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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEIIi, UTAH FHE RIVER of SKULLS by George Marsh O PENN PUBLISHING CO. WNU SERVICB SYNOPSIS Ver country ol Northern Can-"te Can-"te dr suppUes destroyed by wol-d' wol-d' thev are forced to subsist on verines. tney amazed, to a oUmC,fIi toe house in the wilderness River There they are greeted rfTagbfond man with a gun. Intro-wlselfs Intro-wlselfs John McCord. hunter, ducing bimeVk. Alan if he dares go w b'heim next year to the River ol ' S'lu yond he Sinking Lakes, where Skulls beyona hgve been be : w f MrTord the daughter, who had Heath wuhm to "he wilderness, wins rLmedia e devotion of Rough. On ! " 'T nf Alan's departure for Fort McCord suddenly teUs him to I'J T hack some doga. and to keep LTh shut to questions. He gives : ffr, money warning him not to show fFort George, and promises to ex-?,,' ex-?,,' f later. Returned to Fort George, meets McQueen and Slade. Pro-JXTS Pro-JXTS Toe with Arsene Rivard. clerk. iCs rival for Berthe Dessane. om he is in love. The two police 5 fCking for a guide to the Big River eTness Accidentally Alan drops one i Hiccord's bills and when questioned. IsThe had got it from Neil Campbell. ?Efe he had saved at Whale River i !ro years before. He realizes he must mke good his lie by going north and Line Campbell before anyone else has I d a chance to talk to him. Berthe ' lather tells Alan the police are after a i maD wanted for murder, and have hired , boat to check Alan's story at Whale Biver. CHAPTER IV Continued ! "Sneak away?" asked Berthe. I "Why yu will have plenty of chances to say good-by before you j go north." 5 Tm going tonight," Alan said, ! "when the riioon is up. I've got to. I can't wait for the ice. You won't j tell anyone?" I Her black brows met in a puz-5 puz-5 zled frown as she faced him. "Tell? j Of course not, but I don't under- stand why you take such risks, Al-5 Al-5 an, and why you wish to hide your ' going." , He smiled down at her as her : doubtful eyes searched his face. "I'm afraid that the police will hold me up order me to wait and , go with them to Whale River." Then a wave of emotion drove him on as he bent over her dark face, at times half-masked by the wind-whipped ' strands of her unruly hair. "I can't wait-I've got to have a dog team, ' Berthe! I'm savins, trvinff to eet ahead. Don't let your mother and Rivard turn you against me, Berthe!" he cried, and was away before be-fore the startled girl could voice her protest Deep in the night a 19-foot Peter-boro Peter-boro canoe slipped from the shadow-packed shore below the darkened dark-ened buildings of the Hudson's Bay post, rode the ebb tide down to the river mouth, and turned north up the coast As the northwest wind drove the ice-pack toward the bald buttresses of the Cape of the Four Winds and the canoe raced the broken floe-ice past its granite feet, the pursuing fork boat appeared in the distance. K was a three days' race. But tte frail canoe, driven by its desperate des-perate crew, reached Whale River, Me, high and dry, on a mud flat the York boat waited for the next Me to float it free. , Neil Campbell, the trader, was Pualed and worried by Alan's strange request which, Alan assured could not be explained until Jater- yet he staunchly agreed to corroborate Alan's story. On up the coast, past the Little wnale and Richmond Gulf, went the canoe on its quest for dogs. At the Nastapokas, where the ice pack had nought m the walrus, seal and po-tobear po-tobear from the north. Alan met frst of the Kogaluk Eskimos. Z he,traded canoe load of JW and groceries for three year-2U?Bm year-2U?Bm PuPPie. bred from a J5 S,UP6rb huskies which ha K0raHope'8 Advance n fl Baywithir owners. PuV Slate"gray nd white JWW. Powder and Shot, and their T andwhite brother, called She ro " St8rted back dow the aCherous c"t fcr Fort George. ! !toboratoed into the fver mouth at Fort George and Uptothe Hud" cay settlement, Ashore" lln0el St00d n the dcbTra;h-H0ldi,ng rvous k the post hus- "m to th,uddenl pointed "P-Knhern "P-Knhern lW seiUernent of the f o FrnereCS0Tny beynd Of York K here 8 num" Sooner i. .ats and small Stance. anchor tar " the ou-remgrih:hSt,S.?ulntln8yes. Tr, a cned Alan. fctt.H - . s company, vnn irr,, I Trad;: -;S:IIlbet!The North. a lot 7 v ny' yu n. t-v " iot f iron and m. after .?J bnel 8ays wha Al the a J! 6?ld' lhou rSdV ComPa"y. l:SPhUPP' in the small McaK tt! sober fas of H factor Andrew Chns- "Well, young man," snapped Christie, a look of disgust on his face, "you've made a fine mess of things! Your starting north the night after I told you the police had hired a York boat proves you wanted to see Neil before the police reached him." Alan's face went stone hard. "Well, he told them where I got that money, didn't he?" "Yes, but the police don't believe himl" "Do you?" demanded Cameron, a glitter in his gray eyes. "I've got to believe Neil Campbell, Camp-bell, I suppose, but he didn't help you at all with McQueen. The Sergeant's Ser-geant's sure,, now, you met this McCord Mc-Cord and he's going back with you to the headwaters." "You're a fool, Alan, to put yourself your-self under suspicion of protecting a murderer!" added Duncan McNab. "The police can make it hot for you take you down to the railroad and put you on trial." Alan's good nature had returned. He smiled indulgently, displaying his strong white teeth. "It's 400 miles to the headwaters. Noel and I'll be glad to show the police the way, if that's all they want Won't we, Noel? As for our meeting anybody any-body up there last winter that's nonsense!" . "Well, I wouldn't be in your shoes for a good deal!" snapped Christie. "I may be. I never had much mind," he answered, drily. "You're playing a dangerous game," she became suddenly dramatic, dra-matic, "when you start to work against the Provincial Police." He had once read of a woman detective de-tective in a book in the post library. Could this woman be a government detective? "How have I worked against the police," he asked, disarmingly, "by telling the truth?" She burst into a paroxysm of laughter laugh-ter that did not fail to display the whiteness and regularity of her teeth. Drying her eyes with a handkerchief hand-kerchief that filled the air with a subtle perfume, she said, standing very close to the uncomfortable Alan: Al-an: "Why, you poor boy, do you suppose sup-pose they don't know you're lying?" "Excuse me, Mrs. Hanbury. I don't know who you are," he said, the blood darkening his bronzed face. "What right have you to ask me questions?" She opened her large eyes with their long-lashed lids in amazement "They didn't tell you at the Hudson's Hud-son's Bay?" "Not a word except that you were here and wanted to see me." "That's strange! I'm connected with the government, you know-special know-special agent I flew to Moose on another matter and wanted to have a look at the East Coast Knowing "1 got the pups in the Nastapokas, from a Husky." "By the by," he continued, after a period of silence, "a Canadian Airways Air-ways plane came in a few days ago bringing the mail from Moose, and there's a passenger who is waiting to see you." He winked at Duncan McNab whose red face was widening widen-ing in a grin. , "A passenger to see me?" Alan stared at the speaker. "Aye, and she's kicked up more rumpus in old Fort George than I've seen since the measles killed half our people." "She?" what could a woman from the "outside" want with Alan Cameron? Cam-eron? he wondered. "Yes, a woman. She's thick as peas with the police." On his way to Gabriel Dessane's house, Alan stopped to see his friend Pierre and learn if the Dessanes were still at supper. Opening the door of the trade-room, to his surprise sur-prise he saw Arsene Rivard in close conversation with a woman whose Norfolk jacket, short skirt and high laced boots marked her as a stranger stran-ger at Fort George. As he entered he caught her remark: "He must have met" "Hello, Rivard!" said Alan, enjoying en-joying the embarrassment of th two. "Pierre's over at his house, I suppose?" "Why, 'alio, Cameron!" The ton of the clerk was very cordial as he left the woman, who leaned gracefully grace-fully against the trade - counter, calmly inspecting the handsome young voyageur, from his moccasins mocca-sins to the deep-set twinkling gray eyes. "Mrs. Hanbury, I would make you acquainted with Alan Cameron." Cam-eron." said the clerk turning to the woman. So this is the woman who has upset up-set Fort George, he thought She seemed hardly more than thirty-five, thirty-five, with a tall, graceful figure set off by the whipcord suit Her face, framed by wavy bronze hair, was the face of a girl, except for the hazel eyes, long lashed and large. The eyes were unmistakably those of a woman who had seen much. "May I speak to Mr. Cameron alone?" she asked of Rivard. "Certainly. Madame." replied the clerk with an insinuating smile as he left the trade-room. Mrs. Hanbury lost no time in coming to the point. "Mr. Cameron, are you out of your mind?" Alan laughed. Folding his muscular mus-cular arms across his chest he cslmly met the handsome eyes that searched his. Sergeant McQueen and Corporal Slade, of course I was interested in their search for this McCord whom you met in the interior last winter." "I did not meet McCord last winter!" win-ter!" The cold glitter in the gray eyes had a decided effect on Mrs. Hanbury' Han-bury' s manner. She suddenly dropped her air of easy confidence. "When they get John McCord," she went on, dramatically, ignoring ignor-ing his flat denial, "do you realize that you will be tried for aiding an escaped murderer? Now, I promise you that if you'll tell me where you met this man and the girl what you know about them, I'll square this whole thing with the police." Again she approached too closely for Alan's comfort as her black-lashed black-lashed hazel eyes narrowed. "It's going to go hard for you if you don't, for McQueen will take you down to the Deputy Commissioner at the railroad for questioning." The conversation was interrupted by the return of Gabriel Dessane from his supper. Harassed by the certainty of being compelled to accompany ac-company the police to the headwaters, head-waters, by doubt and misgivings which the mysterious Mrs. Hanbury had aroused, Alan went over to the factor's bouse. Received coldly by Madame Dessane, he found Berthe waiting. "You have found her very agreeable, agree-able, to talk so long In the trade-room?" trade-room?" she asked, giving him a lifeless hand. "Arsene told you then? So you think that woman" "I don't know what to think. Good-night, Alan!" And she left the room. CHAPTER V Sick at heart with Berthe's coldness, cold-ness, Alan sought his old friend Pierre to learn what had been the comment at the Revillon Freres on his sudden departure for the north coast "You mak queek start eh, dat night you leeve for de nor'?" laughed the big Frenchman when he and Julie had welcomed the wanderer. wan-derer. "Dose poleece, dey were ver' cross, w'en you beat dem to Whale Riviere." "What did they say when they got back?" "Wal, I hear dem talk wid de boss. Dey say you race dem to Whale so you can tell Neil Campbell Camp-bell about de monee." "What did Gabriel say?" "He say, no, you went for dog." Good old Gabriel, thought Alan, he's still my friend. Then he asked: "What has Rivard been saying? I know that he's done all he could to turn the Madame and Berthe against me. Berthe wouldnl talk to me tonight." to-night." Pierre scowled and shook his head. "Ah, dat ees bad ver' bad. Madame Dessane she lak Arsene, yes, she lak' dat young feller. But Ma'm'selle Berthe she weel be all right. Eet ees dat woman, Hanbury, Han-bury, dat mak' all de troub'. She turn Fort George on hees head, so w'en Arsene tell Berthe you talk to her tonight, poof! She get mad lak de odder woman." "What do you make of Mrs. Hanbury?" Han-bury?" "I fink she ees huntin' lak' a fox, ver' hard for somet'ing. Wat dat ees, I don' know, but she ees try hard to find eet all de tarn." "She stops with the Northern Trading people?" , "Ah-hah! And she make troub' dere quick wid Madame Martin. De woman are all cross wid her. She weel not tell dem w'y she come to Fort George." The moon was up when Alan took the river trail to the Hudson's Bay settlement. His thoughts brooded over the mood in which he had found Berthe. There remained but a short space, now, before he would have to start for the headwaters probably with the police; only too brief an interval to win back Berthe. And then there would be months of absence, possibly a year or more in the interior with John McCord, while Rivard and Madame Dessane poisoned her mind. But McCord had promised him money and money mon-ey he needed. The following morning when Alan and Noel returned from their fish nets and were playing with the huge puppies inside the dog stockade, they had a caller. "G'morning, Cameron!" Alan looked up to recognize the thick-set figure of Sergeant McQueen behind the slabs of the gate. "You got your dogs, I see. Beauties, too! Nothing like them at Whale River." "I got the pups in the Nastapokas, from a Husky," he answered, as the slate-gray Powder, pursued by Shot and the brown-patched Rogue circled cir-cled him in a mad race, while Rough lay near at hand, watching their childish antics through condescending, conde-scending, oblique eyes. (TO BE CONTINUED) Famous Ferris Wheel, 1893 World's Fair Attraction, Invention of Illinois Man Illinois gave the Ferris wheel to the world. According to information informa-tion obtained by the federal writers' project WPA. a native son of Gales-burg Gales-burg invented the wheel and directed direct-ed its construction. It is still remembered by thousands thou-sands cf persons as a main attraction attrac-tion at the World's Columbian exposition expo-sition at Chicago in 1893. George Washington Gale Ferris was a member mem-ber of two pioneer families of Gales-burg, Gales-burg, descendants of which now reside re-side in that city. Notwithstanding the opinion of engineers en-gineers who believed the wheel could not be operated even if it were built Ferris found backers for his enterprise. The encouragement given giv-en by officials of steel companies who believed in the feasibility of the wheel was an important factor in carrying out the plan. It is said that officials of the fair were amazed both when the wheel did operate and when it returned a profit prof-it According to accounts the total cost of the wheel was $300,000. of which $25,000 was spent on planning and $12,000 on the wooden false work. The foundation, 40 feet deep, was laid in the winter months under serious handicaps. Because of the size of the job and the necessary haste, several steel plants divided the iron work. The pieces were so carefully checked for uniformity that they seemed to be the products of but one company. The giant axle weighed 70 tons. The wheel, 270 feet in diameter, consisted of two huge rims with sub-porting sub-porting spokes. Between these wer suspended 36 cars, with seats for 40-persons 40-persons in each one. As the wheel revolved the cars reached a height of 258 feet giving the passengers a fine view of the exposition grounds and a thrill to talk about when they returned to their homes. La Guaira, Famous Port La Guaira is the port for Caracas, the capital of Venezuela and for many years the home of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America. Amer-ica. In La Guaira there is a house of worship called "The Church of the Most Holy Damn" because it wa built with fines imposed upon people who swore. Star SDusi A Bright Star "k In Religious Field "k Those DeZurik Sisters 1 Hj Virginia Vnlo I SEVERAL young players attained fame on the screen during the year of 1939, none of them more rapidly rap-idly or deservingly than Louis Hayward. A little more than a year ago his name was practically unknown to movie fans, although al-though he had appeared on the stage both in England and New York, and had given excellent ex-cellent performances In supporting roles In several films. He was about ready to chuck Hollywood and go back to the stage when Edward Small gave him a starring role in "The Duke of West Point" Next LOUIS HAYWARD he was co-starred In "The Man In the Iron Mask" with Joan Bennett-he Bennett-he played twins in that one and now he Is playing "Oliver Essex" In "My Son, My Son" and looking ahead to "Monte Cristo." In "My Son, My Son" he has to go through four dinner scenes. Being Be-ing a canny lad, he took up the matter of food with Director Charles Vidor, who agreed to order Hay-ward's Hay-ward's favorite dish for the four meals fried chicken. I wonder if the manager of your local movie theater was as clever as mine was. The other day he sent me a little card, in a little envelope as I opened It I wondered won-dered which of my friends had had a baby. The eard read "Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man proudly announce the birth of a baby boy. Come and see the whole family at the Stamford Stam-ford theater starting Thursday." Across the bottom of the card was a brief advertisement for a shop that sells baby clothes. We're about to have a new cycle In pictures eyele of religions pic tures. Cecil B. DcMille will make "Queen of Queens" for Paramount. Twentieth Century - Fox recently bought "The Great Commandment," which was made by Cathedral Films, and will make It ever. BRO nay give ns a film versioa f "Fa ther Malachys Miracle," and Twen tieth Century-Fox may de "The First Legioa." If the first ef these te be released Is a eaecess, the smaller companies will lose ae time In scheduling religions pictures ef their ewn. Why doesn't somebody re-4e "Earthbound"? . "Mexican Spitfire" made such a good pre-view Impression that its stars, Lupe Velae and Lem ErroL hare beei signed to make three mere pictures together. Caroline and Mary DeZurik, the two sisters whom you often hear on the Natioaal Barn Dance program, Just happened into becoming singers. sing-ers. They lived on a farm in Royal-ton, Royal-ton, Minn. One day they were singing sing-ing as they did the housework, and Mary Jane picked vp a guitar that her brother had recently bought and began plunking en It as as accompaniment accom-paniment They found that they sang well together, and stock U It 1 short time later they wen an amateur contest In Royalton, and were sent to Et. Cloud, Minn., te eater another an-other contest It was there that radio talent scouts heard them and started them en their way. Caroline was Jusi 15 then, and Mary Jane was two years older. Now they are both expert guitar players, though It's Mary Jane who plays when they sing on the air. When Charles Laughton was a guest recently on the "Screen Guild Theater" he upset radio tradition and startled Producer Joe Hill by memorizing his script Hill wouldn't believe that be had done It which seems odd. In view of the fact that Laughton has been oa the stage and in the movies for years. Just to humor the producer, Laughton brought the script to the broadcast with him and referred to it once. ODDS AND ENDS "Grand Hour returns to the air in January . . . Joan Btondell and Dick Povrtt (Mr. and Mr you know) will probably mak a picture together in th t print . . . Bob Trout, CBS reporter, contributed hit $ervicei to the Boy Scouts for their first movie did a running commentary for it. (Released by Western Newspaper Drdcm.) HOW-TQ. 4 Ruth Wyeth Spears SEW so- -M I ) .l (RED AND llKf f vBLUE Mmft paintandU 77 JAhAi I DEEP BLUBLUE, ' 1 JxXXj t SCREW. C l Un 'f li A gay winged chair for the youngster A GOOD deal has been Bald about children having to live in a giant's world where all the furniture is made for grown-ups. Furniture stores are now selling chairs; tables; beds and dressers made for children. Here are all the dimensions needed for making a child's chair at home. It is of 1-inch material and the sketch shows clearly how it is screwed together after the pieces have been sawed according to the measurements given. The chair is painted deep blue; the back, seat cushions and full skirt are of red and blue cotton print with blue bindings. All dimensions for the cushions and skirt are also given in the sketch. NOTE: If you enjoy making what you want from next to nothing, noth-ing, don't miss Mrs. Spears' newest new-est Sewing Book (No. 4). It is full of information for making useful things. Books No. 1, 2 and 3 contain a fascinating array of things to make for the home. Mrs. Spears has made three patterns pat-terns for Early American quilt blocks which she will send FREE with your order for four books at 10 cents each. Quilt block patterns pat-terns only 10 cents for set of three. Send order to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. AROUND .he HOUSE Items of Interest to the Housewife Fat Side Up Put the roast in! the pan with the fat side up so it will baste itself. IMan meals In advance, with concern con-cern for the use of leftovers, which will aid in saving energy in preparation. prep-aration. When baiting the mousetrap, remember re-member that foods mice prefer to cheese include chocolate, peanuts and pork chops. For Dried Fruits. Try soaking and cooking a thin slice or two of lemon with your dried apricots, peaches or prunes. When washing a white silk blouse or jumper to which you want to give a little stiffness, add a few lumps of sugar to the rinsing water, roll tightly in a clean towel, and iron while still damp. Cane-bottomed chairs that have sagged can be tightened by being be-ing well scrubbed with a soapy mixture containing a handful of salt. Allow to dry, then paint with a strong solution of salt and water and dry again, if possible out of aoors. Pop Corn Fudge 1 cupfuls popcorn 2 cupfuls brown sugar 1 cupful thin cream or whole milk 1 tablespoonful butter 1 teaspoonful vanilla Combine the sugar and cream and stir over a low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Continue cook ing to Zoo degrees F. or until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water. Remove from the heat and let stand in cold water until the mixture is cool. Then add the butter, popped corn and vanilla. Beat until creamy. Shape on a buttered plate and cut into squares. Peanuts may be added to mixture, also. Chocolate and orange flavors blend well. Add orange extract tf chocolate frosting or candy, Tr covering a chocolate cake will orange frosting. Stored Potatoes Potatoes stored in too cold a place change some of their starch to sugar, and when a potato has accumulated considerable consider-able sugar it won't fry well. When making a meringue have the egg whites very cold and beat them until still enough to stand alone. If baked in too hot an oven meringue will be tough and shrink when set away to cool. Washing Shirts. To loosen the dirt on cuff and collar bands of men' and boys' Bhirts, scrub them with a soft brush frequently dipped in warm soapy water before be-fore putting them in the laundry tub. MAKES ANY MINX TASTE Bf TTlR In Tenderness We can help make people bright by our keenness, but we can never nev-er accomplish anything toward making people good except by our tenderness. Parkhurst. 4Mi 1117 Beckett. 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