
She was glad he had brought Bud
VIE with him, although she wondered
II perhaps she could not see through
his strategy Of having the lad there
She was going away, and she would
take with her the picture Of them all
Babes red mop and Phil's deep eyes
As@A' A~OoNOAAANC . VA GU 4dCS A11O J1lC lltLlG
boys fresh pink cheeks and the scent
OF soap that hovered about him. He
held his fathers hand, watching Chris
as she talked to the others, and then
he pulled Mr.. Boscombes head down
so that he could whisper in his ear.
Mr.. Boscombe laughed. my son
shows good judgment" he said to
Chris. He just told me that he likes
you and that you are good fun"
1t was an awkward moment. Chris
thought afterward that she could
have kissed the conductor for crying,
"All aboard" just then. But the fare
wells were just as hard to get around,
1t had been difficult for her to thank
Mr.. Boscombe for the gardenias. She
had not been able to look him straight
IN the eyes then, nor was it any easier
now.
He held both her hands briefly,
strongly. "Goodby-good luck" That
Evening star., 1938-01-22

~ HRS put her final o. K. on
1 the copy before her. The ad-
vertisement for another issue
was on its way, and for few
Evening star., 1938-01-22
H Wdn 6ctween Them~
WcAdelMde Nexzer

The story thus far: Christine
Sherman. advertising MANAGER for
a cosmetics company, liues with her
1S-year-old sister, Babe, who
studies art under the famous An
tome. Babe breaks her engagement
to John Stanton Uhen Chris and
Phil Emerson, Nth Whom Chris is
in loUe, find him caressing Minna
Emerson, Phirs cousin. John re-
sents PhiPs interference and mhen
he learns that Phil and Chris
stayed all night at a farmhouse
phen their car broke down, his
insinudtions result in Phils losing
his job. Ernest BoScombe, Chris
boss and Uidower, learns the
truth from the farm couple and
drrdnges tuith PhiPs employer for
him to return to Uork. Phil is
grateful to Christine, but the Uall
OF restraint that she had hoped to
see dissolue still remains Babe
quits the studio when Antoine asks
her to marry him.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

IN his face was gone now, and there
were lines on 1t that she longed to
smooth away. The mouth was full
and generous; the chin was stubborn
and determined.
They really should be going, but the
chair was too comfortable, and she
simply could not bulge. The coolness
OF a late summer evening filled the
room. She was more at peace with the
world than she had been for a long
time, and she hated to break the
spell.
"Tired?" His voice was low.
Terribly. I should be on my way
to home and bed, but I hate to move. /"
Her thoughts were sleepy and mud
died, Phil and Ernest Boscombe all
tangled into hazy blur.
Mr.. BOSCoMBE leaned forward.
Huskily. brokenly, he whispered,
You are very sweet, Christine" and
then he was kissing her, his dark head
plotting out all the universe save
the two Of them. His hand trembled
as it lay on hers on the arm of the
chair. Il love you, Christine. I've
loved you since time began, I think,
but I didn't know it until just a little
While ago. My dear, you could make
me very happy man. I adore you"
He was very humble in his alteration,
and ne kissed her hand, gently.
She was thinking of the wife who
had passed away four or five years
ago. She was thinking of the little
boy who needed some one to tell him
to wash his ears. And then she was
thinking of Phil Somehow she be-
longed to him first.
She hesitated. II see," he said blunt
ly. Its your friend Phillip. isn't it?"
oh, no. No! You mustn't say
that. It's just that he-that /"
She stumbled and stopped.
Il understand. You love him, don't
you?"
His face was drawn He asked her
again and again until confused and
shaken, she buried her face in her
hands, the whole evening shattered at
her feet. She did not know what to
say or do.
Instantly he regretted what he had
done. you are tired. I'll drive you
home. But remember, Christine, if ever
you should feel differently, I'll be watt
ing for you"
All that hot Fourth OF July she and
Evening star., 1938-01-22
NEW OPPORTUNITY
IN HOUSING SEEN
Vast Market to Capital and
Industry in Future
Predicted.

Changing ways of life have created,
among many American families, new
housing needs which open q vast new
market to capital and industry, ac-
cording to Charles F. Lewis, director
Of the Buhl Foundation, Pittsburgh.
The planning, ownership and man.
agement OF large-scale rental housing
enterprises invite organization upon
. national scale. is the declaration
made by Mr.. Lewis in an article in
the current issue of the Insured Mort
gage Portfolio, official publication of
the Federal Housing Administration
1t Is pointed out that the spread Of
holdings in many cities will confirm
the security and the stability of the
investment in such enterprises and
that such companies will attract and
hold the finest planning, archi-
tectural and engineering advice.
Mr.. Lewis goes on to point out that
the building of such large-scale hous-
ing enterprises not only offers new
areas for capital investment, but also
opens inviting fields for completely
integrated, nationally operating home
building companies capable Of apply
ing to large-scale construction sound
organization procedures and manage
ment policies. Such companies are
almost certain to be a development
Of the comparatively early future.
Pictures Future.
Here, then," according to Mr..
Y,ouy iy1ucf w, u,o itinr <o
be created, an industry capable of en-
p!oying millions of dollars in con-
struction annually, able to stabilize
employment for large part of the
building trades, and competent 70
make q major contribution to eco
nomic and social security in the
building of cities for the new day,
tricts built and kept blight-proof by
the application of principles tested
and proved in other industries and
other investment fields.
Most of the essentials for far
reaching activity in the building of
large-scale planned communities on
an investment basis are at hand. The
market is here, a market probably
greater and more eager than is yet
realized. Capital in vast volume is
waiting to be put to work
THE chief need today is to i'm
plant an understanding of the new
opportunity and of the new idea more
widely in the minds of those who con-
troll the availability of mortgage credit.
A beginning has already been made
here.
Predicts Awakening.
This is only one evidence OF prog
ress which is constant and cumu-
lative. venture the prediction that
one OF these days, and before long, a
great many men and institutions will
get the idea at the same time. When
that happens there will be competi-
ton. on the part of those who have
money to lend, to finance large-scale
housing enterprises.
"A start already has been made
toward setting up the framework for
financing this new type of housing.
The most useful and the most effective
agency in promoting it has been the
Federal Housing Administration. Its
insurance OF mortgages on such prof.
ects removes virtually every element
OF risk for those who put up the prin-
clpal funds. Recent changes in its
regulations to permit a reasonable
attitude toward the profits which may
be earned by the equity money should
stimulate action"
Evening star., 1938-01-22

the office, the sweltering city, from
Ernest Boscombe. The last thought
surprised her. She would miss his
steady judgment, his confidence.
III do it," she said, quickly, before
she could even begin to consider re-
fusing. They stayed at the Office late
that night. He helped her plan, day
by day, the towns she would cover.
They went through volumes of statis-
tics. gathered samples, made arrange
ments for demonstrators to follow
her. At last the plans were complete,
and they sat back with twin sighs,
surveying the litter on desk and floor
Chris looked at him thoughtfully
He was weary young man; the light
Evening star., 1938-01-22

HERE was her opportunity. Here
was her chance to get away, to
get the right perspective on her prob
lens. Shed do it. Babe could take
care of herself for the time she was
gone.
He hitched forward, crossed his
arms on her desk To-day is the Sd
OF July. That will give you tomor-
row to get ready. I'll buy your ticket
to the first town, and you will handle
1t from there. You leave sometime
on the 5th. I've already started map
ping out the tour for you. You'll be
gone for two or even three months" :"
Three months away from Phil, from
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Babe mended and washed and packed.
Gratefully she kept herself busy,
thankful that she would not see him
until tomorrow. Now more than ever
before would she appreciate going
away. Things were getting far too
complicated.
THAT evening Phil took her out for
one last date before she left. All
their favorite haunts they visited, and
then, at last they stood before the
apartment door. The moment had
come
Chris felt twinge; Mr. Boscombe
had stood here with her only the night
before, silent as she unlocked the door.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

was al he said. But she knew what
he was thinking. ana she blushed. In
ner embarrassment she tore her hands
rudely away and ripped some of the
sweet peas and one Of the gardenias
from her shoulder.
She stuffed them into Buddie,s fist.
saying, These are for you, honey"
and then, unaccountably, she stooped
and kissed him.
They were standing there when the
train pulled away, the little boy sniff
nng the flowers. Babe slipped her arm
through Phil's arm and he glanced at
her, his face as inscrutable as it had
been once before, when Chris had men
toned Babe to him. But Chris did not
notice. She was remembering too
many things, particularly that he had
kissed her last night and that she
loved him with all the strength that
was in her
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Adequate Lighting Advised.

Adequate light at the entrance to q
mouse Is always desirable. Recessed
iignt fixtures, flush with the side OF q
doorway or directly over it will display
tne street number of house advan-
tageously and will prevent the visitor
from stumbling over the steps or walk.
A hghted walk between house and ga.
rage will be found useful.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
DELAY PAPERING
Owners Advised to Wait Until
Plaster Dries.

IT is not wise to paint or paper a
plaster wall in a new house for sew
eral months. 1t should be given a
chance to dry thoroughly before a
final finish is applied.
Because the frame of a house may
settle and shrink during the first few
months, cracks may show up in the
best job of plastering. Damp spots
are likely to appear, too, when mois-
ture forces itself from the plaster, and
both OF these conditions are accentu-
ated when the wall has been finished.
Paper will peel and discolor when the
plaster has not been dried thoroughly.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Monday: Christine unwillingly be-
gins to realize that the hands in
which she left Phil Emerson are not
the safest she might have found.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
SCORE PERISH IN SCHOOL FIRE
CARPENTERS I'M
BRAWLEY SEEK
HIGHER WAGES
CLOSED Shop Demanded
As Men Go Out
On Strike

B R A w L E Y, Jan. 18-
Three carpenters struck to-
day for higher wages and a
"closed shop" during con-
struction of the new Braw-
ley ice plant just outside the city
limits.
Immediately after the men,
members of the carpenters union,
walked off the job, four pickets
took their places in front of the
plant Two of the pickets were
said to be two of the three strik-
ers Other Workmen remained on
the job and construction continued
without interruption.
The strikers demanded $1.12R
cents an hour instead of the 81
an hour they were receiving and
that only union labor be employed
by the builders. Both union and
nom union Workmen are employed
in constructing the building.
AT noon Tuesday union repre-
sentatives had not appeared at
the. plant for a conference regard
ing strikers demands.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
TELLS
HOW HE KILLED
TWO WON EN-
24-Hours of Questioning
Brings Confession of
Weird Crime

MINEOLA, N. Y, Jan. 18.
(UP) - John REQ, slender,
40-year-old fugitive, confess
ed today, after more than
"a hours questioning, that
he killed Mrs. Celinda Waite, SO
year-old widow, and her friend,
Jean Schuellain, 49,
REQ, who was related to Mrs.
Waite by marriage, told his story
to District Attorney Edward j.
Neary of Nassau county. Neary
said that his motive was obscure.
Mrs. Waite and Miss Schuellain
were shot to death in the Waite
home at Elmont, NJ. Y, last We'd
nesday. REQ was found in squalid
rooming house in New York City
Sunday afternoon, and until $40
am. today he had insisted that
be had no knowledge of the crime.
+ REQ told investigators the fol-
lowing story:
At pm. on Jan. II, he arrived
at the Waite home, in which he
had boarded for week during the
latter part of November. Mrs.
Waite admitted him. Miss Schuel-
lain, who had stopped at the home
almost daily with home cooked
food for the widow, was sitting
at the dining room table.
Mrs. Waite denounced REQ for
having departed the day after
Thanksgiving without paying for
his room. That angered him, and
he took a revolver from his pocket
and order both women upstairs.
The women complied. When they
reached the second floor, REQ told
Mrs. Waite TO enter a bedroom.
He ordered Miss Schuellain into
the adjoining room.
Then he went to Mrs. Waite's
room, forced her to lie down and
bound her hands and feet. Re-
turning to the adjoining room, he
made Miss Schuellain sit in
chair and bound her to it. He
then shot her through the temple.
He went back to Mrs. Waite's
room, and shot her-~also through
the head. &c.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18

OF Is QeaQ. Eleven DOdleS were re-
covered from the ruins, including
those of Father Jean Baptiste and
several children Two victims died
in the hospital and a dozen still
were missing.
Authorities said they feared the
deaths might finally total 25.
Twenty persons were in the hos
pital, several of them in serious
condition.
Worst Horror
Church bells reused the town.
folk to the worst horror in St.
.Hyacinthe's history shortly after
a workman discovered the fire at
2 am Hundreds hurried to the
scene to stand helpless, unable to
approach near enough to the blaz-
ing east wing to aid the trapped
pupils who ran hysterically in all
directions along the fire-blocked
corridors.
After the. fire was brought under
control the hySteria continued
among grief-crazed parents whose
sons were among the missing.
Some children escaped by leap
ing from windows or scrambling
Continued on Page 6; Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
YOUTHS HURT
WHEN TWO
CARS CRASH

Three youths suffered slight in
juries when two automobiles collid-
ed 2l2 miles east of Ell Centro
Tuesday morning.
Robert King, 16, driver of one of
the cars, and Robert and Richard
Wyatt, 16-year-old twins. were
treated for slight injuries by DR.,
Warren F. Fox. county health Off
GER, driver of the other car involved
Highway patrolmen said King saw
Fox car about to enter the road
from the driveway in front Of the
Fox home but thought he was not
going to stop. Fox stopped, how
ever and King swerved to avoid
what he thought would be COLI
sion, turning his car over twice in
the barrow pit, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
Three Smallpox
Cases Reported

Three more cases of smallpox were
reported in Westmorland Tuesday,
DR.. Warren F. Fox, county health
officer, said.
Vaccination of Imperial county
still is wise, he said, to avoid spread
of the disease thus far confined to
the north-end districts.
Smallpox was discovered in Nj
land Tuesday for the first time since
the epidemic began. DR.. Fox will
offer vaccination to all INLAND
school children Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
258,OOO Seeking
Work in California

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. CUP)
- Approximately 258,O00 persons
were without employment and de-
sirous of work in California last
November, and over half again as
many were on part-time jobs and
wanted more work to do, unem-
ployment census figures made pub
lie today disclosed.
But three counties in the state,
Alpine, Mono and Sierra counties,
had the number of jobless under
the 100-mark, while Los Angeles
with nearly $4,000 out of work
led all others in the number of
unemployed, the figures revealed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
SUPPORT GIVEN
CHAUT EMPS IN
.CABI N ET TRY

PARIS, Jan. Is. UP)-Camille
Chautemps will attempt tonight to
form an all radical socialist cabinet
on the basis of support voted him
late today by the socialist party.
The difficult ministry of finance
will be handled in the new cabinet
by Deputy Paul Marchandeau, radi-
cal socialist, who succeeds Georges
Bonnet. The latter precipitated the
current crisis by resigning last week
With the support of the socialists,
who have the strongest representa-
ton in the chamber of deputies,
Chautemps probably will go before
parliament On Friday or the fol-
lowing Tuesday to ask a vote of
confidence.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18

curley-headed logger from WaSh-+
ington state. Arrested at a race
track window, gambling part of the
$4,000 ransom. he confessed not
only to killing his victim, but also
his partner in the abduction of
Ross.
J. Edgar Hccver, chief of the
federal bureau of investigation,
came here to handle the case and
announced the confession last night
only after Anders already was on
his way back to Chicago. He re-
fused to say whether the prisoner
went by air or train.
Hoover said Anders made a 90
page confession detailing how he
kidnapped Ross with the aid of
confederate. collected the ransom,
and then shot both men through
the head.
But Hoover made only brief
statement of the confession and re-
fused to elaborate. He made no
mention of a third kidnaper de-
scribed by the victims secretary.
He told no details of how or where
the 72-year- -old Ross was taken or
kept, or of the circumstances that
led Anders to shoot his own aide
as well as the kidnapped man.
Hoover said Anders had a long
criminal record but neither the
FBI chief nor his aides would re-
veal it. Hoover shrugged off all
inquiries and went to bed.
The secrecy, unusual even in the
close -mouthed G-men. brought re-
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
FATHER, SON
DIE TOGETHER
FOR MURDER

STATE PRISON, Boston. JAN
18. CUP)-F'rank Di Stasio, who
refused to attempt to save his son
because II love him so much that
I don't want to leave him behind
died with the youth early today in
the electric chair-the first father
and-son execution in Massachu-
sets history.
Slender. sad-eyed Anthony Di
Stasio, 25, muttering prayer,
shuffled into the death chamber
at 1908 am.
His 55-year-old father entered
at 1910 am. +---
MY son is innocent know he
is" Di Stasio told Attorney Will
liam R. Scharton in a last inter-
view, but I won't save him by
taking full responsibility. I love
my son SO much that I don't want
to leave him behind me-"
Di Stasio died as the murderer
of Daniel M. Crowley. in May,
1885, in an attempt to collect $12,500
insurance. Anthony was convicted
as an accessory.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
AUTOISTS PAY
$35,6OO FOR
NEW PLATES

Motor vehicle owners in Imperial
county paid $35,687.38 over the
counter at Highway patrol head
quarters for new license plates dur
ing the first two weeks of the an
nual renewal period.
The renewal period will close Feb
4, Captain Frank Oswalt announced
Tuesday. Thereafter a penalty of
double the original fee will be col
lected for the plates.
Highway patrol headquarters in
the basement of the county court
house will be open Saturday after
moons during the renewal period
The office is open everv day but
Sunday from 9 am. until pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18

Roger Leslay, four-year-o son
of Marvin, was the only child on
the farm to escape death. Seine
said the child apparently was over
looked when Lawrence went to
his brothers home on the death
mission.
Seline said Lawrence and his
wife apparently had planned the
mass murder carefully.
Mrs. Marvin Leslay told the sher-
iff that the shooting began as her
Continued on Page 6; Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
TONI
SLAIN IN ACT

WINSLOW, Ariz., Jan. 18. CUP)-
Police reported today Lane Cross,
government radio operator, shot and
killed Bonifacio Olivia when the
latter assertedly was caught in a
"Peeping Tom" act at the Lane
home here.
Police said Cross, radio operator
at the airport here, told them he
heard o noise on the west side of
his house about Ills am. and look
ed out to see man crouching near
the window. and opened fire when
the man fled.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-18
NEW VALLEY
FIRE STATION
OPENED UP

Sub-station No. /. Ell Centro's new
fire headquarters for the east side
of town, opened for business Tues
day with equipment ready to handle
calls on the east side of the railway
tracks.
Men and equipment were installed
at the new building Monday and
everything was in readiness Tues
day morning, Fire Chief Tom Reams
announced.