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SHORTY OUTMATCHES A KILLER
• * \ \ r ELL.” I says to Shorty No-
’ ’ Legs, “this is it. You bust it
or it busts you."
It was undoubtedly a very tough
case. Sheriff Shorty No-Legs would
first have to prove it accident or
murder. If murder, then he’d have
to catch the murderer. And if he
failed anywhere along the line he d
have to resign.
But that was the way Shorty—
World War I veteran—had asked
for it. There had been so many un
solved murders in Dry Creek county
that Shorty ran on his word that he
would resign whenever he failed to
solve a case.
The name Shorty had given when
he first came to Scenic City came
from the fact that he actually had
no legs. There were barely enough
stumps below Shorty’s powerful
body to enable him to do what he
cheerfully called walking.
•Tm blowing like a winded
horse,” Shorty said, glancing back
over the boulder-strewn way down
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have stayed with medicine or law.
Barbers are always skinny.”
I'd hunted with him many times.
and seen him climb around in the
mountain lots, but now he amazed
even me. He was driving hard on
this case We clambered up to the
high ay just as the ambulance ar
rived.
"Take him to Doc’s.” No-Legs
said But we found out. after a long-
delayed breakfast, that the Doc
didn’t find any trace of drugs or
liquor on the body.
“Maybe he went to sleep," I said.
•’Maybe,” agreed Shorty. “Now
Just prove it and I can resume my
disturbed slumbers."
I couldn’t, of course. "Who found
him?” I asked.
"Doc. Cornin’ back from a night
call over in the hills somewhere and
noticed the broken guard rail.”
"What do you think?”
"I don’t," he said. “I ain’t got
nothing to think on. There’s got to
be some other angles."
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lug that now. He never seemed to
have to ask questions. He'd just
wait the oiher guy out—sqeeze him
dry with the weight of dead si Young Farmer Has
lence.
1 could see the pressure on Chance to Start
Rhodes. Like everybody else—he'd
a lot rather No-Legs would fire ques
Knowledge and Training
tions than just stare.
Forced on the defensive and ob
Essential for Success
viously ungry at having to explain
More
than the usual number of
further to the legless owl before
him, Rhodes started again. "You places are available for young men
see. I came out on the train for u to get started in farming in 10-18.
deer hunt while Lefty wound up according to Prof. C. A. Bratton of
our business. He was to meet me Cornell university. Many farmers
here today and we’d go on to are ready to turn their farms over
gether.” He ground his conversa to young men, or nre looking for u
young man to work for wages on a
tion to a stop.
No-Legs sure surprised both profit-sharing basis.
Farming in the years ahead, ac
"Chick” and me with his next move
He twisted his wrist and the big cording to Bratton, will provide a
gun in his hip holster moved into good living for the young mnn who
Rhodes’ stomach. "You’re under a r is well trained, properly financed
rest for murder,” he said.
and located on good lands. Educa
Rhodes soon recovered from his tion and experience will be even
surprise and grinned wickedly. "I more important for farming in the
future than it has been in the past.
Starting farming In a period of in
flated prices requires caution Un
usually high prices for livestock and
machinery and high land values
make it important to start without
heavy indebtedness. Working as a
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A ddress.
Prizew inners in $100,000
From Contest Announced
The following contestants won
the first live prizes in the $100,000
Frum Prize contest held recently:
First prize, Lincoln sedan—Lloyd
E. Matthews Jr., 017 North J St.,
Muskogee, Okla, Second prize,
Studebuker sedan — A. D. Barr,
14H4 Wagur Ave., Lakewood 7,
Oido. Third prize, Mercury sedan
—Margaret Bernhard, 860 Cites
terflcld Rd., Columbus 8, Ohio.
Fourth prize, Ford sedan—J. Mar
shall Singer, 26 St. Clair Ave,
East, Toronto 5, Ont. Fifth prize,
Crosley sedan—William D. Bram-
ham, 104 Tyler St., Taft, Call/.
Trapped Phoner
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Three squares join for a center- user of a public telephone wua a
piece.
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Time and again 4-11 club mem
bers have proved that their train
ing well fits them to aucceufnlly
operate farms of their own.
hired man in a farm partnership or
share renting are ways a young
man with limited capital can be
come established without a heavy
debt load.
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Michigan Winners
which he had slipped and slid to
“What do we do now?”
can prove I was back up in the hills
where the battered sports roadster
“Nothing. When you’re hunting for a week until an hour ago. I
and the man's body lay.
geese the first thing to do is stay in
Several h”ndred feet above looped the blind. Then if they don’t fly in couldn’t have done it.”
T hat’s right,” said No-Legs.
the narrow concrete ribbon of Blue to you after so long, you try to
“But
you probably helped engineer
River pass highway. The roadster crawl up on them. We ain’t stayed
it!” Over Rhodes’ threats of suit
had been moving on the steep down in the blind long enough yet.”
and vengeance, No-Legs had him
grade toward Scenic City when it
He was right. Soon after dinner
failed to make a hairpin turn and a smallish fellow showed up at locked up.
“Let’s go to Rhodes' hotel,” he
jitterbugged its dance of death down Shorty’s office. He was in hunting
said,
without giving me a chance to
the almost sheer mountainside.
togs and would have looked like Lit
No-Legs mopped his face with a tle Lord Fauntleroy if it hadn't been ask questions. Arrived in "Chick’s”
huge bandana and began a pain for beetling black eyebrows and the room, he began digging in suit
staking search of the wreckage. vicious looking cigar he was smok cases. “Here they are.” He said it
just like he knew they'd be there.
There wasn't much. The dead man ing.
They were insurance policies on
wore a rather flashy suit. He had
“I’m ‘Chick’ Rhodes,” he said,
Winners in the Michigan better
on yellow shoes, so new that match “and I wanted to talk with you the life of George (Lefty) Ellitto.
scratches in the instep of the left about the wreck out on Blue River Twenty-five thousand dollars in all. malting barley context as awards
“That dead man ain't Ellitto,” were made at Michigan Slate col
one could plainly be seen. Cigar pass. Heard about it at the cafe.”
No-Legs
said. "I think Ellitto must lege. Left to right: Kagalt Hauck,
ettes. odds and ends, and a picture
No-Legs kept Rhodes talking, then
Rosebush, fifth prize winner; Her
of the dead man and a little geezer finally tossed the picture he had have done the actual murder.”
I still couldn’t get it. But that bert Gettle, Pigeon, fourth prize
evidently named “Chick,” rounded { taken from the dead man on to the
evening No-Legs met me in the cafe
out the inventory.
desk. Three words were under it and gave me the dope. Rhodes had winner; August Kiehl, Harbor
Beach, first prize winner; Faster
“Somebody,”
said
No-Legs, “Lefty and Chick.”
confessed. "It was like I said. El
“could have got this guy drunk or
“That’s Lefty all right,” Rhodes litto killed him. You see Ellitto and Hickey, Fairgrove, third prize
winner, and Clair Harrington,
drugged, driven him to this curve, , said. “And that's me,” pointing to
headed the roadster for the railing, | the other figure. “Taken in Chicago Rhodes found a guy in Chicago that Akron, second prize winner.
and stepped out. The pavement just before me and Lefty sold our looked just like Ellitto. They of-
wouldn't show any tracks.” he add pool hall and headed for California. fered him a good proposition to go
West with them. Up on the pass Pasture Makes Cheap
ed sadly.
Lefty was going to be drafted, and
“Shorty,” I says, “maybe I could I couldn’t run the place myself. Fig Ellitto stops the car on a pretense Dairy and Stock Feed
carry you pick-a-back back up this ured maybe I could handle a sand of getting the other fellow to drive.
Pasture is the cheapest and best
“Then, he knocks him in the head,
mountain.” I could see he was I wich stand in California for the
feed
your dairy and meat animals
ready to leave.
stows
him
behind
the
wheel
and
duration."
can get. declares the Middle West
maneuvers
the
car
over
the
cliff.
"Yeh,” he snorted, giving me a
You could never tell from looking
backhanded slap in the midriff with ' at No-Legs what he was thinking. We couldn’t tell whether the fellow Soil Improvement committee. Not
one of his ham-hands. “Me weigh- [ He’d spread his stumps apart, roll had been hit in the head or got the only will it save scarce feed grains,
but also it will cut production costs
ing 160 without legs, and you weigh- , his eyes up at your face and stare bump in the wreck.”
and
step up the milk and meat out
ing 135 legs and all. You should ' as unblinking as an owl. He was do-
I began to see. "Rhodes was to
put.
However, the soil must be fed
collect the insurance, meet Ellitto
to
get
a good stand of legumes and
in Old Mexico or some place and
live happily ever after.” Then 1 grasses. Legumes are heavy “eat
got out the question that had tor ers” of phosphorus and potash, re
mented me all afternoon. “How did quiring plenty of plant food. Lim
you know the dead man wasn't El ing, based on soil tests, use of
manure and the return of crop after
litto?”
maths to the soil are other essen
i “That was easy,” No-Legs said. tials.
Grace Noll Crowell
“Left-handed guys don’t scratch
matches on the bottom of their left
Posthole Digger
shoes. Right-handed guys do that.”
I
M etallic Flesh and Bone
Used for A rtificial Ears
USED to seek a crowd to find delight,
And this they gave me — laughter and
brief song,
Bright powdered wings that dusted off in
flight,
And bubbled-beauty, nothing lasting long.
But once 1 found a pathway down my heart:
A dim, untraversed way I had not known.
I walked it timidly, a thing apart,
Bewildered that I found myself alone.
But now I seek that beautiful retreat,
And find such cool, deep peace, such sheer
delight:
Cold springs of water welling at my feet,
White flowers by day, white guiding stars by
night.
The old crowd’s laughter falls upon my ear j
1 am exploring, and 1 do not hear.
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Metallic flesh and bone made
from tantalum are providing new
ears and rehabilitating torn nerves
and other tissues for thousands of
persons, Dr. Clarence W. Balke re
ported to American Chemical so
ciety.
Artificial ears have been grown
I his posthole digger was built
on frameworks of tantalum wire, by Clyde Hall, Bradford, III. | | e
and more than 5,000 skull injuries says it will put a nine-inch hole
have been repaired with tantalum down three feet in Illinois soil in
plates.
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three minutes. It was built of
Thousands of severed or injured heavy materials in his farm
nerves have been made sound again shop and required some large
with tantalum foil, and literally welds. A ear differential provides
miles of wire have been used for a way to use tractor power to dig
surgical sutures. Dr. Balke re postholes.
ported.
Tantalum Is called "biologically
acceptable” since body tissues ad Marketing Lighter Hogs
here to and grow over the metal. Stretches Feed Supply
Both tantalum and columbium are
By marketing their hogs at Just
completely non-irritating to living one pound lighter weight, hog men
tissue, and they are not made irri over the country could conserve
tating by pathological or disease about seven million bushels of grain
conditions within the tissues.
says Wisconsin College of Agricul
Implants of tantalum gauze are ture. Marketing hogs at lighter
used where muscular or other soft weights is one of the best ways to
tissue is either milling or has been stretch the feed supply. Hogs mar-
removed. Final repair of recurrent keted before they weigh 230-240
hernia and closure of abdominal pounds usually require less feed to
walls after cancer removal are out put on a pound of gain than hog*
fed to heavier weight.
standing illustrations.
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