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The OREGON STATESMAN Salem, Oregon, Soadaj 5Hornin&'Fhraarjr 1$,?1936
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"A'o Faror Sways Vt; No Fear Shalt Awe"
- . From First Statesman, March It. 1851
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Share-Croppers and AAA
SENATOR JOE ROBJNSON was the spokesman for the
new dealn its reply to Al Smith. He tried to hook A!
op with the 'money bags" of Wall Street, those wicked
devils who seek to foil the efforts of the Sir GaBahad of
the white house. Senator Joe failed to defend the workings
of the new deal in his own state of Arkansas. There the
crop redaction program has played havoc with human rela
tions; has set sharecroppers adrift and left negroes without
employment save on relief jobs.
Senator Joe can find plenty of words to sustain the
white house in its thusts at capitalist employers; but he
has no words in defense of the helpless poor whites and
negroes of his own and other states, victims of the triple
A program of restricted production. These share-croppers
have formed a union, but apparently the national labor re
lations board has heard nothing about their distresses. Those
who join this union are evicted, and blacklisted from get
ting other jobs. As the union executive secretary writes:
"The struggles of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
against the domination of the landlords and planters fa
Arkansas aad other states of th south and southwest have
aroused the determined opposition of the plantation in
terests. Mass evictions of tenants who are members of the
anion hare taken place on ntmerou plantations. Union
meetings hare been broken op by-planters and officers of
the law, while men, women and children haTe been kicked
and flogged, shot, arrested and Jailed."
Senator Joe has done nothing to stop the terrorism
against these victims of the south's old economic order. He
can f md words to scourge some the the rich northerners who
probably pay the highest wages of any factories in the
world, but offers no criticism of the treatment accorded the
snare-croppers of his own southland.
One of the worst complaints against the AAA was its
ruthless disregard of the interests of the workers depend
ent on normal farming operations farm laborers, tenants,
warehouse hands, boat and railroad and mill workers. These
were cut off from their usual occupations, robbed of their
livings already very precarious. Even the idealistic Secretary
Wallace has overlooked this evil phase of crop reduction.
Court a Bulwark of Liberty
WILL those who have been abusing the supreme court as
"old fossils" and "corporation lawyers" (it was the ass
from Seattle, Zioncheck, who so labeled them) please
pause in their diatribes to take note that by a unanimous de
cision the high court sustained the constitutional guarantee
j Jf63 omi.of press" which 13 one of the Provisions of the
bill of rights" embraced in the first ten amendments to the
constitution? Abridgment of freedom is the first move of
dictatorships, and that was what Huey Long intended when
he clapped a high tax designed to apply to only a few papers
in Louisiana which were fighting him. The highest court in
tervened with an order of estoppel. At one time the Minne
sota press gag law was ruled invalid by the narrow count of
To quote from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, a leading
democratic. paper, founded by Joseph Pulitzer:
"The United States Supreme Court itself has provided the
answer to the question whether we need a supreme bench to ap
ply the test of the Constitution to chaUenged acts of state Legis
latures and Congress. By unanimous decision, the nine members
of the court yesterday killed the Louisiana newspaper tax law.
Had there been no court to invalidate this law, the people of
Louisiana would be confronted with the operation of a statute
seriously threatening the fundamental constitutional guaranty of
freedom of the press. . .
The Post-Dispatch has said repeatedly that the guaran
tees of the Bill of Rights need the protection afforded by Ju
dicial reTiew of the act of legislative bodies. Huey Long's at
tempted gag rule in Louisiana is a striking case in point"
Tension in Germany
RENEWED drives against Jews and Catholic organiza
tions in Germany is attributed to the need for divert
ing the public mind. The internal tension in Germany
is tremendous. Something may snap. Louis Fischer, leftist
journalist, writes from Berlin in The Nation: "The strength
of the regime lffes in its enemy's disunion, in its own large
armed forces, and in the strong, almost mystic hold which
Hitler stll has over many Germans."
The body of the people are pretty well disillusioned over
the reforms promised by the national socialists. The subor
dinate leaders are not in favor. No election at all was held
in 1935. Fischer writes: "I have never known it (Germany)
so pessimistic, not even in the worst period of currency in
flation, when the suffering was greater. Germans . . . are
resigned to a long siege of gloom. No improvement is
expected.'
While his contacts probably were more with underground
socialists, it must be true that the bizarre regime of Hitler's
is unstable. It rests on a foundation of mass emotionalism.
When the seance fades the awakening may have explosive
results.
v Sailors Beware
SOMEONE must have called out "Sailors Beware," prob
ablv from Washinonn t cnilU Trio crtoofw adinsfmont
? of the labor difficulties that have harrassed ocean trans
port on this'coast for nearly two years. Just at the moment
when bitter strife was about to break out anew the sailor
groups yielded, and vessels began to move. The action of
the International convention in ordering, sailors' unions to
break ff affiliation with the coast Maritime federation is
what broke the impasse.
Sailors earn nothing lying in port and cussing the em
ployers. The boats earn nothing. The shippers lose because
they are -forced to resort to higher priced transportation.
It is a mistaken idea to think that strikes bring prosperity
to the workingmen. They should be avoided like a plague;
and resorted to only as the last extremity.
The radical leadership of the Maritime federation is
more concerned with communist propaganda than it is with
improving the immediate lot of the workers.
Work That Has Endured
A POLITICAL canard which has strange powers of survival
is that Hoover 'did nothing" to stem the depression.
The fact is that several of the best agencies now func
tioning are those set up under his administration. Roosevelt
has continued the; RFC with Jesse H. Jones, a Hoover ap
pointee, as the chairman. Under Hoover increased facilities
for credit to farmers and to home mortgage organizations
'were provided that still are flourishing. The "bank for co
operatives' was set up In the Hoover administration, and
its commissioner said at the meeting of the Oregon coopera
tive council last week that farmers' cooperatives fared bet
ter during the depression than most other businesses; and
part of the reason was that credit had been provided by the
old farm board.
Salem's Philharmonic orchestra is maturing. Its concert Friday
; night showed greater assurance. Tb numbers too were well chosen,
with enough brass and drums ta them to pleas those who. like oar
selves, broke fata mailt appreciation throagh listening to the towa
brass band. At the other extreme, that of pure, limpid music. Dalbert
Jepsens violin concerto was an
Besides. WJ nt I Chair witb -
exquisite number, beautifully dona.
K.V tn. It. as wa. v
The Great Game
of Politics
By FRANK R. KENT
CwrtcM (Sis. by T BaWam In
Transparent Tactics ' ;
Washington. Feb. IS
THE BEST yardstick by which to
measure the strength of RepubH-
Preaidential posslbUiUea la
the decree to
which the New
Deal publicity
agents extend
themselves to
disparate them.
THERE ARE a
lot of these
agents. Some
re paid out of
the party treas
ury; some oat
of Federal
funds; others,
more or less
rrtakB.Kss unofficial, are
attracted to the White House side
by a variety of personal reasons.
not paid In cash bat compensated
in sundry subtle ways. ump them
together and they constitute a
more formidable propaganda ma
chine than any President ever
had. One indictment of the New
Deal Is that its agencies are not
coordinated and often operate at
cross purposes. For example,
there are some 18 separate divi
sions dealing with the housing
problem. No such charge will lie
against the units (many more
than IS) of the propaganda de
partment. It Is true they func
tion separately, but they an aim
in the same direction. The ob
jective is to exalt Mr. Roosevelt
and smear the firures calculated
to menace his political security.
IT IS interesting to observe them
in action. Their fire is leveled up
on every aspirant who appears
likely to develop strength as a
candidate . For months it has
been recognized that the Reeubll
can choice probably would tall
noon one of three men Colonel
Knox of Illinois: Senator Vanden
berg of Michigan, and Governor
Land on of Kansas. All three
seem to be getting their tirn up
on the griddle. Colonel Knox,
who some time ago appeared la
the lead and still Is well up to
ward the front ran into a grand
Journalistic barrage, in which he
found himself accused of being
for the bonus, told his farm plan
was cockeyed, and the public gen
erally informed that he had "talk
ed himself out of the race." Then
came Senator Vandenberg. The
line taken with him was that he
is a trimmer, a Myes and no" man.
re-elected largely because he was
mildly pro-New Deal. The chief
assault came in Professor Moleys
marazlne, financed by the great
proletarian. Mr. Vincent Astor.
But the same note ran through
the whole literary output It ig
nored, of course, the rather im
portant facts that Mr. Vandenberg
voted against AAA. NRA, WPA
and the bonus twice.
NOW, it seems the turn of Gover
nor Landon, whose speech a few
weeks ago got an unusually fav
orable reception, though it cer
tainly was not a great speech. He
is soon to make another. The Ad
ministration wants to spike this
Landon effort, just as it wanted
to spike the Smith speech last
months. Some amazing overtures
were then made to certain con
spicuous anti-New Deal Democrats
in an effort to hare them make
public pro - Roosevelt statement
just ahead of the Smith attack.
With Mr. Landon disparagement
is taking two forms. One Is talk
that he is that dreadful thing, a
"drinking dry." with whispenr
mat later on he Is to be "dyna
mited" by reproductions of
speeches made before repeal. The
other Is the effort to show that
while he did balance the Kansas
budget and reduce taxes, that
really amounted to nothing at all.
He could not have avoided bal
ancing the budget A feeble
minded child could have done
that Anyhow, Kansas got a great
many millions of Federal money
for relief, and the Governor is
nothing but an old fake. That Is
the gist of the argument and its
original promulgator was Mr.
Harry Hapkins of the WPA. It
is gelng reviewed now evidently
with the idea of crimping the Lan
don style.
IN contrast to these attempts to
disparage Is the boosting of the
venerable Borah. Senator Borah
is a semi-inflationist, a bonus
supporter, a real Prohibitionist, a
free sitverite and a septn-agenar-ian.
His nomination would be like
a gift straight from the rods to
the New Dealers, but that they
ao not expect The next best
thing Is to encourage the Borah
booms as the greatest potential
troublemaker for the Republicans.
To this end the New Deal publi
cists are Mr. Borah's most earnest
boosters. They cheer his attacks
upon the "Old Guard," love him
when he howls for "liberaliza
tion." think it grand when he
lights Into the "favorite sons."
It Is all a pretty transparent busi
ness, but it takes some people in.
There are even Indications that to
some extent it takes In Mr. Borah
himself. Despite those deeply dis
cerning people from whoa noth
ing can be hidden, and who would
have us believe Mr. Borah a wily
old boy just having a lot of good
clean fun, the tact Is that he takes
the situation with a solemnity too
awful not to be reaL -
Start Pouring Cement
On New Dayton School
DAYTON. Feb. 15, Pouring
cement was started Thursday at
the new Dayton anion high school
building fa eourseVof construction
with a crew of 16 men. .
Mrs. Fred Matches entertained
the Kroweldeea club with a Val
entine bridge party at her home
Thursday evening with 12 mem
bers and one guest, Mrs. Paul
Londershansen. present IZn. Her
man Louis won high, score. Mrs
Matches served ' refreshments In
keeping tit Valentine theme. The
next meeting win be held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Miteh-
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Bits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
The city of Staytoa ' t-1 t-S I
aad its trade district
have Interesting history:
(Continuing from yesterday:)
The answer under date of Feb.
of H. C. Porter, Aumsville's most
prominent citisen and. oldest na
tive sob, follows:
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"la answer to yours of the3rd.
win state that Allen J. Davie mar
ried a daughter of Gabriel Brown,
aad that his donation lead ,elalm
joined Brown's oa the west'
"Henry Foster married another
one of his daughters, aad his do
nation land claim joined Brown's
oa the south.
"Levy Gartmaa married anoth
er daughter, aad his claim joined
Brown's oa the aorta.
- "Gabriel Brown's son. James
D. Brown, owned a claim about a
mile or a mile and a quarter north
of Sublimity on the east side of
the road opposite and east of the
Philip Glover donation land claim.
"John Brown I believe was Ga
briel Brown's youngest son. and
he lived near 8ublimity, but just
where his claim was located I do
not know. It was perhaps joining
Gabriel Brown's claim oa the east
and if so James Denny may have
bought land on this claim on
which to lay off the town of Sub
limity.
"John Brown was living In
southern Oregon and took part in
the Modoc war, as a volunteer
suppose, ana was reported as
'missing. However. George Davie.
a barber at Stayton and a grand
son of A. j. Davie, told me a few
days ago that his body and those
of four other men were found in
the lava beds after the war was
over.
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"A little later there was anoth
er family of Browns near Sublim
ity, the father's name being Meri
weather Brown (I do not know
just how this name was spelled),
and he had five sons, the eldest
one being named James, who was
of dark complexion, and in order
to distinguish him from Gabriel
Brown's son Jsmes, they were re
ferred to as black Jim and sandy
Jim.
"A. J. Davie's oldest daughter
married Louis Miller and Miller's
daughter married Isaac Small, the
father of Brazier Small.
"I do not know anything about
August or Joseph Hendricks. As
Tom Hendricks and the Bristows
crossed the plains with our people
m 134S, it might be that some of
the Hendrickses stopped off in
this neighborhood for a while, but
i ao not think this was the ease.
"itoDert Downing of Salem or
Health
By Royal S. Copeland, MJ).
FACIAL NEURALGIA is a pain
ful and annoying affliction. It is some,
times spoken ef as "tlo douloureux.
The symptoms are produced by a
disturbance of the "trigeminal nerve".
On this account the doctors refer to
the ailment as "trigeminal naural-
Without prevtous warning the suf
ferer is seized with violent pain in
one side of the face. This attack is
often described as coming like a bolt
of lightning". It lasts for several
minutes and then disappears as Quick
ly as It came. Unfortunately, tbe at
tacks recur at frequent intervals. The
pain may be so severe as to require
an opiate of some kind.
An attack may be brought on by
washing the face, shaving, chewing,
talking, or even smiling. The suf
ferer soon learns to avoid those par
ticular movements that tend to bring
on a spasm.
Cause Not Known
Though the actual cause of tri
geminal neuralgia Is not known,
many plausible theories are present
ed. Aa Infection la the teeth is al
ways regarded as aa important fac
tor in producing this disease. But
when once the neuralgia baa made
Its beginning, removal of the bad
teeth has no control over tbe symp
toms. Pressure en the nerves from
hardening of tb blood vessels la re
garded by some ss a factor that must
be considered.
As a ml trigeminal neuralgia oc
curs in persons of middle or advanced
age. Only In rare Instances ar
young adult afflicted with it Wom
en are more susceptible to the ail
ment than are men.
It is only darjas tb past dcad
that the sufferer from this disorder
has been offered hop of relief. Two
methods of treatment ar available.
They are spokea of as tb "conserva
tive" and the "radical" treatments.
IakaUat Used
If tb conservativ method ia to be
used the sufferer Is taught how to
Inhale a substance which the doctor
will prescribe. It has a big name,
nrichtorethylens". .Twenty to thirty
drops are placed ea a handkerchief
or piece ef doth which Is held closely
to the nose. The fumes are inhaled
until no odor remains ea tbe doth.
This treatment Is need by those
who favor It two er three times a
day. It Is continued for weeks even
though the pain disappears.
If this treatment does not prove to
b beneficial, alcohol Is injected di
rectly tate the nerve trunk. Con
trary to the popular belief this Is not
a dangerous procedure. When suc
cessful tb pain ia markedly less and
the attacks are no longer experienced.
The more radical treatment In
volves tbe actual removal of the root
ef the nerve. This Is a simple op
eration In the hands of a surgeon
who Is trained and experienced ia
this field. It 1 only advised ta these
cases where all ether forms ef treat
ment have failed.
Aaswers te Heaha Queries
Mother. Q. What caa be done te
radicate pin worms to young chfl
dreaT A. For fun particulars seed a
self-addressed, stamped envelope and
repear yoar Question.
; Dr. Ceprtssd U gtai Is carver
faenirfc from readers teas aemS
eddreesed staweew envelopes with
lrtioM. Att rirte
AoicM e addressed te Mat fa
r ears e this aeenfaser.,
(Copyrioxt. ms. r. r. a.. iml
J. 8. Grier of Staytea might be
able to give yea some) light oa the
matter. Carter Keen was aa early
settler and owned a donation land
claim about one aad a naif miles
northwest of 8taytoa. - But the
Keen family have long been rest
dents of French Prairie. J. B.
Grier of 8taytoa could give yea
maea information about the early
residents of Sublimity and vicin
ity. "There was Charley Benson,
known by everybody for his ec
centricities and uprightness ef
character. Mrs. Benson was a
Oreeastreet and when I was first
discovered she walked six or seven
miles aad eared for ma the first
few weeks of my existence. She
afterward named one ef her boys
after me, the late Henry Benson,
who recently passed away oa the
old homestead,
"Mrs. Herman Schellberg of Sa
lem Is a daughter ef Charles Ben
son. '"There are so many of these
eld pioneers who played an Impor
tant part in the laving of the foun
dation of this western empire,
men and women who long since
crossed the great divide and their
names are being forgotten, leav
ing to the people of Oregon a sa
cred obligation they owe to these
early pioneers to perpetuate their
memories in some way.
"And, as I hare heretofore sug
gested, that a suitable room be set
apart and dedicated to their mem
ory and their names alphabetical
ly arranged In volumes properly
indexed of all who came to Ore
gon or were born here prior to the
year 1880, said room to be con
structed in our new state capftol
now being planned for, I hereby
renew my plea that a room in our
new capitol be dedicated to the
pioneers of Oregon."
V
The reader has no doubt noted
that the Bits man spells the name
Davey Allen Jones D a'v e y,
whereas Mr. Porter spells it Davie,
along with many others; and. be
it known, many writers of Oregon
history have made it Davy.
The Bits man holds that he Is
correct and has heretofore ar
gued his side of the case in this
column.
S
Bashford, historian, gives
among the '42 immigrants "Glrt
man and family." No doubt the
"Levy G art man" of Mr. Porter
was a member of that family.
Bashford mentions ia the '42
immigration Gabriel Brown and
family, and, separately, James
Brown, and William Brown.
Bashford gives "Foster" as a
member of the '42 immigration.
Nd doubt the Henry Foster who
married a daughter of Gabriel
Brown was in that Immigration.
Henry Porter accounts for four
Gabriel Brown daughters married
to men in the Stayton-Subllmity-
Aumsville district There was at
least one more Gabriel Brown
daughter. She was Adaline. mar
ried to Medorem Crawford at the
old mission 10 miles by water be
low the site of Salem, an incident
of one of the early and outstand
ing romances of pioneer Oregon.
continued on Tuesday.)
The Safety
Valve
Letters from
Statesman Readers
MORE RELIEF
Editor Statesman:
If the fellow who atolo nr trail
er wheel, tire, tube and all, will
call at my front door I shall re
turn to him his wrench. TTa mA
his get-away so hastily, evidently.
tnai no overlooked, it. Perhaps
he was so hunrrv or thiratv that
he thought only of getting the
prize soia and getting something
to eat or drink. But "'pon my
word and honor," it New Dealers
won't loan him a shovel handle
with which to "keen th voir
from the door" bec&uaa b w
sufficiently honorable to make his
own living all summer, why, I'll
return to him the robber's wrench.
ur perhaps he be unfortnnatA
enough to be on direct relief and
unaote to wrest a sufficient
amount to keep his children from
crying for bread. In that case, he
may have the wrench and a hand
out too. "He that hath m !-
on the poor lendetb. unto the
uora; ana that which he hath
given will he nav him araia"
Prov. It: IT.
Crime and buraiarv are nn tha
increase in Salem. Is it any won
der? Peonle will at And if
the existing governments will not
i urn is a h ana there are not jobs
for all. What then? Four billinna
and more of relief monies, also
two millions of boose monv rirht
in our own state and vat eitina
go hungry and poorly clad. To
00 snecilic: I know of one elderl
lady who clawed her breakfast
out of the rarbaae behind a atra
How's that for "The Land of the
Free and the Home of the Brave?"
I read la the Christian Build.
era' Blueprint about feeding the
nungry ana clothing the naked.
Will they come forth la the hoar
of human crisis? As Ralph Wal
do Emerson challenged: "Go put
your creed Into your deed; Nor
apeak with double tongue."
Will they, or will they not let
George do It all It he can.
very truly yours,
FRANK CHED ESTER,
Girl's League Gires
Valentine Tea Friday
Alter ftlorunonih Game
INDEPENDENCE, Feb. II.
The girl's league of Independence
high school, gave a Valentine tea
Friday afternoon following the
girls' basketball game with Mon
mouth high. They had as their
guests the Monmouth girls team,
the faculty members and some of
the parents of the girls' league
members.
A program was presented la the
form of a skit entitled Shs Got
Her.MaoVr . th twelve characters
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"HIGH SCHOOL TRAGEDY"
CHAPTER XXUV
The Inspector's next victim was
Mrs. Ctarnngton.
To you I grant less cowardice.
But yon were still intent, even as
these others, upon preserving your
own, even to the extent of sacrific
ing others. Ton were iealoos of
Sur husband's renewed interest in
i childhood sweetheart Yon were
arrogant and proud and self-assured
in your handling of the affair. I do
not believe your motive, when you
demanded that Miss Sinclair rectify
the situation, was love ef your hus
band so much as a selfish pride that
refused to admit another woman's
sttractiveness.
"Too are a deliberate and calcu
lating personality. Ton have stated
that yoa decided either you or Miss
Sinclair must be 'removed? from Mr.
Carrington's life. Ton are not the
person to efface yourself . Ton have
no alibi for Thursday, the 20th of
October. Might yon not have
reached the conclusion that death
was the most effective removal
known to the mind of man?"
The woman straightened defen
sively. Her lawyer was on his feet
protesting, but the Inspector took
up Bruos.
"Ton, who were once ready to
promise to protect this murdered
girl all the rest of your lives, who
once loved her in gaiety and sun
shine, could not face the earnest
ness of her life, the real depth ef
her personality. Tea wanted her
as a summer playmate, not as a wife.
With that change came also a mad,
fanatic devotion to another woman,
to a woman whom yon married be
fore your engagement te the little
teacher waa broken. In your self
eentered infatuation, you saw only
threats and reproaches ia the sad,
heart-broken little note she wrote
you. Ton were angry and fearf uVj
that this brittle marriage oz yours
might suffer at her hands. One
hour and a half after that letter
was read by yon, Hiss Constance
Sinclair lay in her own blood, shot
through the heart, and no one can
say where you, Bruce Lloyd, were
during that time. Ton are without
an alibi."
Lloyd's face was a brilliant red:
his lawyer, too, was clamorous. I
watched the Inspector, fascinated.
He may have been melodramatic,
but ha was effective. Every one
of those six people was worked in
to a high pitch. All were sitting
oa the edges oz their chairs, eyas
on his moving finger, emotions ris
ing to the boiling leveL Something
had te happen; someone had to
break.
Perkins braced himself as his
turn came last He was visibly
shaking, his lips were dry, and his
hands wringing each other.
"And you, who were the young
lady's superior, the incumbent of
the highest position in the guidance
of oar adolescent youth, who should
rank as one of our most ootent
moral forces ia this community, yoe-J
aeniea tost yoa nsd visited her en
that Thursday night, tried to con.
eeal that yon knew her beyond your
proieeatomu association.
"Yet yoa were there at nine
e'eloekz yon left her at nine-fifteen
and were eat ef the house at nine-
of the play dealt with different
phases of health.
Girls la chargs of tea and pro
gram were: Lorena Birchfield,
Jean Ellen Irvine. Lillian Hole
check, Frances Knott Frances
Iliff, Marr Marie Williams and
Jane Ramey.
Linn County Agent
Ordered to Resume
Compliance Reports
ALBANY, Feb. 15. According
to an announcement by County
Agent Floyd Mullen, he has re
ceived orders, via telegraph, from
Washington, D. C, to resume
making compliance records, pre
paratory to payment to Linn coun
ty ' farmers tor - com. hog aad
wheat control. According to this
phase et the AAA suspended by
the ruling of the Supreme Court
holding the act aneonstitutlonal.
is restored At least tor the pres-
M
twenty. She was alive, yon say.
Yet ta ten minutes she is known te
have been dead. Yoa were the last
to hear her speak, and the words
she said threw yoa into despair.
Yoa were in love with her. Her
manner, her speech, her whole self
drove home to yoa the conviction
that she was beyond any reach of
yours. Yon could not offer her
marriage because yea were secretly
a married mani"
The Inssector naused and then
resumed sternly:
Tour wife, who at first condoned
vetar visits In tha ta4iv hiviiiu
they were a blind for your secret
1 - if a 1 t . a
relation to ner, neara jour avowal
of love to Miss Sinclair. Yoa are
afraid of your wife, for she is a
passionate, determined woman, a
woman with gangland connections.
In vanr nn nt f nitrfiftti in .nn.
frenzy of fear, you ran down the
stairs, leaving behind yoa the end
. M fc. m . a
ox your prociem, oeaui zor uw in
nocent teacher 1"
O'Brien rose. His great finger
leveled itself at the principal of
the high school.
"Frederick Parkins. T rliim mn
with the murder ef Miss Constance
Sinclair I
I didn't kaliava it T AAH Ka
lieve it even Kn PiV1ti
like a gasping goldfish my brother
once neia oui oi u water when
ws were kids, flopped with open
month and set evea tn th Mm t
a dead faint I didn't believe It
even wnen tbe other five almost
collapsed from sheer relief. I still
didn't believe it afta AlUn VmA
kissed me and gone, aad the ethers
wvrw ciearw out oy ute detectives.
O'Brien wiped the perspiration
from his forehead.
"Whew, Miss Julie, I dont oftea
put on a show like that I What did
yoa think ef Itr
"I thought K was swell," I said,
"only I think you picked the wrong
uurK.
O 'Brian was tno am
angry at my impertinence. I hasti-
ij went on, u cover my flippancy.
The ease against him ixnH any
Sounder than that (nW .
SHft.hf.T excePM Point of
He shook his head.
"And it aeenta ta mm tV M. t
w - - m m euaej sf Syaaea ap
offset by something awfully import
aotuw you xorgoc Too oidnt
prwid him with a run anywhere
alonsr the line. Yon has t
j thing on his roddea realization of
um snnanon alter be got there
that night on his acting on violent
impnlse. If she had been choked to
death, er hit ever the head with a
bootend er something, it might
work. Bat after alL she was shot"
I was terribly sure ef myself.
Everything he had said in sum.
marixing the eases against the six
that afternoon had strengthened
my conclusion.
"Then, what, Jftes Watson, Is
your discovery?"
If he was sarcastic X was too
much in earnest te notice it then.
I told him about Poe's PurUkud
Letter and how finding the obvious
5W 5?XBtJy old him
I had thought and thought about
the obvious cine which would point
eat the murderer to ns surely. And
j Twenty Years Ago j
February 13, 191S
Engineer Joseph Wears of Port
land war in Salens yesterday In
vestigating the location for the
new Marlon-Polk county bridge.
Knights of Pythias will cele
brate the 62nd anniversary of the
founding of the order tonight
MaMBBMBWaMsaS
There Is a real estate boom oa
in Chicago, the wildest oae la its
history. .
-Ten Years Ago
Febru ary 15, IPJM
New York gave the captain and
crew of the -President Roosevelt
K tremendous ovation today. The
r'nSBst rmiii 1 tr .
- .vw fm Ewwg irons a
slnkinr Rriiiab. f in
aCMn ..............
SIA3aNE
I told him I thought I had found it
"And it is?"
"Wall mn hM tmnruV tlita
afternoon that every one of the six
a. a t a a a
aere naa inea to conceal nis or ner
relation to Miss Sinclair. Was
didn't? Whose relation has never
been questioned? Yon said each
of the six tried to keep out of the
case. Wko didn't T Who has been
active in it from the beginning?
Yoa said that yon had to find every
thing out about them from Investi
gation and untiring effort Who
cases and gave yoa all the informa
tion yon wanted? Who answered
aaih n tan fmuftmi MnMt.ll.
personal ones, honestly?"
The inspector's dramatis per
formance must have got me I was
unconscious of giving one of my
own. But my mounting excitement
and my series of questions began to
ret him aa hie trot m K, mtrA nn
and looked at me with serious in
tents ess tor the first time, as I ran
on with:
"Yon said that shun, AtA tvt.
either acted on the impulse of mo-
ujeuuary passion, or came deliber
ately nrenared. Parlrina at.ut
thought, on impulse. Yet he is not
so son w go armed. Who would
have the weapon at hand, whose
DSSt life WonTd almost nMift.
the possession of a gun, would cer-
uunry indicate the possibility? Who
WOUld be likelv than tn aot m
ion and also have tha
kill?
Ta. gave me the answer once
yourself. Yon asolra nt m .t.oi..
to whom hate was inKn
gredient who was ef a passionate
and vindictive natar. Ttb
persoa had gangland connection.
implying possession ef the weapon."
And so yoa think"
One Derson'a nam U V
to sll these questions. I came back
uus arsernoon with that name on
the tin ef m tAiw t ..i.
you to help me supply the motive to
back up my intuition. You had the
stage au set for your 'show.' But
von helned ma tn. v t
that Principal Perkins had a wife,
am an A - a & . . . . '
m wui woo conaoneo us visits to
Connie as a blind for later calls
upon her. a wife who heard his
avowal of love to Connie, a wife of
whom he waa afnU
"And SO "
SI1 thedescription yon gave
ofhU wife fitted my suspect per-
i Vs tiitn ttzt Perkins
had left Coimi aii v.j .
mtaote quarrel with bis wife at the
It was his jealous
wifp, not he. who killed Connie.
!IhoVhe7l Fw accused Perkins
efthecrime, I was ready ta shout:
The wife ef Frederick Perkins and
the murderess of Constance Sin
clair is Mrs. Anna Sardonll
As if te pnnctaate my announce
ment with a flourishing exclamation
telephone beB rang
shnlry. O'Brien grabbed the re
wajer. Atwaters voice at the other
nd came thronjrh te me as I leaned
desk, "The dame yen sent
ae after has pulled up stakes!"
O'Brien looked at me. "Mrs. Sar
donl has escaped!"
(Te Be Continued)
' " ' T- - tllil I 1
The city count 11 has voted to
declare the office of the city
keahii nfflwr'Tacant aad te put
$1160 of the health fund Into the
alary of the full-time doctor, Ver
non Douglas.
Rrrrl Bat It'a Warm in
Oregon '.Aver Mnrdocks
MONHODTH. Feb. II Mr.
aad Mrs. J. h. Murdoch who have
beea visiting in Chicago with their
on aad daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. George Mardock, since late
October, are back in Monmouth
and expressing loud appreciation
f. Ofon weather.. Snow and
cold U the midwest proved more
ttese elderly Oregon fans
could abide. Mr. and Mrs. Mar-
-- weir m i ia wee
ding anniversary ta October, Mon-
month 1.. . .
aMlw OS!
vrcu ineor. aome - 2a
...... $ , .-