Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1934, Page 78

STORIES SPORTS E GAMES PUZZLES — = HRISTMAS bells will soon ring out, and we're adding one more to the joyful chorus. May it bring you good cheen! A CHRISTMAS BELL. The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. . Falsehood. . Christmas decorations. . Behold! . Mother. . Holy person. . Like. . Affirmative vote. . Steamship (abbr.). . Garden vegetable, . Printer’s measure. . We wish you a merry one, VERTICAL. . Lubricant. . Boy's name. . Kind of tree. . Happiness. . He comes on Christmas Eve. . You must do this to your Christmas dinner. . Embers. . Yes. . Santa Claus (abbr.). . Mathematical quantity. . Near. . Manuscript. (abbr.), g “Holiday” makes the center of our Christmas word diamond The second line is warm, $he third means openings, the fifth is a kind of bear and the sixth is to make a statement. Complete the diamond. H o L HOLIDAY D . T We know you've sent some Christmas cards and we hope your sock is full. So you should be right in the spirit to work these word chains. Change SOCK to FULL in five moves. Change SEND to CARD in four moves. Here's a little rhyme about Christmas, but one vowel has been left out and the words have been run together. Can you read #%? LUDLYNEBYDIDTTTHEHRN PUNDINHISSCKNXMASMRN. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 23, 1934 6he BOYS and GIRLS PAGE The Mysterious Mr. Herzog Another Adventure of Ronnie and Hicky ;H o il £ Or: the threshold stood Mr. Herzog BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Ronnie Duncan, sports editor of the Hamiltonian, Hamilton High School weekly. makes arrangements with Mr. Carter, managing editor of the Evening Journal, to write school news for the Journal at space rates. A few days later the advertising man- ager of the Hamiltonian. while making collections. receives a counterfeit ten-dollar bill. When Ronnie tells Mr. Carter about it he learns that other similar bills have been passed in the neighborhood. Ronnie tries to find out from what store the Hamiltonian received the bill. It might have been Hardy's market. or Silver's confectionery store, where the clerk at the cigar counter remembers receiving a ten-dollar bill from a tall. dark man. Meanwhile a tall, dark man. named Mr. Herzog. has just rented an extra room in the Duncan home. He seems pleasant enough, he comes and goes at odd hours and Ronnie is suspicious of him While running the vacuum cleaner in Mr. Herzog's room on Satur- day morning Ronnie sees a loaded automatic in the top bureau drawer. The bottom bureau drawer is locked and Ronnie determines to learn what is in it. INSTALLMENT IIL ONNIE had now reached the point where he wanted to tell somebody about his suspicions. He thought of consulting his parents, but he knew they would disapprove of his action in looking into the bureau in Mr. Herzog's room. So he decided to talk it over with Hicky. He could hardly wait for Monday morning to arrive. Luckily, Hicky came to town early, and they had a chance to talk before school started. Seated in Gussie, which was parked behind the school building, Ronnie rapidly related the story of the counterfeit bill, of his investigations and of the new roomer in the Duncan home. Hicky listened carefully. “You say the clerk in Silver’s confectionery store remembers get- ting a ten-dollar bill from a tall, dark man?” he repeated. “Yes.” “But how do you know that bill was the counterfeit bill which the Hamiltonian re- ceived?” “I don't know it at all,” Ronnie retorted. “I'm just suspicious that it might be.” “And you think this Mr. Herzog who is rooming at your house may be the tall, dark man who passed the bad money?” “I think there’s a chance of it,” said Ronnie. “Anyway, having a loaded automatic in his bureau drawer is suspicious.” “Yes, it is,” agreed Hicky. “But you're doing an awful lot of guessing without having any real facts.” EAL facts are what I'm after,” Ronnie insisted. “That’s why I want to see what’s in that locked bureau drawer. And here’s my plan. Late tonight, when the rest of the family are asleep and Mr. Herzog is out, I'm going to try to get that drawer open.” “Dangerous business,” warned Hicky. “Sure,” grinned Ronnie. “That's why I'm asking you to come in on it!” Hicky was startled. “Me?” he cried. “Yes, youu I want you to stay with me tonight. We’ll gather up all the small keys in the house and have a piece of wire with us. Then we’ll try our burglarizing. Are you game?” Hickey drew a deep breath. “I think you're nutty,” he said crossly, “but if you insist on doing this crazy thing I guess I'll have to stick with you.” “Great!” cried Ronnie. “If you can get hold of any keys that might fit a bureau, so much the better.” After school that evening Hicky phoned his mother to explain that he was staying with Ronnie overnight. The two boys were just leaving the drug store, where Hicky had made the call, when Mr. Court, proprietor of the Hamilton Men’s Shop, stopped them. “Hello, Ronnie,” said Mr. Court. “Still play- ing detective?” Ronnie grinned. “Sort of,” he confessed. “Well, maybe you'd be interested in knowing that another bad ten-dollar bill turned up this morning. The bank gave me the information. The Peerless Laundry deposited this one. One of their drivers evidently got it on his route, but they haven’t any idea where.” ISCUSSING this new bit of information, the boys climbed into Gussie and drove to Ronnie’s home. Just as they entered the front door they met Mr. Herzog going out. Ronnie introduced Hicky and they chatted for a minute or two. “He doesn’t seem like a counterfeiter to me,” said Hicky, when they were alone again. “Maybe not,” said Ronnie. “But there’s something funny about him. He goes and comes at the queerest times. He certainly doesn’t work at any ordinary job.” Somehow they managed to pass the evening. When they went to bed about 10:30 Mr. Herzog had not returned to the house. “He’'ll probably be out most of the night,” Ronnie said. “It gives us a swell chance to get at that drawer. We’ll try it about mid- night.” By midnight the other members of the Duncan household were sleeping soundly. When Ronnie and Hicky stole from their room the house was in complete darkness save for a light burning in the downstairs hall. Silently they crept toward the front room which Mr. Herzog occupied. Without a sound, Ronnie eased the door open. Safely inside, they closed the door softly and turned on the light. “Now,” whispered Ronnie, hurrying to the bureau. Gently he pulled open the top drawer. Then he uttered a low cry. “The automatic’s gone!” “He probably has it with him,” said Hicky in a hushed tone. “But come on! Let's get that drawer open if we're going to do it.” HILLS were running up and down both their spines as they knelt in front of the bureau. Ronnie brought out the assort- ment of keys which he had collected around the house and tried one after another in the lock. None of them worked. “Here,” whispered Hicky. “Let me see if I can spring the lock with my jackknife.” There was a space above the edge of the drawer large enough to receive the blade. Hicky inserted it, pressed down and pulled on the drawer. Suddenly it yielded and slid open. “Good!” exclaimed Ronnie. He was staring into the open drawer. “Hicky! Look there!” Hicky looked. The first thing he saw was a powerful magnifying glass. Beside it, B CRAFTS JOKES PUZZLES wrapped in tissue paper, was a copper plate, etched green with acid. And held loosely with a rubber band were several ten-dollar bills! Then suddenly the boys froze with alarm. Behind them they had heard a noise, barely audible in the silence of the house. Together they scrambled to their feet and swung around to face the door of the room. The door was opening slowly. Now it swung wide and on the threshold stood Mr. Herzog. His every muscle was tense, and in his right hand, leveled directly at them, was his auto- matic. (To be continued next Sunday.) RIDDLES When you get tired trimming the Christmas tree, take a few minutes off and try to guess these riddles. 1. If you plant a kiss, what flowers will come up?—Helen Iannotti. 2. What is the difference between a sailor in prison and a blind man?—Frank E. Monsell. 3. If a blue stone fell into the Red Sea, what would it become?—Rosa Cundiff. 4 Why is a man going to jail like & capital letter?—James Dirk. 5. When is a lover like a tailor?—Jack Carter. ANSWERS. 1. Tulips (two lips). 2. One can't go to sea and the other can't see to go. 3. Wet. 4. Because he begins a sentence. 5. When he is pressing his suit. Source of Amber AVE you ever noticed masses of pitch or resin clinging to the bark of a pine tree, and thought how much like amber it looked? And no wonder, for amber is merely pitch or resin changed somewhat and hardened by eountless years beneath the earth. The variety of pine which produced most amber once grew where the Baltic and the North Seas now lie. This land was gradually submerged. Later, violent storms would east large pieces of the amber up on the shore. The ancients valued it highly, and credited it with mysterious powers, chiefly because it becomes electrified when rubbed. In fact, our word electricity is derived from elektron, the Greek name for amber. Today some amber is still obtained by pick- ing up fragments washed ashore by the waves, but most of it is mined. The chief source is East Prussia, although it is found in small quantities in many other countries, A Spool Puzzle 'HIS puzzle requires a little hand work, but is very easy to make. Take an empty thread or wire spool and bore a small hole in the cen- ter of it, just large enough to hold a lead shot of the BB size. Then take a sheet of cellophane and wrap it around the flanges of the spool. holding the cellophane in place with gummed paper tape. Be sure to inclose the BB in this transparent jacket. To make the puzzle easier to perform, inclose two or three BBs. Now try to get one of the BBs into the hole. It will not be so easy as it seems, yet it can be accomplished after a good many trials. Hopes for Willie Fond Mother—Professor, I am so worried about my son, Willie. He tells me you have said that he is frightfully lazy. Professor—Yes, madam, that's true, but I still have great hopes for him. Mother—Why, how can that be? Professor—Well, if we can ever get him to study, he will be too lazy to stop. ANSWERS. 1. Crossword puzzle solution. & 2 - G ERRREE = 2] 2. The diamond is H, hot, holes, holiday, Teddy. say, Y. 3. SOCK—suck—sulk—hulk—hull—FULL, SEND—Sand—land—lard—CARD. 4. Star, tinsel, candy canes and socks. 5. Loudly one boy did toot the horn. Found in his sock on Xmas morn.