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pagz cn Xhm OHEGOII j CTATECMAIL Sclera, Oregon, Thursday llornlng, April 8, 1343 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING 'CO. , CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ, Editor and Publisher .' Member of The Associated. Press - .The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. . Shin Laimchinr4 L Ship launchings occur so frequently at yards in the Willamette and Columbia rivers nowa days that it takes something like the visit of the nation's first lady to make it an event calling for full news' and photographic treatment : Yet every ship is an individual, and , every j ship launching is. a thrills There is something en spiriting to see what appears to be a lifeless though well-shaped hull of ; steel . come to life, slide swiftly down the ways and j then , float gracefully on the water, with flags and pennants flying, the pride of workmen and the hope of the whole nation. f 1 , Longfellow's "Launching of the Ship" j Is as vital today as when it was written. These boats that are framed : in the ways still "seem to feel the thrill of life along their keels as the bonds are loosened and the ships slide into the water. But it is not enough to read this poem, and not enough to read "newspaper descrip tions of launchings, or to hear the step-by-step radio report. The real thrill comes in seeing one. While the shipbuilding concerns now re-, strict the attendance, it is still possible for those really interested, to get to see a launching. If iney are property endorsed. The ceremonial attending the launching of ships is of ancient origin, going back some 4,000 years in recorded history. Probably there was a religious significance to the first rites, with the spilling of blood, offering of sacrifice and the incantation of priests. As in the blessing of the seedtime, it was deemed necessary to placate ' the gods so the vessel would have good fortune on the deep. . According to the booklet "Ships' issued by the shipbuilding industry Romans and Greeks used water as the symbol of purification in the priestly ritual of christening. During the middle ages shrines were placed aboard ship and effi gies were carved on ship's figureheads. In the days of Tudor kings of England the ceremonies : took place on the ship after it was launched, the king taking a seat on the deck, where he was given a goblet of red wine. He sipped the wine, spoke the name of the ship, and wished it bon volage.-Then he spilled the wine on the deck of the ship, pointing out the four points of the compass and tossed the goblet overboard. ' The present practice, as is well known, is to dress a bottle of champagne in a mesh holding jacket, so the splintered glass will not fly, wrap It in ribbons which hang up at the vessel's prow. After the sponsor 'bops' the bottle on the bow, the remains of the bottle are drawn up by the ribbons and presented to the sponsor as a souvenir. Seamen, retain their superstitions, and one is that only a woman should christen a new ship ill luck attends the vessel christened by a male. On the other hand, no woman is allowed on the vessel's "maiden" voyage that would mean bad luck too. All the superstitions must be at work now, though, because in spite of correct launchings many of the vessels run into bad luck, principally submarines. - Oregon folk, long farm-minded, are learn ing more about ships and the sea. This educa tional process should continue. The ocean is the great commercial highway of the world. Lo cated right on the Pacific, with several good ports on its bays or tributary rivers, Oregon should look to the. sea for a large part of its future wealth and power. Beyond the watery horizons are lands with vast potential markets, with valuable goods to offer in exchange. Our people must become world-minded in com merce, and they must be world-minded po litically to succeed in world commerce. Leave Them Laughing w George Turn-bull, who has been modelling Journalists at the stat university for a good . many years, offered a suggestion to i a rally committee the other day, which merits being passed orv According to the Emerald, George Suggested the appropriateness of a line from a . George Cohan play on the occasion of a student rally honoring the boys of ther university called from reserve status Into active service. This was the line: Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye." That line fits for- other leave-takings these days. It's enough of a strfin at best, especially en mothers, as prized sons jhove off into war's -uncertainties. It's best done with a smile and a cordial hand wave. The memory to cherish is f the face lit up with a warm glow of affection, oracea py tne urm nope of the eventual home coming. "Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye ? Or Will They? Comments the Pendleton East Oregonian: - "Since there is a labor shortage in the Pad-' ! fie northwect at thi a mm rin v. . . 4 f there is a considerable migration on the '!part of people living in regions where there is less activity. The more energetic win re ; main and they will become more ambitious after they look at our mountains, rivers, forests and the ocean." Is the last sentence true or false? Will the more energetic' remain, or will they move on, ay to California? And will the scenery and climate make them 'more ambitious;' or will they relax in the comfort" of the in beautiful Oregon? ; - Customers may write their own' answers. j The idea of a bounty on coyotes seems like i a good scheme t ot the state will match money ; put up- by the counties; with meat rationing 't "Tinderway there is no sense in allowing coyotes i to kill eur sheep. Pendtleton East Oregonian. To say nothing, of a few coyote steaks as ra-.tlon-point-savers. - - - i The planned raeeting of Generals De Gaulle end Gircud is off again. The difference of j opinion between the two resembles the fatal I divergence : within France before and during the v:zr, Ilitkr manages things differently, lie , tl-.v-rs r-c:3 with hiraself. T " I "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear, Shall Aura . From First Statesman. March 23, 1891 . . H(?' PamJ Malloa "life of Y Gleemen Sing ! The Y Gleemen are a group of men who like ; to sing. They have been singing together for four, years, and their concert Tuesday, night ; was greatly enjoyed Jby a good-sized crowd at the high school auditorium. These men sing together for their own enjoyment, but point ; their weekly practices to this annual concert. In spite of war and loss of some members the organization carries on and is a worth-while ' segment of Salem's musical life. Worthy of special mention are the director, Edouard Hurlimann, and the arcompaiiist, Miss Alice Crary Brown. Mr. Hurlimann has es tablished himself in Salem as a very capable director of the symphony orchestra and the Gleemen. Miss Brown is most generous of her talents in local musical endeavors. Mrs. Jose phine Albert Spaulding, the evening soloist, came over from Dallas as she does so often in response to appeals from her old home town, and as usual won a hearty reception- These musicians, and we have many others here in Salem, contribute much to the cultural life of the Willamette Valley. The Coos Bay Times tells about shifting around for safekeeping in Italy a piece of cloth claimed to be part of the grave-clothes of Jesus, and adds that, after some questioning of the authenticity of the relic, science had been called in which declared the garment "sacred.' How could science decide whether a piece of linen was sacred or secular? Gandhi is said now to be planning a fast to death. If the skinny geezer wants to commit suicide, jumping off the roof of the fine palace where he lives would be quicker. News Behind The News 1 By PAUL MALLON Distribution by King features Syndicate. In. Repro duction tn whole or la part strictly prohibited.) I WASHINGTON, April 7 Petroleum Poobah Ickes is being pressed, not only by motorist repre sentatives, but by other government departments, to liberalize the gas rationing program. Even the office of price administration has mad some representations within the government suggesting greater allowances. Now an A -card driver can get only 90 miles a month at a maximum, or 45 to 50 miles if he has a heavy fuel consuming car. This is hardly enough to keep a machine in good condition. . , The question of whether there8 is enough gasoline at hand along the eastern sea board to warrant a greater value for the A -cards, or other relaxation of the restrictions. Is not part of the current argu ment The highest of authorities in OPA has taken the position that more gasoline should be furnish ed, indeed, should now be available. The tank cars which were hauling fuel oil during the winter months should now be available for gasoline. Also, one of the new pipe lines from Texas to New Jersey is so near completion that the promise Is made that it will be finished by July. Its capacity Is 300,000 barrels a day. i A second pipe line through Seymour, Ind., to the eastern field Is promised by next January to allevi ate the fuel oil demand next winter by adding 235,000 more barrels a day. The position of the oil industry also seems to be undergoing a change trending more toward the OPA position than that of the petroleum administrator. Thus, Mr. Ickes is gradually being surrounded with opposition pressure. A show down Is in pros pect. Relaxation is at least possible for the first time. , This administration has always stoutly maintain ed and with some display of righteous indigna tion that the public works programs were non political in character , . , No one but a republican would say otherwise . . . and, furthermore, you people who did not believe it, have never been able to prove otherwise. k i Well, a legal authority, prowling back Into a. specific case, came upon the following peculiar set I of circumstances: The federal works administration Issued orders, approved by the administrator May 1, 1942, re quiring mat a specific paragraph be inserted In the general conditions governing costs-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts. The paragraph read: (A) Preference in the employment of laborers and mechanics at the site shall be given to qualified .local residents. ,r ,: i "(B) There Shall be no discriminating far rMun of race, creed, color, national origin, OR POLITI CAL AFFILIATIONS in the employment of per sons qualified by training and experience for work in the development of defense housing or defense public works at the site of the project ; This certainly established' the political purity motif. Anyone had the right to work regardless of his voting peculiarities. Unfortunately, it did not last long. . ;: . ;.;.-.-. Just about a month before the last election, cer tain revisions in the general conditions were Issued (October 5, 1942). The revised order read: -i ; " The contractor shall not discriminate against any worker because of race, creed, color, or national . origin.' " " . , i This change negatively re-established the only fc discrimination to be used on federal works projects. On its face. It seemed to say that relief is available for all except republicans. There was an Insurmountable defect la the way the promise erf a commission for Mayor Laguardia as a brigadier-general was presented to the public. No one, not even the mayor, made clear what par tlcular kind of a job he was to do for which be was exceptionally suited. No convincing justifica tion for the appointment was offered. , :. The war department has a rule that no older men can be appointed to commissions unless they possess "extreme qualification- which enable them to do a specific needed task,.. The promise of LaGuardia's appointment was accompanied only by a suggestion that, he was to undertake certain unidentified administrative work IK North Africa, and later to do some more uni dentified administraflve work to Italy when we conquer it ; . -. 'Everything That Goes K SU( THUaSOAT lMf Ka. VM News. ins Rise 'n Shine. 73a News T:4S Morning Moods. S. -00 Sextet from hunger. 5 JO News Brevraaa. 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KOIN CBS THCSDAT S Ke. 6 0 Northwest Farm Reporter. 6:15 Breakfast Bulletin. 620 Texas Rangers. 6:45 Koin Klock. 7:15 New. 730 Dick Joy. News. 7:45 Nelson Pringle. SAO Consumer News. S:15 Valiant Lady. S30 Stories America Loves. - 6:45 Aunt Jenny. 9:00 Kate Smith Speaks. t:15 Big1 Sister. , 30 Romance of Helen Trent. ! :45 Out Gal Sunday. 100 Lit Can Be Beautiful. i 10:15 Ma Perkins. 1030 Vie; and Sad. 10:45 The Goldbergs. 11. -00 Young Dr. Malona. 11:15 Joyce Jordan. 1 1 35 We Love and Learn. 11:45 News 12:15 Bob Andersen. News. 1230 William Winter. News. 12:45 Bachelor' Children. 10 OWI Unci Sam. 130 American School of the Aim, 20 Newspaper of the Air. 230 This Life la Mine. 1 2:45 Music. ! 2:15 State Traffic. 330 Studio. 3:45 News. 4:00 Your Thursday Date. 4:15 Sam Hayes. 430 Easy Aces. 4 :4S Tracer of Lost Persona. 50 Stop. 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S:30 Coffee Time. 90 Aldricn Family. 30 Ellery Queen. 100 New Flashes. 1:15 Your Home Town News. 1025 Labor News. 1045 Unci Sara. 110 Organ Concert. 11:15 Hotel Blltmore Orchestra. 1130 War News Roundup. 1202 a, m. Swing Shift. KALE MBS THURSDAY UM Kt. 45 Unci Sam. 70 Around the Clock. 7:15 Texas Rangers. 1 30 Memory Timekeeper. ' S0 Haven of Rest. Interpreting The War News By GLENN BABB Wide World War Analyst for Th Statesman Montgomery' pew victory ov er Rommel, setting him to flight once more with the Americans ' hammering at his flanks, brings dose the question of how the German chieftain wQl make hi exit from the African drama. ' There has been much discus sion of an axis Dunkerque from some blasted strip of Tunisian coast, some. of it suggesting that this would cap the allied tri umph. But Dunkerque wa per- ' bap's history's most successful evacuation by sea from a lost battlefield,; ax well as an heroic adventure, v Af major objective of the allied command surely Is to prevent Rommel or Von Ar nun from achieving anything ap proaching the measure of the . British aiiccesav:-;5;-;,v-vs,.l Doubtless it hopes to present to the world the spectacle of a great axis army brought, to the same desperate atraits as con fronted the - British when they reached the English channel at Dunkerque, the climax- of the great allied disaster in western Europe, but with no such "mir acle of deliverance.' There Is good basis for this hope, Dunkerque is 50 miles from the nearest English coast. The " possible Tunisian escape beadxes are about twice as far from the nearest friendly shores. If the sods forces should fight' their way to Cape Bon, the last extremity of Tunisia, they still would be SO miles across the strait from Sicily. Either ef their main ports, Tunis -and Bizerte, are 150 miles from the Sicilian , coast ': Should . they .'attempt to 30 New. ' 45 Old Songs. 90 Boake Carter. ' 9:15 Woman' Sid of tha New. 30 Buyer's Guide. 945 US Navy Band. 100 News. 10:15 Stars of Today. 1030 This and That. 110 Cedrie roster. lias BUI Hay Read tb Bible. : 1130 Concert Gems, ! 1145 Luncheon Concert. 1225 On the Farm Front. 1230 News. 1245-Shady Valley folks. 10 News. 1 as Music. 2 :0O She la Carter. 2 :15 Texas Ranger. 2:45 News. 30 Philip KeyiM-Gordon. J:15i-Wartime Women, 320 Hello Again. 3:45 Remember When. 40 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 4:15 Johnson Family. 430 News 50 Let's Learn to Dance. 8 :15 Superman. 30 Nesbitt Commentary. 546 Singing Sam. 0 Gabriel Heatter. : :1S Movie Parade. I 45 Homer Rodeneaver. 7 0 Raymond Clapper. 730 Music Depreciation. 0 Chicago Theatre. 90 News as Gift of the Orient. 30 General Barrows. 45 Fulton Lewis, ir. 100 Henry King Orchestra, 10:15 Treasury Star Parade. 1030 News. 10:45 Let's Learn to Dance. 110 Louis Armstrong Orchestra. 1130 std Hon orchestra. tO AC THURSDAY U4 Ke. 10:O0 News. 10:15 Tn Homema jeer's Hour. 110 School of the Air. 1130 Music of th Master. 120 New. 12:15 Farm Hour. 10 Artist's Recital. 1:15 War Commentary. 1:45 Victory Front, 20 Home Garden Hour. 230 Memory Book of Musi 30 News. 3:15 Voice of th Army. 330 Concert Hail. - 40 Lest Wa Forget 4:15 Sons from the Hills. 430 Stories for Boys and Girl;. .-oo Private Pet Presents. 5:15 On th Campuses. 530 Evening Vesper Service.' 45 Sentry of the Air. 0 "If Oregon' War." :15 News. 30 Farm Hour. ' 730 Timber Wolf Shows. 0 University Radio Workshon. 30 Higher Education in Wartime, 30 News. j reach Sardinia from Bizerte they would have 120 miles of water to cross.. ' . . . j ; Dunkerque was made possible by the British command of the seas and local superiority to the air. There is no reason to expect that the axis can scrape together anything like the evacuation flotilla, 'small ships gathered from all the nearby British coasts, that carried the BEF home. Evidently . an effort j to match this Is to train, for there are reports of shipping concen trations in . Sicilian, Sardinian and other ports. There Is the possibility that the Italian navy ' may be called on for a finish . fight, but that probably is ex actly what Admiral Cunningham and his men hope for. -! - Thus far the German and Ital ian air forces in; the Mediter ranean have given no proof of their ability to provide an um brella such as the RAF raised over Dunkerque, although It is likely they are conserving, much, of their strength for just this climactic test. GRANTS PASS-(Ar-Mn. Charles Peeler of Jerome Prairie is one of Oregon's busiest women, -v Besides looking after her hus band and a young daughter, she manages a hop- yard, guides! 18 boys and girls to a 4H cooking club, and serves as chairman ot a canteen corps, the community club and Red Cross and as presi-. dent of a parent-teacher association.-.. ' . j -! i .- New Novel by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan Chapter IS Centlnned She looked hurt and, also, em- .Take f t, BertT - , bittered. - r ' ; V OhU i . sorry-r . ' -Come on, Georgie," said Mil "How. could you have missed licent, "we Jest got time to catch . iuui au aaj waui . . I am Isorry, Elnora, m get the next one "It's! your serve, darlingT "Oh,! . 4 . right!" -. . . That telephone call from those Virginians, Linn and Dunn- evan 4 . wnat ma it meanr That ehak Unn: hnd ssld ther had bought Erin Go Bragh at the auction, and Would sell him back for fifteen hundred dollars. But obly- because -they were '. southerners with a high sense of " honor "Faultir a M J t "Oh i Bert . tor Pete's sake , wake bpl" "RightJ dear!" . i. . Of course, it was Just a slick sales talk. All that rot about - Pop lying to him. Pop said Erin Go Bragh had bad feet and he ' did have bad feet But what if the horse had got well since Santa Anita? W h a t If those Viriginian were telling the truth? Gad, he'd feel swell if Erin Go Bragh went out and won a race 4 ' - ' . "Noi Bert, don't hit it again!" . Eh?w; - . :.r ' -. "Gam e's over. Love ?set . Theirs!wj "Oh E am sorry. Played wret chedly." I ... , , .. . '. : i Ha ' ha ha! How silly to keep thinking, about that dog, Erin Gd Bragh. Nothing to It, absolutely nothing. Those fellows bad made a bad. buy and merely wanted to trick him. Southern sense of honor . . Jha! Not when It came to racehorses. StiU, that Unn sen inded awkward and sin- . ' cere . "Bert! What's got Into you? Why j didn't you congratulate Com ma hde r Bingham? Just walked otG-n Sedgwick could stand the tor ment no longer. The fear that he might be like the editor who ' turned down Kipling, or the man ' who sold his interest in the Ford Motor Company for a song, or the popr boob who unloaded ' Gallant! Fox : for six hundred dollarf jwas insupportable. "Angl," said Bert to. Elnora, Tve got a few business maltersj to straighten out. Ill skip lun-j cheoniwith you and be back in plenty 6f time for a swim f "Business? Oh ... yes." w4nt be long, dear." "BeHI You look guUty! It Isn't horses?? . "- - "Horses? Nonsense! Ha ha ha! V See yiu soonl" . : Miss j Templetoh looked after him worriedly But she did not ', arouset to absolute suspicion, un til,' passing the hotel desk, the clerk j handed her a telephone message. "For Mr. Sedgwick." "Oil! lyes . . . thank you." Thei slip of paper was not folded! ind the words of the mes sage Seemed to wriggle like a snake.! She read them: "Mr. Linn calledi I Sayi Mr. Sedgwick can see them at the Del Mar hotel any time this afternoon." Elnra's lips compressed and ; her eyes smoldered dangerously. : Thus; it should be noted that The Enemy was not acting in good judgment, that his morale was not of toe best, and that this ! Main .Support, the Home Fleet, ; as it Were, was apt to start off on a dangerous tangent But lest any . students get the idea that Linn & Dunneyan were going " to - win easily; the historian would be : bound to refer to what Is known, in naval parlance, as The; Im ponderables. These Imponderables were : namedj MOlicent and Georgine. i And, at the very moment Bert Sedgwick was setting out for his . interview with the Virginians, : ; the two young ladies, M. & G, were i:ln conference with one Yeoman Webster of the USS I Trimble. Not Virginians, but San : Diegatts, Minicent and Georgine : had a definite and sometimes al most sentimental interest to Sea- man Linn and Fireman Dunne van. j -;. .;'-;;;'! ' They sat upon stools at the f Padrei Drive-in on "B" ; street ! receiving startling intelligence : from Yeoman Webster. A super- i ior, blond and nosey young man, -Yeoman Webster loved to tell the tale, nor was he above adorn tog it and pointing a moral. "I guess you gh4s heard about 1 Tim and Benny?" "Yeah. Benny's in the brig." "Tim's flat busted." Yeoman Webster shook bis head pityingly. "I thought they'd have, the sheer; decency to tell you, he said, frrim'a uncle died and left him $80,000." , . "AW.";. "Hurley Webster what a lie!" i "I saw the check myself. The Capn wanted me to take it to the bank for them, but I was too ; busyi And guess what for a sheer surprise? Tim bought a raceHhorse. Paid $10,000 fof It The both of them got a five-day liberty and they've gone to Del Marr - , MUlkent slid off her perch. "Thanks, -Hurler," she said, "joufre awful sweet to tell us." 1 Georgine, a more complex character, muttered things Into her beer. - , "Sailors!" she" said, "Always hanging around when they're broke. Talkin lovey-dovey to a girl when they ain't got a dime I knew Benny couldn't be, trust ed but I did think Tim was true the bus." Georgine paused for a further grim reflection on life. - "Ten thousand - bucks for a horse! she said. "Why wasn't I born a horse?" ? - And Yeoman Webster, who specialized in anti-climaxes, said, JL just thought you ought to . know.'. f This, k then, was the general strategic situation as The Enemy," in the person of Mr. Bert Sedg wick, arrived at the Del Mar hotel for his first contact with Forjce & Brains, Inc.. Il was met In th lrthhv hv that splendid son of -the Old South, Mr. Voice Garvey. "Majuh Garvey, suh, at yo service! I am trainuh an gen eral factotum to Mistuh Dunne van and Mistuh Linn.". "How nice," Bert said. He allowed himself to be steered toward a guest cottage on the see side of the hotel. . There was no scent of magnolia blossoms, but the odor of mint juleps emanating! from Major Garvey was entirely authentic. As an added touch, just at the threshold of the Virginians cot tage, a small darky bowed and scraped, r- . . j"" "Deys waitin, Mistah Voice Mistah Majuh, sah!" announced The PearL .'-,'.'..- Chapter Devea Entering the living room of the young man with a large Adam's apple and bright blue eyes; also a great, hulking individual with the uneasy, brooding expression of a St Bernard dog which has just eaten a leg off an unfortu nate Alpine wayfarer instead of giving him brandy and hard bis cuit Both gleamed to brand-new civvies,. ' I . "The name is Linn; Benjamin Linn, suh! An' this is man frined an colleagew Mistuh Dunnevan." f "Yerse, suh!? I ( 4 Bert Sedgwick shook hands gravely. Years on the turf had taught him never to be surprised. "Still want to j sell Erin Go Brash, eh?" f ". - I "Yes,1 suh,? Mistah Sedgwick. But only on account we hate to see y'all beat out'n a good horse through false pretensions, so on an so forth." "Especially so forth," This had all the earmarks of a -dirty crack and Mistuh Linn's manner was pleasantly brisk. "We-all is men of few words, Mistuh Sedgwick," he said. You're the best judge as to whether I an Tim Mistuh Dun nevan is actin for the best In terests of all concerned. I pre sume that if Erin Go Bragh Is to sound condition like we say. you might be fn-ter-ested, in buyin him back?" "might" ! "Okay. Hey, rummy uh, Ma juh!" - "Yes, suh?" "Excort Mistuh Sedgwic around back an' let him make a thor ough examination of Erin Go Bragh." "Willingly, suh!" Bert grinned. "How did you leave things In Richmond? Or was anything left?" .. "Things was very slow to Rich mond .suh." ..;!,.. "Yerse, suh. They was slow "You gentlemen don't by any chance know my old friend Tan tivy Martingale?" "Whut's his ship?" "Tim means we don't, Mistah Sedgwick. Ain't nevah had the yleasuh, suh. Now, If y'all will jest go along with Majuh Gar vey " , .. ..,,t . . Bert Sedgwick halted again. "Would I have to take The Pearl along with Erin Go Bragh? Would there be an extra charge," I mean, or would you gentlemen just throw him to?" : "Supposin we ' discust that' phase of the matter upon your return after lookin at Erin Go Bragh?" . "Yerse, uh!" ' "Well put Mistah Dunnevan, uh!" said Mr. I Sedgwick. "Is there any Brooklyn blood In your . family?' : ..' ;. i, , "Right this way, Mistuh Sedg- - - . nae . . wicx, sum Cousin v Voice hastily ' steered Mr. Sedgwick out a side door and down a walk toward the ocean front Back to the living room. Sea man Linn kicked Fireman Dun nevan's shin. ; "I told you It was yes, suh not yerse, suh, you dumbhead, he said. "An that crack . you made about what ship was the uy on. Ju-das Priest! f r Fireman Dunnevan glowered. -"Agh". . . he's a wise-cracker. You can't fool a guy like him, Benny, : ' . .. "Pine down'- ' ' .The caution came too late. "Yoo-hoo, Tim!", called a fa miliar girlish voice outside the door, "Dont you guys need a couple of maids or somepln?" And in walked MOlicent and Georgine. There was an awk ward pause. This, Georgine filled by wandering all around the room, her, face grim. "Twenty-four bucks a day, American plan, Millie. And jest to think we knew Tim and Ben ny when they pretended they ate on the ship to keep 'from buying us steaks. How time flies. ; (To be continued . "