Show the the- A WOMANS WOMAN'S PUCE PLACE I I I J By JOliN JOHN T. T CAVANAUGH CAVANAUG i CO SO 0 is back Managing Man- Man J aging Editor Pepper Drislane exclaimed as he clicked down the r. r receiver Excitedly Police Chief I Lawton had just shouted into the I r telephone This guy Is looking for E blood blood dont don't dont take any unnecessary risks t I In the editorial room of ot the Hart Hart- t C i 4 field Herald Drislane sat with his head in his hands and mournfully two stall two old I t J looked over his city ts' ts J men and seven girls Thirty years t In newspapers and this has to happen happen hap hap- 1 pen to me me-a me a chance to make headline head head- line me history and here I am saddled with a bunch of sob sisters r a t The case had been spectacular spectacular spec spec- 4 from the start The self self- styled big shot of the numbers racket had challenged repeatedly I 1 There aint nobody going to pin pina a n rap on me This got protection all the way to the state statehouse statehouse statehouse house and back and dont don't forget It But Jerry Cowan erstwhile reportorial reportorial re- re 0 star of ot the Herald and J Managing Editor Drislane chose to forget it to the tune of ot pinning a year 20 federal sentence on the numbers numbers numbers num num- bers king Then tho the slipup while r t l waiting for the train that would carry him to prison outwitted outwitted out out- witted the guards slugged the marshal mar mar- t t. and was on his way tt With the news of his escape Jerry f and Drislane knew would t t- t be back The Heralds Herald's constant and merciless headlines had galled the gangster bored right into his pride Sure hell he'll be back the reporter reporter re re- re- re 1 porter told his editor and when he does hell he'll head for our office first z That was two years ears ago Now Jerry Jerry Jerry Jer Jer- ry was on assignment in the Pacific i Meanwhile the managing editor waited Of course he was jumpy who wouldn't be wh when n each corner r might turn into a hail of ot hot lead And now the chief of ot police had passed the word that had hadl l been spotted in Bayside just 11 miles this side of ot Hartfield The managing editor was dismally dismal dismal- ly 19 fingering the last cigarette in his squashed pack when Publisher Jim came into the room Li Drislane blinked bUnked his eyes and dropPed dropped dropped drop drop- ped the cigarette doggone cigarette doggone if it it f. f wasn't another girL Attractive and well built but still another girL hustled the young woman woman wom worn i an over over to to an empty desk and hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- leftOn left j On a new newspaper paper a girl reporter Isn't worth the powder it takes to ton toto toto n to to camouflage her nose Drislane had exploded when the publisher unobtrusively attempted to Install J. J the last girl on the city staff c r All I I hear hea th these se days days Is Ive got an appointment with the hairdresser hairdresser hair hair- t. t dresser the dressmaker the butcher butch butch- L er the baker baker- These Thes girls have an with everyone but me and their work he ranted Is t i t this a newspaper office or of a sorority house i. i Chief ChIet said thin thin 1 Mike Bales the papers paper's only bachelor bachelor bache bache- lor tor coming up to the managing editors editor's editors editor's editors editor's edi edi- tors tor's desk Im going to hop down downto to Nicks Nick's for a shave Generally Mike shaved every second day and today was a first Darn muttered Drislane were off oft again and it'll take another another another an an- other three weeks to see who Is really queen bee of ot this hive The managing editors editor's head was poked under his desk in search of his lost cigarette when a pair of ot shapely legs approached Mr Drislane he heard a feminine fem fern feminine voice say Id like to be assigned assigned as as- 7 signed to the case yo Abruptly a hush fell over the Herald editorial room and light expectant expectant expectant ex ex- reportorial heads poised over their typewriters as the managing managing man man- aging nging editor took several seconds to come up from under his desk In the face of the gathering editorial edItorial editorial edi edI- clouds the new girl bravely ely continued with her request and began began began be be- gan to fumble umble with a gold locket which was looped around her neck The picture I have from Jerry Jerry- she o offered but got no further The thunder broke loose and Drislane Dris- Dris lane lanc hissed his face tace purple On Ona a newspaper a woman woman he he didn't finish but resignedly collapsed In his chair With e effort Tort he continued feebly Miss your Whatever go get a manicure manicure get get a cup of ot co coffee Tee e I- I J I wt I I I ie tJ r The managing editors editor's head was poked under his desk in search of his lost cigarette when a pair of shapely legs leg approached get get anything But for right now just get As the girl hastily hasUly traced Mike Bales' Bales rapidly retreating footsteps Drislane sighed Even Jerry Cowan away out in the Pacific is getting balmy On top of ot all this imagine his wanting to saddle me with his fiancee some up-country up jane who probably doesn't know a dateline from a clothesline Gleefully he pictured himself setting up ambush for the next time the publisher came in with another girl After an hour of ot planting imaginary ary booby traps all over the newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper plant the managing editor had mentally destroyed the publisher publisher publisher pub pub- lisher and all the girls on the staff stafI staffa stafIa a dozen times over Just when he was halfway hallway through his masterpiece masterpiece masterpiece master master- piece of ot stuffing and the girls through the news press to be delivered as supplements to the 5 o'clock edition Mike Bales with witha a face full of ot lather tore into the I room I Chief Chief the reporter panted they just got him I Just got who where who when where Drislane roared at the barber shop said Mike furiously shoving a piece of t copy paper into his typewriter Ill have the story written for the thelast thelast thelast last edition in a jiffy D DOWNSTAIRS the presses were silent and waiting as the managing mani man- man i aging editors editor's pencil poised over the reporters reporter's scoop Nat former numbers czar who escaped local police two years ago today was captured In Nicks Nick's barber and beauty shop on Main Street through the efforts of Miss Loretta Hewes a member of ot The Heralds Herald's editorial staff the story read The gangster who has hidden from the police since his spectacular escape from the United States Marshals Marshal's Marshals Marshal's Marshals Marshal's Mar Mar- office In 1943 was recognized recognized recognized by the reporter as she walI walked ed through the barber shop to the beauty beau benu- ty salon at the rear of ot the building Miss Hewes upon seeing continued through the shop and left len by a rear exit and soon returned with a squad of police officers The reporter said that she had identified the gangster through his picture which she had carried ina In Ina ina a gold locket given to her by her fiance Jerry Cowan formerly police police police po po- lice reporter on The Herald and now on assignment in the South Pacific Having threatened the life ute of my fiance was a potential threat to my coming marriage so soI soI I carried his picture knowing that I would run into him some day Miss Hewes said Now that he is captured I know that I can cnn plan to marry Jerry as soon as he re re- re- re turns Speechless the managing editor scanned the copy Then poising his ils pencil he added to the message In the meantime I will continue working at The Herald as police reporter |