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Show THE Thursday, January 3, 1935 those scientists whose counsel llerndon desired, and the flower of the young men and women who might be useful In the event of a great cataclysm. Hendron's own Ideaa were still un- crystallzed: he felt with increasing intensity the need for gathering together the best brains, the healthiest bodies and the stanchest hearts that could be found. He had a variety of plans. He bad founded two stations In the United States, and was In the process of equipping them for all emergencies. Under the best conditions, the personality of bis group might divide Into two parts and move to these stations. there to remain until the first crisis passed so that afterward they could emerge as leaders In the final effort against doom. Under the pressure of the Impend ing destruction, his scientists bad pushed their experiments In obtain ing power from atomic disintegra tion to a point where the power of the atom could be utilized, within limits, as a propulsive force. Hendron had thereupon succeed ed In bombarding the surface of the moon with a projectile that was. In Its essentials, a small rocket He had settled the problems of hull composition, insulation and aera tion, which would arise in such a vessel. If made In a size to be oc cupied by men. He had devised rockets which could be directed. He had constructed a rocket with vents at both ends ao that a discharge In the opposite direction would break Its fall. Several such rockets be actually dispatched under remote control, hurtling many miles Into the air, turning, descending part way under full force of their stern "engines," and checking their fall by forward discharges at the end of their flight, so that their actual landing bad not destroyed even the delicate Instruments tbey con two lwi, Baker. PtiilipWyk ' WNU Service. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS David Ransdell arrives at New Torlc from South Africa, commissioned bv Ixird Khondln and Professor Bronson. the astronomer, to deliver photo arrphlo plates to Lr. Cola Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the Hendrona with whom Tony la deeply apartment. Kanadeli arrlvea and Eve Hendron, In love. Introdueea Tony to Ransdell. A puullshed statement by Hendron says Professor Branson has discovered two planets that have been brought under the attraction of our aun. The result of the Inevitable collision must be the end of the earth. The approaching; bodies are referred to as Bronson Alpha and bronson Beta. Bronson Beta will pass, but the other will hit the aarth and demolish It. To devise means of transferring to Bronsnn Beta la what Is occupying- - the minds of the members of the League of the Lavst Days. Tony rounds up suitable men and women to build the "Space bhip on which Hendron bopea to make a landing: on Bronson Beta. IV CHAPTER Continued ' "And the unemployed have been corraled en masse. There Is project to turn the entire basin of the Mississippi north and west of Kansas City Into an abode for the coast populations, and the unemployed are building there, I understand, quarters for ten million people. They are also planting vast areas of lands In crops. I Imagine that they are going to compel the migration when the Interior of the country Is prepared as well as possible to receive It, and when the danger of tidal waves draws near. I don't Just remember the figures, but an appalling quantity of canned goods, clothing, medical supplies, and things like that are being prepared and distributed to bases In the Mississippi valley. Granted that the valley remains Inhabitable, I really believe that a majority of our population will be successfully moved there and Installed for an indefinite time." "Its wonderful, Isn't It?" Eve said. "The machinery Tony nodded. which organized millions of men during the war was still more or less available for this much bigger undertaking, from the standpoint of plans and human cogs. The hardest thing is to convince the people that it must be done; but the leaders have recognized the fact and are going ahead. A sort of prosperity has returned. Of course, all prices and wages are rigidly fixed now, but there is more than enough work to go around, and keeping busy is the secret of holding the masses In emotional balance. "I can't give you a really good picture of It all. I really know very little of it. It all came in dashes things rend In newspapers, things heard over the radio, things told me; hut this country at least has grasped the basic idea that there Is going to be trouble, and great trouble. In a short time." "Quite so," Hendron said. "Now bow about the rest of the world?" "The rest of the world?" Tony repeated Hendron's Inquiry. "I don't know much about the rest of the world. What I do know I'll tell you ; but the Information Is garbled, contradictory and unreliable. For one thing, many of the European nations are still foolishly trying to keep their plans secret In order to protect their borders, and so on. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised If they fell to fighting. There seems to be small thought of and they stick fiercely to national lines. "England's labor troubles festered the minute she tried to Institute work for those who compulsory tended her utilities. I believe Lon If . x : : 7:J rate of three day, without ever getting anything accomplished at all But at least they have kept functioning as a nation. In Ger many a few Communists were killed; and so were a few Jews. "Mussolini Is struggling to keep bis control so far, with success. As for Russia, little Is known. Of course It Is a terrible blow to the Soviet. I believe the government Is carrying on rather bitterly, but as best It can. China Is still just China. So you can tell very little about it. In South America the news has served merely to aug ment the regular crop of revolutions." Tony put down his fork. "That's He reached for a all I know." cigarette and lighted It "What to expect tomorrow, or a week from tomorrow, no one can say. Since it's Impossible to tell just how high tides will be, how far Inland they will rush, and what areas will be devastated, and since not even the best guess will be any Indication whatsoever of where the land may rise, where It may fall, and where portions of it will witness eruptions and quakes, it may be that even the gigantic steps being taken by some governments will be futile." After dinner Lelghton ushered Ransdell Into the apartment, Tony was furious. He had hoped to have Eve to himself. How he had hoped to have her. and with wltat further satisfaction, he did not define; but at least be knew that be wanted Ransdell away. "He has flown five times to Washington for Father," Eve explained. "And he's wonderful In the laboratory. He has a genius for mechanics." The South African listened to this account of himself with embarrass ment; and Tony realized that un der any other circumstances he would have liked him. In fact, orig inally Tony had liked David Rans dell Immensely until he had real lzed that he also was to go with him and Eve on the Space Ship! CHAPTER V and BRIGHTER and brighter, higher, each night the strange stars stood In the south em skies. Indeed, one ceased to resemble a star at all and appeared, instead, as a small full moon which grew balefully each night; and now the other also showed a disk even to the naked eye. Each night, also, they altered position slightly, relatively to each other. For the gravitational control of the larger Bronson Alpha swnng the smaller, Bronson Beta about It In an orbit like that of the moon about the earth. Their plain approach paralyzed enterprise on the earth. Through out the civilized world two profes sions above all others adhered most universally to their calling: day and night. In the face of famine. flood, fire, disaster and every con ceivable form of human anguish, doctors and surgeons clung stead fast to their high calling; and day and night amid the weltering change of conditions and In the glut of fabulous alarms and reports, the men who gathered news and print ed It, labored to fulfill their pur ' poses. Brighter and Brighter, and Higher and Higher, Each Night the Strange Stars Stood In the South- rn Skies. Indeed, One Ceased to esemble Star at All. don was without power or light for five or six days. There was a vast amount of sabotage. "Australia and Canada, on the other hand, acted very much as the United States has acted. They got down to brass tacks and are doing what they can for and with their people. So Is South Africa. "The French are very gay about It, and very mad. The whole country Is filled with sputtering, Ineffective people. They're playing poll-tic- s for all It's worth, and new cabinets come and go, sometimes at the Tony saw more of the world's activities than most of Its citizens at this time. He had scarcely re turned from his first tour of the eastern cities when he was sent out again, this time to the Middle an Far West. That Journey was ardu otis because of the Increasing dim cultles of travel. He saw the vast accumulation of freight In the mid western depots. He saw the hori d settlements being prepared. He saw the breath-takinreaches of prairie which had been put under cultivation to feed the new horde In the high flat country north and west of Kansas. Along the Pacific coast he ob served the preparations being made for the withdrawal from the west ern ocean. Seattle, Tacoma, Port land, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, were digging up their roots. Tony's work was varied. He con tlnued to send back by ones and zon-fille- g tained. The chief problem that remained unsolved was a metal sufficiently resistant to the awful force Hendron employed. Even the experimental rockets often failed In their TIMES-NEW- S. PAGE SEVEN NEPIII. UTAH 1 ean'fwas Body Needs Supply of Salts a pause. "You can't There put it In words T "No." There was another long pause. Mrs. Drake's voice was lower, more tremulous and yet It was not the YTlien Must Be Remembered That Planning Meals, voice of a hysterical or an unreasoning womun. "Tell me, Tony, Phosphorus, Working With Calcium, Probow bad Is It going to be?" vides the Material Required. How could be tell ber that for ber, there was annihilation, but for himself some chance of escape? Thosphorus la the one of the three to preserve the mineral content She would wish it for him. what ever happened to herself; but he minerals for which we must take which may be partly drawn out Into could not accept It A berth in the most thought when planning meals. the liquid. A small amount may be Thosphorus works with calcium to lost by the beating of milk during Space Ship, leaving her here I Leavsupply the salt which make the bones pasteurization, but the amount Is and mothers of millions here ing and teeth strong and sturdy. negligible If the dallj ration of milk tool children, These two minerals are no Inter- la plentiful. But probably no one at all would A shortage of cither calcium or be saved, Tony recollected almost twined that it Is not only necessary to have a full quota of each, but to phosphorus, a poor balance between have each In such a proportion that them or the lack of vitamin D. which It balances the other. In the absence has the property Qf stimulating the of this the skeleton of the body may deposit of thetfe minerals In the grow normal In size but not In bones, may result In rickets, mild or strength, and the consequence of this acute. A mild form of rickets Is not lack la bowed leg and other bone uncommon among children, while acute deformities. attack undernourished rhosphonss Is a:so a necessary children, especially those who are not contribution to every cell In the exposed to the sun. Children In fam body, but Is especially Important In Hies of the clnss, who the nerve cells. Terhaps this Is have come from the tropics, ore more what led to the ancient superstition subject to this disease than are other that phosphorus stimulated the brain children In New York. Sometimes adults suffer from the It Is. however, a factor In the utillza tlon of food and In maintaining the results of milk rickets In childhood. neutrality of the blood stream. By The boues of a foot for Instance. weight we need about twice as much sometimes break down In later life. as calcium. Children As In the case of many other diet phosphorus need a large supply of both of these deficiencies, effect of a less than ad minerals, of course, because of de- equate supply of phosphorus as well mand upon food to build new struc as of calcium and vitamin D do not ture. A mother during the month always show at the moment In child before the birth of the child, and hood the foundations of health are while she Is nursing him, will also built Blanc Mange, need an extra supply. If thia Is not t cups milk supplied she may show the effect of H cup cornstarch the lack through the breaking down hi cup sugar of her teeth. If, for any reason, she 14 teaspoon salt cannot take plenty of food rich In I eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla these minerals, she may take certain salts which are more or less effecScald two and one-hacupfuls tive. The foods which supply phosphor us most liberally are milk, cheese, eggs, vegetables, nuts, some of the fruits, and whole cereals. All but the latter are sources of calcium to a greater or less extent Among vegetables, navy beans, carrots, len tils and sweet potatoes are high. Among fruits we find peaches, ba nanas, grapefruit, oranges, pineapple. prunes and berries at the head of the It milk, add remaining cold milk ( cornstarch, stir to smooth paste and add to hot milk, stirring constantly. Cover and cook over hot water fif teen to twenty minutes. Eeat tet yolks with sugar and salt and stir Into hot mixture. Cook five nilnutea, 'emove from fire and stir la vanilla and fold In beaten egg white. Pour Into one large or six small molds fend chllL Serve with whipped cream. Danish Bean Soup. eap navy beans oups water eup celery, chopped I tablespoons onions, chopped 1 smoked sausaicea lip 'mm flik lf ' I teaspoons aalt H teaspoon pepper I teavpoona angar Wash beana and soak overnight with three cupfuls of cold water. rut on to cook In water In which they have been souked. Add celery. onion and one cupful of water and cook until beans are done. Put through coarse sieve or potato ricer. Cook sausages In hot water for ten minutes, drain, slice and add to sour. Add seasonings and cook ten minutes. ft e i .'. 1 4 1 Ball Syndicate. WNU Service Week' Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postum Company In another part of this paper. They will send a full week's supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for It Adv. Her Sympathies In the old days the general public was allowed at executions, nor were executions the refined art of today. There Is a story told about a French youth who bad attempted the life of a king, back In 1757. and sentenced to be torn apart by horses. One of the fine ladiea present had ber sensibilities aroused by the difficulty which the horses had In tearing their victim to pieces. "Ob, the poor horses," she said, "bow ry I am for them!" immmm kB3 list The quality of minerals In foods Is not affected to any large extent by cooking. If the proper methods are used. One of the reasons for cooking vegetables In very little water Is iZ J I lit b ft. M. M.T. f W 1 iMrT , . Ynrvr-,- 'fOTW yiAUm - i 10:45 A.M.PX. The Black Buildings Which Man Had Deserted. flight because the beat generated by the atomic combustion within them melted and blew away the walls Intended to retain It So, at the Hendron laboratories, the world's concentrated their metallurgists forces upon finding an alloy capable of withstanding the temperatures and pressures Involved In employ ing atomic energy as a driving force. Tony visited both of Hendron's stations. One was in Michigan and one In New Mexico. He brought back reports on the progress being made there In the construction of laboratories, machine shops and dormitories. He found Hendron sleepless and Icily calm in the midst of his mul- titudinous enterprises. But Ere showed the strain more than her father, and during the first evening, which they spent together, she expressed her fear: "Father's greatest hope was that his ship would be successful. There Is more information than has been given out about the Bronson bodies. We admit that they will come very close. Terribly close. We do not admit yet precisely how close." They were standing together on the balcony overlooking the brightly lighted and still noisy city. Their arms were locked together In defiance of their oath to the League. "He'll succeed," Tony said. "He has succeeded, except that every rocket he builds Is limited In the distance it can fly and the power It can use by the fact that Its propulsive tubes melt. There Isn't a metal nor an alloy In the world that will withstand that heat." After a Tony did not answer. long silence she spoke again. "It's an awful thing, Tony. Look down Look down on the city. there. Think of the people. Look at the lights, and then Imagine water, mountains of It Water that would reach to here!" Tony held her arm more tightly. "Don't torture yourself, Eve." "I can't help It Oh, Tony, Just think of It!" "Well, that's tlie way things have to be, Eve." He could not say any more. When Tony went down, the street was still filled with people. All the people were talking. They walked, but It did not seem to matter to them what direction they took or what chance company they shared. When he arrived at his apartment he called a number In Greenwich, Connecticut waited an abnormally long time, then asked a maid for Mrs. Drake. His voice was warm and calm. "Well, Mother. How are you?" His mother's reply was con- with relief. Work on the Space Ship, In recent days, was not really advancing. They were held up from lack of a material to withstand the power that science now could loose from the atom. The Idea of escape was probably only a fantasy, utterly vain. So thinking, Tony ended his talk, and put up the receiver. Taxicabs bad been sent for Tony and his party. They made their way Immediately downtown to the big building which housed the Hendron laboratories. The cab had covered a few blocks when Tony realized that throughout its length and breadth Manhattan had been depopulated. Here and there a lone figure was visible usually a figure In the uniform of a policeman or a soldier. Once he thought he caught sight of a man skulking In the shadows of a doorway. But he was not sure. And there were no women, no children. There were few lights In the sky As the taxies bowled scrapers. through the murk and dark, unchecked by traffic signals, Tony and Jack Taylor shuddered Involun tarily to see the black buildings which man had deserted. At the elevator they were met by Eve. She kissed Tony, In an ecstasy of defiance, and then hurried to as sist his group in the removal of their baggage, and in directing its disposal. Every one left the street The Bronson Bodies reluctantly. were hypnotic. In the laboratories there was the utmost confusion. No longer was the Inner door closed. Only a skeleton crew had remained In New York under Hendron. The scientist himself was introduced by Tony to each of the new arrivals, and to each he said a few words of welcome. Several were already known to him. Then Hendron made an announcement a statement which was repeated afterward In French and German. "Ladies and gentlemen you will sleep In the dormitories above here tonight Tomorrow we will remove by airplane to my field station In Michigan. The others are already there. In bidding you good night I must also request no one to leave the building. A splendid view of the firmament may be had from the roof. But the streets are entirely unsafe. The last wave of emigration left New York at sundown this evening. The people who remain are either law officers or marauders." (TO BB CONTINUED.) Making Emery Wheels Emery wheels can be mnde by trolled, but nerves stabbed through mixing about one ounce of shellac to a pound of emery. Use finely every word she said. "Tony, darling I I've tried and tried to reach powdered shellac and add a small you. Oh I I'm Just an Inch short of portion of rosin, a piece about the fainting. I thought something had size of a walnut to an ounce of shellac, and a piece of old vulcanhappened to you." r about the same "Sorry, Mother. I've been busy." ized "I know. 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