The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-24

drinks and furniture, say, anothe" five grand. That's something like $40. .000. God knows how much they will chisel outa us before they turn us loose. But me, I don't mind. It's worth whatever it costs. I did mt think any red hot living could teach me a good racket. And this ones a wow
 His calm analysis of the situa- tion as a business proposition ap- ; peal to her sense of humor and quickly restored her perspective.
 She had heard of notorious One shot Lucci, as had every other newspaper-reading inhabitant of the United States. Tales of the diabolical ferocity, his cold-blooded use of machine guns, bombs, air. planes and other frightful weapons of modern warfare, his brazen dis regard of life or man-made laws his complete domination of more than two-thirds of the entire crim- inal clement of the country, had been widely written up in the press. She. in common with millions of others, had imagined One-shot Lucci to be a modern edition of the wild west gunman of popular fiction.
 Instead, he reminded her of the prosperous fellows who owed her favorite fruit shop in New York. Int was only the expression of his eyes, chill as brown agate, and the hard set to his jaw that was mark edly different Yet these two fea- lures alone told her that he might be-that he was-all of those things delneated by the newspapers. His exceptional intelligence, combined with a total lack of moral sense, made him what he indubitably was. one of the most dangerous men in America.
 Well what do you see?" His crisp voice, with scarcely a trace of accent, challenged her.
 "Very little that I did not know" He accepted her thrust.
 T must find a cool spot" she said.
 She turned toward the door and had nearly reached the sanctuary of the darkened interior when his voice. cool and measured, came to her
 Next time anyone starts to make love to you, Nancy, tell him that I'll toss his heart out to the sharks"
 She wheeled around, her cour- age returning, determined to fight it ou. then and there. He had dis appeared. His steps could be heard slithering through the sawgrass around the corner of the porch. Not since the spy scares during the World War had there been any such a general feeling of distrust prevailing the country as that which followed the bold raids of the kidnapers in Chicago. Newspapers were filled with headlines reporting the latest vague pronouncements of the police, which, when analysed. revealed that the officials knew nothing and were at their wits end.
 Every airplane manufacturing plant in the United States was vis- tied by police who checked the name of each recent purchaser of an amphibian or flying boat. Work of checking up the results of such craft was proceeding apace, but. since aviators are notably migratory lot, months would be needed to complete the work.
 Attorneys representing the two Chicago millionaires, took the train for New York, with man who was reputedly the cleverest crim- inal lawyer in the United States who represented One-shot Lucci
 After very lengthy conference with the firm of Hammond, Smyth, Whittelsey, Van Ashforth and Ham, mond, the reward fund was in- creased to $15o,O00 for each per son rescued from captivity. Also $250,000 was offered to the person or persons causing the arrest and conviction of the Kidnapping band.
 An undenied rumor was pub lished in the press stating that q score of wealthy men had under written a huge fund to be used in retaining the services of the two largest private detective agencies in the country to work independ- ently of each other and of the po- lice
 On Saturday, the 18th, it was announced that demand had been made upon the friends and rela- tives of the Chicago victims for a board bill" of $100,000 each, to be placed in a rowboat anchored upon Lake Michigan exactly 12 miles east of the Great Lakes na-