The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1934, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934 The | Bismarck Tribune ——|doubt that Congress will do it with- outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside Dakota Weekly by 1 3 Weekly by mail in state, Dakota, per year . Weekly by mail in year Wises “~"“Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. There’s Just One Way to End Racketeering Sometimes an ordinary news article fn the dailyypaper can be more edu- cational than “whole columns of care- ful exposition and exhortation. A sample is a recent story which told how New York police, unshack- Jed by Mayor LaGuardia, are trying to stamp out racketeers at the fa- mous Fulton Fish Market. This market happens to be the largest wholesale fish trading cen- ter in the country, doing an annual business of around $25,000,000. Deal- ers, called before a police inspector. who is looking into the racket, testi- fied that as a group they have been paying a certain racketeering ring 5,000 a year for protection. Every tug that lands at the docks has to pay a fee; every truck that enters the ‘market also has to pay. And the dealers weren't especially anxious to have the police try to drive the racketeers out. Everything worked smoothly, they said. Pay- ing the $5,000-a-year fee was a nui- sance, of course, but it works; they did get protection. Every so often some sneak thief ‘would steal a basket of fish or some- thing, but as soon as the “protective association” was notified, the stolen goods would be returned. ‘Thus you get the first picture; racketeers levying their toll in an efficient and businesslike manner, staging a theft now and then, and returning the loot immediately after- ward, to demonstrate the dealers’ need of their services, Now listen to the other side of it. Last winter a patrolman who didn’t believe in racketeers was as- signed to duty at the market. He tracked down on the gangsters; he found one collecting tribute from an aged dealer, and he beat the day- Nights out of him. For two weeks the market was entirely free of racketeers. Then a ‘Tammany-controlled police adminis- tration transferred the cop out of there and the old order returned in full swing. Now Police Inspector Lewis J. ‘Valentine tells the dealers that they might just as well save their $5,000 ® year. If they will refuse to pay, he says, and will testify freely when- ever they are threatened, the police can break up the racketeering ring ‘sompletely. “The racketeers will run like yel- Jow dogs with their tails between their legs, if a good cop cracks them ‘on the jaw,” he remarks. All this is deeply instructive. It shows just how a racket is worked ‘and just how it can be stopped. To work it, you need political influence and a set of business men who would pay tribute rather than stand up for their rights. To stop it, you need enly honest cops and fearless busi- fess men. The way to stamp out racketecr- Ing, after all, is simple. You just stamp it out. More Speed! The effort to increase the speed of the airplane only has begun, if we are to accept the prediction of ‘an article in the new Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences. This article presents plans for an airplane which would fly at a speed of 544 miles an hour—a speed so tremendous that we can begin to appreciate it only by realizing that it is not far below ‘he speed of sound waves in the air. ‘What an airplane of this speed would do to existing schedules is ob- vious. New York would be less than two hours from Chicago, Honolulu would be less than five hours from F iH ils Tee E os debt payments too irksome to meet, Finland has paid one hundred cents on the dollar whenever a note fell due. Now the State Department is nego- tlating with the Finnish government for a substantial reduction in the debt. Congress will have to approve any such settlement, of course, to make it binding; but there is little out delay. A European debtor that actually pays its debts is a rare enough phenomenon to deserve spe- cial treatment. The Thrilling Universe There is a dark and shivery fas- cination about those infinite empty spaces out beyond the stars. A full understanding of the science of astronomy is too much for most of us, but we can listen to the things the astronomers say, and now and then we discover that these scientific gentlemen are playing with the raw materials of great poetry. | Consider, for instance, the Chicago astronomer’s recent discovery of the high winds that sweep the stars— winds that reach a velocity of 144,000 miles an hour, howling and swirling through everlasting emptiness above the lifeless plains of faroff planets. Or listen to the Harvard astronom- er, who has gone exploring (via the telescope) in that incomprehensibly distant patch of light known as the Magellanic Clouds. These clouds, first reported by Ferdinand Magellan, are so far away that it takes their light 90,000 years to reach the earth; yet they are so large that the ring-like formation of one of them is clearly visible in the telescope, and it is estimated that they give off more light than all the naked-eye stars put together. Meditating on things like these— cosmic hurricanes of unimaginable force, and gas-rings so vast and so distant that the mind staggers try- ing to comprehend them—is probably @ very impractical pursuit. Our lives will go along just about as they would if these eerie phenomena never existed. ‘We are apt to have trouble enough lifting our eyes to earthly horizons; it may seem exceedingly profitless to think twice of these other-worldly bits of magic. Yet there is something unspeakably fascinating about the thought of these things. It is the stuff of which Poetry is made; wild, gale-swept poetry, of the kind that blows small considerations clear out of a man’s} heart and leaves him blinking at the immensity and the mystery of the forces which surround human life. Far away from us, on desolate landscapes where no life is or has| been since the world was made, there blows an eternal hurricane. A ring of flame big enough to encircle our sun and all our planets burns alone, | So distant that we see it only as aj faint light cloud on the blackness of | the sky. | And what of that? Nothing, per- haps; except that these facts haunt our minds, and stand as symbols of | the titanic miracles amid which our lives are cradled. 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, Foolish Questions (Grand Forks Herald) Senator Lewis professes to see in the St. Lawrence waterway treaty a military menace to the United States. In a perfectly fraternal spirit he ad- mits that we have no desire to go to war with Great Britain, but he fore- sees the horrid possibility of our finding it necessary to go to war with some ally of Great Britain, which, of course, and greatly to our regret, would bring us into collision with Great Britain herself. In that case the opening of the waterway, he is convinced, would give British war vessels access to the lakes and would Place our lake cities at their mercy. The senator neglects to speculate jon what our naval forces would be doing before British vessels of war! entered the St. Lawrence and as to! what our land and air forces would be doing while those dread mes- sSengers were on their way up stream. It has not occurred to him that both ships and canals and locks are vul- nerable to shot and shell, and that leri broke just as Polly was getting The Wall St. Boys Should Understand This | diagnosis, or treatment, will be self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in ink. No reply can Address Dr. MARY, MARY QUITE CONTRARY Queen Mary was suffering from a slight cold today, it was official- ly stated at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty remained indoors, although the cold is reported as “very slight.” (News item). Reminds me the King had a slight. one a few years ago, at least until the doctors decided to operate. Then, | of course, they had to give it a name.| with it. I am quite as enthusiastic about the millinery racket as the average husband and father, I sup- pose. Yet aside from that, I have al- ways admired Her Majesty's old hat. It reminds me of TR's famous slouch. Only a personage can wear a funny hat without loss of dignity. The news item bore the signature of Aunt Polly. She always initials her stuff (AP). Sometimes I suspect Aunt Polly is not so dumb as she pretends to be. At any rate she gets some droll touches on her medical stories. Probably the news of the royal home from a party. Polly cabled “Mary confined palace today quote very slight cold unquote.” The fore- man of the assembly plant at this end might have worked in a paragraph or two referring vaguely to the damp- ness of the fog and the depressing effect of the unusually cold autumn in London this season, but just then some fine leg pictures came along and he let it go. It was only a week-day story anyhow. T have so much faith in the Queen's nobility of character that I like to think there was more to the story than Aunt Polly thought worth cabl- ing. Something like this: “Queen Mary feels that it is the duty of one in such circumstance to remain isolated so that one will not spread the infection to other For after all it does not seem con- sistent that Her Majesty should be so plumb contrary about that dowdy old hat of hers, yet meekly remain in- doors just for a “very slight” indis- position. No, I'm offering odds that the Queen was unselfish, thoughtful for the health and safety of others, trying in her always gracious way to set a good example for her subjects. Even if Aunt Polly got the story all straight—which would be extraordi- nary in the case of a medical story—I would not put it past her to omit por- tions which do not quite fit in with Polly's personal notions, and from bombing planes could reach any point! along the St. Lawrence river from the | security of their own inland hangars/| within anywhere from a few minutes, to a couple of hours. | Neither has it occurred to the sen-| ator that if the deep waterway is of | such vast importance to Britain from; the military standpoint, she can build her own canals and locks without asking our permission. If she pre- fers not to take chances on the in- ternational section of the river she can build an all-Canadian system by way of the Georgian bay and the Ottawa, which looks like a foolish thing, but which some Canadians of the objections which are presented strengthens the conviction that the treaty ought to be ratified. The famous cathedral of Exeter, England, is celebrating its 800th an- + construction of the cathe- long acquaintance with Polly I know how little patience she has-with new fangled ideas about health or hygiene. T’ve known Polly to turn in columns about some undertakers who threat- ened to keep their high hats on at. the services in the graveyard when the weather seemed inclement. To Polly humor of that sort is not funny at all. ills were ‘kept busy at to 70. years ago by the , Ammonoosuc, tis. Overuse of voice in bad air, and the patient's own had hygiene, are the chief factors of clergyman’s sore PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Si letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease igned pe! be made to queries not conforming to Dr. William Brady, I do hope the Queen will get away» (Copyright 1934, John F. Dille Co.) by Dr. Brady if a stamped, Letters should be brief and written instructions. in care of this throat. But those enlarged “glands” suggest some septic source of trouble. Guide to Right Eating Have you published a book on diet? If so we'd like to have it in our li-| brary. (C. A. E.) Answer—No, but I have a pamphlet under this name which I am glad to mail to any reader who sends 10 cents and a stamped addressed envelope. | Ask for “Guide to Right Eating.” { The NewDeal Washington Clear the Way for NEC, New Mystery Machine . . . Doughboys to Wonder Emma Budget Pian Flops Fast. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘Washington, Jan. 23—NEC—the ad- ministration’s mystery machine — is about to make its debut. ‘This National Emergency Council, under Executive Director Frank ©. ‘Walker, will gather its 48 state direc- tors here for a planning session and ‘here'll be some indication of the ex- tent to which it means to use its enor- mous powers in early phases of opera- tien. Names of the directors weren't an- nounced as they were chosen, but President Roosevelt took great inter- est in their selection and you can be sure there'll be plenty of his personal friends in the group. Announced purpose of NEC was to take over and co-ordinate all volun- the United States for 90 days, They're afraid she'll forget her Promise to avoid political speeches, and, although admitting that the walls. of our institutions might not then, come tumbiing down, they fear pub- lic criticism of themselevs. Anyway, they're all set to bounce! Emma back to Canada the moment, she goes off the reservat think the department was created solely to keep her out of the United. States, Pressure from a large committee of New York liberals preceded sion for her return. Many cluding Eugene O'Neill and Sherwood. Anderon, wrote here in her behalf. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes of New York, though differeing in po- litical beliefs, described ber as a “great, hervic, and devoted woman,” and said he wanted her to occupy his prtlpit some Sunday morning. A FAST FLOP Every so often—an@& oftener—an important new policy is announced which promptly has to be reversed be- cause it won't work. The latest one ‘was President Roosevelt's order plac- ing control of all emergency expendi- tures under Director of the Budget Lewis Douglas. PWA, CWA, AAA, FERA, and a 10% of other agencies suddenly seemed in danger of being forced to close. Scrutiny and approval of all items by the Budget Bureau would slow them down enough virtually to wreck them. .|Anyway, that was the story Adminis- istrator Ickes of PWA, Administrator Hopkins of FERA, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell told Roose- velt. So the order was withdrawn quick- Jv, to the horror of conservatives. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) rire ~-sGurr eeemee, : Barbs | etrennaneiernerrerecreerst ee i “The nation is headed for disaster unless the brakes are applied,” cries Senator Robinson of Indiana. The senator's first name is Arthur, and his middle nape Pig Van Winkle.”' * Civilization started 70 centuries | | | teer emergency field agencies, as well as ® recovery program infor mstion service for citizens. But the executive order creating it weve it power to take over all the New ‘eal emergency agencies and the pur- pose of that provision still causes ex- cited speculation here. Regardless of what may come later, co-ordination and information will be NEC's first jobs. Many regional offices will be estab- lished under state directors, to guide or replace the committee work. CHEESE FOR DOUGHBOYS Patient ease ce, ein etiane y" So sane more cheese in thel The answer is that the dairy in- terests lobbied the War Depart- ment into buying 1,000,000 pounds for rations. 5 Soft food. 11 Meadow. 12 Form of “be.” 13 Like ale. 14 Thick slice. 16 Shelter place. 16 One that sues. (8 He was the founder of modern ——. 19 Fame. 21 Growing out. 24 Uncloses. 25 Pertaining to 37 He was a —— in England (ph), 44Genus of sumac shrubs, 46 Expectations. 47 An ascetic. 49 Sol. 50 To belong. 62 Varnish’ in- ARS Re le [a GY | SNe monetary ones are but by-products, Moseley, commander of the Fifth eee ‘There ought to be a school where ‘women are taught how to be reason- ably selfish—Mary Pickford. Hockey Mix Started By Contract-Jumper St. Paul, Jan. 23.—(P)—A much- delayed showdown on the contract- jumping case of Oscar Hanson, cen- ter ice star, from the St. Paul club to Oklahoma City of the American Hockey association was demanded Tuesday by owners of the Saints, who asked of the Calder, president National Hockey League, to suspend the association’s affiliation with the national circuit. writers, in- | C® sociation club owners to consider the Hanson dispute. Robinson High Girls Team Wins and Loses (Tribune Special Service) Robinson, Jan. 23.—The Robinson sirls basketball team, after winning 14One who goes shopping. 17 Minerals. 19 Those who accumulate. 20To require. 22 Blackbirds of the cuckoo family. 23 He was an —— theorist. 29 Ye. 30 Owns. 33 Dower property: 35 Eye tumor. 37 Sixth month. Genus of ostriches. 39 fate. 40 Suitable. VERTICAL 2 Every. 3 Causes. 4 Works. 5 Sanskrit dia- lect. 6 Region. 7To pare. 8 One who cel- ebrates mass. College CRATE TNE PNT NE eae enn acer imoendiasSnnamaneee aE BE Pt eee 5 a 3 ae Tena il iy i ix I 4 i { ge te 3 I ig ac aEeey pegt a Berg FES F i i 2B j HOT FIGHT LONG yell arose, It was taken) -% up and echoed by those below.' The Klosohees at the lean-to’s| weized their weapons and sprang to cover in a rocky ravine three rods to their left, LeNoir started to follow them. Paul's bullet caught him and sent him rolling. He staggered to his feet again. As Paul drew another bead on him, two of the Klosohees leaped out and g abbed his arms and helped him toward the gully. It was so courageous an act that Paul’ refused to shoot again for fear of Killing those two. Down the shore Siam-Klale had swerved his cance in toward the bank when the yell went up. Paul swung on him and emptied his rifle, but the range was far too long even for Paul. Splashing through the stallows, Siam-Klale dived out of sight into a juniper clump. At the cabin Karakhan appeared in the doorway to see what the com- motion was about. Curt whipped up is rifle and shot. His bullet splin- tered the door frame, and sent the Cossack jumping back inside. After that first pandemonium a. silence fell. Curt saw nothing, heard nothing. The advantage of surprise was gone, tiey were thrown on the defensive; and now they were up against overwhelming odds, in a timber fight where the Klosohees were deadly. Tenn-Og pointed down at the ra- vine. Siam-Klale and the ‘breed had got their men in hand and were bringing them up the deep brushy gully. “We'd better get back to the cave,” Paul warned. Curt shook his head. If they did, the Klosohees would keep them penned up in there for hours. Karak- kan would escape. Sonya would be taken away. He hung on grimly, waiting for a break. Without warning, an arrow ‘burned into the tangle and pinned his jacket sleeve to the log he was lying against. It came not from level range but from above. He turned, looked up at the cliff. In a clump of buckbrush on top of the rock a bush swayed, a man’s head and shoulders appeared for an instant. It dawned on him that the Klo- sohees had out-maneuvered and cor- nered them. While part of the band ‘was coming slowly up the ravine, the others had circled out the slope and up on top of the cliff, He jerked up his rifle and shot at. the buckbrush clump, A man leaped up, staggering blindly, took a step or two, plunged over the lip of the Tock, struck once against the face of the cifff as he fell, and hit with a heavy thud on the boulders beneath. Almost at that same instant a third arrow came hurtling down at Curt and hit the bolt of his rifle. De- flected downward, it struck his right hand that gripped the trigger guard, and sheared off his ring finger like a razoredged chisel. He lifted his hand and stared blankly at the wound, unable to realize that his finger had been cut off, till the blood | 5°. started spurting and darts of pain shot up his arm, zing down from the cliff-top like a tiny cartwheel, caromed off a| Doulder, glanced sidewise, ‘and| smashed Paul across the forehead. His rifle dropped from his hands, he| ae ne Aad SOR cee aepnes a ge sete feeked Pidgin, the simplest language in the "lworld and used in Chinese treaty ports, has been urged as an interna- tional language. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: U.S. PAT. OFF. People seeking to be in the social swim sometimes get in deep water ge But they reached the foot of the cliff, hit into the trail and dashed out along it to the cave mouth, “Get on back!” Curt cried to Tenn-Og, who had halted in the en- trance. “We can’t hold ‘em off. All hell can’t stop ‘em!” They hurried Paul back to the bridge, and between them they got him across the logs to the cave. Curt whirled to pull the logs down and stop the Klosohees. In half a minute they would be pouring inside to fin- ish off their wounded enemies. Neither he nor Paul could put up any fight, But as he stooped down and grasped the log ends, he thought of the consequences—the three of them cooped up in there for hours, Karakhan escaping, Sonya being snatched away and hidden. It was this last thought that stopped him. He could not sacrifice her in order to save himself. He straightened up. “Tenn-Og! Take the lead. Get us out to that ledge opening.” The Indian seized his hand and started away into the inky black- ness. The next few minutes were a blind and aimless groping. Then on hands and knees they squeezed through a slit in the rock and came out on the ledge near the fissure. Curt grasped a bush, leaned out atid glanced back along the face of the cliff to the cave mouth. The ferns and dwarf birches hanging against the rock obscured his view, but he saw enough to know that most of the Klosohees had swept on inside, Only three or four men re- mained at the entrance. He drew back. “They’re in the cave, looking for us. Paul, stay here. You're too wabbly. Tenn-Og and I'll try to trap ’em.” ‘HEY scrambled into the fissure and down to the game trail, and headed back to the cave mouth. With automatic drawn Curt rounded a jut and ran headlong into LeNoir, Siam-Klale and a third man, The ‘breed saw him first, and grabbed with his felt hand for his belt-gun; but Curt’s automatic cut: him down and he toppled over, shot cleanly through the heart, With a hoarse cry Tenn-Og sprang past Curt and flung himself bodily at the other two. The third man stabbed at him with a spear and tore the flesh in his arm. Tenn- Og grabbed the weapon, wrenched it away, and whirled on Siam-Klale. Tenn-Og’s arm went back, his: body tautened like a steel spring, he lunged forward and drove the spear! home with all the ‘orce of his long-! cherished hate. The point struck! Siam-Klale square in the breast. He! tried to grapple with Tenn-Og, but! his arms went limp, he staggered! and fell backwards, and went roll- ing down the slope till he fetched up against a tree. The third man dived like a scared’ marmot into the cave. Curt smashed him with the butt of his automatic, and reached the log. Bracing his foot to keep himself from toppling, he lifted the logs, swung, and let’ ‘When he got baci: outside he saw Tenn-Og standing down the slope, staring at Siam-Klale’s body as though the end of his vengeance had left him dazed. Pav! was stumbling. along the game trial toward them, his face so covered witb blood that he was hardly recognizable. “But how... You can't him!” “T've got to! I will!” oe Ho plunged down the slope, passed the cabin without checking himself or even looking at it, till ft sickened him; he breathed gulps, and every stride jolted a pd trom his lips; but he shut his eyes against the pain and ran on, (Copyright, William B. Mowery) — aly Mondays ttl taken t0 the