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4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931 before their eyes the spectacle of aie Bismarck Tribune) remed aggression by Japan in Man- The Hazard of Being an Innocent Bystander ' | Daily Health Service ; ; Independent Newspaper = | churia and the certain knowledge : | THE awake that the Japanese, for a number of Y GOOD CARE BIGGEST FACTOR Established 1879) fo the Ulted Bite, ao mater Wet IN CHILD HEART CASES Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Dally by carrier, per year...... $7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- marck) 1. Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) .........-+ 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year$1.00 25 years. Twelve of the patients were/ cent within four months of the onset ail in state, three made a political question. ishing any bit of brass rail. el dll 2.50} Every politician who deals with the ce se ‘ before 1911, 40 after. 1910 and. before tea Tee ee tee ae nen Weekly by mail outside of North | subject will take @ forthright stand taut any dey now, New York's May-11016 and 3¢ after 1915 and before| passed away within five years. On Dakota, per Year ..+.-..-++++ 1.50 | tor a navy adequate for all ‘purposes season fs officially under way because| 2021; He finds at this time that 36|'the other hand, four per cent of the Weekly by mail in Canada, Per | _ aoa 9 reduction in taxes. gems sparkle from these boxes: be.| 0% the 100 are dead and’ three are! children who are alive and with year f mi cause elegantly gowned dowagers| DeTmanent invalids. The remaining} slightly damaged hearts had several Member of Audit Bureau of : ceiaatmaians 7 promenade the corridors between|l are alive, and in 37 of them the! attacks. Circulation North Dakota Sunshine acts of the opera or exchange greet-| Hearts are apparently normal; in 18,|/' As a result of his resurvey of these | _ A reader of The Tribune cumbits ings with the other box-holders. the hearts show slight damage; in|cases, Dr. Morse feels that the care Member of The Associated Press | clipping from another newspaper to the ‘Manhattan six it was Gcigreate to obtain re-/ that the patient receives has a defi- ‘The Associated Press is exclusively | which lists the hours of sunshine re- traditions, is the great spectacle Of 8) Dy arorse sesoqaiaes the ty ris ‘Sang te Serban” thn Fare” ts entitled to the use for republication of ario ts in social year; a spectacle at which a . le being the better the care the Ii news dispatches credited to it or ceived annually by various poin' large section of the hol-pollol tries to| f criticism to the effect that the pa-|:better the chance of recovery. The Sbk unk wise credited in this news- | the world and expresses surprise that logk on, fighting for seats or for tients who are fully recovered and/‘high percentage of patients who died paper and also the local news of | Bismarck rates so far up in the list. st ‘A box at the Met] Without signs of heart disease were/ within the first four months who taneous origin published herein. ‘i rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. ——— (Official City, State and County appears on the surface. ‘The Japanese land grab and Nip- ponese flouting of world opinion and the League of Nations, is ample proof that might still makes right among nations, regardless of their diplo- matic declarations. This lends the color of patriotism to Gardiner’s statements just as Hoover's stand for 1.20 | adequate protection at a minimum of cost establishes his own and ap- peals to the national pocketbooks as well. At best the result will be indecisive for, important as it is, it cannot be This is what the article says on the subject: The number of hours of sun- shine per year varies in different Careful Study by Doctors rn By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ee = Editor, Journal of the Américan New York, Nov. 7.—In the half- Medical Association light of the Metropolitan Opera House, three flunkies were brushing, dusting and otherwise polishing the socially consecrated are known vari- ously as ‘the djamond: horseshoe” and “the golden horseshoe.” In this half-light, the bent arc’ seemed very much like any other. ar- rangement of boxes in an old-fash- joned theater. The workers went around. their tasks with the mechan- ical movements of any servant pol- of most physicians is the rheumatic tanding room. has long been the goal of every am- bitious lady of the social set. With the result that sales are rare, and Prices fabulous. A sort of line waits for those extremely infrequent time they were sick. He points out, however, that correct diagnosis was Probably made in the 36 who died, and that therefore there is just as Has Cut Down Death Rate 'disease developing in a child during @ rheumatic attack is more likely ta be serfous than heart disease devel- oping from tonsilitis or that follow- One disease which strikes fear.intoling other diseases of the ni the minds of every parent and indeed) throat. Phases ‘The apparent combination of rheu- matic joints with an jon of the lining of the heart is exceedingly serious. He is inclined to believe that there are two types of this con- dition; one malignant and promptly fatal, the other tending toward .re- covery. Thus 33 per cent of those , who died, died within four weeks of ‘the onset of the disease, and 66 per had poor care is striking. It is /possible that there is some relationship between the virulence of the condition and the lack of care, but there are enough exceptions to parts of the world, Dr. V. E Le- '.| much reason to believe that the cor-| the rule to make this still a subject Newspaper) vine, writing in the Archives of ne ee waa made in those who| for extended study, “The age at the —_—_______—_—_————| Physical Therapy, says that Phoe- ‘The red tape connected with the| “ved. * | time when the disease began and the Foreign Representatives nix has more sunshine than any getting of such a box would meke| , His figures offer hope to the par-/ interval elapsing between the begin- , SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS other of about 50 cities located in even an immigration officer stop to|C"t Who has a child suffering with) ning of the disease and the time & BREWER various parts of the world. It ponder. It isn’t just a matter of put- this disorder. Dr. Morse is convinced] when the patients were first seen by (incorporated) has 3,752 hours of sunshine a . that the last word has not been said the doctor did not seem to influence CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON HL SS ai hei de The President and the Navy ‘The argument between President Hoover and the Navy League of the ‘United States seems destined to end, so far as the principals are concerned, just about where it started. ‘The executive committee of the League has upheld its president, wil- liam Howard Gardiner, and the com- mission appointed by the president to investigate the matter may rea- sonably be expected to support his stand and approve the course of ac- tion he has followed. Tt this situation develops, it will be up to congress and the people to year, as compared with 1,086 for Glasgow, and 1,227 for London. The record given for some other cities in the western hemisphere is as follows: “Kingston, Jamaica, 3,160; Port. au Prince, Haiti, 3,056; San Diego, 3,049; Tampa, 2,948; Denver, 2,946; San Francisco, 2,878; Hono-. lulu, 2,840; San Juan, Porto Rico, 2,740; Bismarck, N. D., 2,700; Chi- cago, 2,632; Washington, 2,598; New York, 2,557; New Orleans, 2,519; Spokane, 2,492; Colon, Ca- nal zone, 2,413; Port of Spain, Trinidad, 2,245; Ancon, Canal zone, 2,155; Portland, 2,095; To- Tonto, 2,048; Seattle, 2,022. Most, European cities have fewer hours of sunshine than those given above.” The information will be a surprise TOA comparatively little fighting. ANNIVE! BARY issued a proclamation to the army, workmen and proletariat. of Petro- grad: Z “We have depdsed the government of Kerensky. The change ... was accomplished without bloodshed. “The Petrograd Council of Work- REBELS TAKE PETROGRAD On Nov. 7, 1917, the garrison at| men’s and Soldiers’ Delegates con- Petrograd joined the cause of the|siders the following program of the Maximalists and selzed the city with! new authority: “1. Offer of an immediate demo- cratic peace. “2, Immediate handing over of large proprietorial lands to peasants. “3. Transmission of all authority to the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates. “4. The honest convocation of a Constitutional Assembly. “Soldiers!. For peace, for bread, for land, and for the power of the peo- | ple!” {ing up the cash and moving in. OR.) on this subject. He feels that heart And when it comes to entertaining —well, madame must be oh so care-| the oldsters are gone—for death has ful of her guests! If by some chance] ® way of visiting even those who live the “ people” were seen in aj in gilt mansions. party—well, it would be ruinous, Imo-/ For years George F. Baker, the gene! banker and one of the richest men The society writers refer to such] in the world, held No. 10 with Wil- guests as “fortunate ones privileged| liam Fahnestock. The Baker estate to attend.” It’s all so patronizing, controlled the box. you know. Oh, yes, and are eyebrows going * * * to arch when Anna Case, who once And now, it seems, the list of those] sang in the opera, arrives with her who are to be allowed to sit in the|new hubby, Clarence H. Mackay. “diamond horseshoe” this season has/ Mackay, who is quite a music lover been selected. Many, very many of|and who is said to have been Otto Kahn’s rival for the “bossing” of the Met, purchased No. 28, the old Wil- Mam Cutting location. By the way, there is no Box 13, for reasons best known to the supersti- tious. But what greatly the likelihood of recovery. issued an order that it was all right to wear overcoats. Sure! All right to borrow a dollar, too. * *e * A_ transatlantic passenger ship landed 60 bars of silver and two kegs of gold at New York. What's that old one about sticking around and opening a keg of nails? ee * Man is now a servant to machines, .| Einstein said. Evidently Einstein has just tried to get past a red traffic light in rush hour. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) In central Illinois it was found that the cost of growing an acre of soy beans in 1928 and 1929 was $25 an .| acre. “ render whatever judgment may BC) +, most of us, which just goes to show 13, had there been such an arrange- given. siscevlaee how little we appreciate our every- bese ‘and is a erties I The Navy League's pos day blessings. Ni i 5 e ual S ICKERS forth in a 14-page pamphlet entitled A ronenei iin detneben count, although the 14th by number. ~ more to health than plenty of sun- shine. Competent doctors have re- ferred to Old Sol as the greatest phy- sician and healing agent the world knows. The fact that North Dakota gets more of this beneficence than “The President and The Navy,” which is signed by Gardiner. Under its) rules, every public document issued by the League must be signed by one of its important officers. for the sidewalk in front of his place. was a morass of splintered wood and shattered glass. The place was-one of the innumerable speak- ening, but somehow it seemed necessary to open all the boxes. One revealed a little black dinner call for her and bring her home. She would really see him much sooner that way, And so it was ar ranged. CES eae ! Quotations | ‘The Navy League has long been known as an advocate of an Ameri- can navy second to none in the world. Its efforts have been directed toward acquainting the people with naval conditions and statistics and, where more fighting strength at sea. It is admittedly a “big navy” organiza- tion. In his pamphlet, Gardiner charges treaty limitations upon the American’ navy in an effort to promote the cause of peace. It also asserts that the American delegates at the Lon- most other parts of the world ex- plains why records show it to be one of the healthiest places on the globe. tention of many persons that North Dakota has the best all-year climate possible, inducing them to provide for! in the world. that discovered by the New Yorker who landed in police court because he tried to take home a bucketful of soil It adds further strength ‘to the con- Soil in New York A man can get into trouble in a easies housed in the basements of old brownstone fronts, And the proprietor was hardly convinced yet that what had happened was a mere traffic accident. Accidents in Mr. Jack Shay’s life usually “had a deeper significance. Fearing gang warfare as he did, it was no wonder he appeared far more nerve-wracked by the occurrence than Mary, the victim, did. “Come this way,” he invited, and nd killed ne INSPEC- heliev= id has led owed money. seat Ne semee iu tke the long room. Here the fat man knocked, entered, spoke a few words, and then held the door open to admit the others. “O. K., come go on with dress that was a love, all cobwebby lace at the top with a skirt made of stiff ruffles of net. They both hugged it, held it off amd caressed it with’ their eyes. Mary had bought it for dining and dancing on shipboard, but she was tempted to wear it tonight. After all, could any night of her lite be more im- portant? Her last “date.” There were embroidered slippers to match, and a white evening wrap. Mighto’t Della made her decision for her by whisking away the empty box. “You think I should, Della?” “Indeed, you should!” And that wrote down the number he gave her. “I’ll be there when you come.” pr had gone out to dinner, the § 0 called hig office, but would be back. Mary gave him the eddress of the restaurant, Spence reported his master had had Tom, but in deference to her new clothes she called one of the other chauffeurs and drove into town in state. She had lost faith “Then come to this address”—she In New York we have the best judges money can buy.— Jacob Pan- ken. eee bookkeeper said when * * * Communism has been abolished and the Soviets are now operating on a state capitalism ‘basis. ally they plan to swing to a modi- fied system of private capitalism— Mr. Jupiter had not come in— from Russia. xe * Anyone who takes lecturing seri- ously should be very careful of his Edman. « a circle.” With Above are 14 dots, in a curved line the Finer! two parts, equal in size and shape, ' use the night of the murder. c : . + “1 at the Yacht Club for dinner Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, American and each part will conta dots, £ great many ways these days; but one ps. The butter ree | Mary and the stalwart officer fol:| they be going out to dance a little? | tae pat enn oean PE seen ant S the president wtih having sccepted| oy 1.6 cadest ways of all, surely, is been wvaTabar | lowed him to a door at the rear of| Dirk hadn't sald. Sedan iehiand Gieeirindpre tislicadeelegey hydroelectric engineer Just returned! 1! Can you do it? one into grammar.—Professor Erwin from a city park. on th ” in, taxicabs, don naval conference last Year ®°°) ris man, it developed, wanted tol inte's bu imine r ee abies Bowen stepped out of the shadow rccaniiane’ Gotan ees cepted limitations upon types Of! o some geraniums in pots on the! Now Go ON WITH THE STORY |(THE room was small private|GHE had just taken a quick| ee Te N a not edging without criticism, I can’t eat what I i on oman pd genie eee fire escape outside of his apartment CHAPTER XVII dining-room. Half a dozen men shower and given her hair | torea the place that Mary recog want without inquiry, I can’t go er of this country trary advice of informed navy men. These same restrictions were rejected by President Coolidge in 1927 and there- by led to the failure of the naval con- ference at Geneva in that year, the statement says. i It further claims that, if a naval building holiday is agreed upon for 1932, the result will be to place the United States and Japan on a ton- nage par with regard to naval auxil- — window. To do this he had to have some dirt, and the city park seemed the handiest place to get it. ‘would-be gardener had to go to court, and the fire escape remains, presum- ably, unadorned by flowers. is one of the oldest and most uni- versal of human impulses. But the man: who lives in ® metropolitan apartment house must, apparently, But it all proved sadly illegal, the The desire to have a flower garden sat about a wine-spotted tablecloth, smoking and drinking. A sudden silence, like paralysis, seized the group. As Mary and the officer ap- peared, one mag, tall and foreign- appearing—or was he merely well- tanned?—rose from his chair abruptly, then sank back again. Mary smiled slightly and inclined her head in perfunctory recogni- tion of what she took to be an act ‘of politeness. They passed through: the room; out another door into a black hole EN Mary became conscious someone was shouting, “Bring some brandy for this lady!” and moving her arms about and slap- ping her hands. This, she later learned, was merely an attempt to discover whether or not she had broken any bones. At the moment, however, the indignity of her posi- tion—she was lying on a couple of chairs—brought her upright and awake more quickly than the burn- ing liquor they were forcing down her throat. stiff brushing that made her whole body feel tingly and rested, and slipped the black dress over newly bought underthings of incredible softness, when the maid came in, quite breathless with chagrin. “Oh, Miss Harkness, I didn’t hear you.come in! A Mr. Bowen has been calling you repeatedly. He has some important information for you. | gave me his number and ‘sald he'd wait in until you called.” Mary took the card she proffered and went thoughtfully to the tele- nized it, afternoon!” she exclaimed as they threaded thei: to‘one in the angle of the wall. Halt a dozen persons, all men, were scattered about the room, eating, drinking. story of the taxi accident, when she caught sight of an unforgettably uy face reflected in a sideboard mirror, where I will without suspicion and I can’t associate with those whom I prefer without accusations —Mayor Walker of New York. xe Oe : Between you and I and the gate- post, I hate publicity —Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton. f BARBS | ____ BARBS _i °No one does for nothing, anything but,with winter in the offing every- body is a weather prophet, whether “Why, this is where I was this way between tables Mary was about to relate’ the It was Mike, the waiter. “Why, there’s—” she began, but { jaries and operate to give Japan & She was in « restaurant, ap-| %® bellway, and entered the back | phone. Bowen's gesture stopped her. profit or not. h Tis the est of At, ainoo. ite ahips| earn te Mace: parang About tee tianerediaue door of a drugstore opening On 8) Bowen's voice sounded very| “Better not” he said, “Nothing ern will be newer than our own. ES ous faces—a waiter, a fat man who Lapel psa is S Gal clipped and alnase eao7Re i to be scared of. I just don't under Chaperans toa young, couple were ‘The Navy League broadside at-!| Bditorial Comment turned out to be the proprietor,| 204 nelped her in. pire there mae Be ee stand all I know about this place, jal Maryland. sw p- tacks the president’s proposal to im- munize sea-borne food supplies in time of war as unsound, since it de- feats the very purpose of having a navy and, therefore, no superior naval power would subscribe to it. Particu- Jar emphasis is laid on the fact that England’s attitude toward the sug- gestion was markedly cool. As might be expected, there is con- siderable argument in the pamphlet but much of it deals with what 1s as- serted to be fact and the burden of it all is that the United States is slip- ping backward as @ naval power and that President Hoover is aiding in address as “Why can’t 1? What's out there?”)| a, ” excitement. Mary burst out laughing and told the process. oung artist friend of mine. It was Pre . ‘Ob, keep me out of it!” Mary ie lary a5 president's attitude is revealed Parenee, good and seemed very ‘They're cleaning up the mess. ed as she banded him her card.| “What can we do, you mean,” he| about the accident. by his navy-day statement in which he said: “Ours is a force of defense, not offense. To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy | any indication of it in these draw- that driver, lady! He saved your! gno was not much delayed, and| trust Kane to third-degree a con-| right guy, but he’s always taking it national safety; to maintain ie lite!” i felt no worse for the slic dventann fession out of him. But I’m afraid— knuckles for some other guy. greater forces is not only eco- | “you bet she collaborates!’ ex-) “Ob, I will!” Mary vexclatmed.| except a heightening of the sense| Tell you frankly, this bird has a regular grandms to all the nomic injury to our people but a threat against our neighbors.... Our problem is... to prevent extremists on one side from un- dermining the public will to sup- * « They haven't pinned | blows All I had to do was tell Tr! :“Please do. Oh, but—my pack- Dirk would come before she] 7e8rs 8&0. ey el ) over, FO ay ere other Vocational Teachers ages!” Where are they?” The, fat|could freshen up and change untess| anything on him lately. - him Mike had a record, and he took side from waste of public funds.” And there you have it. There ts plenty of basis for argument. The history of the United States shows that it always has permitted {ts armed forces to slip into innocu-j ous deseutude in times of peace, only to revive them with great bustle and at heavy expense when the next big , vice president of the group, and E. J. “ " : 3 é a Ha a gid a ae be Tapie Ea Biter, was chosen sec- sien ne, Bete ae ieee Bee rr ecdyriig epiter’ Mien errt page aut eilgvis, ata hare py aagees Mae rene sotiene, pressing needs of the moment have|” About 65 supefintendents, agricul-| jj Dressed into the policeman’s hand]. -“I' don't know how to tell him, 5, Guite late.” i Hts, et eaten co. Go always operated to cut down mili-|tural and home economic teachers and met no protest. Della.’ I. promised to, stay, but— Q 2 ip the tary expenditures in time of peace. High taxation has become a real problem in this. country and those asking lower levies would hardly ap-| prove big expenditures to build up the navy. On the’other hand, the people have Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard or disagree to whether they agri ¥ + policies. is with The Tribun Partners (Los Angeles Times) “There are more ways than one of being partners,” remarked Charles) Dana Gibson. “The idea. that so) many wives have, that they must butt in on their husband's jobs to be helpful, is all wrong. There are exceptions, but usually it is disas- trous. I prefer the other kind. | “I went to look at some work of a/ individual. This surprised me on ac- count of some things I had heard, so I remarked: “They tell me your wife collabo- rates in your work, but I fail to see claimed the young fellow with a grin. ‘Bhe doesn’t do a bit of drawing, but she cooks me darned good meals’.” Elect New Officers 8. Thorfinson, Granville, was elect- ed president of the North Dakota Vo- cational association at a luncheon for school vocational instructors held Fri- uay noon at the Patterson hotel. Miss Christine Finlayson, state supervisor of home economics education, Fargo, is the retiring president. Doris Wilner, Beach, was named instructors in trades and industries in the state schools, here for the North Dakota Education association conven- tion, were present at the luncheon. J. C. Wright, director of the feder- al board of vocational education, Washington, D. C., was the main ' His topic was “Trends in and a nice-looking policeman who kept saying “Just a little accident, you're all right, Take it easy!” ‘Well, she was taking it easy, she thought fretfully, Her head ached fiercely from the jar when the taxi crashed into the building but other- wise sho was all right, and she wanted to go home. She made this wish known to the + policeman, who held'her arm firmly as if he feared she might go faint. and drop again. “D'll give you that driver’s name,” he said, taking out a pad and pencil, “Do, And the other man’s name, and the address of his restaurant,” she added. “Perhaps I can take a party there for dinner sometime and pay him back that way.” “Don’t worry about Jack,” the policeman replied. “He don’t want anything you could give him—ut- legs it’s a bullet-proof vest.” ie “Oh! Why?” “What happened?” she asked. The policeman had finished writ- ‘Truck going the wrong way O0| ing, and tore off the sheet and hand> & one-way street,” he tale aber “Youlit to Mary without reply. can’t go out that way, lady.” He}. «jy moved between her and the door. vie sto. take 7D he ny ang ° i The cab's all smashed, and there's o a “My—t jing to m a lot of broken glass, Besides, ena aa ee oe there pepe 8 mob of people! quite true but it was true enough. ee a to Age ‘ pl igiop fed “, | The policeman did not protest when ie broke off, “you want to thank! the taxi-driver drove off rapidly. “Where is he?” “They've taken him home. He's not bad burt. I'll give: you al name, if you want—” of excitement that had been thrill- ‘ing through her veins all day. A glance at the clock on her mantel showed nearly 6 o'clock, proprietor indicated a pile of boxes: .- Neatly stacked on a nearby table. They were crushed a little; but not. damaged. She thanked the fat man , profusely, How careful and kind. they bad all been! _ “I can’t thank you enough!” told him happily, “Those are my wedding clothes!” “Ab-ab! So!” He retreated as she tried to press a bill into bis hand. she burried. Fatigue vanished magically as she dashed about. Lured “by. curiosity, the lumbering Della came in to help, and to her ‘own surprise as much as the maid's, Mary seized her about the waist and waltzed about the room with her. “Della, Della, I'm going to be married tomorrow! But you mustn't tell-a soul!” “Want to try it?” he indica! }| oh if’ Mr. Bruce would only come!” the front door. “I'll go first—" \“Ab, that young spalpeen!” “Ob, no! -Ien't there some other| But the packages’ were @ more way—" . 2 potent attraction than the derelict The policeman called “Hey,| Bruce—they forgot him in the joy of Jack!” and the fat man bustled up| snapping string and burrowing into again, He looked more than a lit-| tissue paper. .One simple little speaker. Vocational Education.” tle worrled, as Well he might be,| dress was all she was looking for, day’s meeting. His serious tone im- pressed her as much as bis words. “Miss Harkness, the man we were speaking of is in New York, Not hiding, exactly, but—in retire- ment, and seems to have a good deal on his mind.” “Yes?” “The talk is that he did both jobs. And tnderworld talk ts usually pretty accurate. At least, I think this is. We can safely as sume he fs the man we are after. You understand, don’t you? Rotten trying to talk over the telephone—" “What—what shall we do?” Mary asked. She sat down suddenly, sur- prised to find herself shaking with corrected her. “God, I don’t know. Several things. I don’t want to muff this. Neither do you, I take ft. Ordinarily I'd say take him in on the evidence we've got, and rep for being slicker than an eel. He’s been in a good many tight Scrapes and wiggled out, legally. He's got a record, but that was “I don’t koow, but {t seems to me we ought to tie him up so tight he can’t. get. away before we try to make a-pinch, That's what I want to talk to you about. I've got a swell idea—look, is there some- where I can see you?” “Why, I—* How could she see him tonight? Yet it might be her only opportunity. Tomorrow she ‘would be married and gone. “I’ve got.a night assignment or T’d come there. But: I'd like to see you—something I want to talk over with you. Could you.come in and have dinner with me some place?” Mary thought rapidly. If Dirk was still at the office she could go in and meet Bowen and Dirk could that’s all.. I'm hoping to find out something tonight.” passive countenance. The fet pro prietor looked in from an adjoining room, nodded to Bowen, failed to recognise Mary in her evening at- tire, apparently, and slipped back. her in a low tone. stiff. Somebody slammed into the front of his place this afternoon, and he hasn’t stopped shaking yet. Jack can’t figure out what they're after him for, Mike tells me, but he’s gonna put the bum’s rush on some: guy he's got laying up up- stairs. Thinks it’s him they're after. Gang stuff, probably.” Bowen advised. “Let Jack wotry a little, it won't hurt him, Teach him not to let thos bums bang around here the way he does. Jack's a get in trouble, they take it on the lam for Jack’s, and he puts ‘em up till they can get out of town or it him on, Heart as big as a beer keg.” dining in this dump tonight instead of in a joint that would fit those swell clothes of yours. I'm eating off the cnff-this week.” avoid the solicitude in her eyes he added quickly, “I wonder who it is he's got upstairs? Vivian Gordon's murderer, of the guy that shot bill, scribbled o: sheet of paper face down on the table. Bowen picked it up and pre ~ pared to sign it. His face changed color as he read. He handed it to Mary. pens when youngsters don’t watch their elders. enn Lord Cornwallis chuckled at the celebration at Yorktown where his ancestor was captured 150 years ago. Maybe he was ™ seeing the joke. * ‘The municipality of Rome, Italy, Mike perved them with an im- “That's Jack Shay,” Bowen told “Jack's scared “Well, keep it under your hat,” He grinned, “That's why we're Then to IS CURIOUS WORLD waa CCADIT PARKER. « A girl who can lose herself in thought isn’t often found. pad, and laid the “The Fly is here,” she read. (To Be Continued) | @1931 sy wea seavice inc.

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