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.- i Ld A ------ EJ J »~ 4 = 3} - oll. 29 o" \ TEA : D - RXX XOX AX SRXXXNNOOO0 Synopsis When the United League season op- ens Pop Clark's New York Blues are a 200 to 1 shot, Terry Burke being the only sports writer to give them a « chance at the pennant. In the Blues' first game Whitper, Philadelphia's star pitcher, is killed with a bullet through the heart after smashing out a home run. Both Burke and Larry Doyle, the Blues' rookie short-stop, for whom Clark's pretty daughter Frances had shown her preference over Whit- per, are suspected at first by Detec- tive Kelly. Death or Injury cripple every team the Blues meet, and al. most always Burke gets a beat for his paper on these sensational hap- penings. It is Burke who discovers It was a notorious gunman who sent four Boston players to the hospital with a bullet through thelr tax! tire. Dir kin, Chicago star, dies on the diamond from polson on a phonpgraph needle fixed In the handlé of his bat. Pietro, Chicago's boy, disappears. Clark sends Doyle to Newark but he is soon sold to Boston. The Blues are In fourth place when they go to St. Louis, where Scotter, pitching ace, is found dead from gas given off by a mysterious powder In the box with a jigsaw puzzle sent to him anonymous- ly. Masked gunmen truss Burke up, question him and warn him he knows too much. Rawlins, the Chicago man- ager, is hanged In a hotel room ad- joining his. own. Penny, Detroit's star pitcher, refuses to play against the Blues. Baoeball's: czar temporarily suspends the playing schedule and at a meeting of club owners Terry agrees to risk hclplng th~m uncover the murder gana. The excitement was high all through the game. Both teams put up a good: fight. The Cleveland Reds took the lead 1n the third inning and in spite of a slight nervousness on the part of the team as a whole they maintained that lead to the very end. Big Boy Planer played with more than 4is cus, tomary skill. He knocked - out- two home runs and each time the great audience tairly held its breath; as Planer circled the diamond. Both times as he crossed the plate and dof- fed his cap there was a sigh of relief. In the press box with the final out scored against the Blves, there was a clicking of typewriter covers going down over machines. "Coming?" Craven said, turning to Terry. "I think I'll nang around for a bit to see the fans leave." Terry wonder- ed what his bodyguard would he doing in the meantime. That gentleman had risen when the game was over and Terry saw him standing in the stand looking out over the ficld as hundreds of others were doing. The crowds surged toward the exits, but here and there were stragglers trying to get down on the field. The police were herding them back. "I wonder," Craven sald, "if Pianer will go for his hot dogs because they may want him to keep low today on account of all the notoriety." "I could do with a bite myself," Ter ry said. "It's a bright idea, Reynolds. « "Let's get going, then." "Ah, here's a bunch after some: thing," Terry heard as they approach. ed the stand. Terry, Craven, Reynolds, Mullins and Biers ordered a hot dog apiece. The stands were thinning out. Most of the crowd had gone. The police Terry," sald I XXXII XHIIXRINXNIXHRIXHXHHNREXRI RII IRIN IIOOOON KJ XIX HXXXXX XXX XXIXX XXX XX XXXX XXX were letting up on their watchfulness and occasionally a straggler got out onto the fleld. Several more; people came up to the stand and ordered dogs and beer. "Oh, boy, here he comes!" tha lad who was tending the griddle said to his pal. "Get out those nice fat ones we put aside. Give me 'em quick." Sure enough, Planer was coming to- ward and stand witli that easy gait ot his which marked him in any crowd of men, He smiled at the press men and spoke to them as he came up. The boys grinned back as he said, "How about it?" ~ "Just a minute," the lad sald and pulled out a nice clean mustard-pot and put it down within easy reach of Planér. "These lads were afraid you would- n't come out," Terry said. "I had to argue with Button," Plan- er explained easily. "He wants to pack me in wool. I couldn't digap- point these kids." "You can't blame him," Reynolds said, and moved nearer to Planer. "Shucks! Most of this Is hysteria." ,He leaned his back against the coun- ter, facing the field. "Here you are," the boy said, hand- ing a frankfurter to Planer. Just at that moment there was a sharp report out on the field. A puff of smoke rose from the ground. All eyes .followed the smoke for a nio- ment... Then -all eyes came hick: to Planer. It was a concerted action. Planer smiled, swung round and dipped up a big gob of mustard on a wooden paddle and started daubing 'his frankfurter. "What do you wu... o.oo that was?" Craven. asked. "Tirecracker?" "Probably." Planer his roll. [le kept eating one after an- other until he had downed flve. "i guess we'll call it a day," he said to the admiring lads behind the counter. "You've only had five," the boy said. "And I have another nice vig one all hot and browned for you just the way you like them." - ¢ "All right." Planer winked at the men standing near him and took the sixth frankfurter. Rather deliberately he smeared it with mustard and took a bite. "lI guess I'll eat this one on the way over to the dugout," he said to the boys. With a wave of his hand to the others he started off. "Come on. Let's go," Terry gested. Back at the hotel Terry rested a bit before going 'down for dinner. His shadow did not ride down in the cle- vator with him and he wondered where the man could be. As Terry stepped forth he heard a voice say, "There's another one. There -- that one." It was the boy from behind the lunch counter at the field and he -was pointing at Terry. A detective stepped forth and touched Terry on the arm. "Come over here for a moment." Terry followed the man across the lobby. "We need information and would like you to go over to the sta- tion house. - I've got some of your pals. They're down at the other end of the lobby." The detective led the way to the end of the corridor and there Terry saw Mullins, Craven, Rey- nolds, Hover and Doc Biers. Across the lobby Terry saw his bodyguard with a wide grin dividing his face. _(To be continued) sug- a -- was munchjurg Self-Landing Plane Invented Airplane Which Flies Itself Devel- oped by U. S. War Dept, WASHINGTON, AUG. 25th, -- De- velopment of an airplane which vir- tually "flies itself" was- announced to- day by the War Department. The plane, a large Army car) type was landed repeatedly at Wright Field Dayton, Ohio, under adverse condi- tions with a Sperry gyro pilot. There was ro human assistance. Capt. Carl J. Crane, Capt. George V. Holloman and Raymond Stout occu- pied the plane while the tests were made, but in no way assisted in man- oeuvring it to the ground. The land- ings were "made with amazing accur- acy," the Department said. The gyro pilot, a new device devel- oped after two years of intensive re- search by Air Corps engineers, differs from other automatic landing systems the Department said, in that the craft is landed without assistance from the human pilot, "and also with remote control from the ground," > The new technique insures safe landings "in a dense fog, in absolute darkness, or other adverse conditions, the Department stated. Experiments will be carried on, ft was announced to make improvements and render automatic landings a cus- tomary feature in plane flights. Takes A Year To Cross Ocean Bottles Tested in Ocean Currents --Fan-Shaped Drift Dis- p- covered. A test of ocean currents, in which 17 bottles ranging from castor oil to champagne empties crossed the Atlan. tic in seven months to one year, was disclosed this week at the American Museum of Natural History. One hundred'corked bottles were dumped overboard on July 26, 1936, by a museum expedition, 35 miles off the north Newfoundland coast. The idea was to test direction and speeds of the sea currents, KE. Thomas Gilliard, the staff assistant at the museum, and Samuel Knox George, of Baltimore, made the experiment. Results will be published in Septemeber Natural His- tory, the museum's magazine, The first bottle showed up on the west coast of Ireland last February 14 and the airline distance from New- foundland was about 1,800 miles, but the bottle drifted a longer course. England and Frange got bottles la- ter. In July two of thém broke into Spain's revolution sufficiently to at. tract attention of fighting men. Every bottle contained a card to ba filled out with position and date of finding, Felix Bartanedia, command- er of military marine, mailed a card from a bottle picked up near Bilbao. "Viva Espana. Second year of the triumph," he wrote. The other bottle in Spanish waters was picked up by Frank Lowell, chief petty officer of the RBritish warship, Kempenfeldt, on patrol duty in the Bay of Biscay. Ireland got six all told. On July 1st a bottle hit the Scilly Islands "on the nose." These are the first land sight. ed by liners crossing to the English Channel. Two bottles landed near Cornwall, England. The course, followed by the bottles, Gilliard said, was not toward Europe at first but south. with the cold cur- rent which flows from Labrador. This carried them to the 'eastward drift" which is the name given the Guilt Stream after it veers from the Ameri- can coast toward Europe. This drift {s fan-shaped by the time it reaches Europe. Some of it courses northward toward Iceland. Other por- tions curve southward past France and Spain. Hospital Presented To Town Thirty years ago, a joint stock company was organized in Wingham, Ontario, to provide a hospital for that town, its founder being the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. When equipped, it was valued at $6,000. Its value has grown to $36,000. Recently it was formally presented to t'@ town by the company. 14 A SEVENTEEN CELEBRATION Is there a member of your house- hold whe is just turning seventeen? Perhaps it's a stalwart son who is reaching this age and making his first » dates with girls or maybe a daughter who is sweet seventeen and all that goes with it. Whichever it is and whatever the age, there will be a party to celébrate the event and no birthday party is complete without the most scrumpt- ious cake you can possibly bake. The cake is the center-piecce of a birth- day party and the rest of the re- freshments must take sceond place, Here is a grand ceke that vill live sgn oll the demandes mada cov in it's large, it looks beautiful and tastes--well, the young guests will have the right word for it--swell! Don't limit yourself however, to just making this cake: for a birthday party." There are lots of occasions this month when you can serve 'it even without the birthday candles. For any time and place where there are young people, this cake: will prove to be a big: attraction. The teen-:age vorsome cake. with lots of chocolate icing. ---- And here is a tip to the teen-age girl who likes to bake the occasional cake herself. The boys will find your porch a very attractive place to spend the evenings when they know you can bake a cake like this. - But don't let anyone know that it is so easy to make! : CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt ) % cup butter or. other shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, well beaten 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted % cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla . Sift flour once, 'measure, add bak- Home Hints By LAURA KNIGHT LAA AR RAR ARR AARRAA A. ~ crowd love good food and rich, fla- ing powder and salt, and sift together three times. Cream butter, add su- gar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well; then chocolate and blend. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after cach addition until smooth, Add va- nilla. Bake in greased pan, 8 x 8 x 2 inches, in moderate oven (325 deg. F.) about 1 hour. _ Spread Fudge Frosting over cake, and between lay- ers. FUDGE FROSTING 3 squares unsweetened chocolate 11% cups milk. 3 cups sugar Dash of salt 3 tablespoons light corn syrup 3 table8poons butter 114 teaspoons vanilla Add chocolate to mux -and place over low flame. Cook until mixture is smooth and blended, stirring + con- stantly. Add sugar, salt, and corn syrup; stir until sugar is dissolved and mixture boils. Continue boiling, without stirring, until a small amount of mixture forms a very soft ball in cold water (232 deg. F.). Remove from fire. Add butter and vanilla. Cool to lukewarm (110 deg. F.). Beat until of right consistency to spread. If necessary, place over hot water to keep soft whille spreading. WE WANT MEN To train for Dominion Government Certificate in AVIATION and MARINE RADIO OPERATING. Two year® high school desirable; revious experience not essent A Resident Class - opens early in September, Write t AL NA x i ADIO COLLEGE OF D | Wilimron Bldg., TORONTO Issue No. 36--'37 0-2 Work Provided For 750 More $300,000.00 Construction in Lea- mington and Delhi Districts Will Mean Employment of 2,100 Tobacco Workers. Good wuews for seasenal tobacco workers and their families in the vic- inity of Delhi and Leamington, Ont., is provided in an announcement this week by the Imperial Leaf Tobacco Company of Canada, Limited. New construction costing in the neighbour- hood of $300,000.00, now under way at these two points, will provide work for as many-as 2,100 employees, which is 760 more than formerly employed --the exact number depending upon the size of this year's tobacco crop-- and will result in better working con- ditions and*improved facilities for the handling and storage of tobacco after it is received from the growers. A new three storey building 88' x 142' is being constructed at Delhi. It will be of reinforced concrete through- out, and the upper floor will have glass bricks in place of windows. Through their northern exposure will come an even and abundant distribu- tion of the precious north light, so coveted by artists and all those who work in colours, to Insure greater pre- cision and uniformity in the selection of the different colours and grades of tobaccos. : Additional Improvements to be in- corporated in the new building include a depressed road which will allow easy handling of tobacco from the far- mer"s truck to the basement floor. From the basement it will be conveyed vertically to the second floor where a continuous horizontakconveyor, run- ning all around the room, will carry bundles of tobacec to those who grade it for colour and quality. After I(t leaves the graders, the tobacco will be gathered on a central conveyor which will discharge on the first or middle floor. Here the tobacco, now graded, will be tied into hands and placed on sticks ready to go Into the dryers. Similar work on a smaller scale is being done at Leamington, Ontario, where alterations cogting in the neigh- bourhood of $50,000.00 are taking place. Special Course For Farm Boys To Open at O.A.C. Next Month; No Tuition Fees Being Charged GUELPH, -- A two-year agricultur- al course resigned especially for far- mers' sons will be inaugurated at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph on September 20th. The course has been prepared by Hon. Duncau Mar- shall, minister of agriculture, and Dr. @G. I. Christie, 0.A.C. president. Mr. Marshall sald he was particu- larly anxious for an increase in the number of two-year students at the institution. "In order to encourage the farm boys who find it difficult to pay their expenses we have this year re- duced the board for two-year students from $5.50 to $3.50 a week." There will be no tuition fees for the new course. Only boys who intend to make farming their life work will be accepted. Airmail to Europe Will Cost 25c¢ WASHINGTON, -- Airmail to Eur ope, pérhaps to be inaugurated this Fall, probably will cost 25 cents a let- ter, United States postal officials said this week. "We had hoped to make it 20 cents," .sald Harlee Branch, second assistant postamster general. "Now. {it looks more like 25." He explained Congress' failure to authorize a poundage rate would make the cost greater, British: Imperial Airways and Pan- American Airlines already are com- pleting test flights over Trans-Atlan- tic routes they hope to inaugurate by November, AF loating Hospital New York City has a floating hos- pital which affords rel'ef to the sick children of that city without regard to creed, color or nationality. Six days a week in summer it takes out hundreds of under-privileged child- ren for a healthful outing, over 400 welfare organizations participating in the distribution of tickets. Last July and August 652,336 passengers were carried. The boat is pulled by a tug but it has two dummy streamlined funnels to give the illusion of a self- powered vessel, Tot's Frock Is Pretty and Practical ig By ANNE ADAMS Like your tot to look her pretti- est? Of course you do, and Pat- tern 4301 is just the adorable Anne Adams pantie-frock to bring out her best points! Perfect for everyday wear (school and play) and suitable for informal parties, this cute style features a youthful Peter Pan collar, choice of puffed or flared sleeves, trim bodice pan- el, and bright row of buttons. Of course by this time you've notic- ed and admired the crisp ruffle that lends such a dainty touch! Mother will find this simple frock delightfully easy to cut and stitch, and ideal in sturdy, bright-hued gingham or perecale. Pattern 4301 is available in children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 6 takes 2% yards 36 inch fab- ric; 1 yard lace edging. Illustrat- ed step-by-step sewing instructions included. Send TWENTY CENTS (20¢) in coins or stamps (coin prefer- red) for this Anne Adams pattern, Write plainly SIZES, NAMI, AD- DRESS and STYLE NUMBER. Send your order to Anne Adams, Room 425, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. HORSE SHOU September 3 toll @ Spectacular performances bristling with action. .. Bril- liant jumping competitions by mounted officers, non- commissioned officers and troopers . + +» touch-and-out stakes . . . $1000 open sweep- stake for jumpers-- other sensational competitions. Admission 25c. Reserved seats 50c. Mail reservations to Canadian National Exhibi- tion ticket office...8 King Street West, Toronto. Elwood A. Hughes General Manager Alfred Rogers President 0A ye Virus Is Cause Of Paralysis Children Away Crowds, Doctor Advises "There's a terrible lot o' this infant paralysis isn't there -doctor," sald pretty Mrs. Collingsby, mother of four handsome children, as she wiped the perspiration of anxiety from her face. "My, doctor," she went on, "there's nothing 1 dread more than the para- lysis." "If you want to keep free from infantile paralysis," [| replied, "you must see that your children stay away from crowds of children and other per- sons, that they use their own toys, chewing-gum, ice-cream cones and so on, and not share these things with the neighbors' children. There's no need of your getting panicky about it, Mrs. Collingsby. There are lots of thinzs far worse -than infantile para- lysis. 'D'ye think the serum | read about in the papers is any good doctor?" en- eee | Py Keep From quired the anxious mother. "You've heard of the Scotch verdict haven't "you Mrs. Collingsby?" \ said. "Yes, not proven," she answered. * Well, it is like that," I sald. "Not proven. It may be of use. | should no hesitate in a case of paralysis to give it. It can do no harm and a lot of doctors think it of great value." "What's the cause of the thing any- way?" enquired the mother. "A Virus," | answered. "A thing so tiny that it cannot be caught In the finest kind of filter. Far smaller than a germ. It is said to lodge in the noses of persons who have had the disease or who are 'carriers.' Some doctors advocate spraying the nose and throat of children who have been exposed to infantile paralysis. There's nothing wrong with spraying if it is done by someone who knows the pro- per way in which to carry it out." "What causes the paralysis, doc: tor?" asked my interrogator. She was bound to have the ins and outs of the matter. "The virvs 1 spoke of," | said, "en- ters the nerves, reaches the spinal cord and there sets up inflammation in the tiny cells. The front part of the cord is the one affected. The effect of the paralysis depends on the extent of this inflammation a's] uzon the por- tion of the cord invelved. It is much woree the higher up the cord it ex. tends." "Well, all 1 hope Is that ft keeps away from this family." she said. 1 echoed her wish and came away. After all she had the instinet of the mother everywhere. -- By John Ww. §. McCul- lough, M.D., D.P.H. Python Fasts t.-nger-Strike Goes on in St. Louis Zoo For Eleven Years ST. LOUIS, -- Speaking of hunger strikes, there is one here to day that has been going on for years and ap- pears permanent, Blondie, otherwise the St. Louis z00's 22-foot reticulated python, quit eating when she was brought to the zoo nearly 11 years ago. So attendants directed by R. Marlin Perkins, curator of reptiles, have heen feeding her just as civil war soldiers loaded a cannon, ramming down rab- bit meat instead of powder and ball. Perkins offered a warning to mad- ames on diets -- Blondie didn't show _.any appreciable loss of weight until 'nearly eight months of fasting. Of course, Perkins added, Blondie could challenge Texas' renowned horn. ed frogs and go without food for a couple of years without starving. Another of the zoo's pythons is on a hunge strike, not purely voluntary as she will be fed forcibly today, with haf a dozen keepers on the business end of ti cen ' When nake, the Maharanse of Wangzioo, was brought here eight years ago, Perkins said it still suffer. d deep wounds inflicted by a tiger, a jaguar or wild boar that objected lo being python fodder, and its jaw mus- cles have atrophied. The snakes' ability to go without food makes it easy though. The Mah- aranee, for instance "ate" just twice last winter. So what matter it If atten. dants forget and miss "mealtime" for a matter of weekea? Convenient Ghost Most useful ghost is reported to be wandering about at Karimmagar, near Hyderabad, India. It is the ghost of a money lender known dur- ing his life as the "Shylock of Karim- magar," who had difficuity in col- lecting his debts when he lived, hut whose ghost is having none now. Tho debtors, who owed several thousand rupees at the time of the money lend- er's death, ave reported te Le rushing to pay ther debts before the ghost pays them a visit, [t appears that the debtors settled down after the money lender's death with that "come and colect it" expression for his heirs, Then one of them was visited by a ghost one night; and then another, and another, so thn story goes. The might ba credited with having some- thing to do with the "ghost", are sit- ting back and collecting both capital and Interest an fart ss they can, Eleven Years heirs, who in a less credulons district OSEAN mA fr an [