anaheim-gazette 1931-10-29

FIFTH INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS Six people, Horace Johnson (who tells the story), his wife, old Mrs. Dane, Herbert Robinson and his sister, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and neighbors, are in the habit of holding weekly meetings. At one of them, Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the program by unexpectedly arranging a spiritualistic service with Miss Jeremy, a friend of Dr. Sperry and not a professional, as the medium. At the first sitting the medium tells the details of a murder as it is occurring. Later that night Sperry learns that a neighbor, Arthur Wells, has been shot mysteriously. With Johnson he goes to the Wells residence and they find confirmation of the medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells them her husband shot himself in a fit of depression. The French maid admits she was out at the time Wells was shot, telephoning from a nearby drug store. Johnson goes to the drug store where the clerk tells him the maid phoned to the Ellingham house, telling somebody there not "to call that night." Now Go On With The Story When I told him it was a case of suicide, he remarked, philosophically: "A lot of people go the bug once in a while, they come in here for a dose of sudden death, and it takes watching. It's a matter of the point of view," he continued more cheerfully. "And my point of view just now is that this place is darned cold and so's the street. You'd better have a little something to warm you up before you turned on my bedside lamp, but the room was empty. But on Thursday night of that week my wife came into my bedroom, and stated flatly that there were burglars in the house. I got out of bed and went down the stairs. But I must confess that I felt, the moment darkness surrounded me, considerably less trepidation concerning the possible burglar than I felt as to the darkness itself. Mrs. Johnson had locked herself in my bedroom, and there was something horrible in the black depths of the lower hall. We are old-fashioned people, and have not yet adopted electric light. I carried a box of matches, but at the foot of the stairs the one I had lighted went out. I was terrified. I tried to light another match, but there was a draft from somewhere. The second match went out before I had time to glance about. I was immediately conscious of a sort of soft movement around me, as of shadowy shapes that passed and repassed. Once it seemed to me that a hand was laid on my shoulder and not lifted, but instead dissolved into the other shadows around. The sudden striking of the clock on the stair landing completed my demoralization. I turned and fled upstairs, pursued, to my agonized nerves, by ghostly hands that came toward me from between the spindles of the stair-rail." she said. "There were signs in it. Especially car-tick is a nuisance." Mrs. Danae secretly spoke. "Do you want me like that?" she asked. "Take everything, please answer." Car-tickets and letter terrible if the letters are "Where was the pocket Sperry asked." If that were known, found," was the reply, given. "Hawkins may was always hanging around tain was much safer." What curtain? Nobody would have curtain. First ideas are best She repeated this, for once before with rhymes word, best, rest, chest, pee "Pests!" She said. kins!" And again the lau "Did one of the bullet ceiling?" Yes. But you'll never is holding well. That part—unless it made a hole above." But there was only chamber in the revolver two shots have been fired There was no answer And Sperry, after wait to his next question: "the room overhead?" Now Go On With The Story When I told him it was a case of suicide, he remarked, philosophically: "A lot of people go the bug once in a while, they come in here for a dose of sudden death, and it takes watching. It's a matter of the point of view," he continued more cheerfully. "And my point of view just now is that this place is darned cold and so's the street. You'd better have a little something to warm you up before you go out, Mr. Johnson." I was chilled through, to tell the truth, and although I rarely drink anything I went back with him and took an ounce or two of villainous whiskey, poured out of a jug into a graduated glass. It is with deep humiliation of spirit I record that a housemaid coming into my library at seven o'clock the next morning, found me, in top hat and overcoat, asleep on the library couch. I had, however, removed my collar and tie, and my watch, carefully wound, was on the smoking-stand beside me. The death of Arthur Wells had taken place on Monday evening. Tuesday brought nothing new. The coroner was apparently satisfied, and on Wednesday the dead man's body was cremated. "Thus obliterating all evidence," Sperry said, with what I felt was a note of relief. But I think the situation was bothering him, and that he hoped to discount in advance the second sitting by Miss Jeremy, which Mrs. Dane had already arranged for the following Monday, for on Wednesday afternoon, following a conversation over the telephone, Sperry and I had a private sitting with Miss Jeremy in Sperry's private office. I took my wife into our confidence and invited her to be present, but the unfortunate coldness following the housemaid's discovery of me asleep in the library on the morning after the murder, was still noticeable and she refused. The sitting however, was totally without value. There was difficulty on the medium's part in securing the trance condition, and she broke out once rather petulantly with the remark that we were interfering with her in some way. I noticed that Sperry had placed Arthur Well's stick unobtrusively on his table, but we secured only rambling and non-pertinent replies to our questions, and whether it was because the Wells matter did not come up at all I found a total lack of that sense of the unknown which made all the evening sittings so grisly. I am sure she knew we had wanted something, and that she had failed to give it to us, for when she came out she was depressed and in a state of lowered vitality. "I'm afraid I'm not helping you," she said. "I'm a little tired, I think." She was tired. I felt suddenly very sorry for her. She was so pretty and there At dawn I went downstairs again, heartily ashamed of myself. I found that a door to the basement had been left open, and that the soft movement had probably been my overcoat, swaying in the draft. Sperry had, I believe, told Herbert Robinson of what we had discovered, but nothing had been said to the women. I knew through my wife that they were wildly curious and the night of the second seance Mrs. Dane drew me aside and made me promise I would tell her all I learned, after it was all over. Miss Jeremy did not come to dinner ner. She never ate before a seance. And although we tried to keep the conversational ball floating airly, there was not the usual effervescence of the Neighborhood Club dinner. One and all, we were waiting, we knew not for what. I am sorry to record that there were no physical phenomena of any sort at this second seance. The room was arranged as it had been at the first sitting, except that a table with a candle and a chair had been placed behind a screen for Mrs. Dane's secretary. There was one other change. Sperry had brought the walking-stick he had taken from Arthur Well's room, and after the medium was in trance he placed it on the table before her. The first questions were disappointing in results. Asked about the stick, there was only silence. When, however, Sperry went back to the sitting of the week before, and referred to But here we received the previous question: "box of cartridges in the That's easy." From that point, how terest lapsed. Either t answer to questions, or absurdity that we had efore, about the drawing liture. But unsatisfactory as the seance had been, Miss Jeremy was prof longer in coming out, a haunted when it was all. She refused to take the Dane had prepared for eleven o'clock Sperry in his car. I remember that Mrs. after she had gone. "Does any one know the Wells' butter? It" I said nothing, and as the only one likely to hod gone, the inquiry looked back. I realize while less cynical was that his sisister was non-for some reason watching Mrs. Dane was in a stat anticipation. My wife, however, had like to Miss Jeremy, an the whole thing bored h "The men like it, of said," Horace fairly pleasure while he sits hand. But a woman does other women so easily." biling- and non-peritinent replies to our questions, and whether it was because the Wells matter did not come up at all I found a total lack of that sense of the unknown which made all the evening sittings so grisly. I am sure she knew we had wanted something, and that she had failed to give it to us, for when she came out she was depressed and in a state of lowered vitality. "I'm afraid I'm not helping you," she said. "I'm a little tired, I think." She was tired. I felt suddenly very sorry for her. She was so pretty and so young—only twenty-six or there abouts—to be in the grip of forces so relentless. Sperry sent her home in his car, and took to pacing the floor of his office. "I'm going to give it up, Horace," he said. "Perhaps you are right. We may be on the verge of some real discovery. But while I'm interested, so interested that it interferes with my work, I'm frankly afraid to go on. There are several reasons." I argued with him. There could be no question that if things were left as they were, a number of people would go through life convinced that Elinor Wells had murdered her husband. Look at the situation. She had sent out all the servants and the governess, surely an unusual thing in an establishment of that sort. And Miss Jeremy had been vindicated in three points; some stains had certainly been washed up, we had found the key where she had stated it to be, and Arthur had certainly been shaving himself. "In other words," I argued, "we can't stop. Sperry. You can't stop. But my idea would be that our investigations be purely scientific and not criminal." "Also, in other words," he said, "you think we will discover something so you suggest that we compound a felony and keep it to ourselves!" "Exactly," I said drily. It is of course possible that my nerves were somewhat unstrung during the days that followed. I wakened one night to a terrific trump which shook my bed, and which seemed to be the result of some one having struck the foot-board with a plank. Immediately following this came a sharp knocking on the antique bed-warmer which hangs beside my fireplace. When I had sufficiently recovered my self-control I this second scence. The room was arranged as it had been at the first sitting, except that a table with a candle and a chair had been placed behind a screen for Mrs. Dane's secretary. There was one other change. Sperry had brought the walking-stick he had taken from Arthur Well's room, and after the medium was in trance he placed it on the table before her. The first questions were disappointing in results. Asked about the stick, there was only silence. When, however, Sperry went back to the sitting of the week before, and referred to questions and answers at that time, the medium seemed uneasy. Her hand, held under mine, made an effort to free itself, and, released, touched the cane. She lifted it, and struck the table a hard blow with it. "Do you know to whom that stick belongs?" A silence. Then: "Yes." "Will you tell us what you know about it?" "It is writing." "Writing?" "It was writing, but the water washed it away." Then, instantly and with great rapidity, followed a wild torrent of words and incomplete sentences. It is inarticulate, and the secretary made no record of it. As I recall, however, it was about water, children, and the words "ten o'clock" repeated several times. "Did you mean that something happened at ten o'clock?" "No. Certainly not. No indeed. The water washed it away, all of it. Not a trace." "Where did all this happen?" She named, without hesitation, a seaside resort about fifty miles from our city. There was not one of us, I dare say, who did not know that the Wellses had spent the preceding summer there and that Charlie Ellingham had been there, also. "Do you know that Arthur Wells is dead?" "Yes. He is dead." "Did he kill himself?" "You can't catch me on that, I don't know." Here the medium laughed. It was horrible. And the laughter made the whole thing absurd. But it died away quickly. "If only the pocketbook was not lost," she said. "There were so many things in it. Especially car-tickets. Walking is a nuisance." Mrs. Dandy secretary suddenly spoke. "Do you want me to take things like that?" she asked. "Take everything, please," was the answer. "Car-tickets and letters. It will be terrible if the letters are found." "Where was the pocketbook lost? Sperry asked. "If that were known, it could be found." was the reply, rather sharply given. "Hawkins may have it. He was always hanging around. The curtain was much safer." "What curtain?" "Nobody would have thought of the curtain. First ideas are best." She repeated this, following it, as once before with rhymes for the final word, best, rest, chest, pest. "Pests!" She said. "That's Hawkins! And again the laughter." "Did one of the bullets strike the ceiling?" "Yes. But you'll never find it. It is holding well. That part's safe enough—unless it made a hole in the floor above." "But there was only one empty chamber in the revolver. How could two shots have been fired?" There was no answer at all to this. And Sperry, after waiting, went on to his next question: "Who occupied the room overhead?" SUPPER RECIPES. Ham with Noodles (Serves 2 persons) 1 tablespoon butter or other fat 1 cup ground cooked ham 1 tablespoon flour Pepper 1 cup milk 1 cup cooked noodles 1-2 cup buttered bread crumbs Make a white sauce of the fat, flour, and milk, and add about 1-8 teaspoon of salt, depending on the saltiness of the ham. Make alternate layers of noodles and ham in a shallow baking dish, pour on the white sauce, sprinkle buttered crumbs over the top, and bake about 15 minutes in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees F.) Curried Lamb (Serves 2 persons) 1 cup chopped cooked lean lamb 1-2 cup chopped celery and tops 1-3 medium-sized onion, chopped 1-4 cup brown gravy or broth 1 tablespoon butter or other fat Dash of curry Dash of tabasco Salt Cook the celery and onion in the butter. Add the meat, gravy, and seasonings. Stir until well mixed and hot. If too dry, add one-half cup of boiling water. Serve the curried lamb with a border of flaky boiled rice, garnished with parsley. Codfish, Spaghetti and Tomatoes (Serves 2 persons) 1-4 pound salt codfish, diced 1 cup spaghetti, broken in small pieces 1 pint canned tomatoes 1 bay leaf tes, combine all the ingredients, and cook for a few minutes longer. Serve hot. 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Sear the heart in hot fat, place in a baking dish, add 1-2 cup of hot water, cover, and cook until tender in a very moderate oven (300 degrees F.). This will require about 2 hours. Remove the heart and add flour to the drippings and enough water to make a thin gravy. Serve surrounded by the gravy. Roast Stuffed Spareribs (Serves 5 persons) 2 sections of spareribs 1 cup fine dry bread crumbs 1-4 cup diced salt pork 1-2 cup chopped celery 1-2 cup chopped onion 1-4 cup chopped parsley 5 tart apples, diced 1-2 cup sugar 3-4 teaspoon salt 1-8 teaspoon pepper Select well-fleshed rib sections that match. Have the breastbone cracked so that it will be easy to carve between the ribs. Wipe the meat with a damp cloth. The meat with a damp cloth has orderly tended tissue and Mix w crispp degree to cook until string rises. 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How could two shots have been fired?" There was no answer at all to this. And Sperry, after waiting, went on to his next question: "Who occupied the room overhead?" Cook the celery and onion in the butter. Add the meat, gravy, and seasonings. Stir until well mixed and hot. If too dry, add one-half cup of boiling water. Serve the curried lamb with a border of flaky boiled rice, garnished with parsley. Codfish, Spaghetti and Tomatoes (Serves 2 persons) 1-4 pound salt codfish, diced 1 cup spaghetti, broken in small pieces 1 pint canned tomatoes 1 bay leaf 1-2 onion, sliced 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon olive oil or other fat Chopped olives Salt if needed Soak the codfish in cold water to cover for 2 hours or longer, until sufficient salt has been removed, and drain. Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water until tender and drain. Simmer the tomatoes and codfish with the bay leaves for about 15 minutes and remove the bay leaves. Cook the onion and parsley in the olive oil for a few minu- FREEMAN'S 103 East Center Street—Anaheim, BUILDERS OF In Port.. but the Captain s HOURS WILL PASS captain is always in at work, carrying out To the landsman, the deed appears complete 6 of the 8 had gone, the inquiry wont no further. Looking back, I realize that Herbert, while less cynical was still skeptical that his sister was non-committal, but for some reason watching me, and that Mrs. Dane was in a state of delightful anticipation. My wife, however, had taken a dislike to Miss Jeremy, and said that the whole thing bored her. "The men like it, of course," she said, "Horace fairly simpers with pleasure while he sits and holds her hand. But a woman doesn't impose on other women so easily. It's silly." "My dear," Mrs. Dane said, reaching over and patting my wife's hand, "people talked that way about Columbus and Gallileo. And if it is nonsense, it is such thrilling nonsense!" (To Be Continued) New Law Relating to Chauffeurs Russell Bevans, registrar of the State Department of Motor Vehicles, calls the attention of chauffeurs of California to new provisions of the law, effective January 1 next, liberalizing license provisions and practically doubling the time chauffeurs' licenses may be used without renewal. Under the old law chauffeurs were required to renew their licenses at the end of each year. Under the new law renewal is necessary only at the end of every second year. The fee of $1 is the same. Mr. Bevans stated the new law would relieve chauffeurs of the state of the payment of approximately $145,000 in license fees. Commencing January 1, it was announced, all chauffeurs licenses will expire the second December 31st after date of issuance. For example, a license issued during the year 1932 will expire December 31, 1933, regardless of the month in which it was issued. Licenses issued in 1933 will expire December 31, 1934 and so on, unless the law is amended. Chauffeurs badges for 1932 will not show any year on the face. These badges will be issued to all applicants up to December 31, 1932. 6 of the 8 largest Steamship Companies operating from California ports are depositors in Bank of America MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Bank of A National Trust & Sav the ingredients, and times longer. Serve and Cheese number of eggs in making dish, add a hop milk and salt and sprinkle with a cheese and fine dry this dish in a pan and bake in a degrees F.) until and the crumbs are serving add a few of Heart persons) fat or drippings piped chopped yay remove, the make a slit in the filling made as folook the onion and minutes, add the celery, and stir sprinkle the heart tilt and pepper, fill and sew up the hot fat, place in cup of hot water, tender in a very degrees F.). This ours. Remove the to the drippings to make a thila died by the gravy. Spaperlbs persons) crumbs work ery on arsley rib sections that stone cracked so to carve between meat with a damp offering in follow- the celery, onion, and parsley in the fat for a few minutes and remove them. Put the apples into the skillet, sprinkle with sugar, cover, and cook until tender, then remove the lid and continue to cook until the juice evaporates and the pieces of apple are candied. Mix with the apples the bread crumbs, crisp salt pork, cooked vegetables, salt, and pepper. Lay one section of the ribs out flat, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and spread with the hot stuffing. Cover with the other section and sew the two together. Sprinkle the outside with salt and pepper and rub with flour. Lay the stuffed ribs on a rack in an open roasting pan and sear in a hot oven (480 degrees F.) for 20 minutes, or until the meat is lightly browned. Reduce the oven temperature rapidly to very moderate heat (300 degrees to 325 degrees) and continue to cook for about an hour longer, or until the meat is tender. Remove the strings before serving the stuffed spare ribs on a hot platter. New Rule for Common Carriers The California Railroad Commission has issued a modification of its general order dealing with regulations covering the establishment and abandonment of agencies, non-agencies, depots, sidings, spur tracks and other station facilities of common carriers. The essential difference between the old and present order is that in cases where the carrier now makes application to abandon agency and non-agency stations it is not required to show the earnings of the particular agency, but is required to show the volume of business by number and character of shipments. It was shown at the hearing that to secure information, as previously required, as to the earnings of an agency, required special accounting of all the weigh bills, which entailed considerable expense. This detailed information is available to the Commission upon request in any special case where it is desired. Another essential difference between the old and present order is that, under the new order carriers are permitted to abandon depots, siding, spur tracks and other station facilities, which do not result in an abandonment of such cases to post notice of a proposed abandonment for a period of thirty days prior to the time the facility is to be abandoned. This procedure affords the shipper or other interested parties ample opportunity to protest to the commission and provision is made in the order that, if good cause appears, the commission will suspend the notice of abandonment and require the carrier to make a showing before the commission. Trojans Big Week at Home-Coming E. P. Werner, '17, has been named by the board of directors of the alumni association of the University of Southern California as general chairman of the 1931 Trojan home-coming, scheduled for the week of November 30-December 5. Open house for alumni by fraternities, a feature stug rally, a formal football dance, receptions, teas, luncheons, dinners, and a burleque parade by competing campus organizations preceding the Washington-S. C. gridiron game on December 5 in the Olympic stadium are to be highlights of the reunion of old grads. Cups will be awarded for the most spectacular floats, and prizes will be presented to fraternity houses most effectively decorated or disguised. University park will be overrun with thousands of ex-presidents, ex-football captains, ex-students, and ex-coeds who are to return to their Alma Mater for homecoming week. Frank Hadlock, executive secretary alumni association, predicts. 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