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Aid on average beef prices are
just about where they were at
the 1948 peak. But in some cities
some beef cuts are at all-time
highs.
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The news from Korea should
set a bell of hope ringing in
hearts everywhere that yearn for
a war-free earth ruled by law
instead of brute power.
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was to keep from being chewed
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Dragon of China.
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great army, composed of a union
of a dozen or more nationalities.
They still speak different langu-
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the field of danger — that age-
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earth into a place of general har-
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These men have learned to
respect each other because they
have fought side-by-side for the
same ideal.
The smashing of the Red drive
this time is more than a defen-
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tory for the United Nations Army
and its purpose. That army has
been able to do more than merely
repel Red aggression. It is now
CHASING the Red aggressors
back across the lonely hill they
came from.
Thousands of dishearted and
disillusioned Communist Chinese
are surrendering en. mass — for
the first time. They have learned
the dazing firepower of freedom.
This is significant to all. It may
mark the real turning of the tide,
the teaching to the men who
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—An agreement reached at 1 a m.
today forestalled a threatened
bus strike in this North Texas
city of about 70,000 people.
The agreement provides a ten
per cent increase tor ail drivers
and mechanics employed by the
Wichita city lines. Fifty-two
drivers and 17 mechanics attended
a meeting at which the company
offer was accepted.
Union officials yesterday had
indicated the buses would not run
today unless some agreement was
reached. The old contract expired
May 1. Contract talks had been
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CHAPTER EIGHT
IF IT WAS Tompkins’ slayer
who was following him, and Mc-
Gann was due for a .32 in the back,
the killer would have to have a
new gun. He had left the other
one near the window of the Tomp-
kins study.
Whatever his game, the tail was
more energetic than polished.
Swift glances usually caught him
merging into the shadows of the
next doorway.
McGann hurried toward the wa-
terfront docks. Ahead of him
stretched the ponderous elevated
steelwork of the West Side ex-
press highway. Beyond it loomed
the graceful shadows of giant
ships. Not even the pollution along
the docks could spoil completely
the fresh, wet breeze of the great
river.
Far out, a tug hooted and a
terry loosed a deep-voiced answer.
Here were the black hulks of
warehouses, the rough streets of
heavy daytime commerce laced
with shining railway tracks.
Abruptly, McGann turned a corner.
Off to his left, like a tremendous
stage setting, glowed the city.
The detective took only a few
steps from the corner, then slipped
quickly into a dark and broken
doorway. Footsteps slithered up.
They rounded the corner. A
shadow passed McGann and the
detective moved lithely forward
and whipped his left arm about
the man’s throaL
He jerked back, choking off the
smolhered cry, and siammed his
left knee into the small of the
man’s back. The man was wiry
but agile. He threshed wildly, and
they danced across the sidewalk
in deadly embrace. It took all of
McGann’s strength to hold the
struggling trailer. He sucked tn
his breath with agonized effort.
With ever-increasing pressure, he
made sure that his opponent didn’t
breathe at alL
Gradually, the struggles lessened.
McGann cautiously allowed his
man a breath. When it did not
set off any further atomic reac-
lion, he gave him another. Still
holding his left arm crooked about
the man’s throaL he frisked him
expertly with his right
There was no weapon so he re-
leased his hold. It felt good to let
the blood run back into his aching
arm. The man sat down on the
curb and started to cough. He
coifghed and sobbed for air with
his head down between his knees.
Then he sneezed twice. His hat
had fallen off and he leaned over
Ore auto maker is raising ; above a year ago.
best formula and instrument yet
to gain that long goal. The for-
mula? It is the pattern of ulti-
mate unity now still only dimly
projected by the United Nations.
The instrument? It is internati-
onal police force — the first
world army.
Its dramatic stand in breaking
the backbone of the latest mas-
sive Red Chinese offensive gives
a new and vital meaning to the
blue and white banner it fights
under. That blue and white flag
today means more. The United
Nations itself means more. And
its army means tremendously
more for the future of final inter-
national peace.
When the first United Nations
troops went into action eleven
months ago, they were often, rid-
iculed as a police force and doubt-
ed as an army.
It was a force that had to build
itself up in defeat and retreat,
and it had many critics in its
own homelands as well as in
the councils of the enemy.
It went into Korea to repel
Communist aggression and restore
order. But for many months of
Miss Ann McFearin, who has
been teaching at De Kalb, is
spending a week with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Me-
Fearin, before entering ETSTC
for the summer term.
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tion bars capital punishment.
However, Judge Bastian has
granted them a stay of execution
until June 5 and Defense Attorn-
ey Warren Magee said he will ap-
peal.
The seven, now in Landsberg
prison in Germany, once before
carried their case through the
courts to the Supreme Court with-
out success.
Among the seven are former
ss (elite guard) Generals Oswald
Pohl and Otto Ohlendorf and
former concentration camp of-
ficials. They were tried and sen-
selling beef under ceiling prices. | tomers: “We won’t let any one
SYNOPSIS
Marrying playboy Ronnie l’ompkins it
mysteriously siain in nis luxurious Dome,
despiie -the eagie eye of Detective Mack
McGann, engaged to guard mm against pos-
alble violent deatn. Ronnie’s cherished
triend, Frazier Farwell, a disc jockey, nad
Deen asleep in the douse the night of me
murder, but neard oo sound of struggle
McGann warns Charity Jones, a beautifus
model who was to oecome Tompkins' seventh
wife, to remain away from her home while
the law’s man-hunt is on.
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another is laying off workmen
because sales haven't justified
tlio recent rate of production:
One television set maker is
raising prices by $30 to $60, while
elsewhere some scattered at-
tempts have been made to reduce
costly inventories of unsold sets
by resorting to auctions.
A huge department store is
slashing prices six per cent on
5,978 brand-name items. The same
day the Office of Price stabiliza-
tion authorized wholesalers and
retailers to raise their price
ceilings to reflect cost increases
after January 26, the date of
the general price freeze.
Three makers' of nylon hosiery
are cutting prices.
In some cities, butchers are
NEW YORK, May 29 (A) —
Consumers could lick their chops
today at the prospects of “price
wars” among some department
stores and gasoline dealers.
Wholes.ile commodity prices are
weak and have been slipping on
average for weeks, promising re-
lief at retail later on.
But the price picture includes
many rising prices, too. And the
consumer can be pardoned if he’s
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then universal peace becomes
more than a glimmering promise.
Red China may still want a
post-graduate course in this type
of instruction. But it appears her
| shattered armies will be unable
to mount another giant offensive
for months. In that time the
United Nations Army will renew
its own might. The bigger the
offensive the Chinese try, the
less distance it has been able to
go — and their casualties have
mounted by the scores of thous-
ands.
On this memorial day many
an American will want to do
more than honor U.S. dead of
other wars, and those lost in
Korea. They will want to make
it a day of rememberance, too,
for the brave men of other na-
tions who have died in the last
year fighting shoulder-to-shoulder
in the first international anmy —
the South Koreans, the British,
the Turks, the Greeks, the French,
the Dutch, and all the others.
If they shared the battlefield,
surely those in all the lands they
came from can share their pray-
ers.
The department store price cut-
ting in New York is based on
the supreme court decisiqn hold-
ing that a store which hadn’t
signed a fair-trade price-fixing
agreement with the manufacturer
couldn’t be forced by state fair
trade laws to maintain the list
price.
Today Macy’s billed as the
world’s largest store, is cutting
5,978 fair-trade items by six per
cent. It adds that more will be
cut “day by day.” The store says
it has “less than 40,000” fair-
traded items in all categories.
Management says the 5,978 items
were those “in which we are
well-situated, and in which our
stocks are good.”
First reaction of other stores
serving the same class of cus-
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of a new cheap fare to Europe,
the rate to be set later. Students
will get 50 per cent reductions
under the deal.
The U.S. government is cutting
freight rates on coal and grain
cargoes on ships it owns by from
17 cent to $3.50 a ton..
Motorists along the eastern
sea board are finding some deal-
ers have cut gasoline prices by one
to two cents a gallon. Spotty gas
wars have been reported else-
where in the nation. Gasoline
production is running about 10 j
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McGann said, “Don’t you know
its impolite to tollow people ?" He
fished a cigarette from his pack,
stuck It in his mouth and struck
a match. After lighting the cig-
arette, he held the match in front
of the man's face.
He had seen those sharp fea-
tures before, and suddenly he
thought of the stoop in front of
the Tompkins home, and flashing
bulbs. It was the dark young man
In a crumpled fedora who had de-
manded admittance to the murder
house for himself and news pho-
tographer.
"Hildy," McGann said. "don’t
ever sneak up on me again. You
nearly went to that city room in
the sky.”
The reporter was tenderly press-
ing thin fingers against his neck.
The match burned McGann’s hand
and he dropped IL He struck an-
other. This time the glow revealed
a pained grin. The reporter rose
unsteadily, and clapped his hat
back on. "Mr. McGann," he said,
“my trailing days are over. From
now on, I cover nothing but golden
weddings and lodge meetings."
McGann was surprised. He said,
"You name names?”
“I name name, the young man
said.
They were in the dark again.
Like a beacon far down in the
cavernous tunnel under the high-
way shrne the lights of a water-
front tavern. The detective tapped
the other on the elbow. "Come,”
he said. “I would have words with
you."
The bartender slid glasses in
front of Detective Mack McGann
ana Dinkman "Dink" Wexton,
general assignments man of the
Morning Blade. With a thick fore-
finger, he extracted a quarter from
the change scattered on the moist
mahogany In front of McGann.
The barkeep’s left ear was a sun-
kissed cauliflower and his nose
was a broken ski-slide.
He leaned forward between
them. "Anything else, gents?”
"Yes,” McGann said. "I'd tike
another of those hard-boiled eggs.
They're very good."
"Thank you, sir," the bartender
said. He threw a light left jab
at the bowl and lifted out an egg.
He hooked it to the bar, crossing
his right with the salt. He feinted
another dime from the change,
and stepper’ quickly to the cash
register, balancing on the balls of
his feet
Wexton watched the perform-
ance with exaggerated interest.
“What round is this?” he asked.
"Three," McGann said. “I think
our man is' winning on points."
The cash register bell rang and
the bartender r absided, breathing
deeply. He picked out a nickel
change and slid it across to join
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"Ya muscle-bound moron, ne’ Wexton looked at McGann and
of the bar. "Naw,” he said. "I’m
carrying him six rounds for the
video rights."
Wexton stared. “That stops me,"
he said.
They had been there twenty min-
utes. A clock with a cracked glass
said 10:55. Without appearing to,
McGann had studied the newspa-
perman and he had not been dis-
pleased with the results. Dink
Wexton was quick and sensible.
Also, he probably knew more than
anyone else about the late Ronnie
Tompkins.
The reporter had explained
everything with commendable lu-
cidity. Some years before, he had
covered the first of Ronnie Tomp-
kins’ minute marriages. As such
things will, It had started a trend
in the city room of The Blade.
From dhen on he had been re-
quired to cover all of them.
When the newspapers still were
interested in interviews with
Tompkins, Wexton automatically
had drawn the assignment He
was the “Tompkins expert." If
the art editor was too lazy to
check the morgue and just yelled,
"Hey, that Harmon dame. Wasn’t
she Tompkins' third wife?” Wex-
ton called back, “No. She was the
second.”
He didn’t even have to look it
up. it was a convenience to have
him around, like a highly-special-
ized almanac.
“I’d been expecting to hear from
Tompkins,” Wexton said. "That’s
why I wasn’t surprised by the
phone call.”
That call, he told McGann, ap-
parently had come in to the switch-
board of The Blade in the early
afternoon, before he had come on.
Tompkins merely had left word
that he would like to see Wexton
any time that he could drop -up
before seven.
"It was a good excuse to get
out of the office," Wexton had con-
fessed to the detective. "I rolled
around there about five and rang
the bell half a dozen times but
didn’t get an answer. So I found
a place over on Madison Avenue
and had a sandwich and coBee. I
went back to the house once and
then hit the coffeepot again. I
was just getting settled when
blooie every squad car in the city
goes by.”
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