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Zurich Herald, 1932-09-15, Page 2Nlurder at Bride By ANNE AUSTIN. SYNOPSIS. Investigating the murder of uanita Seim at a bridge .party, ' Bonnie" Dun- dee orders the replaying cf the "death band." Penny Crain, Karen Marshall a- 1 Carolyn Drake play the hand. Clive Ilamniand and his fiancee, Polly Beale, in the solarium at the ime of the murder, admit having lunch with Ralph Hammond. Judge Marshall says 'ie ns driven over by a lawyer friend. Drake walked over from .he Country Club. Dex- ter Sprague walked to the house from the bus. Janet Raymond. stationed on the front porch, came in with him, and they went to the dining room, where were Tracey Miles ant Lois Dunlap. muri.er ebecauseLLois hlad moaring rtwth wice for her. CHAPTER XV. For the first time during the tiif icult Interview Dundee was sure that Lydia Carr was lying. For a fraction of a second her sin;le eye wavered, the lid flickered, then came her harsh, flat denial: "I didn't see nobody." "I presume you. basemen:: room has a window looking out upon the back garden?" Dundee persisted. "Yes, it has, tut I didn't waste no time looking out of it," Lydia answer- ed grimly. "I was laying down, with an ice cap against my jaw." She had seen someone, Dundee told himself. But the truth would be ]:ander to extract from that stern, sear -twisted mouth, than the abscess- ed tooth had been. Finally, when her lone eye did not again waver under his steady gaze, he dismissed her, or rather, returned her to Captain Strawn's custody. "Well, Janet, I hope you're satis- fied!" Penny Crain said bitingly, as sh: dashed unashamed tears from her brown eyes. "If ever a maid was absolutely crazy about her mis- tress—" "Pm not satisfied !" Janet Raymond retorted furiously. "She's just the sort that would harbor a grudge for :ear, and then, all hope i up with dope—" "Stop it, Janet!" Lois Dunlap com- manded with a burtness that sat oddly upon her kind pleasant face. "Listen here Dundee," Tracey Miles broke in, almost humbly. "My wife is getting pretty anxious about the kiddies. The nurse quit on us yesterday, and—" "And my wife is worrying her- self sick over our boy—just three months old," Judge Marshall joined Ott,: potest t!Yna 4latorits*tibM tree, sir, having served on the bench myself, as you doubtless know, but—" "I'm all right, rear,y, Hugo," Karen Marshall faltered, laying a very white little hand against her elderly hus- band's cheek. "Please be patient a little longer," Dundee urged apologetically. After all, only one of these people could be guilty of Nita Selim's murder, and it was beastly to have to hold them like this.... But one was guilty! "You knew ;vats. Selim in New York, Sprague?" he asked, whirling suddenly upon the man with the Broadway stamp. "I met Nita Leigh, as I always heard her called, when I was assistant director in the Altamont Studios, out on Long Island," Sprague answered, his black eyes trying to meet Dundee's with an air of complete frankness. "Wonderful little girl, and a great dancer.... Screened damned well, too. I had hoped to give her a break some day, at something better than doubling for stars' legs. But it hap- pened that Nita, who never forgot even a casual friend, had a chance to give me a boost herself—a chance to show what I can really do with a camera." "I knew 'I'd seen your name some- where!" Dundee exclaimed. "So you're the man the Chamber o" Commerce is dickering with. , . Going to make an historical movie of the founding, growth and beauties of the City of Hamilton, aren't you?" "1f 'I get the contract, yes," Sprague answered with palpably assumed mod- esty, "My plans, naturally, call for a great deal of research work a large expenditure of money, a very careful selection of 'stars'-" "I see," Dundee interrupted. Then his tone changed, became slow and menacing in its terrible emphasis: "And you really couldn't Iet even a good • friend like Nita Selim upset those fine plans of yours, could you, Sprague?" Even as he put the sinister ques- tion, the detective was exulting to himself: "Light at last! Now I know why this Broadway bounder was re- ceived into an exclusive crowd like ' this! Every last female in the hunch hoped to be the star in Sprague's mo- tion picturel" "I don't know what you're driving tat, Dundee!" Sprague was on his feet, his black eyes blazing out cf a chalky face. "If you're accusing me of- "Of killing Nita Selfnm?" Dundee asked lasily. "Oh, no! Not—yet, Sprague! f was just remembering a Lather puzzling note of yours "1 hap- petted to read this afternoon.. That note was sent by special messenger to »reakaway Inn this noon, you, know. He had little interest for the sudden crumpling of Dexter Sprague into the chair from which he had risen. In- stead, as he drew the note from his coat pocket, Dundee's eyes swept around the room, noted the undis- guised relief on every ::ace, the almost g .owlish satisfaction with which that close-knit group of friends seized upon an outsider as the probable mur- derer of that other outsider whom they had rashly taken into their sac- red circle. Even Fenny Crain, thorny little stickler for fair play that she was, relaxed with a tremulous sigh. "You admit that this note, signed by what I take to be your 'pet name,' was written by yuur hand, Sprague?" Dundee asked matter-of-factly, as he extended the sheet of bluish note - taper. "I—no—yes, I wrote it," Sprague tapered. "But it doesn't mean a thing --not a damned thing! Just a little private matter between Nita and myself—" "Rather qeer wording for an unim- portant message, Sprague," Dundee interrupted. "Let me refresh your memory: 'Nita, my sweet,'" he began to read. slowly, "Forgive your bad boy for last night's row, but I must warn you again to watch your step. You've already gone too far. Of course I love you and understand, but— Be good, Baby, and you won't be sorry!— Dexy.' , . . Well, Sprague?" Sprague wiped his perspiring hands on his handkerchief. "I know it sounds —odd, under the circumstances," he admitted desperately, "but listen, Dundee, and I'll try to make that damned note as clear as possible to a man who doesn't know his Broadway.. Why, man, it isn't even a love letter! Everybody on Broadway talks and writes to each other like that, without meaning a thing! . As I told you, Nita Leigh, or Mrs. Selim, remember- ed some little kindnesses I had dohs her on the Altamont lot, when she got here to take up that Little Theatre work Mrs. Dunlap is interested in, and Back to the homely rhythms found that the Chamber of Commerce Of needle and washboard and broom, was interested in putting Hamilton Making whole and making fair, Grim Reminder of War And coaxing the crosspatch room. In the restoration of the territory in. Northern France left desolate by the German occupation a project has been evolved to leave some small 31was,,aa a. perpetual fin Ifei'i'ar's' of`"war,' Favorite Partner of Prince Mrs. Cecile Kraua who at Lido, Italy, recently monopolized the at- tention of the Prince of Wales at a dance and a morning swim. She is of Hungarian ancestry and lives in Turin. "Then," he continued, "I must con- clude that you are all lying or that Nita Selim was killed with a gun equipped with a Maxim silencer." Never was a detective more unpre- ;. ar •r'. for the effect of his words upon a group of possible suspects than was Special Investigator Dundee. ..-. (To be continued.) Retired New Tested Recipe pe Plum Jam and Jelly Both Make Delicious 'Foods For Spreads and Pudd.in s Plum jam used to be so difficult to make that it was left out of the Bet of 'good things stored in the -fruit cull, board, But now ---from a new tested recipe—a perfect plum Jam is easily madey. Antype of fully ripe plum may be used. Tart plums make an excellent filling for many of t'he pastry and bat- ter puddings used during the Winter. And as a supplement to a cottage cheese salad there is nothing more delicious than a small mound of plum jelly. The cottage cheese is unmould- ed on crisp lettuce leaves and a small mould of plum jelly placed, on the side of the salad plate. Ripe Plum Jam 4 cups (2 lbs.) crushed fruit, 1/2 cup {4 oz.) water, 71/2 cups (314 lbs.) sugar, lei cup bottled fruit pectin, Pit about 21/2 pounds fully ripe ,fruit. Do not peel. Cut into small pieces and crush thoroughly. Measure fruit, solidly packed, and water, into a large kettle. Stir until mixture boils, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Add sugar, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in fruit pectin. Skim, pour quickly. Seal hot jam at once with' hot paraffin. When cool, cover with another layer of paraffin and roll glass to spread paraffin on sides. This recipe •makes about 11 eight -ounce jars. Ripe Plum Jelly 4 cups (2 lbs.) juice, xz cup bottled fruit pectin, 71/2 cups (334 lbs.) sugar. Crush thoroughly 4 pounds fully ripe fruit. Do not peel or pit. Add 1 cup (8 oz.) water. Brng a boil, cover, and simmer: ten minutes. Place in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure sugar and juice into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest Are and at once add fruit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to• a full rolling boil and boil hard x/2 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Seal hot jelly at once with paraffin wax. Makes about 11 eight - ounce jars.—These recipes, applying only to Canadian conditions, have been checked by Canadian dietitians as well as by two Canadia i women editors. -- into the movies, in a big booster cam- paign. She wrote me and I thought it looked good enough to drop every- thing and come... Of course Nita and I got to be closer 'friends but I i5.3Ut No.•37'•—"32 "And what was the 'friendly' row about last night, Sprataae?" "There wasn't a row reaily," Spra- gue protested with desperate earnest- ness. "It was merely that. Nita insist- ed on my casting her for tee herjine of the movie—a thing I know would alienate the whole crowd that's been so kind to us—" "Why—since she was a profession- al actress? Dundee demanded. "Because she isn't a Hamilton girl, of course, and the Chamber of Com- merce wants the cast to be all local talent," Sprague answered, lapsing into the present tense. "And just what were you her against?" "I'd told her before to watch her step," Sprague went on more easily. "You see, Dundee, Nita Leigh is—was —a first class little vamp. And I could see she was playing her cards with the teen here"—he indicated four of Ham- ilton's most prominent Chamber of Commerce nrem.:ers with a wave of his hand—"to get them all so crazy about her that they'd vote for her as the star of the picture. I could see her point, all eight. It would have been a big chance for her to show how she could act.... Well, I could see it c as a dangerous business, and that the girls"—and he smiled jerkily at the tense women in the living room— "were getting pretty wrought up over the way Nita was behaving. All ex- cept Mrs. Dunlap," he added. "She didn't want to act in the picture, and Nita didn't make any headway at all with Peter Dunlap." "Thanks, Mr. Sprague," Lois Dun- lap drawled, with an amused quirk of her broad mouth. "Get abnle with the row, Sprague:" Dundee commanded impatiently. "As I said, it wasn't really a row. I just pleaded with Nita last night to smooth down the girls' rumnied feath- ers, and to make it clear to them that she didn't want the star part in. the picture any more than she wanted any other woman's husband or sweetheart. Just a friendly warning—"Spra- gue drew a deep breath, "And that's i all the note meant—absolutely!" "I see," Dundee said quietly, then : quoted: "Be good, )3aby, and you won't be sorry!'" "That meant, of course," Sprague I took hire up eagerly, "that I'd see she 1R C4e_.:so x.r. -L l got a real part in a regular movie,' � -an after I'd made my hit with the Ilam-, "I wonder why they speak of the Mort picture." sad sea waves?" "Very plausible, very plausible in- deed," Dundee refietee. "And yet--" "All of you have stated, separately and eollectively, that you heard leo shot fired in Nita Selim's bedroom this "Why's l3ob so sulky this morn -1 afternoon," said sharply. "Is that Ing?" 'Had a dud job last night. true?" , Spent three hours workiri:' open at He was answ 'red by weary nods or butcher's orate, thea found he• had sullen. affirmations. broken into the refrigerator'!" warning Into a smiling order, Suck were her mother's clays Su .:the t She had returned to their ways;` Finding in these old motions Something that clears the mind, Making smooth and making sweet, Like linen dried in the wind. It seems quiet without the clatter Of typists and adding machines, Sewing alone, and rocking slow, And thinking on ways and means. The chintz is faded; the needle- point And tapestry grow bare On the round footstool and the sofa And the sagging easy -chair. These have weathered the human turmoil, Though the generation That chose them. It is How tables and chairs is gone strange live on. When all who were gay and tender, Or passionate and bold, Have vanished into the silence, And become a tale that is told. MYLA J. CLOSSER. Bonny Andy MacDonald lived alone in a wooden cabin he had built with his own hands on the banks of a salmon river in the Highlands. He claimed to have made most of the record fish catches in that vicinity, and kept a record book in which visit- ors could read thrilling descriptions of wonderful catches, together with their dates and weights, During the summer a young married couple from London were occupying a small bungalow near Andy's cabin. A baby was born to them, and the only scales the proud father could obtain for weghing the new arrival were those on which Andy had weighed all the big fish he had caught. The baby turned the scales at twenty-five pounds. not of German devastation. The French Government has final- ly decided to let the plateau of Douaumont, near Verdun, become a national monument in this respect. Of this plateau about 5,000 acres have been so consecrated and will be main- tained in the desolate state in which the end of the war left them. However, there can hardly he any reminder of German destructiveness in preserving this territory, as a re- minder of the horrors of war. For the Germans had little to do with the destruction of the villages and hamlets which originally studded the region. The ground had been careful- ly prepared for their advent; first by Sarrall, who commanded the Verdun front at the time of the first battle of the Marne, in September, 1914, and then by Petain, who commanded it in the spring of 1910. Peter (saying his prayers). "And please make Cyril give up throwing stones at me. By the way, I've men- tioned this before." At Lowest Price •in 15 Years • TSA "Fresh from the Gardens" Photography By Air For Mapping Purposes! Rapid Development of New Method of Mapping Reported by Topographical Survey, Department of the Interior Ottawa It is just ten years since the new method of mapping by means of aerial photographs was commenced in Canada, but the progress made has been almost unbelievably rapid. In 1922 the Topographical Survey, De- partment o-partment of the Interior, arranged wth the Royal Canadian Air Force to take aerial photographs over a few ex- perimental areas. .A. few rolls of oblique photographs were taken in northern Manitoba and a small area in Saskatchewan was photographed ver- tically. During that winter original plotting methods were worked out Arid the following year several areas were covered by oblique photography. With the experience gained in that season's work a quite extensive program was launched in 1924. From that year on- ward the work has steadily progress- ed. Each year has seen a deeper in- road into the practically unmarked ex- panses of our northern territory, while at the same time accurate maps were produced of those specal areas where important industrial or mining developments were taking place. Up to the present time a total area of 402,500 square miles has been cov- ered with aerial photography compris- ing 125,000 square miles by vertical photographs and 277,000 square miles by oblique photographs. Vertical photographs are used for mapping on fairly large scales or where the coun- try is rough or mountainous, while oblique photographs are especially well adapted for the exploratory map- ping of those extensive areas of forest and lake of fairly uniform elevation whioh constitute such a large propor- tion of Northern Canada. The photo- graphy has been done through a co- operative arrangement with the Royal Canadian Air Force. The Topographi- • Written. in Devonshire Here all the summer I could stay, For there's a Bishop's Teign, And King's Teign, And coomb at the clear Teign's head! Where, close by the stream, You may have your cream, And spread upon barley bread. There's Arch Brook, And -there's Larch Brook,— Both. turning many a mill; And cooling the clrouth. Of the salmon's mouth, And fattening his silver gill, There's a wild wood, A mild hood, To the sheep on the lea a' the down; Where the golden furze„ Wth its green, thin spurs, Doth catch at the maiden's gown. —John Keats, in "Poems." Men Exceed Women There are 372,296 more men than women in Canada; according to the latest census figures of the Domin- ion, a recent bulletin points out. "I really don't know. I don't see i why they Should be sad when they 1 have no hotel bill to pay, cal Survey has been the central agency 'for the control of all the aeras photography required by the various Federal services. This control pro- vides for the issue of technical in- structions for the photographic opera- tions, the indexing and filing of all photographic prints, and the plotting and compilation of maps from the photographs. The methods used in platting, the mapping information from the photo- graphs have for the most part been developed in this country. In par- ticular the oblique method is known as the Canadian method and it has been adopted for use in other coun- tries where conditions are similar. This method, because of its low cost, flexibility and the small amount of ground surveys required, is very ap- plicable to much of Canada and by its use the geographical knowledge of northern Canada has been extended in the last ten years in a way that would have been quite impossible by former' ground methods. During that period forty map sheets on the scale of four miles to one inch, each covering an area of between 5,000 and 6,500 square miles, and three map sheets on the scale of eight miles to one inch, each covering an area of roughly four times that of a four -mile map, have been compiled from oblique photographs and published. These maps are units of the National Topo- graphic series which is designed to cover eventually the whole area of Canada. In the same time twenty-one sheets of the same series, compiled in whole or in part from vertical photo- graphs, have been published on the scales of one -mile or two-mile to the inch. In addition seven other map sheets compiled from vertical photo- graphs have been issued. "Tom has told me all the secrets of his past." "Mercy What did you think of them?" "I was awfully disappointed." He had dined very well and was doing bis best to fit his key into the lock, singing a happy song mean. while. After a time a head looked out of the window above. "Go away, you fool!" cried the man upstairs; "you're trying to get into the wrong house." "Pool yourself!" shouted the man below, indignantly. "You're looking out of the wrong window!" cep that dram clear. o e this easy way 1l'1 E BOOKLET: The Gil- iett'a Lye Booklet tells many ways to make all your cleaning easier. Gives complete instructions for soap making, for, tree spraying, disinfecting, and other uses on the farm. 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