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The Seaforth News, 1930-02-13, Page 6(II►n!(n nlIIIiniu I" 111 lui! ifilllinuflinllihill�niiunnnnnllnnillTnll) A1LTH[UR li R;LEV]E CHAPTER XI. TILE NOISES OP SPACE. It was early in the morning whet Garrick and Dick turned into the driveway of Glenn's house at Nono wantuc. "Any word of Vira and Ruth?" queried. Glenn. "Not yet. But there is Something you can do. Have you had you,: break- fast? Then come along." At Defoe's boathouse-laborateery Garrick posted Glenn on guard. "Now look here, 'boy—if you love Vira and want her back, guard this place as you would your life." "I'd like to be with you hunting the girls," returned Glenn promptly "but if sticking here will help me, depend on hie. I'll be a sticker, all right." With one last look to see that no- thing had been disturbed, Dick grab- bed up a small oak case and seine' other portable paraphernalia and lag- ged it out to the car. Garrick made the Club his head- quarters, and he felt he 'would like to start the day there. "Cast thy words upon the ether and they shall return unto thee after many days," laughed Garrick as he looked over his mail. "I suppose now for a week I'm going to be bombarded with mail from radio fans. Where do they find the tine to write all the letters? Say -here's one, though, Read 'that, A posteard_ postmarked'North port'." Dick read the card: "You- message was good' and clear, But why did you suddenly stop when you began to tell us your suspicions? "i'.S.—I don't approve of phono- graph selections in radio broadcasting, anyhow. T can buy records. "K 902," "Sornedne on a cruiser or motor- boat with a wireless," commented Garrick. "Now what does he mean? I didn't stop. I went right on to the end. And the phonograph record—what's that? Dick .shrugged. IDs mind was on something else. Garrick, in his room, having without avail tried to find out the identit-• of "K 902" from the lim- ited lists of the club, called the Cus- toms House and regoested the look- ing up of the number in the motor boat registrations under the federal law. He waited. Dick fidgeted. Finally he connected 1t: receiving apparatus to the springs of Garrick's bed 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 Patrick Devins, Dridegport, Connec- ticut, a forty -foot cabin cruiser named "Lassie." Garrick had just finished copying it when a loud exclamation came from Dick! "Guy! It's a message from. Ruth! Here—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 Larne Curtis. That is all now. Tell my mo- ther 1 am safe and will be back the first chance I can swim ashore, Ruth 3v alden," Somehow 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 Walden's rooms. Dick blurted out the story. "Oh, what awful peo- ple," shuddered Mrs. Walden. "But what can we do now. Oh, there's my telephone ringing again." She turned from the room phone. be- wildered. "It was the Rae Larne girl —calling nue. Oh, but there was hate and spite and jealousy in her voice! The little vixen 1" "What did she say?" asked. Garrick. "I can't begin to repeat the flood of words. Why, you'd think that 1, Ruth's mother, had tried to frame up some- thing against her! She said, 'I'd have you know that Jack Curtis is my hus- bared. I won't have that daughter of yours coming between us, and I've told him so. I'll squeal. I'll hand the whole bunch over, first.' " "Belly;" interrupted Garrick to Nita's astonishment. "Got 'em fight- ing among themselves. Bell hath no fury—and all that. You couldn't want a better guardian for Ruth than that woman scorned! And Pll bet shell de something the'first chance she gets. Here, let me have the wire. Central • where did that last call to the Club come from? Can you trace it? • From the gravel works at the mouth of the harbor? Thank you." "I'll be darned -our harbor'." ex- claimed Dick. • 'Timm your boathouse, most likely," said Garrick. "We'd better get down there. Nita, have McKay drive us all down. And hurry!" They were coasting down the hill a few hundred feet from the boathouse 'when hTcRay jammed on the brakes. Just over the tops of the trees could be seen the roof of the boathouse. But beyond, in the harbor, was a rowboat with a girl •and fellow in it. They seemed to be struggling. The next instant there was a huge column of water, a puff of smoke, and black wreckage of the boat, at seemed that by a split second before; the two had struggled overbot:rd or leaped. Then came th e deep report. ISSUE No. 5-'30 A little speedboat picked up the girl and started off furiously for the mouth of the harbor. The man struggled feebly in the water. , Dick threw off his coat, ran clown to the dock and plunged off into the water. The pian was Glenn. When Gorrick pulled them both out Glenn told the story. Ile had been on the road side of the boathouse when he had heard a noise under the workshop. The workshop was on the second floor; under it was the boat -shed. It had been converted into a hangar by Dick, in which he 'shop floor. Finally 'ro lifted a trap Catching Crooks door and climbed down to the boat- hp ouse below, b' By Police Radio When Garrick slim ed nicer him a • few wthutes later, he found him, coat --- off, covered with perspiration, working Method Employed In Detroit feverishly on the hydroaeroplane, "What's the idea?" 1s Plowing Very Satisfac "I'nr tuning up. I wasn't quite tory and Nlaybe Wide- ready to exhibit the Defoe radioplane • ly Adopted —but, hang it all—the `Bacchante' gust be found—with Ruth!„ Two sbadotts aro moving furtively (To be continued,) on the bank of the Detroit River. Near by is anothe shadow, "a bulkier blotch, evidently a parked car" From Blouse PlaysBigthe porch of a house a mail who, has conte out to smoke a bedtime cigaret Part in Fashion is watching suspicd,usty. Suddonly __ he sees that the two moving shadows Smart Women Including seem to be carry:ug something as t luding Different Types T)zcst They Can Wear for Spiry had a hydroaeroplane. By ANNETTE "I saw Rae," Glenn panted, "She was sticking the nose of the boat under the boathouse in the channel ,between the skidayay. I saw something smok- ing in tha bow. -1 ran down and jump- ed into the boat "With a eboat hook in both hands she lunged at me, but it hit my shoul-, :ler instead of my head. !Damn you!' she cried; 'I have had to say so many, nice things to you when -I didn't feel like it—here's another wallop!' "I swung the boat free and kicked away from the pier. The engine was turning over slowly and carrying us away. I grabbed the boat hook; then she grabbed me.. 'Look! It's going to explode!' Then I—we jumped. Some- one picked Rae up in a speed boat." Garrick smiled, "We'll leave McKay here for a few minutes. I'll drive your car, Nita. I must get Glenn home. He's mustered out with all -she-hon- ors." As Garrick drove then Dick told what had happened at the Club. "But," asked Glenn, "why the at- tempt to wreck the boathouse '-ab.?" "Because," answered Garrick, "it is the one place, they know, contains the apparatus to ferret them crit and catch them!" At Gk -nn's they waited for,Dr. Dar- ling. "Now, Dicta, hook up that busi- ness you brought along. I've got the fever, too, a passion for pulling in- forination down out of the air, like the prestidigitators do with gold pieces." Dick did as requested grid while they waited for the doctor a raft of incon- sequential stufreiltered through. a "Another message!" 'interrupted Dick. "Guy, it's from that fellow' Dick set up his receiving set. again—K 902 -here, take this other earpiece." Garrick fairly slapped Dick's shoul- der as they listened, "What did I say? I knew Rae in her jealousy would do something, and she has done it—just when this Devins came along in his K 902! They listened. Then Glenn cut in, demanding to know the story. 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 his 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 lie got nearer, hi, made out what looked like twb men strug- gling with a couple of girls. The scout boat was drifting away from the houseboat, then. The girls seemed to be tied. That must have been Ruth and Vira. Then another girl, came from the cabin. She must nave had a knife or something, for she eut the o.her two loose: Some sailors came on deck. The scout was pointing out into the Sound by this time. One of the men grabbed the other and ,lung him overboard. 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 blue streak but Captain Brock—dumped overboard, double- crossed, and left behind?" "And Ruth and Vira not on the 'Sea Vamp' -on t'iffs other boat?" "Yes. He's got Brock. That's two. Naw we know that Brock at least isn't the man -at -the -top," Back ab the boathouse to tell Nita Walden, they found that she knew' more than they did. "While we were waging," said Nita,' "McKay was trying that set over there. And, Dick, he got a message from Ruth! Here ib is. I wrote it down just as.IlleKay says he got it" On a piece of wrapping paper Nita had written. "On the Eacchante,I headed down the Sound toveatd the ocean. I hear the men talk of Fire Island. This is Ruth—" "That 'e where it broke off," half apologized McKay, Dick paced up and down 'the work - i f -. 165 The blouse is a big factor in mi- lady's wardrobe this seaso-r, for the jacket dress seems to lee gaining more and more popularity every day for sports, street and semi -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 made 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 blends perfect- ly with any color, and'.is strikingly fashionable with black. Style No. 165 is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38,.40 and 42 inches bust. In the medium size, it takes 2% yards of 39 -inch material with % yard of 1 -inch ribbon. Crepe satin, chiffon, linen, lace, crepe de chine, rayon printed crepe and georgette appropriate. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose- 200 in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaiide St, Toronto. Cooking Soils Of Interest to All Hot House Owners The partial sterilization of soil by heat has recently been investigated by Dr. W. 1', Bewley, director of the Experimental and Research Station at Cheshunt, England, says Science News -Letter, a Science Service pub- lication (Washington). We read: "Dr. Bewley ands that the heat not only destroys pests and diseases but also greatly increases soil fertility and encourages the .production of healthier plants. Soils are heated for about half an hour at the tempreature of 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 fuler scope for their development, The heat also causes complex organic and inorganic sulistances to be converted into sim- pler 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 hest method, as baked soils often become dry, and if overheated they ars ruined, The heating must he thorough, especially in the case of badly contaminated soils. If some fa Parts of the soil are insufficiently heated, centers of infection remain, from which disease organisms rapid- ly spread through the resof the soil," they move closer to the stream. There is "asudden movement, a sharp, thin cry, a splash," Harry Gold- berg tells tis, in a copyrighted ,tirticie in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. A victiiza of underworld -=revenge Lias been bound and thrown into the river to drown. Now the two shadows move back:towerd the larger station. ary shadow that is airautomobile. There is "the sound of g starting Motor and the bulky blotch moves from under the trees, gains speed and disappears." Radio .te the rescue of the drown- ing man! /The watcher on the porch downs his inclination not to mix in underworld affairs. He hurries to the telephone, calls the Detroit Police Department and sets in • motion the amazingly speedy • machinery of jus- tice, we learn from Mr. Goldberg's account of the use of redio'in foiling crime, by the authorities of Detroit and other cities. When the man at the telephone has police head- quarters and stated his business he I put through to the department's own broadcasting station, whence th sergeant -announcer . relays the in formation on a special low wave length. Reading on; "Instantly, throughout the wide ex panse of the city, every one of th radio police cars .is .picking the alar from. the air on Its own sealed r ceiviug set. One of the cars, patrol th ling- its beat near e scene of th attempted crime, races toward th spot as it continues to receive the re maiuder ,of . the meager message. Seventy seconds after the receipt of the alarm and before the man on the porch has a chance to reach the river , bank, the police cruisercomes to a stop under the trees. The man in the river is fished out, sputtering and very much aline. This is but one of many examples cited front the amazing new chapter being written in the annals of police work by the automobile radio. ' To the police of Detroit goes the credit for ushering in this n,ew era of crim- inal investigation. They have _weld- ed the radio and motor -car into one of the most effective weapons ever de- vised to combat crime. The State police of Michigan have installed a radio system and are planning to spread a network of re. mitringmite ,not only on its own patrol cars but in the office of every sheriff and chief "of police in the State! Chicago, Cleveland, Berkeley, Cali- fornia; Buffalo, New York, and ,High- land Park, Michigan, also have instal, led the same system. Philadelphia, and Youngstown, Ohio, are consider- ing similar installations, as in New York City, which may have ail of its 500 police cars equipped'with radio in a short time, Of the practical results of this in- novation William P. Rutledge, Com- missioner of the Detroit Police ^ De- partment, says, as, quoted by the Led. ger writer: "Snaring criminals in a radio net- work, woven by broadcasting to radio - equipped pursuit cars, Inas become a matter of seconds. Seconds are pre.. Mous to the lawbreakers. They spell the difference between eecape and capture. The, wider the luarein of time, the better his chances to escape apprehension. "By the use of radio we are catch- ing the criminal red-handed. We are eliminating the introduction of cir- cumstantial evidence in trials by in- disputable proof of -guilt. Murderers have bean caught at the scene of the crime before they had a chance to dispose of their weapons. Burglars have been captured while still piling up their loot in homes, "Bewildered auto thieves have gasp- ed as a police oar roared alongside of then a few moments after they had stolen a ear. Speeding hit -ran drivers have been captured and re- turned to the spot where they had run down and left their helpless visa tima few seconds before. "Thugs have :been captured while in the act of •robbing their victims. Racketeers ancl: bad -cheque passers ave been caught. Bank stick-up men Izave been in handcuffs within ixty seconds of the time they fled rom the bank." Detroit has taken a lesson from war 710,000'wore Our increase in sales in 1929 over 1928 shows that there were over seven hundred and ten thousand additional al S ADA users last �. year. iT a A `Fresh from the gardens' the backs of the front seats, ready for Instant'use, New York City will soon- follow. O August 22 Grover Whalen,' Police Commissioner of New York City, test ed a portable radio receiver on his of , ficial car. The results w ire so .sates ' factory that he immediately asked the city for $100,000 to have portable radio sets installed In all of the 500 police cars patrolling the city. • Furthermore, he signified he will ask the Federal Radio Commission for permission toeestablish a police send- ing -station of low wave -Length. It will -cost $8,000, lie said,. crew just' tuning -in -on a distant stn- tlon, On That incident ended, the era of selec- tive,receivhrg sets forethe police de • paftment.. • • That was, long after the 'Detroit. police placed their first radio -equip. sl The matter of receiving co-opera- tion from the Federal Radio Commis - e sion is highly important, according to the experiences of Detroit and Crlo- ago. Detroit was hampered for a long time because it failed to receive permission to operate its own sending e station, Police alarms had to be sent m through a regular local commercial e- stud's), Besides breaking in on en- tertainment programs, these alarms e served to attract great crowds to the e scene of a crime and also served to warn criminals who may have happen- ed to beelistening-in, Which is whet happened last April in Chicago, A woman, observing a burglar leis- urely looting au apartment across the street, telephoned the' police. They, in turn, notified Station WGN so that word might be :flashed to touring police oars. A moment -later listeners on the WGN program got a thrill when the ponce broadcast was suddenly insert- ed in the program. When police entered the apartment a few minutes later they found` the robber gone. In a corner a' radio watt going full blast., Tucked under the lid was this note: "Dear Radio Man -Thanks , for the tip-off. You're a swell announcer. I'm now signing off." There were other serious objections to the use of a commercial station for the broadcasting of alarms, And One of them, we discover, had a some, what comic tinge One evening more than a year ago n officer of the Detroit polies was strolling down one of the city streets. Presently be was mildly started to hear the honeyed strains of"Dream- ing Alone, in the Twilight" issuing from a parked police car. Edging toward the car, he peered around from the rear, There huddled over the set in the back seat, Rags the 'CHARM The beautiful women is not al- ways the one who creates the great- est ferment and emotion in a man's. life. It is indeed' sufficient in her les- ser dowered sister that she has some moments of appealing beauty which arrest the memory, and the return of which quickens the interest, colleges. It has 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 cruisers, •especially' built• with the copper -wire -mesh 'antenna concealed within the roof structure. At the same time, the Michigan State poflce; which= hail its sending station n Lansing, added sixteen new cars, itulls:Ay equipped, to its patrol force. Chicdgb, MeteiT of a criminal con- ulsion, also has eagerly seized upon' his new weapon and has just 1!e'i nloced sidecare with 142 radio. 'itllp9cc C a's. In those cars the gun nd animllu!tton racks are ,wilt over.. ACTIONS' 1 There are lies told by actions .as well as lies told by words, and ethics give no more countenance to the one than n th0 other: Minard's-The Great White Liniment a —o ped car on the streets in 1921,Tilare'e a 'real story back of the attempts to get permission to operate' a police sending station which Commissioner Rutledge himself had better- tell as he related it to members Of the ln- ternatioiial Association of Chiefs of Police at the annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia, ' • Once more we turn to the Commis- sioner's own words, as reported "by, Mr, Goldberg: "I oould tell you the story of the arrest of a murdererlwfio was caught within two minutes of the time he committed -hie brutal crime. A Iran - tic telephone call was received at our central switchboard. The dispatcher immediately completed a connection with -the microphone and broadcasted the alarm. The message was' pinked up by, a car cruising near the scene of the crime, and the killer was .ar- rested as he "was about to cast his gun into a nearby creek." lei another instance the alarm of a bank hold-up was Hashed to the cruisers. A car was at the door of the bank and got its man within sixty seconds of the receipt of the mes- sage. Another startling proof of what this new development means to police ser- vice was exemplified recently. Two little girls were passing the home' of a friend when they noticed the gleams of a flashlight in the basgment'of the house. Knowing that the owner was absent, and' suspecting the house wise being burglarized, they ran to a tele- phone and notified headquarters of,.. their euspicions. Wlthin ninety sec- onds a cruiser squad, directed by radio, had arrested the burglar while he was still at work in the house. Quake Changed Floor of Ocean Recharting Made Necessary by Disturbance Off New- foundland, Shippers Say Halifax;,N,S—While reconstruction and relief work are proceeding at Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, where twenty-seven lives were taken and a $1,000,000 property- damage caused by a' tidal wave from the earth- quake of November 18, tales of changes in the ocean bed of the North Atlantic and of broken and buried cables are being reported ' by ships arriving here, says a- Canadian Press despatch. The latest news was brought by the cable sneerer Cambria, whose officers told of finding eyideneese or volcanic lava on the ocean floor and of repair- ing the Halifax-Haror Grace cable, which was broken and busied for a distance of fifty miles. Leaving Halifax December 24,' the Cambria experienced bad weather all the time out, After a short search she found the Holifax end of the broken cable in 4,800 feet of nater, but it was buried so deep in the mud that 15 supposed to have been disturbed byithe earthquake it broke before it could be brought to the surface. Three times the cable was grappled and brought almost to the surface and each time it broke, owing to -tine strain that had to be exerted to pull it out oL the mud. Finally a new piece of -cable was spliced to the Halifax end and paid out over the bow, while the ship steamed toward the Grand Banks 'where the water is not so deep. About 'fifty miles of new cable was laid before the original cable wasfoiledagain in 900 feet of water. The Harbor Grace end was successfully raised and splic- ed, snaking another link between the new and old'world in working order again. - a Damage to cables former a large part of the quake havoc, the Cambria having made the first repair job since the earth disturbance and breaks in eleven cables remain unrepaired. An idea of the expense involved will be gained from the fact that the daily maintenance cost of each cable ship is $2,000 and 'theivalue of the cable 15 -1,800 a rnlie. Various ships arriving here have re- ported changes in the ocean depths, and some skippers asserted recharting,,, of the Atlantic was necessary: Rehabilitation of the coast of Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, where everything was swept by the tidal wave, is progressing. More than $150,- 000 has been collected for relief. Sprinters are much more numerous than stickers; most of us find it easier to start things than to finish thein. Yet the man who 'sticks is the mail who wins out. "To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new Propaganda, is a weaknessstill dominating the human usud."—Cliarlotte Perkins Gilman. Use Minard's for Neuralgia. l People are often too patient w th pain. Bearing when there ie no. heed to suf- fee. Shopping with a head thatthrobe. Working though they ache all over.' And Aspirin Would briifg then' ifn 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 so harmless? Read the proven directions for check- ing colds, easing a sore throat; relieving headaches and the pains 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. 1 A Small Country yet a Bgg Byer No country inthe world buys more per head of population, in foreign countries, . than Iceland. ' So people who think that Iceland is nothing more than; a skating -rink by nature, we learn .from the London Daily Telegraph, will be surprisedto know that it is the best customer ex- porters xporters have in other countries. What is more, says -Howard.Little, in this London newspaper, although Iceland is compelled to make relatively enor- mous purchases, the annual credit balance stands -„high, and shows a tendency to increase, Mr. Little con- tinues: "Iceland has modernized herself rapidly, in spite of difficulties, na- tural atural and imposed. Neither iron, tim- bei, -building stone, cement, coal, nor salt are produced . within her own borders. A11 these essentials must be brought oversea, and possibly hauled many miles into the iaterior over hard ground, where there is at pre- sent no road. "In 1889, when I first vieited Ice- laud, the capital, Reykjavik,' was a town of some three thousand inhabit• ants, and boasted neither harbor nor roads. ; Nothing went on wheels. To- day Reykjavik has'a fine harbor, the construction of which was actually commenced is 1913, interrupted Inc the war, earl, because of the necessity of ebntinued ehlargement, is in part. not yet completed. The inhabitants of the town number, 20,000, and there are some 800 motor -vehicles, all of which are kept particularly busy; The main roads have a good surface, and -other roads within and leading from the capital are also being improved.* Iceland's Parliament House, lint? veraity and Museum, it is then re. latsd, are in many important respects models of what these institutions should be. Indeed, theclaim is made,, and with some show of reason, we are advised, that Iceland's Aiming is, in reality, the "Mother of Parkas meats. The thousandth anniversary of the first meeting . of the Althiag will be celebrated next June, and this informant adds: "Fifty-four years ago Iceland was left in a condition of poverty and without business experience. Her people, by their own unaided efforts, have brought about many remarkable changes. Moreover, this has been done in spiteof natural disadvant- ages, and in face of something worse than mere indifference from the ,orb side world—that world which the peo• plc of Iceland have actually led in the discovery of new lauds and in -the founding of self-supporting colonies,” A record number of scale were taken last summer, which may cause a slump in the demand for rabbit - skins.