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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-04-30, Page 2Sup4eme 2. • SERIAL STORY SECRET VOYAGE BY JOSEPH L, CHADWICk LAST WEEK: Jim Mallory col - vides with Mary Larsen after Ba- ttening to Eric Forbes and a stranger plotting to send Mary to New York. Mary has a silver cigaret case in her hand but re- fuses to show it to Jim. As Jim reaches for the case and Mary struggles to keep it, Eric Forbes enters and tells Jim to apologize. The next day in the pool, Mary tells Jim the cigaret case belongs to Bert Halloran, first mate of the Sonora, and Forbes told her Mallory got it when he went below to look the ship over. Jim seem that Mary was in love with Halloran and is about to answer when Jeffrey Hammond comes along and suggests they talk over the deal. After Jim leaves, Lois Hammond warns Mary to remem- her she is only an employe and to keep away from Jim. WILLING TO PAY CHAPTER VII Monday morning Jim Mallory returned to the company's base and got things moving. He want- ed to sail Wednesday. He was in a hurry, his haste due to the knowledge that others besides himself were interested in the Sonora. He had the diving equipment moved aboard the Aurora, his chief boat, and put Curly Baths below to check ober the Diesels. Blacksheep, the big Cayman, was to provision the ship. The .Aurora was 110 feet of boat; twenty years ago she had been a pleasure yacht then had fallen into a period of disrepute. During the late twenties she had been a runs -runner, and during the depression a fishing craft. Jim Mallory had bought her for a song four years ago, after she had run hard aground near Key West. There would have to be hands hired to augment the crew, and Jim was being careful about that. He sought men he knew and could trust. Jeffrey Hammond carie to the landing 'Tuesday afternoon, board- ed the Aurora, looked about in his worried way and asked a lot Of questions about the diving gear. Explaining, Jim saw that Hammond listened with scant at- tention. The pian seemed burd- ened with trouble. He said, just before going ashore to his car, "Radio me when you've completed the preliminary work, Mallory, and I'll send the carrier to take the ore aboard." "I'll keep in touch with you, of course." "I may take a cruise on my yacht later on, and see how the job is progressing. Lois wants to come out and see how the divers work." "I'll be glad to see you both, sir." Hammond stood frowning for a moment, and Jim had the im- pression that there was some- thing on his mind which he wanted to say. But he merely nodded then, and went ashore. Later that afternoon Mary Lar- sen came aboard, Jim was up in the chartroom, idly laying out a course, when she appeared in the doorway. 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Or am I?" "It all depends on your pur- pose in coming." "I have several. One is I want- ed to tell you how right you were about Eric Forbes. He is trying to get me back to the New York office. He's going back to- morrow, by plane, and he ex- pects me to accompany him." "And are you going?" "I don't know yet." She gave him an oblique glance, then looked away. "His offer is rather at- tractive. He wants me to be his private secretary. It's a good job, more mousy, and Mr. Forbes is rather attractive—don't you think?" Jim said, "Does it matter what I think?" He was surprised by his gruffness. This made him sore. Forbes was putting one over on her, and she was falling for him. "What was another of your reasons for coming here?" "Sunday you promised to tell me if you had Sound Bert Hal - loran's cigaret case when you went down to the Sonora. You didn't get around to it. Will you tell ine now?" "Why should I bother? You. wouldn't believe inc." "Maybe I wouldn't at that." She walked about the room, stopped and looked at the charts. . Jim watched her. Ile saw the smile on her lips and, paradoxi- cally, uneasiness in her eyes. He said, "Listen, is it in your mind that if I didn't drop that cigaret case the nian who did was Bert Halloran?" She didn't answer, but she turned her face fully from him." "You told me he was the Son- ora's first mate, and the mate along with the captain was lost when the Sonora went down." "Then someone else got the case off the ship—if you're tel- ling the truth." "Not necessarily. The thing could have conic into another man's hands in a number of ways. One of the crew night have stol- en it. Halloran inay have lost it to someone in a poker game." "You may he right," Mary said, turning to him, "Bert did like to play poker." She walked past him toward the door, halted there and faced hint again. "Well, goodbye, Spike. Knowing you was pleasant, if not much fun." He dropped his cigaret, step- ped it out, stepped to her. He stood close but did not touch her, "I haven't much money now," he said, "but I will have some day. I'in not as tough as I seen, but I ani steadfast, sloes that interest you?" Her eyes inet his; they were amused. "Wh.y should it"interest me?" "It will give you a reason for walking out on Eric Forbes." "Did I say I was hunting a reason for walking out on him?" His face turned darkly intent. "So you have fallen for him," he said, "You won't believe he merely wants yon lt'lrere he can watch you, so yon won't spill what you know about this mys- terious Sonora business." "And did I say I have fallen for him," she asked, * m He touched her then. He took her in his arms and bent and kissed her mouth, He had won- dered, days ago, what she would be like to kiss, and it was every- thing he had expected and a lot more. The moment it took was unfamiliar ecstasy. It had a stunning impact. He said then, still holding' her, "You'll not go with Forbes?" "Not if you don't want me to, <Jiin." "Yol1. know I don't want you to. You know this is on the level, don't you? You know that I'm in love with you?" "How much in love with nio?te she asked, her eyeii searching his face. "Enough to tell ine about GRANDMOTHER'S FAN QUILT y e.• 1•:x.1 GyL . ..R.! Grandmother's fan quilt may be made with all the odd pieces of materials you have in your scrap basket. Pattern No, 10.63 con- tai._s list of materials needed.,~ illustration of design and complete instructions. To order pattern: Write or send above picture with your name and address with 15, cents in coin or stamps to Carol Aimes, F'tom 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. the Sonora? All about ` the Sonora?" It was like a blow, a hard blow to the face. Jim reeled a little, releasing her, and stepping back. He stared, seeing how luminously bright her eyes were and the way her lips curled in a smile. "Well, I'm a sucker," he said; he almost yelled it. "You• baited a trap with your lips, and I stepped right into it. Sure, sure! But Pm mapping right back out of it!" "But, Jim darling—!" He turned his back. "Get out bei'ore I lose my temper. I might call you cheap, but I'm begin- ning to think the stakes in this are pzctty strep. Get out, Get off this slip." "Very well, Jim," she said, her voice dry and cold. He didn't move until he was sure she was gone from the boat. lI t t:'i ill. i!:1.11 to deck then, rage still 'burning in him. He felt like kitting something, • or someone, and hitting hard. .Then he saw a man coaling up fie gangplank from the pier. It was the tall, Iean man of the careful voice; the Dien who had offered the bribes. Jim went up to him. 'What do you want, mister?" "Nothing much, Mallory baby. Just a few words I'rn willing to pay for." (Continued Next Week) Aluminum It has been estimated that war- planes on the average need about seven and one-half tons of alum- inum, A big four-moter bomber may take over fifteen tons. In other words, 60,000 planes a year will require over 900,000,000 pounds of aluminum. Next year's announced objective is 125,000 planes. Some Nylon Money Is In Circulation United States treasury officials disclosed that currency printed on paper containing nylon instead of silk was put into test circulation a few days ago but no one seems to have spotted it. The first batch of the 100 per cent homemade brand of Ameri- can money was distributed by the Philadelphia Reserve Bank as a test to determine whether it wore as well as the old kind. General circulation of the new brand, however, must wait until the stock of silk -threaded paper is used up. Secret Service agents doubt whether anything but a chemical analysis would show the differ- ence between the new and the old. Women ritain Give Up Hairpins Women in Britain are going without hairpins and hairgrips so that the mild steel from which they are made can be turned into barbed wire as a defence against the •invader. At present their ration is one fifth of the peace -time hairpin allowance of ninny millions a month, But hairgrips are in even shorter supply; the number now being produced each month is only one twentieth of the quantity used before the war. The reason is that supplies of the mild steel for hairpins, commonly known as "iron wire," are rather more plentiful than the hardened, tem- pered steel wire for grips. Apart from material, labor supply limits the output severely.• To avoid auto -infection: "Put slip covers on the seats and change them frequently and always drive with the windows open." GENERAL MACARTHUR AND HIS AIDE This is the first original photograph of Douglas MacArthur to come to U.S, from Australia, shows Gena 11 MacArthur (left) and Lieut. (len. George Brett (right) Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, on arriva) in Melbourne, Australia. TABLE TALKS By SADIE B, CHAMBERS Spring Vegetables ONIONS AS A SAVOURY DISH Fresh or cooked, mild or strong, onions all have a place. They can be prepared without creating te4rs or leaving an odor on the hands. - Do you know your onions? Slang expression as that may seem to be, it is one all homemakers would do well to think over for the onion family is a large and varied one. There are those that are so mild that they scarceiy rise above a whisper, and some so strong that they seem to take the top right off one's head. Whenever onions are mentioned immediately the recipes do not meet the approval of all. I just had a letter enquiring if this reader of our column could use "garlic" as a substitute. To this we would make the reply: garlic, chives and leeks all are members of the same general seasoning fcuui.ly, but they should not be used interchangeably, It is well to know what purpose you wish to satisfy when you make your selection. F or eating raw, we generally use the early spring onions or the Mild sweet Bermuda onion. The yellow skinned onion or the red skinned are usually quite strong. When boiling if you do not wish the strong choose the milder; it is better than boiling in two or three waters, where you may be losing some of the vitamins ill, the pouring. , Cream of Onion Soup 4 medium onions 1%z cups water 2 cups medium white sauce • Cheese Cook onions, sliced, in the water until tender. Rub through a sieve and add to white sauce. Pour into soup dishes and sprinkle with cheese (grated). Devilled Onions 6 large onions 3 hard cooked eggs ',a teaspoon salt teaspoon mustard 1% tablespoons chopped parsley 1 cup medium thick white sauce Buttered crumbs Boil . the onions until tender and chop fine. Adel th.e plashed egp; yolks, finely chopped whites, salt, mustard, parsley and white settee. Turn into greased ramekins and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Brown under medium broiler or bake a few minutes until brown in medium oven. Peanut Futter and Onion Sandwiches 1, cup peanut butter 'fie cup mayonnaise Bermuda onion Beat peanut butter and mayon- naise together and spread on lightly buttered whole wheat bread. Slice onion very thin•and put a layer over peanut butter before adding second slice of bread. Miss Ulla milers tveieoutes personal letters from interested rettrnrs. Site is pleased to receive suggestions on topics for her column, and is vn ready to listen to your ::net peeves." Requests for recipes or special menus are in order. Address your letters to ,+Miss Sadie 11. Cheek.. hers, 73 West Adelaide Street, To- ronto." Send stamped self-addressed envelope if you wish to reply. Ban On Travel Is Given Denial Thomas C. Lockwood, Dominion transport controller, in an inter- view recently* said reports that restrictions on railway passenger taaf£ic were imminent were "abso- lutely without confirmation." The controller said railways had made no request to' him that passenger travel be reduced and said he had no intimation that such a request was likely in the immediate fut- ure. He said that reports about travel restrictions had been cir- culating in reeent•weeks. Mr. Lockwood said that Cana- dian railways Were in "an excep- tionally good position to Bindle heavy war traffic." But he added that present conditions were Con- tingent upon war developments, He said that passenger travel need not be restricted until such time as freight atonements were delayed because of shortage of equipment or lack of aecolmnoda- tion on rail lines_. Maly Old Nodosa Shattered: y War Government' Not Confined to the Educated or the Great Out in India an English 'Socialist lawyer and a little bow-legged In - Man dressed in a loincloth sit down to make decisietis that may alter the destiny of an empire, perhaps or the world, says The Ottawa ,Journal, What a leveller or old notions .,s lvarl ek Most of us used to imagine that government belonged to rale few, to the oducnted and great, to men who had been schooled in tradi• SNARES SELF Caught by a string she was carrying to build nest, this robin finally was rescued' by Chicago Humane Society members. tion. Today we see it in the hands of people who have been thrown_ up from nowhere. An Austrian paperhanger rules the continent of Europe, threatens the whole world. A fourth -rate underworld journal- ist holds • sway over 70,000,000 Italians. A Russian who was a fugitive in the days of the Czars is one of the mightiest figures in a struggle for world freedom. A. man who, five years ago, got out a catalogue for a Chicago mail- order house, is the supreme dictat- or of United States war produc- tion. * And so all down the line. Every- where proof that human brains, human greatness, or even capacity for great human evil, have little to do with any class o,• race or partic- ular tradition.. Everywhere proof, too, that the assumption or racial superiority is as foulish as it is dangerous. If that proof is not enough for us; it we cannot learn from a Stalin aur the demonstrat- ed greatness or Russia, or from the greatness of a Chiang Kai-sheh and the patient. glory of China;. then we are incapable or learning. Defeat For every apathetic American, Hans Habe writes in The Ameri- can Mercury, there -is an Euro- pean or Asiatic in the hell of de- feat as a warning. For every American woman who believes that "life goes on as usual", there is an European mother, sister or lover who has no more tears to weep. Americans have no excuse for not knowing. The plague of de- feat is spread under their eyes. They have no excuse for the de- lusion that defeat is a national catastrophe, It is a personal catastrophe. When it strikes, you cannot speak as before, nor listen to what you would like to hear. You can neither write nor read except what the slaveholder com- mands. You cannot manufacture or trade as was your lifelong wont: You dare not choose the profession or the place of resi- dence or ideas which suit you best. You must educate your children according to alien pre- cepts. Your most cherished tra- ditions, your heroes and stirring childhood songs are revised and humiliated. You may no longer eat, drink or breathe like a free human being. And this is defeat! HOTELS Modern, Fireproof, Conveniently Located, Easy Parking I$ BOW l£5 $150 no higher fhaai ,so per person FON MAP sr 101bIt write too HOTELS CO. Montreal