Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1930, Page 113

STORIES SPORTS ] GAMES PUZZLES gl In the Winter scene below there are articies which begin with the letter S. How many of them can you find? There are at leas" 14, - And now how many different words can you form from the letters in WINTER? Rearrange them any way you like, but each letter can be used only once in one word. There are 30 words in our answer—can you make as many? sl Remove the middle letter from a part of a flower and get to ring. Remove the middle Jetter from a dervish and get beautiful. e Each of the following queer-looking words is en article of clothing worn in Winter, but the letters have been jumbled up. Can you straighten them out! 1. VACOROTE. 2. FELFRUM. 3. SEGSHOAL. 4. BOSULE. P CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. . The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. . Sorcery. . Scheme. . A flowering gar- ment, . Help. . Insane. . Hurried. . Country road. . Dish. . Sour, biting. . Atmosphere. . A playing card. . Vehicle used in Snow. . Gang of workers. . Darkness. . By way of. VERTICAL. . To lie in warmth., 16. Tree yielding & . Lubricate. poison. . A small bird. 17. Created. . Wagon. 18. State of in- . Frozen moisture. sensibility. . Like dew. 19. Yield, surrender. . Large, low sofa. 21. Part of the . Seat. mouth. A kind of rowboat. 23. To forbid. ANSWERS. 1. Sun, skis, slope, snow, scarf, sweater, stockings, shore and stripe. 2. Win, wit, wine, wire, wet, weir, went, wren, writ, write, in, inert, inter, it, ire, nit, niter, new, net, tin, tine, tire, tie, tier, ten, tern, en, ern, rite and rent. 3. Pe-t-al. Fa-k-ir. 4. Overcoat, muffler, galoshes and blouse. 5. Cross-word puzzle solution. snowshoes, sled, shoes, skates, sign, SEEE [t THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 14, 1930. GYe BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Through the Rebel Lines. An Excitiflg Story of a Central American Revolution, For a breathless moment it seemed that the ruse would work. Paul Pield goes to the little Central American republic of San Miguel to visit his brother Leonard, who represents an American mining machinery com- pany there. Leonard tells him that there is danger of & revolution to be led by Pancho Torrez, a des- perado active in the mountains. As Paul and Leonard are driving up the hill to Leonard’s home, situated ust below the presidential palace, they have a col- ision with Senorita Isabelia Guardia, the President’s daughter, who blames the accident on them and is very angry. That evening the police come and take Leonard’'s car, which spoils his plans to take Paul out to_see the government mines on_ the following day. However, Senorita Guardia realizes that she has been unjust to her American neighbor and insists on taking them out in her car. She has been abroad for several years, in Europe and the United States, and is annoyed at the restrictions placed on the President’s daughtes in San Miguel. They reach the mines to find all the buildings burned to the ground and no signs of life visible, BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. INSTALLMENT IIL N a moment Leonard had piloted the car close to the ruins and they jumped ouf. Then they saw what had es- caped their vision before. - In front of what had been the office building lay the bodies of two men. Leonard ran forward and bent over them. When he straightened up his face was grim. “Shot!” he said. “They are both dead. Some- body will pay for this!” They stood aghast, wondering what it meant. Then Leonard went on, “These were two of our men—Americans—supervising the installation of new machinery in the mines. There was only one other American here, and that was Carter, the superintendent. I wonder——" “Listen!” Paul held up a hand. Then they 2l heard it—a feeble cry from somewhere be- hind the ruins. They rushed forward, and Paul noticed that Leonard went first, and that his hand was clutching that automatic in his coat pocket. Behind a pile of smoldering timbers they came upon Carter. He was sitting upright against an unburned tree stump, and as they came closer they saw that his face was deathly pale with pain. “Carter!” burst out Leonard. happened?” “Pancho Torrez,” replied the wounded mine “What has superintendent in a voice that was bitter, though feeblé. “He dropped in on us yesterday with several hundred of his cut-throats. 1It's the revolution sure this time, Mr. Pield. He made all the workers here quit, and when I objected, and Hagen and Collins stood by me, ° they opened up on us. The other two boys are - dead, but they just winged me.” Leonard said something under his breath. “And where did Torrez go?” he demanded. “He’s headed for the capital,” replied Carter. “Ought to be almost there by now. Probably his army—yes, he's got enough of them to call it an army—will rest a while just outside the city and go in tonight. And believe me, they mean business.” LEONARD gazed down at Carter. Obviously the man was very weak from loss of blood. He needed medical attention at once. Then Leonard turned and looked into the white faces of Paul and Senorita Guardia. “We've got to get out of here—and fast!” he said. “Evidently Torrez and his army took another route to the city, because we saw nothing of them on our way here. Therefore we may have a chance in getting back there if we hurry.” He turned to the girl. “Senorita,” he said, “you must realize what this means. - If ‘Torrez were to capture you he could at once force your father to resign, and the revolution would be immediately successful. But he may not know you by sight, and even if we are stopped along the road we may get througk. At any rate, we've got to try it. We can't stay here, that's certain.” Then he turned to Paul. into the car,” he directed. ‘The big roadster had a roomy rumble seat. “Let's get Carter They helped the wounded man into it, and at Leonard’s direction Paul got in beside him. “1 want to drive,” Leonard said, “and I want the senorita up by me, where she will have better protection if—if we run into trouble® Paul nodded. He realized that if trouble came and with it shooting, the rumble seat might be a dangerous location. But rather to his own surprise he was not frightened. He had immense confidence in his brother, and to tell the truth the excitement of this day had him keyed to a point where fear seemed entirely out of place. THEY got into the car and Leonard swung it about to head back to the city. Almost at once Carter, sitting in the seat beside Paul, let his head fall forward on his chest. Now that the strain of waiting to be found was over he had fainted. Paul examined the crude and blood-soaked bandage that the mine super- intendent had wrapped about his wounded arm, but saw that he could do nothing now to im- prove it. Senorita Guardia had raised the back curtain so that they could talk with less difficulty. “I think we’ll get through,” Leonard was saying. “We may run into part of Torrez’ army patrolling this road closer to the city. But there is hardly a chance that they will recog- nize you, Senorita Guardia, and we may be able to convince them that we are all Americans. If they have any sense they won’t harm us.” Paul thought these words over and came to the conclusion that Leonard was merely trying to calm any fears that the girl might have. For, thought Paul, if they stop us they’ll see Carter and realize that we know what's up. And they certainly won't let us get into the city and give the government soldiers the alarm. Moreover, the fact that the rebels had already killed two Americans and wounded a third did not lead Paul to believe that they might show any great consideration for them. As Leonard pushed the car rapidly over the rough road, therefore, Paul was hoping with all his might that they would get through without encountering any of the rebels. For a time it seemed that they would. Then when they had reached a point some six or seven miles outside the city they saw a half dozen horsemen in the road before them. Leonard drove slowly forward, cautioning the others not to do any talking. Paul felt a little shiver run up and down his spine as he regarded the sinister faces of the rough men who now blocked the Toad. Finally Leonard brought the car to a stop and the leader of the band ad- dressed him. Leonard explained in Spanish who he was, and told a plausible story about going to the mine and finding the superintendent shot— evidently in some kind of quarrel with the workers. They were taking him to the hospital in the city, he said. For a breathless moment it seemed that the ruse would work. Then one of the other horsemen rode up and said some- thing to the leader in Spanish. At the words Leonard started. “Then how does it happen that you are driv- ing a car of the official government?” said the leader in an evil voice. “It is best that we take you to Pancho Torrez to explain.” Leonard had forgotten all about the license plates of the car, which bore an emblem show- ing that it was the property of the president! To Be Continued Next Sunday, Appropriate. Aviator (entering clothing store): “I'd INke some flying clothes.” Bright Clerk: “O. K. We’ll start you off with & wing collar.” - RIDDLES One of these days when it is much too eold and stormy to be outside stay in by the fire and exercise your brain by figuring out the answers to the riddles we have for you this week. " 1. Why is a defeated army like wool? 2. How does a boy look if you hurt him? 3. When is a cow not a cow? 4. Why does a woman press a street car button with her thumb and a man with his finger? - 5. What is the difference between a cat and & match? ANSWERS. 1—Because it is worsted. 2—It makes him yell “Oh” (yellow). 3—When it is turned into a pasture. 4—To stop the car, of course, 5— The cat lights on its feet, and the match om its head. —t Comancho’s Campfire Stories. Everybody notices the winds, which blow where they please without let or hindrance whether they be gentle Summer zephyrs or violent Winter gales. But how many peopls really know anything about winds or why they blow? Very few, outside of those who have business with the winds and must therefore understand them. The people who do know winds are usually sailors, aviators or perhaps farmers—strange as that may seem at first glance. But we must remember that farmers own windmills, grow crops that are affected by wind and have to be out in all kinds of weather, windy or other- wise. Now winds are nothing but currents of air in motion, and they were once supposed to be air rushing to some place to fill a vacuum caused by a mysterious something that a storm did to normal air! Today most people realize that a wind is like a swift river in its ways. It makes “holes in the air” for the aviator because it twists, rolls or swirls up, down and across just as water does below a waterfall or a dam, If we could see air as we can see water the winds. could be seen to act much as water does, only much more swiftly. But we still would not know how and why these wind currents start to move. When the weather gets hot it will probabiy, through air expansion, create a current of wind which will whirl about a center just as you have seen water whirl in a whirlpool. The movement will be in a direction opposite to that traveled by the hands of a clock. Our air pool, however, will spin upside down, the center traveling upward into high altitudes, ing the heat with it. Such a whirlpool may a thousand miles across, and after it gets whirling its center usually begins to travel eastward. Then the weather department locates it and calls it a “low-pressure disturbance” and keeps track of its movements and progress. If the wind is blowing 50 miles an hour this fact is recorded and the weather man issues a forecast in which. he predicts the direction of travel, the temperature, and also whether or not it may develop into “high intensity.” This means that the wind travels even faster, up to 100 miles an hour. Such a storm is known as a "bw-prusl'e cyclonic disturbance,” and its intensity : is measured by the speed of the wind, which de- termines whether it is a breeze, a wind or a gale. Our “lows” of this nature usually eome out of the Northwest, they occur more oftcn in Winter than in Summer, #ind they bring us most of our snow and some of our rain. The “high” of the weather reports is also a cyclonic disturbance, which means that it s a whirling storm funnel-like in shape. The low- pressure storm is more or less warm, but the high is always cold, for-it whirls downward from high altitudes. It spreads out over the ground in every direction from the center and thus makes our cold waves, while the “low” sucks inward to the center and then upward, thus making our storm winds that bring rain and snow. Sitting on a Bottle. Why tell your friends to “go sit on a tack” when you can have them sit on a bottle and provide everybody with a good laugh? Take a round quart bottle, such as a milk bottle, or one holding two quarts, and place it on the floor on its side. Then the person who Is to try the stunt must sit on the bottle with his legs extended straight in front of him, and ;.he neck of the bottle pointing toward the ront. From this position, he must raise his legs from the floor and, while balancing himse}® write his name on a piece of paper. Do you think it’s easy? Try it at your next partyy and if it doesn’t make you laugh you should see a doctor to have your funny bone examined! . Correction, Willle: “There was a burglar In our howmse Jast night.” Teacher: “And what did your father do undef® those circumstances?” Willie: “He wasn't under the circumstances —he was under the bed.”