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Show A . V War Lorn INTERCONTINENTAL had been one of the first insurance companies to move uptown. They owned I their own building on upper Madison Ave. They were one of the big companies and I was feeling pretty good about the call. If Martin he could Raymond wanted to, throw me, Milo March, investigator, enough business to keep me going most of the time. The reception room was big and glossy. There was a redhead at the reception desk who looked as if she'd been custom-buU- t, like the furniture. I told her who I was r.nd a few minutes later I was on my way back to the inner V$ n . , - -- '' , , Raymond was pretty He looked himself. like a dozen other vice presidents. His accent came from Harvard. His hair was prematurely gray. You could tell by looking at him that, according to the fashion of the moment, he would always have a Bloody Mary, an extra dry martini, or something-on-the-rockRaymond might like some other drink but he'd always order whatever the other vice presidents were drinking, just as he'd always buy the right sort of tie. "Glad to see you. Milo," he said as I came in. He gave me a .1 x L.-- and where I was staying?" I y asked. He laughed again, but there was no amusement or humor in it. There never was in Johnny Fornessi's daughter. "Word gets around. And whenever there's any word, I usually hear it. This place is a real Hickville, but I've started getting a few lines out." "Don't tell me you've started a Welcome-Neighbmovement?" "I called you because I want to do you a favor.' "Your favors are always loaded." "I figured you might misunderstand," he said, "but I'll take the chance. I ain't got no interest in this myself, but I don't like to see another American knocked off ii it can be helped." "Or unless you can do the knocking off," I said. "Who's ; . or lt s. handshake. manly, executive-typ"Getting settled down in the big city?" "Yeah," I said. "Good boy. You know, I'm glad e you decided to open up for yourself here." "Thanks," I said. "Your passport in "Yeah," I said. I look too interested. interested in my meant a trip abroad order?" tried not to he was it and a fat If passport She was found early in the morning on the beach . . tics and that somebody high in the government caused the police to close the case. The names of a couple of deported American gangsters have been dragged in. And there are others who think the family hired someone to kill her so they could collect the insurance. Oh, there are plenty of reasons for us to look into it." "Maybe," I said. "It's not going to do you any good to prove mur- kder unless you can prove some body in the family did it." "Of course," he said. "The results don't hang on whether you save us the extra twenty or not. Let somebody get away with something, even if it doesn't cost us any money, and soon everybody thinks he can get away with We want you to go everything. over there and shake it down. If it costs us forty, okay; if we save the twenty, double okay." "Hkav " T saiH "T inst vtanlfxl beneath me. I ate and drank and slept and tried to pretend that I didn't hear the roar of the motors. At 11 o'clock the following morning we landed in Rome. A coach took us into the air terminal at the railway station. From there, I took a taxi to the Bernini Hotel on Piazza Barberini. I checked in and went up to my room. Everything in Rome would close up at 1 o'clock anyway, so it would be 4 or 5 before I could sit down with the Intercontinental man. s I was about asleep when the phone rang. I came up out of it and grabbed the re Utah APRIL 22, 1957 County, Utah' Motlie rOf J ofda n King DAILY HERALD He laughed. he said. "Johnny Fornessi," FORNESSI JOHNNY of the American was gangsters Stevenson PlanV Law Firm' Merger; I Responsible CHICAGO (UpV--t Adlal Steven son, former Democratic candidate 1 for president, and his law ; partner will soon merge their law business with a New York firm. WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. WalA spokesman for the Llberty-villlace F. Bennett 111., publisher and former praised President Eisenhower's proposed Illinois governor, said Stevenson's budget cuts today but added h move was a further step-i"re was "pleased to"see that the Pres- turning to the practice of law as ident did not recommend any cut his major career. in reclamation." The merger will join Stevenson W. Willard Wirtz with Paul and Bennett said he was confident that meant the President would Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garstand by his request for 25 mil- rison of New York. Stevenson will .stay in Chicago, lion dollars to start work on the the spokesman said. Upper Colorado River-projecThe Utah Republican said fund cuts recommended; .by, the President affected onbKnew programs. e, h) n - t. Publisher From Argentine Gives Credit to U.S. Man Dies In Idaho Crash S. L. going to do all this to me?" "I don't know," he said. "Honest, I don't, Milo. All I heard was that you were coming over here to work on the death of the Pericoloso girl. The way I hear By UNITED PRESS it, there are a lot of important people who want it left alone." Richard Freeman, 26, .Salt Lake (To Be Continued) died Saturday in a Burley hos pital of injuries suffered Thursday in a one-cwreck on U.S. HighMUST BE A SHOCKER 30--S 12 miles east of Burley. way HOLLYWOOD (UP) Officers said Freeman was a Warner Bros, believes it is the first film passenger in a car driven by studio to insure itself against a Charles J. Peck, 26, also of Salt possible "shaky" production. The Lake City, which hit some loose studio announced today it has gravel and overturned on a curve. taken out earthquake insurance on Peck was treated for minor inthe film, "Pal Joey," now being juries and released from the filmed in San Francisco WASHINGTON (UP) Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, publisher of the Buenos Aires newspaper La Pren-z- a said Friday' the United States has substantially helped lift Argentina out of the "economic chaos" of the Peron regime. He also said the 100 million dollar export-impobank loan to Argentina to help its depleted transportation system already was being used to good advantage. Gainza Paz made the statements after a 30 minute conference with Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles at which he conveyed the greetings of Argentine ar one who had been deported to Italy. I'd brushed up against him a couple of times in the States and once in Italy after he'd been sent back. 'How'd you know I was here Bennett Says Reclamation Cuts Unwise rt President Pedro Aramburu. A Cairo weekly CAIRO (UP) newspaper charged Saturday .that Queea King Hussein's mother was Zein, partially responsible for Jordan's political crisis. The independent ,? newspaper Akhbar Elyom said in a dispatch from Jerusalem that Queen Zein v meddled in Middle Eastern i politics by engaging in talks with former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden during a Visit to London last year. The newspaper also hinted that the United States was partially responsible for the crisis. (The U.S. Embassy In Amman denied this last week. Queen Mother Zein last was reported la Switzerland.) The British freighter Poplar Hill had been scheduled to go through the Suez Canal with the Union Jack flying Saturday but it was delayed in reaching the entrance and missed the convoy. If it had: made it the Poplar Hill "would have been the second British ship to have transited the canal since it- - was reopened. d The Cairo Radio said Friday night that the passage of the first ship Friday, the West Wind. "demonstrates Egypt's intent to uphold the Constantinople Convention of 1888" which declared the canal should be open to ships from all nations. However, Egypt still bars Israeli ships on the ground that a state of war exists between the two nations. , state-controlle- two-third- fee. "How about your vaccination?" ceiver. "I was in Germany only a few "Pronto," I said. months ago," I said, "so it's still "Hello, Milo," a voice said in good. Is Intercontinental handing There was something English. out tours these days?" about it. familiar vaguely "We are this time," he said. "Who's this?" I asked. "What's the pitch?" I asked. "I thought you usually had the European stuff handled over if nt n tv, n rn there." job. One hundred a day and ex"We did," he said, "but I can't penses." say we've ever been happy about "Right," he said. it. Our branch offices have al"When do you want me to Canvas and ways handled any investigations, leave?" I asked. but most of the time it's only He grinned at me. "I have Aluminum meant that we paid the full reservations for you leaving tofreight. I've been wanting to make morrow." some other arrangements, and "Pretty sure of yourself," I then your card and this case came said. in at the same time." AWNING & SHADE "Must be a big one." AC THE next day at about noon I He shrugged. "Not so big. Life was on the Clipper, watching the insurance. Twenty thousand dol- Long Island shore line drop away lars, with a double indemnity clause. Maybe you can save us the extra twenty thousand." "Twenty thousand here and twenty thousand there," I said. "So somebody got knocked off and the local cops say it was an all-expen- se MONDAY, 1: sanctum. Martin custom-bui- 1Q 1 v AWNINGS 1 O ''P w' 1 '"lllra v fi HUISH 5-15- accident?" "It's trickier than that," he said. "How's your Italian?" "The bird sees the professor's inkwell on the table," I said in Italian. "It's the kind of thing they teach you. I may be a little rustry, but it should come back to me. I was in Italy with the OSS a few years back. What's the case?" Engineers of all kinds are essential in the various phase of steel production 12 what's tho ONE Chemists and Metallurgists check, test, inspect, and supervise production from ore to finished steel COMBINATION Operators of intricate and expensive equipment must be skilled and experienced men WASHER-DRYE- R a "fabulous fabrics" manufacturer has named the best you can buy? nn" "A girl named Anna Maria Pericoloso. In Rome, "wenty-fiv- e old. Her years family's one of the group that's been making money since the war. They insured her for twenty thousand about two years ago. Double indemnity clause. They put in a claim for the full $40,000 a week ago." "How'd she die?" GffeF "SHE was found early in the morning on the beach between Ostia and Tor Vaianica. In other words, about 30 miles south of Rome. She was lying there without any clothes on." Princeton Mills, famed manufacturer of "fabulous fabric", names fhe new EASY COMBINATION WASHER-DRYEthe one unit thai "Drowned?" "Who knows," he said. For once he lost the Harvard accent. He sounded more like P. S. 41. "Luigi Manzo, our man in Rome, says he hasn't been able to get any information out of the cops. The police and the girl's family say that she hadn't been feeling too well and that she had some idea that bathing in sea water made her feel better. They guess guess, mind you that she went down there at night to bathe, had a cramp when she was wading out, drowned. Then, the guess goes that the waves washed her back up on the beach. "What bothers you about it?" R, does the safest, best 6b of washing and drying, today's fabrics (and tomorrow's). ..automatically! a--d" I Fastest Way Known to Relieve Acid Indigestion is wattr, washes cleaner! Deep and Spinawoy Hinting removes more soap, more swim- then where are her ming, clothes?" "Hanging on a hickory limb." I said. "Manzo says that all Rome is buzzing with rumors about the case. He says that it has all the earmarks of being another Wilma Montesi case she was even found only 10 miles from where the other girl's body was found. Anyway, there's" talk about poli- - In clothes deoper asked. "Everything. If she went Action plunges Tumb-l-flt- or r soil! e Wrinkle-Fre- e e Drying! Two washing and drying cycle for both Regular and Fine Fabrics! AS LOW AS 50 A Washes; dries up to a 10-t-b. WEEK load n; " 1 Accountants must be expert, with steel's transactions running into the billions because steel is a rapidly growing industry. 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