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Today's Short Story

VOLUNTEER

By James O'Hara °

“YOU'RE A rummy to want to volunteer for the Army, buddy!”

» the man in line beside Jerry opined

helpfully. “You really got a wife and a young kid, like you said?” “Divorced—and on partial sup-

: port,” Jerry Merivale said. There + was a shade of cynicism in his voice

that he couldn’t keep out, even if it wasn’t fair to Annette and young Gordon. It wasn’t really their fault, nor his. It was just one of those things. 2 “Jerry - Merivale?” the secretary

§ of the draft board asked him, look- - ing at the list in his hand. Jerry + stepped up to the desk and the sec-

retary gave him a long, inquisitive

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“That’s me. I want to volunteer

: for the Army service.”

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Tight from your own community!” “I don’t want charity!” Jerry expL “1 (All events,

was kind, like a father, “Divorced,

Jerry’s mouth tightened. “Can't we cut the red tape, mister? I

* want to get into the service. You'll

find all the right requirements for an enlistment on my sheet there.” “L see, son. As far as this record shows, there won’t be any special trouble in getting you into uniform and putting you to working for Uncle Sam.” “Fine. Let’s get it over with.” “I see you're a carpenter by trade. Want to get into the engineers, I suppose?” 2 tf ” JERRY SHRUGGED impatiently. “I don’t” care where I go. I just want to get into the service and get going! I can’t. find a decent job anywhere else.” He stared back belligerently at the draft board worker. : Annette wasn’t to blame because she needed more money to get along on than he had proved capable of bringing home. It was hard enough, just to stretch the paycheck for two of them. Then little Gordon had come— with a weak chest and a necessity for expensive and prolonged medical treatments. She was better off away from him, earning part of her own way and living with her mother. Jerry Merivale was a grand as a husband and a father! “If youll report back to this board in five days, Merivale, we'll see about getting you lined up. We will have to investigate your peti-

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have to consent to your entering the| &

Army. Jerry frowned. “Listen, brother, don’t start handling me with kid gloves. Nobody else in this world ever did—and it might make me J like weeping if somebody tried His words were defiant enough, but he felt a little scared. What if Annette refused to let him go? What then? “I'm of much more value to my ex-family in the Army than by being jobless. I ¢an at least allocate my pay to them!” : “We'll investigate, Merivale. You come back in five days and we'll go over this again. Next man, please!”

JERRY WENT OUT into the gray day feeling a little better, but not much. Until he got into the service, he’d have to still manage to pick up enough work at anything at all to exist on—and send some for little Gordon and Annette! Just five days to wait, five days agdinst all time! . “This board tries to be impartial, and human too, Merivale,” the president. of the board told Jerry when he reported back. “I might say that we have called in Mrs. Merivale and had quite an illuminating talk with her.” i “You what?” Jerry demanded defensively. “What about?” “Well, to be frank, about your divorce, and why it happened when it shouldn't have. If you had work, you would still be happily married, ‘ wouldn't you?” Jerry scowled. “What are you

- getting at, mister? I guess I'm not

the only man who had to call it off because he couldn't support his family. So what?” The president looked at him

Wii quietly. “Take it easy, son. Every-

thing is all straightened out—if you'll be man enough to take a hand from citizens ‘like yourself,

ploded, holding in. “A Sepunt break to a man for wife and family isn't charity, son. It's’ just common sense! Mrs. Merivale still loves you & powerful lot, my boy. And that is swell!” “Go on. demanded

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By William Ferguson

HORNED TOADS CAN BLOOD FROM THEIR. EYES.

on new armories right here in town. My brother is a judge. He thinks he'd be proud to remarry you and the ex-wife next Saturday morning.

“ONE OF THE other board members .is in the storage business and he wants to move your stuff from the warehouse into an apartment that I know of that’s nice—and reasonable. One of the other board members has a friend at Children’s Hospital, and you will get clinical care there without charge, if you're willing and reasonable. “One of the stenographers is a beauty operator in her regular business, and she’s going to work over Mrs. Merivale as a sort of wedding present, if and when, And the regular examining physician here offered to examine you for a new marriage certificate instead of for the Army. What say?” Jerry was staggered mentally by this proposition, but not insensible. He grinned for the first time in months. ~ “What are we waiting for, mister?” he laughed then. “It sounds crazy, but if I refused an offer like that, your physician should examine me for the nut house.”

TOMORROW-—Are good looks an asset to a prizefighter? Read “Glamour Kid,” by W. K. Norman.

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AFTER TAKING FEES

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P.). —War Department officials said today they did not intend to prosecute former Brig. Gen. R. C. Marshall, reserve officer, for accepting $31,816 in fees from six Army contractors engaged in defense work. “The statement was made after Julius L. Amberg, Special Assistant War Secretary, told a House Military Subcommittee that Marshall, who lives here, had been asked to resign, and his resignation was accepted July 3. Officials said that the fee accéptance apparently did not constitute a violation of any law, but

that it was a matter of ethics on proper conduct of Army officers.

‘PROFESSOR QUIZ’ IS * SUED FOR SUPPORT

. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 11 (UO. P.)—Arthur E. Baird, “Professor Quiz” of the radio, was under a tem-

paying $100 weekly on Saturday to Mrs. Grace L. Baird, pending settlement of her petition for modification of a divorce decree obtained

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