The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 14, 1949, Image 6
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I STILL DON’T LIKE IT, FRANKIE
By COLIN DELL
waving a newspaper. “ She
talked,” he growled, tossing the
paper to Louie. “Get a load of
those headlines/" “RETIRED IN
DUSTRIALIST BELIEVED KID
NAPPED,” Louie read. And in
smaller print: C. M. Carter, blind
millionaire, disappears during
daily stroll in Jackson Park.
It was a two-column spread, com
plete with diagrams and indignant
editorials.
Louie Ferensic dropped the pa
per in disgust. “Wha’d I tell you?”
he demanded accusingly. “Now
what are we going to do?”
“Do? 1 Why, the same thing we
started out to do, you idiot!"
Frankie snapped. He walked to a
Frankie had big ideas but when he struck what he thought was real
pay dirt, Louie rebelled, albeit meekly. Everything went smoothly
enough, but that, as far as Louie was concerned, was what was wrong
—it was too smooth.
F rankie Libold switched oft
the ignition and the green sedan
,£ided to the curb and stopped,
ftUy a few feet from the winding
iftotpath in Jackson Park.
“How’s that for timing, Louie?”
fee asked in a suave, cocky voice
ffeat matched his personality. “I
(teld you the old boy's as regular
to his habits as a night watchman.
» ain't been clockin’ him all week
lor nothin’.”
Louie Ferensic eased a .38 auto
matic from his shoulder holster
and dropped it into his right-hand
coat pocket. He looked like an un
dertaker and talked like he looked.
“I still don’t like it, Frankie.” he
said slowly. “I still don’t like it.”
Frankie’s hard Mack eyes
gleamed contempt. He snorted de
risively, then turned his attention
to the figure advancing along the
graveled footpath.
He was an old man. but his
bearing was upright and dignified.
His progress was leisurely and the
reason was evident. It was a white
cane he carried in his right hand.
The tap-tap-tap of the metal-
tipped walking stick rang clear in
the afternoon air as the old man
felt his way along the brick-
bordered path. He was within ten
feet of the car when Frankie Li
bold and Louie Ferensic closed in,
one on either side.
“All right, gran’pop, just take it
easy and do as you’re told and
you won’t get hurt,” Frankie Li
bold said. He prodded the old fel
low with a blunt-nosed revolver.
“just keep on walkin’ and act
natural."
The blind man faltered for an
instant and a shadow flicked across
his face. Not fear, perhaps, but
something akin to it. Then Louie
Ferensic grasped his arm and
urged him forward and into the
car.
He remained silent during the
forty-five -minute drive to the west
side, seemingly stunned by the un
expected. He allowed himself to be
led to the second-floor hide-out
without causing a disturbance. He
sat quietly while Frankie Libold
adjusted the handcuffs that
shackled him to a low iron cot.
The two gunmen moved to a
window overlooking the street and
talked in low tones. “You and your
hunches." said Frankie. He sneered
at his morose associate. “It came
off without a hitch, just like I said
it would. And if this caper don’t
bring us a hundred grand flay name
ain’t Frankie Libold.”
“Maybe so,” said Louie, “but I
still don’t like it.” He shot a glance
at the old man where he sat dis
consolate on the bed. “I only hope
his old lady keeps her head and
leaves the G-men out of it.”
The pair talked on in husky mon
otones while they kept an eye on
the cars crossing the busy inter
section below. The bells of a Cath
olic church tolled the Angelus.
Sounds began filtering up from the
bowling alley on the first floor—
the sharp click as the ball hit the
polished surface of the alley, the
echoing crash of the pins. The ac
rid exudations of a varnish factory
tainted the air.
Frankie Libold stretched lazily
and suppressed a yawn. “I’m go
ing out and get a paper,” he told
Louie. “Soon as I come back we’ll
get down to business.”
He was back again in less than
fifteen minutes, and he came in
at least she’ll know it’s his hand
writing.”
He put it in a plain envelope,
addressed it, and attached a spe
cial delivery stamp. “Take it over
on the south side and mail it,” he
told Louie. “And be careful you’re
not picked up on the way.”
A near-sleepless night left the
kidnappers in worse spirits than
ever. They snapped at each other
like dogs. “Get out of here and get
yourself some breakfast,” Frankie
ordered gruffly. “And don’t be all
day about it. I’m hungry too.”
Louie Ferensic yanked his hat
down low on his forehead and
stalked out without a word.
Frankie stared after him, his
face a twisted mask of hatred.
He laughed deep in his throat.
“Still don’t like it, eh?” he mut
tered half to himself. “I’ll give you
something you’ll like even less
after we collect that hundred G’s,
Frankie Libold studied it carefully,
them nails,” he announced finally.
‘It’s all full of holes from
table and picked up a plain sheet
of typewriter paper. “Get him
something to write on,”. he told
Louie. “We’ll get this ransom note
done now and put it in the mail.
She’ll pay off or else.”
Louie pulled an empty drawer
from a dresser and laid it upside
down on the bed. Frankie started
to lay the paper on it, then drew
back. “Can’t you get anything bet
ter? This thing’s got nails coming
up through the bottom.” His
smoldering eyes raked across his
unresponsive partner. “Skip it,”
he growled. “Just skip it.”
He slapped the paper down on
the rough surface and thrust a
fountain pen into the blind man’s
hand. “Here.” He took the hand
and guided it to the paper. “Feel
around on this so you can tell
what you’re doin’, then write ex
actly what I tell you to write. And
watch those nails, you’re punching
a hole in the paper.”
The sensitive fingers of the re
tired industrialist explored the
makeshift desk, then the pen in
his hand came to rest at the
proper point. Frankie began dic
tating—slowly, for the blind man
seemed to have trouble finding a
smooth surface to write on. He
kept shifting and rearranging the
paper, this way and that, but final
ly the note was completed.
I Frankie Libold studied it careful
ly. “It’s all full of holes from them
nails,” he announced finally, “but
on a
aA&^oiUjfJu
I HEARD a valiant cardinal
Dark-red againft the winter dawn;
He whirled from a leafless tree
Upon a barren lawn.
The tiny dauntless splotch of red
Shot up a challenge Sraight and high:
A rocket-burft of silver &ar$
To shower a winter sky.
The little brave, intrepid thing,
A conqueror of cold and night.
He'drenched the bare boughs suddenly
With color and with light:
A triumph and a viftory
Thu I have come to underSand.
I laughed, a broken laugh, and took
Life once more by the hand.
and it won’t be half the money,
either.”
He paced to and fro between the
window and the door for a few
minutes, then sat down at the
table and began playing solitaire.
He was arranging the cards for a
second game when he heard foot
steps in the hall outside.
The door swung inward and Louie
Ferensic stood framed in the open
ing. Then suddenly he came hur
tling into the room, catapulted by
the foot of a man standing direct
ly behind him
“Don’t shoot, Frankie!” Louie
screamed as he fell. But he might
just as well have saved his breath.
Frankie Libold was covered by
half a dozen guns before he had
time to move.
Several of the plain clothes men
frisked Frankie and relieved him
of his gun and the handcuff key.
Another, obviously in charge,
crossed the room to the bed and
released the blind man.
The old fellow was smiling in a
pleased manner. “I see you got my
message in time, officer,” he said,
seeking his rescuer with sightless
eyes.
“We did, Mr. Carter, and I think
that was a pretty clever idea, too
—punching it in braille on the ran
som note. All we had to do was
locate a bowling alley on an in
tersection, with a Catholic church
and a varnish factory in the same
neighborhood, and that wasn’t
hard at all.”
Louie Ferensic glared at his
gaping partner. “You see?” he
said spitefully. “I told you I
didn’t like it.”
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by NANCY PEPPER
JOE’S CLOTHES
We might have called this “wise
guise,” if we hadn’t been /Afraid
you’d tell us to take off the husks.
Anyhow, it’s about the fashions
your favorite
boys are wear
ing when they’re
not encased in
those too bright
shirts.
Corduroys in
Color—Since our
last survey of
male modes, cor
duroy jackets
have moved up
into first place for sartorial honors.
Formerly, the boys were wearing
them in light tan only. Now, they’ve
branched out and you girls swoon
for those collarless style corduroy
jackets in maroon, green or gray.
What are they trying to do, any
way—steal your thunder?
Play the Game—The newest cot
ton knit T shirts for boys are print
ed in a tick-tack-toe design, with
only one frame already made out.
The idea is to beat him at his own
game and you can use your lipstick
to make the “Os” and “Xs.” Guess
he was jealous of your denim jac
ket with the checkerboard on the
back and the checkers hanging on
a key chain in front
Company Improves
Side Delivery Rake
Completely Engineered
For Power Operations
A new side-delivery rake, engi
neered from the ground up for
power take-off raking and tedding,
and completely designed for mech
anized farming is now in produc
tion.
Manufacturers declare that a
“history of the side-delivery rake,
which is the machine you see piling
up long rows of hay, straw and
other crops for baling, shows that
there has been little or no change
in the machine since the advent of
the tractor. It is the first all-new
rake in 50 years.”
Exclusive features of the rake
are the floating reel and basket
which permits use of the full length
of the 64 pairs of raking teeth at
all times and a positive chain pitch
control which changes the angle of
thl teeth for different raking condi
tions.
Two speeds forward and one
speed for tedding, or reverse rak
ing, permit ftie operation of the
First change in the mechanized
side-delivery farm rake since the
advent of the tractor is shown
here. It has been engineered
anew from the ground np and
has floating reel and basket.
rake at high tractor speeds. The
four-bar reel is V-belt powered
from the chain- driven power take
off.
The rake is this manufacturer’s
third contribution toward complete
mechanization of haymaking. A
first one-man, twine-tying pick-up
baler produced commercially, and
the new field bale loader already
have cut huge chunks from the
farmer’s haymaking schedulfe.
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23;
Mark 6:3; Luke 2:39-52. . M
DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 2:25-
22.
His Growing Years
Lesson for January 16, 1949
STACk^SCR
Foreman
D OUBTLESS God can do any
thing he wants to do. He could
have sent Jesus to earth on a moon
beam; he could have had hifn for
the first 30 years
of his life on a
lonely peak in the
Andes, far from
any human dwell
ing; he could have
sent him into the
world full-grown,
without ever hav
ing to go through
the grind of grow
ing and learning as
the rest of us do.
But God did not plan it that way.
If the manhood of Jesus was to be
real, and not a hothouse facsimile,
he had to come up the hard way.
Angels do not grow, they just are;
but human beings grow. The great
difference between Jesus and ordi
nary mortals is not that they grow
and he did not; the difference is
that he grew straight.
• • •
No ‘Good Chance'
T HE 'world around us makes its
impression on us; it makes no
impression on dolls. They go on
smiling their built-in, gainted-on
smiles, but we have to learn
through tears. And so did Jesus.
The heavenly Father saw to it that
his experiences were not always
easy ones. He was bom in a stable,
of parents who were very poor, liv
ing the first few years of his life as
a displaced person in a foreign
country, with a price on his baby
head.
He grew up In a village “off
the main line,” among com-
pauions not one of whom ever
became famous, working
through long years at a simple
and not too well-paid trade.
During Jesus’ first 30 years his
neighbors never guessed that
the most extraordinary person
of history was living in their
village.
We sometimes wish that we had
an easier time of it, and that God
had seen fit tb cast our lot in some
big city with a rich family, in
stead of where we are. We feel we
could be better people if we “had
a chance.” Yet every reader of
these lines has a far better chance
than Jesus. It did not take perfect
surroundings to shape a perfect
life.
Released by WNU Features.
By INEZ GERHARD
J OIN the Bob Hope show
and see the world! Re
turning from his Christmas
time jaunt to Berlin, Bob is
off on a month-lpng tour of this
country, planning to start in the
south and work his way up to Wash
ington in time for the inauguration.
Holy Family
This scantily-clad bovine beau
ty attracted wolf whistles at the
second annual National Farm
show in Chicago by appearing in
a newly designed udder support.
The novel “unmentionable” is
said by the manufacturer to in
crease a cow’s milk yield by 3$
per cent.
New Animal Repellent
Will Lessen Free Meals
Animal wildlife will find free
lunches fewer and farther between
next year. A new product developed
by the B. F. Goodrich chemical
company and tested by the state of
Maine •fish and game department
at its Swan Island wildlife refuge,
may be just what farmers have
been seeking.
At Swan Island, the new material
has been sprayed on leafy crops by
biologists who observe that it will
not wash off and that a deer, after
nipping at the treated leaves, will
turn up his nose at future free
meals. Certain types of insects also
are discouraged by the action of
the repellent, researchers revealed.
Crop damage by raiding wild
deer runs in excess of $150,000 an
nually in some districts of Maine
and amounts to millions nationally.
The search for satisfactory repel,
lents has been a major project.
Beef Cattle Reported
Liking Citrus Molasses
Beef cattle really go for citrus
molasses.
Cattle having access to this feed
not only have shown no hesitation
about lapping it up from troughs,
but have seemed to prefer it.
Cattlemen feeding the molasses
are using a combination of trough
and drum molasses for making the
material available to their animals.
The trough used is 30 inches wide
and about 12 feet long.
W E CALL Joseph and Mary and
the rest the “Holy Family,”
.but they were not known that way
in Nazareth. They were just Jo
seph the carpenter, and hts Mary.
Then there were the boys and
girls; Mark (6:3) tells the boys’
names, but no one ever remem
bered to put down the sisters’
names. Even then it was no small
family. Jesus, as the oldest of sev
en, would have many responsibil
ities. After Joseph’s death he would
be the chief breadwinner. Seeing
that the rent waj paid, that there
was grain in the house for Mary
to grind into meal, finding money
for clothes for seven growing chil
dren—this could not have been
easy for Jesus the young carpenter.
They were not an easy fam
ily to live with, those boys and
girls. When Jesns later began
his work of teaching and heal
ing, we hear that even his "
brothers did not-believe in him.
But in spite of the brothers,
there was always Mary. Moth-
er-like, she loved her first-born
as no other could or did.
There are some who worship her
as “Queen of Heaven;” but it is
enough for us to remember that she
was queen of the home where
Jesus the child grew to be Jesus
the man. , Not this side of heaven
can we know how much we owe,
as Christians, to this one woman,
whose mind and spirit were woven
h.to the thought and spirit of her
Son.
* • •
Home Memories
I NDEED, Jesus whole boyhood
was woven into his manhood.
Among life’s most precious mem
ories are those of out growing
years. Later on, we can see how
Jesus’ mind was bright with mem
ories of home. The parables of the
patched garment, of the leaven hid
den in the meal, of the poor wom
an hunting with a lamp for her one
lost coin, of the hungry neighbor
at midnight, of the son who said
“I go” but did not go — these and
many others may well be echofs
of Jesus’ boyhood home. Deeper
than these are Jesus’ habits ol
prayer, his fondness for calling God
“Father,” his familiarity with
Scripture even in death’s agony—
here surely are patterns learned
in childhood’s growing years.
(CoDTtiibt br ttt lattrnationtl Council
oiReUgious Education on btb.lt of 46
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
BOB HOPE
There’s money in those tours. Hope
thinks he may exceed the $500,000
made on a similar tour two years
ago.
*
Reminder: The “Dr. Christian”
script contest is on again, till
March 2. The $2,000 award is given
for the best script suitable for the
program. For details write the Dr.
Christian Award, 17 State street.
New York 4.
*
Edith Head, top dress designer
for Paramount, came to New York
“on a spying trip,” as she put it.
She covered the haunts of young
business women as Betty Hutton’s
clothes for “The Broadway Story”
must be just right. Delightful, dy
namic Miss Head, commenting on
the costumes for "Samson and De
lilah,” said she couldn’t iet Deli
lah’s be too authentic or the censors
would never pass them. But those
for “The Heiress” are historically
perfect right down to the under
wear.
According to the Motion pic
ture Herald, the top-grossing
pictures of the 1947-48 season,
September to September, are
"The Bacheioi and the Bobby
Soxer,” “Cass Timberlane,"
“Green Dolphif! Street,” “Life
With Father,” “Mother Wore
Tights,” “Road to Rio” and
"Unconquered.” A list the coun
try’s motion picture critics
would never have compiled.
U. 3. Attorney General Tom Clark
makes his film debut in Universal-
International’s “Illegal Entry.” He
and Commissioner Watson B. NiU'
er appear in the prologue. The
first documentary film made with
the cooperation of the immigration
^department, it is dedicated to the 43
immigration officers killed in the
line of dutv.
—HK
Helen Craig, featured in “They
Live by Night,” became a star in
a Broadway play in which she
spoke no lines. After years of
studying diction, she was cast as
the deaf mute in the stage’s version
of “Johnny Belinda.”
Robert Cummings and his family
plan to live three months in Parts,
three in Rome, while he makes two
pictures. He expects to come home
to find his new house ready—with
a diving board from his bedroom
overhanging the pool
Memories of ’48—Having Ray Mil-
land “borrow” an oyster from me
at lunch, before his arrived — and
forgetting to pay it back. Having
John Lund tramp blocks through
the driving rain to find me a taxi.
Riding on a crowded subway with
Irene Beasley, who was carrying a
canary. Hearing Scott Brady tell
about the prayer that carries him
over bad moments and brings suc
cess.
*
Betsy Drake was afraid RKO
would make her pluck her eye
brows too thin and change her
name before she made her film
debut in “Every Girl Should Be
Married.” So she ate a lot of
candy, to calm her nerves.
Henry Hull can’t believe it. Two
years ago he rented his California
home to the Joel McCreas who have
two young sons. Henry expected to
flncf everything much worse for
wear when he moved back recently.
But everything was in perfect con
dition, and the house had been pol
ished from cellar to garret. Henry
says he’s going to join a McCrea
fan club.
*
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Danny
Kaye’s picture, "The Kid From Brook
lyn," is playing in Rome under the
title "I Prefer a Cow.” . . . Glenn
Ford, who has taken or given a beat
ing in every picture he’s ever made,
wishes Columbia would assign him to
just one peaceful one. . . . Busy
though -the is, Penny Singleton found
time to learn to fly, now takes her
family on regular week-end flights.
. . . Frankie Carle’s crew will appear
in five pictures this year, made during
a four-months’ stay in California. . . .
Eleanor Powell will sail in February
to do a command performance or
the king of England.
NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS
Crochet These Little Doilies
7151
'T'HREE little doilies! Just see
-*■ how easy they are to crochet.
One is pineapple design, one fern,
one is pretty flower-petals!
Fringe used as trimming should
never be ironed. Instead comb it
carefully while it’s still wet.
•—•-*
Always remember that dark col
ors are slimming and a dark £kirt
will minimize large hips.
—•—
Pieces cut from an old felt hat
or slippers and glued to the bot
tom of table legs will help prevent
scratch marks on kitchen lino
leum.
—•—
You can improvise shoulder cov
ers m hang over dresses, in the
closet with old pilloifc cases. Just
make a slit in the closed end and
slip over the hanger.
—•—
Save the peels of oranges and
tangerines, dry them in the oven
and store in glass jars. They give
puddings and custards a delicious
flavor.
’ •;
To line cake pans easily Nvith
wax paper, grease pan lightly,
cover with a piece of waxed paper
and insert another pan identical or
nearly so. Trim pff the edges.
—•—
In sewing braid or rick-rack on
any kind of fabric, use scotch
tape to hold firmly in place. When
the machine work is done, simply
peel off the tape.
—•—
Many people believe breakfast
just isn’t breakfast without a bowl
of steaming hot cereal every
morning. Dried fruits added to the
cereal while it cooks gives it a
mpst pleasant flavor.
—•—
To save frosting a butter cake,
sprinkle the batter with finely
chopped filberts before baking; do
not use on sponge type cakes since
the batter is not heavy enough to
hold the nuts and they will sink to
the bottom.
Quick, order now and have these ready
for gifts. Pattern 7151; crochet otroc-
tions for three.
Our Improved pattern — visual with
easy-to-see charts and photos, and com
plete directions—makes needlework easy.
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
564 W. Randolph St. Chicago *0, UL
Enclose 20 cent* for pattern.
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