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MUTT AND JEFF
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(GOSH, THAT'S FUNNY!
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NOW I CAN'T FIND IT!
DID YOU
. LOSE SOMETHING?
YEH, I PUT IT SOME PLACE FOR
SAFE-KEEPING SO NO ONE WOULD STEP IN IT-
-AND NOW I CAN'T FIND
IT!
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
NEW MURDER ANGLE
It seems like all the methods for murdering a man have been exhausted. No new angles. I've been on the force twenty-three years and I've seen 'em all. I mean, it's got so that when a murder occurs we look over the situa- tion and say, """This one is formula three."
Like writing a story or mak- ing a moving picture. A brand new idea for a murder would have been re- freshing.
Well, it was. We had a brand new murder. One that was different, I mean. It had us baffled.
tor didn't want to do it. If Dimmet It was risky, business. The Inspec- was hiding out in some other town, it wasn't going to be easy framing him with a phony charge. He refused to do it.
"All right," said Joe. "Arrest him on charges of murdering Stevens." line on this?"
"Joe," said the Inspector, "you got a
"I got a line," says Joe, and looked at the Inspector straight in the eye.
0
"O.K., says the Inspector, shrug- Joe Frank investigated the case.
ging. "You're the best man we got, "Look," he says. "These two guys,
Joe. I guess we can take a chance."
Joe was relieved, but worried too Anthony Dimmet and Fred Stevens You could see it in his eyes. We got were riding along in an automobile, to thinking what would happen to Joe yuh see? Well, they got to the corner if he'd been giving the Inspector of Main and Market streets, and Dim- run-around. met, the driver, rolls down the window of the coupe and yells at Patrolman him for a week. On Thursday two of
So Joe went out, and we didn't see · Ambrose Sparrow, who was on there, yuh see?"
the boys came in and brought Dimmet "Well, Ambrose goes over, and Dim- was going to raise hell, he said.
with them! Dimmet was furious. Ho met says: 'Looks like something has happened to my friend here. He ain't dead is he, d'yuh suppose?'
beat
figured we could keep him locked up We locked him up. The Inspector
then, it was going to be too bad for for two days. If Joe didn't show up
"Ambrose takes a look at Stevens, who is all slumped up in a heap. all of us.. Yeah,' he says, eyeing Dimmet. 'Yeah, he's dead all right.'
noon.
Well, it got to be Saturday Joe Frank is one of the Smartest about him.
The Inspector had that quiet way captains ever to wear the braid. He
We knew he was ready to knows his way around. So far, no nut came in. He looked worn out, thinner, explode. Then about 3 o'clock Joo had been too hard for him to crack. haggard, but there was a gleam in his But this one had him up a tree.
In the first place they couldn't figure
By
eye.
•
"Dimmet murdered Stevens,” he said "He done it by running the exhaust pipe up through the floor-board."
"Yeah," says the Inspector. "Then why isn't Dimmet dead too?___Carbon-. monoxide shows no favours."
Richard Hill "Because," says Joe, "Dimmet rigged
Wilkinson
up a gadget with a tube that led from the pipe he was smoking into a con- tainer in his breast pocket that pro- vided him with oxygen.”
out how Stevens had died. Dimmet, who was Stevens' friend, told us Ste- answer. Joe produced the gadgets, It sounded screwy, but that was the vens had been having heart attacks, which he'd been hunting for a month but this didn't satisfy Joe. Joe had a and which he'd finally found in an ash hunch. He investigated pretty tho- can behind where Dimmet lived. He roughly and he learned that Dimmet rigged it up for us and then explained and Stevens hadn't been getting along, how Dimmet had had his coat collar So he figured Dimmet had murdered turned up and the pipe in his mouth, Stevens, but he couldn't accuse him of and sucked in oxygen while Stevens in- it because he didn't know how it had haled odorless carbon monoxide happened.
So Joe practically took that coupe Dimmet had thought himself pretty
passed out of the picture. apart. And what did he find? Well, smart, so smart, in fact, that when wo he found a hole in the floor-board. confronted him with the story he was Yeah, a hole in the floor-board. And so amazed there wasn't any doubt about he got to thinking. He figured that his guilt. you could run an exhaust pipe up
ALDANGLENN
and
through a hole in the floor-board and across for murdering a guy. enough carbon monoxide fumes would escape to kill a man.
Which is the newest angle I've come
So what? So why was Dimmet even riding in the car himself if he had fix ed that exhaust pipe? Well, it seemed to Joe that Dimmet was riding in the car so he could make sure the windows were kept closed. So what again? If the carbon monoxide fumes killed Ste- vens, why didn't they kill Dimmet?
A week passed. Two weeks passed. Jde was alke a hound on the scent, ex- cept that he had apparently lost the scent. There was a worried, baffled look in his eyes. It was the first case He had ever tackled that gave him so much trouble. We kind of felt sorry.... for him.
A third week passed. Then one day Joe came into headquarters: "Dimmet's left town," he said. “He knows I've got him into a corner. So I want, him picked up."
"On what charge?" Inspector Gates wanted to know....
Joe shrugged. "Do I care what charge? Inspector, you have Dimmet picked ap or you're going to lose your- self a murderer.'
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JAPANESE NEW THREAT TO HANKOW: ATTACK SWITCHED Westward Drive Across Anhwei: Yangtse Bid
Armada In River Round Anking Region
Shanghai, To-day.
The Japanese are now preparing an attack on Han- kow from three directions, according to mes- sages from the war zone.
..
BOMBERS PASS ATTEMPT TO OVER CANTON
Canton, To-day.
An air raid warning was sounded at 9.45 a.m. to-day and a number of Japanese planes appeared over the city at 9.10. They did not drop ány bombs but continued to fly northwards and it is pre- sumed that they are engaged on a railway bombing expedi- tion Reuter.
LAND ON BANKS
OF YANGTSE
Hankow, To-day.
Under cover of a heavy bomb- ardment from 60 warships, Japan- The Japanese forces at Luchowfu (Hofei) have
ese troops attempted a landing on changed their plans and instead of driving fur-
both banks of the Yangtse near ther north-westwards to the Peiping-Hankow spearhead has been halted by stub-
Anking yesterday morning, accord- Line, are now striking south-westwards, direct-born Chinese resistance.
ing to an urgent telephone message: ly towards Hankow.
To the south of Hofei, the Ja- from the front. The Japanese troops, who were reported south of cheng, have now advanced to San- ports with one brigade of troops panese forces, after capturing Shu- About eight Japanese trans- Chengchow, near the Peiping-Hankow Line, tingho, a point about ten kilometres aboard are reported to be steam- are also striking southwards, while the Japan-southwest of Shucheng, where they ing up river at present from ese navy on the Yangtse is making attempts to
effectively held.
Nanking heading for Anking. In the vicinity of "Chéngyang- land marines near Tatung.
Japanese warships kwan, Japanese artillery opened a chih, west of Wuhu, heavily shell- off Kwei- Chengchow, states this morning's,ers, were gathered in the vicinity terrific bombardment across the led the old fort on the south bank report, is still in the hands of the of Tatung waiting, apparently, for Pei River but failed to dislodge the of the Yangtse on Chinese, who have now been a chance to land.
Saturday strongly re-inforced and aré coun-
night and yesterday morning, ter-attacking, giving the Japanese
when between five and six hun- investing troops no breathing spell.
..
TORRENTIAL RAIN
defenders.-Central News.
CHENGCHOW dred Japanese troops from one
POSITION
Hankow, To-day.
on
is.
Following torrential rain, which Tension reigns in Nanking swelled the river level considerab-
transport landed at Wu Shah Sia following rumours
and Chien Chiang Kou that Chinese ly, the Japanese ships showed more
on the guerillas, some 10,000 strong, are activity than they had hitherto dis-
bank opposite Anking. Reuter. only a few miles from the former played.
EVENTUALLY REPULSED Chinese capital. Most of
The struggle for Chengchow is and five hundred Japanese troops At the same time between four the At noon yesterday, ten Japanese Japanese troops are now outside vessels steamed up to Tatung, one
still in the balance judging by landed at Tsung Yang Cheng the city.
of the ships being
Chinese war news which Mass air-raids on both Hanków Large numbers of Japanese soldi- cinity of Chengchow have been con- stated, were eventually repulsed by
claims & transport.that the Chinese positions in the vi-
the north bank of north-east An- and Canton
Both are expected. any ers, in launches, then attempted to
king.
detachments, it moment. Our Own Correspondent. land but were repulsed by the de-
YANGTSE SITUATION TENSE-
It is also claimed that Japanese to return to their transports.
the Chinese who forced the Japanese fence troops. Tsingyang, To-day.
It is claimed that two of the Jain consequence of powerful and un-along the Lunghai Railway
¡pressure near Peishan has eased off Situation along the middle rea-panese launches were hit and over- expected Chinese resistance.
The Japanese advance westward ches of the Yangtse River between turned.
to- Tatung and Kweichin, a stretch of
Other reports reaching here, still
wards Chengchow is still held up about forty kilometres, became tense that eight Japanese war vessels of the Japanese have been compelled ing operations very difficult, accord- A report from Fanchang states awaiting confirmation, say that in the vicinity of Paisha where flood water of the Yellow River is mak-
as a fleet of 'more than forty Japan- the cruiser type, accompanied ese vessels were gathered with the twenty-five smaller craft, apparent intention of forcing a heading upriver from Wuhu landing.
Tikang yesterday morning.
LITTLE CHANGE
Kweichih, fifty kilometres down-tral News. river from Hwaining, was subjected} to a terrific naval bombardment by eighteen Japanese warships.
solidated.
by by Yellow River floods, which have were inundated the entire low-lying dis-ing to Chinese military despatches.
Due and tricts of Honan, to withdraw to
to low level water Cen-Kaifeng.
which has inundated north-east Honan and is said to be flowing slowly in a south-easterly direction, they are reported to be still some distance from the Lunghai Railway.
Liuan, To-day. Little change has occurred in the At the same time, eight tran- 'war situation at Hofei and Cheng- sports, loaded with Japanese soldi- yangkwan, where the Japanese
This has had the effect of frus- trating the Japanese offensive this region.
According to Chinese defence positions along the further reports. Lunghai Railway between Cheng-
A general view of the scene of yesterday's explosion disaster, when two men and in a Chinese refrigerating plant, ("Mail” photo).
woman were killed
CAVALRY VISIT Sincheng Railway Station on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, south of Chengchow and north of Hsuchang, was occupied by two or three hun- dred Japanese cavalry last Thurs- day night. The Japanese were later repulsed, says the military com- munique.
Railway traffic is said to have been resumed.-Reuter.
FAIR TO SHOWERY
The Royal Observatory reports. that pressure is probably highest over the pacific to the east of the Bonins, and is relatively low over China generally. Forecast:-
S. and S. W. winds, moderate to fresh; fair to showery.
chow and Tungkuan have been strengthened during the last few days with the object of preventing the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River along the borders of Shansi and Honan.
It is claimed that the Japanese thrust in the direction of the Peiping- Hankow Railway has been halted near Chanko which, despite Jn- panese reports to the contrary, is still--in-Chinese hands.--Trans-
Ocean,