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Nobody knew where Jim Lane WAR,
Around the California airport wild excitement and a staccato con fusion surcharged the air. At three o'clock Lane would take off for: the East in an attempt to break the transcontinental record. Mo ellanies were making a final chack
"Yeh, an accident!" he burnt out "Another dame, that's what it in!" Quickly Ganzer crossol the rant. opened hurenu drawer and took Jumper and wrapped the boltle in out a bottle. He grabbed an old
At that moment, Jim Lane cam It, altuing it all under the bureau. into the room, accompanied by a flashy blonde companion.
that plainly indicated he had been Jim was in a stato of high spirits making the rounds"
up of fuselages, exhausts and in-called. "Look what I rescued, Sha strument boards. Crowds of by tandors kept up a continual chat- ter of speculative conversation. One major question was on everybody's ip: whore was Jim Lane?
The famous long distanco dler, hulder of several records and a tremendour favorite with the gen- aral public bad vanished from alght. Placed under contract by the owner of the Drake Bullet, a now plane with a motor entailing balt million dollars in research, Lane was particularly in the spotlight on the eve of the race. Would he wat & now cross-country record? Would tho now motor revolutionize standards of air travel?
Gunner Sloane, Lana's mechanic, was giving the Buller's motor its final workout, while the owner stood Adgeting on the ground. Every thirty seconds he pulled out his watch, then glanced over at the hangar. It was already avo min- uten of two, and the race had to elart promptly at three o'clock.
Gunner Sloane swung himself out of the cockpit and turned to faco the nervous Draka.
She's made to order, Mr. Drake." he commented drily.
That's alt right," answered Drake. "I know she's good. I want this record. Now, where's Lane?"
"If you don't both march out, I'll throw you out!"" Gummer said.
"ilo's alcoping," replied Gunner. "Bicoplagt But the race ataria in an hour! You've got to get him here right nwny
"Yen, alt," responded the me chaude.
"Hurry up!" implored the owner, na Gunner, with a saluto, started off at a brisk paco.
In ten minutos he had reached the lodging house where he and Lane, pals for ten years, shared inexperitivo roama
Weather report in diand, Cunner stopped at the door and stoned fur a moment, Saftly be opened it,
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"Iloilo, Gunner, old boy!" ho was dying of thirst, als said," Then he saw Harah. "Hellu, pal, uvery- thing all right with you?" looked at her for a moment. “Hay, He what's your name?" he demanded. "Sarau," the girl mplied petu- Jim turned to the bit of feminino ballast hanging on his arm. "What's youra?" he inquired.
lantly.
angry. "Linbol," she soapped.
It was the blonde's turn to be
Jim teeteted a bit. "Mabel, ch? Wolt, Mabel, Lita is Sarah, and this is Gunner, and this in all a very unexpected pleasure and I'm find to know you all!" to bowed in all_directions.
fine. "Do you know what time it Gunner's mouth was set in a grin is?" he demanded.
"Time to go to bed. You told m
"Yeh," Jim responded gally. that two hours ago. Bay, what do self for?" you want to keep repenting your
Gunner turned to the girls. "Como on, blow!" he ordered. Itoughly. ho started hurrying them to the door. a dead halt. "Get her out frat. I Both rosinted, and Sarah enme to won't go out with tint lcker," ako Brinered, pointing to Mubel.
Mabel was fighting mad. "Who'a calling who aleiter?"
"Listen, you
cried. "This guy has got to get nume dameat" Gunner sleep, and if you don't both march They marched. out of here, I'll throw you out!"
Jim had ant down on the edge of the bed, and was grinning. Now he fell back, and in a moment ho was Bound asleep, pooring.
Gunner shook Jim Kendly,
It was almost three o'clock when
The fir sat up, and stared at his alert moniler.
"Yeh?" "Ych."
"Okay. Where ara my clothes?"
and tiptoed in. The living room In a moment, realizing he had them was amal), and cheaply furnished. on, he tool: the shoes Gunner held The meclunto clused to dour be-out. "Thanks," hind him and paused for a few Becunds. Then, seeing that the bed room door stood opon, in walked across the room silentis.
He reached out to close it, but suddenly he stopped short, his face led with consternation at what ho saw. There, on the bed, was a. girl, fully cluthed, naleep! Jim Lane was nowhere to be scen!
Angrily, Gunner sbook the girl She woke with a sturt, staring wildly.
and a wide-awako as if he'd slept Jim stood up. He was suber now all night. He went to the wash- and combed his tousled hair. stand, poured water over his face
"How'd the asked. two."
"Twenty-seven hundred and sixty- Jim nodded, "How's the weath- Forty milo Lal wind," Cunner replied, looking at his report.
"How's the weather?" Jim re- pented.
motor wind?" he
ar
"Where's Lano?" Gunner de- manded savagely,
The girl nut up. "Yeh..
where? I had a dalo with him
"Okay, I'll tell you. Seventy mile де ten tall wind... at twenty thousand o'clock, and you'ro anking nefect. And thunder where!"
and blizzard "Who are you? Where'd you aco
cobergar him?"
"My name in Barah and I'm tell- ing you I haven't seen him!" She Cot out of bed, and crossed to the waglistand,
"How long have you been here?" Gunner snapped, following hur.
"Aleco niño,"
"When'd you fall asleep?" he do- manded, as she began to straighten tier hair.
"I don't know, What difference doan it maka?"
"Elecause ho started homs hera three houre ago, and I want to know it ho's been hore1" Gunner shouted, "1'a aftor two now."
Barah yawned. "Well, I was awake at one, I know that."
and
Jim wrapped a muffler around his shoulders. She'll hold," he mut- tored.
Gunner picked up Jim's suit. "If you crack up, you can blame me" ha offered.
Jl smiled, "Sure. Every me I Bood crash coming. I know it Ion't my fault."
A few minutes inter iha Gunner and Jim were at the Beld. unner the motor, Jin adjusted his para- hopped into the plane to warm up chule as owner Drake fussily tried to nalat,
the official was very nervous. "You Jim, watching Drake, saw that want that record, "don't you le asted with a smile.
"Yes, yes, Jim, I do," was the engar response.
The he hasn't been here." Gunner roached for the phone and frutally started to dial a"
number.
we can not her on the pruung nat.
"She is awful benvy, Jim," Drike Gunner swung down from the
"We'll ret 14," Lane assured
"Who are you?" Baralı asked. The guy he calls Gunner?"
"Yeh Gunner turned to the cockpit. "Twelve hundred and alxty phone. It was a beer pinco ho was gallons," he nanounced. calling, but the owner not only d "Would make a nice fro en a not know Jim's whereabouts; he cold night," Jim remarked, climb mplained to Gunner that Lano Ing In. Ho settled himself at the owed bim money, Guaner was din controls. gusted na he hung up the receiver, Jo Bat thinking for a moment, frowning sullenly.
"He leaves in loss than an hour ta break a transcontinental record," bo muttered. "I'm telling you, you can't let him out of your sight!"
*What are you telling me for?" parried Barab, "I ain't blinded by sening so much of him.”
She picked up her handbag, tookį out a cigarette and started to light It. Buddenly she turned. "Bay." the caid, "you don't think anything hap pened to hit do you?... Might; have been an accident!"
"Well, good fuck, Jim!" Drako calind.
The yardmen pulled the chocian out from under the whools. Land turned and waved good-bye. Gun- ner shouted something and climbed
the wings. He reached for Jim's safety bolt, making sure it was properly fastened.
"If I don't no you again," he muttered, "It's be foa soon."
Jim laughed. "It would be some- thing hover to see that ugly map of yours again," he replied.
He turned. The motor whirred, Blowly the plane stariod. gained
Gunner started to answer, but speed and just cleared the trees the sound of a door opening and as at the border of the field.
blur of volsos from the next room]
stopped him. Xa roso.
BY
HALSEY
RAINES
Chapter Two
As Jin'a plano disappeared into the night, Gunner took a deep breath. Is oyen showed the rollef he felt at Jim having got off the ground carrying his heavy load, without mining.
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1938,
Our New Serial
"Uh-huh.
We're near Wichita, aren't we?" Jum naked his thoughts ravolving around the question of how to get out as quickly as po Biblo.
"We're twenty miles away," sho responded.
"I've got to telophone my mo chanic. Bay, what time is it?”
"About six"
Jim looked at her attentively. "Say," he said, "do all the girls around here look like you this onrly In the morning? Every girl l'vo noon this cady” . . -.'
Во свеска himsex.
"We go to bed early," she an- awered, amused.
Jim took her arm. hero, at that, lan't it? that hny." him.
"That's whent," sha
"In it?"
This is nico
Look at all
corrected
"Yes. That's the staff of life." "Well, I'm glad to hear it," Jim
The elly lights were far bohlad him as the pilot tensely watched his instrument board, alssing noth-sald. Ing For an hour be flow winadily,
By the time, they had reached
his eyes always glued to the board. the farmhouse. Ann led the way up in flashed by mountain after to the second Joor and Jate a apare mountain, canyon after canyon, room, climbing now to avoid a treacher ous peak, dropping to avoid storm clouds and snow areas.
"I'll tell Mom to zot an extra placo," she wald, and left him alone. brushed his nor and found his way Jim washou bin faca and hands, downstairs to the kitchen.
Into the dawn the 'plano sped, ghostike, ita nowe an incandescent ruby gichm. Once lightning shot across a wing and ran crazily alght, Mr. Barton was a typlen! Jim liked Ann's parents at first Acrons the fuselage. But nothing farmer, friendly and frank, and happened. Then, suddenly, the ship Mra, Barton was a sweet, young- was in the midst of a storm. Tor- appearing woman. When Jim ex- rential rain lashed the sides of the plained how he camo la land in tho plane, turning abruptly to hall. In wheat Deld, talk turned to general a moment, Jln was flying blind,
The glass cowling was iced with mission to put through a call to things. Then the pilot naked per- now; visibility was absolute zero. the airport in California, and camo Carefully, Jim manoeuvered the back to finish the ample breaktast. plaze up above the ballstorm. He Conversation turned to the get- was beginning to breathe a littlo oral subject of education. caster now.
But his rollof was of!
"Oh, Ann is emart," Mrs. Barten
short duration. With an exclama-f said. tion, he noted that the oil gauge had broken!
"I entered high school a sophomore and came out
a freshman," Jim said.
"Smart" the father repeated. varaity, Mr. Lane, and with highest "Ann gradunted from the state unt honora!"
"You bot," smiled Ann. "Broke all records."
naked Mrs. Barios, turning to Jim. "Did you go to college, Mr. Lane?" Ann laughed suddenly, and hor parenta reproached her.
"That's all right" Jim said, "sho'a crazy! I broke all records, too. I entered high school a sophomore and came out a freshman,"
Their Mughter was interrupted as the telephone rang.
As the noedle started slowly but inexorably toward the zero markt, Jim reached over and pulled open a dump value. Streams of gasoline poured out of the main tankt.
Carefully the filer banked the ma- chine, diving into the lower strata, of clouds as the motor began to sputter ominously. For the feat. time he was really worried. He prepared to hall out, hut in the next instant he was clear of the clouds and stretch of earth was visible. lie shuddered to think how close he had come to crashing, but now I straightened the 'plano out. With relative case he gilded earthward. The space ahond was clear his estimate of the distance perfect.
The plane bumped to a stop. Lenp. ing out, Jim hurled his bolmet and Heggies to the ground and rualled
Mrs. Barlon lowered her voice. swiftly to the motor. As he reached "He's a charming man, isn't he?" Her husband nodded, and both ut to adjust a valve, & stream of
gushed over his face and shout) looked at Ann. The girl seemed un ders. Frantically, he cleared his aware of the unvoiced other ques Vision and turned again to the tien in their minds,
"Must be your call, Mr. Lanc," Barton aald.
The Quest Of The Graduate
THE suggestion made at a recent
conference of Education Authori- tles that financially assisted univer- sity students should have their grants continued for a year after graduation in order that they might be able to look around for
employ ment in complete freedom, calls attention
to the difficulties which graduates experience nowndays
their hardly ac
when they bring
quired degrees to the
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the job markets. The transition from a completely sheltered and care-free way of lite to the
business of getting a the prosale foot on a ladder that is already over- erowded is none too easy. At the
doubts university
the future rarely trouble the student's mind. The university Koca on serenely nursing the old traditions In a changing world, and the stu- dent naturally absorbs the comforta- ble Idea that he is privileged person and that a degree is a anfe passport to a good job.
Bon-
When he finds that even in such professions as teaching, where he is spared
from competition graduates, he will be lucky
if he lands Job within twelve months after
completing his professional training, and that for any other kind of job his
degree is actually a dis- advantage, he is apt to feel like e boy who jumped from the window, expecting his father to catch him. fall in order that he should learn the lesson that
but w was allowed to
he should trust inly a humane
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Here is the story of my first year's experiences Job hunting after tak- ing an Arts degree. The story is one of graduat disillusionment.
Full
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assiduously repiled to the newspaper advertisements, and with monotonous regularity I received the coldly polite intimation-"Your ip- plication
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few baffling months, like this, without making any headway I began
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that the four years I had spent at the university a ridicul- ous waste of time because I had ro experience, and without a Job there was no way of gaining the neces- sary
experience.
There was one bright feature. I Ind played
dents'
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Ha
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Jim rose,
thanking him. started toward the ball, but sud- denly stopped and turned to Ann. "No smart cracks now," he admon- lohud.
motor for a quick Inspection. But "He's very different," she que glanco told him it was useless, said slowly.
hew parts.
Pulling the zipper of his oil atained gult, he stepped out of it. The next moment be started as ho heard a girl's voice.
He couldn't make repairs without At the phone, 3m was explain. ing to Gunner. "Ferced down.... Yeh, about twenty miles from Wich
ta
The off pump let go. You'll have to bring on a new pump and a set of linci." He paused. "Wait, I'll find out. I'll ask Ann." Disappointed at the failure of the fight, but rellevad to learn tha Jim was cate, Gunner scowled. "Who's Ann?" he prowled.
"Are you all right?"
Turning. Jim saw a girl running toward him. She stopped, out of breath, and he saw tilat she was stunning even in the country dress she wore. She looked at him curi- Qualy and smiled na he stared.
"I guess you're all right," she sard with n curious inflection,
"Yeh, I'm all right," Jlm frowned, finding his voice. "I had her licked, too. A now record from Los An- geles. Now it's good-lys record."
She smiled mischievously. "But why have you been no long?"
"What?" Jim demanded.
But Jim was already talking to the girl
Will anyone in Wichita with a cab know how to get hero ali right?"
"Oh, sure," she replied. "This 11 main bighway. Everybody knows the Barton farm."
the
Jim thanked her and turned back to the 'phono,, "It's due west of Wichita," he explained, reciting; what Ann had told him.
"What's all this Ang stuff?" Gun- ner persisted,
"You neo I've waited for you.. lying here in the lell, I've watched tha 'planes fly by, and I knew some day my Price would como...
Jim smited at the girl, who was right out of a clear slty."
watching him,, her eyes shining. Jln was speechless.
He won-Listen," he said into the transmit- dored If he hadn't innded too near ter, have you got all that dopo or an asylum of some sort.
"Say, laten. .". ho began. The girl smiled disarmingly. "What's the matter, is it too much * for you?"
Jim shook his head. "Well, you had mo winging for a moment, pal,"
be admitted.
"Are you a famona fier?" "I'm Jim Lane," he said, as if no further explanation was necessary. But the girl didn't react.
"Am I supposed to faint on that one?" she asked.
"No.
All you've oyer seen me do is flop."
"Tugh But don't you think this is a pretty farm you pleked out?" "Yes," he replied Indifferently That your house over there?"
"Tes, and we're about to have 'breakfast In It Come on."
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haven't you? What time do you get to Wichita?“
Gunner shook his head. "'ll hop the Arst airliner cast," he muttered. "Get there about half past fivp, I figure." Thon, suddenly, he was an
again. "Why do you always have to land way ou: in the sticks?"
This is not the sticka, lad." Jim retorted. "This is the prettiest farm I over way. Waft till you soo !!!" Ila haaltated. "Why, the wheat ways in the field like a silken sea! How's that?"
"Sounds like a blonde?" Gunner muttered. His voice look on a warn lag note. "Don't fool around all day now, Jim, Get that old pump out no I can stick the now one right
tonight."
in, and we may be able to get out
Jim paused, watching Ann. "I'll be bury all afternoon," he As they started walking, Jim promised, but turned to examine the felt and have wagerad any money that Jim Gunner wouldn't then the nearby house, "What's was talking about the plane. your name?" he asiced anally,
"Ann Barton."
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without specialised perience inevitably gravitates adays, I decided to have a shot at it. But it was difficult going. The saelety appealed to a
very few people, and not all of
them
could afford
the luxury of membership, I soon gave it
I up as unecona- and enrolled mic, college to take a course in shorthand in a business and typing. On the strength of this. aided by some influence which I was SANTHIA glad to make use of, I secured a cleric's joh in the administrative office of a semi-public Institution at the salary of £2 15s a week. Waiting for Something
Now let me consider the other graduates In my class. The majority of them passed by an almost inevita- ble transition to the training college. They are putting in another year at professional study, and they have yet to discover what value the world puts upon their academie ut- tainments. What those never had any call for teaching, or who flinched before the ordeal of training college and selection com- mitters?
One
don soon
of
who
B.I. Apcar Lina Steamers hava excellent accommodation for 1st & 2nd class passengeru EASTERN & AUSTȚIALIAN BAKLINGS (SOUTIL;).
TANDA
7,000 2nd Sept
NANKIN
7,900
1st Oct.
NELLORE
7,000
4th Nov.
Regular monthly sailings from
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobart
'kong to Shanghai & Japan & kong to Australia. Hong Kong to Sydney-13 days. SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
CARTHAGE *SOUDAN SANTHIA. NANKIN RAJPUTANA TALMA RANCHI
14,000
6,000
Lat Sept:
1st Sept. 3,000 1st Sept. 7,000
4th Sept. 17,000 15th Sept. 10,000 18th Sept. 17,000 20th Sept. 0,000 20th Sept. Carge only.
man, encouraged by suc cesses.
In the university magazine and local papers, thought he might SIRDIANA make a name for himself in free fauce Journalism if he went to Lon- and the centre of things. He found
that the Street of Ad- venture would have nong but un- pleasant ones for him, so he forsook the army of unemployed journalists and returned to the university to take the divinity course,
Another, rather than continue in-
definitely to be
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan.
Japan. Shanghal & Japan,
Shanghai & Japan.
Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios, pardela measuring not more than & c.ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to noor on the day previous to mailing.
For Pamage Rates, Handbooks, Freight, etc., apply
P.&O. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone
Connaught R.C.
burden on his taken
parents, has taken to private tutorat £2 a week, which is precisely not fallen into such general diare- a library job, commencing and culture. The universities have ing and, given some luck and lots what Ale would have received pute as this suggests.
of perseverance, he thinks he might hnd she joined straight from school. eventually make a living out of it. We have all accepted the situation Another man thought himself lucky to land a job as organising secretary of a charitable organisation-salary £3 a week.
A girl who specialised in modern languages is working as a secretary at. £2 10s a week, and another has
Already there has been a distinct and buckled down to office boy work trip the number of students en- with the best grace we can, waiting reasonable to hope that the supply Veripa
the universities, and it is for something to turn up. Some of graduates will not be so dispro their opinion that my plight is the services. Anyway, I'll never regret people I know make only too plain portionate to the demand for their result of having wasted my time my four years at the university. acquiring the luxuries of knowledge
Graduzio
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