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EDITORIAL
. PAGE
The Abilene Reporter - firms
PAGE FOUR
JULY if: 1942
Travel Heavy, Mrs. Roosevelt Waits for Ticket
A Test of Statesmanship
It happens more often than it once did but
it’s still not a common occurrence. Few states
ever have, and many apparently never hope
to, wind up their fiscal year with an $18,000,-
000 surplus and the accompanying problem
of what to do with that extra money.
Yet, North Carolina has done just that and
its lay and political leaders are giving con-
• siderable thought to the wisest way to meet
the problem. Leading newspapers like the
Charlotte Observer and Raleigh’s News and
Observer have offered suggestions. The for-
mer believes there are only two logical alter-
natives-that the huge surplus be husbanded
for future emergencies, or that it be used
to care for appropriations in 1943 (on the
present scale) with commensurate reduction
of taxes.
North Carolina needs no outside advice on
what to do about that $18,000,000 surplus.
The very fact that it exists is evidence that
the state's business has been pretty well
handled. The people have been electing hon-
est and competent governors and their pri-
maries have been conducted on the high
plane of issues, that are best for the whole
people The two-bit Utopians haven’t had
any luck in North Carolina. Not only have
men of mental as well as normal integrity
entered their politics but they have been
elected to the highest offices. .
Here’s how the surplus accumulated The
Hoev administration left a cash surplus o
$7,880,000 in the,treasury on June 30, 1941..
It had been an honest and economical re-
gime The legislature of the present Brougbo.
ton administration appropriated $47,000,000
for the current fiscal year, counting on reve-
nue of only $43,000:000. However, the esti-
mate was far below the actual returns. Busi-
mess has been good and income higher. But
Iida UCt b 1
the spending was kept well within the ap-
propriation despite the apparent certainty
of orHatT see what North Carolina does
with the money. If it were some other-states
wit can think of” there would be a grand
scramble between the "haves and the
-have-not” and the politicians would have a
field day —Arkansas Democrat.
gard private profit considerations and get
busy.
Our men are dying in battle and in cargo
ships. The enemy is gaining ground. The
very life of our nation is at stake. An ade-
quate supply of rubber is necessary to vic-
tory. Yet officialdom wastes time trying to
find a way to mollify the champions of all
the different rubber-making processes Let’s
have rubber instead of talk.—Dallas Times-
Herald_____
Yes, but Who Will Build Them?
By Eleanor Roosevelt
HYDE PARK. N. Y. Wednesday
—Yesterday morning we had an
early but a gay breakfast at uit
apartment in New York City with
two young guests. Then Miss
Thompson and I caught the train
for Hyde Park. Travel seems to be
very heavy and I wondered if I was
going to get to the window in time
to buy a family ticket. However,
the agent caught sight of me. and
as my check was all made out, he
handed me my ticket without any
WHOLE HOG
Today’s Thought
And the priest said unto them.
Go in peace: before the Lord 4
your way wherein ye go.—udger
18:6.
Peace be within thy walls, and
prosperity within thy palaces-
Psalms.________________
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La
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Wasting Valuable Time
Senator Josh Lee, in a 16 page pamphlet,
paints a glowing picture of the "brave new
world” we-are to have after the war, and
-says that the solution to the whole post-
war problem is "Build!" , -
That is certainly true, but the whole trou-
ble with Senator Lee’s prescription is that
his idea of building is for the government to
delay
I found Mrs. Bruce Gould wait-
ing at the gate of the train. We 65
worked together on the way up, so
that when we arrived all our talk-
ing was done and I was able to pick •
up the two little girls and take Mrs. ‘ “
Gould to see the view from the A3
south porch of the big house and
the library. We didn’t have a
great deal of time, so we had only K
a hurried visit to the library and 5
I she felt rather cheated that she $
could not spend more time looking S
at the different exhibits. %
She was particularly interested in
the copies of the presidents C
speeches, showing how many times *
a speech has to be revised On the
I wav back to the cottage I showed
i her Nelly Johanssen’s weaving. I a
doit. ■
He has introduced a bill for the "Arkansas
Valley Authority” which is hailed as the
greatest advance' in state socialism ever pro-
nosed under our supposedly democratic sys-
tem. It would go far to fulfill the demand of speeches sho rinse leeviTAETVon INE
the 1928 Socialist party platform for just way back to the cottage I showed
that sort of thing. It would put the whole Ther Nelly Johanssen’s ■ weaving I
area under an ironclad political appointee, think homespun may .become save
who would have power, not only over water po % moor on hand and are able
power, but of industry of many kinds, even to furnlsh really good material even
the farming operations which are related to during the present shortage .___
I After lunch Mrs. Gould went DACK
water resources. -.A to City and Miss Thomp-
This isn’t all. The kind of a program pic- toll and 1 worked on the mail and
tured by AVA would be a serious damper it did a number of things in the
not a stopper to private free enterprise, house. Finally, we wentifora 1
if private enterprise isn’t going to do the aaii^ince the NeOOUs to be free of
“building” which he prophesies—and pri- mosquitoes. The two little girls found
vate enterprise will be warned not to build themselves so bitten up, however,
if his AVA goes through-the government they raced for homeenth wonder,
.would have to do it. In fact, that is what ifiv eoor to bri-another won 4
AVA provides, as a starter. , mewi
If he had his way, as in the case of AV , ber.
Senator Josh would do more to discourage
building than any senator Oklahoma ever
had.—Oklahoma City Times.
fully cool day and I can hardly be-
lieve it is July and not Septem-
From Other Viewpoints
If Ship Sinkings Decline,
Steel Shortage Is at End
As long as the responsible national author-
Ities argue over what material to use for
itietnete rubber and over how to proceed,
little progress can be made in supply ing o
transportation system with tires.
t weean make rubber in vast quantities,
and we should be making it instead of won
n-mg over who is to derive the most profit
from8 the results, the farmers, the oil men
or the growers of some new type of rubber
I find that I am not the only
person who is concerned about em-
ployment of older people. There is
an organization called "The Forty
Plus which has branches in many
it the big cities. It originated
think, in Boston. But the most
recent letter I have had comes to
me from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The president, George Sheridan,
writes: "The club was originally
formed with the idea of relieving
a situation then thought to have
brought about by the depres-
hope in mind
....____improved, the 1
would automatically take
and that men with
the ability of our members would
find no difficulty in securing post-
From Austin American: , -
For the first time since the United States ERen and with the
began its mad race to arm the anti-axis that as conditions
world before Hitler could blitz democracy situation
out of existence, we begin to see daylight care ofitseif
ahead in the steel situation.
So far as it is possible to determine, pres-tions.
sure upon steel is beginning to lessen. Ln- "To a certain extent this has been
less we are obliged once again to increase truer and meinel pfacexe $? men
our production goals, soon the world’s greaia since our organization way formed'
est and most efficient metal industry should in Pittsburgh in July 1909 to the
prove ample for our needs, present time, but we are still m —
Ample, that is, for our 1 -
which today are all that really, matter. There
is not going to be any steel to waste. There
is not going to be enough steel for ordinary ,—
civilian goods, even if the plant and the the
manpower were available to use it. i .. .......
The principal fly in the ointment today, (Copyright 1942, by
-------------- looking ahead to tomorrow, is whether even Syndicate. Inc
arrive unless a three-ship-a-day maritime programwill-----
suffice to overcome sinking and build H War Quiz
the merchant marine and transport service
we must have to beat Hitler. *
Without letting optimism run riot, we be-enlisted man
lieve the sinkings are going to be brought
under control to such an extent that three
ships a day seven days a week, will do the
Remember Pearl Harbor!—Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds
Bandsmen Rootin’, Tootin’ Fighting Men When Need Be
By ROBERT RUARK
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 11—When
the Japs swept over .Pearl Harbor
and splashed a bomb on the USS
Arizona, the powder magazine blew
up, killing an entire crew of am-
munition handlers. That particu-
lar crew was the ship’s band, which
had been pressed into battle serv-
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• WASHING
The rent cor
ernment’s at
was beset to
from organiz
lords In man
try
Threats fro
wide gather!
to force rent
ed the Offic
tion here sin
of a threat
' 200.000 CIO
if rents were
Attempte
5 Mor
Vesse
president Roosevelt has hinted that wni
less the rubber shortage is relieved it will
be necessary for the government to corn
mandeer the tires on all cars that are not in
essential service. , 1 this dras-
Although there is no prospect of this aras
tie action in the near future a situation He:
guiring it will most certainly .
our output of snythetic rubber is sharply in-
creased without delay. , homeent
The Japanese have robbed us of 97 percent
of our natural rubber supply, and. unless we
are resourceful they will have .the satistac:
• tion of wrecking our transportation sy satis-
essary for synthetic rubber and more J That confidence looks forward not only
one good formula. .o this syn- to improved naval technique, which insid-
The public is growing tired of th s sy in ers profess to see working out, but also to
thetic rubber argument in W the waste of the building of hordes of small anti-subma-
fact, it is becoming alarmed able craves ac- rine craft capable of overwhelming the de-
time in selfish debate. The public crates the creasing number of U-boats the axis can
tion, and it has reason to act and produce and man and send into shipping
government has theexautbetles could disre- —lanes._________________-
that the responsible authonne-----------—---------------:
ice. __
Later, when there was no more
ammunition to handle and no more
battle stations to man, another
band unpacked its instru-
While the damage was be-
present ----------r
military needs, ing with and endeavoring to omen
mi— I come, a prejudice to hiring men
over forty years of age We are
trying to correct an impression on ■ Menus. While the damage wan ve-1
l the part of many employers t, me totted and the wounded car-
• ability and capacity for work ne to the hospital, that band
of men over that age is less played for 16 hours straight, touch-
that of younger men. —tire ing on, everything from "LApres-
......— United Feature midi d un Faun" to “Beat Me Dad-
dv"' It helped quite a lot.
MUSICIANS CAN
STEER OR SHOOT, TOO
On sea duty a Navy, musician's
chores extend above and beyond the
expulsion of wind from a horn. He
may hold cown a key job in the
ships vital communications center.
__He can steer a course, shoot a ma-
of the big-chine gun, bandage a wound or
swab a deck—and he can do It Just
Washington •
Daybook
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON-The Capital in
Wartime:
How-times-have-changed note —
Senator McNary, minority leader
of the Senate, protesting against
immediate vote without pro-
longed debate, of the $43,000,000,
000 army appropriation bill;
"I recall the argument' made
here by a very dear friend of all
of us, now gone, the late Sen.
(Pat) Harrison, when he stated on
the floor that we could hot pass
the $45,000,000,000 (debt) limit
without impairment and disloca-
tion of our economic structure. I
recall the very distinguished and
able conservator of public funds
and resources and credit, the dis- 1
tinguished senator from Virginia
(Mr. Byrd) pleading over and over
again that our appropriations NOT •
go beyond 50 or 60 billion dollars.
But now in one fell swoop, the sen-
ate is asked to pass a bill appro-
priating $43,000,000,000, without
reading it .without knowing any-
thing about it ... .
"In the name of decency, out of
respect to orderly procedure, we
should have at least one day to
consider a bill proposing to ap-
propriate $43,000,000,000. ...
So the senators were given 34
hours to peruse the bill and the
93-page report on Its various
phases — the largest appropriation
ever considered by the United
States — and according to Senator
McNary, "quite a bit larger than
ALL the expenses of the last war.
25 years ago "
i Does this "U s." belong to an
in the U S Army or
to an officer?
B 2. Kodiak is
US
one _
ger islands off
the Alaskan
shore which the
Japs covet. Is it
famous for
herds of rein-
deer, huge bears or huge stands of
Manhattan Moments: Playbills Drop Bridge Puzzlers
. . . Audience with! that canons’were birettas but that
GEORGE TUCKER diets throughout the audience." cardinals did not. This misinfor-
5 YORK - something has their pencils, checking off rimesses mation - came from s house that
NEW YORK scene and organizing attacks. . deals exclusively in accoutrements
gone out of he Broadea layers For the first time since.1 can re- of the church, which, also added
that meant *lot to g P and member these hands have been that there was but one canon at
These were the det bridge printed omitted from the 1942 playbills it the present time in the United
problems in contract laybills of new i a sad omission. You see people states,
lavs they were thumbing hurriedly through the The
pine trees?
3. A sailor in the American Navy
spoke of his sliding clothes" Did
- he mean duds_ in - which he slid
down masts, in which he did dirty
but necessary work on a ship or
into which he could jump quickly
if the vessel-were in danger?
Answers to War Quiz
1 It-is enlisted man’s "U. S'
2. Kodiak bears are biggest of all
carniverous animals.
3. He means clothes used in dirty
work on the ship.
each week in the ,—-
shows. Almost always they were thumbing
impossible hands, the solution of
which lay only in the promiscuous
sacrifice of Aces and Kings They
called for a sort of scorched earth
policy which enabled, eventually,
some insignificant try to take the
winning trick
....... ______The result of this has been com-
programs. a worried ‘and. appre-Imunications from good.people.dm
hensive look— .
finally dissolves into baffled dis-
appointment You think this is an
exaggeration? You don’t know how
seriously people take bridge around
only two ants on
here.
For a decade these hands were
a feature in the playbills of all
new. dramas, revues and comedies
that hit the street. Sonfetimes their
aut hors—ranking experts - offered |
books on bridge to the first half
dozen who submitted the correct,
solutions. You could spot bridge ad-
prion puvp.c --- If there were ----. . _
on their faces that all sections of the country, setting the ark, how did they have pic- through & SET
us right There are four canons in nics? ver M
the U. 8, not one Cardinals do
indeed wear birettas One corres-
pondent .sent us a picture of a
cardinal blessing a boat, saying.
"The enclosed photo proves that
_______he definitely does wear a biretta-t
birettas it's on his head." Another pointed
differences f- *
.'President Roosevelt extended the
rubber drive 10 days. Business of
stretching It.
as well as the next guy.. 1
Tooting a Navy trumpet is no
soft touch for languid lads who
don’t relish deck service. Since _________
1935, Navy has been opera ing groups, a former 1-
musician’s school in the Washing- (New York City) pianist beats
von Navy Yard—a school designed ----=
io put iron in the soul, steel in the
muscles and seafaring sense in the
head. The arpeggios come later..
But they do get around to mu-
sic . to such a degree that the
ship-term "bout rmaker- -for mu-
sician has just about died out. Cur-
rently training in Washington
some 250 musicians who not only
could hold jobs in the nation’s bet-
ter bands and orchestras, but in
many cases have actually done so
Director and fervent exponent of
the Navy school is a former mem-I
ter of Leopold Stokowskis Phils,
delphia orchestra—Boatswain J. M.
Thurmond A serious, bespectacled
graduate of Curtis Institute of Mu-
sic Bosh Thurmond puts his boss
. ______that would Stag-
ger stokowski. He has 30 assistants,
all experts and all touch tankmen:
ters. There is a raft of artistic tal
ent in the Navy school, but no ar-
fistic temperament. Tain t encour-
(Official Navy Photo from NEA)
4 years training at the U.’s. Navy School of Music gives our sea-going
Ears the equivalent of a two-year music course in civilian conserva-
ton: Above. Second Class Musician Eliza D. Turley gets trombone in:
struction from First Musician Julius E. Whitinger.
have been recruited from -name", boogie-woogie, and an ex-first horn
orc extra- In one of the jazz in the Denver Symphony goes out
i a former Hickory House of this world on a hot trumpet
a former " the Such technical subjects as solfege,
—musical theory history, harmony,
conducting, and orchestration don t
bother the boys a bit.
At the moment Bos’n Thurmond s
boys are flung all over the face of
the globe They go only to flag
commands, but some 800 have grad-
uated since the school started in
35. There was a Thurmond-trained
outfit on the Lexington, by the way
—mentioned favorably for its work
caring for the wounded during
Por the first tune in history, one
of our insular possessions—Puerto
Rico—has hired a public relations
counsel.” He is John Lear, former
Associated Press correspondent who
for more than two years has been
concentrating on the Latin Ameri-
Today's Smile
LONDONTOP — Regulations re-
uulring Canadian soldiers to have
1160 in accumulated pay and wait
for a cooling-off period of three
months before marrying British
girls didn't faze Private James Mc-
Bride. of Sious City, Iowa. Within a
week after the regulations were
T 1 talin caring for tne wounucu uuss
made, he was ready to wed ethe long period when major surgery
was impossible .
| Just before the Japs bombed
Pearl Harbor, the Artsones bend
won the fleet championship in a
musical battle. The award. In the
future, will be called the Arizona
Trophy, in honor of the lads who
died when the magazine blew up
can scene L.
Lear is now a government em-
ploye. his position and salary
stipulated in the budget of the
governor of Puerto Rico, that well
known New Dealer of depression
days. Rexford Guy. Tugwell.
John certainly has his work cut
out for him Few weeks pass when
Bolivar Pagan the P R resident
commissioner, or some one else
doesn’t write into the Congressional
Record an essay on the general
theme, "why the people of Puerto
Rico don’t want Tugwell for gov-
By the
With the <
cargo ship sli
and torpedoe
elated Press
and neutral
lantic waters
Sixteen sea
destruction <
—two British
one Belgian-
the U. 8. na
330 other ci
The Cuban
sinking of a
all hands sa
Two tor
shells sank
man of n
south-Atla
three men.
G. Cook al
survivors, 1
the largest
had seen—
a plane.”
The young
boat that bli
ship, also <
M survivors-
how to reach
route and w
' lone fatality
Death cam
U. S ship th
4 off South
Explosion c
Caribbean pl
Belgian ship
one of her 4
when a U-b
her minutes
not account f
her crew.
The Belgia
his skipper
two torpedoe
a mile off, b
third.
Meanwhi
government
ron firms lie
Canadian
that three
submarines
the St. La
K. 8. Roy,
ported the in
house of con:
a 14-ship <
| ‘ off Cape Cha
destroyed.
Said Prim
King:
"Any state
made by the
The political situation in our
“Gibraltar of .the Caribbean is
quite a mess. If it straightens out,
vou can bet on it that Alaska.
Hawaii and the Philippines will
also be asking for "public relations »<
counsels.”
Seven
Get Pi
-24 Y
PLENTY OF STONES
TO BREAK JAP BONES
The .taxi drivers of Washington
are almost a# famous as the Monu-
ment You’ll get their life histories
political opinions, and comments
the day quicker than you can pass
a xone line They may be anything
from Harvard graduates to pre-re-
peal rum-runners, and in either in-
*
Correction Recently this corner
reported - diect ssiotne Torrices of out the differences in birettas,‘ never wears this hat, out alter nes
* E ===== ========
square, ecrl*..u,ti6 | symbol of his rank at the time always wear the biretta.
We" lei into the error of saying his title is officially conferred up-1 Sorry.______
on him by the Pope However, he
wears this hat. but after his
TWO-YEAR COURSEcs
TAKES 12 MONTHS _eA5
in one seari the bandenrn In an had the necessary amount ma his
average thetervatory But the men i commanding officer had given him
averting from scratch Two- permission to marry three months
aren’t have college training, four before His wedding to Private
thirds have couest - 6-L - -• the Auviliarv
have M. A degrees, and several I
Kathleen Purcell, of the Auxiliary
Territorial Service—Britain’s armyy stance, proud of it ,
of women—was the flrot marriage Tops on the dumb side of the
under the new regulations. McBride Ledger came the other day from
23 a dispatch rider in the Cana-the slightly blank-looking hack
dian Army Service Corps, was serv- driver who went white when he
ing in the United States Army when saw the headlines of a newspaper
war started In Europe He applied his customer had just purchased
for a release, went to Canada to "What." he screamed, “the 5naif
enlist, and came to Britain with are 60 miles from Alexandria
the first contingent of Canadian gotta get home. Alexandrias V
soldiers He intends to take his where I Hve______
bride to Arizona after the war. I
WASHING
took 24 year)
gress to turr
generals at
day for pror
recommended
war.
Listed for
the officers f
fore it came,
time years th
ing nation fa
ommendation
Then, on J
passed a bil
just such pro
reason, it wa
cers “below I
general."
A second b
Roosevelt yes
words and m
for advancem
is 71 and th
to one rank
by George
Harmon
Coxe
MRS. MURDOCK
TAKES A CASE
shiny sidewalk below her, refused
. ‘ Chapter 21
FAMILIAR PROFILE
Joyce followed to the bedroom
doorway and when the light was
turned on she saw that here too.
a search had been made Then a
new thought struck her and she
turned and hurried back across the
living room
This was a tront apartment with
two windows overlooking the
street and one on the side She
went to one of those at the front
and pressed her face against the
glass.
Below the wet pavement was
sleek and shiny with the reflection
of the corner street light, the tops
of the parked cars glistening The
branches of a maple tree, its
leaves mostly gone, swayed be-
Me her in the wind, making a
tracery of light and shadow across
her face 2
When she could find no sign of
life ih the night she stepped to the
side window. Across an eight or
ten foot gap’ another apartment
house’blocked her view and not
until she looked down did she see
him It was the movement at first
that caught her eye, like a sliding
shadow, incomplete but definite
If fled along the base, w the oppo-
site wall, turned, was caught
briefly in the rays of the street
light, and was gone not towards
Dean Thorndike's parked car but
th isier way, to safety.
Joyce caught her breath. That
fleeting glimpse had shown her a
slender, overcoated figure that
held a suggestion of tallness evert
from this angle There was some
thing strikingly familiar about
that figure about the instantan-
eous flash of a profile as it turned
the corner of the building
Ward Allen Joyce thought And
then, left with nothing but the
to believe it. She must be mis-
taken She had barely seen him
How could she be sure... ?
She turned aware that Della
was beside her. Not knowing how
long she had been standing there,
but certain the girl had also been
looking out, she felt her veins run
cold: 1 ,
"Delia!"
"Did you see him?" The girl
seized one arm. “Who was it?
"I don't know,"
Della looked up at her, face tense
and lips parted.
"Joyge " "
“I don't," Joyce said. "I'm not
even sure I saw him. Something
moved—a shadow or something—
it might, have been a man. How
can ,I tell?".
“I suppose von couldn't." Delia
then her voice awed and
What if the envelope had
said;
low:
been here?"
But it wasn’t. That’s why we
decided to leave It at my place
isn’t It?, So .no one could find it?
And now we’ll keep it right there
until you know what’s to be done
with it."
Delia released her grip and
lowered her glance, and there was
something so forlorn about her
that Joyce took her in her arms.
CHARMING HESTOR
The little butler lock Murdock’s
hat and coat, and escorted him
through the sitting room “to the
library door. Hestor was sitting
on the leather divan, well prop-
ped up with pillows, a magazine in
her hand
"Thank you, Edward," she said
"I think that will be all." . -
Edward bowed and withdrew
with a "Very well. Madam.” and,
when Murdock hesitated, Hestor
arose and offered him both hands
As she stood erect a curious
warmth stirred in him, rising
across his chest and up into his
throat, and when he took her hands
his fingertips tingled" S
HF realized he was staring and
she sent her eves up at him.
speculating. She smiled again. He
grinned back
well.’ she said, “am I all right,
do you think?" .
Murdock coughed "I think so."
he said, his embarrassment pass,
ing. "and maybe even a little on
the gorgeous side.”
"That’s worth a drink, coming
from you.”
‘ She gestured to one side and he
saw the tea wagon that had been
used that morning. He busied
himself with Scotch and ice and
soda, and handed her a drink She
sat down on the’divan He took a
chair opposite, got up again to
give' her a cigarette and went back
"What's this about Ward Allen?”
he asked.
Her face sobered and she looked
past him “I don't know, exactly
I liked Ward, and in Caragua he
wasn't altogether very successful.
That's what I wanted to talk to
you about I’m not sure that I
should, although I know what I’m
about to say will be safer with you
than anyone else. ... I met him
not long after he arrived in San
Caria. It was inevitable that 1
should, Since good-looking young
Americans are scarce and always
in demand at club parties , and
dances" 5 -
She settled herself against the
pillows and looked in her glass.
“He’d come there to work for a
bank or some investment com-
pany -branch, hadn’t he? The rep-
resentative of some American
concern at any rate Later when I
heard that he had lost his. job. I
could understand why."
She drank again and put her
glass aside
BLACK PAST
"What actually happened was
that he was picked up by a political
group. As a matter of fact, it was
a pro-Nazi crowd—this was before
Poland-and they were—out to
Increase their influence in any way
they could I don't know just what
Ward was supposed to do; some
sort of lobbyist. I think The thing
was, he had a lot of dash and good
looks and clothes; he knew every-
one and was always around. His
sort could be valuable to almost any
sort pf organization. In any case
he went along like that for quite
some time; then there was some
mix-up and he was on his own
again ... Oh, yes"—she hesitated
__"I almost forgot to tell you that
Perry Clarke was part of the same
crowd.”. .
"Oh." Murdock said, “80 that’s
how it started?”
Barbs
a increase AU
Folowing
usually the best part of,
erman’s luck is the day he gets
off."
"I don’t know," Hestor an-
swered, “but let me tell you the
rest of it—I’m nearly finished. . . .
About that same time, Ward Was
seeing quite a lot of some woman
who said she was an Italian Coun-
tess—the Countess de Ferani. She
was a professional charmer. Well-
she had a small party one night.
Ward stayed late and there must
have been a lot of drinking be-
cause—at least from what I heard
—when the Countess woke up the
why each woi
fish- tingubhed se
oration whirl
Women traffic experts met in In-
diana. Our grandmothers used to
make jams—now the ladies are
undoing them.
A beautiful pair of eyes are okay
—butneed looking into.
Stare directly at a wild animal
and it won’t harm you—if you re
the outside of its cage
next day she was slone. and miss- Now is a fine time to keep your
ing a pearl necklace and a sap- spirits up-even if you have a cool
phire and diamond bracelet. The basement. -
men / AN V NO* MElm July h. trimonthel dnarbich even
when they came. He was arrested. | loafing is a lot of trouble
of course, but somehow managed
to get out of the country before
he was tried"’ . .„
“Perry Clarke knew about it,
didn’t he?” he asked.
“Naturally.”
“You think Clarke tried to
blackmail Ward?" 1
"I don’t know. That’s why 1
wanted to talk to you If I told
the police that’s what they would
Even in this hot weather you
cent make friends by giving folks
the cold shoulder.
—T---———
think. Isn't it?"
“I’m afraid so.”
"And yet"—Hestor eyed
steadily — "why should he?
what I. had given him?" r
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