Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1936 — Page 18

BLUE MIRACLE—BY Ann Montgomery

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UST what were the intermetiiate steps between arrest and jail | when one broke the law? ‘Freya Hunley wondered as she

walked ° down busy Broadway in the noonday sunshine. “Qnly one thing was clear in her mind; when arrested, as she most certainly would be, Freya Hunley would be- | come Sadie Garfinkie. No one back home in Elmsdale would ever con‘nect her with that name, should the affair get into the papers. -A half block ahead, a huge white flag bearing the legend, "Grand Opening Sampson's Bigger and Better Cafeteria,” waved gently. The sign attracted Freya. This seemed as good a place as any in which to make her first attempt at lawbreaking. She pushed through the revolving door. ~ A long qucue of people, all going : through the same motions of " snatching a ticket, grabbing a tray, and a. glass of water, little bewildering. Freya paused. But, presently, she found herself in front of a glittering FE - nickel-plated machine, with a E . blond in a stiff uniform standing behind {t.

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= BLUE ticket jumped halfway i from the slot in the top, and the starched manikin ordered shrilly: “Take your ticket, Miss, and move on.” Mechanically, Freya obeyed the order, and went through the same ritual as those just ahead. Sliding her tray along the brass rail, she surveyed what appeared to be miles |

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Her heart sank. uniformed policeman.

Making straight for her table came a blue-

and miles of salad and fruit. “Some stewed apricots, please,” Freya requested timidly, after sur- ¢ " veying the display spread her. “Help yourself,” chirped the white- | Jacketed custodian of the stetwed

down.

fruit,- wondering why the heck a law?”

dame said “please” in a joint like this. un T the steam table, Freya col- : + A lected an “extra special’—ham, - spinach and a potato—and added a

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roll and a pot of tea. Carrying her “QUPPOSE you thought it was an Well, it ain't.

tray gingerly, she was making for|

“I came in here and ate 45 cents worth of food, and Ihaven't a penny Freya all but whis- |

pered.

original idea.

to pay for it,” *But-I1wasso. . .

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a vacant table when another shrill! 1] have to turn you in.”

soprano demanded, “Ticket, please!” | Freya rescued the crumpled paste-| board from a tightly clenched hand, and held it out trembling. With a

and “Pay

punched the wilted check flipped it back, saying tartly, the cashier when you go out.” Threading her way through the . eating mass of humans, the embry-|

- two. She sat down, glanced around

- warm after their long journey from the steam table. d As she ate, she prayed desperately |

- site her. : raculously, by way of being an-| swered until she reached the apri-| cots and the tea. Then her heart] ; sank. | n

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The culprit nodded and picked up her check. : The officer glared as he rose, | quick glance over the tray, the girl| grabbed his cap, and commanded Pretty kettle | | of fish, having to turn in a hungry

id!

Freya's

grimly:

“Come on.”

But duty was duty.

e ] ier's cage. furtively, and then began slowly on! 4s check down. the ham and spinach, now luke-| hand, she timidly laid her crumpled blue one beside it. |

knees

played

up, startled. ' Jabbing a fork into the last mouthful of pie, he said | before | curtly: i “All right, sister, give mé’ the lowWhat'd you do to break the

strange onic law breaker finally reached | tricks as she followed his broad blue : sanctuary at an empty table for back up the long aisle to the cash- | She watched him throw | With a shaking

The cashier suddenly beamed.

: “Is the lady with you, officer? She | that no one would sit down oppo-.has drawn a blue ticket, so

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AKING straight for her table | came a blue-uniformed policeman, cap on the back of his head, and a steely look in his steady gray eyes. He deposited a wedge “of pie and a cup of coffee on the table with a clatter. The last piece of apricot stuck in Freva's throat as he eased into the vacant chair.op- | posite her. She was caught! The finger of Fate had pointed the Law straight to her table. The 1 _ officer would probably arrest her | before she left the place. It would be horribly humiliating in front of S0 many staring people. The last swallow of tea went down with a little gulp, but it generated a desperate courage. Freya = leaned across the table and plunged, her face as white as the paper

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| to San Francisco Bay. The home STAM Pp S | port was Reno, in the pleasant ; : | green valley of the Washoe River | BY IL S. KLPIN — | | —a veritable oasis in the midst of |the Nevada desert. But Kay was HE controversy between funda- | lonely there, terribly alone. mentalists and evolutionists | places at its focus the simple dis- Served her well. She tried to orcoveries of an English naturalist and | 8anize her life around her job. Durexplorer—Charles Robert Darwin. ing the day there was a four-hour Whatever the discussion, however, run to the Oakland Airport and a Darwin is the innocent victim, for | four-hour return. Sometimes, when his work stressed not so much the | the shift changed, she spent the theory that man and monkey came | night on the bay. But in Reno, { where most of her leisure hours were

from similar stock, but the belief | 1 that species evolved by a process of { spent, she rented a little furnished

natural selection and that the | apartment. struggle: for existence favored the | She did not meet Ted Graham, as

strong. ; ; : | she had so fondly hoped to do. She Darwin was born Feb. 12, 1809, read about him in the newspapers the same day on which Abraham and followed the routine of the Lincoln was born. In 1831 he joined | Wans-Pacific flight, day by day, a surveying expedition to the South eastbound, westbound. Seas. In the next five years his ; . explorations and discoveries among | HE ow Tels Epprosmate the islands of the Pacific led him | Honolulu, Midw G M Ha to formulate his theories on evolu- | p+ he an, ama. tion. He finished his work in 1859, | Dov On the days when he was in and died in 1882 POTS, 3; Stup Itavbon he ususly e . | went to ranch in the San Cara alie Darwin's visls Io. ihe {los Valley to rest. Between such lands 300 vears {rest periods he was away from the ago, Ecuador in { home port for three weeks at a time. 1938 fsswed a | Kay had never been on the bay sob of Stamps i when his ship came in. § As the weeks passed she becomme came increasingly absorbed in her grating the work. She felt like a veteran event. The stamp now. At first she had missed the | portraying Dar- bustling activity of the Central | hm is shown : Airport. At the flying field in | (Copyright. 1936, NEA Service. Inc.) Rene tiers ere gt Hearly = NEXT: What dismantled for- | and the local passenger traffic was tress is Germany rearming? not heavy. I

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BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

aT. STATES THAT PHRENOLOGY COULD MATE 989% OF PEOPLE HAPPILY. 1S THIS TRUE ? YES ORNO~

AN ENGLISH Boy, REARED IN ITALY, MARRIED A JEWESS AND HIS GESTURES GRADUALLY BECAME HALF ITALIAN AND HALF JEWISH. WILL HIS CHILDREN INHERIT ENGLISH, ITALIAN OR JEWISH GESTURES?

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belligerent gentleman. Unfortunately mos# bumps outside the skull have a bump which makes ‘a depression on the inside! So what phrenologists think ‘is a love bump is really a love depression—a weak spot! Looks bad for my opponent,

.| about him. Evidently his children

back to that. If he can bump the right bumps together in marriage I'm for him. . 2 ” » THE ABOVE statement is that of Dr. Franz Boas, famous student of men. (Printed in Time.) The question is my own. Dr. Boas has studied. the gestures of different nationalities and races and finds they are quite distinctive. But he thinks they all come from imitation and not by heredity. It seems evident that this boy did not inherit his gestures from his English parents, but copied those of the people

will do much the same thing and copy the gestures of the people about them.

: ” = = I KNOW Sir Arthur generally holds this view, but most authorities believe war takes the flower of our young manhood. In the fine new book on human heredity by Prof. S. J. Holmes, “Genetics and Its Social Imports,” he shows that during the United States’ Civil War the leading men—especially the college men—enlisted first and from 20 to 40 per cent were killed. In the draft the unfit are left at home to rear children while the strong and able are sent to the front. Modern war takes a terrible toll of our best heredity.

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Kay- usually drove out to the airport with the pilot who was taking the plane down to the Pine It was a long drive, leaving “The Biggest Little City in the World” behind and following a paved highway through green fields that had been salvaged from the desert. In the distance were the snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada range. 7 z u HE westbound plane appeared first as a tiny speck on the horizon. It always reminded Kay of her first trip by air through the vast spaces of the West. : But those vast spaces only increased her feeling of loneliness. She began to feel a nostalgia for the friends she *had left behind, the scenes that had been familiar since her childhood. Kay needed the warmth of human sympathy. There were" times when she would fling herself face down on her bed and lie there, very quiet, for hours at a time. One night she let the tears come, and sobbed out this feeling of loneliness and desertion. : Then she read in a newspaper that Ted Graham's ship was due in San Francisco Bay the next day. Again, deep in her heart, Kay felt a kindling of hope. If she could only see him again! a "The two-room apartment, with its chintz trimmings, seemed intolerably lonely. ‘Kay got up, put on an evening frock, and flung a cloak over her a The night was cool, as were all nights at this altitude. #y 8 8 EX adventurous spirit was stirring. She took a taxi and rode to the Marlin Dude Ranch which she knew was a rendezvous for members of the air corps. If there were any aviation figures in town, she would find them here. But, at first glance, Kay saw no one she knew, She sat down at the roulette table and ught some counters. She had nd™dea how the wheel operated, but she was game for anything tonight. She lost one stack of chips and bought another. She was placing a counter on the red marker when a hand caught her elbow and eased it gently back. “Play 10 green,” a voice said and then she heard a gay laugh. Kay turned and saw a man standing behind her, a handsome youth of= about 28. He had dark brown hair and blue eyes. ; He had also, Kay noted, had several cocktails. She did not recog-

| I can’t seem to recall it.”

than for the average woman?

with the leathery sort of tan by which one comes to recognize a man as an inveterate flyer. Perhaps she had met him somewhere. There was no denying, either, that he had a gay impudent smile that intrigued her! :

” = ” HE smiled, but played the red again and lost. Number 10 green won and the young man who was still standing behind her |

laughed. : “Try 10 green again,” he said, and she put her money on the red. When 10 green won again she stood’ up to go, smiling a little ruefully. “Oh, wait’—please!” he begged. Then he shoved some money down on the table. “The lady plays number 10 green.” Kay hesitated. = There were so many people standing around, talking and playing that this encounter seemed quite harmless. And then the red won! “See?” the young man said. “You wouldn't take my advice when it was right. But if I were you, right now, I'd come have a drink at the bar with me.” She shook her head, declining, and turned to move away. . But the young man was not®to be so easily discouraged. “Please don’t go,” he said. “If you won't have a drink, at least stay and talk to me. I'm Monte Blainen. I don’t know who you are, but you certainly have the most gorgeous hair I've ever seen—and the most beautiful eyes. In that black evening dress you're—" Kay laughed. “You've had too many drinks,” she said. - He denied this. “I'm intoxicated with your beauty,” he said.” “Who are you anyhow? I want to know all about you—" =

= = « YUST another girl,” Kay told him. “I haven't a name—or a telephone.” “No cozy little nest?” he asked, wrinkling his eyebrows. “No, I live in a castle with lions guarding every gate.” He said suddenly, “Don’t you like to do rash, impulsive things? Don’t you ever get up to look at the sunrise and want to go flying out to meet it? I guess you know now that I'm a flyer. Monte ”»

“I've heard the name twice, but

“You haven't heard about Monte Blaine and his eight nonstop records? I adore you,” he said. “Come on, let's dance.” . Kay looked at him doubtfully. It was obvious that he had been drinking. “I don't think you can dance,” she said. “Listen, I'm so steady they're going to use me on the trans-Pacific flight to test the gyro pilot!” “Oh——-1" “Sure. I signed up last week and I'm on my way to Oakland by plane.

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“Doesn't this take you back to our honeymoon, dear . . . when the leaves were just beginning to turn?”

over in this oasis to cele-

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"AY laughed softly. “It's a smaller world than I thought. 1've been working for Overland Airways.” : He said, “Really?” I thought you ‘had that look in your eye—that faraway look. You're one of the air hostesses, aren't you?” “Right.” 7 “Then we'll go out,” he announced, “and paint the town. red. Here you are, marooned in the desert, and I'm going to rescue you!” She said, “You're one of the devil-may-care pilots.” Monte got unsteadily to his feet and helped Kay into her cloak. They went out and got into a taxi which whirled them out into the cool desert air. : Kay leaned back in the seat. Monte made a clumsy attempt to kiss her, but he was easy to evade. The high altitude and cocktails he had drunk didn’t mix. Soon he slumped in the seat at her side. = = =

"WEEE is your hotel?” she

got any. I live under the stars. I'm all alone in the world. I'm an eagle.” a : Kay leaned forward and gave an address to the driver. Then she sat back and waited until the taxi pulled up in front of her apartment house. WitH the driver’s- aid she got Monte up one flight of stairs into her little apartment. : He lay on the couch in the living room, sound asleep. She put covers over him, watched his face for a moment under the light. In repose he was little more than a handsome, swashbuckling boy. She turned out the light then and tiptoed into the bedroom, locking the door behind 8 halted, looking thoughtfully into the mirror. “It's us against the world,” she thought, “—and he's : going to be working for Ted Grae ham.”

Again she remembered the light in Ted Graham's blue eyes and

she