Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1932 — Page 15

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WOW HKRE TODAY elderly cousin of IJMDA falls to bin death from the second floor balcony of the Averill*' Jsing Is.and home. Linda reaches him just before he ales, in time to hear him ita.-p. "He pushed me 1” • hrr cousin had tried . er ,J }c J rß , s roordered. rushes up- •'_* *>o the balcony. Someone steps ian n ?n r faint? l ° * tr * n “ c hfr and „ H r . TOM seen her fall snd ♦if. £1 io “ Pr :. are four guests in Ch' house and they all appear. "he guests are MR STATLANDER. ".'■siness associate of Tom's; CAPTAIN .X2 3 ' „ han<i,om '' Belgian; MARVIN 1 LIAN bHAUGHNEfcSEY, Irish writer. Each of them have quarreled with cousin Amos. DR PARSONS take* charge, it is assumed cousin Amos' death was accidental and thla Linda fainted from shock. Vhen she Is finally able to tell Tom V'hat happened, she persuades him that they must keep the four guests with them until they discover wno is the murdei'er. They are unexpectedly aided in this plan when DR BOYLE, official medical examiner, sends word that every one in the house must remain until he has questioned th'-m Bovle is on a fishing trip and can not return for several hours. Tom and Linda discuss the situation. Tom says Pratt is the only one against whom they have definite accusations. Linda says. "Oh, yes. we have. Against ont ot,hrr man!’* NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (Continued) “No. Each one took it differently but all took it well. I blamed poor old Parsons pretty heavily and emphasized the fact that it was only a formality. “At first Statlander was distinctly disagreable, but that could be laid to his dislike of having his plans upset twice in rapid succession. He was all ready to leave and his room was neat as a pin. If was any evidence there against him, it’s gone now. “I reminded him we still had a lot of Valeska business to discuss and that appeared to reconcile him. Either he really doeS want to finish w hat we’re supposed to clean up this week-end, or he decided he’d better seem to want to. Marvin—l’m afraid I was pretty short with Marvin. Just told him the facts and let it go at that.” “How did he act?” “Just the same. He’d be a good one to conceal a guilty secret, because he always acts as if he had one, and so gradually you get used to it. “When J knocked, he opened the door and blocked it completely. I couldn’t into the room, and somehow I had the idea he didn’t want me to. It might have been just my imaginatibn. “I—well, it wasn’t any too easy for me to be civil and I can’t honestly say I noticed much about him. He was stiff and had that air of holding something back, as I remember. In other words, quite himself. “Then I W'ent next door to De Vos. He was also quite himself, which meant that he w'as very pleasant and courteous, .assured me he quite understood and that anything that made it easier for us was agreeable to him. ‘‘He did ask about going off the grounds and I found he had a date with Fleur Stoner early this afternoon—” “You might know she’d have her hooks in him!” “And he’d thought he might simply check his bag at the station and go up to town later. He’d noticed the inn across the road there and had meant to stop there for lunch without bothering us.” “Thoughful! And Mr. Shaughnessey we know about—so that’s that! And now we must think of each one separately, Tom—what he’s said and done, ever since he arrived. We’ll start ” “We’ll start with Pratt,” said Tom grimly. “After all, he was there and that seems fairly important.” “It is indeed,” agreed Linda. “Don’t think I entirely bar him out. But remember, too, his room is nearest Cousin Amos’ and it’s perfectly possible he heard me fall.

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“And any one who really had tried to strangle mo wouldn’t have waited while you swam in, ran across the lawn and came upstairs.” “He might stay from bravado, just because no one would think he would. Anyhow, we have that on him definitely and we have nothing on any other.” “Oh, yes, we have. On one other man.” CHAPTER EIGHTEEN r T' v OM showed his surpise, “What A do you mean?” he asked. “Don’t you remember what you told me about Mr. Shaughnessey! Linda was deadly in earnest now. “Tom, why should he be up then, much less prowling around? An hour before you’d helped him up the stairs—drunk!” “Well, not exactly drunk, Binks.” “Near enough! Did you see him start to undress?” “No, I didn’t need to stay. I was tired myself and he was able

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Last Piece of Pie That threadbare spot down the center of the Governor’s office carpet has been worn by the ponderous steps of John J. Brown, director of the state highway commission. Brown, they tell me, is anxious to give up his more than $6,000 post as highway director for the $4,000 salary as a memoer qf the state tax board. In fact, Brown is so eager to take the less lucrative office that he has been over to see Governor Leslie almost every day for the last important piec3 of Republican pie. But so far there has been no sign that Brown will be transferred. Don’t think that it is a sudden desire to reduce the cost of government that motivates Brown in his demand for the position with the lesser pay. The real fact is that the highway director is appointed for a year and at the pleasure of the four members of the commission, while the tax board job is definitely for four years. Although neve’* accused of being over-keen politically, it doesn’t take an electric sign to tell Brown that after Paul McNutt assumes the governorship in January his job as highway director is “caput.” And that means an end to his continual office holding. And if there is one thing that Brown likes, it’s to see his name on the public pay roll. The task before John is to talk Leslie into giving him the tax board job. And that isn’t as easy as it sounds. Brown until 1928 had been a state tax commissioner. He was content to hold down the job which then paid $4,500 a year and felt no inclination to get out and hustle for the “good old Republican party.” In September of 1928, Brown got an inkling that Governor Ed Jackson was going to appoint his secretary, Pliny Wolfard, to the job on Dec. 1. Then- along came the Democratic campaign criticism of the manner in which the tax board had fixed various assessments. And they weren't far wrong. a a a Well, John got out on the stump to answer the attacks, which in the main were directed against him. Leslie was elected in November

to navigate all right. Gosh, it seems a month ago instead of this very morning!” “I was thinking he’d been drinking, Tom, and he was quarrelsome, even the little I could see. Os course they all had trouble with Cousin Amos, but Mr. Shaughnessey had been snubbed outrageously and he’s proud as Lucifer. , ‘No matter how he hid it he’d never forgive the way Cousin Amos talked to him that night at dinner. He probably could have gotten into the house somehow.” Tom’s frown of concentration stopped her. “You know, Linda, I can’t remember locking that door last n*ght.” “The front door when we came in? ( I didn’t see—oh, of course, you came up later after you took him over.” “Yes. I was hot and tired and pretty well jangled as to nerves by our delightful guests. Wanted to

and in December, 1928, when Jackson appointed Wolfard to Brown's place on the tax board, the Gov-ernbr-elect announced that Brown would be his secretary. During the first three months of Leslie’s term it was extremely difficult even for an informed person to find out whether the Governor was the big, loud-voiced chap sitting in the outer office or the fellow called “Leslie” in the inner office. The truth is that many a stranger left the statehouse after talking to Brown, sincerely believing he had interviewed the Governor. It got rather tiresome to Leslie and he welcomed the opportunity to boot Brown across the street into the more lucrative post of highway director. In that capacity, it is a matter of record that John makes a far better tax commissioner. Various legislative investigatory committees soon became acquainted with this. In these depression days Brown quite naturally would prefer a fouryear job on the state pay roll and so he is anxious for a change.

TT'SGDE AW BY BRUCE GAJTQN

'T'HE evolution of a dictator gets graphic presentation in “Porflro Diaz: Dictator of Mexico,” by Carleton Beals. Diaz today is remembered chiefly as a ruthless and able ruffian who held absolute power in Mexico for upward of thirty years, and during that time gave the luckless country at least a semblance of order. Mr. Beals here analyzes his career and shows that the man was both better and worse than the customary American verdict made him. In the beginning, Diaz was all patriot—unselfish, devoted, and brave. He was Juarez’s most valued subordinate during the’ long fight against Maximilian and the French. He kept the revolution alive In those days at great personal peril. He could not be scared, and —wonder of wonders—he could not be bribed. Indeed, Diaz’s work during those years makes an enthralling tale. Sometimes he had not a dozen followers. Always the odds against him were long. But he never faltered, and that Juarez finally won was due in no small measure to Diaz, who was all that a heroic patriot ought to be. Then he and Juarez quarreled. Juarez died and Diaz seized power; and straightaway he became a selfish, unprincipled dictator. He ‘ modernized” Mexico, to be sure, but it was a blind, one-sided modernization to which many of Mexico's present troubles are due. He left the struggling masses in infinitely worse shape than he found them. “Porfiro Diaz” is published by Lippincott and sells for $5.

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Gasping, bruised but fighting bravely, Pat pulled herself from the wreckage. As she crawled on to the upper deck a strange dizziness overcame her. Everything went black before her smokestung eyes, and after one cry for help—*

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get my clothes off and get to bed—” ‘‘You don’t usually forget.” “I may not have. Just can’t remember doing it. One of the ordinary bits of routine that simply doesn’t register either way.” “You said you didn’t see him to bed.” “You mean he could have followed me?” “No, not exactly. But I was thinking that he might have watched you from the window. He could have noticed that—if you'd just hurried in and left the door open.” nan . TOM made a gesture of weariness and distaste. “Well, granting he got into the house and threw the old man over the balcony, how could he choke you and then show up on the terrace as I came up?”

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she remembered nothing more. , . . Her father, baffled in his search for her, staggered from beicw deck. Two officers found him, and against his will forcibly carried him into the last departing lifeboat.

“He could—that’s just what I was figuring.” Her voice was excited, her eyes bright. “Look, Tom, you were climbing on the raft —you saw me wave and a man behind me—and you dived. “While you were in the air or under water he could step over me, run across the little balcony and into the nursery. It's empty and the nursery casement opens at a touch. By the time you were swimming in—” “I see what you mean. You think Pratt came across the hall afterwards. But then, Binks, wouldn't Shaughnessey have been caught in the nursery?” “Not at all. It’s right opposite the door to the service stairs. He could slip across the hall, down them, through the pantry and kitchen—the girls weren’t stirring then—out the side door and come around on

the front lawn and meet you, cool as a cucumber—” “And surprised to see me there! Yes. You’re right—in point of time anyhow, he certainly could.” Tom whistled softly. “But. Binks—why not go back to the garage?” Her face fell, then lightened. “Bravado, as you said of Marvin. And the Irish do love to show off.” “You certainly do dislike that man, don't you, Binks?” “I don't like any of them any too well. And now about the other two?” “Yes—either of them ” “You said they both came into the room? Did you notice whefe they came from?” “Where—oh, I see! If' the one who did it escaped by way of the nursery, he’d come from that end of the hall. But statlander is down at this end already. That would be

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a give-away only if it were De Vos.” "I know. I just thought you might have noticed the direction from which they came.” “Never thought of it. Too busy with you—and, besides, my back was to the door. They just appeared after I reached the room, but before we brought you here.” a * a |7*OR the last moment or two he * had spoken vaguely, as if his thoughts were elsewhere. Now he broke the short silence hesitatingly. “Linda—l can’t exactly place it—but there’s something—” “Something you saw?” “Yes. from the float. There was something about that man—” “When you saw him standing behind me?” “It w’as only a second, you

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know. But I have a queeT,.”'hazy feeling there was somethfng -not quite right about hi* Jooks. Just the effect as he stood ihefei* ! “Oh, Tom, try to thihk!” -* “I am trying, but it come." She waited hopefully.. He shook his head. Sorry! CanTge* It.” “It’ll come when you least expect it,” said Linda comfortingly* iiftle guessing how long deftrki—how very nearly too lortg*~feh*Cj sudden memory would be. “We can settle that later. Now we mQst fix our stories so that they agree on the accident and what happened after. “We must know exactly what we're going to say—about •.very single point.” (To Be Continued)

—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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