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MOVE TO DROP M'NARY-KAUGEN 1 FEE PROVISION Substitute Bill Approved by ge May Be Recjmmended. OMAS L. STOKES i 's Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Passage by the House of a compromise farm relief bill which President Coolidge will sign, instead of the disputed McNary-Haugen measure wjth its equilizatlon fee, appears probable as a result of the last few days’ developments. It was predicted freely today that the House Agriculture Committee would report out a bill lacking the equalization fee to which the administration objects, and that a majority of McNary-Haugen bill supporters would vote for such a measure on the floor. A probable compromise js along the lines of the Curtiss-Crisp bill, which is understood to have administration support. Would Buy Sur^lues This would set up financing corporations for each crop having a surplus, with power to buy up this surplus in the open market and hold It for better prices. To prevent deliberate creation of surpluses, the measure prohibits operation of the machinery for a second year surplus if that surplus is caused by increased acreage. The machinery would continue functioning if the second surplus resulted from natural beneficial conditions. The Curtis-Crisp bill was defeated in the House committe last session by only one vote. The Farm Bureau Federation and other farm organizations favoring the McNary-Haugen bill will continue to support it, it is believedChester H. Gray, legislative representative of the Farm Bureau, has declined to give way, pointing out he is powerless in the face of the organization’s mandate. Boom for Lowden Political observers today expressed .v .at rejection of the Mc--1 bill by Congress in fa- . > ipromise measure would than hinder the presiement of ex-Governor >wden, Illinois, who indll. They say it would produce a grievance and therefore an issue. If the McNary-Haugen measure is dropped some Democrats will attack farm Republicans, on the ground that their action is governed by political expediency in this presidential year, it was learned today, P. T. A. to Meet Wednesday The Parent-Teacher Association of School No. 72 will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. at the building. Dedicatory services and commencement exercises will be held.

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THE STORY THUS FAR It was the Jewel case that puzzled Vance. It was found In the apartment not far from the strangled body of Margaret Odell, the beautiful stare star, known as the “Canary.” Ite case looked as if someone had first tried to open it with a noker and then had succeeded in opening it with a chisel. Vance. Markham’s friend, and a student of crime psychology, thinks It most peculiar. CHAPTER VI Deputy inspector conrad BRENNER was one of that small army of obscure, but highly capable experts who are connected with the New York police department, and who are constantly being consulted on abstruse technical problems, but whose names and achievements rarely get into the public prints. His specialty was locks and burglars’ tools; and I doubt if, even among those exhaustive painstaking criminologists of the University of Lausanne, there was a more accurate reader of the evidential signs left by the implements of house-breakers. In appearance and bearing he was like a withered little college professor. His black, unpressed suit was oldfashioned in cut; and he wore a very high stiff collar, with a narrow black string tie. His gold-rimmed spectacles were so thick-lensed that the pupils of his eyes gave the impression of acute belladonna poisoning. When Heath had spoken to him, he merely stood staring with a sort of detached expectancy; he seemed utterly unaware that there was any one else in the room. The sergeant, evidently familiar with the little man’s idiosyncrasies of manner, did not wait for a response, but started at once for the bedroom. “This way, please, Professor,7 he directed, cajolingly, going to the dressing table and picking up the jewel-case. “Take a squint at this, and tell me what you see." Inspector Brenner followed Heath, without looking to right or left, and taking the jewel case, went silently to the window and began to examine it. Vance, whose interest seemed suddenly to be reawakened, came forward and stood watching him. For fully five minutes the little expert inspected the case, holding it wPhin a few inches of his myopic eyes. Then he lifted his glance to Heath and winked several times rapidly. “Two instruments were used in opening this case.” His voice was small and high-pitched, but there was in it an undeniable quality of authority. “One bent the lid and made several fractures on the baked enamel. The other was, I should say, a steel chisel of some kind, and was used to break the lock. “The first instrument, which was blunt, was employed amateurishly, at the wrong angle of Average; and the effort resulted only in twisting the overhang of the lid. But the steel chisel was inserted withs. knowledge of the correct point of oscillation, where a minimum of leverage would produce the counteracting stress necessary to displace the lockbolts.” “A professional job?” suggested Heath. “Highly so,” answered the inspec-

tor, again blinking. “That is to say, the forcing of the lock was professional. And I would even go so far as to advance the opinion that the instrument used was one especially constructed for such illegal purposes.” “Could this have done the job?” Heath held out the poker. The other looked at it closely, and turned it over several times. “It might have been the instrument that bent the cover, but it was not the one used for prying open the lock. This poker is cast iron and would have snapped under any great pressure, whereas this box is of cold rolled eighteen-gauge steel plate, with an inset cylinder pin-tumbler lock taking a paracentric key, “The leverage force necessary to distort the flange sufficiently to lift the lid could have been made only by a steel chisel.” “Well, that’s that.” Heath seemed well satisfied with Inspector Brenner’s conclusion. “I’ll send the box down to you, Professor, and you can let me know what else you find out.” “I’ll take it along, if you have no objection.” And the little man tucked it under his arm and shuffled out without another word. Heath grinned at Markham. "Queer bird. He ain’t happy unless he's measuring jimmy marks on doors and windows and things. He couldn’t wait till I sent him the box. He’ll hold it lovingly on his lap all the way down in the subway, like a mother with a baby.” Vance was still standing near the dressing-table, gazing perplexedly .into space. “Markham,” he said, “the condition of that jewel-case is positively astounding. It’s unreasonable, illogical—insane. It complicates the situation most damnably. That steel box simply couldn’t have been chiselled open by a professional burglar ... and yet, don’t y’ know, it actually was.” Before Markham could reply, a satisfied grunt from Captain Dubois attracted our attention. “I’ve got something for you, Sergeant,” he announced. We moved expectantly into the living-room. Dubois was bending over the end of the library table almost directly behind the place where Margaret Odell’s body had been found. He took out an Insufflator, which was like a very small hand-bellows, and blew a fine light-yellow powder evenly over about a square foot or the polished rosewood surface of the table-top. Then he gently blew away the surplus powder, and there appeared the Impression of a human hand distinctly registered in saffron. The bulb of the thumb and each fleshy hummock between the joints of the fingers and around the palm stood out like tiny circular islands. All the papillary ridges were clearly discernible. The photographer

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then hooked his camera to a peculiar adjustable tripod and, carefully focusing his lens, took two flash-light pictures of the handmark. “This ought to do,” Dubois was pleased with his find. “It’s the right hand—a clear print—and the guy who made it was standing right behind the dame. . . . And it’s the newest print in the place.” “What about this box?” Heath pointed to the black document-box on the table near the overturned lamp. “Not a mark—wiped clean.” DUbois began putting away his paraphernalia. “I say, Captain Dubois,” interposed Vance, “did you take a good look at the inside doorknob of that clothes-press?” The man swung about abruptly and gave Vance a glowering look. “People ain’t in the habit of handling the inside knobs of closet doors. They open and shut closets from the outside.” Vance raised his eyebrows in simulated astonishment. “Do they, now, really? Fancy that! . . . still, don’t y’ know, if one were inside the closet, one couldn’t reach the outside knob.” “The people I know don’t shut themselves In clothes-closets.” Dubois’ tone was ponderously sarcastic. “You positively amaze me!” declared Vance. “All the people I know are addicted to ( the habit—a sort of daily pastime, don’t y' know.” Markham, always diplomatic, intervened. “What idea have you about that closet, Vance?” “Alas! I wish I had one,” was the dolorous answer. “It’s because I can’t, for the life of me, make sense of its neat and orderly appearance that I’m so interested in it. Really, y’ know, it should have been artistically looted.” Heath was not entirely free from the same vague misgivings that

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