| OCR Text |
Show r j,. NEWS SALT DARE- - CITY- - THURSDAY THE DESERET When Worlds Collide ' By Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie ' lrth - li IXSTALMFXT theught 'Thee brilliant tempera- From th hysterical whit glare mental men and women, have subf th Bronson Bodies Eve and sided and mad themselves like Tony war taken Into a mighty soldiers in Hendron's seirwlce chamber which roe seemingly to th aky Itself, where th brilliance waa area greater. A hundred things Inside that chamber might have attracted their attention its g system, or th tremendous bracing ot It metal walla; but their eye wer only for the object in ttwicenter. Th Ark on that late duly tvanlng th focal point, th dream and hope of all those whom Hendron had gath-are- d together stood upright on a gigantic concrete block In a cradl of steel beam. Its length was on hundred and thirty-fiv- e feet. It waa alzty-tw- o feet In diameter and Its shape waa cylindrical. Stream lining waa nnneceaary tor travel In the outer . reaches of apse where them wtw no air to set up .resistance. Tho metal which composed It was a special alloy eighteen inches In thickness, electroplated on th .outside with an alloy which shon like ehromtnum. After Tony had looked at it for a long time, b said. It Is by far the moat spectacular object kind he ever achieved." Hendron glanced at him and ontinued his exposition. "A second shell, much smaller, goes Inside; and between the Inner shell and It outer guard are several layers of Insulation material. Inside th shall wilt b engines which gensrat th current, which In turn releasee th blast of atomic for everyenergy, thing to bo carried, tho mechanom ism control, th aeration plant th heating units and th quarters tor passengers. Tony tor tils ayes from th sight "How many will h carry ha asked quietly. Hendron hesitated; then he said. "For a trip of the duration Z contemplate, she would be able to take about on hundred people." Tony vole was still quieter Yben yon have nine hundred Idealists In your camp here." Th older man smiled. "Unless 1 .am greatly mistaken. X have a thousand." "They all know about th shlpt" Something about It. .. Nearly half ot them hav been working on it, or on apparatus connected with 1L" Too pay bo wages T" "Iv offered wages In moat oases theyve been refused. I have more than thre million dollars in gold available her for expense ncountered in dealing with peopla who still wish monay for their time or materials" 1 ass How long a trip do goa " ' aontemplat Hendron took th young mans breath. aJlnety hours That Is provided," and hi vole began to find shaks "provided W can proper materials with which t line our blast tubes Otherwise w wouldn't be able. to propel this thing for more than a few minutes Eva looked at bar fathar. Dad you've got to go to bad. sad don't worry oo Wa'U (lad th alloy all don everything right. WoT flood-lightin- asing rip grape. From a geological, ricane. scalded populous center standpoint th tide which swept and barren steppe Impartially, over were a phenomenon ot that. From a sky that had hitherto ram. mankind magnitude. jluged only with Th center of th continent ( anoar and hall, fell now burning Africa apllt In two a U a mighty; torrent and redhot sleet The very Itself slowed In Its rotation cleaver had com down on It, and out of tha grisly Incision poured sped up again, sucked and,, drag- an anquenchablo tumult of the hell that dwells wlthin th earth. Chsvma yawned la th ocean floor, BEN WEBSTER wallowing level ot tha sea and in returning It Inatantaaeaualy continents of stream. The great plateau of inner Thibet dropped like an express elavator tain bun dred feet. 6onth America wae riven Into two Island on extend-- , SOLCN6. Ing north and south In h shape CHUCK! of a sickle, and tb other, roughly circular, edm posed of all that remained of the high lands of Brasil. North America reeled and shuddered, split. snapped, boomed and leaped. The Rockp Mountains lost thalr immobility and danced Ilk wave of water. From th place that had been Tellow-sto- n park a mantle ot lava waa spread over thonoahd taf square miles Th coastal plain along the Pacific disappeared, and the water moved up to dash itself in fury 51 against a range of active volcanoes thaf extended from Nome to Pan-- . maul... Only a bun pla.... Fear hustled him: Suppose they dont complet th Ark sue- -: ceaafully, and sh never leaves the ground T Then all them people would have given their live for th nothing... Suppose it leave and earth falls fall back for hundred of mites, gaining speed all th way, so that when It bit tha atmosphere it would turn red-hand burn Itself up Just like a ot meteor. Tony thought of the tide that would rise that night and on following nights; and faintly, like th palpitation of a steamer' deck the earth beneath hi feet arose as If to his meditation- - And Tony realized that the.heart of th earth was straining toward, it celestial companions. On tha ulght of the twenty-fifttides unprecedented in th world's aeacoast. history swept every were earthquakes of varyTher ing magnitude 01 over the world. In the days that followed, volcanoes h, neath th seai and on tb night of th twenty-sixt- h th greater of the Bronson bodies came within Its minimum distance from the earth oh thla their first approach. No complet record was ever mad of th devastation. Eliot Jama, who mad om tabulation of it In th succeeding months, could never believe all that h saw and heard, hut it must hav been true. Th eastern coast of th United State sustained a tidal wav seven hundred and fifty feet In height which cam In from th sea In r leatle terraces and Inundated the land to th very toot ot th Appalachian. It westward rush destroyed every building, every hovel, every skyscraper, every city, from Bangor la Main to Key West la Florid. Tb tide looped into tho Galt of Mexico, rolled up th Mississippi Valley. It roared around 8outh Amelias. turning th Amazon basin into a vast Inland aea which stretched from what had been th east coast to the Andes mountain on the west coast The speed of this tide was beyond calculation. Every river became a channel for It It spiled over Asia. It Inundated the great plain of China. It descended from the arctic regions and removed much of Prance. England and Germany, all of Holland and the great Soviet empire, from the list of nation. Arctic water hundreds of feet deep flowed Into the Caspian sea and hurled th last of its august inertia upon th Caucasus. Western Asia and Arabia southern India. Africa and much of Australia remained dry land. Mor than half-thpopulation ot the world died in the tides that and subsided during - th proximity of the Bronson bodies But those who by design or through accident found themselves on land that remained dry were la. Hendron sodded; .and. Tony not necessarily spared. realized th for Til earthquake which Tony had looking at him, first time bow much th scient- felt in Michigan was the first of ist had aged recently. aeries of shock which Increased a Tony escorted Eva to th wo- sfeadlly In violence tor th next men's dormitory. Ev bad him forty-eighour, and which never goodnight, than went inside then afterward wholly ceased. Hendron walked over th gleaming round chosen his spot well, for It to th top of a neighboring hill. had few porwa one of th Hendron' village looked on the tion of the relatively world Ilk a university which wa not undeluged northern aid to an unreduced side southern on th campus, and wasteland of smoking rock like the heart of a manufacturing tenable lava. district All around It stretched andAscreeping by hour th earth prethe Michigan wilderness The sented hour to the awful new surfaces ground bad been chosen partly pull of tho Bronson of tb age and firmness of gravitational a series of stupendous catait geological base, and partly be bodies, took place. Underneath th clysms cause of its Isolation. He aat down on' a large atone. brlttl slag which man considers thouand solid both -, Inenduring The hot night wind blew with of mile of dense compresscreasing violence, and the double sandmolten material- - Th earth' shadows on sharp and on faint ed which wr east by all thing in crust doe not hold back those la kept In place eifly materials. Jt th light of th Bronson Bodies war abruptly obliterated by the bv a delicate adjustment of gravity; and th Interference of the passage of a dark cloud. Tony's mind ran unevenly and Bronson bodies distorted that balancehe The earth hurst open like All the peopls" Irresolutely. stone-chamb- er f DM. old age pension meeting to ba held tonight at T:J0 In the Armory hare, announce O. O. Bargeron, president of th local organization. All thee Interested In th move, ment or urged to attend Th program will ako maud musical numbers. aprlcUd th ban from th rth to Club sky above It vast metallic oceans, and which Brigham City became girdled in amok and; were accompanied by lightnings To Hear Fred Williama steam, and blast of bot gaa, nd that fornlahed th lnfrnat aeensry and upon It as Bronaou Alpha and with Incessant illumination, BRIGHAM errr, Oct I. ComBeta drew away ther fell torren- by thunder which blended missioner Fred B. Williama of tial rains which hawed down rich with tho terrewtlal dim coolwill speak at a Townsend , land to th bar rock, which (To b continued) ged through spec of th bodies In th at th unde-tectab- ly f - V By Edwin Alger lob j Ari Otmi MNtK, I HM) OW KNOW WHAT ID THMK. MOW, UK6, BUI IRKKON III HM PLBhfW TO THINK. ABOUT WHEN THE CtTTLg COME Bt- f- TVM POWOU1MNK . MOW? CMO Mi I VOT M KxnH, BUT IWAS 'ey, 6S4 WCB6TEA, 0 M CHSMBM MS t FKttTNAMS TO OWTfRM 07. bOWHIN' THWD KZ2P O BOTH OUt O' THE Vi MESS TVUIT Loomin' up 3 V' V, m ymf I Gases, steam and ashes welled from tea thousand vent Into th earth's atmosphere. Th sun went out, th star were made Invisible. ends Blistering heat blew to th of th earth. The polar lc melted and a new raw land emerged, fiery and shattered, mobll and catastrophic. Thos human beings who survived th world's whlt-hthroe were survivor for th most part esfortune. Few through good n caped through design on th tire planet only a dozen places which Bad bean picked by the geologist as refuge remained habitable Upon million poured ocean of seething magma carrying death more terrible than th ueatb which tolled on th tongu of th great tides Th air which was breathed by other million waa suddenly choked with sutpnurou fames and thep fell Ilka gassed soldier, strangling In th streets ot their live steam, destroyed cities. blown with th vlolenc of a hur- - 57 OCTOBER S 1035 elt ta taf lev V - 'll . By Sol Hess THE NEBBS mJr ear wees 50 OT MY 9 1000 AWO AUL we soo share Twe time hoHONEST APsTT THAT ' .FELLER we stock? THE Time. i WHAT IT vwcunvi teu me f SHAKES FOR. ' ow ot MISS HE BOUGHT VJORSY ABOUT? to cKdotcen Cta DUMB, AOVAbJTAGE H y By W illiam Ritt and Joe King GABB'f- cGABBY? THIS IS RITA J CANT 60 TO THE 6AME TOMORRO- W-I FORGOT ABOUT OUR MATINEE GOLLY, IF I COULD ONEY FIGGER BOW TO EXCAPE THIS MESS IM IN PROMISEN TO TAKE BOTH MARY ANN j AND RITA 70 THE PURDUE GAME T I v -- I' WrfrH, tm 6m Pirns By Les Forgrave BIG SlbTER- - 'twenexTTWibZc YJHKSN I X NEVER OtO IS.TO CLEAU OP ht ROOMS TO VWORK 60 HARO! T YOU TlgO? b4.LET SLOOK UPSTAIRS TIREO? MO,eR.. ZVE GOT motime TO BE TtttEO.XbA OUST J CETTIHC -- started: AMO T HERES amotmer THl5 ROOM' PLASTER IS rooha vje CANfT FALUMG OCANH A LEAKY ROOF THAT OSE. v0HY?V0HXS VJROMC -- rvus VN1TH r COOVA? IT'S ALREADY YAKEM! oo X se 11 Ccpyrlght. IW. I Cwtrsl fn Asasdstion. lae. Itpowb- - MUGGS McGLNNIS- - By Wally Bishop, a AMG HttOESHV Seem ANy TOo PLEASED ABOUT Hi.peewee! vwsris up - TteVVE i- K Gcsr avYIxjg, PbtTO.IKl THE TbuND WERE POP By J. Millar Watt ombwcd: 'tZ HPEK3 Cofynrht 19SS, by Central Pm AModatnm. Inc. BRICK BRADFORD rWHERElL WE SWIM r Tl By William Ritt and Clarance Gray -- On the Isles Beyond the Ic I SEE THE SHORE I KNCW THE FOLLOW LINE ME WE'RE SAVED THE SHIPS HAVE AND ALL THE OTHERS MUST SUNK-S- HAVE EE? MM-WESE- 7 - 7- r-cp- ; f&S GONE DOWN WITH ALONE EM 7 r s.- A - |
