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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-06-07, Page 2YU'AN MEl SOE LAUCMS. SXNO ''SXB Hurried removal of lire crates of opium from the lines iVailaro° carrying 26UUU,000 pounds in gold to Australia -- discovery of a diary dropped by Zu'an Hee See„ head of a gang, in the Lime- house warehouse of Jo ;Lung, one of London's biggest "fences"—discovery that Yu'an's agents on the Wallaroo are shadowing Eileen Kearney with whom Detective Inspector Dawson Haig is in love—all this occurs before Eileen is kidnapped at Port Said. Haig, trailing Eileen, is plunged into the drugged Bath of Feathers by a trap- door, but escapes from .the deadly dun- geon and gets the drop on Joseph who topples into the Bath as he is shot, Haig takes all his papers, nails the body in- to the packing case intended as his, and posing as Joseph, makes his way into .Arabia. Escaping arrest, Oestler dis- appears from the Wallaroo and appears at Yu'an's headquarters in Arabia where Eileen is. Disguised as Joseph, Haig arrives and is assigned to outside guard duty at Tu'an's palace. Yu'an cnd A.swami Pasha abaord a submarine Lure the Wallaroo from her course with a wierless appeal for aid, destroy the liner's wireless, remote the gold then sink the liner with torpedoes. duty at Yu'an's palace. Yuan and As- wami Pasha aboard a submarine lure the Wallaroo from her course with a wirless appeal for aid, destroy the I1 t er's wireless and remove the gold. INSTALMENT 27 In the great hardens of the old palace, an unusual quiet reigned. The negroes seemed to haye disappeared, to a man, Even the big engine shed adjoining the garages, and its annex with the tall radio masts, were desert- ed. The big house was still. Haig strode along a path close un- der the wall which markers the south- ern boundary of his patrol. His brain eves racing again, and be knew that he must keep a grip on comttic5fi sense. Ike made a detour, so as to pass the window of the hut he shared with the Jackal, The drug -shattered creole sprawled across his bunk, breathing heavily. Haig realized that practivaily he had the run of the place; a guardian who was himself a prisoner. Foolhardily he had thrust himself into the place, and he knew that it was not the call', of duty, but a mad anxiety for Eileen 1 which had driven him. He had seen the room in which she was imprisoned apparently under the guardianship of a woman. He wond- ered if any of the eunuchs remained on duty inside the harem enclosure. He walked along the path below the wall. Very faintly at times he had. beard the murmuring of surf far be- low. - Cautiously be mounted the steps of In COLOR STAYS 114 FREE -_- San the front of 2 ar Packages Ho FREE copy et The A B C at Hama Rue h9aktee 'r to . ohn A. Huston Co. Ltd.. 4.0 Caledonia rid;- Toronto. 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TORONTO the first of the little watchtowers. There were several women in the gar- den, but Eileen was not among them, rhe balcony upon which he had seen Eileen was not visible from this paint. Pressing on, he cautiously mounted another flight of steps...,,...he saw something at which his heart seemed to miss a beat, One of the black eunuchs was coming down a side path, carrying a woman's body thrown sackwise over his right shoulder. One glance was sufficient. He was carrying Eileen Kearney—alive or dead, Haig could not tell! A tall and vicious -looking Arab, white -robed and turbaned, followed. Automatic in hand, Haig craned over the parapet as the gigantic ne- gro swung suddenly left, descended a flight of stone steps, and disappeared under an archway, followed by the Arab. Where did that tunnel lead to? Haig heard the bang of a heavy door in the sunken archway. As he stood plainly in view now to anyone in the garden, he heard a cry! It came from the balcony upon which he had seen Eileen! "Cherie! eheriel my baby! where are you?" This was the big woman he had seen On the previous day. She bad looked French. Haig sprang right up on the para- pet, waving his arms; Swiftly Celeste indicated that he should conceal him- self and wait. Haig drew back and stone steps and along the garden. presently she came running down the "You, up there! you can bear me?" she gasped, "Yes, yes, I ani, ....:' "I know who you are! She told me. Listen, only listen: This is the work of the Chinese hell -cat. It is Said from Keneh who has taken the little one. They have drugged me again, I think, the poor baby. They will take her to Koseir, and from there to the house of Hassan es-Suk at Keneb, This house......" "I know it, I know it!" Haig inter.. rupted impatiently. "Go on! Go on!" "There are two motorboats in the harbor. In one of them she will be taken. For God's sake, save her! Here it is bad enough—but there! Stop them—you must stop them!" "But tell me: where is my best chance--" "There is only one way," she said: "it is through the gate. Butit you could only reach it, the blacks would never question you. And alt those pigs are away " Haig raced down the stone steps. As it chance a collapsible ladder, used for pruning purposes, was lying on a path where one of the gardeners had left it! It was heavy, but long. A passionate rage gave Dawson Haig additional strength. Fully ex- tending the ladder, he leaned it up against the high wall, mounted, and stood on the top. The road far be- low was deserted from end to end. Poised perilously, he began to draw the ladder up, an operation calling or great muscular effort and a nice sense of equilibrium. A sort of savage exultation lent him the powers of an acrobat. He got the ladder poised like a see -saw on top of the wall. Then, realizing hat he could not turn it, he lowered he narrow end onto the hard -baked mud of the path below. Swiftly, he lid down, jerked the tall ladder from the wall, closed its three sections, nd dropped it amongst the rank undergrowth in a ditch. He reached the outskirts of the lit - Ie terraced town unchallenged—in- deed, without meeting a living creat - re. The ,palm -lined street on the ett, which contained what appeared o be the only cafe in the place, was eserted. None of the squat buildings f plastered mud—brick and wood- ork exhibited any sign of life. Tied p to the steps was a dingy -looking motor -boat --the same, or its twin, in which he had crossed from Koseir. Then a distant murmur checked him n his stride. Shading his eyes, be tared. Another motorboat—a mere ot in the blue—was rapidly disap. caring around the tail of the island. e set out running again, but had ot gone fifty yards when a second me he was pulled up sharp]y. From e north, far over the sea, beyond e rocky headland which embraced e port, beyond the island, came ehoing and re-echoing the sound of mighty explosion.,,,, , 1 t t s a 0 w 0 s d H n ti th th th e a Jack Rattray, chief officer ot the Wallaroo, was a powerful swiminer, When that rain of Yu'an's machine- gun bullets had swept the sea, be had ducked under the protection of the floating deck chair. He discovered that by resting his chin upon .4 cross - CAN'T SLIP OR SLIDE FALSE TEETH Don't use any old kind of remedy to retep flse gnized one whin ch dentists prescribe such as Dr, Wernet's Powder --the largest seller in the world—grips teeth so secure yet comfortable they feel nater rel. Positively no slipping or clicking -- blissful comfort assured all day long, k'orres a special comfort cushion to pro- tect and Booth gums. No colored, gum- my paste -keeps mouth sanitary -breath pleasant, Inexpensive -all druggists. SSLI!e No, 22---'34 piece and swimming steadily, he could propel it without any very groat ef- fort. He knew provided be could es- cape a bullet, that it would be pos.. sible to keep afloat for hours. But that ghastly streteb around the wreck was now bristling with sharks' fins! There were fewer sounds from the few poor survivors, But the protect- ing deck chair, soar, had escaped the attention both of the marksmen and of the sharks. Rattray summoned ail bis resourc- es. He meant to survive the tragedy. He must survive it. A floating deck chair and one man's undaunted spirit meant the difference between immun- ity for these ghastly murderers and that day of reckoning which he more, with clenched teeth, should come to them, A gentle, almost imperceptible cur- rent, was bearing him seawards. He tried to visualize a chart of the Red Sea and the approximate positions of steamers. He was many miles. off the track, and dusk was near. His proper course, then, was to steal southward on this gentle current, and then edge in towards the tail of the rocky isl- and, since rescue by a passing 'steam- er was almost out of the question. He was now more than a mile from the scene of the disaster, He swung around. The submarine and the dhow, the latter with two boats in tow, was making for the'head of the island, It was a screen from be- hind which; doubtless, they operated. And, so carefully does Fate weave those comedies in which 11111y-evilly we all play a part, that it was almost exactly at this moment that Dawson Haig walked down the little jetty to where the motor cruiser was encored. A pock -marked negro, whom he re- member, and an Arab boy were on board. They both stood up and stared at him suspiciously as he came hurrying along the stone pavement. Orders!" he said, sbirply, "Nose- irl" but -as he sprang on beard, the crew of two continued to regard him with doubt and hesitation, "Hurry!" he cried, and swung the formidable club he carried; The negro glanced helplessly at the boy—and the latter threw off the rope, At last the game was in his bands. By dawn he would be back in Kose- ir. There was a wireless station, and a small English colony. . He was no longer "Joseph" but bad, become again in spirit and in fact Detective Inspector Dawson Haig. He peered anxiously ahead. The leading motor cruiser was not in sight. Even if a car waited` t Koseir, which he suspected would be the case, he could have it intercepted. The game was in his hands! The course, as he remembered, lay due northwest from the bay for the first forty or fifty miles. There,'out of sight of the mainland, It skirted that long, low island. The t• bore north along a desolate coast1hree hours or more, then westerly again, sweeping out seaward to pass Jeddah, and nor'northwest• to the petro? sta- tion. He might find himseif in diffi- culty, there. Probably they had some means of communication. Exultation, doubt, fear, fought for supremacy in his mind, They were three hours out trona the base, and the long, low island was dropping astern, Four more hours before that swing around which would point their bows to the African coast= -which would seem to bring him nearer to Eileen! They were drawing in to the main coast again. Suddenly, Haig sprang to his feet, shouting excitedly; Al'- most under their starboard bow float- ed a piece of wreckage which look- ed like a deck chair. then, beside it, a head bobbed up...... (To be Continasd) Monkey Fur For Smart Accessories Tunics and trains are frequently trimmed with monkey fur, and it is used in various ways as hat trimming. One couturier makes an accessory grouping of monkey fur hat, purse and glove -cuffs. Several species of the animal are employed by fashion and their colors run from jet black through the greys, browns and on to the rarer pure white. The feet and ears are some- times used as trimming in the sante way that Dilkusha used tiger claws for fastenings. In both instances the feet grab little bone buttons. This is where variety enters and ingenuity is allowed to run rampant, Buttons fashioned like peanuts should be used With the ensemble trimmed with mon- key fur and feet, and the ears used. as perky trimming for a Iittle round red felt hat! Australia Adds 24 PIanes to Service MELBOURNE, Vic.—Purchase of 24 seagull amphibians is announced by the Minister er o f Defen ce shortly after announcement of const:vetion of a heavy cruiser in Australia's program of increasing its defenses in vier of the uncertain situation !n the Fa` East. Sir George Pearce, the minister, declared the Commonwealth was re• inforcing its defenses in the air as on the sea, and that a contract for the planes, totalling $1,725,000, was being placed with a Southampton, Linglantl, firm. Earlier he announced placing of a contract for a 7,500 -ton cruiser of the 13ritlell Leander type, armed with six- inch guns. Delightful Quality Are You Guilty ? Fresh from the Gardens The Chatham Daily News raises a nice question in regard to courtesy on the highways. In these days of automobile travel it is recognized that when passing other motorists at night a, driver should dim his lights mom- entarily so that the glare be remov- ed. The News relates the experience of a Chatham woman motorist while returning from Toronto, thus: As she was passing through the district between Toronto and London she found the traffic heavy, Being a careful driver, driver, she conscientiously dim- med her headlights when she ap- proached other vehicles; but to her surprise and annoyance there was practically no return of the courtesy. As soon as she neared the boundary line of Kent County she found a difference. Other motorists, out of deference to her own signals, dimmed their lights, and travelling was much more safe and pleasant. The Chatham paper asks: What is the explanation? It may be that many people who find themselves away from home surroundings forget their manners. It is' a weakness of human nature that permits indifference to- ward others when outside the steady- ing influence of friends and acquaint- ances. Strangers inconvenienced by this spirit may never be seen again; so why bother about courtesy? Night drivers cannot readily be identified, and this may induce carelessness about observing the amenities of the road. This is not a ..comporting thought, but it may account for the Chatham lady's experience. Surely such offenders would be in the min- ority, As the News puts it: "Most people have more pride ' than to flaunt discourtsey. Then why not be as courteous in the dark hs the light?" Courtesy is desirable everywhere and at all tinges; but especially on the highways under rresent eondifOcns of traffic. For years the Ontario Motor League and other -organizations pro- moting safety on the roads have been urging auto drivers to have consider- ation for "the other fellow." Happily, the majority of drivers are so dispos- ed ;but always there will be the sel- fish, careless inCividuals for whom tragic regulations are a nuisance; and evidently many of these were on the highway between Toronto and London when the Chatham lady was returning home. It is not news that in good old Kent County she found highway courtesy an established habit.—Toronto Globe. Electric Lights Used 50 Years in Chile Santiago, Chile. -- The Golden Jubilee of electric lighting in Chile passed almost without notice. Only the newspaper, El Mercurio re- called that fifty years ago in 1884, its Valparaiso • edition published a legal announcement of a petition by Senor Carlos Gracia to supply electric light to that port. Senor Garcia, as president of the ed a dynamo, storage batteries, and Power Company, said he had receiv- ed a dynamo, storgae batteries, and all the latest inventions." He put in a provisional plant of ight horse -po- wer to demonstrate illuminating Val- paraiso's city square from a distance of four miles. Lady Astor Wants • Great Britain and U.S. Police World London,—Still showing signs of a black eye inflicted by a child trying to purloin a golf ball, Lady Astor ad- vocates co-operation between the U- nited States and Great Britain to in- sure world peace. In an address to a disarmament Meeting organized by the National Council of Women, the American -born member of Parliament said: "Our • greatest chance of getting pis to get theBritish itishpeace.peace I p and the Uite dStates swo.king to-ge- ther—x,ot against others, but as a sort of policeman." "Is the next fifty ysata there will be an vnlazing liberation of the en- ergies of woman."—.Fannie Burst. IMPORTANT,: HRHighass talent ..aailafiie for GAnnlig IAAJITIE S Pit`T',bi D,11.'sts and dEnIIII/t asrxoSS Correspondence Tnvited Ax'xxn'A.OIID TxrEli'+`ixxCAlt, ortreES Cx AYGlEkeii A 34 Xing St. E« x'aronto, Ont. Tissue Grafted to Body Replaces Impaired Gland,' Baltimore—The successful grafting of living tissue into a human body to take up the functions of impaired glands was described today by three John Hopkins research workers in a copyrighted article published in the American Journal of Surgery. Two operations for the transplant- ation of healthy parathyroid tissue into ailing patients were cited. The success was noted in the rise of the amount of calcium in the blood to normal. The thyroids are two glands near the windpipe. The prathyroids close to the thyroids, control the ccl- cium supply, Faced with the almost uniform fail- ure of other experimenters, Dr. Har- vey 13. Stone, associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and his associate , Dr. James C. Owings and George 0. Gey, made their report after more than three years of research. The first opportunity to apply the method to a human being presented itself early last year. Two potients were brought into the clinic, one suf- fering from Paget's disease, a form of excessive bone growth, and the other from lack of sufficient lime in the body. The latter had a thyroid gland re- moved 16 months previously and showed the effects of this. One parathyroid gland was remov- ed from the patient who had Paget's disease. An examination showed that it was healthy. Six weeks were requi- red to prepare the tissue for trans, plantation. This tissue was first grown in a cut ture prepared with the serum of t patient from whom the gland ha been removed. A similar culture w developed from the propective reeip ient and at the end of two weeks tilt tissue was transferred to it. Fod four weeks it was grown there to be come acclimated to its new host. The parathyroid tissue was graft ed into the loose flesh of the arni. pit; The operation was performed on Feb.: may 17, 1933. Within sixty days the patient responded to tests, show ing an improvement, the experiment.' ers reported. The second case of the experiment ers was started more than seven.' months ago and has progressed to a' point where they described the oper:� ation as successful. Three operstione, for parathyroid transplantations ancI five for thyroid were undertaken ret Gently The three scientists declined, be --1, cause of "insufficient data," to gen; eralize on the possibilities of their di -J scovery in revolutionizing the pro- cedure of treating patients who- lack the proper amount of secretion- from internal glands. 'Speaking for the group, Dr. Stone said, however, they believed they were justified in saying their method "holds great promise for future pro- gress." The Knowing Pike A letter to Our Dumb Animals Some years ago when a resident of Worcester one of the pleasantest of that city's several parks had been -.in times past. a great private estate, with an interesting old mansion and hundreds of acres of hill, lake gar- dens, etc The lake was thickly popu- lated with enormous pike. It used to amuse me to toss into the water an entire loaf of bread and watch the greedy and fat fish pile up three deep about it, many of these throwing themselves clean out of the water. In a short time the bread would disappear to the last crumb; but at first, and before any pike had succeeded in nibbling the hard crust, the loaf of bread would be tossed about like a football. The city park commission saw that the pike were fed regularly, and the fish also fared well at the hands of picnickers, But the pike increased to such an extent that they had to be thinned out, Thereore the directors of Green Hill Park voted that on one day of the week, on Thursday, any- body was at liberty to fish or cast net from the shore line. The fish were not welcomed by the connoisseurs of good, food, but many of the foreign born in the colonies took advantaeg of the permission and went home with bur- lap bags full of fat pike. Presently a strange thing was no- ted, that belongs to that endless dis- pute. Do animals reason? For al- though on every other day the pike were present in great numbers and as voracious as ever,' on Thursday they retired one and all to the depths of the upper leek and refused all lures! Now it niay be argued that these canny fish noticed the poles and nets of the fisherman, and came to associate these implements with• dis- aster; but the fact remains that, as the caretakers assured me, the pike invariably retired on every Thur -i sday morning before the fishermen• arrived! They did not reappear until Friday morning. Nation's Soil Wealth To Be. Inventoried; New Brunswick, N.J.—A cation.' wide inventory of the soil fertility re-! sources of the TJnited States will be initiated this summer by Dr. J. G. Lipman, dean of the college of agri- culture of Rutgers University and) director of the New Jersey Arricul-' tural Experiment Station. The major objectives of the inven-, tory, it is learned, are' to provide a more accurate basis for national land - use policies ,and for conservation o1' the plant food resources of soils. The analysis will show not only, what the various soils contain but also what plant food elements are be: Ing removed from the soil, wliers they' are going, and what must be done in the future to maintain the product- ive power of the soil. It will aIso facilitate the identification of subJ, marginal lands and of soil areag whose soils are lacking in but one or two essential plant food elements. A PAGE FROM MY ILtY by AC.2 Kingston Highway, 10 o'clock at night -- dark, not much traf- fic. Two cars in rear -end col- lision. One car in ditch, driver goofy, butconscious. Second 0 5 . e c car Half off road, radiator still spouting. Bad smash. Drivers loudly blaming each other. Second man says the other chap's tail light was out. Claims he came round a sharp curve at thirty miles an .hour and. bumped into rear of first car before he saw it. It was one man's word against another's. "You had no tail light," says one. "I had so," says the other, And So on. dust then along came P.C. 2 on his motorcycle. "Well, well," says he to the driver of the car in the ditch, "so yon got .yours, egg? Didn't you tell me five miles back that you would stop at the first garage and get that tail light fired . arse that h stopped Of c o the ar- gument. Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt, but somebody is going to ages and T don tilam see how the ice bill forcman who was hit has a leg to stand on. He was either trying to save twe bits or five minutes' time. In either ease it's almost always a losing game. Don't you think so? * to v Personally, I wouldn't drive a city block without a tail light if I knew it �-- and, believe me, I'd make it fey business to know, W r * 5 Well, 1'il be seeing you,