Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, May 13, 1939, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON CHAPTER j" er boQth iVM-' She drew the Fv tooth ut. "City f? This is Mary. answer her fck. .dioinlng booth the IALir ulTU HAKir,PD DA It vtmi- -l.iv if, NCA IRVICC. INC. IB ..J i'i188' mber again, oper. C that I"mDV ,,S.,inlanrfe! v. .rrierea. -Sorry. J. get a "don't a at rone tt' & New York. KSSudM. loomed V tombstones in me ''rt eariy night, their 2 ' L.rt bv the P"? X which twinkled S York Morning A. An occasional late woreer MJTfow to save himself KlSkleofthe sleet S3 r'SiVs. tace. Otherwise Fffiadethe Sbusfeofmengn; n the lobby talk P'Vhot up and down .v.(t. Messenger boys stalked ET nj forth, their ruooer kJ , .learning with melting .!?.. lower floors of .Tthe rumbling of EEs. On the 12th floor th.e itersprochthe adunrThefirstdi- II was 8v"s I- -II 41a a4 Wrtll'VA ffnt Give me an uis j - L V: French." Tom Ladd Eekhis head out from the man ic.! editor's office and then drew baCK U5l auuu...y He could do more things at the " . .1 IhhI&. mhn'l U spun plates at a circus side- k. Here was a queci man lijular career, ii was inevuu ;( that he would eventually land ti newspaper, in nis late jus ih something of the hawk in fci handsome face, ne naa Deerr tisapng editor of the Gazette En years. Before that he'd been rditor and before that cable fete. He seldom talked about E early life, but it was known tit he'd gone to Harvard and that M ihinned as a sailor to the foot the year he left college. He'd written for pulps, edited a housewife's magazine (he never mentioned this) and once, when he was broke, composed menus for a physical culture restaurant. He'd also slept on park benches and stood in bread lines. , Now he lived in a bachelor apartment on Lower Fifth avenue, drove a low-slung black roadster, and smoked a pipe. The newspaper game suited his adventurous phil osophy. He interested himself In its functioning. He never tired of listening to the fellows talk on the city desk. He admired their irre sponsible sentimentalism and he condoned their gambling spirit. He liked their good humor, their gen erosity, and their sudden mania for causes. He knew by instinct exactly how to treat them. He had a real tenderness for them. He could smell news. He also had a healthy temper and a strong voice. Good-looking in a dramatic way, he could be hard-boiled one mo ment and Chesterfieldian the next Everybody in the office but him self knew he was in love with Mary, that is everybody except Mary. This evening, returning to his swivel chair, he pressed a tele phone to his ear and mouth with his left hand, okayed copy with his right and shoved a desk drawer shut with his right foot, the while bellowing into the receiver, "What do these fool society girls mean by playing around with veneered hoodlums like Duke Martin? Un- derstand this, Mary! Janice French's family have asked the police to make a secret search for her. Maybe the Duke knows where she is. Maybe he doesn't Somebody knows. Half the town may know, but the Gazette doesn't know. Get the story!" Jamming up the receiver, Ladd began pounding the desk. "Bring me the clips on Janice French, Pete," he yelled to a scurrying of fice boy, "and make it snappy." Then he settled back in his chair. Half an hour later, Lid, still ex citedly puffing his pine, pressed a buzzer marked "City Editor." "Come in, Crossie," he called, as Padraic Croswell, the city edi tor, looked inquiringly through the door. "I want to talk to you about Janice French." Crossie was thin with a long, sallow face, prominent nose, large and bony, and great shaggy, sandy eyebrows. When he first appeared in the editorial rooms of the Ga zette 15 years before, it had been rumored that he was an Irish radical. There were few in the office even now who remembered his coming, but they knew that he (FLAPPER FANNY Bysyii. i .--COW. 1939 BV NCA SERVICE. W& T. M. RCC. U. S. PAT. Off. ' ' t "lotto break our Sunday date because Pm washin' the ill ah am if.ii k iur motners Day. But honest, Chuck, it won't ever happen again." SIDE GLANCES did speak Gaelic and that ha had an amazing knowledge of the stars. Aside from this he had proved himself a good newspaper man, which was all that really mattered. "Janice is still missincr ' miH Crossie briefly, draping his lanky iorm over me eage oi Tom s desk. "That's why I want to talk to you. A grand story here if we can get at the bottom of it. Where's that office boy with those clips?" Pete ducked in, dropped an en velope marked "Janice French" on the desk and sidled out. He'd worked on the Gazette long enough to know when to steer clear of the boss. "Now here's a society girl who's fallen for a killer," continued Tom, forgetting, in his frenzy over the story, the sarcastic remark he was about to fling at Pete. "She's easy to look at. She's rich and she'j out for thrills. A natural for a guy like Martin. Big money to him. But how are we going to prove it? Now she disappears. So what?" He paced nervously up and down. "This story isn't going to keep." Crossie unwound his arms and held out a hand. "Let's have a look at the clips." He began shuf fling through the newspaper ac count of Janice's activities. "De but cost $50,000," he read In a monotone. "She was busy as the devil going to theater parties and known as 'Playgirl of Society. Got a home on Fifth Avenue. Pilots her own plane. Drives like the old Nick, according to the number of times she's been arrested for speeding. Some girl, I'd say." "Too wild," said Tom briefly. "I've run into her occasionally. Darned pretty but reckless. Al ways thought she'd make a good story some time. But that's not helping us now." i He walked to the window and drummed his fingers on the pane. "Some place in this town are all the answers." He stared out over the city. A rosy haze, pink even through the veil of mist, colored the sky. "While you and I stand here, Crossie, anything may be happening and probably is." He began pacing the floor again, puffing furiously on his pipe. "God, man, you stand there like a stick!" He stopped abruptly in front of Crossie. "We've got to act and act quick." Crossie, unmoved, looked amia bly back at his temperamental chief. "There are several courses to pursue in this story,", he said calmly. "I think the best approach lies through your society depart ment. Where js Mary Franklin?" Uhe ohone " buzzed on Tom's desk. "This is Mary Franklin call ing from Rhinelander 4-7254," came Mary's agitated voice before Tom could say "Hello." "A man named Dick Hart has just come into this department. Send the po lice " Her voice stopped sud- denly, terminated by a shriek. Ladd heard the receiver crash to the floor. (To Be Continued) -ill ...a-i .oiira. unpTiitr m m r c . it i . rT.orr. t .r . . ioo much noise when you pass the super--jparunenl he's looking-for. an . excuse, lo FROM DONNA DONNA, May 12 (Special) The Home Economics extension service unit met at the Mohawk grange hall for an all-day meet, ing this week. A covered dish dirv ner was served at noon. In the forenoon Mrs. Paul Myers and Mrs. George Bidwell made and demonstrated several simple des sert dishes. The afternoon was spent in planning next year's: work, Those who. attended from Donna were Mrs. Ruble Hufstadter, Mrs. Caroline Crowe, Mrs. Zelma Wal lace, Mrs. Harriet Kennedy, Mrs. Hester Laffoon. This was the last meeting until fall. Mrs. May Benton has returned to her home in Los Angeles after several days visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stoddard. Eskimos use the jawbones of whales as roofing material. Stories in STAMPS Marshall Interpreter, Of the Constitution TVEXT to James Madison, who drafted the great document, John Marshall was the closest stu dent of the U. S. Constitution in Its early years and his interprets tions left profound precedents. Marshall was keenly aware of the deep social forces which had produced the Instrument, of the breach between the aristocracy on the one hand, the mercantile group, the public creditors, the men of property, and the less well-to-do on the other. He saw, too, how closely fought was the contest for its adoption and so when he became chief justice he endeavored to weigh all this in his historic deliberations. On Marshall's shoulders fell the task of interpreting the Constitu tion during the most critical period of Its history. In all he de cided 44 notable rases involving consutuyonal questions. On many of thenr rested the future of the very government which the Con stitution had established. Marshall personally wrote the opinions in the most important cases. Such cases were Marbury ver sus Madison, in which Marshall decided that the Supreme Court could declare unconstitutional an act of Congress, and MeCulloch versus Maryland, giving Congress a wide latitude to execute its dele gated powers. Thus Marshall laid the groundwork wnicn is stm es sential to preservation of the American system. The great jurist Is shown above on a V. S. stamp of the series of LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE The Gay Deceivers By HAROLD GRAY HO. LITTLE ONE- 1, DONA DOLORES. HAVE NEWS FROM THE FRONT OUR AXEL IS MOST PERTURBED HE CAN NOT LOCATE MR. WAR80CKS . -nl.. v t 1 U HOW I KATMANDU TO WARBUCKS' H hi OADDY'H HE WAS FAR IN I WAIT, AND HE 18, l k I I DO 1 II CAMP, HAS VANISHED -ANOTHER U I WASNT ( THE INTERIOR, NO 111 FURiOOSQUKK! tT A l I -TOO MESSENGER WAS SENT-AT THE K U HE ONE COULD 8(n WHERor" I I LEST He 6USPECT 1 1 V . VI - KNOW? H I CAMP OF WARBUCKS HE WAS B THERE? 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WAS PRIED FROM UNDER A 1902. BEDSfRING IT PROBABLY WAS ALL TH' RAGE WHEN JOHN QUINCV ADAMS WAS PLAVING THIRD BASB FOR, TH' HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB, mi '4 i ! ARCHLUTE, MAcJOR? (SREAT HEAVENS, BRINS v rrouT- OUT OUR WAY By WILLIAMS ( NO, MA'AM MOM AIN'T HOME f WACT! WAIT I I'LL TALK TO HER! V JIST NOW NO, SHE WENT AFTER ALL, I MERELY ASKED YOUl OUTTH6M0RNIN'!,..,W0PE, TO TELL HER X WASN'T HOME, j X DON'T KNOW WHEN SHE'LL BUT WHEN YOU GET FINISHED BE BACK I DOM'T KNOW I WON'T BE ABLE TO SHOW FER SURE, BUT I THINK MYSELF OUT OF THIS SUB'S AT A HOSPITAL J HOUSE FOR SIX UH-HUH -SHE BROKE f WEEKS! J V -a, JRO MiM'ZM l"-' '"IwY MOTHERS eETfiffAV 1