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Show THE BULLETIN his daughter. My name is Bellamy. John Bellamy." "Thank you, Mr. Bellamy. My father always kept your picture in his study, the one in which you were landing a monster trout" "Rightl Jack, come here and meet the daughter of an old friend of mine. Miss Martens, this is ." Daphne's slim form stiffened. "I have met your son, Mr. Bella CONSPIRATORS 63 By ARTHUR ANDREWS HcClur Newspaper Syndicate. remember correctly," I Mr. Bellamy! vole JL as cold as the August ran was hot, "this crots-coutry jaunt of yours was described as restful, and as comfortable as my home." He contemplated a dried beef sandwich without enthusiasm, wondering how a man of his ace could be persuaded by a cocky Harvard graduate of 23 to leave a cool mountain lodge and go traipsing about the country. John Bellamy XI, who had sold the trip to his father decided this was not the time to discuss the merits of cross country travel. "Where," he asked, "is the thermos bottle, dad?" "Where?" echoed that suffering parent. "Your impeccable Jones failed to put It in the hamper." Jack groaned as he looked around the rather forsaken country through motor road which the wound like a black snake. "It seems to me." Mr. Bellamy was working up quite a heat, "it seems to me that with all the tinkering you do you'd know what was wrong when a car stops. Or," "have consented to Jones coining along." John relapsed Into silence. He wondered what had gone m n- well-oile- d with-eringl- y, wrong. Or-co- tfs cleaning wom- an had told his Jones' sister that Daphne was leaving with Dorothy Carter for California, starting at six o'clock Wednesday morning. Today. He had worked on his father, stressing the point that that gentleman needed the relaxation only leisurely travel could produce travel to California, particularly. The senior Mr. Bellamy had been finally convinced and had even agreed to an early start Five o'clock to be exact This was the lonesomest spot Jack Bellamy could find and here he had cross-countr- y stopped. Ostensibly the car wouldn't go. Actually Jack planned to park there until Daphne and her girl friend came along. Daphne was Jack's big moment There was no one like her. That's what Jack thought John Bellamy just refused to think. Refused to discuss the girL With all the available debutantes, daughters of his friends and business associates, this son of his his only child would pick some unknown stenographer as the future Mrs. Bellamy. He had dwelt on the well known modern belief that absence makes the heart grow fonder for somebody else and had asked Jack to consider a six months' vacation from Daphne. They had had quite a session, and because John Bellamy Sr.'s heart wasn't in working order any longer bis son had consented. Then had come the news. Jack was certain once his father had met Daphne, he would be unable to hold out So enthused was he with his plan that he completely forgot the girl's habit of always being late. Six o'clock was the starting hour, but it was well past ten before the girls were under way. And out in the desert Jack listened to his fa ther, stubbornly Insistent not to move until Daphne had appeared on the scene. Mr. Bellamy paused as a shabby little flivver came up and stopped in front of them. A girl's charming face looked out at them. Beside her sat another girl, fair and blue-eye- They saw only Mr. Bellamy, for suddenly Jack was under the hood examining the engine. "H'ven't any water on board, have you?" asked Mr. Bellamy. "I'm sorry we have only drinking water, not enough for" "Don't want it for the car dying of thirst" explained Mr. Bellamy. "The poor thing!" exclaimed the other girL "I'll get it Daphne." At that moment Jack Bellamy's from the head emerged turle-wis-e car, his expectant eyes seeking the girL She saw him at the same mo ment and paled. Mr. Bellamy drank deeply from the silver cup again and again. It was a shining cup Daphne's chrisdark-haire- d tening cup and bore her name. The spectacles of Mr. Bel lamy peered closely at the inscrip tion. "Daphne Martens Martens that your name?" he asked sharply. "Yes," admitted Daphne, regain ing her lost color. "X knew a Martens. Old friend of mine. We used to hunt In Canada together, long ago. What was your father's name?" "Isaac," she said reluctantly. Bellamy looked disturbed, and his face softened. "He was my friend. And be has passed away, my dear?'" "Two years ago, at Los Angeles," she answered. horn-rimme- d my. "Jack, you never told me!" He frowned on Jack, who looked equally stiff and distant This was something again. Daphne had never told him about He should have this friendship. been pleased, but somehow he felt that Daphne had no right to bold out on him. It didn't seem fair. The Bellamy stubbornness was as serting itself. After all be had suf fered! "Miss Martens," he addressed bis father coldly, '"is the young woman I wanted to marry." "What?" bristled Mr. Belli my, immediately mindful of the scenes over the undesirable girl Jack bad wanted to marry. "I thought you said 'Martin.' Why didn't you say she was Isaac Marten's child?" "One of Daphne's pies," irrele vantly broke in Dorothy, as she came forward with a huge flaky apple pie in her hands. "I'm starved, and if s 20 miles to the next town who will have a slice of pie?" She put her things on the running board of the Bellamy car. . She flashed a silver knife and passed pieces of delicious pie around on paper plates. Mr. Bellamy ate, and mutely passed his plate for more. "Anyone who can make a pie like the daughter of my best this friend . . . Daphne, my dear, go and make it up with Jack!" Daphne led Jack to the shabby little car that she and Dorothy owned together. She bent and swept a kiss at the open door. "The dear old lizzy. . . it brought us right to you!" "Why," Jack was still feeling hurt "why didn't you tell me about your father?" Daphne sighed. "I really should have. But I intended to keep it for a surprise. And then when your father refused to even see me why I couldn't then!" To be together again was enough for the present So Jack went to great detail ex plaining how be had planned the ... George Wasbingtoa manners General Washington's were rather reserved than free: though on all proper occasions he could relax sufficiently to show how highly he was gratified by the charms of conversation and the pleasure of society. His person and whole deportment exhibited an unaffected and indescribable dignity, of with haughtiness, unmineled which all who approached him were sensible; and the attachment of those who possessed his friendship and enjoyed his intimacy, though Ho nodded. "I heard that A brave man, and ardent was slways respectful. thoroughly honest friend; one in a From Marshall's "Life of washing thousand. I am very glad to meet too," F JAIL YET DEVISED, EXPERT DECLARES Barber Calls 'Next,' It May Be Marriage EAST ' HAMPTON, CONN. Paul O'Connor, the barber, calls "next" he's never sure whether it's going to be a haircut shave or a marriage. O'Connor is a justice of the peace and young couples visit his shop to be married. One couple insisted upon sitting in the barber chairs while they were "spliced." When ly be. The grapevine said that there were mechanical ears that informed guards every time a man turned over in bed or groaned; that there were burglar alarms, in reverse, on doors and windows; that electric locks, controlled by a master bolt in the guard's cage, held .the doors; that tear gas could be released from the mess hail ceiling at first sign of SUICIDES OF WILD GEESE IS PROBLEM No One Seems to Know What To Do About It. Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, IND. conservationists agree that something ought to be done about wild geesa killing themselves, but no one seems to know what to do. Frequent suicides by the wildfowl have been reported in the state. At Washington a flock of geese landed in the streets one rainy night1 hostility. got tangled up in trees and high Escape Proof, Indeed! The United States government had tension wires and jaywalked into automobiles with disastrous results. spent $250,000 in 1933 to remodel the At Fort Wayne geese made an in-old military prison on Alcatras into America's Devil's Island; a convict advised landing at the airport mis bad no way of knowing what scien taking the wet concrete runways for tific terrors might be hidden there lagoons. Most recent was the case of four to give him away. Maybe they even had a way of reading his thoughts! wild geese which crashed onto the So Alcatras, that Island of ice of Lake Eva, near Worthington. The results were much more drasrock, really was escape proof? Well, these five men worked desperately tic than those on attending 'Tittle Eva's" escape the ice, for they at their cell bars anyway. They felt broke their necks. sure no steel could resist the right This caused a huddle of the state cutting technique. Just before dawn they won. Five conservation department the Greene men clambered from five cells County Conservation dub. Game Warden Estil FuUc, who reported the through bars that were jagged and accident and the U. S. biological to stole Then bent cautiously they which apparently left the survey ward freedom. conservationists considerably baf into the And then .prison burst fled. Guns had roared. break The light They admit that the lakes they been discovered. build to entice waterfowl into the Arthur (Doc) Barker, kidnaper state become hazards to and gang leader, fell, fatally wound the wild geesedangerous in freezing weather. ed. Dale Stamphin was shot through Laws making It illegal to kill wild both legs. The other three prisoners geese out of season have been obsurrendered. tained by the conservationists. Now The fate of the only convicts ever they must find a way to prevent the to disappear from The Rock still is geese from killing themselves. unknown. There were two of them. Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe, OkIa horn a desperadoes who got away in Smokestack Worker Is 12-ac- At 9:30 a. m., eastern standard time, on May IS, King George and Queen Elizabeth of England set foot on North American sou for the most widely heralded royal visit in mod ern history, in England, where the battleship Repulse was remodeled, in Canada and the United States elaborate preparations have been made for the comfort and enjoyment of Britain's monarchs. Until June 14, when the royal couple leaves Halifax on the return trip, American newspapers will be tour. puea with accounts of their cross-continent- al 1037. Australia's Ghost City Also Harbors a Dragon modern skyscrapers. Some of the "suburbs" are neatly dotted with lower rocks which hint of dwellings erected in the Roman fashion and then abandoned by the men who raised them. The whole effect is so realistic it is difficult to believe human agency was absent when the city came into being. This natural city has, in fact had its people. Long ago Australian na tives dwelt here and their workman ship may be seen in some of the caves with which the place Is dot ted. But today the city is taboo. The modern native wOl not go near it at all at night; in daylight it requires considerable coaxing to persuade one to accompany a visitor there. The deserted city has its dragon. He dwells in a deep and shaded pool at the southern end of the place and is described by a native word which translates as "rain bull," a legendary monster from times long past He is greatly feared and his fame stretches far across the plains. Approaching the spot over the sandy soil which robs walking of any noise, one can easily understand how op presslve the heat and silence of the place must be to the natives. ESCAPE-PROO- SAN FRANCISCO. Five men worked silently but desperately in Alcatras prison cells, peering fren-ziedall around at the slightest sound. It was midnight and they were sawing on the bars. Everywhere about them were the newest scientific devices to keep them where they were. They could only guess what those devices might meeting. Daphne, however, did not go into any detail, in fact she said nothing about bribing her maid to tell Jones' sister about the proposed California trip. One of the most remarkable spots in Australia is also the least known. It is the "Ruined City" of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Arnhem Land Is that irregular bulge which appears In the center of the north coast of this continent and "Ruined City" lies near the Roper river and almost 100 miles from the great Gulf of Carpentaria which bounds the land to the east writes a Sydney in the (Australia) correspondent New York Times. The place is a natural outcrop of red sandstone rising abruptly from the surrounding plains and it is a onremarkable sight The age-lon- g rewater has wind and of slaught sulted in a medley of rock formations which has an astonishing resemblance to an ancient city. There are walls and turrets, the dividing rocks dropping sheer and precise to cut the area up into "streets." There are temples and tombs, natural cenotaphs and even hints of NO Felons Even Saw Out of Alcatraxt Outsmart Trick Gadgets. .. WNU Sarvica. Jones had sworn that Daphne Visitors from Out of Town: George, Elizabeth Go Calling Sidelights on the journey: Above, the band of the royal marines, Portsmouth - division, which accompanies the monarchs. This is the first time since 1911 thai a royal marine band has ac- companied British sovereigns abroad. Left, Mrs. Henry F. Nesbiti, White House who housekeeper, must make them fortable while at Wash ington. The price of popularity is little privacy. One of the few respites the traveling royalty will enjoy is at Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper national park, Alberta. Photo at right shows a portion of the living room in the sovereign's bungalow. At the Barker inquest it was dis closed 11 men have tried to escape in 13 months. Only Cole and Roe succeeded. "There has been no escape proof prison yet designed," says one of the nation's leading penal author!' ties. "Scientific gadgets, three foot thick stone or concrete walls, the jungle and the sea sometimes let men get away. "Eternal vigilance is the price we pay to keep men confined, but guards are human and no human being yet is perfect So convicts occasionally get away." Everyone Needs Help. No one person, not even the can go through Alcatras without help from other people. Prison buildings on Alcatras are set apart They're surrounded by towers that are linked by elevated catwalks, so the guards can cover every vantage point with machine guns and gas. Guards who mingle with the pris oners don't carry weapons. But they are protected by well armed guards who are stationed overhead and who, in turn, are well protected from attacks by prisoners. Most publicized of prison gadgets Is the electric eye, supposed to de tect the tiniest bit of metal on a con vict when be passes it One found a watch spring an Alcatras inmate tried to Smuggle in in bis ear! "It is only 80 per cent efficient testified Edward J. Miller, associate Alcatras warden. Prison officials say other equip ment also has its faults. Happiest When Highest Despite the fact that he has had a few close calls, Frank Kuhlman of Auburn would rather work on a smokestack (or even higher if possible) than one on the ground. Kuhlman has been building stacks from Connecticut to Florida and west to Alberta, Canada, for the past 34 years. He has worked on more than 500 In alL But he has never forgotten the time when he was working on a stack and was accidentally bumped by a tender (helper or top man). Over he went; but the tender caught him by the suspenders and pulled him back. When working on stacks no one Is' permitted to make any sudden noises or exclamations, Kuhlman said. Every move Is timed and one fast move or false move might mean death to someone. . The tallest stack on which Kuhlman has worked was the stack at Rochester. N. Y. His next Job will be on a stack at Baltimore. AUBURN, IND. 170-fo-ot 225-fo- 350-fo- ot 140-fo-ot Ram Is Called Killer In Lawsuit for $25,700 CANTON, OHIO. A farmer and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mong, living on Indian Run road near here, were sued for $25,700 in common pleas court because a ram belonging to them is alleged to have strayed and butted an aged neighbor, causing her death. George W. VanVoorhis, who filed the suit as the administrator of his mother's estate, says she received a broken hip when the sheep attacked her on the back porch of her borne Occasional Family Row ' December 12. Declared of No Concern last The suit further alleges that Mrs. NEW BRITAIN, CONN. Mrs. Margaret VanVoorhis Loutzenheis-er- s Margaret Robertson, lecturer on sodeath on January 0 was caused ciology, offers this suggestion to by the compound fracture of her hip women who wish to live a happy and other injuries received at that married .life: time. "Never lose your temper when your husband does." Broken 40th Time by Mrs. Robertson felt there was no Leg husin a or wife a harm particular Young Man of Toronto band engaging in an occasional TORONTO. ONT. Harold Gibsquabble "so long as the attacks of bons, 18, was in a hospital again temperament don't coincide." today with his fortieth leg fracture. "Women," she said, "should not He has had his left leg broken 29. expect to find an ideal man, for times; the right one 11 times. there aren't any." The youth suffers from a rare And, for the satisfaction of men. disease, fragilitas ossium, which, she added, "there are no ideal wom causes extreme brittleness of the leg . en either.' bones. As Gibbons boarded a street-ea- r late yesterday, he was thrown oft Wrong Number? Sure, and balance. "I felt the bone snap," he Now How Do You Like It? said, "and knew X would be back in bed again." tt HARTFORD, CONN. Dick Doctors estimate Gibbons has who works in the directory de 4 of his 18 in hospital passed New the of Southern Eng beds withyears partment broken legs. The disease tells this land Telephone company, affects bones. the only leg one on himself: of the in the middle Aroused night to answer the Insistent ringing of Fox Hound Gives Birth his telephone, the voice on the other To 17 Puppies in Jail end of the wire inquired: TOMS RIVER, N. "Are you an official of the tele Sylvester B. Ma this, of Ocean county, phone company?" revealed that his pedigreed Dela"Yes. what can I do for you? ware fox hound, Fanny, had estabasked Talcott muffling a yawn. "Just tell me how it feels to get lished what he believed a record out of bed at two o'clock In the when she gave birth to 17 puppies morning to answer the wrong num- in the county Jail here. The mother ber," barked the questioner as he and the puppies are all doing weU, he said. banged the receiver. ' Elaborate alterations were made on the IIMS Repulse to insure the finest possible quarters. The above picture was taken in. January when workmen refitted the dining salon. Tal-co- J.-Sh-eriff "The Rock" at Quebec City, where the Repulse drops anchor. ot |