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ANOTHER CHICAGO MYSTERY MURDER BROUGHTTO LIGHT Boys in 'Teens’ Confess to Killing Wealthy Divorcee April 17, By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 27.—Another of Chicago’s "mystery murders" was solved today by the confessions of two boys still in their teens. William Lydon, 16, and Anthony Valinas, 19, admitted killing Mrs. Bessie Gaensslen, 40, in her apartment during a robbery, police officers announced. Two young girls, the boys said, helped them in their crime. Mrs. Gaensslen, a wealthy divorcee, was murdered April 17. Several arrests were made, but all suspects were later released. The killing went officially on the list of "unsolved murders.” But yesterday Evelyn Novak, an Inmate of a girls school told a story to police in which she said Lucille Marshall and Anna Vallinas, former inmates of the same institution admitted to her that they helped murder Mrs. Gaensslen. The girls told Evelyn the actual killing was done by the two boys. Young Lydon and Valinas, a brother. of Anna, were taken into custody and after a long grilling admitted the crime. Girls in Frame Up According to the boy’s confessions, the two girls knew Mrs. Gaensslen slightly. Hearing that she had a large sum of money in her apartment they plotted the robbery with Lydon and Valinas. The girls entered the apartment and let the boys in. When the woman screamed for help, she was choked to death. The amount of the loot so far has been urdetermined. MOREDEMOCRATS OUT AGAINST KLAN Kansas Party Council Opposes Hooded Order, By United Press TOPEKA, xvan., Aug. 27.—The Democratic party or Kansas today had followed the example of the leader of the national ticket in de- j nouncing the Ku-Klux Klan. In a party council Tuesday, Demo-' crats went on record as being “un-j alterably opposed” to the Kaln or similar organizations. Republicans, holding their party council here at the same time, ignored the Klan question, although there was strong sentiment for an anti-Klan plank. Talk of am independent Republican ticket spread today as a result of dissatisfaction in Republican ranks over evasion of the Klan issye.

LETTER CARRIERS CONVENESUNDAY Rural Marlmen to Hold Twenty-Second Meet. , The Indiana Rural Letter Carriers’ Association will hold its twen-ty-second annual convention Sunday and Monday at the Severin. Registration of delegates and visitors will begin Saturday afternoon, according to John W. King of Farmland, Ind., president. The convention 'will formally open Monday morning, following an executive session Saturday night. Committees will be appointed Saturday afternoon. Sunday will be given over to attendance at churches, gettogether meetings and a social meeting on the Severin roof garden. After songs and /he invocation Monday morning, Arthur D. Grow, assistant superintendent of mails, Indianapolis, will speak. W. H. Kaufman will respond. Officers Will report and H. R. Nlchol, deputy fourth assistant postmaster general, will speak. Monday afternoon will be devoted to reports of committees, election and Installation of officers, question box, answers to be made by Nichol. Boils THERE is a reason for everything that happens. Com-mon-sense kills misery. Commonsense also stops boils! S. S. S. is the commons \ sense remedy / \ for boils, beypygfjjjP J cause it is l I built on rea- / s°Scien- \ / tific authori- \ yr ties admit its ifrv power! 5.3.5. builds bloodpower, it builds red-blood-cells. That is what makes fighting-blood. Fighting-blood destroys impurities. It fights boils. It fights {imples! It fights skin eruptions! t always wins! Mr. V. D. Schaff, 557 15th street, Washington, D. C., writes: **/ tried tor years to get relief from a bad case of boils. Everything failed until I took S. S. S. I am now absolutely cured, and it was S. S. S, that did it.” tS. S. S. is sold at all good drug stores in two sizes. Tbs larger size is more economical. ' C C World's Best 'Blood Medicine

Todays Best Radio Features (Copyright, 1921,, by United Press) | WEAF, New York (492 M) WCAP, I "Washington (469 M) and WMAF, j South Dartmouth, (364 M) 8 p. m., ! EST—Haeckle-Berge Trio. WOO, Philadelphia (509 M) 8 p. m., EST—WOO and assisting artists. WCAP, Washington (469 M) 7:50 and 8:40 p. m., EST—Concert by United States Navy Band. KHJ, Los Angeles (395 M) 10 p. m., PCST —Art Hickman’s Dance Orchestra. WOS, Jefferson (440.9 M) 8 p. m., CST—Program of old time barn j dance tunes. DEPAUW HEAD TO BE KNOWN SEPT. G Dr, Murlin Is _ Believed Board's Choice, By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 27 The new president of De Pauw University will be announced Sept. 6. Tuesday, a committee composed of members of the board of trustees conferred here and late in the day Bishop George R. Grose, formerly head of the Methodist school made the following statement: "The committee on nomination of anew president met today and unanimously agreed upon a report to make at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees called at Greencastle Saturday, Sept. 6th at 9 a. m.” By this statement It is believed the committee has agreed upon the man for the place. The man most prominently mentioned is Dr. L. H. Murlin. head of the Boston Theological School. He is a graduate of De Pauw. Hoosier Briefs IbUFFTON police are watching how folks “say it with ,J flowers.” Thieves have been ! stealing blooms and plants from | giaves at the cemetery. Henry Kir.g, colored, was in one j hek of a fix at Columbus. Hig house I was burning down and he didn't 1 know how to work the fire alarm. A passerby came to his rescue. The Philadelphia confectionery at Decatur isn’t able to serve light sandwiches now. The light has been shut off. The proprietors failed to pay their bill. Lancaster Township trustees at j Bluffton are going to sell “memoriies." The old brick Bender school is i being advertised tor sale. “prnrr stoneburner’s goat lived up to its reputation -y at Warsaw. Ate four letters, a pnall parcel and two newspapers that were in the mail box. Stoneburner wishes it indigestion. In one of the letters, was a check for $9.99. John Porter, 12, of Greenfield. Instead of walking over a bridge at Rushville. walked through it. He broke his arm when he fell fifty feet. Oscar Straub of Crawfordsville ha? sworn off soup for life. He found his false teeth. A cat in search of a thrill at Louisville touched a switch of the Louisville Gas and Electric Company and plunged Jeffersonville, New Albany and cities as far north as Seymour in darkness. T. F. Owens, county clerk at Tipfbn. telephoned his deputy from Windfall that he would be unable to he at his office. The deputy, J. O. Bunch, regretted it. as he "‘had planned to go to Indianapolis. He denied that his trip had any connection -with the fact that a circus was at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Watson of Library EL, at Grensburg, celobrated thfeir sixty-second wedding anniversary this week. David E. Ullery plans to use a shark to catch a whale the next time. X four-inch chub landed a four-pound bass for him at Lebanon.

MRS. BUCHANAN RITESARRANGED Investigation Begun of Death of Councilman’s Wife, Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Buchanan, wife of Heydon W. Buchanan, city councilman, whose body was found hanging from the top of the bed at her home. 1643 W. Morris St., late Tuesday, will be held at 2 p. m. Services will be private. Burial place was not announced. Deputy Coroner William Doeppers began Investigation of Mrs. Buchanan’s death today. She had been in 111 health for some time. It was said. The body was found by Melford Nelnon, 1043 Blaine Ave., an embalmer employed In Buchanan's undertaking business. Other members of the family in the house were Immediately summoned. The body was partially suspended by a stocking tied around the neck. Surviving Mrs. Buchanan, beside the husband, five children, Ethel May, Heydon Jr., Charles, James and Marlon; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Alverton, Louisville, and Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, Los Angeles, and a bfother, Frank Thompson of Louisville.

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The “Nervous Wreck.'’ an eccentric young easterner, is driving Sally Morgan Irom her fathers ranch to the station when they run out of gasoline. At the point of a (run the Wreck takes five g-alionsSfrom a passing car. Later Charlie MoSween. foreman of a ranch along the route, hides the Wrecks car. takes a wheel off, and forces Sally to act as ranch cook. Then they discover that Mr. Under- ' wood, the owner of the ranch, was in the car which they held up. Sheriff Bob Wells is unwittingly searching the countryside for the “bandits'’ who held up Underwood. Chester. Underwood’* son. finds the hidden car cn the ranch and then discovers the missing- wheel. Pally and the Wreck, planning an escape force Chester to tell where the missing wheel is. “It's In the back of the car.” Chester says. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY T HERE was a smothered exela- ' matlon from the Wreck, who u went to the flivver to investigate. The rear compartment, where baggage was usually stored, was never locked, and he lifted up the lid and thrust a hand inside. He could feqj something under an old piece of tarpaulin that he had used at odd times for a tent. It was the wheel. As he hauled it into view it angered him to think of the hours he had spent In searching. “Got it?" called Sally. “Yep. Keep him there until I light the Jantern.” The lantern lighted, he placed it in a far corner of the tool-shed, where It would throw an illumination light on the -work he had to do. “Bring him inside,” ordered the Wreck. Chester, with Sally fallowing, walked into the shed and the Wreck closed the door behind them. He motioned Chester to a place against the wall. “Keep the gun on him," he told Sally. "I’ll be through In five minutes.” It took less than two minutes to slide a jack under fche front axle, lift it and kick the soap-box aside. He slipped the wheel into lace, adjusted the lock nut, inserted the cotter pin and Spread the ends. When the hub cap was screwed on and the jack removed, the flivver stood on four wheels again. “You wait till they get you for

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this,” said Chester, grimly. The Wreck laughed]* threw back the door and began rolling the flivver into the open. He did not dare to start the motor. He tied Chester's feet together. “We’re going to lock you in here,” he said. “You’re lucky it’s no worse. We’re not going away just yet. One of us vvijl he outside. If you do any yelling. I’ll come back and gag you. Maybe I’ll shoot you. I don't know which. Coma on, Sally.” * “THEY EXPECT TO STAY A MONTH, DON'T THEY?*' She joined him outside and watched him close the door of the shed and slip the padlock into place. He had already extinguished the lantern. “If he hollers,” said the Wreck, loud enough to be heard within the shed, “shoot through the dopr.” He winked as he spoke, then hurried off in the direction of the ranch house, leaving Sally to stand guard, with the gun in her hand. There was still a light in one of the upper windows and he moved as cautiously as possible as he neared the house. He remembered

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exactly whore a ladder lay, alongside the wall, and went directly tq It. Carrying it to a corner of thek building and raising It, he rested it gently against the clapboards. Then he mounted cautiously. Nearing the eaves, he groped overhead, found something with his lingers, then reached into a hip pocket. The Jaws of the pliers were sharp and the telephone wire parted with a thrumming sound. The Wreck did not wait to learn whether anybody within heard the noise, but slid down the ladder and hurried away. Twenty yards distant from the house he began groping in the grass anr presently found what he sought. As he began walking again he was coiling wire In his hands. The telephone line, until it reached the spruce several hundred yards distant, was carried on a row of poles. Ho followed it as far as the first pole, cut the wire again, then hurried in the direction of the tool-shed, with the coil over his arm. Sally, nervous at the delay and not understanding the cause of it, was standing guard at the door. Without a "word of explanation, he tossed the coiled•rivire into the bottom of the car. “Now help push,” he said, in a low voice. ”1 don’t want to wake the dead unless I have to.” . Together, they got the IJivver Into reluctant motion. Without her, the Wreck would not have essayed the task, for it would have been far too slow; but Sally was strong, and be. tween them they got the machine moving at a fair walking pace. Fifty yards distant from the shed they cut into the wagon tracks that marked the trail, and for a while the going was somewhat easier. “Keep heaving at it,” he said, to encourage her. “I am,” panted Sally. They were some two hundred yards from the ranch hous£ when the flivver began to encounter a sjlght up-grade. It seemed to become suddenly heavy. Presently, despite their utmost efforts it came to a stop. “Good enough,” gasped the Wreck. “Climb in.” She was in the seat when he laid hold of the crank. The first half dozen pulls brought no response. He paused an Instant to recover breath, then set his teeth and yanked again. There was a furious bellow from beneath the hood and the flivver quivered like a frightened horse. “Better hurry,” ui'ged Sally, with an anxious look toward the house. He was leaping into the seat as she spoke, advancing the gas levet

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until the flivver roared and trembled appallingly. Then the lights switched on and the car plunged forward, up the grade toward the sheltering spruce. In a minute they made the turn' that shut the house from view. The road became winding, but he did not permit the fact to interfere with speed. held fast to the seat, trying to realize that they were actually In flight. She knew better than to offer a word of caution; when the Wreck was driving he resented suggestion. Besides, she was just as anxious as he to put distance between the flivver and the ranch. After a mile of going he brought the car to a'sudden stop and Imped out, leaving the engine running. She saw him rush off among the low trees and thought for a half a minute that he must have lost his mind. Then she caught sight of his figure outlined against the moonlit sky. It was perched at the top of a slender pole that rose above the tree-tops. Before she could conjecture what he was doing, he slid from sight again. Bursting back into the trail, he swung aboard again and they off. “Just wanted to cut the yjjre gome more,” he said, between gasps. “Makes it a little harder for ’em.” "You’d better not waste much time cutting wire,” she- warned him, with anotheh look backward: “Why not, Mrs. Lot?” “They’ve probably got the big car out now.” He reached Into the pocket of his coat and drew forth something that fell clinking Into her lap. She picked up two metallic objects and tried to examine them in the dim light. "What are they?” she asked. "One of ’em’s an intake valve, the other's an exhaust. Timothy’s been grinding them." “And they can’t run the car?” “Not particularly,” said the Wreck. “And how are you going to get them back to Timothy?” He took them from her harids and tossed them into the bushes at the side of the trail. “Let 'em send to New York for new valves,” he answered. In a tpna of savage satisfaction. “They expect to stay a month, don't they?" You’re only piling up trouble for yourself, Henry Williams.” “Nope. Only playing safe.” And to emphasize the safety of his plav, he stopped the flivver again and ascended another pole, from which he cut'the wires with two vicious snaps of his pliers. “Don't forget they can make time over this trail with a horse,” said S*lly. “If I werey you I'd keep moving.”

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

“I hid the saddles," said the Wreck, grinning. “You what?” “Took all the saddles and bridles and carted them out back of the corral. Dumped them into a gudv. They won’t find them till morning, anyhow.” As the broad scope of y his precautions to forestall pursuit .dawned upon her, Sally experienced a feeling of awed admiration. She already knew that he had a way of doing things on impulse; but it was a discovery to learn that the Wreck could be coldly calculating. “In that case,” she said, "you might slow- down a little until wo reach the main road. There's no use breaking our necks until we get off the Underwood property.” He adopted the suggestion and drove more slowly, although he did it with reluctance. He had a sort of affection for the dusty flivver, and the touch of the steering wheel inspired him. He was in a mood to make the machine fly, if it would. A third time he dismounted, as they reached the end of the private road, and threw open the gate. He even took the trouble to close it, after they passed through. Then, once more taking the wheel, he looked at Sally. The main road lay just In front of them, running at right angles. “Which way?” he demanded. "I suppose you’re headed for the train, aren’t you?” CHAPTER XVIII The Wreck Supplies a Cook Sally was not certain whether she was headed for the train or the Bar-M. She had not attempted to plan anything beyond the getadcorns Dr. Scholl s Zino-pads stop corns hurting instantly. Remove the cause—friction and pressure. They are thin, medicated, antiseptic, waterproof. Absolutely safe! Easy to apply. Get thefh at your druggist’s or shoe dealer’s. Three Sizes—lor corns, callouses, bunions DX Scholl's 'Zino-pads **.Put one on—the pain is gone ”

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