Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1938 — Page 15

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Trial Flight

By Adelaide Humphries

CAST OF CHARACTERS JACKIE DUNN-—Heroine; she to fiy. ROGER BRECKNER—Hero; ed to test the stratosphere. BERYL MELROSE — Wealthy widow; | she wanted Roger. EVELYN LA FARGE—Jackie’s mother; she wanted a son-in-law.

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Yesterday — Roger persuades Jackie, ironically, to take his pin. Then word comes that the weather has cleared for his flight.

CHAPTER TWELVE OGER and Beryl took off so | early that next morning that Jackie did not go out to the field. Roger did not intend to make time, going west. He would be flying low, so that with his supercharged motor it would be impossible to open it up. He expected to make the coast in about 12 hours, with a stopover at a halfway point. Jackie received a wire around noon from Kansas City. “Smooth sailing so far’—it read, “Keep your fingers crossed and stand by stop Beryl enjoying trip stop Both send love.” Jackie wondered why Beryl had sent her her love. If Roger had not been so wrapped up in his fiy-

HOLD EVERYTHING

By Clyde Lewis

ing he would have known by this time Beryl Melrose’s love was all for him. | Another wire that same evening informed Jackie that the silver ship had landed at Burbank. The next, she knew, would be the important message. Roger expected to lay over only a day or two before starting his trial flight. | “I'll certainly be glad when this | is over,” Evelyn said. “You haven't eaten for days and you're | getting dark circles. You'll make | a sorry-looking bride, if you don't] take care, darling!” Evelyn was | concerned with little more than | her plans for the epproaching | wedding. ¥ ” n HE had had several wedding | dresses, with their misty long veils, sent out for Jackie's approval and had finally succeeded in persuading her to slip in and out of | a few, in spite of Jackie's protests | that she had no time for such "go-ings-on” now. “I'd like to know when you will have time!” her mother wailed. “There’s so much to do for a big church wedding. And you know Paul is so anxious to go abroad and I've told him I can’t raake my plans until my little girl is settled first.” “Please, Mother!” Jackie said. She had schooled herself not to listen to half that Evelyn said, but sometimes even half was too much. Let her go ahead and plan a big show, there was no stopping her, anyway. Until the time came. When Jackie practically jilted Roger at the altar and told the whole truth about this crazy engagement, that would stop things fast enough, The important wire arrived a few days later. It was from Beryl —apparently Roger had not had time to send it. It said Roger would take off at 2 a. m. the next morning. ! Jackie did not sleep a wink that | night. She was up and dressed by 4 o'clock. Roger had arranged, as | he had promised, for her to listen | in at the radio tower. i “ 4 T was lucky for Jackie that there | was little traffic on the road to the field at this early hour or she wouid have been arrested for speeding. She climbed the steep ladder that led to the little glass tower. Mac, the operator on duty, greeted “her with a wide grin, motioning her into the one chair in the compact space, surrounded on three sides by receiving sets, each tuned to the fre-

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

“That’s what you get for standing around with your mouth open!”

By Sylvia

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quency of an airliner. “Anything yet?” Jackie asked, as Mac swung on his high stool during a few moments’ silence. Roger must be on his way by now. “The Morning Eagle phoned in that he took off at 2 bells to the dot.” Mac said. “That would make it 5 o'clock here. Probably won't get anything more until Wichita. You'd better grab off a little sleep for yourself, Jackie.” Jackie shook her head. She knew that would be impossible. She was so keyed up that all her nerves were like taut wires. Miles away Roger was steadily climbing up, up, up into that other world where there was no night, no day, where the stars shone always. “© » »

HE settled herself for a long wait and she did doze a little. Only an occasional message flashed into the tower. Once Mac talked to a pilot who wanted a taxi on hand for a passenger when they landed. Mac said he would attend to it, then kidded a bit. “That's service for you,” he said to Jackie. "Order your cab a hundred miles away in the air!” “How high do you suppose Roger is now?” Jackie asked. She could not promote an interest in anything else. She had not much more than asked her question when a boy came up from the teletype room to bring her a message. It was the first direct relay from Roger's ship. It had been sent to the Department of Commerce at Wichita. “Estimate position 50 miles east” Jackie read. “Altitude 35 thousand. Everything okay.” “Whew!” Mae let out a long whistle. “That answers your question. He is flying high, isn’t he? I expect he'll settle on that altitude for his cruising speed. Let's see,” he consulted his watch; “it's 7:43—he’s been more than two hours on his way.” “Bverything okay,” peated to herself. tension lessened. This waiting really was no fun. Not that she had any doubt but that Roger would come through, breaking all records. “ » HE wondered if Beryl were waiting somewhere, standing by, too. She would be listening to the messages now as Roger sent them out. But Jackie would be in at the finish, which counted most. It was another full hour before the boy brought another message. It was much the same as the first. “It will be a couple of hours, I expect,” Mac said, “before we can hope to pick up Roger's call letters. Why don’t you run along and get yourself some good hot coffee, Jackie? And, if you don’t mind, you might bring me back some, t00.” Jackie did not care whether she ate or not, though she knew that was silly. She hated to leave the edited for even a short while. She

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wanted to be on hand for Roger's first message. It was fascinating, too, listening to the different messages that were coming in steadily now. She could imagine those other planes circling for their landings, or waiting to take off, as plainly as though she could see them on the field beneath her eyes. But, since there would not be any word from Apeers plane for some time,

she decided to take Mac’s sugges tion. She knew that the next two hours would be the longest, the most difficult, she would ever experience. It was fortunate for Jackie that she thought that.

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