Zurich Herald, 1942-12-31, Page 2SERIAL STORY
BANNERS FLYING
BY MARY RAYMOND
CHRISTIE'S LAST FLIGHT
CHAPTER X1I
"it was In our World War that
1 got that letter front a French
girl --ane of those Mademoiselles
from Armentieres that the song is
written about, I guess," Bart's
mother was saying'. "Anyway.
Christie, she wrote that she was
h love with my husband; and
what, in so many words, was I
going to do about it?"
"What dirt you do?" Christie
asked. She herd conte to Bart's
mother after a visit to the doctor.
And, somehow, she felt strangely
comforted.
"Why, I wrote back that 1 could
understand how she felt because
I was in love with hint. too. But
I didn't tell her size could have
,him,as she probably wanted me
to do.
"One day, a long time after the
war, my husband said he wanted
to get something off his chest.
There had been a romauce--a very
mild romance it was. He bad danc-
ed with this French girl, taken
her out to dinner a few times,
kissed her under a moon—which
is just as romantic in France as
it is airy*here else in the world.
There ine h't have been a different
ending, if I had been hot-headed
and suspicious, my dear."
"But you don't understand,
Mother Sanderson. Bart is in love
with Sandra."
"Then why was he so miserable
and upset about you last Friday
night? `,Calking up and down his
room like a caged animal; not
eating his dinner staring into
space. Why, he acted like a crazy
man, Christie."
"Last Friday!" Christie cried.
"Was Bart here Iast Friday?"
Mrs. Sanderson nodded. "He
came to see you; that girl came
along for the ride into town. Then,
he went by the apartment and
you were out. Somebody told him
you were in a little park nearby.
When he came back here, he was
in an awful state. He said he
would spend the night here. I ask-
ed him if he didn't find you in
the park, and he said, 'Yes, I
found her.' The way he lo•oked—
wild. You all had quarreled, hadn't
you, Christie?"
"Oh, Mother Sanderson, you're
an angel," Christie. breathed. "If
I had only conte before!"
Christie grabbed Bart's diminu-
tive mother, spun her about diz-
zily, and then put her down in a
big, cushioned chair, "I've got to
rush off to undo a lot of damage
I've done," she said. "You can
count on it—I'm not going to hand
Bart over to some Mademoiselle
from Armentieres."
She drove straight to the air-
port. Russ came to meet her with
his familiar quizzical smile that
was half a scowl. "What's up,
Christie? Decided to finish those
flying lessons?"
Christie shooked her head. "Just
one more lesson. I want to take
my solo cross-country flight."
"I'm afraid you can't do that,
Christie. This is serious busin.ess
with us. We don't go in for dra-
matics."
"Russ, honestly, this isn't being
dramatic. I—it's just that I must
see Bart in the next few minutes.
This flight is the most important
thing in my life. I promise you
I'll make it safely, I've got to!"
"All right. You can have your
old plane, By the way, you haven't
forgotten that promise you made
ISSUE 1---43
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Bart about flying?"
"1Vo, but be won't mind, this
time."
She watched the plane being
warmed up; climbed in and took
tibia controls with a sure, firm
grasp.
This was different from that
first solo, How fri,ghten•ed sbe had
Mit when she found herself up
in the air alone, And different,
too, from that trip to Lakeville
with Stephen, racing against time.
Not sure of the outcome.
* * *
But today she felt secure and .
confident, The world which had
crashed around her a few days
before was so absolutely right
again that nothing could go wrong.
The plane had cleared the field,
was putting the boundary lights
behind it, and now was soaring
upward, outward.
Fifteen minutes later, Christie
was circling over the airport.
All at once, Christie was fright-
ened. 'The thing to do was to get
right down out of here and find
Bart.
She spoke into the microphone:
"Christie Sanderson speaking .. .
wife of Lieutenant. Sanderson.
Give me landing directions."
In a moment, stern and curt,
carate the reply: "You're not to
land, Mrs. Sanderson" .
Christie's excited voice again:
"I've got to land. It's something
of utmost importance to Lieuten-
ant Sanderson. I've got to come
in."
"These are orders. You're to
go back where you came from."
Christie wheeled her place,
fighting back the tears. Now that
she thought about it, it seemed
there was a rule about civil planes
landing at army fields—something
about shooting first and asking
questions afterward. Heavens, of
course you must have special per-
mission. Just because Bart was
assistant to the commandant of
cadets, she had acted exactly like
she owned the place. All she could
do now was to get back to town,
call Bart on the telephone, and
try to make him understand how
sorry .she was about that awful
letter.
Back at the airport, she brought
the plane down, taxiing across the
field.
Saber -eyed,' she stepped out on
the ground, only to be litted up
again—higher-than any ship could
carry her. Straight into heaven!
"The first thing you must learn,
young woman, is discipline," came
Bart's voice. "No army man's wife
runs after hien. He runs after her."
"Yes, Lieutenant," Christie whis-
pered, her arms tight around Bart,
her sunny head pressed close to
him.
"Russ phoned the field to have
me meet you. They told him I
had left for town, and so they
staged that little reception — an
extra rough one—to get you back
here quick. Lucky I was at our
apartment when Russ called and
I broke all speed limits to beat
your plane."
• * .
Bart kissed her long and hard.
"I had come home to wring the
truth out of you," he said after a
moment, "to find out why I had
seen you in another man's arms."
Christie laughed softly. "We
were racing, and there was a little
ditch. When I stumbled, Stephen
caught me. I suppose you would
have preferred having me pitch
straight down on my nose."
"Much preferred." Bart's voice
was grim. "That little ditch was
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WOMEN OF; STEEL
Behind Britain's, firing line, the women of the production lines
are taking an ever-growing part in war work. Today, women such
as these retake up more than 13 per cent of all the workers in Eng-
land's steel and iron industry.
big enough to plunge me straight
into hell. Darling, all I had to do
to put myself back on the torture
wrack was to think of it again.
Then, to -day, something snapped.
Somehow, I knew you weren't to
blame, and that your letter didn't
make sense. So I came home."
"When I found out you'd come
to town with Sandra and didn't
come near me—"
"So that was why you wrote
that letter."
"It made sense to me, then,"
Christie said.
"Sandra was coming back for
good," Bart explained. "Seems she
got fed up entertaining the boys
and gave up her job. She asked
if she could drive back with me."
"Bart, we were a pair of idiots."
* * *
They stood, arms close about
each other. Nearby was the plane.
To Christie it seemed symbolic of
something; its strong silver vgangs.
outspread. Wings like these, and
the men who flew them, would
keep her country free.
Bart's thoughts must have been
traveling along with hers, for he
said, slowly: "This war isn't a
private affair of men. There's prob-
ably going to be a real place for
women flyers before it's over.
Civil a i r patrol, transporting
planes. Just a moment ago, I
watched you come down from the
sky, Christie. I could feel how
sure and calm you were. I was
proud of you. "That's my wile, and
she's a born flyer',' I said, Darl-
ing. I'm going to release you from
that promise. It wasn't fair of
me. It's up to you."
Christie's arms tightened around
him. "I guess you're going to do
all the flying for our family, Bart."
She was smiling. After a moment,
she said: "I'm very well satisfied
'with ground work. Besides, there's
a lot of knitting I'm going to have
to do. Not only for the soldiers
and sailors, but for one of Uncle
Sam's future young Americans!
It's likely to keep mer very, very
bus3�."
THE END.
Bees Fan Wings
To 'Ventilate Hives
Among the honey bees, one of
the services of the indefatigable
"workers" is that of providing hive
ventilation by fanning their wings
to sot up a current of air.
This air movement serves a very
praetical purpose. It carries off
the water (in the forst of water
vapor) as it evaporate- from the
newly -made honey.
At the end of the day the work-
ers spread' themselves over the
honey -combs and fan the air with
their wings. This hastens the
evaporation of water from the
honey, after which the heat liber-
ated by the bodies. of the bees
tends to cure or ripen the honey.
Groups of bees at the hive en-
trance or on the landing shelf
keep the ventilation of the hive
going all night.
Looks Like Hard
War For Hitler
It looks as if Herr Goebbels
may finally be on the right track
in analyzing the American -British
war effort. Recognition of this
comes from 110 less a personage
than Lord Halifax, British Am -
Halifax pointed out in Balti
bassador to the United States.
more that German radio propa-
ganda beamed for the United
States has saki that "England will
fight to the last drop of , Iowa
blood", while similar broadcasts
directed at Britain have said that
"the United tSates has resolved
to fight to the last Tommy."
"Well," concluded Halifax, "if
we are going to fight to the last
drop of Iowa blood and you are
going to fight to the last - Tommy,
It looks like being a hard war—
for Hitler."
Here's hoping that German ra-
dio listeners can add one and one
and get two.
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
"Do you mind . if I'm next? l'par double-parked."
Bats return Hone
'Ere Winter Comes
Sometimes Fly 100 Miles To
Old Cave
Bats need no home during the
lush summer nights when the air
is full of edible insects, observes
Time anagazino. 13y day they hang
In convenient roosts—trees, chim-
neys or barns. But when the chill
months come and insects disala-
• pear, torpor comes over them and,
• With it a' longing for their' own
cave, the same spat where they
have sDentep'eevions winters. Bats
sometimes fly 100 miles to find
their olcl cave and sleep in it until
spring.
Charles D. Mohr of .Philadelphia's
Academy of Natural Sciences, re-
ported he "Frontiers" on his ten-
year study of the homing urge : of
the common (Little Brown) bat.
Most bats can be caught only in
eaves when hibernating. No one
has yet devised a hat trap for
catching then on the wing. But
in winter they can easily be pick-
ed from their underground perches
and fitted with light aluminum
bands for identification. Mohr' has
been banding bats for years.
,One intruder Found
Last winter a group of Cornel
students joined Mohr in a thor-
ough exploration of the bat caves
in Center and Mifflin Counties,
Pennsylvania. The limestone ridges
there are honeycombed with small
caves. All banded bats were found
in the same cave as in previous
years. Even bats that had been
carried off and 'released far away
were back again. Only once did
Mohr find an intruder: this stray
bat's own cave had been sealed
by a rockfall during the summer.
Charles Mohr is not the only hat -
bander. Don Griffin, of Harvard,
has banded thousands of bats in
New England, had also noted the
homing urge. Bats from a cave
near the coast were released 15
miles at sea. Two days later they
were back in their own cave.
Nearly An Bats Hibernate
Curiously, the caves are not used
for accouchements. In early sum-
mer female bats congregate in hol-
low trees, barns or vacant houses,
(Male bats are excluded.) Here
each gives birth to her live young,
only one per year, with occasional
twins. The baby clings to its
mother as long as it is suckling,
but the mother leaves it hanging
from the roof or wall while she
goes on brief foragin:ggexpeditions.
There are a few varieties of
bat which do not hibernate, in-
cluding the Red Bat, the Hoary,
and the Silver -haired. Some live
in the forests of Washington or
Canada, eating insects during the
summer, but when winter comes
they migrate southward,
Japs Move 1,000,000
Troops In Manchuria
A Chinese Government review
of conditions in Manchuria said
about 1,000,000 Japanese troops
now are concentrated in that reg-
ion and Japanese military prepara-
tions there have been increased
considerably in the last year.
(The estimate of 1,000,000
Japanese troops in Manchuria has
not been confirmed by other au-
thorities and is about double
earlier estimates.)
The review said the Japanese
had built fortifications along the
southern bank of the Amur River
and the western bank of the Us -
sari, both of which form boun-
daries between Japan's puppet
empire of Manchukuo and Russian
Siberia.
The review said Chinese work-
ers employed on Japanese military
installations had been killed after-
ward to prevent the leakage of
secrets. The Japanese had re -
eructed labor for Manchuria by
press gangs operating in North
China Provinces, it was said.
Chinese youths also were being
forced into military service osten-
sibly in armies of various Japan-
ese puppet regimes, the. review
said, but the Japanese have placed
little confidence in these levies,'•
estimated at about 300,000. About
two-thirds are being used for gar -
1. duty in China, but some have
been sent to the Southwest Pacific
war area, it was :reported,
They. Heil Hitler
When a lecturer in a British
war camp casually mentioned Hit-
ler's name recently German ps'is- .
oners jumped to their feet . and
eried "Heil Hitler." .
Armed Cargo Ship
Sinks Axis Raider
U. S, Merchantman Fights
To Finish In South- Atlantic
Fighting to the finish, a United
States merchantman took one en-
emy ,surface raider to the bottom
with her and left a second severely
damaged in the South Atlantic,
the Navy Department disclosed.
It was the first reported, ins
statlee of an armed .merchantman
sinking a,,surface craft of prey.
,e.s/Battere"d from stent to stern,
her engines crippled, she trede4
shell for shell with the raiders for
a furious thirty minutes. •
As site slipped under sterni -first,
the smaller — but more beatyity
armed ----of the raiders was a mass
of flames, with survivors clamber-,
ing over the sides to be 'slaked up
by the larger and severely da-
maged raider.
Only 10 of the 41 members of
the nterehantman's crew and five
men of a navy gun crew survived
the last September battle and the
31 days in, an open , boat before
survivors reached the South At
laude coast.
The out -gunned merchantman
was hit by four salvos. The large
guns `of the smaller raider appar-
ently were fired together from a
central control system.
Finally a direct shell hit on the
magazine, put the after -gun out
of action, Five shells were' not
exploded by the hit. Captain Paul
Buck, listed as missing, gave the
order to abandon ship.
Only one 'lifeboat had come
through the battle unbattered, and
it had drifted away from the ship.
Many survivors were unable to
reach that comparative safety,
The boat headed for the South
... Atlantic coast, its course set by
only the most rudimentary navi-
gational instruments. Squalls and
high winds beset the craft, .Ex-
hausted men bailed until their
arms were numb. But the squalls
brought rain and drinking water
to keep the men alive. Several of
the more seriously injured men
died, notwithstanding first aid
treatment.
After 26 days one of the men
saw a butterfly. Another saw two
moths. Land was near. The color
of the water changed froni dark
blue to light green. Five days
later there was this brief entry
in the lifeboat's log — "Hooray;
sighted land at 4 a.m."
Fifteen haggard men staggered
ashore, reached a small village
and were taken to a hospital.
Draw Air Recruits
From Air Cadets
Wing Cmdr. W. H. Aslim, de:
puty director of manning for the
R.C.A.F., predicted that within
the next year or two the R.C.A.F.
would get from 10,000 to 11,000
air crew .enlistments a year front
the air cadets alone Air cadet
membership totals 20,000 at the
present time.
The University Air Training
Corps now has squadrons at 11
universities in the Dominion with
a total enrolment of some 2,000,
he said.
Advice On Buying
And Darning Hose
Always buy two or more pairs
of stockings that are just alike,
then if . one stocking wears out
you can replace it without sacri-
ficing the pair. Wash daily and
they will wear longer. Finely
darn the heels ,and toes before
they have been worn at all. When
holes appear, tack a piece of
coarse net lightly to the stocking
over the 'hole on the wrong side,
then darn over the net. Do this
when darning large• holes in the
kneesand heels of children's
stockings.
How To Glamorize
R The 'Baked. Potato
Laura Tepper, chief of the con-
sumer section, Department of
Agriculture, comes up with a
suggestion for glamorfai baked
potatoes, which have more vitamin
C value if cooked -in their skins.
Slit your potatoes when baked and
insert: a sliver -of - bu,(ter and. a
square of quick-meltint cheese—
put the potatoes back in the oven
just long enough to melt the
cheese. Incidentally this is sav-
ing ori the; butter. •
GOOD EATING NEWS
How to make a meal 'out of four pork ehops is god news to
every war -time cook. The secret lies in the following' recipe for
Pork Chops with Corn Dressing. Notice that the dressing goes into
the pan first, with the chops on top 'and that the whole business is
baked. Here are the directions:
Pork Chops with Corn Dressing
4 cups soft bread crumbs 14 teaspoon pepper
1. cup All -Bran s 1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 tablespoon chopped onion 1 cup drained whole kernel corn
14 cup chopped celery 1 cup stock;"dox'n. liquid, 'or milk
2 tablespoons fat 4 pork chaps
1 teaspoon salt 15 teaspoon salt .
Combine bread crumbs and All -Bran. Cook onion and celery in
fat until lightly browned; sadd to bread mixture with seasonings, corn
and stock or other liquid. Mix. thoroughly. Press into baking dish,
arrange chops on top of dressing and sprinkle with salt. Coyer and
bake in moderate oven (375°F.) about 46 minutes; uncover and bake
15 minutes longer..
Yield: 4 servings '(8 -inch baking dish),