M-EDFORT) MAIL TRTBTTNE, ftfEDFORn, QKEOOy, WEDNESDAY. PECEfBER 1, 1937.
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ty MAKCABET CUION HERZOG V (
lne cnaracien
Nln ( beginning to find happl
ncu with David whom h mar
ried ImpuWvely lo icap hr
low for htr ttepfathir,
Richard, tho charming, well
tailored iiepaiher, 1 on a 5
month trip with hit u(, ater
thamelenly talking jju to Nina.
Honey, tfina'f oav, pouthut
mother, U tcild about Richard
and trout litis on doctor! orderi.
David, a bright young auto
a toman, adorn Nina and etrivef
to moltt her happy on hi imali
salary.
Chapter 38
Summer In Town
IT HAD been i horrid early
spring, and May made up for it
for all she was worth. June too.
The leaves on the trees standing
off the dust, and hanging on to
their first baby freshness as long
as possible.
Nina, who had thought of the
Park in past years, more as a place
to walk off hips and hangovers,
than anything else, began to love
it and use it, like hundreds of
other New Yorkers, chained to uie
city during the summer months.
Cordelia went on a cruise to
Norway and Sweden. Horseface
went to Bar Haroor. xony Leeas,
to the south of France. . . . Every
body, that is, Nina's friends, fled
the town. But still the wonderful
finding of that new quiet happi
ness . . . that new peace, gave Nina
all the vacation she needed.
July came on with a threat of
' the first real heat, but she didn't
mind. The movies tn tne money in
, the previous day's dear little com
partment had not been used up)
were gilt heavens of coolness: the
dirty roofs across the court kept
out the sun's hot rays; and her hus
band was an angel,
"Nina, sweet," said David,
"you're looking marvellous . ." as
Indeed she was.
Iced tea. Gin rickeys. Salmon In
aspic . , . Beer. . . .
"I like New York, in the sum
mer, darling. , . ."
"I like . . . you."
David was a lover, who never
grew weary ... of loving.
If they got along too, too beauti
fully on their $5 a day and yes
terday's compartment usually did
have something left over in it, for
today's amusements David laid it
all to Nina's superlative manage
ment. Nina never realized just how
he had got started using small
amounts from her own allowance,
when he had told her not to, but
they were so small . and made
tveh a difference ... It seemed the
height of foolishness not to con
tinue. Ten dollars or so a week . . .
what was that? Nothing. Nothing
. . and everything.
The Cars tain Sal
DAVID was that rare creature: a
man who does, not come home
from work every evening, chock
full of business.
Cars that he didn't sell, he didn't
talk about , . , cars that he did,
well, that was different. But he
made it interesting, amusing. He
was not anything boring, like an
automobile salesman with a vision;
he was just an ambitious young
man, with a sense of humor.
He knew motors, and he liked
them, and he had just enough of a
smattering of psychology to help
in putting over a sale; out Nina
suspected and rightly that his
engaging personality was his best
asset.
Jack Knight wasn't anywhere
near as good, nice though he was,
and David said he could take an
engine apart, and put it together
again, blindfolded.
If Jack had the car, and his pros
pect had the inclination ana the
money, Jack could draw up the
necessary papers; but it was David
who worked the miracles in the
salesroom. He was known as a
young fellow "with a future."
There was the time, for example
David did tell her about this
when a Long Island branch of
their agency sent a Mr. Carstalrs
In to David. Over the telephone,
the Long Island salesman ex
plained that Carstalrs's automo
bile, one of their most expensive
cars, was in their service station
for a big repair lob. Carstairs
wanted to rent a machine while his
own was being painted and over
hauled, but they had been unable
to satisfy him. Would David see
what he could do for the man?
David would . . . and he saw to
Carstairs so well that he sold him
a brand new car, Instead of rent
ing him a second-hand one. A neat
piece of work. David admitted,
with no trace of modesty; and al
though there was some doubt as
to whether he or the Long Island
salesman would got the commis
sion, It was putting the thing over
that pleased him.
The head of the agency had sent
for David, and congratulated him,
and that was "something."
Jack Knight told Nina that her
husband was considered quite the
ooy wonaer at tne salesrooms, and
that the big shots had their eye on
him.
Nina was fery proud.
Gracie Nolan had been away fo
several months. Nina had not seei
her since the nieht ud on River
side drive. Temporarily out oi
work, Oracle nad sublet ner tnree
room apartment to a girl friend,
and gone to visit her family, near
Rochester. She was expected back
about the middle of August.
Except for Jack Knight, and
once when the model, Francine,
and her boy friend Bill dropped in,
Nina and David were very much
alone.
She had any number of friends
at the two Long Island Hamptons,
at Newport, up in Westchester . . .
but following their original plan
of not trying to keep up with the
dashing crowd, the Days had
pretty well dropped out of things.
Weekends were busy for David,
demonstrating cars, so that they
could not accept the few invita
tions they received, even if they
had thought it advisable.
Carl Semple had gone away for
the summer, so that even that op
portunity for a change now and
then was denied them.
Carl's attitude about Hester had
surprised a great many people . . ,
and aroused admiration in all.
Virtually, it had been: "Good for
herl Something has been the mat
ter with Hester, all these years;
my love hasn't been able to rouse
her , , , well then, since she's been
wanting this thing so long, and so
desperately, I'm glad she had the
guts to seize the opportunity,
when it came along. I hope she'll
be happy!"
He was helping with a divorce,
doing everything in his power to
make this terrific new step easy
for her. He had written both Hes
ter and Rian and wished them luck.
The autumn would see him back
with his horses, at Harmony. His
old life would go on. He was quite
splendid about it.
Hot And Sticky
AS JULY wore on, the heat be
came pretty intense and steady.
Nina watched the girls in the
street who went about in low
backed, sleeveless summer dresses
and no stockings, as though they
were in the country . . . and envied
them. Why couldn't she kick over
the traces, forget her foolish sense
of what was correct for town, and
be comfortable, too? But she
couldn't.
She felt that the heat was be
ginning to get her she had never
been in the city before, after the
first of June but she held on. She
went about in the daytime in pa
jamas, and stayed in the darkened
apartment as much as she possibly
could, so as to be fresh for David
In the evenings; but it was becom
ing increasingly difficult to feel
really rresn . . . ever.
Nina could Dlav tennis, or goll
in the broiling sun, become per
fectly apoplectic, and then go for
a swim and feel marvelous , , ,
fresh as a daisy and ready to dance
all night. But this kind of heat was
different.
She took money from her allow
ance and tried swimming in some
of the city pools the Shelton was
the nearest but it was not worth
the effort. If she marketed and
cleaned the apartment beforehand,
she was so weary that she didn't
give a darn about it when the time
came to go; and if she swam first,
the subsequent work took all the
good results away.
She grew to loathe the hot pave
ments, and the sticky asphalt. One
day, when her french heel sank
into a particularly mushy cart oi
Lexington avenue, and her stock
inged foot came right out and
plopped down Into the sticky
street . . , she burst into tears, she
was so angry.
bhe kept telling herself to take
it easy, but it didn't do any good.
David stopped telling her that
she was looking marvelous, be
cause she wasn't; and his own
freshness and vitality and abound
ing good spirits were a constant
source of irritation to her, poor
soul, instead of a comfort.
One evening, when he thouaht
she had had enough of a spell o(
cooking, he took her to Srhrafft'i
for dinner.
Nina was so excited at belns
confronted with a menu she hadn t
prepared herself, that she couldn't
make up her mind what to choose;
and after much changing of orders,
David said to the waitress: "As
for me, I'll just have the leg of a
chair, without Russian dressingl"
and sent the ooor sin away in
stitches.
And he took Nina to Lone Beach.
when he could, and helped with
the dishes, when she would let
him, and generally behaved like
an angel . , , but had she ever said
it was fun In New ork In the
summer?
Godl She must have been crazyl
(Copyright, UJT, Jfargnref tttnog)
Nln hai a desperate time preparing
her party for Oracle and Jack, tomorrow.
Recover Bodies of
Klamath Hunters
KLAMATH FALLS, Drc. t. ID
Bcxltea of Vincent Reynold!, 23, and
Merlin See. Il, due hunters mlialng
since Saturday, were recovered todny
from the Klamath river at a apot
about 200 yards from where their
overturned boat was found.
Indication were both youttia had
tried to remove their fontwar In a
futile attemlp to escape drowning.
One had partly unlaced a high boot
and the other had run down the
ripper on a gatoeh.
ROSEBURG PREPARES
FOR SEWER FINANCING
nOBEBURO. Dre. 1 At lTnni
fr of npproxl mutely 111,000 to
pcelnl fund, to be umk! In cooprra
tlon with the WPA In contruetlon
oi an Intercepting www tyntem (or
Rneburg. wu mthor.rd by the city
council at a special meeting laM
night.
The (60.000 tewer project Marled
Mnnriny with construction of a build
inc to hoiiM! concrete pipe manufec
turinf equipment,
DeMille Silent on
Boom for Senate
LOS ANOFITS. Pre. 1. ijn A
MiRKCMIon by a Hcpuhllcan puny
lender that Cecil B. De Mine te
"drnftcd" for the nomination lor
United States senator was met wittt
out comment today by the veteran
film director and producer.
Leo K. Andernn. chairman of me
Los Angeles county Republican cen
tral committee, ana he, of tne
California Republican assembly ' fact
finding" committee that will report
on candidates at Santa Cnn De
cember 11 and 13. was the party
leader making the suggestion.
Sonja Heme Hurt
By Tumble on Ice
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 1. (API
Sonja Unite, Korwelgnn skating star,
had an appointment to be X-rayed
today to determine If she Buffered
a alight brain conrutwlon in a movie
Ice rink fall last rrlday. Twentieth
Century-Pos studio said the bacg
of her head struck the Ice after one
of her liare clipped on a piece Ot
cotton. 8!e complained of dlrincs
00 Um mi yesterday.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Hultnnft Evploflon.
The year 18B5 was a tragic one In
American history. While It witnessed
the close of the Civil War on April
36, the Mississippi river ran ram
pant, hurling Its muddy waters with
devastating effect over damaged lev
ees, spreading death and destruction.
Through all this the squat -river
"sldewheeler," Sultana, churned with
straining boilers and a cargo of
2000 Union troops leaving the Vlcks
burg campaign for their homes in
the north. Floating debris and vio
lent eddies hampered the steamboat's
progresc as she chugged and puffed
north of Memphis, Tenn., past deso
late Islands of clinging earth. Para
dise Point, Happy Valley Bar and
other small river towns watched the
Sultana steam up the turbulent rivor
Into the night of April 36.
Early in the morning of April i7
the Sultana pushed her way 60 miles
north of Memphis, past a point ot
land known to river men at Black
Cat Light. Here the flood had
swelled "O' Man River's" banks to
overflowing. Inundating the coun
tryside for 20 miles on either side
of the channel. And while a few
scattered refugees at Black Cat
watched, the Sultana's tubular boil
ers strained and gave way under
their Intense load.
With a roar and a blinding flasn
the river packet was blasted apart
by the explosion. Screams of wound
ed and dying men announced the
world's greatest marine disaster. First
tUlngs of what had happenea
the world at daybreak when
cries of the Injured men. floating
down-river on bits of wreckage, were
heard from Mount City. The river
was clogged with 1847 aead, many
more wounded.
The Sultana drifted a while, then
sank. Today It Is covered by a low
sand bar. overgrown with willows
and cottonwoods a grim memorial
to 1647 men.
Forty-seven years after th' catas
trophe almost to the day the mem
orable sinking of the Ill-fated liner.
"Titanic" occurred In 1912 on the
North Atlantic. The world's greatest
sea disaster, taking 1513 lives, sun
did not reach the terrible toll of the
Sultana's sinking, 661 miles uprlver
from the Gulf of Mexico.
Tomorrow: Old Man Holdier!
Girl Is Upheld in
Refusal to Salute
SACRAMENTO. Calif.. Dec. 1.
(AP) Charlotte Oabrelll, youthful
school girl who was expelled for re
fusal to salute the United States
flag, won her case In the third court
of appeals here today.
The appellate court upheld a
Judgment of the trial court that sne
could not be compelled to violate
the Injunctions of her religious sect,
Jehovah's Witnesses, which forbids
doing homage to other than Uod.
Women Form Symphony.
ST. LO U IS. ( UP) Format Ion of
nn all-women's aymphony orchestra
has begun here. It will be composed
of professional and amateur musi
cians, and will present several con
certs each year.
City plants I :..000 Trees.
CLEVELAND. (UP) City officials
are to set out 15.000 sturdy young
trees In an effort to regain for Cleve
land the title of "Forest City."
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