HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-12-02, Page 6"PAGE SIX THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, December 2, 1937
Monty Wallace has just arrived in
California, having broken the East-
West cross country airplane record.
Natalie Wade, mistaken by him for a
newspaper reporter, writes the ex
clusive account of Monty’s arrival and
succeeds in securing a trial job with
a paper in exchange for the story.
Natalie becomes attached to Monty.
Although she discovers Monty’s
love for her is not sincere, Natalie
admits that she loves him. She is as
signed by her paper to report Monty’s
activities for publication. Jimmy Hale
the newspaper’s photographer, be
comes Natalie’s co-worker.
Natalie interviews Jake Marion, a
wealthy airplane builder, who decides
to build a record-breaking ’round the
world plane for Monty. Marion’s
daughter, Sunny, exquisitely beauti
ful, is attracted to Monty. She invites
Natalie to dine with her, when they
meet the aviator unexpectedly.
Natalie discovers that Sunny is
jealous of her friendship with Monty,
and that she is trying to prevent them
from being alone. After driving to a
■mountain resort with Sunny and Jim
my, Monty again declares his loves
for Natalie.
Sunny attempts to drive Natalie
"from Monty’s attention by climbing
a high wall. She almost loses her
balance and is pulled back by Monty.
Jimmy later asks Natalie to consider
his love for her if she refuses Monty.
Natalie induces Monty to set out
with her in an airplane search for two
missing aviators. At dusk Monty
lands the plane in the open country,
where he and Natalie must spend the
night. Resuming the search in the
morning, they finally locate the fliers.
Natalie wires the story to her paper.
That night, at dinner, Marion an
nounces a non-stop, ’round the world
flight, with Monty piloting the new
plane, “Sunny Marion.” Monty’s
plan is to have ten refuelling sta
tions along the route, where pilots are
to go aloft to refuel his plane. Monty
flies with Natalie to New York, where
he will begin the
They are followed
Sunny.
flight eastward,
by Jimmy and
♦* *
Two more days and Mont would
be roaring over the ocean on the
most impossible flight in history.
Something gripped at her heart.
Something told her she would never
see him again.
She stood up and moved to the
window of the room. Children were
playing at the curb. The world was
going on without a thought of im
pending tragedy.
She tidied her hair and renewed
the light make-up she wore. But pan
ic was upon her. She had to see him
again quickly. His room, she knew,
was at the end of the short ball. She
.slipped along the worn carpet and
tapped gently at the door.
There was no response. Someone
was coming up the twisted stairs. She
turned the knob of the door and
slipped inside.
Mont was asleep. He had thrown
off coat and shoes and tie,
For a long time she stood there
listening to his heavy breathing.
Then very quickly she moved forward
and sank ot the floor beside him. She
laid her cheek against the sleeve of
his shirt.
She woud stay there a little while
guarding him with her love. And
now her fear fell from her . .', it
was as though his nearness and her
adoration for him had driven it out.
Her throbbing heart grew calm.
She knew content again.
And so she fell asleep beside him
and did, not wake till early afternoon.
“Is this nice?” he asked, seeing she
was awake.
She sprang up quickly but lie
caught her hand and drew her down
beside him.
“I’m in a
her hand to
She could
“I’m supposed,” he chuckled, “to
be a devil with the women. I’ve been
that way deliberately so that I would
never want to marry anybody. Now
I’ve got myself in a spot where you
come in here and I wake up and you
are just as safe as if I didn’t love
you. What’s the answer?"
“Maybe you really do love me,
she said faintly. “You only wanted
me before.”
“Well, it’s a new one on me . . .
and I love you all right. But there
isn’t going to be any marrying in our
business.”
He spoke a little angrily, she im
agined, as though he fought against
something.He whipped a glance at the watch
on his arm. “We’d better L_ _
back to the field. They’ll
for us.”
She went back to her
then, but her heart was
though in triumph. It seemed queer
about that when he had just told her
they were not to be married. She
wondered about it a little but there
was no explanation — unless it was
that her heart knew better than her
mind that he loved her as she had
to be loved. ,
He came for her in a few minutes
and they rushed away to the field.
Jimmy was there and Sunny Mar
ion presently, a frowning Sunny who
attached herself at once to Monty.
Jimmy tried to get the girl away
once or twice but she would not go
with him and the four went together
for dinner at a larger hotel in the nei-
. ghborhood.
Natalie wrote another story in her
quiet room that night when Jimmy
had taken her to the small hotel and
then she sat waiting for Mont’s foot
steps outside her door.
J They did not come and she got in-
j to becoming negligee, hoping , to rest
i until he should appear. Once, twice,
I she waked having dreamed that he
■ came up the stairs, but each time she
hell of a fix,” he said,
his lips.
not speak.
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be getting
be looking
own room
singing as
KING AND QUEEN GUESTS OF KING LEOPOLD
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King George and Queeri Elizabeth
dre pictured as they arrived in the
Belgian embassy in Belgrave Sq.# to
attend a dinner in their honor there
given by King Leopold of the Bel
gians during his state visit to Eng-
andland. Dowager Queen. Mary
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
were the other guests at King Leo
pold's dinner. The dinner was follow
ed by a state ball in Buckingham
Palace.
saw that the door of his room stood
blackly open and knew that he had
not come back.
It was so until the morning, and,
when Jimmy telephoned, she went out
to breakfast with him a little sick at
heart. At the field, she waited and
watched' for Mont, but it was mid
morning before he appeared.
He was haggard and pale. Natalie
hurried to him with quick alarm, fear
ing that he might not be ready the
next day for the long grind of the
flight.
But he was intent on his work’and
it was not till Sunny Marion arrived,
her make up heavy and her smile odd
ly triumphant that Natalie knew the
truth of that night.
She took him away from the Mar
ion girl then. Directly and deliberate
ly she made him go with her, and
she drove him straight to the small
hotel.
She got him into the place and
commanded him to sleep.
“Don’t you realize,” she cried "that
your life may depend -upon it? You’re
in no shape to fly. You’re all brok
en up about something. You’ve got
to forget everything but the flight.”
“All right,” he told her. “But get
out of here. I’ll be all right.
She knew then that something
more than a night out was behind
those tense white lips of his. It was
something, she thought, connected
with her; something that made him
brusque with her. But
make out what it might
She saw to it that he
turbed that afternoon
When he appeared the
the flight, there was still a line of
tension about his mouth but his eyes
were clear and he could grin.
On the way to the'field after break
fast, he was silent. She thought he
might be worrying about the flight,
and tried to bolster his confidence.
But he turned to her impatiently.
“Nat,” he said grimly, “I may not
be coming back from this thing, and
if I don’t, I want you to know some
thing. I swore I wouldn’t ever love
a girl enough to want to marry her.
Marriage is not for fools like me that
have to be taking crazy risks. I made
marriage virtually impossible for me
and then you came along. If I could
have got you, it would have been all
right. But I couldn’t and now I’m
mad about you. I went out last night
trying to forget you and now it’s
worse than ever. I’m going to make
this flight or die trying and I’m go
ing to be wanting you every inch of
the way. But I don’t want you to be
where I can see you on the take-off.”
“All right, Monty. I’ll keep out of
sight.”
she said the words. “Everything is
all right and if only I know you love
me. Even if we never marry, we will
have the most important thing. Now
stop worrying, especially about that.”
She drove with him to the plane
and then she slipped away into the
small early morning crowd. It was
little more than dawn but these peo
ple had come out to see the start.
As she passed toward the flight of
fice, she saw a man in shirt sleeves
pushing his way through the crowd
toward the plane.
Inside, she asked the first question
everybody had been asking.
“What is the weather report?”
“It’s bad,” the answer came. “They
are going to hold everything till to
morrow.”
Natalie strolled back toward the
plane. She wondered what it was best
to do. Had she better see him again,
be with him that day? Or would it
be better to keep away from him?
When she came near, she saw that
Sunny Marion was talking with him.
She seemed to be her old, brilliant
self, The pout was gone from her
face. That little smile of triumph
seemed to ride there.
Mont turned to the shirt-sleeved
man at his side,
he held, glanced
half across.
Leaning down
the bland girl and sprang into the
cabin of the plane. He tewed up the
motor, found that it had been warm
ed, that it answered to the throttle.
Then, suddenly, the ship was roar
ing across the field. Grease monkeys
scattered, Someone rushed out of the
field office crying, “Stop him I Stop
him!” But the plane was rising now
. » » it was up and speeding for the
sea.
Natalie drew back alone, A
bing moan broke from het lips.
! weather was wrong, He had
Waited.
And this was the man she loved,
the man who loved her, rushing into,
unknown terror and death on a mad'
flight around the world.
newspaper woman in her
to the rescue. The flash
out from the field office,
have her story ready for
Business and Professional DirectoryShe looked around for someone and
knew at once that it was Jimmy she
sought in that small crowd, But he
was not there. He was nowhere.
Through tear-wet lashes she could
not see him at any rate.
And when she did see, she stood
stock Still.
For Jimmy Hale was leading the
beautiful blond Sunny from the field.
And Jabe Marion came behind with
the field officers,
Natalie fled then. She raced for a
taxicab and hurled herself into it,
“Quick!” she cried and gave the ad
dress of her hotel.
For the
had come
would go
She must
the wire in half an hour. And as she
•rode through the morning streets she
was planning the lead of that story.
“Defying the elements,” she found
her lips saying, “tossing aside con
temptuously the adverse weather re
ports that would have held up the
flight from Mineola field today for
Mineola field—around the
non-stop,”
She hardly knew when she
the hotel. She stopped for
when she faced her typewriter in that
quiet room. z
She thrust paper and carbons into
the machine and banged.at the keys.
Her story must go. Her heart might
break. Her lover might crash to a
thousand deaths on sea or land from
the vast height at which he flew, but
these bits of paper must be lashed
by the keys that her fingers drove.
They must be whipped out one by
one till the telegraph boy rushed
away away with them, till the pencils
slashed, till the linotypes crashed, till
the presses grumbled and roared, till
the whole world knew that Mont
Wallace was on his way.
The story ended at last.
“To be continued," she wrote for a
last paragraph.’ “To be continued is,
the story Mont Wallace writes in
clouds and sea today. To be contin
ued is the epic of the Twentieth Cen
tury’s fourth decade as one- tousle-
headed youth rides high to new fame
or to death.
She did not break when the story
ended. She did not stop till the last
page had been thrust into the' hands
of the waiting boy and hurried on its
way.
There were two pilots on the plane
going home.
Natalie could have screamed when
she saw them, for they reminded her
again that Mont Wallace was alone
as he fough,t his way across the At
lantic.
It was all she could, do to bring
herself to enter the roomy tri-motor
that afternoon when she knew that
it would still be hours before any pos
sible report could come from the lone
flier. She wanted to, cling to the win
dow of some telegraph office, or bet
ter still, to sit at the elbow of one
of the radio operators in the world
flight chain.
Triumph sang in her heart as I ------------------
r1 TTx m t-xr i It I zT- " EAST WAWANOSH
REEVE AND COUNCIL
GOT ACCLAMATION
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garding township matters at their
nominations but this year the attend
ance was not large and aH was very
quiet as the Reeve and Councillors
gave accounts of the year’s activities.
Following the close of the nomin
ations W. G. M. Reid was elected as
chairman of the meeting. He called
first on the Reeve.
Reeve Peter W. Scott
A very comprehensive report of
County Council activities was given
by Mr. Scott After thanking the
ratepayers for the confidence they
have placed in him, he spoke jn glow
ing terms of the members of the
Council stating they gave intelligent
consideration to the affairs of the
township and were deeply interested
in carrying out their duties. Mr. Scott
said he had done what he considered
was in the best interests of the rate
payers and would continue so to do.
He also spoke highly of the effic
iency of the County officials.
County Had Successful Year*
The County, Mr. Scott said, start
ed tha year with a deficit of $8620,
taxation had been reduced $22,000
and an additional $45,000 spent on
county highways. The debt had been
reduced by $11,000 to a new low of
$35,267 and yet it is expected at the
close of the year there will be a lit
tle surplus. The estimated receipts
for the year in the general accounts
are $244,221.48 and the estimated ex
penditures $242,499.97 which gives an
estimated surplus of $1722.51,
Mr, Scott reported that interest
charges cost the county about $30 a
day and he urged prompt payment of
taxes from the Township.
Applications for old age pensions
so far this year were 172 which ex
ceeds previous years. The Govern
ment now pays all Old Age Tensions
and Mothers* Allowance but the coun
ty paid their share up to April 1st of
she couldn’t
be.
was not dis
and night,
morning of
He took the paper
at it, then tore it
quickly, he kissed
sob-
the
Hot
world—
reached
nothing
Wellington Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
Established 1840.
- Risks taken on all classes of insur
ance at reasonable rates.
Head Office, Guelph, Ont.
ABNER COSENS, Agept.
Wingham.
Dr." W. A. McKibbon, B1A,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Located at the Office of the Late
Dr. H. W, Colborne.
Office Phone 54, Nights 107
HARRY FRYFOGLE
Licensed Embalmer and
Funeral Director
Furniture and
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service.
Phones; Day 117. Night 169.
DR. R. L. STEWART
PHYSICIAN
Telephone 29,
J. w. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money to Loan.
Office — Meyer Block, Wingham
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER .
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A Thorough Knowledge of Farm
Stock.
Phone 231, Wingham,
Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND
M.R.C.S. (England)
L.R.C.P. (London) .
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
J. H. CRAWFORD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Successor to R. ^Vanstone. •
•
Wingham Ontario
It Will Pay Yop to Flave An
EXPERT AUCTIONEER
to conduct your sale.
See
T. R. BENNETT.
At The Royal Service Station.
Phone 174W.
DR. W. M. CONNELL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19,
R. S. HETHERINGTON
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
Office — Morton Block.
Telephone No. 66.
J. ALVIN FOX
Licensed Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS
THERAPY - RADIONIC
EQUIPMENT
Hours by Appointment.
Phone 191, Wingham
this year, over $11,518.55.
The cost of administration of jus
tice this year will be close to $18,000
and Mr. Scott objected to this as be
ing too high. He was of the opinion
that the police were called in many
cases where it was not necessary. In-,
quests this year had also kept the
cost up.
Speaking of Mothers’ Allowances
he said there were 105 beneficiaries
With pensions ranging from $15 to
$40. Twenty-one applications had
been received, 16 granted and five re
fused. 15 were- dropped this year for
various reasons.
He said it was expected due to the
government paying cost of pensions
and mother’s allowance, according to
the papers, that the.cdunty rate would
be less but the extra levy on schools
offset this to a great extent. High
School grants are paid on the follow
ing basis, 50% of the total cost of
High and Continuation schools is
charged to the municipalities outside
school districts according to equaliza
tion. The. remaining 50% in accord
ance with the days’ attendance of
pupils from such municipalities.
The County Home was built, to ac
commodate 95 inmates and there are
95 at present. Twenty-five of these
are Old Age Pensioners who receive
$20 a month pension. $18 of this is
kept by the county for their mainten
ance and $2 is left with the pension
ers. A new water system has been
installed which will be very efficient
and a new electric range will be in
stalled. This range will cost $1700
but will save $240 a year in fuel. Ov
er $4,000 has been spent on capital
accounts on the Home.
There are now 385 miles of County
Highway^, he said. The road from
Brussels to Seaforth had been given
a bituminous surface.
The Reeve stated he had been a
member of the Proerty Committee
and repairs had been made to various
properties. The lower halls and three
offices, at the Court House had been
painted, a new roof on the children’s
shelter and jail fences repaired. More
will have to be spent on the Court
House next year, he said, as the in
spector insists on a new magistrate’s
office.
The old documents that were stor
ed in the attic at the court house were
handed over to the Western Univer
sity who will classify them and keep
them intact. The county will have
access to them at any time.
The site of the Dunlop Tomb had
been purchased and it is hoped in the
future to make a park at this point.
The cost of feeding the inmates at
the jail is 2c per day higher this year
1236 c as against 10%c last year. The
government appoints the jailer but
the county pays his salary. Mr, Rey
nold was ,very efficient, he thought,
but felt county should have some say
in appointment when they pay the
bill,
Back Taxes $1758.61
Speaking of township matters, Mr.
Scott said that East Wawanosh taxes
owing amount to $1758.61 and 1937
taxes are now due. This is the worst
the Township has experienced.
Fie paid a tribute to Premier Hep
burn for the payment of the 1 mill
subsidy. It enabled East Wawanosh
to carry on without borrowing mon
ey, he said.
The township had had four cases
of infantile, paralysis but the cost of
the Board of Health had remained the
same as former years. ’
He was asked if the Old Age Pen
sion Committee were active and he
stated they were not. The Clerk made
out the forms and the Government
sent an inspector and decided on the
amount of pension.
There had been .some criticism of
drainage opposite Lot 40, Con. 5. The
township were within their rights, he
said, and it benefitted the road and
the property, so he could not under
stand why there were objections.
Later Mr. Scott explained that the
Municipal Telephone rates are guar
anteed by the Township. They can
not lose by bad debts as there are
charged against the property if not
paid. Same with hydro.
Fie regretted that school meetings
were not more largely attended as it
was just as necessary to have good
trustees as good councillors.
He and Coun. Beecroft had attend
ed the course on municipal affairs at
Western University, he reported.
Raymond Redmond
During the year no great contro-
veral matters had come up, Coun.
Redmond stated. The Council bad
confidence in each other, in the Reeve
and Road Supt. Mr. McBurney he
considered a very good man for the
position. I have always tried to keep
the tax'rate down, he said, and will
continue along that line. The 1 mill
Government subsidy helped a great
deal, he said. Tax rate could be re
duced if all taxes were paid by Dec.
15th. He thanked his mover and sec
onder and wished all a prosperous
New Year. •
Harvey Black
Mr. Black thanked his mover and
seconder and explained that he would
not make a speech as the Road Sup
erintendent would be giving his re
port. ,
J. Dustin Beecroft
After extending appreciation for
the acclamation, Mr. Beccroft said he
believed that this was the only time
in the history of the township that a
council had been given an acclamat
ion two years in succession. He said
he would continue to carry OH to the
best of his ability. | No new roads
have been built this year, the council
confined themselves to surfacing and
gravelling. He spoke on the payment
of taxes which is. a serious matter,
he said, At the end pf 1986 $3700 of
1936 taxes were outstanding and at
the present time $1286. Back taxes
total over $1700 and 1937 taxes are
now due. Anyone who does not pay
their hydro bill will kayo ft Charged
against the property. This is the
same for school purposes or municip
al telephone.
He explained that 46% of the taxes
were for school purposes, 42% coun
ty taxes and only 12% for municipal
purposes. County and school rates
have to be paid and if taxes are not
paid it makes it difficult for the town
ship to finance on this 12%. The
time will come when there will be a
discount for the early payment of
taxes, he said.
Lewis Ruddy
He thanked his mover and second
er and said the south end of the
township was in good shape for roads
-—most of the work this year had
been done in this section. There had
been a section of road that was al
most impassable but it was now’’in
good shape.
Road Superintendent
Stuart McBurney, the Road Supt.,
gave his report. He said the work
this year Had been mostly surfacing
and gravelling. More gravelling had
been done this year than for some
time. The total cost of the work had
been $4,292.40, which included the
general accounts. This’ sum was made
up as follows: General Account $773.-
66; Road 2, $1198.75; Road 4, $172.95;
Road 6, $1445.01; Road 10, $985.98;
Road 12, $102.50. The general ac
count includes Supt.’s salary and ex
penses, postage, repairs, oil, grease
and some gravel. Over 6,500 yards
of gravel had been put on the roads.
Mr. Wm. Robinson, Who has not
missed a nomination in 60 years, ask
ed if a power grader should be pur
chased. The Reeve said that West
Wawanosh had purchased one and
the township had rented it from them.
A power grader should do two town
ships, he thought, and so long as they
could rent it on the same basis this
arrangement was satisfactory. He al
so said a power grader could riot be
purchased without permission of the
department,
Reforestation
Reeve Scott also told of the visit
to the County Council to Norfolk
County in the summer to see the re
forestation that is going on there.
12,000 acres have been used for this,
purpose but the land is of a very
sandy nature, not good for farming
but will grow trees. ,
’ Every County is considering this
question, he said. Trees are furnish
ed by the Government free for wind
break, etc,, and he suggested that the
ratepayers take this matter up with
the agricultural representative. Bruce
is doing 1000 acres of reforestation
but for Huron he considered that a
better scheme would be 50 or 100
acres per township, townships to pro
vide the site only. This matter should
be considered, he said,
Short addresses were given by
Councillors Wallace and Wheeler of
Morris# Rev. J. B. Townend, L. R.
Blackwood, Manager of the Bank of
Commerce# WinghanL and W. W»
Armstrong,
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