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Those well-turned expertly-
timed phrases of PowelPs made
her forget he was older even than
Bill. slightly stocky. and maybe
too well groomed. She relaxed in
his arms. accepting his kiss.
Powell Ward. everyone agreed.
was catch. Being his wife would
mean contentment and security
all the rest of her life. -
The telephone buzzed. once.
twice, half a dozen times.
CONFIDENTLY. Powell con-
~ Guided the kiss with Just the
right amount of pressure. Then.
releasing Penny, he picked up the
receiver.
His eyes widened, then mar
rowed. There is? Yes-yes. BY
all means, bring it right I'M" He
dropped the phone to its cradle.
Telegram from Bill"
Hope sang through Penny.
made her throat lump. When the
wire was brought in. she wanted
desperately to snatch it from
Powell's leisurely hands, to rip it
open herself.
Powell Wards face changed as
he read it. He slapped the tele-
gram down. annoyed.
what rotten luck!"
Penny swept the slip of paper
from the polished mahogany. Her
fingers shook. Her eyes blurred.
Stark meaning arrowed from the
brief words.
Bilps plane had crashed. He
was hurt
To be continued
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hers. News photographers al
ways come through"
In Warsaw. several long inter-
national Nightmares ago. Cleve
himself had barely come through.
He'd crawled from a heap of
rubble with assorted fractures,
shrapnel wounds. an injured leg
and a still tindaunted spirit. Also
invaluable shots of mangled,
dying Poland. He was waiting i'm
patiently now to be declared fit
enough once more to get into the
war. In the meantime. Spot News
Pictures benefited. Cleve was an
ace photographer.
Penny said, Maybe some
things come from Bill in today's
mail. I'll let you know. Cleve."
She didn't tell him about her
engagement to Powell Ward
Somehow. the time wasn't right
Later. thought Penny-or let him
hear it from someone else.
Powell Ward looked up as she
swung open the door to his pri-
vate office. His light blue eyes
famed at the sight of her cool
vivid beauty. He smoothed his
blond hair with a careful palm.
stood up, and came around the
desk.
Darling" he said softly,
you're the only girl in the world
who can come in out of the rain
looking like a dew-wet rose from
garden. I'm not even going to
scold you for being late"
Penny wished Cleve Rockwell
could have heard that A girl
liked to be appreciated. cherished.
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PARTNERS l92O-l933

Yvonne camalier, Billy Roberts,
Sonia Cooper, Evelyn Nettles
Bobby Minton, Tom Cornell,
Don Johnson.
3B-Miss M. Roberts, teacher;
Lucilo Gonzalez, Lorenzo Muir
guia, Joyce Schowalter, Edyth
Hampton, Yvonne McCardle.
3A-Miss F. Cochrane, teach
err; Asbury Craft, Kenneth
Lones, Betty Joyce Carnes.
3A-Miss G. Pinder, teacher;
Dorothea Brust, Joan Crusoe.
Janet Mann.
4B-Mrs. LIS Evans, teacher:
Jay Gould Higgs, Hector Me-
dina, Antonibg 3ofedp; Stanley
zepp, Dora MaGHopkins.
4A-Miss. j. Seymour, teacher.
Diana Gonzalez. Mtaglep zorsky.
4A-Mrs. A. Cabot, teacher:
Sylvia Strong, Jane Spellman,
Leila Lynch, Don Williams, FL
sic Lee Thompson.
5B-Mrs. L. Tatum, teacher,
Madelyn Curtis, Alice Johnson,
Colleen Moore.
5B-A-Mrs. T. Mcclure, teach
err; Betty Louise Roberts, Myrtle
Todd, Zarda Diaz, Patlicia Wood,
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PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS
Division Street Grammar schoo,
(Contributed)


(Contributed)
/ Now that the last school month
is well underway, one would
think that all pupils and parents
would be serious and interested
about the close of school and
promotion, but, to a large degree
| this is not correct.
i An average of ten per cent
! of the pupils who are enrolled
! are out of school, most of whom
have no reasonable excuse. Also
many others are late with ex-
cuses equally ass flimsy.
81 Some of the common excuses
offered are, q had to go to the
store before breakfast" or They
didn't call me in time"
I A shower of rain also has a
very demoraliZing affect.
/ Key West is the home of many
of the nations most famous ma
val heroes, but sadly enough,
rain water (fresh Water) and
ocean water salt water) appear
| to have opposite affects, because
/ if a shower of rain should chance
to fall after midnight, many pu-
pills don't dare to venture out
until the weather is safely clear
after dinner. The moral is
that the after-dinner showers do
not affect one who might get
wet going to or from the show.
The attention of parents is
called to the fact that many pu-
pills will not get promoted be-
cause of poor attendance.
Honor Roll
Honor Roll of pupils at the Di-
vision Street School for the Pc
Rod ending April % follows:
1B-Miss Miriam Carey, teach
er; Betty Jean Bowery, Barbara
| Meggs.
| 1A-Miss S. Gardner, tecaher;
no honor roll.
1A-Mrs. E. Arnold, teacher;
Nancy Lee Pellicier, Myrna Lew
is, Donald Bethel, James Nc
Craw, Edward E. Curry, Billy
Sowders, Richard Roberts, Doro-
thy Kessler.
1A-Mrs. M. Sweeting, teach
er; Joyce Spector, Ray Wrinkle,
Gladys Barnwell, Bobby Single
ton, Charles Norman, Jacquelin
Schraeder, Helen Brahms.
2B-Mrs. A. Roberts, teacher;
Katherine Brady, Gale Curry,
Elizabeth Ann Russell.
2A-Mrs. F. Wilson, teacher;
Jackie Fox, Gabriel Garcia, Imo-
gene Stansell Arlene Phillips,
Joan Wood, Peggy Rivera.
2A-Mrs. B. Malik, teacher;
Katie Tidwell, Harry Prftehard.
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MERRIMAC WORKING
FOR THE NAVY
APP FEATURES


RICHMOND, Va, May 10
The Navy doesn't allow identifi-
cation of its shi ply name or To-
cation. But there's one exception
riding hard at anchor ON Rich
mond's Sixth street.
The ship is the u. S. S. Mcrri-
mac and the nearest water to her
anchorage is in the corner fire
plug. The Navy welcoms liviacei
plug. The Navy welcomes civilians
aboard in hopes they will go out
sailors.
The Merrimac, wooden replica
of the famous old Confederate
ironclad that became the battle
ship Virginia, was launched last
July on the concrete. The Rich
mond Interclub Council and a
number of business men financ-
ed the sidewalk shipbuilding
project and then gave the Mer-
rinac to the Navy.
Immediately the Merrimae
made her might felt in the re-
cruiting fleet. Navy enlistments
in Virginia had averaged about
CTS a month for the first six
months after Pearl Harbor, but
the month the new campaign
was launched from the decks of
the downtown dreadnaught, en-
listments jumped to Its and
kept increasing in the months
that followed. They were run
ming at better than 1000 a month
when enlistments were halted
under altered Selective Service
regulations.
The ship now aims heh re-
cruiting guns at potential Waves,
asd sometimes serves as head
quarters for bond drives.
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Chapter 1 Continued


"What do you hear from fam
GUS brother?" asked Cleve.
Penny's rain-gray eyes sha-
dowed. Haven't had word for
over two weeks"
Unfolding his lean limbs, Cleve
frowped. II don't like it"
Penny didn't like it. either. Her
older brother Bill. veteran news
photographer, was up in northern
British Columbia, getting shots of
the new Alcan Highway for Spot
News Pictures. He'd oeen ,een
on the assignment, eager to go.
That's wild country" Cleve
said. I've been up there. Put
ting the highway through has
civilized it some. but just the
same. a few miles Off"
"Bilps all rightp' said Penny
fiercely. fighting her own half
formed fear.
DILL had to be all right-al-
- ways. He was all the family
she had. Sixteen years her senior,
he was father, brother. hero rolled
into one. Nothing must happen to
Bill. Still, Penny knew hedge
hopping in a rented plane over
the Alcan. slashed by American
skill through the far northern
wilderness, wasn't exactly Sun
day School picnic stuff.
Sure, kid, Bills okay," Cleve
said, fingers blowing through un-
ruly brown hair. But his gold
,splintered dark eyes avoided
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Wise Answer

John" said the new pudge. Il
have known you for many years.
l am sorry that my first duty is
TO try you for being intoxicated.
What was your reason. if any for
getting drunk"
ITO celebrate your election"
replied the offender
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Already

Well" said the visitor to the
little son of famous automobile
manufacturer, ''how are you get
ting along at SCHOOL,"
Fine" the little chap exclaim-
ed I'm already learning words of
five cylinders.
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Mary Margaret Wilson, Floyd
Roberts, Betsy Belle Gates.
5A-Mrs. M. Saunders, teach
er; Rutr Hart, Frank O'Neil.
6B-Miss NJ. Sands, teache-:
Beverly Arthur, Emma Lou Hall,
Edna Romaguerra, Faye Knowles,
Keith Brown.
6B-Mrs. H. Hamilton, teach
er; Nathalie Valdez.
6A-Mrs. F. MUllinax, teach
er; Oren Clark, O'Neil Stirrup.
Mildred Mckinney, Hilda Diaz.
6A-Mrs. F. Mickler, teacher.
Virginia Arrange, Betty Canova,
Lois Diamond, Nellie Menendez.
Anne Sawyer, Olga Rojas, Step
hen Scholly.
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"A SPRING PROMISE

+, little bit OF blowing
A little bit of snow
A little bit of growing,
And flowers will show.
On every twig that is timely,
T. A new green leaf will spring
On every patient treetop
A thrush will stop and sing.
A lit lie bit of sleeting,
4 little bit of rain
The blue sky for greeting
The violets come again.
On every frozen hilltop,
Gifts of grass will bring
And every day of winter
Another day of spring.
SOPHIA L. NASH.
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Agriculture experts mold 8 per
cent farm increase improbable.
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In the interest of livestock
owners whose cattle Or hogs are
killed or injured by hAAand-run
railroad trains, Senator johnson
of Brooksville has introduced a
bill that would require railroads
operating in Florida to promptly
report such accidents and pub
the animal. Railroad claim
the county where the accident
occurred, with description of
hte animal. Railroad claim
agents probably won't like it.,
but such obituaries, Johnson
claims, will prove mighty help
fol to the fellow whose cattle
or hogs are injured or killed on
rights-of-way. There'll be lot
of green lights on this one if the
free range boys stand together
this session as they have in the
past
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Anticipation

The worried countenance of the
bridegroom disturbed the best
man. Tiptoeing up the aisle, ne
whispered:
What's the matter with yo' all.
Erasmus. Has yo' lost de ring?"
mo, amt lost no ring" blurt-
ed out the unhappy Erasmus.
''dat's safe enough. But, Joe, Use
certainly lost NAH enthusiasm.
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Welder saboteur is sent to
prison for slack job on ship.
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Federal court rules that Pull
man is a monopoly.
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mean a million year more for the
old folks, dependent children and
the blind.-Snands, whose COM
mittee has been stalking state
boards, bureaus and commissions
like a troop of Commands, is re-
ported just about ready to strike.
Grim faced House committees
have been chewing over the FL
nancial cud until they have de-
veloped nasty case of indiges-
ton. Taxpayers, mildly interest
ed, are watching the billowing
smoke and wondering whether or
not there really is fire.
1t appears that Florida legisla-
tors are just about as fed up
with Federal bureaucrats and
lawyercrats as are the people, for
twice this week they slapped
down the ears of high powered
Washington lobbyists sent down
here by Federal agencies to crack
whips and hold hoops for lawmak-
ers to jump through. An attempt
in the House to cram through d
constitutional amendment that
would relieve REA operations in
this state from all taxation, met
stubborn resistance when the bill
reached the floor, thanks to the
courageous fight of Clement OF
Pinellas, Lewis of Gulf and a
number of others. In the Senate
Ia committee, holding hearing on
the Time Change bill by Thomas
of Lake, resented an Alphabetical
Simon Legree who winged his way
south to six our clock and re-
warded him for his kindly inter-
est and effort by reporting the bill
out favorably "over his dead
body"-which was shipped back
to the Great White Father on the
next outgoing plane,-Lewis of
Gulf demanded that the Sergeant
of Arms clear the House of Fed
eral lobbyists and Emogene Com
mander concurred, shouting with
gusto, Throw them all out. -
And all this happened in Claude
Peppers Tallahassee. For shame,
Gentlemen, for shamel
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WEATHER REPORT

Observation taken at $40 a. m.
E.WT. Getty Office
Temperatures
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While solons have lot of fun
kidding Emogeps Commander of
Holmes, they must all admit that's
the bss4vaitl round politician in
the HotfsnI When it comes TO horse
tradihg2h9ican 6ifsfnart the best
of thenfitsi7d hetffsi&adgoodnfellow
to h4veS0Sn your sideoiADa pinch.
Outsidesof the Speaker himself,
Emogene has received more pub
licity in state papers than any
other member of the House.
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Legislators and bureaucrats
juggled figures last week with the
dexterity of a Ringing Troup as
Welfare Boards Hiatt fought des-
perately to establish proof of the
economical administration of his
department, claiming operating
costs of less than eight per cent.
Senator Sheldon took his turn
with the mathematical Indian
Clubs to prove such costs were
nearer twenty per cent. The
Stands Committee settled for APP
proximatelv twelve and a half
per cent. Taxpayers learned that
il cost around one dollar to give
awaygfour dollars of state money
and began to understand why the
aged, blind and the orphans go
without Shoes while the officials
charged with Stocking after them
ride iflshiny automobiles and dine
on planked steaks.-To correct
the evil, Sheldon would limit
State Welfare Board costs to a
maximum of five per cent, the
same as does the Federal govern
ment claiming such action would
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FORECAST

FORECAST
Key West and Vicinity: Little
change in temperature tonight.
Florida: Little change in tenn
perature tonight.
Hatteras, N. c., to Apalachi-
cola, Fla: No small craft or
storm warnings have been is
sued.
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Able and genial Walter w.
Rose, prominent real estate OPP
orator and citrus man of Orlan-
do, was designated President OF
the 1945 Senate at caucus of
holdover senators last weekend.
Rose has served as Senator from
the 10Th District since 1885 and
will be zap. for reelection next
year.
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SITTING in WITH
THE LAWMAKERS
BY RUSSELL KAY
(Florida Press Association


Ben Stone, Jr., of Blounts-
town, who began the session as
Chief Reading Clerk in the
House. resigned last week TO
accept the post of Credentials
man at the main door of the
chamber. Ben checks EN- in
and out and since he knows
just about everybody and why
they're here he is an ideal man
for the job. Ben possesses a
genial personality and can turn
a man down and at the same
time send the fellow away max
ing hiH feel Like he'd been done
a real favor.
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An attempt to torpedo the
Florida Economic Advancement
Council by Walker of Volusia
with motion to strike the Re
volving Clause of a bill to pro
vide this agency with a $4,000
continuing appropriation, enliv-
ened a hot Thursday afternoon.
But just when it looked like
Walker was in fair way to sue
coed he fumbled and Pinellas
Archie Clement recovered the
the ball for touchdown. Nov
ices have learned a lot from
Clement of Pinellas, Lewis of
Clay and Jenkins of Alachua---
for these veterans know all the
tricks and how to apply them.
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When it comes to good old
fashioned oratin', Tom Beaseley
of Walton can hold his own with
the best of them. He claims
title to being the Best Red
Headed Lawyer in Walton coun-
ty and nobody can dispute him.
The other day he got on his feet
and when the Speaker asked
For what purpose does the
Gentleman riser Beasley re-
piled: Il feel a speech coming
on.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-12-24

Ne podcenjujem vojske nasih.
draw in ne angleske. Vem, da
imajo najboljsi material, kar
Sc tega tice. Ampak te armade
so vse prevec sportne "a take
hajduke, kakor so Nemci. u teh
armad bi Sc dalo napraviti ta-
Ike, XII bi bile Nemcem kos, sa-
mo tedaj, &c bi Nemci prisli
sem in delali z narodom prime
roma tako, kakor so z nasimi,
Zakaj poleg junastva v srcu Sc
m ora vzbuditi Be sovrastvo
gnjev, ogorcenje in zelja, da sc
mascuje. Kadar je vse to v vo
jaku, potem je Nemcu ne same
kos, ampak zmagovit, kakol
Rusi.
Vse svoje zivljenje sem pri
porocal ljudem: ucite svoje slo
venscine. S TEN jim daste klju'
do vsega Slovanstva. In Sc ve'
ko to. V jeziku je cut, XII Glove
ka vraca zmeraj tie, odkode
Lie. Koliko tisocev nase mladin
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-12-24

in raztrgano ali &c hi jo bila W.
Mia carju, bi bill gotovo dol
grail. Da so v drugi svetovni
voini Nemci zavzeli Leningrad,
ali Moskvo ali Stalingrad-eno
izmed teh treh hi zadostovalo
pa bi bill triurnf nacijski tu-
.kaj.
a mas Slovane je slo vse tako
|po sreci, da NE moreno druge-
ga, kakor biti hvalezni usodi,
"a najlepsi in najvecji bozieni
dar, XII je mogoe, pa maj DO po-
tsanlezniku, skupini ali celemu
narodu: dar slovanskega VISTA
jenja, slovanskega dne, Slovan-
ske bodocnosti.
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je danes hvalezne, da zna vsaj
toliko slovenscine, kolikor jos
zna: Da spadajo h slovanskemu
plemenu, jim dale ze prednost,
"a katero jih lahko vsakdo "a
vida. Zakaj biti Slovan por11e-
MIA danes vec, kakor de pone-
njalo cd zacetka sveta. Ne sa-
mo, da smo postal veliki &c z
noe, kakor pravljicni velikani.
Smo vodilni, odlocilni v toliki
rneri, da ma svetu ne more nj
kjer vec obstajati to, kar je
proti nasi wolff.
! Kako velika in sladka je ia
zavest. Skoda, da nina vsak IL
med nasih tistega, da bi videl
cutil in okusil to, kar imamt
Ieni.
Kako cudna usoda vodi slo
vanske narode. V teku enc sa
me generacije smo bill skoro ia
| ko dalec, da bi kmalu mas ne bi
10 vec. &c bi bila prva svetovn,
vojna pustila Rusijo razdeljen'
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BOZIC 1913

Leosni bozc prihaja oh casu ko Sc borba med taslz
MON in svobodo ubnmi narod nahaja ma svojem vlsku
VISA znamenja kazejo da DO prlhodnh dVanaJstlh me-
sech bojna vhra zahtevaa vsok davek coVesklh zlV
enh Hitler in njegovi sateliti obsojeni ma pogn IN
tega zavedajo ampak predno bodo unlcen bodo po-
sksi potegnt svet brezdno uicenJa. Hitler sam
je to prerokoval dnevh, ko je NemciJo prpravja "a
napad civizani svet LIE cudez b moge prnesti ne
MAIDEN konec vonim strahotam, XII Vdiku. TAX Gu
dez bi bila revoucija Nemciji katero pa e malo
upanja kati terror Gestapa pozna meja in bo rasel
vzporedno Z vojasko stisko nacjskega Wehlmachta;
predno DO Hitler pade DO ia terror skusa zadust od
por donna mic manm balbarstvom kot ga uporabljajo
njegovi krvni mad civilnm prebvalsvom Rusij, Ju-
gosav, CeskosovaSki, Poski in drugod.
Ma vse to mora bit svet pripraven Zato je letosnj
bozcni pozdrav m resnicno bol votel kot e bill kda
pref dolg zgodovini cloveskega rodu
Navzic temu pa nj temno. vsakm dnem po-
saja boil ocino, da Sc strasnem tlpenju, katerem
Sc zviajo narodi poraja neka novega, vekega in od
reinega Il ideoogicnih bojev zamotanih in zapetenh
kot steze labirintu mukoma prodra spoznanje da IT,
st XII imajo skupne deale ne gede ma njhove zmanje
oznacbe spadajo ti tabor in da morajo zacrtati
jemen program zivljenje narodov sveta. Pre-
sodk pOrO eni neVednOsti razbnjajO, in luc resn
XII e brela kOmaj vnO skozi usOdnO dObo "apzmer-
ta' "a p1edstavnike modenega barbarsva spremnja
mogocno bakljo Konferenca Teheanu je ziva prica
da voite cloveSkega napredka znas, ter prorok
da bodo noslc civizacije posej hodili po st pcti.
V tenn lezi tud upanje naso malo muGenisko Slo-
venijo XII obhaja letosnJ bozic nepopsnh mukah in
t1pjenju ampak tudi globokem prepricanju, da dan
nene odrestve nj vec daec Pvic vec kot tsocletni
zgodovini sovenskega udstva borjo sinov in hcere
Soven kot can slovenske vojske OBJ 1ami bra
tt H1vat in Srbi, srecpo sVobodno in samosto zV
ljenje svojega rodu Veik in ednstven e ia moment
zgodovni slovenskega ljudsva prv liza mticnih dn,
ko e bill mas narod pod kraljem Samom gospod ma
svoji zeml ji...
Miljonom materam in ocetom krvavio srca oh misli
drage sinove XII nahajao daec daec cd svoih do
mov borb "a vecne ideae covestva. Te dn jih bodo
pogresali bo ko kdaj popre kati oglasa bodo spo
mini preteke dni ko zmenjavali darila in oh
bestecem drevescu udaa radost bozica XII e predvse
prank druzne Tezko bo etos tenn materam in oceton
privabt nasmeh ustnice oh teh spominih Beseda
je brez moci bol XII jo obcutijo nh Maj jih to-
lazi visoka zaves da SO njih snovi suzbi domovne
nase dobre in velike Amerke XII e moala til boj
predno je prhrmel sovraznik prav do nash domov da
skupno drugmi svobodolubnimi narodi pomaga ustva
rt svet - svet katerem bo bozicni pozdrav miru
in dobre voe postal zva in vesela resnca "a yes Glove
Ski rod.