Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1935, Page 8

SUNMER TAVEL REACHE N HIH Migration Nearing Record Days of 1929—Ships Are Packed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3.—America has gone nomad again. By wheel, wing and water, its people are in the midst of a Summer migra- tion that hasn’t been approached since the halcyon days before 1929. The transportation business, in the words of one steamship company executive, finally has turned the cor- ner. Steamships are packed, railroads, are running dozens of extra sections, airlines are hard pressed for equip- ment to accommoda’e bookings. Normandie Leads Exodus. When the liner Normandie sailed the other day loaded to capacity, her wake marked a path for dozens of other ships also booked to the limit. Last week end, for instance, saw 14,000 per- sons leave New York on ocean-going ships. John Schroeder, director of the Hapag-Lloyd line, credited the Nor- mandie with turning the attention of persons all over the country to the pos- sibilities of travel abroad. The Cunard-White Star Line re- ported its passenger traffic is 33 per cent greater this Summer than last. The French and Italian lines are hav- ing their biggest years since 1931, Railroad passenger traffic is looking up. The New York Central, for in-| stance, is enjoying a 15 per cent in- crease over last year. Boom Extends to Air, Too. ‘The travel boom has extended to the air, too. The Aeronautical Cham- ber of Commerce says air travel on all American transport lines for the first three months of this year was 49 per cent better than for the cor- responding period last year. One representative line, American Airlines, reports it carried 59,633 passengers duting the first five months this year, compared to 33,274 in the same period | last year. A new record was established at | the Cleveland Airport in June, when 15,748 passengers either arrived or left. Bus companies are getting their share of the new travel business. One company said business last week end was 100 per cent greater than that of the week before. Travel Up 40 Per Cent From 1934. James W. Kirk, travel firm execu- tive, said: “Ocean travel was up 50 per cent in 1934 from 1933; this year it is up 40 per cent from 1934. Individuals are spending more money, but the American travel dollar is a smart dol- lar—witness the bookings to Norway and Sweden and to England and Italy, where exchange rates are favorable.” Kirk also is authority for the state- ment that the country’s national parks are thronged with more visitors this year than at any time since the World War. As for automobile tourists, the great output of new cars this year indicates a big season on the Nation's high- ‘ways. iy SPORTS FETE PLANNED FOR BOYS City Vacationists to Get Train- ing at Life-Saving Classes. A Summer program of sports and hobbies for Y. M. C. A. boys vaca- tioning in the city rather than at Camp Letts has been instituted by the Y. M. C. A. Boys' Department. Designed to emulate the Camp Letts program as nearly as possible, the schedule calls for organization of four base ball teams, classes in track and field athletics, tennis, hikes in the woods, gymnasium classes, swim- ming instruction, junior life-saving classes, indoor games, handicraft and other attractions. Special swimming instruction will be given Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, under direction of William E. Hutzell, boys’ swimming instructor. R. B. Morgan, boys’ department phys- {cal director, will have charge of the athletic program. The Summer pro- gram is under supervision of Fred T. Carpenter and Edward H. Thacker, associate directors of the department. —_—e Polish Army Strong. The Polish army is one of the world’s strongest and best-disciplined. All Fares are Round Trip Except where moted ‘Thursdey, July 4 $3.50 New York Newark, Elizabeth, Plainfield ' Lv. 100 a.m. and 8.00 am. '$3.25 Atlantic City /Lv. 7.00 a.m. Returning, leave 7.30 p.m. ) Sunday, July 7 $3.00 Philadelphia $2.75 Wilmington Lv. 800 am. and 1130 am. $3.00 Chester Lv. 8.00 a.m. only $5.00 Parkersburg X larksburg ~ $4.00 Graftor Saturdsy, July 6, Lv. 11.06 p.m. $3.00 Cumberland $2.00 Martinsburg $1.50 Harpers Ferry Sundsy, July 7, Lv. 835 em. Baltimore $1.25 Saturdays and Sundays $1.50 Daily—Good for 3 days $5.65 New York One Way Every Night Philadelphia $3.40 Wilmington $2.72 Air Conditioned Recl; Seat Coaches open Union Station 10 p.m. Lv. 1.00 e.m. Over July 4th 1, DAY TRAVEL BARGAIN % ROUND TRIP FARES REDUCED 3 Leave _snytime from moom July 3 oon ly 7. Return snytime up to midnight reduced sleeping _car ails Ask Agents or Phone Dist. 3300—Nat. 7370 LTIMORE &OHIOR L} : i y » THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1935. CHAPTER XLV. EXPLANATION. HANK God you're safe!” Alison looked around to see Guy in the doorway. She gave a sob and ran into his arms. A little man with a stiff crop of bright red hair was behind Guy and now he moved forward looking at the d & og. “What’s happened here?” he asked, and his eyes rested on Daphne, She stood as if frozen in the spot where she had made her last effort, but now she forced her mouth into a smile. “Nothing. something.” “Dog’s been poisoned!” It was the maid Preedy who gave that informa- tion. “I don’t know what's going on. 1 was engaged to take charge of a mental case but it seems to me—" She ended with a most expressive sniff which included most of the people present. Grice touched the dog with his foot. “Dead, all right,” he confirmed. Then to Daphne. “Mrs. Poynter?” “Yes!” She was cool again now. “I want a word with you.” “I'm sorry. I'm just leaving for abroad. Couldn’t you write? I don't want to miss my boat.” “I'm afraid you'll have to miss it,” said Inspector Grice. “I've some ques- tions to ask you.” “Alison.” Robert touched his daugh- ter’s shoulder gently. Her face was buired*in Guy's chest. “Come on.” He did not look back as he went out. Alison, lowed. Robert made room for them both in the car without a word. He told the chauffeur to get Mrs. Sumer's The dog’s had a fit or holding Guy's hand, fol- SAM HOWARD, the high- diving champion, says: “I can smoke Camels all I want to and keep in perfect ‘condition.’ Camels are so mild. They never get my wind. And when tired a Camel gives me new energy.” SUSAN VILAS, the free-style swimming champion: “I've discovered that Camels are mild. They don’t cut down my wind. Camels are so full of rich, smooth taste, they must be made from more expensive tobaccos.” luggage off the car and then ordered him to take them home. The man, wooden-faced, saluted, but Alison thought she caught a gleam of curiosity and satisfaction as_he obeyed. They sat silent, Guy holding Ali- son’s hand, until the car stopped in Chester Square. Only by the flierce pressure of his hand against hers did Guy show his feelings, for they were both conscious of Robert Rede's gray, haggard face and haunted eyes. As they got out he said gruffly, “You'd better come in.” They followed him into the library. He crossed slowly to the fire, stood staring into it; said without turn- ing, “Alison, my dear, I'm sorry——" ‘Darling, don't! You couldn’t help it” She clung to him. “Don't, please—" Holding her in his arms, he looked at Guy, who stood awkwardly just inside the door. “Don’t go. I want to hear your end of the story. I've been a damned old fool!” The words came out slowly and bitterly. He looked down at Alison’s head and added with a wry smile, “Besides, I understand you want to talk to me about something quite different?” g Alison raised her head; Guy looked at her, questioning. She smiled through her tears and nodded. “If I may, sir,” sald Guy eagerly. “Oh, you may!” said Robert. “Looks as if I wasn't fit to take care of Alison, anyway!” Alison stopped his self-reproaches with a kiss. But it was Detective Inspector Grice who had the last word on the sub- ject. Guy brought him around at 9 o'clock that night to hear Alison’s own story and receive her thanks. A fatherly little man when off duty, he seemed quite moved and e CARL HUBBELL, star pitcher of the New York Giants: kept repeating, “You'd & narrow es- cape! I don't mind saying it, inside this room—a very narrow escape! She meant those chocolates for you, there’s no doubt abeut that!” “Can you get her on it?” asked Guy anxiously. But Grice shook his head. “I'm afrald not, sir. There's no evidence to prove it. You and I may know it, but that won’t do for a jury. We may still get her on those letters, of course.” “Can you prove she wrots them?” cried Alison eagerly, and her hand went out to squeeze Guy's that lay by her side. Again Grice shook his head. “She's too clever for that. When we found that letter in the dead man’s pocket—it was addressed to you, by ‘the way, Miss Rede, for it had ‘to A. R’ on it—and it was to warn you against Dr. Lumley, here, no doubt to make him out guilty! When I saw that letter I thought I had the person who'd sent them all, of course—until I saw the body.” Grice paused artistically, gathering their eyes. Alison, seeing that it was expected of her, asked dutifully, “Why until you saw it?” “When I had seen the body I knew he didn't do much writing.” Grice smiled, relishing his grim joke. *“I daresay he could use those hands of his all right for some things, but not for holding a pen! You see, sir, he was a leper—a sort of living corpse, as you might say!” “A leper!” Alison shuddered. “Good Lord!” Guy was less shocked than interested in the medical fact. “Rare to get a case so far gone as that in England.” “Ah, but he wasn't English,” ex- plained Grice. “You've identified him then?” cried es, sir. This evening. He's a Colombian subject and over here without & passport, so he’s probably & crook—name of Manuel Gompez.” “Gompez?” ‘They both cried out together, star- ing at one another. “Do you think—" “Brother or something,” agreed Guy. “That'd be how Mrs. Samuers got hold of him.” “You know him?” demanded Grice. “I—we—both know one Gompez. The Spanish gigolo who was Mrs. Poynter’s friend,” explained Guy. “But go on. This is getting interest- ing.” “There’s not much more to tell you,” said Grice. “He died that night you were there, all right, for the cleaning woman cleared out the recess under the stairs that after- noon, and whoever moved that linoleum did it between the time that you and Miss Rede left the house and the time the remover’s men finished, for after that the housé keys were at the agent’s. And it wasn't any light job, either, pulling it off the dead man. We're having it tried for fingerprints, so perhaps we may learn something. If we can prove that Mrs. Sumers touched that roll it means she must've been into the cellar that day the removers were there and then,” Grice ended grimly, “she’ll have to explain why she made false statements to the police, and why she didn't notify us of the body in her cellar! 1 think she’ll find that awkward.” “What'll happen to her?” Alison. “Nothing, I'm afraid,” said Grice with a sigh. “If we could prove the truth, if we could prove that she sent you down there with that false tele- gram and had this leper chap wait- ing to do you in, and that she sent Dr. Lumley here down with the pretty little notion that he'd be accused of your murder—well, there’d be some- thing to talk about. If we could even prove that she meant to do you in with those chocolates, Miss Rede, 80 that the money left to you'd go to your father and through him to her— well, then we'd have her properly, but as things are—" He sighed. But Alison was not thinking of Daphne. asked - ATH LETES SAY: "THEY DONT GET YOUR “Camels are so mild,” he says, “they never get my wind or ruffle my nerves.” WIND f’ BILL MEHLHORN, the star golfer,addsthistimely word: *T've got to keep fit to com- pete in tournament golf I can smoke Camels steadily. From years of experience I know they won't get my wind or jangle my nerves.” 'Il ] “Then—it means you won't get cleared?” she said to Guy. “I mean, about those letters?” “I'm afraid not. Does it make any difference to you?” he asked. She laughed softly, & laugh of pure ppiness. “You know it doesn’t!” “Now that your father's giving me & fresh start—well—I'm going to for- get it, live it down.” Grice stood up. “Don’t you worry, sir,” he prom- ised. “Mrs. Sumers won’t trouble you again. She’s had a fright! She left for Spain by air this afternoon.” But he added regretfully, “A pity! A little hanging would have done her a whole world of good!” But when he had gone, when she and Guy were alone, Alison safe in his arms, whispered, “Do you know, I'm glad Daphne’s got away. I could almost bless her! But for her—" “But for her we'd never have met?” “Yes!” They smiled at one another with that complete trust in the strange ways of Providence which only happy lovers know. THE END. —_— RAY JUMPS IN BOAT! YES, IT SOUNDS FISHY! Texans Dock at Galveston With Yarn of 150-Pound Sting- ing Visitor. GALVESTON, Tex; (#.—“and they're so thick you have to beat them of with a base ball bat,” goes the familiar fish story. A 150-pound ray, its body equipped with four long stingers, playfully ! leaped into a 14-foot boat occupied by Wallace van Houten and Godfrey Jacquard. Van Houten took to shark- infested waters, but Jacquard beat the ray into insensibility with an oar, and killed it with a knife, GEORGE M. 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