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.stiam^df^ i 1 A. ^ 7- A- '^ ^ <*. *•- -\ i. i I A. A EVENING PAPER By Matthew Weld T A- I V It was jus! an ordinary copy of •n ordinary evening paper. But when the girl looked up from read- ing it she saw that the man sitting opposite her in the Underground railway was the murderer. There was the photo, and there was the man. Her whole tummy sort of gulped with shock. What would be best to io'i She was a shy, pink girl, slim, igureless; you could talk to her dozens of times and still not know litr next time you met Oh, and fair, of course. But she was wear- ing a red plastic raincoat. She sat lor a few seconds, thinking. Then the train began to slow down, and the man stood up and moved to- wards the door. She leaped up to follow him. It wasn't till she also wa* at th« door that she realized she had left the paper on the seat. But it didn't matter. What did matter was that now lie'd got his back to her, she wasn't absolutely sure that he was indeed the man. Her nerve failed her, and the knew she must see his face •gain before she dared enlist the help of strangers to accost him. Think what it would be like if she made a mistake 1 * If she could only get alongside him, or ahead, and get one more good look at his face They reached the top of the esca- lator, and the crowd bottlenecked •t the exit. Out in the street, the man paced fast through the electric light and the chill of a winter afternoon. The girl followed. All at once, just ahead of them, appeared a shop with mirrors In it. He slowed and pulled at his tic and his hat. In the glass she saw him again clearly. It was the man. But at the same moment he also looked past his own shoulder in the reflection and saw her, his eye, ao doubt, caught by the splash of red in the glass. Did he remember this same transparent scarlet mac- intosh, this unmemorable pink blonde? The man moved on. He did not look back. The gill was now suddenly possessed of genius. She undid her raincoat, and in one spasm whipped H off and threw it into a doorway as she went by. Now she was no longer a scarlet plastic raincoat: she was a grey coat-and-skirt. .But now, as she hurried after the man, she looked breathlessly for help. Not a bobby in sight. But there was another girl walk- ing along ahead of her, so she caught up with her â€" a plump girl in a satin blouse too small for her, as it turned out, and a moleskin eoat. Their feet went plinkety-plonk In step, and then out of step, on the pavement. "Look, help me! Don't think I'm mad, but that man in front there is Maitland. that murderer they're looking for. I've seen his face. Get help quick, and come after me." « * * The other girl didn't stop to reason. She was dark, and quick as a sparrow. "How'Il we know where you're gone?" "Walk beside me, quickly, while 1 think." â-  "I know!" cried the dark girt. "Draw arrows on the pavement to show which way you've gone. Have you got a pencil?" "Will a pencil show on the No, look, my lipstick 1 N'ow fly." The dark girl darted off, and the fair one walked on after the mur- derer. The n'.an turned off into a side street, so she chalked an arrow with her lipstick on the pavement, taking care not to bend valuable stockings at the knees. Then she hurried on. Then he turned oft again, tliree or four times, and each time she drew a red arrow and followed him. Then lie turned into a narrow alley, and again down a little run- way into a dark court. She began to feel afraid. Up to now there had been no time for fear, but now suddenly fear was in her stomach. Had he recognized her as the girl from the train wlio had sat opposite him, reading tliat fat.i! paper? If so. was he luring her purposely into tliis dark web o! alleys? She thought ot her fiance and her parents, and lier little brother But she knew she had to go on. She hoped very mucli that her stockings wouldn't get hu t. A last look back. Was help com- ing? Or had the lipstick arrows got smudged out by feet? Lurking back, so as not to be seen, she toUovved him into the dark court. From here he turned again into another archway, across which old doors leaned and creaked at each other, but no longer locked. She marked her last arrow and followed him. Behind, the door, the Sutuigler waited for btr. Booed By Brussels Communists. â€" Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, m Brussels for the International Europe Movement meeting, was booed by a large crowd of Communists when he made an outdoor speech. Police arrested 60 Reds, in- cluding senators and deputies, during an organized attempt to break up the talk. mPAEMFRONl lolvi\12iw^eiL.^ 'i5?»^'j Just which of the several methods of preparing the seed bed will give you the best yields of grain crops? is a question of interest to many farmers. Is it ordinary plowing, •ub-surface plowing, or disking? Don't expect me to give you any hard-and-fast answer, but here are some figures that I believe might be worthy of your attention. « * « Tests made in the past have rainfall areas, straight plowing is generally shown that in heavier best. But where there'i scarcity of rain, the otKer methods have shown * «p well as moisture saving devices. « • » Latest reports I've seen along this line come from Cornell Uni- versity. Here two-year corn testa showed; plowing, 49 bushels to the acre; sub-surface plowing, 39 btt- shels; disking, 34 bushels. * * * Wheat yields over a similar period were; 30 bushels to the acre or plowing; 23 for sub-surface plow-' ing: and 19 for disking. * • • Oats went 29 bushels on the plowed ground: 25.6 bushels on the sub-surface seed bed; and 25.4 on the disked soil. * * * According to the Cornell folks who made these tests, generally speaking plowing gives a looser, better aerated soil â€" and weeds are less of a problem. * » * If you keep your tractor oiled and greased properly, the worst enemy it has is dust. Dust that is even too small to see will cause wear. A new tractor runs smoothly and makes little noise, because the moving parts fit closely together; and the closer they fit together, the more damage dust can do. Air always contains a certain amount of dust, no matter how clear it may seem. And your trac- tor uses plenty of air â€" about 9,000 gallons of it for every gallon of fuel. Every time your tractor burns 5 gallons of gasoline, it will use on the average enough air to fill a 90-ton silo. * • * The air cleaner on your tractor is built to keep that dust out of the engine. But the air cleaner can- not do everytliing by itself. It stops the dust by catching it in a bath of oil as the air passes through the cleaner; but tliere is a limit to how much dust the oil can hold. When the oil gets full of dust, the air cannot be cleaned; dust will go into the engine and wear out parts in a hurr.i. Vour tractor will begin to lose power: it will use too much oil; and you will lose time and money having repairs made. * « • To hv.'l;> tlu- a!- cleaner you must remove the dust that is caught Under a\ crage air conditions, writes R. L. Patrick in The Progressive •Parmer, this servicing should be done once a d;iyâ€" before tlie trac- tor is started in the morning. At that time all of the oil and dirt will be in tlie removable cup on the hottoni of the cleaner. * • • Tliis cup is easy to remove- usually a single screw is all that holds it on. Oi'leii thi» can be loosened by hand. Remove the cup and pour off the oil. In the bottom of the cup you will find a layer o! dirt. Scraffe out this dirt and rinse the cup with some clean fuel. Be sure and dry it out then, as any fuel left will thin the new oil placed in the cup. Most manufacturers recommend a certain weight oil foi the air cleaner, and your owner's instruction book or your tractor dealer will tell you whkt weigitt t» STILL ANOTHER FIRST! The first industrial transformer was invented by a Russian natural scientist, Ivan Ussagin, it was claimed in Moscow by Prof. Victor Danilevsky, a student of the history of Russian technical knowledge. The first patent for a transformer was received by a Russian electric cian, Peter Vablochkov, in France in November, 1876, the professor said. .\ccording to Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica, the first successful trans- former was demonstrated by Wil- liam Stanley in the United States and put in service in 1886. In recent months Tass or official Soviet publications have claimed that Russians were the first to in- vent the airplane, the glider, sub- marines, helicopters, steam engines, and a wool-combing machine. STUCK PIG In Mobile, .\la., a ho.isewife, short of cash, guiltily broke into her baby's piggy bank, found only a note inside: "lOl' $5. ('signed) Dadiiv • use. Tlie same weight oil as in the engine is generally O.K. * • • There is a mark on the cup show- ing how full of oil it should be. Fill it to that point and replace the cup. The right amount of oil at well as the right weight is impor- tant. Not enough oil will cause the same trouble as too thin oil With too much oil or oil that is too heavj' the air will have a hard'time getting through. That would be much the same as leaving the choke on the carburetor partly closed. Your tractor would use too much fuel, and the engine might not run right. * * * As I said before, servicing the air cleaner is a fairly easy job. After you've done it a few timet, you'll be aule to do it in five minutes or less. .\nd when your tractor â- > running under very dusty oonditio:is, it't a wise plan to ser- vice it twice a day. The second return to the field. ."Vgain this gives time can be after dinner, before you the oil and dirt a chance to settle while the engine isn't running. * « « Vibration can loosen the connec- tions between the air cleaner and the carburetor. Check them daily. They will need tightening once in a while. With loose connections air may enter and not go through the cleaner â€" and the result will be the same as having no cleaner at alL And if the choke or the throttle shaft on the carburetor becomes worn and loose dusty air can enter. Sometimes the intake manifold may get rust holes. .\nd dust enter- ing such places has been known to wear out tractor engines in a matter of just a few days. » • • Which will have to be all for a few days â€" seven of them, in fact. GB££N THUMB i,GbrdoaSiaitK GARDEN NOTES More seed is wasted by planting too deep than too shallow. A good rule is about three timet the diam- eter of the seed. With tiny seeds like poppies, alyssum or turnips, this means merely pressing tlie teed in the soil. With big things like gladioli, bulbs, potatoes and dah- lias it means from 4 to 8 nches, but with beets, beans, etc., only about an inch to cover is necessary. BIG CROPPERS It is really amazing what vege- table crops one can get out of even a tiny plot. A patch 10 feet by 20, with a little planning and double cropping will yield many meals. Of course, in the verj- small vege- table garden one is wise to forget those bulky or spreading sort of things like potatoes, corn, squash or peas. One should concentrate on beans, carrots, beets, spinach, radish, lettuce, possibly c half-dozen staked tomatoes and perhaps a hill or two of cucumbers, trained over the boundary fence. None of these vegetables take up much room. Beans, beets and carrots, for in- stance, can be growr in rows only a foot apart, and 10 feet o: any of them will produce many meals for the average fam:!y. With some of the very early things like lettuce, radish and spinach, double crop- ping can be practised. Plant these in rows, say, 18 inches apart, with rows of the later things â€" beets, beans, carrots, parsnips, etc., in be- tween. Long before the last named are full-grown the first will be used and out of the way. • • • FOR AN EARLY START Usually there it a corner of the garden which is dry before the rest. â- This is the spot to plant the very early things, hardy vegetables and flowers than can go in the ground just as soon as the soil is dry. Frost and snow later on will not hurt these, and some of them must make their first growth while soil and sir are cool. Among the vegetables in this cat- NEW and USEFUL TOO- ELECTRICALLY OPER.\T- ED ROBOT DOOR OPENER. Unlocks garage doori, opens them and turns on yard and garage lightt while operator sits in car. Another button in garage or inside houte closes and locks garage door and turns ofif light. Makers claim spec- ial safety feature eliminates pot- sibility of accident to children or pets playing near doon. LAWN SPRINKLER. This lawn sprinkler has relay valve with eight outlets, each connected to four sprinkler heads which take care of one section of lawn each. Relay valve sends water through one outlet at a time for about a minute, then shunts to next outlet It is claimed that such intermittent spraying allows time for seepage be- tween spray periods, so that no water runs off lawn. - PRE-SET HOUSE WARMER. Temperature control that gets rooms warm when you want them. It's installed outside building, ad- justed for time when rooms inside should be fully warmed up. During night it automatically shifts time for the heat to go on as tempera- ture changes. It is wired into reg- ular room thermostat, which retains control during daytime. PLASTIC IX PIGSKIN. That foot'aall you see kicked around next fall may have a plastic bladder. These new bladders for footballs, basketballs, etc., are said to be priced lower than usual kind and to keep at least 92% of original pressure for six months or more. egory will be the first planting of radish, leaf lettuce, spinach, early onions and the hardiest of the gar- den peas. .\ll the vegetables men- tioned can be planted at least three times, a fortnight apart, and some like lettuce and radish, carrots, beets, beans, ets., can be planted at intervals right up to the first week in July. .A.mong the hardy flowers will be cosmos, marigolds, pansies, tweet peas and anything else listed as very hardy in a Canadian seed catalogue. Some of these are to resistant to frost that they sow themselves and come on as volunteer plants in the Spring. How To Salvage Old Paint Brushes When you start to do a puintins job around your place, as often as not he discovers that the old paint brush has developed a decided kink with hard turned-up bristles and it unworkable. To salvage stiff old brushes soaking overnight, preferably ia turpentine, is a well-known prelim- inary. Gasoline is also effective. After the old paint has beeji soft- ened, it should be scraped off with a blunt knife or combed out with a steel comb or brush. If the first soaking fails to remove the paint, the process can be repeated. Siiellac brushes should be cleaned with alcohol, and whitewash and calci- mine brushes with water. .A.fter most of the accumulation has been removed, the brush should be scrubbed in warm water with a mild laundry soap â€" never with a strong soap. The excess water should be shaken out and the brush left to dry. The bristles should be straightened out with a scrub brush or comb before completely dry, after which the brush should be wrapped â€" not too tightly â€" in heavy paper or cardboard to keep the bristles straight If the brush tk dipped in paint before being fuUjr dried, the moisture will make the brush soft and listless. When a brush is being used every day, it should be filled with paint and wrapped overnight in several thicknesses of paper, or suspended in a can of water. If used inter- mittenly, it may be suspended ia raw linseed oil or kerosene. K stored in turpentine, the brush is likely to become hard. It should never be allowed to rest on the ends of the bristles for any length of time, because it will become warped and the flow of paint will be uneven. With a hole at the end of the handle, â-  a brush may be suspended in tiie paint from a rod or stick across the edges of the caa so that the bristles do not touch the bottom. When put away for • period of time, the brush should be cleaned, thoroughly dried, and stored with the bristles straight DOGTAG In Chicago, Dolores McCrostea lost her dog, asked police to find lt> Identifying marks: red nail polish on Its toenails. THERE'S SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN HIS MADNESS In the caws of science. Merrily he rols along. may . of More than one string to his bow. Some people may look with tests the I.Q. of crows, but John Alpin Graydon does juat raised eyebrows at a man who that and confounds his critict* by pointing out that he hasn't punched a timeclock in yean. Graydon is a 72-year-old ia- ventor, scientist and philoso- pher. .\t top left, Graydoa talks with one of his crows as he gets the bird's reactions to words and sounds. Top right, he displays his tubeless tirt, made from strips of od tire casings. Developed during tht wartime tire shortage, he still uses it as a spare. .\t right "he plays his violin with a bow â€" actually four bows togetherâ€" which plays all four strings at once. A noted violinist will soon use the bow on a radio broadcast. PEMNY By Horry Hoenigsei)