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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET An Old St. Christopher Medal And a Bashed-i- n Pullman Car I By BILLY ROSE Ordinarily, knowing what editors expect of me, I don't devote much space in this column to stories of faith, devotion and other such unhep subjects. However, I bumped into a yarn the other night that did nice things to my spine, and here 'tis, even though it's as corny as a chorus of "Hearts and Flowers. . . ." Some years ago, a dancer named Jean Armstrong (note to Ed. that's her square monicker and she's given me permission to use it) came down with a ruptured appendix, and by the time they got her to the hospital, peritonitis had set in and the doctors didn't eive her much rhanro The following day, the nurse handed her a string ot rosary beads. A little girl tried to get in to see you this morning," she said. "Her name was Sylvia, and she said her moth-er was a friend ot yours. When I told her you couldn't be disturbed, she luggage the case was gone. She notified the desk and, when that didn't produce results, reported the loss to the police. But when the unit pulled out of Baltimore , on Saturday night, neither case nor beads had been found. In Pittsburgh the next week, the show got bad notices and folded, and as if that weren't enough, the manager skipped with the salaries. A few days later, down to her last three bucks, Jean considered her-self plenty lucky when a local agent offered her a job in a Miami night-club. She was given a ticket car 16, berth No. 1 on the 7.22 out of Pittsburgh. At 7 o'clock the dancer left the hotel, but a couple of blocks from the depot she noticed something on the sidewalk and picked it. up. It was a string of rosary beads and, attached to it, a medallion of St. Christopher. JEAN DIDN'T KNOW then, and she doesn't know now, whether it was the same rosary. She did know, however, that it looked exactly like the one the little girl had sent her, except for one thing the chain had been broken. As she continued on to the station, she got to thinking of the beads how sick she had been when she first got them, and how her troupe had been stranded when she had re-ferred to the medallion as a piece of old junk. And suddenly it seemed asked me to give Billy Kose you this. It has a St. Christopher medal on it, and the kid thought it might bring you luck." The dancer wasn't a Catholic, but she was touched by the present anyhow. And six weeks later, thanks to faith or the new sulfa drugs, she was out of the hospital. FROM THEN ON, she kept the rosary in her make-u- p box, but a couple of years later, after a suc-cession of cheap variety houses and even cheaper hotels, the beads no longer seemed very important. And one day, when one of the girls in her vaudeville unit asked about the St. Christopher medal, Jean said, "It's nothing at all. Just a piece of old junk. I don't know why I keep on carrying it." That Sunday, when the troupe checked into a Baltimore hotel, Jean put the make-u-p case on top of her valise and signed the regis- - ter, but when she reached for her important to get the chain fixed. Up the street there was a com-bination hock y store and, forgetting the 7:22, she walked in. The jeweler worked as fast as he could, but when he handed the rosary back to her the clock said 7:30, and the dancer knew she was out of a job again. With less than a dollar in. her purse, she went back to the hotel, and a few minutes later the phone rang. It was the stage manager of "The Student Prince" which, for the umpteenth time, was playing the Nixon theater. "Heard your troupe was stranded," he said. "One of our dancers is getting married tomorrow, and if you want to fill in for a few weeks" And now for as corny a finish as ever found its way into a hep column. When Jean picked up a newspaper the next morning, she read that the 7:22 out nf Pittshuroh had been d by a freight car. It wasn't much of a wreck nobpdy had been hurt because the two berths which were bashed in happened to be empty. One of them, of course, was berth No. 1, car 16. TEAWS? I A rTr1 "'CPeVHfftVATHE INCOMPARABLE) Asf- - I ljJly USED TO BE INCOMBWABLE ON THE LINKS. I WNNONO QNV W H HER e0LF 6AME WAS CONSISTENTLY IN 'onOl'lS 'NOiS09p,.r-- vr - THE LOW 605 AND WOULD HAVE BEEN "" "'.!""' LOWER WITH -- )'. , REGULAR PRACTICE:. rA M i That Would Have Hurt''"1 For the first time in his Smith was in need of a services. He remembered!''' his father had known 7, ' prominent attorney so he 5; see the man. The lawyer ' to take the. case and won 5 handily. Then he went to yer to pay the bill. li! "Le,t,s see now," said the I, yer, "you won $500 in that , didn't you?" "Yes, sir," replied Cal "Well, since I knew so well, I must make your(ali(1 it eas' you. Supposing I set my lL $400?" "Whew!" whooshed Cal f sure glad you didn't know father." ' - Time to Part A young lawyer had a case to present court. He prepared his with utmost care and present it with the clearest words t could muster. When he was a'noi halfway through his oration '' felt that the judge was miss- -a few of the finer points J paused a moment then 3a:d' "I beg your pardon, Your Be y or, but are you following me'" i "I'm right behind you, ;or fellow," replied the black f figure, "but if I thought fa' could find my way back a!or- I I'd try it right now." rK Sifmpatfu J0J CROWELL .Jm Jesus had not walked the earth, . , i ... . aAWt IFFootsore and weary, long ago, Oh, I might be so very tired, WWi And even He could scarcely know "j?gsd The depths of my discouragement, V1 , Jf Or just how tired I might grow. J'" Jfy IfJesus had not suffered much, vMli And borne the greatest agony, &( rWffjjk I might have more than I could bear M' fiffwMM:f Ofpain, and He could scarcely see 'MS.lfMMwmf J How great would be my suffering WjMMMFm' M Or what that pain would mean to me. fyJ But oh, my Jesus understands, sbsWc-- " nmA And looks in loving sympathy; Q$lifMM "Like as a father pitieth 7 lfl$$ His child," 'tis thus He pities me, And I am glad that Jesus knows 'i' When J S? L.v.-- ' ::w:Si!rfrr.. . y3r'y --s SPORTUGHT Unbandaged Yanks Ready fo Win By GRANTLAND RICE PEERING into the palms and - pines, the Casey Stengel of 1950 is an entirely different person from the Casey Stengel of 1949. A year ago at this time, we found a bewildered, baffled, un-- a year ago. That could make a big difference." The 1950 Casey may have a few inner twinges but outward-ly he fairly exudes confidence. He's the only manager I know of who is willing to admit open-ly that he expects to win. The Yankee Bench At that moment an ancient-lookin- g pelican lighted for a few min-utes not so far away. "I only wish I was half as smart as that bird looks to be," Casey I f ft I LitJ certain Yankee manager who ad-mitted that he knew few answers to any questions involving his team. This is now a new Casey. The sun is brighter, the palms are greener, the birds said. "No one could be that smart." In the course of punching the bag I asked Casey what he thought was the strongest feature of the Yankees last year. "That's easy," he said. "It was our bench. We always had a good man ready for any gap. No other team had a bench that matched ours. Outside of first base, we had Coleman, Stirnweiss, Rizzuto, Brown and Johnson ready for our infield. Outside of DiMaggio and Henrich, we had Bauer, Woodling, Mapes and Lindell for any vacant spot in our outfield. The bench was ready to give us anything we nee-dedall good men, too. It makes a big difference what sort of re-serves you have. We had good ones, all the time Bauer, Mapes, Wood-lin- Brown, etc. Anything hap-pened to Berra there was Silvera in 58 games, batting .318. Our pitching anything hap-pened to Reynolds there was Page. Anything happened to Raschl there was Page. Any-thing happened to Byrne or Lo-p- at or Sanford there was Page. "I guess that's our weakest spot," Casey finally said. "Our pitchers had to be relieved too often. No one pitcher should be yanked out of the bull pen 60 or more times in a season. That's almost half our games. Too many. We've got to do something about that. Raschi wasn't bad that way. But I think you'll find Reynolds and Byrne will need less help. . "Porterfield is sure he is O.K. and that his arm ligament has healed. Shea says he feels fine, with all his soreness gone. You can't ask a pitcher to show you everything the first day of the spring season. "All in all," Casey concluded, "We have no alibis and no excuses for what happens. I think we'll be better than we were a year ago. Don't forget to mention those two words Yankee spirit. That's what won for us a year ago. I think it can win again. It will be a much tougher league this time." Grantland Rice sing sweeter songs and even the pelicans look more intelligent. For Casey's 1950 answer is "Bring, 'em along. Red Sox and all the rest.. The Yankees will be set and ready. "We are far better off than we were a year ago," Casey said. "How do you figure that one out," I asked. "You haven't added a single player." "I figure it this way," Casey ' said. "Joe DiMaggio reports in the best condition in many years. I never saw Henrich or Rizzuto look better. Joe Page is all set. In addition to Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi, Tommy Byrne, Ed Lopat and others, we have Bob Porterfield and Frank Shea, two of our 1949 wounded, back in harness with their band-ages removed. Both expect to be ready. "In my opinion," Casey con-tinued, "Reynolds is going to be a leading star this year. I mean a great pitcher. He could also be a relief pitcher close to Page. The big fellow is a fine ath-lete. He was a backfield star at Oklahoma or one of those Oklahoma colleges. Raschi will be among the best again. And I have an idea Tommy Byrne will soon find where that plate is planted and when he does, look out. He's got amazing stuff. "Here's another thing. We've found out we could suffer over 60 wounds and still win. We've discovered we could have most of our team on crutches and still win. Did you know that Di- Maggio, Henrich and Berra, three of our top hitters, were only in 19 or maybe it was together all season? "We are bound to have better breaks than we drew last year. Lightning can't hit the same spot 60 times in a season. This means we should have our best men in action far oftener than we had them Apples can be baked wit. cracking and every bit of if a one-inc- h band peeled from the middle of a: apple. Stuff the apple and take; a moderate oven. There are seven ways of pr paring eggs: cooking in the she! frying, poaching, scrambh baking, broiling,' and in omelet Orange juice can be fixed : half the usual time. The trick e to squeeze small oranges by e; ting off the stem end only ande tracting the juice in one operatic It works for lemons, too. Odds and ends of fruit jute that clutter your refrigerate: especially orange and pineapple can make a delicious combinatt Simply stew prunes or apricots: the mixture. Salty soup is no cause for alarr J' Add a sliced raw potato or ft: and simmer slowly five to 10 ic ji utes. Remove the potato slices fore serving the soup. f , I The Fiction FIVE HOURS DEAD Corner i OBADIAH LITTLE was- - dead. were plenty who would be glad to hear that news. There were a great majority of others who didn't care a rap. Obadiah was a mean old man who lived alone on a farm 10 miles west of Fairview. Everyone hated . him because he , drove a sharp 3M. bargain and closed mortgages I I on the minute. That was the situation that confronted Owen and me when we drove up to investi-gate. Preliminary investigation re-vealed the following facts: Obad-iah had been killed by a rock thrown through a window near which he was sitting, reading. We knew he had been sitting there reading because Moses Morris, a neighbor had passed by in the early evening and noticed the light in Obadiah's window, and noticed Obadiah sitting beside it. Moses had gone up the road looking for a cow that had strayed. He found the cow and started back and no-ticed that Obadiah had shifted his That looked bad, or good, depend-ing on what side of the fence you were on. I sent Owen to hunt up Roscoe, and returned to Obadiah's farm. Quite a crowd had gathererd out-side. Lights from automobiles illu-minated the house and grounds. Among the cars I noticed Doc Orion's little coupe. He was inside, and had already begun his investigation. "How's it look?" I asked him. "Let you know in about an hour." He glanced up and returned to his work. I scowled. Doc was usually more confident. I went back into the bedroom. Doc was stuffing things back into his bag. "Been dead about five hours," he said. "How?" "Some blunt Instrument." "The rock, eh?" "Could have been." Just then Owen came in. He had a tall, rawboned individual with him. "This is Roscoe," he said. Owen came in again with Moses. Moses looked important. "Moses," I said, "you're a first class liar. You murdered Obadiah!" Moses' jaw went slack. "How do you figure that, Shurruf?" "Easy as pie," I said. "You started out after your cow and stopped by to talk to Obadiah about renewing a mortgage, per-haps, or something else. Anyway, you got mad and slugged him' with the stove poker. Then you propped him up by the window, lighted the lamp and put the book in his hand. "Then you went outside and heaved a rock through the window. Later, when you came back with your cow you saw that Obadiah had slumped, and you went up to look, which is when Oscar Jones came by." There was.j of course, blood on the poker to prove that part of it, but it was what the doc said that gave me the real lead. Dead five hours. Well, five hours ago the sun was shining, and a mean old man like Obadiah wouldn't burn oil when the sun was out. position. Something about the way the old man looked aroused Moses' curiosity, and he went up close and saw blood on Obadiah's temple. Moses went on home and called the police. We corrobrated this by talking to neighbors who had heard Moses calling the cow, and by discovering footprints and hoofprints outside the window, and by the fact that Obadiah was a mean old man . . . everybody hated him. Oscar Jones, another neighbor, had come by while Moses was looking in the window. So we discounted Moses as a possible suspect, and went to work on the others who had hated Oba-diah. There was, for' example, Roscoe Norbert, who lived a mile away, and who had been helping Obadiah with his haying. A neigh-bor had heard Obadiah and Roscoe quarreling over wages that very day. qO WE CALLED at Roscoe's house, and struck a snag. Roscoe hadn't been home all night. By INEZ GERHARD JJEEEY KROEGER, typed on a recent Hollywood trip as a young Charles Laughton, is currently heard as "Sam Williams" on "Young Dr. Malone". He got his first radio contract when the nar-rator of Louella Parsons' show col-lapsed in the middle of his imper-sonation of Ronald Colman, back St??"" ; 'J BERRY KROEGER in 1940. Berry picked up the script and carried on. He had broken into radio in 1930, when versatility was a "must"; in one local half-hou- r show he had carried 11 parts, for which he received $2.50! 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