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_ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 15,1930 inderella of the Skies A Thrilling Romance of Adventure in the Clouds cotild ¥ if) frit 3 ¥1 i it ii iH I { g ite Hf is tel i 2852 T E iL ny | £ | L 1] % : E "SKYSCRAPER "Good Lord! What's the idea of having a creature like you for a se- pri demanded Scott, "Aren't there enough girls with brains who are homely?" Jean laughed outright at his In« jured tone. She went over to the sofa 'and 'sat beside him, She was genuinely sorry for his ruined ro man 4 you. run a typewriter?" he ask Me mad! And 1 know all about stocks and bonds!" Jean admitted, "8 an, Avent the o whe Decker's private o a tells "him what to do about stocks anid bonds ng runs the business for him, are you?" "Of I I'm not! He runs his own business! 1 just help him! "And they always told me you were a fright to look at! What's the mate ter with the boys who ig to Decks er's office?" he demanded, "Nothing! That's the joke," Jean explained, and she looked at the mantel clock, "I've" been beautiful for just about thirty hours. That's quite a long time for any Cinderella to stay put, isn't it?" " " don't understand it at alll Scott groaned, holding his head. "Here fiomd a girl who looks as though she had stepped out of a Goya, and I find she's a cross multie millionaires private secretary an can typewrite!" "Dont try to understand it, just be amused by it," and Jean told Scott of the wager with Larry Decker. Scott laughed long and' loud when he heard the story, "What fun! ve never had a.girl before who had just got to be beau- tiful and would admit it, 'Jean, you're a wonder! Is Decker cracked about you? 1 should think he would be." Jean denied this vehemently. "I wish as could understand," she said jimpat ng. "I feel as 1 would tow a er, To me he's the best friend I ever knew. 1 haven't divappointed him and I never shall!" | Scott was unimpressed at her ex- planation, "Listen, sweet child, You're going to get into'a coat and hat and come | with me right downtown to look in on the last act of a certain musical | comedy and then we're going dance ing for just a little and get poor Cine derefla back home so she can get her 'beauty steep." Jean protested, but. Scott was firm, "We've got to celebrate our mu. tual understanding, Probably your confession saved me from falling mn | love with you, I'm scared to death | of a girl with brains. When 1 feel | myself slipping, I'll just remember how much you know and save moe | ther's only son from an early en- | tanglement," | Jean felt tears in her eyes. It was Scott's way of showing her that her | position in the world made net the least' bit of difference in their friend- ship and she wag touched 'and pleas- ed, (He came over to her and took botit of her hands. "Jean, you're a darling! Count on | me, "I'm serious now, We shall have some grand times Give me two weeks and I'll make you (into the best dancer in town, And what we're going to do to Larry Decker will be a shame!" So Jean put on a close little hat of black sequins for dancing, slipped on a seal wrap, pinned the orchids on her shoulder and knew without another backward glance in the mire ror that the effect was ravishing. Scott's eyes told her § They drove Into Broadway's glite. ter, 0 which J never "This new and ating world was still a fairyland of adventure to her, The people all seemed so happy. ] RO : ta. homer Pron es ome 2 he had been with her. e smiled at the thought, Scott chatted e ly the way down, He was ns, \ alr "I'm going to teach to ride pebackl Youd be oy in riding thes! We've a lot of horses just ting their heads off and doing no- ng; and then you can ride any e you a from the Sifee. : you in an office" and he turn. and looked at the i ane him his heart in his ¢ "Remember, I'm eholent" Jean 1a at him, "I'll say you are" retorted the man as he leaned over, caught ean in his arms and kissed her Iy, that will teach you a lesson to tease me! TI be now, you must not ) ean's face was She felt : } but she was a and honest ¢ it was her own fault, She looked up at Scott a bi | Just as | bird they reached the theatre, Jean thor. the She Sub hly on ved sighed just a little when the curtain went down go the make-believe world, Dutswhen the: lights came up' and together, | ® of | | she fooked about her at the colorful audience, she breathed a sigh of cour tentment, Theft was something en- tirely satisfying about being well fitoomed, The orchids on her coat rushed her face, and she loved their soft petals, thelr gorgeous coloring, their exquisite + fineness, Her face glowed as she noted the admiring Wlances cast in the direction of her- self, "Who's that stunning blonde with Gerald?" said a man in the next box in a louder tone than he intended. A mian near him turned and looked, ean raised her eyes, It was J immie! immie, immaculate in dinner coat, is arm, slipped soficitously through Roberta's. As he saw Jean he flushed and bowed, But not until Roberta had also looked, The girl was furious. She snatched her arm from Jummie's and, in voice quite loud enough for Jean to hear, said: "1 won't have you speaking to her! I won't, 1 tell you! You were with her this afternoon, I know!" Jimmie hurried Bob on out into the lobby, and Jean glanced quickly at Gerald, But he had not noted the by-play. Jean was grateful for that, Just as she was for the cold night air on her face which helped her regain some kind of composure, As Gerald looked down at her he thought she seemed pale and exhausted. "You're tired. I oughtn't to have made you go out this evening," he said courteously. "But I'll take you home now," and he handed her into his waiting automobile, Jean was glad for his kindness. She smiled wanly at his solicitious face as the lights of Broadway flickered inte the car, "I'll promise not to be such a bore tomorrow night," she said, But when Scott said good night to her, re- ardless of the doorman or his own driver, he leaned down and whispered in her ear: "I'm not sorry I kissed you." Then he added formally, "I'll call for you at 7. The curtain's up at 8:30 and we want plenty of time for dinner," The encounter with Bob and Jimmie a second time upset Jean more than she cared to admit, See- ing the two of them together proved to her again just how. much she cared for the young flier, The n't day during the busy morning she thought of Jimmie often, and always with a little con- d | traction of the heart, "Fool! Fool!" she repeated under her breath, She was wearing a smart brown velveteen suit, leather trim. med, and a chic little hat which slipped on over her blond hair in a demure fashion. But even her lovely new clothes failed to buoy up her spirits. She was sick of the whole business of being beautiful, It had brought Jimmie back into her life. And with him had come un- happiness and heartache. Until now she had not realized just how lonely ber life had been for the last two years, Jean did not go to luncheon until fate and when she did she hurried down to the tearoom on. the first floor of the Decker Building. The tearoom was almost deserted. A lone man sat at a table near the door, It was Jimmie! Jean slipped into the first available chair after nodding at young Reinsford casually, and kept er eyes glued to the menu card, Then she heard his voice, deep, feasant and a little pleading: "May i sit with you while you have lunch? I've just finished," and she nodded her cheeks crimson. Jimmie, too, was frankly embarrassed, Now that he was sitting opposite this charming creature, for whom he had waited almost two hours, he seemed to find nothing to say. He did not apologize for last night's meeting. Both of them seemed to realize that there was nothing to say about that, Jean chatted on in her nervousness, praying that Jimmie would ask to drive her home. He listened, wonder- ing If he dared ask, Finally Jean rose to go. "Much more work asked, Jean shook her head. "Let me drive you home?" Jean could only answer with a gesture of to do?" he sent, Jimmie handed Jean into his smart rked against all regula- ront of the Decker Build- ing and then started thieading the traffic hurriedly. It was a bright, crisp. day with a pleasant winter sun overhead, Neither of them spoke, and Jean wondered just where they driving © when they reache roadster tions in As she 'raised "inquiring eyes, Jimmie smiled down at her, e're' going out to meet my new ship," he sai "She's a beauty. You're to name her, This one's just a little sport job built for two" "Am 1 really to ride in it?" Jean Tinmie squinted an eye up at the sky, udiciously and pulled Jean over closer to him, "It's pretty cold, you know!" le sald by way of explanation, When they arrived at Curtiss Field a score or more biplanes were hover- ing over the airport, great brilliant birds of green and red and yellow, immie pulled a leather coat, hel- met and goggles out of the rumble seat of the car, and found extra hel- met and goggles for Jean, "You're to ride in this ship before you name her," he explained, "She's that silver biplane over there, Isn't she a beauty?" Jean ran over to the graceful aire plane waiting for them at the end of along line of other ships. She quite agreed. It was a little beauty. Jimmie buckled Jean's helmet under her delicate | , Then he buekled the safety belt about her, smiled down into her face and climbed in the back cockpite A me chanic had the motor "reved up" and with little more preliminary the silver taxied down the field and turned its nose about into the wind, The motor roared er. They sped over the frozen und; then suddenly they were. climbing, climbing sharp! bog the brittany winter » 5) py d | aries due them b "war prisoners, BY / ,. L 4 Vera Brown Tt was some time before look down on the earth beneath or vw into the sky above. When she did, she thrilled at the beauties of the world, Away over on the horizon was the deep Dive of the ocean, Long Island below and the skyscrapers of New York away to the left, On they flew, banking, turning, climbing higher and higher, Jean buttoned her coat higher about her throat. The sun was beginning to sink and the silver ship turned about and flew directly into the west. What a blaze of color! Jean gasped, Sud- denly the world seemed to slip away, There was no earth. There was just the silver wings of the ship, Jimmie and herself slipping along in this crimson world. How Jean wished they could fly on and on into the sunset forever, It did not seem so very far a| away, away Suddenly the roar of the motor died down, The ship nosed dizzily downward, Jean caught her breath, Was this the end?' Well, she didn't éare, She was with Jimmie! Ay they slipped earthward the ground ape peared again, There were houses, and roads and Long Island, Suddenly the motor sounded again. Then Jean knew that the silver bird was still master of the situation and she smiled at her own fears, Trees, housetops, telephone wires, the hangars--down! Down on the dull, dreary carth, It would have been nice to have left it all behind forever. ' Jimmie taxied the ship back to- ward the hangars, Tle airport seem- ed deserted. He stopped the ship and quickly climbed out and stood on the wing step, "Jean! Jean!" he whispered as he put both arms about the astonished girl, Then he kissed her again and again on her crimson mouth, "If anything happened to you! My dear! My dear! I'd never have forgiven myself, Our motor stopped -- for about two minutes. I thought we were in for it!" It was plain to see that the man was completely shaken. He unbuckled the safety belt and helped. Jean to the ground. Still he held her close, Jean looked up into his eyes and smiled, a happy understanding smile. "Well, what if we had crashed!" she. answered gallantly. She put her slim hand over Jimmic's mouth and refused to Tet him say any more, "It's over and we're safe!" Jimmie only shook his head. "It is my 'impression that our troubles are just beginning." He held her hand fast as they walked back to the car, The ride back from the airport was made almost in silence, Jean only spoke to tell Jimmie of the name she had chosen for the silver ship, "We'll call her Skyscraper, for she certainly climbs high into the sky," she insisted, Jimmie smiled a rather shaky smile, as he drove up Park avenue to Mrs. Brent's apartment. Then he made a confession. "T waited two hours for you this noon," he admitted. "I simply had to see you! His hand held Jean's closely. h "And you're dancing tonight?" he added, "Well, I'll be dancing too-- with you. So look for me!" o (Copyright Public Ledger Co.) GERMANS DECLARE WAR PRISONERS STILL IN RUSSIA Over 125,000 Germans Still Missing, According to Report Lelipzig,~~An allegedly authent- fe report that 123,000 former Ger- man prisoners of war are still mis- sing is published by the Lelpsiger Neueste Nachrichten, It is claimed that this somewhat startling fig. ure is the result of careful com- pilations by the leagues of former war prisoners, Those leagues have jointly filed the following demands with the German government: Return to Germany of all former prisoners forclably detained in other countries, Payment of sal foreign govern- ments for work done during thelr imprisonment. Creation by the Loague of Natlons of an interna- tional law for prisoners of war. The first demand {8 based on the claim that thousands of former German soldiers are detained in Siberia where either because they have married or have become sub. 'ordinates of the district officials there, they are not permitted to return to Germany, It is further stated that many German prisoners reported as dead by the French and British author- ities in 1919 have since been found gorving in the French foreign legion. These cases are declared to furnish ground for the German government to demand of France an explanation as to the where- abouts of '40,000 German prisoners | who have never returned home, In connection with the second demand it {s pointed out that Rus- sla, Roumania and Belgium have flatly refused to make any such reimbursements and that France, while acknowledging the debt in principle, has granted only 800,000 gold francs for 270,000 claimants, which is described as far too little for the work accomplished hy these Furthermore, only half of the 850,000 claims submit ted to Groat Britain have heen acknowledged, from which it is argued that the British lists must be either incomplete or unreliable, In advocating a new internation. al law to govern treatment of war prisoners, the German leagues ns- sert that corresponding Austrian, English, French and Hungarian or ganizations have agreed to make the same demand of thelr respec tive governments, FLAPPER LIFE IN YEAR ONE, AD; T0 BE UNEARTHED Roman Relics Being Discov- ered at Verulam in England St. Albans, England,~The life of aristocratic flappers of about the year one, A. D., is likely to come to light in excavation of Ver. ulam, richest of ancient Briton's cities. Verulam was one of the great tribal capitals of prehistoric England, When the Romans came, it Is believed by' archaeologists, they made Verulam the only municipal- fty in the province, a distinction that London itself never seems (to have attained. For this reason, it is regarded as the most likely "ro- specting spot in the country, 10, 000 acres which the Royal Come mission on historic Monuments re- ports is probably filled with build. ings, many of them dwellings of various sizes, Roman/ relics already fou.' in other anklent sites has fired the imaginations of archaeologists, On the site of the new bank of Eng- land, fot far from Verulam, was found a feminine eyebrow and 'ip- stick set more ornamental than those of 1930 fashions, It was a slender metal painting instrument with a small, beautifully fashioned bottle from which the colors were dipped. To attain fits anclent rank un- der Roman rule Verulam is be- Hleved to have conformed with the highest standards of provincial life of the times, Dr. Wheller of the Lonodon Museum says the excava- tion should provide much new material for elucidation of the early history of London, which was close by. BLAMES SCARAB FOR MISFORTUNE Bradley, England, --- A scarab taken 'from an ancient Egyptian tomb was blamed by Mrs, John Bertram Parkes for seven years of poverty and misfortune, culminate. ing in widowhood. So she buried the thing in the woods near her hap home here, he scarab was inscribed with part of the 64th chapter of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which identified it with tho heart of the deceased person and urged it not to betray him at the judment be- fore Osiris, It was found by her husband when he was in Egypt as a colonel in England's crack Gren- ndier Guards, Shortly afterwards, he was de- mobilized, For a time he worked, first as a coal dealer and later as a market gardener, toy maker and firewood seller. Then for seven years he was unable to land a job of 'any sort, Finally he was forced to build a two room shack in the woods here In order to have shelter for his wife and four children, Then he died, leaving his family desti- tute, " Mrs. Parkes sald her husband blamed all his mistortunes on the scarab, "He was too superstitious to throw it away, but he asked me to. get rid of it", she explained, "He felt sure it was a curse." When he fell sick an fronic fate sent him ralt a dozen offers otf lucrative employment, But he was already on his death bed." JOB POPULAR WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS New Brunswick, N.J.=The Book of Job won a popularity contest in one class at Rutgers University over George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Tho- mas Hardy, Charles Dickens, 'Nath. aniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain, Freshman English classes were as- reading. Most of them picked one of the comparative moderns = classing Shakespeare as such--bit Professor Donald F, Cameron's class went all the way back to the Old Testament. TORNADO UNROOFS Rain and Hail Follow But No Injuries Are Reported tornado which struck the south side of Fort Worth shortly after dusk last night caused upwards of $100, 000 damage. A 4 The twister cut 4 narrow path Polytechnic, & 'suburban commun- ity, and dissipated its strength at the south sido of town, ji Houses wero unroofed by the funs nel-shaped wind, leaving: the oocous pants unprotected from the downs od in its path, Hall was several inches deep in places, Motorists struck by the fury of the storm suffered broken windshields, and tops were torn from their machines. Theos in many places were uproot. ed, : police, . rt ab signed to vote on a work for class! HOWES INTEXAS| Fort worth, Tex., April 1é=A| pour of hail and rain which follows | SLAYER DEFIES ITALIAN COURT "Long Live Communism' Shouted Before Sternest Fascist Tribunal Ravenna, Italy~~The special tribu- nal in defence of the state--sternest court in Italy--was defied by Ric- cardo Donati after it had sentenced him for murder, "Long Live Communism!" Donati shouted from the iron cage in which he had been confined in the court. room during his trial, Spectators, enraged, attempted fo rush the cage, but police frustrated them by hastily removing the pris. oner to a detention room, Gen, Cristina, president of the tribunal, or- dered the court building and square cleared before the convict was taken back to prison, Donati drew a life sentence, His wife, Maria, was acquitted on a simi- lar charge. Both were pictured as dangerous Communists during the rial, FINDS EVIDENCE BIBLICAL FLOOD Absolute Proof of Ancient] Disaster Uncovered in Mesopotamia . | London. ~Prof, S, I, Langdon, the | Oxford archaeologist, returned to- day from a seven-years investigation in Mesopotamia to announce discoy- ery of absolute evidence of the Bib- lical flood in the Kish region. He also announced that his expedi- | tion had unearthed at Kish .a Sum- erian capital which, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, was five miles long and eight miles wide, and existed for 4000 years. The expedition {found many 'long-headed types of skulls among the early Sumerians which Professod Langdon said "indicates the Semites arrived among the Sum- erians of Mesopotamia so early they were almost on a level with the Sum- erians, "Therefore, the Semites easily are the oldest race in the world today, because the Sumerians vanished ut- terly at the end of the third mil. lenium," he said, tables, cereals, 7 i preserving time st Mooseheart, Here the gir! studen J ta come from the great orchards of Mooseheart. Those surround it-with a great farm of more than 1,200 and so on that are used each day to fill the stomachs of there are more than 1,400, This farm also pastures one of the country's finest herds PRESERVES--JAMS--JELLIES ts of the cooking class are preserving who founded this great Child City did well te acres, for this farm produces much of the fruit, vege these hungry youngsters, of whom the trails of thoroughbred stock "There can be no doubt of evidence of the great flood," he continued, "This stratum, which can be seen quite clearly at Kish, is sediment pre- cipitated in still water, and it is one and one-half feet thick, The story of the escape from the ark comes from this part of the country (Kish) as well as from other regions, There is evidence of inundation at stretches about 100 miles apart along the Eu- phrates river, and many miles inland on cither bank, However, there is no evidence the country further removed from the river was flooded." yl CALLERS DIF AT THE SAME HOME | English Police Probe Mys- sterious Deaths In Gloucestershire Two women callers died suddenly at a house in Haywood lane, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England, within six weeks, Mrs, George Fisher Harris, of Lady grove Cottage, Abenhall, a Forest of Dean village, was shopping in Cin- derford recently when she called at the house of Mrs, Florence Emily Lee and complained of feeling ill. Soon afterwards she was Yound dead London in a room to which she had retired, The facts were reported to the cor- oner and a post-mortem has been or- dered. About six weeks ago Catherine Anne Powell, a servant, of Ross-on. Wye called at the same house, say~ ing that she felt ill, She died soon after, and a verdict of death from heart failure was returned at the in. quest, FRENCH BIRTHRATE LOWEST SINCE WAR Paris ~Official statistics reveal that the French birthrate last year was the lowest since the Great War, The figures show an excess of only 12,564 births over deaths as com- pared with 70,000 last year which also has been the average for the past seven years, Marriages were slightly fewer, di- vorces slightly more, Infant mor- tality was higher but the big differ ence was in an Increase of more than 10 per cent i deaths over one year, Slayer Claims Victim Made Him Drug Addict New Orleans, = Revenge upou the man who had made him a narcotic addict was the reason John Patella Rave for clubbing Joseph Conner to death, 2 Police charged Patells with mur er. "I met Conner in Miami" he said, "One morning 1 woke feeling nau- seated/ and saw a hypodermic mark on my arm, Conner was beside me on the bed, I tried to hit him and fainted, "After that I became an addict, and only recently got off the junk," Patella said that he recognized Conner on the street and felled him with a club after a pursuit of several blocks. SCOTCH! While at Geneva an Englishman decided one evening to visit a fam- ous English garden, He found the resort rather difficult to locate, and after half an hour's search decided to take bearings, Approaching an affable-looking stranger, he began: "Lr-parlez-vous Francais?" The stranger glanced at him doubt fully, and replied with some reserve: "QOui--oni, m'sieu." "Er----0u est---er-=" then, resort: ing in desperation to his mother ton. gue--~"Well, where's t'English gar- deni" The other breathed a sigh of re- ief, "Eh, lad" he replied cheerfully, "reet up t' hill and streaght on" MIRACLE PLAY Husband (at the theatre)="This play makes me think" Wife--"Yes, it's a most dinary play."-Tit-Bits, extraor. No injuries have been reported to |. TIRES Selected Dealer AKES Goodyear, quality available to a great body of motorists--those who want a rugged, heavy, tough tire of Super- twist cord construc- tion at a low nrice, GOODY MEANS GOOD Wi ~