Friday, December 19, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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THE STORY SO FAR: Karrn Water-
son. San Francisco girl, cornine rd by
her lawyer, John Colt, that she has a
claim to the Island estate of her grand
father, Garrett Waterson. arrives In llou-
olulu to aitrmpl to gain control of the
property. One evening while she and
Colt are dining and dlsrussing plans tor
pressing her claims, Richard Wayne, or
Toata Dick, as he Is known, enters their
dining plare. He Is a member ot the
Wayne family that has been In control
ot her grandfather's island, Alakoa, stare
the old man's disappearance. Inasmuch
as Karen believes that Tonga Dick does
not know her Identity she suggests to
Colt that she talk to him and learn what
she can. Colt at first opposes the idea
but begins to change his mind.
Now continue with the story.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspapei Union I
T IS difficult to know what
to say about the NutionnI
Legion of Decency’s banning
of (.treat Garbo’s new picture,
"Two-Faced Woman,” with
Archbishop Spellman also
condemning it, and various
cities banning it as well. The
plot, that of the woman who
poses as her twin sister to
"I suppose there isn’t any really
practical objection,” he said; “but
isn't this notion jus^ slightly on the
silly side? You can hardly expect—”
He started to say something more,
but let it pass; then bowed with
exasperating courtesy, and walked
away.
When he was gone she sat quietly
a little while, trying to relax. Pres
ently she turned her chair a little so
You needn't invest money or be special that she could look into the shadows
ly talented to earn at home! Our 32- where Tonga Dick sat, three tables
page booklet explains five main rules ot
home business success, tells how other away, alone in the obscurity of palm
women got started making money; de shadows. She still could not clearly
scribes enterprises you might try. Has see his face, but she focussed upon
ideas for women who can sew. knit, cro
chet, -cook. type, be helpful. Send your the coal of his cigarette, and waited.
She let her eyes rest there almost
order to:
to the limit of endurance; then
smiled faintly, and returned Ijer at
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Tonga Dick stood up, wound his
Enclose 10 cents in coin for your
way to her table. He laid a hand
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AT HOME.
on the back of the chair whera John
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"May I?”
"Perhaps, if you wish.”
Richard Wayne sat down, crossed
his knees comfortably, and took his
‘Closed Shop’
time about lighting a cigarette. Kar
en waited, determined to make him
A “closed shop” is a “shop” or lead the way; but she watched him
business in which only union la ' curiously, with a sharp interest that
bor can be employed, says Path i was partly caused by his name
finder. In such a shop the employ ■ alone. In the world she knew, you
er is required to dismiss em , could no more be called Tonga Dick,
ployees who fail to remain mem i in seriousness, than you could be
bers in good standing in their called Red-Handed Harry, or Terri
union.
ble Pete. Had she had no other
A “union shop” differs from a relationship to this man than that of
"closed shop" in that the employ a casual tourist, she still would have
er may hire non-union workers stared, just because of the name he
with the provision that they will was called.
become union members within a
Tonga Dick surveyed her slowly,
specified period, generally, 15, 30 with grave eyes. "You wanted to
or 60 days from the date of em see me?"
ployment. They too must remain
Richard Wayne watched with ad
members in good standing in the miration the perfect serenity of Kar
union; otherwise the employer is en's poise as she turned a little, and
compelled to dismiss them.
coolly met his eye.
She was much more interesting to
look at from across a table, he de
cided. than from across a number
of them. Yet he had noticed her in
the first moment in which he had
Among several African tribes, stepped upon the lanai. That, of
the punishment for homicide is “a course, was the reason he knew who
life for a life,” but not as it is im she was. He had landed but a few
posed by other peoples, says Col hours before, and had no more than
lier’s. Before serving his prison shaken hands with his brothers;
sentence, a murderer must first there were no means by which he
produce a life for the one he has could have identified Karen Water-
taken, by living with a female rel son, if he had not noticed her and
ative of the deceased until a child been interested of his own accord.
is born.
From the shadows of his obscure
table at the edge of the lanai he bad
Pleasing to the eye and the watched her for some time for no
pocketbook, too, is the specially other reason than that it gave him
designed Christmas-wrapped one- pleasure to look at her.
pound tin of George Washington
After a little while he had signaled
Smoking Tobacco. Smokers who a table captain and asked who the
appreciate quality will be delight girl was—and had obtained a cor
ed with a gift of this great Ameri rect answer.
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can cut plug tobacco, in its color
Knowing who she was, it was odd
ful holiday package, with gift card
all ready to be filled in. An ideal to be sitting at the same table with
smoker’s gift for the shopper her now. This was the girl who had
whose list is long and purse none come here from the mainland to lay
too full. Your dealer is featuring claim to the island of Alakoa, the
it in his Christmas line.—Adv.
little stronghold in the sea which no
one but a Wayne had held for more
than two decades.
It seemed to him that Karen Wa
DON'T LET
terson did not look the part He
couldn't understand how anyone
with a face like that, and eyes like
SLOW YOU UP
that, could get herself hooked up
• Whets bowels are sluggish and you feel with a shenanigan that differed from
irritable, headachy and everything you
a common swindle only in the bold
do is an effort, do as milliont do — chew
ness of its scope.
FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing
gum laxative. Simply cbew FEEN-A-
"If I hadn’t wanted you here," she
MINT before you go to bed—sleep with
said, "you’d hardly be here, would
out being disturbed—next morning gentle,
you?"
thorough relief, helping you fee! swell
"And so?”
again, full of your normal pep. Try
FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy
"So nothing.
I wanted you to
and economical. A generous family supply
come and sit here because I think
you look romantic, And I think you
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might introduce yourself, now. »»
"My name is Richard Wayne,” he
said. "I belong here in the Islands.
Selfish Gratitude
More specifically, I am connected
The gratitude of most men is with a small privately owned island
but a secret desire of receiving called Alakoa."
greater benefits. — La Rochefou He watched for her reaction, and
cauld.
was fooled again; for no reaction
came.
“That certainly is very interest
ing,” Karen Waterson said. "I
wish I were an Islander.”
"Perhaps," he suggested, "you
ty4.ick.fy 4¿ií
would like to tell me.who you are.”
LIQUID
"My name,” Karen improvised,
TABLETS
"is Katie Higgins-something — a
SALVE
HOIl DIOU
white girl from about four miles
COUOH DROPS
south of Dubuque. I teach school
some place, and I think I would like
to get in the movies.”
Plan your stay at
"I should have said,” Dick com
Portland’s newest
mented, “that you were from San
Francisco.” She glanced at him
hotels, the...
sharply, but he added, "Hawaii is
a kind of a crossroads; people from
every part of the world come through
here, sooner or later, so that if you
live in the Islands you get to recog
nize inflectionr of speech."
SOO
"Oh."
'
homelike room«
"They raise very good looking
from ’2.50 per day
girls in San Francisco," Dick said.
with bath Broadway
"It must be a wonderful thing to
and Salmon Street»
own your own island," Karen said.
mbiî
‘Life for a Life*
CONSTIPATION
FEEN-A-MINTToi
‘Ä COLDS
‘IM
B
A psychologist ■»)■ some
disappear because they feel
■re not wanted. And noma
appear because they know
are.
men
they
dis-
they
prove to her husband that »he Is
glamorous, has been used In Holly
Who Won?
wood ovar aad avof Will h Hay<*
“So you and John don’t speak
office had pussed the picture. There now'.'"
is hardly a picture-goer who hasn't
"No; we had n drcudful quarrel
seen things on the screen that about who loved the other most.”
shocked him. Hut since "Two Faced
Woman" was banned, there must
The Only Cure
have been some excellent reason for
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Successful home
earners have discovered that the
way to earn money is to be "dif
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different!
• • •
Indoors Man
She—You big strong man, do
you believe in ■leeping out of
doors?
He Not while I cun pay rent.
in g al th« lop of their voices and in a
■ ♦
eery affected manner in a but.
Do you remember that delightful
Al lati the conductor got fed up Al
glory, "The Constant Nymph"? It the but neared a Hopping piai e Ae
Hr laid a hand on the back of the ehair where John Coll had sat. will be made again by Warner raf/ed out in a high -pitched t nice
“Darlingt, huit too, too meet King
Brothers, with Charles Boyer and
"May 1?" "Perhaps, if you wish.”
privately
"Arc
many
islands
owned?”
"Only a few, in this part of the
Pacific. Niihau is privately owned,
and so is Lanai, which is the sixth
largest in the group; and the Waynes
have had Alakoa for about twenty
years.”
"How many Waynes are there?”
Richard Wayne said to himself.
“You know cockeyed well, young
lady, how many Waynes there are."
But aloud he said, "Four. My un
cle, who is really the owner, my
two brothers, and myself."
"It's like owning a little empire of
your own, isn't it? I can't think of
anything nicer than that.”
"A good many people seem to feel
that way,” Dick said. "That'» what
makes an island so hard to hold
on to.”
“You have trouble holding onto
it?”
“Oh, yes, indeed. Just now, for
example, there is an insufferable lit
tle snip of a girl trying to get her
claws into Alakoa by due legal proc
ess."
"Interesting." Karen encouraged
him. “And just how does she expect
to do that?"
“The Waynes bought Alakoa from
her grandfather.
Now the girl
wishes to prove that the sale was
illegal, because, she says, her grand
father was a congenital idiot She
says it runs in the family, and she
can prove it"
Karen studied him for ■ moment
with veiled suspicion, but Tonga
Dick's face was innocent “What a
remarkable person,” Karen said.
"What's she like?"
"Well—as I told you, I have had
no chance to get acquainted with
her.”
“Maybe you'll have a chance lat
er."
"I'd rather like to. you know,”
Dick admitted. "I’d like to find out
what makes her tick. But I would
hardly know how to go about it."
"Just a simple Island boy," Karen
smiled.
"Well, the circumstances are a lit
tle awkward. I can't just go up to
her and say, T understand you are
the little twerp who is trying to get
my island away from me, and what
are you doing this evening after the
store closes?’ Or can I?
"Well, invite her for a sail on your
boat. Show her selected views of
the coast line. Show her this island
she's after—what did you say the
name of it was? Alakoa? Probably
she hasn't even seen it. I'll bet she’d
be interested. • •
"And just what," said Dick,
"would be my idea?"
“Get to know her. You said you
wanted to find out what the little
fright was like, Maybe you'd like
her.”
"And then what?"
"And then what?” Karen repeat
ed.
"Say, wait a minute. Do I
have to map out your entire life?”
They grinned at each other; and
either one of them would have given
a good deal to know what the other
was thinking then.
"It’s a rotten plan," Dick criti
cized.
"Now you've hurt my feelings,”
Karep said. "Here I practically
work up a headache planning a
beautiful day for you, and what
credit do I get? You tell me it’s
rotten. All that effort wasted!”
Richard
Wayne
appeared
to
brighten. "No, it isn’t. It gives me
• much better Idea. What's the use
of wasting the whole program on a
chiseling little frump? No! I'll take
you sailing, instead."
"Me? Oh, I’m afraid I couldn't—”
“Tomorrow morning,” Richard
Wayne prompted her, “at something
like nine?"
"Something more like ten," she
answered.
CHAPTER II
It was nearly midnight when Rich
ard Wayne called upon his brothers.
They had been expecting him ear
lier in the evening, and only an ob
jectionable message he had sent
them by phone had kept them wait
ing for him at an hour strictly out
side of their habits.
Richard’s two brothers, Ernest
Wayne and Willard Wayne, sat in
a large room which, in spite of its
prim order, showed the wear of the
humid years. The whole thing man
aged a transplanted New England
look; obviously nothing had been * -
changed here for a long time.
The two brothers who here await
ed Richard Wayne seemed to hnvo
been bred and raised by the New
England furniture Both were older
than Richard, and when he looked
at them he was sometimes happy to i
remember that they were only his
half-brothers, after all.
"It does seem to me. Dick," Er-
nest Wayne said fretfully, “that you
would show a little interest in what
is happening here.” Ernest, tall and
thin, did not look entirely well; he
wore gold-rimmed glasses, which
did not seem to be strong enough
for his purpose, and when kept up
late he developed a peaked look.
CIIAKI.ES boyer
Dick sighed and sat down. "If 1
weren't interested I wouldn't be in
Joan Fontaine—who can have prac
Honolulu st all,” he said. "Now,
tically anything she wants these
please try not to get all excited.
days—in the principal roles,
will you?”
—*
“You don't realize the seriousness
Bob Hope and Victor Moore are
of the situation. Dick," Willard said to be teamed in Paramount's ver
heavily, without heat. “This thing sion of "Ready Money," the furce
is critical in the extreme—perhaps about a young man who becomes a
even desperate. Uncle Jim can't financier by mistake. Last time It
seem to understand that he is not was filmed was in 1914, after it had
invulnerable. He has delayed, and been a succcssfe' ■' h ; c production
delayed—'*
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“As 1 understand it from your let
Barbara Manwjik may have con-
ters." Dick said, "the complaint
tributrd a new slang phrase to our
is that when our mutual father
language.
During the making of
bought the island of Alakoa from
“Ball of Fire” she happened along
Garrett Waterson he practically
when Director Howard Hawks and
cheated the old boy out of his eye
the picture’s authors were trying to
teeth—is that the story?"
think of something slightly slangy
“Father was an industrious and
for her to say when she walked
intelligent man," Ernest Wayne said up to some men she didn't know
with annoyance.
very well, in a night club.
“Do you know anything much
"That's easy," said Barbara. "I'll
about the original swindle?"
say 'What's bullin’, cousin?' That's
"I object to your tone," Willard what we used lo say In Brooklyn.
Wayne said; and Dick was aston
It's in the picture.
ished by the vigor of his brother's
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resentment. "Garrett Waterson was
.
"For
Whom
the Bell Tolls" is un
a disreputable old pirate. He was
a waster and a speculator of the der way even though the cast isn't
More than 120 techni
worst sort—absolutely typical of a complete.
certain kind of rifTrafT which trou cians and actors left Hollywood re
bled the Islands in the early days. I cently for the loftiest location site
If father saw values in Alakoa that In film history—a spot 0,300 feet up
Waterson did not, that certainly was in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Waterson’s look-out. But now comes Technicolor and long shots had to
be made now because of favorable
this girl, this grasping, piratical lit
' snow conditions, similar to those in
tle adventuress, intent on seizing not
the book.
only the whole of Alakoa, but all the
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development which has cost Uncle
Donivce Purkey knew what she
Jim the best years of his life, and—"
“Have you checked the identity of wanted years ago; now she's got IL
She wanted to get into the movies;
this girl?” Dick interrupted.
"She's Garrett Waterson’s grand she worked hard in high school and
daughter, all right,” Willard said. j college dramatics, for four years,
’ and a Paramount talent scout
“Well brought up?"
"The family has no distinction plucked her out of a college play
whatever. The girl has been work and sent her to Hollywood for a
ing as a stenographer. Her relation i screen test. You'll ace her. proba*
ship to the island of Alakoa proba , bly, in "The Fleet's In." Oh yes—
bly would never have occurred to she changed that name to Laura
her as offering any possibilities, if 1 Lee.
it had not been for this John Colt.”
When Gilbert Roland, Philip Reed,
“And who is this John Colt?"
Errol Flynn and other Hollywood-
"John Colt Is thirty-six years old
Ites who like tennis enter the an
and was bom in New York. He is
nual motion pit lure tournament next
one of the predatory speculators
spring they're likely to rue the day
who came to light in the boom days
that Paramount signed up Jim
of the late twenties. He acquired a
Brown, who’s now playing the ro
considerable fortune through water
mantic lead In "Out of the Frying
developments in California. In 1932
Fan." Brown is Texas tennis cham
his stock-juggling activities were in
pion.
vestigated. but without success."
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"You seem to have snootled
Radio's "Woman of Courage" has
around to very good effect," Tonga
two leading women who made
Dick complimented them.
names for themselves in the mov
"And now," Willard concluded,
ies in the days when radio was a
"Karen Waterson, through her at
lot of strange machinery and h cou
torneys, and undoubtedly acting on
ple of ear phones. They arc Esther
the advice and direction of John Colt,
Ralston, one of the most beautiful
is bringing suit, on the complaint
blondes of that day, and Enid Mar
that her grandfather’s sale of Ala
key, one of the most striking bru
koa was illegal—that Garrett Water-
nettes.
son, at the time of the sale, was
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mentally incompetent. That shows
If you're a star of “Meet the Peo
you the girl’s unscrupulous type—
ple" you’re destined for Hollywood
she is willing to discredit her own
fame, apparently. First Virginia
grandfather—prove him to have been
O’Brien, then William Orr, signed
virtually insane—to gain advantage
up for the movies. The third mem
for herself.”
ber of the cast to face the cameras
"Same old story,” Tonga Dick
is Betty Wells, who was nabbed by
murmured.
"But not so easy, in
Metro.
the case of Garrett Waterson, I
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should think."
ODDS AND ENDS-hi rumored
Willard Wayne exploded. "I tell
you it is easy! Unless we find a about that Errol Elynn tucceeded in
making him tel/ exceedingly unpopular
way out, It is most certainly going
with the newspaper photographer! of
to be done! This is what comes of New York recently . .. I'reiident Route-
dealing with irresponsibles of Gar veil will be. heard over the Mutual
rett Waterson’s type. Evidence can chain December 24 during the cere-
be brought In to show that Garrett moniet at the annual lighting of the
Waterson was not only totally irre National Chrittmai tree . . . 7 he actor-
sponsible, but eccentric in the ex raven of "True to the Army" hat been
treme. I myself am convinced he offered to the (J. S. army lignal corp»,
was more or less deranged. Let to co operate with the army’t carrier
me remind you that we’ve had hun pigeoni . . . Ilob Hope and Rita Hay
dreds of such cases in the Islands— worth have been ¡elected by the newt
cameramen anigned to Hollywood at
mostly successful!"
(TO HE CONTINUED)
"the moil photogeneroui tian of 1941."
Itreet!"
After ihn! lilence reigned.
From the Source
”1 only know one good thing
■bout Tom.”
"And what's that?”
■His opinion of himself.”
In Full l'»e
Mrs. Green bought u sundiul at
a sale und had it erected in her
garden. She called in the builder
and instructed him to move it to
a more suitable place.
"Where would you like me to
put it?” asked the builder.
"Under the electric lump on the
porch," she replied "W* shall
then be able to see the time when
it is dark.”
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