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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24


arrival OF Medical Exam
iner Frank r. Webb, the
time element asserted IT,
self, in an unexpected manner.
Dr. Webb said that Bacon had bed TO death
five minutes after he was stabbed which
would mean that somebody had been with
him in the car a few minutes before it plunged
into the bean field.
Lorraine Smith had first seen the car
shortly after five and Powell set the time of
Bacons death at ten minutes after five
Then how had the killer managed TO escape
from that careening car FIVE minutes before
his victims death, and vanish completely?
Just when il seemed there was no answer
10 that question outside OF the realm Of the
supernatural the time element became a
little more elastic. After the autopsy. Or
Webb said that a man with a wound like
Bacons might live for 20 minutes"
Then where was Bacon at the start of
his last 20 minutes on q IS earth p
From the \actorts wife the Austrian
nightclub singer Greta Keller. whom ne had
married last January and who had remained
at home that Sunday afternoon because she
was an eNpectaut mother - the police learned
that Bacon had set out in his car at two
O'Clock wearing his blue denim trunks with
the apparent intention of going for a swim
at the beach cottage of the sugar heiress,
Dorothy Spreckels.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24

But it's when he's working out the time
element toying with IL. juggling it, mar
rowing IT down that the Old Master proves
his superiority
Observe how he did it in the Bacon case.
on the afternoon of Sunday September
u. shortly after five o'clock, 12-year-od Lor-
raine Smith who lives in the little beach
community OF Venice near Hollywood was
looking out Of a window IN her home when she
saw a small closed automobile weave along
the street bump over the curb, skid around
a telephone pole and stop in a bean field.
Snatching up telescope which happened
TO be handy she watched a handsome, sun
tanned broad -shouIdcrcd young man wearing
only blue denim swimming trunks lurch
sideways from the drivers seat and collapse.
She is quite certain there was nobody
else in the car
A few moments later Wayne Powell who
had been working nearby in his garden, ran
over TO the bean field and discovered blood
squirting from wound between the young
mans shoulder blades.
Help me- please help me- the young man
gasped but when Powell asked him who had
done it, there was no answer - because he
was dead
The police arrived soon afterwards and
in their first search for clues they found
papers that identified the victim as 2e-year-
old David G. Bacon.
II was soon learned, too that Bacon came
from prominent Boston family; that he was
the son of 1t Colonel David c. G. Bacon a
former lieutenant governor Of Massachusetts
and now with the American Air Force in
England and that while student AT Harvard
University. he had for three consecutive years
written and appeared in the Hasty Pudding
Clubs annual show.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24


blood on the out
side of the car led
police TO believe
that he was stabbed while sitting in
the car, perhaps when leaning over
to release the emergency brake.
Yet the only fingerprints found
both inside and outside of the car
were his own.
So there you have the mystery
the Old Master contrived out of
commonplace clues and a peculi-
arly elastic time element.
AS for motive, study Of Bacon's
past failed to disclose anything con-
elusive.
Before his marriage he was con-
victed in California on morals
charge and given a suspended SEN
tence on condition he stay out of
the state for three years but re-
turned before that time was up
Three months before his death he
wrote a will with a pencil leaving
everything to his wife And on the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24
By GEORGE O'NEAL

HOLLYWOOD is the most lucrative field
- in the world for adroit contrvers of
y murder stories but every now and
then the Greatest Contrivcr OF all seems 10
lose patience and shows them how II really
should be done by creating an unsolvable
mystery right in their midst
When Fate writes the script, it's time
for lesser writer's 70 60 back 10 school and
study the methods Of the Old Master
They had that chance back in 1922 when
the body Of Producer William Desmond Tay-
Tor found lying on the living-room floor
in his bungalow, his CLASSY eyes staring at
the ceiling a bullet hole IN his back and they
got IL again the other day when Actor David
c. Bacon. the Masked Marvel OF the movies
ran his midget automobile Of the road and
urched out knife wound between his shout
der blades 20 die on his back in "a bean field
The Old Master doesn't waste time cudgel-
ing his brains - think up bizarre and tricky
WAYS Of dspatching a victim He prefers
something commonplace something almost
anybodv might use amt. therefore. all the
more difficult 10 trace the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24

letters TO Taylor
from Miss Minter, M
whose career Taylor M
had largely nodded.
Peavey said that shortly after seven
o'clock the previous evening-February 1,
1922, it was-he had taken cocktails into the
living room where Taylor was entertaining
Mabel Nornand, the movie coincidence and
left for the night,
Mabel said that after Peavey left the
room Taylor showed her the Cancelled checks
on the desk and told her many of them had
been forged in his name by his former valet
Edward F. Sands who had departed abruptly
from Taylor's household few months before
taking along a lot of his possessions, including
a box of the private brand of cigarettes.
Shortly before eight o'clock man At
window in another bungalow saw Taylor and
Mabel stroll down the courtyard TO her auto
mobile, where her chauffeur was waiting and
then saw Taylor go back alone.
About eight o'clock Mrs. Douglas Mac
Lean, who lived across the court from Taylor
heard a single, sharp report which she mis-
took for an automobile bacldiring and look
ing out saw q figure come out of Tayor's
front door and walk away.
The figure wore a mackinaw, a cap pulled
down over the forehead and a mufler up 70
the chin and though wearing a mans cloth
ing walked like woman.
And there you have the material clues
planted by the Old Master in the Taylor case
Was il Sands the ex-valet, who shot
Taylor in the back, because he feared Taylor
might prosecute him for forgery? or was ne
killed by woman one of the many from
his long and romantic past, who jealous,
or neglected or furious for some other reason
In both the Bacon case and the Taylor
case there tragic aftermath. The career
Of poor little Mary Miles Minter one Of the
most promising young stars Of her day, was
ruined forever by the adverse publicity the
case brought her and she soon sank into
obscuritv And a few weeks after Bacon's
murder Greta Keller Bacons child was still
born which physicians attributed 10 the
shock she suffered over her husbands death
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24

Film Murders Are Always
Solved. But Even the Imogi-
native Mystery Makers.
Like the Police. Can Only
Guess Who Killed Actor
Bocon-And There's Thaf
Old. Old Puzzle Of WHO
Done It?" in the Desmond
Taylor Case
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-24

In the Bacon case II was
a knife. and IN the Taylor
case pistol.
The other material clues
were familiar objects, too
in the Bacon case, a turtle
neck sweater, a few strands
Of short blond hair, three
small feathers, a blood
soaked beach robe; in the
Taylor case. a silk night
gown. a batch Of love letters,
a pile OF Cancelled checks. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Wilmington Girls
Attend Scout Camp

Two Wilmington Girl Scouts,
Rosemary Sweeney and Mary M.
Stanland have returned from Camp
Trailee at Goldsboro, where they
spent a week as winners of the
camperships awarded by the local
Girl Scout Council for outstanding
Scouters.
The following Wilmington girls
were also at the camp: Eleanor
Farwick, Joan Lucas, Anne Can
ady, Barbara Canady, Dianne Co.'S
tello, Rosalie Lewis, Anne Rut-
ledge, Patsy Johnson, Kaye Ray
nor, and Fay Farmer. One camp
ership was the award of the Coun-
Gil while the other was the award
of a council member, Mrs. J. e.
Brantley.
It is because of the important
contribution that camps make to
the war effort and to the well-be-
ing of children and families that
it is imperative that camping be
wartime asset. camps not only
make a direct contribution to the
war effort, but also constitute a
long time conservation of man.
power by avoiding waste in the
wartime generation of boys and
girls. Camps build robust bodies
at a time when toughness is need
ed and doctors are fewer, re-
sourceful minds when self-reliance
and initiative are at a premium,
and skillful hands when technolo-
gists and those with motor ability
are needed everywhere.
1t is in keeping with this line OF
thought that the Wilmington Girl
Scout Council hopes in the future
to be able to establish a perma-
nent camp. The Girl Scout Day
Camp of this summer was step
toward this goal, scout executives
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

by their attendants, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Gilbert of Peekskill.
The bride wore Magnolia
crepe ensemble of Cerulean blue
with Whiteaccessories and a bou-
quet of red roses and lilies of the
valley.
Mrs. Gilbert wore a navy alpaca
suit with corsage of yellow roses.
Follwoing the ceremony the
aunt of the bridegroom, Mrs. C.
F. Ulmer, entertained at a recep-
ton at her home, after which they
left for a wedding trip to south
e1n Connecticut and New York.
1'ne bride wore costume suit Of
green linen for going away.
Mrs. Hayes is a graduate of
James Walker Memorial hospital
school of Nursing in Wilmington
and is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. H. Maready of Chinqua-
pin. For the past three years she
nas been opera ting supervisor and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

place on Saturday evening, July
u. at 8 o'clock in St. Paups
Methodist church in Pukskie, N.
T., with the Rev. James McKier-
nam performing the double ring
ceremony.
The church was decorated with
cybodlum ferns and valley lilies.
The bride and bridegroom en-
tered the church together followed
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

nursing instructor at the Babies
hospital at Wrightsville Sound.
MIR. Hayes, who holds degree
In music from New York univer-
sity, was formerly instructor of
music in the schools of Chester,
W. Va, and kearney, N. J. He
is now bandleader with the 315th
Infantry at Camp Forrest, Tenn.
He is member of Phi Mu Alpha
fraternity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

hotel room here. A report filed
with the office of District Attorney
Frank S. Hogan, he said. Acting
District Attorney Sol Gelb said,
however, there might be no an
nouncement Of findings for several
dayS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
PERFORMS AUTOPSY

NEW YORK, July 31-RAChief
Medical Examiner Thomas A. Con-
zales said today he had perform
ed an autopsy on the body of Mrs.
Janet Snowden Gill, oil heiress who
died June l in a fall from her
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Memorial Continental Hall
Given To The War Effort
Continued from Page Nine)

used as the office of the vice
ohairmen Of The Volunteer Special
Services; the Missouri room, taken
over as the office of the chairman
Of the Staff Assistance Corps; the
Ohio room, n.sw used as the office
of the Canteen Corps.
''The in the north museum. used
as the office of the chairman and
vice-chairman of the Camp and
Hospital Service; Army and Navy
Auxiliaries; Canteen Training,
Dletitian's Aide Corps; Nutrition
Service, and Records.
The Iowa room has been taken
over by Nurses Aide Corps, and
the Vermont room also is being
used for Hospital and Recreation
Corps.
The main lobby, Pennsyl-
vania's portion of Memorial Con-
tinental hall, houses the Informa.
ton Desk
1t was difficult task to prepare
the rooms for Red Cross oc-
cupancy. Priceless antiques and
relics were carefully moved from
the large museum, known to count
less thousands of Washington visi-
tors, and stored in places of
safety. In each of the state
rooms, rare colonial furniture and
furnishings gathered from every
section of the various states were
Grated and taken to the basement
fer storage.
The space is now under the di-
rection of J. Clifford Folger, D. C.
chapter chairman, who said:
''The Red Cross is deeply ap.
preciative of this patriotic and
generous offer. The Red Cross
realizes that Memorial Continental
hall is not only large gift OF
space, but slso the pride of the
OAR and one Of the shrines of the
Nations Capital. For that reason
the offer is doubly appreciated. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Hay.s.MareadY
Vows Announced

rbs wedding Of Miss Lille Ma
,..dv and Donald H. Hayes, chief
orrar: officer, U. $. Army, took
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

MRS. " former Winie Banard daughter of Mr. Mrs
Ballard /
Collins the Mr. and Mrs Collins
stationed here with the u S. Coast
NJ Y
Upton
MRS FREDERICK prior her marriage July 2 the
Miss Ida
by
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
SOCIETY RULES

Announcements such as en-
gagements, marriages and
births, will not be taken over
the telephone. They must be
signed, and will not be ac-
cepted without proper sigma
ture.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

Gas consumption in your auto
mobile at 60 miles per hour il
almost double what it is at 80.
First rural free delivery service
in the United States was made in
West Virginia in 1896.
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Evening star., 1943-02-25
Your Income Tax
No. 53-When, Where and How Taxes Are
to Be Paid

Taxes due on return filed for the
calendar year 1912 may be paid in
full at the time for the filing of
the return on or before March IS,
l943, The tax may, at the option
Of the taxpayer, be paid in four
equal nlstallments instead of in
single payment, in which case the
first inStallment is to be paid on
or before March Is, the second on
or before June IS, the third on or
before September Is and the fourth
on or before December IS, l943.
If the taxpayer elects to pay his
tax in four installments, each of
the four installments must be equal
in amount, but any installment
may be paid. at the election of the
taxpayer, prior to the time pre-
scribed for its payment. If an in
stallment is not paid in full on or
before the date fixed for its pay
ment, the whole amount of the
tax remaining unpaid is required
to be paid upon notice and demand
from the collector.
The tax must be paid to the COL
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Power
Continued From First Page.)


not to ask for relief on the grounds
Of discrimination, as it affects the
Government particularly, but we are
going to appear as party sub
stantially interested and in the in
terest of the public"
In addition to Mr.. Hill, Treasury
Procurement was represented at the
District Building conference by A.
j. SWanick, an attorney, and G. E.
Jardins, procurement engineer. Rep
resenting the company were A. G.
Neal and Attorneys S. r. Bowen
and William K. Laws.
Want Composite Bills.
1t was brought out that in addi-
tion to asking for lower rates for
the Government buildings, Treasury
Procurement had asked the COM
pany to present composite bill
instead of separate bills, for the
many different Federal structures.
1t was said this later became a de-
mand for single bill for all high
tension power service to the Gov
ernment and single bill for all of
its low-tension service here.
1t appeared that approval of these
requests would give the Government
still lower rates, since the lowest
scheduled rate is applied according
to use Of stated numbers of kilo-
watt hours.
The sliding-scale plan already has
been under attack for months by
Gregory Hankin of the District
PUG and spokesmen for the OPA
notably in the case last fall of the
rates Of the Washington Gas Light
Co. and more recently In last week S
pre-hearing conference on the
PEPCO rate case.
The sliding-scale rate plan was
adopted first at the end of 1924 for
the power company, under consent
decree ending long valuation and
rate battle between the power COM
pany and the Public Utilities Com
mission. Under it there were rate
reductions each year until last year
when no rate case was held.
Evening star., 1943-02-25

reported to have informed a Senate
Agriculture Committee inquiring into
farm labor shortages that an order
for soldiers to help in Arizona cot
ton fields was issued under a gen.
eral program for emergency use of
troops on farms. Last night he said
the department had not planned to
send troops to Arizona fields until
after careful survey of the situa-
tion had been made and full op-
Grafton program had been completed.
Gen. McNarney Informed the
committee that Mr.. Stimson had
submitted the plan to President
Roosevelt on Monday and had
received the Chief Executives ap-
proval. 1t provides for furlough-
ing of entire military units for use,
under regular officers, in gathering
seasonal crops.
Members of the Manpower Com
missions executive staff have ex-
pressed a belief that the time has
come for the body to reopen con-
sideration of compulsory labor leg
islation. They feel that within six
months a labor crisis will develop,
and that voluntary methods now be-
ing attempted may not be able to
cope with the situation.
Another reason is that the COM
mission is unable to build up a staff
in the field to combat boarding, alb
senteeism and other practices him
dering full utilization of the labor
force, officials admit. 1t is felt that
congressional restrictions under
which the commission is now work
ing would be removed in the event
legislation was enacted.
Clark Bill introduced.
Senator Austin, Republican, of
Vermont and Representative Wads-
worth, Republican. of New York re-
Gently introduced national service
bill which Grenville Clark, New
York attorney and friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, had drafted During
the last Congress Mr.. Clark sub
mitted bill to the White House
and apparently won administration
approval The measure was referred
to Mr.. McNutt, who Immediately de-
clared national service legislation
was not only inevitable but impera-
tive.
Mr.. McNutts views were supported
by Harry Hopkins, who in a maga-
zine article declared: The vast
majority of American people want
laws that will concentrate our man
power on three vital efforts-to send
men to war to supply them and to
maintain the families at home"
The commissions management
labor advisers refused to approve use
of compulsion on the ground that
voluntary methods had not been
given a fair trial. Later, Mr.. McNutt
reracted his statement by declaring
national service legislation was not
needed at this time.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Africa
Continued From First Page :

or 80 enemy fighters and a running
dogight ensued in which the Ma
rauders destroyed five Messerschmitt
l09s and a transport plane in the
air, while the Spitflres got two more
MeSserschmitts.
American Havocs escorted by
Spitfires also bombed a town and
railways near Sbeitla and Spitfires
and Airacobras strafed Axis motor
transport just south of Kasserine.
Other Allied planes strafed troops
and gun positions near the enemy
base Of Kairouan, smashed with full
bomb loads at roads in the Kas-
serine, Feriana and Gafsa areas and
attacked the railroad bridge and
transport in the vicinity of Faid.
Americans shot down at least
eight enemy planes, it was reported,
while the Allies lost six aircraft.
French bombers also were in ac-
ton for the first time in this the
ater. Equipped with French-made
planes, a veteran unit of the regu-
lar French air force attacked an
enemy concentration in the Nefta
area, far to the south, near the
northwest end of the Chott Djerid
This unit fought in France before
the armistice and participated in
bombing operations on Italian cities
after Italy entered the war.
Badly mauled yesterday by the
counterattacking Allies, Rommel's
forces were reported jammed in a
narrow box-like salient extending
back through Kasserine Pass, where
they were being subjected to a
merciless bombsrdment by wave
after wave of Allied warplanes.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO Feb 25 ~ ,CU. s. Department
Of Agriculture .-Salable hogs, $4,000:
total $4,000: fairly active; generally 1915
lower than Wednesdays average; top.
pounds; l5.2o;;35; most, l5o,ls0 pounds
sows, 14.S5-15.1O: few choice to 1925.
Salable cattle. 1000; salable calves, 500:
fed steers and yearling strong: killing quail
ity medium to good; nothing strictly choice
other classes fairly active. steady; best
heifers: 1875; choice kinds absent; cutter
cows, 1925 down but Gamers selling under
500; good beef cows to 1880; practical
top weighty sausage bulls, 1878: extreme
outside. 1900; vealers active al 1850
salable sheep 5000; total. 5000; late
Wednesday. mostly steady, on all classes
good to choice wooled lambs. l550-16 so
top, 16 80 for choice % pound weights: fed
clipped lambs with No. > skins 1928.
offerings with fall shorn pelts credit, 5 65
good yearling ewes around 81 pounds.
1900; bulk good around 1873 pound saugh-
ter ewes, s,s5; todays trade. fat lambs.
opening mostly steady. quality considered: :
good to choice, l5.S5-1625; best held
higher; double good clipped lambs with
No ? skins. 800. and deck good yearIing
ewes, 1915; sheep scarce; quotably steady.
Evening star., 1943-02-25

lector Of internal revenue for the
district in which the taxpayers re-
turn is required to be flled-that is.
to the collector for the district in
which is located the taxpayers legal
residence or principal place of busi-
ness, or if he has no legal residence
or principal place of business in the
United States, then to the collector
of internal revenue at Baltimore.
Md
In the payment of taxes frac-
tlonal part of cent is to be dis
regarded unless it amounts to one
hall cent or more, in which case it
shall be increased to l cent.
The tax due, if any, should be
paid in cash at the collectors office,
or by check or money order payable
to collector of internal revenue" I"
In the case of payment in cash,
the taxpayer should in every in
stance require and the collector
should furnish receipt. In the
case OF payments made by check
or money order however, the can
celed check or the money order re-
ceipt is usually sufficient receipt.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Capital Store Sales
5 Per Cent Below
1912 in January
Transit Boord Boosts
Quarterly Dividend to
so Cents q Share
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Department store sales in the
Capital in January dropped 5 per
cent below January, l942, but in rs
stores in the Fifth District were |
per cent ahead of last year. the Fed
aral Reserve Bank of Richmond re-
ported today, The modest January
decrease in dollar volume in WASH
ington was due to the fact that sales
IN January year ago were So per
cent above the same month in 1941
and in the Fifth District were up
AZ per cent.
Charleston. S. c.. led the district
with a, 2l per cent advance, in spite
OF the fact that sales in January.
1912, were 104 per cent ahead, of
January. 194l, a very hard pace to
exceed this year Sales in Washing
ton for the II months ended Janu-
ary 81 were IS per cent ahead of
the preceding year and were up the
same amount in the whole Fifth
District. Sales in leading cities in
January and the IL months COM
pare as follows with the like periods
a year ago: