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Evening star., 1947-09-28

Natal for. another ten or fifteen minutes"
Mckewen smiled back at this man who
had been total stranger before they sat down
next to each other in this plane and now, after
mere sixty odd hours, had become the one
person in all the world McKewen detested.
I'VE seem to have dropped quite bit"
Air pocket" Riley said cheerfully Hap
pens all the time. Relax, Pop
McKEwEN wished he could. He had been
nervous ever since they took off from Croy-
don, two and half days before, and headed
south for Lisbon. Through his nervousness
he was aware of small feeling of unreason-
able resentment toward the United States
Army He had agreed to. 60 to England to
look into the Army's weather-stripping prob
lem. He had gone and he had licked the prob
lem for them. They had said So They were
pleased with his work. A two-star general had
used the word grateful. And yet, in spite of
its gratitude, for the journey home the United
States Army had dumped him into a C-54
next to this unbearable Riley.
You'd think there was quicker way to
get back home than going all the way down
to Africa and across to Brazil" McKewen
said. "How long do you think it will take US
from Natal to Miami?"
Depends on the weather, and if we don't
get bumped" Riley said 1--WE made it dog
ems of times in as little as day and half.
Other times it's taken me week or more to
make Washington from Natal. What YOU
want to do is learn to take it the way take
it. Relax, Pop"
McKewen wondered what it was he disliked
most about Riley: the redheaded little Irish
mans cocky self-conidence, or his repeated
admonitions to McKewen that he relax, or
the fact that he kept referring to McKewen
as Pop. McKewen was in his middle forties.
His ability to judge peoples age was as poor
as his memory for their faces, but it was plain
that Riley was no younger than himself. He
merely acted younger. And louder. Ten min
utes after they took off from Croydon every
body in the plane knew that Riley was gov
Evening star., 1947-09-28
A Short Story

A Short Story
HE train came out of the tunnel and was
Il struck by what appeared to be all the
sunlight in the world. It seemed to Mr..
Mckewen that the Pullman car actually
rocked under the impact of the sudden and
overwhelming brilliance He looked out at the
mountains. They stretched away, up and up
and up, in sweeping splashes of brown and
purple and orange, to the caps of snow at
the top.
Look at that" Mr.. McKewen said. "Just
look at that,
1t was not what he wanted to saw. Harold
Mckewen was shy man who had poured all
the energies of his adult life into two endeav-
ors: trying to manufacture better line of
weather stripping than any of his competitors,
and attempting to conceal his shyness from
the rest of the world.
i will. in moment, his wife said. Right
now I'm trying to remember what you did
with the small brown bag"
Mr.. McKewen's comfortable home in Scars
dale and his balance sheet testified that he
had been successful. Mr. McKewen was not
so sure about his other endeavors. He had
every reason to believe that the rest of the
world did not think he was shy. The rest of
the world, however, did not include his wife.
Its out back, on the platform, with the
other bags" he said.
That's what you said last year." Mrs.
Mckewen said. 1T was on the dock, in the
lost and found room, when we got back from
Havana month later
"Oh, we'll, now," he said, still looking out
at the mountains. That's the sort of thing
that can happen to anybody
III DoN'T mind the things that are always
happening to you," Mrs. McKewen said.
What I mind is that they always happen
twice."
I'll bet nothing ever happened twice in
Stissing Falls" he said. From what they
told us, doubt if many things have ever
happened there once"
Just the same, I'm going to 60 back and
see about the bag" Mrs. McKewen said
Il couldn't stand it if we lost your repulsive
mosquito boots" She stood up and the sun
light struck her face. You're right" she said
with smile. "It's lovely"
Mr.. McKewen watched her 60 up the aisle.
Then the porter leaned over his shoulder.
"Stissing Falls next, sir" he said. about
three or four minutes"
Mr.. McKewen nodded and stood up His
wife came back along the car.
You were right" she said. "It's on the
platform, with the other bags consider it
good omen. Maybe this time nothing will hap
pen to you twice."
The porter handed out the bags to young
man on the platform wearing visored hat
with large card stuck into the band. The
Evening star., 1947-09-28
The tent wos deserted

ernment courier He told them A few minutes
after that everybody knew how many million
miles he had flown since the war began and
how many thousand miles he averaged per
week. Riley told them all about that, too.
BY the time the plane set down at Lisbon,
every passenger had been advised that Riley
shaved with one hand because it was his sworn
Evening star., 1947-09-28

duty not to take off for an instant the pouch
that was chained to his wrist: that he knew
every air route in the world intimately; that
nobody was to spend 50 much as dime on
souvenirs at any stop along the route with
out consulting him first Riley knew the real
stuff from the fake junk that was specially
made up for swindling tourists and CTS. He
knew all the rates of exchange. He knew the
fight schedule. He knew everything. He said
90 himself.
How is the boy?" McKewen said to the
man coming down the aisle of the plane
ANY better?"
Il don't know" Mr.. Maxwell said wor-
riedly. Hes sleeping now, anyway. The Co
pilot made bed for him out of a couple of
mail sacks and some blankets. think he's
comfortable enough"
MR. maxwell continued down the aisle to
the drinking fountain. He and his young con
had come aboard the plane at Fisherman's
Lake in Liberia. MIR. Maxwell was the African
representative for an American tire company
with Offices in Accra. He was a widower.
Several months before, the boy had come
down with a fever that baff1ed the local doc
tors. After few weeks of observation in the
Army hospital at the air base near Accra, the
doctors had recommended that Mr.. Maxwell
take his son back to America for diagnosis
and treatment.
"All right, Riley said. Nov" He nudged
McKewen sharply. We're coming in"
McKewen, hoping that for once. the brassy
little man was wrong, nevertheless started to
fasten his safety belt. A moment later the
co-pilot stuck his head around the canvas
curtain and signaled to the passengers to do
the same. Riley was right again. McKewen
watched him pull the bulky dispatch pouch
up on his knees and. using only one hand,
fasten his safety belt more quickly than
McKewen had been able to manage with
both hands. That was another thing that
made the courier unbearable Not only was
he always right, he was efficient. too. The
plane touched ground smoothly and rolled
IN c<rr> The v>occo~rovc r%o~<oI
Evening star., 1947-09-28

card read-"Mountain View H
'Mckewen?" said the young man.
That's right. Are we the only ones
NO." the young man said. Il &
more coming"
Mr.. McKewen helped his wife in
front seat of brand new station wat
he slid into the seat behind her, he saw
step down from the train, holding hi
The train whistle blew.
Sorry if held things up" the ney
said as he came to the station wagon
name is Maxwell. Mind if sit here?"
mot at ALL" Mr.. McKewen said
name is McKewen. This is my wife"
Mrs. McKewen turned around on tn
seat and nodded and smiled. There wat
thing about the way Mr.. Maxwell can
the station wagon that plucked a oh
memory in Mr.. McKewen's mind. He
more closely and saw a heavy-set n
about fifty, with dark hair going gray
temples. and tiny purple veins showing
A moment later Mr.. McKewen saw tn
Maxwell was looking back at him evel
closely and, a moment after that
Mckewen knew what it was that had
in his mind. Mr.. Maxwell had looked
man he recalled entering a plane tt
the narrow door in the fuselage.
'McKewen you said?" Mr.. Max
we'll said. Don't know you from
somewhere?"
Mr.. McKewen saw his wife's lips
contract in suppressed smile.
'Oh, no" he knew she was think
ing. Not here, on top of noun
tain. Not again."
The station wagon rolled away
from the Stissing Falls railroad plat
form and Mr.. McKewen. trying not
to look at his wife on the front seat,
could feel Mr.. Maxwell examining.
him with deep concentration.
NATAL" Mr.. Maxwell said sud-
denly. Late summer of 1914. Late
in September. You were the man
with the courier, with Riley. Sure
you we're, McKewen. That's right,
isn't it?"
why, yes," Mr.. McKewen said.
That's right. I remember now"
. The motor roared as the driver
raced the station wagon up the first
grade of the steep mountain road.
Unaware that he was moving, Mr..
McKewen reached forward and
grasped the seat in front of him, as
though to brace himself for land
ing, and the unconscious gesture carries
back three years, to the war and the pla
which he had met Mr.. Maxwell. Rile,
there, in the seat beside McKewen, gri1
around the wad of gum he was chewing
orously -.
Take it easy, Pop" Riley had sal
assure you we won't be coming dow
Evening star., 1947-09-28

He would never forget Natal the sick boy
the cocky courier. But it was three wears
later that he learned the end Of the story
BY JEROME WRIDMAN
illustrated BY
Evening star., 1947-09-28

to stop. lhe passengers started to
unfasten their belts.
Unless there's some kind of
hitch, we usually lay over about
half hour here" Riley said. Forty
five minutes at the most"
The co-pilot appeared again.
We'll have about a half hour
here" he said. "Forty-five minutes
at the most. You can 60 out to
stretch your legs, but please don't
wander far from the plane"
Riley grinned at McKewen as
they stood up.
II know" McKewen said in a
tired voice. ''You always call them"
HEY climbed down out of the
plane into the binding sunlight.
They've got damned good res
taurant over behind the routing
Office" Riley said. Real American
food. All you can eat for half a
buck. Come on, Pop"
The restaurant was an enormous
shack with a long bar inside the door
and a hundred or more tables
stretching away in four rows to a
lounge at the far end. A juke box
was blaring 'Mairzy Doats." Fifty
nen. all of them officers, were sitting
abies, eating and chatting. Riley
| Brazilian waiter as though they
friends, slapped bus boy on the
Evening star., 1947-09-28

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
Aleuiian Is Coming Coming Back
 On North Run

SEATTLE, Sept. 16.-ld'- The passenger ship Aleutian will resume service Saturday after a two-week layup for repairs.
 The Aleutian is scheduled to sail on her regular run to South east and Southwest Alaska, the Alaska Steamship officials said. The ship missed only one trip during her stay at Todd shipyard.
 Meanwhile, the steamer Denali will inaugurate her new winter schedule Thursday. The Denali will call at Seward both north bound and southbound in the new schedule.
 The freighter Ring Splice was scheduled to arrive in Bellingham late yesterday with a full cargo of 150,O00 cases of canned salmon from Southeast Alaska canneries.
 Due in seattle tomorrow with an other full load of canned salmon is the Rose Knot from Prince William Sound and Kodiak Island points. She also is carrying herr ing meal and herring oil.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
 BECOMING,
 SAYS SEN.
Pepper Declares No Hope for Checking Riving Liv-
 ina Costs -0thers Dissent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-IR- Senator Pepper (D-Fla) said today there is no hope for any effort to check rising living costs and the American people might just as well get ready for another recession.
 The Florida lawmaker told re- porters the Republican controlled Congress is to blame.
 But Senator Brewster tR-Me) said that so far as food prices are concerned, they are high be- cause the Truman administration is shipping too much food to Europe and other areas.
 Pepper scoffed at this, saying
 we've got to help those people more, not less. If we want to stop Communism, we've got to make the capitalism of Europe work
 Senator Capehart (R-Ind) said he thinks high prices are linked to tbis countrys foreign aid program, gut the basic answer to rising. liv- ing costs is increased production.
 We ought to be working AS hours week instead of 40,' the Indiana lawmaker told newsmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
HEIRE55 5T0UTLY
 DENIES GUILT OF
 pARENT5 MURDER
Louise 0vereI| on Stand in t7th Week of Sensa-
 tionaI Trial

SANTA ANA, Calf, Sept. 16.- lR-Louise Averell, chubby heiress denied flatly from the witness stand today that she killed her parents aboard their blasted yacht or had any knowledge of their deaths.
 Winding up five hours of direct examination, Louise was asked by her chief counsel, Otto Jacobs:
 Do you know anything about any matter or circumstances in connection with how your parents were killed?"
 T do not" she replied evenly.
 Did you kill your mother?'
 No" %
 Did you kill your father?'
 No"
 Did you see your mother kill ed?"
 No"
 Did you see your father kill ed?'
 No"
 Louise, 18, and her sweetheart, George (Bud) Gollum, 2l, are in the 17th week of their trial on charges of murdering financier and Mrs. Walter Overell aboard their dynamited yacht March 15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
THOUSANDS DEAD IN TYPH00N WAX
JUNEAU DOCK
 STRIKE ENDS
Local Longshoremen Rdti- fy KetChikan Palt-Io
 Discharge Baranof

Juneau's longshore strike also was crossed off the active list with ratification here last night, by the local union, of the agreement reached earlier in the week at Ketchikan.
 After Juneau local l-l6, Inter- national Longshoremens & Ware housemens Union (CIO) had rati- fled the back k-to-work contract with ship and dock operators, a call was posted for regular long shoremen to work cargo of the s. S. Baranof, due in Juneau this afternoon.
 Up to this afternoon. only H. L. Mcdonald, of the Alaska Dock and Storage Company, among the operators, had reported signing an agreement directly with the local union. Wallis S George, of the Juneau Cold Storage Company stated that his firm had not signed a new contract. but would do so when union representatives bring him the papers.
 The three other firms involved are: Alaska Steamship Company, Northland Transportation Co.,, Alaska Transportation Go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
New Trial Is Ordered for
 George Meeks (onvided of
 Staying Campbell in Juneau

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16-lR-- The Ninth U s. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday reversed an Al askan District Court judgment under which George Harrison Meeks was sentenced to life Imprisonment for a Juneau staying. It held that the Alaskan court had been guilty of harmful misconduct calculated to prejudice the defendants stand ing before the jury"
 The case involved the staying of Clarence j. Campbell, whose body was found in a ditch near Juneau. His throat had been cut and he had been robbed of some $2000. Meeks was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced for the murder.
 The only direct witness produced by the government was Kelso B. Hartness, who earlier had been con- victed of forgery and sentenced to two years at McNeil Island Federal IlC Ndo obb VII R<si tAN at the time of the Meeks trial.
 At the trial, Meeks' attorney at tempted to introduce Hardness rec ord but the court would not permit him.
 The Court of Appeals held this to be in error and ruled that evidence of parole is clearly admissible and the courts refusal to admit 1t in evidence was substantial error re- uuiring reversal of judgment" j."
 When Meeks' attorney persisted in his efforts, the court found him in contempt, fined him $50 and ordered him removed from the case until the fine was paid and the contempt purged.
 The Circuit Court held that the arbitrary stopping of the wintess' answer was harmful misconduct calculated to prejudice the defend- ants standing" and that still more harmful was the courts action before the jury in adjudging his at torney in contempt The reversal held that Alaskan law allows intro duction of record of conviction of crime "as a direct impeachment of a witness veracity."
 The opinion was written by Jus tice William Denman with Justices Albert Lee Stephens and William Orr concurring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
FLooDWATER5 SWEEP JAPAN, DAMAGE VAST
Nipponese Flee 10 Hills for Refuge-Dikes Hoped
 10 Save Tokyo

TOKYO, Sept l6.--lR- Tnous- ands of Japanese worked tonight erecting temporary dikes in an ef- fort to stem floodwaters 20 miles north of Tokyo, as unofficial es- inmates placed the number of dead and missing at 2,280.
 Earlier, incomplete American mil itary government reports estimated floodwaters, rising on the broad plain north of Tokyo in the wake of typhoon, left nearly l,7o0 Japanese dead or missing and dam aged some 100000 houses.
 Japanese newspapers said resi- dents of Kasukahe were working feverishly on temporary dikes against advancing waters of two rivers which had ripped through their banks The reports added that failure to stop the flood at Kasukatc would expose the east ern section of Tokyo to the on- rush of waters, described as three ASCt lliSli III SOffie pldCcS.
 800 Mile storm Damage
 Storm damage was reported from l5 prefectures stretching over 500 miles across two-thirds of Honshu Island-from Mic Prefecture south west of Nagoya to Akita on the extreme northwestern coast. Dam- age to home. crops, bridges. rail- roads and highways was expected to total several hundred million yen tat the official rate of 50 yen equal $1). Two medium sized towns were wiped out and many villages flooded as the Tone and Arakawa Rivers spilled out onto to the flatlands.
 The military government report ed l50 dead in Gumma Prefecture and 86 dead in Tochigi Prefecture. to the west. The number of miss ing was placed at 1,402
 Thousands Seek Refuge
 In one prefecture alone. 100000 Japanese were on relief. Thousands more elsewhere took refuge from iampagine river waters on house. tops, levces and hills.
 No allied casualties were report ed, but some dependents were evacuated from their homes and groups of soldiers and civilians were stranded at half dozen points. Plans were made to sup ply by air an isolated unit of several hundred cavalrymen at Camp McNair, near Mount Fuji
 The typhoon struck last night, it's center passing 30 miles south cast of downtown Tokyo. It was dissipating it's force out to sea today after bringing violent rains that disrupted power distribution and burst many river levees. Nine inches of rain were recorded at the headwaters of the town.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
TWO TO INSPECT
 ALASKA DEFENSES

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-lP- Two members of House Foreign Affairs subcommittee were enroute today by army plane for an ln- spection of defense installations in Alaska and the Alcan Highway
 They are Reps Chiperfield tx IlD and Jonkman tR-Mich Ac- companying them is Boyd CraW- ford, committee clerk.
 Committee attaches said the group is due tonight at Edmon- ton and will visit Whitehorse, An chorage and Fairbanks later this week.
 Joseph T. Flakne. Director Of the Alaska Division of Territories, was scheduled to go to Whitehorse and meet the subcommittee mem bers and plan their tour in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
JEWISH NEW YEAR PEACE SHATTERED
 BY 8 EXPLOSIONS
Blasts Are Heard in Wide- Iy Scattered Areas in
 Section, Holy City

JERUSALEM, Sept. 16.-lR- Eight mysterious explosions, shat tering the peace of the Jewish New Year festival of Rosh Hosh- anah in Jerusalem, were report ed during the night, and police to- day still were trying to find out where they occurred.
 The blasts, heard in widely scat tered areas in new sections Of the Holy City, set off two general alarms, one lasting 35 minutes and the second about an hour.
 T know you'll think it funny, a Government official told quest ioning reporters, but police have been working all night and failed to find any traces of the explo- sions."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = As the Gen. eral Assembly of the United Ma tions meets in New York today, two men hold the spotlight as it's possible Presidents. They are:
 Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, ex- gaucho, ex-Foreign Minister and best champion of the United States in South America.
 Herbert Evatt of Australia, great champion of small nations, twist CT of the Soviet tail, and an orl- ginal architect of the United Ma tions.
 Though General Marshall and the Russians will retain the pow CT. Aranha and Evatt will repre- sent the hopes and dreams of mil lions that someone may lead the world away from the widening chasm that yawns between the communistic and capitalist worlds of the USSR and the USA.
 Aranha, who served as Presi- dent of the United Nations Assem- ply at it's special Palestine session, is so strongly American that it has hurt him in Brazil. An Ambassador to the USA, he came to know and love this country. He visited the Kentucky Derby with Jim Farley (and incidentally won S1,50C); took in both Republican and Democratic Conventions; in- spected Boulder Dam; played rou- lette at Elka, Nev., put his chill dren in American schools, toured the LISA from one end to the other.
 An impatient. indefatigable ex- catt.eman from the ranches of South Brazil, he spent one year in the saddle, sleeping outdoors, leading revolution; has one bull let in his :. shoulder, one heel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
B-1o 5QUADR0Ns COMPLETE ALASKA
 TRIP IN ARIZONA

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 16.--lRr- Having completed six-day flight to Alaska and back without incl dent, 20 B-29's returned to their Davis Monthan Field base during the weekend, b SC officials an- nounced.
 The planes left last week Monday, under command of Col. James c. Selser. Jr., Group Base Commander and Wing Commander of the re- gently activated 43rd Bombardment Wing at Davis-Monthan Field.
 Squadron Commanders were It, Col. John M Kimkel, Jr., and It. Col. Jack J. Cation.