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Show LEIII FREE PRESS, LEHl UTAH AFTER WORLDS COLL1D by EDWIN BALMER SYNOPSIS TJiider the leadership of and PHILIP WYLIE Cole Hendron, ko ted Americas cleBtist, over 10 per-oekcape la two Space Ship Just before a cosmic coUisioa wiped out the ca a Bronaoa Beta. arth. and in4 Giant meteor, fragmenta of tba earth's moon, fall la their vicinity, bat none of Hendron's colonists is hurt. A river bottom frees with vegetation Is found, aad great forests of dead trees, preserved for a million yean by the absolute cold cf space. As airplane, which dlaappears almost Immediately, flies over the camp, making; no attempt to communicate with Its people, who real lie that they are not alone on the new planet, and that their visitors may be enemies. Tony Drake and Eliot James, la an exploration airplane flight, come upon a wondrous city, under what seems like half an iridescent glass bubble six miles wide and half a mile high at Its center. Among- their finds, when they make an entry, is an edible grain millions of bushels. On their flight back they see the beam of a searchlight, and corns ed down. CHAPTER V At their feet, not more than a mile way so close that tbe purring of machinery was faintly audible a single searchlight turned Its unwinking eye upon the heavens. In the diffused light around the great lamp they were A huge able to gee many things. cylinder, a cylinder like their own Ark but larger, lay toppled upon its side, crippled and riven. Near the cylinder was an orderly group of shelters. Standing beside the searchlight were two doll-lik- e figures of human beings. "Ifg our other people!" Tony said, and bis voice choked. Eliot james gripped his arm. "Maybe not It's about the same size, but bow can you be sure? Those people who flew over a few nights ago and didn't like us may have come up In It "Come on," Tony said. "Quietly, then." The minutes were like hours. They were on level ground now, slulclug through the blackness like Indians. They were half a mile from the two figures at the light Both were men. At that distance Tony and' Eliot could see how horribly the space ship bad been mangled. Whether they were friends or enemies, their arrival on Bronson Beta had been disastrous. They crept forward. Suddenly Tony emitted a wild bellow, rose to bis feet and rushed toward the light Eliot James followed him and presently understood. Tony's first shout had been Inarticulate, but aa he ran now he called: "Ransdell! Ransdell I Oh, my G d! It's me Tony Drake I We've found you at last!" And Eliot James, running like a deer, caw one of the men at the light turn around, lift his hand, try to say something, fall forward In a faint. Ten minutes later, only ten minutes, and yet to two hundred and eighteen human souls that ten minutes had marked the beginning of salvation. Copyright, 1934. by Edwla Balmer and Philip Wylie. WXU Service. whose faces bad become the faces of friends for Tony and Eliot James In the past two years. Somebody brought two rubs. Upon them Tony and Itansdell stood. Tony felt It utterly useless to attempt to speak to the throng ; the people were too hysrerieaL They had thought themselves recuperated from shock; but this Intense excitement betrayed them. Ransdell went to Tony and drew him away from the excited throug. "Eliot 1" shouted Tony to his companion in this flight of exploration, "l'ou try to tell them as soon as they give you a chance." "O. K.!" Eliot yelled, and he stepped up on the tub which Tony 'bad quitted. He shouted and made gestures and caught the crowd's attention. Only a few trailed after Tony and Ransdell. Tony could not yet quiet his own Inner tumult lie felt an arm about his shoulder, and found Jack Taylor beside him. On the other side walked I'eter Vanderbllt The four friends sat down on the ground close together, seeing each other In the distant radiance of the lights In the camp; and Interrupting each other as they told, they traded their experiences in the flight from earth. The account that Tony, heard was far more trugic, of course, than that which be had to tell. The technicians under command of David Ransdell had made thulr calculations accurately, and the Journey through space had been no more eventful than that of the ship In which Tony and his comrades had traveled. However, the second Ark had been built more hastily, and its greater size Increased Its difficulties; as it approached Bronson Beta it became evident that the lining of its was being rapidly propulsion-tube- s fused. It approached the planet safely, however. The coast which the second Ark approachedthe coast upon which it now "In spite of the lay was fog," Ransdell said to Tony, "we had to land at once. We were flying 'blind,' and bad to land by instrument I gave the command to set down the ship under the added pressure of the blast required for the delicate business of landing. Three of our tubes fused almost simultaneously. The ship careened and almost tipped over. In trying to right It we rose perhaps fifty feet above this desert" He swept hls hand toward the surrounding darkness. "And then we crashed." Tony nodded. Ransdell went on: "Every bit of apparatus that was In the least fragile was, of course, demol- fog-boun- haps cause you, as well as ourselves, to perish." "l'ou would!" said Tony. "You would decide upon that Vanderbilt and Taylor and you, Dave. But thank God, that point's past I haven't told you half the news. Eliot James and I didn't come from our camp to you. We came from a city ! A city of the old inhabitants of this planet! For It was Inhabited, as we thought. And by what people! Eliot and I spent three days In one of their cities !" "But not with Them?" "No," agreed Tony. "Not with them ! They're gone! They're dead, I supposefor a million years. But wait till you hear what they left behind them! And what the cold and the dark of space saved for us! Food, for one thing Dave! Peter! Jack!" In their excitement they were all standing up again, and Tony was beating each of them in turn upon the back. "Food grain and other things saved for us by Space's wonderful refrigerator of absolute cold. Cheer up! Food something to fill you no long-er'- s one of our troubles. Their food if It doesn't kill us all. And it hasn't killed Eliot or me yet . . . Listen! What's that?" For there was shouting in the camp. "I suspect" said Peter Vanderbilt "that James had got to that point too. IIe,'s been telling them of the food you found. Perhaps now we better rejoin our comrades and the ladles." It was Indeed salvation which Tony Drake and Eliot James had brought out of the night salvation and the end of some of the hardships heroically borne. Tony did not realize then the extent of those hardships; but when half an hour later coffee was served for all in the Improvised dining hall, he was made to realize It by a simple statement of tansdell's. "This is the first ration of coffee we have served, except to those in most desperate condition, since the day after we landed." It was a hilarious midnight picnic in the Impromptu dining hall, where the men and women dared to eat as much as they wanted for the first time since their epochal Journey where they sang hymns, shouted snatches of gay songs from lost days on the vanished earth, wept and laughed again, Tony gained Items from this and that of his companions, which enabled him gradually to piece together a more coherent account of the experience of the second band of Argonauts. The horrible day of the landing as the fog cleared away, revealing moment by moment the magnitude of the disaster which had overtaken them ; the groans of the wounded ; the crushed and mangled bodies of the dead ; the desperate efforts of the doctors and surgeons among them to save those who were not beyond hope. The shocking discovery that every one of the seeds so carefully stored on the ship had been burned by the unleashed atomic blast The necessary destruction of the animals which had survived the crash, and the utilization of them for food. Rationing, then, and hunger. Long and weary expeditions on foot in search of sustenance and vegetation. "For a while," said Jack Taylor, "we believed that nobody else no other ship from earth got over. We felt that desperate as our situation was, yet we were the luckiest" "But two weeks ago," put In Peter Vanderbilt "we began to believe differently." "Why?" asked Tony. "Airplane," replied Vanderbilt succinctly. "It didn't land.? "Neither did ours," said Tony. "You mean you sent it? It was your machine?" Ransdell swiftly demanded. "Not two weeks ago," Tony denied. "We had nothing In the air then. I mean, an airplane visited us, too; and It didn't too plainly appear." "But you saw it?" "We got a glimpse of It a glint of light on a wing through the clouds," explained Tony. "Did you see more here?" "Yes," said Ransdell. "We got a shape a silhouette. Queer type; we couidn't Identify It Long, wings. Like larks' wings, somebody said. It looked like a giant lark In the sky. You know whose plane It was? What party brought that type over?" "No party," said Tony bluntly. "What do you mean?" "What 1 say. No party from earth brought that ship with them. It wasn't brought over." He had gone a little pale, as he spoke; and he wiped his forehead and then his hands with his handkerchief. "What the h 1 1" whispered Jack Taylor with awed deliberation. "I said," Iterated Tony solemnly, "it wasn't brought over. On the edge of the city of the Other Feople, of which we've been telling you under the great glass dome, but near an edge where they could be run out, easily was a sort of hangar of those things. We saw a a hundred of them. Like larks, they'd look in the sky all metal larks of uiarvelous design. They had engines. But we couldn't get one going. We tried to." He stopped, wet his Hps. "Go on I For God's sake, go on I" "All right" said Tony. "But where do I go from there? What am I to tell you? I can tell you this; for I know It I saw It I saw the machines; and I felt them with my hands ; and as I told you, 1 tried to make the engine work, but Eliot and I couldn't The Other People the People a Million Years Dead the Inhabitants of Bronson Beta had aircraft that back-pointin- g "Three of Our Tubes Fused Almost Simultaneously. The Ship Careened and Almost Tipped Over." . . . H Swept His Hands Toward the Surrounding Darkness. "And Then We Crashed." Every one was awake all the lights were shining. The cheers still rose Ransdell had come to, sporadically. and was still rocking In the arms of Tony when he did not unclasp him long enough to embrace Eliot James. Tbe crowd of people,, delirious with Joy, was rrylug to touch them and talk to them. All the crowd, that is, except those who had not yet recovered from the terrible smash-u- p of the landing and those who would never recover. Ransdell had fainted, for the first time in his life, out of pure Joy, pure ecstasy, and out of cosmic fatigue. When he succeeded In reducing his command to a' momentary quiet, he aid, "Tony has told me that tbe Ark made the trip and landed safely, and that everybody aboard ber is all right" Again the cheering. Again people rushed forward by the score to shake Tony'a band. Jack Little was there, bandaged and grinning. Peter Vanderbllt apparently calm but blowing lils nose In a suspicious manner. Jack Taylor was there, too, and Smith and fJreva and a hundred other people tshed. On top of the crash, one of burst, and its blast pene- the trated the storeroom. That might have Jet-tub- been much worse; It might have annihilated half our party. Ferbaps It did so, tndlrectly it fused or destroyed more than half our stores and equipment Since landingi we have not found It possible to construct even a radio. That Is why you have heard no signals from us. We had more than we could do, for the first weeks, taking, care of our injured and burying the dead and salvaging and making usable what supplies were spared. In part TIfe searchlight you saw tonight was the best effort we accomplished." Suddenly Ransdell'a voice failed him. He cleared his throat and continued very' quietly: "To tell the truth, Topy, we woudered whether should try to communicate with 's party assuming you had come through safe. We are so without sup-pilor resources, that we could only be a burden to you. It was that, as much as anything else, which stopped us from making efforts to find you. Wc decided not to drag you down and per ti.m-dron- would look, in tne air. like nothing bai we had en earth but a lark. They exevidently and economical small, prothat ceedingly powerful engines we pelled them by a motive power It believe I haven't learned to employ. was one of those -- achlnes over you and over us." wdi "Flew?" repeated Peter Vanderbilt calmly. "Of Itself? No pilot?" "QUOTES" COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NRA DECISION SLOAN. JR. AI.FKED By Motor Magnate. of hii walk out any door!" "After a million years dead?" "How do we know how it might have been?" Peter Vanderbilt flicked a speck from his sleeve. "The machine could have come from one source," he 6ug- Box NATIONAL CHARACTERS Tuny shook his head. "A pilot perhaps," pronounced Van. derbilt softly, "a million years dead? Tony nodded; the Inclination head in the affirmative made them Jump. Van"You don't believe It!" 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The machine could have survived the million years' cold ; we know that some did. You saw them. But the pilot need have survived no more than a passage from earth which some three hundred of us here have survived, NATIONAL PROBLEMS and a hundred In your camp also." HENRY A. WALLACE By "Of course," accepted Eliot James Secretary of Agriculture. "Another party could practically. when farmers and have got across several parties; the TODAY, ask for a delemen German, the Russians, tbe Japanese or some others. Two weeks or more gation of federal power equivalent ago they may have found another to the tariff or the corporate form of Sealed City with the Other People's organization, or the federal banking structure, they are In danger of being aircraft" "And they," said Tony, "may have met by some such statement as this: "It is not the province of the court got one of the engines going." to consider the economic advantages "Exactly !" "All right," said Tony, "that's that or disadvantages of such a centralized Then why did the pilot, whoever he system. It is sufficient that the fedIs, lock us over end leave without mes- eral Constitution does not provide for it." sage or signal? Why " I am reminded of that famous obtoThey sat down, but drew closer servation by Justice Holmes : "The life gether. "If some of the Other PeoIs not logic; the life of the of law the would atwhat be their ple survived, Is law experience." Presumably If the titude to us, would you say? . . . Would they know who we were, and experience of the American people suggests that the advantages of attacking where we came from?" national problems nationally outweigh dozen men a led In to the Tony ship then sooner or which Eliot and he had flown; and the disadvantages, later national problems will be atthey bore to the camp the amazing tacked nationally. Necessity Is the articles from the Sealed City. mother of social, as well as of meTony, seated on the ground and chanical. Invention." leaning on his hand beside him, felt a queer, soft constriction of his foreNEW DEAL AND COURTS finger. He drew his hand up, and the By CHARLES K. BURDICK constriction clamped tighter, and he Dean of Cornell Law School. felt a little weight. Some small, living VIEW of the emergency and thing had clasped him. It let go and the consequent recognition of leaped onto his shoulder. common the importance of any "Hello!" cried Tony, as two tiny national program adopted to meet gensoft hands and two tiny-toefeet eral economic and social problems, It clung to him. "Hello! Hello!" It might be possible that the Supreme was a monkey. court would now uphold congressional "Her name's Clara," said RansdelL "Yours?" asked Tony. "You brought legislation Imposing as a condition of Interstate shipment of goods compliher over?" ance with rules as to quantity of pro"Nobody brought her over," Ransdell duction, wages, hours of work and colreplied. "She stowed away." lective bargaining. "Stowed away?" If public opinion strongly and per"We discovered her after things got calm In space," Ransdell said, smil- sistently In favor of changes and deIn government a way to ing. "When we were well away from velopments the earth and had good equilibrium. accomplish the desires of the people will, of course, be found. Everybody denied they had anything In the United States, where the orto do with her being on board. In law is the supreme law of the ganic would even admit having fact nobody the courts may delay, they may land, seen her before ; but there she was." "Good work, Clara." Tony extended to some extent direct, but they cannot, In the long run, withstand a defined his finger, which Clara clasped solemnand persistent public opinion. ly, and "shook hands" by keeping her clasp as he waved his finger. THE TV A PROJECT "Since we're checking up," added By JOUETT SH0USE Ransdell, "you might as well know that President American Liberty League we brought over one more passenger TV A is a perfect example not on the last lists we made back irresponsible political and there in Michigan. Marian !" he called to the group about them. "You here?" economic bureaucracy. Its de"Where would I be?" A girl of clared objectives are, of course, comabout twenty-thre- e stood up and walked mendable and proper, but In reality toward him. Tony noticed that she the whole authority is a federally sponsored experiment In state socialcarried herself with a .boldness differism. It Is noteworthy that no matter ent from the others. "Her name," Itansdell murmured as how socialistic some of our recent exshe approached, "Is Marlnn Jackson. periments are,. their sponsors have refused to present them under their Lived In St. Louis. An acrobatic labels. proper dancer. Kept her head during the chaos before the destruction. Read SOCIAL SECURITY about our plans. Crawled Into camp the night, before we took off. Lived By MtSS FRANCE3 PERKINS . Secretary of Labor. in the woods for three weeks before T N TWO years the United States that nobody knows what on." The girl reached the table and took 1 has worked out a system o! Tony's hand. "I've heard about you," job insurance that took Europe 15 years to accomplish. The Wll Is she said. "Often. You don't look anything like I supposed you would." subject to change, for it Is a human "I'm glad to meet you," Tony replied. Instrument with human Imperfections, Unabashed, she studied him. "You representing compromises among varilook shot," she said finally. ous factions. 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