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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17

She has chosen for her brides
maids Misses Georgia Gilbert and
Marion Rasmussen Of Tacoma,
and Maxine Hipkoe of Seattle.
Miss Eleanor Mason OF Five Mile
lake will be the maid OF honor and
her matron will be Mrs. Truman
Wilcox of Roy. A young cousin Of
the bridegroom, Miss Margaret
GOODBYE of Seattle. will be the
flower girl.
DR.. Kemp, who is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. George Kemp. has asked
Mr.. Howard Rickett to be his best
man and ushers chosen are Messrs
Herbert Thurlson. formerly of Ia
coma and now of Fort Peck, Mont.
Truman Wilcox of Roy. Robert
Kemp. brother of the bridegroom,
and Dean Callahan, both OF Ia
coma.
Miss Peggy Wogberg and Mrs.
Ralph Taylor will be the candle
lighters and music before the eere-
mony will be provided by Mrs.
Harry Micklethwait and Mrs. Les
ter Larkin.
Asked to assist at the reception
which will follow the ceremony to
be read by Rev. William Turner
of Sixth Ave. Baptist are group
of young girls who have known
Miss Taylor since childhood, Misses
Doris Taylor, Margery Mary Cor
don, Margaret Asbury, Bernice
Martyr, Jean Hartman. Peggy
Wogberg, Dorothea Taylor and
Mrs. Rufus Parker. Mrs. Dean CAL
lahan and Mrs. Herbert Haynes
will serve the brides cake.
Since Miss Taylor and DR.. Kemp
have grown up in the church in
which they will be married, in ad-
dition TO those invited formally.
their friends in the congregation
have been invited to attend the
ceremony.
Miss Taylor will arrive from
Walla Wslla, Monday morning and
with her mother, Mrs. Steele. will
be at the home of Mrs. George Gill
bert, 1114 No. Prospect, until the
wedding day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Heeens TO Go East
Saturday by Train

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hagen will
leave on Saturday evening by
train for the east They Will stop
briefly in Minneapolis and Chi
cago and in Pontiac. Mich, will
purchase a new car, driving on
later to Rock Island. Ill The re-
turn trip win be made through
the southern states and will in
clude a visit in Mrs. Hsgens for
mer home. Americas. Ga In Santa
Re they will visit Allen Clark, the
well known sculptor. and In both
Phoenix and Los Angeles will visit
relatives. They will stop at the
fair on their way up the coast and
plan 10 return 10 Tacoma in mid
July.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Wedding Dsy Is
Anniversary OF Parents

In Holy Rosary church last Sat
urday morning. Miss Anita Kruger
became the birdie Of Mr.. Harvey y
Marshall, son Of Mrs. Eva Mar
shall. The day was tho 2ist
wedding anniYsrsary Of her par
ents. MI. and Mrs. Ira Kruger. and
the first anniversary Of her sister
and brother.ln-lav. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Jenkins.
REV Anthony Hack performed
the ceremony which ~ss followed
by = reception At the Kruger
home
For her wedding the bride vors
gown NJ white orEsndis ovsr
tsffe,s with finrsr'ip length
veil ~ silk Illusion. n ~as fast.
sned with wreath NJ orange
blossoms In the brides bouquet
were rsptur. roses and sweet peas,
Mr.. and Mrs jenkins were at
tendants at the wedding. Mrs.
SfhSh1H "9thtN f"tf'E fF~
with yellow roses and lavender
sweet pess
Mrs Kruger received 1T the ~.
csptian wearing teal blue crepe.
and AIRS Marshall wore navy blue.
Both wore cersaFes Of yrilow roses
Guests acre members ~ the immss
diats families and . few elosv
friends Assisting 81 tns recap
tl0n ~sre Mrs. w Dawes. Mrs
Jane goak Robert Dawes snd
Lawrence kimb~l. and Nissss
Ruth Whitaker.
The brides travelling ensemble
Sss q dress of rose lace with
which s',s wore . osiEe topper and
Shifs accessories Her flowers
were Tsrdsnlss. Ths nee home
ain bs ssts blishsd after the we'd
ding Trip II 27i7 80. wiiksspn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Married At
Sunday Rites
Miss Ruth Wssssnbsre Wsds
Mr.. Thsdfovd ~ I'M
pressivs Ceremony

BEFORE an improviSed altar
of cedar. with eanslelabra and
4 huge basket IL roses in the
background. Miss Ruth Wes-
tenberx became the bride Of
Mr.. Andrew J. Thedford m
June III. The Rev. Edwin %.
Rounds Of the Community
Methodist church In feim
read the services. The bride
il the daughter az Mr.. and
Mrs. A. ], Westenb~rH II
yslm and Mr.. Thedford il the
son Of Mrs. W. r. Thedford Of
Tyler, Ter.
Mas Jeanne ws~tsnhefa 49,
campsnisa ~ Mrs. Leonard s~sss-
san. s.ae ''rfs~s" ard Mrs. Hsf
wsstsnn~ss lighted the ssn4sss ~.
fore the ceremony.
rns nsh5s, given ia marriage ~
her f.tnes. were . se~n ~ Dep
ss.~~ gses Her sis~vrs wsvs snv-
sAss II erehlass rh~ bvtdss sister.
Msss lssnas wsstsshsvu. wss tsv
aaiy stssrssns. sns were an IT.
tsru@on dress ~ dusty rons sn% .
csvssss NJ fs~es sbx swe~t PEGS
nh~ aiss were = esmee iueksf. =
sist ~ the hssa~ ard s<ts1eurccak
~. ". Edminsnn wns hest man.
Presiding later ~ ~ rev~pslee.
the hrsds's neither wcss . Husat
print and eors~Gs ~ fnsss Mra
Gladys caehrsn cut the three
tisfss wedding eaAx
ref hsr welding trip. Mr.
rh~afsrd wufs = nrewn twill ssssi
~tsn Ispsosss ana natural access
scrses itss flswers w~ss orchids.
me bride - widely snaws IN
raeeass sna uFrmsrtos wbers sns
taught sehaol fss snms time. M
lIs : xssdusts u f.inestn nl6e
sehasl and II the Western Wash.
lnKtnn College, NJ Kzsasstian sss
sl.a sstsraed The University II
California.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Gives Party for Son

Mrs. W H. Joy entertained re.
Gently for her son Jimmie on his
fifth birthday. The afternoon was
spent playing games followed by
refreshments Guests were Mrs
A. NOLAN, Sandra and Lynn. Mrs
ID. Wise and Donna Lou. Mrs.
&. r. Griffin and Joan and Wayne.
Mrs s A Shaw and St8na Lee.
Mrs l.. + wight and Beverly.
Mr.. ". d. Joy. Mrs c. II. JOY.
Mrs Freda Connolly and AtSs
Beatrice Clark. Dorthea Pollock.
Catherine Harrington. Annie Lup-
pino. Donald Holmgren. Dean and
myrns Lacy. Fred. Jimmie and
Judith JOY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Methodist, Meet This
Week in BeIlinehsm

Methodists Of the state are
meeting this week In Bellingham
for their annual conference Ali
Tacoma and neiEhborh O d
churches are represented By their
pastors and one lay delegate The
conference begins "wednesday eve.
ming and continues over sunday
Presiding over the gathering il the
new bishop assigned To this area q
month ago. Rev Wallace r.
Brown he succeeds Bishop TITUS
Lowe. who goes 10 the indisnspo
ares 10 reside
Tire conference sili hear reports
~ the work Of the year from ali
~ the churches in the state and
will make plans for the work Of
the Aethodists during the year
ahead. As a result Of the union
OF the three branches Of Meth
odism, this session will conclude
the work ~ the Methodist Episeo-
pal church when on Saturday
morning the official union for this
area il announced. When the con
ference closes IL will bs IN. united
church that Will carry on the work
formerly done BY the three dif-
fersnt groups. The union xiii IN
elgde several churches Of the for
ner Methodist Protestant and
South Methodls,s IN the state.
The last item ~ business ALL -
the reading ~ me assignment ~
ministers - the ebsrche. for the
ensuing year FeW changes are
anticipated IN me Taeoms district.
Ths Rev Frank C0o1n0gsh. has
left the s. rauls church and his
successor viii be announced fun
day night No other changes have
been announced for Taeoms o~fofs
the conferences meets.
Win the exodus u ali Methodist
ministers for the week. many ~
the local churches viii have guest
preachers in their puipits nsxt
Sunday. Some ~ the ministers
viii return. however. ss the Rev.
Cyrus y. Alberfson announces that
ne viii be Ia hlS puipaf ~ FIRST
eb1rch sunday morning. Others
may return for Sunday. 70 - an
nouneed later.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Announce Engagement
OF Miss Riehsrds

Nj and Mrs. George Richards
u non 81, itih Il snnaunee the
engagement Of their daughter. Mas
irene Richards. In the Rev, ". q.
Kaufman. son of Mrs. n. r. ksuf.
man Of Newberx, Ore Tho ests.
mony viii he solsmn.sea al ths
Temple Baptist church Masofis
tsnplel Sunday afternoon at : IA
o'clock. the Rsv Harry J. ntsil
reading tho vows.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Former Tseomsn VISITING
Here for Fortnight

Miss Marguerite cobb sf Col
fss, formerly Of Tseoms. has bssn
the house guest for ihs past week
Of nfss DoFs Ma Rice. daughter
Of Ar and Mrs Ernest A Rice,
She came 70 Tacoma last seek
Nrh Miss Jean BehsHtz. she "a
turned from Warrington state
college she All he here tao
weeks In al and an slpi siso in
nesius. During bsf ~sy several
Informal affairs rave b~en gwen
in hsf n6oof
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17

State officers are Mesdames Le-
land Lucey, Spokane. president; l..
Tegid Williams, Spokane, first vice
president; Leslie Ayre, Seattle, sec
ond vice president: f. s. Stocks,
Tacoma, third vice president; J. s.
Egan. Spokane. recording secre-
tary; w. s. Losey. Spo. ane. CORE
spending secretary; G. II. Hill.
Spokane. treasurer; J. r. Moore,
Tacoma. registrar, George T..
Ssyles, Spokane. historian; Ashley
w. johnson, Seattle, recorder OF
crosses; Calvin Stewart, Tacoma,
parliamentarian, and Miss Mary
siler, Tacoma, auditor.
Registration for the convention
opens on Friday At 10 o'clock with
Mrs. ]. r. Moore chairman. The
first general meeting will follow
meetings Of the credentials and
executive committees
The program for the convention
follows:
10 a. m-ResistratIon Mrs. J r
Moore. chairman. Meeting OF Gre
dentials ana Executive committees
Assembly. Flag salute. led by Ruth
Moore Star Spangled Banner ana
America" Mrs Henry Skramstsd
Invocation. Rev. Lester HeaTn Greet
ings from Dixie chapter Mrs Henry
Minton. president. Address OF vel
come. Mayor Kaufman
Response from chapters. Robert
Lee. Mrs. Brockett president. Mildred
Lee Mrs.. Williams president. Dolly
Madison. Mrs Egau. president Win
ME Davis. Mrs Hockett president.
Convention called to order BY DiYi-
sion President Mrs. leland LuoeY
Introduction OF past presidents and
honor guests Roll call Mrs J p
Ecsn. recording secretary Appoint
me1t Of special committee
Reports OF Credentials, Rules sna
Order and Program committees An
nounccments
Adjournment at Ia O'Clock
Luncheon n o'clock Mrs. " q
Crump. chairman Group 81 songs
Mrs Henry skrsmstsd Mrs Gertrude
Wnited. accomps mist
Afternoon
Afternoon kession z 80 O'Clock
Memorial hour. Mrs { Cannon
Report Of Executive committee. Re
port OF officers
Report OF standing eonlrnitteesS
Education Mrs L J Aver. chairman.
Constitution and By-IsEs. MIS-. X
Worthinston. Jefferson DeFlt HEB
way. Mas Avery wilkins Norman v
Randolph Relief FtInd Mrs A "
OIlaT. Southern Literature Mrs y O
Bes.. Bulletin. Mr. A ~ Cole Radio
Mrs. ? Y Armstrong
Report % special committees, SID
nf.F Isnier. A ? Niico1sn Rules
M J 0llletp.e. ExtsnfAon. Mr.
] Tssid Williams
Announce meats Adjournment.
Evening
$50 ? m Banquet dining room
Presiding Mrs. p c smith Arrange
ton Golden jubilee HsrfY Cain
address Mr. Woodbury. pas pTesi-
cent General United Daughters ~
the ConfsdsrscY Husie Hoysi A.
esnurl orchestTs Mrs. Crumr chslf-
man.
s,TtHnsY
10 n ~ Meeting Of Executive
board hotsi
1870 m - Hsposi Of executive
ysstsTdsy's session. Old bushes.
Adjournment At "a ocieeE
Jefferson Davis HlshTsT lunc hson
Afs Ma AVER NisinS chairman
Presentation % cups and ssss
awards. Mrs.. L1eey. Music. Hrto
trio
Afternoon
Afternoon session a. z 30 oelocE
Minutes Of morning session Reading
Of communications Oi6 btlsI meas
New business Report OF Resolutions
Business ard Courtesy cemmlttses
selection % place .of meet.rs - =
F. YEAR Election Of officers Instaiia-
tor Of nsviY eiset<c officers.
Adjournment
psse.Jesn Yeyss hsfssrT Stew
arr PeRxT Hsssn
Deeors.ions hes>s>nAs nirs. Be-
isne md hunt
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Visits Here Before Going "a
CaIifornis Position

Miss Bernieee Miskossi NJ Ia
coma. VINO mas been secretary 70
the clinical director. Wslls Walis
Veterans hospital for some time
will be In Tacoma for several days
visiting her family before leaving
for the Veterans hospital, Liver
more. California. 70 which enc mas
been transferred.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
State Gathering of U.D.C.
at Bonneville June 1917
Dixie Chapter Of Tacoma TO Be Hostess Group 10 Dele
gates from Other Branches Throughout Stste; Mrs.
Lueey Is President Of Washington Division

Dixie chapters Tacoma will be hostesses for the 18th
annual convention of the Washington Division of the United
Daughters of the Conederacy Friday and Saturday
the Bonneville hotel.
Mrs Leland Lucey of Dolly Madison chapter Spokane is
division president and Ms Percy Creath Smith of the Ia
chapter is junior past president Mrs Henry Mnton
who is president of Dixie chapter. will preside Mrs II. p
Clark convention chairman for this year and is planning
the arrangements
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17

AIss Hss~ ilehtsnheva. dsugh-
Ter NJ Mf ard Mrs W. q l.isntsa-
h~fs. left Wednesday fcr Cxllfornta
by plaas To spend Nsr asmmss
vacation ~ith her SANTA. Mrs Y. n.
Hall n rssdmaut snd MFa G. J.
Rsldsr AZ Oakland.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Plain Joint Picnic

Members - 7 "a club all mid .
pint picnic with the Lave Y-ess
FRIDAY evening Al Hidiss GA Lac
Surprise. Members are ssked 70
meet zt the I " e. a. At ] clock.
Ths evenings program Viii In
cissds swimming. psssosli. wiener
roast ana dancing. 1ias i've gsn-
ton 10 IN charge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Anniversary
I ODE Marked
Mrs. Wagner VIII Give Party
For Parents at Their
Home Sunday

To mark the twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
A. Spencer, Mrs. ROLAND
Wagner will be hostess at
their home, 1927 Fawcett
avenue, on Sunday.
More than one hundred friends
and relatives from Tacoma, Sc
attic and Everett have been in
vited to call from the hours of
2 until o'clock.
Assisting Mrs. Wagner will be
Mrs. John Spencer Of Everett. Mrs
Ben Packard and Miss Louise
Wagner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer We're
married in Tacoma and have lived
here all their married life. In
addition to Mrs. Wagner they have
two children, Miss Harriet Spencer
and Mr.. Ralph Spencer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17

Ths inter pAfiAb dance planned
for june 10 b. 81. Johns Of The
Woods. -. AIMS and Sacred Heart
parishes hss been postponed until
the evening Of june n. ms dance
xtii be fissn ~ 4eth and Mckinley
ave. Waiter cortixsn. Dan De
larry ana Tom Cline, in charge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17

Good Ttme eius viii meet WITH
Mrs.. Bert Wye 1000 70 Tin 81
AZ Q o'clock Saturday evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-17
Visits in California

Visiting in California at the
present time is Miss Jeanette NJ.
Perry. She is stopping at The Gift
In San Francisco.
Evening star., 1939-12-03
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
MAKERS OF MODERN AMERICA
"Operate, and Operate QUICKLY"

DR.. Charles McBurney of Roosevelt
Hospital, New York. was not content
with the incisions then in use and he
mapped out an operative area. In
December. 1893. he established
"McBurney's point" an incision still
in use.
In 1900 DR.. Fitz reported seventy
two appendicitis operations performed
under his observation, from which
fifty-three patients recovered.
A gentle, kindly man. rugged of
stature. bald of head and wearing the
imposing mustache of the period, Dr..
Fitz was tireless in his zest for correct
diagnoses. He would cross question
physicians. pointing out their errors in
away that irritated his elder colleagues
but delighted his young students.
He had learned in youth to over
come obstacles. Born in Chelsea,
Massachusetts,, in 1843. his father had
died leaving his mother with six chill
dren to educate. Nevertheless
Reginald Heber Fitz entered Harvard
when he was eighteen.
He had deep-set eyes and search
ing glance, as if he viewed life through
microscope. In the classroom" said
DR.. John Blake, his colleague. "he
would tilt his head backward, close his
eyes and talk with extreme rapidity
and fluency as if he were reading
carefully prepared lecture from the in
side of his eyelids."
He made many more contributions
to medical science, but his paper on
The Perforating Inflammation of the
Vermiform Appendix" remains today,
after more than fifty years. one of the
classics in the field of modern scientific
medicine.
Among those who are following in
his footsteps is his son and namesake,
DR.. Reginald Fitz of Boston.
When DR.. Fitz made his famous
report, there we're only a few victims
of "nght-sided abdominal pain who
survived. Today, if diagnosed in time,
recoveries are close to 100 per cent.
STELLA BURKE MAY
Evening star., 1939-12-03

while working Dr. Morton's record of
the operation performed on April %,
1887, is an illuminating picture of sur
gerry in that day:
Ten foreign leeches we're applied
over the spot of tenderness and left
over night. Morphine and quinine
were administered. Whiskey was ad-
ministered. The surface was washed
with ether followed by corrosive subli-
mate solution. A ten-inch oblique
incision was made over the swelling. A
silk ligature was applied. The appendix
was removed. The walls we're suaped
and douched with warm water"
On May IL the patient sat up. On
May 2l he went back to his work.
Evening star., 1939-12-03

The first published record of a
deliberately planned, definitely dag
nosed appendicitis operation, following
the publication of the Fitz paper. was
made by DR.. Thomas c. Morton of
Philadelphia.
A 26-year-old paper hanger was
stricken with sudden. severe pain
Evening star., 1939-12-03

medical world as "the Fitz
year" That year DR.. Reginald
Heber Fitz. three year old Boston
pathologist and clinician, solved the
riddle of the vermform appendix.
Men, women and children were dy-
ing in Boston as, for centuries. men,
women and children had died else
where in the world, from mysterious
malady whose chief symptom was
"right-sidcd abdominal pain"
Two hundred and fifty deaths were
on record at the Massachusetts, Gen
eral Hospital. Some had been dag
nosed as collie, Others as gastritis or
bilious attacks.
The X ray had not yet been dis
covered Medical science was literally
working in the dark. But DR.. Fitz was
not satisfied to work in the dark. A
thorough student with an infinite Ca
pacity for work, he had studied in
Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London,
after graduating from Harvard. where
he had received his A. B. in 1864 and
his NJ. d. in 1868, both with honors.
Now, since 1882, he was Professor of
Theory and Practice of Medicine at
Harvard and visiting physician at
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Why, he asked, did patients die
from pain in the right side of the
abdomen and not from pain in the left?
One by one he analysed the ESQ
cases at the Hospital. BY a shrewd
process of deduction he came to the
same conclusion in each. The vermi
form appendix = that apparently use
less appendage of the digestive tract
was the culprit.
On June II. 1896. he gave his report
to the world. Before the Association
of American Physicians assembled in
Washington. d. c., he delivered an
astounding paper and coined a new
word:
"Appendicitisr' 1t meant inflamma-
tion of the appendix.
He pleaded for more careful exam
ination after first symptoms occurred.
He indicated the methods of diagnosis.
He recommended absolute rest in bed,
liquid diet repeated often in small
quantities and sufficient opium to neu-
tralize pain If. after twenty four hours.
the danger Of peritonitis was evident.
the appendix should be exposed and
removed. cooperate, and operate
qulckly! he advised.
Remove the appendix? The advice
was revolutionary in 1886.
A storm of argument greeted the
reading of that paper. But DR.. Fitz de-
Tended and proved each point.
The paper was published the fol-
lowing month and copied in medical
journals throughout the world. Physi-
clans everywhere began to operate
successfully. Occasionally some didn't
operate. but in such cases the post
mortems always proved that DR.. Fitz
was right.
DR.. Fitz did not personally perform
operations. He was the Consultant, the
chnician, the guiding star that pointed
the way. But the medical records fol-
lowing the Fiz year" are silent
tributes to his keen intellect.
Evening star., 1939-12-03

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you buy. Insist on a genu-
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of the same big value that
made Ingersoll known the
world over as The Watch
that Made the Dollar Fa-
mous!'Ingersoll- Waterbury
Company Waterbury, Conn.
Evening star., 1939-12-03

A certified statement from the F. NJ.
Masterson family, Chicago, Illinois
when we got Skipper, our wire-hairod fox ter
rier, he was lis,lcss, dulI-eyed wouldn't play.
And he hardly ate. Then We tried Pard diet.
Almost Immediately Skipper started perking
up. Soon Re was the liveliest, healthiest puppy
you ever saw. Since then, his only food has been
Pard-and he hasn't had a single sick day.
The Jscts Of this history befove NE
October IL, I939-James Saksuig, Notary Public
Glacier County chief., 1939-04-28

at the closing business session of the
organizations two-day convention
Miles City was chosen for the 1910
meeting. Eyer, advanced from vice
chairman, succeeds George Atkinson
of HaNra
Glacier County chief., 1939-04-28
Tenderfoot Badges Earned
By Scout Dads Rescue Squad


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Glacier County chief., 1939-04-28

stopped. Booths lined the walls, a row
of tables between them and the small
floor, and harasSed waiter in a greasy
black jacket picked them up when
they were halfway across the floor
and guided them to a booth.
and Bill did the same, and then they
settled back to watch. Jody was fas-
cinated by the music, which was exc
cradle. by the dancing which was the
dime-a dance ballroom variety, and by
the girls, who chewed gum while they
danced more expertly than she thought
possible.
Bill surveyed it all with a proprietary
air, and smoked With their sand
witches came a fat man in a shabby
tuxedo. who smiled at Jody with shrewd
friendliness and put his hand on the
booth back
Everything all right, Mr.. McCom-
ber?"
Sure, Nick Everything's okay."
Just keep it that way" Nick said
blandly, regarding Bill with a wary
glance
Nick beamed and bowed again to
Jody and left.
once" Bill said idly. ITS nothing"
Jody thought she knew what the
argument was like. but she only nodd-
ed. Two men drifted in from the bar
and crossed down the opposite side of
the room, looking at the occupants Of
the booths. When one of them saw
Jody, he. spoke to the other man and
comfortable feeling that this meant
something, and she looked at Bill. Bill
was watching the two men, his face
was stony as it could contrive to be
and still enfold a sandwich.
Want to dance?" he asked. when
they were finished eating.
I'D like to smoke first" Jody said
A burly man got up from the booth
across the floor and strolled slowly to-
ward them Jody had a premonition
and she watched Bill. His face wore a
look of pleasant anticipation in spite
of his black eyes.
The burly man stopped before their
booth and nodded to Jody Then he
said in a, conversational voice. You
got couple of nice mouses on. buddy"
his eyes were wary as he said. "Oh,
they never were very bad"
Like to change their color, maybe?"
You and that bunch of Tugs tried
it once" Bill said gently. I'm liable
to get mad this time"
Jody looked from Bill to the burly
man. and he grinned down at her. his
eyes completely friendly. AND then
Jody knew that this was where Bill
McComber had got in the fight A kind
of wild panic began to crawl inside
her
Jody turned to Bill. urgency in her
slim face. Bill. let's go!"
Easy, Jody," Bill murmured. He
looked at the mans bow tie THAT
garter you've. got around your neck.
You better take it off"
And why would II" the burly man
asked mildly
Because if you don't scram out OF
here, I'm going to use it for sling
shot. I'll take it and I'll whittle you