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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1932.
With the Atlantic's expanse ahead, three intrepid Esthonian youths were sailing from New York for home when this pic. tore WAS taken of the 26. foot bust "Ahto." They carried enough provisions to last for four months.
The scone at the main entrance to Unilever House, Blackfriars, London, just after the arrival of the Lord Mayor, Sir Maurice Jenks, who performed the opening ceremony.-(Tinics copyright).
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Standing at a safe distance from the devastating flamos which raced through a wide section of New York's world-famous Coney island, throngs are shown watching a sight more spectacular than any showman the resort could have devised. Hundreds lost their clothes and other personal belongings when the fire destroyed bathing-houss along the beach. Many ware forced to return to their homes clad only in bathing-suits.
LEAP YEAR BRIDE
by Laura Lou BROOKMAN
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
Cherry Dixon, 19 and pretty, falla ka lone
: "Can it down here?"
She moved to make room for him
with Dan Phillips, newspaper reporter whom and he dropped to the seat with a he wealthy aristocratie parents have fors | bilden her to see. When Cherry earns Dan's High.
telephone ewanges inso bora kist from her ale tenis out of the huume to most hina. Her father disenvers this and Darealone tol and her to Gullfomla. Cherry deflex binj and he orders her to leave.
The fire-blackened framework of Coney Island and the charred ruins of adjacent buildings are shown in this graphic photo taken aftor wind-driven flames had lapped up water-front property valued at G$5,000,000. The blaze had hardly been quenched when thousands of New Yorkers returned to the beach (me seen at the left) to escape the city's mid-summor heat. Hundreds were left homeless by the spectacular fire that ravaged four square blocks.
not much good at it yet but if you can stand it I guess I can."
Dan shook his head. You've been a sport about it all," he told her, "it that doesn't change things."
"I don't want them changed." He looked at her. "Do you real-
ly mean that?" Dan asked slowly. "Do you?"
"You know that I do."
"You mean that if you knew it "I've been walking," he told her. was going to be such hard work; "Walking? Where did you go?" with bills piling up and never any "Oh, I don't know. Down the good times-do. you
you'd want to marry me if it was to do over again?"
She goes to Dan, tell him what hope la street- didn't notice. It's getting
pened and naks in to marry her. The cold out." Ceremony is performed that night by is justice i
uf art.
Cherry looks for an discouraged to find them no expertsive. Dan
Suddenly Cherry was concerned. apartment but **“And you didn't have your topcont! works lau one night ins Up that Tony Oh, Dan, you shouldn't have done Towell, gland chief. is coming to Welling that. You've probably taken cold ton, Cherry unconsciously gives this and now you'll be sick!"
reporter on the rival newspaper.
The other paper wats, the story al ' “I don't think so." Isms threatena, mure llp and Surre
Ated."
"But you can't be sure. You Dixie Bhasnou, avis critic, helps Cherry should have a hot bath and-"
nexpensive apartment. IJI K
Cherry move lato IL Cherry finds houwork There's nothing wrong with me, and cooking trying. They invite Max Pear. I tell you. I'll be all right."
"Yes, Dan."
mean
He scarcely heard her. It was li the answer in Cherry's star-bright eyes that made him catch her close. He held her in both arms pressed tightly to his heart. His lips, eager| and demanding, found the girl's.
"You darling" he whispered huskily
"Ob, you darling!"
ann, a friend of "Buri's, winter but the There was silence again. This Later as Cherry, with her negli
and the vet de tine Cherry broke it. She leaned gee pulled tight about her, was
Estaurant.
A week Inter. Cherry worka day chauhearer, touched Dan's band with putting the empty milk bottles in
His Dixie inelles her and Dan Le M bridge party but Lian refuses tu gu iries to write a short lary, matenly tears the puper from the typewriter nad La
wut of the apartment.
CHAPTER XXI.
her own.
"I didn't mean what I said, either," she told him. "I shouldn't have promised Dixie we'd come without asking you first and I didn't mean to complain.
Dan opened the door quietly and my fault." entered. He had been gone nearly an hour. “Hello,” he said to
Cherry.
the hall Dan called to her.
"Tell you what we'll do to-mor. row, honey, We're going to step out!"
On guard against the looters who were thought certain to follow in the wake of the fire which partially destroyed Coney Island, armed New York police officers are aden at a roof-top
vantage point.
"No, it was
"But, Dan, we can't afford.” "Oh, don't think I'm getting reck-, It was Jess.
We'll see a movie-one Tenn | --- Het passes for."
"That will be fun," Cherry agre-"Come let us stroll down lovers' fed. "I have dinner rendy the
|
lanc And it won't Once more to sing love's old re-
frain
He stopped her. [mine. I lost my hend and there minute you get here. The girl had turned at the sound was no excuse for it. I know you he canned beans, either. Something For we must say, "Auf Wiedersehn of the key in the lock but now she get tired of this life. Cooking and difficult and complicated to prepare did not glance up. She was sitting washing dishes and working all day like-ham and eggs!"
—Auf Wiederschü, my dear—-”
while
in the window seat, looking very in this hole. It's my fault that you They both laughed. "Don't know A girl beside Cherry was singing small with her feet curied beneath have to do it because I dont make where you'd find anything better!" in a high-pitched voice. Cherry did her, her face white against the enough to are a maid. That's why Dan insisted. - cloudy mass of dark hair. The night you have all this drugery. You
not sing but she was sure that she It through the window behind her was shouldn't have married me, Cherry!
Peace and tranquility had been would never forget that song. dark, too. Cherry had been staring It was a mistake! I'll never be threatening problem of financial in- Dan know what it meant to stroll
restored in the household.
was beautiful though and. She and The at that starless sky.
"Hello."
able to give you the things you security and reared its ugly head down lovers' lane but they would should have servants and money and been put down-for the time. never, never part. They would. Phillips put down his hat and and pretty clothes. I'm just a bum crossed the room. "I'm sorry," he police reporter and that's all I'll picture the next evening. They sat hearts in the song.
Dan and Cherry did see a motion never say farewell" as the awoot began abruptly. "I didn't mean the ever be. I'm-oh, what's the use? hand in hand in the semi-darkness Cherry's hand, in Dan's, pressed things I said to-night. I-well, What's the use?"
The song was concluded a lovely blonde actress in the closer sorry Dan's hands opened wide in ale of a princess lost her heart to and a news reel flashed on the
gesture of disgust.
Twenty minutes later the an adventurous young American. Bercon "But, Dan" her arm stole about They watched these two cleverly two loft the theatre and walked But it wasn't all right. Philling his shoulder. "You mustn't talk outwit the diplomats who tried to down Twelfth street. could see that. The brown oyes that way! You mustn't because it
They had gone less than a block raised to his showed how deeply fen't true! You're not a bum re was penniless but handsome and be when a gay voice halled them. Max
separate them. The young American Cherry had been hurt. There were porter and I won't have you saying was an audacious suitor. The blonde Pearson, crossing the street with no tears in those eyes now but tho you are. What do I care for ser princess sang wistful love songs. great, swinging strides, was with wisp of handkerchief aho clutched vanta and clothes and a lot of When the organ sololet began a them almost immediately. was a damp and twisted ball, money? Those things don't make popular dance tune it seemed to "Called your place half an hour Dan waited uncertainly, Ho people happy. I found that out! Cherry that the song was Inspired, ago," he said, "but I couldn't get wanted to say more, did not know And I don't mind about the house a masterpiece. The words finished an answer. What are you doing
work, either. Of course I know I'm on the screen: how to begini. ****
now?"
want you about it."
to know I'm
"It's all right,”
1
"Nothing. Just on our way home."
stay in doors."
"How about joining me for a lit- tle spin? It's too fine a night to
Dan and Cherry agreed onthusi-
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