Evening star. [volume], May 19, 1937, Page A-13, Image 13

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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WINGED REMORSE
By Frank Kern Levin.
JOHN thought of
her u be
watched the air
plane come cir
cling over the trees,
Op Its wings,
'straighten out and
then bounce along
the surface of the
water. From this
spot the night be
fore he had seen
three falling stars,
making each time
a wish. She was
the wish.
"Whafs the
plane doing here?”
somebody from the
resort asked.
“' “Those are the ]
fellows I was tell
ing you about.
. They take up pas
sengers. It’s only
, tt.50,” some one
replied.
‘•Is if safe?”
#,T n-ii TV>
“He was in the air, flying."
"We did have
fun and I’m sorry
about everything.
I’ve really got to
like books and
things like music,
and I never did be
fore. Oh, I guess
I'm Just foolish.
That’s why it’s
batter, don't you
see?”
"Is there any one
else?”
“I knew you'd
ask that! Well, yes,
there Is. I met him
two wreks ago.
I that's all I’m going
to say about it”
He kissed her
good night, be
cause during these
two years they had
gotten In the habit
of kissing one an
other. Then he
said goort-by to her
x guess so. x ney ve Deen nying
•round here all Summer and nothing’s
happened yet."
“I wouldn't take a chance with any
of those fellows "
"Oh. I’ve been up a couple of times.
It's nothing.”
There were two men in the plane.
One got out and in the meantime the
others from the resort came down to
the lake, attracted by the novelty.
"Half-hour trip over the beautiful
lake country. It's something you don’t
want to miss. You'll get a real
thn 11 "
John thought it was a shame that
With all the centuries there had been
of waiting, one didn't fly now there
was the opportunity.
"I’d like to go up,’’ hesaidto the man.
Two can go at a time. Is there
any one else?” the man asked and
Waited. John hoped that the man
would not be able to find another
customer—he would be free then to
. think of her all to himself while in
flight. It was a fine thought to have.
They helped him into the plane, he
heard the roar of its motors, they were
speeding over the surface of the lake,
to* noise of the motor decreased,
then increased, and he realized he was
In the air, flying!
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'J'HE ground moved away under him,
the lake, the houses, the trees, all
of It. He mw the trees swaying back
with the wind. He still could make out
people, animated specks upon the
dean surface of the earth. The plane
moved surely, smoothly, as though it
knew its way, and for the first time
k dace he had left her he felt rested.
W In that higher air there was no
| place .for pain, not even the pain of
her, but only exultation, she could
eay: "I’ve thought it over, the way
Ws've been going around with one an
other for almost two years now. You
know, it Isn’t my fault. I told you
from the first, you remember, that we
oould only be friends."
That’s what she actually had said,
and she had gone on: “We’ll have to
break up some time and it's better we
do now. It will only make it worse if
we don’t.”
The plane lurched. John thought
ttiey must have hit an air pocket ex
cept that he read somewhere that
there weren't any, but, rather, cur
■ rents of air that carried the plane up
or down. Well, it was a sick feeling
anyway.
* * * ¥
w™* she had said that he had I
‘ answered: "Why will it be worse
then than it is now? How can it be?
Of course you couldn't have cared. But
we did have a good time, didn't we,
®oing to plays, the art galleries, con
certs-"
TOWNSEND TO SPEAK
Indiana Governor to Make First
Speech Here Tomorrow.
Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of In
diana, who is being boomed by his
friends for a place on the 1940 na
tional Democratic ticket, will make his .
flnt speech in Washington tomorrow
'night at a dinner given by the Woman's
National Democratic Club in his
honor. His subject will be “Why
Indiana Backs the New Deal.”
Gov. Townsend, who succeeded
Faul V. McNutt, now Governor Gen
eral of the Philippines, is one of the
most effective campaign orators in
tbs Middle West, his friends say.
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REPAIR CONTRACT LET
Baltimore Firm Gets $5,460 Work
at Medical School.
A *5.460 contract for alterations
«nd repairs to the Medical School at
the Naval Medical Center here has
been awarded to William F. Kirwan
of Baltimore, the Navy Department
announced yesterday.
The department also revealed a
Contract for *58.589 has been award
ed to the Roberts Paving Co.. 2 Water
street southwest, for shore protection
and construction of a road at the
Naval Academy.
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SHIPS TO BE SHOWN
Xodels to Be on Exhibition in
' Canadian Pacific Offices.
The Ship Model Makers’ Club of
Washington will exhibit selected
models in the Canadian Pacific Rail
way offices at New York avenue and
Fourteenth street, opening with an
invitation preview at 8 p.m Saturday.
The exhibit will continue through
June 5.
Ospt. Dudley W. Knox, librarian
Of the Navy Department, and John
A. Remon, chairman of the Presi
dent's Cup Regatta Association, are
sponsors of the show.
RUB SHOULDERS
WITH THE SMARTEST ;
WOMEN AT THE J
WATON TNNRSBAY’S STM
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K
ana iaine up 10 uie resort 10 get away
for a while.
There was that lurch again. Air
pockets. No. wind currents. ... He
was beginning to forget. Gee, if only
he could be in a plane all the time!
It was almost as good as being with
her. There was an intimacy with a
spiritual self that was more than self,
like his love for her, that was why
it was just as though she were with
him.
“I don’t like music like that," she
said. “I like Schubert much better.
It seems like you can reach out and
touch Schubert with your hands.”
"But Wagner is a different thing,”
he replied. "You don't reach out for
Wagner—it's he who does the reach
ing out.” Then he remembered and he
asked. "How did you get here? How
did you get into the plane?”
"I was going by," she said, and it
wasn't at all clear to him, and they
were together, flying, trying to reach
out. . .
^ ^ ^
gOMEHOW he knew at once when
he opened his eyes that he was
in a hospital. He could see the sun
coming along the edges of the drawn
shade, and heard the voice of the
nurse. He closed his eyes, and when
he opened them again he saw there
was one small light In the room and
knew it was dark out. It was strange
that day should have passed to night
so quickly.
“How do you feel?" he was asked.
The nurse stood high above him.
“I'm all right. What happened?
Did the plane crash? Is that what
happened?”
"Yes, the plane crashed. You were
very badly hurt.”
"I've not been here long, have I?"
“For three weeks.”
“All that time?” Three—he closed
his eyes-r-three—one for each star
that fell.
“Your mother and dad are here. Do
you feel strong enough to see them?”
They came into the room, and it
was being alive again to see them,
looking at them there, his mother
and father, everything all at once
became normal.
“Oh,” his mother exclaimed, “you
shouldn’t have gone up in the plane.”
It was- what she had been thinking
about, and she could not help saying
the words.
In their comforting presence he
ceased searching for something, an
old pain, because he knew it was
gone. Maybe by this time she had
married the some one she had met,
but it did not matter. Two years
with her, then those few minutes in
the sky and he knew that the flight
was worth the crash and that there
would be greater flights to come,
(Copyright, 1937.)
HERNDON TO TALK HERE
Figure in Georgia Caee to Speak
to Civil Liberties Group.
Angelo Herndon, autjior of "Let
Me Live,” who was recently freed
from Jail in Georgia by a Supreme
Court decree, will be among the
speakers at the quarterly dinner of
the Washington branch of the Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union scheduled
for 7 p.m. tomorrow in the National
Press Club Auditorium.
Other speakers listed are Charles
H. Wesley, professor of history at
Howard University, who will talk on
“The Second Emancipation,'' and
Charles Edward Russell, head of the
District Inter-racial Committee, who
will discuss civil liberties of the
Negro here. Bedford V. Lawson will
preside.
Estonia is extending its financial
assistance to agriculture.
A hose truck in London is to carry
a mile and a half of hose.
JEWISH CAMPAIGN
DISAPPOINTS CHIEFS
$70,000 of $80,000 Sought by
United Appeal Received in
1,700 Individual Gifts.
Although $70,000 has been raised
by the United Jewish Appeal In Its
drive for $80,000, campaign leaders to
day expressed disappointment at the
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contributors. To date. It was pointed
out, less than 1,700 Individual dona
tions have been received, as compared
with 2,400 last year.
The two-week campaign will end
tonight with a meeting of all volun
teer worker* at the Jewlah Com
munity Center. Several thousand
dollars In additional contributions are
expected to be reported.
Isidore Hershfleld, co-chairman of
the appeal, said that even If the full
$80,000 goal 1* attained, the cam
palgn will be considered unsuccessful
as far as reaching more prospective
contributors.
"We want every Jewish family In
Washington to participate in this
campaign," he said. “It is 'the duty
of every one who is able to do some
thing toward relieving the plight of
our brethren In other lands."
“-—•-- -
Prague, Czechoslovakia, will hold an
international automobile show In
October.
RAISE your glass of Ballantine’s, take
one good drink, and judge the PUR.
ITY. Another drink, and judge the BODY.
The third drink roll on your tongue,
judging FLAVOR.
It was Peter Ballantine himself who
originated this 3-fold test—back in 1840.
You’ll join with him in pronouncing his
brew “PER.R.R.FECT!”
Now look at the dewy marks left by
your glass on the bare boards of the
table—you’ll find 3 rings. “3 tests—3
rings of quality,” said Peter Ballantine,
“THE MAR-R-RK OF A GOOD BREW!”
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