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PAGE 4 SECOND NEWS SECTION THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS-SUN SPRINGFIELD OHIO SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27 1938 INTIMATELY REVEALED IN DOCUMENTS AUTHORS OF TWO NEW BOOKS TO GIVE PLAY Battles Impenetrable Jungle Willard Bush Tells Of His Adventures As Manager Of Rubber Plantations In Pahang By Willard Bush New York: I IgA Tha Maemlllaa Company PAHANG 384 pp Herndon Letters On Lincoln Are Printed Formerly Suppressed Material Detracts None From Greatness Of Man He Becomes Human THE HIDDEN LINCOLN From the Letters and Paper of William Herndon Edited ay Emanuel Hertz Illustrated New York: The Viking Presa 4M pp 5 Finally after all these year all the material on the life of Abraham Lincoln that William Herndon hi law partner for 31 yean collected over a quarter of a century haa been published The reason for this delayed coming to life of the full story of the Civil War president la that large portions of Herndon's material heretofore has been con tittered or at least of questionable taste In fact in 1889 Herndon and Jesse Weik published a book on Lincoln containing much of this material and the public revolted against IL Herndon's collection which upon his death was left to Weik has been drawn upon by every biographer of Lincoln from Lamon to Bev eridge but certain portions especially that dealing with Lincoln's birth and his straying from the straight and narrow path of rectitude have been suppressed Now Emanuel Herts a noted Lincoln scholar has edited the letters and papers of the law partner and refrained from blue penciling There can he no question that Herndon knew Lincoln and his Intimate life from the time he came to Illinois to the time he left for Washington better than anyone else and that he was more in a position to gather data on Lincoln than anyone else According to Herndon's letters' FLANNERY LEWIS WILLARD BUSK Authors of two recent books are Willard Bush who wrote of hla adventurea in tha Malayan Jungle In "Pahang" and Flannery Lewis whose "Brooks Too Broad for Leaping" Is a story of boyhood Both books were published by Macmillan Thera are few persons who will not find this book Intensely Interesting It ran be recommended to nil readers save those who react unfavorably to the grimmer facte of Jungle and barbarian Ufa A gnat deal of blood both of human beings and beasts flows In and great many people suffer from unpleasant and often swiftly fatal diseases As a whole It la aa exciting an adventure story as has appeared in some time and although It Is not Illustrated as most such books are It is so vividly written that one tends to remember tt ns if It wars Utenlly pictured throughout Willard Bush whom the English In Singapore railed the "Mod was given a Job as manager of a rubber plantation In Pahang and in hla book ho relates hla experiences aa Iona white man In charge of this and other rubber plantations on tha Malay peninsula Just north of tha Equator These plantations covered thousands of acres of rubber trees surrounded by a high wall of Impenetrable Jungle The workers were Javanese Chinese Bengalis and In each csss tha plantations ware badly run down when the author took charge The jungles were too deadly to be much sought even by big game hunters and as a consequence the big game maintained that relation to humanity which it held through many thousands of years i until mankind developed superior weapons The author killed tigers elephants leopards black panthers pythons and so forth not aa a hunter but In defense of hla own Ufa or that of his workers and In defense of ths property of the plantation It was the elephants who chiefly endangered the property but tigers and pythons preyed upon his workers hunted them ns their rightful game Instead of being hunted by them In the case of tha smaller rats It was usually a matter of chance encounter rather than that the beasts wera hunting tha men or the men tha beasts Miss Claries Wads will review Neill "Petticoat Vagabond" at the Warder Public Library Tuesday at 7:30 in tha sixth in tha series of book by the library and the Adult Education Council Tha program was planned by Mrs Herbert Reed and Mrs Anna Caldwell staff committee "Petticoat la mora than just another travel book because Mias James Is one of ths very few women who has literally traveled on a shoe-string Miss Wade says of the author In part waa a college girl with some Child Begins To Find Meaning Of Everyday Events BROOKS TOO BROAD FOR LEAPING By Plannery Lewis New York: The Macmillan Company 274 ppi X90l Flannery Lewis who wrote about hla grandmother In the early stormy days of Virginia City Nev In "Suns Go Down" fast year has gone sensitive in his second book "Brooks Too Broad for Leaping" la also set In tha west but a vagus west The locale really haa no bearing on the story which Is a well observed and often affecting one of boy of seven who Is Just beginning to be conscious of tha meaning of events around him and whose mind la often confused over those everyday experiences They are brooks too broad for leaping Mr Lewis has not made his chronicle detailed account of nil the petty Incidents or emotions of childhood Ha gives hla impressions instead of such Incidents In child's life os will determine his character aa an adult Mark Douglas fa Just beginning school in 1918 white his father a doctor Is In France with the American smiles His absence and tha World War period do much to shape young life He sees tha soldiers coma through on train man ha knows Is wounded the influenza epidemic sweeps down and takes some of his friends and his beloved teacher and everyone with German name la shunned or suspected of being spy Ths child's mind can not understand nil these things but they make very definite impressions on him Mark lives with his gay Intelligent mother "on the and his nearest neighbor Is Julie golden-haired little glri who Is constantly embarrassing him by kissing him In front of people Richard la his best friend He plays with him walks into tha country with him and fights with him Hs also shares with him 'the experience with tha man In tha bulrushes Then la also Peg the school bully who both frightens him and arouses his respect But the older characters In the book era not given qlute enough attention by Mr Lewis to make ths stoqr complete Neverthetase It Is charming and simple narrative and Its children are remarkably real and believable to the reader In that respect Mr Lewis has accomplished 'something which Is extremely difficult for nothing lx so remote to an adult as childhood so tenuous and so hard to put on PP6P A LEAP Df THE DARK THERESA Wta Feb Look before you leap probably will bo tha motto of Ernest Kelley Soo lint brakeman from now on Kelley working night shift climbed out of a locomotive cub to throw switch unaware the engine had stopped on bridge He landed In the frigid watera of the Rock River The engine crew pulled him out with the locomotive bell cord Myths Explained In Wholly New Manner Bellamy Allies Science With Mythology Bases Novel Story On Cosmic Ice Theory MOONS MYTHS AND MAN Ry 8 Bellamy Nsw York: Harper and Brothers SSI pp with Index S3 rr Mythology Is painted in a brilliant word picture yet with lucidity in Bellamy'! book "Moons Myths and Man" in which ha allies science and myths in a wholly new and exciting style He presents that phase of mythology Identified with the cosmos in extraordinary manner Basing hla story on the Cosmic Ice Theory of Hans which assumes that the moon was an independent planet captured by the earth about 13500 years Bellamy shows how myths and legends all over the world may be Interpreted as true historic records of a cataclysmic event which mankind witnessed The author explains the Earth's capture of ths moon which at that time 13500 years was Identified as the planet Luna Ha contends that the fata of -tha moon or Luna mny some day be the fate of however In the very distant future "If it (Mars) contrives to slip past the Earth without being eccentricity of orbit and mass may help It to this alternative it will finally plunge Into the Sun" he pointed out and adds "this Is also the destiny of the Earth as tha last of tha hellolds" He views myths aa having genuine material background and contends that they describe ante-historical happenings of which only geology has up till now been able to give some account He phraaea myths as being history In disguise Among the myths which he ex amines with great cars are dragon and serpent myths god and giant myths Satanic myths myths of the deluge the ark the great Are and the creation He concludes with discussion of man's oldest and most romantie tradition ths story of the lost Atlantis which has fired the Imaginations of countless writers One of tha most provocative chapters In Bellamy's "Moons Myths end Men" delves Into the Bible The Bible he says "represents a fair though entirely arbitrary selection of writings which an neither historical nor mythological In any strict sense So tha mythotagUt if ha is willing to dig may still come upon fragments of true myths of undoubted origin silty and antiquity The most In tereatlng passages In Biblical literature from the standpoint of the mythotaglst are the scanty hut significant apocalyptic fragments" Among the several examples which Bellamy presents and interprets Is ths dragon myth (Ths Revelation of John xll 1) "And there appeared another wonder In heaven a great dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads And his tail draw ths third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to tha Earth And there was wsr In heaven Michael and hla angels fought against the dragon And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the Devil and Satan which decelveth the whole world he was cast out unto ths Earth and hla angels wen cost out with him And when ths dragon saw that ha was east unto ths Earth ha cast out of his mouth water as a flood and tha Earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon east out of hla mouth' Ths author la a Vleness mythol-nglst and student of languages The evidence he brings to support this reinterpretation of the origin of our solar system Is amaxlngly complete and makes fascinating reading TRAIL TROUBLE By Will Ermine New York: Green Clrcls Books 336 pp IX ass Bill Rohurk and his palp Happy CH AFTER To Terry Lang whom a stranger would think much too young to havo been a crack reporter for eight yean bod com the inevitable eonclualon that between him and hie city editor lay an Impenetrable barrier The nun wee a sood paper and the pay roll department Issued fine-looking checks ench Monday and the general attitude toward Its special reporter was but the conception Ita editors bad of big stories big enough for Terry Lang to cover was little short of disgusting Tor instance this blackmail affair Anyone would think that after playing up tbs real mother vs foster mother mess In tha Btorms affair for two weeks any sane city editor would bo anxious to get something Into hlo paper that wasn't ory with soft soap and forred sentimentality But no Ths day aft-tlw decision in the Storms cnee Terry found John Deane watting for him with a wide omlla and a bright idea "It's the yarn of the year" the city editor remarked HI 5-foot 2-Inch frame seemed Inadequate for the 3S0 pounds that glared IL Hie paunch separated Mo backbone from the edge of hlo deek by 80 Inches He handed Terry a note that read: "City Editor: JOHN HALLAUER A religious fantasy "Ths Passing of the Third Floor Back" hy Jerome Jerome under the direct on of Miss Jeans Browne Is to be the third production of the Wittenberg Little Theater March 4 and 5 This pre-Lenten play la baaed on the theme "I Win Seek Thy Good" The story portrays group of ordinary people living in modest boarding house In London tend In the early Into their midst comes Stranger who changes each of their lives by finding beneath their many faults some good which he brings out The Stranger represents the Spirit of Christ Incarnate he embodies all Christian Ideals and he comes as an answer to the hopes of the little slavey Stasis who wished above all else to find happiness for herself and others John Haltauer of Wauteon east as the Stranger plays the leading role Supporting him are Robert Bayley of Springfield Joey Wright Harry McKnlght of Norwalk Christopher Penney Martel-tan Puterbaugh of Dayton Mrs Tompkins Edward Stroebel of Wapakoneta Major Tompkins Carl Obenauf of Erie Pa Harry Larcom Frances Izimns of Conneaut Vivian Charles Rehert of Detroit Mich Jape Samuels Betty Ruth Uhl of Springfield Miss Kate Elizabeth Nixon of Asbury Park Mrs De Hooley Vera Jeddy of East Cleveland Stasia and Mary Chambers of Fort Wayne Ind Mrs Sharpe Dwlnell Grant of the Wittenberg faculty la technical director for the production The crew Includes Betty Baumgardner of Columbus assistant director Glvah Wlsler of Leetonla and A lies Mae Thornton of Akron make-up In charge of properties an Janet Purdy of Plqua Robert Campbell of Springfield Elsbeth Selffer of Adrian Mich Margaret Fry of Hagerstown Md and Barbara Warner of Fort Wayne Ind Seats will be reserved for the production of "The Passing of ths Third Floor The presentation will begin at 8:15 on March 4 and at 2:30 and 8:15 on March 5 By PHILLIP LESLY beautiful glri In the back seat How could forget?" She flushed and bit her lip as sha turned tier head away again "You remember the strangest "Which brings us back to why you were anxious to leave ths Midtown without sven baggage You don't mean to say you were Jumping your hotel MU?" She hesitated a moment glanced at Mm uncertainly "Tha reasons for woman being anxious to leave hotel are numerous some may be mora likely than others You guess what mine was" 1 could but always Ilka to give girt chance to defend her honor" Ho wondered If them was ths faintest sign of smite en her Ups For the first time In Ms memory ho found himself puzzled by a woman There was something about this new acquaintance of Ms that hinted at mystery Intrigue Yet ha was eonscloua of a warm foeUng about him as he looked at her and classified her beauty The hair he would ay waa an auburn brown soft and lovely Her eyes were gray almost green but bright and wide He had to took twice to notice her makeup yet doubted that sha could possIMy be more beautiful A sweet beady odor hung over her: the odor Terry decided of lllace mingled with violets and roses Her figure was slender end graceful and there ws that about her which he had seldom observed in that intangible ft THE THORPE AFFAIR and documents there were two the one so endeared to the American people a man who loved right and veracity "as per fret a man as God generally and on the other hand a man who ares cold secretive and ambitious one who always puzzled Mr Herndon It Is this latter man whom he attempted not so much to disclose as explain hy the documents he collected and planned to publish He was so thoroughly convinced of the greatness of Lincoln that he knew the truth about him would not detract from that greatness In that he was right For with all that Is uncovered Lincoln dors not suffer as a great he merely becomes human Highlights of the suppressed material Include the Information that Lincoln's mother was lllegithnata and that his father was not Thomas Lincoln but one Abraham En-loe that Lincoln acquired a venereal disease while a youth at Beards town This Is questioned by some Lincoln authorities but they add If It had been true It would be one way of accounting for Lincoln's alleged fits of Insanity after the death of Ann Rutledge for certain changes In his nature and possibly for Mrs Lincoln's Inability to get along with her huahand The book likewise reveala that Lincoln once wrote a book challenging the Divinity of Christ which his friends destroyed It discloses facts about Lincoln's tragic romance with Ann Rutledge and hla curious courtship of Mary Owens and that there is prima facie but not conclusive evidence that Lincoln was illegitimate himself These facta particularly concerning his miserable background which Herndon pictured as a most degrading one he believed explained Lincoln's persistent melancholia and other contradictory traits of his character There are three mora things which are Interesting One Is the statement that Lincoln read from 1830 to 1M1 two newspapers the New York Tribune and the Charleston Mercury Another Is a list of hooks Lincoln had access to "and sometimes peeped among them books by Darwin Emerson Carlyle Froude Lewes and Spencer The third Is the Information that In preparing his first Inaugural speech Lincoln used Henry Clay's speech of 1850 Jackson's proclamation against nullification Webster's reply to Calhoun and Haynes (of 1833) The book has very little editorial comment with the exception of the editor's Introduction telling the history of the Herndon letters There could be much more In the body of the volume although Its reproduction of the letters themselves Is Invaluable The following are reported by Brentano's hook stores as the best sellers of the week: Fiction "The Prodigal Parents" by Sinclair Lewis Dnublrday Doran tLM "The by A Cronin Little Brown gSJM "The Nutmeg Tree" hy Margery Sharp Little Brown 12 -SO "The Rains hy Louis Bmmrield Harpers- 8375 "Northwest Passage" by Kenneth Roberts Douhleriay Doran S2T8 "Victoria 4: TO" by Cecil Roberts Macmillan S3S0 Non-Fiction "The Importance of hy Lin Yulang Reynal and Hitchcock 11 "Madame Curie" hy Eve Curie Dnuhleday Doran 8350 "The Hidden Lincoln" hy Emanuel Herts Viking Press S3 "Hell On Ice" by Com Edward Ellsbrrg Dodd Mead 8278 "Conqueror of the seta" by Stefan gweig Viking Press IT SO "Dry by Reno Bel-benott Dutton S3 BOOK NOTES Warner Brothers have Just purchased James Hilton's "Wo Are Not Alone" "The Nutmeg Tree hy Margery Sharp is to be done by MGM with Gladys George as "Julia" MGM has tha screen rights of another Little Brown and best seller with Remarque's "Three Comrades" Franchot Tone Robert Taylor and Robert Young have principal roles and Margaret Sullavan the leading feminine part And In London Metro was able to complete plana for "The Citadel" because Alexander Korda released Robert Donat who Is to play "Andrew Maaaon" Elizabeth Allan la to do Christine" and King Vidor will direct The film will be made In London where Dr Cronin can keep an occasional watchful eye on it Houghton Mifflin Company have Just signed a contract with Xlaua and Erika Mann son and daughter of the Nobel Prize win ner Thomas Mann for tha publication In tha fall of 1938 of a non-fiction volume to be entitled "Escape to Life" "Escape to Life" will deal specifically with the dramatic story of tha German emigration and mora generally with tha broader question of the freedom of thought and expression In Fascist and Democratic countries Tha volume will be built out of personal histories actual experiences interviews diaries recorded documents and private letters chief emphasis being laid on Intellectual and cul tural values Frederick A Stokes Company gave a literary coming out party on Feb XT for Ellery Queen the mystery mystery-author who turned out to be two men Instead of only one Their names sra Fred erlck Danny and Manfred Lee The party waa In celebration of tha publication of tha new Ellery Queen mystery "The Devil to Pay" which waa published on that date and which had already gons Into its second aditlon before publication Tha party waa also In celebration of ths signing of a new contract between Ellery Queen and Stokes for Hires books tha first of which is now nearly finished THE CASE OP THE HANGING LADY Ry Nani Jones New York: Dodd Mead and Company 371 pp 2 Being editor of "Pacific Motor Boat" Nard Jonea haa fittingly elected a West Const yacht dub setting with which ha la very familiar for tha background of hla unusual mystery stray His detsctlva Is not a delactlva at all but Commodora Reid Martin of the Overlake Yacht Club a wealthy man with targe lumber Interests which run themselves and as a result he has much time on his hands So he decides to try his skill at sleuthing when the name of his club Is threatened with srandnl after the body of Mrs Priscilla Ford tha wife of one of ita members Is found hanging from ths yardarm of ths cruiser Flair In tha club's moorings Tha coroner calls It suicide but the Commodora and tha manager of Overtake have other suspicions For one thing they had observed the curious actions of the dead woman's husband when he set sail in his cruiser for a trip around tha world Furthermore there was the question of ths nautical knots In tha rope from which her body was suspended and the green strand In the rope Itself showed that It had not come from any avsilsblt at ths Yacht Club Ths Commodora begins his detecting hy taking In the night rlub haunts of Mrs Ford and her crowd and not being very successful In discovering anything about her he la about to give up and tnka a cruise himself But apparently he has become too warm1 for some attempts are made upon hla own life This makes him more determined then ever to solve the case Right up to the end after two more murders hs suspects the wrong man but ho does finally get the right one with the aid of his mother and Nancy Clarke THE TOTTED STATES FLAG By Msltle Johns tlttlns 103 pp TITHE LAUGHING WELL Ry Winifred Bartlett Stnrkhrldse S3 pp SI 38 Philadelphia Dorrs nr and Company Here are two little volumes for the younger generation "The United States Flag" hy Mattie Johns Uttlng relates In a simple pleasant manner tha stray of the American flag telling the elg-niflcance of Its colon design and size about tha flag laws enacted by congress the first displays of the flag the growth of the United States flag rules and regulations and the observance of flag display one could possibly want or need to know of one's country's emblem The text Is In extra targa print such as la used In primers and the book is generously Illustrated The second volume "The Laughing Well" by Winifred Bartlett Stockhridge Is a play to be set to music for children In a prologue and two acts It's all about a hidden treasure and a haunted well In the yard of an Inn by the sea and about such characters as Mr Wogg Mrs Jilly Mr Fish Mickey Jickey Jock Sally Pry Snoop and Sniffle and a lot of magic lanterns who dance and stag RUN JAILLESS TOWN ROCKLIN Calif Feb Although this Is an Incorporated city with a population of 742 it gets along without a city attorney police chief police Judge or Jail For years tha council has declined to build a Jail or appoint police chief arrests when necessary being made by a eounty deputy sheriff reviews-sponsored business experience gained in quartermaster1! office and with fearless confidence In her own ability Regardless of her lack of fundi she was determined to travel and finance her travel! as she went even If It meant creating her own positions at times How successful she was in this venture is shown by her two tripe around the world with rather extended stays in any piece that took her fancy She la a business woman first and a vagabond second 'Petticoat Vagabond' will be enjoyed by any reader for It la light gay and very well written" Marco Polo may have started the fashion for travel hooka but It haa long since ceased to be wholly man's game In addition to Miss book this year's collection Includes Elinor Montaunt's Ruth Harkness "The Lady and the and Isabel Osbourne "litis Ufa Fve Loved" A collection of recent travel books by women will be on display for circulation at the meeting On March 15 Edmund Wilkes director of the Springfield Civic Then ter will give Gilbert and Sullivan evening These meetings are free and open to the public Everybody Is cordially invited to attend know rasa hy any ether name would bo Just as sweet" Terry did not press tha point A reporter of eight years' experience knew ways of learning such things He was content to wait till they reached her hotel If sha thought ahe would lose him after this one short meeting she was dumber he derided than aha looked Terry pulled the car to the curb before the Elm Street Apartment Hotel pressed his foot on the brak and turned to the girt "Hera wo ho began But she waa already out of tha ear She looked at him quickly then slammed the door and ran across tha sidewalk Into tha building Terry sat unmoving for a moment surprised Then hs hurriedly opened ths door clumsy in hla haste crawled out and rushed to the hotel door Ho watted impatiently for the swinging doors to stow enough for him to get In pushed his way through and rushed Into the lobby He looked about anxiously Thera wera several women in sight hut none of them was he He rushed to the elevators but oone waa waiting open Tha stairway too was deserted He opened tlw door to the freight elevator and discovered that tlw car was high up la the building With Jaw set hard ha approached the desk clerk to ask her room number then caught himself Ho cursed mentally at hla failure to learn her name Maybe he told himself she wasn't on dumb after all For a reporter who woo supposed to know oil tho tricks ho lud certainly been fooled Tlw mystery that surrounded tha girl was no nearer solution now than It had been when he met hen and accompanying circumstances had added to tha Intrtgua He'd find out mora about her hs promised himself there wee more than ona trick in Ms bag With a smile of anticipation he went out to hla ear (Copyright IMS Tha CMeage Daly Terry call Ms city editor and gets lead on nsw one that seems to bear a strange relation to hie experience ef tho morning In Monday's Bun GROSS EXAGGERATION GLASGOW Kyt Feb Ten relatives of Oscar Steen-bergen fanner who lives near here came to attend his funeral Steenbergen met them at tho tor There seemed to have been some mistake he said THE TRUTH ABOUT Stomach Ulcers and Stomach Ailments Gamed by Gostrie Hyperacidity Booklet so stasple hows KE-Es treatment Bimdrads report they wtn sated from sxpesslvs opera linos Lean all about this amosing kwxpsnslve know tieatiasiit Fain is Hsvsd from ths start Ns rigid or Haute diet This talus bis booklet Ml FSEE upon nqusst with In forma Uoa as te guarantor after CLEVELAND VON CO Old A leads OstsUsd Ohio But all of these adventures with dangerous wild beasts era merely incidental to tha main theme of the book Fighting disease battling tha company's supplies department to obtain necessary germicides and drugs and keeping the Chinese Malay and other groups of workers under control constituted tha big Job Mr Bush had plenty of labor trouble but his courage fearlessness and skiU eventually won over hla sullen employes Thera Is also broader Interest to the story In the insight It gives in rubber production The first two Jobs avert the hardest and after the sate of ths two plantations Mr Bush waa sent to another not quite so far removed from white men Still a third transfer took him to a plantation with bad reputation which he was able to overcome only after some warfare of his own The material presented including the glimpses of few other whits men suggests strongly that used by Conrad but Conrad picked It up from outside along the coastal watera of those regions In day before rubber planting developed Mr Bush saw it from the Inside Immersed In new and Interesting developments This gtri now the natural conclusion to reach about bar running from the hotel and refusing to talk about the Incident wan not a flattering one It was not In fact an acceptable one to Terry who prided himself on hla aMllty to Judge women There wan conviction in hla mind that what appeared on tha urface here was not ths actual state of affairs And yet she refused to explain to defend herself against the accusing finger of appearances "By ths way" ha asked casually "where art wo going? Not that it makes much differences: A street-ear's life Is monotonous ona But It does stop now and thro" She smiled Just little Terry noticed with satisfaction that she was even mora beautiful when ahe smiled "My apartment la Is Win ton On Elm street" fine" Terry said "because a-ducky little place west ef town where we can gat a nice dinner and dance to tlw finest orrhestra this side of Nsw York" She shook tier head "Streetcar motormcn eant detour like that If you do have to report you to the company your number?" Terry sighed "You've got my number" he said Minutes passed while Terry piloted Me car northward Neither epoke and the leniences ef their first few minutes together had re- turned It was he who again broke tlw silence "Suppose I ask you what your name Is end say will that help?" She shook her head "If all the same to you your passenger prefers anonymity Besides you hard-working people considered feheap The large sign of the Midtown Hotel stood out among tha many mailer onee along the street Terry glanced at It for moment passively Then his eyes lowered to the winging door below It The girl who earns out caught hie attention Immediately for ahe had those womanly qualities that men enjoy eelng But it waa mora than her shapeliness that held his attention for she broke into run as soon aa she cleared the door Terry watched her curiously Then she turned her head to look back and he saw her face HI eye widened his eyebrows raised The slight characteristic droop of hlo ahouldcro faded He pressed his foot on the accelerator and hlo ear looped ahead At ths corner he turned and blocked the fleeing girl's path Aa he reached over and opened the door ho saw ths frightened took that cams Into her eyes she noticed ths obstruction Her full red mouth was opened slightly so that he could set bright white teeth a "What's your hurry?" lie asked I was trying to catch streetcar" She looked back anxiously Terry grinned It was a wide friendly attractive grin that lighted hie almost handsome fare and made somhernese seem out of place "What luck! Right hero you have caught the finest private streetcar in Manville And at your service" Her lips tightened She glared at Mm coldly and tried to walk around the cal' Terry moved It forward to block her way Bh stepped back etlll glaring and tried the back way Teny shitted Into reverse She halted and a gleam of desperation came Into her eyes she glanced bark furtively Terry watched her sun smUIng Hs held the door open "AU aboard Have your fare ready pleaae" She hesitated a moment then glared at Terry defiantly and got In beside him They drove north for several mln-utrs In silence Terry glanced at her noticing that her expression had turned to one of anxiety She sat with her llpe pressed tightly together her eyes staring straight ahead Her hands were clasped tightly tn her top as if to keep them etlll Terry swung the car out of the heavy traffic and onto a aids street Then he looked at her again: but she showed no signs of wanting to direct him Terry said "Why may I ask waa a pretty young woman like you running from a hotel of doubtful repute?" She did not turn her head Only her llpe moved aa she said: possible I live tlifre Isn't tt?" "Y-yes But attractive young women who ride around tn V-12a usually live at such place the Midtown" Terry wondered If It was fright ha saw In her eyes ns she turned to fare him Her llpe trembled slightly and her hands twisted In her lap as shs studied Me face so you saw me?" He nodded casually "The chauffeur nearly bumped me and I noticed the ear And noticed the "Manville Sun "Many women wives and daughters of wealthy men' are being blackmailed because of tosses at gambling hnuses I know because I am one of them We pay because we don't want our husbands to know about tha gambling Please de omethlng about iL I prefer to remain anonymous for obvious "Then aU tha dope so far" Deans said "but It sounds like when we get It all ltTl be a honey Go out and sea what's behind IL And aleo If you can dig up a crooked gambling sngte that's all right too" Terry swore "You mean you want to play up this mean of tripeT A few gold -poisoned society daman go to a gambling Joint to while awey their time and then get in Jam because they're afraid their keepers will be cross They deserve whatever happens Why not think about the poor suckers who lose nickel every week trying to bent the numbers game to they won't have to get by on in or 13 burke? They're the onee this gambling racket hurts not these blase dames" "That's rheap stuff Terry People don't like to read about tabor-r troubles But give 'em some dirt on society galo and It's a wow Call ms before deadline with whatever yon get We might bo able to break the yam tomorrow night" Terry scowled and turned "Hell Td break It right now and dump It Into the ash can" It waa with these thoughts turning his blood to vinegar that Terry piloted hie ear through the traffic toward the first of a series of gambling places he Intended to visit He'd finish hla story dump tt Into what would be Dean' lap It he wera to toe SO pounds and hie himself away to name place when APPOINTED FRANCIS LOTHSCHUETZ Francis Lothschuetx of 152 Park wood av will taka the examinations this spring for entrance to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Md He received his appointment last week upon the recommendation of Congressman Arthur Aleahlra of ths seventh Ohio district SHE BROKE INTO A RUN AS BOON AS SHE CLEARED THE DOOR beauty that la more than skin deep He alghed softly as he relaxed Mi shoulders drooping slightly toward the wheel He remembered vaguely an asxfaiment Dean had sent him out on about half an hour ago Ho farced the thought from him That could wait High now ha was.