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Wisconsin points out that three times #s many accidents are caused by the dimming of lights as that caused by lights burning bright. Illincis says dim lights. "Wisconsin‘s headlight law is just the opposite of the one in operation in litinois," states Si Mayer, president of the Aatomobile Club of Iitinois. Wisconsin says put on plenty of good, undimmed Jight onto the road, but do mot cause the oncoming motorist any glare.. I!linois prohibits anything but the English, others again legislate in direct opposition to their sister state, and the poor innocent motorist cruisâ€" ing along the highways of a neighbor state is "up against it," not knowing whether to keep his "brights" on or dim them altogether. It‘s funny how different states will have different laws. Some reverse on Wisconsin Holds More Accidents Caused by Weak Light ; IMiâ€" nois the Reverse? Should the address, which Brennan jotted] down in his notebook. "He was a speculator, I think. He would wait, snd buy a great lot of some oneâ€"kind | of stocks and then they would go up? and he would sell. I think he always mad> a great deal of money thafi'way.j I don‘t really know much about that. They can tell you more at his ofiice‘r His manager there is Rufus Loderâ€" mann. He is quite an old man and heJ has been with uncle for a long while,| © think." | HEADLIGHT LAWS IN STATES ARE VARIED BRIGHT OR DIM IS QUERY Brennan jotted down this name in| his notebook. f "No, nothing. He was uncle John‘s friend a long whileâ€"fong before I came here," Amy said. "They have played cards together many eveâ€" nines." "Never quarreled*" "No." "You‘ve not noticed anything queer about the servants?" Brennan asked after a moment. "Do you mean that they were sickâ€" Iy?" Amy asked. "Are they ?" "Yes; 1 think they are all sickly. i don‘t know why uncle John had such sickly servants, unless he was so kind hearted. Dr. Blessington is here nearâ€" Iv every day for one or another of them, some one of them is always in bed. It makes it very hard for Mrs. Vincent, the housekeeper, but I‘m afraid sbe'_srtheA sicke;t of any." Amy says no one had any reason to kill her uncle. After further quesâ€" tioning, she is asked about Dart. Meanwhile Judd has told the story of his acquaintance with the actual John U‘rane in Riverbank. "But aside from that you‘ve not roticed anything queer in them. Anyâ€" thing you might call craziness, any mania?" _ "Oh, no; never anything like that," Amy said." "You don‘t know of any enemies your uncle had?" "No; he never spoke of any." He had business in New York, hadn‘t he? Had an office there?" Dr. Blessington discounts the theâ€" ory of suicide, saying. that Drane was definitely murdered. Dr. Blessington comments on the fact that all the sorvants in the household of Drane wre sick, and that Drane has never cischarged a servant for ill health. Dick Brennan, the detective, arrives to investigate the case. Simon Judd, amateur detective, and know? No matterâ€"I can look that William Dart, an undertaker, nre‘? up," the detective said, putting his visiting John Drane, eccentric man of| book in his pocket again. "And I wealth, at the Drane place. Suddenly | think that is all I have to ask you the household is shocked to find that now, Miss Drane, unless you can tell Jahn Drane has been murdered. ’l'he[ me something about the servantsâ€" dead man is first seen by Josie, the| who they are and where they came maid, then by Amy Drane and Simon | from." Jadd. The latter faints. 10 "I think Mrs: Vincentâ€" the house. Police officers call and investigaâ€" tions begin. Dr. Blessington is called, and after seeing the murdered Joh Drane, makes the astounding revelaâ€" tion to Amy Drane that her "uncle" is not a mfan but a woman. Brennan questions the persons in the house, asking Amy if anyone had any reason to kill her "uncle." NoW GO ON WITH THE STORY The stite industrial commission of "Who else is there? You don‘t ‘Yes gical solution to the light quesâ€" But whatever the opposition, set still remains that gluring ghts have done more to menace ntoist than any other agency. t lights, properly _ adjusted, serve the motorist well just so s it does not endanger the lives ," Amy said, and told him Be Uniform "No." suffering, provided they ‘ste well paid for their time. ~"If a new discovery has been made in the elimination of the glare, then one of the greatest drfving obstacles that ever faced a motorist has been overcome, and should result in a most notable decrease of highway acciâ€" dents, declared Mr. Mayer in eta dents," declared Mr. Mayer in comâ€" safety hazard. For that aldne, Mr. D‘Arcy should receive the plaudits of the motoring public. * forefathers left to us after so much Waiter D‘Arcy Ryan, director of the Iiluminating Engineering Laborâ€" atories of the General Electric Co., and the designer and originator of the Lico Ryanâ€"Lite, is credited with being the first illuminating engineer to solve the headlight glare problem. Mr. D‘Arcy states that night drivâ€" ing can be made equally as s..fe as day driving, and has laid particular stress on faulty focusing, bad bulbs, obsolete roadlights, and inability of the motorist to adjust his lights propâ€" erly. "Yes: that was all the jewelry he | "ad." Amy said. 1 "I thought, perhaps, as be was a woman." _ Brennan â€" explained, "he! wight have a woman‘s usual Iiking} (ur iâ€"wels. Suppose we see Mrs. Vinâ€" cent." 1 Bob Carter volunteered to find Mrs. ~incent and while he was on his way Ironnan lighted a cigarette. He leanâ€" d forward with his elbows on his *n~*s and looked out over the lawn. of the other motorists. . But it‘s a chance you take. Need Uniform Method : A uniform method of light testing, such as has been adopted in some of our neighboring states might well serve the purpose. We are inclined to admit that lights play a most imâ€" portant part in safe driving, but ton little consideration is ever given them with the result that Tom Jones and Henry Smith come tearing down the roadway, lights on full, glaring all over the road and blinding every obâ€" ject within the scope of their searchâ€" ing beams. . "He never wore jeweliry at all; not «ven a ring." thing ?" "You come purty near bein‘ a first class detective, don‘t you*" Simon Jdudd asked, hitching forward in his chair he filled to overflowing. ! rame here he gave me a hundred| dollars a month. I haven‘t used near~} Iy all of it. I asked him what I should | ‘o with the rest and he told me l\ nuld put it in a.savings bank, and‘ t did. The house expenses he settled with Mrs. Vincentâ€"once a month, [* twink. I‘ve beard them going over | the bills. He seemed particular :bout( Shem." | "There was a scarf pin," Brennan ieminded ber. "I‘m trying not to be unpleasant, asking so many questions," Brennan suid. ‘"but this whole thing is queerâ€" sh, as you understandâ€"John Drane Loing a woman and being murdered this wayâ€"and I have to get into my "ad the best picture of the houseâ€" rold as it was, the best picture I can. Eow was your unclce‘s money?" Amy wrinkled her brow, trying to Tct the meaning of the question. "Do you mean with me?" she s@sked. ~He paid me an allowance, always on the first of the month. It was fifty collars while I was at school, but when "I think Mrs. Vincent, the houseâ€" <evper, can tell you more about that," Amy said. I‘ve not really paid much attention to that; I‘ve always felt I wesn‘t wanted to interfere. Mrs. Vinâ€" cent had been here quite a while when l came, and uncle was old and liked to have things as they were. He didn‘t secm to want to have me do anything but enjoy myself." â€" "Yes; he never said much but that was__what IA felt," she replied. "He was a woman," suggestedi Bronnan. ‘"and household billls were! n his line, possibly. Did he keep‘ ‘such money in the house* Had he s safe here? Did he bring securities| home, do you know ?" . "Mr. Drane just did not seem to want you to bother with the servants and the household affairs and so on; that was it, wasn‘t it?" "But you were always ready to do vour share if anything turned up," =:id Brennan, smiling. "I can see that, Miss Drane." "Of course," Amy said. "It wasn‘t that I didn‘t want to." "No, no‘!hing like that. He used hecks almost always." "No jewelery to amount to anyâ€" A lot of people are willing to take ALLUSTRATIONS BY KE.WATSON a! TO REMOVE FAMOUS | WASHINGTON PICTURE hc‘= got to be out and around, but if ne‘s chief of police and detective he‘s | got to spend quite a lot of time in | meditationâ€"sittin‘ in his offite .in a \ bair tippea back against the wall (‘ich his cyes closed. Looked like a \ ~ood job to me, so I got shut of my lvery stable and pestered the life out | of ‘em until I got me this job, startin‘ Junuary first next." | _"Good job," smiled Brennan. | _ ‘""Yes, or I wouldn‘t have wanted it," <a‘d Simon Judd. "But the main thing when a man hammers down a job like | that is to be able to hang onto it, and ‘that‘s why I figgered I‘d come East | boere and learn the detective business | from A to Z. 1 says to myself ‘If 1 | can get them slick New York detecâ€" tives to let me help hunt up some w urderer or something, I‘ll learn a ‘ot. and when I come back and catch { a couple of crooks right here in Riverâ€" / "That‘s how I think about it," Simâ€" on Judd said. "That‘s why I kept pesâ€" | terin‘ them out there until they said | they‘d make me chief of police. ‘Black | my cats" I says to them; ‘The‘ ain‘t | no tellin‘ when you‘re goin‘ to need , fust class detective ability.‘ I guess," | he chuckled, "they don‘t think overly rauch of me at thatâ€" Think I‘m some | sort of fat old fool, mostly. And I ‘ don‘t know but what I am. The‘ ain‘t | no fool like an old fool, is the‘? What | you think? Am I a fool to go takin‘ up detectin‘ as a life work when I‘m | long past seventy years old?" I "I‘m not the worst in the world,", ‘ank the folks ain‘t ever goin‘ to let | Grennan said. _ "There are better.| nobody throw me out.‘" | We‘ve some fine men over in New| "Brennan looked up at the old man‘s | York. ‘Our men are a lot better than face suddenly, but all he saw was | we‘re given credit for being. We have) cood nature and smiling cheerfulâ€" {iots of crimes and we don‘t get every ; nuss. vrook, but it‘s a bad mess over there. "This murder occurred very opporâ€" ’ 1 do well enough. It‘s not as bad here } unely," Brennan said. | as it is in Manhattan." *‘That‘e what T was aninst tnluas rudtuthepomitw-fidll”fi of to the latter. Many feel that it keenly interested in the subject. He got in touch with the represenâ€" tatives of those interested in the reâ€" storation of Williamsburg, with the This portait was obtained for its new location through the efforts of Mantle Fielding of Philadelphia, a member of the Walpole society, and a noted authority on early American paintings. Mr. Fielding, while a guest of Spencer L. Carter in Richmond muchstruck by the picture and its wreat historical value that he became The tradition is that the painting, dated 1780, was given by General Washington to his friend, General Nelson of Yorktown, whose daughter, Mary Nelson, married Robert Carter of Shirley. The picture is a lifeâ€"aize, fullâ€"length standing portrait. recently, visited Shirley, and was so â€" The famous portrait of George Washington, painted when he was commanderâ€"inâ€"chief of the American armies by Charles Willson Peale, and which has hung in the diningâ€"room of "Shirley," on the James River, for approximately 130 years, has been disposed of by its owner, Mrs. Marion Carter Oliver, to the organization, tacked by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., now engaged in the restoration of Williamsburg. Regarded as one of the most valuâ€" able paintings in the United States, the portrait has been variously estiâ€" mated to be worth from $100,000 to $250,000. No announcement of the price for which it was sold was made. ko liveryâ€"stablin‘ I clung to liveryâ€" stablin‘ as long as I could, and that‘s 2 fact. but these here automobiles has wiven the business a black eye, and ‘f a man goes into the garage busiâ€" ness he‘s got to be lively and wide nwake all the time. Now, a detecâ€" tive â€" in a town like Riverbank, Towaâ€"" "That‘s the ideeâ€"" Simon Judd chuckled. ‘"Particular if he‘s not on !h'; force. If he‘s just a policeman "I‘ll reserve my opinion on that. Mr. Judd," Brennan smiled. "I can‘t remember any. man who took up inâ€" vertigative work at that age, but I‘ve Anown some men who took up crime as old as that and did quite well at §." "A detective has to be slicker than i criminal, that‘s the pest of it," Simon Judd said. "And it‘s so blame Lard for them folks to take a fat man « rious out there to home. Especially a man that‘s mostly clung to jobs where he ctulq _sleAeprmosLo! the time, "Can sleep most of the time," ‘.ughed Brennan. Fainting by Peale After 120 Years at Shirley to Be ~tromély fitting for this painting to "That‘s so; that‘s likely," Simon Judd agreed. "And we amin‘t got it ncour as bad out to Riverbank. If you was out there you wouldn‘t have much trouble at all, I reckon." "There are tough problems everyâ€" where," Brennan said. "Any place way turn out a hard problem at any time." Hung Elsewhere Gaszoline production figures for June show that the motorists of the United States used an average of 43,â€" 430,000 gallons of gas per day, accordâ€" ing to figures ouf.':hhhnurhu Io-‘ with The Automobile Club of filinois. Based on motor vehicle registrations, this.avernges 1,87 gallons per motorâ€" ist each day. The importance of the report has been greatly enhanced by the pasâ€" sage of the resolution into law. Transâ€" lation has been made into Spanish and the report in the two languages will be widely distributed throughout this hemisphere. HUGE CONSUMPTION OF GASOLINE IS RECORDED anticipated, landing facilities for airâ€"‘ planes en route, will be furthered by publication of an indorsement emanatâ€" | ‘ng from the Government of the Uniâ€"| ted States. | only means for automobile travel beâ€" tween the continents but also, it is anticipated, landing facilities for airâ€" Five thousand copies of the report of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs favoring government assistâ€" ance in the construction of a highâ€" way have been printed. Promotion of the proposed Interâ€" American Highway linking up North and South America and furnishing not The girl went into the house and Simon Judd looked after her. When he saw she was gone he drew closer to Brennan. "Black my catch, that‘s fine!" Siâ€"] mon Judd exclaimed. "Amy, that fixes | tuat fine! I‘m goin‘ to pitch right in vad work at this thing until we wet . it all cleaned up and the murderous norson put right where he ought to | be. Fine! Now, first off, girl, you go up to my room and, if them officers has got through rummagin‘ in my baggage, fetch me down a note book I‘ve got in my talise up there. It‘s & blank one, ‘Amy, without anything ‘ wrote in it yet. I didn‘t know whether tcal detectives used note books or not, hut I see Brennan does, and I want to do this thing right. It‘s right down in the bottom of the valise, Amy." "Now that you and me are in caâ€" hoots on this business, partner," he said, "we want to start off clean and clear and no favors. What I know you want to know. If not nothin‘s no wood. â€" And there‘s somethin‘ wrong hore right at the start." "It beingâ€"*" Brennan asked. ‘"Th* girl. Amy, here," Simon Judd whic~~*~d. "She ain‘t what she says she is." find its resting place at Williamsburg, which was the scene of so many of Washington‘s activities. i4 a man who might have come to this house and murdered John Drane ‘s make a case worth solving. Or, perâ€" | hips. the eye of a man who had held | a grudge against John Drane and had come here to satisfy it. What he uv.’ i‘ he could judge was the keen eye of ; » man who was not such a fool as ha'\ luked, the keen laughing eye of a| man who possibly was laughing at i House Committee Report Favors Government Asgistance in INTERâ€"AMERICAN ROAD PLAN IS SANCTIONED "I won‘t be no more trouble to you thar need be," Simon Judd said. "Only thing is it would be quite an experiâ€" ‘nce to me to work hand in arm, so :n say, with a real detective like you "Yes, I reckon," said the fat man. ~Only that ain‘t any idee. I want you <hould say we‘ll work at this case toâ€" wether, so‘s 1 can get the inside of how vou fellers go at it. What say to it?" "I think we can manage it," Brenâ€" nan said. "That‘s what I was going‘ to say," ~imon Judd replied." Just like it was made to order for me. It couldn‘t )ave been handier. So that fetches me i> what I‘m goin‘ to sayâ€"what‘d you ay if I was to go sort of partners with you and the two of us together huant out who done this crime?" Once more Brennan looked Simon ludd in the face. What he saw was he eye of an insance manâ€"the eye be detective good naturedly while{ wughing at himself. "This," Brenâ€" an said to himself, "Is a man who is j sughing at me because he knows} «»mething 1 don‘t know!" | "We‘re always glad to have any asâ€" stance we can from any source hatever," Brennan told Judd. (Continued Next Week) This Project d â€"â€"â€" Telephone 117 â€"â€" 733 GLENCOE AVENUE Telephone Highland Park 2637 Residence Sindip. 820 Ridge Terrace, Rvanston. 49 PRAIRIE AVENUE With every purchase of 100 shrubs during the month ending Octgber 15 we will give 25 shrubs free. 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