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BEWARE! HOW DID FLEET ANCHOR TO AVOID

MINE FIELD?

BY SAM LOYD

Puzzleland, June 21. The Puzzle

land fleet of eight battleships

steamed into port today and sought

anchorage.

The port authorities pointed out a

series of 64 mooring buoys arranged

in square formation with eight on a

side.

They gave the admiral a chart of

buoys and told him he might moor

his ships to them provided he placed

them so that no two ships were in

. a straight line and no two in a diag

onal line. To anchor in any other

way, they said, would expose his

ships to the peril of drifting onto the

harbor mines.

It looked like a knotty problem,

but the admiral was sailor enough to

selve it before nightfall.

. Can you moor the eight ships so

no two are in a straight or diagonal

line, using the dots on the diagram

as buoys?

The answer will appear in The

Day Book tomorrow.

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ADVICE TO YOUNG GIRLS

Dear Girls Never sit on a young

man's lap unless you receive an invi

tation. To act otherwise is consid

ered rather forward in the best so

ciety if you are less than 30 years

old. If you are beyond that age, na

turally desperate measures may

sometimes be necessary.

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The great demand for rubber in

Germany and its increasing scarcity

are said to be making the garter

question a serious one, men and

women stopping frequently to clutch

at their calves to the accompaniment

of knowing grins from all who have

"been there" themselves.