Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1933, Page 76

PUZZLES 2= HIS is the picnic season, so we are present- ing an appropriate picture in which our artist has included 2 number of articles begin- ning with the letter B. How many of them can you find? You should get at least 20, but it will not be any picnic! We will stay on the picnic theme long enough to try a word diamond. The second line is a prefix signifying wrong or amiss, the third is a kind of coffee, the fifth is to polish and the sixth is a playing card. Can you form the diamond? » I [¢] PICNICS I Cc S Sl In the sentence below, the missing words are spelled differently, but pronounced the same. What are they? He heard the church ——————— announcing ‘hc marriage of the town's leading —————, i Remove the middle letter from a leafy shel- ter and get a colonist in South Africa. Re- mowe the middle letter from the shore and get the expense. - § CROSS WORD PUZZLE. HORIZONTAL. . Past, gone by. . Secret observer. . Male children. . Part in a play. . Place (abbr.) Mound of earth used in golf, . We. . Tracts of woodland. . Southern State (abbr.) . Symbol used in mathematics, . Imagined. . You and I. . Received. 3 . The sun god. . Rabbit. . Prepare for printing. . Metal in its native state. Open (poetic). VERTICAL . A serpent. . Popular sport. . Upon. . Therefore. 5. Mathematical sign. . Affirmative. Unusual. . Postponement, delay. 2. Electrical engineer (abbr.) 5. Eggs. . Bind. . Alarm. . Company (abbr.) . To drop slowly, as water. . Relative pronoun, . Dined. . Concerning. . Perform. Why is an empty purse always the same? Because you mever find any change in it, Mrs. Cat (leaving home. fn anger) —Fere- Mell; from now gn I shall lead my own lives. N, D. €, MAY 21, 1933.° { ©4e BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Tragedy at Beaver Basin Story of Boy Flyer Who Helped Newspaper Reporter Gray caught him and swung him around. “Youw've got to take me!” he cried " angrily. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. “Lirdy” d'?lee.re he ,'u once grounded for low flying because ish prank. Syd Gray, reporter for the Con- :(nu. t??,cuyp Messenger, had given him a _lot of unpleasant notoriety as a result, but Betty Kerr, & reporter for the Express. wriles a fine story about Lindy s wins his undying gratitude by omitting any mertion of the grounding incident. That same night, during a rain that has lasted for days. the dam up in the hills at Beaver Basin bursts. carrying death and destruction to the little village below. The next morning all available planes and pilots leave Oonnaught City to carry doctors and medi- cine to the stricken village. Betty Kerr has & seat reserved in the last plane to leave. but Syd Gray tricks her, and the plane leaves without her. To save her from being scooped on the story, Lindy consents to fly her to Beaver Basin in the Yellow Peril, an old training ship, which is the only plane left at the fleld. They have a perilous trip through the rain and when they get over the ruined village they see that two of the other planes have cracked up in landing. It is up to Lindy to bring his plane down safely. INSTALLMENT IV. INDY nosed the plane downward with the greabest care, trying to pick out the best part of the field, but that was almost impossible because of the mud and water that obscured its surface. He passed over it twice, however, then turned and floated back toward the treacherous earth. Nearer and nearer to the ground came his landing wheels. Then they barely touched, bounced slightly, then hit again and rolled safely. A moment later he had checked the forward motion of the ship. They were down! Two or three men at once ran up to the plane. Mr. Hagen, manager of the airport, was among them. “I thought that was the Yellow Peril,” he cried, by way of greeting. “What do you think you are doing up here, Lindy?” In s few words Lindy explained, aided by Betty’s emphatic remarks about Syd Gray. Mr. Hagen shook his head dubiously. “Well, it was a risky thing to do, kid. But you're here safely, and that’s thé main thing.” “The main thing now,” Betty ocontradicted, “is to get this story and get back to Connaught - City before Syd Gray can get there.” Mr, Hagen smiled wryly. “It will be quite & while before he gets back, I'm afraid,” he sald. “The plane I was flying nosed over when we landed. Not much damage done and nobody hurt at all, but the propeller snapped. And Gray won't get a place in any of the other ships because we've got to use them to get the badly injured to hospitals as soon as possible.” “Whoops!” shouted Betty. “That’s just what he gets for pulling that rotten trick on me. I hope he's stranded up here for a week!” T!l.‘ Betly began the none-too-pleasant job of gathering the facts about the disaster. Over half the inhabitants of the little village, she learned, had been swept to death by the first rush of the raging water from the dam. Most of the others were injured, some geriously. Not & building was left intact and most of them had been swept down the narrow valley by the force of the flocd. . She worked busily, gathering facts and eye- witness stories, taking pictures with the camera that she had brought with her. In the mean- time Lindy found plenty to do. Doctors were working busily over the injured and rigging up makeshift cots for them in the cabin planes. Finally one plane, a big three-motored trans- port, was ready, and Lindy watched as its pilot undertook the perilous job of getting it and its precious cargo up off the rough, muddy field. He did it, but only after the hearts of the watchers had been in their throats more once. Lindy was about to turn to some task when he felt a hand on his elbow. turned and gazed into the surprised face of Gray. “How did you get up here?” demanded reporter. It was evident that he had not yet encountered Betty. “I flew up,” shot back Lindy. “What did you think I did?” He was purposely impudent, for he had no use for Syd Gray after the trick he had played on Betty. “Don’t get smart now,” said Gray in an ugly voice. “Did you come alone?” “No, I didn’t come alone,” replied Lindy. *I brought Betty Kerr up, and, what's more, Fm going to take her back! So your dirty trick isn’t going to do you a bit of good.” YD had said something in an explosive voiee when Betly’s name was mentioned. Now he stood chewing his lip angrily for a moment. Then he turned and hurried away. Lindy stood watching him. The reporter rushed over to Mr. Hagen and talked earnestly to him. Mr. Hagen shook his head and pointed to the broken propeller of the plane in which Gray had arrived. Gray then moved om and talked to the other pilots. Lindy, wesiching, could see that he was having no luck, “I suppose he’s trying to get one of the boys to take him back instead of some injured man,” Lindy muttered scornfully. -Finally, Gray, evidently at his wits’ end, turned and hurried back to Lindy. .“Look here, Lindy,” he said in & persussive veice, “I've simply got to get back to Connaught City. No other ship is leaving soon, and there’s not room for me anyway. How about taking me back now? You can come back and get Betty later.” “Nothing doing* he Lindy smiled grimly. said briefly. “Now listen, Lindy,” Gray went om, “you can be a sport, can't you? I'll make i#t worth your while, Tell you what I'll do. My paper will pay you $50 if you'll take me back right now. Fifty dollars is a lot of money.” INDY turned away. “Not interested,” he shot over his shoulder. Gray ocsught him and swung him around. “You've got to take me!” he oried angrily. “I'll give you one more chance. It's worth $100 if we leave now and $50 more if you forget to come back for Betty Kerr. How about it?* “I wouldn't carry a rat like you back for $1,000!” Lindy shot back. “Now let me alone!” Gray stood for a moment, cursing loudly, At that instant Lindy saw Betty hurrying to- ward the field and he watched her for a few seconds, until she saw him and waved. Then he turned, and suddenly he leaped into action, He had just seen Syd Gray, and Gray, while Lindy's back was turned, had hurried®over to the Yellow Peril. He had almost reached it when Lindy noticed him. “Get away from that ship, Gray!” Lindy screamed. As he raced toward the plane, Gray reached it and tried to scramble up to the cockpit. Lindy dashed up at that moment and grabbed his shoulder. “Take your hands off me!” roared Gray, his face working with fury. “If I'm not going to get back to Comnaught City with this story you can be sure you’ll never get Beity Kerr back, either. Not in this plane!” (To be comcluded next Sunday.) YCRAFTS JJOKES PUZZLES, RIDDLES 1. When was it that there were only two vowels, instead of the five we now have? 2. Scientists digging in old ruins in Southern Europe came upon a very ancient-looking coin marked “690 B.C.” How did they know it was & fake? 3. The rich man wants it, the poor man has it, the miser spends it and the spendthrift saves it. We fear it more than death, and we take it with us when we die. What is it? 4. When is a man said to have four hands? 5. When day breaks, what becomes of the pieces? ANSWERS. 1. In the days of Noah (no A) before U and I were born. 2. Because nothing was ever la- beled “B.C.” until “AD.” 8. Nothing—The rich man wants nothing, the poor man has nothing, the miser spends nothing and the spendthrift saves nothing. We fear nothing more than death, and we take nothing with us when we die. 4. When he doubles his fists. 5. It goes into mourning (morning). I He Whistled” Continued from Fifth Page the floor. Margot left him, She walked to the window and came back to him. Then she lifted her chin and laughed—quite lightly. “Well, 1 must say that's nice,” said Bill. “I really didn't think, Margot, you'd—" “My dear chap,” cut in Margot casually, “you bore me!” “I really dicn't think you'd take it like that, Margot,” Bill insisted wonderingly. “I mean— Y've admitted I've been the fool of the world— #t's not like you to go on and on about it.g And we did have such a swell time—"- “Yes,” said Margot. “But it was sort of siily. A lot of young-love-in-the-moonlight. R wasn't very important.” “No,” agreed Bill. “Look at the dinosaur, R probably thought it was important once. But that isn’t the point. The point is—" Margot tossed in another light laugh. Then, turning_her .head so that she was staring out of the window, she spoke again. “D’you mind frightfully if we talk of some- thing else? Good books, or the theater.” “Oh—all right!” said Bill, They were very polite t0 each other after that. She said she had to be running along. “Well—Bill—" “Well—Margot——" “I guess Luke wouldn't like my coming here =much,” she said abruptly. “Y guess that means you won't come again,” said Bill. She was half way down the rickety stairs before there was another whistle, It followed —shrilly—after her name, Bill was leaning over the balustrade, beckoning her back. He had her in his arms. “Now, see here,” be was saying, “it’s crasy to end it this way just because I've been a sap and you're being a sap—don’t you realise it's crasy? You love me and the Lord knows I love you. I just had & temporary lapse and I'm not going to pay for it with spoiling Both our lives.” “So you whistled for me,” sald Margot slowly. “Why, yes,” said Bill. “You were half way down the stairs and I can't sing.” “Anyhow,” said Margot, “you had to whistle for me twice, didn't you?” S It was good to be back in his arms. “H'mm . . . What are you talking about? What does that matter, Margot?” Margot sighed. “It won't be much,” she said, “but it will be something to tell Corelle Jomes.” {Coprright. 1833.) . Auntie (o little niece): They tell me you had & toothache yesterday. Does it still hurt? Little Niece: I don't know, suntie. Ammntie: Don’t know? Surely you do. Idttle Niece: No, I dom't, the dentist has 1% now. ANSWERS, 1. Box, basket, boy, birds, bottle, bow, bucket, beg. ball, bat, bait, beach, beacon, breakers, buoy, buttons, belt, binoculars, beret, bars. 2. The diamond is P, mis, Mocha, picnics, shine, ace and S. 3. Bell, belle. 4. Bo(w)er. Co(a)st. 5. Cross-word ruzzle solution: 0L ] flfi@g MO ><|O0 Ofv) M6V Z1>]0{Alu)] [e)® (i M ={- 0|>[M] |