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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-08
CHAPTER vi

Hello, Joey" There was no
cordially In Dawson's greeting.
Listen, Dawson--what's the
idea of sending that dumb Flynn
down to my place In the middle of
the night-just when my party
was
IT doubt II you met Mr.. Al
ston, joey" Dawson interrupted.
Mr.. Aston, this Is Joey di Torio.
owner Of the Club Chateau. You've
probably been there"
Aston rose to acknowledge
Joey's nod. Neither man made any
move 10 shake hands.
IF you don't mind, Captain
Dawson, I'd like to get some sleep"
Aston said. III can"
Go right ahead. Mr.. Aston"
Dawson agreed. you probably
need IT,"
swouid you mind II I ordered
some sleeping tablets? I left home
hurriediy and forgot to take one
Tell Flynn to get YOU some
Mr.. Aston" He waited as Alstor
moved slowly across the room, oul
Of the door, then called after him
Good night" But Aston appar
entity did not hear. Dawson turned
back TO di Torio.
"Cigar, Joey?" He offered Ben
thorne's box of perfectoes. D
Torio took one. lighted 1t, puffet
! vigorously. For q moment boil
men sat, smoking. saying nothing
waiting.
Di Torio belied the popular con
ception Of . gangster. He wa
small, and HE italian ancestry evi
denced itself In his black. dartinI
syes. and dark complexion. HI
clothes were wen tailored and b
wore them like q model. He locke
more like . musician or = gigol
than . killer.
Il Listen, Dawson, I've got wor
to do. Joey began at last. Il wa
just getting ready to close whe
Flynn comes in and says you want
I'd to zee me. He said Arnol
1 Benthorns had been killed. I trie
to tell him that haven't been out
side Of the Chateau al evening bu
he wouldn't Iisten. Said 20
wanted to talk to me and that We
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} SERIAL STORY
5 WOULD KILL
BY TOM HORNER eerrs,
COPYRIGHT. 1888.
NEA SERVICE. INC.

that. What do you want, Daw-
son ?"
You knew Arnold Benthorne
pretty well, Joey?" Dawson asked
slowly.
"Sure, / knew him. Half the
night clubs In town knew Ben
thorne by his first name. He used
to come to the Chateau a lot. But
I didn't know he was dead until
Flynn told me. Why pick on me p
Weren't you and Benthorne as
sociated"-Dawson paused at the
word-"in business together once ?"
Yes" Joey's answer came slow
ly. But that was back in pro-
hibition days. You can't dig back
that far to pin a charge on me"
"What was this business. Joey ?"
"Benthorne backed my first
speakeasy. You used to get free
drinks there yourself. Benthorne
bought q yacht cheap. ran the stuff
In from the Bahamas and / UNI
loaded It. Benthorne was smart
too. He always stayed outside the
limit--made me take all the risks.
you haven't had much to dc
with him since them" Dawson
queried.
"Only as q customer. Wher
liquor went legal. Benthorne de-
cided there was no quick money
In 1t, and we dissolved our-oul
partnership" Di Torio pursed hi
mouth. devoted his attention tc
smoke rings.
You're lying, joey" Dawson
said calmly. "You and Benthorn'
never dissolved your partnership.
You and Benthorne have beer
mixed up in half the rackets II
this town.
You and Benthorne have beel
running the numbers game her
for three years. Last year yo'
branched out into narcotics. You'v
got agents In Chicago, Kansa
City, Denver and San Francisco
within the last six months you'v
arranged to smuggle 200 alien
, over the Canadian border at $500
, head. You've"
Di Tories face was white. hi
calm. self assurance shattered
How did you known"
"Benthorne had the habit
keeping records-private records
Joey. He had little book in HI
desk here. You thought 1t was !
the safe. didn't you. Joey? Der
thorne guessed that. and kept
Continued on Page Is. Column 8
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Holly, red ribbon and boxes OF
candy-that's one Of
the first signs Of Christmas. So
let's start December with a few
notes on this sweet subject
Chocolate Nut Fudge
Makes is large pieces)
TWO squares unsweetened ehooo-
late. = cup milk. 2 cups sugar.
dash of salt, 2 tablespoons butter.
teaspoon vanilla. l cup broken
nut meats.
Add chocolate to milk and place
over low flame. Cook until mix
ture Is smooth and blended. stir
ring constantly. Add sugar and
salt, and stir until sugar Is dis
solved and mixture boils- Con-
tinue boiling. without stirring. ur-
Ill a small amount of mixture
forms a very soft ball In cold
water. Remove from fire. Add
butter and vanilla. Cool TO luke
warm (110 degrees F.). then beat
until mixture begins to thicken and
loses its gloss. Add broken nut
meats just before turning into pan.
Turn at once into CREASED pan
sx4 inches. When cold, cut In
squares.
Almond Butter Crunch
Makes about IL pounds)
One cup butter, / cup sugar, N
cup finely chopped cashew nuts,
lightly toasted, 4 squares candy
dipping chocolate.
Add the butter to sugar in a
saucepan. Place over low flame
and stir constantly until sugar is
dissolved. Cook until a small
amount of mixture becomes very
brittle In cold water, stirring oc-
sionally to prevent scorching. Add
u cup nuts. Pour into lightly
buttered pan, sxsx2 inches. Cool.
Heat chocolate over boiling water
until partly melted, then remove
from boiling water and stir rapidly
until entirely melted. Spread n
of chocolate over top and sprinkle
with u of remaining nuts. Cool
until chocolate is firm. Invert
crunch and cover with remaining
chocolate. Sprinkle with remain
ing nuts. Cool until chocolate is
firm. Break In small irregular
pieces.
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Homemade Candy
Christmas FaUOrite

Holly. red ribbon and boxes Of
homemade candy-that's one Of
the first signs Of Christmas. So
let's start December with a few
rot.s ~, fhia svveef z4ihfect.
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Devotion to Memory
Is Often Overdone
Second Wife Unhappy Because Husband
Apparently Lives Only In the Past
By CYNTHIA GREY

Dear Miss Grey: The problem am bringing to you may
selfish one but nevertheless II is of importance TO
and hoping that you of readers help
with any suggestions must admit that far haven't
seemed able approach the matter intelgently myself
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Below are the answers to test
questions printed on the editorial
page.
/. South America.
2. Conchology.
8. Thirty-five years.
4. The same body will weigh
slightly more at the poles.
5. Kon-fla-grant; not kon-flag'-
rant.
6. Royal flush.
Z. Billy Rose.
s. South America.
Q. Bolivia.
10. Red, yellow and green.
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II you're not using it, sell 1t with
a Fast-Action Times Want Ad.
Call Main 1851.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
80-Mi|e-an-Hour Chase
Ends in Smashup

An 80-mile-an-hour police chase
of suspected car thief was climaxed
early today by crash at Nichols
avenue and S street Sc. which vir-
tually demolished the pursued auto
mobile and damaged a parked taxi
cab.
The suspect, a 20-year- Wash
ington youth, escaped injury and
was locked up at the 11th precinct
for investigation.
The pursuit began when Motor
Cycle Officer R. w. Davis spotted a
new sedan with South Carolina
license plates at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Thirty-flrst street Sc. and
observed the driver acting suspici-
ously.
The sedan picked up speed when
the policeman dropped behind it
and soon was careening through
streets at 80 miles per hour, the off,
Ger reported.
Roaring into the right angle turn
at Nichols and S, the car smashed
into taxicab, owned by Harris
Lackey, 1914 S street Sc, bounded
off and plunged into tree. The
driver climbed from the twisted
wreckage unhurt.
Police said the youth told them
his parents lived here and that he
took the car in Greenville, s. c. No
lookout had been received here for
the machine, police reported.
Evening star., 1939-08-25

elder Underwood, cautioning the boy
to return home Immediately, went
across the street to buy a package
OF cigarettes.
AS he emerged from the COM
munity store few moments later,
he saw a large crowd gathered at a
nearby street intersection, ran to the
scene and found his injured son
lying in the roadway.
Allen was taken to Casualty Hos
pital by the Bladensburg Rescue
Squad and died shortly after arrival.
A search for a black sedan-the
only description of the hit-and-run
car that could be obtained-was in
stituted by Prince Georges County
and Washington police.
Bus and Auto Collide.
Meanwhile, collision between a
Capital Transit bus and an automo-
bile at Ninth and P streets NV. re-
suited in injuries to four persons,
all passengers in the automobile.
The injured were:
Julius Wilson, 6, of 2707 Eleventh
street NV, broken right leg; Doran
johnson, 48, of the Eleventh street
address, shock; Valard Smith, AZ, of
1918 Seventh street NV, serious
cuts and abrasions, and Josie Wilson,
a. also of the Eleventh street ad-
dress, minor injuries. The victims,
all colored, were treated at Enier-
gency Hospital.
Police said the bus was operated
by Seldom Durrer, 81, of 5O4 Thir-
teenth street NE. Mr.. Smith was
listed as the driver of the automo-
bile. No one was arrested.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Hit-Run Driver
Kills Boy, 9,
In Greenbe|t
Tragedy Is First
FutuI Traffic Accident
In Model Town

Thrilled at the prospect of his first
bicycle ride in weeks, 9-year old
Allen F. Underwood, son of a Navy
Yard worker, went for trip around
the block last night and met death.
A hit-and-run motorist crashed
into the youngster near his home in
Greenbelt, Md, and fled from the
scene with the bicycle entangled in
the cars bumper. Police found the
bicycle some time later on a dirt
road several miles from the scene
OF the accident. Allen died an hour
after the accident at Casualty Hos
pital.
1t was the first traffic fatality in
Greenbelt, the Governments model
community which was planned with
an elaborate system of pedestrian
underpasses to protect children.
The child who was killed was a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard A..
Underwood, who live at c South
way. He was given the bicycle by
an uncle some time ago, but for sew
eral weeks it had been put up await
Ing repairs
Finds Son Injured.
Yesterday it was fixed, and after
dinner Allen, sitting in front of the
Underwood home with his father,
implored the latter to let him go
for ride 'just around the block"
Mr.. Underwood finally gave his
consent and Allen set out. The
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Service
Staff 10 Come Under
Civil Service
Non Competitive Tests
In Prospect for
Nearly 700

Nearly TOO employees of the United
States Employment Service, who
have been brought into the Social
Security Board through reorganiza-
ton, will get civil service by nom
competitive examination, the Civil
Service Commission announced last
night.
Only few experts and attorneys
among the 685 persons in the EN-
ployment Service are exempt.
''The commission" statement
explained, finds that in the trans
fer of the Employment Service to
the Social Security Board the func-
tions and positions of the Employ
ment Service have been so COM
pletely integrated and merged with
those of the board that it is now i'm
possible to identify the positions re-
lating to the work of the former
United States Employment Service,
either on the basis of the duties of
positions or on the basis Of appro-
priations from which the positions
are paid.
"The commission has therefore
ruled that the positions transferred
from the Employment Service to the
board must be held subject to the
laws governing employment of per-
sonnel in the Social Security Board
generally. All positions in the board
except those of attorneys and ex-
perts are subject to the Civil Serv-
ice Act and rules"
Approximately 500 of the employees
affected are on duty here.
The board now is part of the
Federal Security Agency.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Catholic Student Congress
Delegates 10 Visit CAPITAL

Three hundred foreign delegates
TO the Catholic World Student Con-
gress will come to Washington Sum
Gay for six-day stay at Catholic
University before leaving for New
York September to attend con-
gress sessions at Fordham Univer-
sity.
The congress, known as the Pax
Romano, was formed soon after
the World War by Catholic students
IN neutral European countries for
the purpose of gathering representa-
tlves of other nations into world
meetings to work for international
understanding and good will.
The foreign delegates will land in
New York in time for a reception
at Manhattanville College, Convent
avenue and 133d street, on Sunday.
The delegates will leave that night
for Washington.
The congress will close at Ford
nam University September 8.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
175C.C.C. EnroI|ees
Will Be Baptized
In Capital Sunday
ouI-Sovine Compoien
Of Army Reserve
Coptoin Beers Fruit

A hundred and seventy-five COL
ored Civilian Conservation Corps en-
rollees in the Washington area,
some Of them as far away as Gettys-
burg, Pa, and Fredericksburg, Va,
will be baptized Sunday in the Soul
Saving Campaign" of Capt. William
B. Marsh, Army Reserve chaplain,
now on active duty.
The men have been converted
through sermons preached in the
camps by Capt. Marsh and through
his heart-to-heart talks with them.
The baptizing will be held Sunday
in the swimming pool of the Francis
Junior High School, Twenty sixth
and N streets NV, where the en-
rollees will wear their regular C. C.
c. uniforms for the ceremony.
Although Capt. Marsh is Baptist,
many of those baptized Sunday will
not become Baptists, but by being
baptized will merely be accepting
Christ, preparatory to joining what
ever denomination they choose, it
was explained. The plan is for them
to actually join churches at their
respective homes, many of which are
in nearby States.
Capt. Marsh has been chaplain
to colored enrollees of the c. G. c.
since 1885 and since 1887 has been
located in the Washington area.
His territory takes in nine camps,
including one in Gettysburg and
one in Fredericksburg. He visits
each camp three times a month.
Last year, for the first time, he
conducted the "soul-saving cam
paign," and, impressed with its sue
cess. started this years campaign
in June.
The Rev. j. E. Morris. assistant
pastor of the Rehoboth Baptist
Church here, will assist Capt. Marsh
in the baptizing. Capt. March lives
here at 534 Twenty-first street NE.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Transit Company Families
Bring Rush Hour to Glen Echo
Youngsters Set Lively Pace for
Pop and Nom at Annual Outing

years ago. They'll all be running
underground some Of these days" he
predicts for the transit future.
Contests progressed all over the
place. The woman folk drove nails
for prizes, while the men plucked
clothespins from line with their
teeth and raced helter-skelter to
home plate with repeated mouthfuls.
Champion nail-driver was Mrs.
Anita Anderson, robust young ma
tron, who attributed her prowess
with the hammer to her ability to
handle nails. -
Holds Nails in Teeth.
Most of the girls held the extra
nails IN their hands" she commented
after an easy victory. That's no
way to drive 'em. I hold 'em in my
teeth" She stayed in practice by
making flower boxes and otherwise
carpentering around the house, she
revealed.
The most clothespins were snagged,
dental-fashion, from the line by 16-
year-old Bob Durrett, who was the
first to admit that pulling clothes
pins was not exactly his daily
routine.
II guess maybe it's because have
such a big mouth" he stated,
clutching handful of the laundry
mans best friends and sporting q
winners smile.
And into the night the trolley
troupe played, dancing in the ball
room, shooting in the galleries,
shouting in the loony houses and,
above all, riding-riding with some
body else, or nobody, doing the steer
ing.
IT your bus driver absent minded
ly dropped a dime in the slot today
you can bet his free roller-coaster
tickets gave out during the party.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Teaching Personnel
For Montgomery
Is Announced
467 Are Appointed
For White and 20
CoIored Schools
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 25.-The
Montgomery County Board Of Edu-
cation has appointed 467 teachers
for the AZ white and 20 colored
public schools of the county during
the school year which begins next
month, according to DR.. Edwin w.
Broome, county superintendent of
schools.
The white schools will require AIT
teachers and the colored schools so.
Bethesda Chevy Chase High and
Leland Junior High will have "a
each; Montgomery Blair. 27; Gath
ersburg High, 26; Richard Mont
gomery High and Takoma- Silver
Spring Junior High, each 25; Sher-
wood High, %; Damascus High and
Bethesda Elementary, each 1S, and
the others from to II. The COM
plete list follows:
Bethesda Chevy Chase High.
Thomas w. Pyle, principal; F. H.
Evans, Rebecca Fields. Anna Kupka,
Florence Black, Cora D. Sasser,
Doris Stowe, Leland Williams, Ken
meth Petrie. r. Victor Cooney, Loris
Williams, Mary B. Mohler, Susan
Boyer, Angela Darby, Leonora Aiken,
Susan S. Root, ARIA McGinnis,
Catherine E. Waybright, Lillian G.
Moore, Kathryn M. Terhune, Kayte
E. Womac, Lorraine Hatfield, Berna-
dette Sheehan, Albert w. Bender,
Kenneth Frisbie, Edna Goodwin,
Raymond Dugan, Katherine B.
Creamy, Dorothy Young, Edward E.
Hayes, Clara Mae Tarbett, Frances
Rumsey, Allen Voght and Bell w.
McGinnis. Christine Hurley, clerk.
Leland Junior High.
Helen Bready, principal; Nannette
Elms, Franklin Lehr, Julia Milliken,
Janice Green, Rose B. Hranac, Ruth
B. Smith, Janet Broadbent, Elaine
Tenny, Edmund Burke, Rosa B.
Moss, Helen Pyles, Alice P. Burhoe,
Virginia Mullinix, Helen Bender,
Cora Bowen, Marie Partridge, Annie
M. Miner, Maude r. Duvall, Mary
c. Fisher, Elizabeth Mcdonald, Ruth
Wilhide, Winifred Sherwood, Alfred
johnson, Katherine Kesler, Mary
Margaret Ferry, Margaret Thornton,
Nellie M. Davidson, Bessie G. San
ders, Florence Rice, j. Wesley Num-
ford, E. Paul Steigner, Charles M.
Arnold and Mary Kingdom. Har-
riett Hartnett, clerk.
Bethesda Elementary.
Ruth B. Clapp, principal; Eliza
beth Robertson, Lefty Souder, Lii
lian Ellington, Phyllis Ridgely,
Grace Murphy, Mary A. Warren,
Miriam Smith, Emily Lehr, Nell R.
Macgill, Helen Mcintyre. Virginia
Rudasill, Augusta Forsythe, Gretha
w. Dugan, Natalie r. Higbie,
Maryetta Nichols, Thelma Thomas
and Esther Kincheloe.
Chevy Chase Elementary.
Anna Rose, principal; Caroline
Fell, Ocie Dodd, Catherine Carl,
Mary Singles, Mabel Heavener, Mary
A. Howe, Hazel Phillips, Zaidee
Du Pre-, Frances D. Mclean, Mildred
Smoot, Ruth DAILY, Alice S. Fey,
Katherine Kenny, Glendora E.
Needy. Carolyn Warner and Athlyn
Waller.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Early, 50 Sunday,
Gets Presidents
Congratulations

President Roosevelt today person.
ally congratulated Stephen Early Of
the White House secretariat, who
will celebrate his 50th anniversary
Sunday.
In doing this at his press confer
ence, the President assured Steve"
that the fifties are fine and that
he would feel younger after his 50th
birthday. Mr.. Roosevelt went on
to say that he himself is 81 years
old, but feels younger than he did
when he reached the half-century
mark.
l One of the correspondents, on
esring this, replied, You might
Il better being over so, but I don't"
e President laughingly replied
It he was just trying to make
eve" feel better.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Two Navy Contracts
For Work Here Are Let

Two Navy Department contracts
were awarded today for work at
naval establishments in the Wash
ington area.
A $55,8 contract for landscaping
and fencing of the experimental
model basin at Carderock, Nd, near
Glen Echo, was awarded to the Eid-
son Landscape Co, Bala, Pa. It is
to be completed within 80 days.
Another contract of $90,055 for
enlargement of storehouses at the
Bellevue Naval Magazine in Wash
ington was awarded to Victor Con-
structors, Inc, New York City. The
company was allowed 100 days for
finishing the job.
A third contract, for the barracks
building at the Pearl Harbor Navy
Yard, involving $242 ZOO, was award
ed to w. S. Ching of Honolulu.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
State official and Wife
Are Injured in Virginia
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEESBURG, Va, Aug. 25.-Com-
monwealth's Attorney and Mrs.
Charles F. Harrison of Leesburg were
seriously injured last nighs when
their automobile ano "a truck COL
Idsd on the Washington highway
about II miles east of Leesburg.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison were
brought to the Loudoun County
Hospital for treatment.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
Is [R.-Turner Clatterbuck, 80, of
Culpeper, died yesterday at Uni
versity Hospital of multiple injuries
received in an automobile accident
on Route 20 near here Sunday night
He had been paralyzed since the
accident.
Paul Brown, 49-year-old Virginia
Beach water department employe
was struck and killed yesterday at
Virginia Beach by a hit-and-run
driver.
Evening star., 1939-08-25

Sons and daughters of street car
and bus conductors got dose of the
old mans rush-hour medicine yes
terday afternoon-and liked it.
Snakelike lines of youngsters
wound through the open spaces at
Glen Echo Park. awaiting free rides
on the roller coaster, whip and fly
ing Jenny. while ma and pa hung
around the picnic lunches beneath
the shade trees of the amusement
park.
1t was the day of the annual Cap
ital Transit Employees Relief Asso-
citation outing, and the program
brought giggles of hilarity from
10000 members of company en-
ployes' families. If they had al
lowed standing room only on the
rides. the lines waiting at the stops
would have reached just as far.
Ten thousand benefiters, six thou
sand Of them children, lined every
corner of the park. Dad nibbled
friend chicken, while MON tended to
the baby and little brother got lost.
Grizzled old-timers walked around
with knowing CLEANS in their eyes,
mingled joyously with the kids until
their noses got too red, then sat
down to glasses of lemonade and a
rest.
Horse Car Driver There.
John F. Neidfeldt, 75-year- old
picnicker, who steered horse cars
over the tracks for the old Metro
politan Railway Co.. had a rowdier
time than his grandchildren, several
OF whom were in evidence at the
party.
Mr.. Neidfeldt allowed he never
laid a whip on pony" during the
'90s and never got beat on q car
schedule" until his retirement three
Evening star., 1939-08-25
New Attempt to Evict
Lovenbein Ordered

The real estate agent for the
District Commissioners was under
orders from Corporation Counsel
Elwood H. Seal today to file q new
case in Municipal Court for the
eviction of Samuel Lovenbein, lessee
of the Municipal Center parking lot.
Mr.. Lovenbein won at least a
temporary victory over the Com
missioners Wednesday when deputy
marshals, sent, to serve a writ of
restitution, accepted his certified
check for $2,400 in back rent and
$2.85 in court costs and withdrew.
The Corporation Counsel followed
this up yesterday with an order for
the H. L. Rust Co. to seek a new
eviction order In Municipal Court.
Evening star., 1939-08-25
Book Shop Association
Will HoI d Picnic

Members of the Book Shop Asso-
citation, a consumers cooperative.
will hold their first annual picnic
tomorrow afternoon and night at
Shark Tooth Bluff, Md, on the Po-
tomac River.
A motor caravan will leave for the
picnic at 2:30 pm. from the asso-
cations shop at 916 Seventeenth
street NV. Games and swimming
will occupy the afternoon, and
there will be dancing in the evening.