re-examined those stairs, antique
leather finish and all.
"It's spooky," I complained.
"It's like a djinn materializing
from a djinn bottle. It. ."
"What you need." Wally said,
"is to sit down, adjust your safe
ty belt, and put out that opium
pipe, kid. A'e're landing. Think
you can make it?"
Welt-, I'm back in the office
now, loaded down with facts an J
figures about a certain type ol
plane operated by a certain air
line. But I can't get those stairs
out of my head.
Stairs in an airplane who ever
heard of such a tmngl wnm
next? Escalators? .
Stairway At 15,000 Feet Too Much
Addition To Strato-Cruiser Jaunt
By ED CREACH
NEW YORK. Aug. 24. VP-Run along, kiddles. Don't wait for
grandpa. I've just been trotting up and down stairs at a height
of 15,000 feet, and my head is still tn the clouds.
Trotting up and down?
That's right. In an airplane. Stairs in an airplane.
Maybe that leaves you several degrees under the boiling point,
but you're younger. You're at peace with the 20th century. To me
It's frightening.
I discovered these stairs while
cruising over Connecticut at a
lazy 350 miles an hour in one of
the new Boeing strato-crulsers,
with my ears caressed by the
purring of four engines and a
waggish publicity man named
Wally Renolds.
It had been a pleasant, un
eventful Jaunt Just Wally andi
me and 73 other deadheads.
"Hartford," said Wally, point
ing down. I looked. The build
ings of the insurance capital were
scarcely larger than the fine
print In an insurance policy.
"New Haven," said Wally,
pointing again. The Yale bowl
looked no bigger than a saucer.
While waiting breathlessly for
Bridgeport I took stock of my
surroundings. Very snazzy. Com
fortable lean-back seats. Grey
beige gabardine ceiling (I bet you
thought I wouldn't notice thati.
On the armrest was a minia
ture control panel: individual
reading light. Retractile ashtray.
Thingumajig saying "occupied."
Button labeled "call stewardess."
1 pressed the button, in a puff of
smoke, Wally appeared.
"Northwest orient," he Intoned,
"Is the first airline to use strata
cruisers in domestic service. New
York to Seattle in nine hour,
starting Sept. 1, wake up. Pal,
and leave us go downstairs to
the lounge."
"Downstairs ?"
"Sure. This Job is a double
decker. You get tired of riding up
here, go downstairs and maybe
get into a gin-rummy game.
Come on."
I followed him, feeling light
headed. And it wasn't because of
the altitude.
Stairs Stick To His Mind
Sure enough, there were stairs.
Like in a house. We went down
slowly. I don't know why, but it
gave me an Arabian NiRhts feel
ing. As though the living room
rug at hme should suddenly
float out the window.
"See you later. Wally," I said,
and went back upstairs. I stood
at the top for a while, scratching
my neck. Then I went below
again, counting the stairs. There
were 11.
"Imagine," I said, trying to
keep it casual. "Stairs in an air
plane. Gives you a feeling of spa
ciousness. Makes you "
"Easy, pal," Wally said. "Why
don't you go forward and talk
with the automatic pilot?",
I did. I also inspected the pres
surizer, which was giving my
eardrums that sea-level feeling.
It was no use. I went back and
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Labor Day Planned j Fair Ousto Socialist EiMbtf. Domagt Action loom
By Pres. Truman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. UPt
trestaent rruman it planning
ts mukf three airplane flights on
Labor day Sept. 5, concluding
them with his first visit home to
Missouri since Christmas.
His schedule for that day as
now planned calls for flights:
From Washington to Pitts
burgh tor an address around noon
to the Allegheny county free fair.
From Pittsburgh to Des Moines,
Iowa, to address the annual con
yenttait of the Amvets, an organi
zation of veterans of world war
II. This address will be made in
the afternoon.
From Des Moines to Missouri,
after the Amvets talk, to spend
couple of nights at his home, in
Independence, where Mrs. Tru
man and daughter Margaret are
spending their vacation.
Mr. Truman is going to Phila
delphia next Monday to address
the annual convention of the
American legion.
Original plans call for him to
make this trip by plane, but there
were indications todav that it
may be shifted to train" travel.
CRESKAM. Aug. The
Socialist Labor party's literature
exhibit wa moved out ol the
Multnomah county fairgrounds
Tuesday and the fair board was
immediately threatened with s
suit for damages.
Monday, when the fair opened,
some visitors complained to the
board that the exhibit had some
"communist" literature. The
board ordered Mr. and Mrs. Her
bert Steiner to close up. Thy re
fused.
Early Tuesday afternoon fair
employes carted the display
ease to track which hauled!
there sttfside the grounds.
Mrs, Steiner, whose husband!
to west coast organizer for the.
party which the World Almanae
characterizes ax "Marxian, anil,
eommattist" refused to accept
refutsd of the $8 rental fee. She
said they would sue for breach
of contract.
Man, Active At 92, Hasn't Slept In Std For 38 Yton
BEVERLY, Mass.. Aug. 24.
f. It's never bedtime for John
J. Healey who it 92 and wide-awake.
He says he hasn't been to bed
for 30 years. "Son," he savs, "that
sleep is dangerous stuf,fc
Healey, who still manaees
trucking firm, claims he gets
tnree hours sicca c dav. But not
in bed. He Just leans back fit
rocker, flings a blanket into a
hood for his head, and rock off
for ISO minutes.
'I got out of ihe habit of get.
ting ttred when I was young
he explains, I did go to bed in
those days bat never poisoned mv.
self with more than four hours
sleep."
The design of the White House
is said to have been modelled en
that of the Duke of Letnjter's
palace in Dublin.
to order to distract their pup.
suers, seme species of lizard de
tach their taiis. wheit in danger.
Rich Widow Missing
From Los Angeles Homo
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2S.-tm
Police are investigating possible
foul play in the disappearance of
a wealthy widow, missing since
last Thursday.
Mrs. Mi mi Boomhower, 48,
widow of Frank Boomhower, in
ventor and African big game
hunter, was known to have worn
jewelry valued at $5,000.
Detective Sgt. Jack Ferges
said:
"There Is every possibility of
foul play in her disappearance."
Ferges said that police found
lights in her Bel Air mansion
burning and her car in the gar
age. She lived alone. He said
her home contains a big game
collection valued at $75,000.
Oregon Vet, 1 00, Goes To
Final GAR Encampment .
PORTLAND, Aug. 25. m
Grand Army of the Republic commander-in-chief,
Theodore A.
Penland, left last night for what
is expected to be the final en
campment of the Union veterans.
Oregon Daughters and Sons
of Union Veterans have chartered
a special car to send a record
delegation of the affiliated
groups to the national assembly
in Indianapolis.
Penland was 100 years old Jan,
23. He expects only four other
Civil war veterans at the encamp
ment. There are 16 living mem
bers of the G. A. R.
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