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Iff HOOSIERS Jkemenih pieln Week End Accidents ■HU Vnited Press' Indiana residents died ,i rj “ g " lg W“- ■ - !>■-«' - ' Mdlicie baki» h " and Rlch “ rd 1' 'Vie naw eraßhed sHßthwest <>f Whitney. a:,; ' ' i " l ' Wi ' S critically Dietz, o InditmHpoliß. who a (,„r falling from his bicycle r.ar.mnic a bear. shooter down threat S <v-.-r!mr the jugular He died <u unite to a hosBerths "■ • I - ,| U‘ S ’ Ky kill-d a- an automobile *WL’ near Bloomington as she to attend a tunerai. »a s hospital. |H. »<i- ' vil, m he from a moving freight !bert A. Mullis, 30, Tell City, k by a car driven by Arthur Km, 19, Flamion was held by I. jence Miller. 52, of Adams y, whose car was struck by a sylvania train near Van Wert, iller’s uncle, Leonard Schnepp an Wert, also was killed. i. Lorraine Noell, 31, Evans- 1 victim of an automobile near New Memphis. 111., in i three others were injured, nnine Roach, 5, died last in the St. Joseph hospital, Wayne, from burns she re--1 when her clothing caught ram matches she was lighto J COLT SHOW AT L'.-M PAGE ONE) Win. Burke, E. W Carlson. Eicher - kli.-ff. Eugene Fars M Foreman. Rudolph Winfred Gcrkc, Martin Grab.- i Goi-s liaik, frank I MBiawo: J--:.— and Habegger. ■Hire:. Uasgard. Frank Hamrick. Haimi Earl Haines. John r.i lliity, John HindHutus Hirschy. Henry W. O. T. Johnson and Christ Kiiipsteii), William • I’.ci'. Kt n-.-keberu. KruetzBros. Dewey Kuhn. Harry mm B. Lehman. Peter |MB !.-I.Walter Lehman, Leng Bros.. Calvin Liechty, Jeff Mi Ahi en Bros.. Menno B. 11. M...er, Floyd Mitchel, . Mitchel. Russel Mitchel. |U' f :.!:.i:t: Mitchel. Homer E. Neuer, ■^■svh" ami-1. Jo. | N’euenschwandei. |U : -' '• nwamler, Edwin N'eti- •*. For. st Railing. S. S. RayEverett Rice. William Riff. A. Ripley, Chester Roth, BH 1 Runyon. Floyd Rupert, HerScheninann, H. P. Schmitt, (' ■B v> ft. Schwartz, Ernest R. Sharp, Shoaf, Roy Shoaf. Archie HMSmitley, Chaim, r Smitley, Maurice |HBpangler, L. F. Sprunger, Sprungand Balsiger. Wm. 11. Spurgeon. Steiner. Teeple Bros., AmThieme. Charles Thieme. Fred MThieme. Jr.. ;q HX Thieme. Walter

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Thieme, Harley Tumbletion, Walter Walchle, Ezra Wanuer, Win. E. Witte, Harry Wullfman. Chancy f Yoder. Enoch Yoder, Jacob Yoder, Yilman Yoder, Omlor Bros., and Claude Harvey. * CCC Boys To Tour Industries Today Approximately 60 tboya of the CCC at Bluffton toured the city’* Industrie* thia afternoon, including the McMillen Industries. The boys will be the guests of the Adams theater tonight, witnessing "Give Me A Sailor," with Bob Hope i and Martha Raye. The visit here is | an annual event of the camp boys. MANY SPEECHES ARE SCHEDULED 'I Indiana Democrats, Republicans Plan For Busy Week Indianapolis, Oct. 3—(U.R)’ -The 1 political campaign turned down the home stretch today as Democratic and Republican speakers started a busy week of speaking engagements Principal speeches of the we-!: are: Today: Republican—Raymond E. Willis, ' nominee for U. S. senator, and James Tucker, nominee for secretary of state, Liberty; Willis, Connersville. Democratic —Sen. Sherman Min-, ton, CHrton; Lieut-Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Crawfordsville. Tuesday: Republican—Willis and Tucker, ■ Shelbyville; Willis. _ Rushville; . Rop. Hamilton Fish. Jr., of New York, State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, Forrest A. Harness, fifth district congressional nominee. i Arthur Berndt, nominee for state ! treasurer and Homer Capehart. ' all at Huntington; Mrs. E. C. ! Rumpier, Hillsboro; Robert H. Boring. Hancock county. Democratic —Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, candidate for re-election. Logansport; Gov. M. Clifford, Townsend. Groenfield; Minton. | Danville; Schricker, Whiteland. Wednesday: Republican — Willis, Greensburg and Richmond; Tucker, East ' Chicago. Democratic — Van Nuys and Miirioti Fort Wayne; Townsend, binton. Thursday: Republican— Willis. Winchester and Newcastle; Tucker. Lebanon. Democratic — Townsend, Muncie; Schricker, Jeffersonville. Friday: Republican — Willis, Auburn; Tucker, Washington; Richaid James. Markle; Ernest L. Myers, Bedford: Mrs. Rumpier. Paragon; Maurice Robinson. Mount Comfort. Democratic — Townsend. EngI lish; Minton. Anderson: SchrickI er, Oakland City. Saturday: Republican —None. Democratic — Minion, Shelby-1 ville; Schricker, Rockport and Mount Vernon. o GREAT BRITAIN’S CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mailed fist" which, be said, was all the Fuehrer could understand. I 4 Failed to advise Germany until the last minute that Britain would tight while Hitler was getting advice from his own aides , 'hat Britain would not fight, j 5 Let Hitler "get away" with demands that probably will lead to new demands backed by the Norma in Court Wk t Im Actress Norma Shearer is pictured as she appeared in Los Angeles court asking permission* to pay 5754,234.13 from funds of her late husband’s estate. Sum represented compromise tax to be paid the government. Court htaringa revealed i taxes have cut nearly three, million , I from the fiv« million estate.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1938.

”7a> eleven of diamonds' 7 BAYNARD H. KENDRICK

SYNOPSIS Edward Fowler, a wealthy gambler, ia murdered at the Suneet Bridge Club in Miami. Hia body, with a knife in the back, is found in the poker room. Fowler had played bridge that evening with Millie La France, a seductive blond; Ben Eckhardt and Dave Button, but quit the game when Millie accused him of throwing it. He paid the owner, Toby Munroe, for hia and Millie's losses and ostensibly left only to be found dead in an adjoining room early the next morning. A mysterious prowler discovered the body, following which the police received an anonymous phone call informing them of the crime. Two weeks previous, Fowler had searched the hotel suite of the Durlyn Beasi.igers. Bessinger had claimed to be a wealthy grain merchant but Fowler believed this only a blind as letters found in a trunk relating to his grain business were evidently written by Bessinger to himself. The Bessingers were at the club th* night Fowler died. Bruce Farraday, the millionaire, enlist* the services of privat* detective, Miles Standish Rice, to help clear up the murder because his son, Tolliver, is involved. The boy’s torn check to Fowler for th* sum of ten thousand dollars was found in the latter’s room. Farraday, Sr., tells Leßoy and Stan that hie party, consisting of hia daughter Eve, Tolliver and Mrs. Staunton (a friend} had left the club about 1 A.M. (two hours after Fowler left) and gone to the Alligator Inn with a Commander Erie Dawson, whom he had just met, and the Bessingers. Glen Neal, the society reporter, was also in the party. Later, Millie arrived at the Alligator Inn with Eckhardt and Button. Next morning, Stan and Leßoy search the club for clues. The door leading from the bridge room to the poker room where Fowler was killed is locked and the key missing. Toby finally admits that he locked it because Caprilli, the gangster, had engaged the poker room and wanted privacy. But none of the gang showed up.

CHAPTER X The poker room ..as semi-ob-scured from the hot noon sun by partially closed Venetian blinds at each of the three windows. A solitary fly walked along the broad blade of the ceiling fan. It buzzed lazily out of the opened door as Stan Rice and the Captain entered. A single low-backed, leatherseated, folding chair stood at the table, its back toward the only entrance to the room. A dark stain, close to the back legs on the floor, showed clearly it had not been moved since its iast occupant was carried out in a basket. “Blood ran down his coat and dripped on the floor,” Leßoy explained. “There isn’t any on the seat of the chair—but plenty on the back.” Stan said nothing. The Captain's dispassionate air depressed him. Stan Rice couid be casual about most things, but not about death. His business had brought him in contact with more than a fair shareThe war had left him memories of which he never spoke. He had learned to successfully conceal all outward emotion with a lightness of his own. But the lightness was false. Inwardly, he fought a dullish sense of futility; a queer certainty that anything Stan Rice might do was anti-climatic. His best efforts could bring nothing but death for death, a doubtful requital for the living, never compensation to the dead. His soft-soled shoes made no sound as he circled the table. The Venetian blind, shielding the window faced by the vacant chair, rose smoothly as he pulled the double cord. Bars of sunlight on the battleship linoleum floor gave way to a gleaming yellow square. “The window has a full length screen on the outside." “So has every window in the uousc," said Leßoy. Stan unhooked the screen from tho bottom and pushed. It swung out easily, held at the top by two Tinges. He examined the rabbet where the screen fitted snugly on

hreat of force in the future. Duff Cooper emphasized that it vas not Czechoslovakia for which '•■itain was callod upon to fight » instead the danger that Eur-”-n’’ld be dominated by one - bocauxe of "brutal force”| d he said that any time Britain | led to fight for that principal re would surrender her “empire, berty and independence.” Chamberlain in reply did not up all of Duff Cooner's points he said significantly: 'I entered uo pact, made no -,v commitments. There is no cret understanding or convertion hostile to any other naon." Chamberlain announced that me government was immediately ’.dvaticing to Czechoslovakia 10,MK),000 pounds (about $48,000,000) I in response Io a Czech request ’or a 30.000,000 nouncis loan to | bolster the republic because o£ loss of some of its r.ciiest areas' to Germany. The prime minister said that the Munich four-pow.er agreement tor partitioning Czechoslovakia represented definite gains over Hitler's -ultimatum at the Godesberg conference where hi- demanded immediate surrender of a great area of the republic ou threat of invasion. The Munich agreement, he i iid' reverted tu the original French- | British program lor cession of j

the outside edge of the sill. Two dead house flies, and a large mosquito, had trapped themselves and struggled to death in the small crack between screen and sill. Stan brushed them off the sill and looked out. A vine covered trellis of white wood rose from the ground to the left side of the window. Leßoy came up and leaned out beside him. "This window’s an ideal balcony for a Romeo with a gun.” Stan indicated the trellis. “I get the idea although I’ve never seen the play. It might be interesting if Fowler hadn't been stabbed from the back by somebody inside the house. For your information—nobody climbed that trellis. We gave it the works this morning. W’e didn’t forget that the screen might have been hooked by the kindly soul who tipped us off to this job.” They withdrew from the window. Stan rehooked the screen. “It never occurred to me, Vince, that anybody might have come in through that window. You fellows are so confounded thorough that at times you run off up side roads. I wanted to see if anybody could have come in through that window. Or reached it easily—had they wanted to take a pot shot at Edward Fowler." Stan pulled up the blinds on the other two windows. Unlike the one he had just left, which faced toward Satsuma Road, they opened on the back of the house. He unhooked the screens on both and looked out. The Captain lit a cigar and watched. “You get funny ideas yourself,’’he said, after a couple of satisfying puffs. “You think Fowler was afraid of trouble and was keeping a weather eye on that window. Why wasn’t he watching the door in back of himT The killer came through there!” Stan rehooked the screen in the third window, and turned around. There were two doors on the other side of the room. One, partially opened, revealed the bathroom. Stan crossed the room, pushed the door wide, and went in. The rack was replete with fresh hand towels. Stan came out, and said plaintively: “I couldn’t look under the tub. It’s cemented to the tile floor.” “You’re dodging my question, Stan.” “Not at all. I’m considering it. Assuming Fowler was killed while sitting in this room—” “Assuming bosh!” the Captain broke in with irritation. “Quit diving off into a sea of salt herrings. You can’t cart a two hundred pound corpse into a house like this and lug it up a flight of stairs without leaving traces. There are none. Now tell me he was stabbed in West Palm Beach, brought here by plane, and dropped through the roof 1” “All right—all right.” Stan grinned maiiciousiy. It made him feel better to get his friend roiled out of official composure. “At least I'm convinced that we have a common starting point. Fowler was killed in here. Why he came in here —we don’t know, yet." “Caprilli?” Leßoy bit down hard on his cigar. Stan shook his head. “I doubt it. Caprilli’s method is to take them out in cars, sew them up in sacks, and dump them off in vacant lots. But, if you don’t object, I’d like to talk to Caprilli this afternoon. I think I know where to locate him. Maybe I can get more out of him than you can.”

“Hop to it!” Leßoy ground out his cigar in an ashtray, viciously wishing the piece of metal was Caprilli’s right eye. “If I get within arm’s length of that murdering dog I’ll twist his dirty neck!” Stan opened the closet door. Seven folding chairs, similar to the one at the poker table, were stacked neatly in a pile on the floor. He unfolded one, slid it along the polished floor toward the Captain, and fixed another for himself. When he closed the closet door on the remainder, he had, Proteus-like, again become serious, almost morose. "Sit down, Vince, I’ll be back in a minute." He walked out into tho hall, turned right, passed the locked door to the bridge room on his left, and paused listening at the top of the

the Sudetenland, including an arrangement for a plebiscite on a basis more favorable to the Czechs “I maintain," he said, “that to those anxious for au orderly and nut a vloent procedure, every ■ ii.odification was a step in tuc I right direction. In giving a verdict. we should all do well to avoid describing it as a personal or national triumph for anybody.” Many Are Signed For 5-Acre Corn Checkup More men will check up m the 5Acre corn club project thia year ! n Adams county than ever before These plots will likely be checked sometime after the 15th of October. ' The members of the fi-Acre Club who have signified their intentions I of checking up here: L. A. Ripley. Victor Bleeke, Henry Heiman, Dan Hubeggcr, Sylvan Habcgger, Fred D. Riu.cs. John E. Heiman, Eli M Schwartz, Oti*> Sprunger, Adolph b' humcrloh. Bcnj. D Mazelin Alvin A. Nussbaum. Millard Schwartz Chris luniger, Rufus Inuiger, Charles Burkhart, Palmer L. Schwartz, Henry Aschleman, Harvc Inelchen. Wilson Weiland, Henry Rumple, Martin J. Graber. Jim HendricksWinifred Gerkc, Homer W. Arnold, ' David D. Habcgger, Otto E. Hoile, ■ J. D. Nussbaum. IBeuJ. Gerke, I’. B-

■tair* just beyond. A murmur of voice* came from downstairs, fol lowed by the sound of the type writer. The distraught Toby Munroe, whom they had left bowed ovc» the table in the btidge room, had recovered enough to go down and resume his work. Stan retraced hia steps, but paused in front of the window at the end of the hall. It was right outside of the poker room door, and was screened like the rest. Captain LeRoy, inside the room, watched fitan open the screen and close it again. It was but a few steps from where Leßoy was seated. Stan left the window, stepped inside, and took the chair he had fixed for himself. “I think Edward Fowler knew he was in danger,’’ he began without preliminary. “But he didn’t think that danger existed inside this club —ergo, watched the window instead of the door. Does that make sense?” The Captain nodded approval. “Go on." “Some thing* here just don't make sense. Who put the chairs away?” “Those in the closet?” "Certainly. Munroe was expecting a poker game in this room last night—unless he’s lying. I don’t think he’s lying. Juan had prepared a cold buffet. It’s in the icebox now —untouched. No gambling club makes patrons eet up their own chairs. There was one • here for Fowler. The rest were in the closet.’ 1 Leßoy removed his cap and mopped his brow. “What about—" “The guy who phoned?” Stan mimicked. "I already have a headache thinking about that talkative fool. Why should he be roaming around in the middle of the night putting chairs away? Why, Vince, why? You’re sure they weren’t around the table when you got here? Fawcett couldn’t have folded them up and put them in there when he checked them for prints?”

“You’re pitching wild, Stan. I can •how you th* pictures at headquarters if you think I’m slipping.” Stan was regarding the round mahogany chip-rack in the center of the poker table. It contained several stacks of varicolored chips. There were four slots in the top which held unopened packs of cards, partially protruding. He pulled it toward him-and let the chips trickle idly through his slim finger*. Then, impatiently he pushed it away. “I am shooting wild, Vince. My only excuse is that now and again a wild shot will hit a bird. Everything around here is full of question marks: Why didn’t Caprilli’s crowd show up? Monet*. Caprilli would tommygun his little sister for fifty bucks. Why did Fowler coms in here at all? And the chair*, Vince? I'v* gel to get something to eat!” The Captain had to dog-trot on the way downstairs to keep up with Stan’s strides. Juan Andres was dusting in the hall. Stan paused long enough to ask: “Were the chairs set up for the poker party last night Juan?” The Cuban showed his surprise. “Yes, sir. All of them. Mr. Munroe gave me instructions.” “At what time?” The Captain demanded. ‘ “Between seven and eight, air. Just before I started to fix the food.” “Did you put them away in the closet before you left for the night?” “No, sir. They stay around the table most of the time. I only put them in the closet just after I’ve polished them, or while I’m cleaning the room.” “That’s all," Leßoy said, curtly. The Captain had pressed the starter of his car when Stan laid a hand on his arm. “Hold it, Vince. I want to go back to that poker room for a minute. There’s something screwy there. Come along.” “What’s the matter now?” LeRoy grumbled. “We’ve been up there forty-five minutes. I’m sick of the place." “I saw something up there that wasn't quite right.... But I can’t remember what it was. I’ll know if I see it again. Coming?”

I Lehman, William Neadstine. Walter I Thieme, Menno Eicher, L. Deuben j Schwartz, Ralph Myers Robert Myers. Delmore Wechter, Fred Marbach, and E. W- Buschc. Q Will Attend Egg Auction, Oct. 11 Tuesday, October 11, a number of hatcherymeu and poultry producers of Adams county, in company with William Kohlmeyer, Purdue . poultry specialist, will make a trip I to the Versailles egg auction at Ver- ' t-tdlles, Ohio. The hatcherymen who | have signified their intentions of ' making this trip so far are Eli Stuckey of Geneva; Erwin Stuckey of Monroe; Ivan Stuckey of Decatur; Amos Schwartz of near Berne; olid the Berne Hi-Way Hatchery. Any poultry producers interested in making the trip and learning more about this egg auction are reI quested to see these Uatuherymcn I and make arrangeruente with them for transportation. u . Family Keeps Job Tradition Toledo.—(U.R)—Tending a glass furnace is traditional in the Falls family. George Falls, who has been working 24 years in a glass factory, learned the cooking art from his father. He also has two brothers in the glass industry.

TOSCANINI AT OUTS IN ITALY Famous Italian Composer “In Had” With Government Paris, Oct. 3 — (U.R) — Arturo Toscanini, orchestra leader and considered by many the world’s greatest living musician, was reported "in bad" again with the Italian government today and his whereabouts were not known. Toscanini's passport had been taken up by the police of Milan. Italy, his home city, presumably for the purpose of preventing him from going to the United States where he has an engagement to lead a symphony orchestra in a series of radio concerts. A report originating there from a source close to his family, said he had left his home and had crossed without passport, and, therefore, without authority, into France, determined sail for the United States on Wednesday “at any cost.” But, through Toscanini is a grade A celebrity well known and easily recognized in any part of the world, there were no reports of him in southern France. It was reported on good authority in Milan that police had taken up Toscanini's passport because of his anti-fascist attitude. He had been more outspoken than usual, Italian authorities were said to believe. Before his return to Milan this summer. Toscanini had refused to conduct the famous music festival at Salzburg, Austria, because Germany, Italy's ally, had absorbed that country. Though his passport was taken up. no watch was placed on him in Milan and there were no restrictions on his movement. This, it was said, would have enabled him to cross the frontier without difficulty.

All efforts to reach Toscanini at his Milan home or at his country place at Stress were fruitless. Some relatives said he was out on an excursion with his son, Walter, and Walter Toscanini's wife, the ' former ballet dancer. Signorina Farnaroli. Other relatives, extremely reluctant to talk, said that they understood he, his son, and his wife, Carola, would sail for the United States “at any cost." ' One of the most famous of living Italians, Toscanini is not a fascist and has had numerous brushes with adherents of fascism. o TRIUMPHAL ENTRY (CONTINUED FEOSt ’AGE ONE) Sudetenland, the territory which nearly caused a European war. Martial Law Berlin. Oct. 3 —(U.R) —A modified state of martial law was established in the Sudetenland toi day as German troops advanced farther beyond the former fron- , iters of Czechoslovakia. While it was understood that ! Adolf Hitler intends to begin demobilization of his 1.500.000 army soon after completion of the occupation on Oct. 10. a decree was issued providing that any offenses against Germany in the Sudeten area would be tried by court mar- ' tial. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, command-er-in-chiet of the armed forces, and minister of justice Franz Guertner issued the decree. A spokesman for the ministry of propaganda said that "it would uot be wrong to describe the sta'e of affairs set up under the decree as martial law." "This state of affairs will en-' CHAPTER XI Stan was already out of the car. la? Roy grudgingly followed. Just inside the door of the poker room, Stan stopped. Slowly, he scanned every portion of the room, impatiently snapping his fingers as he did so. The Captain was about to remark ironically about Stan’s (peed, when Stan said, softly: "Look at the cards, Vince!” “Be sensible, Stan. What have the cards to do with Fowler? They’re still in the original packs. The revenue stamps haven’t even been broken.” "I know that,” Stan took the four packs from the chip rack and laid them face down, side by side, on the table. On the back of each pasteboard package was a sample card, showing the type contained in the box. The sample cards were slipped into a slit cut in the pasteboard, so that only half of them was visible. The Captain gazed at them curiously. more interested than he cared to admit. “They look oke to me.” He started to pick one up. "Wait, Vince. I may be all wet. On the other hand you may want to get some fmger prints. Don't you see what's wrong? There are three blues and a red. Bridge cards, and cards for poker are bought two packs at a time—a red backed pack, and a blue backed pack. In a big game—such as was planned last night—there should be two sets of cards, or two red packs and two blue packs.” Stan pointed to the four packs on the table. The red pack, and two of the blue packs, bore the same design—a ballet dancer. The third blue pack—as indicated by the sample card—was entirely diffcient, bearing crissl :ross lines instead of the dancer.

I dure ar. long as the mljUtary I occupies the Sudeten area- that is until the regular German courts arc established," the spokesman said. At the same time, woU-informed sources said they expected a four-power commission to be set up as a result of the Munich peace conference to examine at an early date the question of international limitation of heavy aerial bombI ers, heavy artillery and gas warI fare. It v.-ps not certain whether Hitler himself would propose establishment of the cotnmisison which probably would include high general staff officers of Germany, Italy, Britain and France, but i reliable circles said they were I convinced that the Fuehrer was : ready to make proposals for reduction of armaments along the lines mentioned in his recent sports palace speech. —o ADAMS COUNTY (CONTINUED FROM PAGB ONE) morning at 10 o'clock at the Cal- | vary church, east of Decatur, with the Rev. M. W. Sunderman, assisted by the Rev. Paul BrandyI berry, officiating. Services for Schnepp will be ■held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 i (CST) o'clock at the Dixon M. E. church, four miles west of Van Wert. Both will be buried in the Decatur cemetery. Clarence Miller was born in i Union township, Adams county, January 8. 1886 the son of Charles and Tresa Sprunger-Miller. Surviving, besides the widow:

I Stan took a handkerchief from his pocket, and carefully pulled the blue criss-crossed card from the slot in i the packager Underneath it was a red backed card, marked with the dancer like the other three packs. He turned the card he was holding face up on the table. The Captain’s face showed utter disbelief. “I’ve played some poker in my day, Stan Rice—but I say about that card what the kid said about the elephant: ‘There ain’t no such card!’ ” “Oh yes there is, Vince! Believe it or not—that’s an eleven of dia-

I HI Ire fr Detective* Patterson and Hogue were busy the morning after Fowler * death obtaining preliminary statements.

monds. I have a hunch somebody shoved the knife in Fowler just on account of that card!” “Men have been killed for less than that showing up in a hand of poker!” said Leßoy. * * • Sunday is just another day to the police. Detectives Patterson and Hogue were busy the entire morning, after Edward Fowler’s death, obtaining preliminary statements from those present at the club the night before. As soon as possible all available witnesses would be summoned to headquarters. There, testimony would be taken under oath for the Chief of Police, and other officers working on the case. Miles Standish Rice paused long enough in his headlong rush for Indian Creek, and Sunday dinner, to stop at headquarters. Copies had been prepared for him of the reports made by Patterson and Hogue. He deferred reading them until after disposing of three slices of roast beef with trimmings, and two dishes of strawberries and cream. Stretched out in a swing on the porch, he digested the reports with his dinner. They were simple and concise, but told him very little more than he already knew. The detectives had statements from ten of the fourteen people present at the club. Eve and Tolliver Farraday were in Fort Myers. Commander Dawson had gone deep-sea fishing for the day. Glen Neal was in Palm Beach covering a society t/id dansant. The statement of Ben Eckhardt held more interest. Eckhardt admitted frankly that he derived a fairly steady income from poker, bridge, and games of chance where superior skill or knowledge played a part. He had seen Edward Fowler around Miami for several weeks, but could not state accurately exactly how long. Fowler was seldom alone. His most regular companions were Bruce Farraday’s son and daughter, a Mr. and Mrs. Bessinger, and a professional bridge player, named Dave Button. He had

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Mary Schnepp-Mlller. are the following children: Orlando of Union township; Harlow, Rosalie and Ardella. all at home; a brother, Curtis of Union township and a sister, Mrs. Vai Schnepp of Union township. The body will be returned to the home tonight at 7 o'clock from the Zwick & Son funeral home. Tho casket will not be opened. Schnepp was born February 27, 1875, In Adams county and for a number of years hud operated the general store st Richey in Van Wert county, Ohio. He is survived by the widow, a son Gerald and a brother, Abe of Monroe. Police Captain Cafce Ba',er Dallas, Tex. —(UP)—Capt. Millard Gardner of the Highland Park police department is an expert cake mixer and 'baker. He frequently treats other members of the force to cuts of his pound cake, tor which he is famed among his friends. ■ ' .. _ —

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seen Fowler once at the dog races with Commander Dawson, and Glen Neal. Outside of the fact that Fowler had been introduced to the Sunset by Dave Button, and that Fowler owed Dave Button sixty thousand dollars, Ben Eckhardt could say no more. * Stan turned back to Dave Button’s statement Button admitted his friendship with Fowler—they both liked to gamble, so why not? He had met Fowler on the Four Leaf Clover, a gambling barge anchored discreetly cut in Biscayne Bay. The rest of his story dove-

tailed with the others, but no mention was made of the indebtedness brought out by Eckhardt. Either Button had withheld some information which was bound to throw suspicion on himself, or Eckhardt had repeated an idle story of big money, which might have become current around the gaming houses. Stan stretched delightfully, slid from the swing, and went inside to get Leßoy on the phone. "What’s the low-down on Millie LaFrenzy?" he asked when connected with the Captain. Then added: “I mean LaFrance before you ask me.” “Her statement’s with those I gave you.” “I want her record. She just can’t be the way she is without a record of some kind. Look it up, will you? I have a faint pain in the head that she was a gun-moll, or her mother was a bull-fighter.” "I’ll call you back, Stan.” He returned to the porch to look over again the meagre returns on Edward Fowler. His room nt the Amboy Hotel had revealed nothing. His wallet, found in his coat, was almost as barren. It contained four hundred odd dollars in cash, American Express Checks for thirty-six hundred more, and a New York driver’s license. The license boro the address of a downtown New York hotel. The lack of identification was striking. Too striking, Stan decided. Fowler was covering up. The average man, spending the winter in Miami, can easily be identified with his home. There are letters and bills coining to his hotel, or apartment. His wallet contains business cards, and membership cards. His clothes bear the label of his tailor, or home town store. Edward Fowler had a definite reason for keeping his past in obscurity. He had done such a thorough job the police were at a loss whom to notify about his death. (To Be Continued) Opnlttv n- OrMulm*. PutlUiMr. Ist OuUlbuUd by Kia* ruuuu Syndi«u. laa.