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West Clinton News
Mr.< and M re. Thomas Ballew an<ft
Action! Slow
In Congress
senate labor committee, and the house
labor conomittee will begin studying
ft this week.
Some senators are discussing a st4s>
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children spent the week-end with Mr.'i. 5>etenm iHonin tSe^n, ISUt Lit* di.scretrionary power in establishing
Ballew’i parents in Conestee. , tie Done. Adjburnment Plans'Wage and hour .standards.
SECOND INSTALLMENT
“I agree with Doane,” said Hender
son. “I’m funny that way,
Henderson rejoined theih and the j He hung up and ,rejoined the oth-
game was resumed with the stacks of ers. “No use trying to’get a taxi this
, ' . chips in front of the host of the eve-!time on Satuniay night, in this daughter,
but steadily increasing., [storm.” he said. “We’ll have time to Georgia the past week-end,
i **My lucky pight, I guess,” he said, on-the game before the car 51r. and Mrs. W. L,. Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Grange Campbell and!
son Sila.s, Mr. and Mrs-. E. J. Camp-1
bell and' daughter, Jo.sephine, si>enti
i^iday with relatives in S»*Ytan-'
Wg. » f
Mrs. O’Shields and Miss_ Millie
Cole of Goldville spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Campbell.
•Mr. and Mrs. Grady Canfield and
Nell, visited relatives
Uncertain.
Washington, July 6v—Congress be
gan today the seyehith month, .uf a . . . .
session marked by 8{)ectacular.iegis- ^ph'tting tihe reorganization program
Senator Robinson, the Democratis
leader, has introduced a revised meaa*
ure for reorganization df government
agencies. A special house committee.
latiA'e- suggestions from President bills, has approved one
Roosevelt, none of which has yet beeu
adopted ouftrigtit.
Leaders agreed that enactnienC ol
in 1 the administration program depends
I in pait on the speed with which the
court bill is disposed of and in part
sight of bloodshed, or even the _______
thought of it, turns me sick at my^after^he had*'«k^ tn another big here.”^ . .i daughter, and Mis.s Elizabeth Wilson abUityof Democratic leaders
pot, ha^ an hour or so after Archie "It’s .Stopped'Snowing,” said Wil-1yjsrted Mrs. Cora Price in Macon, Ga , •
Doane’s departure. “It’s eleven o’clock I Hams, who had pulled the curtains | the past weekend.
and that’s dfinkinig time. Deal hie QUt I aside' and was looking out over thej Mr. and Mrs. J. D.Word, Mr. and w f »•
this hand, please. I told my man he white-’shrouded roof.s of the city. “The, Mrs. David'Word, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- nought immediate substitution
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stomach. You gentlemen, in the police
and district attorney’s office,^ and
practicing criminal law, naturally
take it a.s part of the day’s work. Fm
going to have another dripk before
we get back to the business, pf—the
evening. Will you join met’^
Only Doane accepted, and the two
drank another highball each while the
others resumed their seats at the card
table and Frazier began to deal.
said.
I started anything disagree-j room.'"I told you he was,-didn’t
able, gentlemen,” Michaelis'apologiz-'Dan?”
could go down to play pinochle with ^storm’s over. See, the stars‘are' out.|thur Howaixl and daughters, KathleencomprOTiise me^ure.^
the night watchman in the basement,' Kverj'thing looks so peaceful and pure and E'lorence, and .Misses Marie NVier| ^ r j
•nd ni h.v, to find the whiskoy my-; -.nd two poople havo boon munier-' Ki.ncoa Boukniyht apont the' '“■-'■'f''"' -tottmont for ad-
aolf.” . ed> Even though I novor mot Fi«.,7ook-ond at Myrtio B^h. / J"''™""'"' W «->■« p<«tponomont
"Yes, he’s a good poker play.er, in onlj met Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bag/ell and; ^ ^ housinir irovernmenti
1 spite of his calling it luck’’ said Fra- l>oane tonight, it—well, it gets Mr. and Mrs. J; C. Cation and ” -I
I spite oi nis calling it lutK, saia f I j . v- • V • u i reoiganization and regional bower
tzrer, after Henderson had left the ’"®- , 5* daughter. .Vora. were visi/rs in
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I,' “It’s got all of ys,”
I c hae 1 i.'v “ Wr* -ail~ know
said Max !;Mi- mounta.ns the past week-end.
"Fitz"
Even two of the I'eji^ular appropri-
irnew"^ Mr. aml-.»rrs. Jason Davis of Bath4-T- , ,, . . ,
.. • ,.rv i_. . . w 11 , , 'It ' ' . 1, . . . • . >t IX • • • . u "aTion bills are bivgged down in a imag
ed again. “Dan, you ought not to talk I ^ j^jj'him, anyway—and we all love .\ix-aie. are vi.siting Mr. Davis s parents here ,
shop when you’re out in company.”, jiu^k’s out, before I committed my-i*^”'* Heiider.>»on. here . . . feeling bet- fhis week. I
“I’ll talk nothing but poker fromjj,ytf.. resp'omled the detective “He’s ‘®'’ man? AVant to have one of .Mr. and Mrs. Joe Terry vi.sited Mrs.!
now on,” grunted the inspector. “It’s'j^ ’ j winner, but I’ve a hunch that " .'’“U?” “ Edna Taylor in Augusta, Ga., last j
B cord, dark night and I crave excite- u-r. .. «.miM turn vipi.nw The inventor .shuddered. “No, thank \feek. Mr>. Taylor and mui, Jack,^ re-j
men,/- . , . . ' he lo^rwhlli lo"", ^ > o-Wn-t ».ami i,. Eve,, if , home wUh tlu-m. ; |
“The excitement tiegins nght now, a^y^^ing to him. Rolling in money about Miss Lane, .Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Painter of,
Dan,” said Max Michaelis, "Table i divSn't care whether * "uuld go to pieces and he a miis- t'o’.umhia. spynt the week-end with|
The rest of vou go on. Don’t Mrs. Pearl Painter. |
etake.s all jackpots, I believe? Then wins or loses at card*.”
Ill take the lid off this one. , ■ i
.Max Michaelis nodded approvingly
He shoved a stack of blue chips into , , ,
the middle of the table and the game
, j ment, when Henderson re-entered»the
“Poker isn’t a game of cards; it’s a' another round of
game of.humam nature,” was one of resumeil their game. Sonu-
Dan Flaherty’s Flaherty’s aphorism.s.
After a few hands had been played he'
could tell more about the character! Henderson .answered the call. “Its
of the others at the table than an or-' for you. Inspector,” he called, his ,f a,„»thei
unce. 1 lie rest ot you go on
mind staying with me. anybody. I’ll Messrs. Willie I.,awson,. Brooks
he j)ll right. Hut I hope . . .1 hoiH' it | I'onnaway, Wyl;e (Ooper, and Mr.
isn’t .Vrehir . . . that diiP-tti-L-meaaiJilodgi^were visitors in t plunihia Sun-1
1 thiuigiit from the way you spoke,,day. ,
ln>pector i . . ” ’ . * '('lyile Fergusitn of Hartsville, spent
“Well. look at it as if you’d never {S</>«iay here with frieuns and rela-1
heprd of anybody concerned,” Dan, lives. j
ITaheity, interrupted. map’s ,en- Mr. and Mr.-
gaged to marry, a girl. He’s jealous, vibe, spent Siiml.iy w ;tlv .Mr. and .Mrs.
mire of dispute. They carry funds for
non-military expenditures of the war
ilepaitment and for ojierations of the
interior department in the year that
stajlt J July J.
I I'ap.tal leaders are- talking of ad
journment no earlier than the middle
.>r la>t of .August.
Ill till' meantime, most memliers ex-
I peel the enactment of .several bills
desired by the administration. Meas-
(Uies to aid fann tenants have passed
heth house and senate,' but difference.s 1
must 1 e smootlied out by a joint com
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He worries all 'eve-
dinaiy man would learn by month.s ofi^^*'**! over the transmitter. “.Are you because he doesn’t know where
intimate association. W’ith the poker Ihure or not ?” jthe girl is,’or the oiher map. He giH‘s’
technique of Martin Frazier, Archie ‘‘I’f* answer,’’ said ETaheily, rising.!to the girl’s apartment and finds the
‘I always leave word at headquar- t^vo together. Ofcour.se, he .>ays they
ters where to get me. They wouldn’t ^ere both dead when he got then*.
' .A senate-house committee may he-
Piovd Norris of (iieen- , . , ,
I gin w ork later thi<i week on riH’oin-
mendations for chifking allegtsl Lax
evasion and avoidance.. It was called i
Doane and Max Michaelis he was al
ready sufficiently famliiar to Esti
mate almost to B two-spot the prob-
•ble contents of their hands, by their
expressions and manner when making
tljeir ibets. Miclmelis’fflehd, Williapis,
and the ho»t of the evening, Elmer
Hendereon, were strangers, and the
veteran deteetiive gave his close.st
.scrutiny to 'them.
Williams, he speedily decided,* was
a long-chance player, a victim of in-
satiable curiosity who cared little
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Mr. and Mr>. Marvin .'sunders of , , , , . •
, , , 1 I L ,into .'es.sion today to «detenii!rie
.''paitanhurg, speiii the week-eml here' i, .. , , . ,
' , , . .Vhether to priK’eed without .summon-
with relatives. . <• .u i- ■ i i i
,, , ,, ,, .- I, 1 ing s,>me. of the iniuviduals named
•Mr. and Mrs. (iieg .lelsnield-s and , ... . «• .
liy the trea.sury aS u.sers of tax re
call unless it was something
tant.” '
• “Hello! Inspector Flaherty
‘ink-
“What? The hell you say! .
are you now’?”
There was a long silence
room. .Max Michaelis, watching the
inspector’s face from where he .sat,
sa*w it grow tens<‘ as the inspector
family, Mr. and .Mrs, Troy Dillard
imiKir-jBut if j.Qu knew just that much and land family, Mrs. Palmer Halienger
••drdnt know any more, whom w’ould and son. Hubei’t, .Mr. and .Mrs. Baker', .. . , • n
anpnW I x.... xi ,-i- ii <• /- xi i being studied by comnuttees. T
speaK- you sus|H»ct? , _ Mel lemons, all of (iiver; Mr. and , , < ■
i , . . . X. . .. . , 1 ri'vage and' hqur’bill, for example,
‘ New, I don t su.spect Archie Doane Mrs. Ix*ster Smith and family of . ,, ,
^ i 1 I 1 ill .u I t*. f rix’eieing dailj the attention of i
v\neie any more than I suspect anvbody (roliivflle, were the dinner guesre of,> ,
in the
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Mr. and Mrs. .1. J. Smith .Sunday.
.Mr. ami Mr.s. A. J_ Harvey sjient
whether he won or lost so long as he |
got action for his money. Henderson, i there. Don’t touch
any more than 1 suspect anybody
else. But I’m a jioliceman. Friend.ship
cuts no ice with me in a murder case.
(let my point of view?” the week-end with Mrs. Harvey’s
. “Of t-ourse, you have to look at il ter in Newdmrry. Unvin-rt .Size-
like that, In.spector,’ Henderson Mr. and .Mrs. Preston Turner and ,..f u'hit mi re Mr and M re I 1)
listened. ThenHaherty’s voice again. ] ajfreed. "But it doesn’t sound like the children, Mi.ss Helen Phillips “'I'Pa''- sizeniore of .AbbevilleT^and Mr amii
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and .Mrs. .Alliert Tripp of El-j
Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Ihlis .'size-!
Both dead? All fight;- stay right
right over. What’
Okay,' Archie
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however, puzzled him.
Twice, when Flaherty was certain
the other was bluffing and bet heavi-|nerve . . . What’s that?
ly upon that belief, Hendereon fooled I’H bring him with me.”
him fey show’ing the winning hand.
Yet more than once, w’hen the Inspec
U1 right;-stay right thing Archie Doane would do. tanburg. Mre. Bessie Ray and daugh^*vivii.wl
ch anything. I’ll belDoes it to yOu, Frazier?” - ter of Union. Mr. and Mrs. Kimneth
s t^e address? . . .! ^ doesn’t,” the assistant attor- WebWr of ('linton, TVnn., were thej’ ^f Mrs. N^icks will regret to
Dan Flaherty turned from the tele-'
lose your | u,.y pjfreed. “He w’as ai^fullv upst-t.
tiurc* i Vhdulbh, tonight, about Mis.s I^ne.”
(Continued Next IssueL
phone with what Max Michaelis often
tor had folded a good hand of his termeil his “old sleuth” expression on
own, convinced that the inventor held
higher cards, the other had laughing
ly shown a wortbie.ss hand as he rak->
ed in the. pot.
his face.
"Get your coat on, Max,” he said.
There's hell to pay. Lydia l^ane and
^ephen Fitzgerald - have been killed
Dan Flaherty’s respect for the slen-j in the girl’s apartment. That was A-r-
der young inventor mounted—rapidly
a.s the game w'ent on.
Arphie Doane, however, w'as not
playing in his usual form. It was clear
to Dan Flaherty that something was
worrying the actor. It was not hard
chie Doane phoning. He found ’em!”
"Lydia, dead!” ga.speil Hendereon.
He turned white and .seemed al>out to
fall from his chair, Frazier’s hand on;
his shoulder steadied him. ’
"Murdered!” cried Williams. ".Af-
to guess that his thoughts were | ter what we were talking about, too!”
upon Lydia Lane and the pos-sibilityj “.Archie found them?” Frazier of
that the rendezvous which had kept'the di.strict attorney’s office spoke al-
Stephen Fitzgerald from joining the j most simultaneously ‘with the other
party in Henderson’s bungalow had jtwo.
some connection with her absence
from her own apartment. Doane kept
playing mechanically, w’ithout enthu
siasm, seldom backing bis hand and
then,. as often as not, laying down
wihat -would have .been winning cards.
His customary brilliant and courag
eous etyle of play was noticeably ab-
.sent, and Flaherty was not surprised
when, after an hour and a half, he
announced that he had had enough.
"Don’t let me break up the game,
gentlemen,”_.he said." There" still will
be five of you. I’m not-up to it to
night, that’s all.”
He .settled for the .several hundred
dollars worth of chips which he had
lost, took a final drink and said good
night.
Henderson escorted Doane to the
elevator. <
"Archie’s worried about his girl,”
said Flaherty, as soon as the two were
out of earshot. “He isn’t any too sure
of her.”
"My guess is that Henderson’s a
bit touched in the same quarter,” sug-
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Mrs. Hiid I’arkman and daughterv
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.Mr. and Mrs, ('athcart returneil home
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Homer Flayer visited relatives^ i*.
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“Yes, and he wants you t,o coniii
with me. Max,” replied Inspector Fla
herty, addre-ssing . .Michaeli.s again.
"You might come, too, Frazier. No
u.'ie gue.ssing what’s up, but it looks
like a double murder, and . . . well,
Archie’s in a difficult po.sition.”
He tunied to* the telephone again
and dialed Spring 3100 while the oth
ers, stunned, could only-sit and .stare
at each other. ^ - — • j
“Inspector Flaherty .speaking,” they j
heard him 5ay._“L<et me speak to Lar-|
kin . . . Then give me anybody who’s
in the Bureau . . . Homicide Bureau?
Is Detective Martinelli there? . . .
Tony, this is Inspector Flaherty . . .
I’m uptown ... (jet hold of the medi-‘
cal exa-miner or his Ideppty right
away. You go with him to 213 Weat
59th, Miss Lane’s apartment.”
He turned from the phone to the
others. ••"What floor’s .it on, afiy of
you know?” ^
• "On the roof,” replied Henderson,
setting down the glass which he had
just drained.."Penthouse apartment.”
gested Frazier. "He was pretty quick "It’s one of the^ penthouse apart-
to come to her defense, when I madejments,” said Ffaherty into the tele-
that bad break a while ago.” j phone. “Take a camera man and a
“I’m not on,” said Max Michaelis. j Bertillion man with fingerprint equip-
"Who’.s the dame?” ; iment, along with you..'You’ll find a
"1 forgot you weren’t here,” Frazier j fellow named Archie Doane there—
apologized. “I made a fool break {at least, I think you will. Don’t ask
about Lydia Lane and both Henderson | him any questions, but jtut see what'
And' Archie snapped me up. If Hen-1 there is to see until I get there. I may
derson i8n*t sweet on her, then I’m ajfee there ahead of you, but if I’m not,
bad guesser. But Archie announced j don’t let Doane go without word from
that he’s going to marry her.” jme. Better phone the precinct and.[
V’Lydia Lane, eh?” echoed Max ML have ’em send a uniform man to hold)
chaielis. "Well, there are plenty of ’emlanybody who tries to leave the build-,
in the pictures with worse reputations ing before you get there. Tell them j
than hers. I don’t know much about'at the .precinct the Instructions arej
her, as a matter of fact, except that'to let nobody in or out without orders j
she’s a good looker and never has'from me. Got that? . . . And, Tony i
been mjxed up in a public Iscandal. Ar
chie buglit to know what he’s about.”
"But Henderson seems to- be as
good a sport in love as he is at cards,”
he continued, "ilf you’re right, that
is,.about his having had aspirations
m'the fair Lydia's diredtion. A game
'“You don’t really suspect Archie
did it, do you, Dan?” Max Michaelis
interrupted. The inspector waved his
hand for silence.. “I suspect everybody
in a homicide case,, and you know it,”
he said gruffly. Then to the man* at
little chap, I should say. Sensitive and the other end of the telephone wire
high strung, but certainly uiHleT
splendid self-control.”
“He’s a/ great poker player, ail
right,’’ grunted Dan Flaherty.
“He sure plays ’em hard to figure,”
Miebaelia ayeed. “He’s had me fooled
.a dozen thnee.” '
he gave final instnictions.
“(^11 the police garage and have
them send a closed car for me, right
off. I’m at Fifty-sixth just off Fifth
avenue, ilighart Film Building. I’ll be
waiting in the main lobby, downstsitrs.
Make it snappy,'now, Tony.”
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