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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

GU Will Dol CbSIIl
Il was in here talking to Joyce %
minutes before I heard the shot"
so that make it impossible for
any one to shoot him, eh?"
Hardness Redeemed. Does it seem
likely that somebody would stand
outside and shoot Joyce through the
window when they knew I was in
the main camp and could hear the
shot?"
Nope. 1t don't. That's a fact!
That's what makes the crime less
complicated 1t don't seem likely,
and the fact that you have men,
toned 1t don't make it seem any
more likely"
Man. you're talking in punches.
What are you getting at?"
This: You tell me in a sarcastic
tone that 1t don't seem likely Joyce
was shot through the window. You
figure that will irritate me an III
naturally take exceptions and work
on the theory that he was shot
through the window. Leastwise,
that's the way the book detectives
figure things. Psychological reac-
tons is what they call them"
We'll. if he wasn't shot through
the window. then how was he shot?
How is it the windows broken. Man.
you sound like an IDIOT"
You're the idiot. Mr. Hardness
You're getting in deeper all the time
You talk too much. How did the
window get busted? Why. it was
busted by a bullet, all right. You
fired that bullet"
Hardness glared. Blast you, Day.
ton
Wont do no good to reach for
that gun. Hardness. I got yuh COW
cred. 'Tain't no surprise to me you
shot Joyce. Every one knows you
been flubdubbing around with his
pretty wife. You think us natives
don't notice, but we do. We notice
everything. You don't sound near
as innocent as you think. Mr.. Hark-
ness. We know all about you. And
the book proves the rest. You adj
mitted you was in here last night,
and you claim the shot come from
the outside. Well, you got some tall
'provin' to do. That shot went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
capital were allowed free access to
the zone.
Consultation Reported.

capital were allowed free access to
the zone.
Consultation Reported.
It was understood the two gov
ernments consulted each other on
the matter before the instructions
were sent to Marshal Henri Petain
and Sir Maurice Peterson.
The rumors included one that
$1,000 italian troops landed at Cadiz
in the last few days. There was
no confirmation, even In ofncial
French quarters. where 1t was said
only that the rumors persisted"
An official denial that fresh italian
legionnaires landed at Cadiz or any
other Spanish port came from
Burgos, where some informants ex-
pected italian forces now there to
depart after a military review by
Gen. Franco in Madrid.
Demanded Troops Removal.
France previously had taken an
official stand that italian troops
must be removed from Spain with
the end of the civil war.
Italy agreed to this in the Anglo
Italian treaty a year ago. French
commended, but no effort has been
made to remove the troops since
Gen. Frances Nationalist govern
ment itself declared the war ended.
French insisted that the presence
Of Italian troops in Spain was a
menace to their frontiers and that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

get hold of a coroner or an under
taker or whoever it is that takes care
of dead bodies and get this thing
cleaned up. or I'll get in touch with
the State police"
Go on! Go on" Constable Dayton
urged. Call em up! Call up the
State coppers. Won't do no good,
though. 1t happened in my terri
tory and I'm boss. Now you just
cool of. Mr.. Hardness, and tell me
If your chauffeur was left-handed."
"Left-handed? How should I
know? Wait a minute. I guess he
was. Yes, I'm sure of it"
by gum" declared Constable
Dayton. Just like the book. Come
on, We'll go look at the body"
They left the main camp and fol-
lowed the f1agstone path beneath
the trees to the garage with its serv-
wants accommodations on the lake
side. Inside was the body of Har-
mon Joyce, Owen Harkness chauf-
feur. He was man of about SO or
80. He lay sprawled on the floor
near chair and table. There was a
magazine beside him.
"Shucks,' declared Constable Day.
ton. There amt no gun atall
Now, that amt according to the
book"
whats all this rubbish about a
book. OF course there isn't any gun.
The shot came from outside through
the window. Can't you see that the
windows broken?"
by gum" Dayton exclaimed.
Now. the books got something to
say about that. too. read a lot OF
detective stories" he explained
good -naturedly. when murders
done there's always some clue turns
up that Identifies the killer. Like
the killer placing the gun in the
victims right hand. to make it ap-
pear like suicide, when all the time
the victim was left-handed.'
of all the idiotic notions!' Hark-
ness snorted
Constable Dayton crossed to the
window and examined the shattered
edges of glass. Yep! Just like &C
cording to the book. We got to take
it step by step. How about the VIC
TINS wife? He musta had pretty
Wife. That gives us motive fol
the crime
"Of course he had a wife. I sup
pose she was pretty in crude sort
of way. There are lots of pretty
wives around. Dayton, you talk like
an idiot"
Where's the pretty wife, asked
| the constable.
Where is she? How should
know Down in the city where she
belongs, l suppose. She left yes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Powers Query Spain
On Reports Italy
Sends More Troops
Britoin and France Also
Seek to Remove
1000 Refugees
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 6.-France and Bril-
tain joined in two requests to the
Spanish Nationalist government at
Burgos today.
They instructed their ambassadors
to ask for Qualification" of rumors
Italy was continuing to send troops
to Spain, although the civil war was
ended, and to request permission for
foreign ships to enter Alicante Har-
Dor and take aboard 1000 Spanish
Republican refugees, now in the
neutral zone Of the eastern coastal
city.
The neutral zone at Alicante was
created shortly after the surrender
OF Madrid with the approval of Ma
tionalist authorities. Former Re-
publican officials who fed from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Gillette Calls Hopkins
Move Not Significant

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Gillette, Democrat, of
Iowa. scoffed today at the possibility
that presidential ambitions might
have actuated Secretary of Com
merce Hopkins in deciding to change
his legal residence from New York
to Iowa.
ITO me. the move has no political
significance whatever" said Senator
Gillette, whose denomination last
summer was opposed by Mr..
Hopkins.
Secretary Hopkins himself insisted
that his only purpose in making the
change was to give his motherless
7-year-old daughter Diane a perma-
nent home in his own native State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
------DAiLY SHORT STORY
BOOK THEORY
By James freeman

Now according
to the book" said
Constable Harry
Dayton, the MUIR
dered man should
be left-handed."
What do you
mean, he should
be left = handed?"
Owen Hardness
a S ked irritably.
Look here. con-
stable, If you're
being funny, I'm
not interested. NY
chaufeur's been
murdered or COM
mitted suicide or
something. ANY,
way, he's lying on
the floor of the
garage apartment
dead. It's a mess.
I've guests COM
ing for the week
or,d Either WIN
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terday. I can't en-
terrain all my
servants rel a.
tives."
Hum" sal d
Dayton. Just like
the book says.
Somebody fell in
love with h e
pretty wife a n d
decided to shoot
her husband so he
could have her.
Maybe the butler .
Maybe the 6 a r.
dener. Maybe one
of the neighbors
servants. L a s t
night he snuck up
here and plugged
the pretty wife's
husband through
the window"
Absurd" Hark-
ness tone was fill
nd with rpae~.
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there could be no further reason
for keeping them there.
10000 Alpine Troops
Reported Sent Recently

~ Radio to The Star.
ROME, April 6.-With an Italian
invasion OF Albania believed i'm
minent, the international horizon
was further darkened today by the
news that more Italian troops had
been sent to Spain and the an
nouncement of staff talks at Inns
bruck, Austria, between Italian and
German military leaders.
Just before the fall Of Madrid ap-
proximately 10000 Alpini italian
mountain troops, dressed In civilian
clothes were sent to Spain as tour
lists, this correspondent is reliably
informed.
Presumably these well-equipped
Italian soldiers, specially trained
for mountain warfare, are intended
for the mountainous Pyrenees re-
gion. Oficers and specialists are
still being sent to Spain individu-
ally, although the Spanish war Is
now over.
tcopyrisht, 1889, by Chicaso Daily News.
lnc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Staff Talks Declared
Chamberlain Lesson

BERLIN. April (P.-Cautious
German diplomatic comment CEN
tered today in the implication that
general staff conferences now in
progress between German Col. Gen.
Wilhelm Keitel and Italian Gen. Al
berto Pariani, as well as the crisis
in Albania, are intended ito teacn
Chamberlain a lesson"
One Wilhelmstrasse commentator
observed:
ITO threaten a leadership state is
always a boomerang If he who does
the threatening comes from a coun-
try which does not have the leader
ship principle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. c. THURSDAY


through the glass and It went
through the screen also, and the
wires Of the screen are sticking out
ward. which proves that the bullet
was fired from the inside out in
stead of the outside in, which looks
mighty like somebody just wanted 1t
to appear that the killer shot from
the outside. Leastwise, that's the
way I seen 1t worked out in the
book, and I'll bet you can't punch a
hole In 1t, by gum"
Copyright, 1890
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

IF he hits me. I'll sue him." is
sound logic If you don't mind your
heirs quarreling over the judgment.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14
Program Closes
Health Week

National Negro Health week OBJ
servance in st, Paul was brought to
a close in the Welcome Hall chapel
Thursday night, April 6. The pro-
gram for the evening was in charge
of the Welcome Hall health COM
mittee with DR.. c. M. Young,
gan as a racial project and is now
fostered by the national govern
ment, was read by Leslie v. War
Louisville, KY, chairman. A brief
history of the movement which be-
rem, Boys Worker, Welcome Hall.
A paper entitled Health for the
Youth" was read by Bliss Latimer,
followed by a discourse on adult
health by Lathrop Rogers, st. Paul.
The many advantages along the
lines of health offered here in the
state of Minnesota were pointed
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

out by DR.. Young in his talk. In
this regard it was revealed that
Minnesota was one of the first
states to accept early health meas
ures as advocated by the national
government. Minnesota was also
one of the few states in which vac
cination against contagious dis
eases was not compulsory. Like
wise it was also disclosed that the
city of Louisville which DIR. Young
represents has for many years won
the award offered each year by the
national government to the city
making and maintaining the great
est improvements in health meas
ures. The importance of the health
examination and the sustenance of
good health was stressed through
out the evening.
Music for the program was fur
nished by the WPA quartette under
the direction of Mr.. Herod. Movies
from the st. Paul Family Nursing
and the Ramsey County Public
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

much sway, although the practice
of witchcraft has been made a
crime" the bishop continued.
"There is need everywhere of
health service. So the A. M. E.
church begins its new epoch, here
in this community where 1900
people live with no doctor, no dem
tist, no drug store, no health COM
mittee, here where we bring the
aspiring youth of South Africa to
learn the higher things of life, here
is the place we start. And I am
happy to say that this clinic is the
gift of the American Negroes"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

manager at the Clef CluD ana Cney
say he knows his business. :.
Jimmy Bell of Bells Cafe was i'll
for two weeks and the boys and
girls who visit this popular spot
missed him nightly. The boy has
likeable personality and he is al
ways the same rain or shine. And
that's something when you have to
tend the needs of lot of whooper-
er-uppers!!!
The newest st. Paul eatery is
Ethel McGee's place at the corner
of Dale and Rondo. The cafe has
no name as yet but they tell us the
food is excellent. Tonight the
Dining Car Employees are giving
their annual dance and old Twin
Town will be there!
It's remarkable how people can
tell you what> you should have
done; the course you should have
pursued after you begin something.
Take the fight to have the state
legislature enact legislation against
insurance company discrimination
for instance. Every two-bit
politician, almost every big-shot
who has been in the two cities for
years KNOWS JUST. WHAT
STRATEGY SHOULD HAVE
BEEN EMPLOYED. Yet most of
them have sat around for years
with a condition growing worse
and moved nary hand or foot to
alleviate the situation. The min
ute someone started the ball to roll
ing to cure a deplorable situation,
these "sit-down and do nothing
critics" got busy and helped put
pressure on to pass the bill THEY
DID MOTH! They did the thing
they always do-began to exhort
every audience of one or more
persons with "they shoulda done
this, they shoulda done than"-We
say NUTS to that type of people!!!
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

his wife's step-sister, shame. :.
The strange disappearance of that
business man who won't seem to
grow up. His wife of a few weeks
has lost 15' pounds because of his
gallivantings. The mystery of
the wrecked car and who it be-
longed to. The story which
hardly anyone knows of the youth
who went to jail to shield his
father. The tall tale which
alleges L. B. has a job shining
shoes in st. Louis instead of run
ming a nitery.
What Republican lady leader is
supposed to have said that she was
going to see that every Negro
Farmer-Laborite in state employ
was discharged!!! It isn't so hard
to cause people to lose a job, dear
lady, but it takes much influence
and lot of hard work to get jobs
for people. The only jobs (politi-
cal) that some people can get seem
always to be for relatives.
Persons who were dissatisfied
with the conduct of a Mill City or
ganization held ga private meet
ing" with a national representative
of the organization. After hear
ing all the complaints the official
quietly asked the disgruntled
clique about their memberships. 1t
transpired that only one of the
group had a paid-up membership
in the organization. Were their
faces red, etc.,?
Cast members of the "Mikado In
Swing" got a real taste of Mime
sofa hospitality when they arrived
in Minneapolis Tuesday. 1t took
over half the cast all day to find
accommodations, with hotels all
over town empty. Great town is
Minneapolis in some respects but
not so hot in many others.
% la la Jessie Scott is at the
Club Delisa. E. They've got a new
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14
Health association were shown.

Louisville, KY. (Cl-The Louis
vile Courier-Journal, famous daily
of the South, reprinted an editorial
from the Louisville Leader, colored
journal, edited by I. Willis Cole, in
its issue of Sunday, March 26. The
Louisville Times, also under the
same ownership as the Courier
Journal, carried an earlier editorial
discussing an editorial from the
Leader on the Marian Anderson
C Constitution Hall incident.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

Wherefore Institute, So. Africa
(C)-'There are not a dozen ma
tive doctors among 100000 native
people," said Bishop R. r. Wright
of the A. M. E. Church as he turned
the first spade of dirt, breaking
ground for two new buildings at
Wherefore Institute, one of which
will be health clinic and the other
a Normal School building.
"The witch doctor still has too
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14
TRAVELLING CHEF HERE

Lewis Gordon, 115 East 44th ST.,
Chicago, Illinois, was a recent visi-
tor in st. Paul. Gordon is a travel
ing chef for the Burlington Rail-
road. While in the city he was the
house guest of Mr.. and Mrs. R. F.
Wilson of 697 st. Anthony avenue.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14
xx7W/N 7OWN 7ALKas

Well girls boys (od and old girls tool back
again We keep telling he that be" this sheet that we
they won't believe When they need
space for things they won't this column which we
win be willing 1888 Easter hat is the most read bunch OF
type Not that anything but
know any kicks to the head mans
desk Talk must have something on the ball.
Well vacation the talk of ST. Paul about
the postal employee being charged with having affair with
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-04-14

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-15
JURY CHOSEN IN DAMAGE SUIT OF
 NELSON YS. CITY
Last Case of Term Begins in District Court
 Here Today

A jury was completed this morn ing to hear the case of Mrs. J. E. Nelson versus the City of Juneau, in which Mrs. Nelson seeks to re- cover damages for injury allegedly sustained when she fell two years ago on a plank sidewalk which was being repaired.
 Members of the jury are Mrs. Mary Walmer. Esther Boyd, Archie Rad let, Thomas w Bennett, Amanda Cook, Ella Betts. Mrs. Isabel Jor- gerscn. George A. Schumacher Mrs. Esther Sommers. Marie Fer ward. John Clausen and Winifred Williams.
 The remainder of the jury was relmsrcntly discharged this morn ing The present case is the last one of the present court term. Judge GeoFee r. Alexander is to go to Keschikan to open a term March 28
 Tn the damage case, Mrs. Nelson is represented by Mrs. Mildred Her mann and counsel for the City are Frank Foster, wlio was City Attor- ney at the time Mrs. Nelson first sought to collect, and Grover Vim.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-15
Baranos ho!ePs
 Barber Shop Is
 Doing Business

Phillip Gordon, who operates the barber shop in the. lower lobby of the Baranof Hotel, has had a mum Der of shops, but says the one he IS handling today, is the most mod arn of any two-chair shop any Wpcre.,
 He might be right.
 Two octagoaal mirrors. set in orchid cslored Vitrolite, with hard wood finish cabinets, make a mod ern and attractive wall panel. A rich cream upright wash basin &C., centuates the modern tone.
 Chahs, and all other appliances are of the latest type and Gordon says T couldn't have hoped for better results"
 Gordon managed the shop of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, and also at the Leam- ingten Hotel in Oaklandg
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-15
CRIME CLUB HIT OPENS TONIGHT
 AS SHOW HERE
The Lady in inc Morgue Is fo fe Seen at Cap
 ifol Theatre

For positively eerie suspense that keeps you on tenter hooks till the law gets it's prey in the last scene, Universal's thriller, The Lady in the Morgue.' which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre, cant be beat. This screen version of Jona- than I.atimer's celebrated Crime Club novel is a Grade A baffler with more twisted clues, zestful roughhouse and picturesque char acters than have been seen on the screen in a month of Sundays.
 Chief among these characters IS Detective Bill Crane, the hard boiled, pleasantly alcoholic sleuth. He is played by Preston Foster, who created this character on the screen in The Westland Case" Foster is simply grand in the part. as is Frank Jenks in the role of Cranes clownish assistant, Doc Williams Patricia Ellis does a swell job as the girl in the case and Tom Jackson is very amusing as numskull of ficer of the law.
 Crane gets into the plot when Il girls body is found hanging in a lodging house and the cops call it suicide. Crane thinks the body may be that of the daughter of a wealthy client. When he goes to view the body, it vanishes from the morgue and the morgue keeper is slain. Crane discovers the girl was murdered, not suicide. By means of some red hairs found in the dead morgue keepers hand, he traces the missing body and then events march rapidly to thrilling climax.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-15
BULLDOG DRUMMOMD
 MYS1ERY FILM SEEN
 HtW AT COLISEUM

Diamonds, the prsclcus stones for which men have f1ught. intrigued and murdered since the beginning of tlmss sent Bulldog Drumm 3nd" on an advartlre as wild as any in his carecN n the new II. c. (Sap- pep McNe ls stoy. Bulldog Drum mord's Peril" which VII bc seen ceginn.ng tonight at the Coliseum Theatre.
 In ths stcgy of the s.rugg,e for possess!ln of the wHrld's first formula. far the synthet marufao- tnrc CT d'amsads. J0hn Howard, play!rg he role of the lapper ana teur s'eil ! ! ToNs into action against a powerful jewel syndicate when it's leade s resort tc murder and kid napp.rg Q cary out ther plans. He tracks the criminals across half Of Eurc9e and faces them in their own strc lghold when even Scotland Yard rrfliscs to become involved in the c21e.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-15
EIGHT SUE 10 F0RECI0SE ON
 LIEN ON MINE
Former Employees Seek 10 Recover S4,437 Due
 for Labor

 Suit was entered in District Court today by eight former employees of the Alaska Empire Gold Mining Company who seek to foreclose tc recover $4,437 allegedly due them In labor liens,
 The suit was brought by A. B. Flory and others against Amelia M. Brown and others Others beside Fiery who are pressing the eight causes of action totaling $4.437 arc Elwir1 E. Johnson. Pete Miller. Ralph Miller. Oscar Danielson. Joe. IAntz Nick Jukich and 0. D. Irwin. The defendants are the owners of tho mine.
 The Alaska Empire Gold Mining Company mine is located on Hawk Inlet M
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-15
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
 MEN IN FROM, OFF
 FOR. WESTWARD DUTY

Two members of the Territorial Department of Health staff returned yesterday from duty in the Vest ward, and one left for that part of Alaska. e
 pr. J. c. Haldeman. Tuberculosis ,Clinician, is home after 8 two months visit to tuberculosis clinics on Bristol Bay and Renal Peninsula,
 Sanitarian Frank P. Pauls arrived on the Mckinley from the Vest ward.
 Leaving on tbe Yukon for work at Anchorage. Palmer, Fairbanks and Nome was E. F. Clements, Sani- tarian