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Evening star., 1940-11-17

ter Of the renowned character actor,
Jacob Adler.
Miss Adler's program tonight In
cludes a monodrama, 'Masha," in
English and a half-dozen comic
skits in both Yiddish and English.
The program starts at $3.50 pm. and
is open to the public.
The weekly institutes of the Jew
ish Center will continue next
Wednesday evening with a talk by
DR.. Jacob Kotz of George Washing
ton University medical school on
Marital Relations"
Rabbi Solomon H Metz of the
Adas Israel Synagogue will resume
his annual Bible class, with the first
session Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1940-11-17

remember me. She said, You again
Mr.. Warner when I bought my
ticket"
The Inquiry Is Pushed.
Timothy waved his hand over the
office. Where's every one? Pretty
quiet for 10 am, isn't it?'
Besides Charles, Mildred, and
me, there are just Peters and Selma
Clark in this office. Peters was
in and went out TO take prospec-
tive buyer over to Lawton's. Here's
Selma now
The men turned as Selma CLARK
came over to them. Timothy studied
her as she approached. She walked
rapidly on her clicking heels, her
short tan skirt swinging about her
knees. She was slender and Vi
yaciouS, with, he discovered as she
came closer, a remarkably plain face
in which her gray eyes had startling
brightness.
Warner introduced her to Pier
son and Wayne who asked her to
sit down.
Need me any moreP" asked War
ner.
mo, thanks" Matt replied AS
Warner left, he turned to Selma.
Miss Clark, who worked here last
night?"
The girls bright eyes fairly
shown. Timothy noticed that she
had even white teeth and a lifting
voice as she replied, Mr.. Peters
and I did"
mot Mr.. Holmes or Miss Farms
worth?'
Selma's eyes widened. why, no.
Mr.. Holmes went out about 4:3O
or so, but he must have come back
while I was out to supper because
he put some notes on my desk for
me to draw up papers on the Car
stairs matter"
And Miss Farnsworth?
A Movie Fan.
'She left soon after 5. when I
did Mr.. Peters had asked me to
work, SO I went home for supper
and came back about g.
Evening star., 1940-11-17

Putting the monkey wrench in
among other tools"
Maybe he was looking for some
thing and came across the tools,
Timothy offered
Maybe. Were things in the cellar
turned out the way they were in
the dining room?"
We'll, no, they weren't" conceded
Wayne, Just that one room had
been ransacked. BY the way
Charles, Wayne went on clearing
his throat, do you mind if We look
through your desk?"
No, of course not; even without
a warrant" Charles pushed back
his swivel chair and waved them to
his neat, glass-topped desk. DO you
want me to stay while YOU do it?'
Timothy looked at Matt. why
no. the older man answered, Il
don't see why
We'll, III just go over to Car
stairs grocery then. He had an
appointment here with me at 10
about judgment he is taking out
If you fellows are going to talk to
Warner here, you'd just as soon not
be disturbed, perhaps"
That's thoughtful, my boy, and a
good idea. Run along
Charles opened a drawer and ex-
trscted legal document. Il have
to take this along he said, grinning
broadly. Maybe you'd better look
at it, though Confidentially. re-
member" He tossed the paper
across to Matt, who glanced at it
and gave it back.
You lawyers get a lot of private
dope, don't you?" he remarked
dryly.
Yes, sir, We do" Charles voice
replied eagerly. Some of it we
don't like to disclose, even for a
personal ahbi in a murder We know
nothing about"
An right, all right; III get at it
from another angle"
Another Clue Found.
The two men bent over the desk
as Charles strode out of the Office.
In the top drawer was a pad of note
paper inscribed, From the desk of
Charles Holmes"
Better confscate this. I guess. ."
said Timothy. The search went on.
Nothing damaging here" he con-
cluded.
Look at this, Tim" Matt said
suddenly It's a lease for that
house of Whipples signed by him
and dated yesterday"
Maybe Charles was there, after
all. Oh, hello, Warner"
Randolph Warner was a tall man
with broad shoulders and a thick
waist. His head of white. curly hair
he carried regally. His bright blue
eyes were set deep under heavy
black broWs in a broad. red face.
He looked like a man of action and
he was known to be a man of quick
temper.
Mildred said you wanted to see
me, Pierson."
The slow-moying Pierson tilted
the back of his swivel chair against
the wall and said easily, Yes, that's
right"
Evening star., 1940-11-17


basement, was Timothy Yayne. the
youngest district attorney in the
State. He came up the.steps two at
a time and lowered above Matt. his
slender height accentuated by his
baggy green suit. He turned toward
Charles and spoke.
Hello, Charles Matt thinks we
ought to talk to you again The
two men, the tall attorney and the
short constable waited for Charles
to draw up chairs around his desk
Shall I go, Mr.. Pierson?' Mildred
asked.
Not necessarily. Mildred. BY the
way, do you know Mr. Wavne? Miss
Farnsworth, Warmers niece The
two acknowledged the introduction
How long ago did you come to
town. Mildred?' Matt asked indif-
ferently. Two. three years?"
Mildred nodded. Three. From
Memphis. My parents died then,
you know"
Matt seemed to lose interest in
Mildred except TO say: You might
step over to the bank and see if
Warner has arrived. Tell him TO
come over here in, sa. 10 minutes"
Charles Still Stubborn.
Mildred started for the bank.
"Oh, by the way. where are Selma
Clark and Peters?'
They worked late last night, Mr.,
Pierson. Whenever Selma or I work
at night we take time of next
morning" Mildred was halfway to
the door
And Peters?"
He ought to be in soon He left
a number of dictaphone cylinders
for me. Perhaps he was in earlier
this morning and went out"
Matt turned to Charles with
grunt Now look here, Charlie
advise you TO come clean about last
night, Matt got out his pipe and
filled it. Wayne lounged back in
his chair cigarette in hand. Charles
leaned forward, his elbows on his
knees.
NO, Matt, I'm not going to do
It." His voice was tense but sin
cere. It's got absolutely nothing to
do with Whipple'
Are you sure?' Timothy asked,
Charles thought a minute, then
turned to look at his old friend Ten
years older than Charles, Timothy
Wayne had frequented the Holmes
place much as he had grown up.
The younger man looked the district
attorney full in the face.
Yes" he replied slowly, I'm very
sure"
Got an alibi for last night?"
Charles grinned. Yes, but to es-
tablish it would reveal the business
I was doing. You can't catch me
that way Matt" Charles leaned
back and lighted a cigarette. Found
the Weapon?" he asked.
1t was Timothy Wayne who an
swered. Yes. a heavy but short
monkey wrench. In a bunch of
tools under the cellar stairs"
THE murderer took his time.
didn't he?" remarked Charles. And
knew the house, too"
What makes you say that?"
Matt's question sounded indifferent.
Evening star., 1940-11-17

what do you know about Jona-
than Whipple?"
what everybody knows, guess.
Nothing much"
did he do business with your
bank?"
Warner had sat down near the
desk. Now he crossed one long leg
over the other and flicked a piece of
lint off his blue trouser leg with
long, strong fingers.
He had savings account with
us and a safety deposit box down
stairs"
What about the account?"
Il thought you'd ask, so I'm hav-
ing the teller prepare a statement" /"
Pierson noted that Warner was an
swering questions, but only that.
What did you think nf Whipple,
Warner?" Timothy asked confiden-
TALLY.
A Friendly Man.
The big man took out a package
Of cigarettes and lighted one before
he answered. When he spoke. his
shrewd, blue eyes studied the blank
wall above the other mems heads.
He was friendly man in a way,
and a knowing one. He never
talked about himself or asked any
one a idrect personal question. yet
he had away of making you feel he
knew all about you anyway" A
hint OF distaSte crept into Warmers
voice and Pierson wondered what
Whipple had known about Warner.
What about his friends?" Wayne
wanted to know.
I'd say he didn't have any
There was something distant about
him, and watchful, too His eyes
would rove around as he talked to
you. There was something - not
quite servile-but submissive, yet
sly"
I'd say you didn't like him."
Matt said
L didn't trust him
BY the way" Matt asked, were
you at home last night?"
warner turned amused eyes to
Matts impassive face. Going
to get alibiS for every one in town,
Matt? No, wasn't home. Mildred
and l had dinner together. Then
1 came in soon after $50 and went
to the Bijou, They held that pic
ture over a second night and I
wanted to see it again"
Did YOU go alone?"
Warner laughed outright. "Yes,
but the cashier, Sally Drain, will
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Out Of ttleQast @
by ellen Tower

The story thus far Charles Holmes ives
Charity in Bluefeld ayer in the real estate firm Peters
Warner He and Warmers niece Mildred Furnsorh in ope
and she pSiting his nunts
street to duer lease Jonathan Whtppe He finds the old
murdered in his study amid litter OF and he hurriedly
returns and calls the police Matt Person the chief arriues
NTH his assistant and the and after routine
OF the body and the house Matt calls Chdys question
Charles With explanation Charles fatty refuses explain
Uhere he the time WhppleS
Matt eave Charles still refuses to tell Mildred
he Merit morning hen he to the Office Mildred
UorkS there, tells him Matt PerSon
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Celia Adler 10 Appear
In Dramatic Recital

The National Forum of the jew
ish Community Center will open its
l4th season tonight with a dramatic
recital by Celia Adler, first lady of
the Yiddish theater"
The forum is arranged by the
Educational Committee of the Cen
ter and Miss Adler will be intro
duced by Simon Hirshman, chair
man of the committee. Miss Adler,
star of many plays in the Yiddish
theater and of several on Broad
way, is a member of the famous
Adler family of the stage and daugh-
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Peoples Joins Ship Firm

NEW YORK. Nov. Is (P).-Todd
Shipyards Corp. announced today
that Rear Admiral Christian Joy
Peoples retired, former chief of the
Navy's Bureau of Supply. had been
appointed special representative
of the corporation.
Admiral Peoples who also served
as director of procurement of the
Federal Government, reached the
Evening star., 1940-11-17

THAT little box on my desk" She
pointed. He talks into one on his
desk and / hear 1t on mine"
Il see," Matt appeared none too
interested And now we'll want to
know about Charles Holmes"
Copyright, 1910, Chicago Daily News. Inc }
Continued tomorrow
Selma can't be of much help to
Matt.
Evening star., 1940-11-17

statutory age of retirement Noyem-
ber /. He is credited with develop
ing the purchasing system OF the
Navy.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
CHAPTER ".

at that
the He
blue handkerchief from the hip
over his square red face and around his fat Matt
and thick with thin gaying hair and struggling
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
LEGION JUNIORS
TO START WORK
Practice Scheduled To Begin
At Robert Strange Park
Monday Afternoon

Wilmington's Junior Legion base
ball team will open practice for
the 1910 season at the Robert
Strange park Monday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock with Coach Floyd Bum
garner in charge.
Plans for the Legion schedule
will be perfected at that time.
Any boy born in 1923 or later is
eligible to play and as many can.
didates as possible are urged to
come out for the opening drills.
The schedule this year as in years
past, calls for three weeks inten,
sive practice when the first two
teams will be determined and or
June 10 the real Legion play-offs
begin. The playoff covers abou1
eight weeks Of baseball, with game.
every day in the week, some O.
which will be played here and some
away.
Last year the local Juniors play
ed until August with about 81
games in all having been played.
Legion officials have urged al
boys who have any inclination to
ward baseball to try out for tn,
team. All players will be furnished
iull uniforms, except shoes,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
Senior Fraternity Wins
Over Star-News, 9-5

The Senior Fraternity defeated
the star-News, Q to S, yesterday in
a fast Hanover league game played
at Robert Strange.
The Papermen started the scor.
ing by pushing across three TALES
In the opening frame. The Fratern.
ity lads scored twice in the second
and Walter WINS long home run
! n the fourth knotted the count.
The NeWsies scored again in the
nth. The Fraternity team jumped
on Bill Jones, News hurler in the
sixth inning, for five hits, two walks
and two errors to score six runs
ana put the game on ice. The News.
men tailed once in the last frame.
Sam Tyler, Newsie shertstop, was
the leading hitter of the day coll
Letting three for four. VIM of the
senlors, paced his team with a
home u and a three Dagger out
Of three attempts.
Howard Primer, hurting fer the
v~ictors, gave UP nine hits. Bill
Jones, of the losers, gave up nine
and Crowley, who relieved Jenes
In the sixth, gave up on
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
Rookie Marvin Bruer Shows
Fine Form AS He Allows
Sox But Five Hits

CHICAGO, May 17.-R-Looking
something like world champions
again, the New York Yankees &C.
c1lmulated six runs On six hits to-
day to wallop the Chicago White
Sox 6 to l behind the five-hit hu-l-
ing of Rookie Marvin Breuer.
The youngster who came up this
spring from Kansas City held the
Sox helpless and hitless for the frs,
four innings and ~scoreless until the
seventh, when two consecutive
walks and a single by Eric Nc
Nair gave Chicago it's run.
The game had been won long be-
fore, however.
Joe DiMaggio, who got into the
champions lineup for the first
time since last week, hit his first
home run of the season with one on
In the first inning. Red Rolfe had
walked preceding the big blow into
the ! lower leftfield seats.
Then in the fourth Tom Heinrich
raced all the way to second when
McNair booted his grounder, Di
Maggie scratched. a hit off Bob
kennedy's glove and Colonel (Bus.
teri Mills tripled to the centerfield
wall. Joe Gordon was hit by a
pitched ball. Babe Dahlgren singled
Mills home and Gordon scored
from third on the next play, an in.
field out.
Breuer was able to relax after
that, and relaxed a little too well,
He gave up his first hit in the fifth
and loaded the bases in the sixth on
a walk and two singles, but a dou.
Bile play ended this threat. The
Chicago score in the seventh CAM
with none out, but the Yanks tight.
ened up quickly.
Bill Dietrich, who relieved Lefty
Ed Smith in the fifth, pitched two
MT shutout ball for Chicago in the
last five frames.
1t was the first American league
game in five days for the Yankees.
who ran into bad weather at the
start OF their western tour, and the
victory lifted them within half p
game of the seventh.place White
Sox. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
Mosquito Guard Urged
By Health Officer Here

Residents of New Hanover county
were urged by DR.. A. H. Elliot,
health officer, yesterday to keep a
watch on their premises for stand
ing water in an effort to keep down
the breeding of mosquitoes.
Now that it is warm weather. the
mosquitoes have started breeding,
he said, adding that measures TAX
en- now to eliminate the insect may
go a long way toward malarial con-
troll in the county.
Persons in the city and county
we're asked to see that no water
is standing in such things as empty
cans, old automobile tires, abandon
ed bird baths, stopped-up rain gut
tiers and such.
The regular malarial control for
ces will start their work in the
next few days, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18

both the high and low hurdles,
Mengel. North Carolina. won the
second high hurdle heat, indicating
a one-two finish for the Tar Heels
in the high barriers in the finals.
MARGINS low hurdle time was "a
flat, a half second over the record.
William and Mary showed a good
timbertopper in Griffin Callahan
who a in the high hurdles and
won his low hurdle heat.
Dukes blue clad entries showed
their expected strength in the field
events, Lach leading in the shot put
with a heave of IS feet 8 81 in
ches, with Mania second; Lewis
leading in the javelin with 1SS
feet. 9 inches, with Lach second ;
Mania leading in discus with 14l
feet and Lach second. Lewis jave-
lin distance was expected to stand
up under the finals assault.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
Tar Heels, Duke And Maryland
Lead In Track Preliminaries

WILLIAMSBURG. Va, May II.
-R-North Carolinas defending
champions and the strong Duke and
Maryland contenders qualified their
leading entries without an upset in
the preliminaries of the 18th an
nual southern conference track
meet today.
Sprint and hurdle winners coast
ed home in most of the trial events
and the records YER not threaten
ed. Field event contestants also
worked considerably short of the
previous marks.
The afternoons biggest surprise
was the 100 yard first heat dash
performance Of Ernie Vail of Duke
who defeated Joe Murphy, Mary
lands defending champion and CO.
holder of the loop record. Wallis
time was 90, a tenth-second over
the record. Dick Little, South
Carolina high scorer in the 1888
meet with IS points, ran first in
the other 100 heat, second in the
220 dash heat and led the broad
jumpers with 20 feet, 2 inches.
The failure of N. C. States
Thompson to qualify in the 22O
yard dash was unexpected. He
had been breaking 20 seconds all
season but today ran third te
Dukes Vail and Maryland's A
Miller in the comparatively slow
time of 22.s. nv
Brown, OF Duke, former Maury
Norfolk, Va.) high star, stepped
the second 440 heat in sos, 8
creditable time for a track made
heavy by yesterdays rain. A. Mil
Ter of Maryland took the first heat
easily and a thrilling quarter was
IL prospect between these two
speedsters tomorrow.
Harry March, versatile NORTH
lCarolina entry, won his heats ii
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
M'BRIDE PITCHES
SIX HIT CONTEST
BUGS 1nfield Collapses Al
Visitors Score Easily On
Seven Safeties

The Wilmington Pirates infield
blew up last night and the Golden
Belt Athletic club, of Durham, took
advantage of every miscue to mark
UP a.9 to 3 victory over the Buc-
cancers in a game played at Le-
gion field.
Mack Mcbride, the Athletics hurl-
er, held the locals to six hits, one
a homer by Amos Carter, that
gave the BUGS their first two runs
Eddie Lowell went eight innings
for the BUGS, yielding five safeties
and six runs. Jack Shoaf hurled the
last stanza, giving up two hits and
three runs. A home run by Beck
of the visitors in the last frame was
nullified when he failed to touch
second base. However, three runs
had come in ahead of him.
For the first three innings ii
looked like a tight ball game. Then
in the fourth, Williams reached
first on an error and scored later
on a single by Hawkins, the first
hit for the visitors.
The Golden Belt boys combined
two singles and two errors with a
walk to notch up three markers in
the fifth. They added a singleton
in the sixth on a triple by Over
man. A hit, an error and a hit
hatsman netted another run in the
eighth. The AS final three mark
crs came on a walk, an error, a
single and Beck's four-ply blow.
After being held well in hand
for the first five innings, the ri.
rates scored. Johnny Smidt was
walked and Carter came up with
his homer. The locals threatened
again in the seventh when a passed
bali and two straight walks loaded
the bases. But Steffano hit into a
double play and pulled Mcbride out
Of a hole.
With two men out in the ninth,
both going down by the strikeout
route, Mcbride walked McKeithan,
Two successive errors enabled him
to score and place two men on the
bases. But Sellers grounded out tc
end what may have been a rally.
Lowell proved effective on the
mound, striking out 10 and walking
but one man. Mcbride famed
seven.
Hawkins with two for four, and
Beck with two for five, paced the
visitors at bat. Smidt with two fol-
two and S. McKeithan with one out
of two attempts led the Bucs al
the plate.
The Pirates resume play mex
Wednesday night, meeting the East
ern Carolina Teachers college nine
1t Legion field.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
Fishing Club Contest
Won By Billy DeCouer

Billy DeCover, of Wilmington, is
the winner of the first $40 cash
award for catching the first cham
mel bass weighing 40 pounds or
over, George Canady, secretary
treasurer of the New Hanover Fish
ing club, announced yesterday.
The bass. caught Thursday night
by DeCover while fishing at Rich's
Inlet with Jimmy Walton and Har-
ry DeCover, weighed AZ pounds, the
largest taken in the clubs zones
so far this year. The party also
reported the catch Of two other
bass, Weighing 80 and IS pounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
BRYAN SOUGHT

RALEIGH, May 17.-R-Gover-
nor Hoey today sent to Governor
E. D. Rivers of Georgia extradition
papers requesting the return of T.
C. Bryan, now under arrest in Mil
ledgeville, Ca, to Pitt county to
face a charge of abandonment and
non-support.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18
BUILDING RARRICADED

LONDON. May 17.-tR-A stout
barbed wire barricade today was
thrown around the Greystone ad-
miralty building, nerve center OF
the British navy. Khaki-clad SOL
aiers with bayenetted rifles guard
ed the entries. There was official
silence on the move but it was as
sumed to be a part of the lat the
ready" plan instituted since Nazi
paraehutists were employed SO suc-
cessfully in the invaded low eeun-
tries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18

is still a question.
Bumper Crop
There are perhaps more ROCKIES
held over after the roll slashlng
this year than in many years past.
Most of the youngsters have been
going like the proverbial houses
fire Often these same fellows
fold up in the heat OF the cam
paign.
June is the trying month. May
will lust about tell what a lad Will
do. but he will get his final test
when the clubs start breaking away
from the inside post and start
rounding the first turn IN the rack
End OF The Trail
A couple of days ago Manager
Leo Durocher of the Dodgers re-
leased one of the better baseball
pitchers of the past decade one
Wesley Terrell, the Tar Heel who
weaved a stormy trail through the
American league for many years.
Starting in 1929, the first year he
broke into the majors, Terrell won
q and lost 10. For the next three
years he won more than 20 games
a year, the first pitcher ever to set
such a record. With Cleveland,
with Boston, with Washington and
finally with the Yankees and the
Dodgers, Wesley was the man.
With the Yanks last year he didn't
do so good and the world champions
decided they could get along with
out him. Then the Dodgers picked
him up. He worked only one game
with the mthis year and his moth
ing ball was gone.
So now at 80 Terrell has come to
the end of his trail in the major
leagues. The trail of II years pitch
ing earned him something like
$500, 900. Some potatoes for an old
codger just turned 30. Terrell may
hitch on with some other club, but
we doubt it. He has earned his
rest by now.
Odds And Ends
Fans are acclaiming that the Lew
Jenkins.Armstrong bout is a natu-
raj. Reports have it that pic
lures of Duke players who will be
Starring on the gridiron next
fall have already been made and
are all ready to be dished out to
a notwithstanding public. >. If the
New Hanover Aces pull through
their match with Charlotte this
morning it will make their 10th
consecutive victory on the courts. .
to the Wake county N. C. State
Z too. A talk by Colonel Gillette
to the Wake county N. c. Stamp
alumni a few days ago in which
he warned them not to feel too COM
placent about the school, has STIR
red up quite a bit of favorable COM
ment and a determination to do
=. something about it, it seems.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-18

oCOic ny 1ilil1llSSs II II 4
Golden Belt $50 600 131 013-9 z
Wilmington - 600 0o2 001-3 6 {
Summary: Runs batted in: Haw'
kins, 2; Carter, 2; Beck, 2; Nor
ris. Two base hits: Sellers. Three
base hits: Overman. Home runs
Carter. Stolen bases: Stefano, S
McKeithan, Hawl.ins, Lowell. Dour
BILE plays: Mcbride to Durham to
Hawkins. Left ON bases: Colder
Belt, s; Wilmington, 9. Base on
balls: Off Lowell, 1; Mcbride, 6
shoaf, !, Struck out: BY Lowell,
10; McBryde, Z; Shoaf, !. Hits: Oft
Lowell, 5 in 8 innings; Shoaf, 2 in
1; McBryde, 6 in 9. Hit by pitch
er: BY Lowell, ((Hawkins). Passed
balls: Byrd and Durham. Winning
pitcher: Mcbride. Losing pitcher,
Lowell: Umpires: Baker and Grit
fifth. Time of game: 2:10.