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Evening star., 1941-03-24

It was queer drawing room,
Brinda thought, when guided by
Vaslav she joined the other guests.
Only the solid British faCeS-sOme
of them faces she had previously
seen-told her that she was still in
England.
Gold cloth covered the walls.
Vari-colored lights burned dimly,
and there was a mingled fragrance
of ancient incense and modern per-
fume. On low tabOurets, tea and
cocktails were being served. There
was a hum Of conversation, curl
ously iarring against tOnal back
ground of drumming guitars. The
players were CostumeG as gypSies.
All stage setting" Vaslav whis-
pered unexpectedly to Brinda. You
see, must give our sponsors their
moneys worth" His candor was
disarming.
Her Distrust Weakens.
Brinda observed the women more
closely. Several were in the doWager
class, others were presumably re-
cruits to the dance group. Several
sober-faced, unhappy looking men
were balancing teacups.
A warm COntraltO voice Saluted
Brinda. $50 my dear, you are to
be the queen of our ChoSsbOard
ballet. I am sure you will be a
lovely one" Brinda saw a vividlv
dark woman with clipped hair and.
surprisingly, monocle. 81 am the
ballet mistress, Trina BadourOfT. "
She held out a ringed hand.
Brinda took it, with a slightly un-
comfortable feeling. "I hope you'll
not be disappointed she murmured.
I've never danced professionally,
you know"
THAT will make no difference. p"
the ballet mistress assured her.
Prince VaSlav tells me that you
dance sublimelY, and dancing is one
thing about which he makes no
mistakes"
In the swirl of tea and small talk,
Brinda's distrust of Vaslav weak
ened. These familiar faces Of Lon
don fashion were vastly reaSSuring.
Obviously there could be no reason
to have misgivings regarding a man
on whom society had so plainly set
its approving seal. With every
passing moment, she felt more at
home-became more eager for the
promised rehearsal to begin.
Presently, she became aware that
most of the doWagers had left and
that there remained only chatter
ing group of younger women.
NOW" said Vaslav, Eve get down
to serious business
He snapped his fingers. Servants
rolled back the deep carpeting.
Lights went on. In place of the
vanished carpet, Brinds saw the
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Informal Golf Tourney
STAGED at Kenwood

AL the golf courses around town,
with another good week end favor
ing play, were crowded with golfers
working the kinks out of winter
ruSted muscles. Kenwood, which
had more than 200 players out,
staged an informal blind bogey
tourney with the following winners:
J. J. Byrne, 96-24-72; R. Cham
berlain, 90-18-72; P. S. AIverson
96-18-78; f. G. PEBBLES. 82-4-
78, and S. f. Carpenter. 89-11-78.
G. A. Miller holed spoon shot
for an eagle deuce on the 4OO-yard
seventh hole at KenWood.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Buck Is OFF Market
After Many Shifts

He not only pitched the Tigers
into pennant. but every one of
his clubmates believes that if it
hadn't been for his injury he would
have won at least 18 straight to
set new record.
Later on he came within one
thrown ball Of winning World
Series, almost alone as far as the
pitching was concerned.
Buck now claims that he has
settled down for good. He has
travelled most of the trails and the
old dogs only Will last so long. He
has traded his fling on the primrose
path for better fling from the
pitchers mound.
He has been traded for Armada
Ferreu, Vosmik, Gill, Kennedy, Har-
ris. Lawson Laabs and Christman-
but the Tigers are not trading him
now for any one short of Bob
Feller I doubt if they'd make this
trade today, with Feller's draft pos
sibilities so much brighter than
NewSom's can be.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

floor marked off in blaCk-and-whit
squares in imitation of chess
board. She saw that the squares
were numbered.
= shall not ask YOU to dance to-
night" said Vaslav, only to watch.
BY the way, have you any knoWl-
edge Of Chess?"
BylnGaS S impulse was to tell him
that she had COnsidered-that she
had often played with Sir John.
Which would have been the truth
But inVOluutarIIv, and for no
reason she could imagine, she found
herself answering, "A little. It
originated in India, did it not?"
The answer seemed to please
VasIav. so some historians re-
cord, but that is OF no consequence"
he said. The dance is our interest
and I know you are a natural dan
seuse. And being the queen. you
will be mistress Of the board"
a spot threw into relief the
slender figures Of the dancers as the
symphonic ballet music began
4 Surprise for BrinGa.
Standing in semi darkness beside
Vaslav, Brinda felt CuriOusly dis
turbed and excited. There was an
electric tension about the Prince
a high-keyed SUrncss and yigOr.
His voice spoke close in her ear.
1T is an enchanting game, chess
p game Of war. It is also a game
Of great strategy e. 1t has beauty,
too, and even little love in 1t. 1t
is fitting that you should be the
queen Of such game-Queen of the
Chessboard Ballet"
Was there some subtle undercur-
rent in his words? Brinda could not
tell.
Then a servant spoke hurriedly
in Russian to her host. Vaslav gave
an exclamation of impatience.
Your pardon" he said to Brinda.
Swiftly he strobe from the room.
Brinda saw the door close behind
him. What happened beyond it2
She could not know.
She could not see the woman who
cast herself into Vaslav'S arms. half
sobbing, Darling, I couldn't stand
it any lOnger-I had to see you-
touch you-kiss your lips. Oh, dar-
ling. why didn't you call me? Is it
another one-anOther Woman?"
Had Brinda heard and seen this
by-play it would have profoundly
altered her estimate of VaSlav. The
more profoundly since the sobbing,
love-shaken woman was none other
than the ordinarily poised and
naughty Lady Gladys Mountwyn.
CTo Be ContinuedO
(Copyright by Maurice Dekobra and LeyIs
George; Distributed By King Features
Evening star., 1941-03-24
urges Feels Treatment
Hos Cured Dizziness
" the Associated Press.

" trf EsS0Clated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, March 24-Short-
stop Bill Jurges is back in New
York Giants uniform with an en-
Couraging report from the Mayo
Clinic on the dizzy spells that have
plagued him since he was beaned
last summer.
He said he received ID injections
and the doctors told him to resume
practice and that the dizziness prob
ably would not return.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Greg Rice Ruins Stability Of Track Records
When Domer Starts Marks Fall as in SWIMMING Meets

indoors, and possibly outdoors.
too, Saturday night in the Chi
cago relays. He was timed in
8:51.1. He set the record for the
distance indoors last year at
1852 A few weeks ago he
knocked that down to 1884.
The 2-mile outdoor record is
8:56, set by Miklos Szabo, Hun
garian, in Budapest four years
ago. Whether any better marks
have been offered for ratifica ton
since Is not known.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Varied Sports
PRO BASKET BALL.

Washington Brewers, 4s; Baltimore
Clippers. -.
Philadelphia Sphas, As; New York
Jewels, 43.
SOCCER.
Brookhattan. 2; Irish-Americans 1
tAmeTican League.
Pittsburgh Gallatin Dunlevy, 2: Chi
cago Spartas, l National Challenge Cup
semifnaD.
NJ. II. A BASKET BALL.
st. Louis. 33: Kansas City. 50 mid
western championship
Louisville, So Milwaukee, 40
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Rice also holds the indoor
marks for the 212, 2A and 8
miles.
His Saturday performance even
took the play away from the
brilliant hurdhng duel between
Fred Wolcott, eX-Rice veteran,
and Bob Wright, Ohio State
sophomore. Wolcott won the 40,
Wright the so and Wolcott the
60-yard event, their times in all
three events being up to the
record marks.
Evening star., 1941-03-24


awakened again.
Yet Brinda could not remain idle.
She must do something in this
gloomy crisis that threatened the
world she knew.
And then, unbidden, the thought
came-PrinCe VaSlaV! And his chess
board ballet! Had he meant it when
he said so fervently that he would
make her premier danseuse? Some
how, she was sure he had.
She realized her feelings toward
the Russian Prince were strangely
mixed. At their first meeting at
Lord MountWyn's, she had mis-
trusted him. And this instinct had
persisted even at the accidental
meeting in the night club near the
Savoy. Right up to the moment she
found herself dancing with him, it
had persisted. Then, all at once,
she had experienced the power of
a novel and exotic personality-a
curious sense that his reaction to
her was genuine -. that he admired
her without reservation and that,
if she so choose, she could have him
literally at her feet.
Brinda remembered she had never
thanked him for the orchids. Should
she make that the opening for fur
ther acquaintance? She hesitated,
her original distrust of the man not
yet dissipated. Then it was as
though a voice had whispered to
ner, You must!'
Brinda Accepts Invitations.
There was the familiar sensation
of an unseen presence in the room
of an inaudible voice counseling her.
DR.. Macdonald, perhaps, might
have called it "heredity" But
Brinda knew nothing of her enig-
matte ancestry-she only felt an
irresistible compulsion to phone
Vaslav Immediately. And she did
so.
His voice replied almost at once
. warm and eager.
"Ah, my premiere danSeuse, how
fortunate that you telephoned at
this moment! I am holding a small
reception for some of my sponsors
before beginning our first rehearsal.
No one shall dance until you arrive"
"But that's impossible" Brinda
Evening star., 1941-03-24
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 24.-Time
was when track records had a
little stability about them. but
that was before barrel-chested
Joseph Gregory Rice took charge
of the middle distance field.
When little Greg takes to the
track, records fall as If it we're a
swimming meet.
The former Notre Dame star
ran the fastest 2-mile ever seen
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Basket Comes Wanted

Immaculate Alumni basket ball
team wants an unlimited game
Wednesday night in its gym. Call
Joe Marshall Emerson 1491.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Bddminton Triumph
Gives Holt Chance
For Revenge
Now in Line to Bottle
FouIkner, Who Licked
Him in 1886 FinuI

He didn't have anything to DO
with the setting of either period
but young Shep Holt today is glad
that his alma mater, Kenyon Col
lege, and District badmlnton Off
ClalS arranged to have its spring
vacation and their annual tourna-
ment the same week.
For Holt, home for the holidays,
today saw the opportunity to avenge
a defeat which cost him the local
badminton championship five years
/ ago.
Holt Scores Upset.
1t was in 1886 that Waldron
Faulkner beat him in the final
round OF the tournament to annex
the title but. if all goes we'll. he
will have a chance to meet no other
than that same Faulkner tomor-
row night.
Yesterday Holt threw a monkey
wrench into the seeding plans of
the tournament when he Walloped
. seCond-seeded Herb Bryant by the
unceremOnious scores of 15-5, 15-4
after eliminating Louis FuSz, $50,
15-7. Faulkner, on the other hand
was extended to three games to
beat Danny TareS, Ais. 15-l2, 1910,
after drawing a firSt-rOund bye. If
Holt beats Bill DOoley and Faulkner
whips Scott Pollock tonight, 1855
flnalists will meet in the semifinals
tomorrow.
Quarter-FinalS Reached.
All other seeded men and women
contestants still are in the running
and, with the exception of the
Frances RoWan-Edith McCulloch
match to be played this afternoon,
their final engagements will
start at 7:30 o'clock.
The women's pairings call for top
seeded Charlotte Decker to play
Dot Catlett, Margaret Graham to
meet Virginia Ryan and Polly
Thompson to play Thelma Runbold.
The other two mems matches will
send defending champion Joe Baker
against Jack Green and Mac Whit
comb against Bill Rainey.
Tonight's schedule:
WomenS singles (quarterfnais>-4 pm,
Frances Rowan VS.. Edith MCCulloch 80,
Charlotte Decker VS.. Dot Catlett. Margaret
Graham vs.. virginia Ryan, Poly Thompson
VS.. Telma RundbOld.
Mems singles (quarterhnalS)-1:3 p p.rn.,
Bill Dooley Us. Shep Holt. $50 p m. Joe
Baker VS.. Jack Green, Mac WhltcOmb VS..
Bill Rainey. Waldron Faulkner VS.. Scott
Women's doubtless pm, Decker
Thompson VS. Sannebeck Partner, Pope
Smith VS. Norment- -Willoughby.
Mems doubles--a:3O pm. Chase-May-
nard VS.. Taras-ElliOtt: 10 pm. Baker
Taras-E Elliott.
Mixed doubles-9 pm Baker Thomp-
son VS.. Kukens-Kukens. 9:30 pm, O'Don-
Oghue-Ryan vs. wilson Wilson: Edwards
Edwards vs.. Sparrow -Wllloughby; 10 pm,
Faulkner Graham VS.. winner O'Donoghue-
Ryan-Wllson- wilson: 10 pm. WhitcOmb-
Catlett VS.. winner Edwards -Edwards-Spar-
row-Willoughby; 1880, Mackan-Decker VS..
RaIney-Rowan.
Women's singles (consolationl-7 pm,
Becky YobSt Us. Marjorie Turner: Kather-
inc La Galzl vs.. Melva Sannebeck; Shirley
Noonar VS.. Lois KidweI
Mems -. singles tconsolaIionp-s pm,
John Wilkinson VS. Gene PrInCIpato: Ted
Pierce vs. Julie Carr: Louis FuSz VS. Herb
BRYANT $50 p m, Howard Chase VS.. John
o Donoghue.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Guryin's Wins 9th in Row

Garvins Grill basket ball team
boast a siX-game winning streak,
following yesterdays win over st.
Charles Social Club, 45-24.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Rod and Stream
By GEORGE HUBER.

We looking
Will open when Marand starts
latest General
happen
S
Washington trouters will be heading for
Evening star., 1941-03-24
MATA HARTSZANlzzz@z
MAURICE DEkORRA .~< IEYlA GEORGE
CHAPTER XVIII.


Brlnda had to
memory The murder Mara had
ner with sadness and anger But also her fully
Welgy
She felt satisfaction because he
thought of sending her
Evening star., 1941-03-24

copyright by Maurice Dekobra and Leyls
George; Distributed By King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Al HOughton, Beaver Dam Coun-
try Club pro, will leave his winter
post at Miami Tuesday and will be
back on the job in the pro shop al
Beaver Dam Friday.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Fishing Greek is about so miles
and Big Hunting go miles from
Washington. Drive to Frederick
and straight on through on the
Gettysburg road, U. S. Is. From the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23
Not Too Subtle

Some of the remarks made by City Controller Thomas M. Conlon last night in a radio address sponsored by the Dem- ocratic Party of Waterbury bear frequent repetition throughout this campaign If the rival candidates for the mayoralty intend to indulge in much discussion of budgets, SurpluseS, and the like. The Scully administration hasn't done much boosting about its fiscal record other than to present the figures for what they are worth among the voters.
 But the Republican candidate on couple of occasions has seen fit to claim credit for everything that the Scully ad- ministration did in 1940 on the basis of having prepared the budget for that per iod. All of which was apparently too much for Controller Conlon and other Democratic officials to swallow. Their argument is that heavy burden was imposed on them by the 1940 budget and that they were given the difficult task of running the city on smaller budget. It's no easy task to do this, but that the : Democrats did so reflects no credit on ex-Mayor Perriello whatsoever as he had no control over the city government dur ing the 12-month period that the budget he prepared was in effect
 As last nights Democratic speaker casually mentioned Mr. Perriello cut the tax rate and restored pay cuts by stroke of the pen, but the more difficult job of providing those increased salaries, with less income guaranteed for the city, was left to Mayor Vincent A. scully. It's no easy job, to be sure, to compile budget that will work, but the man who sees that it works and who, at the same time, pro duces a real, honest-to-goodness cash balance in so doing certainly is the man to be thanked and endorsed We believe Mayor scully, not forgetting his aides, of course, is this man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23
When Self Comes Second

So many scoundrelly and bloody deeds going on in the world; so few, obscure and little recognized fine and decent actsl So it is doubled pleasure to record this one: Three faculty members of the Western Reserve University Medical School were awarded a $1,000 prize for having made the most important con- tribution to the study of high blood pressure published in any medical jour- nal in the first half of 1941. Dr. Harry Goldblatt, Dr. Joseph R. Kahn, and Dr. Harry Weinstein were given the award by a poll of physicians all over the country
 They promptly ordered the check for the award made out to the university's medical research fund rather than to themselves. Unless these physicians are unusually situated, they could probably have used the money But self came second, and research that will benefit others came first. If we could find 20 such incidents a day it would be pleas ure to record them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23
Defense of New England

Senator Styles Bridges of New Hamp- shire is a ranking member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee and as such Is in possession of many of the intimate facts connected with our national de- tense program. He has long asserted that the people, particularly those Of New England, should be familiar with some of the plans. He revealed what he termed important ones recently in an address at Concord, N H., his purpose obviously De- Ing to assure New England that its pro- lection was a point of vital necessity to the federal government
 Defense of New England, the senator from New Hampshire stated, stems from two points as first wall. These points are Newfoundland and Bermuda, where we now have air and naval bases and from which would flow streams of defend ing craft of all types to halt an Atlantic Ocean invader. These he termed our first line of defense. Supporting them are the three major warplane airbases In New England = Chicopee, Mass, Bangor, Me-, and Manchester, N. H. Next are the Coast Artillery and Coast Guard. Lastly are armed legions trained to fight off ground attackers, should they be landed In sufficient force.
 All this sounds pretty warlike. Actually it's intended to be just that. While the average New Englander is pretty positive that we are outside any zone of attack, there may be the remote possibility Of dire disaster in Europe and the Far East that would command more serious at- titude on our part. AS it stands, though, the war movements that indicate New England is ranked second to none in im- portance to national security make us leel sort of good, but well aware of the fact that New England will do well to look far ahead beyond this semi-war phase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23
Indians, 200 Years Ago and Now

Two hundred years ago there was tiny Nttle settlement on the western edge of the European settlements that fringed the Atlantic Coast of America. There were many such, but let's consider one. It was . tiny village. (Today the United States is . vast continental country of 133,0O0,000 souls.) The people worked for living, clearing little farms outside the village, trading, trapping. (Today people work for a living, at bench, at desk, at counter.)
 Tn this small community on the edge of the forest, they were dependent on one another. (And so are we today, less ob- Uously, but no less completely
 Beyond the edge of the village and It's clearingS dwelt savage Indians, always threatening to go on the warpath and seize or destroy what they had built (Be- yond the sea at either edge of our present country, great nations are already on the warpath taking or destroying what comes within their power, threatening he remainder) The settlers, hearing mmofs of Indian uprisings, called in the surrounding farmers from their clear inRs, and all went to work tc build pall- na0es and prepare far defense. (Ihe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23

l. What was the full nanO q President Roosevelt's mother, Wns died recently?
 2. The name of the hak.wA character in the play, "Of MicS and Men," is Bennae, Kennle OE Lennie?
 3. what was the name of tne ship in which Henry Hudson saSic0 up the Hudson river in 1909?
 {. Tn United States slang, q "wow" is a surprise, Q grave disaS~ ter, or a sensational hit?
 s. Prom what Is coke made1
 6. What is the mascot Of t1o Army football team? ', The mace, which is the synls bol of authority in the British House of Commons and the United States House of Representatives, was originally 6 lethal weapon; true or false? Q. Tn which month does spring begin in the south temperate zoner
 9. The capital of the Dominion of Canada is Montreal, Toronto or Ottawa?
 10. The president of the AInert- can Federation of Labor is John L. Lewis, William Green or Shiiip Murray?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23

Although this autumn looned as one of potential danger for New England forests we have been singularly fortunate. Certainly right here in Waterbury fire officials are keeping their fingers crossed. There have been number of brush fires, but nothing compared to what we had during the spring nor all last year. While we haven't had too much rain this month, there has been little more than during September and some danger Of outdoor owners may be too busy this fall to do a lot of work around their homes, such as burning up refuse. If so then all can be thankful that means of property dam- age has been curbed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23

United States adopted universal military service and set in motion huge defense program.)
 Some of the farmers didn't want to leave their clearings. (JobS, we call them now) They preferred to work at their own clearings rather than dig trenches at the fort. But the danger was so great that everybody had to do the work that was necessary. They did it. Some or them had, by the sweat of their broWS, cut logs for barns, split rails for fences Capital, the economists call it today0 But the logs and rails were needed for palisades, and the danger was so great that they had to be used. (Heavy taxa tion, capital levies. Defense Bond pur- chases, are the modern equivalent.)
 But they saw the common danger. The farmers gave up their accumulated logs and rails, the traders stopped. trading and drilled. The farmers stopped grubblng stumps and dug ditcheS. When the 1n- dians arrived they were sternly repu!sed and driven off. The Indian power was broken. Peace reigned. Muskets were laid down, trading resumed The stock ade was uprooted, and some of the logs and rails were restored to the settlers as they returned to their clearings The community developed amid mutual pros perity and peace for all Had the settlers not joined together, not made mutual sacrifices, they might all have been mas sacred, and their beloved homes in the forest lost forever, (Have we forgotten the lesson taught us by our forbears on the frontier, 200 years agoO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-23

cretly to run against Senator Jim Murray, returned to Montana for @ personal survey. O'Connor found so little isolationist senti- ment that he lined up for the draft extension bill. Whereupon Wheeler decided to rush home himself.
 What he found jolted him. Long the Democratic boss of Mantana, Wheeler discovered he no longer ruled the rOOst. Some of the pOlitlcOs were still giv- ing him Mp service, but most of the important organizations leaders were against him.
 Scared and furious, Wheeler launched two counter bolts. One was the story, put out through @ friendly press source, that he planned to resign and run against Murray, who comes up for re- election next year. The other move was series of public meet ing to woo back waning political support. Both moves boomer anged.
 Instead of being frightened b, the resignation story, the politicos challenged Wheeler to run. That was the last heard of the mat CT. At public meetings he was egged, booed and heckled.
 So now Wheeler is secretly try ing to organize Q coalition of isolationist Republican and Demo- crats to enter full slate of state and congressional candidates un- der new third party label, the America First Party"
 NOTE One reason why poli- tical leaders laughed at Wheeler's threat to resign was that this automatically would make him lose his chairmanship of the power- full Interstate Commerce Commit tee-a highly prized post which he uses constantly to aid the iso- lationist cause. It was through this chairmanship that Wheeler engineered the movie probe and named the isolationist-packed committee to conduct 1t.
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