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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-10-13, Page 2. • 14 4 *10 4 40.4s, Murder at Bridge .111\11VE ACISTIlq. .1.•••••.d......•••••111%••••••0 ...... SYNt)Pstii. of Karen Marshall gallantly playing ! . **Alum" Belim 18 murder" gti bridge! out the "death hand"; of Karen' that Olive Hammond and Polly Heals surichen, childish face when she neelaying uC the "Jeath hand" shows l'lita's closet reading a note sent to Nita. learned that her elderly husband had were in the solarium, Mora Miles, in X..ydia, the maid, who was a •eep and dia met and at least flirted with Nita with Traeey Miles, ring for her. Judge Selim at a chorus girls' party. . . . ot hear Lois Dunlap, iu the dining room Marshall and John Drake came in sep- At that last picture Dundee fleshed. aeatelY. Dexter Suraglic was in e Had he made a fool of himself, or was Penny Crain, Karen Marshali and he right in his suspicion that Hugo dining room with Janet Raymond. uvrolyn Drake played bridge. Itaion Marshall had given Nita Selim this dee, special investigator. tells the group cottage rent'free? That ?obit should "'ammonia is inexplicably missing. Dun- ilbat a gun Wi th a Maxim silencer was be easily settled, at any rate. . . . a gun and that Nita was the last to use Ruefully reflecting that appetizers used, and learns that Ilarshail has such it Capt. Strewn leaves Dundee atone, do not make satisfa.ctory meals he he - :Dundee has missed. took himself to the dead woman's bed- • ildiating that he is in possession of facts room— Yes, his memory had served CHAPTIfiR XIX. him welL Here was her desk—a small Although Bonnie Dundee had taken feminine affair of rosewood, set in the Captain Strawn's none -too -gentle corner of the nom nearest the porch parting gibe with good grace, it was door, a very thoughtful young detective who The desk was not locked. As Dun - /set about locking himself in the house dee let down the slanting lid, whose in which Nita Selim bad been mur- polish was marred with many finger- iered, and which he had promised to prints, he saw that its contents weve guard until midnight. in a hopeless jumbne So Strawn had Captain Strawn had beaten him to beaten him to this, too! Had he found Aloe job that evening by at least 20 an all-important clue in one of the :minutes. Had the old detective stum- many little pigeon -holes and drawers, bled upon something which Dundee. stuffing it into his pocket just before or all his spectacular thoroughness, a bumptious young "special investi- lead overlooked, or had been unable to gator" arrived? tern up because Strewn had suppress- But Dundee's retuining gloom was 0 it? Only his optimistic faith in instantly dispelled. Here was Nita's the old detective's willingness to co- checkbook, a flutter of filled-in stubs aperate 'with him, naw that he was attached to only one remaining blank no longer a member of Strawn's horni- check. So Nita had banked with the tide squad, had kept him from asking Hamilton National Bank, of which Strewn poinlienk if the "death John C. Drake—who apparently hat - chamber," as the newspapers would be ed his fattish, fussy wife—was a vice calling it, had erielded up eorne tan- president! Another tiny fact to be gibl•e, unmistakable clue. tucked away. . . . She had opened What if Strawn's parting boast wee her account, epparenily, on April 21, ' not an idle one, and he really had the the day of her arrival in Hamilton.— goads" on Ralph Hernmond? Had the the guest and employed of Mrs. Peter ad chief been laughing up his sleeve Dunlap. Probably Lois Dunlap had during the farce of playing out the s dvanced her the $200 as first pay - death hand at bridge," and during ment for her prospective work in or - the merciless quizzing of old judge genizing a Little Theatre movement Marshall? in Hamilton. But his native commonsense quick- Turning rapidly through stube, Dun, le routed his gloom. Captain Strawn dee stopped twice, whistling softly was too direct in his methods too with amazement each time. For on afraid of antagoniziag the rich' and April 28, and again on May 5, Nita influential, to have permitted even a Salim had deposited $5,000! Where "special investigator" from the die- Lad she got the money? Were the irict attorney's office to torment those sums, possibly, transfers from ac - 12 people needleesly. Probably Strawn, counts in New York banks': Hardiy feeling a little hurt at having played likely that a little Broadway hanger- aenond fiddle all evening, had simply on had so much hard cash on deposit. wanted to get him fussed, -,vas .even Then where had she got it—$5,000 at teow chuckling over the effect of his a time, here in Hamilton? parting boast.. . . * * * Much eheered, Dundee lingered in BLACKMAIL? . . . Hastily but the dining room whose windows he had made fast against any intension, so here Women Rule the ioot dOne 'WAS done epee, and be :0 Of read. 'Five minutes later Bonnie "I)UnLlee. was racing through the dinine(lneinn, pushing open the swinging door that,' led into the butler'e pantry. WO the devil were the steps that led d''''''n into the basement? A precioes, I Me was lost before he discovered. upon the steep sta:rs. .. . * * 'l'.'!i',:' vived interest in these famous aborig. nee n Ifean Blas intlioeis ot Panama have re - the ceiling, revealed the furnace' in peals, niarried the 'adieus while the one corner of the big basement, hem, ;latter were in the United States. dry equipment in another. . He faneg,e Dressed le the conventional clothes of groomed—aed ed on. — That must be the Maid% 113° white Inttu' well ! What if she had escaped, while Inletleulmw' 1theee intliallicill:usili:ihalitivitelialt(tleatals)10.er_igmiajaoiels(sti ,......... -- Godleivehaevueuarkoinisoewds ()Li etyb eavvaert11(f eatle room, behind that closed door... he had been munching caviar end sPeakl"g ae chovy sandwishee? A. fine guard doubtless appeared thoroughly civil - he'd bee:— .. And it wasn't as if he /zed- And if they represented them- enough to be aroused and to go on the itlgeh 11;iatilliedseVortotitghse tphaelylalmiaad. beena, had a dim suspicion of the selves as members nr. a civilized tribe, swilairreptaet(lti atot , they did so in good faith. neaps, who had exploited them, vio- teethThe knob turned easily. He flung But when they reached their bus - . . . . lated their women, placed Negro police epon the door. And then his knees band& village these women discovered over them, taken po session of their nearly gave way, so tremendous was! that "civilization" is an elastic term' I homes and islands, robbed them of his relief. For there, o , n the thin mat- 1 1 and that conditions which an Indan their golden trinkets .and forcibly con -- 1 9 civilized are far from fulfilling' pelled them to adopt conventional gar- ments. That short but sharp uprising, how- ever WaS a salutary lesson to the gov- By A. Uyait Verrill in the N.V. Herald - Tribune, tee Relents of the recent rescue of two a door in the dark hack hall-Kn. e' A -Tine women from life areoug the An inlet:tided danglIng from, Ines of the isthmus. The women, it ap- Superb Always TEA "Fvesh from the Gardens" 'ress of a white-enamedel iron bed,, lay the woman he so ardently desired expectations ot American women. 1 to see. I Possibly — or rather probably — the She had been asleep, and the noise husbands were ostracized by their owu he had made startled her inte,-paniCkI/ people because of their white wives, ernment of Panama, and drastic wakefulness. InstineLieelY her hand for the San Blas have always prided changes were made in the treatment flew to the ruined left side of her themselves upon maintaining the of the Indians. To -day they are eon - "What—? Who—?" Lydia Carr gasped, struggling to a sitting posi- tion, only to fall back as nausea swept over her "You remember me?" Dundee pant- ed. "Dundee of the district attorney's office. 1 questioned you this after- . 0071—" The woman closed the single eye that had escaped the accident which unity of their blood. As a result, pos- tented, happy and prosperous. rhe sibly, of all this, the Indians deserted their white wives, or at least neglected ening the customs and conventions I them, and the unhappy women sent their fathers, have become ultra -civil - forth a pitiful S 0 S. ized. Mauy of the youag men have Few American Indiaa tribes have been graduated from the University of figured more 'imminently in the news. Panama; limey of the girls have be - of recent years than these so-called come nurses in the hospitals or have San Blas. Yet In nearly every case become self-supporting wage earne,s the stories about them have been elsewhere. Several of the islands have grossly exaggerated or utterly without well laid out villages of neat houses younger members of the tribe, abana- Lad marred her :hive so hideously. I Ifounclatiou Such was the announcd- and straight, wide streets, with orti- -remember.... Pm sick.... I told ment of the alleged discovery of a race ficial lighting, with gramopeones ant you all know—" of "White Indiaes" among the San radios, with sanitary rules and street "Lydia why didn't you tell me that Blas a few years ago. As a matter if cleaning brigades—in short, they a it was your mistress, Mrs. Selim, who fact, there were neither white Indians learning to "live like Americans," ever did—that?" Dundee demanded stern- nor any discovery, the "white" Indians if that necessitates being civilized. ly, pointing to the woman's sightless being merely albinos who oceur among left ede and ruined cheek. (To be continued.) RANDOM WRITINGS By an Astronomer There's a good deal of religion in an honest man. Elven the chiefs have little corthof over the women. (in one occasion landed at an Islam] where the Indiana were still rankling under treatment re- ceived at the bands of Panamaneans and bad a grouch against all strangers, Scarcely had I stepped ashore before the local chief appeared, fairly brist- ling with fury, and ordered me off. But the women had caught sight of my trade goods. Chattering excitedly, they surrounded the chief and impor- tuned me to bring my goods ashore and trade. In vain the poor chief pro- tested, stormed and threatened, Tbe women were as keen bargain bunters as any feminine shoppers in a metro- politan department store, and they didn't intend to let any mere man— even if a chief—interfere with their fun. Finding himself utterly helpless in the face of the feminine majority the old fellow sheepishly rescinded his orders. On the Islands, there modern Meat and civilized conditions have not stip planted the truly aboriginal_ life area customs, the women still adhere to their picturesque, gaudy costumes, and still wear the heavy gold nose rings; and herein lies an interesting stoilr and one reason for the wornen's social status. For the nose ring, now a badge of superiority, was once a symbol of servitude and inferiority. In the olden days, before the corniug of white men; these Indians — lflie their neighbors and distant relatives, the Carbs—were confirmed cannibals and raided other tribes for the purpose of obtaining a supply of rre.sh meat. At such times the women and girls of. be vanquished were rnade captives, and it was no small task for the cap- tors to control a bevy or female prix et- ers, the warriors bit upon the plan t linking their captives together by means of cords through their 110805 -- like so many fractious bulls. Of course, the pierced noses identi- fied the women as aliens, and hence inferior beings, once they were estab- lished in the villages of their dongner- ors. But leave it to the women to And a way out of any such :ablation. And, .puttiug their heads—or their noses— together, the captured women soon hit upon a way. It was very simple. They spoke eheir own language among theme eelves and taught it to their daughters, but not to their sons, so -that very soon the women ot the community had a medium •oe! -commturiCati .wlki.e.4 unintelligible to the men. As a reeult, and owing to the fact that females al- ways outnumbered males among sae - age tribes, the women soon had the upper hand and ran things to snit themselves. Instead of being ashamed of their pierced noses they glorified in them, and to draw yore attention to the perforations they wore heavy or- namental nose yinge. glanced at the table, with its silver plates heaped with tiny sandwiches ®f caviar and anchovy paste, its tiny silver boats of olives and sweet pickles, he discovered that he was very Jmngry indeed As he munched the drying sand- 'wiclles and sipped charged water—the various liquors or cocktails on the sideboard offered a temptation which be sternly resisted — Dundee's thoughts boiled and churned, throwing up picture after picture of Nita Selina Wive and then dead; of Penny Crain— Mess heel—helping him at the expense of her loyalty to lifelong friends; of Fiore. Miles, lying desperately and :Men confessing to a shameful theft; .140.11•MM00.011111minpf Relive that pain safely all known Indian tales. Unlike other tribes, however, the San Blas permit albino children to live, and rega.d. . in their ancient peculiar costumes, the them with a sort of superstitions re - medicine men hold sway and • e spect, hereditary chiefs still rule. And here Equally without foundation are the let me digress to state that woman:: ft -repeated tales of these Indians per- euffraee has been in vogue among these milting no strangers to dwell anion 34, 0, * them, of driving white men from their vicled by the Creator. • first place in every -thine. Descent ,s ---.t1- !territory, and of their hostility and - The sun is inc unerring clock ni * * * , bythe female line and male, ancestie 1 savagery. For many years trading ' 13eauty has its blemishes, even ., , counts fo little, as is the case with !companies have bad representatives' 'among the San Blas, and sightseeing! e - . , ti . the sun has his spots. parties of tourists from Colon and 'many tubes. Henee ie, uomen Ht..- * * * !Cristobal visit the Indians regularly. ally rule the roost, When a man mar - The darker the cloud the brighter • ries he becomes tbe virtual slave or the sun when ]ie breaks through the 'his wife's parents tied]. a girl is born 1 I have lived for long periods among rift. language and have made a study of : i of the union. I knew one old Indian :these aborigines; I have learned their ,. * * -"telly sixty years of age who worked. To some hese minds the sight of! . .„ ceremonials, I bare slept in their every day for his father-in-law., for al, I their customs, home. life, religion and gold is more alluring than a beautid homes, have eaten with them, though he had hali a dozen children fol sunset or the prospect of heaven.. doctored men, women and children -1 have all were boys. * * ,I, - But do not imagine that men are tha The merit of an action should. al. i , ' - . • I only workers anion the San Blas. Wo - interesting, delightful, friendly and . land I have elways found them a most only ways be judged according to. the ' man may have an exalted place, she motive which achieved its perforii-' may be regarded as man'- superior in 14 I hospitable lot. This, ho Never, is ex- iactly what might be expected, for -the, many ways, but she is no drone. She - . 'Indians of the San Blas Archipelago ''' has the household duties to attend to But on many the islands and on the mainland life goes tee as it has for countless centuries: the people dress Indians from time immemorial, Ac- cordine to San Blas law, women hold ance. thoroughly Dundee ran throug 'remaining eheck stubs. . . No re- _. .011 ot. a checac for rent made 't,aerra's Jean 1-ano ! sew -out to Judge Hugo Marshall! But there was a stub that interest- ed him. Check No. 17—Nita had spent her money lavishly—was filled in as follows, in 'Nita's pretty back- hand: No. 17—$9000. May 9, 1930. To Tru It Dept. For Investment. Had John C. Deeke, who es -vice president in charge of trusts and in- vestments had doubtless handled the check, wondered at all where the $9,000 had come frend! One other revelation came out of the 23 filled-in stelae. On every Mon- day Nita Wine had drawn a check t for $40, to her maid, Lydia Carr. Again Dundee whistled. Forty dollars a week was, he wagered to himself, more money than any other maid in Hamilton was lucky enough to receive! Nita in a new light — an over -generous Nita! Or—was Nita herself paying blackmail on a small ecale? He reached into a pigeon -hole whose contents—a thick packet d unused envelopes—had not been dis- turbed by Strawn, and was about to remove an envelope in which to place the all-important checkbook, when he 'noticed something slightly peculiar. An envelope in the middle of the packet looked rather thicker than an empty case should. . . . But it was not empty. And across the face of the expensive, cream -col- ored linen paper was written, in that erene pretty, very legible backhand: Von can always relieve that ache or pain harmlessly with Aspiriu, Even ).hose deep-seated pains that make a man's very bones ache. Even the systemic pains so many women suffer. They will yield to these tablets! As- pirin has many important uses. Read the proven directions in every pack- age; and don't endure any needless pains from, neuralgia, neuritis, rheu- matism. Keep a bottle of these tabletIn the house; carry the pocket tin if subject to unexpected headaches, sudden. colds. Quick .reliee without any harmful ef- fects; Aspirin does not depress the heart. Just look each time for the name Aspirin—and the word genuine printed in red on every box. Every dieiggist has Aspirin, and if you. ask for it by that nettle you are sure to get relief. Aspirin is a trade- mark registered in Cana,da. ave inecloseennere et with white —two- cook.iug, eva,shiag. cleaning, gale art far nearly five hundred years—ling for the children add making the . Ortelsburg; East Pruse.10-7" Wetit-Fti'ever since Columbus cruised along thda i family's clothing; she dresses and bussaneers, they rendered invaluable corn, weaves baskets and makes haun aid to the sea rovers as guides, bent- mocks. ers, fishermen and pilots, for the cruel- ty of the Spaniards had made them The woman is exempt from any implacable foes of the Dons. !heavy manual labor, however. She is From their buccaneer friends and al -1 not expected to carry burdens, nor lies they ]earned seamanship a.nd the! even to bring a bucket of water to her English language and when, years ',home, wherein she rules supreme. She later, Yat.kee whalemen appeared, the! owns everything—only his hammock, Indians proved as useful to the New his canoe, his gun, his clotting and his Bedford, Nantucket and New London fishing gear actually belong to the %lb - skippers as they had been to Morgami servient male—and he cannot sell, Sharpe, Swan, Ringrose and other trade or give away anything without 1 the permission and approval of his University of Goettingen students, coast of Panama. During the days of cleans the fish and game, grinds tbe headed by Professor Bondy, have be- come temporary members of the Jab- lonken land settlement for a four weeks' vacation course on land settle- ment problems. An important part of their study is working alongside the settlers, for which the student helpers get free bed and board' --4-- Difficulties There are difficulties the!. hold out against real attacks; they fly., like the visible horizon, before those who ad- vance. ISSUE No., 41---:32 TO BE OPENED IN CASE OF MY . DEATH said they were for light shades and —Juanita Leigh Selim. 1needed no boiling, When I found they dialect, their faith, their ancient CUs - His heart hammering, and his fin- were made by the makers ot Diamond toms and ceremonials and have until gera trembling, Dundee drew out two Dyes, I knew that there was some- very recently preserved the purity of close -written sheets of creamy note- thing I would dare to u.se on my pre- their blood. And though they have! paper. After all, who had bettor' cious scarf. (You see, I had dyed all been ever friendly with all Anglo -Sax - right than he to open it? Was he not I 1 my mourning clothes with Diamond ons, they nevertheless have always , torney? ... And he hadn% darnaged1 i the representative of the district at- Dyes and knew they were wonderful.) had a smoldering hatred and distrust I got a package of Diamond Tints, of Spanish blood. the envelope. It had opened very ease ' 61"ed my scarf aad it came out as At the time of an iucipient rebellion ily indeed—its flap had yielded in, i gorgeously colorful as a sunset! My against Panama, one of the sub -hits stantly to his thumbnail.... i druggist says repeated washings Wilt Caine to me to ask any advice in the Wait! It had been too easy. Be -I not fade it, My friends were as de- matter. lighted as I and wanted to know whet "Why do yon want to revolt and hill fore unfolding the letter or whatever ' I used. Indeed, I'm enthusiastic the Panamaneans?" I inquired after, it was, Dundee examined the flap of i about Diamond Tints!" , he had stated his case. His reply fairy ' the envelope. . • . Yes! He was not took my breath away, "Because we the first to open it since its original! don't want to be civlized," he informed sealing. God grant he hadn't de- me, "We want to live like Amerl- stroyed any tell-tale fleger-prints in his criminal, haste to learn any secret that Nita S'Aily. had recorded here! . . . Perhaps Nita heeself had un - Pealed the letter to snake an addition or a correetion? • Welie, Whateverr damage led been piratical skippers of the past. They II better half. took to whaling as the proverbial cluck I „ DOES YOUR GARDEN - GROW ? An item from Paris relates that the takes to water, and they regarded the. ----v.— --- high - hatted, frock - coated Quaker I latest feminine fad is to use safety whaleShip captains with so much 1e-1 pins instead, of buttons. Well, it looks spect and admiration that even to -clay I as if some "summer bachelors" have their favorite household gods are been:several jumps ahead of Paris for carved wooden figures with 'chin whis- a long time. kers, high "stovepipe" hats and long- l --- tailed coats. Having acquired a love of ships and of visiting foreign shores, the San Blas men found sailoring exactly to their liking and scarcely a Yankee wind- jammer sailed te seven seas that did not Include one or more San Blas In- dians in its crew. And being adepts at picking up languages, many became excellent linguists. On one occasion 1 heard one of my San Bias boatmen "I had a lovely delicetely-colored speaking French with a Martinicafl. silk scarf from Paris which. was my "How many languages do you speak?" pride " writes an enthusiastic woman I asked him. He grinned. "Mebbe ten," Quakeproof Building Erected The first skyscraper has been built quakeproof in Mexico. The thirteen-. storey structure marks a new era in building. "My friends all ask me what I used" front Quebec. "It became so soiled I had to wash it—which ruined its beauty. I was heart -broken. One day I saw in the drag, stere a new kind of tints—Diamond Tints. The druggist he iep Yet throughout all these centuries of dealing with white men of many na- tions and wandering Over the world, the San, Blas have maintained their tribal integrity, have retained their TINTS AT ALL DRUG STORES cans!" In the brief uprising that took place, several Panarnanean otilcit.ls were tor- tured and killed. For, peaceful, qinet, gentle and 112 malty ways civilized as they ate, the San Bias, like all Indians, become %Wages,' deeds irivarnate, By MARYE DAHNKB Kraft Cheese Institute "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," Keats called it! These golden autumn days bring with them the whole harvests of summer—a wealth of vegetables, ruddy and mellow, 'ripe and tan- talizing. They call out to be gathered in alt their luscious pro- fusion, to be served daily. To preserve their crisp fresh- ness, to accentuate their delicate flavors—this is the task of the artful cook. Autumn vegetables with cheese have n golden goodness in tune with the high spirit of the season. In a luscious cheese sauce, or en - casserole, even the most ordinary of vegetables has a piquancy un- dreamed of. • Ideal for cooking 'with autumn vegetables is the cheese food Velveeta —which melts So readily that it practically makes itself into the smoothest and creamieet of sliticee. These recipes present a new rind simple manner of glorifying old and delicious 'vegetables. BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES medium tomatoes IA package Xrait 1,,<2 cups :fresh Velveeta bread crumbs Solt, pepper Cut a small alive from ile top of each tomato. Scoop out lite centers and fill the shells with a mixture ot the tornnto POP, bread crumbs, Velvecta cut in srocil cubes, and seasonings to taste. Bake in a , moderate ovon, 550 degrees, Until \c1' weta is Melted and crumbs begin 10 brown. BAKED MACEDOINE 1 tablespoon tha). 1 cup cooked corn *yeti. onion 11,4 clips cooked tablespoons eimp- 110.1 ped pimiento 1 cup chopped dill 2 tablespoons. bu tter pickles 2 tablespoons flour „ pcpper. 2 atmr, cookedpackage Kraft tomatoes Velvoets Cook onion mid pimiento in• meltod -butter a few )noments; add flour. When blended, add tomatoes and cook until mixture thickens, stirring eonstantly, Add corn, rice, pickles and seasoninv inste. Pour iota n casserole end clover with shoed Velveetn. Bale in a inedevat* eves, deurere. 26 nriinateli.