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The Clinton News Record, 1941-11-27, Page 2PAGE 2 'ua1E CLINTON NEWS -RECORD gJr 'Jaled; Fes.Jr'�:aa;P;•;eeilii-eVe JJee •'.; r•°, eo'F:?F'oe . 'o'` ooaoa.=?etZepo a Jo i�.P.SIV:4'.J:J.S:n..*`.►.X53:,:,.6:e;Jr2J:J:J:P���B'I,`'6�aU..,•>a.;.�S'.P:a:,+°Ole:o°,n?J:.+'olJ:.+l..J.+`:F:J,.ed��9.v`;J.,J:nn.�s.a..... �f.++aQoa ..... ..a,+ CHAPTER III SYNOPSIS Harley Longstreet of Dewitt & Longstreet, brokers, invites friends to celebrate his engagement to Cherry The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated' THE NEW ERA TERMS OF S'UBSC'RIPTION 31.50 par year in advance, to Can adieu addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label: ADVERTISING RATES — Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subse- .inent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. 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Lessee inspected by the direobor ANAWiAN NATIONALAILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart front Clinton se fellows: Buffalo sad G.detiek Div. Going Fast, depart 6.43 amt. Going Deet, depart 3.00 pm. C,oing West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going West, depart 0.50 p.m. Lostdon-Clinton Going South sr. 2.16, lwn a .Oa p.ni. Browne, actress. On a Crosstown trol- ley Longstreet dies suddenly by pois- on scratched into his hand by a need- le -pierced cork. The party consists of Longstreet's partner DeWitt and his wife Fern and daughter Jeanne, her fiance Christopher Lord, Cherry's vaudeville friend Pollux, Ahearn, friend of DeWitt, Imperiale, middle- aged Latin, . and Michael Collins, brawny Lrishnran. At the carbarn Inspector Thumm examines . them. He is convinced the poisoned) cork enter- ed Longetreet's pocket after the party had boarded the trolley. Longstreet always read the evening paperon the trolley, Cherry Browne says, for the stock market news, especially about International Metals, That's why he had reached for his glasses. Suddenly hysterical, Cherry' rushes forward to DeWitt: "You did it," she shrieks. "You hated him!" Drury, retired Shakespearean actor, offers his aid to the police. He has solved other crimes for them before. "Longstreet in matters, •of routin was extremely methodical. Par ticulerlye" added DeWitt/ acidly "about the time he left the office Frankly, he wasn't much. interested in long hours or hard work; he lef most of the plugging to me. Ou main officers are downtown, but we've always made a habit of returning to our branch at Times Square efte Wall Street closing, and leave there for West Englewood. Longstreet gen erally quit the branch the same time every day, a little before six. He al- ways made the same train on the Jer- sey side. When I didn't stay late at the office, I often went back to West Englewood with him." "Let's be frank about this things Mr. DeWitt. You heard Miss Browne accuse you of killing Longstreet. Of course that's nonsense. But she said you hated him. Did you?" "I am innocent of my partner's murder, if that is what you mean by frankness." Thumm stared into DeWitt's clear ayes, then shrugged and turned to the rest of the party. "Everybody here will please meet me at the Times Square office of DeWitt & Longstree orrow at nine A.M., for further Wed as she sank back into the chair.' e of the Ther Jeanne tious. And one thing more. Nater you too? Threty you over for Mrs, -illy I'm sorry, but ' submrtt to a personal search. Duffy, I "Well—" s he WEIS studying the tiled get one of the matrons for the ladies floor,"yes." When Theme spoke again it was on The interview with Mrs. DeWitt was short and sterile, She coldly denied any relationship other than friendship' with Longstreet, She scoffed at the insinuation Longstreet had been attracted to Jeanne. Did she have any suspicions her husband was being blackmailed? "How silly!" Aside from eliciting the fact site and DeWitt hacll been married for six years, and that Jeanne was his daughter by a former marriage. side.,, DeWitt ,shook himself and left the room. "iE suppose he promised Mrs. DeWitt?" to marry you, too? Threw you "I'm not sure. Every once in a Thumm discovered nothing.. while Mr. Longstreet demanded large eums of money from Mr. DeWitt, 'personal loans' he'd say with a nasty e laugh, and he'd get them. In fact, - only a week ago he asked Mr. DeWitt , for a loan of twenty-five thousand • dollars. Mr. DeWitt was awfully mad; E )thou,Aht ilettdl leave! APenk t lexy . ," r "I shouldn't wonder," murmured Thumm. :1 • ii101 "They had quite a fuss, but he gave r in, as usual." "What did Longstreet do with all that dough? This office alone must have given him a big income." Thumm called Franklin Ahearn, but learned nothing except that he, an engineer and DeWitt were good neighbors. Next he called Cherry Browne. It was a completely altered: ac- tress who faced the Inspector. She 1 seemed to have recovered' her nat- ural gayety. Her face was carefully !made up; she was dressed in modish black. Her answers were decisive. She had met Longstreet at a ball five months before. He had "rushed" her for several months, and they had 'decided to announce their engage - Anna Platt's brown eyes flashed, (meet. She seemed childishly certain • "Mr. Longstreet could spend money he had left millions. She admitted faster than anyone you ever• saw. !that her accusation of the night be, He lived high played the races, the! fore had been prompted by hysteria. market—and lost nearly all the time. I "But Harley told me ever so often He cashed his bonds and real estate 'that DeWitt hated him," she added. securities long ago. I'll bet he hasn't I Christopher Lord stalked in. left a penny." Thuntm stood squarely before hien Thunnn drummed thoughtfully on i and they stared, eye for eye. Yes, the glass -topped desk, "Miss Platt, -,ord .said, he had, knocked Longstreet we're both grown people. Was there Idown and didn't regret it one bit. He anything between you and Long. 'had tendered his resignation to De - street," Witt, his immediate superior but De- Witt had plicated h She jumped up ttgrily. "What do nn, He had al- Its such a crowd as this, eleven i lowed the matter to drop because he Canadian editors may s'eenm rather !you mean! Just because you're a cop, liked DeWitt and so, if Longstreet do I have to. be insulted ,' repeated his offensive advances 1 would b scene to protect: had. planned: to go flying through the out THURS., NOV. 27, 1941 ACROss THE ATLANTIC IN A Great Progress Being REFUGEE E' G E S� I1 P Made At Centralia Airport This is the first of series of articles about conditions ht. Great. Britain and other parts of Earojre, written ex - elusively for' the weekly newspapers of Canada by Hugh Templin of the Fergus News -Record. • Somewhere in the Atlantic, between the Azores' and. Bermuda -What a strange place this is for the editor of a Canadian weekly newspaper to be in this latter past of October, 1941, after more than two years^ of war! And then you come to think of it, what a strange place for anyone to be, unless driven by dire necessity. Most of the other 140 people on board the U.S'. Steamship Excanthion are here because of necessity. They are fleeing because of necessity. They are fleeing from unhappy Europe, glad enough to get away in spite of perils that may )still be ahead. They are refugees, hoping for peace in the United States. The passenger Iist contains the nmtne. of a Prince related to one of the still -ruling royal fam- ilies. of Europe. There are such names as Gomez y Gomez, and Pastuhov, and Pin Tsao, and Rad'ajewski . There is a group of wholesome young people who have left the U.S. Embassy in Berlin while the going. is good, and several Chinese families, including some cute little children, being with- drawn from the Embassy in Switzeie land. There is a man from the British .diplomatic service, occupying a cabin all by himself because he carries con- fidential information to Washington, and there is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in civilian clothes, returning from a mission to Britain, There are two English women forced to leave France on 24 hours' notice. They have not tasted meat for two years because they fedi their entire ration, such as it was, to a Siamese cat that now accompanies them on the ship. There is a little French girl who ordered two poached eggs for breakfast her first morning on the boat and then could not eat them when they came, but sat and cried salt tears •over them because her appetite was gone. And another family from Unoccupied 'Prance ate nothing but potatoes for their first few meals. There is even a stately English woman who crawled out under barbed wire entanglements to get to Portugal and so on this chip. Editors on a. Refugee Ship or tr I Sit down, Sister, Thunnn ' �e questioning.grnt- a will be place, and truly, none of us ever expected to be on this ship, We . V .• - I have flown altogether some 9,000 utiles .by American Clipper, Royal Dutch. Aii' Lines and British Overseas Airways. 1 have visited' Bermuda, the Azores, ]i ngjlandi South Ireland and Portugal. I have talleed with Windom Churchill, many members of his Cabinet, Britain's greatest news- paper men, a former Canadian Prime Minister and the Canadian High Commissioner, the Canadian Corps Commander and: many of his officers and' soldiers, and a host of the "com- mon people" of England who have come through bombings, have lost their homes and their relatives., yet carry on in Britain hour of need. I have tasted the hospitality of great and small in England and have made new friends; there. There have been plenty of thrills. ' I have flown down the Bay of Biscay • in a seaplane with not a light show- ing and the hostile enemy coast not ; far away, I have stood on a roof -top in London with the fire -watchers and have seen the distant flaehes of anti- aircraft guns shooting at an enemy plane' approaching the city. I have been through a "blitz" myself have seen and heard and felt the explos- ions of huge enemy land mines and have come through the ordeal un- scathedi but knowing that if any one of a dozen things had been slightly different, I would not have been here at all. I have been at a bomber station and have talked to the boys who make the long trips over France and Germany to unload their cargoes of death, and I have seen the Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilots cone back to their airports after being Ian action. • England in Wartime I have heard Churchill. defend his actions on the floor of the House of Commons and have stood amid the ruins of Coventry Cathedral. I have walked in the London blackout and, in - the pleasant English countryside„ where every garden had its large, late roses. I have been trailed by the Ger- ; man gestapo in Lisbon and have seen a bullfight I have rid4'en on trains In buses, in cars, in• the underground, and have talked to friendly folk everywhere. These are the things I shall write. about in the series of stories which will appear in this newspaper during the next three months. Always pro- vided', of coarse, that the Exeambion does not meet an unfriendly submar- ine or bombing plane somewhere this side. of New York. no excep- 1"I supposed he promised to marry I air from Lisbon to New York, re defend her father with spirit, , i October flying conditions are mice' - Louis Imperials and his sleek, van- Item' We .seemed likely to wait it dyke turned back to Thenen, bowing Lisbon for weeps before our turn you'll all have to DeWu f?" here," yes. The procedure in the other room different natters. Ile learned that on 'A' The now repeated, with the same re- 'Friday 'afternoon, before Longstreet suit. + As Inspector Thunnn crossed themes apartment Colliad left the office ns rh henry dashed :ranch office of DeWitt & Longstreet had eashed in, on Saturday g Purple with rage, and accused him of . 1 morning, apparently ' double-crossing. DeWitt had been out ! business was being conducted in the at the time. Collins had demanded ' normal way. Thrum's men already , that Longstreet make good the fifty on the scene, interfered with nothing thousand' dollars Collin had lost Th umm Iooked then over without International Metals. Longstreet had011 i enthusiasm, then entered the Long.' pacified Collins by saying; "Don't' street sanctum, 'There he found, ner. worry, Mike. I'll see that DeWitt pulls volley perched on the edge of a chair, you through:" He had invited Collins 11 e weD-cushioned brunette Jeanne added nothing, except to , turning ass we had come. But in C K N X "YOUR BOMB STATION WEEKLY PROGRAM H'IGHLIG'HTS courteously. }Ie had been DeWitt's came to go on the Clipper. One weep good friend for four years now, hay- in that city got us down. Those who ing met hint in Europe, were not actually sick wore entirely "Mr, DeWitt has been most kind he said: "Each of the four times since then that I have come to your country on business for my firm, the Swiss Precision Instruments • Com- pany, I have been his guest for the duration of my stay." Collins followed, His answers were snappish, ill-humored, grudging. Thumm gripped his arm. "Now you isten to me! You said last night hat when you dashed up here you lidn't have any words with Long•- reet. I let it pass, but I'm not ac- cepting that explanation this morn. ing)" ing in a vaguely , good -look. to the engagement party, promising guely cheap way to speak to DeWitt there. "I suppose youure Longstreet's secretary?" said, Thumm. ! Inspector Tlruinan summoned De. es, sir. Anna Platt, I worked Witt' who was chalky but self-pos- 1 for Mr, Longstreet for four and a half sassed. Thumm said directly: "I'm years as a sort of confidential sec going to repeat a question 1 asked Y nary." re- Inc last Tright, and I insist on 1n "Tell me—how slid Longstreet d answer. Why diel!,ori hate your part- ge along? ner, "They didn't. They wore always i "I refuse to be bullied, Inspector squabbling, Mr. DeWitt always ob Thmnni, ' to Y v f DeWitt t „ and ?„ t1 st Collins shook himself savagely free of Thu.mm's grip, "Sheave cop, aren't you? What do you think I did—hiss- ed him? He ruined me!" unenthusiastic about any more Lisbon meals or climate or scenery. We were nervous after being trailed day after clay by members of the Getman ges- tapo who stayed in the same hotel as we did. When the chance came to leave by boat, we took it. One of the editors is from St. John, N.B. He loves the sea and boats and all things connected with them, •and he jumped at the chance to come by ship. All the rest of us would have proferred to travel by air. Those in Peril on the Sens P 920.kcs. WINGHAM 326 meters FRIDAY NOV. 28TH: 9 a.m. Voice of Memory 10.30 Salvation Army 8.15 p.m, Henderson's Old -Timers 10 Fight Broadcast SATURDAY, NOV, 29TH: 7.30 a.m. Rise and Shine 9 Horace Finch—organ 6.30 p.nm. Sport Interview 8 GKNX Barn Dance SUNDAY, NOV. 30TH; 11 a.m. Church Service 12.30 Jim Maxwell—news 6 p.m. Primo Scala's Band MONDAY, DEC. 1ST: 12 noon Farmers' Hour out • days before we left Lisbon, 2 pen. Variety Requests the papers of that city were all ex- 4 "At Hone with the Women" cited because a Por'tugese ship had 8.15 Eileen Bogie—piano been sunk by the Germans, appar- TUESDAY, DEC. 2ND: eptly because of tungsten .ore Oe '7.15 a.m. "Hymn Tigre" board, desbined 1o' the United States. 10 Jim Maxwell—news Two days later, their were mourning Thumm grinned. '`Had good cause the clettth of two British families sec a when• he thought ! „ to put hi'n't away, didn't you?" froth Portugal, r:'eturning to England g Mr. Long- I "Veit' well, said Thunrm, but until their shit was torpedoed off the street wrong, but always gave 1 p ally." a sin in- you re making the biggest mistake of "What wits Lon ' It:7 life . . . How did Mrs. DeWitt ward DeWitt?" bstreets attitude to - 'and Longstreet get along --good Anna Platt twisted her fingers,.Itriends were they?" "He knew Mr. DeWitt was the better "What the here!" are shouted DeWi?" business man and he didn't like it, So I The ins idevil you driving it he just bore down and' got things his easy. Were e to smiled; Take equal otvn way, even if it cost ?•• you and Longstreet equal money." the firm ' . artnet•s , Inspector Thuunm's eyes wandered up and down the girl's figure. "You're smart, Miss Platt, We're going to get along. Did DeWitt hate Long- street?" She lowered her eyes, "Yes, I think he did. I think I know wh "Yes" said DeWitt in a .smothered voice. "How long were you in business to- gether?" "Twelve years. "How didi you, two happen to team up?" its an open scandal that y, too. We made our fortunes in South street"— Mr. Long- America before the last war, Mining her voi°e hardened,—"had venture. We returned and continued been having an affair with Mrs. De- our affiliationin the brokerage busi- Witt. Pm sure Mr. DeWitt knew, ale nese." though I never heard him refer to "You've been successful?" it.", "Quite," "If Loongstreet llovedDeW. )row is he became engaged wife "Then why, if you were both sec - Browne ?" gaged to Mics cased and had fortunes to begin with, did Longstreet borrow' money 'Mr. Longstreet, didn't love anyone from You continually?" but himself. He had affairs all the I "This is ridiculous. I loaned him time, and I Suppose :Mrs. DeWitt money occasionally, but these were thought he was crazy about her and trivial suns—" no one else . . . A couple of months ago Iiongatioet made admlanees� to I entelW0ttiie said ,Timmnt,,: "Ypa'u:e Jeanne DeWitt fe this room and there lnn'g• You've been paying Longstreet Lord u argument, because Mr, a great deal of Money. You .prob- d saw what was hap- ably never expected to see your penin eked hint drown. When money again. p want to know why." Sent a in quickly and DeWitt sprang from the • chair, his was anaw.Fl name in an gand kno 'Witt ram they e Y. don't know what ;faCee pu?'PIFs e whiter "!You're xF happened later, but it seemed to be patched seeding your authority! This thing has 1 nothing to do with Longetreet's; sortDoyou o# hold; on Longstreet had scine'deaths DeWitt?" I "No melodramatios, Wait out. Collins broke into an ugly tangle "Smatter"S"Smatterand smarter! I suppose I had that cork full of needles all ready, waiting for the market to drop? Go back to a beat, Thunrm:" Thunrm merely said: "How is it De- Witt didn't know about Longstreet's tip to you?" "That's what I'd like to know," Isaid Collins. "What kind, of bucket shop is this, anyway? But Pll tell you one thing. This DeWitt is going to Imake good that bum steer or I'll know the reason why," "Collins, my lad, where'd you get all that dough to lose? Yon can't plunge fifty thousand en that measly salary' of yours," i"Mind your own business-! I'll ,break you for thin-." Thumm's large hand clamped en !Collins' omit. "Arid I'll break your heck if you don't keep a civil tongue in your ugly snug, Now get out of here, heel." Pollux was next and his lean face was, nervous, but bellicose. "I don't know a thing," he said. "You've got. nothing on me, or Cherry either. This Longstreet heel was known as the prize sucker of Broadway. The wise guys saw this coming. "Know Cherry well?" -"We're pals." "Do anything for her, wouldn't you?" "What do you mean?" ' "Just what 'I said. Beat it." (Tel BE CONTO'N,UED) coast. On the way to Lisbon, Chie same steamship Excanrbion was met by a German bombing phme which circled around it, mats -high, and then flew away again. On the day we sailed from Lisbon, news came that the Germans ]tad torpedoed the American destroyer Kearney. Two days out, an American freight boat was sunk in the Atlantic, straight south of where we were. This very morning, when we awoke, it was to see another ship• coming closer. As it drew near, we could see that it wasn't the mercher't vessel it pretended to be, but had business -like guns fore and aft. It had no flag nor gave any signal, but crossed our bows and, went on. Wr, all realized these dangers, but as the days passed and our boat continued on its way, the tension relaxed The restful, monotonous days on board ship gave us all time to recover from strenuous and exciting times over- seas. When the invitation came to me to go to England for a few weeks to represent the weekly papers of Can- ada, there were many who envied me because of that opportunity. If it is any comfort to theme now, I can say quite truthfully that there were times when 0 would gladly have traded places with any of them. Travel across the Atlantic; these days is something that should not be under- taken except from necessity. A'dventure Weeks But on the whole these have been. wonderful weeks. I have crossed' the Atlantic by'air, one of the most ro- mantic voyages in the world today. 5.45 p.m. Tartan of the Apes 8 "Captains of Industry" 9 R.A.F. Program ' WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3RD: .. , . . . 7.30 a.m. "Evei'ready Time" 1.45 p,ni. Music with Lawrence Welk "7.110 Lone Ranger 8.30 Clark Johnson's Old Timers ITIIURSDAY, DEC. 4TH: 10.30 a.m. Church of the Air 1 p.m. John Ilarcourt 8.15 Farm Talk 8.30 Cactus Mac "Five hundred men can slaughter a Iot of lumber in a day," said one of ' the men connected with the building of the new airport at Cen- trailia. This remark was made as we commented on the rapidity with which the new buildings ave taking shape at the $1,500,00 Service Flying Training School. It was the' latter part of August that the Armstrong Construction Company began the work of grading and, levelling the land for the new runways. It was the middle of September when Mr. W. F. Evans, of the Department of Nation- al Defence, and his staff, moved in to commence the overseeing of the new building operations. His head- quarters are situated in the farm home formerly occupied by Mr. Lloyd Hod- gson. This. is the third airport built on a solid and permanent foundation !with improvements that have been gained from experiecne. Red -roofed i•buildings with white asbestos shin- gles covering the out side are rising rapidly over fieldis that produced a crop this past season. The sea of mud that now surrounds the buildings will next summer be turned into lov- ely greenswards and will present a most attractive appearance. In spite of the fact that wet weather and seas of mud have delayed the operations, the foundations are in for six of the seven hangars and if the fine weather now prevailing lasts for a few days longer the foundations will be com- pleted for all of them, Mr. Kenneth Armstrong in the Saturday Supplement of the London Free Press says: "Forty large frame buildings are sprouting like mushrooms one mile west of Centralia, a small village 30 miles north of London. They are ris- ing on a level, 600 -acre tract where what turned out to be a fine crop. of sugar beets was planted last spring. Matured beets still jut from the g'mound where they have not been bur- ied by millions of feet of lumber, mud- dy roads or concrete building found- ations. To Centralia, which sufferer) when it was missed by No. 4 highway by a heart -breaking narrow margin, the development, which is of perman- ent nature, means new life. "Russell Construction Company Toronto, the eontractors, hope to have the flying school ready for occupation by February 1. To supply 600, "Day and night, seven days a week. the roar of truck motors, the buzzing of circular saws and the tap, tap, tap of hammers shatter the quiet mural atmosphere et Centralia. Reflection of flood lights can be seen for utiles at night as "owl" crews hasten the tvorlc of pouring concrete before the winter frost hardens the ground, "It is a race against time. If the foundations of six double hangars' and the remainder' of the structures are laid before winter sets in, the contest will be won. If not, the work will be delayed until next spring." ' Superintendent for the Russell Constructin Company is Mr. H. G. Walker, Offices of the company were put up September 13th and Mr, Walk- er expects to have the buildings com- pleted sometime it February. A goodly number of the forty buildings are now in various stages of construc- tion. During the past week roads have been gravelled, making trans- portation easier. Drains, waterworks and sewerage system are being in- stalled, Large 36 -inch, tile are being manufactured on the spot. Water mains are being laid and water will be supplied from a tower to be erec- ted, on the property, a good supply be- ing available. A central heating sys- tem will provide heat for all the buildings. Al the main entrance a )guard house is nearing completion and before long a fence is to be built to enclose the property. Work on the runways has been delayed by the }vet weather.--Etceter Advocate. 1 RESCUE LAUNCHES OF BRITAIN'S AIR FORCE These high-powered rescue launches of Britain's Royal Air Force, manned by R.A.F. salami, have a speed of over 35 knots. Day and night, through gales and heavy seas, they dash in search of airmen tossing in a rubber dinghy. 11:1r114,! i ' i Many airmen, friend' and foe alike, owe their lives to this service.