The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1932, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune|*e:t ¥! % to doubie the burden upon | an most it per THE STATE'S Newspa) OLDEST OE ash cheer aee eee Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as @econd class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year........$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ............ 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three 3 Member of Audit Bureau of Cireulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it !state to sharply curtail its expendi- purchases. Such a thing would be intolerable and would constitute a tremendous weight upon business peo- ple and consumers, the latter mostly tillers of the soil. The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine ana one result of their operation seems to be to force the government of this tures. The sales tax offered about the last way out. Now the govern- ment threatens to clpse that road by, throwing up the barricade of a sales tax of its own. There seems no alternative to facing the music, for it is at least an even bet that the recommendation of the President will be accepted by con- ress. A state sales tax would be none too popular anyway. The peo- ple have indicated no strong liking for it. Balancing the Budget President Hoover in his message Properly omitted highly controversial | issues such as farm relief and pro-| hibition, He and his party doubtless | or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of | Spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other | matter herein are also reserved. | | (Official City, State and County | Newspaper) { F Representatives | SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER | (Incorporated) | CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON | Drawing a Jury ! Judge McFarland pointed out sev-/ eral defects in our system of jury drawing and at the same time ad- | gress which is burdened with the task feel that direct mandates on these is- sues hardly involve a lame-duck Con-| of balancing the national budget and determining a policy in respect to the = BUT THE ISSUE OF war debts. One of these problems is enough} to tax any short session of the Con- gress. If the dry battle and the con-/ troversy over farm relief are injected, so much confusion will result that probably none of the issues will be! handled properly. | It would not be a difficult matter | to repeal the Eighteenth amendment | if the Congress was not so bitterly} { We'vVE HAD PLANS FOR THIS AND THAT —— V7 THE HouR, \S A “ONE POINT’ PIAN! bs ee “THAT REMINDS ME — \ MUST MAKE. ouT MY CHRASTMAS usr: och Gilbert Swan OFF THE CUFF New York, Dec. 8—Notes from a convenient cuff: One theater there is in Manhattan where the “stand- ing room onlv” sign is never hung. For no one ever stands ... Neither are there ushers to show the audi- ence to seats .. . Nor feet to stumble over getting to a seat ... The au- dience arrives in wheel chairs! ... It's the newly opened -littie play- house in the Home for Incurables and accommodates about 300 per- sons. ee % GOOD PROP EFFECT Most alert and inventive creatures wandering the sidewalks of New York are the “pitchmen,” otherwise known as the lads of “the tripes and keyster” (tripods and cases, as we have previously explained.) They seize each break, however, insignific- ant, and push to the ultimate those intervals between the appearance of policemen with their “move on” warning. But something approximating the “pay-off” might have been noted the other day just off Times Square ... A couple of mountain peaks, prob- ably scheduled to decorate a Wag- nerian opera, had been placed just outside the stage door of the Metrop- | olitan ... Along comes a “pitch” with a collection of papier mache/ birds ... Within 10 minutes, a hun-/| dred birds were perching on the crags and levels of the scenery and the} pitchman was yodeling: “Take home| a Hartz mountain canary + Now T ask you! i * # * EDUCATING ANIMALS Into the columns of Billboard, lion tamer do except lions? And just how does one about finding untrained sea lions? And then there are “four trained bears at liberty” in Union City, Ind. | istrative T haven't he’ slightest idea what 1/000,000 already has would do with four trained bears on my hands. Mayhap, of evenings, I would call them in and tell them tame more and cotton which was distributed to 3 the needy. No amount for this pur- pose was recommended for next year. The budget dealt ae toy ; of = ready Ba been made avail- able to the board as a revolving fund for aid to cooperative associations, bedtime story about the three bears,| RECOMMENDS RESERVE FUNDS thus making one of them self-consci- ous and possessed of an inferiority complex, Mayhap I would read in their eyes a wistful rebuke ... “So | this is what a higher education gets us!” they would seem to say... eRe PANICS—LAY OFF Still, this doesn’t help a jobless drummer who carries this cryptic warning in his notice: “Panics, please lay off!” ... Whatever that means .. Nor can I find any solution for the predicament of a fellow who ad- mits “considerable experience with unborn shows” ... ‘Whereas the versatility of some o! these lads staggers me ... AS stanced by a fellow who advertises that he can ‘do real ventriloquism, small magic and some juggling, play the uke, sing; dance and play Straight or black face; experience with picture outfits; harmonica in pinch; also character comedy” ... Why, may I ask, is a fellow of 80 many talents out of a job? ... Per- haps he can't double for Greta Garbo or walk the tight rope! $1,000,000 for Farm Board Recommended Washington, Dec. 8—(?)—A $1,000,- 000 appropriation for running the farm board during the next fiscal year was recommended to congress Wednesday in the president's annual budget message. This represents an increase of $200,- 000 over the present year. The larg- |r amount was advocated “to eliminate the necessity for administrative fur- loughs.” If the full million is approved by New York, Dec. 8—(7—To mitm- mize future depressions, Prof. Sumner H, Slichter of Harvard proposed Wed- nesday that industry in boom times establish @ reserve fund in federal re~ serve banks, His proposal was made at an economic round table of the American Society of Mechanical En- jsineers. This fund would be an un- employment reserve accumulated from extra profits in boom times. The enrollment of Columbia uni- versity in New York is about 35,500 resident students and about 10,000 non-resident ones. FLAPPER, FANNY $6. U. &. PAT. OFF. SAYS: | congress, farm board officials said, a “bible of the outdoor world,” fre-|number of employes who had been quently creep advertisements which | dismissed or furloughed would be and he tells me to I am rolling somersaults every day. What should I do—continue with your treatment) mitted that he, as a judge, was power divided as to the form repeal should || less in the case at issue to revoke a PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE jtake. There are those who call for || panel improperly drawn. Of course there was not at any time hint or) suggestion of fraud. Irregularities | merely were shown. { Speaking of some sections, Judge} McFarland admitted that there are; perennial jurymen. Their faces ap- pear term after term until some law-! yers jocularly refer to them as pro- fessional jurors. Litigants as a rule don’t like this| system in the trial of their lawsuits.! ‘They dislike the professional juror or the witness who offers his services| voluntarily. If the foundations of our jury system are weakened, the whole structure of justice topples. Occasionally we hear it charged! that prospective jurors are selected because of political “pull” or to re- duce the strain on the poor list, the; assignment being considered a sort ot | Job. Wherever this is true, justice oper- ates under an obvious handicap. Such jurors are too likely to make an ef- fort to curry favor in order that their services may be repeated. Every defect in the jury system un- dermines justice in our courts. The juryman is the foundation of our en- tire judicial system and the process of selecting men and women for this duty cannot be too strongly safe- guarded. That the jury for the December term of the Burleigh county district court was challenged is no reflection upon the persons whose names ap- Pear on the list. The challenge was not directed to their ability, integrity | or intelligence but to the system by | which their names were selected. What casts a shadow upon the | whole business is the fact that there” was an insufficient number of names | in the jury box when the drawing | ‘was made and that the law regarding | Proportionu: representation in the jury box was not observed. | The whole situation is deplorable and one that should be remedied, | either by a change in the law or by the insistence of the public servants charged with jury selection taat the job be taken more seriously and the existing statutes be adhered to more scrupulously. Litigants facing criminal or civil Proceedings are entitled to considera- tion at the hands of a jury selected in every respect in strict accordance with law. To laymen. legal vagaries are a mystery. Why the court's hhands should be tied in a matter so important as jury selection they can- not grasp. | If out of the challenge of the draw- ing of the Burleigh county jurymen for this term comes a more careful compliance with the law, the issue hhas been well raised. Practices not strictly im conformance with law should cease or else members of the bar, backed by an aroused citizenry, should see to it that Burleigh county jurymen are drawn as the law pro- vides. If the laws respecting the se- Jection of juries in this state are ‘vague and loose there should be no delay in applying the proper remedy. The Sales Tax Again’ by President absolute repeal, throwing the problem | of control back upon the states.» Oth- | ers, however, both in Democratic and Republican ranks, want modified re-! Peal so as to retain some federal con- | trol to prevent return of the saloon; and to insure stgict protection ot states who prefer to remain dry. The imperative nature of the bud-| get and war debt jobs will tend to| postpone settlement of the highly con- troversial issues of prohibition and! farm relief. President Hoover did well | to restrict his message to routine | matters of finance. These problems left unsettled will mean greater eco- | nomic woe and settlement of them is | duck Congress can go out in a blaze | Of glory if its members will only set- | the best interests of the nation. Editorial Comment || Jitorials printed below show the ind of thought by other editors, are published without r rd to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. | (Grand Forks Herald) | North Dakota national guard offi- cers have asked Governor-elect Wil- | liam Langer to retain G. Angus Fraser in the position of adjutant general of | the state, but they have little hope | that their request will be granted. The replacement of General Fraser} will be a loss to the state military forces. He has held the position for; @ number of years. He is familiar | with the needs of the guard, and has been able to obtain consideration and | favors for the North Dakota national | guard that a man less familiar with the military regime at Washington will be unable to get. General Fraser is a veteran of the | Spanish-American, the Philippine and World wars. He has a wide ac- quaintance with men of high rank in | the army, for military men give more! consideration to war service than to any other qualification. He has an influence in Washington that a younger man cannot have. An army officer speaking of him recently. said that General Fraser knew every turn in the military pathways of the na- | tional capital and could obtain what | he wanted for North Dakota troops | With less loss of motion than the com- | manders of states with much larger military forces.than North Dakota. | General Fraser has been elected | President of the United States Na- | tional Guard association, an honor that is usually given to men from States that have at least a divisional | guard force instead of the regimental force that North Dakota maintains. | At present he is president of the Na- | tional Rifle association, practically a military organization. To dispense with General Fraser's services at a time-when a national | Program of economy may curtail fed- eral assistance to the state troops seems to be a mistake, and the Herald | urges that Mr. Langer overlook part- isan politics and retain a valuable man regardless of his political affilia- tions. o aa ea) | Barb | o —-————+ Hoover was termed the “fighting | Quaker.” Now, let's see—weren't those old Quakers supposed to take it on the chin and then turn the other cheek? **“* * The Democrats spent more than $927,000 during the current cam- paign; Republicans spent $1,555,000. ie question now is: was it worth ee & Along about this time of the year we cold sufferers commence vo wish some brilliant scientist |rnE UNCONSIDERED SOURCE OF In his later campaign speeches | | | Signed letters pertaining to personal By William Brady, M. D. health and hygiene, not to disease | diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, | self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instruc- || tions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. i in ink. | INFECTION or sneeze on the back of the neck of the person just ahead in church, in A correspondent says she was call-|the theater or in other public gath- tuberculosis. Her friend asked for her ing on a friend who has fed for her | telephone number. The visitor wanted erings. It is the consensus of medical opinion, I think, that single isolated to write the telephone number on a/|infections, such as the lady may have c cil. ard. The invalid handed her a pen-|Suffered by the bad habit of mois- Without thinking of what she jtening the pencil with tongue or lips, s doing the visitor put the point of do not produce tuberculosis. It is he pencil upon her lips or tongue to Necessary that the infection be fre- moisten it. can take to prevent infection. Too late! Too late! If the lady is! Now she is alarmed and /quently repeated over a period of i {wishes to know what precaution she |time, as by chumming with one who’ now the paramount issue. The lame | bp | Haaser aiibeaiies In any circumstance where exposure destined to contract tuberculosis from to cri is concerned beware of the con- occurred while she was chatting with the patient and before she used the, pencil at all. Of course it is possible that the pa- tient had just moistened the tip of the pencil with her saliva, and, if her tuberculosis is active, some bacilli may have been deposited on the pencil tip. But even if a transfer of tubercle ba- cilli were accomplished in this in-; direct way, it is highly improbable; that they can gain a foothold in the’ body of the visitor. Even a few mo-/ {ments of exposure of the tubercle ba-! cilli to the baneful effects (to them) f dryness, daylight and the compar- | tively low room temperature (which | is far below what tubercle bacilli are | accustomed to and require if they are/ to live or thrive), renders the germs innocuous if it does not kill them. Assuming the patient has active tuberculosis (and therefore tubercle ; bacilli are being given off in the spu- | tum), if a visitor stands or sits within five feet the visitor is being sprayed with a spray of moisture or mucus droplets, most of them invisibly mi- nute, sonie of them perhaps contain- ing tubercle bacilli, all the while the patient chats with her. That is the usual mode of infection with any or all respiratory infections, I believe. The public has been fairly well edu- cated about the danger of the spray of coughing or sneezing, but I con-! tend that the health authorities have subordinated public welfare to their own popularity or their reluctance to offend some prudish dictate of good, taste. At any rate they have re- mained silent about the danger of, conversational spray, and there can be no reasonable question that this is quite as dangerous as cough or sneeze spray is, the only difference being that conversational spray has a range of five feet or less, while cough or sneeze spray has a range of 10 to 12, | feet. | Among intelligent or polite people open face coughing or sneezing is now , as unpardonable as is spitting, on the floor. Still there are plenty of boors who do not hesitate to cough i HISHO Teds Mert Ree “Tore Can You Make This With These Pieces? tle these two issues fearlessly and tojher sick friend the infection probably , versational spray. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Faithful Service Unrewarded For a number of years I have been | @ fairly consistent reader of your col- umn, but never before have I found it necessary to solicit your help... (two pages of symptoms) .. . hoping you have something to fit my case. +o. CW. M. W.) Answer—For as many years I have been consistently trying to make read- ers understand that this is no clinic and that I am neither a long-distance diagnostician nor a wizard of absent| Any one who has any; symptoms to get off his chest should | tell ‘em to his physician and to no; treatment. one else. Bubbles Are carbonated drinks acid or alka- line in effect on the system? Does carbonic gas in drinks destroy vita- mins? (F. K.) Answer—The carbon dioxide (car- bonic acid gas) with which drinks are made sparkling or effervescent has rather an alkaline effect. Carbon dioxide tends to preserve: vitamins. Somersaults and Some Are Not Bad spell of apoplexy three years ago... now good health but weak... blood pressure rises to . . .. memory |jor take the purgative the doctor pre- | the doctor's orders. | Powers immediately concerned but all scribes? (M. O. J.) Answer—What do you mean my treatment? I think any man is a fool to have a doctor and not obey (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) POW There exists at this moment a grave crisis across the Pacific, a crisis which, if it is not treated both fairly and firmly, may endanger not alone the the world’s great powers as well—and, not least of all, the United States of America—Senator W. Warren Bar- bour of New Jersey. * ke I am not going to discuss the mer- jits of my indictment by the Cook jcounty grand jury. That is purely a | legal question which must take its course. I am content to rely on the justice of my cause and the upright- | {ness of Greece.—Samuel Insull, for-| mer utility czar now in Athens. xe * | A woman has all she can do in the} care of one man, whether it be a hus- | band, a father, a brother, or someone | else. She has no time to meddle in| things she doesn’t understand.—Mrs. | | Fritz Kreisler, wife of the violinist. ee % I do not believe that prohibition : primarily is responsible for the reign | {of lawlessness, and I do not think | | there is any ideal method by which the liquor problem may be solved.— Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Ar- kansas. . xe & I thought it only fair that I should | not stick on, so that others might get | @ chance of promotion—Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, 84, son of the Brit- ish novelist, on his retirement. A machine has been inventéd in very poor... I am under doctor’s care England to hang wall paper. Governor and Queen | Answer to Previous Puzzle HORIZONTAL 10f what U. S. islands is Theodore Roosevelt governor? 11 Theatrical play. 12 Narrates, 14 French: coin. 15 Frozen water. 17 To dust, 18 Postmeridian. 20 Contrite- 23 Minor note. 24 Monkey, 25 Age. 26 Aurora. 28 Waterfalls. 30 Toward, 32 Endless, 35 Prong. 36 Rubber tree, 38 Embryo bird. 39To equip, 41 By. 42 Italian monetary units, 44 Castor bean. WIAIR] IN| 47 8un god. 48 Pertaining to birds. 50 Billiard rod. 51 Thing. 53 Baking dish, 54 Like. 56 Aphoristic. 59 Half an 1 60 Contest. 62 Spting. 64 Phantom. 67 Growing -out. ae PPT her S082 ae an A] IBILIAIRIN) SIAL NIE ME SIOIP] 63 To be in debt. 10 Street. 11 Female deer, 13 Wrench, 14 Spoon-shaped. 16 Operating. 19 Wretched, 21 Wrath. 222000 pounds, 24To clip. 27 Sandstone blocks. 29 Pronoun. AINA Wi-i LITINIAILI 31Green garnet, Cle MIEINTT] 22 Selt. MIAIGIE Is] 24 Falsehood. 37 Ireland. €9Harbingers, 40 Relevant, VERTICAL 43 Eac! 1Dried plum. 45To haul. 46 The gods. 2 Laughter sound. 49 Reedbuck. £2 Mary Stuart, 3To mimic. Queen of ——? 4 Decorative. 55 Shoe bottom, mesh, 57 To unclose, 5 Pair. 58 Reverence, 6 Church bench. 60 Stir. 7 Timber tree. 61 Neither. 65 Provided, 8 Prickly ‘pear. 9 Before. PPA leTY] 66 Chaos. 68 Measure, Wee appeal to the imagination and the| bump of curiosity. | Thus, I read in a current issue that “a sea lion tamer is at liberty.” And| returned to the payroll. During the current year the staff has been cur- tailed from 350 to 205 employes. A__ $40,000,000 appropriation was what, may I ask, can a jobless sea-| made for the board last July for wheat Sy ANTHONY It often is double jeopardy when a theater audience has to sit T Copyristr BY COViCI, FRIEDE,INC.,— DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, ING Geraldine Foster, pretty yo clerk in the office of Di. iped phrey Maskell, disappeared on Saturday. Three days later her roommate, Betty Canfield, notifies Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt. Harry Armstrong, the miss- ing girl’s fiance, had not heard from her since Friday. Dr. Maskell says he returned to his office Saturday afternoon to find Ger- aldine gone. At the Foster apart. ment Colt learns from Betty that Geraldine had quarreled with the doctor. The Commissioner finds an old-fashioned key in the pocket of Geraldine's coat and part of a blackmail note, presumably in her handwriting, in the desk. Differ- ent ink than that in the apartment was used. It is learned that Betty quarreled with Geraldine, and that she was once engaged to Ger- aldine’s brother, Bruce. Entering Dr. Maskell’s home, Colt meets Maskell’s chauffeur, muttered, “Get me to talk? Never. But Geraldine was good to me.” The doctor says there was a strange woman waiting outside his door when he returned Saturday. After looking around his office, she rushed out crying it was too late. Colt finds a coat and purse which the doctor readily admits Geraldine wore the day she disappeared. Maskell claims he quarreled with her because she had broken her engagement. CHAPTER IX. c HAD started down the white marble steps of the house on Washington Square, North, when I was suddenly halted by a brief, tense wor from Thatcher Cold. Looking back, I saw that he was standing in the vestibule, his pocket electric torch playing over the name-plates beside the door bells. As I returned to his side, he was pressing a button near the name “Gilbert Morgan.” Presently the familiar clicking of the latch was heard and once again the front door yielded to my hand on the knob, Up the broad staircase I followed my chief, to the second floor, where we found @ woman standing at an open door, her face in shadow, but her blonde hair was radiant in the fall of yellow light from a lamp suspend- ed above and behind her head. “Ts this Mrs, Morgan?” ask Colt Haag Hi Without ediately replying the woman looked at him close- ly and meanwhile I studied her. In spite of all that has since been said against her, I have always maintained that Mrs. Morgan was a beautiful woman. Odd as this may sound to those who know the history of the case, I neverther- less mean beautiful in its finest sense. There was more than pret- tiness to her soft and gentle fea- and the tragic restlessness large lustrous blue <1 jhe was a young woman, and, " Ps beautiful, but there was a lifetime of suffering in the watchful eyes, in the very, tone which she greeted us. “I am Felise Morgan,” she plied. “What is it you wish?” re- waved‘his hand, dismissing the no- tion. But Mrs. Morgan agreed that Thatcher Colt might question the little girl, if it ever became necessary, unless her father ob- jected. Mr. Morgan was not then at home. For the second time ‘that night, we left the house and returned to the street. There were a dozen questions clamoring in my mind, but the mood of Thatcher Colt forbade any inquiry just then, “A lioness of a woman, that Fe- lise Morgan,” was his only com- ment. Indeed, when his mind is work- ing on a problem in crime, Thatch. er Colt is never a talkative man. All the way to Headquarters he was silent and contemplative, smoking his pipe as he loung back in the car, Center Street was deserted when we reached the grim old Department building, with its marble trim and its orna- mental iron, ver massive and Georgian in the December. night. 1 was glad to get inside, for there was a raw, pneumonia wind abroad. As we walked through’ the vaulted stone corridors, past the marble tablets carved with the names of policemen and detectives | té! who died in the performance of their duty, our footsteps echoed on the resounding flagstones, Still Thatcher Colt remained silent, but the very atmosphere of the old building, a place of badges, rain- coats, billies, caps and handcuffs, seemed to charge him with new life. No Commissioner ever loved the Department with more ardent or fantical interest. No Headway | On his desk lay a stack of re- ports and he began to finger them swiftly — accounts of what was going forward ‘in the police work of many divisions, the boiler, the bomb, the ‘safe and loft sade the Bureau of Crime Prevention— he gathered their import with ac- quisitive eyes, From a mass of these docu- tain , to broadcast search for Geraldine Foster. was ready to go to the “i and a few days later was being| which ed | displayed all wer the count 4 ie With a pencil, Thatcher Colt a few swift corrections. , Then, while { spread out on a table the long key with its knot of blue ribbon, the letters, the coat and the purse that belonged to Geraldine Foster, all of would be turned over to the Head- quarters’ property clerk, the Com- missioner continued to read quick- ya h a sheaf of notes left or him by Captain Hi “Laird has phone he had plowed through th phoned he low e none o! ie jeces. ut I will put a Mutt on octet Maskell —that may help’—by which the Commissioner meant he : would have Maskell night and day. T sat down at the typewriter ments he picked up a lay-out for| all the a police eae nmecan by Cap Colt explained who why he was ter’s name a gleam flashed dan- gerously from the woman’s blue about Geraldine firmly. ower knew a Sothing ensw |__ The Flash of an Eye | Briefly and naturally, Thatcher he was and there. But at the very mention of Geraldine Fos- ibe my to me knows, with no sense of —that all of Thatchep Colt’s ques- for evidence ger eee eaten ei E pert, and similar mysteries, Not all of his morning, however, was spent in the college: While wait- ing for his first caller, he ex- Plained to me that he had done some solitary prowling in Wash- ington Square, just after break- fast, and had learned two inter- esting facts. “I talked with a girl named Liz- zie Clark,” he explained, with a ne of amusing reminiscence in : *y oe ae Ae Here for n lian family living in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lizzie re- members seeing two women leave the house, where Maskell has his office, on the afternoon of Christ- mas Eve. What fixed it in her mind was that each of the women carried a large bottle, almost the size of a Jug.” “Can you be certain one of them was Gearldine Foster?” I inquired. 'No,” admitted the Commis- sioner, with a sigh. “But there was 8 large jug-like bottle in Mas- Te s office last night — and near some wrapping paper with a ta; showing three bottles to be Geis ered before three p. m. on Christ- mas Eve.” He spoke lightly and yet I could ll there was a worried note in his voice. “Also,” added the Commission- Doctor Maskell has left town.” Where on earth. “a ‘Right you are! Where on earth? Checkles ‘doesn’t know. No one seems to know. The smiling doc- tor of Washington Square has de- camped, He eluded my man, an hour after he b to tail him. But why shouldn't he go away? hee are ne earns 8 peat him.” was alei ask for more details, but Captain Laird arrived and I went back to my notes, The chief of the Bi Missing Persons Promptly stated, as his theory, that the girl was alive and in deliberate hi ling. He Pointed out that she had remained away before for days at a time, o far, it is just like any one of a number of such cases,” argued Captain Laird, “We have gs ll the time. I am certain the ean return.” lope you are right,” said th chief emphatically. “But ae are elements in this disappearance ic} e me skeptical — her remarks over the telephone and in that fragment of a note — also the curious mystery of the fur coat and the purse. And now Maskell Tun out on us. Makes ™e remember other cases that were not so simple, Captain. You ureau of which} Temember Alice Corbett?” Captain Laird remembered ner. On Friday, November 13, 1926, vanished from Suite Gohan 01 Northampton, ‘Massachusette” I Similar Cases i} “Do you recall the laconic and ular message that she left?” rsisted Thatcher Colt.’ “Mother, am going home,’ she wrote in her note. And that was the last that Selects i need nee her, leve ql ve alwi believed Alice Corbett to be al alive, td areued rast. ii ’s WI eople also bi about Frances t. John pared returned the Commissioner. “Fran- ces disappeared from the same col- legé as Alice Corbett, and oddly sponet also, on Friday, the thir- teent There was mystery of a@ pretty girl, only eighteen years old, talented and worth a ie Sie aa te ‘ore dead bod float ree st fon’ ned? We don't ee more we know the fate of Dorothy Arnold, or, more recen’ what befell the besutifal Mra Me Dowell Ro; when last-year she in eae Ope ly never to vekurn Th ee as unexplained absence of a beauti+ girl is, to me, 2 danger Ebi ae eras