Show alu r N K ION A WOMANS PLAGE PLACE by JOHN T CAVANAUG 11 corner I 1 SISO 00 Is back man u aging editor pepper Dri drislane exclaimed acho as clicked down the receiver excitedly pollee police chief lawton had lust just shouted linto into the tha telephone this guy is looking for or blood dont take any unnecessary risks ain in tho editorial room of tho the hartfield herald drislane sat with his head in his hands and mournfully looked over hla his city start two old mien men and seven girls thirty years in newspapers and this has to hoppen happen to rne me a chance to make head ine ane history and here I 1 am saddled witha with a bunch of sob sli slaters tho the Salus trl case had been spectacular from the start the self 1 styled big shot of tho the numbers racket had challenged repeatedly there pere aint nobody going to 0 pin a rap on me ibis gazaros gaz abos abols got protection all the way may to the state house and ba back lck and dont forget it but jerry cowan erst wille re portor porto ilal lal star df odthe athe herald and i managing editor drislane choso chose to jf t j forget forgetie tIt it to the tuna of pinning a s 20 year federal sentence on the num H bers king then the tha slipup sripup while walling waiting for tho the train that would carry hirn to prison Salus trl out wh witted ted the guards slugged the mar f ehll and was on his way vay wath alth the news of his escape jerry and drusla drislane ne knew Salus trl would i be back the Re heralds raldo constant and merciless headlines had gilled galled the gangster bored right into ills his pride sure hell bo be back the rd re porter told his editor and when he does hell head for our office first that was two years ago now jerry wason assignment in the pacific meanwhile tho the managing editor waited of course he was wa umpei who be when wen each corner comer might turn into abail a hall of hot lead and now ow the tha chief of police had passed the word that Salus trl had been spotted in Bay wayside bayside Ba yelde side lust just 11 miles this side of hartfield Hart neld the was dismally fingering the tha last cigarette in his squashed pack when publisher jim Geld gildhorn horn came cama into the room drislane DrIslan 6 blinked his eyes and dropped f the cigar cigarette eite doggone it if it aint another girr girl attractive and well built but still another girl Id horn hustled tho the young worn wom an a overto over to an empty desk and hurriedly left ona on a newspaper papera a girl reporter thoth worth the thai powder Itlo t takes kesto to to camouflage her nose Dri drislane hadi ad exploded when hen the tha publisher unobtrusively attempted to install atthe 0 thelast last girl on the city staff alt AH I 1 bhear these daysja inq 1 I lt gotan got an appointment hierl dresser the dt butch butchi 1 i it er pe the these girls have an witti with but rn me nod and their work ho ranted Is athla a newspaper office ora or A sorority house N chief 11 said thin Af tylah mike bales the papers papera only bache lor coming up to the managing editors desk im going to hop down to nicks for a shaye shave 11 generally mlle shaved every second day and today was a first darn muttered drislane were oil off again and take another three weeks to see sea who ho is reau really queen bee of 61 oils ali hive the managing editors head was vas poked p 0 ked under his desk in search of his lost cigarette when a pair of shapely legs approached mr drislane reheard he heard a feminine voice soy say rd udd to pe be as assigned to the Salus trl ti caso case abruptly a hush bush fell fel wet over the herald editorial room find and light expectant reportorial heads beads poised over their typewriters as a the managing editor took several seconds to como come up from under his desk in the face of tho the gathering editorial clouds the new girt girl bravely continued with her request and began to fumble with a gold locket I 1 which was waa looped around her neck the picture I 1 have from jerry tho the offered but got no further tho thunder broke copse and dris lone lano hissed his face purple on a 0 newspaper a woman he faish but resignedly collapsed in his chair with effort he continued feebly miss whatever your name to la go get a manicure get a cup of cohee coffee escape from the united states marshals office in 1043 1943 was recognized by the reporter as she walked through the tha barber shop to the beauty talon salon at the rear of the building miss hewes upon seeing Salus trl continued through the sho shop and left eft ty a rear exit and soon returned with a squad ol of police officers the reporter said that she had h ad identified the gangster through hla his picture which she had carried in a gold locket given to her by her flance fiance jerry cowan formerly police reporter on the herald and now on assignment in the south pacific 11 waving having threatened the life of my nance flance Salus trl was a potential V Z I 1 0 o the mana managing rint editors head was waa poked under his desk in search of bli lost cigarette olgarette when a pair of shapely legs approached get anything bul bia for or right now just gj get s 1 As the tha girl fia nastily traced mike bales rapidly retreating footsteps DrI drislane sighed even jerry cowan away i out in the tha pacific Is getting ba balmy almy ontoh on top of all this imagine his wanting to saddle me with his hia fiancee some country upcountry up jane who probably know a datel dateline lne from a clothesline gleefully he pictured himself setting up tip ambush for or the next time the publisher came in with another girl alter after an hour ot of planting imaginary booby traps all over the tha newspaper plant tho the managing editor had mentally mch destroyed the publisher and all they girls on anthe the stall stal a dozen times over just when he hb was halfway through his masterpiece of stuffing ng feldhorn Geld horn and the I 1 girls through the news pros j to bo be delivered as aa supplements to tho the fi 5 edition miko mike bales with a face full of lather torp into the chief chief the reporter panted they just got dot hirn him 11 just got go who when where drislane roared Salus trl ct at the barber shop said mike furiously shoving a piece of copy paper into his typewriter have itlie story written for the last edition in a jiffy D downstairs the presses were silent ollen tand and waiting as the man aging editors pencil poised over the report reporters eri scoop nat Salus trl former numbers czar ciar who escaped local police two years ago today was captured in nicks barber and beauty shop on main street through tho efforts of miss loretta hawes it a member of the heralds editorial stall staff the story reed read the tha gangster who has hidden from the police since tits his spectacular threat to my coming marriage so BO I 1 carried his picture knowing that I 1 would run into him somo soma day miss hewes said now that he Is 13 captured I 1 know that I 1 can plan to marry jerry as soon as he re turns P I 1 speechless the managing editor scanned the copy copy then poising hla his pencil he added to the message rn in the meantime I 1 will continue working at the lier herald ald as police reporter of |