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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-11-20, Page 2PAGE 2 �1�? .:i Ao'oo FFFdp�''! a, s'i'r �,,e�•d'C'2�FF+. ! �. :F �F Ct,. �, ,Cry OP vooq lop AFd,C�,C.c. c;; TCf',e'4 CHAPTER II SYNOPSIS . Friday afternoon, September 4, Harley Longstreet, "member of the The Clinton .News -Record with which is.Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF' SUBSCRIPTION $1.•50 per year in advance, to Can - action addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued . until all arrears are ;paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- seription is paid is denoted on the. label. :ADVERTISING -RATES— Transient .advertising 12c per count line for .first insertion. 8c for each subse- .c(uent insertion. Heading counts 2 hues. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted, "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once fqr 25o, eachsiebitequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising :made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good .faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - Proprietor IL T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer lrinancial, Real Estate and Fire In- suirance Agent. Representing 14 Fire. .Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Finland. B.A.. LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Drytlon°, K.C. . Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203, Clinton , 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 Dooms west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and I appointment. FOOT CORRECTION Thy manipulation Sun -Ray Tre sttaeilt Phone 207 EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron :Correspondence promptly answered, :immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household •Sales - Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14 -661. 06-012 GORDON M. GRANT Licensed Auctioneer for Huron 'Correspondence promptly answered. Every effort made to give satisfac- tion. Immediate arrangements can be made for sale dates at News -Record Office or writing Gordon M. Grant, Goderich, Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Out. Officers: President. Wm. Knox Londesboro• Vice -President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth, Directors: Wan. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. 3. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos. Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEw- ing. Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: P. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton; Jas. Watt, Blyth; John L Pepper, Bruce - field, R.R. No. 1; R. F. McKerchcr. Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen; A. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R.R. No, 1. Any money to be paid may be paid •'to the Royal Bank, Bank of ,`Commence, Seaforth, or Clinton;at Calvin 'Cutt's' Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance nsur ance or transact other business will 'be promptly attended to on applies - .tion to any of the above officers ad- adressed to their respective poet o- ces. Losses inspected by the director i— �ANADIAN'NATIO AL;RAILLWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Godet'ich Div. Going East, depart 6.43 a.rn. Going East, depart 3.00 pm. Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going West, depart 9.50 p.m. London—Clinton Going South ar. 2,50, leave 3.08 p.m. firm of Dewitt and Longstreet, brolc ars, invites some of his friends to a hotel to celebrate his engagement to i` Cherry Browne, an actress. The par- ty includes Dewitt, and his wife Fein, his daughter Jeanne hen fiance Chris- topher Lord, Cherry's friend. Pollux of vaudeville fame, Ahearn, :friend -of DeWitt, Lnperiale,, niidclle-aged. Lat- in, and Michael Collins, brawny Irish- man. 'A :little before six they all leave the hotel to go to Longstreet's home in' West Englewood. A. sudden storm breaks. and the party boards a Forty -Second Street Crosstown car. Between Ninth and Tenth Avenues Longstreet puts his hand- in his pock- et for his glasses. He pricks his hand. "What in the world could've "he starts thickly, and collap- ses to the floor. Drury• Lane, i'e- tired Shakespearean actor, offers to help District Attorney Bruno and In- spector Thutmn solve the murder. The' officials are relating the details to , exodus' of the other occupants of th hint. a 4 �' car. They filed into a large genera Iroopi on the second floor, guarded b a half-dozen detectives. DeWitt stood 'stonily, his small! Inspector Thumwas back in th hands clenched, Ahearn and Lord I deserted car with the sprawled dea struggled with the heavy body and figure when there was the clang o an ambulance and two young :nen i white hurried into the barn, horde by a short fat man. ti..,N`li'ON NEWS -RECORD Cherry -Browne was on her• feet new, eyes wild and face writhing horn the suddon sight of Longstreet's, livid clay. She branished her finger at DeWitt, ran forward and clutched his lapels, shrieking into his blanch, ed' face: "You killed him. You did it! You hated him! Thumm and Duffy pulled the screaming, woman away. Throughout DeWitt stood like stone.. Inspector Phnmm' towleiredi above the quivering woman. "How did you come to say that, Miss Browne? Did you see Mr. DeWitt put that cork "You tidied him! You did it! You hated lour!". e 'into Longstreet's coat?" 1 i "No," she moaned, shaking from y side to side. "I only know he hated I-Iarley . . . Harley told the so doz- e ens of times—' d Thumm snorted, looked signifi- f cantly at Sergeant Duffy and snap - n ped: "Everybody stay here until I get d back," then strode to the genera: • room. managed to haul Longstreet into a 3'acatod seat, Longstreet was gasp- ing weakly; light flecks of foam ribbled from. his lips. Thumm called: . "Dr. Schilling The grom:leg tiiproar }tenetratedl This way!" forward• into the car. Suddenly a . ' policeman with sergeant's stripes The medical examiner of Net elbowed through. He had been rid- York county puffed into the car fol ing• on the front platform with the lowed by the two internes. He ben: motorman, , l over the dead man, then said: " Wher -•San I take this stiff, Inspector?" Longstreet stiffened again,! then I Thumm's eyes twinkled with grin became Vito rigid. The sergeant •humor. "Dump him in that privet straightened up, scowling. "He's 'room upstairs with the rest of th dead. Uh-huh!" He had caught 'party. That ought to be interesting sight of the dead man's left hand. I As Dr. Schidding superintended- th More than a dozen tiny trickles of removal of the body, Thumm beck coagulating blood Laced the skin of n oncd a detective. "Have this car gen finger's and palet from as many tiny' over with a fine:comb, Peabody. Co pricks, each swollen a little, "Mur-' lett every piece of junk in it. Ther veered, looks like. I don't want any- i go over the routes the Longstvoe body to try to get off this car." He party and other occupants' took i .alled to the motorman: "Don't 'passing to the rooms. 1 want to mak move this cat, and see that those absolutely sure that nobody dropper 'oors and windows are kept shut— anything." undersitand?" ; Then /he yelled: I The Longstreet patty sat shoo "Hey, conductor! Run dowse to the corner. of Tenth avenue and, tell the in varying attitudes of misery an traffic cop there to phone the local strain, but all were silent, precinct and tell it to get Inspector I Inspector Thumm surveyed th Thud nt at headquarters. Got that party with almost disinterested spec 'straight? wait—I'll let•you outi .ulation. "Sergeant,you told me the teltI ain't taking any .chance on -some gentleman here had, identifie -emebody giving me the slip" the dead man as Harley Longstreet The conductor, out in the rain head- IiVho was that?" ed for Tenth avenue on the run. Duffy pointed to John DeWitt sit The conductor, water streaming, ting beside his wife on the Contin From the visor of his cap, 'was ham- ; uous bench that flanked the fou Aswaths. ]iceman stood by his side. The sepor•- Yost saw that peculiar cork o ntering on the rear doors. ;cant admitted them and closed the' needles I took from Longstreet' doors at. once.pocket 10 the car." Thumm said "Morrow reporting, On duty at once.; "Have you ever seen it before?" De Tenth avenue." ( Witt shook his head. "Anyone els "I'm Duffy, Sergeant, 18th ! here?" All shook their heads. Thain Tinct, Call headquarters pre- �n, rocked a little on his heels. "iVIds „ I Browne, DeWitt says that he sa Yep. Inspector Thumm said for Longstreet and. you dash for the car vou to take the car to the Green and that you held your fiance's le Lines carbarn at Forty-second and arm until you both got into the car Twelfth, He'll meet you there. Says Did you see Inc left hand at all?" not to touch the body." "Yes. When he searched for than When the car reached the huge I ge and didn't find any. Just after Axed a group of men in plainclothes we got into the car," ,fere waiting. Sergeant Duffy pull- I "His hand was clear --no blood?" ed the door -lever and Inspector"No." Ihunust forged into the car. The 1 "The weapon." volunteered DeWitt sergeant whispered into the inspec- i "must have bean slipped into m tor's ear. Thumm thudded to his partner's poeket while he was on tht knees and, taking out a flashlight, ear." grasped the material of the dead noun's open patch -pocket, puller] the The Inspector grinned without hu Pocket wide, and directed the mot. "E'xactly. Miss Browne, why oil of light into the interior. Putting down the -flashlight, he produced a large penknife and with the utmost caution slit the stitching along, Osie side of Longstreet's pocket. Two ob- lects gleaned in the ray of the flash- light ---a silver spectacle case and a ,:mall ball of cork, one inch in diam- eter, riddled with at least fifty need- les, the 'tips ,of which'pr'ojected from the The inspector stamped loudly for 1attention. The conductor, questioned first, reveilecl himself as Charles Wood, • Number 2101, in the employ of the 'company for five years. He was a red-haired man of perhaps fifty. }Ie THURS., NOV. 20, 1941 a S 11� new' popular park highway is the Cabot Trail in Gape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, which affords motorists magnificent vistas of mountains, sea end valley. More than 900 miles of motor high- ways and secondary roads are main- tained in the national parks, and each year this system of park highways is being extended to new areas of scenic grandam. Approximately 75 per cent of all 'parks highways are of standard all-weather construction, CONSUMPTION OF SCRAP IRON dancing and activities among the tax and some hard -surfacing _ has been AND STEEL payers "frills" for some years, done on the' Trans -Canada Highway in Banff Park. During the past sum Scrap: is one of the most important Progress rhythmic exercises based mer. an' extensive program has been primary material of the iron and steel en the :Scandinavian systems of drill carried out for the elimination of the industry.. In the manufacture of are in use in some schools; other dust nuisance.. steel and of iron casting's it replaces districts retain the precious exercises pig iron ton for ton, while in rolling of the Stratheona Trust; while a V and stamping mills substantial tones third, group uses adaptation of boot HOUSEWIVES CONTRIBUTE nages are rerolled and re-sluaped into a variety of commercial products. More than 1.8 million tons of scrap iron and steel were used in Canadian industry in 1940, this tremendous' ton- nage assuming special significance in war -time from the standpoint of con types of physical training. V ALUMINIUM Although most of the world's nit- AUTUMN IN CANADA'S NATION- heel deposits are located in Canada, AL PARKS important steps are being taken in the Dominion to ensure a maxirnum Increasing numbers of -motorists supply of nickel for war and defence servation as well as from the fact are attracted by the autumn scene in purposes. that it would require about 3i/ mil- Canada's national parks. Spring and 1 Nickel is used in making rifle and lion torts of iron ore, most of which summer each have their own appeal, machine -gum bullets, stainless steel, must be imported, to supply this a- , but the touch of autumn lends new alloy steel for armour plate, and a mount of new metal. splendour' to the vivid beauty of the 1 variety of other alloys usecl in war landscape, particularly in the moon -production. Scrap is anything of iron and steel n twin parks.. The feel of frost is in that is the waste or by-product of I The International Nickel Company the morning air and the countryside . manufacturing or that has been dig- flames with scarlets and gold in a will spend $25,000,000plcnt inthe next carded on account of failure, absoles- setting of the more sombre ever- slice ,years on plant expansion to while cense or other factors that have ren- � crease the output of the metal, while tiered it unfit for further use in its greens. a more drastic curtailment of the use With the exception of Glacier Nat - present Eosin, It is rails that have of nd er for non-essential purposes a- been discarded, automobiles that have zonal Pzth in British Co Glacier reach- is under way in the Dominion. Cana- been scrapped, frieght oars and loco- eel only by rail, all national paxlcs in dian manufacturers and distributors Cana - motives that have been withdrawn Canada are accessible over modern are admired to about sixty per cent from service, machines that have out- highways. While every effort has of their 1940 consumption of nickel lived then usefulness, turnings from been made to maintain the parks in for non-essential plating. machinery operations, waste from ! their natural beauty, the routes of the , A special nation-wide drive is also stampings, and so on. highways have been selected to en - housewives made for aluminium. Canadian sure easy gradients, safety, and son- housewives, just as thou sisters in Much of the scrap originates with- fort with a great variety of the best the British Isles have done, will Col- in the consenting works and is com- to Canadian scenery. One of the new- leer all their old aluminium pots and monly called home' scrap. This er and most popular motor routes in pans. Any other discarded articles consists of crop ends of billets, bars, the national parks is the mountain containing aluminium will also be rails, etc., trimmings from plates highway linking Banff and Jasper asked for—washing machine and re - and sheets, defective ingots and cast- Natietal Parks. This seeiic motor- frigeratos• parts, discarded golf clubs, way provides an enjoyable drive of picture frames, hangars, and other 186 miles between the resorts of Ban- articles. ff and Jasper, with modern chalets, ! Measure to ensure a naxinttust use auto bungalow cairns, camp grounds, of aluminium for war purposes have and other facilities along the road for been in effect for some time. A vol - .he convenience of the travelling pub- 1 lie in the tourist season. Another , Continued on page 8) ings, machine -shop turnings and bor- remembered the dead man as having rug's and a variety of other forms aris- Ipaid fares for ten people out of a `dollar bill. "Ever see the pian on you car be- fore?" "Yep. He's been getting on pretty often tit that time for years." "Recognize anybody else in his party as a regular passenger?" ISeems I saw another man, a weals ing from the manufacturing opera- tions_ This material which never reaches the open market accounts for about 35 to 40 per cent of all scrap charged to furnaces. Other scrap originates across the country, in a variety of fabrication plants, in the yards of transportation companies, in shipyards, at mines, in little guy, Grey-haired, sot's of. I've auto wrecking establisments, etc., or seen ]Hiro conte on pretty steady with is collected by peddlers who go from the guy that was bumped off." door to door in the cities and in I Thumm then country districts, Nearly every town questioned the pas- or city has its funk sengets. No one, it seemed, had j yards piled high stet an tin slippedwith old. autos, stoves, boilers and a 3 b into Longstreet's multitude of motley items all of ' pocket. Detective Peabody came in. 1 "Any luck?" asked Thumm. which must be carefully sorted before being returned to industry. • The . "Dry as a bone. Whatever this sorting and. grading is a highly spec. !Minch had on rent when they left the ialized business and only a few yards car is still On 'epi, in Canada are equipped with facilities' "Only one thing to do," Thunnn said. "Search everybody in this room, Look sharp for cork, needles, chased" scrap which accounts for a- ' anything that's out of place or out of bout 60 to 65 per of all scrap character. Get busy." a charged to furnaces. I But the search produced nothing. Some scrap material of course, can Thulium returned to where the be re-fottned and used again without Lonnustrect patty sat miserably' wait- other than mechanical operations. ing. Dr. Schillingwas standing he- Washers, far example, may be stamp - R geel from waste sheet or plate or old fore the screen putting on his coat. rails may be slit and re -rolled into bars for concrete reinforcement and other purposes. But most of the scrap must be re -melted usually with the addition of new pig iron and as such it replaces new iron and is just as d for this purpose. This nfateial is eventually bought by the consumers and is commonly designated as "pur. m s He crooked his finger, and the two sal went behind the soreelt. ft ' "Death from respiratory paraly- sis, but that's a. detail." The doctor bobbed his head in the direction of - the bench; the, weapon lead been tut- goo wrapped and lay, innocently enough, at Longstreet's stiff feet. "There are ]fifty-three needle -ends around the ball of cork. Thein• tips and their , eyes, projected from the cork, were y dipped, in nicotine—nicotine, in T think a concentrated form. The fresh ' pure product is a colorless and odor- less oily liquid. But in water or oil - standing it soon becomes dark brown dick your fiance take out his g1asse in the car?" "He wanted to see about a certai stoelc ? " Thtun m elncked. encouragingly "Do you know the name of the stock?" "It was International Metals." Sh stole a swift look at where Miehae Collins sat sullenly studying• the floc c a. quarter -inch all round, "And. Harley said, when he saw it Ira making the total diameter of the dropped a lot, that Mr. Collins nigh weapon an inch and a half. Th steed help, , and you can smell the characteristic s tobacco odor. The needles pricked the palm and fingers in twenty-one n places; the poison made immediate entry into the bloodstream. Thumm, • my friend, I don't envy vou. Unless e I r. d t of the needles were stained with i reddish -brown sticky substance. With the point of his penknife Thumm prodded the cork and turned' it around. The needle -tips on the other side were similarly stained. Thumm straightened lap, explored his own pockets, and produced• a small pair of pincers and a packet of cigarettes. He dumped the cigarettes into his pockets, lifted the needled cork out of Longstreet's pocket with frank surprise. Thum nt said quickly; tine pincers and slipped it into the "Did you know about this transaction empty cigarette packet. The inspec- Mr' DeWitt?" tor then wrapped this in a half-dozen "Certainly not. I'tn astonished to thicknesses of newspaper and handed ]tear that Longstreet advised; buying the package, to Duffy. Metals, I foresaw its collapse last "That's dynamite, Sergeant" Iii,, week and so advised a number of my said. "Handle it that way.. You're personal customers." responsible for it. "Collins, did you speak to Long - Five minutes later Inspector street today before you saw him at Thumm had, weeded out the ahem- the hotel?" asked Thumm, "Yes,"-omiunously. "No words-, I suppose?". "Oh, for God's sake!" shouted Col- lins. "You're barking up the wrong tree. Are you trying to pin this thing on me?" Thumm regarded' Collins with cu- riosity. "I thought working fol' the Income Tax Department kept you busy. Where do you come in on this?" Collins bared Isis teeth. "I'm not sure it's any of your business, Thumm. But if you must know, Longstreet advised me to buy, heavy in International. Metals—he'd been watching the stock for me. And the bottom just dropped out of it today." DeWitt was regarding Collins with bars of the Longstreet party. They trooped silently from the rear of the car and were escorted; into a private room on the second floor ,of the ;car - barn, where two detectives watched then. Thumm then superintended! the this poison was secured though 1e gal channels, it will be untraceable. Pure nicotine is hard to buy, and i I were a prisoner I wouldn't get i from a chemist. It would be possi ble, of course, to distill it from a enormous quantity of tobacco, whi normally has a nicotine content o four pet cent. But how are you groin to trace a nicotine -cooker? Th easiest ways is to buy a can of—" D Schilling mentioned a well-known in sectieide, "and you have nicotine with out much trouble. It has a thirty five per cent content to begin with and by evaporation you would go just such a. resinous sticky moss• a the needles are smeared, with,' "How long would- it take for thi poison to act, Doc?" Not more than a few seconds ord inarily. But of the nicotine was no wholly concentrate, and Longstroe was a very heavy smoker, it would have taken three 'minutes or so, as it did." Inspector Thumm went ,out to the Longstreet party and signed to De- Witt. "As Longstreet's partner ,your - 're probably best equipped to tell me about his habits. The conductor has often •seen hind on his, car. How do you account for this?" (T0' BE CONTINUED) V RADIO AS AN EDUCATIONAL ' MEDIUM Do you "whistle while you work"? Not out loud, of course, while others are studying, but at every opportun- ity. It is good for you. It breaks nerve tension and helps co-ordination. Tired soldiers pick up their feet; tir- ed' pupils, relax and smile; tired work - ere increase their production; to the rhythm of music. The radio has become a factor of primary importance in education. - Like all popular media of educational influence its merits are based on dis- f cretionary regulation and selectivity. t But teachers know the value of the - radio. No lesson in English can con- n pete with a speech by Mr. Churchill; cls no lecture on social relations have f more influence than -our King`s "my g people," or Mr. Roosevelt's "myy e friends." Citizenship within the inter - r•. national community is felt and ex- - perietceci by students through glint- - pses of the daily living experience - and culture of other peoples provided , by the radio. t Three provincial' educational auth- s orities had, at the last survey, design- ed special programs to be used in s school hours- or in the evening to supplement the correspondence cour- ses, and the use -of the radio for uni- ' versity extension courses is too well t known to require further comment. t More than 300 teachers bring their own radios to school. Physically -fit Canadians with split second reactions are a necessity to the mecanized defence forces. The influence of the much criticised "modern music" with its quick -change tempo helps to develop flexibility and timing. The "jitterbug" or "hep cat" nay come into its own in a Spitfire Christmas Seals do their share! !1 Queen Alexandra Sanatorium needs the help of ALL in its unending fight against Tuberculosis. CHRISTMAS SEAL COMMITTEE, 382 WellingtonSt.,London ,5x SOUTH AFRICANS OP '311.1 ROMA L NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE WITH THE FLEET For some years South Africa has included a Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve among the Defence Forces of the Union. During the Great War, office's and men served with the Grande Fleet, belonging' to the South Africa Royal Naval Reserve. In peace time mem- bers of the S''.A.R.N.V.R. serve under the •orders of the Commander-in•- ehief at Somonstown and early out their annual training from the naval base in sea -going ships. "Ammtmitioning ship", 16 in. shell* are seen be - or at the end of an "ack, ack" on, ing struck down on board H.M.S. Nt Ison. These shells weight more than a City schools have included rhythmic I ton each,