Show mmmt TIIE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND CARIBBEAN UK CONSPIRACY BRENDA K A Londoner in New York: This u the voice of a friendly alien TBB STORT SO FAR: Aaae lijtHS beautiful SauchUr of a wealthy New Terk aewspaper pobUiher goes ea aw Milfament Faerte Rica where Pet Wilcox a reporter ea her lather’s paper la stationed as a O S Amy latelllceace officer Oa the beat she a young Faerte Rlcaa Miguel Valera and an engineer named Richard Tans tig el whom she Is Immediately sasptcioas In spite el the tact that he leeks like a typical tourist She does ao know Out be Is la (act a German agent ordered to destroy Faerte Rice’s water supply Anne knows aomethlaf Is wrong hat doesn’t want Tansslg to knew she sns poets him As the heat docks she and Mlgaal Valera are at the rail together I’ve been thla reporting Nations’ war aince SeptemBut first thing I had to do ivhen I sought permission to visit U S A was fill out form for aliens This peacetime form is ail rules and a yard wide full of highly personal cryptic questions It floored me Only two questions I’m certain I answered correctly were could I read and was I masculine They asked me also if I’d ever been insane Even in the evil Nazi prewar days when I went often to Germany CHAPTER H the formalities were never so tough and I’d never been called an alien She' looked down again at the peoIt seemed a symbol of our life and times that you and we so (as I be- ple on the dock A girl was standing there gazing up along the lieve) idyndamentally alike in thought crowded She was so ship’s ralL and aspiration should build and that Anne’s heart sank anmaintain barriers to association and lovely notch other In spite of herself She understanding was slim and not very tall with warm skin and dark Symbol of our times too I never sparkling eyes and tawny chestnut Raw Liberty as we steamed upriver hair Behind her was an older man Liberty passed by as I was answerwith the same arresting quality the ing an FBI quiz Very charming girl had except that hers was an very courteous those FBI men but almost loveliness and r the his was a rugged and aristocratic they gave me wasn’t less thorough for being so friendly dignity that seemed to hold him 3s it too much to hope that after the the crowd from completely apart war the American and British peoaround him ples may share common citizenship Suddenly both faces broke into an in each other’s countries? That eager smile The old man raised his would be a war aim It might even hat the girl waved her hand Anne prevent World War 3 glanced around Miguel Valera was waving back to them his face lightI was entirely unprepared for New ed with pleasure York “That’s my father” be said Years spent in the jungles of Surma and on the vasty deserts of Anne had noticed before the pride TSgypl Libya and Tripolitania were and warmth that came into his voice when he’d spoken his father’s name poor training grounds for this exhilarating contact A strange city— She could understand it now—and but the natives are friendly Everyyet for some reason it made him suddenly remote from her as if the thing has been said of New York but I was surprised at its smooth man on the dock bad moved in bethe politeness of tween them there at the rail velvety functioning the inhabitants “—And that’s my cousin Gradels not surprised at ita fascinating window displays its high She and her father live with us Her prices its “nothing for nothing and mother was killed in Spain in the damn little for a dollar’’ attitude civil war” London has nothing 'of New York’s “She's lovely isn't she?” Anne United ber 1939 epirit or character Paris had a little the same tempo same fruity same gusts of smell of gasoline warm air uprushing from the subways chestnut trees Nostalgia broke over me like a wave at sight of those chestnuts recalling Paris Maytime in 1940 has something of New Sydney York in its waterfront its Irregular skyline its hamburger heavens and New gay gaudy and swift taxicabs York’s women and Sydney’s have certain kinship too The skillful makeup lithe figures slim ankles and feet (I am not disloyal to you you gallant British women who fill our factories clean our man streets and our guns) On Fifth Avenue maidens in uniform are rarer than on London's Piccadilly But those I saw rated a backward Unlike British women’s glance deservice uniforms seemingly signed by repressed spinsters as revenge on their sex US women’s uniforms are chic feminine frequently fantastique Perhaps occasionally un peu trop fantastique devised more chorines than for frontfor line corps There’s something to be those who said for ugly uniforms: to volunteer wear them must be pure patriots New York girl asked me: “I suppose you must resent our remoteness from actual war and seeing buildings unscarred coming as you do from Britain and the African But of course not! Because my home is shattered and my people killed should I wish the same No Britisher does fate for others? As they stroll 6n Fifth Avenue guess they feel like me that it’s good to be able &‘ill to find unscarred and beauty in peacetime loveliness i f A said Ahne caught a final glimpse of Graciela’s face as they followed the crowd “He doesn’t know below she’s in love with him” she thought “Or he doesn’t care" The reflection she caught of herself in the mirror on the landing of the stairs had a new and sudden radiance and the touch of his guiding hand on the bare skin of her arm had a kind of magic she hadn't noticed before “I’m sorry the trip is over really” she said ‘Tm glad you’re going to be in San Juan I hope you'll let me show you around” Anne came to a dead stop At the bottom of the stairs coming out of the purser's cilice with two of the him was officers behind Capship's tain Peter Wilcox of the United States Army lie was in tan tropical gabardine with a tan sun helmet under his arm and an inlaid mahogany swagger stick in his hand For an instant he looked so different she wasn’t sure if it was really he he was older and harder and more au- thoritative Then he grinned as he used to do “ —Hello Annie wondered if then was another Anne HFywood in this part of the world” “Oh Pete— it’s swell to see you! She ran down the last steps was swell to see him She would have kissed him For an instant sb But b quite forgot Miguel Valera held out his bands so that was that She turned back “—Have you two met? This is Mr Valera It Captain Wilcox” SomeThe two men shook hands thing curious seemed to happen to the atmosphere all of a sudden It was like a cloud crossing the sun “If you’ll get your stuff together Anne” Pete said “I’ll be along and help you get it to your hotel” proportions He grinned again “—If you’d like me to that is” I spotted Jack Benny Unaided The passengers from the ship had TJna Merkel Billy Rose and some already registered The clerk turned lesser aristocrats Walter Winchell Anne to his homework was there too doing “Are you Miss Heywood? It’s a I was quite prepared to dislike Winchell (It’s the human thing to good thing you made a reservation resent success in others) I did not It’s the lastwasroom in the house A Just asking for you gentleman youth expect to meet a One of the passengers” but Winchell was much less sophisShe took up the pen wrote “Miss Maybe its ticate than Pd imagined Her eyas were and true what they say that every New Anne—” on stopped the top card in the stack fastened York columnist yearns to be a On it was si the clerk was holding cr s small curiously cramped signathe ether day I ture: “Mr Richard Taussig New York City” pleaded for postwar common citi“You are in Room 110 Mias Heyzenship for British and US peoples wood” the clerk said ’It’s a corThe cracked: Someone room on the ocean side” ner But British want America back” Her eyes were still fastened on what with the Jungly heat the minhand The room versus the cardonin his ers’ strike the Roosevelt it was 108 She wrote number food and the issue wrangle Congress “— Heywood Huntington Long Inwas no America the race riots gift land New York” put the pen down Just then And in Britain right now and turned around we’ve troubles enough of our own was Pete waiting looking at her “— What's the He took her arm New to an intelligent Talking matter?" Yorker about the United Nations’ air “Nothing” she said quickly Then assault on Germany these days I she laughed “I don’t know what’s referred to the air Battle of Britain got into me all of a sudden Tm He bad never heard of it I told Just stupid I guess" him it was the Battle of America He gripped her arm a little tight' under another name Except er She looked up at him with warm The idea that Mr that chops and steaks are elusive laughing eyes New York doesn’t show signs of war Richard Taussig could exude any But war isn't merely kind of pitch in room 108 that could privations war is heartwithout things seep through and defile anything of break personal loneliness for those hers in room 110 seemed suddenly For frontline soldiers too fantastic to her to worry about left behind intense of fear “ — Pm glad I’m here” she said is periods short It long periods of intense boredom softly I” CONRAD “So am Pete said "Now Td like to think you came down because you missed having me under foot but I’m still relatively sane And you don’t look as if the doctor ordered a rest What about coming clean Miss Heywood? Anne crossed the patio and sat down on the balustrade ‘Tm Just down for fun” she said He looked at her a moment “Did you meet old Don Alvaro?” he asked She looked blank "The father of the guy you were with on the ship?” "You mean Miguel Valera?” "I mean his father” ‘Yes I met him — while I was sitting on my trunk waiting for you What were you doing? “Checking up on the passenger list "I keep forgetting you’re in Military Intelligence” Anne said “Do you catch spiea or what? He grinned UTAH Sfese What is the difference between woman and a diplomat? When diplomat says “Yes” he means "Perhaps” When he says “Perhaps” he means “No” A diplobefore from the War Department mat never says “No” When a in Washington cancelling Miguel woman says “No” she means Valera’s previous order to report for D C Washington “Perhaps” When she says “Peractive service with the 85th CORN SIT DOWN STRIKE Infantry she means “Yes” A womhaps" at Fort Buchanan That waa all High ranking officials of the agrian never says "Yes”— Old French there waa to it And now he was culture department are frank in sayRiddle here ing that farmers are impeding the of a diplomat: A genDefinition “I wonder what the hell war effort Just as much as striking tleman who can tell a lie in such Pete thought as he returned the sencoal miners when they stags a a manner to another gentleman try’s salute and hurried Inside strike on com that the second gentleman is com- Colonel Lieutenant Thomas J Feed corn is desperately needed pelled to pretend that he believes Fletcher looked up from his desk by poultry farmers dairy farmers the first gentleman although he with a alight frown He liked Puerto and corn But corn is processors knows that the first gentleman Is Rico and he liked Pete but he had not to because market farm- a liar who knows that the secmoving been Assistant Chief of Staff G 2 ers are holding for a higher price ond gentleman does not believe tor only a couple of weeks and his The typical farmer in the corn him — The World News Sydney predecessor Colonel Mayhew liked belt today la looking at fail bins full neither Pete nor Puerto Rico of corn and reasoning that he might And he had warned Colonel Fletchas well hold it for a while since he MEDICATED er “They’re aU alike They think doesn’t need the cribs yet and since the Army is the city desk of a yelPOWDER FOR formerly Mexican the price might go up low JoumaL You’ve got to watch HctPowder Relieve is partly to blame for Washington FAMILY USE diaper rash beet raah them closer than you do the damn this The attacks on OPA the firing natives i a a I They go off Look out for what they call their private sources at information” It was not only his predecessor’s that warning disturbed Colonel Fletcher at the moment It was the letter on the desk in front of him it had come in time If Fortunately It had come a little later there might have been hell to pay in Washington and Colonel Fletcher might have found himself back in the States R O T C boys squads teaching "Public relations is all I do There aren't any spies down here Miss an open Heywood Everything’s book If you want a scale map of the island and all its fortifications all you do is send ten cents in stamps to General Headquarters He got up “I’ve got to push along What about lunch? Twelve o’clock Officers Club at El Morro Any taxi right driver’ll get you there” He returned Pete’s salute Anne nodded "Taussig is in room 108 at the Pete Wilcox waited on the gallery Granada sir” Pete said He reuntil he heard the door trundle shut membered the "sir" Just in time and the elevator begin Its wheezing "You can call it off Captain WiHe tossed his cig lcox” progress upward arette into the jar of white sand by Fletcher spoke evenly and quietly It was his own fault of course He should have taken Mayhew’s advice Instead of the offchance that Wilcox-really had something "You may read this” He handed Pete the letter ’Taussig is not only a substantial citizen — he has a very powerful political sponsor” The letter was to Dutton the Cbmmanding Officer of the Puerto Rican Department The letterhead and the signature belonged to a United States Senator whose relations with the Press had not always beer free of virulent & “I keep forgetting you’re In the Military Intelligence” Anne said the pillar and came back into the It was empty except for a lobby man sitting on a wicker sofa between the center arches reading a Spanish newspaper Pete went over to the desk The clerk pushed the pile of registration cards across to him Anna’s was on top under it l£lr Richard Taussig’s Pete glanced through the rest of them quickly and handed them back to the clerk He pushed Taussig’s across the desk "Phone messages and callers” he said The clerk nodded "And Miss Heywood would like a room on the second floor as soon as it’s possible” The clerk nodded again The man on the wicker sofa folded his newspaper and strolled out into the gallery "One oh eight” Pete said as he passed him He would have liked to add “One ten" but Military Intelll was like the gence once in motion mills of the gods and he didn’t want Anne Heywood ground exceedingly smalL Heaven only knew what she’d get into before she got out He switched on the ignition Something else was worrying him too an old story he’d picked up a long time ago when he was covering Spanish speakeasies Why Don Alvaro’s name stuck in his memory he didn’t know except that names and disjointed tacts had a way of sticking there and were part of his luck as a newspaperman He shrugged his The whole thing was fanshoulders tastic probably all a speakeasy pipe dream The idea that Don Alvaro or any man alive today knew the secret of San Juan’s water supply and could choke off El Morro and her sister fortress San Cristobal was absolutely cockeyed If he took a story of the sort to Q I they’d have him in the nearest insane asylum in nothing fiat The water supply was certainly one of the chief strategic problems of the Island but it was a problem in enand he wasn't going to gineering believe that the old Conquistadores had left a secret the Army engineers couldn’t figure out He stopped abruptly as something else flashed into his mind It was an order he’d seen a couple of weeks My dear General” it read “It la a very great pleasure for me to take this opportunity to commend my old friend Mr Richard Taussig to your kind attention Mr Taussig is a sanitary engineer of Interna tlonal repute I shall regard any you can show him as courtesy I believe he is espepersonal favor in the more docially interested mestic arrangements of the military establishment and I hope you will see your way clear to allowing him as much freedom for investiga tlon as is consistent with the best interests of all concerned I am looking forward to his unbiased report on the use we are making of the vast funds pouring into our basea Caribbean With warm per' sonal regards I am very sincerely " youra Across the bottom the General’s aide had scribbled: “—Is dinner enough? Have arranged tour How long Is he staying?” Pete handed the letter back And by the “That’s all Captain way” Colonel Fletcher smiled faintly “Arc you sure this wasn’t camouflage? When you want to meet a young lady it's best to just say so That’s alL” you know Pete sat for a moment at his desk “If I were Lindbergh I could He resign” he thought sardonically unlocked a drawer and took a grimy sheet of cheap hotel writing paper out of it “Dear Mr Wilcox” It began "I taka my pen in hand to say if you can take this as strictly private and personal between you and go ahead If you got to turn it in to them brass hats you’re mixed up with stick a match to it I don’t want the Joint wrecked any more I want to wake up in the morgue via the East River as they say You and me are on the leveL A namqd Taussig is headed your way I Something's screwy don’t know what Two guys spilled it at the bar Tuesday night and it’s How’s the straight dopfe— beauties down your way? Signed— F A Schneider” The signature waa elaborate and for atate occaflowing ' practiced sions like the signing of liquor reUnder it was written “Gus" ceipts Pete Wilcox sat looking down at bis hot tip from the keeper of one I of the most disreputable waterfront dives In Hoboken It wasn’t the first one he’d got Not one of them had been a phony The F B L had profited a number of times and no questions asked He shrugged "The Army” be thought "is different But I thought Fletcher was different too I guess they grow brass hats young” He put the letter back in the drawer After an it was just Gus’ word against a guy who evidently bad friends In high places But if Gus bad gone to the length of writing a letter T guess I’ve stuck my neck out enough” he thought sardonically What was the Army formula? Keep your mouth shul your bowels open and never volunteer There was in something I’d better call off the pack before they put me in the guardhouse” he thought He picked up the phone and rang the Granada HoteL (TO BK CONTINUED) it of Chester Davis and the congressional demands to set aside the price ceiling all have created So the farmer sits tight saying ‘Til just wait till they make up their minds” But when thousands of farmers do the same thing it creates a scarcity which throws the national economy out of gear Just as much of as the lack coal production The patriotic thing to do say Washington officials is to send your corn to market now especially since the farmer is guaranteed the benefit of a price rise if it comes Meantime the corridors of the department of agriculture are seething Pressure for a corn rise is terrific This is Marvin Jones first big battle WICKABD GOES SHOPPIXO of Agriculture Claude Secretary Wickard went shopping with Mrs Wickard the other day He stood In the grocery store watching the shop pers while Mrs Wickard did the buying He noticed a crush in front of the meat counter while the vegetable were going begincluding potatoes ging "That’s human nature for you” mused Wickard “Only a few weeks ago when potatoes were short for a few days there was a great howl from the public and potatoes were sold in the black 'market Now there’ plenty of potatoes— but everybody want meat’ When Mrs Wickard appeared from the crush she announced with pride that she had some meat "How much did you pay for It?” asked Wickard "Nine points” replied Mrs Wick- Barking Sands Kauai fourth in size of the Hawaiian Islands has a beach whose sands emit a barking sound when walked upon DON’T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels ere sluggish and yea (eel irritable headachy do aa milliona — the modem do chow laxativa Simply chaw chewing-gubefore you go to bed taking only in accordance with package direction! 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