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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1041

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TO KOLO OUT FOR LST A LITTLE LONGER-

WERE ALL MAKING FAIRLY GOOD MONEY AT THE DRIVE: N- LET'S INVEST IT IN BARRY KENT AND WIS KIDS

SERIAL STORY—

LOVE POWER

By OREN ARNOLD

YESTERDAY

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Disturbed br the mys. reseals the envelope, leaves it on leana's desk Then she investigates the shipment The X-998 is te be carvied in a freight car, | sccompanied by guards The freight is i held up, robbed. Bob is wild, AN his X99 is gone. But Carolyn ealms him “The stall wasn't there. I toek it emt myoelf.” |

Carolyn

CHAPTER FIFTEEN BOB came to Carolvn’s home because it was the quickest way them meet. She had snatched on the first clothes available and she literally ran night when his car swerved to the curb He stopped halfway out the car door, hatless, his hair uncombed. wearing not even a coat or tie. His yoice was a study in misery, “Oh, Bob!” She tried to speak calmly. “The X-999 was not on that freight train! It is still safe here ih the city!” | “I helped put it on myself, yesterday morning i No! You put on dummy pack-! ages Bob-listen, I khow you don't understand, but Ken Palmer and I moved those inner leaden boxes and substituted rocks! Yes, rocks!” “But Carolyn—!” He wos beginning to believe, at least to hope. He gripped her shoulders now 1 was going to tell you but you were away all day yesterday, Ken and I did our work at 2 in the morning. The stuff is safe. I—Bob had a sort of tip. A hunch! Don’t ask me any move yet. Just come on! Let me drive!” She ran around to the wheel and when he had collected his wits again they were well out toward their Schoenfeld Laboratory. ; "What are we going to do?” #sked. “I want to stop your worrving. Ii you won't ask too many questions Bob, I—oh, you must trust me! You must! I mean, about why I did it He was silent for a block longer “Of course, Carolyn. I am so deeply grateful now that I would do anything you ask. Frankly, I am almost sick with the letdown. You have no idea what a strain this has been!” | “Yes, I think I have.” »

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SHE took him right into the compound and to the laboratory proper. | He was surprised to see several of their hired guards still on duty. “I ordered them to stay,” she explained “And paid them.” She had a key to the laboratory door. “I copied your key, Bob. Had it done. Stuck yours on chewing gum to get a mold, then used candle wax. A keysmith cut one easily from that. I—forgive me, Bob! And wait.” She let him in and the door closed behind them. For a moment they stood in semi-darkness. Only the| great looming form of the Schoen-! feld cyclotron assailed them, sil-| houetted in part against the high windows, Lesser machines, bulky | and strangely ominous even by dav, ! were lurking beasts here at night, great black forms about the vast

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“Perhaps it is best not to turn on the main lights,” she said. “Wait— a desk lamp—" She crossed to the sturdy oak cabinet table where work! sheets were usually spread out. In a moment she had the small light burning. ! “Bob—please.” | He came over. He was still in somewhat of a daze. While he]

| watched, she swung back one of the|

four broad bottom doors of the cabi-! net. Gingerly she then lifted the] lid of a strong wooden packing box.! Bob peered in. He saw four small leaden cases, sealed, cushioned in crude but effective ‘burlap padding. He knew them to be his own. | “Carolyn!” He barely breathed) that, but it was a speech of infinite relief and gratitude. |

LEST State Police and newspaper reporters flood the laboratory, Bob hastened to go back downtown. He didn't want too much attention to him and his work. He explained to police that his shipment had] een chemitals only and that he couldn't imagine who would steal them, nor why. But one of the train robbers was ‘caught, He talked freely. “L tell you, I don't know what was after!™ he kept saying. "“We| hired to bring off a heavy box. musta a money box, but

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“I've been plaving like I was Mamma—I bought you a nice birthday gift and charged it to you!”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson

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“No martes HOW ROUGH THE SEA, YOULL NEVER HEAR A HORSESHOE cRABR™ wn SAYS MRS. CARL GERNETZKY, Cowrecd! Bryps, Jowra.

ANSWER—But many of you have seen a horseshoe crab.

moved, and some “other heavy junk.” Her heart went bump“Who paid you?” {bump-bump double time during the “Didn't know him. Didnt care. whole loading procedure. Figured we’'s just open the box our-| Some 40 minutes later she had selves and take what we wanted, transferred the box to an airplane, see? The dirty double-crossing—" a powerful cabin ship now under He was profane about the rocks, her personal lease, with pilot await-| even though the robbers themselves ing orders. She told the pilot she had planned the first double-cross.| would be back. By mid-morning Leana Sormi had! “We going after another box. returned, heard of the robbery and miss?” her taxi driver asked as they she rushed to Bob with every pos-/drove away from the municipal air sible aid and sympathy. Carolyn field this second time, left them at State Police headquar-| “No. After a—man.” ters. She was strangely keyed up| “Hmmmmm!” He grinned. “Blopenow. She even forgot to eat. iment, I bet?” “I have to move fast!” she told She sighed at that, in a muchherself, shrewdly. needed relaxation. “I wish it were. She inspected her purse, Then Driver, how in the world does a— she called a taxi, went to a bank a self-respecting girl pursue a and took out all the $340 she had man?” A saved. Next she ordered a taxi, But he saw that she was gazing! | driver to take her to the munici- off, talking not to him, but to herpal airport, and there she made self. |b (To Be Continued) EB

another business deal. i By noon her taxi driver had her (All events, names and characters in this Y story are fictitious.)

‘em, yeh! Damndest thing I ever] wanted seen. But we got paid first!”

back at the laboratory again, and when she alighted this time she en smiled her sweetest at him and

said, “I need a strong man to help MARLENE WINS TAX 9 me Susy something wie tive, DISPUTE WITH U, S.'p

“That's me, Miss!” the answered with alacrity. “You want| WASHINGTON, May 1 (U. P.).— a trunk moved? I'll make room on| Movie Star Marlene Dietrich and the back rack.” | her husband, Rudolph Sieber, today “Not a trunk, a box. And—I'd be won a $05,000 tax dispute with the ever so much happier if it went Federal Government. inside. On the seat itself. I—here!”| The Bureau of Internal Revenue She thrust a $5 bill at him. | epares it had over-assessed them He grinned. “Lady, I'll earry the that sum. box in my teeth if you want!” The Bureau also announced a re- & & & fund of $287018 to the estate of SHE asked two of the guards to|Ethel duPont Barkesdale, New help him. The box was small but| York, and held that Ralph J. Cutastonishingly heavy. She explained, |ten, Toronto, Canada, had been in partial truth, that it contained |over-assessed $4,560,374 on income some leaden forms which Dr. Hale tax for 1025 te 1933, inclusive. i

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I DO HOPE You Boys , CAN RAISE THE MONEY! I'M JUST DYING TO Wave SOME BIG ORCHESTRA .COME TO SHADYSIDE /

ONCE UPON A TIME HE FEARED THAT HIS WICKED BROTHER WAS ATTEMPTING TO STEAL HIS THRONE, SO THE EMIR PLAYED A LEETLE GAME. A MOS’ AMUSING GAME. HERE, I WiLL SHOW You

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