?AGE 2 - I IK ! SIXTH INSTALLMENT Johnny Breen, 16 years end, who had spent all of his life aboard a Hudson river tugboat plying near New York, is tossed into the river in a terrific collision which sinks the tug, drowns his mother and the man he called father. Ignorant, unschooled, and fear driven, he drags himself ashore, hides in the friendly darkness of a huge covered truck? only to be kicked out at dawn?and into the midst of a tough gang of river rat boys who beat and chase him. He escapes into a basement doorway where he hides. The next day he is rescued and taken into the home of a Jewish family living in the rear of their second-hand clothing store. He works in the sweatshop store?and is openly courted by Becka?the young daughter. . . . The scene shifts to the home of the wealthy Van Horns ?on 5th Avenue, where lives the bachelor?Gilbert Van Horn ? in whose life there is a hidden chapter. That chapter was an affair with his mother's maid, who left the house when he was accused. The lives of Johnny Breen and Gilbert Van Horn first cross when Van Horn sees Breen win his first important ring battle. Now go on with the story: Malone, in the dressing room with the fighters, saw Sol Bernfeld slowly count out three five dollar bills and offer then to John. They were standing in a corner, partly shielded by a locker. "What's that?" Malone demanded sharply, approaching the boy and his manager, a "What I won. I get fifteen and Sol gets ten; he's my manager/' John explained. "Say?you dirty crook!" The trainer glared at Sol, blanched to a deathly pallor at the discovery of his duplicity. "You give that boy his money." Malone, with a sudden grip, pulled the retreating Bernfeld backward. "Dig, damn you?dig!" and he drove his elbows sharply into the middle of Sol's soft back urinpincr with nain. hesi JJCilUVlU, n ? JJ tated. John eyed him with suspicion. "Dig, you rd:ten crcok," and Pug Malone gave hm a second and much harder hook in the back as a crisp fifty dollar bill came to light. Malone snatched this and handed it to John. "Take that, son, you earned it. An' you," turning to Sol, "fade, an' fade fa^;, before you get what's coming' to you." Bernfeld took the hint without delay. "What's your name, son?" Malone asked. "You look whi:e." "Breen, sir, John Breen," the "sir" clipping from some dormant cell, recorded, perhaps, while overhearing Captain Breen address some wharf of ship officer. Pug Malone, compact, gray haired, and pink, looked like a god to the boy. "Where do you work?" Malcne knew that John was not a professional. "With Mr. Lipvitch in the Clothing Emporium." "Pay?" demanded Malone. "Yes, sir, he pays me," John felt his benefactor was under criticism. "Of course he dees, son. How much? What do you get a week?" "Three dollars ? and board," John added, by way of good measure. "Board! Board!" Malone ran his hand over the body of the boy. "Board?rats!" Ana then, seeng the alarmed look on John's face, he went on in a kindly tone. "What you need is feeding. Better stay here. I'll give you a job, five a week an' real board. Rubbin', that's nrrvvlr onrl Til +r?air* w\n o/vn an' n?v nvia, Mliu x u wi Uii* J vu, '*'** split right. Are you my boy?" And so John Breen left the Ghetto to enter 'the Bowery of the Greater City of New York. A year passed over the head of John Breen, a year of ampler freedom and of physical development, a year charged with the elements of crime, of drunkenness and brawling. John saw, without knowing, the dregs of 'the city. Blear-eyed victims of the sodden slums of Chinatown drifted into the bar at McManus' for a bowl of beer and a snatch of lunch, then to sink back again to the drug-soaked atmosphere below. He saw 'these things through the swinging doors between the gym, at one end of the dance hall, and the private parlors and the bar. It was merely another pic ture of the overpowering city, so tremendous in its contrasts. Pug Malone, ex-prize fighter, trainer for the Samson Sporting Club, a hard, honest, medium-sized middleaged man, shorn of his illusions, watched over John Breen. John rose at six, with Malone, jumping up in the brisk air when he skipped rope, swung the clubs and shadow boxed under the eye of the trainer who sat on the edge of his cct smoking his morning pipe. Warrenton, North Carolina * Bridge Play in Am Soon now, American Legion P bridge pfay in an International Toi relief of unemployment and for the Paris. . . . Here is the model?a Chandler Christy, left; which will he | After a half hour of this Join ! turned out ?ihe blankets to air, anc master and pupil met a string o: boys at the rear door of the clul and ran hard for another half houi before the awakening of khe cit; traffic, coming back to the club foi a ccol shower and a rub down. I Malone and John then breakfasted alone, in a card room back of tht bar, on large bowls of oatmeal, baecu and eggs, rolls and cc-fTee. Th( clay was spent in taking care of i string of fighters, boxing, rubbing and punching the bag, or working alt the chest machines. Regulai meals, clean air, and early to bee filled out his frame with ar abounding health that glowed anc sparkled through his clear skin ir startling contrast to the soddei wrecks of men and women drifting all about. ! After two months of training foi | condition, Malone initiated Johi irtco the science of pugilism, coaching him behind closed doors in th< art of jabbing, hooking, and block ing blows. He impressed upon hin the great value of infighting, an< the secret of terriffic punches witl the crcoked elbow, throwing th< full force of the body irt:o the blov by applying the fundamental principles of mechanics and dynamii force. One day, after a long go with Malone himself, the trainer, wiping i bleeding nose, and out of breath remarked shortly, "You'll do to 'tak< a crack at a few second raters.' John flushed. "Sure?you must always win. Don't forget that, John Get the habit of always winningalways. It's 'the principle of success." And then John polished off a hal: dozen "set ups," third and seconc rate boys disposed of with startling rapidity and with cold calculating precision. Almost over night th< name of Fighting Breen, the wel ter weight, became known on th( Bc ing a barroom loafer sittng at one J of the tables thumbing a newspa- w per, knew that he was looking at j 1 a superior being. The bum's cloth- aj 1 ing migWt be foul; he might be fil1 thy inside and out, but he possess- , 1 ed a key, the great key to all; he ^ ? oould read. John had grasped a ^ word or two in casual contact with h( r letters. He knew thsSt R-Y-E spell1 ed rye whiskey and that B-E-E-R B " spelled beer, but the label Pilsen h, 3 Genossenschafts-Brauerei was utter pJ mustery. He did know that 'there w 1 were such things as letters and an * alphabet. But he knew of no way w 1 in which he could go about the task tj. 3 of acquiring the art of reading, or 7 of whaJi he might find out should tj. " the gift come to him like magic in 3 the night. For he did dream such miracles, often, that he could read, and just as he was about to gain h( 1 some mighty triiih his fairy gift v, > faded away. Then, at times, he fa ' ccnsoled himself with the thought tr] that it was no great gift after all. j - None of the readers he saw were particularly wise, except, of course, f? - his idol, Pug Malone. John's inability to read was brought to light one day. 'Here's the pi ' story of my scrap with Stiftt. I just oi 1 dug this up in my old trunk. Lookit 11 > ever, Jack, an' you'll see Stift top- tl ,i a a > " Death i Fire - ; Hail - 1 1 Tornadc T 0 \ TRAGEDIES-A t Are you prepared f u I s 1 INSURANCE does not prevent, y those who have suffered the I< home has been taken from the a ^ '1 Drop by today and let us disci r wfih you. t 1 ' I CITIZENS INSURANC y II R. T. WATSON, President; e e Warrant#! I j FIRE LIFE I VI "Consult your Insurance y your Decter < d REN RECORD ed me by ten pounds," and Pu eld out the paper to John. Joh >ok the paper, glanced at the fu ngth wood cut of Malone, middl eight champion, etc., ef:c., his ey naming over the figure of hi "iend in fighting pose. Tears well 3 into his eyes; the picture blur Jd; the red tinged sheet was nc ) crimson as he. His blush c lame and his tear-bathed eye; oking straight at Pug. halted th i>-> y?4r. rani f Q1 XXX X1XO iV,WVM.' "Pug, I can't read a damn word! e said. "Can't read! Can't read the Ga itte?" Malone almost dropped Jttle of seltzer he was about t [uirt into a highball, a custome iving appeared before 'the bar a lat agitating moment. "Well, I'] ; damned!" and Pug shot the wa r with such force in spashed th ir, drowning out the Scotch. "Her .ke some more," and Pug passes le bottle back to the customer wh Diked the drink heavily wonderin hat the excfteajent was all about. When Malone recovered th hiskey bottle he turned to the bo] ears glistened in John's eyes an ained his cheek where he ha lughly dashed a sleeve across hi ice. A great lump arose in th iroat of the trainer. He went t le end of the bar, poured out rgg drink of cold black coffee an issed it off. When the custcme ft he returned to John. "Why in the name of hell didn' >u tell me this before?" "HTVvy-v Kiicrr T>nrr fhn Kav f&Ynlfl.iri AVA> UUOJ) X Ug) Wiv wvrj I haltingly. "I wanted to mak x)d at 'the scrapping. I ain't ha 0 chance. I figured I was tco olc 5 what's the use?" John's voic 5ld a note of hopeles maturity ime, the master, had passed hir /<. On leaving the bar Pug an )hn walked into the gym and don 3d gloves for ttheir usual fas und before supper. Malcme, scor iging a hard left to the nose, dre' ood. 'There, son, you see you got to g 1 schcol now." He carefully wipe le red smear from his glove wit towel, while John laughingl 3ld his bleeding nose. "It's nigh :hool for you. Night school wit lem kykes an' Polacks. Ycu stai morrow, kid, at the beginnin', ug was postive. "I'll bet you'll b sading the Police Gazette in onth," he added hopefully. * John Breen.knew no more wher 3 was heading than did the firs . yagers who sailed their craz iravels across the waters of a vir n world. He plowed ahead wit i energy sustained by his magni cent vitality. In six months' 'tim s had burst his prison bars. J l-U 1- !,? 15 ieverisn rest:tutu ne ran ucjuu ie limits of the school. In a yea = carried on his quest to scienc ad philosophy. The day Joh reen first stumbled into a second and book store he became awar f a vast mine of incalcuabl ealth. John trembled as he walked ol ith his treasures, and then sper ie night searching (the page: ringing from them the ecstas lat went into their making. Continued Next Week A total cf 2,472 hogs with a smok ause value of $35,000.00 have bee; iccinated against hog cholera fc .rmers in Columbus County dur ig the past month by County Agen P. Quinerly. There was an aver je of nine hogs on each of the 27 irms visited. Rutherford County will be we! rovisioned for the winter becaus ' the abundance of fruit and vege ibles now being canned, report le farm agent. > LL OF THEM I tould they strike? but it offers consolation to >ss of a loved one or whose m. \ uss your insurance problems IE 5 BONDING CO. PAUL B. BELL, Manager l, N. C. jlABILITY BONDS > Agent as yeu would Hi Lawyer." J1 * Warrenton, No n President R.F.C. Board \ p Charles A. Miller, Utica, N. Y.; ' banker, endorsed by Atlee Pomerene,. a e (Dem.) Ohio, a fellow board mem-j h e ber, was appointed by President s U/^irae (KA P^rnncfnvttnn FmAnr^i rj IlWVtl IV Uiv avvvv?*jh ? ? 0 Corporation and will be elected its , new president This appointment B completes the Board's roster. ' - - g e ? ? d Farm Questions J J and Answers t! s o 6 ????? 0 Question: Can I use soybean meal a in place of animal protein in my v , laying mash? 0 d b r Answer: This substitution has t] been made bilt is not advisable un- ? -SAM vM/vnl- /inviJUiAWP TIHson PAVrlviQnO QC1 1UUC)U UL'liUlUV/lli?. VV ll&il ovj wvw*?j meal is used in place of animal pro- | tein the ration must be carefully supplemented with a mineral mix? ture. Economy in poultry feeding ? cnnot always be measured by price * of feeds and it will be just as ecoe nomical to feed the animal pro' teins such as fish meal, meat meal, n and a milk product as it would to d use the soybean meal. These f?eds ~ also furnish a wide range of acids which are readily utilized by poultry. V Question: Please let me know if 0 a tomato sucker can be rooted and d 'transplanted and produce tomatoes 1:1 suitable for market? y Answer: Tomato suckers and lt branches are often used for proh ducing a late crop but the practice 't is net as satisfactory as growing plants from seed. Branches that e have been in contact with the soil a and have developed a few roots may be set directly in the garden if the soil is moist. Usually, however, it is e necessary to root the branches in a moist, partially shaded bed and y then transplant to the field. With - good soil and weather conditions, 1 h the well-rooted branches should ' ! S i | i3i jj ?Free from hai e I Webster's d< I || the state of 3 a ! I care of this1 I ? Year in and I well to the s I care. I Not only has savings, but cooperated i community. Regardless c financial ns you. Our ei I mand. Citi Built rth Carolina roduce just as gcod tomatoes 'lanf.s from seed, but, due to t xtra labor Involved in rooting ai landling the branches, the use hem is not advised for commerci urposes. Question: Is the fall crcp of n ive Irish potatoes equal to nort rn grown potatoes as seed for pring crop? Answer: Yes?as far as the yie 3 concerned as the native se iroduce as large and sometimes arger crop than do the northe Town seed. The crop grown fn lothern seed, however, matui rom two to three weeks earii han Ithat grown from native se ilanted at the same time. The d prpnr.fi in time in e-ettinsr to marl ,nd the resulting price differer 3 favorable (to the northern gro1 eed. Question?How can I remove t Jordeaux spray mixture from i Tapes after picking? Answer?A solution made of c art of hydrochloric acid to ? iarts of water i smost effective. E he grapes in this solution for abc ne minute and then wash immei tely in fresh water. Good1 stro inegar with from three to five p? ent acetic acid may also be us ut this is much more expensi han the acid bath as the vineg LOW R?| I NorfolkH FOR / Friday and Sati also Septemb Sunday Mornin gust also Se] Good Ret I Norlina$1.25 I SEABOARD A AFI :m or RISK; SOUND; W1 sfinition of "Safe" rour money when en well known bankin Year out this ban] security of funds en this institution safej it has gladly and ]n the growth of th )f your problems?h iture?let us discus itire organization is zensB Upon Safety and S< Warrenton, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19,1932 as I must be used full strength. The acid tie treatment is both safe and effective adlif used according to directions and of lis recommended. ial | J I Question?How can I keep m, I potatoes from turning dark in stor. a-1 age? h-1 Answer?Keep the storage roou a!dark as any exposure to light ti\ I cause greening. The best storage is old Ian earth cellar wl.h ample pro-,i. ed I sion for ventilation. Summer stor- i alage, however, will be satisfaction i? 1 ,rn I room uunuing is kept fa* jm Any cool, well ventilated buii^ res will answer the purpose. ier ? ed a group of farmers in southern if- Wake county Teport they have al. I :et ready threshed out 8,000 bushels ot I ice Ismail grain, mcstly wheat. | yn'g | JjJ E^ES I JJJ FITTED ,u"t Office over Citizens Bank with Dr. I ii- Jones the Dentist. Every 1st. Mm. I ng {[ay morning 8:30 to 11:30. I ed DR. E. D. HARBOUR I ve OPTOMETRIST FARES |l Portsmouth II VLL TRAINS II irday During August II >er 2, 3, 23, and 24 || and fll g Trains during Au? II ptember 4 and 25 II urning Tuesday Warren Plains $1.25 II IR LINE RAILWAY 11 11 j I la H B> h a M A a : H 3 si t- = 91 1 I m 3 1H a 3 lole?Webster. H !H ; m ! I but describes H IH h r trusted to the g institution. ? fH k has looked I S trusted to its I t* a M guarded your | I substantially | is town and 5 t* M * ! H ! f they be of a D ss them with j| I M at your com- H H lank j I ^rvice | I! 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