member 21. 1938.
THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON
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inVFRS AWEIGH
U BY BETTY WALLACE
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c .V He sends you here,
"fiw" how many heurs
fru'll. you can go back
Mi -. . thrnusn: i m
JT, takes me lor! I'm
T7. him Sain- .. , ...
l.,ud!., Hotel, with the
LSTo Marvel Hastings'
P. and narrowed green
M ."iM, inside her, she
KCv "1 ought to hate
hip' . ' i r f.el sorrv lor
tsinewi-h him. nd
Eembering whjt M.n,l
fi,jnf ' flushed. "You're
ELS W It hadn't t.k-
su . ..... Galons. Jealous.
fcse sue w j'
LTTrove home slowly
L..w a-ss out ai "
E of white wakes, boiling
Ul,-S.' "battle line.
C thought of planes rolling
P " .. rirk- A sisfnal.
CV'ev were whirling aloft.
fc.-mg the sny. -
Eprehensible job that no
rZ m vcr wholly under-
P, their ships," she
i'ta herself, "are better friends,
r v.. trusted, than their
Ens . " And it hurt' but "
1i. .tin. rni back in four
l . ,X .tnnrl on the Dier,
Lsini the liberty boats put
fcio the water , " '"
I had seen uiem imc m,
I smwJHiy "
ronoing anchor, announcing
-orally that the job was done,
--it job? She didn't know. It
fent matter.
cw. jrtnt harK 10 ner car Hnn
..i..lu u'Viilf. dreams of en-
tied men poured into the wait-
l( town. Up Broadway they
til.. '
fcd young and muscular. Bailor
Irr Ano tnere were women
L.';m fa, Ilipm. Inn. Wives and
Iwthearts. Judy wondered, sud-
b, if the most blondmed, the
rinpm little rfance hall sfirl
frii have put on a worse show
k temper than tne expensively
romea, superDiy iinisnea mar
fcl Hastings had done.
9 9 9
She stepped on the starter. It
had bee na mistake, coming down
here. She ought to wait at home
for Dwight. He'd come. But
when she got home, she found
Jack Hanley. "
She had not seen him since
that night aboard the battleship.
when they had quarreled. He had
not telephoned. She had felt
humiliated because she knew that
he must have heard Dwight was
going to marry a rich girl from
the east; and so he had known
that Judy had lied to him. But
despite her consciousness that
their next meeting would be em
barrassing, she had missed -him
in a curious fashion. She had
come to depend so much on those
casual evenings when he dropped
around ana tney danced to the
radio or sat on the porch, idly
talking. . s
bo now sne was glad to see
him, and yet intermingled with
her gladness was the memory of
that lie. She wondered if he
would refer to it. But he did not.
He only said, "Hello, Judy," and
she said, "Hello. You look all
in!"
He did. He was tired. It was
in the suddenly deep lines of his
face; in the eyes that looked worn
and heavy; in the way his long
legs sprawled out.
She said, "Flown a good many
weary miles?" and he grunted.
Then she asked him how the four
days at sea had . gone. He said,
"Some little whim of the an
miral's. Working out a pet no
tion, or something. Not regular
maneuvers, .but the battleships
had target practice, and we had
scouting and meeting the patrol
boats and all that."
- Yet the look on his face meant
more than mere routine flights
There was more to it than that.
She asked swiftly, "Casualties?"
"One," he admitted reluctantly.
He told her that a light fighter
off the Enterprise, spiralling into
the clouds, had some way gotten
into trouble. Not engine trouble
for the mechanics checked the
ships too carefully before each
flight. "Maybe he got rattled
He never did fly into formation."
He had nose dived, spinning into
the sea, and one of the big fly
ing boats had come down on the
choppy water to render assistance.
"Only," he said carefully, not
looking at her. "It was too late.
She licked her suddenly dry
lips. "Who was it? Anyone I
FLAPPER FANNY
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Tell! If that1 s the best grade you can make on, your
A ,lul( gunjia wriu? any iuuie jlui juu.
SIDE GLANCES
know?"
No. It was a kid recently
transferred from Pensacola."
That meant hn haH nnt h..n
flying Ion a. She felt a litil.
There were not so many casual
ties now as there used to be, her
father said, proudly. The navy
was building some real flyers.
But there were enough so thai
you couldn't ever forget the brav
ery of men who flew. Enough
j inat jacK must have known,
l a swift, awful flaih as he
atched that other man flninc
down, that maybe some day it
might be his own ship that dived
tiKs mat, straight into green wa
ter. . . . Everv man in th xnttari-
ron faced that possibility. They
ere ganam, omng about it, or
mply ignoring it. But it was
there. And the wives nf thp mn
who piloted airplanes must live
"ways unoer the shadow of dis
aster. Juay thought of Diane
Bell, who never Blent niehts whtn
Bill was on duty. Diane had said
once, "They die a thousand times.
Over and over and over in vnur
mind. And then at last the real
time when it actually hannens."
She had added, "Maybe it's re
lief. To know it's over. Vmi
don't have to worry any more.'
Judv touehpd .lark's Vianr! swift
ly. Her eves soueht his.
Judy touched Jack's hand
swuiiy. -f romise me you 11 be
careiui, jacK:
He patted her reassuringly. The
urea eyes came alive. Tin care.
ful. I I didn't think you'd care
much though "
"Of course I care!" she said.
The doorbell rang. She leaped
to ner leet. "That must be
Dwight."
"Dwight?" Jack's face was sud
denly still and guarded, and the
things they had said that night
on the battlewagon seemed to
come alive between them. "I
thought he"
Judy explained swiftly, "His
girl flew here from the east, you
know. But when he had to shove
off, she got mad, "and ran a,vay.
I guess he he went to her hotel
first and he he wants to ask me
about it."
"But what do you know about
it?" Jack was frowning.
There was no time to explain
further. She opened the door,
and Dwight, his handsome face
flushed and his eyes bright with
impatience was asking, "What
happened to Marvel? She's
checked out of the Coronado!
"I know it," Judy said quietly.
"Won't you come in and sit down
I'll tell you . . . what Sittie
know. ..."
Dwight greeted Jack, and sat
down on the sofa beside him
Judy had not expected Jack to
be present when she gave Mar.
vel's message to Dwight, but
there was no help lor It now.
She said, "I went there, as you
asked me to, Dwight. I I tried
to explain to her. But she would
n't listen. She was very angry.
She kept saying that you c,ould
have stayed if you d wanted to.
I explained and explained tried
to make her see but she said
she was leaving for Los Angeles
and never coming back."
"Leaving?" Dwight's head jerked
forward, and he cried, "For God
sake, couldn't you have talked
little sense Into her? I wasn't off
on any pleasure jaunt!"
"I know it. But she just
wouldn't listen.'
(To Be Continued)
J'a fv M , . . . .
. iU you Wl 4K. i f il. -n. hofor vnn
,ve dear? I can drive only forward, you know."
Stories in
STAMPS
Brazil Prepares to Tap
Its Vast Hinterland
THE frontier days, so epie In tht
history of the United States,
are still ahead of vast, sprawlini
Brazil. But the country is movinj
in on the hinterland with a new
vigor, following the path of th(
rails as did America from the
roaring forties to the eighties.
The lick of transportation has
long retarded Brazil's economic
growth. But now t big scale pro
gram is to be launched in both
road and rail routes. Navigation
imDrovement is planned as well
Reports indicate that thousands
of miles ol railroad will be built
inland as far as the states of
Govaz and Matto Grosso ana ex
tensive highway construction will
open up the back country as far
north as Bahia. At the same time
there will be wholesale reorgan
isation of the government-owned
steamship lines with 8 view to
tapping new resources of the In
credibly rich and undeveloped
country.
So vast is Brazil that some
boundaries have never been sur
veyed. Official eetimates place its
area at 3,285,319 square miles.
The population approximates
45.000,000. Brazil is the largest
state in South America, exceeding
the size of Continental United
States, exclusive of Alaska, by
250,000 square miles. It has
coast line on the Atlantic of 4106
miles, and the country extends;
2?91 miles from north to south
and J500 miles east to west The
northern half is the great heavily
wooded basin of the Amazon
3454 miles long. In all its riven
Brazil possesses 40,000 miles of
navigable waters.
Brazil is shown above on map
stamp of the country issued In
1927.
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