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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-20
CHAPTER xIn-Continued


But it must have been a quarter
of an hour after Clint heard the
garage-door roll back before he saw
a light in the garage. Then he
heard starter grind, and a car
backed out Of the garage, its head
lights swinging as it turned.
Clint stood frozen in attention.
The car followed the drive around
the house on this side, the lights for
an instant shining almost directly
toward where Clint stood. Then 1t
went on toward the road.
So Asa was gone; Clint felt faint
relief. He wondered what had be-
come of Inspector Tope, and he
Kissed a signal, but had no reply.
Then he heard the car returning!
He saw no lights; but he did see,
dinly, dark moving bulk as the
car rounded the corner of the house
yonder. It moved fast, dangerous
ly so -.
He heard great crash, a shat
tering of glass, tinny crumpling
of metal-a great crash, then 81
lence.
And then TOPICS voice, yonder, in
imperious summons: "Clint! Quick!
Here!"
And a police whistle, shrill and
long.
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CHAPTER XIV

For a moment more these three
stood silently by the car with dead
man at the wheel. Then Rand re-
turned.
.Heale's coming" he reported.
Right away"
Tope nodded. ''This man in the
car is dead" he said. ''Stay by him.
Don't touch anything"
And he turned back to where Rab
lay on the ground. Then Mrs. Tame
came running from the house. doc
tor Cabler will be here at once" "
she gasped; and she cried:
Where's Asa? What have you done
with hin?'
June put her arms about the old
er woman, held her away. "Rab
needs you now" she urged. "Rab,
Aunt Evie."
"Asa?" the older woman demand
ed.
Tiles dead" June told her, mer-
cifully frank.
sWho killed him?" There, was a
dreadful challenge in the slow, soft
tones. HE was alive moment
ago. Talking to me. Who killed
my SOM"
''He--just died." June told her.
"Please. We must take care of
Rab now"
But Mrs. Tame swung toward the
car. Tope with his fashlight bent
on the hurt man on the ground.
heard the mother brooding over
Asa, calling his name, pleading with
him-then June compelling her to
turn this way. There was strength
in the girls tones; she was able to
command Aunt Evie at last, to fetch
her here where Tope and Clint lxnelt
beside the unconscious man.
well carry Rab to the house, :"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-20

Many Americans whose grand
parents were born in Ireland have
heard these elders speak of the
night of the big wind. AS some Of
the ancestors referred to it as the
date Of their birth the youngsters
may have regarded it as pit OF
frivolous avoidance of fact. But
there was such a night, recalls the
New York Sun.
It began about II O'Clock on the
night Of January 6, 1889, and con-
tinued until after daylight the next
morning. Limerick and the Dublin
neighborhood suffered heavily. Two
hundred houses were blown down
and as many more were burned.
Twenty persons were killed in these
catastrophes and 100 were drowned.
The coasts Of Ireland and western
England were lined with wrecks.
AS Ireland did not keep vital sta
tistics until 1860, the night of the
big wind was used as the base of
many claims made under the old
age pension act 80 years ago. The
Irish Digest reprints some para
graphs from Things Past Re-
Dress book by Augustine Birrell,
who went to Ireland as chief secre-
tary in 1907: So ~
s'It was wonderful windl, Dick
ems alone could have done it justice.
It ought to have blown itself out
in 1889, but there it still was, sweep
ing pension officers and local gov
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-20
Climbing Kangaroos

Members of the American Muse
um of Natural History Expedition
to Dutch New Guinea have discov-
cred IL specimens of tree-climbing
kangaroos. They are FIVE to six
feet overall length and come from
the slopes of the Cyclop mountains,
just behind Hollandia. These rare
kangaroos climb like the natives
reaching up with their front paws,
then hosting themselves as the rear
paws follow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-20
War as Long as
We LoUe Pon1p
Attending War

TWO americans VINO WOulQ QuallIy,
but it is still pretty foggy, as it was
300 years ago when old Hugo Gro
thus left it that way. The 79-year-
old, spade-bearded Mr.. Moore re-
signed from the world court, in 1928
to compile rs volumes covering in-
ternational law and neutrality in the
World war.
In 1922, after 81 years Of ponder
ing these matters, he wrote: 1'@ -s'fs
$50 long as we love glory, SO I.
long as we worship bravery, so q
long as we thrill at the call OF
battle, SO long win we love war, :
Mothers may say that they do
not raise their sons as food for =.
cannon, but when the cali y
comes, these same mothers will 4
be the first to answer"
Mr.. Moore vigorously opposed the
Kellogg pact and all other such de.
vices and denounced the sscallow
striplings" and 'fshallow idupes'h
who offer them. AS BELTS an an.
thority on, neutrality, he parts his
hair in the middle. He is probably
Americas most distinguished schol-
ar and authority in this field. Ii
TOUR railroad presidents have
died in the last year. All have
been replaced by younger men and
by men of operating, rather than
management or legal, background.
Charles E. Denney. elected to the,
Get Rail Chiefs the Northern u5
From Ranks, Pacific. start
Order of Day e. sa;+ch WIN anr,naa
ny, up through grades with John J.
Bernet, who made railroads out of
junk-heaps rather than debentures.
In Lancaster, Pa, he sold papers as
boy and worked his way part
way through Pennsylvania State col
lege as a runner for boarding
house. He is six feet tall. weighs
200 pounds and has vigor and enter
prise to match. ss tg.
consolidated Featurss-wNU Service,
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said the Inspector. "Out of the rain.
Clint, you take his legs"
They bore him into the house,
where Tope knelt beside him, and
with careful fingers appraised his
hurts. Mrs. Tame stood still as ice,
watching, and June held her fast.
Tope looked UP at last. 'Just a
bump on the head, ma am" he told
Mrs. Tame. II can't feel that the
skulls broken
Mrs. Taine began suddenly to cry !;
and this was strange thing to see
in that woman of iron.
June said: "I'll make her lie
down. She led Mrs. Tame, submits
sive, away.
When they were gone, Clint knelt
by the Inspectors side, asked the
question he had not dared ask be-
fore. He nodded toward the door,
toward Asa outside in the rain.
"You think he-did it?" he whis-
pered.
Tope assented gravely.
"But / liked him." Clint protest
ed. "He was the best of them ALI"
The doorbell rang; Clint went
through the dark hall; lighted the
gas, opened the door. Doctor Ca
bier.
Clint came back with the physi-
clan on his heels; and Doctor Ca
bier, with no more than nod to-
ward the Inspector, knelt beside the
man on the floor.
Presently he finished, tipped back
on his heels. Conclusion, he said.
ct shall make spinal runcture, try
to relieve the pressure on his brain.
Otherwise the young man may die
without recovering consciousness"
And he directed: Help me. Push
those two tables together. Put wa
ter on to boil. Where's Mrs. Taine?"
''In the front room," said Tope.
'sWith june And he explained:
"Asa's dead, in the car, outside.
He ran into that pine tree. Neck
broken, believe. Alive at first.
Talked, then he tried to move, his
head twisted to one side, and that
was the end of him.
"Well, such things have hap
pened," the Doctor confessed, after
moment. sSome shock dislocates
the vertebrae without dislodging
them. Then movement, an at
tempt to turn the head, and the big
neck muscles drag one vertebra
across the other like a pair of
shears. Snip the cord"
Doctor Cabler and Mrs. Tame,
Clint and June could do all that was
needful here. Tope watched them
for a moment; then he went to the
telephone, called Miss Moss and
told her guardedly that Rab was
hurt and Asa dead.
She whispered: "Asa dead?"
Eyes," he said.
SIS his wife there?" Miss Moss
asked. 'Lissa?" And at TOPICS neg
alive: ''She would want to be. She
has right to be. I'm coming out.
I'll bring her" M m
He was full of a deep comfort to
know that she would come. "All
right" he assented. "Do."
He looked at his watch and re-
turned to the veranda. As he did
so, Inspector Heale came hurriedly
across the lawn from the road.
Heale exclaimed: sTope, what's
happened here?" 49, ve
Tope said slowly: "Rab's hurt
got bad crack on the head. Doc
tor Cabler's working on him." He
added: Sand Asa's out in the car
with broken neck"
Broken neck?" Heale echoed.
His voice was husky. SIS he dead?"
"Just as dead as if he'd been
hanged" Tope assented. He said
it with something like contentment
in his tones, as though he perceived
a seemliness and order in the world:
''They don't hang in this State any
more; but always said it was the
thing-for murderers, / mean"
Heale CALCULATED: "Murderers?"
And Tope told him briefly: eyes.
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there were long pauses between

there were long pauses between
them.
Mrs. Tame did not understand.
sWhat does he mean?" she protest
ed. where is Rab?" s
Tope said gently: "Rab's hurt too,
ma am. Wen need the Doctor bad.
Quick, you call him upl"
Understanding, she obeyed him,
she hurried away, and after mo-
ment they heard her voice, Within
doors, demanding that Rand yield
to her the telephone.
Asa asked some hoarse question,
indistinguishable. 'My neck hurts,
he complained. "Rab? He's dead?
/ tried to miss him."
And Tope answered him, in slow
stern tones. "You didn't hit Rab,
Asa he said. 81 pulled him away
in time. / pulled him away from
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-20
Important Fashions
In Simple Patterns

HE smock-frock is really q
= fashion, not just a comfortable
maternity dress. It's smart and
young and practical. No. 1888 is
version of it that may be worn
for afternoon, because the pleats,
in both the sfnock top and the adj
Unstable slip skirt, give it touch
of dressiness. Make it of fiat
crepe, thin wool or georgette.
Good for a Whole Wardrobe.
Unusually useful is the pretty
frock for little girls (1836) because
it can be made in two ways--withs
round collar and frills, or with the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-20
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS .
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON

~~@~e'@ - eSAs . 80 AAN -
NEW YORK.-As we get it, Amos
l y Alonzo Stagg, now In his fiftieth
season of football coaching, leads
the boys in prayer just before the
Stagg Prays H Howe s't thew
Only That Boys do not pray
Glue Their Best w shat t h',f m may
they may do their best. That would
be considerable for any outfit trained
by Mr.. Stagg.
When his short-end College Of the
Pacific team turned in a seeming
miracle recently by defeating the
University of California, all reports
agreed that the game was won on
merit and not through any outside
help.
AS the old saying goes, "a
wise old mans shadow is worth
more than young buzzard's
sword" MIR. Stage, now " years
old, is, indeed, wise in strategy
and diligent in performance. He
has contributed to the game the
triple pass, the fake pass, the
unbalanced line, the flanking for
nation and several other dam
gerous devices, and he has come
along through the era of change
jump or two ahead of his ri
walls in mastering and teaching
the long pass and the open for
nation, much more adaptable
than any of the elder statesmen
Of world politics. He says
change and experiment have
Z vastly improved football.
This writer once knew an old
timer who worked with young Amos
Alonzo Stage when he was the
champion hay-shoveler on the salt
marshes around Newark bay. My
informant said young Stage would
figure out a nice leverage on the
fork handle, and move more hay
with less effort than any other man
Of the lot. He saved his earnings
and went to Yale Theological school.
After his graduation, he found pub
lie speaking difficult, turned away
from the ministry and became a
coach at the Y. M. c. A. college
at Springfield, Mass.
In 1892, he went to Chicago
and for 40 years was not only
team builder but a character
builder" He forbade liquor, to-
bacco and profanity, and made
it stick. Seven years ago, he
left Chicago because of the re-
tirement-at-70 rule, renewed his
gentle exhortations at the Col
lege Of the Pacific. He keeps
fit by tennis and a jog up and
down the road every day.
He was also demon baseball
player in his youth, pitching Yale to
five successive championships.
While he is, naturally, tagged the
"Grand Old Man of Football" his
many admirers would take in lot
more territory. H 'S
TN OUR present attempt to remain
neutral, there is much pulling and
hauling over the opinions of John
Bassett Moore and Professor Philip
~, Jessup. If any,
~ " 10 11O''s 20 body knows
We LoUe Pon1P what interna-
lAu.-J:w.. tional law is,
''''' they are the
two Americans who would qualify,
but it is still pretty foggy, as it was
300 years ago when old Hugo Gro
thus left it that way. The 79-year-
old, spade-bearded Mr.. Moore re-
signed from the world court, in 1928
to compile rs volumes covering in-
ternational law and neutrality in the
World war.
In 1922, after 81 years Of ponder
ing these matters, he wrote: q .s'ss
$50 long: as we love glory, SO I.
long as we WOrShin bravery, so
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
Changes In Birth
And Death Slips

Beginning January !, 1910, q new
form Of birth certificate Will be in
use, according 10 G. Arthur Blakes-
lee. director OF the division OF vital
statistics OF the Detroit department
Of health. The form OF the certi-
ficate has been changed somewhat
he says, and a few new items OF
information have been added the
more important Of which are the
month Of pregnancy in which the
child was born and more detailed
information regarding the usual
residence OF the mother The latter
is important because l. makes II
possible to reallocate births TO their
home registration district and to
get in touch with the parents.
Mr. Blakeslee says the new blanks
will be available at any Of the cul-
ture stations Of the Detroit depart
ment OF health and as soon as. the
new forms are received all the old
forms should be destroyed.
A new form Of death certificate
has been provided also. and these
will be placed in the hands OF fu-
neral directors. There is practi-
csily no change in the medical GER
tificaLe,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
NEGRO ORGANIZATION TO
BUILD MODERN HOMES

bne is headed by Julius H. Harmon
and Lawrence 7. Carrier both we'll
known in Detroit real estate circles
According to these realtors. the new
homes are insured by the FILA. and
the -hoHses- eaA- be paid- for in-fffteen
years. The houses are dividide into
three price classifications, sl,995
IS2,275 and $500 Each home is
equipped with modern toilet facili-
ties and a heating plant. The month
ly payments on the highest price
house do not exceed 5000
Mr.. Carter declared in an inter-
view with a Chronicle reporter that
the acute housing conditions suffer-
ed by the colored citizens OF the
metropolitan area has been a source
Of much concern to realtors. Here
tofore there have been few oppor-
tunities for small home ownership
by the masses Of our people. Mr..
-HsRReR- slse-PatHted- egt-thst- their
organization has acquired control of
ldl Et cuDulN lo4oA bll LllG llhSltI
Road, although the building is not
limited to that section. The Inkster
Subdivision. however, is undergoing
unusual development
A model home is being built now
IN the Inkster subdivision for dis
play. The homes consist Of four and
five rooms with a concrete founda-
ton and all modern housing facili-
ties. Owners Of lots who have clear
titles to their property have an OPP
portunity to build without any cash
down payment. it was declared.
The realtors have prepared a long
range program OF building which
will begin Immediately The pro-
gram is the result OF several years
study of the Detroit Housing situa-
ton. 1t is plan designed 10 meet
the needs Of our vast industrial COM
munty at a cost in keeping with
the income.
Julius H. -Hannon was formerly
connected with the Michigan Cor
poration and Securities Commission
and Mr. Carter is well known in To-
cal real estate circles. Offices have
been opened at 1868 Brush street
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
Man Found Cut;
Refuses To Talk


Found on the street seriously cut
in the abdomen and rushed to Re-
ceiving hospital, 35-year-old Ivan
Enos was reported improving. Tues
day afternoon
Enos, Of 697 East Montcalm street,
was taken to get aid by Paul Jacobs
Of 1926 Alfred street and Willie
Walker OF 2427 Orleans street, who
found the injured man at the cor
-nsr-aEAlfrsd and Hastings street.
Police say Enos refused TO tell
who stabbed him or where it hap
pened.
Sometime later George Hughes
90, OF 7O9 Napoleon street was ar
rested Ly police pending an investi-
CATION into the stabbing Of Enos.
Homicide Detective Lieut.. George
Branton and Detective Edward
Wurm were the officers on the case.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
XMAS PARTY
ON Way TO
SEE MOTHER
Funeral Services For The
Victim To Be Held
Wednesday

What was intended to be a gay
Christmas party with a young lady's
mother turned into tragedy last Sat-
urday morning when three young
women were injured and a man
killed when a car overturned on
Highway ll2 near Jackson. Mich.
Thirty year old Mollison Of 253
Medbury was killed while Ernesune
Brown. 80. Of Adams hotel, head
waitress at Cozy Corner; Fannie
Yates, 80, OF the Fisher apartments,
waitress and Carrie Mae Long, % OF
a Hastings street address were all
injured in the auto mishap.
Charles Nay, manager Of the Cozy
Corner stated ,Ernestine Brown had
worked at the cabaret since 1888.
Carrie Mae Long since 1899 and
Fannie Yates since July Of 1888
They were well liked by those fire.
quenting the night Club.
According 10 information given
the Chronicle the party of three girls
and one man were on their way to
spend Saturday with the mother OF
Ernestine Brown and to take her
presents. The party had left the CO.
~ Corner after working hours early
Saturday morning Ernestine Brown
was driving the car which turned
over several times and during which
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
Exposition
Office To
Open, jan. 1

Plans for the opening, January
! of the official headquarters Of the
-SeveHty-five Years Negro Prog
ress Exposition have been announced
BY NJ. L. Walker, chairman of the
executive committee.
Offices will be located at $50 Ora
toit avenue and 10 date plans for
the placing OF a wreath at the foot
OF the statue OF Sojourner Truth in
the heart OF downtown Detroit have
been made From there the scene OF
ceremonies will shift to the offices
where a band will provide appro-
pirate music and outstanding state,
city and county officials. together
with other civic leaders will lecture
Special invitations have been ex-
tended 10 the governor Of the state
snd the mayor of the city to be
present. To date no reply was re-
ceived.
Exposition souvenirs will be given
to everyone attending the ceremony
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
R0BS MAN
AT POINT
OF KNIFE
Thug Takes Money From
Pocket; Then Cuts
Victim

Joshua Hooks got hooked. but the
woman had a knife, police learned
last week
The 39-year-old man stated he
was robbed Chooked) out Of S25 then
cut with a knife by a woman who
apparently followed him into a Hast
ings street store last Saturday
Hooks claimed that Reola Peterson.
27, Of 27O5 Hastings street came into
the store demanding he give her his
money When he refused TO do so.
she pulled a knife, went through
his pockets taking the S25, then cut
him. police say the man Hooks told
them.
The hooker who hooked the man
named Hooks was later arrested at
2459 St Antoine street when four
IS bills and five 81 bills we're re-
covered from her person. She was
held by police for an Investigation of
robbery armed.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
Father Of College
Head Passes

William David Harrison. father
Of Mrs. Violet T. Lewis, president
of the Lewis Business college, 47l2
West Warren avenue, died at the
age Of 70 in indianapolis hospital
on December -, following a two
months illness.
Mr.. Harrison who was a painter
and interior decorator by trade.
prior TO his death, consented that
the Parent and Teachers associa-
ton Of indianapolis promote the
use Of several Of his pictures which
had been painted for the Indianapo-
lis Art institute. IN the art books
which are 10 be used in the public
schools there
Other survivors besides Mrs.
Lewis arc; Mrs Eva Harrison, the
widow: Mrs. Davidella Harrison
Worthington, daughter; drs Eliza
beth Garner, daughter. all Of In
disnapolis; Adolph Harrison, son.
Chicago. Mr.. Louis and Fred -Har-
rison. sons. Detroit. Mich, and sew
ersi graudchItdrrn.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
Maxine Sullivan, Age
3, Dies At Her Home

MaSine Sullivan, the namesake Of
the famed swing songstress, died at
her home last Saturday morning.
She was three years old and lived
at 69l wilkins street
The cause Of death is yet I'M
known according to records which
disclosed he-tet-was in apparent
good health while playins last Fri
day evening before being put 10
bed.
Awaking early Saturday morning
with a high fever. the tiny girl died
soon after being ordered to the hos
pilal by a city doctor who had been
called 70 the home by her mother.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30

Small modern homes within the
reach Of industrial workers -requir-
ing no more than a hundred dollars
down may now be built in several
sections Of the country by a Negro
organization, it was announced this
week.
The new Low Cost Housing COM
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-30
Youth Held On
Robbery Charge

Theophilus Solomon, II. Of l456
Frederick. was ordered held for
trial by Recorders Judge Arthur E.
Gordon. Tuesday. on a charge OF
robbery armed
The defendant was accused OF
robbing Helen Kovac Of Sl7 at the
point Of knife on December %.
He was arrested at his home ap-
proximately an hour after the al
legged stickup.
The plaintiff stated she was en-
iering her home at 1442 Frederick
when robbed. according 70 police on
the-eaSe.- SalemaH- vas represented
at the examination by Attorney
Pcrc;val Piper.