Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1931, Page 50

a Aviation WA - IRMAIL uzvl': m:egrr: ut;hbe Nx tional Capital anc urg! tha back: West, its present Western connections now being made by way of New York and Atlanta, Ga. Extension of the Pittsburgh-Wash- line to, Norfolk, Va. is under consideration and this section also may go into operation during the year, making the Capital an aerial cross- Foads. ‘The opening of airmail service be- tween the Capital and Pittsburgh now awaits only the provision of funds by Congress, it is understood. clency appropriations for the purpose become available before the adjourn- ment of Congress, the service may begin in the Spring. Otherwise the line will have to awalt the belated arising of the financial sap next July. It is regarded as quite likely the ‘Washington-Pittsburgh airmail con- tract will be awarded, under the terms of the Watres airmail act, to Pennsyl- vania Alrlines, operators of the present passenger service between the Capital and Cleveland. Pennsylvania Airlines ‘was established by Clifford Ball, who holds an airmail contract between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and who ex- tended passenger service to Washing- ton some 18 months ago. ‘The Watres bill was framed with the idea of alding struggling air transport lines, according to testimcny presented to Congress, by providing for the carry- ing of United States mails in passen- ge.r planes over suitable routes. The 1l line is the only line in operation between the Capital and the West and should be in a position to reap some ‘benefit from the Watres act. Aerial Wilderness Conquered. ‘The Ball line is the result of ploneer- ing over what was from the airman's viewpoint, up to a few years ago, a trackless wilderness. Today, however, the Pittsburgh-Washington airway is one of the established aerial hways by virtue of the completion of the air- ways branch of the Department of Commerce of intermediate * landing flelds, airway beacons and other aids to @erial navigation. The Washington- Pittsburgh and the Washington-Norfolk airways are included among 1,200 miles of airways upon which final work of installation was completed between No- vember 15 and New Year day. ‘The aerial beacon lights and inter- mediate field lights on the airways from this city to Norfolk and Pittsburgh have not-yet been turned on for regular night operations and this may await the a of the anticipated mail con- tract. The other airways completed g_the same lod ' included St. Louis-Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh-Phila- delphia, &nnseu and officials of the airways division of the Department of Com- BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. two beacons, on the top of the Al- legheny flnunu. is an intermediate landing Jd near Buckstown, Pa. Many acres of stumps and trees were grading of this moun- removed before the m&w field could be undertaken. long slope down from Laurel Hill to Pittsburgh there are three more one adjacent to the Greens- burg airport, which was privately de- veloped as an alternate landing field. Radio-beacon courses will be laid down along the airway from Wash- ington and Pitisburgh, intersecting at McConnellsburg. The difficulty of lo- cating beacons and intermediate fields was increased by the fact that they had to be regulated not only by topo- graphical necessity, but also by the straightaway beacon courses. Within the nexp 12 months, accord- ing to airways cials, an automatic telegraph-typewriter circuit _probably will be available along the Washing- ton-Pittsburgh airway for handling weather information and plane move- ment reports. Teletype stations along this airway are to be established at ‘Washington, Hagerstown, McConnells- burg, Greensburg and Pittsburgh. Coastal Airway Bids. The airways division of the Depart- ment of Commerce aeronautics branch has called for bids to be opened about January 30 for the installation of light- ing facilities along a portion of the new Atlantic coastal airway ‘“cut-off” from Richmond, Va. to Jacksonville, Fla. This cut-off, striking the coast at about Savannah, Ga., will save more than four hours of flying time between the National Capital and Miami, Fla. The bids which have been asked will cover the installation of lighting facili- ties, including about 20 beacons, four of which will be at intermediate flelds between Richmond and Florence, S. C. Along this cut-off Eastern Air Trans- port, holding coastal airmail contracts, will operate, beginning about February 1, a passenger-mail service. Twin-en- gined monoplanes will be used and all passengers on the coastwise run, except those bound for destinations along the Atlanta airway, will travel the cut-off route. Plan New Metal Airship. Plans for an all-metal Army dirigible larger and faster than the Graf Zep- pelin, equipped to serve as an airplane tender or for other military purposes, are being expedited as a result of the action of the House authorizing an initial appropriation of $200,000 for ex- imental and engineering work in connection with the groject. Equipped with eight motors of be- tween €00 and 800 horsepower each, according to officials of the Detroit Air- craft Corporation, which is to build the ship, the metal-clad airship will have an estimated top speed of 100 miles per hour. Operating at slow cruising speed, it is claimed, the ship could carry suffi- cient fuel to remain away from its base on a long-range observation mission for up to 22 days. The ship is to be of the same type as the small all-metal experimental ZMC-2, built by the same company for the Navy. It is to be covered with tis- sue-thin alclad, one of the lightest metals yet discovered. The shell of the airship itself will act as the container ¢ [of the helium gas used for lifting pur- and to the seeker for beau and interesting country. ‘The Norfolk- airway has the distinction of one of the first two regularly traveled airways in the United States. During the World War this route and that from the Capital to Mitchel Pleld, N. Y., became the first two over which officers of the military air service traveled regularly. ‘Routes Show Contrast. ‘Though the Norfolk-W: route lies across a maze of rivers, bays and , the course is and none of beacons, fields or other aids have be ted more than three miles line. ‘Washington - Pittsburgh id out, however, the direct could not be followed because of | be ‘The straight line would the Potomac Valley for 50 tely in Maryland and Vir- river snaked along, and ve left the traveled routes mountains between the Lincoln highway routes in ;Il e r'.:lfion and aci an id broken in the extreme. . hosen course, over which the will fily and over which the Ball e has been operating, follows gener- i two aimoet sraight Tege the fest 15 imost straig! legs, the first to m nnellsburg to Pittsburgh. The rotating beacon light on the Park Hotel, which has been in operation for many months, is al- most_directly on. the airway and has Just been certified as the first light on the airway out of Bolling Field. The first airway beacon is at Clh- gressional Airport, near Rockville, Md., , the second just a little east of Sugar Loaf Mountain, much fought over signal and observa: tion station during the Civil War. The first intermediate landing field was established at Prederick on city y_and the second in the old er-Reisner Field at Hagerstown. Between Frederick and Hagerstown are two beacons, one at Braddock Heights. Mountain Flying Begins. ‘The pilot flying this airway really be- gins lfl mountain flying 10 miles be- yond Hagerstown. This is bad country, not s> much because of the ruggedness or reight of the mountains as because of the thick weather which hangs most of the time in the Alleghenies. More often than not the pilot must thread his watchful way through broken and winding river valleys, with the clouds pressing down on the mountain tops above, or, finding the ceiling too low for this. must climb through the murk clear of the mountain tops and trust to navi- gation instruments or radio to get him through. Across the Alleghenies the beacon his are located on top of the ridges, which are crossed at the lowest practi- cable points. The first beacon west of Hagerstown perches on the summit of ‘Tuscarora Ridge, at an altitude of 2150 feet, overlooking the McConnells- burg intermediate landing field, two miles away and 1,200 feet below. Location of a field in the vicinity of McConnellsburg was a necessity which could not be evaded and. thcugh pro- lcnged search was made for a site, the best that could be found, after the re- moval of some 2,000 tons of loose rock from the area and the utilization of every possible square f-ot of surface, is little better than a two-way field. Going on West the pilot findc the next beacon on the Pennsyivaunia State forest observation tower at Sideling Hill, bevona which, in & horseshoe valley of tee Juniata River, is the next interme- giate fleld, in a deep pocket in the mountains Approaches were carefully selected, cleared and lighted to guide the night flying pilot into the field, and red obstruction ts gleam in warning «-mvmfl&e-namw- structions, natural and manmade. Follows Mountain Gaps. Gaps cut by the Juniata are followed through three ridges beyond Everett, Pa., with beacon lights in two of. them, the first on Tussey Mountain at an elevation of 2,100 feet, and the second on Kinton Knob at 2,640 feet. The intermediate gap, not lighted, is but 1,900 feet i o 2 inton Knob the ground Mp& only to climb again ne the Alleghenies, on SEETE R j fl;fla&?‘m poses and also will carry a large part tiful | of the stresses. The shell wili be rein- forced by metal rings and longitudinal members and will be partitioned off into separate compartments to prevent loss of a danger amount of life in case of puncturing by gun fire. A crew of 40 men is contemplated and provision is to be made in the plans for a useful load of 40,000 pounds in addition to fuel and supplies neces- sary to operation. It is estimated that the total cost of such a ship would be $4,500,000. World Charts Predicted. Knowledge of wind conditions pre- vailing in the upper air, far above the surface of the land and sea, is becom- ing so increasingly important that eventually charts of the upper air will issued to cover all parts of the globe, it is predicted by Rear Admiral W. R. Gherardi, U. 8. N. The Navy Hydrographic Office now is publish- ing monthly pilot charts of the upper air for the North Atlantic and North ic. The preparation of maps and charts for aviators has me an activity of increasing importance for the Navy hydrographers. Sets of air charts for the coasts of the United States, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies have been completed and now are being issued. ‘There is a comprehensive charting program under way, accord- ing to Admiral Gherardi, which em- braces the entire coast of South Amer- ica. A series of handbooks, designed especially for airplane pilots, compar- able to the sailing directions found on nautical charts, are in course of prepa- ration. ‘The Navy's aviation charts differ con- siderably in appearance from the nau- tical chart, being especially designed to indicate the outstanding landmarks wvisible from the air which are used by ilots for determination of position. To Honor Pioneers. ‘The lives and works of three men who have made outstanding contribu- tions to the art and science of aero- nautics will be commemorated at a meeting to be held in New York Febru- ary 25 by seven national organizations. The meeting will be a tribute to the late Glenn H. Curtiss, the late Daniel Gug- genheim and the late Chance M. Vought. The organization, which will combine to hold the memorial meeting are the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American So- clethl Civil Engineers, the American Soclety of Mechanical Engineers, the National the Society of Automotive Engineers. ‘The National Capital will be repre- sented largely at the meeting, the list of special guests including relatives and friends of those honored, leading aero- nautic authorities, presidents of the various societies, Army, Navy and Coast Guard officers and ploneer fiyers. Capt. John H. Towers, assistant chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, who was associated with Mr. Curtis in the early days of flying, will be one of the speak- era. Dark Continent Lighted. One of the most interesting of the new world air transport lines pro- Jected for 1931 will be put in operation by Midsummer from London to Cape Town, South Africa. Much of the route will lie over almost virgin wilderness many interinediate landing ports hav- ing been cleared already in the heart of virgin bush in the big game country. Between Cairo, Egypt, and Cape Town there are to be 27 airports and 30 addi- tional intermediate flelds for emergency use. While only day flying is planned at first, trips over certain long stretches must be completed alter dark and later night flying will be instituted regularly. Lighting equipment is being installed and baboons and other zoological specimens, unaccustomed as they are to modern improvements, soon may while away the African nights blinking un- certainly at airways beacons. At 17 of the alr long and short wave radio ral is being insta'lcd end pilots of the transport planes will be in continuous communication by ra- dio telegraph and telephone with ground stations. = Even during the period when air avel is confined to the daylight hours, days will be saved over existing travel time between London and Cape el A Aeronautic Association and | bet .-JILTED -- || Copyright 1931, by North American Newspaper Alliance, Ine. LT FOUR. By Margaret p Widdemer INSTALLMENT 1. ‘ ¥ T was 5 o'clock of an August day, but Helen Heather came down the steps of the gray stome bank at Kingsway as lightly as though the day was just beginning. “Good-by, Marjorie. I told Nina I'd be home as fast as I could—I have to hurry.” She smiled and gave Marjorie’s arm ¢ caressing little pat. She swung down the street, slim and tall and buoyant in her demure dark silk office dress with its broad organdy collar and cuffs. The sun shone in her eyes, but it seemed to her only warm and caressing after the thick-walled stone bank. Tommy had told her yesterday that he eyes turned mottled topaz when the sun lighted them like that. Helen had been feeling this curious tension of joy for a week or so now. But it wasn't all being in love, because she had been in love all Summer and she hadn't felt like this. She walked on past the business section of‘the town, taking the bus about a mile to the part of Kingsway where her cousin Nina's house was. It was a beautiful old house—dating back, indeed, to the Colonies—and re- built and restored by Nina Higginson into a museum piece of perfection. The turf was green velvet, from the reverent care of 200 years. Somebody's ances- tors—not Nina's—had felt a passion for seeing travelers pass, travelers having been scarce enough to be a pleasure in Colonial Pennsylvania. Nina fretted a little over the shallowness of the stretch of lawn, therefore, and had masked it with a thick hedge. The green turf was very lovely, with its golden overtones and the stiff beds of old-fashioned flowers, sweet-williams and johnny - jump - ups and love - lies- bleeding that had been there since be- fore the old owners’ ancestors enter- tained Washington. There were acres of ground at the back and sides of the house. It was, indeed, nearly if not quite an estate. It had, indeed, once been a very good farm. Nina, with the admiration and cash of the old husband now no more, had landscaped it in a way which would have irritated the other people’s ancestors very much. She covered the excellent wheat lands with arbors and such things. There were where trees according to designs in books ought to be. It was ‘altogether a lovely if slightly stiff stage setting though it was unofficially more becom- ing to tall, vivid Helen than to little, quick-moving Nina. To the big, raw-boned, elderly woman | who emerged unceremoniously from be- tween the slim white pillars as Helen | came up the walk the place was not at all becoming. She was cook and work- ing housekeeper. Her name was Tacy Broomall, and she was back-country Pennsylvania from her enormous coil of dull brown hair, the kind which never thins or grays, to the round toes of her shiny black “comfort” shoes. She was entirely uncategorical and to certain people her manner had more than'a touch of the “I'm as good as you be” of primitive America. But she cooked with a French passion for creativeness and intelligence which made her dinners a big social asset for Nina. So Nina let it go at that, being a very clever woman, and passed off Tacy's more determined gestures of equality with small humor- ous stories at which her guests shrieked. Tacy was on neutrally good terms with her mistress. But she gave Helen more than neutrality; friendly Helen who was always flying into the kitchen with magazines and scraps of news, and praising her menus and asking her about her cousins in Lower Dublin and nypack. ey for you, Helen,” she said, giv- “Letter ing it to her. “You're back early. t's ht. You go too hard, child.” Tt““Au #hl, Tacy, observe that I re- cline in yon swing seat and relax com- pletely while reading letter!” Helen smiled over her shoulder at Tacy. “You're a dlrll!;z l‘(s) worry about me. It's from my little sister.” § Jessica, Helen's younger sister, had married casually at 17, and it never occurred to her that her elde® sister shouldn't go on helping her when shc needed it. This letter was an a@iorable cry of thanks for the money catch Jessica and Lester up on the fnstall- ments on the new bed room set they'd bought in one of their accesses of op- timism when Lester had his last raise Now, said Jessica rapturously, she a cent forever and ever again, and she was sending her the most beautiful red coat with a fur collar and those stun- ning new deep cuffs, and all her love. Helen's brow knitted a little at this. Because she'd been planning to have her own good fur coat done over, and yw she couldn’t. mon. well, it was sweet of Jessica. And Helen read the letter again, smiling over the love-words in it. For Jessica meant them, every bit. She honestly worshiped Helen, and love was much more of a necessity to Helen than clothes or anything else in the world. She worked hard for them both. At the bank, where she was secretary to the president. though charm had as much effect cn Nina Higgingson as on a rock, and Nina liked Helen as much as she would anyway. Among the girls and men of the town of Kingsway, on whom charm did have an effect, and who follcwed after Helen more than she knew. She tried to be everything Mr. Delamater liked in @ secretary, except staid. She took on gayly the scraps of responsibil- ity at the house, which were left over from Tracy Broomall's capable rule. “T suppose I ought to scold her. But she'd feel badly,” said Helen, folding the letter. She laughed a little. Her father’s people were of sufficiently good etock. But her mother’s were bet- ter, if ycu happened to belleve that stock counted for anything in man or ast. Helen never forgot the day when her too-galant, too-spendthrift father had sold the down-at-heel immense old house his wife had brought him, pic- tures, sparse priceless furniture and all and, of course put the money into something wonderful that it, also, of course, never came out of. Things al- ways happened to him like that. Her mother cried, off by herself; but when passionately affectionate little Helen found her sobbing in her bed room, her mother had sat up and gone to the dressing table and powdered her face and rouged her cheeks and smiled And she had gone down to where her husband waited for her a little shame- faced and apologetic, and made him langh over something. She had laughed to the tired end that old-fashioned lady mother! George Heather outlived his some years. Helen never told an: that it was her mother’s insurance, Eninfully kept up through heaven mows what economies, which saw first her and then reluctant Jessica through business school. She carried lax, lazy, carressing Jessica, too, till Jessica ha married an anxiously adoring boy who worked in a real estate office and was her slave. And lately; why, lately, since Nina had sent for Helen to come and live with her, these two past years, every- thing had lifted. Everything had been happy and wonderful. “¥You're nice to have around, and you have social instinct, “Nina had written with her usual frankness. “I'm still climbing a little and you'll be a help. Come ready to recite pages of ancestry, like a lamb; I'll only charge what your food costs, and I have a job all ready for you, I'm nearly sure.” So Helen had accepted the terms and come to Kingway, and got the job, sec- retary to Mr. Delamater, the resident of the bank. And out of ours she had such a good time! Friends. _ Laughter. quieter Pennsylvanians at wide- eyed, f her hing lead , .%’l- She »m"mn wife trees, not where trees had been, but | wasn't going to have to ask Helen fm'. In her cousin’s house | Tommy Delamater swung her around and faced her. at every time I take my eyes off you for two minutes,” he announced “You get sweller to look | her small board and acted as secretary |and companion, and seemed to enjoy it all very much indeed. And she had | won Kingsway village, in her year there, and Kingsway village looked | with approval on her likelihood of win- and financial prize though he was of the younger crowd. She slid through the long window and dashed up to her room to fly into her red georgette and run a_comb through her burnt-gold curls. In five minutes Tommy Delamater would be coming down the road. Being on the edge of actual engage- ment is a delightful time. Helen was | not_quite sure, but sure enough to be a little proud, a little mocking and to show an intenser depth and color and sparkle. And to flirt just a little more with the other boys. But when it was Tommy who was near, the depth and color and sparkle heightened fourfold. Even now, at the thought of Tommy —Tommy stopping by to take her with him, to go out and secure a final effect of fading light for the little motion enthusiasm, her heart quickened. He was tall and slouching and big-boned. His face was homely, and |vet someiow handsome at_times, de- | spite the irregularities of nose and high | cheek bones and hatchet jaw. He was rather unnerving—certainly an exciting person. Well as she knew him, easy-going Helen half-consciously found herself getting along with him, adjusting to_him, smoothing him down. She never knew whether extravagant | flattery or furious, uncalled-for temper was coming uppermost. Back of eve mood was a dash of ingrati W ness, the sweetness of the spoiled little | boy ‘'who knows you won't be angry. And finally, half the girls of Kingsway had tried 'to marry Tommy before Helen Heather came up from Maryland to keep her widowed cousin company and work at the First National Bank for Amos Delamater. Helen, who would have been more than human if she hadn’t been a little proud of Tommy's preference. | Tommy! She leaned out from the | porch half unconsciously. He would | come loping along in_a minute now, withs his camera over his shoulder and his tripod sticking out of his pocket. But it wasn't Tommy after all. It | was only Mr. Kingsway, for whose great-great-grandfather the town had | been named. |~ She watched him with dimmed inter- | est. He walked with a quick, easy trained | grace, instead of Tommy’s lovable rock- ing lope, and the sun shone on fair, slightly ruffied hair instead of polished |blackness. He was straighter than Tommy, and more strongly built, and everything, from his felt hat to his |gray suit, had a perfection that to | Helen seemed annoying precision. | She wouldn't have minded anybody |but Ethan Kingsway. Ethan, whose | manner to Helen always had some- thing disturbing in #; Ethan, the only man Helen knew by whom she didn't feel approved. He was supposed rather | to dislike all womenj | It wasn't that heywasn't polite to them. It was, rathet; that his polite- |ness had in it a something cool, de- tached. He did not avoid women. For Ethan to pay a girl attention was a | cachet; at the same tme it was so clearly attention without intention that |only the most confident or the most | foolish hoped for any chance of be- coming the mistress of the beautiful ancient Kingsway estate, the excellent | Kingsway income, and the best social position in town, | " “Why it should be me he has it in for,” she said half aloud, petulantly, | “when it was Nina who broke her en- | gagement to him at the mature age of 21, and married Horace, before he ever knew I lived! And he's as easy and nice with her as you please, and al- ways assumes T'm the lowest form of | standardized flapper!” | ""She sat down, crossed her knees os- tentatiously, reached into her handbag and began to make very black the lashes which she preferred, usually, as | they were, being brown-gold and long enough by nature. She liked shocking people who disapproved of her. Espe- | cially such impeccable ones as Ethan. | He was 8o impeccable! He owned # |limestone quarry. also coal lands near | Wilkes-Barre. He owned a beautiful |walled estate on the outskirts of the |town; the town, named for his fore- bears, had grown up near it. He | played polo very well. He belonged to | the Rose Valley hunt, and was a good rider. He also sessed an invalid : poss ¥body | mother whom Nina didn't like, and a | luxurious dark green roadster which she did. | You couldn't go on roughing your |mouth forever. She eyed him under |the freshly mascared lashes as he | sauntered whistling up the walk. | She picked up the tune and n to sing softly, In her pretty, light voice: “Ihad little nut-tree— “spain‘s daushter came to visit me All for the sake of my Little nut-treel” “Do you know that?” he said, with | what sounded almost a pleased sur- prise. “I thought nobody knew nursery rhymes any more.” “Of course I know it” said Helen with spirit. “Why wouldn’t 1?2 My |mother used to sing me to sleep with 1t.” “Why do you suppose the King of Spain's daughter came to visit? slhy wasn't it any other person?” “I'll tell you the reason, I hope— some other time. But now—will give your cousin & for me?” “Anything,” said Helen, nvnun with an exaggerated carelessness, b ning spoiled Tommy Delamater, social | I; picture camera which was his newest | to | I can remember. T've been going to parties day and night.” “I know,” he said. “Do you know everything I do?” she said a little angrily. ot quite all,” he sald a little grave- ly. “I wish I knew less.” “Why do you always have to say such things to me?” she said. “Other people like me—why can't you? What do I do that's so dreadful?” “Nothing but what girls are sup- pesed to do today,” he said. “I'm not a Puritan,” Helen flashed. “Neither am 1" he said. “My peo- Ble‘ 8s a matter of fact, .were cava- ‘He looks it.” Helen admitted to her- sclf unwillingly. The tall, strong grace, the crested fair hair, the long steel-gray eyes that looked half-smiling | till you saw them closer; the fencer's manner of absolute poise and guard, the smooth capable tanned hand, that should have held a plumed hat in- | stead of a tweed cap. “I suppose,” he said, as if he didn't want to, “that I'm always wanting you be what you look like—and act like—* “What is that?” He spoke, suddenly; almost, she thought, as if he liked her. “The King of Spain's daughter” was all he said. And then, hurriedly, as if he wanted to forget it, “Will you tell Nina for me, please, that I'm called out of America suddenly on business? I came by on my way to the Country Club to ask her forgiveness in person for having to cancel & dinner engagement for next ‘Wednesday. Tell her I' will write, but add my very real personal regrets, please.” “Surely,” sald Helen, smiling up at him. “Shall you, be gone lonz‘g" i “It's uncertain,” he sald. “Why are 'you going, really?” "One reason woula amuse you too much for me even to tell you. The other is that I am summoned, I am afraid, to assume a small but trouble- some responsibility.” “But you work so hard. at responsi- bfiétlg& 'Zow that you are never to be aske a of m i Naarr, Sdaadninl . 'Who told you that?” he demanded. 1 confess I envy you 20-year-olds your beautiful sense that you needn't do anything unless it amuses you.” Helen was suddenly furious with him. It was always so. Something in him would draw her, would disturb her, as if a friend were just behind the fencer’s steel, then he would say some such thing as this. If he knew—she resent- ed, yet smiled a little, thinking of Jes- sica and Nina and Ronny Higginson, Nina's step-son, and even Tommy—all more or less turning to her for help, being looked after, all saying what a daél}l‘y:g she was. shrugged her shoulders, flippant with a gallant effort. “I'd mthg? be anything than be thought Victorian!” o ‘You won't be,” said Mr. Kingsway. You are about as Victorian as the Sphinx. Good-bye, Miss Helen.” She watched the erect slender figure mov- ing down the tree-shaded old street. Arms clutched her violently from be- hind. ~“Beware,” said Tommy's voice melodramatically. “Stare not so sternly on the King of Kingsway or a terrific doom shall be thine, rash worm!” She gave herself with relief to the tide of possessive glamor which came with Tommy's voice and touch. o Worm yourself,” she retorted. You've proved it, wasting 15 literally shining minutes when you might be taking shots, crawling around by the back of the house just to scare me. Don't you know you can't scare me, idiot?” ' Tommy Delamater swung her around and faced her. “You get sweller to look at every |tme T take my eyes off you for two | minutes,” he announced. “Gee! I'm nuts over you. Ready? C'mon.” She stood up and set on her head the wide transparent black straw hat she had bought last week, which l:y ready, and they drove away together. A branch of the Wissahickon wound within driving distance, and Tommy ;;:Ewgk:o::eog some of it wouldn't ean, properl: B Thfi& ':')Ok nrlhnt or ;:)m ¥ “Matter of fact,” sald Tommy en- eagingly, “I don't care wh((h{"l" vi’e get shots o not. I just wanted to ke with you. With any- !bo;mal )ou;l" said Helen. y else she could have thought \A‘ondcrluldmcomrb’wkx. but herc ]hm:’l'), Wwas poun so that she was juc - Sn;"rt:iumh. g she was juct be 0 spirit of coquetry camec back little, Mustn't let hu'nrl):hml'. }c’flu nccnr!: wt)s}:nuch— e_stepped back from the boulde: on which she had been supp(neddl; looking for scenery, stared across the river with imitation indiffcrence and began to hum something under her breath. on. The words followed the tune, and she began to remember what it ‘was; it turned out to be, of all things, the nursery rhyme Ethan Kingsway d whistled; the one her mother had used to sing her to sleep with. She finished it deflantly: “The King of Spain's daughter, She came to visit me All for the sake of my Little nut-tree!” Tommy strode up and down, silent and sulkily, for a mement. Then, as she finished, "his mood changed with characteristic suddenness, and he threw an arm around her and laughed, "TIW song. Who taught it to you?” She turned around, to see if he was too jealous for .comfort or mot jealous w. Bhe decided that 1t was the “Why, Tommy, Delamaies, Wagre Jou A | done born 'n’ raised? Don't you know Mother Goose when you hear it?" “To tell you the truth, Helen, I hate nursery rhymes anyhow, even the name on the cover of a ‘The only one I ever knew was the one my nurse used to tease me with when I'd been punished, or made fun of, or she was angry at me.” “Say it?” “Oh, you know it—everybody does. “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king's men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back again!” “Maggie always sang it at me when- ever I was in trouble. She'd singsong it over and over whenever I was wrong, and say mean things like ‘Aha, who's had the conceit taken out of him now Helen laughed. - “Oh, Tommy! Nothing . will ever take the conceit out of you, darling! Not all the king's horses——" H;Len. do you really think I'm con- ceited?” “I was just ragging,” said Helen, with her passion for smoothing people down, and especially making her Tommy happy. “Helen, you never would stop liking ry:\fl would you? Not for all the king’s oS “Not for one” said Helen lightly, “supposing any king to have any horses any more.” “Old Kingsway has.” Tommy’s mind went off at a tangent. “Two hunters and more polo ponies than anybody has a right to. I dont sce why Dad won't let me have one.” “Your car cost a lot, didn't it? How'd you like to be a poor working girl like me?” “Not all the king's horses and all the king's men could tear me from you—" “Helen, be serious.” “All right, I will. Angel, it's time we went back.” She got resolutely into the car. ‘Tommy protested, and then, beside her, tried to turn the cnrdl;r a narrow hilly road instead of the ve. It was the way to a little secluded open place, sur- rounded delightfully by woods and crags and crossed by a trickling rivulet from | the river, strayed here nobody knew | whence. 'Nobody else seemed to have discovered it. It was their favorite pic- nicking ground. “There is lots of daylight,” he said invitingly. “We can't, Tommy,” Helen protested. “Nina expects me.” ‘When she was firm—which was very rarely—Tommy gave in. They turned the little car at the very entrance to their dell and went back to Kingsway. All the way back Helen chattered thing. Tommy went on with his love- making. For no good reason that she knew, Helen, excited, happy, in love | with him, yet parried it all until, 2s he | left her on their return, he caught her | again by her shoulder, none too gently, | and shook her with what came being near genuine irritation. “Next time you won't get off so easily. Show-down, madam, or I walk out on you for good. Think that out!” With a final quick, violent and pub- lic kiss he was gone, and Helen, who would have resented such casualness in any one else in the world, stood for a | moment to let the swirl of dazaling | excitement about her steady down, then | entered’ the house. (To be continued.) Y. W. C. A. News ‘The music hour will be held today at 5 o'clock in Barker Hall. The pro- gram will be furnished by the Capital City Choristers, with Dorothy Radde Emery, director, and Catherine Benson, accompanist and piano soloist. Tea will be served from 4 to 5 o'clock in the | fourth-floor reading room preceding the | music hour. ‘The Elizabeth Somers vesper service will be held today at 5:30 o'clock at the residence, with Mrs. Willlam Hamilton Bayly as the speaker. ‘The Kamp Kahlert Kouncil will %- sent as its annual play “The r Nut,” by J. C. and Elliott Nugent, Jan- uary 31, under the direction of Mrs. Alice S, Morse. The members of the cast will include Amy Veerhoff, Betsy Watkins, Doris Tucker and Elizabeth | Morrow, the latter as the “Poor Nut,”, |and many other girls who were in dramatic at Kamp Kahlert last Sum- mer, ‘The Tuesday Night Glee Club has started with a membership of 30 girls. Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw will speak to the members of, the Blue Triangle Club on “Modern Poetry,” January 29. Members of. the Silverelle Club are planning a bridge party for members and friends next Friday evening. ‘Tryouts for the Girl Reserve operetta, “The Toy Shop,” by Jessie L. Gaynor, will be held in all senior high *school G. R. clubs this week. Miss Burnett and Miss Middleton will visit the clubs in the following order: Monday, at 3 o'clock, the Adelphae G. R. Club at Western High School; Wednesday, at 3 o'clock, the Semper Fidelis G. R. Club of McKinley High School, and the Busi- ness High School G. R. Clubs, at 4 o'clock; the Les Comarades at 3 o'clock and the Fidelis G. R. Club at Eastern. Tryouts were held last week at the meet- ing of the Bon Secour G. R. Club of Central High School. ‘The operetta will be under the direc~ tion of Miés Mary Burnett, music direc- tor of the Y. W. C. A, and Mrs. Alice S. Morse of the Morse School of Inter- pretation. The last Junior High School interclub supper for this semester will be held in Barker Hall, January 29, at 5 o’clock. A special program will be presented by the Girl Reserve Clubs of the Gordon, Langley, Paul and -Powell Junior High Registrations for this supper Girl Reserve office by Schools. must be in the January 27. The American Red Cross will hold its third annual review of Red Cross life-saving examiners of the District from February 2 to 7, inclusive, from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock, at the ¥, W. C. A. pool, at the Seventeenth and K streets h;nld'lingr. 'fl‘lelK lu'ee‘;‘ponl will be closed for lar even: di riods Quring this Hfe-saving institate, °° Dupont Chapter will meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow, the Y. W. C. A. board room, at Seventeenth and K streets. Miss Mary Temple Hill, rooms registry secretary, will speak on the work of that department. The meeting of the Mount Pleasant Chapter will be held January 27, with Mrs. S. A, Pattison, 1852 Monroe street. Mrs. George Winchester Stone, chair. man of chapters, will address the chap- ter at the pusiness meeting at 2 o'clock. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'’S PUZZLE feverishly about anything and every- | f avenue northwest. ~—Front Line Post, 1803 Pour- it Line Auxil: ind_Marines" 8 p.m._National Capital Post. No.'127, Pythian Temple, 1013 Ninth street northwest. The District of Columbia Depart- ment and the constituent ts are g:nlclplnnl in the Nation-wide mem- rship drive, which was inaugurated January 15 and will continue as an intensive recruiting campaign until March 31. A mass meeting rally of the overseas’ veterans of all wars of this community will be held February 3, at 8:30 p.m., under the auspices of the local de- tment and the several unit posts, conjunction with the national broad- casting from Washington over a net- work of more than 40 stations of the National Broadcasting Co. The local mass meeting will form one link of a am transmitted from the ital on a coast-to-coast rans’ rally. Features of the gram will include short talks by Sen- ator David A. Reed, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee; Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of vet- erans’ affairs; Paul C. Wolman, com- mander in chief of the Veterans of For- eign Wars; Admiral Robert E. Coontz, United States Navy, retired, and junior vice commander in chief, besides selec- tions by the United States Marine Band. In more than 2000 communities throughout the country, similar rallies will be held by local Veterans of For- eign Wars posts. National Capital Post Auxiliary met at Pythian Temple last Tuesday eve- ning. Mrs. stalled as a trustee, and Mrs. Margaret Pirrone as color bearer by Chief of Staff Edith Den Broeder. ‘Walter Reed Hospital stressed the im- mediate payment of the veterans’ bonus. The auxiliary went on record as in- dorsing the passage of the bill. ‘The charter was draped in memory of the death of Mrs. Kate Hutcheson, past national president. Equality-Walter Reed Post held its regular meeting January 15, at Pythian ‘Temple, when two new members ‘were obligated. Comrade Michael Inselbuch, national _executive committeeman of the Disabled American Veterans. and adjutant of the Blind Veterans, na- tional chapter, of that organization, has transferred _his membership to Equality-Walter Reed Post. Comrade Inselbuch is a 26th Division veteran. Comrade Nathan D. Golden, past com- mander of the post, was elected to serve as trustee unmtil June, 1932. The gfll voted unanimously to join with ont Line and Columbia Posts in the operation of a soup kitchen to feed the needy and unemployed at the Na- tional Guard Armory, Sixth and Pennsylvania_avenue. The kitchen is eeding over 250 men two meals a day. Mrs. L._V. Dann and Miss Lillian Dann of Equality-Walter Reed Auxil- iary, secured two busses last Sunday from a local transportation company, and took 60 patients from Mount Alto Hospital on a trip to Alexandria and | Mount Vernon—spending about hours in visiting various historic places en route and at those places. Front Line Post will receive 28 mem- meeting, to be held at Logan Hall, ac- cording to Chairman Boehm of the Recruiting Committee. Last Monday night a committee, under the chair- manship of Comrade W. J. McConville, met to devise plans for organi a uni- form drill team to represent the post in drill competitions. Comrade Walter McCutcheon, for the Post Home Com- mittee, reports that there are good prospects of acquiring a home prop- erty in the near future. Suitable build- ings have been inspected by the com- ttee members and ‘a report will be rendered at tomorrow night's session outlining the proposed methods o financing the project. Last Wednesday night's theater party at the Gayety was reported a success, when more than 100 members attended the show to honor Comrade Jimmie Lake, play- house manager and member of the son, The rseas Band, Drum and ‘?le Corps rendered selections. Com- rade Maurice M. Grudd was in charge of the “party” arrangements. All members of V. P. prospective memiibrs are invited to at- tend the dance to be held by the post February 6 at Recreation Hall, Marine Barracks, Eighth and G streets south- east. Refreshments will be served, and there will be no admission charge. nt Line Auxiliary—The next Louise Hoffman was in- | ‘Mrs. Campbell of | A, bership applications at tomorrow night's | Willk f | commane dates will take place at the next meet~ ing. Following the business session, auxi will serve coffee and dough- nuts to the members of Front Line Pos at Logan Hall, ‘The D. O. chairman of the V. F. National Home Fund, Mrs. Mary B. Guillermain, will call & special meeting oluu:me members lIn ur near future to outline & campaign for ralsing funds in the District of Columbia auxiliaries with which to one room of the home's hospital, at Eaton Rapids, Mich. So far, the following appointments have been made to the go[lenel‘;fllm'l membership: . Dot 3 National Capital Auxiliary, and Mrs. Carrie H. Holley, Front Line Auxiliary, with Mrs, Edna McCutcheon acting as committee treasurer. e o Columbia Post admitted two com- rades to membership at its last regular meeting, held at the Thomas Circle Club, as follows: Milton Politzer, who served abroad naval vessels In foreign waters dufln;nthe Spanish-American War, and Jol Storm, whose fore! service was with the United States Ma- rines in France and Germany during the World War. Comrades Frank Pritchard and Stanley R. Nash, who have long been confined for treatment at Veterans' Bureau hospitals, are im- proving. Comrade Praether submitted & report concerning the activities of the soup kitchen being conducted jointly by Front Line and Columbia Posts. A let- ter of thanks was read at the mee! 3 Wwhich had been received from the V. F. W. National Home for Veterans' Wid« ows and ns, at Eaton Rapids, Mich., in recognition of the donation made it at Christmas. National Chief of Staff James E. van | Zandt made an address. National Capital Post at its last | meeting elected to membership the fol- |lowing comrades: O. L. Crickenbarger, | Headquarters Company, 318th Infantry, . E. F., France; John T. Pressgrove, 117th Infantry, A. E. F., France and Belgium; Lawrence G. Brubaker, Com- pany L, 116th Infantry, A. E. P, France: Thomas J. Syles, Battery E, 335th Field Artillery, A. E. F., France; John J. Donovan, reinstated; Charles P. Galpin, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, China Relief Expedition, who was a Marine guard on the battleship Maine when it was blown ur in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, and luvln‘ been seriously dis- abled by the explosion, he rei ed & hospital patient for many months, but was finally restored to duty and order- ed to Peking, China, where he served as & legation guard and was there on duty when the city of Peking was re- lieved by the allied armies. Adresses were made by Past Depart- ment Comdr. Neuner, Comrade Daniel E. Campbell, chairman of the Hospital Visitation Committee; ent Chief of Staff Nathan D. Golden and Comrades Lloyd, Blakeman and Am- The post will give an entertainment Tuesday night which will be featured by an address by Representdtive Paul J. Kvale of Minnesota, who is & mem- ber of Columbia Post, No. 833, Unitéd Veterans of American Wars, Government Printing Office Unit, at its regular meeting, January 14, in Hard- three | {10 Ha1l, installéd the following officers: commander: win J. Murray, L A Matthews, senior vice commander; H. R. Brickett, junior vice commander; iam P. Dockendorf, adjutant; Ernest Wickstrand, quartermaster; S8am- uel Mawson, chaplain; Phfllog Ki colorbearer; Frank Bruder, officer of . C. Green, officer of the guard. Past Comdr. Mawson acted as install- ing_officer. - The meeting was followed by & ban- quet and entertainment, which was in charge of Past Comdr. Steve Harder. Past Comdr. W. J. Cassedy was toast- master. Short addresses were given A. Carter, public m-lnw,l hwmu.lg'ufi ney of the Imm ite Church and Capt. der. The rtal gram was directed by Clara . The unit is planning an oyster roast P\}l’,;\ury 9. e mext regular m of the unit will be February 4, .:mncw Hall. Rotor Airship Invented. Ernest Zeuzem of Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, has invented a flying machine which he calls the rotor airship. It has four rotors, two at each end, which are driven by separate motors. pas- sengers will be carried in the wing sec- tion. The rotors will lift the ma- chine into the air and the lower ones will carry ver the ground. mee of the auxiliary will be held tomorrow evening. Plans will be per- fected for a dance to be held by the Ways and Means Committee, of which Leonelds Volkman is chairman. The auxiliary will pay its monthly visit to Ward H of Naval Hospital next Priday evening at 7 o'clock. 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