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Evening star., 1936-11-13

GET loads of letters from men
saying that the reason they do
not marry is because they cannot
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Kaga,ua, Famed Jap Leader
.Spenks At Duke Tomorrow

Tuesday-11:30 a. m. ministers,re-
ligious workers conferences: subject,
Rural Life Problems" Page audi
forum. 2:30 p. M, ministers-religious
workers conference. Page auditorium
1880 p. M. public service, Duke uni
versity chapel.
Wednesday, a. m., opening ad-
dress at the Duke missionary in
stitute. York chapel. 1I:30 a. M, stu
dents-Young Peoples conference.
Page auditorium $50 p. m. students
Young Peoples conference. Woman's
college auditorium.
Widely considered one of the worlds
foremost thinkers on religious, social,
and economic problems, Kagawa is
being greeted by large audience every
where on his present siX-months visit
to the United States He will speak in
100 Cities sometimes appearing as
much as ten times a day.
Kagawa is the author of more than
100 books on religious and social sub
jects. and his royalties have amount
ed to hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, yet he turns nearly all of this
over to Christian work and prefers to
live on $40 a month in an humble
bungalow in the outskirts of Tokyo.
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FOLKS DIVIDED ON
NEW DEAL SET-UP
For Roosevelt but Find
Flaws; Robinson Is Strong
Back Home.
Nv LESLIE EISCHEL

En- houte 10 New York Jan. 1. -
One gets new reactions talking with
people and observing conditions while
travelling.
Take the brakeman on the tram
travelling from Arkansas and south
ern Missouri into st. Louis.
He's for Roosevelt through and
through He's for the MIRA, the AAA,
and every one of the alphabets ex-
cept relief There, he believes, some
thing else must be done. Young fell
| lows are drawing relief money who
oughtnt. He believes in large pen
sions for the aged not the laughable
| kind provided in the present security
bin. He even believes the Townsend
plan might workout he finds
hitch to it You l)uldn't force the
recipient of the 5000 month to spend
it, because there'd be no sure way of
checking up. Some of them might
bury the money. Thus, maybe
there'd better be another pension plan.
HOME TOWN PRAISE
Then, there is this editorial, clipped
from a paper in Little Rock, Ark,
home town of Senator Joseph T. Rob
inson, majority leader in the Senate.
This editorial endorses the bringing
home the bacon" idea, subject Of
some debate:
with the new session of Congress
just around the corner and Senator
Joe T. Robinson again due to play
leading part in the Senate, the fol-
lowing part in the Senate, the follow
ing editorial from the Baxter Bulletin
at Mountain Home should be of inter-
est to the senator's friends:
Any way you figure it Senator
Robinson is Arkansas biggest asset.
During his long tenure in the Senate
he has done more for the State than
any other man who has represented
us in either branch of Congress- He
is the senior senator and is the most
powerful man in the Senate today.
"'Time and again he has brought
the bacon home to Arkansas 1t does
not make any difference whether you
are for the New Deal or against it. 1t
doesn't make any difference whether
Roosevelt is elected or not. It doesn't
make any difference whether you are
Democrat, Republican, Townsendte,
Liberal, Progressive or Radical. He
can do more for you and more for the
State in the Senate than any man that
could be sent there.
HE has proved his worth. He has
been wrong, but he has been right
more times than wrong. He has work.
ed faithfully not only for Arkansas,
but for the nation. The least the cen
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Wild Life Refuge
In Large Area OF
Baden Planned
Daily Dispatch bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOte>,
~ mask ERNIIS.

palaiqh Jan. ia Wildllte refuge
couar;ne some $1,000 of the approx
mately 22.OOO-acre submarginal pur-
chase area around Jones and SalterS
lakes in BIaden county is one OF the
plans for the development of the unit
by the Resentment Administrator
I'D. Chalk. State game inland fish
cries commissioner. said today.
Mr.. Chalk has returned from visit
10 The area where he recommended
territory for the wildlife refuge. 1T is
the plan of the Resettlement Admin
istra4ion the commissioner pointed
ont, to enclose the refuge in a wire
fence and to improve the territory as
q breeding place and sanctuary 1or
game along lines previously followed
by the State Department of Conser-
walton ard Development on land set
aside for a similar purpose.
This proposed refuge" Mr.. Chalk
said. sis located in a territory well
adapted to upland game birds ana
deer an will be of great benefit to
the wi1dlife in that area and valuable
addition to our chain of refugees.
The Resettlement Administration
proposes to designate this area by the
required amount of fencing and to
follow out a system of food planting
for upland birds.
"Salters Lake has more Aquatic
vegetation than Jones or Singletany
lake, consequently is more suitable
to fish life, but owing to the i'm
poverished condition of the sandy bot
tom. there is still insufficient under
water foods to support fish in goodly
numbers and the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries has agreed to cooperate
with us in an effort to increase the
acauatic growth in the lake to point
where a larger game fish stock will
be supported"
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II Of any criminal conduct in con-
nection with the alleged retneion of
public funds, but Cook county con-
tends he and his surety still are I'M
der civil liability for the sums he is
accused of Withholding. These fig
ures have been increased by success
sive auditS''
The amazing story of Mr.. Sweitzer
was told by Edwin A. Lahey, Chi
cago newspaperman, in a recent issue
of The Nation.
Mr.. Sweitzer, an old-time Demo-
cratic politician, admitted in a news
paper interview that probably he
owed some money and that his good
nature had been imposed on by poll
ticians who had borrowed a large
part of it.
For long while it was difficult to
get anywhere with the prosecution of
Mr.. Sweitzer, even after he had said
in an interview that he owed money
to the county.
When he was indicted, one Judge
after another side-stepped sitting in
the case. Finally one young judge
was not afraid
But the sob stories of Mr.. SWEET
zer's counsel soon had the jury weep
ing. And it began to look as if they
believed the county and the taxpay-
ers were prosecutors who had tried
to defile man who had served them
for quarter of a century
Through it all the names of the
politicians to whom money was loan
ed never was mentioned-perhaps in
fear that they, too, would be per-
secuted.
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Durham, Jan. 13.-The presence of
Tovchiko Kagawa. removed Christian
leader of Japan, author. labor ana
farm leader. and social worker on the
Duke university campus Tuesday and
Wednesday has stirred unprecedented
interest among religious leaders OF
the state and all others interested IN
reaieious and social problems.
Kagawa. frequently called the
worlds greatest Christian will speak
three times on Tuesday and three
times on Wednesday. Tuesday has
been designated religious workers
day. with two of his messages OF
particular interest to ministers and
lay leaders.
A Dublic service will be held IN the
university chapel in the evening.
Wednesdays emphasis will be upon
Young people. Kagawa will speak
twice to students and those attending
the Young Peoples conference. He
will also deliver the opening address
at the annual Duke missionary IN
stitute, conducted at the school of re
ligion.
This schedule for the two days fol-
lows:
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FARM LOAN GROUPS
TO MEET TOMORROW

Columbia. Jan. 13-Over two hun
dred national farm loan associations
in North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia and Florida will hold their
annual meetings on Tuesday, January
II, and FIJI attendance of the mem
bers of these organizations is urged
in a statement issued by Julian H.
Scarborough, president of the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia, said today.
There are more than five hundred
national farm loan associations in the
four states served by the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia, but the an
nual meetings of the other associa-
tons held their annual meetings on
the second Tuesday, but many of them
have changed their bylaws SO that
the directors may select some other
date within the next five months
At the annual meetings there will
be a complete report on the affairs
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CHAPTER SO

L WAS COMPLETELY at Sea
after my telephone conversation with
Dr. Rudemar | didn't know where
TO turn. The booth was hot. airless.
Whether it was my despair. or the
stiffness. l could hardly breathe.
leaned against the little shelf which
held the phone books. conscious that
behind me. pressed close to the glass
door. was a detective. and in front
% me was something that was i'm
possible.
Practically impossible. anyway. for
IL Kirk Larrabee with all the re-
sources and power at his command
couldn't find the murderer. how could
I? With all his information all
his training. And yet. as
thought of that 7 realized that l
knew all he did about the case. and
more. too. There were things
hadn't told him. Pu4posely had held
back: the talk Ia had with DR..
Rudemar. what Grace had confided
to me about Doris Reeve-Helen
Starmont.
The booth was getting warmer |
considered opening the door a trifle
but decided against it, Finally. the
detective opened it himself
Are you III. Mrs. Penny"
mo" l snapped. The door closed.
but the new air was very welcome.
1t cleared my head. and I think that
minute when l felt the rush OF it
in my nostrls. for the first time
since Tuesday morning when Della
was sane again. So sane that. as If
a curtain had lifted the darkness
away. L knew who the murderer of
Mr.. Darien and Della was!
The idea was SO perfectly ridicu-
lousy preposterOus. that | discarded
il almost Immediately / laughed to
myself in the stuffy phone booth.
There was a small mirror on the side
Of the wall. and / saw my face re-
1ected in it. the smile on my lips.
my hat pushed ludicrously back over
my head where / had put it SO
could hear DR.. Rudemar more clear
~. The mirror had a flaw in it
where the reflection Of my nose came.
and 1 recall touching my nose to
see what was the matter. There was
nothing the matter-but the mirror
and it's flaw. and the fact that 1 was
a trifle giddy.
I'm telling you this to make you
understand how irrelevant the idea
that came to me gin that booth
seemed. I wasn't shocked by it, 1
was amused. 1t seemed to me quite
funny, so funny this second time that
I laughed aloud.
When 1 Strengthened my hat by
the crazy mirror. the smile was still
on my lips. but when started pow
dering my. nose-I wanted to look at
least respectable when I came out of
that booth-the smile was fading
slowly. I watched it. not from a
sense Of dramatics or vanity. because
I've long since left both of those be-
hind me, but because with the pass
ing Of the smile. my eyes changed.
They're blue eyes, and the years
haven't changed their color much, to
my relief. When. in my youth,
used to become frightened. people
said they turned black. / never
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MURDER UPSTAIRS@
Sg lTADAM BLISS Vt@

"You csA phone from the ho@zs.
Mrs. Penny"
~ didn't want Lieutenant LARA
bee to know what | said."<
She looked at me queerly. and
| thought | knew what was passing
in her mind. l stalled off the queo.
| ton Immediately.
"I can't tell you to whom l phoned.
Miss Cambridge. but it was impor-
tant." She had to be content with
that. l was feeling better.
When we had gone a few BLOCKS.
she remarked dryly. her curiosity
still dissatisfied. ut seems TO me.
Mrs. Penny. that you know more
about these murders than you will
admit"
/ denied that I did. but she didn't
believe me. Then awkwardly. ] be.
gan on my new. astonishing theory.
the one that had come 10 me in the
| phone booth.
You remember Monday night.
Miss Cambridge. Well. when YOU
started downstairs that night to the
kitchen, cid you hear anything"
| She turned her face rather YEARLY
! to the window.
give told Lieutenant Larrabee \
half dozen times all l heard and all
didn't hear. It's useless to go over
| it again. Besides. 1 told you all
knew the next day."
II know. but l was hoping you
might have forgotten something.
Some little thing, probably so unim-
portant that you don't remember i.
Let me go over it. for you. You
came downstairs by the front way.
There were no lights on the third
| floor except the small one near the
stairs. Is that right?"
Eyes. that's right"
81 wanted to know because when
came down it was the same. but
when we came up together you re-
member there was light under Mr.,
Talbot's door. and one shining unde'
Mr.. Withers' door"
That's true"
ION the second floor when you
came down. there was a light under
Mr.. Hemingway's door and the sec
ond floor stair light was on?"
Eyes"
"And you heard no sound on either
fioor?"
| II would have noticed il 7 had
| heard anything. | have excellent
ears. Mrs. Penny There was no
noise. Everyone seemed to he
asleep"
I wasn't discouraged Miss Cam
bridge was right about her ears. She
has very acute hearing.
You didn't hear Mr. Withers
throwing stones at my Window"
BY now everyone IN the house
knew that Conrad Wthers had come
in late Monday night and had AWAKE
ened me to let him in.
"Lieutenant Larrabee insists I
must have heard Mr.. Withers. but
didn't. I was probably in the kitchen
| by the time he started to throw his
| gravel. and even my ears can detect
no sound with three stout doors be.
| tween them and Mr.. Withers. Four
| doors. to be exact. the front door. TIE
| hall. the pantry and the kitchen.
heard you when you came into the
dining room. because as you came in
you bumped into chair
had. although I had forgotten
| that until she mentioned it, We
| both smiled.
ITO RE CONTINUxD'
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CHAPTER 81

HAD BEEN questioning Miss
Cambridge On the way home from
Mr.. Darien's funeral concerning that
eventfui night. was trying 10
check up on my own deductions.
She had recalled one noise had
forgotten-a noise made by me.
when 1 bumped into a chair as !
same into the dining room.
That's what 1 Mean." I told
Miss Cambridge. when asked if
you had heard a noise. I had for
gotten that until now. did bump
into chair, that one just inside the
door. underneath the light button.
And / remember 1 muttered some
thing to myself. 1t wasn't until
. was in the pantry that l heard you
in the kitchen. You say you were
there 10 minutes before I came in p
More or less" said the school
teacher. II can't be sure. I looked
at my watch before I started down
and it was Is minutes to /. 1t
couldn't have taken me more than
two minutes to get downstairs. You
may be sure that if l had heard Mr..
Withers under your window. would
have saved you a trip downstairs,
and opened the door for him. You
know that"
nodded.
"Xou didn't hear anyone on the
back stairs while you were in the
kitchen preparing your milk? Before
/ came in?"
II didn't. The house was very
Larrabee."
mo one walked above you?"
I'm Mrs. Starmont's room?"
Mrs. Starmont's room was above
the kitchen. With it's two occupants
for Grace had admitted to me she
spent the night on Mrs. Starmonts
chaise- lounge, Miss Cambridge might
have heard something.
Nothing. The rugs are very
heavy. and the floors are thick.
didn't hear anything from above"
mo water running in the house :?
Sometimes a faucet turned on in the
UtdU VI CIIC HI la AHy h~VSV SSOhAAA
very loud. i
She shook her head.
i've been over this with Lieuten-
ant Larrabee."
sighed.
You said you were restless before
you finally came downstairs for some
hot milk Did you hear anything
while you were in bed in your room?
1--WE been over that. too. and I've
told Lieutenant Larrabee what
know. Janet left her room for hall
an hour and then came back at 1880
was upstairs at 1880. you know
my usual hour. ] can always tel
when her door opens. She walked
past my room. and down the stairs
I'm sure of that. don't know where
she went"
I did. She went down to Andrew
Darfen's room.
when she came back heart
something drop and break In me-
room. 1t sounded Iike glass"
knew that. too. In her nervous
confusion when she had returned
from her interview with Mr.. Darien
tne RaAea &C wAtsr JGDet wa tak'Ri
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EopvrtGhtj

fell from her hands into the porcelain
bowl
"You aren't turning detective. ar.
you, Mrs. Penny Miss Cambridge
asked. curiously.
decided to be frank.
"Tve got to help Lucy some way
That's why I'm asking these ques
tons. I'm afraid unless I do
I paused. hardly knowing how t.
continue. l didn't want Miss Cam
bridge to suspect what DR.. Rudema1
had told me, but I did want her tt
know that Lucy was in danger-O
arrest.
Lieutenant Larrabee suspects
herr"
"I-think so.'' He didn't yet. bu
he would as soon as he heard wha
DR.. Rudemar had to say. I had only
until the next day to help her. :.
If could get Marceila Canbridgt
interested in trying to help me
"How do you know
IL know. He's been asking mt
questions about her. He hadn'
especially. but I didn't want to give
hint OF DR.. Rudemar. I wanted
her to feel Lucy's danger withou
knowing all the details.
The cab stopped and we hurriet
into the house. Miss Cambridge
went up TO her room, and I went t.
the kitchen where Grace had alnos
finished preparations for dinner
She was looking EXTRAORDINARY!
pleased.
Its about Mr.. Hemingway" SHIT
whispered as she drew near me. y
think he's going to be arrested. Ser
geant Ross just told me that Lieu
tenant Larrabee has him dead Il
rights. He seems pretty we'll pleased
about it. Mr.. Hemingway has beer
in the sitting room with Lieutenan
Larrabee ever since you left. He!
still there"
Fifteen minutes later Ross brough
word from Larrabee that he wiShet
to see me.
There was no sign of Martin Hem
ingway when I went into the sittins
room. Kirk Larrabee was alone
scribbling in his notebook. He didn'
look up when I entered. so sa
down. I hoped he wouldn't keep MI
too long because it was necessar!
that / get back into the kitchen a!
soon as I could. Grace had beer
splendid about taking hold. but
couldn't ask too much of her.
"Well?" Larrabee asked. aftel
what seemed to be half an hour, al
though in reality it wasn't more thar
o few minutes.
"Well, what?"
"How was the funeral?"
"Oh, the funeral" Although i
had been only an hour and a hal
since the funeral, I had completely
forgotten about it until his question
"All right"
"You didn't see the corpse. bu
Miss Cambridge did. >eh?" Il
I must have looked puzzled for III
laughed. III il.
"If you want to know about tn,
funeral, Lieutenant Larrabee." I sail
hastily. "you have only to ask YOU
two men who attended"
II have, Mrs. Penny, but I wan
to get your reaction to ii. Does Mis-
Cambridge always look into caskets p
~Really. I've never been to
(9spvrtshta
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bothered very much about that,
probably because l was never ioOk-
ing in q mirror when | was fright
ened. Yet my eyes as ! looked from
them to the smile on my lips. were
turning black. 1t was as though l
were studying another person. not
| myself whom l had known. lived
with for 81 years. but someone else.
q stranger to me.
In that phone booth glass I saw a
woman. not badly preserved. with q
decided double chin. and staring.
scared eyes. The smile had faded
midway. as it were. 1t was still on
the womans lips. faint smirk.
] finished with the powder mechan-
ically. put my puff in my purse with
out looking down. snapped it shut.
/ couldn't take my eyes off those fea-
lures in the glass and the wheels of
my mind were picking up the idea
] had laughed at a moment before.
Picking it up. and bringing it closer,
closer to me.
1t must have been there all the
time. waiting for something to bring
it out. 1t must have been there
Tuesday morning. Yet it had taken
until now. when | was hot and mis-
cradle in this phone booth to drop
from my subconscious mind to my
conscious.
1t wasn't preposterous. 1 whis-
pered to myself. 1t was plausible
but awful!
The image in the glass was terror
stricken. Its face was getting whittier
and whittier. and the eyes darker and
darker. / always blame the mirror
for what happened afterwards-fo if
l hadn't been looking into it. l might
never have considered the idea that
came to me in that booth. / might
have gone on laughing and laughing
at it. OF course / wasn't sure.
couldn't be sure. because I hadn't
seen either murder.
The door opened again. and the
detective. Ramsey was his name.
asked me once more in worried
tone If I were i'll. / said / wasn't.
but this time I staggered out Of the
booth. and gulped in the fresh air
greedily. / needed his arm as we
walked away.
You were in there for three
quarters of an hour. Mrs. Penny" he
was saying. II was right worried"
1t didn't seem three-1uarters of an
hour to me. 1t seemed only a few
minutes. AS I went along with him.
leaning on his arm. my brain was
busy with restless d isturb n g
thoughts. Larrabee should know
| what l knew. but when / wasn't
sure. should I tell him? Now that
was out in the clear. cool air. we
were in the alley by this time. I
wasn't so sure about my idea. In
the hot booth it had been so vital. so
certain. Larrabee wouldn't laugh at
me if I told him. 1 knew that. He
would take what I said seriously. and
start working on that angle. If my
hunch-it was only a hunch-was
false. then all my life I'd have that
to worry about. / would have ac-
cused an innocent person.
When we reached the undertaker's
office. Miss Cambridge was sitting
bolt upright on a chair. She was
annoyed at my delay-for / hadn't
told her where / was going.
We were in the cab before she
asked me what I'd been doing.
knew it was coming. so ! told her
honestly I had been phoning.
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