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There quick wave are of utter weariness wiped h from bis mind. ire was out and the tun waa k be wakened. He emerged it smother of moss and tat reined by hit tleep. t breakfasted with studious 7, be realized that he must ..is margin of safety in the of food supplies for the fu one possibility there, he be fish from the lake. is first tries were fruitiest. came home to him that in be had resorted to water for bis purposes. So he up his line and rounded the until be came to a more pooL minutes he bad hooked a ry enough to threaten hit stood a little drunk when it en the rock ledge beside ftat gasping white body are than a meal to him. M We; it meant hope; It I taal deliverance from a 1 tf hanger. 1 bad decided to effect his a the mainland. It was, he only hope. Ml first need would be a of food, the one thing ea- ftp hit escape wat a raft jtead must have figured out, ner would be without lor a three-mile swim in there water. Even though vtd that swim, to land tod-exhausted tod-exhausted on an inhosplu- without fire and ample uM be to invite disaster. On d stood no timber of conse-(But conse-(But spindling at they were, I collect and trim enough Wet to make a raft capable p bis provision! and keep-igbter keep-igbter and his clothing dry. t be substantial enough n bis own weight But he end push it ahead of him run, W and the next dav and .that followed were crowded The early mornlna hour W he gave to catching fish. 1 wr dressed and smoked 'of away on hit ttarchigan. "gain n the evening, at ! hen his striket proved 1 At mid-afternoon. had warmed the thai-l thai-l and washed hit bul- When that wat done firewood. And urhn he turned to digging oota, wh:ch h n-tuti. Od brair'pH int. 1. w iciiKun 01 thm, with equal pa-f pa-f ove a muskamoot. which 1 &om I'ig ahoulden like rI ani hold secure hit f" quantity of food. rt niorMi.o ci . j ..... u1uo maae 611 ek He hnrt ,h.- M the b-it hnn. f. ..-u in., .u fUU- , ' e s,ir'ace water by would tave lost a little : 'nd P1 of daylight t seui,.j m tight coder 1.- red poti tad 1 . . JJN ."!or into hi. arm Jf amlle from thore a , 1B"f fright- little. u i.j bout. W place hi. land-g land-g that h r.... k Keep ' Oe nm.l 1 . . ."rough nu chilis a il! ' hli ,oal- He r'-.h.7ru-;.;0g. ,uch ihou.ht. u ... out of w.:" povt hr l B,ue at j urone. ft . . a do.. "u 'M roar.' h k-11 For that gaaping white body meant life; It meant hope. Slade waved and shouted. But the wing, neither dipped nor banked. Slade started swimming again, in a cold fury of defeat Something not unlike indignation gave strength to bi. strokes at he fought his desperate des-perate way forward. He kept on, refusing to recognize the claws of pain that tore at hit entrails or the weariness that made his breath come in quick and shuddering gasps. He kept on until hit raft end grounded ground-ed on a sandspit and he stumbled ashore and threw himself full length along a sun-warmed slope. 1 don't like this." .aid the Fly-ing Fly-ing Padre, after he and hi. leather-clad leather-clad daughter had dropped down on Iviuk Inlet to learn that Umanak had not returned from hi. overland trip to Echo Harbor. "Umanak know, hit way about." aid Lynn. "What worries me it that we've had no word from Alan." "Why should that worry you?" asked the Padre. "Because he should have been back before this," protested the girl in dungarees. "I hate to think of him in country where he's to out of reach of help." "Isn't he that way most of the time?" "But this is different," maintained Lynn. "And we can't even get through to him by radio." "So you've been worrying about Slade?" Tm afraid I have. Dad." Some unexpected note of humility in that response prompted the Padre to glance over his thoulder and meet her gaze. "When did you find that out?" he asked. "Find what out?" parried Lynn. "That your bush hawk't worth worrying over. Or, to put it more plainly, that he't beginning to loom a little bigger in your mind than Barrett Walden." "I didn't say that." She was able to laugh a little at the solemnity in his eyes. "But you must remember that I've still got you on my mind." Lynn's father, turning to her, rested rest-ed a hand on either slender shoulder. shoul-der. "You're mighty loyal to me. aren't you?" he said. "I love you. Dad," she said quite simply. "What we're going to do now 1. pick up Umanak. And as soon as that' done we're going to see what' keeping Alan in the Ana-wotto Ana-wotto country." But that declaration failed to remove re-move the line of worry from Lynn's brow a. she stood staring across the low-lying horizon to the south. "He". .0 careless and reckless," he complained. "He seems to love taking chances. He won't even carry car-ry a radio." The Flying Padre smiled. "When did women begin losing their liking for courage?" he demanded. de-manded. "They always like courage." an-wered an-wered Lynn, "but when you like the man who has it you rather want to know what's happening to him." "All right," said the Padre, "let's tart And while the sun's still high we'll see what we can do about picking pick-ing up old Umanak." Picklng.UP..-Uro anaku.,. however, proved less simple than it promised. A two-hour combing of the coastline coast-line Ihowed no sigri of him. Then Lynn, acting as observer, caught tight of what looked like smoke signals sig-nals from an empty fishing village. The. Flying Padre, Informed of this, promptly circled back and swung low over the forlorn little huddle of huta. in front of those huts Lvnn made out a squat figure, gesticulating gesticulat-ing to them as they droned over it By the time they had nosed out a landing space, behind a saddleback saddle-back island that broke the surf. Um,nak was waiting for them on I the beach. He waa footsore and emaciated, but the seamed old face wore a smile of triumph. "Me found um," he announced. "Found what?" questioned the Padre. "What devil-bird take to deep-water cave." But Lynn at this point Intervened. She came running from the plane with her coffee thermoa and a gen-eroui gen-eroui portion of their emergency rations. "He't weak from hunger," the contended. "He must take tome of this before he talks." Umanak .quatted on the shingle elope and ate like a hungry wolf. Then, grunting with tatisfactlon, he reached into the pouch of his worn and patched kooletah an produced a fragment of velvet-black mineral with a pitch-like luater. "That um," he announced. The Flying Padre took the fragment frag-ment and turned it over in hit hands. He noted it. heaviness and com-pactness, com-pactness, 1U wgge.Uon of octahedron octahe-dron cleavage with faint tinget of brown and green. "Why. thlt it pitchblende," he .aid. "If. what we're getting our radium from these days." "Butwhy ihould pitchblende be flown to Echo Harbor?" asked Lynn a. .he studied the lustrous mineral "Who'd want it for radium there?" "Thari what I don't understand," laid the man of medicine. He turned to question Umanak. "Just where and how did you find thlt?" "Me find um in cave," Umanak repeated. "In cave where water make deep harbor behind Island. Heap big black stones piled there. Black stones like that," he Insisted, pointing to the pitchblende. "How big heap?" questioned the other. I "More big than two three black whale. Big heap hide there next to sea. Maybe .hip come and take black atone, away." "But why?" demanded the puzzled puz-zled Padre. Umanak had no answer for that He was more interested, at the moment mo-ment in reaching for another handful hand-ful of Lynn', dried beef. The Flying Padre suddenly turned to him. "Did you tee your ghost plane when you were out there?" "No ee," answered Umanak. Lynn took her turn at once more Inspecting the lustrous fragment of mineral. "Is there any other use for pitchblende?" pitch-blende?" .he inquired. "Yes." wa. the meditative an-twer. an-twer. "If. our be.t source of helium he-lium gas now. But what good would helium be to anyone in this wilderness?" wilder-ness?" "What good is it in other part, of the world?" The Flying Padre considered that question. "The American Navy use. it In their dirigible. And the German., when they could get it, used it in their Zepps. But the States refused to relea.e a stock to Hitler's airmen air-men when we couldn't get a guarantee guaran-tee it wasn't going to be used for war purposes. So our German friends fell back oh hydrogen, you may remember. Helium, you tee. Isn't inflammable." "But they're to far away from our pitchblende." Lynn objected. "They would have no way, now. of getting it to their chemical plant." "Chemical plants," echoed the man of medicine as his brow creased with thought- "Walt a minute," wa. the cry that came from the Padre's lips. "We're overlooking something." He took the black stone from Lynn. "You get more than helium from this stuff. You get more than radium. You get. uranium... uxajilum..wal...haju... flow of atomic energy five million times greater than wha 'you'd get by burning coal. And supposing Alan's right in hit claim that this Is going to be harnessed and controlled and his U-235 is going to be a new power, a power a billion times stronger than anything known? And aupposing Hitler hat ordered a blitzkreig of research in hit home laboratories and they're a Jump or two ahead of us in splitting the uranium ura-nium atom? That would give him an explosive three hundred times stronger than TNT and a battleship that would be 'independent of fuel at long at It floated. And pitchblende, remember, is the nut that holds that meat And all around ut her it the world't biggest and belt pitchblende deposit" "But still I don't understand," demurred de-murred Lynn. "I don't, myself." agreed her father. fa-ther. "Not yet But the Ughfi coming to me. And the tooner we take Umanak bom and get at the bottom of this the better." (TO BE CONTINUED) By VIRGINIA VAI.K Rtloaaed by Wtrttn Ntwiru,., Union. TN "WAKE ISLAND" Para-A Para-A mount has shown what a war picture ought to bo; the truth was so dramatic that there was no need to dress it up with a fancy plot and praise goes to the writers, W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and to Director John Farrow for letting that plot be as slight as possible. Farrow directed it superbly, superb-ly, the member! of the cast did a memorable Job. Pretty K"d cast incidentally, including Brian Don-levy, Don-levy, Walter AbeL Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey and Albert Dek-ker. Dek-ker. Don't mill itl A word more about "Wake Island." It wai first shown at, the Quantlco Marine base, with an audience of 2,000 marines, who cheered it wholeheartedly. whole-heartedly. That's the surest guarantee guar-antee that there's nothing phoney about thlt very swell picture. ' When you tee "Seven Days' Leave," keep an eye on Marcy Mc-Guire, Mc-Guire, if you're interested in stellar material She plays a brat sister ", I 7 ): 7 , 1 1 WW MARCY McGTJIRE of Lucille Ball's, with a crush on Victor Mature. During filming, her part waa "fattened" three times, so that the finally had two musical numbers of her own, and a comedy romance that watn't in the original tcript Iona Reed, who's t stunt wemaa as well as Claire Trevor' stand-in la "The Deipermdoee," has ridden horses that cowpaacners woaldn't meant, leaped from high oliffa, risked her neck in dosene of ways-bat ways-bat she balked at an assignment the other day. The script called for Claire to smoke a cigar; Ions wai told to do It, and said "No." She can't even amoke. a cigarette! Porter Hall, who plays the thieving, thiev-ing, double-crossing heavy in "The Desperadoes," ha. just been made a deacon in the First Presbyterian church of Hollywood. He', usually cast a. a villain, but he, never owned a gun, since he served in the last war, he doesn't drink or gamble, gam-ble, he practically never smokes. Yet on the screen he stops at, nothing. noth-ing. Paramount has a file of what do you suppose? Cobweb.! Due to priorities, it', impossible now to get the liquid rubber of which movie cobwebs used to be made. The studio stu-dio haa quite a few murder mysteries, mys-teries, like "Street of Chance," coming com-ing along. So the prop department got busy, wove cobwebs out of the material on band, and filed them away for reference. Charles W. Koerner, head of RKO Radio production, has announced that "artistic and prestige films of dubious box-office merit" are oat. Well, some of those "prestige" 11ms were pretty dull. But a lot of really fine and profitable pic tores would never have been made if that ruling had gone through years ago. We'd not have had "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Gone With the Wind" or "Paatear" or a good many ether, that didn't look like money-makers before they were released. Life masks taken directly from the faces of a group of stars, along with fashion sketches. riglnal charcoal char-coal sketches of sets and other material ma-terial used in preparing a film, will comprise a Traveling Educational exhibit toon to be sent on Jour by will accompany it, and It will be displayed at -universities,1 ichools, civic and educational societies.- 4. September 30 marks a special anniversary an-niversary In the National.. Barn Dance show the completion of ten consecutive years on the air, broadcasting broad-casting 52 week, a year. Other radio ra-dio program, have come and gone, but the Barn Dance goes on forever. ' ODDS AND ENDSGrir Certon hat signed a long-term cantrmct with Metro; her firtt picture under the new errangement will be r Madame Curie" . . . James Cagney bought a tZSflOO Wmr Bond, which entitled him to taw tickets lor the Hollywood openinn of hie pu lure, "Yankee Doodle Dandy . . . 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