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PZ.GE FOUR THE JOITjJTAI, PLATTSMOUTH, HEBHtASKA MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1943 I Weeping Water John Bender, who has been at tending a bakers school in a camp near Big Springs, Tex., visited Mrs. Bender's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alee Pattersen, and his brother, Joe Ben der and family, Thursday. From here he went to Sutton to visit his relatives there. Miss Esther Tefft returned home from Chicago, Thursday evening. Mrs. Tefft expects to remain with "Ward until he is fully recovered. Dick Power arrived home Friday morning from Farragut, Idaho where he has been attending a cook and bakers school. Dick is now a first class seaman. Mrs. Frank Wood, matron at the Odd Fellows Home, at York, and Miss Edith Lancaster, vice president of Rebeka Assembly, also of York, were in Cass County visiting three Rebekah lodges last week. Thurs day afternoon they were guests at a called meeting of the Elmwood Lodge, and Thursday evening of the Nehawka Lodge. Thursday night they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clias. Gibson, in Weeping Wa ter, and at noon had dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mogen John son. Friday -evening a covered dish dinner was served at the 100F Hall, preceding the regular meeting of the lodge, when Mrs. Wood had the privi lege of meeting old friends, and Miss Lancaster of getting acquaint ed with the members. Mrs. Wood in formed us that it was just one year ago the fourth of August when she had her accident. She is still walk ing with crutches, but is optimistic about toon being able to do with out them. Out at the Walter Andersen farm there was a family reunion Sunday, honoring the birthday of Mr. Ander son's aunt, Mrs. Henry Snell. Those AnrD) rrrrnrrorprr (nnmnM CHAPTER V Jane, a fashion artist, shares an apart ment in London with Stella, a free lance journalist. Jane joins the WAAF. The night before entering service she walks through dim streets and collides with a flight lieutenant of the RAF. She ac cepts his invitation to dinner but refuses to see him again. Her training finished. Jane is assigned to an airdrome where the lieutenant is stationed. Meeting by accident, he asks her to marry him. She agrees to dine with him later in London. Stopping to break her engagement with Stella she discovers that the lieutenant. Timothy Poel Sanders nicknamed "Tips" is Stella's divorced husband. She meets Tips at Kettner's. Hearing that Tips may soon fly over Germany, Jane tries to see him but hides when he enters a car with Mrs. Iris Stanton, wife of Guy Stanton another RAF flyer who is also watching the couple. 1: Iris Stanton sipped her orange juice and recalled the time when she'd breakfasted gluttonously: Now she knew better. Orange juice and dry toast was her early morn ing diet. Lunch was a skimpy meal, too. It was only at dinner that she dared let herself eat anything. Even then she had to be careful. Tips had said last night, jokingly of course: "You know, Iris, if you don't look out you'll be getting fat Better not do that. I don't like fat women." She'd laughed and told him he needn't worry. "I'm the skinny kind, Tips. I always have been." But she felt a little uneasy. She looked across the table at her husband, who was forty-five and in her opinion looked nearer fifty. Their eyes met at that moment and he said irritably: "Why the blazes don't you eat something?" "You know I loathe breakfast." Guy grunted. "You used not to." She glanced at the clock and then at her husband. "Aren't you going to be late?" she asked mildly. Guy Stanton's eyes narrowed. "Anxious to get rid of me?" "Not particularly." Guy glared at her. He wished from the bottom of his heart he wasn't still in love with her. Quite dispassionately he knew she wasn't worth it. He pushed back his chair angrily and, turning, reached for his pipe and tobacco pouch from the mantelpiece behind him. 1 "About Tips," he began aggres sively, filling the bowl of his pipe as he spoke. "You know, Iris, I've stood for a good deal, but I'm not going to have you always around with that fellow. People will begin to talk again as they talked before. And that's no good to you, to Tips or to me." Iris laughed shortly. "That's ab surd. Who's talking about me any way?" "A great many people soon will be if you take to inviting Tips here when you're alone. I tell you I won't stand for it." I Iris rocked gently backward and forward on her heels and her toes. She was deciding that perhaps it would be foolish to have a real row i with Guy over Tips, at any rate j while she was so uncertain of him. ' She said gently, rather like a moth ! er speaking to a refractory child, "You know you're being awfully ! stupid, Guy." j He came round the table and ' stood close to her, looking down at her. He wished he could be sure she was speaking the truth. He said, "I'm only jealous because I'm so much in love with you." Iris braced herself. Didn't he know that all she wanted was to be left alone? All the same, as sudden ly he held her close, she remained in his arms for a moment though the longing to drag herself fiercely away was almost too much for her. Only when he bent his head and tried to kiss her did she laughingly protest. "No, Guy, please!" His arms fell away from her. "Sometimes I wonder if you care a darn about me." She didn't answer. If she were so much as to open her mouth she knew she'd tell him the truth. "Or if you'd mind in the least if I went off on one of these stunts and never returned," he went on. "I hadn't meant to tell you, but since you're my wife I suppose I may as well, though you must keep it to yourself. There's a big show coming on, far bigger than any thing we've undertaken before. And if it means anything to you I doubt very much whether any of us will return either I or Tips Poel-San-ders for that matter." He turned on his heel and strode from the room, banging the front door behind him. There had been a letter from Stella this morning that had decid ed Jane, since she had a few hours oft duty, to make a flying visit to London. She wouldn't have very long, but at least she'd find out if Stella were really as worried as her letter had sounded. Jane took a bus to Piccadilly, assuring herself that it was good to be in London again, even though it was a wartime Lon2on. The doorman at Duke Street gave her a brisk salute. "Nice to see you again, miss." I'm so glad you dropped in, Tips. "Nice to see you, Evans. No bombs yet?" Evans laughed this to scorn. "No. miss. We have been lucky so far." He whisked her up in the ele vator and she rang the bell. In a moment Stella was there in the door smiling at her. "Darling, this is a lovely surprise!" "I thought it would be nice to nip up and see you." "Ccme along in. I've got tea ready." It was fun to be having tea with Stella again. They had not met since the night Jane had dined with Tips. In a letter she'd said she proposed to see very little more of him. In an answering letter Stella had said, "About Tips I suggest we just don't talk about him." So they didn't at first. There was so much else to talk about, "Are things really sticky, Stella?" "They are. But I'll be all right." "Haven't you any work, darling?" Jane asked anxiously. Stella shook her head. "Not a thing. But one never knows at this game. Something may turn up as soon as tomorrow morning. That's the best part about writing for one's living. One never knows what's round the corner." Jane knew that this cut both ways. Sometimes it was pleasant to be sure of one's bread and but ter. She prayed that there was nothing or no one unpleasant round Stella's particular corner. She said a little unhappily, "I feel awfully guilty at having left you in the lurch like this." Stella looked at her in genuine distress. "Darling, that's just ridic ulous. There's no reason why two of us should be in a mess. Oh, don't let's spend our time talking about me! Let's be cheerful. Have some more tea. Try one of these buns. Do you get cake for tea at the air drome?" Jane helped herself to a bun. "Yes, darling. The CO. makes them for us twice a week. No, my pet, don't be silly. We get the odd est things for tea. Pease pudding sometimes." Stella shuddered. "Oh, my Lord! Thank heaven I'm not in the Air Force!" "I wish you were. It would be grand if we were together. "If . . ." She stopped short suddenly. She had been going to say: "If we were both down on the station together." But that might open up a diffi cult line of thought and might bring the conversation round to Tips. Tips! Jane thought of him sud denly from quite a different angle. Tips had his own car and plenty of money; more than he knew what to do with, judging from the lavish way he spent it. And Stella was worried to death because she was badly hit by the war and from the look of things unable to make any money. It struck her suddenly as being all wrong. Why shouldn't Tips do something for Stella? Doubtless he'd want to if he knew she was seriously up against it. She thought of all the women divorced from their husbands who lived comforta bly on their alimony. The trouble was Stella's stubborn pride. Jane looked at Stella and decided to take a chance. "Hit me on the head if you like for what I'm go ing to say, but I've got to say it. Considering that Tips seems to have far more than his fair share of mon ey, I don't quite see why he shouldn't be told you're finding things difficult Oh," as she saw Stella change color, "I know we weren't going to discuss him and all the rest of it but, darling, please won't you let me tell him you and I are friends?" Stella said angrily, "If you tell Tips one single thing about me I'll leave this fiat and never let you know where I am. I don't want to see him again, ever!" Jane, head bent hands in her pockets, collided with Tips a sec ond time and with almost as much force. Ha held her for a moment to steady her. Then he let her go. He said, "It's four days since I've even had a glimpse of you. Darling, this is the first evening I've had free for a week. Would you spend it with me?" She looked at him. Then she withdrew her arm. No. No, she wouldn't, she told herself firmly, fighting against a very real urge to fall in with this suggestion. "No. I can't. Tips. I'm on duty at ten," she said, as if that settled it "That's all right It's barely sev en now. I'll get you back in plenty of time." "No." He gripped her arms. He shook her half playfully, half in earnest. "Listen to me. Why won't you ever come out with me?" Jane lied convincingly: "Because i I don't want to." "You don't really care a darn i about me?" ! "No." He stood looking down at her, his eyes searching her face in the dim light. A bleak depression held Jane. : She wished from the very bottom of , her heart that she'd never met him. She wondered what was the mat- 1 ter with her. Why hadn't she the ' courage to do what she wanted and spend the evening with him? Why , hang back? Why bother about Iris ' Stanton? But she was bothering, so much that she said, a sharp edge to her voice and a gleam in her eyes: "If I won't dine with you, I take it you won't necessarily spend a lonely evening?" t He drew a long whistle. His face cleared. "So that's it, is it? You're jealous of Iris." "Oh, don't be silly! Of course I'm not jealous." His hands came down on her shoulders. "You are, but you haven't the honesty to admit it ei ther to yourself or to me. Well, that's all right with me. I'll wait One day you'll come to your senses. But I'm sick of groveling and scrap ing and begging you to come out with me. Next time you and I go places together it will be because you ask me. And maybe I'll throw a fit of temperament then and say I don't want to." With this he was gone, striding angrily away from her toward his car parked outside the main build ing. He drove swiftly away and turned in the direction of Stretton. Blast the girl! he thought bitterly. Blast all women! Then he paused, found a coin and in the light from the dashboard tossed it. "Heads you go to town alone. Tails you drop in to see Iris." It came down tails. He tried again and it was tails a second time. He drew up outside Iris door and tooted the horn. In a mo ment she was beside the car. "Aren't you coming in?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I thought you might like to come up to town and have dinner with me." Iris said she would and then de cided that she wouldn't It was a rotten night for a twenty-mile drive. "We'll soon get there." "Not in a blackout No, come in and have some food with me. I'm all alone. Guy's not coming back till God knows what hour. There's ssome cold chicken and a salad. Alice is out but she's left every thing ready." Tips hesitated. Food, he decided, didn't really interest him. "And there's plenty of drink," went on Iris encouragingly. That settled it. He ran the car over to the side of the road, fol lowed Iris into the house and closed the door. There was ifire burning in the hearth and in a moment she was shaking him a cocktaiL He had three and felt very much better. He had a fourth and felt grand. She said softly, "I'm so glad you dropped in, Tips. It seems ages since I saw you." He got up from his chair and strolled over to the fireplace. He stood with his back to it, looking across at Iris. "Chicken and salad were promised me," he reminded her, purposely changing the conver sation, and added that he was hun gry. (TO BE COXTISUED) j . attending were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Andersen; Mrs. Henry Snell; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Groesser, and son, Donald; Mr. and Mr. Albert. Snell, and son, of Murray; Mr. and Mrs. Renos Andersen, and family; Frank Domingo; Mrs. S. Ray Smith; Mr. and Mvi. Oscar Domingo, and fam ily; Mr. aud Mrs. Eugene Domingo, and family; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Domingo, and family; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rauth; Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Anderson, and daughter, Miss Nuoraa Anderson. Joe Zaloutlek. arrived home with a medical discharge from the army, on account of foot trouble. He re turned home Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Petersen and daughcr, Pat, left Saturday for Up ton, Wyo., their former home. It is with regret that we lose these people irom our community, Mr. Peterson was manager for the Unit el Mineral Products Co., for some time, and the family have been active in all community affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Potts are re joicing over the birth of a son, Lorn Tuesday, August 3, 1943, at the Bryan Memorial hospital in Lincoln. This is their second child; their older child is a daughter, aged three. Mrs. A. O. Specht enjoyed a visit from two of her sisters last week. They were Mrs. Kenneth Jacobson, Lexington, and Mrs. Helen Warner, Crete. Mrs. Fred Gorder had as her guests p.trt of last week, Mr. and Mrs. Turner McKinnon, of Alvo. Mrs. McKinnon and Mrs. Gorder are sisters. Harl" Thursland and small dau ghter, Marsha, were down from Bellevue, Saturday- evening of last week. Mrs. Thursland was unable to come as she had to be at her post at the bomber plant. Robert Hoiuan is the new attend ant at the Pennsylvania Consum ers Oil Co., taking the place of E. B. Taylor, who has resigned. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ambler had as their guests, Sunday, their son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. Don ald Boesiger, and their young grand daughter from Firth. Miss Agnes Rough expects to leave Tuesday for Chicago, then to Detroit to visit her nephew. Dr. Max Lake, who is interning at the Ford hospital. From there she will go to Columbia, O., to visit her niece, Mrs. Maxine Lake Guelzo. Frank Hunt informed us of the death of Ira Glasco, about 65 years old, week before last. The report was that he was killed while at work in shipyards in the state of Washington. The body was brought to Sidney, la., his home since leav ing Weeping Water, for burial, last Sunday. Joe John was called to Arcadia, last week, by the death of his father, Charles ii. John, 73. Mr. John had been in failing health for the past two years. Red Cross swimming lessons are well attended this year. Ninety young people left Weeping Water each morning last week, for Louis ville. Ten of these came from the neighborhood southeast of town. All met at the corner by the Nebraska State Bank, and were taken from there by trucks. Mrs. Neil Munkres, the water safety chairman, accom panied them. Mrs. Roy Norris, coun ty Red Cross chairman, and six Louis ville young people, who have taken the work in preceding years, assist ed. Mis 5 Arlene Church of Lincoln is the instructor. Thursday afternoon the members of the Helping Hand society held their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Lester Heebner, near Nhaw ka. Mrs. Heebner was an active work er in this society for several years, while living in this community, and it was a treat for the members to accept her invitation to be their guests last Thursday. Mrs. Rasmus Lauritzen will pre sent the play 'Two Masters," at the meeting of the Woman's Association of the Congregational church, Wed nesday atternoon. ALL OUT FOR VICTORY The government is asking you to store your winter supply of Coal NOW to save trans portation for war materia later on. So see ns nr for your next Win tar 3oal. E. J. Lumber Coal - Phone 128 4 "l 1 1 1 i - Eurean of Public Relations IT 8. War Denartmpnt , AMERICAN PARATROOPERS IN ACTION After having effected a night landing, these sky troopera are now advancing behind Italian lines in Sicily. They opened the way for the general advance. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hoback arc moving back into town this week. Since returning from St. Louis they have been at the Ray Norris farm, where Mr. Hoback has been assist ing with the care of the large flock of turkeys. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Detiner, from south of Avoca, will move to the Norris farm. Weeping Water Welfare Club held their annual indoor picnic Monday afternoon, with a covered dish lunch eon at one o'clock, in the basement of the Methodist church. Rev. Johu C. Pryor, of Gilberts ville, Mass., has accepted the call from the Congregational church, at Weeping Water, and will arrive here in time to fill the pulpit September 5. Their daughter, who is still at home, will enter Grinnell College, in Iowa, this fall. Mrs. Lois Tefft entertained at a picnic supper Tuesday evening hon-. oring Mrs. Clarence Norris and Rob ert Tefft, who had birthdays last week. Ray Tankersley, Jr., returned last week from Salem and Portland, Ore., where he has spent the past two months visiting relativves. Mrs. Ernest Bates went to Oma ha, Thursday and brought her moth er, Mrs. Jay Embury home from tho hospital. Mrs. Embury is now at her own home, with her daughter, Mrs. Virgil Bryant, of Lincoln here car ing for her. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Grow, Mrs. Max Gribble, and Mrs. Bert Philpot, were Lincoln visitors Thursday ev ening. Mrs. William Gussett, of Lin coln, was in town Wednesday attend ing the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Wm. Marks, of Union. Funeral ser vices were held at the Hobson funer al home. The Business Men's Luncheon club had as their guests, Wednesday, three of our boys who were at home on furloughs. They were Flight Officer . Warren James Wolcott, of the glider corps; Cpl. Wm. Thorn ton; and Pvt. George Miller. W. F. Thornton, father of Corporal Thorn tn, was also a guest. Miss Villa Jamesen entertained at a dinner, at her home, Tuesday, when DEPENDABLE INSURANCE Have you adjusted your insurance to meet present day values? Protect What You Have It costs more now to Repair Damage Done By FIRE WINDSTORM " CAR WRECKS . Call or See INSURANCE DHONB"l6l PUATTSMOUTM Office Over Soennichsen'a Store her guests were her aunt, Mrs. Ern est Jamesen, Mrs. L. J. Lane, Mrs. Joan Carter and Mrs. W. II. Tuck. The many friends of Mrs. F. C. Linville will regret to learn that she entered Bryan Memorial hos pital, Wednesday. Mrs. Linville has been suffering from gallstones ana decided to go to the hospital for treatment. Whilj Mrs. J. J. Meier was in town visiting last week a deal was made, when she sold her former home, just south of Rest Haven, to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Raines to be used as an annex to Rest Haven. Flight Officer Ronald Switzer, for merly of Weeping Water, son of Mr. and Mr3. Dan Switzer, was honor guest at' a family reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Seward Day,- in Lincoln, Sunday, Aug. 1. Those present from Wcepiifi - Wa- Killed in Crash V Maj. Gen. William P. Upshur and Capt. Charles W. Taddock, both of the United States marine corps, who were killed in an Alaskan plane crash. General Upshur was com manding general of the depart ment of the Pacific. A naval officer, two enlisted men and an army ser geant also were killed. ter were Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Day, his grandparents, Mrs. George Cor lcy, and Mr. and Mrs. John Robin son. Mr. and Mrs. John Mead attend ed a family reunion at Nebraska City, Sunday. ( WEDNESDAY SPECIAL Clean & Press Mens Suits and Top Coats and Spring Coats Plain Dresses and Mannish Suits 0(D) Heavy Coats and White Garments Not Included! Men's Felt Hats Cleaned and Reblocked like ' new 5D Eeg. Price, 75c Save a Third Same high, quality work as at our regnlar prices. No one day service. Cash and Carry ! 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