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' PAGE FOUR Tfte'OnEGON TATESHAN, galem. OVcgon"SbnHay Morning; August 1931 1. k ; "No Favor Sway's Us; No Fear Shall Arcs" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 r'.'THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. ' XhaklesT A-'jSnucuc, Sheldon P. Sackctt, Publiaher$ CtUMJEi AT SpfUGtTf - Editor-Manager SHELOOK F. SX2tt - Ji mnmffing Editor vV-- Member of the ? Associated Press . . ,. ; The Associated Prese ! ea-clualvely entitled to the um for public tie of aU news dispatches credited U It or not tberwlae credited to thl paper. - - . :- -. j Pacific Coast AdreVtiainr Representatives: A i-tHtt. W MrmM. Irvp Pm-fland. BecurttT Bl&JT. . ! " ' Tan cisco. Sharon Bl. : L Anceies. W. Pc Bid. :-- t ' , - .-' " - '.. ' Eastern Advertising Representatives : ' ForS-Paroo-STK-hfr, Irc New-TeHc. 171 Madison Ave. t v . , Chiraso. S0 N Utrttiaan Ave. t . eSsTs"ssTBT5aa?' t Entered at the Poetoffice ml Salem, Oregon,. ScuLlaat Hatter. Pubiithed every- morning . except Monday. Buevneet office. S15 S. Commercial Street. 1 ' s SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I " j Man Sjbwlptloo RatMn Adcco. Wtthln Otaon: Daily Ruuday, 1 Mo. cents: S -Mc. tl.2i; Mo. : 1 Tw !; Eiaher so utm Dr Al-v. or for 1 rear to advance. . - By City Carrier : 43 ceots a month; $5.09 a year In advance.. ' Per Copy 1 cents. On train and New Stands i cents, j , ."" - Resubmission S SENATOR McNARY, taf ely in office ' for another term, Incomes suddenly positive in his views about the 1 8th . amendment. Well, not positive either. The senator, being .political, ia never positive about anything, j He isn't positive qKaii! -f arm : T"ol!r TT isn t positive about DrohibitionJ 31 -rvu -jnereiy says mat ne wuum vwlc vi wumi,iii Hhe 18th amendment. What the senator proposes, if any r thing, in place of prohibition he does not disclose. AH he ' adds is that "Americans have a taste for hard liquor" ahd tj wouldn't be satisfied with light wines and beer; - : The prohibition law is not a complete success. .It has ; brought many serious evili trie alky and; beer rackets, lit " i' Is not enough however to point out these evils. There is the '-memory also of evils we have escaped from: the open saloon, ' its notorious alliance with politics, the curse of liquor to the r workingman and his family. If prohibition is to go as; a " 1: matter of the constitution and the law, what form of liquor - . ' ' a ?A1 ei t r control will re nave xo taice us i:t If liquor is to be made subject merely to congressional ' -action, "then we will have utter dethoralifation of legislation. Our memories go back to liquor" fights in state legislatures. "'Multiply that tension and struggle and pressure and co'mp tien by48 and you have just about the situation in congress if that body attempted to deal with liquor for the country t"as a whole, without theconstitutional imperative which ; it now" has. ' ' ' j j , We agree that the first step for a modification of ow liquor control policy should come through the repeal of the :18th amendment Anything else such as repeal of state laws, '-repeal or modification of the Volstead act results in mere ' nullification of the constitution, which is the supreme law of . ; the land. If through the means provided by the constitution 1 the 18th amendment is repealed the dries as good citizens must accent that manifestation f the popular will. We feel r sure they will do it, and do it far better than the wets, who ;bave made every effort to destroy the effect of the 18th amendment, although.it was adopted by (orderly processes . t-nA .ff.ii 1nnnpinntttiiiu1 a rrif a 1 ftn 'PmrilVtlf !nn Waa rtV Tin Vmeana a nrodnct of wartime Vmates. - 4 ''11 1 But the modificationists should propose some program f to follow repeal. Otherwise we have instantly the -estab-I lishment of saloons in.the wet states like New York and IHi- f nois. Dry states win be subject to inundation from the Jegai l ized oases, and the whole battle for control of liquor would J be back where it was a generation or more ago. si I . This is the objection we have to resubmission: no defin- t-lve program is prupuseu wuiui I better tiian Drolrfbition: and the as to jtfst what may be done to : without opening up the vices of Senator McNary offers no Vio the wctus that he now lines Getting the : "sTT 191 nnitaa irnrvf-.T-f anf thnt a . "-a. . - - , 'A' Just now we are all busy ; .uui, ucuauxig . wucuier ii is Keiuug miga wiuuuci. t years ago wp were thinking only of the doughnut and had forgotten there was a hole. James Truslow Adams, pungent critic that he is, who uses the . ' perspective of the present, S; - " Here is a summary of some of the conditions through A : which this country passed in , the conditions then were much I ing now. That may be a poor palliative, but misery does love i company; and when we see what the country came through I in the past we may have reason to Tuope we will emerge , 'again. - . i . , . . - j y -r, ' ' "In 1837, during a panic precipitated by the passage of .. . . a low tariff bill, all banks suspended specie payment. In t ". North Carolina farms could b sold for only 2 per cent of ( ; their value. Nine-tenths ot all the eastern factories were closed. Unemployment became almost universal. In 1857, I , all the banks in the country suspended. Mobs paraded the' ' streets of New York with cries of "Bread or Death." Fed . eral troops were called out to' guard banks and the sub 1' f treasury from mobs threatening to plunder them. In the ; , , , - crash of 187S one great financial house after another fell. - Tne stock exchange closed lor eight days. Things grew steadily worse for several years. ' By the close of 1875 rail roads had defaulted on 779 millions ot bonds. Ships lay at their docks because merchants could not obtain foreign exchange. Some 50,000 commercial firms failed. The max imum ot failures occurred In 1878, five years after the panic started. Bloody and destructive riots occurred in all that principal cities. In 1893, 407 banks closed la a few months. Virtually all the railroads in the country ; went Into the hands ot receivers or Into bankrupt courts, i Federal troops were sent to Chicago to suppress railroad strikes and there were labor riots everywhere. . i Plotting Along ?: Corvallls high school coach has returned from Utah, where he -' look special Instruction in football tactics. He will need all the help Z he can get after Albany -high school's new coach arrives. Albany Robinson of the Yakima n-t; T f ! fW 5JnlIn(1 CMt the taxpayers money." Perhaps he pan t. but It he wonld look across the horseheaven hills to Oregon ir?!iS,ir ! "tS?.w.r?. "te. of mind- lost a hundred thou- " t" a " 'w lur wea-tra -The chlroDrar.tora mn t. at kick mi Vab v K select the girl with the prettiest " The downtrodden of the first . pioas ra I a. urangemaster Huiet Is feeling the apostolic call and -; BIll Delzell is feeding; on locusts and wild honey tad wearing a girdle a ua.it bo aa na do jonoiaaoapust Ot tne new Oay.- ' - - - - . - piace ; s hvsteria as Sen. McNarr inti- Kivt piunuse ucuik, aujr public mind is still confused avoid the evils of prohibition legalized liquor-traffic solution. He merely signals up with the wets. Right Focus crft the Titrht fnrus nn thinffS studying the hole in the dough- o - - - -o - lens of history to get a right recently in a (magazine article years gone by In most respects worse than we are experienc the Calapooia Republc says he can't recall in taxes that will go to Calif ornla - i . . . .. L u Pcaa toe giri wun the feet. Now what can the chlrotonsors i i district will have no lack'of eham- ' r " r o Cancer ! ! I I : - : - r VERNON A. DOUGLAS. M. D. Marios Ooaaty Departmrmt off . Health Cancaf catuee la tha neighbor hood at ,000 deaths a year la the United. State. Aa abont it persona die of cancer lv liar Ion codnty each ,yar It has beeeene one of the . chief tanses ot death. Cancer la on the- Increase. In man plsesi the cancer death, rate baa trebled , In the last sixty years. Even when cor rectlona are made for' age, better diagno sis and other V1 D. V. A. DoncUs factors, there appears to be an Increase. Part of the Increase appears to be due to more people reaching. the cancer age than for merly. It -Is' a, disease ot "adult life 0'ot all deatha occur ring after, forty years of age. More Common la' JTVomea Cancer Is ; more common In iromea than in men. Abont one woman In eight over , forty-five dies of cancer and abont one man In fourteen. , ' i The cause of cancer is still un known. There appear to be, how ever, several predisposing fac tors. Experimentally - it appears that a diet deficient in Vitamine A may be a factor. It seems that chronic irritations may Induce cancer In susceptible persons, whether the agencies be chemical, raehanical. bacterial or thermal. Thus we have Up cancer of pipe smokers, cancer of par ai fine mak- awLma w as r9 CIS, ilUULUC bvtwO emuwa M Enaland. uterine cancer from chronic discharges following childbirth., and tongue cancer from snags of teeth. 1 . Heredity Is Factor Heredity. - apparently is one of the underlying factors predis posing . to cancerous growths. This has been repeatedly, demon strated in the laboratory, espe cially with rats., although not so clearly demonstratable In -man'. Certain benien. Innocent look ing growths, such, aa Warts, pig. mented moles, pigment patches on- the akin of older people some times develop Into cancer. May Be Prevented The prevention of cancer 'Is a large problem hut the prevailing concption that nothing can be done is not correct. Ia the first place periodic health - examina tions should reveal the- presence of precancerous conditions. Per sons in whose famUy cancer has been common should be especial ly careful of chronic discharges. molds, lumps in t$e breast or other unusual growths. Most can cers are at first local disease and therefore curable if detected and removed In time. The cnmmls. slori or cancer ot the Medical so ciety of the state of Pennsylvania found that almost one-half of pa? tients with fully developed can cer had some previous condition which might have been removed earlier thus preventing the can cer. The person with cancer should not decide on his own treatment. He should go to an expert and follow his advice carefully. Can cer pastes and serums do- not take the place of modern surgery and tne skilled use of radium and X-ray. A person should be sus picious of anyone who guaran tees a cure, especially If the can cer Is deep seated. The lure of a Quick cure without surgery has prolonged the misery and suffer ing of hundreds, often making death inevitable. Early and com' plete removal is the only satis factory treatment for cancer. What health DraMrmi mf Tf tarn a dot article raiac soy qattioa ia jour miDI. write tnal OlfMtlnn ant an1 ad it either to The Statesman er tae Marion eoantj deDartment ot health. Th aacw.r will appear ia this column. Kame wwiq oe aiciiaa. eat will net be ere ia tb ninrr. Yesterdays . . . Of Old Salem Tow Talk t roeat The Statea mai mt Earlier Daya An (cast 2S. 1POA New York Our foreian trade is on an exceedingly satisfactory basis, not only showing a steady expansion but running on lines that serve to strengthen our cred It abroad and help settle foreign indebtedness. . Another . industry In Balem which is seldom mentioned Is the making of hop baskeU. . The seven men employed at Morley's Fence works turn out about 100 baskets a day, Charles TT Jnn.i winti a nrln eipal for a very desirable school In small town. A full tour years' high school course is car tied. .? Aaguet 23, 1921 Special deputies and state agents have been assigned to the hopyards throughout the valley as peace officers for the protee tion of pickers. John M., Grant, former sheriff of Polk county, killed one of the largest black bears ever seen in this part of the state, on Laurel mountain about 15 miles west of Dallas. The animal weighed over 1000 pounds. Cleveland, O.. Aug. 23- Strike ballots for submission to 409,000 members fo the "Big Four" rail road .brotherhoods and .the Switchmen's union of North America were being prepared at a Joint conference here today of members of the excutlre com mittees, executives and grand Of fleers. . i s' Daily! Thought "Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, 'but because . 'tis an ex case every man will plead, ' and no man can tell how te refute him. Selden. " ' : t a e f HERE'S HOW : fzeAeo ev Ht,!-1 SkLT WAY k.0 Tuesday: Lady, BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Virtue a liberal art: ' Wrote Benjamin Franklin, us ing the example - of a humble friend to illustrate his point: m m "a "It Is said that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which, virtue waa taught aa liberal art or sci ence; and it la certainly or more consequence to a man, that he has learned to-govern his pas sions la. spite of temptation, -to be just in his deaUngs. . to be temperate in his pleasures, to support himself with fortitude under his misfortunes, to .behave with prudence in all his affairs, and la every circumstance of life; I say. It is of much more real advantage to him, to be thus quaUfied, than to be a master ot all the arts and -sciences in the whole world beside. - a ' "Virtue itself alone is suffi cient to make a man great, glor- ous and happy. a " "He that is acquainted with Cato. aa I am, can not help thinking, as I do now, and will acknowledge he deserves the name, without being honored by It. , - . a "a "Cato is a man whom fortune has placed in the most obscure part ot the country. His ctrcum- gt siicea are such, as only to put him above necessity, without af fording him many superfluities; yet who is greater than Cato 7 - "a , - I happened but the other day to be at a house In town, where, among others, were met men of the most note in this place, cato had business with some of them, and knocked at the door. The most trifling; actions ot a man, in mv opinion, as well as the smal lest features and lineaments ot his face, give a nice observer some notion of his mind. V V V "Methouxht he rapped in such a peculiar manner, as seemed of Itself to express there was one, who deserved as well as desired admission. "a a "a He appeared in the plainest country garb; his great coat s coarse, and- looked old ana threadbare; bis linen waa home spun; his beard, perhaps of sev en days growth; his shoes -thick and heavy; and every part of his dress corresponded. "Why was this man received with vsuch concurring respect from every person in the -room, even from those who had never known him rr seen him before. It was not an exquisite form of per- son, or grandeur ot dress, that LAY SERMON - RELIGION AS QUEST "Many shall so to and xra. and lcnowle-a ahali ba Increased. Daniel. - It is a truism that travel pro motes knowledge. The ancients who scarce ventured past the Pillars of Hercules thought of the west as a sea of blackness, or con jured there a fabled island, At lantis. Their feeble ships pro pelled by tiny sails or banka of oars were not safe for ocean voyaging. By land hostile tribes, deserts, lack of roada kept them close to their birthplace. Hero dotus was an earry day traveler and .to his setting down the stor ies he gathered In his travels we owe much of our knowledge of ancient history. Marco' Polo was almost the first cosmopolite, whose tsles of far Cathay and In dia awoke Europe to the possi bilities ot trade and travel. Now a trip to Europe or to China or South America ia of mtle inci dent, and knowledge of other lands and other peoplea is greatly Increased thereby. ' There la another manner - of journeying, in these times, .'and thatis through the book and the laboratory. Many there are who thus go to and fro through time and through space, storing, up knowledge. ' And-ln a few weeks our young - people'twlll be going off. to college there- to pursue their education; accumulating that store ot Information which should prove useful through the years. Freedom of movement, freedom of thought, fall liberty to go "to and . fro" are the essentials -for I the diffusion of knowledge which By EPSON -.(.III.' I .-.Ov' .JnHrS I I - HIM W- I how Could you? struck us with admiration. "1 believe long: habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. There waa some thing in the air ot his face, that manifested the true' greatness of mind, which likewise appeared, in all ha said, and in every part of his behavior, obliging ua to re gard him with a sort of venera tion. '- . "His aspect Is sweetened with humanity and -benevolence, and at the same time . emboldened with resolution, equaUy free from different bashfulness and an unbecoming assurance. The consciousness of his own Innate worth and unshaken integrity renders him calm and nndaunted in the presence of the most great and powerful, and upon the most extraordinary occasions. a "a - "His strict Justice and known impartiality make him the ar biter and decider of all differ ences, that arise for many miles around him, without putting his neighbors to the charge, preplex Ity and uncertainty of lawsuits. 1p S "He always speaks the thing he means, which he la never afraid or ashamed to do, because he knows ho always means well, and therefore is never obliged to blush, and feet the confusion ot finding himself detected in the meanness of a falsehood. a S "He never contrives Hi against his neighbors and therefor is never seen with a lowering, sus picious aspect. A mixture ot inno cence and wisdom makes him ever seriously cheerful. . a V "His generous ' hospitatity " to strangers, according to his abil ity; bis goodness, his charity, .his courage la the cause of the op pressed, his fidelity in friendship, his humility, his honesty and sin cerity, his moderation, and bis loyalty to the government; x his piety, his temperance, his-love to mankind, his magnanimity, his public spiritedness, and, n fine, his consummate virtue, make him justly deserve to be esteemed the glory of his country." That was a splendid tribute to a man of humble station who, through his virtue,, was great; in real worth comparable to the greatest, .And a high tribute to the homely qualities of true vir tue. Benjamin Franklin, through former peculiarly intimate con tacts, was the only outstanding American ot- his time who could have felicitated the English peo- pie "over the outcome of the make the world Informed. Dogma is always in danger when there is the free. play of mesial processes. Patriotism loses Its provincial character whea men go abroad and meet and talk with other folk. Theol ogy loses Us narrowness when men of many minds hold con verse. It was in old Athens,, the meeting place of the, culture of the ancient world, that .many passed their time merely In see ing and hearing "some new thing.' ' Spite of all our' cosmopolitan- Ism, our opportunity for study and for travel and for contact. religion has a power of seif-insui atlon. Thus strange . quirks of belief exist, or outworn supersti tions persist among persons who seem otherwise Intelligent and world-minded. They keep their religious dogma in some sealed compartment which successfully resists the impact of modern knowledge. For them their faith Is a treasure to be stored, not something to be tested and tried in -the light of new ideas. Claim ing to hold the truth, they seem to fear their "truth", will not sur vive if subjected to scrutiny. . So they Insulate their religion. - Science on the other hand has a. very different attitude. It is sealous tor new knowledge and willing to test old "truths." Re ligion is not scienee; but aurely has nothing to -tear from free dom, from searching, from test lng- of old values. It too can pro fit by the Increase of knowledge that may come from going "to and fro" la quest of truth. pie Mystery of Geraldihe-.Bgfeny CHAPTER 3X1 My suspicions were not deeply founded at this early atage of the game. Now X eaa teU -you with definite assurance that by this elaborate and - fantastic . geneal ogical device. - X had obtained eoploas sample of the .wTitin: of Geraldlne Fester.', For what par-poser- Obviously ia preparation for. . a . forgery. I do not. have to tell any of you herer with the passible exception ot Doctor Mas ken that forgery is by no means the rare and delicate accomplish ment generally supposed. Expert forgery need mean no more thaa the power to. draw , accurately. I know many artists who can imi tate perfectly any signature at the first trial. I have since proved that the person whom -I had be gun' to suspect, was Xt studied drawing. -many years ago.-1 have been - shown samples of X's wbrk.' "Between. August and Decem ber 24. X had ample ' time to copy the handwriting of, Geral dlne Foster. , . . "Meanwhile, luck . favored the plotter. I do net know to what sly resources X would have fal len if chaace'bad not smiled upon those dark , plans. Geraldlne Foo ter was about to vbe . married. Therefore she was - leaving the apartment - on ' Mornings i d e Heights and Betty Canfield was seeking smaller quarters for her self.. The apartment was for sub let. The-girls .worked during the day and 'X' called to look at the apartment during the day. An Important Detail "'Tor. .what purpose? ; On the first occasion, 'X' stole stationery and . a pen but overlooked one important detail. All purple inks are not the same.' That aronsed my first suspicion in the case. The note which demanded black- mall money from Dr. Maskell was a forged note. It was brought back to the apartment -on Morn ingside Heights by X who, left alone in the living room, tore It across and. thrust the pieces Into the desk drawer, certain that later on they would be found.-If they had not been found, X would have planted the frag ments of a second note. Nothing was to. be left to chance. . But it happened that the scheme work ed perfectly the first time. Again It was lucky that Betty Canfield saw Geraldlne half-finish a note and then destroy it which threw us all off the track, until our de tectives found the fragments of both notes. It was also on the second visit that the key to the house on Peddler a Road waa left in Geraldine's eoat. "We know that this: was not the only note by 'X. Another was completed and instead of being torn up waa sent directly to Fe Use Morgan, the mother of Doris. The purpose of this was mani fest. It was to create even In the mind of Dr. Mask ell's nearest and dearest a doubt of his innocence. and to show to the police the os tensible motive for the deed. Fur ther, the not also showed us where to look for the body it gave us our first intimation of the house on Peddler's Road: serving two deadly purposes." Natalie Maskell smiled in ad miration. "It is marvelous how you have worked this out, Mr. Colt," she said. "I am beginning to be afraid that you have anticipated the very defense we have been pre paring, and -which absolutely clears my brother-inlaw." "But your husband does not seem so j confident," sneered Dougherty. The district attorney was still entirely unimpressed by Thatcher Colt's reconstruction of the case., And in- this Instance Dougherty had spoken shrewdly. treatv of Dear with her former colonies across the sea, in the fol lowing words, without arousing bitter rancor: "a -V "I loin with to a moat mrdial. ly in rejoicing at the return of peace. I hope it will be lasting, and that mankind. will at length. as they call themselves reason able creatures, have reason enough to settle their differences without -cutting throats; for, in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. What past additions to the convenien ces an d comforts of life might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed m works of utility! What an extension of agriculture, even to the tops of the moun tains; . what ; rivers rendered navigable. ,or joined by. canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices and improvements, ren- uering j,ngiana.a complete para dise, might not hare been . ob tained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war nave been spent, In ' doing mischief in bringing misery Into thousands of famiUes and destroying the Uvea of so many working people, who might, have performed the useful labors." a . S -As there had not been up to that time a good war or a bad peace, there has not been since Franklin's day a good, war, nor, in general terms,- a bad peace; though the terms of several have been foolishly devised, leading' in thai-direction of more bad wars. . "IIow can the American Legion drum corps raise $2500 to pay its share of the costs in going to De troit?" was the question asked by Statesman reporters yesterday. B. F. Shoemaker, pastor Court Street Charch of Christ: "I have not thought of it and would not want to venture an opinion. Peo ple might thlak lta hard time, to raise that amount of money, con sidering conditions. ..- ". - ' '.I - Hal D. Pattoa. merchant "By subseripUon--there Are enough public spirited people in Salem to put this over." " G. Brookler, " salesman: "Let the ladies ot the corps give a series ot benefit bridge parti tney usually pay. New Views Old George Maskell, the lion of the court rooms of New York.1 looked depressed. His eyes were like the windows of an empty house. . Yet he answered the re mark ot Dougherty directly and forcefully; ; . : -' ' ... -I'm listening- to all that ia said." he replied. "I will reply at the proper time." "Also, Interrupted Natalie "you have not explained why Humphrey, was s selected as the victim of this mysterious X Why all these devilish prepara tions?" . . . , Thatcher Colt smiled mysteri ously. . "That will presently appear," he said. "Doctor Maskell was the only possible victim ' in .this case, X had also been busy finding out about th private affairs of the doctor during the autumn. Everything: : that he would wish to keep hidden had been' found out by this .prying X'. He had been followed to the house on Peddler's Road, and his secret love affair was known.:' "I learned that X had 1 bur glarized the house on Peddler's Road, got inside and studied the layout of the little house. More than, that, X had.. seat for. a locksmith and had a private key made for the front ' door. The locksmith.' by the way. is now under this same roof with us. X could come, and go in the house at whim, so long as the doctor and his friend were not there. "Therefore, 'X' contrived ' free access to the stage.; on which the coming- drama of blood was to be played.. And. while lurking In that house, 'X all-seeing eyes had fallen upon Doctor's Mas k ell's axe. "Even then, the' preparations for this astounding crime were not complete. . X must add - a final touch of horror, to sesl the doctor's doom. By now, you must begin to see that Geraldlne Fos ter was only an incident in the scheme. The doctor was to be the real victim. His was the death that was to be encompassed, and the state would do the killing. 'X would commit the 'murder of the girt. No one would see. Then 'X must preserve the dead body against decay untU it would be possible further to entangle Doe tor MaskelL That might be days even a week yet when the body was found. It must have the appearance- of being freshly killed. Tannie acid would do that. The Idea was filched from an old murder in New Jersey with which I am. as well as 'X' was familiar. The plan was clearly defined kill., put the body in the tub, soak It -in the preservative, bury the body, and then contrive by some device to involve the doctor with a difficulty in proving his move ments. But be must not get into the house, otherwise he would discover what had happened.1 per haps notify the police himself, and thus rub off ' some of the sheen of suspicion. which X' was so carefully polishing in , all the contrived circumstances.. Here was a real problem, unique in crime, I believe, yet "X met it with consummate skill. Well Laid Plans ' "Accordingly, the murder was committed on Christmas eve in the afternoon - exactly as sched uled. I will give you the details of this in just a minute. But let me leap ahead for a moment. A few days after Christmas, Doc tor Vaskell leaves town suddenly, mysteriously, "wUhout an expla nation. Why? 'X knew perfectly well the secret trip to Reno preparatory to getting- a divorce. It was this romance which hast ened the crime. All of these plans, coincidental as they may seem; at -first glance really show why the crime was committed at Jnst this time. X" seized the op portunity because it was neces sary. If Fellse and the doctor were married, the reason for the crime Itself would cease to be. "'X' knew that the" doctor would return on January 4. Ia the meantime, no-one would be visiting the house on Peddler's Road. Therefore, all that time the body of Geraldlne Foster lay washing In the tub of tannic add. But on the night ot January 3, some one in.the neighborhood Is willing to testify they saw a light in the house. That was the night 'X returned there and buried the body, single handed.-1- "Therefore the medical exam iner was right' when he said the body had been In the grave for 3$ hours.-But the pigeons had given ) I'D HAVE BEEN) TOO BAD YOU HOME SOONER DEAR. BUT I r ; I - 1 . I HAD AN ACCl DENT. M. W m ft mmtt m irmm (for Accidents cosue quickly, bat so do the settlement w!-n you hare bne of Homer H. Smith's accident policies! There are pleaty of acrtdenta looking for momm place 'to happen. IT ther-plclcosi yow be PREPARED! - . ' ' r . HriEn Ha' oniTiH Orer. Miller's Store Homer H. Smith -v -'' -. me a cine, which the autopsy sub stantiated. The girl had been ia I!?,. gtT' bonr8 bnt she was killed on December 24. It had oeen th design of X to make it seem that Geraldlne. fc. killed on January 1, when Doctor aaasaen. : could not account for his movements'.. Horaroit erness came into play. - t. . i i u uocior could be lured te some plaee ' where he had no means of prov ing that he was, then the police would believe that he was lying, and the full result would be ac complished. Accordingly, on Jan- HArr a. Vi m. AjAfwAy a -1 i ' at icirpaons we was toid that it was Geraldin Foster talking he be lieved it and he m fnHk.. told that If he would come to her at once he could save her from great trouble. Sha am ,. to commit suicide. The doctor was an. impulsive man and went to keep the assignment. She said that he was to meet her at the Pelham entrance to Bronx park ne went mere and waited two hours and saw no one. But such was his Isolated position that no one who knew him saw him there. "That made tha lAf AT-'a . "wvtwi a oiui look fishy to us, and the district attorney wisely laid stress on it just as 'X' intended he should. "But the tannic acid ruse had not worked. It never does. The medical examiners '-hon make the autopsy, are certain sooner or -'later to discover tffe iraud. And then, the snails in the stomach of Geraldlne Foster were conclusive. It mifrht h as if all this magnificent plot ot v naa ianea, or at least the prepared case against th. gTeatly weakened, simply because tue poace almost instantly found out the exact time of the mur der. ""But here that strange ele ment of chance which had played against the real killer now changed sides and helped ia tin plot. We knew that Geraldlne Foster had been killed on Christ mas eve.1 But that did not hell the doctor, for his Christmas eva allbl was just as defective as the one of January 4. Thekttler had first meant to lure him there di rectly, in' which case no tannic acid would have been necessary. After Mrs. Westlock delivered the message, the doctor called Mrs. Morgan because he was suspicious. They arranged to meet, but the husband returned unexpectedly and Mrs. Morgan could" not leave her apartment. Doctor Maskell, in an. auction room, had no alibi, and he would not betray the lady when we questioned him -about it. We had to find her through', the pillow case which had been deliberately put over the head of the Tictim, because the killer remembered the Anna Aumuller case and knew exactly what the police would do with that." ! "A gruesome enough scheme," remarked George Maskell. with a glance' at the police commission er - : "X decided to leave nothing to - chance. ; If anything went wrong with the tannic acid, it must be shown that Doctor Mas kell had tried to fix an alibi for himself, and that he bought tha, chemical. Accordingly, at the proper time, a telephone call was made to the Wisner pharmacy. The druggist' was told that Doc tor Maskell wished three large bottles of tannic acid, and they must be - delivered before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. This was done, and two of those bottles missing from the doctor's office, were found In the brush near the house on Peddler's Road. More over, a witness was found who saw Geraldlne Foster leaving the office carrying these two bottles her own embalming fluid." "How horrible and fantastic almost unbelievable, Mr. Com missioner,' said Natalie MaskelL (To Be Continued Tomorrow) TO LIVE IX ALBAVY TTJRNEC. Aug. 22 Mr. and Mrs, J. F. Thomason who are well along In the eighties in age, hare . decided to give up their home and go to the home of their daughter, Mrs7 B. Zimmerman, in Albany. NEWSPAPERMAN VISITS TURNER. Aug. 22 Weekend guests at the U. S. Talbot home were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith ot Tacoma. T Smith is an employe of the Tacoma News-Review-Tribune-Ledger. DIDN'T -STOP OFF TO SEE INSURANT AGENCY .ABOUT ACCIDENT INSURANCE, ACCIDENTS TeL 9181 Merrill D. Ohling i I