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Evening star., 1939-01-22

YOU. You know that shall never feel
for anyone else like that But I've got
to live that life Don't you see:'
She saw He had to entertain peo-
pie she did not know, in circles she
had never moved in . 10 carry
off situations in which she would be
all at sea, because she hadn't had the
training for it.
One could face it. There would still
be the work. 1t would not be easy to
readjust, but it would be possible.
I'VE must always be friends, you
and l" she whispered. Good friends
She went back to the office on Mon
day, her head high. She carried on.
No one knew, save John Britain.
She took her holiday and went right
away. When she got back the wedding
was all over She had pulled herself
together, and taught herself to look at
life out of a new window. They would
have friendship. Life wasn't ideal any
longer, but it wasn't too bad. She
could manage Walter was glad to see
her. They took up the work where
they had laid it down. But she made
it plain from the first it was now on an
impersonal basis.
Life went on. Not ideal, but it
might have been worse There had
been a wreck, but she had managed to
save something =.
Autumn, and all the countryside
red and gold. Laurelle liked Autumn.
Liked the damp smell of it and the
peace. One day she opened the sitting
room door, and saw, by the light OF
the fire, Walter sitting in his usual
place. The air was filled with the smell
of his pipe smoke.
why Walter. Is anything wrong!'
Domestic matters fitted through
her head. Sickness and doctors. She
pulled off her hat and threw it onto
the table, running her fingers care
lessly through her hair. In world of
the neat and painted of unnatural
shapes and posed little hats, she had
remained just simple and natural.
the sort of woman pack of children
would come running to with their
troubles Walter held out his hand.
'Nothing's the matter. darling
Only that I've come to you. Sonias
gone to the south of France for bit.
And I'm lonely and miserable for you.
Laurelle It's been too long. darling
Far, far too long
She stared at him. She faced the
fact that somewhere. battened down
inside her, had been the fear OF this.
''No, Walter! No!' Though things
had been horrible in the past, they
had been bearable. One could get
through But this was not bearable
1t was terrible. He was still like
tiger. in his way. But now it was
poor shabby tiger, grown turtlve. A
tiger in a circus, that has exchanged
its birthright for punctual joints of
meat. She shivered. mo, Walter. Mo-.
His voice went on. pleading:
Don't be silly. darling. You know
it's you and me. To the end OF time.
Yes. She knew. To the end of time,
and after But not like this She moved
away, putting the table between
them.
but you know / don't love her,
he said, sullenly. She saw again that
threadbare look.
"You mustn't say that. You mustn't
tell me-" E
OF all the things that had happened
to her, she knew this was the ultimate
disaster. To lose him to another
woman, that had been bearable. But
to feel ashamed for him was to lose
him in way she could not bear TO
her he had always been on a grand
scale. Noble. The tiger And he wasn't,
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come off. The careful man, plotting,
arranging things.
She could not bear it. She turned
and went away. Went out OF her own
house into the night, walking bare
headed under trees from which the
leaves fell softly on her like golden
tears, sorry that life must come to this.
The song was ended.
She pulled the curtains back and
looked out at the sea. Satin smooth,
ilver-spattered with stars like a part
of the American flag. She wished she
had had the energy to 60 to America
and start all over again. A new life
in new country. But she had neither
the energy nor the cash. Besides. her
heart was quite empty. She had never
been the kind who can live entirely
for herself. Eight days" she thought.
~ have eight days Perhaps seven"
Better not leave it too long.
1t did not seem on the whole to be
a very amusing voyage. The ship was
empty There was some sort OF an
accident in one of the cabins, that
harassed the Captain. and kept both
Lady Harbnger and Miss Maladise
away most of the time. Laurelle found
herself doomed to innumerable tete-a-
tete meals with the young man, Erren
Steere.
The young man, Erren Steere. un-
fortunately. did not improve with
time. His hand continued unsteady.
his eye continued CLASSY, and he sat
chasing food round his plate. 1t was
not very difficult to guess what the
trouble was with him.
If it had made him happy, Laurelle-
could have understood it. If he had
come down hilarious and full OF good
cheer. one might just have laughed.
1t didn't. Mostly he stared at the
cloth in front of him, sunk in gloom.
He seemed to try and mss them all at
meal times. Laurclle had seen him
standing at the door. pcerlng to see
who was there before he came in. He
did not seem to mind her.
1t was a pity, she thought. He was
a nice young man. and pots of money,
so they SAID. He would ruin his health
L. chic TIn lDnknd
already far from well. But it was no
business of hers. She left him to
himself. Only one day as they sat
alone together at lunch, she could
bear his helpless fumbllngs no more.
Saying, Let me do it, she took his
knife and fork from HIM. and cut up
his partridge as if he had been child. >
He seemed taken aback. He turned
his face to her, and for moment she
thought he was going to flare out at
her. He didn't He thanked her
humbly. She looked at him again.
touched. and somehow sorry for him.
Perhaps he also had thoughts that
came nuttering around like bats. and
had to be shushed off somehow, and
this was the only way he could think
OF dong it. She never saw him between
meals. She walked the decks alone.
went early to her cabin. =
Going down early to dress one
night, she saw HIM standing out in the
alleyway, a towel round his hand, lie
was pccring about in his vague fashion.
'Is anything wrong?" she asked.
i've c-cut my hand. Sh-shaving.
And | cant find anything.
The stewards we're all below. She
said, LET me help
The wild disorder of his cabin horrl-
fed her. Everything thrown all over
the place. An evening shirt. blood
stained down the front. lay crumplcd
on the bed
There was nasty cash on the in
side of his finger. but nothing she
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Evening star., 1939-01-22
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
THE EMPTY HEART
Continued from pose seven

her own, high amongst the chimney
pots. Here the simplicity OF her HE
contrasted oddly with her days with
Walter.
She did everything for him, ar
ranged his parties, ordered his clothes,
paid his bills, sent flowers to the right
women, at the correct moment.
If she had had any sense she would
have realized sooner what was afoot.
He kept on sending flowers to Soma
Crambourne. Sonia was the chair
mans only daughter. She had been
the most beautiful debutante OF her
year. To send flowers to the chair
mans daughter seemed merely an
astute move of good organizer.
Walter was so sweet to her. He said,
on one of their anniversaries, Fifteen
years, darling. Before you know, 1t
will be our silver wedding. What shall
give you, on our silver wedding
day." And he bent and kissed her.
But it had begun to get just little
uncomfortable, with John Britain. OF
late he looked at her, question IN his
eyes. Once he said to her, Aren't you
and Walter
She laughed, up in arms, protecting
Walter
''Im not the marrying kind. John,
she said quietly. If he liked to think
Walter had asked her and she had put
him off, SO much the better, Walter
had his reasons. She was content to
love him and bide his time. She wasn't
going to poster him, to make demands
as any ordinary woman. ..
The chairman gave an annual
musical party. Terrible affairs, those
musical parties. Not one guest in ten
knew the difference between God save
the weasel and pop goes the Queen,
said Walter.
"You must make me out list OF
suitable remarks, Laurelle, to deal out
after each item. Charming! How
very delightful! hear the Old Man
has produced a savage Scotswoman
with a rumblng contralto What are
you going to wear? Wear your silver
frock with the scarlet shawl. | love
you in that. You look like the Lady of
Shallot."
The Scotswoman turned out to be
sad thin woman, who accompanied
herself on the harp. At the first chord
Laurelle knew what was coming. The
poignant words of the Queens lament
filled the room:
''Oh, low, my lutte.
We fade and are forsaken
And almost Immediately, it seemed.
remembering it afterwards, voice
behind her said, when is the engage
ment going to be announced?"
Someone said, 'Here's Miss Rose.
. Ask her. She knows everything about
Walters plans Miss Rose. when is
this engagement between Walter and
Sonia going to be announced?'
She was proud to recall that she
never batted an eyelld. She went on
smiling If she changed color nc. one
noticed. She inferred that she knew
all about it but it was still secret.
1t happened on Saturday. She
needn't face the office till Monday.
BY then she would have herself in
hand. She did not weep. She had no
Mysteries.
She knelt in front of her fire, the
next day, feeling cold. So terribly
cold. If she could only understand.
There must be a reason, an answer.
Walter wasn't the sort of person to do
such thing without reason. She
saw him, splendid, golden. tawny, the
tiger Hers so completely. At noon the
door opened and he came in.
He knelt beside her, wretched as
she was. And she saw for the first
time. how suddenly his wild tawny
look had faded He was still like.
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mere IlluSl DC q ICdSOIl, al diio"Si
Walter wasn't the sort of person to do
such a thing without reason. She
saw him, splendid, golden. tawny, the
tiger Hers so completely. At noon the
door opened and he came in.
He knelt beside her, wretChed as
she was. And she saw for the first
time. how suddenly his wild tawny
look had faded. He was still like.
tiger, but the splendor had gone. He
looked almost frightened.
She said over and over, "If only
you'd told me"
He said, over and over, But
thought you knew. thought you
understood. It's got to be that way.
They meant it from the start. That's
why l got the raise and not John. |
thought you knew I've got to do the
thing properly, keep that sort of
house, entertain. It's part of the job.
/ don't like it."
She tried to laugh. The dreadful
little sound frightened him.
"Oh, don't. my darling Don't"
He knelt beside her, and never, it
seemed, had they been closer together.
please try to understand, Laurelle.
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BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 6.-Science moved
closer to tracing the actual begin
ming of human life within mothers
womb today when 1t recorded. the
discovery of complete. fertilized
12-day human ovum, described by
its discoveries as the youngest,
intact, normal human egg" that is
known in the world.
Drs. Arthur. T. Hertig and John
Rock. both of Boston, who reported
the startling discovery. declared in
an interview the finding not only
furnished light on a period of life
which has been a relative blank. ="
but also paved the way for new re-
search in the field of human repro
duction-such as determining factors
interfering with human fertility
and factors contributing toward the
death of unborn infants"
The scientists. who disclosed their
finding at the 55th annual meeting
of the American Association of
anatomists. declared it was con-
ceivable this normal ovum-in size
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Finding Of 12-Doy Human Egg
NAV Help Solve Fetal Riddles

about half as large as the head Of
common pin-would aid toward
the determination of the causes Of
many human miscarriages as
ISOLATED with abnormal ova."
up to now" they said, I'VE have
been able only to guess at what
takes place during the first IL days
of human ebryonic development
through analogies with comparable
ova in other mammals. Science has
isolated several other early human
ova, but those near the 12-day stage
were either not intact, or were i'm
properly preserved"
Their specimen, discovered before
pregnancy could have been deter
mined, was found in womb tissue
necessarily removed at an operation.
The ovum was at the stage, 1t was
explained. just after it had become
imbedded in the wall of the womb
and had begun ito tap the reser-
voirs of the mothers body"
Thus. they explained, knowledge
could be obtained of the origin of
certain delvelopmental details that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

screen at the entrance to the Great
Choir was dedicated as 4 memorial
to Frederick Walters Huidekoper
and Anna Virginia Christie Huide-
koper. Bishop Freeman was assisted
by the Very Rev. Noble c. Powell,
dean OF the Cathedral.
Those in attendance included
Frederick Louis Huidekoper ana
Reginald Shipper Huidekoper. who
erected the wood carving in memory
of their parents,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Bishop Dedicotes
Huidekoper Memorial

Right Rev. James e. Freeman
Bishop Of Washington, conducted q
special service yesterday afternoon
at which the newly-installed Rood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

We now know something about,
but have not traced to their begin
nings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Vondenbere's Secretary
Is Critically III

Miss Marguerite Doyle, secretary
to Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
was reported critically i'll at her
apartment in the Dodge Hotel today
Evening star., 1939-06-14
French Names On Perfumes
Misleading, F. 7. c. Told
But Bosic Ingredients Are Imported,
Houbigonts Counsel Argues

Mr.. Mock said this practice OF
importing piecemeal was begun in
1920 to beat the American tariff
laws, which put a steep duty on
perfume. The customs tax on per-
fumery containing alcohol under
the Smoot- Hawley tariff of 1880 is
40 cents pound and IS per cent
ad valorem. Without the alcohol
the tariff is IS per cent ad valorem.
Methods Called Unfair.
When the company contended
that the addition of the alcohol
does not lessen the fact that the
perfume is French product, Mr..
Teu said:
1T is equally tenable to contend
that imported English leather Is a
boot or glove or a saddle when it
arrives in this country as to con-
tend that a perfume concentrate is
perfume as we understand the
term generally"
The case of the United States
versus Houbigant was opened in
April, 1888, with the Government
holding that the Houbigant flair
for French words and place names
in its labelling unfairly diverted"
trade to the respondents from
their competitors who actually i'm
port into the United States per-
fumes and similar products COM
pounded in foreign countries, or
who compound perfumes and SINH
lar products in this country for sale
to the buying public and who truth
fully represent and advertise the
place of origin and quality of their
products.
The members of the commission
are expected to rule shortly on
whether the counsel is right in his
cOntentiOns
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Nine Men and Woman
Seized in New York
Narcotics Raid
One Of Prisoners Is
Linked to Suspects
Taken Here
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE arrest
of nine men and a woman and the
conflscation of large quantities OF
marijuana and heroin in a series OF
raids last night was disclosed today
by Treasury Department narcotic
agents.
Among those taken into custody
was Genaro Rondinelli, said by Fed
eral agents to be the source of sup
ply for many of the persons arrested
in a narcotics roundup in Wash
ington, D. c., Monday night.
At an uptown Third Avenue ad-
dress. allegedly used by Rondinelli
as distribution point for heroin
agents, under Maj. Garland Will
liams, also arrested Louis la Picada
reputedly partner of Rondinelli
and two alleged employees, Anthony
Russo and Berman Solemn
Others arrested and charged with
violation of the Harrison Narcotics
Act were James McCane, Daniel
Rodiquez, known as "the Shadow; y;
Ira Mauer, Robert Mitchell, colored !;
Abe Solinsky, alias 'the Turk" and
Dorothy Mutton, reputedly McCane's
partner.
Maj. Williams also announced the
arrest earlier in the day of Harry
Epstein, accused of having so ounces
of herCin in his possession. The
agents said Epstein was known as
one of the sources of supply for
dealers and addicts in Washington,
Boston and Chicago.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
WiIIkie Offers to Extend
Utility Sale Contract

NEW YORK. June IA (P).-Wen-
dell L. Willkie. president of Com
monwealth & Southern Corp. has
offered to extend the contract for
sale Of the Tennessee Electric Power
Co. properties as much as 80 days,
it was learned today.
In quarters close to Mr.. Willkie
it was said the extension offer had
been made to representatives of
some of the municipalities involved,
on their request, before the House
passage yesterday of substitute for
the S100, 1000 T. v. A. bond issue
bill approved by the Senate for the
purchase of Tennessee electric power
facilities. The contract originally
called for completion of the terms
by June 20 with tentative under
standing it could be extended to
June 80.
The extension, it appeared would
permit time for the political ma
neuvering over the House Senate
bills and for completion of the de-
tails of the $78 OO0,O 900 transfer of
properties for the handling OF T. v.
A, power,
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Unidentified Body Found
Wired 10 Charred Tree
Sy the Associated Press.

Oy tuS hSSOClAtc0 1lCoo.
FORT LEE, N. j., June l4.-De-
tectives, concentrating on bits OF
burned clothing and a pair of eye
glasses, spread their investigation
to Brooklyn today as they sought
an answer to the puzzling death OF
an unidentified man whose burned
body was found wired to a charred
tree high on the palisades near here.
Scared beyond recognition, the
body was discovered yesterday by a
W. P. A. worker in the center OF a
blackened area of grass, one ankle
secured to the tree by heavy piece
of wire.
DR.. Raphael Gilady, Bergen
County physician who performed an
autopsy, declined to state whether
the middle-aged man was dead be-
fore burning or not. He also de-
clined to say whether he believed
the death was suicide or murder.
No contusions or bruises. DR.. Gil
lady said, were found on the body.
Henry B. Lockwood, chief of Ber-
gen County detectives, said he hoped
to establish identification through
dry cleaners marks on the clothing
He said check in Newark revealed
that the marks may have been made
at q Brooklyn, N. Y, establishment.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Nv BLAIR, ROLES.

The five learned, serious men who
compose the Federal Trade Commits
sion gave up their afternoon yes
terday to weighing the pros and cons
in an argument over the use of
French trade names for American
products designed for American
buyers. They we're assured by their
counsel, S. Brogdyne Teu, II, that
the sonorous magic of Gallo words
easily seduces the American per-
fume purchaser, who might think,
for instance, he said, that the scent
known as Quelque Fleurs and sold
by Houbigant, Inc, came straight
from the banks of the Seine.
In reality, Mr.. Teu testified,
Quelque Fleurs is assembled and
bottled in New York City by a COM
pany which has only a remote cor
porate connection with France-even
though the manufacturers, Houbi-
CANT, Inc, have blown this legend in
the glass of their perfume bottles:
"Houbigant, Paris-New York" Not
even the fact, said Mr.. Teu. that
Quelque Fleurs is made from flowers
pressed in France and turned into
a perfume concentrate in France
makes it less a product of the United
States.
Use of Name Opposed.
French words meticulously pro-
nounced by Hugo Mock, the Houbi-
CANT, Inc. counsel, and rendered
with an off hand Anglo-Saxon scorn
by Mr.. Teu, ratified about the ele-
CANT hearing room in the seventh
floor of the Apex Building. Mr.. Teu
wanted the commission to rule that
Houbigant, Inc, can no longer use
the word Paris" on its bottles. He
also opposed the use of the name
"Houbigant"
Since ITS, Mr.. Teu recalled, Par
fumerie Houbigant, founded by
Queen Marie Antoinette's court per-
fumer, has been making scent in
Paris. Since about 1920, he said,
Houbigant, Inc, has been making it
in New York. The two companies,
he said, have no tangible relation.
Mr. Mock reported that the connec-
ton. however, is definite, because the
heads of Parfumerie Houbigant hire
and fire" the employees of Houbigant,
Inc.
"Houbigant, Inc, represents itself
as Partisan firm with a New York
branch" Mr.. Teu said Really it is
New York corporation with an
employe in France assigned to buy
ingredients from a Paris concern" "
That concern is Parfumerie Houbi-
CANT.
The Government attorney then
held up an oddly shaped bottle of
Houbigant. Ines, produce, noted for
the benefit of the commissioners
that it was labeled "Quelque Fleurs'
and observed:
The French language may be the
court language of the world. but 1t
can't be used indiscriminately In
English-speaking societies"
Mr.. Teu explained that the basic
ingredients of Houbigant, Inc, per-
fume comes from France-the press
ings Of from to so flowers and the
addition to this essence of such sub
stances as ambergris. coloring mat
ter. aromatic chemicals and musk
to form what is known as perfume
concentrate. This concentrate is
shipped to New York, where the
American company adds alcohol
which makes up from 80 to 95 per
cent of the total volume of the
perfume.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Robert Says Critics. Mail
Would Answer Complaint

B, the Associated Press.
L. w. "Chip" Robert, secretary of
the Democratic National Commit
tee. turned aside with a quip yes
terday a complaint by Representa-
tive Kennedy, Democrat, of New
York that he was a lobbyists" for
Southern interests who wanted to
end sectional differentials on freight
rates.
Saying he had written Repre-
sentative Kennedy March 10, giving
his position on the matter, Mr.. Rob-
ert added:
Il have had no reply. I would like
to have his answer. I think he had
better attend to his own corre-
spondence. That might help to clear
up the situation"
Representative Kennedy wrote
President Roosevelt in a letter dated
June 10 that Roberts activities
subjected the administration and
the party ito all sorts of criticism -
Evening star., 1939-06-14

ciated companies, among which is
Western Electric.
At the end of 1884, the parent
company, American Telephone &
Telegraph, was reported to have di-
rect or indirect ownership of 10 per
cent or more of the voting securities
Of 272 companies, and in 181 of these
companies owned so per cent or
more of the outstanding voting Sc
curities.
The report said the investigation
resulted in direct return Of more
than $40 in savings to telephone
users for every 81 which the inquiry
cost. Among the savings cited was
$12 600, 900 year in interstate toll
reductions which became effective
during the investigation.
mo individual stockholder holds
as much as l per cent of the more
than 18.000. 900 shares Of A. T. & T..
stock outstanding" it said at one
point, adding:
Operations Of the Bell System
are directed by officers of the Ameri-
can Co. through system of in
formal conferences, suggestions and
recommendations from the heads of
its departments to operating officers
of subsidiary associated companies.
Capital Structure Declared Sound.
The separate corporate entity Of
the associated companies may be said
to be merely legal fiction from the
standpoint of the practical direction
Of every operating function of the
entire Bell System"
The capital structure of A. T. &
T. was described as sound in that 1t
is in ratio of 73 per cent capital
stock to q per cent of debt"
In view of the Bell Systems earn
ing position, the report said, ut
could have taken care of its needs
for financing since 1906 at q lesser
cost If securities issued had been
opened to competitive bids rather
than being disposed Of exclusively
through J. p. Morgan q Co. and its
successor, Morgan-Stanley d Co."
The relationship Of Western Elec-
tric to the operating units Of the
Ball eygtem was termed such that