V/KN/C UGO GERNSBACK EDITOR iwmmxm? i IIS II IN G COMPANY, NEW YORK, PUBLl RADIO NEWS SCIENCES I 10 LISTENERS' GUIDE • AMAZING STORIES • SPARE TIME MONEY MAKING ! AMAZING STORIES 417 Are You Caught Behind the Bars of a "Small-Time" Job? *:.". Ba^SUCCKsllS^rte^Eu^reaBofolV? LEARNELECTRICITY Without Books or Lessons IJW IX WEEKS By Actual Work—in the Great Shops of Coyne Some kinds of jobs ought to be labeled with a big ]tfo Education or Experience Needed sign that says •Man-killer." They s heavy, dirty and hard that they sap a mi and keep him dog-tired all the time—or able, uninter- esting and poorly paid that they kill his ambition in almost no time. And $100aWeekJobs AMBITION is the most valuable thing a man can have Fascinating Work- Real Pay! h qW&w ' -.H W-a n.:i ¥l;-JJ.T.vpt'k! Right now b: irpm-malLycoir^WKineJEleotri IE weeks of training are in dernani is growing every day! The aitnal spells O-P-P-0-K-T-U-N-I-T-Y ic high for the men who is wide-awake Learn Quickly mnath grade qduc No Books or Dry Lessons is ALL PRACTICAL work. No "books— n. FREE R.R. Fare useless theory. In the great shop! f COYNE i When You Enroll — COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL cal ecvuipment the 1 1 i. C. Lewis, Pres.. Dcpt. C7-02 1300-10 \V. Harrinon St., Cuica£o, Ul. Dear Mr. Lewis: obligation, : the facts, so without ir::i;.:L fa In log and details At/fcV^tr* ELECTRICAELECTRICAL | CUI WJL school Nan H. C. LEWIS, Pros., Dept.C7 oa i3oo-iovw. Har Contents for August In Our Next Issue: THE RADIO GHOST, by Otis Adalbert Kline. The War o£ the Worlds You can not fail to remember "The Malignant By H. G. Wells. 422 Entity," by this well-known author. Here he has outdone himself in an original story, never pub- The Tissue-Culture King lished before, which sho-A-s you all of the wonders of radio when used for malignant purposes; a By Julian Huxley _ 451 story so thrilling and yet so pregnant with pos- sibilities, that you shudder to think that the same The Retreat to Mars instrumentalities whieh we actually have today might be put to use by some one with a criminal By Cecil B. White _.._460 mentality. THE WINGED DOOM, by Kenneth Gilbert. Eiectro-Episoded in A.D. 2025 Now that aviation has come to the fore again, By E. D. Skinner 469 through the exploits of our American flyers, "The Winged Doom," gives you a peep into the The Ultra-Elixir of Youth future, and you see what may happen when a powerful nation is about invade this country. By A. Hyatt VerrUl 476 to Here we have aviation to the nth degree, and yet, as you read on, The you will become convinced of the Chemical Magnet : ~ ij _>.-: i f ] :; i contained in the story. By Victor Thaddeus „„-..:„ 486 THE STONE CAT—" by Miles J. Ereuer, M.D. ". but his (Lot's) wife looked back irom Hicks' Inventions With a Kick behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Thus Hicks' Automatic Apartment reads the Bible (Genesis *ix:26). In reading this story by the author of "The Man with the Strange By Henry Simmons - Hugh 493 Head," you will instinctively think of petrified forests and prehistoric animals, many of which The Shadow on the Spark can be found in our national museums. We simply mention this By Edward S. Sears 498 to show that the idea of petrifying human beings is, after all, not so-far-fetched. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, by H. G. Our Cover Wells. In the second installment we find the Martians in possession of the earth. By means of their superior intelligence and their death- dealing war implements, they have thoroughly subjugated everybody. The author describes graphically what might happen on earth should any nation be able to acquire such power. 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