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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1949-03-17, Page 3wO1744�Im1N lyli n 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. •. s ti ky: t 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. 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