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FICTION C H er NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS SHORTY OUTMATCHES A KILLER • * \ \ r ELL.” I says to Shorty No- ’ ’ Legs, “this is it. You bust it or it busts you." It was undoubtedly a very tough case. Sheriff Shorty No-Legs would first have to prove it accident or murder. If murder, then he’d have to catch the murderer. And if he failed anywhere along the line he d have to resign. But that was the way Shorty— World War I veteran—had asked for it. There had been so many un solved murders in Dry Creek county that Shorty ran on his word that he would resign whenever he failed to solve a case. The name Shorty had given when he first came to Scenic City came from the fact that he actually had no legs. There were barely enough stumps below Shorty’s powerful body to enable him to do what he cheerfully called walking. •Tm blowing like a winded horse,” Shorty said, glancing back over the boulder-strewn way down Squares for Scarf or Doilies By JOE STEEL op have stayed with medicine or law. Barbers are always skinny.” I'd hunted with him many times. and seen him climb around in the mountain lots, but now he amazed even me. He was driving hard on this case We clambered up to the high ay just as the ambulance ar rived. "Take him to Doc’s.” No-Legs said But we found out. after a long- delayed breakfast, that the Doc didn’t find any trace of drugs or liquor on the body. “Maybe he went to sleep," I said. •’Maybe,” agreed Shorty. “Now Just prove it and I can resume my disturbed slumbers." I couldn’t, of course. "Who found him?” I asked. "Doc. Cornin’ back from a night call over in the hills somewhere and noticed the broken guard rail.” "What do you think?” "I don’t," he said. “I ain’t got nothing to think on. There’s got to be some other angles." Our Im provrd pattern — visual with e»x\ tit an- charts and photos, amt cum plefe directions — in u kei needlework easy. Due to an unusually large dem and and cun i-n t conditions, slightly m ars lim a Is required In tilling o n lrrs for a few of the most iMtpular patterns. lug that now. He never seemed to have to ask questions. He'd just wait the oiher guy out—sqeeze him dry with the weight of dead si Young Farmer Has lence. 1 could see the pressure on Chance to Start Rhodes. Like everybody else—he'd a lot rather No-Legs would fire ques Knowledge and Training tions than just stare. Forced on the defensive and ob Essential for Success viously ungry at having to explain More than the usual number of further to the legless owl before him, Rhodes started again. "You places are available for young men see. I came out on the train for u to get started in farming in 10-18. deer hunt while Lefty wound up according to Prof. C. A. Bratton of our business. He was to meet me Cornell university. Many farmers here today and we’d go on to are ready to turn their farms over gether.” He ground his conversa to young men, or nre looking for u young man to work for wages on a tion to a stop. No-Legs sure surprised both profit-sharing basis. Farming in the years ahead, ac "Chick” and me with his next move He twisted his wrist and the big cording to Bratton, will provide a gun in his hip holster moved into good living for the young mnn who Rhodes’ stomach. "You’re under a r is well trained, properly financed rest for murder,” he said. and located on good lands. Educa Rhodes soon recovered from his tion and experience will be even surprise and grinned wickedly. "I more important for farming in the future than it has been in the past. Starting farming In a period of in flated prices requires caution Un usually high prices for livestock and machinery and high land values make it important to start without heavy indebtedness. Working as a SKW INO C IK C I K P A T T E R N D F P T . M io lo n Ml., Haa F r a n tin e , C alif. Enclose 23 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No a t.. Na m a _______________________ A ddress. Prizew inners in $100,000 From Contest Announced The following contestants won the first live prizes in the $100,000 Frum Prize contest held recently: First prize, Lincoln sedan—Lloyd E. Matthews Jr., 017 North J St., Muskogee, Okla, Second prize, Studebuker sedan — A. D. Barr, 14H4 Wagur Ave., Lakewood 7, Oido. Third prize, Mercury sedan —Margaret Bernhard, 860 Cites terflcld Rd., Columbus 8, Ohio. Fourth prize, Ford sedan—J. Mar shall Singer, 26 St. Clair Ave, East, Toronto 5, Ont. Fifth prize, Crosley sedan—William D. Bram- ham, 104 Tyler St., Taft, Call/. Trapped Phoner VFOU can have this lovely table- 1 setting! Just one square done One of the first devices invented in string makes a whole doily! for obtaining the nickel from the Three squares join for a center- user of a public telephone wua a piece. booth having a door lock that • • • snapped shut when you stepped in M ake these pinwheel squares for side and required the insertion of doilies or scarf. Pattern 731ti has d ire c the coin in order to be opened. tions for square. • f*- f*" « f* — - f*- — X — X f*- f*- a f* — - O- w — « fN . « - » — » <* — — _ • — « — _ _ - - « — » — « — - — __ Time and again 4-11 club mem bers have proved that their train ing well fits them to aucceufnlly operate farms of their own. hired man in a farm partnership or share renting are ways a young man with limited capital can be come established without a heavy debt load. h a ir^ n ^ u rn ^ n ^ jUterbuggetTu'»1 d^ncè ^/"deaVhPdoHT^the MmoMsheermounUlnside^“ “ ‘ Michigan Winners which he had slipped and slid to “What do we do now?” can prove I was back up in the hills where the battered sports roadster “Nothing. When you’re hunting for a week until an hour ago. I and the man's body lay. geese the first thing to do is stay in Several h”ndred feet above looped the blind. Then if they don’t fly in couldn’t have done it.” T hat’s right,” said No-Legs. the narrow concrete ribbon of Blue to you after so long, you try to “But you probably helped engineer River pass highway. The roadster crawl up on them. We ain’t stayed it!” Over Rhodes’ threats of suit had been moving on the steep down in the blind long enough yet.” and vengeance, No-Legs had him grade toward Scenic City when it He was right. Soon after dinner failed to make a hairpin turn and a smallish fellow showed up at locked up. “Let’s go to Rhodes' hotel,” he jitterbugged its dance of death down Shorty’s office. He was in hunting said, without giving me a chance to the almost sheer mountainside. togs and would have looked like Lit No-Legs mopped his face with a tle Lord Fauntleroy if it hadn't been ask questions. Arrived in "Chick’s” huge bandana and began a pain for beetling black eyebrows and the room, he began digging in suit staking search of the wreckage. vicious looking cigar he was smok cases. “Here they are.” He said it just like he knew they'd be there. There wasn't much. The dead man ing. They were insurance policies on wore a rather flashy suit. He had “I’m ‘Chick’ Rhodes,” he said, Winners in the Michigan better on yellow shoes, so new that match “and I wanted to talk with you the life of George (Lefty) Ellitto. scratches in the instep of the left about the wreck out on Blue River Twenty-five thousand dollars in all. malting barley context as awards “That dead man ain't Ellitto,” were made at Michigan Slate col one could plainly be seen. Cigar pass. Heard about it at the cafe.” No-Legs said. "I think Ellitto must lege. Left to right: Kagalt Hauck, ettes. odds and ends, and a picture No-Legs kept Rhodes talking, then Rosebush, fifth prize winner; Her of the dead man and a little geezer finally tossed the picture he had have done the actual murder.” I still couldn’t get it. But that bert Gettle, Pigeon, fourth prize evidently named “Chick,” rounded { taken from the dead man on to the evening No-Legs met me in the cafe out the inventory. desk. Three words were under it and gave me the dope. Rhodes had winner; August Kiehl, Harbor Beach, first prize winner; Faster “Somebody,” said No-Legs, “Lefty and Chick.” confessed. "It was like I said. El “could have got this guy drunk or “That’s Lefty all right,” Rhodes litto killed him. You see Ellitto and Hickey, Fairgrove, third prize winner, and Clair Harrington, drugged, driven him to this curve, , said. “And that's me,” pointing to headed the roadster for the railing, | the other figure. “Taken in Chicago Rhodes found a guy in Chicago that Akron, second prize winner. and stepped out. The pavement just before me and Lefty sold our looked just like Ellitto. They of- wouldn't show any tracks.” he add pool hall and headed for California. fered him a good proposition to go West with them. Up on the pass Pasture Makes Cheap ed sadly. Lefty was going to be drafted, and “Shorty,” I says, “maybe I could I couldn’t run the place myself. Fig Ellitto stops the car on a pretense Dairy and Stock Feed carry you pick-a-back back up this ured maybe I could handle a sand of getting the other fellow to drive. Pasture is the cheapest and best “Then, he knocks him in the head, mountain.” I could see he was I wich stand in California for the feed your dairy and meat animals ready to leave. stows him behind the wheel and duration." can get. declares the Middle West maneuvers the car over the cliff. "Yeh,” he snorted, giving me a You could never tell from looking backhanded slap in the midriff with ' at No-Legs what he was thinking. We couldn’t tell whether the fellow Soil Improvement committee. Not one of his ham-hands. “Me weigh- [ He’d spread his stumps apart, roll had been hit in the head or got the only will it save scarce feed grains, but also it will cut production costs ing 160 without legs, and you weigh- , his eyes up at your face and stare bump in the wreck.” and step up the milk and meat out ing 135 legs and all. You should ' as unblinking as an owl. He was do- I began to see. "Rhodes was to put. However, the soil must be fed collect the insurance, meet Ellitto to get a good stand of legumes and in Old Mexico or some place and live happily ever after.” Then 1 grasses. Legumes are heavy “eat got out the question that had tor ers” of phosphorus and potash, re mented me all afternoon. “How did quiring plenty of plant food. Lim you know the dead man wasn't El ing, based on soil tests, use of manure and the return of crop after litto?” maths to the soil are other essen i “That was easy,” No-Legs said. tials. Grace Noll Crowell “Left-handed guys don’t scratch matches on the bottom of their left Posthole Digger shoes. Right-handed guys do that.” I M etallic Flesh and Bone Used for A rtificial Ears USED to seek a crowd to find delight, And this they gave me — laughter and brief song, Bright powdered wings that dusted off in flight, And bubbled-beauty, nothing lasting long. But once 1 found a pathway down my heart: A dim, untraversed way I had not known. I walked it timidly, a thing apart, Bewildered that I found myself alone. But now I seek that beautiful retreat, And find such cool, deep peace, such sheer delight: Cold springs of water welling at my feet, White flowers by day, white guiding stars by night. The old crowd’s laughter falls upon my ear j 1 am exploring, and 1 do not hear. »/// fa» Metallic flesh and bone made from tantalum are providing new ears and rehabilitating torn nerves and other tissues for thousands of persons, Dr. Clarence W. Balke re ported to American Chemical so ciety. Artificial ears have been grown I his posthole digger was built on frameworks of tantalum wire, by Clyde Hall, Bradford, III. | | e and more than 5,000 skull injuries says it will put a nine-inch hole have been repaired with tantalum down three feet in Illinois soil in plates. ' three minutes. It was built of Thousands of severed or injured heavy materials in his farm nerves have been made sound again shop and required some large with tantalum foil, and literally welds. A ear differential provides miles of wire have been used for a way to use tractor power to dig surgical sutures. Dr. Balke re postholes. ported. Tantalum Is called "biologically acceptable” since body tissues ad Marketing Lighter Hogs here to and grow over the metal. Stretches Feed Supply Both tantalum and columbium are By marketing their hogs at Just completely non-irritating to living one pound lighter weight, hog men tissue, and they are not made irri over the country could conserve tating by pathological or disease about seven million bushels of grain conditions within the tissues. says Wisconsin College of Agricul Implants of tantalum gauze are ture. 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