The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1947, Page 4

7” PAGE FOUR Chapter 7 EAN sat alone in her hotel room, staring gloomily out the high window at the peaks and planes of Manhattan’s artificial skyline as she reviewed Howard Arter’s words for the thousandth time. Earlier that morning, he had called her over to his desk just as she finished the night’s work as early editor. “I can understand how you might overlook an important story like that Times Square murder,” her boss had told her gravely. “You were busy, I know —and Dawson should have made sure that you knew about it.” He had added, with more emphasis, “But you’ve got to accustom yourself to keeping an eye on everything that’s happening; that’s your principal job. [m counting on you to do just that from now on.” Without a sign of anger or a single threat, Arter had made it perfectly clear that Jean could not afford another mistake like that one. Oppressed by a sense of failure, she sat in her room trying to devise some .way of restoring Arter’s original confidence in her. She had looked from her window for almost two weary, profitless hours when the telephone, ring- ing beside her chair, startled her out of that dark reverie. “Hello, hello,’ said a husky, fast-talking voice with a slight Irish brogue when she picked up the phone. “Is this Jean Saun- ders?” Jean assented, and the voice continued in staccato style: “I’m Bill O'Reilly, the TN re- porter at City Hall. Ran into Harry Hawkins yesterday. Told me all about you! You’re wonder- ing why in thunder I’m calling you. I'll clear that up; used to work with your Dad on the old World. Last time I saw you, you were a bundle of squawks in a baby bed.” “Why, sure,” Jean recalled. “I ought to know you; Dad told me enough about you—all those beats you scored on political sto- ries, and the trouble you made for grafters.” Florida’s | National Guard © | ~ Reaches Quota ST.. AUGUSTINE, Dec.- 3 (FNS).—Florida’s National Guard easily reached its quota of 1,260} enlistments in the two-month re- jutant. general. The state military organization! enrolled 1,397 men during the! period, which is 137 more than the quota set up for Florida by the Natignal Guard Bureau of the Unitéd States in its nation- wide drive known as “Operations 88,888,” which means the enlist- ment of one man per minute. General Lance reported that | tillery Batalion at Tampa was the | leading recruiting organization in| the state on a_ percentage gain basis. The unit swelled its ranks by 317 percent. Buried In Gravel, Saved By Firemen DETROIT.—While using a long | rod to direct the flow | gravel irom a storage bin at an| asphalt company, Ralph Hoard lost his balance and fell into the mixture. The more he struggled to free himself, the deeper he sank. Another worker shut oft the gravel flow, warned Hoard not to move and called for help. He was pulled to safety after fire- men cut a hole in the side of the hopper with acetylene torches so the gravel could run out. He was unhurt but suffering from shock. “Poor” Man Leaves $50,000 DALLAS, Tex.—A_ week be-| fore his death on November 7, Edward M. Harris, 71-year-old armature winder, told fellow- | workers, “I’m too poor to re- tire.’ Since his death, $25,125 has been found in his rubbish- littered three-room shack, where he lived’ alone, and his total} estate is estimated at around | $50,000. In World War 11 the U. S. Of- fice of Education produced 457 } sound films mostly showing trainees how to do various jobs, from installing a propeller shaft to shearing sheep. income from milk | Cash tarm in the United States increased from $985 million in 1932 to $3,- 716 million in 1946. The United States must im- port almost two-thirds of the | guicks?! ‘pr if uses eee ee ee ee of-wet |, | Kiruna By Gene Gleason She could hear O’Reilly’s throaty chuckle. “Ancient history!” he said, dis- missing it with a laugh. “I’m just a foxy Grandpa, now. Travel on my nerve and memory. But say, I’m up in your neighborhood to- day. Thought I'd call you and ask you to have lunch with me.: Lots of things to talk over with you. Think you’d care to take the risk?” ; Jean had heard so much about O’Reilly from her father—his hi- larious practical pokes and his skill as a reporter—that she al- ready regarded him as a personal friend. She accepted the invita- tion readily, despite her gloom over the story she had missed. By the time they were halfway through the lunch—at a fine old German restaurant on 14th street —O’Reilly had learned all about Jean’s feud with Charles Daw- son, and the trouble it had led her into. : “Don’t worry about Dawson,” he advised her. “Concentrate on Saunders; she’s the only one to dig you out of this tangle!” Jean began to question O’Reilly about his work at City Hall, and the conversation swung into a discussion of municipal politics. Jean, who had specialized in city government stories at the Mid- west Star-Journal, prodded Mr. O’Reilly with a barrage of ques- tions.about New York City poli- tics. Surprised by her knowledge, O’Reilly countered with a battery of questions that was almost a full-dress political quiz. “By the Lord Harry!” he said finally, leaning back in his chair and puffing thoughtfully at a cigar. “You know your politics, girl. Ever think about doing any features on it?” “Well,” Jean admitted. “I thought there might be a fair se- ries of stories in a comparison of post-war problems for New York City and a small place like Mid- west. Only I don’t know any of the city officials here, so I doubt that they’d offer me much of the information I'd need.” Bill O’Reilly rolled his cigar to the corner of his mouth with a dexterous shift of his jaws, “Suppose I introduced you around; that help any?” A COUN ee ee eee MANHATTAN EDITOR TRY EDITOR INTERVIEWS EUROPE By JOE W. LEEDOM, Publisher, The Gordon (Nebr.) Journal THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ “It'd be perfect!” Jean agreed at once. But she added dubiously, “I think that would take up a lot of your time—and pont busy enough already. No, I guess... - “Don’t guess,” he contradicted. “Tt’s a deal, You can meet them in, the. mornings and get your sleep afternoons, We'll start with the Mayor. Then the City Council President. Right down the line. Fair enough? “Fair enough — and_ thanks, Bill,” Jean said. “You’re even better than Rad advertised you.” EAN’S next two weeks. were a series of 14-hour days. She met the Mayor and interviewed him at length. Shuttling back and forth from the office to her hotel to City Hall and the big Munici- pal Building by subway, she pre- pared her questions en route and assembled the answers in a km —saay file on the desk in her room. By the end of the second week, she had enough data to be- gin writing. That was no cinch, she discovered. _ After three days of writing, re- vising and editing she put the material together into a_ bright, readable series of six articles. When she showed the articles to Howard Arter, he read them over carefully and finally looked up at her in mild wonderment. “You’ve. handled this with a fine light touch, Jean, But I can’t see how you’d compile all these facts in less than six months ef- fort.” He looked at her intently. “Have you checked and re- checked all of them? Some of the racket crowd might not pleased at your candid comments on their activities.” “T’ve verified every one to the last decimal point,” Jean said. “The facts are as accurate as I ‘know how to make them.” “They sound authentic to me,” Arter conceded. “And I certainly hope they stack up that way, be- cause I’m going to give them the widest possible play—with your by-line on them. If they prove to be as good as I think they are, I suspect you'll be a nationally recognized feature writer before long.” (Te be continued) 6 October 1947 Ever try riding 17 hours on a French train when there was cruiting program that ended re-' NOt another American party on it, when the only French you zently, it was announced by Brig. | know ‘is ‘No Compree?” If you have, you know the feeling of Gen. Mark W. Lance, state ad-|:warmth one has when suddenly one sees Old Glory flying and sees U.S. soldiers on the station platform. Riding from Paris to Frankfurt, Germany, one goes from France into the French sector of Germany and the trains are operated by Frenchmen. But the experience has some compen- sation because we only could buy a ticket from Paris to the bor- der. After vainly trying to tell the train officials and receiving only blank stares, we rode the rest of the way without the ticket. We average American citizens have a right to feel proud 1 Li : , of the way our troops, both soldiers and their officers, have con- Battery € of the 116th Field Ar-| ducted themselves here. Soldiers are neat, well behaved, and face wi COTS OOTLS Dog Of A Pianist Prefers Classics NEW ORLEANS.—(AP).— Butch, a pup half Collie and half Spiiz, makes a stab at playing the piano. Mrs, Frank Froeba, mistress, says: “How does Missie play piano?” He leaps to the stool, faces the keys, places his left paw on the bass, his right paw on the areble, and bang!” When Mrs. Froeba plays “Love's Gld Sweet Song,” Butch lays his head down to the right and beats three notes over and over, in time. “He likes soft music and classics,” Mrs, Froeba says. "STII TOIOS Pepper Favors Price Ceilings WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (FNS). —Senator Claude Pepper, school- ed in the “New Deal”, sees gov- ernmenial regulation and_ regi- mentation as the only answer to high living costs. Pepper proposes a return to the OPA, with a ceiling on both wages and prices. his Seeks Divorce A petition seeking divorce was filed yesterday with Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer by Cecile M. Marquis | against Armand Danjou. Legend says the great Swedish iron deposits were dis- covered when a Lapp dropped his knife and was un- able to pick it up because of the Magnetism in the mountains of “i Circuit ! Danjou | hunter | th realism the fact that they are looked upon as the conquerors. Yet they know —_—_—<—$—$_$$$ $n ? WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1st: Quick - Thinkin oe Pastor Saves Lives CHICAGO. — Beginning the. usual Sunday morning services j in the Second Christian Reform } Church of Roseland, Rev. Wil- | liam Van Rees asked the congre- ; gation to sing “Onward Christian | Soldiers” and file outdoors. They } obeyed and met firemen arriv- | ing to extinguish a fire in the| basement of the church. | Circles Globe: 4 MURPHYSBORO,. I1l.—During his 33-year tour of duty on’a six-mile-daily' mail route,. Leo. nard ‘Williamson, — retiring as postal letter-carrier, claims: lie wore out 200 pairs of shoes and: walked the equivalent. of) six times around the world. ET ied CLASSIFIED ADS Information for BATES FOR REGULAR and BLACKFACE TYPE Advertisements under this head will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of 2c a word for each in- sertion, but the minimum charge for the first 15 words or less is 30c. The rate for binckface type is 3c a word, and the minimum charge for the first 15 words is 45c. the Advertisers PAYMENT ayment for elassified a@ —— is invariably in advanee, regular advertisers with ledger a. counts may heve heir advertise. ments charged. PUBLICATION DEADLINE . To insure publication, copy muet be in The Citizen office before 41 o’clock in the morning on the day of publication. 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The bomb-| Small ers that “worked” on the cities night and day ceaselessly for | years, left little intact in the | areas they bombed. London was} badly hit, but the practice that ocean. Season rent only. Ce-! cil Carbonell, 700 Duval St. | dec3-3t | furnished house. adults only, no pets. Apply 1113; Grinnell St. dec3-1tx | i FOR SALE Hitler started of bombing about] Electric train, smoke and choo- } everything, was paid back with a high rate of interest. Frankfurt, headquarters for the KUCOM, a pre-war industrial city, 1s about half in ruins; other cities more or less. The sys- ; tematic work of allied air forces | left little of military value stand- ing. | Air Corps veterans often tell of | having a bomb or two left at times after passing the major target. This would later be loos- iened at some likely target and every little village almost proves ‘that ihe bombardiers’ aim was ‘perfect. A house or two in ruins , testifies to the accurancy of the crew. i A lot of cleaning-up has been {done and almost all streets are! open to traffic but entire biocks | are in ruins, and it will be after this generation is gone that the damage is repaired. From what! one sees today, there is serious} doubt if it is ever repaired. The attitude of the’ German) : citizen seems philosophical. He ‘knows they lost the war—no doubt of it—an@ he knows that , there is a hard road ahead of him. | He does not like the United States which twice in the present gen- | eration prevented them from win- ning a war. But tley much pre- ter to be under the U.S. than the| British, French or “Russke” as! they call them, The slight ability of the writer | to talk Gerfman has been a great! nelp, so many interesting con-} {| versations have resulted. * But ; more of that later. The present need is for foo@. The U.S. must provide it if it is provided. 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