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bow - and characteristics of the japanese
people. He kept working steadily, and the
bow took shape. This, after all, was one thing
he knew!
But the materials were makeshift, and
something might 60 wrong He said, Janice
- if anything should happen to me, you'd
have to leave this island, quick. Well put
what provisions are left aboard the raft, and
moor it at low tide. You could push it off
shore and hoist sail"
What are you trying to tell me, Miles?"
Nothing. Only - well, if fell over a
cliff, or -"
"Janice!' Lefty called I'm thirsty again!"
She rose and stood. looking into Pickerings
eyes, He didn't dare believe what he saw in
that look. She put her hand on his arm.
Don't fall over any cliff, Miles"
That night he worked late by freight,
splitting arrow lengths from slat taken from
the raft grating. Paint had protected the
wood; it was straight and tough. He found
dead sea gull, and plucked its wing feathers.
Lefty had a pocketknife with four blades,
three of them pointed enough to serve. With
those blades at their hinges, inserted them in
the split ends of his shafts, and bound them
securely with the smaller line from the RATS
fishing rig. Lacking glue, he attached feathers
in the same manner.
w HEN he lay down in the warm sand after
midnight, sleep was long in coming. He had
gone over his strategy dozen times before he
dozed - and then he sat up. There was a
faint drone to the eastward.
Miles, Janice called excitedly. Miles!
It's a plane"
: He sprang to his feet and heaped wood on
the fire. The hum swelled to a roar. He stood
with Janice in the leaping glare and heard the
plane pass overhead.
They couldn't land at night" she said
brokenly. Tomorrow ="
Sure" Pickering told her. "Sure - they'll
come back" But he didn't remind her it
could have been Jap plane.
The sky was empty at dawn, and the vast
line of the sea ran unbroken around the
island That day the two injured men woke
clear headed and cheerful, with appetites
that put an immediate strain on the larder.
Pickering had little time for food. He
scraped and shaved on the bow until the knife
blistered his hands; he strung it with the
stoutest fishing line, tested its pull. and
scraped and shaved once more. Just before
shutdown he went down the beach beyond
sight of the camp and spent half an hour
shooting at heap of seaweed on sandy
hummock. When he returned, he had to re-
place the frayed bowstring
mo luck, Nimrod?" Janice asked.
Il haven't hunted yet" he said. IN 60
early tomorrow.
The eastern sky was red. He woke stiff
with the cold again, and got to his feet, NOV
ing about to bring warmth into his muscles.
Lefty was sleeping peacefully. Pickering
thought: He could kill Omae with one arm
tied behind him, if he a0erent h,trE And Case
had worn marksman's ribbon; with rifle,
Case could drop the Jap half mile away.
R,,t If was I'D tn Pickering a man who had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-26

than seven feet long, but with short lower
arm and the handle off center. Such bow
lacked cast; it had developed as an ingenious
method of getting most out of split bamboo
and other inferior materials.
Pickering smiled grimly He was certain,
now, that his plan would succeed.
He looked at spot in the jungle, above
Omae's head The range was about hundred
and fifty yards. Omae's third arrow kicked
up sand at his feet.
Pickering began his draw.
He was hearing things above the pounding
of his pulses. A buzzing sound as if an angry
fly were circling his head to annoy him.
Somebody calling his name. He thrust these
things aside and pulled the mock of the arrow
past his chin.
MILES! Oh, Miles, darlingw
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Janice
running over the little headland. He Oosed
his shaft and knew at the instant of fight
that he had missed. TsUo arrows IetK
NET back, Janicer' he shouted. Get back,
for Gods sakep'
The buzzing persisted. Omae yelled, and
shook his inoongruous bow, and began adj
vancing on the run. Omae had perhaps
dozen of those arrows. ;.
miles! Stop it! He might kill you! Don't
you see the plane2"
He didn't see the plane He saw only the
lodging, twisting figure of the Jap running
to get Pickering in his range. 1t didn't matter
if there were forty planes = this was fight
to the death, not alone between two men, but
between two traditions This was the English
longbow once again drawn against the bar
barian.
He loosed his second arrow just as Janice
came running to his side; he was watching
its fight as she threw herself against him,
both arms around his neck. She was sobbing
on his shoulder Over the brightness of her
hair he saw the knife-tipped arrow strike and
bite.
Omae tripped over his bow and fell sprawl
ing, clawing at the sand for spasmodic
few seconds.
Then he lay quiet.
Males led Janice away without letting her
see The plane was circling, dropping pack
age of supplies and message yonder by the
camp. Then it streaked westward, and they
were alone again. standing on the little head
land of an island all their own.
"You kissed Leftyr' Pickering suddenly
accused IF you're in love with him -"
She laughed, and drew his head down,
caressing his cheek with her hand From the
beginning, her hands had fascinated him, but
this was beyond all his dreams.
Darling" she whispered, don't be silly.
He was calling for his mother. He was deliri-
ous!'
Miles Pickering let his longbow fall to the
sand and took deep, joyous breath. He
was delirious, too
The End
Evening star., 1944-12-18
Report for Last 4s Hours.
Record for Last "a Hour

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon Yesterday TO noon todayD
Highest, A, 2:14 D m, Year ago, A.
Lowest, 25. $40 am. Year ago, Is
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 9S, on June IS
Evening star., 1944-12-18
Mindoro Woman Quietly Hangs
Wash While Douqhboys Land

San Jose, the nearest town, ap-
parently without firing a shot.
They walked in leisurely, standing
up and seldom crouching or hitting
the dirt.
You could see how easy it was
when they waved at us while we
circled less than 100 feet overhead.
They obviously were not worried
about the possibility of hidden ma
chine-gun nests and snipers.
1T certainly looks easier than I
expected" said 1t. Col Alex Guerry
jr., Sewanee, Tenn, who was at the
controls.
During the hour and a half over
the landing, I didn't see a single
japanese plane in the air. The
only enemy planes were a couple OF
wrecked fighters on the beach and
twin-engined bomber with it's nose
in the mud-all victims of previous
actions. .
Similarly the only Yank planes
covering the landing we saw were
six Hellcats which zoomed only
briefly over the beachhead. Oul
Liberator was the only land-basec
plane there and we just were there
for a look.
Col. Query shared the pilots jot
with Maj Joe Davis, jr., Linden
N. j., and Maj. Robert G. Atwood
Arlington, Va, was the navigator
The bomber is named Might Take
Off"
Maj Atwood's address is 431s
South Thirty-fourth street, Arling-
| ton.
Evening star., 1944-12-18
House Group 10 Open
Military Training
Hearings Next Month
Fly the Associated Press.

Fly the Associated Press.
Chairman May of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee announced
today hearings will be called by his
group next month on peacetime
compulsory military training.
Date of the hearings, the Ken
tuckian said, will be determined
when committee members return
from an inspection Of European
battlefronts.
Because it's something we must
face sooner or later and we might
as we'll face it Immediately" he
said
An educational campaign con-
Quoted by the American Legion ano
others with War Department sane
ton, Mr.. May explained, has pro-
gressed satisfactorily and many peo-
pie who formerly opposed peace
time conscription now agree it is
essential if we are to preserve the
peace by being so strong no one
will attempt to start another war.
Protests, he added, have dwindlec
and been offset by Endorsements Of
the legislation.
Asked if he believed the legis-
lation should provide for straight
military training. or, as suggested
by President Roosevelt, for edu.
cational-military training, Mr.. May
said:
The War Department wants, and
we propose to give them, legisla
ton for straight military training
for one year for the young men
liable"
Evening star., 1944-12-18
UFW Plans Fight
For WAGE Increase

The CIO United Federal Workers
of America will press for congress
sional action on the basic pay in
crease for Government employees
recommended in the annual report
of the Civil Service Commission, it
was announced today.
The decision. it was said, was
reached at Saturday meeting of
the National Policy Committee
which also approved other employe
benefits proposed by the commits
sion, including time and one-half
for overtime after 40 hours; over
time pay for Sundays and holidays
and night differential pay.
"Salaried Government employees,
whose wages have not been raised
since the war started, have been
denied the same treatment which
the Government has found just and
necessary for workers in private in
dustry, and have been asked to make
unequal and unjustiflable sacrifices
during the war PERIOD" the Policy
Committee said
The union also will urge that Con-
gress vest overall control of per-
sonnel transfers and placements in
the Civil Service Commission to
facilitate the transition from war to
peace in the Government service.
Evening star., 1944-12-18
Tide Table,

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
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Humidity Report.
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The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in thu
Capltal lcurrent month to datel:
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Highest, 9s. on June Is.
Lowest, II, on January, 9.
Evening star., 1944-12-18
TWO Steps TO take
BEFORE YOU GETALoAN

NIAYBE you can really get along
INl without that loan you now
think you need. Have you gone over
your expenses one by one to see if you
can't cut down somewhere? Have
you made sure that there isn't some
better way out of your difficulty than
borrowing? These are two things every
one should do before getting loan in
times like these. If you do get a loan.
borrow no more than you actually
need and pay it back promptly.
Get Gosh without endorsers
If loan can help you to better your
self, you are welcome to apply to
Household Finance for $50 to $500.
Household makes salary. Car and fur
niture loans to men and women with
Evening star., 1944-12-18
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Increasing
cloudiness and rather cold this aft
ernoon. Cloudy and cold with oc-
casional light rain or snow tonight
ending early tomorrow, followed by
clearing and colder.
Maryland-Light snow in west
rain in east portion tonight ending
early tomorrow, followed by clearing
and colder.
Virginia-OccaSional rain in
southeast and rain or snow in west
and north portions tonight ending
early tomorrow, followed by clear
ing and colder.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
cloudy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1944-12-18

jobs. You may borrow without en-
dorsers-and repay as rapidly as your
budget permits. The sooner you repay
the less your loan costs. See the sam
pie payment schedules in the table
below.
Quick phone service
Payments shown include principal and
charges at Household rate of 2% per
month on the unpaid balance. This is
Households one and only charge. You
pay no fees or extras of any kind. The
Maryland Small Loan Law author
ICES a maximum charge of $50 per
month. If you need money for an
emergency, phone your application
we can have your loan ready when
you come in.
Evening star., 1944-12-18
6. ". Girls Win, 5.to |,
Over Boys for Who's Who

The women have 1t by five- -to-one
among those selected by George
Washington University for the
Who's Who among Students in
American Universities.
Don Balfour, 6228 North Dakota
avenue, controller of the Student
Council and editorial board member
of the student newspaper, Hatch
ct" is the lone male on the list
chosen for excellence in scholarship,
activities record, service to the uni
versity, and promise of leadership.
The five women honored were
Evening star., 1944-12-18
BY RICHARD C. BERGHoLZ,

ABOARD A LIBERATOR OVER
MINDORO, Dec. Is Delayed "A
Filipino hanging out her morning
wash less than a mile from the
beach where the Yanks were making
their landing today looked up when
our Liberator roared over. She
waved That's what the landing on
Mindoro Island looked like
An hour later, troops walked into
Evening star., 1944-12-18

Betty June Karle, 4701 Drexel
boulevard, College Park, Md; Gerry
Locke, 73l South Alfred street, Alex
andria, Va; Barbara Lydanne,
Valley View avenue; Margaret
Lynn, Strong Hall, Twenty-first
and G streets NV, and Mary Beth
Sheppard, 5555 Thirty-second street
NV.
Evening star., 1944-12-18

Don't let up or you'll let a fighter
down. Keep buying War Bonds
and keep them.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
s. ThunderboIts
Reid Amsterdam

Nazis said they lost eight in con
centrated attack by strong forma-
tions" of London.
Actually. about Is German planes
penetrated the London area, in con-
trast with the fantastic Nazl propa-
ganda claims evidently aimed at
convincing the home front that Nazl
air forces are giv:,2s, the British
a heavy beating
The German DND news agency
said several hundred G. m II
planes took part in last nights
raid on London and dropped thou
sands of high explosive and incen-
diary bombs
Heavy clouds and fog over the
continent we're believed to have
grounded British based bombers fol-
lowing Yesterdays near-record as
sault on mystery targets in the Pas
de Calais area of northern France
FLYING Fortresses and Liberators
of the Eighth Tinted States All
Force threw their lull weight into
Yesterdays attack, boosting the
bomb tonnage to one of the highest
totals in recent weeks. Escortin2
American fighters shot down SIX
enemy planes. Four heavy bomberS
and two fighters were lost.
American Marauders also flew 2ol
sorties over the French coast yes
terday, all without loss. The raiders
encountered only slight fighter op-
position, but heavy anti-aircrat
fire
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
Bombs Destroy
Famed Murals

LONDON, Feb. IA. (UP)-A Ger
man TranSocean news agency dlS-
patch from Rome reported Monday
that the Church of Santa Maria
Dele Crazie at Milan, which housed
Leonardo ola Vincis world-famous
mural. THE Last Supper, was de-
stroyed during an air RAD last
Aug. l3.
leonardo began the mural III the
fefectory of the Convent Church III
l494 on joint commission OF Prince
Ludovico Sforza, his patron at the
time, and the monks themselves
completing it four years later.
The work was painted in Tempera
and flaking and scaling over the
century has robbed it OF much OF
it's original beauty, although IN re-
cent years it was restored by Cav
aliere Cavenaghi. Despite its in
iuries. Leonardo's mural became
from the first of all Christendom
the typical representation OF the
scene.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
Capital oIk
bly,
Peter Edison

times for tie immediate return to
normalcy.
TREND OF THE TIMES
To-day all this reads like hand
writing on the wall. The same
forces that shaped the course of
events in 1918 are shaping up now.
If there is any neral in this poten-
! tia' repetition of history. it should
be iound in the record Of what
happened after the 1918 arrnistice-
months Of uncertainty in readjust-
ment shifting gradually INTO n year
Of initiation and then the costly
deflaticn of The carly 1920S.
Fortunately. something does seem
to have been learned from this sad
experience. Whereas. in September
and October of 1918. President,
Wilson was counseling against any
! too definite postwar planning and
Mr.. Baruch himso,f was toe busy
running the war production effort
to give time to postwar planning,
! today the President and Congress
and the war, agencies have all made
a start towards postwar planning.
And Mr.. Baruch. as head of a
new unit in the Office OF War NC
bilization under Justice James T..
| Byrnes, is in this war concentrat-
| ing all his attention ON these re-
adjustment problems he did not
have time for in the last war,
tackling them one at a time in the
order Of their importance, begin
ming with termination CT contracts,
then the disposal of inventories OF
surplus materials, disposal of gov
ernlnent- -OWncd war plants ana
machinery, and SO on right down
| the line.
Private industry itself is more
alert tc the requirements OF post
war planning and the need Tor
orderly rehabilitation than it was
in 1918. That is perhaps the most
encouraging aspect of all
INITIATION DANGERS
The dangers OF postwar initiation
are perhaps greater than the
dangers of wartime initiation. Re-
lease of wartime savings in a ma
ticnal spending spree could easily
result in great price rises Ration
ing of production might be neces-
sary to avoid running up prices.
Seemingly minor problems Ike
these serve to emphasize that post
war readjustment will be one OF
the most difficult pericdS the
United States has ever gone
! through.
The idea tat no one should
waste time now, planning 1or the
future, is thus fallacy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
A. A. MEMORIAL TROPHY
GOES TO GIL DODDS

BOSTON, Feb. IA. tUPl-Gll
Dodds of Boston held the Hallahan
memorial trophy Monday as re-
ward for his brilliant performance
in the fifty-fifth annual Boston a.
A.. games Saturday in which ne
turned in the fastest indoor mile
ever run here.
The award signifyinG the out
standing athlete at the games was
presented to the theological student
for his sparkling 4.09.5 mile-two
seconds under the worlds record
Next best runner OF the evening
was Johnny Fulton Of San Fran
cisco, the G00-yard champion VINO
switched with success to the Lap
ham 1,000-yard run.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
-COMICS" HAVE CHAMPIONS

When Junior asks Dad for the paper
so that he can see the "funnes," the
chances are that Dad has read them al
ready. Watch people reading their news
papers and you'll find that most of them
after scanning few headlines settle
down to the comics Parents, librar-
ians, and some educators have fought the
comics for years, but the youngsters still
grow up into dads (and motners) who
Iurn to them. 1t is said that 2O,0OO.0OO
copies of 1876 comic books are sold each
month"; with 70 per cent OF the readers
children. This is in addition to the STRIPS
in daily and Sunday papers, and does not
include the high number now being sold
in the camp stores to members OF the
armed forces.
But the comics have their champions.
The Child Study Association of Ameri-
ca. not few educators, and some text
book publishers have for some time made
serious study of the appeal these strips
have for Junior = and in appreciablc
numbers they have ended up on Juniors
side. At a recent meeting of these eX-
perts, parents were urged to let Johnny
and Barbara read the comics.
They fill childs basic emotional need
for adventure and escape from relatives,
was one reason given Comics are seen
as the folklore of today the Paul Bun
yan yarns, the modern fairy tales, salts
flying child's normal longing for fan
tastic adventure, where he can identity
himself with a superhero to help make
up for his position as a child in an adult
world. SO long as the reading does not
crowd out other activities there need not
be such parental anxiety, the champions
say.
The picture-strip method of telling
swift tale-whether it be an honor to
a literate nation or no-has nevertheless
deeply penetrated American life. Ad-
vertisers use it. news items are often
translated into it, genuine humor is
caught through it. 1t has also invaded
the o-textbook world, and is prov
ing an effective medium for teaching as
poets of history and elementary science,
as we'll as forming the teaching pattern
of at least one set of widely used school
readers.
Perhaps instead of letting the comic
book be a constant source of home con-
flict, or even of accepting it as inevitable,
Mother and Dad might go into the field
with Junior as have these educators, in
an effort to understand the appeal it has
for the child With fear of adult criticism
gone, the youngster may then not only
be willing to control his appetite some
what but also be receptive to parental
help in learning to discriminate between
the better sort of comic strip and that
offering nothing but crudity and cheap
excitement.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
A PRESIDENTIAL PET
Denver Post)

tDenver POSt)
A dispatch states that Presidential Ad-
visor Harry Hopkins "arose from a Naval
hospital bed" to testify before a grand
jury which is investigating the alleged
forgery of his name to the mystery letter
about Wendell Willkie.
A lot Of people must be wondering how
it is that Hopkins happens to be a patient
in Naval hospital in Washington. Naval
hospitals are maintained for the treat
ment Of Navy personnel.
But Hopkins isn't in the Navy and
never has been. He's just a presidential
pet and has no more right to occupy a
bed in Navy hospital than has any other
civilian And right now the Navy needs
for the care of its own wounded all the
hospital beds it has and then some.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
CIVILIAN PRODUCTION
STILL HOLDS BACK

SAN FthNCloCO, rep' ~ W.
Victory and erSatz products OF
many kinds will be on the market
for civilian consumers for sometime
vet because of the demands of the
great military offenSives in the
European and Pacific war areas, r.
w. Longstreth, regional manager oil
civilian requirements, warned to-
day.
Longstreth, returned from Wash
ington conferences, said the wal
production board had ordered man
ufacturers to postpone making sucn
types of goods as all-metal ice re-
frigerators, standard gas ranges
metal office furniture and electric
fans in view of the needs of the
armed services.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14

The recent furry of peace
rumors, even though entirely m-
founded. emphasize the need 1or
speed in the formulation of definite
governmental plans for the de-
mobilization of war industries and
postwar planning, The parallel
fer that is from the last war, when
the 1918 armistice, coming months
before il was expected, caught the
President, the Congress and all the
war agencies entirely unrrepared
to deal with the situation.
COntempcrar accounts OF the
confusion in Washington after the
1918 arm'5.ice are highly amusing,
Though terribly scandalous. on
observer had it that of tho 23l dol
lar-a-year men then i'll Washing
ton. 230 wanted to go home at the
earliest possible minute. Some OF
them apparently did, leaving On
their desks unsigned letters. The
catch phrase Of the day was that'
THE night of Nov. IL, the War 1n-
dustries Board caught the midnight
train home
The War Industries Board Itself.
which under the chairmanship OF
Bernard M. Baruch was the War
Production Board of its aaT, really
faded from the picture in three
weeks. While it had ample powers
fer wartime, it lacked authority for
postwar operations. Belated pro-
posals to give the Board this post
armistice authority met with no
support whatever from Congress.
The new Congress elected in the
November 1919 election was Re-
publican and tho lame-duck Con-
gress remainint III office would
have no part OF any proposal that
came from the Wilson administra-
ticn. A day after the armistice,
Congress had before it proposals
10 cut back all expenditures.
Such was the psychology OF the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-14
Scout Troop ID
Gets Charter

Boy Scouts of troop IA received
their charter at ceremonies in the
State Street Christian church Sum
day morning.
The church, sponsoring institu-
tion of the troop, also observed
Boy Scout Sunday with four El
Centre troops in attendance, Troops
70 of the Rotary club, II of the
KiWanis club, 70 of the Fire De
partment and the new troop "a
ScoutmasterS Dave Goddard and
Clyde Lott were present with their
troops and Russ Campbell, district
field executive, also attended.
Ole Nordland, chairman of the
district organization and extension
committee, presented the charter
to w. H. Tyler Jr, member of the
troop committee. Mr.. Tyler pre-
SenteG Scoutmaster Leo Brinnon
who in turn presented tenderfoot
badges to eleven members of the
new troop.