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PTCE FOUR THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBR. 7, 1946 p DOROTHY by STALEY 1 ,2 ' STCItVi ArropanUy JiC.iu-. tlful rhillilia illn. Klecl' wife, announrm to the atherrd Willaon rlnn that she had sent her mall twin sons away until Fri ay Everyone Is dismayed tr eatise Fletch'a leave ia up Tfcur day. "Damn yon, Phil!" Fletch taya. "Some day, so help me, I'll kill yon. , i II DHIL tilted her head at Fletch's outburst and said coldly and smoothly, "How dare you speak to me that way before servants?" Betsy, still leaning toward her, burst out fiercely, "Nana isn't a servant." Loyal little Betsy. Yet I suppose I am a servant. I was Jenny Stiles' governess from the day she was 3 until she was al most 16 and went off to school. I had to be more than governess, for she had no mother and big, bluff Joel Stites depended on me to look after Jenny. Then I was only away from her for three years. Late in 1913 I fell and broke my hip and when it had healed, I was crippled, and no one wanted a governess who limped very badly. I had some money and I was going home to England where I might have been able to manage on it, but then the war came. I had only one friend, to whom to turn, Joel Stites. "And, right you are, Jemima Harrold," he said, "to come to me. Jenny needs someone to talk to." Jenny did indeed need some one to talk to, but she wanted no one to listen to. So I've been with my Miss Jenny ever since and except for when Fletch and Betsy, were small and we ate in the nursery, I've taken my meals with the family. PhilliDa cave her head a little loss in reply to Betsy's remark. I didn't mean Nana," she an swered. Fletch said, "If you meant Dru . . Dru -Ellis' face flamed. Dru is 27, the same age as Fletch, and she has been Mr. Willson's secre tary for eight years. Often when he doesn't want to go into the office, she comes out and stays at the house and works with him there. The Willsons are very fond of her. Her parents named her Drusilla and probably expected her to grow up to the name, but instead she is a sparkling sort of person, all fresh and dewy-looking. She is almost as tall a Fletch and her hair is the color of chest nuts when they first burst from the burr, and her eyes are wide and gray and steady like Fletch's. Beside her Pliillipa looks counter feit, and. looking at Phillipa at that moment, I thought, "And Phillipa. knows it.'.' I TRU. stood up as though she would leave the table, but Mr. Willson spoke up at that mo ment "Sit down, Dru," he said. "And you, too, Fletcher." Mr. Willson is a very just man and when he speaks, people listen. "Now, Phillipa," he continued as Fletcher picked up his chair and sat down, "Why have you sent the children away? We all seem to be excited about it without knowing your reason." Yes, Phillipa," my Miss Jenny says, "you must have had a good reason.' My Miss Jenny is apt to be a little fluttery when she is excited. Phillipa sipped her coffee and we all waited. Finally she put down the cup and said, "I don't approve of this nonsense tomor row. I won't have them paraded up and down the streets and ex ploited for the benefit of the Will- tson fortune." I thought. "So that's it. is it? s Dru's face flamed and she stood up as though she would leave the table. Just another chance to be irritat ing." I don't know what it was that made Phillipa that way. She was bitter at Fletch, I knew, for insisting when they were first married that they live on his sal ary instead of coasting along on the Willson money, and ia those days Fletch's salary was not much, for Fletch was learning the busi ness from the mills up and Mr. Willson would not pay him a penny more than the rates in the mills. I think Fletch learned very early why Phillipa had married him. Then she was bitter about the twins coming in the first year of their marriage. She hadn't wanted children. But shortly after the twins were born, Phillipa be gan to have plenty of money of her own. She said an uncle in California had died and left her an income. No one knew much about her or her family. I sup pose Mr. Willson could have found out, but he was the kind who fig ured that Fletch had married her and now he could do the right thing by her. He never inquired about her background. Mr. Willson said, "We have no intention of exploiting the chil dren, Phillipa. It's just a custom. I have taken part in Westbrook's Fourth of July parade all my life, so has Fletch." The glance he- gave Fletch was for the moment unguarded and I knew in that instant what it meant to him to have Fletch away. "Tomorrow, I thought the four of us might march together." T FELT sick inside, as I remem bered it might be their only chance. Some people, I suppose, would laugh at the Westbrook parade, but for years Westbrook has paraded to mark Independ ence Day. The mills and the churches, rich men and poor men, the Legion and the Elks, the Masons arid the Knights of Co lumbus. It is as traditional and as important to Westbrook as the Assembly to Philadelphia or the Cotillions to Baltimore or the Camellia Ball to Charleston. "And the picnic here?" Again Phillipa spoke too sweetly. "The picnic here." Mr. Willson Exclusive at ' PHARMACY (Your Nyal Druggist) 'rv y '""irkSK Chen Yu Chinese Red The New lied that goes with every vohr i.75 ((ax extra) Smart Set Gift Box $1.75 tax extra This is the red that was found in the gown of a Chincso princess, living there in perfect harmony with every color in the rainbow. No matter what complexion type you may be, or what costume colors you choose to w car, then Yu Chinese Red is perfect. Smart Set Gift Box contains ' nail lacquer, Lacquerol base coat and matching lipstick. answered, "is for those men in the mills who have worked in them for as long as I have and for their children and grandchildren. For the men who are the second and third generation in the mill, like B'letch, and their families." "The picnic tmorrow," Philliw said, "is to remind the men that the Willson family is one of them, so that when the Union election is held, they will vote the right way for the Willsons, of course." I gasped. I don't know how that girl always managed to know everything. Of course, the way she put it, it sounded bad, and that wasn't the way Mr. Willson had meant it. I had heard him talking to Miss Jenny. He had said, "I'm not against their Union, Jenny. It has been fair with the men and fair with us. But it has always been controlled by the men who have been in the mills for years. Men who know; the mills and have cool, icady heads. Now if these few agitators got hold of it, God knows what will happen. Strikes, slow downs. The men lose money they need, the mill loses production. I just want to remind them that we have worked together all these years with understanding and harmony. With the right leaders, men who have their interest at heart and aren't bent on exploiting them, we can continue." Phillipa stood up now. "It's nothing but Willson. Willson, Willson," she cried. "The Willson Mills. You would think they were God the way people speak of them. The Willson name. You mustn't do this because you're a Willson; you must do that because you're a Willson. Mustn't go here; must go there. The Willson money must go only to the Will sons." Uncle Andrew who had been quite still through all this looked up suddenly at me, and I saw Mr. Willson and Miss Jenny exchange quick glances. "It's nothing but Willson, Willson, Willson," Phillipa's voice was high and shrill now. "The Will son twins. Oh, yes. The Willson twins. Well, they're mine, too, and it's about time you people realized it." (To Be Continued) "Buck Rogers" Bomb Directed By Television SANTA MONICA, Cal. (U.R) One of the strangest Buck Rogers inventions of World War II was revealed here when Douglas Air craft took the wraps off the "Roc," a robot bomb directed by television which sought out its target through an electric eye. First projected in 1911, the "Hoc'' was fully tested and ready for combat when the atomic bomb put a halt to the Pacific war. And the pilots who tested it say it would have found any target, blown it to bits and sent back a movie of how it was done. In its final stages, the 4'Roc" resembled a long cigar with a ring-type shroud about the. tail. Carrying 1,000 pounds of high ex plosive, and nicknamed the "Double Cookie Cutter," it could be directed against lights or any other target from miles away. Two Alternate "Brains" The tail shroud was actuated by electricity-driven jack screws and could be rocked to make the "Roc" lift in any direction. The fixed tail was also a circular shroud. By the time development had reached the prediction stage in l'J45, the "Roc" had two alter nate "brains" one a radio con trol operated by the bombardier of the parent plane. Using a trick bombsight telescope the bombar dier observed a flare on the tail of the bomb, sailed it in to the target with remote radio control and a Gouble gyro system. The second and most remark able "brain" of the "Roc" was a complete television link between missile and bombardier, allowing him to ste where the bomb was going and watch its explosion when it got there. The amazing, compact televi sion apparatus in the bomb itself was developed by RCA's labora tory at Princeton, N. J., and the bomb could be controlled from either ground or air. Woik of Many Columbia University, the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology, the Navy, Army Air Forces, Cali fornia Institute of Technology and Douglas cooperated in design ing, testing and building the ''Roc" and new special training equipment for the crews who were to handle it. Model training and simulating devices showing replica targets and robot bombs were built and a television trainer rigged up exact ly to duplicate combat conditions in testing. Early model "Rocks," resem bling the German V-l and V-2 weapons and with conventional tails and wings, carried motion picture cameras in their nose, filmed their own path and through the target. The final model, trimmed dawn and with the circular wing and tail beneath Army or Navy bomb ers, also filmed Its own progress in tests held in the Mojave Desert at night by picked crews keeping the bomb under a "nightgown" at all times except when in flight. One test-model "Roc" buried it self so deeply beneath 28 feet, of silt and earth that a huge clam shell digger took three weeks to retrieve it. :if She Can, I Can' - it-' Ail ii VlJW.' 'I i :?,0tllt"f ' s 3 I' It- f 4 v 1 Jw.l fW. : :v. "4 7lt Hollywood Film Shop HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Ann Rich ards, former Australian stage and screen star who is now clicking in a big way in Hollywood, claims victory over her British accent and her .British pride, but she's ! on his life. and it has a long memory. "The public and the fans have been unfairly attacked for aban doning old favorites," commented the veteran actor, in Hollywood to make one of his sporadic it-turns to the screen. This time it's I proxy, so to speak, in Columbia's ''The Al Joison Story,'' bucd still having trouble with her Bri tish idioms. 'I have to watch my accent constantly," she said, '"but I'm able to control it now. You listen and see if I don't sound American. We have to report she did. But it's the idioms that cross her up. ''The other day I told someone that another girl we know was one of the 'homeliest' persons I'd ev "Actually the fans don't aban don the old i'aYoiites," he said. "More often it's the old favorites who abandon the fans. "Because I believe that Bob Taylor, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Glenn Ford, Bill Holden and the other veterans, plus their advisers, know too much about tra: principles of good showmanship to commit this 'sin,' I'm convinced 9 y That threatened fad for bare bosom evening attire is bustin' out all over, and the latest communique from the front is accompanied by the photo above, which shows Roberto, of the dance team of Roberto and Sarita, with his open-chested full-dress suit. "If she can do it, I can do it," declared Roberto, as he stepped out with his partner at a San Francisco night club. Returned Vet Writes to Pals Still on Okinawa By Edward E11U Chicago, U.R) Dear Fellows: I thought you guys still cm Ok inawa would want to know how (I've found things here since get ting back, so I m going to tell you about an important discovery I've made : The spring fashion picture is one of glitter and colors now are relaxing. I got the dope straight from Mrs. Eva Kiely, color consultant to a cosmetics house. She and I got pretty worked up about trends in lipstick and nail polish. "I've just felt the trend on. the market," she said, ''and it has tin glitter of the butterfly. Now that metal is coming back, women are wearing' bright, bright button, nail heads on their shoes and, just gobs of jewelry!" By the way, Jim, are you keep ing your carbine as shiny as you sued to? "Color is as definite a trend as fashion itself," Mrs. Kiely added. ''There's absolutely nothing in the world as important as color. . . "Or almost nothing. Of course, back in my perfume days I thougth fragrance was the most important. GI Leave Pay Is Sought by Legion WASHINGTON, D. C. Karly hearings on an American Leirion- backed bill to give enlisted men terminal leave with allowances for quarters and subsistence upon dis charge as now provided for offi cers, have been promised by both houses of congress. t A House military affairs sub committee already has recom mended to the full committee fav orable action on the bill of Rep. Dwight Rogers of Florida which is the Legion measure. Prompt consideration of the legion has been pledged by U. S. Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado, chairman of the Seriate military affairs committee. The Rogers bill would give en listed men two and one-half days of leave for each month of active duty and allowances for quarters and subsistence at about $3.05 a day. It would be retroactive to apply to all men already discharg ed. "If enlisted men get terminal leave they will be getting only what they have earned and have not received," National Legisla tive Director John Thomas Taylor oi the American Legion said. "Meh in service are supposed, to have two and one-half days of 1 leave per month but because of 1 wartime emergencies they. didn't! get t,hat leave in many cases. Offi-j cers get 30 days of terminal leave I for each year of service upon dis-' charge. Enlisted men are entitled to it, too. The Legion is fighting to get it for them." . But color is so psychological. You remember the fuchsia cycle, of course? . . ." You remember, don't you, Kieth? "After the fuchsia cycle," Mrs. Kiely continued, "there was the trend of daintiness. Women wore pinks. Then there was a davK, dra matic trend when women used !such lipstick as black and bl?.ck 'rose. The latest trend has been the red reds. But now we're going into scarlet. That's a bright, alive, gay. ! gay color and a newness in the I' picture. . ." Hey, Pete, is that coral mud as mustard-yellow as ever? Maybe you're up to your knees in 'a color . trend, and don't know it. ''Yes," Mrs. Kiely said, "colors jare now relaxing. They're going more wholesome, reflecting the post-war times. There's going to bo more legitimate marriage and jless fly-by-night stuff. . ."' I Are you still waiting for that 'letter from your wife, Keith? Let I me know how things come out. "Clothes are coming back, and ' it's no longer bad taste to go for (mal. Women" are getting away from the simple', work-style clothes 'of war days. They've been starved for feminine fluff. . ." Bob, are you getting enough soap these days to boil your jungle greens in those old oil cans? er met. My friend howled, because . that any misgivings they have are the person we were talking about completely without foundation." was a very pretty girl. 1 didn't j Joison aded that there are sub realize till then that -homely' hem j tie changes in public taste, and doesn't mean what it does in Aus- j that when an actor fails to recog tralia a very complimentary j nize them, he is in effect turning term for a housekeeper." his back on his fans. He recalled Likewise, she recalled, when she j the experience of Richard Bailliei. asked for "a reel of white cottou, ; mess. size about 50,' a clerk brought out j "It was back in l'J38, I think, a 50-pour,d bolt of yard-wide tot-! that Dick decided to come out ox ton. What she wanted was a spool , retirement and do one picture as of thread. ! an experiment. He made the movie Still unable to believe that she 'Four Hours to Kill' from the has lost her accent, producers in-(stage play 'Small Miracle' and it sist on fitting her up with role.-; was one of the successes of the that call for at least a broad 'A." 1 year at Paramount. In her hit picture, "Love Letters,-' j "Then, his point proved, he she plays a British woman, and ; went back in retirement." she currently plays a Boston giri Joison himself, after being the in RKO Radio's big historical ! first actor to score a hit in sounu drama of early Oklahoma, ''Bad-1 pictures in "The Jazz Silnger," man's Territory." j never hesitated to leave the Her accent, however, kept her ; movies, from getting some of the plum- Joison himself, alter being the parts she felt her prestige "down first actor to score a hit in sound unuer warranted. Sne was the pictures in "The Jazz Sin outstanding young woman star cf never hesitated to leave Australia's rapidly growing fiin; j movies. industry before she came to Holly- "My only secret for stayir.-? wood in 1942 as an MGM import.! with the pbulic one I'm sure Her prestige had spread to New! Taylor, Stewart, Gable and oth Zealand and South Africa and ev-jers will use is to keep my ear en to Britain itself. Her name to the ground," he said. blazed big over the titles of her! ni a n v stm-iimr vphu-lv sl-iol clicked on the stage in a big way, lov, the too. "So naturally," she admitted ; with delightful frankness, "I came; to America a little spoiled. I bri-j lAimvi vuatiiiiij; al ill ri, J1UL ! lealizing I was a smaller toad in a! V laiger puddle. Not that language difficulteis accent and idiom, at; any rate were a real problem,." Miss Richards now claims she can handle any dialect, from broad Western to Cockney. If a Holly-; wood producer wants to do her a. favor, he'll let her do a charact er with a typical American drawl.! Fouchek Garneii i ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW INSURANCE and BONDS HOLYWOOD (U.P.: Al Joison,; reassuring actors just out of M:e' service, believes that it's not the fans who abandon their old fav orites," but the favorites who aban-; don the fans. j Joison, w ho has left the screen i for long intervals to return with: untarnished popularity, said hei didn't think Robert Taylor, who said he was afraid he and other; service stars would be forgotten,; had anything to worry about. The public is not fickle, Joison said. FARM LOANS TEDEKAL LAND BANK Long; Term, Low Interest Kate No Renewals Excellent Eepajmeut Privileges No FevS You can obtain these favorable provisions and still have the safety feature of being with the farmer's own bank. Make your farm loan with the Land Bank, the pioneer in farm credit reform, and be sure you are getting the best. See . . . Harold C. 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