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I SYNOPSIS »nd pretty Patricia Braith>mcs entaffd to wealthy, [rd Hartcy Blaine to refather's financial situahopes in rain that handck Laurence, whom she i—and the only man she ted to kiss her—will resrom Blaine, in despair, she Jimmie Warren, her Aunt husband They become inAunt Pamela blames hereadint Pat to believe she • loved her husband. The Ming him makes Pamela iw much she really cares, ack arrives. Pat learns he of wealthy Senator Lau--10 was kidnapped a few i when he went to Mexico {ate his father’s property, hint he is too late as she mie but Jack refuses to Ige defeat and a bitter tvelops between the two day 9 Jimmie avoids Pat. stand the strain, she delo have an understanding and asks him to dance Overcome with emotion, i in Jimmie’s arms. He is of everyone's stares, ‘are the dance floor. Jack * embarrassing situation ! toem Pamela is gratek. She wires Mr. Braithrne and get Pat. Pat conlaek that her shattered »re and marriage caused m love with Jimmie. She tng her father w ho is so •II bis dealings. ER TWENTY-SEVEN moment she went on "1 can’t -and to be in the “ ouse w !th Jimmie, wanting 4r„_-.d me wanting him me.” up a shell he crushed it, e dast into his calloused 1 a ,a p. r eri!e effort he made '"'■' o,ce steady. "Has he ever?ou - ’Eat night. Pat”’ H ll dont k now why he hasn’t SB! “ Jet me “ione since we went 'i* 1 * hotel. Maybe he still feels HU his care; I know he loves wa >' be hates you. Oh. ‘ !uch s muddle Why could-loved-somebody else?” H * !nced ' knowing she had been w h> she couldn’t love have scrubbed floors or washf™™ 1 ” m Y food—but J could- ’ ®y Dadums go to work in days. That was what was ®ind when you found me ss'ng in your front yard.” rned t 0 him. a wan smile on * j talned face. “I wasn’t to decide if 1 would marry a.ne w» : . j ust trying to get ~: h f '' d , e *— ° f » «iH kissing H.. rv for *‘f* and having those arms about her! Ugh! It fc I ,fV lck even t 0 think °f it. K. * d * “P ®y mind to do it.” [ you had told me then! You IJ loved you that day. didn’t thought so. But you see I L~, *‘ m * t 0 wait. We had no E* * r ° m Palm >MMh. And IHe—lik.5 P 0 a youn K man. even L t114t ., d * eir ’’ oould be rushed E? t h .*7 ruah *d you to the courtC CZ try day if rd known.” k sor er * ace BfH* f W v time “ Did you ~ Cj" that much. Jack-that first nhat much, Pat,” Kt-jr** “ Wei1 ’ 1 think F°U«ct hnw h,t I ? uch ‘ or nearly. I ki me—in vK mUCh * wanted you to ivery ,2*3* tent - And I felt all Wy tim. , a *! ?rnoon ®nd evening A« e m , e th w ° h U ! ht l - fk - y ou’d I close "hen 1 was dancing B—kissinir * ye * and im *lfine — ht. 1 * K me—and I’d almost 1 aup" ed hU , sac « in his hands. PPuae a girl ahouidn’t tell a

swore to a complaint, and Deputies Ben Northern and Milton Brown went to the negroes' home to serve a warrant. In the fight that followed, both deputies were shot and killed. ■■ - —-o— — JEAN HARLOW IS NEAR COLLAPSE CONTINUED FROM rAOB ONE •••••♦•••••••••••••••««» orltles were not notified until approximately 2>% hours later. Attendants at the Price-Danie! - mortuary. In announcing an autopsy over Bern's body for this morn- ! ing. reported that the film producer j had been dead at least 12 hours be- , fore his body was received at the ! funeral parlors. A preliminary examination, mart- , uary officials declared, indicated 'that Bern had ended his life late Saturday evening. Chief of Detectives Joseph F. Taylor announced that he had assigned members of the police homicide squad to make a complete investigation. He said he felt that discrepancies existed in versions of ithe apparent suicide. He also wantjed to know why police were not called sooner. Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer’s ! husband and Bern's immediate sup-' ;erior at the Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer j studios, was at the Bern home with 1 David O. Selinfck. head of HKO- ' Radio Studio, and a personal friend of the victim. Douglas Fairbanks,

Jack gathered her in his arms. She clung to him, giving way once more j l to wild hysterical weeping. a . — — - ■ " ■■ ■ ■■' j

j man a thing like that,” she said i dully, “but it’s all past now and doesn’t matter.” , “That's why it does matter so J much.” • She turned on him in the unrea- . sotting way of a woman who must • find an object upon which to expend t her own pain. “It’s all your fault!” t she cried. “You said you’d come, s And you didn’t. If you had, Jimmie i wouldn’t have found me out there , crying. I’d have told you about—- . horse-face. I’d have had to tell you. ’ I was dying inside —and you’d have i taken me away—maybe.” She gulp- • ed heavily. He held out his arms to her. . “Come here. Pat. It’ll comfort us . both while we think over what’s to j be done.” , She looked at him with hard s bright eyes. “No. I’ve no business • In your arms. I love another man. , You didn’t come to me when I t needed you. He did. I belong in his i arms.” t He did not remind her that she 1 had only a few minutes ago lain in ! his aims in her abandoned grief, t He said: “I’m your friend before . everything else. I’m not trying to ’ win you against your will, Pat. As i you say, another came when you t needed him. But here we are—both broken over my failure.” The hard- [ ness went out of her eyes at the > sight of the dull despair in his. I He went on: “Surely there can be i nothing disloyal—to the man—you I love—in our comforting each other “Oh. Jack, if you cry — oh, I ’ couldn't stand it. You've had ■ enough—without me—hurting you. • Oh, Jack—" her voice rose—- ; “what am 1 going to do about my Daddy?” Jack gathered her in his arms , ; without leave. And she clung to ( I him. Giving way once more to wild i hysterica) weeping. ( “He’ll be terribly broken up. Poor sweet old Dadums. Maybe he’ll even raise a row. I can’t imagine his doing , such a thing, but one never knows. ( What if he took it into his head | that Jimmie was a menace to the j beauty of iny life? He might shoot ( Jimmie as calmly as he shot his own future and mine. For if my

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-! Jr., called. J Miss Harlow was working at M(i .VI studios when she received word * of the tragedy. The actresss, hysterical. was taken to the home of per mother, Mrs. Marino Bello, In I Beverly Hill*. The platinum blonde denied her- , **‘ | f *o Interviewers. A brief statei ment In which Miss Harlow denied she had quarreled with Bern was Issued. Miss Harlow was said to have gone from her studio Saturday to I her mother s home, since her step- * father was absent on a fishing trip ami her husband had a business en- * gagement. Tin* next day, Sunday, - she went to the studios and that * night returned to the Bern home briefly before going back to the . mother's house, where a dinner I party was to be held. ■ Carmichael, the butler, said he I accompanied Miss Harlow to the . I Bello h use Sunday night. Site] ! parted with her husband the best : of friends, the houseman said. Carmichael returned to the house ;|the next morning. I "The place seemed terribly quiet,” jthe butler said. “I tip toed Into his bedroom. It was empty. Then I | stepped into the dressing alcove to i turn up the blind, and stumbled * over his body." Bern was born 42 years ago In i Germany. His career led him front a poverty-stricken boyhood in New ‘York to a high position in the motion picture Industry.

fortunes hadn’t been in the fix they i were I'd never have gotten tangled | up with Jimmie. But that’s the ; funny thing about it —my fortunes | weren’t in any fix at all — if only Aunt Pam hadn’t butted in.” “Oh, it was all so unnecessary We have oodles of money. Fifteen thousand dollars. Enough to live seven years!” Slowly he got hold of himselt When he spoke again his voice was cold, brittle. “If people would tend to theii own business and let other folks tend to theirs. I’m not sure but the world would be the sort of plaqg your father envisions it.” “But what am I to do?” she sobbed. “What can I tell Dadums’ I can’t give Jimmie up.” she added with the unconscious cruelty of the i young. “Pat, dear," he said quietly, “there's something I know that you don’t yet know. You will sometime And that is that the line between j love and passion is so finely drawn j that older and wiser folk than you have been deceived Passion is a devastating emotion, but it doesn’t always follow that love goes witl it. Men, as a rule, learn this early ! Your father by some miracle man aged to bring you up like a lily out of the stench of modern life. II you’d been let alone you’d have come through, because your instincts were right. But your well meaning relative tore you out of your father’s capable hands — and to save yourself from a worse fate you snatched at her own roof to cover your head. There’s a sort of grim justice in that ” “But what I want to say is that you were in a state of terrible confusion—ideals gone to smash—even faith in your father underminedand you came here to me. I’m not conceited enough to think you loved me that day. You merely felt foi the first time what most girls knov all about these days. You knew in the abstract; but that day undo the stress of other emotions, being away off here with me. togethei with the feeling you saw me light ing, drew you over the threshold of womanhood.” (To Be Continued) o 1932, by Kius Futuie> Syndicate, Inc.

SUITE POLICE START DRIVE Safety Campaign to Protect School Children to Start September 10 Indianapolis. Sept. 6 — (U.R) — A state wide safety campaign designed to protect school children over the state, has heen started by the state police department. Co-oper atlng with the department Is the state department of public instruction, the state highway department. and local police officers. The program as announced by Captain Howard Smith of the state force Includes an intensive checkup of mechanical defects in I automobiles by state policemen •luring the week of September 10 to 17. Each driver stopped for the checkup will be warned to watch out for school children, stop for school busses that are stopped when approaching from the rear or front, and to observe all school zone signs. State police will escort some school busses for a limited time in extremely dangerous situa tions. Smith said. Request has heen made by the department of public instructions! that bus drivers and school pa-

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.vUPSIS Yonng and pretty Patricia Braithwait becomes engaged to wealthy, middle-aged Harvey Blaine to relieve her father’s financial situation. She hopes in vain that handsome Jack Laurence, whom sha | met once—and the only man 6he ever wanted to kiss her—will rescue her from Blaine. In despair, she ! turns to Jimmie Warren, her Aunt Pamela's husband. They become infatuated. Aunt Pamela blames herself for leading Pat to believe she : no longer loved her husband. The fear of losing him makes Pamela realize how much she really cares. Finally. Jack arrives. Pat learns he is the son of wealthy Senator Laurence. who was kidnapped a few years ago when he went to Mexico ; to investigate his father's property. Pat tells him he is too late as she loves Jimmie but Jack refuses to acknowledge defeat and a bitter I rivalry develops between the two men. For days Jimmie avoids Pat. j Unable to stand the strain, she determines to have an understanding with him and asks him to dance with her. Overcome with emotion. Pat faints in Jimmie's arms. He is conscious of everyone's s t sre a. i As they leave the danee floor. Jack relieves the embarrassing situation by joining them. Pamela is grateful to Jack. She wires Mr. Braithwait to come and get Pat. Pat confides in Jack that her shattered ideals of love and marriage caused her to fall in love with Jimmie. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT He hesitated, then went on, “I’d b« lying to you. Pat. if I told you that what you felt was love It wasn’t. It was passion. Given a chance, I believe it would have developed into love. I know that by the fact that you’re in my arms now.” She made a move as if to draw away. But he held her close. “By the fact,” he went on, “that though you’ve known me but a little over three weeks, you regard me as your closest friend after your i father. Outside of the realm of pas- ! sion, you’d rather be with me than any man you know—w ouldn’t you?” “Ye-es—excepting Jimmie." “1 think you’d rather be with me ! than with him in many ways.’’ He waited her confirmation. “I—l like to play with you. Jack —more. You’re more—well, younger. And I don’t feel foolish and—j young with you. And you like to do the same things I do—and—things like that.” “Exactly I’m more of a mate for you. But he happened to stir your emotions, and you’re making the mistake so many young people make —thinking it’s love.” Again she tried to draw away. This time a little fiercely. Cold logic with his heart on fire. But she had a mind. He must tell her the truth even though he lost her entirely. “I’m your friend, telling you tome truths. You aren’t afraid of truth, are you, merely because it Isn’t pretty?” “No. But you’re telling me lies. I love Jimmie.” “1 loved a girl when 1 was about sixteen in the same way you love Warren. I thought I’d die if I didn’t get her. If I had, I’d be so sick of her by now that I’d want to shoot myself I saw her recently If you get Warren you'll be sick of him in exactly the time it takes for your infatuation to wear off You’ll be sick of him long before he will of

! trols report traffic violators to the ! state police. A program of safety | talks to children Is being arrangi J ed. School zone signs of u move, i able type will he furnished schools by the highway department, on request, it was an- . flounced. SCHOOLS’ OPEN IN INDIANA — .1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE : ■ tlon was 675,352. This year if, ■I was expected to be 687,629. This year's school population Is t divided up Into three groups: • towns. 31.962; townships. 296,548; • and cities, 359,11' The state department shows a r total of 23.291 teachers employed t In the schools. Os this number, s 11,295 teach in cities, 1,099 in towns and 10,897 in townships. 1 Bast year there were 3,397 town--1 ship schools and a similar number ' were to reopen this week. There 1 are 740 city schools. Os these 594 I are elementary and 146 high I schools. Os the 156 town school*. ’ 95 are elementary and 61 high I schools. Despite rumors that many t schools would he unable to reopen t because of lack of funds, the stale department announced that it had not received word that > any school would remain closed. I I The opening of schools has caused an increase in l/usiness

you. Because your youth and fire will hold him. You’ll be a pretty play-child to him, and you have a mind, too. But the point is, he hasn’t the youth to play with you or think with you. And you’ll get bored. He has a brilliant mind, but youTl wa n t a companion, not a mind. A friend and playmate, as well as a lover.” “Jack, let me go,” she said in a tight little voice. “You are trying to make my feeling for Jimmie out as something—filthy.” she added. Instantly he opened his arms. “No. it isn’t filthy, but it’s dangerous, unless it is accompanied by qualities of the spirit.” He did not look at her. He was afraid he could not go on to the end. She laughed cynically. “And since all this is true, how do you know that what you feel isn’t the same?” “Some of it is. But the qualities of the spirit are there too.” He kept his eyes determinedly on the sea. “And I suppose they were there that first day when you wanted to kiss me.” “Yes. If they hadn’t been I’d have kissed you—or tried to. But i I didn’t just want to kiss you and pass on—as a chap so often does . —I wanted to take care of you, to i have you with me always. The kiss wasn’t the important thing; though it seemed mighty important at the moment” He paused. Then turned I to her. “You see. ” his eyes I faltered a little. “I’ve liked girls—- , often . But 1 never felt for any of them as I did for you that day It came over me all of a I sudden when you stepped into my i tent. 1 can’t explain it As if you belonged in that tent with me. It i was a feeling of possession. 1 want- . ed to take you in my arms, not , because you were there—alone with i me, but because you belonged there. I wanted to kiss you, not just because you were sweet; but because you were sweet and—well—mine.” He was leaning toward her now, smiling a little as if to apologize I for the earnestness in the level grey • eyes. “There was something fierce In i it I felt I had to kiss you. That ; nothing on earth could stop me. At the same time I knew I had to stop myself. I was afraid 1 couldi n’t take a chance of frightening . you, or making you angry and losing you for the sake of a kiss, much as I wanted it.” His words . coming with intense eagerness stopped sharply, dejectedly. “And 1 lost you through my fear,” he said heavily- “as one always does who fears. And yet it was that very fear - that made me know it was not ■ ephemeral.” Her eyes turned drearily away, all her anger gone. . , Probably it’s all true, what he's telling me. I’m so young. How am 1 to know—if older people have been deceived. Maybe that’s why so many get over it. Maybe that’s why Aunt Pam got over it. She was deceived. Terribly deceived. Gave up a title and everything for him. And now—Oh, well, how is one to know? “I suppose I was a brute to tell you,” she said. “But I had to tell somebody And in away I owe it to you, too. I don’t know how it will all come out. I suppose Aunt Pam will divorce Jimmie, and we will be married and maybe I’ll find out afterward, as she did.” “Perhaps." he said quietly “But what if- well, a wife doesn't just quietly step out because some other woman wanta her husband. Aren't you taking her boredom over-con-

■ over the state, merchants reported. Officials of a shoe factory In Vincennes announced that the school trade has resulted In capacity production. I In Indlanapolla where 60,000 puplla return to their deska, an ! upturn in trade was noticeable. I With reopening of schools some j relief also was seen In the uneinI ployment situation. 1,854 PUPILS REGISTER FOR SCHOOL YEAR CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Increase in practically every school while the figures available today are only tern port J*y according to the opening day's enrollment, only two schools fail to show an increase over the enrollment of September, 30, 1931. Following is the enrollment tor . tlje seven township high schools, , the first figure showing the approximate enrollment on the opening Monday, and the second figure the enrollment on September 30, 1931. School 1932 1931 M‘.i.imouth 50 41 Pleasant Mills 90 82 Monroe 113 83 , Geneva 100 91 [ Jefferson 89 75 Kirkland 91 85 Hartford 75 75 Eighty-five pupils were enrolled • Monday in the element! ,ry school

fidently? Married boredom is a fad. Besides, if a man divorces a woman he once loved for another woman he now loves, what assurance has the second that he won’t stop loving her and love still another?” “Oh ” “And always in such a case the second woman pays a high price in criticism, scandal, humiliation and heartburnings, for him. Then when she’s got him she has no guarantee that she can hold him. Y'ou see. she’s bought caving land, and there’s no way for her to save herself.” She sprang up. “How dare you throw that up to me?” she cried furiously. He rose. “Throw what up to you?” “About Dadums.” “I wasn’t thinking of your father. I'm a river man myself. I happen to know the heartbreak of caving land. Besides, since your father didn’t sell ” “I’m going.” They rode home in silence. He thought, well, I've played every card 1 held, played hard—to save her. Heaven knows I could give her up even to him for her happiness But —his wife loves him or I'm a fool. She's hiding behind a monumental pride. And he probably loves her—Perhaps he has no idea of marrying Pat. Anyway she won’t forget the truths I’ve told her. She may never speak to me again But she’ll remember and think. Not that think ing is much good where emotion speaks. But she’s not satisfied in her own mind, and it was a chance She meanwhile stole furtive glances at his set face. He thinks I’m low That’s why he won’t speak to me. . . . Maybe nobody will. . . . Suppose Aunt Pam shouldn’t divorce Jimmie. . I don’t care. He loves me and IH have him I'll not think of such things. . . But oh, if I should find out what Jack said is true. ... It isn’t true. . . He is jealous and wants me himself . . . Poor Jack, Dadums would have loved him for a son. Why is everything all wrong? As they entered the hotel grounds, she looked up at him. “Jack, aren’t we friends—any more?” she ven tured. Hearing the wistful note in her voice, his face lighted. “What a baby you are. Os course, we’re friends. Little Pat, I'm standing by till you tell me to get out, and prove you mean it.” “But I never will. Only if—things should turn out—that Daddy and 1 should go to Paris ” “I’ll go too,” he said quickly “Dad wants me to take a year off and travel. Thinks I need a rest after two years in duress vile, as somebody called it. And I’d lik* to spend a year of further study of European architecture before I settle down to business.” “But if we shouldn’t go—couldn’t you study in New York part of the time?” “Why should I?” “Why, I thought ” she broke off, flushing. “That I’d made up my mind to study in Paris because you’d be there? Right. But it would be dis ferent if you decided to stay in New York.” “Why?” He looked at her in amazement “For a modern girl you are " “Dumb!” she laughed. “Yes, dumb,” he grinned. iTa Be Continued) ting Feature* Syndicate, Inc

• at Monroe. The Monroe high school n shows the largest increase of any e township high school In the county. •jAn increase of 30 pupils Is shown | In this school, the opening day giv--0 ng an enrolltneut of 113 pupils, comnl pared to 83 students September 30, '■l 1932. e| o ilEPFIKONALS I Miss Anne Winnes returned to t Franklin today to resume her studI ies as a junior in Franklin college. Mr. and Mts. Giles Porter and > ! children, Vera, Zulu itid Victor, Mrs 1 Harry Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Wils f Beery a id grandson: Billy Buck, 1 Mrs. Ellen Beery, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Clifford Saylors and son Richard - Mr. and Mrs. Delton. Passwater, ’ daughter Miss Fern and son Bob, Miss Ellen Ray of Geneva and r Ralph Spade spent the week-end -1 at Lake Webster. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Saurer spent ? luibor Day in Bluffton where they joined Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Saur- ' er and dl lighter Sherrilyn of Bloomington in a visit with their mother Mrs. Edward Saurer. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Adams and - 1 1 ■■ • -

Once-Penniless Immigrant Controls McCormick Estate * * * * * Edward Dato, Who Bought Krenn’s Claim to Estate of John D’s Daughter, Was Destitute Fugitive From Russia. Holdings Once Valued at $40,000,000 May Be Worth Nothing.

CHICAGO — While lawyers and accountants are Hiisily engaged taking an inventory of the estate left by the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, once valued at $40,000,000, but now said to have dwindled to almost nothing, a few remarks anent two figures whose lives have been interwoven with the great fortune may be of interest. The first. Edwin Krenn, who is the principal beneficiary in the will of the oil king's deceased daughter, is a fairly familiar figure to the American reading public. Krenn came into the limelight some years ago when it was persistently rumored that he was to marry Mrs. McCormick. The w'ealthy woman had met him ten years earlier in Zurich, Switzerland, where she had recently graduated from a school of psychoanalysis and launched a cult of her own. Krenn was one of the first pupils at this school, and Mrs. McCormick had formed such an attachment for him that when she returned to the United Siates she brought him with her, as personal advisor. .Soon after. Krenn blossomed out as a real estate operator in Chicago with an elaborate suite of offices on Lake Shore Drive, a| short distance from the $7,000,000 McCormick mansion. The busi-! ness prospered from the start, I backed as it was by the fortune of i Krenn's wealthy patron, who became principal stockholder in ] the entetprise. It was about this! time that rumors of an engagement between Mrs. McCormick and her protege began to circulate. However, it Is well known that family opposition put an end to any intention the couple had of marriage. Now comes the second figure into the picture. He is Edward A. Dato, architect and realtor. Dato, a native Russian, fled from his own land In 1906 aud took refuge in Switzerland, where he entered an engineering school. Here he met Edwin Krenn. The latter, it j i seems, was having trouble withi mathematics and Dato often help-!

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daughter, Marjorie, spent the Week *) end visiting with Mr, and Mrs. Will. Presd.irf at LaGrange. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miller ;j,nd, children spent the three day holiday ■ at Klinger Lake. Mr. a.:id Mrs. Amos Graber and ; daughter Jane of this city and'Mr. • ami Mrs. Dave Schwartz and child-; ren of Fort Wayne spent tho weekend at the of the W'o ids north of Ke-ndaliville. Harry Dijley returned to Bloom1. Irigton today for his senior year at 1 Indiana University. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Deitsch’and l son Bobby, Mrs. Ed. Miller and Mrs. Charles Otnlor spent the week- | end at Cincinnati, Ohio j John Lind, of Cincnaati, O* who 1 arrved In this city Fridlty, will reI ! main f>r several weeks visiting j with relatives. Notre Dame Teacher Speaks At Frankfort Frankfort, Ind., Sept. 6 —<U.R) — Clarence Manlon. Notre Dame University law professor and keynoter at the Democratic - -state convention, will Be the principal speaker at a Democratic rally here Wednesday evening.

ed him with some of the problems that had him stumped.. They became fast friends. Later, when he*had received a degree at a Zurich college, he came to the United States and looked up his old friend, Krenn, who by this time was sitting on top of the financial world. When Dato arrived on the scene, Mrs. McCormick, and Krenn had just entered into a gigantic real estate * venture and had set up the Edit?) Rockefeller Trust, with $18,000,000 of Mrs. McCormick’s securties as financing. Krenn's bosom friend was invited to Join the venture. He did, and started on the road to prosperity. An instance of the manner in which Mrs. McCormick played the role of financing angel to the three-cornered combination is recalled by Dato in telling of his first interview with the wealthy woman. "Here’s $5,000,000 to start with’’ he quotes Mrs. McCormick as saying as she nonchalantly handed Krenn securities to the value of that amount. The death of Mrs. McCormick, of course, broke up the combine. But it did not break Dato. Krenn. w'ho was left five-twelfths of his patron's estate, sold out his claim to the huge inheritance to th*e third partner for annual sum of $25,000, which action places Dato in complete control of the gigantic realty venture, said to have cost Mrs. McCormick from $18,000,000 to $25,000,000. However, it is more than likely that Dato’s claim to the vast holdings will be contested by opposing factions. It is probably for this reason that Krenn is glad to get out from under and retire to his native Switzerland. If it is true that the original $40,000,000 estate has shrunk to a much smaller total, the legacies which Mrs McCormick left to her children may amount to little or nothing. In the opinion of Judge Charles S. Cutting, who drew up the wealthy woman's will three weeks before her death, the entire estate may not be worth a penny.