Show Witlx tlae EDITOR By W BOYCE MORGAN Heres a rather easy maze puzzle but it's still hard enough so that you may make a wrong turning before you find the way out Flyer Vanishes Without a irace in Thrilling New Serial Championship Turtle Race Is Thu Tnst AirKlnvt0 stery Good Ganie for Stormy Days i IN INSTALLMENT I Remember how the tortoise beat the hare in the big race the fable tells about? Well here's a game where the first cousins of the tortoise race against each other It's called the Championship Turtle Race It's a parlor game er a dining room game so you don't use live turtles but the kind you do use are the fastest crawlers you ever saw! Get sheets of heavy cardboard and make the turtles yourself — the diagram shows youi how The hole in the turtle's back is four inches from the turtle's nose and four and a half inches from the edge Of the oblong piece of cardboard he is cut from Care should be taken to use thick cardboard and to have the hind feet of each turtle perfectly flat so they will travel well and not break stood beside J G HAL FENTON president of the Staf-forAir Transport Comrianv and watched the Hawk disamjear into the blue hare of an autumn afternoon Then he and Mr Stafford turned and walked toward the airport office wnicti stood beside the hangars with the shops just beyond' "Well that's our third real pay load mis weeic nai" said Mr Stafford crisply 'I hope Norbeck keeps right on getting rush orders for their drugs" "So do I" Hal agreed "Only this one was a little too rush! If their truck had got here fifteen minutes later Shade would never have been able to make South Branch in time to connect with the ' d d high-pric- ed East-boun- To race the steeds tie two eight foot lengths of string to the round of a chair slipping one end through the hole in each turtle Catch the loose end of one string in your hand while your partner takes the other Back the turtle up so he is touching vour hand and then start to jiggle the string to make the animal move along toward the chair - You must not shift your position once the race has started back to their owners' hands If you want to make the race ex line of these creatures may citing have the turtles pass over a at once and it is more fun if slippery floor on their way to goal their names on them using and after touching the chair race famous "Oh hell make it all right" said Mr Stafford "Shade can get everything out of the Hawk that's built into her" Hal didn't reply to that He realized that Jack Shade was a first-clapilot — every bit as good as Eddie Moore Stafford's other ace flyer But he didn't like Shade He never had liked him since the first day-- he came to work for Mr Stafford and he didn't think he ever would Hal and Mr Stafford parted at the door of the office and the boy continued on to the hangar It was1 past quitting time when he finally stopped work and he realized that he would have 4o hurry to get home eat his supper and get to night school on ss OUT - -2- - Winter pastimes are suggested by these word chains Change only one letter at a time and always form a genuine word' Change SLED to SKIS in three ! moves SNOW to FORT in five Change moves —3 — If you rearrange the letters in each line below you will spell the name of a state of the United States 1 SARA SANK 2 BANK ERAS 3 ON MY WIG- 4 WEAR LEAD - s time Hal Fenton was operating on a busv schedule these days It had all started-six months before when Mr Stafford had happened to see one of the model planes that tlal had built Hal was hard at work in the basement of his home trimming down tiny bits of balsa wood when Mr Stafford telephoned told him about seeing the mode and asked him to call at his —4— Three winter words are hidden in the sentence below It will take sharp eyes to find them quickly! Frantic old men's voices led the cries of the inch p h - I- a I " r i5 9H— TJ i7 To I £ "1 ii — t ! Hal saw a queer expression flit across tke flyer's face which he "could not analyze flit across and a very serious expression replaced the flyer's face it Why in the world was Jonesy The boy thought of the incident calling him at this hour ? Something again as he rode home from night must be the matter school on a street car that evening He hurried to the telephone and Funny how he couldn't warm up to called the airport It was a long time Shade in spite of the fact that he was before he got an answer and when he such a good flyer Hal decided that finally heard Jonesy's voice it was Shade just wasn't a likable person sharp and worried —as for instance Eddie Moore was "Hello Jonesy" said Hal quickly with his ready grin and "You wanted me to call?" homely face - "Yes" The man's tones were tense It was late when Hal reached home good-humor- ed tzT t "iit & W 41 ii 1 25 fi im la - '— " ir —— 29 - eat fL jo ii The Definitions: HORIZONTAL 1 J 1 9 10 11 Word used with "either1 l Vapor Perform 4 Negative I A beverage Right halfback (Abbr) Kind of airplane Turned edge of a garment 27 Middle-wester28 Chopping 29 Belonging n- tool to up state (Abbr) 32 Humor 33 Musical note I Upon Flowing garment Mountain pass An associate helper Ocean Made a picture Exclamation 3 4 5 6 7 -- the-recei- Tarantula 's Bite Is Not Fatal But Few Like Him as a Pet 12 Effigy statue 13 Honorable renowned 14 Center of a wheel 16 Once around a race track 20 Smell 21 Hired car 23 Image heathen god I 25 Statute 26 Still in addition 27 Belonging to me 30 Musical note 12 Keep Warm with coast-to-coa- st e FORTUNATE eawr "Aiy brother feH against piano and hit his head" Junior: "Hurt him much?" Senior: "No he hit the soft pedal" r Editor: Cky — w "Who ruined the ii New Reporter: "She held a book front nf hfr far vhon nL-tfce picture and I tried to erase it" im ANSWERS TO PUZZLES lid — k'd — SNOW — glow — slot skis BOOt — foot — FORT rkn'as Nebraska "Wyoming - nd Delaware 4 Cold ice and IeL i Crossword Puzzle Solution An-ael- es THE ADVENTURES OF PETER PEN SITUATION WANTED fcA--C By NICK NICHOLS 1'7FT AaJH- JT°a a rsn a y V -- Remember now" Mr Stafford granted "Aad how es when you have them all you can paste them together Myouwm thenhavea wonfulmpte useinfonowmgourad- - (Copyright 1936 Associated Editors) Watch for our arrival there and for the new and exciting adventures that are coming soon carefully By Ray J Marran When you learn to balance yourself on the scooters sketched you have mastered the trick of riding them You will note that neither of them has handle bars and when you are perched on the seat going down a grade with your arms waving for balance you will have one of the most thrilling and exciting rides you have experienced for some time Both scooters are easy to make One has been designed for winter sport the other for use on concrete sidewalks I Seat andpost Jbraced angde bloclzs Zx Stunner s Riddles as Chilly Breezes Hit You - VERTICAL 1 2 Brancfi this evening j and we haven't heard a word from him Eddie and the bdjss are going to start out looking fof him at dawn" Haljhad a "gonefeeling inside him as he hung up No word from J Shade-anhe should have reached South Branch with his The precious load hours before ! tefrainj between Pembroke and South Branch was mountainous with few Shade must have landing fields cracked up and was unable to reach a telephone Halfshook his head soberly as he walked slowly up the Stairs to his bedroom Even if Shades wire still alive the shipment of Norbeck drugs was probabjly ruined ajid they were only partially covered by insurance This might be a fatal blow to the Stafford Air Transport Company To Be Continued Next Week By Thomas the Magician Here is an easy way to make a coin vanish a method which is little known and yet exceedingly effective Incidentally I have used this trick many times in my performances to great advantage EFFECT: The performer shows a borrowed handkerchief to be absolutely unprepared and throwing it oyer his hand places a coin in the center Next the handkerchief is folded over the coin and --the mystic words are pronounced "Gully-gully- " repeats the performer who then grasps one corner of the handkerchief shakes it? out and the coin has vanished I EXPLANATION: Get a small rub ber band The size used in drug stores to wrap packages is most suitable The rubber band is placed over the thumb and forefinger of the left hand unknown to the audience When the handkerchief is thrown over the hand to cover it and the coin is placed in the center the thumb and forefinger of the left hand grasp the coin through the cloth and slip the rubber band over it thus enclosing the coin in a little pocket the mouth of which is closed by the rubber i At this point the handkerchief is folded over the coin while the rubber band is being adjusted Tbs right hand then grasps one of the corners ot the handkerchief and shaking it out proves that the coin has vanished Should any of my readers not be able to find the correct size rubber band write me enclosing a stamped envelope and I will be giad to send you a sample of the size most suh a Die Just address Thomas the Ma gician The Boys and Girls Page in care of this newspaper Hal was so nearly overcome with S A direct result of lh wnrt nf delight that answering was difficult schoolboy patrols and of safety But when he left Mr Stafford's ofcampaigns amonsr bovs and fHrla Sometimes in bunches of bananas fice a half hour later all arrangements of school age the automobile accident imported to our northern cities from had been completed Hal was to make rate for persons between the ages of 5 the south there is hidden a large himself useful around the airport 24 and has shown a hairy spider called the Tarantula marked tfhe years mechanic and go drop helping Jonesy This is good news because every year Stories rumor that he is a very danto night school to complete his high thousands of boys and girls are killed school course Then he would get gerous fellow whose poisonous bite has meant the death of more than his aeronautical engineering as best by automobiles and any decrease in the one unlucky workman But the truth rate of accidents is cause for rejoicing he could —by going to college if posis that the poison used by the TaranBut there is another and more disturbing sible or by correspondence if necestula to kill insects which is said to swe to tne news: while fewer school sary kill men as well ia not dangerous to children are being killed by automobiles the number of deaths The six months since that day had human beings The Tarantula's bite been months of glorious activity for ' among children under five years is rising like any insect's bite may cause an And here's where every boy and girl can He was busy morning the boy help If you have infection which is always dangerous noon and night but he loved it He younger brothers and sisters make it your job to teach But of itself the poison which kills the lessons of safety Help keep them out of the streets them When wintry breezes blow you can worked hard at the airport but he and the insects upon which the Tarantula was learning fast and his night school try to show them what they should and should not do to avaid always keep warm by staying indoors feeds could not destroy a human the danger of the automobile and guessing riddles Here are a few work was never drudgery because he to keep the blood circulating through If you have no younger brothers and sisters do what yau knew it was leading toward the goal being ' can among the little children in your neighborhood If you see of his ambitions However deadly or not the Taranyour brain one of them run into the street talk to him and And he prized the association with tula is a very interesting creature 1 When a boy falls through a door explain why this is dangerous A word from you may be the means He has eight eyes and yet he can Mr Stafford who was always in the he fall against? — Wava whatdoes of saving a precious life shop experimenting with various ideas Minor scarcely seei He can just barely tell for improving airplanes He had alwhether it is day or night But get —The Editor 2 What is the nicest o put a "delicious insect near — and he knows when he is frightened like any other in a pie ? —Howard Johnsthing-tready designed one successful ship wild thing he uses it to defend himand held several "patents which he it quick as a flash 3 What man always finds things self Bit no scientist who has been hoped would some day prove very TRUE ENOUGH Has Families in his business? — Edith LucibeUo dull HEAD MAN Large bitten by a Tarantula has ever been valuable Meanwhile he operated the col- Teacher: "Name Another a him English about He has "If it for frorri 4 me wasn't made thing the bite because scien- -' ilj Why do we go to bed in winter? you'd be transport company to make a living lective noun" enormous families which keep the tists arf wise enough to use some — Gladys Realsen the biggest fool in this business" He had started it because the city Student: "Garbage can" "Oh so you're the top" parents working very strenuously disinfectant immediately of Pembroke where Hal lived was 5 Why are chickens the cheapest Some! men who have studied them thing for a farmer to keep? — Malcolm searching for food In each batch of almost 300 miles from the transconeggs hatched are several hundred have even suggested that the Tarantinental air route The company ran APPROVED RIDDLE ANSWERS little Tarantulas all clamoring for tulas make good pets — but most of Thompson one plane a day to and from South 1 His will 2 Tour teth Soph:1 "Is this cup sanitary?" 2 The food There are so many of them that us would Branch connecting with the Assocprefer almost anything else Fresh: "Must be everybody uses scissors rrlnder 4 Bee a us the bed in come us to o 5 despair the parents are obliged to can't iated Because I for HE KNEW BEST air liners at that it' of corn they let some of them die of starvation every a grain also serviced several (SPIRITUALIST? pripoint They Freshman: "What is the date peck Scientists who kave studied this vate planes owned by Pembroke citiHERE'S THE ANSWER Lolliej "I thought Caesar was please?" zens and operated an air express takes quite a bit dead'M that it spider say 1 Thirty-tw- o "Never Teacher: mind the date 2 Rome 8 Lob Do you know tnr fmd r1ririia of teasing to make a Tarantula bite service which was being use more 4 Ariaona 5 Quebec 6 Bur"He is isn't he?" is more important" The examination Send Audrey: to them Riddle the Man In and more by the Norbeck Chemical row 7 Lss 8 than 50 miles (along care of this newspaper and perhaps Ordinarily he uses his poison only Lollies "No Mrs Butler said she Freshman: "Well sir I wanted to Lake Erie) In Canadian lakes he can print them with your name when he goes hunting for food But have something right" Company local manufacturer of rare and expensive drugs and medicines Recently a serum developed by Norbeck had been in great demand i- -— — fci J l Iy ' and there had been frequent rush j orders for it- - These meant special trips for Stafford planes which paid J well In fact they paid so well that strX-Tc-F P recently another air line Arrow Air Service had entered the field in competition with Stafford This had presented such a serious problem that Mr Stafford was trying to sell his line to Associated with which it connected Mr Stafford had been jubilant that afternoon 1efore Shade left in the Hawk to fly the special order of Norbeck chemicals to South Branch "The more of these flights we make the better chance I have of selling the line to Associated at a good price" he had said in the airport office Eddie Moore just in from the regular scheduled hop to South Branch and back nodded understanding "Your contract with Norbeck is the most valuable thing you have" ANOTHER ZIGZAG STRIP he pointed out "It gives you the are jump on Arrow They getting auuuier zIUMb smP lor you Are you saving them? : ventures This is a new stratum which we will soon enter so study it as much passenger business as we are A! Year (Abbr) 31 AND GIRLS it?" 14 15 Wise bird 17 Part of "to be" 18 Pound (Abbr) ! 19 Swamp 22 Part of the mouth 24 Postponed held A whole be raced you paint names of Make a Scooter Disappearing Coin Is Fine Trick for Learn to Balance Junior Magicians And Get a Thrill they'd like to take that Norbeck business away from us!" he exclaimed "You may not know it my boy" he "If they did they could force me had" said in his abrupt direct way out of business in a few months and when Hal was fitting across a desk I'd never have a chance of selling to from him a few hours later "but you Associated" have real talent Those models you Eddie Moore grinned "Well I wish make aren't just dead copies— they you luck Chief but as far as I'm have imagination I can't tell you just concerned I'd rather fly for you than what it is but I know a chap who's Associated anyway" "Thanks Eddie" replied Mr Stafgot the love of flying in him when I ford run across him You've got it" "But you and Shade don't Hal nodded emphatically "I'm need to worry If I do sell you go You'll and his parents were in bed But as "Listen Hal get down here as early crazy about flying' he said "That along as part of the dea as you can in the morning We've never have to worry about jobs" what I want to be— an "airplane 'declosed the front door behind him ' Hal had turned to look at Shade as he signer" he heard his father's voice calling got a heavy day ahead Make it by six if you possibly can" Mr Stafford spoke these words The from above "Aeronautical engineering is was field" said Mr Stafford "It's my flyer lounging against the wall of "Hal Mr Jones called up from the "Okay" said Hal "But what's it the office already in his togs to take first love I'm operating this transHe wants you to telephone all about?" airport port line merely tomake some money the Hawk out on the special run He him right away" For a moment Jonesy did not reply and IH sell out the first chance I get was a tall dark lean young man who A smile flickered over HaPs face at Then he said "Don't mention this to But in the meantime how would you seldom spoke And he remained silent hearing Jonesy referred to as Mr anybody but something has like to come to work for me? This now but Hal saw a queer expression Jones but it was gone in an instant to Shade He never got happened to South flying business needs youth in it and "particularly young fellows like you Youll need an education but a job will help you pay for it How about LOOK OUT FOR YOUNGER BOYS CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1 race-hors- office —5— Hurtle is Q"vJide Tie String Through Turtle i plane" Seats post must 1 7 A Roller skate vJheelg a&ached to 1 xTJbozrd The sled scooter is merely al seat post nailed and braced to a 2 x 4 cut in the shape of a sled runner The wheel scooter is made from 1 -- inch boards and uses the front and rear wheel assembly of an old roller skate Be sureto brace the seat posts securely as they come in jor a lot of strain I when you endeavor to keep your balanceby- - shifting arms legs and body from side to side The steeper the hill the easier these scooters are to ride and because they are built close to the ground there is not much danger of hurting yourself even if you do fall off once in a while before learning to balance yourself correctly What's the Answer? Can you choose the correct ending for each sentence below making the statement a true on$? Some of the choices are quite easy but one or two of them 'Will probably fool you l'A normal adult's teeth number (1) twenty-si- x (2) thirty-tw- o (3) r twenty-fouthirty (4) 2 New York City is m approximately the same latitude as (1 ) London (2) Moscow (3) Paris (4) Rome 3 Reno Nevada is farther west than (1) Los Angeles (2) San Francisco (3) Portland Ore (4) Seattle 4 The last state to be admitted to the Union was (1) Oklahoma (2) New Mexico (3) Wyoming (4) Arizona 5 The largest province in Canada is (1) Ontario (2) Quebec (3) British Columbia (4) Saskatchewan 6 An animal's underground nome is known as a (1) burro (2) burrow (3) borough (4) bureau 7 To get from New York State into Ohio you must travel (1) about ISO miles (2) less than SO miles (3) more than 300 miles (4) about 200 miles 8 The muskellunge is a game fish commonly caught (1) off the Florida coast (2) in the Columbia River (3) in western mountain streams (4) in Canadian lakes IT TAKES PRACTICE "Did you kill the moths Druggist with the mothballs I sold you?" Angry Customer: "No 1 sat up all and didat bit one I 1 istt |