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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1937. Chapter 50 Mike Faces the Test OT a lunkhead,” Gay said in a withering voice. “Just a moron!” Walking back into Higgins’ room, she swept the far wall with eager. eyes and moved straight to the hole inthe plaster. “Here you are, sleuth. Some- time when, you're short! of cash,’ why don’t you sell that head of:yours:for a curiosity? ‘You wouldn’t miss it.” I tried to look crushed and 1 man- aged to beam like an idiot, “I must be getting old,” 1 murmured. “Or feeb! inded,” said Gay. “Come on to breakfast.” “Go ahead down. [ll collect Mi- chael and the aunt. ! think the Skip- per will be all right for half an hour.” There was one danger that I had overlooked—the likelihood of our be- ing intercepted in the hall. But Gay solved my problem before I could be- gin to tussle with it. “I'll go through the kitchen and see if they need help,” she said. “Do you Ahink yqu can get two whole people down in gidis before another brain- storm stPikes you?” 1 turned my back on her, but 1 didn’t move until | heard her reach the kitchen. Then I turned and gal- loped down the hall at full speed. Outside Michael’s room 1 paused long enough to screw my face into a glum expression and thrust my hands de- jectedly into my pockets. Michael turned a red face from his one-handed struggle with a tie, “It's about time,” he said. “Fix this damn ‘thing, will you, before 1'go 1 was ashamed of myself. It was bad enough to plan cold-bloodedly the proof that your best friend was a-murderer, but to bait him was inex- eusable, Stealing a glance at-him, I nearly abandoned the whole idea. He looked terrible. “Ym sorry," 1 said. “'m—I'm sorry.”. ” i He stared at mhe'a'moment. “Don’t look like that!” Ke growled. “It’s my faylt, I'm, jumpy.. Forget it.” *All tight." shoved my cigarettes at’ him!’ “Any! sound from the Skip- or : ; “No. I wish we could get a doctor here now. Jim—” The flare of the match lighted up his drawn face. “You don’t suppose this will have any after effects—heart or anything-~do you?” don't see why it should,” I said. if it does,” said Michael bitterly, “Tll never forgive myself.” “You?” Great God! Was the crazy just as I was busily trying to prove it for myself? “Don’t be absurd, man! What have you got to do with it?” “If Pd insisted on her going south, she would have been forced to tell me what was on her mind, and my father would have been sent back where he belonged.” It took me fully 10 seconds to get my breath. “You think your father’s presence caused all this?” “It must have. It was the only un- usual thing that I can think of.” Michael crushed his barely lighted cigarette. 1 studied his, face. “Do you think that also explains Higgins’ extraordinary» behavior?” “No.” The face was cloudy. “Damn completely nuts?” what could have ailed him?” “You've got me, Mike,”-I said truthfully. Has it occurred te you that there’s something mighty pecu- liar about the way Higgins died?” He whirled on me. “What do you mean?” “Well,” 1 was picking my words with care, “when a bullet goes through a man’s head, it lands some- where. Of course, the police will be | better than I was, but I'll be damned if I can, find it—anywhere.” His eyes were boring into my face. “Are you sure it went through?” “Positive. There’s a mark where it went in and a gash where it caine ont” I delivered the end of that sentence to an empty room, Michael had start- ed for Higgins’ door, and if he got a glimpse of the face under that blan- ket before I had staged my act, it was all over. Everything I had went into | the sprint that brought me up to him | just as he halted at the side of the bed. Two seconds later and 1 would not have been in time to grab the hand he reached toward the blanket. Masterly Oor— ONT, Mike. It's—pretty bad.” Ordinarily wild horses couldn’t have stopped him. Was it exhaustion ‘or was it guilt in his face and trem- bling hands? “Perhaps—you're right.” His voice ‘was muffled. There was a silence and then he straightened up. “All we have to do is reconstruct the scene. He must have been either on the bed or beside it—unless someone moved him, Did anyone touch him?” “Not so far as I know,” J said in the steadiest voice 1 could muster. “Then he must have been doing one of the two. That means that the bullet—” His eyes turned to the far .| Wall and picked out the splotch in “Here you are, sleuth.” 1 fixed it, sank gloomily upoe, the hed, and took to a studious contem- plation of the floor. Michael gruhted into a vest, swore himself into a coat, selected a hangdkerchief to his taste, and finally became conscious of me, ‘This Damned Murder Fest 5 occa he said irritably, “now} what's the matter, Aren't things bad enough withott any high tragedy fre 2" »” L said, “1 don’t like it,” a don't say, Nov* look at me. I Just love it! Another minute and I'l be turning handsprings.” mood always annoyed me, I e of an imbecile 1 snapped. “And ce down. There's no x for waking the Skip- the Skipper?” He @arette case, found it violently on the t, Jimmie, 1 simply re- do something besides king like Banquo's d's sake get over. the e hi of LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W,, L. 40 24 40 25 ] Pet }a truculeng)voice said, “Come in.” , the plaster immediately. His voice stopped. The next instant his grasp on my arm made me wince. “What we devil oe big idea?” was ting to keep voice down. “What do you mean?” “That bullet is right where it should be. What kind of damned stunt fs this?” I shook him off, “I don’t know what you're i about,” 1 grated. “There isn’t any bullet. I've been over this door a dozen times—even moved the bed and looked in the hall. If you find anything, you're better than I ami" There was an awful moment of:si- lence, and then Michael began to chuckle—a chuckle that sent the blood back into my singing head. “Jimmie~—" he said... “Jimmie— you're a dud! Higgins was—oh, Lord! left-handed! Look.” He pointed to the far wall, “Here’s “your: bullet, right where it ought to be.” Either I was witnessing some mas- terly acting or Michael had no con- ception of the state in which the body had been found. I stared at that tiny section of cracked plaster as if I had! never séen it before in my life. “Come along,” he said at last. “You need food!" If my little attempt did nothing else, it had at least restored Michael to a good humor. He was still chuck- ling when we reached the stairs. “Go look after your love-life,” I said. “I'll get the aunt. I'll cough | when—" “It won't be necessary,” said Mi- chael, clattering down the stairs, M. Farrington alone remained, and 1 rather relished the idea of an en- counter with the irascible old lady, I knocked on her door and called, “It's Jimmie, Aunt Martha.” There was a slight pause and then , (Copyright, 1987, Bather Tyler} ; <> 5 as + - ~ WILL FULFILLED NEWARK, N, J.—In Polfiliment ef the will of Ferdinand Beren- stein of this city which provided ¥. for a * iversary of his death, a Was given with three hun- fool going to confide his guilt to me j it, it doesn’t explain anything. Jim, | > | nirthful festival” on the} IIT’S A HABIT NOW; | GIANTS AND CUBS YANKS LOSE BUT KEEP LEAD} INTACT AS WHITE SOX DROP CONTEST TO LOWLY BROWNS | (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, July 3.—Chicago Cubs and New York Giants con- tinue their mad scramble in , the National League. Both teams won again yesterday. Meeting Poston Bees, who were fresh from a four-game victory lover Brool:lyn Dodgers, three of ‘which were shutout affairs, the Giants promptly proceeded to! brush them aside and put an labrupt ending to the Bees’ winning streak at six straight. While King ‘Carl Hubbe'l was grabbing his} third victory in a row since re- turning to form, holding Boston to seven bingles, Terry’s charges were pounding opposition pitching} |for 13 safeties and a 6 to 2 win. The up-and-coming Pittsburgh | | Pirates niso hada their hopes shat- {tered yesterday. A victory would j have carried them into third place jover the idle Cards. But the Cubs were in no mood to relinquish jfirst place to the Giants and| therefore staged a rally in the} ninth inning that ovrcame — th Bucs’ one-run lead. ' And still the Bruins’ half-game margin remains intact. And stil]; | the Redbirds remain in third place. { Which of the two top most teams will lose first? With dovblehead- ers scheduled for Sunday and; Monday in celebration of the glorious Fovrth, the standings wil! | probably show a change Tuesday morning. Brooklyn Dodgers turned th? itables. After being shutout three | times in a row and scoring but | one run in the fourth contest, they turned on Philadelphia Phil- | lies and with the aid of seven-hit, pitching by Hantlin, whitewashed ;the Phils, 3 to The Dodgers are now t'vo full games ahead of ithe Bees, who thrdatened to take over fifth position/ New ‘York Yankees lost yester- iday but kept their four-game lead jintact as Chicago White Sox were doing the same. The rejuvenated Washington Senators got at Hadle, Maloney Senators got at Yankee pitching and won, 8 to 3, aided by two New York errors. DiMaggio hit a home run for the Yanks. Holding’ the hard-hitting White Sox to six bingles, lowly St. Louis Browns proceeded to defeat them, 4 to 2. Although the Browns used two vitchers, the Sox were he'd hep’ess. The victory broke a tie with Philadelphia Athletics and Browns for cellar position and dropped the former club into last piace. 3 Boston Red Sox had easy sail- ing in downing the Athletics, 8 to 4, The A’s miscued twice. Connie Mack used three mounds- men to ro avail. The Red Sox are now but a half-game behind the Tigers, who were idle. | The summaries: { National League At New York Boston New York z Batteries: Macfayden, Hutchin- json and Lopez; Hubbell and Man- ecso, $ | | RH. E| 3 11 a 07 Hamlin and Phelps; At Philadelphia : Brooklyn { Philadelphia | Batteries: Mulcahy, Jorgens and Grace, R. H. E At Chicago 713 1) it Pittsburgh | Chicago _ 8 11 | Batteries: Lucas and Todd;| | French, Davis and Hartnett, } i 7 ij ; Cincinnati-St. Louis, not sched-| uled, American League | At Washington RE |New York ... 3 Washington 8 9 Batteries: Hadley, Malone,! } Linke and Dickey; Fischer and RB | Ferrell. i. Ej 6 2 At Boston R. H. Ej Philadelphia 4u 2 Boston 7 810 @ | Batteries: Caster, Nelson, Gum- jbert and Brucker; Marcum, Me-/ Kain and Berg. | dred relatives and friends attend-} At St Louis LEAGUE w. L. 3 Detroit Boston Cleveland Washington Phitade! S St. Louis ... 556 _B52!and Sewell; Welkup and Hoffman. 508 Chicago St. Louis Batteries: Detroit - Cleveland, postponed, ain and co'd; doubleheader Sun-} i SNATCH ANOTHER soces ‘AT COLORED PARK’ PATRIOTIC SERMON: AT FIRST BAPTIST OF FRATERNAL| AND PATRIOTIC ORDERS EXPECTED TO ATTEND Pastor Yancy Tiliman Shehane of the First Baptist church will preach a special sermon Sunday | night on “The Declaration of In- dependence.” This message will; deal with God’s leading hand and purpose in placing America in the forefront of the Christian nations of the world, It will also point out some of|who have attended the school are| |urged to attend. the jreat contributions made to our nation throvgh patriotic and fraternal orders, Members of pctriotic organiza- tions and fraternal orders of the city are cordially invited to hear this sermon, The service will be featured with patriotic hymns by the choir and congregetion, together with other gospel hymns, and a special quarette number to be sung by Pastor and Mrs, Shehanae, Clar- ence sid Marion Shehane. The membership of: the chureh, all visitors,.and : friends ,are, given } a most’ cordial ‘Siivitation® to" this a hour: of setviee.; { PROGRAM SUNDAY TO BE HiZLD ON NELSON ENG- LISH GROUNDS, 5 O'CLOCK The following program will be rendered tomorrow afternoon, be- ginning at 5 o’clock, at Nelson English Park, according to an- nouncement made today by S. J. Welters, chairman of the park commission : Grand chorus singing, “Ameri- a.” : Invocation by Rev, Geo. W. Al- len, Trinity Wesleyan church. Reading of the Declaration of Independence, Florence Mingo. Addresses by the Hon. B. D. Trevor of the board of Public Works, and Hon. James S, Rob- erts, chairman of City Council, Turning over the keys of the park to the president of the com- mission, Alphonse Gabriel. Re- sponse in behalf of the citizens by the president. Singing by the WPA. Chotal City Singers, Allen Sanchez;. rectress | accompanied by the WPA Orchestra. Benediction, Rev, Barritt, Trinity church. F. A. Johnson will be master of ceremonies. Ain invitation is extended to al} citizens to attend. PLAN VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL 1 J & Vacation Church: Sehook wit! be held at Ley Memorial church, | beginning Monday, July 12.0005 | Mrs. J.C. Howell will, be diree-j tor of the school. Due to. 9 limited: nuthber of teachers, only those who are at present attending Sunday school of Ley Memorial church will be per- mitted to enroll, it is stated. School will open each day at 9 a. m. and close at 11 a. m. There will be periods of worship, study and play. A pleasant time is in store for all, it is announced. The school is expected to con- tinue for two weeks, ¢ ai Alfred De- Presbyterian RUSSELL’S CIGAR STORE CIGARS, CIGARETTES, SOFT DRINKS, ETC. LL LL Ld | q f - —eeres PU FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH J. C. Gekeler, Pastor White and Washington Streets Sunday School at 10 a, m. Oscar Norman, superintendent. Morning worship at 11 o'clock. Celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Sermon: ‘God Cares For His People.” Evening worship at 8 o'clock. The Vacation Bible School pupils will render the program consist- ing of Bible drills and the dra- matization of two of the Parables of Jesus. Parents of the children’ Mid-week Bible study on Wed- nesday at 7:30 p. m. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Joe A. Tolle, Pastor Eaton and Simonton Streets “England's battles are won on the playing fields of Eton.”— Duke of Wellington. Church school, 9:45 a. m. Ger- ald Saunders, superintendent. Morning worship, 11 o'clock. Subject: “What Think Ye Of Christ?” t enact 1a Epworth League; ? pioms Evening’ “wotattih 8° oteldck | meeting. Mrs. J. Roland Adams, | Subjeets “it Can Happen: To. Us.” Prayer 'mbeting,' Wedtiesday; 8 7:45 p.m. ‘Mrs..Joseph Sawyer, organ ist; Gerald Saunders, director. “Take Heed Lest Ye Fall.” METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH “EL SALVADOR Grinnell and Virginia Sts. Guillermo Perez, Pastor (Services in Spanish) Sunday school, 10 a. m. Preaching, 8 p. m. Mothers’ Club, Monday, 8 p. m.! Bible study and prayer service Wednesday, 8 p. m. : CATHOLIC CHURCH St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Wm. Reagan, S. J., in charge Sunday morning Masses will be said at 7 and 9:30 o’clock. Week-day M: at 7 o’clock. ig TUTE AON My i e ¥. Allee CO neaan LEY MEMORIAL M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH O. C. Howell, Pastor Georgia and Division Streets Charch school, 9:45 a.m. Al) ; bert H. Carey, superintendent, Morning worship, 11 o'clock. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup-! per will be administered. Sermon} | subject: “Man’s Need of a Sa- vior.”” Young People’s Department has with Miss Miriam Carey as teach- | er, o’clock in the church school annex with Archie Roberts, president. | Junior boys and girls meet in |the church ‘school annex at 4 p.; ‘m., with Mrs. Mary Thompson as | superintendent, Evening worship, 8 o’clock. “Liberty or Li- i ; Sermon subject: | cense.”” Prayer and praise service each* | Wednesday, 7:30 p, m. | |the church school annex with Mrs | Corrine Curry as president. Church choir practice ednesday evening after prayer every Ww | pianist. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ; Yancy Tillman Shehane, Pastor Eaton Street, between Duval and Simonton Streets Bible School at 10:00 a. ! Allan Robinson, superintendent. m. Baptist Training Union at 7 p. m. Evening worship at 8 o'clock. Sermon: “The Declaration of In- dependence.” Patriotic and fra- j ternal Orders will attend services. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m # Choir rehearsal, Thursday, 7:30 Ip. m. MIXED BIBLE CLASS | Sam B. Pinder and W. P. Monti- | ci 7, Teachers Meetings every Sunday morn- ing at the Harris. School audi- its morning session in the church! \7 a. m. The evening session at 6:30/9.39 a.m, | \ | _ Missionary society meets every | | Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in} i Morning worship at 11 o’clock.! 7 of denominations are invited to attend, ASSEMBLY OF GOD \ Rev. John H. and Beulah Clark Stroud, in charge of services Morning worship, 11 o'clock. Sunday school, 3:30 p. m. Class-| es for all ages. Evangelistic service, 7:30 p. m Weekly Prayer Meetings Tuesday, 7:15 p. m. Friday, 7:15 p. m. SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH | Duval and Eaton Sts. Sundays Summer Months Schedule Sundays an Sung Mass, Holy Communién, Children’s Mass,. Catechism, | Morning prayer said plain, 11 o’clock. Low Mass, short sermon, 11:15 a. m. Evensong, Prayer, Benedietion, 8 p. m. Week-Days Morning Prayer, 6:45 o’clock.: Low Mass, Holy Communion, y Sermon, a. ™. Evening Prayer, 5:30 p. m. Wednesdays Low Mase, Holy Communion, a, ™m, Morning prayer, 8:45 a. m. Low Mass, Holy Communion, 9 m, Evening pray2r. &:30 o’clock. enmity CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 7 1 | 327 El'zabeth Street Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Sunday morning service, o'clock. Wednesday evening service, 8 | o’clock. Reading room in Society build- ing open Fridays only. CORNISH CHAPEL ii (Colored), A. M. E. Zion Church B. G. Shaw, Jr., Pastor Tan Chon Tynes, Secretary Sunday school, 9:30 a. m, Morning worship, 11 o’clock. Evening worship, 8 o'clock B'NAI ZION CONGREGATION Rabbi Joseph Male, Pastor gregation Hebrew Sunday School, 11 a. torium at 10 o’clock. Men and Evening service at 7:30 o’clock,, women not connected with any Sundays and Fridays. i | tage of POI rrr SOSHEESSSO SES CESO ESSE EEO ESEOTESELESELEEESOSEOOOEOES QUIET ligation. other Bible Class and regardless oY Tek Same peHNCAPeMENER ESS EY SLT Visite eens TC RNP TERY one OT Bw COMFORT: ECONOMY: this offer, m., and every day in week, ex- cept Friday, at 4 p. m. 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(Colored) Southard Street Between Thomas DAY ADVENTIST G. Williams, Missionary Sabbath School (Saturday), 10 o'clock. Church services, 11 a. m. Prayer meeting every Wednes- day xight, 7:30 o'clock. Y. P. M. V. S. meeting, 5:30 p.m. NEWMAN M. E. CHURCH (Colored) Division Street S. W. Wheeler, Pastor Naomi Reddick, Superintendent Maty/ Moreno, Secretary Church setool, 9:30 a. m. Morning service, 11 o’clock. Epworth League, 6 p. m. Evening service,..7:30 o'clock, TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Colored) Simonton Street * Alfred DeBarritt, Pastor Sunday morning service, o'clock. Elder A. M, Evans, Program for the Fourth of July at 3:30 p, m. Evening service at 8 o'clock. Music by the Junior Choir, Theme: “Does God Care.” “All I could ever be, All, men ignored in me, This, | was worth to God.” Vacation school, daily, 4 to 6 p, m. Two playgrounds open daily during vacation. Junior choir, Tuesday, 7:30 p. m. Weeknight service, Tuesday, o'clock. 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