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Evening star., 1948-09-26

ishly appointed bathroom. as
he could see in the dim moon
light reflected through the win
dow. He opened this window
and stepped out onto the bal
oony. He stole along and peeped
in through the Slated shutters
of the next room. He saw Char
main.
''She was crying" he said.
He returned by the same
route, refastening doors and win
dows behind him. He had been
back in the pavilion for some
time. making preparations for
the journey" when a large sedan
drew up in the road below, and
Es-Samit got out.
FHANTAS awaited his arrival,
tensely. For" as he told me,
there is one crucial moment IN
every illusion which spells suc-
cess, or disaster.
A moment Or 90 elapsed. Then,
Es-Samit heat I'M the dnnr and
Phantas opened.
They set out very shortly
afterwards. The streets sur
rounding the palace of the Sheik
were completely deserted. In
the little town no light showed
in any window. There was a
guard at the gate, " Phantas said,
but he saluted and stood aside.
Evidently, Es-S SAINT was regard
ed with fearful respect. We rolled
out onto an ancient caravan road
which led to the frontier. :"
He ceased speaking. I saw a
swift change of expression and,
following the direction of his
gaze, realized that it was set ON
the figure of a woman walking
along the boulevard toward our
table. She was gracefully slen-
der, and carried herself with the
effortless ease of a dancer. She
wore black: a simple frock. But
Partisan simplicity means per-
feet taste. Phantas glanced at
me. His smile was radiant.
PLEASE forgive my piece of
misdirection. But I was about
to tell you that when I returned
to the pavilion, I did not return
alone. Es-Samit's 3 peculiar dress,
his spectacles, his silence: such
a part was a gift for a talented
actress! He was not difficult to
deal with, by one who had had
Commando training. left him
in a cupboard, well ventilated.
We stood up. The woman had
reached our table. Her dark eyes
were very beautiful as Phantas
took her hand. ''Charmain," he
said, Il have asked a friend to
join us for luncheon. The End
Evening star., 1948-09-26

veranda. He found an armed
guard seated there. The man
grinned in a not unfriendly fash
ion, but made it clear that a
promenade was out of order.
He went inside again, and out
onto the balcony. A very brief
inspection revealed a way down
onto the top of a low wall. just
beyond the pavilion this wall
became over9own with a mass
of Towering shrub. There were
steps down to the sunken road.
so far. 90 good" Phantas
said. But. although an idea
was taking shape, its details de-
pended entirely upon the nights
procedure. There was 50 much l
didn't know"
A cold luncheon, worthy of
the Meurioe at its prewar best"
was served shortly after noon by
two efficient white-robed ser
wants who retired in silence d.
rectly they had set out the
dishes. Ard inside the topmost
of several crisp rolls, Phantas
found a note from CHAIRMAN!
AT THIS point of his story, he
took out a wallet and from it, a
half sheet of note paper, which
he passed to me. The message,
in a feminine hand, read:
Il am safe. Esr srSamit will call
for you an hour after sunset.
You have nothing to fear. l
lived again. :. Good-by."
When dusk fell, Phantas
peeped at the guard on the
veranda. 1t was a different man
- and he appeared to be asleep.
Phantas went to the balcony.
Having climbed down to the
wall, he made a wide, careful
detour, finally approaching the
house on the west side - where
Charmain's apartment was sit
uated. Lights showed through
the lattices of her bedroom, but
the rooms right and left, one a
bathroom, as he knew, were in
darkness. They were immedi-
ately above a large room, or
divan, used for the reception of
visitors, and a balcony, flower
draped, projected before them.
Your romantic lover" said
Phantas, and smiled his swift
revealing smile, always climbs
to his lady's balcony. This feat
I did not attempt, as l had no
ladder. There were four French
windows lighting the saloon,
one of which l opened. The
saloon door I found to be locked,
but the lock was easy"
He found himself in a carpeted
corridor. Less than a minute
later, Phantas had entered a Law
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
Pegler Endorses Governor Dewey's
Methods OF Handling Domestic
Communists, But Says Its Very Old

ington last winter, the Thomas
committee started some absent
minded prosecutins of a few in
ferior Hollywood Bolsheviki but
forgot to protect its witnesses.
Within a few weeks one of the
suspects was declaring openly
in meeting that the heat would
soon be off and that the treason
euphemistically called art, could
be resumed. He was so right
that only recently he bobbed up
as a roadblock across the career
of one of the most valiant Catho
lie fighters against the conspir
acy. That kind of treatment
gets noised around and deters
others from giving testimony.
Now Governor Dewey proposes
that eff they break our laws
against treason they'll get traitor
treatment" and that eff our law
aren't adequate We'll get ones
(OUCH) which are"
That means that anyone who
joins the communist party de
clares his alliance with an alien
organization devoted to the over
by Force and violence." In
time of war with Soviet Russia
that would be treason and the
son is death. In other words,
we should shoot communists with
out regard for their personal
friendship with Eleanor the Great
or anyone else.
Our present laws aren't "ade-
quate' because they do not deal
with treason done in "cold war
recognized the Russian cam
paign against our country as a
cold war" about year ago and
it has steadily grown worse.
Meanwhile, thousands of traitors
are protected only because
our laws were written long be-
fore cold war had been invented.
The new law would Just moder-
nize our legal defense. That
should be simple, but, simple or
not, 1t has got to be done. If
the constitution is so brittle that
we can't bend it to out vital
necessity here, we won't be able
to defend it. 1t will protect our
enemies and Illustrate us.
Then Mr.. Dewey said, eff
they Communists engaged in
sabatoge or break any other laws
we'll jail them"
It was here that he said we
would get adequate laws, but l
moved that phrase up against
the treason proposition to en-
phaslze his intent that we put
communists to the firing SQUAD.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
PEGLER
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
COPYRIGHT, 1913, KING FEA-
TURES SYNDICATE, INc.)
New York, Sept. Ex-Governor
Dewey's method Of handling the
domestic communists has the
splendid merit of having been
proposed long time ago in these
letters. Therefore my endorse
ment is freely given.
Mr.. Dewey shows fine grasp
of the situation and all that he
left me to wish was that he had
taken occasion to hearten those
depressed American citizens in
Hollywood who stuck their heads
up and got them knocked off.
The mere fact. that the moving
picture industry is rich does not
relieve him Of the public duty
of holding it up to notoriety as
a sly conniver with the enemy.
However, I realize that, as he is
said to have said, the first thing
in politics is to get elected and
that if he had let fly just at
that point he might have joggled
an election which is as good as
won.
Nevertheless, he must see to
it that, when he cleans the mus
covites out Of our society, poll
tics and culture, the good Am
orleans who went down fighting
for the American way in Holly
wood are remembered and re-
paired. Some of them took their
chances twice in hearings, fist
by the old dies committee and
later by the Thomas committee
on un-American activities. These
committees assured them that
they would have nothing to fear
if they should tell the country
what the Bolsheviki had been
up to. Having no more know
ledge of the actual workings Of
Congress than the producers of
"Mr. Smith goes to Washington"
and State of the Union" the
patriots came out of the cellars
and told. Like the underground
martyrs of Warsaw who were
betrayed by the Red Army into
rising against the Nazis and then
left alone to be slaughter;pl,
these American writer's, actors,
advertising men and producers
were abandoned but for no rea-
son except rattle-brained confu-
sion. The dies committee ran
off chasing some red lecturer
or furrier and forgot its
promises.
After q great uproar In Wash
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
Bascom Timmon's Book Should Be
Another Nail In Truman's Coffin
In the Opinion of Ray Tucker
TUCKER

ner's long legislative experience
at Washington, when he frequent
ly found himself in agreement
with G.O.P.-ers across the aisle
rather than with his party COM
rades.
His closest friends and collie
agues on Capitol Hill were the
wealthy and aristocratic mick"
Longworth of Ohio, and "Frijo-
lie" La Guardia of New York.
CHILLINESS Mr.. Gamers
reasons for his growing political
chilliness toward Franklin D. Ro
osevelt, whom he admired and
liked as warm and engaging
individual, will furnish sustenace
to the Dewey-Warren slate a 8
well as to the Thurmond-Wright
faction.
The factors which drove them
apart were, in chronological Or
der:
- The Roosevelt Administra-
TONS recognition Of Russia.
Mr.. Garner warned 1.-The cap
tain" at 1900 Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. that Moscow would not pay
her debts or keep her nose out
of our domestic affairs (Roose-
velt-Litvinof conditions for re-
cognition) and that Stain could
not be trusted to keep any pro-
mise. Mr.. Garner made this
prediction in 1898.
y The SUPPLEMENTARY po-
Icy of President Roosevelt, Har-
ry Hopkins, and Harold L. Ickes.
Although Mr.. Garner sponsored
the first P.W.A. measure in Or
der to relieve unemployment in
the Hoover Administration, his
thrifty spirit was irked by ex-
cessive use of public funds at
ter the worst years Of the 1929
1888 depression.
COURT 81 The attempt to
pack" the Supreme Court. Mr..
Garner, like most Of his Demo-
cratic colleagues in House and
Senate, were shocked" when F.
DIR. read the proposal to them
at a White House conference, az
ter previously promising that he
would propose no new or con-
troversial legislation for the 1885
session of Congress.
Mr.. Garner blames F.D.R.'s
change of heart on his tremen-
dous victory in 1885, when he
carried all states save Maine and
Vermont over All Landon. He
does not believe that such catas-
trophic triumphs are good for
the President or the nation.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29

SEPTEMBER ~. 1874. the headline news
in the nations newspapers was the arrival
at Seattle, Washington. Of two airplanes.
It was story for front pages because the
planes completed the first round-the.
world flight. And because II was q TIL
umph for the United States Air Force.
The editor Of the British magazine, The
Aeroplane, wrote: ut was the Americans,
Wilbur and Orville Wright, who were first
TO fly an aeroplane under proper control.
It was an American crew under Com
mander Read S.pwho first flew the Attain
tic And It is in accord with precedent
that an American team should be the first
to circle the globe by air.
What could be more natural? Such
feats are achieved by grit. energy. per-
tinacity, determination, endurance, and
faith Such human qualities, and especially
faith in ones future, are precisely those
which inspired the ancestors Of these men
70 e> press westward To the promised
land"
There were three planes when the flight
started, April 6. 1924. flying Westward.
One crashed en- route, and was replaced.
so only two planes actually circumnavi-
gated the globe in this epochal expedition.
Meanwhile, two British endeavors to du-
plicate the feat failed.
The planes were two-seat. modified tor
pedo-carriers built by Douglas, with 400
hip. Liberty engines and interchangeable
floats and wheels. They were largely IN
USAF job. composite of the ideas Of Dom
aid Douglas and Lieut.. Erik Nelson, one Of
the pilots. Each plane had so-foot wing
spread and measured 3s-feet from propsl-
Ter to rudder. Each could carry 465 gallons
Of gas Empty each weighed nearly thres
tons, loaded four tons.
Album Of American Hhtory copyright
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
Weldon's Good Fortune Points To
A Great Need In Roanoke Rapids

The report from Weldon that the Weldon Hotel
will undergo some improvements and become one 'of
the most modern hotels of its size in the state, IS
indeed gratifying to us.
We congratulate Weldon on having hotel ana
we congratulate the of that hotel on their
n,ns for imnroving the present accommodations and
sincerely hope that the plans will reach fruon IN as
short time as possible
The announcement from Weldon of the plans for
the hotel there points up, once again, the TACT thae
Roanoke Rapids does not have a hotel
The discussions of the possibilities of building
hotel here are once again warming We nope that II
is not case of just warmed over discussions we
hope that this time definite action towards the
building of hotel in Roanoke Rapids Will be taken.
IA modern hotel, such as that which the owners
of the Weldon Hotel planning can be the center OF
many community activities. In a city the size OIL
Roanoke Rapids hotel is almost must we nave
been without one since the Smith Hotel burned
The urgent need of modern hotel in Roanoke
Ranids Ia admitted by everyone. 1t has been agreed
that what community builds, builds the commun-
Roanoke Rapids could have modern hotel and
It could be made community enterprise IL coulo
be built and owned bv the people of the city.
We believe that the people of Roanoke Rapids
would be willing to invest in hotel we THINK that a
hotel here would be profitable venture Tor the pus
inessmen of the community
In one city in the middle west, community wide
campaign has been started to raise S4OoooO with
which to build community owned hotel: ~ Iil!s
amount some $4,000 has already been raised. This
money is being raised in the community by the sale
of stock at $500 share 1t seems to us that such
plan might be followed in Roanoke Rapids.
Time and again, we've heard the cry of travelling
men that they cannot find place to stay in Roanoke
Rapids because of the lack of hotel facilities They
20 onto Rocky Mount other city. For them
It means an additional hours drive and for Roanoke
Rapids it means the loss of the money that those
men would spend here, at the restaurants the thea
tres, the hotel and the other stores in the city.
We believe O
of interested persons should take the bull by the
horns and establish hotel planning committee and
begin definite plans for the construction of modern
hotel in Roanoke Rapids.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
THE READERS COURTROOM
BY Will Bernard LIB.

much that she had to 60 back to
bed for several weeks. Later
she sued the neighbor for dam
ages. But the court rejected her
suit on the ground that mere
words" were not enough basis
for a complaint, especially be-
cause the neighbor did not know
the No woman was in delicate
health.
Estate laws vary. For personal
guidance, see your local attor-
ney.)
Copyright 1913, General
Features Corp.)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
TUCKER
BY RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2e-Al-
though written by a Democrat a.
bout one of the most prominent
Democrats of modern times, Bas-
com Timmon's Garner of Texas,
which Harper publishes today,
should be another nail in the Tru-
man coffin, and an effective poll
teal tract for the Thurmond-
Wright States Rights Party.
1t may be all the more ef-
fective in the presidential cam
paign because it was not written
with any such malign intent.
Save for a biographical outline
OF Mr.. Gamers early days, the
book consists of the political,
economic and philosophic expires
sions of the former Speaker and
Vice-President as recorded bv
his closest newspaper friend at
Washington, Mr.. Timmons, over
a period Of thirty years.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
SokoEky Campaign Speeches Of Dewey And Truman Offer Great Contas
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION

Greater love hath than this, that man lay
down his life for his friends" John 1871
This months daily quotations suggested by the
Rev. Willis R. Stevens Pastor of the Rosemary Methodist
Church of Roanoke Rapids.
The Herald will each day this position carry Bible
quotation of the churches the five county
to covered by the Herald will be asked to contribute the
quotation for a month.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29
(Q) MAY A WOMAN COL
LECT DAMAGES FROM SOME
ONE WHO FRIGHTENS HER?

(A) A rancher's wife, conval-
escing from an operation, was
home >alone one day when the
telephone rang. The caller was
a wrathful neighbor, wIo angri-
ly denounced her for letting her
cattle stray onto his land. He
warned that he would edo some
thing about it" unless she remed-
led the situation. His shouting
frightened the poor woman so
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-29

BLESSING Since Mr.. Garner,
as the author explains, has de-
stroyed all the papers and re-
cords Of his more than forth
years in public life at Austin and
at Austin and at Washington
the Timmons masterpiece will be
accepted as the famous Texas's
lasg will and political document
In note to the author, whom
ne refused to help in prepare.
ton OF the book, Mr.. Garner
gives it his blessing.
To those of us who were lucky
enough to know Mr.. Garner well
during his service on Capitol
Hill, it reads like authentic Gar.
nerlana as distilled and censored
py Mr.. Timmons, who is the
closest living counterpart of Will
Rogers-humble, witty and wise.
SERVITUDE Long before
Dixie launched a Thurmond-
Wright party in revolt against
the Truman Civil Rights pre-
gram, Mr.. Garner told Tin"
that it would be to the political,
social and economic advantage
OF the South to quit its blind
and historic servitude to the De-
mocratic Party, and to establish
a two-party system belwo the Ma
son and Dixon Line.
This statement, which will UNI
doubleday be used to great adj
vantage by the Thurmond-Wright
apostles, was not an empty re-
mark. It was based on Mr.. Gar.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-08-12
News Of Local Army EnIistees
Around The Globe

Two brothers, Robert H. and
William c. Kuster, sons of Mrs.
Annie r. Fox of Gaithersburg and
Lotn veterans of World War IL,
signed up Monday. for three year
enlistments 3 with the Armored
Force. During the. war years,
Robert was with the 572 AAA
Battalion in Europe while Bill
was assigned as a border military
policeman in Rumania. They both
enlisted Tuesday and after spend
ing seven days at home; they will
journey to TT. Dix to await fur
Their assignment. ,n@y :
owen (Dave1 Catron, 1S, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Catron of
Route 1, Boyds, and anxious to
begin training in the Army's tech
nical schools. was sworn in this
week for a two year enlistment
with the Army Ground Force.
Dave is now in basic at Camp
Kilmer, NJ ].
Virgil E. Saylor, IS, son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Saylor of Olney,
applied this week for two year
period with the Regulars. Young
Saylor. attended Sherwood High
School and until recently was en-
ployed with a plumbing contrac-
tor at Kensington.
Three Army Corporals, Jim
Elkins and brothers George and
Dick Dean, all from Gaithersburg,
are new with a Signal unit some
where in the Pacific. No official
word. on this, but through the
conventional grapevine comes
word that sall three had recently
graduated from Radar school
and are now going forward in the
field of radar electronics.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-08-12
By Sgt. Ed Broaon

After two and a half years of
daily climbing the stairway to the
local Army and Air Force Recruit
ing Station here at the Rockville
Post Office Building, l must now
pack and start moving. But don't
be too rejoiced as the move is
merely down the street, meaning
of course that this recruiter will
be still beating the drum for vol
unteers in our new army and air
force. Thanks to the generosity of
The Mayor and town council, 10
Commerce Lane, (next to the Vet
Grams Cab Service) will be the
new stamping grounds for those
local young men interested in be-
coming Army Regulars. The local
draft board will be taking over
soon on the second floor of the
post office thus the reason for the
moving of the recruiting station
to it's new quarters. N.Y.
In spite of the mad scramble
of moving and such, enlistments
this week were extra elite. Five
local men stepped in line and sign
ed up Tor either two or three year
enlistments.
William A. Dove, Jr., IS, son
of Mr.. aud Mrs. w. A. Dove of
Derwood, and a graduate of this
years class at Sherwood, enlisted
for the Air Force and is now TAX
ing basic at San Antonio. -
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-08-12
Slim and Full Lines
In Fall Styles.
Lengths The Same


Fall fashions will be, evenly di-
vided between the slim and the full
silhouette. Skirts will be about, the
same in length, but there will be
some surprises in store, says Mar
ian Corey. Writing in McCaIPs for
August about what to expect in
clothes for fall, she tells about the
oversize collar, the bat-wing sleeve
and the dressy shirtfrock:
"Fall silhouettes: Fall clothes
are evenly divided between the
slim and the full, with skirts about
the same as far as length is con-
cerned. Suits and coats stand at II
inches from the sidewalk; day
dresses at IL and 10; cocktail
frocks may go down to 10. Eve
ming dresses are at IS or 8 inches
from the floor for the informal
types, and floor length for the
grand gaia gowns.
"Fall suits: Many have straight
skirts and longish jackets. The
skirts are plain but the jackets
often go in for interesting details.
However, there are really no set
rules about suits; you will see all
kinds.
"Fall coats: Even in coats this
Ealf4and-half division between the
slim and the fiared exists, with the
widely fiared princess coat and the
slim wrapped cape coat leading the
field.
Fall casual dresses: The inter-
esting thing about these is, they
are not plain shirtfrocks. There is
something soft and individual
about each one-a different neck,
special sleeve, striking pocket.
Oddly enough the really plain
shirtfrock has moved over into the
dressy class, and is made of exotic
fabrics like lame and satin.
"Fall dressy dresses: The slim
and sophisticated ones are a sur
prise. Though slim, the skirt al
ways has something about it to get
it lots of attention.
"New fall sleeve: it is the cut
in-one' or bat-wing sleeve, so i'm
proved in cut and fit that it seems
like an entirely new fashion. And
it gives Just the right shoulder
line-smooth and rounding.
Fall college clothes-As usual
the college wardrobe is q matter
of separate jackets, skirts, sweat
crs and blouses; of tweed suits; of
Stacks and pedal pushers and blue
jeans; of checks and plaids and
wool jersey; of smooth date dress
es, and don't overlook that over
size collar; Of bang-up formals and
short dance dresses; of best coats.
and of short casual coats; of a rain
coat and, if possible, fur coat.
3" Related tweeds,' or tweeds de-
signed to go together, are used for
smart country-and-car suit, long
of jacket, slim of skirt. The breast
pockets are fakes, the hip pockets
open at the side. There is an up
curved neck, and sleeves in one
piece with the yoke. Another suit,
which is suggested for broadcloth,
has something new in jackets. 1t is
long and above all has the TERED
side peplums. This is the little
Observation-Disclosures sill
houette in a dressy suit for young
figures" See "a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-08-12
Armless Typist

Grimsby, England ~ Although
A. C. Smell lost both arms and a
leg in a 1912 air raid, he now
works full time as tytRst. He has
two artificial limbs. A'hne
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-08-12

Average life span in U. s. nears
G7 years, says Government.