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HOLDING COMPANY| [seevice oroees | CURB AGAIN URGE Federal Power Commission Reiterates Demand in Annual Report. By the Associated Press. The demand for Government con- trol cf #olding companies in the elec- tric power industry is reiterated in the annual report of the Federal Power Commission. This is necessary, the commission says, not only “for the protection of consumers and investors in operating utility companies, but likewise for the protection of the public rights, which the Federal water power act seeks to preserve in the water resources of the Nation.” “Holding companies,” the commis- sion said, “present a serious obstacle to the prompt and orderly determina- tion of capital investment in licensed projects, since most licensees are controled by holding companies, which manage and supervise their affairs, including construction, engineering and financing. Under existing legis- lation the commission has no direct supervision over these holding com- panies, nor has it authority to compel them to produce their books and records.” CONVICTS GIVE CONCERT FOR MEN TO DIE TODAY West Virginia Prisoner Hears Hillbilly Tunes Before Going to Gallows. By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., January 7. —Convicts strummed on banjoes yes- terday, playing hillbilly tunes for Greely Blankenship, 29-year-old Ken- tucky mountaineer who was scheduled to die on the gallows today. Warden C. F. McClintic yesterday granted the prisoner’s request for the music and two inmates of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, both mu- siclans, were permitted to enter the man'’s cell and play the pieces he re- quested. The State Supreme Court turned down his last appeal last week. Gov. H. G. Kump made it plain a month ago, in granting a 30-day reprieve, that he had no intention of commut- ing the sentence. Four months ago Blankenship shot and killed John Christofone, 48, hus- band of his alleged paramour, at Matewan, W. Va. Silver Smugglers Fought. China is trying to stop the smug- gling of silver out of the country. ARMY ORDERS. Baldwin, Maj. Ross O. Infantry, granted leave of absence for 1 month and 15 days, March 8. Gibson, Capt. Horace N., Infantry, granted leave of absence for 3 months and 23 days, January 7. Timberlake, Capt. Edward W., Coast Artillery Corps, granted leave of ab- sence for 3 months and 15 days, April 26. Raymond, Capt. Senius J., Quarter- master Corps, assigned to duty as as- sistant to the quartermaster, Fort George E. Meade, Md. Ohman, First Lieut. Rinold Lach- lan, Cavalry Reserve, promoted to | captain, January 4. Sullivan, First Lieut. John Michael, Infantry Reserve, promoted to captain, January 4. Dum, Second Lieut. Willilam Homer, Alr Corps Reserve, from Cincinnau, | Ohio, to Selfridge Field, Mich, Jan- uary 14. Malmstrom, Second Lieut. Vincent Frederick, Infantry Reserve, promoted to first lieutenant, January 4. Johnson, Warrant Officer Willlam |J., Panama Canal Department, as- | signed to duty in the adjutant gen- eral’s department, presidio of San Francisco, upon completion of his present tour of foreign service. Murphy, Warrant Officer Emmett, ordered home to await retirement, January 31. NAVY ORDERS. Bureau of Navigation. Forrestel, Lieut. Comdr. William J., dispatch orders December 26 modified. To duty as executive officer instead command, receiving station, Philadel- phia, Pa. Canty, Lieut. Robert E., orders Oc- tober 25 revoked. Continue duty 12th Naval District. Gray, Lieut. Harry F., detached U. S. 8. New York in December; to U. S. 8. Nitro as engineer officer. Banister, Lieut. (J. G.) Alan B, de- | tached U. S. S. S-17 in December; to Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Medical Corps. Grow, Capt. Eugene J., detached Naval Medical Supply Depot, Brooklyn, N. Y.; continue treatment Naval Hos- pital, Washington, D. C. Harper, Comdr. John, detached Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C,, in January; to U. S. S, Wyoming. Zearbaugh, Lieut. David O. de- tached U. S. S. Arizona; to duty Fitz- simons General Hospital, Denver, Colo. Supply Corps. Edrington, Lieut. Thomas C. de- | tached Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va.; to home, relieved all active | duty. Bullock. Ensign James E., detached U. S. S. Houston about February 19; to Mine Division 1. Castle Repairs Costly. Lord Conway, who was recently THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MUTT AND JEFF— MARRY ATALL f joint enterprise, it had gradually come CHAPTER XXXIX. THE TRAP. T WAS the first time Molly and I had been alone together since I had said good night to her in the bed room at the flat. The memory of that moment had been constantly with me, but in the un- sentimental atmosphere of a small boat, and the tense excitement of our to appear like some remote dream. ‘Whether she even remembered the kiss she had given me I was at a loss to tell. Tired out and half drugged, as she had been, it was quite possible that she had acted merely from an instinctive feeling of gratitude, and that when she had awakened next morning the whole incident had been entirely forgotten. She had certainly greeted me with- out the smallest trace of embarrass- ment, and ever since then she seemed to have included both Jerry and my- self in a kind of frank and affection- ate comradeship, which, as far as| appeared on the surface, made no dis- | tinction between the pair of us. All the same, as we walked llong‘ the uneven shore, I found it a trifie difficult to preserve that detached and alert frame of mind which the occasion obviously demanded. She had slipped her arm through mine, and the soft pressure induced such a pleasant thrill that the mach« inations of Mr. Orloff and his friends married at the age of 77, lives in & thousand-year-old castle at Maid- stone, England, which he has been restoring at great cost. seemed for the moment to be com- paratively unimportant. I felt an almost overmastering long- SAY, WHO WANTS To WANT To MARRY A ing to tell her how much I loved her. D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1935. Well,; Anyway, It’s the Long and Short of it. OH I DONT KNOW ABOUT THAT - L ONCE A SHRIMP? GIRL DON'T BE EVEN WiTH PROPOSED KMEW A LONG GIRL NAMED SHORT-SHE LONG LOVED A SHORT MAN NAMED LONG - LONG PROPOSED To SHORT AND BEFORE LONG ‘A BIG MR. LITTLE, WHO LONGED TO LONG'S T SHORT - $0 LONG, MEETING LITTLE, THREATENED o MARRY SHORT BEFORE LONG - SO By VICTOR BRIDGES I wanted to sit down beside her there and then on the wet grass and— “What are you thinking about, Nick?” With a guilty start, I came back suddenly out of my dream. “Lots of things,” I prevaricated. “Jerry chiefly. I wonder if we were right_in letting him go up there alone?” “I didn't altogether like it,” she admitted. “Still, we've got to do some- thing, and on the whole it seemed to be the best plan. I'm sure he’ll bully Mrs. Gowlland a lot better than you could.” “You don’t know all my accom- plishments,” I protested. ‘I can be a perfect flend with women when I'm in the right mood.” She laughed softly. “That's just your conceit, Nick dear. Why, I wouldn’t trust you to dismiss a house- maid—not if she was pretty.” I produced the keys which Jerry had returned to me, and opening the iron gate, held it back for Molly to pass. It swung to behind us, and, having tested it to make sure that it was properly closed, I followed her up the rough causeway and unlocked the big front door. Thanks to Jerry's previous investi- gations, we were more or less prepared for what awaited us. On stepping in- side, we found ourselves in an empty circular-shaped hall, lit by a couple of long, grimy windows. Out of this ran a broad corridor leading to what had evidently been the principal manufacturing room, a large, barnlike structure, with a domed glass roof, where rows of stout wooden trestles and & pile of stacked benches could be dimly discerned in the gray light that filtered down from above. On either side of the corridor ran & number of smaller rooms or offices. “That must be Osborne’s workshop,” I said, “that first opening on the right. Let’s start there and look over the rest of the place after.” A few paces brought us to the head of another and narrower passage, at the farther end of which we could see through an open doorway into the curious apartment that Jerry had already described to us. Like the main room, it was illum- inated from above by means of a that the panes had apparently been recently cleaned, the light here was nature. The principal object which it re- vealed was what looked, to my in- | experienced eyes, like a rather odd- | shaped electric cooking stove, with an impressive array of plugs and switches shining from the brick wall behind it. Molly uttered a sudden exclama- tlon. “Look at that, Nick! It's exact- ly like the small furnace father used to have in his laboratory at home. Oh, yes—this is where Osborne worked all right!” She hurried forward, and following her down the passage, I paused for an | instant to examine the door which | Jerry had presumably left open. It consisted, as he had said, of a single slab of solid steel. Judged by its appearance, the weight must have been considerable, but the whole thing was so beauti- fully poised that it swung to and fro at the lightest touch. across to the furnace, which Molly was scrutinizing with rapt interest. “Practically a duplicate,” she an- nounced excitedly, “and, what's more, it's made by the same people—the glass skylight, but owing to the fact| of a somewhat more satisfactory | Leaving it half closed, I stepped | Acme Electric Corp. of Buffalo— there’s the name on that little plate.” “‘Money no object,’ evidently,” I remarked. “I wonder what it cost Avon, fitting him out with all these gadgets.” “Some of them may have been here already. This room was specially built for making experiments in— that's obvious.” “How do you know?” I inquired. of the walls. As Jerry said, it's just like a prison cell. You could blow yourself up in her quite comfortably without hurting the rest of the building.” “Well, I'm glad Osborne didn’t do anything so idiotic,” I remarked | thankfully. She glanced up. “Why, Nick? It would havé served him right and it would have saved you a heap of trouble.” set-off against that I should never have met you.” For an instant her blue eyes rested | on mine with a kind of half grave, half smiling tenderness, then to my utter bewilderment, her whole face sud- denly went white and rigid. “Look,” she gasped. “The door!” I spun around in a flash, but I was too late. great slab of steel had swung for- |ward into its place, shutting us in ruthlessly and silently, like the door- way of a vault. Almost simultane- ously I heard the sharp click of a ki “My God, Nick! We're trapped.” I had flung myself across the room and was already wrenching fever- ishly at the handle. It twisted back- {ward and forward in my grip, but | nothing further happened. Thrust and strain as I would, all my efforts were useless, and at last, releasing my hold, I stood staring helplessly at the blank, immovable barrier in front of us. | “y@h have my congratulations, Mr. “Look at the door and the thickness | “Quite s0,” I admitted, “but as a| Before I could move, the Trench. The last time I called on you, you expressed a hope that we should meet again. I trust you are now satisfied.” It was Orloff’s voice, faint, but dis- those smooth, mocking tones a chill heart. I drew in a long breath. “So it's you, Orloff,” I said stead- ily. “You seem to have a habit of turning up when you're not expected.” ‘There was the ghost of a laugh. “I out. The voice seemed to come from iron grating let into the brick wall | above the top of the door. I take it that you haven't shut us up psychology.” “That was not my principal ob- Jject. The fact is, that you have be- come a nuisance. So much so that I find it necessary to put an end to your activities. In a few minutes from now you will both be dead.” Molly stepped forward noiselessly and slipped her hand into mine. “What's the sense in murdering us?” she asked calmly. “We haven't got | the formula.” “My dear young lady, I am afraid you are under a misapprehension. I am quite aware that my original as- tinctly audible, and at the sound of | sense of utter despair crept into my | | keep my werd, as you will shortly find | somewhere over my head, and, look- | ing up. I caught sight of a narrow | | “Very interesting,” I replied, “but | in here in order to discuss your own | | sumption was wrong. but unfortu-; | nately you and your friends have be- | come a little too well acquainted with !my private affairs. There are inter- |ests at stake compared with which | your lives do not matter the snap of | & finger.” Tomorrow—Jimmy Fox takes a | hand once more. Mine Output Rises. Mining production in Chile steadily rising. 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