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Show Thursday, December 27, THK 19-1- .7111 Sir n' 'i ii i J !W: f m Tales of the Totvn: In the Astor Komo Vincent ing pals about zagged into a the other midnight got a big laugh tellthe drunk who zigbar and ordered a triple martini. . . . After swallowing two of them he decided the bartender was his friend. Reaching Into his coat pocket he brought forth a live lobster and offered it to the bartender, who tried refusing it sev- JSI ? le Roney-Pleasur- two-timin- . PAGE SEVEN NKI'Hl. UTAH the Shooting UfiTuH All Over But .... Richurci Powell AN STARRING f.H ant colonel, and growled, "Suppose I handle this." "Certainly, sir. I only meant " "Blake," Colonel Parker said, "have you anything in mind?" "Yes, sir." He took a deep breath and said, "I know you're worried about your wife, Blake. But everybody's going to do his best and I doubt if you can accomplish anything by yourself. What was in your mind?" "Colonel, I thought I might be able to stir something up." "Blake, if you're holding out any- thing . . ." It's Just that the Jones gang dropped some loose talk too. About where they went and all that. Favorite places like a restaurant and a roadhouse and a filling station that apparently sells black-markgas. Maybe the whole gang hasn't skipped. Maybe some of them "No, sir. are around those favorite places." "We can look into that" somebody said. "But I don't think anything is likely to come of it." "That's just it, sir," I said. "One sight of a jeep and any of the gang at those places would be warned. But by myself I might stir up some Interest." "Bait," the said, nodfour-strip- ding. "Yes, sir. They know me. They might get scared and try to get rid of me." A major said, "We could cover you with a strong detail." "If "No, no," another argued. there's anything in it, it's a Job. The first thing anybody'd look for after spotting Blake would be to see if he has friends." Nobody spoke for a few moments, and then Colonel Parker stepped in to make the decision. "Go ahead. one-ma- n i "Been Blake?" painting the town red, Blake," he said. "You're on your Report anything you dig up. Get going." He glared around defiantly. Nobody said anything more than shrug, and so I ducked out fast. I hadn't picked the gas station over the restaurant and roadhouse because of any hunch or deduction. I picked it because I needed gas. But the more I thought about it the better I liked it as a place to start. If the Jones boys had a hangout five or six hours' drive away, they must buy plenty of black-markgas. In fact, the operator of the station might be more than just a ration chiseler. Even chfselers run out of gas, and the Jones boys needed a place they could count on without fail. Like tonight, for instance. The operator might be one of the own. et gang. "Let's have some gas," I said. "Pump dry." "Don't give me that stuff. Not unless you want trouble." "Gov'ment business?" "What's it to you? Fill It up." He shuffled past me to the pump, unscrewed the cap of my gas tank, inserted the hose nozzle, unlocked his pump, and began grinding. "Joey get off O. K.?" I asked. His eyes flickered at me. "Joey?" "Joey Raeder. And Jones and the rest of them. I understand they bad to scram last night" "Never heard of them." "Cagey, huh? Well. I'll be seeing them later today, so it doesn't matter. I'm headed up that way, too." He went on silently grinding gaso" he said finally, line. as a trickle of gas overflowed. I gave him a Ave and my ration book. He took three stamps from the book, shuffled into the house with my money. I got back In the car and waited. He might come back with a gun, but that was one of the chances I had to take if I wanted to learn anything. He returned in a few minutes and banded me the change. "Two-forty,- "Got to wipe off that said, flourishing a rag. "Thanks." tor He fiddled around the ta-iover a minute. It was curious; you wouldn't have expected a guy of his type to worry about gasoline spilled on a rear fender. He finished the job and came up to my window, stuffing the rag into a pants pocket. "I never heard of them guys," he said, and went back into his shack. I drove off grinning. He shouldn't have insisted twice that he didn't know them. Two hundred yards from his place, out of sight around a curve, was a narrow feeder road. I swerved into lt and stopped past its first bend. I got out and walked back to the gas tank. The fender had not been wiped perfectly clean. Here and there I spotted a few white grains that dissolved when I rubbed He had them with a wet finger. poured sugar into the tank while preI tending to wipe the fender. would't have gone far after that sugar gummed the carburetor. I cut across the fields and slipped up on the gas station from the rear. When I got close to the ramshackle repair shop I could hear him talking. I crept around to the front. The door was open and he was standing at a pay box with his back to me. I inched forward until I was only a right hook away from him. A shiver jerked at my skin. He was putting out my license number and a description of me. Not a flattering description, but it would have done the Job. I had a vision of my car stalled two miles up U. S. 1, and a couple of friendly strangers stopping to give me the last lift I would ever get. "O. K.," he said finally, "I'll leave you handle it." He 'hung up, banged the side of the pay box, and dug a finger in the return slot His coin didn't drop through. "This is your unlucky day, isn't It?" I said. He whirled, grabbing at a Stillson wrench in his belt, and I plugged him on the jaw. His head slammed back against the pay box. A coin rattled into the return slot. He melted slowly down the wall, and came to rest propped in a sitting position. I retrieved his coin. It was a nickel. Indicating a call to someone not very far away. I went through his pockets and found nothing of interest. I took the gasoline pump key, however. He owed me twelve gallons of unsweetened gas. Plenty of tire tape was handy and I used it to bind his wrists and ankles. It was too bad I'd had to hit him. It delayed things. I got a can of radiator water and sloshed it over him. He didn't budge. I knew I hadn't smacked him that hard. I worked on him for several minutes without getting a flicker, and yet his pulse was hammering like an outboard motor. I went outside, unlocked the pump, and filled the can with gasoline. I His nose doused him with that ' wriggled. y; 1 inci.i: m:ia)u:oi k Gay Knit and INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY ARAB AD ANDY BLAKE THE STORY MI'S FAR! Lt. Andy Blake and his wife, Arab, found evidence of a spy rlnc working oat of her boarding nous. Andy had searched Jones' home and found additional evidence, which he had turned over to the FBI. Arab told the girls that the evidence was In Andy's home. That night she and Andy went to the house, sorted out the evidence and waited. Renee was captured by them as Arab esshe climbed In the window. caped from the cellar but was captured as she was leaving the yard. Renee was hit by a bullet fired by Jones Into the cellar. In order to save Andy, she cut a small flesh wound over his heart and had him play dead. Jones broke Into the cellar, believing Andy dead, left with Renee. eral times. . . . Finally, the bartender decided it would be better to take the damb thing than argue about it "Okay," he said, gripping the lobCHAPTER XII ster, "I'll take it home for dinner." "Oh, no, don't do that!" cried the I left the house, ran down the lush. "He's already had dinner road, and found the car still tucked take him to the movies!" away safely in the field. I headed Colonel lt back toward Washington. A war correspondent back from house was about four Parker's Yoa may re- miles Tokyo brought this. away, near Fort Myer. He call that when Tojo shot himself, an could be counted on to act on my American commentator In Japan story first and read up on the Manflashed: "Tojo has killed himself!" ual second. On the of Courts-Marti. . . When the reporter returned to way I checked the time and found house he old learned the Tojo's that it was only a little after midwas still alive. . . . "Oh, It seemed as though lt should damn it!" shriekeil the broadcast- night. be hours later. I tried not to think er. "I just told CBS listeners that about Arab very often, because that he killed himself!" seemed to start my head Tojo was lying on his back and thought again. She would be safe the blood was flowing. . . . One G.l. aching was sure. I couldn't looked at another. Someone sud- for a time, I help her by worrying myself sick. broke the hush and said: denly Colonel Parker came to the door "What the hell? He's gonna die anyway and good riddance. Let's of his house yawning and wrestling turn the over on his belly with the cord of a bathrobe. He so the blood will run more freely!" peered at me, and snapped, "Been the town red, Blake? You . . . And they did so. . . . Pretty painting soon the doctor arrived and exam- got some on yourself." ined Tojo. . . . Turning to the G.I.s "Sorry, sir. I'm afraid it's blood." Yours?" and correspondents the doctor in-No, sir." quired: "Who turned him over?" "You look as if you've been out . . . "We did!" they all yelled. "Well," sighed the doc, "you campaigning for a separate Air Force. What happened?" saved his life." "It's that house on Q Street busiColonel. They've got the North ness, Shirley Temple's book, "My invasion spotted and they Young Life" (her autobiogra, hy), African which was written by a New York grabbed my wife and " A big hand reached out, yanked girl at a weekly wage. . . . Made"Keep your voice leine Carrcll spurning all screen me inside. and stage offers to continue serving down!" he said. "My gosh, is it the Red Cross. . . . Dinah Shore really North Africa?" put together a lot copping every popularity poll this of "Colonel, they I handed him Look." talk. loose for year gal thrushes. . . . The way Pres. Truman has "aged" in his the scraps of paper on which Arab first season at the White House. and I had made our notes. Muscles He glanced at them. Not physically but over his unhap-pines- s at the way "my old friends squirmed along his jaw. "Come in and sit down," he said. "I'll get in the Senate have let me down." on the phone. This is plenty to go Earl Browder (former chief of the on." went into the living room and Americommies) is being investigat- I We watched Colonel Parker go to ed by a special board of the Nat'l four calls in about Committee of the Communist Party. work. He made He five minutes. didn't mention They suspect him of organizing an North Africa but once or twice he faction within the party. opposing name which apparently . . . June Haver has called off her used a code romance with Vic Mature. He's so identified the operation. Finally he completed his calls, busy squiring Cleatus Caldwell, anyhow. . . . Ruth Hogg, who vocals and said, "We'll have the house on on some Harry James recordings, Q Street and the Jones place in the is Betty Grable. . . . Wm. Eythe is bag in ten minutes. About your coming here to visit Margaret Whit- wife . . ." He cleared his throat ing, which debunks the tritems of and said gruffly, "Good kid, isn't she?" a parting. "What chance has she, Colonel?" "I won't feed you any sirup," he Lindbergh Intermediary Irving "Nobody knows what Bitz Is back working for an eve'g muttered. those people might do. But I think . . . Norma one of the paper. Richter, safe for a while. Two comthree 'op models (making $1,000 she'll befrom Myer are going out to panies weekly), has chucked it all to mar- your place. They'll turn over every ry Chas. Rose, coast gem merchant leaf around Falls Church, on the . . . "Oklahoma Gin" is the rage. chance that the Jones crowd didn't Players get ten cards each the her along. Too bad we weren't next card Is turned up. Players take the goods on that bunch able to can't knock with less than ten points earlier."get than the value of that card. It's the The next ' few hours passed diznewest short cut to ruin. . . . Before I could get halfway zily. Hosiery (one of the biggest through my report, cars began firms) will bet any amount that ny- screeching up outside. The house lons will not be available (in retail bulged with silver leaves and eagles stores) until some time in 1947. . . . and even stars. I lost track of the After twenty-fou- r to service years' number of times ). went over the our country, underpaid Hoostory. Questions whipped at me like ver is broke. tracers, and my head buzzed from trying to squeeze out new facts. Fiddle-Faddand Piffle: Willkie Sometime during that period word will be on a stamp soon. . . . James came that they had drawn a blank Melton may get the role of "Curly" at the two houses on Q Street. The in the film version of "Okla." . . . (at man and Joey and Renee FieldJohn Roosevelt, recently libeled in a ing had not returned, and there was syndicated col'm (from Washington) no sign of Arab. as a "eonchie," will be Interested to The notes took second place In learn that the author has since been importance after that news. Maps tafired. . . . John W. Raper, the age- began to cover the dining-rooless Cleveland philosopher, has put ble until the room looked like a his pepigrams between covers. It GHQ. They questioned me again is tiUed: "What This World Needs." and again on what Renee bad let . , . Joseph E. Davies may auth slip about the hangout at the shore, another book to clear up matters trying to dig up some other remarks since Potsdam. . . . John Gunther which I might have forgotten. There has visited 47 states to compile data were arguments about routes and for his next book, "Inside U.S.A." speeds of cars. Finally they worked He will visit Delaware as soon as out a radius of operations based on he is completely mended from the the "five or six hours' drive" which flu. He is sunning at the mentioned. e Renee had The radius Cabana Club. swung in a great arc from Washington, cutting the Jersey coast up near Talk about gall! In an Interview Sandy Hook and swinging down the with an American newsboy, Musso- Maryland beaches and the long Cape lini's spouse defended the policies Charles peninsula across Virginia and into North Carolina. and the Romeoing of her g hubby. She then added that she Somebody said, "With ships liswished to come to America to give tening in here and here and here and here we can intercept any lectures. Whatl And give Liz Dilling com- transmission. We get a fast fix on the sending station. We flash word petition? to the Eastern Defense Command Chorus girls, believe It or not, and the Eastern Sea Frontier. We often discuss politics. At Nickf have the roast blanketed with planes Blair's Carnival the other night one and the inshore patrol. And we blast asked: "Why e there two polit- the station." Then for a minute there was siical parties? Is It that there are lence and I got up nerve to speak. two sides to every question?" "No." observed Jayne Westbrook, "Sir," I said to Colonel Parker, "do "it k,P,il,a t.Ajk - ...... . J you still need me?" A dozen pairs of eyes looked coldto every political office outside and ly at me. It wss just luck that lt inside." was only lieutenant colonel who "We may. 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How does a dog's normal given him one naval picture after ber plants erected during the war another; three of them altogether. body temperature compare with a cost approximately $700,000,000. He's playing his third in "Till the human's? More than 30,000 synthetic rubber End of Time," produced by I)ore 7. What is a wombat? compounds were prepared during with In "Over Irene 8. What President of the United the war, about 500 will have peace"Yeah," I said. "It was gasoline Schary. be was a 21," Dunne, navy lieutenant; States was born on the fourth of time uses. that time. Got a match, buddy?" he was a submarine crewman in The heaviest single load July? His eyelids snapped open. "You "Out of the Depths." ver moved on pneumatic wouldn't do that," he whined. The Answer tiros was 300 tons and for a "Why not? I like playing with "The Strange Love of Martha secret military project; equipmatches." ment was carried on a huge Ivers" stands between the Robert 1. It is a special train. "Go ahead, then." trailer having 64 wheels shod and the vacation they'd 2. Constantine the Great. I scowled. I hadn't put on a good Taylors to take long with B. r. Goodrich truck as soon as he was 7 per cent. 3. planned Only now he wouldn't go enough act, and tiros. and the armed 4. Two, Aries and Aquarius. for the torch stuff unless I really discharged. Taylor six months forces 5. company parted Tht is 139,682,000, population did drop a match on him. "Where sooner than he'd expected, and Bar- an increase of more than 8,000,000 did Jones and his gang go?" bara Stanwyck's working in the pic- over the year 1940. "Never heard of him." ture. She says he looks wonderful. 6. Higher (101 degrees). "Never heard of anyone named 7. A burrowing animal, resemJones, huh?" Metro's losing no time on that bling a small bear. From Australia. "No." on life of based the Jerome picture 8. Calvin Coolidgo. I went to the phone. "It's a dime Kern. Judy Garland and Robert from here to Republic 6700, isn't it?" Walker will be starred. Van Heflin Workers' Pay I asked. has the role of Kern's confidant, "What do you wanna call the War Angela Lansbury's an English comAmerican workers earn 31 difDepartment for?" edy star. "Some of our boys might like to ferent kinds of pay such as the i n find out which side of the war you're Connie Haines, singer on the Ab- night bonus and the swing shift on." bott and Costello programs over differential; while their wages are He ran a bluish tongue over his NBC, recently went out In the har- subject to 46 kinds of compulsory l vjt I 1 lips. "Look," he said, "you don't bor to sing for the avengers of and optional deductions, such ni do to that." have Bataan, the famed 30th division. Un- union dues and group insurance "I'm going to do it whether you like some singers who've stopped premiums. talk or not. But it may be nicer since the war ended, Connie goes for you if you talk." right on singing for the servicemen. "I don't know much," he mum- Once a week she goes to Terminal bled. "All I know is these fellows island, San Pedro, to greet returnbuy gas off me. You can't shoot a ing troop ships. man for that Maybe I give them a little extra gas, but that's OPA Elyse Knox has been set for the feminine lead in Monogram's "Joe grief, not army." "You'll have to do better than Palooka, Champ." This marks her Wonderfully quick, a little up each that. Where do they go on these long return to the screen after a year's nostril helps open the uusal passages makes leave of absence during which her easier when your hend fills up trips they take?" brathlni? daughter, Sharon Kristan Harmon, with stully transient congestion I If you need "I thought you knew." was born. The baby's father, Capt. reuf tonight from such breathing distress-t- ry "I want to hear from you." Follow directions la package. His pale eyes slid around in their Tommy Harmon, famous football has to returned Hollywood player, sockets like drops of mercury. VAIilO-riO- L to continue his radio sports com"They go up to Ballymore and then mentaries. . . . and then . . . now lemme think j'f..rffi' A what I heard them say." He mutRichard Metro contract Quine, tered to himself for a half minute and husband of Susan and I began to get jittery. He was player Peters, has doffed his coast guard stalling and I couldn't figure out uniform and been the rowhy. I got out a dime and lifted mantic lead in the assigned forthcoming "But the phone receiver. "Now wait," he said, "I'm getting It It's down Not Goodbye." on the Eastern Shore somewhere. nnns An ms They mentioned the place. It's . . , If you ever hrar Sttian Allen ling-intit's , . . 1 got to think . . ." ",Vo Can l)" on Snmnfr Kaye't T"IHB PUBLIC nature of advertising bene- I had been a fool not to have real"Sunday Vrrnmc," you'll find ikiI ized that his pals might have to the't X ntt everyone it touches. It benefits the puffing her heart into it her stop at his place for gas before start- father wrote it. , , . Jackie Cooper't by pubb'c describing exactly the products that are offered. It ing up U. S. 1 after me. They might uife, June llnrne, ha$ been given a role benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair arrive at any minute. I swung back in Warner Urns' "The Verdict? to the phone. My dime seemed to and just than the employer who has no obligation to die public Sydney Greenttreet. . . , Helen take ages filtering down to the bell. These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious one of the. tnr of Paramnunt't Walker, "Number, please," the operator "People Are f unny,'' hat almott o benefits which advertising confers the lower prices, the higher said at last many frerklet at Kalherine Hepburn "Republic 6700. Urgent." quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms. and Myrna loy, Hollywood' I mott itA y0 AP, KEGoodrich i Can 'flow,! Brcatfie $gafa!" ol VICKS vJ'vJ!t f mar-rin- g (TO BE CONTINUED) H lar. the lead in . . Hnnald lleagen gelt W arner't "Stallion Road," |