Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1931, Page 91

STORIES SPORTS, @ GAMES PUZZLES g Tms week we have a picture word square to use as & “warmer-up.” It shouldn’t be hard for you. PICTURE WORD il Take a four-letter word for a kind of cloth. Add L, rearrange the letters, and form dex- terity. Take a four-letter word for cleanse, add L, rearrange the letters, and get a wrap for the shoulders. =8 What are the universities below? The letters are all jumbled up, and it will be quite a job to straighten them out properly. 1. SCARY SUE. 2. BULL NECK. 3. UP RUDE. 4. FORD ANTS. —4— Behead a word for wander and get a shallow receptacle; behead again and get a beam of light. Behead divide and get an animal; behead again and get a part of the verb “to be.” Gl CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. The definitions: HORIZONTAL. . The Keystone State (abbr.). . Barrier in a river. . Exists. . Abnormal $emperature . Whirl, . Relate. . Title of respect. . Era. . Not on. . Printer’s measures. Companions. . Pertaining to the mouth. . Belonging to you. . Behold! . Utilize. . Beside. VERTICAL. . A cat. . Animal’s lair. . Average (abbr.). . Encountered. . Bottom of the foot. . Lightning bug. . Perusers. . Greek letter used in mathematics. . Left guard (abbr.) . Unusual. . A semi-precious stone. . Musical note, . Mother, . Kill, . Smalil French coin. . Native metal. . We. Hereditary Reasons She—No one understands me. He—No wonder. Your mother was a tele- phone operator and your father a train an- mouncer. " G4e BOYS and | GIRLS PAGE Beacons on Bar 4 Ranch Story of Adventure Near the Mexican Border BY W. BOYCE MORG AN. One night when Clff Stover's visit on the Circle Y ranch in the Southwest 1s drawing to a close, he is awakened by the sound of a plane flying very low overhead. With Obie Young. son of the owner of the ranch, he rushes outside to ree the plane e land on the ranch, then climb agai Howeve motor stops a minute later, and they think plane has crashed on the adjoining Bar 4 ranch. Going there to investigate, they find t the mys- terious Mr. Granville. who lives on tt an lit beacon fires to guide the plane down. The boys sec¢ five figures around the plane, but only three are left when they approach closer. The pilot says he is carrying mail and was forced down by engine ville orders them off his land. but before they go trouble, but the boys know he is lying. Mr. Gran Oble, who is close to the plane, hears a P2, inside it. Baffled, the boys tell the story to father, who says he thinks the plane is smuggling in lam-ns from Mexico in defiance of the immigration aws, INSTALLMENT 1V. S they hurried back to the ranch house, Mr. Young explained his theory of the plane’'s presence. “Airplane smuggling is quite a problem for the immigration offi- cials,” he pointed out. “A fiyer picks up a couple of fereigne:s down below the Mexican line, and flies across with them at night. There is no way of stopping them, and they don't land until they are far enough from the border to be safe. Then they land the foreigners at some out-of-the-way spot, and go back for another load when they get the chance. “But how do they make any money out of 1t? demanded CIiff. “They charge foreigners heavily for bringing them in. Or, in the case of Chinese and Mexi- cans, they sometimes put them to work and then collect a huge commission from their pay. It is a devilish system, and should be broken up. And if that's why Granville has taken the Bar 4 ranch, I'm going to see that he doesn't get away with it.” With these words Mr. Young strode to the telephone and put in a call to town, where he asked to be connected with Sheriff Leighton. A moment later, after he had apologized for getting the sheriff out of bed, the boys heard him explaining the events of the evening, and his suspicions as to what was going on. he replaced the receiver and turned to the boys. “The sheriff is coming right out with a couple of men,” he said. “I'll have to stay up to guide them over there, but you two boys might as well go back to bed.” This suggestion was greeted with howls of protest. “Pa!” said Obie in an outraged voice. “You wouldn't make us do that. Why we were the ones that started this business, and we want to see it through. Don't we, Clff?” *We certainly do,” agreed CIiff. “And look here, pa,” went on Obie, “how do you know that those fellows might not get away while we are waiting for the sheriff? Maybe they are a little worried since we were over there. I think Clff and I should go back over there, hide, and keep an eye on them.” “Maybe you're right,” said Mr. Young, con- cealing a smile at the boys’ eagerness. “Sup- pose you do that, but keep out of sight. Re- member, if these men are really smugglers, they are dangetrous.” The boys were already out of the house. They scrambled into their saddles again, and in a few minutes had reached the fence where they had left their horses before. This time they were careful not to be seen, and as they approached the temporary landing field they took to crawling instead of walking. Finally they crept up over the last rise, from which they could see the field. beacon fires had burned low, and the moon had also dropped lower in the sky, 8o that it was now quite dark. It was hard for them to make anything out on the field, but at last they saw the men clustered around the plane. One of them seemed to be working at the landing gear, “Look!” cried Cliff. “They have wheeled the plane down to one ernd of the field and they ‘are facing the wind. I1 bet that when they get that wheel fixed they will try to take ofl.” “Then we must stop them!” said Obie. “But how?” . “If we could cripple the plane some way,” suggested ClfT. “I've got it!" cried Obie. “That old plane has a wooden propeller. I read once where a plane was wrecked when a bird flew into the propeller. The blades spin so fast that if any- thing hits them they crack and tear themselves to pieces. If I could get up close to throw a good sized stone after they get the prop spin- ning that would fix them!” “But can we do it?” said Cliff. “Let's try,” replied Obie shortly. ready to make a quick retreat.” Without another word the boys began te work their way slowly arcund the little landing field and up the other side. They were aided now by the increasing darkness, but even so, it took the better part of half an hour for them to get into position. Obie had laid his plans carefully. They were now concealed in a little dip in the earth. As soon as the plane started to move, if it did, he would dash out in front of it and throw the big stone he was holding full into the spinning blades of the propeller. “But be AITING was almost intolerable, once they were ready for their daring exploit, but the pilot worked on and on at the landing gear of the plane. Only three men were in evidence, so the boys judged the others were hidden inside. At last the pilot straightened up, satisfied. Then there was a breathless minute while he walked down the field, examining the ground preparatery to taking off. Satisfied, he returned and climbed into the cockpit. One of the other men spun the propeller, and after a couple of attempts the motor began to roar. “All ready?” whispered Cliff. Obie clutched his rock tightly and nodded grimly. The motcr of the plane roared more loudly and the wheels began to turn slowly. Obie scrambled to his feet and, with Cliff at his heels, ran straight toward the machine, now gathering speed and bearing down on them. There was a shout as the men saw the boys. The plane was almost upon them. With all his might Obie hurled the rock straight at the spin- ning blades. There was a loud cracking report, the motor raced madly, then was retarded, and from the plane came crics of mad rage. “I got it!” cried Obie. “Now run for your life!” The two boys turned and raced across the field, toward their ewn ranch and their ponies. But they had not even reached the field when the shouts behind them were punctured by the crash of a forty-five and a bullet whined over their heads. (To be concluded next Sunday.) Survivor of Seven I} onders RAVELERS in the time of Alexander the Great selected the seven most marvelous works of the day and called them the Seven Wonders of the World. These Seven Wonders were the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gar- dens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympi, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos (light house) at Alexandria, Of these great accomplishments, only the Pyramids remain in anything like their original form today. Fragments of the Mausoleum and the Temple of Diana still exist, but the Hang- ing Gardens are completely gone, and the frag- ments of the Colossus of Rhodes, which was ruined by an earthquake in 224 B.C., were sold for old metal many centurjes later. < The Temple of Diana was the fourth and most magnificent of a series of shrines erected at Ephesus. It was set on fire in 356 B.C. by a man named Herostatus, who did it just so his name might always be remembered! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 11, 1931, CRAFTS JOKES 3 PUZZLES 3 POSERS Each of the names in the lefi-hand column belongs with one of the words to the right, but at present they are are all mixcd up. Can you tell which name belongs to a sea, which to a mountain, and so forth? McKinley Gulf Geneva Bay Hatteras River Biscay Island Rhone Sea Caspian Mountain Pudget Lake Mojave Sound Aden Cape Sumatra Descrt. ANSWERS. Moeunt McKinley, Lake Geneva, Cape Hate teras, Bay of Biscay,y Rhone River, Caspian Sca, Pudget Sound, Mojave Descrt, Gulf of Aden. Island of Sumatra. CoENnUALNR b fdl'i//g (z'o/f Balls ‘T requires 132 separate operations to prodmce ne golf ball, the mos ring in all sport. ball gots its start in varieus South ican countries, where balata, the mae rial used for the cover of the ball, is pro= duced. Balata is tapped from trees and sent to this country in huge. gummy cakes. After he 1g, chilling, and refining, it looks like so much cottage cheese. After being mixed with crepe rubber and white pigment, it is pressed into flat sheets. Tkrese are then molded into hemispheres, each of which makes up halfe the covering of a goif ball, As for the interior of the ball, this is made in several different ways. Some are of hard rubber, but the highest grade s have a core cf molded liquid. These cores are prepared by chiiling and thawing certain chemicals in a refrigcrator. Then the winding process is started by hand, later to be carried on by winding machines. i In winding, taut rubber thread is used, this having been specially prepared. Many yards of it are required for one ball. During this and preceding steps, the ball must undergo dozens of tests for size, resiliency, weight and so forth. When these are completed, its balata cover is put on. The threaded core is placed be- tween two of the balata hemispheres and drop- ped into a baking pan, where it is heated to 260 degrees. At the same time the indentions are put in. After this it is painted with white enamel, trade marked, and decorated by hand, The next time you are caddy, remember all the work that goes into a golf ball. Perhaps that will make you watch it more carefullgpl Trees Tell Fire Stories Fires have been the enemy of American forests for many years. Long before the come ing of Columbus, blazes started by lightning or by warring Indian tribes, swept through the virgin woods, destroying everything. How do we know this? The records are found in the trees themselves, Provided that a tree is merely scarred and not killed by a fire, it lays down a new layer of wood around the scar within a year. The next year another layer is formed, and so on every year. until the scar is completely covered by new wood. Thus it is now possible to tell just when an ancient tree was scarred by fire by the simple process of counting the layers of wood covering the scar. And from these records we know that there were great fires in Ameriean forests many hundreds of years ago. In fact, the giant stquoias of California tell us an accurate story of severe fires in the years 245, 1441, 1581 and 1797. Most A nooving Stout Woman—I want to return this waslie inz machine, Salesman—Why, what's . wrong with it? Stout Woman—Every time I get in the thing the paddles knock me off my feet! Office Boy—There's a salesman outside with a moustache. Boss—Tell him I've already got a moustache, ANSWERS. 1. The square is hare, ahoy. rose and yes. 2. Silk, add L, form skill. Wash, add L, form shawl. 3. Syracuse, Bucknell, Purdue and Stanford. 4. S-t-ray. S-h-are. 5. Cross-word puzzle Solution.