davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-08-10

The Four Aces will be pleased to an
ewer letters from readers if 81 mped
3-centl. self-addressed envelope is in
closed with each communca ton, ad-
dressed to the Four Aces, care of The
Evening Star. If you desire the pocket
outline Of the Four Aces system of
Contract Bridge, send with your request
TO the Four Aces. care of The Evening
Star a stamped (3-cent), Self-ad-
dressed. large-size envelope and YOU
will receive an outline without any
charge
Evening star., 1940-08-10

Africa, in the Amazon Valley and
such islands as Java, Sumatra and
New Guinea.
Although the torrid zone has most
Of the very wet spots, the wettest
of all is little above the northern
limit of that zone. It is in the
Himalaya Mountains, about $50
miles north of Calcutta, India. This
"wettest of all spots" has about 400
inches of rain each year
Evening star., 1940-08-10
1eA Ray

II you wish to join the 1910
Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club send
me a Scent stamped envelope,
carefully addressed to yourself.
You will receive a membership
certificate, a leafiet telling how
to make scrapbook, and a
printed design to paste on the
cover. Address me in care Of
The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-08-10

Vests correct lead against game
contract in spades would have been
the king of clubs, but it was fatal
: error to lead it against the slam
contract.
South won with the ace of clubs
and drew two rounds of trumps, an
noyed but not in despair over the
unfortunate break. He then began
the hearts and managed to discard
all the diamonds by the time that
West was able to ruff.
We can draw a merciful curtain
over Easts remarks on his partners
slam leads but the substance of
them was this: When you have a
pretty sure trump trick, grab what
ever else you can get while the grab
bing's good.
West could rely on Souths rebid
to show at least two Of the three
spade honorS, and therefore should
4 have counted on winning a trump
L trick. Hence he should have opened
the ace of diamonds to make sure
of the setting trick before it got
away from him.
X X
Yesterday you we're Oswald ia
coby's partner and, not vulnerable
against vulnerable opponents, you
held:
40 1913
1852
HA54
IKQJ
I The bidding:
Burnstone You Schenken Jacoby
IA Pass 20 Pass
3A Pass 5A Pass
GA Pass Pass Pass
What did you lead?
Answer-Lead the diamond ace.
(This lead is discussed in todays ar
ticle)
Score 100 per cent for the diamond
ace, 80 per cent for the club king,
nothing for any other lead.
Question No. 522.
Today you are Merwin Maier's
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable you hold:
A J 10 30 -
095
N65
"A @ 1074
The bidding;
Maier Schenken You Burnstone
IA Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer Mon
day.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
BALLPLAYER

david Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D Maier.
Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken. worlds
leading team-of-four, inventors of the
system that has beaten every other sys-
tenn in existence)
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TYEE IS SCHEDULED
TO ARRIVE SATURDAY

Steamer Tyee sailed from Seattle
yesterday for Juneau and is
scheduled to arrive here Saturday.
There is one passenger aboard for
Juneau R. C. Chittick.
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PLANE MOVEMENTS

. Alaska Clipper scheduled to .
. fly from Seattle Thursday
. morning at 7:30 O'Clock for
o Juneau, returning south next
. Friday morning
. PAA Electra scheduled to fly
. south from Fairbanks Thurs
. day afternoon, returning to
Q Interior Friday morning.
. Planes scheduled to fly every
. morning at o'clock for Sitka, I
. weather permitting.
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HOLLYWOOD Sights hnd Sounds

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, s.-The fight for "Tropc
Sinners finished after nine days of shooting and the dis
pensers of blood makeup haven't worked overtime
For nine off and the antagonists been
Dietrich participant got
and thrown around the of it all Billy Gilbert,
innocent bystander himself killed"
rckle of blood from his lip got himself Knocked OUT
which is the plot device for saving his life
Crawford Oscar Homolka Mscha other participants
adherents of the bawng factions
their respective fates, but streaming with blood
Tay Garrett the director Tay thinks
little blood, enough for realism
gore the unwelcome to patrons
"Acrobac not is Garnetts
He likes flying tackles leaps victims below
bit OF iutsu and Irish the
action he doesn't upset
times especially audiences
blood There's of the thing flowing
makeup artists colodon pot thing sparingly
For all that has its parisans
instance Mixes from the conetnental making
On the continent they used to like their drppy
Maybe the that by now but
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-10-09
ATTENTION REBEKAHS

Regular business meeting Of Re
bekahs Wednesday evening at 8
All membSs are asked to bt
present.
KATHERINE HAHN,
adv Secretary.
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II You Must Be Life
OF Party, Don't Plan
Pay from lJntle Sam
Continued from Page One)


ing it in so far as civil service en-
ployees are concerned something
like 100000 can't begin to enumer-
ate the borderline cases. These
won't be classified probably until
the courts ION appeal from hear
ings) have had a whack at inter
preting the law
There are borderline violations,
too, which hardly can be imagined
until court precedence is estab-
lished, but it won't take that to
prove that the Hatch Act has
teeth. 1t has fangs in rows, and
they are SO sharp that any Fed
eral worker who gets over the
years without getting his hide
ripped off on them will have 20
pick his political way with cat
ton.
The amended Hatch Act dts
only a little more than two
months old not only made politi-
cal activity verboten but provided
for the Civil Service Commission
to define political activity" 1t
was not dictionary job, you can
bet, and it is just now that Chair
man Harry B. Mitchell of the
commission has gotten around to
pointing out to the Federal thou
sands just where some of these
big, bad teeth are.
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TIDES ToMcaRo
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
General Land Office
District Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska,
August %, 1910.

Anchorage, Alaska,
August %, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that
Chester Barnesson, has made final
proof on his homestead, Anchorage
serial 08351, for a tract of land
embraced in U. S. Survey No. 2306,
situated on the east shore of Gas
tineau Channel, about two miles
northwest of Juneau, on the Gla-
cier Highway, in latitude $4,000"
N. longitude 1874 % w. and it is
now in the files of the U. S. Lana
Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and #
no protest is filed in the district
land office, within the period Of
publication or thirty days there
after, said final proof will be ac-
cepted and final certificate issued.
GEORGE A. LINGO,
Register.
Date first publication, Oct 8, 1910.
Date last publication, Dec 4, l940
adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-10-09

THROUGH;
WESTWARD

The steamer Aleutian was in port
last night from Seattle with q
heavy list of arrivals from the
Queen City and Southeast Alaska
ports, but sailed Westward near
midnight with only three from
here.
from Seattle passengers were G.
Anderson, Mrs. Dorothea Bassett,
Mrs. Olaf Bedding, Lynn Bolding,
Joseph Bird, Isabella Bogden, H.
l.. Faulkner, F.. E. Gilchrist, Mrs.
r. A. Hollingsworth and child,
John Johansen, Mrs. F, M. Knox,
Vincent Kraft.
Mrs. N. Lee, Lois Martin, j. c..
Osborn, Mrs. George Parmenter,
Mrs. M D. Pearl, Mrs. D. L. Rey-
nolds, Cora Sue Reynolds, S. OAR
rell Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Riendeau, Mrs G.. w. Sundborg
and two children, Beverly Erickson,
Vivian Van zile, Albert Vile, VII
liam Wrede, c. ]. Krause.
From Winston Jones,
Miss NJ. Ulander.
From Wrangell-Deborah PentZ,
Evans Gurvyah.
From Petersburg-M and Ms.
F. w. Dolphin, I. A. Thatcher.
Sailing for Seward were John
Mclaughlin, Mrs. l.. Sibley Carl
Seppala.
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CAN'T TALK ABOUT 1T

For instance, any government
worker caught on the job even
discussing whether Wendell Will
kie or F.D.R. will be the next Pres
ident may find himself in the army
of the unemployed forthwith. I'm
der the Constitution, Congress can't
take away the right of free speech
off the job, but on the job-that's
different.
A Hatch acter's free speech,
even off the job, doesn't include
making political speeches, sec
onding motions in political assem-
blies, saying yea or nay in politi-
cal conventions, or otherwise talk
ing out of turn about anything
that has to do with party politics.
Election bets are out and TO
such an extent that even wager
ing a marshmallow flip on whether
the sheriff will get in again might
turn out to be ones cause of de-
parture.
Therell be no more flute-toOt-
ing at political rallies either-that
is, unless the worker is member
Of band that plays for hire and
the politicians hire it in the regu
lar manner If government workers
love a parade and the parade IS
political, they'll have to take it
from the sidewalk not from
the reviewing stand or the line Of
march. They can't wear or distri5-
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NOTICE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that hearing will be held before
the undersigned Probate Judge on
October 18th, 1910, at 1000 O'Clock
A. M, in the office Of the United
States Commissioner and Ex-
Officio Probate Court for the Sitka,
Alaska, commissioners Precinct,
upon the petition Of MARIE PET
4--soON tor her appointment as
Administrative of the estate Of f.
j. BATH, deceased and for the
issuance of Letters of Administra-
ton to her. All persons in inter
est are hereby required at said
time and place to appear or show
cause, if any they have, why said
petition should not be granted as
prayed for.
Witness my hand and official
Seal at Sitka, Alaska, this 23th
day Of September, 1940
WILLIAM w. KNIGHT,
United States Commissioner
and Ex-Officio Probate Judge
for Sitka, Alaska, Commits
sioner's Precinct.
Publication dates, Oct 2-3-4-5-7-
8-9-10-11-12, 1910. adv.
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PERCY'S CAFE
S T @ II
AT PEnCY'S CAFE
Breakfast Dinner or Light
Lunches
. DELICIOUS FOOD
. FOUNTAIN SERVICE
. REFRESHMENTS

Mike learning that how The continental
audience could take it ultimate
realism
When the decks the Hawk" spotty
with blood" that's Curtz realism. say
how wasn't M of the Dodge City"
it from Mike anytime the call
it. although he skip it in his like -Four
Daughters present preoccupation ought
to have lots of opportunities.
believe D W. Griffith who pioneered many other film
devices country
of He id Intolerance with that quick
flash of a soldiers
at the neck sleeping nights after
until learned just prop-head)
adults spinning their
Victor Fleming technique shock"
OF Gone with the that staircase episode which
Scarlet demonstrated maiden distress could a
pistol called quick flash of the results swift
transition to other
again.
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lSOIICE

AIRMAIL ENVELOPES. show. lg
aAr route from Seattle to Nome. on
sale at j. B. Burford & Co. adv.
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ute buttons or badges, pass out
campaign literature, fiddle with
campaign funds.
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MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
NORTHBOUND

0 Denali due Saturday.
. Tyee due Saturday.
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Pilots Make
Many Flights

Shell Simmons. Alex Holden and
John Amundsen were all to make
plane flights today.
Simmons flew Glen Hulen, w
Plett and Tom Morgan to Sitka,
while Alex Holden flew 800 pounds
of freight and one miner to TUT
sequah.
Amundsen was to make a flight
to Canyon Island with c. w. Nc
Crary and Holden was to go to
Haines with Burr johnson and c..
Keil.
Yesterday J. D. Reach was flown
in from Tenakee.
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CAN'T WORK AT POLLS

They can't serve at polls or give
voting Johnnies a lift in the Old
jaloppy. They can't write letters
to TIE editor or articles either
not even if they sign them simply
Loyal American"
This is only handful of the
Hatch acter's donts, but even
these should serve to show why a
million-cdd Federal workers are
on a spot this election year they
never wee on before.
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. Tyee due Saturday
SCHEDULED SAlLINGS
Q Princess Louise scheduled to
sail from Vancouver 9 p. m.
tomorrow.
yukon scheduled 70 sail from q
Seattle October IL at a. m.
Q Tongass scheduled sail from G
o Seattle October Is at a. m.
SOUTHBOITND sAILINGS
9 North Coast scheduled to ar q
rive from Seattle tomorrow q
morning but will not sail for Q
. Seattle until tomorrow even
ing.
. Alaska scheduled southbound q
o Friday.
. Aleutian scheduled Southbound q
. Monday.
. LOCAL SAILiNCS a
. Estebeth scheduled to sail every .
. Wednesday at p. m. for Sit .
. ka and wayports.
0 Dart leaves every Wednesday Q
0 at 7 a. m for Petersburg, Port o
. Alexander, Kake and way .
. ports. o
. .
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NOTICE

aIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing
air route from Seattle &c Nome, On
sale at j. b. Burforc s, Co. adv.
ELKS PURPLE BUBBLE BALL,
OCTOBER 10. adv.
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Last HaIibut
Sa|eIsMade

SEATTLE, Oct. 9.-Schooner Ex-
eel Second yesterday sold $4,000
pounds of palibut for 117s and 105s
cents a pound.
The sale was the last sale for
the 1910 season.
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CHAPTER 8

CLAY reached out and took her
hands in his, aware of a great need
to stem the current that was sweep
ing her along, away from MIN. He
said, March March. :"
But, she didn't hear him, didn't
feel his hands on hers. She said
ibreathlessly, brokenly, "This talk
it's made everything so clear to me,
@Clay. It's made me understand
.Brent's viewpoint. In trying to JUS
tify his actions to you, I've justified
them to myself. It's as though I've
managed to break through wall that
was separating me from Brent. I'm
on his side now, where I should have
been all the time-but for my blind
ness, but for my silly pride"
She was laughing now, with tears
starring her lashes. She was alive,
alert, determined. This was the
March Clay had known so long, had
loved so long &. and had lost again.
Or can a man lose what he has never
had, except in his own imagings and
desires?
She said, "Clay you must help me-!
There'll be so many things to do, so
many details to attend to. Furniture
to get rid of, the apartment to sub
lease-and I want to go soon, soon!
But first must burn my bridges, put
off the old life. / want to go to
Brent-free and eager. I want to
make him sure Of me, sure I'll never
fail him again. :"
She was scarcely conscious of the
man beside her. She was scarcely
conscious of anyone during the hur-
ried, hectic days that followed. Days
that were all too short for the end
less activity March tried to crowd in
to them, too long for her burning i'm
patience to be with Brent again. She
had decided not to write him of her
coming. Let her arrival be his first
hint of her capitulation.
81 know" Conchita said, her grin
teasing. "You want to see his face
all illumined with a fine glow of in
credulity."
Something like that, I suppose. ="
March smiled, flicking the ash from
her cigarette onto the rugless floor.
There was a sort of shine about
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stretched in an unbroken white ex-
panse from shore to shore.
He tried to lose himself in plans
for the future, more for his grand
mothers sake than for his own. But,
despite his efforts at concealment,
Abigail was aware of the restless un-
happiness that haunted his waging
hours. And the knowledge lay like
a weight on her valiant spirit, dim
ming her earlier delight at his COM
ing. One evening almost two weeks
after Brent's arrival, Sara Gregory
stopped at the Randolph house. The
early winter dusk was falling. Be-
yond Abigail's windows the snow was
softly blue. Brent had been stand
ing idly, looking out, when he saw the
slim figure in the dark red ski suit
trudging up the path from the road.
Curiously, the thought of Sara had
scarcely occurred to Brent until he
saw her. Nor had his grandmother
mentioned her except casually, saying
that she was well and that she had
been teaching the Keene's Point
school for the past three years. Sara
had not answered the letter Brent
wrote the night he met March. But
it had required no answer.
Continued next week
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ly blue. Here and there smoke from
an unseen chimney hung vertically in
the still air. And, after awhile, some
part of the beauty of the day and of
this country he loved entered into
Brent, crowding loneliness and bitter
young despair into a more compact
pain deep down within him, forming
over the wound a thin layer of scar
tissue. Almost without volition he
reached out for Abigail's hand and
held it close.
Later, alone with his grandmother
in the sunny living-room of her small
house, Brent told her about March.
Abigail took the news of his mar
riage quietly. And listened while he
tried to explain, justly and without
bias, the reasons for his wife's atti-
tude, the details of her decision to re-
main in the city. Abigail's troubled
gaze rested on his face, but Brent's
eyes were fixed on the dancing
flames in the stone fireplace.
There was a look of grimness and
defeat about his mouth, saying, "She
wasn't wrong, Gran, but neither was
I. The hellish part is, we're so diff
ferent- I love her so. I try to
put her out of my mind and I can't.
Once she said to me, I'll always come
between you and anything that tries
to keep us apart And that's how it
is But won't go back, I can't
go back to that way of living!"
His head bent forward until it rest
ed in his hands and the freight play
ed fitfully across his dark hair, his
broad, bowed shoulders. Abigail sat
rocking gently, her sewing forgotten
in her lap, her gnarled hands idle. Her
hair, that had once been as dark and
crisp as Brent's, was white now. And
she was old and the fire and passion
of youth had turned to ashes within
her. Her life was nearly done, few
years more, and years pass quickly
for the aged. But Brent was young
His life stretched out before him, end.
less, empty, without this girl he loved
This girl Abigail did not know and
yet who seemed to have gained sub.
stance from Brent's words, this lovely
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to dream. For the first time in days
she was really hungry. She ate an
excellent dinner just as dusk was
settling down. Now the windows
were frosted over, so that the train
was a little, rushing world, complete
in itself. 1t was warm and cozily
bright, still half-filled with passen-
gers. Outside were the eternal, wind
swept slopes, covered with snow and
with pines darketched against their
whiteness.
The train paused briefly at Keno
qua just after ten o'clock. March
was the only passenger to alight. She
stood on the deserted platform, her
bags about her, feeling the rush of the
moving train behind her, trying to
accustom her eyes to the bleak dark
ness of the Wisconsin night. The icy
wind bit at her face, her silk-clad
ankles. She Struggled more deeply in
to her coat, shivering in the relent-
less blast, fighting rising sense of
panic. There were no signs of life
along what seemed to be the main
street of the town. Store windows
were blank and dark. There were no
cabs.
The wind had whipped tears into
her eyes and now she caught her lip
hard between her teeth to still its
trembling. But light was burning in
the tiny station. March observed it
with a great relief and moved toward
it, her heels crunching in hard-packed
snow. Her fingers, fumbling at the
door knob, had already begun to grow
numb.
II Il
Watching her grandson swing down
from the train in the clear morning
sunlight, Abigail Randolph offered up
a silent prayer of thankfulness. She
had awaited this moment for years
this moment when Brent would return
to her, with no shadow of impending
separation to darken that homecom-
ing. Her eyes explored his familiar
features hungrily. Thinner, he was
The city had done that to him. And
there was something about his eyes
the grim set of his mouth before he
saw her and smiled {. He didn't look
too happy, Abigail thought. Had the
city done that to him, too?
She said simply, Brent :" AND
felt her slight form lifted in a great
embrace, felt the warm firmness OF
his cheek against her softly withered
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one. Her feet, in their sensible fleece
lined arctics, dangled a good six inch
es above the snowy platform. Her
wooden cap was pushed askew. But
Abigail didn't care. Brent was home.
Brent's arms were close about her,
unfolding her frailty with hard young
strength.
He set her down carefully. His
voice was little gruff with feeling.
"Gran, you shouldn't have come to
meet me in this weather. I could
have got lift from someone"
whats wrong with the weather."
Abigail wanted to know. "And why
should you get a lift, with the car
standing in the garage, as good as the
day it was bought, and me paying
Hank Waters to do my chores and
drive me wherever I want to go
and wanted to meet YOU" Her black
eyes were suspiciously bright, her
pale old lips trembled slightly. ooh,
Brent, my dear, it's good to have you
home"
Brent said, cts good to be home. u
He grinned down at her, tucking
her mittened hand beneath his arm
But he was relieved when Hank
Waters rushed up, to clap him on the
shoulder, to wiring his hand in well
come. There were so many things
ne wanted to tell his grandmother
But not now, not here. And already
Abigail seemed to sense the constraint
in his manner.
Hanks face weakened between the
earflaps of his sealskin cap his wiry
old body, muffled in sweaters and
overcoat, seemed twice it's normal
size. He exclaimed, "Well, Brent, you
young son of gun! So you're back
for good"
He ratified on cheerfully, slowing
Brent's bags in AbigaiPs car, the
same car she had had when last Brent
visited her. 1t was so old as to ap-
pear almost ludicrous according to
modern standards of streamlining
But that, Brent knew, wouldn't mat
ter to his grandmother. So long as
any article was disable, Abigail USED
it, prompted not by penuriousness, mol
even by an active contempt for style
but rather by supreme unawareness
of fashion as a motivating force.
Brent climbed in beside Abigail anc
Hank wedged himself under the whea
and they were off with a prodigious
roar of the ancient motor.
Hank talked on and on, about e.
verything and nothing, and Brent wa.
grateful for his garrulousness. Il
gave him time to adjust his bruised
spirit to once familiar scenes, to ole
associations. Above encroaching ranks
of spruce and pine the sky was serene
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Lemon Juice Recipe
Checks Rheumatic
PainRQuickIy

If you suffer from rheumatic, ar
thrills or neuritis pain, try this
simple inexpensive home recipe that
thousands are using. Get package
of Ru-Ex Compound today. Mix it
with a quart of water, add the juice
of A lemons. It's easy. No trouble at
all and pleasant. You need only 2
tablespoonfuls two times day. Often
within 4S hours-sometimes overnight
splendid results are obtained. If the
pains do not quickly leave and if you
do not feel better, Ru-Ex will cost you
nothing to try as it is sold by your
druggist under an absolute money
back guarantee. Ru-Ex Compound 10
for sale and recommended by Lloyd &
Blaine.