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Evening star., 1939-06-20
Dr.. Grace Abbott Is Dead:
Distinguished Social Worker
Was Head Of Federal
Children's Bureau
From 1927 to 1884
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 2O.-Dr. Grace
Abbott, famed social worker, who
headed the United States Childrens
Bureau from 1921 to 1884, died last
night. She was 60.
Suffering from anemia, she had
been confined to the Billings Me-
mortal Hospital at the University of
Chicago for more than a week.
After resigning as director of the
Children's Bureau she became pro-
fessor Of public welfare administra-
ton at the university. Her sister,
Edith, Is dean of the Graduate
School of Social Service Administra-
ton.
Miss Abbott's career as a welfare
worker was a 30-year fight against
infant and maternity mortality,
child labor and juvenile delinquency.
Career Started At Hull House.
She began it in the heart of Chi
cago's slums, as a resident worker at
Jane Adams Hull House. One of
her co-workers was Frances Perkins,
now secretary OF Labor.
In 1881 she was named in q ma
tional magazine poll as one of Amer
ica's IL most distinguished women.
She administered the first Fed
eral law gainst child labor until it
was held unconstitutional. From
1921 to 1929 she administered the
Federal Maternity and Infancy Acts
She served on various governmental
commissions and agencies and for
merly was president of the National
Conference of Social Work.
She headed the United States
delegation to the American
Child Welfare Congress at Mexico
City in 1885 and two years later the
delegation to the International La
Dor Conference in Geneva.
She wrote many books and ar
ticles on social work and immigrant
problems in addition to editing the
Social Service Review Her books
included THE Child and the State"
THE Immigrant and the Com
munity" and The Immigrant in
Massachusetts,"
DR.. Abbott was born in Grand
Island, Nebr., November II, 1873
but most of her early life was spent
in Chicago, first as graduate stu
dent at the University of Chicago,
later as director of the Immigrant
Protective League and at Hull House.
She is survived by her sister, two
brothers, Arthur G. and Mayor Otha-
man A. Abbott, and her mother,
Elizabeth, all of Grand Island.
Private funeral services will be
held tomorrow morning in the Alb
bott home, where a Quaker service
will be read by Prof Warder c. Alice.
The body will be cremated and the
ashes sent to Grand Island
Fought for Underprivileged.
Throughout much of her mature
lifetime Miss Abbott fought the bat
tie of underprivileged childhood
Undiscouraged by reverses, her
working philosophy was always:
Look on the now with conf
dence in the to be-"
She was educated in the Grand
Island schools, took a Phi. B. degree
at Grand Island College in 1898, and
for three years taught in Grand
Island High School. Then came a
year of graduate work at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, where she was
q contemporary of Ruth Bryan
Owen Rohde, and Miss Abbott then
returned to her high school work.
Evening star., 1939-06-20

tural Producers' Labor COMMITTEES, Q
Los Angeles lobbyist-lAxyer. Who,
since he swung into action IN WASH
ington, has become familiarly known
among his opponents and victims h1
his first name.
TT Ivan gets his way, every en-
ploye engaged In packing or canning
farm products viii be deprived Of all
security In his old age, Of the right
to join with his fellowmen In unions
OF his own choosing, and the right
to work protected by q floor under
wages and ceiling over hours"
Evening star., 1939-06-20
Eastern High. School
Awards Diplomas
To 45O Graduates
Joseph Harrison,
Association President,
Makes Presentations

Joseph Harrison, president Of the
Eastern High School Home and
School Association, today awarded
diplomas to more than $50 grad
yates OF the high school at final
exercises in the school stadium.
Antoinette Marie Sesso gave the
valedictory address. Miss Jessie La
Sale, assistant superintendent OF
schools, presided and awards were
presented by Mrs. Ruth o. Denning,
chairman of the Honors Committee.
Graduating with first honors were
Miss SesSo, Elsa Egloff, Georgia
Farnell, Dorothy jackson, Lena
Rector, Evelyn Refer, May Shulman,
Catherine Wilkie, Sidney Gerber,
William Goldenzweig. Lester Harris,
Paul Miller, Mark Raum, William
Robinson and John Spielman.
TWenty-siX others received second
honors. They are Bertha Dekel-
paum, Evelyn Emo, Athena Glakas,
Annette Hodkinson, Marjorie Horo-
WITT, Margaret Kendall, Florence
kudolla, Jean Lee, Marian Long,
Elvie Montague. Dorothy Now, Sara
owen, Irene Poll, Mary Powell, Mary
Samperton, Dorothy Stancell, Gloria
warren, James Clements, Robert
Flnney, Ralph Frame, jr.; Robert
Gravatte, James Naren, Otto Salz-
man, Jr.; Claude Sarratt, Robert
Thomas and Billy Treynor.
Gcf oT
Evening star., 1939-06-20
Elected Alumni Director

Courtland D. Ferguson Of WASH
ington was elected director at large
OF the Northwestern University
Alumni Association, 1t was an
nounced here today.
Evening star., 1939-06-20
BeIfost Prepares for War

Belfast. Northern Ireland, is pre-
pairing plans for sending children
out Of the city in case of war.
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Sun Down, Accidents Up

When the sun goes down, traffic
accidents go up. More than so
per cent of all fatal traffic acct
dents occur at night, the National
Safety Council reports. Since
about third of the driving is done
at night, it estimates, the number
of traffic deaths per mile is about
three times as great at night as
during the daytime.
In the past seven years, night
accidents have increased so per
cent in rural districts, the report
says, and only II per cent in cities.
Adequate lighting and divided
highways tend to reduce headlight
glare and accidents, the council
said. Some states are experiment.
ing with new reflector buttons
placed along the side of the road
to show the alignment of the high
way on curves, hills and other
hazardous places. -
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Speeding of Sports
1898 Crop Of.
Heavyweight hts
Lacks Power.
By ROBERT McSHANE

a N AGONIZED glance at the
! crop of current heavyweight
contenders leads the average fight
fan to believe that Ferdinand the
Bull-who never learned how to
fight, and who sat all day long I'M
der the cork tree, content merely to
smeI-has not received half the
credit due him.
While many of those ring hope
fuls are a distinct Oderiferous men,
ace, they are not satisfied, like
Ferdy, with the birds, the bees and
the flowers. No, indeed. They in
sist that all they need is one tor
one m0re) crack at Joe Louis and
a new heavyweight champion will be
crowned.
1t is gratifying to note that Shut
fin Joe is not cringing In terror,
usually termed abject. In fact, the
loud : spoken and oft repeated
threats of his contemporaries leave
him cold, even frigid.
Another Killer
Two Ton Tony Ga1ento, beer guz-
zling brawler from Orange, N. j.,
has threatened, of course, to muir
der "dat bum" Louis. As a self
admitted potential murderer Galen-
to has no equal. He is the only fight
er in the ring not designated as
bum. His rigid training on cigars
and beer have endeared him to the
hearts of brewery owners and to-
bacco growers. His fine, carefully
developed paunch speaks well for
his ability to consume huge guam
titles of groceries, in the manner of
all well-known athletes. He does,
nevertheless, pack a terrific wallop
and can take it. In addition, he
is easily as graceful as Donald
Duck.
Max Baer, whose manner of
breaking even the loosest training
rules is thing of beauty and a joy
forever, is outstanding in his lead
ership of that cult which thinks Max
Baer is a dangerous threat to the
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BANNER SERIAL FICTION
.BANNER Serial
She Painted Her Face
II stony Of eo1s and intrigue. by DoRNFoRD YATES

could tread upon VirgiIs toes
without seeing his face.
The gallery seemed broader than
I had thought, but at length I was
touching the curtains, which had
been drawn. At once I turned to
the left, for now I had found the
windows, had to do no more than
follow their line along. And be-
cause I had my bearings, perhaps
moved with less care than should
have shown. In any event, had
almost come to the door, when I
brushed against something unwieldy
and knocked it down.
Now when a man who is trying
not to be heard knocks over chair
or a table, it shortens his life. But
when he knocks over such a thing as
a harp
Not only was the crash appalling,
but every string of the instrument
sounded its liquid note. Indeed, as
I stood there, trembling, thought
that the dulcet announcement would
never die, and when at last it did,
I should have been glad to die with
it, because in all my life never felt
so much abashed. Discovery was,
of course, inevitable. had not only
walked the household: I had de-
clared where I was: for the harp,
like that of the giant in Jack and
the Beanstalk, had lifted up an un-
mistakable voice.
I wiped the sweat from my face
and waited for the sound of men
running and voices raised. Virgil,
no doubt, would come thrusting-to
rub my nose in the desperate mess
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The Answers

/. Small electric locomotives.
2. A book representing the law.
3. A popular song or melody
sung by Venetian gondoliers.
4. Oracle Fields, the British CO.
medicine, makes approximately
$3.50, 1000 a year.
5. It is said that there is no
record of his playing any music
but his own.
6. The sixteenth census in 1910
viii cost approximately $50, 00O, 900.
z. It was founded in 1920.
8. The star which prefaces the
number on currency means that
the bill replaced an imperfect one.
9. Steel Facts says that the
Rookery, erected in Chicago in
1887, was the first steel-framed
building Of skyscraper construc-
ton to be built in this country.
10. Six months training in the
United States, two months over
seas before entering the line, and
one month in a quiet sector be-
fore going into battle.
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castle tonight. That was always ufi-
derstood, not by you, or that silver
tongued fairy, the Duchess of
Whelp. But 1t was understood by
meas soon as I heard that my
cousin was coming back. You see,
don't want her here. I really
made that plain about ten days ago.
But some people won't take hint
Well, now she is going for
good. She will never come back"
The man stopped there and leaned
forward, with glittering eyes.
'tMy luck came in, Mr.. Exon,
when you knocked over that harp
We were going, Mr.. Exon.
Elsa had received her instructions
and Elgar was on this stair. And
then you knocked over the harp
And so I held everything up and
waited for you.
''Now what will they find tomor-
row? Not one, but both of you gone
;. Abduction? Well, hardly. They
don't abduct people like you. What
about an illicit elopement? A pas
sionate fight? Oh, that's absurd
{. Wait minute. Consider that
beautiful scene in the belvedere?
This evening at sunset, Mr..
Exon. Yes, you were watched-by
a most reliable man. And then the
key to her bedroom that
lady gave to her swain? And then
the dressing-case which Elsa
is packing now? Elsa-there's
good girl. She will speak to her own
reactions-with tears running down
her cheeks: how she and you fought
for her darling and how her en-
treaties were foiled by the way of
man with a maid. Aunt Sally may
put up show, but she won't be
able to face these basic facts. And
I hardly think she'll lay them be-
fore the police. I mean, they might
miss the idyn and get the blurb :"
He got to his feet and yawned.
go and get her ladyship, Elgar;
and tell Norma Lisa I'm not going
to wait all night. If she can't pack
dressing-case-"
at is ready" said Elsa's voice, as
Elgar went up the stair.
"You see, Mr.. Exon" said vir-
gil, 'tthe way to win in this world is
to go all lengths. It's simpler, swift
er and safer-every time. Think
what should have been spared if
l had taken that course ten days
ago. But there One lives and
learns. Take my two, er, assistants,
for instance" He threw a glance UP
the stair. 81 can count upon Elsa.
She's wanted in Bristol for forgery
"a very bad case. But on Elgar
/ have no hold: so, though he does
not know it, he hasn't got long to
live. I think he viii be run over
I'm not quite sure. But here they
come"
He picked up length of cord and
then stepped over my legs and out
OF the way. The next moment FL
gar appeared, with Elizabeth over
his shoulder, as though she were
wounded and senseless and he was
bringing her In.
"Put her ladyship down." said
Virgil, making knot in his cord.
Elgar unshouldered his burden
and set it down on the steps.
My eyes met those of my lady,
and order came back to my soul.
"Canst thou not minister to
mind diseased?"
ITO BE CONTINUED
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Ask Me 1nother
9 A General Quiz
The Questions

1. What furnishes the motive
power to ships passing through
the Panama canal?
2. What does the Statue of Lib
erty hold in her left hand?
3. What is barcarolle?
4. Who is the highest paid ac-
treSs IN the world?
5. Did Franz Schubert play the
music of other composers?
6. How much will it cost to take
the next census?
z. How old is the Nazi party?
8. Why does a star precede the
number on some United States
currency?
9. Where was the first large
steel-framed building erected in
this country?
10. What training did the aver
age American soldier receive be-
fore going into battle during the
World war?
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CHAPTER vIII-Continued
Q Dornford Votes


'sWell, WELL" said Herrick. Sand
who ever heard of two guests abus-
ing their host at table until he's
carried away and then getting down
to his brandy and having a rubber
of bridge? You know it's blasphe-
nous. I don't believe the Borgias
ever did that. And I'll lay lii Per-
cey's got ear-ache. Three swine to
one pearl "
forgot what answer I made, but
know I sent Winter to bed and,
after two or three minutes, went up
to my room. But did not intend
to sleep: for the pearl" was out
of my sight.
I had seen her into her suite 20
minutes before. I trusted to see
her come out in a little less than
eight hours. But I had no faith in
Elsa, and-Virgil had his back to
the wall. Had there been but one
door to her suite, would have slept
across it. But there were four doors
to her suite, and one was outside.
I could not so much as watch them:
Argus himself could have watched
but one at time.
I took off my coat and lighted
cigarette
AS I threw the match out of the
window, somebody knocked at my
door.
I was at the oak in a flash, to
find Winter standing without, with
key in his hand.
ST forgot to tell you, sir" He en-
tered and shut the door, 'You gave
me this key and told me to lock up
the Rolls. Her doors, I mean. But
'aven't been able to, because this
isn't the key"
Isn't the key?'" said, frown-
ing, and with that I took it out of
his hand.
"1t isn't, indeed, sir. I tried it
again and again."
But :"
And there I stopped dead-with
my eyes on the key I was holding
between my finger and thumb.
Winter was right. This was not
the key of the Rolls. Although she
did not know it, Elizabeth Virgil
had the key of the Rolls. 1 had
handed it to her on Friday, with the
rest Of her things. It was now, per-
haps, under her pillow. But this was
her master key that fitted all
five of her locks.
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Ruth, the late Miller Higgins, Joe
Mccarthy, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMag-
gio and many others.
Best known of all the stars to play
under the brewery owners banner
was Babe Ruth. Rupert paid
Boston the then unprecedented sum
of S125, 900 for him, and made him
the greatest slugger of all time.
The Colonel was always insistent
on winning and ever disconsolate
when his team lost. Sportsmanlike
on all points, Rupert demanded a
winning team. All told, the Yankees
in Ruppert's regime won 10 Ameri-
can league pennants and seven
world series. He bought only the
best players, and they returned him
high dividends.
Though baseball was his over
whelming love, the Colonel had
many interests. In addition to own
ing a highly profitable brewery, he
at one time served four successive
terms in the national house of repre-
SentativeS
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WNU Services

useful effort, so I laid my head
back on the stone and closed my
eyes, determined to stay where I
was till my strength and my senses
came back, for though I could not
think straight, knew that needed
them both as never before. For a
moment seemed to be swaying, al
though I was lying still Then
somebody made me sit up and
pushed my head forward and down
Then water was poured on
my head and down the back of my
neck
It was that that cleared my brain,
and though my head was aching,
from that time on I was healthy in
body and mind.
lifted my head and looked round.
was sitting in the passage, just
clear of the turret-stair. Percy Vir-
gil was sitting on the stair, step
or two up. And man who knew
must be Elgar was standing in the
passage beside me, pitcher in hand.
Percy Virgil picked up my pistol,
looked at the safety-catch, weighed
the thing on his palm and slipped
it into his coat. Then he glanced
at hE wrist-watch and fingered his
chin.
"You are very convenient, Mr..
Exon. I should have got you later,
but probably only after an ugly
scene. And I do so dislike being
crossed But now you've avoid
ed all that, and, what is more, you
have made my path very smooth.
You see, my cousin is going. The
Lady Elizabeth Virgil is leaving the
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dusky king of the heavyweights.
Baer has been a good fighter, but
his chances for ring supremacy are
as few as rowboats in the Sahara
desert. He is going to make de-
termined effort, and may surprise
the thousands of addicts who look
upon him as lost cause.
Elimination fights between Galen-
to and the Brothers Baer might do
much to clear up the cloud which
envelops the heavyweight field.
Galento, incidentally, is rated No. I
contender by the National Boxing
association, a distinction not award
ed him by the fans, who refuse to
take the rOtund barkeep seriously.
Lou Nova can be taken more Sc
riously. A little more experience
will see him a better fighter than he
was in his past few encounters.
Another lad, Patrick Edward
Comiskey, who has reached the
ripe age of IL, will bear watching.
The Paterson On. - youth stands
6 feet 312 inches, and weighs 1913
pounds. He has fought only six pro-
fessional fights, winning five of them
in the first round. He slipped sad
ly in his sixth fight, failing to get
a knockout until the second stanZa.
Admirers look for him to make
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Sport Shorts

GUN BEAU, the leading money
- winner among thoroughbreds,
won 1915, 744 during his racing ca
reer. He went to the post "a times,
won 80, was second II, and third 10
times Notre Dame basketeers,
coached by George Keogan, have
won 252 victories in the past Is
years, against II defeats, for per-
centage of .780 Worcester
(Mass.) academy's track candidates
are building their own new board
track SCOTT boys took part last
year in games conducted by the
Toronto (Canada) Public School
Athletic association Babe Ruth,
who recently suffered a mild heart
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The King Is Dead

THE death Of Colonel Jacob Rup-
I pert, amiable little millionaire
owner Of the New York Yankees
baseball club, was more than a
shock to sportsmen everywhere. His
death was an irreparable loss to
the entire nation.
The 71-year-old bachelor was
basebalPs best friend. Under his
stewardship the Yanks wrote the
brightest pages In baseball history.
When he died he owned ball clubs
in New York, Newark, Kansas City,
Norfolk, Va, Binghampton, N. Y,
and Akron, Ohio.
Rupert was surrounded by the
names of baseball's greatest. On
his generous payroll were Babe
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had made. I began to try to pre-
pare some hating explanation
which was not beneath contempt ). {.
I do not know how long I stood
still, but as the moments went by,
yet nobody came, I began to dare to
believe that was to be spared. The
silence which I had shattered was
absolute as ever: no faintest indi-
cation of movement came to my
ears. And at last I knew I was
saved. For some extraordinary rea-
son, no one was coming to answer
the call of the harp.
Expecting to be discovered and
put to shame, had, of course, re-
linquished my delicate enterprise:
but now there was plainly no rea-
son why I should withdraw, provid-
ed that on my way back, when my
watch was done, I set up the harp
again by the light of the dawn. So
I ventured to hold on my course.
Before I had covered six feet, I
touched the door of the turret to
which I was trying to come
Now I had expected the staircase
to be in darkness: but the moment
/ opened the door, I knew that a
light was burning beyond the oak.
For a moment I found this strange.
Then I remembered that I had left
lights burning on the staircase with
in the tower and decided that the
practice was natural where danger
Gus steps were serving a private
room.
I took the key from the lock,
stepped across the threshold and
closed the door.
was now In little, stone pas
sage which ran through the castle
wall and gave directly on to the tur-
ret-stair: the wall being four feet
thick, the passage was four feet
long, for the turret adjoined the cas-
tie, yet was complete In itself. An
electric light was burning where
passage and stairway met, thus
lighting the steps up and down as
well as the passage itself.
leaned against the wall and
heaved a sigh of relief. Harp or
no harp, I had gained the position
I sought, and Winter and I between
us commanded Elizabeth's suite.
If
And there I heard a girl laugh
-. a sti1ed, mischievous laugh
:. to tell me she knew was there
It was Elsa, of course. I knew
that. She must have heard the harp
fall and have left Elizabeth's suite
to see what the matter might be.
And then she had seen the door open
and, probably, me come in.
There was only one thing to be
done.
'sIs that you, E1sa?" I said, and
stepped to the curling stair.
Looking up, I saw her standing,
point-device as ever, back to the
wall.
Then somebody standing behind
me laid me out.
The first thing that I remember
was Percy Virgirs voice.
As lifted my head, he spoke,
and a gag was clapped into my
mouth-a pad of sweet-smeIling
silk, which I afterwards found was
one of my lady's chemises, fresh
from some drawer. When I tried to
sit up, found that my hands were
not free. My wrists were strapped
tight together, behind my back.
was still too dazed to make any
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To make bad news even worse
comes the announcement that Phil
Scott, ex-heavyweight champ of
Great Britain, is planning a come
back. To American fans, who re-
member him as Painting Phil, the
British horizontal champ, this news
is, to say the least, remarkable, as
they cannot remember his having
been any place-at least in the Up
per circles of the U. S. boxing fra
ternity.
Scott goes through all the motions
under the eyes of Joe Bloom, his
British boxing manager and trainer.
Phil, at SO, is fabby fat, weighing
1872 pounds. He works out daily in a
London gym, determined to get
back that slim, iss0m figure which
used to decorate various canvases
so attractively.