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By R. J. H2MDRIC3Q ' ' -
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
, Member of The Associated Press
The Aswdi ted Tress is exclusiveiy entitled to the use for
news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in
Register for Sugar
Standing in line among the grayheads and
the baldheada who registered last weekend for
.selective service In full realization that they
bad been labeled "too old to fight,', your cor
respondent overheard comment to the effect
that the details of this sign-up had not received
lue publicity "no front page stories," one
registrant complained. Checking up, we found
that there had been front page stories on Sat
urday and Sunday, some previous news men
tion in, dispatches from Washington, DC, and
relative to the recruiting of registrars, and that
the dates' had been recorded in the "coming
events" column every day since April 10.
Sugar rationing has been front page news
almost daily for several weeks and no. similar
criticism is even remotely applicable and yet,
so diversified are the demands upon public
attention these days, the facts may be less than
dear in some minds. Here we shall .attempt .to
boil them down to essentials: f
1. Registration in Salem and in all nearby
communities of which we have knowledge,
is scheduled for Monday through Thursday
May 4 through 7. There will be registrars in
all the elementary schools. In Salem the hours
are from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. In a considerable num
ber of districts outside Salem the hours are 2
to 4, 7 to 9 pjn.
2. Only one member of each family should
visit the registrar and this one person must be
over age 18. He or she should have, already
filled out, the blanks giving names and other
naia ior eacn ueriou in uic uuiuij. i tuv
family has not received these blanks, the one
going to register should have, written down
for quick reference, these facta about every
member of the family: Full name including
middle name, if any; height, weight, color of
eyes, color or nair u any, age.
3. The person visiting the registrar should
know and be ready to report the approximate
number of pounds of sugar in the family's
possession on the day of registration. This
information must be truthful and reasonably
accurate but there will be no penalty for honest
error of a pound or two. Nor will there be
penalty or stigma if a considerable supply of
sugar is in the family's possession. But there is
a penalty running up to ten years' imprison
ment and a $10,000 fine for false statement or
misrepresentation.
4. Every person should be registered, even
- if he or she purchases no sugar. Persons who
are not members of family groups must regis
ter individually. Any who fail to register may
encounter difficulty later if sugar registration
records are made the basis for rationing of
other products.
Purposely, we have confined the foregoing
to information essential to registration; some
ther things will happen later but duly regis
tered sugar purchasers will bump into them in
due course. 1 Families which have sugar on
hand will not be able to purchase any until
such time as -their stocks are theoretically ex
hausted at the rationing rate. If they have
- more than six pounds per person, they will not
get rationing books, right away. '
Inquiry has been received as to extra sugar
for canning. Unless tentative plans are revised,
.there will be some sugar for canning but not
enough. There has been mention of five pounds ,
per family, contrary mention of five pounds
. per person. Even the latter will not be suffi
cient . for most Willamette valley families. It
doesn't harmonize with the general purpose of
iooa conservation, it is penecuy proper to
protest but "until protests are heeded, it is
'"vitally necessary to abide by the regulations,
i You're in the army now.
; On all subjects related to the necessary de
privation of civilians in the interest of war
victory, wt have counselled patience and wil
ling cooperation. And about sugar rationing,
you may as well maintain a sweet disposition.
But from another point of view, it doesn't pay
to be too complacent In fact if, some morning,
your coffee lacks sugar, it might be a good idea
to get mad about it. But be sure to get mad at
the people who really are responsible Hitler,
Tojo St Co.
Jack Hughes
, Jack Hughes had many thousands of friends.
But if you were to ask a dozen or a hundred
of those friends about Jack Hughes, the chances
"are that you wouldn't learn many facts about
him. From his former employes and from per
sons with whom he had business dealings, you
would ' learn that he was a square-shooter.
From the rest, about all the. information ob
tainable would be that Jack Hughes was their
friend and that they Were his friends.
Jack Hughes made friendship a hobby. The
ability to make friends is a gift which not all
human beings possess. Jack Hughes was one
who possessed it to an outstanding degree. He
met people easily, put them at their ease;
learned the -things about them that they were
willing to tell a friend, and remembered those
things, Jas well as names and faces. Jack was
so busy being a friend that he didn't have time
to tell his friends much about himself.
" Thousands of friends wanted to know, during
his illness," how Jack Hughes was getting along.
Thousands of friends are going to miss him.
Jack Hughes was successful but not In the
fashion of those who need to be reminded that
"You can't take it with you." Of what Jack
Hughes accumulated, the part he most prized
he has taken with him.
, Los Angeles and Kansas City are municipali
ties which have been successful in overthrowing
corrupt local governments. It isn't easy even
after an aroused electorate has voted the cor
rupt machines out of office. Mayor Fletcher
Bowron who headed the reform movement in
Los Angeles has been more or less constantly
under attack; has just won a legal fight through
dismissal of Indictments charging him with il
legal wire-tapping and misuse of funds. There
is much evidence to suggest that the charges
constituted merely a counter-attack on the
part of vice interests he was fighting, r
And Tom Mahoney still thinks milk prices In
Portland are too high, so he is asking the voters
to send him to congress. - 1
"JVo favor Sways 17; No Fear &7uxXl Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
Rationing and Sense
Some school districts in Oregon have adopted
the sensible rule that athletic teams and their
student rooters may not travel; to other cities
for contests, except by insured carrier. This
rule, adopted before the rubber and gasoline
shortages developed, nevertheless is in harmony
with conservation of those supplies. Much less
of both commodities is consumed if 40 students
travel in one bus, as compared; to their trans
portation the same distance in perhaps IS
private automobiles. S
Yet - rationing authorities have ruled that
busses may not be chartered for such a pur
pose. There appers to have been two reversals
of policy on this point but the denial is the
latest reported. Schools whichj adhere strictly
to the insured carrier rule are deprived of
participation in athletic events;! the teams from
schools which do not have such a rule go in
private cars and the conservation aim is thus
defeated.
Until travel for such purposes may be for
bidden entirely, refusal to permit the chartering
of busses doesn't make sense. " j
News Behind
The News 1
By PAUL MALLON i
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Repro
duction in whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, May 2 Hemming and hawing
over whether the government should seize the Cur-tiss-Wright
airplane factory at Columbus, Ohio,
have been reaching the public prints, off and on,
in a necessarily .vague way, because of the desire
of everyone to avoid disclosing military secrets
involved.
It should no longer be a military secret that this
m
Pan M alias
newspaper stories widely circulated. Since then
the only matters about which there has been any
publicity have been the accusations and denials
that a slowdown existed there.
The christened plane was actually only a test
model. After the cameras were taken away and
the newspapermen had gone, weights were dropped
upon its wings, etc., to determine its durability.
It was wrecked in the process, and actual deliveries
did not start until about five months later.
Now, there may be disputes as to who is to blame,
but there can be no denial of these facts. Among
the explanations, which are no doubt valid, are
that the personnel in the plant was 92 per cent
new to the aviation industry; that the plant itself
was likewise new; that the company had to do
experimental designing and proving, as well as
producing, etc
Other charges that have been made, however,
are:
That morale in the plant has been low; that
labor has been in a slowdown, and that neither
the management nor the labor seemed able to han
dle its own end of the business efficiently:
Whether a new naval inspector assigned to the
plant will change matters remains to be seen.
Regardless of all that, no one here or in Colum
bus has been able to cut through this amazing sit
uation and give that plant a record of which it
should be proud. So far it has produced more ex
planations than planes.
Stalin's May day speech was addressed to the
red workers, but it sounded like none he ever made
before. Gone was any talk of "the revolution."
Absent was any suggestion of his kind of collec
tivism. What he wants now is:
"Freedom and justice."
Moderate also were his demands. He renounced
any ambition for territory, beyond the acquisition
(he said "freeing") of his own Ukraine and White
Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and
Finnish Karelian.
. While this new presentation of Russian purposes
may have been partly conceived for effect on the
outside world, its main effect will be upon the
Russian people themselves, directing their jninds
away from old red goals toward a new one.
Political fronts can be swiftly changed in a dic
tator nation like Russia. This one may also be
subject to post-war change without notice.
But for the present at least it will contribute
further unity to the cause of the United Nations.
Mr. Roosevelt will have trouble keeping 1 his
promise to maintain his shipment of supplies to
China. He was no doubt speaking of creating a
new Burma road of the skies. He could make it
fully efficient only with 100 1 transport planes,
each plane to carry three or four tons. With a
round trip a day from India for each plane, the
skyway could approximate the peak traffic of the
Burma highway. It carried around 15,000 tons a
month, although 6000 of this I: was gas for th
trucks. . " . - I' .
A hundred planes, however," are hard to find
these days. The Chinese were promised 25 but they
have not yet received these. - t
Very little material has been; getting into China
since the Japs seized Rangoon, i
No one knows exactly whatithe president has
done with his secret blank check fund of $200,000,
000, and it may be two or three years before an ac
counting is given. f
The April 28 daily treasury statement shows the
total spent since last June 30 is $147,433,000, nearly
twice as much as the previous fiscal year. It says
certain amounts have been allocated to navy, army,
building, etc, but not how these amounts were
spent. .
It is known FDR used much of the money to
build the Atlantic bases and got these sums back
from congress. The civil defense jamboree under
LaGuardia was likewise partly! financed from the
fund, but congress denied reimbursement for some
of these items. j .
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publication of all
this newspaper.
plant achieved the sensational
record of not delivering a sin
gle airplane for more than 14
months after! it broke ground.
The plant was started January
20, 1941, and was finished near
ly a year ago in the middle of
June. Yet the first delivery,
was made only a few weeks
ago.
A big christening was held
last December 4,, for what was
-supposed to he the first plane
off the line. Deliveries were
supposed to have started then.
Pictures were taken and
Rug Cleaning Time
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7 JO Pancho's Conga Orchestra.
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80 Charlie McCarthy.
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10 0 News Flashes.
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11 JO War News Roundup
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6:15 From the Organ Loft.
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70 Church of the Air.
130 Wings Over Jordan.
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109 Church of the Air.
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11 30 Columbia Workshop.
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3:15 Golden Gate Quartet.
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530 Ellison White Recital.
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70 Take It or Leave It
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90 What's On Your Mind.
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100 Five Star Final.
10:15 Cosmo Jones.
10 JO Wartime Women.
1035 Air-Flo.
10:45 US Marine Corps.
110 Manny Strand Orchesra.
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JO Owen Cunningham, Hawaii
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11:15 Melody.
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115 TBA. -i
M0-Tbe America Speak.
IX JO News. I
12:45 Repair for Defense.
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Rabbi Magnin.
430 Nobody's Children.
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70 Ray Cram Swing.
T U 5 The Coat Steps Out
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100 Duke Ellington Orchestra.
1030 News.
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KKX NBC SUNDAY 1194 Ke.
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S:1S Recital Period.
JO Revue in Miniature.
0 The Quiet Hour.
9 30 Radio City Music HalL
1030 Don Vining. Organist
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110 Blue Theatre Players.
11J0 Show of Yesterday and Today.
U. 0 Wake Up America.
1 0 National Vespers.
130 In His Steps.
2 0 Hollywood Theatre.
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3. -00 Catholic Hour.
330 Stars of Today.
4. -00 Weekly War Journal.
430 Alias John Freedom.
50 Sunday at Tommy Dorsey's.
8:3b Song Shop Romance.
5:45 Pearson and AUen.
5. -00 America's Town Meeting.
7:00 Good Will Hour.
0 Inner Sanctum Mysteries.
0:30 Jack Benny.
:0O Grandpappy and His Pals.
9:30 News Headlines and Highlights.
9 45 University Explorer.
100 Palladium Ballroom Orchestra.
10:15 Music Graphs.
1030 The Quiet Hour.
110 Thia Moving World.
11:15 Armand Cirard. Singer.
1130 War News Roundup.
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30 Rise TT Shine.
70 News in Brief.
75 Rise 'N' Shine.
7 JO News.
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80 Morning Pick Up.
830 News Brevities.
8:35 Harry Horlick Orchestra.
90 Pastor's Call.
9:15 A La Carter.
30-lohnny Massner Orchestra.
100 World in Review. 1
105 Campus Freshmen.
10 JO Women in the News.
10 JS Homespun Trio.
1045 Dr. R. F. Thompson.
110 Musical Horoscope.
11 30 Langworth Gauchos.
230 Gaylor Carter.
1 d5 News.
13 JO Hillbilly Serenade.
1235 Willamette Valley Opinions.
10 Lum At Abner.
1 as Tune Tabloid.
10 Four Notes.
1 45 Isle of Paradise.
20 Sing Song Time.
S 05 Melody Mart
1 30 Rythmic Romance.
2 45 Alpine Troubadors.
30 Vagabond of the Air Waves.
4 00 Russ Morgan.
4:15 News.
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0 Here Comes the Band..
5:30 To the Ladies.
9:35 Dinner Hour Music.
40 Tonight's Headlines.
4:15 News Analysis.
30 Evening Serenade.
70 News in Brief .
75 Interesting Facts.
7:15 Gleb Yellm.
730 Willamette Valley Opinions.
730 Shep Fields Orchestra.
IHS War Fronts Pass in Review.
8:15 Harry Brewer Orchestra.
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45 America Needs You.
90 News.
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930 WU Choristers.
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10 JO News.
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110 Bert Hirsch Presents.
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JO Memory Timekeeper.
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0 Breaklaat Club.
' 30 News.
45 Miss Meade's Children.
0 John B. Hughes.
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30 Thia Aj That
190 News.
10:15 m Find My Way.
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145 Buyer's Parade.
110 Cedric Foster.
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30 Cencert Gems.
11 43 Luncheon Coaeert
3330 Hies
12 4 King Bard Presents.
10 Theme and Variations
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30 B. S. Bercovid. Cot; r
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40 News.
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430 Gems of Melody...
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90 Captain Danger.
5:15 Jimmy Allen.
JS Captain Midnight 1
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40 Gabriel Heatter.
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45 Movie Parade.
70 Ray Gram Swing.
7 as America Marches On.
730 -Lone Ranger.
0 Accordion Si Gutax.
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30 Double or Nothing.
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30 Fulton Lewis. Jr.
49 Hank Keene to Town.
100 Joe Reich man.
10 JO News.
1045 Carl Ravasxa Orchestra.
110 Lee Young Orchestra,
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40 Music.
830 War News.
60 Sunrise Serenade.
6:30 Early Bards.
70 News Headlines and Highlights
7:15 Music of Vienna.
730 Reveille Roundup.
7:45 Sam Hayes.
10 Stars of Today.
8:15 News
830 Symphonic Swing.
8:40 Lotta Noyes
3:45 David Harum.
. -00 Bess Johnson.
9:15 Bachelor's Children.
930 Welcome Neighbor.
10:00 Woman';. World.
10 US News.
10 30 Home keeper's Calendar.
10:45 Dr. Kate.
110 Light of the World.
11:15 Arnold Grimm's Daughter.
11:30 The Guiding Light.
11:45 Hymns of all Churches.
110 Against the Storm.
12:15-Ma Perkins.
13 JO Pepper Young's Family.
12:45 Right to Happiness,
10 Back Stage Wife.
1:15 Stella Dallas.
130 Lorenzo Jones.
145 Young Widder Brown.
30 When a Girl Marries.
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30 Dr L Q.
70 Contented Hour.
730 Cavalcade of America.
S0 Fred Waring ta Pltasuie Time.
8:15 Lum and Abner.
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0 The Telephone Hoar.
9 JO Your Mayor Speaks.
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100 News Flashes.
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10:25 Citizens Alert
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110 Musie and Moonlight,
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1130 War News.
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5 Momenta of Melody.
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70 Clark Dennis. Singer.
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90 Haven of Rest
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45 Keep Fit Club With Patty X
90 Meet Your Neighbor.
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30 Breakfast at SardTs.
100 Baukhage Talking.
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1130 Stars of Todajr
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130 News Headlines and Highlights.
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11:40 Stella Cnger.
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19 News.
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30 Stars of Today.
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330 Skitch Henderson.
345 Three Bonieaa.
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430 News.
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45 Movatirae.
45 Tune Twisters.
70 For America We Stag.
730 Jimmie Fidler. --.m.
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90 Helen Ortega.
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190 Sir Frauds Drake
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; Two human interest W-41
installments- from the '
facile pen of the poet
laureate of California: : -
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(Concluding from yesterday:)
That way and other ways. No
need of wars to rob us of life,
or of health or happiness. A few;
escape it all until, at last, death
strikes -r even gently striking.
Yet the fortunate are few. Dis
. ease, accident, disappointment,
ingratitude, loss. That's the lot
of the many.
No need of wars, indeed. SUU
there always are wars. And now
the most cruel, most brutal of
all. The relentless slaughter, the
awful carnage. Mass murder at
sea and under the sea, on land
and over the land in the wide
sky. Hell turned loose. The -way
it has been and, alas! probably
the! way it will continue to be.
a
Who is to blame? I asked. We
are all to blame, answered the
woman. You are to blame and
I am to blame, she said, to
blame because we forgot God.
We yearned for the flesh pots,
for power and for glory. Nation
against nation. No nation seek
ing God. "But seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and bis right-,
eousness; and all these things
shall: be added unto you." That
is the commandment, but scant
. attention Is paid to it or to any
other commandment As a re
sult life is tragedy, , though it
could well be just the opposite,'
t It is plain enough. God will, not
be mocked. Yet we do mock
Him in some way or other ev
ery day of our lives, all of us.
And the price we pay Is bitter.
There fell 'a silence upon "the
room of the little house as the
voice of the woman ceased. She
had bared her heart
(Drimtue aft
By EDITH BRISTOL
Chapter 17, Continued
"But who cashed it?" Martha
moved with him toward the
door, the dogs trailing after.
-And when?"
"The teller says it came in this
mArpirig for deposit, must have
been cashed yesterday afternoon.
Well try to find out who . .
"But drive-in markets sell to
many customers, hundreds of
customers, who .live any place
between San Diego and Eureka.
Ifs not like the neighborhood
grocery stores where the clerk
knows the customers," Martha
said regretfully. .
"It may lead nowhere, rapid
ly," Allen admitted. Jamming the
broad-brimmed felt on his head.
"But at least it's better than
nothing to work on. And it does
help bear out Durfees story that
the money was stolen from
Gregg by whoever killed him."
see
One of those days when every
thing possible goes wrong!
That was the day following a
few scribbled lines in my little
blue diary, so. much neglected of
late, recall the series of minor
annoyances that filled the next
forenoon.
The telephone trouble shooters
came over from Gallina, first, to
find out what caused that con
stant clicking in on the ranch
line when anyone spoke and j in
the frequent conversations of the
last, few days the clicking had
grown Increasingly troublesome.
"Absolutely nothing wrong
with the instrument, lady," the
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30 Romance of Helen Treat
45 Our Gal Sunday-.
300 Life Can Be Beautiful,
leas Worn n ta White.
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1945 News.
110 Bright Horfxon.
11 Aunt Jenny.
11JO We Love At Learn.
1145 The Goldbergs.
120 Eyes of the World.
Has itnax Manning. Hews,
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134s Women of Courage.
10 Stepmother.
1 J5 Spotlight on Asia.
130-Joey Keams Orchestra.
145 Very Truly Yours.
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345 Scattergood Barnes.
10 Wilson Ames. Orran.
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430 Newspaper of the Ale,
90 Von Pop.
a jo Marry j lannery,
45 Bon Garred, N
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90 Radio Theatre.
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90 Amos "N Andy.
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35 Diek Joy. News. !
0 I Was There,
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100 Five Star Final.
Mas World Today.
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Soldiers of-the Air.
110 Wilbur Hatch Orchestra,
3130 Prelude to Midnight.
119 News
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100 Review of the Day.
105 News.
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110 School ef the Air
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130 News.
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10 Favorite
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Concert Hall.
90 Home Economics. -930
Memory Book of Musie.
' 349 "Know Year Neighbor."
of WatkAi.
830 Orchestral
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JO Melodies for Strings.
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90 Dinner chocert - -
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30 Farm Hour. '
730 4H Club Program J
90 Evening Song. "-
9as School of Musie.
' 930 Higher Education Speaks.
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I saw then a cbaoff in bar
jfacoi si Mftenixif change. She
; axniled in a 'whimsical way, .her
, eyes became tender as she dos
ed her book of memories and
had come, lit would seem, to
f the j end of the lonf road her
steps had journeyed. Again she
spoke, hut now softly.
i - Life is tike that for mothers,
i she! said. It Is so that they ful
. zUl! the purpose for which God
' crested them, an through the
ages, among! them the mother
of Christ, whose soul was pierc
ed as by the sword.
The Son of God, wandering
the dusty roads of Galilee, once
said that in His Father's house
are many mansions. The mean
ing Is, I would think, that In
,-- heaven some wta be given great
- erj recognition that others, and,
if I so, how grand and shining
will be the mansions in which
mothers abide.'
Even though ho wars afflicted
them, great Would be their rec
ognition, anyway. Great Is the
love, of a man; for a maid, des
perately true is .the love of a
sister for a brother, but the love
that transcends an other human
love is the love of a mother
for the child she has borne. Al-
most invariably the last word
breathed on a battlefield by a
dying soldier is the name of his
mother. All other ties and con
siderations are forgotten in that
dark hour when death bares. Its
arm for the ' final, fatal thrust -.
And so, oh mothers, the last
conquesf is yours.
They suffer, and their sons
die. But the mother remabu
the ultimate victor the hope of
the race. :
Casttaway'
.
. brawny lineman assured Martha.
"Nor with the lines, either. Only
thing that might cause that ring
ing on your; line that you hear
all the time Is someone taking
down the receiver on one of your
connections."
"But the , only outside exten
sion in use is the one at the sta
bles" Martha protested. "And
the boys in the stable are out all
day. They're not listening in on
conversations from the ranch
house."
"Could be from the extension
in the little house in H i d d e n
Cove," volunteered the trouble-'
shooter.
"No," Miss Gregg was emphat
ic. "I ordered that extension dis
connected some months ago."
"Yes, ma'am." The lineman
was just as emphatic in return.
"But I came out about a week
ago and connected that phone up
again."
"But I didn't order it connect
ed!" Martha stared.
"I wouldn't know about that,
lady. All I know Is I got orders
to come out and connect it up I
remember, it was just before
that big blow we had, a few days
back, for I had to ride out again
next day over almost the same
route to check ; on . wires and
poles."
Martha bit her lip. She was
puzzled. And annoyed, as weU,
I could tell from her expression.
"IH call the Gallina office and
find out who ordered it connect
ed" Martha said. But Sheriff
Allen came in before she had
time to carry out that determina
tion. The sheriff s-report was on the
stolen 20 dollar bill and a neg
ative one., I knew from his first
words. J.'
That bill came into the drive
in market in the rush hour of
the late afternoon, day before
yesterday. The cashier has been
having hysterics .all over the
place ever since we began to
question her. If she'd had to
make change for. the bills, she
says, she'd remember who it
was. Might .have been suspi
cious. ( That is, if the customer
had bought a lew cents worth
and asked for the rest In change.
But she, says the customer, who
ever it was, bought a big bill of
groceries something over 12
dollars, had it carried out to an
automobile, took the rest in
. change and It was all so regular
that neither she nor the boy who
carried out the purchases re
members. ! I've been working
them over for thee solid hours!
What groceries? Anything spe
cial about the order? We checked
every item on the sales slips.
"What kind of a car and who
was driving it? Man or woman?
: Young or old?- Where was it
parked? Where did the boy put
the groceries? Tonneau or back
seat?" Allen pushed a weary
hand through his grizzled hair.
"All we got for our pains was
hysterics from the girl and sulks
from the boy . . . too much of a.
hurry to notice, they said. 'Just
. a plain car, they didn't .notice
the make' one said it was a
woman driving; the other swears
ft was a mail, who made the
purchases. Kit-wits!' I
"Then there's not much hope
,; not much chance of , learning
. anything from t the money, is
there?" Xance looked discour
- aged. , .. ; . -(To
be continued)