I DAy, FEBRUARY 26, 1942
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942
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SYNOPSIS
L Rockaby, crooner "Crown
1 talented performer, blacK
' 1 T hie city because she
in tbe bAfyH booking
"""tat the Club
h?,s ? on condition
rthe e Monday. Ginger
the v tn but her
loPw' routine
2L ..Ha an item in the
, Lmn of a newspaper
181 " -r.inr will take pas-
ineiony - "1 .if.
to rlorwa u - -----
ra amounting to $14.
Rhone. her
,nv Taylor, . r
"'J t .. 11 of a van Hp z-
reeived me , , .
ece Ar,.,o Wn bloods.
K W's wealth. Tony
the stage where ne
,s should share more of the
ry, wealth. For such radical
,e was expelled from college.
Iso thinks women are para
Tony plans to leave the next
I day on his advertised southern trip.
His companions will be an ex-lion
tamer, an actress, another couple,
ana uinger.
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CHAPTER IV
Tony Taylor sighed, and downed
his Hi-ink. He decided to order an
other, his hand in his pocket,
i . j . i. i
countea nis material weaiui, ana
I changed his mind. There was the
trip to Florida to think of, and his
' personal expenses.
V He shrugged his shoulders; he
! was luckv to have (rotten enousrh
; passengers so soon to help pay for
the gas ana on. ,
Thinking of the nassenpers. re
minded him of the girl on the
phone. Despite his academic dis
tnste for her sex in general, he was
not a little intrigued. Both her
voice and her name Ginger Drake
were provocative, bhe probably
wore glasses and low heels, and
talked too much. He devoutly
honed . not. Miami after all. was
thirteen hundred miles awav.
"Did you read about tne isonK
heer Diamond, Mr. Taylor?" Jim
mie. disencraced. was back aeain.
"Can you imagine the brass oi them
guys -swiping it on Fifth Avenue
in broad daylight?"
"Soma novertv-striken nroletar
ian probably did it in desperation,"
said Tony, gloomily. "Mayoe nis
children needed bread."
"There's a fiftv errand reward
out," said Jimmie, with the enthu
siasm of a man who has just heard
of ft new sweenstakn onnortunitv.
Boy wouldn't I like to find that
rock!"
"If T found it. I'd break it up
into chins and divide it among the
children of the East Side," said
Mr. Taylor. "That's what I'd do!"
Jimmie grinned.
"Well, if vou do. Dal. just save a
coupla chips for me. I was born on
the East Side."
Ginger stood on the stoop of the
brownstone house in the West Sev
jnti with her suit-case beside
her, waiting for Mr. Tony Taylor
and Adventure. It was a rangy,
sunny morning, and she was well
pleased with herself. Not only had
her landlady, Mrs. Haggerty, been
persuaded to wait for her back
rent and let Ginger take some of
har Mnthen with her. but that us
ually flint-hearted female had sur
prisingly broken down ana pressed
th loan of five dollars upon her
to be repaid, with the back-tent,
when Ginger was wonting again.
Nor was that all, to add to Gin
ger's state of well-being. When she
had returned home the day before,
it had been to find a number of calls
from Ronny Rockaby; he had called
again several times during the eve
ning, and even after midnight. Gin-
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per had not answered one. The idea
of slipping out of New York with
out his knowledge was definitely
pleasing; the thought or a job in
the verv career which he was try
ing to bar her from, savagely thril
led her. She would show Mr. Rock
abv. vet!
Thinking these warming
thoughts, and looking very trim and
chic while she thoueht them, she
saw a double-decker bus painted
green turn the corner, and come
down the street toward her. a true
New Yorker, she knew it was a
Fifth Avenue bus because the sism
on it said Washington Square; what
it was doing over here in the West
Seventies near the Park was
mystery.
As it came nearer, the mvsterv
deepened when the bus, which she
earn nnur hdlrl hut one oecunant
the driver -slowed down abruptly
and came to a stop at the curb di
retly before her door. She stared
down at it. wonderinsr. and saw the
door open and a young man jump
out upon the sidewalk, and stare up
at her, in turn. He grinned, sud
denly, and approached the stoop
"Miss Drake?" he asked.
Ginirer nodded, suddenly smitten
by a horrid premonition. His next
words proved the premonition true.
"I'm Tony Taylor. Hope! haven't
kept you waiting."
Her jaw dropped, as she looked
beyond him, to the bus. It was an
old bus, she saw, of the high, lum
bering type, whose top deck, in
warm weather, was open to the air;
hp k nd of too deck that young
lovers sat on in summer evenings
holding hands as they shuttled back
and forth from Washington Square
to Grant's Tomb and back again.
"Is that what we're going to
Florida in 7 " she wanted to know.
"I'm afraid it is," said Tony. "It's
the only thing on wheels I happen
to have, you see. It's really more
comfortable than it looks, tnougn.
"Is it ? " She gulped. Somehow, 1
in her wildest dreams she had never
anticipated this. "You're not kid-dine-,
are you?"
Tony looked pained.
"Certainly not, Miss Drake."
"But where did you get it?" she
asked. "You didn't steal it, did
you?"
His grin re-appeared.
"T won it in a crap game, the
other day, down at the car-barns.
It's been condemned, you see out
the motor's really in swell condi
tion: . They're nuttinr on ' new
streamlined jobs on the Avenue, I
understand." .
She looked at the empty bus,
wondering whether he were sane,
and she could trust him.
"Where are the others?" she
asked helolesslv.
"We're to nick them uo on the
way down to the Holland Tunnel."
He saw her indecision. "Keaiiy,
Minn Drake this won't be so bad
as you think. And if you want to
get to Florida cheaply"
"But I do!" she exclaimed, think
ing of Monday noon in Miami.
"fiivo ii a trv then." he errinned,
Satisfaction guaranteed, or money
back."
Ginirer hesitated, then -shrugged
her shoulders. Nothing ventured,
nothing gained. Tony picked up her
bag, replaced his battered colle
giate hat on his head, and escorted
her across the sidewalk, toward
the bus.
As he was about to help her in,
a flashy maroon-and-chromium lim
ousine drew up behind his car, with
a Pilinino chauffeur at the wheel.
They stared, and a handsome dark
headed young man, still in rumpled
evening clothes, jumped out of the
Rolls, and hurried toward them, his
eyes on the girl. It was Ronny
Rockaby.
"Hey Ginger! Wait a minute!"
Ginger stiffened, and her face
went hard. Tony sensed both the
stiffening and hardening proces
ses, and was at once humanly cur
ious.
Ronny faced them, swaying
slightly; he had evidently had a
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In 23 Years, North Carolina Motorists
Pay $322,622,000 In Gasoline Taxes
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North Carolina Leads
In AAA Co-operation
North Carolina led all the other
states in the East Central Region
in number and percentage of eli-o-ihln
farms nlaced under provis
ions of the 1942 Agricultural Con- J
servauon rrogram.
E. Y. Floyd said that of the 237,
494 eligible farms in the state,
operators of 226,364, or 96.3 per
cent, indicated their intention to
participate in the program this
year. The number of cooperating
operators is 96.8 per cent of the
233,835 farm operators contacted
by the county and community AAA
committeemen.
Mr. Flovd said signifying an in
tention to participate in the farm
nrncrmm means an operator plans
to plant within his acreage allot
ments and to carry out sou build
ing practices, such as seeding le
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pastures and creating new ones,
and plowing under green manure
crops.
wearing night, professionally and
otherwise. He looked first, rather
owlishly, at the bus. Like any New
Yorker, he was surprised and puz
zled.
"Say what's that bus doing
here?"
"What do you want?'? asked Gin
ger coldly.
"I've been trying to reach you
on tha nhone since vesterdav morn
ing," said Ronny. "I just left El
Algeciras, and thought maybe
you'd have breakfast with me, and
tell me why you're mad at me."
"I'm not mad at you," said Gin
ger. "I simply despise yor " :
"Why?" asked Ronny.
"Because vou're so low." said
Ginger, distinctly, "that you could
walk standing up under a cater
nillar with fallen arches, without
tickling him." She turned to Tony.
."Shall we go?"
J "Sure!" said Tony, Intrigued.
I He had decided he did not like
Ronny's face; he also considered it
bad form to be drunk so early in
the morning, as the crooner so ob
viously was.
"Just m minute" cried Ronny.
and caught her arm. "Where do
you think you're going?"
"Where your dirty blacklisting
won't do you any good!" She tug
ired at her arm. but he would not
release her. "Let go of me, Ronay!"
"You're not going anywhere-,
vou'ra aroinff to marry me!" cried
Ronnv. and attempted to pull her
down, from, the step. "You've got
to let me talk to you, anyway!"
"Rntwiv!"
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Tony intervened, wordlessly. His
fincers fell, clamo-like. on Ronny's
detaining arm, and Ronny's fingers
opened spasmodically.
"Who is this guy, anyway?" de
manded the crooner.
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF HAYWOOD.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
REVA LEEKE, Plaintiff,
V Vs.
JAMES LEEKE. Defendant.
Tha Defendant above named win
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Haywood
County, North Carolina by the
Plaintiff against the Defendant for
a divorce on statutory grounds
and the Defendant will take furth
er notice that he is required to ap
pear before the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of Haywood County,
in Waynesville, North Carolina,
on or before 30 days from the 26th
day of February, 1942, and answer
or demur to the complaint herein
filed.
The Defendant will take further
notice that if he fails to answer
or demur to the complaint within
the time required by law, te Plain
tiff wiU nnlv to tha Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint,
namely, an absolute divorce.
Given under my hand and seal of
the Court, this the 2nd day of Feb
ruary, 1942.
KATE WILLIAMSON,
Asst. Clerk of the Superior Court
of Haywood County, North Caro
lina. Cogburn & Vrabel,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
No 1154 Feb. 6-12-19-26
"This guy is someone who doesn't
mre much for vour face." said
Tony, softly, and as Ronny, en
raged, swung at him with his tree
fist, Tony side-stepped. The next
moment his own rieht lashed out.
and made audible contact with the
crooner's jaw. The latter fell.
"Thanks so much.'' said Ginirer
quickly, and hopped aboard the bus
"Please shall we aro now!"
Tony grinned, rubbing his knuck
les, then came aboard after her and
got behind the wheel, as the Fili
pino came running from the gaudy
Rolls-Royce to his recumbent mas
ter's aid. The bus left the curb
with a lurch.
Ginirer. who had sat down on the
aeat diaironallv across from Tony
rooked back, rne Drown ranee 01
the Air. heinir helned somewhat un
steadily to his feet, was wildly
hnkinor his fint after them. Ginirer
had a premonition, in that moment,
that she was not seeing tne last 01
Ronny Rockaby. She sighed an
angry sigh.
"Lovely morning, isn't it?" said
Mr. Taylor,
"A very, very, lovely morning,"
said Miss Drake. But she waa be
ginning to have her doubts.
(To be continued)
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Tine to tha trreatlv increased war
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nurinii- 1941 motorists paid the
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