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PAGE FOUR The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, : Oregon, Friday Morning. May 17, 1935 "iVo Favor Sway V$; No Fear Shall AwtP ; From First Statesman. March 28. 1S51 . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Ch&les A. Spragu- - - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackeit ----- Managing-Editor Member of tbe Associated Press Tn Associated Press I exclusively entitled U the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited km this paper. ADVERTISING Portland Representative Gordon B Belt. Security Butldla. Portland. Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant, Griffith Branson. Die, Chicago, Kew lfork, Detroit. Boston. Atlanta Entered at the Postoffiee at Salem, Oregon, as Secortd-CUte Blatter. Published jvery morning except Monday. BusinesM office, tlS S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: JdU Subscription Rates, In Advance, Wlrhm Oregon : Daft and Sunday, 1 Ma. cents; 3 Ma. S1..5; Ma ttli; 1 year 4.0U. EkM ........ en .. Mn i US tnr 1 ur tn ulnnn. Par Codt By City Carrier 4i cent- a month: IS. a year m advance, Sales Promotion on Liquors REPEAL seems to have completely flabbergasted the WCTU, church groups "and other foes of the evils of alcoholism. The persistent educational program which pre . ceded prohibition ended with the adoption of the 18th amend ment, and reliance was placed on the legal arm of enforce ment. Following repeal the temperance forces are doing nothing but sigh over their defeat or anticipating some re volt in the direction of return to legalized prohibition. Mean time the commercial agencies which profit by liquor con sumption are working diligently to increase consumption and build up profits. It is being done with some discretion so as not to arouse public resentment ; but the promotion is going forward on a scale not dreamed of in the old saloon days. The American Business Men's Research foundation (whatever that is) says in a publicity release: "American non-drinkers of either sex may soon become extinct, it the latest plana of aggressive liquor distributors , achieve 100 success". I The familiar machinery of trade promotion and super salesmanship is being set up to propagandize, attract cus tomers, break down "sales resistance". Promotion material going to the private liquor dealer or restaurant deals with subjects like this: "New customers for bars"; "Pulling in - t i i it k ti r P " ..U AT n 1- H C l.n4- XNon-innKers ; An x-iiecuve assault on me vjreat uijumi of Non-Drinkers-or Very Infrequent Drinkers"; "How Can You Make People Drink at Noon?". The stimulus to extra effort for building up sales is the heavy profit: "on each 2-ounce drink a gross return of 232, of cost"; and a 2977c gross profit on the 1V ounce cocktail, A sample of one of the sales tips for increasing con sumption is the following, which is headed "Success of Plan Depends Upon High Pressure" : "The restaurants which have adopted all or any part of the .... plan make it a hard and fast rule that every waiter and bartender must suggest .... and show the bottle whenever DRINKS ARE REFUSED. And they enforce it. There is a check up every day, beginning with the manager right down the line through the malt re d'hotel (or the head bartender) to the waiters .... "Sell more drinks at lunch! With noontime bar receipts only 10 per cent of the total restaurant liquor business .... there's plenty room for improvement. Every restaurant man knows this .... but how can you make the people drink at noon? "Right sot the .... Imprt company is answering this question shewing New York restaurants that it takes a dif ferent kind of drink to interest the luncher. "Almost every place has reported an increase in bar re ceipts selling .... to a large percentage of the people who never touched a drink at noon before. "Supporting the .... plan in bars and restaurants, an ad vertising plan of 12 months' duration will hammer home the virtues of .... in newspapers and national magazines." "This is merely the application of modern sales promo tion methods to stimulate sales, and increase profits, of hard liquors. What efforts are temperance groups making to combat such active promotion? Unless there is intelligent and continuous educational effort to acquaint people with the r'l4l1Aa nL.liVinAA 4-Vi 1 .,.111 1 L 1 - i - "vum m auoiiuciiLc me peupie win Boon ue convened into a nation of drinkers of hard liquors. Rural Electrification THERE may be parts of the country where rural electri fication may be boomed, but Oregon is not one of them. Fifty-one per cent of all farms in the state are already served. Of the remainder most of them are in isolated re gion or areas of spare population where the capital invest--ment required makes. the extensions almost prohibitive. To bring power lines to many of these it is estimated an ave rage investment of $8000 would be required. The farmer could afford on such places only a few dollars a month. How could such income justify the investment even at prevailing low interest rates? It would be cheaper to buy a diesel plant Tor each isolated farmhouse than to string transmission lines to serve it. In Oregon, particularly in the Willamette valley, the private companies have been very aggressive in extending their lines. Employes are working constantly in the rural field seeking new customers and planning line extension. Careful accounting is kept so that each extension is liquid ated as fast as possible out of receipts, and then the rate goes to that of the remainder of the area. Farms heed electricity, and the power will be useful in lightening the load of many farm operations, churning, washing, cream separating, feed chopping. And it is reas onable to make diligent effort to carry cheap power to the farms. But it is the part of wisdom, to recognize real limita tions. You can't annihilate distance and you can't string railes of power lines without expense. "Free power f er noth ing served as a political slogan in one election; but nobody has gotten any free power yet. Somebody has to pay, either in power bills or in taxes. Grist for Demagogues BARBARA HUTTON, ex Princess Mdivani, now Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, does as much to encourage dras tic legislation to confiscate large inherited fortunes as any soap-box agitator. The Medford Mail-Tribune comments thus on the extremely bad taste which she has displayed in her marital fickleness, and it should be remembered that people take as much offense at bad taste as at abuse: For while a private citizen and entitled to the rights and privileges of a private citizen, the richest woman in the world . can't escape a certain public and social responsibility, and can't be or should not be indifferent to the fact that what she does or does not do with her money. Is bound to be taken as typical and representative of her class. This mad rash along- the primrose path, with chartered trains, high-powered cars and bodyguards, changing husbands at - the cross-roads, whoopee banquets at sea and royal suites on the land, a family jester to prevent boredom, and all the furbe lows and trappings of an American Mahareena, would be In questionable taste at any time; but today, with most of the world In acate distress, with millions In want and more miUions idler-it ceases to be solely a matter of private manners, and unmistakably invades the realm of public MORALS. It Is our considered judgment that the publicity given the Princess-Countess Hutton,--and this publicity CANT be avold . ed, wUl do a much to arouse class hatred, increase social dis content and surest, in this country, as all the table thumpings and demagogic; bleatings, that even our own Huey the Klngfish can muster. Moreover such, examples will certainly be nsed, di rectly or. indirectly, by Huey and bis irk, in pressing down on their rote catc:lng slogans, and vitalizing their doctrine of divi sion. of wealth, and increasing income and Inheritance taxes to the point of confiscation. Such examples of the waste and misuse of Inherited riches,-are all grist for the demagogue's mill. The Great Game of Politics By FRANK R. KENT Copyright 1935. by Toe BiUbaers Saa The New Deal Spirit Washington, May It ONE of the things about which a great deal has been said since the beginning of this Administration is the "spirit" of the New Deal. In the press, on the air, at many banquet tables and in many eru dite articles, the pay-roll spokes men have dwelt heavily upon it. IT has been the favorite theme of the oratorical and literary office holders. They lore to play on that key. Up to a few months ago the stuff was sure fire with the really meshy audiences. It does not go so well now. For one thing, there has been rather an overdose of it; for another, the material aspect of things Is such as to render some what incongruous the unctnous spirituality of the New Dealers. The fact is that, after two years, there is a conviction among close observers that the so-called New Deal spirit is a more or less ridi culous thing, and an Increasing number of people are beginning to realize it. , ACTUALLY the spirit these days seems to consist in preserving an air of gay confidence that all is well, while the experiments upon which it rests are clearly crumb ling. The true New Dealer ignores these realities and brightly smiles his way through or tries to. Con fusion and failure may stare them in the face; waste, extravagance and futility surround them. The New Deal Spirit is not to see any of these things. The New Deal way Is to pretend they do not exist, to take the ground that every thing is lovely and only "destruc tive critics," full of bile and bit terness, oppressors of the poor, wicked men destitute of honor and devoid of shame think dif ferently. TWO things aid the Administra tion in this pretense. One Is the fact that, despite retarding poli cies and dangerous experiments, the forces of economic recovery make some headway; the other is the extraordinary extent to which the publicity and propaganda ma chines deluge the country with the favorable side, disregarding the facts when one of the schemes buckles up. The best illustration of this, of course, is the NRA. Its failure is practically complete and everybody knows it. IT is without real defenders in Congress and without real public support. The whole organization, dismayed and confused, has been marking time for months. It is a hollow mockery of the great thing it was supposed to be. It has com pletely missed its objective, and the idea that it can be reinvlgor- ated is not seriously entertained by any thoughtful man. If ever there was a "busted balloon," this is it. Yet the pretense is maintain ed thaMt is a successful experi ment, still in robust health, in stead of a poor, bedraggled thing, sicker than the well-known pup, with a Supreme Court decision pending that may easily end its life regardless of what Congress, driven by the President, may do. Bat from no New Deal spokesman will the public get an inkling that such is the situation. On the con trary, the real condition is so be fuddled that it is difficult for the public to know what to believe. People generally know, of course, that things are not well with the NRA, but they do not know how badly bogged It really is and they won't -from the Administra tion. IT isn't easy to be frank about failures. But it was . one of Mr. Roosevelt's earliest aid most dad. ular 1933 promises that if these experiment did not turn out well he would be the first to Inform us. He hasn't done that, but it would still be an Immensely pop ular thing if he did. Complete candor about the NRA, for ex ample, would redound infinitely more to his credit than continued holding on to the notion that it can yet be made to work not recognizing that the people gen erally are beginning to be worse than bored with the Bine Eagle. It would be the best sort of poli tics for him to say frankly that this looked like a fine scheme when it started, that both labor and Industry were strong for it, but that it Just has not worked out, and the time has come to quit. To say that before either the Supreme Court kills it or Con gress emasculates it would seem to be the smart thing as well as the right thing. But it is not in the New Deal Spirit. Zena School Boys and Girls Picnic at Champoeg Park CHAMPOEG, May IS. The Zena school, In Polk county, gath ered at Champoeg Thursday, May 16, for the annual outing and pic nic. The day was pleasantly spent in viewing the monument and building, interspersed with var ious games of outdoor sport, Gladys Gilbert, the teacher, had in the past given the children a course in early Oregon history and the pupils were able to vis ualize the stirring scenes that were enacted on this spot in May and July of 1843, 92 years, ago. The school was accompanied by the parents of the scholars. ' THOMAS POMEROY .HOME INDEPENDENCE, May IS Thomas Pomeroy, who has been visiting relatives in Long Beach and San Francisco for the past month, returned to his borne for Mother's day. Monday he and his grandmother, Mrs. S." E. Owens, left for a week's trln to Portland and Astoria. Bits for By R- J. HENDRICKS Who knows this girl's sister or father T First white woman to have her borne on French prairie: W (Continuing from yesterday:) In connection with the 188 S an nual reunion of the Oregon Pio neer association, when R. P. Ear hart, secretary of state, was sec retary of tbe association, several biographical sketches of promin ent pioneers were Inserted in the published proceedings. Among these was one of Mrs. Sarah A. Case. It read: S "Mrs. Sarah A. Case, wife of William M. Case of Marion coun ty, was born near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, on the 17th of January, IbZZ, bnt was reared to woman hood and married in Wayne coun ty, Indiana. "After her marriage, in 1841. with her husband she moved to Holt county, Missouri, and lived there until 1844, when they started across the plains, for the far off land of Oregon, reaching the settlements in the WiUamette valley in December of that year, alter tne very long journey of 209 days. "In the spring of 1845, Mr. and Mrs. Case settled on their home stead (donation land claim) near Butteville, where she resided un til her summons to pass through the portals of the silent city on tbe 30th of March, 1877. S "Mrs. Sarah A. Case was the FIRST WHITE WOMAN except Mrs. Dr. Bailey, who came to the coast as a missionary who made a home on the beautiful plain of French prairie. "There she lived in peace, sur rounded by a large family and much beloved by all who knew her, and saw the country develop from a habitation of savage In dians and wild animals to one of churches and schools, and fertile farms and prosperous villages, and witnessed many changes in coun ty, state and nation. e "She was in many respects an extraordinary and superior wom an, and while her womanly cour age never failed In the hour of trial or eren danger, in her In tercourse with others was kind and unselfish in the highest de gree, being the gentlest of moth ers, the most patient of wives, and the affectionate friend and kind est of neighbors. "In the pioneer days of Oregon, her Influence was largely felt in moulding the society in which she moved, and in turning the course of events in favor of civilization, education and morality. "She was wonderfully sensitive to the beautiful in both inward and outward effects, and was eas ily moved to smiles and tears; a nature capable of the keenest en joyment, and keenest suffering. "She was a great reader; and a good scholar, considering that in her time It was not deemed es sential that women should be ed ucated, and the doors of educa tional institutions were shut in her face., "Although for many years a members of the church, to her, creed was nothing; religion, as exemplified in a daily life of good deeds, was everything, beings al ways merciful and sympathetic in her treatment of human weak ness, and possessing for sin and folly that charity lit up by the love that sees in all forms of hu man thought and work the life and death struggles of separate human beings. There are many kinds of suc cess in this world to be thankful for, and not the least of them Is that sort of success that Is summed up by George Eliot: 'Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander broke t h 8 strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on earth. But the effect of her be ing in those about her was incal culatively diffusive: for the grow ing good of the world is partly de pendent upon nnhistorlc acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully in a bidden life, and rest in unvislted tombs'. U . "Thirteen children were born to her, four of whom went over death's dark river before her. Her living children are Mrs. S. A. Moreland and Mrs. A. E. Borth- wick, Portland; John N. Case, Omaha; Mrs. I. W. Felt, San Gab riel, CaL; Mrs. Arthur Crogan, Victoria, B. C; Mrs. Anne M. Hoyt, Miss Ella N. Case, Mrs. Clifford Gibbons, Los Angeles, Cel., and George M. Case, Butte- Twenty Years A30 May 17, 1S15 Madrid Joao Chagas, presi dent of the Portugese cabinet, was assassinated on a train from Opor to and his attacker. Senator Frei tas, was killed by gendarmes. Liverpool The Cunard line steamship Transylvania arrived safely at Greenock, Scotland, from New York after altering her course to get through the sub marine zone. Congressman W. C. Hawley will deliver the principal address on Memorial day in the armory. Ten Years Ago May 17, 1925 Beginning today, the week end ing May 24 is designed as Old Friends week in Oregon by a proc lamation issued by Governor Wal ter M. Pierce. State' employes are charged with wasting public funds using their own automobiles for state business with a 10 cents per mile allowance. Editorial comment: Every now and then some misguided indi vidual breaks into print with the declaration or suggestion that prohibition is a failure. Breakfast Villo. fiiffht nt wlinm atnstV imnnJ her death bed, their bitter tears teiung an too plainly how well wcj iutcu uer. "Whethpr maattna- tha. trial, - - a w hwu cident to a long, tedious, danger- vu journey across tne plains, en during the privations of pioneer life, or surrounded as she was later with a competence of life's comforts, tbe tenor of her life Tan In tbe came even channel, ever manifesting to all about her those qualities which make the good, true woman akin to angels, nd, when over a half century vbbu wr-r uer neao, she came to her life's close In srfu -a- Her nfe was an Integral part of tne public welfare and perma nent history of Oregon, and when the large concourse of the people "er acquaintance gathered around the broken tn-r . marked the last resting place of u mat was mortal of Sarah A. Case, every one felt the loss of a true friend. "Thus orie by one the pioneers -no aarea tne rounding of this state and build a a mm. --,.- - r .wwuuivufc 1 41 American liberty are passing wBjr, oniu soon they all will have gone, and the work by them so nobly begun will be entirely en- wusiea to otner hands. "Let not the future prove their tuns Yam. The regular readers of this col umn know who wa M-a n. BaUey, who came to the coast as a missionary." sh9 came Mar garet J. Smith, teacher, arriving ocyi. ana was married to PJ; W. J. Bailey, who arrived in 1835 by way of California came a deserting English physician from a ship landing at Monterey. Mad been dissipated. Married the fine missionary teacher, and they became the first all white man and wife "who made a home on the beautiful "French prairie." Dr. Bailey was for a generation the most nromlnent Anrtnr In tVia northwest end of Marion county. Mr. and Mrs Wm M r.. were the second all white couple to mate a nome on French prairie or at least that part of it In the early days, everything Was known a French n-al-ia from the mouth of Pudding river or below clear nn tn h ar the northern suburbs of Salem "lower French prairie." "upper French prairie," and the eastern ana westrn parts of what was known as "Bis" nrairl fl rftii fa n the present Gervais and Parkers ville and St, Louis and Fairfield. if some of the above informa tion should lead tho to reunite with her relatives, the tsus man would be much pleased, and would be elad tO ATlTlnil npa it in this column. Can any reader neip j Dakotans Purchase Mrs. Wait's Place; Re-elect Teachers RICKREALL. Uar 1 ft Mr Lizzie Wait has sold her property here 'which consists of a modern home and five acres of land to n North Dakota man who will take possession in a month. The new comers are a family of 14. ine present facultv of the hlh school have been re-elected for next term. They are: Prof. C. n. Gillam, Miss Mildrd Baker and Miss Edith Hazeltine. This will make the fourth year for r.niam and the third for the women. Con tracts were Kiven to Mra. Mar. Jorie Dew, principal, and Miss AiKe Ay res as critics for the grade school. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers THE TOWNSKND PLAN' IS IT IX BIBLE PROPHECY? The Townsend movement is be coming one of the greatest issues of today. If it becomes law it will no, doubt beal this our nation of most of its economic ailments. It is sweeping this country like wild fire: and it is affecting people of all professions and ranks. God bless those who are giving their time and means to push this great cause for humanity and our na tion. A great many good things could be said for this wonderful movement but space will not per mit. Now the question, Is this Townsend plan mentioned in the Bible? Does the Bible make spe cial mention of the U. S. of Amer ica? I have not been able to find It. Viewing this subject from a Bible standpoint we have no right to say that Dr. Townsend is any more Inspired of God than was Columbus, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. We have no promises in the Bible of any fu ture era of great prosperity; only the coming of Jesus Christ when he comes to set up his great kingdom; foretold by all the pro phets of both the old and new testament. I am sure that ortho dox ministers are agreed on the above statement I understand that tfA Tx.n. send movement is nnsectarian and sianas with the constitution of the U. S- A. T An nnf no ,K, God Almighty will not send ns a uaiionsi aenverance when the people cry to him for nln. thing must be done and that very . mi . . .-. - bwuu. ma great muieninm age spoken of in the bible will not be bronaht about bv man's forts such as by ballot and legis lation. That eternal rest ani peace will not be until tha xrinr of Peace, Jesus Christ, comet;. w nre ioui in tne oook of Dan iel, "The kingdom and dominion ana me greatness of the kingdotx under the whole heavens sha3 ne given to the people of the Saint of the Most Hih Sm. kingdom is an everlasting -kinj GEORGE VAN LAANEN. 5?aa. W 1ZX . "The Cold CHAPTER XlXVin MeEniry's brow was farrowed as he talked over the new development with Montigny. "It knocks the props out from under everythinsr, crumbled the Inspector. "But I've said all along mat tnis was anybody s murder. Why the dickens didn't we have sense enough to see it was Mer ita mi Of course he was out to crook this dame that was his idea from the first day he went to work lor her. "The other men CaHen named," said Montigny; "are they known to yon police records?" "Yes, we know 'Jerky Joe.' Let- term an is one ox his aliases. "Stick up, payroll bandit, pete man he's done, three stretches up the river, and he's a bad hombre. Snowbird done fiend. Little but. but hell. let-loose with a rod he gets coked up wnen he goes out on a job. Pale bine eyes, almost no color in 'em, and ne nas a habit ox making faces with one side of his nose, snuffling, you know. "And the other man Gus Heine nler?' "We don't know him, under that name. But names mean nothing, with a thief. We've known 'em with eighty aliases. Well get both these birds, dont yoa worry. C alien ought to be able to help us, when he get in tonight I guess they couldn't get much out of him in Montreal be cause they didn't know what to ask him. Gosh, that was a break, nab bing that bird with most of the stones on him, too. The Cold Finger Curse must have got him, eh, Mon tigny?" The Inspector chuckled warmly. MW approach tha end of our trail, apparently," said Montigny without enthusiasm. "One after an other our excellent suspects topple over or bob up again." McEniry grinned. "But that's the way you said scientific detectiv ing was done, isnt it elimination? Wen, just look who we've eliminated first the negro maid, then Dnane, then Thurber Ive got to get busy and turn that boy loose, by the way then Valcour, then C apples " "Cupplee? interrupted Montlg 07. "Who eliminated him?" McEniry laughed. "I did. Cap tain. I'll tell you a little secret. Cupples is my man. He works for me. "Works for you!" "I hated to keep it from you, Mon tigny, but we've got to protect 'em, you know. He's one of our stool pigeons." "Stool-pigeon I exclaimed lCoa tlgny. "Nothing else. We use a lot of them in New York, Captain. I'm not so sure bow your system works in Montreal, but we couldn't do busi ness here without 'em. We get some thing on 'em enough to send 'era up the river for ninety-nine years if we want to. But what's the use of having 'em do time in tbe Big House at the expense of the state, when they can be of real service to us here? They're in among the thieves, they join em in their merry little games and they keep in solid with us by letting us know now the merry little same are going. The -guy who said it takes a thief to catch a thief knew his copy-book. Captain. It's the only way, in a city big as this." Montigny seemed politely sur prised. "And he was there at Mrs. Elderbank'a house to catch a thief?" "Right again," said McEniry good-naturedly. "Ha was there for bait. Our boys were waiting for some of his former crooked asso ciates tc try to ring him in on a robbery. We knew Mrs. Elderbank was a marked woman we had got wind of nice little plans to crib her jewelry. We knew it not only from what w heard from your Inspector Laval in Montreal, but from other sources here. The boys picked out! the chauffeur. Cliff Spencer, fcr aer, and they saw a chance to put Cup ples in where he night do the most good. They fixed it with all the em ployment agencies when Mrs. Elder bank was ready to hire a butler she couldn't miss getting Cupples." "As bait," observed Montigny drDy, he was not much protec tion. Tha whole thing took him by sur prise. -He swears ne didnt have a line on it, and I believe him. He told us you caught him tap-tapping over the telephone the other eight--be was talking? to Darden. He re ported that way sometimes when he couldn't jet oat to talk to one of our men." . n - Montigny gestured deferentially. "Ton fooled me completely, Inspec tor. I took him for a thief, but Idid not take him for a Police Depart ment thief. Ton. trust him implie- JkfcExdry.ahrnszed. "Ton'd trust ma, wouldn't you, if I knew by the If s May! Finger Curse" By gffj dron ttt a hat vnn mnU unit m prison for the rest of my natural uiei store i crust aim. we never have any trouble with our stool- Ditreons PTent vtim th mnh. flat wise to them occasionally, and start 1 . nr . . . . snooting, vr e ve maae it interesting; lot nappies ne neips us ana we helo him." The Canadian smiled reservedly. Ana aia croppies have any theory as to the identity of the 'inside man' in the Elderbank case? Did he sus pect Merriam?" McEniry chewed his dsrar fVn.i ur..li n r"i wuuuuiuij. iuauc waa xus pica He said so from the start, but I'm likn von I didn't ain-u nth him It was his idea that Dnane had got nuxea up wiut some ox the thieves that hang around Barney O'Brien's ihtr1nh mrA Ktf tli. .v Th. Inspector snapped his fingers. "Jerky Joe Lattermaa used to bang around CVHrimrt'm T inmt Ii.mi.iiiiI to think of it. That doesn't prove anything, ox course." "Not enough to bring Mr. Dnane as high in our esteem as Mr. Mer riam agreed Montigny. "It seems we shall have to be content with Mr. Merriam." "Yeah. I'm going to have a nice, long, quiet talk with that bird, and see if he remembers anything he hasn't told us yet But well wait and talk to Jack Callen first, to mVhfc. Riht work and turn Thurber loose be- iore tnat tool girl sp-is anything to the newspapers." "I can see now that it would be moat nn.taf fnr vnn 4w i A tW. stool-pi g-eon." Unsafe I 111 sav it would. Cupples would get his before tbe tUDfn had hon nn th .1 ! hour. I'll have to send somebody to k 1.11. . TiV 41 . 1 uwjui uoppies, oy tne way, about Jerky Joe and Gus Heincmev Mavh Vim - mu line on them, ni let Darden talk to mm. uo along ix you like, Captain. You can tell him you're wise to his unncmint -with n it -, to, but I dont think that is neces sary. "No," said Montigny. "I do not think that it is necessary." In company with Sergeant Dar- aen, ne para vuppies a visit at the Elderbank hona lata -thai- a- noon. They had an extended inter view with Cupples, but they got utue iniormaxion or value from him. Cupples maintained that he knew Jerky Joe only by reputation, and Heinemer nott aiL He was astonished when informed by Darden that a fence named Jack CaUen had been arrested, and that Callen had implicated Price Mer- nam. "Mr. Merriam! Why, I can hard ly believe itt" he exclaimed. "Have you ever beard the mbm or callen before or ScburmanT" inquired Sergeant Darden. "Why, let me see. Not Schurmaa I am certain of that But itseemx to me that some one named Callen had businfts with Mrs. Elderbank some months ago quit a time ago." "What kind of business?" "That I could not say. I only re member, it seems to me, that a man named Callen telephoned one day when Mrs. Elderbank was out, and left his name and telephone' num ber for her to call." "Did you know he was a fence?" "Oh. no. I had never heard the name before." Darden and , Montigny parted company at the end of a somewhat fruitless hour. "Looks like we're stuck for the time being, doesnt it?" said the Ser geant with a wry grin. "This bird Cupples has told us all he knows I'm nretty sure of that To-nis-nt we may have better luck. Jack Cal len comes in from Montreal. See ypu to-night Captain." ux. ene sidewalk in rront of Two Sixty -Eight Waverley Place Mon tigny encountered Marjorie darken and a Triend of hers the recently liberated Glenn Thurber.. They both hurried to shake his hand warmly. j . . "Here's the man," the girl told Glenn enthusiastically, "who really made them let yoa go yoa put sense into their heads, didn't you. Captain Montigny V Montimy bowed with ceremony. "Unmerited thanks. Miss darken," he remonstrated. "But I am grate ful nevertheless. fr. Thurber him self has done more than any other person, I think, to put sense into our heads, to set the fumblinaT nolle upon the right track. - "Where da you get that T" ex. claimed Glenn. "Iva been in iaO. What have I done?" ,aU ,Tho Cold Finger Curse, said Montigny, In a tone that seemed to relish the words. "Administered by an able newspaper nun, it has been a moat useful eurae, It has jdoa , and it wilt do more. ifSI demoralized our thieves, driven their fence to disaster paralyzed him" "Paralyzed?" queried Thurber quickly. &Who?" "Ah, that is what I have to tell' you the story of another victim. I do not know as yet how much you can print of it But shall we not go to dinner, we three, and, talk it over?" "We shall 1" cried Marjorie darken. Jack Callen, like many of his con- frra vhnm th tviTim f.wnMil wntli their interest, had been living the J- a a a at a . . rennea ana opuient uie oz & weait&y known, of course, that occasionally ne wouia ouy stones ne loved them KO. Notnntil Mmtl Iio-.ii., imA he gone in for pilfered ke on so large a scale. Nor had he con- ainnx1w tS-ni1rl fV -mrn nn rti v a ! mwvwm mi v Mas lVVUa WJL robbery in which murder had been in- 1 1 a a. .a voiveo. .nan, nejeia tne aetecuves who gathered about him in the bed- mnm tf Via fl-a A f .l 1Tv-l suite, was what had ruined him. rresent at his bedside for tbe fuli confession he had promised were In spector McEniry, Detective Ser geant Darden, Captain: Montigny, Detective Mabry, a police surgeon, an assistant district tttAnwv and a stenographer who took: down every wora ne saia. tie nan Been told that hia enflftftlAn Vlt ,.m.l. mmrmm he might never recover. If he made a clean breast of it all, the authori ties, tn view ox bis critical condi tion, would ha inelinavt tn Imumm, with him. Callen had tha thin iiKtm f. Of a atndnfcL ara m-mA anfa mhn- dent, to be surebut not necessar ilv th eonntenanea rvf m -mnV TTSa forehead was high, his hair gray and snarsa. Hia araa thai a-a de meanor of a scientist or a prof easor di in K nm nan minnM honesty to himself, no doubt, by con- J bsndros that thnn o-h Via a -were without the pal of the law. i l . .4 2.l . hcuuiji iriuiiix wpnnserves were regular.. He paid nnqnestion- lnsiy a nxea percentage of the ap praisal which he himsalf put upon stonea that war air-d tv V.;-. sale, and his appraisal waa that of an nonese lapidary. ne was known in the underworld as ' a -- US' made no inquiries regarding the square-shooting fence. He -u ma wry oi tne somes brought to hrm h iw ha ing with rogues but he did net know, erectly, how they esane by their wares, xie preierrea not to know. A ainlan hwVI.m K-.- W.I m Jfered to him waa broken up into its component pearis; tne stones of stolen rings were taken from their e was sazer tana for the thieve and safer for him. Bnt In iha nu n th- vij.-l i Jewels there had been an exception. w wwt lot, who tne exception of a Slt-OM and . . . ; r , , Mniim wrist watch, had been turned over to him ""'y.were when stoles. And the thieves had gone berserk committed not one murder but two. l fusiat first to have any thing to do With them," said the tliruTfl man In .?.: r BtMrrapher eouldhardly hear. "But they threatened me with exnoanre. thav had v;- . , mum vu me. They were desperate They would TiAT naive- mf n-NvsJ .4 ..J f. "We've heard that Ene rore " said Tnnrtr- f-v- ' FwtJwv W. when Mrs. Elderbank commissioned me to ro to Enitm fny ha- si.. j 44 - . mm to buy an emerald the biggest ni i-a 5 ,Dea be in busi ness In Mafda 1 T 1 had areuiioi MOW; 4 - "Did you get the emerald for "No. It was fnuatisf actory. But I made other purchases. Ton and Merriam had this an framAd m At a . w.zr, . 1 evtrythinr she had and you to disnoseof it, ehr 1 w J?M left hand UUUUP eooux It before the thina? was done. " - "Yeah Than L to Central Ps Wes'tr a f H - "Ihadhada1.t-v ' - . !!!!'-''- bavrjom. stones for me, soma -.. mZ ttoaea. But Idid not know that they were to be Mrs. EMerbank WlhaJ not sent ha a. itr--t--. . , I.. , . 4o w montaa. did not even know that they were murder" Callen paused, gasping. . , - 09 vonunued) -rrtia,lntl,taa -rr,,-.