Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 1943 Page: 2 of 4
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THE BRECKENMDGE AMERICAN
Published TuMday, WtttiMMy, Thursaay, Friday and SumUy
fcy BrMktnrMga American Mlithlng Company
114 Kaat lim Itml, Sreckenridoe, Tmm
JTHK_^ECjCENRIPGB_AME^JAN—BKRCKFyKTPGl, TEXAS
CIRCULATION RATES
■y Carner ar by Mall In City of Breckinridge On# Wok 12c
National Representative, Texas Sally Pwu Leagu?, Dallas, Tex.
Notice To The Public
Any erroneous refaction upon the character, standing or
r-putatiuik of any person, firm or corporation which may
ap;>car in any Issue of this patxr will be cheerfully corrected
upo being brought to the attention W the management.
• SERIAL STORY
1AM A MURDERER'
BY MORRIS MARKEY
'Yodrwfcdo,. Feb. 17. 1943
MBA MMNCB. IMC.
By Mail On side ef Trading Zone Per month
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50c
l.'d&on
rm
Cy Mail Ml Rural Routes and In Trading Zone One Vear W.6S
By Carrier or by Mail i t City of Breckenridge One Vear «M0
By Carrier or by Mall in City of Brecktnridje One Month Me
|->Y IRTfcU KBMNk
NEA Service Wa>lilnglun t'iirre*i>« n''.ut
I'illS Victory garden campaign lis- somt -ti ,nge angles.
Tlir lie itii-ii i> to «et tlx million 1 rm B.tr<ien ar.d 12 mi tlx .
rt'.v '1 suburban i ;.rrini uud«r cultivation. As Ui«t* au app«<>xi-
ri '' V 38 million f«n.illi •> :r, the United 8\ u>. thl> m*.<ns tii.it on«
family "Ut ot evvry ttiit. i> su; po^vci to spadu up
and start planting.
Tlie mx milium farm gardens figure will too
you. (Whand you mi<M think that every farm
liad a n..iU« n. t ut it doesn't work tli.it way I:
u.-«rd t<> U* that iicMrly wiv (aim liad a v* iictabie
patch and r«ji-v>1 m«it it \w;jl it ate, Uut in til.;
modern ;.}!e c t autoin ■ i!t> and specialisation,
many iarrr. have tjiven up raising vegetables ulto-
v.*th<T and in aie.i> th< t;u mei> arc tlie
largest consumers of -tore foods, consuming more
canin I K«*od> than city t< •!k~ .So, the Department
of Am kuHum s campaign to g«t a garden out: or.
< very tiiini ii- v.11,11 you nuKfit cull revolutionary
Some f.iinis du now produce us much a> three-
ftiurths of .,11 the nu\.t>. «xi..-. nulk. vvget.jbles anc
ether groceries cont.unu'd on the place. Therefore
the e\|M*rts figure if inry ran r;iiM- the nationa
irden fielding a vera 4. to the point wtiere farm produce three-
1 hi1 of nil the food farm families c« ru>ume. that will be rclievmi
fa i i'itn« •« of the national food situation considerably.
A' for the 1- million town and vtiy gart« nets—roughly three ou
r! eight uiban dweller* will tx- expect>d to miff a oc..n. ;
t ,nati a rudish and several caUouts—there aren't any dclimte goal?
l«>r quantity. Anything is supposed to be a help The average adult
l-ut • way about a ton of giucem.* a year. That's a little over rive
>'••1 a day. which seems high but is a stnti>tic nevertheless. If tha
aver u: b.in garden plot yielded 15 pounds of vegetable; P r 15
wet!, that would be a harvest of 223 pounds, 01 between 3 and 4
I«t cent of the three-person family's food consumption. It wou: > also
be a miracle.
f'tPi'lNG down lo tne tpecitic piobleins ot the Victory gardener.
I.-,- will have his troubles. ImplcinoAts, for example. The hard-
v. ..it 'tores will not otter as wide a variety of tools as heretofore.
War PrMluction laaid tu s cracked down on the manufacturers of
:• uicn i. ols. and has is-ucd an order. L-157, which reduces the num.
1 ■ r « f fi iks. rakes and hoes from the former 855 models to a mere
15S in order to conserve steel and good ash handles.
Hut don't let that worry you. All the average gardener needs ii
f r, v teols—four If you include the botUe of liniment—one spade 01
f 1 k. cue rake, one hoe. If these me labeled with tlie catch line ol
"V •' !% t «il.i for Victory gardeners"—that s. If tiny are manulac-
tu> 1 after April B. 15M3, they will be sold in Grades A, B and C. Uk
t' '^t be .rig the best.
1 . rtt:\ -ut of Aencultur'e Hardening expeits say anyon ian man-
age a Vic.oty ratden with the three clubs aforementioned. UoKirs
■ ii • up golf for gaidenmg may tind themselves a little handicapped
if th< v have been u.--d to having some poor knock-kntcd and under*
n ur • <1 boy tote their hodful of golf hardware, but in gardening,
tr /ou arc a Burbank, you do not need a No. 5 iron for approach-
:rg a jreen tomato, nor a cluomc-bcaded puticr for putting the pea
U ■ in pod to pot.
N DOUBLE LOT
CHAPTER XXV!
As I have said, the essence of
my executioner's appearance
r.nd behavior was fixed by the ap«
pec ranee and behavior of Henry
Prentiss.
My actual weight is 180 pounds.
By the proper use of clothing: of
loo-c-fitting, tweedy, shrewdly
padded garments in checks and
light colors—of large«sized, heavy.
blemishes or scars or congenital tocles. The wearing of then, '.could
departures from the normal can-
not easily be disguised.
My own sppauuuuc could best
! be described us commonplace ex-
cept for two thinip<: my light-
; colored hair and my very blue
[eyes. The hair was a simple mat-
ter. The eyes were not.
I • • •
JpOR the eyes arc the absolute
1 key to the face. All else may
. . . . _ be altered, and the eyes left us-
: olid shoes and (topping woolen .. 1 «•«« ... —. -
leha ged, and the result is no dis- <nd clearwt ag>in ^ s
account icr the dullness of vision
which the darkened pupils i.| th«
contact lenses would obviously en-
tail.
• • •
pOR the rest, I fashioned my
1 own dyes and stains from
chemicals bought in a dozen
places, so that my hair c.uld to
turned to black very swiftly, and,
since Use chemicals were soluble in
water, turned again to its natural
color in a handful of minutes.
Likewise, my clear skin could he
made swarthy in as brief a time,
< looked to weigh at least 1 jje whatcvcr_
ltl) pounds.
Clothe that fame frame In fash-
ioned fuits of dark cloth aad
faultlessly Uilored: put trim, black
.-hoe. over blt.tk silk socks—wear
starched collars and carefully ar-
rang'd cravats, elegant small
jewelry in the way of watch chain
and links in stiffened culls—and
the man would seem to weigh
hardly more than HO pounds.
N< .:, the personality, the tem-
per; m*nt of my new creation: I
must contrast the happy-go-lucky
way of Henry Prentiss to the
.stiiTly formal; change carelessness
ar.d a suggestion of fatuity into
grave concern over the affairs of
the world; change merriment to
dignity.
The voice would be quite easy.
My own experience and my care-
ful observation of professional
players had taught me several
valuable lessons about the voice.
One w;;s that actual intonation,
tlie use of marked accents or the
like, is not nearly so important as
words themselves: the choice and
use of words in the expression of
ideas.
Henry Prentiss had a lazy,
slangy manner of speech, and he
was rather quick on the uptake
in conversation. My executioner
would speak in phraics so precise
ss to be pedantic, and he would
give the impression of thinking
carefully before uttering the sim-
plest remark.
There remained the face.
Now it is plainly true that there
live thousand* of men who could
never possibly succeed with such
in undertaking as I had assumed,
fhe strongly marked face, distin-
guished by unusual bony struc-
ture, by teeth cither remarkably
hands, me or unhandsome, bv
Conversely, we all know how
even the most familiar faces of all,
those belonging to the celebrities
of motion picture actors and ac-
tresses, may be disguised for a
brief while anyway by the simple
use of darkemi glasses. Of
course, such a decepticj would
not survive prolonged observation.
But the lesson is there.
Here, then, ^as my chief prob-
lem. 1 tried many experiments—
the use of various types of spec-
tacles, of eye-shadow cosmetics,
and even staining the eyes with
such chemicals as ar£>rol. None
of these things was in tlie least
satisfying. But, again, I was in
no haste.
And my patience war rewarded,
as that virtue is almost invariably
rewarded.
1 came upon my answer in a
most frivolous item in a most friv-
olous column of news of the mo-
tion jjieture colon}'.
Walter Huston, the actor, had
teen cast in the role of an Amer-
ican Indian for a new picture.
His eyes were blue, and so not
wholly appropriate for a black-
haired savage. The incredible in-
genuity of Hollywood had solved
the problem, as it solves more
technical problems ev^ry day than
the world could hear about, or,
hearing, care.
Mr. Huston would be provided
with those devices called contact-
lenses: magnificently cor xived
thin shells of crystal glass which
fit immediately over the eyeball
and which many people wear to
hide their need of spectacles.
In normal use, they are quite
invisible. For Mr. Huston, the pu-
pils of thase lenses would be
tinted a deep brown.
Such lenses were easy to pro-
cure in New York.
Along with them, I bought an
ordinary pair of rimlem -■ occ-
ur two under the faucet.
On that Ant afternoon, when I
walked to slund before my minor
in tlie make-up of the executioner,
of Vaughan Dunbar, I tell you in
all honesty that I had dlflculty
recognizing myself. 1 spent all the
rest of that afternoon, and more
than half of that night before that
mirror, being Vaughan Dunbar.
When at last I went to bed, 1
knew.
The cue might now be called, at
the pleasure of Henry Prentiss.
So 1 settled to the preparation
of details, the making of a pro-
gram and' time schedule which,
in a less ur.ent enterprise, would
have been tedious work.
After laying all tlie advantagei
and disadvantages side by side, J
determined upon the afternoon ol
the finals at polo for the climax.
And 1 prepared, down to the dot:
upon the i'j, every single move-
ment, every single minute of time
that would lead up to the one
critical instant.
First, T mode the opening ap-
pearance of Vaughan Dunbar in
New Yprk. I timed it, ot course,
as of the arrival of a Clipper
Ship, and actually took a taxicab
from LaGuardia Field half an hour
after such a ship had landed.
Vaughan Dunbar registered at
a hotel where Henry Prentiss was
not known, but thereafter he
visited numerous restaurants and
cafes where Henry Prentiss was
known, watching carefully for the
on* lifted eyebrow, tlie one short-
ened breath which would tell that
the deception win a failure
Vaughan Dunbar stood at divers
bars with warm friends ot Henry
Prentiss—not Gull Point friend*,
but members of the cherished
brotherhood who meet in the
public places and are oftentimes
associated even more closely, one
with another, than men who meet
each other in their own homes.
Nobody paid much attention to
the man who was, so obviously, a
visitor from Britain, shy and re-
served and most properly worried.
Vaughan Dunbar had met the
first test.
(To Be CMtfMKt)
HJT OUE WAT By J. R. WILUAWS 4
WELL,IF HB^v
w*e iu HnrueRto >
UTOPIA. HE'D BE
vsev HAPPY IF
THE OTHEC (3UV
ms AHEAD OF
HIM Vs/HEM THEV
WHA-tfS AT SUV
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The'sI
TOWARD
hTHATll
■GOV?!
THEBEB GOIOKiA
BE TROUBLE
IN UTOPIA
RACE HOQSES
WILL HAN/E "TO
EV/fekv.-
C1>i
SO WILL ALL
BALL GAMES,
OS SOMEBODY
WILL BE VEISY
UUHAPFV/
otwupIYO
MORE SPEEDS
AM' TWO NOTCHES
OF FEED ON .
ME/
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THE OTHER GUV '
Z'lX *
^tearing the Decks for Action
For Tomorrow?8
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Buy
COOK^S
Paints and
Varnishes
1942 Wallpaper
41 Close-out Price?
Head The Want Ads For Bargains Try a Want Ad
I
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Between battles and targe; i
shovel—the decks clear of *iu
.licsluct ikniti'v
.:ien —pardon,
ins on a U. 8. bat-
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BY FRED HARMON
The Price, of Victor)
TAXES AND
WAR BONDS
It TaJits Both
GUADALCANAL COMMANDER
riiZONTAL
N'car.
3 Pictured U. S.
Ha.inc*' com-
rna-.der at
Gjittinleanal,
Mai-Gen.
Alexander
Producer.
13 Atmotphire
H Cc indebted,
lft (X (suffix).
17 Uehold!
18 Over (poet ).
SO Any.
12 P int measure
ii Tree.
. 11'aie.
Aeorn.
:•(. P.ne fruit
in Flower,
id Hour (sbbr ).
11 Txmg ago.
ii Carpet
:That one
it Anno Domini
fobbr.).
i7 Mother,
ifc fcxrlsmation.
Halt!
41 Wneel tooth.
4- Part of leg.
Hiffginbotham—
Bartlett Co.
1*1 W. William* — Ntut M
Beware Coughs
Following Flu
Aftei the flu is over and gone, the
cough that follows may develop
into chronic bronchitis If neglected.
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm, and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw. tender. Inflamed
bronchial mucous membranes. No
matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your tiruirglst to sell
you a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding you must like the way
It quickly allays the cough or you an
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
far Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
WE SPECIALIZE IN
DYEING and SILK
WORK'
Also Hats Cleaned
and Blocked
us*
' 'a*.
itED RYDER
BUT 3. Dosn i\n&sD 1
Victory
IT TAKES BOTH
1. Tma
t. War tendi
WIS MOU WAR BOND'
AH Tht\K TORE
cratv that r\oe>
outside will
HV^G >UH OfiJ
rvc:
N:CE. LOr^Ci
Black.
rvVR tou
HAVE.'
TO FbR
As MURDER
1 KSOW MOThi,^
ABOJT
Am er te Previous Pu-z'..
19 Dine.
21 Gieoc lctUfr.
23 ilali an eir.
28 He is Oi
Marin:-? on
GuaOalcanaL
27 Straight \
(com1!, formi
28 Zee!.
29 Hcport.
32 Grain.
34 Joke.
3D Pace.
40 Pertainfra to
pectin.
41 Metallic
element
43 J'r J n.
45 Distant.
47 D>recUen.
49 Paradue
50 Wanner
51 He leads the
fight niainst
troops.
52 Railrrsd
(sbbr.).
M V'ouns d«S.
) 51 Theory
59 Kathode
Mb*'.)
01 Uough lava
03 txist.
r^otso
SJRE.
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ALLEY-OOP
By V. T. HAMLIN
AUfUllfiMT... VIVE A T
ESTXVE SEEN? 1 BE AG
MHW.I
! JDS
NOW WHAT
WE THREE
IBV GAR, A
dinosaur;
WHATCHA
VntTICAL
1 High card.
2 Attempt.
3 Dal*.
4 ParUi > ot
matter.
5 Negative.
41 Appeal
'4® Gratuity
40 Sedan
491s (Latin).
51 Junior (at<br )
53 Father
54 Three (prefix)
16 Perform
56 Jumbled type
55 Noah's ship.
00 Monkey.
02 Fruitful.
04 Close
adherence
00 Postmaster
(abbr.).
PHONE 99
BreckenrHge
Cleaners
6 Doze
7 Gather for
preservation.
8 "PlantaUon
State" (abbr
9 Persia
10 Toward.
11 Jewel
15 Us.
MKSS B0TH
Wor Bonds
and kaw
UWklkkWm
~itim- t,>aw.y,infTsff,
FRECKLES And HIS FRIENDS.
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