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at first, and drank the contents of
the glass on the table.
1t prickled through her veins and
made her for the moment intoler-
ably hot, but as the warmth waned
she felt better and stronger. She
was flinging on her clothes with
quick, nervous fingers when her
husband came back.
Linda"
Il couldn't help it. I had to be
doing something" But she sank
rather gratefully on the chaise
Tongue. "Oh. Tom, I'm awfully glad
you hurried back. I'm sorry I had
to be 50 mysterious, but you didn't
speak to any one of what 1 said, did
your"
THE undertakers' men are here.
had to see about them. I only
saw the others as 1 went through
the hail."
DO they know I'm all right
now?'
Il didn't speak of you. Parsons
said you were doing nicely. That
might mean anything"
Good! There's time then"
"Bpt Linda, I'm sorry, there isn't.
Not this moment, anyhow. The
undertaker's men are ready and
I've got to go over to Port 10 make
final arrangements.
We're taking the body to the
parlors there. We can't-Well,
frankly, Binks, Parsons said-in
this weather"
Linda shivered in spite of the
brooding heat of the new day.
Il see. Must you go with the
body?"
I'm afraid so. In fact, I should,
Binks. It's all we can do"
How long"
They're waiting for me now,
honey. Kathleen will come right
up-she won't leave you alone
1T isn't that. I didn't mean - in
fact, I'd rather oh, Tom, I'm
afraid Marvin and the rest will go
while you're away!"
"Linda-why Go you worry about
those men? They ought to go as
quickly as they can, but as I told
you, dear, there's no possible train
until H." His voice had the pa
tent tone used with an argumenta-
tive child.
II know. I'm sorry, Tom. I sup
pose there will still be time enough
but hurry back
"Of course 1 will darling. You
know that. Shall tell Kathleen
to come up now?"
She looked out over the quiet
lawn to the water, still, CLASSY, not
broken by ripple that might mean
hint of breeze. 1t had looked
that way as she stood at Cousin
Amos balcony door-and then
Again she shivered.
Eyes, perhaps. But warn her I
don't feel like talking. Perhaps I'll
try TOTO sleep little She saw
that that suggestion relieved him
and shivered again inwardly. Sleep,
indeedl Could she ever sleep
again?
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4 RI.1K
a DAY
~ BRUCE CATTQN

DOOTH HARRINGTON probably
Dwill be remembered for such
completely American books as "Pen-
rod" Seventeen" and 1.-The Gen
tleman From Indiana; but it is
worth bearing in mind that the
man can, when he sets himself to
it, write colorful, old-world novels
of romantic adventure about as well
as anyone alive, and his newest
book, "Wanton Mally," is proof of
it.
"Wanton Mally' is a story of
English gallants in the reign of
Charles II. There is an eXiled
F'renchman, beruffled dandy from
Versailles, one M. de Champvallon.
who sets out to amuse himself in
London and falls in with pair Of
roisterers who get him into such
jam that death on the gallows rises
as an immediate probability.
Then, to complicate matters, two
Quakers and their protector, flee
ing from the wrath of stern gov
eminent, cross his path; and not
Jeffrey Farnol, John Buchan or the
Baroness Orczy could have got
more suspense, more tense action
and more purely romantic excite
ment into the tale of the gay
Frenchman's escape from danger
than Mr.. Harrington provides.
Most romantic novels are peopled
by stuffed shirts; but Mr.. Tarking-
tons great skill at character draw
ing has not deserted him, and the
people in "Wanton Mally," for all
their powdered wigs and jangling
swords, are as real and as recog-
nizable as Penrod himself.
"Wanton Mally," in short, is fine
entertainment. Published by Dou-
bleday, Doran and Co., it retails
at 81.
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

TT was almost half past 10 by her
4 little clock when Linda's listen
ing ears heard the welcome spin of
gravel under the wheels of re-
turning car and she opened her
eyes to see her mother-in-law tip
toeing out of the room.
That's Toni" they both ex-
claimed, and the older woman
laughed a little.
you needn't worry, Lindyl she
said. He'll be up here as soon as
he can fly, and I'll go downstairs
to see if your guests need any help
in their final preparations"
When Tom appeared, as prompt
ly as his mother foretold, his wife
was sitting up, bright eyed and
looking astoniShingly untouched by
the recent disaster.
Nov, Linda what's on your
mind?"
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NOW co on WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Continued


She gulped, shut her eyes, and
resolutely opened them again. Muir
der-murderl There, she had said
st and faced it. Murder-in her
house and she the only one who
knew it.
1t was up TO her, therefore, be-
fore Tom came back to decide sew
.eral things. She must tell him, OF
course.
But should she tell any one else?
DR.. Parsons? The police? AS Tom
had talked, she had seen the whole
affair through their eyes. And she
knew not one of them except Tom
could be trusted to see it through
hers.
To DR.. Parsons-and the police
too-she would be hysterical i'm
aginative, perhaps even a little de-
lirious from shock. Murder-mur-
der simply didn't happen in house
like this among wel-bred people
She had been attacked-truel But
how could she prove it?
What trace did an attempted
strangulation leave? A cloth Of
some sort had gone around hel
neck so there would be no finger
marks.
And was she sure her own heaC
was clear? Yes, that she knew
Everything had happened as she
remembered and she alone held the
key to the accident"
But If she were to tell the police
the incredulous, heavy-handeC
village police-one of two things
would happen. They would laugh
her statements to scorn and thinl
her simply off her head.
Or they would believe her-a
least to the extent Of OBTAINING the
men, questioning them blunderingly
and fruitlessly, trampling through
her house, making her repeat hel
own story endlessly and unavail'
ingly-and find no possible support
of her theory that she had beer
attacked, on which also hung thu
proof that Cousin Amos had beer
murdered.
Then, the instant surveillance wa:
removed, off would go those foul
men.
just as they were going now-ir
few brief hours. On her dresser
gay little clock licked away il
the hot, silent room Almost half
past 81 Voices came up through thu
open window from the breakfas
room below.
Someone politely was chatting
there and wondering how soon sh'
would come to consciousness anC
how much she knew. Soon that per.
son-all the four, any one of whom
was capable of murder-would bt
packing, would leave the house, un-
. challenged-would leave her life
forever-but not as Cousin Amos
had gone. This man would go con.
f1dently, safely
Not if she could prevent it
Those men must not leave thu
house-until she knew!
WHATEVER she did, she coult
W. not stay in bed another mo
ment. Swinging her feet to tn
floor, Linda stood up, a little shak,
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Her eager desire for speech did
not prevent a flash Of gratitude for
his direct approach to the subject.
No pretense that he'd forgotten it,
no argument as TO whether she
were able to talk.
sit down, Tom" she said, and
now as she heard her own voice that
the interval, frantically as she had
resented it, had strengthened and
steadied her.
Yet Tom, as he obeyed with more
worried perplexity than he per-
mitted himself to show, thought he
never had seen Linda look so serious
and as he took the hand she ex-
tended, he experienced a quick in
ward shock.
1t was icy cold and, for all her
outward control, decidedly tremu-
lous.
Then she began to talk, quietly,
without any sign of weakness or
hysteria, and he listened, incredu-
lous, but believing. Such things
couldn't happen but, if Binks said
so, they had!
She told of the door that was
ajar; of the voices, so indiStinct that
she had thought one Of them his;
of her quiet approach and with
drawal, unheard; Of her surprise
when, downstairs, she saw him in
the water; of her pause on the ter
race; the scuffle overheard; the
sudden hurting dc~n of Cousin
Amos body and the scant five words
which he had strength to gasp.
Words which had sent her flying up
the steps to identify his assailant.
Averill broke in VITA an exclama-
ton of horror.
'Linda-alone! why you might
you might have been killed"
II nearly was"
whats that?"
IT nearly was killed. You-you
didn't know it, Tom, but when you
thought I waved-well, your being
on the raft there, facing the house,
saved my life, I guess"
Il
LIE heard her out grimly. Heard
l. l. of the silent approach of the
man behind her-the man whom
she had trapped there and who,
fearing detection, tried to silence
her forever.
Heard why she Involuntary had
clutched at the air-a gesture so
easily translated into light
hearted waveI And as she finished
with her vague memory that the
choking pressure gave, just as she
toppled into Inconsistencies, he
swore briefly, shortly, with the con-
centrated anguish of futile rage.
"So-what do you think of that?'
she concluded, trying to relieve his
evident tension by speaking lightly
Face set grimly, eyes burning into
hers, he sat there a moment immo-
bile.
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BEGIN HERE ropAY

AMOS PEABODY. elderly cousin OF
LINDA AVERIIL. falls 10 his death from
the secondfioor balcony OF the Averills'
Long Island home Linda reaches him
Just before he dies. In time 10 hear him
Rasp, He pushed me-
There are four guests in the house and
all become suspects OF the murder. All
have violent tempers and all have quar-
relied with Cousin Amos The four are
MR.. STATLANDER middlewestern man
ager Of the firm TOM AvERILL works
for MARVIN PRATT. former sutton OF
Lindals. CAPTAIN DE vOS. handsome
Belgian representing European per
fume manufacturer; and LIAM
SHAUGHNESSEY. Irish writer and
lecturer.
Linda, realizing her cousin had tried
70 tell her he was murdered, rushes up
the stairs to the balcony. Someone
steps behind her, tries TO strange her
and she falls in a faint.
She regaihs Consciousness several hours
later. II has been assumed Cousin
Amos death was accidental and LINDA
has no opportunity 20 tell Tom what
really happened
Notv RI ~, urn TUE STORY
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THE structure shown is TAI
MAHAL at AGRA, INDIA.
The SUN is SO MILLION MILES
from EARTH GIBRALTAR is a
BRITISH FORTRESS command
ing the entrance to the MEDITER.
RANEAN SEA.
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His eyes rested on her specula-
lively.
$50 anxious to save him?"
"Tom-what do you mean?"
You don't sound as though you
wanted to catch your cousins MUIR
derer as much now as you did when
you ran upstairs" His voice was
distant, cold.
Il want to catch him more than
ever she said vehemently. But I
know that we must decide together,
first, what to say"
THAT is simple enough. We can
say 1 found Mr.. Pratt bending over
you"
n 81 q
CHE caught her breath at the sug-
- question.
"Tom-Tom-how can you"
''How can 1 what?"
Think Marvin-?"
How can I help it?" His hands
clinched. "Linda-do you want tc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
HOLD SC0TTSPORO
MEETING TONIGHT
Weinstone to Speak at
Harlem Meet

William w. Weinstone. editor of
the Daily Worker will be the main
speaker at the Scottsboro Defense
rally to be held tonight at st. Lukes
Hall, 125 w. 1870 St. at pm.
The granting of new trial forced
by the mass pressure Of millions of
workers has spurred the socialists"
the NA.AC.P. leaders to bring for
ward their policy of leaving the boys
lives in the hands of the Alabama
courts and hoping for fairness" To-
nights meeting will expose these
,enemies Of the 8 Scottsboro boys
Motor parades, open air meetings
and a wide leaflet distribution will
precede the Harlem meeting.
M. Stern, district organizer of the
LID. stated yesterday that "at this
time when the Scottsboro case has
been raised to a higher level by the
workers, having forced the U. S. SUI
preme Court to grant new trial.
it is absolutely necessary to carry on
intensive struggle for their release.
ALTHOUGH we have won a partial VIC
tory, the lives Of the boys are in
danger"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
ANTi-WAR MEET
TOBE HELD TODAY
Delegates to World
Congress Speakers

While "undeclared" wars in the Far
East and In South America, the CAPT.
talist world md the pacifist organi-
cations will DE pouring out a lot OF
fine words today, to celebrate the ar
nistice that was a forerunner Of the
deepest crisis of capitalism. In con-
trast to these gestures Of peace the
American Committee for the World
Congress Against War brings forward
at Its meeting tonight at Webster
Hall, 119 East 18th ST., the practical,
militant program adopted at the
Amsterdam World Congress Against
War
The meeting will be opened by
Oakley johnson, newly elected Sec
rotary of the American Commute.
Among the speakers are Samuel j..
Stember, ex-serviceman leader and
delegate to the World Congress, and
1Villiam Simons, member Of the Bur-
au OF the international Committee
or Struggle Against Imperialist War.
~ One Of the principal speakers at the
meeting will be Professor Robert
Morss Lovett, Of Chicago University,
chairman of the Chicago Anti-War
Committee.
Additional features OF the meeting
will be a film of the Amsterdam Con-
gress and a program Of post-revolu-
tionary Soviet songs by Stefan Koz-
akevich, well-known baritone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
Soviet Auto Trust May Hire
FOrd's Laid Off Engineers
Capitalist Auto Production Collapses While
Soviet Production Shows Huge Gains

MOSCOW, USSR (By MaiD VA
TO, the ALI Union Automobile Trust,
is opening negotiations with the re-
Gently dismissed Ford engineers about
their coming to work in the Soviet
Union, according to statement by
Babayev, director Of the trust.
Babayev stated that the automobile
trust has been receiving many letters
from American specialists offering
their services to the USSR.
In view of the fact that the Soviet
automobile industry is in need of
highly skilled specialists, instructions
have been given to start negotiations
and within few days Amtorg will
be requested to see the men dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
SWISS WORKERS
FIGHT POLICE
Protest &C.
neva Massacre
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
GENEVA, Nov. 10.-Leon Nicole,
Communist Deputy and editor of
the newspaper Travail, is being
held by the police, charged with
"chief responsibility" for the resist
ance of Geneva workers to the at
tack by the military.
GENEVA, Nov. 10 (By Cable).-
Following on the Geneva bloodbath
yesterday when soldiers opened ma
chine gun fire on Communist and So
cialist workers demonstrating against
the provocative meeting Of the fas-
cist Union Nationals" killing II
workers and wounding over sixty, the
workers continued their demonstra-
tons until late into the night, with
the police and military powerless to
disperSe them.
Martial Law Declared
The reactionary Geneva Cantonal
Council today ordered additional
troops into the city, and declared
martial law.
News of the massacre by the mill
tary reached Zurich towards the end
of mass meeting organized by the
Communist Party in celebration of
the 18th Anniversary of the pFoletar-
ian revolution in Russia. The work
ers at the celebration surged into the
streets demonstrating and protesting
against the brutal murder of their
Geneva comrades.
Many fierce COLLISIONS with the po-
lice occurred. The police fired into
the ranks of the workers. The cas-
ualties are unknown.
Communists Urge General Strike
The Communist Party Immediately
issued an appeal to the workers of
Switzerland for a general protest
strike against the maSsacres. Many
protest meetings already have been
held under the leadership of the
Communist Party throughout Switz-
erland, although a number of these
meetings we're prohibited by the po-
lice, as for instance at Winterthur,
whereN the workers militantly defied
the police orders.
Protest demonstrations we're held
last night at Lausanne where also
collisions occurred between the work
ers and the police and many we're ar
rested. Fierce indignation is sweep
ing the working class throughout
Switzerland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
Body of Alliluieva
Wife of Stain, Lies
in State i'm Moscow

MOSCOW, Nov. 10.-With five
comrades acting as guard of honor,
the body of Nadejda Alliluieva, wife
of Comrade Stain, lay in state to-
day at the Central Executive Com
mittee Building. The building faces
the tomb of Lenin on the Red
Square.
AS usual in the Soviet Union fam
lily relations are not used in judging
Alliluieva but newspaper stories tell
of her activities as staunch Boil
shevik. She aided Socialist produc-
ton as an expert in the production
of artificial silk.
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missed from the Ford plant.
This statement was issued follow
ing the reports in the American press
that Ford had fired Mayo, his chief
engineer. and Brady and Mcmillan,
heads of the foundry and pattern
shops All three had worked for Ford
for 80 years.
A striking contrast-in capitalist
America highly trained intellectuals
and engineers are fired. there is no
need for them in industry. In the
Soviet Union, where there is no I'M
employment, they find the oppor-
tunity to continue their productive
activity, but for the good Of whole
people, rather than for few multi
millionaires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11

rejoicing in this victory in the Sup
rene Court of the United States.
This is the greatest fight the LID has
ever made and brought to a success
full conclusion, and whatever the fu-
ture may hold and whatever may be
the final outcome in future trials, this
trial will stand as a monument to the
LID. ard its fight for an impartial
hearing and legal representation in
trials.
Hastily and with best wishes, I am,
Yours truly.
c.. w. CHAMLEE."
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cents" says the clerk.
1t reports a Negro trying to sell a
watch, which some shark sold him
as gold cased". 1--WE don't buy
brass" says Benson's clerk, 1--WE buy
gold, like gold teeth. :"
The Negro goes away and comes
back with gold crown.
twenty-five cents" says the
clerk. But paid that much TO have
1t taken off," says the Negro.
"It's the one business that has
thrived during the depression" says
Benson. People will sell because
many Of them can't afford to be
sentimental when they need food"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
Students Groups
Condemn Frame-up
of Henderson, Amat

NEW YORK.-The Students Rights
Defense Committee and the National
Students League condemned the YER
dict of the court in giving Donald
Henderson and Karl Amat 80 and 10
days suspended sentences, respectively
pending good conduct on six months
probation.
THE decision" declares the COM
mittee, Lines up the courts behind
the college administrations in the
suppression of students free s~7-7lp
and the right of the campus clubs
to meet and discuss all questions On
the campus"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
Starving Jobless Sell Their
Gold Teeth andWe dding Rings
"They Can't Afford to Be Sentimental" Says
the Buyer, Boosting of Good Business"

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 10.-In
one vulture like industry there is no
depression. Forty men, low paid
themselves, tour the city for r. l..
Benson, gold buyer and refiner
here, and the jobless sell them gold
trimmed spectacles, their old keep
sakes and heirlooms-the hungry
wives of the jobless sell their we'd
ding rings for few cents with
which to buy bread.
The capitalist press services re-
port a woman standing at Benson's
office window and twisting off her
thin gold wedding ring. Thirty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
Patterson at Workers
School Forum Sunday

William L. Patterson, secretary Of
the International Labor Defense, will
speak on the subject, THE American
Negroes as an Oppressed Nation at
the Workers School Forum, 35 East
18th Street, Sunday Nov 10, at 8 p. m.
Comrade Patterson will discuss the
basic problems of the Negro question,
on which much iinclarity still prevails
among revolutionary workers. Cues
lions and discussion will follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
''Daily" Will Print
Communist Vote as
Soon as Available

The Daily Worker" will pub
lish the Communist vote as soon
as 1t comes in from the various
Party organizations In the field.
Few returns have yet come 10
the Daily Worker. Thus far
returns are available only from
New YORK City and Chicago. In
many parts of the country, 1t
may take a week or ten days
before the Communist vote is
finally tabulated by the cleo
ton officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
DEMONSTRATE AGAINST
BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT

Paraguayan troops yesterday con-
tineud their smashing advance in the
undeclared war between Paraguay
and Bolivia in the Gran Chaco re-
gion. In another swift advance
against the demoralized Bolivian
forces the Paraguayan troops cap
tured Fort Lroa, Is miles north of
Fort Bolivia which was taken last
Monday, and SO miles north of Fort
Platanillos, which they took Sunday.
Demonstrations against the Bolivian
government are occurring almost
daily in LaPaz and other parts of
Bolivia