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" [FAST THINKING—By Margaret

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**¥ UNDERSTAND that vou make a claim for half of the thou-sand-dollar reward offered for the capture of the two men who robbed

the State Bank here in Midland City,” =aid the Police Commissioner, *Is that so. Mr. Porter? i “Yes, sir” Bill Porter swung his cap pnegyously in his big hands and + ' Jooked™d 1zzled eye of the gr nN That a farmer at Centerton who phoned “ the police when those men stopped at his pump to put water in their gar. He had heard the robbery reported on the radio and he thought the men looked suspicious. He Is goming in this afternoon and I may say he seems to have a perfectly clear title to the entire reward *¥es, sir.” Bill Porter said again “Well, sit down.” growled the Commissioner. liking the embarrassed vouth against his will, “and tell me why vou think vou rate some of that money.’ : - = x 2 ” " ILL stuffed his cap.in his pocket and sat down carefully in the hb leather cHair beside the desk a Fell. sir, I work at Murphy » - Night Gas Station. It's on the * . te higigvay between Chester and enterton. For the last couple of months I've been working nigh That is, from seven in the evening until seven the next morning. Sometimes Joe is with me, sometimes 1 do it alone. There's a lot of work ! there in the early morning, because ; the vegetable trucks go through to | market and a lot of- them stop for gas.” . “¥Yeg! ves. but get on with your story and remember that I'm a"busy man.” The Commissioner bit the =%nd af his cigar vigorously, gazed * at the slow-speakinz bov before him, -and wondered if he would gef home in time to play a round of a golf. 3 ~ = “I was there alone the night fhe bank was robbed,” Bill went on. hesitatingly. “Our radio was on the blink, so’ I didn't know anything about ‘the robbery. Alonz about two o'clock a biz black touring car came down the hill. The motor was

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- HE car drove in and stopped in front of a gas pump. There were two men in the front seat. Before 1 could get out the man Who was driving hopped out and took the gas hose off its hook and

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started running gas into the tank “I walked up to him and said. ‘In 8 hurry, mister? Il fill it up for you.’ . “He {ust looked at me. and the other man jumped out of the car. “ ‘Are you alone here, kid?’ he said. :

* “Yeah,” I said, before I thought to make up a story about Joe's being back in the office. Mother says I'm not a very fast thinker.” The Commissioner did not tradict this. “Go on,” he said. “The man pulled a gun out of his pocket and pointed it at me. ‘Give

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us a couple of quarts of oil,’ he said. ‘and make it snappy.’ on = n ." got the oil out of the rack and opened the hood. He 5 didn’t let me finish pouring the sec- = ond quart because, by that time, the gas tank was running over and the man in back had .dropped the hos® and was screwing on the cap. I Kept trying to think of some way to stop them. I figured I'd

telephone the police after they left. While I was pulling down’ the hood, the man who had filled the gas tank came around front and picked up the water can and poured some water in the radiator. “I'm going to take time to tie

a tRis boy up. Lefty, the man wilh

the gun said.” You're sure he said Lefty?” asked the Comnygissioner. “Yes, sit “Go on,” the Commissioner

prodded. looking pointedly at the desk clock. en “Well, sir. they ran me into the

office, and tied me up and gagged |’

"me. They ripped out the telephone on the way out, and then I heard " them drive off towards Centerton. .] stayed there on the floor until a truck driver came in the morning and untied me.”

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“They tied me up and gagged me.”

car?” asked the Commissioner.

“It had two sevens at.the end of {a son of a gun if I don't get half |

it, sir.”

ID you see the number of the | er that was fast thinking! ~You tell |

your mother I said so. And I'm

that reward for you! What are

“Son, your customers were Lefty .you going to do with it when you

they had the loot under the back Seat.

{Dolan and his pal, all right, and | get it?”

“Get married,” said Bill Porter,

But I don’t see that you helped | thinking fast for the. second time | |

to catch them. In fact, you helped | in his life.

them to get away—letting them fill up with gas and oil.”

“Yes, sir, but I kept thinking of a

way to stop them and—” “That'll be all, Mr. Commissioner interrupted, “We can't give rewards to peopie

Porter,” the | rising. |

wifo would have liked 40 catch crim-

inals, you know.”

“No, sir, but you said they stopped | when addressing any question of | to get some waters | fact or information to The Indian- | Washington {Service

at the farmer's Bill persisted.

¥ What of it?”

g ’ ES, I did.

1 ington, D. C. Legal and medical | “Vou see. Sir. while that | 2dvice can not be given, nor can |

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while his pal, Lefty, was pouring water in the radiator, I had an idea. As_,I was closing the hood, I poked my finger in and pulled open the drain, cock a little.”

“Oh, you did!” The Commission- | and also for hunting rats, ferrets,

er showed sudden interest. “Yes, sir.

too much of a hurry to notice their | intelligent, I knew. their | cleanly and loyal to their masters.

radiator was leaking. motor would be red hot before they crossed the state line.” “Well, T'll be! ‘So you pulled open

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STORIES. IN STAMPS

BY I S. KLEIN

yyuue Vienna was showering honors upon Ludwig van Beethoven, a short, bespectacled youth in the-same city was creating some of the world’s finest songs of poverty and neglect. He was Franz Peter Schubert, son of .a Viennese school teacher,-and himself a teacher. Born in 1797, Schubert quickly

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- F BEGIN HERE TODAY

Kay Dunn, preity young nurse, applies for a job as stewardess on Overland Airways. In the Overland office she encounters Ted Graham, veteran pilot, who flies the trans-Pacific route. Largely due to. Graham's intervention, she is accepted for a trial period. : Two other girls,, Doris Lee and Alice Miller, are accepted on the same basis. The three girls begin their preliminary training. Doris is first to win a regular job. Alice surprises the others by announcing her marriage $0 Chuck Jones, a pilot. \ Kay is assigned to the western division, flying from Reno to San Francisco. She meets Monte Blaine, who is to fly the Pacific route with Ted Graham. To-

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gether they watch Graham make a landing in the big trans-Pacific liner. Graham apparently is pleased (o see | Kay again, though he speaks fo her | only briefly, then returns to werk. ‘NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

BY DECK MORGAN l CHAPTER EIGHT | {7 AY awoke with the wish that she might fly down to the | beach and find Ted Graham there, | happily awaiting her. But it was {the sun, streaming through the | windows of the Girls’ Club that

{ greeted her when she was wide awake. She jumped up and ran | to- the window, looking down the {bay to Ship Harbor where the Ma- | riner lay, glinting in the sun. |" This was her day! One day out | of 10 she could break the routine of her twice-daily flights as stewardess on the Overland Airways, to spend a day and night in Oakland. Her plane left at 3:05 for her home port of Reno, high up beyond the Sierra Nevada range on the fringe of the desert. Standing in the shower, she sang. | Last night she and Monte Blaine {had danced until 3, but she felt | completely fresh now after her

| sleep. She decided to lounge in her

i room until time to go to the air- | port. Monte had promised not to |call. He had paid assiduous court {to her for the last 48 hours, and {she had told him he positively { could not have, another minute of { her time. Monte was impulsive—a | bit too much so.

UST then the telephone jingled.

Kay frowned and thought. “I'll She

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1 | wrapped the huge towel about her,

went to the iejlephone and picked up the receiver, saying crossly, “Oh, don't be so tiresome. 1 was still

in the shower.” But it was not M

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| LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

7 > \ y Poa Py WE SPEAK OF THE MAN "GIVING UP HIS FREEDOM" IN MARRIAGE

DOESNT A WOMAN GIVE UP JUST AS MUCH OF HER

FREEDOM?

had a loving wife and three fine children, good health and never wanted things he could not afford. Can any ‘man be more successful than that? I don't think so. Would you call him successful if, with all this, he were mentally discontent-

ed? I would certainly not.

greeted her; it was Ted Graham's voice. : “Oh!” she said, - with .a highpitched little cry. : “Crossed wires,” Ted said. “Monte was just in the office and said you were free until this afternoon. I've put him to work and now he’s out of the way! But if you want to inspect the Mariner— or—" he hesitated. “I'm driving up ‘to San Carlos valley to see the kid. You remember I told you about my adopted son, Dickie. When I'm in port I like to snatch him out of the military school and take him up to camp. It's lovely up there. Would you like to go?” “Oh, I'd love it! she said. “I can inspect the Mariner any time.’ He said, “I'll come'by for you in my car.”

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HE dressed hurriedly. Ted, sHe knew, was anxious to see the boy snd she didn’t want to keep him | waiting. She put on her- simplest white linen frock with a gay kerchief, matching her green eyes, tied aroundfher throat. She was wait-

(ing in front of the clubhouse when

he drove up. i “There’s something about you!” Ted said, puzzled. And that was all he said just then. He didn't realize that, in setting her apart, he had paid her the compliment women prize most. Kay leaned back in the seat and watched the flashing panorama. They sped past the green hills of Berkeley and began to climb a road between the yellow walls of a canyon. Soon they were in a high valley where there were pleasant fields of wild flowers and little pines. Everything was freshly green and in bloom.

= ” = HEY drove up to a group of yellow buildings, nestled

among some pines, and Ted got out, vaulting up the steps to the waiting room. He came out a few minutes later with Dickie. Dickie was going on 8, and in his smart grey uniform looked very manly. Kay thought he was adorable. He had curly yellow hair and blue eyes and one dimple. When Ted introduced Dickie he saluted her gravely, and then took her hand. He sat between them, his gloved hands resting in his lap. To her first question he said, “Yes, ma'am,” but she asked him to call her Kay. ;

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(thing. He told her she’d get her

He Jooked to Ted for permission,

ONE GIVES or should give up his freedom as completely as the other but the woman usually has not had as much freedom to give up. In spite of the freedom

of the modern girl, most of which is to the good, this is in the main still a man’s world; the man makes most of the “dates” and runs things pretty generally and I imagine will do so for some time to come-—at | least for a million years or so.

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TRUE—Provided we have any instincts which many psychologists and biologists nowadays doubt. A true instinct is conceived of as a “response” that goes off like an alarm clock to the extreme limit the first time and never. improves. In the newest psychology, just off the press, by Prof. Knight Dunlap, he thinks we do not know whether we have any such absolute instincts or not, but thinks in all our habits there is an “instinctive element” that sets up a tendency for a habit to develop in a certain way. For example Dunlap thinks the so-called “sucking instinet” of the new-born babe may have been partly learned before birth. But in so far as an act is truly instinctive it does not improve by practice.

Next: Are men as jealous of a handsome man as women are of a beautiful woman?

ATER, at the cabin in the valley, Ted said, “Dickie’s mother died when he was born. His father was killed in an airplane when Dickie was 3. The kid hasn't had much family life.” But Dickie was joyously happy now. He had taken off his trim military uniform and wore the roughest clothes he could find. Presently he went flying to the | wood house to see if his old friends, l the chipmunks, still lived there. Ted wouldn't let Kay do any-

dress soiled or a smudge on her face. She sat, watching him prepare their lunch and eyeing him with amusement. - : The cooking was simple enough. There were only wieners to boil and coffee to be made. All the rest, a prepared lunch, Ted had brought with them. But she observed that he knew how to make good coffee. She passed him a compliment that made him blush under his tan.

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“Y'VE been baching it for 15 years I now—since my wife died. With Jerry Searles. Jerry was my bomber during the .war and now he's a mechaniic at the home port. Dickie adores him—but that was the trouble. The kid was hanging around the airport too much, That's why I put him in military school.” “He'd probably be happier at the airport,” Kay said. “He'll be a great flier—like you.” Ted busied himself with the pots and pans, then turned to her again. “I'm pretty much of a lone wolf now. I've been living in the air— for the air. Back there—15 years ago— I was terribly in love with my wife. That was when flying was really dangerous. I survived several bad crashes, but she died, I believe from a succession of shocks caused by the dangers of my job. That's why I never married again.” . Kay said nothing. Dickie was still watching the chipmunks, and they couid hear the shrill chatter of th» mother and babies high up in a tree. Kay walked away from the fire, toward the little pine grove, toward the brook.

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2 fis followed, caught up with her, and took her arm. “Deo you like me?” he said. "I must seem stolid and dull. I've gazed out into blue skies too much the past 20 years.” She looked at him and smiled. “Of course I like you.” “There was a time” he said, “when I was impulsive, reckless, but that was a long time ago. Now I simply look straight ahead. This trans-Pacific flight is my life! I've spent five years preparing for it,

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and Ted grinned. Dickie said, “Kay,”

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“You got company in the front seat! Why can’t I have company back here?”

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“Evening cost a lot more than I'd planned .

lunches rest of week .

. means no . that kiss was worth it.”

“And for Dickie,” she said, smiling. : He laughed. “Yes, I suppose so. Even a pilot has to have some real living—" : “It’s more than that,” she said. “You’re.a human being. You live among other human beings. You need them. You need relationships with them.”

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~~ laughed again, His white teeth flashed. He pulled her close to him and kissed her. “You're inevitable!” he said, and then let her go. They knelt, side by side, to dip the water up from the mountain brook. Kay watched her face, .shimmering in the water. If Ted could only have read what was going on in her thoughts! But he saw only the shimmering features of a very pretty girl who was close by him, looking into the water. : ‘Don’t pay any attention to me,” he said, low, “I like you. I think you're a swell girl and have since the moment I first saw you. But

with - you—but no wedding bells, It isn’t fair not to tell you oute right. Romance is behind. I've got my job.” Kay gazed at her features in the water, wondering if Ted could possibly read in them what she felt close to her heart. She Was in love with him. For a, few moments she couldn't meet/ his eyes,

(To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1936, NEA Servide, Ine)

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