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PANAMA CANAL PILES UP HUGE PROFIT FOR U. S. Waterway Now Is Operating 18 Hours Daily to Take Care of Rush. lSn Turns Special WASHINGTON, Feb. ment in business” scored a smashing success in 1927 with Uncle Sam's bigget single enterprise, the Panama Canal. After almost a record year in 1927, with $24,217,000 collected in tolls, business has increased so much already this winter that the canal now is operating eighteen hours a day, and may go to twenty-four. The year 1928 promises to break all records of traffic and receipts. Practically all subsidiary business operations showed a profit in 1927. The Panama Railroad, chartered as a $7,000,000 private corporation, with all its stock owned by the Government. made so much money that it was advised to declare a 10 per cent dividend instead of the 5 per cent it has been paying for some years. The good showing was revealed in the release yesterday of testimony before the War Department subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee by Brig. Gen. M. L. Walker, governor-general of the Panama Canal Zone. Congress appropriates about $9,000,000 annually for the canal. In return for this, Walker showed, the canal itself made $15,600,000 last year, and the business enterprises, excluding the railroad, $876,000. All goes back into the treasury. SPANK YOUNG SMUGGLER Detroit Federal Judge Imposes Novel Punishment On Boy. DETROIT. Feb. I.—An old fashioned paddling was the fine imposed on John Magy, 16, when he pleaded guilty of violating the immigration law before Judge Simons of Federal Court. Magy was caught ; muggling a man and a woman from Windsor, Canada, to Michigan. Traction Passengers Shaken By Times Special rbaking was suffered by passengers i l the buffet car of the Hoosierl md, crack Indianapolis-Ft. Wayne electric train, derailed near here. The buffet car left the track on a curve and crashed Into a pole, but tlid not overturn. Visit Crawfordsville Schools By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Feb. I.—Superintendents of schools in most of Indiana’s larger cities, visited schools here today, the first number on the program of a twoday session of the Indiana City Superintendents’ Research Club.

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THE STORY TUI'S FAR There were finger-prints in the apartment of the murdered Margaret Odell, but the thine that baffles Vance most is the jewel case. It had been opened with a steel chisel after unsuccessfully being pried with a poker. Spotsuooae had gone out with the girl the night of the murder. When he left her he told Jessup to call a cab. They heard a screen) from her apartment, rushed back to her door and were told everything was all right. The next morning she was found strangled. Vance believes two men were in the apartment; the murderer and another who lay hidden In a elothes-closet. Investigation discloses that Cleaver Is the man who has been seen with her the most. CHAPTER XV Markham sat up. “i know Cleaver—if it’s the same one.” “It’s him, all right,” declared Heath. “Former Brooklyn tax commissioner; been interested in a poolroom for pony betting over in Jersey City ever since. ’Hangs out at the Stuyvesant Club, where he can hobnob with his old Tammany Hall cronies.” “Tl-at’s the one,” nodded Markham. "He’s a kind of professional gay-dog—known as Pop, I believe.” Vance gazed into space. “Well, well,” he murmured. "So old Pop Cleaver was also entangled with our subtle and sanguine Dodores.” ‘I thought, sir,” went on Heath, “that, seeing how Cleaver is always in and out of the Stuyvesant Club, you might ask him some questions about Odell. He ought to knowi something.” "Glad to, sergeant.” Markham 1 made a note on his pad. "I’ll try to get in touch with him tonight. . . . Any one else on your list?” "There’s a fellow named Mannix —Louis Mannix—who met Odell when she was in the 'Follies’; but she chucked him over a year ago, and they haven’t been seen together since. "He’s got another girl now. He’s the head of the firm of Mannix & Levine, fur importers, and is one of your night club rounders—a heavy spender. But I don’t see much use of barking up that tree—his afTair with Odell went cold too long ago.” * “Yes,” agreed Markham; "I think we can eliminate him.’ "I say, if you keep up this elimination much longer,” observed Vance, "you won’t have anything left, but the lady’s corpse.” “And then, there’s the man who took her out last night,” pursued Heath. "Nobody seems to know his name—he must’ve been one of these discreet, careful old boys. I thought at first he might have been i Cleaver, but the descriptions don’t tally. “And by the way, sir, here’s a funny thing: whet) he left Odell last night he took the taxi down to the Stuyvesant Club, and got out there.” Markham nodded. "I know all about that, Sergeant. And I know who the man was; and it wasn’t Cleaver.” Vance was chuckling. “The Stuyvesant Club seems to J?e well in the forefront of this case,” he said. “I do hope it doesn't suffer the sad fate of the Knickerbocker Athletic.” Heath was intent on the main issue. “Who was the man, Mr. Markham?” Markham hesitated, as if pondering the advisability of taking the other into his confidence. Then he said: "I’ll tell you his name, but in strict confidence. The man was Kenneth Spotswoode.” He then recounted the story of his being called away from lunch, a.nd of his failure to elicit any

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helpful suggestions from Spotswoode. He also informed Heath of his verification of the man’s statements regarding his movements after meeting Judge Redfern at the club. "And,” added Markham, "since he obviously left the girl before she was murdered, there’s no necessity to bother him. In fact, I gave him my word I’d keep him out of it for his family’s sake.” “If you're satisfied, sir, I am,” Heath closed his note book and put it away. “There’s just one other little thing. Odell used to live on 1110th St., and Emery dug up her former landlady and learned that this fancy guy the maid told us about used to call on her regularly.” "That reminds me. Sergeant,” Markham picked up the memorandum he had made during Inspector Brenner's phone call. “Here's some data the professor gave me about the forcing of the jewel case.” Heath studied the paper with considerable eagerness. “Just as I thought!” He nodded his head with 1 satisfaction. "Clear-cut professional job by somebody who’s been in the line of work before.” Vance reused himself. "Still, if such is the case," he said, “why did this experienced burglar first use the insufficient poker? And why did he overlook the living room clothes press?” "I’ll find all that out, Mr. Vance, when I get my hands on him,” asserted Heath, with a hard look in his eyes. "And the guy I want to have a nice, quiet little chat with is the one with the pleated silk shirt i and the chamois gloves.” "For myself, I have no yearning whatever to hold converse with him. Somehow, I can’t just picture a professional looter trying to rend a steel box with a cast-iron poker.” “Forget the poker,” Heath advised gruffly. “He jimmied the box j with a steel chisel; and that same chisel was used last summer in j another burglary on Park Avenue, i What about that?” “Ah! That’s what torments me, j Sergeant. If it wasn’t for that ; disturbin’ fact, d’ ye see, I’d be lightsome this afternoon, inviting!

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Vance regarded the identification card satirically. "I wish he’d start a craze for gaiters with dinner-jackets—these New York theaters are frightfully drafty in winter.” Heath put the card back in the folder and glanced over the typewritten paper that had accompanied it. "He’s our man and no mistake, Mr. Markham. Listen to this: "Tony (Dude) Skeel. Two years Elmira Reformatory. 1902 to 1904. One year in the Baltimore County jail for petit larceny, 1906. "Three years in San Quentin for assault and robbery, 1908 to 1911. Arrested in Chicago for housebreaking. 1912; case dismissed. Arrested and tried for burglary in Albany, 1913; no conviction. "Served two years and eight months in Sing Sing for housebreaking and burglary, 1914 to 1916.” He folded the paper and put it, * Ith the card, into his breast-pocket. “Sweet little record.” "That dope what you wanted?” asked the imperturbable Bellamy. “I’ll say!” Heath was almost jovial. Bellamy lingered expectantly with one eye on the district attorney; and Markham, as if suddenly remembering something, took out a box of cigars and held it out. “Much obliged, sir,” said Bellamy, helping himself to two, and putting them into his waistcoat pocket with great care, he went out. “I’ll use your phone now, if you don’t mind, Mr. Markham,” said Heath. He called the homicide bureau. “Look up Tony Skeel—Dude Skeel —pronto, and bring him in as soon as you find him.” were his orders

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