Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 93

shouldn't have had a ghost of a show for we shouldn’t have seen him again till he had dashed out on our sid>, about 20 feet from us. Herbert gave him both barrels, but he didn't stop; he was lower down than the first elephant and one had to shoot through grass. Omari handed Harry's gun to Herbert, swiftly reload- ing the first one, and I blaz:d away with my Springfield when I had anything like a chance. "Herbert fired both guns again and got a shot straight into the brain and the elephant crashed down just as he gained the tall grass. For a minute we thought he was up again for something else was happening. Through that grass came a streak of wind. A third ele- “phant, stirred by the shooting, was heading this way, either in confusion or in anger. There was no sceing him, nothing to do but blaze into the grass. The first shots turned him and the streak went off at a little tangent and came to rest behind a clump of matete 30 feet away. We waited. We heard an angry squeal and a stir; then a trunk went up irquiringly. We fired across his bows, £0 to speak, for we didn't want to kill unless we had to. He kept us waiting some time, with pointed guns, while he mads up his mind. Luckily for us, he had none of the mad de- termination of the other. He must have been as uncertain as we were, for every once in a while that trunk went up. We began to feel th:t he was going to spend the remainder of that day there, so we fell back slowly, keeping our faces to the front. Ali, behind us, was danc- ing with excitement; the guid<s, behind the bushes where we had parted company, were ex- ultant at the success of our dawa. Two ele- phants. The first was down, they said, at the first shot. But natives are always sufe an elephant is down, and I was sure he was up and away; I think that my lion that came to life when I was having my picture taken with him gave me a strong feeling of th: impermanence of a wild animal's demise. I was eager to be after him and see. We had to make a long circle to the left to avoid the uneasy one in the grass, following that detour on which the guides had tried to bring us to the clearing and which would have lost us the elephants; and there, over on his side in the grass, a bullet hole in the front of his head, lay the charging ore, a big bull. He had certainly torn up the brush behind him in his rush toward us; he had gone straight through bushes and knocked saplings flat. Climbing his tracks, we came to the open space where we had seen the two together when I had fired; and there, 50 fect ahzad, in the cryptlike shadows of the overarching forests, I found the big tusker. My first bullet had gone straight to his brain. He seemed monumental in th: dimness; he was very old looking and . scarred, and his strange, curving tusks, slender and saberlike, had grown so long that they crossed in front of him. THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, APRIL 19 19317 “Herbert fired both guns and got a shot into the brain.” They were 9 feet long those tusks, we found. 9 feet 1 inch one of them. They weighed 100 and 102. The ivory was yellowed and streaked with fine cracks, it was solid to the head and slender or it would have weighed more. That night as we sat out by our tent, watch- :ing the day fade over the countless mountains and the ineffable peace and purple of the night swell into the shadowy spaces, we looked out over that wide country. Mountain after moun- tain, shouldering the horizon out of sight. And on every mountain as far as the eye could see little peaked huts, village after village of the cannibals, where no white had yet come, on which we were the first whites to look. A great domain, sufficient unto itself, all un- knowingly living its last free, wild moments, After us would come wars or submissions, and the beginning of the end. But tonigh there were drums and dancing and mad orgies of meat feasting. . (Copyright, 1931.) True Stories of the United States Government’s Secret Service Continued from Thirteenth Page green wooden wheels had been stolen from their show rooms under circumstances identical with the Durkin system. The motor, serial and other assembly numb:rs on this Cadillac were procured by Department of Justice agents. A WEEK passed. The sheriffl at Pecos, Tex, noticed a green car on the strezt and asked the young man at the wheel to identify himself. He told the sheriff giibly that he was “Fred Conley,” & deputy sheriff from Los Angeles, and the guns evident in the car upheld the story. He added, for good measure, that he had been working off and on in the movies and that he was now en rou‘e East with his wife. The sheriff asked him to produce papers show- ing owhership of the car and the youth oblig- ingly’ volunteered to go to his hotel and get them, Disarmed by the innocent appearance of the man, the sheriff let him go to the hotel. When " young Mr. Conley failed to reappear the sheriff . went to the hotel himself. He found that the man had left somewhat hastily a few moments before and departed from Pecos at a rate vastly exceeding the normal speed limit. © It did not dawn on the sheriff, who had handled many auto thieves in his time, that “Mr. Conley” was the notorious Durkin. Never- thelecs, convinced that the car had been stolen, he wrote a letter to the office of the Bureau of Investigation at El Paso, relating the incident and suggesting that the burcau “might have something on this bird.” Excitement prevailed at El Paso, for the agent in charge instantly recognized the physical de- scription of the man as Durkin. East and west the agent kept telegraph and tel:phone wires hot in an effort to stop the car. Special agents were dispatched from El Paso to comb the country in the remote western section of Texas. They found the car deserted in a clump of mesquite trees about 50 miles west of Fort Stockton, Tex., after an all-day search through fhe desert cactus and sage brush. The right wheel was broken off. A hurtied check-up followed. A ranger dis- closed that he had hauled th:z stranger and a good-looking woman who was with him to Girvin, where, they said, they intended to catch a train to Alpine, Tex., near the Mexican border. Knowing Durkin's fondness for the bright lights, the agents did not allow them- selves to be thrown off the trail by this state- ment. They could not picture the night club habitue undergoing the hardship of dangerous ‘desert travel in country infested with bandits. Accordingly they sped to the ticket office of the Southern Pacific Railway at Alpine, and Jearned that a strange man and woman had taken a train at 12:30 a.m. Monday, January 18, for San Antonio. From train dispatchers they obtained the mames and addresses of the train conductor . road for St. Louis. and Pullman conductor of the train. The rail- “road conductor identified a photograph of Durkin as the man who had boarded his train at Alpine and gave a good description of the woman with him, Special agents out of Dallas and San Antonio then learned that a couple using the same bag- gage check numbers as those which had been used by Durkin out of Alpine had bought tickets at San Antonio on the M. K. & T. Rail- Their train was due to arrive there at 11 that same morning. By long distance special agents of the bureau at St. Louis were notified #hat Martin Durkin and his mysterious woman companion were in a certain stateroom in a certain car of the Texas Special of the “Katy,” due to arrive at 11 am. The St. Louis Police Department was called upon to help and, by special arrange- ment, the Texas Special was stopped at & small town near St. Louis where the fugitive would have no chance to escape except by running on foot through plowed fields. The train was surrounded and special agents, How to Test Your Driving Ability Continued from Seventh Page yourself before checking with the correct answers. Here they are: 1. What difference does a “stop” street make in the rules about the right of way? 2. What must you do when you overtake a car going the same way you are and want to pass it? 3. How fast may you drive without having the law consider your speed improper (a) in a business district, (b) in a residential dis- trict and (c) in the open country? 4. What must you do when you come up behind a street car which is letting people on or off? 5. Which of these must you have on your car: Spare tire, tail light, bumpers, horn, rear view mirror, spot light, tow rope, emer- gency brake, muffler? 6 May you park in front of a fire hydrant and go into a store for a minute if you leave your engine running? 7. If headlights from an oncoming vehicle blind you, what is the safest thing for you to do and why? 8. When parked at the curb, what is the most important thing to do before you stert the car, and why? 9. Why may you not follow a fire truck closer than 500 feet? 10. If you have to stop when going uphill what must you guard against when you start up again? 11. Where must you carry your driver’s license and car registration card? 12. What must a driver do when he leaves his car alone in the street? 13. When may you drive without a license? 14. What lights must a car have for night 3 driving? Y 4 15. How must the number plates be put on car? = - OW check your answers with these cor- rect answers, furnished by Bz’ker himself: 1. Little difference. After a driver on the cross street has stopped he must yield to any vehicle in the ins#fzection or so close to it as to be dangerous. Then he may go ahead, and drivers on the through highway - must give him the right of way. A driver on the through street does not always have the right of way. 2. Warn the driver ahead by sounding your horn, always, when in open country and whenever it is necessary for safe driving in business or residential districts. If you have to drive on the left side of the road you must also make sure that you do not interfere with oncoming traffic. 3. (a) Twenty miles per hour, (b) 25 miles per hour, (¢) 45 miles per hour. 4. Stop back of the nearest running board or door until passengers have reached a safe place, except where there are safety zones. 5. Tail light, horn, rear view mirror if vehicle is constructed or loaded so that the driver cannot look back; emergency brake, muffler. 6. No. 7 Slow down or stop as near the right edge of the roadway as possible. 8. Look behind and signal oncoming driver. 9. Because you may interfere with other fire apparatus and because a high-speed vroces- sion following a fire engine is dangerous. 10. Rolling back. 11. Whenever you are driving. 12. Stop engine and set brakes. 13. Never on public highways without license or instruction permit. 14. Two headlights and one tail light. 15. One in front and one behind, fastened 50 as not to swing, not less than one foot from the ground and unobscured by bumpers or other parts of the vehicle or load. These questions and answers represent the standard requirements of a uniform vehicle code that has been drawn up by the National - Conference on Street and Highway Safety, of ! which President Hoover, as Secretary of Com- merce, was first chairman. Working with the National Conference are such interests as the American Automobile Association, the National Safety Council, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the United States Department of Commerce, various insurance, railway, automotive and allied associations and the traffic authorities of virtually all the States and larger cities of America. - of Patrolman McCormick. accompanled by St. Louis city detectives, drag- ged the gunman from his state room and had him in irons before he had a chance to reach for his guns. Durkin was convicted of murder at t’:nle‘g'aj and sentcnced to 35 years at Joliet for the murder of Special Agent Shanahan. He was later tried in the Federal Court at Chicago for violation of the motor vehicle theft act and given 15 additional years. He was 25 when he entered the penitentiary. : IN another instance the bureau was instrue mental in capturing a man wanted by th. Police Department of St. Louis for the murder Information was received on June 3, 1929, that one Earl Reed had escaped from the Indiana State Prison Farm at Greencastle four days earlier. 'lt-l‘) this information came the news that this same man was wanted in St. Louis for the murder of McCormick. For a whole year the case slept. Them I June of 1930 the identification division received a set of fingerprints from officers in Jerome, Ind., who had arrested a man who called hime« self Earl Ross, on a charge of robbery, and who wanted to know if he might by any chance have a criminal record. The bureau immediately discovered that Ross® fingerprints were identical with those of Reed, and promptly communicated with the St. Louis authorities as well as with the officials at the Indiana Prison Farln. Reed, or Ross, mean- while had been sentenced to the Idaho Penie tentiary for 10 to 20 years on the robbery charge, but in view of the murder charge in St. Louis arrangements are now being made to transfer him to that city to stand trial. ‘The most recent exploit of the Department of Justice men and one which amply illustrates their skill as detectives, was the uncovering of & plot to sabotage the giant dirigible Akron, now being built at the Goodyear Zeppelin dock in Akron, Ohio, for the U. S. Navy. The affair was made public when a skilled mechanic was ar= rested charged with deliberately trying to weaken the framework of the ship so that it would be wrecked when it took to the air, Back of this lay a long investigation. Last Fall a naval torpedo plane crashed in San Diego, Calif. An investigation indicated that some one in the factory where the plane was built had cleverly weakened the plane’s wing spars so that they would collapse under pressure, The plane had been built in a Cleveland factory. Department of Justice operatives traced it, learned that the man who would have been in the best position to weaken the wing spars had quit his job and had gone to work for the Goodyear Zeppelin people. The investi- gators moved to Akron and put men at work beside this man to win his confidence. e After months of watching they charged that he was planning to wreck the giant dirigible. He was taken into custody and wus held in heavy bond for trial. G