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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
7:30--Family Altar—The Rev. J. A. Sul
livan.
7;45_Red. White and Blue Network
Program.
8:00—Daily War Journal.
8:15- Pages of Melody.
8:30 Musical Clock.
3:45—A. M. News.
9:00—The Breakfast Club with Don c
Neil.
9:30—Organ S. rexlfcde.
9;45—The Breakfast Club.
10:00—Harmony Isle.
10:15—Roy Porter. News Analyst.
10:30—Let’s Dance.
11:00—Breakfast at Sardis.
11:30—A House in the Country.
11:45— Little Jack Little.
12:00—Richard Kent. Travelling Cook.
12:15—Clark Dennis.
12 :30—National Farm and Home Hour
1:00—Baukhage Talking.
1:15—Your Gospel Singer—Edward Mac
Hugh.
1:30—Rest Her".
1:4o—Wihninfitcn Star-News on the Air.
1:45—Vincent j_.opez and Hotel Ta
Orchestra.
2 00—Meditation Period. The Rev. J.
A. Sullivan.
2:15—Between the Bookends with ed
Malone.
2:30—James G. McDonald. News.
2:45— Earl Tanner.
3:00- -Prescott Presents.
3:30—Men of the Land. Sea and --ir.
3 :45—To Be Announced.
4:00—Club Matinee.
4 :55—P. M. News.
5:00—The Sea Hound.
5:15—Hop Harrigan.
5:30—Dairy Dramas.
5:45—Front Page Dramas.
6:00—Don Winslow.
6:15—Lum and Abner.
6:30—Let’s Dance.
6:55—NEWS — WILMINGTON STAR
NEWS ON THE AIR.
7 :00—Let’s Dance.
7 :30—Abbott and Costello.
8:00—Watch the World Go By.
8:15—Quartermasters, Quarter Hour.
8:30—American Town Meeting of the
Air.
9:30—Spotlight Bands.
9-55—Gracie Fields.
10:00—Raymond Gram Swing.
10:15—Sing for Dough.
10:45—Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra.
Over The
NETWORKS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
EASTERN 1VAR TIME P. M.
(Changes in programs as listed due
to corrections by networks made too
late to incorporate).
5.30—Just Plain Bill Serial — nbc
The Jack Armstrong Serial — blue-east
Chicago's Singing Strings — blue-west
Landt Trio and Curley — cbs-basic
Serial Series for the Kiddies — mbs
5:45—Front Page Farrell Serial — nbc
Captain Midnight Serial — blue-east
The Ben Bernie Musical Show — ebs
Dance Music Orches. (15 mins.) — mbs
6:00—Harp & Violin Music; News — nbc
Don Winslow of Navy — blue-east
Frazier Hunt News Spot — cbs-basic
Troubadours from Chicago — ebs-west
Prayer; Comment on the War — mbs
6:15—Chicago Dance Music Ore. — blue
To Be Announced (15 minutes) — ebs
The Two Young Ladies of Song — mbs
6 50—Neighborhood Cal! by OPA — nbc
The Milt Herth Trio — blue-east
Jack Armstrong’s repeat — blue-west
Vera Barton in Songs Program — ebs
The War Overseas Dance Ore. — mbs
C .4:7— Bill Stern and Sports Spot — nbc
Lowell TV.mas on News — blue-basic
Captain ".Tic! night repeat — blue-v/_*st
World a.id War News of Today — ebs
7:00— Fred V/aring’s Time — nbc-east
“Easy Aces.” Dramatic Serial — blue
Ames ’n Andy Serial Jkit — ebs-bas c
Fultcn Lewis. Jr. and Comment — mbs
7:15—World War via Broadcast — nbc
?/!:• Keen, Lost Persons Tracer — blue
Harry .James & His Orchestra — ebs
The Johnson Family, a Serial — mbs
7: -Al',;:, and Costello — nbc-east
Jayne Ccrzens ; nd Songs — nbc-west
F WiT rtson Songs, Orches. — b'ue
To Be Announced (30 m.) — cbs-basic
Toe Jamboree from Dixie — cbs-Pixie
Arthir- Hale’s News Comment — mbs
7:45—Ksltenborn Comment — nbc-west
Dance Orchestra for 15 minutes — mbs
€:C.J—Fanny Brice and F. Morgan — nbc
F:rl Godwin’s War Broadcast — biiu
To Bo Announced '30 minutes' — ebs
Alfred Wallenstein Sinl'onietta — mbs
8 : Lum and Abner Serial Skit — blue
8 -The Henry Aldrich Family — nbc
America's Town Meeting of Air — blue
Death Valiev Days Drama - cbs-basic
I.. Pays To Be gnorant Quiz — mbs
8 -55—Five-Minute News Period — ebs
9:00—The Crosby Music Hall Hr. — nbc
Major Bowes Amateurs’ Show — ebs
Gabriel Heatter Speaking - mbs-basic
9:15—Victory For You, Talks — mbs
9 TO—Stage Door Canteen. Guests — ebs
Spotlight Bands, Guest Orchest. — bs
Chateau Hogan Variety Show — mbs
9:55—Molasses and January Skit — blue
1 u Vallee’s Show — nbc-basic
Abbott & Costello repeat — nbc-west
’.i , G. Swing's Comment — blue
First Line. U. S. Navy Prog. — ebs
,.:u Clapper in Comment — mbs
10:15—Sing for Dough, Quiz Spot — b ue
Lance Orchestra for 15 minutes — mbs
10:30—March of Time Dramatic — nbc
Fiitaen Minutes Talk Broadcast — ebs
Paul Schubert’s War Analysis — mbs
10:45—Dancing Music Orchestra — blue
Frank Sinatra and His Songs — ebs
Dance Music Orchestra Tunes - mbs
11-00—News for 15 minutes — nbc-east
The Fred Waring repeat — nbc-west
News & Dance <3 hrs.* — blue & ebs
Comment: Dance Until 2 a. m. — . bs
11:15—Late Variety With News — nbc
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RUSSIA PROTESTS
BEREiN. (From German Broad
casts), Oct. 14.—dP)—The German
Transocean News agency reported
today from Sofia that Soviet Rus
sia had protested to Bulgaria
against an ‘‘anti-Communist exhi
bition” in Sofia and Bulgaria had
rejected the protest.
(Russia and Bulgaria still are
nominally at peace although Bul
garia is allied with Germny and
at war against Rusrias’ allies.
CD Needs
Auxiliary Police
(Men Only)
Duties: To assist regular
police during blackouts or Air
Raids.
Training: General Course,
Fire Defense A and B, Gas De
fense B and 10 hours First Aid
Enlisted to date: 158. Quota:
200.
Enlisted Yesterday
Air Raid Wardens . 3
Filter Center. 3
Messengers . 3
Total . 9
SYNOPSIS
I Following her mother’s death, red
j haired, slim
I MARY DEXTER leaves Omaha to
I take a job in the Nordex Air
craft plant in Califynia. She
shares an apartment with
FRAN BOND, night club singer
and dancer. Friendship develops
between Mary and
KEN GRANT, young mechanical
engineer, also newly employed
at Nordex. Mary has ben at
tracted to
BRUCE MARTIN, Nordex test pi
lot, over whom a dark cloud
seems to hover.
* * $
YESTERDAY: The suspicion with
which other Nordex workers re
gard Bruce Martin nearly flares
into the open as Bruce makes
off-hand angry remarks during
lunch with Mary in the company
cafetei'ia.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
At half past eleven the swing
shift moved out of the Nordex
plant into a night of unbelievable
beauty. The warm weather had
brought a soft, deep blue night sky
so peculiarly Californian. Stars
seemed to hang suspended from it.
It was not stars, however, or even
the waxy crescent moon that drew
all glances upward as the crowd
moved tunnelward. It was the
four searchlight beams that con
verged upon the moving speck of
a plane droning its lone way across
the sky.
The beams were following the
plane, moving with it, holding it in
their wedged focus with careful,
steady aim. It was a beautiful
sight, but it brought with it a cold
breath of apprehension. Every
watcher knew the significance of
the maneuver, knew that some
night theii lives might depend
upon those practicing lights, that
some night the plane would be an
enemy bomber, and te beams of
light would be interspersed with
the desperate volleys of anti-air
craft guns.
Tonight, the crowd was moving
too slowly for Mary's dancing feet.
She twisted and pushed her way
through the tunnel in an eager
rush to catch her bus. If she could
make the first bus she could be
home 15 minutes sooner, and that
might make a lot of difference
tonight.
‘‘Hello, there, stranger” Mary
turned about even as she started
her dash for the bus. It was Ken.
She hadn’t seen him for so long
she couldn’t believe her eyes. He
laughed at her. He was his old
friendly self, she realized with re
lief.
“Don’t tell me you’re not work
ing overtime!” she chided breath
lessly.
“Thought I’d take a night off
and look up my old friends.” he
grinned. "How do you feel about
a lift in the old jaloppy?”
As they hunted out his car in
the vast parking place, she thought
how strange it was that you didn't
realize how you missed some peo
ple unil you were with them
again.
As they moved out into the
stream of traffic she was envel
oped in the old. familiar sense of
security and comradeship she al
ways had felt while with him
Even the engine of his car held a
familiar note.
“Your tappet’s loose again.” she
said.
"That’s funny.” Ken cocked his
head to listen. "It hasn’t let out a
peep all the time I’ve been driving
alone. You’re too strong medicine
for it, I’m afraid.”
She told him all the news of the
apartment—about the Glass Hat’s
closing and about Burke’s and
Fran’s chance in the movies.
"That was the big celebration
the other night I missed?”
Mary nodded.
"And I still think you should
have gone I thought I heard it in
your voice over the phone. Now I
can see it in your face. You’re
working too hard.”
“Such solicitude!” teased Ken.
Then he sobered to a d m i t, "I
couldn’t keep this pace up long.
But it's just temporary.”
"Just till you’re killed off?” de
manded Mary.
They had stopped under a street
light at a stop signal and she was
shocked by the new lines in his
forehead, the haggard, set expres
sion that told of near exhaustion.
He smiled briefly. "No. You see
there aren’t enough men in my
branch of engineering just at this
moment to go around. Four*of the
men in the department had to be
sent out to other plants, and until
new men can be broken in and
trained, we’ve had to kind of dou
ble up . . . quadruple up, I should
say. It’s been hard, because once
you get loggy you get scared
scared you’ll slip up on something,
make a mistake. And we don’t
dare to make mistakes these
days.”
Mary idly watched the moving
arcs of light in the sky painstak
ingly stalking the plane. "We’re
in a pretty big game, aren’t we?”
she murmured.
“So big,’ said Ken slowly, "and
so terrible we haven’t any concep
tion of it. We’re all walking around
in a dream. And sometimes I think
we’re going to wake up too late.”
"What do you mean?” said
Mary.
"I mean, when the scene shifts—
when the big. bad boys begin play
ing in our back yard—we’re going
to go to pieces. We’re not hard
ened. disciplined. We haven’t got
it into our thick heads that the
job ahead of us is long and hard
and dirty, and we’ve got to throw
everything overboard and get into
it.”
“My. you HAVE been working
too hard!” Mary chided him gent
ly. He laughed. “I think I prac
tice those speeches in my sleep,
too,” he admitted. “I feel as
though I had been orating all night
sometimes when I wake up in the
morning. Maybe you’re right. I
do need some relaxation. How
about driving out somewhere?”
Mary reached for a polite eva
sion. She couldn’t tell him the
truth—couldn't tell him the reason
for her soaring spirits tonight. If
he knew that she had been lunch
ing with Bruce, he’d hate it. She
didn't want to have Ken angry—
and yet ever as she rode beside
him she could not pull her blissful
thoughts from Bruce's attitude at
lunch tonight. He had promised to
wave a flag, and he had certainly
dropped his usual challenging bel
ligerency. He had been gay and
attentive, and as he left her at her
door, had added the final touch to
her happiness wnen he suggested
their stepping out somewhere after
work if he didn’t have a batch of
overtime. He’d let her know.
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No, she definitely couldn’t tell
Ken. She remembered how he mis
trusted. suspected Bruce Martin.
So she pleaded some odd jobs that
wouldn’t even let her go riding to
night.
Ken stopped the car before the
apartment with a determined jolt.
“I’ll just dash up and help you
with those odd jobs,’’ he said, “and
then we’ll go for our ride.”
Mary weakly protested, but Ken
was not to be diverted from the
channels of his purpose. Mary re
alized with a sinking heart that
she could not use subtle methods
with Ken. He trusted her and be
lieved she would tell him if she
had anything like another engage
ment.
“Looks like te same old place.”
he said. “Boy. I’ve really gotten
homesick to see it sometimes.”
prowld around th room carfully
noting ach chang in arrang-tains
ment or added ornament. But she
eyes.
“Looks like the same old place.”
he said. "Boy, I’ve really gotten
homesick to see it sometimes.”
Mary laughed at him as he
prowled around the room carefully
noting each change in arrange
ment or added ornament. But she
caught her breath as he picked up
a flower box she hadn’t noticed
on the table. He smelled it. “Did
I send you these?” he puzzled.
“You must have, m’lord.” Mary
took the box and tried to set it
down carelessly out of sight, but
Ken insisted on seeing the flowers.
“That settles it,” he cried good
naturedly. “No more night work
for me. I’ve got to come back and
take matters in hand. Let’s see
what they are and I’ll send you
something better.”
Mary jerked at the string. Why
did he have to be so curious? She
opened the box and threw out a
corsage of three orchids! She tried
to laugh at Ken's loud howl of
pain, but her nervous fingers
dropped the card. She stooped for
it, but Ken was before her. Even
as he straightened she knew that
he had read the card. His etasing,
concerned expression was gone.
On his face was a look of set
anger and disappointment. He held
out the card to her. his eyes watch
ing her face as she read. “The
last name is Martin?” he asked
in a low, heavy voice. Mary nod
ded. She felt like a guilty child,
caught in some piece of despicable
mischief.
“Ken.'1 she pleaded, “if you
knew him. I mean—I don’t think
—I mean, he's really nice. He’s—”
“All right. Cut it.” His voice
sounded dry. harsh. “So he’s cute.
So you’re going to shut your eyes
and your ears and pretend he's
straight. That’s great. The spirit
that keps the country together.
The spirit of—a gangster’s moll!”
“Ken—wait”
But he was at the door, had
thrown it open, his blue eyes blaz
ing coldly, the freckles standing
out on hi« pale, angry face.
“Goodby. Mary.” he threw back.
"I wish you luck.” The door
slammed after him. 1
(To Be Continued)
—--V
Southeastern N. C.
Sailor Wounded; 2
Reported Missing
One Southeastern Iiorth Carolina
sailor has been wounded and two
are missing, according to casualty
list No. 14 released by the Navy
department.
Samuel Wesley Holden, fireman,
first class. United States Navy,
was said to be wounded, according
to the list which covers the period
September 22-30- inclusive. His
wife. Mrs. Erna Earle Holden,
makes her home at Southport.
Delma Bay Williamson, machin
ist’s mate, second class, U. S.
Coast Guard, of Wilmington, is
among *he missing. The next of
kin is his grandmother. Mrs. Edith
Dukes of 1117 South Sixth street.
Also missing is James Oliver
Hodges, fireman, first class, Unit
ed States Navy. His next of kin
is an uncle, Moude Nance of Coun
cil. —
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