Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 21, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 29 January 1945 — Page 2
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DKATII OF M ERR I WELL'S CREATOR RECALLS DAY OF DIME NOVEL HERO Oldsters suffered twinges of nostalgic memories when word came of the death of George W. Patten, better known as Burt L. Standish, creator of the fabulous Frank Mermvell, whose deeds of derring-do thrilled millions of youngsters between 1K96 and 1915. But wild hor ses couldn't have dragged
out of a boy of that period a confession to older people that j he was addicted to dime novels. '
' For youngsters there were two mortal sins promulgated by their elders.' One was smoking cigarettes, the other rending dime. novels. If caught at either there was certain retribution in the woodshed and consequent cancellation of swimming pi ivi leges or license to use the BB gun. The smoking ban was accepted reluctantly but with the lin king conviction that the elders might be right, while the dime novel ban never did win universal adherence. It was regarded as one of the quirks of elderly folk which should be ostensibly, accepted, but secretly disobeyed. Consequently, an underground w;,s created, as extensive and mysterious, if not as deadly as that which followed the Nazi occupation of sm:dl Countries. y Dens were secreted in coal cellars, stables, woodsheds, or reaybe .on a platform high in the blanches of some venerabh tree where -tire resistance movement foregathered, burdened with mystery and dime novels which were pooled to form a juvenile circulating library.' Burt Standish was constantly on the iob to suimlv much
of the ammunition for the resistance movement. During 19 ! yciits his -industrious braiu.turned out 20,000 words weekly ! for a total of mere than 2r,0!)0.(H)0 words while his books ' readied a circulation of 12:5,000,000 copies. What literary gfnt today ran boast of an audience so large?- ' Boys grew up and went to 'fading Tolstoy, Zola, Anatole ' trance, Shaw and other highbrows, but thev never for ml tll
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oldsters of the period placing the Ti'd Ton Weeklv on Bjp '
I'iohiioi.v nwtex remained as great a mvsterv to them then as it remains tody. 1 Dime novel hen always discomfited the villain, nrw (Icserteu a friend, constant! and gallantlv rescued beauties m JiPtress and were endowed with enough fortitude, cunninr and sk'd to equip, several one-man armies. F- !ink MenrvoU ;;.fi:e. or maybe with a little help from Ca.pt. ,ick Carter
I". run tiic ragged a:wl m fa.su re. Moreover, the dime novel liK'iv modeii- cfiirnSeirrwfcs T!
were endr.ued wiih means of locomotion, sometimes guard-- '' e-iiy refeired to as limbs,, but if-Frank We-riwell had' hoard Bilhnan, Su'EHa Bledsoe. Nolla them ment'oned as "t-.uri.-;," lie piolribiy would hfl -e fainted BwbhJer.. Nina- Brashier. Mar.cy on fiie spot, or socked the offender into the middle of next Cafter' Mary A,k' Doi'nc!l' wee-k. ' Bt-ulah Decknrd. Sharon Ford, " It k -i ciiiiwrt ,if imv,,.., ,t;,c 4- " ' ,. . Mary E. Gill, Lois Golish, Marnii'ei ' n - nl-'t ,e satisfaction lu one-time si- (:ella Griyam Phyllis Crig. viib-r .k, e'-'iwell that they have lived to see him Al ice Hamilton, Naomi Kednci, vmuinted. But. tney .sometimes wonder whether the modern James ;Hemk-y, Gwendolyn iji!p..enr wouJdnt improve his olispring by -ntroducing a few gedkk, Audra Hoesman. -Bema-
od.i., Proiuea tney are not quite so absurd as the one against hrank MerriweU : 'fhe nuidern paient seems to be so fearful of creatine 'a dreadful complex in little Willie's subconscious that: m'hiilions oi. any k-nd have quite gone out of fashion.
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- Sullivan High School Honor R60 iSTfT Liike. Norma Morin.
my 19. 1945.) Hishest Distinction To attain this ranking the students must receive "A'i . in at least four full-credit subjects, with, the grade in no other subjects carried, below "B''. Barbara Brown, Yvonne Cox, 1 Joe Ellis, Wendell Fleming, Bettie .ioiiijmiji, toward lamo, Margaret j nicwart. junior Usrev, Merna w..;. l..,..t. r..i . ...... tir ...i. v uetui is worm. Distinction 'r-.. ....,:.. . i.: i . ! . . .l . . au.nu uus laoKing me siu-oe-it musi receive u in at least four full credit subjects with the giiKie in no otner stiDject earned, i bel-nv "C". r, it r a j a c-ltv Jo Andem).!, MaryArne(t:, Richard Billman. Su ! a Bledsoe, Nella- Brashier. Nina .. . . . . m r, . n i v i .i.-niii-i , .idjie.v v.cuici, oecK,v Campbell Mary Alice Donnelly,
Beulah Deckard, Leland Ferfiu-j son, Sharon Ford, Mary E. Gill,- Distinction' Ioj Golisii. Phyllis Griggs, Alice j .To attain this ranking the stuHainiltoii, Naomi Hedrick, James j dent must receive "A" in at least Hensley, Gwendolyn HiJgediek. 1 four full-credit subjects, with Audra Hoesman, Ciara Hutchison, " the grade in no otber subject Joyce Kirchner, Myia Laughlm, I carried, below "B".' Robert Laughtin, Myrna Lew- Norma Alexander, Richard
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111 1345 BYAUrHCX . CHAPTER THIRTY "You're sure you don't mind?" queried Petur politely and, .when I had to say' I didn't, Maud said suddenly, "There's tx short cut to the house through the meadow, just beyond -the wa.ll." So I got out and stood there, weighed down with nickels, watching the red tail-light of the car disappear along the main road in the direction of the Chivery cottage. And I didn't at all fancy the walk I hud ho airily undertaken, simply because 1 didn't want to refuse and then explain why. ! 1 didn't like the meadow and the j shadowy patches, of woodland and j brush; I didn't like the. dense strip of hnish and trees outlining the , little, valley of the brook: I didn't like thy time, I remembered too well the hunter of the previous, night, and 1 still didn't think it was rabbits. . . ." But in the end I scrambled over the wall and took the path. I guessed it would conic out somewhere about the parage and kitchen end of the Brent house. Until 1 had got quite a distance inlo the meadow 1 didn't realize how dark it was. I went alonjr hurriedly, my ill-irottmi pains making; a small chinking sound in my pockets. . I ncaved the bell of woodland and the strip of dark shadow which edged the brook. What, really, had Anna run from, the night before? Once it seemed to me there was a kind of crackle of twigs, but when 1 stopped to listen there was nothing. The path entered the strip of trees and sloped downward toward the brook. Then I stumbled. Something- was in the path, in the middle of it. I fell on one kntfe, 'flmirinjr out my hands to save myself, my cape swirling around me. My hands encountered the obstacle. W!..:n I pulled them away, they were wet with a kind of stickiness. I knew what was on them. . I leaned over, trying not to touch the obstacle again. The twilight was deep but I could make out the outlines of Dr. Chivery's face and popping eyes, for once fixed and di ree't. His throat had been cut. Then I heard again a rustle and snapping of twigs. This time it was clear and definite the soft sound of something moving in the dense brush beyond the brook, on the slope between me and t lie Urent house. As 1 listened it stopped. There was just silence and night so i(ear tiiui the bloody thing at my feet-.;, I don't know how long 1 listened, but it seemed all at once fully dark. There was no further sound- from the thickets on" the slope ahead. And I had to get to the house. I got. awkwardly to my feet, trippin;.' on my 'cape, spilling nickels. There was nothing anyone could do now for Dr. Claud Chi very. All at once 1 started to runback, along the way I had come, foi 1 couldn't follow the path into those shadowy thickets where something had moved. I ran as Anna had run, gasping for breath, listening behind me, running. Eventually, I reached the wall dyn Hull, Clara Hutchison, Joyce Kirchner, Myra Laughlin. Ai.vrun Lcwellyn, Joe . Libke, Brbai Monk, Beverly Moore, Norma Main, Robert Paso, Jeanne Parks, Mary E. Pirtlc, Alary Rombis. Ka'lnyr, Reiri. Adam Sajko, Gene Schrocder, Charles Sheltun. Barbara Stark, Betty Stewart. Thelma Tat: Icy, Phyllis Valentine, Iiena Wa-i'ord, Paul Gene Wible, LeAnn Wible. 5 BOWL 25 YEARS SOMEUVIULE. V.iws. (UP) Five middle-aged men who began bowling here every Saturday night 2"i years ago still, keep up the weekly custom. Their present ages: 35, 80, 76, 74, and CO. DAILY TIMES OPEN FORUM. i f. f-llerv :inrl Enlet-vifMC-t of a column, the editor roservitur the richt to censor or reject any article he may (h-em is not suitable and proper. Articles of 500 words or less are preferred. AH articles scu lo wlc vra scut to Hie Opcti Forum must be K;'iicjauil--al(irCSS' C iven'. in "or-" - "(j(er that the editor may knnw the writer, however, the writer's name will not be published if re quested. Articles published herein do not necessarily express the sentiment of the i');!ilv Times nnd thw paper may or may not agree with statements contained herein.
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and nothing came out of that black and haunted meadow behind m. Then 1 was on the public road and I still had to circle (on the road now) around that awful meadow in order to reach the house. Well, I got to the gateposts which loomed in tiie dusk, I fcould then :;ee the lights of the Brent house, glimmering through the trees. Soon I reached it. Tlie door was unlocked. I hung it open and fell into Iee-vl-ns' arms. He caught me and his face seemed instantly to sharpen ... I knew I was talking, trying to tell him. He cried, "Dr. Chivery -Dr. Chi very!" . j ' Someone else said, "Where? Where.'" and tiiere was a flash of color as Alexia, in her long green tea gown, came hurrying from the door of the library. Nicky floated into my vision, too. Then Anna came from somewhere, and screamed so sharply that Bccvens turned to her and said in a voice of snarling authority. "Get back to the kitchen. Shut up!" Someone Nicky was helping me to a chair. Beevens ran to the telephone 'beyond the stairway and Alexia was telling him what to say, her pointed face a white, vehement mask. 1 Then the trooper (Drue's guard) came running into the library, and wrested the telephone from Beevens' hand. "I heard you! I heard everything, Are you sure he's dead? What happened exactly? Operator, operator ,!. ." The trooper jiggled the hook and finally got the police. "Where is Peter?" Alexia asked. "I don't know. Yes, I do. He took her home." "Took who home?" .. ".Mrs. Chivery. They left me at the corner. Someone was on tie meadow. Tell them that." , The trooper was already shout ing "Another murder! Dr. Chiv ery ! In the north meadow doWn by the brook" presumably into Nugent's distant ear. "She doesn't know who did it , . . Just now, five minutes ago . , . i'o, the Cable girl's still in her room . . ." Alexia looked at Nicky and Nicky looked at Alexia in utter silence, as if they didn't need words. The trooper said, "Okay okay okay," and emerged into the hall again "They'll be here right away. Don't leave the house, any of you!" Hiran- up to the landing where he stopped. It .was evidently an order .from Nugent ami it. was a .fairly siriVU-gic mi lor he could see the whole of the lower hall and part of the upper. Alexia looked at nie.. "Do you know who did it?" , "No. No' . .." Nicky said, almost dreamily, "Claud well, he must have got in somebody's way." Then he asked sharply, leaning over mc, "What's she got on her bands?" "I fell I told you over the body." I began jerkily. Alexia and Nicky drew a little together and just looked at me, so their faces, so alike, and the eyes shining from Ibehind those long silky eyelashes, HICKORY Claih v"1m major , operation Sherman Hor-p:tal imdenvcnl a in- the Mary recently.V.r. :mdUuwr, Mr vs. Itov Usrev oi and Mrs. Dennis Baoiels and son, Bill of Munere and Marv Ellen Usrev 'visited Mrs. Cerald Usrev Sunday. TIED UP BY ODT ) , tit r V K i
FOtlOWING AN ORDER from the office of Defense Transportation, the . Association of American Railroads has ordered a 72-hour freight embargo on the shipment oE everything except war supplies moving within j the area east and south of the Crcat Lakes. These cars are held up at the Selkirk yards in Albany, N. Y by the ruling. ,,, .(International)
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txTMIGNONG. EBERIIART SYNDICATE, INC. were almost as one face, seen in duplicate, with one expression. It was Beevens who came lorward, clucked disapprovingly -when he saw my hands and said, "This wav. Nurse. You 11 want to wasti them." I followed Beevens through the library and into the washroom adjoining it. I scrubbed my hands and then saw a small stain on the horn of my white skirt and I took , that out with" cold water, too. I'd lost my cap somewhere. Probably in the woodland and the police would find it and say I killed him. When I came back into the li brary Beevens was gone, 1 and Alexia and Nicky were talking. "Beevens said Maud walked into town about three-thirty this after noon; she said she would wait there and come home with Claud after the inquest. The inquest took place in the hotel," Alexia was saying. But she must nave missed him, said Nicky. "Otherwise she and Claud would have come home to gether." He turned to me. "iou said, didn't you, that Peter took her homo in the car?" "Yes." I went to the couch to gather up' my cape. "I rode into town with Mr. Huber; we went into the bar and Mrs. Chivery was there." "Maud?" gasped Alexia. "Claud must have walked from town," suggested Nicky. "He often does. And he must have intended to stop here; everybody takes the short cut through the meadow.." Alexia said, "Somebody's got to tell Maud. I'll telephone." I said, "It's going to be a shock," and looked at her trailing green tea gown not a costume for walking in the meadow. Yet Chivery had been dead for some time when I found him, so she or anybody, else would have had time to get home and change. Drue had an alibi; she'd been under police guard. 1-took a long and thankful breath. 1 Alexia had reached the door when Nicky said, "You'd better let me do it. I'll have Peter bring her here " As Alexia paused, I walked past them toward the stairway. The trooper let me pass. Drue's door was unguarded and I wanted to go to her, but that would have to come . later. I hurried to Craig's room; he was sitting bolt upright, wrapped' in a dressing gown, in the chair near the fireplace. His eyes blazed; his face was stiff and white. He snapped, "Shut the door," which I did. ""What are yon doing out of bed? Who helped you?" "Come here. Sit down no, over here on the couch. Tell, me about Claud. I heard the trooper at the . telephone, and you .when you came in the door. I know Claud was mur- ' dered." ' "But you . . ." "Listen," he said savagely. "I'm up. It didn't hurt me to get up. Nobody let me; it was my own idea. And as soon as you tell me every thing' about Claud I'll go hack io I I bed. Not an instant sooner." -(To be continued) CttpjTietil hv Mftnoo O. ElHirliart; Dlslri-iiiu.l oi Khtrf feature, j ti-J lua'.e. Io. Mr. and. Mrs. Wilson McClcilan, Mr and Mrs. Bert McCMlan and sons, Dick and Dave spent Sunday with Mr. snd Mrs. Ray Kecne ! and family ol Cass. ! Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Robertson ! and family. Mr. and Mrs., Win. ( Robertson and Mrs. Gene Taylor j spent the week here due to the FREJG1-2T ORDER 1 -9S., 1 Hut
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V -mm SLEEPNo need to lie in bedtoss worry and fret because CONSTIPATION or GAS PRESSURE won't let you sleep. Be sensible get up take a dash of ADLER-I-KA to relieve the pressure of iaige intestines on nerves and organs of the digestive tract. Adlerika assists old food wastes and as through a comfortable bowel movement so that bowels return to normal size and the discomforts of pressure stop, before you know it, you are asleep. Morning finds you feeling clean refreshed and ready for a good day's work or fun. Caution, n:-e only as directed. Cf AJl't.riha yam fiiir rfrfiprrtff IntUy, Smith Drug Store. death of their' sister, Mrs, Cl:ifence Harlow. Jackie and Hubert Gonclmaa visited relatives and friends here Sunday. Mr. .-md Mrs. Austin Ballard of Dugger called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore and family FricM evening. S'S.:t. and Mrs- Jamfs Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Wolfe and Ruth were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Boone and family i ecently. : SOCIETY r-.frhantc Hums Ec Club The Fairbanks Home Economics Club eiet January 4th at the nt.ma of Imo Drake. The meeting opened by giving the pledge to the flag. Helen P.prake was appointed publicity chairman. Each following meeting every member is tbe responsible for an interestingor inspiring bit: The meeting wns closed by repeating the club prayer. Two contests were then enjoyed ard won by Ernestine Crew and Wilhemina Scott. Refreshments were served to Mrs. Jessie Bland, Eiva Drake. Mary Yeager, Opal Woodard, Wilhemina Scott, Ernestine Crew, Hat--tie Crew. Helen Drake, and thre? puests. Mrs. Lynn Riggs, Marilyn mid Bud, and the ho.-toss, InnDrake. Tb.o February meeting will b'J F-n all-day meeting at the home of Mit. Lela Holmes on- Thursday, February 1st. The lesson for "Vrri'i'.ry will lin "Satisfying Mcnls for .the Family." i Triple L. Club The Triple L Club of Turman ' Township will meet Thursday, Feb. 1 at the home of Joy- Duffer. J All members and visitors are wcl- . come. I . ( Jones Forced Out f 4. 5 JESSE H. JONi-S, top, o. Texas, has resigned as secretary of commerce upon the request of President Roosevelt to make way for nomination of the former vice president, Henry A. Wallace, bottom, whom the Texan terms as "inexperienced in business and finance." Jones has brushed aside a presidential suggestion that lie consider taking -an ambassadorship. (International)
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-- t v .- i. 4i Hi-. . 4 HAROLD DAHL, the American flyer who was saved from a Spanish tiring squad five years ago when his blond wife, shown above with him, wrote to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, is in the news again this time, however, in a court-martial case at Montreal. Dahl, squadron leader in the Canadian air force, is being court-martialed on charges of embezzlement and improper disposal of -public properly. Members of the court flew to Belcm,. Brazil, for hearings. Charges in the trials deal with property disposal while Dahl was stationed as head of the Canadian transport command at Belem, (International) LOCALS Mrs. Gladys Fisckis of Ham mond, has returned home after spending the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith. Mrs. Carl Medsker of Kentland, Ind., spent the week-end at her home in Big Springs., Mrs. Nora Carrithers of Graysviile, transacted business in Sullivan, Saturday. Miss Rosemary Snyder of Indiana University al Bloomington, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Snyder. Mrs. Maurice Newman and daughter, Janice Miles, of Robinson, 111., spent Thusday here with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. W. M. Miles. Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Scott will leave this week-end for several weeks' visit with their daughter, Mildred, of Tucson, Arizona. Mrs. Paul Reid left last . week for St. Petersburg, Florida, for several weeks visit with relatives. Mrs. Harold Riggs and daughter.
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