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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943 D. tr Van SUSAN OF THE 17AVES by ALLEN EPPES tuu Eatarbroo. New Tor flamoar (irk expects t lean shortly for service In the Wares. She I belnr courted by Pierre "' Dupre. a Flfbtlnf Frenchman, and by Dick Craif , a young man who iuu a Washington war Job. However, she baa fallen in Ion with Harvey Borers. Army flyer. At the end of his leave in New York, be proposes to her. She feels they shouldn't marry while the future la so uncertain, bat iha E remises to wait for him. After e's cone, she hears that Dies Is coming- op from Washington ts we her. knows that ha will pro pose arain bat Is determiner1 to) reject him once and for all. She also makes a dais with Pierra with the attention of lellinf him af her encacement. Meanwhile. Pierre has been threatened by Carl Cooper, a man whom he sus pect!! of being a Nad stent. Carl has told Pierre that If be doesn't et Susan to show him throash her father's war plant, harm may come to, his family in the south f France. Hence, when Pierre keeps bis date with Susan, he is in low spirits. She decides she .. hasn't the heart to tell him that evening- that she's engaged to another man. - CHAPTER Xm PIERRE took Susan to a night rtlnh nnH nrVion f.Viao dam "No, precious, rm only In the mak ing. If all goes well. 111 be a lieu tenant one of then days. Just home on a short furlough. "Then they do give furloughs while you re in training I" Sudan. "Yes, darling. But why go ezelted bout it?" "I'm leaving for a Wave train ing station next week.'' Susan ra- Dlled. "No! Why, you little darling I Sit down and tell me about it. Do you know this handsome brute I'm with? No. of course you don't. ; Esterbrook;. Captain Strong." Susan and the officer shook hands. Then, Susan said, "Now, let mo butt in Just long enough to ask few questions about the service, you know. I feel as green as the oicicens." IN PACIFIC BASE WEANWHILE, Carl Cooper had Joined Pierre and sat talking to nun in undertones. "You've been avoiding me," Carl aid. "Rave I?" said Pierre. "Well, you seem always to be able to find out where rm going to be." "Clever of me. tent It?" Carl leaned closer. "Don't go on avoid' lng me. Pierre. It's best that we re main friends." "I didn't know that we'd ever been friends. "PJn 9 " C'a rl hmtorflrcwf "HVioll w eeatea at a muie, sue ventured gay acquaintances? to ask. him why he was so "That would be nearer the denressed... truth," Pierre replied. "Now. if you What's the matter?" she in Miss Esterbrook Is return- asked. "I've never seen look so glum." "I do not hear from my people," said Pierre, "and I have feeling that something may be wrong. "I'm sorry," she said. "I wish UH, you Carl Dushed back his chair. "Re member Madame Lecouvreur's tea. We snail expect you. Ke did not wait for Pierre to i ply, but hurried back to his own there was something I could do to sneer you up." "There it something yon can do, Susan." : "What. Pierre?" day. after the war. youU share that J!? Jenn "J JZ villa with me." Pierre leaned across JS.? we move to me other the table and touched her hand. .. . .... , . Its HQ little to ask. fuiri I rin nfwri Wasn't that Carl Cooper talklna- to you?" Susan said, as she took the chair Pierre drew out for her. "Yes." "Why was he In such hurry?" "I could not say," Pierre replied. something to hold to so badlv. Asking her to give him hope was little, thing, a small thing she e"H! could do to lessen the war tragedy of one lonely man who was far. far from home, she thought. "All right, Pierre," she said, "if itll help, go on hoping. I shall be thinking of you many, many times while Tm drilling and training." : -xou wmt- ne asked eagerly. "What's worrying you now, Pierre? Is it something that man Cooper He depresses me. that's an." Pierre said. moved on to another club. but they did not stay there Ions. "We mustn't stay out too late," said Susan. "I've got to feel my best wnen i take another physical ex- "Of course we don't know what ""nation. Mind taking me home the outcome of anything Is going to about now?" . be." she went on. "but we can both "Perhaps It's best," said Pierre, hope " "I am not feeling so gay myself." "Thank you, my sweet," Pierre . pr. In the hall of the Ester said. "Now I can smile." brook house, he said, "I should be And he did so. But the smile was made most httDPy- Susan, If I were shortlived. permitted to kiss you." "There's Carl Cooper agalnl" be Susan thought. "Why not? After exclaimed. all. the man's low In his mind, and If kiss will help his morale, who SUSAN turned and saw Carl at a am I to deny him?" nearby table, watching them. She lifted her face, and Pierre "It's certainly odd," she said, kissed her very gently, almost rev "that he always turns up where you erently. and I are dining." Then, when he was gone and she Then she saw someone else, and was standing alone in the hall, a gave s little cry. heaviness took hold of her. She felt "Oh. Pierre, there's a girl I know depressed, for some reason or other, the pretty Uttle Waao sitting She wished that she were leaving cross the room I You must excuse for her training right away. She - me. I want to ask her some ques- dreaded all the farewell parties and tlons." the dinners and. most of all. she Susan hurried over to speak to dreaded seeing Dick Craig. Diana Latham, the girl whom Mrs. Tm an awful weakling," she Esterbrook had said probably said to herself. "Ill probably end looked dumpier than ever In a unl- by promising to wait for him also!" form. But she didn't look that way Bhe sighed wearily, and slowly at an I Susan saw that she was climbed the stairs. slenderer than she had ever been trim and lovely. . To be continued) "Dlanal" she greeted her, "Or do (The characteri in this serial or X call you by some military title?" fictitious; "Susan, darlinsl" said Diana, gone, iso. t ormtre nrtiinimw n i Operation Which Formerly Took 6 Months Now Re quires Only 21 Days, Said LT. ON JAP-HELD BASE On the Radio Chains STAT10NSI Cbsin aft lallon and when tbej are on the dial! KALK (MBS) isst, Portland. ILEX (NH- Uluei 1180, Portland. KUA (NltC-Hlut MBS IS10 Spokane: ROO (NUC-Ulut) SIO. San Pranriico; HOW (r-.lO-Kedl 020. Port land i KJR (NUO-Ulue) 1000. Brattle; hNX (CHS) IU70 Los Armeies; a. OA (r'BC-Ked) SSO Denver: KOIN (CBS) 170. Port land; HOMO (NBC-Red) M Seattle; KPO (NBC-Red) 680 San Framioro; KSL (CBS) 1160 Salt Lata City. time Shown Is PWI v Thursday B;00 p. m. Msxwell Bouse Coffee Time, .KOA; Terry and the Pirates nuu, ivijiv, nu,. ..cwo. mw. - Personality Hour KOW; Beryl Wal lace, KNX; stop Look and Listen KOIN; Muslcale, KSL. 6:30 p. m. Death Valley Days. KSL; Aldrlch Family, KOA; Jack Arm strong. KOO, KEX, KJR: Harry W Flannery, news. KNX, KOIN: Day Foster, KOW; Stories of the Day. KOMO; Mual'.al Journal, KPO. 6:00 p. m. Major Bowes' Amateur Hour. KNX, KSL KOIN: Kralt Mu sic Hall. KPO. KOA, KOW, KOMO. 6:30 p. m. Arkansas Traveler, KPO. KOMO, KOA, KOW: Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands. KOO, KEX, KJR: Dinah Shore, KNX. KSL, KOIN. 7:00 p. m. Raymond Oram Swing, news, KOO, KJR. KEX: Abbott and Costello. KPO. KOA; The First Una. KNX, KSL. KOIN. 7:30 p m. Red Ryder, KOO, KEX. KJR: March or Time, KPO, KOA KOW. KOMO; Wallace Sterling. KNX; A victory uorsage, nou. 8:00 p m. Fred Waring In Victory Tune Time. KPO, KOA. KOW. KOMO; Roy Porter, news. KOO, KEX, KJK; I Love a Mystery. KNX. K8L, KOIN 8:30 D. m. Death Valley Daya. KNX. KOIN: Oertrude Lawrences Quest House. KOO, KEX, KJR; Mat well House Cotfee Time, KPO, KOW KOMO: News. KSL. 9:00 p. m. The Roma Show, KNX: Nw. KSL: Wlntta to Victory, KOO. KEX: Aldrlch Family KPO. KOW, KOMO; Air Raid Wardens' Program KIR- far You. KOIN. o-an m. Theaa Are Americans, KNX: Ellery Queen, KPO, KOW, KOMO; News, KSL, KEX, KJR, KOA; Mayor pi the Town, KOIN. in -no n m Reporter Kvws, KPO. KOW, KOMO; America's Town Meet ing of the Air. KJR. KEX; News, KNX, KOA. KOIN;. Music for Romance. 10:30 p. m. Danes Orch., KOIN KOW, KOMO: Nlte Club, KOO; Songs Overseas, KNX; Sweetheart Swing Time. KPO. 11:00 p. m. Organ muslo, KOW: This Moving World, KEX, KJR; Dance Orch., KOIN; News, KOO, KNX, KOMO. . . Friday 8 :00 p. m. Kate smltb Hour, KSL; Terry and the Pirates. KOO, KEX, KJR; Cities Service Concert, KOA; News, KPO. KOMO; The Personality Hour, KOW; Beryl Walace, KNJ; Fireside Harmonies, KOIN. 6:30 p. m. Harry W. 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KOW; Meet Your Navy, KJR, KEX; Kate Smith Hour, KNX, KOIN; News, KOA; Danes orch, kou; Sports, KSL. 0:30 p. ' m. nancn orcn., kuu, KOW; News, KSL. KEX. KJR. KOA; Highlight Hour, komo; Houywooa Theater, KPO. 10:00 p. m. Reporter News, kpo. KOW, KOMO; News. KNX KOA, KOIN; Dance Time, KJR; Music for Romance, KOO; Masterworks of Mu- ale. KSL. 10:30 p. m. Dance orch, KNX. KOIN; H. V. Kaltenbora, news, KOMO. KPO; Eye Witness News. KEX; Nlte Club. KOO. Hardening for Food, KOW; Ootpel Hour, KJR. 11:00 p. m. This Moving World, KOO, KEX; Dance Orch., KOW; News, KNX, KOMO, KOO; Folk Mu slo, KJR, Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 6.80 Saturday afternoon Br Frank Tromslno United Press Staff Correspondent Headquarters, South Pacific Force. Oct. 14 U.R) Aircraft rnnlnn heart of the Allied war effort in the south pacific which once were out of action for six months for overhaul after every 80,000 flying miles, now are serviced and returned lor use in 21 days by a new aircraft engine overhaul base In this area. Navy authorities estimated that the new base saves the Al lies over $12,000,000 in invest ment for new engines and makes Immediately available to Allied fliers some 49,000,000 additional flying miles. Fix All Types The base services navy, army. marine, Australian and New Zealand aircraft of all types from fighters to the largest transports and bombers. The navy department in Wash ington approved a suggested plan for the base last Jan. 15 Ground on what once was a cow pasture on a south Pacific isl and was broken in May and three months later the base handled its first run of engines. Lt. F. A. Celler, USNR, of Bos ton, Mass., assembly and repair officer, explained the importance of the new base. . "An aircraft engine is good for from 500 to 600 hours of fly ing before it must be completely disassembled and rebuilt," he said, "The standard engine has more than 14,000 parts, and we are equipped not only to handle every type of engine from fight ers to bombers, but also acces sories from propellors to super chargers." ' Short Haul Now Engines once had to be trans ported across thousands of miles of ocean before they could be overhauled and salvaged, then carried back again to the front. They now are serviced within day's flying time of advance south Pacific air bases and can be put back in action in 21 days, he said. Cmdr. T. D. Guinn. USN. of Atlanta, Ga., and Coronado. Cal., pioneer navy airman and commanding officer of the base, said more than half of the per sonnel are specialists gathered from naval air bases in UifTUnit ed States in all the varvine Mrs.. Richard N. Davis, R. 2, Tuesday received an account of a raid of more than 200 aircraft on Wewak, Japanese held point on New Guinea, in which her husband, Lt. Davis, pilot of Mitchell bomber, took part. Lt, Davis, who has been In the army nearly two years, enlisting in January of 1842, has been In Mew Guinea since last April. The day Mrs. Davis received the letter containing the account of the raid, she had lust returned home from a local hospital with her infant daughter, born Octo ber 4. The story of the raid was sent Mrs. Davis by a Chicago woman who sent a note saying she made a hobby of clipping articles written about service men and mailing them to rela tives. The air battle in which Lt. Davis participated took place September 27 and resulted in a miraculous escape for the pilot ana his crew when the bomber ran into heavy ack-ack and one motor was disabled. With but one Motor and the right rudder shot away, Lt. Davis relates that his co-pilot, Flight Officer Wil liam Ruse of Tulsa, Okla.. at tempted to lighten the plane by tnrowing overboard everything that could be torn lose. The plane, flying but 40 or 50 feet above the water, trembled and hook, the flyer said, while the co-pilot dumped out equipment, the armor plating and the radio. His efforts to lighten the load proved successful and Lt. Davis was able to return the plane to the home base. Lt. Davis graduated from Medford high school and later worked for the. California-Oregon Power company here. He graduated from Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz., In October of 1942. His wife is making her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Elliot, for the duration. grades of aircraft engineering, When the personnel began train ing as a team last February be fore construction of the base, they became .the entire night shift in a west coast navy over haul plant. "We now are reaching the maximum number of major overhauls a month as initially scheduled for us," Gulnn said, "and we can exceed that. We can take all types of engines." Has Own Hospital In addition to large, round topped, tin-roofed Quonset huts housing millions of dollars worth of precision machinery and en gines undergoing overhaul and rebuilding, the base also has its own large hospital capable of handling major operations, liv ing quarters for the bases entire personnel and recreation cen ters Including o theater for ama teur talent, movies, a boxing ring and facilities for fishing in the surroundinc waters. Blackout Rules Still in Effect San Francisco, Oct. 14. (U.R) Residents of the 9th civilian de fense region were warned today state blackout laws are still in effect despite relaxation of dim out rules. All lights must be extinguished immediately at the sound of air raid warnings, George L, Levl son, acting ODR director, said. WA MAIN PURCHASER SOUTH AMERICAN LINE Washington,. Oct. 14. (U.R) Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., today was reported to be the major purchaser in transaction which will give four United States firms financial control of TACA (Transportes Aereos Centro-Americanos), air service in South and Central America. American Aviation, industry magazine, said TWA is buying more than $1,000,000 worth of TACA stock and that Stewart McDonald, president of the Maryland Casualty Co., the Adams Express Co., New York, and Time, Inc., New .York, are purchasing somewhat less than $500,000 each. THE GRANGE Phoenix Grange Phoenix Grange met Tuesday night with 39 members and two visitors present. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Tripp were obligated in third and . fourth degrees and' Mr. and Mrs. Al fred Schroeder were1 obligated in first and second degrees. Home Economics club will meet at the home of Mrs. Gladys Harris on October 20. Covered dish lunch at noon. Next grange meeting will be October 28 and a covered dish supper will be served at 7 p. m. Officers will be elected at the first meeting in November and at the last meeting the lecturer asked that each committee of the ' grange prepare a number for the lecturer program. ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hocker smith of Sams Valley Grange were welcomed as visitors. Serving committee Tuesday night was Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Maust, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Dud ley, Mrs. Lillian Coleman, and Lloyd Colver. Closing time for Classified ads t a. m. Too late to Classify 13:30 p. m. THE WORLD AT IB WORST By CLUYAS WILLIAMS . ..... ariruur iMnce-ratfA a MmoQ REPWR. .W'IsSi in2 Kkir , hold -The light, some nw 4 TK&'him rok MEONE ib moid The noG m and 90 2SS.SS , Jm ?X nf KXtoiT) M WITH AflRSf AID Wf WHEN HE BASHES HIS 1HUM6 , WD EVEW0NE 1b 1UI HIM J WHICH CONVERTS fSSN WttS. foe SAiioQsiosr eerteM'if A 1 u LlWt ifl SEA Cue to "r'cs aZTrS1 WlrtfsA HAS INVENTED FOQ 'J? 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