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CHAPTER Xl,
TItE NOISE OF SPACE.
It was early in the morning when
Garrick and Dick turned into the
A little sperdheat picket ep the girl
and started off furiously for the mouth
n£ the harbor. The mnu struggled
feebly in. the water. ])ick threw off
his coat, ran down to the dock and
driveway of Glenn's huu;e It :Nona- plunged off into the nater. The anon
wantee. was Glenn. When Gorrick pulled them
"Any wore. of Vira and I:uth?" • both Out Glenn told the deny.
gnericd Glenn. He had been my the road elk of the
"Not yet, 1301 there is eonnethin', boathouse when he had heard a noise
you eau do. Hive you bail y, i> break-
fast? Then cone along,"
At Defoe's boathouse -laboratory
Garrick poetecj,Glemi en rented "Not+,
look here, boy—•if you Jove Vira and
want her back, guard this place as
you would your life"
"Pd like to be with you hunting
the girls," returned Glenn promptly,
"but if sticking here will hi.11i ane,
depend on me, I'R be a sticker, allied into the boat
right'," "}Kith boat }took in both hands
With one last look' to see that no- Aye tur,ged at ate, but it hit my eboul-
tlhing had been disturbed, Dick grab- der instead of any head, ')Daum you!'
bed up a small oak calm and some she cried, 'I have had to say .;o many
other imitable paraphernalia and lug- trice things to you when I didn't feel
red it out to the ear, like it ---here's another wallop!'
Garrick made the Clot his head- "I swung the boat free aud kicked
ge.arters, and he felt he would like to away from the pier. The engine was
start the day there, turning over slowly and cnntrying us
"Cast thy words upon the ether and away. I g'r'abbed the boat hook; then
they shall return unto thea after many she grabbed roe. 'Look! It's ging to
days," laughed Garrick as he looked explode!' `Shen I --we jumped. Sonne -
over his mail. "I suppose now Inc a one picked Rae up in a speed Boat,"
week I'm going to be bombarded with Garrick smiled, "We'll leave McKay
mail from rad;o fans. Where do they here for a few minutes. 1'11 chive,
find the time to write n11 the letters? your ca', Nita. I must get Glenn hone,
Say—here's one, though. Read that. IIe's mustered out with all 'he hen -
A posteard-.--posttnnrkcd'North port'," ore." Ae Garrick drove then hick)
Dicke read the card: told what had happened at the Club,'eyeem message was good and clear. 'Bat," .asked Glenn "why the at -
i
Ilntt Why aid you suddenly stop when tempt to wreck the boathouse .ale?" , • , 1 165
under the rvorkehop, The workshop
was on the second floor; under it was
the boat -chid. It had been converted
into et hangar by Dick, in Which he
hada Lydrenerohlawe,
saw Rae," Glenn pandit. "She
was sticking the nose of the boat under
the boathoeso in the channel between
the skidway. I saw goimthing smok-
ing in thebow, I ran tienn and jump -
;hots floor, Finally to lifted a trap
dent and climbed flown to the boat-
house
oat,hou e below,
When Gmrrek climbed niter him n
few Vitutes later, he found him, coat
off, covered with peropumtion, working
feverishly on the hydronerup'.aue,
"What's the idea?"
"Pm tuning up. l' wasn't quite
ready to exhibit the Le£oe radinplane
--hut, hang it alt --!he '.Bacchante'
ti,st 1>e round—frith Ruth!"
(to be continued,)
Blouse Plays Big
Part in Fashion
Stuart Women Including Piil'r,rnt
Types triol. Thee Ccann. Wear
• for Spriu3
Fly ANNIlTTE
you began to tell us your suspicions? "Because;" answered Gaal,, "it is
"P.S,—I don't approve of phone- the one place, they know, contains the
graph selections in radio broadcasting, atppacaius to ,forret them onto ani
anyhow. I can buy records, catch then!""
"K 902. At GLnn's they waited for Dr, Dar-,
"Someone on a cruiser or motor- ling. "Now, Dick, hook up that busi-,
boat with a wireless," commenter) ness you brought along. I've got the.
in -
Garrick. "Now what docs he mean? I fever, too, a passion for pulling in
didn't strop. I went right on to the end, formation down out of the air, like
And the phonograaph record --what's the prestidigitators do with gold
that?" pieces."
Dick did as requested and while they
Flick shrugged'His mind was on waited for the doctor a raft of ancon•
something else. Carsick, in his room, sequential stuf filtered through,
Laving without avail tried to find out °Another message!" interrupted
the dist ate of "K 902" from the lin). Dick, "Gut', ,is from that fellow
incl lists of the club, called the Cua-
toms )louse and rcq'aestcil the look.1•
m i, up of the number in the motor boat
registration under the federal low. lir ��" •'"r"
waited.
Dick fidgeted. Finally he connected k EI
Im_s receiving apparatus to the springs "
of Garrick's beef and put on the head-
phones. The room telephone rang and
Garrick answered it. The message was
from the Customs House. They re-
ported that "K 902" was registered by
Patmicl? Devins, Bridegport, Connec-
ticut, a forty -foot cabin cruiser named
"Lassie."
Garrick had just finished copying it
','hen a loud exclamation crone from
Dick! "Guy! It's a message from
Ruth! Rene --I scribbled it in this
book."
"Please give this to newspapers. It
now develops that ,Jack Curtis, who
attempted an elopement yesterday
with me, has a wife, Mrs. Rae l,arue
Curtis, That is all now. Tell my mo.
Um I am safe and will be back the
first chance I can swine ashore, Ruth
Walden,"
Somehow ehov Ruth had cleverly con-
trived to communicate with the outside
\world by radio. Together, the two
men hurried up a flight of stairs to
Nita Walter's rooms. Dick blurted
out the story. "Oh, what: awful peo-
ple," shuddered Mrs, Walden, "But
what can we do now. Oh, there's any
telephone ringing again."
She turned from tete room phone be-
wildered. "It was the Rae Larue girl
-calling one. Oh, but there was hate
and spite and jealousy in her voice!
The little vixen!"
"What did she say?" asked Carrick.
"I can't begin to repeat the flood of
words. Why, you'd think that I, Ruth's
mother, had tried to frame up some-
thing against her! She said, 'I'd have
you know that Tack Curtis is my hus-
banid. I won't have that daughter of
yours coming between us, and I've told
him so, 1'11 squeal. I'll hand the
whet() bunch over, first'"
"Bully!" interrupted Garrick to
Nita's astonishment. "Got 'em fight-
ing among themselves. Hell hath no
fiery—and all that. You couldn't want
hitter guardian for Ruth than that
wonuur scorned! And I'll bet shell
do.seniething the first chance she gets.
Item, let me have the wire, Central
where did that last call to the
Club come from? Can you trace it?
Prom the gravel works at the
mouth of the harbor? Thank you."
"1'1! be darned --oar harbor!" ex-
claimed Dick.
"From your boathouse, most likely,"
said Garrick. "We'd ceder get down
there. Nita, have Mc1{ay drive us all
down. And hurry!"
They were coasting down the hill a
fes hundred feet front the boathouse
when ;McKay jammed on the brakes.
Just; over the tops of the trees could
be seen the vcof of the boathouse. But
beyr,nd, in the harbor, was a rowboat
with a girl and fellow in it. They
seemed to he sn ugg'irg, The next
instant there was a huge column of
wetter, a pug of smoke, and black
wreckage of the brut, 1t seemed that
4'mm, a stdit second bel re, the two had
tcupgled overli n I'd or leaped, Then
rem the .'leen report.
ISSUE No. 5—'30
lii%k set up his re;eiving net,
again --K 902 --here, take this other
earpiece
Garrick fairly slapped Dick's shoul-
der as they listened, "What din: I say?
i knew Rae in her jealousy would do
something, and she has done it—just
when this Devins came along in his
I{ 9021"
They listened, Then Glenn cut in,
demanding to know the stony, When
K 902 finished Garrick turned to Glenn
"That fellow Devins was cruising
down the Sound when he saw what he
thought was the 'Sea Vamp.' As he
got nearer he could make out with hie
glass that they were transferring stuff
from the houseboat to a scout cruiser
up alongside,"
Glenn nodded, "It was our floating
storehouse, the 'Sea Vamp'."
"Well, as he got nearer, ht, made
out what looked like two men strug-
gling with a couple of girls. The
scout boat was drifting away from the
lmuseboat, then. The girls seemed to
be tied. That must have been Ruth
and: Vira. Then another girl came
Prom the cabin, She must nave had a
knife or something', for she cut the
m.ter two loos:, Some sailor.. came on
deck. The scout was pointing out into
tie Sound by this time. One of the
men grabbed the other and dutig him
overheard, This Devins couldn't catch
the scout so he kept right on till he
came up with the 'Sea Vamp.' Who
should he find there, pacing the deck
and cursing a hlue'strsak but Captain
Bruck—dumped overboard, double-
crossed, and left behind?"
"And Ruth and Vire not on the 'Sea
Vamp'—en this other boat?"
"Yes, IIe's (rot Brock. That's two,
New we know that Broca: at least isn't
the ma -at-the: top."
Back at the boathouse to tell Nita
Walden, they found that sho knew
more than they did.
"While we were war ting," said Nita
"McI{ay was trying that set uvea
there. And, Dick, the got a messag,
from Ruth! Here it is. I wrote it
The blouse is a big ]'actor in mi-
lady's wardrobe this seasc I, for the
jacket dress seems to be gaining more
and more popularity every day for
sports, street and seri-sports.
The femininity of the one I'm show-
ing will especially appeal to sophisti-
cated taste because of its utter chic
and newness in shirred cape collar,
that is so smartly flattering.
Another interesting feature is that
it may be worn as over -blouse or as
tuck -in. It also can be mato sleeveless
to wear with the ,jacket dress.
Eggshell silk crepe is medium used
for original model. It probably is one
of the most economical ideas that one
could possil ly find. It blonds perfect-
ly with any color, and is strikingly
fashionable with black.
Style No. 105 is designed in sizes
le, 18, 20 years, ",G, 38, 40 and 42
inches bust. In the medium size, it
takes 2% yards of 30 -inch material
with % yard of 1 -inch riabon.
Crepe satin, chiffon, linen, lace,
crepe de chine, rayon printed cretilt
and georgette appropriate.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number tied size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adel:ide St, Toronto.
Cooking Soils
Of Interest to All Hot House
Owners
The partial sterilization of soil by
heat ]las recently been investigated
by Dr, W. N, Bewley, director of the
Experimental and Research Station
at Cheshunt, England, says Science
News -Letter, a Science Service pub-
lication (Watslliugton). We react:
"Dr, Bewley finds that the heat not
only destroys pests and diseases but
also greatly increases eon fertility
and encourages the production of
healthier plants. Soils are created for
about half an iron' at rho tempreature
at boiling water, Heavy soils re-
quire more heating than light sandy
soils, The bacteria and fungi which
cause diseases in plant roots are des-
troyed, but the beneficial soil bacteria
are not kited and have Euler scope
for their development. The heat also
causes complex organic and inorganic
' substances to be converted into shn-
pter substances which are more use-
ful for the plant and the soil bacteria..
The heating may be carried out either
by baking the soil or by passing a
current of steam through it, Steam-
ing Is the' best method, as baked soils
often become dry, and if overheated
they are ruined, The heating must
be thorough, especially in the case of
badly eontaminatel soils, If some
parts of the soil are iusuificlettly
heated, centers of Infection remain,
from which disease organisms vapid-
ly spread through the rcet of the
soil,"
CHARM
The beautiful women is not al-
ways the one who creates the great-
est ferment and emotion In a mat's
life. It Is indeed sufficient 1n her les-
, ser dowered sister that she has some
moments of appealing beauty which
'.:wrest the memory, and the return
of which quickens the interest•
dawn just as McKay says the got it."
On a piece of wrapping paper Nita! ACTIONS
had written. "On tic Bacchante,
headed down the Sound toward the, There aro lies told by actions as
ocean. I hear the men talk of Fir,:'"'all as lion told bywords, Hurl ethic.,
Island. This is Ruth—" c!ve no mote countenance to the n.t,
"That's where it broke off," halt Shan the other.
apologized McKay.
Dick paced up and down the work- Mii,ard's—TheGreat White Liniment
Catching Crooks
By Police Radio
Method Employed in Detroit
is Proving, Very Satisfac-
tory and May be Wide-
ly Adopted
Two seadove are moving furtively
eu the buck of the Detroit River,
Near by le auolie shadow, 'a )bulkier
blotch, evidently a parked ear," From
tine porch or a house a man who has
conte out to smoke a bcdumo cignret
is witching enspic,eusle. Soddenly
he Sees that the trio meting shadows
neem - to be (.etc'' uii oontethhtg as
they Move closer to the stream.
There is "a etulden movement, a
sharp, thin Cr.)', a splash," harry Gold-
berg tells us in a copyrighted article
In the Philadelphia Public Ledger. A
victim of underworld revenge has
hcen bound and thrown into the river
to drawn. New the two shadows
move hack toward 11)e larger station -
icy shadow that is an nutornnblle.
'there its "the sound of a starting
motor end the bailey blotch moves
trent melee tine trees, gains speed
and tbeappeare '
Sadie io the rescue of Uta drown-
ing man! The watcher on the porch
downs his inclination not to mix in
underworld affairs, tie hurries to the
tes:Thena, calls rho Detroit Pollee
Department and sets in motion the
amazingly speedy machinery of jus-
tice, we learn from ii'. Goldberg's
aeconut of the use of radio in foiling
crime, by the authorities of Detroit
acid other cities, When the man
at the telephone has police head-
quarters aud Milled his has -Mess he is
put through to the depatneut'o awn
broadcasting station, whence the
setge.ml:anumutccr relays the in-
formation on a special low wave.
length, heading on:
" instantly, throughout the wide ex-
vanse of the city, every one of the
radio police cars 15 picking the alarm
nom rho n!r on its own sealed re-
ceiving set. One of the cars, patrol-
ling its heat nem' the scene or the
attempted crime, races toward the
spot as 0 continues to receive alto re-
maluder 01' the meager messngo.
Seventy seconds after the receipt
of the alarm and before the man on
the porch has a chance to reach the
elver bank, the pollee cruiser comes
to a stop under the tree'. The man
in the river is hemid cul, sputtering
:and very much olive.
This is lint one of many examples
cited front the amazing new chapter
bent.; written to the metals of police
work by the automobile natio. To
the police of Detroit goes the credit
for ushering in this new era of a•hn-
Mal mveligation, They have weld-
ed the radio and motor -cat' into one of
the most effective weapons ever de-
vised to combat crime.
The Stat° police of Michigan have
installed a radio system and are
pinmlhtg to spread a network of re•
cell/rig sets not only on its own
patrol cars but. in the entice of every
sheriff and chief of pollee in the
State!
Chicago, Cleveland, Berkeley, Cali-
fornia; Buffalo, New York, and High.
land Park, Iuichigatt, also have instal-
led the same system. Philadelphia,
and Youngstown, Ohio, are consilor•
Ing similar installations, as In New
York City, which may have all of its
100 pollee cat's equipped with radio In
a short tone
Of the practical results of this In-
novation William P. Rutledge, Com
mlasioner of the Detroit Police De -
Pertinent, says, as quoted by tate Led-
ger writer:
"Snaring criminals in a radio net-
work, woven by broadcasting to radio-
equlhped pursuit cars, has become a
matter of seconds. Seconds are pre-
cious to the !awbrealkere. They spell
the difference between escape and
capture. The wider the margin of
time, the better his chances to escape
apprehension.
"By the use of radio we are catch-
ing the criminal red -]ranted. We are
eliminating the introduction of eir-
cumstantiai evidence in trials by in-
disputable moot of guilt,
Murderers have been caught at the
scene of tato crime before they had a
chance to dispose of their weapons.
Burglars have been captured while
still piling up their Loot in homes,
"I3ewilclered auto thieves have gasp -
ad ae a police car roared alongside
of them a few moments after they
,had stolon a car. Speeding hit -run
eriyet's have been captured and re-
turned to the spot where they had
run down and left their helpless vle-
tim a few seconds before.
"')'hugs have been captured while
in the act of robbing their victims.
Racketeers and bad -cheque Passers
have been caught. Bank stick-up
men base hcen in haudcihfs within
seely c,''Duds of the time they fled
from the bank."
Detroit has taker. a lesson from war
rnllege;:.. It hos applied to its own
tactics the emphasis upon science and
speed.
In order to inject even more speed
into its already unmatched mobility,
the department has just strengthened
its war fleet by forty-seven new radio.
equipped cruleet•s, especially built
with the copper-wired:melt iantenna
concealed within the roof structure.
At the same time, the iltchigan State
ranee, chicit has its sending station
tri lesing, added sixteen new cars,
ani tray equipped, to its patrol force,
t lac ego, cen er. of m criminal con-
' %lision, also has emerly seized open
this new Weapon and has just, re -
1 ted o dul with 112 radio-
v.0,10,1ped eaN. le 111(We encs the gun
and auriunrtien rachis are milt over
710,000 more
Our increase in sales in 1929
over 1928 shows that there
were over seven hundred
and ten thousand additional
S A L.yynpA D A users last year.
pv q '9 Y:yt ik t , gg
"Fresh from the gardens'
the backs of the front seats, ready)
for instant use.
New York City will soon follow, On
August 22 Grover Whalen, Police
Corm :elsitnnet• of New Sock Cit}, lest -
ad a po•tahlo radia receiver On his nf-
ticiat car. The results w ire so satis-
factory that ho immediately asked
the city for $100,000 to have portable
radio sets IustNled in all of the 500
police care patrolling the city.
Furthermore, he elgeifiod he Will
salt the 1''ede'al Radio Con1nnlssion for
pernilssion to establish a pollee send•
lug-statien of low wave -length. it
will cost 33,000, be said.
Tho matter of receiving co -opera.
tion from the Federal Radio (lotusnts
siou la highly important, according to
the experiences of. Detroit slid Grit!.
ego. Detroit was hampered for a
long time because it fabled to receive
permission to operate Its owut sending
station. Police alarms tend to be sent
through a regular local commercial
studio. Besides breaking In on en-
tettainuuent programs, these alarms
served to attract great crowds to tete
scene of a crime and also served to
Warn criminals who utay bate happen-
ed to be bleteniugdn.
Which is what happened !net April
in Chicago.
A woman, observing a burglar leis-
urely heating an apartment n.cross the
street, telephoned the police, They,
15 turn, notified Station 1\ (N 2o that
word might be flashed to touring
police Cat's.
A moment later listeners ou the
WON program got a thrill when the
police broadcast was Suddenly insert-
ed In the program,
When pollee entered the apartment
a fete minutes later they found the
robber gone. In a corner a radio
was goring full blast, 'rucked uncles
the ltd was this note:
"Dear Radio Nan --Thanks for the
tip-off. You'ye a swell amonncer, l; m
now signing off,"
There were other serious objections
to the use of a comute•clat station
for the broadcasting of alarms, And
one of them, wo discover, had a some-
what comic tinge:
Ono evening more than n year ago
nn officer of the Detroit police was
strolling down one of the city streets.
Presently he was mildly started to
hear the honored strains of "Dream.
Ing Alone in the Twilight" issuing
from a parked police car.
Edging toward the car, he peeled
arottnd from the rear. There huddled
over the set 1n the back seat, was the Use Minard's for Neuralgia,
crew just tuning-tu oft a dietanr eta -
tion.
That ht.ident ended the era of F,f,ice-
Jvn reeenvtng sots for the pollee tie-
pertment., -
That was long after the ntit
pollee placed their first rtt,lio'e,iulp-
ped car en the streets In 1020,Tbnreie
a real story back of the attempts to
get permission to operate a melee
sending station which Commissioner
Rutledge himself had better tell as
Ito related it to auombe's of the In-
ternetlonal Associations of Chiefs mb
Police at tho annual convention is
Atlanta, Georgto,
Once more We turn to the Com t,ite
sionet's own words, es repartee by
111r. Goldberg:
"I could tell you the stmt of :he
arrest of a murderer who was engin
within two minutes of the lane3 ho
committed lits brutal crime. A fran-
tic telephone call wag receiver] at our
central switchboard. 'rhe ditpa ot'.er
immediately completed a anon ,.tion
with the microphone and broacbastetl
the alarm, The message urs til ifetl
all by a car cruising near the twine
of the edam, and the hiller was ar-
restefl as he was about to cast his
glut Into a nearby creek•"
In another lnetairce the alarm ,e" a
bank hold-up was flashed to the
cruisers. A car was at the door of
the bank :tint got its man within sixty
seconds of the reeelpt of the roes-.
sage.
Another startling proof of w1tet this
new development means to police tier -
vice was exempluual recently. Two
little girls ,vein passing the home of
a friend when they enticed the gleans
of a 8nshlight In the b msomout of the'•
house, Knowing Butt the owner wag
absent, and snspectmg the hoose was being burglarized, they ran to u 'tele -1
phone anti untitled headqua'fers of
their susticlens, AVithin ninety enc,
ends a cruiser squad, directed by1
radio, had arrested the burglar i' i,i10
he was atilt at work ie the-ho•,tve,
STICKERS
Sprinters ore much more nutnt:rons!
than etdciters; most of us find It easier
to Mart things than to finish 1lien,
Yet the man who sticks is the (:.ant
who wins out.
"To aw•allcw and follow, wirer' -'ori
old doctrine or new propagando, le a
weakness still dominating the timpani
mind,"—Charlotte 1'erk!uo Ghana.
Needless
I1ain r
People are often too patient with pain.
Suffering when there is no need to suf-
fcr. Shopping with a head that throbs.
Working though they ache all over.
And Aspirin would bring them kn.,
Mediate relief!
The best time to take Aspirin is the
very moment you first feel the pain.
Why postpone relief until the pain has
reached its height? Why hesitate to
take anything es harmless?
Read the proven directions for check-
ing colds, easing a sore throat; relieving
headaches and the parrs of neuralgia,
neuritis, rheumatism, etc.
You can always count on its quick
comfort. But if pain is of frequent
recurrence see a doctor as to its cause.
SPIRIN
TRAOt MARK nasi.