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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune In On KRBC
Saturday Evening, May 17, 1941
Saturday 1
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.-John 14:1. . • Belief consists in accepting •
the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.-Emerson.
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BY MARGARET WIDDEMEE
BLONDIE
I Am an American!
What does it mean to be an American citi-
zen?
On May 18 millions of men and women in
the United States will be thinking about that.
The day has been set apart by congress as "I
am an American Day." honoring especially
those who have attained full citizenship dur-
ing the past year either by having become
21 years old if native born, or by naturaliza-
tion if born elsewhere.
But every American ought to think about
it, too, in these days when to be an American
is a precious privilege.
What is it, to be an American?
It is to be a free man or a free woman in
a free land.
It is to walk unafraid. fearing no one, se-
cure in the knowledge that before the peo-
ple’s laws all are equal.
- It is to think, and read. to speak and write
freely: to seek the truth without hindrance;
to breathe the air of a great, free land that
it conceivable that men, once shown the fa-
cilities and the techniques for building all
these things as they have never been built
before, will then be denied them?
To ask questions like those is to answer
them. The only question is: "How?"
The answer in turn by no means imples
public provision for all these things. Build-
ers of things, constructors of buildings and
works, are already turning their minds to
means of drawing private capital on a vast
scale to. such projects. The Urban Re-Devel-
opment Corporations law in New York state
is only one such plan. This provides easier
condemnation of blighted areas, and certain
tax concessions on improvements (instead of
immediately taxing improvement, as we do
now).
The New York law is only a forerunner.
There will be other plans, all addressed to
solving not the question "What?" but the
more vexatious problem "How?"
WHAT NEXT?
still belongs to the people who inhabit it.
It is to be governed under a constitution
adopted by the people, which they may I
change at will, and under laws passed and
administered by public servants elected by |
Other Viewpoints
Basking in Moonshine
From the Chicago Daily News:
: the people. It is to have a vote in these things
equal to any man’s vote.
It is to look one’s neighbor in the face,
be he rich or poor, and to know oneself as
good a man as he.
It is to worship whatever God one finds
in the heart, and to worship Him as con-
science dictates.
It is to bow to no authority but those which
the people themselves have ordained and
maintain.
In his recently published book. "Prepare
for Peace.” President Wriston of Brown uni-
. versity says: "The only chance that the fruits
of victory may be less bitter than gall, is
through foresight, through careful attention
to the shape of things to come." A thought-
ful utterance, that; but it assumes that the
i fruits of victory are to be ours. It is still a
large assumption. Before we contemplate the
fruits of victory and prepare to harvest them,
it might be well to consider how—or whether
—we are to attain them. That is the only per-
tinent question before the American people
It is to grant freely to fellow-Americans.
all rights and privileges one asks for oneself. | today. It is the question that we must decide
AT
75
NAME
AS
and to expect as much from them.
It is to keep for oneself certain corners of
the mind, certain phases of intimate and per-
sonal life, secure against a state to which
the people themselves have said "Keep Out!"
To be an American? It is to be a man, or a
woman, before men and before God. with
the dignity which God breathed into man
when He made him "only a little lower than
the angels, and crowned him with glory and
honor."
That is what it is to be an American. That
is what we celebrate Sunday That is the
ideal to which we dedicate ourselves.
Where we have fallen short of it, and the ,
instances are many, that is the measure of
our failure to achieve in full the task we
have set ourselves, the most glorious task a
people ever undertook.
Our failures as well as our successes are
our own. We take them to ourselves, and
looking at them squarely, each of us can yet
say with pride, "I am an American!"
There Will Be Work to Do
soon. one way or the other. It is the question
that should bring forth the best thought
that the nation can mobilize. It is the ques-
tion toward whose solution the American
people have a right to expect light, guidance
and counsel from the colleges and universi-
ties that we regard as fountainheads of wis-
dom. Prepare for peace? We have done noth-
ing else for 20 years. While others prepare
for conquest. we, under the leadership of
oureeducators. prepared our minds and wills
for millennial peace in a never-never land
that existed only in the dreams of visionar- i
ies. A generation of young Americans have
been brought up on such moonshine. And in
the face of the grimmest reality that has
ever menaced our national existence, we are
still being fed it today. +—
Cranium Crackers
BOY MEETS GIRL
Varied and interesting situations are cook-
ed up by the movie makers for the introduc-
tion of heroes and heroines. Can you identify
the pictures where the boy met the girl in
Lots of people are furrowing their brows I the following manners, and name the play-
over this question: "When the defense boom [ ers involved.
collapses. what shall we do with our produc-1 A surveyor meets the girl in a telegraph
tive facilities to keep them busy and to keep office in Omaha.
men in jobs?" , 2. A gangster meets the girl in a mountain
is a very real question. and one which | tourist cabin in California
will require our very best efforts to solve.
Its nature ought not to be misunderstood,
however, at the start.
The real question is not: "What work is
there to be done?” It is: “How shall we do
it?"
There will be plenty of work to be done
when the war emergency is over. plenty of
work to create here in our great America the
kind of country it ought to be
Have our cities no slums and blighted
areas to be torn down and replaced with t
dwellings really fit for men and women to
live in? Are our roads. built for the horse- I
and-buggy era. sufficient for the motorized
era? Are railroads crossing traveled roads at
grade a mark of a well-designed community?
Are there not even now too many people liv-
ing without electricity, without ordinary
minimum sanitary facilities? Shall not the :
- airplane be as common as the automobile is
today. a cheap, easy means of transport for
the average family? Shall we ever be able |
truly to say that we raise too much food,
when the Surgeon-General says that 40 per-
cent of the people are not properly fed? Will
there be no friendly neighboring countries
t whom we can lend techniques and money
to raise their standards of living with our
own? Are there no more schools. recreation
fields. and cultural centers to be built? Is
3. A rich young man meets a white-collar
girl at her father’s home in Philadelphia.
4 A banker meets the girl at a Cincinnati
railroad station.
5. Reporter meets the girl at a peace foun-
dation luncheon in London.
Answers on back page
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Chapter 29
QUARREL
"What are you asking me to get
done?" Martin asked. It was a voice
she hadn’t heard, detached and
businesslike.
"If you’d talk to her, or if that’s
too much bother, get your lawyer
to. Or perhaps your mother
would—”
"Idea. Mother never objects to
things Lecause they’re too much
bother like me. Rather likes to
see flying furr. Is your ultimate
intention to get Violetta replaced
in her job, Eileen?"
"I suppose that would be im-
possible, with Lewis at the head
of things."
"Well, boards expects a man to
handle things when they give him
control, you know.”
"I know," she said meekly. "I
only thought perhaps you could
get them to let her have the pen-
sion she’d have got to in a few
years now. And. maybe, if it isn’t
too much trouble—"
"Skip it. Go on the principle
that for once I’m willing to take
trouble To the extent, say, of five-
minutes with a telephone, or a
checkbook.”
with the board personally, if you
like. ... No. Her usefulness is
not lost. . Oh, you can sell them
anything. ... You were mistaken-
rash act, justice must be main-e
tained I’ll trust your dramatic
•BEAT IT,
(DAISY, I
WANTTOL
DOWN THE
MVSELF
tained
I’ll trust
golden tongue .
Right over your
trained leopard.
. Definitely,
head like a
." His voice,
which had been easy and flippant.
hardened. "No. I am not giving
you any more reasons. Just at i
playboy’s whim — backed by con-
trol of the sinews of war. Old
keed
Do I? Thanks, Grand-
: The car jumped ahead. She
! looked at the profile beside her.
Lips set tight. head reared an-
grily. color run up under the tan.
1 She had not known that Martin
1 could ever care about anything
| enough to lose his temper. Hers
: snapped up to meet it.
"All right. I will. She’s going
, out with a black eye. Have Lewis
i give her testimonials or whatever
‘ people in her position get."
! "She’ll get those—theoretically.
1 All sorts of gilt-edged stuff. What
will have to be fixed is the real
i underground story that filters out
through; the board’s feeling about
father wasn’t a bad old wolf, at
least he always meant what he
said. I’m just like him there. . 44
Put it through in forty-eight hours.
Delevan. Call an emergency
board meeting, then. Good-bye."
He clicked back the receiver
and stood up. His face and whole
bearing had that look of brilliant -
wakening to enjoyment and ex-U
citement she remembered seeing
twice before. When she had risked
her life to save Robin. And when
he nad. for amusement, risked his,
in that terrible Hawaiian surf.
For the moment he was the g
Martin Dane she had thought him t
when she first saw him.
She said. "Oh, Martin, I can’t
tell vou how grateful—"
"It’s the other way about. I told
you I’d known Violetta since I
was a kid. Come along." 4.
She followed him downstairs. He
got her coat from the cloakroom
and held it for her, and dropped her
handbag into a deep pocket of his
own.
He started the car again, in the
same direction
"Have we time to go farther?"
she asked.
"Lots You’ve nothing to do
with the afternoon have you?
4
LIL’ AE
her."
"I didn’t know
harder."
“No. Personal
I suppose that’s
interviews with
NOEL, WH
HOME TO
EVERY I
TYPE X
EXPERI
THE BO
FELLOW
LIVE?
Let’s make a day of it. I’ll buy you
a ticket down from anywhere youe
like" t
DREAM DRIVE
There was no good reason against
it. It was colder this far upstate,
but spring was in the bright sharp
air. She’d never get a chance to
do this any more. She drove on P
with him in a dream. They talked
a little or were silent, about any-
thing or nothing. They had always
been easy with each other. It had
not changed.
"I’ve made good time.". Martin
said, and turned the car into a
drive between high rough-barked
gateposts Up between green
lawns where snow patches still
lingered It was dark, but she
could see a wide porch, and lights
inside a stretch of living-room ,
windows.
key members."
"Perhaps your mother
"Or my nursemaid! Eileen, if it
wouldn’t chuck us into the em-
bankment I’d slap you harder
than you were ever slapped in
your life!"
"For heaven’s sake, Martin,
what ails you?"
He said. suddenly relaxed and
: grinning, "What used to be called
‘quarreling like man and wife, I
guess."
She said hotly. “Thats a brutal
reminder, under the circum-
Hard-Luck Lady: Bombs Follow Her "IAS aney/A,, laughter.
. In spite of the tears that had
the broken windows Glass was sprung to her eyes she found she
everywhere. Water was ankle-deep was laughing hysterically herself. course. though, it looks different,
when the hall porter came and got. She checked the laughter. She 41 -----* " wh----1
me upstal irs. said sharply. “How’s Caroline?"
SHE BRINGS RAIDS ! "Prettier than ever. Gone up-
Mrs. Connally moved back to swept.”
Kensington. One time she visited That ended that
friends in Kent. .. He said. after another of these
"They had their first raid in a silences that were getting more
long time while I was there. she and more uncomfortable This is
said. "But the bomb hit in a field going to make Lewis annoyed
and only killed a cow and some with you. He likes to be seen eye
chickens." to eye with, you know Want me
Mrs Connally says she manages to handle it on the quiet?"
to sleep pretty well during raids “No. I don’t.-
By REVEL S. MOORE
felt a terrific jolt as we arrived at
United Press Staff Correspondent a station. The whole train shook
LONDON— (UP) — Mrs Ellen We got out and found glass all
Connally, cashier in a provisors over the street and some people
. warehouse. has been jolted by Ger- | badly cut.
BOMB CRASHES NEARBY
“Shortly before Christmas I was
man bombs eight times, but she al-
ways manages to keep one jump
ahead of them.
She has had so many bombs fall
close to her that her friends say:
| “Where do you live: we want to
live somewhere else,”
| Her raid experiences started last
September when she lived in a
| Bermondsey flat with her mother
and three sisters.
sitting in my flat when a bomb
fell nearby Our lights went out
and the roller shades snapped up.
The door lock was sprung so we
couldn’t open it Some people were
killed by a direct hit on a block of
flats
"In January, I was near Eleph-
ant and Castle when a heavy
“Things got bad one night." she raid started. I finally found a bus
said "We went to a trench shel-and started home. It was pitch
ter There were about 150 persons black except for the flashes. Final-
there many women and children
ly we heard a bomb falling and we
About 11 o’clock there was a sud- thought it would hit the bus. The
den blast against the shelter door 1 driver stepped on it’ and the bus
People shouted and started run- | was tearing along. The bomb fell
ning The door jammed. Somebody behind us. After it was over an
cried Fire and we were fright-old woman complained to the con-
ened Finally the wardens got a ductor because- he had run past
trap door open and we could see her stop.
the light from many fire bombs “I moved again, to a basement
which landed in the square
got under a railroad arch
stayed there until the raid
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We flat near Palace Gate. About the
and end of January a bomb fell in the
was - street and broke a water main The
water poured into my flat through [
S
dsa
"Why. this isn’t an inn—"
Don: you know the lodge? Of
All snowed in when we left it.”
He cent and turned his latchkey,
and drew her into the long, firelit @
pine-paneled room she remem-
bered She heard Ike’s voice,
talking to Mary in the kitchen.
She stopped. her eyes on the big
clock
twenty
over the fireplace
telephoned Mary to
Seven
have t
5-17
1
ARON
but gets scared if the bombs crump "Well," said Martin, “that sim-
too close. On the other hand plifies things. I can go to it
things seem dull if she doesn’t hear straighter." He glanced at his
one for a long time. wrist watch "We’ll long-distance
She has a simple formula for him after luncheon. Hungry? I
stifling an air raid complex: | am But land’s in sight."
Have a Scotch whisky if you feel Land proved to be the inn she
shaky .If that isn’t enough, have remembered on their drive up to
| two. If they start falling too close the Dane lodge She had almost
too often, move to a new flat. just forgotten the—ritual of waiters’
for luck devotion that was always loosed
Incidentally, on two or three oc- around Martin’s kind. He ordered
casions she has found while house as usual, perfectly. They made.
hunting the premises she went to conversation across the little
view smashed by bombs That’s al- table. Quite pleasant conversation. |
ways a tip to look in another Martin only had one cocktail. He
neighborhood. never had taken much. she re-
some stuff cooked," he said. "Come
over to the fire, Eileen.”
"I can’t stop. I must get a
train."
"Don’t be foolish. Here’s the
time-table if you wont take my@
word for it. Two sleeper-express-
es. a nine twenty and eleven some-
thing Plenty of time to settle down
and rest, and have something to
YOU CAN
ME LIKE
MONTMC
YOUR RE
SAID YO
THE FIN
OF ENG
CHAUFF
over about 4 a. m
FRIGHTENED BY MOUSE
“A few weeks later my mother . , his sporting record. Unlike the
and I were visiting my sister who Sorioty of Snconiorc rest of him
lives in a basement flat not far UClel Y UI -I 00PCED "You’re silent as the grave." he
away About 9 p. m. there were ___said. “and we’re through Come
several big explosions. We thought By JACK STINNETT l over. Still, all clear along, the fatal moment’s ar-
the building was going to fall down WASHINGTON—Don’t. for good- Then, you get an offer .from a rived.”
but it didn’t. A mouse ran across ness sake. call it a witch hunt, be- | friend you have made to come over | He had taken a room upstairs,
the- floor and that really scared I cause it isn’t like that at all. But to the Office of Production Man-as there was no pay box He
You dropped into the armchair beside
You are investi-the bed-telephone stand to talk
I again — because certainly at his leisure Elleen, at his ges-
If you even plan to apply for a there are few spots where a person ture, perched on the bed beside
membered. Probably because of
We stayed there until the raid rarely has there been so much "in- agement at a better salary
| was over in the morning. When vestigate-your-neighbor stuff going make the jump.
| we went out we found everything on as there is in Washington today gated
J smashed. broken glass and wreck-
rage everywhere, and people look- government job be sure that your | playing loose and free with his gov-I him.
ing for their relatives. A bomb hitpatriotic record is as clean as ernment’s secrets is more dangerous | ACTION
one of the railway arches where George Washington’s.
200 or more persons were shelter. It happens like this: You can’t
than at OPM
REFER IT TO FBI
Still, you come through without
even a slightly muddy hern Then
ing and some were killed work for the government if you owe
"Another time a bomb hit justallegiance to any organization that
across the road and killed several is violently "agin" our political way
persons My aunt was coming toof life Thus when you apply for
see us and she was blown acrossa job. the Civil Service Commission
the street Her hair was down and makes all possible investigation
thrown on her face | within its means | writes your boss, or the Federal Bu-
x.about that time I moved to Suppose you get a job You get reau of Investigation or the De-
nepunsion I had had enough assigned to a typewriter we’ll say | partment of Justice If the justice
ausmother wouldn’t move. I was in the Treasury Department. Thepeople think there is the slightest
. home, one night after a 1 Treasury has its own investigatory I possibility there might be some-
--,---------—_______underground and start. It gives you another going I thing in the case they refer it to
Notion s Rail Business Booming, N ew Equipment Being Added
United Press staff Correspondent being # 245 officer of the Milwaukee road, kind in operation Ne. ...
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somebody hears something. You
were seen last night with a very
suspicious person The “somebody"
who heard something sits down and
FBI. and J Edgar Hoover’s boys
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO—UP) — The na-
tion s railroads are spending
millions for expansions and im-
provements in the face of boom-
ing freight traffic a United
Press survey discloses
The sharp business upswing
has caused all major roads to
recall furloughed employes Ad-
ditional employment programs
are preparing for continued
heavy traffic burdens
Officials agreed that the rail-
roads today are in a position to
handle any amount of traffic
necessary to aid the nation s de-
fense program without disrupt-
ing regular traffic
There is no possibility of
equipment or power shortage;
road property is in excellent
shape and if a shortage of any
kind should be encountered
executives said it would be a
shortage of labor in the skilled
trades Machinists electricians
welders and boilermakers are in
demand officials said
FREIGHT TRAFFIC RISES
W W Hale general traffic
manager of the Southern Pa-
eific, reports an increase of 22.2
per cent in freight traffic dur-
ing January and February of
this year over 1940 The road
has 110 new locomotives on or-
being built There is a short-
age or mechanics on his road
Hale said and the age limit
recently was raised to 55 years
from 45 years for new employes
The payroll is up 9.34 per cent;
$5 500 000 is being spent for new
equipment and a considerable
amount is tabbed for road
| maintenance
Traffic on the Union Pacific
showed a two-month increase of
16.3 per cent according to wil-
liam M Jeffers president.
Twenty-five new Diesel switch-
ers were placed in service re-
| cently and 20 steam freight lo-
comotives are on order, also
3.350 freight cars The Union
Pacific also showed a substan-
tial increase in its payroll.
One of the largest railroads
| in the country, the Pennsyl-
| vania had a 20 per cent in-
crease the first two months this
year M W Clement president. •
reported. The Pennsylvania has
new equipment orders totaling
| $17,500,000 for the purchase of
4.700 new cars and five elec-
trie locomotives During the
past two years the road pur-
chased 10,000 freight cars and
338 locomotives
NEW MILWAUKEE
EQUIPMENT
E. B. Finegan, chief trafife
t
Mid his
line showed an in-
crease of 7.1 per cent the past
10 weeks During the past six
months 20 new Diesel locomo-
ties were placed in service. and
16 others are on order The
road also built 2,500 cars in its
own shops A considerable sum
being spent for improvement
of existing facilities to handle
expected heavy traffic the re-
minder of the year Finegan
During the first three months
this year business in the freight
department of the Rock Island
Lines was up 11 per cent. The
company has ordered expendi-
tures of $8,471 808 for improving
roadbeds, existing equipment
and other facilities and $4,350 .
000 for the purchase of new
equipment Twenty Diesels were
placed in service the last six
months, and 10 are on order.
Many new employes have been
hired
SANTA FE HIRES 4178
The Santa Fe showed traffic 1
volume increase of 13.5 per cent
since Jan 1 The road has 16
locomotives on order, and re-
cently placed in service two
5.400-horsepower Diesel freight
locomotives, largest of their SPURTS
• ployes number 4,278, with an
increase of over $600 000 in the
payroll the first two months of
this year, Edward J Engel,
president, announced
J. L Beven, president of the
Illinois Central, reported a gain
of 6 per cent Two hundred
and twnty locomotives have
been modernized, and 3,000 cars
are on order.
Traffic on the New York
Central was up 13 3 per cent. In
the past six months 50 giant
locomotives were placed in ser-
vice, and 36 switchers are on
order. More than 10,000 new
cars are rolling on the line
according to G Metzman, as-
sistant vice president.
Baltimore & Ohio business
showed a jump of 13 per cent,
and 1.018 new employes in-
creased the payroll 6 per cent,
C. W Van Horn, operating vice
president, reported
Northern Pacific had an in-
crease of 12 5 per cent, with 859
new employes and an 8.3 per
cent increase in payrolls.
Twenty-one new locomotives
are on order-—14 steam and 7
Diesel types
BURLINGTON TRAFFIC
H C Murphy, assistant vice
president of the Burlington. said
his line showed a gain of 2.9
per cent in January, 6.3 per cent
in February, and 18.4 per cent
the first 15 days of March The
company is spending $12,000,000
for new equipment and mod-
ernization Twenty-six Diesel
switehers and 3.325 freight cars
are on order.
Missouri Pacific traffic was
7.2 per cent. Equipment orders
total $5,500,000, including 18
Diesel switchers and 1,270
freight cars, according to L. M.
Baldwin, president.
R L. Williams, chief executive
officer of the Chicago & North-
western, revealed that his com-
pany showed a gain of-5.7 per
cent in freight traffic. He said
40 Diesel locomotives are on or-
der. The road had added 800
employes and increased the
payroll 4.2 per cent -
Traffic on the Great Northern
was up 12.5 per cent, and 15
new locomotives are being built.
The mechanical department has
5.211 employes on the payroll,
compared with 4.334 in Febru-
ary. 1940. Much new shop
equipment has been purchased
or modernized. * 1
would be knitting on the job If they
| didn’t make a thorough investiga-
tion.
So you see where thia thing leads
He looked so boyish, such a nice
kid, there with the receiver against
his pullover, his long legs sprawled
out easily and his tousled fair head |
bent to the mouthpiece, that Eileen
felt an irrational pang of pity. Ir-
rational, for certainly pitying Mar-
tin Dane was pretty crazy!
But if only his dominant father
and grandfather, his cause-hunting
mother had left him any job to
do, he might be more of a match
now for hard, brilliant Lewis
Delevan Lewis had had the luck
of having to fight for his ovn
hand in a world where, right or
wrong, yeu have to fight. Martin
hadn’t I
eat. You remember it only takes
Ike an hour in the station wagon,
wild as we seem. Grandfather used 5
to own a railroad, so he just stuck
in a curve and a station.”
Again, why not ? .
She went, when she had warmed
herself, up to the room she had
occupied before. It had had a fire, a
there were fresh towels and a •
freshly setout dressing table, as al
ways, she supposed She came down,
to find Martin, neatly brushed and
rather quiet, waiting for her by a
little table drawn near the hearth.
Ike’s Mary upright and plewrant •
and wiry. came in and greeted them
as she set dishes on the table.
Ike’s Mary by this time would be
past being surprised at anything
Martin might do, of course.
Martin. across from her, did not
seem very hungry He was talk. ©
ing more steadily than usual. If it
had not been Martin, she would
have said he was nervous. The
odd aliveness had not left him. Fi-
nally he called Mary impatiently
to clear and push back the table. a
He put Eileen on a cushioned couch "
alongside the fire and stood by her
and said, "And now .."
The end of his sentence was
drowned by a thundering knock
on the outside door. Before Mary
could come back from the kitchen •
to open it, it was flung open
Lewis Delevan, flushed and near-
ly hysterical with anger, burst
in on them.
THE THRIL
@
Working for the government is be-
coming a stroll through a maze of
investigations. I know of one young
woman who has worked for four
different agencies in three years
and claims she knows of six differ-
ent times she has been investigated
Some of these were routine—but a
couple must have been on com-
plaints of alleged subversive activi-
ties. She doesn’t know definitely
about that, but she does know that
every time the investigating agency
has given her a clean bill of patrio-
tic health and her progress has been
And so he would probably be a
pushover for the first few con-
vincing sentences Lewis would
offer
uninterrupted
Aside from the routine initial in-
vestigations to determine if a pros-
pective employe ever swore allegi-
ance to an “Ism" that advocates the
overthrow of our form of govern,
ment, most of the probings now
come as result of letters to the boss
Civil Service, or FBI
NOBODY IS EXEMPT
Nobody is exempt—not even the
department heads—but many of
these letters can be put into the
“poison pen" classification as soon
as they are opened Nevertheless
there are enough more that have to
be investigated to make it a major
headache with those who have to do
the work. A lot of them even then
turn out to be nothing more than
somebody’s trying to get somebody s
job—or hoping to even an old score
He had Lewis immediately, by
a number she had never heard
“Hello, Lewis ‘ Feeling fine.
Oh, ves, we’ve been back a couple
of weeks now. Thanks. . .
What’s all this about Violetta?
Ah, my little secret. On informa-
tion received Reconsider it will
you, Lewis? Nonsense, ir we
can keep a man like Goldstone,
who’s as red as
stand Violetta Lee Rats, 11
take the risk of wrecking the foun-
dation . . Il go to the mat
To be continued •
First Well on ACC •
Property Completed
Potential of 522 barrels daily ha
been reported for the first oil wel
completed on Yoakum county land @
owned by Abilene Christian college
The well was drilled by the Ma-
bee Oil & Gas corporation as a
location extension for the Wassom-
Bennett field about six miles north-
west of Denver City. It was com-
pleted at a depth of 5,050 to 5,250 0
feet, following a 500-quart shot and
. . . treatment with a total of 3,000 gal-
% rose,we can lons of acid
Mabee will move to location for
•n east offset
or just being -hatpolitely re Heinz Increases -
ferred to as a crank.
But—and here is where the rub
comes some persons considered
dangerous in their philosophies or
activities have been exposed as re-
suits of these letters. The propor.
tion is very small, still the total
is enough to make it important that
stone be left unturned "
Serious government officials are
trying to keep the thing from be-
coming a “witch hunt” without im-
pairing the efficiency or tying the
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