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! THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1937 Smiles In Lack “I’m glad it’s good form not to wear a watch with a dress suit.” “Why?” “Because I never have my watch and my dress suit at the same time.” Voicing It “Do you ever hear any more about the money you lent to the people next door?” “I should say so. They bought a radio with it.” WEIGHTY PROBLEMS “He’s a man of such heavy thought.” “Who? That coal dealer?” “Yes; he’s always thinking in tons.” A little girl said to the little boy who was playing with her: “When I was born I was so s’prised I couldn’t speak for a whole year and a half.” Too Much to Expect “You have a nice collection of books, but you should have more shelves.” “I know, but nobody stems to lend me shelves.” MODEL F-96 9 TUBES 3 BANDS Touch Tuning (7 buttons). Silent Tun ing. AFG Tone Monitor. Louver Dial. Visual Volume Control. Visual 4-point Tone Control. Automatic Band Indi cator. 12-inch Stabilized Dynamic Speaker. Bass Compensation. Foreign- Domestic Reception. R.F. *4 Anne Pre-selector Stage. Hand- YinQuu some Full-length Console. lUW $10.00 DOWN DELIVERS REE HOME TRIAL RADIO PERRY-MANN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. (IFholesole DUtributora) Columbia, S. C. FOR REPLACEMENTS SPECIFY O-l PRE-TESTED RADIO TUBES p^WAT CH=> the Specials You can de pend on the special sales the merchants of our town announce in the columns of this paper. They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the mer chants who advertise. They are not afraid of their merchandise or their prices « « « UNDER PRESSURE O George Agnew Chamberlain By George Agnew WNU Service SYNOPSIS Joyce Sewell, on the eve of her twentieth birthday, rebels at her lot. dependent on her detested stepmother, Irma, and full of tragic memories of her mother's murder twelve years before and her father's death six months ago. Irma calls in Helm Black- adder. an admirer, to help her persuade Joyce to marry rich, young Michael Kirk patrick. Mike, sent up to Joyce by Irma and Blackadder, demands a showdown on his proposal and is rejected. Joyce real izes that La Barranca, a Mexican hacienda which her father had owned, legally be longs to her. She receives a warrant on the United States Treasury for $10,000 compen sation for her mother’s murder at La Bar ranca. She confers with Mr. Bradley, a banker and only remaining friend of her father's. She confides that she wants to make a secret Journey to Mexico. Bradley arranges all details for her. She departs by plane undetected. Dirk Van Suttart, second secretary of the American embassy In Mexico City, gives Joyce a chilly re ception and she loses her temper. She finds a Mexican woman lawyer. Margarlda Fon seca. who takes her to General Onella, right-hand man to the Mexican minister of war. Margarlda reminds Onella that the usurper of La Barranca Is his dangerous enemy. General Dorado. The two make plans to send Joyce with a few picked men under Pancho Buenaventura to drive Do rado out. Adan Araaldo, a young man who runs El Tenebroso, a night club, knows Do rado's present whereabouts, so they take Joyce there that night, where she notices Dirk. General Dorado arrives and in the course of sudden gunplay, the lights go out and Joyce is left alone. Adan Arnaldo whisks her out and takes her home. The following morning Joyce drives off to To luca with Pancho. Back In Elstnboro, Joyce's disappearance has been discovered. Blackadder upbraids Irma, but succumbs to her helpless ebarm and plans to marry her. Blackadder gets the secretary of state to wire the embassy at Mexico City to lo cate Joyce. Dirk is delegated for the search. He goes to El Tenebroso and Interviews Arnaldo. Arnaldo bids Dirk follow him. Meanwhile Joyce and Pancho reach La Bar ranca. Pancho and Eusebio, one of his band, leave her and at dawn climb the wall. Suddenly shots ring out and at sight of a sorely wounded man. Joyce runs In side and finds the dread Dorado there, tor mented by Pancho and Eusebio. Dorado escapes. Running out again, Joyce Is caught by a murderous hand and cries out, ‘‘Luzl" Dirk and Arnaldo go to Margarlda’s apart ment. where they are told Joyce's destina tion and Dirk makes ready to follow alone. Meanwhile at La Barranca, Joyce's cry brings Luz and the other old servants of her childhood, led by Don Jorge Maximilian, now blind. CHAPTER VII—Continued “Then the thing becomes simple,” said Don Jorge slowly. “I don’t mean I can fathom the thought back of Onelia’s action, but at least I know where we stand—you and I and all our people. You’re here, Luz?” “Si, Senor.” “Call Leonardo.” “What are you going to do?” asked Joyce as Luz slipped from the room. “I’ll tell you, chica,” said Don Jorge, sitting very straight with his hands clasped over the head of his staff. “I’m told five or six of Do rado’s followers lie dead. Owing to the suddenness of the attack no doubt his private arsenal is still in tact. That gives us plenty of rifles and ammunition, and all the rest becomes easy.” Leonardo entered the room. “Se nor, al-servicio-deusted.” “We stand a siege, Leonardo,” said Don Jorge, “certainly for weeks, perhaps for months. Call in all our people, corral the stock, close the gates and man the towers with your best shots. You will find the necessary rifles and ammuni tion where they lie. At present the moon is at the full. Shoot anybody who comes within range by night or by day whether it’s friend or foe.” “Oh, Maxie,” interrupted Joyce, “why?” “Since we ourselves are our only friends,” said Don Jorge, “whoever comes from without must be a foe.” CHAPTER VIII Years of peace and months of in action had caused routine to lay its grip on the American embassy. Routine decreed that the second secretary’s waking duty was to epit omize the local papers and lay be fore his chief by ten o’clock all such items as were worthy of his atten tion. But fate ordained that on this morning at the said hour Dirk van Suttan should be contemplating with astonishment one bullet hole through his radiator, still another through a front tire and a third that had shattered his non-shatterable windshield, fortunately on the side away from the driver. Coincidentally the embassy but ler murmured in the ambassadorial ear: “The minister of war on the telephone, sir—the minister in per son.” Ten minutes later the ambassa dor was being shown into the most private room of the very private residence of the minister of war. It was strictly an unofficial visit— so unofficial that the minister had done the necessary telephoning without bothering to mention the matter to his secretary. Further more the invitation was for desayu- no, a meal without food, certainly the last word in informality. “Excellency, how can I express ■ny gratitude that you should conde scend to come to my humble abode for a mere sip of coffee?” “Mr. Minister, I am delighted to be here. I’ve already had my cof fee but I’ll gladly accept another cup.” “Permit me to help you to it my self since our privacy is such that no servant is in attendance.” The ambassador, though a diplo mat of the first water, felt enough time had been wasted on prelim inaries. “I take note of the pri vacy, Mr. Minister, and see no rea son why you should postpone telling me what is troubling you.” The minister’s eyebrows went up. “It doesn’t trouble you also, Excel lency?” “I must know what we’re talking about,” said the ambassador, star tled. “Forgive me, Mr. Minister, but it happens I haven’t done my usual reading of the news this morn ing.” “Ah!” said the minister and pushed forward a newspaper, fold ed and marked. “Raid at La Barranca,” he read. “We give space to an extraordi nary rumor from our correspondent in Toluca not by reason of its fan tastic interest but because should it prove true it may develop into an event of colossal import. Some years ago General Dorado, whose services to the republic require no epitome, took possession of the abandoned hacienda of La Barranca and has been doing his best not only to restore it to usefulness but to put into effect the fundamentals of agra rianism on which the future happi ness of our people depends. Now word has come to us from a reliable Her Attention Was Riveted on Some thing Else. source that a certain Joyce Sewell, said to be the daughter of the de camping former owner of La Bar ranca, suddenly appeared on the scene accompanied by 18 of her fel low countrymen, popularly known as gringos. Disguised to look like our own campesinos, by artifice these men introduced themselves into the innermost recesses of the hacienda. Opening fire without warning they are reported to have massacred the few Doradistas on guard and driven the general him self into the nearby hills. That he should have escaped is only one more proof of the astuteness and bravery with which—” The ambassador read no more. “A bad business,” he murmured. “I can see various complications.” “They are innumerable,” said the minister in a tone of exasperation. “No sooner do I estimate them from one angle than another slant pre sents an entire new crop. I doubt whether you can mention any aspect wc should consider before all oth- ___ >» ers. “I certainly can,” said the am bassador promptly. “The matter of the 18 Americans supposed to have accompanied the girl. I don’t be lieve it. I don’t believe there was even one American with her.” The minister threw out his hands and let them fall in a despairing gesture. “Excellency, please! It is of no consequence whatever whether they were Americans or not. Per sonally—strictly as between friends —I’m inclined to agree with you. But the public has been led to be lieve there were Americans—18 of them—and as long as it continues in that conviction it’s exactly as if there had been.” “I admit it,” said the ambassador grimly. “Nevertheless I intend sending a declaration to the papers that no American accompanied Miss Joyce Sewell. Her disappearance has been causing considerable com motion not only in my country but throughout the English - speaking world. It was thought she was pen niless, consequently her parents were mystified as well as worried.” “Her parents? Are you speaking in the Spanish or the English sense of the word?” “The English. She has a step mother and a prospective stepfather who is expected to arrive here to day.” “Ah,” breathed the minister, “one more aspect, but perhaps encourag ing. What is his mission?” “I’m not sure but I gather he is determined to take the girl home at once." “Good. If she still lives we must help him by every means in our power.” “Mr. Minister,” said the ambas sador gravely, “I wish to assure you that if disaster overtakes Miss Sewell it will shake the present pleasant relations between our two countries to their very foundations. Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not implying that Miss Sewell’s life is of greater importance than that of any other American living abroad. I’m merely taking into account that for the last ten days every man, woman and child in the United States has been reading about her and in my country such a flood of publicity automatically transforms her into a colossal bomb.” “At last!” murmured the minis ter, sinking back in his chair. “Now we can talk.” “In my opinion she should be res cued at once.” “An excellent idea—but how?” “By sending a government force.” “To do what?” “Bring her back to Mexico City, hand her over to her stepfather and bid them both farewell and good-riddance.” “Excellency, have you ever visit ed any of our major haciendas—es- pecirlly La Barranca?” “No; my duties—” began the am bassador vaguely. “Of course,” interrupted the min ister. “La Barranca happens to be a fortress more easily defended than any castle existing in Scotland today. At this season it has stored within its walls enough provisions to keep a small army for five years to say nothing of unlimited water. With six high-powered rifles and plenty of ammunition I would guar antee to hold it indefinitely against a force of a hundred regulars. The only answer to La Barranca on its guard is artillery. Now let’s see what your dream amounts to. You suggest that the Mexican govern ment send a battalion against a young girl in whom your whole peo ple happens to be particularly in terested in order to kick her off her own property!” “I withdraw the suggestion,” said the ambassador gloomily. “I ad mit I spoke too hastily, but the pos sibility of resistance had not oc curred to me. The whole thing is fantastic. Are you convinced all this has really happened? Remember the papers speak of it as a rumor.” “I happen to know it isn’t a ru mor at all,” said the minister promptly. “My source of informa tion is unimpeachable. There are certain elements of mystery which threaten my official neck, but the facts themselves are unalterable. The story is so true I regret I hap pen to be minister of war at the present juncture.” “Strange,” murmured the ambas sador with a wan smile. “I was thinking the same thing about my ambassadorship! What is your plan, Mr. Minister? I listen.” “Subterfuge and cash. I have no illusions about the senorita Joyce Sewell. I consider her as a fort ress. The question now arises how shall she be taken? The answer is so simple it's classic. By an emis sary bearing gifts, preferably a sack of gold. We’ll find the gold, you find the emissary.” “I have it,” exclaimed the ambas sador. “My second secretary of the embassy.” The ambassador reached for the telephone, called his own chancel lery and a moment later was ask ing the counselor of embassy what explanation Van Suttart had given for his late arrival. “None, sir. He hasn’t arrived.” “What?” cried the ambassador. “Telephone him at once. Send around to his house. Tell him—” Interrupted in the midst of his in structions he leaned forward, grip ping the apparatus tighter and tight er. When the murmuring voice at the other end finally ceased he hung up and turned to face the minister. “I regret the young gentleman I had in mind is not available since we don’t know what has become of him.” “No clue?” asked the minister, frowning. “Unfortunately there is,” said the ambassador, “and I’m ashamed to be obliged to mention it. H* was last seen at about two in the morn ing in the most questionable night club in town seated alone befoA a magnum of champagne. Needless to say, my first action upon returning to the embassy will be to recom mend his immediate dismissal from the service.”- The minister, who had knotted his fingers together, began to crack his knuckles one by one. “Be patient. Excellency.” “There’s still this Blackadder fel low,” the ambassador muttered hopelessly. The minister was thinking of cer tain matters he had not voiced. Somebody was out to get him—per haps had already got him I A phrase used casually by the ambassador hovered in his thoughts. What was the most questionable night club in town? El Tenebroso. A gleam lit in his eyes. “Ah,” he half sighed with relief, “you can put your trust in step fathers, Mr. Ambassador; I’ll send a young friend of mine.” “Who?” “His name is Arnaldo—Adan Aj> naldo.” The shots which had so astonished Dirk Van Suttart stirred Joyce Sew ell to swift action. She rushed down into the patio, ascertained they had been fired from the two eastern tow ers, dispatched Luz to the northern one with a categorical order to lay off and hurried herself up the spiral stone steps of the bastion overlook ing the southeastern gate. There she found Leonardo with head and shoulders thrust into an embrasure, looking out. "We stopped a car in its tracks,” he announced, “and it’s almost a kilometer away!” “That’s fine, Leonardo,” said Joyce, her face white, “but we’ll have no more shooting until I say the word. Let me look, please.” Almost at once she discovered the distant car, a shining mark under the rays of the morning sun. It was a roadster and presently she saw emerge from its single seat a huge bear-like figure. Instantly Helm Blackadder came to mind, for who else could it be? Well, she was ready for him. What could he do besides talk? Let him come, and the sooner the better. The man stood for a moment as still as a pillar staring at his car, then he opened the rumble, dragged out a duffle bag and what looked like a gun, threw them over his shoulders and started to walk toward the hacienda. He had gone less than a hundred yards when he came to the barran ca and the rope bridge and he has tened his steps. At that juncture her attention was diverted to a cloud of dust moving across the prairie far to the east. She saw it had been caused by a troop of horse men and the next instant she real ized they had dismounted and were emitting strange puffs of smoke. What could they be shooting at? At her? She was about to draw back instinctively when she saw the bear like figure leap into the air, come down on all fours and scurry for cover. Leonardo hedged himself into the embrasure next to hers. “Dorado!” he yelled. “Dorado y su gente!” (TO BE CONTINUED) Age Limit of Earth Fixed at 3,000,000,000 Years by U. S. Chemistry and Soils Expert Ever since it was discovered that the heat emitted by radio-active substances in the earth was suffi cient in amount to have an impor tant geological significance, efforts have been made to calculate the ef fect of these substances and to use them as a key to determining the age of the earth. The study of the effects of uranium and radium, the heaviest radio-active substance, gave ages of the earth ranging from 1,200,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 years. Dr. A. Keith Brewer, of the bureau of chemistry and soils, Department of Agriculture, has studied the ef fect of potassium, one of the lighter elements which is also radio-active, and has found that it has played an important role in the history of the earth. The amount of radio-active potas sium varied during the succession of periods of the earth’s processes of change, and when the earth was 1,000,000,000 years old it produced sixty times the heat produced by the heavy radio-active elements uranium and thorium. Calculating the age of the earth on the basis of the potassium index, Dr. Brewer fixes the limit of the age of the earth at 3,000,000,000 years. This calcula tion is based on the amount of cal cium of, atomic weight 40 which ex ists today, because potassium of atomic weight 40 changes into that isotope of calcium. Dr. Brewer ex presses the belief that the power of potassium, which is extensively used as a fertilizer, to promote germination of seeds and growth of plants is due to its radio-activity, and suggests that a period of abun dance of the element may have been the cause of the carboniferous age, when the earth was covered with a lush growth of vegetation which be came the coal deposits in use today- Largest Salt Lake Inside City Lake Merritt, in Oakland, Calif., is claimed to be the largest salt water lake in the world inside a municipality. Its use as a wild duck refuge is nationally famous. D ID you know. Milady, that Santa Claus and Sew-Your- Own have joined forces to make this the brightest, charmingest Christmas you’ve ever known? Yes, it’s a fact! And you who’ve tried so hard to be good (and never a little naughty) are going to be rewarded to the full. Gifts by Se w-Y our-Own from Santa Claus to you. Here’s what you may expect (but remember, “Do not open until Christmas”). Festive Fashion. You’re in line for personalized gifts this year, lucky lady, and what could be closer to your heart’s desire than a velvet house coat—nothing indeed (Sew-Your- Own knows every girl’s weak ness). So keep your fingers crossed and say a little prayer that December 25th will find you merry, cozy and beautiful in this festive young fashion. Darling and Practical. For Miss Keep-the-Home-Beau- tiful we’ve specially designed a pair of really different aprons. One is the kind to wear when ac tually' doing kitchen chores, the other is a dressy model—so pret ty you will make a darling host ess. Sew-Your-Own sends these out in one package but Santa may split them up, so don’t feel slight ed, Miss K-T-H-B, if your stocking gives forth only one—either the tea time model or the all-around- the-clock style. For the Very Young. If you’re a very young lady you may find Gift No. 1393 or Gift Set No. 1423 packed neatly in your stocking one fine morning soon. The former, a dress plus dainty shorts, will be a peachy combina tion to wear to parties when you want to be “dressed up swell.” The Temple Trio, a hat, scarf and muff set, was designed to put a little “Hollywood” in your Christ mas. It’s as bright and cheerful as you could wish for. Hope you’re the winner, little lady I The Patterns. Pattern 1210 is designed for sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 (full length) requires 5% yards of 39 inch material; in me dium length 5% yards. Pattern 1422 is designed for sizes Small (34-316), Medium (38- 40), and Large (42-44). Plain apron requires 1% yards of 35 inch material for medium size. The dressy style requires 1V4 yards of 39 inch material for Jlsk Me Another A A General Quiz 1. What is the only walled city in America? 2. Why is the sky blue? 3. What land lies closest to 0 de gress latitude and 0 degrees longi tude? 4. What was Aaron Burr’s con spiracy supposed to have been? 5. What harbor has two tides a day? 6. What is the length of the long est pipe line in the world? medium size, plus 4 yards of ma chine ruffling for trimming, as pic tured. Pattern 1393 is designed for sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 years. Size < requires 2% yards ef 39 inch ma terial. Pattern Set 1423 is designed for sizes Small (18 in. head size), Ma- dium (20 in. head size), and Large (21% in. head size). The ensemble, medium size, requires 1% yards of 54 inch material. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, HL Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. New Pattern Book. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Bar bara Bell well-planned, easy-to- make patterns. e Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. Gives. Easier, Quicker Ironing Coleman m» % \i !>.*. Iron A gift that brings the joy of f better, easier ironing in a third m less time over old methods! 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