Judge — August 1935 — page 22: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Port Naught Gam WHE ZR owas the skipper of the ferry that plied daily between Hunterdown and Leaver Bay. Hunterdown was due south of Leaver Bay so Captain Wheeler had no trouble laying his course. His home, however, was at Port Naught, which was exactly eight miles due east of his course, Captain Wheeler’s ferry, the Marion H, always made just twelve miles per hour. One morning Jimmy, the cap- tain’s son, received an important mes- sage for his father which he was anx- ious to deliver as soon as possible. He had a small outboard motorboat with OLeover Bay Hunterdown which he could make eight miles per hour. He saw that it was ten minutes after nine, and realized that the Marion H had left her dock at Hunterdown ten minutes before. It would take Jimmy five minutes to get under way from Port Naught. In other words, his father would have a fifteen minute lead. One hour after leaving Hunterdown the Marion H would be due west of Port Naught. For what point should Jimmy head (expressed in miles from Hunterdo) in order to reach his father as quickly as possible? The sketch is so drawn as to be of no assistance to the solution. The Thorn Mystery by R. B. Ayer YBIL THORN, a beautiful and pop- ular debutante and heiress to the vast Dykeman fortunes, vanished from her home one night after retiring at an unusually early hour. Frederick Thorn, her father, feared that she had been kidnaped, although he had received no threats. He immediately summoned Inspector Webber. The only clue to Submitted the disappearance was a cipher message on a florist’s card found on her dress- ing table. “It must have come with the flowers young Harlan sent her yesterda id Mr. Thorn. Inspector Webber worked on it for several minutes. “Well, I think we can get along without the G-Men,” he said finally, and looking at Mr. Thorn with a smile, added, “I hope you like young Harlan.” Here is the message that the Inspec- tor managed to decipher and which solved for him the mystery of Sybil’s disappearance. FJVTNBS, LHBNSQL HV BKMKV. ZQJVCG, PZPJT LGKTMK CTJXK. KMKVDLONBS VKJFD, WNBNZLKV GJNLNBS NB SVKKBGNXQ. Digit Crypt following depicts a sum in long livision, Letters have been substi- tuted for the digits from 0 to 9, inclu- sive. Each letter always represents the same dig When you have found the digits represented by each letter, ar- range the letters in numer’ order and they will spell a word. Thirty minutes is good solving time for this crypt. XRN)XOGPEG(SOO XOXL IPG IPG The Money Changer R. FISHER dropped into Aber- crombie & Fitch one afternoon on s way uptown for the purpose of pur- hasing fishing equipment. He selected a fair assortment and gave the clerk a hundred dollar bill which was the only money he had with him. When Mr. Fisher received his change he careless- ly put it in his pocket without counting it. On his way out of the store his eye was arrested by a bottle stopper which he decided to buy and for which he paid $1.23, the three cents, of course, being the sales tax. When Mr. Fisher ar- rived home he counted the money in his pocket and was surprised to find that he had just twice as much he should have had. The cashier had made an 20 error in giving him his change for the $100 bill and had given him as many dollars as he should have given cents, and as many cents as he should have given dollars. In other words, if his correct change was $40.45 (which it was not) he would have received $45.40. What was the total cost, including tax, of the fishing equipment? Page Sir Isaac Newton Submitted by WW’. Butler Neide GGIE DIXON dropped a brick from the roof of his house. The brick fell the last half of the distance in one-half second. How high is Reg- gie’s house? Be Your Age OWARD WHITEWRIGHT is forty years old and has a son, Howard, Junior. Howard, Senior, is twice as old as Howard, Junior, was when Howard, Senior, was as old as Howard, Junior, is now. How old is Howard, Junior? Quick, Watson, the Needle! Ce ordering another Needle, formerly referred to as an obelisk. In a burst of generosity she had sent her last Needle to a Mr. Caesar in Rome, Itz and she wanted another to send to C tral Park. Of course the dimensions had to be what Cleopatra called mag as was the case with all of the gr ian monuments. Many plans had been submitted to her by her architects with views of the prospective Needle RA was in the process of intrigued her most between the rectangle cross section of the base of and the circle made it seem mystic to her, The diameter A B of the circle was 30 f dd the dis- A G was 3 feet. What was the f Needle The close 1 tance diagonal of the (Solutions Next Month) comicbooks.com