Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1931, Page 81

e’ We will start off this week’s puzzle with a picture in ‘which are hidden some familiar musical terms. THREE MUSICAL TERM e (S Next comes a word diamond built about *musical.” The second word means to confer knighthood upon, the third is gave medicine, the fifth is a girl’s nickname, and the sixth is 24 hours. Can you complete the diamond? M U s MUSICAL C A L T And now for some musical word chains. Re- member that only one letter can be changed st a time, and each change must form a real word. Change SOLO to PART in five moves, Change TONE to BEAT in five moves. =il How many words ean you form from the fetters in “Musical?” The puzzle editor worked hard and got 23, but perhape you can do even better. —5— You won't find this cross word puszle easy, but it will be a lot of fun. CROSS WORD PUZZLE. . Parcel post (abbr.). . Musical note, . Propose. . Animal’s halr, . Meadow. . Alene, . Common vegetable. . Before. . A fountain- beverage. . Place of entry. . Bind. . Measure of lMquids (abbr.). . Worker. . Railway (abbr.). . Advertisement, VERTICAL. . To murmur, as & brook. . Post graduate (abbr.). = pass off something counterfeit. eavenly being. 12. To solicit charity. 15. To lubricate, 16. Precious, 18. OM. 10. Heavy black lguid. Mark of Quality. Customer—Look hers, 't thet a hair in The butter? Waiter—Yes, sie; 88 cow’s hair. We serve one with Dutter to show that B oleomargarine. 213l ' fHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 26, 1931. Son of the Chicf. M‘,qf.a Boy Who Lived Up to His Father’s Reputation. “But right there beyond the bridge they turned to the right.” Bifl Caldwell's father is chief of police in the town of Northridge and this, in combination with Bill's athletic ability, makes him the undis- Flrlud leader among the boys in the town. Then ed Towne, whose father is the great ie Towne, big league base ball manager, moves to Northridge, and Bill at once discovers that Pred is supplanting Pred is well liked, he is Bill's equal or superfor in all kinds of sports, and the fame of father gives him great prestige with everybody. But the rivalry between the bovs is a friendly one. Bill takes his defeats in good part. Then one day as they return from the ball field, they see Buddy Towne, Pred's 5-year-old brother, playing on the sidewalk. A big car drives up and Buddy ie whisked into it, after which the car rolis_away. Realizing that the child had been kidnaped, Bill telephones his father, giving him the license number of the car. The alarm is then broadcast, Fred's father is notified, and Bill and Pred hurry to the police station. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN INSTALLMENT IV. UST as they reached the station, two po- Ncemen were starting out in a car to try to trail the kidnapers and discover just what route they had taken from Northridge. Bill insisted that he and Fred be taken along, and although the officers tried to persuade them not to go, Bill the car, pulled be dislodged. short distance outside of town they picked . An old man was sitting on the the river, fishing. The policemen car, out, and asked him if he big k sedan go by in agreat a short time before. The old man head. the one that made the wrong the bridge,” he sald. Rising he pointed to show just what ued: “About half an hour came out from town, and it was But right there beyond the to the right instead of the I tried to yell at them to tell them that go nowhere, but they was too fast. In a couple of minutes, they discovered their mistake, came out of the road, and took the other road toward Exeter.” important,” said one of the police- . “The fact that they made that wrong shows they aren't familiar with this road. must be strangers in our neighborhood.” pointed out to Pred how easy it would a stranger to make a wrong turn ‘The highway from town crossed idge and swung sharply to the left, another road, paved for only a short dis- bent more gently to the right. This road looked as though it was the road to take, and in a hurry would not notice the road the proper turn. The road to the right ran along the bank of the river, but it was a poor dirt road that led mowhere. A driver making the wrong turn would soon discover his mistake, as the kid- napers evidently had done. highway just outside of town. The money was to be there on the following night by 10 o'clock. If it was, Buddy would be back home safe and sound within a few hours. But if it was not—-—. As soon as Mrs. Towne, her hands trembling with fear, had hung up the receiver, Bill called his father and told him of the call. An im- mediate effort was made to trace it, and it was learned that it had come from a public phone in Exeter. The Exeter police were potified, and at once an intensive hunt for the kidnapers was started in that town. Bill had gone to bed when Mr. Towne arrived that night, but early the next morning the great base ball manager called to see Chief Caldwell. For a long time they discussed the situation and what was to be done. Mr. Towne hated to give into the demands of the abductors, but he feared for Buddy's life if he did not. INALLY Chief Caldwell unfolded a plan. They would obtain the money, earefully marked for identification, and Mr. Caldwell would leave it on the bridge as directed. He would go alone, for the kidnapers had particu- larly warned Mrs. Towne against having the police at the bridge when the money was left. But the road leading into town from the bridge, and the one toward Exeter, would be carefully watched, and every car would be stopped and searched. The plan sounded good, and Mr. Towne agreed to it. Bill and Fred were sworn to absolute secrecy, and Mr. Towne went about obtaining the money, while Chief Caldwell pre- pared his trap. In the meantime, efforts to locate the kidnapers in Exeter and other nearby places went on without interruption. It was a trying, anxious day for the Townes, and for everybody else in Northridge. Other parents, frightened by the bold stroke of the kidnapers, kept their children in the houses, and fearfully locked the doors. Newspaper re- porters from nearby cities, attracted by the prominence of Mr. Towne, began to arrive in Northridge, and it was rumored that private detectives had been sent for. ‘This rumor made Bill rather angry. “I guess Dad doesnt need any outside help on this thing,” he said to Fred. “If anybody can get those kidnapers, he can.” Te Be Conntinued Next Sunday 3 A Good Start. Albertson—Our baby is learning to recite “Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?” Cuthbert—What! Does he say all that? Albertson—Well, not all, but he's got as far as “Baa, baa.” ANSWERS. 2. The diamond is M, dub, dosed, musical, Becky, day, L. 3. BOLO, sole, sore, pare, port, PART. TONE, bone, bond, bend, bead, BEAT. ~BE. i 1 iy 4In[=]Q] "] CINZICIA r[R[C[v) (0[] Q8 o ELd W1 [E3 [ 9| »|m] 0| Culn UE0RE Bl Q2N Qo ; CRAFTS 'JOKES: PUZZLES ; RIDDLES B} 1. Why are fishermen and shepherds like beggars? 2. What roof covers the most noisy tenant? 3. If a man gets up on a donkey, where does he get down from? ‘ 4. What is'it that runs all the way between two towns and never moves? 5. If a man shot at two frogs and killed one, what would the other one do? ANSWERS. 1. Because they live by hook or by crook. 2. The roof of the mouth. 3. From a swan'g breast. 4. A road. 5. Croak. Girant A irs/nps Continued from Fifth Page now in use. If we take the immense saving of time into account, we must come to the con- clusion that nothing will be able to compete with the big plane of the future. OME people think that the airplane still leaves much to be desired in regard to safety. Without going into this question, X will merely express my firm conviction that all the present causes of insecurity will be overe come, as inventors all over the world are grappling with the problem, and that eventually aviation will be just as safe as railways, ships, mctorcars or any other form of transport. Sea travel is by no means absolutely safe; we still hear plenty of shipwrecks, but nobedy sug- gests that this is a reason for limiting maritime transports. While commercial flying is sure to develop' considerably and supplant other methods of locomotion, just as the railway took the place of the stage coach and the steamship took that of the sailing vessel, the airplane is bound to assume the highest importance for itary purposes. The airplane can see everythi and attack everything. To protect oneself against it is almost impossible. Man’'s instinct of self-preservation will Jead him to devise means of defense against air attacks, but he will be only partially successful. The plane can produce clouds of smoke to screen itself from observation. Its engines can be made almost noiseless. With a super-fed engine, it will be able to operate .at great heights where it would be safe from antie aircraft guns and would be virtually invisible, All military meh realize that the airplane has completely changed warfare. At present it is simply an auxiliary of other arms, but in future the other arms will be the servants of the great mechanical contrivances that will dominate the atmosphere. HE airplane can be used for all kinds of purposes. There is no mission which cannot carry out, and what it has accom- plished hitherto is insignificant in comparison with what it will do in the future. My reference to a 1,000-ton plane was ine tentional, as it is by no means impossible to build such a machine. It would be able to carry 2,500 men, or the strength of a regiment of infantry. Reckoning the weight of machine guns, rifles, ammunition, etc., we can say that one of these machines would be able to trans- port a battalion in full marching order. It would carry occupation troops just as a warship carries landing parties. At present, however, we need not occupy our minds with machines of this kind. For the next few years we must go on building and improving planes of more moderate size—a branch of progress which no country ean afford to neglect. Before five years, or perhaps ten, have elapsed, Paris will be brought within 20 hours’ travel of New York by means of 50-ton or even 150-ton planes. Buenos Aires and Tokio will be three or four days’ journey from Paris. Air travel is steadily becoming an accepted fact, and the world is being covered-with a network of air lines. Recent discoveries show that airplanes flying at a 6-mile height may do 400 miles an hour. Greater speed may be attained. Statistics show that air traffic is constantly on the increase for goods, mails amd passengers. The goods that passed through Le Bourget, the Paris airport, last year represented £4.000,000, Costs are decreasing in proportion to the ime provement in materials and the increase in traffic, and they will continue to come down until they are ho higher than in other forms of Jocomotion. All this, of course, is a matter of time, and, in the meantime, we must go on improving our material and increasing the capacity of our air lines. (Copyrieht, 1991.) 4 L Disappointed Lad. President Wilson was a good story teller and did not mind telling jokes on himself. Once, while speaking at Staunton, Va., his birthplace, he observed a small boy pushing and shoving his way through the crowd toward him. The boy finally landed in front of Mr. Wilson and yelled out excitedly, “Where is t? Where is #£7* The President stopped speaking and with g good-natured smile said: “Well, my boy, guess I'm i.” “Oh, pshaw,” the youngster responded, dis- gustedly. “Why, I thought it was a dog fight.” ”