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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 D 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 - A SMART HAND KNITTED SWEATER 24 O There is always room for one more of these hand knitted cardi- gas. This one is made of soft, light -weight wool. PatternNot 240 eontains list of materials needed, illustration of stitches and completee instructions for making sizes 82 to 42. To order pattern: Write, or send above picture with your mane and address with 15 . emits in coin or stamps to Carol Aimesy Room. 421. 73 Adelaide St West` Toronto. 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),