Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1937, Page 34

DAILY SHORT STOR SKY CRIME By Jack H. Mosher. SO METEING, Larry Peterson felt certain, was going to happen. He had felt it in what he called his “bones” & hun- dred separate times since the passenger plane he piloted had left Miami be- hind an hour ago. And when that something did hap- pen, Miss Mac- Grudder, he felt equally certain, was going to have a hand in it. Miss MacGrud- der was one of his two lady passen- gers, and as Larry studied them again, in the mirror above his pilot’s seat, he marveled at the difference there could be in members of the same pro- fession, For Miss Lane, his other Jady pessenger, was also & school teacher. “They're just like a vulture and a— & dove!” he reflected. Certainly there was no denying the fact that Miss MacGrudder, the older of the two who had boarded his Havana-bound plane back in Miami, was the closest thing to a vulture, for her nose curved just like the beaks on those birds which he had so often seen strutting the streets of South American towns, further on down the line, and from beneath craggy, gray eyebrows flashed orbs every bit as dark and piercing as those on the bird of prey which she so strongly resembled. “Look at her now, would you?” Larry muttered to himself. Stiffiy upright in her seat ahe sat, her head swiveling from left to right on s frayed sort of neck, which he felt must have got that way from years and years of such swiveling. She missed nothing that happenea in the cabin, for whenever Larry looked at her pretty young companion in the mirror he could feel this Miss ‘MacGrudder’s hostile eye upon him, like the warning of a mother hen with chick. * ok kX 'I‘HEN she kept glancing et the plane's third passenger with the same hostile expression. Stoutish, this man was, and wearing s smartly cut palm beach suit. He had seemed ordinary enough when he came aboard in Miami, carrying & brown leather briefcase, yet now, a&s the school ma’am's repeated scrutinies made the man more and more restless behind his smoked glasses, Larry felt that elmost any moment he was likely to do something extraordinary. And even while he thought this, he saw Miss MacGrudder’s throat muscles tighten suddenly, her eyes almost starting from her head as she got to her feet. “Joe Bledsoe!” she croaked. “You've got @ gun there, in your coat pocket. Iknow! Ican tell by——" “Can it, lady! Can it!” The ordinary appearing man flung to his feet, demonstrating as he dia #0 that the old vulture had spoken the truth by producing an ugly black sutomatic from the pocket in ques- tion. “Sit right where you are—all of you!” he commanded. “If you move a muscle, I'll shoot, you understand?” Then, for Larry’s express benefit. “And you, Mister Pilot, listen to me. I want you to fly us to Shengo key. T1l leave you and these two dames there and fly the plane on myself. Do you know where Shengo is?” Larry merely nodded. “Then, head for it!” the man went en. “And no fancy flying. See what I mean?” * % % % LAERY saw what he meant, ana & good deal more. For now that the man had taken off his glasses, he recognized him as Joe Bledsoe, the gangster. “Beautiful Joe” was the name by which he was known to the police of a dozen States where he had done business. Only last night his photo had appeared on the front page of a Miami paper. A Florida bank somewhere up-State had been robbed of $75,000, and this Beautiful Joe Bledsoe was being mentioned in dispatches as the likely operator. Silence gripped the occupants of the cabin while he flew the miles PROBE OF SPIES GIVEN APPROVAL Honse Committee Backs Resolu- tion for Inquiry Into Alleged Propaganda. BY the Associated Press. The House Rules Committee has approved a resolution for a con- gressional inquiry into alleged prop- aganda against the American form of government. The resolution was sponsored by Ohairman Dickstein of the House Immigration Committee, who has said he could name 125 spies who are attempting to set up a Fascist state | jjyelier than in years. Dizziness, in America. He testified before the Rules Com- mittee that Fritz Kuhn of Detroit was head of an organization of 200,000 Nazi sympathizers and that a Nazi army was being drilled in this coun- between the point where Bledsoe had been spotted and the lonely key where he planned | to set them down. Then they had reached Shengo at last. Larry eased the stick forward and the plane lost altitude rapidly. The tiny island came up to meet them. He flattened out a moment later, setting the plane down on the bright green water with something of & flourish. “Better break out thecollapsible boat,” Bledsoe or- dered, “and get “And no fancy flying. See what I ashore. And make mean?” it snappy, see?” “Okay!" * ok ok % ARRY flung open the cabin door, leading the way out to the port- side pontoon, followed by the two school teachers. Miss MacGrudder, he noticed, was still fussing as he helped her down on the pontoon. Then Bledsoe followed Miss Lane down, and Larry began to unstrap the collapsible boat from under the plane’s fuselage. He broke it out and set it down on the water alongside, but when he turned to help Miss MacGrudder into it the older school teacher drew back. “Nothing else for it, I guess,” he told her. She whirled on the man with the gun, eyes flashing. “Joe Bledsoe,” she accused. "I always said you'd turn out to be & no-good bum. Even when I taught you, back in the sixth grade, in Wasn- ington, I could tell you were heading for— —" “Can it!” Bledsoe snarled. “And get into the boat before I let you have it.” Larry could not help chuckling de- spite their desperate situation. It must, he thought, be embarrassing for a man who ranked no lower than public enemy No. 3 to be faced by the tormentor of his school days. LI “I WON'T get into the boat,” in- sisted Miss MacGrudder, “un- til I have my parasoi. Why, in this sun...It's in the cabin, and I want it!” For a moment Bledsoe's face paled. ‘Then he grinned. “‘Oh, all right, then,” he growled. “I guess you will need it in this sun,” adding, with a sneer, “to protect your looks.” “Thank you.”” she snapped, hur- rying back into the cabin. Miss MacGrudder’s parasol, Lar- ry recalled, was quite a museum piece. It had been hoisted over her conning tower when he first laid eyes on the sharp-featured schoolma’am back in Miami, a tricolored contrap- tion which boasted a handle about es large and as formidable as a patrolman’s stick. This resemblance was drawn forcibly to his witerition a moment later when Miss MacGridder emerged from the plane’s cabin, for now she clutchea the parasol in reverse, and there was a more decided glint in her eye, cer- tainly more of the vulture in her face, as she bore down upon an apparently unsuspecting Bledsoe, parasol ready to strike. * X ¥ X OMETHING must bave told tne gangster that he was threatened, for Bledsoe turned quickly, but not quickly enough. Miss MacGrudder's avenging rod fell with telling force on the left side of his handsome head and he toppled, automatic flying from his hand, into the water. “You took en awful chance,” Larry said, a5 Miss MacGrudder assisted him, next moment, to drag her victim back onto the pontoon. “Sneaking up on him like that.” “Not such an awful chance,” she said, “from that side.” “What do you mean—from that side?” “Just,” she snorted, “that I've known for years what the police have never found out. Joe Bledsoe 18 blind in his left eye. And,” she added, chuckling grimly as they propped the unconscious gangster up against a strut, “for the present, at any rate, he oan't see out of the other.” (Copyright, 1937.) try—in some places in uniform and under the Nazi swastika. The resolution would set up a special House committee to make inquiry into spreading and financing of propa- ganda directed against the Govern- ment and its officers. 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Shipping men said this cargo is the first of 4,000 tons of similar equipment bought from West- ern power development projects. Yesterday the steamer City of Los Angeles started for the Osaka junk- yards. It carried 6,000 tons of scrap iron. Japan’s steel dilemma was created largely by Soviet Russia’s reduction of iron exports to Japan after the Jap- anese pact with Germany and by failure of iron ore sources in Man- chukuo to materialize, observers said. Composite scrap was quoted today on & rising market at $21.92 a ton, the highest price in 14 years, but Jap- anese buyers are making firm offers for all available. GRANT’S NATIVE HOME TO BE OPENED AGAIN Repairs Being Completed After Almost Being Swept Away by Flood. By the Associated Press. POINT PLEASANT, Ohio, April 2. —The house in which Ulysses B. Grant was born will be opened to the public Sunday for the first time since it was inundated by the record January flood. Charles M. 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