The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 206, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1938 Page: 3 of 4
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I M IWI | I II IH a IJ.I
I.M e
and Organization
icers Of Heel And
f tti<* 1T< *>] and Too fhfi)
tonio of .Mlim .Muvls
VtMlntHdnjr^ftcinonn f. r
<ctaai
lit |
Members
|r>*'t ur tho
lings worth
It <mii meeting
for the/ dam
l heir '/t'K.inlzatlon
>1 ne burnt cliili.
Hurinj! • M«*— mp<4ki(rn,
fhty coining year were
Miw, Keottie .Tarkoon, sponsor, not-
/,It 'is chairman. The rit-w nffl-ei:*
Kre: MIhh M/ivlrt HoIlinKsworth, prt'x-
pdent; Miss UocOthy .Mi.I.limyi, vice-
i>reiUI«nt; MImh Kin-Murl* Cox', « •<•-
to iltnnixH finnl plana
to be Bponnm-c'iV h?
■ Friday" night " jit
ofricnTB tf>l'
elwteti Willi
Mi«s .Martha' I.ou"
wore:
Attlii
Jiu'il-
retnry.trejisiirer;
[White, reporter.
[ Others attending tlie meeting
Misses Johnnie jlae llelton,
jLausen, Alice Kellls "in'iTl Mrs.
lion.
It has been announced \luit any
one wlv falls to get an Invitation to
M'e Pineliurst (Innee Frftfuy niglit,
lay set one at the SweM «itoi<, al-
though It la not required that tin
Invitations he prytgpted. at . the
limine. ' ---•'
fll'VISNILF, 1TKGRKI5 4>f
HONOtt TO MKKT I'ltlDAY
Members ,~f; the Juvenile Oeutroe
k>f Holier will meet IYiduy afternoon
ii8;30 -o'clock at the'lodge hit]). Mr*.
K^TH^n Toups, directorof the group.
hirses^Mwt all membesi lie in nt-
jteiHlauee rtt^ that time.
Miss Dixon and >
Lawrence Boehme
To Marry Sept. 4th
d.M oration*. A sei if.i of luff) I-! Inu
. teumee :wi.t coiltdsta were MjofM.
with Mr*. I.en y HMhwe niut MIch
Dixon winning prises. The /Rift*
were then presented to tlio hotloree
and refreshments. of lee oream and
cake] were served.
The K>ie<t . list ftir- This"'acalr in-
"feludt'd; Mefdftlnes E.., Montgom-
ery. Tolw |t«ii Eftxtn Turner, Wil-
liam Crouch, Oilie Sehillt*. T. ft.
Landrum. Harold Sfimderfi, T.eroy
Boehme, r, A. ftoehnie, it. Rntenniui,
,S. H. Cain,; Chat|it$« , f'ain, Jllke
Pierce, Miss H uby Boehme. Miss
Laveitns Landrum n«d the h.orurafl.
frest.
Of
ITK'ltt.
Wonehlng murriii
doivn 1 iixuii
] .a wrtmr-e lio<>hm<-
is the omvnnuuv
oment and u.ii-
of Miss (iMftW-
ii'oeo, LaL to#
of1' tlila city. IThe
Wuddftfe, wlJl take Hu'rVday.
8epietlpn?i'- 4, fit Mason. -Texas.
Mi.-n, I>ixon X" thft .daujhws^t Mr.
and Mrs.'.'pi ■ \Y. Dixon of AnaCKj'o,.
l.a.. iukI ..\Tii-' t'ilni'11 ted in the pulilln
Kohoolw of that eity atfft In Beau-
mont. Mr. Itoehme is the son of
Mr. atul Mrs. (^. A\ Boehnte of Or-
unjje. and Ik a Kradmyp of the 1 lcs'ai
Wish v.hi '.I, lie has been employod
l y the Sabine Ciffee company Ise.ni
U>r Siiuie time.
Ar a pceu't'ddinir oompiiment 'to
the liridoeloot, Mrs, Valton Landrum
and Mrs. Joiner Mow;i|i entortaUuitf
with a puny amX. iniscejlnue,)>us show-
er Wcilrie.sday afternoon from twq.
iVcinek oiifJl 4:30 at the- home /,<f
Mrs. Landrtim.
< 'oral vines and fern were at-
I tra' Vtvel.v . itiTanjted abouil - the ily^tut
rOopi jij-.-.l -the oidor soheiue of piivK-
and sreeh was carried out In all the
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A
By PRESTON GROVER
WASHINGTON -Th ree
hundred years cover al-
most the entire hijstory of this
country and that same span of
time has seen the marshy little
village of Jamestown. Va., rise,
flourish,., burn, decline and finally
surrender to grass and'shrubs, ex-
cept for a few,.jutting piles of
brick.
• Recently 1 visited the place be-
cause the State of Virginia and the
Department of the Interior are
slowly digging it out again.
It is a strange sight. To outward
appearances it is almost as barren
as- when in 1607 Captain John
Smith settled his little colony on
the nubbin of land that sticks out
* into the James river a few miles
-J fypm where it pours into the Ches-
apeake.
But painstaking" archeologists
nre carefully sweeping off the sur-y
lace to get down to the history
buried under black marsh earfi.
'^Sweeping is .the true • word, nor
whiskbrboms and spbons are the
tools of the modern (}ay arche-
ologist, instead of 6pades.> although
the latter are used to skim off the
top earth. /
Only a few miles away several
/million dollars of/Rockefeller
v, money have been spent to restore
historic Williamsburg, which be-
came the/ seat oy government of
Virginia when Jamestown burned
just before the years turned. to
17,00, Williamsburg is a going city,-
although it ssmells more of hwlo^y
than of qpmmerce.
a. Of Jamestown there is nothing
but history, buried one to five feet
down.j-
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H oum's On Houses
MUCH of the site is markod off
in 10 foot squares by aeries
1 of pegs which act as markers
in
praUing the locatioi. of
found, such as n pottery fra«
a Coin, or an old wine bottle.
Already the foundations of sev-
eral houses have' been partially
uncovered'. .One foundation had
been the basis of three successive
houses, eac-h adding a bit of roek
on top of the last. When the dig-
ging began, grass' and brush hod
grown over eve^- t&eTast ono. -„
A ditch which the earliest^set-
tlers-dug.along one side of the vil-
lage hacl hem completely filled in
by chitting/earth but its location
was: discovered ross-tronches
which showed clearly the contrast
between the black earth which
filled it in, and the red soil in
^'which/it originally was du|{.
A/ {ew gra,ves survive, some
masked, others not. The brick
t/wer of the old church rears up
/fim.png the brush and trees, some
of which have sprouted and grown
old since the site was abandoned.
Old Friends, Old Wiue
ONLY this past week the ex- .
plorers have-uncovered about n
75 feet of a brick pathway. From
what it starteS and where it leads
remains concealed under the mud,
10 inches deep. A hundred years
of plowing over the site Upended
some of iije bricks long after the
pathway had been forgotten.
In all the digging so far. noth-
ing has been found1 to compare
with 'the novelty' discovered at
Williamsburg. In an old we 1.1
Which had been filled in with the
passage of years, a bottle of wine
was found where it had been hung
by some WiHiamiburgef possibly
long before the Revolution. The
bottle was shaped like an inverted
mushroom, a type madie by 1,7th
century Colonists.
The wine, assayed by a chemist,
proved djtinkable. I couldn't find
-whether anybody had tasted it.
Mr. said Mrs. Bland
To Have Wedding
Anniversary Tues.
Ml*, and- Mrs. .Tosh Bland. I(II2
Cherry ' street,' will oe.lehyate. Jiieir
Itolden anniversary > SeptembOr 5.;
T(C}th a family reunion ai their'Home,
Both were born and reared in Or-
ange county. Mrs. Bland, the f. •rinei'-
Kiien Woik;s. dtiuulitiir i>f Mr. a.ud
Mrs. Jacob VT'alje.s, Mr. Bland, who
was th? youngest-, son 'of Mr\ and
Mrs. t'ayton Bland,the onljf
vlvo'r of Li - .Bl.iiid ciiiUiren. The
•late KliSiV Bland of <Iranne "wjio p(is«
efl away In June was the la^tHo.- R«.-
Mr. and Mrs.' lUnnd were, fuarrtid
Se.pl. r>, Lsss. Tti(.y spoilt. Iheti'
flwit yejirs tosetlier farming- th«ri
later.^'lt was tin-, ugh Josh Bland's
eftoVftfi, that the oil fiohi -iyiis develop-
ed ii; Orangefleld. The Uto Bravo
well/ .brouttlit. in fjh t«ff- proper, v
about 1913 was the fljiit prodiKW
It/ that territory.
There were nine children dorhajd
from the union. Including::' -- tS. fv
ISlvrvn llreaxeale. ft. i ouU: O.' S*.
Bland. Orangofjeid,: Waijes Bhvnd.
Itounia. L«.: Fannie Bland H> t'bUek,
docetiHod: Jeff '15. Bland, Oifanfee-
field; t'ari Bln,ttd, ,B1 Campo, Texas:
Corn Mfte Carr, Kansas City: Trae.v
Bland of the home and Charles C.
Bland. St. Louis. There are 30
living grand cuiJdren. ifnd four areat
grand children. * ;
A faioily reunion will lie held at
the W>we and dinner served to the
irutfredlaio "menihers of the family.
All relatives and friends arc invUc-d
to call (luring the. day. v
Or HONOR
TO MICIITING
The litegree of Honor will hold Mo-
niurlai services 1,srt<|ny night al the
W, t). W. hall. The nerviees are t,
begin at 8 o'clock and all uteiwhers
are requested to tie jiresent at
Mme.
that
HO .Hit; AT MLX < U B
TO MiBIOT IN WI'-ST OR.VNtilC
The AVest ! Orange lilome Demon-
stration. club will meet Frlduy after-
nixiii at the home of Mrs. ,T. K.
ijlttmnuti's with Mrs. ■ D. ■ ( Foreman.
lU'esitleot, in charge of the lousiness
suhkIoii. The meeting will begin at
:C o'clock' and all memlsirs of the
club are urgently rerttots,ted f< be in
attendance at that time. /
WOiLlffiHR
SMOKES
Faster, ftrtmt; Afacrttr
WITH 'CRIMP CUT^PRINCE ALBERT-
THElMflKINrTDBflCCO THAT5 GUARANTEED
vLM munmunm
Prince Albert
THE NATIONAL
JOY SMOKt
JIKTHOniST <;LKAK 'VHS , TO
MKKT ON SRPTRMBfih. 15
The Cleaners f the First Metlio-
dist church will'' meet Thursday. Sep-
tember is. at the country home of
\ Mrs. K. 1 \V. Stephenson. This or-
^anissation. . which has licen dlshand.-
ed'durlhf; the summer nioritlis, will
resume nativities;.at that tune,. The
session will open at 3: HtV r'/cloclt find
nil merVlhers are urged to .lie in at-
tendance at that time.
Oim.IStlAN LAUIKN 8I5WTNO
OWB M*ai3TS XVKDNJCSIJAY
Members of the! rhristliin \Lfidies'
Re.winK eibii?. j L./lhn. First Christian
church held tlip >' sv^lily meting on
Wfiilnewliv.v afterncwirf «t. 2 (j'welc at
the honVe .of Mrs. A. J. Sehnitstel
with foijr members in attendance.
During tile sewing period, work was
continued on llo,«)«.,,J .l3ti?Ies for the
bezaar which they sponsor. The
noxt meeting will lie held at the us-
ual time .Wednesday afternoon .at
the home of Mrs. Schnitzel-
a. b. c. BniixiK. c i-rn .,
IIOLD6 WEEKI.V, MKKTINO
Mr«. Claude' Anderson"" was hostess
to members of the A. B. ('. Brliliie
club AVednesdny" afternoon -a't
, Southwestern Greyhound Lines
Bus Station—505 Green Ave.—Phone 252
Open 24 Hours
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Busses
EAST
2:59 A. M.
A.
4:55
9:34
11:14
1:55
4:50
6:45
8:10
8:55
11:14
A.
A.
P.
P.
P.
P.
P.
P.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M..
M.
M.
Leave Orange
WEST
2:15 A. M.
6:23 A. M.
9:05 A. M.
11:00 A. M.
11:43 A. M.
1:50 P. M.
,i£4;00 P. M.
4:43 R M.
7:50 P. M.
11:20 P. M.
Port Arthur Division
Busses heave at 11:10 A.M., 4:45 P.M., 8 P.M.
Arrive From Pt. Arthur at 0:45 A.M., 1:55 and 8 P.M.
BUS 3TATION TAXI- PHONE 252
cnCffMps Aa4i\
WE PREFER DWIN
Mw Mm k* p
to l ji *l>) wtlh outhortty. H. ha
.kmmS lnMd kUl*rm tnm which to
indw kk Do as iKe dot
cho«M DWIN to hill inMcto In year hoaM.
Il t< m!«A -u- 1 m_w I _
i d eultMim from coast to coast
< «M<1 j W. IMPWW lA>OtAT<
g 1-1 rmlAml^rn
. tJiH.ua WWIIURI
THI'ItSDAV-- •'■'.
'The i lrcles of the Woman's Ml*-/
slonary society of <he Flrnt Baptist
church meeting at the following
homes: Circle Onff with Mrs. E. E.
McFarlojid nt 9:.'l n. ii) :^Clrcle T«',:
with Mr*. Ola Smith at 3 p. m-; Cir-
cle Thcee with Mr*. IS. A. Ktolmrt
p. n>.; Circle'Four with Mrs, ir.
Beasley at '.I a in.: i Mrele Flvi> with
Mrs. "A. 12. Fuller n,t 3:30 p. m. •
Circle" Sis with Mrs. B. A flunn at
3 p. m. "i«-
The circles of the Womun's ifis-
slonary society of thw MeOonaUi M«-
moHal Bap tint chureh meeting nt
the elmjrch at 9 J*- ni.
The circle* of the V^>nii>n's- MIk
slonary society of the West .Orange.
Baptist cnureh meetlnif at the fol.
lowing; glomes: Circle One n-lth >4rs
W, JS. Itiley; Cicele Twv;. with, Mw
Octavla McKlnney; ' Jean McNeill,v*
Circle with Mrs. Carrol Bishop.
The Worhan'S Missionary society
of the First Christian rhurch meet-
l Inc at the ehuifh at 3 p. m. !
St. 1 Taul's Episcopal Guild meet-
ing at the liottve of Mra. A, O. Fleig
at 3 p. vn.
FHUJAY-—
1 )<>Kree of Honor meeting nt lotlge
hall nt S p. tit.
West Orange ' Homo Itemonstration
club meeting at . the home of ..Mrs.
.1, F. Ifiiiuiunrs at 3 p. m.
SAIUUlliAY- ■ V.. ■ .
.Itiv.enAle- Woodman meeting at W
O; W hall at 1:00 p. tn.
• iiiihi i^i¥i y iT'^t r
o'clock at heKJtamn an Border street.
Two tables of players enj yed the
Sanies with Sirs. Charles Taylor -ivln-
nlng hiifili .tMiortf i>nOi Mr,*«. Cleo Brbl-
fte* wi mi lug aecoml A' 'be
clone of the Riwaea. i^iiwiiMf of,
punch and aandwiohes were served
to the following:
Mesdnrtws B. A. Vander Sttifken.
Howard MarkwHh, Charles Tnylor,
Cieo/BridBCH, Kffie Sullivan/ Murphy
<Vnthouy Bttawmont, Sol Bavin
and the hoateas.
The no*t nuieting will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
at the homo .of Mrs. B. A. Vnndcr
Sun ken in West Orange. - V"
U MttH WQODMION
TO .HE«T 8AMHW)Ar
Memliers of^E^e ^Btveftle Woodmen'
will meet Satunla.v aCte'rnwn at the
W.J O. W. hajKwIth Mrs, Sadie Ha-
der, j ii venule supervisor, In charge.
The time of meeting Is 1:30 o'clock
and all members are urged to be
present.
PERSONALS
j Miss Jo Evelyn Weothorford re-
turned this ny.Tnlng from a five day
visit In Vldor WUh her uncle and
aunt. Air. "ivisd Mrs. Crnce Star.k-
. ■ ■
Mrs. Helen Burge has returned to
her i)ome here from n visit with Mr.
and Mrs.1?J,fi"'"B. Fuller in New Or-
leans.' La.
Mrs. E. B. McKngue and little sOn
T.ee r( Port Arthur have returned
to .their home there after a visit In
Orange with her parents, M,r. and
Mrs. .T. W- BurdlOre.
Frank Huboft and forty members
of ibe Iiiitch ^tari't'A boys' Ixind went
to Camp Bill Stark Tuesday night to
play, for the blsh school footlmII
team In training there.
Mr. and Mrs. i,. A. Weaver, who
aoeomiHtnled the good-wtlli grrup as
t'ar an Lafayette..Tucnilny aifd went
on to illpunia for- a short, visit,'; have
returned to their home here.
Miss Arthur .Tean .ToHitMon. of xilfcin
Scaly College for Nursing in .C.iOveR.
ton is visiting here witli her sis-
ter. Mrs. i\cchle Vi'.«averK'
Eugene TlUghes loft yesterday ft r
Fort. Worth where he Is to he eni-
pioytHl by the Burlna FcimI com-
pany. •
/ , '
1>. A. Jl^utnr I" vMUn . for a
few days in Li! erty, as the guest of
William Cartlow.
Mrs- Murphy Anthony of Beau-;
mont is visiting hpre with her sis-j
ter, Mrs. Claude Anderson for a few
days. >v,\, ^ ;■
Mrs'. Carl Kaerfort. Mrs- Haydon
McDonald, Mrs. Stuart riclHendennei
and daughter Nina of Bayf t'it.V, ft ltd
Mrs. James B. Sterling of Dayton,'
spent Wednesday here as the guests
of' Mfflx ' Alma Belle Jiodd.
Mr#, F. M- Tayl. r hos returned te
her home in ,the T.iitie CvKress com-
munity a^ter a visit with her aa^d ,
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. 6. Walker*
, f Jauauln. T.e?as. She was accotn-
panlod on her return trJp by her
mother whb will make a short visit
here. i
Mrs. David Votte and luf«u t aon
were r(ttit>v#(l from 'the Frances Ann
r.utoher hoanltal to their home In
«ed. La., to«W I" A" Ortmeyer ant
balance.
—
Mr*.. L. H- Wright wsa trnneferi'wl
fromhtlie FrMicea Ann Lutehor hoe
pltal t. her hotne In Bajter Mill Ad-
dition in n Wheeler ambulance.
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Hollywood Sights
And Sounds
WlNN.KSIK 'KM me H
DKN V.I5H .laok Ximmitn, gio
c«r, complained m<iny ft;lt|,5l« "btin
n«d .lllm oil il rceent vi«lt t,. i*,.ron
Colo., vRhete he qnee ran a store.
Puaxled, he recalled former Akron
customore owed him $Sf>0(>; So"h"
advertieeti ail account* <* • « ear
celled.
"Then everybody, Was happy," he
said. "E?erjrtaody is' my friend o-
latni" ; ,
By KOBBIN COONS ]
IIOLLyWOOD-r- You'v. heurd
* * about Golf Widow and 3ridge
Widowej*. Meet the Magic Wid-
ows.
Th y abound in Hollywood.
Each is (he victim of circumstance.
She married a man who melius
something definite when he says
"How's tricks?" He means just
that: how's tricks? He means have
you any new mysteries, any new
gadgets, any new legerdemain in
stock?
It was Chester Morris who told
■me about this hapless sisterhood.
He told me about, it between tricks
out at his Beverly Hills shanty,
beside the swimnping pool.
It seems Chester's missus is one
of the foremost sufferers. She
bear^up patiently, however.JProb-
ably because she knew, when she
married Chester, that he Was nuts
abom Magic. He has been, pyer
since he was 14.
The magicians of Hollywood
meet regularly. One organization
—Los Magicos—includes in its se-
lect membership such movie
■Jlfimes as Harold Lloyd, Bert Kal-
mar, the song-writer Max Terhune
and Morris, besides a number of
doctors, lawyers and professional
magicians. Magic is not a vice
peculiar to movie actors. ,.'x
Well, the magicians have meet-
ings and their wives go along^.
IT MUST be fun for the wives. As
A Sue Morris said; to Chet: "I dda't
mind watching the tricks, dearybut
when you ail start talking. a'bout
Bridge Loads and Gimmicks and
Threads it drives me- crazy!"
(Those are terms of the trade.) * • "
And Mildred Lfoyd, ,Chet susr,
pHcts, is anothje/victim. "But Hfir-
old." he says generously, "is not
ag annoying as I am. He goes in
forniental elTectit—a mind-reading
stunt he's been developing for
three years.
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AND Chet can't see much hope
for the Magic Widows. They
can't even take upf'MagicStt self-
defense. They can never get ,re-
venge in kind. "The male of the
species," said Chet, "is more dead-x
iy in Magic than the female. Wo-
men hawno gift for It."
Like all devotees, Chet keep
-up^on the hew stunts, makes'up
-new gadgets ffom blueprints, reads
magic magazines, thinks it un-
ethical to divulge trade secrets. In
his workshop nOw is a monstrous
device like a guillotine. The victim
is to be clamped in tightly and
the magician, nice guy, is to drive
long spikes through his neck and
wrists—the victim's, not his own.
"This," said Chet, looking specu-
latively at my neck, "is going to be
fun when I finish it. I'm sorry it's,
not finished today."
The hplloW laugh was mine.
/V- 4 m sm # •
WNASITl
THOUSANDS FROM MALARIA
S<ien<«'s ureat Hcmedy
Prouil «« Cure
' In' Nash's C. ft 1,.' Tonic h< *cl-
ence's greyt remedy tlmt' K1I.1/S ma-
laria and IlKsliAiiiH-'iftyii. Nanh's
* I.. TonlK'«l«i)rt tlie'mMem' atiuek-
lug constlpiitlon nn(i attemlayt bil-
iousness, Mhus prep'trfnK yo|t 'to ir<'t
uurk A'W' pep and eiicruy 1 I'nr "<iuii<k
er.
As every one Uiiowa, ft «ttit of. "lu
floutl)«rir people have ;nwtlii.*in, <*uYt>
stipojkm or hlllouMiifrS^'WiHl blo y t■ I
terrttjly tried, sleepl^ssi ; n&i'VOtif". diK-
jijr, htwe noKKluK )w'he;« • and „jiiilivs
can hardly get up In the mornlna.
And, for these ailments t-hottAtirid;*
,ef Southern" people k-N't W bow
Nash's C: & I..' T>>nlc mtlckiy taltes
hold to—rid their systetn of malaria
and get them right buck to tcellhg
healthy.
\ MERICA'S GREAT
OrARAXTEKB MEDIC INFO
For you who may Hove tried many
mcdli liiea., without help. Mr. Nash.
ivlm ni'ikejs, A 1>. Topic.
Sayst; "fake Na«b> 4-I Tonic one
' wi*lt,. < if Vim 'ti.ii't fo.-l wopids toet*
iter, return thO bottle to your drug-
jjtiiit (ind "lit givo J"*rtT-4^ti( k every
I J .Jjt:', of J'OtlJ' H)OIM\V."
Toflay do as thousands of South-
ern folks have d«iH'. ,<!o to your
ilriiR#l.«it. t.Jvt a boi.tb- of Nash'a -C.
Jfr I. *rohlc. -it t'Ottt" only 50c und
f remember, it is ab olutuiy B"aran-
't'eed. V" .
Fur «aie in .'t\ra.n«r« by C.oree Drug
f'o. Atid bv nil dtiier good drug
stored. 'S-j-i".'v
edward g.r0bins0n
i am the law
ith BARBARA O'NE I. JOHN BFAL
WENDY ilARh'ifc: OTTO KRUGER
O tod by ALEXANDER HALL
A COLUfVIBIA PICTURE
ii HIAIUAIIUN ti 1 •• H A N M RO EOER
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Man About
MANHATTAN
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By GEORGE TUCKER
EW YORK-On the night of th^
John Warde tragedy I was
having dinnfer with Commander
Baylis of /He Coast Guard. All
through dinner reports on the at--
tempted t-escue were communicat-
ed to' ithe. Commander by tele-
phone. At this time the melan-
choly young man had been crouch-
ing on a hotel ledge for nearly 10
hours, threatening to jump. Thir-
ty-five thousand people milled un-
derneath him in the street. Tht
polite were desperately trying to
devise some meaiis of frustrating
this attempt. ;
Suddenly Commander Baylli
leaped up. "They ought to get a
cargo net," he said. "He couldn't
let away from a cargo net."-He
lurried to the telephone and in-
structed his men where uuoh a net
was to be found. Th&n he came
back, and we talked, about Warde
and-about a hundred other things,
[ guess, from rescue work in-one
Arctic to tropic cruises, ij) '
About 10:15 I said g|6dnight
and walked out into the street. All
day people had been saying, "Let's
lo down and have a look at that
fellow on the ledge.'' But I hadn'l
gone. I didn't thmk he would jump
anyway, not after waiting that
long.
• • •
I>UT before I knew it some force
« was dragging my steps toward
the hotel. I took out my police
card^nd stuck it into the band of
my hat, so the police would let mo.
through the lines.
And there he Was, a tiny object
on a far" ledge, 17 stories above the
sidewalk. He was Smoking a
cigarette. Suddenly his cigarette
described an arc as a cigarette does
when it is flipped in the dark. 1 h
been standing there less than
ft
tw'o
minutes when he jumped, ytic
i aidn^
eii. J
iat
like a plummet, so
arc saying now that he
ly jump, that h<
what aoes it m
he fell,
liter
Jump
K
all.
nov
' rea
/or fall,
He fell
Swiftly that
you hardly followed him. until h«
struck the marquee. But after that
it was as if he moved in slow mo-
tion, as if it }.ook him five minutes
to fall the 20 feet from the marquee
to the street.
Meanwhile from windows above
the .fatal ledge hung long topes,
lots' ropes to which Was at-
_ ched a great empty net. It was
' the cargo net, the one recommend,
ed by Commander Baylis.
/^HBCK-UP and comment:
^ Maney is writing
Dusk
■■ ing ,a pl«c* qnV
Billy Rose for the Saturday Evc-
a Clair
ning Post;,
cuJ. ««;ti ,
. „ . . Where is lna Claire?
She s atill nt Belgrade Lakes, Me.,
and won't leave until she goes to
Cape Cod for a summer stock en-
gagement, some weeks hence.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
, At. tin9. tnis/j/vstioH of Buj/etne
■ f-Fert/uson, a prominent member'
of tho OQi/crnvr'n Oivie C'owwntt-
tee, Law Profexsor John lAiUi-
atiy gives uji his contemplated
trip iihrmud with his wife Jerry
and. decides to devote his Sab-
batical leave from the «)iio<s>'-
s\ty to stain pin;/ out the wave,
o/ ravkateeving that is swoepiny
the city, Ferguson, who is ae
twilly head of the• racketeers,
considers Jmlm the meet harm-
less special prosecutor possible.
Paul Ferguson* John's favorite
lnw graduate, is unaware of his
fnfh&r's crookedness, and'wbvn
John discovers the -elder Fc.iy
uu.ton's yuilt the books Af
the ^lptne Insurance Company,
ho hides the from Piml.'No
racket ■victim mill testify for
fear of his life and tjte lives of
hit family until Jerri) mersuades
Mrs. Sutler, wife/Of oiie df the
silent toitneABi
band must talk. Butler, en rolUe
to Jotvn's office, is SI
John, reaHzinp that his offla
is Stafford ttiif/i fltool pigeon. _
fires everyone bllt Paul, The
City/Council, impatient 'at thi
i staffed
res ever
ity- Voun
.lack' of indictments, asks for
jQtun'a resignation, but John pre-
pares to carry on as a private
citizen. The district attorney **•/
thuslasticalty offers police,
John recruits a law staffy,
his former honor students. When
tho widowed Mrs. Butler is' fob
lowed to John's office/— now
in his home — John lectures oh
"homdlum psychology" by beat-
in£ up three thug's who trailed
.frer. The attempts of Eddie Oir-
tffU, Ferguson'M gunman, to mur-
der John, ifi iiccidentally thioart-
do and Qirard is arrested-.-John -jfi..
knows his office iviro is tapped,
hence/when Girard is "sprung''
frorjt Jail the-prosecutor mentions
oyrtr the phone that Qirard is
oing to squeal. The gunman i«
immodtHelii killed by his own
gang. Kackcteerijtg reaches hor-
rifying" proportions, and John
'decides on a rash move He
starts the greatest round-up in
the city's history and dumps
every known criminal in touin
into his own home for question-
ing, Ferguson's gang start* feel-
ing the hoat. Kitchell, a hench-
throws up Paul's legal af-
filiation io~ Ferguson, and JTer-
ut(son socks him. Kitchell phone*
Paul in the protence of Frankie
Ballou, Ferguson'* girl friend.
"When Paul arrive*, Kitchell I*
dead. Paul answer* the phone
and hen** M* father<• voice.
HOW CO ON WITH THK STORY
Chapter Five
Whc . Paul Ferguson heard bis
father's voicu com# owsr the tele-
phono .In Moss- Kitchen's apart-
>limit, thp whole truth burst on
him. Kugino Fergttsott was the
man higher up the power be-
;hind tlio rackets! That's why. John
,,,..Lindsay had reftuied to allow Paul
i t( Inspect the Acme books ~> Paul
would have discovered his father's
'guilt in those records!
' The young man rushed to John
with the news of Kltchell's violent
death and also announced that
;he was going to give the story of
I his father's crookedness to the
John Meets With Suoceaa '!
One witness spoke up, "Tea
ready, Mr. Lindsay." ™ |
immediately the others set up *,
chorus of agreement, and John
gleefully led the men Into the neat
room. One by one the racketssrs
were picked out and labelled by
, the excited witnesses.
Paul dragged a cowering prisoner
over to Jbhn. "This man saysl
there's a plot to kill you before;
the night's over!"
The. man wouldn't talk until left
alone With John.
Then he whined, "It's true. I
didn't wifiit no part of it Ferguson
mado me." .
"No part of icJiat?" John
impatiently.
"Your car's rigged lip « .4
John
bring* Paul Fcrgusoi}. j and the latter1* sweetheart,
Frankie, face to face for a showdown I
ed by Edward <i. Robin*on, Otto Kruger and! Wendy BarrUy, ,
_.. spapers. John vigorously told
aul to mind hts own business and
to lond a hand In cross-examining
the prisoners, which the drag-net
was unloading like so many salmon
at a cannery, Paul, miserable,
agreed.
John then devoted himself to tho
Vltpesseb who had previously re-
tussd to testify against tho racke-
laok into Um
acta.
"Qei
entlemen, I'm glad to sea you
n," the prosecutor tpid the
i-acket victims quietly. "Some time
ago I asked for your cooperation
and didn't get it. You refused to
Maptify the men who ware rob-
bing you. One among you came
to tho front. That man i.t dead.
K .you keep silent Mr, he died
In vain. I swore aver Butler's d«ad
. body that I'd finish this Job. With
your help I can keep that promise,
we know who the head man is
and. how to get him." He pointed
into the adjoining room. "But in
there are the heels who took or-
ders from Mm. One of 'em will try
to step Into his shoes. We've got
to get ail of 'em. The last time
came to aee me, yoa all had
i jock jaw! I'm giving you another
e chance to face a duty
'Walls'got
bomb," Said the prisoner. "Ifs set
to go off the minute you step oh
the starter." '
John regarded hie Ignition key
thoughtfully, then shove-d th*
racketeer hi
room.
In a little wMle, Frankie BaHoe
entered under police eaoa$V lUKt
shortly afterwards Sugnne
gtison was brought in. John 1
ly Introduced them to ««
and added that Frankie
murderer of Mose Kitchell.
"Kitchell committed.
Frankie corrected him.
John reprovingly showed
fingerprints taken from the
gun — identical wifl
Frankie had braxenly
John et theil" first
nervously tors up
paper that bom m*
then John courteously
show movies to
guson.
that 1
the mi
clearly
twesn
m
*
MflSl
V.'/i®
eatry through! ■
— all of *sm. But It's up to vou to
uAy " ' mm '
'em. Are you ready
dead by
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