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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-09

aching place instead of a heart, all
because of a man who had DELHI
erately warned her he was a per-
manent bachelor.
She frowned impatiently at her.
self, as she gazed up at the sunset
colors that famed about the golden
tower. Why must she love Wayne
in this helpless, idiotic way? Ridic-
ulous to give him another thought!
Probably it was only because she
was bored, and life seemed unin-
teresting, that her mind kept turn
ing to him all the time. But when
Christian got back to town
A disreputable coupe swerved
suddenly to the curb close beside
her, man leaped out, an excited
voice cried, Hello there, Gay"
and she found herself shaking
hands with Mark Vance, and re-
peating happily, I'm so glad to
see you"
He had seated her in the bat
tered coupe, and was heading
south again before she could realize
what had happened.
you're the very girl I'm looking
for" he was saying, with unusual
eagerness. ut came to me all of a
sudden, playing Backgammon
heaven forgive me-with some of
Charlotte's swanky friends at Bar
Harbor. Why not dash back to
Detroit, work like the devil finish
ing up some things 1 started last
winter, do a portrait of you, and
give an exhibition early this fall"
"a portrait of me? How too
divine" Gay sat back against the
worn leather cushions, in deep con-
tent. She'd always liked Mark;
found him truly delightful per-
son, critical but kindly. Detroit
wasn't such a half bad place, after
all. 1t would be fun, posing again
for Mark.
His laugh cut off her thoughts.
"How do you like my limousine {?
I picked it up for few dollars.
Charlotte almost forced her Cad
lilac down my throat. But I'm
through letting her fill in the gaps
from her own check book. Lord
knows, there have. been plenty of
black financial gaps during our
married life. What a wife she's
been! But that's neither here nor
there, is it, Gay?" He looked at
her with the familiar grimace of
his ugly, fascinating face that she
remembered so we'll. "Tell me
about yourself, pretty one, and
your gay adventures!"
She told him the little there was
to tell.
He hardly listened, he was so in
tent on himself and the idea of an
exhibition.
You'll have to work hard too,
Cay"
I'll like that. There's been
nothing to do, lately, and no one to
do it with. told you, everyone's
out Of town. Jean and are sell
dom off duty together, and besides,
she's got new boy friend" Gays
shrug was expressive.
"This won't be fun. It'll mean
Shaving early and late, sometimes
all night, and in this darned
August heat. Posing for portrait
is no joke. The times so bloornin'
short. Are you game? But I
know you are. You worked like a
good soldier for those Metropolis
illustrations.
"While I think of it-have you
seen the copy with the Vivien Ben
nett story? Illustrations repro
duced pretty well, didn't they?"
Gay nodded. IT liked them. It
seemed funny to see my own face
smiling out Of the pages of a mag
azinew
I'm warning you, that job
wasn't one-two-three beside this
portrait. Doing anything tonight F?
Fine! TIL run you over to your
fiat. Get that blue dress you wore
at Ads party-that's what want
to paint you in-and We'll dive off
the deep end right away. I'm al
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-09
CHAPTER 43


ONE OF GAYS compensations
for living in the griIny fiat on
Erskine street, was the compare
tive nearness of the Fisher Tower.
To her it was always thing of
beauty. In daylight, a friendly
mass of gray stone, gold-topped
against the sky. At night, a glow
ing mother-of-pearl campanile
reaching to the stars. Especially
In the blur of rain, it had for her
the quality Of indescribable mys-
terry.
Sometimes, late on her free
afternoons-more often. since her
last quarrel with Wayne-she
walked toward the boulevard for a
sight of the tower in the amethys-
tine colors of the sunset. The
solidity of the tower seemed to lend
her strength, ike the clasp of a
friendly hand. Now that every
thing between her and Wayne was
80 irrevocably over, she often felt
she needed to borrow strength.
So, on a hot evening in late
August, Gay rode on bus up John
r. street, to hold a rendezvous
with the tower, in the brief and
magic moments of the suns after
glow. The sky still held the deli
cate hues of flower: palest yell
lows, mauves, faint greens.
Dismounting at an opposite
corner, she stood and gazed, mo-
tionless, while the feeling of lone
liness that often overwhelms one in
the midst of a crowd, suddenly
pressed down upon her. All
around, the swirl of people talk
ing, laughing, elbowing each other;
lines OF cars streaming past in all
directions. Everyone busy and
pre-occupied, ignoring her COM
pletely.
Detroit had been a wilderness,
Gay was thinking, since that night
when she had almost thrown her
bonnet over the windmill, and had
left Wayne's apartment, deter
mined never to enter it again.
The weight of unhappiness and
loneliness that had settled upon
her, then, had been deepened both
by the departure of Marian Wilson
for a months visit to her father.
a doctor in small Vermont vii
lage, and the steaming away of
Tim Keenan's yacht, the Rankeela.
with Doctor Wilson, Christian
Scott, Breck, Charlie Pennell and
Wayne aboard.
Gay knew that all the men had
accepted with alacrity Tins ca
bled offer of the use of his Yacht
for a six weeks fishing trip. All
except Wayne. He had refused at
first, because of the vitality i'm
portant work on his experimental
motor; but Doctor Wilson as his
physician had over-ruled and fair
ly shanghaied him.
So the Pontchartrain club had
seemed to Gay painful void, in
the absence OF those members who
mad played such an important part
IN her life since that memorable
Wilson dinner.
There was one bright spot in her
monotonous days: a weekly box of
flowers, with Christian Scott's
compliments. Gay realized the
significance of those frequent re-
minders of Christians devotion.
To be sure, he had not formally
proposed as yet, but she felt
serenely confident that he would.
when he returned to Detroit. And
the complete break with Wavne
had crystallized her determination
to become Mrs. Christian Scott.
AS the days wore along. she had
tried desperately to forget Wayne,
She told herself that she had been
swept off her feet by his striking
good looks and the tender restraint
of his love-malzing. But it was
the worst kind Of foolishness to
carry about within her. a wounded
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Where Did He Get the Ideu9

THIS sort of thing, by the code of conduct which
L Mr.. Prick now lays down for the athletes. was
betrayal OF his employers property rights in him.
but we didn't have that code in the press GOODS and
1 can't understand how one so amiable as Mr. Prick
acquired his present ideas.
There have been some city editors in New York
who held the same views that he now applies to the
sweaty artists in the pads and f1annels but some
now they never could make their orders stick Out
SIDE the office man is on his own and who can tell
when he phones in his piece for the papers whether
ne vas personally present when the district attorney
numbered Crime must CO." or stopped in at an
other shop to ask about better Job and thus arrived
late and caught the prosecutors ringing declaration
Oh the bounce? The fraternal spirit and practice
among the New York journalists always is marvel
to boys and girls newly come to town prepared to
tight hard for fame and fortune against appalling
odds. The greenest hick from Omaha who doesn't
know his way to Brooklyn. much less how to get
back, discovers himself drifting along with the men
who are his enemies and when the hour comes to sit
down somewhere and dvvy up street numbers first
names and what the suspect said to Inspector
Clancy, he finds that the stars have been working
for him.
Thus initiated into the fraternity of enemies he
develops the proper spirit and so. when he has
learned his way around the town, he in turn breaks
out his old envelope and his notes out loud for
the gogge-eyed cub from Billings.
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Gen. johnson SAYS

XXTASHINGTON, April 18.-"I-am "a good neigh
w bor." That's fine international slogan But
maybe 1t really is, lama big sap"
If you want to read something really starry-eyed
go back over international relations since 1917
We took sides in a in which both belligerents
had kicked around the lot as no neutral ever has
been kicked. From the moment we got in, we just
opened our Treasury to all of them. They never
asked for dollar they didn't get. They foxed us
in every trade If anybody in Congress protested he
howed down on the floor as a pro-German.
We paid for the trenches in which we fought.
the damage our guns did to land where the Ger
mans fought, and the graves where we buried our
dead.
At the end of the war. took nothing, but gave
up defenses in the western Pacific. They took
everything there was to take
4 FTER the we began lending money to these
L N bankrupts to buy goods. We financed
entire increase in export trade. We loaned the
Allies enough to pay interest and principal their
debt to us. Finally began to lend Germany
almost enough to pay her reparation to the Allies
For while paying the cost of the war to
both sides When stopped that, they repudiated
and the world collapsed.
Then we started all over and devalued the dol
lar, which gives them a 40 per cent cut under our
own people in payment of debts and purchase Of
ish gold mining doubly profitable They use the
money owed us to arm and balance their budgets
while oufs remain hay wire. We lower ing
tariff without quid pro quo and 'Surrendering
century-old markets for farm products.
For ID years we-have-b een-a- good neighbor-and
Christmas tree.
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"EUerg KnOx's a Boost"

IT that the Chicago publisher made pretty
N good showing when considers the Whisper
ing campaign against him. The undoubtedly leg
endary story which was confided to me concerns
the Colonel and the brash elevator operator. Oh, 1
forgot to say that the elevator operator was signify
inebriated and that he worked in the Chicago Daily
News Building Col Knox works there and one
bright day as ne stepped into the car the operator
said Good morning Col. Boost" The publisher
looked at him severely and replied, MY name is
Col Knox" But" said the elevator operator in
high glee. every KnoX's boost" 1t was the
kids last ride.
Still there was something in what the elevator
man said That was illustrated in the remarkable
showing made by President Roosevelt in the pri-
mary. He was unopposed, of course, but the vote
rolled up seems significant. Mr.. Roosevelts in
dorsement achieved in spite of the opposition of
all the important papers in Chicago. Col. Knox
Col. Mccormick and William Randolph Hearst have
been hitting the President with everything but the
lost and found ads for the last two years. 1t has
been an unbroken attack both in the news columns
and the editorials. And yet the vast majority of
the citizens of Chicago went out and voted for
Roosevelt Just the same
would not argue from this that the power of
the press is exaggerated, but I think it is safe to
and that it has long since been passed Any news
paper group of newspapers which undertakes to
blast a man in public life by swinging constantly
from the floor will meet with disappointment. After
a time the general public says, "Oh, he can't be
bad all that" and disbelieving the worst, they
inclined to believe the best.
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When he wore it to a Washing
ton reception for the first time in
several years, some one f1lched it
out of the check room. The
Securities Exchange Commission
recently denied an aviation firm
the right to sell stock. 1t had
built but one plane in four years,
The SEC reported: con an at
tempt to fly the ship. it was
brought safely to the ground after
rising eight feet on a flight of
about $50 feet
r IEUTENANTS of Gov. ALT
IL Landon say their biggest
problem is to restrain big business
leaders from shouting their sup
port from the house tops. The
Landonites feel that eXultant
right-wing backing would be Sc
rious campaign handicap. This
explains their ill-disguised pleas
ure at reading recent news stories
that Hoover was miffed with the
Kansas Governor. A signifl-
can't indication of strained rela-
tions among the nine members
of the Supreme Court is the Is
split decisions this term, nine of
them by 6-to-3 count. For one
term, this is an unprecedented
number of disSents. =. The Ma
tional Resources Board, headed
by Frederic A. Delano, uncle of
President Roosevelt, has drafted
Clarence Dykstra, Cincinnati
city manager, to direct its survey
of American municipalities.
The annual report of the Securi-
ties Exchange Com mission is
proving the best seller among
government publications. Already
it has run through several edi-
tons, and sales still are mount
ing. The WPA is investigat-
ing reports that foreign-born
work-relief recipients are sending
a portion of their relief pay to
relatives abroad. In one case
relief worker was discovered send
ing half of his check to Italy
n
TOSEPH P. KENNEDY. ex-chair-
u man of the Securities Ex-
change Commission and financial
reorganizer of Radio Corporation
of America, will return to Wash
ington to take leading role in
the Roosevelt reelection drive.
Illinois bewhiskered SEN
ator j. Ham" Lewis believes in
taking credit where credit is due.
Said Senator Long Tom" Con-
nally of Texas: The Senator from
Illinois is an eminent constitu-
tionai lawyer. Interjected
Lewis: Il could not deny that,
sir Prof. John Dewey and
Rep. Thomas Amile of Wiscon-
sin have evolved the american
Commonwealth Plan" under which
every family would receive s5000.-
a-year income; believe it will
push she Townsend plan into the
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New Deal Frowns
on Naval BuiIdinq
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, April ia Slight lack of CO.
w ordination appears to have developed between
the Administration and Chairman Vinson of the
House Naval Affairs Committee, which involves the
understanding between the United States and Great
Britain naval rivalry.
The House naval leader wants to start work i'm
mediately on two battleships, on the ground that
because, of the tense European situation Great
Britain may have to expand her navy considerably
and that this makes advisable for to build also
President Roosevelt prefers to delay battleship con-
structon for the present. And the last thing the
Administration wants to do in any case is to pre-
dictate building program on any ground that will
suggest~a naval race with Great Britain.
THE story behind this Administration policy
reaches deep into the conversations held be-
tween American and British officials during the
recent Naval Conference in London. Chiefly be-
cause of Japanese opposition, naval limitation by
ratios was dropped from the new treaty. Whereupon
Capt. Anthony Eden, British foreign minister and
Norman Davis American ambassador at-arge,
agreed that their two governments, as the chief
naval powers of the world. should not build
against each other and that the rule of parity be-
tween them should continue
This understanding was reached in an atmos-
phere Of mutual friendliness warmer than has
listed in many years. Both governments realize that
the failure of the London Naval Conference to
tinue naval limitation by ratios among the powers
leaves the situation wide open for all race.
A NYwAY, the Administration is not anxious to
N start any more naval building until after the
London ueatyiS ratified. 1t may not sent to the
Senate w. Ill next wint~
This treaty is regarded widely face-saving
failure and hardly worth ratifying How enthu-
siastic President Roosevelt is about it has not been
revealed. However this government. while dsap-
pointed over the abandonment of naval ratio limi-
taon. realizes that this system attempted to freeze
certain nations into positions of permanent inferi-
orty Of tonnage which they refused to accept much
Germany is trying to break through the restric-
tons of the Versailles Treaty which sought to hold
her in an inferior status.
On the other hand, something put in place
Of the discarded ratios-the requirement for four
months notice by any signatory before it lays down
a keel This means that when notice of building
program is given by any government there remain
four months in which other powers can bargain and
negotiate giving notice of what they might feel
compelled to build unless plans changed Exist
ence Of such assured intervals automatically will
aid IN restraining hasty impulses to build. aat is
the theory, whether it works or not.
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WINGS ARE IMPROVED

TIME present demand is for i'm
i proved efficiency. 30. greater
economy and higher speeds, D9rDr.
Lewis said. I'm the last five years
the speeds have been increased 100
per cent.
"Airplanes are now wanted that
can do $50 to 300 miles per hour as
a regular performance. These speeds
will be obtained by improved aero
dynamics, increased horse power
and increased propeller efficiency.
Improvements in wing designs
are now coming and we have new
wing which has higher efficiency
than any now in use.
THE problem with high-speed
aircraft is to provide better land
ing and better take-off character
istics. This is being obtained by the
use of flaps on the wings. The split
flap increases lift 100 per cent and
drag 100 per cent. 1t is good for
landing but not for taking off. The
newer high-lift flap is good in both
cases.
THE N. A. G. A. has investigated
several high-lift devices to deter
mine whether or not such devices
might also serve to improve take-off
performance. The results indicate
that substantial reductions in take
off distances are possible
Other researches at Langley Field
include Investigations of the Diesel
type engine for airplane use
DR.. Lewis is optimistic for the fu-
ture of aviation and sees many i'm
provements coming that will in
crease the speed and efficiency of
airplanes.
So enlarge your picture of the ro-
mantle side of aviation. Beside the
stalwart. heroic pilot place an
equally alert young man who wears
the white jacket of the laboratory
and works with slide rules and deli
cate measuring instruments.
He will make possible the planes
to travel the sky roads of the flu
ture.
THE END
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GREATEST LABORATORY

TINE committee maintains an
Il "Of1ce of Aeronautical Intel
ligence" at Washington At Lang
ley Field, Va, it maintains the
Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory.
Named after Sampel P, Langley
who, as secretary of the Smithson-
ian Institution, pioneered in the de-
velopment of the heavier than air
flying machine, the Langley labora-
tory is the finest and biggest labora-
tory in the world devoted to
aeronautical research.
Congress created the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
on March 3, 1915. 1t consists of Is
members who are appointed by the
President of the United States and
who serve without pay. Members
include two representatives of the
Army air force, two of the Navy air
force, the heads of the Smithson-
ian Institution, United States
Weather Bureau, United States Bu-
reau of Standards, United States
Bureau of Air Commerce, and
seven members chosen from pri-
vate life. Included at the pre-
ent time are Orville Wright and
Charles A. Lindbergh. DR.. Joseph
S. Ames, famous physicist and pres
ident emeritus OF Johns Hopkins
University, is chairman of the COM
mittee.
The committee co-ordinates the
research needs of aviation and car
ries on fundamental Investigations,
the results of which are made avail
able to the Army, the Navy, the
United States Department of Com
merce, the aircraft industry and
others concerned.
These researches, centralized at
the Langley Field laboratory, have
led and are leading to material
improvement in the performance,
efficiency and safety of aircraft.
Three hundred and twenty
people, about half of them re-
search engineers and the rest of
them mechanics and clerks, are
employed at Langley Field by the
government
The equipment includes a full
scale wind tunnel, the only one in
the world in which tests can be
made upon an actual full-size air.
plane.
The theory of the wind tunnel is
known to most readers. It's pur-
pose is to find out the behavior Of
various types and models of air.
planes. The other tunnels in exist
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mel where low temperatures can be
obtained in order to study the for
nation of ice on wings and propel-
lers.
A fine spray of water is injected
into this tunnel when the tempera-
ture is at or near the freezing point
to obtain the formation of sleet ice.
One of the big, important i'm
provements which the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
developed at Langley Field is the
low drag N. A. G. A. cowling for air.
cooled engines. Perhaps you can
remember when the cylinders of the
engine we're exposed, forming sort
of elaborate and complicated rosette
behind the propeller. Now the en-
CINE is hidden from view in a
smooth, cylindrical jacket. That
is the N. A. C. A. cowling.
ct is recognized the world over
as an outstanding achievement in
aeronautical research" DR.. Lewis
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It's Helping Roosevelt

THIS is of more than local significance. Such
il heavy percentage of the American press is so
violently anti Roosevelt that the President is begin
ming to benefit by strong tide in his favor.
Although Knoxs victory has not enhanced his
own chances particularly, the result is interpreted
generally AS pointing the way to the Republican de-
cision in the Cleveland convention. Most of the
newspaper commentators in Chicago insisted for days
in advance of the primary. "a vote for Knox is a
vote for Landon' 1t looks like Landon.
1t also looks as if the Republican nomination can
hardly do much for any candidate except give him
a chance to get out in the open air.
A limited edition of 5000 copies Of the Chicago
Daily News will go into the list of collectors items.
Right beneath four column head, "Dirtiest Elec-
ton in Years." an absent minded makeup man in
serted two-column cut of Col. Knox casting his
ballot The Colonel was not amused The elevator
man and the makeup man agree that heshas no sense
of humor.
Copyright, 1885,
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Times Books

VXTALTER s. MASTERMAN is one of the aces of
w detective story fiction. Of the school which
uses Scotland Yard the centerpiece and Hyde
Park as the site of urid crime, Mr. Masterman is
nonetheless unique story teller.
In The Rose of Death &c. P. Dutton; So, Mr..
Masterman produces exciting mystery story into
which is love story, rather series of love
stories.
A mysterious falls dead in Hyde Park at the
feet of London bobby. There the fun starts.
youthful band of amateur detectives, Hugh Marston.
DR.. Dick Forbes. Jack Davey, and pretty Betty Mil
lard play leading roles in the drama.
Fortunately for them. however, Sir Arthur Sim
clair. famous Scotland Yard manhunter. Is on the
job and it is he who finally traps the murderer It
is recommended to all thrill-lovers. tBy N. E. -.
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background. Commonwealth clubs
are to be organized all over the
country. Tourists crowding
the Capitol last Tuesday to see
the Senate and the House in
session found that both had adj
journed to see the opening base
ball game. 49, John w. Stude-
baker, commissioner of education,
has written a book, plain Talk"
which deals with dictatorship in
the United States as follows:
These are children'S dreams,
Hollywood revolutions, hardly de-
serving of more than amuse-
ment" In the mail of Henry
Wallace came a letter reading:
Dear Sir: Would you please let
me know how to make whisky,
how to mix it and SO on, with
what-all."
A MOTHER departure is about
"A to be added to the long list
of executives who have thrown up
their jobs under Secretary Dan
Roper. The latest to give exit
notice is Chester H. Mccall,
Roper's assistant.
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