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Up for Love
By NINA SLOAN SNELL
(Released by McClure Syndicate—
WNU Service.)
“¥Y OU gotta girl outside, buddy?”’
Gleason's voice was ingratiat-
ing.
The younger convict put down his
magazine. “I haven't, but it's a
cinch you have,” he mumbled, re-
signedly. “You been stalling for an
opening to talk about her ever since
I came. Go ahead, brother. Get
it over.”
Gleason laughed sheepishly. “I
guess it was your coming from her
town started me thinking about
her,” he said. “Not that I don’t do
that a good deal, anyhow. It's
what's kept me from blowing my
top these nine years.”
‘That leng? You are an old-tim-
er. Does your girl visit you often?”
“Well, buddy, she ain’t been to
see me—yet. I ain't encouraged her
to. I figured it wouldn't look too
good for a rich, society lady like
her to be running up here all the
time.”
A skeptical snicker came from
the bunk. “What's the idea of rib-
bing me?”
“I ain't,” he protested, earnestly.
“My girl's among the highest. Hon-
est! Why she’s so up in society
they put her picture in the papers
sometimes. I cut one out last week.
Wait!”’ He rose and went to a shelf,
returning with a newspaper portrait
of a beautiful woman.
“She looked younger, somehow-—
and smaller, and—well, sort of piti-
ful.”
“Well, she put her head down on
my shoulder and commenced to cry.
I—-I couldn't hardly believe I was
awake.
“Well, after a while Katherine let
out that she and Vanstone had quar-
reled—about me. She'd told him
straight that she loved me, and it
sent him off his nut. The row ended
by his rushing out of the house
threatening to get even with her.
Which he did. The skunk!”
The young convict made a ges-
ture of protest. ‘‘You're going too
fast for me, brother,” he objected.
“Let's turn back to the page where
you and Mrs. Vanstone are driving
around—""
‘discussing plans for our fu-
ture,” Gleason resumed. ‘Think
of it, buddy! She was willing to
ditch her rich husband and give up
her fine place in society and all her
high-toned friends, just to marry
me. I could have listened all night;
but she finally decided we'd best
go home. And it was after we did
that the works got gummed.”
“I don’t sabe.”
“You will. It was the servants’
night out and the house was dark.
Katherine asked me to go in with
her; because she was afraid. It
was good she asked it. For the
first thing we seen, after I snapped
on the lightsy was Vanstone’s body.
The dirty coward had shot himself.
At the inquest, they said it happened
three hours before we found him.
“Oh! So you took the rap?”
“What else could I do, buddy?
The new prisoner took the picture. |
He squinted down at it a moment,
then handed it back. “Uh-huh,” he
assented, grinning, ‘‘this here
dame’s a swell all right. But so’s
Mrs. Roosevelt and the queen of
Greece. Why didn’ja pick on one
of them ’stead of Katherine Van- |
stone?”
‘“‘Because they ain’t neither of
them my girl and Katherine is,”
Gleason avowed firmly. “How'd
yuh come to recognize her?” he |
asked. ‘‘Have you seen her face
before?”
“A hundred times. Whatever
Mrs. Vanstone does is front-page !
stuff. I guess it’s partly because
of the talk there was about her at
the time her husband was mur-
dered.”
Gleason swallowed. “Queer you'd
remember,” he murmured.
“I don’t. Not all the facts.”
“You never knew all the facts.
Nor anybody else didn’t. I kept
my mouth corked. And I reckon
I better keep on keeping it corked.”
“Pshaw! shoot the works, brother.
‘This is getting hot. I'm interested.
And I won't let it go no farther.
Let's see—wasn’'t you the Van-
stone’s gardener?”
“Their chauffeur,” the older man
corrected. “I'd been working there
a few months. And it was funny,”
he went on, musingly, “that I
didn’t have an inkling Katherine had
fell for me until the—the night of
this—this trouble. Gosh! I
dumb.”
was |
‘“‘Hadn’t she said nothing to let |
you on?”
“She never spoke to me, except
to give an order. Then, this par-
ticular evening, she called to me
over the house phone. She wanted
her car brought around. Said she’
be waiting at the porte cochere. |
And she was. But I didn’t hardly
recognize her, at first.”
“Why?”
EE
Vanstone had used his wife's gun.
| He'd fixed things so she would have
had trouble proving her innocence
if somebody hadn’t took the blame.
| An’ look what she’d been willing to
| do for me!”
“I'm not forgetting, brother. But
did she really give you—well, so
much as a kiss, before you was
sent up?”
Gleason shook his head sadly.
“No. I've always kind of wished
{ she had. But she couldn’t—hardly.
You see they took me to jail—"’
“Sure, I see.
| tertainment. That dame cert'n’ly
copped herself off a bargain.”
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Works for 50 Years
Without a Vacation
Railroader, in All That
Time, Has No Day Off.
KANSAS CITY, MO.—John J.
Shine, who has sold railroad tick-
ets to vacationers for a half cen-
tury, is going to take a vacation.
It will be his first since he came
to Kansas City from Carroll county,
Mo., in 1889 to start selling tickets
in the old Union depot.
He's now division passenger agent
for the Wabash railroad, and the
management of that line finally got
tired of Shine’s perennial “no” to
vacation offers. He hadn't even
taken a day off for sickness or any
other cause since he first became a
railroader. His “bosses’’ command-
ed his retirement, effective this Oc-
tober.
“I haven't made any vacation
plans,” he said. “Don’t even know
where I'll go. Fact of the matter
is, haven't thought about it.”
But for 50 years he has thought
about other people's vacation plans,
although during the early years of
his career of ticket selling—before
the turn of the century—he was
more concerned with getting great
hordes of pioneers and adventure
seekers to the opens plains of the
West. .
“It was a wild era for the little
Kansas City station,” Shine said.
‘People from almost every place in
the world jammed the depot as they
poured through this funnel to the |
West.
“The station was filled night and
day with colorful throngs, even the i
| Indians coming in on the iron horse
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for a peek at the hordes of settlers.
“Ticket buyers used to stand 100
deep at my window. Trunks were
| stacked to the ceiling in the station
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| West.
Thanks for the en. | oot
with whole trains carrying out bag- |
gage.
“The railroads have come a long
way since that mad rush to the
One fellow made a lot of
money selling straw sacks at the
station for the passengers to sleep
on.”
Texas Starts Excavation
Of Huge Meteor Crater
ODESSA, TEXAS.—Excavation of |
one of the nation’s largest known |
meteor craters, eight miles south- |
west of here, has been started by |
The |
crater, measuring 600 feet from rim |
to rim, is known to be exceeded |
in size only by the famed mile-wide |
Canyon Diablo pit in Arizona, Dr. |
a crew of 20 WPA workers.
E. H. Sellards, director of the bu-
reau of economic geology at, the
University of Texas and in charge |
of excavation, said.
It was Dr. Sellards who first an- |
nounced in 1927 that the largely |
filled-in Odessa crater was actually |
meteorite, |
which appears to have smashed into |
the earth “thousands of years ago.” |
caused by an “iron”
Dr. Sellards said excavation was
being pushed to study the effects on |
the earth under the impact of a |
The Canyon Diablo |
crater has never been completely |
excavated, he said. He was unable, |
as yet, to estimate the actual size |
large meteor.
of the original meteor.
“It may easily have exploded at |
“We have |
impact,” he explained.
already found and examined several
fragments.”
In accord with WPA plans to |
make the excavation accessible to |
the public for its educational value, |
Ector county officials are construct- |
ing a two-mile road from U. S.
route 80 to the crater’s edge. It is
estimated that the excavation may
be completed in about a year.
Family Works in High
Places on Paint Jobs
DES MOINES, IOWA.=-The Petti-
bones live a high life, traveling
from “pole to pole.”
Frank Pettibone, 37, has been
painting the pinnacles of buildings
and monuments since he was 20
years old. Three years ago he mar-
ried Ruth Seydel, and since that
time she and her son Jack have
aided Pettibone in painting towers,
clocks, poles and high girders.
His last job was applying three
coats of paint to the 40-foot flagpole
atop the 237-foot Des Moines build-
ing. He termed it a ‘“‘small job.”
Pettibone prides himself on the
jobs he did on poles surmounting
the 42-story Smith building in Seat-
tle, Wash., and the 500-foot Claus
Spreckles building in San Francisco.
“My only sensation when up high
is that of work,” he said.
Mrs. Pettibone adds that her only
accident in the altitudinous work
was a bite by a black widow spider
while painting a flagpole at Stanford
university.
Pershing’s War Horses
Enjoy Peaceful Old Age
WASHINGTON. — At least two
aged army horses need never worry
about an untimely death because
they have outlived their usefulness.
Jeff and Kidron, mounts Gen. John
J. Pershing rode in victory parades
down the Champs Elysees in Paris
and New York city, are now romp-
ing and frisking over the grass lands
of the army remount depot near
Front Royal, Va.
Their only care is “being on their
dignity’ when company comes. No
visit to the depot is complete with-
out a glimpse of the two horses
which Col. Warren W. Whitside,
commander of the depot, says are
the “most photographed horses in
the country.”
Ozark Stronghoid
Of Gangsters Is
Tamed by G-Men
Clear Cookson Hills of
Gunmen; Reclaimed
For Settlement.
MARBLE CITY, OKLA. — The
Cookson hills, stronghold of outlaw-
ry since the days of Belle Starr and
the Dalton boys, have been tamed
by the federal government.
Today when you motor into the
“bad lands’ of the Ozark region, fa-
vorite rendezvous of gangsters from
the deer rifle period to the machine
gun era, you find a vacationers’ par-
adise and wildlife*refuge.
Under direction of the G-men, the
last of the outlaws who infested the
hills have been annihilated and now
the government is completing the
job by using the hills themselves for
a vast reclamation project.
Everywhere there is evidence
crime has been stamped out com-
pletely.
Marshal Dropped.
Marble City, a nest of ruffians in
former years, reported a reforma-
tion so complete the town board
stopped the salary of the town mar-
shal as ‘“‘unnecessary expense’’ and
rented out the jail to an old-age
pensioner for a home.
The Cookson hills, ertbracing 100
square miles, sprawl across the con-
| hundreds of hiding places.
Throughout the hectic history of
found safety in Cookson hills. It
verging corners of Oklahoma, Ar- |
kansas and Missouri and conceal |
banditry in the Southwest, outlaws |
holds in the hills. Between the six-
ties and the eighties, they sheltered
| Belle Starr, straight-shooting wom- |
an outlaw. Al Jennings escaped
often into their hideouts.
In later years, the murderous Al
Spencer gang dominated life in the
hills.
“Pretty Boy’ Floyd, born and
reared in the Cookson hills, made
good use of them, often hiding in
the homes of indigent farm fami-
lies.
In 1935, the resettlement adminis-
tration established a reclamation
project in the area. Its main pur-
pose was to rehabilitate 365 impov-
erished farm families whose aver-
age income in 1934 was $44.
Seventy-one of these families were
moved out to fertile farms in Wag-
oner, Muskogee and McIntosh coun-
ties. Others were given loans to
lease new farms.
A dam across Greenleaf river cre-
ated a lake five miles long. Last
year, it was stocked with 110,000
game fish. The remainder of the
project area is devoted to game con-
servation, forests and grazing
lambs.
STATE MAY SEEK
MELLON MILLIONS
Harrisburg — State authorities in-
dicated last week that they would need
more time to determine whether An-
drew W. Mellon, financier and former
secretary of the treasury, gave $10,000-
000 to his two children “in anticipation
of death.”
Fixing of final liability was with-
held until officers of the state revenue
and auditor general's departments
have examined thoroughly all the in-
formation and date submitted at a con-
ference held last Wednesday at the
| Capitol.
was only when they left the hills that |
| the law struck them down.
| of Wills John
This was true even in the days of |
the Dalton boys, hard-bitten Indian
| territory raiders. They rode to Cof-
feyville, Kan., intending to rob two
banks at once. A citizens’ posse
attacked, and when the firing ceased
eight gangsters lay dead.
Belle Starr’s Hideout.
Jesse James maintained strong-
Among the
M. Huston, Pittsburgh,
who contends the sum was given to
conferees was Register |
Mrs. David K. E. Bruce and Paul Mel- |
lon one year before the elder Mellon's
death.
The commonwealth was asked to de-
cide whether the money was proferred
as a bona fide gift or in a move to |
| to avoid payment of $1,000,000 in in- |
was pointed uot, |
however, that the decision of state au- |
heritance taxes. It
PAGE SEVEN,
| thorities could be appealed to the
| courts by the Mellon estate.
Oral and documentary evidencs
were submitted by counsel for the
| Mellon estate to Auditor General Wags
ren R. Roberts, Secretary of Revenue
{ William J. Hamilton Jr. and Attorney
| General Claude T. Reno. John Dug
|gan, ,M. E. McCrossan and John MM.
‘Kane represented the inheritance tag
[division of Allegheny County at the
conference.
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