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CHAPTER VII

Before the Katy pulled in at the
Usage station (the railroad actually
had been extended, true to Dixie Lees
prediction, from Wahoo to Usage and
beyond) Sabra's eyes were searching
the glaring wooden platform. Yancey
was not there The stark red-painted
wooden station sat blistering in the
sun. Yancey simply was not there.
Not only that, the station platform
usually graced by score Of vacuous
faces and limp figures gathered to
witness the exciting event Of the
Katy's daily arrival and departure,
was bare.
Sabra felt sick and weak. SOM
thing was wrong. She left her boxes
and bags and parcels on the platform.
Half an hour before their arrival in
Usage she had entrusted the children
to the care Of a fellow passenger while
she had gone to the Mushroom to put
on one Of the new dresses made in
Wichita and bearing the style cachet
Of Kansas City. She had anticipated
the look in Yancey's gray eyes at sight
of 1t. She had made the children spot
less and threatened them with dire
things if they sullied their splendor
before their father should see them.
And now he was not there.
With Donna in her arms and Gin
at her heels she peered in at the sta
ton window. Pat Leary was bent over
his telegraph key. A smart tight little
Irishman who had come to the terri
tory with the railroad section crew
when the Katy was being built. Sta
ton agent now, and studying law at
night.
"Mr. Leary! Mr.. Leary! Have you
seen Yancey?" He looked up at her
absently, his hand still on the key,
then wiped his wet forehead with his
forearm protected by the black sateen
sleevelet. "Ain't you heard?"
mo" whispered Sabra, with stiff
Inns that seemed no part of her. Then
in voice rising to scream, mo
| No! No! What? Is he dead?"
The Irishman came over to her then
as she crouched at the window. "Oh
| no. ma'am. Yancey's all right. He
amt hurt to speak Of. Just nick II
the ARMAND left arm at that"
"Oh, my God!"
| "Don't take on. You goin' to fain'
or"
mo. Tell me-"
| III been so busy. Yancey go
| the Kid, you know. Killed him. Tit
whole towns gone crazy. Pitched bat
tie right there on Pawhuska avenue IL
front of the bank, and bodies layin
around like battlefield. I'm sending
It out. / amt got much time, blu
I'll give you an idea. Seems Vance,
was out hunting up in the hills las
Thursday"
"Thursday! But that's the day tn
paper comes out"
ITO BE coNTINUED.l
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tice. Besides, Yancey often was mys-
tifyingly amused at things that seemed
to Sabra quite serious. 'Why that's
fine, Sabra. That's fine! That's the
spirit"
"She looks kind of babyish and lone
ly, sitting there by the window sewing
all day. And her husbands SO much
older, and a cripple, too, or almost.
l noticed he limps quite badly. What's
his trouble?"
"Shot in the leg"
ooh" She had already learned to
accept this form Of injury as a matter
Of course. II thought I'd ask her to
prepare a paper for the third meeting
on Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh l
could lend her yours to read up on,
if you don't mind, just in case she
hasn't got it,"
Yancey thought it unlikely.
The paper on Mrs. Browning's EAU.
rora Leigh" never was written by the
pretty Mrs. Evergreen Waltz. Three
days later Sabra, CHANGING to glance
out Of her sitting room window, saw
the crippled and middle-aged gambler
passing her house, and in spite Of his
infirmity he was walking with great
speed-running almost. In his hand
was a piece of white paper-a letter,
Sabra thought. She hoped it was not
bad news. He had looked, she thought,
sort of odd and wild.
Evergreen Waltz, after weeks OF tire
less waiting and watching, had at last
intercepted a letter from his young
wife's lover. AS he now came painting
up the street the girl sat at the win
dow, sewing. The single shot went
just through the center of the wide
white space between her great baby
ish blue eyes.
"Why didn't you tell me that when
she married him she was girl out of
a-out of a-house!" Sabra demanded,
between horror and wrath.
II thought you knew. Women are
supposed to have intuition, or what
ever they call it, aren't they?"
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~Y-e-e-e-s2 1 tried a couple Of

~Y-e-e-e-s? l tried couple Of
things. Nix, nix!"
In year or two he opened little
store in Usage. 1t was, at first, only
a wooden shack containing two or
three rough pine tables on which his
wares were spread. He was the town
Jew. He was a person apart. Some
times the cowboys deviled him; or the
saloon loungers and professional bad
men. They looked upon him as fair
game. He thought Of them as savages.
=
In the three and half years Of her
residence in Usage Sabra had yielded
hardly an inch. 1t was amazing. It
was heroic. She had set herself GER
tain standards, and those she had
maintained in spite Of almost over
whelming opposition. She had been
bred on tradition. If she had yielded
at all it was in minor matters and be-
cause to do so was expedient.
Once only in those three years had
she gone back to Wichita. At the
prospect Of the journey she had been
in a fever Of anticipation for days.
She had taken with her CHM and
Donna. She was so proud Of them,
so intent on outftting them with a
wardrobe sufficiently splendid to set
off their charms, that she neglected
the matter of her own costumfng and
found herself arriving in Wichita with
a trunk containing the very clothes
with which she had departed from it
almost four years earlier. Prominent
among these was green nuns yelling
with pink ruchings. She had had
little enough use for it in these past
years.
The visit was not a success. The
very things she had expected to enjoy
fell, somehow, flat. She missed the
pace, the exhilarating uncertainty of
the Oklahoma life. The teacup con-
versation Of her girlhood friends
seemed to lack tang and meaning.
Their existence was orderly, calm, ac-
copied. For herself and the other
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CHAPTER vi

Sabra's second child a girl, was born
in June, little more than a year
after their coming to Usage. 1t was
not as dreadful an ordeal there in
those crude surroundings as one
might have thought. She was tended,
during her ACCOMPLISHMENT, by the best
doctor in the county and certainly
the most picturesque man of medi-
cine in the whole Southwest, DR.. Don
Valiant. Like thousands Of others
living in this new country, his past
was his own secret. 1t was known
that he often vanished for days, leav-
ing the sick to get on as best they
could. He would reappear as mex
plicably as he had vanished and his
horse was jaded. 1t was no secret
that he was often called to attend the
bandits when one Of their number,
wounded in some outlaw raid, had
taken to their hiding place in the hills.
He was tender and deft with Sabra,
though between them he and Yancey
consumed an incredible quantity of
whisky during the racking hours Of
her confinement. At the end he held
up caterwauling morsel Of flesh torn
from Sabra's flesh-a thing perfect of
it's kind, with an astonishing mop Of
black hair.
"This Is Spanish beauty you have
for daughter, Yancey. present to
you Senorita Donna Cravat."
And Donna Cravat she remained.
The town, somewhat scandalized,
thought she had been named after
| Doctor Don himself. Besides, they
did not consider Donna name at all.
When Sabra Cravat arose from that
bed something in her had crystalized.
| Perhaps it was that, for the first time
in year, she had had hours in which
to rest her tired limbs; perhaps the
ordeal itself worked psychic as well
as physical change in her; it might
have been that she realized she must
cut a new pattern in this Oklahoma
life of theirs. The boy CHM might sur
mount it; the girl Donna never. Dur
ing the hours through which she had
lain in her bed in the sitting wooden
| shack, mists seemed to have rolled
away from before her eyes. She saw
clearly. She felt light and terribly
capable-so much SO that she made
the mistake of getting up, dizzily don
ming slippers and wrapper, and tot
tering into the newspaper Office where
Yancey was writing an editorial and
shouting choice passages of 1t into the
inattentive ear of Jesse Hickey, who
was setting type in the printing shop.
a. the most stupendous farce
ever conceived by the mind OF man
in civilized country. -.
He looked up to see in the doorway
wrath, all eyes and long black
braids. "Why, sugar! What's this
You can't get up"
She smiled rather feebly. I'm up
felt so light, So"
81 should think you would. All that
physic."
II feel so strong. I'm going to dc
so many things. You'll see. I'm go
ing to paper the whole house. Rose
buds in the bedroom. I'm going tt
plant two trees in the front. I'm goins
to start another club-not like thu
Philomathean--I think that's silly nov
but one to make this town ne
saloons women like that DIXIE
Lee going to have real hlret
girl as soon as the newspaper begin
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Every Variety of Song in the Lives of Russians

are in the major mode, the slow tunes,
and these are best liked in the minor.
Cesar Cut, in his book la Musique en-
Russie," divided the Russian compos-
ers into three groups: First, the old
lyric school, Glinka Darkomizsky and
Seroff; second, the New-Russians, Rim
sky-K orsakoff, MussorgslSy, Borodin,
and lastly Rubinstein and Tschaikow-
ski in a class by themselves as being
less distinctively misunderstanding
ton Star.
Magellan's journey around the world
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Even the clock that does it's duty
has time to strike.
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Leprosy

LepfOSy
There are at present from 600 to
300 leprosy patients in the United
States and approximately 100000
lepers in the world, says Hygefa
Magazine. Most of the lepers in this
country are confined to the lepro-
sarium at Carville, La. A recent re-
port shows that only one Of the thir-
ty-one who were discharged as cured
had relapse.
Don't fret. Yon have got to do
the best you can with the sou, the
Almighty gave you.
Even the clock that does it's duty
10 e,%,,s1y
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
City and County News Briefs

DR.. Harry Hooper, Dentist 110
North Sixth st. Old plates refined.
25-mwf
DR.. Foncannon-OSteopath. Med
ical Dental Bldg. Night and Day
Phone 36S. 6tf
Don't Forget Card party to-
night Golden Rule Chapter, O. E.
s., Imperial. 23tl
The Coolest Eating ploce IN town
California Hotel Coffee Shop-air
coolCi. Open all night. l5tf
Final Decree Granted-A final
decree of divorce on grounds of eX-
treme cruelty was granted yester-
day afternoon to Mable F. Leonard
from Edward H. Leonard.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
IOwa's Cattle
War Subsidies

BURLINGTON. Iowa, Oct. %.
U.P)-The Iowa cattle war subsid-
ed into nothing more serious than a
series of harsh invectives poured
out at veterinarians and militia
when they tested cattle in. the heart
Of the revolt" area today.
Soaked to the skin by a heavy
rain the state forces arrived at the
Jake Eversman farm, passed under
a sign reading I'VE don't want fight;
we want justice" and proceeded to
the pasture where l3 cattle were
tested without resistance.
Eversman and his Oldest son Ed
were not on their farm but Mrs.
EverSman and her three daughters
watched the activities Of the troops
and veterinarians. Mrs. Eversman
decried the operations in angry
tones.
When cattle were tested without
resistance officials regard the crisis
Of the cattle war as past and free
" predicted that no serious trouble
viii be encountered in testing the
cattle in the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Open Verdict In
Double Staying
Continued From Page ~

the latter dissected, were found in
two trunks and a suitcase in the
Southern Pacific railroad station.
DR.. Judd's appeal was not the
first of its Kind, for her father, the
Rev. H. ]. McKinnell, retired Free
Methodist minister of Darlington,
Ind, previously had asked that she
give herself up and 'disprove these
charges"
In the fact of her failure to heed
these calls it seemed more appar-
ent that her brother, B. j. McISin-
mel, student at the University of
Southern California, had made the
most accurate predictions.
unless she already is dead,
don't believe they'll get her and l
hope they won't" he said. "Shes a
clever woman and, as I've said be-
fore, she doesn't have any nerves. "
Authorities here and III Phoenix
announced that they were now
looking for two people instead OF
one.
1--WE want Ruth Judd and man, "
said County Attorney Lloyd An
drews of Phoenix. First We must
find the man, but we may find
them together he added.
: Seek Man Accompiice
! Authorities agreed however in
charging that Mrs. Judd shot the
girls to death in Phoenix, packed
| their bodies in the trunks and a
suitcase and came with them here
without the aid Of an accomplice.
On the other hand, it has been
fairly well established that man
accompanied Mrs. Judd to the
Union station in Phoenix when she
checked the trunks through 20 Los
Angeles and bought ticket.
Once here, her brother has adj
mitted, she sought him out to help
her dump two trunks in the ocean,
They were prevented from doing
this by a baggagemaster who re-
fused to turn over the trunks until.
they were opened that he might in
vestigate the source of blood that
was trickling from one.
DR.. Judd's plea to his wife came
/ through Attorney Richard Can
tillon. who defended William Ed
ward Hickman when that youth
was tried and convicted three years
ago on charges of numbering Mar
/ ion Parker
Local authorities still believed
+ that Mrs. Judd might be III or nea'
+ Los Angeles.
Il feel certain we will get hel
soon," Detective Inspector David
Davidson said. "She was without
money, she was in a bad physical
/ condition because of tuberculosis
and she was without the supply OF
the mild drug she used to induce
sleep. Under these conditions,
feel she could not have gone far
We will get her soon
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
RADIO REPORTS
SCHOONER AND
CREW RESCUED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. %. UP
The steamer Admiral Sebree today
rescued 81 men from the storm bat
tered, helpless steam schooner Will
mington of San Francisco off
Blunt's reef lightship, 200 miles
north of the Golden Gate, radio
advices received here said.
G.. S. BeadIe, manager of the
Beadle Steamship company, owner
of the Wilmington, said Captain
Fagerstrom, through the Admiral
Sebree, had radioed everyone was
safe.
The Admiral Sebree was at
tempting to tow the disabled craft
to Eureka.
The Wilmington was enroute
from Portland, Coos Bay and Eur
eka to San Francisco. The Admir-
al Sebree was headed for San Fran
cisco from Seattle and Port An
geles. She was due here today.
The Sebree will make every ef-
fort to get the Wilmington to Eur
eka," officials of the Pacific Steam
ship company, her owners, declared
.'She stood by the Wilmington fol
several hours before 1t was decided
TO take off the crew.
The Wilmington was built al
North Bend, Ore, in 1913. She Is
1919 feet long. AZ feet beam, anc
| l5 feet draft.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
DR.. PARRISH
SUSPENDED BY
[. A. COUNCIL

LOS ANGELES, Oct. %. U.P)-
The city health commission clim-
axed a heated session today by suS-
pending DR.. George Parrish, city
health officer. from active duty un-
til october 81 when a public hear
ing was scheduled on charges
against DR.. Parrish.
DR.. Parrish has held his position
here since 1924 and has been the
center of many controversies. On
several occasions he has clashed
with Rev. Robert P. (Bob) Shuler
radio minister.
DR.. Parrish is one of the most
widely known health officers in the
United States. He served in the st.
Louis department for a time and
went to Portland, Ore, as health
commissioner in 1917. During his
stay there he was professor OF
health at the Oregon medical school
DR.. Parrish, in the face of three OF
the five votes on the commission,
refused to vacate his office. He de-
clared the suspension was VIOLA
ton of the city charter.
The commission charged that Dr.
Parrish had been disloyal to the
commission, that he had been dis
courteous to certain commission
members and that he had used his
influence in the city council against
A. G. Denman, one Of the commits
sioners.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Daily Report Of
Stock Markets

NEW YORK, Oct. %. U.P) - A
long list of favorable factors brought
stocks up to points today: U. S.
Government bonds up a to IL
points; cotton up 81 a bale. and
wheat up more than cents a
bushel.
Trading in stocks was light most
CT the session, but it picked up late
in the day ON the rally and at the
close tickers were running full
speed.
Railroad shares led with substan-
tial gains being stimulated by in
dications the railroads would worl;
out a cooperative plan for aiding
weak roads with the aid of the
l. C. c. and a report of a voluntary
10 per cent wage reduction for II
per cent of the employees of Gulf,
Mobile & Northern railroad.
The market was buoyed up earlier
BY optimistic talk heard at the
Semi-annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Iron q Steel Institute.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 90. U.P)-
Trading was dull on an uneven
market today, it was reported at
the Los Angeles stock exchange.
Rio Grande Oil was the most ac-
tive. selling 800 shares at 39l, un-
changed: Union Associates was
unchanged when 700 shares sold at
l3A; Standard Oil sold 500 shares
at 32l2; up y; Hancock Oil sold
100 shares at 7h. unchanged
Security First National bank sold
$50 shares at 65h, up Is; Trans
america lost !, at AS on a transfer
of 100 shares.
Southern California Edison G
per cent preferred sold 300 shares
at 252s, up Is; Southern California
Edison common sold 100 shares at
35h, up u; Pacific Public Service
preferred sold 200 shares at l5ss, up
Il
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23

Mems conditioning and tap class
now forming at Wooda Blesy Dance
Studio 723 Orange. stf
Perishable Shipments-Shipments
from Imperial Valley yesterday in
cluded nine carloads of honeydews,
three Of asparagus and two of mixed
melons. according to a report sub
mitted by B. A. Harrigan, agricul-
tural commissioner.
Madame PriSer-Frerch designer
and dress maker, $50 Commercial
ST. 6tf
Sues On Note-W. H. Bill yeSter-
day afternoon filed suit against
Joseph J. Mays for s477758 alleged
due on a promiSsory note.
Don't Forget - Card party to-
night. Golden Rule Chapter, o. E.
s. Imperial. 23tl
Found Not Guilty--After q court
trial before Judge Gruble in Cali
patria yesterday, Paul Teal was
found not guilty Of petty theft and
released. F. w. Greer was the COM
planning witness.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Two Cases Before
Superior Court

Only two defendants appeared in
Judge A. c. Finney's department Of
the superior court for hearing of
the criminal law and motion calen-
oar this morning. one to plead not
guilty and the other TO hear a mo-
ton for an order vacating change
OF sentence denied.
j. w. Campbell pleaded not gull
ty to drunk driving. Trial was set
for November 2.
Judge Finney denied a motion of
attorneys for Clifton Bransford to
vacate an order increasing the SEN
tence of BranSford to the Preston
School of Industry, pointing out the
sentence was not increased, but the
commitment altered to fit the
courts original order.
Bransford, with other juveniles,
was sentenced to Preston for rob-
berry of several FilipinoS on In
perial Valley highways.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Good Afternoon
Speaks Volumes
"Good Afternoon" J"

GOOD Afternoon"
It was five minutes after 9 o'clock
this morning when Sheriff George
L. Campbell thus greeted an err
ing deputy who drove up in front
Of the sheriff's office, still digging
the sleep from blinking eyes.
Good afternoon" has become a
legend about the sheriffs office,
when uttered by the sheriff himself
Those words alone tell any member
of the sheriff's staff he is late to
work, and no other words are need
ed.
Alarm clocks that did not ring,
chickens that crowed all night to
drive sleep away. late work on some
all-important case-none of these
excuses will stem the two short
words Good afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Miss Bow Again
Changes Mind

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. %. (U.D
Clara Bow, film actress, apparent
ly has changed her mind again but
no one is quite certain about what.
Miss Bow was reported enroute
to Hollywood today after leaving
an east bound train at Gallup,
n. M.
It was reported in film circles
that Clara started for New York
after a tiff with her fiance, Rex
Bell. Bell, working on a picture
here. denied quarrel and said he
had aided Clara in the preparations
for her trip.
Clara was just fed up on every
thing and just wanted to get away
and go some place before she makes
her comeback in pictures" Bell de-
clared.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Find Chinese On
Barren Island

MIAMI, Fla. Oct. %. tU.n - Ter
starving Chinese aliens were res"
cued today from an uninhabited
island 35 miles south of Everglades
where they had been abandoned BY
smugglers.
They were hungry, thirsty and
badly bitten by swarms of mos
quitoes.
One of the TO- speaking broken
English, told how they had landed
on the island off a boat from Cuba
Tuesday night. They were told they
would be met there by an automo-
bile headed north
They had no food or fresh water,
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
Currier Makes
GoOd On Boast

Executives, store managers, ad-
vertising and household department
personnel, refrigerator technicians
and statesmen of the Imperial VAL
ley Hardware company are to be
guests at a dinner at the De ANA
hotel in Calexico tonight by Ungar
and Watson. Inc.
Warren Currier, secretary and
salesmanager OF the I. v. stores. told
Unear and Watson representatives
that the stores would sell 800 Ma
jestic refrigerators in 1881 Stores
reached that quota last month. 10
months after the statement was
made. The dinner is to be given il
appreciation OF the splendid sales
record.
I'D. Watson, secretary-treasurer.
w. j. Wilson, vice president and
general manager; William Bouldin.
advertising manager; Roscoe Mil
Ter, head of the technical depart
ment, will represent Ungar and
Watson tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-23
CapOne Sentence
Delayed A Day

CHICAGO, Oct. %. U.P) = Sem,
tence OF Al Capone, convicted onS
charges of defrauding the govern
ment of $2l5000 in income tax, was
delayed until 10 a. m. tomorrow.
Federal Judge James H. Wilker-
son, ordered the continuance short
" before noon at the close of ex-
tensive arguments on a defense
motion for an arrest of judgment
Judge Wilkerson gave no indica-
ton OF what moves he would make
when the hearing is resumed to-
morrow.
Capone shrugged his shoulders as
the ruling was made, got up and
walked out At his side was Michael
Ahern, defense attorney.
The gangster brushed aside re-
porters who tried to question him.
He appeared white of face and i'll.
The scars on his cheek stood out
against the pallor of his skin.