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Give to the USO ADVERTISERS VALUE WE TRUST YOU PLACE IN THEM J and will PROVE themselves worthy of it wwww,....mw,.......... i. ; . .... J W ''ARTHUR STRINGER w..MtJ" JU, 1 lii desk, heard that Lund-worke- r passing ? C. He smiled as he ) Us ttae sheet. There 1 note of triumph in the art boyi when Lindy up from bis chair and where the ( e doorway, : flat against the river . roclaimed that spring ,in to the North Coun-- l there until he caught bush pilot torn the landing dock. 1 i back to his desk and I pled time sheets as the i. it Into what was over-- m as the Admlnis-- , of Norland Airways, e of plain boards and tl) only the two poles ujtennae to crown it iiig sense of dignity, i be stepped into the ice, again made Cru-panth-but this time other in a cage. He H for the room. you swung back I Crager. "And I ;ou, first crack out iithat we're going to off the door." i that mean?" ques-- "I'm glad yoa swung back early," said Cruger, "We're going to the take crepe off the door." Iead of answering, envelope. took ' begin," he casually ' u'd better give this the e iiirrendered the en-- what it is?" said Slade, after jumper, aren't i his eye on face that held ilmow somewhere, wide yet flyers," he said, yelping they turn up from the safe "But the Anawotto's as empty as Sahara. Why, the only human be-ings north of the Kasakana are two frost-bitte-n old quartz-pounder- s, two old derelicts who've been bushed for three years and would bump off if I didn't tote 'em in their flour and sowbelly." "You're going well past the Kasa-kana this time," Cruger announced. "Into country you've never seen be-fore." "For what?" asked But what held his eye the longest was the smaller blue monoplane that looked faded and weathered and sadly the worse for wear. That, he knew, was the plane of the Fly-ing Padre, the mercy-flighte- r and man of medicine who was some-times known as the Grenfell of the Outer Gulf. And in it the Padre's daughter had gone along as pilot and helper. But never again, Slade remembered, would the clear-eye- d Lynn Morlock take over the con- - Slade. Cruger took his time about an-swering. "For swans' eggs, I understand." Slade's brows came a little closer together. "Just what does that mean?" Again Cruger took his time. "It means we've got a simple-minde- d naturalist out there, an or-nithologist answering to the name of Frayne, who wants to be Sown north so he can And the breeding ground of the trumpeter swan. I never saw a trumpeter swan. Did you?" Slade stood thoughtful a moment "Yes, I saw a trumpeter, only last spring. I played tag with him over Lac la Martre. He must have had a wing-stretc- h of nine or ten feet." "I'd call that quite a stretch," said the man at the desk. "You're telling me?" "They may be impressive," said Cruger, as he opened a desk draw-er, "but from what I can gather they're dying off. And this man Frayne wants to sleuth out their nesting quarters before they follow the dodo and disappear for good." "And he's going in to the Ana-wott- o alone?" Slade's brow-puck- seemed one of incredulity. "No, he's taking an over-size- d blond named Karnell along with him." "A blond?" croaked Slade. "You don't mean a skirt?" but. This blond is all narrow floor. "I must nig was a condoning because you're good," "Good enough to be here on this northern se tin tats happen to i a key position." i on him. e In this outfit broad-- t to block my enlist-:i- s indignant demand, er shrugged, e to interfere with the It ought to be big e its own decisions." p't seem to hear him. r about wanting men tained and resourceful. o ring in on that I've m one lemon-crat- e up r of aeronautics said down." sourceful, all right" er, "but you'd be in roken heart after two y rules." ' said Slade, "along : leathernecks." all move too slow for led Cruger. doesn't look slow to to be over there '' still on." the smile of a man "hot in his locker. tone." he observed, !'g seemed to stack ij you." trols while her tired father held back the hand of Death two thou-sand feet above the lake-spangl- Barrens. That, he surmised, was already a thing of the past. . Cruger, as he hung up his receiv-er, caught the passing look of rapt-nes- s in the Viking, blue eye. "It's just about as big a game, Lindy, as a man could get into," he said out of the silence. "It's still as good as g Messer-schmitt- s. And we're both going to stay In it." Slade swung about and faced his partner. "That wasn't the tune you were singing two weeks ago." Cruger's laugh was slightly de-fiant "They had us backed against the wall two weeks ago. I told you our shoestring was wearing thin and we couldn't buck the big companies an-other month. But Norland Airways is going to stay on the map." Slade's face lost its diffidence. "What's changed the picture?" Cruger's answer to that was not a direct one. "We've both got all we own in this one-hors- e outfit and we can't afford to see it fold up. While you were out fighting head winds I've been in here doing a little fighting of my own. And I've just got my hands on a reconditioned Lockheed that'll give us a second air truck and re-lease Abbott, and his Postcraft for Winnipeg and Toronto passenger "Anything male. He's square-heade- d and goril-la- jawed and looks like sorsething that's been worked on by a snarl-ing iron." Slade found the picture unpalata-ble. "But who's your friend Frayne?" he persisted with a shrug of dis-taste. "Where does he come from? And why does he pick on us?" "That's neither your problem nor mine. But he's the Norland's friend, all right He may be a simple-minde- d crank. But he's so well heeled that money doesn't seem to mean much. And at this stage of the game we're going to handle a Christmas present like that with care." Slade nodded his understanding. "But he must have a screw loose somewhere," maintained the young-er man, "or he wouldn't be head-ing for what he's sure to get in that Anawotto country." "You needn't lose sleep over that" contended Cruger. "He may be after birds' eggs, but he seems to traffic. You'll like that Lockheed. They've slapped a fresh coat of alu-minum paint on her." "What'll she carry?" asked the flyer. "A pay load of thirty thousand pounds a trip if she has to." "Where'll you get your pay loads?" exacted Slade, remember-ing how war conditions had put a sag in sub-arct- ic mine work. "I'm coming to that, stick-jiggle- r. The traffic's still there, if you're willing to go after it. And I've gone after it I've under-bi- d the big out-fits and corraled enough business to keep us busy till freeze-up- . I've got Fort Norman oil and a new slice of the Yellowknife stuff for you. I've got a renewal of the Copper-mine contract And what's more, I've got a Santa Claus in spectacles who's handing over enough ready dough to keep our cash tank from running dry." The Viking blue eye became more alert. "Who's your Santa Claus?" "He's a passenger," said Cruger, i get a little ex-- w day's work," Slade may as well give y, two weeks ago, f jnto that," retorted to check up on "wlness of this bush 'Pose there was" no S ercy uflight "ll Bay when you wo frozen huskies? our Flying Padre tymied on Lac de f with a busted pro- - 52? we Iabor all at once?" own memories of utNj smile remained Sh hospital."8 he it nni n nose-ve- r on Ml Lynn had to Cru8er. But he let have a working knowledge of sub-arctic conditions. I didn't find him much of a talker, but I stumbled on the fact he'd been trophy-huntin- g in the Himalayas last winter. And the winter before he hunted the snow leopard in Siberia and Tibet" "Then I suppose he's English, said Slade. "One of those English big-gam- e guys who go around with a monocle and a tin bathtub." "He's got equipment all right conceded Cruger. "And he's pay-ing us quite handsomely for flying it in." (TO BE CONTINUED) ' "you're going to fly Into territory that'll make London look like a tea-room on a rainy afternoon. Cruger sat back, apparently wait-ing for a question. But Slade, with his world to reorganize, merely walked to the window and looked out "You're flying," Cruger was say-ing "into the Anawotto country." Slade's turn, at that information, was quick. - "What nut's going into that he demanded. "They go Into some- queer places, these days," observed th older man. fcaS Deeded' aU ,ardthatbaby fterlT !ives' didn't iatj.reasn't any ex-- dineSk 'phone c" botl0oked "t. Be-- X ha, and rw P'anes on the the SUOUSEHOLD irlinTsffi Luggage, brief cases, men's belts, books, leather chairs, card cases, purses and handbags should be treated with vaseline occasion-ally to prolong their life. Table salt added to blue water distributes the color more evenly and prevents streaked or patchy-lookin- g clothes. To provide the most adequate serving of omelet allow three eggs for every two servings. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE nation's largest radio company is behind the weekly production of the WPB's new program, "Three Thirds of a Nation," heard Wednesday evenings on the Blue network. Produced in co-operation with the Hollywood Victory committee, clearing house for war-tim- e appearances of the Associated Actors and Artists of America, the program has at its disposal the resident membership of all Southern California. Castings weekly draw from a reservoir of more than 10,000 screen, stage and radio actors, all volunteers. The Tone family, Franchot and Jean, will soon be working at the same studio. Franchot has signed a term agreement with Paramount; It calls for four pictures during the next two years. Jean Wallace Tone, a "Louisiana Purchase" beauty. Is already there. Ann Harding is returning to the screen In Metro's "Odor of Violets," a mystery drama soon to go into r, - U ! m:'-- T ANN HARDING production. Edward Arnold has the principal male role. Donna Reed, one of Metro's abundant crop of starlets, is also in the cast. . You may not recognize Chester Conklin at once in "I Married a Witch"; playing a bartender at a country club who's in much of the opening action, he appears without that famous walrus mustache. An evening gown that Priscllla Lane wears in "Silver Queen" Is going to be melted down and giv-en to the Ambulance corps when she's through with It. It's a silver dress, and will eventu-ally become wiring and dental plates for soldiers. The diamonds that Marlene Dietrich wore in "The Lady Is Will-ing" are facing the camera again, this time in "Ellery Queen Across the Atlantic." The picture teams Margaret Lindsay and William Gar-ga- n. The story requires a collec-tion of jewels, that are stolen, so James Hogan, the director, got busy and rented them. Miss Dietrich got a break she just borrowed the goms. Those children's giggles you will hear in Walt Disney's "Bambi" are the sounds of youngsters, filled up with ice cream, enjoying some old Mickey Mouse shorts. Disney want-ed spontaneous laughter, and that's how he got it. In all the movie studios Adolphe Menjou Is known a the script girl's pet He keeps track for himself of all the tricky little details which the girls have to watch. For example, in KKO's "Syncopation" Menjou and George Bancroft do a lot of smoking, which means that lengths of cigars and ash must be matched In scenes which may be filmed weeks apart. Menjou carries a pocket rule, measures cigar and ash at the beginning of each scene, and calls his results to the script girl. Claudette Colbert has signed a three-yea- r contract calling for one picture a year with RKO. Her first assignment will be the leading role in the screen version of Pearl Buck's "China Sky" she'll play an American doctor. Stepping into the title role of the "Bulldog Drummond" series, back on the air after an absence of sev-eral months, Santos Ortega follows in illustrious footsteps. George Cou-louri- s, the last incumbent is on tour with that very successful play, "Watch on the Rhine." E. E. Mathews was the first actor to as-sume the role, and John Barrymore, Ronald Colman and John Howard did it on the screen. ODDS AND ENDS Robert Preston learned to be a proficient machine gun-ner while on location with "Wake hland" . . . Victor McLaglen RKO"i "Yowder Town' has invented a 40 foot tank and submitted it to the war depart-ment; he's veteran of th Boer and the last World war... A new mdventitrt strip about a war correspondent will be based on the real life adventures f William L. Shirer during hit days as Berlin radim operator . . . Joan Edwards of "Your Hit Parade'' has toon the pool three weeks running in guessing the ten hit numbers . . . No unusual peU for Mary Martin. She keeps laying kens |