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■■ >:■ V ■ \ J THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1957 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S. C. PAGE SEVElt 10l>AY«n<l w* i Nobody’s j By Gee McGee 0. Synopsis: A card game is in session in 'Elmer Henderson’s penthouse atop a New York skyscraper. The players are: Henderson, Police Inspector Fla- flight from the scene of my crime. |shot some time before the snow be- ‘I discarded that idea, and tele-1 gran. If I didn’t shoot him—which I Flat Rock Farmers Suffered Severe ; ' ^ 1.V From Recent Hail thorn henry wallis,' sOcker-terry of agger-culture, ^^t\’a5hihglton, d. C. .t r— i’deer sir; ' plese be advised that the farmers and tennants of flat rock and com- in a riding habbit, but later on she uses evening clothes, which leaves her almost tota'lly undressed, as it were. ENGINE — Today’s Needs Any inventive young man who niunity were both mought nigh ruint thinks there are no opportunities left'by a hail storn\ last friday afternoon might look into the problem of mak-j about 4 p.m., and unless govverment phoned at once to Elmer Henderson s ^ —Miss Lane didn’t shoot him—f^ing-an engine which will pscless'ftteljaid is sent to us at-once, everboddy rooms, and reported to Inspector Fla herty, *ldartin Fraaier, Archie Doane, i herty. I noticed then that the tele-| SraV Am/4 nu-Aiv-At* UTikQ Tint (\t\ ViaaIc. Max Michaelis, and his friend, Wil liams, a stockbroker. They are waiting for Stephen Fitz gerald. When he fails to appear, a telephone call brings the information that he is out with a girl. Fitzgerald and Henderson are both romantically phone receiver was not on the hook, but hanging from its cord. ’^Between the time when I tele phoned the inspector and the arrival of the detective with the medical ex aminer I was careful to disturb noth ing in the apartment, but made as (which r don’t believe — then he was j than shot, I figured, by some one who' **”te came into the apartment surrepti-' tio^y, the way I came—and there were no tracks in the snow. “Look out on the rear roof garden now, and youjwill find my tracks, but! the ones now in use, to do the '"'ill be amount of work. There is no|sible. engine mkde, steam, gas or Diesel, which uses even a quarter of the pos sible power contained in the fuel it uses. An engine which would cut down on yore relief rolls, if pos- interested in Lydia Lane, the. famou.'U|foo<} a seatch as I could without actress, but Archie Doane reveals that she is engaged to marry him. Doane leaves the party early when Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short*no weapon? touching anything, in the hope of finding the*pi»tol. I found nothing. I understand your d it hailed for 25 minnets. some of the hail-balls were as big as goff balls, both horns of yore undersigned the fuel load of an airplane by a third,mike Lark, ifd, were or run an automobile7 twice as far, I by the stones and she would make its inventor one of the much as a pint of no others. '.world’s richest men. “tsomeone might have been hiding News comes from England that aj in the apartment, a burglar lying in milk'a day since'the excident, as corn- time later he telephones Inspector Flaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzgerald and Miss Lane dead in Lydia’s penthouse 'apartment; When Flaherty and the medical ex aminer reach the apartment, they find that Miss Lane is still alive. She is rushed to a hospital where* blood transfusions and care promise to re- atore her. All circumstantial evidence ^points to .\rchie Doane as the,murderer T d^|c|pe srBof tellin has found j wait, for example. He might have I slipped out the front door of, the pared with a quart the day befoar. young man has invented a motor carjb^ "’dl need a new cow out and out. engine which does not deposit carbon! on cylinder walls or spark-plugs. A “I ha<i no means of telling how long apartment and down the stairs or the motorcycle ran 75 miles on a gallon Fitz had been lying there. Trying to (elevator while you were making up; with this engine. That young man is figure it out,'I "came to the conclu-jyour mind to go in the back way,’’!on the right track, sion that he must have been shot ear-i.-^aid Inspector Flaherty. “It’s no good The surest road to success is not in di 'Inspector I^’^erty is questioning! her own wound.’’ T3r”Tfr the evennig, and that Lydia,!theorizing, but let’s get down to tbie coming in late, had just discovered his (facts. body when she telephoned to me. Shej “First, we’ll look at the f^-ont door.’’ might have come first int'o the studio' q'he ijoor opening from the eleva- -- ^ —this room — then gone into her (tor landing into the foyer of MissT OIL — Origin a Mystery dre.ssing''room and slipped into, a ki-1 i.^ne’s apartment proved to be equip-1 Nobody knows where petroleum mono, and entered the bedroom to'j,j.,j locks; onejhe regular'from in. the first place. Scien- find Fitz’s body on the floor. But | Yale lock provided by the owners divided a.- to whether it is that, of course, does not account for i thy',. a^|^,yiai | still being manufactured by nature. our corn, which was woste high to a 6-foot man, was so tore up and .beat down that the entire fields now look like an asparagus patch, there woift be enough corn made per aker if our local wimmen have to keep up with miss blondie, ever husband and farther in flat rock will a to tal bankrupt ih A more weeks, sha rarely ever wears the same clothes but once, she has had her hair chang ed in collor 3 times alreddy in S weeksrfirst, she wa^ blond; the next week she was* a brunette, and now she is a tippical ijed-head. the mar ried men have all commenced to shave ever other day ahd the pressing clubs is working over-time on their clothes ansoforth. she has turned flat rock upside down, she is truly flat rock’s first real wow I yores trulie, mike Lark, rfd, corry apondent. Dog Sleds Give Way To Planes Heturesque Mail Service Of Alaska Soon Thing of Past. scorvering sKinethlng new, but In!^ the flat rock fanning area to feed finding ways to do old things cheaper, quicker or better. a jay-bird but one‘light meal, and he will have to be a jay-bird that has al reddy et 2 ..square meals that day, ■ Washington, July 24. — Swift mail planes streaking across Alaskan 3kie.<i are putting an end to one of the post- , office department’s most picturesq^ue „ services—mail-carrying dog sleds. Statistics soon to appear in the postmaster general’s, Farley’s, annual '(report' to President Roosevelt indi- jeate that many of the .surefooted ani-, a mals that were u.sed for Alaska’s dan- lieve Doane, who is telling his story. on FIFTH INSTALLMENT “I opened that doo.r and went out the roof and around the .elevator The' medical examiner was the first to speak after Doane had finished '.'his statement. “It is impossible that Miss l.Ane mav have been shot several hour.s -shaft to the door of Miss Lane’s bed-j ago,’’ he said, “and her statement, room. You will fiml my footprints in! when and if she recovers consci(His- the snow. The shades were drawn on I ness, will help us on that point 'far-proof lock, which could not Ih? |'b‘i*P under ground. Some be ■fastened automatically by the closing; from animal and vegetable <le- lof the door but had to be li>cked whh! buried countless millions of I a key from the outside Or by mej|nsiyv«"^ About' the only thing that lof a knob inside. VU i .4‘ems certain is that there is oil to 4" I be found almost everywhere in the world, if one goes after it hard our cotton patches look like frizzly chicken, and yore good friend, (gerous, snow-covered tundras are al- hon. holsum moore, says that his big (ready gone from the trail, farm behind his barn, won’t make itU.i„.uKh i-olton to tr/at thV oar-achf.,,, one tune, our children et ice'cream made from hail-stones for 6 days af ter the excident ansoforth. than 50 star teams in But both the windows and the glass door,'the man had been dead not more lacked vou sav ^ but I could see that there was a light(an hour, I should say not much arrived ’>o you* kn inside. I tapped loudly on the glass, than half an hour, when I arrived. He |bn*?” “No sign of the lock pered with or the door >pector Flaherty admitted, afte.r^'a caieful . inspection. “This door was .\rchie, -when^.you know whether ^oth I locks were on?** but received no response. Then I triedjcould not possibly have lived fifteen I ..... i u i ’ that door, and found it unlocked. Iminutes with that bullet through his' because I had to use two hands to open the door when your men arrive<l,” replied Doane, after.a Martin Frazier had come back from!^bought, the telephone while Archie Doane was' well see what other ways making his statement. “I got Carrel anybody could get in the inspector lH*ing tsiffi forced," vnough. Not; long ago the discovery of oil in England was announced. How much | >■ too “I open^ the door and saw the heart. That negatives your sugges bodies of Miss" Lane and Stephen ^ think.’’ Fitzgerald lying there just where you saw them! - J!You can imagine the agony of my first thoughts. I did not at once per- 'ceive that they were dead*; they seem ed merely asleep. I closed the door softly and backed out on to the roof. My first impulse was to. steal quietly! away—to hide from the shame my betrothed had brought upon me. God forgive me for the thought! It was an echo of the jealousy I had been harboring all the evening, 'jealousy born of fear of Fitzgerald. ' “For the moment I had forgotten Lydia’s terrified call over the tele- al the front of the studio. The snowj phone. Then my mind cleared and I (drop in my body.” realized that a terrible tragedy hadj a number of persons occurred. I reentered the bedroom and. ^^.gij^^le whose blood has been ana- my worst fears were verified when T saw the bullet wound in Lydia’s arm, the blackened hole in Fitz’s bosom. “I reeled and felt as if I were about out of bed and he’s on Roosevelt hospital now,” he said. “If ,, , , • . , , anyone can pull Miss Lane through I®*' the .sills of the windows and the I door, an 1 on the little stretch of roof “I called up Hender.son. too,” he ^bus disdosed^was level,.Tluffy added, and^ave him a report of the .^"broken. A little ridge of snow situation. He seemed overjoyed to .‘".ward from the door sill, learn that Miss> Une was still alive, •'Nobody has come in thus way and asked me to give you a word ofl«'"<^‘' the snow l)egan. .said the in- sympathy and encouragement. Ar-1-’'Poctor. “There isn t any way for any, „ lone to get in from the front except “Goo<l of him.” said Doane. “Can’t! by climbing the building, that 1 can I be of service at the'hospital ? Blood j . transfusioCyou said? I’ll give every .p"* "'or this penthouse^roof above ‘ us, suggested rrazier, -snow on the edge of that turbed, too.” “Before we look over the back roof,” said iMax Miphaelis, “let me It IS else, so we are at yore mercy, plese rite or foam when we may expect a substantial down payment for our losses, don’t wait to send an ihvesti- the"^supply may be is not yet known. | ' and investigate It would not be surprising*to hear of (brier, we simply cant wait on govver- oil discoveries at the North Role nr *neiit red tape, you know’, it can t be At route .Alaska.-Now there are 27. < In the rural .service, improved road.s and automobiles had brought many late to plant annything 'ccent chnages, Jaiues W. Cole, depu- assistant postmaster gen- in equatorial Africa.' Geologists are now- oil et for food and clothing. convinced thati the way to! "cnt on. He opened the French door jj^ ... , I ab *^bc dimmercrats and both of underlies a laige part of Honda, ^‘publicgns in flat rock /trusts Two or three big oil companies have|yy^^y a big time at pres, taken oi leases on millions of acres I hig party which was hell wherever of Honda land, and at least one well;,,,, „ island in the ty second eral, said. In 1SP6, when rural routc.s were es tablished, 2”) or 30 miles a day was considered a goqd day’s work for any post rider. Now a rural carrier with an automobile can cover the same distance in an hour and a half, in cluding stops. The peak for rural r.outcs, 45,315, was reached in 1026. Since then of ficials have been consolidating route.s they could be joined with- * ton a process of drilling. With Hori-|y^,^^. afeared that ifcal in the potomac riyyer aM)ut impairing service, In the past fi5.7 <la’s near neighbors, Texas and 1/ou aiid the undis- is isiana, ida? WTNDMILLS^i'ower rfoaucefS The cheapest natural power to har- Flat Rock Society Is Terribly Disturbed tei' lyzed pose and tested for just that pur-1 ” said the medical examiner. “It! ^ „ -.teimiiiie wbfithex it-would s'afq to to faint, for a moment. Then I pulledyours, 'atid by that time Miss myself together and tried to discover ^.jj, p^her be out of danger whether either was still alive. Both . _ « or— were apparently dead. ] vj to talk,” iu- ’"MyTirst conclusion was that Fitz /inspector Flaherty. “Tben had shot Lydia-and then killed him-j^,p*|i j^gye something definite to go .self, rather than let her marry me. Meantime, we must .see what saw no weapon, however, and the ideaj^g.ye got here.” of suicide did not fit with Fitzgerald’s, “Meantime, I’m under arrest, I sup- character and tempearment. Someone I vi poane. Not yet, my boy,” said the inspec- would take twenty-four hours to det'®**' Archie a question or two. I think I know the answers, but 1 want to get them in the record. “Archie, do you own a pistol? Did you ever own a pistol?” ness is thej wind. The only reason wind power is not use<l more is that it caiinot be relied on to blow steadily in most places. Even Holland, land of windmills, is replacing them with Die sel engines where continuous pump ing operations are nece.ssary. Tiavelling^lately along the Atlanticlj^ Qupple of years, she is a widdow, seaboard, where wind .jildW's most h^siband hawing passed on last the time, I have been struck by Ihe ^ beautiful land w'herc trubble number of w-indmills of a new typtMand .sorrow are unknown, so she says. Atoj) of a light .steel tower us mounted; ^ ‘ a lan-like airplane propeller, attached i miss • blondie’s married name was to a lit’tle electric generator ajsq y, year, Farley’s report will show, onner count of; there were approximately 575 con solidations with an estimated annual saving of $648,000, ~ Since ilKH rural service expendi- 'fufes have droppjHl^JiUAm" $106,470,948 to $92,424,137 despite a sub.stantial increase in number of families served. ; As contrasted writh the 25 mile routea , ... lof former days, 8,067 rural carriezt muss blondie head, the married dar- travel between 40 ami 49 miles a of mr. and mrs. tom head, hasl c»>uld not of went pioducing oil, why not 1* If'*'-.j pressing-•bizne;<s. if you need anny advice as to how to handle the sup- foait hilt, jnst rite or foam the undersigned, .send hail checks by first male. ^ , , , , , , . ..lay and more than 8,000 between 50 returned back home after liyving ini.^^, p^^ ^^^riers high society in Washington, d. ( . fori per day. with good'roads and a few- stop.s cov er more than 90 mile.s. Star route carriers working under contract use mot()r^ vehicles on 10,644 routes. The remaining star routes are served as follows: eLse mlist have conte upon them and killed them both. “I considered*my own position. The case against me was clear. I had thought at first of running to the street and calling in the nearest po liceman. But if I did that any any- ^ thing should slip — .someone else ahould come to the apartment. Miss Lane’s maid return and find the bod ies t^re—my departure might easily 'be -interpreted as the beginning of a the WiddinglnvUaiitnu Y pu can't be too care ful to .have it re- .flcct the b«t of toste. 't. 7^0 ch^p substitute for fnely engraved invita tions would ()p. » We have the Harcourt sample hook, one of the most approved lines in America, .and we should like to have the pleasure of showing our samples. There is no chea^r work, except such as planned for a cheaper class of trade. \THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. AwSlshb tor. **Stick around, though. There’ll be plenty of questions to ask you. Lie down, if you like, on the sofa, and rest yow nerves. I’ll call you if I want you. “Gentlemen,” he said tajthc. others, “I’m going to push this investigation through as fast as possible. I pro pose to stay here until daylight, if necessary, to discover everything which the inanimate evidence can tell us. You, Max, and Martin, can stay or not, as you like.” “I’m going to stay,” said -Max Mi- chaelis, and Frazier nodded his decis ion to do the same. “One or two ques- tiions 'I'd like to put to Archie before we do anything else,” the lawyer went on. “You say you came to the cpnclq- sion that Fitz must ha^e been shot early in the evening. I wish you’d give us your profess of reasoning that led to that conclusion.” j,“It was the snow that made me think of that,” replied Doane. “It be gan to snoiWj after eight o’clock; I know it had not begun %lhe|i I got to Henderson’s.. It stopped snowing be fore eleven o’clock, for the sky was clear when I left my roqms to come up here.” “ “Verify the time of the snow from ■the weather burimu, Tony,” interpose InspMtor Flaherty. “Go on, Archie; I begin to get your drift.” Well, look at Fitzgerald’s shoes “Nev'er,’’ replied Doane. “I’m afraid of the things.^ “You have had to handle pistols in your professional work as an actor, haven’t you?” “Yes; in fact I have to use one in the picture I am now making.” “Where is that pistol? Do you know?” “In the'property room at the High- art studio, as for as I know.” “When did you see it last?” “A day or two ago; Thursday., I think, we shot*the last sc?ne in which I am supposed to use it.” “What sort/of a pistol is It? A re volver or an automatic?” “It’s a revolver, nickel plated with a pearl handle. In the picture I am supposed to shoot a burglar with it.” “Do you know the caliber—the size of the bore?” “I think it is what they call a thirty-two.” * “Did you ever fire that pistol?” “Only once. That was in the studio last Thursday.” “Is this picture you are working in k sound picture?’ ’ . “Yes.^’ the top of the tower. When the wind blow.s, current is generated to light (have got over a hou.><e or run farm machinery and (wear anny black garments a-tall ex the unused surplus is stored in bat-|cept a black bow of ribbon on her left skin.nei.-jiiit-she h^s. changed it back! J^"''k^'Al>*awn vehicles, 201; horse- since his demise to^ead. she seems to 617; airplanes, dog teams and his death and do not terics against the <iay the wimi, sleeve near the elbow, she do look doesn’t blow. It looks to me like a very economi cal way to get power on a small scale, though not as jiicture.^que as the huge windmills with their canva.s sails which used to stand on the headlands of the New Flngland coast. right stunning, come to think of it. COSTS — Sun Power On the face of it, 'it seems as if water-power, sun-power and wind- power must be, the cheapest ways to generate power. In the days when la bor was cheap and there were no tax- miss blondie has set flat rock astir since her arrival, and verry few of our wimmerf are sattisfide with what| they have got or their surroundings,i or annything else, she fetched one of them ItHig,^ low-slung dogs hack with her as a pet. he seems to be nearly 2 dogs long and follows her every where she chooses to go ansoforth. W. J. 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It works—but so far the cost of building it makes it square and mrs. head would like' to have one each not less t^ian 40 inches Hong, and prefer a darker brown than miss 'blondie’s weiner rost mottle. miss 'blondie smokes in publick. some of our social leaders are fol- lowering her suit in that respect, she to “Were' any precautions taken soften the sound of the shot?” “Yes; there -was a silencer on the weapon.” “At whom were you supposed to fire the pistol?” “At Stephen Fitzgerald. He was di recting the picture and also playing the part t)f the burglar.” “Did you load the pistol yourself when you 'fired it?” I tijppose.” If you had desired to kill Stephen probably more expensive to operate than a steam engine. We may some day learn how to put the power of the atom, or the cosmic rays, to work. But the outlook for get ting power absolutely without cost is not very bright, so fkr. 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A man ^ wouldn’t come out in thin patent] leather shoes without overshoes if there were snow on the ground, it (Continued Next Issue). isn’t likely. And there isn’t a sign of motstqre on Fitz’s shoes. Therefore, he must have come here before the snow began.” ~’’That sounds reasonable, but rt doesn’t provp that he was shot be fore the snow begsn,” Inspector Fla^ herty objected. “I realise that my theory is all Wong,” said Doane. “What the medi cal'examiner has told us proves that, r WM merely telling how I had come to the conclusion that he had been WhMi Wi H—d CanM n you seem to have lost miim of your strength you had for your favorite activities, or for your hooas* work ... and care lea about your meals . . . and suffer severe dls- .comfort at certain times, ... try Cardai! ihousandB and thousands of women wy It has helped them. 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