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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, San Jay Morning. July 21; 1933
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,"iVo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe '
" - - From First Statesman. March 28. 1851
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Oregon's Debt Limitation
SINCE under our system of government, the state legisla
ture may enact any laws it sees fit unless such laws are
clearly prohibited by the federal or state constitution, many
: hedges are put in the state constitution to restrain the legis
' lative power. The Oregon constitution is punctuated with
such declarations : "No law 'shall be passed. . ."; "The state
shall not . . ."; "The legislative assembly shall not. . ."
One of the prohibitions which has bobbed up since the
burning of the capitol is that which bars the legislature from
creating any debt in excess of fifty thousand dollars, except
in certain circumstances. The presence of that limitation,
: together with the section forbidding the state, county or mu
' nicipality to become a stockholder in any corporation is not
an accident It is the product of the times in which the state's
constitution was written.
It was in 1857 that the delegates assembled in Salem
for the constitutional convention. Other states had been busy
writing constitutions. Iowa and New York in 1846, Wisconsin
in 1848, Michigan in 1850, Ohio and Indiana in 1851. Oregon
drew on the accumulated experience of these as well as other
states.
These new constitutions were written in the backwash
f the panic of 1837 and the hard times of the early '40's. So
severe was the money stringency that Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan defaulted interest on
their state bonds. Mississippi and Florida repudiated their
debts.
The money had been borrowed by these states chiefly to
promote internal improvements and often to engage in bus
iness directly or indirectly. Pennsylvania had bought stock
in turnpikes, bridges, canals, railroads, etc. Florida had
loaned her credit to the Bank of Pensacola, the Union bank,
and the Southern Life Insurance and Trust company. Mis
sissippi's loan had gone to finance a state bank. The depres
sion was a consequence of too rapid expansion in- the west,
land speculation, and followed the contraction of credit tf
.the Bank of the United States when Jackson ordered the
withdrawal of the depofits of the government in the bank,
and the bank failed to receive a renewal of its charter.
The memory of the unwise adventures of the states into
business, the collapse of state credit when bonds passed into
default, caused the framers of constitutions in the years of
the 1840's and 1850's to put the legislatures in tight harness
with respect to going in debt, loaning the credit of the state,
and subscribing to stock in corporate enterprises.
While the founding fathers set $50,000 as the debt limit
of the state, our actual bonded debt is over $50,000,000, and
reached a total of about $75,000,000. This came about through
constitutional amendments: rural credit loans; world war
veterans' state aid fund; state bond payment of irrigation
and drainage district bond interest; highway bonds. There
is also the power district amendment which has not yet been
exercised.
Another limitation in the state constitution is the one
forbidding the state to establish a bank ; and prohibiting any
bank to have the privilege of issuing any bills to circulate as
money.' This too was a product of the experience of the pre
ceding two decades, when states had lost heavily in banking
enterprises ; and the people had suffered great inconvenience
because of the shin-plaster currency put out by a great varie
ty of banks. Oregon constitution-writers thought they would
profit by that experience, and framed our fundamental law
accordingly.
Constitutions thus reflect the atmosphere of the times
in which they were written. Though the writers seek to pro
ject a document which will fit the needs for a long period of
time, they cannot detach themselves wholly from their po
litical, social and economic climate. That is why provision
for amendment is made, so that changes in political tem
perature may,'in time be reflected in the fundamental law.
The Federal System
THE whole theory of the constitutional government is pass
ing under severe scrutiny at the present day. The deci
sions of courts invalidating virtually all of the new deal pro
gram ofsocial reconstruction precipitates keen controversy.
Some attack the power of the courts thus to render null the
- acts of the legislative arm of government. Others demand a
change in the constitution to vest in the congress poWer3
which the courts say congress lacks under the text of the
present constitution.
People need to have a clearer understanding of the FED
ERAL system of our frame of government. Under the terms
of the national constitution, amendment ten, the powers not
delegated, to the federal government by the constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states re
spectively, or to the people. In other words the congress may
. legislate only in the fields assigned to it, though by the doc
trine onmplied powerslhat field has been broadened beyond
the strict letter of the constitution.
. State governments however have wide latitude. They
can do anything not strictly forbidden. Their limits must be
positive, specifically set up in either the federal or state con
stitutions. Thus it is that the supreme court of the United
States frequently sustains laws passed by states on the
ground that no definite constitutional prohibition appears;
while at the same time the courts invalidate congressional en
actments on the ground that specific constitutional authority
is lacking.
Citizens need to realize tKs fundamental distinction be
, tween the powers of the federal government and of the state
government, as defined in the constitution. The reason for
the difference is that otherwise the states would become mere
enlarged, counties or municipalities, and virtually all power
would center in Washington.
"Street Riots in Paris
"TTANG Laval", people cry in Paris, capital of France.
m JtX Why hang Laval? Because he has ordered a reduction
in salaries and in pensions. And why was this done? To save
the franc, to avoid inflation.
- For months France has been pressed by the drive against
the gold franc. The franc, on a gold basis, was being sold and
gold demanded either for hoarding or export. France, having
suffered agonies from one devaluation of the franc, in 1926,
hesitated to inflict another such punishment on the people.
For the French are very thrifty people. Their savings, those
of the humble peasants are invested in government secur
ities. Devaluation or inflation meant heavy loss to this class
which already has suffered once.
The other alternative was reduction in government ex
penses to balance the budget. But the vast civil army rebel
led, and the pensioners, and others on fixed money wages.
, That is why the classes affected by the decree march in the
streets, riot, threaten Laval, the premier of the crisis.
All countries with swollen government expenditures
face such protests when they try to shrink their costs. That
is why days of strain are ahead for the United States. ,
.When granaries bulge in the midwest, lumber orders pile up
at coast mills. The farm la the great consumer of lumber, since most
of its service buildings as veil as the house are built ot lumber. So
when farm Income is low lumber demand falls off. This rear midwest
farmers will have good crops: they are getting AAA checks from
the government. So they will hare means to make many long defer
; red improvements to their farm buildings. This will mean more bus
iness in logging camps and mills of the northwest.
man
Bits for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Diary 79 years old .
yields -strange history:
Journey to Oregon in 1851 : j
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(Continuing from yesterday.) I
Captain A. J. Smith made his
first entrance into Oregon at Port
Orford in 1853, in charge of a
company of U. S. soldiers sent to
help finish the first Rogue River
Indian war.
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Readers of this column are fa
miliar with the meeting on Table
Rock to arrange the terms ot a
peace with General Joe Lane in
authority for the state troops,
and, by the same sign, hy gen
eral consent and request,' over
the whole matter.
Readers will recall that General
Lane arranged a conference with
700 armed hostiles under - old
Chief Joe, with sub chiefs Sam,
Jim, Limpy and George, and 11
prominent white men, including
himself and Capt. A. J. Smith
the whites to be unarmed.
The date was Sept. 10, 1853.
But for General Lane's unalloyed
bravery and his clear understand
ing of Indian nature, and his
quick wits, the conference would
have ended in a massacre. The
particulars made one of the great
stories of Oregon's early history.
Capt. A. J. Smihfs life was
that day saved by General Lane
and the lives of the other white
men. The parley ended in ar
rangements for a treaty, signed
a few days later.
U. S. Senator J. W. Nesmith of
Oregon long afterward told the
story in detail it has been twice
published in this column.
He spoke of old" A. -J. Smith.
Capt. Smith was then only 38.
He told hew fast Capt. Smith's
eyes snapped when the tense mo
ments came in the parley on Ta
ble Rock.
Smith must have had trouble in
making his snapping eyes behave
on many occasions in his unusual
career of fighting and venturing
into the yawning jaws of death.
Besides that day on Table Rock,
less tian three years later, at tbe
Battle of the Meadows, when, in
the space of a split second, his life
was saved, with the lives of his
whole company, by Capt. Augur
riding to the rescue with his dra
goons at top speed.
Or, five years later, with Col.
Steptoe in eastern Washington,
fighting the savages under Chief
Kara a i kin.
Or, 11 years after, wlyen chas
ing General Price's raidefs out of
Missouri.
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Picture the scene at the Battle
of the Meadows, the closing ma
jor engagement of the so-called
Rogue- River Indian war:
Old Chief John of the Rogues
with hia bands was making his
land stand at the big bend of the
upper Rogue river. The wily old
savage had agreed to come for a
peace talk then refused to keep
his engagement; parrying for
time. Two Indian women from
his camp had brought word that
he was preparing to attack the
next day. Then:
Capt. A. J. Smith, with 80 dra
goons, having sent a courier to
Col. Buchanan for reinforcements,
took a position on May 26, 1856,
on a high knoll, with an open
space about 250 yards long and
50 yards wide--overlooking "The
Meadows."
About 10 on the morning of
the 27th the Indians appeared in
force, and about 40 braves ap
proached up the eastern slope to
Smith's camp; declaring friend
ship, saying they had come to lay
down their arms. .They asked to
see the captain in person.
Smith, sensing their plot, told
them to lay down their arms out
side of his camp.
The savages returned to their
own camp, and old John's forces
then commenced their attack
charging up the east and west
slopes of the knoll at once, but
seeking to avoid the range of the
howitzer which Smith had. right
ing lasted all that day and night,
and continued the 28th, until
about 4 in the afternoon.
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By that time a third of Smith's
men were dead or wounded, and
the rest hungry and almost fam
ished for water. Chief John had
them bottled up, or "treed," on
their high knoll.
- - No sign of reinforcements.
At about 4 fighting ceased on
both sides; the only sounds in
Smith's camp the groans of
wounded men and their cries for
water. Not a sound in the Indian
camp. It was a tense hour "a
silent and awful hour, in expecta
tion of speedy and cruel death"
wrote one of the dragoons in the
trap, in a letter home after the
event. He wrote further:
"As by the baton of a concert
leader, an infernal chorus burst
forth the war cries of eatfh band
in old Chief John's host joining
in one blood curdling burst of
fury, and the rush was made up
the east and west approaches."
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Behold a miracle. To the in
tense surprise and bewildering
consternation of the onrushing In
dians, who expected to make
quick work of Smith's thirsty
and famishing men, they received
the oncoming reds with cheers,
and bravely, furiously, gladly re
turned the charge!
The sight that Inspired the
cheers and the countercharge had
escaped for the moment the eyes
of the Indians, so intent were
they upon the bloody and desper
ate work before them, and believ
ing their intended victims were
too exhausted for effective resist
ance. V s .
But the white men on their
knoll had seen Captain Augur
riding up at utmost speed with
his eompany of 75 dragoons, all
eager for the fray for which they
were bent, to relieve their brother
soldiers, every man of them sens
ing the desperate situation.
(Continued on Tuesday.)
Busiest People Bothered Least
By Either Hot or Cold Weather
By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem
Referring to the late hot weath
er Folki were depressed
Till a cool sea-breeie rose.
And then half the valley
With much blissfulness snoze.
Rhvme is imnortant. Sometimes
It becomes necessary to distort a
nerfectly unoffending word to
meet the requirements of rhyme.
Probably seven-tenths or tne
world's best poetry would not get
through the public schools alive
were It not for rhyme.
Many of us devote the best
years of our lives to learning of
the beauty and value of simple
blessings. Note the case of the
woman who left Oregon 20 years
ago for California, and who re
turned not long ago and sat on
the green grass and wept. It was
the first time she had sat on green
grass In 20 years.
$
During the past 40 years I have
drunk city water in many places.
The orgy began in New England
and ended in Salem. Standing at
public drinking fountains, I have
asked of bystanders (there are al
ways bystanders) their opinion of
the water, and they have invari
ably said "terrible" or something
to the same effect. Not quite in
variably either. The bystanders
at Portland gave a favorable re
port, in which was included an
uncomplimentary reference to the
water In certain other cities. This
was the first favorable report on
city water I, a stranger, received
from strangers on a long and
checkered Journey.
Personally, recalling waters I
have drunk in various towns and
cities, I have no fault to find
with Salem water.
With water, as with other food
and drink, opinions as to quality
are governed largely, I reckon, by
appetite and thirst. Very bad wa
ter may seem very good water
and very good water may seem
very bad water. Water may be
synthetically glorified or contam
inated by prejudice or by poli
tics. All in all, it appears to be the
case that the busiest people suf
fer least from hot weather or from
cold. There is an old codger in
Salem who suffered so acutely
from the heat one day back in
the Missouri river bottoms that
all he has to do during a hot
spell nowadays is to remember.
After he has remembered he goes
on with his work, cool as a cu
cumber. By the way, how cool is a cu
cumber? I understand there are skeptics
who do not believe that a sufferer
from heat may find relief by as
sociating with a cucumber.
Probably a cucumber is re
ferred to as "cool" because it is
so seldom served hot.
A boy on the corner asked to
know Sunday if the flag was dis
played on the court house because
the bastile fell July 14, 1789.
There is a lad who can remember
dates. Also there is a lad who
has his wires crossed.
We hear it stated on the streets
and we read it in the newspapers
here and there that the Blue
Eagle is dead. Dead all but the
bill, dear friends.
Fifty years from now men will
be saying to the children at their
knees, "Yes, it was a pretty fair
eclipse, but I ree'lect an eclipse
back In 193 5 that was a dinger.
My dears, you should have seen
that one!"
Remodeling begins at the
Grand theatre tomorrow, and the
house goes "dark".
May Robson observed .her 70th
birthday last week by reciting a
poem, "May I grow Sweeter as I
Grow Old", for a news weekly.
Somebody is mistaken. The World
Almanac says Miss Robson was
born in 186 S. Anyway, the poem
was beautifully recited.
Lewis Brown, author of "This
Believing World" and other
books, has been visiting his moth
er in the old home town, Port
land, where he graduated from
Lincoln High not a great many
years ago.
Circumstances not infrequently
alter viewpoints. The man with
a sore foot turned in an adverse-
report on the late eclipse of the
moon.
Twenty Years Ago
July 21, 1915
A plan is afoot to raise $300
to establish a safe municipal
swimming place in the Willamette
river and to hire an instructor.
An ad states that "if you would
be in the swim, get pattern 7385
and 5 yards of Skinner's satin for
your bathing suit."
The supreme court declared un
constitutional yesterday Salem's
stringent ordinance providing for
the summary killing of dos
found running at large within
three days of impounding.
Ten Years Ago
July 21. 1925
The city council voted in favor
of headon parking last night.
Less than one per cent of the
110,585 vehicles on Oregon high
ways between 6 a. m. and 10 p.
m. are drawn by horses, a recent
survey shows.
Oregon has fewer Questionable
securities than any other state it
was reported yesterday at meet
ing of the state securities com
mittee.
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W f
H. TALMADGE
"Dream on! Though heaven may
I woo our open eyes,
Through their closed lids we
look on fairer skies;
Truth is for other worlds, and
hope for this;
The cheating future lends the
present's bliss;
Life is a running shade, with fet
tered hands,
That chases phantoms over shift
ing sands;
Death a still spectre on a marble
seat.
With, ever - clutching palms and
shackled feet;
The airy shapes that mark life's
slender chain,
The flying joys we strive to clasp
in vain.
Death only clasps; to live is to
pursue
Dream on! there's nothing but
illusion true!"
Steve Mergler, of The States
man news force, whose record for
dependability is above the aver
age, 'reports the Mergler family
dog to be suffering from a par
tial paralysis of the tongue, due
to over-panting caused by the ex
treme heat."
"A bit av a lie, wid a wink av
an eye."
Many things seem which are
not. Folks hereabout usually
folks who have recently come to
this region say that Oregon sun
shine is brighter, and hotter than
any other sunshine in the coun
try. This impression may be the
result ot contrast with certain
other Oregon weather in which
mist predominates. And it may
be that the Oregon atmosphere,
because of frequent and gentle
washing, presents fewer obstacles
to sun-rays than the atmosphere
of other sections. Most of t h e
weather talk here is done by
folks from the east and south.
The native Oregonian is not espe
cially interested in the weather.
Only once or twice in 40 years
has he known weather sufficient
ly removed from a general aver
age to arouse him lo comment.
A son of the president of the
Chinese republic, who is to marry
a Columbus. Ohio, shop-girl, is
named Jim Lin. Something vague
ly familiar about that name.
When a man has nothing to say
he should say it. There seems
nothing to offer in response to
the following, which fluttered in
on a heat-spurt early In the
week:
"Aren't you ashamed of your
self, Mr. Talniadge? The idea of
advocating clean dirty handker
chiefs and dirty clean handker
chiefs, as you did in last Sunday's
Statesman! Preposterous!"
Anyway, thanks for the kind
words which accompanied the
foregoing outburst.
The Safety
Valve
Letters from
Statesman Readers
XERO HAS PROVED WORTH
Salem, Oregon.
Editor of The Statesman:
In regard to your remarks with
reference to the American Ne
groes enlisting to fight in the
war against Italy in Abyssinia.
When Japan began her invasion
of China an American aviator en
listed and fought on the side of
China and in the meantime was
killed in action. What problem
did that solve?
The American Negr5 has prov
ed his worth as an American citi
zen in every walk of life espe
cially on every field of battle
where the country's honor was in
volved. The noealled problem you re
fer to has its existence more in
the lascivious and lassitude mind
of the misanthrope than anywhere
else.
Wilbert D. Henderson,
S71 State street.
Grocers Picnic
Attracts Guests
AIRLIE, July 20,Mrs. E. M.
Turner accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Thompson and Mrs. John
Thompson of Blodgett to 'Salem
park where they attended the
Willamette grocers' picnic
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bevens are
moving to a hom near the Tam
pico school house. They are sel
ling their home here to Alvin
Sams.
.Mrs. Ralph Brooks and Mrs.
Anna Allen returned to Portland
Wednesday after a two weeks
visit with Mrs. Anna Hadley.
D.
"Happy days are (nearly) here again!9
V oJf(ifl
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"THE SNOW LEOPARD"
SYNOPSIS
Karen Sire, lovely daughter of
the wealthy Maurice Sire, is bus
pected of murder when her new
Filipino servant is stabbed in the
back and thrown out of the window
of Sires' exclusive Park Avenue
apartment. Dick Bannister, young
geologist, witnessed the man's
frtunge from the street. He is great
y attracted to Karen and cannot
conceive of her committing the
crime. A valuable clasp and girdle
are missing from a rare leopard
akin robe belonging to Sire
which had followed the Filipino in
mi descent. At the Sire apart
ment, where the inquiry is being
held, Captain Boyle leaves Detec
tive "One-Armed" Toole in charge
and goes out. Dick finds a stiletto
in the aquarium and slips it into his
pocket, unnoticed by Toole. Boyle
returns and orders Karen searched.
The latter slips her band into Dick's
pocket and relieves him of the dag
ger, dropping it into Toole's pocket
instead. Finding nothing on the
girl, Boyle again leaves. Toole
then reveals that he knew all about
the finding of the stiletto and
Karen s planting it on him. He re
frained from reporting it because
he believes her innocent and. be
sides, he has an old score to settle
with Boyle. "One-Armed" explains
that, a year ago. he was on the trail
of a pair of crooks, Big Jeff Whip
ple and hia sweetheart, Brenda,
vowing to lose an arm before he'd
let them escape him. They did, and
thereafter Boyle called him "One
Armed" Toole. The detective con
nects the so-called "Whipple Syn
dicate" with the present killing,
claiming they were after the clasp
and girdle. Toole drops the sti
letto back into the aquarium. He
believes Brenda will try to get it
that atternoon. Maurice Sire ar
rives with a woman who intro
duces herself as "Helen Calvert,"
newspaper reporter. Toole recog
nizes her as Brenda, and sets a trap
tor her, but she becomes suspSnous
and leaves without trying to re
trieve the stiletto. Later, Brenda
telephones Karen. A helpless,
stricken look comes into the lat
ter's eyes. "What did she say?" asks
Dick. "You'll never know from
me," the girl replies. And then she
dismisses him, but Mr. Sire asks
him to return that night with his
brother. Hod, a friend of the, mil
lionaire. Before she left, Brenda
had tried in vain to get some infor
mation rrom Boyle concerning
Karen.
CHAPTER X
Brenda had fooled Boyle.
there was something consoling about
that. The woman began to have a
fascination for Bannister. Uncon
sciously, he clothed her figure in. a
leopard robe, remolded her into a
wild creature and felt himself tak
ing the trail with the savage joy of
a hunter. The leopard woman 1
What diabolical secret did she pos
sess to prevent her vie tan from mak
ing an outcry? What was it that
Karen had to whisper in he leather's
ear when they were alone together?
Bannister was promising himself
the pleasure of a call that night
when Myers appeared at the door.
silent but with a convulsed face.
Sire lifted interrogating eyes.
"Another robbery, sir J" quavered
the butler.
"Here?" shouted Boyle.
"No sir at the Southampton
house. It's just been discovered, one
of my men tells me ever the phone.
Happened while I was away, sir,
coming to New York. The lock on
the wall safe was burned off with a
torch."
Boyle turned to Maurice Sire.
"What were these people after?" he
asked.
Sire shrugged. "Jewels, perhaps,
and a lot of old family documents."
"What use could they make of
family documents?"
"Families sometimes have a way
of becoming divided."
"Oh, this is famHy affair, then?"
Sire laughed. "I didnt mean to
imply that. But there is a collateral
branch of my family that might
have some use for certain old parch
ments I kept in that wall safe. How
ever, I have never seen any of them.
In fact, they live in the Orient."
"In the Philippines, maybe?" -
"Ridiculous 1 Please don't asso
ciate the murder of a Filipino serv.
ant with what I have told you. The
documents relate to a period of fam
ily history datinr back several hun
dred yean. They were heirlooms. !
Sorry I sparked off your suspicions
aiong inai line.
"You have nothing else to tell me
1 1 AM
no ieaa r
"Absolutely non!"
"Then," said Boyle impressively,
"111 follow that one." Like a gray
wolf he left the apartment.
Maurice Sire turned to his daugh
ter. He forced another lanoi Knt
there was little gaiety in it "There
goes my dream, Karen mine and
yours!"
Bui Karen did nnt lunirti Ran.
nister's gaze was fixed upon her
witn strange mtentness. She closed
her ve Bnrl thrat- m tian1 fnvnxl
him. What vision had she shut out?
Did she ae him 01m ham4 aaal.
ing- down the purple mountain
slonea. atmlkins' a mnvnifirent mm
leopard? Did she see him laying the
1 . m . ..... .
rooe at ner lees wun tne clasp and
eirdle reatnrmT? Tn a
eyes opened but she kept them avert-
--a a . M ...
ea irom canmsxer. (jiotcnmg at
Brenda Whipple's note in her bosom
she fled from the room.
Bannister wu .ttnunried at tK
Inaction of Maurice Sire. Where
was the vaunted lightning that was
rennted in ho n reaHv nt th! o-iant'.
hand? Why the coot almost indif-
ierenc atmuae toward the murder
and robberv tinder hia nwn rnnfT
Again, only a few minutes before,
Sire had heard that his Southamp
ton home had been despoiled of
treasure and had merely smiled.
What was all this a calm before
a thunderbolt?
Meyers again was at the door
Mr. Whipple on the telephone, sir.
"Wiinnle!"
before Sire had time to sneaV
"Know him?" Sire asked, pausing
on ms way to the telephone.
der case mentioned his name," Ban
nister answered with difficulty.
"Ah!" Sire showed only a polite
walked to the desk. Before picking
up tne receiver he called back: "See
vou tnn i ri t then?"
Bannister. hwiU mmAm ks
way out of the apartment. Twelve
m r a
noors neiow, m uoa s apartment, he
found Toole atanrfrnv near a arrin-
dow, under Bully's somewhat criti
cal survey, txe looaed tired and
blown; defeat was written all over
him. "I'm licked " he said. "She trot
wy zrom me.
ib kept behind you all the way,'
Dick feered. "If von wsTYpH
ward, you'd have stepped on her
Dick told him of the note left fcv
Brenda. Whiimle and her
ous telephone call te Km. Fen. Ha
omraea nis own painful experience
as a detail wnicn was nnna nf the
detective's business.
-Brenda is getting reckless, aint
she?" was .Toole's onl-v enmment.
Dick showed his next card the
invasion of the Southampton house
A 4.1 a. 1 . a a k - .
ana uie men ox vaju&Die old parch
ments. "Done bv the same mob." aaM
Toole.
. Bannister yawned. He was pre-narino-
tn nlav hia " To Jtri,;
pie had Sire on the phone old
inenas, 11 aeems."
Toole leaned over and natted
Billy's head. "Huh!" h nt.Tt
anally, "Jeff and Brenda must have
quarreiea.
Bannister growled. I'm stating
some important facts," he said, "and
you re answering me like a gypsy
reading cards."
"Yen. that'- what I'm At
Toole admitted. "This robe and gir
dle job was botched with a murder.
When Jeff fnnmrf rait Vi m.j
had written a note to Miss Sire he
maae up his nund to give his little
playmate the works and save his
own pelt. What else, sonnv?"
Bannister told him nf Matt
coviea return to tn hnna
Sire s amilmv ldmiuim tV v
murder and robberies might have
oeen executed Dy certain "oriental
relatives" whom he had nm a
and of Bovle'a anHHen ananMva
the little Filipino himself might
u ueioogea vo tne crew, tie quot
ed Sire's1 words to hi nhf,..
I "There goes my dream. Karen, and
yours 1
"So Mati thnno-fct lif- Cm
nino mic-ht ham luwi
relations, hey?" Toole chuckled.
Took the tip hot off Sire'a bat .He
looked over the little fellow's body
for fifteen minutes without noticing
inai ina nails were manicured and
that the fixurers vera lnna at 4ir
Cate Dot a aerrina- nama- flnMM
And lfatt acre noticed that the
By
Chris Hawthorne
Filipino had been used to wearing
six rings."
"There were no rings I saw the
body first, you remember."
"The rings had been removed, but
not by the killer. They were taken
off slowly probably with warm
water and soap and that only a
day or two before the murder.
"This so-called Filipino had six
ring circles on his fingers and the
skin near these circles wasn't
scratched or bruised. He took the
rings off himself. For what? To
conceal the fact that he was not a
servant I"
"Who was he then?"
"Well, he was a light smoke who
had some money."
"Light smoke?"
"Some kind of a mixed breed."
"Did he look like a fellow who'd
wear a leopard robe with a jeweled
clasp and girdle?"
"That's the hook-up. Maybe he
was an okoond or a mary-aw-ja w."
Toole gave a touch of reverence to
his mispronunciations of those ex
alted titles, as though they encom
passed all human glory.
"Do you think he was working on
his own hook against the Whip
pies?" Toole shrugged. "Maybe the stun
belonged to him. He might have
failed to get it back by legal means
and resorted to this plan to recover
it."
"That would let the Whipples
out."
"It would and it did."
"Not altogether they got the
girdle, evidently."
"And vou got the robel" Toole
grinned down at Bully.
"Toole," asked Bannister anxious
ly, "what do you make of the fact
that the killer was alone on the same
floor with Karen?"
"Yon might misunderstand my
answer to that and sock me on the
jaw," the detective laughed. "Hon
estly, I think he was there all night,
but not with Miss Sire's knowledge.
Anyway, you're seeing her and her
father tonight. Perhaps they'll be
able to clear up that point."
"What are vou enine to do about
the stiletto in the aquarium?"
"Leave It there I Some servant
will be freshening up the water and
will find it. -That's the only way it
will ever fall into Matt Boyle's
hands. I was on the job about- ten
minutes ahead of him sent from a
precinct station but when he ar
rived he took the search out of my
hands and turned me into a watch
man and telephone boy. At that, I
saw the dirk in the water just a few
minutes before yon spotted Tt. I
waited just to see you play the hand
out."
"What are yon going to do about
the murdered smoket"
"Noihina-. He's an imDortant
and he'll be missed. Bis identity
win come to tne sun ace in a few
hours. Even Matt may find out
about that."
Bannister grew sarcastic. "So
you're going to squat back on your
haunches and wait until the news
papers tell all about it?"
"Not exactly. I'm going to have
a little chat with Jeff Whipple. He
came out of hia hide-away about an
hour after the papers announced
what they cajled the suicide of the
Filipino. He dived back again when
they learned tlat it was murder."
"Who told you that?"
"Confidential information my
own secret service."
"Do you know where Whipple is
now?"
Toole became more avast ve. "Vnn
know how Brenda got away from
me. They say tbe surest way to es
cape a detective is to follow him.
Well, Jeff has a few little tricks like
that in his hat. If a general radio
alarm was sent out for him he'd
probably stand on the front tna nf
the public library or the City Hall,
where nobody would expect to find
hhn."
Mavbe voull catch him
with Captain Bovle ." Bannitr ,
ges ted gravely.
"That aint as funny as you
think," the detective retorted. He
stood op and took off hia derby a
sign that he was going. "Learn
whatever you can from Sire and his
daughter tonight." he said. "Ill be
aeein' yon. And here's a tip don't
ask Sire any questions, just listen.
It wont help much, either, if you tell
Swr brother all that I've told you.
member that."
Toole natted BnDv'a head and lf k
the apartment. '
(To Be Continued)
IIJ. an 1
BMTMai ft. Kias rttm tjwBarta, laa.