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PAGEfOUR ADA MORNING TIMES ADA OKLAHOMA r v - SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3
THE ADA MORNING TIMES r
AOA MORNING TIMES PUBLISH1NQ CO INC
Ada Pontotoc County Oklahoma "
uocewor to tho Ada Independent Established Dec 19 1934 '
Published Every Morning1 Except Monday
: Chet Clark -- ' -publisher
9 C Rolhwell : Man aging Editor
Entered at Ada Post Office an- Second Class Matter
put over the sweetly peaceful move of the Japs— Tulsa World
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It’s a mighty small town that can’t get up a princess con-
test— -Tulsa World -
There’s always something Right after die' primaries
comes hay fever — Tulsa World
Mexico says it will ’ pay for seized property sopie clay
That "sounds like msnana oil— Wichi ta Eagle
National Advertising representatlvs Fred Kimball Inc New York
Philadelphia Pittsburgh Detroit and Chicago
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COLMBUS Ohio — Arrested
for driving 50 miles an hour in
a downtown street Howard King
came up with the most novel ex-
cuse' Columbus traffic officers
had heard in years but it failed
to sgve him from visiting muni
cipal court
“I had to drive fast : officer”
King explained to Patrolman
Wayne Miller ’ “When I - go slow
I always go to - sleep at the
wheel”
Steel - mills offer about five
hundred products in’ 100000 dif-
ferent shapes sizes and : finishes
Divorce Sought
By Bertie Perry
Gross ' neglect of ’ duty wi
charged by Bertie Petty In ad
vorce action filed in district tool
against Joe Petty ' They wei
married" at ' Ardmore onNoven
ber 7 1913
The plaintiff asks custody
their minor son ownership
their automobile and a "reason
able sum” for support of th
boy -
The totem pole of the Indian
is hot just an ornament Th
history and legends of India
families are recorded in thes
grotesque carvings
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Moots
Safety For School Children
School enrolment began today That means more chil-
dren crossing the streets and facing traffic risks This brings
a greater responsibility to motorists Crossings on several
streets near public schools are protected by underpasses but
most school approaches are not thus safeguarded The school
police can’t watch all intersections either Children should be
taught caution but they often forget Drivers should realize
they are more than ever responsible for the safety of the
streets
Observe the school zone speed limits watch' all intersec-
tions carefully and reduce speed in passing parked cars
The school year has started and street safety depends
largely on careful motorists — Oklahoma News
’ Another Incident Is Cloesd
The recent border incident in the Fast East between Russia
and Japan might have resulted in a war if either had been
anxious to fight
i Japan was not anxious to make an issue because Japan
has about all she can do in her war with China
Russia was hot anxious to make an issue because Russia
does not want Germany attacking her from the west an
exigency that might easily happen if war were declared in the
Far East
It was one case in which a balance of power was just
enough to prevent serious hostilities — Arkansas City Traveler
Whenever attention is called to the longer duck season
die hunting license and stamp charges seem to suggest the
goose that laid the golden egg — Topeka Journal
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The woman who steps out in her fall clothes in the sum-
mer is considered tops for style but woe to die woman who
wears her summer clothes in die fall says the Hill City Times
Insurgents in Spain face the necessity for postponing cele-
brations of victory over the loyalists for at least another year
Patsiotic promises are often just about as reliable as political
promises— Tulsa World
Perhaps the Russian shelling of a four-mile front is what
WASHINGTON - WORLD
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By CHARLES P STEWART
Central Press Columnist
i WASHINGTON D C— If
President Roosevelt succeeds in
winging Georgia's Democratic
senatorial nomination to Lawrence
Gamp Sept 14 political Washing-
ton’s consensus is that he can con-
sider himself as having the party
effectively by the scruff of the neck
a— that it will be his kind of a party
pn into the indefinite future
whether he chooses to run again in
1940 or not
It generally is £ greed however
that besting Senator Walter F
George for renomination will not
be quite enough
If Ex-Gov Eugene Talmadge
should be the Georgia Democrats’
senatorial choice it would be a de-
feat for George to be sure but it
would not be a triumph for the
president either For ”F D” to
win Camp must win
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GEORGE HAS EDGE
In a clean-cut fight between
George and Talmadge I know of
no Georgians and they have some
kighly intelligent newspaper corre-
spondents here) who question that
George would be victorious
1 : Probably it is agreed Camp
would win over Talmadge in a
clean-cut- fight between those two
But- in a triangular r George-
Camp-Talmadge contest there are
plenty of guesses that the George-
Camp split might enable Talmadge
to horn in and win on a run-off
There is a fourth candidate
William G McRae but he does not
seem to signify materially
TALMADGE
George except for presidential
opposition would win in a walk
Camp would stand no chance
against him except for presidential
support
Talmadge has much of the late
Huey P Long’s quality Say what
you will as to Huey he had appeal
“ad lib” Talmadge has it too
I have met him here in Washing-
ton Call him “demegogic” as
President Roosevelt implied! All
the same he is likable and pungent
I can see why he gets the grass-
root voters
AS STEWART SEES IT
But this is more critical
George Camp and Talmadge ?
If George wins it is o 1 If
Camp wins that also is decisive
But if it is indecisive is a run-
off between George Camp Tal-
madge and McRae
I should bet on George of
course Talmadge second -
Naturally this will gum up the '
final result terribly '
l ALLBNG
7 CORLISS
CHAPTER XXIV
Tod was almost always In town
now and seemed to require prac-
tically no sleep He was always dis-
covering new places to take Whit-
ney to dance a - new entertainer
whom he thought' she-would like
But they didn’t spend all their time
dancing They joined a gymnasium
and did a lot of bowling and awhn-
’ ming They went for long walks
usually on Sunday mornings com-
ing back to the apartment to have a
late breakfast with Helena who be-
longed to the school that believe
that Sunday mornings were create
for the purpose of sleeping an
nothing else
The second week in December Jay
gave up his job and flew his own
plane to Chicago to see Ginny who
was playing there He went with
the express purpose of persuading
her to come back to New York But
he returned alone A week later he
sailed with Whitney and Helena on
a Christmas cruise to Nassau At
the last moment they persuaded To
to sail with them He left New York
with three clean shirts hia tooth-
brush and the pleasant conviction
that when he returned he would
probably be minus an exceedingly
good newspaper job But at the lest
minute he had not been able to face
Christmas in New York without
Whitney
By this time it was becoming in-
creasingly difficult for Tod to be
with her and not let her see how
things were with him But somehow
he succeeded Mostly because he be-
lieved that were she to know it
would distress her and make her un-
happy and spoil something precious
and important that they now had
So it was Jay and not Tod who
made love to Whitney in Nassau
Who to her utter astonishment
asked her to marry him He said:
"You think I am crazy but it might
be a good idea We’re two fairly at-
tractive amusing people who are in
love with someone else We might
make a great success of being mar-
ried to each other”
Whitney said: "Your trip to Chi-
cago turned out badly and you’re in
just the brittle mood to try any-
thing but marrying me wouldn’t
make up for not having Ginny”
Jay smiled grimly "I’m not sure
Won’t you at least consider it
darling? You can’t go on forever
alone some day you’ll get un-
bearably lonely and when you do
perhaps you’ll let me console you
Let’s hold the offer open shall we?”
Whitney said: "All right But I
doubt if I ever taka you up on it ”
Three days later they were home
and Whitney found a letter waiting
her from Hester Prentice Olivia’s
baby had died of pneumonia In
Cleveland and Hester wished that
Whitney would come to Boston
"if only for a few days I am no
longer very young and the months
which pass so swiftly for you move
much more slowly for me And now
that Adam is gone I feel more and
more lonely and miss you increas-
ingly" Whitney left within a few hours
without seeing either Jay or Tod
All the way to Boston she told her-
self that she had been unforgivably
selfish and that whether she wanted
to visit Boston or not she should
have forced herself to do so if for
no other reason than Hester
But arriving there she was in-
tensely relieved to find that Olivia
and Scott were still in Cleveland
Hester was sad about the baby
She said: “It was a frail child but
Dr Wrenn saw no reason why
04ivia shouldn’t take it home with
her but it must have caught cold
on the train Compartments are not
nurseries and it wat such a tiny
baby
Whitney thought: "It was such a
tiny baby to have such a big respon
sibility' Perhaps it realized it an
didn't want to take it"
She wanted to write Olivia that
she felt badly and that she-wai
sorry for any unhappiness she ha
ever caused her She wanted to say:
"But alL that is over Completely
finished- For a long time I have not
thought rof Scott at all and ' I shal
never think of him again in any
way except as belonging entirely to
youJ?s r
But aha didn't She simply wrote
that sha was sorry about the baby
and in a few days she went back to
New York
Helena met her train She said:
"Jay sailed for Europe on tho Re
yesterday He asked me to give you
this letter"
Whitney read it as a cab whirle
them from Grand Central to Mur-
ray Hill It was a brief letter a
mere half page It said in part:
"Forgive me darling for asking
you to marry me in Nassau and then
walking out on you like this less
than a week later But I guess you
are right about us Whit I find on
second thought that I don’t want to
have to share a wife even so charm-
ing a one as you would undoubtedly
be with some man I have never seen
in Boston I’m having my plane
shipped to Rome and I’m going to
do some stunt flying for tho Italian
government and with any luck there
may be a war within a year or so
I hope your week-end in Boston was
satisfactory and that eventually you
will be able to work out somo sort of
solution to your problem just as I
may to mine but I am dreadfully
convinced Whit that you were
right and that marrying you would
not have been it "
Whitney finished the letter and
folded it carefully She said : "It is
a strange thing Helena that a
week-end in which I did not even see
Scott may have been the means of
preventing me from spending the
rest of ray life with Jay"
Helena said: "I suppose that for
some time now I have hoped that
things might work out that way for
you but perhaps it’s better that
they didn’t”
And then almost before they
knew it it was another Manhattan
springtime
With Jay gone Whitney found
herself spending it almost entirely
with Tod And she was gay and re-
laxed and more like her old self
than she had been for months
Watching her Tod thought: "She is
forgetting Scott in time she may
forget him completely" And by
April he was thinking: "In time
and if I am very patient and do not
hurry her she may even come to
love me"
' And then one day crossing Fifth
Avenue at Fifty-ninth Street he ran
into Olivia
She was glad to see him She said :
"I have something to tell you Tod
couldn’t you take me somewhere
and buy me a cup of tea?"
He took her into the Plaza He
thought: "Something had happened
to her something pretty terrific
She’s prettier than I have ever seen
her but she’s awfully brittle and
much too thin"
He said: "I thought you had
something to tell me
She said: "I have I’m divorcing
Scott I’m leaving for Reno to-
night When I come back I’m going
to marry Spencer Scofield"
Tod stared at her Olivia was
divorcing Scott When she came
back she was going to marry Spen-
cer Scofield And Scott would be
I’ree Scott would be free to marry
Whitney Suddenly he felt a little
sick He wanted to get up and walk
out of the room He wanted to eay:
"Excuse me Olivia but you have
ust crashed my world about my
lead and l am a littlesiek and I need
to fet out in the-air He wanted- -
to say: "Excuse me Olivia’ but B
hate you at the moment more than a
have ever hated anyone you art!
very pretty sitting there inyouw
smart new clothes -with your mouth!
made up so nicely but I would like
to do something terrible and violenw
to you " He wanted to say : "Yow
aro married to Scott and yen a re
damn well going to stay married tv
him because if you don’t I haven't
a chance in the world of ever mak4
ing Whitney love me and she has
to lovo me "
Olivia was talking She hadn't
noticed anything wrong with Tod
To her he was just a pleasant-lookJ
ing young man in a gray suit who
was Scott’s cousin and who liked
Whitney and was therefore interests
ed in what she had to say Shel
said: “You - probably - think I’m
crazy to marry Spence Well per
haps I am' but I don’t think so He
isn’t very good-looking and I don't
love him But he's crazy about me
and I guess after being married
two years to a man who is crazy
about someone else that’s what I
want more than anything Thi
time" she concluded evenly "111
have the advantage" f
Tod said: "I suppose so” Then
he said: "I’m sorry Olivia sorry1
that things didn’t break better for
you" : (c
But he knew as he said it that hej
was not nearly so sorry for her as
ho was for himself' Because so short
a time as an hour ago he had thought
that there was a chance that things-'
might break right for him and
now ho knew beyond all doubt that
they never would
All through the evening he hadi-
known that he must tell her and hade
not been able to bring himself to do
it To say in so many words: "Iran
into Olivia today on Fifty-ninth I
Street and took her to tea at ther
Plaza 'You will be interested ton
know that she is divorcing Scott” A
They had had dinner together and
gone on to the theater and dropped)'
in later at Tony’s for a sandwich I
Now they were back in Helena’s liv-
ing room and Whitney was stand-1!
ing tall and slim in a flowered silk!
frock in front 6f an old gilt mirror
She lifted her hands and began run-
ning a comb through her fine dark
hair Watching it break into soft
disordered curls as the comb slid
through it he knew he had to tell
her Now At once Because if he
waited she would surely learn it
from someone else From Helena
possibly Or from Scott -i
He walked across the room and
sat down on the red sofa In the
nearly two years that he had been in
New York he had beeome a good
newspaperman: He had for some
time now been given important- as-
signments page-one stories - that
rated him a by-line and he had filled
them competently even brilliantly
He had also grown better looking
Features which had been amiable
but unstartling had sharpened into
definite attractiveness The lean
planes of his cheeks the sensitive
firm-lipped mouth the straight dark
line of his brows gave his face -do-cisiveness
a pleasant maturity Yet
where Whitney was concerned he
was as little sure of himself as he
lad always been and as inartic-
ulate He looked at her now thinking
that he would willingly have given
ten years of his life not to have to
tell her what he was about to and
said: "Stop fussing with your hair
and come here”
She turned her head and smiled at
dm and put the comb back in a dull
fold purse Then she came toward
lim the silk of her dinner frock
rustling softly as she moved ite-
tight little taffeta jacket outlining
the slenderness of her figure' " i
(To be continued) ’ !
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