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Oshawa Daily Times, 5 Nov 1929, p. 7

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BY JANE DIXON Mustrated by Armstrong Perry Raquel, moved pestisssly, Me peered out of the window, The train on which she was riding had stopp. ol Dim fgdrog moved throngh the yellowish dust fog, pleveed by an ofl lantern swung above a doorway, Bhe could net make out the name shoye the dear, Net that 'L matter od. "Except to give her assurance that another streton of miles had pean placed petween her and Hop mosn I wiih we'd keep going" she thought, As it an auswer to her wish, the train groaned, stageered under way, Bho indulged 'a covert imiia of satiataction that the two pets behind her were empty, Whe would have heen econscious of pris Ing eyes No one had come Inte the ear AL this way etatien, Hhe waa free to think, to plan, "1at's gen, where was 17" finek in Hermosn on the desert with Bil Johnson, He had put Lily out of his life, Tt was she, Raquel, he must have, fhe did not give answer at onee, she remembered She was enjoying tee wueh the ower she halg aver him, Fhe must Pon his want for her, keen him on the hat griddle of unsartainty Whee she would become tha mare desirahle In his eves, Rhe would he able to drive a hetter bargain, once she annaared tn surrender, Then too, she wanted to ses ANDRA fehler mer, Dunne of an Annal All Hermosa knew Anna ith the yi fare and oa eygl would snuee oWt her heart's Wiha for Bill John. won, fhe ar musity Anna, Bhut up her allly moatngs, "yar over so lonm she eat hefare broken mirrer in the Rojos Johnson his ° ack that evening after Johnson i confessed his need abi. Aa tall, left him spurring after her Bad outsdistanced Joh prae's heels, bg b "I'm going to he Mra Bill John a she kent telling the giel 1h o mirror, "Righent woman In Fer TWORA, Meg slik dress, No, red velvel wity a sill back, Rubles for my ahve, Rrapplets; A ruby ving, shape af a hearl, RIOT Johnson's heart, Her Ul. twisted wryly, What nokeryl Cid i » Aho topred her head, A hard sit tar of Mtianee shone Jehind the ae 0 » apes, 0 Mow ' wat revi: foveh, Pp him At & it the time oy, Plenty Mher, made TAN sho had needed to do was 10 ask he how mush Johnson wan ny ih, That shestion was epough to rouse hot fther's op ha ake him suapeot, . iy Vey wes font, . The newt her father had the tnfarmation, Witty lars! Panche, wuew cotfes, smacked We sum, wiped hia nr MR ashe with the hand, Bhe turned away WROWINE lank he rave t nol p80 the anawer ¥ an of t fag ake on me to Hive tn Phoenix," she told gin he miter, "An take and i" AY wont er' tarhe don't let up now, and If you ever pet tute any trouble, P41 take care that his money helps (0 give you what's comin' to pou!" Blk saw her father's mouth drop open, As if he had been struck, heavily, between the #houlders, Bhe wheeled and walked out of the op. on door, She was going to stamp on another fool, Anna Bohlemmer, As Raquel turned In between two biing adobe posts, mean make. whites Lor a gateway to Mrs, Bohiem. mer's b na-houne, she saw that ADA was sw ag sep the ale lal! dust trom the su ed patoh of hard earth outside the sntrance, "You Anpal" Ragneld voloe, Jurpasetul snd low, bridged (he dis. noe between them, The drab slave ory relaxed I ed nto the powdery dust of the yard, Tnstinetively, she drew hack from the quiet fury that ad« vanged toward her, "You've een bahhing stories about me and BIL Johnson," Anna erinped spainst the wall of the house, "I Just told Ta whimpered, "You Just tela And she told Lily, And new all hobs hroke loose, hobby that you Boer, Hague! eonld hear the dry sols satel In Anna's throat, seen you~" ghe ir Ma, Yaaeha, | "Honest, Raquel, T didn't mean "I now, You didn't mean for me tn find out what a sneak vou are, You thought wou'da slek Iily " me, oF you could gel Johnson while TAly and T were tearing each other to plesss, Well, Tt won't her hold on the broom, | yo work, I'm en to you, Anna, Ro's Johnson, He wouldn't wipe hin feet on you, hear? And from now on you keep your tengve In youy mouth, arret Johnson, Forget me, IF 1 ever find pou've talke" about efther of us ranine" Anna's son were ue Tanger | gmothered, They rose, a tide of | minwled agony and fear, Rague! ronehed out, jerked the eowering Anna to he feet, "Phere, Ponhy," she mid. nat unkindly, "go bark ta yore broom I's what you were made for," Wot Anna's fandt, Ranvel thoneht leking her way ont throush tha gate, that tha mir] wea a fool, One of a park of fools, Wermasa hped them, A breed of fools, Wahhite fhe had get her heel on one of them, Wila horses eani® ** dean hap name fram Anna's Hing awaits, There rer ~ined ontv.¥ ily, The nalntad one wan na fool, Wow w * whe. Manne, poling to silence John son's Lilly? GWATTRR 4 Raguel stirred unensily, CIOMP KIN Poe PAONO Y= PRON or 'glamp Ble There was A flat whee! on A of the train, Un til now she had not heen aware of ite disturbing elatter, Lily! Back Wer mind raced to events at Hermosa, A tingling sane sation ran along Raquel's Derve wires, "ily and that flat wheel, Mantally, she ahook harselt free f them, Lily had gone out of her Hite, Poor bedlvened Lily with the straw hair and the hard mouth, ng was Lily now? she wonder oft, The question muffled the elats ter of the flat wheel, Tt aarried Raquel again 8 that night she had left Anna Sehlsmmer bluhbering outside her mother's boarding house, Raquel had been walking alow fn the darkness, thinking abow Aly, Lily would net give Johnson wp without a strumgle, Net a clean strupale either, A woman with » mouth Mike Lily's would stop nethe ing, Hverpthing to geln, nothing 19 lowe, A ray of Hght slanted across Ing the Raquel's path, fhe wan Rldorade, where Kena Joo rap a oa af A lure for hia gamblin game, Lily was the cabaret, Ragque conld hear her naw, her high nasal # prath BW FA " at ha be y mand: ¢ vaing them 1) Another fou Wy arms around i An now 1 oat do without ast 'Word wan drawaed ty "Deted UD Iye he lak fa Beavy thump of Hats on (Ab y ApboR he daon. Tha fo [41 Sha aaa iin a" te vat HH and, and--Pariat Et w .,\ 19878 00 her pudey eek, lalan by the door, shook i with an a Penske bad Doth 1008s WHN WY ving Pancho, Het handa on her FA her arms akimbo, her eyes iva gw red flames in the white of e. "Ta . aft yoyreelt, --_-- "A en on Ah oe Na Hh oe kids Un ao WW many Bil 11 you NE THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929 Miss Hard-Boiled stull Gs Jiable to be bad for your' health, my preity dove,' "Bal" Raquel's [aee, tense and while, was ¢ againgt the ear of the astonished 14ly, "Then you Hal on to this, fat hen, Johnson hae atked me to marry him and I'm saying you, Go eackle that to your friends in Joe's place, will yout" Fhe heard the sharp intake of 1A1y's breath, The strangled seream, IAly's hand in her hair, "itand still and hear me now," The words dropped like hot sosls from the woman's dry lips, "What you think I been mooshing around with that wreasy thief Panshn Re. Jos and bly gang of dog vobherm for? To met next th thelr sehemes, that's why, T've done it ton" | Raquel drew back, "You mean, Wd tell' "Sure 1 will, Deublecross the whole fiithy let of 'em I got ene onih on Pancho to send him 0 the, n nine times if he could live hat many years, T plan to tam him over, tne, If you don't lay off Johnsen, 11 snill the whele dirty plate o' beans" , "You wouldn't dare!" "Wouldn't 1, eh?" Ldly Taughed hiysterionlly, "You and your old old man! A fall bird, And it you think Yohnson'tl stand gor a strip od sult in the family," you don't know Johnsen, We'll dfan you ke you was a rattlesnake, Now, preity dove, dose that make you lose your Lali for other women's proper ty! How much did Lily now? Geuld she rvenlly pull the wires that would end Paneho's scheming ear eer? Wer father had avng Yoen A gentleman, a man of family, of education, Nefore the nulnus par fers, the healn searine tenuiia sunk. rod him down, Pancho looking out fom behind the bars, "You 110." Ranuel's voles was fovel, erin with scorn, "All you now Pancha won't hurt him any" "Oh no, It won't hurt hime mueh," T1v's sontro! wes eveeking apart, "Not when they find ent ahout the Tomer wine fob Mn Sonora, and whose gang It was wo! the paveoll (ne Raquel's hand shot ant, eaught Lily's spaneied dress just whera ft met her pink flesh above the enrve of her hressts, There was a rining A tharing, Poaneles annttered down Ilka angry patnsdrope, Tily, taken hy surnpiss, 'ossaned her grein In Rasuel'n hate, The hale fell, a sible, ahout RNaguel's head end shan'ders That will teach you te heen your hands off me, fat hen" Roe ruel brushed the sah's elond from her aves With a steady hand, SIN show you, Johnson's mine T tall you 1) turn Ranchol® Btop your elueking, will vou? You enn have Johnsan, And wel fama for a" af mee" Ly enttfed, fussed with the frant af her damaved dross, "1 thouah you'd ehanee your mind." she sald, "When you found ant what T've wat on Pancho," 1 haven't ehanmed my mind" Ranne!'s plry denial mooked the WAMAN In the srensing masnyars Ae of pleasare. "T tual thouaht 1d SOAPS Yau x0 You'd ehain Johnson to vour wrist, 7 don't want him around nestering me, Ratter wateh him, thoueh, Lily, Wo's good tor any Ane that wears akivte, now that he's thranah with vou» "Imp of the devil!™ Lily ered And lunged again for the sable cloud of hater, We hands olosnd on naths Ineness, Roane! had disappeared tn. to the darkness, For a while Rague! sat on a ermine adahe wall farter down the dustoushioned street, That pateh of luminous yellow fn the dis tance was the open door of the Blderado, Lily was singling axaly, Falastto notes that rasped like a PUBLY BAW cauiht In the grain of a taurh-tinered log, Was Pancha all that Lily had hinted? Ble had known dimly that he stood tn da from the law, but she did not know how serious We he really pone an far a thet? Wel Rague! had heard Omething once, & vague something About Laey, her mother, That Pane oho had carried Le} off from a 1"Ye isolated sohoolhouse where she Toh nla, Across hia wade dle, Thin, at least, lent the caler of reckliosgnese to his actions, Ras quel had never troubled to searoh Aut the truth of the humor, What aid ft matter, now that Lucy was oy? So Lily belleved she eould fright. 0 her, Raquel, ig 4 fram John n! Fat squawking hen, Raquel sat there on the wall un the thud of flats on tables came Hully to her ears, Then she ress, Jabraptly, and paddeq swiftly down M wan | i the odor heap ie from her hot bedwi t fort™ quel faced her a No use mineing tore, Mt ahe aad Li bows JOA. ® AN abou A hi "hear you on tolling around after Bill Johnson, You let Johnson ® I'm warning you * yo waa law, There wan menace it Raquel's shoulders ited, Her White teeth gloamed through a halt L) vou hy don't you fell hI to Joa: Heht. . Never you Bind , un, PM Just you lav Thin waantisht Rarrow lane in the direction of ® Rajon ahaok, It had come te Raquel! like a Shot out of the sky, that there & way to sllence The we. wea h had shown "iy wah A a i guttered Hy A allt a w ih the shaek, A candle Wm a battered and Blackened ail ver oandiestiok out of Luey's past, Pancha wan home, YINthen" Raauel orled, b mtine 3 at the ® nah cleaving like a winds the sullen pall Pane oho never falled to throw aver the shaok, "Fe YOU Must Xe A oe on Pele paki (Continwed Tomerraw) 4 The longest alr mall route tn the orld, a distance of APR4 mlles, tn betwean Miami, Fla, and Sane tage, Chile | ng uw | Hive the hile fon "hormar tour, bis sole companion on the -- PAGE SEVEN pdt ot Regt chew Bum, cto havon's company a the filghte A Blamens oat, wh RELATIONSHIP OF CAPITAL LABOR 1 SUBJECT OF TALK (Continued from page 8) Im that, at heart, the individua workman was on the average § rea man, He had a strong sense of mors al obligition, partienlarly fn respect to his fellow workers, and this wih what made it so easy for a few agl- tutors to stir " a strike or other serious trouble, becuse when a few walked out, others went out with them out of sympathy, Among the work supervised by the industrial relations department In General Motors, sald Mr, Nicoll, was the aeeldent prevention organization, with a safety engineer in ehiarge, He and his assistants inspected the plant and edugated the employees In mes thods of work that would reduce the time lost through accidents, A plant hospital with twa full time = nurses and two parttime doctors was also maintained for frst ald work, Having Kncouraged In the Savings and Investment fund, the employees were allowed to deposit up to 10 per cent of thelr ine ome, with a maximum of $300 per year, '1a this, General Motors add vd 50 per cent, Nix per cent inters ost wis pald on this, Employees had to give about 14 days notice of with drawal, and this provision had a tens dency to keep the man's savings ins tact instead of being broken inte as they eften would he otherwis About M per cent of the employees of General Motors of Canada were msured for $4000 in the company's surance scheme, sald Mp, ieoll, shiv alse iwluded sick benefits for aceidents not ineured at thelr work, up to B18 per week Poster Athletics Athletien were fomeica by the gems their support to the Leglon fn Brookiis, WwW. B MoCarthy, vice-president of the branch, alse spoke briefly, The entertainment provided was of a high order and included plane solos by Mina, Marjorie Lade, who salvo accompanied the singers, and voor! solos by Mrs, Glass of Brook, lin, and George Walsh and J, 1, 1hy, of Oshawn, The mantiag was elosed with a brief address hy the Mev, Mr, Jull, of Brookln United Chureh, who also pronounced the benediction, BE abit COL, MPALPINE'S PARTY MAROONED ON ARCTIC ISLAND (Continued from Page 1) 11=the mon wera up and about the task of finding a way hack to eivilleation, For days It seems, they seouted for miles in all directions, but found not a sign of Human habita: ton, Attracted hy thelr beach Five whieh burned night and day, three wandering Bskimos-=nomads of the Northe=game at length upon the rude camp of the lost ex plorers, a, __. cl pany, not for the puipose of builds champlonship teams, but to employees an opportunity wi vijay themselves and have eanstiue tive activity, he said, Mr, Nicoll had display at the club the Cowa emblematio of the ety wirls solthall ehamplonship, won by the Whey, girls' team in 198 and the ORIFU, intermediate rughy held, won by the Blue Devils in well; the Glebe shield for the senior wronse championship of Ontario, won hy the General Motors team in Jl and 1920; the Lovaek trophy, emblematic of the laerosse champions ship of Ontarlg, won by the team In 1948 and 19291 and the Mann trophy, won hy the Oshawa team this year, and emblematio of the senlor lacrosse championship of Canada, During the meeting the club ens {oyed musical selections sung by weorge Dibble, with Harold Muss taine an accompanist, A vets of thanks te Mr, Nicoll and Mr, Dibble wis moved by Rotarian Hoss Me: Kinnon, At the meeting It was announced that the club had atits last meeting had the first 100 per cont attendance in ita history, and that the percents age of attendanee for October, wits the best in the history of the elub, This was attributed to the ats tendance contest now under way, A ehallenge wan (asued to the Lockport, N.Y. club, for an attendance record for three months beginning Novem ber 1, the losing club to provide silk Rotary fag or the winner, At the meeting, the members of the elub made an ottering of 833 to the Poppy Day Fund of the Canad- fan Legion: A number of local vise tars were present, It wan announced that the next meeting would be held at Rotary Hy | next Hherday evening, November 13, and that it would be an intereity Meeting J Rotarians present from Lindsay, Belleville, Peterboro, Pert rg W Havin lle and Lan: canter de Puls, N.Y, PRESENTATION OF CHARTER TO BROOKLIN LEGION (Continued trom page 8) on hehalt of thelr country, and whe had broken down to aueh an extent that they were unable to camry on in thelr ordinary vocations of life, Onsen were olted showing how the Legion had been able to wipe out injustices done to widows and ehil dren, and how the Legion had been ble for securing many mueh needed amendments to the on Aot, n Rotating the oharter, Com rade yw the members of the Rrookiin neh to remember that the honor of the Canadian Lee ton eutrusted tate thelr keep: WE And that as thay ocarvled out ta 20 would the of their Yomlnuniy regard the n James Moore Dr, James Moore, president of the Breakin Reh, accepted the charter, and « rod a wt a enting what the views had sald ng for an organisation sueh an the Legion, and the Brooklin Branch to carry on RB. Wilkow, secretary of the A Worthy manner new branch, outlined the program of aclivitien for the Armistics ane on (raphy, \ Sastern 19891 | 10 coast, RA RIversary seanon, and appealed to the people of the community for In the pidgin English of the Avotle peaple, the white men and the Soupuimiinhoed natives, tiled long that aight, The hewhiskereo wvistovs were overjoyed st find: ing someones who might direst them out of the hawlldering north, The Wakimon were surprised to see whites so tay off Lhe hasten path and eyed the two stranded planes with curiosity, Neach Understanding An understanding wae vesehed and the Wskimos agreed to lead the beleagured alrmen, MasAlpine and his men, they lasened from the natives, had some down wt a point west of the mouth of the Wille river and more than 160 miles northwest of thely des: tinatlon, They apparently had mise taken the Killea for the Western viver ana had followed MW north. ward (0 the oean, Along the shoves of Queen Maud wult mnd to a point Just opposite Cambridge hay, the explorers were Laken by thelr guides, Only such food as they would absolutely nesd wis removed from the planes and carvied In pack sacks on the overland Journey, The gulf, which separates Vic torin Island from the mainland, was not entiviey frosen over, and ohmp Was made Tor seversl days on the fhove until the Joe way heavy enough to support the party of eleven, Vay BO miles across the gulf (he litle wroup trudged ith way over hummooks of les, making hut » tow miles ench day, Heach Post Bunday Mootkore and exhausted, the woury arty veanvhed the Hudson's Bay company trading post on Vie torig Island on Munday, Gal, MacAlpine, one of the Jurgent men In the expedition, had lost 40 pounds of flesh, Others had suffered similarly but nene ap peared i! It was not until Iate yesterday morning that the young radio op orator, MolKensle, whe wont north lust spring with tha steamer Hay Maud, former Amundsen explora thon ship, was able ta gel In eam munteation with the Hudson's Nay company's pawerful ship sia than ahourd the steamer Fort James, moored at Glos haven, a tiny part on the shore 'of King William tsland, far to the east of the niet Splend Hs Sule 5 or Clon HE BARISTAN is peer of the widely celebrated BARRYMORE line of fine rugs, It Ie a domestic Oriental with the exquisite features f the finest antique oriental rug... the same lustrous sheen and bloom, , , soft light and shadow, It is woven seamless with a thick, heavy pils that yields luxuriously to the tread, All sizes, designs and colorings, Now on display at leading stores from coast Vietorin 1aland, BARISTAN Rugs ave the exclusive creation of the Toronto Carpet a at whatever THE ECONOMY OF QUALITY MATERIALS Every conscientious contractor, primarily interested in two vital considerations An Absolutely Satisfactory Job, Economy of Construction, If he is to acgomplish both these results, his first care In the proper selection of materials, Lumber = the main factor in every kind of construction, should be of the highest quality, Oshawa Lumber COMPANY, LIMITED 28 Ritson Road North TELEPHONE 2821.2820 he specializes in, fs A From Clon Haven, the message "MacAlpine and party found; Al well} Loontlon Cambridge Hay," wis velayed to Churehlll, novihern terminus of the Hudson Hay rall way and thence to the department of marine and fisheries at Ottawa From Winnipeg, headquarters of the long nevigl seareh fov the axplovation group, word enme last might that 10 will Hkely be two weeks and perhaps a month hefore the men ave hrought out to eivill sntlon, Thelr planes were undamaged in landing and need only skis to ciulp them for taking off from the Queen Maud Gulf shore on whish they were whandoned, But at souths orn points at which the planer could land afta leaving the Aretle slope winter han not yet arrived and they could not alight safely on skin, It weemn probable, erelore that the filers must walt until i first heavy snowfall eovers nent ern Haskatohewan or Manitoba, - =.

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