Hesidti soil
Tops Raleigh
Bowling
Henderson bowlers mine from be
hitui in ttio thud game to defeat Ra
leigh 1718 t>> 16">8 here last night
cm the Centre Bowling Alleys.
Hilly Powel I led the entiie Held,
being Henderson's high man. with
403. Scott Boyd was -HVond. with
384
Raleigh enjoyed a seven pin lead
at the end of the tirsi game: held
27 pin margin at the etui of the sec
ond. but Henderson lorged ahead to
victory in the dura.
The lineups:
Raleigh.
Watkins !>S 111 99 3081
Naff 139 133 90 3fi2 \
Stalling- 121' 99 107 328 !
Wynn 94 119 10(5 319:
Bland 113 121 107 341
Total 1658;
Henderson.
Daughtrv i 12 lot 11(5 329j
Bill Floyd 73 0 0 78'
A. Boyd (i 88 !> 88;
John Stewart .. 0 0 lOli 106 i
Billy Powell 127 149 127 403 j
Hershbergrv ... toil 108 116 330j
Scott B.-vd ... 13(5 1 17 131 3841
... 1718
Total
Graniteers,
Clarksville
Meet Again
The Henderson Graniieers will bej
at home to the I'larksville. Va., en- i
try in the Virginia-Carolina league
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
Jimmy House, u ho pitched the
Graniteers to a 5-2 victory Sunday
afternoon over Bovdton. will likely,
start tiie contest.
Boydton. playing Henderson a
doubleheadei. toi.k the second game.
fc'-O. Sunday, when Crocker did not
allow tin- Graniteers a single safety
In the first game. Bissette. Grani-,
teer first sacker. hi' for the circuit. 1
and Riehardsoti led the winners, with '
three hit-* out el lour trips.
A good contest :. in prospect, and j
a good crowd is expected.
I
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Club
Asheville
Richmond
Charlotte
Durham
Rocky Mount .
Portsmouth ...
Winston-Salem
Norfolk
\V.
46
45
42
40
4!
L.
32
34
34
35
37
44
4fJ
43
AMERICAN
Club
Detroit
Cleveland
Boston
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Washington
NATIONAL
Club
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
New York
Chicago
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
LEAGUE
W. L.
44 27
45
41
37
32
33
20
. 30
29
31
34
37
44
43
46
LEAGUE
\V. L.
. 415
45
40
38
29
27
25
24
23
23
28
37
39
40
39
45
Pet.
.590 j
.570 ;
.553
.533 I
.526
.421 |
.403
.394
Pet.
.620
.608
.569
.521
.464
.429
.403
.395
Pet.
.667
.588
.588
.507
.426
.403
.391
.348
Schedule
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Winston-Salem at Portsmouth.
Durham at Rocky Mount
Richmond at Asheville.
, Norfolk at Charlotte.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
Results
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Portsmouth 5: Durham 3.
Rocky Mount 5: Winston-Salem 4
Asheville 2: Norfolk 0.
Richmond 12: Charlotte 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
No games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
No games played.
The ratio of radium to helium, oi
radium to lead, gives scientists a clu«
to the age of the earth.
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SYNOPSIS
THE CHARACTERS:
LINDA AVERY, receptionist at a Now
York models' agency, .starts to re
build her romance with
RONALD STAFFORD, tier childhood
sweetheart, who lias "swung his way
to fame on a trumpet." but
SARAH MARKLKY. wealthy r'amor
girl, is trying to capture Ronald for
herself. Meanwhile
ROBERT BARTON, young engineer,
strikes up a friendship with l.inda.
He introduces her to
TERRY A PA MS. publicity man, and
Terry's sweetheart.
CAROLINE PICKARD. who has been
unable to tind work. I..ife is compli
cated by
M1 \A NKVINS. a famous actress, who !
is determined to marry Robert. She
believes Linda is romancing with the '
young engineer.
YESTERDAY: Ronnie ask.-: Linda to
marry him right away and promises j
to rail her later that night after re- '
hearsal. Sitting in her apartment,
Litula picks up a newspaper.
CHAPTER TEN
THE NEWS story was not long.
It did not need to be. To Linda,
reading it as she waited for Ron
nie to finish rehearsal and tail
her, the words held double mean
The item explained that all
members of the band and caste ot
the Markley company were being
r : • > sign u contract that they
would not marry, unless already
married, until the completion of
the show.
So this was Sarah's way of erect
ing a blockade. Linda let the paper
fall to the floor. She knew that
Ronnie had not been informed of
the decision yet, when she rode
through the park such a brief
while before. Of course he knew
by now. And what would he do.
Leave the show to do as he
pleased, she supposed. And she
knew that she could not let him
do that. If love was real, if it en
dured, if it suffered all things, bore
all things, believed all things, hoped
all things, then it could wait and
not grow tarnished in the waiting.
If it did, then it was not real. No
Linda told herself in the amazed
moments that followed the reading
of the feature, she had no reason
for fear. In a certain sense she was
relieved. That was odd. It was
cowardly, she reflected. Loving
Ronnie as she did. even a little
while ago she had been afraid to
interfere with the web the fates
were spinning.
But she put all philosophy aside
as the real knowledge came home.
Konnie was bound to a job and the
job put her out for a long time.
When the telephone call came her
voice was light and casual, though.
"I've read the news in the morn
ing papers. Good going, isn tit?
"There are other spots for a
trumpet player, honey. Don't let
that upset our plans. We're going
straight ahead." His voice meant
it, too. She knew that stern quality
from old. He would have his way
unless she prevented.
"We're taking a detour. Listen,
nut, do you think I would let you
slave to get a certain height and
then destroy your billing? Anyway,
I wanted to marry a trumpet man
whose scales were on the up-and
UP!" *
It worked. And the man s relief
was almost humble, as it came
across the midnight city.
When he had hung up at last,
still not sure that the delay was
right, but grateful that Linda un
derstood, she turned to Caroline
and explained.
"We run in the same track," the
other girl said. "Last night I re
fused because pity prompted the
grand gesture and tonight it's
thumbs down for you because a
man's work should come before a
man's love. But you're right. My
father gave up a medical education
for my mother and went to wort
in her father's bank. And he nevei
forgot or quite forgave. Oh, he
thought he did. But she knew bet
ter and so did I."
"How is Terry today?" Linds
asked, storing away this new bil
of comfort for her actions.
"Fine. He called at noon." Sh(
lifted her eyes to meet Linda's
v. t
She and Bob were loitering- over tlieir coffee in front of the fireplace.
"But he is awfully busy this week
—is lining: up a new radio program
for his company, so I'm to stay
on call for free moments. I know
about that. He won't have any this
week and then next week he'll
want to celebrate nightly if the
contract brings a raise. Only—
maybe I will, and maybe I won't,
be included. Eut he'll come back.
He always docs. Preceded by orch
ids and bon-bons."
Her voice was a little bitter. She
stood up. "May I have some more
milk ? I want to put on weight and
get a job in a hurry."
The next two weeks went so
swiftly that they might have been
torn from the calendar, Linda re
flected one night near the end of
April. Tho show opened. It was a
hit. The critkvs were approving and
enthusiastic. They were special
notices for Ronnie, and his face
appeared in theater sections.
Linda cut them out, and put the
notices and pictures away. She
even bought a scrapbook and be
gan to paste up the stories. There
were parties following the theater
several nights and she went with
Ronnie. She bought two new eve
ning gowns. One was a white lace
frock, rivuleted with white organ
dy ruffles, and the other was a yel
low crepe, printed with white kan
garoos, full and low over the bust,
and smooth fitting at the hips, aft
er which it billowed into yards and
>ards of unneeded material. Her
slippers for it were yellow, and
she knew that it was more sophis
ticated than the other more femi
nine one.
It was a little difficult to go
partying so many nights, and yet
be alert and eager at her desk the
next day. Now and then she found
her eyes closing and lectured se
verely to herself. Finally, one day,
she declined a party date with
Ronnie.
"I'd adore it," she murmured
into the white ivory telephone on
her desk, "but I have to work until
nine tonight, and honestly, I'm too
dead to go home and dress. Count
me out just this once, won't you,
honey ?"
And count yourself out, too, she
wanted to add. After all, none of
the others went to every merry
making—that is, the stars didn't.
Ronnie would wear out at this
pace. And Sarah would adore it if
his horn grew rusty. Only she,
Linda, couldn't tell him.
But Ronnie sensed her thought..
"I've been overdoing it tins weeK.
There's a halt railed now. One
milk-shake after performances, a
walk or ride, a brief one, and home.
Like that better?"
"Much. Except on Saturday
nights. Sunday you are free—"
"Oh, by the way, I'm going out
of town this week-end. A party the
Markleys are throwing until Mon
day noon. Since I stayed put I'm in
for it. But I'll hurry back. I may
get Sarah to invite you. She knows
I want it, and she's doing a peaches
and cream act lately. Maybe she
needed to be taken down a few
pegs—have the glamor spanked out
of her."
That's what you think, Linda
mused, when the telephone was
back in its cradle. But I know the
girl, and she's waiting, waiting!
Caroline had been engaged at the
agency and she continued to live
with Linda. It was nice to have
someone with whom to share the
rent, she had decided, especially
since frocks like the kind she was
choosing weren't found on $19 "5
racks.
Rob, busy with plans for some
city engineering, came by once in
a while to drag both girls out to
dinner, amused at Linda's insist
ence that she escape to dress on
nights when she and Ronnie were
playing.
Tonight, going into her rooms,
Linda heard the telephone ringing.
Caroline was not home. The fire
was not lighted and the living room
was cold. The hands of the clock
pointed to a quarter of ten. Linda
said hello into the transmitter.
"I've been calling you regularly
every half hour," Rob told her. "If
you aren't busy, could you run up?
Chin Lu, my inherited man of all
trades, is here. I need advice."
"I'd love to, but I haven't had
dinner. I worked through. Give me
ten minutes to scramble some eggs
first—"
"Chin Lu has a steak in the re
frigerator. Come on up here. I can
eat again."
So it happened that an hour later
she and Bob were loitering over
their coffee in front of the fire
place in the great brown living
room, with its luxurious, deep, soft
chairs and divans, its touches of
copper and brass, when a slow
knock came against the door.
But the knocker did not wait
for a greeting. The door opened.
(To Be Continued)
ABC Advocates Consider
General Counter Attack
A jainst Dry Forces
" —
(Continued From Pag3 One)
' seems unreasonable to believe thai
! the proposed counter offensive will
, get very iar. In the first <Mace, it is
j doubtful if the Str.'o ABC Asso
: ciation can oe persuaded to ask the
I county commissioners to call the
i elections. In the next place, it i;
highly doubtful that the commis
| sioners would call them even if the
i ABC group asked for them. And it
; the third place, there is nothing a
j all to indicate that the ABC's woulc
■ get anything out of the campaigt
| except a series of very thorougl
. thrashings.
Just the same, the idea is sure t<
be presented to the ABC meeting—
your reporter has entirely reliabli
information to that effect.
The ABC situation, as far as pos
sible elections, stands thus:
Immediate votes are possible ii
94 of the 100 counties, and in tw(
more a poll could be held after th<
lapse of less than two month*
Catawba voted dry on August 6
1938, Orange on September 7, 1938
Richmond, Hertford and Bunconib
each turned down stores in 1939 an<
Johnston kicked its stores out les
than a month ago.
In sixty counties no ABC election
at all have been held. In 41 ther
have been elections, in one of then
two, with the result that ABC store
won 25 times and lost 16. In the cas<
of Johnston it is the drys who hav
the last laugh, leaving 24 countie
with liquor stores by popular votes
All of them went that way Ion
enough ago for the drys to get ne\
pollings if they can persuade th
.•ounty commissioners to call their
or if they can present to the board
of elections petitions bearing the re
;
I quisite number of signatures,
i In 1935. 17 counties voted lor
stores, one against. In 1936 there
were v> > elections. In 1937. there!
were eight victories for the stores.'
nine defeats. In 1938 the ABC's took
two lickings. In 1939. three counties
refused to set up stores. In 1940 the
only election so far held resulted in
defeat of the stores in a county
which had set them up in 1937—
the first such reversal of opinion
either way.
Within the next few weeks Person |
county, which once before went dry:
by about 30 votes, will vote again.
Here are the complete returns)
from ABC elections since passage of
the so-called New Hanover and
Pasquotank act of 1935.
Beuulort
_ _ \xr.
Alamance ... 8-17-37 3.083 4.088
964
Buncombe 7-25-39 9,290 14.838
Carteret 7-6-35 1.547 1,004
Chowan 7-6-37 75(5 575
I Columbus 5-4-37 1.325 2.922
l Craven 7-2-35 2,262 558!
I Cumberland .. 7-20-37 3,208 2,214'
j Currituck 6-12-37 448 584
Dare 4-24-37 651 645
| Durham 4-27-37 7,784 3,308
Edgecombe .. 6-22-35 2.845 332
I Franklin 12-23-35 1,624 1,075
Granville 8-3-37 970 1,998
Greene 7-2-35 876 735
Halifax 7-6-35 3.532 790
Hertford 2-4-39 514 1.186
Johnston .... 5-29-37 4,074 3,768
Johnston 6-29-40 x3.990 x7,600
Jones 6-29-37 454 579
' Lenior 7-6-35 3,004 1,030
;! Martin 7-6-35 1.748 351
•' Mecklenburg . 6-1-37 7,777 8,659
Nash 6-6-35 2.870 963
New Hanover 7-2-35 5,386 1,802
Onslow 7-6-35 1,249 283,
Orange 9-7-38 1,466 1,950 j
Pasquotank
Person
Pitt
Rockingham
Stokes
Tyrrell ....
Vance
Wake
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Wilson
Richmond .
7-G-35
6-29-37
7-6-35
7-9-35
7-17-37
9-18-37
6-29-35
6-22-37
7-6-35
6-1-37
6-1-37
6-22-35
2-21-33
1.527
1,091 1.
3.469 1.
3.503 4.
1.916 2.
352
2.483
7.932 6.
1.231
352
2.595 3.
4.147
1,478 2,
Total vote 112.148 95,
x—exact figures unavailable, tl"
are approximate.
Martin Is
Chairman
(Continued From Page Onel
can presidential nominee, announ
the appointment to a press conl
ence alter he had met with a s
committee which the national cr
mittee authorized to make the
lections.
Willkie also announced that G
ernor Harold E. Stassen of Mi line?
who was keynoter and Willk
floor manager at the Republi
convention, would head a large ci
paign advisory committee.
Campaign headquarters, Wil
announced, will he established
either Chicago or New York.
Campaign For Willkie
May Be Prob
'Continued From Fa.ee One)
Rations within the purview of
authority on matters which are
public interest to the voter or mi
indicate the need of remedial le
lation."
Thii J Party
Still Threat
(Continued From Taeo One)
alignment, and the Republicans are
only logical in assuming that that's
what a ruinp nomination would
amount to.
That anybody really believes a
third candidate could be elected, of
course, puts a pretty severe strain
upon the average individual's cre
dulity.
So the questions arise:
Is any aggregation likely actual
ly to go to the trouble and expense
ol putting up a nominee who's cer
tain to be knocked over? Even if.
by making the abortive effort, lie
could grab the chances of some other
candidate lie didn't like, would that
be worth the price of admission? Jn
>lni* i. aren't these third party talk
ers siinuh' bluffing?
Nobody Knows.
Nobody knows—yet. Very soon wt
ail will.
•
True, there have been third ticket.1
before. So why not now?
Well. I'm inclined to think that th<
backers of those earlier third ticket;
had a ridiculous but honest-to-good
ness notion that they stood a chanc<
of winning.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler onci
ran. vice presiclentially. on such ;
ticket. with The eider Senator Rob
ert M. LaFollette. I was at the con
vention that nominated 'em. And I'll
say, based on talks with dozens of
'em. that those Progressives genuine
ly thought they had a winning ticket.
It would seem as if that outcome
| ought to have been a convincing ex
• perience to Burt Wheeler. Yet you
can't tell. "Once a sucker," they say,
"always a sucker." And if the Dem
ocrats don't nominate Wheeler for
president at their Chicago conven
I tion, and then if there's a third
ticket, it's a cinch that he'll be at
the head of it.
Burt doesn't say, indeed, that he's
absolutely the only Democratic nomi
nee who'd be acceptable to him, but
he's made it clear that he's the only
one that the convention's conceiv
ably going to select, whom he can
indorse—Roosevelt or anybody.
Probably I've done Burt an in
justice in saying he'll classify as a
j political sucker if he accepts another
third party nomination. If so nomi
nated, he doubtless will accept, as
he did the first time, out of pure
sincerity. I think he'll be willing to
sacrifice himself and be licked if he
thinks the country's good demands
it.
Some Few Hopes.
The Democrats have some hopes,
though.
When Senator Wheeler ran for
vice president, with Senator LaFol
lette. Kurt was a -ei.
wasn't Just expiring
position to run 101 v
but if trimmed foi tlii;
stay in the senate.
This time his
expiring.
He can't run for p;.
third ticket and lor <
the senate simultaneou ..
for president and is beat,
out of the senate. In i,..
tired from public life. .
porarily. And lullowin
public life is difficult :
into.
Will Burt choose lO I'll
The administration 1>
voutly hope not.
The Republicans hope
Supposing Burt gel- .
nomination. Republics i
suited with his affilial •
L. Lewis, because tin y
will divide his labor sti
not so well pleased by
tion with the "Doc" To
ment. They rate it a.» tr
afraid it's growing.
But Burt is the IJe::
worry—not the Kepubb
A new element—No. !i:
, tists. will turn the v.
Utopia. And make eve:
ball team a. pennant w
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