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The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Look This Over.

The Boys and Girls Herald are
written In pencil and not ON plain
white paper, II In impossible to
publish them, as most pencil
writing In not distinct and the
engraver Of The Washington
Herald cannot adequately make
n print duplicate Of pencil draw
ings.
All contributions should be
written on plain white paper In
ink, with the name, aEe and the
school of the writer inelosed.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Deductions ofHarveyH Hunt
By Philip Francis Nowlan.

Jerry Huffnagle, employed as
q private detective guardian for
DIR. wainer, was charged with
the latter's murder when they
found the doctor stabbed with
butcher knife In his studio.
HuRnagie had been In the VAIN
er house and when he investi-
gated the scream which accom-
panied wainer's death he found
no ono I'm the house but himself
and the dead man. He had been
seated downstairs opposite the
only entry and swore NO one
had entered.
But Harvey Hunt questioned
him and learned that HuHna-
giles attention had been attract
ed by q man who threw . ut on
the sidewalk . moment before
he keard the scream. Hunt thus
explained the entrance Of the
killer. But how did the killer
Escape from the houseg Read
his explanation below.
Xxx.
Killer" the murderer actually had
been in the room with his victim
at the moment Huffnagle started
up the stairs. As the latter rushed
into the study the killer slipped
through the communicating door
into the bedroom in front of the
study. He passed from this room
into the hall. and knowing that in
Huffnagle would, take
the shortest route into the bed
room. after pausipg a moment over
the body. that is, the communicat-
ing door. he slipped down the hall
and paused just before passing the
study door. The second he heard
Hunnagle move toward the front
door he dashed past this door and
down the stairs.
The killer had fhis ADVANTAGE.
that he could move as rapidly me
wished, while he figured. and cor
rectly. that, Huffnagle, naturally.
would be slower and more cautions
In going into the bedroom, where he
had reason to believe the murderer
stiil was. 1t was only a matter of
SECONDS out the seconds counted.
The police showed Huffnaele
photographs of a number of Seitz's
hand, with others mixed in to con-
fuse him. He picked the picture of
one Jake the Dip and Jake, to
save his own skin. turned States
evidence, naming Wagner Seitz him
self as the vanishing killer.
sss
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Cork Lord Mayor Laughs
At Deportation Order

PROVIDENCE, r, l.. March 2s.-
Lord Mayor O'Callaghan, Of Cork.
declares that he had no intention Of
going back to Ireland in the near
future, In accordance with the order
OF deportation issued some weeks
ago.
forgot all about Washington
and that matter long SINCE" O'Cal-
iaghan laughed, when asked about
his plans.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Marines Start Airplane
Mail Service In Haiti

The United States Marine Corps
has established airplane mail de-
livery on the islands of ,Stsiti and
Dominican Republic. 1t. Iwas an
nounced at The Navy department
yesterday.
In addition to this the lyers are
making nhotoe ranhfc .p Of tho
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Daily HardknOt.

The hardknot for you to unite
today is a well-known saying
about a dull boy and work and
play. Supply the missing letters
and you have the quotation:
A-L-O-K-N-N-P-A-M-K-S-A-K-
D-L-B-Y.
(Answer to yesterdays: Inch,
chin.)
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

personal call. Perhaps you'll get
two messages. One will be from
a man who'll admit having been
here tonight. He's your murderer.
The other message IL you get It,
Will be to tell you that he was
here"
Say, where do you get that
stuff?" Barnett asked incredulousiy.
How did Harvey Hunt Agure II
oat, and what were the two facts
upsettinE Barnett's theorys
The answer will appear tomorrow.
Copyright, 1871, By Public Ledger Co..
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Today's Great Person.
March 2s-Your Birthdnys

March So-hour bfftNonys
Oakley Curtis Chester. who
was governor Of the State Of
Maine during 1915 and 1915.
He was born in Portland, We'd
nesday, March %, 1855, and
was educated In the public
schools Of his home town. He
served as mayor of Portland
for four years, and II living
In the city Of his birth at the
present time.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
.Split-Second
Comments
On the News
BY ROBERT CULLEN

Why didn't DR.. Simons suggest
letting Austria pay It?
At that. it is much easier to be
good than to make good.
Every time Heinie says can't it
sounds suspiciously like won't"
These reprisals remind US that
man born in Ireland is of feud
days.
The annoying thing about super
ior people is that they frequently
are.
The typewriter is mightier than
the sword. This Is especially true
Of blondes.
One who boasts of his ancestors
counts himself their greatest
achievement.
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PRACTICALLY sPoILs
HIS WHOLE SUMMER

PRACTICALLY SPOILS
HIS WHOLE SUMNER
IL going to go hard with the
boys who attempt to sleep of a jag
in q strange automobile.
It Is going hard with those fell
lows who are chauffeurs or have a
fandness for autos. For when they
get under the influence of liquor
ahd md themselves in a strange car
the most natural thing they do is to
tinker with the car and try to
start IT,
sAceording TO the police that 1,
what James Montgomery did the
last time q bootlegger got the best
ot him.
He was found seated In an auto
down southwest by Policeman Nc.
Cormick. At that time. the police
man said. James was fiddling with
the switchboard and monkeying
with other jiggers on the instru-
,ment board.
sOf course James said he was
drink and tired and sat down in
tte> car to .est. He may have been
resting himself, but he certainly
was not resting. the car.
His excuse was as far from being
real as the liquor he had consumed,
That Is the way 1t struck Judge
McAahon. at least
Eour months in jail for Mr..
sso@tscmery.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

would appear on the nrst pages.
And that's that!
These are lean days for the stock
sslesmen In wall street. The in
vestor Is buying only the seasoned
securities and the fiy-by- night stock
salesman makes his big cleanup in
selling the stock of new companies
They are persistent boys. schooled
In clever deceptions. They find ways
Of getting a name Of a friend and
they secure an audience by present.
ing that name. And their tongue is
glib once they get in. They will
never take mo" for an answer and
rebuf seems to spur them TO
greater endeavors.
A subway pickpocket caught with
his hand in a strangers pocket told
the magistrate that the business of
lifting feathers" had suffered a
severe slump of late. Fat wallets
are not carried as they used to be-
why. Judge, yer Honor" he said.
i trailed a millionaire for FIVE days
and finally lifted his poke. He had
only a SO bill and a home brew
nHu you Gan no any lnluB
with a 81 bill. They're u1lucky
and dropped it in an ash cam"
Nitinski parslyzed and insane in
Austria! He was the peer of the
lesping faun dancers and gave aes-
thetic New York a real thrill. He
told his American friend Chalif.
New York's Russian teacher, that
his art required too much. It was
killing him. But why don't you
rest?" inquired Chalif. "Ah. when I
rest my limbs will wither." Min
ski made a fortune in a very few
years. Now he is said to be pennI-
less.
The New York subway is just 81
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

At the recent election in Andover.
Mass. out of LOO women who were
properly registered as voters, only
100 cast votes In the town election.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Nuts to Crack.

Why are sailors bad horsemen?
(Answer to yesterdays: why
Is a dog like a treeT-Because
they both produce a bark.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

Air navigation in peace and war
viii be the subject of a new ex-
tension course to be given at Co
ienbia University. beginning. Feb
rtary 2.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29
Can you solve this case Of
THE HIDDEN TRAIL

Harvey Hunt awaited the verdict
OF the medical examiner.
Finally the latter pulled the sheet
The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

The New York subway is just 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

ing the week in Kansas City with her
daughter, Mrs. QUAINT.
Early fall felt hats at Courtney's
Adv
Splendid values in summer hats.
All colors, sos Kansas Ave.-Adv.
Mr.. Duane B. Forgan is visiting his
mother, Mrs. c. B. Lyons, 373 To-
peka boulevard. Mr.. Forgan has been
doing electrical and radio work for
the government but will return to
New York September l. where he has
accepted a position with the CONNER
cial Cable company.
Mrs. Clay B. Shinn of Ottawa, who
has been visiting Mrs. Orie Mcdonald
in Garfield street. has gone to Holton
S. Graham. .
Prof. Harlow F. Dean has returned
from Lexington, Ky, where he has been
visiting Mrs. Deans mother, Mrs. w.
Robert Dabbs and sister, Miss Mildred
Dabbs.
Mrs E. S. Gresser and daughter,
Miss, Helen Gresser. have gone to
Manitou, Colo. for a months stay.
MI. and Mrs. D. NJ. Shannon and
Mrs. William Connors have left on a
motor trip to the Ozarks.
DR.. and Mrs. z. Claude Smith have
returned from a vacation spent in
Missouri.
Miss Berniece Fuller has gone to
Minneapolis, Mimi. where she will
join a party of friends who will camp
in northern Minnesota. She will re-
turn the first of next month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
HUNTS FOR Cash
Package Containing $4,000
MysteriOusly Vanished.
Parcel Received at Chicago
Held Block of Wood.

Charlotte, n. c., Aug. 2.-Express
company officials are trying to solve
the mystery of the disappearance of
$4,000 in cash said to have been
shipped by express on June %, last,
from Concord, N. c.. to Chicago by
CASTOR B. Means, according to state
ments by attorneys and express COM
pany representatives today.
Means has entered claim for the
the presence of witnesses and i'm
mediately wrapped and shipped by ex-
press to Roy d. Keehn, Chicago law
yer, who is attorney for Mrs. Mary
Melvin, Administrative of the estate of
her sister, the late Mrs. Maude A.
King. who was shot and killed near
Concord in August, 1917. Means's at
torney. ]. F. Newell. explained that the
money was a payment in connection
with the settlement of the King estate,
and represented earnings from deals in
raw rubber in which Mrs. King and
Means, as her business adviser, man.
aged prior to he- death.
When the package arrived in Chi
cago, according to Mr.. Keehn's re-
port to Means, it contained only a
block of wood in a wooden box. The
express agent at Concord said today
that on June %, Means shipped a
package thru the office there of the
Southeastern Express company valued
at $4,000. but said he knew nothing
of the contents of the package.
Means was acquitted in the fall of
1917 on a charge of murder in connec-
ton with the death of Mrs. King.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
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Looking Blackboard in Society
Columns of The State Journal



Mrs. Nellie McGregor entertained the
members of the Cosmos club at an enjoy
able porch party Thursday evening at her
home in West Fifth street. The guest of
honor was Mrs. b. A Mcfarland of st;
Joseph. who is a nonresident member of
the club.
Mr.. Charles Adams. Mr.. Tinkham veale
and Mr.. VIII Carpenter had charge of a
trolley party which given Thursday
evening. The party was chaperoned by
After riding over the main lines of the city
the crowd stopped down town for refresh
ments. The affair was enjoyed by the fol-
lowing young people: Miss Hazel Mulyane,
Miss Helen Hogeboom Miss Louise ALI
son, Miss Eva Smith, Miss Isabel Smith.
Edna Herbst. Miss Margaret Carney, Miss
Julia Wellhouse, Miss Julia Whitney. Miss
Alice willard, Miss Mildred Poindexter,
Miss Marjory Ilette, Miss Ethel Hindman.
Hadley, Miss ALA Martin. Mr.. Harry Stur-
gis. Mr.. Will Carpenter. Mr.. Dick Case,
Mr.. Sherlock Thompson. Mr.. Stacy Hadley,
Mr.. Amer Rowley. Mr.. Charles Adams Mr..
Earl Mcfarland. Mr.. Harry Fleishman, Mr..
Carl Trap, Mr-Will Collinson, Mr.. Leo
Conwell, Mr.. Roy Maxwell, Mr.. Jesse J.
Copeland, Mr.. Russell Frost. Mr.. Dan Glenn
ents and Mr.. Tinkham Veale.
Governor and Mrs S J. Crawford are
spending the day in Kansas City. From
there Mrs. Crawford will go to Chicago
and sail Saturday on the Manitou for
summer. Mr.. Crawford will go to Baxter
Springs for the summer.
Mr.. Frank Lagerstrom will leave Sat
urday. for Nanitou. His wife who has been
sister. Mrs. Harry Williams will accom-
pany him home.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams and chill
dren have gone to Cleveland, o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
Observation-Disclosures
Hard Highvhy No1D Satisfied
Tour from Topeka to Lawrence Results in Following
One Cracked Spring, One Broken Feed Pipe One Blow
Out, Every Bolt in Car Loose, and Nerves Worn Out.

workman had reached the car by
that time and you can imagine my
establishment when he said:
You'll have TO go back or take
the detour north. You cannot get
thru here. 1t is not finished"
We had Travelled thirteen and half
miles according to the speedometer.
Then the wifi remembered that some
one had told her that two miles of the
concrete leading into Big Springs had
just been finished and would not be
seasoned" and ready for traffic right
away. So we detoured.
Six Miles Per Hour.
It is just six and a quarter miles
on that detour. 1t is over hill and
dale, thru rocks and mud holes. Had
the old bus in low most of the way
when 1 was not holding on to every
brake 1 could catch hold of. Folks,
some of you may have gone either up
or down that big HILL north of
Baldwin-well there is one hill on the
detour north of Big Springs that is
worse than the Baldwin big Hill'' at
its worst. 1t took us a half hour to
make that six and a quarter miles.
When we pulled into Big Springs,
or rather on the eastern edge of it,
we pulled right onto some more of
that concrete pavement and breathed
a sigh of relief and optimistic con-
tentment- Our troubles were over
so we thought.
What ~. p. H." Means.
There was just four miles of that
concrete. Then we found ourselves in
the middle of a COW pasture with
nothing to indicate there would ever
be a. road there except the pretty
white bands about some posts. After
we had gone over two miles of this.
the wifi declared she knew what that
"U. P. H" on the white bands meant.
'Unspeakably Pfecipirous and Hilly."
And that was just what we found it
to be.
When we ct back on the old Cali
fornia road just two and a half miles
west of Lawrence we round we had to
detour again north of the Kanwaka
church. And of all detours that was
a prize. 1t took us six and a half
miles to go around that two and a
half miles of road, closed to the pub
lie while Douglas county is beginning
to actually lay some concrete.
When we finally pulled up in the
western part of Lawrence we took in
ventory. finding the following: One
feed pipe. one tire blown out, every
bolt in the car loose, two sets of
nerves worn to a fragile and two
minds firmly made up that the only
safe passage to Lawrence from To-
peka was north of the river
1t had taken US nearly three hours
to make the trip we had expected to
make in three-quarters of an hour.
They may have that two miles stretch
west of Big Springs opened up by to-
day. If so that is something to ceIe-
brate, but If not, what in are
they going to celebrate at Tecumseh?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

it trial have been very glad that
did, for now feel much stronger and do
all of my work. tell my friends when
they ask me what helped me, and they
think it must be grand medicine. And
it is. You can use this letter for tes-
timonial if you wish. - Mrs. HARRY A.
WILSON, R. F. D. 5, Clearfeld, Pa.
The experience and testimony of such
women as Mrs. Wilson prove beyond a
doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound will correct such trou-
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in trying Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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fort and happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
START BACK FIRE
Attorneys for "Black SOx" Bit
ter in Final Plea.
Jury To Get Case Within
Twenty-FOur Hours.
ALL WANT SPEEDY VERDICT
Gambling Declared To Be Life
of Baseball,
Players Averages Cited in Re-
futatiOn of Charge.
ALL WANT SPEEDY VERDICT

Chicago, Aug. Am appeal to
send the accused White Sox players
IN the 1919 worlds series scandal
back into organized baseball was
made today as counsel for the defense
drew near to the close of their argu-
nnent before Judge Hugo Friend.
Baseball magnates were scathingly
denounced as rank hypocrites' and
the trial of the former White Sox
players was termed an attempt Ito
whitewash" the American League by
Attorney James c. O'Brien of the de-
tense corps, who ended his plea this
morning.
As Attorney Benedict ]. Short took
up the argument, it was predicted the
case would be in the hands of the jury
either late today or early tomorrow
Charges Whitewash Attempt.
"'This prosecution has been fostered
and kept alive in desperate effort
TO whitewash the American League"
declared O'BPien. Ban johnson is
behind tit is part and parcel of
their (magnates) scheme to inject
the semblance of respectability into
a decaying pastime at any cost. me
same motive was responsible for the
selection of Judge Kenesaw Mountain
lands as baseball arbiter.
They mourn the gambling. Why,
gambling keeps the game alive! me
magnates are hypocrites. We are
charged with fooling the public. They
are masters at that art. Take the
talk about the lively ball. There has
been a protest from the fans and now
the magnates are considering taking
the life out of the lively ball to re-
tain what interest there is in the
game.
THE defendants in this case-the
playcrs-have been called fallen idols
of the diamond You men give them
the chance to get back into the lineup.
By your verdict give them the priVl-
lege of putting on their uniforms
again and going back to their old posi-
tions on the diamond. And as they
trot out on the field. listen to the roar
OF cheering and applause from the
grandstand and bleachers.
Averages Are Cited.
"They are here because they didn't
run away. Where are Arnold Roth
stein, Able Attell. Hal Chase and the
others we have heard so much about ::
"They say the games were thrown.
Look at tho fielding average of Chick
Gandil for the series. 1t was .9SS-
Yet Eddie Collins. a seasoned player,
had an average of but .963. And Jake
Daubert playing first for the oppo-
nents, had an average of.97T. In four
times at bat .Gandil got two hits"
Following the appeal Of Attorney
Short, Assistant States Attorney Cor
man was to make the closing arGu-
mont for the prosecution. It was con-
sldered likely that Judge Friend might
hold a sight session of court to speed
the end of the sensational trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
DROP IN CANDY PRICES
Decrease in Topeka of Between 25
and so Per Cent.

Candy prices have declined from rs
to SO per cent from what they were a
year ago in Topeka, according to local
dealers. In some cases it has been
even more than that. The descent has
been a gradual one. however. There
has been no sensational drop, for as
the wholesale price has gone down,
the Topeka candy dealers have given
in each instance a reduction to pa
irons.
In every grade of sweets from choc-
oIates to sugar candy the reduction
has been about the same. Some
brands of candy have not dropped as
quickly as others for the reason that
some candy manufa cturers bought
their years supply of sugar at time
before the price of sugar went down,
thinking that 1t was likely to go up
still more. AS a result they have had
to keep their prices above some Ct the
others who did not buy so heavily.
Prices in a number of cases equal
or better the pre-war rates. The candy
market will be affected by the price
of sugar if it keeps going up as it has
in the last two weeks, however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
'Je st AS ItWuz
Attic heayter''
BY II.

AT THE NOVELTY, there is nothing
on the bill whole lot out OF the ordinary,
Trip and Sells duo, which opens
bunch of siapstick patter, but it is the
new flip-flop stunts the boys pull as fin
started. kimball and Williams prove to
be two young steppers whose efforts are
on par with the best dancing teams that
have showed here.
Genevieve May and company occupy the
choice position on the bill. The act is
well dressed and works smoothly, but
there is no exceptional ability shown, tho
The dancing and songs are good. Frish,
Howard and Toolin have some new ones
in the line of comedy songs and get
away with them good. The boys can sing
and their harmony is great
Lillian Ziegler with her company of one
finish with an athletic act that is chiefly
posturings meant to show off what Lii
IA AT THE ORPHEUM. Douglas MacLean
reappears on the screen in another OF
those farce Goodies he has been filling OF
late with his grin and his teeth. He does
that smile gets tiresome. The best stuff
in the picture is that done by Victor
Potel That bird is simply great. just
this one and he'll be star in no time.
The story of Zone a Minute" is based
peal to popular fancy. OF course there Is
n girl in it but she does not do mueh.
It all concerns the young guy who, with
success out of an inherited drug business
in spite of THE Trust" and how he, in
addition to winning a million. gets the
girl and so forth and so forth
It's all improbable but 1t makes good
summer amusement, the viewer not being
required to think, only to laugh at the
ridiculous situations. There are a plenty
" AT II THE GRAND. 1.-The Lure of Egypt"
is supposed to be taken from the novel,
There Was a King in Egypt" but unless
there are two novels by that name, the
taking of the photodrama from it is
mere supposition. There's hardly n scene
ognize as having read in the book
1t is Inelodrama from start to finish
of the old Ten, twenty, thirty type.
The only difference being in that 1t is
played in an unusual setting with the
tomb of an ancient king the prize in
stead Of the papers giving possession TO
the old homestead" All the mystery, the
enchantment and the out of the ordinary
stuff which made the book fascinating
have been eliminated for some reason or
The best part of the program for the
first part of the week is the music
Prof. Hartley has arranged score that
holsters up the weak parts of the picture
and puts back in it some of the mystic
thrills the scenario writer cut out.
AT THE CRYSTAL. the quiet sounding
title 1.-THE Heart of Maryland. is by no
means descriptive of the picture, which is
teplete with thrills
The story is built around the Civil war
period. and is laid in the south. The Civil
war, with its consequent pitting of family
against family, brother against brother.
and the breaking M of most southern
sympathizers, has been the foundation OF
many stories. none of which are more
vivid or true to the conditions of the
times than is THE Heart of Maryland"