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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-05-03, Page 2SYRI.OPSIS, As the liner ,. allaroo sails from Lon - Ion, five crates of opium are removed Ind returned to Messrs King, adjoining that of Jo Lung, one of London's big- %est "'fences," Matt Kearney, news - aper man, has just said good-bye to is sister Eileen a passenger. Dawson aig ashes Matt Eileen, accompany Norwich, ttlme of Halg's Scotland Yard men, to to Lung's. Matt finds a notebook drop- ped by Yuan Hee See, head of an inter- hational gang. Norwich is murdered con after leaving Matt. The notebook • stolen, but one'entry Haig remembers ears him to Paris, where a gang had g :,,red to receive orders from :,.s - ms .,i Pasha, Haig overhears Franz H. ,.,g saying he .rill board the Wal- arua at Marseilles. Haig, aboard the Wallaroo as Mr. Smith, learns the gang as Informed es- t+ a mei Dr ostlerof s pres- ence a p his P enee on the liner. Others who receive end send wireless messages in code are pi Miss Ednarn and Len Chow of New Zork, A huge Chinamon tries to throw klaig overboard, but goes overboard himself. At Port Said, Eileen disap- pears after being induced by Joseph, an Armenian fortune teller, to accompany Destier to a native shop. Haig, trailing thein, is lured into the drug -impregnated Oath of Feathers. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XVII.—(Cont'd.) -Port Said was seething with indig- nation. When towards dusk it became evident that Eileen Kearney had been abducted, for no other conclusion re- mained, both the American and the British consulates set to work in earnest. The town was combed with a nicety calculated to discover a rat in a corn- field. .But no trace could be found of the mussing girl. Dr. Oestler's ac- count of what had happened was simple enough. Miss Kearney had suggesting walking alomg to the shop of a scent merchant, and he had ac- companied her. The doctor's state- ment was confirmed both by the Greek scent merchant and by the Egyptian tobacconist. Mr. Len Chow, it was learned from the Eastern Exchange, Iliad caught the train to Cairo, only having had lunch in the hotel. Of Franz Hartog no trace could be found. The news, of course, was known on board, and a state of consternation prevailed. Port Said was living up br; its ancient reputation. Every wom- an passenger who was ashore hurried back to the ship, as though the place had been in a state of siege. Captain Peterson paced his cabin, bis tanned, lined face haggard with anxiety. The company's agent sat at the desk, Shale, the British Consul, etanding beside Lim, and the Ameri- can Consul stood by the door. "It's all very well, Mr. Foreman," Said Shale, addressing his American confrere. "But what can I do?" "Who' can you do, sir?" the other retorted, "A young American citizen— 'daughter of my friend Kearney hi Col- ipmbo—is kidnapped in broad daylight *hen she is in the company of a sus- pected person! What can you do!" "Suspected, yes," cried the other desperately, "But that's not proof !" "What puzzles me," the captain in- terjected, trying to pour oil on troubled waters, "is the absence of Inspector. Haig. If we had the author- ity of Scotland Yard behind us, we night be able to act. Besides, what evidence there is, he holds." "It's little enough," said the British Consul—"unless he had added to it Since this morning." Mr. Foreman's face was very stern. qn short, sir," he said, "you don't intend to take any steps about this gang of crooks you've got on board; although you know—whatever the evidence may be, and I say damn the evidence! that they are certainly re- teponsible?" "But the inspector himself assured ane that there was nothing to justify sin arrest," said Captain Peterson. "Another point: the attempt to mur- der Inspector Haig off here last night is good enough to show the type of desperadoes we're dealing with." "That's true enough," the captain atdrnitted. "But nobody on board ever jaw the missing Chinaman speak to it soul, except to the stewards," "There's nothing," Shale explained wearily, "nothing whatever, to con- nect him with the rest of the gang. Surely you can see that, Forman? I mean, the attempted murder can't be used as evidence to hold these people!' Formnan tugged savagely at his moustache. "That man Oestler is lying," he declared outright. "You all think the same as I do, How can I ever face Mike Kearney with a tale like this?" Dr. Oestler had only just left the cabin,, where he had been submitted to a 1 - c se cross-examination n the a o exact circumstances of his visit to those two shops with Eileen. How- ever, as the shopkeepers had been questioned and had confirmed his statement in every particular, there was nothing whatever to go upon. His papers were in order, or appeared to be. He had even produced corre- spondence which seemed to leave no doubt upon the point. And since he was certainly bound for Australia, common sense suggested that this part of hia stoey, at least, was true. The woman Ednam produced a con- tract with an Australian vaudeville circuit and displayed a number of pro- fessional photographs,, programs and billing matter relating to recent en- gagements in Europe. She declared that, although she had made the ac- quaintance of Dr. Oestler on board, she had never niet him before. The agent was hi a quandary. To hold the ship meant transferring mails and a loss of thousands of pounds to the company. And if Eileen were found any time during the night or early morning, she could quite easily be transported to Suez in time to rejoin the Wallaroo there. The suspects were actually on board. "If only Inspector Haig would turn up!" Forman exclaimed irritably. "He may hold the clue to the situation." "I'm putting all my faith in the In- spector," the captain declared. "It's because he's evidently on the•job that I still have hopes." "But there's nothing to show," For- man cried, "that he's on the job at all! If I understand the situation, no one has seen this man Haig since he left the ship early this morning." "It's my belief," said Captain Pet- erson, "that he was following Miss Kearney and Dr. Oestler," "I agree with you captain," cried the British Consul. "Inspector. Haig was following then. And I think we may venture to hope that he's the only man who i mows what actually took place. If it's abduction, it's high- ly probable that he's in pursuit of the abductor." "It's very odd he hasn't got in touch," Forret n cut in. The agent nodded in agreement. "I think that odd, too, captain," he ad- mitted. "I don't care for the look of it, Assailing that the inspector wit- nessed this outrhge—if an outrage has occurred—and went off in pursuit, he wouldn't do so without leaving some clue to his route, in case he should fail. He was too experienced a man for that," "Might I ask, Mr. Dimes, the exact meaning of your remark?" Foreman a man of action, knew himself help- less; and he was getting angry. "Are you implying that this Inspector Haig is not engaged in looking for Miss Kearney, but has also disappeared?" Dimes shrugged his shoulders. "To me it Looks rather that way," he agreed. "No sane man would go off alone on a desperate job of that kind without getting in touch either with Mr. Shale, here, o2 with the com- mander!" "He may have had no opportunity !" Shale suggested. "He evidently hadn't," said Forman savagely. "But maybe for a different reason. There are half a dozen ships on which he, or Miss Kearney, or both They show good taste Don't experiment. When you entertain, always serve Cbristie's Soda'afers ... fresh and flaky. They make the best meals just a little better. Try the New C las-rin s CL AM Cancic1 it in popular -priced packages. Asir your grocer ChriSiie!s SODA WAFERS of them, might be at this very x, ,o ertt,. lying along here and in the Canal." "We've spoken every ship in the port," the commander assured him. "No, sir, They are not on board any ship." The British Consul's face was very stern. "There's going to be the devil to pay about this business," he said. "And I'm going t' be the scapegoat. It's no good gnawing your moustache, Forman, Pin as unhappy as you are. The only reason I don't aet is because I don't know what to do. If you have any feasible suggestion—make it." "Arrest this slippery pair on board!" Forman cried angrily; ",Hold 'em here until we're Satisfied. "That's my suggestion, and a feas- ible me." k * "The Bath of Feathers never fails, Joseph," creaked old Mohammed, He chuckled. ed. Joseph, that velvet -eyed fortune tel- ler who had led Eileen to the shop of Mohammed, smiled understandingly, "It is best, old Father of Mischief," he replied, "that you now close your doors and leave me t� carry out niy orders. The crate is in the cellar?" "It is in the cellar," old Mohammed replied. "Good—and the girl is safely on the way. Go now, friend, and report to the Chief. Put in a word for nie.'• I" take up my new duties—although I don't know what they are—almost at once. I have my letter of travel and my tickets as far as Keneh. After this day's work, I look for a kind re- ception-!" "I will go and make my report," old Mohammed chuckled. "I shall not forget you, Joseph." . "My thanks, Father Mohammed. - Then return to your home. Leave all else to me...- . How long should he remain there?" "They are coming for the crate at sunset. You have until then. But the porters must not see you." . Old Mohammed shuffled away in his loose slippers, and Joseph stood for a moment by the door which opened out of the room of carpets, listening. Then, kneeling, he applied his ear to the uncovered boards immediately be- yond this doorway, presently to rise, smiling with satisfaction. The sound of Mohammed's shuf- fling footsteps had died away... . Joseph walked through to the little shop which was mere camouflage for the great emporium of stolen treasures beyond. He went out, locking the door behind him. This took place *nearly half an hour after Dr. Oestler and Eileen had entered the establishment of Mohammed, and perhaps twenty minutes after Dawson Haig, follow- ing, had passed through that door be- yond which lay a space of uncarpeted passage. His experience had been truly ter- rible. At the moment of passing the threshold, a swift suspicion of the truth had flashed through his mind. He would have stepped back, but it was too late. . The floor gilled away beneath him, and he shot down into unknown depths. He felt himself enveloped, embraced, by some tender, feathery substance which broke the fall, except that he went down and down into. suffocating darkness. This was the Bath of Feathers! To Be Continued. Gems from Life's Scrap -book Sincerity "Sincerity is religion personified."-- Cbapin. "Faithfulness and sincerity first of all."—Confucius. "Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power."—Bovee. "The Master's injunction is, that we pray in secret and let our lives attest our sincerity."—Mary Baker Eddy. "Sincerity is the way of heaven."— Mencius. "The true measure of life is not length, but honesty,"John Lyly. "Sincerity is the indispensable; ground of all conscientiousness, and. by consequence of all heartfelt re- ligion."—Kant. "Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal truth, and the, sacred professions of friendship."— Longfellow. Miser's Catalogue I have loved silver in a hundred things: Windows where frost has left a silver feather; The silver skies in cool and windy weather When silver rains descend; the shin- iug wings Of silver ships that beat across the bine; The evanescent grace of silver petals Lost by a plum tree at whose feet the nettles, On silver morning drip- with silver - w The silverde; sands beside a silver sea Of evenings when a silver crescent, moon. Silver's the grass that tufts a silver dune, And dapples sails with silver.• fili- gree. My heart mints them in peace the while I stand And count the coins rote my eager hand.- --Leona Ames 13111. "There is no way to judge the value of religion except by what It does."— l '... Sir Wilfred Grenfell. ISSUE No, 11—'34 Orange Pekoe Blend 711 Fresh from the Gardens 18 Page Ad. Sets Record New York Editor & Publisher A newspaper advertisement of more than 18 pages, inserted in the Toronto Daily Star and the Toronto Evening Telegram by the Robert Simpson Company, Ltd., department store, on January 31, was acclaimed in Toronto as establishing a new record for the United States and Canada. The advertisement required a com- plete section of 18 pages in each paper, and in addition the store used about 600 lines in its regular position, The space amounted to 44,952 lines in each paper, a total of 89,904 lines for the two. According to Arthur G. Donaldson, of the retail advertising department of the Toronto Star, "this was the largest advertisement published by any store on one day in any daily newspaper 1n Canada or the United States at any time. In other words, it established a new record on the North American continent for the size of a single daily newspaper adver- tisement. An avalanche of buying on the following days hoisted receipts far above the amount estimated." Writing to Editor & Publisher be- fore this advertisement appeared, Mr. Donaldson made the claim that two Toronto stores, the Simpson store and the' T. Eaton Company, Ltd., are the largest users of daily newspaper space in the world. Commenting on a recent item in Editor & Publisher which reported a 16 -page advertising section published in the Boston Even- ing American by the Houghton -Dut- ton Company of Boston, he said: Established Record. "It will interest you to know that on November 16, 1931, two Toronto evening newspapers, the Toronto Daily Star and the Evening Telegram, beat this record when each published a 16 -page section, with about one- half page additional in regular posi- "'tion, for the Robert Simpson Co., Ltd., one of Toronto's two big' -de= partment stores. The Robert Simp- son Co., Ltd., also published a 16 - page section in each of these papers on 41bursday, April 16, 1931, and an- other on Tuesday, September 22, 1931. Thus, while the 16 pages in the Boston Evening American, according to your report, measured 35,840 lines, the 16 pages in each of the Toronto papers measured 39,424 lines—nearly a page and a half more space than used in the American. "For three years the Robt. Simp- son Co., Ltd., has been making a feature of sections. Its first special section appeared on Thursday, Feb- ruary 15, 1931, 12 pages; and results from special sections were found to be so uniformly good that is continued to publish them more or less regu- larly. Its twenty-fifth section appear- ed on Monday, January 15, It con- sisted of 12i pages, with two more pages in regular position. The vary- ing sizes of these 25 sections have been two or 8 pages, three of 10 pages, 12 of 12 pages, 5 of 14 pages and three of 16 pages, nearly all sup- plemented by one or more• pages of advertising in the company's regular position. Largest Users. "And •speaking of advertising rec- ords, it may be of further interest that no other one store in the entire world is so large a user of daily news- paper space as either one of Toronto's two great department store, The T. Eaton Co., Ltd., and The Robt. Simp- son Co., Ltd. This has been the fact for many years. "In justification of this claim, and as indicative of the huge amount of space they consistently use, nmeasure- inents show that during th.e 12 months of 1933 the T. Eaton Co., Ltd., used in the Daily Star and the Evening Telegram a total of 5,463;283 lines; and the Robt. Simpson Co., Ltd., a total of 5,065,246 lines in these two papers, • "Tlhis figures out at an average of about Vie pages for each store in each of the two evening newspapers every publication day in the year. And besides this large linage in the two evening newspapers these two stores, combined, used about 950,000 lines in each of the two morning newspapers during the year, a total linage in all four papers of 12,428,529 lines. 'There is a potential grand opera star in almost every borne in Arneri- ca."—Otto H. Kahn, „From the point of view of nerals, life seems to be divided into two periods; iu the first we indulge, in the second we preach,"—Will Durant, World Oddities Because he cannot stopcrying, Y g, LoveI Short is seeking :£2,000 damages, 1n the Elmira (New York) courts. Short claims that his tear ducts were injured during a motor -car accident, and -that as a result lie cries continu. ally. A boxer in the town of Ossweiler has achieved the remarkable feat of knocking himself out. Aiming a furi- ous blow at his opponent, he missed him, overbalanced, and fell so heavily that the referee was able to count .him out, Three hundred needles were -placed in the eyes of Mr. H. H. Watson, so that an operation, which restored his sight after 27 years, could be per- formed. Brighton fishermen still practice the ancient superstition of inserting a farthing in the corks of their nets, believing that it -will safeguard them against a lean harvest. A birthday cable sent to Mr. Raase- velt from. Alabama contained 138,000 words and took two days to deliver, Magistrates may be jailed according to a law passed in the reign of Ed- ward V., which made it "a penal of- fence, punishable by imprisonment, for any person to solicit or induce any of the King's lieges to abstain from alcoholic drink;:." 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