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50,000 at Mass Observe Constitution Day
Denis Cardinal Dougherty is pictured during celebration of solemn pontifical high mass in the Municipal
Stadium, Philadelphia, at which more than fifty thousand Catholics commemorated the 150th anniversary
of the Constitution of the United States. Cardinal Dougherty returned thanks for the “Divine protection
which He has vouchsafed to this nation during the hundred and fifty years that have elapsed since the
adoption of the Constitution.” (Central Press)
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Hoping to prove the existence of a mysterious
“crime disease” in every criminal, two Chicago
surgeons, Dr. S. W. Brownstein and Dr. M. H.
Levy, plan tests on prisoners. By examining .nine
prisoners in Chicago’s county jail, the doctors said
they had been convinced that a person’s criminal
Radio Picture of Pirate Submarine Parley
f This general view of the conference held by European powers to combat the mysterious pirate submarines
which have sunk a dozen merchant ships in the Mediterranean, was flown from Nyon, Switzerland, to Lon
don, then radioed to New York. It shows Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Minister (in background, holding
sheaf of papers) , addressing the gathering. Tension was added by refusal of Germany and Italy to attend,
and Russia’s threat to take matters into its own hands if the powers did not end the submarine menace.
(Central Preeel
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CHAIRMAN WERE TIED IN
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DURING THE WINTER.?
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tendencies may be traced in the spinal fluid. Ex
tracting a small amount of the fluid, the doc
tors found in each instance the cell count was much
higher than in “law-abiding” citizens. The sur
geons are shown above, with Warden Frank Sain,
making a spinal test on a jail inmate.
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tn contrast to the streamlined
entries from the east, Wyoming
sends this well-proportioned, yet
slightly heavy miss to Atlantic
City, N. J., as its entry in the
“Miss America” beauty contest.
She is Mary McLaughlin, and she
weighs 138 pounds. Miss Mc-
Laughlin is from Riverton, Wyo.
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defense lines
Chinese armies defending Shang
hai have marched back into made
to-order second defense lines, as
pictured on the map, daring the
Japanese to follow. The secon
dary lines, 30 miles northwest of
Shanghai, were set up so that
only a frontal assault could be
made. Map also shows where
Japanese made attacks on Chinese
at Yanghang and Hongkew.
Wife Preservers
Pineapple and cucumber make
a refreshing combination for
salad. Either shredded or sliced
pineapple may be used. Dice cu
cumber and use equal parts of
each. They may be molded in
gelatin or simply served on let
tuce with mayonnaise.
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By BRUCE HAMILTON gg|d
T BY BRUCE HAMILTON; RELEASED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
•READ THIS, FIRST;
: Tim Kennedy has been writing a
suicide note to himself in his wife’s
handwriting.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
CHAPTER 2
TIM LOOKED out of the French
windows on to the lawn, and saw
that Esther was safely established
in a deck chair with the Sunday
paper. He rose, thrust the papers
into a drawer, and locked it, slip
ping the key into his pocket. . . .
He was back again in two min
utes, with Esther’s pen, two or
three sheets of her own paper with
an envelope matching it, and a
pair of thin rubber gloves which
he had got from his own room.
Then he unlocked the drawer
again, took out the contents, and
put on his rubber gloves. They
felt a little awkward at first, but
after a few minutes’ practice, he
was satisfied that they did not im
pair his dexterity.
For the next half-hour he
worked steadily, folding the model
over as he proceeded, and pausing
at the end of every line to rest his
hand. For all that his wrist was
aching by the time he finished.
But it was worth it. He looked
at the letter and saw that it was
good. It'would be impossible for
anyone to imagine that it had not
been written by Esther’s own
hand.
: He looked out of the Window
dreamily for a few minutes. He
was not going to permit himself
any premature exultation; it was
necessary to key his mood to
something quite different. But it
was impossible to restrain alto
gether the excitement rising with
in him. By this time tomorrow it
would be over. A month or two
of assumed grief and decent grav
ity: then he would be free to pur
sue his heart’s desire. And he had
no doubt of the success of his
quest.
j He took up the envelope, and
iwrote upon it, with the same
meticulous care, one word—TlM.
Then he put the letter in the enve
lope, and had just sealed it up
when there came a knock on the
door.
> Without undue haste, he slipped
off the gloves and thrust them,
together with the papers he had
been working on, into one of the
pockets of his Norfolk coat, fast
ening the leather button over it.
Then he called out “Come in!” and
when Adams entered he had
started a letter to a London hotel,
booking a double room for the fol
lowing Friday night.
“Well, what is it, Adams?” he
asked, without looking up.
“There’s a man to see you, sir—
a policeman.”
His heart stood still, ha an
aphasia lasting a full minute, he
could only look down on the sheet
of note paper before him, contem
plating blankly the meaningless
’characters he had written thereon.
“Shall I tell him you’re busy,
sir?” said Adams at last.
The sound of Adams’ voice set
his brain going again.
“Did you say a policeman,
Adams?”
“Yes, sir.”
“I wonder what he wants.*
“I think it’s their sports, sir—at
Bradstock next Saturday.
“Sports, eh?” He began to
come back to life. This was ridic
ulous —he would have to face
something more formidable than a
village policeman presently. But
the thing had been timed so curi
ously.
“Os course. ~.” His voice rose
to a note of gaiety. “Well, they’ll
have to do without us this time,
eh, Adams? Mrs. Kennedy and I
Mattern Reports
WL is.
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Jimmy Mattern, noted American
flier, is shown leaving the Soviet
Embassy at Washington alter re
porting on his search for six Soviet
airmen lost in the Arctic. Mattern:
searched the polar wastes for seven-;
teen days in a vain attempt to;
locate the men, who disappeared on:
fc Moscow-U. & flight over thei
- North Polfe—
i
His heart was thudding as he undid the button.
will be on the high seas on Satur
day, won’t we?”
“Yes, sir,” replied Adams, at
attention.
“Still, we must get the tickets
as usual. Perhaps , you would like
to go, Adams, with one of the
girls?”
“Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.”
“Tell him I’ll be along in a min
ute. . ..” The aftermath of shock
remained. But in the surge of re
lief from he knew not what his
spirits ran high, and he talked to
the policeman pleasantly for five
minutes. By the time he had fin
ished it was close on the lunch
hour. He replaced Esther’s pen
and note paper, and as it seemed
to be getting hotter all the time,
he went to his room and changed
his heavy Norfolk jacket for a
light one of gray alpaca.
He had been at the table five
minutes, talking with an easy
gaiety of the coming holiday, be
fore he remembered, with a sen
sation of sickly panic, that he had
left everything in the pocket of
the Norfolk jacket. Prudence told
him to sit tight till lunch was
over; but he could not wait. He
made an excuse and almost ran up
the stairs. His heart was thud
ding as he undid the button and
pulled out the papers. It was all
right: they had clearly not been
disturbed. But he was very quiet
during the rest of the meaL
Directly it was over he strolled
out into the orchard, made a bon
fire of garden refuse, and put the
papers on it—Esther’s notes, his
own experiments in forgery, and
the final model. He did not stir
from the bonfire until they had
all been consumed, and then he
ground the ashes with his shoe.
Only tho essential letter vyas
spared, and he was now afraid of
keeping it about his person. So he
went to the library and locked it
safely away in the drawer.
Tim had graduated into homi
cide from the school of armchair
murderers.
The fact is exceptional enough!
to be worthy of record, for this
class of people, nearly always re-;
cruited from the middle station of i
SPANISH WAR LORD AT HOME
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General Francisco Franco, wife and child
This intimate photo taken at Salamanca, Spain, shows the
ish insurgent chief, General Francisco Franco, with his wire,
men, and daughter Carmencita. This ia the first picture tan
Franco’s wife and child since the civil war began.
—Central r r ***
life, is habitually taken with so lit
tle seriousness as a potential men
ace to society that it is considered
safe to indulge and even pamper
it. It is given fairy tales in the
form of the detective story. His
tory is provided through the
medium of lengthy reports of trials
and inquests, and for those of a
scientific bent, instruction in tech
nique is made available by books
on "criminology” and manuals of
medical jurisprudence. ... And the
indulgence, save for about one case
in 10 million, is abundantly justi
fied. The middle class, taken as a
whole, lacks the toughness required
for murder. It is frequently strong
in imagination, but fearful of any
action that has not the sanction
of class tradition. Besides, it it
squeamish about electrocution... ,i
There are many who brood wist-!
fully on the benefits that would ac-i
crue from the removal here of aj
redundant wealthy uncle, there of
a superfluous husband or wife, who
has enslaved their very soul. But
give them an overwhelming mo
tive, a golden opportunity, and a
virtual guarantee against detection,
and they will hold back. If funda
mental humanity does not restrain
them, fear will. In the last issue,
they know their musings for what
they are—the poetry of the re
spectable.
Nevertheless, society sometimes
throws up a “sport”—a rare being
able to cast off the shackles of tt*
dition and inhibition, who will re
gard the most dreadful of crime#
as preferable to the loss of conven
tional good opinion and the eco
nomic consequences it entails. Then
you get the true middle-class mur
derer, a figure of awful menace and
awful fascination. Most frequently
-the subject has always had a screw
loose somewhere—a streak of con
genital depravity. Less common i»
the type, normally of pacific and
unassuming disposition, who seta,
however, a definite limit to what he
is prepared to endure, and once
that limit is passed will hazard,
everything, disgrace, and even
death, to relieve himself of the;
burden. To this type it seems that
Tim Kennedy belongs.
(To Be Continued)