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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH FINDS NEED FOR TRANSLATIONS OF COLLEGE ENGLISH FLOYD GIBBONS Adventurers' Club . By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. weve got a detective story to tell today and a real to tell it. He is Richard D. Smith, and he spins us a swell yarn of how he went out looking for clues and found Adven' ture instead. Or maybe I should say that Dick Spiith found Adventure, too for he found the clues he was looking for. sir, Dick says hes and feels Just as fit as he ever did. Hes a magician now not a detective. Today he goes around to clubs and parties, giving other people mysteries to think over. Instead of solving them himself. But not so many years ago he was one of the trusted operatives of an internationally, known detective agency. And according to some of the newspaper clippings, Dick must have been a wonder. Remember all those detective stories youve ever read? Most of them start off: The telephone rang in the office of the detective bu-- i reau. Well, this one is no exception to that rule. The only difference is that this story is a true one and the telephone rang In Dicks home one night in August, 1923, while he sat there listening to the radio. I Dick answered that phone. It was the office. J The office told Dick to take the night train for Ogdensburg, N. Y way up on the SL Lawrence river, report to the general manager of the Rutland railroad, and see If he could find out anything about 300 bags of sugar that had been stolen from the railroads warehouse on the waterfront fifty-on- e, . This Was a Sweet Case Looking for Stolen Sugar. Dick arrived In Ogdensburg on the following day. He talked to the railroad cops and the local police he looked the scene of the robbery, over. The police knew nothing definite and the scene of the crime yielded no clues. Then Dick went and looked up a friend in the U. S. customs service whose Job was to watch the river for smugglers trying to run liquor in from Canada. Dick, knew that the men of the underworld have very few secrets among themselves, and he had a notion that If he could get the customs men to by capturing a crew of he could learn about the sugar theft The customs something from those men fell in with his idea, and that same night, five of them and Dick along with them went out in a government launch and hid in a cove a little way up the river. The first night they spent well Just waiting. Nothing happened. But the second night they spied a dark object out In the middle of the river and rum-runner- s, rum-runne- It Turned and Rammed Us Directly In YOU NEVER CAN TELL William Houdesheldt of CenterInfanticide still Is committed In Iowa, who was mustered out ville, extent that during China to such an 1932 In the modern city of Shanghai of the Union army during the Civil Uncle Tom, spending a well earned alone, an average of 92 bodies of In- war because of frail health, celebratfurlough In a college town after 25 fants were found dally in the streets, ed his one hundredth birthday years In Central America, is greatly alleys and creeks. Colliers. enjoying his contact . with todays i " youth. He casually accepts the boisacof his young terous romping quaintances, though he secretly contrasts- It with the decorum of the native homes he has known so Intimately. Brightly rouged Ups calmly holding cigarettes dq not bother him, though he has fleeting visions of the toothless feminine smokers GIVING CHILD UNKNOWN REMEDIES he met In the hill country." He WITHOUT ASKING DOCTOR FIRST refuses to be shocked at reports of neckings, but he casts a regretful child a thought to the well chaperoned GIVING your senoritas of his adopted country. remedy you dont His chief delight Is .the notebook know all about without askhe is making of the American colis ing your family doctor first conversation about him; legiate a bad risk for any mother to often he finds it necessary to pencil take. In the translation for phrases he Doctors and child author! latest of his hears. Here Is a page ties say health, and sometimes discoveries: . life itself, depends on this. You git em out, pappy, youre flies. So the (Transwhen youre offered a complainin about someor do fussing your Quit lation, bargain in a remedy for your thing about child; ask your doctor before Mas clean tuckered out, she done toted four cords a wood terday." you buy it. 'Do this for your (Meaning, You are not the only one childs sake and your own peace who is busy.) fyntOHttfynM of mind. Safety Achl hes In a corner, eatin his Ask him particularly about (Translation, He Is woolly worm. the frequently used milk of angry about something.) about Phillips to magnesia' the What bag are you draggln He will tell of Milk are Magnesia. which throw? (Meaning, girl 60 years phyyou that for over you taking to the party?) sicians have endorsed it as SAFE On the flyleaf of the book are the words New of today becomes Old for your child. The kind of of tomorrow? Kansas City Star. remedy you want your child to have. NOW, ALSO IN TABLET FORM Spray Blown 70 Miles Remember this when you You can assist others by refusing to Spindrift, or sea spray, has been and say Phillips Milk of buy, accept a substitute for the genuine blown In gales over Incredibly long to your druggist. Magnesia Do in of this Phillips Milk Magnesia. distances. During a recent storm in the interest of yourself and your chilComes now, also, in tablets and in the interest of the dren England, it drenched and covered that taste of peppermint, that public in general. with salt a house 70 miles from the like to take. children coast Colliers Weekly. A Grave Mistake for a Mother to Make The Clue That Spelled Death WELL CHINESE INFANTICIDE . it) fit the Center. waited until It had come across to the American side. Then they set out full speed ahead after their quarry, and the next 10 minutes were the most exciting of Dicks life. t. First Blood in Battle of Boats. Says Dick : When the other boat saw It could not get away, It turned and rammed us directly In the center. The other boat was heavier than ours. Our boat was cut clean In two, and I, with my five friends, was thrown Into the river. Then, no satisfied with having disabled us and thrown us in the water, came back circled around us trying to brain each of us as the we were trying to get our bearings In the water. There followed the fight of Dicks life. The customs mens guns were behind them in the wrecked boat. Dick was the only one who had a revolver on him. I drew it out and tried to shoot it out with t he says, but a piece of iron pipe came down from the a boat and knocked the gun out of my hand. The man. who was wielding that piece of pipe could work a lot faster than I could In the water. The blow that knocked the gun from my hand also broke the hand Itself. The pipe went up and came down again, this time hitting pie a hard clout on the head. I could feel my senses slipping away from me. Then, for once in my life, I thought my time had come. . rum-runne- rs rum-runner- s, Dick Learns Why It Pays to Buy Life Insurance. last thought was the satisfying one that I had paid my life Insurance premium for a month. 1 said to myself that the folks back home would have a house to live in, and a five thousand dollar insurance policy to live on. Then I felt myself going down under the surface of the water. When Dick came to, they told him that he had gone down a second and was going down for the third time before help came to him. In the meantime an approaching boat had frightened off the and one of the customs men managed to reach him with part of the wrecked boat He held Dick up until the rest of the men could get , there. Then, somehow, they all managed to get to the shore. All that trouble for a clue and still no clue in sight. But after Dick had spent a few days In bed resting up, he went out again with the same crew of and no fooling this men and another boat They were after "My rum-runne- rs , - rum-runner- s, time. They caught them four of them and Dick talked to them something like this. Youre In a tough spot how but it might be worse. Give me a tip on who copped that sugar, and well well forget we ever saw you. Thats f those birds gave him, the wHy a lot of crimes are solved. And on the Dick got the men he was after. tip-of- WNU Service. 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