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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. I I 1 LI bringing up father- Sa Jif g and Mf gi in Full Pf of Color in Thd Sunday Be. Drawn for The Bee by McManus Copyright 1919 International Nawa Sarvica. Is 3 ' is 111 pTH"" 1 PI I K": I WELL -VD LIKE I j fl Q WOULD AND WHEN I , 'A I . I 'iW JKCS UP , ,1 I l; UP AU. TO ME HW L I I HE ETS HOME -HE lt C 1 I,;1 12 I .'ii 111 i 1 ii II! Pi 0. DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS F 0 R RADIO STATIONS Will Be Used Primarily for Direction of Mail-Carrying Airplanes Handicapped by Fog. New York. July 7. The Postoffice . department at Washington has con tracted for the erection of three high-power radio stations, the first of a chain of wireless communicat ing centers in various cities to be used primarily for' the direction of nail-carrying airplanes handicapped Uy fog, it was announced here by Emil J.-Simon, manufacturer of ra iio apparatus for the War and Navy iepartments. Stations will be established r.at Bcllefonte, Pa., and Cleveland, with a third at some point on Long Island or Newark, N. J. Appropri ations for them already are avail able. Others will be erected at Washington and Chicago as soon as :ongress provides funds. Each station will be equipped with steel towers 200 feet high and 300 feet apart and will have a range of approximately 400 miles to mail air planes and approximately 700 miles between --stations, the difference in range being due to the lesser send ing ability of the airplanes' wireless equipment. The station at Bellefonte will be iM "' " 1 " 1 ' ' (S PHOTOPLAVS II' -fBr-r-r: but i&old '""feSl : a facinaiinq romanw of lift and itr, !' lov, ftUfani iotj, in IK Jttohlt 11 f ItS!! ' ? ' Uni of eUrnai snour 7odaiT ioalurdasf J 5ir iQ & NATIONAL mni MARGUERITE CLARK ,"Come Out of tlx Kitchen" Also til First Reel Chaplin Erer Made. Is ' ,t , y feLj-'' ml Yzr-r 5$f o0 hear rWv;, 91 ' ' ' completed about the middle of Oc tober, while the.other two definitely decided upon are expected to be ready early in December. Maintain Communication. Establishment of the radio sta tions will enable the Postoffice de partment to maintain communica tion between cities having air post delivery independent of telegraph and telephone services in the advent of a disruption.' of service by storms or other causes. JJeut. Clark A. Edgerton, former ly of the army aviation service, in charge of the air mail experimental work at Washington, will direct the activities of the radio stations. DOUG, FAIRBANKS in "The Knickerbocker Backaboo" and JACK DEMPSEY World Champioa, in Trainiag LOTHR0P 24th and , Lothrop Luft TlmM TimIm uiv At t terkiu "PEGGY DOES HER DARNDEST." N Bee Want Ads do the business. j IS Itfa , THE WOMAN IN BLACK By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY v i t 1 Copyright, 1919. by tba Century company. .CHAPTER XV. Marlowe's Trip to Southampton. Two bed room dodrs faced him on the other side of the passage. He opened that which was immediately opposite, and entered a bedroom by no means austerely tidy. Some sticks and fishing rods stood con fusedly in one corner, a pile of books in another? The housemaid's hand had failed to give a look of order to the jumble of heterogeneous ob jects left on the dressing table and the mantel shelf pipes, pen knives, pencils, keys, golf balls, old letters, photographs, small boxes, tins and bottles. Two fine etchings and some water color sketches hung on the walls; leaning against the end of the wardrobe, unhung, were a few framed engravings. A row of shoes and boots was ranged beneath the window. Trent crossed the room and studied them intently; then he measured some of them with his tape, whistling very softly. This done, he sat on the' side of the bed, and his eyes roamed gloomily about the room. The protographs on the mantel shelf attracted him presently. He rose and examined one representing Marlowe and Manderson on horse back. Two others were views of famous (peaks in the Alps. There was a faded print of three youths one of them unmistakably his ac quaintance of the haggard blue eyes clothed in tatterdemalion sol dier's gear of the ,16th century. An other was a portrait of a majestic old lady, slightly resembling Mar lowe. Trent, ' mechanically taking a cigarette irom an open dox on the mantel shelf, lit it and stared at the photographs. Next he turned his attention to a flat leathern case that lay by the cigarette box. It opened easily. A small and light revolver of beautiful workman ship was disclosed with a score or so of loose cartridges. On the stock were engraved the initials "J. M." . A step was heard on the stairs, and as Trent opened the breech and peered into the barrel of the weapon, Inspector Murch appeared at the open door o the room. "I was wondering" he began; then stopped as he saw what the other was about. His intelligent eyes opened slightly. "Whose is the re volver, Mr. Trent?" he asked in a conversational tone. "Evidently it belongs to the oc cupant of the foom, Mr. Marlowe," replied Trent with similar tightness, pointing to the initials. "I found this lying about 'on the mantel piece. K seems a nanay uttie pisioi to me, and it has been very care fully cleaned, I should say, since the last time it was used. But I know little about firearms." "Well. I know a good deal," re joined the inspector quietly, taking the revolver from Trent s out stretched hand. "It's a bit of a spe cialty with me, is firearms, as I think you know, Mr. Trent. But it don't require an expert to tell one thing." He replaced the revolver in :ts case on the mantel shell, toon out one of the cartridges, and laid it on the spacious palm of one hand; then, taking a small object from his waistcoat pocket, he laid it AMrSEMKNTS LAST TIMES TODAY TYPHOON COOLING PLANT NOW IN OPERATION. PRELLES CIRCUS Acma of Can In Intellircnea. Frish, Howard and Toolin. Jupiter Trio. Ander Sitters. Photoplay, Bert Lytell in "One Thing at a Time O'Day." Fatty Arbuekla Comedy. Outtaf Cheater Patha Weekly. riiiininieiiimiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiij - TODAY G. A. R., W. R. C, and W. O. W. Girls' Picnic. THE NEW BATHING BEACH IS NOW OPEN. The Moet Modem and Most Sani tary Bathing Beach in America. I FREE IN THE PARK I (RAYMOND! THE CLOWN With Sidesplitting Stunts. ' DANCING 'RIDES. THRILLS : IrJ nEMoricGrpicNics 111 s Admission to Parks Adults, 10c, war tax, lc; children free at ail times. f liliiliiiuiiiiuliiliiliiliiliiliiltiliiiiiliiliiiiiliiliililiiliilii beside the cartridge. It was a little leaden bullet, slightly battered about the nose and having upon it some bright new scratches. ' "Is that the one?" Trent mur mured as he bent over the inspect or's hand. ( "That's him," replied Mr. Murch. "Lodged in the bone at the back of the skull. Dr. Stock got it out within the last hour,, and handed it to the local officer,' who has just sent it on to me. These bright scratches you see, were made by the doctor's instruments. These other marks were made by the rifling of the barrela barrel like this one." He tapped the revolver. "Same make, same caliber." I With the pistol in its case between them, Trent and the inspector looked into each other's eyes for some moments. Trent was the first to speak. "This mystery is all wrong." he observed. "It is insan ity. The symptoms of mania are very marked. Let us see how we stand. We were not in any doubt, I believe, about Manderson having dispatched Marlowe in the car to Southampton, or about Marlowe having gone, returnine late last night, many hours after the murder was committed. "There is jio doubt whatever about all that," said Mr. Murch, with a slight emphasis on the verb. "And now," pursued Trent, "we are invited by this polished and in sinuating firearm to believe the fol lowing line of propositions: that Marlowe never went to Southamp ton; that he'returned to the house in the night; that he somehow, without waking Mrs. Manderson or anybody else, got Manderson to get tip, dress himself and go out into the grounds; that he then and there shot the said Manderson with his in criminating pistol; that he carefully cleaned the said pistol, returned to the house and, again withouKdis turbing any one. replaced it in its case in a favoraMe position to be found by the officers of the law; that he then withdrew and spent the rest of the day in hiding with a large motor car; and that he turned up. feigning ignorance of the whole affair, at what time was it?" "A little after 9 p. m." The in spector still stared moodily at Trent. "As you say, Mr. Trent, that is the first theory suggested by this find, and it seems wild enough at least it would do, if it didn't fall to pieces at the very start. When the murder was done Marlowe must have been 50 to 100 miles away. He did go to Southampton." "How do you know?" "I questioned him last night, and took down his story. He arrived in My Heart and My Husband ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of "Revelations of a Wife" What Happened to Give Madge "the Last Word." I .regret spoiling your,- meital image of a- school teacher, Mr. Drake, but as I earned my living in that profession for many years I think I can claim to be a fairly rep resentative member of it." I flatter myself 'that I was the outward embodiment of casuaLl calmness as I leaned back in Lil lian's armchair with my face as far away from Allen Drake's as I could manage. But I was seething with inward resentment. This man Whose men tality and abilitjrcompelled my re luctant admiration was treating me in exactly the same manner he would a simpering schoolgirl. I wondered whether he was doing it because it was his way of talking to all women,- or whether he shrewdly guessed that such treat ment was the surest .method Of arousing my resentment, and hoped that he might be lazily amused by a display of temper on my part. His womanish lashes shadowed his eyes again as I spoke, and he looked out through them at me in provoking indolent appraisement. "I really must differ with you," he drawled at last. "You could not be a fairly representative member of that profession, judging from the average pulchritude of the species." An Inquiry. I was determined not to betray any resentment at , his banalities. There was but one other tourse open to me. I seized it with an in ward sneer at myself. "I am .sorry not to measure up to the standard," I said, demurely dropping my eyes. Mr. Drake leaned back in his chair and grinned sardonically. "Now you're fishing," he said didactically, "and I'm not going even to nibble. I leaned back in my own chair and put my finger-tips together ju dicially. "Will you promise to answer a question truthfully?" I asked, with my most deferential manner. Helooked at me sharply, but my face showed onlv eager interest. "About my work?" . "No."-: ' ' "Personal?" I fancied there was, Southampton about 6:30 on the Monday morning." "Come off!" exclaimed Trent bit terly. s"What do I care about his story? What do you care about his story? I want to know how you know he went to Southampton Mr. Murch chuckled. "I thought I should take a rise out of you, Mr. Trent," he said. "Well, there's no harm in telling you. After I ar rived yesterday evening, as soon as I had got the outlines of the story from Mrs. Manderson and the serv ants, the first thing I did was to go to the telegraph office and wire to cur people in Southampton. Mander son had told his wife when he went to bed that he had changed his mind, and sent Marlowe to South ampton to get some important in formation flfcrti someone who was crossing by the next day's boat. It seemed right enough; but you see Marlowe was, the only one of the household who wasn't under my hand, so to speak; he didn't return in the car until later in the evening; so before thinking the matter out any further, I wired to Southampton making certain inquiries. Early this morning I got this reply." He handed a series oftelegraphvslips to Trent, who read: Person answering description In motor answering description arrived Bedford ho tel here 6:30 this morning gave name Marlowe' left car hotel garageftold attend ant car belonged Manderson had bath and breakfast went out heard of later at docks Inquiring for passenger name Harris on Havre boat inquired repeatedly until boat left at noon next heard of at hotel where he lunched about 1:15 left soon afterwards In car company's agents Inform berth was booked name Harrlj last week but Harris did not travel by boat. BURK. Inspector. "Simple and satisfactory," ob served Mr. Murch as Trent, after twice reading the message, returned it to him. "His own story corrob orated in every particular. He told me he hung about the dock for half an hour or so on the chance of Harris turning up late, then strolled back, lunched and decided to return at once. He sent a wire to Man derson: 'Harris not turned up; missed" boat; returning; Marlow,' ,which was duly delivered here in the afternoon, and placed among the dead man's letters. He motored back at a good rate, and arrived dog-tired. When he heard of San derson's death from Martin, he nearly fainted. What with that and the being without sleep for so long, he was rather a wreck when I came to interview him l5st night; but he was perfectly coherent. Trent picked up the revolver and twirled the cylinder idly for a few moments. "It was unluckyfor Man derson that Marlowe left his pistol and cartridges about so carelessly," he remarked at length, as he put it back in the case. "It was throwing temptation in somebody's waydon't you think? Mr. Murch shook his. head. "There isn't really much to lay hold ot about the revolver, when you come to think, lhat particular make of revolver is common enough in England. It was introduced from. the istates. Half the people who a hint of gratified vanity in his tone. "At Last." "Decidedly." I raised my eyes to his, tried to put into them eager curiosity and interest. "All right. I promise. Go ahead." The hint was an accomplished fact now, infusing eyes and voice. "Does an exaggerated ego hurt one physically, or does one get used to it after years of use?" For a fleeting delicious instant I had the malicious satisfaction of realizing that I had pierced his ar mor. For just that fraction of time his indolent, self-satisfied mask slipped, and I saw a glint of un mistakable angry chagrin in his eyes. But the next moment he hadlfiade use of his eyelashes again, and I knew that behind his half-closed lids he was debating the most effective manner of putting me in my place, according to his schedule for prop erly subdued femininity. "Howdy, folks!" Lillian's cheery voice sounded be hind us, and my spirit bounded with relief, in which, I am afraid, there was also gleeful malice. I had had the last word, for the present, at least, and I was well content to suspend hostilities, with the sus picion,, almost a certainty, that Mr. Drake's emotions upon hearing Lil lian's voice were directly opposed to mine. But as he sprang to his feet and advanced to greet her, one would have deduced from his manner that her advent upon the scene was the one thing needful to complete his earthly bliss. "At last," he said, with an intona tion that welcomed her and at the same time insinuated that the period of waiting for her had been a tedious one. "Mrs. Graham and I were just about to start in search of you. I suggested the cellar, my mind nat urally turning to melodrama, and I was quite sure you had been mur dered, but Mrs. Graham insisted that we would better try the kitchen closet. She said Betty probably had locked you up for not obeying her." "There's more truth than poetry in that solution," Lillian remarked carelessly. "Truly, I'm awfully sorry to be so late, and I must ask you now to hurry. We've urgent busi ness on hand tonight,1 you know," (Continued tomorrow.) buy a revolver today for self-defense or misehief provide themselves with that make, of that caliber. It is very reliable, and easily carried in the hip-pocket. .There must be thousands of them. For instance," continued the inspector with an air of unconcern, "Manderson himself had one, the double of this. I found it in one of the top drawers of the desk downstairs, and it's in my over coat pocket now." Aha! so you were going to keep that little detail to yourself." "I was," said the inspector, "but as you've found one revolver, you may as well know -about the other. as i say, neitner ot tnem do us any good. The people in the house Both men . started, and the in spector checked his speech abruptly, as the halt-closed door of the bed room was slowly pushed open, and a man stood in. the doorway. His eyes turned from the pistol in' its open case to the faces of Trent and the inspector. They, who had not heard a sound to herald this en trance, simultaneously looked at his long, narrow feet. He wore rubber soled tennis shoes. "You must be Mr. Bunner," said Trent. (Continued Toinorrpw.) Brown & Co. Donate Lovmgl Cup for Balloon Contest A silver loving cup, donated for the Fort Omaha halloen carnival to be held next Sunday was do nated by E. B. Brown & Co., jew elers, for the pilot of a balloon who establishes a record for distance and height. One of the balloons, with 35,000 feet capacity, will be piloted by Col. J. W. S. Wuest, and an other by Maj. N. J. O'Brien and Chief Instructor of the United States Air Service Leo' Stevens. Two wealthy young Fort Omaha officers, a captain and a lieutenant, have made a bet of $300 each that they will outdistance each other in their flight Sunday. The money has j been posted with Mr. Stevens. 7 Am r . mb. r hi Made Milwaukee Brewers Want Freight Rates on Beer Kegs And Other Containers The Brewers' association, with headquarters in Chicago, has applied to the Omaha district freight rate committee for rates on beer kegs artd other containers, the same to be returned empty to points of ship ment. Prior to the time when the country went dry, these kegs and containers were sent out, filled with brewery products. Now the brewers want their empties. In the same application the brew- ers of the country have applied for rates on the shipment of nonalco holic products. Ihey have notihed, or at least a number of them have in formed the railroad administration that they are to engage in the man ufacture of beverages that will not contain a kick. Files Answer h Damage Suit And Makes Counter Claims The Nebraska Shoe and Clothing house, South Side, filed an answer in district court yesterday to tfce suit of the Nebraska Clothing company of Omaha which is seeking an injunc tion to prevent the first-named firm from using the word "Nebraska" ar.d also asking $ip,000 damages. The South Side concern ' states that it has used the firm name for 23 years and that therefore it, can not be enjoined from using it. Also it alleges that "Nebraska," being the name of a state, no business firm can appropriate it for exclusive use. In a cross-petition the South Side firm asks $10,000 damages for al leged harm to its business through the alleged employment of detec tives by the Nebraska Clofhing company to "spy upon it." You want what you want when you want it. iJee Want Ads will attain the desired results. Eggs, Milk, Wheat and Meat All give you the same character of nourishment projein'and carbohy dratesthe ' most important com pounds in food. - Protein is the element that replaces the tissue we burn up every hour in exertion and nervous excitement. Carbohydrates supply energy. Schlitz Famo is a product born Qf science. In addition to protein and carbohy drates it contains every other com pound; in ood, except fats, that Nature utilizes to maintain the hu- . man body. Schlitz Famo is a satisfying, refresh '1, ing drink non-intoxicating. Schlitz Jamo is the worth-while - cereal beverage. On sale wherever soft drinks are sold. Order a case from Schlitz-Omana 719 South 9th Omaha, Neb. Phone; Douglas WHEAT CROP IS 100 PER GENT SAYS BURLINGTON Declares Reports of Wheat Crop Damaged by Rust Are Untrue; Harvest Well Advanced. There is nothing to the report that the Nebraska wheat crop has been damaged by rost. This is the information given out by the Bur lington's agricultural department that makes a specialty of dealing with grain conditions in the terri tory west of the Missouri river. In its crop report compiled from data up to last Saturday, the Bur lington experts, in discussing the wheat conditions say that all through Nebraska the wheat harvest is well along, adding, "There is no doubt at all but that the crop has reached maturity in condition to sustain the highest estimates that have been made. We doubt if there has been a year in the last ten, when so little damage has occurred by reason of rust, storms, or from other causes as this year." Final estimates on the Nebraska rwheat crop, figured on 100 per cent as the basis and taking the ten-year average into consideration, by divi sions are: Omaha, 96; Lincoln98; Wymore, 103; McCook, 110 per cent. The estimate of about 83,000.000 bushels still holds good. ' Corn is reported to be making rapid progress and conditions for a bumper crop are said to be most favorable. During the warm weather of the last week the -cereal has made such a wonderful growth that it is said to have fully reached the normal stage for this season of the year. Cultivation, generally has been finished and the condition on the basis of 100 per cent for per fect, by divisions, follows: Omaha, 91; Lincolno96; Wymore and Mc Cook, 100 per cent. Harvesting of oats, rye and barley is well under way and the yield is expected to be fully up to the nor mal, if not better, Pastures continue in excellent condition and all through the ha section of the state a large tonnage of fodder is being obtained. MrsyMary Troy Dies Mrs. Mary TroyT56 years old. died Sunday morning at her home, 610 south Thirtieth street. She is sur vived by one son, Thomas, with the army in France; one daughter, Mad- aline. of Omaha, and two sisters and four brothers. Funeral services will be held at the residence Tuesday momma: at 8:30 and the St. Peter's church at 9 o'clock. 'Burial will be in the Holy Sepulcher cemetery. Co. St. 918 famous -. . -
