The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 21, 1950, Image 6
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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.
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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.
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plate
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Proper Milk Cooling
Necessary for Grade
Warm Milk Excellent
For Bacteria Breeding
Milk must be cooled properly in
order to be classed as Grade A.
Unsatisfactory cooling can make
good- pasture, a healthy herd and
observance of all health and man
agement rules look mighty sick.
To preserve quality, milk should
be cooled to 50 degrees or lower
toon after it is drawn. Milk is
cooled in one of three ways on the
farm: by water, ice and mechan
ical refrigeration.
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.
• * •
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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!
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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.
Generally speaking, "the crip
pling and disabling effects of
poliomyelitis that occur in about 20
per cent of the cases in an epidemic
constitute a ’cumulative* effect
upon a community.** These cases
require long periods of orthopedic
care (straightening of limbs by ex
ercise and surgery) to enable the
child to walk and play again. This
takes years.
When you see a youngster two
or three years of age being wheeled
about, and then a few years later
see this child playing and running
about like other children, the ex
pense does seem to be worth while.
tR, m just 7 days. •. in one short .week •. •
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B R I M M S
PLASTKINER
While colitis may be caused by
irritating food, nervousness causes
an irritation of the colon.
• • •
In a reducing diet, fat foods are
cut by one-half while proteins are
cut 25 per cent, or not at all.
o • •
Allergy was almost unknoaqn as
a definite condition or disease at
the body until recent years.
Relief in some cases of migraine
headache may be obtained from
ergotamine tartrate (gynergen).
o • s
The overweight should remem
ber that his fat tissue is loaded
with water and that water, la
weight
x • o o
Rheumatism Is considered the
oldest disease known to man.
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