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MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1932.
THE YORKSHIRE FLOODS-THE RECLAMATION OF THE ZUIDER ZEE
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at the railway bridge on the main road to Seiby, Yorkshuc, where it was necessary to
take to boats to reach the flooded houses.(Timra copyright),
The work of removing families from their flooded homes in the Toll Bar district of Doncaster is continuing. Our picture shows a resident of Prospect-Place transferring bedding into a relief host. -Timer copyright).
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Spectacular fireworks, set off from the tall towers of the new George Washington Bridge, were Now York's nocturnal tribute to the memory of the first President. Note how this elaborato dis-
play le reflected in the quiet waters of the historic Hudson River."
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The rattle of the milk-wagon wheels no longer will arouse Boston folk from their slumbers at untimely hours. The wagons have been equipped with pneumatic tyres, as this picture shows. It's an achievement of the city's anti-noise campaign.
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The huge dyke separating the construct, was completed recently.
Zuider Zee from the North Sen, which has taken over four years to Our picture shows the dyke Just before the gap was closed.---
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MAN HUNTER
BY MABEL McELLIOTT
BEGIN HERE TODAY
lives with bug hunt Jennin
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the train roared into the statius.
Ray whistled. "One of the muida! | My hat! How many do they have || and what kind of a place is it?"
"It's-oh, it's beautiful!" said Susan, eyes shining, "It's out inj the real estatry, There's every kind of bird you ever heard of---“ Susan Catry. 19 pretty dorpen. ! Susan found herself a seat in think they'd want to live on Lake | Ray chilled. “Wouldn't You almost empty each and through Shore drive or somewhere like business achoul. There the meete linh Dunbar, the window caught a glimpse that? Wouldn't you think they'd bir to a farbine. She is employed assets Douise rasually embracing tary for Ernest Irath, Medalteet Jark
tall, Waring. Heath's needstari. Tries to start aj blonde young man,
the park? Mirtations but in rested. Sten, leuth wat
carrying gola duplex up near Susan. en ampmun
sticks.
How anybody can see that country Unaccountably her heart takes her to a studio party but he does not lightened. In the back of her mind
stuff gets me!" Jy i
"It's lovely." Susan told her.
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young musician,
tell her en going abroad. Suarn'. Hunt
Inntar lakes her to lunch and all this time, unacknowledged, bad you couldn't have a garden if you Reparte un a viall and Rose Milton stays in the fear that Denise might be lived in a duplex apartment." with Busan. Lonely, the girl woce driving the unnamed elarmer in Rob's life. with Waring and lay Fiannety, employed
"Who wants n garden?" Ray de.
in the next fier. Warnst kisses her and it did not seem so hard to lose himmanded,
she reshes never to go with him into someone she had never seen.
Hen Lampman anka Sudan to marry him
She had followed Susan
A
into the office and draped herself
will not neeept her refund as fal. Waring real flesh and blood rival was more gracefully over a partition. "Me,
apologize for his caddle behavior.
In a newspaper gossip colunt, Butan rend, terrifying. "Perhaps it isn't true," I'd have a standing order at
that Beh Danlar is to be married. She, Susan thought.
work overtime at the office and Heath for
She wondered where Bob was and she is. When he becomes abe gir when he was returning.
the first time realizes how young and charg
13. vuntry home to Inker stallet.
CHAPTER XX
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ous with her armful of flowers. She dismissed all this now reso- She went to sit on one of the ben-lutely and began to think of other ches outside of the stution. Idly things--the house she had just left she noticed a girl in white flannel and her employer with his lean, with a great Russian wolf houndscetic face and quizzical eyes-tarned his look with utmost can- on a leash, pacing up and down. Surely Ernest Heath There was something familiar thing to be desired-wealth, post-
had everyor.
about the set of the beautiful little tion, friends and that beautiful plained. "Ife looks miserable. But
"No, he wasn't really," she ex-been a girl."
SAN
Here is one of the gigantic installations in the University of California's saginearing research, laboratory, which will be used in concrete raazarch work in connexion with the Moover Dam con. struction. Stress, shrinkage, etc., will be studied, for the dam will be the world's largest single black of concrete. florist's for orchids or maybe gar- denius."
thrust the flowers into an umbrella for you." How strange that he had not even writ-
Jack Waring interrupted them. stand and flipped open her desk. "Bob Dunbuir?" As in a dream Sounds like your line, sugar," he The man smiled wryly, recognizing she answered. ten her a line! She had watched
said impudently. the malls day after day until pride
Ray made nisigns of dismissal.
"Yes. The old man wants somo "You've got planty of time, mise."had come to her rescue.
saucy face at him. Then the
"Sorry you're so busy." he said sort of Elizabethan shack out at That was Simon, grinning at Su-dream had died and more than one Susan she said.
"You know me, old thing!" Tolsmoothly. "I wanted to tell you Half-Day, you know, and Heath told
"Seo san and helping her out of the car. night her pillow had been wet with Had your lunch 7"
you later. about meeting an old friend of me to run over and give him a line "Thanks. You did that beautiful- teors.
yours,"
on it." ly," she told him, feeling conspicu-
Hastity Susan said. "I've got so Susan had slipped a sheet of pa- | "No, I didn't know." Outwardly much work to do I'm going to have per into the machine. Her eyes, in- Susan was composed, but that throb andwich sent up." Ray departed. tent on her work, raised to his for; of her blood told the tale, Gurloudly Waring gazed at Susunan instant.
"He's a "The boss must have been feeling
handsome devil, lon't better," he hazarded.
"Old friend of mine? Really? he?" pursued Waring. "Where'd Susan re- Who is he?"
you meet him?" "Listen to her," the man tensed. She kept her Angers stendy on "For all you know it might have the keys.
"At business' school. head under the rakish, white hat, house and garden. She could hear
Suяna laughed, embarrassed. "I taking the course some whim of When the girl turned her profile herself describing the place in de- was so nice. He told Simon to know," she said, "but there was his father's. Yes. He's very nice." Susan knew her at once. It
wait and had all these gathered for something about the way you nald to Aunt Jessic.
"Very nice. Very nice." The fu Denise Ackroyd. Deliberately Su. Aunt Jessie would sniff at what ghe. It was sweet of him, wasn't it that made me think
tile, foolish words mocked her. san looked the other way. She called "fol-de-rols," but she would
"It's all right," he told her. "It if she hadn't been dreaming of could not quite forgive that girl for be impressed just the same,
was a man and he was very much Robert Dunbar's image for months. having interrupted her and Bob
Waring agreed gravely, keep interested to know what you were However, it was Ray Flannery
(Continued on Page 10)........ Dunbar at luncheon. The old pain who first heard the story of Susan's is thoughts to himself. He doing." began to throb in her breast,
hnd learned several things in the Susan waited for him to go on. "I was so happy a moment ago," "My eye! Flowers, where are Cynle that he was, he had discov-being rather allly. Why so much last month or so about this girl. She thought impatiently that he was Susan thought resentfully. "Why you going with that girl?" Ray need she remind me of him? I was thrilled, meeting Susan in the hall. cred that Susun was to be taken at necrecy?
Susan turned a blooming face. meant and what she seemed to about it?" Waring was laughing at her face value. What she said sho "Don't you want me to tell you Irresistibly her eyes were drawn "Aren't they lovely?" She asked. be she was. It was startling but her openly now and the girl lifted back to the straight, graceful fig-They're from Mr. Heath's garden. true. Jack Waring had not under- her great, luminous eyes to his own At that moment Denise's gaze, had to go out there to take dicta-stood that at first. Now he was a in wonderment. Quietly she said, mot here. She bowed frigidly and tion. He's laid up." moved away.
Ray whistled softy. "Getting a
little ashamed of his earlier atti-"Yes, very much. Please go on." tude. "I wonder if her family know she stand In?" She Inquired. "I'll bet goes around with the Strinskys the minnun didn't pick those for would go. He made her nervous, the name
Susan began to wish Waring She was scarcely prepared for crowd?" Susan reflected, thinking you."
he uttered nor could disdainfully of that sordid monage
Susur, said with dignity, "One of sitting there drumming on the deak ahe restrain the warm colour that to which Bon had introduced hor. the maida did. Mr. Heath told her with his well manicured figures flooded her checks.
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