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Show Thursday, March 7, 1935 THE It clear that our relatively abort Jump through space will be danger- oil Indeed. The ships may not have been contrived properly to withstand what are at best merely theoretical conditions. The cold of out er space may overwhelm us. The rays which travel through the empty reaches when we thrust our selves among them clad In the thin cylinders of our Ark may gKsert a i Bwit Bal PttpWvk 1 WNU Sorvlce. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS David Ransdell arrive at New Tork from South Africa, with photographic plate for Dr. Col Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the Hendrona' apartment. Eve Hendron, with whom Ton Is In love. Introduces Ton to KansdelL Professor Bronson, eminent astronomer, has discovered two planets that have been brought under the attraction of our aun. The it of the Inevitable collision must be the end of the earth. The approach-ins- ; bodies are referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. Hendron plans a "Space Ship" on which be hopes to make a landing- - on Bronson Beta before the destruction of the earth, but has not been able to find a metal which will withstand the heat and pressure of atomlo energy to be used In propelling the Space Ship. Tidal waves and quakes change the entire surface of the earth. The Hendron colony suffers, but survives. Ransdell and Eliot James leave on an aerial reconnolssance to ascertain conditions elsewhere. They are attacked and badly wounded, but return alive, reporting- - universal destruction throughout the country. Hendron's camp Is attacked by a hunger-crate- d horde, and half of the peraonnel Is killed. Hendron calls the survivors Into the ship and sends It aloft. The thousands In the attacking horde are wiped out by the searing blast emitted by the ship. re-su- residual personce! of this camp.' Hendron gat down. No cheer was 17 Nearly three weeks after the at- lifted. s As If they bad seen the Head, the audience was tack a census was retaken. There uorgon were two hundred and nine unin- turned to stone. The sentence Im lottery had been jured women, one hundred and posed by the death woman who man lifted. and Every men. There eighty-twuninjured were about eighty men and women sat there was free. Every one of who were expected wholly to re- them had a chance to live, to fight cover. There were more than a and to make a new career else hundred who would suffer Borne dis- where In the starlit firmament. ability. Four hundred and ninety-threAlthough In Eliot James' diaries people had been killed or had the days appeared to be crammed died after the conflict. Work of course was redistributed. with events, to the dwellers In Hen More than five months lay ahead of dron's colony the weeks passed In them. The Space Ship could be what seemed like a steady routine, completed, even with this reduced and James had been so busy that he was unable to write volumln group. In three weeks. On one of the unseasonably warm ously : "Dec. 4: Today what we call the afternoons In December Tony received what he considered after- keel of the second Space Ship was ward the greatest compliment ever laid. The first has been popularly paid to htm In his life. He was named 'Noah's Ark,' and we have making one of his regular tours of offered a prize of five thousand the stockyards when Ransdell over dollars In absolutely worthless bank took him. In all their recent en- notes for anybody who will contrive counters Ransdell had not spoken a name for the second. "Dec. 7: Kyto, the Japanese serva hundred words to Tony; but now he said almost gruffly. "I'd like to ant whom Tony Drake had had for some years In New Tork, and apeak to you." Tony turned and smiled. The of whom he was Inordinately fond, South African hesitated, and al walked peacefully Into camp. The most blushed. "I'm not talkative," inscrutable little Jap walked up he said bluntly, "but I've been try- to Tony, whose back was turned. ing to find you alone for weeks." Kyto's face was like a smiling Again he hesitated. Buddha's; and fully appreciating "Yes?" the drama of the situation, he said "That fight yon put up " Rans- - in his odd voice: 'With exceeding del took a huge pocket knife from humbleness request possibilities of his flannel shirt and commenced to return to former employment. When open and shut Its blade nervously. Tony spun around I thought he was "That was a d n fine piece of going to faint. Immediately afterward he began thumping Kyto's work, fellow." "What was yours?" Tony replied back so hard that I personally heartily. Itansdell held out his feared for the Jap's life. But he hand. They gripped, and In that seems to be wiry; In fact, he must grip the hands of lesser men would have the constitution of a steel have been broken. From that time spring, for he has traveled overland on those rivals In love were as more than eight hundred miles In blood brothers. the past two months, and his story, Another general meeting was held which I am getting out of him in the dining hall. Hendron again piecemeal, Is one of fabulous adtook charge. venture. "The matter which I have to dis"Dec. 19: I discovered only tocuss with you," he began, "is one day that Hendron has used for Inwhich will come, I am sure, as a sulation between the double walls distinct surprise. It Is the result of the now completed Ark, two of my earnest thought and of careful thick layers of asbestos, and becalculations. From the standpoint tween them, books. The books make of realism and I have learned reasonably good Insulating material, that all of you are courageous and when we arrive at our fuenough to face truths I am forced ture home, If we do not arrive to add that my decision has been with too hard a blow, we will be made possible by the diminution of provided with an enormous and our numbers. complete library. Amazing fellow, "All of you know that I founded Hendron. this village of ours for the purpose "Jan. 18: A flight was made to of transferring to the planet that the 'mines' from which Ransdell's will take the place of the earth a metals have been taken, and in the company of about one hundred peo- course of It the plane passed over ple, with the hope that they might St. Paul and Minneapolis. Apparperpetuate our doomed race. It ently the mobs In those two cities seemed to me that a ship large have for the most part either perenough to accommodate such a ished or migrated. However, we number might be fabricated and have not drawn In the outposts staone thousand launched by the pertioned around the cantonment after sons who were originally assem- the last attack, and If we should bled here. It Is obvious, of course, be again attacked In force, we shall that the more Intelligent and not temporize but use the final healthy the units of humanity we weapon at once. are able to transfer to the planet, "Jan. 20: There was dancing In the better the chances for found- the hall of the women's dormitory ing a new race will be." and Itansdell so far overcame his He paused and his eyes roved almost animal shyness that he over the throng. Not a breath was danced once with Eve. The rivalry drawn, and not a word was spoken. between Ransdell and Tony Is the "My friends, we are five hundred most popular subject of discussion In number. On the night of the at among the girls and women, but tack, we all of us and some who SUch a bond has grown between the since have died crammed Into the two men that I know whoever Is Ship. We all realize that no defeated in the contest, If there Is uch crowding will be possible on victory or defeat, will take his medthe voyage through space; we all icine honorably and generously. I realize that much cargo, other than am wondering, however, about that humanity, must be towed on the business of victory or defeat The ship If there Is to be any point and women here slightly outnumber the purpose In our safe landing upon men. It will be necessary for them another planet. One hundred per- to bear children on the new planet. sons remains my estimate of the Variation of our new race will be probable crew and passenger list desirable. Perhaps we will resort of the ship that saved us all on that In the main to polyandry, and abolish, because of biological necessity, night "But I have come to the conclu- all marriage There are a good many sion that by dint of tremendons ef- very real love affairs existent aland largely ready. fort and "Feb. 17: In a little more than because of the success of the exa month It will be time for our made we have which periments with Ransdell's metal, it will be departure. As that solemn hour the remaining approaches all of ns tend to think possible within months of time to construct a sec- back Into our Uvea, rather than ond and larger vessel which will forward toward our new lives. be capable of removing the entire Hendron has not hesitated to make CHAPTER IX Continued o e ' a ! different potency from that expe rienced tinder the layer of earth's atmosphere. Either or both of our projectiles may collide with a win- derlnt astrold. In which case the consequences will be similar to those anticipated front the collision of earth with Bronson Alpha. Hen dron assures us only that the ships will fly, and If they reach the atmosphere on Bronson Beta, It will be possible to land them. "Feb. 22: The Bronson Bodies have reappeared In the sky with visible discs. Observations through our modest telescope show clearly that Bronson Beta, warmed by the sun, hat a surface now completely thawed. At the first approach, an excellent spectroscopic analysis wag made of the planet's composition. The analysis denoted Its fitness to support human life, but we stand In tuch awe of It that we say to ourselves only: 'Perhaps .we shall be able to live If we ever disembark there'; but we cannot know. There may be things upon Its mysterious surface, elemental conditions undreamed of by man. However, there la some mysterious comfort, a sort of superstitious courage, afforded to many of our numbers by the fact that as our doom approaches a future home Is also waxing brightly In the dark sky. "Feb. 28: Tremendous effort Is being expended upon the second Ark. The task of accumulating metal for Its construction was tremendous. Hendronville looks like a little Pittsburgh Its furnaces going all night. Its roads rutted by heavy trucking, and Its foundries shaking with a continual roar of machinery. The construction of the second Ark In such a record time would have been Impossible had It not been for the adaptability of Hendron's solution of atomic disintegration. Power and heat we have In unlimited quantities. "March 0: The day and hour of departure has been announced. In order to Intercept the Bronson Body at Its most advantageous point, we shall leave the earth on the 27th of this month at 1 :45 a. m. precisely. It Is estimated that the Journey will require 00 hours, although It could be made much more quickly. "March 18: From time to time, when our own receiving apparatus has been functioning, we have overheard radio broadcasts from the world outside. The static Is still tremendous, and these broadcasts have been most unsatisfactory. Once In November and again In January we heard the President of the United States. He recited In a very strained and weary voice a few fragmentary details of life In his small kingdom. Not In any hope of aid, but as If he wished to Inform any one else who might be listening," what the situation was. On three or four occasions we have could contain all the Item lo these Mussolini Shouts Defiance at Europe lint. "It la the most Incredible assort ment of tlie gear that belongs to mankind ever assembled lu any one place. We are ready." "When I think." Tony said to Eve as they sat side by side on a small hilltop watching the descent of twlllifht into the busy valley, "of the foresight and Ingenuity of your father. I am appalled. He was ahead of most of the people In the world In his Idea for leaving the eurth, and be was ahead of all of us when he saw the possibility and the practicability of taking everybody who was left after the struggle, to the new planet It's odd. I used to Imagine scenes that would exist when the Ark was ready to leave, and of the thousands of us here only a hundred could be chosen. It would have been a terrible period for every one." Eve bugged herself with her arms "I and looked at him stdewlse. knew all about Dad's plans for the departure, and I knew something else. You were not to go, were ' " , Msg? i-'- if ffiff .v mm. ;wx wvPl I ,LYI WW,, "He Must Have the Constitution of a Steel Spring, for He Has Traveled Overland More Than Eight Hundred Miles In the Past Two Months. . . . His Story Is One of Fabulous Adventure." caught snatches of broadcasts from foreign stations. But, except for a lull Immediately after the storms, we have never been able to overhear enough so that we know anything definite about the situation In Europe or elsewhere. "March 20: A week from tonight we shall leave the earth. The approach of this zero hour has cast a spell on the colonists. They move as If In a dream. Nervous tension Is enormous. "Everything la in readiness; a few perishables will be moved Into the ships In the last hours; the stock and poultry have already been domiciled In their quarters, although they have not been lashed fast I have been given by Hendron, to Include with my papers, a complete list of the contents of both ships. In spite of their enormous size the second ship looks like three tanks piled on top of each other, and also has the same shining exterior as the first It la Impossible to believe that they h - ! 1 2 .t r ak ssWsssssllli iiIism s,'s J' ? x.. fS i lV, aer-T,- - .Italian reservists answer call to colors. !!. Narcotics valued at $15,000 were seized and nine arrested In a raid by narcotic agents at San Rafael. X John Edward Bradley of Altadetia. ('allf by President Roosevelt as winner of the Mount Kushmore Memorial Inscription competition. 1. evening so close to the great adventure, she seemed radiant and unusually tender. "You're modest, Tony. That's one of your greatest charms. Let me tell you: Once I gaw the list Dad had made up. He had given Bronson first place. I came second, Dodson was third, And you Ransdell was fourth. were fifth, Tony. When he could pick almost as be wished from the whole world, he made you fifth. That's pretty high up." "Your father must be sentimental to consider me at alL But I am glad he gave Ransdell that fourth position. I can't Imagine any situation In the world which Dave couldn't handle." the compliment Eve Ignored "Father took the list away from me, and be was very angry that I had seen It Peter Vanderbllt was on It When you consider It Van derbllt has as much to offer as al most anyone. The delicacy that comes from overbreeding, a wiry nervous constitution, an artist's tempera ment, taste, a learned mind, a gor geous sense of humor and courage. Probably he's wasteful, spendthrift decadent, and Jaded or at least he used to be; but how greatly his positive virtues outweigh his - I "Another thing: Dad's name wasn't on that list I think when Dad thought he could save only a hundred people, he figured he wa too old, and that his work had been done; and I'll bet If the first ship had been ready to leave and there had been none other. Dad would have been missing at the crucial time." "Yes," Tony said thoughtfully. "That's exactly what your father would have done, although, of course, such a decision would have been mistaken." Eve nodded In agreement. "He Intended to do It, I think, as a lesson a sort of Instruction to the others." A silence fell between them, then Tony began to talk again. "I hav changed my Ideas about everything, Eve not only about life and death I think that even my Ideas about you are changing. When Ransdell came to New York under such dramatic circumstances, and when 1 saw your Interest In him, I was Jealous. I pretended I wasn't, even to myself ; but I was. And In some small way some way I felt superior to him. I was better educated, better bred, better trained socially. Since I've come to know that man I've learned that from the standpoint of everything that counts, he's a man, and I'm still In short pants. "It would have been hard to talk to you about such things at one time; In fact It would have been Impossible, because I would have considered It bad form. Now It's ail different The day after tomorrow we are going to sail. 1 may not have a chance to see you alone again between now and then I don't want to burden you with feeling of unnecessary responsibility. There isn't any responsibility on your part. But I must tell you that I love you. I've told you that before, long ago, and what I said then has nothing to do with what I feel now. In saying It I am asking you for nothing. I mean that yon shall know only that whatever hap. pens, whatever you decide, whatever either of ns does in the fu ture, cannot alter the fact that I now do and always shall hold for you intact the most fundamental part of all that any man can feel toward any woman." ne had finished his words with his face turned toward her, and his eyes looking Into her eyes. Eve spread her palms out on the ground behind her and leaned back. "I love you, too, Tony. I shall al ways love you." Tony took her In his arms then and kissed her. small-minde- : 1 you 7" "Me? Of course not What good would I have been?" Eve smiled. On this evening, an vices """sr.rT . Li 1 I PAGE THREE NEPIII. UTAH TIMES-NEW- d i Wins Prize in Ruslimore 4 Says II Ducc Competition Right Million Writes Text for Huge Monument Men Can Be Put in Field John Edward Bradley, Altadena, Premier Mussolini hurled defiance at Italy's foes with the announcement that he could lilac-- 80(K).0Hi under arms, and chancellories of Europe were thrown Into a furore. War preparations have been go ing forward steadily, with conscripts arriving at mobilization centers as shown above. Five thousand men have already left for Italian Somaliland, where trouble threatens with . Ethiopia. was seen Mussolini's statement as a warning to Germany that although a force might be engaged In ;he Ethiopian border dispute, Italy was prepared to brook no Nazi Interference with Austria. European newspapers have freely predicted trouble between the relch and Italy and some have thought that Hitler might be planning to take advan tage of the dispatch of Italian troops to Africa to attack Italy. The signed communique stated "However. It must he remembered that by virtue of recent laws Italy can mobilize thirty-seveclasses, numbering eight million men, be tween the ages of eighteen and fif 9. - 'I " Calif., who won the prize for the best inscription to be placed on Mount Rushmore National MemoThe heroic rial, Is shown above. Black UHU monument to four Immortal Presidents will be completed In 1937. according to A. E. Demaray, associate director of national parks. Last year the sculptor, Gutzon 'j Horglmn, put finishing touches on r - . . ',,4 the majestic countenance of George 15 Washington, and completed that of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. On passage of an Interior departThe Most Reverend Raymond A ment bill not pending congress will conse was who Kearney, recently crated auxiliary bishop of the have appropriated $215,000 of the e authorized. Meanwhile prooklyn diocese. Bishop Kearney, contributors have donated only Is the youngem aged thirty-onmember of the hierarchy In the $145,000 of the $250,000 expected from them. world. prl-vat- e. A "Sunflower" House in Italy . n His brnsk communique was Is sued as the transport Leonardo Da Vinci loaded additional troops from the Pelorltana division at Meslna, Sicily. The Leonardo Da Vinci, de layed by bad weather at Mes sina, sailed for East Africa at night with 110 officers, 1,200 Infan try and artillery troops, and 300 skilled workmen. Loading of mate rials on the Arabia was begun at Naples. The supply ship sailed the following day. Mussolini said the modernized military organizations of Fascist classes Italy can rush thirty-seveInto uniform should war come. In tensive recruiting is provided for In new Fascist law Involving mili tary training for all citizens be tween the ages of eighteen and fif While troops are being sent forward from Italy, prospects of fu ture trouble was somewhat lessened observers claimed, after Sir John Simon, British secretary, declared to the house of commons that Italy was still bound by treaty to respect the territorial rights of Ethiopia n YOUNGEST PREACHER , v i i r , - Vt-r- V fft .IH , I A house, the living rooms of which, as a unit, rotate on circular tracks, facing the sun, making the complete turn within the arc of a circle, In 9 hours and 50 minutes. The motive power conies from a 3 horse power engine which operates In the center of the house. The house shown is located on a hillside In Italy. I S T-- 'if I i 1 - III' '.aw.1 m fJJ rUVxj I ;. f-f- n t ,v ' L "Snowmocycle" Makes Its Appearance 4 (TO BE CONTINUED.) Boiling on Ice xsomng a Kettie or water on a block of lee Is an experiment that Is often performed with liquid air. which looks like water though It Is not quite as clear. If liquid air Is placed In a kettle, which Is set on a block of Ice, the Ice being much warmer than the liquid air will cause It. to boll or change Into gas. If the liquid air Is poured on the Ice It will boll vigorously, sending on clouds of vapor. YOUNGEST BISHOP Huge Army Now Ready, ft r- - a IbM&sMWa Charles E. Jaynes, aged five, for more than a year has been conducting evangelistic services throughout the country. He Is ambitious to become the world's greatest preacher. He is now shown at the Angelus tample In Los Angeles. which Doctor Rlemerschmid, of Munich, with his special snow-bikreally might be called a "snowmocycle," specially constructed for awift traveling through high piled snow drifts. The rider weari skis to maintain the balance of the machine which is motor driven. The niachln seems to have tractor wheels. |