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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-09-01, Page 2.1ViOr(Wr ra Bridge ANN R AUSTIN. SYNOPSIS When Special Investigator Dundee is Summoned to the house of Juanita Selina, 3aaurdered at a bridge party, he orders tta- guests to mite the places they held during the playing of the "death hand." Ralph Hammond, in love with Nita, Is the only guest missing:. Plora Miles says she was In the S"ests' lavatorY, but Dundee 'finds her bridge tally on the floor of lk,Zita's closet, proving she Is lying, She „tdmits she went to the closet to recover a note sent to Nita, and hearing a bang or bump, and fearing- she is to Ise discovered, faints, recovering consciousness when liaren Marshall screams on discovering the body. Dundee is suspicious that Clive -Um- mond stayed in the -solarium with Pally his fiancee, instead of coming in to speak to his hostess when h arrived. Dundee asks Man when he last saw his fiancee. CHAPTER XIII. "Then why ask me?" Hammond shrugged, but his red-orown eyes: flickered toward Polly Beale. "I thought perhaps you mild give a little additional information," Dun- dee soothed him. You see, it hap- pens that I saw you, Miss Beale ana another young man come into the Stu- art House dining room about half -past one today, just when I was thinking of inneh for myself:" 'The mysterious 'other young man' was Clive's brother, Ralph Ham - mead," Polly Beale eut in brusquely. "Your decision to lunch with your fiancee and his brother was grite a sudden one?" Dundee asked .courteoas- TY. 'lust when did you change yeer Irina about Mrs. Seib:ifs luncheon party at Breakaway Inn, Miss '3eale.?" The tall girl threw up her mannish- ly crepped chestnut head. "There is nothing at all einister• or even queer about it, Mr. Dundee! I. was on my way to the luncheon,. when I decided tc drihe past itale house, on the d ance that she might like me to drive her over." "Then you didn't knew that Mrs. Dunlap had already arranged to meet Mrs. Selim downtown this morning' elle to take her to the inn?" Dundee asked, with his greattst casualness. "No! I didn't hear of the .arrangee moat," Polly answer. d decidedly. "You were a close friend of Mrs. Selim's, perhaps?" Dundee prodded. "Not at all! But that would not keep me from doing my hostess a -cotetesy. . It was shout a quarter to one when I sot here, I shou7e. eay, Nita wen% here, no. was her maid, but I saw Ralph's cat parked :n front of the house--" "Rmlph Hammond'.. ear?" a women squealed, but Dundee let Polly con- tinue. -"I rang and he answered the door. Said he was alone in the house, going over the premises at Judge Marshall's request," Polly said evenly. "That's right—that's right!" Judge Marshall agreed hastily. "Nita—Mrs. Selina—wanted the Tao finished half of the gabled top storey finished. up.. Wanted a maid's room and bath and a guest room and bath added to the living quarters .already• completed. gave the commission, for an estimate, e least, to the Hammond firm, Of course since they haa built the house originally for Crain—Penny's father." oath she was lying now, Or rather not revealing the real truth behind the actual facts of her movements that day, For instance, could a simple plea of her future brother-in-law make her do so discourteous a thing as to break a luncheon appointment, ,espe- daily when such a course would not only disappoint her hostess and her .iends, but disarrange the seating plan of a rather formal party? Of course the explanation was ob- vious. She had wanted, first, to see Nita and remonstrate privately with her for having so involved Ralph Hammond, when he was tacitly known to "belong" to Peuny Crain—one of the sacred crowd. Failing that, she had found Ralph himself, and had nat expected to find him ehad talked with him about Nita, had quarreled a bit with him, perhaps, over his behavior. And the crisis had become so acute that Polly had arbitrarily called upon Clive Hammond and then had forced Ralph to accompany her. . . . By Claude A. Swanson, United Stit'S "Do you know, Miss Beale, why Delegate to the Disarmament Ralph Hammond did not keep his en- Conference. gagement with Mrs. Selim this after- noon? Or rather, his promise to ap- Before I went to Europe I had an pear for cocktails and to be Miss idea that the whole place was upset— Craires partner for the rest of the that there were strife and politics: un- evening—dinner and dance at the rest over territorial- assignments. I Country Club?" have examined the matter and fr.d "I do not!" Polly said crisply. that out of 450,000,000 people in Ear- '`Ilammond?" ope iess than 10,000,000 are dissatts- "Neither clo I," Hammond retorted fled over territorial assignments. angrily. In the second part of the adjcorm "Then it was not to discuss Ralph ment resolution (at Geneva) vas a Hammond and his—affairs, that you specific promise that there would be a beckoned Miss Beale to meet you iu limitation and real reduction in sffec- the solarium upon yoer arrival?" tiees on and. "It—was not!" This is the first time since the World War that France has eatensd A shade too much anger and em - into such an agreement and I am sure rhasis, Dundee decided. And he wish- ed heartily that Strawn's detectives; that something will be accompliseed would not delay min this direction.uch longer in brings' I think that conditions in Germeey ing the missing young man into this: already involved examination. , are more favourable than many pee "You say that you both were in the believe. The agreement • on reeera- dons and Germany's adherence ze the solarium from the time of your arriv-: al, Hammond, until Mrs. Marshall' Franco -British agrement for eonsera- sereamed," Dundee continued. "Jut tion on all important matters affeming what did you see and hear'?" Europe indieate a disposition on :te Dundee waeched their faces keenly,. Part of Germany to co-operate with but again they were wardored, expres-' Eurepe that will lessen a great deel the declarations made by Adolf Hiersionless. It was Polly Beale who an-, and the National Socialist party. sw-ered: "Naturally there Was not a: deathlike silence, but I am afraid we When reparations are reduced to the small sum agreed on I lock &,rwere not listening. We were rather; mcre favorable conditions in Gerreemy engross -ed. in our conversation. We were seated—near no windows—and I and a:so in Europe. for one saw nothing, as well as heard. nothing that I can recall." "Hammond?" 'That goes for me, too—absolute- Make a little fence of trust lye" Around today; eee, Apd you walked quar- ter Of a mile to this laouser Spragee's hand umbled with his cravat. 9—of eourse 1 dicl "I see. . . New, Miss IteYthend)"• Dundee pounced unexpectedly, so that the red-haired girl went very white be- Peath her freckles, "you observed Mr. Sprague toiling down the rutty road, hot and weary, but romantie le the sunset?" Mrs, Drake let out a nervous gig- gle, then clapped her hand over her mouth. el—I wasn't looking that way," Janet Raymond stammered. "I—I just went out on the poreh for a breath of freeh air—" "And yen were completely surprie- ed when Mr, Sprague eame walking ep the flagstone path?" Dundee per- sisted, for he knew she was lying, knew that she had stationed herself there to watch for Sprague, "I -4 -yes I was! He stopped and talked for awhile, before we eame In and joined Tracey and Lois in the dining room, where Tracey was mix- ing cocktails. . But," she flexed suddenly, "I don't gee why you have to badger all of us, when it, must have been Lydia, the maid, who killed Nita, because—" "Oh, Janet! Shame on you!" 'Penny cried furiously. (To be continued.) The Future in Europe "I see," Dundee agreed. 'And you . sit your brother, Mr. 'Hammond?" "He was the ,atural one to send," Clive H:amond retorted. "Small job. Ah he had to do was to get together an estimate on additional furnare lines and radiators,: elettric plumbing. plastering, etc." "Go on, Miss Beale," Dundee di - "Thanks" There was sarcasm m he- brusque eclice. "But that's really all I halm to teL Ralph comnia. ined tnat he was hungry and charged me with giving him too little of my time —elm usual. thing._ I picked up Nita't phone, called Clive and made the date for the three of us. Then I called Breakaway Inn, canceled the lunch- eon part of the bridge party with Nita, and Ralph and I drove back t Hamilton," Dundee 'studied her strong, clever, almost plain face for a long minute. Gertaibly Polly Beale did not look !Ike e. liar—bat he would have taken his rid for t6is FREE BOOK! One iumdred ond eighty-six ways of molting your cooking better with Si, Cherles am yours simply far the taking. Send for our new took book"The Geed Provider." just fill in the attached toupon. Weerloa ST. CHARLES ittiLK UNSWEETENED EVAPORATED The aerate, Co. LieDited $SPcwellSt.„Varatuvcr,B.C. Nene semi ;at fret ecny of 4tifte Gcod Piewder' t43 ..... 'I'Larttir TRUST Abruptle- abandoning the engaged Fill thy space with loving wore_ couple,. Dundee turned to Miles. "You: And therein stay. 'were the second arrival, then?" Look not through the sheltaeng bars "Yes. I parked my car along the I port tomorrow, curb in front of the house," Tracey God will help thee bear what comes, :answered readily. "And I came right Of joy or sorrow. —A.M. on in, and Nita jumped up—o' "Yes. We've had a". that twice be- Those days are lest in which we. fore," Dundee interrupted cruelle. do no geed.; These worse than lost "Now, Judge Marshall—" in wizich we do evil. One of my friends gave me a lift from town,' Judge Marshall volun- teered pompously. "Chap- named Sampson.. You may have heard of him—fine fellow, a good lawyer. We played billiards together at the Ath- letic Club, and When I was about to call a taxi—my wife having the car here—he offered to drop ine here on his way to the Country Club. N -no, I don't remember the exeet time, did not tonsult my \seta." "You came direct'y from the nee' nto the house, Judge Marshall'!" "Certainly, sir" "Did you.—er, eee anyone?" "You mean, sir, did anyone see me?" Judge Marshall oemanded with pomp- ous indignation. "No, no one, sir! If my word is not good enough for you, you can think what you damned please!" "I think we are an getting a little too tired, Mr. Dundee," Penny Crain suggested, almost humble in her weariness.. "I'M truly sorry," the young detec- tive apologized. "But I can't leave things like this.. . . Mr.. Drake, you have said you walked racer from the Country Club. You must have ap- proached the house from the driveway side, the side of the house which con- tains Mrs. Selim's bedroom. . Is that right?" "Mere or less, except that I skirted the house rather widely and arrived rem the road, stepping upon the front porch, and walking directly into the hall, I saw no one outside or near the house when I .arrived," Drake an- swered, with less than his anal iasti- "And taw no one running away across the meadows?" Dundee pressed. "No one at all," Drake -retorted. "I Wish I .could truthfully sae that I saw • gamete with a mask and a smok- ing .reeelver, skulking through the wildflowers, but the abeteute truth is that I 'saw no one." "Thank you. Mr.. Drake. . Sprague, Mf New York."' Spre.guehe ncrvonsly iswiteliieg face reddened darkly. "I—I took a bus. I' have no ear of my own, I got oil the: bus an .Sheridan Road, at the entrares. to Primrose Meadows." Man and Medicine By Lord Daemon et Perim President British. Medical Associetion, in His elenteunial AddreSS. The art of medicine embraces the understanding of illness, and if the phesical and biological sciences are given a too exclusive attention they are apt to give to medical thought a too pronounced objectivity. We need to take count of the ;whole Mall. We need a new type of institution — distinct from hospital provision — namely, a health hostel. Examples flow from any physician's experience. Overweight—the man of 40 getting a fat body and a fat head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products. The man becoming set about the neck and waist, who tures his body slowly rather than his head and eyes eutoklY, or who is bluish and breath- less, losing his rib movements and wants to "stay put." s Then, again, the patient in the early diabetic stage, where not only himself but his wife needs instruction in food calories and cooking, and, it may be; in the administration of insulin, . All such and many more need for a space a designed environment; they require education, but under tbe con- ditions of their working life. Such institutions much. have a kitchen un- der a trained dietitian, and a physi- cotherapeutic department; skilled con- trol, but no cults or fads. It would prevent disease in untold measure and would be self-supporting and even profitable. First Summer Girl — "Did you hear that there was a man-eating shark in the harbor yesterday?" Second Summer Girl — "Well, there's one good thing about it, he'll die of starvation." : me Fine thy Lower Price 263 League to Review Work In Weekly Broadcasts Geneva.—Beginning in September the League. of Nations will go on the "air" every Sunday for a world-wide audience. Three languages, French, English and Spanish, will be used to broadcast bulletins dealing with the League's work during the preceding week. Each broadcast svill last fifteen minutes and it is believed possible to reack virtual- ly every continent. There will be two broadcasts every Sunday, one in the afternoon and one at night. It ts expected that they will begin with the regular fall assembly of the League, which meets on September 19. The League's wireless station was inaugurated at the beginning of the disarmament conference in Febr- uary of this year. It has been in touch with all countries of th Far East, North and South America. "Miss Personality" Persenality plus. Radiating plenty of pep, Billie Elwood, le, Fan Anfento miss, arrives borne by plane from Galveston after datzlirg the judges these. She will soon make a nation-wide tnur in her new capacity. "Fresh from the Gardens" Complete Examination of Bowels Averts Menace of Cancerous Growths, The cure of Cancer at the Present time Is not a drug, tier a serum, nor a ray, nor a miracle, but simply the edu- cation of the people as to the signs ,f its beginning in local lesions and the importance ot an immediate examina- tion which will lead to recognition and treatment in the most favourable stage for a cure. The very human slcle of the medical profession, even in its most brilliant career of the last fifty years, is shown In the failure to make the simple, but unpleasant examination of the lower bowel with the finger. Less than ten years ago, in one of the clinics at St. ,Agnes' Hospital in Baltimore, the or- derly in charge of a male ward said to the physician one day: "Doctor, will you examine my rectum?" I have been telling the internes for three months that I have a bloody diarrhoea, and so far none has examined me. They give me pills and restrict my diet. I have just read in the Baltimore Sun that when any unusual discharge is ob- served from any orifice of the body, an examination should be made at once." We do not need the X-rays here, and for some years we have, in addition to the examining finger, different sized cylinders or hollow tubes which can be introduced into the rectum and the lining of this bowel inspected by elec- tric light, svith a vision just as clear as an examination of the mouth or tonsils. It is impossible to overlook any defect of the raucous membrane of the rectum or lower sigmoid, if the proctoscope (the name of the hollow tube) is properly used. Delay in this examination, if there are any symptoms whatever in this re- gion, with and without a discharge, gives the trouble, first, an opportunity to change from a condition not cancer into one that is cancer, and later to a larger cancer the removal of which will destroy the sphincter muscle and the coetrol over movement of the bowels. In the past five years, due to correct information in the daily press, more and more people are referred by their family doctors to the surgical clinic with benign polypoid tumors or early cancer which can be safely and easily removed without danger to the function of the muscles of the lower end of the rectum called the anus. Fortunately cancer is rare in the hemorrhoidal region, and operations for hemorrhoids do not protect from' cancer, awl to -day any examinatioss at the rectum without a proctoscope is incomplete if there are any symptoms whatever of any unusual discharye. No operation for hemorrhoids, fis- tula or fissure should be performed, without a proctoscopic examination. Many students of cancer of the leo- tum are beginning to feel that no in-' divideal, after the age of thirty,• should live a life of constipation. CI - der the management of a family plrysis clan the fecal matter should be kept soft or softer by a vegetable diet, coarser bread and the nightly use of one or two tablespoons full of minural or paraffin oil which can be purchased economically in large quantities. This opportunity is taken to give credit to Sir Arbuthnot Lane, a well known Lons don surgeon who has brought to the attention of tb.e civilized world thei value of the purified paraffin or min- eral oil. One of the trustees of the Amere can Society for the Control of Cancer, Dr. Francis Carter Wood of New York, has just made public through the: press a very timely statement that ex- periments in his laboratory with the various paraffin oils placed on the market by our manufacturing chem- ists show that they are devoid of any irritating ingredients, and there is no evidence whatever that there is any danger to the human being of getting cancer from the daily use of these re. fined oils. The public have heard soi much of occupational cancer of thei skin among paraffin workers and have, known these oils as paraffin oils, and1 naturally, but incorrectly, came to the, conclusion that there was the same, danger in the refined oils. About ten years ago some members of the medical professiou and the pub- lic feared cancer of the stomach from drinking water purified by chlorine' salts. We now know that there is no, such danger nom this protective sub-: stance in our drinking water.—This article has been written for the Cana- dian Social Hygiene Council by an, eminent specialist and in addition has' received the endorsation of the .Pro- vincial Department of Health of Oil- • tario. Serve Crisp Cookies With Fresh Fruits When Summer brings her luxury of fresh, appetizing fruits, the housekeep- er must plan careful accomplishments to the desserts. Crisp cookies, flavor- some and light, add just the right note. The housewife who is also a real home manager chooses the type of cookie that is quickly cooked so that she does not overheat her house and herself—both conditions that spoil any Summer day. To accompany any Summer fruits, and satisfy masculine appetites, are old-fashioned sugar cookies. They keep crisp for a long period and may be made any day the oven is being heated to 500 degrees. This recipe makes 4 doeen cookies. Old Fashioned •Sugar Cookise 5 cups sifted cake flour, 5 teaspoots baking powder, SI: teaspoon salt, 1 cup butter or other shortening:, cups sugar, 4 eggs, unbeaten, 1-3 cup milk. Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times. Cream shortening thor- oughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour, alter- nating with milk, a small amount at a time, mixing after each addition until smooth, Roll 1.-S inch thick, cut with large cutter, and sprinkle with sugar; or, press nut into each cooky. Bake in hot oven (300 dem le) 5 minutes. As easily and quickly made are de- licious Almond Slices. This recipe makes 6 dozen slices: 51e cups sifted cake flour, 1 tea- epoon soda, 8 eggs, slightly beaten, 1;3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed, 1 cup grauulated sugar, 1Se cups hot melted shortening (part butter if de- sirable), 1 cup almonds, 'blanched, toasted, and chopped. Sift fldur once, measure, add soda, sift again. Combine remaining ingredients in order given, then add flour, mixing well. Pack tightly in paper -lined pan. Chill ovcr night, Reinove loaf from pan, cut in half and slice crosswiee in thin elices. Place on greased baking Sheet tied bake In hot oven s.125 deg. v.) for e minutes. ' ISSUE No. 35—'32 ENOUGH An Alnerican was taken by his son' to see the Eton and narrow cricket match. The youngster warned his father that they would meet many charm. ing women during the day and that he must always stand up when be- ing presented to them. The old man carried out his he structione to the point er exhaustion, but when US sun said for the fifty -1 first time: "Stand up, fathee, here comes Lady—," the old boy rebelled.? "Stall her off, George," he said, weakly, "I'm through with this God.'. Save -the -King stuff." ,AWIEES3Mr.ntlIZZIOrZ healtlif 11 food 0. . Rich tn calcium,. phosphorus . . and body-building vitamins. It is the most highly concentrated source of highest quality protein known. For a balanced diet, in- clude Kraft cheese mith every ;L:i lb. pat1,.a,7es or slieed front the famous 5 lb. loaf. took Lor the name "Ki -aft" as the only positive identification of the genuine. • Made in Conada Mik16110EMIMay.....ta