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PAGE FOUR 400-FOOT: JUMP GOAL: OF | US. SKI KING ART DELVIN = To Compete In} ON THE SPOT By DILLON GRAHAM AP Features Sports Editor Expects Mceis At Iron Mountain: ‘Ani Late Placid; Needs peed a inore nn | NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Once in By BOB WILSON AP Featu SYRACUSE, a long time you can spot a kid , rcunds in d tan pion-to- fighter, going a few one of the preliminari him zs a_ certain F be. He'll have class. He'll be fa: and a clever boxcr nd a ha hitter and he'll look good any this| way you consider him You"! ‘go away from the arena satis-! fied you've seen a boy who one <t leao is to the skier what Night will win a world cham-! Feb. 8—Amer- ic ‘s king of the flying skis be- licves the 420-foot ski jump will 2 go cn the reccrd bocks in country ifter the war. r | t “CEILING CLAMPED ON CORN” By ROBIN COONS HOLLYWOCD, Feb. 8.—They tell about the producer’ who ricked up his newspaper and faint- ed. The ‘headline said “Ceiling Clamped on €orn. i Ale yarn, I beiieve, abqut the farmer, doctor, and the politician who to whose profes- . The dector said, ib taken Sir der © Kord2‘s fiom Adam's The made the Garden » was only politician is. but who created thc side, farmer said, * Eden befor: of chaos said, Bette Davis nd Ida Lupino will am in “The Corn ts Green.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MRS. MURDOCK Exar TAKES A CASE Mitt if we couldn’t straighten out.” Delia colored and lowered her glance. “I said awful things—I’m darling—but I couldn't Chapter 47 Dean Did It!” ie bee if Hardacker’d come to} us when he should,” Bacon |) 0i.°it T told him he was actin {said, “he’d be alive right now.” | the fool and that I knew he “He had a job to do first.” Fen-|been up to Perry Clarke’s and ner’s glance ¢lashed with Bacon’s,|I'd been protecting him and—oh, “He took Raeburn’s money and|* lot more thing: S “Al hen I ore too,” Al- he had to do his job first.” zi eee eee ane oy eck jlen said, looking sheepish. “T let {80 wit! both barrels and told her “Thorndike probably didn’t, what I knew. When she saw that know about the envelope until) }¢ get an each the Hime tt == \she did it, she got even ai Hardacker came to him—just as|How could I say such a thing? I he came to Delia,” Murdock went e ” on. “There lot of t we'll not know for sure, now, but! b and— it must have been something like! , a s “Please, Ward.” 1 right... . Anyway, I told Ward said. Thorndike led, made a date rdacker, what Clarke had said before ed. I could tell by her ex- bs - 3 ssion that I had been wrong knowing he’d have to kill him or!and yet there it was—the thing face a constant threat of ex-|he said. ‘Dee did it.’ I kept re- posure. By that time he must| peating it and then something hit curious about “gy sank her. th: runner, but 20-year-old Art Dev the fcur-minute mile is to lin thinks it can be done, What's mcve. the American ski-jumping ch mrion ¢dmits he mav be the ene to'do it. only got 112 go,” Syraruse sity freshman, who won his title at Iron Mcuntain, Mich., ng 288 feet. a foot y's Torger Tokle. “All they've cot to do | make the hill big enough,” the | handsome Lake Placid native | declared. “and mcke the take- cif long encugh and steep encugh so we cculd pick up a speed of abcut 80 miles an hour.” Art, five feet, eight inches tall, weighing 162 pounds, expects to compete in two more . meets—at Iron Mountain Feb. 14, and Lake! Placid Feb. 22—before being called up by the army air corp: He started skiing at the age four, whca he reteived a Chr mas presént of a‘ fair, cf the slip- perf boards. He hold¥ thé Rocky } Mount New <¥rk: ‘State! Roosevelt tcurnament and ~Lake Placid Sno-Birds’ intercollegiate! jumping title: The European poi record "T’ve feet more to said the Univer- : last ve behind 1 soa is 351 feet, Devlin} pointed ; out, adding there have’ Been reports from the- continent that a Ger. man made a non-¢on{petition ea } of 382 feet. International, ryles. now governing contest jumping specify the hill can be not longer than 80 meters, thus limiting flights to 300 feety } Art said a skier in’ Switzefland?} had been clocked at*74 mites ah* at the point /of) take-off in‘ ttle, Wash., flight. aught, Devlin made his mp on a large hill at Lake cid at the age of 12, hurling himself 100 feet through the air. Having extended that to 288 in eight years, and believing a} jumper can maintain himself at a peak until the age of 30, Art; lcoks forward to a crack at that 400-foot mark. Art insists dangerous jumping isn't it looks though he had his spills. He broke a wrist while practice jumping on pine needles cne summer, ahd broke an arm at the age of 12—playing baseball with some girls GREATER KILLER — THAN NAZI LEADER | AP Features ' NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—The number of United States fighting men repcerted killed in the. war is less than the number of Amer- ican liv ved by a decrease in traffic d s due to the gas and hortage. ording to a compilation of the magazine Public Safety, there .were 10,190 fewer automobile fa- talities in the first 11 months of 1942 than in the corresponding period for 1941. The Office of War Information has recently an- | nounced a total of 8531 U. S.| fighters killed since Pearl Har- ber in a period of 13 months. ! The OWI figure includes mem- bers cf the merchant marine and! the Philippine Scouts. It does not include 42,740 missing—many of whom are presumed, but not known, to have lost their lives. The totdl' Number of auto fatal- itiés ‘ih the first’ 11 months. of 1942 was 25,580. In 1941) for the same pericd, #ti@vas 35,770+san: es-{ timated drop, of 29 per cent for the year. “4 , year he had only pionship Allie that. Four writer: were predicting a crown would be Allie’s. He czme along all right un il Petey Scalzo kayoced him l:te in 1939, All the next two fights, winning both. But again in 1941, he came along fast. In May, 1942. he got his chance at the lightweight title. That nicl{t, Cljampion Sammy An- gott was just a trifie too good fcr him. A little leter. Allie whipped Chalky Wright. the Stolz was a_ kid is | featherweight titleholder, in a ; non-title bout. His second chance at the light- weight title came late last year. Sammy Angott retired and Allie was matched with Beau Jack |with the winner likely to move} is acting like an adult... But on to the championship. like. in “Tom, years ago the sports| Ginger Rogers, that! at RKO on stages adjoining hers Jack Briggs onze played a bit Dick and Harr with and has world ‘but didn’t realiv mect her until talmost their wedding day. That's | not unusual in Hollywood. . . . Michael Whalen, back. from a | few turns in eastern stock, is co- | starz imongSimén in \“Tal They once work ed for three ye 8 j lot, 20th Centur | met for the’ first i stepped on a tlocr,, took her tarted ‘Tahiti at Republic. for the 3 oss the village . . . Incidental note s-and-light de- partment: Simone is a reformed character — has given up tan- trums, sulking, and pouting and Jane Wyatt, who ha Beau Jack stopped him with aj] for a family goat ever since she badly gashed eye in seven rounds. The other night, Allie took on} milk, he extra richness in goat's promoted one vit the | read of tk Willie Pep, Chalky Wright's suc-!Tom Sawyer fence-painting tech- cessor as featherweight and was roundly. beaten, Four years ago he was a champicn in the making, And less then a year ago. when Al- lie made his first challenge, egainst Angott. few fight fans had ever heard of Beau Jack, the little negro kid from’ Hart- ferd, or the skinny iWllie Pep. But these two newcomers, in repid succession. have shut the docr in Allie’s face and. won world championships, "This Pep is quite a béy, He's youngster, his fists. He's fast as a rumor, fast on his a_ thin, frail looking with .unsuspeeted power slender arms and small in feet, and fast’ with a punch. Willie’s a good _ strategist, tco. a cheap who can change his cwn style es the cccasion demands. He was a slippery hit-and-1un boxer in winning the featherweight honors from wise old Chalky Wright. and then an entirely different fight- er, a chev who barged in and banged awav. against Stolz, He's won 59 straight fights, the longest consecutive streak jon record, and from the general! outlook, he can stretch that string if he says in his own class. Willie is considering a bout with heavier Beau Jack and may be giving away too many pounds. BRITISH BOMBER | (By Assoeinted Press) LONDON, Feb. 8.—“You can’t loop a heavy bomber” is a long- time axiom in flying circles but a British Lancaster, one of the heaviest planes in the air, re- jcently did a complete loop dur- | put in here. ing a raid over Germany and did it with a full load of many tons of bombs. It wasn’t an intentional loop, but happened while the four-en- gined plane was in a steep climb and a large shell exploded just beneath it, tossing it over on its back. The pilot retained control and carried it on through the loop, coming out of it in a dive that probably shot the peed past 400m.p.h. The -plane not only was unharmed, but flev on to its objective and dropped ruler, DOES A LOOP, ship’s | nique‘ She talked up the virtues ‘of goat’s milk so convincingly | that her next-door neighbor em- | braced the project and a; 1 to | house a community goat. Jane says | she’d have one of her own if she | could be sure of enough time to { give it proper ca { 8 Two studios are intent on mak ing a movie epic of the cruiser | San Francisco's heroic battle | achievements. . . | Eddie Gordon, late of Broadw | plays a cop in “Lady of Burlesque’ —a mugg of a cop. Eddie on stage jand air s played muggs and | gangsters consistently, and he’s sure that if precedent holds he'll find his niche on the screen He’s sure because he’s a college graduate, and there’s quite like an ivied hall of book- ; learning to qualify a man for otugh roles. Look at Edward A. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, ' ward Bond, Eddie Brophy. Bar- ton MacLane, G: > Bancroft and | | Warren Haymer — all of whom {took college degre or at least were exposed to same. FRCM THE NORTHROPS’ SCRAPBOOKS Jap experimental station _on iPonape has helped make Mics- inesia the only self-supporting mandate island in the world, ex- |cent for military rosts. Exports are sugary alcohol. phosphates, copra and dried fish. ~ Pohape’s great rock of Jokaj jis?a. 900-foot landmark for sail- ors. Ponape is the largest island ir | Micronesia, 144 square smiles. New Bedford whalers used to Now Japan has big lcontmercial docks. Japs allow five native, tives to survive. | Sugar mill and donkey engines | ‘are part of the Japs’ thriving | | | | i ' tsugar industry, centered at Sai- |‘ }pan, most developed afid popu- | ‘ous island. This is on neighbor-| ling island of Tinian. | | Phosphates on Angaur in the | 'Palan group are mined from an-} ‘cient bird drepping (guano). !euano, which is dwarfed by Nau | u in Gilberts. Angaur has 2,400,000 tons of Angaur phosphates supply 20} its bombs. After its return to'per cent of Japan’s normal phos- base it was examined carefully from propt to rudder. No struc- tural damage was found. KITTENS SURVIVE NAVAL SHELLING (By Axsocizted Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY) pPalan islands at the western SE Lu a \IN FRENCH MOROCCO, Feb. 8. end of the Carolines include this} phate needs, not much, but a help. Japs do most o! | tives very little. $ : | The harbor of Kusale, often ig- nored but a very possible base, | has big commercial piers, stands at the easternmost end of the. Carcline Islands. f the work, na-! ; Recent further reductions in! __when our naval shells accident- bay on Koror and the large har- automobile traffic in the eastera| ajly struck the Hotel Miramar por of Malakai, which is typic- states are expected to raise still higher the number of Americans who escape death as an indirect result of the war. WIDE STRETCH WASHINGTON — The Nether- lands East Indies stretch across one-eighth of the circumference of the earth. CHASED GREAT DISTANCE NEW YORK.—The German battleship Bismarck was chased 1,750 miles before the Royal Navy; U_S. plans drive for more home se7 oe wegethible: gardens: ene durin; silence obstreperous coastal defense guns on Cape Fe- aala, a scooped up five tiny kittens in a g a pattern bombardment to ally just beyond, out of sight, be- French hind islands. 15-year-old witchen boy Harbor work at legitimate under but the costs reported Saipan was) Jap mandate,! to the basket, shoved them into a stove League of Nations were out of oven, slammed the door and fled. He returned half an hour later line. Defense works were for- bidden under the mandate. nothing | UMN and found his kitchen in ruins —_— | from a direct hit. The mother cat CHILES EXTENSIONS lay dead on the floor. He heard a ——_ + | faint mewing. Opening the stove NEW YORK. — All of Chile's, door, he found the kittens alive 24 provinces, except three, extend and well in the basket but badly from the Pacific Ocean to the An-} frightened. | dean boundry. } i bie oe alone not enough to win ad © war, says hero of Midway. ve have been pretty, | that envelope and made Hard- acker call Delia. I doubt if he ac-| tually knew what it contained} until after he'd finally taken it! away from Raeburn on _ the} street.” j He looked at Ward Allen.) | “Hardacker came to you, too.” Allen nodded. “He said he wanted the envelope. I told him Td get it. I knew Delia must have it—I didn’t know there had been someone else up there—and- I) went to her place to try’ and find} it so I could give it.to him—so| he wouldn’t go to the police and| tell them she'd been there.” Delia looked up at him tenderly and her hand found its way in- side his. “I never dreamed the bonds| were the cause of the murder,” Joyce said. “I thought it was tne envelope, although I wasn’t sure | why.” | A Light Dawns ‘HE telephone rang and Bacon answered it. “I’ve got to shove off,” he said when he hung up. He looked from one to the other, rubbing his chin, his glance accusing. “There are still some things I don’t know about. What I ought to do, after the run-around I got, is take you all down and make you sing. I could do it, too.” “Sure,” Murdock said. “And I can hand in a story that'll make you wish you hadn’t. All about how Mrs. Murdock solved your case for you—with Fenner’s help.” “Ahh—” “What are you crabbing about? You got what you_need, hayen’t you? Look at me. Here I am run- ning around riot knowing which way is up, with not even a cam-| era. Now I've got to go down and} ar | “Never mind,” growled Bacon. , ‘I’m sorry I mentioned it.” He went out. Joyce went over to Delia.| “You'll want to stay and help! Ward unpack, won’t you? We| should run along, I think .There’s just one thing I'd like to know— what happened here before I came? How did Dean find out?” Delia shivered. “I'm still scared | every time I think of it.” | “They came right after you’d| Phoned me,” Allen saia. | “I’'q made up my mind I was going to have it out with Ward,” Delia said. “Uncle Dean said he’d go out in the kitchen and get himself a drink and we were to HIGHEST POINT CHICAGO.— The habi herd’s hut hest human ation in the world is 17,100 fect shep- bove sea level in the Andes of Peru. nod! Taxpayers 18 file income return March 15. Uncle Sam 10 PERCENT OF ——o me between the eyes. If it wasn’t Dee, what had Clarke said? Dean. . -! ‘Dean.’ I said. And it dawned on me and I said the name over again and then something made us turn and he was standing in that doorway.” H E GESTURED towards the hall. “He came in_ slowly, slipping an automatic from_ his pocket and then I knew why he’d stayed. He was afraid we might know something and, getting to- gether, reach some conclusion. And we had—and there we were.” “T’ll never forget the expression Telegram For Fenner shoulders again. “Never.” ‘I hardly know what I said after that,” Ward said. “I didn’t know what he was going to do, but I guess I said we'd keep his secret—something like that, He just looked at us. I couldn’t get any reaction; then I thought of Joyce. I said she was coming, that she was on her way.... That’s when he told us what would happen if we gave him jaway. He made Delia sit beside | him and tucked the gun under his coat. ‘If anything happens, she goes first, he said.” “And then Raeburn came in with you,” Delia said. “I didn't know what was going to happen,” Ward said. “Dean just sat there pretending surprise —and then the rest of you came.” Fenner put on his coat. “You did all right. That was a swell) story you told. Just enough lies in it to tip off Joyce, but not enough to make Thorndike start anything.” Delia came over to Joyce, who rose to meet her. The gir’ hugged her; then, still holding her, drew back slightly, trying to say some- thing and having a hard time. “It’s all right,” Joyce said. “I understand. We’ll call you later.” | They stood that way a moment and Delia smiled. The smile did 2 F | grinned crookedly at them’ and| things to Joyce and she could not} TR tell whether there were tears in Delia’s eyes or only in her own. The knock on the door gave them respite. Fenner opened it and a uniformed boy said: , “Telegram for Mr. Fenner.” “What?” the detective took the envelope, stared at it, turned it over. “I guess you’re right,” he said and signed it, handing the boy a coin. He shut the door and tore open the envelope. There were two sheets inside and when he had scowled at them he looked up, grinning and shaking his head. To be continued MORE THAN DOUBLED NEW YORK.—The production commodities in Free of many By H. W. BLAKESLEE Ap Science Editor NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—The American Journa: ci Surgery tells -} of a woman milliner who has a | new thumb, inclucing bone, all built by plastic surgery. | She had lost about half of her left thumb due to an infection. 'She was unable to thread a | neclie. The joint remained, and a + stump of bone extending a iitue beyond it. Keconsiruction of this stump into a full-sized thumb is described by Maxwell Maltz, M.D., ef New York City, who was as- | sisted by R. Preston, M.D., in the | bone pert of the work. The rebuilding was in several | stages. First a roll of flesh was | transferred from her abdomen, | trunk handie fashion. ‘oc form a | new thumb cnd. In a few weeks this flesh kri:.ed to the stump | and took ihe ccntouys of a thumb. | The end, however, was left open. | | | | | | | | | long wes taken from her leg. One |end of tiis bose wes sharpened jee a lead percil point, so that jit could be inserted in the bone stump. There it united with the old bone and in a few weeks be came a living part of the thumb. The end of the thumb was closed and shaped. In this stage the milliner had a | perfectly uceful thumb for thread- jon his face.” Delia hunched her | ing needles arai1, but no thumb- nail. An artificial! thumb nail was jadded. 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