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. i '. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Patty MacVeigh, a Patient Cop, Worked Hard To Solve 'Hugger Mugger in Automat 1 Mystery By BILLY ROSE As a burglaree, Fve done a considerable amount of hanging around police stations lately, and I’ve made a highly edifying dis- jcovery—the average New York detective is plenty smart and, con- ridering how few of them there are, gets plenty of results. To give you an idea of what the ordinary cop can do once he gets go ing, let me tell you the classic story of Detective Patty MacVeigh and | how he solved the case usually referred to as “Hugger-Mugger in the 1 Automat.** One morning in August, 1933, two people died suddenly and within a few minutes of •ach other in the nickel - in - the* slot restaurant at Broadway and 104th street. One, a dowdy old dame named Lil lian Rosenfeld, keeled over in the restaurant’s mez- zanine, and the other, a middle- aged garageman named Harry Jel- was found outside the little boys* room in the basement. The Coroner certified that both deaths were caused by a powerful dose of cyanide of potassium. Was it s cast of double mur der? Was it double suicide? Or sees it murder and suicide? Billy Bose Detective Patty MacVeigh was handed this sizzling spud, and went about cooling it off not like a Sher lock Holmes but like an ordinary policeman. He started by question- where the victims had lived, inch ing everyone in the neighborhoods by-inched the tenement flats they had called their homes; jig-sawed together a lot of biographical bits and pieces, and came up with a so lution so simple that no one con nected with the case could imagine why it hadn’t been thought of right away. Jellinek’s past was reconstructed easily enough. Starting as a helper in a garage, he had managed to save enough to buy his own busi ness, and his garage had prospered until the depression hit it When things got tough, he borrowed $150 from a bank, and when he couldn’t meet the note .on July 1, he was threatened with foreclosure. Figuring he had nothing to live for, he purchased $3 worth of pow dered cyanide and then, with his last nickel, bought himself a poppy seed roll at the Automat. He dug a hole in it, poured the powder in, bit off as much as he could chew and headed for the men’s room. At the foot of the stairs he collapsed and died. So far, so clear. Next, Mac Veigh went to work on Lillian Rosenfeld. She had been a harm less old bat who scavenged around junk heaps, and for 28 years had lived in a $7-a-month basement room which was filled with everything from old piano rolls to a rusty weather vane. From employees of the Automat, the detective learned that cn sev eral occasions the old dame had parked herself in the mezzanine where she could watch the tables on the main floor, and when some one left without finishing a meal, she would hurry down and eat the remains or scoop them into a paper bag. That finished the case. Obviously the scavenger had seen Jellinek leave part of his roll and had popped the half-eaten bun into her mouth. MacVeigh’s investigation uncov ered an additional irony. While sift ing through the hodge-podge in Lil lian’s room, he found six bankbooks which showed the had $45,000 stashed in various banks in Man hattan and New Jersey. The annual interest on her nest egg was $1,200, or eight times the amount Jellinek needed to save his garage and life. ;cre By INEZ GERHARD ^^LIVE DEERING’S stage career began when she was twelve, in a Broadway success; her screen career began with the important role of "Miriam,” in “Samson and Delilah.” C. B. DeMille had not been able to find the right actress for that part; the day before shoot- OLTVE DEERING ing began he found Olive. She made a second picture, “Caged,” for Warner’s, then she and her hus band, Leo Penn, headed east in their car. He was one of the lead ing men in "Not Wanted.” Had a fine trip all the way. They are a delight ful young couple, very much in love. And with their good looks, talent and experience, they should go far in pictures. Mrs. Gertrude Berg, author and star of the CBS “The Ggldbergs,” has received an offer from George Jessel for a featured role in a forth coming film, the fifth picture con tract offered in recent months. She’s too busy to accept. This does seem to be going a bit too far. By unanimous consent of its city council and approval of its mayor. Hot Springs, New Mexi co, Has changed its name to Truth or Consequences, in honor of Ralph Edwards’ NBC show! American producers have been trying to sign British Kath leen Ryan ever since she ap peared In “Odd Man Out.’* Pro ducer Robert Stillman has done It—one picture a year for seven years. Her first will be United Artists “The Sound of Fury.’* Knowing he was associated •with Stanley Kramer in making ““Champion*’ and “Home of the ’Brave,” she accepted the role without reading the script. Elizabeth Taylor won all hearts 'one recent afternoon in New York. She was having several coats and Waits fitted, and was practically out tm her feet from fatigue, 'but she willingly posed for photographs. She was going out with her fiance that evening, was flying to Texas the next day, and her mother thought she ought to stay home that night and rest. Elizabeth went out! > Howard Lesieur, director of ad vertising and publicity for United Artists, has come up with some thing new. He has engaged two re tired detectives, formerly of New Yolk’s police department and homi cide squad, to visit key cities and promote "D. O. A.” (“Dead on ArrivaL'*) story of a map who “re ports his own murder.” Edmond O’Brien stars, Pamela Britton and Luther Adler co-star. George Stern, playing "Tippy” in Warner Bros. "Barricade,” has • lot of stern critics lying in wait for him. In his off-screen moments he taught English and dramatics at Lafayette Junior high school in Los Angeles. THE FICTION CORNER NO SALE By Richard H. Wilkinson ^IIirE could sell Dusty,” Sylvia ** said. Joe stared at her. "You don’t mean that!” Dusty thumped his tail on the floor and pricked his ears. There was, he hoped, a possibility of be ing taken for a walk up the slope behind the house where rabbits frequently ran and offered no end of excitement. Sylvia laughed nervously. “Of course I don’t. I was only joking. We wouldn’t sell Dusty for a mil lion dollars.” She reached down — — and twisted one S Mimita of Dusty’s flop- • minute ping ears around Fiction her forefinger. _____Dusty lolled his tongue and sighed in contentment. Next to chasing rabbits, there was nothing he liked better than having his ears twisted, unless it was hunting a glove or an old shoe or pocketbook that either Joe or Sylvia had hid den. Joe lay awake that night and thought about what Sylvia had said. He felt guilty and ashamed, but when you haven’t enough to eat and you own some property that would bring an easy thousand dol lars on the open market, you can’t help thinking about it. Sylvia’s aunt had given them Dusty the week before they left for Hollywood. He was sev en weeks old, a pure bred Springer Spaniel, black as coal and intelligent as two ordinary human beings. The next morning Joe decided to go down onto the boulevard. Some times on the boulevard he met someone he knew and would get talking and perhaps get a line on something. He put Dusty on his leash and started out. Joe turned down Vine street. Just below Selma, some children "How much?” said Joe, not look ing at him. “Nine hundred.” J OE thought of Sylvia. She was probably hungry. She’d be hung rier tonight. The only alternative was city relief. A man has his pride. He remembered the hug Sylvia had given Dusty before they left. He thought of the way Dusty would nip at their toes when they were getting dressed in the morn ing. He shook his head. “No!” he said. “No! Not for twice that amount.” The rotund man laughed. “Then how about hiring him? You, too, of course. We’re making a picture that requires a cute dog who will go find things that have been hid den.” Joe threw up his head. “What?” "Think it over,” said the rotund man. "Pay would be $25 a day. Here’s my card.” He smiled. "Hope I didn’t Insult you with that nine hundred of fer. Your dog’s worth two thou sand, if a cent. Never saw a pure black Springer with those lines. Be sure to look me up. If $25 doesn’t suit you, we can probably talk terms.” Joe stood on the curb and watched the black limousine re cede. He glanced at the card, then down at Dusty. Dusty was watching him expectantly. He wanted to walk some more. Joe slipped the card into his pocket and started up Vine street at a pace that rath er surprised Dusty. ' Primary Kaolin All the primary kaolin produced in this country comes from North Carolina. It is a ceramic used in fine china. FLOWERS . . . Helen Keller, deaf and blind, enjoys flowers presented to her by UNESCO’s international Braille conference in Paris, where delegates were trying to standardize the Braille system. This Is Your Paper 'Want Ad' Market Place By William R. Nelson P EOPLE whp have visited market places in foreign lands find them picturesque, quaint and color ful. If they had studied them care fully they would have found them also most inefficient. To sell things there it is necessary to transport them to the market place, display them, wait for customers, and take home what remains unsold. Often considerably deterioriated in value. Perhaps one of the very real con tributors to our high American standard of living is the greater efficiency of our less picturesque market places, the classified or want ad columns of our papers. Classified ad- Wasting vertising brings No seller and buy- Time er together without the necessity of meeting at a market place. And goods that change hands need be moved only once, need not be exposed to deteriorating forces. People wishing to buy things not offered in the want ad columns can generally find it by inserting a “Wanted” announcement. Classified or want ad advertising gets its name, of course, from the way such information is grouped under headings. Included in such columns is con siderable of life’s every day pathos and drama, its failures and suc cesses, its comedy and its irony. Even such items as "Eggs For Sale” may herald an up or down In someone’s Ufe. Certainly there is a story behind "Exchange, set of golf clubs for baby buggy”. Wha tever Timeliness one’s problem, and when ’ssing a Convenience classified ad to solve it, cer tain matters of technique may well be borne in mind. Number ode is timeliness. Ice skates do not sell well in summer. Number two is convenience. Make it easy to re spond to your ad. And number three is adequate description. The more you tell, the more you sell is an ex cellent bit of advice. If tempted to keep the cost low by being too brief, remember that your reader knows only what the ad vertisement says, so telling a com plete story is one way to assure success. Remember also how much time you are saving, by not having to go to a market place, and be willing to spend some of that saving on additional words in your classi fied advertisement. crossword mm LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ "How much?” said Joe, not looking at him. were playing on a lawn. One of them was crying. Joe stopped to see what the trouble was. A little girl had lost her rag doll. It was somewhere about, but he couldn’t find it. Dusty licked the little girl’s hand. She cooed happily and patted his head. The other children crowd ed about. Joe unsnapped Dusty’s leash, held the little girl’s skirt to his nose and said: “Go find!” Dusty let out a yip and went bounding away. Two minutes later he came back, holding in his mouth the rag doll. The lit tle girl clapped her hands. “Smart dog,” said a voice. Joe turned. A car had stopped at the curb. A small round man with a friendly face had emerged onto the sidewalk. Joe nodded. “Pure bred Springer. They’re all smart.” ' “Are they?” said the little man. His eyes twinkled. “Like to sell him?” Joe said nothing. He felt a queer prickling at the base of his skull. "Like to sell him?” said the man again. ACROSS 1. Java tree 5. Healing ointment 9. Silk waste 10. One of the Great Lakes 11. Tally 12. Flavor 14. Small explosive sound 15. Type measure 17. Sailor (colloq.) 18. Lutfecium (sym.) 19. Houses for dogs 22. Paragraph 25. Thin tin plate 26. Pulsate 28. Entreaties 31. Chamber 33. Border 34. Sowed, as seed 37. Sun god 38. Hebrew letter 39. Term of negation 40. Obtained 41. A river of Hades (myth.) 44. Ankle bone (Anat.) 46. Broad smile 47. Level 48. Looked at 49. Grit (slang) DOWN 1. Unrefined 2- A ship’s deck 3. Ventilate 4. Smooth 5. Wager 6. Constella tion 7. Hearkened 8. Mettle 11. Cleave 13. Bitter vetch 16. Encoun tered 20. Short sleep 21. River (Afr.) 23. Conduct character istic of knights- errant 24. Satellite of the earth 27. Larva of botfly 29. Stranded 30. Cha-rs 32. 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Electric milk coolers are thermo- staticaly controlled and use from 25 to 30 KWH per month to cool 10 Farmer sets timer to oper ate an extra agitator on a con ventional milk cooler. gallons of milk per day. Even they, however, might be improved. One attempt to do this is illus trated in the accompanying photo graph. It shows a farmer setting a timer to operate an extra agita tor on a conventional cooler. By means of this special equipment, he starts building up the ice bank in the cooler the minute the milk cans are immersed. There is no waiting for the escaping heat from the milk 1 to set the cooling mechan ism in action. Can a baby be “psychotic” (insane)? Answer: Yes, though rarely. Dr. Leo Kanner, noted Johns Hop kins child psychiatrist, reports having studied" more than fifty cases of a form of early schizo phrenia which he named "infan tile autism,” and which "is ap parent as early as the second half- year of life.” Victims show a total Small Acreage Farmers Practice Conservation V' ^ ' A v- ; . Small-farm operators are begin ning to change their belief that soil conservation is a luxury tliey can’t afford. Thousands of small farms are now practicing all-out soil conser vation with exciting results. Back in the 1930’s, a farming magazine recalls, farmers were told to cut down on corn and small grain. The idea was to keep more of the land in grass and most of the rest in hay crops most of the time. After giving soil conservation a try, thousands of operators of small farms have now concluded, the magazine finds, that one can raise more of everything. Some have doubled production in just a few years under soil conservation practices. , Broilers Need Water Broilers need water to put on weight. Laying hens need it to maintain satisfactory egg produc tion. And they need it all year round—winter and summer. In years past, poultry waterers required almost constant attention during the winter. Often the battle against ice was fought with steam ing kettles of water. One method of overcoming this problem is presented in the ac companying illustration. It shows the installation of a heat lamp over a common type of waterer. The warmth produced is sufficient to keep the water free of ice as well as to prevent litter from be coming wet around the waterer, Dry Silage Sometimes Contains Few Vitamins v Dry silage, which has been sub jected to long-continued, high heat of fermentation, has little carotena of Vitamin-A content left in it. Car otene usually is badly needed to supplement the other rations. The farmer with several silos to fill should start several days ahead of when the kernels have finished denting to avoid ending up the silo-filling with com that is “rattle dry” as it is blown in. MIRROR Of Your MIND Disapproval Won't 'Reform' Hubby By Lawrence Gould Build This Cozy Homo For Bluebirds, Wrens Can a wife “reform” her husband? Answer: As a rule, not if she goes about it on the basis of a con scious or unconscious feeling that she’s morally superior to him. For while superficially, some men want to feel that way about their wives, their self-esteem will final ly rebel against the situation and may driye them to find consolation with a less demanding woman. The only sure way to "reform” any body is to help him realize that he can get. more satisfaction out of your way of life than out of the One you disapprove of. Making Kim ashamed won’t do this. lack of interest in people, even their parents, are disturbed by changed surroundings, and either do not talk or develop their own private language. The illness is not hereditary or due to physical defect, but seems caused by wholly unaffectionate •> parents. Birds Have Preferences T HE DEPTH of the house, the width,' 1 size of opening, con* structions and where located are all important to different kinds of birds. Pattern 277 gives actual-size cutting guides for blue birds and wrens. • * • Price of pattern is 25c. Order direef from— WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer IS Bedferd Mllle. New Terk,^ Do more eld men than old women commit suicide? Answer: Yes, reports Dr. A. B. Stokes in the Canadian Medical Association JoumaL While many characteristics of extreme age axe common to both sexes, the suicide rate is "extraordinarily higher** among men than among women. One reason for this may well be that a woman usually gives up active life so gradually that the shock of having "nothing to do** is comparatively gentle. The more suddenly one is deprived of the sense of being useful, the stronger the feeling of frustration, and the rage this generates may lead to self-murder. Wm •making or •old •oBMtimw Blows daws kidney tap* doB. This may lead many folk* to ooa* plain of nagfint backache, too* of pap from minor bladder Irritation* dm to dampmaa or diotary indiscretiona. If year discomforts or* dm to thee* cause*, don’t wait, try Don’s POla, a mild diuretic. Used successfully fay million* tag over M jraars. WhOs tfasm a sites otherwise occur. If* _ many time* Doan’* give happy re help the 16 miles of kidney tubes and i flush out waste. Got Don’s Pills today! > ' ' "^ l LOOKING AT RELIGION ON HIS WAY Tp ROME "TO TEACH THE GOSPEL, PAUL WAS ARRESTED-BY-ROMAN SOLDIERS AND CARRIED THERE IN CHAINS/’ INSTEAD OF BEING A MISFORTUNE,* THIS WAS ACCIDENT INSURANCE OF YH£ BEST KIND, FOR IT MEANT THAT PAUL WOULD GETV.CTO ROME SAFELY-— WHICH HE MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE IF THE JEWS VbWO PLOTTED AGAINST HIM HAD BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE HIM. KEEPING HEALTHY | Poliomyelitis Epidemics Are Costly By Dr. James W. Barton A lthough the epidemics of poliomyelitis (infantile paraly sis) do not occur usually till to ward the end of August and during the months of September and Octo ber, parents of small children dread the coming of these months as much as do residents of hurri cane districts. When we think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars given by sympathetic men and women to the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, we may wonder where and how all this money is spent. Yet epidemics of polio are not decreasing, though fortunately recent ones have not been so dam aging as in previous years. When we see these many thou sands of dollars so carefully and yet so generously distributed to the various reliable research organiza tions. throughout the country* we fail to understand why so much money is spent every year with no apparent effect upon this disabling disease. Only physicians and medical re search workers «cdh really know something of the tremendous amount of work on polio that is being 'carried on everywhere throughout the couritry. This knowl edge is made known to them fay means of Poliomyelitis Current Literature, a periodic annotated list prepared by the library at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the American Medi cal association, Chicago. 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