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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVFR. UTAH Crematories Offer Service Niche for Departed Pet, AW WIT ArCERALDTh BROWN J Duke McCale, private detective. Is Investigating the murder of Curt Vallain-eourwho was about to marry Veronica Bigelow, heiress to thirty million dollars. McCale She Is the principal suspect. learns of a deep plot to keep control of the treat fortune in the family through a deal with Vallainrourt. Shari Lynn, Vallainrourt's former wife, Is shpt to death, apparently to silence her. Someone Sres at McCale, wounding him In the shoulder. Then Veronica calls, telling him that the police have arrested Christopher Storm, noted architect, and McCale former suitor of Veronica's. phones police lieutenant Oonlevy, In charge of the case, and asks him to hurry over. t, W.N.U. McCale was alone when the call came an hour later. He lifted the receiver with his good hand to hear the frightened voice of Adelaide Bigelow. Colorful Seminoles Cling To Ancient Tribal Customs J -- FEATURES 41!iS3 What was she doing up there?" "I I don't know. Putting soma things away "Looking for something per- or" By BAUKHAGE haps?" Sews Analyst and Commentator. "Mr. McCale's residence?" In "I couldn't guess." on the life and habin her of the feverish spite anxiety "Who found her?" It flashed WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., much influence of the Seminole customs its and tone, she clung to the formalities. through his mind that someone Washington, 0. C. as have the weight short in this span Miss must have known where she was, "Right here. Bigelow." (This is the first of two articles on the depres"Oh, I'm so glad you're up and would have had subtly to reveal her the effect of postwar conditions on the of economic conditions followed by the high demand sion citiabout. I heard you had been in- hiding place. American of misunderstood most and war zens the Seminole Indians, with Mr. for labor during prewar jured." "She recovered her senses d from periods. "Yes, but I'm quite all right knows how long. She Baukhage reporting For more than three quarters oi What is it?" He was urgent. walked downstairs by herself. Ver- observation.) a century no Seminole has owned Somewhere North of the Ever"It's Sybil. She's been attacked. onica found her pacing up and down his possessions were limited land, the over flat hall is on the third floor, in a glades: The sun I am setting Right here in the house. cattle and hogs running few to a She she couldn't find her stretches of making a wild in the frightened. What can it mean? I daze. swamps, and to what own room." of silhouette cabbage feathered thought" he could store unproperty personal That was logical. Many people, palms on the far "Yes, yes. Is roof of his open-facethe der palmetto "Alive? Yes, but unconscious. A after being struck over the head, horizon, dropping hut in the Everglades. Today doctor's here." of lilac regain enough of their senses to a tint Wilthere are three reservations. "Tell me, is it a bullet wound?" walk about automatically seeking among the water at Indian agent liam Boehmer, "No." s help, though still in a hyacinth In the saw that venture rise after-good- ness first-han- she?" The case was beginning to irk him badly. Not only was he not making progress, he almost seemed to be going backwards. "We in Christopher gathered McCale was surprised to hear Storm," he began. "How was she hurt?" this. "I told you to tail him, not ar"She was was struck on the rest him," McCale interrupted sourback of the head. Oh, it's so horrily. His arm was giving him pain, and besides that, his thoughts were ble. I suppose I shouldn't bother you, but" not encouraging. "Not at all. Keep calm. I'm com"He swears he didn't shoot at you last night." ing right over." "I didn't think he did. Did you As he stood on the sidewalk, waitlet him go?" ing, a shadow detached itself from "Had to. No real evidence. And the lad's too damned honest to suit me." "He came right out and admitted he was the one who was following Vallalncourt around the last few days, however. Said he had the Itch either to get his hands on him and tear him to pieces, or to get omethlng on him that would Influence Veronica." "True to type, don't you think?" "Hahvahd, Hahvahd, This from Rocky. The officer gave him a cold stare before he continued. "Oh, quite. Darned if he didn't meet up with the glamour boy and have a heart to heart ta.k with him, though. Vallalncourt convinced him that he was going to do right by our gal, ao Storm took himself off to his lawyer's and like a boy scout signed over the 'Love Nest' or whatever he calls it" "Very civilized. I knew all that" "Then why In the name of the Father and the Son did you give me that cryptic message Just before you were blltzkrieged last night? Why did you want me to put a tail on him?" "Because, my good friend. I began to suspect that the lad thinks a lot, that he has more than a glimmer as to what this mess Is all about. 1 was sure that eventually his elephantine mind would hit on Would he something Important. come to me with it? Oh, no. As you say, the naive honesty of the lad is amazing. I was almost sure he'd start digging around by himself. A dangerous game." He patted his banduge. "I wanted to avoid another catastrophe." to himself muttered Donlevy glumly. "Instead of that." Rocky put in, "they had the mark on you for the next victim, boss." "It won't happen again," the lieutenant said. "I've put a man on this house." "Oh, Lord." said Duke, 111 humor coloring his voice. "All right. You may not like It, but he stays Just the same." He got up to go. "Anything new besides that?" McCale Inquired. "Not a thing, unless you think Karen is the girl we're after. I've got a man on every last one of them now. She drew $800 from the bank this morning." "She did?" "Yes. Looks more like she was going to pay blackmail again, what?" He studied McCale's expression closely, but got no visible reaction. He shrugged. "Well," he looked his chagrin, "glad to see you're breathing. If you think of anything" "Yes," away. McCale's eyes were far He finally persuaded Ann to go home. She wouldn't admit how fatigued she was until he callously called attention to the droop of her shoulders and the dark circles under her eyes. Someone Strikes Down Sy bil AJ six o'clock Rocky came in from the bedroom where he had been getting some sleep. He pulled the curtains over the dark windows. McCale sat wrapped in thought, staring moodily into the Are. His face clouded and grew bright again and again, as if his mind had reached out and Just missed a very elusive memory. "You've got to go out for me. Rock," he said, his voice packed with excitement. "Somehow, you have got to get into the Lynn girl's suite at the Baysreuth. Bribe the officer if there's one on guard, or the desk clerk, if there isn't. If the rooms are sealed up. get in some other way." "What do you want there, boss?" "A list of the pictures over the desk in the living room. Just a description. There's one missing " "Where'U I look for that one?" "I don't want it. I want the othIf you can't get them out, ers. make a list Get back here as soon as you 'an." "Right vou ar " V I 1 matteJL OvsUl Wind Sir Mark Young, governor i Hong Kong when it was taken V the Japanese, and who was takes prisoner at that time and later n. leased, is the hero of many stories wit. 0t( illustrating a rapier-lik- e Df the best is of the lady, lunchmi at Government House, who waj aggrieved to find herself on Mark's left instead of his right I She approached her grievanct obliquely but made it fairly ob. vious. Finally she remarked: "i suppose it is really very difHcui Brighton, tor your A.D.C. always to put you evfrom its inception. He tells me guests in their right places?" j ery family on that reservation owns "Not at all," said Sir Mark' five. boasts a car and one family "for those who matter blandly, Radios are common as are elec- don't mind, and those who mini tric flashlights and kerosene lan- don't matter." terns, some knives and forks and saw-gras- CHAPTER XV Of the four crematories for rj animals in this country, the modern is in New York City, tablished in 1939, it cremates aj nually over 500 pets, such as dos ;ats, parrots 'and canaries, charV ing from $15 to $25 for the service from $5 to' $300 for the urn aw' from $25 to $100 for a niche and ik perpetual care. Si: d pond at my feet where lazy, hump shouldered Brahman cattle cool themselves. Rig-I- d white cranes condition. "She collapsed aeain?" "Yes, as soon as we got her to bed and had sent for the doctor." "What prognosis does the doctor give?" "She will probably recover, but she may not remember things who hit her how it happened for a long time. The police were quite nasty about it, Mr. McCale. They have insisted on a police nurse so that she may be questioned the moment she regains consciousness. Oh. it's awful awful!" She reached out an old d hand toward him, like a distressed child. Her voice was empr ty, drained. "What can we do, Mr. McCale?" He shrugged away the pity that flooded his mind. No time for sympathy. His business was not commiseration. His mouth was grim; his voice held no clemency, no hope. He turned with a violent movement, striding toward the door. "I want to see the attic." She rose obediently, mechanically. In the hall she led the way, some of the granite in her taking possession again. She preceded him up the stairway, dead eyes straight, her lips set in a firm "s stand undis- other practical gadgets and a lot of store food and canned goods. However, there has been no change in housing styles. Before the original deal was closed in 1938, one ol the Seminole leaders first made sure that living habits should not be interfered with. He was quoted as turbed by us. Above, great hawks wheel and. as we pass, a bevy of snipe ll. : irtllieWl Baukhage rises like biacK and white confetti tossed in the air by a giant hand. Back at the turn of the road that leads to the attractive headquarters blue-veine- building of the Brighton Seminole Indian reservation, smoke curls up from beneath a fire of logs In a palmetto thatched cooking "chikee" of one of the Seminole camps. Here live three generations of a single (frniir. vat a fairlv lnrcTA ment of the entire Seminole nation, for there are only 625 of them in Florida Like most tourists when I first came to Florida. I was startled to face to face these women in their gayly colored skirts, their high, bead collars, their astounding hair dress; the men, less gayly clad but still with their gay kerchiefs and cowboy hats; the solemn children, replicas of their mothers in their fine-draw- n line. Up the dark, heavily carpeted stairways of the brooding house they went, past the double doors of the drawing room where Karen still played her macabre music, up to the third floor, where a policeman sat dozing before the closed portal of Sybil's room where death was McCale unfolded a large black hovering, up the last flight, darker and narrower than the others, to silk handkerchief. the attic where murder had been the cold, dark February night and perhaps only delayed. walked toward him. Miss Bigelow pressed a switch "That you, Mr. McCale?" and two yellow bulbs came into Hum"Yes, officer or hello, view, dimly lighting the place. A attic came into focus, phrey. If I'd known it was you, I'd well-kehave Invited you Inside long ago." shadowy, but unlike most attics, or"Hell, so you knew the office had derly. No dust there, no dark cora tail on you. And me thinking it ners, no cobwebs or broken furniwas a real mysterious job I was ture. There were a few chests of " given. That Donlevyl Tells me I drawers, any number of trunks and to wasn't bother you, but to stick to antique baggage. An old trunk had been your door like it was me mother's." pulled out under one of the lights for easier A taxicab slid up to the curb and McCale got In. He held the door perusal, it stood open. There was a damp red stain on the bare boards open. where the blood had spilled from "Come on. Humph. You'll get a Sybil's wound. dusting from the lieutenant if you McCale dropped down beside the lose your quarry." trunk, asking curtly, "The weapMcCale gave the Beacon street on?" number as Humphrey clambered "The police took it away a chimin. The big officer setney brick wrapped in a towel. The tled himself with a sigh. towel was from the third floor bath"We going for a long ride, Mcroom." Miss Adelaide's eyes avoidCale?" ed the blood on the floor. "No. Just over the hill, and I Miss Bigelow's voice came hollowcan't take you in. Too bad. The ly, futility dulling it. "Then it house is full of beautiful women." must have been oh, if it were not "You'd better let me come in," true but. it must" Humphrey gibed. "You can't do "Yes." he said quietly. "It could your best work with that arm In a only have been the murderer of sling." Curt Vallaincourt and Shari Lynn the person who attempted to re'The Murderer Must move me from the world last night here in this house. Surely you Be in the House!' have known, have suspected, Miss "You don't know me. Besides, the Bigelow. that the murderer Is eithlady I'm going to see is In a worse er one of your family, or someone condition than yours truly. Somewho goes and comes at will to and one tried to bump her off." from this house." "My God. Who is it, Mata Hari?" McCale laughed and lapsed Into A Black Handkerchief silence for the rest of the ride. Adelaide Bigelow seemed Intrigues McCale She looked at him bleakly. changed. Like the house, she was He began to go through the conenveloped in tragedy. To be sure, of the trunk, swiftly, urgenttents had touched her life more tragedy than once In the last hours, had ly. It was apparent that Sybil had crouched on her own doorstep. But stored her keepsakes there. Writnow it had entered the very house, ten labels were pinned to a number the room. It was this fact that of articles. There was a girl's white seemed to have shattered the last dress with a card that read: "Vicremnants of her courage. She sat toria's graduation." Sybil's own wedding gown. Two envelopes conhuddled in an armchair like a paralyzed person, powerless, watching tained locks of Stephen's and Vicdeath like a flame toria's childhood curls. There were creep toward her across the floor. several schoolbooks. As he removed other souvenirs "Oh," she said, seeing him standing before her, noticing his arm in from the depths of their hiding its hammock. "Your arm. I knew, place, a brand-nepicture of Sybil of course, you were hurt, but oh, I flashed across his mind. She was shouldn't have called you." Her revealed, not so much as the woman who clung so desperately to her voice was dull, hopeless made vapid, silly "I'm sorry I had to come in my fading youth, who who bolstered her conversation, I had no but one to gown, dressing with sherry, but empty middle-ag- e I didn't want to help me dress. more as a doting mother secretly w;iste the time it would have taken the brighter moments me to do Jt by myself. I hope you'll keeping alive of a not too easy life. excuse it." McCale unfolded a large black "Of course " silk handkerchief, the last thing In "When did it happen?" His tone the trunk. was more like a doctor's than a de"This?" tective's. A puzzled look came over "About five o'clock. She must face. She struggled with memory. have lain there a good hour." 1 aon i Know, i can t place that "Where?" "I hardly think so." "In the attic." Could it have been my brother's'' An eyebrow shot up. "The attic? tTO BE CONTINUED) mi sy-- h saying: "Indians must live in air and sunshine. Must dress as their fathers dress." But additional opportunity for employment has brought about a desire for an education. As nearly as I could learn, education to the Sem inole means learning to speak Eng- h ani Perhaps to read and write Because the Seminoles are nat-aurauy inteliigent, it is no trick for want to- - But them to learn if the Iabor demand likewise has terfered with the process. When the family ets a special job picking tomatoes the children go along and Pick. t0- - There are no penalties for being absent from school, With the shortage of teachers of every kind it is unlikely that the ll j i j t: X If WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you fed puni as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr. Caldwell's famous median to quickly pull the trigger on lazy "in. cards", and help you feel bright lad chipper again. DR. CALDWELL'S Is the wonderful sen. na lazabTO contained in good old Syru Pepsin to make it so easy to take. MANY DOCTORS ess pepsin prepan-tion- s in prescriptions to make the more palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure your laxative is con tained in Syrup Pepsin. INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL'S the ft vorite of millions for 50 years, and fee) that wholesome relief from constipt. tion. Even finicky children love it CAUTION: Use only as directed. medi-ci- 4 SENNA LAXATIVE y tea fotM WhenYburlnnards" are Crying the Blues CONTAIN! D IN SYRUP PEPSH ft1. CALOX red-face- d X Seminoles cluster around chikee ida Everglades. bright, flowing garments shopping at the Five and Ten! It is hard to believe that these gayly clad yet modest folk, so that only three (so far as I know) enlisted in World War II and none were drafted, once defeated the United States forces in three wars stretching from the time of the Revolution until almost the end of the last century. By then, with their Chief Osceola tricked into capture while at a peace parley, all but 150 of the Seminoles were dead or had yielded to mass deportation to the West. But the 150 never gave in. Because of that fact the tradition has grown that they are still at war with the United States. It Is true that no formal peace treaty ever was signed-th- ey have had no chief since Osceola died in captivity but the Seminoles have full citizenship. However, they made their first formal and voluntary move toward reconciliation and cooperation in 1938. A group of Seminole leaders, meeting with American officials in the Everglades, then asked the government for schools, hospitals and better horses and cattle. A program Immediately was drawn up and entered into with good will on both sides, but it is a question whether this step hag had as slow-burnin- g Barbs . . . Every time I go to Florida I wish I had studied palmistry so I could Identify the trees. It's hard enough to distinguish a pepper tree from a senator even if you are familiar with the bark of both. ,. j x " Being in the dog house may be an embarrassment but it's better than a park bench. And with all Its fleas It isn't as overcrowded as some apartments. 'j change to for the tonic eect on your smile - Efficient Calox tmrkt tiro trn"t: 1 Helps remore film ... bring out native costumes deen in Flor In ever will quite reach the demand even on the part of the busy Seminoles. The school in the Everglades is closed at present Undoubtedly when conditions change and the Seminole again is confronted with Job competition the government will be called upon to furnish the White Man's learning in larger doses and with fewer interruptions. In any case neither prosperity nor education has as yet caused the Seminole to complain about his A few modern housing situation. houses built on one reservation were left unoccupied, except for one porch. There is nothing wrong with a Seminole chikee. A chikee really ought to be translated "room" instead of "house," since there are as many separate chikees as required for each family. They are of two different types, one for cooking and one for sleeping and living. They consist of a thick palm-fa- n roof with "eaves" supported on poles and rafters. There are no walls in the living hut but there is a platform a couple feet off the ground and usually a bunk-lik- e bench which can be used for the women as a work table, as well as supply g all the natural luitre of your smile. 2 A ipecial ingredient in CaloJ encourages regular massage... which has a tonic effect oo gums ...helps make them firm and rosy. Tone up your smile. ..with Calox! Mod i jamout McRiatM labor atvriu, 11) yum pharmaceutical know-ix- frfVrthlim' And Your Strength and Energy Is Below Par II mr be eaiucd by disorder of function that permita poiooo wuta to acmmulata. For truly "t'f people ttrl tired, weak and m",M when the kirineye fail to remove cirta and other vute matter from tf kU-- y blood. Yoa Bay enffer Barfing btekte rheumatic paina, headache, d'"1" fettirif sp niihte. Iff paina. aweUia n Sometimea frequent ana scanty with amartinf and burninf to " other ilun that aomethinf la wroof . the kidneys or bladder. There ahould be no doubt that pron treatment la wiser than nefl"-'- - "a Doan t Pill,. It la better to rely medicine that has won country'" Jr lens Eroval than on aomethinf Doane have been tried sno ed many yeara. Arc at all drug store lvJr'' for sleeping. These dwellings are airy all right and would be damp during a long rainstorm if it were not for supplementary tarpaulin. Now Eat Food Of White Mart u. s. What the White Man calls prog-reshas done more to affect the eating habits of the Seminole than our s cultural activities have affected his viewpoint. Draining and to the Everglades have lumbering re" duced food sources-dri- ed sharply creeks and ponds, cutting Umber and for-est fires have killed off wildlife. But the accessibility of the store has tended to make grocerj up with bakers' bread, beef, coffee, sugar ' syrup and canned fruits, 00 Are Always A Good Buy |
