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Show -P RO V O - (U TfAH)rRV ENING-HE RAtD,-F,RI DAY.-JANUAR Y -1 91 9 3 4 PAGE NINE UNKNOWN BLOND by Laufo Lou -BWXXMAN Cc..nl Ktii MtA USltt INO CHAPTER XIV TNVOLUNTAKILY the three men stopped wulki. Drugan bad eald. "There's just one person in the world who had any reason to want to harm Tracy King." Cainey asked quickly, "Oh, yes? And who is that?" "It's quite a story," Drugan told them. "I can't tell It all to you here. Take too long." He glanced at an Illuminated clock across the street. Its hands pointed to 10 minutes past 7. "I've got to be on the stage in about half an hour," he said. "Suppose you come along back etage with me. I'll tell you what i jcuow and you can judge lor yourself." "Okay," Gainey said quickly and Bannister assented. They walked another block, went down an alley and entered the stage door of the theater. A few momenta later they were settled set-tled in a dimly-lighted corner of the cavernous back-stage quarters. quar-ters. "It all starts," said Drugan, breaking into his story, "about 10 years back. Tracy King is get-tiu' get-tiu' his first break in vaudeville then. He's travelln' with an act that's beeu on the Olympia circuit cir-cuit In the middlewest. Not Such a good act but it pjays good houses and in some of the big towns. Tracy's a hoofer then. Not such a good hoofer maybe but still he gets by. Everything is swell until one night In Omaha Oma-ha he takes a cold. It gets worse and a week later he's flat on his back. Pneumonia. Well, the act goes on and leaves him behind. Tracy lands in the charity ward of a hospital. "He mauages to pull through but six weeks later when they turn him loose he's broke, looks like a skeleton and he hasn't got a job. Well, Omaha isn't such -a-good place to be in the winter when you're broke and out of work. Too cold. But Tracy finds a Job. Washiu' dishes! He works In a restaurant and lives in a cheap rooming house. - "One night he gets talkln with a fellow niraed Joe Parrott. This Parrott lives in the Bame rooming room-ing house with Tracy. He plays the ukulele and s'ngs a little and Tracy thinks he's good. Well, they work up an act together rnd Tracy gets in touch with a book-In' book-In' agent he knows. This fellow gets them on in a local house and they go over. Then he gets them some dates out of town. After while they land on a regular circuit. cir-cuit. fcnPHKY play the middlewest two or three seasons and then ' s All Pay son Clubs Join In Program PAYSON - Sponsored by the Cultus club with President Cuba Davis in charge, an all club day program was given at the Community Com-munity church Wednesday afternoon. after-noon. The following excellent pro BOOTS AND HER VJCiTCVUs WASHING IOIN 1 41 7 fiHATi YOU WERE IK1 THE HOUSE, AMD V NOSSlR. V YOU OOWT KNOW HOW THAT BL00D-SATlW6 J UNLESS HIPPOPOTAMUS. F J U T TH' 5POO 1 GOT tN?-23fc I BROUGHT they go east. All the while j they're partners. But by this time Parrott's drinkin' pretty heavy, j Sometimes he doesn't show up I for the act. Finally they have a , big row and bust up. Tracy j knocks around by himself for a j while and then joins Louie La ment s orchestra. Of course you know who Louie Lamont is! Well, after while Tracy gets the idea of having his own orchestra. He gets some Doys togetner. mat was three years ago. I was with him then and I've been with him ever since. We played a couple of seasons sea-sons in vaudeville and then he got this offer to come to the State. Most of the boys In the orchestra live around here but I came with Tracv. Like that, we Drugan stopped talking long enough to raise two fingers of his right hand, holding them firmly side by side. "I- that," he re-n peaiea. Aie an rracy. He leaned forward again, Intent In-tent on his narrative. "Now here's what happened last week!" he said. "Tracy and me were stand-in' stand-in' right over there " (he motioned mo-tioned to a spot near the outside entrance) "when a little dark fel-1 fel-1 o w in seedy-lookin' clothes walks in, claps Tracy on the back and begins pumpin' his arm. It's ! this Joe Parrott! Tracy tries to j get rid of him but Parrott says he's got to see him private. Of course I know that means a touch so I hang around. "Then the little, fellow gets sore. He asks Tracy for a job and Tracy says nothin' doln'. Then he asks for $50. Finally he gets it down to $10. Well, Tracy gives him a couple of bucks and tolls him to kesp away froth the theater. "But the little fellow doesn't keep away. He's back the next morning and the next afternoon. He's a bad actor, this Joe Parrott. He meets Tracy out in the alley and he makes more trouble. Tracy gets good and sore this time and tells Parrott that if be doesn't keep away he'll have the cops on him. Tracy tells me about It and says he's worried because be-cause besides bein' such a drinker drink-er Joe's a hop-head. You know ." Drugan paused significantly and made a quick movement that suggested the use of a hypodermic hypoder-mic needle. "TV-OW last night," Drugan's voice lowered and the hush gave It emphasis. "Tracy saw Parrott hanging around outside when he came in. We went on for the early show and afterward Tracy told me ie was goin' to go home and stay there until time for the second show. He said he couldn't stand seein Parrott around and he didn't really want to turn him over to the police. He went out the front way and that's the last we saw of him. "When it got near time for ns to go on again I called his apartment apart-ment but there wasn't any answer. an-swer. We thought he was on" his way and would be here any minute. min-ute. Well, we had to go on without with-out him. It was the first time It ever happened! As soon as I could get away I jumped into a cab and rode out to the Shelby Arms. I guess you know the rest. I couldn't get any answer when I rang the bell or noundert on th Kdoor so I ran downstairs and eot the clerk. He opened the door gram was enjoyed: book review, " As the Earth Turns," by Gladys Hasty Carroll presented by Miss Nada Ellsworth as a Cultus club feature; vocal solo, Mrs. Melba Powell of the Flower Garden club followed with a short talk by the club president. Mrs. Mildred Mc- Clellan; vocal solo, Mrs. Erva Tavlor of the Ameian Legion j auxiliary, accompanied by Miss, j can tarneu; snort taiK Dy Mrs. Audrea Rowland, president of the Business and Professional Wo BUDDIES KROOWO W6 GOOD OVO UV THKC UbBS TH and we found him!" It had been a Ion g story and It ended as abruptly as It had begun. be-gun. There could be no doubting the honesty of the emotion that made Drain's voice die away, almost al-most to a whisper. There was a pause and then Gainey said, "I suppose you've told the police all this?" "I've told them to find Joe Parrott Par-rott if they want the man who killed Tracy," Drugan said slow ly. "He's the only enemy Tracy had in the world. But the police have a lot of theories of their own. They've got this Dutchman or whatever he is in jail because be-cause of writing a crazy letter." There was sarcasm In Drugan's voice. "Tracy showed me that letter when it came," he went on, "an laughed at It He thought somebody was kiddin' him. What else could it mean? He'd never heard of this Scurlach or his wife. Tracy thought it was just a .. Gainey put-In, "It might be a joke to him and be real enough to Scurlach." T"RUGAN shook his head. "I J- don't believe it." he said. "It was Joe Parrott who fired that shot." He went on heatedly. "If it wasn't Parrott why'd he clear out of town? He hasn't been around the theater since last night. I know because I went out lookln for him! Th cops tried to pick him up and they couldn't find him. Parrott blew. Probably realized what he'd done and got out as fast as he cod travel!" Suddenly they heard a signai and Drugan Jumped to his feet. I've got to beat it," he said. "In three minutes we're due to go on." Gainey called, "I'll be around to see you later!" as the musician disappeared. Gainey turned to Bannister who was on his feet. "Well, what do you think of it?" "You mean what do I think of his story?" The other nodded. "I'd think 'more of It if I knew hd was entirely sober." "Oh, he's sober enough now! Sure, he's all right. Want to hang around and talk to him some more after while?" Bannister shook his head. "Not me," he said. "I'd rather see that girl that Bannister was engaged to." Gainey .screwed his face into a sardonic expression. "You mean try to see the girl he was engaged en-gaged to! Let me remind you Denise Lang is 'nuality folks.' High society and all that. There's only a chance that she'll even let us in the ho'use." "Come on," said Bannister. "Let's make a try for it any how. And I think you have a way with the ladies." They made the 20-mInute trip in a taxicab. The imposing Lang rysltfence loomed" trefore them, black and forbidding, as they stepped from the cab. "You go first." Gainey suggested, sug-gested, and Bannister rang the bell. "I'd like to see Miss Denise Lang," he said. "My name is Bannister and I'm from The Post." A maid in a black uniform ushered them Into a small reception recep-tion room. A moment later the maid was back. "Miss Lang will see you." she said. "Will you come with me?" (To Be Continued) men's club; two selections by the Federated Music club, directed by Mrs. L. D. Stewart and Miss Mad-oline Mad-oline Robinson, accompanist; selections, sel-ections, Boys' Harmony club of Payson high school, representing1 the Lady Lions. Ohio expects to sell real whisky for as low as $1.50 a quart. 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Four New Members Join Scout Group Four new members nave been added to the new scout organization organ-ization of the Timpanogos council "The Knights of Tirhpanac" according to a communication received re-ceived by Chief Executive A. A. Anderson from E. De Alton Partridge, Part-ridge, who with Merrill Christ-opherson, Christ-opherson, founded the movement. Ira Markham, Mark B. Gardner, John Young, and Clyde Sangren, all former members of the local 1 council, and well known in Utah county, sent in contributions find have become charter members. . Will Jones of Provo has also become be-come a member. "The Knights of Timpanac" is an organization of older scouts of j the council who will form an in- j formal group to keep scouting I OUR BOARDING 1 - - WHAT 1 YOU "PLVTTiNf TVT VAtAT ON ME 2 BUT, WCTfO V00 F Wilut SHOULD VVORT niri TS0S75 6.JUSt.T'-lP r". -WEV OUST SAW THE SERVANTS, TO MIKE. THESE AND THE GUYS ARE coo -coo. THEY T. V. JL Shop and Residence Phone 1396J Prices. West Center Phono 160. alive in their hearts and to contribute contri-bute in a financial way to the council. Already approximately 25 older scouts are included in the charter membership, many of them coming com-ing from the east. Mr. Partridge, who is working in the national scout office, is now with the division of progress as' an assistant. as-sistant. U. S. Millionaires Cut Down To 20 WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Ul: --Three --Three years of depression thinned the ranks of the million-dollar-a-year income class to a mere 20, internal revenue bureau statistics showed today. For the year 1932 only 20 individuals reported net incomes in excess of $1,000,000, while in 1929, the peak boom time year, 513 received in excess of that amount. HOUSE UP WITH EMeU,AiND NO P7T OR T TUT YOU ON A AJ"B ? HERE,MAv30R,TAK& TKA MONEY "BACK "PRONX MIM , AND PHONE FOR THE VAACVv WELLBALT 1 MORE "BURT. 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