New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1927, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1927. 1 Beginning THE SOB SISTEF By CLIFFORD WEBB 1 But | of ¢ Chapter 1 When the Catawba City! Times appeared on the strect is capable, evidently, | 3 kindness. Ac- | cord t she told Di- | | one April morning with an | ana th' wire she over- eight-column streamer spread heard a conversation last nigh across its front page announc- hetwe her husband in which they wing been kidnap the ing the abduction of beauti- ful Diana Brooks, the public gasped over breakfast tables and exclaimed : “THIS is the LIMIT!” But it wasn't nor anywhere wl \ Mr. Brooks was | near the limit. b eld woraril But The story, as outlined in the while she herself knows where | graphic style of the trained| this house is located she could- news writer, left little to the td be th' location over | imagination. But that little| vas sufficient to int e the| interest of Catawba City, and | of other cities where the de- tails flooded. ¢ A voung society girl had been kidnapped from the ve-| randa of her own home in| broad daylight! It was epochal in the signi-| ficance it carried. It was a message from the Underworld. The abduction constituted a! ceclaration of war on the poli- | cy of the Brooks newspapers. | Rooer j:]'l)t)}{\ owner :md | But she could, she g Diana to a place here she could point out th' of course, at once » up and—well, that's 5 WOr N, nds panied by “That's all—except that she 1 th' intersection of nue and th' Dixie a meeting place this rning as CAPT. T. E. VOIGHT publisher, had dared to turn i the guns of his organization on | ace. B i the blatantly overt acts of a| I'll just| is al 1 vice-ridden city administre ng that Luger pistol| ¢ ‘ o : v( _17\! pre 1adron A of will play the Underworld > with over in F €| the Yale class B team in the New England B. & M. OFFICIAL ¢ vernacular. “Lay off or 1 heave a bomb into the vears ago. I'm itching | th' polic ad we bef 1d Keene aout « Three Day Tourney in West. RESIGNS HIS POST 1 otten aa. Hartiond Cavalry Armory ‘Generia{loalga;:ag]‘el; ;)OIYI%(;];SWM And the Times had kept it on hammering the grait- crabbing politicians of the Ring. Beware!” The gangsters| red again and fired a cow- ardly shot in the dark, But the shot didn’t take. Then they kidnaped the| daughter. “Now, what?” the public asked the wide world. n nodded. “Yes, ince we took | s Tart tha farch 7 (UP)—B. R. Pol- rinently identified with railroads for “mearly v polo tour | | | | ST e i e . has resigned as gen- \,]1/1\\1";*01\ came the answer 7 and vioe<ursdden o to—what? . . and Maine railroad, it Ju hours after Diana | » today. oning In Los rk as a breaker nia coal mines at ¢ Polo association ces of which th be held at Lrooks had been seized on the veranda of her own home, thrown into a limousine and gton ave 1 He started his whisked away, she alighted | : will be three e e o from a taxicab in front of the| gt e At r he won the Times building, walked into for speed ir the editorial room and told the! emazing story herself. | She was sitting in a ham-| mock, she said, just after luncheon, on the veranda of her home. Her cousin, Lola,| a girl of her own age, was sit-l A ting ncar by. | — = = S ‘ As they talked a limousine | drove into the ground It| stopped under the portico of | PRIESTATTACKS LABOR AGITATORS Manville Pastor Urges Flock to Iguore Strike Call club in class teams ars der the Nation- 1 the I8 and zoals. d by totalling ions of Polo asso 4 to 8 the veranda. Two well-dressed | The o to lunch. ’ vt 0 “president I addition men alighted. They walked up | Union hen the hands of the tinv w about 24 stood sil-| FHEhl Th e HE G the steps and one spoke, ask- room Catawba City clock on his desk pointed Teddy, ther Y n the g, Out-1; & resignation, ing if Mr. Brooks was there. ! Times to the " of i he ot 1 voiced a st t irht behind | o uer of the Diana started to reply, she|three. It was a fog-drenched Dext { W i ] 1 said, when the other man grab- morning in Apri 3 | to1 [ ) hed her. He threw a heavy| Down in the | cloth over her head and wound | thunderous boom it tight, effectually gagging presses had lo and nearly smothering her She heard her cousin wsement the Slowly om the big o, It since e rooks or ¢ The paper had been *“p am. | bed,” the It o his home brought ave that he | ord of her Then she felt herself lifted in| A brooc ed with no o jumped up. i the man’s arms carried down | tous of is departure t! ( Id jerked himself : tional champion the steps and placed inside the place like a pall. Two men 3 1 ced avound into 5 oF each elass : waiting car which immediate- a girl, sole occupants of the N BLset TR ' 'St. Louis Boys Practice iged by the National @ artof P ; 3 | v T at o 1 aitino ( e Time: <00 " 1 Qlai ly started away at top s_nf'r‘(li.’ room, sat at a table, waiting. { e Times. | Socia nd it I expected to Drawing”, One Is Slain After what seemed .hmn.?‘\\on'_\' lay in their tived close by, her pale face | ©° » St. Louis, Mo.. March 7 (UP) ' she was lifted out and forced |eyes. 1 attitude 2 Fdward Combs, 14-vear-old to walk up a stairway. At the " Tense. low-pitched, the voiee { Lianfs satioolhoy, callan Sio by play oy Hales, 14, “to ¢ top she was led into a room. of the girl broke the : Here the cloth was removed. nmorbid — stillnes Her ¢ ut, was hig life. Hales was A o1 pu S daugn- bt : f detention to- She looked around, she said, | filmed with a shadowy mist as : - plants of t of detention t snd found herself in a room|their glance traveled over Lad often e X : with a bath adjoining. The tables and de cluttered v a1 ot beankiEal < 2 room contained two beds. An!the rubbish of a heavy nic s of Lis family ( . Citv. And beautiful sevseal ention old woman who later proved to She shivered slichtly and drew : 4 - o e 1S ha hroug Combs 4 et in his tem- be both deaf and dumb stood g trifle closer to her two com- Jooking at her. The two men panions. mp at 3 ning and un- Liad disappeared. | “Three o'clock—nearly 49 partment, that visibly prod resentfully,” t , ¢ ns seare caleu- She had been kept locked up | hours since he came in and g end of a newspaper s th' kine dun of 1 to chow a woman at her in this room 24 hours, guarded | handed me that letter from the tractive to most owner communitic by the old woman. During that | gassed soldier's sick wife and was the editorial® depar his town had ¢ I ht sl just a tri- - - —- time she had seen no person|asked me to v a story on that held him. Tis was the \ ¢ averace. Juno- towrney, The | READ AERALD CLASSIFIED ADS save her keeper. Food had|it, Th come up to them on a dumb him!” waiter, | Canficld, brain and will that dominated = the functioning of that de- nt. It was this motivat- and round and lithe v, sho walked Dog Swailows Gem; Owner 4 players will begin 1 many of thel from north w COLDS THAT city editor. : wicd erace of & Will Not Allow Operation Then, just about an ho}u' be- ' weary droop of his » of his mighty ma- ed tiger cat. Proud-| Batavia, N. Y., March 7 :m\ S Hartford soo fore, she said in conclusion of veflected the a at was the particular at ea | t that of a young 7. i sl ; inary practice. her story, the old woman had brooded over the entire plant. f Roger Brooks. the Titian-crown-!dos than on an e plizonscli ot Bl iaient shown her a card on which was| The silence that again set- wd now at the eerie houy way 1« (. topping the shapely | ring. she has ref Thursday, March 10 | written: “You are going tled over the trio broken a home.” moment later by the chrill of After tying the black cloth the telephone on the news cdi- { his faithful staff wen v for some news of him. the poignant ri 11 ] 4y i ;2 Teddy burst out, |3 8 % p. m. (Class C)—Fort FEthan “over her head again the wom- tor's table. Dinny Morri of the e-hon- 1 aood i - a - tg 3 1 ¢ 1 g Allen, Vi, vs. Troop D, Hartford. | i an had condygeted her down city hal' reporter, .oved to an- ored phrase, “No news is good member, who oirconizd th' 1 = | iday, March 11 ,,gmm,::.l,bc]z“Gh\"o:,ni.?l:!;a;“xge:: stairs to the street .:l_“d lfl)(}) swer it. Bill Canfieid and the news.” morals squad { vowed \ ] 1 Wh Y (S g Ol ) = Rore now with Creomulsion, an emulsified a closed car. The car immedi- g leaned forwan 1, For more than 10 purpose of ‘cleauin up i news,” the A eir You ) wl 1 creosote that is pleasant to take. Creo- ately drove away. |~ “Only th’ fool janitor down Donald Keene, most : . mulsion is & new medical discovery Finding herself alone shelg ost his key to the store- friend of Ro untied the cloth. She was in room,” announced Dinny dis-:watched over @ taxicab, the one that had gustedly as he hung up the re- Farrell, waif. She now Lrought her to tho'['im(-,\‘hlli]d-}cei\‘cl" His colleagues scttled | the role of staff repo ing. That was all. Like the{back with sighs of disappoint- sister and emergency with twofold action; it soothes and heals the inflamed membranes and in- ay, March 12 | hibits germ growth. s ) Norvelen | Of all known drugs, ereosote is rec- s Herons. ognized by high medical authorities as 30 p. m. (Class C)—Con; one of the greatest healing agencies for Broc Al Coton it ve dont | Feel a Cold Well, it's \;v.v about as Ted- shot in the dark, the kidnap- ment. on the paper. i %o e % : | W for Wright and Ditson prizes, | persistent coughs and colds and other ing, for some mysterious rea-| Dim fantasics ; A pilotless littla derelict, D om t | losers of previous cluss © matches. | o “."”‘:;dFI"f'“"l‘;" c""":“:“: son, hadn’t scemed to take. [the walls where flickering are Teddy had been thrown on the r? ‘ £ | e S | i e R The morning after Diana hights dancing in the strect re- world to shift for he when Drool | "% b m. (Class B)—Hartford | the infected membranes and stop the Erooks’ reappearance, the flected theiv symbolic ovotes- 12, She had been befriended 1 i ¢ l('\\‘\lr_\'. Hartford vs. Yale B team, jrritation and inflammation, while the Times carried another seath-|queries. They seemed Sl Keenle wiloiha iound et 5 4 & w Haven. no|l | Ceoustio ooson l]o l(llmnomkachi,h.:: ing editorial. It heaped coals ly realistic in the prosaic set-!jeb that had enabled her to at- \ holding 11 ’t<|\:x{-;xs;x\r-"lx‘(l\)1:‘-s ‘:‘:\“ i\"j:lrr.—:n‘:" :?le'lox:l :;::’nb(llemn?n;“cl;o:'kl:clhseil:flflh of fire upon the city admin-|tings of the gloom-ridden tend school. Teddy would be ( 1 | Boston, ield, New Haven and | of the germs. istration and defied the Under-'place. the last one to leave that edi- cry to th' i of 8,000 bugks! |y just 3:15 a. m. | many citi nt tor Hartford | Creomulsion js guaranteed satisfac- world and the politicans of the = At precisely 11.30 a. m., al- torial room so long as a shred | And it Mayor Schiiltz| “A 10 minutes ago,” he | : s D f"l“"" :”;‘"“",.{‘f. tory in_the ""‘"““’m" Ring. . most two days before, Rogei | of hope remained for news of who—" Jull d, “Diana got a 1«*|¢-’ f‘;{,‘,‘:;,‘,““g?f‘““ sndimEny Poen- il atoats b e ;::fi:l}:n?:‘:n?fi:erb;:mdm The answer came swiftly, | Br oks, popular owner and the big boss. jed. The f i | ph call vom a wo-| | cold. ‘mgg‘.;‘o;’ b - | tory diseases, and is excellent for build- more startling, more amazing, publisher of the Catawba City| Individually and collective- ereak of the heavy door divid- m : iended ve- | The box bears this cignature > father of | §og yp the system after colds or fu. more deadly menacing in its Times and a chain of nine ly, the trio tried for some so- |ing the city voom from the hall | ¢ 3 . woman, it seems, é%& rst camera | Money refunded if any cough oz cold js far-reaching effects than all other daily newspapers, had lution of their employer's struck their o turned (s the wife of a conviet or ex-| . Proot from a cigar box and lenses bor- | ot relieved after taking a te g 2 : Y A J Y . rowed from his grandfather's solar : [ ), E that had gone before. |left his office, supposedly to|strange disappearance. His ac-in a body. Lconviet and well known crook. | ———=—=5ince 1889 =" | 1iczascopa. i { dipbetone A'(}nfl!m 3 3