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CHINA CLIPPER

"Telegraph's

Now

Sorial From The First National Picture story by Commander Frank Wead, U.S.N.,

CHAPTER FOUR

While Dad Brunn worked until the small hours of the mornings, pour- ing over his plans for the glent amphibian, Dave toiled relentlessly on the problem of the island landing bases. He sent Tom, Collins to these bases with boatloads of equipment, complete radio outfits, power plants, machine shops, refrigerators, food, materials, for building hotels for over- night accommodations, ond quarters for staff and crew. It was a gigantle undertaking, and Dave

grew mor

Irritable day by day as the plans pro- greased.

In the middle of these operations, Hap Stuart returned to the fold.

Hop swallowed his pride and apolo- gized to Dave. He asked that he might be allowed to "go through the mill" again, and Dave, secretly happy to have him back, placed him in. charge of student navigation instruc- tion.

In the meantime, Tom Collins face the nerve-racking task of estab Hahing the air bases at Midway and Wake Islands. With crews of sweat- ing men, he cleared brush, blasted rocks, dug wells and smoothed land- ing fields. They faced blazing heat which dried their faces and cracked their lips. Sult they carried spurred by daily radlo communica tions from Dave in New York whe kept in constant louch with them.

on.

Dad Bruna's only remaining pro- blem was the spacing of the gasoline lanks. He sat with Dave In the latter's office one afternoon and pon- dered over this question.

As they were talking, Sam, the negro porter cmne into the room and offered the two men cigars from a box which he thrust towards them, a happy grin on his face.

"My wife's just had twins, gentle- men," to announced. These here cigars is on me!"

"I've got " yelled Dave, jump- ing up. "Double bottoms!"

"What do you mean?" asked Dad. puzzled,

"Twins!" answered Dave, clapping the porter on the back. "Double bot toms for the airplanes. A space for the gasoline without the loss of weight! Can't you see it, Dad!"

Dad laughed, Dave was blmscit again, laughing like a child as he gave Sam bill and sent him away.

The two went back to work on their plans, the final obstacle gone.

Throughout the next few months. & crew of technicians was kept busy night and day building the huge ship which Dave had decided to call the "China Clipper." It was now late in the year, and unless the ship made its first fight across the Pacife by November 30th, the franchise granted by the Government would be con- .called.

When the ship was completed. Dave-took it on several test fights," hold secretly in Eastern waters. Then several days before the dead- line, the plane was taken to Alameda In San Francisco bay, the spot design- ated for the take-off.

When Dave arrived at the tem- porary office that had been set up for him at the Alameda airport he found a Burprise awaiting him. Jean, look- ing more radiant than ever, was sit- ting at his desk,

"I'm to be your secretary here in Alameda," she announced.

"But. ........how.......?” began Dave, was helpless for the first time in many months.

He

"I was hired through your regulTMr employment bureau," answered Jean. "Do you mind?"

"I do Dave. "Bulmind," said I'll not deprive you of your job, You'll have to work hard, though."

"I expected to" answered Jean, smiling. "When do we start?"

"Right now," said Dave as he sat down behind his desk. "Call Tom Collins and Hop Stuart. I want to talk

10 them."

With Tom and Hop scated before him, Dave outlined his plans for the Arst flight.

"I have decided to have Hap make the first trip." he told them.

Tom was stunned. Ever since the formation of the plan for the trans- pacific trip he had expected to be the pilot on the inaugural dight. His face flushed a deep red as Dave went on with his plans.

"You'll be in complete charge of operations here. We need someone at Alameda who knows more about fying and the weather than the skip- per in the plane to guard it and keep it informed.

Hap broke in on Dave,

"This isn't fair, Dave. I can run the office. Tom's earned the right to

upon

gol

Dave slammed his fist down und the dosk. "It isn't a question of who's done what, who ought to go, or who ought to stay. It's simply question of putting every man in the job he's best suited for. If the line goes over Tom, I have plenty of chances to fly the Pacife. Now get going. We'll shove her off the day after to-morrow!"

When they had gone, Dave slump- ed down into his chairs. Why did he act that way-alk that way to lus friends? They were his friends-un- less he had lost them through his ruthless methods driving them to the last inch of endurance. Were they just his hired help now? Talk-

nbout him

behind his back? He was sitting in the same

me position

Of

an hour later when Jean opened the door to tell him that government-om- cials were waiting outside to make final tests of the China Cipper."

(To Be Continued)

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, MARCH

11, 1937.

“TELEGRAPH'S" NEW FILM SERIAL

LLOYDS

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:

An orphaned boy, known da Jonathan Blako, niaVey in a Nor- folic, England, groggery operated by a Widow Blake, in the year 1770, and his pal, Horatio Nelson, discover a plot to atent a cargó of pull and defraud the insurera, Lloyds of London. The boun agree to go to Leydou to tell Loyds, but Horatio breaks. the bargain when his family decidos to enter him in the Navy, whore were later họ is to became An miral Lord Nelson. Av Jonathan hikoa the hundred milon, informă John Angorstein, of the Lloyds symilenie, and savor him from being defrauded. Grateful, Anper- atrin takes the boy into his home, and later ends him to Blon, planning to take him into, the insurance syndicalo when he has graduated.

Chapter Six

JONATHAN graduated from Eton

with honors, the highest in his class. Consequently he won a #cholarship to Cambridge Univor *ity, John Angerstein's pride in him knew no bounda, "Walson," he anid to his chief clerk, "there's good blood in this lad, No common Cockney's son, I'll' warrant. That sort of breeding doesn't show in his face. Go down to Burnham-Thorpe, in Norfolk and interview an old harridan there named Blake. She Is the proprietor of a greggory. Ascertain the antecedents of this boy. I'm curious."

In about two weeks Watson ro turned. To old woman's dead," ho reported, "but I found neighbors who remember the boy and through them I ascertained-that the Blake woman got him from the local work-house-8t, Swithin', I inter- viewed the head of the work-house, who looked-up his records and dis- covered that a boy named Jonathan Greenhill had been given to one Amanda Blake, of the address where her groggery weed to stand. Both parents died mother when the boy was born and the father when the tod was four years old. Father was a naval officer, killed in nction-name Alan Greenhill, So I' came back to London and looked up Alan Greenhill in the Admiralty. Senior Heutenant in His Majonty's navy, commanded the, twenty four gun sloop-o'-war Gloriana, sunk by n Spanish frigate off the Holland coast, but not until the Gloriana had fought off and put out of action two thirty-six gun Spanish frigates, Looked in his marriage in the Re- gistrar's office in London and dia. covered he married the Honorable Agatha Langhorne, youngest daugh. ter of the Baron of Langhorno. Greenhlt was the youngeal con of an admiral-no money, nothing ex-

OF

by

LONDON

PETER B. KYNE

- The story of the 20th Century Fox, bletară, steering Madeleine Corral and Fradule Barthelaw with

** Tyrone Powale Sir Buy Standing and C. Aubiny Smith"

that, Your salary as my ascletant, now that old Watson I gotting so ald and helpless ho must soon be peneloned, should support you in reasonable style. You'll be wanting.

Lloyd's, in the meantime, had re-vary scarce. A storm has been rag- moved to the Royal Exchange, aing in the Channel for two weeks xplondid Georgian building, subse- and not a boat has put ashore," quently destroyed by fire. And it "You have splendid'now quarters was to Angerstein, at the Royal here, alk Exchange, that Jonathan reported "Oh, yea. We have a soundly or chambora of your own, of course." upon hin return from France, Heganized association now and the Well, take a few days off to attend Was now twenty-six years old; nasoolation didn't epare money onto your personal affairs. Meanwhile thirteen years had pared since frat furnishing our new home. Jonathan, } let us have a cup of coffee." he had met eyes on John Angemtoin this is a very worrying business, He led the way out of the vast

and he thought now: "How everyThe Jack of means of swift com-room, through awlhging doora into thing has changed." His patron was munication is very trying. A vessel a coffee shop next door. The sign gray around the templos and the goes nohore in Scotland and it wo above the door read: Lloyds Conten change in fashion in mean, cloth know it here in London twenty-four Shop. "I suppone," Jonathan re ing further omphasized the passage hours later we might dispatch akt marked golly, "you old underwriters of the years. Chimney pois hain to her, get her off, ropali hor and couldn't function 1, between the were now the vogue; breeches and save ourselven considerable loss. writing of pallales, you didn't have slike atockings, with buckled shoes,But it's a wook or two before we a caffee shop adjacent. Into which had given way to short socile and hear of it and by that time a sterni you could pop for refreshment." trousers fastoned under the instep has 'sprung up and the vessel has "Habita Angerstein rajoined of tak boots worn Inside the bern hammered into email plocen" smilingly, never die until the pro- trousera leg..

"Of course," Jonathan agreed,prietor of the habit dies. This caften On the wall two placards further this lack of swift means of com-room is open to the pubile, and (t celed aloud the saga of change. One munication door make for greator is called Lloyds Coffee House, al- read: "No andan chairs allowed in-lossed, and greater losies do make though the owner's name le far- aldo." That meant that the mem-for a higher rate of insurance,chami. Edward Lloyd has been dead born of Lloyds were no longer car-which doesn't enrich the undertoo long to obfort, and the name rled from their homes to their writer a great deal and in distinct had grent advertising value. And desks, Jonathan had an impression handicap to the ship oporator or the coffee is even better than it

"You must get to know Peggy" Angerstein told Jonathan as thn two entered the coffee house hend- quarters of Lloyds Of London, and encountered a coinely young wernan behind the denk. "She's a maro good sport, and will give you many a fangh,”

cept his pay, usual navy prospects. that sodan chairs were far fewer ini merchant. I've been giving conel was in the old days. A walter here The marriage was regarded as a number now: carriagon had to adorable thought to this subject, Mr. is a walter and nothing clao." Tansalliance and Langhore cast his considerable extent replaced them. Angerstein. I have conceived the daughter of. So much I learned Another sign read: "Subscribers idea of a system of semaphores,

Cinse to the door that lead from the Subscribers Room Into the cof- from the man whe was formerly and Connections Only Admitted.” Bay five miles apart, the length and fee house was a stall where wore conshman to the Baran of Lang- o the walters of the old coffee broadth of England, to signal news alaponsed newspapers, periodicals, horne, who has been dead some shop days were gona-no, there of shipping along our count. Such a cigare, enun, tobacco, etc. It was years, The title died with him. It were two of the old hands, clerks system might enally be self-support-presided over by a protty, pert, was not hereditary. Langhorne's now, bul (because tradition dies soing from its earnings, not only' for coramon estato was heavily encumbered and hard in England) sill known as the transmission of abipping nows nodeed to her: Good morning, young girl." Angerstein We sold for the benet of the walters! Lloyds no longer fune-but also now of general interest Polly

tioned in a coffee house; hence the to the public-and hence, to tho

creditors."

John Angersteln smiled angely, casual visitors who came, ostensibly newspapers which sell new to the She touched a small hand-beli to "Good morning, Mr. Angerstein." "Good sound slock" he murto imbibe coffee, and rolle, but in pubile. Lookouts at each semaphore arousa the nitendon of the walters "muted." "The sort that never lets reality to gaps at the underwriters, station, with a powerful telescope

England down-the sort that never were forever debarred. Here was would read the messages and trans-Angerstein and Jonathan mosted Tels the sun down on English soil! fine large room done in the best mit them. Sort of a relay system." themselves at a table and a walter Well, ho'll be gind to know He style of the perind, fenced of into "In the daytime yes. But how you must get to know Polly, "over to taka their orders. ancestry, but he's been Jonathan ittle boxes, each box furnished with about night-time?"* Blake so long I laresay nothing in handsome desk and two or three

Jonathan," the elder man said. would be gained by adopting his chairs for the underwriters. There too. A system of lighting by lan give you many a laugh.

I'm giving that some thought, "Bhe's a rare good sport and will rent name at, this lafo dato."

was a more elaborate rostrum now. terns." So Jonathan Blake went to Cam-but the old ball stiil hung over it

"Why the somewhat over- bridge for four years and emerged, with a newer, larger and more or only man in England who has had to hor now? Is he connected with "My boy, I do believe you're the dressed and smirking dandy talking to all outward apearances a charmante Bulletin Board clone by. ing, cultured, Lighly educated gen. Jonathan Aaw at once that the the wit to study this important Lloyda? I mat him coming out of tisman, even if he has is French the cotten altop days was gone. Here

the Subscribers' Room as I camo a middle-class family. His

from old, free-and-easy camaraderie of problem and strive to solve i

"In what condition are my in- ink was perfect, but John Angerstein was no place for gossip. It was de- ances, sir?”

"That blot on the fair record of sent him to the Borborns to remove voted entirely to business, as'a cer-

Je one "Well, thanks to your frugality patura Jonathan,

Lord from it a tendency to speak it at tala autot and decorum, so differ and your preference for study added, unconsciously humorous and Everette Stacy." And Angerstein times with an accent which, though eat from the old days testined, rather than helling around, drink quite and afterthought: "I do not faint, betrayed his English biri Jonathan shook hands with his ing and gambling, the hundred and raising. At the Sorbonne he patron and sat down in one of the pounds a year I have managed tolke the follow. He has approached also studied naval architecture, a spare chairs by John Augerstein's make your capital earn has taken come of my colleagues on the Knowledge of which would, he donk. He smiled. "Well, air, I await you through Elon and supplied your subject of Investing money In thought, come in handy when a ordera." praking the seaworthiness of shipa

every noad, Thanks to yourself, you their syndicates a silent partner, "I'll have to have a desk put in won the Cambridge scholarship, so you know. He knows of no other preliminary to insuring them. For here for you, lad Boyd's was how, in, the greater

your annual income has all been business that will pay him auch The bell rang and a walter more than sufletent for your needs.gh interest on his money. I want protection of its risks, employing to the bulletin board and wrote: Watson has your account made up nothing to do with the fellow." marine surveyor to examine all Carbage cow Bella of Woking to date and presently I will give now. sir" Jonathan opined, "He "From the look he is giving you hipa upon which Insurance had founders in Thames, Total loss you n check for the amount duo: been applied for, Buah ahips were claimed, given a rating, changed as the ven-

you. Unless, of course," he added, would like to have something to I never underwrite any of the "you prefer to leave it in my synddo with you." sola deteriorated, and upon this Insuranca on garbage #cows," Aneste, of which you have been a rating the insurance rate of pre- gestein

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