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VETERANS BONUS.MARCH ON TO WASHINGTON
Organized like a rebel army and having a very good time out of the proceedings, World War valoraus recently decided to make a row about the bonus. Here they are at St. Louis, after landing there on a commandeered freight train.
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Frustrated in their efforts to commandeer B train At St. Louis, for their journey to Washington, the "bonus army" of 400 World War veterans got to Washington, Ind., by trucks and automobiles supplied by St. Louis, merchants, Top photo shows the "marchers", resting up between skirmishes with railway officials who refused them transportation. At the right, two of the crusadera atir up their "lum." The "army" plans to carry its demand for ful and immediate bonus pay-
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BY MABEL McELLIOTT
1932
few days that even Aunt Jessie was alarmed. Aunt Jessie had tried, even as Rose, to draw Susan out on the house party. "Thin wadding around tends to no good," Aunt Jessie scolded. If she bad expected to rouse her niece's. been a maid spirit by this, tried and true re- There had
he streat
tell us she mark she was disappointed.
be you're right," fur
"I guess may Chiengo relsllect. She passed. She had walked the two live with her Aunt Jemale on the vent plate.
feeling sick Susan had said drearily. "I think One of her admirers is Ben Lampmaa, young miles to the station musiclast, who make her to marry him and in and faint and longing for some go to bed early tonight. I'm
Back in the city she had terribly tired." who is divorced, takes her driving one night Pulfer.
BEGIN BERE TODAY.
tairs.
Susan Carey, pretty und 19. retary dusting
Ernest Heath,
refused. Jack Waring, a minu about lowe
an kl her. She resolve never to go stopped at a lunch counter in the with him again. Hay Bannery, employed in
A neighboring office, River her some advice i terminal and the thick cup of
on pupularity. Susan is in love with Bob steaming liquid shoved at her by aj
Dunbar, bandsome young nilonaire aho mot
Aunt Jessie had to hide her ex- asperation.
"I decare, I don't know what's
at business school, but she believes hos lad in a starched uniform had got into the Kiri," she would mutter engaged to Declan Ackroyd, k debutante put new heart into her. It had to herself, swishing the mop around attend house party. Dentar appears. He given her courage to go bong and in the big dish pan or sweeping the drinks too much and tells Susan she is a face Aunt Jessie's many questions,back porch with energotle fury.
Denok Busar. Ben and some other to
flirt. She makes hilm stop his car and gets
out Ernest Heath happens along and drives her back to the Ackroyda. His wife, who is lealous wayna hins ngainst dolog i
CHAPTER XXVI
Tomorrow Susan wondered
Somehow Susan managed to get Next about to-morrow. The night be-through days at the office. fore it had seemed the simplest, week would usher in her birthday. birthday should be an most natural thing in the world to At. 20 a
"Did you have a good time?" turn to Ernest Heuth. Now she was event, a celebration. For Susan it Rose asked. It was Sunday after-doubtful. Hadn't she been over-seemed neither this year. noon, a grey and lifeless Sunday. hasty and impulsive? She won-
When Ben telephoned she told
"It was all right," Susan said dered if Heath would not resent her him she was busy. She had not seen Lonelessly.
attitude of the night before. Shekim since the eventful night of the "Well, I must say you don't had been so distraught that at the house party. Quite unreasonably If sound enthusiastic!"
time there had seemed nothing else she blamed Ben in her heart. Susan 80 she was sorry. She to do. Now she was conscious of he had not been there, she would tried to whip herself into the re-nervous dread over the prospect of think, perhaps things might have sponso Rose
wanted. The lace meeting him again. Last night been different. Susan went to mov- with Ruse, washed her dress had been a great success she everything had been unreal. Today in assured her.
"How about Ben? Did he like it Did you come back together?" "I didn't see him this morning," Susan Bald vaguely. "I got up early and took the nine o'clock train."
Rose gasped. for?"
"My dear, what
or 2
NEA
Above are the American Socialist party's standard bearers in the 1932 presidential race. Pictured after their nomination at the party's convention in Milwaukee, are Norman Thomas (right), of New York, the presidential nomines, and (left) James H. Maurer, of Reading, the partys' vice presidential choice. Morris Hillquit, of New York, the chairman is in the inset below.
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Miles of smoking, flaming strests. Hundreds of fire-blackened buildings. Resed houses that left 7,500 persons homeless... That's the scene of utter devastation graphically portrayed in this aerial photo, taken as fire burned down two-thirds of the village of Omiya, in Japan. In the background, aloof, le Fuji's snow-topped poak.
they had resumed their proper out-hair, and-darned ker stockings with lines. She was Susan Carey, a beautiful, invisible stitches. She working girl, not Susan Carey inborrowed books from the library white lace dress, being driven to and read them with her mind far a party on the north shore. away. Everything seemned empty Heath came in, ill at ease and and futile. Some days-the easiest nervous, scarcely glancing at her. jones-pussed in a sort of grey haze With instinels abnormally sharp-when she felt nothing at all. There ened by dread Susan imagined his were other times when the turn of "Oh, I just wanted to."
a head, a man's voice calling to an- greeting was unusually cool.
"Good morning, Miss Carey." Her other across A restaurant How could she explain the urge that had sent her rushing back to reply was scarcely audible but at phrase leaping at her from the the city and the safety of the little least the moment was over. Susan pages of a book awoke her to some- house? She had not slept the long breathed more freely and went thing like agony. night through. Phrases of Bob's about her tasks with an intense, al- She wondered why people said. had kept recurring to her. "Not most flerce concentration. She was the young were happy. They cer- the sort of girl I thought you were grateful to her employer for not tainly weren't. At least she wasn't. -Denise told me you went with referring to the Saturday night's She kept reaching out and striving free and easy crowd-you can't al- incident. For the first time she be for things she could never have. ways tell about ange! faces--" gan to think of Heath as a man It would be batter to be like Ray, Of course he had been drinking, rather than as an employer. His who accepted everything at its face but that was no excuse. She saw unfalling courtesy, even his cool-value. plainly Denise's purpose in invitingness and stiffness now seemed vir Over their cafeteria luncheon her. "You're plenty good-looking Mumma fix you up?" her. She longed only to be away tucs. She felt tremendously grate- Susan happened to mention the fact that is, if anybody likes the tall "You're awfully kind," from the big. unfriendly house. ful to him. Outwardly nothing had that the day was her birthday. Hay type. And you could have a good told her. "I'll think about it." She Even the noto pushed under hor changed but actually the two were widened her eyes.
time if you only put your mind to squeezed Ray's plump little arm as door by a servant as Susan packed conscious of each other.
"My eye! What did the boy it."
they went dut. Yes, it must be her bag had not deterred hor.
Of Bob the girl refused to think. friend give you?"
Susan ate her ice cream, "Maybe comfortable to be like Ray. Life "I'm sorry," the note had sníd, | That was finished now. It wAN B Susun smiled, "Ilaven't any boy that's the trouble. I don't cate would be simple if you felt as sho "I neted the fool last night. Don't book she had closed, a book that friend."
enough," she said.
did about everything.
• remember all I said but hope you bad begun rather charmingly but Ray looked shrowed. "Expect Ray announced, "It's just plain will forgive me." It was signed ended badly,
dumb. That's what it (s1. If you'd with Bob's initials.
Denise a curt little note telling hor Susan allowed herself a tiny wear some snappy clothes and use heart had lightened somewhat. Sho had not seen Ben again. The nothing of what she really folt. It shrug. You can believe it or not, a little more makeup, you'd be roal She told Pierson shyly that it was house had been ellent, almost un-had cost her something to do that. Just as you like. It's true.
cute. Why don't you come up to her birthday and he joked about
-night" - and", let}-(Continued on. Paaj „10).
Sho had written me to believe that?"
*
Susan
It was unaccountable but Susan's
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