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Show LEH1 FREE PRESS, LEHL UTAH jj iwi Warn mm WllVll i By FREDERIC F. VAN DE WATEA J CHAPTER Xm Continued pass. Then I saw her at the end of "But the girl cried, and 14 why" me gloomily ornate foyer. her aunt the anguish in Allegra's silence bothered me. Her he waited beside the elevator her voice answered without waiting for more prome was clear and sharp as the shan but the car was uDstairs. words. on a ceaa com in the uneven puis Wherefore. I was thankful and. at "My dear, there was a struggle of Ing of lights beyond the taxi window the same time, wretched. I must some before he fell. I heard She said, looking straight ahead ten tier what had happened, here it. So sort did everyone else whose winI Led to Agatha today. I don't ana now. dows open on the area bumping She looked so small, in her bro and voices usually do that. I told her, when and then a yell and a .drove dropped out, that I couldn't caded evening wrap slender as a fall." get anyone to take me to the opera name and unconscious that th urinrf Her thin shoulders drew together tonight I never tried. I only said of fresh tragedy rose to blow her in the least possible shudder. mat I was disappointed and she did aDoui. ane heard me coming and "Grove," said Miss Agatha, quite wnat hoped she d do. lurnea. "was in the Ferriter apart' Once or I saw in her smile a trace of the calmly, twice in a lifetime, for ment. They caught him coming out. tune offers you the thing you want last words I had blurted. She You know he had a latchkey?" most and, remembering the way she thought I was a lover, returning to She looked up sharply at her nas treatea you, you don t believe it complete a pledge That niece. a uia noi now. i mought I was maoe it harder. The world had "Yes," the girl admitted. reading wild meaning into her changed since I had helped her from Miss Agatha patted Allegra's words. She turned toward me with me cao. an odd little smile and hurried on: The elevator might appear; some hand. "I wonder," she mused aloud, "if "I've been lonely and frightened one else might intervene, at any secthere aren't limits beyond which and I needed you, I guess. I need- ond. There was no time for tact. ed to be alone with you and Tell A dirty job was best done quickly. loyalty is no virtue. We both knew and yet " au. l tnought we could be friends. i lei ner nave it au in one breath The bell rang and we heard Annie And instead, you behave as thonch "You'll have to take it. mv shuffle to the door. you were well, a millionaire that a Everett Ferriter is dead and they n "Because," the girl began, but gal was trying to compro think your brother had something her aunt took the thought away from mise. io ao wun u. "II I have." I told her, "I beg Vaguely, all that evening, I had her. "Because Grove is such a stubyour pardon, my dear. I think, wondered how much of her high born young devil that we were though, that you've got the parts coior was maKe-uI knew now nuxea up. you're the millionaire. Her face grew white. Her lips were afraid if we protested it wnuM nniv Wait a minute " 1 saw she was gray, but they did not tremble. She drive him further. We were wrong, trying to break in and I hurried on: iook it standing and never wavered. my near, marriage with lone is "It galls you to have misled your Her eyes hurt me. She asked better than the murder of her brothaunt All right. What about me? "What happened?" in a level voice, er." She's lifted me out of a hallman's and I told her what Duke and th "He didn't!" Allegra exclaimed. Miss Agatha nodded and hit uniform: she's given me a iob and others had told me. She said, "He her confidence. I have little integ didn't do it." through an invisible thread. I said, as cheerfully as I could: 'You know it." she answered rity, maybe, but I'm not a complete "T It mightn't do you a bit think in headlines. It's know it. I don't think Captain Shan"Reporters of harm to consider the problems probably much less serious than non who has kept Grove" she oi someone else now and then." they say. I onlv wanted tn tell vnn glanced at the clock on th mnntoi The girl did not answer. She had before you walked into it." "for almost an hour now, is so turned her head and was looking There is that strueele. whirh "Where is he?" Her eyes held out of the window. I did not won- mine as everyone heard, which turns a sui imoersonal that though der that so few persons in this world contact kept her up. cide theory rather sour." . were ever nobly renunciatory. The calm in which thpv I said, "Upstairs." and ran? a Pain There was no pleasure in it. I said: for the elevator. their wretchedness was too much After the far shrill "And now that that is all cleared of the ror me. I said: I heard maold the bell, tip to our mutual dissatisfaction, "One might fight to nrevpnt n groan. how about changing the subject?" chinery I stumbled over manv things T suicide, as well as to commit a "It's not necessary," she answered wished to say yet might not, and murder." and turning as though she had de- at last Miss Agatha looked at me hard. managed: cided something, looked squarely at I ve hurt you but it seemed th "Every now and then. David " me. "We're almost home." she told me. "I admire vour mind. I'll leave way. only but you here, "And maybe that's just as well, I'll wait. If is so much like mine. Obviously, It or vour aunt, want too," I answered. "Thank you, Miss me, you canyou. that's the telephone foyer." whether what haDDened. I dnnht Paget for a great many things." the police will accept our Please." she whisDered as the Her laugh was like a breaking shaft door slid open, "please come explanation. stick. Then she caught hold of her- up with me.'-- ' Captain Shannon entered At self. She Stood, stiff and silent, on that Miss Aeatha and her nippp HrAxir "If you don't stop patting me on upward. Toward its end, down, over their emotion, the opaque the head," she warned, "I'll take a journey Shannon she turned as thou eh her neck were shades of utter calm. poke at you. Will you answer one stiff and asked: toward them and ducked, i his i head . question for me honestly? Just iuuhcu nam at me. inwardly, ne "A cigarette?" one?" I lighted it for her and we stpnneH fumed. Anger or bewilderment had I could see the marquee of the from the car. The dnnr rlnnperl reddened his face and blurred its freckles. Outwardly he was calm just ahead, and a group of behind us. She fumbled in her bag and his voice was regretful. men who lingered on the curb be- for her The shock first of th key. neath the street light. "Miss Paget." said he. "I'm sor blow was off. Her mouth ' but we'll have to take him in." "Will you?" Allegra asked again, wonted andwearing ry, her fingers blundered. I and I wondered why her voice was In front of the Ferriter heard Allegra catch her breath. fiat, a plainMiss Agatha's face did not stir. Sh so tense, clothes man watched us. H "I promise," I told her and be- chewed gum and his derby rocked asked : "Then he. mv nenhew. has im latedly wondered if I were pledg- wun eacn movement of his jaws. Aling myself to disloyalty to Coch- legra said at last: plicated himself?" rane. "Unless," I added, "it conShannon's exasDeration ent awav 'Please the bell. I d on t cerns someone else." For a few min- think," she ring from him. He rumoled his reddish- added a with twisted utes I had forgotten the murder and smile, "we're hair. gray likely to cet anvone "We'll have to take him in." h Lyon's almost certain part in it. out of bed." It came back to me now and made Annie, in a rumDled wranner. repeated, "for obstructing justice, if me a little sick. The cab slowed nothing else. Implicated himself! opened down. Allegra asked in a low, clear red and the door. Her eves were The facts implicate him. Miss Pntr- her breath came in small voice: ei. we can get nothing out of him. explosions. , "You're in love with me, aren't not say a word, beyond that "Where is Miss Pazet?" Alleera He'll he to stop this Ferriter from tried x you?" The taxi had stopped and Walters asked crisply. jumping." "In the livin' room." the wnmnn was opening the door. I might have Tiny lines about Miss Agatha's faltered and, closed the door behind kept silent,' but her hand clung to us. eyes deepened with satisfaction. mine as I helped her out. I heard "My own explanation," she said. "And Mr. Paget?" the girl went myself say: Shannon shook his head like a on. "You'll never know how much." Annie wept. "Yonder." she wailed. worrying terrier. She hurried on into the foyer while "Them I paid the fare. As I turned to cops" She ierked her head "Unfortunately," he told' her, toward the Ferriter apartment and "that's not all of it. Why was he in someone said: could say no more. I followed Al that flat? He won't say. How came "The society bellhop, himself." he to have a latchkey? He won't '. Larry Duke was of the group that legra down the hall. say. Why, having one, didn't he Miss bodv fold me. her I around Paeet. knew Agatha the .gathered admit it when the first murder was faces of others and the malease ed precisely in a black silk dress- committed? Same answer. Where within me quickened into nausea. ing gown, sat in her wheel chair and was he the afternoon this Black-bear- d smoked. The lids of her keen eyes Why were reporters hanging, like was He was walking stabbed? 'vultures, about the Morello again? were unreddened by tears.. Her hair uptown." .' , was drawn back a thin Duke braid asked by "Any statement," His was thick with disgust. nastily, "on the most recent un from the face that had the bold I stuckgrunt oar in. my of calm the hawk. Count?" pleasantness, "Mr. Paget came in a full hour For an instant, as her niece ran The foretaste of disaster was bitter in my mouth. Its savor made it to her and the old woman looked up after that killing. I saw him." They all looked at me. There was for her kiss, I saw the hard features easier to hold my temper. "I'll leave the issue," I told Duke, soften. The girl bent over her a no friendliness in Shannon's regard. "Sure," he snorted. "Didn't ev"to the good sense of the American long instant and then, with one hand locked in her aunt's, turned to me. erybody? Nobody could have killed people; I started away but someone else "He didn't want to come up," she Blackbeard, but his corpse is still in defended. "I made him. Agatha, the morgue, isn't it? I'm thinking caught me by the sleeve. . "Listen, fella," he begged. what is it? What's really hap- this second murder or whatever is going to solve the first." They've just found this Everett pened?" Anger pushed him beyond discreFerriter's body at the bottom of the Miss Agatha drew on her cigaarea. What's it all about?" . rette and blew smoke through her tion. He fished in his pocket and ' When I could speak, I said as beaked nose. I thought, as she drew forth a folded sheet- of typelooked at me, of the figurehead of a writer paper. .steadily as I might: "You tell me. Suicide?" "Among the things that your ship, worn and immune to storm. "Suicide, hell," Duke said with She asked dryly: nephew won't tell," he said to Miss relish. "They caught your girl "Material for another chapter in Agatha, "is why' he wrote this note we found in his pocket." Ifriend's brother in the Ferriter flat, the book, David?" I could have choked him for the I said. no Iright after Everett went out the had "I business "No," 'window. And they're dusting off the barging in. Only if there is any- pleased voice in which he read hot seat for him, right now." aloud: thing I can do " " 'My dear: I have failed as usual "Name something," she broke in. CHAPTER XIV I stammered: and can stand no more. When an"Have you thought of a lawyer? other death may settle everything, A reporter asked another quesI mean" I do not hesitate.' " tion. The words made no spnsi He seemed "Long ago," she told me. "I think at the As I broke away, I stepped on some- I got Tertius Groesbeck out of bed. woman's lack disappointed of expression and one's foot and he swore. I ran If he doesn't take too long dressing, thrust the paper back into his pockinto the foyer. he should be here before Shannon et, I had peered over j It was not flight. Duke's tidings finishes with Grove, across the his muttering. shoulder as he read and now I jhad rubbed out thought of self. My hall." said to Miss Agatha: She had lighted another cigarette purpose was to reach Allegra as "Typewritten and unsigned. It quickly as I might. I must get be- while she spoke. I saw her hand proves nothing." tween her and the blow's full force. twitch as she uttered her nephew's Shannon wheeled and glared. There was a cop in the Morello's name. Allegra asked: of his own incaution Knowledge once more. I wondered if hall "Agatha, what happened? Everett made him still angrier. had read the portent of his is dead and " "Written," he said and thrust out The old head jerked agreement. his heavy lower jaw, "on the typepresence. He scowled at me and said something I did not catch. My The old voice said without a falter: writer in the front room yonder, as "Very dead. In the area, with a I've just proved, my lad." ;evening clothes must have daunted him, for he backed up and let me broken neck, I believe." (TO BE COyTlSVED) X half-spoke- low-dow- p. Mo-rell- o, fol-lo- v -- - ' ra HISTORY OF THE STATE ROAD 11 COMMISSION OF UTAH By H. V. i iX HOUSEHOLD QUEST10NS 1909 - 1939 RICHARDS, Statistical Engineer Powdered borax added to the white them SoL water when washing fine flannels helps to keep (Continued from Lwt Wtek) Of like purpose, and a continu- lance of the above, was the emer- gency appropriation of $200,000,000 Act In the 1934, and also the emergency Act of 1935, known as the Works Pro- Hayden-Cartwrig- State highways and this res;ot gbility has gradually frown to aa important function. Recent addl-l- n tions to the engineering personnel are right-of-waengineer in 1933, landscape engineer in 1935. manv ger of planning surrey in 1336, and traffic safety engineer ia 1910. Highway Safety Utah's efforts to lessen the num-o- r ber of accidents on the highways with their accompanying toll of e death, injury, and property age, has been greatly intensified in recent years through the increased activity of many public and private agencies interested in problems pertaining to safety on the high-th- e The trend in accident ways. perlence continued, however, to be unfavorable, and In 1939 Governor Blood requested the State Road Commission to take the initiative in preparing a plan for a State-suc- h wide safety program, jn August of that year there was organized, at the call of Governor Blood, the Utah Traffic Safety Council, consisting: of prominent citizens of the State. Prior to the organization of the Safety Coun-graCil, the Governor organized a fle Safety Coordinating Committee of State officials including repre-ha- s sentatives from the following State departments: the tax commission, road commission, public service commission, department of publlo instruction, and attorney general's office. This official group, and the citizen's council, cooperating to-tgether are now engaged in lng on an agressive highway safe-fiscty program, The legislature, !n 1937, empow. ered the road commission t spou-ar- y sor a program of this type. ind ia conformily therewith, it is now furnishing the financial support for the safety council work, having furnished it a executive an appropriation of This last was divided equally between highway projects end projects designed to protect eliminate grade crossing. A variation In apportionment was made with respect to the railroad crossing funds, in that the basis was one half cm population, on mileage of the Fed- eral-aihighway system and onefourth ou railroad mileage. Under regulations issued for adminls- of these funds each State is required to apportion these funds, within practical limits, to the in- dividually operated railroads in proportion to the mllease of each railrnad to the total railroad mileage. The secondary road funds, both for highway and grade cross-lng projects were used on local roads and streets in addition to projects within the State highway system. Included with Works Pro- was the allocation of one of the funds to initiate a Highway Planning Survey. This been made a continuing activ- ity under subsequent laws. This ends to date the emergency ap-proprlatlons. In furtherance of the aids to secondary highways and grade crossing projects inaugurated in emergency appropriations the beginning with the year 1938 have Included ap- proprlatlons for these purposes.1 With respect to funds for second- highways the apportionment to States and the administration of expenditure conforms in all re- spects to that of regular Federal aid except that the funds may not be used on the Federal system of secretary. The program under way is des-lochighways and may be used on both and State secondary roads. Igned to effect: (1) recommenda-Grad- e crossing funds are appor- - tions to the legislature for bring-tlone- d to States and by the State tog Utah's traffic laws into con-t- o projects on each railroad la ac- - formlty with the uniform national cordance with the method de- - standard, (2) improvement in the scribed for Works Program funds, accident reporting system, in crossing funds need not be aminations for drivers' licenses, matched by the States In any pro- - checks on drivers' records, and aa effective system of revocation or portion. Current appropriations for Fed- - suspension of licenses for cause, eral-aiboth regular and special W adequately manned and are greatly reduced in comparison e.u'PPed police force for highway with recent years, as shown in Patrl by State and local agencies. Table D. However, comparisons wIta cooperation of prosecutors, within an eighteen-yea- r period end- - Judse3. and enforcement departing June 30, 1939, disclose the very ment9. (4) skilled investigation of great extent to which State has trafflc hazards existing in the from the augmented ap-- wavs State and local, wllh which began with the nidation for the removal or !n depression year of 1930. The table Pavement of hazardous conditions, Public education through traffic discloses that apportionments to Utah for the nine years ending safety instruction in schools, 30, 1930 totaled $7,236,163, as eluding driver training, and driver compared with $25,067,179 for the and Pedestrian education through nine years ending June 30, 1939. a11 available means of publicity. The latter Includes $9,743,678 reg- - W adequate training of all person-ula- r Federal aid, $3,377,145 for pub-- 1 nel stat and local, responsible for lie lands, grade crossing and sec- - ,aw enforcement and education, i vuuaijr luuua, ttUU el, 910, 30 in and' a nttuuiyusuinenis, emergency funds apportionments. study of the effectiveness of safety measures, together with coDevelopment of the operation in the researches in trafAdministrative Function fic conditions made by universities, During the first two years of Its and by Federal, State, and local 1909-10- , the commission agencies. operations, had only such engineering and Powers and Duties clerical force as was available in The commission is empowered to the State engineer's office. The laws or laii authorized the m. make all contracts for the construe- ployment by the commission of an i.,01J. ana mantenance of the State engineering and clerical atntr u'guways, to formulate and execute headed by a State road engineer f,uf,rams J""18 ePenJlture of r"nds theren; and in and chief clerk. The engineer also pu "ewith to cooperate wita until 1921 as the secre- - n.ect'onj w!fa? BOTernment and polltl-trativ- e tary of the commission. Adminls- - Cal 8udivIs'0n of the State; to expense was paid In part by allocations for the county State Pr"cr,be. th,f Qualifications and " road tax and in part from motor employees; to vehicle license fees or from bond ?,lTlde,the Stute highways into as such receipts were avail-adn,,lnl8fatlve control; to able until the coming of the gasc-- slsn,a,nd Pllce the highways and herot th line tax. The first two !?,late t,he bi ,VaDd est.ablsn a department commissions divided the roads into safety for the purpose four districts with each of the four 01 commissioners under the Governor me cfPeratlng with other govern-Iasencl;S and civic organiza-Ther- e personal charge of a district aco,dent 011 th was also appointed in each Mrt'"?nCi ,and3CaP and beautt county one or more representatives h,gBW"yB nturnlBh Into of the commission who were des- - lL th,9 pubjio "Sardin8 lgnated as State road agents. These J?,10 of roads and places employees were directly la charge .c?nd'tion SUt (CbaPt61 of all work and all State property, Including equipment Beeinnin in 8iLLaw9 of .1937- - . 's authorized to 1913 resident engineers were added nnta? comf of way and other to the field force for sunervislnn and construction foremen were em- property to be used in any manner ployed on minor work, the State in the administration nf thn fof road agents continuing In general roads. (Chapter 28, Laws of 1933). The commission distributes to charge of work in their respective counties. There were nlso added counties and cities, in accordance to the central oflice force a bridge with the provision of law the State-ai- d engineer and other supervisory as- motorfunds appropriated from the vehicle registration fund, is-sistants. The third com. mission abandoned in 1917 the nlan fue3.ruies ana regulations provld- of supervision of districts by a:counting " the 1 several commissioners and dele! expendl ura ff these funds and gated this work to four district en- - L0Pemte3, witb Jha local offlcla,a PUtUns int effect the ,ntent an glneers. A testing laboratory was installed In 1919, In the basement f iqwtb9 i?aJ,tercha-40'of the State Capitol and a materials Jf8,0' at3 a(!nded b enineer added to the engineering ?a grading! of staff. In 1939 the laboratory was mT,b9 f,ns',ect'nl f"r re,ail sala moved to Its new building on the the ma,da, responsibility of the Capitol grounds. commission, (Chanter 6S. aws nf The organization continued in 1939) this form until 1921, when the ap. By 'its nam9 the commission the SUe and U ma b9 sued u on may nw'ntenance written contract made under anr .hP under supervision of a main- - authority. It Is permitted to set its tenance engineer and Initiated the all claims not In excess owo h, n Plan of maintenance by the patrol dred and fifty dollars system. The laws of 1921 required ot accidents or injudes cauS the commission to appoint a State through negligence of employees road ensmrer subject to the ap-- of the (Chapter 4C, proval of the Governor, tor a term Laws ot commission, 1939) vi luur years, oui tnis provision To B CoBtlnn-d- ) was repealed In 1923, leaving the (5) commission rree to employ all its subordinates and prescribe their qualifications and duties. 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