New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 22

DR NI READ THIS FIRST: Shut within the doors of every ome there is the warm and glow- L, story of a mother's incompar- _Bble love. Mrs. Milburn had come to Yhe Littie Yellow House, on Flow- \r street, owned by Uncle Bill Parks, twenty-five years before, when she and Charlie Milburn were marricd. Through all these years they had only known poverty. Mrs. Milburn had kept everything neat and looked after her three children, Emmy, eighteen; an, thirteen, and Ferry, twenty-one. While the little yeliow house, on the ugly street mear the mill, was now sooty and begrimed, it had never lost its \harm for Mrs. Milburn. The story pens on Mrs. Milburn's birthday. randmother Pentland, who had ‘never approved of Mrs. Milburn's marriage to Charlie, has arrived. Grandmother urgers Mrs. Milburn to sceept fifty dollars as a present from her to pay the long overdue rent. Grandmother takes the oppor- unity of again scolding about the phifticssness of Charlie Milburn. MMrs. Milburn finally takes the Inoney. As Grandmother is leaving Bhe asks Emmy lo take her out to ther car. Grandmother warns Emmy o pay no attention to Robb Hollis, oung mill worker, who is in love [ith Emmy. Emmy wants a “white ollar” man and Robb wears work- Bng clothes. Tn a moment of depres- wion, Emmy decides that she is not oing to spend her days in the little bld house. She wants something iner. Emmy has brought home a air of white gloves for a birthday resent to her mother. Perry, the on, arrives home with a new lamp Eor his mother. Early in the evening ‘harlie Milburn arrives home in a axicab. He is intoxicated, as usual, ut Mrs. Milburn zlways tells the fhildren he is ill. Charlie has no poney to pay his taxi bill and Mrs. Lilburn takes the fifty dollar bill, Which she had intended to use for fpaying the rent. The taxi bill is ten follars and Emmy tells her mother Bhe 18 foolisi to put up with Mr filburn, Hor mother tells her never o speak of her father that way gain. Emmy is all the more deter- ined to get away from Flower ltreet and its poverty. 8he is par- jcularly ashamed because she 8 orced to wear the cast-off clothes of her wealthy cousin, Marianna, who is her own age and lives with Grandmother Pentland. Emmy is rovoked because Marianna chooses bring her some clothes while sho talking to Robb in the little gar- en spot back of the little yellow ouse. In the darkness under the Ig tree in the yard, Robb tells mmy again that he loves her. Marianna invites Emmy to come to i party and sing and play for the jguests. Emmy has a wonderful time at the party among the girls whom .she admires so much. Robb has agreed to call for her after the party in his old roadster, the “struggle: buggy.” he calls it. Emmy s ashamed of Robb's old car and his Working clothes. They have a qucr- el and Emmy tells Robb she oesn’t care for a day laborer, She i1d not see him again for a long ime. Emmy decides to have a party lt the little yellow house and has ‘invited Lovey Sinclair, who is in love ‘with her brother, Perry. Perry ‘thinks Emmy is a little snob because Bhe is always trying to be “some- body.” On Sunday, at the dinner ta- * ‘ble, Mr. Milburn, growing expansive he was sometimes wont to do, rags to Mrs. Milburn that they glwn'l done so very badly by their hildren. Emmy is provoked at her * Hather. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY : CHAPTER XIT “You'd think to hear him talk. Ahiat he'd paid for us to go to school himself, By jinks! Wouldn't you?" Emmy asked Perry a half hour afterward. “He certainly is a card!” She had come into F... ... to sea herselt 4n the mirror et in. the dovr of his clothes closet. It went the ‘Whole length and width of the door, and Emmy and Mrs. Milburn used it ‘when they wanted to see themselves from head to foot—the hang ©f their akirts, the straightness of their “Mother! Give stocking seams. he did not even look up from a doorway. “1 want to show you some- velope that he had in front of him on the table. “This was laid on my desk at Up- take, And by mistake I opened it. paper to her. The envelope was addr “Charles D. Milburn, letter began, "“Chuc pure and simple. With-a sick, lizzy feeling Emmy if filth were on them. she said. *Our mother—" wowman who signed herself “Impy. . small and you “I suppose that's where he i night when he goes out in taxic thinking aloud. he s thinking. Not. always,” he said in a place down on St. Clair street that they call ‘the hole the wall’ Father's agked me to play there two or three time: “And did you?" He shook his head. “T guess I'm a milk-sop. T hate cards.” But he did not look like a wmilk- beneath it, with his big shoulders, under the table. POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “I'm not feelin’ well, but [ don't want Ma to know it. She'll forgive me for any- thing quicker than for show- in' signs of breakin'.” (Copyright. 1928, Iuolimeers Syndicate) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN il “I reckon most every || woman finally dies without || ever usin’ the napkins she was savin’ for some special occasion.” (Copyright. 1928, Publishers Syndicate) We Have Several Industrial Sites For Sale. COMMERCIAL COMPANY INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Commercis! True Compasy beside Perry's dresser, and the let- ter was in her amall hardened hands! She was reading: it. “Mother! Give that thing to me!" Emmy flew to her and tried to take it way from her. But Mrs. Milburn shook her head. 8till holding the thing in ber hands, she tore it in two. She tere it again and again and again. The amall bits fluttéred into Perry's waste basket, She picked up the waste basket and put it into Emmy’'s arms. “Take all this paper out into the yard and burn it,” she said, “Don't keep one piece of it, Emmy, under- stand!” Her voice was firm, but a look of unhappiness had drugged down the corners of her mouth, and her chia quivered a little. However, by the time Emmy had burned the paper and come upstairs, she was herself again. The look of misery and pathos was gone from her face and she was brushing her long brown hair before her mirror .with firm, brisk strokes. “Emmy,” she called, “come in here to me a minute.” Emmy came in, and stood with ber back to the closed door. “Did anyone besides yourself sec that letter?" “Perry showed it to me,” Emmy answered, “It was put on his desk down town my mistake.” Mrs. Milburn nodded, getting into a black taffeta dress that once had been the glory of Marianna's ward- robe. “Well, you're not to think badly of your father because of that let- ter,” she said, buttoning the high collar around her throat. “A man like him, good-looking and good company, has many a temptation put in his way. And remember that this woman, whoever she {s, sent the letter to him. We don't know Perry did not answer. He was|came the sound of an automobile. A sitting at his brown deal table, and | horn honked—honked again. paper that lay before him. He very |hall—the window that looked down seldom spoke of his father in any |into Flower street. There, in the way at all. But as Emmy was go- | narrow paved road, stood a small, ing out of the room he turned his|shining, open car. head and called her back from the *Shut the door behind you,” he |rose against the grayness of Flow- He showed her a letter and an en- | ey Sinclair—for you, I suppose.” still-Unger's the other day by mis- jran. Emmy saw him go out to tlLe Look at it.” He handed both bits of |leaned forward and opened the door was from a girl who signed herself |or an overcoat. They drove away, “Impy,} and it was @ love letter|and Emmy went back to her room 1aid it down upon the top of Perry's, Bratenahl to see how Uncle Bill is," dresser, Not knowing that she dil it, [ Mrs. Milburn said a second later, she brushed her palms together asjcoming up the stairs. Emmy knew “How rotten—how simply rotten!” | courage to the point where she was Perry nodded, He was thinking |house. the same thing that she was think- ing—that their father had put an-[and baked beans in the ice box for other woman in the place that be.|your father.and Dan,” she went on longed to their mother. Another |talking as she moved to and fro in She could picture such a woman |"Dear me! T asked Dan to put a and impish. | little blacking on these shoes for me too, with that “Chucky darl- But Perry shook his head. He {the mirror set in it. was staring out into the branches of the sycamore trec with his blue [bered the letter—the “Impy” letter, eyes that never let you know what|Of course. her mother hadn't seen that thing to me!” ¥rom outside, 1n the street, there Emmy ran to the window in the And in the small, shining car, with her upturned face as pink as a er street, sat little “Lovey” Sinclair. “Perry!” Emmy called. “It's Lov- “Good Lord—" he said under his breath and ran down the stairs, slipping into his blue coat as he After a minute or two Lovey of it. She seemed to be trying 1o persuade Perry to get into it with her. After another minute, he did get in, just as he was, without a cap to finish dressing. “After vespers we'll go out to that at last she had screwed up her going to ask Uncle Bill for the *There's plenty of cold roast beef { Ler own room while rhe dressed. terday when he was doing his own—and he forgot to do it. Oh. well—"* | Presently Emmy heard her go into Perry's room. She heard the squeak of the closet door that had Then. like a flash, Emmy remem- | it vet, and she would just stroll in, | pick it up, and stroll out with it that he ever wrote a line to her. She was probably fust chasing him— sending letters to his office! must be a bold thing!" Emmy could only marvel at her. “I'll speak to Perry about this" she added. “You are never to speak to anybody. want your father even to know that there was such a letter!™ Mr. Milburn was asleep on sitting-room couch when they went downstatrs. His face, smoothed with his sleep, look much older than Dan's face. It was the face of a man who had never had to worry or strive — the face of a man who has had all his worrying done for him by somebody flushed and Mrs. Milburn unfolded the afghan that lay across the foot of the couch. She covered him with it, tucking it down around his shoulders. “He catches cold so easily,” whispered to Emmy, shutting street door behind him softly so as not to waken him. (TO BE CONTINUED) 1Ogilby to Be at Retirement of Bishop Oct. 31 (M—The Rev, Dr. Remsen B. Ogilby, president of Trinity college and Bishop Charles H. Brent of western New York dio- cese will sail for Europe Saturday as representatives Episcopal church to attend the en- thronement of the new archbishop of = Canterbury, 8. Cosmo Gordon Lang, in Canterbury, November 15. President Ogilby was givan a three months leave of ab- sence at a special meeting of the faculty yesterday fessor Charles E. Rogers of the en- gineering department was elected charge of the educational activities at the college during the president’s PETER LAVE Pittsburgh, Oct. 31 (®—Peter La- former member Cincinnati National died lost night. times he plays poker with some men |again carelessly, naturally. Then che would fear it into a pieces so that there would not be a chance of her mother ever seeing it never must see it Special Notice hundred Hallowe'en dance at the Y. Never! A. hall, Friday cvening. he stopped dead till in the door- | Swanee Club orchestra, Adi standing | —advt, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER DOUBT STORY TOLD. BY BURNED WOMAN Doctors Believe Her Claims to Ba Impossible Lake Bluft, I, Oct. ‘31 UP—Belf- torture by fire to prave her faith in a “spirit love” was advanced today to explain the strange case of Mim Elfrieda Knaak, 30-year-old Sunday school teacher and book agent. It' was & welrd uncanny explana- tion, full of holes and wide open’to practical-minded police skepticism; but it came from the lips of Miss Knaak herself, lying near death from burns mysteriously inflicted in the basement of the Lake Bluff' pelice station sometime Monday night. Doctors’ Unconvinced Physiclans were unconvinced. “To believe her story,” said Dr. A. J. Risinger, sttending her, “you would have to believe these facts: “That she first placed one foot, then the-other, in-the furnace and kept them there for some time; that she thrust head and arms and held them there under what certalnly must have been terrific pain. The fire box is only 12% by $% inches, “It does not scem passible that & person, even in‘a’trance, could do that. Muscular reaction aloné would cause her to jump back from the flames.” 3 Policoman Named The name of Charles W. Hitch- cock, 45 years old, married and the father of four children, was brought into the case by Miss Knaak who during the night frequently cried out: “Hitch! Oh, Hitch! Why don’t you come to me?* “Who did this?" said the state's attorney, bending over'the girl's cot. “I'did it myselt, for (faith, for purity,” was the response, At in- tervals, the officers obtained her story. 8he had known Hitchcock four years, she said, having studied elocution and salesmanship in classes he conducts here. “A few months ago I got to know him spiritually,” she was quoted ss saying. .“This was no material love affair. Advanced psychology made me understand him. * For weeks ¥ have been hearing his voice saying, ‘Have faith! Have faith." Has Broken Leg “I had an appointment with him Monday night. He did not keep it. (Hitchcock, who besides being teacher is night policeman of Lake Bluft, has been confined to his home with a broken leg for & week.) When he did not appear, T again heard hia voice, urging me to have faith. “To prove my faith, T thought ef the fire. T removed my clothes and burned them. T burned myself. “T survived. T proved my ‘faith, and Tl live. Be sure of this: T knew'T would survive.” Hitcheock, his leg In a cast; was unable to clear up the girl's story. “Poor girl, if she had a ‘crush on me. T certainly d4idn't know it,” he said. Hitchcock sald Miss Knaak came to him four years , ago to study salesmanship and elocution. * Since finishipz the course she has nc- casionally communicated with him, Hitchcock said. neeking his advice on problems confronting her. * Fas Classes Hitcheock conducts his clesses in the morning hours. working as night roliceman from 1 p. m. totla m One theorv under investigation was that Miss Knnak not knowine of his infury. hrd gene to the police sta- tion Monday evening to awalt his arrival'after hix official rounds. The statton Ir closed ot night. but Mis Knrak was presumed to have had a kev, ax dld many other persons. Tt 15 noscihle. nolice snid, that ahe may have wone to the furnace room for warmth. and that she may have heen nttncked hy some varrant whe sop, sitting therc with his cotton shirt moulded by the hard muscles his, lean - tanned face, his long straight legs thrust out before him |5 HEL ME HANNES | 'DONT SEE HOW “THEM) ] {FLOORWALKERS GiTs, | Asway’ o 1T OSWALD O'SHAUGHNESS STEBBINS! — ”r es Syndicate, Tne. Great Britain rigiats reserved I — e himself had gotten Intn the hase. ment to keep warm during the chilly and the sight sent him running up- staira, screaming for help. < Hitchcock was appointed night policeman four years ago when his heaith made it neceasary to leave the ‘| stage, where he appeared in vaude- vijle, and the movies, where he acted character roles. ‘ /Miss Knaak, whose home is with Ler widowed mother, in Deerfield, I, has studied at the University of Hiinols and Chicago and at the State: Normal schoo! in. Ypeilaati. Mich. It was while teaching . at Waukegan, IiL, that she first began choknudy of elocution with Hitch- cock. TRY 70 FORCE CASHIER ~ TO.OPEN BANK SAFE Robbers Enter Home lnldln. of- ficial- and Wife Captive Half of Night, .Argyle, Mich., - Oct. 31 M—Two men.and a woman entered the home of Henry Prentiss, cashier of a pri- vate bank here, last night held Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss_-csptives more than baif the night while they at- tempted to compel him to open the bank safe and finally shot the bank- er in the leg, fracturing the bone, when he attempted to escape, While the ‘woman-bandit watched over Mrs. Prentiss, the men march- ed Prentiss to the hank, where he told them he did not know the com- bination. Then they took him back home where the five had an early morning breakfast prepared by the woman robber, Under questioning Prentiss told the robbers that Mrs. Don Herdell, assistant cashier, knew the combi- nation of the bank safe and they then escorted him to the Herdell home. Herdell answered the door bell. When one of the robbers held a revolver to his face, Herdell struck him and slammed the door. Prentiss, taking advantage of the situation, also struck the bandit and fled. He was shot through the right leg as he ran. Returning to the Prentiss home, the two men joined their woman companion and fied. They obtained only $13 from the Prentius home. Prentiss is in a hospital and his wife was under the care of a phy- sician for nerve .shock. The Duncan McKeith home fn Yale, Mich., was entered and robbed | in & similar manner three weeks | ago. McKeith, cashier of the Yale bank, folled an attempt to force him to open the bank safe Local Councils Up In English Election London, Oct. 31 UM—Voters in ev- ery borough in England and Wales will go to the polis tomorfow to elect members to the local councils, with one-third of the councillors in each place retiring. In some places these elections have given an impe- tus towards polishing up the party machinery in anticipation of next year's general elections. Last year labor gained 112 seats and lost 12 in about. 80 of the chief city boroughs. The conseratives suf- fered & net loss of 71 and the liber- als a net loss of 20. Numerous con- servative-jiberal alliances have been | formed for the sake of joint opposi- tion to the, labor groups. Labor, already having a powerful hold on borough councile, submits 700 candidates: the conservatives 528; liberals 223, independents 323. SNILL BAD = LJHAT WILL T DO WITH Philadelphis, .Oct. 31,(P — The greatest police shakeup in the his- | tory. of American municipslities, so extensive that it will: amount to the formation of nearly an entirely new force, is planned by Mayor Harry A. Mackey in an effort to riq , the bureau of “grafters” as revealed by the grand jury_ investigating or- sanized lawlessness and police cor- ruption, ‘After ordering the suspension and trial by the civil service commission of three police inspectors, 18.cap- tains and one detective declared by the grand jury to be “unfit to hold any public office” the mayor an- nounced today that he had worked out plans for a complete reorgani- zation of the bureay of police. * Limes Boundery The reorganization will include a revision of the boundry lines of po- lice districts so that they no longer will correspond with the borders of city words. TI J was suggested by the grand jury and Mr. Mackey said he. was convinced it would bs one of the most effective moves In vorcing the: police from politics. Mayor Mackey's plan contem- plates the dismissal of every mem- ber of the force against whom even a suspicion of dishonesty has been directed by the grand jury and the dsimissal or demotion of every man not reached or exposed by the inves- tigation, but whoss record shows derelictions of duty and inefficlency. Mr. Mackey sald his reorganisa- tion plan would be put into effect “‘as soon after election as possible.” To do so earlier, he said might, in view of the unusually heavy vote expected, result in great confusion at the polls. Trial Soom The mayor announced that the three police inspectors and 18 cap- tains cited as “unfit” in the grand Jury's presentment, becauss of their alleged inablility to explain huge bank deposits in their names would be brought to trial before the civil service commission at the “earliest ! possible date.” TRAMWAY STRIKE Athens, Greece, Oct. 31 UP—A strike of tramway employes began today in Athens and Piraeus, the public being served only by motor buses. 5 Railway employes have declared their solidarity with the tramway workers and have threatencd to fol- low them on strike. Order was be- ing maintained. children there. 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