The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1931, Page 4

ee mW The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Sa Srna SE Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year......$7.20} Daily by mail per year (in Bis- marck) see seeeeeen eens Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) .......... » 54 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 6. Weekly by mail in state, three years Helene tsb uesh seeuNe Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year soaeees Weekly by mail in Canada, year. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation r Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this news- Paper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Change in Road Taxes Road taxes are as old as civiliza- tion itself. When the Romans con- quered new territory, they held it by building new roads, paid for by the vanquished in labor and other me- dia. As taxation progressed toward @ more “exact science,” the property and poll tax kept the road and bridge fund adequate to meet local de- mands. Now the whole picture has changed. Old Dobbin may be staging a come- back as far as the plow and the hay- Yack are concerned, but he is for the most part off the public highway for good. Public attitude toward how’ the cost of highways should be met; has changed completely. In a late report of the Depart- ment of Agriculture is revealed the trend of highway finance. Last year the States spent nearly a billion dol- Jars on their highways, an increase of 22 per cent over the year before. Of all new construction a third was concrete. But the most inter- esting feature is the manner in which the new highway mileage was financed. It.was done in the follow- ing manner: Motor vehicle revenues, 26 per cent; gasoline tax, 36 per cent; bonds, 20 per cent; federal aid, 8 per cent; state taxes and appropriations, 4 per cent; county funds, 4 per cent. Thus it is seen that the direct, property tax, except within city lim- its, is no longer a factor in, the fi- nancing of the highways of the na- tion. Gasoline taxés have been seized upon avidly by the politicians as a medium to promote highway con- struction but the people are rebelling against them after a reasonable rate is exceeded. North Dakota revolted and other states have also. Taxpay- ers are willing that a few cents per gallon be exacted as a sales tax for road building purposes, but when the gasoline sales are forced to yield 36 per cent of all road revenue, it is! really too great a toll from one source alone. Experience has shown that. ween the gasoline tax goes beyond certain limits, it won't yield the re- turns anticipated. Doubtless the gasoline tax is here to remain and should continue to be an important factor in the financing of highways. Just because gasoline sales have yielded road money easily in the past is no safe criterion for the future. There is always danger of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The gasoline tax is a fair and equitable one, but it has its limitations which even the politicians should recognize. Five Billions for Accidents The “hidden costs” of industrial accidents, according to H. W. Hein- rich of the Travelers’ Insurance com- pany, are four times as great, on the average, as the visible and recognized costs. As a consequence, the total in- dustrial accident bill in this country is more than $5,000,000,000 a year. This is a tremendous drain on both businesses and individual workmen. Part of the cost inevitably falls on the consumer of goods and services, as industries have no other way of paying for accidents than by charg: ing the cost against operating ex- penses. Again, accident expenses are Teflected in our state taxes, as in- creased accident frequency entails greater legal, executive and adminis- trative state expenditures. Nothing is more detrimental to the morale and good will of an industry than 2 high accident rate, culminat- ing in waste.and a decrease in cffi- ciency and prestige, all of which con- stitutes a cost that is difficult to measure in dollars. Tt is true that American industry, in the last decade or s0, has made great progress in combatting acci- dents. Many individual establish- ments have reduced accidents 50 or more per cent, with a consequent de- crease in the severity of each, due to unceasing work both in guarding ma- chinery and in developing an “acci- | dent consciousness” on the part of | workers. But, according to Heinricn, 7.20 oo] West and call him a “yokel,” “hay- 00; names, have been given something ae ee Weekly by mail in state, per year$1.00 2.50 1.50 2.00 sald that the court is an “impartial member, Mr. Kellogg, and the Judges elected from Great Britain, many, Belgium, Holland, Japan and) China were outnumbered by @ com- bination of Judges moved by politics and nationalism. The Times, with admirable. frankness, says that Mus- solini could have reversed the deci- sion if he had so willed, for the Ital- jan Judge had the casting vote. What a situation to find in a theoretically judicial body, a body of which Mr. Root said, in his plea to the Foreign Relations Committee, that its deliv- erances “command universal accept- ance”! What a situation to find in @ court whose members are “sworn to decide their cases in accordance with the law and the .facts pre- sented”! protocol comes into the Senate cham- ber it should meet its death. Never before has it looked so dangerous as it appes Dorie eance! Howard is traveling more than 600 miles to attend the wedding of her Granddaughter. Twenty-five years ago Mrs. Howard made a promise that she would attend the wedding no matter where her granddaughter was. She was just set to sail for Vancou- can be accomplished readily when accident prevention is fully reccg- nized as a science, and its funda- mentals are better understood, Here is an immediate duty for both industry and industrial workers. How imperative the job is may be seen by anyone who cares to investi- gate the records of the State Work- {men’s Compensation Bureau, which jhas reported an alarming increase jin the North Dakota industrial acci- dent rate for the last 18 months. The Effete East Folks from New York who may sneer a little at the man from the shaker? and similar opprobrious to think about recently by The New York World, one of the metropolis’ great dailies. Because it is one of a newspaper's duties to protect the interests of the citizens living in the community where the newspaper is published, the World became interested in New York’s milk supply. And what it found was enough to make any decent resideny of any American city blush for shame, for most of New York's milk is being re- tailed “from the can.” Most of us will remember the old days when the milk man made his route and rang a bell in front of the customer’s house to apprise him that, if he wanted milk, he should bring his pail or pan and get if, The pic- ture includes all the detail of lifting the top from the big can in the back of the cart and watching the milk- man dip out the pint or quart which may have been ordered. For folks who live in the west) away, but for many who live in New York the picture is a modern one, the only difference being that the milk is generally sold from stores in- Stead of a wagon. In gay Gotham, the poorest as well as the richest city in the world, bottled milk costs four cents a quart more than “dipped” milk and many persons are unable to afford the bet- ter product. ‘What it means in terms of health may be deduced from the fact that. 90 per cent of the “dipped” milk sam- ples collected and tested by The World was contaminated. Politics have been blamed in con- nection with the travesty of New York’s milk supply. Racketeers are blamed and the fact that greater Profits may be made by handling milk in a slovenly manner is an ad- mitted factor. It would seem, however, that the effete East is about to follow the be- nighted West in this one respect and that, before very long, “dipped” milk will be ‘outlawed there as it is here. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. ‘They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. When the League Court Pro- tocol Comes Out, Kill It! (New York Sun) It was ironical that the myth of @ non-political World Court should hhave exploded just as the American Foundation had got ready a fresh salvo in behalf of American adher- ence to this agency of the League of Nations. The Foundation, supported and directed by a few idealistic Americans, has been the court's greatest publicity agent. It has de- scribed the Judges as men “pre- sented by their nations as being their wisest, fairest and most experienced citizens,” who are “sworn to decide their cases in accordance with the law and the facts presented.” It has forum” and the “outstanding pacific mea! of settling international dis- putes, * ** *% - All these buttresses would have had some effect on public and politi- cians, no doubt, if Saturday had not; produced an amazing picture of the League Court. The division qi the court, eight to seven, would not have been remarkable if the matter for decision had been complex instead of the mere interpretation of a treaty in its bearing on the proposed cus- toms union between Germany and) Austria, No, the division was amaz- ing because, in the words of the pro- League, pro-Court Times, it was “dictated by national sentiment.” The bloc of eight was political, not judicial. France was against any proposal that would increase Teu- tonic power. Poland and Rumania, her faithful allies, went with France. Italy, although none too friendly toward France, has an ancient feud with Austria. Spain followed her friend Italy. Colombia, Cuba anid Salvador flew to the Latin bloc like iron filings to a magnet. Thus the votes of the American Ger- If and when the League Court in the’ light of last week's TO KEEP A PRQMISE London, Sept. 29.—Mrs. Elizabeth | a«further 50 per cent reduction in | Present accident frequency and cost “ ver, where the girl is to be married. ‘Mrs. Howard is 76, those days are long ego and far! TODAY IS THE J adie, on the Euphrates river, Mesopotamia, was captured by the Anglo-Indian army under Sir Stanley Maude. was captured. was preceded by storming of Mush- aid Ridge by Maude's superior artil- lery. His mobile cavalry likewise Played a big part. and a little east of Mosul. CAPTURE OF RAMADIE On Sept. 29, 1917, the town of Ram- in The entire army of Ahmed Bey Capture of the town and the army Ramadie is about 130 miles south BEGIN HERD TODAY Pretty NORMA KENT, 20-year- old secretary, marries MARK ERAVERS, con of FM. TRAV: & mill sire real estate deal- the father’s threats fy “pens tm Mariboro, middle western’ metropolla, Mark expenusive roadster to for the hone: a parti the iter a cous er weeks mate, ART, Hcerery agent. Trave sv ilterary agent. v8 ree celves a report from detectives who, say they have “found the sink» NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXIII YoRzng for Frederick J. Stu- art was not at all like working in Brooks, Welliver and Brooks’ law office. Norma found her new tasks easier. The letters never complicated and there were no dificult, unfamiliar words to spell, Stuart dictated at rapid-fire speed but Norma could transcribe her notes leisurely. This was for tunate because her short-hand was more accurate than her typing, Occasionally ‘her employer asked her to read @ manuscript and tell him what she thought of it. This was fun, though Norma never had any means of knowing what Stuart thought c: her judgment. She had little means of knowing what he thought of anything. He said little, never spoke of anything but busi- ness and seemed an indefatigable worker, All sorts of people came to the office—old men, eager-faced young omen, housewives, a youth in a purple overcoat who announced himself as a poet, prosperous-look- ing ‘ndividuals and others who seemed impoverished, a playwright whose dramas were unusually suc- cessful and whom Stuart told Nor- ‘ ma was perpetually bitter because the world would not recognize him as a novelist, In spite of herself during the first week Norma was interested. She liked to speculate about these curious people, which ones had manuscripts that would sell, which were slaves of the pitiful illusion of talent. A good part of the time she had to herself, Stugrt was out of the office some times for entire half days, Then all she had to do was receive visitors and take messages. Each morning when she awoke Norma was grateful for the work which somehow would fill the hours until evening. Her days became exact replicas of one another. She arose at 7:80, dressed, righted her room and boarded a downtown car. She breakfasted at a cafeteria Attacking the advanced positions on Mushaid Ridge at dawn of the day before, after a night march, Maude quickly secured the enemy, fought a severe battle during the day, carried the main positions, and then so disposed his troops that the enemy had no avenue of escape. Critics said it was a fine, finished Piece of work. Quotations i nes Romance and adventure! * Immigration no longer is an eco- dee menace.—Secretary of Labor De ee There is such a thing as overstay- © 1931-BY NEA across the street from the office, arrived there at nine or @ little earlier and sorted the morning mail, Her lunch hour was from 11:30 until 12:30. She worked un- til five, dined at an inexpensive restaurant and rode back to the Tooming house on the street car. Occasionally she spent an evening with Chris. Twice Dorothy joined them and all three went to a mo tion picture theater. Norma knew she was not good company for the others and preferred to be alone. She could think of Mark when she was alone, plan for the glorious time when he would be back again. eee SH spent hours composing care- fully worded letters which she mailed to his business address, Scrupulously in these letters she avoided mention of how she was spending ime. She sald nothing about Mark’s parents, yet gave no hint that she was not with them. She wrote Mark that she missed him, that she was eager to hear all he had been doing, impatient for his return, That letters for her had reached Mark’s father’s home she never for & moment doubted. It was harder for her because she could not re- ceive those letters and yet she had brought this on herself. Because {t took so long for a message to ross the ocean she did not think Mark would consider her own let- ters strange or be surprised if he asked questions that were not an- swered. Everything would be ex- Dlained when he came back., There was one real joy to look forward to each day. Norma saved it until the last moment before she got into bed. Then she took the fountain pen that had been Mark’s off that day on the calendar. The Yow of inky crosses grew impres- sively. The seven crosses on the calendar grew to 14. If only a letter would come telling her that in two weeks Mark would be back! She could not forget he had said the four weeks might turn into five, The 14 crosses became 15, 16, 17. Christmas was only a few days away. Store windows were filled with Christmas gifts, holly wreaths, festoons of greenery and gay crim- son ribbons. Tall evergreens, glow- ing with red, blue and gold lights dazzled the army of shoppers. Downtown streets from early morn- ing until late at night became ave- nues of confusion. Sidewalks swarmed with tired, hostile and de- termined faces peering from behind mountainous packages. Santa Clauses in cheap red suits’ jingled their Christmas bells on street cor- ners and the red capes of Salva- tion Army workers loomed bright in the turmoil. Christmas only a few days away. Christmas! Norma found consolation in choosing Mark's efft. It would be late, of course. She would keep {it for him. Two weeks more—per haps a little less than that—and she and Mark would make up for 8o many, many dreary days apart. wl} a celebration they would have en! She stood long before windows filled with gifts bearing the sig- nificant placard, “For Him—” She read professional shoppers’ sugges- phenson. eee Planning. — Governor Franklin Roosevelt. +e & ‘The time has come when students] bé should participate fully in training, education and development of them- selves.—Willis A. Sutton, president, | National Education association, A busi- +e ness man lives it from morning till night—Merle Thorpe. * * and statesman. Killed by threshing crews on farms near El Dorado, Kas., this year. tions for presents for young men. Mark’s tastes were difficult. She would have loved to buy him some- thing truly expensive but that was out of the question. She would Have liked to give him something she had made with her own hands. ‘There was no way to satisfy either of these desifes so Norma compro- mised. She selected a sweater of soft yarn, exquisite to touch. It was a rich tan she knew Mark ad- mired. He could wear it for golf and on comfortable evenings loung- ing at home. ‘The sweater was her only Christ- mas purchase. She and Chris, knowing each other's financial status, had ruled out gifts for each other long ago. Norma bought a sheet of the most festive paper sh could find in which to wrap the It was black and white, spangled with silver, and she tied it with a crimson ribbon. Nice, Norma told herself as she surveyed Nice enough—almost —for the most beloved husband in sweater. the offering. the world, He would bring a gift for her, too. Something from Paris rer haps! When such thoughts occurred to her during working hours it was necessary for Norma to force her attention rigidly back to her work. OCCASIONALLY at her desk in Stuart’s office she felt qualms of Consclence because she had not ad- mitted to her employer that she had taken the position temporarily. Neither had she told him she was married. It was deceiving, Norma On the other hand she knew enough about busi- ness to understand that either ad- mission might have cost her the and with very black strokes crossed | Job. She was doing her work eff ciently. Stuart was satisfied. When told herself guiltily. Mark came back she would tell Stuart the truth and he would have no difficulty finding another secre- tary. Hundreds of girls were look- ing for work. She was lingering before a brightly lighted window filled with toys one evening when something made her turn. Not three yards away, his eyes fixed on the display she had been looking at, stood Bob Farrell, Norma moved nearer. Bob,” she said, smiling. “Hello! Say—where'd you come from?” “I was standing right there be- side you admiring the dancing bear. Are you picking out your Christmas gitt? Something in this window certainly seems to have you hypno- tized.” Bob grinned. “Cute, aren't they? Which one do you want?” “Oh, I'll take the bear. adorable?” “Well, write you letter to Santa Claus and be a good girl! Where are you bound for? Couldn't take pity om a guy and have dinner with him, could you?” “Sorry. I've just had dinner. I’m on my way to get the car.” Farrell said, “My hard luck! Don't mind if I walk along with yout” “Of course not. Have you been winning any more big cases?” “Haven't even had a chance, I suppose you're all wrapped up in Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays.” “Hello, Isn't he ing @ depression just as there is of overstaying a boom—Rome C Ste- I think we have got to the point where we are ready for national In my opinion the Monroe doctrine is no danger to Latin America—Dr. Miguel C. Tocorcial, Chilean jurist More than 100 rattlesnakes were t Daily Health Service — Diet of Average Child Lacks ° 5 Adequate Amount of Calories Food Deficiencies More Serious in Girls Than Boys peer i By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ated vith the fallure in pists AD Bee Cen od urnal erica: an lequate amount un — er Aare = having ™ |1¢ has long been urged that milk ! Te New York, Sept. 29.—Notes scrib- an essential substance. The averag St bled on a convenient cuff... . Old .™vestigators in schools, kinder-| amount of milk taken by the Ameri t Ironsides, majestically riding the gartens and nurseries have regularly; can children was slightly more tha M ° found that children from average| 2% cups per day, while for both th \ i upper Hudson, is a bigger hit than/homes do not receive proper diets.| negro and Mexican groups it wa Fleck any Manhattan attraction. More|An investigation made by ae 4, ah somewnat less than 1% cups a day. at a in line| Winters in Texas concern: e diet ie Mexican diets failed to pra ats inet Lath ala "lot 50 American, 60 negro and %5| vide an adequate amount of eres fl day a nel gira Mexican children in several Texas| vegetables, whereas the negro diet |] F- E- And that fellow, Bing Crosby, that cities. The diets were carefully stud-| were relatively rich in these sub Cen the radio gents are propagandizing| ied as to the total amount of cal-| stances. Vitamin A was supplied i ff choset at the moment, was ingeniously in-| ries received, body weight, protein,| all of the diets, because most of ther | line. g troduced to New York by a magician, | carbohydrates, fat, mineral salts and| provided enough milk -to take cat Pa Nicola, who produced Crosby from a| vitamins, of this vitamin. The negro diet ‘the | trunk. When the guest of honor! Some interesting facts were discov-| contained much less butter. less Latin had failed to arrive and the question| ered. For instance, 52 per cent of the| yolk and less leafy vegetables with | of his whereabouts was raised, the) american, 62 per cent of the negro,| did the American diets, ‘The Mext jee ‘presto” gent volunteered to help;/ and 66 per cent of the Mexican diets| cans ate relatively more eggs thay Pol! prepared some of his conjuring par-| were inadequate in total amounts of| the Americans or the negroes, Fift effect Sphernalia and, with the wave of @/calories taken. Moreover, the food| per cent of the American childre} tits Wand, out stepped Crosby. They| deficiencies were more serious for| had been given cod liver ofl more there think of more things in this man’s] giris than for boys. less regularly, but the negro of th town! The negro and Mexican intake 6f| Mexican children had apparent imag’ Sd calcium was not much more than| never received it. the ¢ Saw Elsie Janis on Brosdway for/half that of the American diets;} Vitamin D was relatively deficie = the first time since she disappeared| phosphorus and iron were low in the|in all of the diets. The Mexica: “Cu into Hollywood. And they say that|three groups. The average intake|have substituted white flour f every romance hes finally come into her|was lower for girls than for boys.| whole corn Products, Neither Mexf eral life. Broadway has it that her mother Inadequacy of calcium affected 50|cans nor negroes use whole wheat ‘ bur 1 was the most watchful of all “stage| per cent of the American, 90 of the| any appreciable extent, H Me mothers,” guiding the famous mimic| negro, and 96 per cent of the Mexi-|both Mexicans and Negroes bnd into a great career and away from|can dietaries. Inadequacy of phos- beans, potatoes and tomatoes in fai hom: all possible heart entanglements.| phorus affected 38 per cent of the| ly large amounts. Fresh fruits @ sx Edna Ferber once wrote a grand tale/and 64 per cent of the Mexican. In-| raw vegetables appear much m a hs called “Mother Knows Best” which] and 64 per cent of hte Mexican. In-| commonly in American than in ond was said at the time to have been| adequacy of iron affected 50 per cent| or in Mexican diets, hence the whie inspired by the Janis stories. of the American, 32 of the negro and|icans have fair amounts of vit rang Which reminds ‘you know how |66 per cent of the American dietarics.|C, The negroes and Mexicans Mr Ethel Barrymore ‘adored” the/ People who insist that the averaze| potatoes, tomatoes and onions, wi club; newspaper gentry of late! Well, of American eats an adequate diet are! help to take care of their vitamin ent all the ironies: when her daughter,/poing to have a hard time explain- lack. There is apparently leas da: Bocre Ethel Barrymore Colt, finally de-| ing these figures. | ger of the lack of this vitamin in ti Btuc cided to go on in a current revue] ‘The inadequacy of minerals in the| diet than of lack of vitamins Mrs. sped cemale reporter! | American diets were largely associ-| and D. M: i Fiec There's more to that fistic en- ae igen tere ae ge hee the counter between George White, the own sci Played, the Tin Pan, 7 Mrs. ovelbe and Lew Brown, the song Ga sludge! é sii — Profitable to Erde writer, than appeared in the public yes—and my cuff reminds me i wn and D Ldtt It Hei in the foyer on ooey beeping about a two armers in Townei Shei "| the opening night of “Scandals,” with ine gu! who came down to ues BeOWn Kent gomienn velet rae tie Hala ee cops, clean out the crooks) candy. N: D. Sept. 29—(R)—De 2G jaw of the noted entrepreneur. To|and gangsters.” The tale goes that}#pte low. Rrlcss, Towner count abo Sure, there had been an argu-|they hadn’t been in town a day be-| econt ‘one of thelr it protitabh Ack ment as to the percentage of recelpts|fore some of the crooks they were| resent one of thelr, most, profitabs R. that Brown and Henderson, his mu-|g0ing to get had Ufted the rifle of | ‘vanmenis: LS. MacDonald, coun F sleal collaborator, were to get. And[one of the visitors. The stunt, by|‘¥,Aeent observed here, 4 be they hhad tried an injunction on the|the way, was staged by the State of] ,rymer® of the county who haw Sou eve of the opening. But what “burned| Maine Promotion association to in-| Matvanas puceP, he, sald, have re Lin up” the writer was a report|terest moose hunters in selecting|feued as high as $7 per head fo den that both he and Henderson were} Maine instead of Canada. ‘The! re t eivi not to be tolerated among the first ee % ide sry laed eel inateeants tN) to 1 ‘i ther with the wool money, wil night brigade. Henderson didn’t go,|_ The New Yorker hotel has just-in-| Sener ek cobain y and Brown did. Only to be told to| augurated a smart stunt for making| SOW ® good profit, considering th Jar “get away,” according to the best in-|the visitors from elsewhere feel at ake ood a lbagers cpeleraietha on two | formation. home. It’s a sort of transient “get- pnts etd eee ct at fe ld con rhe Enraged because he couldn’t hear acquainted” idea. Each evening a as por aavantige Bin poe ay roadcast is staged, the announce- iow Lorre to obtain sheep for breed ¥ ment reaching only the various Oc! tooms. The announcer, Walter|!"& oF feeding. y LAURA LOU : BROOKMAN “MAD MARIRAGE" “Well—not exactly. Mark isn’t going to be able to get here, I’m afraid. That sort of spoils things.” “Is he still abroad? That's too bad! When do you expect him?” Norma was looking steadily ahead. “I hope it won’t be more than two weeks now,” she said. “It seems a terribly long time.” , “Ob, two weeks isn't long—un- less you're waiting for a check! It'll pass before you know it.” The girl smiled. “Remember,” she said, “when he does come you're going to be our first dinner guest.” “That's & promise. I won't for They had reached the car stop and a street car was heading to- ward them. Norma turned. “I'm glad to have seen you, Bob,” she said. “Hope you have a fine Christ- mas,” “Thanks.” Farrell logked as though there were something more he wanted to say but the car was almost there. Another minute and it had stopped with a noisy clan- gor. Norma's “Goodby” came to him over the heads of half a dozen men and women. She forgot about the meeting al- most instantly. Norma was tired. Another day gone; another cross on the calendar. She was too weary to smile at the agreeable thought. . . yas red-haired girl at the desk in ~ the Cromwell Detective Agency headquarters glanced up. “You back?” she said casually to. the man who had just entered. He wore a plaid overcoat. His black hat was at an angle on the back of his head. “The boss in?” he demanded, ignoring the question. An affirmative nod was the an- swer. In three strides the new- comer had almost reached the door marked, “Stanley E. Cromwell. Private.” “Say! You can’t go in there!” the girl's voice stopped him. “Well, why not?” “He's got a client. Said he didn’t want to be disturbed.” “Listen, Mary, this ts hot! I've got to see the boss. Right away! Tell him I'm here, will ya?” The girl touched a button, spoke into the telephone receiver. “Mr. McHugh’s here, Mr. Cromwell. He wants to see you about something he says is important.” There was a pause. She looked up at the man in the overcoat, nodded as she put down the instru: ment. “He'll see you in J. C.’s office.” The man cailed McHugh disap- peared, A moment later a square- cut, heavily built man emerged from the private office and entered another beside it. “well,” he said briskly as he shut the door, “what's it about?” McHugh spoke excitedly, “Listen, boss, it’s that Travers case. I've goteverything! The whole works.” “What do you mean, everything?” McHugh stuffed one hand 1ni vest pocket, pulled out a folded document. “You said the old man wanted evidence for a divorce, didn’t you? Well, I've got it! Enough for any court in the world. Here's her police record!” He flung down the document. Top-most was @ photograph, un- flattering but unmistakable. It was a picture of Norma Travers. (To Be Continued) | | shifted in a “war” Fleishmann, goes through the day's list of guests, giving a brief intro- duction to the more famed person- ages who happen to have arrived and reciting the names and. the home towns of several dozen new- comers. Thus the boys and girls from other sections of the realm are able to keep in touch with homefolk, if any. Waiters, like actors, seem possessed of fear that they may end up in the Potter's Field. So every New York waiter, with or without a job, is assured of a cemetery plot, if noth- ing else. A waiters’ insurance fund looks after this. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) [BARBS 4 ee Since transocean airplanes have been disappearing, stow-awaying has been losing popularity. ee But to most girls, getting Empress Eugenie curves is just a matter of figures. *# # Mayor Jimmy Walker has been decorated by six European countries. That's one publicity stunt California muffed. + * *& Six Chicago police captains were ‘on gambling. With the professionals out of the, way, that puts the game on the up and up. eee One form of insurance is to write your memoirs to be sold after your death. *# There may be some question about bootleg liquor, but isn’t a cinch air- Plane gasoline is good to the last drop. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Isc.) Mexico City's population has dou- bled in the last decade, while that of the entire country has about stationary. STICKERS The sentence onthe bo sbove has 0 Seentible meaning. However, the same detters, switched about, can be made into Folin seen. ( threeword sentence whch you have “12 Peery at eee ee . T-