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EVENING
PAPER
ER
By Matthew Weld
It was just an ordinary copy of
an ordinary evening paper. But
when the girl looked up from read-
ing it she saw that the man sitting
opposite her in the Underground
railway was the murderer, There
was the photo, and there was the
man. Her whole tummy sort of
gulped with shock,
What would be best to do?
She was a shy, pink girl, slhn,
figureless; you could talk to her
.dozens of times and still not know
Iter next time you met. Oh, and
fair, of course. But she was wear-
ing a red plastic raincoat. She sat
for a few seconds, thinking. Then
the train began to slow down, and
the man stood up and moved to-
wards the door.
She leaped up to follow him. Ir
wasn't till she also was at the
door that she realized she had left
the paper on the seat. But it didn't
*natter.
What' did matter was that now
he'd got -his back to her, she wasn't
absolutely sure that he was indeed
the man. Her nerve failed her, and,
she knew she must see his face
again before she dared enlist the
help of strangers to accost him.
Think what' it would be like if she
made a mistake! •
If she could only get alongside
him, or ahead, and get one more
good look at his face—
They reached the top of the esca-
lator, and the crowd bottlenecked
at the exit,
Out in the street, the man paced
fast through the electric light and
the chill of a winter afternoon, The
girl followed.
All at once, just ahead of them,
appeared a shop with mirrors in
it. He slowed and pulled at his
tie and his hat. In the glass .she
saw him again clearly. It was the
man,
But at the same moment he also
looked past his own shoulder in the
reflection and saw her, his eye,
no doubt, caught by the splash of
red in the glass. Did he remember
this same transparent scarlet mac-
intosh, this unmemorable pink
blonde?
The man moved on. He did not
look back.
The girl was now • suddenly
possessed of genius. She undid her
raincoat, and in one spasm whipped
it off and threw it into a doorway
as site went by. Now she was no
longer a scarlet plastic raincoat:
she was a grey coat -and -skirt.
But now, as she hurried after
the man, she looked breathlessly
for help. Not a bobby in sight.
But there was another girl walk-
ing along ahead of her, so she,
caught up with her—a plump girl
in a satin blouse too small for her,
as it turned out, and a moleskin
coat. Their feet went plinkety-plonk
in step, and then out of step, on
the pavement.
"Look, help me! Don't think I'm
mad, but that man in front there
is Maitland, that murderer they're
looking for. I've seen his face. Get
help quick, and come after me."
The other girl didn't stop to
reason. She was dark, and quick
as a sparrow.
"How'll we know where you've
gone?"
"Walk beside me, quickly, while
I thunk."
"I know!" cried • the dark girl.
"Draw arrows on the pavement
to show which way you've gone.
Have you got a pencil?"
"Will a pencil show on the --
No, look, my lip'stickl Now fly."
The dark girl darted off, and the
fair one walked on after the mur-
derer.
The man turned off into a side
street, so she chalked an arrow
with her lipstick on the pavement,
taking care not to bend valuable
stockings at the knees. Then she
hurried on.
Then he turned oft again? three
or four times, and each time she
drew a red arrow and followed him.
Then he turned into a narrow
alley, and again down a little run-
way into a dark court, She began
to feel afraid. Up to now there had
been no time for fear, but now
suddenly fear was in her stomach.
• Had he recognized her as the
girl from the train who had sat
opposite flim, reading that fatal
paper? If so, was he luring her
purposely into this dart: web of
alleys?
She thought of her fiance and
her parents, and her little brother
But she knew she had to go on.
She hoped very much that her
stockings wouldn't get hurt.
A last look back. Was help com-
ing? Or had the lipstick arrows
got smudged out by ,feet?
'Lurking back, so as not to be
seen, she followed him into the
dark court. From here he turned
again into another arcliwa, across
which old doors leaned and creaked
at each other, but no longer locked.
She marked her last arrow aiict
followed flit*.
Behind the door, 'the Strangler
waited for her.
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Booed By Brussels Communists. — Former Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, in Brussels for the International Europe
Movement meeting, was booed by a large crowd of Communists r
when he made an outdoor speech. Police arrested 60 Reds, in-
cluding senators and deputies, during an organized attempt to
break up the talk.
Just which of the several methods
of preparing the seed bed will give
you the best yields of grain crops?
is a question of interest to many
farmers. Is it ordinary plowing,
sub -surface plowing, or disking?
Don't expect me to give you any
hard-and-fast answer, but here are
some figures that I believe might
be worthy of your attention.
Tests made in the past have
rainfall areas, straight plowing is
generally shown that in heavier
best. But where there's scarcity of
rain, the other methods have shown
up well as moisture saving devices.
Latest reports I've seen along
this line come from Cornell, Uni-
versity. Here two-year corn tests
showed; plowing, 49 bushels to the
acre; aub-surface plowing, 39 bu-
shels; disking, 34 bushels.
* * *
Wheat yields over a similar period
were; 30 bushels to the acre for
plowing; 23 for sub -surface plow-
ing; and 19 for disking.
xR • * *
Oats went 29 bushels on the
plowed ground; 25:6 bushels on the
sub -surface seed bed; and 25.4 on
the disked soil.
* * *
According to the Cornell folks
who made these tests, generally
speaking plowing gives a looser,
better aerated soil—and weeds are
less of a problem.
* * * If you keep your tractor oiled
and greased properly, the worst
enemy it has is dust. Dust that is
even too small to see will cause
wear. A new tractor runs smoothly
and makes little noise, because the
moving parts fit closely together;
and the closer they fit together, the
more damage dust can do.
Air always contains a certain
amount of dust, no matter how
clear it may seem. And your trac-
tor uses plenty of air—about 9,000
gallons of it for every gallon of
fuel. Every time your tractor burns
5 gallons of gasoline, it will use
on the average enough air to fill
a 90 -toil silo.
* 5
The air cleaner on your tractor
is built to keep that dust out of
the engine. But the air cleaner can-
not do everything by itself. It stops
the dust by catching it in a bath of
oil as the air passes through the
cleaner; but there is a limit to how
much dust the oil can hold. When
the oil gets full of dust, the air
cannot be cleaned; dust will go
into the engine and wear out parts
in a hurry. \our tractor will begin
to lose power; it will use too much
oil; and you will lose time and
money having repairs made.
* * *
To help the air cleaner you must
remove the dust that is caught.
Under average air conditions, writes
R. L. Patrick in The Progressive
Fanner, this servicing should be
done once a day --before the trac-
tor is started in the morning. At
that time all of the oil and dirt will
be in the, removable clip on the
bottom of the cleaner,
* M *
This cup is easy to remove ---
usually a single screw is all that
holds it on. Often this can be.
loosened by hand, Remove the cup
and pour of the oil. In the bottom
of the cup you will field a layer of
dirt. Scrape out this dirt and rinse
the cup with some clean fuel Be
sure and dry it ottt then, as- any
fuel left will thin the new oil placed
in the cup, Most tnauufacturert
recommend a certain weight oil fol
the air cleaner, and your owner's
instruction book or your tractor
dealer will telt you what weight to
use. The same weight oil as in the
engine is generally O.K.
There is a mark on the cup show-
ing how full of oil it should be.
Fill it to that point and replace the
cup. The right amount of oil as
well as the right weight is impor-
tant. Not enough oil will cause the
same trouble as too thin oil. With
too much oil or oil that is too
heavy the air will have a hard time
getting through. That would be
much the same as leaving the choke
an the. carburetor partly closed,
Your tractor would use too much
fuel, and the engine might not run
right.
* <: *
As I said before, servicing the
air cleaner is a fairly easy job.
After you've done it a few times,
you'll be able to do it in five
minutes or less. And when your
tractor is running under very dusty
conditions, it's a wise plan to ser-
vice it twice a day. The second
return to the field. Again this gives
time can be after dinner, before you
the oil and dirt a chance to settle
while the engine isn't running.
Vibration can loosen the connec-
tions between the air cleaner and
the carburetor. Check them daily.
They will need tightening once in
a while. With loose connections air
may enter and not go through the
cleaner—and the result will be the
same as having no cleaner at alt.
And if the choke or the throttle
shaft on the carburetor becomes
worn and -loose dusty.airscan enter.
Sometimes the intake manifold
may get rust holes. And dust enter-
ing such places has been known
to wear out tractor engines in a
matter of just a few days.
Which will have to be all for a
few days—see—veno --f-- them, in fact.
STILL ANTHER FIRST!
!The first industrial transformer
was invented by a Russian natural
scientist, Ivan Ussagin, it was
claimed in Moscow by Prof, Victor
Danilevsky, a student of the history
of Russian technical knowledge.
The first patent for a transformer
. was received by a Russian - electri-
cian, Peter Yablochkov, in France
in November, 1876, the professor
said.
According to Encyclopaedia Bri-
tannica, the first successful trans-
former was demonstrated by Wil-
liam Stanley in the United States
and put in service in 1886.
In recent months Tess or official
Soviet publications have claimed
that Russians were the first to in-
vent the airplane, the glider, sub-
marines, helicopters, steam engines,
and a wool -combing machine.
STUCK PIG
In Mobile, Ala., a housewife,
short of cash, guiltily broke into her
baby's piggy bank, found only a
i+ote inside: "1O'( $5. (signed)
17adcl,.'
PENNY
GARDEN NOTES
More seed is wasted by planting
too deep than too shallow. A good
rule is about three times the diam-
eter of the seed. With tiny seeds
like poppies, alyssum or turnips,
this means merely pressing the seed
in the soil. With big things like
gladioli, -bulbs, potatoes and dah-
lias it means from 4 to 8 nches, but
with beets, beans, etc., only about
an itch to cover is necessary.
BIG CROPPERS
It is really amazing what vege-
table crops one can get out of even
a tiny plot. A patch 10 feet by 20,
with' a little planning and double
eropping will yield many meals,
Of course, in the very small vege-
table garden one is wise to forget
those bulky or spreading sort of
things like potatoes, corn, squash
.. or peas. One should concentrate
on beans, carrots, beets, spinach,
radish, lettuce, possibly a half-dozen
staked tomatoes and perhaps a hill
or two of cucumbers, trained over
the boundary fence. None of these
vegetables take up much room.
Beans, beets ' and carrots, for in-
stance, can he growr in rows only
a foot apart, and 10 feet of any of
them will produce many meals for
the average family. With some of
the very early things like lettuce,
radish and spinach, double crop-
ping can be practised, Plant these
in rows, say, 18 inches apart, with
rows of tate later things—beets,
beans, carrots, parsnips, etc,, in be-
tween. Long before the last named
are full-grown the first will be used
and out of the way,
* 5
FOR AN EARLY START
Usually there is a corner of the
garden which is dry before the rest.
This is the spot to plant the very
early things, hardy vegetabiep and
flowers than can go in the ground
just as soon as the soil is dry, Frost
and snow Iater on will not hurt
these, and some of them must make
their first growth while soil and
air are cool.
Among the vegetables in this cat -
NEW and
USEFUL Tl 0
WV AO
ELECTRICALLY OPERAT-
ED ROBOT DOOR OPENER,
Unlocks garage doors, opens thein
and turns on yard and garage lights
while operator sits in car. Another
button in garage or inside house
closes and locks garage door and
turns off light. Makers claim spec-
ial safety feature eliminates pos-
sibility of accident to children or
pets playing near doors,
LAWN SPRINKLER. This
lawn sprinkler has relay valve .with
eight outlets, each connected to
four sprinkler heads which take
care of one section of lawn each.
Relay valve sends water through
one outlet at a time for about a
minute, then shunts to next outlet.
It is claimed that such intermittent
spraying allows time for seepage be-
tween spray periods, so that no
water runs off lawn.
PRE-SET HOUSE WARMER.
Temperature control that gets
rooms warns when you want them.
It's installed outside building, ad-
justed for time when rooms inside
should be fully warmed up. During
night it automatically shifts time
for the heat to go on as tempera-
ture changes. It is wired into reg-
ular room thermostat, which retains
control during daytime.
PLASTIC IN PIGSKIN. That
football you see kicked around next
fall may have a plastic bladder.
These new bladders for footballs,
basketballs, etc., are said to be
priced lower than usual kind and
to keep at least 92% of original
pressure for six months or more.
egory will be the first planting of
radish, leaf lettuce, spinach; early
onions and the hardiest of the gar -
'den peas. All the vegetables men-
tioned can be planted at least three
times, a fortnight apart, and some
like lettuce and radish, carrots,
beets, beads, ets., can be planted
at intervals right up to the first
week in July.
Among the hardy flowers will be
cosmos, marigolds, pansies, sweet
peas and anything else listed as very
hardy in a Canadian seed catalogue.
Some of these are so resistant to
frost that they sow themselves and
come on as volunteer plants in the
Spring,
How T Salvage
Old Paint Brushes
When yf a start to do a Pain DK
job around your place, as often as
not he discovers that the old- paint
brush has developed a decided klub..
with hard turned -up bristles :ind iia
unworkable.
To salvage stiff old l,rusltes
soaking overnight, • preferably in
turpentine, is a well-known prelim-
inary. Gasoline is also effective.
After the old paint has been soft-
ened, it should be scraped off with
a blunt knife or combed out with
a steel comb or brush. If the first
soaking fails to remove the paint,
the process can be repeated. Shellac
brushes should be cleaned with
alcohol, and whitewash and calci-
mine brushes with water.
After most of the accumulation
has been removed, the brush should
be scrubbed in warm water with a
mild laundry soap—never with a
strong soap. The. excess water
should be shaken out and the brush
left to dry. The bristles should be
straightened out with a scrub brush
or comb before completely dry,
after which the brush should be
wrapped—not too tightly—in heavy
paper or cardboard to keep the
bristles straight. If the brush is
dipped in paint before being fully
dried, the moisture will make the
brush soft and listless.
When a brush is being used every
day, it should be filled with paint
and wrapped overnight in several
thicknesses of paper, or suspended
in a can of water. If used inter-
mittenly, it may be suspended in
raw linseed oil or kerosene. It'
stored in turpentine, the brush is
likely to become hard. It should
never be allowed to rest on the
ends of the bristles for any length.
of time, because it will become
warped and the flow of paint will
be uneven. With a hole at the end
of the handle, a brush may be
suspended in the paint from a rod
or stick across the edges of the can.
so that the bristles do not touch
the bottom. When put away for a
period of time, the brush should
be cleaned, thoroughly dried, and
stored with the bristles straight.
DOGTAG
In Chicago, Dolores McCrossee.
lost her dog, asked police to find it.
Identifying narks: red nail potisiia
on its toenails.
THERE'S SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN
j4 S:
IS MADNESS
In the caws of science.
Merrily he rols along.
Some people may look with
tests the I.Q. of crows, but
John Alpin Graydon does just
raised eyebrows at a man who
that and confounds his critics
by pointing cot that he hasn't
punched a timeclock in years.
Graydon is a 72 -year-old in-
ventor, scientist and philoso-
pher. At top left, Graydon
talks with one of his crows as
he gets the bird's. reactions to
words and sounds. Top right,
he displays his tubeless tire,
made from strips of od tire
casings. Developed during the
wartime tire shortage, he still
uses it as a spare. At right he
plays his violin with a bow—
actually four bows together—
which plays all four strings at
once. A noted violinist will
soon use the bow on a radio
broadcast.
More than one string to his bow.
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