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Zurich Herald, 1942-10-01, Page 2•1 Make the infest of year Tea ..* JACKASS M IL Adapted from the Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Picture hy HALSEY RAINES SYNOPSIS: When Clementine Tucker, pro- prietor of a hotel in the roaring raining country of the 1850's, takes him under her wing and gives him a post as mail -coach Ariver, "Just" Baggot finds him- self being put through a quite undesired course of reformation. Drinking is prohibited, and he be- comes guardian of little Tommie Cargan, whose father Baggot had killed in self defense. A. theft of gold on the mail coach, planned by Baggot and a confederate, Miguel O'Sullivan, goes astray -when Tommie is injured by Jim Swede, another outlaw. CHAPTER FIVE Clementine was in top form at the temperance gathering. She explained that everything looked bright for the coming of the new rail line, and that a church and school would be the immediate result of this new prosperity. With mounting eloquence, she explained that the demon rum was on its way out of town, for good and all, and that when the last of her own stock was sold it would never he replaced. Baggot, who had secreted a small whiskey bottle inside his shirt, was acutely uncomfortable when she called for him to step forward, and pointed to him as a shining example of the spade work of reformation. "He traded his soul for a bottle of barrelhouse whiskey!" cried Clementine. "But he got it back!" Baggot, bowing awkwardly, might have escaped from the situ- ation except for the undercover work of O'Sullivan. Knowing that the bulge under his confederate's arm was caused by a special kind of cache, he began to heckle him. Finally, saying that guns ought to be turned in for the good of the camp, he brought out his re- volver and with diabolical clever- ness permitted it to go off in con- tact with the hidden bottle of whiskey. The brownish liquid be- gan to drizzle down; everyone ex- cept Clementine burst into rau- cous laughter. Clementine, reaching behind her, seized bottle after bottle of liquid from the shelf. Anger and humiliation vied for top spot in her emotions. "I can't think of no better way to get rid o' likker than this!" she. cried, heaving the bottles at the fleeing Baggot. Baggot almost came to blows with O'Sullivan, when he encoun- tered him later. O'Sullivan, stung at Baggot's blustering remarks, made some jibe about the danger of Tommie finding out who had killed his father. Baggot made it clear that he would make short shift of anybody who revealed this information to the youngster . ISSUE 401-242 D On the day that Clementine's saloon advertised "Last Day for Liquor" Baggot was driving down the mail trail with Tommie when he spied two horses tethered under a clump of trees. One of them was Clementine's. Some Spanish - sounding music came from around the bend. Dismounting, Baggot stalked around the end of the brush, to a small creek. There, "' her bare feet dangling in the water, sat Clementine. A few feet away was O'Sullivan, strum- ming a guitar. Outraged at the sight, Baggot rushed forward. "My, ain't that a purty guitar!" he cried. Seizing it, he snapped it over O'Sullivan's head and threw away the pieces. "The big overgrown galoot!" exclaimed. Clementine. "An' he's probably got all kinds of ideas about things too!" "We have the bad name now, eh?" remarked O'Sullivan slyly, coming closer. "Why we no be- come the great lovers?" Clementine, reaching for her stockings with one hand, grabbed O'Sullivan's jacket with the other and propelled him over the bank into the water. "You're all alike, everyone of you!" she cried wrathfully. "Vip- ers!" Bag -got, sending Tommie back to. put the mules away, strode belligerently into town, muttering something about not being able to trust anybody. He barged into the Golden West, bought one of the few remaining bottles of Bourbon in the establishment, and sat down at the faro table. "How about some action here?" he called. The dealer, not wanting to get into any trouble with Clementine, balked. But as Baggot pressed the matter further, he began to pass out the cards. • Luck was with Baggot. He won, doubled his bet, Wan again, and began to pile up a stack or chips. By the time Clementine came into the hotel, half an hour later, he had the bank very much on the defensive; Baggot was clamoring for removal of the ordinary re- strictions on size of bets. Clementine came over, looked at him irately, then said: "You're just spoilin' to have your ears knocked down, ain't you?" She walked back of the table, brushing the dealer aside, and took a seat. 'How much you got in front of you?" "Countin' what I'm into the house, looks like it's about five thousand dollars," said Baggot, with a leer. "He got lucky," admitted the dealer nervously. "Then let's see if he can stay lucky!" cried , Clementine, all thoughts of reformation for the moment chucked out the window. "The limit's off, Baggot!" Baggot placed his entire pile on a card. Clementine, not one to be easily taken aback, drew a deep breath. She turned the next eard; her face fell in dismay. The house had lost again. "Well, I guess you got me," she murmured, passing a hand across her brow. OLD FAVORITE PINEAPPLE DESIGN Design No. 467 For those whose favorite design is the pineapple pattern, this lovely luncheon doily is the ideal gift, Can be made 'easily and economically. Pattern No. 4G7 contains list of materials needed, fflustratien of design and stitches and complete instructions. .Order pattern: Write; .er'Send above picture withyour n.arne and address With 15 .cents in coin or stamps to Carol Aimes, Room 421, 73 .1%clelaide St. West, Toronto. • Baggot pressed fOrward. "But you got sumpin,' elso I'd liketo win,. ma'am," he said. "Now look, if you got what it takes to. bet them kind o' stakes, we'll get Gospel Jones to read the cere- mony, cue you lose," Clementine's eyes flashed, de- fiance, "All right, you human octopus!" she cried. "Bead it an' weep!" * * She turned the next card, and almost collapsed into the arms of the dealer, as Baggot wonagain. .A. roar of excitement .went Up from the •onlookers, while Baggot beamed. "I guess that kinda makes me the head man, don't it, ma'am?" he asked challengingly. "I ain't done nothin' but lose all day," grumbled Clementine. "Guess I must've put my shirt on upside down or sumpin'." Pausing, she reached out and seized the chips across the table. "Before we go any further," she cried, "I'm handlin' the money in this outfit, Baggot!" "Oh, sure!" agreed Baggot arni- • ably. "But first, shouldn't we make it look kinda fallibly like?" "In front of all these people?" sputtered Clementine. "Aw, nobody's lookin'," said Baggot. "Anyway, I can't see nobody but you." Clementine, "genuinely affected by this compliment, leaned for- ward. Baggot implanted a heavy kiss on her cheek.. "When did you say we'd' be cuttin' this caper?" he asked her, drawing over to her side. Clementine sensed there was no escape. And she wasn't positive she wanted to escape. "Well, 1 gotta have time to git some new riggin'," she said. "An' the church won't be fixed till next month." "The new railroaci'll be through by then!" cried one of the by* standers. "Let's make it a double celebration." Clementine .. fanned herself. "Well, then," she told Baggot, "we'll have the wecldin' the day you get back from Sacramento on the new train." "Suits me elegant, ma'am," said Baggot, bowing as he raged for the door to carry the news to Tommie. "Happy daysand good luck!" called one of the girls, to Cle- mentine. "What's that — good luck?" echoed Clementine. "You wouldn't say gettin' married to a stumble- bum of destiny like that Baggot could ever be called a pieceof luck, would you?" ' 7 (Concluded Next Week) Red Cross Losses Below 2 Percent Shipments of Goods Overseas Between Jan 1 to July 31, 1942 Valued at. $6,700,000 Less than two percent of the total value of goods shipped by the Canadian Red Cross from Janu- ary, 1940, through July, 1942, has been lost in marine' disasters, Harry Milburne, chairman of the society's national transportation committee, told a meeting of the central council recently. "During the ,period January 1 to July 31, 1942, Canadian Red Cross goods valued at $6,700,000 were shipped overseas," Mr. Mill- burne said. "These supplies in - eluding prisoners of war food par- cels, ambulances, relief clothing, blankets and quilts, hospital sup- plies, drugs and canned good.s." The shipments, carried on 116 ships, were sent to the United Kingdom, Iceland, Russic, Portu- gal; and the British West Indies. Supplies were also forwarded to Canadian prisoners of war in Jap- an and food was sent to the civil- ian population in Greece. 20000 Persons Quit Gild Camps • ..55 Regularly Producing Gold • .,lines Lost Spice War Began Estimated that more than 20,000 persons had quit the Ontario gold camps since the beginning 'of 'this year. • The paper said the migration. from • the 'gold' belt • this' summer had been "one of the strangest ' and saddest sights" in the history of northern development. "The unique feature is that less than a year ago the Government at Ottawa was urging gold miners to produce more gold", the paper commented. The Northern Miner said Cana- da had lost 55 regularly produc- ing gold mines since the outbreak of the war, most of them in the last three months, The Dominion has 94 gold mines left, and nioie than 60 of. these hhie had. .to re- duce tonnage. , The paper adiled a further de. clino was expected later this year hecauSe a manber of inining oper- ations were now in the laet stages of clean up operation. The r.reas hardest bit wero said to be Timmins, • South Porcupine and Kirkland Lake, CANADIAN STYLE These surviving members of a German U-boat crew were picked np by sailors from the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine after their warship had rammed and sunk the sub during a running battle in the Atlantic. Captive Germans are shown boarding the Assiniboine. MADAGASCAR: Besides Its Military Value Vast Island Also Has Varied Resources — Seized By French in 1883. Madagascar, by its strategic position in the Indian Ocean op• posite Portuguese Mozambique, stands as a sentinel on vital Al- lied,supply lines to the Middle and Far Bast. Since the fall of Singapore Ma- dagascar's importance has doub- led. Had Axis forces landed there first the Germans or Japanese might have been able to Cut both the 'United Nations' communica- tions lines and the strategic 250 - mile wide Mozambique Channel off. the African East Coast. Moreover, .Axis control would have consti- tuted a serious threat to the Afri- can mainland and would have pro-. 'Tided strategic bases for sea and air raiders. Madagascar is just 300 miles off • the Eastern African coast. It is about 1,000 miles ' long and :its greatest width is 360 miles. It is nearly as large as the State of Texas, having an area of 240,000 square miles. From its excellent harbor at Diego -Suarez on its northern tip Madagascar is only 800 miles from Mombasa, the main port of the British Crown Colony of Kenya. The Gulf of Aden, it the most eastern tip of Africa, is at a dis- tance of 1,300 miles. The British Crown Colony Mauritius is 474 miles east of the island. The naval base of Fort Dauphin on the south- ern tip of Madagascar is 1,000 miles from Durban in South Afri- ca. At a distance of 2,460 miles to the northeast is Ceylon and at twice this distance Singapore and Perth, Australia, can be reached. Its Varied History Madagascar has had a varied history since its discovery by the Portuguese, Diego Diaz, in 1500, who christened it St. Laurence. As in South Africa, the Dutch suc- ceeded the Portuguese, but in the 18th century the French had mili- tary bases on the East Coast. Dur- ing the reign of Charles 1, the time when English colonization began in other parts of the world. notably America, a small. settle- ment was formed on the South- west coast, but it was not until 1811, during the Napoleonic Wars, that British troops occupied Tama- taie. The,Treaty of Paris in 1814 formally ceded Madagascar to Great Britain, but the age of Im- perialism was not yet, and the British Government merely or• ganized the Hove tribe to manage the island, of which .it was the most important element. A Brit- ish Resident presided at the Hova King's court, British officials ad- vised the native Government. Under Queen Ranavalona II who came to the throne in 1868 and soon afterwards was baptised, the prohibition of Christian mission"-, aries was removed, British offic- ers organized the Army, and the United: States appointed a Consul to the independent state Of Mada,, gasear, the fourth largest island in the, world if Australia: is ex- cluded. French Take Control . • But there were Frenchmen who wished to restore the former an- thority at France over the Male- gasy. The disputed property of a Frenchman furnished the occasion,. or excuse, for war M 1883, when . the French bombarded Tamatave and landed troops. The treaty of 1885 placed the foretgn relations of the island under French con- , trol and established a French rep- resentative at the capital, Antan- anarivo. A further bombardment followed the rejection of further French demands in 1895; a French force occupied Antananarivo and a French. Protectorate, which still endures, was proclaimed. Such is the stormy history et thislong island, which has today a population of 4,000,000, mostly natives, The Malagasy, however, bave no representative in the French Chamber of Deputies, and were not even admitted to French citizenship until five years ago. Madagascar's chief commercial port is Tamatave on the .east coast, but the city is built close to marshes and has a hot, humid climate. Fort Dauphin, in the arid sonthern pal,O the island,. has little to recommend It save a good highway :to Tamatave, Poreignors, of whom th..re are some 35,000, have foetid the is land's high central plateau a pleas- ant region. Modern capital Antananarivo, capital city 02 100,000, stands on the plateau uear tbo approximate center of the is, land. It is modern in appearance re with boulevards and parks, church. es, schoolc�, hospitals and an im- posingrailway station. Thchief exports are raw hides, preserved ta blmeat,es, Ecaopfifecea' ,girlacAitderieli vepgree-- e the island yielded cioAuts ositioenets. im have been virtually • leslt TThe tableland is brown and barren. (soeneniaieit(teize.o:bilheaising is an important industry, and it has been said that there are more cattle per capita raised on the island than in any other country in the, world. The natives will not kill them for food. A man's social position is gauged by the number of c.attle cite pos- sesses, and he would let his family go hungry rather than butcher one called Malagasy, of Tho beasts.hheeatises, are of a brown rather than a black race, and belong to the Malayo- Polynesian family. There are Sem- itic, Mongol and negroid strains in their blood„Members of the rul- ing families are clecended from Arabs. • Couldn't Resist Pun Sergeant Is Married • Sgt. William Hopkins, of Olym- pia, Wash., couldn't resist resis a DIM Now he's married. 1Vhile he was stationed in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, a Council Bluffs, Iowa store returned his merchan- dise order asking him to specify size. The letter was signed Mona Davis Mulvihill, bookkeeper. Reordering, Hopkins couldn't pass it over, so: "We have much in comnion. r, too, am a book-keeper. 1 'borrow- ed a book once and never return- ed it." Miss' Mulvihill, deciding this needed proper burial, replied and one thing' led to another. Then came the Jans. Hopkins was wounded at Dutch Harbor and transferred to Fort _Lewis, Uncle Sam refused hint "a fur- lough to go to see his eorrevortd- ence sweetheart. Miss Mulvihill's employers, how- ever, gave her two weeks with pay to come west. They were married recertIy. Mussolini Twitted By War Office Twitting Mussolini for hi .3 fail- ure to attack the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan with his far greater forces in 1940, the War Office comment- ed today that "any italian• general who looks'back at that time must feel inclined to kick Minter: for the waste of those 'Precious weeks." 11 Duce's costly pro eras tina at a time when • he bad 300,000 troops to throw against .only 7,000 thinly -spread 'British troops- in the Sudan was related- in a 150 -page booklet, "The Aby$sinian • Cam- Paigns.7. 'Thisillustrated az,countof the 18-montli .campaign which cost Italy her East African einpIrr set • forth that Mussolini wasin strong position by • the end -of August, 1940, for situiltaneous drives from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Libya. UNCLE SAM'S HUGE TRANSPORT PLANES , .." •:!Fki* ''ffitik$1.K4t0 .Vitat • We,: T.NNON.RWS, . • • EIttg,o trEinsprt planes load up with Uncle° Sam's aerial shock troops at Port ag, N, C. Note anti-tank guns being loaded on foreground plane.