Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 107

STORIES SPORTS | GAMES PUZZLES I Everybody should recognise this article, some- thing that is found on every desk. Don't spill it! THE INK BOTTLE. 1. Usual color of ink. 1. Infant. 4. To gry like s sheep. 2. Pnnbeof the verb F “to be.” (Abr.). 3. A flying toy. 8. You and L 5. Meadow. 6. Reverential fear, 14. Writing fluid. 11. To make a tour. 16. Printer’s measure. 12. Some. 17. A rodent. 13. Substitute for pen 19. You. and ink. 20. Pertaining to the 15. One who guards Navy. X the insane. 21. Company (Abr.). 17. A black bird. 23, To annoy. 18. Autos for hire. 24. Associated Press 22. A number. (Abr.). 24. A beverage. 25. Not to be effaced. 26. Noise made by 24. Thin. babies. We are starting a four-word square for you, and you must complete it. The second line is & word connected with printing, and the last the plural of one connected with writing. The third word is what the door often is. Now it should be easy! STOP X Wo —3— Tliree words connected with writing are con- mnmmm. Can you guess . WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH WRITING a. (] B--[3 e More writing words are found in these word chains. Remember that you can change only one letter at a time. Change POST to CARD in four moves. Change WORD to BLOT in five moves. —5— In this word square, the second line is a ve- hicle, the third is to stupefy and the fourth means great periods of time. Can you form the square? VASE A Good to the Last Draop. An aviator bought a parachute from a new but cbliging salesman. “And if you find it doesn’t, work,” said the young man cordially, “just bring it back and we’ll be glad to give you another.” Much the Same. Pirst Art Student: Say, have thumb tacks? Second Art Student:No, but will a finger mail do? you, any THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 16, 1930. e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Flight From Skeleton Valley. An Air Mishap Leads to Further Adveniures. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. They made out excited figures running along the cars. INSTALLMENT L ARRY NELSON, returning from an enter- tainment in the high-school auditorium, sauntered along the street, drinking in the . balmy air of a California Spring night. Reach- ing the white stucco bungalow where he lived, he took the steps in one stride, pushed open the door and then uitered an exclamation of glad surprise. ning on that,” he answered. “I knew I couldn’t make a flight without taking you along. leave early in the moming and ought t# make it in a couple of hours. That will give us of to look the land over and get back here while it is still daylight.” “Great!” cried Harry. His Uncle George was fiyer and made his nephew go slowly. “Ill stop for you in the car about 7,” Uncle George said before he left that night. *“It will ::_"‘- only a few minutes to run out to the 8ix months before, the prospect of making an airplane flight would have kept Harry awake all night with excitement. But now he consid- ered himself a veteran of the air, and he slept soundly until 6, when his alarm clock aroused him. He found that his mother was already up, however, and had breakfast waiting. There- fore, when at 5 minutes to 7 Uncle George drew up before the house in his roadster, Harry was already. He jumped into the car after a hasty farewell to his parents. > “What in the world is that?” Uncle George demanded, indicating the large box which Harry was carrying. The boy grinned. “Food,” he said. “A thermos bottle of coffee, another of lemonade, gangs of sandwiches and some fruit. Mother doesn't want us to starve.” “She must think we're going to be lost in the desert for s week,” laughed Uncle George, “Well, if your mother packed it, I know it's » A few minutes later they parked the roadster at the airport and hurried out on the field, ‘where Uncle George’s plane was already on the line. He hall telephoned to the airport when he would arrive, and a mechanic had already warmed up the motor. He and Harry fastened on their parachutes, adjusted their helmets and climbed into the cockpit. Uncle George tested the controls. “Stand clear!” he called. “Clear!” came the answer above the yoar of "the motor. Uncle George headed the plane into the wind, rolled down the field for 200 yards and took off perfectly. . Harry gazed down as the field slipped farther and farther away, and then turned his eyes ahead as the plane headed toward the purple mountains lying sharply outlined in the early morning sunshine. He settled down with his head protected from the rush of the wind and prepared to enjoy the flight to the full. Climbing high, they passed far above the first low ranges of the mountain, and for more than an hour flew steadily eastward. Harry had made this much of the flight before, s0 he was able to pick out the railroad line below. He was watching for Skeleton Valley, that desolate waste of desert sand, once a hive of busy gold- mining activities, but now completely deserted, even to its towns, which stood just as they had been left when vacated years before. The old mining towns, where life had been cheap and death sudden in the old days, always appealed to the boy's imagination. He hoped that some Straining to watch the ground below, Harry suddenly uttered an exclamation which was Jost in the roar of the motor. Then he caught Uncle George’s attention and painted down. “Train wreck!” he screamed. Gazing down they could barely make out the tracks of the railroad passing through a rugged gap in the mountain, but even from this height they could sze that a train was stopped on the track, its engine overturned. Uncle George dived as low as safety would permit, and they made out excited figures running along the cars. Then the plane climbed again and they continued on their way. Harry did not need to be told that a landing here was impossible, even if they thought that might be to the passengers on the wrecked train many hours later he was to remember that was of firm ground on the outskirts of the little town of Calpass. Harry saw what had been a “I wouldn't be at all surprised if this would ey some day,” said Uncle “But we may have to wait a long time.” 'x'l;ey returned to Calpass and Uncle George spent the early hours of the afternoon talking ‘to various real estate men. Then, satisfied, they returned to the plane and prepared for the re- turn journey. Uncle George examined the tank, decided that he would put in more gas for safety and arranged to have it hauled from & nearby filling station. Then, while they wait- ed, they drank lemonade nad munched sand- wiches. They had eaten lunch in a restaurant in the town, When the tank had been filled, Uncle George looked the plane over carefully. and warmed the motor. A few moments later they were in the air again, headed for ! ome. An hour out, Harry noticed that Uncle George was studying the horizon carefully. Fol- lowing his eyes, the boy saw ominous-looking clouds plling up there. Uncle George gave the motor all the gas it would take, and they flew at tremendous over the moun speed around which the shadows had already started to gather, A (To be continued next Sunday.) 2. Why is life the greatest of riddles? 3. What Fves when you give it hay, but dies when you give it water? -« is 4. Why is a lace shoe noisier than a button shoe? 5. What woman can never go out alone. ANSWERS. 1. A noise. 2. Because sooner or later we all must give it up. 3. A fire. 4. Because it has a tongue. 5. Mrs. Anderson (And her S0R), . El Comancho’s Campfire Stories. H©OW would you like to meet a wild grissly bear face to face? If you did, probably you would run to some safe place as fast as you could go. Well, once I met not mm,mmmmnmmm: in a row on a narrow rock shelf on the Ciff a thousand feet high. A there would have meant death. 3 Tun, either! I simply stood still and talked to the big old bear that was leader. Probably you would not have doné that, but it you did not, it would be because you didi’t know bears. Besides, I couldn't very well do anything else. E J its tripod went to work. Immediately I dheovuedtutthetouollomeo!thew me stuck up into the picture 1. Oross-Word Pussle Solution. ] 0] EEEC > mfr] EUSHEE WD ; t—cart—CARD. WORD. ~wood--food, foot, boot—BLOT. e 5. The word. square is vase, auto, stun and ¥ eons.