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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1942-07-09, Page 38' !) SERIAL STORY CA FROM CAS EI. BY NORMAN KAHL LAST WEEK; Angus wakes up ;in a jail cell and is taken before New York Police Inspector Calla- IMan, where he tells his story to fiaewspaper reporters. Next morn- ing, he is called back to the in- spector's office, Adoreen is there, fuming because of publicity in - waving her. Downcast, he re- turns to his cell until the follow- ing day, when his jailer tells him xx ]mysterious Miss Margate is vuaiting to see him in the inspec- tor's office. PAY DAY FOR ANGUS CHAPTER V The minute Angus steps into :inspector Callahap's office for the third time in three days to :meet the mysterious Miss Mar- gate, he knows there is something haywire. The girl he finds there with the Inspector is wearing' a green ' /dress, cut low in front and higher from the floor than Angus con- siders respectable. But she is smiling and looking as if she is glad to see him, which is very strange, because the girl's name is Adoreen Mickletwidge and not Miss Margate. Angus' mind is doing a tail•. 'pin. "Why, hello, Addie. Joe told me there was somebody here by the name of Miss Margate." Angus turns to Joe. "This is Ad- die Mickletwidge, Joe—you know, she was here yesterday." Inspector Callahan motions An- gus to sit down and Adoreen is ;till looking like she is Queen of the May. "Joe is right, Angus. My name is Adoreen Margate slow." Angus pulls at his ear -lobe and frowns. "What's the matter with Mickletwidge. It's a good name. You shouldn't oughta go around +*hanging your name, Addie. It ain't decent, exactly." Adoreen's eyes twinkle like neon lights. "I didn't change it, Angus. Mr. Fitzwater did. He said there wasn't any glamor in Miekletwidge." "Who's Mr. Fitzwater?" Angus sacks, belligerently. "Now Angus, don't be mad. I'm not mad at you anymore. Mr. Fitzwater read about me in the paper and he gave me a job sing- ing in his night club. He owns a big night club called the Purple Pelican where all sorts of actors and actresses go, and he has taken an interest in my career." Angus is doubtful, but he says, "That's nice, Addie. You gotta he careful though. You know how—" She laughs a little and the notes in her voice dance around the xoom and make even Sour -puss Joe the jailer beam a trifle. "Don't worry about Mr. Garvin Fitzwater. He is a gentleman as anybody who sees him knows. But 1I came here to help you." Inspector Callahan clears his throat and it sounds like the whistle on the Staten Island ferry. "This is against my better judg- ment, MaePhillips," he says, "but it's a toss-up whether you'll be more of a menace to society in or out of jail. Miss Mickle—er— Miss Margate has been in touch • with your former boss, a Mr. Wit- tenbauin, and that gentleman agrees to drop charges if you will pay him $650 cash for the butter you smeared over seven states, and if the truck is returned. "I do not vouch -for the per- sonaI feelings of the state trooper you attempted to fricassee on the highways of our dearly beloved neighboring state, but his super- iors are willing to forget the whole incident if you will pay a $50 fine and solemnly promise never to set foot within the sacred precincts of that commonwealth again." Angus' face is not exactly a pic- ture of sunny radiance. "My goodness, that's a lot of money." "Wait," says the Inspector. "I'm not finished. Now we come to the city of New York. No amount of money could settle for the Ioss of dignity suffered by this department on that black day when you arrived. However, for a $100 fine to cover just a small portion of the offenses, I think we can get the others dismissed by the court. For another $50, you can hire someone to take Mr. Wittenbaum's truck back to Caleb, since that intelligent gen- tleman specified you were not to set foot anywhere on his prop- erty again. That would come to $850. Can you swing it?" Angus is suffering acutely. "I've got $375 in. the bank at Caleb and $3.50 which they took away when I carne in here. But I was sorta saving that money for when— "Gosh, Addie, I didn't figure this was gonna happen. I guess we can't get married now. But we can go back to Caleb and. maybe I can get another job and pretty soon I'll have some more money saved up." Adoreen looks surprised. "Why, Angus, I can't go back to Caleb. I told you Mr. Fitzwater was go- ing to make a big star of me. I've got to stay in New York." Angus is in a gloomy mood for a man who is about to get out of jail. "If I stay in New York, will you let hie see you, Addie?" Inspector Callahan shoots out _of his chair. "Stay here. You can't stay here. We haven't enough money to enlarge the force just now." It is three days later before everybody in three states is sat- isfied. Angus has $28.50 to his name when he steps out on New York's sidewalks. He calls Ado - NEW RIBBON HATS New, glamorous, ribbon hats with crocheted flowers are inexe pensive and pretty to create. Pattern No. 1112 contains list of alnaterials needed, illustration of the design and complete instructions ter malting both items. To order pattern: Write, or send above picture with your name /and address with 15 cents in coin or stamps to riarol 'Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. KING'S RING Broad smile and engagement ring worn by Princess Alexan- dra of Greece, visiting in Lon- don, signalizes engagement to young King Peter of Yugoslavia, now in U. S. reen from a drug store and she tells him she is sorry, but Mr. Fitzwater is going to take her to lunch on a matter of business and. that he will do the same every day for a week or so. When Angus gets back on the street, he has a strange and un- comfortable feeling. For the first time in his life, he has a thirst for something stronger than pure grapejuice. He turns into a doer - way and enters a smoke-filled. room with a bar stretched from the curtained window about half- way along one wall. The bartender slaps a rag on the mahogany surface of the bar and mops up. "What'll it be?" "Cider," says Angus. A scraggly looking guy near the end of the bar gets a coughing fit and blows beer all over his vest. The bartender is thinking how he could have learned the plumb- ing trade thirty years ago if he'd used his head. "Look," says he, "are you tryin' to be funny? We don't sell no cider here." "All right," says Angus. "Gin - genie." The bartender squints at Ang- us another full minute before he pours something out of a tall bottle under the bar and slides the glass to Angus. It is some time before Angus notices the rat -faced little man who had left the table in the dark corner and is standing next to him. Three big fellows are stand- ing behind the little guy. "Have one on me," says the little guy, whose grey hat is pul- led down halfway over his eyes. Angus is glad to be neighborly. He drinks up his gingerale and pushes the glass toward the bar- tender. "Spike Mudge is the name," says the stranger. "You look like somebody's been kicking you in the teeth." "I don't feel so good," says Angus. "I ain't got a job, and I'm broke and I guess I lost my girl and I just got outa jail." "Whew!" says Spike, respect- fully. "Maybe you wanta talk it over with. us. Maybe we kin help you. These is my buddies. I didn't get the name." "Angus MacPhiliips." "Glad to know ya, Angus. This is Butch McGillicuddy and Hoi- mon the Hoist and Trigger Tint— friends of mine." Angus shakes hands all around. Butch looks like a Texas steer. He is the kind wo doesn't talk. He just snakes rumbling noises through his nose. Hoimon the Hoist is not so big up and down, but he has plenty of padding to the east and west and the top of his head looks like the end of a soup bone. Trigger Tim is tall and slim and businesslike. * * * Spike says, "A husky guy like you don't needa wurry about a job. Ilow'd'ja like to work for me?" Angus looks suspicious. "A job, you mean?" "Sure. Easy work, good pay. It isn't every day I can find a guy who's built like a battleship." Angus brightens up. "'What do I do, Spike?" Spike looks at the dead -pan faces of the other mugs who are examining their drinks. "I'll explain," says Spike. "This burg is filled with lots of people who ain't got no scruples. They ain't got no respect for the law. "Now there are a lot of com- mission merchants in the city who sell thousands of dollars worth of broccoli every day. Sometimes these broccoli dealers get slugged or their commission houses are wreeked, or someone pours kero- sene"bver their broccoli. So the 'Big Boss, Luigi Castaloni, forms an association and the dealers pay us to protect them. Get it?" Angus is looking thoughf£ul. 'Mott want me to protect those ISSUE 28—'42 Hsuse Flies And The Garbage Can Many Diseases are Carries] by this Prolific Pest Nair is the time to kill the house fly. One authority has es- timated that a pair of flies be- ginning operations in April may be the progenitors, if all were to live, of sufficient flies to cover the earth 47 feet sleep by Aug - list, says Stratford Beacon -Herald. One of the most prolific breed- ing places of the flies in cities is garbage. Fermenting and neg- lected garbage furnishes an ex- cellent medium for fly breeding. To prevent such breeding, every household should have a suffici- ent number of garbage cans to take care of the daily output. They should be tightly covered and at short intervals they should be thoroughly cleaned with hot water and lye, says G. Allan Mail, of the Dominion Entomological Laboratory, Kamloops, B.C. Instead of piling garbage in dumps where rats, flies and other insects multiply, municipalities should, of course, incinerate waste materials that have no sal- vage value. Heaps of decaying onions, ether vegetables, grass clippings and fruits as well as decaying straw and weeds will also breed flies. Such breeding places should be sprayed with oil or burned. The chief importance of the house fly is as a carrier of dis- ease. Not only do its hairy legs pick up disease germs, but its filthy feeding habits result in contamination of everything it touches. Typhoid fever, eye dis- eases, parasitic worms, Summer complaint and tuberculosis are some of the diseases carried by house flies. The proper protection and dis- posal of garbage is a primary con- troI measure. All windows and doors should be screened. Fly traps, sticky papers and fly poi- sons all have their place. A very satisfactory poisoned bait is made of two or three teaspoonsful of formaldehyde to a pint of milk and water nixed half-and-half. A small piece of bread or a small sponge is placed on a saucer and saturated with a mixture, leaving a little liquid in the saucer. Ex- posed out of reach of children or pets, this bait will kill many flies. Present Was Put To Very Good Use Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley picked the following' letter from Gordon Hammond, Kessler, Alta., out of his voluminous mail bag, as the one he would remember when the task of financing Can- ada's war effort appeared temp. orarily as too much of a burden: "The wife and I were so pleased to get your letter of appreciation for the money sent. Being a vet- tran of the last war and too old, and I lost my right eye twelve years ago, I yet felt I wanted to do something to help. Ie was so sorry I could not buy a $50 bond sometime back but I did not thresh one bushel of grain last year on account of being dried out—so you understand what a kick we got towards the end of March when we were given a sur- prise silver wedding anniversary party and a 30 silver collection was handed to us. So we cane to the conclusion this was much the best way to make use of this nice present." Hammond bought War Savings Certificates with his wedding an- niversary gift. broccoli dealers—like a police. moan?" . Spike drums on the table, "Something like a cop, eh. Only you won't have to do any of the rough work that is, the protect- ing. All you'll have to do is to collect the money. See, sometimes these broccoli merchants forget how much we protect them and they wanta welch about paying up. Well, I figger, if they get one look at you—" Angus' spirits have soared. "It will feel kinda good doing 'some honest work again. What are you paying??" "One hundred smackers." Angus frowns. "Gosh, Sp:ke, I was getting a hundred and a quarter back in Caleb." "Okay. No arguments. One and a quarter it is. Find a place to stay and meet me back here tante time tomorrow. 1'll give you a weeks pay in advance so you can find a bunk somewhere." Spike passes over five bills— two fifties, two tens and a five. Angus counts them three times before he says, "What did you say you was payin' me?" "One hundred and twenty-five berries a week, Don't tell the you're still not satisfied.' Angus is too weak to speak. What he got hi Caleb for driving Mr. Wittenbaum's truck was $125 a month. (Continued Next Week) "Rice Krispies" is a registered trademarkof KelloggCompany of Canada Limited, for its brand of oven -popped. rice. Got some today. TA LEla?' iAL By SADIE B. CHAMBERS Just a Sprig of Mint This is the season when mint is plentiful and the wise cook puts it to all the uses possible. Now, that fresh peas are on the market did you ever try this, — place a shall sprig of mint (crush the leaves) to cook with them? If you are making sandwiches particularly lamb ones do you know the trick of adding very finely minced mint leaves to the spread? Here are a few other ideas for your mint hoarding,— Mint Jelly 1 cup vinegar 11/4 cups water Green coloring 61/4 cups sugar 1 bottle pectin 1 to 3 teaspoons spearmint extract or 1 cup minced firmly packed mint leaves Measure vinegar and water into large preserving pan; mix; add enough coloring to give the de- sired shade and stir until dis- solved. Add sugar and bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add pectin, stirring con- stantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard for 11/4 minutes. Remove from fire and add one to three teaspoons spear- mint extract or 1 cup mint. Let stand 1 minute; skim and pour quickly. Seal hot jelly at once with paraffin. If the fresh mint leaves are used add 1 cup chop- ped leaves to the vinegar before boiling. Remove the leaves when skimming the jelly. Mint Crush To one small bunch of fresh mint add ?z cup sugar and 1/6 cup cold water. Crush leaves and al- low to stand for about one hour. Strain and add to 1 pint ginger ale, one cup grape juice and juice of three lemons. Pour over crush- ed ice and garnish with fresh mint leaves. Mint Sauce 1„4 cup mint leaves lir cup water 14 cup vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar Mix water, vinegar and sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Pour over mint and let stand at back of range for about 30 min- utes. • Mint Chutney Mint Seeded raisins Salt Red Pepper Vinegar Wash some mint thoroughly and shake well to get rid of the water. Strip off the leaves and put 11/4 cups through the chop- ping machine and an equal quan- tity of raisins. Add lei teaspoon salt, pinch red pepper and 3 table- spoons vinegar and pound until smooth. Place in small jars and seal. Mint and Rhubarb Conserve 1 quart chopped mint 13quarts rhubarb 1 quart sugar Wash and dry the rhubarb and cut into small pieces, then put into a preserving pan with sugar and mint. Cook until thick and place in small jars. Cover with paraffin, Kiss Chambers welcomes personas fetters from Interested renders. She is pleased to receive suggestions on topics for her column, and is vn ready to listen to your ::pet peeves." Requests for recipes or special menus are in order. Address your letters to "Kiss Sadie !t. Cham- bers, 43 West Adelaide Street, To- ronto., Send stamped self -:addressed envelope if you wish a reply. Firefighters Go To Help Britain First group of Canadian fire- fighters to volunteer for work in Britain sailed from an East Can- adian port on a rain -choked, blustery morning in June. Their safe arrival in Britain was an- nounced last week. Unlike the proverbial firemen on a trip, these "knights of the hook and ladder" were surprising- ly quiet and reticent. They re- fused to divulge their names or any other information, saying it would have to come from Ottawa. About one hundred strong, they wore the blue dress uniform com- mon to firemen everywhere and on their shoulders red tabs that read "Firefighters for Britain". Officers were differentiated by silver braid on their peaked caps. They looked very business -like as they filed aboard the trans- port, carrying their gear. One did go so far as to say he was "glad" to be going overseas, while another volnteerec; the infornia. tion that all were "pleased we are being allowed to do what we are trained to do". Varnish Screens • You can't get copper windoee screens? Try varnishing your old ones to make them do one more year. By that time we'll probe ably have plastic screens. A chem• ical product called "saran" is en. tering the field. United Nations Prayer God of the free, we pledge our heaets and lines today to tale cause of all free mankind. Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all Pee men and nations. t.irant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who light for freetl'oln as if they were our brothers. Grant us brotherhood in hope and anion, not only for the :pace of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of earth. Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can matte, if we choose, a planet unvcxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory. Grant us that courage and foreseeing, to begin this tam;]: to- day that our children and our children's children may be proud of tete name of man. The spirit ox man has awakened and the soul of man has gone forth. Grant us the uisciom and the vision to comprehend the great- ness of man's spirit,. that suffers and ensures so hugely for a goal beyond his own brief span. Urant us honor tor our dead- who med. in the faith, redemption and security for ail captive ianus and peo- ples. Grant us patience with the deluded and slaty tor tate betaayes . And grant tie' the skill and the valor that snail cleanse the world of oppression and the old base doctrine that the strong must eat tau weak because they are strong. 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