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PAGE TWO HUBBARD IS CLEVEREST OF { ! DRY WORKERS _ Youth, By Two Years’ Daring! Detective Work, Smashes Big Rum Ring tle, June 2—To a young man years, who only a few ago had visions of becoming inventor, goes the credit for one the most daring and clever pieces of detective work in the = hibition enforcement Hubbard. smashed z of the from the ma this gigantic so thrilling that it : lest imagining of fictionist. Not even Shelock Hoimes was ever called upon to enact a more > ingenuous role, and f DY. an matehed in mere boy who pitte nerve against ab minals «such as to only one craft is this nd are known = ging. Joins Rum Ring And here is what Hubb; More than two years ago he went to Washington with a “mystery mo- heli eved would extra ety d did: » appeared in st. His knowledge of {fo caused Roy Olmsted, convicted = leader of the rum runners, to et ploy him to build a radio broadeast- ing station. Hubbard so won the conf msted that he was m: his first g utenant the daring game .of smuggling liquor down the coast from foreign ships anchored near the Canadian coast Hubbard won this position by hts = byawery, because he volunteered for the most dangerous trips of the rum gunners. He del of liquor by truc More than | é federal | lence of 2im Hubbard's next move was to in- duce Olmsted to allow him to keep the books of the rum runners. Secret- ly, he kept a duplicate set for the * government and learned of passing to corrupt officials. Three times he was arrested stayed in jail for several days. For nearly two years he carried his life in sprang his coup. >» one Was more Surprised than e¢ and = federal who had been working on the 0 Indicted than 250 people more indicted jaring work, including po- lice official sheriffs, coast guard! officers, a naval aviator, — steamer! captains, business men and speed! hoat skippers It was Hubbard's stierce that really enabled him to work into the inner circles of the rum ring. Radio broadcasting» sta- tion KFQX at Seattle, which he! built for Olmsted, was one of the best known stat in the north- st. The story is told—though ne ved—that through this station se Olmsted, wife of the rum code ' signals to rum Habe knowledge of She told bedtime + Vivien” to an apprecia of children, and, it, was wh dare-devil ‘men’ shoving Ssouth from Canada. Repaired Rum Ships Olmsted's palatial home Hub- ived and worked for the fed- eral prohibition department. As an engineer, he was called in at first to put rum boat engines in repair when they ceased functioning. And row Olmsted, dubbed the of Rum- peedboats £2.4n bar king vn a four-year 10,000 fine. He has appea And in a Seattle two six-gun: a sits Hubbard, ¢ men, for his life a nickel one of the ring’s plug-ugli Two years he h at his finger tips. him---not And he is not a hotel room, with bandoleer handy, ded by federal If you want action, join Uncle Sum’s dry forces. AIR LINES NEED GOVERNMENT AID SAYS MACREADY (Editor's Note: ‘This is the second of two articles former Lieut. John A. Macrendy, holder of the American altitude record, on the future of com- | mercial jation in America. This article 8 written exclusively for | NEA Service and The Tribune.) BY JOHN A MACREADY Holder, of American Altitude Record Service, Inc.) " years ago I took a through the northw by rail. As I looked from the car windows I noti ed a board fence paralleling the track a, quarter of a mile away. I asked what it was for and was told it mark- ed the railway's right of wa: In addition to this, I was told that the government had also given 1 railroad all odd-numbered sec- tions of land within a great radius of its tracks. These huge gifts of land were made in the railroads’ pioneer days, to en- able them to get'on their feet while traffic was hardly on a paying basis. | All told, the government put hun- dreds of millions of dollars, as out- right gifts, into the development of our western railroads. The roads vere i hel Pd they could live through their fancy. ad iced Federsl Help ‘And Meiers brings us to the answer te the question, why are not com- aie} air lines being started now? rnment assistance. bap taht to put half ne ee trip | ot | history of pro- | the the derring-do | boot hootieg- | several | money | and; his hands and then he! This is one of the big tigers be-|are considerably larger tMan the | Riders, i longing to the Robbins Bros. Big 4- Ring Cireus which comes to this | {place in the next few days. The jand the jaguars come from Scuth| ; America. There is not much dif- ference in their looks as both have | (Spotted skins: with a yellow back-| Sround. However the spots of the| tiger are more regular, and there | ‘gre several types.of the tigers that ‘BUSINESS MEN “| HAVE FAITH IN | NORTH DAKOTA | Incorporations of Five Classes | of Companies Reached New Peaks in 1925 | ‘Confidence held by business iaen in the future of North Dakota is ex- pressed very : jaguar. | The menagarie of the Robbins | Bros. Rig 4-Ring Circus is one of ns the result of tigers are from the jungles of India , the largest in the world. It contains | be. two hundred animals. itself is twice its through the. purch Cireus Corpora jreally a four The circus, former | se of the U. S. ion properties, It is ply circus. It has a | ig wild west show, having absorbed in its entire: West and the Ponca Bill Wild Congress of Rough, his office in the opinion of Secretary f State Robert Byrne. Although the nu organizatic a high mark e that it will be Byrne said. f active bus- Is show, ‘lasses of hed peaks. i neous gas and ne com- ; motor and automobile com- panies, mi neous realty and land companies; coal companies and ies. 1 incorporations numbered 314. in- during 1925" king it to 1923 when i porate: 3 were county, 463 of: however, ty | | and willie credit corporations and not business enterpr rs 1922. to saa p. | inclusive, as made by Byrne, fol- [number of incorpo | Miscellaneous Nonprofit County, city, village cre | Miscellaneous gas and oil Cooperative telephone . | Coonerative Elevator Cooperative potato . Cooperative Miscellaneous Motor and automobile | Stores, wholesale and retail . Miscellaneous telephone . : plspellenedae:) realty and land .. oa ‘and others Cr y associations Investment companies Miscellaneous others . { | | | | Totals | | good ile capable of ca {ton of freight will cost about | | 000. You have no tracks maintain. Your ‘terminals need see the difference? D. see whut can be done if prop. {couragement is given the pio this new field? should not, in my opinion, railway lines. Th an ight line competition with Let the air lines * to run | road } lot: \the airplane's abili own track, and it w: supplement the rail compete with them. to choose its serve more to lines than to No Upward Limit I have been asked, “How high will airplanes ever fly? Is there a hard jand fast limit beyond which no one jean hope to rise? I believe that theoretically there is no such limit. Weather bureau jesperiments have shown that above a certain height. air pressure and temperature remain constant for an unknown distance up- ward. IL have flown to a height of 38,704 feet; it is reasonable to expect that better perfected equipment w pees airmen to go conaidersbly ie these heights will not be’ used in commercial aviation. A heavily Jaden plane has a definite ceiling above which it cannot rise. The ability to fly to extreme heights is of use in, war rather than in peace f| time aviation. Wouldn't Fly. in Wind ln conclusion, let me point out the | lieve that we have - | velop so to speak; take advantage of | 1924 1925 fl ing ztadeye bo Only ss the | wind was absolutely #0 up. If an aviator would do that today | he would be daughed at. In nine years n : we have gone as far beyond that the battleship Pennsylva: agut's wooden flagship. And we have every. reason to he. only begun to di perfect our, flying ma- ia is beyond and SPECIES AMERICANUS “What is the namé of that species 1 just shot?” asked the amateur hunter of his guide. “Well, sir,” returned the “ve -been inquiring, and all I make out is Smith.’—Tit-Bits. —about 45,000 feet— |¢- aes eae aviation made in years. Bay ra my first Shares meee ame at’ Rockwell) eueld, Gan a Dios , ono, Calif, At that Coe vould walk oat on the Theis eae morning and hold up 4 cond ini still would we 2 Washington, June~.2— (#) — | Striking progress . toward the | istamping out of Dengue fever, ‘scourge of the tropics, thtough the :voluntary submission of more than 175 American soldiers in the Fhil- | {ippines to test inoculation was re- {ported today by the surgeon oie! jeral of the army, Major General | Ireland. | The work was done by the army ‘medical research board in m2 {islands and resulted i | covery. 'which is thegarrier of yellow fever’, | ithe Aédos Egypti, also’ is the spreader of Dengue. Preventative measures based on | ithe research work were inaugurated among the garrisons in the Philip- | "| pines} at year ago at theje thejcorie! Pr phot th The maid-of-all-work sive no! “But,” ey “haven't we always treated you one of the You have,” I've’ stood it as long as I’m going to,” --Tit-Bits. jof the study. Reports of the results reaching General Ireland |show that the number of Dengue cases has been reduced from soldiers in every thousand in 1924 im | ; to less than 20 cases per thousand | 4} | this year. : In commending the big gtoup of. enlisted men who volunteered their services as test cases, the commanding general in the islands ‘issued a general order pointing out that human subjects were consid- | ered essential by the research board ind that the discomfort and suffer- ing to which these subjects sub- mitted was beyond and above the |nornial requirements of duty The fever about five years ago swept actoss the southern states from Texas to_ Georgia, about 2, 000, 000 cases being reported. RALPH B. STRASSBURGER ISN'T ONE TO SLEEP ON JOB, SAYS STEWART By Chatles P. Stewart Washington, June 2—Some time ago T had occasion to remark that \Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Nor- jristown, 'Pa., like jcoming mani i The Republic: looked to me polities, i natorial primary {in Pennsylvania cinched the matter, Strassburger may not be very well known outside his own state now but he will, be. U'Straisburger unquestionably mount to be candidate for the nomina- tion Bill Vare got. His issue would have been the me issue as Bill's issue. His | pro- nis the attainment of temper- nee by the light yine and beer route. had. run, Vare a But Strassburger was detained. in France, where he'd been. visiting, by his only son’y scrious ~jllness, and [didn't a flame datlt too Inte to attend to the necessary preliminaries to launching his candidacy. Vare Offorcd Lacking Strassburger, the wet Re- |publicans needed a champion, and Bill Vare offered himself—was glad of the chance, no doubt. Strassburger_did get home in time }to support Bill, personally and jthrough his newspaper, the Norris- jtown Times-Herald. I’m prepared to believe he was a lot of help. | So Vare will come to the Sanate- {a Republican nominatfon being equi- valent to an election in Pennsyl- nid—under deep obligations to ROBES BROS: » jhaving given _him the Teadership ofl This division carries fitty Sioux Indians and fifty cowboys, as well as a bevy of coweirls. It ig all that a rodeo or wild west In addition to this there are ‘a hundred acrobatic acts, trained seal lions, trained elephants, dogs aa ponies, any one’ of which wifi their various side-line features would provide enough of entertain. ment to equal some of the circuseg that are mow traveliny [RETIREMENT OF UNDERWOOD IS REGRETTED! ;No Lawmaker More Beloved By Associates Than the { Alabama Senator | | ! | | (By CHARLES P. STEWART) Washington, June 2—Never came lawmaker to Washington who wag j more generally beloved of his as- fociuial than Senator Underwood. Aryl Underwood, liked by every- i body, quits for good when the 69th Congress ends. Nominally Underwood is rom public life. He an- ‘nounced some time ago that he | wouldn't be a candidate this year or later, But nobody's fooled. It isn’t much j of a secret that he knows he couldn't renomination. He can see the retiring “Such being the case, the wise ipoticy for him, naturally, is not to j try. i Will Not Compromise | Underwood has convictions that don’t go down, in these times, in his state and he tefuses to compromise. ; That, in itself, stamps him as an in- dividual of “honesty and nerve. You m. not agreé with hiin in all re- ‘spects but you've got to recognize him*as a character Who stands or falls by what he thinks right, He’ Wet southern. Democrat, a paradox, He's an‘ ultra- conservatiye, which wotild be all right, since it makes him solid with Alabama’: multiplying “big inter- ests,”"only; he ought to make n dém- agogie ff at a certain . amount ed radicalism ‘as an appeal for mass support and he won't. ; * Uniletwood ‘ls ‘Tolétant | It’s natural to think of a corser- ' vative as narrow and hidebound, and | | of a liberal or radieal as a believer , in the maximum of freedom for all j and sundry. But, in practice, the more radical a man is, the more intolerant he’s ‘likely to be. He’s apt to want every- body else to b » too, in his j to favor ex- I who object. And a soaker tte can be extremely tol- «Features of this New Paige: Improved Paige-built Motor; lubricated — Full Hi; stire Oil Feed'to all re, male yee ae halt, auxiliary shaft eect - ‘Counterbelanced Gitntehete Sten Chain \ ith automatic take. pp—Aie Cleaner—Metal Oil- pets ie atom rings: ches tong — sheet PS rend ere — Ba i! ine: Ey een erg Sat" Bearl See i700 hres | vhuerwood is tolerance itself, and 1 it’s a beautiful quality. ‘The senator hag been in Congress a long time—20 years axa repre- sentative and nearly é dozen in the upper House. He’s. been a stron contender for the Pesibeeatic pres {dential nomination more than once, {He isn't a mere politician. He's a atesman, in the real sense. It’s, true, undoubtedly. that he no longek represents his state. It has pees away from him, not -he from ‘But, it's a melancholy thing to ieee edeH a cireer draw to a close prdee ‘what can’t -be Ma dla other- wise | na a cloud, 1 stil, t 's this to be said ‘ees finish has dignity, iit from sue Pp onceale: i See hang on: apd]: UI ood, draws Abe curtain - of his vouch around him alld ies dower to eaeh in Ls ie and Congress has Eeincidental inet de sifeney Th gee jash: Baatetigr — - ‘Sta foe more modern nat biter \ but Keystone State Republicanism, will my guess is that Strassburger have about as!much to say as body. At any rate, what he wants be pretty apt to get, either by ing it for himself or asking Vare for it.~ Wants Are. Mapy And Straussburger wants quite a lot. Tt will be recalled that he want- ed the Republican vice presidential | nomination in 1924. He didn’t get that but it’s pretty certain he could have had this last senatorial nomina- ion i in the country what wilt Strassburger want Well, there’s another Pen: sylvania senator to be i hh and there’s also a ind the man who goes into ‘an convention with the ba tate like Pennsylvania goes in with some backi Strassburger ha: vantages, too. He has lots of money, a perfect clean record, pr polit affiliations to embarrass him and a! ecr to be proud of, as a naval offi- , diplomat and financier, His foreign-sounding name may be some little disadvantage to him, but |* he’s an American of many gener: ions’ standing, the descendants of an old reformed church family which settled in Pennsylvania before the Revolution. some other, ad- i} ” jur change of violating Hartison narcotic net. Broughar, Hips Bet uxe | TH Riohanks is in call essen- tial things—a PAIGE. It has the same motor that powers the more expensive Paige models. 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