Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1930, Page 5

GANGSTER'S BODY PROISED POLICE, Los Angeles Kidnaping and Gun Fight Staged With Aid of Chicagoan. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 24.—While they waited for the fulfillment of a| Bruesome promise from the underworld, police today believed Chicago’s gang- dom had furnished one of the prin- cipals in a kidnaping and gun fight in Long Beach the last week end. J. Sherman, arrested after the shoot- ing in which a Long Beach officxr was wounded seriously early Sunday, was identified by police_yesterday as Ralph Sheldon, Chicago hoodlum,” who once served as an aide to Al Capone, Police Expect Body The promise, which authorities ex- ccted to see fulfilled, was that the ody of a second gangster, who was wounded in the gun fight Sunday, would be given up to police upon his death, which was cxpected moment: Blood-stained clothing, believe s is in the hands of police. The gun fight took place a few hours | aiter E. L. Caress, wealthy gambler, and | his wife were kidnaped late Saturday night by gangst rs who demanded §50,- 000 ransom. Caress wrote checks for the sum in order to gain the release of his wife and himself. Plotters Found in Auto. The plotters were sitting in an auto- mobile in Long Beach when poncz‘l questioned them. The questioning led | to shooting and the arrest of Sherman, alias Sheldon. Chicago police reported Sheldon had been missing from Chicago two ycars and had been hunted as a suspect i the slaying of Ben Newmark, former chief investigator for State's Attorney Crowe of Cook County. He had been active in the beer-running business in Chicago, police asserted. $85,000 LOOT FOUND HIDDEN IN APARTMENT Securities Believed Taken in Series of Bank Hold-Ups—Four Persons Arrested. to ht‘ By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 24—A police- man’s casual kick at a loose board in a North Side apartment revealed $85,000 in stolen securities, police said, and caused the arrest of three men and a woman who are suspected by the au- thorities of at least eight bank rob- beries in Central and Northern Illinois Trailing a blue sedan with a “wanted” license number. Lieut. Andy Barry sur- rised Glen Nichols, 32, alleged jail- reaker, and Gladys Robinson, 27, of Peoria, Tll, and began a cursory exam- ination of the apartment. A nick in the floor molding led to discovery of Liberty bonds and negotiable securities stolen, officials said, from the first State Bank of Wenona, the Allerton State Bank and the Farmers' State Bank at New ‘Windsor. Austin J. Corray, 32, and his brother, Harmon, 27, who, like Nichols, are from Champaign, Ill, later came to the apartment and were arrested. Police said they confessed the three robberies, implicating Nichols as the actual robber and the girl as the confederate of their | getaways. 1 Police began ballistic tests with the | 10 revolvers, two shotguns and a rifle | found in the aparyment to see if any of them were used in the battle police | fought with two robbers on a down- | town street last Friday night, in which | George Wallace, an Evanston architect, | was killed. Christmas Greetings to Navy. Christmas greetings were dispatch-d §esterday to the naval establishment by the Assistant Secretary of the Na Ernest Lee Jahncke, just prior to his departure to spend Christmas in New | Orleans. Real Estate Loans (D. C. Property Only) 6% No Commission Charged You can take 12 years to pay off your loans without the expense of renewing. $1,000 for $10 per month, including interest and principal. Larger or smaller loans at proportion- ate rates. Perpetual Building Association Established 1881 Largest in Washington Assets Over $23,000,000 Cor. 11th and E N.W. JAMES BERRY, President EDWARD C_BALTZ. Secretary Eat, Drink and be Merry NATIONA GINGER ALE Clear, sparkling, healthful Na- tional Ginger Ale will add pleasure even 1o such a sumptu- ous feast as Christmas Dinner. Or- der a case. -t Made same wa y that made it famous, Sold at grocers and_delicates- sens. Served at Cafes, Clubs, amnd Jountains, the Guegenheim {10 | step THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930. A—S GOLDEN LR B. KYNE By PET (Copyright, INSTALLMENT I R. THEODORE GATLIN'S mar- ried life had demonstrated to him the absolute falacy of the ceclesias contention that marriages are made in heaven. | In the beginning he had married Lou- ise Hanciett for a_number of reasons, none of them really imporiant. She was of good family: i. e, her parents sp-reus middle-cless folk whon had never touched. They w | | eminently respectable, if a trifle bovine | wispusit O ANy Lodise was their only | hild, and sole heir to such worldiy goods as her parcnts might have ac- cumulated and which Mr. Gatlin be- Tieved they were not likely to dissipate; | ior which Teason he did not contemplate ing to support them in their helpless e were the common sense rea“ hich his sclf-respect as a busi- s man indicated he should conjure s s aking this important in reality they were merely a sop w0 his real reason for the step, which was a mad infatuation he mistook for | love. Louise Hanchett’s cold, classical | Leauty and Vere de Vere form, which w how to cr tifully end od taste, had so dazzled him that ask_himself passion had ring _qualitiy ad_common sense; if she wa: and capable of bearing children; if she was of sound cestry. However, th'r2 was some .ex- cuse for this carelessness in Mr, Gat- Ln's case, as, indeed, there is in the case of ail but supermen. Engaged as he was in the retail shoe business, he had never heard of Mendel's law, and if anybody in conversation with him had mentioned genetics he would doubtless have thought that.they were some new form of athletic contrivance. The cnly practical information he had on the Hanchett family was that Mrs Hanchett | was a shrew, that Mr. Hanchett was a niicdle-aged man whose head was bloody and bowed; that Louise was unhappy at home. In Mr. Gatlin the protective instinct, | obundant in all males, was particularly veell developed; so he yearned to provide Louise with the happiness he knew she | had misesd and which he, thank God, | s able to provide—for he possessed | so the usual amount of masculine ego. Following two years of married life, | curing which he strove manfully to ac- | complish the impossible, Mr. Theodore | Gatlin went into a mental haze. Six | months of this and he became pecvish. | He wanted a child—and when at last he realized that, in the phraseology of his times, there was nothing doing, there was born in him the first coherent thought he had ever had on the sub- icct of matrimony. He told himself that | he was sick unto death striving to be a | good husband and acquiring no merit Lecause of his efforts. He told himself | he had a house, but no home: that Lou- jse had “taken after her mother,” which | meant that he had taken after his af- flicted father-in-law! He gave considerable thought to the | stbject and finally decided that Louise would be all right if she only had some- thing to occupy her mind. She sought | happiness and blamed him because she cculd not find it. Mr. Gatlin did not DAWN 1930.) know where happiness mig but inasmuch as he was m! tain of peace of mind while attending to his business, he had a hazy impre sion that happiness is not inirequently found in securing a job and working at it. So when a physician informed him that his hopes of fatherhood were not apt to be realized he had a brilliant idea and broached it to Mrs. G “Let L Louise demurred. She had her doubts as to the advisak somebody’s bles—one never knew how an y Was going to turn out—there was no hurry anyhow— she must have time to consider the idea —her health. “My nerves,” she protested, but he silenced her. “You think too much about yourse and not at all about anybody else, pa ticularly me. What you neod is a baby to fuss with. You'll learn to love it in a month as much as if it was your own flech and blood.” “I'm afraid yowll not love it, Thoo- dore. You're 50 cranky and irritable,” she defended. “Listen!” Mr. Gatlin commanded. ARG of taking over | ‘Golden Dawn,” begins tcday. I'm at the p where I'm_seriously sidering suing you for divorce. You are devoid of sympathy.” his wife chargod. “You neglect me. | “Maybe I've failed,” said Mr. Gatlin, | “but, by jiminy, I've tried and I'm willing to keep on trying a little longer. ! Only from now on we're going to try my methods, and adopting a baby is | one of them.” If that fails I'll take the baby over myself and we'll call in the awyer She knew she had gone as far as she | dared. Even the of married | women ‘'know when that point is reached; that is, they know when it has been reached for that day. | “Well, if we can find a baby of good, sound, inteliigent, healthy parentage,” she assented grudgingly. S “I've got one staked out.”” Mr. Gatlin cried joyfuily, “and I know its parents. They're sound as grindstones. 1 know the ‘grandparents of the child on both | set it took an old monk: promulgate th: | | it. al “I'll have to meet d parents, Theodore. Unfortunately,” he replied, “the all dead.” old age; Army captain and figh th»_Infants' gent, but she was sufficiently ize that for cnce in his life Mr. was due to have his lin suddenly gave poke in the rib was not to consult | T married Louis | I thought T could 1 “What did they die of?" he grandps the father of the ba he in the Sulu Isla “Boy or girl, Theodore?" “Boy.” "I could never stand a boy, Theodore. have a girl.” tlin grinned evilly. It's a girl” Louise Gatlin was not very wn way. That night y abed, Mr. e tor d. own I didn't p: 1y to a would fill the bill. to selecting give to the p erty. until I had run down the r | title and satisfied mysclf there were no ¥ & ancestry than I vould to necktie. Anything th But when it c: ome “other n job & rcha I wouldn't think e th flaws in it. common | knew what a nervo “If men would only emplo; wi fish old shrew her mother w: that law the doctor spc Mendel's law. produce The law thal like. Simple! Natu fool should have thought of t. other twin ———— | might be more considerate of me than | to whistle like that and wake me up. 'm s0 happy. dariing, I couldn't help | celibate naws. Whow ‘Theodore, bed, “I should think Forgive me.” ‘Have you thought of a name for the & | baby?” “1 have. Penelope.” A horrid nam | did you get that name?" ‘don't know them personally,” he | | went on, “but I've had a doctor look up their records. High-class people. No insanity and no crookedness in them.” /VERY MERRY ....for yo 3304 § K Sts N.W. West 5508 ....our stores are still plentifully sup- plied with candies, nuts, oranges, apples, fruit cakes and other Christmas foods ur convenience. All Sanitary & Piggly Wiggly Stores Will Remain Open Late Tonight To her unspeakable ON THE rents on both sides of was an d in a The mother died in childbirth and the baby is in Shelter in San Francisco. “I figured you'd try tq edge out of it that way. It |isn't & boy! intelli to real Gatlin Gat If a prodigious a jackass I | “When a child of my tion t looked well | attention 1 would of prop- ying a lot d of the nse in selecting their wives— | es, in selecting their husbands—I | , complaining, sel —WW Where under heaven amazement, quoted & verse from Henry Herbe: Knibbs' poem, “Out There Somewherc “We'll_dance a merry saraband fror here to drowsy Samarkand: | Along the sea, across the land, the | birds are flying south, And you, my sweet Penelope, out there omewhere you wait for me, ‘With buds of roses in your hair and kisses on your mouth.” They went by train to San Francisco next day. With the child in his arms and accompanied by his wite and the .y manager of the Infants' S Mr. Gatlin repaired to the Sup { Court and legally adopted the daughter | of Capt. Ronald Elliot and Janet Elliot, both deceased. From the court room they we thedral and had her baptiz Episcopalian faith—out of cour- to Mrs. Gatlin's latest religious crotchet, Mr, Gatlin having no religious | affiliations whatsoever. There was a slight h The pastor had just sprinkled water on th2 Lttle dark hea end said. “I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of Ghost, and give thee the name when Mrs, Gatlin interrupted ucretia. “Nothing doing,” Mr. Gatiin declared. “Lucretia! Wasn't that the woman that oned prople—a wop woman? Her me shall be Penclop: 2me."” The pastor smiled faintly. Having al- ready sensed that all of the enthusiasm e child was Mr. Gatlin’s, he was eized with a perverse desire to please atimental fellow, so h» said Fenelope.” atlin hugg=d Penelope t5 him d her back of the left e: “You mu dc wife protest in ore s her, The Kissing 1 some itary of dig- “Oh, Lord “will 1 ev. . Gatlin_murmur:d, ce making hideous mis- For in that illuminating instant he 1calize i that in adopting Penelope he .ade a terrible mistake. His wife At the very moment ;- commencement of his experiment knew it was a failure. However, it was no part of his ‘wife’s intention (at least for the present) that he should “.vhzc this, so she took the baby from him. Within the we<k, Theodore Gatlin, ving communicated with the adjutant general of the Army at Washington, that Capt. Ronald Ellio y had been brought home from the )| Island of Sulu and interred in the Na- tional Cometery at the Presidio of Sa said his wifs, from the | Francisco. So he had Penelope’s mother you ! cisinte red from ths Potter's Field and ed beside the soldicr, after which gave orders for the erection of a ble monument over them. | Viewing him from ev-ry angle, he was most peculiar retail shoe dealer. | For a month all went well with the tlin’s, and then Mrs. Gatlin issued her fiat. | “Theodore” she said, “I must insist on cne thing. Penelope must never [ reinte n he & TABLES ¢F THOSE WHO KNOW AT ALL t to| I like that| and give thee the name oi | “now that you and I are not, her natural jarents.- 1 feel that such knowledge night detract from her love for “That won't work any hardship on me, my dear.” he replied. “I feel just as enthusiastic about her as if I were her real father.” “Another thing, Theodore Penclope dearly. now can't be mace a slave to her. realize. dear, hoW she keeps dewn?™" He gritted his teeth, went on: “We simpl for her. I love but I D5 you me tied and his wife have a nurse rowed h ing her im- two of Start spoil However, as brought Mr Hpine re. She a healthy baby an’l there e that £he woul ng hor own red to. If Lou- h2d nothing el It was always like that. the child developed, she lin each day clo he had ever b ect chan h: not the s’ ever be wishes p Gatlin vorth while (and this she » unconsciously) she did r fiate Penelope's ego, whi tody knows, is the bre: hvmen s, which, counts for the unhappinss humanity. Mr. Gatlin, of course, wou | have undon in ret, much of thi | good work, had not the realization come |t) him quite early in Pene'ope's little girlhood that any demonstration bf ex cessive affection on his | 2 counteracted by savérity on the part of his wife toward | the child. 7 ground of in turn, 2c- of mo: of | pi xion, with ve: rich, shiny, jet | unusually intellig-nt | 02 quick sympathy and winnins | cious wa e was the apple | Catlin’s eye, and by the time 10 years old he no longer cared a of his finger for his wife If Pen lope was Mr, L also w he to him because she | her foster-mo.her, who had suc | in inculcating in the child a duty com- plex quite cut of proportion to ti s | deserts. ~ Nevertheless it was understood between them that they were a pair of outlaws; mutual sympathy drew them | closer together each day: th-ir mutual |love was 2 sweet and holy sentiment. Mrs. Gatlin's nerves did not improve through the years, although wh Penclope was 10 years old, a wanderin: evang:list came to town and commence: 2 furious campaign of conversion and cring by prayer every disease that fesh is heir to: and Mrs. Gatlin became | “converted,” praying loudly, was praved ‘or loudly, and finally mounted the plat- tm and shricked: 1j2h, praise the Lord! I'm curec. And she w2s—until the local glamour |of the miracle wore off and the evan- | getist moved on to other field=. The | after life for Mr. Gatlin and Penelope became almost unb-arable. She ex- 1A:amrx them to sorrow for their sins, and when Mr. Gatlin d>clared they hadn't! " SANITARYend PIGGLY-WIG any worth bothering about (which was quite true) she prayed for them. They tad grace before and after meals, with family prayers and readings from the Eible. Sunday was a day of sorrow.: Finally the worm turned. In a moment of insane fury Mr. Ga lin performed what ha considered a lot ed duty. He took al countenancs bumped her head repeat-dly against the: wall &nd told hor thit if she ever opened her mou 1 in his presence with~ his_permission he'd just about kill n't. She sued him for nd Lad Penelope on the witness to prove that Mr. Gatlin had n her; that he had remained away from home until late at night,and re ised to reveal his rendozvous. Mr Gatel lin entered a cross-complaint and peti d to have Pcnelope allocated to ow's Star.) BEACON INN 1801 Calvert St. N.W. Ezxce'lent Service (Continued in_Tomor Spezial 5-Course 1 EChriztmas Dinner, RECIPES, MENUS and FIEAR Sally's recipe for VEGETABLE CUTLETS perticulerly delicious when made with Stokely’s Tiny Green Lima Beans CN SALE AT ALL Sanitary Grocery Stores and Piggly-Wiggly Stores 1 §