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lighted the darkness. I saw the
glow dimly through the drawn cur
tains.
| Cautiously parted the curtains
ever so little. Daphne Witherspoon,
| in flowing negligee, stood starkly
revealed in the Pickering flare of
the match light.
The match burned to her finger
tips and went out. She did not light
another, but moved like q cat in
the nights blackness toward the
second anteroom. The second ante
room! What did she want in the
second anteroom?
For long time we heard moth
ing. What the girl was doing she
did quietly. Then as suddenly as
she come she departed. When the
door had closed behind her I ex-
hailed loudly.
SSH" Phil clapped his hand to
my mouth. "She may come back"
sought his hand and chung to it.
The palm was hot and moist, my
own cold and clammy.
20. K.," he said finally. "You can
talk now"
I opened my mouth and closed it
again. There was strangely nothing
to say.
"Give me the light, Elsiem
pulled it from my pocket. He
pressed the button and I saw that
his forehead was bathed in perspi-
ration.
why, what's that?" he said,
and followed his gaze downward.
A tiny crumpled piece of white pa
per fiuttered through the air and
dropped to the floor at my feet.
cts nothing" I stopped and
picked it up. "A piece of paper
found in the booth and put in my
pocket. must have pulled it out
with the FASH" I rolled it between
my fingers.
"Paper?" Some of the eagerness
returned to his voice. Where did
you say you found it?" ~
I'm the next booth on the foor.s''
I'm the next booth!" His fingers
prying at mine hurt. my God,
grill" he exploded. Don't you real
ize this is what we've been looking
for?"
I protested: "You didn't tell me
it was paper you wanted. Besides,
L found that the other day when I
was looking for the emeralds."
Never mind" he said CURLY.
Come along!" He parted the cur
tains. 'Get busy! If I'm as right as
think I am there should be an
other of these tissues around some
wherei"
VERY WELL" said coldly. I got
down on my hands and knees. He,
need not act as if had committed,
a major offense. I was no mind
reader. How was to know a crum-
pied cigaret tissue was of any
value?
Where, exactly, did you find
this? ?" he demanded, unaware of
my injured feelings.
Thereby the chair-the one
with the fringe"
'Humph! Blown there when you
raised the hood, I'll warrant" He
overturned the chair and searched
beneath it. Nothing here! Guess
we're too Nate" He scrambled to
his feet and smoothed the tissue I
had found.
Look! Look at the corner! A
shred Of adhesive" He held it to
the light and saw clinging to it
a minute thread Of something that
might have been adhesive. ELSIE,
who had access to the salon inme-
diately following the old lady's
death ?"
thought for moment. ELIZA
and Mrs. Greedy and Mr.. Horace"
$50" he muttered distracted
ly, and held the bit of paper to his
nose. Smell anything peculiar ?"
He thrust it at me.
My nostrils quivered. Bitter al
mond," said instantly. 1T makes
me Sneeze."
(TO Be COntinUe1N
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-12
MAJOR BOWES' INTERNATIONAL
REVIEW

Featuring thai top talent Of two
, hssgssg sSEIB &Bt thfsysS
son Theatre for one day. Sunday,
january Is in conjunction with the
feature screen attraction Next Time
I Marry starring James Ellison and
Lucille Ball. j,
Major Bowes,: who originated Anna
teur Hour, now: in it's fourth consecu-
tive year, has been rightly named the
foremost star maker of the present
vaudeville era, and has done more to
bring Observation-Disclosures to the BIZ
ways and highways of the United
States than any other single individu-
al.
Introduced by Miss Grace Johnston,
a glamorous and engaging Mistress
of Ceremonies, the unit is composed
Of first-place prize winners in the ma
tion-wide voting that follows each of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-12

saw" He whirled around and re-
garded me excitedly.
II said the other driers were out
of order!" l repeated.
"Since when &"
"Since the day of the ball."
'"They were broken when the old
lady died?"
EYES,"
"Sow He whistled beneath his
breath. $50, I'm not all wet! The
driers have something to do with
itw VI
ooh" I began to understand
what he was driving at. "You think
S m one deliberately jimmied
them ?"
Nothing else" He sounded elat-
ed. Hold the light over here while
I take a good look at drier num-
Der two" He raised the hood and !
moved closer to him. At first
glance drier number two differed in
no wise from it's companions on the
pole. Just a crocklike contraption
with air holes punched into it and
a strip attached.
Phil, however, was not satisfied
with first glance or second. He
went over that drier like with a
fine-tooth comb.
DAMN After a long time he
Strengthened and stretched himself
YEARLY. IT can't find a thing-not
one thing!"
I'm sorry" I began-"why,
what's that bit Of white there in
side the hood 2"
"Bit of white! Where 2"
There at the crownw I flashed
the light inside. "See! It. looks like
adhesive" N
by Jove, Elsie" He ran his fin
gers over the spot. IT believe you're
right! It is adhesive and there was
another piece, too! It's all gummy
here a couple Of inches further
over, the way it is when you pull
off tape and it leaves a sticky
markw
=. II see." I said and I did. And
felt, too. but did not understand
why he was so excited. You can not
kill person with adhesive.
Think minute, girl! You use
adhesive to paste with, don't you !?
Now a strip here, and strip there
a few inches apart, shows that each
piece was fastened on to hold
something to the crown of the
drier." H
"Some sort of poison you
mean?"
"Sure! Get it?"
IT get it. But what do you sup
pose it was ?"
2 He grinned. "Poisons aren't my
speciality, honey, but you can be
darned sure it was something dead
ly and something deadly quick!"
"Oh! And Phil, if you can prove
the murder was done this way Did
more will have to change his ver-
dict, won't ne?"
"F1e will that!"
But how will you prove it?"
He crowned m ON emit arily.
search me, gal! Looks like I'll
have to include Chief Ellis or Nc
Intyre in our detective twosome.
What I know about poisons you
could put in your hiatt"
Then" I was about to con-
tinue when something, sort Of
sixth sense, flashed a danger signal
to my brain. Quickly shut off the
light and slipped it into my apron
pocket. Someone was entering the
salon by the main entrance. TO his
everlasting credit Phil remained
silent.
"Quick!" I whisked him through
the curtains into the adjoining
compartment.
For an eternity we stood scarce
ly daring to breathe. There was no
sound from the lobby and yet-yet
I knew I had not been mistaken.
We were not alone!
Now sound like silk rubbed
against silk reached our ears. Then
a. scratching noise. A tiny fame
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-12

Heat loss is effected mainly
through the skin, but partly through
the lungs and the surface Of the
nose and tongue. A man sitting in
a cool roorfi,' fully clothed, will eff
feet AS per cent of his heat loss by
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-12

'-A Or. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column. \
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-12

Recovering at Quincy, Mass, hos.
pital from skull fracture is Leona
Merrill, "a, of Wollaston, who, in
February, 1888, gave the first alarm
in the attempted assassination of
President-elect Roosevelt in Miami.
The President, hearing Of girls
plight, sent her a message Of cheer.
Evening star., 1939-05-18
Boy, Z, Is 33d
Traffic Fatality
In District
Struck by Car While
Riding Scooter on
BIodensburq Road

The name of James Hockaday,
IL, of 1144 Sixteenth street NE,
was added today to the list of those
killed in traffic accidents here. The
boy was the 33d person to die in
traffic this year. Last year during
the same period 20 persons we're
killed in traffic accidents.
An inquest has been ordered in
his death at noon tomorrow at the
District Morgue. He was injured
while riding his scooter in the HOO
block of Bladensburg road NE. last
night. Police said he was struck
by car driven by David H. Rad
ford, IS, of Cheverly, Md.
Taken to Casualty Hospital, the
boy died an hour later. Mr.. Rad
ford was held under $500 bond for
the coroners jury.
Naval Officer Injured.
In serious condition at the Naval
Hospital this morning was Rear
Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor SO,
U. S. N, retired, who was struck
by car at Connecticut avenue and
California street NV.
The car which struck the retired
naval officer was driven by Mrs.
Nina G. Bowman, 80, of 31O5
Northampton street NV, police
said
A bulletin issued at the hospital
this morning stated that Admiral
Taylor was resting comfortably and
described his condition as i'm
proved"
He served on Deweys flagship at
Manila, commanded the U. S. S.
Florida in the war zone during the
World War and was commander of
the Asiatic fleet from 1881 to 1888.
Admiral Taylor retired in 1888.
Willie Elliott, IL, colored, ITO
Third street SW., was treated at
Providence Hospital for minor in
juries yesterday, received when he
was knocked down by an automobile
while he was skating near Third and
H streets SW.
Injured in Collision.
Nathan Plotnick, So, 1891 Tilden
street NV. was in serious condition
today at Emergency Hospital with
spine and head injuries received in a
Evening star., 1939-05-18
Skeptics Once, Women Find
Jury Duty Beats Movie
But There Are Problems
And Sometimes Romance

was on the panel of prospective
jurors for particularly unsavory
case. When the lawyers had ex-
hausted their 10 challenges, he said,
and everybody was satisfied, the
young woman was so pleased at
being able to serve that she literally
bounced up and down and clapped
her hands.
Can't Fool Wives.
Defense lawyers usually eliminate
women in criminal cases. They
figure they can't fool their wives
Mr.. Adkins explained, 80 they're not
apt to fool the women jurors" On
the other hand, one of the clerks
said, lawyers for the plaintiffs in
damage cases like to have women
on their juries.
While the women are very earnest
about their work and don't even
powder their noses in court, Mr..
Adkins said. romance has been
known to blossom during the month
of jury duty. There have been sew
eral cases of marriages between men
and women who met for the first
time in the jury box and an as
sistant district attorney married a
lady juror. Some of the jurors have
even taken time out to get married
while they're serving on the jury.
Evening star., 1939-05-18
lGreen Light Saves
ICrush in Runaway
lOf SteomroI|er

Drivers waiting for a red light to
change at Wilson boulevard and Fort
Myer drive about $3.50 o'clock this
morning saw strange sight and
thanked their lucky stars for the
red light.
Down the boulevard was charging
a big steamroller with no one on
hand to do the driving. Across the
intersection 1t rolled on green light
before the astonished drivers and
grated to a stop in the driveway
of the Country Garden Market, wit
nesses said.
The machine was said to have
come from a road building project
at the top of the hill. John A. K.
Donovan, a lawyer, who was parked
at the intersection waiting the
change of light, said the machine
appeared to be going about 35 miles
an hour.
Evening star., 1939-05-18
w. T. Simmons Wins
At Iris Show

An iris stalk named San Fran
cisco, grown by w. T Simmons of
518 Aspen street NV, last night
won individual honors in compe-
tition with 300 other blooms in the
Iris show held by the Woodbridge
Garden Club in cooperation with
the American Iris Society. The
display, featuring products of 46
exhibitors in as many classes, was
held at Sherwood Presbyterian Hall
Twenty second street and Rhode
Island avenue NE.
Mr.. Simmons, awarded a bronze
medal for his prize winning single
stalk, also won the special blooms
class display and a silver medal for
that honor. Mrs. F. D. Burgess, 4O1l
Twenty-second street NE, won the
artistic arrangement class, receiv-
ing a years membership in the
American Iris Society.
Evening star., 1939-05-18
Ross, Force Schools
To Be Abandoned
On Augusta
Board Decides to Seek
$57,8o3 for New Gym,
Salary Deficiency

The old Force School. Massachu-
setts avenue between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets, and the
Ross School, r street between Sew
enteenth street and New Hampshire
avenue, will be abandoned by the
Board of Education for classroom
purposes on August 81.
This was decided by the board at
a meeting yesterday, at which mem
bers also voted to seek an appro-
priation of s57 1893 in the next de-
ficiency bill The funds would pro-
vide a gymnasium for the NJ. M
Washington Vocational School and
bring the clerks salary item up to
pay roll obligations.
In addition it was unanimously
agreed that the $4,000 day school
students and 1000 employees in the
school system should have the day
off Thursday, June 8, in honor of
the arrival of their majesties, the
King and Queen of England. The
night school classes will be held as
usual, it was emphasized, after Supt.
Frank w. Ballou said night school
officials felt the time could not be
spared from the program. There
are about 10000 enrolled in the
night schools.
Children now attending classes at
the Force and Ross Schools will be
transferred to the Adams School at
Nineteenth and California streets,
DR.. Ballou said, as this school was
originally built to replace these old
buildings. Parents of these children
however, will be allowed the choice
of having their children attend the
Adams, the Cooke, the Weightman,
the Grant, or the Thomson School,
the superintendent said.
The Schoolhouse Commission of
1908 recommended the Force School
for abandonment at that time and
steady decline in the school popu-
lation of the area now makes the
abandonment of both buildings pos
sible, DR.. Ballou declared in his re-
port. He said he would report at a
later date on the disposition of the
buildings. The Ross is the old
Adams School.
Evening star., 1939-05-18
r. W. Schumann. c. r.
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Ever since the wife of a deputy
marshal took her place in jury box
IN 1927 feminine counterparts of the
IL good men and true" have been
forsaking their housework, their
clubs and, in rare cases, their Jobs
for jury duty.
Most of them find 1t better than
a movie" Although they're given
the privilege of refusing to serve
without even an explanation, 95 per
cent of them accept.
They're very conscientious about
doing their civic duty, though occa-
sionally it's a painful process.
One of the five women on the third
Warning jury, for instance, was a
little housewife who admits she's
given to worrying.
1t was the first time in her six
years of married life that she'd ever
been separated from her husband.
She was locked up for five days and
thinks she did as much worrying as
Emmitt Warning.
Sent Messages Home.
She consoled herself by sending
messages home via the United States
marshal's Office. 1t was a deputy
marshal's duty to find out if her
small son was eating his vegetables.
Another woman sacrificed a gar
den tour and club meeting at which
she was to preside to serve her month
on jury.
Il just told everybody I couldn't
make any engagements this month" :"
she explained. MY friend served
on a jury once and they kept her
until l o'clock in the morning"
One of the feminine jurors in this
months contingent is serving be-
cause her husband thought it would
be good experience. She finds it a
little tiresome sitting around in the
jury room, waiting to be called, but
occupies her time, like most of the
other ladies of the jury not on duty,
by talking about clothes, reading
newspapers and playing bridge.
She's only been on one case so
far, but she's discovered one salient
fact. .
THE lawyers and the witnesses
Evening star., 1939-05-18
Farley Slated Today
On Changes in D. {.
Reorganization
King and Kennedy
To Discuss Proposed
Alterations

Proposed revisions in the Griffen-
hagen plan for recognizing the Dis
trict government will be discussed
today at conference between
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee and Chairman Ken
nedy of the House District Subcom-
mittee in charge of the program
Representative Kennedy disclosed
after a conference with President
Roosevelt yesterday that several
radical changes would be made in
the original Griffenhagen plan to
remove certain Objectionable fea-
lures.
He said the proposal to scrap the
present commission form of govern
ment and substitute city council
as a policy-making body would be
abandoned. The revised plan, how
ever, he explained, would provide
for appointment by the Commis-
sioners of city administrator" +"
who would be charged with carry
ing out the policies formulated by
the Commissioners.
At the same time President RooSe-
velt must begin a study of the $50
names presented him to select a sue
cessor to Commissioner Allen, who
retired last September to take an
Office in an insurance firm. White
House authorities said the President
still has an open mind on the ap-
pointment.
The Board of Education and the
Board of Public Library Trustees
would retain their present inde-
pendence under the revamped plan
Mr.. Kennedy said, although many
other boards and agencies of the
municipal government will be con-
solidated as originally contemplated
AS soon as all the revisions are
made, Mr.. Kennedy said he would
introduce new bill to carry out
the reorganization plan for the con-
sideration of his subcommittee.
Mr.. Kennedy explained the
changes we're made for fear that
objections to certain provisions
might jeopardize the entire reor-
ganization plan.
Evening star., 1939-05-18

do all the talking" she pointed out.
You just sit and listen"
Perhaps that was one reason why
women didn't take to jury duty at
first. William S. Adkins, assistant
clerk OF the criminal division and
historian extraordinary of District
Court, said that for a year after
women were admitted to jury duty
they consistently declined to serve.
we couldn't understand it," he
said. They seemed to have the i'm
preston we were running pest
house"
Invitations to Serve.
To convince women that jury duty
was a perfectly acceptable job for
ladies, he said, the then Chief JUS
tice Mccoy asked Mabel Boardman,
Mrs. Alice Longworth and Mrs. Peter
Pritchard, wife of the Justice, to
serve on juries. The first two were
either out of town or otherwise en-
gagged, but Mrs. Pritchard con-
sented.
That turned the tide. Now you'll
find a couple of women on almost
every jury. Some of them have re-
turned for repeat engagements
They serve on grand juries, in Po-
lice Court, Municipal Court and
District Court, but not on cor
oner's juries. Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald has explained that while
he's not trying to discriminate
against women, he doesn't think
they'd like to be sworn in over
bodies.
Women are able to take a great
deal, though, and sometimes ask
for it.. Mr.. Adkins cited an instance
where an attractive young woman
Evening star., 1939-05-18
Forgery Case Goes
To District Court jury

An all-male jury in District Court
shortly before noon today started de-
liberation of whether Henry R. Mil
ton and Carman G.. Quantrille were
guilty of forgery and uttering a
s212 20 w. P. A. check in September,
1887
Closing arguments of opposing
counsel and the charge of Justice
Jesse c. Adkins in Criminal Court
No. took up most of the morn
ing session. Prosecuting the case
was Assistant United States At
torney John w. jackson, while
Mr.. Milton was being defended
by Attorney Martin S. Villas, who
made his closing argument yester-
day afternoon, in which he charged
this was a persecution and the Gov
ernment has built up an air castle,
and that no crime had been COM
mitted.
A feature of the case yesterday
was the appearance on the witness
stand by Charles Smith and Walter
L. Gray, who pleaded guilty to a
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny indict-
ment, involving the taking OF safe
from the Washington Beef & Pro-
vision Co., lilo E street S.W., on
September IL, 1937-a crime Of
which Mr.. Milton and Mr.. Guam
trille were found guilty a year ago
and for which they served eight
months of a 3-to-15-year sentence.
Smith and Gray denied that the
two men on trial had anything to
do with the safe taking, although
the Government says that the
check involved in the current case
was in that safe.
The two men in Jail testified that
they did not know Mr. Milton and
Mr.. Quantrille and that the safe
was taken to Nokesville, Va. They
said they did not know what became
Of the checks and papers, the loot
being split. The Government con-
tends that the check in question
was cashed on September Is, 1887
very shortly after the safe job-at
Thirteenth and l. streets NV. by
Mr.. Milton and that he was living
with Mr.. Quantrille.
Evening star., 1939-05-18

collision yesterday at Ninth and I
streets NV.
Frank R. Stewart. AZ, colored, 1918
@ street NV, was in Freee~en's
Hospital with a possible fractured
skull. received when he was struck
by car at Fourteenth and U streets
NV yesterday.
Genevieve Littler, 9, 326 Charming
street NE, was treated by a private
physician for cuts and bruises after
she was struck by an autombile at
North Capitol street and Rhode Is
land avenue yesterday.
Doris Jean Wagner 9, of IA Rhode
Island avenue NV was treated at
Sibley Hospital yesterday for cuts
and bruises received when struck by
car near her home.
Evening star., 1939-05-18

Although most of them do their
duty like good soldiers" Mr.. Ad-
kins said, they occasionally get ex-
cited when they have to be locked
up overnight during the trial of a
case.
When they send home for clothes,
during the locked-up periods, they
usually ask that pictures of their
children be included. The only flaw
in the enjoyment one woman ex-
perienced during her overnight stay
was that she had forgotten to ask
for her child's picture and couldn't
participate when the other women
showed off their pictures.
While the women enjoy gossiping
in the jury room most of them pre-
fer to be sitting in on cases and are
frequently indignant when the law
yers excuse them. Mr.. Adkins can't
remember how many times he's had
to explain to them that the lawyers
have the right to challenge 10 jurors,
Vague About Trials.
Unless they have served before or
consult friend who has served, the
women are trif1e vague about what
is expected of them.
When they subpoenaed me, or
whatever you call it," said one, II
was little nervous But, heavens,
they tell you everything to do"
Most of them know they will be
paid for their services, but haven't
any idea how much or how often.
Some of the jurors are clubwomen
interested in sociological questions.
One woman was fascinated by the
fact that her colleagues on a grand
jury all seemed to be experts at the
various issues that arose during the
hearings.
One early rising housewife said
she got lot of sleeping done while
she was locked up during a case
Another complained that grand jury
duty was terribly strenuous. She
never got a day off, except week ends
and national holidays, for three
months, she said.
Mr.. Adkins finds the women very
sociable. They're scarcely in the
jury room a day, he said, before they
have their special friends to eat
lunch with. Sometimes, the whole
jury gives a dinner when its month
is up.
Court attaches agreed that the
women jurors, while sympathetic
try to render strict justice. Their
attitude, it was said, seems to be-
Were here to do our duty" They
do 1t.