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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-17

That's right"
Hallie'S voice might have been
her mothers. "Then if she's an old
friend, Eric, I don't quite see your
saying that she isn't your type of
girl. We don't say things like that
about our friends"
What l meant to say Was-Well,
Halle, I'm not in a position to say
anything to you yet about you and
me, but 1 wanted you to know
that :"
Halle waited q very long time,
then she said softly, You wanted
me to know that shes not your
eirl?"
You heard what Toby said" he
said intentionally.
"Oh. yes" she said You don't
have to talk about it any more"
He gave a small sigh of relief.
Just as long as you understand.
It's important for you to under
stand, Halle"
why, Eric?"
Don't you knows"
I'm not sure that I DO"
DO you want to hurry it, dar-
ling?"
She didn't know what she want
ed. 1t wasn't very much, she
thought. 1t was enough to know
from these slight words that Eric
shared this wonderful something.
He die.
She said softly, Eric, have you
ever been in lOve?'
"Not-not BEFORE" he said. And
then Tommy Wooley shouted to
them that they We're driving back
and to hurry up or they'd be left.
Halle didn't sleep that night.
She lay awake with a song setting
up such a clamor in her heart that
she didn't want to miss a minute of
its melody.
1t was a song that was with her
day and night until tour days, when
Louise W~itherspoon came by at
lunch and said, Il can't stay a min
ute. I'm meeting Toby at the club
for lunch. Isn't it too wonderful.
Halle? I've had an afternoon date
with him every day ana a late
date. after the show, every night. l
just knew that awful Shoila per
son wasn't his girl, Wait until
tell you THAT story,'
HALLE felt her throat TIGHTEN.
You mean it was an actH He was
coNerinr COVERING someone
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-17
CHAPTER SIX

LOUISE WAS her very best
friend. Theys shared their frst
toys. gone to the dentist together
to get their braces adjusted. They'd
been roOm-matcs at Miss Maid
stones school. They'd gone to their
first dance together and confessed
their mutual passion for Warner
Baxter and the captain of the high
school football team. Louise had
told Halle about the terrible .ime
She went to the Princeton game and
got really drunk on two cocktails.
And Halle borrowed moTev from
Louise the time she played bridge
with the young couple from some
Where-stranGers, of course-and
lost $50 gambling, and was afraid
to tell her family how she'd been
gambling.
But when Louise asked her point
blank if she was falling in love
with Eric Adams, she couldn't tell
her the truth.
Louise said, Nov Halle, l want
you to tell me exactly how YOU feel
about Eric before I tell you what
Toby said"
After that Halle couldn't say
she woke up every morning think
ing: He's here, right in this house.
| Shall sit at the breakfast and
luncheon and dinner table with
him. l shall see him in the garden
and halls and rooms, and every
thing hereafter will be associated
with him. She couldn't say that the
flowers were more fragrant and the
sur more golden because something
inside of her was more sharply
awe of everything living and
transient. She couldn't say that a
day was not just q day in which one
did this or that-it was & precious
pocket Of time to be filled with de-
lighted aWareness.
So she said, Il don't believe that
either you or I know anything
about love yet, Louise. AS for fall
Ing in love with Eric, can't you see
that were very good friends? And
you know why he is here. He's OH,
guest
Maybe you don't know anything
about love, but l think l do
Louise answered dreamily. after
Dick and Hal and Jimmie and Kel.
sey, l meet Toby and I discover
after two dates that I've planned
my whole life, bridesmaids, a color
scheme for the living room, schools
for the children. q present for Toby
on our twentieth wedding anniver.
sary, and what We'll do when Toby
retires from the theater at the age
of so"
You certainly are forcsighted,
Halle said. Does Toby know
this? Or haven't you planned it to
gether?" She wished She coulC
keep on talking, to sta ~ VIII.
she knew was conine,.
Dear Ele, no. i1r ) smart
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-17

rly," but l don't think much q
these tactics
Louise's temper finally ran away
with her. You don't Wen. what
do you think Of your sp.uclpss Lie
who allows his friend to take his
troublesome girl friend of his
hands? What do you think Of
Eric's just walking out on little
Shcila and not giving her So much
as a telephone call while he enjoys
your elegant hospitality Il seems
to me that if | We're in your shoes,
I wouldn't take such a naughty
stand about it. l might even ask
myself if he didn't have some kind
of a game"
I'm not going to quarrel with
you, Louise. You're all mistaken
about Erie
Louise picked Up her knitting
bag You seem to be mistaken
about him yourself. And about
yourself, Incidentally"
what do you mean by that?"
Il mean that this was all a line
about your being friends You're
head Over heels III love with him.
He al do no wrong! And all the
angels in heaven couldn't make you
see him in his true light"
What is his true light?" Halle
asked with dangerous calmness.
ooh, he's good looking, and he
has charm and manners. But he is
selfish and ruthless and he's the
kind of boy who'll go right on do
ing to others what he's done to
Sheila. She doesn't mean a thing
to me, but | just don't like a man
who takes what a girl has to give
and then Giscards her the way
Fric's obviously done. He'd do it to
you, too, Halle.
Hallie's glance had been fixed on
q patch of sunlight on the wall
back of Louise, but when her friend
stopped speaking, it was on a brok-
Ell note and Halle saw that there
were tears in her eyes.
Guess I've made a mess Of a
beautiful friendship, talking this
way to you, Hal. My feeling for you
ran away with me-. Forgive me"
Halle went yer to her and,
squeezing herself onto the chair
with her, the way she'd done since
they were six, said, II know,
Louise. Maybe what you say is
true. Eric is different from us, in
lots Of N-nyc He hasn't had the
same bringing up. He's had to get
by on his own. We don't know
what we'd be like under those cir
cumstances. He's young, but he's
incapable of doing anyone any
harm. Sheila-or me. l just know
that"
Louise looked at her long and
hard and she said, You have really
: got it pretty badly, haven't you?"
!, $50 badly that I'd marry him to-
morrow, if he asked me-"
: your mother doesn't like him.
Louise said desperately.
Il know" Halle answered after
a moment. But that wouldn't stoI
me, either. Louise, when a girl get;
the feeling l have, the sure knowl
l edge that she'd be good for a man
Y that she knows she could help hin.
she just has to marry him if hi
G wants her"
That night Eric asked Halle t.
marry him.
ITO Be CsntinuCd)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-17

course 1 believe it."
Perhaps it was true, Perhaps
Sheila was Toby's girl. OF course,
And Eric, bless him, knew that
Halle wouldn't find her exactly the
sort Of girl she knew, That was
why Eric had been embarrassed
when Sheila got out of the taxicab.
Halle beamed at him.
Ed Hartford said, you girls
finally breaking up that knitting
session? How's for everybody com
ing over to my place for a big
steak cooked outdoors?"
Eds party grew, and they were
ten when they got to the cabin in
the woods which was Eds studio.
In spite of what he called his
Handicap" Eric did more than his
part in getting the supper ready.
Halle watched his activity as
proudly as if she had created him.
Everyone, she noted, pleased, like
him. He vas really one Of them
not, as her mother continued to
suspect, different in any way from
the sort of people who were her
kind. Not the sort of boy who
would have a girl like Sheila. She
felt a little sorry for the other girl.
There was a moon. Fortunately
there always seems to be a moon
for such a party. There were stars
and the glow from the fire in the
big stone hearth. SO. of course,
there was music.
Eric sang, too, but when the old
familiars gave way to college
songs, Eric moved over to Halle
and said, Lets take a walk.
There's something I want to say
to you"
1t was just as if she hadn't felt
he knitting needle in her heart
earlier. The song was there again
while she waited.
ITS about Sheila," Eric said.
"If it's about her coming this aft
crnoon, it's quite all right. Don't
you think I made her feel wei
Gomez"
Eyes, I'm sure you did. Sheila's a
good kid, Halle.
Have you known her long?
Three years. Once, when | was
broke, l had to take a job in a
cho-in a show. She was in it.
"Oh, Halle said.
80 you sec were old acquain-
%tanCeS."
Eyes. l see"
"She isn't your kind Of Girl :.
or mine"
Halle said, Bat she is an old
friend 2"
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Ma RTE BLIZ ARD


and I think he'll catch on. Hes
smarter than l am, because, if
you'll remember, really thought
that he meant what he said about
Shcila's hv.uI his girl
An eight. Louise, let's have the
story"
ooh, dear, I'd forgotten. OF
couisr, Halle. if you had a crush
on Eric, l wouldn't tell you. But
s,ace you haven't. you might as
Well know, Shyila used to be Eric's
girl
tiallle fclt only half the load
IiEhtcn. USED TO BE! 1t was that
phrase that made 1t tighten, but
almost at once she was remember
ing the way that Enc had let her
believe what Tpby'd said. He hadn't
actually said Shrila was Iobys
Slfl. what mad he SAID? She re-
memhered clearly. He'd said, You
heard what loby sald!' But that
made IT almost all rlght.
But Louise was going on, Il
guess Eric was ashamed of her.
Eric is aWfully youthful in some
ways. OF course, don't really
blame linn for that DAY. I can see
why he wouldn't want to nave you
two met
Wee thew engaged?" Halle
ASKED.
Nei'' not engaged doh know
"''at | ere was between lheh'. But
SPh,''il,IS' ueaF, something's nc
r9,,'t ,35 Saw 1l'c'," 'I's 'i"dyS
a;,I .'' % Nv u.
sSon,o 'ma an5 s CIV, 49, t, 49,
a,r.a,a - 49, '' t,'a - +h 'is csS :
u.a,1}~ aaa 49, ou xxx pHr
v].o11,s e paeou w.. n,iJn't
take ,fc. 1t seems hat Boswell
thinks .hcila las pretty GOOD nos.
sihilitits as an actress. so he agreed
to briI.uing Eric. Now. mind Won
Halle. what I'm saving about Fri,
isn't AGAINST him. He's v0une anC
Shcila is pretty and if she can he'll
him :"
Something stiffened in Halle ant
she said tartlv. IT don't like the i'm.
plicatians about Eric. I know him
loo. II Won mean TO ~jnsinuate tha.
he's letting a girl supDort. or rath
er take care of him 49,"
"N,v i,,et ho1d vo,,r borsos 10,
10 : ,1idn,t roan an,,tbina of ~
,d, ~, i,,.t t.,ra a,oi,
~r.4hiaa ~
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-17
CHAPTER FIVE

HALLE passed sandwiches, and
sent for more iced tea, and talked
about the coming tennis tourna-
ur,nt at the club, and the relative
merits of the two cars which m
body was going to buy. She talked
with Harriet about a luncheon that
WA past. and gave Louise-Who
had fallen silent after the depar-
,ure of Toby Fennell and the Sher-
man Qualifications for knitting
a sweater sleeve. And all the time
she wa saying to herself: Don't be
an idiot. Halle.
Nothing had changed just be-
cause Sheila Sherman had dropped
in to see Eric. Nothing had
changed at all-even if Sheila was
Fries girl-because Eric hadn't
told Halle that he was in love with
her.
Love, Halle knew, when she
thought about 1t nationally, wasn't
something that one took for grant
ed. Just because the sight Of Eric's
hovish face made her heart do
womanly things. was no eason to
believe that she was in love. And
she had no ease to believe that
he telt this same strange excite
ment as she when their eyes
crossed, or he said the things that
she always took seriously. Like
hat day of the accident when he
said, I've been looking for you all
my life"
She said to Louise. you get six
rows to the inch or the number
five needless, so you take off one at
each end every six roWs until you
have as stitches left on the needle"
She felt as if her heart had been
stabbed by a sharp knitting needle.
But she wouldn't admit it was her
heart. No. it vas a little bubble of
a dream. She was in love with love,
and Eric, with those laughing eyes
and that boyish way of fattening
his waving hair with the palm of
his hand, was its symbol. It was
only moonlight and roses stuff and
a kind Of propinquity. Fate had
landed him literally at her feet and
she'd been a foolish, romantic girl.
Louise said. "Forty-six won't be
enough. Don't you think I could
start the cuff at SOP"
Halle answered, IF 1 were res
cued by a lifeguard, I'd probably
think we'd automatically fall in
love and get married and live hap
PLY W after"
Louise gave her the funniest
look. Was there anything in that
tea besides mint? ?"
Halle gulped. my mind was
uandering." she said.
Have you fallen in love with a
Efeguard?" Louise demanded.
Il haven't fallen in love at ALL"
Hallie said heatedly. What were
"e talking about?"
KNITTING a sleeve, but I'd rather
talk about love. 1t can happen at
Grst sight. Halle, can't it
IF you keep On this way, Louise,
IN begin to think there was more
than mint in the tea What's got
Into you: q
Louise sighed. 1T feels like a
small gold-tipped arrow, but it was
my error. Up to the arrival Of the
&lamorous Sheila, I had a few ideas
ABOUT our friend Toby. Just one of
those things. J took one look at
nm :"
And then your heart stood still.
Louise. You're in love with love.
Oh. what an I saying? You
ike him, Swell! He likes you. SO
when have you a date"
haven't got one. l thought he
vas working up to asking me when
the girl friend came along and that
was that"
You weren't taken In by that.
were you?"
Taken in by what? Did you
ever hear OF a man claiming a girl
publicly If he didn't mean it =? Most
men won't. even when thew dot OF
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-09-17
eYEOPSTS

IeA4ng New York tor Miami to marry
Agttu.
HALLE SINGLETON. a fashion
model. rcmInISc'S about the time. SIX
years before. when she was Il and
had Just met
ERIC ADAMS. a young would be actor.
YESTERDAY: Shcila Sherman arrives,
to visit Eric.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Rubber Consumption
At New High Mark
In January
Months TotoI Shows
1853 Per Cent Goin
Over Year Ago
In January
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Consump-
ton of crude rubber by manufac-
turers in the United States during
January, is estimated to have been
64,225 long tons, according to stalls
tics released today by the Rubber
Manufacturers Association, Inc
This represents the highest single
months consumption on record, and
is greater by 1874 per cent than the
previous high. which was attained in
October of 1899. During that month
57,155 long tons were consumed.
January consumption represents
an increase of 1876 per cent over De-
cember, 1910, and is greater by 1873
per cent than January, 1910.
Gross imports for January, as re-
ported by the Department of Com
merce, totaled 86,833 long tons, and
was exceeded only by the 97,984 long
tons reported in December, 1910.
The January figure represents de-
crease of ia per cent under De-
cember, but is 1877 per cent over
January, 1910.
Total domestic stocks are esti-
mated by the association as Of the
end of January at 340.857 long tons,
an increase of per cent over the
stocks on hand at the end of De-
cember and 1879 per cent over the
stocks on hand at the end of jan
uary, 1910.
Stocks in the hands of the United
States Government January 81 were
1888 long tons-an increase of
1911 per cent over December 81
Government stocks.
Crude rubber afioat to United
States ports on January 81 is esti-
mated to have been 153,l69 long
tons, an increase Of 40 per cent
above December, and 697 per cent
above January, 1910.
Reclaimed rubber consumption for
January is estimated at 1886 long
tons, production at 20,413 long tons,
and stocks on hand January 81, 194l,
at IS, ,344 long tons.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Your u. S.
Income Tax
Prepared by Bureau OF
Internal ReDenue,
Treasury Dept.
LOSSES FROM CASUALTIES,
THEFT AND WAGERS.

To be deductible, a loss arising
from fires. storms, shipwrecks, or
other casualty" need not be con-
nected with the taxpayers trade or
business. If his home or his auto
mobile is destroyed by fire, or his
summer bungalow damaged by food
or storm, he may claim a deduction
for the loss sustained.
Loss OF property by theft or bur-
glary is an allowable deduction, and
need not be incurred in trade or
business. Hence, the loss occasioned
by the theft of jeWelry or an auto
mobile used for pleasure and con-
venience is deductible. 1t must be
established, however, that the prop
erty actually was stolen. Should cir
cumstances attending the loss leave
the owner in doubt as to whether 1t
was stolen or lost, the claim would
not be allowed.
Losses from wagering transactions
are allowable only to the extent of
the gains from such transactions
A loss is deductible only in the
year in which 1t is sustained, even
though, as In the case of a theft or
casualty. it may not be discovered
until a later year. Losses compen-
sated for by insurance or otherwise,
OF course. are not deductible. How
ever, in the event the amount of in
surance is not sufficient to recon-
pense for the loss sustained. the ex-
cess Of the loss over the amount of
the insurance is deductible.
In general, losses for which an
amount may be deducted for income
tax purposes must be evidenced BY
closed and completed transactions,
fixed by identifiable events. bona fide
and actually sustained during the
taxable period for which claimed.
For instance, a person possessing
stock of corporation cannot deduct
from gross income any amount
claimed as loss merely on account
of shrinkage in value of such stock
through fluctuation of the market or
otherwise. In the case of an indi-
vidual the loss allowable in such
cases is that actually suffered when
the stock is disposed Of If any Sc
curities (that is, shares of stock in a
corporation and rights to subscribe
for or to such shares become worth
less during the taxable year and are
capital assets, the loss resulting
therefrom shall for income tax pur-
poses, be considered as loss from
the sale or exchange, on the last
day Of such taxable year of capital
assets.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
ChrysIer Appeal Granted
In Auto Finance Case
Rv the ASsor,sted Press

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WAYNE. Ind, Feb. IA
Federal Judge Thomas w. Slick
granted today petition by the
Chrysler Motor Corp. to be allowed
an appeal to the United States Su-
preme Court from a decision by
Judge Slick extending for one year
an injunction against Chrysler in
an antitrust case
Chrysler now is operating under a
consent decree which prohibits il
from interesting itself in any finan-
cial organization handling time
payment notes for the sale of auto
mobiles.
The decree was to have expired
January l of this year. but Judge
Slick ordered it extended for one
year, pending final outcome of an
appeal by General Motors Corp
from its conviction in a similar case
Chrysler's petition to appeal the
extension included a list of errors
allaged to have been made by Judge
Slick in extending the decree.
Both Chrysler and General Mo-
tors were accused of violating the
antitrust laws in their operations
with subsidiary finance companies
General Motors elected to fight the
case and Chrysler signed the con-
sent decree, agreeing to abandon
such practices pending the outcome
of the General Motors case.
General Motors was convicted in
District Court at South Bend more
than year ago and now has an ap-
peal pending.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Excess Bank Reserve!
Climb 70 Millions
During Week
Treasury Spending
Brings Reversal Of
Recent Decline
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Lendable excess reserves of banks
increased $4,000, 900 to total Of
s6, 33O,OO0,0O0 in the week ended
February IL.
The Federal Reserve said the
gain was due primarily to Treasury
spending reversing recent decreases
in lendable funds caused by Treasury
borrowing.
The boards statement said:
During the week ended February
II, member bank reserve balances
increased S29,000000. Additions to
member bank reserves arose from a
reduction of $4,000 900 in treasury
deposits with Federal Reserve Banks
and increases of S43. 900 600, in reserve
bank credit and 100000 in gold
stock. offset in part by increases of
S38 100000 in money in circulation
and s53,000,000 in non-member de-
posits and other Federal reserve
accounts. Excess reserves of men,
ber banks on February II were esti-
mated to be approximately $780,
600, 900, an increase of $4,000, 900
for the week
Changes in member bank reserve
balances and related items during
the week and the year ended Feb
ruary u, l94l, were reported as fol-
lows:
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Fertilizer Concerns Deny
Antitrust Charges
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Pleas of
innocent were entered today in Fed
eral Court for 10 corporations and SO
individuals charged with violations
of the Sherman antitrust and Will
son Tariff Acts in the fertilizer in
dustry. Bail for the individuals was
fixed at 81 900 each and trial was
set for April IA
The defendants are accused of
monopolization. restraint of trade
and price fixing of several raw prod
ucts of the industry.
The organizations included Allied
Chemical g. Dye Corp. Barrett Co.,
Semet-S Solvay Co, Solvay Process
Co. Imperial Chemical Industries
New York; Ltd. Anglo Chilean
Nitrate Corp, Lautaro Nitrate Co.,
Ltd: Chilean Natrate Sales Corp,
Synthetic Nitrogen Products Corp.
and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
| Egg Quotations
| Drop Sharply
| |AtChicogo
B, the Associated Press.

In6 Associated PTeSS.
CHICAGO Feb. l4-Egg prices
tumbled Z to q cent dozen in the
Chicago spot market today as Gov
ernment agents, who have been sup
porting the market for two weeks,
lowered bids and took only about a
third of the offerings.
The price of fresh graded extra
flrsts in cars was lowered to 17-17A
cents, while firSts we're priced at
16s4 1T, both new lows for the year.
Agents for the Surplus Marketing
Administration purchased 243,37O
dozens of eggs here and 135,335 doz-
ems in New York.
Produce traders blamed the egg
markets weakness on the abundance
of supplies, which they attributed to
record breaking laying as result of
favorable weather and plentiful feed
Brokers quoting prices on the spot
market called the market demoral-
lied in view of the Governments S
reduction Of its prices and apparent
willingness of S. M. A. agents to
take only portion of the supply
offered.