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^tiABA is delicious sot i ^ >:< EATHON THE lAMOND CORTLAND FlTZ5lMMONS\\$^- Synopsis of Preceding Instalments When the United League season opens the gamblers aie offering 200 to 1 that Pop Clark's New York Blue will not win the pennant. Terry BiirUe is the only sports writer to give them a chance. Ha bets $10 at Tony Marallo's retsaurant in the Broadway district- In the Blues' f.rjS jame Whitper, the Phladelphia pitcher, is killed with a bullet through the heart after smashing out a home run. Both Burke and Larry Doyle, the Bl::es' rookie shortstop, for whom Clark's pretty daugiiter Frances had shown her preference over Whitper, are suspected at first by Detective Kelly. It is Burke who discovers it was Sid Stream, notorious gunman, 'Aho wrecked a taxi with a bullet through a tire and injured four Bos- ton players as the Blues are to open a seres. Then Dirkin, Chica_jo star, drops dead on the diamond from poi- son un a piionograph needle fixed in the handle of his bat. Pietro, Chi- cago's bat boy, disappears. Clark sends Doyle to Newark but he is soon so!d to Boston. When the Blues go to 3t. Louis, Scolter. the Rubes' st_.- pitcher, is found dead from a pas given off by a mysterious powder in t!io box with a jigsaw puzzle sent to him anonymously. Eacl time Burke has • beat on these sensa- t ccal happenings itud masked gun- ir.?n truss him up, question him and warn him he knows too much. Raw- lins, the Chicago manager, ill when the Blue arrive for a series, is hang- ed in a hotel room adjoining his, after a maid is gagged .tnd bound, and her pass-key taken. Again there is no clue to the murderer. 'r<<»x*i>x<<>i<-!i«i*r<r>x<>>>i»i»>>>>>i*-*i*>>r' "Unless there is something else you want to say i'.i confidence, I would like to ask Detective Kelly in now." The chairman waited, but there was no discussion. Kelly was introduceit and, the foi'- M'.alities over, the questions started |Hnii-ing at him. .\fter several minute.>! of rapid-five questioning, Kelly put up his hand, "Just a minute, gentlemen. I know no more about th;s case than you do. Lot me reviev/ what ha.< happened." He began at the besinning and took up each event as it htid occurred. Terry's name kept coming up in his recital- "It would seem that this Burke person has been in at the killing of When I tzeot my seed wheat with New Im proved CEBESAN, I KNOW rU be moneY oHead! V/anl to reduce rooi rois and olher disoases â€" got bigger whoal yields â€" beitor prolils? Then troal ssed wilh Now Improved CERESAN. "Tbis dtist... " says a racoai Divi- sion cl Boiany repoii "cHeclivaly controls lie souis oioals, covered smut ol borloy, and bunt oi wheal It also improves used genrtina- tio:t." Easy to apply- Costa Icsa than 6c ca cicra. Wrilo today for tree Wheal PcniiplUs]. ^ F?p«^ SOLD BY THt MANUF.ACTu'HERS i'l^ OF THE 'iWEU-KNOWN CIL FREE riOWINC FERTll^JERS. FOR YOUR F.Ul RiaUiREIIflENTS SEE YOUR LOCA'. DEAIEII CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED Fcrtiliier CivUiMi ttt WMton RuA Soutii : West Tor jnlc, Ont. all the men ext-ept Rawlin^s." Builal remarked. "Are you sure he is above suspicion?"' "Burke was in the hall when Raw- lins' body was d scovered," Huette, Rawlins' assistant, said. "Burke softshoed it, then," the chairman cut in. "He had very little to say about it as an eye-witness." "How would you feel if you were Burke? With the cops after you on one side and a bunch of crooks on the other?" Kelly £isked. "That lad is on the level, I'm sure of it." "So am I," "Pop Clark said with a nod or understanding toward Kelly. "He has told you all he knows, I'm convinced of that- There is nothing to know." "I think Eurke is our one hope." Kelly's remark was greeted with sur- prise. •Why?" Hallem asked. "Because he's being hounded by the gang. That's obnous." Kelly then went on to tell them in strictest confidenct of the attack on Terry in his rooms and also the attempt to kidnap him in St. Louis which he was clever enough to escape- "I wouldn't want to be in his shoes." Treddle of Philadelph a, en- tered the general conversation for the tirst time. "It's not too he.ilthy," Kelly ad- mitted, "but I still think he is our one hope. They are afraid of Burke. They are afraid of a leak in their own outfit. They can't understand how and why he should always be on the scene when one of these crimes is committed, any more than I ^uld at first. I believe Burke, but they don't. The attempt to get him in St- Lous proves that they are still doubtful about him. They are probably watching him all the time and know every move he makes." "Then you think we might get some sort of clue through Burke, that is. by having him wati.'hed, you mean?" .-Mthorae asked. Tve had him covered for weeks now," Kelly said resentfully. "I know every move he makes. He is in the lobby now, or was when I came up." "That is my fault." Pop Clark apoke up. "I asked him to come east with me and to hold himself in read- iness- I had a feeling that we might be able to use him in some way." "We could use him. all right, but it isn't fair,'' Kelly said. "What do you mean?" "We could use Burke to drag the gang out." "-â- Vs a bait, you nioanr' Pop Clark asked. "Something like that. We ought to get at them in that way." ''Have you any idea about these men? Who they are, how they oper- ate, or anything Ike that'?"" Builal asked. "Sure, I have ideas, but you need more than that- I've thought for a long time that Tony Murallo was nii.xed up in it in some way an.i I still think so, but I haven't been able to get a thing on him or any of his gang, Tony has an airtight ali'oi for each of the crimes and so have h s men." "But if you feel that way." Ba.-ili- cr said. "I should think you could do something about it. Couldn't you force a confession out of him or something like that?" Kelly lookc<I at Bashei- for a n-,o- j ment and there was a slightly con- j temptuous glint in hi.-! eyos before he ( spoke. ' "Pn; ;fraid you gent.en'-.'n are rot aware of the problems facet! Iiy the politv. Of course you'kriow tint v.e have ccurt.s of lav;. Vou ! ave hoard of crooked lawyers an.l fixing. You knov.' that our p?l tics ar;- su-.iposed to be slightly croo::e;! .\!I of those things have to bs c^nslnered 1 y the police." "Do you me:;!; tj si: there c.:n\ tell ;is that tho police can do n,nh:.-tg be- cause of ti'o crooke.l fysten of oai government?" .Althomo ssked iotly. "Not at all. Mr- Basher as':ed me why we had done nothLng aft?r I told him I suspected MurpPo. j; ?- pecting a man is not enough. .\ct if he has a gang and moni>v bchii. ! him. In the first pla.'c, ha always r-s a good lawyer at his call :;nd"tho. • lawyers know the law. Supicsc v/c take him up on suspic'cn â€" vo cin"; arrer.t him, just invite him round lo the station house to ask h:-i a few quectionsâ€" what can ve do?" "Why do you sa--,;cct Miualla?" Pop as':"' "Because he placed « lot of money on the Blues to win, because he is « crook, because Dutch Klein, who was barred from baseball for crooked- ness, works there and through Klein he would get good baseball dope." â- 'What have you done about Mur- allo?" Pop Clark asked. "We have him covered all the time. If he is in on th s, he is smart- er than we are." "Then how do you think you could do anything because of Burke if yoa have had Burke covered?" Anshouse asked. "If Burke had gone into that place in St. Louis our troubles might be over now. I don't blame him, and he didn't knov.- we sent a man out to St. Louis with hLm, but there you are." "Then you want Burke to run his neck into a noose so you can catch the gang, is that it?" the chaurman asked. "That's what I hope to do," Kelly admitted. "Since we are deciding about Burke, don't you think it would be the detent thing to nave him up here?" Pop Clark suggested. ".After all. it is dangerous and he may not want to be involved." â- 'Right." the chairman agreed. "Have him up-" Pop had Terry paged in the lobby and in a few minutes he was knock- ing on the door. (TO BE COXTINLTD) Worry May Cause The Teeth to Decay Dr. William I- L. McGinigle told the American Dental .Association the ot'n- er day that when the human body is thrown out of balance by worry and fear, the teeth may decay, because the consequent upsetting of the thy- roid eland prevents them from zetting calcium needed to fi.sht bacteria. Speaking at the fortieth annual meeting cf the .American Gastro-Ea- terological Association. Dr. Kenneth T. Tiliotson. a psychiatrist of Mass- achusetts General Hospital, declared that "you really can think yourself into stomach ulcers. for constant thought ou the subject restricts the natural processes.'' Dr. Heinrich Xech- eles, of Chicago, said that worry is causing peptic ulcers both amonj the well-to-do and the less fortunate. He added that this type of ulcer, which afflicts the duodenum and stomach, is found in high-strung persons, r-r.sa.'d- less of their monetary possessions. Amon? the mechanically '?Tip!oyed, chauffeurs are especially ousciipti'ole, because they are under a hea'^y strain. Kxamination of the physical recc-ds of London busmen since their strike in May has disclosed that within cer- tain ages they are more subject to diseases of the digestive tract than other workers. According to Dr- Tillot son, emotional factors may be tne un- derlying cause of digestive troubles, headache and feelings of general ill- ness, anxiety and discouragemen;. The chronic worrier tends to iaJuce the very ailments that he (ears. The problem is how to stop him ...-om wor- rying. Certainly shouting "Dont wor- ry !' at him will not do the trick. He must help himself by submitting to mental discipline. He may not bo able to achieve the detachment of aa an- cient Greek stoic or an Oriental mys- tic, but he can. if he really desires it. acquire something of a philosophic attitude toward life. By deliberately reminding himseU that most problems work themsfives out with time, that most anticipated evils do not befall, he can avoid con- tributing to the breakdown of his phy- sical resistance and can escape from the vicious circle. Bright Accessories Worn With Black NEW YOKKâ€" Tiiat 'oiack frock fashion which has stampeded into summer's higii style scene lends it- stlf beautifully to diiferent accessory colors. If you're carrying out the red note, one shop has smart gloves in framboise (raspberry to us), •Another good color contrast note for black is gold, in huge blobs of costume jeweJyy, such as a giant fig Kaf clipped at the front \' of a neck- line. .And if you can't be drawn away from t'ne white, the new chalk-white bead calla lilies, in the "white berry'' line, with little yellow bead centres-, and green glass leav-os are charming. The lilies come in clips, on bead bracelets, and necklaces. One in- trenuous four-strand necklace of big btaus h ;s a er.lla hly at either end, instea.i of tl-.e usual clasp fastening. lis long cnou;'h so you can do all sorts of lovi."y new tricks with the clips, sneh as crossing the bead strands in fror.t and dipping the c".)ia lily euds at opposite sides of ycuY iivck's neckline. BASy'S OWN [ iJcii ^(jZ Qci L and. IjcJnj ti/o Issue No. 33â€" '37 C-;i Women Take To Skeet Shooting Used to Tak« Along Knittioj; While Men Handled Gun4 Skeet shooting, invented some -years ago by W. H. Foster and Henry W. Davis, ot Boston, is said to be rising in popularity among women, accord- ing to the New York Sun. A few years ago only the hardiest of their sex dared borrow a gun and shooting jacket from brother or husband for a few trial shots. Today finds the num- ber ot women in the United States who shoot regularly cUmbin; toward two thousand. With only three years of shooting experience to her credit, and on her first trip to the Great Eastern Cham- pionships. Mrs, B. E. Rogers, of Wal- tham. Mas^.. walked off with the women's title at this summers' Lord- ship, Conn., meet with a score cf S5 x 100. She also holds the â- s-orids long run skeet record for women â€" IIT straigiit targets â€" won in January: and recently .zained the v.-cmen's skeet title of Massachusetts. Mrs, Rogers also does much partridge and wood- cock shooting, and is well known in Gcif Stream fishing circles. Miss Winifr'sd Hanley. of Stamford. Conn., runnar-up for the Loriiship title. says it's a toss-up as to which she takes more seriously â€" skeej or -jolf. Mrs, S. L. Hutcheson. of Larchmont. \,'i''., adopted skeet rather than take her knitting to shoots in which her husband participated. Liking it at first trial, she is now an alert, accurate shooter with a constantly improving score. A mental handicap v.-as added for women shooters at Lordship by the presence of the prominent woman skeet shooter, Mrs. W. W. U'alker. of Washington. D.C., who recently not only won the women's championship of Maryland aadjhe District of Col- umbia, but also took the all-around title from both men and women con- testants with the excellent scores o( 40x50 and ',)SxlOO. She was also run- ner-up in the recent -N'orth-Si uth Wo- men's Skeet Championship. Mrs. Wal- ker dispels any idea that the woman shooter must be a hefty, muscular Amazon, F^mini^e and soft spoken. she nevertheless takes to the shooting post a quiet conrldence and steady ac- curacy that seldom fails to bring re- sults. A bit of bad lues prevented her from placing at Lordship. Women Advise On House Planning Men Overlook Small Detauls Ea- sential to EliEcient Work .\ new housing group has been formed by women in Leniion, En.g.. sa.vs the Christian Science Monitor la a story from there. Not content with the strides made in working-class housing during the past few years, the women considei that too little attention is given lo interior arrangements, for the reason that men â€" who have never themselves been housekeepers â€" do not always seem to understand the profound ef feet that interior arrangements c;ia have on family life and leisure. "Bricks and mortar. " the women say. '"do not make homes. It is the little things, the small contrivances thought out to make life easier, ihat count." .^nd so, under the came of Women's .\dvisory Housing Council, thev have set themselves to "advise" in regard to internal construction wherever advice is wanted. One of the matters to which they are giving especial attention is the housing of elderly people. Local auth- orities are ready to expand generous- ly in the direction of the very young. They build day uurseriis and com- munal centres for them, and have es- pecial regard for the housing of large working-class families. They are less alert to sympathize with the old. Yet, Kngland is faced with a growing pop- ulation of elderly people, since long- evity is on the increase, atij the birth rate Is falling, and the latest available figures show that 7.9 per ceut. of the population are over 65 years of age. with the number going up. Old people, the new group aiaiu- tams, should never be called upon to isceud steep or crooked stairs, 1 h'.y *"^" Home Hints By LAURA KNIGHT ic>x?i*x*i>iK.*z*y!^ic*yx!C*yii^^ Blackberries in Two Roks Bli'-ckberries are not on the market yet in some parts of Canada but they should be fairly plentiful in a very short time. Here are a couple of ideas on what to do with them which you can keep ia mind until your local iro- cer has a ?ccd supply tor sal-^. Blackberries grow fairly evenly all over the Dominion and they have al- ways been popular for jam making, but not used much for jellies. This is because housewives know they sack pectin, the substance which m.ikes them jell, and so have nafarally avoid- ed trying to do anything about t'aem in the jelly line. But that is -;n old fashioned excuse for not using â- .!: ;se delicious berries in jellies because tlie mcdern cook uses bottled fruit pec- tin to take the place of natural pectin and so i;s never stuck with a fruit tiiat she can't make into jelly. Blackberry Jelly 4 cups \2 ibs.) juice. 5 cups 1.3-4 lbs. t sug-ar. 1 bottle fruit pectin. To prepare juice, crush thorou.:hly or grind about three quarts of fully ripe berries. Place fruit in jelly cloth or ba? and squeeze out juice. Mea- sure i-agar and juice into large sauce- pan and mix. Brini to a boil over hot- test fir^ and at once add pectin, stir- ring c'jnstantly. Then bring to a full roUin.g boil, and boil hard "4 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. Makes about 12 eight-ounce glasses. • « • Here io a grand luackberry dessert which you can serve the same day you .-:::^.;e your jeily. j-ust ue sure lo savj enough berries for this and also sure that they are the big juicy ri^ ones. It is Blackberry Roiy-Poly, kind your grandmothers used to maS â€" a flaky, hot delicious spiral of bS cuit dou-gh filled with rich. wiae-Jarl berries and juice. The tng-'-^dients ven h>ere will make enou.^ii roiy-poi; for eight people â€" that is. :t they poiite and don't isk for a second helj !Cg. But even if thenj ai-e oaiy Jour the family, there still â- â- vcn.t be an} lei't over. The best way to s-?tt!e tlj shortage problem is tJ si;rve this d^ licious dessert quite a £>â-  v Mmes d^Xri ing the blackberry season- BJackberry Roiy Poly 2 cups jif.tr.i 'our 1 teaspoons baking powder '•2 tjaspoon salt 4 tablespoons butter or otlier jhcrt^ eniag \ cap milk lab-.'ut) Melted butter I'-, cups fresh blackbe.-ries tablespoons sugar. Sift flour once, measure, add bai» ing powder and sait and sift agaiS.! Cut in shortening- Add miik gr-adaai»] :y until scft dough is formed. Tu out immediately on slightly flou board and roll ~t inch thick. Bru with melted butter, cover with blac^' berries, and sprinkle with sugar. RoQ as for jelly roll. Moisten edge aild| press against roll. Place in grease^j loaf pan with edge of roU on under, side, brush with melted butter, anfli bake in hot oven i,400 degrees F.> 2q' to 2o minutes. Serve hot with creaii.- Serves >. should never be expected :o live without central heating. Baths, for them, should be on the "sunk" variety, with inside handles to aid the rather. Electric plugs and switches should be placed high enough up the walls to eliminate over-much stooping, cup- boards should be low. ''Labor-saving" devices should not be alarmingly com plicated. Every bit of sunshine should be made available and. through the windows»the best and liveliest views should je obtained. .\:;'eady the new group is recog atzed by the .Ministry of Health and the services of its members will ^e requisitioned as need arises, either by the .Ministry itself, or by any other body of builders anxious for the best results in the construction of work ing-ckiss homes. Careless Pedestrians They Were Laughed At Mr, H. G. Weils says he is hope- ful for the peace of the world. It :s to be hoped that Mr. Wells is on sound ground in his 'relief. It was Mr. Wells who wrote "The War ;n the .\:r'' just a little alter the end of the war in South Africa. It was Mr. Wells who visualized aircraft dropping bombs in the Strar.d. in Trafalgar Sc.uare. who told us about "Bert" and "Albert'' who found themselves in a great German aeronautical park â€" and w'nat happened to them. But it was Mr. Wells, like Norman .\ngBlI â€" new Sir N'orman Angell â€" who was laughed at in those days prior to 1914. "The War in the .\ir" and "The Great Illusion" almost look like back numbers now. How prophetic those two pre-war books were! .\a educational campaign might well be undertaken to make the pedestrian more caref'ai in crossmy street and high'A-ay. .A.s a rule, young pedestrians are much more carefal •â- vhere motor vehicles are concerned than are t'neir elders. Because of the repeated admonitions of parents and teachers, the young have learn- ed to stop and look. Education thus plays a part in promoting high'.vay safety. I: may not reach some care- less aualt pedestria.ns, buc it should be emphasized and inrensitied a.niongf the young who will ccnstitate al. the pedestrians of toniorr.'-.v, famous Jcceea Tom MLx. Three b.S' tvmo »how» in o«e. E!«oodA.l'"BH«. ^ihitiiiiW ifi M*'.."'.^», i^