Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1928 — Page 14

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THE STORT THIS FAR SfcecU finger prints were found in the apartment of the strangled Margaret Odell, but Vance believes Skeel had been hiding in a closet while the murderer did his work. The thing that baffles police is the door to the alley. It was bolted on the inside, seemingly precluding the exit or entrance of anyone through it. Mannix, Dr. Lindquist and Cleaver all lie about their whereabouts the night of the murder. Spotswoode, who had called on the girl, had rushed to her door at sound of a scream, but had been reassured through the door that nothing was wrong. Later Skeel is found strangled, after promising to reveal the murderer. Vance demonstrated how Skeel could have manipulated the side door and asks Markham to invite Spotswoode, Cleaver and Mannix to his apartment for a poker game, promising to reveal the murderer after it Is over. Cleaver wins an unusually large stake from Vance, beating four kings with a straight flush. CHAPTER XLVIII ABOUT half an hour later Vance again took out his handkerchief and passed it across his forehead. As before, noted that it was Allen’s deal, and also that the hand was a jack-pot which had been twice sweetened. Allen paused to take a drink of his high-ball and to light his cigar. Then, after Vance had cut the cards, he dealt them. Cleaver, Markham and Spotswoode passed, and again Vance opened, for the full amount of the pot. No one stayed except Spotswoode; and this time it was a struggle solely between him and Vance. Spotswoode asked for one card; and Vance stood pat. Then there followed a moment of almost breathless silence. The atmosphere seemed to me to be electrically charged, and I think the others sensed it too, for they were watching the play with a curiously strained intentness. Vance and Spotswoode, however, appeared frozen in attitudes of superlative calm. I watched them closely, but neither revealed the slightest indication of any emotion. It was Vance’s first bet. Without speaking he moved a stack of yellow chips to the center of the table —it was by far the largest wager that had been made during the game. But immediately Spotswoode measured another stack alongside of it. Then he coolly and deftly counted the remainder of his chips, and pushed them all forward with the palm of his hand, saying quitely: “The limit.” Vance shrugged almost imperceptibly. "The pot, sir, is yours.” He smiled pleasantly at Spotswoode, and put down his hand face up, to establish his openers. He had held four aces! "Gads That’s poker!” exclaimed Allen, chuckling. “Poker?” echoed Markham. “To lay down four aces with all that money at stake?” Cleaver also grunted his astonishment, and Mannix pursed his lips disgustedly. "I don't mean any offense, y’ un- ! derstand, Mr. Vance,” he said. “But j looking at that play from a strictly!

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business standpoint, I’d say you quit too soon.” Spotswoode glanced up. “You gentlemen wrong Mr. Vance,” he said. “He played his hand perfectly. “His withdrawal, even with four aces, was scientifically correct." “Sure it was,” agreed Allen. “Oh, boy! What a battle that was!” Spotswoode nodded and, turning to Vance, said: “Since the exact situation is never likely to occur again, the least I can do, by way of showing my appreciation of your remarkable perception, is to gratify your curiousity—l held nothing.” Spotswoode put down his hand and extended his fingers gracefully toward the upturned cards. There were revealed a five, six, seven and eight of clubs, and a knave of hearts. “I can’t say that I follow' your reasoning, Mr. Spotswoode,” Markham confessed. “Mr. Vance had you beaten—and he quit.” “Consider the situation,” Spotswoode replied, in a suave, even voice. “I most certainly would have opened so rich a pot, had I been able to, after Mr. Cleaver and you had passed. “But since I nevertheless stayed after Mr. Vance had opened for so large an amount, it goes without

COL.CHAS.A. LINDBERGH'S OWN LIFE STOHYiS;S.

THE STORY SO FAR Lindbergh completed his education at the University of Wisconsin and learned to fly in an aviation school. He purchased and flew two planes on several barnstorming trips before entering Brooks field as a cadet. He graduated as a second lieutenant from Kelly field and made several other barnstorming trips while waiting for a job in the air mail service. After being forced out of the Faeific-to-Atlantic air race by a had plane. Lindbergh became an instructor for the Robertson Aircraft Corporation at St. Louis. He then made preparations for the opening of the air mail routes in the spring. The first air mail was carried by Lindbergh on May 15, 1926. Flying conditions were difficult because of the lack of bacon lights and good landing fields. Lindy’s first forced landing as an air mail pilot came Sept. 16, 1926. Lindbergh's fourth forced parachute jump was much like the third. He cut off the plane's power and jumped over the side of the cockpit landing on a barbedwire fence. CHAPTER XXIV AFTER rolling the chute into its pack I started toward the nearest light. I soon came to a road, walked about a mile to the town of Coveil, 111., and telephoned a report to St. Louis. The only information I could obtain in regard to the crashed plane was from one of a group of farmers in the general store. w r ho stated that his neighbor had heard the plane crash but could only guess at its general direction. An hour’s search proved without

saying that I must have had either a four-straight, a four-flush, or a four straight flush. “I believe I may state without immodesty that I am too good a player to have stayed otherwise.” “And I assure you, Markham," interrupted Vance, “that Mr. Spotswoode is too good a player to have stayed unless he had actually had a fourt-straight flush. “That is the only hand he would have been justified in backing at the betting odds of two to one. “You see. I had opened for the amount in the pot, and Mr. Spotswoode’ had to put up half the amount of the money on the table In order to stay—making it a two-to-one bet.—Now', these odds are not high, and any non-opening hand smaller than a four-straight-flush would not have warranted the risk. “As it was, he had, with a onecard draw', tw'O chances in fortyseven of making a straight-flush, nine chances in forty-seven of making a flush, and eight chances in forty-seven of making a straight; so that he had nineteen chances in forty-seven—or more than one chance in three—of strengthening his hand into either a straightflush, a flush, or a straight.” “Exactly,” assented Spotswoode. “How'ever, after I had drawn my

avail. I left instructions to place a guard over the mail in case the plane was found before I returned and went to Chicago for another ship. On arriving over Covell the next morning I found the week with a small crowd gathered around it, less than 500 feet in back of the house where I had left my parachute the : light before. The nose and the wheels had struck the ground at the same time, and after sliding along for about seventy-five feet it had piled up in a pasture beside a hedge fence. One wheel had come off and w r as standing inflated against the wall on the inside of a hog house a hundred yards further on. It had gone through two fences and the wall of the house. The wings were badly splintered, but the tubular fuselage, although badly bent in places, had held its general form even in the mail pit. The parachute from the flare was hanging on the tailskid. There were three sacks of mail in the plane. One, a full bag from St. Louis, had been split open and some of the mail oil-soaked but legible. The other two bags were only partially full and were undamaged. .

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one card, the only possible question in Mr. Vance’s mind was whether or not I had made my straight flush. “If I had not made it—or had merely drawn a straight or a flush —Mr. Vance figured, and figured rightly, that I w'ould not have seen his large bet and also have raised it the limit. “To have done so, in those circumstances, would have been irrational poker. Not one player in a thousand would have taken such a risk on a mere bluff. “Therefore, had Mr. Vance not laid down his four aces when I raised him, he would have been foolhardy in the extreme. “It turned out, of course, that I was actually bluffing; but that does not alter the fact that the correct and logical thing was for Mr. Vance to quit.” * “Quite true,” Vance agreed. “As Mr. Spotswoode says, not one player in a thousand would have wagered the limit without having filled his straight-flush, knowing I had a pat hand. “Indeed, one might almost say that Mr. Spotswoode by doing so. has added another decimal point to the psychological subtleties of the game; for, as you see, he analyzed my reasoning, and carried his own reasoning a step further.” Spotswoode acknowledged the compliment with a slight bow; and

It was just about at this time, or shortly afi.er, that I first began to think about a New York-Paris flight. But before discussing the events leading up to that flight it might be well to say a few words about the future possibilities of commercial aviation. In comparing aviation to other forms of transportation it should be borne in mind that the flying machine has been in existence less than twenty-five years. The Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk. N. C., in 1903. Yet in 1927 air liners are operating regularly over long distances and under all conditions. The first airplane was a frail machine, capable of operating only in good weather. Even with the utmost care flying in the early days of aviation was a dangerous profession at best. Today the properly operated commercial airline compares favorably in safety with any other means of transportation. Shipping has reached its present stage after thousands of years of development. Railroads less than a century ago stopped their trains at night on the grounds that operation in darkness was unsafe. Automobiles, after nearly forty years of progress, are still dependent on good roads. The airplane, in less than a quarter a century, has taken its place among the most important methods of travel, and now. where time is paramount and territory inaccessible, it stands at the head of its competition. Development up to the present time has been largely military. The cost of 'Aeronautical engineering and construction has been so great that commercial companies have not been able to afford to experiment with their own designs. While the airplane was still an experiment, the financial returns from aeronautical projects were only too often less than the cost of operation. Consequently the early development was largely sponsored by the Government, with the result that the planes were designed for use in warfare rather than for safety and economy of operation. Extreme safety in the military machine must be sacrificed for maneuverability. Economy of operation was replaced by military design. Commercial aviation in the United States has been retarded in the past by lack of Government subsidy, but the very lack of that subsidy will be one of its greatest assets in the future. A subsidized airline is organized with the subsidy as a very large consideration. The organization exists on the subsidy and its growth is regulated by the subsidy. Years will be required before the pilot of independence is reached and the receipts become larger than the expenditures. On the other hand, an airline organized without regard to an external income is in a position to expand along with the demands for service. If the traffic becomes great enough to require more or bigger planes, a larger profit ensues, instead of an increased subsidy being required or the fare being raised to hold down the demand. The airplane has now advanced to the stage where the demands of commerce are sufficient to warrant the building of planes without regard to military usefulness. And with the advent of the purely commercial airplane comes an economy of operation which places operating organizations on a sound financial basis. Undoubtedly in a few years the United States will be covered with a network of passenger, mail and express lines. Trans-Atlantic service is still in the future. Extensive research and careful study will be required before any regular schedule between America and Europe can be maintained. Multi-mortored flying boats with stations along the route will eventually make trans-oceanic airlines practical, but their development must be based on a solid foundation of experience and equipment. (To Be Continued)

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Cleaver reached for the cards and began to shuffle them. But the tension had been broken, and the game was not resumed. Something, however, seemed to have gone wrong with Vance. For a long while he sat frowning at his cigaret and sipping his high-ball in troubled abstraction. “At last he rose and walked to the mantel, where he stood studying a Cezanne water coldt he had given Markham years before. His action was a typical indication of his inner puzzlement. Presently, when there came a lull sharply and looked at Mannix . “I saw, Mr. Mannix"—he spoke with only casual curiosity—“how does it happen you’ve never acquired a taste for poker? All good business men are gamblers at heart.” “Sure they are,” Mannix replied, with pensive deliberation. “But poker, now. isn’t my idea of gambling—positively not. “It’s got too much science. And it ain’t quick enough for me—it hasn’t got the kick in it, if you know what I mean. Roulette's my speed. “When I was in Monte Carlo last summer I dropped more money in ten minutes than you gentlemen lost here this whole evening. But I got action for my money.” “I take it, then, you don't care for cards at all.” “Not to play games with,” Mannix had become expansive. "I don't mind betting money on the draw of a card, for instance. But no two out of three, y’ understand. I want my pleasures to come rapid.” And he snapped his thick fingers several times in quick succession to demonstrate the rapidity with which he desired to have his pleasures come. Vance sauntered to the table and carelessly picked up a deck of cards. “What do you say to cutting once for a thousand dollars?” Mannix rose instantly. “You’re on!” Vance handed the cards over, and Mannix shuffled them. Then he put them down and cut. He turned up a ten. Vance cut, and showed a king. “A thousand I owe you.” said Mannix. with no more concern than if it had been ten cents. Vance waited without speaking, and Mannix eyed him craftily. ”1’ cut with you again—two thousand this time. Yes?” Vance raised his eyebrows. “Double? ... By all means.” He shuffled the cards, and cut a seven. Mannix’s hand swooped down and turned a five. “Well, that's three thousand I owe you,” he said. His little eyes had now narrowed Into slits, and he held his cigar clamped tightly between his teeth. “Like to double it again—eh, what?” Vance asked. “Four thousand this time?” Markham looked at Vance in amazement, and over Allen's face there came an expression of almost ludicrous consternation. Every one present, I believe, was astonished at the offer, for obviously Vance knew that he was giving Mannix tremendous odds by permitting successive doubling. In the end he was sure to lose. I believe Markham would have protested if at that moment Mannix had not snatched the cards from the table and begun to shuffle them. “Four thousand it is!” he announced, putting down the deck and cutting. He turned up the queen of diamonds. “You can’t, beat that lady—positively not!” He was suddenly jovial. “I fancy you’re right,” murmured Vance; and he cut a trey. “Want some more?” asked Mannix, with good natured aggressiveness. “That’s enough,” Vance seemed bored. “Far too excitin’. I haven't your rugged constitution, don’t y’ know.” He went to the desk and made out a check to Mannix for a thousand dollars. Then he turned to Markham and held out his hand . “Had a jolly evening and all that sort of thing. . . • And, don't forget: we lunch together tomorrow. One o'clock at the club, what?" Markham hesitated. “If nothing interferes.” “But really, y’ know, It mustn’t,” insisted Vance. “You’ve no idea how eager you are to see me.” He was unusually silent and thoughtful during the ride home. Not one explanatory word could I get out of him. But when he bade me good night he said: “There’s a vital part of the puzzle still missing, and until it’s found none of it has any meaning.” (To Be Continued)

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