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THE SUNDAY PRESS 7 lira Veterans' TEIE Binghamton, N. March 17, 1957 t''' Affairs 5 By DASIIIELL HAMMETT Chapter 3 THE next morning Hacken and Begg dropped in to 1 see me and I gave them Gungen's version of why the $20,000 had been in cash. The police detectives told me a stoolpigeon had brought them word that Bunky Dahl a local guerrilla who did a moderate business in hijacking had been flashing a roll since about the time of Main's death. "We haven't picked him up yet," Hacken said. "Haven't been able to place him, but we've got a line on his girl.

Course, he might have got his dough some-" where else." At 10 o'clock that morning I had to go over to Oakland to testify against a couple tf flimflammers who" had sold bushels of stock in a sleight-of-hand rubber manufacturing business. When I got back to the Agency, at 6 that evening, I found a wire from Los Angeles on my desk. Jeffrey Main, the wire told me, had finished his business with Ogilvie Saturday afternoon, had checked out of his hotel immediately, and had left on the Owl that evening, which would have put him in San Francisco early Sunday morning. The hundred-dollar bills with which Ogilvie had paid for the tiara had been new ones, consecutively numbered, and Ogilvie's bank had given the Los Angeles operative the numbers. the handkerchief is your wife's I asked.

By DICK KLEINER MEW YORK Tab Hunt- er is the latest recording phenomenon. The handsome young movie star is way up on the charts with his first record, Dot's "Young Love." And how It came about is a story that throws a spotlight on the operations of Randy Wood, president of Dot Records. Tab and his frequent co-star, Natalie Wood, were in Chicago, promoting a picture. They appeared there with disc jockey Howard Miller, who asked Tab kiddingly when he was groins to make a record. Tab said seriously he'd like to do just that.

So Miller told Randy Wood and Randy Wood, who never misses a bet, had him on wax inside of two weeks. "I've done another single and an album," Tab says. "There are a few ballads on the album but, honestly, I don't feel comfortable with a ballad. I know I don't have a good voice." But, like heroes everything, Tab's approaching singing seriously. He approached acting seriously, too.

He calls himself a "dedicated actor," and says that nothing is any -good unless it comes from inside. Now he's trying to become a dedicated singer, and feel that inside, too. Tab's latest picture Is "Lafayette Escadrille," and, like everything else he tackles, he studied his part and performance with deadly seriousness. He studies acting- three nights a week from eight until one in the morning and he goes to see every play that comes to Los Angeles. In New York, he takes in everything he can even the little off-Broadway shows.

He desperately wants to do a Broadway show. "I'm really serious about acting and singing," he says. "I don't think an actor should have any gimmicks about him." How about his name? "That's the only gimmick I've got. They gave me that name before I was 19. I think it's sort of a handicap, because people expect somebody who's 1 frivolous.

And I'm serious." CONNIE FRANCIS has more talent than she needs. The cute 19-year-old is established as a singer, but she wants to be a television director. She studied TV at New York University and once worked as an assistant director at a local New York station. She also plays the piano and accordion, once won a typing championship, writes songs, is an expert debater and she cooks, too. But it is singing which is making her famous.

Her latest MGM disc, "No Other One," is her best to date. SOME SMART record dealer should take a tip from a few of the bigger French record entrepreneurs. They put their catalogs on wax steady customers get free monthly records that contain extracts and details of all the newest releases. BILL HAYES, whose "Wrin-gle Wrangle" is a big hit, started life with operatic ambitions. But he got sidetracked into pop music five kids helped sidetrack him so he gave it up.

Not completely, however; he still studied. And, on March 23, he'll make his Wins 'Game of Centura9 Brooklyn Schoolboy New Chess Prodigy New York-(P) A quiet group hucfdled around a table in the corner of the Marshall Chess Club, watching an almost unbelievable game. The players were Donald Byrne, a chess master, and Bobby Fischer, a 13-year- CONNIE FRANCIS TAB HUNTER debut singing some arias in a Cincinnati concert with the Cincinnati Symphony. DICK'S PICKS: Slim pick-in's this week best is the Ames Brothers "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" (RCA). Others: "Where Is Cinderella" (Buddy Breg-man, Verve); "Dark Moon" (Bonnie Guitar, Dot); "Dancing Castanets" (Jerry Wald, Kapp); "Strictly Sentimental" (June Valli, RCA); "Only a Daydream" (Ron Hargrave, MGM); "Baby's Com in' Home" (Connie Conway, Dot).

Good new mood albums, for your moody moments Dome-nico Savino on Camden plays "Music for a Perfect mood-and-jazz are combined neatly on "A Mellow Bit of Rhythm" by Andy Kirk on RCA; Jack Pleis' "Strings and Tilings" on Decca is a thing of beauty; soft and lovely is George Van Eps "Mellow Guitar" on Columbia. Masters of the keyboard at their classical best Jose Iturbi plays selections by Granados, Mozart, Debussy, Schubert, Lazar and Chopin on Angel's "Iturbi Treasures;" Malcuzyn-ski plays three Brahms selections, including the Intermezzo in E-Flat Minor (Angel); Maro Ajemian, dueting with her violinist sister, Anahid, plays three modern works by Cow-ell, Hovhaness and Ives; the late Walter Gieseking plays Beethoven's sonatas Nos. 30 and 31 (Angel). 97 Smallest 102 Copied 99 Diminish 103 Cab 100 Places 104 Feed the kitty explored by 105 Bird crop spslunkert 110 Roman 101 Meeting, goddess of usually the harvest prearranged 1 12 Maiden name Before I quit for the day, I phoned Hacken, gave him these numbers, as well as the other dope in the telegram. "Haven't found Dahl yet," he told me.

Dick Foley's report came in the next morning. The girl had left the Gungen house at 9:15 the previous night, had gone to the corner of Miramar Avenue and Southwood Drive, where a man was waiting for her in a Buick coupe. Dick described him: Age about 30; height about 5 feet 10; slender, weight about 140; medium complexion; brown hair and eyes; long, thin face with pointed chin; brown hat, suit and shoes and gray overcoat. The girl got into the car with him and they drove out to the. beach, along the Great Highway for a little while, and then back to Miramar and Southwood, where the girl got out.

She seemed to be going back to the house, so Dick let her go and tailed the man in the Buick down to the Futurity Apartments in Mason Street. Tito Men, Two Women Came Out Later The man stayed in there for half an hour or so and then came out with another man and two women. This second man was of about the same age as the first, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, would weigh about 170 pounds, had brown hair and eyes, a dark complexion, a flat broad face with high cheek bones and wore a blue suit, gray hat, tan overcoat, black shoes, and a pear-shaped pearl tie-pin. One of the women was about 23 years old, small, slender and blonde. The other was probably three or four years older, red-haired, medium in height and build, with a turned-up nose.

The quartet had got In the car and gone to the Algerian Cafe, where they had stayed until a little after 1 in the morning. Then they had returned to the Futurity Apartments. At half-past three the two men had left, driving the Buick to a garage in Post Street, and then walking to the Mars Hotel. 1 tlTHEN I had finished read- i ing this I called Mickey Linehan from the operatives' room, gave him the report and instructions: "Find out who these folks I are." Mickey went out. My phone rang.

Bruno Gungen: "Good morn By GEORGE F. WEDGE Department Public Relation The American Legion Coming Events TODAY OWEGO: Tioga Drum and Bugle Corps, Inc. 7-10 p. AL Post 401; SYRACUSE: AL Post 41 Band. TOMORROW BrXGHAMTON: Drum.

Corps rehearsal. AL Post 80; ELMIRA HEIGHTS: Chemung Salon 287. 840; ENDICOTT: VTW Auxiliary Unit 1449; HAMILTON: AL Post 875; ITHACA: AL Post 1695; JOHNSON CITY: AL Post 758 Honor Guard: OWEGO: AL Post 401; SYRACUSE: Luncheon (dally), Chonus rehearsal, AL Post 41. TUESDAY BINGHAMTON: North-East AL Post 1645 meets 8 p. m.

Wales Hotel; Marine Corps League; ELMIRA: Organization of World War 1 Barracks, AL Post 443; HARPURSVILLE: AL Aux-lliary Unit 1596; SYRACUSE: 408 Luncheon, AL Post 41; VESTAL: Board of directors. Drill Team, AL Post 89; WEST ENDICOTT: AL Post 1700. WEDNESDAY BINGHAMTON: Bridge, Village Singers, AL Post 80; CHENANGO FORKS: AL Post 1389; ELMIRA: Chemung County Annual Post Everlasting ceremonies, AL Post 443; ENDICOTT: AL Post 82, Applications for Korean Vets Last Man's Club, closing date April Meeting, VFW Post 1449; HILLCREST: AL Post 1194 and Auxiliary Unit; JOHNSON CITY: "Red Raiders" Drum and Bugle Corps, AL Post 758; WAVERLY: Board directors, AL Auxiliary Unit. AL Post 492; WEST ENDICOTT: Pitch tournament, AL Post 1700. THURSDAY BINGHAMTON: Drum Corps dinner, 6:30 p.

m. AL Post 80; CANDOR: AL Post 907; ENDICOTT: Member night, VFW Post 1449; MAINE: AL Post 1390; TRUMANSBURG: AL Post 770. FRIDAY ELMIRA Rummage sale, AL Auxiliary Unit 443; HILLCREST: Public card party, AL Auxiliary Unit 1194; JOHN-SON CITY: Smorgasbord, AL Post 758; MARATHON: AL Post 617 meets. SATURDAY BINGHAMTON: Thanopsis Luncheon Club, Bridge, AL Post 80; ELMIRA: Joint Birth-day dinner AL Post 443 and Auxiliary; ENDICOTT: Dance party, VFW Post 1449; HORSEHEADS: Chemung County AL Auxiliary Committee; JOHNSON CITY: Naylor orchestra, AL Post 758: "Tunesters" round and square dance, VFW Post 2332; HILLCREST: Crickets, AL Post 1194; Krcik orchestra, AL Post 89; WEST ENDICOTT: Member entertainment, AL Post 1700. NEXT SUNDAY OWEGO: Tioga Drum and Bugle Corps, 7-10 p.

AL Post 401; SYRACUSE: AL Post 41 Band. Disabled Veteran Employment High The Labor Department says that public employment officers placed 125,000 disabled veterans during 1956. This represented nearly half the overall total of handicapped workers placed in suitable jobs during the year.It was the greatest number of workers in this category placed in any peacetime year. In a Nut Shell Timothy J. Buckley of Boston, is the new president of the National Association of American Legion Department Service Officers.

Inoculation of all Americans against polio before the end of March 1957 has been urged by The American Legion National Rehabilitation Commission. The noise that annoys also Drotects. save Tli A rvi i Jiu.ui iv.a.1 region Air Keview defense of the supersonic racket of jet planes. The national finals of The American Legion Oratorical contest at Waterville, Me. April 11, will pick the champion high school orator from a starting field of 350,000.

Veterans who have been paying their GI insurance premiums monthly can save time, postage and money on an annual, semi-annual or quarterly basis. Jack R. C. Cann of the AL National Public Relations Division, long-time secretary of The American Legion Press Association, will retire March 20 at 6G. Kilroy "here" during World War 2 or only after the war? Dr.

Clyde H. Ward of Detroit reports that in many months of trying to find a published reference to "Kilroy was here" the earliest one submitted to him is a clipping dated June 26, 1945. Any readers who are in possession of such clippings prior to that date, or who can make a specific reference to such a clipping, would do researcher Ward a big favor by forwarding same to: "Newsletter," The American Legion Magazine, 729 Fifth New York 19, N. Y. If any are forthcoming, "Newsletter" will return them to the sender if asked to do so.

Clean Sweep Moundsville, W. Va. 4m Harry Hall of Spencer, working OUt a S20 fine for rirnnlrennae. by sweeping city streets, swept ms way ngnt out of town the first day on the job. Neither Hall nor the broom hv heen old Brooklyn schoolboy play ing in his first major tourna ment.

Time and again with bold, surprising moves Bobby outfoxed his more experienced opponent. "Impossible," whispered one of the onlookers. r'Byrne is losing to a 13-year-old nobody." "Mate," said this "nobody," and the game was had earned his first victory in the Lessing- J. Rosenwald Trophy Tournament, Chess Review magazine called it the "game of the century a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matching the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies." BOBBY DIDN'T win the Rosenwald tournament the trophy went to Sammy Re-shevsky, the ranking U. S.

player but the crew-cut youngster who would rather play chess than eat established himself as a young man to watch. New York chess enthusiasts have recognized Bobby's ability for several years. Hans Kmoch, secretary-manager of the Manhattan Chess Club, says: "For his age, I don't think there is any better chess player in the world. He is a genuine prodigy and one of the best players in our club." Bobby appears embarrassed by all the attention he has drawn since he defeated Byrne. "I just made the moves I thought were best," he says modestly.

"I was just lucky." Where did he learn the game? "My sister taught me when I was 6," he says. "She was 12 and didn't know too much about the game, but she told me where and how to move the pieces. I liked it and have been playing it ever since." DOES HE WANT to continue playing the game and perhaps become one of the great players? "I could play chess all my life," he answers shyly. "I like tournaments and would like to play in a lot of them. As for being great, I don't know about that." Kmoch, however, has fewer reservations: "The outlook is brilliant.

If he continues to proceed the way he has the past year or two, he's likely to become one of the greatest players of all time." 70 German regiment theologian, 76 Judge's 19th e. bench 72 Talk 78 Wealthy superficially Oklahoma 74 Nice Indians discernment 80 Captured 75 Turkish enemies: YOU'RE SURE on Sunday night say from 11 to 12?" do remember. She was. I know it certainly. My dear wife was not feeling well that night.

My darling had gone out early that Sunday morning, saying she was going to drive out into the country with some friends what friends I do not know. But she came home at 8 o'clock that night complaining of a distressing headache. I was quite frightened by her appearance, so that I went often to see how she was, and thus it happens that I know her maid was in the house all of that night, until 1 o'clock, at least." "Did 'the police show you the handkerchief they found with Main's wallet?" "Yes." He squirmed on the edge of his chair, his face like the face of a kid looking at a Christmas tree. "You're sure it's your wife's?" His giggle Interfered with his speech, so he said, "Yes," by shaking his head up and down until the goatee seemed to be a black whiskbroom brushing his tie. "She could have left it at the Main's some time when she was visiting Mrs.

Main," I suggested. Bruckner Work New York Eugene Or-mandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra will devote his cntrie CBS radio broadcast Saturday, from 9:05 to 10 p. m. to a performance of the monumental Symphony No. 4 in flat major by the Austrian composer, Anton Bruckner.

This work, now called the "Romantic" by the composer, was so titled actually two years after its completion, probably under the influence of Wagner, whom the composer adored. The Bruckner Fourth Symphony has not been played by the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1914. ACROSS I Atlas 5 Ocean duct 10 Small branch 14 Sets of actors 19 Exchang premium 20 Crepe dt 21 Insist upon 22 Supreme Being of the East 23 Eagerness 24 Pert to atmospheric pressure 25 Twist 26 Vicuna 27 County seat of County Clare 29 Reel 31 Having small Irtots or knobs 33 Robbed 34 Trouble malter in the throat 3i Type of race 37 Bath, Garter, et al. 39 Tender touch 41 Recede 44 Haunt 47 Persian angels 48 Hot dish 51 Begin again 52 By Jocular oath 53 Reduce in grade 54 Simple 55 Fortification 58 Extremely poisonous 59 Netherlands commune 60 Inner part of Greek temple 61 Glacial ridge 63 Nations 64 Middle veins, e.g. 66 Roy Rogers' horse is 71 Casaba or Persian, e.g.

Boxes for sacred utensils: Archaeol, 73 On the quivive 74 Reckoning: Colloq. 77 Slaughter. house 79 Blind alley 81 Spanish room 82 Competition 83 Noisy quarrel 84 Receptacle for residue 86 Cat, goat, or rabbit 87 Specie 88 Thrilled fo one's topknot (Last Sunday9 Solution A ZJJ'A E'L l.sai AiTiE JilaiN I r- AMn'r-, 'F FU Ue.yV p.r HiETIOU tTJEiCITiElf ''MSCiAlkllTIOl Tims Far: OUR ACE private detective, the narrator of this story, Is hired by BRUNO GUNGEN, a Sau Francisco rare jewelry dealer, to investigate the burglar-murder of one of Gungen's salesmen, JEFFREY MAIN. The killers got $20,000 in cash belonging to Gungen as the result of a sale. The police have only the account given by Main's wife, who witnessed the slaying in the Main's apartment, and the sole important clue Is a woman's handkerchief with the letter E.

Our sleuth, In talking with the Gungens, learns that MRS. GUNGEN'S name is Enid and that she uses the same kind of perfume that was on the handkerchief. On his way back from the Gungen house our detective sees a woman hiding In the darkness, goes to shadow her and finds that she is evidently a servant for the Gungens. jYoW tio Oil again in Los Angeles and charged with trying to blackmail a movie actress, but the case had fallen through. His description fit the one Dick had given of the man in the Buick.

His photographa copy of the one taken by the Los Angeles police in '42 showed a sharp-featured young man with a chin like a wedge. I took the photo back to my office and showed it to Mickey. "This is Weel foui years ago. Follow him around a while." WHEN the operative had gone I called the police detective bureau. Neither Hacken nor Begg was in.

I got hold of Lewis, in the identification department. "What does Bunky Dahl look like?" I asked him. "Wait a minute," Lewis said, and then: "32, 67, 174, medium, brown, brown, broad flat face with prominent cheekbones, gold bridge work in lower left jaw, brown mole under right ear, deformed little toe on right foot." "Have you a picture of him to spare?" "Sure." "Thanks, I'll send a boy down for it." I told Tommy Howd to go down and get it, and then went out for some food. After luncheon I went up to Gungen's establishment in Post Street. The little dealer was gaudier than ever this afternoon in a black coat that was even more padded in the shoulders and tighter in the waist than his dinner coat had been the other night, striped gray pants, a vest that leaned toward magenta, and a billowy satin tie wonderfully embroidered with gold thread.

Wanted to Ask More Than Tell We went back through his store, up a narrow flight of stairs to a small cube of an office on the mezzanine floor. "And now you have to tell me?" he asked when we were seated, with the door closed. "I've got more to ask than tell. First, who is the girl with the thick nose, the thick lower lip, and the pouches under grey eyes who lives in your house?" "That is one Rose Rubury." His little painted face was wrinkled in a satisfied smile. "She is my dear wife's maid." "She goes riding with an ex-convict." "She does?" He stroked his dyed goatee with a pink hand, highly pleased.

"Well, she is my dear wife's maid, that she is." "Main didn't drive up from Los Angeles with a friend, as he told his wife. He came up on the train Saturday night so he was in town twelve hours before he showed up at home." BRUNO GUNGEN giggled, cocking his delighted face to on side. "Ah!" he tittered. "We progress! We progress! Is it not "Maybe. Do you know if this Rose Rubury was in the house lisiiilay Pfoss Crossword Puzzle Abbr.

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I shall be here until 4." "Right. I'll be In to see you this afternoon." At noon Mickey Linehan re-tnrned. "The first bloke," he reported, "the one Dick saw with the girl, is named Benjamin Weel. He owns the Buick and lives in the Mars Room 410. He's a salesman, though it's not known what of.

The other man is a friend of his who has been staying with him for a couple of days. I couldn't get anything on hira. He's not registered. The two women in the Futurity are a couple of hustlers. They live in apartment 303.

The larger one goes by the name of Mrs. Effie Roberts. The little blonde is Violet Evarts." Weel Had Alias, Coughing lien "Wait," I told Mickey, and went back into the file room, to the index-card drawers. I ran through the W's Weel, Benjamin, alias Coughing Ben, 36.312W. The contents of folder No.

told me that Coughing Ben Weel had been arrested in Amador County in 1936 on a high-grading charge and had been sent San Quentin for three years. In 1942 hg had been picked up (Solution Next Sunday) seen since..