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manhattan night mlca h m chicagos new mayor chapter i peter wayne wasnt asleep when the telephone rang he ought to have been it was late enough n all con science well after three nearer four probably and hed been in bed since half past on he wasnt able later to letter just seo the quick stabbing sound of the bell roused htm that was to seem important for a while hut he was lying in the dark so that he couldnt see his watch he had turn ed out the light some time before be cause though he couldnt sleep he had found that he couldnt read either peter was in a vile temper and he lay in the daik silence of his room giving way to it as one does stupidly enough sometimes encouraging it to grow worse and worse nothing is more futile than the sort of sort of aiger that possessed peter but every one does yield to it from time totime the sort of anger in which jealousy and resentment and a sense of being really in the wrong are all compon ent parts together with a score of other confused emotions so there he stayed turning and tossing drawing up perfecting his silly arrogant indictment of martha thayer and making up his mind for the dozenth time that he was through with er for good and all he knew of course how absurd it was o- him to make any such resolution really he was just living through the iight as best he could waiting for morning to come shed call him up probably between nine and ten that was the way it was usually at times like these even in his anger even as he re hearsed his grievances peter was an ticipating that telephone call hed know when te bell lng that it was 6he he always did then hed hear her thrdoaty husky voice in his ear as he always did after shes done some particularly outrageous and unfor givable thing the night before and all hed really care about would be whe ther she was going to have f that day to see him she wouldnt ask o be forgiven of course but hed hear the contrition in her voice though thered be de3p chuckling laughter in it too that and her amused tolerant understanding of the bad temper hed been in and he whole structure of his just complaints and his offended pride would go tumbling down like a house of cards that had been built up too high but of course it wasnt after day light that she called him this time it was right ten in the middle of the night while is heplless anger still rul ed him that the bil beside ms bed rang out with the sinister terrifying note a telephone call in the middle of the night always does have no matter how sensible orc is about such things peter mrthas voice was queer it wasnt shrill with fright at all it was as deep nd throaty and beauti ful as it always was but he couhl hear fright in it just the same ami even horror just in that repetition of his nanv- peter can you come up here right away ive just come in something frightfu has happened some ones killed tack tack killed peter echoed stu pidly yes hes been shot can you come right away peter hed switched on the light by that time it helped to steady him of course he said but martha wait a second what have you tone have you called the police no ive just called you can you tell them for me and then come come yourself come quickly that was all he got police head quarters on the wire right away but it was a long time before he could stop talking and begin getting dress ed he was passed on from one thin disembodied voice to another and all asked him the same maddeningly fu tile questions who was he where was he how did he away down town come to be eepostiig a murder that had taken place miles uptown one man asked him insistently two or three times how he knew it was a murder anyway and not a suicide you might have thought it seemed to him that he was a mischievous boy whod been caught turning in a false alarm of re it didnt at the time so much as occur to him that that eenseless macdening iteration and re iteration of stupid questions had any purpose or design that it was per haps a part of calculated routine kven after he hung up he made slow work of geeting into his clothes he kas awkaward and clumsy he was beginning to realize the stark horror f what martha hail told him to an ticipate what he would find when he reached the pentouse where she ami tack lived way over east in the fif ties he kept seeing tack th yer and trying to grasp the fact that he was dead hed seen tack very much alive not so very many hours ago hed had urch at tho yale club with ueorge garrison and tack had been at another table theyd waved to one another he wished now that hed gone over and spoken to him ones mind works addly it such times and too hed expected to see tack this evening only of course as hings had turned oue he hadnt but he didnt really grasp the fact that tack was dead it wasnt imag inable that he shauld be and still less was it imaginable that anyone should have killed him it didnt make sense who on earth would want to kiil tack thayer and why he wasnt the sort of man anyone would dream of killing no one just for one thing would take him seriously enough peter caught himself up sharply at that it wasnt the way to think of a man who was dead still that didnt alter the fact no one would it was a rotten epitaph for any man perhaps but it was true or so peter thought he still made poor time for all his hurrying when he got ot in the street at last he had trouble first- finding a taxi cruising cabs are thick along lower fifth avenue as a rule at almost any hour but that morning he had to walk clear over to union square before he uvw one and even that one he almost didnt take because it was one of the gyp cabs that still charge the old high rate it struck him after hed got in that that was an index of the way one mind worked in a crisis what difference did ten or twenty cents of a cab fare make just then as he might have expected if his brain had been functioning properly he found the police ahead of him a uniformed patrolman was lounging down in the hall he gave peter a queer look when axel the night ele vator man called him by name axel looked very sick peter thought and very glad to see him servants had ways been crazy about tack about martha too for that matter it was no longer quite dark when peter stepped out on the at roof for one thing every light in the penthouse was on and in the glare from the windows he saw more policmen he started to go in but a plainelothesman stopped him just a minute brother just a min ute he said wholl you be im a friend of mr and mrs thay ers he said my name is wayne mrs thayer called me up im the one who notified you people youre a policeman i suppose yeah said the man im a po liceman all right well 1 want to see mrs thayer plenty of time for that shes busy right now better have a cigar ette brother and calm down pretty- much excited arent you peter stared at him then he laugh- ed that was due to sheer nervous ness of course but he saw at once that it must sound bad the cigarette was a good idea though he needed one the fact that he wasnt smoking already was another index of his mood he lighted one cigarette after another all day long as a rule but he hadnt so much as thought of smoking since martha had called him up he won dered later if that didnt mean that he must from the first have had some premonition of what was coming even then though he had no con scious apprehension but it was obvious anyway that he must resign himself to waiting so he sat down on the parapet that ran about kneehigh around the roof he was too nervous to sit still though and all at once the idea of martha inside along with tack and as he supposed more policemen was too much for him look here he said getting up why cant i go in whos in charge here id like to see him and some one she knows ought to be with mrs thayer plenty of time plenty of time the detective said again calm down brother take it easy the little ladys all right peter was disposed to argue the point but just then another plain elothesman came out of the penthouse he was smoking a cigar and wore n derby hat tilted sideways and pushed far back on his head he stared at peter hey charlie said the first detec tive heres wayne the guy that phoned the squeal yeah said charley he went over slowly toward peter still staring as he moved his jaw thrust out he was a big square shouldered brute tho new mayor of chicago goes ml the air heres edward j kelly newlyappointed mayor of the windy city replacing joseph cermak assassinated in florida with small ken eyes and a cruel tight lipped mouth for a second he didnt speak again but only stared peter could see that this man was trying to confuse him that he was using a sort of hypnotic power he evi dently thought he had look here peter said again in dignantly sit down you said charlie abruptly in a sharp peremptory voice that reminded peter of an oldfashion ed army noncom he was so taken aback by voice adn manner that he obeyed the ordr instinctively he knew later that that had been a mat ter of reflexes now fella come clean howd you come to call head quarters where were you home said peter i live in east ninth street mrs thayer called me up and asked me to notify the police to be continued i thought you said youd never speak to jack again as long as you lived so 1 did but he cut me dead the next time we met so i started all over aoain swayzecree lake gold syndicate suite 210 mckinnon building toronto can telephone waverley 2422 capitalization 3500 units at 10 each this syndicate was formed to acquire and develop a group of twelve claims on cree lake in swayze township main vein ten to fifteen feet wide with assay of 7 in gold per ton full information including engineers report on request effect on car lubrication experts declare that when atmos pheric temperatures are highest that wear has worst effect upon efficiency o lubrication of the car phonograph disc output of russia the proletariat must have its music so tho gramophone record factory at aprelevka russia largest in the soviet union is being enlarged to an annual production of 30000000 discs it turned out only a little more than 1000000 last year says the associated press did harry propose to you in flowery language yes but 1 nipped it in the bud 8075000 village to replace lung block infamous tenements of old new york to disappear average rental to be 1 250 per room the infamous lung block on the lower east side new york is to go a new village is to spring up in its plsce plenty of air sunlight and elbow room and no more little consumptives to be carried off to free wards lung block is the name given to new yorks worst square of squalor by ernest poole when ho was living at the university settlement in the days when tenementhouse reform was talk thirtythree years ago the tene ment house committee condemned it as the worst in the city now in 1933 they are to be demol ished thanks to the enterprise of the fred f french company and the aid of the r f c which loaned 5s075000 for the cleanup and the building of knickerbocker village on the site it consummates a dream mr french had when he was recuperating in a hospital four years ago hut he says it was the president and the secretary of the treasury who finally put it over president roosevelt is very enthusiastic about it when mr french made his appli cation to the rfc he was supported also by the state housing board the emergency public works commission and former governor alfred e smith these rookeries as mr smith calls them house close to 3000 men women and children they will be replaced by twelvestorey and basement fire proof apartments of steel and concrete construction they will contain 1662 apartments and 6030 rooms at an av erage rental of 1250 a room per month work will begin in the first part of may and according to a published statement by mr french offers work to 10000 it will provide immediate unem ployment relief 20000 men will be engaged actually on the site another s000 in shops foundries factories mines lumber camps etc about s- 000000 will be distributed among about 10000 people averaging about s0o per person per year it will encourage the revival of business in a broad sense and may lead to other like developments in other cities it definitely will give to the fam ilies and their children 1600 of them who will live in this development a new type of living which will stand as a model for the country at large here comments the times is a genuine venture in slum clearance not on so large a scale as might be i desirable but at least directed at the j right point it is says the world- telegram one of the most hearten ing thing- that have happened in new york city during tho depression but with the herald tribune it is still a question whether any large number of such projects could be suc cessfully undertaken a rebuilding project covering say the whole of the lower east side it thinks would raise possibly insoluble problems in economics taxation finance city plan and social requirements not the least of which would he the problem of housing those who now live in the lung blocks since the 1250aroom rental in the new construction is con siderably above the minimum rentals now paid by the poorest classes in other words the single new apart ment will not permit us to assume that the housing problem is solved fine though the project is in itself gt britain cleaning up a massed attack on all slums is taking place in great britain where they have been a problem for many generations in moving the third reading of a new housing hill in the house of commons sir hilton young minister of health declared too long have the slums acted as radiat ing centres of disease of the body mind and social order the clear ance work must be done and the government means to see it through according to the london news chronicle the government would pro vide the essential finance in the form of a subsidy and such financial pro vision as might be required in order that tho work may be carried on with the greatest possible speed and effi ciency in an age of electricity and chro mium plating writes h v morton in the laborite london daily her ald millions of people are living in surroundings as barbaric as those of our saxon forefathers they are ac tually worse for in the old days the serf no matter how hard his life was a kind of poor relation whereas the modern slumdweller is an outcast mr morton has made a tour of the slum districts of the great industrial cities of england they have appal led him and he declared emphatical ly the slums of britain that moun tain of bad living are a cancer in our national life a country is happy and fortunate only in proportion to the well being of its people and while we suffer this army of outcasts from whom by the way we are glad to take votes and rent to exist in conditions that are a disgrace to them and to us we can not call this country great or happy we have clearly reached the end of an epoch our first task is to bring ourselvesup to date wo can not talk about progress and civilization while millions of our people are still bogged in the nineteenth century health hen fails to make appearance new york the famous heath hen of marthas vineyard island generally accepted by ornithologists as the last of her species apparently is extinct the more game birds foundation an nounces the conclusion is based on a report to the foundation by prof alfred o gross of bowdoin college who has just completed a long investigation at the island in behalf of the massa- chusetts division ot fisheries and game the last authentic appearance of the lone bird was march 11 1932 when it was seen at the james green farm near west tisbury professor gross reported in passing into extinction the heath hen joins the great auk labrador duck eskimo curlew and passenger pigeon opinio 0 g b shaw takes a dip novelist would ban honeymoon prominent english women take issue with mary bordens conclusions the suggestion in mary bordens new novel the technique of mar riage in which the idea is expatiat ed on hat time has come to abolish the honeymoon has been followed by a deluge of remonstrances from read ers of the london paper which first dragged that idea from her pages to its own columns first on the list of prohoneymoon believers is her fel lownovelist margaret kennedy fol lowed by mrs j b clynes wife of the british home secretary in the last labor government then comes miss elinor glyn who dissents from their views mrs clynes writes any attempt to abolish the honey moon would be doomed to failure and would be viewed as fantastic it is part of the established ritual and cus tom is often liner than law there are of course cases where the honeymoon is overdone by too much travel and needless expense and the loading of a strenuous life this from miss kennedy the average person cannot afford to take a long honeymoon and in most cases when it comes it is taken in conjunction with the ordinary holiday from work it is great fun and a glori ously happy time and over all too soon for most people i disagree too that marriage should be harder and divorce easier it is hard enough to get married nowadays especially for people who are not too well off but it should not be too easy to div orce and from the exotic author of three weeks the honeymoon is an anachronism which should be abolished how i have not had time to consider but i am in entire agreement with miss bor den that marriage should be made harder and divorce should certainly be easier to get i believe that before marriage people should submit to an examination of character to see if they are really suited to each other oil will not mix with water you know there is only one point on which i am averse to easy divorce and that is where it would bring harm to chil dren french jurists shun overwork pari french judges are not over- j worked says a chamber of deputies report on the budget of hie minister i of justice the report shows that two i provincial courts average only one sit ting a month and a dozen others only two a month i pride is a luxury the poor cannot i know and with which the rich may well dispense keeping cool in tho pool while the empress of britain made its way through tropical waters a hearatmetrotonefox movietone cam eraman snapped george bernard shaw sans bathing liirt patience i do arc only holland erslstcnce and power to iceuircd by work j g that which is everybodys busines is nobodys business expectant baby send or hoojdct babys welfare free to new mothers expectant mothers 84 pages on care before baby comes layette babys bath sleep bowels weight latest findings on feeding write the borden co limited house toronto nam rll-j- us the reason that bankers ruin aa industry when they get into it is hat their object is not production but profit henry fore we must make american individual ism what it was intended to be equality of opportunity for all te right of exploitation for none frank lin i roosevelt everything will be all right we must hope for the best john i rockefeller all through history men were the masters women the inferiors now they are nearly equal but men still have them licked sinclair lewis the vital difference between capi talism and socialism is that mder the former individuals do it and under the i latter government does it will payne i to quote to me the authoihy of pre cedents leaves me quite unmoved j viscount snowden those who aspire to harliip to day must realize that worker arc not cogs in the machinery bat human be ings of like flesh and blood and- as j pirations as themselves it c j forbes the strength of a nation is not chalked up on the boards of the stcck i exchange alice foot macdjugall at least we politicians are in e i light where you can see us and shoot at us lady astor i to sit by the wayside ami smile at the enthusiasm of others is an occupa- j tlon for guests- john erskine i not battleships and poison gas but only organized goodwill tan ever give j the nations real seeuritj and east out fear harry emerscn fosdick care caution and conservatism e as necessary in economics s in physi cal health adolph s ochs i fancy lady luck is good to ev one only some people are dour and when she gives them the comehither with her eyes they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow willlai allen white time adds a lustre all is own o everything it touches john m-e- field law is the foundation stone of or ganized society its enforcement is the primary task of civilization her bert hoover men can put down th mighty but only god can raise the humble 0 k chesterton i this age may produce oetler air- planes and better automobiles it will not produce better ait o literature tr music ignace paderewki the geat need of today is linn men and decisive men who know what their course should be how to sot it and having set it keep to it benito mus solini at present wo ar at crisis in which one party is keeping the bible in the clouds in the name of religion and another is trying to get rid of altogether in tho name of science george bernard shaw good manners are not entirely as people think a matter ot training they are a matter of feeling mrs franklin d roosevelt liberty involves t right to be wrong nicholas murray butler when a man thinks le lias achieved success he proves himself a failure for there is nothing that can not be made better irving t bush conceit oddly enough is common est among very stupid people bert- rand russell facts that are not frankly faced have a bad habit of stabbing us in the back sir harold bowden we must apply scientific method to the solution of the problems of human living aldous huxley a public office is a public trust the whole art of government consists in being honest john w davis the real trouble with us is not economic but moral and spiritual bshop william t manning men cannot go hack to work until money goes back to work bernard m baruch war is low and despicable and i had rather bo smitten to shreds than participate in such doings- albert einstein there seems to be no safer way to end a headache and there certainly is no safer way than to take two tablets of aspirin youve heard doctors say that aspirin is safe if youve tried it you know its effective you could lake these tablets every day in the year without any ill effects and every lime you lake ihcm you get ihc desired relief stick to aspirin its safe it gels results quick relief from headaches colds or other discomfort trodersrk reg motor boom in england when the last workman in tho british automobile industry lad laid ide his tools on saturday april 3 t j greatest week in the british pro duction and sale of cars n history came to an end in six days 0000 ve hicles had been produced and cars val ued at 1100000 had been sold in commenting on these figjres the daily express of london says the motor industry of britain has experienced a boom this week un paralleled in tho whole of its history more cars are being produced and sold than the most optimistic trade prophets imagined possible only a few months ago the records set up by the british mitorcar industry in its last peav year 1929 are all going by the board 105311 new cars were registered ir that year but there is no doubt thai when the totals for 1931 an compiled this figure will seem almos puny by comparison the rush which the industry is iow experiencing is not just due tc the approach of the holiday season ml the recent burst of sunshine issue no 1733 find coin after 27 years london a george iv guinea lost on the royal show ground at derby twentyseven years ago was found re cently during preparations for this years show