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» PORT ORFORD, OREGON. POST K a th le e n N o rris Says: His and Her Linens Easy and Effective ‘ff7iere Is God in All This?’ stagbscree S SYNOPSIS £ O I à ft f t (B ell Synd icate— WNU S erv ice.) There was at that a quick and Then she saw Richard swing the Instant stir upon the Venturer. Mat steering oar in a great sweep, and George McAusland was 38 years old Forbes at a word from Richard ran the whaleboat swerved on a pivot to By VIRGINIA VALE When he sailed from America to under (R elea sed by W estern N ew spaper U nion.) take his post as a missionary in the FIJI halfway up the mizzen ratlines and let the whale slide by; and instant Islands. A crim e he had committed in shouted to the men aloft to make ly It darted in again t ill she thought TN “ BILEY THE K ID ,” a fit of excitement had shattered all his confidence in himself. He felt forced to haste with the topgallant sails. Rich the bow would ride up on that huge A Robert Taylor’s new star avoid pretty M ary Doncaster, who board- ard came to the port rail to look oil body just awash. Richard’s great ................. at He ‘ ' She ring vehicle for Metro, there route to visit her parents, who were mis across the leaden sea. Mat Forbes voice was like a trumpet. sionaries on Gilead Island. M ary was spoke quietly to Richard on the deck is one scene in which all of the “ Sock Mm, P ip l" attracted by George's attempts to avoid her. One day George accidentally fell below him. She saw Big Pip, knee braced in characters have to check overboard. M ary unhesitatingly dove into “ Sharks at him, Cap’n Corr.” the clumsy cleat, the heavy harpoon their six shooters with the the sea to rescue George, who falls in Richard nodded. love with her. When the boat approached poised, drive it in and down; and sheriff before attending a her home on Gilead Island, they learned “ AU rig h t Clear boats and stand instantly, before the boat veered that M ary's parents had both died. off again, he sank the second iron. mass meeting. Each morn George volunteered to take charge of by to low er." the mission and asked M ary to be his Feet moved along the deck to Big Pip swept the loose coils of the ing on the set, the assistant wife. She accepted his clumsy proposal, and they left the ship to live in her for obey. Mat Forbes, descending to box warp overboard. He and Rich director takes up a collection from m er home on the island. The scanty ard changed places, scrambling all the extras and bit players. He dress of the natives shocked George at the deck, said quietly: first, but he soon became reconciled to “ Whale’s moving this way, sir.” over the oarsmen, who bent low “ frisks” them—not of their guns, their customs. M ary discovered that Richard looked at the weather to over the thwarts to let them pass. but of their wrist watches. Corkran. a sailor friend of George's, had By the time Richard was in the bow Here’s the reason. The other day come there to help George and M ary if the westward. they needed him. Their peaceful life and Big Pip at the steering oar, Robert Taylor was playing a scene He watched the work, watching was interrupted one day when a ship in the back room of a saloon. Also stopped in the harbor in search of the Venturer come to and fa ll off the whale saw the boat riding there, pearls They see the pearl divers at and lunged toward them; and the in the scene were Gene Lockhart, tacked and their schooner sunk by a lazily. as the bad man, Lon Chaney Jr., irate ship. The pirates head their boat The whale drew nearer; and even men swung hard on the oars, and »ward the bay near their village. George Big Pip dodged out of the whale’s Norman W illis, Grant Withers and sends M ary inland for safety and walks from the decks they could see now path and in again. M ary saw Rich several western type extras. With down to the beach alone and defense his efforts to beat off his attackers less. Natives carry him back to M ary ard drive home the lance, deep into hand on the door about to exit, Tay hours later, shot through the shoulder. He surged to and fro, flukes now and lor spoke his line—“ What time is Natives killed the pirates that night and then rising ponderously: and as the that black side. set their boat afire. The long-awaited M ary saw only a smother of con it? ” whaler, the Venturer, arrived. M ary was fight came steadily nearer them, Lockhart was about to make the told that its oaptain had died, and that they could hear the thrash of the fusion, action too swift to follow; but his sons, Richard and Peter Corr, were the men on the Venturer and in Mat reply called for by the script when now in charge as captain and first mate. flukes, the sigh of the spout, the Director David M iller called “ Cut!” She liked Richard, but was told bv Peter broken water when he drove this Forbes’ boat, watching more wisely, “God,” said the lovely mother of a houseful of sons to me, on the church that he publicly laughed at her affection. knowing without seeing what went One of the bearded extras had for steps way and th a t Peter, standing with last Sunday, “could stop all this overnight. WHY DOESN'T HE?” George was a sick man when the Ven turer arrived. George agreed to leave George and M ary although his men on in that fury of torn water, saw gotten where he was and automati cally pulled back his cuff to look at the island when he saw that the epidemic that Richard was as wild with the By KATHLEEN NORRIS among the natives was caused by his were ready by his boat yonder, heat of battle now as was the whale. his very modern wrist watch. consumptive condition. A native gave moved restlessly. LIVING HATE M a ry a small bag of pearls as a fare OMEN by the hundred For after a desperate minute or “ There's something wrong with Wars are so obviously wrong. well present. The attitude of the crew “ Gone W ith the Wind” started write to me pathetic This one will end, with both sides toward Peter bothered M ary, so she de him ,” he muttered, "o r he’d have two of this in-and-out fighting, he cided to find out if he was really re closed with his antagonist. Under Ona Munson on a career of what and bewildered letters retiring to lick their wounds, bury sponsible for the death of a seaman who driven them off by now. Might be she’s afraid w ill de had been killed while whaling. he’s hurt or sick or something. May his strong commands, the men about the fearful wars their that dead and begin to rebuild. velop into type cast be he'3 got an iron in him.” He hauled in on the line t ill the boat And Kathleen Norris wants to put ing, the bugaboo of are rocking the world today. CHAPTER X—Continued licked his lipa in a nervous tremor. was close against the whale’s side. an end to all this. Read her sane, actors. She did Most of them are praying - Il- Richard said just behind them: Richard reached fa r over the bow American plan for peace. “ Belle Watling” in Richard said grim ly: “ I ’ve no "Weather coming, Peter; but we’U to grip the line and draw the boat women, and they have been “ Gone — etc.” and further forward along the whale’s ticed a lot of trouble made, more then played another praying a long time for peace; years. Our m arital, property, busi body, and while close alongside, than once, by trying to be responsi “ shady lady” in the some of them, like myself, ness laws are sim ilar; in our home Richard drove the lance deep and ble for other people’s business.” picture ‘ ‘ W agons have been for twenty years towns are the same books and rugs, deep again, searching for that huge “ Do you seriously mean to bribe W e s tw a rd .” Now members of peace organiza the big chair for Daddy, the com reservoir in which the whale stores your men to obedience by turning she’s set for the fortable low rocker for mother, the fresh blood for his long stays under them loose like wolves on these help same sort of part in tions. Their faith has been cribs and play-pens, the delicates water and which whalemen call the less girls?” George’s eyes were hot. heavily tried during the last “ Lady From New sen store at the comer, the kinder “ life.” “ Playing on their weaknesses, just Ona Munson Orleans,” a story eighteen months; they feel gartens and libraries and concerts, The whale could not bite them, as you played on my weakness at laid in the period of that their fervent and inces and the ringing of church bells. ’ nor could its flukes strike the boat. Gilead, told me I was killing the But if it rolled toward them, they the Louisiana Purchase. It's a re sant prayers are unheard. These people who are killin g each islanders in order to make me come lie f to her to do those “ Big Town” must be crushed under its body and other have everything in common. away.” “Where is God in all this hor broadcasts with Edward G. Robinson. le ft helpless in the water. Big Pip even have in common the hal Richard said after a moment qui ror?” they ask. “Why doesn’t They -----* ---- bawled; lucination that a greater nation has etly: “ Maybe I was wrong. Maybe Naturally, everything possible is God help us?” the right to oppress a weaker one, to “ Ware roll, Cap’n !” I ’d best have let you stay.” He hesi enrich herself infinitely at that weak tated, said at last curtly: "M r. Mc Richard, braced and firm, as going to be done to put Shirley Tem “God,” said the lovely moth ple back at the top one's expense. Or perhaps I Ausland, do as you like; but I ’ll much a part of the boat as though he er of a houseful of sons to me, er of the star list when j should say that some of them are have to run the ship my way.” were nailed to it, drove his lance she goes to work for | on the church steps last Sun only outgrowing that hallucination a He turned away. Peter had joined again. Tommy screamed; Metro. The wealthy day, “could stop all this over little faster than the others. them in time to hear the last word. “ There he ro lls!” little miss (she has “ Dick takes his job too hard. He’s night. WHY DOESN’T HE?” But the whale rolled away from Discuss Terms for Peace. more than a million all blown up with i t ! ” the boat, not toward it; and in so Personally, I don’t see how apy I f I had the power today I would in the bank) w ill ap Mary ignored him, urged: “ Per doing, its under parts were for a mo thinking woman can ask this. As ask each warring nation throughout pear in the screen haps Richard’s right, George. And ment exposed. well scratch a match, apply it to the world: “ What are your terms version of "Panama even if he isn’t, he must do as he The whale rolled over and over in curtains you have already soaked for peace?” I would have a ll the H attie," a success thinks wisest. Come down to the a smother away from them; and in gasoline, and then wonder that world know and discuss these terms, ful musical now run- cabin with me.” suddenly its flukes lifted high and the house burns down. To rush adjust them, modify them; concede ning on the New But George declined to do so. ‘T il then it was gone, and the tossed about then screaming, “ Oh, God, this island there, that trade conces York stage, with not shut my eyes,” he said. " I ’m water began to quiet where it had Ann Sothern, Elea, Shirley Temple hear us! Put out this fire !” would sion there. I would have the Presi not a coward.” disappeared. be nothing short of blasphemy. dent’ s opinion, the pope’s opinion, nor Powell, Connie So they stayed on deck that day “ Sounded!" Tommy cried. A Plan Never Tried. the opinions of rulers and kings. I Russell and Red Skelton. Shirley while the work of provisioning the M ary could see the line now snak starts her “ comeback” at a salary A long time ago wise men, good would know at last just what all ship went forward. ing out over the bow of the whale of $2,500 a week. men, agreed that the world should these men are fighting for; just what They could not be ready to de boat, the bow sagging downward "Sock him, Pip!” have a new plan. Enemies should trade advantages were threatened pa rt that afternoon: and the borts and then rising with a je rk as Joe “ The Lady Eve” gives Henry be forgiven; won . by love rather when these great nations went into stayed ashore well into the night. try for him anyway. Ready to low Sassnet kept a strain on the line war. Next morning they made to sea. er?” The Venturer, counter-braced, around the loggerhead, yielding only Fonda an opportunity for which he’s than hate. E v il should no longer This should have been done 18 Mary hoped that once they were still made a little way. He called when he must. Richard in the bow grateful—the rhance to wear his be overcome by evil, but evil should months ago; 18 years ago, before we away George would forget his anger to Mat: “ Back the cro-jack yard, was leaping forward to look straight own clothes on the screen for the be overcome by good. first time in three years, and to at Richard: but he did not, and for M r. Forbes.” Did they ever try this, among the ever heard the names of H itler or down Into pie water, lance in hand days after they left the island, the The men leaped at Mat’s com The bow of Richard’s boat rose have his hair cut. The only other then scattered and weak tribes that Mussolini. This should have been few minutes they all spent together mand. suddenly as the strain upon the line time it's been trimmed during those were the beginnings of the nations done when beaten and crippled Ger at the table were made awkward "D ick, he’s a crooked jaw,” Pe was eased. “ Haul hard!” Big Pip three years was when he got that of Europe? Never. Never once. They many was attempting to struggle to by her husband’s wrathful silence, ter exclaimed. “ He's ugly. He’ll shouted. Sassnet took line hand over prison hair-cut for “ The Grapes of always said just what good and wise her feet as a republic, when we were and by Richard's defensive dignity. be a fighter; and if he busts a boat, hand. Richard spoke over his shoul Wrath.” His roles have called for and Christ-professing men are say all laughing at her, and buying m il The stop for provisions had al the water’s full of sharks.” der, not turning his head, watching straight drama with a minimum of ing today. “ We’ll destroy this one lion m ark notes for five cents. They comedy, and the only time he kissed enemy and trample him into the were playfully called "book marks,” tered not only the humor of the His voice cracked as he spoke, the water under them. a heroine on the screen was in dust. And THEN we’ll all live in do you remember? They should have crew but the very appearance of and Richard looked at him briefly. “ Ready oars!” he said crisply. “ Chad Hanna.” been called marks of starvation, the Venturer. They had taken on “ Mr. Forbes and I w ill Jower,” he Then men poised. Suddenly he cried: peace and harmony forever!” In “ The Lady Eve” he wears 14 marks of ruin, marks of revenge. tremendous quantities of fresh decided then. “ You keep ship, Pe "Starn all! Hard asteml” I f 15 hundred years ago the law different outfits—everything from fruits. A huge cask lashed to the ter.” T ry God’s Way. The oars bent like bows; the boat fu ll dress to silk pajamas—and in of love, brotherhood and forgiveness port ra il was full of green coco Peter cried sharply: “ He’U bump darted backward like a squid. Then had been observed, what would have We know only one thing of this dulges in some bits of torrid love- nuts. Bunches of bananas hung un us, the way he’s headed!” happened? Christian lands would war. I t w ill have to end. One side, for a moment from where Mary der the boat house and wherever The Venturer was almost motion stood on the Venturer's deck, boat making. As for Barbara Stanwyck, have been Invaded by infidels, an the side counting the most ruin and she wears the longest bob ever worn else room could be found. The po less, the whale now close aboard. swer the histories promptly. Well, the most dead, w ill take a certain and men were alike blotted out of tato room where Tommy Hanline Mary had been watching Peter, sick sight, hidden behind a vast black by a star—16 inches; she’s been it is highly possible that bands of amount of ruin and loss when it slept was so full of yams and plan and ashamed at what she saw; but column with a blunt end which rose growing it for the last five years, Asiatics might have penetrated into ends. The other side w ill take slight tains and breadfruit that Tommy had at his word she turned to look and ponderously out of the water, the ever since “ Stella Dallas.” She central and southern Europe, and to crawl over them to reach his saw the whale, close now, rolling white mouth gleaming, the bent jaw wears 25 stuoning costumes, and in attempted to foist their types of ly less. Both w ill retire to lick their wounds, bury their dead, and bunk. blindly on its back to bite; and she opening and closing in a vicious fu dulges in slapstick comedy, in her civilization upon the hardier and begin to rebuild. They’ve done this role of a woman card-shark. Another change took place in the saw the thrashing body of a great tility. more enlightened northern stocks. since the days of Charlemagne; ---- * ----- routine aboard after they left the shark caught in its jaws and cut in That black mass that was the For a generation or two they they’ll continue to follow this pat Horace Heidt has finally escaped Island. George remembered his call two. She cried out in awe and ter whale’s head rose and rose, slow and his reputation as “ the man with the might indeed have influenced them. tern until there slowly seeps into ing, and with the air of one expect ror at the sight. slower t ill it was above the level of trained dog.” Before his orchestra Then the higher law that recognizes hearts of the rulers and war-makers ing a refusal, asked Richard’s per the Venturer’s decks, till Mary h it the national networks and Heidt's love as its root and reason would —not the people, not the men and mission to hold a Sunday morning CHAPTER XI thought it would never stop ascend name became a synonym for scintil have triumphed. The invaders women who die in the wars and service on deck. Richard consent ing. It seemed to poise and hang would have been absorbed, would pay for the wars!—but the rulers ed, and the thing was done. M ary The whale righted itself and came for a moment, and then ponderous lating syncopation, Horace had a and war-makers, that it might be suspected that Corkran was respon quartering toward their bow in a ly toppled forward, parting the wa vaudeville act featuring Lobo, an have been won to the new and m i as well to try God's way. sible for the quiet and respectful sudden rush. Richard leaped for ter like a plow; and she saw the amazing dog. Booking agents al raculous creed. It might be as well to see how Europe Eternally Warring. demeanor of the men when they as ward into the waist as though with boat safe, secure, beyond the flukes. ways thought of Lobo when Heidt’s name was mentioned. But that’s all sembled; but when George began his own hands to fend the creature But it wasn’t the danger of bar long these boasting dictators would Then the whale spouted, and its in the past now, since the smashing to speak, he held them. George, off; and an instant later it shoul- spout now was a thick crimson barian invasion that began to de last, with God against them. How facing an audience, had a spiritual dered against the Venturer’s side, cloud; and Mary saw Richard strike success of his "Pot O’Gold” pro stroy Europe a thousand years ago long injustice and religious intoler and that has been eating at her v i ance could flourish, with All-power authority and dignity that were fine Mary, lo o kii^ down, saw the great a sharp blow at the line with a gram. Overcoming unfortunate breaks tals ever since. I t wasn’t the out ful God opposing them. How quick to see. She realized, while she lis black bulk in the water, and the hatchet, saw its free end disappear. was nothing new to the band-leader. sider. It was the Christians them ly little centers of love and faith tened, that her attitude toward her slender gray shapes of the sharks in She cried, sick with sudden dis husband had always been protec attendance. George clung hard be appointment: “ Oh, he’s let it go!” At the University of California he selves, eternally warring. It was re and brotherhood would spread until was well on his way to football they touched borders, and all His tive; her tenderness a little conde side her, and Peter gasped: “ I t ’s dyin g !" Tommy Hanline told fame as a tackle when he found ligious wars, te rritorial wars, boun world be inundated with the green scending. "Godfrey, Dick! He’ll sink us!” her, proud of Richard. "He always himself on the bottom of a scrim dary wars, fam ily wars; one war for ness and glory of peace and confi 30 years, one for 100 years. It was She told him afterward how proud Richard ran aft toward where his cuts before the flurry unless there’s she was, and Richard also spoke to boat hung. The whale drew off, cir another boat that might get fa st mage pile-up. and was carried off wars of Christians against innocent dence and security. the field with a broken back. Lying Until that day begins let's blame —if unconverted, alien races; it was George gratefully and appreciative cling slowly, liftin g his head as He don't take chances when there’s in the hospital, he decided to or m ilitaristic power, and m ilitaristic men, the Insincere men who say ly. She hoped the constraint be though in an effort to locate the ship no need of it.” ganize an undergraduate orchestra love and live hate, who say for tween them would be forgotten. But for a new attack. Richard called The spout was a fountain of blood to help pay his way through college. abuse, generation after generation. George did not relent at all; and briskly: Was there ever forgiveness, resti giveness and live revenge. I f ever as the whale again began to move, The orchestra gave him conducting matters were still thus tight and tution, apology? Never. Among we really turn to God He w ill not "Lower away, Mr. Forbes! Peter, but there was no long flurry. Too strained in the cabin, on the day get the Brand gun. Sock a bomb into much of the creature’s strength was experience which helped him on his these brothers—and all of the Euro fail us. But until we do let’s at when at last they sighted a whale. him if he comes near the ship already spent. It -urged a little way to the top ranks of radio band pean nations are brothers, and the least refrain from blaming Him for leading. A wnaier may k ill and save in again.” same blood flows in all their veins, what we do. forward, lay still, seemed to turn ---- * — the course of a voyage two or three was not the insolent reply of Cain His boat struck the water with a half on its side, laboriously righted ODDS AND ENDB-W am er Bros, dozen whales; and she may k ill oth smooth precision. The boats were itself. rather than the law of Jesus Christ releases “Christmas Under Fire," an Concealing Dinner Table ers and lose them by sinking or in carried to port, Richard’s farthest “ Fin out!” said Tommy Hanline, other Qumtm Reynolds commentary made the international answer? “ Am In extra large living rooms, made I my brother’s keeper?” a sudden gale. Most of her captures aft, Mat’s forward. and he looked up at Mary with shin short; the first was “London Can Taka Being Schooled In Hate. to serve as a dining room as well. are routine; but now and then a Mary felt young Tommy Hanline ing eyes. Zf” . . . The proceeds go to British unr We are being carefully schooled It Is frequently desirable to have a whale makes trouble. What hap hanging to her arm. his small hands She tried to speak and found her relief; “London" raised 126,400 for the pened to the Venturer today was one tight as a tourniquet Mat’s boat throat dry and constricted. She fund . . . “The Trial of Mary Dugan" in hate for everything German to decorative screen to conceal the din of those extraordinary and isolated hit the water; but Richard had al whispered: "Is it dead? Did Rich has become “The Trial of Mary day, because of one mad German ner table while it is being set or Andrews"—hut it probably u ill be the house-painter who has been raised cleared. Such screens, in three or phenomena which become legends; ready darted away from the Ven ard k ill it?” same old trial . . . Rudy Vallee's spon and it would take its place in whal turer's side, the long oars bending as George, at her tone, looked at her sor bought the rights to Rudy’s new by war and famine, pestilence and four hinged sections, can easily be crime to power. We forget that made at home by applying panels ing lore. the men put Into them every ounce quickly; but Tommy said in high One of the sailors aloft, a New of strength. Mary thought for a mo pride; “ Yes! That was pretty won theme song, " n t Give You a Smile for among the Germans are home-lov of pressed wood over wood frames. a Smile’’ and preiented them to Callee The finished screen can be le ft in Bedford man named Gibbons, called ment the boat would meet the whale derful, wasn't it?” ■> a g if t. . . Gene Autry, of the movies ing, music-loving, law-loving people. down to the after deck: i head on; and she heard a voice "Yes,” she said, not seeing her and radio's “Melody Ranch," will ap We forget that all European civiliza its natural brown color, varnished, "Sparm whale an the port quar- scream a warning, and knew it was husband's eyes. pear in a rodeo act at the Fort Worth tion. our own included, has been fol painted or covered with a decorative lowing one line for hundreds of wall paper. stock show in March. ter, sir, about two miles off." her own. W (TO BE CONTINUED) Pattern No. 2588 tpVERYONE’S favorite, these modem, easy-to-do designs. 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