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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-12-03, Page 6PACK SIX WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, December 3, 1936 z the numbers, we want!” he breathed This dumb dick hadn’t he was carry in’ dyna- Why,” he cackled, “he Business by Lawrence A. Keating to know. The clerk looked in surprise at the five-spot Colwell passed him. “Say, did you ever visit people and wish you had some excuse to leave? Do a favor for me. You ring me up in 707 just thirty minutes from now. I’ll do the talking; the point is, you’re a friend who knew’ I’d be there, and you insist en seeing me. It’s urgent.” He strove for a Don Juan grin. “You know how it is when a man can’t break away from a. woman?” Chuckling, he poked a square fist in to the clerk’s chest. His chuckle was infectious. The young fellow’s black pompadour twitched forward as he grinned. He folded the five-spot and tucked it safely away. “I’ll do that, mister, i Who should I ask for?” j “Colwell.” He spelled it out. “Thir- ’ tv minutes from now—and not twen- j ty-fiv< minutes or thirty-five minutes. ! Thirty!” i With a wink he turned to the ele- . vator. Bui his humor vanished as it Story affair of tan brick in a neigh- ! carrivd him upward. The trouble was, borhood that once had been fashion- ' he scarcely knew what to expect, able as attested by the few sprawling • When rhe door on seven rolled mansions which wreckers. THIRD INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS; Detective Dan Colwell of the Graber-Vale private detective agency is assigned the job of shadow ing lawyer Arthur McDonald whose wife fears gangster enemies are plot ting to murder him. McDonald is mur dered in spite of Colwell’s watchful ness. Dan is hot on their trail and suspects a sinister plot. . . * * * Dan hung up and stepped out of the booth. He fished a cigarette from his pack and lighted it, I he tiling grew more complicated. But, thinking back he could detect no er ror on his part. He had that pack age, and that was okay! Colwell thought it was working all right. This case ought to be profitable. His taxicab drew up to the some what tattered canvas canopy whose begrimed white letters spelled Ken nebec Hotel. Dan paid off the driver and paused on the sidewalk to gaze about him. The Kennebec was a ten- still evaded the,back ho went down the carpeted hall, ency boss of yours. I mean Graber!” The words rumbled from deep in his barrel-like chest. Quillen’s face was contorted in hate and his eyes were like the eyes of a little suckling pig Dan remembered from his days on an Indiana farm, when pig was wedged in a fence and old boar came at it. They eyes of a man who could 1 who was afraid. “Stick i hands!” Lefty snarled. Dan raised his palms level ears. "What’s this for? I don’ you. How do you know I—’ fastened accusing eyes on the Fane girl. “You cat!” Colwell cried. “You are not Mrs. McDonald! If you were you wouldn’t have this guy here with you! Why,” he stammered as if it struck a terrific surprise to him, "you’re not Mrs. McDonald! You’re a—a fake!” Quillen’s reaction to this was a puzzled look. The puzzlement lifted as he seemed to make a guess, and lie sneered, “Catches on fast for a dumb operative!” He stepped behind Dan and after brief fumbling had^the guu from his pocket, "Helen, I guess He’s off hunting!” a pitying look. He as he thought- “I kill him, all right, only way, Helen. kid the the the and were hate up your With his 't get •” He Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840. Risks taken on all classes of insur ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COZENS, Agent. Wingham. Dr. W?A. McKibbon, B.A. PHYSICIAN And SURGEON Located at the Office of the Late Dr. H. W. Colborne. Office Phone 54. Nights 107 HARRY FRY Licensed Embalmer and Ftmeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service Ambulance Service. Phones: Day 117. Night 109, Who killed McDonald?” suddenly at Dan, watching alertly the blue set his jaw. “Why not ask Mostly there were other lower middle class apartments about, and delicatessens with smoked win dows. A balloon man waited glumly on the far corner, a few automobiles rolled,,past, and there were several young women pushing baby carriage that contained the small sons and daughters of two-hundred-a-month clerks watching clocks downtown. Colwell did not relish the visit he was going to pay. He drew a deep breath of icluctance and forced his steps toward the revolving door. But it seemed absolutely necessary to put his head into the lion’s mouth this once. He had to learn the exact ap plication of those numbers on the slip of paper found on the running board of McDonald’s taxi. They were of great value, he suspected with a thrill warming his breast. Enough to put a man on Easy Street for life! Because a quarter of a million dol lars in snow soon was due, Arthur McDonald, brains of the ring, had received that thirty thousand dollar package merely as a tryout of the smuggling scheme. Quillen wanted that, but more he wanted the big ship ment. That was why he had killed the lawyer, to get it all for himself. Probably McDonald had tried to hold out on that small package, arousing Quillen's bate and greed and the de cision to get McDonald out of the way. That two hundred and thirty thousand in narcotics would put this small capture Dan had lucked into, in the shade! . When, exactly, was the big stuff «you, I’ve been living under my maid- due and how was it coming? If he | en name of Fane.” The girl swept •was clever enough he might learn that j paht hjm t0 a chair and sank into it. in the apartment of Miss Helen Fane. •-“Take off your coat, won’t you?” But he would have to run the gaunt-’ He did take off his topcoat and let up there and it wasn’t going to be draped it over the chair that held his fun! soft hat. Dan heard hinges squeak The small hotel lobby panelled in I behind him. He turned to find a dark wood was indirectly lighted tolsbiny bluish forty-four automatic give a sort of garishly modern ver-ipnjntcd his way with the hard killer sion of an old English inn. Dan kept! eves „f £uftv Qunien behind the thinking the next few minutes would t .straight barrel. Be risky. He stopped at the desk. ; jt gave the detective a series of 'Miss Fane’s apartment 707? By i chills down his spinal column. He I’ll hold this guy. You search DR. R. L. STEWART PHYSICIAN Telephone 29. J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan- Office — Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A Thorough knowledge of Farm Stock. Phone 231, Wingham. Hell, takes don’t Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone. Wingham Ontario It Will Pay You to Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service'Station. Phone 174W. DR. W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office — Morton Block. Telephone No. 66 X ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner ; CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS < THERAPY - RADIONIC - EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham noting the padding exposed in places. It was a cheap, bashy hotel where no one cared much what went on provid ed it did not bring the police. Mrs. McDonald admitted him. She wore a slinky black satin gown which showed off her slender, supple figure to best advantage. Her eyes had the look of recent weeping, although not enough to impress him. Colwell step ped in and heard the door close with an ominous click. “Sit down, Mr. Colwell. As I told you put it over on Otto, eh? If it took him like it. took this chump, Hold still!” "What do you mean about Gra ber?” Colwell adopted the stupidity pose. “Graber’s all right. He always handed me my check every Friday. Why should she pretend . . .” He left off, shaking his head as if thor oughly mystified. Quillen flung a curse that explain ed nothing but his hate. “I’ll hold this guy. You search him, and don’t miss anything!” She had dropped all pretense that she was the shyster lawyer’s widow, and her contempt for Dan was plain in the little lift of her shoulder. The girl wore a hard look now and her nails as she poked her hands into his pockets managed to scratch and tear. She was a cat. She glared at Dan as if she would like to rend him limb from limb. Fane was in this mess, plenty. All she found on him was a few keys, a notebook containing nothing. “Miss Fane’s apartment 707? By i chills down his spinal column. He keys, a the way, has a Mr, Quillen, a man got to his feet, watching the man | much of interest, forty dollars in bills in a dark suit, rather wide mouth, big shoulders, come in to see her?” “No, sir, not today, sir, that I no ticed.” Lefty was known here, then. Been giving the girl a play, Dan happened | come out of a bedroom. “What is j and some small change, and a slip of j this anyhow?" 'paper in ! "So you know who killed McDon-/ pen. (aid, eh? Two of them! Well, Colwell, "That’s | you’re done for. Done for, get it? ■ matched You and that snake of a detective ag-; smoothed his vest with his fountain it! it. the paper. Gimme it!" Quillen He backed away and Hi* hard eyes OTTAWA FIRE DESTROYS LUMBER YARD destroyed the Mayno Davis * getting flu were made homeless Firemew butt SwtrovVeS'i'm,'rs Hs.,"i0K the MM1'’8, ”am-|Htl11 «'I Nopan the Ottawa wZ « 1 U fc of wa» estimated at $126,000. Two fire dettartmeiil in tattling the Maae Mtan firemen in | were an(J a I ’ “"8 lighted, “This is it This is what exultantly. even an idea mite around! might’ve given it to Graber!” “You’re crazy. Otto’s out of town He’s in Ewing, Pennsylvania, or any- how, on the way. Lefty shot him sucked air noisily guess we got to eh? That’s the Then he can’t squawk that you faked Mrs. Mac, he thrust Colwell, automatic, me who used Soup Catterby’s own knife on him in that alley? I can put two and two together as to who did the second job, knowing who did the first!” Quillen’s jagged, tobacco-yellowed teeth gleamed wet. “Yeah.,” he mut tered, nodding. “We got to kill you, Colwell. Yeah, we’ll do it too.” He glanced at the paper in his hands. "Eight, five, three, dash, six, six, one.” The expression on the man’s face slowly changed. Perplexity, he tried to shake off but failed, gave way to suspicion. It grew keener and more bitter. His piggish eyes raised to Colwell. Lefty wet his lips with a quick sweep of his tongue, trying to convince himself that it was all right, that these were the numbers. “Listen,” he said at last, thickly. “When we jerked alj the stuff outa Mac’s pockets, identification and all that ,we got the. numbers too. that’s what we were after! I a squint at them, see? You think—” He left off. “What, Lefty” Helen Fane asked, “Think what?”’ For answer Quillen stepped nearer Colwell and struck him a glancing blow on the head with the muzzle of his gun. “You rat!” he shrilled. “You got them, numbers hid away some where! This ain’t the paper I drop ped on that taxi running board! I kind of remember, , . . Yup, the first was seven, The next was—let’s see—• I guess it was ought. That’s it!” “Listen!” he yelled at Dan, and waved his gun as if about to strike again, “you ain’t so damned dumb as you act! You switched them num bers, you goat! These ain’t the ones were on that slip you must’ve picked off the running board. Come on, come on, out with ’em! Give me the numbers!" he howled, and made a pass at Colwell’s vest as if to jam his hands into the pockets for another search. Rubbing the side of his head which still stung from, the blow, Colwell man aged only with the greatest effort to keep control, to maintain his mysti fied, hurt iook. “What* do you mean? I threw that slip away. It didn’t mean anything to me. Who you bittin’?” he whined. “Helen! Go through him agin. The dirty—. tie’s tryin’ to slip us these phoney numbers! Listen,” he barked before she could speak, “I got a mem ory, ain’t I? I swear the first was 7. The next was 0.” Quillen put a hand to his forehaed, half bent at the waist, and concentrated with all his might. Still there was no opportunity for Colwell to grab his gun even had he been so minded. Quillen straighten ed. “I know I’m right!” “What you waiting for?” he roared at the girl. "Search him! Yank every stitch off! We got to find ’em, don’t we?” "Wait, Lefty. Don’t foam at the mouth as jf you’ve gone nuts! Think a minute,” she snapped, not in the least cowed by his thundering. “Think a second, will you, and get the rest of those numbers?” Meanwhile she was engaged in turning Col,well’s pockets inside out. She found nothing. “Can’t you get the rest of them, Lefty?” He relapsed into a spasm of cursing and slumped into a chair. “Geez! But I know these ain’t the ones. You think he turned them over to Otto Graber?” Helen Fane, alias McDonald, stared at Colwell. He. said nothing for a moment. “Listen, what I can't figure out is, what of it? I mean the numbers? What are they for?” (Continued Next Issue) NO ELECTION IN EAST WAWANOSH (Continued from Page One) He spoke highly of Mr. Reid and Mr, Yungblut who had contested the | reeveship with him last year, 1936, the reeve said,’had hot been I a stressful year, The Council tried to spend money carefully that the members of the board been very*. Joyal, Speaking of a vert that was built oh the 10th cession, he told of trouble between the engineer and contractor on the job. The Council met at the scene of operation and ironed out the diff iculties, IBW culvert was completed according to government specifica tions and if a good job, Speakingly ©mty matters he said had and had cul- con- W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Phone 150 Wingham F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated. Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre St., , Sunday by appointment. . Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL | CHIROPRACT6RS ! CHIROPRACTIC and ’ ELECTRO THERAPY > North Street —- Wingham i Telephone 300. i that it was expected the overdraft for the year would be $7113.95. At the June session the estimates were drawn up and it was estimated that the ov erdraft would be $7500, The County would have broken nearly even he said, on the year.’s operation if it had not been for the large expense in con nection with administration of justice which was up $5000 this year, due to the Huggard, Robertson, MacLaren, Fletcher and Ernest cases. Estimated expenditure for mothers’ allowances for this years is $18,500 which is $4000 more than last year, due to mothers with one child receiv ing assistance. Old Age Pensions will be $17,000. Hospital Cost will be $20,000, which is $800 more than last year. Criminal Justice account will be $19,000 while last year it was $15,- 506. The reason for the increase is noted above. The mill rate was the same. The cost of education $61,000, is $1370 less than last year. Fie said that the county paid 90% of the cost of pupils attending the Technical School at London but at the June meeting lie had sponsored a motion that this would not be paid if the education gould be procured in the county. This was» incorporated into a by-law. He said a new system of purchas ing supplies for the county would be .installed at the December’or January meeting which would result in a con siderable saving. The County Home will not cost the county any money this year. This was due to the administration of some estates and receipts from Old Age Pensions and the successful raising of pigs by Mr. Jacobs. The Property Committee had uo capital expenditures, The total extimated receipts are $256,910.06 and the estimated expend iture $264,024.01. • The Reeve said that lie was oppos ed to giving grants without greater consideration. He moved a motion at the June session which passed as fol lows: That all applications for grants must be accompanied by a financial statement before the January session of the council. He reported that the registry office was each year having installed fire proof equipment, It will take some years to complete this work. During the year $25,000 paid off 1034 road account, $4000 off the 1935 account and a snow plow purchased at $9000 but the rail! rate remained at 5% mills. He had been auditor of the Crimin al Justice accounts for the year and had got an insight into this depart ment. z He predicted, the same twp. rate for next year or a slight reduction, R, R. Redmond Mr, Redmond thanked the electors for the support he received in last year’s election and said there had been’fine co-operation in the council this year. Kot much work done In the southeast eorrter of the twp. ® . year due to -the paving being done. Work mostly done in the north and centre parts. Westfield section was gravelled with teams, it is a little rough now but will make a good road. He said that he considered all work done on snow roads should be paid for, if done under proper supervision. Regarding sheep worried or killed by dogs, he felt that the township should pay regardless if the’owner of the dog was known or not. He com plimented the Road Supt. on his ef ficiency and thanked the people for the acclamation and said he would en deavour to keep the tax rate down and get tlie most for the money ex pended. •Harvey Black , Mr. Black thanked his mover and seconder and the electors for the sup port they gave him at last year’s el ection, also for the acclamation. He would try, he said, to do his best to give good administration to the af fairs of the township. J. D. Beecroft As it was the custom in East Wa- ■wanosh for years to have an election only every two years, Mr. Beecroft wondered if it would not be a good idea if Councillors and Reeve be el ected for a two-year period. He told of the road work that had been car ried on and the qfticksand that was encountered at the new pulvert on Concession 10.'The culvert cost $575. If another dry summer like the last- one occurs something will have to ■ be done to keep the gravel on the roads as it blows off. Gravelling in the fall is the most satisfactory but cannot be done at that time. It must be when teams and men arc available. He reminded the people that taxes can now be paid at the bank without extra charge. He also spoke of the splendid co-operation of the members of the board. He expressed his ap preciation of the vote accorded him last year and for the acclamation at this meeting. Lewis Ruddy Work in the south part of the twp, was not heavy this year, Mr. Ruddy Stated, Two swamps had been und erbrushed for the wood that had been removed. Snell’s swamp had been un derbrushed and gravelled. The work had been done with teams which was more expensive than trucks. 95 yards of gravel had been placed between Simon Hallahan’s and N. Radford’s. He thanked his moved and seconder and the electors for their wonderful support at last year’s election. Road Superintendent Mr. Stuart McBurney, the road sup erintendent gave a list of the expend itures in the road accounts as follows? Road Ko, 2, Maintenance $129,40, construction $247.00; Road No. 4, 1 Maintenance $246.26; Road Ko. 6, Maintenance $40.60; Road Ko. 10, Maintenance $502.01, construction etc, $1090,00; Road Ko.. 12, Maintenance $1047,57, construction etc., $41.00; Salary $336.10; Total to Oct, iOtlt, $4505.61, wake up with a Headache, ENJOY RELIEF BEFORE YOU'VE FINISHED DRESSING "Aspirin” Tablets Dissolve Almost Instantly In 2 Bcconda by stop watch, an ‘’Aspirin” tablet starts io disinte grate and go io work. Drop an “Aspirin” tab let into * glass of water. By the time it hits th'o bottom of the glass it is disintegrating. What happens in this glass . . . happens In your stomach. When you wake up with a head ache, do this: Take two quick-act ing, quick-dissolving “ASPIRIN” tablets with a little water. By the lime you've finished dress ing, nine chances in ten, you’ll feel relief coming. “Aspirin” provides this quick, relief because it is rated among the quickest methods for relief science has yet discovered. • “Aspirin” tablets are made in. Canada. “Aspirin” is the registered trade-mark of the Bayer Company, Limited, of Windsor, Ontario. Look for the name Bayer > in the form of a cross on every tablet. Demand and Get ASPIRIN-.;^ LOOK FOR THEBAYER CROSS Bert Thompson Mr. Thompson said that the 9th required 1000 feet of snow fence but the County Council would have to decide about it. A light coating of gravel had been put on this road. More would be used next year’as the crusher would be in that locality, « Reeve Replies Mr, Scott in a few minutes spent in replying stated that the township could do nothing about Coun. Red mond’s suggestion re sheep claims as it was a provincial law. In regard to Coun. Beccroft’s idea of an election every two years, this he said would have to be decided by ’the electors. The snow fences were in charge of the County Road Commission and they would have to decide how much snow fence was erected, He was of the opinion that too much plowing of snow Is done on provincial and county roads,