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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH See Here, Private Hargrove! Marion Hargrove by C I love drinks. ItVlCi By VIRGINIA VALE ten-da- y ten-da- ultra-swan- all-o- ut " nt tke sky worship Until my Released by Western Newspaper Union. The waiter, who had been standing Jose Iturbi heard that by with a growingly disgusted face, and fetched shoulders his Gould and Alec shrugged two tiny flagons of the Old Enemy. on Jempleton were to appear His face sank a little at the sight, said he he same radio program but I manged to keep up a sophistiYou may rest assured that you of and a soda took cated front. I sip lifted the glass. Well, heres lookwill hear every type of music me. down and going ing at you rom Bach to boogie and Wagner We managed to get through the to woogie! Which is about what meal all right, weakened though we lappens on the Carnival program were by the firewater. I continued each Wednesday night. Gould, comto impress him. The only obstacle poser, conductor, pianist and arrangI hit was his reminder that I would er, has written music that has been kitchen on be spending Thanksgiving of CHAPTER XI played by orchestras from that police. Miller. Glenn of to that Toscanini when I told him I We Its enough to drive a man to couldntparted Templeton appears with leading out of a reception I get y drink. You get a furlough had to attend at 2:30. I had suffisymphony orchestras, and also plays Musically and head for New York. You mooch joogie - woogie piano. impressed him and, with the k hotel. ciently a due bill on an theres practically nothing they aid of Providence, I might be able You say to yourself that for those to borrow money from him occacant do but their weakness is imcivilten days you will be an provisations! sionally back at Fort Bragg. " "" ian, you will squander your subThe meal cost me nothing, but stance in rioutous living, you will the fifty-ceDick Jones, the new Henry Altip was staggering. If forget altogether the fact that you worst should come to worst, I could drich, has entered Hackley school are a soldier. And then what hapa watch. I hock If had at Tarrytown, N. Y., and whenever my always pens? watch. You wake up at six oclock, no E matter how late you stay out the . Thanksgiving Day with all its night before. Then you cant go roast Vermont turkey, its pies and back to sleep. You have to buy enorits candies, and free cigafruits, mous quantities of civilian food to was just another day to me. rettes with your Army appetite. keep up You look in shop windows and see Phooey to it. Our mess sergeant, one Orville D. books youd give your wisdom teeth cheerful for, but you think of your purse in Pope, was disgustingly terms of $38 a month and the inner when he awoke me in the morning. Just Please go away, I said. man convinces you that you cant go away and let me gently curse. afford them. he Private Hargrove, Oh, Youd like very much to put on so much to be we have crowed, your civilian clothes, just for a thankful for. So very, very much! change, but your friends think you We have food, and warmth, and freedom! Food, weve got, I growled. "Including potatoes, with peelings to DICK JONES , peel. This is my 678th potato this I cant go ten feet without being for coal need I dont morning. to get a haircut, he said. a phone call comes there for Dick warmth when Im bathing myself in reminded sweat. And freedom? See, I am put them on properly later. Ive the other boys call out, as Mrs. Hen-reeon the air laughing bitterly! It is Thanksgiv- tried every way possible, but I just Aldrich does ALDRICH! HENRY ing Day and I am peeling pota- cant get anywhere with them. ' ' : toes and washing dishes foi; the How are the fellows? I asked orgy. Phooey to Thanksgiving! him. Nice bunch of boys? Hollywood has plenty of technical Sollie Buchman, the cook, who I was surprised at them, he experts, but when Samuel Brons-towas a student with me in Battery A, said. People Ive never seen beJack London for producing strode up humming that maudlin fore, and they all go out of their United Artists, wanted a man who old grammar-schoo- l song about way to help each other. When we mew all about seals and how they over the river and through the were first inducted, there were a lot are caught he had to search the woods, to grandfathers house we of fellows Id seen possibly once or San Pedro waterfront. Sven Hugo twice before in my life and we all Borg, Swedish actor who was Greta g It is a glorious day, drooled Pri- acted as if wed known each other Garbos interpreter when she first vate Buchman. anded in Hollywood, went along to It does my old since we were babies. You wake up at 6 oclock no matrun to of Ive too, think the Then, leart P. S. They got their man. already good expression help. to Then ter how late you went bed. on those boys faces when they see across some of the boys I know. to & back cant go sleep. you that Thanksgiving dinner. Johnny here is attached to our batof sneak previews Following look so pretty in your uniform that I tery for rations and quarters, and so Lady Repress yourself, Pappy, he in which the in Dark, It is not to think of is Buster Charnley. They do as they wont let you pull the old blue asked him. with Ginger Rogers, Ray the dinner. I am thinking of the much as they can to show me the Milland was given serge out of mothballs. a new seven-yea- r It isnt bad all the way through, sinks overflowing with dirty dishes ropes and help me along during this contract, without options, by Paraawkward period. eft by those gluttonous hogs. It though. " mount. lEa ' For instance, I walked out of the was not enough that we had trays Reading through the camp newshotel the other day and ran into to wash. Now we have to have the other day, I noticed stoHoly Matrimony brings us paper Now we have to one of the boys from my own bar- improvements. Monte and Fields Gracie written T. Wooley ries Pvt. Mulvehill, by lave china plates. And cups. And racks, in New York on a three-da- y in such 20th a that Thos. Pfc. good Private Tom picture Mulvehille, pass. We exchanged the prescribed soup bowls. And silverware. I hate executives ought to do Mulvehill, Thomas Mulvehill (pfc.) comments on the smallness of the progress! else but try to find another various and other whose authors nothing world and I saw a sparkling opporBetter leave the lad alone, Pap-p- names bore suitable for them. Its based to story resemblance startling He is Thomas tunity to spread a thick layer of sighed Sergeant Pope. on Arnold Bennetts Buried Alive. or Pfc. Pvt. Mulvehill, hokum. I could make the lad think pouting and will not enter into the The collection of literary and Miss Fields made a tour of British, I was one of these filthy-ric- h pri- spirit of the day. He has done wrong contributions to the Fort North African and Sicilian army and journalistic vates you so often read about in and is paying for it now. Post were all marked by the navy camps during the summer; Bragg the papers. -- la same flair for rhetoric, the true gift shell have her own radio program The kind that go about flashing of gab, and a certain rich and gor- this faU. was dawdling over a huge chocoI bills before unsuspecting late nut sundae the other $1,000 at the geous sentimentality. In the midst night headwaiters. Service Club cafeteria when John- of a factual story about a group of For the first time in her screen Wont you have lunch with me? Lisk walked in with someone college girl choristers coming to career Joan Fontaine will do an iminy I asked. Then I added, quite casu- who was a dead ringer for Simmons Fort Bragg for a concert, the steady tation, in Frenchmans Creek. But Im stopping here at the Jones of the Charlotte News staff. journalistic strain would suddenly nobody will be able to tell whether ally, Astor. Anyone who is a dead ringer for burst into brilliant and majestic its a good one or- - not, for the lady His eyes popped faintly, but a Simmons Jones cant be anybody phrases such as The Blankth Bat- whom the talented Joan imitates is NeU Gwynn! good soldier never passes up a free but Simmons Jones, I decided, so talion recreation hall will burst into meal. We went back into the hotel I gave the low whistle. The two golden sound next Tuesday night and into the terrifyingly smart din- saw me and came over. when the angelic voices of thirty Parks Johnson and Warren Hull ing room. I smiled condescendingly all was He lovely Zilch College young ladies have been a bit dazed since they It Simmons, right. at the headwaiter, to make him looked as if the two or the Gen- staged a Vox Pop from the he needed present a recital . . think I was a cash customer at the most at the momentthings son, awed were a haircut erals little Air Base, Maxton, hotel, and he led us to a table. and a kind word of sympathy. He by the solemnity of the occasion, N. C., where airborne troops are Im afraid youll find the food had the look of utter futility known clung to his daddys hand through- trained. They learned that the inhere depressingly dull, I told my only to those who have been in the out the impressive ceremonies. dividual airborne soldier carries comrade-in-armThis is what is known as the Mul- almost as No ortolans or Army for less than ten days. many items as a departvehill Touch. hummingbird tongues. They seem ment store, and learns how to do Well, boy, I asked him, how The Mulvehill Touch is supplied at more to go in for plain but wholesome do like the Army? And you things than any motion picture Fort Wont you try the breast dontyouneed to lie about foods. Bragg by the Public Relations actor ever dreamed of. it. Offices irrepressible and inimitof guinea hen, with a sip of Onion I dont think Ill ever get used able whirling dervish, Black Tom Soup Reine? he said. to Ive been pushed Mulvehill, Gracie Allen returns to the Metro a fantastic and unbelievI dont care if I do, he said. andit, crowded and at for a able Irish tyro, who came from New lot after a yelled absence to play I aint particularly particular week now, and it doesnt get any York City by way of Salt Lake City, a- comedy role in Two Sisters and about what I eat. better. Maybe I was just bom to Utah. Mulvehill of the and also to introduce on great heac. atheSailor, My nerves are all shot, I rebe a civilian. screen the One Finger Piano the and Mulvehill o: locks, shaggy New York tires marked airily. You should have seen Johnny lumbering walk, the man of a Concerto which she played at Carme dreadfully. I have to run about and me when we got in, I told him. the thousand faces and a thousand negie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl nolens volens thats Latin for willy-nill- y Thats been only four months ago, voices Mulvehill is the Public Refrom one night club to an- and here we are being condescendlations Offices one spark of true For every screen scrape he gets other, brushing up on old friending and fatherly already. Them glamour, our hope of immortality. into John Garfield uses the flat black so And of tired Im getting ships. were the days, werent they? Mulvehill is everywhere at all automatic shows and cocktail .parties! Wont pistol he first used ... Lisk sighed deeply. Simmons times. Out of every hundred photoBlackwells Island, made when he you have a slug of hootch with me? dont know the trouble at all, he graphs taken at Fort Bragg off- arrived in Hollywood. He has Ive got to have one. When Hargrove and I had icial or personal, professional said. or amkilled ten men with it. He gulped nervously and replied been in three or four days, Its my to is it safe they ateur say that the character gun, says he. Its the that he didnt care if he did. I no- slapped us on KP and almost killed flexible face of Private Mulvehil right type for me. Latest use is ticed with satisfaction that he was us first thing. Then, the next day, will beam out at you from ninety-fivThe Fallen Sparrow, the RKO taking in all the propaganda about they put the two of us to cleaning of them. Photographers have drama of in which and cocktail night clubs, shows, and painting GI cans until past sup- no idea of how he gets into the makes loveespionage, to Maureen OHara per time. pictures, but a picture of any Reo Simmons knocked on wood. Well, hall in the Center will show Mulve- Martha ODriscoll and Patricia 'Tm a man of simple tastes Morison, and goes gunning for WalI said, lifting both eyebrows they must have forgotten me. Ive hill playing the one ter Slezak. The gun (Hes works just as ' to give my face that bored expresbeen in the Army a week already nearest the camera.) well whether hes the villain or the sion. I cant stand these silly mixec and I havent been on KP yet. (TO BE CONTINUED) haro. f oui F1k ?ud free end sunny . I stend end simply 5o You will, brother, said Johnny. You will. Hargrove, said Simmons, will you please stop looking at my hair? I cant go ten feet without being reminded to get a haircut. As soon as I can find a minute, Ill get it cut. Are you really having a hard time of it? I asked him. Well, after that talk I got from you before I was inducted, I thought I would be going through hell for the first three weeks. The way you talked was terrifying, to say the least. So I prepared myself for a much rougher time than Im really getting. The drilling isnt bad at all. I suppose my dancing has helped me there. Anyway, I even surprise myself at it. But the getting up and dressing in ten minutes! Ill never be able to do it. Everything is all right, until it comes to the leggins. I struggle with those things until Im limp, and I never do get them on in time. Yesterday I just tied them on for reveille and sneaked back and I like my liquor straight. Im partial to Scotch. Im a rye man myself, he said. THE STORY SO FAR: Private Marion Hargrove, former feature editor of a North Carolina newspaper, has been inducted into the army and is receiving his basic training at Fort Bragg. 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