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The Clinton News Record, 1937-02-11, Page 2PAGE 2' THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., FEB. 11, 1937 The. Clinton News -Record With which is incorporated` THE NEW ERA TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION 11,50 per veer in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or 'they foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option: of the publish- er. The data to which every sub- scription is paidis denoted on the Iabei. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- sient advertising 12e per:; count line for first insertion: 8e for each sub- sequent , insertion.. Heading ' counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed, one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost,", "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent insertion 16e. Ratds 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, 3r. R..CLARKr, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Roar Estate and Fire In- Ruranee Agent, Representing 14 Fire Insuraneg Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary ' Public Successor to W. Brydo e, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours. Wed. apd Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of 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. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep- per, rueefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub- lin; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; James Connolly, Goderieh; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. cEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. It. No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth. or at Calvin sCutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other businesswill sbe promptly attended to on appil pion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respeotive post offi- aes. Losses inspected by the director 'who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN NATiQ A . 4 'WAYS TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderieh Div. Going East, depart 7.03 a.m. Going East, depart 8.00 p.m- -Going West, depart 12.02 p.m. Going West, depart 10.08, p.m. London, Huron & Bruce `Going North, ar. 11.34, lve 12.02 p.m. Going South 8.08 p.m. ACCIDENTS' and COMPENSATION There were 4,689 accidents reported to the Workmen's Compensation Board during the month of January as compared' with 5,444 during Dec 'ember, and 4,416 during January a .year ago. The benefits awarded amounted to '$540,493.33 of which $452,568.69 was 'for compensation, and $87,924.64 for 'medical aid. ICAUGNTIJ THE WIL By Robert Ames Bennet SYNOPSIS Allen Garth is preparingto make a trip to a biline which he has discov- ered in the Canadian Northwest when an aeroplane appears at the little re- fueling station and an elderly man,. a young man slid a young woman alight. The two men who aro looking for mining prospects, become much in- terested in some Specimens of ore. shown thein by Garth. They are all rather haughty, especially the girl, and treat Garth like a servant, but he shows his independence and does- n't allow himself to be ordored about. They decide to take Garth in their aeroplane to inspect his mine and if it turns out to be worth working to take a lease for a year and give him sixty percent. of the output. They. become so interested that they try to get away in their plane leaving him behind so they can put in their claim for the mine. They are thwar- ted in this and their plane is swept down the falls and destroyed. Garth then agrees to lead them out if they will do just as he says and when they get to the river Huxby shoots Garth from ambush, also wounding Ramill. But though wounded Garth is not kil- led and Lilith, realizing this and fear- ing that if Huxby finds it out he will finish the job, drives him off, declar- he filled the three -gallon teapot with packages of tea, salt and sugar. The pot went into an empty floursack, a- long with a little dried fruit, sone dynamite, and a pair each of tin cups, plates and spoons. On the big stack of fuel beside the leanto, he piled all the rest of food and dynamite, the blankets, and the quarters of ;noose. With a shovel that was leaning againstthe rocker cradle he tossed coatis from the fire into the base of the stack.' The wood soon blazed up in several places. With the floursaek pack and the bag of platinum alloy slung over his shoulder, he went downslope. The treasure weighed well over a hundred and fifty pounds. In `a rich placer, four men working with a rocker can soon pile up the precious metal they seek. Garth lugged the sack across the open space ands past the stunted spruce beside which Constable Dillon had been murdered. In a drift on the north side of the next tree, he dug a hole, dropped in tee sack of alloy, and covered it over. When he start- ed on again, no tracker less expert than an Indian could have guessed that anything had been cached in the drift. A backward look at the camp show- ed the bonfire flaming high. At any ing she will kill him if he approaches moment the frozen dynamite was apt then. Huxby goes, taking the canoe to thaw enough to explode. From off and Garth's gun. He procures a to the left came angry shouts. The plane, some miners' equipment and direction of Garth', trail had at last the help of some old miners and flies warned the pursuers of his raid on back to the mine. Garth, on recov- their camp. They were heading for ering from his wound, signals a ship it as fast as they could flounder and they are taken out to civilization. through the drifts. Garth informs the authorities of Hux- I Instead of circling to double past by's theft of the mine and his at- them again, Garth slanted off down- tempted murder of himself and a slope towards the west side of the Mountie, Srgt. Dillon, is detailed to go lake. There was no need to warn out and get Huxby, Garth going as them about the dynamite. Before he guide. Lilith determines to go along had taken a dozen strides, the frosty and nothing can stop her. They land air crashed with a thunderous ex- atthe edge of the wood where the plosion. He bent forward and went other plane was wrecked and Dillon pounding downhill through the soft and Garth go up to the camp. As snow as if breaking trail for a fast - soon as Dillon shows himself and de- driven dog team. mands the surrender of Huxby he isl Before long tracks appeared. It deliberately shot. In the shots follow- 1 was the trail broken by Huxby and ing Garth's gun is shot from his hand his miners, on their way to hunt but he escapes and manages to take' moose and returning to camp with the body of Dillon to the plane. He the meat. Garth followed it down. and Lilith then go to a place near. a If the wolves, and wolverines had left glacier where Garth has a cache of any eatable part of the hastily but= chered carcass, throwing it into the bog would add a bit to his bedevilment of the quartette. But when he neared the border of the muskeg, abetter jest offered it- self. He glimpsed a gray shape in the outer fringe of willows.- No wolf could bulk so large. The she-grizzily had been first of the flesh eaters to find what was left of the newly killed moose. Close Iooking and listening showed that the cubs of the great bear were not with her. Garth went straight towards the hoggishly feeding beast until she caught his scent. She rear- ed up to gape her bloody jaws and roared as she had roared at him and Huxby and Mr. Ramill. food, make camp and plan to "get" these desperate ;lien single-handed. NOW. GO ON WITH THE STORY Garth slipped back . behind thick cover and swung into a fast pace. He struck the stream bank above the ford. Trees cut off all view of the four trackers. Garth crossed the ice in the open stream bed and found cover again on the west bank. But instead of heading up the gulch, he kept straight on, parallel with the lake shore. He held to a fast pace. There was a chance that the trailers might lose time trying to get aboard the cabin plane. But Huxby was no fool. He Garth very quietly turned to the would know that the plane, would be left and angled off away from her. easy to reach after the sludge had He was the two-leggedcreature who frozen. In all probability, he would at once flounder on along the snow- shoe trail with all his men. The thought of Lilith amused Garth. She had been seen . only by the miner who had fired down from timberline. At the distance she must have been mistaken for a man. Only a degenerate criminal would know- ingly shoot at a woman. But her short snowshoe trail following his own and. Dillon's Must have shown Garth crossed the bog, jumping from the trailers that the third member tussock to tussock, of his party was as helpless as the At the far bank he shifted sideways dead or wounded constable. and crouched down behind a clump of They would be perplexed to guess willows, Though a:ready leafless what had become of his two compan- from the first freeze, 'the mass of ions. No man could make off with stems gave him a good screen. He did owe persons on his back. Even .if not have long to wait. Enraged by Huxby had guessed the truth that the destruction of their food and Dillon was dead andhis body aboard camp outfit and the taking of the the cabin plane, he would be mysti- platinum alloy, Huxby and his hien fied by the puzzle of the third person must have rushed fast down the trail who, with the snowshoe -runner, had of their bedeviler. • been kept from boarding the plane. Fromover across the corner of the The morning's search had failed to muskeg came the warning roar of the find the fugitives hiding 'anywhere disturbed grizzly. A quick shot fol - in the trees between the placer camp lowed. Close upon the report dinned and the stream channel. .Nor had an outburst of terrific snarling roars there been found any trace of a fire. and a whole fusillade of shots. The Strangest of all, the one trail discov- roars suddenly ceased. But the fir- ered had led down off the shelterless ing kept up for four or five seconds. slope of the open tundra. "Scared. Wasting cartridges," Still smiling, Garth came to the Garth told himself. t"Hopping mad placer camp. The big fire under the at me, and, atop that, flurried by her gravel -thawing kettles, had died down charge. Hope she didn't get any of to a bed of coals. The forelegs and them." hindquarters of t h e newly -killed His wish was soon fulfilled, All moose lay in the snew beside thePour trailers came plodding along brush le.anto. On the floor mat of border of the muskeg. Huxby was in spruce sprays, along" with the bed- the lead. But the bearded man next ding, was a pile of food—bacon, flour, behind shoved forward beside him as sugar, dried fruit, tea. Baek of the he came striding out on the bog. Both food were tight -lidded cans filled happened to step two or three titres with dynamite, coils of fuse, and caps. on niggerheads. Then the miner hit Garth jerked up the blankets. Un- the snow between tussocks. der one set lay the strong canvas bag The bearded man's curse as he for which he was looking. He had plumped down into the quagmire jerk - hoped' also to find the constable's rif- ed Huxby's glance around. He saw le. But one of the miners must have the trap• a split second too late to come to the valley without a gun. The keep on the tussocks. Like the miner, carbine had not been left in camp. he shot down through the frozen The failure to find the weapon did crust into the deep, slime and mud. not alter Garth's plans. Working fasts was near shore, where the bog was only kneedeep. The fourth, lagging behind, halted on solid ground, At Huxby's shouted orders; the last man ran to fetch poles of down tim- ber. The two leaders were in almost to their armpits before the dead as- pen trunks could be brought and shoved out to them. Set on niggerheads, the poles gave support for the trapped men to pulp themselves up out of thetreacherous- ly sucking quagmire. Other poles made a bridge for them, back to solid ground. But the bearded miner left his rifle down in the ooze, Garth chuckled and looked to see Huxby back -trail • with his ;nen, . In- stead, the engineer headed up the bog valley towards the gulch. That added to Garth's mirth. By a quick' return, the hunters could have stripped off the grizzly's hide before it froze. They were walking away front a rug that would have gone far towards re- placing their burnt blankets. He had so tantalized and enraged them that they could think only of revenge. To add insult to injury, he tramped a heavy trail up into a spruce thicket and built a small fi re. Beside the fire, . he scattered a handful of dried apricots and prunes. After that he. skirted along the edge of the muskeg to its north end. had several times shied respectfully around her and her cubs during the summer. She watched him go, then returned to her greedy gorging. He skirted along the border of the muskeg to where a narrow neck of the swamp' extended up a little valley to a gulch in the side of - the west, mountain. Snow covered the flat be- tween the tussocks of niggerhead grass. Taking off his snowshoes, Here he canie to where in ancient times, before it started to recede, the glacier had piled a big terminal mor- aine. This was the immense natural dam that held the lake in its bed: Midway across the dam, the lake had cut an outlet through thirty feet of glacier boulders, down to the great dyke of gneiss upon which the mor- aine had been piled. Among the rocks of the rapids, on the slope of the lower valley below the falls, Garth made out the wreckage of Mr. Ramill's custom-built monoplane. He worked his way down alongside the rapids to look closer at the wreck. What little had been left of the costly aircraft was not worth salvaging. But the tattered cover of one broken wing thrust up out of the white water within reach fronto the bank. Garth started a fire of small sticks. He quenched it with damp moss, and used the charred stick ends to write on the wing fabric: "$5,000 reward for V. HUXBY Thief and Murderer," Favors Fire Truck For " Wingham Reeve Davidson at Monday's coun- cil meeting in Wingham said the Town of Wingham had inefficient fire fighting equipment and strongly,•re- commended a fire truck. He felt the •approximate cost Would be $3,200. Motion of Reeve Davidson and Coun- •cillor Wilkinson that clerk was auth- orized to prepare a by-Iaw for five years at 3 1-2 per cent. for s3,500, to buy a new fire truck. The, matter of surfacing the main •street was brought up by His Wor •ship who felt due to the Department of Highways paying 60 per cent. of should matter sh ere the the cost as offered, be accepted in case of the offer being withdrawn. Motions were made to have tenders called at the earliest time possible. The matter of a shooting gallery in Sturdy's pool room was again discus- sed and the following motion was drawn up: "That in reference to Sturdy's pool room and a shooting .gallery license, that he be privileged 'to pay license quarterly, also that he -assume all liability for accidents and that license be issued when the in- stallation meets with the approval of <Chief' Allen. CHAPTER XXI Female of the Species Close Below the wrecked mono- plane, a row of water -smoothed boul- ders spaced across the bed of.the little gorge. Garth would not have dared the risky crossing had he worn boots. Moccasins were different. He took the perilous stepping- stones on the run. Safe over, he made a heavy trail up the far bank, side- stepped, and stretched out behind a fallen log. Shortly before noon, the four trailers appeared on the moraine. The man who had not been bogged led the way down. Another miner followed, then Huxby. The man who had lost his rifle lagged behind. The two lea- ders reached the broken monoplane wing. Garth saw them read the writ- ing. Iiuxby jumped down beside the miners, to stare at the offer of re- ward that branded him for what he was. With a curse, he ripped the tattered piece of fabric from the wing frame and flung it down into the foaming rapid. The two men glanced furtively at each other. Huxby pointed to the, trail on the opposite bank and signed for them to lead the way across. Nei- ther moved. The first man cursed, and shouted his refusal: "Jump them boulders? I ain't no lynx. I'm through trailing that de- vil." "Me too," deelared the second man. "I won't break my neck for nobody" A second look at the crossing forc- ed Huxby to shout his agreement. "Curse the devil! We'll chase back, He's going on around to our plane. That's where he must have left both of his disabled' companions.'.' Along with this angry statement, the engineer signed for his miners to start back ahead of him. Garth' smil- ed. The two who had seen that offer of reward would not 'forget it, and Huxby was keenly aware of the fact. When all four disappeared up on the moraine, Garth recrossed the boulders. He did not tag after his back -trailing hunters. He ran along the forested slope below them, then circled the muskeg swamps wellout. beyond their trail. He neared the trail only at its crossing of the little valley, up where the bo gwas shallow. A bit higher up the valley, he ran a- cross on the niggerheads. From there he skirted along just above timber- line for about a mile, then angled up aslant the tundra slope for the foot of the glacier. Whether the four men stopped to get a supply of the rank old she -grizzly meat, or whether they kept on around the lake to the planes, the spruce trees shut off their view of him. When he neared the glacier, a family of wolves were gnawing the bones of the caribou leg he had left on the edge of the moraine. He drew the constable's pistol. But as the Wolves made off without showing fight, he did not shoot. The meat was no loss. He had left it to give verisimilitude to a mislead- ing retreat on the glacier, in case Huxby pursued him up the gulch. The third, man followed suit. But he This now seemed highly improbable. The four men believed he was down in the woods. They were not likely to climb far enough up the tundra slope to find his return trail. Thete was no sign of Lilith when he came down from the moraine. Ev- en the snow house did not show for what it was. The blocks he had set up during the storm had so banked the snow that the igloo looked like an ordinary big drift. But•:around at its far side he found the tracks of the girl's moccasins. He called into the entrance tunnel. Back came a quavering cry of relief. A quick crawl took him in through the low narrow passage. After the white snow -glare outside, he had to sit blinking for several moments be- fore his eyes became accustomed to the dim light of the Eskimo lamp. Lilith was breathing hard, almost gasping. "Oh! oh, thank God! I. look- ed and looked, but I could not see you. I thought you must be—lying there- like that poor policeman—dead!" "Hardly. Look here -- and here." He showed the pistol, then dumped his floursack pack. "How about salt on our meat, and a cup of tea with sugar?" "Alan!" she cried, "You made them give you all this—and the pis- tol!" "In a way—yes. Set a pot of snow on the lamp stone, and slice some meat." As the girl hastened to obey, he laid the dynamite, with itsfuse and caps, on a piece of skin. Lilith be- gan broiling caribou steaks while the snow in the big teapot was melting. Garth stretched out while he told all about the two planes and how he had raided and blown pp the placer camp. Lilith gazed at him in speechless wonderment, her blue eyes wide and very lustrous. He pretended not to notice. He had salted and started to eat the first hot fat caribou steak that she served him on one of the looted tin plates, But after he had told about the bear scareand the luring of the men into the bog, her surprise found ut- terance. She inquired about his blow- ing up of the camp: "What need did you have to risk that awful bear and then the chance of being s hot? Could you not have fixed the dynamite to wait and blow up the murderers when they came to their camp?" "Yes. "Yes. That was the best part of the game," Garth replied. "They were bent upon doing me in, and I had them in my hand." "Then why didn't you kill the beasts while you had the chance?" Garth answered with sudden gra- vity: "For several reasons, my girl. The main ones are because I am not a killer and because I intend that Vivian Huxby shall, be tried and hung The Making of Records Some comment has been occasioned by the fact that, although no records of the Duke of Windsor's speech from Windsor 'Castle (broadcast over the CBC national network) could be obtained. in Britain, they seemed to have been selling in large numbers on this continent. In Britain, the position so far as the making of gramophone records is concerned is governed, by the Dramatic and Musi- c a l Performers' Protection A c t (1925), which prohibits the making of records for sale to the public without the written consent of the performer. In the case of his former Majesty's speech, the authorities concerned spe- cifically requested that no records should be made or issued. In the case of foreign countries, however, the position as regards the making of re- for murder." She gasped: "You—hung! But he has all those men to help him. You're alone—worse than alone. I'm only a hindrance:' He smiled banteringly. "Well, I wouldn't say that. A. handy cook isn't altogether •a nuisance. The pot is beginning to simmer. You »sight drop in a pinch of tea. How's your ankle." "Ever so much better. I've exer- cised it a little every time I went out- side. And I've half finished my par- ka. But how—" she interrupted her- self—"how can you win if you don't kill them?" (Continued next week) cords is governed by the law in eacls country. Some of the broadcasts made by King George V were record- ed by special permission, and the pro- fits from the sales of these records were devoted to charity. Mart Kenney to be Honouree Mart Kenney, whose orchestra is a broadcast feature over the CBC na- tional network from the Vancouvee studios, is to be honoured on Febru- ary 26 when the British . Columbia Institute of Journalism 'elect him a fully-fledged member of the Institute and present him with a press card and suitable gift. Mart's "Western Gentlemen" were recently adjudged second best dance band on Canadian radio. The party is to be held in the Spanish Grill of the Hotel Vancouver and during the evening Mart and his boys will introduce the newest dance craze, "The Newshawk's Nudge." "Night Shift" Scores CBC seems to be scoring a radio bull's-eye with its new "Night Shift" broadcasts, judging from the way in which listeners applauded, the first presentation from Sydney, N.S., last week. Your correspondent, who broke the news that the series, was to be staged, has been beseiged with tele- phone calls and letters in which lis- teners speak in no uncertain terms of their enthusiasm for the series. 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