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Wain INDUCT
LEN BASED ON'
FALIILY STATUS
Senator Taft Complains
Men Under 45 Unable To
Make Future Plans
WASHINGTON May 5---(UP)
—Sen Robert A Taft R O to-
day introduced legislation provid-
ing that men with dependents
would be inducted into the army
In classes based upon their family
status
The Measure would not affect
present selective service defer-
ments for occupational or physical
reasons
Explaining the bill to the sen-
ate Taft said that local selec-
' live service boards have created
confusion by establishing dif-
ferent regulations for depend-
ency deferments "There is
hardly a man today under 45
who is able to make any plans
for the future" he said
His measure would establish the
following order or dependency
classes to be called:
1 Men under 35 who are un-
Married and childless or who
were married after Sept 16
1940 the (late of the selective
service act
2 'Men between 35 and 45
who are unmarried and child-
less or married since Dec 20
1941 when the draft u as ex-
tended to include men above 35
3 Married men under 35
without children
4 Married men over 35 with-
out children
5 Men under 28 married
prior to the draft with children
6 Men between 28 and 35
married before the draft with
children
7 Men over 35 married be-
fore Dec 20 1941 with children
Taft said that under his plan
each class would have to be ex-
hausted before the next could be
called He added that the measurc
would have to be accompanied by
increases in soldiers' pay and by
allowances for their dependents
Such bills are now pending
The policy of permitting loca
selective boards to establish their
own rules for dependency defer-
ments has caused discrimination
throughout the United States he
said Men are inducted by some
boards who would be deferred by
others
"The question is further com-
plicated by the arrival of chil-
dren so that today many men
are in the army who actually
have dependents unable to sup-
port themselves" he said "Fur-
thermore it is becoming appar-
ent that we will have to draft
many men with actual depend-
ents" The situation has become so
complicated that normal life is
being unnecessarily disrupted II(
said
"No one can be certain whether
he can continue in his business or
be drafted" he said "This has re-
sulted in a flood of applicatiom
for commissions from older men-
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They Begged—
(Continued from page I)
that the shells were close
The dramatic story of how an
injured crewman was given first
aid by two navy fliers while
tossing on a rubber liferaft and
later Down ashore while one of
his rescuers remained on the
raft was related by able-bodied
seaman Thomas Jones 27 Birk
enhead Eng of the United Na-
tions vessel
Jones said he was blown from
the deck by the impect of one
of the explosives Although his
right leg was fractured and
bleeding he managed to cling
to a piece of wreckage until the
small naval scout plane spotted
him
Ensign John F Gray 25 of
Champaign ILL landed the
plane near the fast-tiring Eng-
lishman and James Wesley
White 22 of Jacksonville Fla
aviation radio mechanic swam
to Jones' rescue
Gray set the broken bone with
a splint made from a floating
board &MPS was then put
'abotrd the plane and flown to
land White remained on the raft
until he was picked up by an-
other navy plant
Seniors Prepare—
(Continued from Pape 1)
books and has taught since 1915
Ho has served as Drury College
University of Missouri El Paso
City College and Oklahoma Bap-
tist University He has held his
present position at the Oklahoma
College for Women since 1922
Reverend Murphy to Speak
Revtrend Murphy was selected
as Baccalaureate speaker in keep-
ing vvith the policy of choosing a
member of the local Ministerial
Aliivoce each year to deliver the
address They alternate annually
among the members of the min-
ister's group
The complete sf nior schedule tor
the week is as follows:
Sunday May 10—Baccalaure-
ate Monday May 11—Senior Fine
Pa rty
Tuesday May 12—Senior pic-
nic ‘t'ednesday May 13—Senior
breakfast special award assem-
bly 10:30 a m Final examina-
tions start in the afternoon
Thursday May 11—Final ex-
ams in morning Band picnic in
the afternoon
Friday May 15—Return to
school for crade slips at 1:30
PAIL Commence MCI) t at 8 Pm
Saturday nry 16 — Seniors
WhRMONIng 01MeagtmMem Vm0 -Am dMinMMNEMMWer Emmannok nkaM4
retain' caps and gowns students
and teachers secure clearance
slips
V
Commandos Smasli—
(Continued From Page One)
Nations -
(Axis broadcasts since last Sat-
urday have reported United States
warships including the Washing-
ton and North Coralina in the
Indian ocean but there was no
indication they aided in the Mada-
gascar opera tions The Free
French forces were not mentioned
either)
An axis broadcast quoting a
Japanese spokesman at Tokyo
said the Japanese regarded the
Madagascar operations as "a
direct attack on Vichy but that
the military value of occupation
is dubious because the Japanese
fleet commands the Indian
ocean"
Official details of the fighting
as the British landed on Courier
bay on the north end of the
island under cover of naval air
craft were lacking but the plan
was to move 10 miles across the
Isthmus to Diego Suarez one of
the most valuable naval bases in
the world
The German dispatches from
Vichy said British airplanes in
force flew over the island and the
base and that warships supported
the landing
It was understood that that
was less than a division (10000)
of French white troops on Mada-
gascar but these were aided by a
huge number of native troops
The British f °reign Office
spokesman said the British pre-
sumably sent "ample forces"
against Madagascar in view of
alad experiences in Syrai where
the Vichy forces put up a furious
battle Most of the British sent
against Madagascar were believed
to be South Africans
The Laval government at
Vichy had pledged itself to re-
sist any attack on French col-
onies as the British forces pre-
viously had been resisted in
Syria and driven of from Dakar
Madagascar in addition to be-
ing a vital naval base has huge
tracts for airdromes some of
Inch are developed and the
South Africans had been agitating
for weeks to seize the island to
prevent it from becoming "an-
'Oita Indo-China"
Gen Charles de Gaulle leader
Jf the Free French also had re-
eently renewed pleas that the al
ties occupy the island
"It is to be hoped that French
authorities will accept the offer
of the United Nations to help in
the defense of the islands against
axis aggression
-The naval forces off The island
were commanded by Vice Admiral
E N Sylret
"The military force which
centists of regular ttoops and a
small cer tingent of special
service trcops was commanded
by Maj Gen R G Sturges
royal marines"
There was no immediate in-
dication how the offer to help
in the defense of the islands
had been received or whether it
was accompanied by an ultima
tive demand for peaceful com-
pliance in the landing
Vichy had announced frequently
that it would resist any invasion
allied or axis
Vichy Gen Guillemet commands
the few battalions of native white
officered troops totaling perhaps
5000 men
The sister cruisers Montcalm
and Marseillaise 7600 tons with
nine g-inch guns each and the
5747 ton submarine depot ship
Jules Verne arrived at Diego
Suarez recently
A British military commentator
said of Gen Guillemet:
"Obviously he has Vichy ten-
dencies or he woultrt be there If
he is hostile to us that is an-
other question"
A British diplomatic commen-
tator in the first nen-military
announcement of the United
Nations decision to laud forces
in Madagivcar said: -
"The decision was taken be-
caw e it would have bt en the
height of Idly to suppose that
the 1'ichy government would lift
a finger to resist the Japanese
threat
(The state department at Wash-
ington notifying Vichy Ambassa-
do Gaston Ilenry-Haye of the
move said the island was occu-
eied with the full approval and
support of the United States)
"Since Pierre Laval's return to
powur at Vichy the threat to
Madagascar has been considerably
intensified particularly with the
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THE CUSHING DAILY CITIZEN CUSHING OKLAHOMA
presence of the Japanese admirals 11 home with her carry home to
in Vichy" the commentator said her townsmen her friends her Four States Go
lie declined to specify how 'neighbors
the island would be administer- ' "It is in the words of Thomas T ri 11 M 1
ed Jefferson" his letter said "One 1 0 r0 1lS ' I 0aY
Things are still very much in hundred and thirty 0
' three years
th'e—lela"nd—w—o—uld—hjamaYnisier- r---i-t—i'Sin the words of Thomas i Polls ip
ed Jefferson" his letter said 'One T '
I 0 ' I CI
Things are still very much in hundred and thirty' three years
the operational stage and for ago Jefferson wrote: 1
us to attempt to define the fu- —The times do certainly ren-IFor Primal-I
ture status would be tempting der it incuMbent On all good eiti-I
providence" he explained I zens attached to the rights andf
h wood" honor of their country to bury
1 Alabamal SoL1)11
"I prefer to touc
1
Well informed quarters express-
Indiana in oblivion all internal differences inolana and Flo
1
ed belief that the United Nations and rally around the standard of
1 Canddates on
were deliberately vague regard- I their country'"
ing the status of the island leav-1 Mr Roosevelt said men in the By UNITED P
ing themselves latitude to act ac-!f armed forces had "proved worthy' Voters of four st
cording to Vichy's stand even to o America" 1
'party nominees for o
the extent of leaving Vichy some
Now it is up to us at home to ing
1 from senator al
I prove worthy of them he said
nominal control if it submitted to " I down to minor state I
allied control as It had submitted Mrs William H Pouch presi- wry elections today
when French Indo-China was tak-
I dent general of the national so- I
i ciety said the DAR stood united' Alabama nominateO
en over by the Japanese for ssnator governor
i
"a great organization of patriotic 1
v resentatives and st
women eager to help ready and
willing to sacrifice" South Dakota voters
DAR OPENS !
I atonal and congress
SESSION TODAY ' v
READ THE CLAFISIFIED nees Indiana chose es
congressional legislati
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CHICAGO May 5--(UP)--The en Women ! Old at 'offices
None of today's pr
lution opened the first business 40 0 60 1 G et Pep mount issues Illinois
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session of their 5Ist continental 1'
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congress today charged by Presi-1 Y tl I
in ob Feel Years Younger Full of Vim
dent Rtiosevelt "to bury it stute to hold a prim
livion all internal differences and 1 1:'1!1 01:nitir ea
etl:ilinitlitws ''anlnil:tdrainTw litnater'4 after Pearl Harbor
rally around the standard of their I r21"ltCWnitW11711r11aloii"ttgl rullil' In Alabama where
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SYNOPSIS
During the two minutes' silence
on Armistice Day Nov 11 1937
two strangers were conversing
aboard a railroad train speeding
through England's midland One
told of a "partial loss of memory"
as the result of shell-shock in the
first World War The other (the
narrator of this story) discussed
memory and dreams with the pros-
perous looking veteran who con-
fessed that "sometimes I have a
feeling of being somebody else"
Just before reaching London the
veteran introduced himself as
Charles Rainier a member of Par
liament and a business man after
the narrator said his name was liar-
rison They agreed to meet at the
Swithin's Society dinner Cam
bridge University the following
evening Later Rainier and others
adjourned to Harrison's room for
coffee About 3 am when the
others had left Rainier told Hard-
son his mystery-shrouded story:
Cambridge just after World War I
and his loss of memory for three
years from the moment of that
shell-burst near Arras in 1917 until
"I found myself lying on a park
bench in Liverpool" He said he
then returned to the family home
at Stourton He assumed he had
been in a prison camp because a
dentist had discovered German
fillings in his teeth A year later
Harrison looking for work as a
journalist called at Kenmore Rai
flier's London house and met Mrs
Rainier famous for luncheons at-
tended by the town's supersophisti-
cates The following day Rainer
hired Harrison as a secretary and
the latter was instructed in office
routine by Miss Hobbs dean of the
Rainier Steel Works secretariat
who was leaving to get married
She idolized Rainier but had a crit-
ical opinon of Mrs Rainier Rai-
nier avoids the latter's "celebrity
parties" but does say "I married
her because she'd be just the
person to turn a tired businessman
into a thumping success She was
and she did"
CHAPTER SIX
Suddenly Charles Rainier said:
"Sorry to be a chatterer like this
Harrison but it's after a bout of
public speech-making — I always
feel I have to use up the words left
over or perhaps the words I
couldn't use I suppose you'd
call me a rather good speaker?"
I said I certainly should
"And you'd guess that it comes
easily to me?"
"It always sounds like it"
He laughed "That's what prac-
tice can do I loathe speaking in
public—I'm always secretly afraid
I'm going to break down or stam-
mer or something Stammering es-
pecially of course I never do
By the way you remember that
mountain in Derbyshire I thought
I recognized?"
"Yes"
"The same sort of thing happened
In Lancashire only it wasn't quite
so romantic Just a house in a row
I was helping Nixon in the Browd-
ley by-election—we held meetings at
street corners then Nixon dragged
me round doing the shake-hands
and baliy-kihsing stuff—that's the
way his father got into the Glad-
stone Parliaments so Nixon still
does it I admit I'm pretty cynical
about elections—the very look of
the voting results with two rows
of figures adding neatly up to a
third one gives me the same itch
as a company balance sheet exact
to the last penny whose penny?
Was there ever a penny? My
' own majority in Lythamshire for
Instance — precisely twelve — but
who were the twelve? Twelve good
1 men and true maybe or twelve
drunken illiterates 7 Don't you
sometimes feel how false It all is
and how falsely reassuring — this
' nineteenth-century gloss of statis-
tical accuracy as if the flood tide
of history could run in rivulets tidy
enough for garden irrigation safe
enough for a million taps in sub-
urban bathrooms but when the
storm does come who'll give a rap
If the rows of little figures still add
up—who'll care if theisums are all
wrong provided one man knows a
right answer?"
"You were talking about a house"
"Oh yes Just an ordinary
fone-room workingman's house —
tons of thousands like It A cold
(ley and as we stood waiting at the
door I could see a great yellow glow
Of firelight behind the lac curtains
ago Jefferson wrote: i I
4" 0 r The times do certainly ren- I
dot it 414111113yf Art ea 11 avrstspi 14 IF Primaries
of the parlor window Nothing ex-
traordinary In that either and yet
it's hard to describe the feelings
I had as if that house were waiting
for me—a welcome—out of the win-
try dusk and into the warm firelight
a welcome home"
His eyes were full of eagerness
and I said trying to hasten his story
before we reached the end of the
journey: "Did the feeling disappear
when a stranger answered the
door?"
"I'm coming to that There
were three of us Nixon myself
and Ransome the local party secre-
tary nice little- man We knocked
and knocked and nobody came Then
I saw Ransome fumbling In his
pocket 'Can't think where she is'
he said 'but I expect she'll be back
in a jiffy' I realized then that it
was his house and that we were
being invited in He found a key
unlocked the door and we entered
No lobby or hall—etraight into the
warmth and firelight There was a
kettle steaming on the bob cups
and saucers set out plates of bread
and butter Everything spotlessly
neat furniture that shone a clock
ticking loudly somewhere It was
all so beautiful this warm small
room The man kept talking about
his wife—how proud she'd been at
the thought of having two such men
as Nixon and myself to tea in he
home—such an honor—she'd never
forget it—and how embarrassed
she'd be when she came back and
found us already there 'I'll bet
she's gone round the corner for a
Dundee cake' he laughed But as
time passed he began to be a bit
embarrassed himself and presently
suggested having tea ourselves
without waiting for his wife So
we did—I sat in a rocking chair by
the fireside and the flames were still
leaping up so brightly we didn't
need any other light even though
it was quite dark outside by the time
we left"
"So you never saw his wife at
all?"
"No she didn't come back in time
But that room—the feeling r
had in it—of comfort of beIng
wanted there It's just another
thing of the same kind That part
of my life—well you remember
what I told you at Cambridge"
"Why do you worry about it so
much?"
"I wouldn't if it would leave me
alone But it keeps on teasing me
—with clues So what can I do?"
"I still say—more rest and less
work"
Ile patted my arm 'It's good to
know I can talk to you whenever
I'm in this mood Watson to my
Sherlock eh? Or perhaps that's not
much of a compliment?"
"Not to yourself anyhow Wat-
son was at least an honest idiot"
He smiled "That must be the
Higher Criticism Of course you
were born too late to feel as I did
—Sherlock's in Baker Street all'
right with the world"
"Since we now realize that most
things are wrong with the world—"
"I know—that was part of the
illusion I remember Sheldon taking
me on a trip to London when I was
six or seven years old the first
place I asked to see was Baker
Street and being a sympathetic fel
low he didn't tell me that the stories
were just stories We walked grave
ly along the pavement one after
noon early in the century—a small
boy and his father's butler—look
log up at the tall houses with re
spectful hero worship Distant
thrones might totter anarchists
might throw bombs a few lesser
breeds might behave provokingly in
odd corners of the world but when
all was said and done there wits
nothing to fear while the stately
Holmes of England doped and
dressing-gowned for action readied
his wits for the final count with
Moriarty! And who the deuce wuo
this Moriarty? Why just a big
shot crook whom the honest Idiot
romanticized in order to build up
his hero's reputation! Nothing but
a middle - aged stoop shouldered
Raffles! And that mind you was
the worst our fathers' world could
imagine when it talked about Un-
derground Forces and Powers of
Evil! Ah well happy days
You'd better keep the cab to go
home in Good night!" -
'
hadn't taken Rainier's problem
very seriously till then For one
thing loss of memory is normal We
all forget things and are equally
likely to IA reminded of them long
Alabama i Sot1) Dakota
Indiana and Florida Have
Candidates on the Slate
By UNITED PRESS
Voters of four states choose
party nominees for offices rang-
ing from senator and governor
down to minor state posts in pri-
ntery elections today
Alabama nominated candidates
for ssnator governor hose of rep-
resentatives and state offices
South Dakota voters selected sen-
atorial and congressional nomi-
nees Indiana chose candidates for
congressional legislative and local
°Ince& Florida balloted on con-
gressional and minor state-wide
offices
None of today's primaries the
lution 'opened the first business 1 4A
session of their 51st chntinenta1 i U e since the United States
50 60! Get Pep!scond
congress today charged bY Pres) I i entred the war produced para-
dent Rbosevelt "to bury' in tili-1 Feel Years Younger mc issues Illinois was the first
unt n all internal differencoefstheir I Ei:111 e
1tran'411‘ki:miu47:711:K10ilt: :i5 a
31::tnteen"
d 1 that biome exttAtinted g ' Full oil Vim stae to hold a primary election
livio
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rally around the standard of an ‘ i fter 40—by tdiennit rr'l In Alabama where republicans
country" I !fl''de:1411-ta':111'71: ' vitu
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11:solvr1tr are few and far between Sen
A letter from the p id resid
read at the opening sgssisession tnt I i tr
tie Siwi'llif tZirotk it Jolin H Bankhead democrat and
:eiry day Six of the state's nine congress-
night sad there was a message 1st tit'ittir t tewitrigtstiZitttr aetiC3Tiuri"t ri-'':1:t
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HES HILTON
quNoR OF
"GOODBYE M RCM I PS
AND "LOST HORIZON"
after we think they have been for-
gotten for good Often too the
reminder is faint enough to be no
more than a clue which we fail to
follow up because the matter does
not seem important The unusual
part of Rainier's experience was
that he did think it important so
that from something merely puz-
zling it was already to the way to
becoming an obsession
Some part of his story could
doubtless be verified and I already
felt enough curiosity to make the
attempt I said nothing to him but
the next time the chance occurred
I led Miss Hobbs to talk in a gen-
era! way about her employer's early
life and career She was more than
willing—except for a continual ten-
dency to drift into later and some-
what disparaging gossip about Mrs
Rainier "Wasn't he in the war?"
I began putting the leading ques-
tion that anyone might have asked
"Oh yes He got a medal—didn't
you know that? And the strange
thing was—they thought he was
dead So it was given post—post---"
"Posthumously"
"Yes that's it But you couldn't
blame them because after the at-
tack he was reported missing and
nothing was heard about him till—
oh it was years later when he sud-
denly arrived home without any
warning And then it turned out
he'd lost his memory"
"Seems to me the sort of story for
headlines"
"You mean in the papers? Oh
no it was kept out—the family
didn't want any publicity"
"That wouldn't have been enough
reason for most of the journalists
I know"
"Ah but Sheldon arranged it"
"Sheldon?"
"He's the butler at Stourton You
haven't been to Stourton yet have
you?"
"No"
It's really a marvelous place"
"Sheldon sounds a marvelous but-
ler if he knows how to stop journal-
ists from getting a good story and
editors from printing it"
"Well he is rather marvelous and
I don't suppose there's much he
doesn't know—not about the family
anyhow Ile really rules Stourton
—lives there all Vie year round
even during the winter when the
family never go out of town I real-
ly owe him a good deal—I was only
just a local girl in those days I
used to do bookkeeping and secre-
tarial work at the house and that
brought'me into contact with Shel-
don constantly" She added rather
coyly: "You know — perhaps you
don't know—how difficult it can be
for a girl employed in a big bowie
if the butler isn't all he should be"
I said I could imagine it
"Sheldon was always a gentle-
man Never a word—or a gesture
—that anyone could object to"
I said nothing
"And later when Mr Charles
took over Stourton Sheldon person
ally asked him if he could do any
thing for me otherwise I don't sup-
pose I'd be here"
"I see But coming back to
the time when Mr Rainier—our
Mr Rainier I mean—suddenly re-
turned to Stourton Were you work
ing there then?"
"Not just then It was Christmas
and as old Mr Rainier was ill they
canceled the usual parties and gave
me a holiday It was parties that
always kept me busy—writing out
Invitations and place cards and
things"
"What was Mr Rainier like when
he returned?"
"I didn't see him till a good whiL
afterwards but I do know there was
a lot of trouble about it one way
and another—Sheldon would never
tell us half that went on"
So there the trail ended she
didn't know much of what had actu-
ally happened and since then a
great many years had passed old
!qr Rainier was dead and probably
the same fate had overtaken most
of the personnel from whom any
elucidating inquiries might have
been niade at the time Perhaps
there were traces somewhere a dos-
sier preserved In forgotten files
memoranda hidden away in official
archives but there seemed smell
chance of unearthing them or even
of finding II they existed at all
"Quite a mystery" I commeeted
"Didn't Mr Rainier himself ever
try to solve it?"
(To be continued)
C01Ighl tiP) Sub's !Mont
- WM414114410 lilha trookuse
tered about the race for governor
with five 'candidates listed Judge
Chauncey Sparks'appeared to lead
in peténtial strength A total vote
of 250000-300000 was expected
' Voting in Indiana was expected
to be light with all 12 incumbent
congressmen favored to win re-
nomination Rep William T
Schulte democrat was expected
to be given a hard fight by Ray
J IVIadder14 of Gary CIO based his
campaign on Schulte's Opposition
to President Rooselet on import-
ant legiSlation Rep Louis Ludlow
democrat: was under heavy fire
during the Campaign for his "no"
votes on lend-lease ship seizure
draft extension repeal of the war
zone ban and arming of merchant
ships GOP candidates in Indiana
were not seriOusly opposed s‘
Republican Gov Harlan J
Bushfield of South Dakota was
opposed for U S senatorial nom-
ination by Miss Olive A Rungs-
Aid secretary of state former
country school teacher who polled
a record vote in being reelected
to a second term Democratic sen-
atorial candidates were Tom
Berry former cowboy governor
and Sen William J Bulow
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was for the congress-at-large
nomination between Rep Lex
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other congressional incumbents
wvre favored The congreo-4-
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SYNOPSIS
A chance meeting between two
strangers aboard an English rail-
way train on Armistice Day 1937
focusses interest in an extraordi-
na y lost memory mystery One
of the two is Charles Rainier mem-
ber of Parliament and steel mil-
lionaire He remembers nothing
from the time of a shell-shock near
Arras early in 1917 until nearly 1
three years later when he recovered
his own identity on a park bench
in Liverpool The other stranger
named Harrison is relating the
story In 1938 Harrison was hired
to succeed a Miss Hobbs as Rai-
nier's secretary Miss Hobbs idol-
izes Rainier but does not like his
wife who is famous for her "ce-
lebrity parties" Harrison has just
asked Miss Hobbs if Rainier had
ever tried to solve the mystery of
those "missing" three years
CHAPTER SEVEN
"You mean did he try to remem-
ber things?" Miss Hobbs asked
"Well more than that—didn't he
ever consult anybody—specialists
psychoanalysts or anyone?"
"You don't know him or you
wouldn't ask that The last thing
he'd ever do is to go to anybody and
tell them things about himself The
only person he ever did talk to was
someone he'd known at Caitbridge
some professor—Freeman I think
his name was"
"You mean Dr Freeman—the Dr
Freeman?"
"Maybe he was a doctor"
"A tall white-haired man with a
stoop?"
"Yes that was him—he used to
visit Charles a good deal before the
marriage You know him?"
"Slightly Why not since the
marriage?"
"He didn't like parties and I
don't think he liked Mrs Rainier
for beginning all that sort of life
for Charles She's very ambitious
you know People say she'll make
him Prime Minister before she's
finished"
I laughed—having heard similar
remarks myself followed as a rule
by some ribald comment on her
party-giving technique Miss Hobbs
added: "Not that she isn't a gate'
hostess—that I will say
Since the point was raised it
'teemed to me that Mrs Rainier was
too good and that for this reason
she might miss the secret English
bull's-eye that can only be hit by
guns sighted to a 97 or 98 per cent
degree of accuracy Anything more
than that even if achievable is
dangerous in England because
English people mistrust perfection
regarding it in manners as the
stigma of foreigners just as they
suspect it in teeth to be the product
of dentistry All this of course I
did not discuss with Miss Hobbs
I saw Freeman a few days later
He had been a rather impressive
figure at Cambridge in my time as
well as Rainier's but had recently
retired to live at Richmond with an
unmarried sister It was probably1
a lonely life and he seemed glad to
hear my voice on the telephone and
to accept an invitation to dinner I
had known him fairly well since he
had long been president of the
Philosophical Society and I in my
last year its vice president and
though he had written several
standard works on psychology he
was not psychologist enough to sus-
pect an ulterior motive behind my'
apparent eagerness to look him up
and talk over old times
We met at Doulestin's that same
evening
After waiting patiently till the
inevitable question as to what I was
doing with myself nowadays I said
that I had become Rainier's secre-
tary "Ah Rainier—yes" he muttered
as if raking over memories And he
added with a thin cackle: "Well
history won't repeat itself"
"How do you mean?"
"He married one of them
"You mean Mrs Rainier? You
mean she was his secretary before
Miss Hobbs?"
"Oh the Hobbs woman was with
him all the time— family heir-
loom Must b) forty now if she's
a day What (La she do at last—
retire?"
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"Heavens—I never thought her
turn would come Who's the lucky
man? But I can answer that
myself—Rainier is to get rid of
her"
"You know her then?"
"Hardly at all I'm glad to say
But she used to write me the most
ridiculous notes whenever Rainier
made an appointment to see me
They were supposed to be from him
but I found out quite casually
afterwards that she forged his
name to 'em Absurd notes—it
interested me as a psychologist
that she should have thought them
appropriate"
"But to come back to Mrs
Rainier—"
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"Oh she worked in his City office
I think A different dynasty These
great magnates have platoons of
secretaries"
"Queer Miss Hobbs never men-
tioned it I should have thought it
was something she'd have liked to
drive home"
"On a point of psychology I think
you're wrong She'd prefer to con-
ceal the fact though they were both
so to say equal at the starting post
the other woman won"
"Maybe tt gather you know
Rainier rather well?"
"I used to You see I began with
the initial advantage of meeting
him anonymously"
"I'm not quite clear what you
mean"
He expanded further over a glass
of brandy "Rainier's a peculiar
fellow Ile has a curious fear of his
own identity He lets you get to
know him best when he doesn't
think you know who he It's
an interesting kink psychologically
I first met him through Werneth
who was his tutor at St Swithin's
Apparently he told Werneth about
—er—well perhaps I ought not to
discuss it but it was something In-
teresting to me—as a psychologist
—but not particularly to Werneth
who was a mere historian" Again
the cackle "Anyhow Werneth
could only get his permission to
'pass it on to me by promising not to
divulge his name and on hearing
what it was all about I was so In-
terested that we actually arranged
a meeting—again anonymously—I
wasn't supposed to know who he
was But let you into a secret
—Werneth had told me privately
beforehand — unscrupulous fellow
Werneth And then one morning
several months later I couldn't find
my bicycle outside the college gate
after a lecture but in Its place was
a similar model with the name
'Charles Rainier' on it- I made his
mistake an excuse to call on him—
and I must say—after the opening
embarrassment—we very soon be-
came friends" Ile added: "And
now of course I know what you're
going to ask me hut being less un-
scrupulous than Werneth I can't
tell you"
"I don't think you need because
j Siren di thy v't b(-1U t
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On nand to prevent-a repetition of the Feb 28 riot between whites
and Negroes upward of 700 Michigan state troops stood guard at the
81000000 federally-sponsored Sojourner Truth housing project as
Negro families began occupying the new homes In the February
clash brought about when neighboring white residents attempted to
prevent Negroes from moving in a score of persons were injured
Use of troops fulfilled an order of National Housing Administrator
Iolin B Blandford Jr to move Negroes in under the "best possible
circumstances"
JAMES HILTON
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"GOODBYE MRCH I PS "
AND "LOST HORIZON I
er—peeuliarity I suppose it was
that"
"Suppose you tell me first of all
what that is"
"The blank patch in his life that
he can't remember"
"A rather inexact description"
"No doubt and that's why I'd
very much like to hear your own" 1
He smiled "It was an unusual
case—but I've heard of several sim-
ilar ones They're recorded you
know in technical journals Rai-
nier had—if one might so put it—
certain threads of recollection about
the blank period though they were
so faint as to be almost nonexistent
at first After he left Cambridge
we didn't meet again for ten years
—by that time the threads had be
As to Mrs Rainier "She worked in his city office" said the psychologist
"These great magnates have platoons of secretaries"
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come a little less faint It was my
aim when I came to know Rainier
again after the ten-year interval
to sort out those threads to dis-
entangle them—to expand them as
it were into a complete corpus of
memory"
"I understand But you didn't
succeed"
"Are you asking me that or tell-
ing me?"
"Both in a way"
Ile said smiling: "My expecta-
tion all along had been that his full
memory would eventually return—
a little bit here a little bit there—
till finally like a key turning in a
lock or like the last few pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle the whole thing
would slip into position But I
gather that it hasn't yet happened?"
"The bits are still being assem-
bled but nowhere near to comple-
Hon"
"Tell me Harrison if I may ask
the question—why are you taking
such a keen interest in this matter?
Hardly within the scope of secre
tarial duties Or is it?"
"I like him and I hate to see him
bothered by it as he still is That's
the only reason"
"A good one" i
"Now you tell me something—
have you any theories about the
blank patch?"
"Theories? I can only guess it
was a pretty bad time Ile WEIS in-
jured if I remember rightly itiBt
above the left parietal bone of the
" lie went off into a medical
survey that conveyed nothing to me
"It was an injury that would re-
quite operative treatment—perhaps
a series of operations That's why
it's perhaps a pity that he still 13
bothers as you say he does Even
I if complete recollection were to re-
turn to him now it would probably
be only of pain unhappiness bore- '
dom"
"On the other hand even such IA
memories might be better than an
increasing obsession about the loss
of theta?"
'Possibly"
We were silent for a time after
that Presently I said: "You know
he was taken prisoner by the Ger- '14
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