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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-11-04, Page 2urM PAGE 2 .'lie (Minton News-Kecord with which is Incorporated THE NEW GRA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION €$1.50 per year in advance, to Can- :adian addresses; $2,00 to the U.S. or <other foreign countries. No paper ,disoontinued until all arrears are maid unless at the option of the pub- 1lislier, The date to Which every sub- scription rs paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RASES Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. Sc. for each subse- ,quent insertion.. Heading counts 2 nines. Small advertisements not to .exceed one ineh, such as "Wanted," -"Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once /for 35; ealch subsequent insertion 05c, Rates for display advertising shade known on applict,tion. Communications intended for pub - Ilea -Lion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. <G. E. HALL - Proprietor H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent :Representing 14' Fire Insurance Companies !Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. ,4larristor, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. .Kaloan Block .... .... Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law '-Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner ;Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage ^Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat., and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION thy Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satia- faction guaranteed. :For information etc. write or phone Marold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, ;phone 14-661. 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Bloor Str. W. Toronto Ont THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. 'OFFICERS—President, Alex McEw- ting, Blyth. Ont; Vice President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Secretary Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Sea - forth, Ont. DIRECTORS — Alex McEtving, Blyth, Ont., W. R. Archibald, Sea - forth, Ont., Alex Broadfoot, Sea - forth, Ont.; Chris Leonhardt, Born- holm, Ont., E. J. Trewartha, Clinton, 'Ont., Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, Ont., Frank McGregor, Clinton, Ont., Hugh Alexander, Walton, Ont., George Leitch, Clinton,' Ont. AGENTS—John E. Pepper, Bruce- field, Ont., R. P. McKercher, Dublin, Ont., J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen, Ont., George A. Watt, Blyth, Ont. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of 'Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director. ANADIAN: ATIONA i,. TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Toronto and Goderich Division Going East, depart ..... 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.03 p.m. Going West, depart 12.04 pan. Going West, depart 11.10 p.m. London and Clinton Division 'droning North, arrive 11.20 a.m. Going South, leave 3.10 p.m. .Pipe ToSacen P.,q a Tobacco FOR A MILD, COOL, SMOKE Girls enlisted in the R.C.A.F. who ,,are selected for Equipment : Assis- ttants or Accounting Clerks, after completing basic training at Rock- cliffe, take trade courses at Trenton Ontario. Kidnap THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD iwdc ,'il Cseo". i by S. S. Van Dine Kasper Kenting disappears. Philo Vance,. . District Attorney Markham' and Sergeant Heath of the Homicide Bureau question Kenyon Renting and Mrs. Renting, Kaspar'•s brother and wife, in the presence of Eldridge' Fleel, Renting family attorney. Vance donbt the kidnapping story and furth- er questions Weems the butler, Mrs. Kenting's mother, Mrs, Falloway and son Frain, and Porter Quaggy, re- contetr friend of IC:enting's and last person to be with him on the fatal night, All seem hostile to Kasper, At this time a ra nsome note arrives de- manding .$60,000 and freedom from the police, A dummy package is sub pituted for the money and secreted in a tree in Central Park. The police capture Mrs. Falloway who admits privately to Vance she is really try- ing to forestall an attempt by her son Fraim, to take the money. She is not held. Immediately afterward, Madelaine Renting', wife of Kasper, also disappears suddenly. That night, while walking home, Eldridge Fleel is machine-gunned at close range front a passing automobile but, not hurt. Vance suspects a ruse: Heath, Mark- ham and Vance go to Markham's of- fice and' leant that Kasper Kenting's body has been found in the East Riv.- er. While there Kenyon Renting arrives with a second ransome note, as does Fleel who also received a note. Vance examines both and discovers a cryptic meaning in the Fleel communication. The hidden meaning prompts Vance to investigate further. Vance decides that the hidden meaning is really the directions for getting to the kidnap- per's lair. Together with Markham, Heath and Van Dine, he drives to a lonely house in upper Manhattan where, after silently disposing of a Chinese doorkeeper, the party enters., came two reports from Vanee's' automatic, and I saw the man who had shot at us pitch forward, The thud of his body on the floor coin- knockedctded with the crash of the lamp,1 over by the second man. The room was plunged in complete darkness. "Stay down, Van!" came the com- manding voice of Vance. Altitost as he spoke there was a staccato exchange of shots. All 1 could see were the brilliant flashes from the automatic. I lay flat on my stomach across the door sill, my heath spinning dizzily, my muscles paralyzed with fear for Vance. There was a brief respite of black silence, so poignant as to be almost' palpable, and 'then carne the crash I of an upset chair and dull heavy sound of a human body striking the floor. I was afraid to move. Heath's labored breathing made a welcome noice at my side. Then I heard Vance's voice— the cynical nonchalant voice I knew so well. ; 41:42 The ray from Heath's pocket flash moved about the walls and ceiling, but I could see neither him nor Vance. Then the light carie to a halt. and Heath's triumphant voice rang out. "Here it is, sir, --a. socket beside the window." And as he spoke a weak yellowed bulb dimly lit up the room. On the floor lay two motionless bodies. "Pleasant evening, Sergeants" Vance spoke in his usual steady,: whimsical voice. "My sincerest apol- ogies, and all that.." Then he caught sight of me, and his face sobered. "Are you •all right Van?" he asked. I assured him I had escaped the melee' unscathed, and, added 'that 1 had not used my automatic because I was afraid I might have+, hit him in the dark. "I quite understand," he murmur- ed and, nodding his head, he went quickly 'to the two prostrate bodies. After a nfouuentary inspection, he stood up and said: "Quite dead, Sergeant. Really, y' know, I seem to be a fairly accurate shot. I'll say!" breathed Heath with ad- miration. "I wasn't a hell of a lot of help, was I, Mr. Vance?" he added a bit shamefacediy. "Really nothing for you to do, Ser- geant." The last word had been only half completed when there came two shots from the rear door. The slim, crouch ing figure of a'ntan, somnewhat.schol- arly looking and well dressed, had suddenly appeared there. Vane had swung about simul- taneously with his warning to Heath, and there were two more shots in rap- id succession, this time from Vance's gun. I saw the poised revolver of blue steel drop from the raised hand of the man at the rear door; he looked round him dazed, and both his hand, went to his abdomen. He remained upright for a moment; then he doubled up and sank to the floor where he lay in an awkward crumpled heap. Heath's revolver too dropped from his grip. He staggered backward a few feet and slid heavily into a chair. "The baby winged me," Heath said with an effort. "My gun jammed." He had barely finished speaking when we heard a repeated ringing near us. "By Jove a telephone!" commented Vance. "Now well have to find the in- strument." n- strument" Heath straightened up. "The thing's right here on the man- tel," he said. "You'd better let me answer it Mr. 'Vance. You're too 'refined." He pick- ed up the received with his left hand. "What d' you want?" he asked in a gruff, officious tone: There was a short pause "Oh, yeah? O. -K., go ahead." A longer pause followed, as Heath listened. "Don't know nothing about it," he shot back, in a heavy resentful voice. Then he added. "You got the wrong number." And he slammed down the receiver. "Who was it, do you know. Ser_ geant?" Vance spoke quietly as be Iighted a cigarette. Heath tuLtied slowly and looked at Vance. His eyes were narrowed, and there was an expression of awe on his face as he answered. "Sure I know," be said signifi- cantly. He shook his head as if he did not trust himself to speak. "There ain't to mistaking that voice." "Well, who was it Sergeant?" "It was—" he began and then he was suddenly aware of my presence in the room. "Mother o' God!" he breathed. "I don't have to tell you Mr. Vance. You knew this morning." Vance looked at the Sergeant a moment and shook his stead. "Y' know," he said, in a curiously repressed voice, 'rT was almost hoping was wrong, I hate to think—" He /I'VE BEEN SAVING MONEY FOR A RAINY DAY i NOW LET'S RUY A BOND FORA BRIGHT ONE !t THURS., NOV. 4, 1943 cane suddenly forward to Fleath who had fallen back woakly against the mantel and was blindly reaching for the wall, in an effort to hold himself upright, Vance put his 4.11IneS around Heath and led' him to a ch,wr. "Isere Sergeant," be said in a kind- ly tone, handing' him an etched silver flask, "take a drink of this— and don't be a sissy." Heath inverted the flask to his. lips. Then he handed it back to Vance, "That's potent juice," he said, stana- ing up and pushing Vanoo away from. him. "Let's got going," "Right -o, Sergeant. We've only begun." As he spoke he walked to- ward the rear door and stepped over the dead man, into the next room. Heath and I were at his heels. We were in a small box like room, without windows. Opposite us, against the wall, stood a narrow army cot. Vance rushed forward and leaned ov- er the cot. The motionless forth of a women lay stretched out on it. De- spite her disheveled hair and her deathly ,pallor, I recognized Made- laine Renting. Strips of adhesive tape bound her lips together, and both her arms were tied securely with pieces of heavy clothes -line to the iron rods at either side of the cot. Vance dexterously removed the tape from her mouth, and the .wo- man sucked in a deep' breath as if she had been partly suffocated. Vance busied himself with the cruel cords binding her wrists. When he had released them he laid his ear against her heart for a moment, and poured a little of the cognac from his flask between a her lips, She swal- lowed automatically and coughed. Then Vance lifted her in his aims and started from the room. I preceded him as he carried his in- ert burden down the dingy stairway. "We must get her to a hospital at once, Van," he said when we had rea- ched the lower hallway. The Chinaman still lay where we had left him, on the floor against the wall. "Drag him up to that pipe in the corner, Mr. Van Dine," the. Sergeant told me in a strained voice. "My arm is sorts numb." I moved the limp form of the China- man until his head cane in contact with the pipe; and Heath, with ane hand, drew out a pair of handcuffs. Clamping one of the manacles on the unconscious man's right whist, he pulled it around the pipe and with his foot manipulated, the Chinaman's left arm upward till he could close the second iron around it. Than we both went out into the murky night, Fleath slamming the door behind him, Vance, with his bur- den, was perhaps a hundred yards ahead of us, and we came up with hint just as he •reached the car. He plac- ed Mrs. Kenting on the rear seat of the tonneau and arranged the cush- ions'under her head. "I'nt heading for the Doran I•Iospi- tal, just this side of Bronx Park, Ser- geant." Vance said, as we sped along. 1n about fifteen minutes, ignoring all traffic lights and driving at a rate far exceeding the city speed limit, we drew up in front of the hospital. Vance jumped from the ear, took Mrs. Renting in his arms again, and carried her tap the wide marble steps. He returned to the car in less than ten minutes, "Everything's all right, Sergeant," he said as the approached the car. The lady has regained consciousness. Fresh air did it." Heath had stepped out of the car and was standing on the sidewalk. "So long, Mr. Vance," he said. "I'm getting in that taxi up ahead I gotto get back to that damn house. I got work to de." "Stay right here, Sergeant, and get that arm properly dressed first." He led Heath back, and accompan- ied him up the hospital steps. A few minutes later Vance came' out alone, "The noble Sergeant is all right, Van," he said, as he took his place at the wheel again. "He'll be out before long." When; we reached, • Vane's apart- ment Currie opened the door for us. There was relief written itt every line of the old butler's face. "Good. heavens, Currie!" said Vance as he stepped inside. "2 told you, you might tuck yourself in at eleven o'clock if you hadn't heard, from me!" "I'm sorry, sir," Currie saidin a voice which, for all its formality, had an emotional tremolo in it. "I— I couldn't go to bed, sir, until you re- turned. I'm very glad you have come home, sir." "You're a sentimental old :fossil, Currie," Vance complained, handing the butler hie hat. "Mr. Markham is waiting in the lib- rary," 'said Currie. As we entered the library we found Markham ,pacing up and, down. "Well, thank God!" he said. And, though he attempted to Sound trivial, his relief was as evident ,as old Cur- tie's had been. "Greetings, old dear," , said Vance "Why this unexpected pleasure of your presence at such: an hour?" "I was merely interested, officially, in what you night have found.' ori"' Lord Street," returned Markham." "I'm frightfully sorry, Markham," he said, "but I fear I have made you a bit of trouble . . . The fact is," he• added carelessly, "I killed three men: , "Are you serious?" blurted Mark- ham. "Orr, quite," answered Vance. "Do you think yott can save me from the dire consequences? And then he told Markham in de- tail eveythiig that had happened 'that night. But I thought be too greatly minimized his own part rat the tragic drama. When he had finished his recital he asked somewhat coyly: "Am I a doomed culprit, or were there what. you would call extenuat- in' circumstances? — I'm horribly weak on the intricacies of thelaw, don't y'lcnow." "Damn it! forget .everything" said Markham. "If you're really worried I'll get you a brass medal as big as Columbus Circle. The front . door -bell rang, and a minute later Heath entered the lib- rary. His ordinary ruddy face was a little pale and drawn, and his right arm was in a sling. He saluted Mark- ham and turned sheepishly to Vance. "Your old saw -bones at the hospi- tal told me I bad to go home," he complained. "And there's nothing in God's world the matter with me." he added disgustedly. "Imagine him put - tin' -this arm in a sling --Hell! If my gun hadn't jammed—" "Yes, that was a bad break, Ser- geant," nodded Markham. Vance and Markham and Heath discussed the case from various ang- les for perhaps a half hour longer. Markham was getting impatient. "I'm going home," he said finally, as he rose. "We'll get this thing straightened out in the morning." "Is there anything you want me to do, Mr. Vance?" Heath's tone was respectful, but a little weary. Vance looked at him with commis- eration. (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUED) V Wartime Needs in Tobacco Fertilization (Experimental Farms News) Results of experiments and practic- al experience both warrant the use of properly prepared fertilizers for Om tobacco crop. Consequnetly, any irregularity in the normal supply nat- urally concerns the tobacco grower, says, R. J. Haslam, Dominion Experi- mental Station, Harrow, Ont. Owing to the limited supply of com- mercial potash for use in Canada for all crops, tobacco fertilizers will con- tain a lower percentage of potash for next year's crop. To what extent this will affect the yield and quality of to_ bacco may depend on a number of factors. In order of importance, soil management, ranks first. Soil tests conducted over a period of years at Flat•row show that properly fertiliz- ed ani! well-managed tobacco soils will usually show a residue of sol- uble plant nutrients at the close of the growing season, Soils left unpro- tected during the fall, winter and early spring, apparently lose a cer- tain portion of those soluble mater- ials, Cover crops natt('ally reduce this loss to a minimum because they re- cover this residue and return it to the soil for next year's crop. Fall plough- ing of sandy loam soils is not recom- meindecl owing to a .greater exposed condition of the soil to leaching and erosion. As a means of providing additional potash fox the tobacco ,crop, barn- yard manure eau be used to good ad_ vantage. Experiments at Harrow de- finitely show the value of fall appli- cations of manure for burley ,and dark tobacco. Top -dressing of rye, alfalfa and sweet clover can be highly recono mended as a preparatory treasure for the next year's tobacco crop. Tobacco stalks are naturally rich in soluble nutrients, particlarly pot- ash. Their use for top dressing inter- vening crops in the tobacco rotation can also be recommended provided sufficient tithe is ,allowed for com- plete decay before the tobacco is planter to avoid carry over of plant disease. As soluble materials leach readily, tobacco stalks should be ap- plied to the land as soon as possible, after the tobacco is stripped, Experiments also 'show that the band method of placing fertilizers in the soil affords a considerable sav- ing of soluble fertilizer nutrients for the tobacco. VV Mainly because the honey' in north' ern countries is gathered from clges-- ers, it is more wholesome for winter- ing bees than honey from the south. Dandelion honey has proved fatal to bees. 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