New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1930, Page 10

@W m——————— Synopsis: See marriage of h to Elsa Cha girl, Arnold tired lawyer, secks the G. Thorne, private detective. The elder Winslow suspects Blsa, who is guest at his home in Washington, D. C., is not all she pretends to be sterious woman in blue n talking to Elsa several times. Winslow brings Dr. Boston surgeor hopes of curing legs. She the idea of an examination, sents. Later that night found on the ground under his bed room, window, dead. Winslow fails 10 summon the coroner at first. but wealthy re- services of Winslow, has stricken at but con- Kane s panic is A Elsa wept when Thorne when that official arrive. ceeds to question Winslow, if Kane was in good health on re- tiring. Meanwhile Jack Winslow seems to be making an investigation of his own. he pro- \quiring Chapter 4 & THE BOLTED DOOR “Why, v W said in e ply to the corone seemed well. He s question. *Kan and I had dinner he nd corner of laiter's mented on it, and he told was overweight.” He paused looked at Jack out of the his eye, attracted by the me Thorne peercd through the | the brought news of | wa keyhole BY NATA ng to prevent the taker's car had driven off, [&]lowed adopted son, Jack, |immediately by that of the coronér, beautiful' crippled | as about to enter his Winslow appeared at and McLane w ccupe when front door. “Just a moment in close to the ‘How did you find “Your wife W when 1 left h before Penfield came.” Dr. McLane opened the do of his car. 1ould she further inclinatton to- rics dminister another Leonard,” draw- surgeon’s side. Julia?” resting quietly ard hy ose of bromid But Winslow friendly hand decpened as, he Jack Elsa’s nurse. shook off McLane's with a scowl reentering the king eagerly house SaW with Kane's tragic death. approach. k I do anything town, Dad?” he asked, and almost Lefore Winslow could answer, he held up a bottle. “You are sure Miss Kline, there is nothing else Miss Chase wishes?” “Quite sure.” sulted her watch, her the medicine G'clock.™ "1l be iis ov: to ! for you in he nurse con- “I have te~give before ten back with it.” and snatch- reoat and hat, Jack halfway 1{o the garage before Winslow moved from the front deor. It was with slow and heavy ad that he joined Thorne in the “| Chase of the locked door with his pocket periscope. heavy breathing. iid he had been troubled by attacks of ve “Oh!” Coroner Pr ferward and pul spread over {he d his head and shoulders, “Wag k you picked coroner after ine him a bri just as he once W hlood huddled on ings mastered him his eves with “Kane and I he many years,"” Qoroner thetically ‘Winslow,’ Dr. Leon Thorne, oi the bowing tell you 1 death such have to t Winslov eyes and a them. ind he th prote your ing the low's lips, can realize lew; to hawe away and hi examination s but, I must be cc Winslow floor an speak; sought Ml assure brokenly Kane,” an out of {he roon. Within fifteen n card room ‘ “That girl's sent he muttered, for more medi- and. catching stare, a Chase —al- 1edicine—bah!” invalid condition—" point.” Winslow’s to a whisper and to make certain Is she a cripple? him with star- t in her that's the fell almost looked about “Ah one arded You mean oubts, and my wife r K night.” did he find out?" ' with an expres- died before 1 Kane poker,” brief to his bedroom examin- suit case ng th had lett his tones to Dr. soft g0 Thorne's Suppose we ed before it, a nding back ctive to enter ale end of ither hill match Deftly h a 0 as not to leave Thorr er lay tips and fm- ng- drew Coroner | which | They both looked up | Jack was the first | closed | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD LIE SUMNER LINCOLN out his handkerchief and wiped the beads of perspiration off his fore® head. “Kane fell out of the window of this bathroom.” Thorne reached the door and ap- plied his eye to the keyhole, then | kneeling in a less cramped positioft, | he took from his pocket what ap- | peared to be'a small box with glass’ Holding it to his eye, he gazed through the keyhole and the small box, a periscope n | effect, enabled him to see all of the ' tilelined bathraom. n Chapter 5 A KEY COMES TO LIGHT Thorne’s pocket periscope gave Lim a good view of the interior of the bathroom. It was little Jarger | than a closet in size; to the right of the locked door was a sunken Lath tub; to the left was a porce- lain washstand and across from the Goor was the low window, which. with it diamond-paned sashes both opened inward, was admitting a draught of cold air. “The clectric light is still burn- ing in the Thorne remarked. “Have you a ladder?” Winslow crossed the bedroom to the north window, opened At and looked out. Within hailing distance Ferguson and his assistant garden- er were spreading rich 'soil over some of the rose beds, and cupping his hands Winslow called to Fer- guson. “Bring a ladder dnd climb up into the window by the dogwood tree,” directed Winslow. “Get into the | bathroom and open the door for us. Be quick.” The injunction was hardly need- ¢d. Thorne had only time to ex- amine the contents of the dead man's bill folder before he heard | Perguson clambering through the [ window of the bathroom; a second [later the door between the rooms !swung inward. Winslow’s hand ent instinctively to the electric | switch to turn off the light. “Leave it alone!” Thorne spoke | from the window where he was ex- amining the low window casement. Thorne glanced back at Ferguson and his nondescript clothing, then [his eves left his face partly co?- ered by the week-old beard, and traveled down to the man’s feet and | his muddy tracks in a direct line | from the window to the tub. “Stand still.” The detective | came closer and stooped down, pointing as he did so, to Ferguson’s right voot. Sticking out from a hole in the heavy rubber sole was a small mud-covered object. Thorne pblled it out, with a jerk, thed rubbed off the mud—a door key lay in his hand. With one searching glance along the floor, he swung over to the door and tried it in the leck. “It fits!” he exclaimed, - and closed the door, but while the key turned the lock, the lock failed to catch. “The house has settled and . the | key won't lock the door any long- er,” Winslow broke his long silence. “So my wife had Ferguson who's |handy with tools, put this brass bolt on the bathroom door. That's how it was fastened just now.” He wheel- guson. “How did that key get caught in your boot?” Ferguson shook a bewildered head. "I dunno sir.” Thorne and Winslow then re- turned to Winslow's den, and Elsa Chase's nurse was sent for. “Miss Klin Winslow pro- nounced her name with so much emphasis that the nurse looked at him in some astonishment. “You are quite sure that the news of Dr. Kane's death has not reached your patient?” | “I am certain it hasn't” she re- | plied, with equal earnestness. *Miss slept late this morning, and she has seen no one but me so far.” With that the detective quietly | left the room. His destination was | Dr. Kane’s bedroom, but he turned to the right instead of the left on |leaving the den and did not realize his mistake until he reached the cir- cular staircase. The faint whirring |sound made by rubber wheels roll- ing over 'a hardwood floor caused {him to look over the stair railing |into the reccption hall below. As | Elsa Chase came into sight in her invalid chair, he hesitated per- | ceptibly; from where he stood he | could judge nothing of her face or | features as her head was bent for- ward in her endeavor to find out | what caused the unusual squeak in {her smooth running chair. When she looked up again it was to find Thorne at her elbow. ‘f “Can I be of service?” he asked. | For an instant sh® looked at him, | | startled, then her lips parted in a | | quick bright smile, showing her / teeth and still prettier dim £ you have an oil can, ve: “Unfortunately,” his smile match- ed hers, “my oil can s in my car; | 'l gladly get it,” he made a mo- |tion toward the front door | checked himself, “later. In meantime, may we talk?" Her lips still smiled, but her eyes d grown watchful. “Of cours: aciously; “but, who is ‘we'2" fay 1 wheel you over there?” asked Thorne, nodding toward a cttee in one corner, and taking her consent for granted he pushed the chair across the hall. It was not |until he was comfortably seated | that he drew out his bill folder and laid one of his business cards in her || lIa | 4 Universal Detective | ' she repeated thoughtfully, ng his dark ey horne 2" (b Following the syllabic reply, the detective's | strayed to his package of cig: and he half drew it out; Elsa caught | | the motion. “Please smoke,” she exclaimed, | { “and T will keep you company. Now | Mr. Thorne, why are you here? | | Otficially—or as a guest?” “By invitation Thorne stretched out his long legs into a more com- fortable position; “after the death | Dr. K “What!" she exclaimed are vou talking about?” “Dr. Kane's death,” { | and | the | then m you Mr. re mono of e “What he detec- | +like glance passed between the blue | news look, pampa land in bulk; | dreds of square miles in area have |large as the District [thing and he knows it. tive’s eyes mever left. her. “Had you not heard of it?” She shook her head dumbly. “No,” she mumbled. “Dr. Kane dead; why, it’s unbelievable! Surely you are fooling me?" “With what object?” A rapier- cyes and the black; Thorne was the first to shift his gaze; it fell of her hands, beautifully shaped, with slen- der, artistic “fingers. “You find the of the doctor'’s death very shocking 2" “Oh, yes"; a trifle wildly. “I—I saw him last night barely twelve kours ago; he seemed so well then.” Suddenly she closed Ner eyes and a fow tears forced themselves through the hot lids. (Copyright, D. Appkton & Co.) Startling news of the manner in which Dr. Kane met his death is revealed in Monday's chapter. NEW MELTING POT INLATIN AMERICA Stream of Immigration Now Flows to Argentine Plains Washington, D. C., Oct. 4—Three thousand Americans, approximately, make up the United Sjates colony of Argentina, the big business re- public of South America, scene of a recent change of government. “But Americans are only a drop in Argentina’s® bulging bucketful of outlanders,” says a bulletin of the National Geograpiic Society from its headquarters in Washington, D. C. “One quarter of the entire popu- lation, 2,280,000 individuals are foreign born. Greater Melting Pot Than United States “Argentina’s melting pot has been diluted with KEuropeans more freely than United States ever was; and vet more come. Immigration bars erected in North America deflect the immigrant stream to South America, particularly to Argentina. “Italians vie with Spaniards for numerical superiority; Belgians, Swiss, English, French, Germans, Jews, Russo-Germans, and Russo- Jews scason the Argentine scene as the races of Kurope blend in the blood of North America. Becaus: the old North American colonial war cry, ‘All good Indians are dead Indians,’ echoed also over the pam- pas, the Argentine Republic is more strongly European than any other state of South America. “Spanish in language and out- Italian in its wine-drinking habits, taking Paris for its model in citles, and the United States for jts model in business management Argentina tries to live up to the fact that A comes first in the ABC group of South American leaders; Argentina, Brazil, Chile. World’s Leading Cow Country “Cow country extraordinary, Ar™ gentina has made cattle raising her principal industry by a long range triple trade play; U. S. to B A. to G. B. Capital and scientific skill in meat packing have been thrown in- to Buenos Aires by the United States; Buenos Aires completes th2 play by -tossing shiploads of beef and mutton into Great Britain's kitchens. ~ All three participants score; Britishers satisfy their hun- ger; Argentinians roll up fortunes to spend in Paris; Americans cash @iv- idend checks. “Argentina has more cattle per capita than any other country in the world. Its record of three catt!c per person is much higher than the United States and even higher than the ration in our western cattle- raising states. Horses that escaped from the Spanlards multiplied on North American plains; both wild horses and wild cattle muitiplied on Argentina’'s pampas. The Argentine gaucho became a hunter of free- roaming cattle and horses while his Kansas cowboy cousin became a herder. Cattfe stealing was never the serious crime on the pampas that it was in the North American Wild West because in Argentina cattle were free for the taking. No great ranch owner objected if a gaucho killed and ate a cow out of his herd; but it was bad form not to turn in the hide. Only the hides were valuable. “Cattle was king and bids fair to continue & reign in the Argentin: that never could last in the States. The natural evolution in the | use of good rich land from cattle 1o sheep to wheat to corn and pigs anl diversified farming has been check ed on the pampas temporarily, least, not by any force of Natur« but by the good old Spanish cus tom of landlording on a large scals: Landlords Hold on to Land “Early colonists collected blocks fla: hun been held with remarkable tenacity. Division among the children of ranch owners has cut the great | holdings down, vet estancias as of Columb! are not uncommon. Unlike tt American farmer the Argentin: ranch owner seldom lives on his land. Buenos Aires or Parls for him, while a manager runs the ‘farm.’ Pure blood cattle, Now popu- lar, demand better food than pam- pa grass, so he grows alfalfa. But the land will not support succe sive crops of alfalfa indefinitely he rents out—never sells—acrea to an Italian immigrant on fift fity shares, specifying that ti Italian must grow wheat. Fivc years of wheat, the Italian renter is dismissed; back to alfalfa again and more cattle. High prices for land cannot lure an Argentinian to part with his acres; he has a surc Richest Land Devoted to Livestock “The fertile pampa, as a result, | is populated by cattle instead of people. Immigrants pouring into Buenos Alires are forced to try their fortunes in less productive regions whére the chances of success are slim, where drought sears the | crpos. cattle die of fever, and the locusts eat everything in sight. Ex- cept for a few colonies established for the land hungry immigrant, there is no opportunity for him to introduce intensive agriculture in the richest acreage of the country. “It is this set of circumstances which keeps meat products the leader of Argentine's billion ~ dollar United | ! *SATURDAY, The sagging foundations of a tenement house in Greenwich Village, N. Y., brought the building down on / OCTOBER 4, 1930. 2 sleeping tenants, killing five Awsociated Press Photo gave way and and seriously injuring seven. Firemen are shown searching the ruins for victims. proposal that manufacturers pro= vide jobs by shortening the hours ot workers now employed, had met with general approval. The entrance of industry inte the relief plans, climaxed a week of surprisingly effective effort to al- leviate the unemployment evil be- fore winter comes. Youthful Mayor Murphy, who has been in office lit- tle more than a week, heads the movement. . Denounced by his enemies as a onary idealist, and hailed by his ;:lis&ns as a practical exponent of the ' brotherhood of man, Murphy, set about after inauguration to car- ry out his campaign promises. He established registration bureaus at strategic points in the city, and invited every jobless worker to ap- ply for aid. In thpee days the books carried 75,000 names_and the lists are still growing. Over the radio and through the newspapers flanai! were broadcast for aid for the 12 000 persons in actual want. School children brought to their classrooms discarded clothigg and shoes. Money contributions flowed in. The police force volunteered ta give amounts ranging from $1 a month by patrolmen to $35 by de- partment executives. Food tickets worth $2 at grocery stores were distributed. Hundreds of volunteer workers visited the most needy, bringing food, clothing, medical sup= plies, and legal aid to prevent evic« tion for non-payment of rent. Seek Permanent Plan #mmediate needs were taken care of, the mayor and his committee turned to establishing a permanent relief plan. Wednesday's conferenca was the first step. struction projects including a new downtown library and a $1,000,000 The city plans to do its part as follows: 1—By establishing a free employment bureau. 2—By givig immediate relief to municipal product of cattle raising, comes sec- ond. Italians have carried their skill | in wine making to the semi-arid re- gions around Mendoza, irrigating their vineyards withice fed streams from the Andes. Tucyman forg dhead with Virginia tobacco, ,wh the far noth of Argentina strives to cut down the country’s dependence on Paraguay for yerba. “Yerba is tq Argentines and some other South Americans what' tea is to an Englishman, coffee to a Bra- zilian, chocolate to a Frenchman, and oatmeal gruel to a Scotchman. Among the upper classes in Buenos Aires, where Buropean customs ave in vogue, the mate, or gourd, from which yerba is drunk does not ap- pear in public. Yet figures on con-| sumption show that Buenos Aires consumes its share of the §0,000 | tons of yerba mate annually quired to supply the national mand. “Although it goes under the term | verba mate, yerba is the leaf of the shrub, Paraguayan tea, which put into the gourd or mate. Hot | water poured into the mate makes | the infusion which the drinker sucks through a tube, often a silver | tube. The end of the tube is capped | by a perforated ball which pre-| vents particles of the leaf entering| the moutR. Yerba mate is best aftc the fifth addition of hot water, s connoisseurs. Various attempts to | introduce yerba mate to North is| | Sanscrit “pancha, believed, because Americans have not been won over to gourds.” SWEDISH PUNCH LOSES | OLD TIME POPULARITY | 200th Anniversary of Drink Import- ed From East Imminent — Name Derived From Hindoo Gothenburg, Sweden, Oct. 4 (UP) —Swedish punch, no longer as pop- ular as it was, soon will celebrate its 200th Historical re- search has established that it was first introduced to Sweden through Gothenburg in 1733 by the East In- dia Company which that vear began to import arrack, a strong distilled liquor of the east, which is the chief | lcoholic ingredient. The name comes from the Hindoo word “panch,” derived from the " meaning five, or the number of contents, arrack, wa- ter, sugar, tea and lemon or some other spice. Gradually the water be- | came less important and the con-| centrated concoction was served in | bottles instead of in bowls. | Today there are several formulae | for Swedish punch, but since the sugar makes it fattening, less and less of it is used in Sweden each year. The native “snaps” or po-| tato brandy, cognac and Scotch | America have failed, partly, it is export trade. Wheat, virtually a by- Referring again to si whisky are taking its place. DETROIT CONTINUES ITS AID T0 NEEDY Plans to Forestall Winter Suffer- ing Rushed in Detroit Detroit, Oct. 4 (UP) — A major lattempt to combat unemployment by concerted effort of a great city's government and its industrial lead- ers, was under way in Detroit today. While, 75,000 jobless citizens waited Ropefully, plans to forestall winter suffering were being hurried forward. With the first bitterness of cold weather in the air, 21 of the city's millionaire business men met Tues- day with Mayor Frank Murphy to decide what industry could do to help. As a result it was predicted from a high source that the city's manufacturing plants would soon | make available 25,000 new jobs. Such men as Edsel Fofd, Walter P. Chrysler, Charles T. and Law- rence P. Fisher, and Alvan Macaul- ey participated in the conference. Manufacturers Help C. Hall Roosevelt, banker, chair- man of the mayor's unemployment | committee, announced that the city's You remember - Goliath those in danger of suffering. 3—By starting as soon as possible board of education building. Meanwhile, among the thousands of jobless men who stand hopelessly on the street corners and about the $18,000,000 worth of municipal con- employment bureaus, the sale of communist publications has de- creased. There is mew courage in many tired faces and a new light of hope in weary eyes. | FIELDS ON HO! MOON Cairo, Oct. 3 (A—Marshall Field, I3, and his bride, the former Mrs, Dudley Coats, left here today on & honeymoon trip in their own am- phibian plane. Their scheduled route takes them from here by stages to Nairobi. They expect to arrive there by October 6 and then to proceed on a hunting trip. URGE 'CORN CUTTING Wabash, Ind, (UP) — Raising of tall corn is not encour- aged in Wabash county, at least not near cross roads. County road com- missioners sent a request to all farmers to cut enough of their corn near the corner of fields to cnable passing motorists to obtain an un- obstructed view of oncoming cars. Scveral accidents occurred in the county due to inability of motorists to see around the grain, it was said, USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS ON'T overlook the smaller advesgisements in this paper. Look them over. 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