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Chapter Il

S~e~OkSSSS -
u USH stopped By Gays apart
- ment at nine. He had kept
his cab and It took them to Car
los. The waiter took them to the
table Rush had reserved that
afternoon. Across the room Matt
Pedrick waved at them. AZ his
side Kit English looked up and
nodded without too much en-
thusiasm. Rush took Gay to the
dance floor. After the dance they
returned to the table to find
Pedrick waiting for them.
Evening, children" he said.
is this an item or are you two
just doing research for Mr..
Henry's articles?"
"Oh, please don't put It In your
paper, Mr.. Pedrick,s begged Gay.
@Mr. Henry's wife and i've chill
dren would just die"
MY said Pedrick looking At
Rush, prolific, isn't her Didn't
know you were a family man"
'I'm not. At least I wasn't"
Pedrick turned to look at Gay.
well, he acts like q father to
me: You can't blame me for being
fooled"
Pedrick opened his mouth to
laugh aloud and suddenly closed
1t.
what came INF" asked Rush.
Pedrick spoke to Rush but his
eyes followed two men around
the edge Of the room to. the bar.
A couple Of guys who never
come in here. Card Sully's two
right hand men. OF course,
SIlly's place is out OF order al
the moment. Maybe they're Just
relaxing. On vacation as it were
and seeing what the other boys
are doing"
"This IS all very, interesting, |"
said Rush. Il have a call to
He followed the path toward
the bar taken by the two men
who had so interested Pedrick.
He seemed in no hurry. In fact
he stopped almost dead still sew
eral times. Each time he reached
in his pocket and did something
to small object he held in his
two hands. Then he dropped it "a
the floor only to hurry on several
yards and repeat the perform
ance. He stopped at the bar and
returned to the table.
a MURMUR started on the far
"A side Of the room. It grew and
with the murmur came the noise
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= taxes time. ana soms 49, n! RI.
going 70 Spsnd some tlne !tn
you alone. ny plans are ~ meo9.
"a me meanSame leSs ngs -
QueetlonA LII ~ eak 0!laA 10
be merry OF . reaSonADle he
Slmlle q the same:
hoeer, Sne Sal0.
He piss-htS hands On her Snoul-
ders then ana pulled her g nm:
urgency. Peace with : proEAisSL
Of ecstasy = snd tn aoftest MP
ouithiuM lemprys
q, go !, 81. -. 4. s.
IN uSsA ~ Snen Win no psck.
- Wafa &lance ana Walke05
through me olm nan % the en.
tranceway. There ne stopped "
look q 2 neure ne nad pencMe0
on the back o. an OLD envel0p&
In the street ne walked TOUR
blocks north. three west ana
half north again. There he found
. sheltering c!ump 81 bushes ana
crouched behind them, ms eyes
on the entrance OF 2 large new
house standlng some n1sy 1ees
took q gun from his pocket and
examined the load.
Soon an automobile turned the
corner south Of him and swept
up to stop beside the house RUSH
had watched. a man stepped out
The car gathered momentum IN 2
Y1HQh Qnn yy0Q h0l8 nl0Gk AWAY
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Of chairs being showed back from
the tables, and angry voices. A
door beside the bar opened and
4 tall dark man with broad shoul-
ders came out He looked il the
direction Of the disturbances,
then moved purposefully toward
the center Of II si
Pedrick shifted. He breatked in
deeply. Rush smiled. Gay shifted.
| Something was dead. Either that
or m army Of skunks had visited
Carlos. The smell caught in the
air conditioning and spread
around the room. II was over
powering.
I'm q son Of 4 monkey said
Pedrick, "a stink bomb. / won
der" He stopped in mid sem
tence. This Is news" he said.
BE seeing you.
Rush looked back at the mob
struggling to get out and in it,
midst saw one figure struggling
to get in. II was Carney. He
broke away from the mass and
stalked angrily across the door
to the three men at the bar. Then
from the crowd came another
late entry. Card Sully broke
through the crowd and came
across the room to stand beside
Carney. That was all Rush wanted
to see. He took Gay by one arm
and led her to the now thinning
crowd at the exit.
They finally unanswered q cab
out OF the line IN front Of the
night club and opened all the
windows. The wind blew away
all vestiges Of the smell before
they reached GAYS apartment.
Gay opened the door a43d
walked ahead Of Rush into the
Living room. She allowed him to
take of her wrap and turned to
face him.
"I'm an understanding woman,
Henry" she said. II know you
have business to do. ] don't know
what the hell you're up to, but
you're up to something and il OBJ
viously takes time. But some
time you're going to have to
spend some time with me alone
and you know it. So make your
plans. Now ply me with that
drink"
Rush poured drinks and they
drank in silence. Then Rush
stood up.
"Come here" he said.
She came and stood In front
! Of him.
Look" he said. I'm very glad
you are an understanding wo-
man. ] am up to something and
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&. GRANDSON 0Eo-is
CONTINUED fruw PAGE Cnel

: tNOnuuue0 HOD rake O0Sl
ical director for General Motors
for 20 years and is now employed
in that capacity blythe Chevrolet
Concern, has been planning this
trip ever since. he was q boy.
The silence Of his father on the
question Of Grandfather Mudd's
imprisonment only aroused Rich
ard Mudd to probe the case
through and through s. i IS
"My father was reluctant to
talk about grandfather. ~ DR..
Mudd said last night. I'VE lived
in Anacostia, now. a part Of
Washington, D. c. Father was, the
only child Of my grandfather to
become -Tdoctor. The family had
lost everything as the result Of
my grandfather's Imprisonment,
and guess father tried to forget
it. He was about five years old
when my grandfather was finally
released from prison. Later he
became country doctor and
worked 40 years at that profess
SiOn."
In DR.. Mudd's view, Secretary
of War Edwin Stanton was the
man responsible for the terrible
wrong done his grandfather.
Stanton was villain-ruth-
less and cunning" DR.. Mudd
said. IF it had not been for
Stanton, my grandfather never
would have been convicted. It
was Stanton who refused to let
him be tried by civilian court
and insisted that he be tried by a
court martial consisting of seven
generals and two colonies. 1t was
Stanton who stationed a platoon
of soldiers on my grandfather's
farm who burned most of the
barns, the meat house and ate up
all the chickens"
DR.. Mudd said his grandfather
was a well-to-do Maryland farm
owner of 80 when he was seized
after having set Booths leg,
broken when the assassin caught
his foot in the American flag on
Lincoln's Ford Theatre box as he
leaped to the stage. BY the time
he was released from prison he
was destitute.
II suppose my father and the
other children just about tried
to blot all recollections of that
period of their lives from their
minds" he remarked.
my grandfather was denied
habeas corpus and placed incom-
municado in the hold of ship.
He and the other prisoners were
placed in straight-jackets and
chained down. A black, rubber
lied hood was placed over his
head "a hours day. For 40 days
he endured this inhuman treat
ment.
"At the trial he was not al
lowed to testify in his own be-
half. He was allowed no rebuttal
and could submit only one writ
ten statement.
"But what hurt grandfather's
case the most was Secretary
Stanton's concealment Of Booths
diary, which proved beyond a
doubt that grandfather had never
been one of the conspirators.
This diary finally came to light
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.W1Fu HAt Idss, SUI VI HAlS.
Surratt, who was convicted and
hung, was tried a few years later.
'fMrs:s Surratt was actually less
guilty thans her son. who was ac-
quilted as q result Of evidence in
the diary. Mrs. Surratt merely
owned the hotel in which Booth
and other conspirators met. She
had NO, knowledge, of. the reason
for their meeting. u, :"
"John Sprratt escaped to, Aft
RIGA and ithen Joined the Pone's
guard IN Rome; Ilwhere he was
finally located Stanton did not
want to, bring him back to trial,
as he knew it would bring out
facts helpful to those already
convicted. Politic al pressure
forced him to bring Surratt back
for trial.
'sBy this time the existence of
Booths diary was well known.
Through it Suratt was acquitted
and it became clear that grand
father was entirely innocent. He
was, nevertheless, still imprison-
ed at Fort Jefferson. If the
diary had been introduced at his
trial he would never have been
convicted and Mrs. Surratt never
would have been hung. In fact,
the court recommended mercy
for Mrs. Surratt but Stanton
kept this fact from President
Andrew johnson and had her
executed" =.
DIR. Mudd said :. that the SUI
preme Court ruled two years af-
ter. his .grandfather's conviction
that court martial trial of civil
ians was unconstitutional ev e n
in time of war if civilian courts
are available, but no action was
taken to release his grandfather,
convicted by an unconstitutional
court.
president johnson told my
grandmother that he released my
grandfather as soon as he saw
that he could not be reelected
president. He could not release
him sooner, he said, because it
would hurt his chances for re-
election. AS it was, my grand
mother virtually had to live on
the steps of the White House to
make sure that President john
son signed the pardon before his
term expired.
1T cost her $500 to get the slip
of paper to Key West, and from
Key West to the authorities on
Dry Tortugas. It is not true, as
shown in the movie, Prisoner
Of Shark Island" that my grand
mother came to Key West. She
hired an emiSsary as she would
not entrust that precious pardon
to the mails"
DR.. Mudd does give President
Johnson credit for having the
courage to fight Stanton after he
learned that Stanton had not in
formed him that the court had
recommended clemency for Mrs.
Surratt. Stanton had taken pains
to have Congress pass a law
making it unconstitutional for a
president to dismiss a cabinet Of
ficer without Congressional ap-
prevail, but Johnson disregarded
the law and. dismissed him, there.
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Her story merely corroborated
the details he had already heard
from the loggers but hearing
them described in Elsa's clear low
voice confirmed the suspicious
that had been growing in his
mind.
ELSA, haven't you noticed that
every one of these accidents has
been planned SO as not to cause
much damage? Look at the fire
here. 1t could have been set so
that the lumber would have gone
up first. but it wasn't"
She nodded. 81 know what
can be behind it Dough"
''The person who is doing it
doesn't want your Company to
lose its value. he simply wants to
establish an atmosphere of bad
luck or fear so that your men
will quit and make operation diff
ficult."
$50 we'll sell cheap" Elsa fin
ished. ut looks like Cady, doesn't
it?"
They fell silent staring at the
still-Steaming pile of sawdust and
a flock of curious sea gulls that
circled over the pier then came
to rest on the pilings. their beady
yellow eyes examining the smoke
suspiciously. Then they became
aware of another figure moving
along the pier toward them, his
face enigmatic as he studied the
debris of the fire. 1t was Hardin.
His eyes took in Doug. fell away
to Elsa. What happened?"
"Just what it looks like" Elsa's
tone was crisp. where were you
Bill?"
''In town. It's obvious isn't it,"
He indicated his business suit.
81 wish you'd been around"
"Why? It looks like you're be-
ing we'll taken care of"
"Oh, Bill" Elsa reproved, "Why
can't you and Doug be friends!"
understand why" Hardin's eyes
smouldered.
81 understand that you've gone
out of your way to ride Doug
ever since he came. That you de-
liberately picked a fight the other
night" Her voice broke with
WEAKNESS and evaporation.
"A fight we never finished"
Hardin reminded. cts still UNI
settled"
Doug's jaw frightened. "Any
time" he said, "Any time you're
ready Hardin"
ITO be continuedl
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TROUBLE SHOOTER

unteers were returning to the vii
lage leaving the actual mill en-
ployees to straighten up the acrid-
smelling mess. A smoke pail still
drifted skyward slowly mingling
with the faint mist that rose from
the Sound with the coming of
day.
Old Sven moved away to give
orders to some of the younger
boys poking hopefully in a pile of
mill ends and Doug, his lungs
feeling ready to burst in their
need for fresh air, walked out
onto the end of the long dock.
Elsa was there. sitting on the
wooden ledge. her back against a
piling. AS Doug approached she
put a hand up to her smudged
forehead and smiled tiredly.
"Come and sit down. Doug. If
you're as exhausted as / am your
legs won't hold you up much
longer"
He grinned. "It isn't that bad
but if Hardin asks me to do any
spar-rigging today he'll get no
for an answer"
"He won't. Grandfather called
off all logging operations until to-
morrow" Then her eyes grew
anxious. "You haven't seen Bill
since your fight?"
mo. What became of him. do
you know"
Il saw him wandering over to
Indian Joe's afterward. Naturally
I thought he was around camp
until you said he wasn't in the
bunkhouse."
Perhaps he went to town for
the weekend"
Perhaps" Her eyes looked
speculative but she switched the
subject. well the fire didn't do
much real damage, thank Heaven.
Mostly Sawdust and odd lots and
part of the pier. Whoever set it
was extremely stupid or extreme
ly clever"
"Then you know it was set?"
Grandfather .old me about the
kerosene-soaked waste" she adj
mitted. He stared at her noticing
how even SCOT and exhaustion
could not mar her fresh healthy
coloring and the liveliness of her
eyes. ELSA, tell me something
about these other accidents-the
ones that occurred before came"
Her teeth flashed in an ire
presSible smile. you're certainly
persistent Doug! If l didn't know
better I'd think you were a de-
tective."
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Chapter 16


DOUG stared back at Sven Lar
son incredulously. For an in
slant a wild impossible theory
leaped to his mind.-that Sven
himself had set the fire to collect
insurance on the mill. Then he
realized that the whole idea was
fantastic and dismissed it.
The subsiding fingers of flame
were reflected in the old mans
pupils. Suddenly he looked weary
and aged and Doug took the
heavy fire pump from his knotted
hands and continued spraying it
into the burning sawdust.
Il won't tell anyone, Mr.. Lar
son." he said slowly. "but I'm
afraid the men are already look
ing for something of the sort"
what do you mean, Andrews?"
cable"
''They know! But how?" He
SWore vigorously in Norwegian.
Remembering the old mans bad
heart Doug wondered uneasily if
he should have told him. then
knew it would have come out
anyway. "You know how talk
spreads through a lumber camp"
he said. 1T only takes one man
to start it"
"Yah. 1t must have been that
damn fool Charlie unless. :"
His voice ceased abruptly. A
man had come around the corner
of the building. Doug saw that it
was Ed Frawley and wondered if
that was why the old man had
shut up. Then Sven resumed talk
ed. we found some waste
soaked in kerosene"
For a moment FraWley's eyes
glittered dangerously. He cursed.
'Then they ,Dere deliberate!" The
old man stared and FraWley went
on "That'S what you meant,
wasn't it? That the fire had been
set?"
"That's what I meant" Sven's
voice was heavy.
'The fire and the CABLE" Fraw-
ley muttered. "and those other
accidents too. Someone is out to
ruin us!"
CRUMBLING he disappeared
~ around the building and Doug
and old Sven continued to spray
the sawdust until it was nothing
but sodden blackened mound.
The fire was out and weary vol
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inexperienced

Police Judge: Well, Sam, about
your son stealing those chickens.
I've decided to let him off this
time, but why don't you show
him the right way?"
Sam: All done tried hard,
Judge. but he goes and gets his
self caught anyhow
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REPORT

Key West, Fla, Aug. 20, 1947
observation taken at $3.50 am,
Eastern Standard Time,
City Office
Ta,npara$,1res
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CRUMBLING he disappeared
~ around the building and Doug
and old Sven continued to spray
the sawdust until it was nothing
but sodden blackened mound.
The fire was out and weary vol
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-01-24

nesudarytu smugio. Bet aud
ros nesulaukta. Veliau patys
Vokieciai apsiziurejo kad per
kvailai ir perdaug toje savo
"informacijoje" issiplepejo. Tarp
kitko ten pabreze kad Gen.
Plechaviciaus stabas buvo An
glosaksu agentu lizdas. situo
Lietuviu akyse pazeminti mega
lejo, mes visa Lietuviu tauta
buvo palankiai nusistaciusi An
glosaksams. ,Po kick laiko pa
tvs Vokieciai slaptai redakci-
JOINS, kurios dar "nesuskabo"
to plepalo ideti, atsauke ir uz-
draude bedeti. Matyt, pajuto
kad Lietuviu tauta ir jos ka-
rius dar labiau sukirsins prizes
save.
Kitaip vengdami prie Kario
del "smulkmenu" kibti, sugal-
vojo jos redakcija isprovokuoti
"rimciau". Karta atsiunte pa
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zystama zmogu, natyt, savo uz-
verbuota agenta, kad Sis kvai-
liu surastu. Sis slapta viena
kita redakcijos zmogu pradejo
kalbinti leisti nauja slapta po-
zemio laikrasteli. Nustebe to-
kiu kvieteju, savo tarpe pasi-
tare ir is vieno gavo ziniu apie
j, kad tai buves bolseviku po-
litrukas, landziojes po bolsevi-
ku stabus, dabar tarnauja
kaz kokiu verteju. Graziai jam
buvo atsakyta ir nieko nepe-
ses daugiau akiu neberode.
IDOMUS ir placiai skaitomas
Karys turedavo grazaus pelno,
kuris parupo ir Vokieciams. Ka-
rvs savo pelna skirdavo ir Lie
tuviskiems tikslams islaikydavo
ir Kariui nepriklausomus tar
nautojus. Karys daug ka slepe
dar bolseviku nepagrobta, bu-
vusi Lietuvos kariuomenes kul-
turini turta. Pavyzdziui, vie
ma tokiu buvusia turtinga Lie
tuvos kariuomenes centrine bi-
blioteka. Buvo nuolatinis jos
tarnautojas-slepejas, kuris bu-
vo laikomas kaip Kario tarnau-
tojas. Isisteigusi kazkokia Vo-
kieciu bendrove norejo prievar-
ia paimti j savo rankas visu
Lietuvisku laikrasciu leidima,
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pasiglemzti ju turta ir paJa-
mas ir nustatineti kick tarnau-
toju gall laikyti. Geresnei prize
vartai naudojo net Vokieciu
igaliotinio Lietuvai generalinio
komisaro Rentelno blankus. To-
XII spaudima gavo ir Karys,
bet cia irgi pasipriesino If Vo-
kieciai nieko nepese. Nepavy-
ko jiems ir su kitais Lietuvls-
kais laikrasciais.
Karys, registruodamas boil
seviku nuzudytuosius Lietuvius
karius, drauge vede slapta re-
gistracija ir Vokieciu nuzudy-
tuju Lietuviu kariu, bet, gala,
traukiantis is Vilniaus visi tie
sarasai zuvo.
Galetu daug prirasyti is Ka-
rio pergyvenimu ir kovu Vo-
kieciu okupacijos metu, bet tai
uzimtu daug vietos. Panaslu
pergyvenimu galetu nemaza pri-
rasyti ir kit Lietuviski laikras-
ciai. Ateityje gal visa tai, ga
les padaryti.
St. Gumbutis.
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tas pats. Tos vietos kur buvo
itariama kad cenzura gall is
braukti, visai praleistos, neis-
verstos Vokiskai. Dabar SUI
pratau del ko cenzura "susvel-
nejo". Ne j susvelnejo, bet
musu vertejos moterys isdra-
sejo ir isgudrejo. Pasirodo kad
kai kuriais atzvilgiais moterys
buvo drasesnes ir daugiau RI
zikuodavo uz vyrus. Tokiais
atvejais, jei Vokieciai butu pa
stebeje, aisku, daugiausia nu-
kentetu vertejos. Taciau nei
karta Vokieciai del tu praleis-
tn sakiniu neprisikabino. Jie
is laikrascio Lietuviskai nesu-
prato, o kurie suprato tai, ma
tyt, galvojo kad cenzura pra-
leido. ITEMS laikrasciams ku-
riuos cenzuruodavo pacius lai-
krascius is Lietuvisko teksto,
taip pralysti budavo neimano-
ma.
Tiesa, buvo norma Kariui
uzdeti ir trecia cenzura.s Vo-
kieciu propagandos istaiga Viii
niuje, kuri cenzuruodavo Viii
niuje leidziamus laikrascius
Lietuviu ir kitty tautu kalbo-
mis-, buvo pradejus reikalauti
kad jai duotu cenzuruoti ir Ka-
ri. Ia propagandos istaigq
musu redakcijos gerai pazino-
jo. Tie laikrasciai kurie buvo
jos cenzuruojami, visai mega
ledavo nieko Lietuviskai pat
riotiskoje dvasioje ideti, kai
tue tarpu Karyje daug tilpda-
vo patriotiniu rasiniu. Karys
visais imanomais budais smar-
kiai pasiprieSino prizes sias ma
ciu propagandos uzgaidas, ra-
do paramos is Sales ir apsigy-
ne nuo dar baisesnes cenzuros,
kuri visai zlugde Lietuviskus
laikrascius savo zveriskai ma
cisku akiplesiskumu.
VOKIECIQ Gestapas jaute
kad Karyje neviskas tvarkoje
ir kad jane vykdoma tylus ir
pasyvus pasipriesinimas Vokie-
ciu keslams. Karys, nors gau-
siai dejo medziagos prizes boil
sevikus, bet ka nors deti prizes
Angus ir Amerikecius venge.
Be to, neidedavo ir daug Vo-
kisku "informaciju", prievarta
verciamu deti. Kai 1914 me-
tu Geguzes menesi Vokieciai
likvidavo Gen. Plechaviciaus
suorganizuota Vietine Rinktine,
jos staba arestavo,. kareivius
VENUS iszude, kitus isveze j
Vokietija, o treti, laiku speje
pabegti, SUI ginklais issislapste
miskuose ir pradejo partiza-
nau, Vokieciai Lietuviu spau-
dai issiuntinejo ilga "informa-
cija'', smeiziancia Lietuvius
karius ir Gen. Plechaviciaus
staba. Kai kurie civiliai laik-
rasciai buvo priversti ideti ta
smeizta (ne visi suskubo ide-
ti), bet Karys jo neidejo.
Kad nenukentetu vyriausias
redaktorius, turis didele Selma,
jis buvo isleistas j kaima prie
savo seimos, kur tue metu gy-
veno. Pasiliko jo vietoje ne
vedusieji, kuriu arestas seimai
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NEUzMIRSKIT Sc

Rasydami Dirvos Redakcijal,
Administrator ar Agentural
kokius paklausimus, visada ide-
kit uz Sc paste zenkleli atsa-
kymui. Tas butina.