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Evening star., 1941-08-14
UP TO KILLEE|
by Kelley Roos.

You know what I told him and what
he said to me. I thought you had"
She stopped and then went on again
defiantly. II don't care though. 1t
doesn't matter to me what caves
droppers think"
IF you don't like people to over
hear you, Alice, you should keep
your voice down to shout"
"End you think it was ruthless OF
me, don't you? Maybe it was, but
I could play Eve North's part. !
could play it beautifully"
jeff smiled. You're sore because
Bowers wouldn't let you play all the
parts. You're not Cornelia Otis
Skinner"
I smothered a chortle but Alice
didn't move muscle. I was afraid
she was about to gouge Jeff's eyes
out. Il was promised Carols part"
she said.
What" I squeaked. This was
one conversation I was enjoying be-
ing safely out of. but this was too
much news for me.
Yes, I read for Bowers and he
liked me. I was to sign the contract
the day that Blanton walked in and
swept him of his feet. With her
sexy voice"
"Okay, Alice. you are Cornelia,'
jeff said, laughing. You could do
anything in the show"
Evidently Bowers thought so or
he wouldn't have engaged me as
general understudy."
Quite a coincidence that you
should almost get to play Carols
part after all. You would have II
you hadn't left the theater just be-
fore curtain time. That was a fool
ish thing to do, Alice"
Alice Frightened.
Jeff's invitation to confidence was
so obvious that I blinked and even
Alice loked at him with contempt.
Her mouth settled in a straight line.
What did you want to ask me,
Mr.. Troy?"
"Oh, just few routine questions,
jeff said airily. Cant we sit
down somewhere? I'm much better
at this sort of thing sitting down. "
Taciturnly, she STEPPED down from
the landing and led us across the
hall and into an adjoining room
where she sat straight-backed on
a piano stool, her eyes on the wall
opposite her. With a sigh OF bored
resignation she said. "All right
Play detective, Mr.. Troy"
JEFF smiled with difdculty. where
were you, Alice, when Eve North
was stabbed last night?"
1--WE told the police at least a
hundred times. Must you ask stupid
questions like that?"
Sorry, must"
Alice sighed again and started
reciting. II was in the extra dress
ing room on the third floor. I was
reading a script and my door was
closed and the first thing heard
Haila shrieking bloody murder.
Evening star., 1941-08-14

Jen looked at me questioning
ly. I shrugged my shoulders. Alice
will have to tell us what about
Tommy Nelson. I don't know"
Don't be naive" Alice snorted
Tommy is eating his heart out
for Blanton and she's stringing him
along, playing him for all he's got
I almost laughed aloud at her
accusation. THAT isn't true, Alice
it's absurd. When a girl goes cut
gold digging she doesn't pick one
of the poorest people in all New
York. And poor Tommy doesn't
have a thing"
That's what makes it SO hor-
rible. I suppose you think she's
capable of loving him for himself.
Loving Tommy" I did laugh
then. why, Alice, she hardly
knows him. He's no more to hel
than Philip Ashley or Clint Bow
ers or Nick, the doorman."
Alice, tell me something" JEFF
said quietly. "Are you and Tommy
E. are you Just real good friends?'
Il should have known youc
think that! No. We like each other
we understand each other. Toms 6
real person; he's going to NEAR
something to the theater one o.
these days. That's why I hate u
see him thrown around by schem
ing little parasite like Blanton, /,
cheap little -"
Alice, you're going to make m,
Evening star., 1941-08-14

"You should have told Tommy
you were going"
He >. he wouldn't have let me
CO." she mumbled.
JEFF said, II think you had better
come clean, Alice. 1t will help in
the long run. The police aren't very
sympathetic toward people who keep
secrets"
She stood up, her back to us, and
slid the palm of her hand dis
cordantlY over the piano keys. The
police don't know about that.
Tommy won't tell them. And unless
you or Haila ="
"Haila wouldn't tell on you," JEFF
said. But I would"
She turned and her eyes went to
Jeff's face and then, uncertainty
to mine. She opened her mouth and
closed it. At last she said: mo, it's
none of your damn business why ]
did 1t. It's important only to me. !
don't know who poisoned Carol
Blanton, though God knows there
ought to be plenty of people who'd
like to. A little parasite who uses
the theater as steppingstone, who
cares nothing about it. -"
New Angle.
7 was tired of hearing Carol kick
ed around. Carol loves the theatel
and she loves to act. You've got hel
all wrong, Alice"
Have I? What about Tommy
/ Neilson?"
Evening star., 1941-08-14

think that you hate Carol, and hate,
you know, leads to murder. Hate
and jealousy. You can't prove that
you didn't poison Carol and murder
Eve, just like a lot of other people
can't, so if I were you I wouldn't
talk this way"
Alice clenched her fists, her face
deathly pale. I'm not jealous Of
her and don't hate her wouldn't
take the chance Of running my life
by killing her. She isn't worth it.
Now please leave me alone"
She almost ran from the room.
We could hear her stumbling up
the stairs and second later a door
slammed above us. looked at JEFF.
"C'mon," he said. There might
be some fresh air outside"
There was too much. The wind,
tipping viciously down Fifty-third
street, caught me with my hands
up and a taxi driver stopped his
cab to watch me collect my skirts.
JEFF strobe up to- the grinning
moron.
/ shouted: mo, Jef1! Don't make
a scene!"
Continued tomorrow
Evening star., 1941-08-14

Extension Of the Pan-American
highway is linking many new Latin
American frontiers and communi-
ties
Evening star., 1941-08-14

don't forget Pepsi Cola il
in big, big IL ounce bottles
.. more for your money.
Take home a handy 6-bottls
Home Carton today.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
DOUBLES MEALTIME PLEASURE

10 Pepsi-Cola on your grocery
list? It should be. Serve 1t
Iced. at lunehtime, with
dinner or make 1t the center
OF your midnight snack. And
Evening star., 1941-09-28
First of Liberty Fleet Ships,
Patrick Henry, Is Launched
Mrs. Wallace Christens Forerunner
Of 3ll Similar Cargo Vessels at Baltimore

( Shipyard workmen rushed to the
scene and guided in into place. 1t
was the beginning of the keel for
sister ship.
Next to the Patrick Henry's berth
was another shipway, holding an
other vessel which in few weeks
will be ready to follow. and so on
up the long line as far as the eye
could see, for the goal in this yard
is a ship a week.
Workmen Paid Tribute.
And to the men engaged in this
important task high tribute was
paid by A. B. Homer, president of
the shipyard Admiral Land and
Senator Radcliffe, Democrat, of
Maryland. Mr.. Homer said Ne was
proud of the men who designed and
built the ship and felt sure their
loyalty, spirit and ability will rise
to the demands of the Nation.
Senator Radcliffe said both owners
of ships and workers in shipyards
have shown, on the whole, a very
patriotic spirit and have co-operated
heartily in carrying out the con-
struction program. But he added:
See to it we must and will that the
building of our ships is never
jeopardized by lack of requisite
materials nor by unsettled con-
troversies between capital and labor
1t is desirable, it is essential, that
our building program move along
efficiently and rapidly"
The launching of the Patrick
Henry was in an appropriate set
ting, Senator Radcliffe remarked.
1t is a convincing symbol, he said,
that the United States continues to
hold fast to the doctrine of the
freedom of the seas, a doctrine, he
AIDED, which many years ago man
of Maryland, Stephen Decatur, en-
forced on the Barbary pirates of
North Africa.
Maryland, he declared, has played
an outstanding role in the history
of American shipping adding that
probably no ship was ever more
graceful than the Baltimore Clipper,
typified by the Anne McKim, or
better known throughout the world
A large percentage of the American
Evening star., 1941-09-28
BY WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY,
Star Staff Correspondent.


BETHLEHEM EM-FAIRFIELD SHIP
YARD, BALTIMORE, Sept. 81
Overlooking the waters where the
Star Spangled Banner was born in
fight to maintain the liberty of
the colonies, a new ship, christened
the Patrick Henry after the patriot
who also fought for liberty, today
slipped into the Patapsco River, a
step farther toward service to re-
tain freedom that is again threat
ened
The Patrick Henry was the first
Of the Liberty Fleet, a group of 3l2
vessels speedily designed and more
speedily built than any ship of its
type ever constructed. Five months
after her keel plates were laid, she
Is in the water.
To Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife
OF the vice president, fell the honor
of crashing against the vessels stem
the red white and blue ribboned
bottle of champagne.
Mrs. Wallace, with her matrons
OF honor, Madame Bruggman, wife
of the Minister of Switzerland and
sister of the Vice President, and
Mrs. Robert H. Jackson, wife of the
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, posed, for camera men for
many minutes prior to the launch
ing.
Christened With a Crash.
AS Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
chairman of the Maritime Commits
sion, concluded his address with fe-
Icltations for the sponsor and
salute to the Patrick Henry, the
starting jacks gave the ship nudge
AS it started moving, Mrs. Wallace
held the neck of the bottle, gave it
resoundlng crash, and the tiny
bubbles trickled down the stem as
the ship rode smoothly down the
ways.
A mighty cheer went up from
the crowd, the band played the Star
Spangled Banner, and the harbor
tugs, Coast Guard patrols and pleas
ure craft in the river sent up blasts
from their whistles which kept up
for several minutes AS the ship
foated stern-first into the Patapsco,
yard tugs took her in tow to the
flttlng-out dock where she will be
completed and ready for service
by December IL, as a part of the
great bridge Of ships destined to
break the backs of the Axis powers.
Doves Garry Message to President.
AS the starting jacks showed the
ship on its way, a score of doves
f1uttered from under its towering
nose, circled several times over
the epoch-marking vessel, and
started northeastWard for the Naval
Air Station at Lakehurst, N. j.,
bearing a message from Admiral
Land to President Roosevelt, no.
tifying him of another step in
the goal of two ships a day set for
1912 and 1943.
Evidence of the speed of the pro-
gram was observed at the launch
ing. Even while the great ship
awaited her start a giant travelling
crane held over her a monster steel
plate, in each of the four corners
of which was a small national en-
sign.
AS the nose cleared the center
point of the ways, the crane slowly
dropped the plate as a score of
Evening star., 1941-09-28

Of yard tugs. showed a hull with
graceful stream lines, which will
enable her to cut through the water
with little resistance. Her super
structure, perhaps, will not whet the
esthetic tastes of modern shippers,
Schooled to expect streamlined deck
houses and smart tunnels, raked aft.
But these are rather frills for the
admiration Of the passenger trade
that require more time to design,
still more time to fabricate, and con-
tribute nothing.
Even her engines will be old -timey,
a type long ago cast aside for the
Evening star., 1941-09-28

ships active in the War of 1872,
both in commerce and combat, were
built in aBltimore, he reminded.
Among the most famous of these,
he said, was the Constellation.
The Patrick Henry and all the
ships of her class to follow are
in that group designed in a rush
to meet an emergency demand.
In their blueprint stage they were
denominated the ugly ducklings," ;"
but later more dignifedly called
Liberty Ships"
The Patrick Henry, as she glided
through the water under the push
Evening star., 1941-09-28
"A. P. Wirepwhotos.

Georgetown and was closely associ-
ated with contractors in all parts
of the city. He was president of
the Georgetown Business Mems As
sociation two years ago, and after
ward went to Bethesda and set up
in business. He was a member Of
the Masonic order and the Amer
lean Legion.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs
Gladys Gulick: a sister, Miss Effie
Gulick; and three brothers, George
Gulick of Washington, Emmett
Gulick of Kittanning, Pa, and Will
liam Gunck of Savannah, Ga.
Evening star., 1941-09-28

more modern, more efficient and
speedier steam turbines and diesels.
Her power plant and those Of her
sisters will be triple-expansion, re-
ciprocating type. They can be built
without upsetting other parts Of the
defense program, and in plants
which have no other work. They
will drive them just as we'll to their
goals, but not as fast. But what
each lacks in speed will be made
up in the numbers which will be
turned out under the ntw-method
program of fabricated plates, with
welded instead of bolted seams, and
Evening star., 1941-09-28
Thomas 5. Gu|ick Rites
Al Bethesda Tomorrow

Thomas S. Gulick, business man
widely known in Georgetown and
Bethesda, Nd, died Thursday night
at his home in Bethesda.
Funeral services will be at IL
am. tomorrow at the home, with
burial in Arlington National Gene
terry.
Mr.. Gulick for years operated the
Potomac Builders Supply Co. in
Evening star., 1941-09-28

with a saving of steel by butting the
plates instead Of overlapping them
Hundreds of persons from Wash
ington and other points on the East
Coast were guests of the shipbuild-
ers at the launching. A special train
from Washington carried officia.
guests, and another from Baltimore
carried people from that point
These were all admitted to the
launching program, and thousands
Of others watched the great ship
slide down the ways from the ground
a hundred feet below.
Evening star., 1941-10-19

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Celina, Mrs. Lenore Hullinger of Ii
ma, Mr.. and Mrs. John Augsburger
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Larue.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Kramer and Mr.
and Mrs. Scott Kramer spent last
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Maus at Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Mrs. Emma Barber is spending
several weeks with Mrs. Gordon
Young.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pursley and family
moved on a farm which they purchas.
ed recently near Mt. Cory.
The Vesperian S. S. class was en-
tertaiued Wednesday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur rugh
Those present were Rev. and Mrs. w
H. Webster, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Jen
nings, Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Huber
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Trout, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Ernest Hall and family, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Russell Brackney, Mrs. Wilbur
Sumney and children, Mrs. Ed. Cook
Mrs. Russell Wolfe, Mrs. Harmon
Downey, Mrs. Everett Rowland, Mr.
and Mrs. Gail Arnold, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Hall.
Mrs. Mae Stewart of Sturgis, Mich
is spending a few days with Mrs
Rosa Stoodt.
Mrs. |. C. Paul attended Homecom
ing, Sunday at the Pleasant iVey
! church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Younkman an
family of West Unity were Sunda.
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Moser
Mr.. and Mrs. O. M. Pash of Tro.
were Sunday dinner guests of Nh
and Mrs. w. d. Daily.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Davis of Cleve-
land were Saturday visitors of Mrs.
Synthia Elliott and Mrs. Meta Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darst Yant of Giles
pie, H., visited the past week with
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
c. Yant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Print Kilgore of Col
umbus visited Friday with the latter's
mother, Mrs. Mary Zeiders.
Dwight Yarger of Camp Custer,
Mich is ejoying 12-day vacation with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Yarg-
er.
Orin Grant and daughter Evelyn
and Mrs. Sam Law of Tulsa, Okla,
visited the past week with Mrs. VIM.
Lenney.
Phillip Piper spent few days the
past week with Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon
Foltz.
The members of the Junior and Sen
ior class of the High School spent
Saturday in Columbus and attended
the Ohio State Purdue football gone.
Last Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Amstutz and daughter
Evelyn were Mr.. and Mrs. George
Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wright
of Spencerville, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Amstutz and daughter of Akron, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Amstutz and family
Mr.. anr Mrs. j. E. limerick and Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Amstutz and family
Rev. and Mrs. Dwight Nichols OF
Johnstown, Pa, were Tuesday visi-
tors of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Sum
ney.
The Farm Women's Improvement
club held their annual guest day al
Gratz Grange hall on Thursday after
noon. Judge Raymond P. Smith OF
Lima was the guest speaker.
The Women's Society of Christian
Service of the Methodist church will
sponsor a Father and Son banquet or
Wednesday evening, October 20 in the
basement of the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Arnold enter
tanned last Sunday, Mrs. Emma Baker
of Chicago, Miss Christine Baker o.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

there were times when the supplies
ran low and canned foods were sub
stituted. West also did clerical work
during combat operations. Routine
reports of advancement in position,
reports of casualties and other mat
ters Of a similar nature were hand
led by West.
LIFE MAGAZINE
A report of the war games was
given in recent issue of the Life
magazine. The presentation was
highly accurate, West pointed out,
except for the report that the Blue
army won. No official verdict has
been given by the war department
on the outcome of the maneuvers,
he stated.
Although the war games relieved
monotony of training, the boys were
glad to get back to the drill and
routine of camp life.
Back at the camp increasing atten-
ton is being given to the recreation
al needs of the soldiers. Various
athletic games are provided and
store is maintained where soldiers
may buy candy, tobacco, beer and
other needs. Re
ARMY DANCES
A dance is given for the soldiers
every Saturday night but with thous-
ands of soldiers on the grounds and
only few hundred girls for dane
ing partners one does not get to
dance very long at a time, West
stated. Music at the dances is pro-
vided by regimental dance bands.
AS battery clerk West makes out
the pay roll, has charge of the filing
system and assists in the numerous
details of regimental business. AS
clerk he is not required to partici-
pate in drill. Life in camp has
agreed with the Bluffton youth as
he has gained about II pounds since
engaging in camp activity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
War Maneuyers Are
Relief To Routine
Bluffton Boy States
Continued from page /

11OliA43Ae0 AI8iA HaSC
members of the National Guard with
only small number of selectees.
West took part in the Red versus
Blue army maneuvers fought on
swampy Louisiana terrain. Camp
Forest men were part of the group
known as the Red army under Gen.
eral Lear. The maneuvers simu-
lated actual war conditions and last
ed SO days from August 16 to Sep
tember 80. The games took place
on the same territory as used by
General Pershing during the World
War.
ARMY UMPIREs
All guns use blank ammunition
and airplanes use sacks of flour in
their bombing attacks. Wherever the
flour sacks fall the area is consid-
cred bombed and all soldiers within
a certain area are considered killed
Umpires determine the casualties re-
sulting from the use of machine
guns, cannon, howitzers and all types
of guns.
AS in actual warfare scouts are
sent to the front and report back to
the gunners from observation posts.
Vests division operated about six
miles back of the front lines. With
the help of the observation posts
distances were calculated and inn
portant enemy positions were hit.
HowITzERS ACCURATE
The 155 nm. howitzers are highly
| accurate anywhere within a range of
IL miles and fairly accurate up to
Is miles. The guns throw a shell
six and one-fourth inches in di-
ameter If the guns happen to hit
bridge or a company of soldiers
they are declared destroyed by the
umpire. Whether an object is hit
or not is determined by mathemati-
cal calculation based on the deflec-
tion and elevation of the guns in re-
lation to the object.
Army ordnance experts are able
to determine where the missiles would
have hit had the guns been really
loaded instead of using only blanks.
The machine gunners arc the sol
diers who are in the dangerous spots,
West stated. They are usually at
the fanks of the advancing lines and
are often alone and in exposed spots.
DIVE BoMBERS
Many airplanes and dive bombers
took part in the attack and valuable
experience was gained in coordinat-
ing land and air units. During ma
| neuvers life is no bed of roses, West
pointed out. Practically all of the
movements of the army are made
at night under black out conditions
The truck and tank drivers are es.
pecially under a strain since tht
terrain is unfamiliar and the lanC
is swampy. Hundreds of tons o.
equipment and supplies must con
stantly be on the move in modern
mechanized warfare.
For two nights it rained continu
ously in drenching downpour anC
Vests tent was located on a hill
with the result that the boys were
completely soaked. Most of the next
day was spent in drying out equip
ment and clothes.
USE HAMMoCKS
Adding to the discomfort during
the entire maneuvers were mosqui
toes, jiggers and snakes. The jig
gers came to be such a problem thai
the boys could no longer sleep on the
ground and improved hammocks were
made for better sleeping arrange
ments.
For the most part the food was
good during the war games, although
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
Boy Scout News
Bv Robert Stratton

Gene Patterson was installed into
Troop 56 as a tenderfoot Monday
night.
John Schmidt was named on the
executive board of the unior Lead
ers conference to be held at Ohio
Northern university in Ada on No
vember /.
The troop at the present time is
engaged in project of making
fancy designs on plyboards.
Members of the troop are looking
forward to attending the Ohio State
Northwestern football game at Co
lumbus, Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
Oil for the Buttons

Button controls on the dash, such
as the choke, are disposed to be-
come difficult to operate with the
passage of tirne-a drop of light ma
chine oil will effect quick correc-
ton Of the condition, according to
automobile experts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
Registration System

To help in identifying and in To-
eating bodies of climbers, superin-
tendents of all national parks have
been asked to install a registra-
ton system for climbers before they
start out.