Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1932)
The Advocate ri* <• m 4 4 ... ».la g . cu~a> II.I.USTKATKI» KKATUKK SECTION T h e Finest W r it e r s Send T h e i r Stories First to the Illus tra ted F e a t u r e Section April it. 19 .V 2 The Clinic M urder M ystery # Detective Frazier Explains the One Slip that Betrayed the Murderer IV » |l\\ V (l> I \WSON C H APTKh X III U tH T IM fIT A IX M K N T One l i l l l r slip I pUncrd nervously at my watch a t Fra/lrr droned on It wa* five tiunuli'a o f clrven My paprr h fil • Ivradv brought out u inorjilim r%U » 1 knew and half n d ?rnVilm*ipon<l • rn U from other nhr^t» were prowling •I hhii the place or xhnvlnt their way lnt<» the living room to listen nr to r**t picture« | hiul five minutes be fore de4t!lln<‘ to g* t iiiv afternoon ■lory In What a arnop this had proved’ No other jmprr lout carried tl»e fetory or Dr Brown * murder In Uieh morning edit tuna, and not a ahigle (Nie would ha\e a* complete a fetory a» mine that even iii« P r » »l" r noted that I wan anxious for him to finish the explanation x) that I tould get to a telephone. *o lie talk- I with lew hesitation know trig now that he wa# on the right tm ik T h e whole thing aeemed pretty tangled up to me. ‘ he admitted un til we made that rxjwrinirnt and found that amudgr «»f paint on your coal. Eddie Then when we foum! a ximll ir ntnudge on H ard y* coat, that madr me almost re*tain Hint lie wma the culprit although It really didn't ( M o v e anything And I wa* right In believing that, with the alight excel*Ion that the man waan t liar dy at all. but Blown himself ‘ Ho you aee we were really ac- cusing Brown of hla own murder! It nniat ha. t* marie him laugh then, tx-raux* he kurw that when Harris. Ida attorney hoard up with the let ter and notes which he had no care fully prei»urerl he would lie absolve | “ And that waa Just Ule way things turned out W« got the letter and the note*, which apparently took all the blame off of Hardy and expoaeJ I «mils a-« the blackmailer Hi own didn't care so much about accusing iJfat* o f tire murder aa he did of protecting htjnself but he thought he mlglit ax well kill two bird* with one alone It wax a great Job and a daring one uml I have to give the iwan credit " Hut what I asked anxiously, was that one slip he made which gave him away? I don t underxtfind ilia, let ' Well.*' replied ihe Inapeclor. “ when I he attorney axkrd him to sign a r*- cel|* for U k m imprra. Hi own did wv and he dUl It in llardy'a hand writing That l»art o f it wax alm od lierfect Hut he signed with hla right hand' And when Hardy came to me on that Monday the fourth of Jan uary It waa and left me hla phone i urnliei. I noticed particularly that lif m i left handed! ’ "O li." I vald In awe. the whole ficlieme suddenly craahlng through my brain. "S o," tire inspector ronlimietl. "th at made me |>erk up right away I went hack to tiic clinic and weirt over It with a couple of men, and by look ing closely «it the dead m ans face I found a number o f fine, aiifhM in visible scar* which tire remodeling process had left In the o|)er«tliig room we found fttmpA which had held Hardy down while the «i'*ii cate <>|wi nitons were b e ll, canted out, mirrors by which Hrown had wm ked on himself, scrapa o f pajrer mi which he had practiced H ardy* handwriting, and a large number of mysterious drugs wldch. when tested on cloth, seemed to have remarkable bleaching power. I put nil these thing« together, and nil seemed to fl( In with my theory. Bo right then end there I knew that It w:u* Hardy who lay murdered in the clinl<. mid that Hrown. who had murdered him. wax in the houar “ I went back to the living room and h.nt«*d • ( mv discoveries in amh a way that Brown. If Utc man were i ra lly lie. could not fall to under- it and Remember what I said about a i i n i i i i right hand never knowing wbat liu left dors? And remember my saying that tin* doc*of would have fMrfcrrrd death to trial and imprU* anmeftt? W ell I figured that Brown a ."»t 11 know, when I sent him out Into (lie hall that I wax giving him one lad chance to take the one way out I believed that he would still be » ar- rvm g the gun which had killed Hardy and ! wax right In all that -Y ou xre he had taken llardy'a feature*, hi» voice, the color of hi* skin. his handwriting everything But in that one moment of xtrrs* tie made lit* single slip he forgot Uie fact that hla form er partner had a l ways been left-han ded' It was that little error which crashed hi* whole which coat him hi* life !" m heme Kraiter stopped T ile hands of my watch touched eleven, and I Jumped up and ran wearily for the phone U> give the story to my paprr -O ne little slip/' wax the last thing 1 heard Frasier say "B low n might have known that even the best-laid plans go w r«*»« that tlierr I* always some liny slip which gives the whole tiling away Hmart a* lie was, he hadn't learned yet Uie one great le*- v x i that crime doesn't pay that n o body ever n ally escapes detection— and that sooner or later rvrti the moat brilliant crim inal will be forced to pay the price, will be forced to take Uie one way out T H E END 1 ,1 0 0 SEEK TO SHARE ESTATE NEW YO RK Mrs Blanche W HoiTman. piom lneiit civic worker and tiolitlral leader of Oaalnlng. N Y . will be among the 100 claimants to t he $100 000 Wendel fortune when the claims are heard before Surrogate James A Foley In the court Since the death of Ella Wendel. aged spinster and lost of tile five daughters of the late John GoiUteb Wendell on March 17. I9JI. more than 1 100 ner*otis have Nought to establish kinship to her and share the estate The list has been nar- i down t.» about one hundred 11».- claimant* hall from Missis* Ippk Alabama. W ashington and other sections of the country The fortune was left to the M eth odist Episcopal Institutions, til«* New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital ------o -------- , II o iin c I i o M M inis I f n quart o f buttermilk lx token daily, a decided Improvement in the complexKNi will be noticed Within a lew weeks T o keep kmm k rlothtug branche free of moth*. ol 1 he irboi i lta$ In the clothing The odor is very pleas ant and wholesome A good luncheon dish ran be made by combining scrambled eggs with a bordei of warm aspaiagus T o remove soot from carpets, cover the stalls with Hour, corn meal, or di v r inch i at thl i ind t«*i iboul m half hour and then scrape and brush un T ill* will remove all the M X * R|K»ts -----------------— P ireae he irs’4Clhi I d rein’ G ro w U p to be T h e a tr ic a l Stars PiirnilN S a n P ” " M a ll r h i jails." < liild re n S i n ” Jazz Baltimore** M y stery (»¡rl T h e i r P a p a « W i-re C lr r u y m m ! M im e SIMSI.F.— B in d 1-4 J rr at l’ 4>k ( r . l l . j l ll.ilrl, DIU»>. 4l unm-tt, '(4 . < nrnpuaeV M T S W A L L KB— PtaoUI. r »n i. T h L W IItT M AN p rrfu rm rr». N IH T U U — p..»du< m . r .io is r r l.d iN s — singer in -Ht.apMMl, in BU rk." I TT A M DTEN M a a lra l roiu - S . >I4>, d r a o iii.c a rtrea » la "Z o n ib w " an B roadway. That Ilia piuua alm oaplirir o f a clergyman i hmne ha» no dampening effect» on the live» ol actora and per formers a lio were reaisd In that en - viroiim rnt u attested to by th - helkhti to «In c h th r aona and daughter» of iiim ikler» l.a .r cUu.brd In Uie en ter tainment » » r id T h r theatrical held U crowded with entertainers who can look bark upon a mlniktcnal |>arent wlio fro »n o d on (he commrrrtaUiuitlon of artuttc Val ent» ll u> related how Noble Sla»le. who».' tm baaiadeur» band la one o f the be»t known orKanlaaflom here and abroad, and 1» now featured at the Park C en tral Hotel III New York, t a t being Bloomed by hla father, who waa a Mi tliodist mtnlater, to be an evangel istic »inner .siv»le waa born In a parsonage In Indiana|k.U« in 1890. where hla father im.stored and later moved to C leve land where he ta > active In church work Because o f hia excellent vole« It a a » hotted that lie would follow a re- lixk.u» rarrer and for a while lie did >1111 in churches and help direct the i holt In in » lather * charge. But Jim Kuropr and the war led Ida. feet Into ja/-’ iei path- and today he la a leader in thr art ol »vncopatlon Cab Calloway Cab Calloway was also the son o f a choir onger lie waa born In Roche* - ti . New York, moving to Baltimore at an early axe. Cab at one time, was a alngrr on '.lie Junior choir at Bethel AM .E . I Church In Baltimore, under Ihe pas torate of the Rev C. If. Stepteau lie took an active part in the can tata» staged by director of music. I W Llewellyn Wilson, and although he | if now a fixture In New York night I hie. lie atlll Is an ardent churchgoer whenever on tour. It 1» needless to say that his sister, i Blsnche. who head» a band of her own. was also heared In a religious atmosphere a» waa Elmer, who la the toast of Washington, D C . night life, where he dtrecta hla orchestra at the Club Prudltom, the Capital's main stay-up-late place Whitman Sisters The famous W hitm an Bister» were I also trail blasera In the church and the daughtiws of a minister In Atlan ta. Georgia. They started their career as pace makers In the theatie by giving con certs In churches, later enlarging their activities to musical comedies Many stars of the present day owe thetr start to these girl» "Fats'' Waller, one of New York's best known song writers. Is the son ol the late Rev kdward Waller, the lormci p.idol of Hie Baptist 1 il>oi trade In New York. W aller has written numerous hits. Including, ' Ain't Misbehaving and W liv Am I 8c Black amt Blue?" both of which were featured In "H ot Choc- I dates." "M y Fate la In Your Hands." "Bqueeae Me," and many others that look the country In sloim . m e ftom 111 » pen Kloise Ugglns. one of the stars of Rhapsody III Black," Is (lie daughter I o f a Boiitn Carolina minister Miss Etta Moten. one of the latest i» t_ J M ETA C A SA N O V A Baltimoreans who went to .«prds Theatre last week to get a view o f Mr Ztegfelds "Follies." w e r e more Intent on scanning the faces of t h e glorified damsels with opera glasses looking for the pretty face o f M eta than they were upon the an tics o f Harry R ich- man. the star. M eta was a member of the cast when It opened on B road way some time ago It could not be learned whether sire was a member of the road cast or not. Dr Frank N Cardoso, local physician and unde of the chorine, told the A F R O that members of Ills fam ily saw her picture in front of Uie theatre, but she did not visit their home Three weeks ago. according to reports. Miss Cardoao, as slie wa.^known in Washlnbton and Baltimore, was reported out of the “ F o llie s " She was seen in and abou* W ashington in company with the dapper Tom m y Wtlllston. Broadway luminaries, who is now be ing featured in "Zom bie." a Broad way production. Is the daughter o f the Rev ami Mrs. F F. Moton. of K a n sas City. Missouri Mias M oten start Dear Aunt DUsey: ed her career with lire Dime Spiritual The boy I love is always "going Singers places" with another girl. He never ADVICE TO LOVERS - «- - ----- ---- A F R IC A N S SAY: "Africans hxv* much in common with Ui, ms wit Mild wisdom cxprciuicd In Ihrtt proveibs show. It lx time for ur to ■et mw My from the notion that they • re In mi * Inferior and bxrhMric »tMte In more thMn one sense, we Americana Mre less civilized and more bMtbMrlc th «n they —O. J BKNIVKR offers to take me any place. Y et he says he loves me. W hat shall I do? R R H Charlottesville. N.C. ANSWER—Tlie boy who Is really In love always wants to be near the one he adores. It he never takes yog out, he Is too sure of you. Seek othef friends and oilier interests. Don* I f you nrv in thr company of frog*, he then do not ask .’or a sU>. 1 iH ow l always be waiting for him comes aioumL with the wolvesi.