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Quality Guaranteed v SERIAL STORY MURDER IN CONVOY BY A. W. O'BRIEN LAST WEEK: The day before 20,000 soldier* are to leave Can- ada for England in convoy, naval cooamanderi are called for a con- ference and told that there will be a Nazi ipy among the troops and that utmost caution must be kerred. Captain* of the freight- er* thai will be among the con- vey are then called in and order* are issued for the tailing. The auuters are offered the oppor- tutty to withdraw from the dan- terou* mission, but no one apeak* CHAPTER II A boll-voiced foghorn blared through the waterfront haze. From a distance two bells clanged Monotonously. With khaki coat collar turned up against the knife- edged wind, an Army lieutenant stood leaning on the deck rail as the blacked-out liner gently rose and fell at the dockside. The giant troopship had gone to sleep. The only sound* that came to his ears other than tht bleak fog signals were the occas- ional sound of a sentry's boot on the deck or a muffled command from the general directon of the bridge. He couldn't see more than baseball throw in any direction, but the lieutenant knew a number JUMPER-FROCK FOR WAR WORKERS By Anne Adam* Your new war work demands a practical, washable uniform that will stand hard wear. You need more than one, so it must be inexpensive too. Pattern 4926 was adapted by Anne Adams from the women's defense uniform de- signed by the Department of Agriculture, and can be made economically at home. The but- ton-front jumper apron slips on quickly over its own contrast Mouse or over your dress. The pockets are set in the skirt seams to keep from tearing and the shoulder straps are cut in-one with the centre panel for the same reason. Make the blouse long or short-sleeved wear the collar open or closed. Let the Sewing Instructor help you fin- ish quickly! 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That was three days ago and the letdown after all the activity and excitement had been terrific. But things were definitely picking up. The reason was a blond, certainly not more than 24, slightly taller than aver- age, but eminently suitable for a six-foot officer. Lieutenant Rollins found him- self grinning in the darkness. The girl was evidently of the serious- minded type, but that dimple in her left cheek held interesting possibilities. He had noticed it when she was only half-way up the gangplank, and he was trying to make out the color of her eyes when she had looked at him squarely. He had promptly raised a gloved baud to his service cap in an in- formal salute and added a wide smile for good measure. She gave him a short fleeting smile in re- turn but it was a somewhat dis- interested one. She stepped briskly from the gangplank and onto "B" deck then marched along with the others to the stairway leading up to "A" deck. Lieutenant Rollins' eyes followed her. She was un- doubtedly the prettiest of the 47 nursing sisters bound for a Cana- dian hospital in England. The amazing- thing about it all was he knew he had met that girl some- where before. It was quite un- thinkable, though, that he ap- proach her, bow deeply, and say: "Pardon me, Sister, but haven't we met somewhere?" She would speak to him, of course. Would tell him a"* few casual facts about herself. He would name a few places he had been. She might suggest a few also. Then, in an awkward sort of way, he'd be forced to shrug, laugh lightly and give up. That would never do. He would bring up the previous meeting only after they were on cozy terms "Lieutenant Rollins, sir?" The young officer came out of his reverie with a start. He turn- ed to find a sentry at salute. "Yes, I'm Mr. Rollins." "The 0. C. Troops would like you to come to his quarters im- mediately, sir." Lieutenant Rollins felt his way through the darkness to the near- est entrance. He founu the door handle and tugged it open to meet even inkier darkness. He reached forward and pushed aside the heavy curtain so placed to pre vent light from showing when the door was opened. For a moment he blinked into the corridor lights, then quickly strode down to the suite at the far end. Over it hung a sign, "0. C. Troops." He knocked twice. "Come in!" Colonel L. S. Stephenson, M. C., was seated before a desk. He looked absently at the young offi- cer for a moment. "Oh yes. Lieutenant. I merely wanted to point out that it is after midnight and unless I am mis- taken there are sounds generally associated with singing coming from the direction of the bar. As orderly officer," he paused sug- gestively, "I must ask you to at- tend to the matter immediately. "You will be held accountable for an infraction of lights-out regulations during your period on duty tonight and, by the way, I also have an underlined order to the effect that orderly officers are to report any unusual incid- ent, no matter how slight, that comes within their notice or the notice of the sentries." The colonel turned to his paper. Rollins saluted, wheeled smartly and stepped out into the corridor. The officers' bar was having difficulty getting closed when Rollins pushed open the (las* doors. "Break it up, boys," Rollins in- terrupted, "the O. C.' orders." A captain grinned from a stool at the bar. "Okay, Gregory, and 1'U bring along a Scotch in case you're chilly when you com : off watch at two." Rollins winked his thanks. He and Captain Sydney Tees had been friends since the old rugby days at university. In fact, Syd recommended him for his com- mission with the Royal Wes. mount Regiment after he had obtained his Officers Training Course Cer- tificate "A." Back out on dejk it seemed in- creasingly chilly and lonely. Rol- lins grumbled to himself as he started another long tour of the ship to check on the sentries. All these precautions by the Old Man seemed exaggerated, with the ship still beside a dock that was heav- ily patrolled by military and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. * It was about 12.30 when he en- tered the orderly room on the aft deck. He examined the orders for the next day and grinned widely. Lieutenant Harry Miley was booked as orderly officer and, judging from his exuberatioc when the bar closed, it would be a painful session. Suddenly, he and the sergeant working at the desk looked up at 'one another. Thfy had both heard the noise a low but un- mistakable running through the ship. The sergeant jumped to his feet. "It's the engines, sir. We must be on our way!" The lieutenant ih-h-hed him. "Take it easy, sergeant. It will take hours before we . . ." The door opened and a sentry entered. "Lieutenant Rollins quick? I was just on my way here a few seconds ago when I spotted two small flashes, followed by a third a moment later on 'A' deck seemed to be directly above the main lounge on the port side, I ..." Rollins was hurrying out. "Now don't follow me. I'm going to try surprising whoever is up there'." He slipped through the door and ran on his toes across an' open stretch of deck on the port aide. There was no light showing on "A" deck. Slowly he made his way up the steel companion- way and lay flat on the top steps so that his eyes cleared the deck level. For a few seconds the whole deck seemed to be immersed in one big, black shadow. Then things took shape. He could make out the deck chairs stacked against the wall a few feet up. Beyond that there was a larire emergency raft. In frcnt of the raft . . . Did th.at shadow move'. 1 The lieutenant felt his eyes burning with the effort. He w:is concentrating every ounce of vis- ion on that shadow. Yes, it had moved. It was coming in his ii - rection, seemingly huugins the dark portion of the deck close to the wall. Rollins reached back gingerly and unbuttoned his service hols- ter. Noiselessly he drew the pow- erful .45. The shadow was 'no more thaa ten yards away now. "Halt where you are!" he bit out the command in low even tones, "and lift your hands high!" (Continued Next Week) Length Of Marriage According To Scale Married life, says the Kitchener Record, continues to be the favor- ite theme of the jokestcrs, so it is not surprising to fin.l tiiat someone with keen powers of per- ception and a fair sense of humor has compiled a n:arrimonial guide by means of which it is easy to judge how long any given couple has been married. Here is the yardstick, marked in days, ueeks, months and years: If he goes shopping and car- ries all her parcels without a word two 'months. If he listens intently to all the details of the Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club under six months. If she tries so hard to persuade him to go out with the boys for an evening and he doesn't go three months. If he does over three months. If she believes she has married "the only man iu the world" four days. If he finds all his buttons sewed on and his socks darned seven months. If she insists that he invite hjs mother down more often three weeks. If he calls her mother "au old dear" and her father "a brick" three weeks. If she asks him to tell her about "the office" five months. If he complains about the steak being too well done one year. If he would rather sit by the fire than go out two weeks or 86 years. If they play every hole on <he links and come in smiling they are not married at ail. DEMOLISHING FAMOUS NEW YORK SIGN Another familiar sight on Broadway to go on account. ut war measures! The Wrigley Spearmint sign on Times Squaw, New York City the largest of its kind in the world is being dismantled. For the past six yean this spectacular sign has thrilled the; Broadway crowds. To see the Great White Way, and the Wrigley sign in particular because it was the largest, was one thing that thrilled the visitors to New York from all over the world. The Win. Wrigley Jr. Company decided to discontinue this beau- tiful sign strictly as an economic measure. The sign was 75 feet high and 192 feet long. It contained 35,000 lamps and consumed as much electric current as would be needed in illuminating a town of 10,000 population. For the last six months the Wrigley Company had replaced their entire advertising message on this huge Spectacular with copy pro- moting U. S. Defense Bonds and Savings Stamps. For this reason they dislike to see the sign demolished, but from an economic stand- point and in an effort to help win the war, the officials of the Com- pany decided it was the right thing to do. What the country needs today are ships, tanks, airplanes, and guns, and to produce these weapons of war takes lots of power. Saving Sugar For Munitions Of War Reason Given For Sugar Ra- tioning by Sarnia Canadian- Observer Canada understands that the fovernnient's call foi voluntary rationing of sugar is a wartime measure but It is not generally understood why H Is a wartime measure. Sugar is not being ra- tioned here and in the United State* simply because of a short- age in the sugar cane crop. The real reason (or the rationing is that sugar caae can produce either sugar molasses or edible sugar, that is the kind of sugar used in tea and coffee. U too much ot the cane la used for edible, or eating augar, then there Is not so much available (or augar molasses. Both sugar molasses and edible sugar come- from the same raw material source. * Now why this concern about the supply of sugar mo'uuses? For the reason that the major source f ethyl alcohol is sugar molasses. And ethyl alcohol is required for munitions oil war and for thous- ands of chemicals used in war pro- duction. Fortune Magazine., wUicn. made a survey of the augar situa- tion iu the I'nited States, declares that "today's wars are fought lit- erally wiUi sugar." livery time a 16-inch gun is fired, a iit'th of an acre of sugar cane is cousumed in the form of ethyl alcohol, and it will be remembered tiiat etuyl alco.iol comes, largely, from sugar molasses. Then, too, sugar to energy for war workers and for fighting men. High test molasses is made di- rectly from sugar c.iue. Its high sugar content, 78 per ceut, makes a-gailou go "half agaiu as far" in making alcoiiol as does ordinary blackst..:;) molasses which is a by- product of sugar refining. Bivu.:i of tilti dem:iuds of the war, it is estimated taut tae Luiied Stales (aces wnat is des- cribed as a sugar saoi Cage oi iioui 500.UUU to 1.UUU.UOU tons. Tiiese de- mauds arisd from toe trvmeudoLsy iiicreaaeil cull lor etjyl alcouol. Europe has striven to ma&e Usoli self-suuii-ieut in iuuusu-ial alco- noi. It is luaUe from potatoes and grains and to some extent Lroui beets. Japau produced nearly enough sugar iu Formosa, says this magazine, for uer requirements. No doubt ner drive in the South- west Pacific lias as au objective the obtaining ot sugar cane as well as rubber and oil. Hence, when a Canadian Is re- fraining from the use of sugar, to * degree, he is not simply dieting or even merely being self-sacrific- ing so that the fighting men can have plenty of sugar for their tea. He is giving up sugar so that ethyl alcohol may be made and so that 16-Inch guns and other guns may b tired at the Axia. Plea Is Renewed For Used Rubber Salvage officials. renewing their plea for all rubber that can be spareti issued a list of useful salvage for the guidance of the general public. Articles listed include: Did tires including those used on the boat docks to prevent damage to the boats, tires used as poultry troughs and garden borders, tires from baby carriages and go-carts, all forms of door and floor mats, stair treads, hot water botltes, rubber sheeting, gloves, syringe bulbs, clothing such as baby caps, slickers, baby garments, foot- wear, including rubeb.- soled ov- ershoes and tennis shoes, toys, dolls, balls, pucks, football blad- ders, door stoppers and all other articles containing "live|" rubber. Monkey In India Using Jap Tactics Angry monkeys, using Japanese tactics of fighting from treetops, have killed scores of Chinese lab- orers by dropping rocks on their heads as they worked on the new Sikang-Assam Highway which will replace the Burma Road as a main land supply route for China, the United . hina Relief reported. T. Y. Lo, official of the Chi- nese Motion Picture Corporation, said the attacks took place iu the mountainous regions along the border of Northern India when the monkeys grew angry at in- trusion of laborers into regions never before inhabited by man. Lo said the monkeys chatted to each other and then began a ser- ies of attacks which lasted a week, gathering ammunition at night and us. us it all day. Lo said that when he left China the laborers were projected by guarus who had used clubs and pistols to drive the monkeys to refuge in distant treetops. ISSUE 14 '42 GRANDPA'S GOING TO MOSCOW FINE CUT Founded in 1888 by one of the early West's most outstanding figures, the late W. R. Hull, the) Pine Coulee Ranch was located near Nan ton. Alberta. The brand is still in use by the Beaver Camp Ranch. BRAND OF THE OLD RNE COULEE RANCH 25 TABLE TALKS By SADIE B. CHAMBERS Easter Dinner Menu Grape Juice Cocktail Baked Ham Raisin Sauce Nests of Creamed Mashed Potatoes filled with Green Fcas Spinach with hard cooked egs garnish Olive Salad Parker House Holls Ice Cream Maple Syrup Sauce Angel Cake Beverage of Choice Just a few remarks and recipes for the Easter Dinner Menu. Firstly, I hope all homemaken Kill have some of that home canned grape juice made last autumn. Add a little orange juice and gingerale and it does fire the juice an extra tang 1 . I thought you would like the traditional ham for Easter. Personally select your ham ac- cording to your family's liking regarding size, amount of fat and lean meat, etc. Baking the ham seeing to be preferred, so give it a long slow baking. Then, about 15 minutes before serving, remove the rind and spread the fat with a brown sugar glaze. To 1 cup of brown sugar add l x s teaspoons mustard and 1 teaspooTi of ginger. Cloves may be placed in the ham in dia- mond shapes, or some prefer to add Va teaspoon of ground cloves to the sugar mixture. Raisin Sauce % cup Raisins 1 cup Water . 4 Cloves \ cup Brown Sugar 1 teaspoon Corostarch '-* teaspoon Salt 10 grains Pepper 1 tabiespopn Butter 1 tablespoon Lemon Juige H teaspoon Concentrated Meat Sauce. Cover raisins with water and add cloves and simmer for ten minutes. Remove cloves, add su- gar, cornsiarch, and salt and pep- per mixed together. Stir until slightly thickened and add re- maining ingredients. Olive Salad 2 cups Cold Boiled Rice 1 teaspoon Cloves -* cup Chopped Ripe Olives 1 Green Pepper (shredded) 1 cup Green Peas 'a teaspoon Salt ana Paprika 1 cup iShr .'ii-d Raw Cabbage H cup Chopped Celery Mayonnaise Lettuce Mix all ingredients together carefully. Season to .aste with salt and paprika and moisten with mayonnaise. Arrange on lettuce or watercress and garnish with ring cut from green pepper and small slices ot' pickled beets. 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A waste by-product of alum- inum used in the nianu.aciu.o of sea markers for the air force will now be used as a no\vler to .-oat a substitute foil in cigaret pac- kage*.