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The Washington times., 1927-05-11
8 WOMEN HELD
IN KILLING
BY international News aervice

DIV international News Service
CH1CAG May 11.Three
women were in custody ana another
was sought today IN connection
with the mysterious killing OF AT.
bert w. Valeel1a. former Cicero
police CHIEF, who died from the
effects OF severe beating.
Held were Miss Grace Woudrinlx,
rs, who said she was to have mar
.ried Valecka today: Mrs. Suzanne
Miller and Mrs. Anton Valintis.
Miss WOorick insisted ValecIxa
was beaten BY bandits April 27
when she. Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Valintis
and Mrs. Violet Bender were rid
ing with him near the city limits.
Discrepancies in the stories told
by the women resulted in their
arrest pending a thorough In.
IvostiKation-
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ORDERS refund
ON IRISH LOAN
BY INTERNATIONAL News Service

BY International News Service
B NEW YORK, May 11.-Subscribers
to bonds Of the Irish Republic,
will get what is left of the S..
100000 raised in this country. under
Ia decision handed down today BY
supreme Court Justice Curtis Al.
Peters.
/ The court dismissed the suit of
the Irish Free State for possession
of the money. holding the State had
failed to prove title to it.
The court ruled also that Eamonn
De Valera and Stephen O'Mara.
trustees Of the funds. were not en-.
titled to use the money for further
activities In furtherance of the
establishment Of an Irish republic.
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spring u t0urfnR time and ron can
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from. afhe Autexaebile Columns ~ The
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OF the city and then flew back to
the field. a distance OF, about ten
miles. He had not been expected
to arrive until about II o'clock.
Lindbergh said he had ideal con,
ditions in the air-flying by moon
light during the first part Of the
trip, and aided by tail wind dur
ing the last few hours OF the
journey.
The st. Louis air club Is finan-
cling the transcontinental and Allan
tic flight.
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Additional DestrOyers
Seek French AviatOrs

Eight additional destroyers OF the
coast guard rum fleet have been
sent out from New England ports
to search for Captains Nungesser
and Coli. missing transatlantic
flyers. it was announced at head
quarters today.
The cutter Mojave. with an air
plane aboard. is also out at sea.
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Government craft. which nosed
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The nonstop trip from San Deigo
was made in Il hours and 20 min.
utes, It was the first time such a
trip between these two points had
been negotiated and, Of course, is 4
record
Eindbergh surprised Officials at
the Iarnbert-St. Louis field. The
flyer went as far az the outskirts
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ASKS
TO SCI.
ruth
By JAMES /. K1LGALLEN

s.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. II,
May 11.Henry Judd Gray
wants to see his former sweet
heart Mrs. Ruth Brown sny.
Just once, 10 say good
by. /"
He made this plea to prison
guards who had told him Of
the collapse of Mrs. Snyder in
her cell.
Just Told the Truth
'I'm sorry she has taken the
verdict so hard" said Gray. Il
didn't tell my story on the stand
to make her suffer. / simply told
the truth, and / feel better. /
don't see why / can't see her just
once again"
May See Her
Prison officials said today that
Gray may be given a chance to see
Mrs. Snyder after they are sentenced
next Monday by Justice Townsend
Scudder to death in the electric
chair for the murder of Albert Sny-
der. This opportunity will come just
before they are driven in separate
automobiles to Sing Sing immedi-
.ately after sentence Is pronounced.
Not satisfied with Chief Deputy
Sheriff Henry Massa's promise, Judd
repeated his plea to Undersheriff
William Desmond, who visited him
in the Jail for the purpose of arrang-
ing to mail to Gray's mother some
of the clothes he wore on that last
II. to Long Island from Syracuse
the journey during which he broke
down and confessed he was the muir.
derer of Albert Snyder.
Later Desmond said: HE wants
to see Mrs. Snyder. He's anxious TO
say good-by, and to tell her that he
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Removal Of Veterans
Official Is Proposed

z Removal of G. ID lIbbard as
regional manager Of the Veterans
Bureau at st. Paul was urged today
~ Representative Mas (R.l. Of
Minnesota.
Maas laid before President Cool
isIge charges against Hubbard by the
American Legion and Disabled
American Veterans OF Ramsey
county. Minnesota.
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Flier Sets San Diego
To st. Louis Record

ST. LOUIS, May 11.Capt Charles a. Lindbergh, former
air mail pilot flying in his plane the Spirit of ST. Louis with
which he hopes to hop the Atlantic arrived at 90
today the Lambert flying field on his nonstop flight
from San Diego ID
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where he was. But he was a badly worried Peter. What had old Man Coyote dined on? What was that good meal he had just had? Could it be that he had caught little Mrs. Peter? Peter felt as if he must go on right away, but he knew it wouldn't be safe 10 do so for the present.
 When at length Peter did dare go on there was no trace of little Mrs. Peer. He had lost her again. He didn't know now in which direction sine had gone, And il was all because he had been so needless.
 Tt serves ne right said Peter 10 himself Tt does so. l haven't the least idea in which direction to look There are many things l don't understand. She must h@ve gone off with that strange rabbit; yet she seems to have left him now, She didn't look the least bit jeaious. Perhaps if l h&ng around that bramlly-tanplo where those two strangers a.r she will come back th,rc. [ believe that is what I'll do."
 So Peter turned back, but in go- ing b3cE you may be sure he was no longer needless. He had learn cd his lesson. He had no idea of furnishing OM Man Coyote, or any body cleo, with dinner.
 Copyright 1927, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: Peter is I'orlorn and luhappy.'
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skin in its relationship to questions of race and health, Prof. H. J. Fleure of the University college Of Wales points out that the darker colorings of the skin occur where the suns rays are most powerful, but that it is impossible to classify races of men on this point alone because migration, conquest. and other factors have modified this point as well.
 He believes that the earliest types of men had brown skins. the pigment being developed soon after birth as resultant action of the skin to the influence of light. Tn" earliest forms of men also hal hairy skins and indeed the new born baby of today is likely to be covered with a slightly downy coat
 In Africans the hair on the skin disappears rapidly and there is li;- tie of if, such skin permitting more rapid evaporation of heat than one which is covered with hair. Indeed the whole Negro organism as pointed out by Prof. Picture. seems to be specialized 10 secure inc maximum amount Of emission Of heat, and this is particularly tH, case in regions Of moist heat and cloud.
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Dry Heat, Brown COlorin2

Where the heat is of the dry type. there is tendency toward brown coloring. It is likely that tn. earliest men had augmented skins. since theories have been developed 10 account for the Representation of later types:
 Part of this resulted from travel into districts of lessened heat. An additional factor suggested by one observer is the fact that persons who travel north would change 10 a diet containing q considerab ble amount Of salt and salted foods, and that this had to do also with the disappearance of augmentation of the skin.
 In his discussion Of the subject. Prof. Fleure points out that the fairest skinned Europeans have a high power Of heat evaporation ana an activity or body and mind that is more suited to rural than to town conditions.
 This type is free from serious tu- berculOSis when it remains in the country, but is prone 10 the disease when depressed into industrial con- ditions. The character of the skin and hair is itsolf an indication of the general constitution.
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Loves EnnberS Revelations of Wife" Adele Garrison"s Absorbing Sequel To
 -Repinnino a New Serial--

to put in an appearance on Sunday morning. II Mary happened to be in a deyout mood, he escorted her to church, if not they drove or walked. or in rainy weather sat on the veranda, And, Of course, he in- evitably stayed 10 dinner. But on sunday he Was not in evidence.
 It was Dicky who, with aNSine ohtusencss, voiced the question which each woman at the table was asking herself but which considcra- ton for Mary forbade her uttering.
 "Whats happened to your Shad- ow. Nlry2"hor uncle asked. Man and hoy I've been at this dinner table for sixty odd years. and never has Noel failed to slide himself into the chair next to you. Has Papa slapped him on the wrist and told him hes too young to he squirting the gals around ?'
 I shot a quick furtive glance at Lillian, wondering if she realized as 1 did how near 10 the probable truth Dcky had come with lis bur lrsque comment. l expected her to interpolate some nonsense of her own in order 10 save Mary the en- barrassment Of q reply, but the young girl once more proved her histrionic power in the apparently carefree laugh she managed.
 "Oh. Uncle Dicky." she gurglo1 you are so funny. For I imagine that's just what dear old Papa Yer itzen is doing. He doesn't approve of romance for his only son. I fan cy. But I'm sort Of glad. Nool's good egg. but not hard enough boiled. I like the minute ones. And he was getting on my nerves q bit. But I shall miss him around the house. I've gotten sort of used to him."
 Tn other words he's like an old footstool that you get tired of kick ing out of the way, eh, Nary" her uncle inquired.
 Exactly" Mary returned, laUgl>- ing as sho spoke. But she could not hide the shadows in her eyes.
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with only the exception of the holsters flap-is thickly coated with dust. The flap is compara- lively clean, showing It has been opened recently. Not conclu- sive, of course; but you're so par tial 10 clues. Markham"
 He carefully removed the pistol from the holster.
 Note. also, that the gun itself is innocent of dust. It has been re- gently cleaned, l surmise.'
 His next act was to insert cor ner of his handkerchief into the barrel. Then. withdrawing il, he held it up.
 You See-eh, what? Even the inside of the barrel is immaculate. And I'll wager all my Cezannes against an LIB. degree, that there isn't a cartridge miss ine.'
 (TO BE CONTINCED)
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Your Health How To Keep It.
 Causes of Illness
B, DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Unqucstionab bly the human skin from an earlier day 10 the present. Apparently all races of man have developed from a common ancestry, the diverse types being the result of adaptations to different environ- ments in the course of thousands of years.
 It is interesting to know that th" length Of prenatal life in man Hnd in the higher apes is approximately ESQ days. whereas in the lower apes it is 200 days. Anthropologisis are inclined to believe that the 60 days difference is required for th.. growth of the brain and head ot man, which are the parts of man that differentiate him from the low CT animals.
 In the development of man from a lower stage 10 his present form he changed his dict, The eating Of neshy foods provides larger and more rapid supply of heat than did the foods which man formerly ate.
 Evaporation Of Heat One of the functions of the skin is to permit the evaporation Of heat from the body so as to secure q constant temperature within. A strong active man in a cool climate may emit 3.200 calories of heat per day, whereas the man in sedentary life under tropical conditions will emit only 800 calories of heat. In a consideration of the rela- tionship of the character of the
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Menus for he Family
RN NiNii... N.tEN

Brtaktas,-Grapcs, cereal cream, poachad eggs on graham toast, milk, coffee.
 Lunchcon-Ba Baked cabbage with bacon, Boeton brown bread. cran- berry and prune pic, milk, tea.
 Dlnucr-Boiled shoulder Of lamb, baked squash, crcamed carrots, stuffed green pepper salad, fruit in lemon jelly with whipped cream, hot water sponge cake, milk, coffee.
 Boston brown bread is sure to be popular in the school lunch box or on the afternoon tea-tahle. The fol- lowing recipe has the merit of be- ing delicious without using eggs:
 Boston Brown Bread
 One cup rye meal, 1 cup corn meal. l cup graham flour, tea spoon salt, tablespoons brown sugar, ? 1-2 teaspoons soda, 3-4 cup molasscs, l cup sour milk.
 Mix all the dry ingredients eX- copt the soda, Add molasses and one and oue-half cups sour milk, Dis solve soda in remaining sour milk and add at once to mixture. Beat thoroughly and turn into a buttered mold. Cover and steam three hours.
 Do not fill the mold or molds more than two-thirds full and fast on cover securely. Otherwise when the bread rises in the steaming it will force the cover off. Pound bak- ing powder cans make acceptable molds if the regular melon or round bread molds are not at hand.
 Copyright, 1927, NEA Service,
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NOW BEGIN THE STORY
CHAPTER I.IN

When the boy had left us, Vance turned a pleading gaze upon Mark ham.
 "Now. old man, for the protection Of society, and the higher demands of justice. and the greatest good foriha greatest number, and pro bono pubIico, and that sort Of thing you must once more adopt a course Of conduct contr'ry to your innate promptingS or whatever th" phrase you used. Nulgarly put. want 10 snoop through the Majore apartment at onrc.'
 What for?" Markham's tone WAS on" of exclamatory protest. Have yolh completely lost your sense :? There's no getting round the boys testimony. l may be weak minded but l know when witness like that is telling the truth
 Certainly. he's telling the truth. :" agreed Vance sercnely. "Thats just why I want 10 go up.-Come, my Markham. There's no danger of the Major returning en surprise at this hour. And"-hc smiled caiolingly - you promised mo every assistance, don't y know"
 Markham was vehement in his remonstrances, but Vance was equally vehement in his insistenco: : and few minutes later we were. trospassing, by means of a pass-k"y, in Major Bcnson'G apartment.
 The only entrance was a door leading from public hall into q narrow passa geway which extended straight ahead into the living room at the rear. On inc right of this pasS9 gcway. near the entrance. was q door opening into the bedroom.
 Vance walked directly back into the living room. On the right hand wall was a fireplace and a mantcl on which sat an old-fashioncd ma hoTany clock.
 Near the mantcl in the far corner. stood a small table containing a eil- yer ice-water service consisting Of q pitcher and six goblets
 'Thero is our very convenient clock said Vance. And there is thc pitcher in which the boy put the ict-imitation Sheffield plate"
 Going 10 the window he glanced down into the paved rear court o5 or 30 feet below.
 "Thc Major certainly couldn', i have escaped through the window,' ! he remarked.
 He turned and stood a moment 1 looking into the passagewaE. "The boy could easily have eeer . the light go out in the bedroom, i the door was open. The reflection
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CHARACTERS OF THE STORY

PHILO VANCE
 JOHN FIX. MARKHAM ........................
 ............ District Attorney of New York County ALVIN f1 bf1NoON
 Wel-known Wall Street broker and man-about- town,
 who mysterously murdered in his home MAJOR ANTHONY BENSON N....................
 EXPERIMENTATION. Brother of the murdered man MRS. ANNA PLATZ ..... Housekeeper for Alvin Benson MuR1EL ST. CLAIR ................. A young singer CAPTAIN PHILIP PEACOCK -. Miss St. Glars fiance LEANDER PFYFE ...... Intimate of Alvin Bensons MRS PAULA BANNING . A friend of Pfyfes El1olE HUFFMAN ...... ........... ...............
 ...... Secretary of the firm of Benson and Benson COLONEL BIGSBY OSTRANDER retired army officer WILLIAM H. MORIARTY ............... An alderman GEORGE C. STITT .........................
 :. Of the firm of Sttt and McCoy public accountants MAURICE DlNWIDDIE .... Assistant District Attorney ERNEST HEATH .... Sergeant of the Homicide Bureau BURKE, SNITkIN, EMERY .....................
 ......,......... Detectives of the Homicide Bureau BEN HANLON .....:...;.:...:.. Commanding Officer
 of Detectives assigned to District Attorneys office PHELPS, TRACY, SPRINGER HIGGlNBOTEAM
 Detectives assigned to District Attorneys office CAPTAIN CARL HAGEDORN Firearms expert DI' OOfI.Moo ........ ......... Medlcal EHamner FRANK SWACkER ..... Secretary to District Attorney CURRlE Vance's valet 5. $. VAN DINE .....................T The Narrator
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MURDER CASE
) CHARLES sCRIBNEPS SoES

| Platz.'
 "Ah, but I've not finished.' Vance stood up. T have hopes Of finding the weapon, don't y know" Markham now studied him with amused incredulity. That. of course, would be a con- tributory factor. You really expect 10 lind it?'
 "Without the slightest iff'culty," Vance pleasantly assured him.
 He went to the Chiffonier and Legan opening the drawers.
 "Our absent host didn't leave the pist stol-at Alvins house; and he was tar too Canny to throw it away, Being a major in the late war, he'd be expected 10 have such a weapon: in fact, several persons may actu'l ly have known he possessed one.
 And if he is innocent-as he fully expects us to assumc-why shouldn't it be in it's usual place? It's absence, q ye see, would be more incriminatin' than it's pres cncp.
 Also, there's q most int'rcstin' psychological factor involved. An innocent person who was afraid Of being thought guilty, would have hidden il, or thrown it away-lille Captain Leacock. for example. But guilty man. wishing to create an appearance of innocence, would have put it back exactly where it was before the shooting." He was still searching through tho chiffoner,
 our only problem, then. is 10 discover the customary abiding 1 place of the Majors gun. . . Its not horo in the chiffonior," he added. closing the last drawer. ! He opened a kit-bas standing at the foot Of the bed, and riflod it's contents.
 Nor here" hn murmurcd indif- forently, "Thc clo;hcs-closct is the only other likely place."
 Going across the room. he opened the closet door. Unhurriedly he switched on the light. There, on an upper shelf. in plain view. lay
 an army belt with a bulging holster.
 Vance lifted if with extreme , dolcacy and placed it on the bed near the window.
 "Thoro you are. oll chap" ho ! cho"rfully announced. bending over , it closely. "PloHsc take particular note that the entire belt and holster
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passage would have been quite bril- liant
 Then retracins his steps, hc en- tered the bedroom. It contained q small canopiod bed facing the door and beside it stood a night-tablc on which was an electric lamp.
 Sitting down on the edge Of the bed, he looked about him. and turned the lamp on and off by tfe socket chain. Presently he fixed his eyes on Markham.
 You see how the Major got out with out the boys knowing itch, what"'
 By lcviration. I suppose" sub mittod Markham.
 Tt amounted to that. at any rate.' replied Vance. "Dcuced in gcnious, too. Listen, Mark ham: --- At half past twelve the Major rang for cracked ice. The boy brought it. and when he en- tered he looked in through the door, which was open, and saw thu Major in bed.
 "The Major told him 10 put the ice in the pitcher in the living room. The boy walked on down the passage and across the living room to the table in the corner. The Major then called to him 10 learn the time by tho clock on the mantel. The boy looked: it was half past twelve.
 "The Major replied that he was not 10 t.a disturbed again. said goodnight. turned off this light on this night-table, jumped out Of bed he was dressed. of courao-an1 stepped quickly out in 10 inc public hall before the boy had time to empty the ice and return to the pas sage.
 "The Major ran down the stairs and was in the street before the elc- vator descended. The boy. when he passed the bedroom door on his way out. could not have seen whcth- er the Major was still in bed or not, even if he looked in. for the room was then in darkncSs.-Clcver, what?"
 "The thing would have been pos siblo. of course,' conceded Mark 1 ham. "But your spacious imagin- i inGS fail to account for his return" ! That was the simplest part of the scheme. He nrob'bly waited in i the doorway across the street for 1 some other tenant 10 go in. The . boy said a Mr. Montagu returned about 2:30. Then the Major slipped in when he knew the elevator had asccndcd. and walked up the stairs.'
 Markham, smiling patiently, said nothing
 You perceived" continued Vance. ''Thc pains taken by the Ma icr to establish the date and the hour, and 10 impress them on the boys mind ! Poor adacho-unlucky day. Why unluckyo The thirteenth. to be sure. But lucky for the boy. 4 handful of moncy-all silver Singu- lar way of tipping, what" But a dol lar bill might have been forgotten" :" A shadow cloudcd Markham $ facc. but his voice was as indul- ! gently impersonal as ever.
 T prefer your case against Mrs
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THIS HAS HAPPENED

After preventing the arrest Of several suspected persons. Vance promises 10 solve the mystery on a certain date. He works up hypo- thotical cases against all those per shreds-to prepare Markham to ac- cept his case against the real mur- dercr. He takes Markham 10 Major Renson's apartment to check up on the Majors alibi.
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Dtcky Teases Mary Harrison About
 Young NcritZcn

The rest of that Sunday the first of Dicky's visits to The Larches for the purpose Of sketching Eleanor Lincoln, passed quietly and unevent- fully. Worn out by the emotional storm which I had just experienced and knowing that Junior was safe in kathcrine's care. l pleaded q headache which was, indeed, no subtertusc, and passed the morning in bed. appearing only in time for the early afternoon Sunday dinner which is always a feature ot our household routine, and which gives Katie a chance for the rest Of the day 70 herself, as We always make an impromptu picnic Of sunday nights supper.
 I should have liked 10 keep to my room all day Lut l was too proud to let picky perceive my real feel ing toward his horseback ride with Eleanor Lincoln and his sketching of her. By h. time We met al din- ner, l had banished every trach Of 
 on our old footing of scrupulous un- emotional civilIty.
 That he was piqued and puzzled, saw and guessed that he had eX- pectad I would be sulky or at least low-spiritcd, 5 But l eXertcd myself to the last ounce of my resolution to join in the gay talk and laughter with which Lillian and Marion ex- hilarated by their home coming and relief from work and study, set the conversational pace for the rest of the table.
 There is a telepa,hy Of misery however. and I soon realized that another person sat the table was in dulging in an orgie of self introspec- ton. One look at the shadowed eyes In Mary Harrison's piquant lovely face told me that she was keenly disappointed by Noel's defec- ton. Never during his sojourn at the Ticer farmhouse had he failed