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emptorily, reaching for chute harness.
 But why, Bobp We are still flying" Secretly she was delighted that he should be concerned about her. Her face held a radiance de- spite the increased threat of dan- ger that surrounded them.
 "Ill go crazyl" he shouted. Carolyn, I am responsible for all this. For you! Do as I say!"
 He strapped the chute on her. There was only one way for it to go. She noted the ring handle which, some obscure crumb of knowledge told her, was the gad- get to pull if ever person did bail out. Tt has begun to rain!"
 we have roof!"
 So they had, but the ship moved up and down now, somewhat like roller coaster car. Thunder cracked frighteningly. She forced Q smile at him, but it didn't take.
 We couldn't possibly land!" he cried. And the pilot doesn't know WAAuV WC uAV JAhB AVu " bSe to jump, Carolyn! Jump, pull that cord, and say your prayers!"
 And leave you? BobH
 "I'll tell the pilot, then follow you. Go on I'll force the door open. It's our only chance! Or" he was striving frantically now to reach her mind, to force her into action, LOT maybe you're afraid to jump! A coward!"
 That struck home. Carolyn's eyes narrowed, she held her breath. The ship was tilting, weav- ing, sliding now, and even the box on the cabin floor began to move. Bob had unlatched the door.
 All at once she reached up to grasp Bob Hale's shoulders, and kissed him quickly on the lips.
 Then she dropped out into the black, blinding hurricane.
 (To Be Contlnued)
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. STAMP NEWS

A ARRANGEMENTS for special A cancellation of first-day covers to be carried on inaugural trips of the highway postoffice service between Indianapolis and South Bend, Ind, May 3 have been an- nounced by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker. Philatelic mail will be handled at South Bend and Indianapolis. Northbound service from Indianapolis will be designated as "Trip l." and the southbound run from South Bend as "Trip g."
 Mail from intermediate points will not be backstamped and will bear the same cancellation as that from the terminal cities. Round- trip covers will not be carried. No official. cachet is available.
 Covers should reach either the postmaster at Indianapolis or the postmaster at South Bend not la- ter than May 1 and should be designated: "For dispatch on in, itial run of the Highway Postof- flee. May 3, 1941."
 The Indianapolis-South Bend route is the second highway post office to be put into service.
 # H
 The Philatelic Agency at Wash- ington, D. C., has announced that the following commemorative stamps have been removed from sale: Scent Puerto Rico; 3-cent Virgin Islands; Scent Iowa Gen. tennial; 5-cent Mcdowell, com- posers group; 5-cent French, art ists group; 5-cent Howe, inventors group, of the Famous Americans series.
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the food and the insidiously

ently the food and the insidiously lulling drone of motor and of rushing air had worked magic, so that both passengers soon knew genuine relaxation. When he peered cautiously to see if she might be sleeping, Carolyn pre- tended to be.
 Thus did she help crowd the afternoon hours quite out of ex- istence. When Bob's stirring eventually did command her at tention, he pointed first to the magnif1cence of 8 sun that had raced on ahead and was nose- diving now into a sea of blood and molten gold. Tncomparably beau- tiful, the clouds presaged the very trouble Bob had feared. Because shouting over the noise was unsatisfactory and unneces- sary, they talked but little until well toward midnight. They were within 100 miles of their destina- tion, when the pilot attracted their attention.
 storm blowing up around us," he yelled. Nothing but moun- tains down there now. Take 1t easy. Instruments are okay. Thought ought to tell you. It may get rough"
 Carolyn's heart leaped. She pressed her face to 8 window. In- stantly Bob Hale was at her side peering out, too. Quite uncon- sciously he put an arm around her shoulders as If to protect or steady the slender girl. She felt his muscles, tight, tense.
 The ship soon began to bounce ever so little. Then 1t bucked a bit more.
 i've got to get you out of herel" He almost growled 1t.
 Please don't worry" she begged.
 If 1t were just the ship" he glanced significantly at the box on the floor, a parcel that really crowded the small cabin, "-if 1t were just is, flying"
 Tn 10 minutes more the ship was quite unsteady Bob looked around desperately. This was a plane for private hire. Unlike the regulation air liners, 1t had parachutes neatly folded in racks above the seats.
 Put this on!" ne ordered per-
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CHAPTER XVII

Leana Sormi came out of her nflce in time to see Robert being led away by the Tyler girl. She considered that, frowning. Today ehe hated Carolyn Tyler with a quiet, lethal fury.
 Until today she had regarded Roberts secretary with only a cer- tain contempt, tolerating Roberts praise of the girls efficiency. But Carolyn Tyler was so exquisitely beautiful that even Leana was conscious of it. Beauty in one woman can be infuriating to an- other. Moreover, in the past few hours the new girl had completely wrecked the most important plan Leana had ever conceived and Leana wasn't yet sure how 1t had been done.
 she couldn't possibly have known the train would be robbed" !" ehe reflected, q talked with only one man, remote from her. But even if her faking the shipment was just coincidence"
 Leana promised herself to get At the bottom of Carolyn's inter- ference. and then to repay her in kind.
 "You mean = Arizona' Where E-?"
 Bob was jabbing a finger at Carolyn, incredulous, He had slip a.aI into a cant nnU
 q do" Carolyn shouted back. we are flying west and we won't stop until we get there" She had leaned close to talk above the roar of the motor.
 He looked around as If still un- able to believe his senses. He 9azed again a the box which, he < knew, contained his priceless ura- nium derivative, the most potent and altogether valuable bit of sub stance ever produced since mans reasoning began, enough literally to transform the whole course of civilization. ,,
 "Carolyn. T. But the danger! The x-999 can make dust of this flane and all of us! Dust, tell youl Beyond any description can give!"
 NO" She was not frightened. er trust you, Bob. You said only nudden heat or 8 severe shock, like \ dynamite cap, could explode it.
 "Tn theory, yes! But that first tiny bit we tried to move-P
 Something tells me we'll never know the answer to that. Please relax. Bob. And anyway, the stuff is made. Somebody has to take chances, don't they?" That made sense, of course. Nevertheless Bob Hale was still Addressed. "But an airplane! And you. Carolyn! Suppose there IS trouble. What could I doP How could I possibly save youP"
 "Oh, it's me you're "ofrieo aboutl' .
 His lips snapped tight He was in no mood for teasing and banter now. 'Miss I tell you again wnat extreme danger is involved here?"
 nNfust I remind you again that somebody has to take chancesP"
 Their shouted argument was a draw, obviously. He turned to LOOK out. There was no world now only blue -and-gray oblivion. With nothing tangible. He slipped re- eirnediy into seat and Carolyn, guessing rightly again, brought him q small parcel.
 .Here are some sandwiches and fruit. all could grab in a hurry" ei,e apologized. T bet you haven't eaten since yesterday"
 That was too true. He thanked her with his eyes, and ate. Pres
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Cn AMlUM CRACK ERS
LATE LITERATURE

Book worms can come out from between the covers now, for here's a newsy set of questions on authors and the books they write. Whether you're up on the latest literature or not you shouldn't have much trouble with these.
 l. What is the source of the titles Grapes of Wrath" and For Whom the Bell Tolls" and who are the authors of those booksp
 2 Three well-known authors, Gertrude Stein, James Hilton and Upton Sinclair, are among the authors of new books. Can you give the titles?
 3. What well-known British author is now writing his latest novel while confined in a Nazi con- centration camp?
 4. Name the author of North west Passage" and his latest best selling work.
 5. Two well-known authors re- gently died; one an Irishman, in Switzerland; the other an Ohioan, in Panama. Who are they? Answers on Back Page.
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AMBULANCE FUND
 $l6S OVER QUOTA
S2.36S.16 Collected in Naugatuck to Date;
 Priest Donates $lO

Naugatuck, May 3-Continuing to grow as further appreciation Is shown by the public, the NaugatucK Community Ambulance fund now toatls $2,36S.16, 1t was announced today. More donations are being re- ceiyed each day and are welcome.
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YESTERDAY: Ken Is not sur- nrised when carolyn tells him she loves Rob Hale. Ken loves her, ofTer to help. Carolyn practically kidnaps Bob. hurries him to the airport and into the waiting plane. Not until the ship Is in the air does she admit that she has taken the x-999, and they are en route to Arizona.
 
 STORM AT MIDNIGHT
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COPYRIGHT. tsAi, NEA SERVICE. INC.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-13

the military authorities have i'm
posed a curfew on Athens and Pr
raeus. Traffic and circulation" 1t
has been announced, shall be lin
tied to 10 pm" The official bulletin
then explains why the two communi-
ties are to be restricted A swastika
flag flying on the Acropolis-the most
notably sacred spot in the Hellenic
world-was stolen during the night
of May 80; and the press and public
opinion still express sympathy for the
British. For these theoretical crimes
appropriate punishment is promised.
Unknown patriots who dared to re-
move the sign of the snake cross
from the violet sky of Attica are to
be sentenced to death, if caught.
Meanwhile, the Greek police are
warned to correct the local news
papers and the views of their readers
with the means at their disposal"
Does Adolf Hitler really expect to
retain his hold upon continental Eu-
rope by such methods of compulsion?
If so, he requires the education which
casual examination of the legend of
William Tell might provide.
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Haunted

What lost thing 1Dalks the road and
fields tonight,
Alone in rain and 1Uird, a fugitive
From some pale grief or fear, the
candid light ....
Has driUen forth beneath the open
SieUe
OF stormy skies? I hear the foot
steps pass,
HeSitdnt and shy; feel the chill
OF something lonely, ,Ualking on the
grass,
OF something frightened, running on
the hill.
drap the curtains, light the candles
flame,
And shiUer, suddenly a,0are that here
Within myself, is called shining
name
From far a,Day, and then from Uery
near.
And / am cold-flled NTH curious
dread, ......
Touched By a memory I thought ,oos
dead.
MARY WILLIS SHEIBURNE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-13
T. V. A. Accounts

The current dispute as to the
measure of control which the Gen
eral Accounting Office may exercise
over the fiscal affairs of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority once more
raises an issue that has been the
source of controversy since the early
days of the Authority.
Supported now by an opinion by
Attorney General Jackson, T. V. A.
officials reiterate that under the law
the Accounting Office has no right
to make other than commercial
audit of it's accounts-that is, simply
to determine annually if the books
are in order, and report to Congress.
Controller General Warren, on the
contrary, insists that his office has
the same power to pass on the legal
ity of Authority expenditures that
1t has in respect to those of other
executive agencies generally, but
comedies that the law is not entirely
plain on that point, and conse-
quently, has called on Congress for
Qualification.
From the standpoint of good bust
ness, and in the interest of the Gov
eminent, there certainly is no logical
reason why the T. V. A. or any
other establishment handling vast
sums of public money should not be
subject to the checks that the reg
ular auditing procedure of the Cen
eral Accounting Office sets up. With
out exception, the men who have
held the office of Controller General
have pointed out that freedom from
such accountability leads to lax
practices that are costly to the Gov
eminent, and in the past couple OF
years Congress has tacitly recog-
nized the soundness of this argu-
ment by extending the authority Of
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THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TrdceDell.

The cat saw the squirrel enter on the
west side.
The question was whether he would
run to the west side after it, or would
run along the east side, waiting for it to
come out.
Boops hesitated a second, but a second
only.
On the second second, he turned to
the right and dashed along the border
to the east, to the exact spot where the
squirrel would come out. provided he
kept going in the same direction.
Mr.. Squirrel, of course, didn't keep
going.
He merely kept still!
Although cats are renowned for their
ability at quietude, Boops found it i'm
possible to emulate the squirrel.
He kept prowling up and down the
border but he never entered it. Maybe
the fact that the flowers we're soaking
wet from the rain deferred him.
He ran south few feet, when he saw
the flowers waver in that direction.
The squirrel was making a sneak
through the border.
BY this time we thought 1t a good
idea to divert the cats attention, so we
went out and stood between him and
the path the squirrel would have to
take to get to the tree.
The bushy tailed fellow took immediate
advantage of the distraction.
He merely walked out into the driveway
and across it to the maple
He didn't run, and he didn't attract
the cats attention.
BY the time he was high in the tree,
Boops was still looking for him in the
border
He never did see him go.
1t was not question of escape. We
believe that most of the 10 squirrels in
the yard merely have fun with cats.
Now and then a cat somewhere catches
squirrel, mostly by the shoulder.
Sometimes one of these comes to the
feeding station. You can see the old
wound
1t is an unwary rodent, however, which
permits itself to be caught.
In case it is seized it has very good
chance to play dead" and get away.
1t is not always realized that other
animals besides the opossum indulge in
this trick successfully.
A squirrel is a real mouthful for any
cat When the latter catches one il
invariably lays it down, sooner or later
This is the squirrels opportunity. A
sudden dash and it is away, usually up
tree.
Squirrels which are able to observe the
same cat in action over a period never
are afraid of it, but seem to like to
play with it by making it run in vain
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A WORTHY Foe

Italy has been rather unfortunate
in the choice of supposed pushovers
on which to make war, but it is
thought that at last she has found
one she may be able to handle.
Credit for finding and declaring war
on the new opponent should go to
Minister of Agriculture Giuseppe
Tassinari. Gus has already cast the
die, and Italy is officially at war with
English sparrowS.
Kill them by any method" he
might be expected to urge the Ital-
ians. "Show no mercy on these Eng
lish usurpers and destroyers of Ital-
ian grain. AS soon as it can get
around to the task, our Ministry of
Information will prove that they are
allied with the pluto democracies.
With this in mind, stand bravely up
to the invader, no matter how formi-
dable he may seem, and beat him of
with guns, traps and snares. Let us
not, for once, call on our German
masters, but let Italy alone meet
this dread crisis and with true Fascist
efficiency charge forward and over
whelm the dastardly enemy and
crush his temporary control of our
air. Thus will perfidious America
take warning and hesitate to tangIe
with our invincible legions."
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Squirrels, we are convinced, get great

Squirrels, we are convinced, get great
pleasure out of teasing cats.
They know very well that the average
house cat cannot catch them so they
deliberately try to lead the foe on in
order to make monkey out of him.
Boops, the monkey" in this case, is
determined to catch squirrel or know
the reason why.
Boops is a small striped tiger cat who
successfully has evolved four different
methods of catching a squirrel
None has worked, as yet, and we and
the squirrels hope they won't and really
do not believe that they ever will.
When Boops, who is pint sized cat
first tried his paw at catching one of
the rodents, he made wild dash.
This was the cat of inexperience.
Just run and hope.
But it didn't work.
So the next time, he tried sneaking
This is century-old animal tactics.
Boops would crouch, then inch along
the path.
His goal was a squirrel eating at a
small feeding station beneath the maple
tree by the garage.
The rodent would pretend-there was
no other word for it-that he did not
notice the cat.
All the time he had his eye on him.
well enough but he was determined not
to let the cat know it.
He Just wanted to fool him, to lead
him on.
Boops would sneak, and sneak, trying
to hide among the iris, but the nearest
he ever came to catching his prey was
feet.
Then up the tree the squirrel would go.
After this the little cat tried lying
completely still in the yard.
He was hoping, evidently, that the
squirrels would come over to investigate.
They probably would have, too, since
they are even more inquisitive than a
cat, if Boops had managed to stick
to it.
He failed.
He would wave his tail or do some
thing which would attract the attention
of the rodent Then it would dash away
up the tree again.
The fourth method showed real animal
thinking.
1t is not often that it is possible for
human being to believe that an animal
thinks in exactly the same way he does
A squirrel was coming across the yard
from the west.
Boops saw him just as he entered a
flower border running north and south.
This border is filled with peonies
sweet rocket and phlox. 1t is good and
bushy, fine hide-out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-13

the General Accounting Office over
the administrative expenditures of
several Federal corporations which
previously were exempt from the
Budget and Accounting Act. Some
exceptions still remain, however.
Chairman May of the House Mill
tary Committee has expressed his
intention of pressing for legislation
to bring T. v. A. accounts under the
scrutiny of the Controller General
a move that will give Congress the
opportunity to deal effectively with
the entire subject of unsupervised
expenditures, and one of which full
advantage should be taken.
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many other heads of governments whose
acts have failed to accord with their
words; a search of your files will reveal
that you did not regard even President
Roosevelt as one whose spoken word
was any guarantee of anything. I do not
know much about Hitlers promises to
his own people nor to what extent he
has kept those promises; but do know
the promises of Mr.. Roosevelt to the
American people, from the Chicago Con-
vention in 1882 up to the present day,
including his promises of last October
and must say that his acts and words
do not accord. In my opinion there is
too much deception in all countries by
those in power, but to me it seems more
serious offense to deceive ones own
people than the people of another
nation. w. A. BICKERS.
CulpeDer Va
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The Instinct of Freedom

Conquerors rarely learn anything
from history. If they were reason
ably amenable to the instruction of
the past, they probably never would
launch their campaigns of subjuga-
ton. Because they themselves are
enslaved to a selfish eXpediency, they
attempt the most conspicuously in
expedient coercion of the human
spirit. Thus by seeking to destroy
the liberties of millions of people
they strengthen and fortify the nat
ural instinct of the race toward
freedom. Several Illustrations of that
paradox have been reported recently.
An Associated Press dispatch from
German-occupied Greece tells how
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-13
Believes Senator Wheeler
Less Well Informed Than Citizens.
To the Editor of The Star:

I had occasion TO visit the United
States Senate today, and found Senator
Wheeler holding the floor. In this great
national emergency this representative
of the people of Montana bewailed
the fact that certain columniStS seemed
to have more information at their dis
posal than do the United States Senator'S
He charged that the Navy, War and
State Departments of our Government
are making information available to
the journalists and withholding it from
Congress.
My first reaction was an opinion that
if this eminent orator had the dill
gence and initiative of American
journalists, he too could inform himself
adequately and continuously. On deeper
reflection, however, the real truth struck
home. Senator Wheeler, after his ad-
mission that he does not know what it
is all about, has arrived at the unwar-
ranted conclusion that the citizens of
the United States have not kept them
selves informed. F. D. FRIEND.
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Says 1t Is Not Too Late
To Exert Utmost Effort.
To the Editor of The Star:

,Hitlers, propaganda strategy all along
has been: first, to make America think
war remote and re-arming unnecessary;
then to make America think 1t is forever
too late.
Now, there are undoubtedly some
honest defeatists among us. But let
him who was most energetic in urging
our re-arming over the past several
years be the most energetic in urging
us now to cease our war efforts. Which
of our defeatists can say to us, as
Winston Churchill can say to the British,
For years I have labored hard to
awaken you from your dreams?
In any case it is never too late to
fight for freedom. And although it is
already too late for easy victory. it is
certainly not too early to exert in full
our bodies our minds and our souls
when all the earth rings with the cry
of freedom in its deep and universal
peril.
Certainly the odds in favor of Ger
many seem to be growing But though
they grow 10 times their present size,
our duty to the cause of freedom can
not cease, nor swerve from the path of
resisting tyranny to the end.
We know better now than before that
to fail to see this struggle through to
victory means, for us and every one we
love, a form of slavery which surely
must become more and more intolerable
just as rapidly as it becomes more and
more unacceptable.
May God awaken us, and give us the
courage, the strength and the deter
mination which we shall surely need
BOILING SOMERVILLE.
Norwood Va
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Pays Tribute to Help of France
In American Revolution.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star;
Demaree Bess in a recent article in
the Saturday Evening Post says that Col.
William Donovan, while in Turkey as an
administration observer, made the fol-
lowing reply to the French Ambassador
who requested that the United States
send food to the starving French people:
THE American people are prepared to
starve every Frenchman, if it's neces-
ssary to defeat Hitler"
That the American people scquiesce
in this statement attributed to Col.
Donovan is inconceivable.
History teaches us that without the
aid of France in the Revolutionary War
it is problematical if we could have won
our independence. One of our acknowl-
edged authorities on American history,
DR.. James Truslow Adams in his March
of Democracy" informs us that in the
latter days of the war Washington's
army consisted of 1000 men, 5000 of
whom were Frenchmen and but 1000
Americans. And at the surrender of
Gen. CORVALLIS at Yorktown our Army
was composed of considerably more
Frenchmen than Americans. Further
more, it was a French and not an
American fleet that prevented the
British Army from escaping by water.
When Gen. Pershing arrived in France
in the last war he is supposed to have
declared, Lafayette, we are mere" In
reply to Col. Donovan's alleged statement
we the American people should reply,
Lafayette, we apologize"
A VETERAN.