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Zurich Herald, 1943-02-25, Page 2Te6rw8«ySpec/a/WAR STAMPS ..25 dr of year GROCER' XII o SERIAL STORY SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR BY BLANCHE ROBERTS CAPTIVE LOVERS CBAPT1 R.VIII Judith, happy and relaxed, was enjoying the ocean view when her cab stopped abruptly, almost throwing her off the seat, Two men got in, one in the front and the other in the back with her. She had never seen either of them before: The man beside her pressed a gun against her ribs. For an instant her hoart jumped, then settled back to normal beat- ing. "Don't make a sound," he or- dered curtly. The eyes back of the gun confirmed the glint warn- ing. Judith raised her brows inquir- ingly and eyed him frankly. Dis- regarding his order, she asked, "Where are you taking me—and why?" His voice was soft and there was amusement in its tone. She was almost enjoying herself. Why be afraid a -hen she had a body- guard nearby? The man showed surprise at her Coolness. "You're wanted by the boss," he told her roughly. "Now keep your trap shut." "Didn't they teach you in school to say mouth?" she asked. "Why you—!" he growled, without finishing the sentence. She chuckled softly as she real- ized she had the fellow's goat, and he heard her. "You're a cool one," he said. "Why should I get excited?" size demanded, eyeing him intent- , fy. "Just. why now?" "I give up," he stuttered. 'in your place, i weeld too'' i ltan!a areatl,'f'ii11;y „ ''"A larg;;. ee.d:d t ieie ; i algin-' t Half your: •size. You should be ashamed." "Shut up !" he hissed, and this time she did. His face grew black with rage and she realized she might carry the goading too far. In a deserted part of the city they switched from the cab to a closed car, its back shades down. It was then Judith felt a wave •ef real fear. The foreigner was sit- ting in the back seat. She eyed him silently as she was pushed in beside him, The door slammed and the car slipped down the street. "Clever young lady," smiled the man called Karl, and the smile showed the cruel twist of his mouth. "Yes," agreed 'Judith, "The plans are safe now. So why do you want me? What can you gain?" "I am not in the habit of letting people upset my plans and get away with it," he said. His accent was more pronounced now than before; she had no difficulty in deciding his homeland. "I do not tolerate interference." fr p F fr i' Sl -ET H W1U 8(fO: He TO "TAKE" IT A side -light on British worsen comes from a survey recently made by the British government. Women throughout war-torn Britain especially the hundreds of thou- sands of women working in war plants ... count on Aspirin as one of the three leading aids to main- taining good health and morale. As soars as colds, muscular trains or aches threaten, as soon as heads begin to feel stuffy,: thousands take Aspirin out of their pocketbooks. For they know it is effective dependable .. fast. Generations of satisfied users have proved it. An Aspirin gargle eases pain of sore throats almost at once. Aspirin taken with water eases headache, and muscular distress. Next time you feel a cold threatening, be glad you have Aspirin. It costs less than l¢ a tablet in the economy bottle. Aspirin is made in Canada and "Aspirin" is the trademark of r The • Bayer Company, Limited. Look for the Bayer cross on every tablet. If you don't see the cross, it isn't Aspirin. ISSUE No, 9-43 U "I suppose you have already Bono away with Mr. Burke?" There was a tremor of -fear in her casual tone. • "0h, no," he answered. Judith felt dizzy with happiness at his words. "The two of you are to die .. together when the time comes." "I see." Just to know that Tom was still - alive gave her new spirit to face the future dangers. It'might not be so hard to die with the man . she loved. Then she remembered again that she was being sha- dowed by a government •man and she would not die at the hands of these ruthless captors, She smiled from the secret knowledge. "You are happy?" She shrugged her shoulders. "It is better to laugh than cry," she replied. "I -was wondering what good it would do you to kill us? You'd be taking an awful chance. Crime doesn't pay, you know—not over here." * * "Maybe you won't die," and he did the shrugging this time. "You might be more valuable alive, the both of you. Who knows?" His evil laugh chilled her to the bone. "Mr. Burke knows some things about the plans that are very valuable to us. We want that knowledge. I, think he will. tack now that we have you." He paused for a moment. "You are a very beautiful girl, Miss Kingsly:" Judith kept reminding herself after that: "Don't show fear. Don't ;ever let him know you are afraid." But she was horribly fid,;. ; lice knew _without faa.. i 1reate n her life -torture her, perhaps, to make Burke talk: To save her life, Tom would have to betray the secrets of the new bomber. The longer she thought about it, the more her fear gave way to deep anger. Her blue eyes smol- dered. Abruptly, she turned to the man and smiled slowly in the semi -darkness of the sedan, "1 hope you have good food where you are taking me." She made her voice sound friendly. "You haven't given me much time to eat, and I'm pretty hungry." Instead of the pleasant reply she expected, his tone was gruff. "You'll be fed." After that, she huddled deeper in her corner of the car. She wanted a cigarette badly; but de- cided against. opening her purse; it still held the little gun. "They will probably search my bag," she told herself, "and take the gun away before I get a chance to use it." Careful not to attract his atten- tion, she moved the purse to. rest on top of her left hand and with the aid of her right fingers, she opened the fastener. Moving very slowly, her left hand found its way inside the purse and gripped the automatic. She eased it out into her lap under the big patent leather bag. From there, she worked her hand to her coat pocket and dropped the weapon inside with a sigh of relief, "Do you mind if I smoke?" she asked Karl and pretended to open her purse. • He shook his head but reached for her purse. He made sure there was no gun in it and handed it back to her. It was now neves-• sary to get her gun back inside without discovery while she smoked her cigarette. She suc- ceeded just as the car stopped. Before she could see where they were a blindfold was tied over her eyes. She was led up some steps and inside a building. She heard doors open and close as they passed deeper into the place and their steps were deadened by thick carpets on the floor. * * Finally, she was pushed into chair • and the cloth removed from her eyes.. The bright glare of the electric lights blinded her for a moment. "Don't make the mistake of thinking you can .escape," she was told, and the ratan went out. "Judith!" said a voice that whirled her around instantly to face Tom Burke on the other side of the large room. He. had been hying on a cottch, and now strug- glnd to a sitting position. He Aare( at her with a look that sent blood rushing through her .veins, "Tom," she gasped and ran fore • NOT EVEN ENQUGH FOR HALF SOLES Consider work of English girt repairing shoes. She has only leather enough for patches. ward but within a foot of hint she checked herself. "They haven't harmed you." It was a statement and not a question. She had been on the verge of giving her feelings away, and that was the one thing she did not want to do before Tom. He must not know how she felt, not until he made, the first move. And it did not appear he was going to make that dove now. He shook his head and bated his finger to his lips, There mast be a dictaphone in the roots some- where to catch their conversation. A smile• crossed her face as she sat down by him. Bending Forward, she put her mouth to his ear and ide e e „`" 1ae pians are ee P ,"'+ p q 11YJ:�atliciiT"5. �' kI '� ' C1Y• -, e is ha r.�� lowed." He nodded and Iooked as if he wanted to kiss her but she leaned back. Aloud for the benefit of their listeners, he asked: "What are you doing here?" "I don't know." Again, she spoke softly into his ear. "I know they will threaten me with death to make you reveal the secrets of that bomber. Don't give in." (Continued Next Week) Duke of Windsor Knows His Stamps "The Duke of Windsor may not be numbered among the world's greatest philatelists, but he knows his stamps," points out The Phil- adelphia Record. With collapse of the tourist trade, the Bahamas were expect- ing a deficit for 1942. So the Duke ordered a Columbus anni- versary stamp, overprinting even $4 stamps. The collectors bought 'em. The stamps have yielded nearly $160,000; the Bahamas have a surplus of $72,000. A New Merchant Fleet for Canada A possibility that the Canadian Government after this world con- flict will operate its own mer- chant fleet as it did for some years after the Great War is seen by soine observers in Ottawa. The last such venture was not a success. By the end of 1936 the Canadian Government Merchant Marine had a total book deficit of $16,525,724 and, during the next year, the last 10 ships of what was once a 57 -ship fleet were sold. But since the outbreak of war in September, 1929, the mrchaut marine has been reconstituted and is opetating• a number of 1Tan15h,"':9rei1c'2r'; Gexnxnii'.irriiI Itai iaif''bessels for the Government. In addition, it is expected a large number of the 10,000 -ton ser - emit ships now being built in Ca- nadian shipyards will be in Cana- dian control after peace comes. Glycerine Substitute Made From Apples Scientists in the United States Department of Agriculture's re.• gionaI experiment station in Phila- delphia started out a year ago to develop a substitute for common table sugar. They failed—but instead they developed a solution which will free millions of pounds of glycer- ine annually- for use in the menu." facture of bombs and other war explosives. In effect, the solution is a plain syrup, made with apples. It will be used in tobacco pro- cessing—substituting for glycer- ine. The solution can be manufac- tured from frozen apples, which farmers formerly considered a loss. SLIPPERS MADE FROM OLD FELT HA -TS These cute little slippers are made from oldfelt stats (both ladies and men's), Easy to `hake, and lots of fue. Heads and tails are wool pont-porins. Pattern No. 1211 contains complete inane -tiers for making children's sizes 6, 8i 10 and IL To order pattern; Write, tit send above aiot c with your name and address with 15 Cents in Goin or stamps, to Cbu'el Antes, Room 421, 70 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. When Marmalade Was First Made ' Orange "Preserve" First Made in Scotland in Sigh- teenth Century Newly-wed Mrs, Keiller, of Dundee, Scotland, and her has - band (they' were married in 1700 ) lived in a modest house.' One - November mor'niag', a ship ,from Spain, long buffeted by westerly gales, reached Tayside, and half the male population of Dundee was soon at the ship's side for news and bargains. Cane sugar and bitter Seville oranges had tempted James Keiller above all else. But why so mach of both? had asked his wife, and he had explained that one could not buy goods,at the quayside in the same way as from a shop, adding, by way of excuse for his apparent lavishness, that both sugar and oranges Would keep. But would they? Mrs. Keiller was not so sure. The oranges were, many of them, bruised and certainly not likely to keep, Nor were they likely to be thrown away, tow that Mrs. Keiller had taken charge of them. Her mind was Soon made up. She would peel them and boil them in sugar to make a preserve just as her mother had shown her how to boil quince and sugar together, mak- ing a sweet jelly that she used to call marmelett. Young Mrs. Keiller was as good a cook as her mother had been before her, and when the orange pulp that she boiled with sugar had had time to cool and set, it was much to James Keiller's liking and they both decided to call it orange marmalade. The first Dundee orange mar- malade was good, but there was too much of it, for the young peole, so their neighbors were given some; they all loved it and they all begged Mrs. Keiller to make some more. And so it came do pass that Mrs. Keiller made more marma- lade every year 'and James gave up his job and was fully occupied selling his wife's marmalade far and wide for many leagues around Dundee. And when the children born to them grew up, some were trained to make more marmalade, whilst others began to sell it in England and overseas in. the little white pots which are still being sold, today in every part of the world. ,de w°eei e* For Africa Named General Eisenhower WilI Be Commander -in -Chief Prime minister Churchill told the House of Commons that as the British Eighth Army passes Into the American sphere in Tun- isia it would "come under the or- ders of General Eisenhower," the American commander, with Gen- eral Sir Harold Alexander as his deputy. Besides Alexander, hitherto Bri- tish Middle East commander, as deputy commander-in-chief, these officers also will be under Eisen- hower: Air Vice -Marshal Sir Arthur Ted- der, , air commander in chief for the Mediterranean area and re- sponsible to Eisenhower for air operations in this theatre. Admiral of the Fleet•Sir Audrew Browne Cunningham, commander of the U.S. and British fleets in. Eisenhower's theatre. it is assumed that Gen. Sir Bern- ard L. Montgomery, British Eighth Army commander under Alexand- er, will remain in charge of that army. British reaction to the appoint- ments was favorable iterbedfately, Keep Those Stamps Working Overtime Canadians are holding about 5,000,000 partly filled War Savings Stamps folders, cor_taining about 18,000,000 stamps and worth about $4,500,000, says Maclean's Maga- zine. Tile sooner these folders are iilled and' converted into War Savings Certificates the better, both for those who hold them and for Canada, Stamps do not earn interest until they have become Certificates, and 5,000,000 converted folders mean $20,000,000 for Can- vela now and $25,000,000 for their ' holders in 77Ve, years, Dangers of Gas Attack on Cities Professor 3. 13. S. Haldane states in the scientific weekly Nature that the danger of a gas attack on some large British cities is great enough to warrant more urgent preparations than have yet been made. He admits that if gas bombs were dropped as widely and fitfully as were high -explosive bombs in the Autumn of 1010 the danger would not be great. • "But," ble warns, "if some hug- drools of tons were dropped within an hour in a restricted area they might generate a gas -cloud of a dangerous density:" WAR -TIME has depleted the fin supply --so glass replaces The delicious flavour and fine qualify remain the same as ever... always deserving your choice and preference. CROWN BRAND SYRUP One of tho famous produtls of The CANADA STARCH COMPANY 'limited NE). -2 TABLE TALKS SADIE B. CHAMBERS Cereal Recipes Indian Pudding. 1Is cup cornmeal 4 cups milk 1 teaspoon ginger lh teaspoon cinnamon ah teaspoon salt ?'x cup molasses Heat milk in double boiler. Whisk in cornmeal with a fork and cook for 20 minutes, stirring until mixture thickens. Add molasses and spices. Pour :into buttered baking dish. Place in pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven about 1 hour or until set. Easy Grahams Bread a fake ;yeast• .soaked .a ww ' eti!IL9e .. rax i o*Inix rare >Z egese 2 teaspoons salt 4 tbsp. sugar or molasses 2 teaspoons shortening 3 cups whole wheat or graham . flour 3 cups white flour .At night break and soak yeast in '/a cup lukewarm water. Mix the two flours well in bread bowl, keeping back a little in case dough should become too stiff. When yeast is soft add it to the remain, ing liquid in which has been dis, solved the salt and sugar (or molasses). Blend mixture with the flour and add melted shorten- ing. Knead into a smooth, some- what soft dough. Cover closely. Let rise over night. In the morn- ing when dough has doubled in bulk shape at once into two loaves. Let rise in greased tins until doubled. Bake in a medium oven about 1 hour. Hot Water Gingerbread 1 teaspoon baking soda 11/4 teaspoons ginger 1A teaspoon salt 2% cups flour Y cup boiling water 1 - cup molasses 3 tablespoons fa:' Sift together baking soda, gin- ger, salt and flour. 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