The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 212, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1934 Page: 3 of 4
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TIM BANNING ripped final copy for
*-* the Morning Sentinel from his type-
writer and looked wearily at the clock.
Midnight.
Bill Kilwino, at the next desk, threw
<3ow’n his eye-shade and addressed the
office at large. “What I need is some
night life of a different variety. What
say?”
Jim paid no attention but listened
warily. What would his answer be
when the gang asked, as it had formed
a habit of doing lately, “Coming, Jim?”
These midnight sallies into gay
places were causing trouble between
him and Nancy. She was jealous of
Vina Martineau, and had an idea—
ridiculous little Puritan!—that a man
didn’t love his wife7if he went to a
few impromptu parties without her.
“Impromptu!” she had cried, blue
eyes wet with angry tears. “When
you’ve done this a dozen times and
never once phoned me to come along!
When we haven’t been married a year!”
* * *
Across the city room. Jim watched
tawny-haired Vina put away her lip-
stick.
“Of course Jim’s coming. Aren’t
you, Jim?”
Yes, he was coming. Just to teach
Nancy the lesson she had to learn,
though his head did ache and bed of-
fered greater invitation.
Most of the staff were working
through until two o’clock. So it was
just the Kihvines—Bill’s wife was so-
ciety editor—and Jim and Vina who
went. Somehow, lately, it was just
the four of them a good deal of the
time.
He didn’t care anything about Vina.
But she intrigued him.
* * *
The Ace of Clubs was jammed, and
almost opaque with smoke. An unc-
tuous master of ceremonies announced
novelty numbers—“in honor, la-dees
and gentlemen, of the first anniversary
of the state’s most famous night club.
To. show its appreciation of your splen-
did patronage, the management pre-
sents . .
Across the room Jim’s eye caught
sight of Sport Conley, coarse-mouthed
gentleman of chance who was always
pestering the sports department. With
him was a bleached and lacquered
blond, drinking too rapidly from a
small amber glass. Jim looked away
in revulsion.
“Mad at me?" Vina whispered.
He turned from her, looked across
at Sport Conley, who gave him a slow,
leering wink. Jim rose to his feet
* * *
Half an hour later he tiptoed into
] the kitchen of his apartment. He
shortened the stem of a huge, creamy
rose, found an olive bottle for a vase.
He hadn’t brought Nancy flowers for
ages. This was just one . . . still,
she’d be pleased. He placed It on her
side of the breakfast table.
He clicked off the light and felt his
way into the bedroom. Rays from a
street lamp faintly illuminated It, fall-
ing across the four-poster bed with its
neat spread of candlewick. Across a
bed that was smooth and unoccupied!
My God! Jim prayed unintelligibly
as he felt for the electric button.
Prayed harder as he yanked open the
closet door. But every dress, every
small, dainty shoe was gone.
He was still telling himself the next
afternoon that she would be back, that
she was just trying to frighten him.
When his telephone rang, he an-
swered gruffly.
“Jim!” The voice was throaty,
trembling.
A flood of warmth spread through
his whole being. “Nance—darling—
I’ve been crazy . . .”
“Then you did care—enough to
worry ?”
“Care! You dear little nut—where
are you?”
“I’m home—now, sweetheart. You
see, I called the office last night—when
you didn’t come. You’d left at twelve
—and I couldn’t bear it. I mean your
wanting some one else—”
“Nobody else, dear. I’ve just been
stubborn.”
“I stayed at the Y. W. I had to
think. And I meant to take the after-
noon train home—to mother and dad.
But I’d forgotten my watch, so I waited
until you went to work this after-
noon—”
“Yes?”
“But I couldn’t go—when I saw the
rose.”
“Saw what?”
“The rose! It looked so dear and
pathetic, drooping from that old bottle.
Men fix flowers so funny.”
"Listen, lion, throw out that Scotch
bouquet. All right for an emergency
message, but you’re getting a fat love
letter from the nearest florist—special
delivery! . . . I’ll be home early!”
• • *
Jim laughed until half the staff
turned to look. Laughed triumphantly,
derisively, In the direction of Vina . . .
“ ... to show its appreciation
. . . the management presents each
of you ladies with one of these mag-
nificent roses. And to you, gentle-
men . . .”
Vina had laughed at her memento,
Just as she laughed at everything.
Then she had placed It In Jim’s lapel,
from which the long stem dangled ri-
diculously.
“Take this to Nancy,” she had said,
and might just as well have added,
“since I have you, old dear.”
In his obsession to show Nancy ho-w
sorry he was, It had not entered Ms
stupid, aching head that he should
have pitched the tainted flower Imo
the gutter!
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HEN Nature strikes fiercely and
with little or no warning to over-
whelm puny mankind with some
disaster; when a tornado whirls
down on village and farm, leaving
death and destruction in its
wake; when floods and hurri-
canes, fires and earthquakes, ex-
plosions and epidemics take their
toil of human suffering and prop-
erty damage, then it is that
those messengers of mercy, Amer-
ican Red Cross officials and workers, mobilize
swiftly and speed to the place where they are
most needed.
It was only a few weeks ago that word flashed
down from the north that fire had swept Nome,
Alaska, leaving that town, once famed as a gold
camp but now a modern American city, a heap
of ashes. Within a few hours after the receipt
of this news a Red Cross relief director was
stepping into an airplane at San Francisco and
a few minutes later he was winging his way
toward the stricken city.
When the ill-fated “Morro Castle” burst into
flames off the coast of New Jersey, Red Cross
disaster units in coastal chapters of that state
immediately rallied to the work of rescue, the
care of survivors and the reuniting of separated
families, relatives and friends. More than a
score of nurses were summoned from their beds
in the chill dawn to take up long vigils on board
rescue vessels, in hospitals, at piers and at
morgues. There they ministered to sufferers
from injuries, exposure, shock and grief.
Andyet these spectacular examples were only two
of the 78 disaster jobs in the continental United
States in which the Red Cross was active during
the past year. Add to these, assistance given
in 25 insular and foreign catastrophes and the
aggregate is 103—just about the average for an
organization that has been shouldering this sort
of task through more than half a century.
No part of the United States escaped some
sort of disaster, there being a total of 163 coun-
ties in which the Red Cross assisted 119,000 vic-
tims. Tornadoes and fires were the leading
agencies of destruction with 25 cases of each
necessitating Red Cross relief work.
Besides these, 17 floods—one of which took
the life of a Red Cross relief worker on duty—
swept down out of the hills and forests to lift
houses from their foundations, to destroy crops
and live stock, and to send refugees scurrying to
.higher points. Tropical storms hung up a new
record for frequency within a single year, and
for the first time in a hundred years a hurri-
cane starting in the West Indies whipped with
undiminished force as far north as the Virginia
coast.
There were also epidemics, cyclones, explo-
sions, hail storms, a typhoon, an earthquake, a
cloudburst and other emergencies which acted
to bring the Red Cross with shelter, food, medi-
cal supplies, nurses, hospitalization and rehabili-
tation programs.
In the highest state of disaster-preparedness
In history, the Red Cross introduced something
new when it conducted 28 disaster institutes at
strategic points in particularly vulnerable zones.
Veteran disaster workers schooled local chapter
officers, community leaders, police, fire and
health officials in the surveying of hazards and
organizing of relief. In the case of a number of
approaching Storm?, disaster experts from na-
tional Red Cross headquarters rushed to the
scene hours and even days In advance of the
calamity, saving many lives by the precautions
they invoked.
Members of the Red Cross nursing reserve,
public health nurses, home hygiene Instructors
continued as one of the nation’s first lines of
health defense. More than 36,000 nurses are on
the active list of the reserve, ready to respond
to calls from army, navy or Red Cross disaster
service.
Several were dispatched to a North Carolina
community stricken by pernicious tropical
malaria. Others were sent to cope with a ty-
phoid epidemic. Still others performed heroic
work In connection with a forest fire in a Cali-
fornia canyon. To a first aid station In connec-
tion with a convention of Spanish-American war
veterans was assigned another group. And these
are only a few instances from a record of varied
and numerous services given by this nursing
army which is always available for duty.
Some 750 public health nurses were regularly
employed by 424 Red Cross chapters, for ttfe
most part in rural territory. They made more
than a million visits In line of duty—giving
1. Taking the sky trails to fire-gutted Nome,
Alaska. Bowen McCoy, sent as relief director,
saying good-by to A. L. Schafer, manager of the
Pacific office of the American Red Cross, before
taking off from San Francisco.
2. Coke-oven dweller In a Pennsylvania in-
dustrial center being given first aid by a Red
Cross public health nurse.
3. The old folks are not forgotten by the
friendly and helpful Red Cross. Here is a public
health nurse and two of her patients, the couple
not only receiving needed nursing attention but
having previously been recipients of Red Cross
flour and clothing.
4. Streets flooded at Harlingen, Texas, in the
wake of one of those fierce coastal hurricanes
which strike inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
Note the Red Cross car in the foreground on a
mission of rescue and relief.
baths to bedridden patients, massaging aged
joints and little crippled legs, assisting physi-
cians at childbirth and in many Instances finding
it necessary to preside alone at such occasions,
administering medicines and hypodermics under
doctor’s orders, bathing mothers and their new
babies, advising on health problems in the home.
They responded to the needs of miners and
their families, of steel workers, of the white-
collar group, of ranchers and small croppers.
These gray uniformed nurses drove their small
cars as far as they could up mountain trails,
then walked the rest of the way to isolated
cabins where the sick awaited. They forded
creeks iff summer, crossed on the Ice in winter,
to get to pneumonia cases and broken legs.
Selected by the Red Cross not only because of
technical qualifications but on the basis of cour-
age and stamina? they rang up another record of
quiet heroism.
Children are always of first concern to the
Red Cross health services, and public health
nurses last year inspected more than 629,(XH)
children in the schools—heading off cases of
Incipient disease, noting defects In teeth and
eyes in time to correct them, suggesting ways of
personal cleanliness, advising as to hot school
lunches and other means of preventing mal-
nutrition. Their work resulted not only In per-
manent health improvement but In better class-
room performance. The interest and generosity
of Will Rogers and of the Scottish Rite Masons
brought about the support of 52 and 33 public
health nursing services, respectively.
To take care of widespread demands for in-
struction In simple nursing in the home, the
Red Cross added more than 1,400 specially-pre-
pared nurse-teachers to Its army of health evan-
gels mobilized under the banner of home hygiene
and care of the sick. More than 62,000 students
—not only housewives but men and young people
—enrolled in classes; more than 49,000 of them
completed courses and were awarded certificates.
As regular year-round services proceeded,
emergency calls multiplied and were met as they
developed. Civilian home service involved the
giving of aid to more than 284,000 families;
transient veterans were assisted and classes in
home hygiene, food selection, first aid and life
saving were organized, at the request of the
Federal Relief administration.
Red Cross first aid service, always in high
gear, added to its responsibilities the training
of 70,000 foremen, time clerks, and other key
employees of the Civil Works administration—
did such an efficient job that it was asked to
give the same sort of instruction to approxi-
mately 300,000 members of the Civilian Con-
servation corps, a program still under way. Al-
together, the number of first aid certificates
awarded within the twelve months totaled more
than 130,000; the number since establishment
of the service 25 years ago, more than 763,000.
The Red Cross life saving emblem was In
evidence at an increasing number of beaches
and pools and summer camps. More than 72,000
life saving certificates were issued during the
fiscal year, bringing the number issued during
the two decades since the initiation of the service
to more than 559,000.
With the economic pressure Continuing and
new regulations in effect, the Red Cross war
service moved to top speed on behalf of veterans
and service men. Approximately a third of a
million ex-service men or their families brought
their problems to Red Cross workers. Aid was
extended by representatives of the national or-
ganization to more than 67,000 men in govern-
ment hospitals, or to their families.
The picture of the most recent Red Cross
accomplishments is not complete without note
being taken of the completion of distribution of
85,000,000 bushels of government wheat sur-
pluses and 844,000 bales of government cotton
surpluses. Volunteer achievements—aside from
the preponderantly important work in disaster
relief—Included production of 4,734,000 gar-
ments, 340,000 pages of hand-braille and 314,000
pages of duplicated-braille for the blind, 3,678,-
000 surgical dressings, 18,400 layettes, 16,000
Christmas bags for lonely sailors and soldiers at
distant points. Canteen workers fed 149,000 per-
sons; members of the motor corps made 64,000
calls; home service workers made 67,000 visits.
Volunteers numbered more than 322,000.
Because such a splendid record as all of these
signify has been characteristic of the Red Cross
for decades, the American public responded with
an almost war-tltns fervor last year when the
battle with the depression was still being waged
and added 100,000 senior members and more
than a quarter of a million junior members
to the Red Cross roils during the annual roll
call In 1933. And now the 1934 roll call will
soon be under way—from Armistice day until
Thanksgiving day—offering Americans an op-
portunity to register their approval of the work
of THEIR Red Cross by enrolling under its
banner of mercy.
, © by Westo-n Newspaper Union.
by Vance Wynn »*Uc
The Secret of the Walnut
Closet
ADAME DE POLVERE. member
of the French nobility, was in
great dread—she felt instinctively that
the sword of death was hanging over
her head.
In her extremity she communicated
with Fouche, the French minister of
police, asking that he send one of his
representatives to her in order that
she might give him a startling piece
of information.
She laid stress on the fact that she
did r/ot want Fouche himself but one
of his subordinates.
With characteristic perversity
Fouche went himself—but in disguise.
His own brother would not have
known him any more than did the
butler at the handsome ancestral man-
sion on the Rue des Fosse-Saint-Vic-
tor, although the famous detective had
attended more than one reception
there.
There were two Madame de Pol-
veres in the house—the young woman
and the dowager of the same name.
He asked for the younger one, and
presently was greeted by a ravishingly
beautiful woman.
After some hesitation she told the
detective that she was ir.1 deadly fear
of being poisoned by her mother-in-
law.
She said she was the third wife of
the nobleman and that the other two
had died very mysteriously.
The elder Madame de Polvere was
fearful that the family name might
become extinct.
When it became certain that the
first two wives would bring no heirs
to the nobleman they had languished
and died.
The narrator told the minister of
police that she Had been married two
years now, and it was improbable that
she would have any children.
The mother-in-law had commented
on this and thrown out ugly hints.
She had gone to the country and in-
vited young Madame de Polvere to fol-
low her.
She was afraid to do so and in her
terror had sent for the detective.
Fouche listened to this amazing
story and agreed to stay in the house
and see the adventure through.
That night the countess returned
home and was furious at the diso-
bedience of her daughter-in-law.
She went to her room and gave or-
ders that she was not to be disturbed
under any ^circumstances.
Fouche felt that the solution of the
mystery would come before morning.
He managed to *;et a room opposite
to that of the elderly one and he
watched the door like a hawk.
An arrest could not be made on sus-
picion. He must have facts.
They came In the most unexpected
and convincing manner.
The countess had the great misfor-
tune—to herself—to be a sleepwalker.
About midnight the door of her
room opened and the countess came
out, clothed only in her nightdress and
slippers and carrying an unlighted
eantlle.
The police minister, who was in the
hall, crouched against the side of the
wall.
The woman oassed without seeing
him.
She walked up the staircase until
she came to the third floor, which con-
tained the servants’ quarters.
Presently she reached a dingy pas-
sage which led to an unfrequented
chamber.
She stealthily crossed the room,
brushed aside a great tapestry, reveal-
ing a walnut panel.
She touched a secret spring and the
door of a closet flew open, displaying
a row of bottles containing poison.
Selecting one of these, she placed
it in her nightdress and returned to
her room.
The next morning she was placed
under arrest and made an abject con-
fession.
The police minister reported the
case to the emperor, who declared that
such a monstrous crime should not be
permitted to go unpunished.
But he wished very much to save
the honor of the noble house.
How could justice be done without
casting lasting shame on an honored
name?
“Leave it to me. sire," said the re-
sourceful Fouche, “and I will guar-
antee that justice will be done.”
He arrested the countess for an al-
leged political crime.
She was cast into prison for life.
Her husband and son pleaded for
her, but when they learned the na-
ture of her crime they broken-hearted-
ly left her to her fate.
The fate she chose for herself—she
made the punishment fit the crime by-
taking a dose of poison and dying in.
great agony.
WNU Service.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Although the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce was formed at a con-
ference called at Washington In 1912
by President Taft, It Is not a govern-
ment organization, writes G. R. Tur-
ner in the Kansas City Times. It Is,
instead, a federation of local cham-
bers of commerce, boards of trade, na-
tional trade associations and similar
bodies. Its purpose is to co-ordinate
and express the views of the various
groups that constitute It; to supply in-
formation on economic conditions, and
to serve the whole nation in much the
same manner as local chambers of
commerce serve their communities.
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