The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 February 1937 — Page 3

^SCHOOLS

| Olimes, vice president; Marilyn Crask J to buy i secretary. For the program Olive Mae Dean gave two very humorous readings Harold Quebbeman. who dis-

.fHE DAILY BANNER, Q KEEN CASTLE, INDIANA SATT’RDAV,

FEBRIWRY illi, 10?,7.

almost everything with a cer- School, under Uie direction of Mr. Me

ta:n amount of money it stopped mo

of this fever.

. Now I am very careful with my

ral students who are taking | ^ o a / e ^ 1 ^_ b 1 Ut _ t ® r ^ li “ , a i nd niotKs h, ‘ j clothes and shoes. Above all it has

stopped me of all my toy fevers. You would be surprised at the amount you can save for something that may last a lifetime ‘ Be Thrifty'^!

Donald, composed a song for the oc-

casion.

high school have received j , ‘ a<l collected as a hobby, explained mes of students in France who | al1 atx,ut their habits. One of his pdying English and who wish I mot hs, he said is worth three dollars.

jt0 to American students. Tire 1 Mrs. Ivan Ruark was honor guest at a dinner given Wednesday evening by the officers of the P. T. A. and teachers of Mary Emma Jones school. Mrs. Kuark is P. T. A. chairman of

the fifth district.

Peabody school of Nashville, SS e sponsors this educational pordence bureau. Correspondchesen on the basis of age imilarity of interests. Through change of picture post cards, school programs, etc., both -is become better acquainted the country whose language

,re studying.

speaker for the Motion Picor.d Book Club this week was Bonner. She reviewed Helen L' S dramatization of the book Kyiv, which was written by otte Bronte. The program was appreciated. The members of ravel Club were guests. , Opportunity Club of Miss p's eighth grade hqpie room Ybruaiy 17th. The officers arc c tTey, President; Juhior

Children of Jones school are responding to the call for books, garuea and toys to be sent to children living in the flooded district of Evansville. The following was written by Allen Huggard of Miller School: Learning To Be Thrifty It was the first day of September, nineteen thirty-six I was to be given five dollars and fifty cents each month. Mother said, “You are to buy your clothes, shoes and everything want except food and medical carcp” I nad been in this so-called "Big Little Book" fever and always buying a few of these books. But when I had

The second grade of the School is making Eskimo this week.

Ridpath booklets

The Ridpath School has been busy this week selling tickets for “God’s Country and the Woman.” They report splendid cooperation from the other schools. A very admirable sale is being reported. The sixth grade at First Ward wishes to thank the Central National Bank for the loan of a wood exhibit which sliows samples of wood for trees, native to Putnam County. Some very interesting short stories have been brought to class by the children in the fifth grade of the Ridpath School on the life of Washington and read by individuals as audience reading this week. Since there were no Valentine songs included in the Music text book, the sixtli grade at Jones

First grade of Jones school took a trip. Wednesday, to see the Fire Station.

Previews and Reviews AT LOCAL THEATERS

Voncastle “God’s Country and the Woman,” picturization of the James Oliver Cur wood novel of the same name, dealing with a feud between lumbercompanies in the deep forests of the great northwest, conies to the Vonoastle theater Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The film stars George Bpnt and Beverly Roberts. The supporting cast includes Barton MarLane. Robert Barrat. Allen Hale, El Brendel, and Billy Bevan. Interest in the story is heightened by the fact that the .scenes almost ail qf which are in the open were photographed wholly in natural colors. Brent is first seen as a rich idler, who makes a casual visit to the woo-is where his brother owns a vast

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tract of timber ami is aitemuTing by crookeil methods to injure the business of a rival lumber company, managed by a girl. Miss Roberts. Discovering the trickery of hia brothel-. Brent denounces him and is about to go back to the city when his brother has him shanghaied and returned to the woods where the lusty melodrama of love and hate luns its furious course. Chateau Sylvia Sidney ami Henry Fonda are co-starred in “You Only Live Once,” feature attraction at the Chateau Sunday, Monday and Tues-

day.

Miss Sidney has her best role to I date of Joan Graham, who loves Eddie Taylor (Fonda) a convict released through the efforts of Joan’s employer, Stephen Whitney (Barton MucLane), public defender, who also loves the girl. The young couple are married and Eddie makes a desperate effort to go straight. But he loses his job tiecause of a slight infraction of the luies chiefly because he's an exconvlct. Then a masked bandit stages a daring bank robbery, in the course of | which several people are kill- I. On ; I he seen” is found Eddie's hat. Eddie j is convicted and. a three time loser, he is sentenced to die in the electric chair. Savagely determined not to die for , a crime he did not commit. E-l lie \ makes a desperate effort to protect his life and the manner in which his , young wife sticks by him as the pair j are hounded through the country \ makes for fast and furious drama 1 that builds to a startling, climax. j I Granada Sonja Henie. possessor of a. “roomful” of trophies and medals for figure skating and holder of the World’s and Olympic championships, makes her screen debut in “One in -i Million.’’ at the Granada Sunday. Monday and Tuesday. The daughter of a Swiss innkeem r, Sonja '« being trained by her father Jean Hersholt. to capture the Olym pic figure skating championship. j Sonja attracts the interest of Don Amcohe, young American newspaper iiian. whe sees in her unusual maB-r- | ial for a human interest st >ry for his paper. Slic also interests, professionally, tlie fumbling hut glib tongued manager of a vaudeville troupe. Adolphe Menjou. stranded in Hersholt’s hostelry. In Menjou s troupe are the Ritz Brothers. Arliiv Judge, Borrah Minevitch and his gang. Dixie Dunbar. Shirley Deane, and twelve beautiful girls. Menjou induces Sonja to join his troupe, with the result that she almost loses her amateur standing as a skater. Ameche, with the aid of Ned Sparks, however, is able to prove she is guiltless, and Sonia receives Uie title of world's champion skater.

morning, at tne courthouse.

The assesois will be instiueted by a representative from the state board of tax commissioners. Particular emphasis in the instructions will be

given to the assessment of personal property, in which there will be mam changes this year, it is said. A boost in valuations of livestock is expected.

ASSESSORS TO MEET County Assessor Robert I. Pierce announces a meeting of all township assesois and their assistant ; for Feb. 21, beginning at 10 o’clock in the

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX SALE OF REAL ESTATE The undersigned administratrix of the estate of Wallace M. Lenard, deceased, hereby gives notice that by virtue of an order of the Putnam Circuit Court she will at the hour of 10 a. m. on the 15th day of March, 14)J7 and from day to day thereafti r until sold at the law offices of Suth erlin and Sutherlin in Groencastle, Indiana, offer for sale at private sale all the interest of said decedent in and to the following described real estate in Putnam County, Indiana, to-wit: I The north half of the southeast quarter of Section 16 Town- | ship 16 north. Range 5 west, containing 80 acres more or less, in Russell Township, Putnam County. Indiana. Said sale will be made subject to i the approval of said court for not less i than the full appraised value of said . real estate, for cash In hand, subject ' to the mortgage to the Prudential In- ; surance Company of America, said , mortgage appearing of record on' page 1100 Mortgage Record 65, in the Recorder's office of Putnam County. Indiana and subject to which said real estate is to be sold. No. 7781 >i. JENNIE L. LENARD, Administratrix. Sutherlin and Sutherlin, Attorneys 13-4t

IT COSTS NO MORE FOR AN OSTERMOOR

ADMINISTRATOR S SALE ' The undersigned, administrator of tin- estate of Otford Burke, will sell at Public Auction at the Iturke farm j I one-half mile south of Morton, ou f i THE BSD AV, FEBRfAK » 25 Starling at 10:80 a. in., the follow-! big: HORSES—One mare, a good one; , one horse, 5 years old, an extra good team. COWS—Three Shorthorn eows, 1 two year old Shorthon heifers, ail bred to Shorthorn bull; two .Yearling Shorthorn heifers, two milk cows, on Holstein and one Jersey, both giving | milk and both bred. i HOGS—Two Chester White brood sows with pig. FARM TOOLS—One row cultivator one, two-row cultivator, one corn ' planter, one hay rake, one Sulk., ! break plow, one disc harrow, one pul- 1 : vert/.er, one manure spreader, on i wagon. j One set good work harness. C ORN—About 400 bushels good vellow corn. HOI SEIIOLI) GOODS—One incubator, oil stove, laundry stove, dresser, lied, davenport, etc. and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—Cash. JOSEPHINE BCKK, ADMR. I Alton Hurst, Aurt. Frank Cooper, Clerk. Lunch by Ladies’ Aid of Morton I Church. | The same day and date at the . above premises. Oral Maddox, will ofj for for sail?, the follow big: One disc plow, one com planter, one trar-lnr plow, one buzz saw with belt, kettles, oil drums, meat hoard, - some picked corn and alfalfa sped. 20-23-2t

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Ttil BTOKY TUI'S CAR: The h ill F -ncisco iitilicc hold Helmut Litn- < - on suspicion of the murder oj her young husband. Selma hod bicn found near the body by h'nrid (Jrnham, her c.r-suito who, to shield her, threw the revolver she currying into the buy. A.' ) Charles is called into tilt rose by his wife Nora, who is Selma's cousin. Nick investigates l "in liee and Dancer, co-owners of the Lit hec Club, where Landis spent his last hours. They u/< Lrth missing ut the tune of the murder, us was l J olly Byrnes, sill//; r at the club with whom Landis intended to run an ay, Phil Byrnes, thought to be Polly's brother, turns out to be hei husband, and a $25,000 check tn Landis's pocket, signed by him. is /■i need a forgery. Nick goes with Lieutenant Abrams to Phil's hotel room, xi here they find him strangled to death. Nick takes a key from Phil’s coat and starts for Polly’s home.

Chapter Ten

The apartment house in which Polly lived was a shabby, antedated building at the foot of Telegraph Hid. There was a large tock-tli-t-wn lot in the rear, enclosed by a board fence. All the way up to the crest of the hill were email, scattered frame dwellings. Nick waited until the taxi that brought him had left before he walked slowly up the cement pus sag.-way to tin' building The vi-eti-feulo was dimly lighted by a proj ting bulb inside a ruated Japan-c.-e lantern copper contuiner. The tlashlight that Nick carried with him proved useful in reading the names printed and scribbled on dingy mail boxes. Finding tinname he wanted, Nirk half-nodded to himself, opened the front door

skeleton key and started up rr bleak stairway. The light thin was even more feeble

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than that outside No k climbi d slow-y, paused before the second Hoot- tear apartment. Polly Byrnes t art. was on the door. The detective knocked. There was no ant v.-cr Using the key which had been found in Phils pocket, he un-

lock! d the door and entered. Polly's apartment consisted of

one room and r kitchenette. The tuinituie gave indication “t hayin , 1 i-i. p.-.-ced together from variouc r.icr.ice and auction sales. The luf nloid: v.-ia- new A gaudy but ; her sordid tom h was provided l i tne photogiapl'S of celebrities ) ..tier, on the \vi t . The room at -

, thing but tidy. A half dozen hi and movie magazines were ..tiei-.d about. Thrown carelessly

c ver an armchair was a soiled m v h„.i A couch, made up to m-rve at a bed, was covered with cheap

cretonne. . .. ., Kick took one glance inside the

V, chcuottc, where unwashed dh-h -s \ ir rr with half-i rnpty glumes on the *. nver Then in turned back to t i.ving room. He rieppcd to tn - i -j.-o,? table, looked quickly t. .obeli the two drawers, paused : .d tcoi: ou- a vanity caue of plain

-i. which he pocketed. There

v., , no other place, > xcept th, < where private possessions r . -id. be concealed And the clone' < mined nothing but n few dresses

r a coats. ‘I [allied to look in all directions,

Z. ex's eye went up to the ceiling

Siraight over the dressing table

•v:. a criss-cross ctack in the plaster. Keeping hi.i g-ize on that Ini .vent-appearing spot, he measured f,::,t one eide, then the other o£ the room. Then he went out, turning cf the lights and quietly closing

th" door. . . . Stepping with cautious tread, he

esccnded the stairs to the next f! ,or He stopped before the door of the Bi'irtment directly above

Polly’s He bent over for

m.-nt but heard nothing Inserting hks skeleton key in the lock, winch was obviously a new one, he opened

the door.

The room was the same size as Polly’s, and furnished with an even more Indisci Iminatlve collection of picked-up furniture. But there were no signs of recent occupancy. The rug was old and frayed. The closet was empty and the room had no bureau. Nick turned to examine some curious-looking objects in one corner. They were _ old, heavily

rusted Iron pipes

ed up the nig 'He turned

intently at the floor boards he di-v. covered that his original a- ml Una had been correct. fix of the beards had been cut across in two places. Taking o' t his pocket-knife, Nick removed iwed-off pieces. A hole perl—us * foot square was visible n -k reached inside and produced a pVt of flat, steel-banded ear-p i They resembled those used by t<■'■ phone operators and were atte -h d to a wite. He was just about to put tl—n to his ears when he detacted " b-i faint sound of footsteps below notoeing to the door he stood lis’ing. The steps became more aud'ble. They reached the second floor. Nick opened th- door a creek ui ', cianing hi.s head out, was able '■» get a glimpse of the person below. It was Dancer. Dancer softly opened the door of Polly’s apartment and i-n'm !. Nick, in the room above, e-lolr • the center of the floor and attach l the ear-phones. Opening the drawers of the dressing table, Dane r became conscious that some disturbance had taken place. He wa.s looking for something and d.dn t

lind it.

Then, abruptly, he clenched on» hand and reached for his ravolvt e wi4h the other. A fleck of white plaster had crumbled down from above. Dancer’s eye shot up to the ceiling. His body stiffened, and with a look of alarm he began to back from the room. Nick realized from the sudden silence that the man below had changed his plan of operations. H> put down the ear-pieces and stole to the outer door. Opening ft. na could just hear (he taint sound of retreating footsteps on the stai'3. Niek closed the door behind him and followed. When Dancer reached the main floor he edged toward the rear stairway. He opened the door leading to the basement. Niek was drawn on. Seeing the open door, he took out hi « pistol nnd silently

pursued.

T li c basement; was littered wltli all m a n n e r of junk, trunks, p a c k i n g boxes, odds and ends of broken furniture. Nick caught t;i» silv-ry d'di "* the working enA of a revolver as ni» ; came down th * wooden steps, i'n- > s t i r. c t i vely h» 5 ducked behind t heavy trunk lit was Just in time. A half uozeit it Buccesivc b. ,; * rang out us Dane e r’s gu i. Then the cauaivt owner made .x ' ; sudden dash fov* | rear exit. The door ! slammed. At l-'l 1ciscly tli.; r im.t moui- nt the cl .<!> on t lie t r i: n c ; guarding N i c i: , dnniagi d by iin* ' bullets, fell apart. , The trunk s ig- | ged open nnd J. x body foil out. It was that of n swarthy man ofi perhaps fifty f ee, witji grey turneilup moustacbe. Ha lo iked Spnmsft ur Poituguese Hardly crediting .In* evidence of b,a senses. Niek stumbled to his feet. “13 c e n d c i J about twenty-four hours,” was IrJ verdict of the m.-J-who ueeompa.u. I

Nick rolle_ .

and paced off a distance corrrt;ponding to that measured dowu•talra. When be stopped tg look

ical examiner

9 see

murder. The slain man was - cdu Dominguez, janitor of the building. Abrams found out front the telephone company that about swouthirty the previous evening o.iieoi\3 from the apartment lu-udu-.g ca.lcd to ask for Ni k ( h . , *• home telephone. It migl t or migtiC not have been Dominguez. Nick had no recollection of n* de id man, but. Nora, who was nnmoned by Abrams, prov. d niavii more helpful. “E'edro Domlngu«z!" she c ■ id. ‘Why, he waa (athei'i about six years igo." She id.a iia l th; body and then, d- pile Ni k u diaapproving eye, Insisted on napecting the zoom where the ju,,*tor had lived. Abrams was about to j-.m dec when a call ennie fi - ni luedin - ora. Tlie glasses found in 1 lii» Byrnes' hotel room were of th; i cent store variety, the ft ran u if hair were false, but more imup - taut than all the rc ;t Dau. i,. i fingerprints were cn the cha.r ...id bcokstand. When Abrams revealed ilns Nick the latter said nothin,; ’do had not yet given away the aeatity of his bos irienl a; satlat... “Who rented the thl.d ^.-uy apartment?” Nick naked. “All we've got is an entry )y Pedro that somebody named deinon took it.' Air in ' a.isw... J glumly "No flngi : print s in rha place. No clothing. Nothin,, “Ixit's go up there once niors, said Nick. He sat down r.r.1 l."'.'tn to .ool about with the 1 PJ in the corner while Abrams els " 1 about, mutteilng to h im , If. In a few minutes Nick beckoned tbs other to hirn. "What does thu look Ukei na a ''Vt'hy, it’s a ladder!" said Abra.us, in a startled voice “\oU mean ' -4 screwed that together out of those pipes?" “That's right,” said Nick ' eixX it was intended tor a very sp-.iils purpose.” He took the heavy Iron eoi...option to the window and lowe. -d it outside by two hooks winch ftts.ened naturally to the sill. Tb-“* was one extra bar which .‘tic.t swung back and forth in his u.,ud, significantly. “This was left over, for g.,cd measure,” he said "The resi Juct reachee to the window of lolly* apartment.” Abrams stared bird and his Jam dropped. © iMG- Lorw'* TnwrppT’afPd

,(To be continued)