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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-12-10, Page 6by Lawrence A Keating SYNOPSIS , Detective Dan Colwell of the Grab* >er-Vael detective agency is assigned the job of shadowing McDonald whose wife fears gangster enemies are plotting to murder him. McDon ald is killed in spite of Colwell’s watchfulness. Now, with McDonald dead, the smuggling ring which he has led has become disorganized. Colwell risks his life to gather evidence by playing one against another. * * * The two exchanged looks. "Never mind—they ain't really so important, Colwell, only I thought maybe you’d have them, see? What’s ,this slip mean?” "J.ust my car license. In case it would be stolen, I'd know, see? Most people don’t know their own license number?” Quillen sneered. Suddenly he low ered his gun and became friendsly. “I’ll make it worth your while, Col well. Guess you doir’t make more’n forty-five a week, do you? How about fifty bucks extra look? Maybe you got those numbers stuck away some where. There’s fifty in it if you come across. But I’ll know the right ones!” he warned. Colwell shrugged. "You gave them to Graber!” Lefty charged. “Of course not. I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Quillen sprang to his feet in new ^age. “Then you had ’em! Or you know ’em—that it? Say, what's your game anyhow?” Dan held his ground. From his 2- inch advantage he looked down at the killer. “I’d be a fool to give you something you want so bad when you figure to bump me off next minute because of what I know about those murders!” Lefty drew back. A malevolent smirk came over his face. He nodded comprehendingly. “Smart guy, eh? Try to make a deal with me?” With out moving his gaze he jerked his head. ^T’ll call Thiessen in. Guess we can make this bozo talk, eh, Hel en?” The girl stood close to Colwell. Of a sudden he flinched, clutching his cheek. His eyes blazed at -her but she blazed back with twice the fury. Deliberately she had raised her hand and in a quick flip made a long, angy scratch down his jaw. "You don't need Thiessen. We can handle this smart aleck alone. Come on, Quillen, let’s’ start. We’ll get it out of him!” "Now you,” the charming Mrs. Mc Donald spat at Dan, “you come out with those numbers, the right ones, or you’re going out of here in a basket. Understand?” Quillen jabbed his gun into Dan’s stomach. “Sit down!” He sat down. Over Lefty’s shoul der he saw Helen go pale. Quillen 1 eversed his weapon. He clipped Colwell lightly over the head. • The blow made stars shower in his brain and gave him a sudden weak-! ness. He clenched his teeth, clenched ’ his big hands on the arms of the i chair. He blinked up at Quillen with | and unsteadily rolling eyes. ’---- "You better not go on with this, You’ll pay—double!” It brought a sneer. Quick as a flash the fellow clipped eyes closed. Quillen shut the door and him again, the same deft blow and f sat down in a rocker, listening. no harder. It was a practised blow'I There was a slam of the corridor that would make a rnan on his feet | door. Then a torrent of abuse in the har-h tones of Otto Graber of the Grabet-Vael Detective Agency, who it appeared, was not hunting in Ew- ing, Pennsylvania. He wrenched Hel en Fane’s arm and made her wince. A chair crashed and heavy objects struck the floor. "Where is he? I betcha he’s here!” He rcust have bored the bedroom d or with his eyes, wrenched out a that It made a white welt that took twenty seconds to turn glowing red- Colwell hadn’t heard yet what he had to know, When the shipment was due. What the numbers—* Again Lefty struck with his gun butt. Every fibre screamqd the com mand to fight back.. The self-preser vation instinct in a man was all-pow erful the instant those nerves tele graph wires whirled the news to his brain that something hurt! But he bore it stoically. They hit him, slapped him, lambasted him, kicked him. Dan hoped he was hard enough to stand it without being crip pled. He kept his mind on one thing; he had to stand it. If he could last it was going to mean seventy, eighty perhaps a hundred thousand dollars. Of which Quillen was going to pay a fat half! His sense became higgy. “Gimme those license numbers!” screamed Lefty. “Gimme ’em, you rat!” Shocked, Colwell’s mind functioned dimly. License numbers! That was it. That was what the slip bore that he had snatched from the running board of McDonald’s taxi! He had that much. He needed a little more: the when and how of the WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES *Thursday, December 10,193$. gun, and stepped wrathfully for it. Suddenly Quillen yanked the door op en, The pair faced each other over levelled automatics. Graber sucked breath. He must have straightened in dismay. "WE— what!” he yelled. "What’s that dam’ gun poked at me for? Take it away, Quillen, you rat! Where’s that snow? You think you can give Mac the works and snatch thirty thousand and never hear from me? Me, Otto Grab er?” Lefty’s ire boiled anew. “Shut up, you big goat! What do you think made me try it, eh? You and Mac workin’ to squeeze me out! Yeah, me and others, too.” “You didn't have to kill him, did you? Why didn’t you wait? What the devil makes you think we meant to give you the air?” Graber’s heat subsided a little as though cooled by the equal wrath of Lefty. He lower ed the gun. He preferred a chance to shout -when nothing was aimed at him. “Listen, you jumped at conclu sions. What’s c-atin’ you? Come on, come on,” he urged placatingly, “put up your rod. Say, we never had an idea to give you boys the run around I1 “And you go out and bump Mac He wrenched Helen Kane’s arm and made her wince. quarter million dollar shipment of snow. . . The buzzer of the corridor door jerked Quillen upright. Helen Fane’s face was chalky. He brown eyes that could be so alluring swept to Lefty, then to the door. "Graber!” • Quillen gulped, "Otto Graber!” She nodded, swallowing and look ing furtively at Colwell, Dan felt himself going unconscious. His last remembrance was of Quill en’s voice far away. And he seemed I to be lifted. “I’ll take him to the bed- ; room. Listen, get rid of Otto quick, I you understand? If he finds me here . . , You get rid-of that louse quick as you can—and don't let on I been around!” Quillen ‘houldered Dap’s hundred *eventy-six pounds. The fellow i was an ox for strength. He staggered : to the bedroom and flopped Colwell ’ unceremoniously on the pink taffeta "Tough, eh?” i covered bedstead where Dan lay with reel. Quillen mu*t knew all kinds blows according to the effect he de-| sired. s The girl shrank back shuddering. | Colwell did not a whimper He1 took it as grimly, rilentiy, as- a*y man' foul:’. He Vn Urved with hsr wk* H ■ . TU. ar.'md on' Ker finger ent Quil’e® fcsf him again, kicked his c-hms slapped tris face * CENT A MILE JTnP B«3ain FARES * AdttfaTSe Cf.ifd 40c from WINGHAM AND ALL ADJACENT C.N.R. STATIONS FRI. DEC 18 to |Vhitby, Oshawa, Bowmanvine, Port Hope, Co- , bcuriq BeBevtlle. Napanee, Kingston, Ganano- quo, BrocLvide, Prc-^ott, Morrisburg, Cornwall, Uxbridge, Lindsay, I eterboro, CampbeHford, Newmarket, Allandale, Penetang, Colling* wu-m, Meaform Barrie, Orillia, Midland, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Huntsville, Callander,, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury. All towns in New Ontario on line of Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Rly.; Nippsssmg Central Rly.; Kapuskasing, Longlac, Geraldton, Jellicoe, Beardmore, SAT/DFC IQ tn TOR ONTO Also to Brantford, Chatham, □Mi.VLL. l^to lUKUlNlU Chester, Clinton, Durham, Exeter, Fergus, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, Hanover, Harriston, Ingersoll, Kincardine, Kitchener, London, Listowel, Mitchell, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, Paisley, Palmerston, Paris, Port Elgin, St Cath arines, St Marys, Sarnia, Southampton, Stratford, Strath roy, Walker ton, Wiarton, wingham, Woodstock, anrKAT DET lift Locally' between Important Stations at anaorti, which Excursion Tickets are sold —* Ask Ticket Agent , ................1.............. For Fares, Return Limits, Train Information, Tickets, consult nearest Agent See Handbills for complete list of destinations. T1023A CANADIAN NATIONAL ■gmiilftWil....mil....Ilin.....' iMiriiliihiaHiiiii........... ......•fej off,” he pursued agrievedly, “and set the whole town on fire. Yeah, and Soup’s found in the alley. Say, any two-bit cop can tell it was the same guy did both jobs! Why, you like to put us all out of business! Lefty walked out of the bedroom pulling the door shut, but it swung partly open again. His gun was low ered. "That’s all right. You tried to slip it over on me and I showed you I won’t stand for it. What I want to know is, why 'the gag about Mrs. 'McDonald? You put Helen here up I to posin’ as Mac's wife when he nev er had one. An excuse to set one of your gumshoe artists trailin’ mac.” “Aw, Lefty, we figured you might do somethin ’to land the bunch of us in the mud. Yeah and you damn near did! Helen suggested—” He stopped, flung the girl a look of inquiry Whe ther he had revealed something best kept secret. “I mean she tried to talk you into keepin’ cool. But nothin’d do, you had*to get all heated up. Hell, that game didn’t work out much any how. Forget it.” The killer scowled. “Yeah, forget it! I s’pose you come here for the package, eh?’ ’ “You bet I did. And I mean to split in it, you hear? You can’t put no thing over on me, Lefty Quillen! Not with two murder raps ready to grab you and me knowing plenty—. But why should I ever spill it?” Otto in terrupted himself, “Say, we gotta work together like we always did! Made money, ain’t we? Rut you might trot out that package/’ he hint ed eagerly. There was a brief silence. "I have n’t got it. I don’t know who has. I thought Soup pulled a slick one on me and snitched it, but now. . Quil len shrugged and scowled. "Hell, I don’t know where it is Otto.” The detective agency head hung on his words, speechless. He made rumbling sounds in his throat. "You Ke!” he burst out in new fury. "You are a dirty liar, Quillen*—you sold the stuff already! That’s what you -did, and now you’re fryin’ to whine off. But you can’t get away with it, see? Gimme my share-quick!” he roared, And agaift whipped up his gUn. They were like wildcats, ready to springs With a gasp Helen darted between the two guns and struck them ftp. "Stop it! What’s accom plished by killing each other? You— you sap®!’’ the girt flung at them so hard it stung. "Listen, Otto: Hefty tried to give you and me and Mae (the run around* He thought we were trying to give him the run around. Sec? “Well, Mat’s gone and he was the boss, That package is gone too, and and Quillen has no more #idea than you have where it is. That’s straight. He only wishes he did have! We’ve lost it, that's all. My guess is that Soup Catterby pulled a fast one, had the stuff taken from the newsstand man in the Lawyers and Doctors Building. Then Quillen kills him. Now the boy that was messenger for Soup is sitting pretty. Trying to find him would be like hunting for a needle in a haystack. We’re out of luck! “But the shipment's still coming. We know the smuggling scheme is okay. However—” She paused. “How did that trial package come in, Otto?” He parted his lips to speak, pressed them together suddenly, and gave a taunting smile. “Never mind, Got in, didn't it? Mac had the license of the truck on him.'—that I don’t know. You got it of fa Mac?” “Well, listen, I did, but—” “What!” A new outburst came from Graber which lasted several min utes and necessitated another daring move o.n the part of the girl lest the pair murder each other. “Keep still!” she cried. “Put your guns up! We’ve got to get together on this or we’re all sunk! Otto, you know how the stuff's coming in: spring it!” He had refused before, but now, cagily, he growled: “Truck, of course. What did you think? But hell, if we haven’ tthe license numbers—. Them roads are lousy with trucks. And the stuff’s in a packin’ case, so how we gonna tell which is which if we don’t know the right truck? I’m through with you!” he yelled. “Both you bone- heads!” He slumped disgustedly into a chair. “But, Otto, you’ve got to agree to come in with us,” the girl persisted. “If we fight each other we’ll never get anywhere. Mac’s gone, but does that mean the whole thing goes up in smoke? A quarter million in snow that we ca'n double, triple our money on? Lefty made a mistake to kill Mac—” “Mistake!” The big stomached Gra ber hurled Quillen a look of unspeak able contempt. “That big baboon has maybe queered the whole works!” "Yeah, I made a mistake. But we ain’t lost the numbers for good. I’m ■willin ’to bury the hatchet if you are, Otto.” The gleam in Quillen’s eyes questioned this statement, as if he made it with reservations. Graber, a shrewd judge of character, maye have noted this light. But he concluded to go along with a pretense of trusting his confederate. “Damn you, Quillen, you let me handle this from now on! If I ever hear you did gyp me on that thirty grand worth. . .” He sucked breath. "I’ll put you under, see?” He added: “What about those num bers?” Lefty and the girl exchanged looks. “Uh, we got to getxit out of a fella. Soup and I had to step on it fast af ter we give Mac the works there on the boulevard. We dropped the paper. (Continued Next Week) COUNTY COUNCIL DECEMBER SESSION (Continued from Page Two) present money may he secured at a low rate of interest, but commodity prices are rising, and in a few years costs of making road improvements will be greatly increased. I am still of the opinion that the County should borrow a considerable sum of money —say $150,000—for road purposes. This, with the subsidy, would place an all-year surface on a considerable mileage of our county roads; rebuild several of our old bridges. It was moved by Reeves Grain and Bryan, that since Hydro has free per mission to place poles along roadways that the municipalities should n’ot be required to pay half the costs when boles have to be moved; that the On tario government be requested to re peal the Public Service Works on the Highways Act. Legislative Commit tee. *' H. L, Cumings, deputy minister of municipal affairs, addressed council for nearly three hours at the after noon session. In ail informal and highly informative maimer he discuss ed municipal government, financing and auditing. “Municipal auditing is as a rule rot ten/’ the speaker declared, are not 50 per cent, of them that are real audits in that they fail to show a picture in words and figures of the money being accounted for. Reeve Cardiff asked if it would be good business to employ a county auditor who had offered to audit var ious municipalities’ books at a special price, Mr. Cumming answered that it would, because he would have an ex* t>ert knowledge and would dovetail it with his county audit. Mr, Moore, also of the same de* partment, spoke briefly. Oft motion of Reeves Matheson and Archibald a vote of thanks to both Speakers was tendered. 'There 1 .wm 'WaRMRMnW"*MHRaa,WIMIR^ Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. • Established 1840, Risks taken on all classes of insur ance at reasonable rates, Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, 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 Fuoeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service Ambulance Service. ' Phones: Day 117, Night m f DR. R, L. STEWART PHYSICIAN Telephone 29. Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located at-the office of the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Phone 150 Wingham Thursday Session a lively discussion, Huron Council defeated a resolution that the Old Age Pensions Commission make monthly deduc tions from pensioners’ cheques and establish a burial fund. Reeve Sweitzer said Provincial Con stable McCoy had given him a list of acting constables. There has been a list of 75 officers in the county constabulary. Mr. McCoy advised getting back all equipment and re listing constables and re-issuing of badges, on approval of council. Reeve Scott read correspondence showing that the $6,50 in the McNall charges were paid under authority of Magistrate Makins, covering witness es’ and constables’ fees. Council endorsed a resolution of the Warden’s Committee requesting the provincial government to give careful consideration to the jack-rab bit menace which has assumed such alarming proportions within the lim its of Huron County. After some de bate the clause respecting the with drawal of $2 gun license was deleted, Council refused a grant of $25 to the East Huron Women’s Institute recommended by the executive com mittee, and endorsed the recommen dation of the committee that all grants be paid to libraries that have sent in the- necessary financial state ment. Lucknow Library Board’s re quest for a grant was refused because of no financial statement being sub mitted, After County asking Motions Eckert-Geiger—That we authorize our clerk to purchase a cabinet and register for use of stationery as we think this system would save the county money in the future, and that the departments be notified in the fut ure all stationery must be purchased by the clerk.—Carried. Feagan—J. H. Scott — That all township clerks re Old Age Pesions be O.K.’d by the reeve of their mun icipalities before being paid by the county clerk. Carried. Sweitzer-Matheson ' That council request the electors of the municipality of Brussels to return our present warden that council may re ceive ience. f-i.i R. the benefit of his past exper- Carried. Addresses Council. Deachman, M.P. for North gave a splendid informative on monetary matters and J. Huron, address problems arising front the depression at the afternoon session. A 'vote of thanks was moved by Reeve Bryans, and seconded by Reeve Davidson, was heartily endorsed and 'tendered the speaker by Reeve Bow* man. James Stirling, of Goderich town* ship, addressed council on the prob* lent of the apple maggot. He advised the cutting down of all hovvthornc frees as they are a breeding place for the pests. T. J, McLean, heading a deputation from the Town of Wingham, asked f i 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. J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone. Wingham Ontario It Will Pay You to Have Aft EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. j R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office — Morton Block. Telephone No. 66 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. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham A. R. & F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 300. Council to consider the possibility of recommending having a history of the county compiled and put in book form. Mr. McLean distributed papers con taining a history of the Town of Wingham of which he was the author. Reeve Davidson, of Wingham, also spoke on the subject. The Property Committee’s report was taken up clause by clause and council decided to take no further ac- tion in securing a suitably framed picture of ex-wardens as the size of the portrait 8x10 would be of po im portance on a wall as large as the county council chamber. Complaints of the registrar regard ing a change of caretaker for the Reg istry Office met with disapproval af ter Caretaker James had been heard, and a motion “to stand by” the care taker was endorsed as he was the em ployee of the county. Council concurred with the opinion of the County of Bruce, and J. R. Johnston, Sringford, re Farmers’ Cre ditors’ Arrangement Act; and with the resolution from the County of Hast ings petitioning the' government to amend the municipal act respecting persons who are not property owners qualifying for office, They endorsed the- resolution from the County of Perth re Farmers’ Cre' ditors’ Arrangement Act; (2) in res pect to the purchase and sale of an thracite coal. The resolution from the County of Elgin re the Department of Educa tion, was agreed to, also that regard ing tonnage on transport trucks. Council endorsed the recommenda tion that municipalities should not be required to pay half the costs when hydro and telephone poles have to be moved, that the Ontario Government be requested to repeal the Public Ser vice Works on the Highways Act. The Finance Committee’s report re commending that all fees for Old Age Pensions applications and mileage be paid, where clerks have sent in the proper mileage (one way), dorsed. The Education committee —That request of Huron Trustees and Ratepayers’ Association for grant be referred to the January session and that a representative of the association be asked to attend and give a report., ‘'We learn with regret that Dr. J. M. Field, School Inspector for East Huron, is retiring from duty and ask this County Council to place on re cord our appreciation of his long and faithful service to this county, This committee also wishes to ex* press thanks to the County Clerk for the pains he has taken to simplify the new regulations respecting school grants and make plain to the mem bers of committee the amounts pay* able by each municipality. The council members wore the :gpfests of Warden Bowman at a Ban* quet. To Quickly Ease Pains of Rheumatism “Aspirin”Tablets Dissolve Almost^ Instantly In 2 seconds by stop watch, an “Aspirin" tablet starts to disinte grate and go to work. Drop an “Aspirin" tab let into a glass of water. By the time it hits the bottom of the glass it is disintegrating. What happens in this glass . . . happens in your stomach. • Ask Your Doctor About “ASPIRIN” Any person who suffers from pains of rheumatism should know this: Two "ASPIRIN”.tablets, taken. . with a full glass of water, will usually ease even severe rheumatic; pains in a remarkably short time. Ask your doctor about this. H© will probably tell you there is noth ing better. For “Aspirin” tablets not only offer a potent- analgesic (pain reliever), but start going to> work almost instantly you take them. Note illustration of glass. Try this simple way. You’ll be surprised at how quickly pain cases. «“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 m the form of a. cross on every tablet. Demand and aspirinA LOOA FOR THE BAYEft CROSS was en- reported County Report of Criminal Audit Board by Reeve P. W. Scott “I am convinced from the experi* once I have had, that the fee system is wrong; these men would be better on straight salary/' said Reeve Peter W. Scott, chairman of the Criminal' ‘Audit Board at the -Friday ‘morning session aS he discussed the scale pay- ■ (Continued on Page Seven)