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! ‘ Chapter 13 om nodded solemnly. It did not occur to him that there might be more to Susan’s eager- ness than a normal! desire to -ex- cel in some form of sports. “Sure. You could have licked the tar out of him. I’ve seen him play before, but I’ve never seen him in worse form. Only don’t try going swim- ming by yourself any more, baby.” “You must have been lying here in the hot sun for hours. That was a dumb thing to do, I must say. Besides, Steve has been looking all over for you. He wanted you to take more pictures. He was so mad he was fit to be tied when they left.” “When they left?”, John re- peated, grinning in spite of, the pain. “Don’t tell me the daisy- pickers got mad and went home?” . “Of course they haven’t gone home. Can’t you ever be serious? They’ve gone horseback riding. Steve wanted you to photograph them on the bridle path. He want- ed to send out a newspaper re- lease, with pictures.” The cameraman snickered. “You mean to say all of them went?” Susan nodded. “Certainly all of them went. That is,” she qualified, “all except Mrs. Mansfield. She stayed in her room todo some writing: says she has a story she wants Steve to look over before she leaves. She’s sure—” John Bates-laughed aloud. “So she’s starting her writing career in a hurry, eh? While there’s a publisher handy. Maybe he’ll get so involved he’ll have to publish it—I hope, I hope.” “She’s sure it’s a natural. Says it’s her life story, and that ought to make it perfect,” Susan went on, ignoring the interruption. “But all the rest of them went horse- back riding. Mrs. Cranston didn’t really want to go, of course. She wanted to stay and bake a couple of pies; said she felt more at home in the kitchen, poor thing. But she went. Even Bella went.” John’s jaw. dropped in genuine surprise. “Good grief! Don’t tell me that female stopped sitting Jong enough to go horseback rid- ing?” a What It Means CAA SAFETY By Caroline Hall:_ Susan could not help laughing at that. “Oh, she went all right. After all, horseback riding is the one thing she can do and still sit. Furthermore. she’s a very good rider. I watched them start off, and you’d think she’d been born in the saddle.” “You don’t say so?” “I do say so.” Susan’s face so- bered. “They’re all good riders except me. I—I’ve never been on a horse in my life. That’s why I couldn’t go. Oh, I’m such a dud, John. I can’t do anything other girls do. Not that I want to go with those people, of course, but it just burns me up.” ohn looked at her curiously, saw that she was genuinely dis- stressed. “Come, come, Susie. I wouldn’t say that. You’ve got plenty on the ball. Sure. You're not much of a sportswoman. But what the heck? City girls—work- ing girls, I mean—don’t have much chance to go in for horse- back riding and outdoor sports. Even so, you’ve got a hell of a lot that other girls haven’t got.” He hesitated briefly. then added, “As far as I’m concerned, you’re just about perfect.” “Thanks, John. But I know you're just being kind.” SHE started to get up to go, but he held out a detaining hand and said in a more serious voice: “Don’t go, Susie. I’m not through yet. What I’m trying to say is— well, I consider you tops in every direction. Maybe I’m a little prej- udiced, of course. The truth is, I’ve been nuts about you ever since the first day I set eyes on you. I said to myself then and there, ‘There’s a gal that shouldn’t be slaving her life away over a red-hot typewriter. She’d make some man a mighty fine wife.” “Why, that’s awfully sweet of you, John,” said Susan, smiling her gratitude. “I had no idea you —er—liked me that much. You’re always teasing me, and we’re al- ways at each other’s throats about something—well, I didn’t think you liked me at all.” She smiled again, then added: “And as for my slaving my life away over a typewriter — why, that’s ridiculovs. I adore writing columns to .icip people.” Aeronautics Administra- | tion (CAA) is responsible for assuring that new airplanes; will be safe to fly. — How does the CAA know that a new type of airliner de- | serves a certificate of air worthiness? ! ! Simply by living with it almost from the day it is born until it goes off to fly schedules. Even then the CAA maintains a) H a Got ae Ee ‘ t { ~ Newsfeatures John’s sense of humor got the. better of him and he laughed.: “You don’t mean to say you think” you’ve helped these horseback riding Bong ese rye do you?” He nodded his head in the general. direction of the bridle path. “Holy cow!” ¢ s “No, I don’t. That's ridiculous. But I do believe,” she added by way of defense, “they’re excep- tions. If Stephen Gellis had only allowed me to do the picking in- stead of following circulation fig- ures, I believe I could have done a better job. I certainly wouldn’t have-picked this group.” John wasn’t so sure. “Maybe so,” he said, and was quick to advance the theory that people” who wrote to love columns for advice rarely, if ever, took it. “Anyway, you didn’t have a chance, sugar—so that’s that. All you got out of the thing was the dirty work. Now you've got these infernal people on your hands. It’s a damn shame. If it weren’t for the Peytons, the whole setup would be a kick in the pants for the magazine.” *“T don’t think so much of the Peytons either.” Susan confessed, voicing a thought that had been in the back of her mind all morn- ing. “And why not? They’re young, they’re good-looking, and they use Lifebuoy. Moreover, they put up a pretty good show of being in love. What’s wrong with the Pey- _ tons, aside from being a little hipped on the_ subject. of ro- mance?” “They just don’t belong here. They came under false pretenses.”. Susan shrugged her contempt for such perfidy. “They didn’t have any problem at all. They’ve only been married two weeks, and all they wanted was a free vacation.” “You don’t say?” “Yes. Anne Peyton practically: admitted it this morning. It slipped out. She told an entirely differ- ent story-from the one she told when they arrived. Why, she’s a terrible liar—that girl. Of course, you can’t help having respect for’ a good, honest liar. What that girl’ needs is a better memory. Then she might get away with her silly little falsehoods.” (To be continued) Se ey | Benes Aska Record PROGRAM By JAMES J.:' STREBIG ASHINGTON.—(AP).—The Civil On German Crimes PRAGUE.—(AP). — President Eduard Benes has proposed that Czechoslovakia keep an “eternal public record”—preferably as a state museum—of all documen-. tary and other evidences of the crimes Nazi Germany committed against the Czech state. “We must have our evidence continuous check to see that it is properly serviced and that it'‘;eady,” he said, “and must per- performs on the job as well as* it did in final tests. Here’s how the about it: CAA goes 4 ‘ular plane. The test is designed :. When a manufacturer * hits!tc learn all that needs to be' upon a design he believes can be known about that one type. ' Petually remind our people and | accelerated test to fit the partic-}the Germans of its existence. There will come a time, perhaps in five years, but more proba- blyin two, when the Germans will accuse us of Chauvinism sold to the airlines, he applies to}; The 2-0-2 is visiting 50 cities land wil complain that the Czechs the CAA for a type certificate. The government’s experts begin checking the idea then, even though it is just a pro- posal on paper and will not be right | g cer ! An armload of data is collect- | inspection made of all ‘key’ parts ‘to dete or malfunction. , is | { jon a seven-day run. Each day a ‘expelled them (from the Sude- | comprehensive tan land). They will bewail the Ct | property they left behind and {demand compensation. “Then we must refuse to pay carrying passeners, mail or cargo |°¢ Telating to engines, propell-!a penny as long as they have not Many Tests Made propeller men study the plans. Materials and assembly special- ists watch the kind and quality of materials used and the meth- od of assembly are what the de- signers intended. { | for three or four years. | The CAA people watch the de- Is ner sign developed in detail. Struc- |*¥St®™: ture specialists and engine and | is made after each takeoff and landing. These record the weath- | AP Newsfeatures ors, fuselage, wings, control, fuel hydraulic ; system, oil system, paid for what they have sto- ien and robbed during the occu- system, landing gear, electrical ‘ pation.” instruments, system, oxygen supply and fire! aetection and control system. i Many Reports Still another batch of reports er, the gross weight of the plane, | anti-icing | Germans Like American Plays ERLIN.—-’Three Men on a As unts of the plane are com- |the center of gravity, takeoff: I Horse,” a race-track play pleted, they undergo individual ‘conditions, power settings, use of in which all the American tests to determine whether they meet specifications. system? Will it respond in the air! That is where the going gets really tough for an airline hope- ful Since V-J Day made many changes in airwor- thiness requirements. These have been concerned largely with gine fails, with its from fire, its ability to stand rough weather, improvement in the windshield to protect the pi- lots in collisions with birds and } many significant technical items. | Performance Checked But the toughest of all appears | requirement, which became effec- j tiv May 15. That means that af- ter the plane is generally approv- ed it must go through a rigorous | 150-hour demonstration under | airline operating conditions—but | with the varied experiences of a_ year’s service crowded into a week or ten days. The flying is the equivalent of | 40,000 to 50,000 miles. The Martin. 2-0-2, first trans- port plane to face the new reg- | ulations, is now undergoing its accelerated service test. Eight or 10 CAA specialists ' and about a dozen company ex- | perts are on the flight. The CAA ; people have been designated by | a Type Certification Board estab- lished early in the project. Thi | Ss ‘ ' eabin Before the plane flies it has been approved j structurally—it has a good phy- } sique, but how about its nervous | ' ' | the CAA has/|Senerators, the Ss characteristics, its landing per- }formance amd its ability to cir- : ai° plane’s ability to fly if one en- | protection ; j icers (these must be turned on' during every third flight), use of } propeller feathering system, ra- | dio, electric gadgets and venti- | lating system. During the flights, reports | must be made on single engine | performance, operation of land- ; ing gear and flaps, load put oni the plane’s _ stall} le the field on one engine after ! a stimulated failure on take-off. | The designers and_ builders | have something to boast about ' that. Before the war all new planes, | 0} pey ‘asn 10 azIS JO ssa[pres3zT, ee eee ee put into the German equiva- lent, has proved an overwhelm- ina success here. Royalties paid on “Three Men on a Horse” already total more than $7,000 The next most popular Ameri- can play, “Thunder Rock” has paid $4047 in royalties. Other re- cent American hits with the Ger- mans were “The Skin of Our Teeth” and “Biography.” For the current season, in the four occupation zones. twenty- four American plays are booked for showihgs in 59 _ theatres. iwhen they get a certificate after | Eighteen plays will be shown in the British Zone, 15 in the Soviet zone and one in the French Zone. jmeet a single standard of air- | personal airplanes need not meet iworthiness. Now the CAA has the requirements of a giant air- 2 eararnl catactnnics. = small liner. to be the accelerated service test [eevee al categories, so that a small AMM mm JOB PR Modern machinery and efficient methods enable us to offer you superior printing service at fair prices. 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