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p> ODN AX XN XXX OEKN XXX Synopsis of Preceding Instalments When the United League season opens the gamblers are offering 200 to 1 that Pop Clark's New York Blue will not win the pennant. Terry Burke is the, only sports writer to give them a change. He bets $10 at Tony Murallo's retsaurant in the Broadway district. In the Blues' first game Whitper, the Philadelphia pitcher, is killed with a bullet through the heart after smashing out a home TUR. Both: Burke 'and Larry Doyle, "the Blues' rookie shortstop, for whom Clark's pretty daughter, Frances had shown her. preference over Whitper, ~are suspected at first by Detective Kelly. It is Burke who, discavers it was Sid Stream; notorious gunman, who wrecked a taxi with a bullet through a tire and injured four Bos- oo, 3 players as the Blues arc to open 3 eries. Then Dirkin, Chicago star, rops dead on the diamond from poi- son on a phonograph needle fixed in the handle of his bat. Pietro, Chi- cago's bat boy, disappears. - Clark sends Doyle to Newark but he is soon sold to Boston. When the Blues go ®}1, St. Louis, Scotter, the Rubes' stgr, pitcher, is found dead from a gas given off by a mysterious powder In the box with a jigsaw puzzle sent toe him anonymously. Eact time Burke has. a beat on these sensa- "ional happenings and masked gun- men' truss him up, question him and - warn him he knows too much. Raw- ljns, 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 and bound, and her pass-key taken. Again there -- ais no clue to the murderer. hn - The scene in Detroit was being »- enacted all over the country where men were playing, ball in the United League. The Philadelphia team prac- tically refused to play: the Rlues again. The St. Louis team was in open revolt. The wives and famil'es of the Washington men were fear- fully upset and had succeeded in making the team _uncomfortable. In Cleveland the leading sports writer came out boldly and said that something ought to be done about the situation before any more fine men in the baseball world were slaughtered. A storm of protest flamed over the entire country. Editorials ap- peared in all the newspapers; some _ called Penny a hero, others intimat- ed that he was a coward, but they all agreed that his stand would do more toward clearing up the situa- tion than anything that had been doge thus far. 4 y eleven o'clock: that: morning the entire Detroit team was in a fear- # ful state of mind. One chap came out of the elevator and limped across the room, saying he had sprained his ankle getting out of the bathtub. Another man had become suddenly' ill and said he could not play. . 'Paging Mr. Turner, Paging Mr. Aurner." . The Detroit manager called the boy over and sent him for the telegram which had just come in, Turner read the wire quickly. It was from the Great Mogul in New York and read: « "I have called all managers to a special conference in New York over the week end. We are to cancel all games beginning today and start with the next schedule after. the .con- ference, Teams will stay where they are or go to their next city, This is Imperative." "Pop. Clark fairly bounced out of n elevator and came bowling toward 0 "I gee you have had a wire too. It's the only thing ta do. Some-~ cide now what we can and, will do: for the rest of the season," When the men heard the. news, a great wave of relief passed over their faces. The tension snapped and they smiled once more. Pop Clark spied Terry and beck- oned him. "I want you to go with me, Burke. You know more. about these things than any of us and I'd like you to be in on it, not. se much. as a representative of the press, but because I think you may be able to help us out of this confounded mess." ised, but his heart sank. He would be in danger again. 3 The Uhited. League owners and their managers met in New. York. Pop Clark asked Terry to keep him- later. . "Now, gentlemen," the Czar be- gan, "we know why we are here. 1 know it is generally believed that the purpose of this series of murders is to have the Blues win the pennant. I understand a great deal of money has been placed on the Blues to wn. I will amend that. As money and betting go, the amount is small, but the odds were so great when the bets were placed that the winpings, if the Blues do win the pennant, will be tremendous. There may be other reasons' for these crimes. They may be private grudges which are being settled by individuals using the Blues as a cloak to cover them, There is another point. We collectively may have an enemy who would like to see the United League ruined. Thus far the league has had the best season in its history, but 1 know and you know -that the gates this. year have been tremendous simply because the public is bloodthirsty, is seeking new sensaticus. The question 1s, can we cont nue to play? Will the men go on playing with this shadow hanging over their heads? This meeting was caused by the withdrawal of one player prominent in" the game. This is an emergency that must be met. If we are to go on, the morale of the men must be kept up. Have you any ideas, any suggestions to make?" "If you please," Pop Clark, last of the owner-managers, stood up. "I believe to my sorrow that these crimes are connected with my team. Gentlemen, we have played and fought together for many years and I do not want you to spare my feel- ings in any way. If taking the Blues out of the scries will prevent these crimes, I am ready and Willing to withdraw my team." Before Pop could sit down Bulla), the Chicago owner, was on his feet. "Mr. Chairman, I think all the other members of this meeting feel as I do, and that is that Pop Clark has nothing to do with these atrocities. We can't let the Blues withdraw. The fate of baseball is at stake. Foryears we "have represented clean sport. These crimes have made our sport are being victimized, we are being used by rack geers. We all know that there ha g been fixed fights, wrestling me ghes and horse races, but we don't want this stigma to tar- nish us irreparably for the future. We must fight this thing, fight it to a finish and, gentlemen, we must win so that a like situation will never arise again in baseball." When he sat down, Basher, the Detroit owner, who had been called back from a fishing trip in northern Michigan, rose. our team feel that a game with the thing must. be. done.and. we can; de-' "I'll do all I can," 'l'erry prom-. self on call in case he needed him. the talk of the.world. We, all of us,. "Turner tells me the members of. Blues is a Heath warrant for one of our men. ny, who was our star, quit. It is not upreasonable to. sup. pose that Penny would have been the next on the list. The fear of death is in the heart of every man who goes out on the diamond to play hagainst the Blues. We want to do 'more than stop these crimes. We must give confidence back to the men." ; "And how do you propose to .do 'that?' Pop Clark asked. "We must get to the source of the crimes and stop them once and for all," Basher replied. "We must call in the police." Eo "Police!" Anshouse, the ownur of the St. Louis team, exploded. "What have the police done? What did they do in New York, what did they do in Chicago or in St. Louis? Nothing!' "Boston was a little luckier," Cab. ell, the Boston-owner, remarked, "Lucky is right," Hallem, of Cleve- land, entered the discussion. "If that young reporter what's-his-name had- n't had his eyes open the Boston police would have been as helpless as the rest." "No matter what you may think of the police, they are our only hope." The Czar was speaking again. "With- out the police, we can do nothing." "We need 'the police," Pop Clark agreed. "They have the weight, the means and the power to do the things we need." "Are you gentlemen in accord with Clark's sentiments?" the chair- man asked. The men agreed that, ag useless as the police seemed, they were-the only people who could be -expected to be of any material help. (To be Continued) Tobacco Crop ~~ "At Least 4,000 Needed at Once, - Department Heads Told By Premier TORONTO.--WHh 20,000 hands re- quired to harvest properly the tobacco crop in Southwestern Ontario, and only some 10,000 available, Premier Hepburn this week called into confer. ence various departmental heads at Queen's Park and impressed upon them the absolute need for recruiting imnfediately at least 4,000 extra work. ers under the farm placement policy adopted. some' time ago. All Government employment offices will be canvassed by officials and re- let offices in cities and towns closest to the tobacco districts will be urged to list every available man. The seriousness of the tobacco sit: uation was calléd to tho attention of Hon. Duncan Marshall, Minister of Ag- riculture, by Professor Leitch, of Guelph, who has been studying it for the Government for some. time. Since the farm placement scheme went into operation this year, 8,013 men have been given jobs by the Gov- ernment. Mothers-in-Law Club Is Started Five Texas Women Organize An As- sociation To "Preserve American Home" AUSTIN, Texas. -- Five Texas mothers-in-law bade their jibed-at sisters throughout the United States to become members of ths incorpor- ated "national association of mothers. in-law clubs?' but Gene Howe wasn't on hand to cheer them. Howe, editor-publisher of an Amar illo newspaper, has been saying nice things about mothers-in-law. sigce 1934. That year he made the country mother-in-law conscious by launching an annual celebration to honor all such relatives, -in penance for the jokes he printed at the expense of his wife's mother, Mrs, Nellie Donald. leagues were granted a charter for a corporation under Texas laws, design. ed to "preserve the Amerjcan home." This -. as taking place while editor 'Howe was visiting his mother in Westport, Conn,, according to Amar illo sources. / Stockholm, Sweden, gives. its tele- phone subscribers a weather forecast service operated by means of a photo- dlectric talking machine, the record meteorological office receives. new in. formation, frequently more than once a day, 4 wan With Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner to London, ut into service recently at Kin '» a, = Rn "Dominion of Canada," was of five new locomotives whic he L.NJ.R. line between London and Edinburg Fast Locomotive Honors Canada 5, Ad py s Cross Station in London. at the throttle, the nvw locomotive, It is the first will, commencing July 6, hav! the "Coronation" streamlined trains over . The trip will be made in six hours, an average speed i 66% miles per hour, the fastest ran in the British Empire. A general view of the locomotive, which es a whistle donated by the C.P.R,, is shown in the photo. . Men Wanted Recently Mrs. Donald and four col' being changed as frequently as the: Wipe Out Elms American Depe. of iculture ls Poisoning Sickly Trees; To Save Others X WASHINGTON -- The Department of- Agriculture is inducing thousands of diseased trees to. commit suicide, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace reports. This 1s the latest technique in the campaign against the. Dutch Elm disease, which has virtually wiped out European elms and threatens Am. erican elms with distinction, a de- partment announcement said. Wallace shays the new method of making unwanted trees kill them: selves "silvicide." More than 625,000 such trees have been induced to self: destruction by the new method, he said. This is done by peeling a band of bark from the tree about breast high and placing over the exposed wood granulated copper sulphate, kept in place Ly a strip of ollcloth, SAP ABSORBS POISON * Moisture from the wood dissolves the copper sulphate, which, taken up by the sap, soon poisons the tree. This treatment, Wallace said, has proved about 95 per cenf, effective in killing banded trees. Dutch elm disease is comparatively new to this country, but already has killed millions of trees, and if un. checked vurobably will wipe out all elms in this country, tree experts said. The disease at present is concen trated in a comparatively small area, extending radially from New York City about 50 miles into Connecticut, New York State and New Jersey. There have been a few isolated cases fn Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, and Ohio, ; No cure for the disease has been developed. The only hope for the American elm is to find every diseas ed tree and destroy it before the in- fection can be spread to the healthy trees, forestry officials said. THREE MILLION DESTROYED The old method of combatting the disease was to fell and burn trees condemned as possible sources of in fection. More than 3,000,000 such trees were destroyed, but this process was' costly and slow. Through "siivicide" the tree is left standing for the owner to use when and as he sees fit. Such trecs are valuable as lumber and for fire wood. Tree experts are using four auto- giros in acrial scouting of fnacces: sible arcas: Flying slowly just above the tree tops, trained observers read: ily spot wilted or discolored follage-- indications of the presence of the disease. They mark the location of every suspected tree on a map, later used to guide a ground crew to the spot. _ DISEASE NEW IN U.S. Dutch elm disease came into the United States between 1925 and 1933 on burl elm logs shipped from Europe to cabinetmakers in the Middle West. The fungus that causes the disease does not grow on the outside of the elm trees. . Its spores are not carried by the wind. It is sprcad by insects, par ticularly the small European bark beetle and tho American elm beetle, which lay their cggs in the shallow tunnels beneath the bark. Scouting this year will cover 4,800 gquare miles in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey; a 2,600 square mile protective zone around this _area; 16 outside arcas, mainly ports "and mid-western cities where the im- ported diseased logs were handled, and 12,000 miles of rajflroad over which these logs were handled. Salaried Midwives Britain's Attack On Maternal Mortality SOUTHAMPTON.--A comprehen- sive service of salaried midwives as a first-line attack on the problem, of maternal mortality is announced by Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health. : The service, which will be launch- ed August 1, is designed to secure for every mother, whatever her cireum- stances, the help of a qualified mid- wife, and also greatly to improve the status and conditidps of the midwife profession, Although these a¥d other steps have been necessary in order that motherhood might reach a high level of safety, Sir Kingsley said the num- ber of women who died in childbirth " has been relatively small. He said the young married woman could be told with confidence, that if she is a normal, healthy woman and will take the ordinary. and sensible precautions advised by her doctor or the ante-nat alcentre. there need be no anx'ety. BLACKHEADS Don't squeeze blackheads ~ dissolve them. Get two ounces of peroxine powder from any drug store and rub ently with wet, hot cloth over the flack eads, They simply dissolve and disappear by this safe and sure method. Have a Hollywood complexion. Issue No. 32--'37 c--2 .sured of success every time. "AFTER EVERY MEAL Ha c/NATIN ~ AVOF [€] Flew? "KEEPS TEETH SPARKLING Home i PAAARARAAARARN RRR RX) By LAURA KNIGHT aw CO Hints a AAR AEA AV AAA Vy od THIS JAM IS A PEACH It's hard to believe that peach time is here already and that should be a warning! It wasn't very long ago that we started with strawberries, the first fruit of the season and came along down the whole line of sum- mer fruits till we have arrived at peaches and prapes. These are the fruits which herald the approgch of fall, and that means that the jam and jelly season is just about over. To some people, this year's straw- berries are but a memory, but not to those smart women who have the goodness of the strawberries sealed safely in glasses and lined up in their jam cupboards--along with cherries, raspberries and currants. Don't pass by the rare treat of Ripe Peach Jam whatever you do! When putting up canned peaches, "pickled peaches and spiced peaches, save some of the fruit--the ripest and most luscious--and treat yourself next winter to all of that fresh golden beauty and juicy succulence found in ripe peach jam. ) It has no end of unusual uses. It makes a wonderful spread for neces- sary in jam and jelly making. By this modern short-boil method you no longer need to boil fruit and sugar down to concentrate the jellying sub- stance in the fruit, because pectin is that jellying substance which has been extracted from a fruit abound- ing in it, concentrated and standard- ized ready for Tse. * Apart from the goodness of jams and jellies made this new and mod- ern way--apart from the grand color and quickness -- it's a sure method! You simply follow the recipe--a simple recipe at that, and you're as- No such thing as luck or the weather to be considered. You get perfect re- sults every time--whether you're an experienced cook or just a beginner. Ripe Peach Jam 3% cups (13-41bs.) prepared fruit T% cups (3% lls.) sugar 1-bottled -fruit pectin... To prepare fruit, peel about 2!% pounds fully ripe fruit. (To peel, put about three peaches at a time into a colander and dip the colander down into a saucepan of boiling water for a minute. Be sure the water in the saucepan is deep enough to cover the peaches, This method loosens the skins, without softening the fruit and so makes the peaches easy to skin). After skinning the peaches, halve them and take out the pits, then grind and pulp in a food chop- per or chop them fine. Measure sugar and prepared fruit, - tightly packed, into large kettle, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly be- fore and while boiling. Boil hard for one minute. Remove from fire and stir in bottled pectin. Then stir and skim by turns for just five min- utes to céo! slightly, to prevent float- ing fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. Makes about 10 eight-ounce glasses. If desired, about three teaspoons peach jam or if you are making sev- eral-batches of jam and want an ad- you might crush & few peach pits and put them in with the fruit. That will give your jam a sophisticated almond note that many people like. Save Money Too to speak, pay dearly for trying to get to their destination in a hurry. Ex- perts have discovered that at moder- ate rates of speed one is able to get double tire mileage, cut the oil bill in two and get more miles to the gallon. Here are their figures: 1--0:l consumption at 55 miles an hour is Scven times greater than at 30 miles an hour. 2_Tire wear at 55 miles an hour is twice as great as at 40 miles an hour, 3--Gasoline consumption at 55 miles an hour is one-fourth more than at 30 miles an hour. 4--There is greater wear and tear on the various parts of the car when running at high speed, particularly on piston rings, wrist pins, connect- ing rods and main bearings, trans- mission and rear axle bearings. Since most of us are always will ing to accept advice that tends to- ward cconomy, the slogan -- Reduce your speed and save money--is one that should offer a strong appeal. At moderate rates of sneed the car is under better control of the driver 'and fewer emergencies develop into serious accidents. Hence by keeping your speeds down you save both lives and money.--Kitchener Record. UM-DIPPING is a Firestone process not used in any other tire. \ pounds of cord fabric absorbs eight patented With it every hundred pounds of rubber and, as a result, every fibre, every cord and every ply in a Firestone tire is coated and insulated with pure rubber to counter act internal heat and friction--the greatest enemy of tire life. Due to this extra process, Firestone Gum-Dipped Cords have 58% longer flexing life. cent more for this extra value. Yet you do not pay one And you also get 2 Extra Cord Plies under the tread Scientifically Designed Safety Tread. - and the Firestone See the nearest Firestone Dealer today! Tirestone GUM-DIPPED TIRES "MOST MILES PER DOL! AR" spice may be added to make spiced ded bit of bouquet in one of them, Motorists who burn up the road 80° Hint Control y Of Newsprint Government Direction of I-dic Forecast gy Duplessis--Wocrlts With Ontario CHANDLER, Que.--Government df rection of the newsprint industry in cently by Premier Maurice Duplessis of Quebec in a public address here. : The . Union Nationale Premier, speaking at the reopening of the Chandler sulphite mill after seven years of idleness, said: "[-believe that with the co-operation of the Ontario Government, which 1 think I shall obtain, the two Govern: ments will not administer, but direct the newsprint industry." Importance of the industry called for speedy action and the application of a measure of control, Premier Dup- lessis said. The matter already had been studied. _Duplessis warned Quebec indusury that, while anxious to co-operate with it, he would "slap its wrist" if it got out of bounds. A: fault of- business In this province, he declared, was that it wanted 'to wear long pants before growing up." He sald there had been abuses fn over- capitalization and in other directions. The Premier again enunciated his Government's policy that there must be no exportation of Quebec pulpwood so long as it could be used in the Prov ince. People willing to spend millions in building mills had approached hima in the last year, he sald, but they had been turned down because they want. ed to export pulp and he did not con- sider it good policy. 2 Been Working Together "\We have been working together fcr gome time on the newsprint question," Premier Hepburn of Ontario comment: "ed, "and as a result we have been able to rehabilitate the industry in no small way. I hope to have a conference. with Premier Duplessis, in the near future, regarding the administration of all natural resources in which we jointly and vitally are interested." College Has Course For Hotel Chefs Must Be Able To Prepare Table d'Hote Dinner, Serve and Profit TUSKEGEE, Ala.--Ability to pre pare a table d'hote d:nner, serve it properly and make a profit on the meal will determine the grade of a number of students at Tuskegee In- stitute. Practical knowledge of foodstuffs, "their preparation and serving is the aim of "in-service" hotel cooks and chefs taking the institute's short course in commercial dietetics. Examinations consist of a series of dinners divided in three projects: a la carte, table d'hote and cafeteria. The examination room is Tuskegee's cafeteria where 3,000 meals are serv- ed daily. A hotel manger, W. T. Wilson of Montgomery, Ala, started the idea of a school for cooks and chefs when he mentioned southern hostel men had difficulty in getting good cooks. Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of the institute, added a three-year course in commercial dietetics to the college curriculum. In all, 56 stu- dents were enrolled. But the short- course was also added so cooks al- ready in. service on hotel Jobs might------ obtain training. A New Jersey hotel manager drove to Alabama in a station wagon to get six Negroes who will work in his establishment. Other graduates of the school have been placed in Ala- bama, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, Ohio and Michigan. The faculty this summer includes R. G. Booker head waiter of a Rich- mond hotel, and Chef Carson Gulley of the University of Wisconsin. Building Trade - ~ Now on Upgrade June Awards :ghest Value Since September, 1931 Construction activity has lagged be hind most over Canadian industries in recovery but now it is taking on sizeable proportions, June awards reg- istering the highest value of any month since September, 1931. The. total of contracts awarded for all Can. ada as recorded by MacLean Building Reports Limited, for the month of June was $30,369,600, as compared with $24,170,600 for May and $20,803, for June, 1936, increases of 25.6 per _.....--" cent. and 45.9 per cent. respectively. Ontario contributed --tiore than 50 per cent. of the Dominion total, with 1,433 projects amounting to $17,140, 400. Quebec came net with $8,092,800; British Columbia, $1,345,900; Nova Scotia, $1,184,800; Saskatchewan, $1, 125,600; Manitoba, $636,700; New Brunswick, $442,800; Alberta, $351, 900; Prince Edward Istand, $48,800. Contracts awarded for the first six months of the year amounting to $110,367,800 are 42 per cent. in ad- vance of the 1936 total of $77,708,600. Contemplated work for the year ta date has reached the large sume ot $239,329,400, a 61.2 per cent, increasd over the 1936 total of $148,425,600. Quebec and Ontario was forecast re- - bo 1 4 - ar ot LO pe ~ NEL AA I tng Vm gs 7 w Maly oi te A J : NA GA XS a 1 es nh Ld A Sy AG Sa NAVE RIE nd Py Ae a Ny) Sa re lr Snot sed