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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH LOVE LETTERS AND HANDCUFFS GO By ISABEL W. GREAR McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. MISS AMELIA FINLEY nearsightedly into coin purse inside her shabby black bag and handed the depressed bell boy a chary dime before she closed the door. With a quivering sigh of content she surveyed the impersonal room her haven for the night, the night she had awaited for an endless year. This yearly pilgrimage of hers to the city from the disordered suburban house in which she was enduring her colorless years with her nieces turbulent family was viewed jocosely by Ted, the nieces husband. Well, auntie, he had called to her as she boarded the train that Youre off on your anmorning. nual spree. Dont do anything I wouldnt do. But he and his wife, Letty, never would know what this yearly night alone meant to her. I, First, it meant a year of sacrifice, of denials, of petty economies. The ten cer t tip, for instance, represented the box of hairpins which she needed but had not bought. The money for her room, for her railroad ticket, for her meals and for the show,, too, had been hoarded for a year a nickel here, a penny there. What do you do in the city? Is it Ted always wanted to know. worth scrimping all year for it? What did she do? No one should ever know. She carried with her, painstakingly tied up with a ribbon from her 'graduating dress, the fourteen letters she had received from Allen that year before he died. She carried his picture, and her great store of memories of the youth who, with tousled hair, laughing brown eyes and impudent grin, had been taken from her before he had ever been really hers. In the hotel room, alone, free from curious grandnieces and nephews, she would read over and over again all the letters. She would gaze at his picture, though his image had never faded from her mind. And then suddenly he would seem to be with her. Together they would go out to a softly lighted place for dinner, and on to a show one about two young lovers, and she would shamelessly weep when troubles approached them, knowing that Allen, there beside her, would understand. I Is it worth it? Ted had asked. . But of course he didnt understand. There she was, then, in the small hotel room where she would be alone, with Allen, for the one night of the year. In the chair by the window she rocked, the window that had been opened by the bell boy, when she heard a girls voice, clear and distinct, saying, Central A door slammed and a womans Put that receiver voice ordered, yel-tlow- ed ever-prese- nt, I up! Amelia looked out the window with curiosity and saw that her room was the first one on a wing and that, just a few feet from her, was the window of another room. The woman began berating the girl. Going to call him, huh? You little fool. Didnt I tell you to keep away from that phone? Just wait until I tell Lew. Hell tend to you. The Why cant I see Jerry? We love trembled. voice girls ' each other. not is for Thorn young you, Jerry lady. You might as well forget him. Love? Pooh! Why, I was engaged eight times before I married your father. And look at me now married again. You might as well forget Jerry, because you cant see him again. the girl was sobbing But why , weakly. Oh, shut up. You dont have to know why. Im going out now, Elsa. Im to meet Lew and well come back here. Be ready to leave in a hurry. Dont call Jerry. There was silence in the room, silence that was soon slashed by the slamming of the door; silence that was then blotted out by the sobbing of a broken hearted girl. Amelia poor Elsa, Poor, No one has the mourned for her, right to separate lovers. If God gave them love He meant for them to marry, to be happy. Her faded blue eyes filled with tears. Why didnt Elsa, if she really loved Jerry, call him, even if she had been ordered to keep away from the phone? Her idea of love was wrong. Amelia knew what real love was. Suddenly she gasped faintly and clenched her frail hands tightly together. Her breathing grew labored. Could she would she dared she? Resolution, born of her own lifelong unhappiness, was given to her. She lifted the receiver from the hook and in a firm voice called the number Elsa had spoken. A mans voice Central answered. Id like ' to speak to she unhesitantly Jerry Thom, stated. Jerry Thorn. Elsa is in room, she calculated quickly, 615 at the Grand hotel. . Hurry. The hand that had so calmly lifted the receiver from the hook replaced it with great difficulty.' Trembling, she sank once more in the rocking chair to await the coming of Jerry. And then she heard a key rattle in the door of Elsas room. - The girl had been locked in, and Jerry could not possess a key. It was Pearl and Lew who entered. You little fool! stormed Pearl. You havent budged since I left, and I told you to be ready. Get a move on you, Elsa, Lew, curt, urged. Every minute counts. Dump those things Grab your in this bag. Pearl. wraps, Elsa. Were in a jam. Open the door, Pearl. .Hurry, Elsa. Lews voice broke with anxiety. There was a loud, insistent knock on their door. Jerry? Open that door! called a man sharply. We know youre in there. You cant get away. Open that deep-voice- Infantile Paralysis Wave May Let Science Test Preventive I Nasal Sprays Save Laboratory Monkeys, But Will They Work on Humans? t' V'WVfW d, door. Silence. All right, OBrien. With a heavy blow and a wrenching noise the door was forced open. Up with them. Jerry! Elsa screamed. Curt commands rough, entangled voices violent . threats desperate resistance overturned furniture a shot two shrieks sobs. Amelias heart pounded wildly. What in heavens name had she done? Elsa, did you call him? Lews voice gasping was unbelieving. She couldnt. I cut the wires just before I left, Pearl answered ' shortly. Well, weve got you at last! And look what we have here the nicest pile of counterfeit bills I ever saw. Hero monkey thats what science calls the tiny rhesus monkey, like the little fellow here, whose nose is Amelia pressed a trembling hand being sprayed in an experiment to test a preventive for infantile paralysis ; thousands of monkeys have died to her colorless lips. Counterfeits. in the cause. If the sprays prove successful on humans it may mean the end of pitiful cases like that of the Captain, you dont want Elsa. little girl above. The annual, nation-wid- e series of Presidents Birthday parties helps to raise funds for the reShes not in on this, a young man search work; a scene from one is also shown. was pleading Jerry. She passed them, didnt she? to another. They were Flexner and 1934, the Presidents birthday. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY Counterfeits? Elsa gasped. So far more than $4,000,000 has Lewis in New York, Leiner and Von Ive passed them? Why I I So a wave of infantile Weisner in Vienna, and Landsteiner been raised by the annual parties. thats why you wouldn't let me leave Seventy per cent remains to fight assuming serious and Levaditi in Paris. you. So thats why I couldnt see infantile paralysis in the community 1916 In of the summer the cengreat south the proportions in Jerry! where it was raised, while 30 per the infantile hit paralysis epidemic Lets get going. tral region of the United States, United States. small cent goes to the national fund, to be a in It began Clicks, menacing clicks. science may find its in then spread rap- used for research or rehabilitation All right, Lew. You too,' Pearl ' to make area' overBrooklyn, New York City work. of the rest idly opportunity About you, young lady cascadand a One important use to which the as Long Island, of nose eventually tests mass sprays Leave her with me, captain. over the It entire country. from the parties was put ing receipts the of to marmeans dread, touched Shes Im were going be preventing every state, and struck was the development of the nasal ried. crippling disease. down more than 25,000 persons, spray preventive for poliomyelitis. Amelia blinked her eyes. most of them children. have Nasal nearly proved sprays How this spray came to be disSo thats it! Well t 100 per cent effective upon laborais a dramatic episode in covered Officers at Loss. Health Who talked? Lew growled. to medical Some woman called me at the tory monkeys, which respond inpolihistory. The subvisible miPanic swept the nation. In the the omyelitis (infantile paralysis) crobes have ever defied scientists News and- told me where Elsa was. unBut until an mistaken belief that only those to follow their meanderings. Yet, Who was it? Ill get her! Say same way humans do. railwere der sixteen susceptible, see who is in that room across extensive outbreak of the disease road officials refused to let children after long and brilliant experimenno chance to was there occurred there! His voice rose shrilly. tation, scientists in laboratories in upon humans, ride on trains. Vigilante bands of New York, Chicago, Stanford uniThere was a moments compre- conduct experiments marunofficial citizens established of for the lives of large numbers London at last found out hending silence. tial law in many places, and health versity and unnose was a doorway to the the that Amelia gasped painfully, grabbed persons must not be endangered as were certificates passrequired her hat and coat and suitcase and necessarily. polfo virus. Now that outbreak may be at ports for children moving from one fled down the corridor, flung some In the laboratories of the United to another. south central regions community States public health service, Charles money recklessly on the desk down- hand, for the an conofficers Health made every increase in polio a microbe hunter, destairs, and scuttled wildly down the are reporting ceivable effort to check the disease, Armstrong, if increase normal over the cases far the suitcase almost cided he could find some street, that tripping a working which comes with the summer but they still lacked her with every step. of blocking that doorway, means ' ' Ted and Letty were startled when, months. Between May 9 and July knowledge of ways and means to there would be no way for the deadits ravages. The epidemic white-face- d and silent, Amelia en- 24 there were, according to the combat to attack. For three years ly germs of so did died and itself, finally, tered the house and went slowly, United States public health service, he experimented with a whole drove 486 cases reported from the west public terror. There have been less of rhesus to room. her wearily upstairs monkeys. .Finally he found epidemics since then; 15,000 cases what he wanted. I wonder whats wrong? Letty south central region, as compared were By washing the reported in 1931, and 10,000 insides of the She looks with only 18 cases for the same penoses with anxiously asked Ted. monkeys 1927 and 1935. riod of 1936 and 65 cases for the each in the years so little all of a sudden. a weak solution of picric acid and Medical science recognized infan- alum, he was able to save 24 out Found out she was too old for same period of 1935. During these her spree, I guess, Ted grinned. weeks the east south central region tile paralysis as one of its most of 25 monkeys exposed to a hot, exPoor old soul. She sure leads a reported 317 cases as compared challenging problems and redoubled ceptionally dangerous infantile pawith 234 in 1936 and 57 in 1935. There its efforts to find an answer. Foun- ralysis virus! tame life. A whiff of excitement Ill fix her some tea. Why not was some indication of the spread of dations, research laboratories both Confusion Hampers Test. take her the evening paper, Ted? the disease eastward. public and private, universities and 102 It was only years ago that individual physicians and research Werent those counterfeiters caught Armstrong was confident that if Dr. John Badham, of Worksop, Eng- workers concentrated their atten- his solution worked with monkeys in the hotel she stays in? it ought to be effective on humans. Yeah. She was probably right land, moved by the condition of four tion upon it. there when it happened and never tiny patients, pleaded through the But it remained for a layman, But he was forced to wait for an knew a thing about it. Say, wont medium of medical journals for oth- Col. Henry L. Doherty, to begin the opportunity to make the test. It apwhen she reads er doctors to come to his aid with most novel move in the battle, one parently arrived last summer, when she bey all that Lew whatever his name was, suggestions for the cure of a dis- which popularized the fight among an epidemic broke out in Alabama, all classes of Americans. President Mississippi and Tennessee. Rushkilled himself right there in the ho- ease nobody knew anything about. Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a ing to the scene, he won widespread tel? Yeah, while they were searchGet on Trail of Germ. victim of infantile paralysis, in- support to his plan of spraying the ing the next room for a confedOnly five years later, Jacob von erate. I bet she never goes back spired the move. President Roose- solution into the childrens noses. German orthopedic surgeon velts Heine, He planned to have the doctors counAunt Amelia and there again. previous interest in the cause of Cannstaat, made public, an imterfeiters? Say, shed run from portant study of infantile paralysis. of fellow sufferers had been repeat- supervise the spraying and keep manifested by activities on be- careful records. Unfortunately the them! His practice brought him in contact edly half of the Warm Springs, Ga., foun- experiment got' out of hand: the with many cases of deformed limbs dation where victims are treated. doctors became swamped with deBrethren of Death in children. A shrewd observer, he mands upon their time and many in Warm 1933, Visiting Springs Brethren of Death was the name noticed something about young paralso became Colonel parents used the easily procurable deepDoherty to the hermits of the Order alytics which other medical men given solution without bothering about sciand a firstinterested, acquired of St. Paul, formed in the Thir- had largely overlooked. He saw that ly of the research and entific counsel on its use. hand knowledge teenth century, but suppressed by paralysis was the result of some After salvaging what records he work forward Pope Urban VIII. They dressed in kind of acute disease which preced- in this country. He going saw the need could and making extensive reca black habit, marked with a skull, ed the appearance of muscular for more ords of his own, Armstrong decided widespread and saluted each other with the weakness. a more powerful solution was of effort. After discussing the matthat words, Remember that you must Yet it was not until 1908 that the ter with the President, he conceived needed. Two California scientists, die. first real advance was made in the the idea of a gigantic series of working on funds supplied by the search for a germ. Then Land-stein- parties which would enable millions Presidents Birthday Ball commisThe Eternal City and Popper, in Paris, inject- of Americans to do their share in sion, supplied it. , They were E. Rome has been called the Eter- ed portions of the brain and spinal the war on W. Schultz and L. P. Gebhardt of polio. nal City since the time of the an- chord, taken from a fatal human Stanford university, and ' they ofFunds Aid Experiment. cient Romans. It was so called be- case, of infantile paralysis, into fered a 1 per cent zinc sulphate socause people thought that no matter some monkeys. They succeeded in Under Colonel Dohertys direction lution. Zinc sulphate had been used what happened how many other infecting the monkeys with the dis- the mammoth task for years as an eyewash. They disempires might rise and fall Rome ease, thus putting it on an experi- was started. A national headquar- covered it was virtually 100 per would go on forever. In Vergils mental basis for the first time. Only ters was established in New York cent effective in preventing infantile Aeneid d Jupiter tells Venus that a short time later several doctors and persons were paralysis when sprayed into the he will give the Romans an eternal almost simultaneously managed to called upon to help. The first series noses. of monkeys. Western Newspaper Union. empire. pass poliomyelitis from one monkey of parties was held on January 30, i. WITH long-await- ed , O-h- o. - . ? after-treatme- nt er party-organizi- ng civic-minde- , |