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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-12-11, Page 2PAGE 2 V.2 • 4,g c iR.+a4Z• ;a$`=2:471.pifs1;52.5+:.ice r ,LINTON NEWS -RECORD CHAPTER V SYNOPSIS Harley Longstreet, member o1 De- Witt & Longstreet, brokers, and host to a party celebrating his engage=hent The Clinton .News -Record with which is -Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 111.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian 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- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING BTU 'count—T Transient advertising 12e p first insertion. 8c for each subse- quent insertion. ' Headiitg eountd 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc„ inserted once foe. ,35ci, each sublsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising grade known on application, Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good• faith, be acecenpanied by the name .of the -a/rites. E. HALL - Proprleter G. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer +irinancial, Real Estate and Fire In - :alarms Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland. B.A.. LL.E. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public • Successor to W. Brydone, 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 ht Bank of Montreal Milani; Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Manage Office: Huron Street, (Few Dome west of Royal Bent) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and 4 appointment. FOOT CORRECTION i y :manipulation Sen -Ray Treatment Phone 209 EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron Correspondence promptly answered, Immediate arrangements can be trade for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by darling Phone 203. Chargee 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. 00-012 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, Ont. Officers: President. Wm. Knox Londosboro; Vice -President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londeshoro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos. Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McBee Mg. Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton;' Jas. Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, BrUce- field, R.R. No. 1; It. F. McKercher. Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen; A. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, $.R. No. 1. Any mune, to be paid may benpau4 to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Baniks o Commettee, Seaforth, or at Calvin •Cutt'e Grocery,, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended, toon applies - tion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their, respective poet o ces. Lessee inspected by the director r ANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE Tidies will arrive at and•depsrt from • CNntoa a follows; Buffalo and Goderieh Div. which Longstreet had been murdered, not show up. I remained for four Going )6Uat, depart 6.43 am. and a Iean old man, who said he was trips, suspecting a delay. At 11:40 I Gvinq East, depart 3.00 pm, Peter Hicks ferryman N to Cherry Browne, actress, dies oe a trolley frompoison scratched; into his hand by, a needle-piercedcork in ;hie pocket. DeWitt, his wife Fern and daughter. Jeanne her fiai{ec Cliiisto- pher Lord,' Cherry's vaudeville friend Pollux, Ahearn, friendef DeWitt, Iai- pe'riale middle-aged Late:, and`Mieli- eel ; Collins, brawny Irishman; are Longsfireet'sguests. At the carbarn Inspector Thumm examines .tlieni, the other passengers, the .conductor, Charles Wood No. 2101, who says he has. often seen, Longstreet and DeWitt on his car, and the motorman Guin- ess No. 409, who corroborates hiin. Thumm learns later that Longstreet hadhad an affair with Mrs. Fern De- Witt; that he had a hold on his part- ner, frequently demanding large sums of money from him. Indeed, each member of the party seems. to hold some grievance against Longstreet. Drury Lane,, retired' Shakespearean actor, is helping Thumm and D. A. Bruno. Lane, who says he thinks he knows the murderer, refers to him as Mr. X, but refuses to name him. The three go to the Weehawken Ferry one evening in answer to an unsigned let- ter purporting to be from somebody on the fatal trolley. About midnight, as a ferry boat comes into the slip, there is great commotion. Lane and Bruno push forward. "Man, over- board;' rings the cry. "They say he fell from the top deck,". explain a ferryman. The men find DeWitt on his way home. The four got to the top deck. "Something rummy here," says Thumm. "The body was dragged acs•ore the deck. It might be murder." The crushed body of the man is haul- ed on the deck. The visor of his cap bears the metal number 2101—Third Ave. Railways. His indentifieation card is signed Charles Wood. "The writer of the letter." cries, Thumm, "the conductor of the murder earl" Bruno wagged his finger at De- Witt. " You are placing yourself in a moat peculiar position. You must •realize your story is very thin. Un- der the circumstances we can't ac- cept it without specific information." DeWitt stared at the wall, "Well," said the Inspeteor aegu mentatively, "maybe you'll tell us how the apopintment was made. Any record of it?" "it was made over the phone this ;morning at my office. My operators keep no record of incoming calls." "You knew the person who called • (10 DeWitt sat in his chair as If turned to stone. From his eyes t was .doubtful whether he had even heard the exchange of questions and answers. "It's Charley, all right." "Hicks, got anything to•offer about you?" Wood's movements tonight?" Thuman DeWitt retmained silent. asked. ' The ferryman nodded. "Around Thumm grasped Bruno's arm and ha'past ten, Charley comes into the marched him to a corner. The two ferry terminal and we gabbled a spell men conferred in heated whispers. as usual," Drury Lane sighed and closed his eyes. "Your're sure of the time -10:30?" At this moment Peabody returned "Sure I'm sure. Ferries run on from the waiting -room with a group schedule. Charley was carryin' his in tow and detectives brought in five bag, and. I asked him if he'd been cheap, black handbags. "Here are in town the night before as per us- some bags like you described," grin- ual—y'see, sometimes he stayed over ned Peabody, "and their anxious own- ers." Thumm opened one of the bags; the scrubwoman uttered an outraged little gasp. Thumm pulled out a bun- dle of soiled working clothes and a lunch -box. On the next bag, the jew- elry salesman • stepped forward; It contained several cardboard trays covered-withcheap trinkets and a pad of order blanks with the man's name in the city—but no, he says, it was jest a second-hand bag he'd bought on his of -tine today; handle of the old one'd broke. And—" I"What kind of bag was it?" de - mended Thumm. Hicks pursed his lips. "Jest one o' these cheap black handbags you "Everybody see the same thing?" � can lief for a buck anywhere. Square, There was a chorus of assent.Thumm motioned to Detective imprinted. The next bag revealed a "Anybody see anything else—may- Peabody. "See if any of the pas- pair of dirty old trousers and some be get a look at the face as it fell sengers have bags like Hicks de- tools, Thumm looked up and saw the past?" scribes. And get a search started Mohawk pilot regarding himanxious- They looked at each other doubt- on the Mohawk for a bag of that ly. "Yours?" "Yes, sir," The fourth fully, ,description. Have the boys on the contained a dockworker's change of "Very well. Jonas! Take their police boat search the water—might clothing and a lunehbox; the other, names, occupations and addresses." have been thrown or falien over- three baby -diapers, a half filled nur- The detective stepped into the midst board." . sing -bottle, a packet of safety -pins, of the group. After Havemeyer came and a little blanket. They belonged e ferry boot -black, then Mrs. Martha As Peabody strolled out, Drury to a young couple with a sleeping in - Wilson, returning from work as scrub- +Lane said: "Hicks, was Wood sniok- fent. woman in a Times Square office -buil- ing a cigar while you chatted?" ;• Thus= whirled in himself like a ding'. The fourth was a large dapper • Hick's eyes widened at this appari- �� man, Harry Nixon, dressed in a tonal inquisitor, but he replied: "Yes. furious dog chasing his own tai]. Pin shrieking checked suit. An itinerant Matter of fact, I asked Charley for salesman of cheap jewlery, he told of • one. Theta Cremes he smoked sorta strolling forward through the cabin appealed to me. But he said: "I'm all when the body hurled past the win- out, Pete. len smokin' my last one." low. The other two were young girls "Smart question at that, Mr. office -workers, returning from seeing Lane," said Thumm grudgingly. a show.DeWitt sat in his chair as if turn- "' - "' 1 ed to stone. From his eyes, it was When Bruno, Lane and DeWitt doubtful whether he had even heard , went back to the stationmaster's of- the exchange of questions. and an- fice, Inspeetor Thumm glared at De- swers. Witt. "When did you get aboard the "Guiness," said Thumm, "do you 1 Mohawk tonight?" know where Wood lived?" 1 "I took the 11:30 boat," said De- , "In a rooming -house in Weehaw-' Witt. lin-2075 Boulevard." "Were you on the upper passen- "Any relatives?" ger deck during any part of the ten-' "He wasn't married and he never` minute ride across the river?" asked said a word about kin." lhumm. 1 I "Suspicious again, Inspector? No." "Hare's another thing," put in "Did you see Conductor Wood dur- Hicks, "While Charley and nie were Mg the trip?" talkin,' all of a sudden he points to , «No,„ a little geezer that gets out of a ` "If you had seen him, would you cab all bundled up and buys a ferry - have recognized him?" ticket. Charley says to me that the "I think so." little guy was the broker, John De- Witt, the fellow mixed' up in the mur- Thumm produced a paper packet of tier on Charley's car." matches, ripped one away, struck it and lit his cigarette most carefully. "What.". roared Thumm. "You say "Sn all the times you've seen Wood on this was around 10:30?" He glared his car, did you ever speak to him?" down at DeWitt, who had roused now "Of course not" DeWitt seemed and was sitting, forward, hands grip. t amused, ping the arms of the chair. " Go on, "When J stepped on the ferry you Hicks. Did DeWitt see Wood?" were just leaving. You certainly "Reckon not. He stuck in a corner, knew an accident had occurred. all by himself. As the ferry boat Weren't you curious enough to stay came in he went through the gate and i and find out what had happened?" Charley says good-bye and goes in "Na. I was tired, anxious to get too:' ' .: I'41 home." Thumm pushed; by the ferryman "DeWitt;, do you. smoke?" •'to the broker. "Hicks, is this the man "Cigars," he said slowly. Wood pointed out to you?" "Have you any with you?" • I Hicks. stretched his attenuated neck, ' Silently DeWitt produced a leath- "Yep." er cigar -case, neatly initialed in gold, • "Good enough. You two go down - and handed it to the Inspector. Thumm stairs and wait for me." Thumm turn - pulled the top away and., taking out ed to DeWitt and growled: "Now, one of three cigars, examined it minu- suppose you explain how you were 1 tely, On the cigar was a gilt band seen boarding the 10:45 ferry, yet a lettered J. 0. DeW. "Private brand, while ago you said it was the 11.30." DeWitt?" 1 DeWitt made a sorry attempt to "Yee. May I ask: What of it?" smile.."Yes, gentlemen, I took the "Have you ever offered Wood one 10:45 boat." I of these cigars—on the street -on or "Why'dl you lie, DeWitt?" Thumm anywhere else?" shouted. "Certainly not." "That," said DeWitt quietly, "I "That's• fine, DeWitt," chortled must refuse to explain. II had an ap- Thumm. "Because I've found one of pointment with someone on the 10:46 your special -brand, initial -banded sig- boat, but the matter was strictly ern in the vest pocket of the dead personal and had nothing to do with man!" this ghastly business." At this moment two men appeared . "If the apopintment was for the at the door, led by a police captain. 10:45 boat, why were you on until The newcamerg were Patrick Grin- 11:40?" ere, who had driven the streetcar in "The person I etas waiting for -did going over to Wood's rooming -hoose with some of the boys, Bruno." District Attorney Bruno strolled into Thumm's office. "Well, what happened last night?" "We Went out to that Looming house, but got nothing except some more sample of his handwriting. Here they are." Thumm rlffod through a bundle on his desk. Dr. Schilling marched in. He ex- tracted a long piece of paper from his breast pocket, slapped it on the desk before Thumm. Thumm. and Bruno rapidly read the neatly written report. "Nothing here," mumbled Thumm. "The usual balon- ey." Drury Lane came in. Ile asked: `Have you the autopsy on Wood's' carcass.?" The Inspector picked' up Dr. Schilling's paper and handed it to Lane without comment. Drury Lane held it high before his eyes, intently studying the report. It slated that Wood had been . uncons- cious, not dearly at the time he was brown overboard. This it went on, from unmistakable signs of assault on that part of the head which had not been crushed, and substantiated by a small quantity. of 'water in the lungs, ndioated Wood had been alive for a few seconds atter plunging into the water and before being crushed. The scar on the left leg was estimated to have been at least twenty years old. There also was a two-year-old appendietitia scar. The man had weighed two hundred and two pounds and had been six feet and a half-inch tall. Lane returned the document to Ire Spector Thumm. 1 "Get anything out of it, Mr, Lane?" asked Bruno. "Dr. Schilling is a meticulous, work- man," replied Lana. "And how are your suspicions of DeWitt faring this morning?" "His movements yesterday," said ;Bruno quickly as if this answered: the queation, "are being traced." "You are not withholding anything from me, Mr. Bruno?" murmured Lane, rising and settling his cape about his shoulders, "But then, I'm etrre you are not . . Thank you, nepector, for granting my request Lor a clear photograph of Longstreet. t may prove useful before the cur- tain comes down" Gerrie Wast depart 11.45 a,tn, on the ew decided to go home." Going West, depart 9.50 York .vide. ` "Who I Lesion--Cilaten pan. ting f snit. Guiness glanced at Wood's remains, waiting fox?" Mk! Iandh •r. 2.110, leave 3.08 p.m. swallowed convulsively and mumbled:1 "I'm sorry." (TQ DE) CO,NTI2,tUED) Unemployment Instri ance Commission Mr. R. N. Watt, Manager of the local Employment and Claims Office stated that over two million three hundred thousand employees are now registered in eicoord'ance with the, tains of the Unemployment Insur- ance Act. The.preeentage of persons brought within the scope of the Canadian Act is about the same as the number who were insured` in 1936 in Great Britain after the plan had been operating there for twenty-five years, In order that.' the insurance plan might run smoothly at the ;outset these occupations, whose inclusion would have created difficulty in the Operation of the plan have been ex- cluded. Mr, Watt explains that many of the occupations are excluded in the Cana- dian Act because they are of a highly. seasonal nature or because they could not be easily administered under an insuran'ee plan. Agriculture has been excluded for both these reasons. The seasonal nat- ure of agriculture •requires labourers to work steadily in some seasons, and to be partially unemployed in others. Farre: workers are insulated and nat- tered over the whole of Canada. Some of them are transient workers, and many of them receive payment in kind. Under :such conditions inspection and other administrative duties could be carried out only under great difficulty and at considerable expense. Consequently, for the time being at least, agricultural workers are not insurable. In the case of the domestic serv- ants, there are administrative dif- ficulties' of another kind. Domestic servants employed in clubs, and do- mestic servants employed in any trade or business carried on for gain are regarded as insured persons. Per- sons employed in domestic service in rooming or boarding houses which ordinarily accommodate snore than four paying guests are insurable. When the domestic servant is em- ployed in a private home, the em- ployment is excepted. This is not be- cause private domestic servants need protection less than other forms of domestic service, but if these workers were included it would be necessary to consider the housewife an employer, and subject to all the regulations of the Act. Inclusion of domestic work- ers would mean that the housewife would have) to make contributions each pay period, keep records, • and permit inspectors to enter the home to see' these records. Many domestics are paid in kind and in some cases it might be difficult to estimate the amount of contribu- tions to be paid. The inspector'e work is checking the records of all domestic workers in a city, for example, would be increas- ed beyond reasonable bounds, ' The administrative difficulties which at present make it impossible to include all classes in the Unens- •pjbynaint Orlsuelance Ilene Mill ena doubt eventually be removed. V 1941 Motor Vehicle Regi- stration Plates To Be , Col;cteal For Red Cross A plan for the salvaging of obsol- ete 1941 motor vehicles registration plates; will again be carried out by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society early in February, 1942. • Front the proceeds of the sale of these plates, the funds of the Red Cress Society will benefit by a sub- stantial sum, and, motorists are asked TIIURS., DEC. 11, 1941 TRUTH The truth is, we're up against the biggest rush of Long Distance Christmas calls we've ever had. Even with hundreds of extra people on duty Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,we won't be able to meet all demands.'' an6 c liSEIRIENCES The consequences are bound to be delays and disappointments. We're sorry. We hope you'll understand ox,44;twe gcrcvica and accept them — in the spirit of Christmas. ... Thank you, very much. to cooperate by delivering their old registration plates to any gasoline service station. Through the cooperation of the oil companies, and the Automotive Tran- sport Association, the plates will be collected from the service stations and transported to the steel mills where they will be used in production for Iwar industries. The collection and transport of the plates are being con- ducted by the oil companies and the Automotive Transport Association without charge, and motorists who co- operate by handing in their old, plates at the service stations are rendering a two-way serivce, at no cost to them- selves, by providing the Red Cross Society with the proceeds of this sal- vage, and adding to our metal re- sources. I This is an effective form of aid to the national salvage campaign and provides the motorist with a plan for disposing of old registration plates that is at the same time useful and practical. r • —v— Unemployment 10.1.1.• Any employee, whether by .reason of sickness or work in non -insurable Iemployment, may remain out of in- surable employment for as long as two years before benefits rights ex- 1pire, provided that at least thirty weekly contributions have been made . in the two years previous to the time of leaving insurable employment, In other words, an employee who has thirty weekly contributions to his credit in the previous four years is eligible for benefits provided that satisfactory evidence is submitted of Mane, or work in non -insurable em- ployment. 1 The record of employment history on which the payment of benefits is based will cover contributions accum- ulated in the past five years, 1 A worker may draw one benefit payment for every five contributions made in the previous five years less one payment for every three pay- ments he has received during the pre- ceding three years, i Another teem frequently misinter- Ipreted by married women insurable employment is Subsidiary Employ- ment" Subsidiary employment is on- ly excepted when the Unemployment Insurance Commission makes a spec- ial order excluding ad employment because it is usually not the main means of livelihood. Some marired women have consid- 1 erecl their employment subsidiary to their husband's, since they would still be maintained by their husbands if they became unemployed. This is not the meaning of Subsidiary Em- ployment as stated in the Unemploy- ment Insurance Act. Contributions must be deducted from the wages or salary of a mar- ried women engaged in an insurable occupation who may be supplementing the earnings of her husband, or from the wages or salary of any individual who is employed, although he or she may have a private income or other =are of livelihood. Insurance CoissIon Re Married Persons Under the terms of the Unemploy- ment Insurance Act, married women working in insurable employment are insurable according to a statement made by Mr. R. N. Watt, Manager of Employment and' Claims Office, Strat- ford. For the purpose of the Act they are treated in the same manner as single women. If they become unemployed, provided that they fulfilthe required conditions, they will receive benefits. A change of name by marriage does not result in all former contributions being lost. Change of name by mar- riage will have no effect on previous- ly accumulated contributions. 1 Girls who marry have questioned how long they may remain out of in- surable employment before all their former contributions have expired. ti RUSSIA AND PO) AND SIGN AGREEMENT On July 30th, 1941 at the British Foreign Office, London, the signingof the Agreement between the Govern ment of the U.S.S.R. and the Polish Government took place, This photograph shows the histcrie scene and here you see seated a' the table from left to right General Sikorski for Poland, Mr. AnthonyE;den, and Mr. Winston Churchill .for Great Britain, and M. Maishy for Russia. Poland and Russia now unite to fight their common enemy, Germany. 1010: .J.Y :,