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"I bought my small son a conjuring outfit for Christmas-what did you buy yours?" INSTALMENT:

A Way To Get Rich Quickly

By EVELYN WEBBER

NEW YORK.

THOUS

ПHOUSANDS of prospectors are roaming the United States today, scouring the land for uranium. Many more are digging in their own back yards, or ranging for it in the canyons and played-out mines of Colorado and California.

One lucky uranium strike can make you rich overnight. It is the prime ingredient of the atom bomb. Many of the prospectors are old hands, well used to looking for precious metal. But today they use jeepa and travel with L87 Gleger counters strapped to their baeks, instead of an old-fashioned

Pack.

With the counter (free Instruction from the United States Government) they just roam the territory listening. The mineral "brondenats" where it is lying in the ground. Hordes of young, new prospoctors are joining the old-timers. They have the advantage. They enter the field with a knowledge of geophysics and electronics. Even the Navajo, Indians are moving in to look for uranium. Prospecting and mining has begun on their Reservation and the Atomic Energy Commission now hold some of their property,

For every new strike discovered anywhere in the United States the Atomic Energy Commission give EL present to the finder of £2,500, In addition miners may well uranium-bearing ore to licensed dealers at prices higher than any ever offered before,

EISENHOWER WAS

M

to

TOVING around agnin

ufter my release from hospital, found things had changed for the better at the front. And General Eisen- hower had finally surrendered 10 Butch's perpetual suggestion. prompted by General Marshall's orders. that the Supreme direct

take better care of Commander himself. He acquired the use of a villa-farm about 15 miles outside of Algiers-a secluded and rather run- the down place which overlooked sea and provided access to wooded land.

was ideal for the horseback advised. exerelse General Marshall General Arthur Wilson supplied the horseДcsh. There were three

Brst them, all Arab stallions, the stallions I had ever ridden, chestnut with the peculiarly in colour and short cars and flowing mane and tail

ever-present

of

MY BOSS

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By KAY SUMMERSBY

il

women

Into similar silence. By the timo we pulled in the narrow driveway, that silence was oppressive.

On top of this there are 10-year price guarantees for high-grade ore and three-year minimum prices for low grades.

Every strike, however small, is thou- Elver wide publicity, luring sands more to the treasure hunt.

BOOM TOWN

Plumber Wesley Collins was ex- cavating for a swimming pool with General Ike climbed out slowly, a Geiger counter strapped to his preoccupled. I left the motor run-back, just in ense. He uncovered ning. ready to leave. But he call- the second uranium strike to turn ed over his shoulder: "Won't you up in his 'district within n few please come in Kay? I'd like in weeks,Fortune-secking prospectors talk to you."

swarmed ມາ to moke claims. place in California I followed him into the villa, on Wesley's little

now has all the signs of being Into the library, where he sat and motioned me to a ebair. "Cigarette?" boom town.

offered me one. I shook my heart

lighted one of

my

come

and

I went to ask Me Frederick Kett about uranium. He is general of join the other civilinu girls, WAC's. Mood on the platform with Monty,

British WREN's in nursen, and

didn't like the man who

He stared at the floor. "Kay," he manager of the mining division

the Vanadium Corporation of Admiral's anywhere in his vast battle aren, let sald finally, "I don't know how 10 Amerien, who extract uranium from quick drink before the

alone in his immediate vicinity. We tell you this....guess I better give vanadium. dinner at eight o'clock.

But an air raid sabotaged. that all baked

He looked up the merciless heat, it to in

you straight." plan. Sitting there in lovely Navy into the point of collapse, hour and said: "Dick has been killed." comfort, with

arniable companions after hour.

in.one of war's tragic ironies, Dick buying its Despite the white-hot hent, I was

was struck down after the actual I couldn't bring and a cool drink. I myself to brave bombs and shrapnel happy. The campaign was over. We campaign fighting was over, several hud won. And Dick was safe--1 weeks after the spectacular victory in order to be on time for Admiral

Besides, Cunningham's dinner.

I thought.

parade at Turis. He had been with thought, I have the car at the dock-

his new regiment less than a week. side and can make the trip in

Kindness Personified time at all. I relaxed and stopped watching the clock.

no

I

of Arab breeds.

and I went riding The General

trie. frequently. It was a treat for

I had loved and known because horses since childhood, and 1 enjoy The instant that raid ended. ed the jaunts with my Boss, He, for hurried ashore-only to find a new his part, learned to accept riding as catastrophe. The General's car re- a complete relaxation and, I suspect, sembled a refugee from a junkyard. welentned the change from the Jis glass windows were smashed,

military. Whenever we ran into troops in training, how Jarked, and gaping: shrapnel had Odented fenders and hood: the inside, I kleked my horse und ever,

debris, was littered with piles of alloped away. Although the dust, salt water stains, even seaweed General was dressed in smart riding and seashells. uniform, from mirror-bright li cavalry boots to

hat An overzear sporting four stars, I had only an old shirt, and a pair of johdpurs sent from the States. I looked the part of an Arab girl, and I behoved me to stick around and emburrass the General whenever he passed troops.

Duly permitting, we went out rid

or four times a

-

week.

No More Women PASSING MP rushed me up to Admiral Cunningham's villa.

career.

I

wis more than two hours late, un- doubtedly the first person who had so openly insulted him, socially, in

Yet Navy his entire

he listened to my tales of woe with interest and even sedate mirth. Ite didn't say much.

-

"The United States is tired of

uranium supplies from overscas," he

said. "AL

present there are only three big Sources: the Belgian Congo, which was 60 percent of the world's supply, and selis it all to us; Canada--and we get most of that: and the

North- western USA. We've been paying out vast sums of dollars to foreign. countries for uranium. Now we want to find more of our own."

For me, that strange late Spring was alled with the scent of orange blossoms. I couldn't smell the dinary Jasmine, the poppy felds; I could neither see por hear the war INVESTIGATION showed that he and a friend of his, captain. being made ready against Mussolini, both engineers and intimately fami- I expected to he married before June

liar with mines, had been walking

He picked up a yellowish lump melted into the African summer. across an area well-marked with the of rock. "That's carnotite," he said.

Dick, now, a full colonel, was in

usual white mine tapes. Suddenly, "Full of uranium, and for years we the captain stumbled on a trip-wire- threw it away because it got in the Oran with Second Corps headquar- ters. General Eisenhower not only

He was seriously wounded by the way of gold. But we'll get it back. promised each of us at least several explosion. Dick was killed instantly; Make a bit of money out of it, too, days' leave after Our marriage,

Genal Truscolt sent n personal adready approved by the Army

"Ibe Government are pushing explaining the circumstances and all this Western stuff. And mining its usual ninety-day waiting period; message of condolence immediately, he also offered, as a sort of refuge offering his sincere sympathy, His it for all they're worth. Now the from the war, the use of his little note was dispatched right after the USA might equal or even farm outside Algiers. We would crident en June hut, by one of Canadian resources."

RUSSIA LOOKS

Uranium is

exceed

have a full-fledged honeymoon

those horrifying: examples of Army paper work, it was lost at AFHQ North Afries

Dick arrived in Algiers the last message rentre for almost Ave fuli ned the General days. Then a colonel

mentioned week of May, en route to

distributed widely Truscott's Third Division headqua- fact to Butch and Tex, assuming throughout the world's crust.

Butch ters at Mateur. "I've got a com- hy already knew.

It has been found Intely in Green- Eisenhower's office; the ing three

mand, at tust," he told me. "Got into General

tandi, la Hungary, Czecho-Slovakle Butch came along one day but re-

what I always wanted, regiment General shouldered the sad task of and Folland. Also in Argentina, trented to Aiglers hall an hour That next day I arranged to have

ven though weighted Mexico, Alnaka, Australia and Chile, down with a later, muttering that he was a sen- the car repaired in a hurry, no one and actual feld duty." With his telling me, even

lon responsibilities Russia is looking for it. faring-man,— Peg-Chase, an old the wiser. But Borney Fawkes call. West Pont background and his im- friend from the Red Cross, was u ed to break sad news re ABC, as pallence at hearquarters routine-he-connected with the imminent-in-

Vasion rst Pantellerin that very "Uranium.could

Ane occasional companion, as was Tex they always referred to Admiral Sir was a thrilled with the new assign-

newly

I renilsed something of lils new source of dollars to countries commissionent Andrew Browne Cunningham. "You ment

personal pain at bearing such news possessing it," he said, "There might couldn't have chosen a worse time second Beutenant.

When Dick's kid brother, Bob, ar- even be some in Great Britain. rived in Oran and then ended up

There's reason to expect it. Why in an Algiers hospital for a com don't you look? pleated oppendix operation. I 'hard io 4:11 him alkout Diek.

Lee.

W

The

to be late for his dinner party,

Kay" Barney chided.

"What's happened?" I asked.

Л As

Light and Shadow

WE had one day together. W

night.

General Ike was kindness per- sonified.

He offered to request release of my services as a

become a

Atabrine Nausea VIEN the stabrine treatment hit North Africa, the Germans could

"In Cornwall 20 years ago thej lines

the have walkett

"Well, even though some of through our

mined pitchblende, source of radium, chaps and several of the WREN's It was a wonderful day, thanks without even a Asi fight or an un-

and best uranlum provider there. Ile Kave Supreme kind word. From

to Central Eisenhower. were late on watch because of the

You might find it in the Empire, me tine of plus a special present. Commander down the

to

cenest air rak, we might have got away buck private and givilian, everyone with the party," He paused. "But "It make it a point in go out some-

minera civilian with the too. British

unl could India; in took the first close under director- guessed your late arrival at the where this evening. You and Dick

Tanganyika topper." place was the

can take over the vila and be alone American Army, if I found the suturanlum in ders. Line troeps and headquarters Admiral's

too (where the rich Belgian Congo vein stuffs alike were taid so low with "We've had it, Kay. Old ABC has for enge; with this wedding coming oundings and the memories

strong to bear. "Why don't you may be continued), in Rhodesia and an order: no more up, you must, have a lot to talk nhusen that the dose was cut at once just put out

about.

Sergant Hunt' fix your take a couple of days of?" he sug- dozens of other places, But though women aboard the Maldstone!"

gented. "We can spare to half a pill every third day.

I've worked mostly for British Arms only

For weeks, I was the butt of not- dinner. And tell Dick he's to There's no one at the farm-go on i haven't heard anything about was among the victims, but

froun ray guest for the

Britons looking for uranium, And I. that once; thereafter, I took advan- to-good-humured wisecracks

out there for a while. You can ride nurses, and the "Have a good time." He grinned. tage of my unique civilian standing WAC's, WREN'S,

get away from everyone; 1 usually know what's going on

Tell me,"

he ald Mr Kett, un know that's what I want." He There's not much

showed me the door.

"'s your paused. "I guess I can say, Kay..

Government doing anything about

and secretly stuck to my bottle of submarine boys. And I don't think party quinine. I never had the slightest I've been late to a dinner

since. touch of malaria.

sintus. the

My same unique civilian however, led in trouble with Royal Navy, It all began one night when Lieutenant Dampier. Flag A

We did exactly that. Swimming and in the afternoon, dinner for two t the Supreme Commander's vilin, and an evening of excited plans for on marriage-all in blessed privacy,

In any army. rarest luxury

Welcome Haven

you.

THE farm was a welcome haven. I

The next day, Dick luft for Mateur THE wanted only to be alone; that

and his now regiment.

Victory Parade LL this, don't mean that dally life in those early months of 1943 Lieutenant to Admiral Cunningham,

was a gay social whirl. Most of my driving. days were taken up with telephoned. "Kay," he said, "I un- derstand you play a good game of Sometimes it was a visiting general ping-pong.

The Admiral would ilke or VIP. More often 11 was General you to come lo dinner tomorrow Elsenhower; too often, a trip to Con

stantine. night,"

I Invitation.

I came to hate that Red Ball con- It was a strange. must be the only girl ever invited to voy route with a deep, wild pas- dinner with an admiral because I slon-the mud and the dust and the play ping-pong. Naturally, e trucks and the growing heat and the cepted. But the evening was com- constant. fear of air attack. plicated by un carlier invitation, we're ever attacked," I told the Boss whieti I had accepted, to attend the one day, "don't wait for me to open first party in the wardroom of the the door for Maidstone,

his

It

rede half-

and

JOIN

I sat around I breezed through the next week was the place for it

In a stupor, then With the North African cam- ot rat or so.

the wood, through safe, was

even wildly palen over. Diek

merciful fall at regiment level in a division. And hoping for

Pantellerin surrendered with our wedding so near, I couldn't oblivion.

couldn't about what duly the next morning, but I even worry would meat in combat; war, a world have cared less. ***

encourage of the present, doesn't thoughts of the future. I knew only "If that I was in love, soon to be mar-

ried, and very, very happy.

I heard back-sent whispers abirut

mother ship for, subs. for himself, then 's every man plons for invading Sicily. But none I know I would have to stick, too.

There in the country. however, alone and able to think things out, I realised thousands upon thousands carried loads of grief as great or greater than mine in this war, And of it belonged to iny orange-blossom It was a natural decision: to stay routine, world.

with the Americans, and the war. That, bid had come from Barney Then, amidst all the

thoughts, This light mood continued until

Possibly to divert my Fawkes, the charming British Navy things begun to pick up. The Ger-

I General Eleonhower confided captain who permitted us girls to mans were forced off bloody Hill one lovely June afternoon when bnthe-secretly-aboard the

drove General Eisenhower up to his super-sceret. Our next VIP was lo Maid 600. Mateur was captured. On D

realised be hono other than His Majesty, stone whenever our water supply trip forward I saw batches of Italian villa. My airy chalter, at the villa failed. Barney also prisoners of war, happy and even with a stari, was going unanswered. the, King of England,

like you to drive me to He was quiet, unusually quiet för a our spirits up on low evenings by jubilant that their war was over.

On May 20 we.motored aver lo man who, even during momentous him," the General added kindly, "If having us down for luxurious Navy dinners. So I couldn't run out on nearby Tunis for the magnificent operations, has the knack of storing you feel like it." that invitation.

victory parade, staged, over General "away his worries and making small French talk. So his strange muteness on In satiating compromise, I hurried Elsenhower's objection, at down to the ship that next night to Insistenec.

stroke of fate. I this particular atternoon drove me

INNANGY

Liquidating Relations

SURE IS, JANIE

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By a

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ANTI-

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