The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR *™ *-: ‘Chapter 1 ‘THE eastbound Gotham Limited streaked across the rich lake plain of western New -York, its whirling -wheels clicking out a refrain that echoed in Jean Saunders’ imagination as she sat in the observation. car: “You're headed for the greatest « town of all!” the wheels reiter- ated as they sped over the rails. ‘Listening to the rapid meas- ures of their music, Jean looked ‘up half-absently when: a, small, elderly woman, wearing @ black silk ‘dress, black close-fitting bon- net and black high-buttoned shoes, approached her ‘geat and stood hesitantly beside; her. “Is this seat taken?”, she asked timidly. Jean noted that every- thing about her seemed ‘to have emerged from the year 1905 with- out alteration. “No,” Jean answered cordially. The woman, apparently shy, sat down and looked out the window for a few moments without speaking. “What a sweet little creature,” Jean reflected. “Probably the first time she’s been away from home since her wedding trip.” Still silent, the woman opened] % her old-fashioned purse, reached |’ inside, pulled out a cork-tipped cigarette and casually tapped its end on her wrist. She produced an angular modernistic lighter and lit the cigarette with a sin- gc practiced flick of her thumb. ean’s eyes widened involuntarily as her unpredictable neighbor inhaled a deep draught, paused a moment and then exhaled it in a long,, leisurely cloud of smoke ‘that curled against the train window. The little woman turned, look- ing into Jean’s face with a sly, mischievous grin. “You were thinking that the cigarette and the get-up don’t quite jibe,” she said. “I—why, I...” Jean stumbled over the words, “As a matter of fact, they don’t,” the woman said, grinning broadly. “I just dragged these relics out of a theatrical ward- robe trunk last week. Honestly, it hurt me to snatch them dway from the moths!” “N Y NAME’S Deborah St. George,” she introduced herself. “You see, I ran away from a whistle-stop town upstate about forty years ago to elope with an actor. St. George and 1 are still married, and we've got a little repertory company out in Pasadena that’s doing quite nicely.” She took another deep drag and-warmed to her subject. “TI haven't visited .some of relatives since we were eof mp d they were sure that show business was an extra-fare ticket to perdi- tion. But this year, my husband. and our two boys finally per- suaded me to visit friends in Cleveland and then go on to the home town.” . Chapter 2 hy "TH jolting impact of the train | \ crash bowled over a score of bottles and glasses in the ob- servation-club car and brought Bcreams of fright from several women passengers. But the coach | itself, and as many cars forward as Jean could see after recovering from the shock of the collision, remained firmly on the rails. Nor did she see any injuries among the passengers, except for a vis- ible nerve-shock to the more ex- citable ones. Deborah St. George, however, remained unruffiled. “I do hope no one was hurt,” she said to Jean. “But I hope my relatives don’t hear about. this; they’re sure to see it as a judg- ment of Providence against show business.” “I’m glad you're all right,”|! Jean said. “But there’s no way of telling what happened up ahead; Yd better go and take a look.” She held out her hand to Mrs. St. George, smiling. “I hate to leave; | = I’ve enjoyed meeting you so much. I forgot to tell you my name is Jean Saunders. Here’s a|: card with my new address on it— and I'll never forgive you if you don’t look me up when you're in New York.” “Of course I'll look you up,” said Mrs. St: George. “But I won’t be wearing this prehistoric rig.” She shook Jean’s hand vigorously. “Now go on and cover this train wreck—and all the best of luck if I don’t see you on the train again; I’m due to change trains at the next stop.” Turning away regretfully, Jean walked along the car aisle, paused Once to wave goodbye, and con- tinued to move ahead through the aisle, crowded with little groups . of passengers who discussed the collision in a general spirit of sharing a dangerous experience. _._A conductor walked into the car and addressed the passengers at large: “It’s all right, folks; the loco- motive hit a heavy truck, but no coaches have been derailed. Just Stay in your seats and we'll have another train to get you to New York as soon as the track is cleared.” “What’s the matter with this one,” one man inquired skep- tically. “I thought you said it was okay.” Th conductor gave him a with- ering glance. “How far would you travel on square wheels? That skid flat- tened ’em out like a pancake?’ The other passengers laughed as the conductor walked back to a forward coach, Jean following him. She reached him in the pas- Gageway between coaches. ee 2 8 we MANHATTAN EDITOR ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 2 on _ et AP Newsfeatures By Gene Gleason “What a sweet little creature,” ‘Jean reflected. She laughed gaily and: con-| touch for a news story and a way tinued: of spreading the fever to get into “My husband ‘insisted that I] the business. I’ve been aiming give the home folks a pleasant} toward that all my life. I kept surprise. That’s why I have to} my.sights trained on newspaper wear this outfit when I meet] work all through college, and 1 them tomorrow; if I succeed in| felt like I was moving right along convincing them that I’m aj|the road during the three years demure old Daguerreotype from}I worked on the Star-Journal the last century, my husband] in Midwest.” promises to let me trade this} “Quite a jump from central Whistler’s mother costume for a] Ohio to Manhattan!”, Mrs. St. Hattie Carnegie original.” George commented. “In vaude- “But won't the cigarette spoil} ville, that’d be like sailing. non- the picture?” stop from the Gus Sun Circuit “This is my last one till I catch] to the Palace Theater on Broad- that return train to Pasadena,”| way. How’d you do it so quickly?” she said. “But I just couldn’t miss] “Well, I won a few prizes for this chance to play it for a laugh.”| feature writing and someone in She smiled, regarding Jean in-| Transamerican noticed them quiringly. “Mind if I do a little] about a month ago. He wrote me guessing of my own. You're on} a nice letter and I replied. by your way to New York; probably| asking for a job. I thought that for a career as a model or} would be the last of it, but last actress.” week they came through with Jean shook her head. a wonderful offer.” — “No — newspaperwoman, I’m Further conversation was. swal- starting at the New York office} lowed up in a shrill, sustained of ‘Transamerican News _ to-| blast from the locomotive whistle morrow.” that pierced the air like a cry of Mrs. St. George regarded her| animal terror. In another mo- approvingly. ment, the emergency brakes ine—you look smart enough} slammed on tight, locking the to do very well at it. But with] train wheels in an unyielding that golden blonde hair and] grip. peach-bloom complexion. . .”| The long line of streamlined She looked Jean over with the] coaches slid thousands of feet expert, sweeping appraisal of a| along the rails, their locked casting director. “You have the»Wheels pouring a shower of face and figure to be a top-notch] sparks on the roadbed. The noise fashion model, you know.” of tbg skidding wheels screamed “Thanks, but newspaper work] a medley of high-pitched alarm. is all I want. I inherit it from my There was.a solid, bone-jarring Dad, in a way: he.wasea pretty| crash_as the great train slammed fine reporter in New York, before| into a heavy.obstacle, throwing he moved to Ohio to run a paper.| Jean and Mrs, St. George hard I was still in the nursery, Even] against the back of the coach so, I remci:iber that he knew| seat, everybody, he had a fast, sure (To be continued) side, injuring or killing the en- gine crew. OVER the protests of the con- ductor, Jean descended the steps of a coach to the tracks and ran a few hundred feet to where the wrecked locomotive, pouring forth dense clouds of steam. lay on its side like a slain dragon. A dozen men stood along the edge of the track’s stone bailast- ing, looking gloomily at a man’s —>——~ | body, partially covered by a sheet ; of canvas. “The fireman”, one of the watchers told her. “Flames must have driven him tc the vack of the cab. Looks like he feli from the catwalk between the engine and tender.” _ Jean scribbled notes on all the information she could worin out of the taciturn railroaders, but the +jesséntial names and facts were still lacking. She tooked tne crowd of bystanders over carefuiiy, then | located the local police chief tak- ing statements from witnesses She saw, too, that the shapeless , remains of a truck, its cargo of building tiles smashed and scat- =jtered across the isolated grade- crossing, lay in a ditch beside the railroad. |Jean interrupted him. “Are you! thad been topvled over oa. Jean could see the wrecked locomotive. “Don’t walk through the train, ma’am,” he advised her sternly. “The other passengers may get panicky if people start moving around.” “I’m from Transamerican News,” in charge of this train?” | The conductor froze into official | hauteur, “Sorry--you’ll have to get any story out of our New York office. I have nothing to say; company rules.” With the experienced reporter’s habitual indifference to attempted brush-offs, Jean merely waited until the conductor had gone for- ward, then followed at a dis- tance. She moved through several coaches without seeing an injured person; only hundreds of healthy survivors furiously discussing the perils of travel. Encountering a} United States Senator whom she had noticed earlier in the trip, she stopped to interview him. “Why yes, I’m Senator McCall,” he boomed out, nleased at the} prospect of airing his views in| print. “This whole thing is an | | outrage; inexcusable carelessness! When I return to Washington, I shall demand an immediate in- She introduced herself to the chief of police, complimented him subtly on his handling of the ac- cident and soon obtained the names, addresses and eye-witness accounts she needed. Two had been killed, two injured. “Was the truck driver’s helper seriously hurt?” Jean asked. “Can't ig 4 for sure! the ambu- tance took him to the hospital at Mohawk Center before I arrived,” the chief said. The chief took an- other look at her blonde hair and had a burst of gallantry. “Hop in the Lieutenant’s car,” he said. “He’s headed for the hos- pital in a few seconds.” The lieutenant, young, red- headed and vain about his drive ing skill, whirled her along the dusty rural roads at 80 miles per hour. With the facts complete, she borrowed a typewriter at the Mo- hawk Center telegraph office and swiftly wrote her story from ex- tensive notes. wiring it to the Transamerican News office in New York. When she returned by taxi to the scene of the train wreck, the track had been cleared. In the midst of an enveloping stretch of sparsely-settled coun- tryside, she saw no signs of trains or coaches. ; “I coulda told you, Miss,” the vestigation.” Jean took a few notes, king to severa sn rom and) Vit= | m.. | she learned th taxi driver said. “The replace- ment train pulled out ten minutes ago. Next New York train don’t leave Mohawk Center till mid- night,” \~ - (Te be continued). THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, ‘to47 Political Parties’ Hearts in Midlands CARBONDALE, [ll.—(AP).—; Southern Illinois University stu-| dents of economic statistics have | located unofficially the .“popula- tion centers” for the various po-| litical parties in the United: States. | The population center of Dem-| ocrats was fixed as_ in Turkey | Run State Park, in west-central ; Indiana. (SBSBBBBBRRBRB ASS ! | mnt voters of 1944, it wa be around Padua, in western : The study based on 1944 elec, tion returns fixed the “center” of persons affiliated with the, parties to the left, geogr speaking—or near Cape Girar. deau, Mo. The study fixed the 1945 Ug population center near West Lib. erty, in southern Illinois. The of, ficial 1940 center wa snear Cap. lisle, Ind. In 1790 it was a li | east of Baltimore, Md, k During the war, 40,000 mem: bers of the armed services were For the Republican! afflicted with rheumatic fever, _—_———,. 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