SERIAL STORY
fisdli Carts, WAAC
BY LORETTE COOPER
corrmoHT, it 43.
NEA MKVICl. INC.
illl characters, Incident and
iUvitrationt In BETH CARTER,
WAAC are fictional.
Chapter I
TIIE city was blacked-out that
' night but to Third Officer
Bc(h Carter of the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps It was more
glamorous than the Great White
Way.
As 8he looked from the window
of the top story of the Tower, she
could see in the bright Pacific
moonlight the outlines of a great
bay.
She remembered, from her
brief glimpse of the city during
daylight, what was down there;
but she knew that her glimpse
had only given her the faintes.
of hints of the vastness of the
United States Army and Navy
Installations which the night was
biding.
Somewhere down there, she
knew, were trains unloading men
and equipment at docks. Some
where down there were troop
ships going out with the tide.
She thought of them as being
like that tide flowing across all
of the regions of the world, irre
sistibly strong, as powerful as
destiny itself.
Yes, she knew now powerful
destiny could be, for it had taken
her from behind a typewriter in
a small automobile agency in a
tiny town in Nebraska to the
WAAC Officer Candidate class at
Fort Des Moines.
Now that she was a full-fledged
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
third officer, she knew that she
had only half understood her real
reason for joining that her un
derstanding of it had been more
intuitive than intellectual. Now
she realized how tremendous had
been her latent desire to have a
share in this war for the humani
ties, as big a share as she could
possibly handle.
"T IEUTENANT CARTER!"
Beth turned.
"Yes, sir," she said.
A young man with gold bars on
the shoulders of his dress uniform
smiled at her.
"General Tallicoe will see you
now. Lieutenant Carter."
"Yes, sir."
She followed the second lieu
tenant through a dimly lighted
corridor to an office where it was
obvious work never ceased. The
officer at the desk wore the three
silver stars of a lieutenant gen
eral. Beth saluted snappily. The gen
eral smiled and returned the sa
lute. The second lieutenant wait
ed for a moment, then was dis
missed. "Lieutenant Carter," said Gen
eral Tallicoe, "this is a very dan
gerous and a very secret mission
you are about to perform. I un
derstand you volunteered for it"
,. "Yes, sir."
. "Do you still wish to go?"
j . "I shan't turn back now, sir."
; "I felt you-wouldn't, Lieuten
ant" .- . -. ....
General Tallicoe handed Beth
an envelope.- 1
"Here are your orders. Lieuten
ant Carter. I am afraid you will
learn nothing from them Your
destination is secret, and these
are merely sufficient to put you
on the pay roll when you arrive.
fYou will work directly under
Major Jackson."
General Tallicoe pressed a but
ton on his desk. The young lieu
tenant reappeared.
"Send in Major Jackson," the
'general commanded.
In a moment the major was
there. ,
"Major Jackson, this is Lieuten
ant Carter. She will accompany
you."
Beth and the major shook hands.
It was a strong, friendly hand
shake, and she gained confidence
'in him immediately.
"Are you ready to go?" the ma
jor asked.
She Picks 'Em
mm
Up a tree is this Duarte, Calif.,
high school girl who is helping
harvest the local orange crop.
"Yes, sir."
"Then, sir," Major Jackson said
to the general, "with your permis
sion, we will be on our way to
morrow after dark."
"With my blessing, you mean,"
the general said. Ho shook hands
with both of them. "Good luck
and God bless you."
JJETH spent the next day at the
airport, watching with interest
the thousand and one details that
preceded the take-off of a giant
plane. At nightfall she and Ma
jor Jackson boarded a Fortress.
A quarter of an hour afterwards,
Beth could see nothing but the
moonlit bosom of the Pacific
There had been no chance to
talk with Major Jackson very lit
tle chance even to see him. She
was conscious that soldiers looked
at her with queries in their eyes,
that the Fortress crew had regard
ed her a little curiously.
"Maybe they've never seen a
WAAC," she said to herself in
amusement Then she thought it
through soberly and realized that
perhaps that very thing was true
that these Fortress men, fighting
men from a front so far away it
challenged imagination and now
perhaps returning to that front,
had barely heard of the Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps.
She was almost too wide awake
to want to slumber, but Major
Jackson insisted on it As she lay
down, her head pillowed against
a parachute, she said a little pray
er that her uniform would not be
too rumpled in the morning. Then
she dozed.
The Fortress sped swiftly on
. . . toward adventure, toward dan
ger, toward a tiny island that
seemed almost too small a speck
in the vast Pacific to provide a
landing field.
Beth opened her eyes in a mys
terious new sunshiny world. This
was it . . . the Pacific theater of
war.
, . (To Be Continued)
AND NO INSURANCE
CHICAGO (if) A 3-11 alarm
brought fire apparatus Into the
6000 block on Winthrop avenue
in a tangle of engines, trucks,
hose, ladders and the usual cur
ious fire fans.
The blaze was extinguished in
a few minutes and a fireman re
marked the only damage was to
a roast.
"But," said tile owner, "It was
a 31-pomt roast.
BUT WHAT'S IN A NAME
AUSTIN, Tex. (if) -The state
treasurer reported the deficit In
the general revenue fund stood
at $20,993,281, the lowest in
more than two years.
The treasurer's name?
Jesse James.
Always read the classified ads.
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THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson
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IN AUTLAAN.
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PEOPLE CLOSER TOGETHER,
din
J JANE kehoe.
A SCIENTIST
HAS FIGURED THAT THE
AAEADOWLARKS
OF SACRAMENTO VALLEV,
CALIFORNIA, DESTROY
93 TOSS OS AtSC7Z
DA.Z.V...VJHZH FEEDING
THEIR. YOUNS.
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NEXT: Where is the world's largest ranch?
AMERICAN WARPLANE
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured war
plane, the
B-23
12 Smell
13 Wager
14 Love to excess
15 Greek letter
16 Et cetera
(abbr.)
17 Side protected
. from wind
18 We
20 Leave out
21 Pay attention
to
22 Parent
24 Erect
26 Mix
28 Seine
29 Single
30 Sailor
31 Writing fluid ,
32 Beverage
34 Auricle
37 Rowing
implements
39 Mother
il Egyptian sun
god
Answer to Previous Poixle
43 One time
44 Pint (abbr.)
45 Labor
47 Pertaining to
wings
49 Editor (abbr.)
50 Bolivia
(abbr.)
51 Scatter
53 These planes
are flown by
the
55 Naked
56 Sash
10 Dined
11 Compass point
18 Vase
19 Observe
22 Fastener
23 Exist
25 Perfume
27 Sign
32 Spinning toy
33 Consume food
35 High card
36 Bright color
38 Gale
39 Mill abbr.)
40 Singing voices
57 Small particle 41 Wireless
59 It is one of the 42 Morindln dye
most 43 Deliver speech
VERTICAL 1c,?H?2,k
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1 Negative tom)
2 Poem 48 Arabian
3 Part of motor 50 Sheep's cat
4 Street car 52 Recede
5 Aid 54 Pro
6 Encountered 55 Bold face
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Freckles and His Friends
By Blotter
NEW CHAIR SET IN
DAFFODIL DESIGN
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ABOUT A VfllD LADY! SAV SHE WAS
CAPTAIN COOK SNOOP1N AROONO
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OPEN.BOV4I THAT
SHOULD HAVE Be EN
tuosts:
Boots and Her Buddies
By V. T. Hamlin
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by Alice Brooks
Every smart home boasts at,
least one crocheted chair set!
But seldom have you seen as
lovely and distinctive a design
as this! It's in lacy filet cro
chet, with the daffodil motifs set
off by a plain background stitch.
Smart for sofa or buffet, too.
Pattern 7542 contains charts'and
instructions for set; stitches; list
of materials needed.
To obtain this pattern send 11
cents in coin to The Herald and
News, Household Arts Dept.,
Klamath Falls. Do not send this
picture, but keep it and the num
ber for reference. Be sure to
wrap coin securely, as a loose
coin often slips out of the envel
ope. Requests for patterns
should read, "Send pattern, No.
;., to followed by
your name and address.
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Allep Oop
By Martin
NO MANNERS
NEW YORK (Pi Thomas Le
vine was just an innocent by
stander until he opened his
mouth. He told police he was
wailing for a streetcar when he
saw a motor car knock down
Lazarus Schwartz.
The driver went back to as
sist Schwartz to his feet and
then Levine remonstrated with
him. Whereupon the motorist
kicked him and promptly drove
away.
Police reported both hit-and-run
and kick-and-run victims
had to have hospital treatment.
CATCHING UP
PHILADELPHIA (if) The
Ketterlinus Lithograph Manufac
turing . company got around to
mailing its 1943 calcndnrs today,
four months and 11 days after
January 1. Busy on war work,
the company explained.
r777"'CEI?TAINLV.' I KNEW 7H7 THAT GUV NEVER
.MV?R? WAS EXPERIMENTING SHOULP HAVE BEEN 1
WARDEN.' Vwrm ROCKETS, BUT ) DISCHARGED FROM
Sftti .7, yPii-, COULD I KNOW THE GOOFY WARD IN '
XhPH.YPiSZ, we'd &ET in- the First place, J
WJSMfi&Zu ) SIDE ONE mo i-ET alone turned .
?e,SiliPiScN SHOOT HIMSELF LOOSE IN THE K.
PC?NO?
WELL, WHAT i
DEDUCED
FROM THE
AVAILABLE
CLUES t.
THE ROCKET
TOOK A COURSE
JUST A POINT
WEST Or PUB
NORTH
JTr A MOUNTAIW AREA
I HiV6K,lEC,l OF THE TAMERVIUE
ipAvieliol rl JUNCTION JUST
Littlo Orphan Annio
Harold Gray
I THINK I
UNDERSTMW HOW
BIG GEORGE FEELS
LET US GO TO
SEE HIM aLflUE.
AHNIE-
3-12-43
I THIS V.t,
I WW- W.
GAD! JUST
LIKE THAT I
GOT TO KNOW
WUR WAY IM
A PLACE LIKE
THIS, EH?
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IF YOU DO
WATCH t)UR
.STEP I
HERE WE ARE
THEY AREKT HURT
BUT WE COULDNT
LET 'EM MESS UP
THAT RADIO
HM-M-MO-
I CAN SEE
THftT-BUT
WHERE IS
BIG GEORGE?.
IT'S 0. K f THEN I
BIGGEORGE-THT AM GLAD 1
COMMANDER OLp! TO M:ET j
IS A PAL JHhkiM WO, KIR- i