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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-04-02, Page 3QuaUty Guaranteed • SERIAL STORY SECRET V YAGL' BY JOSEPH L. CHADWICK SYNOPSIS LAST WEEK: Mary Larsen tells Jim Mallory all she wanted to know was where she could find Mr. James Mallory, owner of the AjaxSalvage Company. She ]:snows Jim only as Spike. Jim maks Mary who sent her on board, hat she refuses to answer and dives overboard heading toward shore. When Mary tires and goes under, Jim swims after her and tows her to safety. He learns she is going to Jeffery Hammond's estate. Hammond owns a steam•• ship line, and it WAS his ship, the -Sonora, that Jim found after it sank and whose location he won't divulge. Jim tells Mary to come down to the Ajax office the next day if she wants to see Mr. Mal- lory, He returns to the office to {find an invitation from Jeffery Hammond to spend a week -end at the Indian Creek mansion, — to talk business. o ew e THE SALVAGE MAN CHAPTER III Jim Mallory arrived at Jef- fery .Hammond's house at 8, at the note requested. Hamniond's note had 'said he should phone if he couldn't make it for the week -end, and all the way out from downtown Miami Beach he had thought about phoning. Some- how, .he had the uneasy feeling of a man about to step into a trap. He carried his bag up the wide stone steps, and rang the bell of the big white house. The door opened wide almost at once, and the Hammond butler said, "Good evening, Mr. Mallory." The hall into which Jim Mal- lory stepped was done in the ex- treme modern fashion. The floor- ing was composition, the walls painted mauve, the lighting in- direct and soft. A curved hang- ing staircase led upward, The butler talked as Jim looked around. Mr. Hammond wished Mr. Mallory to accept his apolo- gies. Something unforeseen had happened; he had been called to his office over in Miami. Mr. Mal- lory was to make himself at home, and Miss Lois Hammond, Mr. Hamrnond's daughter, would en- tertain him during the evening. "Unfortunately," the servant said, "Miss Hammond hasn't re- turned home. No dinner is being served, sir, but I shall have some- thing set out for you." "I've already dined, thanks." "Then I'll show you to your zoom, sir." s r, o The room was spacious, ultra - comfortable, and the furniture had been designed by a cubist. The bath beyond had walls cov- ered with marine murals. It was a far cry from the room Jim Mal- lory occupied in Curly Bates' house off Collins avenue. It was a lot like the room he would have when me Ajax Salvage Company got out of the red. Jim got into evening clothes, Standing before a full -view mir- ror as he slipped on the white dinner jacket he remembered that this was the first in a long time. It had been Iong since he was in the money. He filled his cigarette case, then left the room and wan- dered downstairs. He passed through a living room whose French doors opened onto the patio. It was cool and dark out there. The air was heavy with the fragrance of flowers. Sound came from. an open door at the end of the house. Music, laughter, and chattering voices. Jim lighted a cigarette and drift- ed toward the door. He paused, looking into a rumpus room. About ten young people were there. One of them was the girl who had come out to his boat that afternoon calling herself Mary Larsen. He wondered if she were really Lois Hammond. A dark-haired girl in a white evening dress appeared at the far end of the room. She was strik- ingly good-looking. She laugh- ingly called on the crowd for quiet. The gay chatter died away, and somebody stopped the phono- graph, The crowd gathered around the dark-haired girl. Jim MaIlor.y didn't mean to listen, but this girl held his eyes and he stayed where he was, just outside the do orway. "The silliest thing has hap- pened," the girl said brightly. "Father went off and left me with a guest .to look after." She wrin- kled her nose dF tastefully. "A man in the salvage business. Imagine!" There • was Iaughter. Jim Mal- lory smiled crookedly in the dark- ness, remembering the old gag about an eavesdropper hearing no good of himself. He saw a pudgy young man with a drink in his hand move to the side of the dark-haired girl who seemed to be Lois Hammond. "I had dealings with a salvage man once," he said loudly. "Boy! was he a scream. He was a shifty - eyed little guy in a derby and with a cigar butt alwaYs sticking from the corner of his mouth. He had one line: 'Mister, you cheat me.' And he stuck to it." s a a Everybody laughed, Jim Mal- lory saw, but Mary Larsen, She didn't look at all amused. He looked back at the pudgy man and Lois Hammond. "Let's have some fun with this fellow," the man said. "We'll get him to tell us about the salvage business, for a laugh. Don't for. get, everybody looks solemn and interested, for a gag. Have him join us, Lois." CROCHETED BEDSOCK AND INFANT'S BOOTEE Simple stitches are used to crochet these lovely bedrocks or in- fant'` bootee. Fine yarn is used and a pair may be created in a Short time. Pattern No. 1054 contains list of materials needed, illus• *ration of stitches and complete instructions for making both. To order pattern: Write, orsend above picture, with 15 cents coin or `tamps to Carol .Abrin`. oom 421, 78 Adelaide St. West, "Burk is bringing harm 4owet now, :Tommy," she told him. Thea. she looked over the' heads of the. others toward Mary Larsen. "Mary, he a darling and take this , Mallory person off my hands for the evening. Father has a nerve, expecting me to entertain a 'lean in the salvage .business." Mary Larsen said, "I'll take him off your hands, Lois — of course. Be' Mr. Mallory is in marine sal ', and that' is big business." Jim Mallory thought, "That's one in your favor, Mary." And he turned away from there. * „ * Burk, the butler, found him in the living room. And Burk said, "Miss Hammondhas returned, sir. She would like you to join her in the rumpus room." ' "Lead away, .Burk," Jim Mal- lory said. He nearly laughed out loud when he followed Burk into that room. Everyone had been watch- ing the door expectantly, and it was funny how the talk stopped abruptly. The chubby young reran gave a start, turned red, then moved abruptly toward the port- able bar. Lois Harnmond's eyes grew wide with disbelief. Jim shot a look at Mary Larsen, and she too seemed surprised. But he knew Mary's surprise was caused by finding him, Spike the diver, to be James Mallory, and not be- cause he didn't look like the pudgy man's description of a sal- vage man. Burk said, "Mr. Mallory, Miss." And the dark girl came toward Jinn, smiling and holding out her hand. "Mr. Mallory! I'm so glad you're here. Father said I'm to entertain you, until he gets back. Do you mind?" Her eyes pleaded with him not to nand. Jim thought, "You shal- low little hYpocrite." Aloud, he said, "Not at all." .x * She slipped her arm through his, led him about and presented him to the others. One or two looked a little sheepish. The chubby pian was Tommy Sturde-, vent. Tommy gave Jim a limp hand, and asked, "Mallory, eh? What's your' line, old lean?" Jim looked hint squarely in the eyes. "I take in washing—old maToll,,, mmy reddened, choked. The crowd laughed. Lois Hammond introduced him to Mary Larsen last of all, almost as an after- thought. "Mr. Mallory, Miss Lar- sen, my father's secretary." "Miss Larsen and I have al- ready niet." "Yes," Mary said, her voice an- noyed, "I think we have." Lois turned him away. She called to someone to put on a dance record. When the music started her dark eyes asked Jim to dance. He thought, "Why not?" She looked as though she'd be fun to dance with, fun to make a little love to. And it was nice holding her in his arms. "You're not my idea of a man in the salvage business," she said. Her eyes said a lot more. They had a predatory look. "It's a living," he said, and over her head' he saw Mary Larsen watching then] dance with a twisted and bitter smile on her lips. (Continued Next Week) Length Of Marriage According To Scale Married life, says the Kitchener Record, continues to be the favor- ite theme of the jokesters, so it is not surprising to find that someone with keen powers of per- ception and a fair sense of humor has compiled a matrimonial guide by means of which it is easy to judge how long any given couple has been married. Here is the yardstick, marked in days, weeks, months and years: If he goes shopping and car- ries all her parcels without a word—two months, If he listens intently to all the details of the Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club—under six months. If she tries so hard to persuade hint to go out with the boys for an evening and he doesn't go— three months. If he does—over three months. If she believes she has married "the only man in the world"— four days. If he finds all his buttons sewed on and his socks darned --seven months. If she insists that he invite leis mother down more often—three weeks. If he calls her mother "an old dear" and her father "a brick" —three weeks. If she asks him to tell her about "the office"—five months. If he complains about the steak being too well done --one year. If he would rather sit by the fire than go out --two weeks or 25 years. If they play every hole on the links and come in smiling ----.they are not married at all. In the Sanskrit language, the word "Wee" mains "we want triose cows.'r DEMOLISHING FAMOUS NEW YORK SIGN gaols FINE CUT -ride '...edetedee Another familiar sight on Broadway to go on account ur, war measures! The Wrigley Spearmint sign on Times Square, New York City — the largest • of its kind inthe world — is being dismantled. For the past six years this spectacular sign has thrilled the Broadway crowds. To see the Great White Way, and the Wrigley sign in particular because it was the largest, was one thing that thrilled the visitors to New York from all over the world. The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company decided to discontinue this beau- tiful sign strictly as an economic measure. The sign was '75 feet high and 192' feet long. It contained 35,000 lamps and consumed as much electric current as would be needed in illuminating a town of 10,000 population. For the last six months the Wrigley Company had replaced their entire advertising message on this huge Spectacular with copy pro- moting U. S. Defense Bonds and Savings Stamps, For this reason they dislike to see the sign demolished, but from an economic stand- point and in an effort to help win thew s, the officials of the Com- pany decided it was the right thing tadtto" What the country needs today are ships, tanks, airplanes, and .'gins, and to produce these weapons of war takes lots of power. Saving Sugar F1,:r Munitions Of ,;1.r Reason Given For Sugar Ra- tioning by Sarnia Canadian - Observer Canada understands that the government's call for voluntary rationing of sugar is a wartime measure but it is not generally understood why it is a wartime measure. Sugar is not being ra- tioned hero and in the United States simply because of a short- age in the sugar cane crop. The real reason for the rationing is that sugar cane can produce either sugar molasses or edible sugar, that is the kind of sugar used In tea and coffee. If too much of the cane is used for edible, or eating sugar, then there is not so much available for sugar molasses. Both sugar molasses and edible sugar come from the same raw material source. Now why this concern about the supply of sugar molasses? For the reason that the major source of ethyl alcohol is sugar molasses. And ethyl alcohol is required for Munitions of war and for thous- ands of chemicals used in war pro- duction. Fortune Magazine, which made a survey of the sugar situa- tion in the United States, declares that "today's wars are fought lit- erally with sugar." Every time a 16 -inch gun is fired, a fifth of an acre of sugar cane is consumed in the form of ethyl alcohol, and it 'will be remembered that ethyl alcohol comes, largely, from sugar molasses. Then, too, sugar is energy for wax workers and for .fighting men. High test molasses is made di- rectly from sugar cane. Its high sugar content, 78 per cent, snakes a gallon go "half again as far" in making alcohol as does ordinary blackstrap molasses which is a by- product of sugar refining. Because of the demands of the war, it is estimated that the United States faces what is des- cribed as a sugar shortage of from 500,000 to 1,000,000 tons. These de- mands ariso from the tremendousy increased call for ethyl alcohol. Europe has striven to make itself self-sufcient in industrial alco- hol. It is macre from potatoes and grains and to some extent from . beets. Japan produced nearly enough, sugar in Formosa, says this magazine, for her requirements. No doubt her drive in the South. 'west Pacific has as an objective the obtaining of sugar cane as well as rubber and oil. Hence, when a Canadian is re- fraining from the use of sugar, to a degree, he is not simply dieting or even merely being self-sacrific- ing so that the fighting men can have plenty of sugar for their tea. He is giving up sugar so that ethyl alcohol may be made and so that 16 -inch guns and other guns may be fired at the Axis. Plea Is Renewed For Used Rubber Salvage officials, renewing their plea for all rubber that can be spared issued a list of useful salvage for the guidance of the general public. Articles listed include: Old tires including those used on the boat docks to prevent damage to the boats, tires used as poultry troughs and garden borders, tires from baby carriages and go-carts, all forms of door and floor mats, stair treads, hot water botltes, rubber sheeting, gloves, syringe bulbs, clothing such as baby caps, slickers, baby garments, foot- wear, including rubebr soled ov- ershoes and tennis shoes, toys, dolls, balls, pucks, football blad- ders, door stoppers and all other articles containing "live" rubber. Monkey In Radia Using Jap Tactics Angry monkeys, using Japanese tactics of fighting from treetops, have killed scores of Chinese lab- orers by dropping rocks on their heads as they worked on the new Sikang-Assam Highway which will replace the Burma Road as a main land supply route for China, the United China Relief reported. T. Y. Lo, official of the Chi- nese Motion Picture Corporation, said the attacks took place in the mountainous regions along the border of Northern India when the monkeys grew angry at in- trusion of laborers into regions never before inhabited by man. Lo said the monkeys chatted to each other and then began a .ser - les of attacks which lasted a week, gathering ammunition at night and using it all day. Lo said that when he left China the laborers were protected by guards who had used clubs and pistols to drive the monkeys to refuge in distant treetops. ISSUE 14—'42 GRANDPA'S GOING TO MOSCOW Admiral William H. Standloy, IJ S. N., retired, arid ll;s 1w:re 1,11 their grandsons Janice and Patrick Byrne about the not -so -far est land of Russia. Admiral Standley will Ieave Washington soon for his poet as new C. S. ambassador 'to Mo teow. Founded in 1888 by one of the early West's most outstanding figures, the late W. R. Hull, the Pine Coulee Ranch was located near Nanton, Alberta. The brand is still in use by the Beaver Camp Ranch. BRAND OF THE OLD PINE COULEE RANCH TABLE TALKS By SADIE H. CHAMBERS Easter Dinner Menu Grape Juice Cocktail Baked Ham Raisin Sauce Nests of Creamed Mashed Potatoes filled with Green Peas Spinach — with hard cooked egg garnish Olive Salad Parker House Rolls Ice Cream — Maple Syrup Sauce Angel Cake Beverage of Choice Just a few remarks and recipes for the Easter Dinner Menu. Firstly, I hope all homemakers still have some of that home canned grape juice made last autumn. Add a little orange juice and gingerale and it does give the juice an extra tang. I thought you would like the traditional ham for Easter. Personally select your ham ac- cording to your family's liking regarding size, amount of fat and lean meat, etc. Baking the ham geems to be preferred, so give it a long slow baking. Then, .about 15 minutes before serving, remove the rind and spread the fat with a brown sugar glaze. To 1 cup of brown sugar add tris teaspoons mustard and 1 teaspoon of ginger. Cloves may be placed in the ham in dia- mond shapes, or some prefer to add lh teaspoon of ground cloves, to the sugar mixture. Raisin Sauce a/% cup Raisins 1 cup Water 4 Cloves 34. cup Brown Sugar 1 teaspoon Cornstarch U. teaspoon Salt 10 grains Pepper 1 tablespoon Butter 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice U. teaspoon Concentrated Meat Sauce. Cover raisins with water and add cloves and simmer for ten minutes. Remove cloves, add su- gar, cornstarch, and salt and pep- per mixed together. Stir until slightly thickened and add re- maining ingredients. Olive Salad 2 cups Cold Boiled Rice 1 teaspoon Cloves 14 cup Chopped Ripe Olives 1 Green Pepper (shredded) 1 cup Green Peas Ye teaspoon Salt and Paprika 1 cup Shredded Raw Cabbage 's cup Chopped Celery Mayonnaise Lettuce Mix all ingredients together carefully. Season to taste with salt and paprika and moisten with mayonnaise. Arrange on lettuce or watercress and garnish with ring cut from green pepper and small slices of pickled beets. Maple Syrup Sauce 1 cup Maple Syrup 1 teaspoon Flour 1 teaspoon Butter Melt the butter, add the flour and cook until frothy. Slowly add syrup and boil one min#.ite. Serve hot or cold. May be used on puddings as well as ice cream. C1fsW Chambers Wt•i('.Otntes Personal letters from interested readers. She #s pilen.eti to rereilo yuggestioa, 4)n toPirs Cos her column, and is ra ready to listen to your ::Pet 1)14'1 VS," itlitnlsts for rectpe4 or spectra ru<•„us etre in order. Address yo'nw letters to '•3a#ss sa4T#1 n. 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