The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1932, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (| (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Farm Board Recommendations} Despite the barrage of propaganda against further injecting the govern- ment into business, one of the major recommendations by the farm board to the present congress provides for just that. Giving its views on needed legisla- tion, the farm board asked that a way be found to elevate returns to farmers from exportable farm prod- ucts so as to pay the costs on a con- tinuous and self-sustaining basis, and that it “provide an effective system for regulating acreage or quantities sold or both. This would provide a means of working toward income elevation as an alternative to the mere price stabilization for which the act now provides.” In its next recommendation, the board asks congress to “define the powers of the board with respect to loans to cooperatives so that it would be definitely authorized to make loans to cooperative associa- tions engaged in purchasing equip- ment and materials for farm produc- tion.” Therein lies more than a hint of a new venture into the business field. Just what are “equipment and mate- rials for farm production?” It is obvious that it would include all kinds of farm machinery and ap- pliances, from milk pails to trac- tors, harvesters and combines. Since @ man must wear clothes to engage in farming it might include all kinds of work clothes. He must eat and it might include the sale of every- thing needed for a complete diet. Farm production requires that he live on the farm and a host of arti- cles is necessary and helpful to so doing. The net result of favorable action on the recommendation, it will easily be seen, might be to place farm co- operatives in the field of purchasing and distributing goods as well as that of selling farm produce. Some of them are doing so now and no one contests their right to do so, but ap- parently they are not doing it with government money. Acceptance of the board’s recommendations, there- fore, might make the government the financial sponsor, through loans to ccoperatives. of a gigantic mercan- tile business. Whether or not this is done is strictly a matter of policy. There is nothing in the constitution which Prohibits it. But before it is done it should be recognized for what it is, a further injection of the government into business and a further development of the trend which has dominated governments everywhere, both na- tional and state, in recent years. Also before it is done, careful re- view should be made of the history Of cooperative enterprises for the dis- , tribution of merchandise which have been launched in the past. We have hhad some experience with them in this state, the tag end of the re- ceivership for one of the most im- posing having only recently been disposed of in a court in the north- western part of the state. Other states also have had experi- on private mercantile enterprises. If, when all the facts have been marshaled, it appears to the greatest of the greatest number to pro- The Bismarck Tribune seseee 7.20 ___ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932 ares laid the basis for making them Permanently profitable when sound- ly managed. Might Prove Interesting That any attempt to eliminate or curtail state aid to common schools may be challenged by the courts is {an inference one gets from reading. Jan article by W. L. Stockwell, Fargo, one-time superintendent of public instruction and a leading private citizen. Reviewing the education situation in the current issue of “The North Dakota Teacher,” Stockwell points out the constitutional requirement that the legislative assembly shall make provision for the establishment lic schools and that the requirement consent of the United States and the people of North Dakota.” On this basis, if the legislature fails to provide for the maintenance of the school system, a challenge to the constitutionality of such failure to act might make an interesting court case. It was Charles Dickens who, in! and maintenance of a system of pub-/| shall be “irrevocable without the; j | | | |much since the novelist wrote those five immortal words, wrote down what is often in many men’s minds: “The law is an ass.” People the world over are becoming restive un- der some of the astounding things developed in the name of the law and the admitted impotency of; judges in applying relief. In manyj respects the courts have not changed words. We can still be thankful for a few judges who rise above the asininity of some laws. 1% You AREN'T | Is the Customer Always Right? R BEST a customer! iF You LENIENT ABOUT WHAT ‘| OWE YOU, | WONT BE ABLE To TRADE Have you sent that bag of old toys to the “Open Your Heart Headquar- ters"? Do it tomorrow. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show tho trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree | self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in ink. with The Tribune's policies, tions. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instruc- Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. Letters should be brief and written Repeal Delayed (New York Times) REMEDY Failure of the Garner resolution] Physicians have long regarded in the house yesterday to secure the] short runs of high fever as benefic- necessary two-thirds vote was chief-|ent. A body temperature of 103 or ly significant for the party division] 104 degrees F. for hours or days on the roll-call. The speaker rallied) usually signifies that the patient is all but 44 Democrats in favor of| putting up a good fight and hence repeal of the Eighteenth Amend-| is likely to win the battle. ment. Against it, however, were} A good illustration of the good recorded 100 Republicans, about two-| omen of high fever is the case of a thirds of whom have been defeated] child with a sore throat. If the child for reelection in November. Thus| has a sore throat with feverish symp- it was the quacking of Republican] toms, yet the body temperature does “lame ducks” that defeated imme-|not rise above 102 degrees F., the diate repeal. The Republican lead-| probability is that the child has er, Mr. Snell, was not able to keep! diphtheria and needs ,an antidote his promise to deliver enough of his| (antitoxin) to help gath a decisive party votes to make sure of pas-| victory. If the fever rises to 103 or Sage by the house. The affirmative | 104 or 105, the trouble is more likely Republican vote was 102, while the|a simple sore throat or tonsillitis Democrats numbered 168. If the|and the child is quite capable of result is, by so much, a rebuff for} coping with it unaided. Speaker Garner, it is an even great-| In recent years it -has been ob- er one for the Republican leadership| served that persons suffering with in the house. certain chronic disabilities have Even if the resolution had carried,| shown a remarkable remission or it would not have meant repeal at-| recovery following some intercurrent tained at this session of congress.| fever such as malaria. This has been The senate would have been sure to| particularly striking when it hap- delay the measure and finally to load| pened in cases of paresis (general it down with amendments which the | paralysis of the insane, softening of house would have found it difficult to| the brain). In some instances these accept. Moreover, some of the rep-j patients, completely disabled and resentatifes who voted against the| confined in institutions, have regain- Garner resolution had colorable ex-|ed sufficient physical and mental cuses for doing so. They protested| health following an attack of ma- against the haste with which the re-|Jaria to resume their former home Solution had been brought up for| life and occupation, These observa- consideration. There was no com-| tions led to the inoculation of such mittee report on it. No opportunity | patients with malaria (blood from a ARTIFICIAL FEVER AS A for perfecting the bill by amendment] person ill of malaria), and such treatment, although it involves con- siderable risk, has brought about much improvement in a fair share of cases, little or none in an equal num- ber of cases, and disaster in a few cases. Latterly other methods of inducing sharp fever have been introduced, methods the physician can control and hence employ without serious danger. One method of producing brief fever is the hypodermic injection of sterile solutions of peptone or other protein substances. This gives con- siderable benefit in many cases of chronic arthritis, asthma and chronic encephalitis. fl Other methods are by hot baths, by diathermy, by radiothermy. These demand expert care and are employ- ed only in well-equipped hospitals or other institutions where the special attendance ‘can be had. Doctors have a word for it— pyrexia therapy, which means treat- ment by fever. It is no panacea and gives quite disappointing results in many cases where it is tried. But there are a good many persons suf- fering with chronic or long enduring disabilities who can be definitely helped or improved by some such treatment. Here are some of the conditions which have responded favorably to prexia therapy or artificial fever: Intractable asthma, paresis, various mental derangements of young and old with excitement, encephalitis (“sleeping sickness”) with Parkinso- nian tremor, chronic arthritis, scia- tica. In alcoholic delirium (delirium tremens) an hour or two of artificial fever is the most effective treatment we have, and brings the patient out of the delirium with remarkable promptness. was permitted. Debate was severely restricted. In addition, it was com- monly understood that the repealer could not be got through the senate as it stood, so that for the house to Pass it might have been regarded by some as a mere beating of the air. Yet it is the fact, when all is said, that 144 representatives seemed singularly indifferent, for one reason or another, to the clear and empha- tic expression of the popular will on the subject of prohibition at the elec- tion on Nov. 8. In the next congress the entire balance of parties and the attitude of senators and representatives will be altered. If ever a positive mandate was given to congress, it was done in the case of prohibition last month. The two party platforms, the prom- ises of presidential candidates, the Pledges of congressmen seeking elec- tion combined to demand submis- sion of a repeal amendment to the states. That will undoubtedly come in due time. Meanwhile, the country is left to wonder at the willingness of so many representatives, especially the Republicans, to ignore the rapid change of public sentiment which reached its climax of demonstration at the polls four weeks ago. At a hearing before Senator Borah’s com- mittee a few lays ago reference was made to the presidential election. “What presidential election?” in- quired Mr. Borah facetiously. “The one that was conducted in your ab- sence,” remarked Senator Wagner. Apparently it was also conducted in the complete absence of attention to its significance by the 100 Repub- lican members of the house who yes- ysl voted against repeal. $< Barbs | ———_—+» Conservation of game birds has everyone's approval, but from the way the states are lining up behind the 20th amendment, “lame ducks” are out of luck. ee % eo the right of congress and the peo- It's not only the stew that ple to go ahead. But there should be| Juyffare, 3k sew Pumales will get @ clear understanding of the whole +e * Problem involved. False pretenses} With liens levied on his personal Ghoubt he definitely barred and all| ¢ffects, maybe Jimmy Walker, New facts made public, York's former mayor, will. make some inquiries into Gandhi's budget for ae food and raiment while he’s in India. ** * Pilat. sailone took a lot of the And, of one sort or another, they'll have still more of them if the lease is canceled lar effect from a large dose of any oil (colored and flavored perhaps) especially if the oil is followed by some alkali or salts. Eye Wash On account of blackheads I have to scrub my face three times a day with soap and water and often my eyes are irritated ... (J. P.) Answer—Bathe eyes with warm water containing teaspoonful of salt to the pint. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) FO I may not know anything about the law, but I have enough common sense to know that they can’t expect @ man to jump out of a sick-bed to register when he nas already notified them that he can’t make it. I am going to the mat on this to see if the board can proceed in this high-hat- ted way—James Joseph Tunney, for- mer heavyweight champion, on dis- covering he wouldn’t be permitted to vote. * e * I've been robbed seven times in two years. They came twice last week, and that finished me. It’s hard on the nerves, looking down gun barrels so often—P. M. Tank, Kan- sas City, Mo., druggist, announcing his retirement from business. * ek Oe I wish I could havé done this on Wall Street itself. These stock deal- ers and companies are the curse of our nation.—Harvey Hall, 70, held for bombing San Diego, Calif., brokerage I want to leave not the slightest doubt that we will never recognize the right of foreign nations to judge what form of government is most appropriate for Germany. The Ger- man people alone are entitled to pass on that subject—Franz von Papen, chancellor of Germany. A BREATH OF FREEDOM Moundsville, W. Va.—Aubrey Kitts, 23, was released from West Virginia Penitentiary recently, but his first breath of freedom was only a gasp. He had hardly stepped out the gate when he was arrested by Deputy U. 8. Thomas Kelly, for violating a fed- eral parole. He was taken to the fed- eral reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio. | WHEAT’S ORIGIN The first grains of wheat grew wild on the Steppes of Asia, thousands of years ago. This wild Wheat was the FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: An. early arriving Christmas package generally presents a office. knotty problem. third power. 20 Lawyers. 41 Masculine ronoun. ‘o make a mistake. 43 Small duck. 43 Cantered. 47 Bones, 45 Sun god. 50 Gibbon. 42 33 Measure of cloth. 34 Bronze. 51 Spain fabbr.), 35 Male title of 52iMore secure. courtesy, 55 Sooner than, 36 Striped fabric. 37 Pedal digit. 60 To ascend. 38Greek létter 61 English coin. 56 Punitive. QUESTIONS AND ANSWEEBS The Boy Rebels My 7 year old son refuses to eat any kind of cooked cereal. He gags if we force him to take any. A well known diet specialist advised that some cooked cereal should be given every morning... (Mrs. E. H.) Answer—I don’t blame the gallstones? | of (a ridiculous humbug), and seem-| away 8) ed to feel better; it brought lot of green gummy pebbles. I 39 Matter from a 62Genus of sore. palms. 40 Racetrack 63 Positive. circuit. 64 Woolly. | genesis of the wheat we know and JUST WANDERING . New York, Dec. 12.—At frequent intervals come notes from out-of- towners requesting information on where to find quaint and unusual haunts in New York. Henceforth, it will be necessary merely to refer all such to Helen Worden’s “The Real New York,” which is the mast re- freshing and original guide-book I have ever encountered. e Even a columnist who prowls about the by-ways of Manhattan can spend a week-end going along the trails blazed by Miss Worden, who is @ New York Telegram special writer. Exploring has always seemed to me the most’ fun anyone could have in any new city, whether it be Paris, ‘New York or Vienna. Most visitors, to be sure, are content with skim- ming the usual tourist surfaces, buy- ing a few theater tickets and jump- ing a train home. But if one has time, it is possible— even as Miss Worden suggests—to eheck up on the fellow who sell mill-stones and shrubs in Eleventh Avenue and has John D. Rockefeller as a customer. Or to run down shops which sell real Arabian dag-| gers; garlic-dipped olives f rom| Greece; old fashioned weather vanes} or vases from the Spanish isles. New York, it appears, can, furnish the wares of every land or clime—if you but know where to find the shops. ee * OLD NEW YORK Just to give you an idea of one of! Miss Worden’s suggested tours: If you weary of ‘the flea circus in 42nd street, it’s interesting to drop in on Giovanni, the violin maker a few doors away. He's been making fid- dies there for 40 years.. Or you can discover that the| Pagenstechers, of Forticth street,| were the last of the New Yorkers to give up their horses and carriage. Only a year ago, they retired the family coachman and brougham. In- ‘letters for the uneducated East ‘side folks and is a veritable bureau of information; not far away is the leading marriage broker who makes. matches for all sorts of odd sums; Rivington street has the most important collection of Hebraic liter- ature; East Huston street sells the ost dried mushrooms. meout you begin to get the idea! The picturesque, the colorful, the drab and the gay—side by side on the Manhattan whirligig! ‘The water of the ocean freezes very slowly and imperfectly due to the presence of salt. cidentally, theirs is the sole private residence left in Fortietlr street. Between Fifth and Sixth avenues, the old Pagenstecher house is all but lost in the shadow of the black and gold Radiator building. ee # SUCH LEMON PIES Oh, yes, and there are Mrs. Stan- ley's lemon pies to be had in 46th street. For 27 years she has been Perfecting them, and theatrical folk have carried her fame across the country. David Warfield, the late Belasco and scores of old-time per- formers have been her customers. She has befriended many a hungry, jobless actor. xe % COME AND GET 1T To continue: a chef once connect- ed with the Czar’s household cooks for a little Slavic place in the Fifties; and you’d be surprised how many ex-doughboys drift down to Lexing- ton avenue where an old cook for their division dishes out Armenian dinners. And in Park avenue, chick- en Southern style is now served in a place where debutantes once rolled up $20,000 debts. Or in Eleventh ave- nue, Mrs. Flynn has been turning out Irish stews since 1894. Odsters, homesick for the old sand lots, can find some of the best horse- shoe pitchers in the land at the Ft. George Horseshoe Club. And frog’s legs are the specialty at Ben Riley’s In the average shad roe there are from. 30,000 to 40,000 eggs. an. You. Make. This cin With These Pieces? Riverdale Inn; Alexandfoff STATE BUILDING ? still Soldier Boy fe Y 15 HI-HO Puzzle No. 13—Well, a sol- dier boy has marched right into to- i day's HI-HO puzzle —challenging \ you to find him! Can you do so by jcutting out the seven mystic pieces and arranging them so as to form his silhouetted figure? Geraldine Foster, pretty youn, clerk in the office ef Dr. Hace phrey Maskell disappeared on Saturday. Three days later her Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt. Harry Armstrong, the miss- ing girl’s fiance, had not heard from her since Friday. Dr. Mas- kell says he returned to his office Saturday afternoon to find G | 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. Ditfer-| 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, muttering, “Get me to talk? Never. But Geraldine was good to me.” The doctor says there was a strange woman outside his door when he returned Saturday. After looking around his office she rushed out, crying it was too late. Colt finds 2 coat and purse which the doctor teadily admits Geraldine wof the day she disappeared. Maskell claims he quarreled with her be- cause she had broken her engage- ment. Colt calls on Mrs. Morgan, Maskell’s neighbor, who corrob- months (pl.). 29 Evil demon, 32 Following the Alt STOLE} VERTICAL 1 Onager. downfall of 2 Moist. what ruler was 3 Constellation. Belgium 4 Pertaining to formed? ‘a branch, 5 Having two wings. 33 Celestial. 44To distort. 46 Young salmon. SSS orates the doctor’s statement that . corps her daughter, Doris, had distribut- t ] I ed gifts with him. Two women en ra were seen leaving the doctor's Aouse carrying two bottles similar - to that found in Maskell’s office. HORIZONTAL Answer (o Previous Puzzle a lock. Dr. Maskell leaves town. Ger- 1 Paper 12 Era. aldine’s note, breaking her en- containing 13 Guided. gagement, is found. The mysteri- decision of 21 Pertaining to ous Ephraim Foster, of Willough- arbitrators. tribes. by, Kansas, who had written Ger- 6 Sorrowful. le] 22 Having a aldine, is a woman. A clue in the 9 Trite. : > colled second half of the blackmail note a eends the police to a deserted house ae uarem spnaatanés, on Peddler’ Road. Outside the 15 Frozen water, 23 Yarn spindles, foes. they “iad. 'aevans dead aS EOE, 24 Abhorrence, pigeons, theit breasts blood- 17 Government 25 In poorer stained. seal. health, ee 18 Meadow. 27 Values, CHAPTER Xil. 19 Raised to the 28 Twelve HEN I told myself that my mind was making up horror tales. Yet the feeling persist- ed and it was with deep misgivings I left the birds and followed Betty to the front of the house, and with- out another word rapped on the door. There was no answer, al- though I knocked’ repeatedly. Fan- tastic fears filled my mind—but I | told myself they were probably 6Green fodder 47Music drama. | unreasonable. Why should the vat, 49 Region. | sight of those dead piegons so stir 7Maple tree. 51 To spread as up my imagination? Again and S$ College officiai. an arch. again I knocked upon ire door 9What vehicles 52 Membranous but without result, an ly are the chiét ag. method of 53 Verb, transportation 54 Tree. in Holland? 57 Mesh of lace. 10To divert. 58 One in cards. 11 Projection of __59 Boy. ii tly tried the knob. To my ipasien rf yielded and, the doo} open at a, slight push of my han I jruesome Spectacle ped insit id then stood, ge eh rooted at threshold. My. first glance pe the livin om into which I me that a hor- ible crime had ee Everything daubed with bleed. a loose eatin ¥ our walls. Tables, chairs, book-cases all were flung around, topsy-turvy and helter- as if overturned in some death struggle. Even in shadows, I could see that blood erywhere, stainil bgp mea potting the walls and and clotted in pa on the floor. seemed be- I have never had there in the with sher gered t her cheeks and g with fear. Then be rete for an aa ee er en 1 suddenly stopped. Ly A Copyrier By covict, FRIEDE, tne, roommate, Betty Canfield, notifies| shi of fy let} it THONY A 1 heard a noise—the sound of a footstep on the stairs. Only a slight and inconsequential sound| fro: it was, merely the scraping of a oe. But it was the sopnd of something moving and alive in this house where murder, fell, barbar- ous and hideous, had recently been committed. é Had I been mistaken? Was the noise only the delusion of an over- wrought imagination? But no— the sound came again. There were certainly footsteps descending a staircase into this very room. I drew my revolver and waited. Then, suddenly I heard a well-re- membered. voice, yet sharpened with an unfamiliar choler. |___Forfeited Reputation _| “Put down your gun,” said the voice. “It is a fancy weapon, see, a Smith and Wesson, .38 cali- bre, blue steel and four-inch bar- rel. And I suppose you took it from a pocket holster with the fastest draw and surest lock. All very impressive to the young lady, But you won’t shoot. You're no cop—you’re too busy taking girls to lunch to be a policeman.’ I put down the gun and stood, shame-faced and guilty as That- cher Colt walked into room. As the Police Commissioner Pressed a button, the lights in the wall bracket lamps glowed softly over the shocking confusion of the room. But I had no eyes, then, for these evidences of fe y. In- stead, I looked at Thatcher Colt, wondering how and why he was here. " x “Tony,” he said, “I caught an accidental wimps of you and your lady friend at luncheon, le you were chatting over a table with a girl, I came up here and. made the discovery that could have been yours—and would have made you a reputation.” “I’m sorry, Chief, I—" - He waved aside my contrition. “The girl we have been looki for was most red for w probably murde: in this room. You remember that I carried away from her a ment a sample of her hair? Well, in this room I have found other samples—soaked with blood, tru: but from the same head, I fe convineed. I found them clinging to the blade of this.” From the shadows of a corner behind him there, Thatcher Colt lifted an ugly inplenieit—an, axe with a short handle, a double-bit- ted affair that gleamed in the light. On the steel blade were dark red stains. You will find that axe to- day, exposed in a glass case, in the Crime Museum that is on the sixth floor of the Police College, across the street from Police pe ters in what was once the candy factory. There, between the exhibits in the Snyder-Gray murder and the affair of the assassinated physician, repose the relics in the Geraldine Foster m: [—8M01 them a pillow case, a half-Aniehed note of green paper, pieced to- gether with tissue paper, three en- velopes of human hair, and this axe. On its bit the blood of the victim is still thick and crusted hacked to death,” he said som! shal fn he "Soay—baed ine ir iF cause I fo in kitchen, apparently ° wens lately. The lerer Boe eee mit this crime The feet, owas five eleven inches tall, ‘exceptionally I gazed at my chief, amazed. ‘fat is clear to me because once the, axe blade in a larly vicious swing struck — DISTRIBUTED BY KIN@ FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. BBOT —the mark over there is plain— we ae = least guess at the height at.” m As he talked, he kept nodding his head and looking from one cor- ner to another. “Moreover,” he said, “the lock on the front door has recently been repaired, the kitchen window broken, and the house burglarized through the broken window — either by a midget or a small boy. The footprints in the dust show that much. Further, Tony, the house has had some feather bur- glars. Since the kitchen window glass was smashed, Pigeons have taken to roosting within these walls—they even drank of warm human blood, and then, strugglin; to get into the open air, they died. One could not make it—I found the little corpse in the kitchen.” “It is extraordinary how you can know these things,” I gasped. Thatcher Colt’s eyes were still roaming sstealthily around the room. “There is much more to be learned,” he replied irritably. “I am inclined to believe that a boy with a sallow face and buck teeth actually saw a part, at least, of the murder. But he thinks he saw a ghost. Fortunately I have his name and address. I didn’t have ais to stop then and question him fully.” What a bungler Thatcher Colt would justly have thought me, if T had told him the truth—how the same boy had crossed my path, and Thad let him run off. But of this ahaa nothing until long after- While he was talking, the Uo. missioner was prowling and roam- ing back and forth, bending to ex- amine the edge of a table, even the rungs in the back of a chair. Suddenly I heard him give alow wi le and drop to his ees, From the floor he lifted what seemed to be a hair or else a thin strand of some fabric, about four Sask a'atram, Tony,” hi just a straw, Tony,” he said. “A straw to show the way the wind blows. A piece of human golden hatteathat might belong to some innocent person—yet which might have dropped from the head of the murderer.” A Fiendish Crime ] From his pocket, he one of his inevitable DI aap velopes, put the carefully away and marked it on the outside for future identification. “The brutality of this crime,” he informed me, ‘is the best prom- ise of its solution, I am aivesdy convinced that the method em- Ployed was not the adventitious result of sudden fury; it was neither casual nor accidental. This deed was planned. I knew. that after I had walked up the stairs. The bathroom smelt stran; ly of the bark of pine trees. ‘When we find out why, Tony, I fancy we shall unearth a peculiar fiendish- ness behind this murder.” Sudden! and the te 0) the door knob rattled ‘ront door was pushed without ceremony, ts olt sprang id and both faced ne entrance only "to find ede ee aE ae 3 » its ™m; It,” ‘ a i ida bn a ‘May vend Mise Can- fe the investigation of 9 cus lous death,” he cally, “it is the duty of the police to prevent unauthorized persons from entering upon the scene of a fective Divieien . Now, under the one rule, I can’t admit zon Steed Sg ‘betiy, but un, other remain nearby.” a EPA To Be Continued ne