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PAGE FOUR Tfca OREGON STATESMAN,-Eaten, Oretroa, Sunday Morning, Jrme 2. 1933 II lli i Ml II ' - W v i m mm ok. 'VS. J -mmW S r "No Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall AwtT Prom First Statesman. March 18. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cu isles A. Spracub - - Editor-Manager Shxiboh F Sacks-it - . ;- Managing-Editor Member or tb Associated Press . - Tbe Aaaoctmtvd Press to eacluaJvely entitled lo Itm use (or publlca tloa oi all sews diapatchee credited te ft of not otberwtae credited M this pafer. - . - . " : .;- : -. --- -- ' ADVERTISING . Portland Representative Gordon E B1U SevurHy Untitling.. ociland. Or, - - Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant. GrtTHU Brunimn, Ims. Chleaamu iw Sw. Detroit. Boston. .Atlanta - - EnUred At the Postoffice at Satan, Ortgim, a Second-Clas$ ' Matter. JUished rvery mvming xcpt Monday. Busings of f ice, 15 S Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: HtU Subscription Kate, la Advance, Whhm Oregon.; Daily and : Sunday, 1 Mo. ev ctiiu, a Ho. I1.3S ; S. Uu. 1S.ZV; 1 year 4.ot. Elae wtu mi rents yer Mm, ot $.0 (or i year tn advance. Per Copy X cents. News Stands ( cents. By City Carrier 4i cwutu a non(h; SS.Ot a year la advance. A Punch-Drunk ' fTlHE Roosevelt administration i X preme court s decision on ' constitutional amendment granting congress power to reg l ulate commerce within as well court is held by the administration to have "relegated the nation to the horse and buggy i The reason for Mr. Roosevelt's concern is apparent The 1 New Deal has been one founued on excessive, unconstitu tional extensions of federal power. It has been a deal entirely inconsistent with the pronouncements of the democratic party which heretofore stood for reservation of power over ; trade and commerce to the several states. No one was more ', critical of bureaucracy and was Mr. Roosevelt in his 1932 campaign. Until Felix. Frank furter and Hugh Johnson and their coterie typed out the dic tatorial NRA plan in the spring of 1933. the democratic lead ership had never considered it. The court has put the party back to its original position and stopped all the elaborate mechanism of the New Deal. The country is not going to to give congress regimenting power oyer all industry. It has had enough of attempts to prescribe from Washington on what kind of chickens a dealer may sell and the number of board feet a mill can cut. NRA was broken down before the It. 1 - J - !a- -11 A. 1 1 11 . 1 ! 1 i i court ruiea; n xanea inrougn ine sneer impossi unity ana unwisdom of putting all American' business in a straight- jacket, with the rules for its imprisonment staked out by a minority in the industry. Wage scales and working standards are not going to pot 7 because NRA has gone out. Workers' organizations are more numerous than ever and more aggressive. They will consent to no reductions in wage rates. Shortening of the hours of work were voluntary agreements made by employ- ers to relieve unemployment before NRA was introduced. . The press has yet to record an instance of any great concern wnicn nas towered xne woriang conditions oi its men Decause , of the demise of the Blue Eagle. The supreme court in its decision outlined a method for federal control of interstate commerce. Congress must out : line the specific limits to which the regulations made by an administrative agency may go. When that agency sets up rules, as has been done by the federal trade commission, its decisions roust be based on facts and its rules must be sub-. ject to court review. The wholesale delegation of power to the executive his power to prescribe todes which have the .-foTTA ftf law with nr xrntrtnnt Cftrnonr rvf tVio Knoinoacoo offo w we) aw " wa vv vv w - 'ed -is out, and the American vide such power for the chief executive. As the administra tion obtains a clearer viewpoint it should be glad to be free of the endless and irreconcilable conflicts which NRA would have produced. The act was a product of the hysteria of the low point of the depression. The court has offered a cool, considered judgment in which the nation concurs. Dr. Kerr Replies CHANCELLOR W. J.- KERR" has replied to the report of the investigating committee of the American Association of University Professors with a forthright denial of most of the charges therein made. His retort was to be expected ; thecommittee's belated findings cut too deeply to be taken Bilently. The chancellor is right, we believe, in asserting that he took no part in a "deal" to oppose the Zorn-Macpherson bill in return for the chancellorship. He states categorically that he in np way was responsible for the "running amuck" of a certain speaker on the university and college campus. Those inflammatory utterances were caused solely by the political greenness and the unguarded tongue of Roscoe Nel son. Dr. Kerr also points out that the doctor's degree he pos sesses has never been represented by him as other than an 1 Xlil i 1 l 1 1 . i imiiurary iiue cum errea y ears ueiore ne came to uregon. Dr. Kerr is also correct in stating that the time of his retirement is a matter for the board to decide. His resigna tion has been with that body for more than a year and as evidence of his good intent he has assisted the board in the work of selecting a new chancellor. Both the report of the investigating committee and Dr. Kerr's reply are of little present consequence in Oregon's higher educational affairs. It would have been better if neith- - er had been released. Everyone concerned with the long mix- up in higher education, Dr. Kerr included, is in agreement a - cnange is needed. -Newspaper rehashing of bygone events now-forgotten by the public only stir old enmities. The higher education board should no longer delay its '.selection of a new chancellora capable man of demonstrated .'ability. When Dr. Kerr retires he should be accorded the honors which befit his long, useful and effective service. Warfare over whether he should have been selected chan cellor is utterly futile. It prevents the peace in higher educa tion Oregon so greatly needs. The new chancellor, whoever he may be, should come with the distinct understanding with ; the board that he can remove faculty malcontents if they resume their sniping tactics and rush to the professors' as sociation with their complaints. Oregon wants her expensive and important institutions of higher education to produce : something better than continued political turmoil. No Rest Untft the Kidnapers are Taken A horrible ordeal for a nine-year old lad was that exper ienced by George Weyerhaeuser. Long journeyings with desneradnes. Nitrhts anrl rlava tn 1milv miarfom wbila lit a' ' ."'J " '""V.J m.V0 UUU captors negotiated for a king's ransom. Finally release and a lonely trudge through the rain and mud to the harbor of a I farm house. No wonder his parents reported "George was frightened and nervously upset and unable to answer ques tions clearly. He is a badly shaken little boy." . - The little chap is back and there is cause for rejoicing. ;One thinks of the Lindbergh baby and the mystery of the Charley Ross kidnaping: for them there was no return. Resentment and anger grow as the mind considers the audacity and the heartlessness of the kidnapers. They are presumablylhe Karpis gang from Minnesota From half-way across the continent they came to seek new prey. A nine-year old boy was ideal fare for these harpies. The terror the lad suffered and the anguish of his parents meant nothing to such a heartless gang. " ' , : Fortunately the kidnapers have left tell-tale evidence: The identity of their cars is becoming known. The hideout will be found. Their first names have been told by the little boy. The knowledge of the Weyerhaeuser family llha kjdnap- llfJKVrm.ra Administration is punch-drunk from the su- NKA. The president hmts at a as between the states. The stage. control from Washington than dash through an amendment a W4V . e vwiuvwuvu 4vwvi people do not propose to pro Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Old t!m Salemltes In China and Hawaii: i ( Continuing from yesterday: ) The feat oi Leinlnger and Toy at tracted much attention. The Item concerning it. was put onto the wires and went to far places. S S Many things had happened In the W. H. Rector bnildlnc. The first lodge of Odd Fellows, Che meketa No. X, organised west of the Rockies and north of tbe Spanish (California) line was .or ganized -and met for a time there-, after In the Rector building. Sessions of three territorial legislatures met In the Rector building. Multnomah county was created by a legislature meeting In it. and many other laws of pio neer days were enacted there. V " W. H.' Rector, who erected and owned the building bearing his name, was a covered wagon im migrant ot 1845. He designed tbe structure for a town hall. At the time it was burned, it had fallen considerably from its pris tine high estate. The principal renter was then a Chinese laun dryman. e The property at the time be longed to Ed Hirsch. state treas urer. H Mr. Rector was one of the men largely responsible for the erec tion of the first woolen aniU on this coast, that stood where the mission mills had stood, boused in the first building erected by wnites on the site of Salem, and where the Larmer warehouses now stand, at the Junction of Liberty, High and Broadway. Some of the other men most re sponsible for the pioneer woolen mill were Joseph Watt, Dan Wal do, Joe Holman. John MInto, Joe Wilson. J, D. Boon and Geo. H. Williams. It is a far cry from cook in a Salem hotel or home to a silk merchant in Hong Kong. It makes the world seem small to one tak ing note of such set of circum stances. On their way home, Mr. and Mrs. Waters stopped in Hawaii 16 days and enjoyed rery pleasant visits in that crossroads city ot the Pacific ocean. They found some Salemites there. Charles and Mark Hnckestein, sons of August Huckestein of Sa lem, are among the number. They were both born in Salem, Oregon. .W Charles is a parole officer for the U. S. territorial government of Hawaii. Mark is employed in one of the government buildings and has charge of a force of 28 employ ees. In that office, all public con veyancing is attended to and re corded; something like a glori fied county recorder's office. Mark is exalted ruler of the Elks. Both of these Salem natives are doing very well. Irvin Sroat, brother of Paul Sroat, formerly of Salem, later of Portland, who are cousins of Mr. Waters, has entire charge of the Singer Sewing Machine com pany's business for the islands; has about 40 people working for him. Irving, after the World war, spent some time in Salem, en gaged in the army stores business in this city and section. He has two sons in the islands, one of them in a federal office and the other employed by a public util ity concern. Mr. and Mrs. Waters had an other experience in their travels that was pleasing to them as res idents of the capital city and is of interest to Salem residents. They overhead a conversation by a party of tourists who had been traveling for several months, from New York westward and throughout Montana, Washing ton, Idaho, California, Oregon, etc. It was a wedding trip for two members of" the party. In com paring notes, they agreed that they found Salem, Oregon, to be the "prettiest, cleanest, most pleasing and hospitable little city" they had seen in all their travels, in this and other coun tries. 'm Following the conversation, they were glad to become ac quainted with Mr. and Mrs. Wat ers, from the city they had sin cerely lauded, as it had happened, in their hearing, not dreaming they lived in Salem. V S Not long ago, Mr. Waters had a somewhat similar experience. A man visiting in Salem told Mr. Waters how he happened to be here. He was an easterner. On his way west coming to Portland to take a position or engage in bus iness there, he. sat In a Pullman car Beat back of two ladies who had been traveling on the Pacific coast. ' , H " He could not avoid overhearing their conversation. He heard one of the ladies teU the other one about the various beautiful cities In the United States. She finally declared that the most beautiful city in the United States is Salem, Oregon. - - - . ; : i v - v Bo this man, as soon u he got settled In Portland, came np to - (Continued on Page 9) ers possessed tallies with their knowledge of Minnesota where the Weyerhaeuser family has headquarters. In the kidnapers handstis.?200,(K)0 in money, every bill numbered, and the nation on watch for the first appearance of the currency. Throughout the northwest thousands of police are working and watching. Every citizen is a deputy of ficer without being sworn in to bring the criminals to bay, . For kidnaping is the foulest of crimes. The young and de fenseless are its victims. The suffering entailed drags on for seemingly endless days. There must be no relaxing of efforts to apprehend the men wha stole George Weyerhaeuser and took $200,000 for his return. When they are captured there must be no sentimental stoonincr of the full Tjimlshmnt whirh the law metes out, ; - We Love Our Neighbors; It Not, We Would Mind Our Own Business By D. H. Talmadgc, Sage of Salem Suppose yon were a honey tee - Silly 7 - surei jbui just mr And you had no call to worry Over rent and (ooa ana ciomee. Buixing blithely In the sunshine. Drlnging her ana mere oi flowers. Clover snd the. fragrant wood bine. Garden plots and latticed bow- Uf for yoa'd b a confection. From all can and worry free, With one trifling lmperf ectlon-i- Tou would only oe a new. The inevitable stinger. Natural law keeps right on working, regardless ot -public op inion. And a -fine fix we should be In if it didn't. When we were children we stood at shop windows and one of us said "I like that one bet ter" and another said "I donV and sometimes we made faces at one another. And now, grown up, we are still at it with a wider range of Interests and some times with a more respectful consideration tor the opinion of others. "The child is father of the man" Life is filled with cares and apprehensions. This is one rea son, I think, for the almost uni versal cravinz for diversion, for moments of forgetfulness. Most of ns were born with a desire to entertain and be entertained. Nat ural talents for the giving or en joyable entertainment are encour aged in the homes and In the schools. The stage ever lures. Even in this day of picture drama and radio every community has lis own special actors and actress es, its dancers, its singers and in strumentalists, its readers and speakers, and, most Important of all, Its proud and sympathetic audiences. I frecraently attend the Satur day afternoon meetings of the Sa lem Mickey Mouse club, that re markable organization or several thousands'of boys and girls which bears evidence to the seal and in telligent direction of ZoIUe Vol- chok. I would not assert that to Zollie alone is due the success ot the organization. There has been co-operation. But the fact that the co-operation has been cheer fully and capably given is in it self a credit to him. A Mickey Mouse club audience is somewhat of an entertainment in itself. It Is the most ap plausive, not to say explosive, of audiences. It applands fervently with voice and whistle and hands. Following the stage show, it ap plauds the' pictures. It "oo-o-os" the thrills of the jangles and whooping whee-e-es the cow boys engaged in the pursuit of Justice for the discouraged ranch er and his beautiful daughter. Any impassioned love scene which may chance along Is greeted with laughter and' violent handclap- ping. Now and then it offers ad vice of a semi-humorous nature to the actors, not because it knows no beter, cinematized act ors being beyond the reach of ad vice, but because of the good and sutfiodent reason that it enjoys doing so. All in all, a Mickey Mouse club audience suggests, merely sug gests, the conduct of the gallery gods in an earlier period of the atrical history. The gallery gods were an unconventional lot, quite unhampered by prejudice or priv ilege, whose approval put many a show on the way to prosperity, and whose disapproval, ridicu lous as it may seem, was some times fatal to managerial hopes. The memory of the day when the gallery gods reigned is not an un pleasant one at that. A bit from Naughty Marietta: "You don't cook radishes, you eat them alive." As a frog eats garter snakes. (Natural history item furnished by Adolph Green baum.) Fruit hangs heavy on the trees. And o er the valley fields Whispers come on every breeze Of hope for bounteous yields; Beauty in nature greets the eye. Dancing stream and leafy grove, Green earth under turquoise ky Joyous June has ef arrove! Go on, trouble, and take yo'self a nice long vacation. Easy 'nough to say. But will trouble do it? Uh-ugh! A weary-eyed Salemite tells me they always know when to get np at his bouse, because that Is when the baby goes to sleep. Bad man agement probably,, but perhaps not. Some babies seem to be nat ural lovers of nightlife. A boyish letter, descriptive of a journey from Salem to Hanes, Alaska, written by Frank Holder to his grandfather, H. B. Sea. grove, and passed to me for read ing, has been one of the little pleasures of the week, Tbe Hold ers left Salem several weeks ago with a view to possible location In the Alaska country.. May heaven bless tbe helpful and understanding friend! This has come to me this week: Dear D. H. T,: X know what you would say were you not re strained by fear th "proud par entt' gag would be used against .., - ,,, . . : "J- r v :1 - : -- D. H. TALMADGE yon, so I am saying It for you. The Mary Headrick-Ruth Bedford half-hour over KSLM Monday night was delightful. I beUeve I 8 peak for many others, as well as for myself. And, believe it or not, I know what I am talking about. Mrs. X, Salem. A story floats In of two women, fishing in a midwest stream, one of whom booked a 13-pound carp. She was unable to land it, so the other woman waded into the stream and pushed the carp ashore. The carp is not a very gamey fish. It is naturally balky. The other woman should have buUt an anti-balk fire under this carp. This would have made a good fish story ot the Incident. I am quite sure that we love our neighbors.. Otherwise we'd mind our own businesses more carelully. Notes: Colored glasses come with the summer sun. . . . Many early breakfasters on Sunday mornings. . . . Golf addicts and fish enthusiasts. . . . Cronise pho tographic studio moving to First National Bank building. . . . It is now the blew eagle. ... Poppies in hundreds of buttonholes, flow ers on thousands of graves. . . We do not forget. . . . Elliott, for mer Salem dry goods merchant. opens a store at Corvallis Sad days for the person in whom strawberries produce hives. . . Kenneth Randall, erstwhile state- house restaurateur, takes over lunch counter on High street. . Kipling says there are no liars like our own sensations. . . . Still, a stomach-ache Is a stomach-ache, and It does little good to call it a liar. ... A scientist' saya a crocodile's mouth may be held open open witn one hand . . . . Thanks, but not interested. In a Saturday Evening Post in terview with a well-known writer he, gives his politics as "ex-Soc- iallst" . . . Ex-actly . . . Old songsthose of the '80s and earl ier are being revived ... Rather severe on some of the up to date ones, isn't it? . . . The best song I heard during the past two weeks "Believe Me if All Those Endear ing Young Charms" sung by Ruth Etting ... Ed Howe, on his way home to Kansas from Miami, stops at Baltimore to have a cata ract removed from each of his eyes . . . Just one more something with which to be entertained in his old age. . . Kate Smith, the radio singer, is said to be worth $2,000, 000. . .Figure probably exagger ated, but she has done well in the few years which ..have elapsed since she left the old farm.what ever the figure may be. . .And the whole radio and motion pic ture world is glad she has done so well. . .She is not beautiful, nor is she talented to a great de gree, but she has a mysterious human quality which appeals to the average run of people, and these constitute the bulk ot the population . . . furthermore she is entirely free from affectation, either in face or gesture, and this is a considerable asset, a fact which many singers fail, strange ly, to appreciate. Reception is Held for Graduates of Oak Grove School OAK POINT, June I. County School Superintendent Joiiah Wills presented diplomas to the largest class of eighth grade grad uates at Oak Point school Wed nesday night. He also gave out three penmanship certificates. Oak Point school society gave a reception following the program honoring the 11 graduates, the teachers and the board of direct ors. The annual school picnic. marking the closing ot school was held Friday on the school grounds. Twenty Years Ago June 2, 1915 , Word has been received of the death In Pasadena, Calif., of Rev. H. D. Kimball, pastor emeritus and founder of Kimball college of Willamette university. Daniel N. Foster and Violet Brown were married at high noon yesterday at the top of the Cap itol dome. : May, 1815, was the wettest month of May in IS years with 2.81 Inches of rainfall. . Ten Years Ago . June 2. im Kimball College of Theology graduates' seven seniors today. Dr. Carl Gregg Doney has leased the George Graves resi dence and wilt be Joined by Mrs. Doney after the -close of Harvard university. - -,: ;r,,- ; : Miss Anne Simpson Is taking over the post of director of health education in - the schools -of Sa lent and Marion county.'' The 7- ..v." ... f , ' " " iMiSfe 4iW$ tlr A6, 11 lite "WHOSE WIFE?" SYNOPSIS Lawrence Vane, noted portrait painter, is held as a material wit ness in connection with the murder of his bride of three months fol lowing; the discovery of a headless nuds body upon the terrace of his penthouse apartment. Three weeks before' that happened, two of bis friends Wilbur Renton and Roger Thornley were discussing their love affairs and Vane's recent mar riage to Isobel Mackenzie who was well known to both. Renton's in interest in Isobel had caused a break between him and Betty Pot ter, a pretty young newspaper woman, who lives in the apartment beneath the Lawrence Vanes. Thornley says that be and his wife, MiUie, a former snow-girl, are leaving for Seattle soon. Renton calls on Betty to plead his causa anew, now that Isobel had married. She tells him that they cannot many -and reluctantly admits that she liad been in love with . Vane. Renton bitterly denounces Isobel, sxel aiming that he'd like to choke her to death. Betty is horrified by his words. ... Early the next morn ing, Wilbur Renton, denies that he fod anything to do about notifying the police concerning the Vane, murder, and is worried privately because he had called oa Betty Pot ter so close to the scene of that homicide. Inspector Ingles per suades Betty to consult her node, Cyrus K. Mantel, famous detec tive. She does so, and Uncle Cyrus reluctantly accepts the case. He and Inspector Ingles call on Vane in bis Tombs cell. The prisoner tells Us own story of what hap pened the night before, strongly maintaining his innocence. The po lice inspector and "Uncle Cyrus" have just visited the morgue where they examined the corpus delicti. CHAPTER X On the curb in front of the mor gue Ingles said, as he had outside the Tombs: "I suppose you will want to go np to Vane's apartment now and see where it all happened ... finger prints and everything ... nothing has been disturbed yet . . . there is an officer there to stand guard and see that no one enters." "I am truly sorry to have to dis appoint you again," Cyrus K, said to visit first. Much more import ant." Ingles shrugged. "Ton know best of course, still I thought you would want to get right onto the case as quickly as yon could." "But, my dear fellow, I am on the case," Mantel smiled, then pursed his lips and whistled for a taxi. "Can I drop you?" he asked cour teously. "I've got to get back to head quarters' said Ingles, "which way are you going?" -Uptown." "Sorry," Ingles was slightly miff ed and very worried, and very, very curious. "IH take the subway; it's quicker, and besides yon might rather be alone." "Not at all. not at all." Cyras K. assured him. - He got into the taxi, held out his hand to the Inspector, and in the act of bidding him good bye, gave his destination to the driver. "Kate Doyle's Club," he ordered, "you know, on Fifty-second Street." "Okay, Chief," the driver grin ned, and threw in the clutch. They rolled off leaving Ingles standing with a puzzled look on his face. "Kate Doyle's Club," he repeated to himself, "at this time in the morning. ... Now I ask you what the hell?" Mantel chuckled to himself as he looked back and saw the dazed In spector still standing on the curb. That was the spice of a case to him to be able to mystify all with whom he came in contact, and never to explain his actions. As the taxi came to a stop In front of the innocent looking night clnb that bore one of the most al luring names in New York, he composed his face and, after pay ing the tariff, walked up the steps with the expression of a gallant and fashionable man-about-town, who had business of a pleasurable type to transact. .Respectability ema nated from him. i . The small barred window In the heavy front door slid open and cold gray eyes peered at him, then the door , swung open and he was ad mitted, .v. -m v-; --yvi. "Good ' morning, Yasha," he greeted the huge Russian. . "Good y morning, Mr. ? Mantel,'' Tasha beamed. "This is an honor for the house. You knew that Madame planned to leave and that the giria rehearse the new show? Ah I but of course yon know every thing. It is well to bar your friend. Is It notr amusedly, "but 1 do not want to go up to Vane's apartment . . . yet I I have a much more important place Human Equation, Again "Quite, quite," .Cyrus K. handed him his hat, overcoat and ease. "Is Madame in the main dining-room?" "But. yes. They rehearse on the main floor the new dance routine. Shall I accompany yon?" "No, no," said Cyrus K. "Ten stay at the door Yasha, and," he looked hhn in the eye, "don't let anyone in." As the small danner fieure cross ed the hallway to the main club room, the eyes of the Russian fol lowed him with curiosity and great esteem. "What has happened in town that I do not know of?" he thought. "What has hannniw! that mnM bring Qyrus K. Mantel to Madame n.aie uoyie a nigni uuo Deiore noon, when no one knows bnt what all would be dark. . . . Usually they sleep, the little so pretty dancers . . . and Madame. They do not come to life before midnight, not noon. ... He knows everything that man . . . everything." Ouktlv. Mantel ntrA tia Mo room. A group of small girls, all pezzecity x o r m e a, were going; through a snappy dance number, swinffins their armaanif low In rhythmic abandon to the music 2 t , . . . mecnanurauy pounaea out oy a wise at the piano, a cigarette droop rag from his flaccid mouth. , The audience consisted of white thnmdMl tahbjt. that nloTi fore had been filled to oversowing with men and women absorbing anna alter drink and hammering the table with Hit amrirU. mallta by way of applause after each nam- 1 m A V 44. . . m mm oer oy me utile girls." One table alona . na iMimtul Keen-eyed, but with lines of fa- ugue, mere sat a.ate lrtyle. Known to every celebrity, to every social reaisterite. and to tha mIIm a every city from coast to coast. ne looked up and automatically started tn xb - - ' .-W.....! IWUUf when the stereotyped expression of ucr iace cnangeu. "Hello, there," she boomed. "Sure am glad to see you. You're a sight for sore eyes. What can I do for you?" Cyrus K. sat down beside her, shook her hand in m-Mial -rtnA liness. ... "You can help me" he said. Kate, what . da vnn Vtiaiv .knn Isobel Vane?" Certainly this bright, chill morn mar of November 1ft wa B-4,,- out In a very busy fashion for aU of those who had any connection With the tarrihlA t-ra rrnA-, -.VIM. VmA already, within a scant twelve uoura, m me annais or the news papers gone on file as the Vane Murder Case. As Wilbur Renton hung up the receiver in Via Kaohaln -. .UMWIICU. lust across the street from the Vane penthouse, after calling Betty Pot- er, a. puzziea zrown Zurrowed his usually placid feature. Old Uaelr SnlcVrmdw .A V. terrified when she told him that hiss jtty bad already left with a . Ha enrSMi hlmaaT' nm. having delayed for thr time that it too mm o uuce mat shower, after the Police Sergeant had finished his qneei ; questioning. -If he had only called Betty at once he might have caught her In time. It was terribly rmnortant that Vra ,i,AnM v r " .MVMJU flLtlVW just what statement he had made to we ponce so that she could back him np in It. went over It again mentally. . . He had tAA h. vl& . - - wiBCMIb Ulttk he bad been at home and in bed asleen at elpVPT atrhan mm m of fact he had been at Betty's apart- men. ... ana ue a evil of it was that npt" nluv waa 1. .u. . building with Vane's. .Another memory smote him with the force of a physical blow. He had lOftt hit h.ail t,jtu J t J threatened Isobel Vane. . . . God knows he hated her, and had meant everv vrord he ha1 nU am. .v. less, he felt a sense of relief that iuT owiT aaa neara nis outburst, and he felt that he could count on her lovaltv fa, tu ,.v, . v. past intimacy. - . The thought of Vane, and his knowledov - that Rat u worried him, Again lis assured him- ett wiai ne must aeep her; out of this whole thing at any cost. - ie phone again and gave the tmm- w u ner orace. . . . ue would brave her certain wrath tn u..v. - - m bVr ICSUI her at once. . . . She hated to have aocjM'caua as ner otnee and had made it plain that they were most unwelcome. ,::s't - w m erisp, hnpersonal vnlce said. Si People's Press. Good-morn: C-morninr," he answered at tomatically. "Is Miss Betty Potter "Miss Pottos V ; Tm .-, By afe A moment later it came back, in disembodied unconcern over the wire: "Sorrr. Miss Potter hasn't come in the office yet" mr.u - m i. tx i i- v. w. ai iuuium UC NUU UUiVU. "This is a personal calL It is very important; Miss - Potter would be very upset to'miss it. Can yon find out where aha is. or haw Boon aha ia expected?" ! . TliaT m fMaeMaa " aasa ajwllam J f V.a voice, "TU try and find out." Again m uwt. wut, wuku Kcmai iguf u Renton. then the voice said, "I'm sorry, but I cannot tell yon when Miss Potter will be in. She's out on a special assignment The Vane Murder Case." Slowly Renton replaced the re ceiver. He stared at it a moment with a startled expression In his eyes. . . . Blast it! every time he used the phone lately the thing handed him out a shock. . . . Suky, with her frightened announcement, and now this "voice-with-the-smile" wench . . . and ... that officious Ser geant at the crack of dawn with his investigation of the phone call to headquarters about the fight on the the phone alone for a while ... it seemed to do nothing but get him into trouble. He could only think of one more certain means of getting into hot water with rapidity and dispatch, and that was to talk to Bobble Nichols. Why hadn't he inouKni ox mat Derorez . . . Bobbie Nichols who spread news quicker than sjjv telenhnne arir in tna try could carry it. He'd have to get 1 aV 1 a a a . " m woca wiia cfODDte at once and find out what he Irnaw iw all Vi. horror. He undoubtedly knew plen- ana was ousy leuing people that he knew more. With determination ha ntolra ,m the phone again, and gave Bobbie's uumoer. A sleepy voice answered. ""Yes?" it murmured. -"Hello. Bobbie? Listen, this is Renton. Say, Bobbie, have you heard the news?" "Which? and what? mnA aV. W it's news I've probably heard it. "About the murder of Isobel Vane last night?" There was dead silence at the other end then Bobbie's voice, wide awake, and avidly interested. "Sol" he said. "One of you guys finally did it. . . . I've been expecting V? ,hfL chuckled, "you can't fool Uncle Bobbie." "What?" Rpntnn'a vnUa ed on the word. "What do you mean cracx wnat do you know?" uuiu yor aorses, oia son," came the pleased voice of Bobbie. "I know pienry. . . . BeUeve me, I know plenty." "You would say that!" Renton was exasperated. wHi ' ' . aciross. This is desperately irnpor tfc me! TeU me what you "Don't von thtnV T W Important to you?" chuckled Bob- ?e- "And koiot And wouldn't you like to know all I know?" y Renton lowered his -nice to a gen tly confidential tone. -JJsten, Bobbie," he said, "forget aOOUt me that Anwnt- ma you'd better come over here and tell me au you snow as quickly as yon "Whyr countered Bobbie. "Not. for mxr nV. v ceone else, far more Important" . "ei persisted the voice of Bobbie. "BettV." Rntim la ,V. 1t1. name faU quietly from his lips. An amused, sly chuckle answered him. "Betty?" repeated Bobble, "Bet- IT? SAV ft TV VAn awero dont think I'd walk across the street w nwp uias utue red-headed wild- m. jyouT ii you do, then think again!" And the receiver crashed lnt0J1V?th finality that jarred Renton with a definite shock. the third time that morning Wilbur nmbn vm i T the black instrument on its teak- wuoa Biana. - Hs'd always felt that Bobbie Nichols was a snake, but the whole crowd had trim A htm m.M. w. cause of bis amusing, racy chatter. r"" ww reauizea xor tne tirst timethat that same chatter, over wck they had Uughed In the past, had always been built upon soma scandal er other. That the Bobbies of this world fatten upon the trage dies ef others. His brow puckered bewildered trouble as be thought of Bobbie's last words about Betty. There had been a vindicative ring in their tone that he did not like and could not understand. A veiled threat, almost,,. : Ones again he took op the instru ment that now held a hidden men' ace for him. He gave the number of Betty's apartment and strove to keep the quaver front bis voice. (To Be Continued) OamUM, lltt, W Tat HMMdaf Ca " PWttaMkiK.w!