The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1932, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. | (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ! Foreign Representatives | SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON New Years Another year will have passed into} history with the ringing of bells at midnight tonight. Here and there whoopee will be made as revelers see the old year out and the new year in, but throughout the length and breadth of the land it will be a time for serious thought and sober reflection. Review is much easier than pro- phecy but many will seek to peer in- to the future which 1933 holds. That they essay an impossible task will not deter them, and it should not, for hope springs eternal in the human breast and anticipation usually must precede realization. The great bulk of the American People will be thankful that 1932 has passed and a new year: is at hand, yet even this can be overdone, for 11932 brought most of us much to be thankful for. If it was unkind to many individuals, it also may be blessed in the future by their sons and daughters, for a change for the better has occurred in the Ameri- can way of thinking in the last 12 months. Selfishness has been cast into the discard by many who formerly re- garded it as a virtue, thrift and self- denial have found new practitioners, even if largely by force of circum- stance. People have revised their ideas to conform to new circum- Stances. In many cases they find themse}veS in’ better position to make Rsegress than they were before. From a business standpoint, the year was much worse than 1931, and 1930 now looms as an era of easy prosperity. The term business is used in the broad sense, which includes agriculture and manufacturing as well as mercantile enterprises, But there is one satisfaction in be- dng on the bottom. There is no way to go but up and the sooner we get Started the better. There are signs that we are on the way. Unmitigated gloom is as unjusti- fied as unknowing optimism as we watch 1932 fade into history. People are looking the facts in the face, casting aside old prejudices and pre- paring themselves for the climb up- ward, The long, hard days of 1932 molded their minds to a willingness for concerted action. Americans everywhere, rich and poor alike, have come to the realization that we face ® problem in social mechanics which must be solved if the nation is to live and our civilization is to survive. It should not be forgotten that Valley Forge was just as necessary to victory as was Yorktown in this na- tion’s struggle for Independence. The trials of 1932 were necessary to bring about a new way of thinking, which the world needs very badly; it was necessary to restore to many hearts the realization that we are, after all, ‘our brother’s keeper in times of stress. It was necessary to bring unity of purpose and whole-hearted dedica- tion to the common cause of suffer- ing humanity. It well may be that 1932 was one of the most valuable years in the his- tory of the world, certainly one of the most valuable in this generation, for the bitterest lessons frequently pre the best learned. And so, as we hail the coming of the glad new year, we can do so with | real hope, tinged by the patience which we have bitterly acquired. We can look forward to better times without expecting too much. We can remember that if 1932 was poor in material things it was rich in spiritual blessings which will long re- main with ts. So Hail 1933, and Happy New Year. THE tiation be limited to those matters which have been presented to the legislature and rejected by it, in other words, to make it what it real- ly was intended to be, a safeguard for use by the people if the legisla- ture failed to do its duty. The only logical objection to the] plan is that it would delay action by jthe pecpie on matters of momeni, yet this is no real objection. Two years! is a long time for an individual but it is only a day in the life of the; state. And besides, few issues would have to wait that long for decision 09 |®¥ the people under the proposed { system. The benefit arises from two major Sources, The first is the greater op- portunity which the people would; have to study initiative measures. They would have to be before the public for a long time, at least from the end of the legislative session where the proposal was beaten to the next election. Relatively few meas- | ures could stand examination for so| long a period and any which aia| would be good ones. The second would be the elimina- tion of inconsequential bills from the} initiative ballot. During the last year the people have been forced to vote upon a multiplicity of measures, some | of them too insignificant to warrant}! presentation of them to the public. There are other arguments which may be urged in favor of the idea but most persons are prone to over-} look one of the most potent. This is the present danger of building up a body of law which is rigid in its character and unresponsive to the Public will. Take any one of the measures pass- ed this year for example. Under the constitution a two-thirds majority of each branch of the legislature is nec- essary to change them. Grant a situation in which an initiated law becomes burdensome and the people might find their only recourse would be to a new initiative effort. Two- thirds majorities are difficult to get, partly because members of the leg- islature hesitate to run counter to BISM. A RCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1 Signed letters pertaining to personal diagnosis, or treatment, will be ans self-addressed envelope is enclosed. ~ PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instruc- tions, Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. health and hygienc, not to disease wered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, Letters should be brief and written public opinion, no matter when that opinion was expressed. Thus a political instrument which was intended to make the law suf- ficiently fluid to meet the public needs may easily become a barrier to constructive governmental action, Some protection should be thrown around the initiative system. A re- quirement that the legislature be given first opportunity may point the way. 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. ! A Plan of Farm Relief (Chicago Tribune) The farmers are in a desperate situation today for these two reasons: } 1, The taxes on their farms are absurdly high in relation to the yield of the land. With corn selling at 15 cents a bushel on the farm, the income of an acre is | scarcely sufficient to pay the | taxes alone, leaving nothing with which to pay interest, wages or @ return on the investment. 2. Prices of farm products, as a result of excessive production, are below even the bare cost of producing the crops. A remedy which would operate to correct either of these two situations would be welcome. A remedy which would tend to correct them both would be doubly welcome. It is such a two edged remedy which is here Proposed. In essence it is this: Let the legis- latures in the principal agricultural States provide that land which is left fallow shall pay no state or local tax- es. The results of such a provision should be apparent almost at once. Farmers would be encouraged, as if by a bonus on crop reduction, to de- crease their acreage. They would find it advantageous to let their poorer acres go uncultivated. To that extent the immense surpluses would be sharply reduced and prices accordingly would tend to rise in response to the diminished supply. At the same time the individual farmer would have placed in his own hands the opportunity to obtain tax reductions. Likewise the tax spend- ing officials would be forced by the certainty of reduced tax income, to lower the cost of government to ac- cord with the ability of the farmers to support their state and local gov- ernments. 2 The proposed remedy has numer- ous advantages, among which are the following: Without any bureaucratic interfer- ence and without in any manner dic- tating to the farmer how he is to em- ploy his land the plan will bring about crop reduction. Without an artificial manipulation of prices through a government agency it will create a condition fav- orable to higher prices for farm prod- ucts and therefore higher purchasing power on the farms. Without delay it will force the townships, the school districts, the counties and the states to make the bold assault upon the governmental extravagance which is pushing farm- ers to bankruptcy and farms to fore- closure. The plan’ is simple in design and direct in its operation. The farmer today is under pressure to produce as much as he can force from his land vain hope that by doing so he pay his taxes and interest and few dollars left over to buy needs, If the fallow acres exempt the farmer's inter- est in a period of low and falling would be to cultivate not more, as at present, but fewer acres. VAPOR-HEATED PLANE Dayton, O.—A vapor heated airplane been developed in the Army A YEAR OF GOOD PROGRESS ALONG THE WAYS OF HEALTH Although I have just heard half a dozen presidents deliver their fare- well messages and bespeak for their successors the same cordial cooperation .... I am still optimis- tie about the health of America. For one thing there were the nu- merous new records made by our athletes in the Olympic games in Los | Angeles last summer. Obviously th race is not deteriorating physical, Some of us have felt a bit anxious about increasing effeminacy, but we have found the cause of that and we have a cure for it. The cause is precocious indulgence in cigarettes and automobile driving. The cure is athletics or at least play for every- body. I said athletics, not sport. From my point of view, which is perhaps unique, there is a rapproch- ment discernible between us regular doctors and the principal offshoots or schisms in the healing business. My correspondence with osteopaths has grown to a considerable volume the past year and for the most part it has been just as cordial as though they were regular doctors. I have even had a civil word or two with an occasional cult practitioner, and believe it or not, here the other day a chiropractor assured me that he always enjoys my articles, he has learned a lot from them, and my teachings have proved profitable for him—and there's no catch in that either. This experience inspires me to look forward to the day when there shall be neither isms nor pathies but just physicians, healers or practitioners, all Hcensed on the same minimum educational qualifica- tions and fitness to assume the responsibility such a servant must take, A new specialist has gained recog- nition, namely, the Industrial Sur- geon, the doctor who serves as phy- sician for a large industry, takes care of the employees in emergencies and so on, Until now no formal recog- nition has been accorded such a specialty, but I reckon we see the handwriting on the wall. Techno- cracy looms ahead, and already a se- rious revision of older forms and cus- toms of medical practice is under way. All kinds of schemes are being tried out, from here to quackery, in the effort to spread out in easy monthly payments the burden that crushes a man when serious illness occurs in his family, the burden of big doctor bills, bills for medicine, for nursing, for hospital care. Unless the country is destined to go com- munist, I venture to prophesy that all these new forms of practice, ex- cept the firmly established plan of contracting with a physician to give his services or a certain part of his time exclusively to the employees of a given plant, will fail after a fair trial. I believe we have consolidated our position in the war against “the com- mon cold” and cancer. If the cause of “the common cold” was not dis- covered again this past year it was an oversight on the part of Johns- planation for that: Cancer in the great majority of cases occurs in ad- vanced life. The science of medicine and hygiene preserves many lives that would naturally terminate be- fore middle age, and so there is more room for cancer to occur. Uncivil- ized races that have little cancer are short-lived—not enough of their in- dividuals attain the age of cancer. | And so I wish all our readers aj lappy New Year, and instead of add- ing that I hope it will be a healthy | one I'll just advise you to keep your noses clean, and if you can’t always succeed in doing that, at‘ least I beg you to keep your conversation cov- not catching. OL’ DOC BRADY | (Copyright National Newspaper Service) Barbs A Memphis department store San- ta Claus recently was fired for ab-/ sent-mindedly kissing a 17-year-old girl. Serves him right; that’s no way to kiss a girl. | ee Congress may not get much done about prohibition repeal this session, but it at least put beer on everyone's tongue. * * * President-elect Roosevelt makes a hobby of stamp collecting. debt cancellationists have their way that’s about all he'll get from our European neighbors, * * * ° | $1,700 for a sedan to accommodate Postmaster General Brown's silk top- per. Just another instance of the ered till you can be certain that it is | It the | It cost the government an extra} boon to at least one industry. The snuff manufacturers are paying extra dividends. ee * ‘The Spaniards are catching onto the idea of republican government. The Spanish cabinet has decided to spend $500,000 for a garage for its members’ 14 automobiles. ORO Folks who call a spade a spade will have to find a new name for hunger marchers who eat at pub- lic expense and ride to Washing- ton in automobiles. xe OK The doctors were amazed at Henry Ford's recuperative powers, Just the Ford quick pick-up. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) MORE STORM CLOUDS New York, Dec. 31.—Clouds threa- tening sudden changes have come drifting in from Hollywood and hang menacingly over those Broadway of- fices where the film moguls have |been gathering in troubled sessions, Whispers of a hundred-and-one events in the cinema world trickle out into the street and there are in- jmumerable signs of impending up- | heaval in moviedom. For while pictures may be made in Hollywood, policy is decided in | Broadway and banking is arranged in | Wall Street. And few there are who pretend to ; predict what is going to happen after the first of the year. xe * MILLER IS IN Already there are indications of new cooperative movements and unit systems fashioned after the old Uni- | and others will share, high overhead at Washington. ee Pinching times have been a 18 Thick shrub, 19 Opposed to Hopkins. As for the apparent in- crease in the prevalence of cancer, we have found an encouraging ex- FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: REG. U. 5. PAT, OFF. Equipment Braneh at Wright Field. is operated with a boiler inside an of Texas. int. Prige od is about six times as large as A dishwasher’s job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. * 33 Puzzle Take, for instance, the case of Gil- bert Miller, as high-hat and import- HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle mistake, 1 Joyous. 11 Stir. 6 Opposed to fe) 12 List of en- old. listed men. 9 Twelve 16 Rockfish. months. 24 Pertaining to 13 Sky-blue. a wall, 14English coin. 25 Bone, 15 Fervor. 27 Even. 17 Person intol- LI} 28Standard type erant of opin- measure. fons conflict- 31To decay, ing with his 32 Wing. own. IN} 35 Robs. 36 Pertaining to the palpus. verse. 38 Merchant, 64 Sliding parts. \ 20 Within, 43 Since, 65 Rubber, peneil 35 speedaters, 21To total. 46 The ankle. ends, 40 Wine vessel. 22 Seventh note. 47 Talisman. VERTICAL 41 Bushy. 23 Citric fruit. 48 Pound (abbr.). 1 Adroit. 42 Second note. 26 Bank official. 49 Deity. 2Chemical com- 44 Polisher, 29Halfanem. 50 Eccentric pounds, 45 To beset as an 30 Ancient Celtic wheel. 3 Dwarf bull- evil spirit. divinity. 51 Like, dog. 53 Sash. 31To ransom. 52 Omission of 4Golf teacher. 54 Fish. 32 Constellation. last syllable 5 Still. 55 Metallic rock. 33 Yellow of a word. 6 Marked with 56 By. Hawaiian 57 To mark as lines. 58 Fence rail. bird. doubtful, 7 Corroded. 59Greek letter 34 Morindin dye. 62 Worker. 8 To toddle. pe gg 35 Spread of an 63 Ironic com- 9To yelp. 60 Fleug-de-lis arch, Dositions, 10To make 2 61 Wrath. ok il oe a a N aneeelunel CLASS CS ae la TNT od ile LT N a ted Artists, in which stars, directors 932 ant a producer as Broadway now/playhouse staging tabloid’ music: Smid, president, University, of Call- become synonym who once sought to be knighted in England. And out he comes with the announcement that he has tied up with Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pic- tures, a fast-growing independent concern which, just a few years ago, was struggling along in the way of many an independent concern. Mil- ler will enter pictures on tho profit. sharing and unit operating basis. Surely, there is no more important theatrical name attached to the films —hor has there been. ¢ ‘ And what, asks Broadway, will this start? With a Gilbert Miller head- ing the parade—who will tie up next? xe ® PLENTY RUMORS Hardly has the Miller announce- ment taken the wind out of a dozen big Broadwayites when the an- nouncement comes that David Selz- nick can’t get along with Radio Pic- tures, which has some unit system of its own in preparation. Meanwhile, I'm tipped to watch the after January 1, and to keep an eye on a merger affecting Fox films. And so it has gone, s*s TEN, TWENTY, THIRTY The while, Broadway seethes with tales of what is going to happen in the movie theaters and medium priced variety: houses once the new Roxy Music Hall and movie house get under way. I am told not to be surprised to see the old ten, twenty and thirty come back with high class enter- tainers on the bill, instead of the old cheap material. I have it, for instance—on good authority—that the old Roxy, the name of which will doubtless be} changed, has already fallen into new) hands. The tip goes that Sam Katz, once of Balaban and Katz, who broke | with Paramount in a recent shake- up, has already taken the old- Roxy theater. The information goes that a big league vaudeville policy will be in- | i | augurated at 25 and 50 cents to be-, | gin with. Located but a block from the new Music Hall, which will doubtless attract thousands of curi- ous, the old Roxy faces a fight for existence. Big star names will have to be played at a small sum if the crowds are to be drawn away. * * * DOLLAR REVUES And in midtown, the historic Palace is said to be tottering again. Having left behind forever its fa- mous two-a-day, all-star vaudeville, the Palace drifted into a movie hor boasts; a showman whose name has ous with “class” and explosion in Paramount Pictures | i | turer. shows starring the famous revue folk ee ee ‘ * * # PROFIT SHARING So there you are, on the eve of a New Year. Every film office clutter- ed with conferences which portend changes, the end of which no one can at this moment guess. Buf the trend is toward profit sharing, co- operation, decreased salaries and in- comes based largely on the income from a picture. America will never—at least for a long time—return to the insane boom times of 1929 and as soon as that fact is realized our fight against the depression will be won—John N. Willys, Toledo, O., auto manufac- * oe Why should a second Roosevelt worry me? We may have a third! for all you know.—Irvin H. “Ike” Hoover, head usher in the White} House for 25 years. * * x We regard a football championship as incidental. It is encouraging to know that our team gets victories over the strongest opponents—en- couraging in the same degree as it is to have our debaters and orators win.—Dr. Rufus Bernhard von Klein- WHAT IS THE WORLD'S RECORD SKI JUMP? | | | use. Next, so I hear, it will become a Geraldine Foster was hacked to death in a house on Peddler’s Road, leased by her employe?, Dr. Hum- phrey Maskell, and her nude body buried in a grave filled with tannic acid. Two women were seen leav- ing the doctor’s office carrying bottles similar to those found near the grave. Mrs. Morgan, a neigh- bor, substantiates the doctor's Statement that he was with her daughter, Doris, the day of the dis- appearance. Maskell claims there was a strange woman outside his office when he returned. Other suspects are Harry Armstrong, Geraldine’s former fiance, and her brother, Bruce, who will receive her inheritance. Bruce is an adopted son whose father was a murderer. Dr. Maskell reports to Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt that Geraldine phoned him on January 5, ten days after her dis- @ppearance, requesting that he meet her, but failed to appear. The autopsy shows she was killed on December 24, and her body pre- served by the acid to make it ap- pear that death occurred within 48 hours. Maskell, accused, sticks to his story. His brother and sister- in-law, George and Natalie Mas- kell, call to see him, but are turned away. One of the women whom Maskell visited on Christ- mas Eve informs Colt that a woman phoned that day leaving the following message for the doctor: “Please come at once to Peddler’s Road. Something terrible has hap- pened.” Doris Morgan feveals that Maskell left her and his chauffeur at a confectioner’s while he delivered gifts. CHAPTER XXVIII. 66 HERE were you then, Woven Checkles and Doris were eating their ice cas arte to! ou. “You. tal me a cock-and-bull story. Do you expect any jury to believe that? inkanene stead of replyii waeeine Soabeceatly around the genie can’t believe it!” he mur- mured, 4 “Neither will the jury,” snapped Colt, accepting the non-sequitur as reply. a) % haven’t we talked enough? Do as you please—only let me | have some sleep now,” cried Mas- | kell with a shudder. But Thatcher Colt only shook his head. ' “The police won’t sleep until we get_our man,” he replied. " Doctor Maskell forced a smile, and an unearthly. chuckle. “Tryi the methods of the Spanish Infuisition?” he mocked. “No sleep for a suspected man, eh? Gentlemen—I shall be awake when you are all nodding and snoring. I am a doctor—and I never sleep when a patient needs ” me.’ 4 And he smiled mockingly. fornia. z* ® With a tax of $6 a barrel on our beer, the hoodlum wouldn’t be able to sell his graft encumbered stuff to maa en People, 03 the of a gun.—George P. , general counsel for the Associated Producers of Cereal ee from Euro] HO seven HI-HO pieces below. Cut der 2, * I think war in Europe is untfkely. Hi I OOD at figures? Then make them out and put them together —Gen. John J. Pershing, on return pe. Ten Met Ree the Number 2 from the again so as to form the Num- OweM He Number 2. ‘The star gazer probably caused a lot of HI-HO. fans “foot trouble.” Here's your revenge, He's all picked to pieces! had been in their beds since the one hundred and fifty feet on the case “broke”, as we used to phrase |third floor, and shelving a it in the city room. There were no signs of weariness on either of their faces, nor did it seem to me that Dougherty’s arrogance was in the smallest degree lessened. From their conversation, learned that Doctor Maskell had been permitted a few hours’ sleep in his apartment, with a police- man guarding the doors. Mean- while, Bruce Foster had returned to Headquarters and Thatcher Colt had drawn from him a com- plete statement of his movements —the details of which were easily and simply checked and seemed to furnish him with a clear exonera- tion from all suspicion. At this time, Colt and Dougherty both re- garded Bruce as eliminated from the case. The District Attorney went further and declared that Armstrong, too, was above suspi- cion, But with this Thatcher Colt would not agree. The Dead-Line | { “There is a theory that may in- volve Armstrong,” he apenas “Why don’t you spill the theory to me?” demanded Dougherty. “Because you would disbelieve in it so much you might even block me from then on,” said Colt. “No—give us the rest of this day, Dougherty.” _ 7 “I promised until midnight,” sighed Dougherty. “And while I have all the evidence in the world to justfy the arrest of Maskell, Tl live up to my word. The doc- tor is guilty as red-fire hell. Why don’t you give up the agreement and let me go ahead?” “I believe,” replied her Colt, “that before midnight, you will agree with me that there is something much more surprising yet to be found.” ined with an air istian fortitude. “All right,” he growled. “Where do we go from here?” Thatcher Colt stood up, mysteriously. “To the private dwelling of the Police Commissioner of the City of New York,” he divulged. “There we will get the truth out of Hum- phrey Maskell.” Dougherty looked his astonish- ment. Thatcher Colt’s proposal seemed incomprehensible to him then, and, indeed, to me, too. Why cl smiling erson- ally selected collection of more than fifteen thousand books on crime and its related topics, more half of which would not be found together in any ordinary li- brary in the world. Waving us to comfortable chairs, Thatcher Colt retired. Dougherty and Hogan looked around them with an air of suspicion and be- wilderment. Their very glances seemed to say that Thatcher Colt could not be a practical man, with all those books in his possession. Presently, the Commissioner reap- peared, wearing a dressing gown of strong, rich silk, a flowered padua- soy. From a covered recess in the library wall, a small alcove above a table, he drew out a tray on which reposed glasses, and a bottle of old port. Withdrawing the cork, he called our attention to a filmy crust of scales of tartar on the top, the beeswing of a rare old wine. “In this xerophilous land,” said Thatcher Colt, “there is not much more wine like this. Gentlemen, your health!” We all felt very solemn and im- pecan as we drank that precious liquor. It warmed the inner lining of my soul, Then, leaning back in his chair, Thatcher Colt, resumed: “I must begin by explaining to rou that this is wholly an extra- legal proceeding. I must also make that perfectly clear to Maskell. He has the right to decline to have anything to do with these experi- ments.” “What kind of bunk have you fallen for, Thatcher Colt?” As he asked the question, Dougherty al- most hummed the words, while his hands, spread out on his knees, seemed itching to get hold of Mas- kell and pitch him into a cell. “Two things,” replied the Com- missioner, “‘the first is this!” On a table, at his right hand, was an object covered with a cloth of green serge. Lifting this, Colt disclosed an odd affair, a drum-like electrical instrument. Bel gates ; moc! ougherty, his hands in his pockets, as he ‘leaned over at a rakish angle and surveyed the machine quizzically. ee een ea | The Lie Detector | is that?” should ‘ae fare 2 sratiine Dester i att um called @ pneumo- laskell in the home of the Com-|cardio-sphygmometer,” answered missioner? Why not at Police | Thatcher Colt. i Headquarters, where we could have information, check-ups, all the aid we needed? The District Attorney shru; his shoulders and gave his famylus, Hogan, a significant ogle as We left the of- fice and descended to the street. Soon we were uptown, in the new Bohemia of the West Side, the neighborhood between the Verdi and Dante triangles—near which was the home of the Commissioner. He lived in a modest house in the | ed; Dougherty blinked in over-di astonishment at his friend. ‘The District Attorney was a well-edu- cated man, but for so long had he cultivated his ublic pose of rough- poss. 80d 39 tne that he ad al convine irate imself he was an what, Mr. Commissioner?” purred, with such Unction that f was sure he regretted the absence of an audience to laugh at his com- in is common! eee Eoreniiee ES ere: were Pons teeta teen called a lie de- joxes before the lows, an ir,” explaine [_iWer.aftholaw | bright green paint on the wood- Dougherty aes Ce Upon the orders of~Thatcher|work; it was much more like|together and laughed immoder- Colt, I was sent home to snatch @/a- house in some dozing little Ne, few hours’ before another|Southern city than in the heart| “Have you fallen for that long night of inquisition that/of Manhattan. Thatcher Colt pitaz’ he cried. “My youl loomed However, I did not/had lived for many years in using New Thoug! your feel like sleep, but spent the late/that house. In fact, he was|prisoners next. What'is the Pontes hours | a me stternos being Bote, in yeh pads the Laporte Department the of New a ant ved, ant - on the same bloc! across coming to, I want know?” ing tea with Betty Canfield.|No, 244, where Elwell, the b cher "Cots tenia da Every time we broke bread to-lexpert, was mysteriously murdered, |turbable. ther, we liked each other better. |Some day I shall describe the sin-|_ “You are of the fh the course of our conversation, |gular rooms contained in that quiet |facts, Dough: he remon- she assured me her engagement toland pretty little dwelling—the|strated quietly, machine is Bruce was never really serious| weapons chamber, room where |in st ly use in the Mlinois and was all ended now. Thatcher Colt conducted his own |Penitentiary at Joliet, Moreover, With a light heart, I returned |original researches into “ballis-|it is employed by the police of to Headquarters. It was five|tics,” his poison room—but all|many other cities—it kas been o'clock when I reached the Com-|these things played their parts in|uged in more than five thousand Pa eet sate I found [re detection ot siepanens (taste Fi pote S in Berkeley, er Colt in deep conversa-|Tonight we were led to rary forni partm tion with Dougherty. Neither the|of Thatcher Colt, a vast, immense |alone.” ; Rallees ee rd District Attorney nor.my chief'room running the entire stretch of T dia i iy ' A a nd