PAGE TWO is mr ———— Che DallasPost, ESTABLISHED 1389 TELEPHONE DALLAS 300 A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT LEHMAN AVENUE, DALLAS, PA, BY THE DALLAS POST INC. BBOWARD RISLEY. ic iinsahsinsarsinns sasmsaiis General Manager MOWEIL REES lh iii bah bes airanesas Managing Editer TRUMAN STEWART .........cciiieeinnnnnnnnnnns Mechanical Superintendent The Dallas Post is on sale at the local news stands. Subscription price by mail $2.00 payable in advance. Single copies five cents each. Enxered as second-class matter at the Dallas Post- office. Members American Press Association; Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers | Mescciation; Circulation Audit Bureau: Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Cham- bor of Commerce. YHE DALLAS POST is a youthful weekly rural-suburbam newspaper, oFned edited and operated by young men interested in the development of the gat rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the highest ideals of journalism. Thirty-one surrounding communities contribute weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies. THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community institution.” Congress shall make no lw * * apridging the freedom of speech, or of Press.—From the first amen._.aent to the Constitution of the United States. Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance) THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM THE DALLAS POST will end its support and offers the use of Its eolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rurai- suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve- ments: 1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in | Kingston township and Dallas. 2. A free library located in the Dallas region 8. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville. Shavertown, Fernbrook and Dallas. 4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas. 5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships. | 6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation betwen those that | new exist. 7. Adequate water supply for fire protection. 8B. The formatien of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and | home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. 9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the | Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. 10. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in the region | oovered by THE DALLAS POST. Although he represents a neighboring Congressional district, Congressman C. Elmer Dietrich is so well known throughout Luzerne County that he has frequently, since his great victory last Fall, been called “Luzerne County’s second congressman’. THe tremendous respect which people in this section have had for Mr. Dietrich for many years explains the angry indignation here against the International Reform Federa- tion, which last week announced its plan to contest Mr. Dietrich’s seat in Congress. Late developments indicate that Mr. Dietrich need have no worry about any alleged information which the I. R. F. THE TEAPOT TEMPEST claims to have uncovered but his friends here are anxious to | see the thing carried through so the motives for the attack can be disclosed. Anyone who has had intimate association with Mr. Die- trich would swear that he could not be guilty of the high- sounding and profound charges which the I. R. F. intimated. It stands, however, that the charges have been made, public- ly, and since they may be taken seriously by some, we hope Mr. Dietrich will not drop the matter until he has secured a public apology from the people who have made the charge. In this case, instead of creating a sentiment against the Congressman, the charges have been a boomerang which has swung back to threaten the so-called reformers. * * *® Defective brakes, one of the major mechanical hazards at which compulsory motor vehicle inspections are directed, claimed at least thirty-five lives in Pennsylvania last year. The Department of Revenue’s Division of Safety receiv- ed reports of 1756 accidents caused by inefficient or poorly adjusted braking equipment. Of these, thirty-five were fa- tal accidents, 1036 resulted in non-fatal injuries and" 685 caused property damage only. Similarly, defective steering apparatus caused 552 ac- cidents, of which eighteen were fatal and 328 resulted in non-fatal injuries. THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA. j Eve. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935. THE NARRATIVE ing New York on the liner Europa, re- ecelves a succession ef radiograms offer- ing him $1,000, finally $20,000, for an ex- elusive newspaper interview divulging the mission that brings him secretly commissioned at Capetown by Lord Rhondin and Professor Bronson. the | to fly across the Mediter- astronomer, ranean to the fast liner, traveling case plates. His with a large containing photographic instructions are to deliver them to Dr. Cole Hendron, in New York, | Tony Drake calls at the Hendrons’ apart- ment, Ransdell dron, with whom Tony is deeply in love introduces Tony to Ransdei. CHAPTER [l.—New York newspapers publish a statement made by Hendron and concurred in by sixty of the world’s | greatest seclentists. The prepared state- ment says that Professor broken away from another star or sun and traveled through for an incalculable time. until they éame to a region of the heavens which brought them at last under the attraction of the | sun. The statement ends: ‘“Their previ- ous course, consequently, has been modi- fled by the sun, and as a result, they are now approiching us.” ‘he result of the inevitable collision must be the end of the earth, The approaching bodies are referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bron- son Beta, the latter being the smaller— about the size of the earth. CHAPTER doomsday, II1.—"It's fen’'t 1t?” going te Tony Dawn after doomsday,” she tells him. She explains that the first time the Bronson Bodies approach the earth they will not hit it, but the second time, one, | Bronson Beta, will pass, and the other will hit the earth and demolish it, Teo devise means of transferring to Bronson Beta, so much like the earth, is what is occupying the minds of the members of the League of the Last Days. CHAPTER IV.—Hendron tells Tony he is to be a member of the selected crew of the projected Space Bhip which Hen- dron plans to build, with the idea of landing on Bronson Beta, and the scien- tist advises him to gain a knowledge of agriculture and proficiency in manual arts and elementary mechanics. Tony rounds up suitable men and women to build the ship at a cantonment Handron established in merthern Michigan. CHAPTER V.—Hendron has not been able te find a metal er an alloy which will withstand the heat and pressure of atomic energy to be used In propelling the Space Ship. The night before Hen- dron and his immediate party are to fiy te Michigan the tides rush through the streets of New York. CHAPTER VI1.—The tides sweep back to the Appalachians on the east and to the mountains on the Pacific side, and quakes change the entire surface of the earth. The Washington government moves as many millions as possible to the great Mississippi valley. The Hen- dron settlement survives unprecedented earthquakes. CHAPTER VII Tony realized that his position as vice to Hendron in command of the cantonment did not leave him free for adventure, yet it was almost with shame that he assisted in the take-off of the big plane two days later. Eve emerged from the crowd at the edge of the landing field and walked to Ransdell; and Tony: saw the light in her eyes which comes to a woman watching a man embark on high ad- venture. Tony walked around to the other side of the plane and stayed | there until Eve had said.good-by to the pilot. : Many of ‘the more prominent mem- bers of the colony were shaking hands | with Vanderbilt and Eliot James. Van- derbilt’s light, “We'll send you postcards pie- turing latest developments.” Eliot James was receiving last-minute ad- vice from the scientists, who had bur- farewells were debonair and | rom South | Africa. Ransdell, noted aviator, has been | arrives and Eve Hen- | ] Bronson has | discovered two planets, which must have | interstellar space | be | Drake asks | ‘No, Tony—more than doomsday. | other to CHAPTER 1.—David Ransdel], approach- dened him with questions, the answers | of which they wished him to discover | by observation. Ransdell came around the fuselage of the plane, Eve behind him. He cast one look at the sky, and one at the available half of the landing field. “Let’s go,” he said. The plane made a long bumpy run across the field, rose slowly, circled once over the heads of the waving throng, and gradually disappeared toward the south. Eve signaled Tony. “Aren’t they fine, those three men? Going off into nowhere like that, I like Dave Rans- dell.” “No one could help liking him,” Tony agreed. ‘“‘He’s so interested in everything, and yet so aloof,” went on Eve, still watching, ‘In spite of all he’s been through with us, he’s still absolutely terrified of me.” “I can understand that,” said Tony grimly. “But you've about me.” “I didn’t show it that way; no. But I know—and you know—what it means.” “Yes, I know,” Eve replied simply. The sun, which had been shielded by a cloud, suddenly shone on them, and both glanced toward it. Off there to the side of the sun, and hidden by its glare, moved the Bronson Bodies on their paths which would cause them to circle the sun and return— never been that way | | one to pass close to the earth and the shatter the world—in little more than seven months more, “If they are away only thirty days we're not to count them missing,” Eve was saying—of the crew of the air plane, of course. “If they're not back in thirty—we're 10 forget them. Es pecially we're not to send anyone to earch for them.” “Who said so?” “David. It’s the last. thing he | 1 ked.” * * * * * * * The thirty days raced by. Unde he circumstances, time could not drag Nine-tenths of the people at Hendron': ncampment spent their waking and teeping hours under a death-sentence ‘0 one could be sure of a place on the Space Ship. No one, in fact, was Eve Walked to Ransdell; and Tony Saw the Light in Her Eyes Which Comes to a Woman Watching a Man Embark on High Adventure. positive that the colossal rocket would he able to leave the earth, Hendron spent most of his time in the rocket’s vast hangar, the labors tories and the machine shop. Under the pressure of impending doom, the group laboring under him had “liber ated” the amazing energy in the atom —under laboratory conditions. They had possessed, therefore, a potential pow er enormously in excess of that ever | They could | made available before. “break up” the atom at will, and set its almost endless energies to work: but what material could harness that energy and direct it force for the Space Ship? ed for hour after desperate through their days, with one metal, another alloy and another after an- other. engine. Tony perceived an evidence of the increasing tension in Eve when they walked, late one afternoon, through the | (hem. : : | wounded. She saw on the pine-needle carpet of She plucked | nearby woods. the forest a white flower. it, looked at it, smelled it and car- ried it away, After they had ceeded silently for some distance, she said: matters like this flower. that there will never be any more flow- ers like this again in the universe—un- | less we take seeds with us! Did David ever tell you that, in his first conference at Capetown with Lord Rhondin and Professor Bronson, they were excited over realizing there would | be no more lions?” “No,” said ‘Tony, very quietly. never mentioned it to me.” “Tell me, Tony,” she asked quickly, “He | “you aren’t jealous?” “How, under the conditions laid down by your father,” retorted Tony, “could anybody be ‘jealous’? You're not going to be free to pick or choose your own husband—or mate—or what- ever he'll be called, on Bronson Beta. And if we never get there, certainly I'll have nothing to be jealous about.” The strain was telling, too, on Tony. “He may not even return to us here,” Eve reminded. “And we would never know what happened to the three of them.” “It would have to be a good deal, to stop them. Each one’s d—n’ resource- ful in his own way; and Ransdell is sure a flyer,” Tony granted ungrudg- ingly. “Yet if the plane cracked, they'd never get back. This certainly has become a mess of a world; and I suppose the best we can expect is some such state awaiting us,” Tony smiled grimly, “if we get across to Bronson Beta.” “No. If we get across to Bronson Beta, we'll find far less damage there.” “Why?” Tony had not happened te be with the scientists when this had been discussed. “Because Bronson Beta seems cer- tain to be a world a lot like this. It wasn’t the passing of Bronson that tore us up so badly; it was the pass- ing of the big one, Bronson Alpha. | ing the doctor. Hendron and his group experiment- | hour | The Space Ship still lacked its | pro- | “It’s strange to think about | To think | - strument . panel. Now, Bronson Beta has never been nearly so close to Bronson Alpha as we have been. Beta circles Alpha, but never gets within half a million miles of it. So if we ever step upon that world, we'll find it about as it has been.” “As it has been—for how many years?” Tony asked. “The ages and epochs of travel through space. You ought to talk more with Professor Bronson, Tony. He just lives there. He's so sure we'll get there! Exactly how, he doesn’t bother about; he’s passed that on to Father. He starts with the landing; what may we reasonably, ex- pect to find there, beyond water and air—and soil? have most chances to survive the probable conditions? mediate supplies and food and so on—must we have with us? What ultimate supplies—seeds and seedlings to furnish us with food later? What animals, what birds and insects and crustacea, should we take along? “You see, that world must be dead, Tony. served in the frightful, complete cold of absolute zero for millions of years, under What im- “He assumes, among other things, that we can find some edible food— | to my announcement in the hall is of ! some sort of grain, probably, which absolute zero would have He assumes that some vegetable life —the vegetation that springs from spores, which mere cold cannot de- | stroy—will spring to life automat- | ically. “Tony, you must see his lists of most essential things to take with us. we must take with us to help us to survive 7” * * * - * » * The three explorers had agreed on September 14 as the first possible day for their return; but so great was the longing to learn the state of the out- [ side world that on the twelfth even | those who felt no particular concern for the men who ventured in the air plane began to wateh the sky. No one went to bed that night until long after the usual hour. Tony was in charge of the landing arrangements. \t three a. m. he was sitting on the edge of the field with Eve. They sat with straining eyes and ears. Doctor Dodson lay on a cot, ready in case the landing should result in accident At four, nothing had changed. It began to grow light. Eve stood up stiffly and stretched. “Maybe I'd bet ter leave. I have some work laid out ‘or morning.” But she had not walked more than en steps when she halted, “l thought I heard motors,” aid, Tony nodded, unwilling to break the stillness. A dog barked in the camp. she The first sun rays tipped the lowest clouds with gold. Then the sound came unmistakably For a full minute they heard the rise and fall of a churning motor—remote soft, yet unmistakable. “It’s coming!” Eve said. She rushed to Tony and held his shoulder. Their eyes swept the heavens, Then they saw it simultaneously—a speck in the dawning atmosphere. The ship was not flying well. It lurched and staggered in its course. y | Tony rushed to the cot where Dodson into a driving | slept. “They're coming,” he said, shak- “And they may need you.” The ship was nearer, Those who beheld it now appreciated not only the irregularity of its course, but the fact | that it was flying slowly. “They’ve only got somebody said. two motors,” The plane made a dizzy line toward | It flew like a duck mortally men in the cabin. The pilot did not wiggle his wings or circle. bling slip he ground. “She’s going to crash!” some one | yelled, Tony, Dodson and Jack Taylor were | Fire appara- | already in a light truck. tus and stretchers were in the spaca behind them. The truck’s engine raced. [ The plane touched the ground heavily, bounced, touched again, ran | forward and slowed. Tony threw in the clutch of the car and shot to it. With the doctor and Jack at his heels, he flung open the cabin door and looked into the canted chamber. Everything that the comfortable cabin had once contained was gone. Two men lay on the floor at the for- ward end—Vanderbilt and James. Ransdell was unconscious over the in- Vanderbilt up at Tony. His face was paper- white; his shirt the fading light in his eyes a spark of unquenchable, deathless, reckless and almost diabolical glee. His voice was quite distinct. He sald: “In the words of the immortal Lindbergh, ‘Here we are. Then he fainted. James was unconscious. The truck came back toward the throng very slowly and carefully. In its bed Dodson looked up from his three charges. He announced briefly as way was made for them: “They've been through hell. They're shot, bruised, half-starved. But so far, I've found nothing surely fatal.” An hour later, with every member of the community who could leave his post assembled, Hendron stepped to the rostrum in the dining hall. “All three will live,” he simply. »n sald Which of us, who make | up the possible crew of the ship, will | implements— | It must have been dead, pre- | | was Hendron himself, ... You’d be surprised at some of the | [ assumptions Professor Bronson makes. preserved. | What | animals, do you suppose, he's figured | | only modern rock, but cast quantiti | of the internal substance of the ear There was no sign of the | In a sham- | dropped toward the | It nosed over. | The propeller on the forward engine | | bent. looked | was blood-soaked. | And yet there showed momentarily in | your community — Rural Loan Assoc.—Third series now open, Cheering made it impossible for him to continue. He waited for silence, “James has a broken arm and gon- cussion. Vanderbilt has been shot through the shoulder. Ransdell brought: in the ship with a compound fracture 4 of the left arm, and five machine-gun bullets in his right thigh. They un- i doubtedly have traveled for some time in that state. Ransdell’s feat is one of distinguished heroism.” Again cheering broke tumultuously through the hall. Again Hendron stood quietly until it subsided. “Thig evening we will meet again. At that time I shall read to you from the diary which James kept during. the past thirty days. I have skimmed some of its pages. It is a remarkable document. I must prepare you by saying, my friends, that those of our fellow human beings who have not perished have reverted to savagery, al- { most without notable exception.” When Hendron stepped from the platform, he went over to his daughter, He seemed excited. “Eve,” he said, “I want you and Drake to come to the office right away.” Bronson and Dodson were already there when they arrived. A dozen other men joined them; and last to appear It was easy to perceive his excitement now. He com- menced to speak immediately. “My friends, the word I have to add stupendous importance! “When we took off Ransdell’s clothes, we found belted to his body, and heavily wrapped, a note, a map, and a chunk of metal. You will re- member, doubtless, that Ransdell was once a miner and a prospector. His main interest had always been dia- monds. And his knowledge of geology and metallurgy is self-taught and of the practical sort.” Bronson, unable to control himself, burst into speech. “Good G—d, Hen- dron! He found it!” The scientist continued impassivel “The eruptions caused by the passag of the Bodies were of so intense nature that they brought to earth n —which, as you know, is presumabl of metal, as the earth’s total density is slightly greater than that of iro Ransdell noticed on the edge of suj a flow a quantity of solid unm material. Realizing that the heat rounding it had been enormous, ¥ made a landing and secured spe mens. He found the substance to be metal or natural alloy, hard but m chinable. Remembering our dilemn] here in the matter of lining for ¢ power tubes for the Space Ship, carefully carried back a sample—p tecting it, in fact, with his life. “My friends,”—Hendron’s voice gan to tremble—'‘for the past seven! five minutes. this metal has withstoo not only the heat of an atomic bla but the immeasurably. greater host Professor Kane's recently atomie furnace. We are at of the quest!” Suddenly, to the astonishment of hearers, Hendron bowed his head his arms and cried like a woman. * * * . $ * - Hendron stood before an audied of nearly a thousand persons. was a feverish audience. He bowed the applause. “1 speak to you tonight, my frien in the first full flush of the knoj edge that your sacrifices and suff ings have not been in vain. Ransd has solved our last te¢hnleat pro We have assured ourselves by o vation that life on the planet-to-be “He Made a Landing and Secut Specimens. He Carefully Carri Back a Sample—Protecting it, i Fact, With His Life.” be possible; man shall live; we are th forefathers of his” new history.” The wild applause proclaimed: th: hopes no one had dared to declar before. “But tonight I do not wish to talk of the future, There is time enough for that, I wish to talk—or rather fo read—of the present.” He picked up from a small table the topmost of a number of ordinary note books. “I have here James’ record of the jour- ney that brought us salvation. I can- not read you all of it. This Is the first of the seven notebooks James filled.” He opened the book. He read: “‘August 16. Tonight Ransdell, Vanderbilt and 1 descended at gix o'clock precisely on a small body of water which is a residue in a bed of Lake Michigan. We are lying at anchor about a mile from Chicago. ‘ ‘Following south along what was once the coast of Lake Michigan we flew over scenes of desolation and de- struction identical with those de- scribed after our first reconnaissance. The world has indeed been wrecked. (Continued Next Week.) Bl .—.—.— Invest safely—Help build Building & Think!
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