Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1932, Page 50

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGILON, D.. ., JUNE 19, 1932—PART FOUR. BYNOPSIS FOR PRECEDING INSTALL- MENTS. While Mrs. Willett, her daughter Violet, Ma). Burnaby and three meighbors in the tiny English village of Sittaford were joking as they plaved at table Upping, & “spirit message was received :.ating that Capt. n, a retired navy man, had d. 'For two months the Wil- cen occupying Trevelyan's house d . the base of his skull frac- The murderer entered throush an i French window. then shut and it from e to give the appearance of forc racott aquestioned Evans. Capt 3 then went with Burnaby to t fces of Walters & Kiikwood: lawvers. where Trevelvan's will was read aptain. who had been quite an atletc left all his trophies to estate, “divided into four went to’ his sister, the i ary Pearson. m son of London had regis- mpton hotel the afternoon der. and had take London the followis named James Fe tered al an Exh of the'm back to morning. INSTALLMENT VL NSPECTOR NARRACOTT ran his eye over the will thoughtfully. deceased sister, Mary Pear- son,” he said an’ you tell me anything about Mrs. Pearson, Mr. Kirkwood?” “Very little. She died about 10 years ago, I believe. Her husband, a stock broker, had prodeceased her. As far as visited Capt. Travel- E te just tho as o guide. For in- 20,000 be cut of the - “Eighty or even ninety thousand *Maj. Burnaby,” said the young man, “I represent the Daily Wire, and I—" ‘He got no further. The major exploded. pounds will be much nearer the mark.” Inspector Narracott rose. “By the way, have vou the names and addresses of this Jennifer Gardner and of the Pearson family?” “I know nothing of the Pearson fam- {ly. Mrs. Gardner's address is the Laurels, Waldon road, Exete The inspector noted it down in his ok “That will do to get on with,” he said. “You don't know how many children the late Mrs. Pearson left?” “Three, I fancy. Two girls and a boy two boys and a girl—I rember which.” The inspector thanked the lawyer once more and took his departure. When they reached the street, he turned suddenly and faced his com- panion. “And now. sir,” he s th about that five business.” ; Maj. Burnaby's face reddened with an- vance. have told you alread: > “That won't holding infol are doing, Maj have had some icea in mentioning that specific time in connection with the murder to Dr. Warren—and I think have a very good icea of what that something is. “Well, if you know about it, why ask me?” growled major. “I take it you were aware that a cer- tain person ‘had an appointment with Capt. Trev somewhere about that time. Now, isn't that so Maj. Burnaby stared at him in sur- prise. “Nothing of the kind,” he snarled, “nothing of the kind.” “Be careful, Maj. Burnaby. about Mr. James Pearson. “James Pearson? James Pearson, who's he. Do you mean one of Trevel- yan's nephews “I presume it would be a nephew. He had one called James, hadn't he “Not the least idea. Trevelyan had nephews—I know that. But what their names were, I haven't the vaguest idea.” “The young man in question was at the Three Crowns last night. You prob- ably recognized him there.” “T didn't recognize anybody.” growled the major. “Shouldn’t anyway—never velyan's nephews in my 1ife But you knew that Capt. Trevelyan was expecting a_ncphew to call upon him yesterday afternoon?” “I did not.” roared the major. Several people in the str arund to stare at him. “Look here. won't you take plain truth? I knew nothing about any ap- pointment. Trevelyan's nephews may have been in Timbuctoo for all I knew ebout them “Then why this 25 past 5 busi:.ess®" “Oh, well—I suppose I had better tell ou.” The major coughed in an em- arrassed fashion. “But, mind you— the whole thing is plai. foolishness! Tommyrot, sir! How any one can be- Ueve such nonsense!™ Inspector Narracott looked more and ‘What turned more surprised. Maj. Burnaby was look- | ing more uncomfortable and ashamed of himself every minute “You know what it is. inspector. You have to join in these things to please a lady. Of course, I never thought there was anything_in it.” “In what, Maj. Burnaby?" “Table turning—table tipping and rapping.” “Table turning?” Whatever Narracott had expected, he ‘had not expected this. The major pro- ceeded to explain himself. Haltingly and with many disclaimers of his owr belief in the thing, he described tr events of the previous afternoon an the message at 5:25 that had purported to come through for himself. “You mean, Maj. Burnaby, that the table spelled out the name of Trevel- yan and informed you he was dead— murdered?” Maj. Burnaby wiped his forehead. Yes, that's what happened. I didn’t beclieve in it—naturally. I didn't believe in it." He looked ashamed. “Well—it was Friday. my usual day to visit him, and I thought after all I would smake y the first tram | sure and go along and see if everything was all right.” “The inspector reflected on the diffi- culties of that 6-mile walk, with the that, deny it as he would, Maj. Burnaby must have been deeply impressed by the spirit message. Narracott turned it over in his mind. A queer thing to hap- pen—a very queer thing to happen. The sort of thing you couldn’t explain satisfactor ‘There might be some- thing in spirit business after all. It was the first well authenticated case he had come across. A very queer business altogether, but | as far as he could see, though it ex- | plained Maj. Burnaby's attitude, it had | no practical bearing on the case so far | as he himself was concerned. He had to deal with the physical world and not the psychic. It wes his job to track down the mur- derer. And to do that he required no guid- ance from the spirit world. Glancing at his watch, the inspector realized he cculd just catch the train | anxious to interview Mrs. Gardner, Capt. Trevelyan's sister, as soon as pos- | sible and obtain from her the addresses | of the other members of the family. So. with a hurried word of farewell to Maj. Burnaby. he raced off to the sta- | tion. The major retraced his steps to ‘Iht‘ Three Crowns. He had hardly put | a foot across the doorstep when he was | accosted by a bright young man with a shiny head 2nd a round. boyish face. fai. Burnaby?” said the young man 0. 1 Sittaford © said Maj. Burnaby “I represent the Dailv Wire,” said the | young man. “and I He got no further. In true military fashion of the old school, the major ex- ploded. “Not another word!" he roared. * know you and your kind. No decency— no reticense! Clustering 'round a mur- der like vultures round a carcass! But I can tell you, young man, you will get no information’ from me—not a word. No story for your confounded paper. If you want to know anything, go and ask the police and have the decency to leave the friends of the dead man alone.” | | The young man seemed not a whit taken zback. He smiled more encour- agingly than ever. “I say, sir, you know you have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. I know nothing about this murder busi- piled-up snowdrifts and the prospects |of a heavy snowfall, and he realized for Exeter if he hurried off. He was| PARIS TO PRESERVE VOICES OF VENDORS Once-Famous Street Cries, Barred by Police, Will Be Recorded. Special Dispatch to The Star. PARIS, June 16 (N.ANA).— Now that the once famous street cries of Paris are about to vanish quite out of {nearing, an eleventh-hour attempt is be- ing made to catch and register their last echoes on phoncgraph records. Only in the quiet old quarters of the jcapital can the criers be heard at all, and officially they are banned even there, classed among the unnecessary “noises.” The picturesque little traders of old | Paris that for so many years cried their | business as they went afoot through |the city have been disappearing little by little. The clarion call cf the once | more than a souvenir of grandmamma'’s !days, and the goat-herd with his littte | troop has long been relegated to the by- | weys. Need No Bell. Cries that really may be described as “noises” are those of the clothes sellers. {Old clothes, for ecither sex, have been sung with full-throated vigor, for clothes {are wanted by the tenants of fifth and sixth floors as well as ground-floor dwellers, and the melodious “. . . chand d’habits” always has sufficed without {the aid of a bell such as is employed {by the knife grinders. “Vitriers . " is another cry that| foes unaccompanied, for the glazier is| 120 busily looking around for broken or cracked panes ol glass to do aught but mented by the nas. The mender 10f crockery and porcelain, on the other hand, has ever relied in part upon his | Little copper trumpet, play; | lttle {une day in and day o the same | Tempie elected to membership Allen B. | Some of the voices of these itinerant | tradesmen are musical and charming. There are “old clothes” ladies both so- prano and contralto, grinders and glaziers in graceful' tenor and rich bari- | tone. If it were not so, Charpentier | would not have incorporated a selection of them in his opera “Louise.” Asked to Make Records. Now their artistic value has been en- | hanced by the historic interest of some- | thing that is passing away. The prefect of police, in classing them all, loud and | soft, musical and otherwise, as “noises,” | has made a place for them in the In- stitute of Phonetics, in whose archives the phonograph records of the street cries will be treasured. An appeal has been made to criers who, though they no longer cry. have not forgotten their art to come forward and make records for posterity. i Meanwhile, let the traveler who finds himself in the older quarters of Paris pause in his walk if he meet the goat- herd with his little pipe in the early merning or the “reparateur de faience et de porcelaine.” Let him note the “vitriers . . .” and remember hand d’habits,” for these things ng into history. th American Newspaper ice, Inc) No Ice—No Beer, in Strike. It has been an old Siskan custom for brewers to supply free ice to saloons where their beer was sold. When they | announced recently that they would charge for the congealed water the beer- dispensers of Siska, Jugoslavia, hung out signs reading “No Beer Today.” And so tight was the strike that not a drop of the amber fluid was obtainable, although wine, rakija (cherry brandy). lemonade or other drinks were on sale everywhere. Locusts Travel by Plane. Live African locusts were carried by airplane from the Sudan to London re- cently. They are now in the London Zoo, where an attempt to rear them will be made. The locusts were car- ried with locust eggs in a case in which green stuff had been placed for food. | z “ | Floods Leave Fish Stranded. Heavy rainfall in the Mourne district of Ireland has caused the flooding of extensive lowland are; In several places where the waters have subsided large numbers of salmon. trout and eels have been found stranded. and people of the district have been living on fish. Fraternitie ness.” This was not. strictly speaking, the truth. No one in Exhampton could pre- ! tend ignorance of the event that had| shaken the quiet mcorland town to its | core. “I am empowered on behalf of the; Daily Wire.” went on the young man. | “to hand you this check for £5,000 and cengratulate you on sending in the only | correct soluticn of our foot ball esmpe: tition.” | Maj. Burnaby was completely taken aback. “I have no doubt,” continued the young man, “that you have already re- ceived ‘our letter yesterday morning in- forming you of the good news.” “Lotter?” said Maj. Burnaby. “Do you realize, young man, that Sittaford is about 19 feet deep in snow? What chance do you think we have had in (he} last few days of a regular delivery of letters?” “But doubtless you saw your name announced as winner in the Daily Wire, this morning?” “No,” said Maj. Burnaby. “I haven't glanced at the paper this morning.” | “Ah! Of course not.” said the young | man. “This sad business. The mur- dered man was a friend of yours, I un- derstand.” “My best friend.” said the major. “Hard lines,” said the young man tactfully averting his eyes. Then he, drew from his pocket a small folded piece of mauve paper and handed it to | Maj. Burnaby with a bow. | “With the compliments of the Daily Wire,” he said. Maj. Burnaby took it and said the| only thing pcssible under the circum- | stances. “Have a drink, Mr.—er- " “Enderby, Charles Enderby my name is. I got here last night,” he ex-| | plained.” “Made inquiries absut getting to Sittaford. We make it a point to| hand checks to winners personally. Al- ways bublish a little interview. In- { terests - our readers. Well, every one ytold me. it was out of the question—the | snow was falling and it simply couldn’t e done, and then with the greatest good luck I find you are actually here, stayiig a& the Three Crowns.” He smiled. “No difficulty about identifica- tion. Everybody seems to know every- body else in this part of the world.” P “What will you have?” said the ma- jor. “Beer for me,” said Enderby. ‘The major ordered two beers. “The whole place seems off its head with this murder,” remarked Enderby. “Rather a mysterious business by all accounts.” The major grunted. He was in some- | thing of a quandry. His sentiments to- ward journalists remained unchanged, but A man who has just handed you a| check for £5,000 is in a priviloged posi- tion. You cannot very well tell him to| go to the devil. ) (To be continued.) e Sleuth's Nose Worth $1,000. Detectives must have two good noses | —one for crime and another on the | face. That is why a magistrate in Paris has awarded $1,000 damages to a sleuth attached to the police squad for he suppression of gambling. The de- ___(Continued From Seventh Page) L. B Mrs. Marle Spekenheir: _treasurer. Thornton: recording _secretary. | Alverta Steele; assistant recording sec- retary, Mrs. Downie Jackson; inside sentinel, Mrs. Myrtle Bagman; outside sentinel, Mrs. Mattie Handback: trustee, 18 months, Mrs. Rosa Homan: repre- sentatives to the State Council. Mrs. Marilla Smith, Mrs. Mazie Domdera and Miss Minnie Butts. Goodwill Council elected officers as folows: Councilor, Charles MacGill (re- elected): associate councilor, Bessie Tennyson: vicz councilor, Marie An- thony; associate vice councilor, Jose- phine’ Hartung; conductor, ~Bessie | Chadwell; inside sentinel, Mrs. Minor; outside sentinel, Olive Wellen; record- ing secretary, Mae Nau (re-elected): treasurer, Garnett Fortune: financial secretary, Eva Smith (re-elected): trustee, 18 months, Janie Sherwood: | representatives to the State Council, | Olive Wellen, Abode Backenkeimer and | Eva Smith. | Anaccstia Council elected the follow- ing officers: Concilor, Mrs. Margaret Lainhart; associate councilor, Laura Allen; vice councilor, Pearl Torney; | ascociate vice councilor, Elizabeth Franz; recording secretary, Mrs. Mary P. James \ (re-elected); assistant recording secre- | tary, Mrs. Daisy Bell (re-elected); | treasurer, Mrs. Ella Smith (re-elected); | conductcr, Gertrude Everhart: warden, | Etham Rettestatt: inside sentinel, Hat- tie M. Beall; outside sentinel, Frank Smith; trustee, 18 months, Hattie M. Beall; representatives to the State Council, Mrs. Laura Allen, Mrs. Ella Smith and Mrs. Daisy Bell. Fride of Washington Council elected officers as follows: Councilor, Miss Lil- lian Allen: associate councilor, Joseph Cegden; vice councilor, Mrs. Bertha Lewis; acsociate vice councilor, Charles Luh; conductor, Mrs. Frances Neville; | warden, Howard Williams; inside senti- | nel, Mrs. Virginia Williams; outside | sentinel, Mrs. Mary Wolfe; financial secretary, Mrs. Lillian Martin (re- elected); treasurer, Ray Bryant (re- elected); recording secretary, Ernest ‘Warren (re-elected); assistant record- ing secretary, Mrs. Ruth Warren; 18- month trustee, Mrs. Anzonetta Flynn; representatives to the State Council, | Mrs. Lillian Martin, Mrs. Lorena Aren- des and Mrs. Emma Barnes; drill cap- tain, Archie Lewis, and pianist, Mrs. Ida Teeple. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY. William Cochran vresided at a meet. | ing of Columbia Council. Mrs. Deborah ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE E tective had sued a taxi company be- cause his nose had been injured in a taxi accident and he could no_ longer carry on his work at race tracks because “he would immediately be recognized ' on account of his injured nose.” Now celebrated water merchant is now no | Streitberger, past councilor of True Blue Council, presented her commission as deputy State councilor. The mem- bers later attended a meeting of Justice Council. At the next meeting officers will be elected. Hope Council met, with Mrs. Fannie Mason, councilor, presiding. There will be a card party Tuesday night. ‘Washington Council met, with Coun- cilor Mrs. Una Dorsey presiding. Mrs. Violet Priddy was obligated. A bingo zame will be played June 21. True Blue Council will meet in Phoe- nix Hall, 7 Fourth street northeast, next Thursday night. Justice Council meets Thursday night in Northeast Masonic Temple. SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM. The last meeting of National Lodge was called to order by Vice Comdr. Miss | Helen Grissam. The degrees were con- ferred on Mrs. Anna Bailey. Phil A. Kenney and John S. Richards were re- instated. ‘The next meeting will be June 20, at 808 I street. Elecuion of officers will be held and candidates initiated. CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA. Following the busine:s Tuesday eve- social meeting in charge of Miss Flor- | ence Hosford. Miss Clare Ondreyco. | senior councilor, in charge of junior ac- | tivities, anncunces a committee will be | present to receive the books to be sent to the Holy Land. A group of members from Court 212 joined Miss Mary C. Dufly, supreme regent, on the steamer De Grasse, sail- ing last Monday, for the Eucharistic Congress. Miss Rita Dolphin, Miss | Katherine Atkins, Miss Sarah Mc- Fadden, Mrs. Agatha Haines, Mrs. Rose Brosnan and Miss Mary Kane had a large delegation from th~ local court to wish them both bon voyag. THE MACCABEES. Mount Vernon Tent, Williem B. Se- vere, jr, commarder, at its meeting Monday evening in Northeast Masonic Johnson and J. Lyddane Menefee. The ! ning a program will be presented at & | degree team of Alexandria (Va.) Tent rendered the initiatory work on a class of 35 adults, and W. Blakeslee, Omar Porter, Kenneth Richardson, Mel- vin Steckline, Norman Shorb and Charles Reely, jr., graduates from C: tol Court, Junior Department. Manager W. O. Hayes, on behalf of the supreme commander, presented gold graduation pins to the former juniors and also to Miss Helen Deale, graduate from Capitol Court, who becomes a member of Eureka Hive. Capitol Court, Junior Department, Miss Helen Lord commander, met at Northeast Masonic Temple. Sixteen girls presented a flag drill under the supervision of Mrs. Sarah H. Severe, court director. Miss Bertha Shives was presented with a wrist watch from the supreme commander for assisting in se- curing 10 new members for the court. Miss Catherine Morris was awarded a merit in her golden deed record book for an essay on politeness. ‘The Ever Ready Girls’ Club of Capi- tol Court met at the home of Mrs. Severe and outlined plans for future activitles. The meeting July 12 will be | held at the home of Miss Lewis, Army ‘War College. National Tent and Martha Washing- ton Hive will give a moonlight excur- |sion and dance down the Potomac | Wilson Line steamer City of Wash- | ington. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. lows: | Charles J. Dean, deputy grand knight; Dr. George R. Ellis, chancellor; Edwin | P. Goodwin, recorder; E. A. Strudley, River Tuesday at 8:45 o'clock on the | Keane Council elected officers as fol- | James P. McKeon, grand knight; | mation are requested to communicate with George B. Saur, 4827 Illinois ave- nue. IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN. 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