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g : J ‘_',‘(.’:’ & By Helen McCloy
@ g \'\“ _“\:7‘ Copyright 1951 by Helen McCloy Dresser, printed through garmission of the publisher,
S WU UNECN Random House, Ing. Distributed by NEA Service, Ing,
THE BTORY: Private Detective
Jack Duggan borrows Dr. Basil
Willing’s name and dies. Linked
with Duggan’s poisoning is the
desth of Miss Katherine Shaw,
aged and blind, who apparently
was to meet Duggan at Dr. Zim
mer's home. Later while discus
sing Duggan’s murder with Ste
phen Lawrence, the poet, Perdita,
the poet’s daughter, faints. Basil,
at Lawrence's request, is to con
suit with Dr. Zimmer, who is a
psychiatrist as is Basil, about his
daughter. Basil goes to a news
paner office to talk to Frank Lloyd,
a reporter who lis engaged to
Perdita.
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XVI
BASIL WILLING took the clip
ping about Duggan’s death from
his pocket. “Did you see this?”
“Yes.” Frank Lloyd wag puz
zled.
“Jack Duggan died after he left
Zimmer's house. He may have
been poisoned there. Perdita and
her father were among the other
guests.”
“And Stephens never told me!”
“The police don’t want the story
published in full" yet. Stephen
Lawrence was afraid to confide in
a newspaper reporter. But I'm
going to risk it because you have
a personal interest in this.”
“What do you mean?”
“Perdita fainted when she first
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Georgia with a Major in Insurance. In addition to being in the
upper 5% of his class, Mr. Branch was elected to membership in
the Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma National Honorary
Scholastic Societies. It is with pride that we add another capable
man to our Agency force.
Joseph Q. Tuck
DISTRICT MANAGER
Augusta, Georgia
heard the news of Duggan’s death,
Does she know or suspect some
thing she hasn’t told the police?
I need hardly tell you that's dan
gerous when there’s a poisoner at
large.”
Lloyd was shocked. “I had no
idea .... But Perdita wouldn’t
protect a poisoner!”
The warmth in his voice revived
Basil’s liking for him. “People
can get themselves into situations
where they have no choice. Even
nice people. Suppose you tell me
when you first began to fear that
Perdita’s anxiety was neurotic or
worse?"” :
Lloyd sighed. “You win. It
began about two months ago.”
“And how Ilong has Predita
known that her father was going
to die?”
“A year and a half.”
“In that case, some other blow
may have fallen about two months
ago., Any idea what ‘t might be?”
~ “Of course not. People don’t
remember things like that ....
Wait a minute! I do recall the
first time I though something
‘ queer was going on.”
L o Tell me."
“It was just about two months
’ago when 1 went into the Law
rences’ house with Perdita’s fa
ther. As we came in, I heard a
’voice upstairs saying: ‘You will
notice one thing out of the ordi
'nary there—a certain number of
us never speak of the future. It
would be bad taste for us, don’t
you agree?”
“I had never heard the voice
before. It was a lovely, rich con
tralte with a great variety of in
flection. It stopped speaking when
Spethen Lawrence shut the door
and we were still talking off our
coats when a woman came to the
head of the stairs whom I had
never seen before. Perdita, com-=
ing down just behind her, intro
duced her to me as Mrs. Yorke.
And that was the first time I
though Perdita looked shattered
and tremulous, like someone who
has suffered a shock.”
L * *
A POLICE car took Inspector
Foyle and Basil to a six-story
building on Thirty-fourth Street
between Lexington and Third.
Samson of the Homicide Squad
was waiting in the doorway of the
rear apartment.
“Come this morning.” Samson
held out a thick brown envelope
addressed to Duggan. “Guaranty
Trust. April statement, I sup
pose.” !
Foyle ripped the envelope open
and frowned.
Basil smiled. “You needn’t tell
me. I can guess. There is no
sum of S4OO in the debit column.”
“Right.” Foyle dropped the
statement. “That check to ‘J. D.!
was never cashed. And now it's
disappeared.”
Basil looked about the shabby,
comfortable living room. A book=-
case with bools on criminology.
Duggan wasn't literary. A large
black cat with golden eyes strolled
from behind the sofa and rubbed
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his back against Samson’s leg.
“Duggan’s?”
“Yes.” Samson looked sheep
ish. “I gave him some canned
milk and liver I found in the re
frigerator. I was thinking of tak
ing him- home to my little boy.”
Basil looked at the ecat and said,
“Duggan was lonely.”
“He had a mother and a sister in
Nebraska,” said Foyle. “No close
friends in New York.”
“Anything else?”
“We've tested an extract of Dug
gan’s stomache tissue,” the in
spector went on. *No quanititative
analysis yet, but Lambert, the
toxicologist, made a guess that
Duggan had at least 10 grains of
codine. Is that what you wanted
to know?” ;
Basil nodded. *“And what per
sonal items did you find here? We
don’t know much about the man.”
* * *
“THERE’S an odd key here that
dosen’t fit any of the locks.
He was an ideal tenant, the janitor
says, clean and quiet. And he
must have been out of town in
March. He left the cat with the
janitor and canceled his milk or
der from March 21 to March 31.”
“Was he any good as a detec
tive?”
“He did all right. He had two
assets: he worked alone without
any operatives to share a secret,
and he looked so commonplace
that no one was likely to supect
that he was a detective. His forte
was discretion and honesty. They
don’t always go together in that
racket. But he was the sort that
family lawyers recommend to
timid clients.”
“The sort of defective that
Katherine Shaw might hear about
GAS BOMB DISPERSES DEMONSTRATORS
from some friend”, mused Basil.
“No link with Katherine Shaw
or anyone else we care about.”
Foyle exhaled a weary breath.
“The reports would have to be
verbal—or had no assistants and—
Miss Shaw was blind.”
(To Be Continued)
IN HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD —(NEA)— Ex
clusively Yours: Sparks are flying
again in Hollywood’s zippiest feud
—the clawing and scratching of
Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor and
French Corinne Calvet.
In the July issue of Motion Pic
ture Magazine, in a story about
' glamor girl feuds, I quoted Zsa
| Zsa as saying:
' “This Corinne Calvet is not a
French girl as she represents her
self. She’s a Cockney girl who
couldn’t even speak French a few
years ago. Even George (Sanders)
'knew her’in London when she was
an English girl speaking with a
Cockney accent.”
Now it’s Corinne yanking Zsa
Zsa’s blonde hair with:
“I think poor Zsa Zsa made a
natural mistake. She must have
met so many people in London
while she was there with a roving
gypsy band telling fortunes that
she’s all mixed up. I want to
thank her, though, for thinking I'm
such a great actress that I can
pretend to be English when my
family have been French for
generations.”
Meow!—and pick your own ac
cent.
PAYNED THOUGHTS
John Payne’s romance with
Coleen Gray is serious enough
to end up at the alter. They ignited
while co-starring in “Kansas City
117”. .... Julie Mitchum, Bob’s
sister, is giving up her singing and |
will try for a movie-actress ca
reer. .... Paul Douglas will be
Roz Russell’'s leading man in
“Never Wave at a WAC.” ....,
Charles Boyer sold his $200,000
home—for a fraction of the price
it cost him. .... Joan Crawford
nixed the lead opposite Bob Young
in a road company of “Country
Girl.” |
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
are shopping for a Texas cattle
ranch—steaks for meat packers
and capital gain for the comics.
.... No property settlement talks
as yet hetween Keenan and Betsy
Wynn. But she’s telling friends
that a reconciliation is out of the
question. .... Censors nixed an
“All About Sex” ad campaign for
“The Happy Time.” So now it
will be “All About That Certain
Urge.”
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Errol Flynn’s profit share of
U-I's “Against All Flags”"—so per
cent—will be attached by a Holly
wood press agent who has a $15,-
000 judgment against the star for |
publicity services. .... Timmy |
Getty, son of actress Theodora
Lynch and millionaire oilman J.
Paul Getty, has been stricken with
a mysterious malady. Doctors say
that the six-year-old boy is in =2
critical condition.
NO FOOLING! l
UNDERSTATEMENT of the year:
Walt Disney to a New York
reporter:
“Television is giving movie pro
ducers much to*think about.”
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effort to escape fumes. Outbreaks were
charged to supporters of anti-government
candidates who were running far behind
in the presidential elections.— (AP Wire
photo.)
Bowe have drawn a fistful of ar
rows from Cupid’s quiver. ....
Sight of the week: King-sized
Broderick Crawlford learning to
Charleston for his hoofing role in
the musical, “Stop, You're Killing
Me.”
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Sandra Burns, the beautiful
teen-aged daughter of George
Burns and Gracie Allen, is break
ing into TV behind the scenes.
She’s working as an office clerk
for Revue Productions.
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The south of the border mar
riage of Johnny Johnston and
Shirley Carmel, following his
Mexican divorce, will be repeated
at the Flamingo Hotel in Las
Vegas eome October,
* * *
Joan Evans’ big secret is her
lyric soprano singing voice—opera
grade! She’s been studying se
cretly with Carl Sibbert for eight
months. She will try fdor an oper
atic career. .... Cesar Romero
just arrived in London for a mys
tery thriller, “The Creaking
Chair.” He’s due back in late
August to resume his TV series.
* * *
Frank Fontaine about an actor
known for his gigolo tactics:
“He’s a guy who dances check
to check.”
Food Prices Go
Higher In City
According to the fifth monthly
survey of retail food prices in the
city of Athens, the fifty basic
commedities were 0.7 per cent
higher during June than in May.
This estimate is made by the Bu
reau of Business Research, College
of Business Adminstration, Uni
versity of Georgia, with the co
operation of thirty-one retail food
stores in the Athens area.
The leading factors in this con
tinued trend were the prices of
pork, especially pork chops, agd
eggs. Pork prices rose 4 per cent
while eggs advanced 2.8 per cent.
The average price paid for perk
chops was 73.6 cents as compared
with 67.5 cents the preceding
month. The bright spot in the
dark picture of food purchases is
found in the decline in the prices
of chickens, butter and fats and
oils. Chickens dropped 5.3 per
cent; dairy products, 1.7 per cent;
fats and oils, 1.2 per cent.
Fruits and vegetables, due pri
marily to increases in the prices
of fresh fruits, were 3.3 per cent
higher in June than the preceding
month., A drop of one cent per
pound in Irish potatoes was re
ported, while - there were not
enough sweet potatoes offered to
establish a price. :
In the beef and veal market,
roasts were off slightly from the
preceding month and there was
only a small rise in the price of
hamburger. Round steak was re
ported to be on the average about
one-half a cent pound higher dur=-
ing June.
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Escaped Ohio Convict Captured
While Taking Cat Nap In Woods
CHARLESTON, Miss,, July 11
(AP) — An Ohio convict who
vowed he’d never be eaptured
alive was cau'gtht Wednesday night
as he slept with his head pillowed
on his tommygun.
Inspector L, Y. Griffin of the
Highway Patrol said he was Min
or.Sorber, 33, one of six men who
broke out of jail at Dayton, O,
last Saturday.
Used Bloodhounds
Bloodhounds from nearby
Parchman prison farm trailed
Sorber through the woods to the
thicket. where he slept. He was,
the fifth man captured.
The sixth man, identified as
John O. Evans, 33, slipped through
the swarm of officers during the
24-hour manhunt and made it to
Memphis, Tenn., Griffin said.
Earlier, one of the captured
men, Rex E. Peterson, 43, killed
himself by slashing an artery in
his arm while in his jail cell.
Other men in custody were
identified as John Cornette, 22,
Robert Jones, 26, and Thomas L.
Werckman, 25, all of or near Day~
ton.
The six men had fled South
from Dayton in a stolen car,
heavily armed with two subma
chine guns, several pistols and ex
tra amunition taken from the
jail’s weapons locker,
First Clue
First word of their whereabouts
came Tuesday when two of three
gunmen who staged a bold groce
ry holdup in Memphis, 85 miles to
the north, were identified through
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pictures in the Dayton Dalily
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The holdup men got away with
over $7,000 in cash and checks,
but officers said a bag of money
found beside Swrber boosted the
total ot recovered loot to around
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Georgia Peach
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ATLANTA July 10 —(AP) —
Georgia holds its “Peach State”
title only by nonpoetic license.
The regional title belongs to
South Carolina and the national
crown goes to California, the U. S.
Department of Commerce reported
today.
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SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1952,
South Carolina had led Georgig
in peach ickha since 1048 v},
the u:ué:- the short ~
year of 1950,
Georgla long has boasted on |,
license plates of being the “Pe. ),
State” but since the rise of $.,
Carolina’s dominance in the 8,
suggestions have been mada 1
the boast be eliminated.
The suggestions have been fi) .
ly rejected.
This year the indicated ou()
for South Carolina is a half 1.
lion bushels more than Geore a.
Last year South Carolina led | a
million bushels.
California is the nation’s 1.
est producer—thirty millior, o
more bushels annually,
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