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PAGE rOTTE THE JOTJSNAI, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, JULY 5 1943 DOROTHY CHAPTER XIII (This is the final installment). The Academy opened its doors. Not only was there the crowd of rustic freshmen disgorged every morning from Eli's buses, and thirty-five new students from out of the state scattered through the four classes, but there were three new resident teachers and three part-time teachers. It seemed to the older teachers that everything was to be organ ized anew. The old stone building, full to the eaves now, gave forth an almost audible humming. The disorder and uncertainties of the first of the term, which usually lasted three or four days, stretched out through the first three or four weeks, full of mistakes, false starts, failures, although everybody was extended to the limit of his powers. But those weeks had more in them than failures. They were flushed with promise. For all the reasons in the world Timothy was thankful to have such difficulties in the opening months of the new term, when Susan and Canby still came once in a while to spend an hour or two in Clifford. People said to each other, said to Canby and Susan, "My! Professor Hulme's got his nose to the grindstone this fall! With all those new students, and the new teachers to look out for, a person can't hardly get a word out of him, about anything but the 'eademy." Once a strange thought Sew into his mind and alighted for a mo ment, looking at him out of alien eyes, the thought that Susan was after all, only a very nice Clifford girL But he could make nothing of it and it flew away at once, back into the unknown country whence it had come. The back road on which Eli Kemp had been born and brought up be came impassable in winter. He consulted Timothy about getting a lodging. Timothy had suggested with hesitation, on account of Aunt Lavinia, his sleeping in the slant ceilinged room across the hall from his study, and having break fast with them. Fearing one of Aunt Lavinia's explosions, Timothy thought of va rious ways to break the news to her, or to forewarn Eli of break ers ahead. But in the end, when Eli brought his new pasteboard suitcase in through the front door, he said only, 'Hello Eli oh, yes, I remember. This was the day you were to come." And, "Aunt La vinia, this is Eli Kemp, who's run ning the new student bus service. He's going to use that extra room on the third floor this winter. , Apparently this offhand introduc tion was the best. The two strangely assorted housemates settled ' down with no fireworks under the same roof. December brought a welter of snow. The town plows kept only the most necessary thoroughfares open. Eli's buses could not get up the steep back hills, but waited for his passengers below at the Junction cf the side roads with the highways. - Eli, on his way to bed in his third story room, hesitated once in a while as he passed the door of the study and went in, if Timothy looked up welcomingly, and said, "Have a ehair, Eli." In the first weeks their chat was plain and factual. But as Eli grew used to the house, he sometimes talked about his half formulated hopes for success. "Mr. Hulme. you know those two extra bus trips a day well, sir, they're turning out pret ly nearly velvet. I bet a regular bus line straight across this part of the state would make money. Heal money." One afternoonJn January. Timo thy was stopped on the stereet by Bill-Peck, Eli's middle-aged part ner. "Say, Professor Hulme, do you know that Eli' Kemp is some body darned 'f he's notl I just bet that kid'll turn out to be one of the money-makers." One evening when they had wan dered into reminiscences of the campaign by far the most exciting event in. Eli's life so far the boy asked, "Say, what kind of a man was that Mr. Wheaton, anyhow?" Timothy told the story of Wheaton's early life not unlike Eli's, he thought, and drew a portrait of Mr. Wheaton's character, ending, "A Stone Age man living in the Twentieth century. Just because Mr. Wheaton was extra clever at making money, people kept putting him in positions where his say-so helped decide what pictures should hang in museums, and what sub jects should be taught in schools. It's very bad for a person's char acter to be constantly passing judgment on what he doesn't un derstand. I wonder why " Tim othy went on musingly "I really do wonder why business is so differ ent from everything else modern men do? Why should the man with a gift for business be the only human who expects to get paid for the use of his brains just all he Wants Investigation Washington, July, 2 (UP) Com merce Secretary Jesse Jones today leiterated his desire for a congres sional investigation of the obstruc tionist charges brought against him by Vice-President Henry A. Wallace. He said he doesn't care whether the inquiry is made by the senate or the house. Jones attended a House Rules committee hearing on proposed in vestigation of loans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the Aluminum Company of Canada for development of the shipsaw pow er project. He was asked if he still SEASONED TQIV3D8E CANFIELD There were tears in his own middle-aged eyes as he held her tenderly to him. can extract from the people who can't get along without it?" "But, Mr. Hulme, he can't get , more than just so much competi tion keeps that down." So there was talk, very simple talk in short words, about compe tition compared to co-operation. A few days later at breakfast Eli said, "Say, Professor Hulme, you know that idea of yours about not just getting all the profit there is for yourself is a good business plan?" "It's not exactly my idea, Eli. It's pretty common, nowadays." Timothy had not meant to drive over the mountain to Drury. When he slid down the long straight de scent from the top of The Wall into the Drury valley and went past the marker showing that he had come into Drury township, he still had no intention of stopping there. But he took his foot from the accelerator and slowed the car, look ing from side to side, at one white clapboard house after another. He knew now what had brought him there. A longing to see Susan that was desperation. When he came to a house with a litter of building materials around it and a scaffold ing up around a half rebuilt chim ney, he slipped his clutch, set his brake, stopped the engine and got out. Across a wide stretch of April tender grass, Susan turned from where she stood under a young apple tree. She held a rake in her hand. -- , . She saw him now, she saw who it was. She dropped her rake and with a cry of passionate welcome, "Oh, Uncle Tim! Dear, dear Uncle Tim!" she tried to run to him. When he moved to meet her, she flung her arms around his neck, kissing him with all her heart "Oh, Uncle Tim, how glad I am you've come!" There were tears in his own middle-aged eyes as he held her tenderly to him, feeling with a strange turmoil the pres sure against him of her misshapen body. He let her go, he wiped his eyes, he said the first simple words that came into his mind "Well, Susan well!- How are you?, And how is Canby?" Canby was there, a hammer in one hand, the other one out stretched. "Well, here you are! Susan and I were just saying this very morning that if you didn't get over this way soon " He forgot what he was saying, shaking Tim othy's hand up and down, up and down. "Stay for lunch' cried Susan. "I'll make a chocolate souffle. Miss Peck showed me just how you like it." "Come on in for the love of Mike and let me show you what I'm do ing to the house," said Canby. They went in through the walls of the house, anywhere, stepping between the open uprights, and be gan to lay a table standing in a litter of sawdust and shavings. Canby transferred a pile of floor ing boards to make room for the third chair. There he sat, Timo thy, sharing the food that Susan had prepared for Canby. "We certainly have missed you all this winter," Susan told him. A tapping of hammers began at the back of the house. Canby let down the front legs t his chair to the floor, leaned across the table and asked seriously, "Say, Uncle Tim, I wish you'd tell me whether you honest-to-goodness think we're on the right track with this funny business I've cooked up. It's darned different from what most folks seem to want. This is the third house Susan's kept house in, in less tha'n a year. It's kind of a funny way to live, isn't it for Susan?" "I love it! . I .simply love it!" cried Susan.' ' , "All the same," , Canby mur mured, "all the same! There are times when camping out is not so hot!" ! it ; To himself Timothy said,; "Let yourself go!' Don't stiffen "up!" To Canby and Susan he spoke wanted an inquiry, into , Wallace's charges. ...... "I have stated on two occasions that I wanted congress to investigate these charges and I don't care who dees it," he replied. Here for Week-End Mr. and Mrs. J. Albert Van Anda, of Fremont, arrive this evening to spend Sunday and over the Fourth of July holiday as guests at; the home of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Robertson and family. The VaulAn das are friends of many years stand ing of the Robertson family W.N.U FEATURES easily, naturally. "See here I have an idea. What you young people need is one permanent place to go back to between campings out. Well. I hardly ever use that old house I bought up on the Cran dall Pitch road. Why don't you go there for your between-times living? It just stands empty. How about it?" They gazed at him, their faces blank, their eyes wide, and then Canby cried, bringing his fist down on the table, "Why, Uncle Tim, that's one swell idea! Susan can go there when she comes out from the hospital in May, and have the nurse with her for a while. Uncle Tim, you're swell!" Susan leaned across the table and for an instant took Timothy's hand silently in hers with a long beau tiful look of gratitude, the deep look that came from her heart. She was thanking him for provid ing a home for Canby's child. So strange a turmoil shook Timothy to dizziness that he closed his eyes as if he were falling, and clenched his hands hard on the arms of his chair. He could not .have said for his life what he was feeling. , Working steadily down through the pile of letters on his desk, Timothy came on an envelope sprawlingly addressed to him in pencil. It was from Canby, scrib bled in the Ashley hospital, to tell him that the baby was thej-e O. K. a boy that Susan was O. K. too that the boy was to be named Timothy Hulme Hunter, if Uncle Tim did not object. He sat trying to think what it would be like to have a child named for him. But he could not imagine it. He had had no experience with little children and could not con ceive that a new baby meant a new human being. But when, after Susan's return from the hospital, he first went up to the stone house that had been his and was not now, and first saw his namesake in the flesh, he realized that he need give himself no concern about anything he was to say or do. Susan would not notice. She could hear, she could see, nothing but the roll of pink blanket in the small basket set on the bench under the maple trees. With the baby in her arms, Susan fell into a long, brood ing silence. Then, dreamily, "You can't think how nice it is to be back in the stone house," she told him. "It seems so safe for the baby." "Yes, it is safe," agreed Timothy. A woman in a white uniform came to the door of the house and said professionally, "All ready, Mrs. Hunter." Susan turned her head, nodded, put the baby back in the basket. She stooped low over it, put her cheek against the round bloom ing one within, and was gone. - Left alone on the bench, Timothy, with, a long breath, leaned back, took off his hat and laid it beside him. The sun shone warmly on his head. He thought of frustration and all that he had taken as proof of its inevitability. And after reflect ing on this for a time, asked him self tentatively, "Can what seems like frustration be sometimes only the resisting of growth?" At this his mind, conditioned to the acrid taste of doubt, leaped up suspiciously to examine the idea for sentimentality. . "Growth? A fine-sounding name for dying! To accept all this for I've accepted it or I wouldn't be here. To let it happen, for I've let it happen. I can call that accepting growth. But it really is a tame acceptance of death." He leaned forward to look into the basket. The smooth bland face had not stirred. Wrapped in his cocoon of sleep, the baby lay breathing lightly, glowing with life as the morning star glows with light. ' Timothy sank back on the bench. "Oh, well, what do we all do, every day but die to what we leave be hind?" he asked himself, his eyes dreamily fixed on a life that had just begun. -THE END. Leaves for Washington Frank Reed, who for a number of years has been engaged with the county highway maintaining system, leaves Omaha Sunday night for the west coast where he expects to be located. Mr. Reed is joining his wife, who left some time ago for Seattle, Wash.,-to be with the children, Miss Bette Reed and William Reed, who is stationed there in the United States Coast Guard service. The son has been enjoying a seven-day leave with the mother and sister at their new home. Ship MacCawley Had Brilliant Pacific Record .Transport Sank by Japanese Had Big Part in Carrying Invading IT. S. Forces Los Angeies, July 2. (UP) The navy department announcement that the Japanese finally got the 7700-ton transport MacCawley off Rendova Island during the New Georgia Island invasion revealed to day that the Japs had removed from the Pacific one of the fightingest transports in the Pacific war. The former Grace Liner Santa Barbara, the MacCawley was built for the elite South American passen ger trade and her builders never thought she would destroy nearly a score of Japanese fighters and tor pedo bombers, have her decks spray ed with shrapnel and salt water from bursting 1,000-pound bombs and yet safely transport thousands of American troops to South Paci fic battle fronts before succumbing to a Japanese torpedo. The famed MacCawley led the transports into Guadalcanal that fateful Aug. 6, when the Solomons invasion began, and her gunners ac counted for at least eight torpedo bombers within the next three days when the sister ships of the inva sion Armada unloading off Guadal canal. It was the MacCawley which led the second convoy into Guadalcanal a few weeks later, ducking past a huge Japanese task force waiting to intercept her off the southern Solomons. From then on her hull was a familiar sight off Guadalcanal and each visit seemed destined to be her last one. Torpedoes from low-flying Japanese torpedo planes just grazed her stern on one occasion and later a Jap bomber downed by her alert gunners crashed in flames a few yards off her bow when the enemy pilot failed in his suicide crash dive. Supposedly a vulnerable target for enemy aircraft and carrying on ly guns mounted as accessories, the MacCawley became one of the Navy's most - deadly marksmen of the South Pacific and her aerial gunners had nearly a score of notches in their guns prior to the ill-fated trip to Rendova Island. She carried a mixed complement of Navy and Merchant Marine Personnel and many of her Officers were former Grace line men who acepted Navy Commissions and stay ed with the ship when she was tak en over by the navy. An Appreciation To the friends and neighbors we wish most gratefully to express our deepest appreciation for the acts of kindness and words of sympathy, as well as the beautiful flowers tendered our loved one. We will long remember and cherish all of these expressions and the services of those who took part in the funer al services. Mrs. P. A. Hild and family Expression of Thanks It is with deep sincerity that I take this means of expressing my thanks to each and everyone who was so thoughtful of me during my stay at the hospital. Being so far away from home and friends, your cards, flowers and gifts were more than doubly appreciated. Mrs. Peter Carr Hollywood Styled Sport Shirts for men Long sleeves Throwback collar 2 pockets $160 to $495 Cool and Stylish Wescott's Two More Internment Camps for Nebraska Omaha, Neb., July 3. (UP) Col. 0. G. Hoas, army district engineer, anounced yesterday that two con tracts, totaling $2,500,000, have been let jointly to the Peter Kiewit Sons company and the Big Horn Construction company for the con struction of Interment camps at At lanta, Neb, and Indianola, Neb. Construction will be beginning immediately under direction of Capt. L. G. Youngs, area engneer at Kearney, Col. Hoas said. Cost of the camp at Indianola will be $1,500,000. The one at At lanta will cost one million dollars, district engineers said. Nationality of the internees was not announced. Allies Supervise Guerilla Armies In Greece, Balkans Equipment and Anns Keported in Hands of Liberator Forces in Nazi Held Territory London, July 3. t UP) The allied middle-eastern command, as part of the general Anglo-American prepar ations for an invasion of Europe, has taken over direct supervision of well-armed guerilla armies i n Greece, a Cairo dispatch reported to day. Axis broadcasts continued to in sist that the "zero hour" for invas ion was sometime today or tonight and the nazi Paris radio was heard broadcasting that "it is no longer a question of days or hours, nor even perhaps a question of minutes." To be first with the news of in vasion," the Paris station said, it had sent reporters to "all points where the Anglo-Saxons are likely to try to land in France." Allied sources were inclined to dismiss the broadcasts as a propa ganda stunt to enable the axis to claim that there has been a hitch in the allied plans if no landing ac tually is attempted. Reports reaching allied air ob servers indicated that Germany is completing the re-grouving of its waning aerial strength for a show down fight when allied troops set foot in Europe. The plan calls for the concentra tion of 2,200 fighters and 1.100 bombers of Germany's entire first line strength of 5,000 to 6,000 com bat planes along the invasion coast from the northern , tip of Norway, through occupied western Europe, to eastern Greece. Upwards of 15,000 other planes, varying in quality, are being held in reserve, these sources said. A Cairo dispatch, telling of the inclusion of Greek guerillas into these sources said. A Cairo dispatch, telling of the inclusion of Greek guerillas into the organized forces of the United Nations, said the patriot armies have received adequate supplies of mod ern arms and have pledged them selves to carry out every military task allotted them by the supreme allied command. Thus the allies for the first time have disciplined armed forces under their command in occupied Europe. Disclosure of the inclusion of Greek guerillas under the middle eastern command followed closely re ports of street fighting in the Greek towns of Canea, Rethimno and Can dia in the waxe of allied air raids on axis installations in Greece and its island approaches. Several divisions of German re inforcements were reported to have been dispatched to Greece. Enters the WAAC Miss Shirley Grassman, of Allian ce, daughter of Mrs. Blanch Grass man and" the late Charles Grassman, has entered the service of the United States. She has enlisted in the Wo man's Auxiliary Army Corps. Miss Grassman enlisted some time ago and received orders to report on Thursday, at Des Moines, for training for active service. Enroute to Des Moines she stopped in this city and visited with her relatives here as the guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry 'White on High school hill. Miss Grassman is a niece of Mrs. John Wehrbein, Mrs. Harry White and Mrs. Fred Kaffenberger of this city. Spends Week-End Here Miss Margaret Newton of Omaha, former teacher in the Plattsmouth city schools, is a week end visitor in the city. She is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry White. v. Claim Great Profits Made On War Contracts Congressman, rom. Michigan Claim Many Figure Their Taxes as Part of Production Washington, Ju:y 3. (UP) Rep. Albert J. Engel, R., Mich., re ported to the house today that 48 corporations holding war contracts have made "sensational excessive profits" by figuring their taxes as a part of the cost of production which is paid by the government. During the last two years, he said, these companies have paid $3,000,000,000 in taxes out of Uncle Sam's pocket. "The government pays these sums out of the treasury as war costs and they are then paid back into the treasury as taxes," he said. "The $3,000,000,000 does not in clude millions of dollars paid by these companies for social security, unemployment insurance, state cor poration and real estate taxes, and other taxes, which likewise come out of the Federal Treasury in the cost of production, but are not returned to it." Engel's report followed another made last Tuesday on excessive wages paid in war industries. "If there is one thing that will set the returning soldier against this government," he warned, "It is the excess profits paid to corpor ations or individuals on invested capital and excess wages paid to labor. "If socialism or communism get a foothold in this country, it will be because of these wartime pro fiteers in the ranks of labor and In dustry." The survey included such compa nies as the E. I. "DuPont De Ne mours corporation, Wilmington, Del. General Motors Corporation, The Chrysler Corporation, and the Beth lehem Steel Corporation. 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Passengers and luggage were thrown to the floor, and several persons were submerged momentari ly in water entering the bus. The fact that no one drowned was at tributed to the shallowness of the river, which is only aoout two feet deep as it flows through South Den ver where the accident occured. Miss Vivian Lowell, 21, Omaha, Neb., was credited with saving the lives of two small children who were swept downstream. She spied the children, Roland Sena, 11 mouths, and his sister, Rita, 4, waded into the river anu saved them. Many of the injured were re leased from hospitals last night, and others were being released today. stock and paid in capital. 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