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first glass of beer. Jim greeted all
of them affably without paying
Stanley special notice, except to re-
mark that he was glad to ee him.
He gave Hal and Mac quick
meaningful glance and settled
down into the booth after ordering
another round of beer.
The conversation was of light and
incidental things. humorous, witty
even coarse chatter that put then.
all in a pleasant mood Stanley was
uncomfortable at first, continually
watching the faces of others and
regarding them with care and sus-
picion; but he was soon chuckline
to himself. The situation was ar
impossible one and yet, he was
there, proving beyond a doubt tie
inimitable supremacy of his owr
SELF. The inward chuckle grew ana
he broke forth with audible laugh
ter. The others looked astohisned
for a fleeing second; but tneJ
quickly caught up the laughter a:o
turned it into gcod-natured rear
They really are fools, he thought
How easy it is to laugh at them
when they are SC cooperative. Tie
suspicion and discomfort drained
away, and he found himself cor
tributing freely to the corvelsa.
ton. He offered to buy the fourth
round of beer Mac seemed especial
~ delighted Say Stanley, you're
really o. k he said, you're really
o. K"
"Sure,' said Hal. 1--WE were
fools o argue the way we did
anyway"
Forget it," said Jim, "that argu
ment didn't mean a thing"
Stanley broke in sharply, "Wha
do you mean by that?"
Nothing" said Jim, "only we al
most thought you were serious tina
night. We thought you really mean
what you said"
"Yeah," said Mac through a
gin, 1--WE sure did. And that news
paper gag you tried to pull on us
this afternoon. We were actually
, worried FOR a while. We thought
you did kill the blond. No kidding
we did. Why, Jim even saw red
for a WHILE"
"I'll say I was fooled" laughe,
Jim, but you've got to admit
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was a pretty smooth trick"
"a trick?" Stanley's voice was
harsh.
Certainly" said Hal. you need
MT look so surprised. We're wise
to you now"
you're a good actor" said
Mac, "a swell actor. I'll bet you
got good laugh at u.s."
"Why not" chuckled Jim, sit was
a damn good joke. Makes me laugh
everytime I think about it"
ME too" agreed Hal and burst
into laughter.
Stanley grabbed Hal fiercely by
the collar. shut up!' Then in
low, rapid, painting voice he con-
tinued. you stupid fools did kill
her, do you hear I killed her, and
threw her body over Grey's Cliff
but nobodyll ever find it."
"You don't know what you're
saying interrupted Jim.
ooh yes 1 do. pomised you
proof and you got IL. Kathy's
dead and 1 killed her, but you'll
never be able to prove it,"
you dirty rat" cried Mac.
Jim reached swiftly across table
and sent a crushing blow into his
face. Stanley head snapped back
thudded against the back of the
booth and his limp bodv slid SLOW
ly into the seat.
"I hope you heard it," said jim
quietly to the two men who jump
ed out of the adjoining lEcth.
I'VE sure did," said the tallel
man, pulling out pair of hand
cuffs, but you didn't have to tr!
to kill him."
''He had to-" said Mac, che hat
to-"
u-NyD
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REALTY

CLEANING PRESSING. Shop
with living quarters. Excellent
downtown location, near apis.
and hotels. Good possibilities
for man and wife. $1,000 full
price.
APPAREL Shop. Must sell. Sacri-
Full price $4,000. $1,000 down
flee. $1,000 fixture. S4500 stock.
and $3.50 month TO buyer with
good security. Monthly sales
$1,000, netting $3.50. Good pos
sibilities. For further informa-
ron call and see International
Realty.
GROCERY and living quarters.
Also established grocery bust
ness. Beer and wine license.
Good lease. Adequate fixtures.
Small living quarters. Grocery.
$500 TO $4,000 monthly, net rs
per cent. $4,000 plus inventory.
Terms.
INTERNATIONAL REALTY co.
James Matsuoka, Mgr.
$50 A Jackson Ma. 1872
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Open the Door

DR.. G. H. Schlauch. professor of
sociology in Whitworth college, will
discuss, Together" on April 20.
This meeting, which will have Mi
chic Hirata as chairman, will probe
what makes weddings click"
Such questions as, Are children
necessary for a happy marriage,
What makes a good homer" will be
thrashed out May when E. NJ.
Holcomb. director of the Family
Welfare Association, speaks on My
Blue Heaven" to the group. Miss
Oshima will preside.
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Beauty Skin Deep

DR.. H. C. Roys. local physician
will point out that Beauty Is On
ly Skin Deep" when he lectures UNI
der the sponsorship of the Health
Educational Council at p. m
next Wednesday in the YWCA. The
council is affiliated with the Seattle
Business Girls club
A three course dinner at sixty
cents per person also has been bill
ed for the gathering
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Adventures Of DOkie----

SPOKANE, April 10 "Open the
Door, MANIFESTATIONS series
sponsored by the Quest Club, has
been scheduled for three consecu-
tive Tuesday nights in the Spokane
YWCA, 921 W. Main. All programs,
according % general chairman Flu
mi Oshima, will start Mt 8 o'clock.
William Morris will speak on The
topic. Penny Serenade,' on the
April % program. Rose Yonaso
will preside at thi session which
will study the financial issues in
volved in a marriage.
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Thanks NV. Times

Kallio Suguro, Roy Tanagi,
George Tanagi, George Ma
tsui, Kaso Kimura, John
Yoshida.
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Il know, / know, but It's KINDA
funny though, I mean a gal like
her disappearing like that"
Maybe she found a man that
looked at her twice"
could be, could be-"
Look" said Hal interrupting
the conversation, "here comes our
buddy" They all turned around
and saw Stanley coming towards
them with a newspaper under his
arm.
"Whattaya know" said Mac with
surprise, Looks like he's coming
here"
Maybe he's finolly decided to
make up" said Hal
Stanley came up to the three men
and regarded them soberly for a
moment before his mouth curved
almost imperceptibly into a tight
smirk. Here proof" he muttered
quietly and throwing the newspa-
per on the desk, walked away.
The paper had been folded
carefully so that the item with
the picture over it and the heavy
pencil mark around 1t was read
lily detachable.
cts the blond" cried Hal grab
ing the paper, and swiftly read the
brief article. He stared at the other
two and with look of puzzled dis
belief and horror on his face ex-
claimed. "I'll be damnedw
Mac snatched the paper out OF
Halls suspended hand. Jim leaned
over Macs shoulder to read the ar
ticle. Their faces became grim as
they read.
Missing for a week from the
boarding house where she lives,
Miss Kathy Reynolds has been
sought unsuccessfully by police
throughout the state, it was dis
closed this morning.
Mrs. James Arnold, her lanI-
lady of the boarding hosuse at 81
Crane st. became worried when
Miss Reynold failed to return for
several days and notified the po-
lice.
The girl is believed to have
been wearing a light brown suit,
a pair of low-heeled brown shoes,
and a dark overcOat. She is of
slight build, has blond hair, blue
eyes and a small scar on her left
arm. Mrs. Arnold stated that Miss
Reynolds was a retiring girl who
seemed to have very few friends.
The missing girl was employed as
a typist at the Wright COnstruc-
ton Co.
Anyone having word of the
where abOuts of Miss Reynolds is
requested to get in touch with the
police Immediately.
why the dirty skunk" mutteret
jim through his teeth, I'll MAKE
him talk" He leaped out of hi.
chair furiously.
Hal grabbed him and forced him
10 sit down again Take it easy
Jim. You want get him to talk BY
getting rough. He's too smart
We've got to think this out"
YEAH said Mac, we've got tt
plan it carefully"
Guess you're right" said Jim
quieting down little, "the way 1
feel now, might kill him."
mo need to- said Hal, " think
I know a way to make him talk"
"How?" asked Mac skeptically
How"
The same way we drove him tC
1t, though we didn't realize it at the
time said HAL
Stanley didn't accomplish much
work that afternoon. He felt toe
pleased with himself, and, mos
strange of all, now that he'd com.
pleted what he had set out to do hi
seemed to have lost his intense hate
for the three men. He felt only tn,
all-enveloping surge of pleasant sa
tlsfaction. He kept glancing owe
to where Mac, Jim and Hal wer
going about their work. 1t puzzle
him at first that the three me-
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Here'SPrOOf!

concluded that they must have real
lied that he had done the job too
well to be seriously suspected by
the police. Not a single doubt
chung to his mind as to the tho
roughness of the murder and the
security which was his. For a
while, he struggled against the al
most insuperable urge to yell out
the thoughts in his mind, to tell
everyone what had done and to
laugh in their stupid, unbelieving
faces; but dangling wisp of rea-
son still prevailed. He played with
his pencil, writing his name over
and over on a sheet of paper and
the words STANLEY Briggs" SEEM
ed the most wonderful name that
one could desire. In the two words
he saw balance, cleverness, power
and unquesiooable superiority.
When quitting time came, he
didn't get up right away He sat
back in his seat and observed the
others drifting out. He watched the
girls and the men, dull, Shaving peo-
pie who lived without really liv-
ing. How common their lives must
be, he thought, how dreadfully COM
mon. His life was full, exciting, SUI
perior, yes, far superior; and yet
he was alone, compelled by neces-
sity of force and number to be
like them.
Somewhere, perhaps, lay another
world of worthy. capable people
where he could pit his qualities
and strength against equals; but
how utterly impossible it all appear
ed. He could merely stand in the
center of this weary, useless world
and watch it revolving aimlessly
around him. Life was lonely for one
who stood above the common lie.
vel When, finally. he got up tt
leave, the office was bare. He took
the elevator to the ground floor ant
headed for the doorway.
Stanley" hollered a voice.
He looked towards the wall
from where the voice came and
saw Hal and Mac. A quick surge
of complete terror seized him for
a second and he started quickly
for the door when Hal called once
more. The fright passed and he
thought how needless it was TO
run from them. He stopped in his
tracks and Hal and Mac walked
over to his side.
Hello, Stanley" they said cheer.
fully.
Stanley remained silent, and Hal
hurriedly, Come on, Stanley
noticing the awkward break, spokt
there's no need for us to be un
friendly any longer. I think wer,
all ready to admit that we've beer
childish about the whole thing"
1--WE sure have said Mac, wv
sure have"
1--WE got to 60" said Stanley il
a confused tone.
"Please." interrupted Hal. ait
really is time we made up. We're
willing to forget
yeah" said Mac generouslS
"let's go over to the beer joint lik
we used to. 1t amt been the sam
without you. No kidding, 1 meal
it."
Stanley hardly knew what to say
Neither of them had even men
ton Kathy nor the argument whicl
they had had. He wanted to ge
away from them, to think by him
self, but they kept pleading an,
urging him as if nothing had eve
taken place. Finally, he blurted,out
where's Jim?"
He'll meet lis at the tavern" re
piled Hal, hes expecting to Sc
you"
"All right" said Stanley, "bu
only for a little while"
Good. Good said Mac eagerl,
"just like old times, the four {
u.s."
When Jim joined them at tn
tavern, the three had finished the
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TeenHOp
Slated

All teen-agers are invited TO at
tend the Cleveland High School Y
Teens bingham dance set for to-
night friday in the Michigan st.
Community Building, 500 Michigan
st.
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WIGS
Meet Set

New leaders will rule when the
WWG worldwide Guild holds
its meeting at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday,
May IA in the Fujin Home.
The cabinet members are Betty
Jean Andrews. president; Naoko
Hasegewa, vice president; Airline
Andrews, secretary, and Chickie
Ishihara. treasurer.
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COP NEAR ACCORD
Continued From Page One)

community property principle,
whereby husbands and wives
may split the family income
equally for tax reporting pur-
poses, putting the income in
lower rate brackets and saving
on taxes. This would cost the
Treasury about $6O0,0O0,000.
3. Certain revisions of gift and
estate taxes, at a cost Of $780,
900, 1000.
4. In addition, percentage cuts
80 per cent for persons with
net taxable incomes of not more
than $1,000; 20 per cent for per-
sons with taxable incomes
above 81 1000 but not more than
$4,000 (the 20 per cent would
apply to all of such persons in
come, the 80 per cent not car
rying through to the first $1,000
of persons with larger income);
10 per cent cut on that part of
any taxable income over 81 900.
The treasury probably would
lose about $2,400,000,000 in rev.
enue.
S. A special exemption for
persons over IS years of age,
reducing revenues about $780,
000. 900.
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RED LEADERS
CONTINUED From Page One)

AOAAA = ~6S
900 (billion) which the govern
ment had offered.
The Labor Chamber original
ly had demanded a 10000, ,OO0,-
600 lire program and then a.
OOO 10000 (billion) lire, includ-
ably won't be decided "until we
look the situation over during
the week end"
While looking over that situa-
ton, the Republicans also must
look over the overall party eco
nomic program, of which the
Wolcott bill is only a part.
Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) of the
Senate Republican Policy COM
mittee refused to reveal details
of the long-range anti = initiation
manifesto, which is based on
voluntary action, until House
COP leaders and all Republican
Senators had weighed it.
Taft said it would include
three of the four points in the
Wolcott bill. These are the vol
untary industry-wide agree
ments designed to bring down
prices, extension of export con-
trolls, authority over transporta-
ton and increases in federal re-
serve banks gold reserves.
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HOLLYWOOD
Continued From Page One)

Dempsey, Producer AIRY
Cohn, Attorney Gregson Baut-
would just sort of get together
and have a drink on me, I would
like it. Jack Dempsey, Rudy
Vallee, Jonah Jones. Harry
Cohn, Howard and by all means
you and Billy"
Kane was rushed to La Brea
hospital where Bautzer, Cohn
and Hughes came to his bedside
during the early morning hours
and Hughes summoned his own
physician, DR.. Verne Mason, to
help out.
Although the physicians be-
lieved he would recover, t h ey
said his condition would remain
serious for another "a hours.
Deputy Sheriffs said they would
question Kane on his motive aft
er he is out o danger.
The agents secretary, Jose
phine Patterson, said he h d
been morose over a "seml ro-
mantic' affair. Kane and Miss
Bari were married in 1889 and
divorced three years later. He
subsequently married mooei
Muriel Kane but she divorced
him in 1915.
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PAULEY DEFENDS
Continued From Page One)

ings, he said something less
than a million dollars.
His liquidation operations
were carrie, out in accordance
with an agreement with Royal,
he told the Senate Appropria-
tions committee. AS a result, he
said, he is "currertly more than
$4,000 worse off than if l had
retained the grain" His trans
actions have been perfect
ly proper and ethical" he de-
clared.
|. On the Senate floor, Senator
Williams (R-DeD assailed the
administration as "Trying to
manipulate the market" He
said purchases by government
officials should be scrutinized to
learn whether they conceded or
came a few days before (crop)
reports of the Agriculture De-
partment.
His advice to investigators
came as House leaders, too, pre-
pared to follow up charges made
by Harold E. Stassen, candidate
for the COP Presidential nomi-
nation, that insiders" in the
government have speculated in
food markets and caused prices
to rise.
The fast-moving Pauley in
vestigation, plowing through
a full morning session of ques-
tions, also developed:
1. An assertion by Pauley
that President Truman could not
have known-and neither could
Secretary of Agriculture Ander-
son-that Pauley was operating
in commodity markets when
they blasted at spectators as
raising the cost of living. On
Oct. S, Mr.. Truman assailed
the "greed of spectators who
gamble on what may lie ahead
in our commodity markets.. :"
2. A promise by Pauley to
lay before the committee the rec
ord of his market dealings, in
cluding complete accounts of his
tradings in grains and other
foods during the time he was a
special ambassador for Presi-
dent Truman in a reparations
study board.
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HELICOPTER CREW
Continued From Page One)

Continued From Page One)
speed of near 100 miles an hour
Tuesday midnight.
1t. Col Harry Bulls, of Port
land, Mich, who was thrown
clear when the ship struck, was
quoted as saying the plane
''seemed to come almost to
stop in mid air" before plung-
ing.
After emergency treatment at
the small RCAF hospital in
Goose Bay, four of the rescued
- 1t. ]. M. Buckley, Abilene,
Tex, Sgt. Joseph Stefanowciz,
Warren, Ohio, and Cpl. Gene L.
Harter, Fort Wayne, Ind, and
N. Y, took off for Walter Reed
hospital, Washington, about l
pm. They are due in the capital
about 8 pm. (EST).
The two other survivors-Lt.
Col. Bulls and Tech. Sgt. Will
liam j. Bujak of Philadelphia
remained behind. The reason
they did not make the trip was
not given.
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CAPE FEAR
Continued From Page One)

Foam was dropped and the
sick craft was renamed the
Mascotte. She was successlol
after these changes.
Also RAN-Since that time,
the rocking chair admirals will
tell YOU, yachts have come ana
gone, some good, some fast and
some lust pleasure boats. Some
managed to keep the cup
championship for years, while
others just "also ran"
Time passed on and modern
Yachts filled the basin at
Wrightsville, but the old timers
still sit around and talk about
the races of yesteryear. But so
do the youngsters, for they have
heard the yarns since they were
born.
The younger and more active
sailors pay little heed to the
DAYS of old. They are interested
in the present races. They talk
about last years South Atlantic
Regatta and map plans for next
season.
But they aren't far from the
Rocking Chair Admirals, for
when the races are over the
youngsters gather on the spa
cious veranda of the Yscht club
and swap stories about yachting.
The spectators observe, the
older ones, that racing has i'm
proved here and faster sailing is
seen on the sound. But you can't
tell the rocking chair admir- ais
that. For they will recall that IN
the "good old days. you had
more work to do.
Interest from a participants
and from spectators standpoint
has increased greatly here in
the past few years. Today is the
day of sailing for the Carolina
Yacht Club. Speedy sailing, Gle
yer sailing and keen, but friend
/ lv competition.
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COMMISSION
Continued From Page One)

u
prepared for service and pre-
sumably are not affected by to-
nights action.
Earlier in the day, however,
hopes for easing the fuel sltua-
ton suffered blow when Con-
gressmen were told that T-2
type tankers being readied for
return to service have shown a
tendency to break in two.
Eight Break Up
One To type tanker split
apart at Boston Tuesday while
it was under repair, Max W.
Ball, director of the interior de-
partment's Gil and gas division,
told House Interstate Com
merce committee. Then another
one broke in two at Hoboken,
N. j., Wednesday.
Ball said that, all told "eight
of these tankers have come
apart since the war"
"It has now been decided" he
added, that all these tankers
must be strengthened in the
mid-section at an expenditure OF
about $4,000 a tanker and a loss
in time of from two to six
weeks, meaning they will not be
available within the next two or
three months as contemplated. y
October 3 figures-the last for
which records are at hand -
showed 109 of the To tankers
available for sale by the COM
mission to American citizens,
and 100 which the Commission
had earmarked earlier for sale
to foreign buyers.
The Commissions action in
authorizing sale Of the oil ships
followed an opinion by Attorney
General Clark that the Commits
sion had a legal right to sell up
to 100 tankers to foreign buy
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TWO FIRMS MAKE
UCC APPLICATIONS
TO HAUL FUEL OIL

Citing fuel oil shortages in
middle east coast regions and
east-central section of the State,
two trucking firms, one in
Greensboro and one in New Bern,
yesterday made application with
the State Utilities commission in
Raleigh for new franchises to
haul gasoline and fuel oil from
Wilmington.
Although both the City Coal
and Tire company of New Bern
and the Dumas-Giddens Oil
Transport Co., Inc, of Goldsboro,
have been transporting Oil from
the terminals here for several
months, but under the new
North Carolina Truck law they
were required to. petition for
new licenses.
Representing the New Bern
firm, Manager Frank Almon,
who sad, that his tankers serv-
ice New Bern, Morehead City
and Jacksonville, with oil from
the Cape Fear Terminal COM
pany, said that in his area
there's enough heating oil on
hand until about December 20,
and no one seems to know where
we'll get any more"
Co-Owner L. D. Giddens Of the
Goldsboro company said that his
firm is planning to increase its
oil loads from Wilmington. I'm
der it's petition to the State UCC
the company seeks to serve
Fasion, Wallace, Snow Hill, Kin
ston and Friendship, with irregu-
lar routes in 250-mile radius
of GoldsbOrO.
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TRUMAN PRICE
CONTINUED From Page One)

ing some public works already
under way.
The chambers decision h d
yet to be ratified by Council
of Leagues" which is made up
of delegates from individual lun-
ions, but this approval was con-
sidered as likely to be automat-
ic.
Throughout the day helmeted
riot squads in jeeps, mounted
police and patrolmen swung
their truncheons, repeatedly
clearing the city squares and
charging throngs trying to block
the reopenig of shops or inter-
fering with the government or
ganized transport of workers.
The main incidents were IT Pi-
Pizza Fiume a mile away, at
Pizza Fium amile away, at
Pizza Riorgimento, along Giulio
Cesare across the Tiber and at
Piazza Argentina.
At several places we'll
disciplined flying wedges at
tempted to force police lines
guarding movies. Some patrons
leaving the guarded places were
'dn p7q5noI
Outside Rome in the province
troons ran into stone throwing
battles when they attempted to
remove road blocks thrown up
bv strikers across the Appian
Way near Albano and at Cen
zano. Five soldiers and many
strikers were reported injured
at Albano and several hurt at
Genzano.
Unknown sons placed
stones on the Rome Civitavec-
CHA railway, and coach
crowded with passengers was
braked. Just in time.
At one time at the Pizza Co.
lonna. the policemen followed
the crowd into the vestible OF q
church and clubbed a woman
and two other persons inside.
Associated Press Photogra-
pher j. Walter Green was hit
bv a police stick for the second
time todav while taking pictures
of the scene. He and Associated
Press Photographer Frank Joel
were struck over the head by
police clubs earlier in Colonna
Square, which is just off t h e
Constituent Assembly building.
A Youths leg was broken in
clash at the Piazza Risorgi-
mento. At Pleace 70 or 80 per
sons were reported arrested at
various places.
End of the strike came amid
indications of a growing split IN
the Communist dominated
Chamber of Labor.
The chamber originally voted
II to 8 for the strike, with one
member, a moderate Labor So
cialist, abstaining and three
Christian Democrats voting
against. In a later vote a st
night to continue the strike and
reject government terms, the
vote was IL to seven, with two
absent.