The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1935, Page 4

i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper i THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER oo (Established 1873) t State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- Bismarck , N. D., and entered at the postoffice at second class mail matter. aera D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Daily by mail, per year (in Bismai Daily by mail, per year (in state oul Bismarck) ...... Daily by mail outside ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year ‘Weekly by mail outside of North year . ‘Weekly by Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 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 newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are algo reserved. Inspiration for Today It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.—Psalms 118:8. ‘We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection—Is not this sad?—Madame Deluzy. And Quite Right, Too Commenting on the experiences of the Farmers Union committee in Washington, the Farmers Union Herald asserts that its mem- bers are learning “what a task it is to get con- gressmen and senators to agree on anything ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER i] har No. 2,000,000 Stirs Capital, But Poor 1,999,999 Goes Insung ... Garner Finds Wisdom in Being Dumb .«. Joe the Poultry Man Discovers He’s Really Up In World... F. R.’s Match Trick Is Clever One. eee Washington, May 14—You might say that one of 2,000,000th patent issued by the Patent Office received 80 much more publicity than the 1,999,999th patent, which in fact attracted no attention at all. Patent No. 1,999,999 came so very near being Patent No, 2,000,000 that the sheer pity of it is quite obvious even to those who are sometimes a bit hard-boiled abcut such things. Especially when you learn that Patent No. 1,999,999 is for Benzanthrone Selenoethers. This has nothing to do with the “invisible panties,” which have just become ® hot NRA issue. To quote from the patent itself: “Bzl-halogen-benzanthrones are treated with alkali selenides or polyselenides in aqueous alcoholic suspen- sion, "By that process, Bzl-benzanthrone-alkali-metal- selenolates are found as intermediate products of the reaction...” The widely publicized Patent No. 2,000,000 was grant- ed to Joseph Ledwinka of Philadelphia, who has been successfully inventing for many years, for a pneumatic Tubber railroad tire chiefly distinguished for safety de- vices calculated to keep cars from bouncing off the rails. eee 'TISN’T A DEEP PLOT Patent office officials deny that No. 2,000,000 was fixed to land on that one just so it wouldn’t light on something like Benzanthrone Selenoethers. But every Tuesday they grant a batch of maybe a thousand patents and for weeks there'd been an atmos- STILL NOT SO DUMB Came a distinguished group of Buffalonians headed by Mayor Zimmermann and one of the things it wanted was Vice President Jack Garner's Promise to go to Buffalo and make a speech. Garner explained that he never spoke public- ly, lest he be considered as speaking for the ad- ministration. He summed up his position thus: “It’s better to be dumb!” with the exception of what they think is po- litically good for themselves. These law-mak- ers are thinking more about the elections in 1986 than they are the good of the people.” To some this may seem a cynical view, but the average individual will not regard it as far-fetched. In fact, this tendency toward phere of suppressed excitement around the place as the drew nearer and nearer to No. 2,000,000. ou remember, of course, that Patent No. 1,500,000 in 1924 was for Simon Lake's submarine designed for navigation under the polar ice—which never proved very Popular—and that No. 1,000,000 in 1911 was for a strong- er automobile tire. No, 1,999,999 was granted to ‘Melvin A. Perkins of Mil- waukee and turns out to be a vat dyestuff of greenish blue which is only one of a long series of such dyes pat- back-scratching and log-rolling is doing fully as much to unsettle the country and retard its ad- vance as any other influence. There is no doubt that many a good pro- posal has been defeated because congressmen and senators looked first to their own inter- ests, put the welfare of the people in second place. Many poor laws have been enacted for the same reason. The remedies for this situation are not im- mediately clear. The electorate, in choosing its representatives, is forced to select between two or more candidates of whom anyone may be as good—or as bad—as the other. Occupied with his own personal affairs, the average voter is likely to take hearsay for performance or to let his choice be influenced by the mouthings of' politicians. Various devices to put burrs under congres- sional saddles have been suggested, chief among them being proposals to make the jobs less attractive (and therefore less worth keep- ing) by cutting the salary, or by limiting the tenure in office. Both have their strong points, particularly that one about salaries, but each method would require changes in the basic law, such as putting an initiative and referendum clause in the constitution, If congress, and particularly the senate, doesn’t “snap out of it” before long there is more than a little probability that the demand for such exercise of direct public control will become much stronger than it is now. With it might properly come the “advisory referendum” proposed by Secretary Wallace as a device to make it more difficult for congress- men and representatives to mis-represent their constituents as so often is the case now. Wheat and Nationalism How an upsurge of nationalism affects the economy of peoples far removed from the scene of such action is vividly illustrated by the Chicago Board of Trade’s ana- lysis of changes in the world wheat situation during the last few years. Time was—and not so long ago—when the markets of the world were open to our grain. England, France,| 8nd Italy and Germany had not adopted high-pressure meth- ods of farming and it suited them to import American ‘wheat, send us manufactured goods in return. ‘Then came an increase in our industrially produc- tive facilities as well as in theirs, about half of the “war” debt having been loaned abroad to effect re- habilitation. Next came a succession of burdensome or prohibitory tariffs, and finally there developed in every nation the ‘urge to make it self-sufficient in so far. as possible. ‘When men think of food they think of bread, and when they think of bread they think of wheat. Nothing ‘was more natural than that they should attempt to step up their grain production, All of them had the urge at the same time and for the same reason. Campaigns were launched to inspire Zarmers. Propaganda agencies were organized to carry ‘on the effort. As a result, according to the board of trade figures, France jumped wheat production from 228,000,000 bushels. An 1930 to 362,000,000 in 1933. The British Isles increased wheat productibn from 38,000,000 to 170,000,000. Italy went from 210,000,000 to 298,000,000, Germany from 123,- 900,000 to 206,000,000. Russia, the greatest wheat-producing nation in the ‘world, hammered away at the five-year plan, of which ‘wheat was an important part, and enjoyed in 1933 the second-largest wheat crop ever reported in any country. It produced 1,019,000,000 bushels. The only other wheat top above a billion bushels was that produced in the ‘United States in 1915 when we threshed 1,025,801,000 _ ‘The result of these changes was that France shifted from an importing to an exporting wheat nation, All of the others became self-supporting or nearly so, Was it any wonder that America, blindly hoping to export on = normal basis, saw wheat prices sink to the lowest point in history. Incidentally, those who blather about revival of our export markets might explain in detail just how they ex- pect to win the cooperation of Messrs. Hitler and Mus- solini and the farmers of France and England, It is a "pre-requisite to settlement of our wheat problem by hg " ented by Mr. Perkins. Neither Mr. Ledwinka nor Mr, Perkins will become wealthy through his latest invention. They work respec- tively for the du Pont and Budd Manufacturlug com- panies, which now own Patent No. 2,000,000 and Patent No. 1,999,999. gc JOE’S REALLY UP IN WORLD Mr. Joe Schechter, the chicken magnate who is the chief defendant in the big NRA test case now being studied by the supreme court, is something of a card. Long ago Poultry Code Administrator Leroy Peter- son telephoned him in New York and said: “Joe, you're violating the code!” “I know I am,” said Joe, “and I'm going to keep right on violating it.” So the mills of justice began to grind and just the other day Schechter and Peterson met in the corridor outside the supreme court, where a throng of New Deal lawyers, NRA officials, correspondents and others were milling around more or less excitedly. They agreed they never could have imagined what would come out of that telephone conversation and the poultry man philosophized rather proudly: “Eighteen years ago it was the United States of America versus Germany. “Today it's the United States of Amerita versus Joe Schechter!” eee A CLEVER TOUCH Previously unrecorded item of the celebrated Roose- velt charm: The president usually insists on lighting a visitor's cigaret or cigar, which ordinarily makes a hit «.. Justice Brandeis, who yearly takes a recommended graduate from Harvard Law School to serve 12 months as his secretary, has broken precedent by inviting the present man, Allen M. Strook, to stay for a second year. He likes Strook’s ability and humor. ... Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas has a letter from a female constituent bce at rs She says she is the widow of the Soldier. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) E With Other DITORS A New Deal for Fishermen (Charleston, 8, C., News Courier) Between the gloomy forecasts of retail meat dealers and the cheerful blurbs of the recently Reprinted to show what they say. We may or not witl them. a Fi BL ais Gletiesy if i re Fas i EEE i & g H 5 g Lil af silat § iu pic! round off their form. see their tions would Ee ae Columbia professor says spinach has been overly glorified as a vitamin source, and encourages youngsters to -pass it up. Young Americans have probably filed his name for reference when they come of voting ege. ) the manifest injustices of the New Deal was that the Ain’t Science Wonderful? : | THIS 1S ‘RADIO, WHICH ENABLES A SINGLE SPBAKER TO FORM OPINIONS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, OVERNIGHT —— OLITICS - at the - NATION’S CAPITOL —————————————————— By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington—Like its two immed- iate predecessors, the Roosevelt ad- ministration’s influence with congress on soldiers’ bonus legislation has' question. The reason is that the soldier vote to a vast majority of the national leg- islators constitutes what may be called ® major minority grouping in their own constituencies, Yet an analysis of what has hap- pened at the polls to both senators ‘and representatives who have opposed the will of the soldier vote at any They may have tried in specific cases; they have have been success- ful at times. Yet too many other factors are involved to attempt any explanation of changes which have occurred in congress since the bonus fight started, to trace veteran influ- ence definitely. Records of bonus votes in congress kept religiously by the American Legion national legislative commit- tee since the original bonus act was in 1924 provide interesting ion. to 26; the latter 313 to 78. senators who voted president then, 23 still . Of the 26 who voted ident, four still are 66 of the 313 who 2 Nemesis of criminals, MOPED AIRIE|AIS MEA TIE INIO BRIA | EINIOMEBIAIT| RIE MEOIAIM IE JOIN] AIRTS} WIAIRID | ETT INTE Barats 17 Flower, 18 Poplar. {9 Branches. 20 Pitcher. 21 Relating to a node. (I lat 48 Moon valley. 49 Melody. 50 Coat of mail. 55 Type of tumor. 56 He's in bureau of —, U. Dept. of Justice. VERTICAL 1He is —— of greaser. 35 Sawlike organ. 36 One that rakes $7 Form of iron. 38 Low rich land. CSN PIAINIDIE RISE TIE AMET TILE ie) OF GOVERNMENIT, ANID MAKING (T PRACTICALLY UNNECESSARY FOR ANYBODY To DO ANY voted to override the veto in 1924 still hold their seats, while 18 of the 78 who sided with Coolidge also still are here. Of this latter group one rules the house as Speaker and the other serves as Republican floor leader. Incidentally, 10 of those who sup- Ported the bonus in 1924 over a presi- dential veto are now members of the senate. One of the 10 is the vice president. Conversely, one senator who in 1924 voted to sustain the president is now a member of the house. * * % OTHER CAUSES On the face of these figures it would seem a vote against the bonus is politically us. Yet so many other factors enter into the picture as to leave such a belief untenable. The turnover in personnel in both houses can be traced to causes far removed from the bonus issue. For example, the Democrats cap- tured control of the house in 1930; in the Roosevelt sweep of 1932 they wrested complete control of the gov- ernment from the Republicans, re- ducing the numerical strength of the latter to a new low, and in 1934 the Democratic sweep was so complete as to almost decimate the ranks of G. Oo. P. Nevertheless, despite all this, there’s no’ removing the notion from the minds of some senators and repre- sentatives that if they go contrary to the veterans’ will they are inviting the Political guillotine. GY I know what I would have done long ago. I would have come back to face the music. But I hope his wife succeeds. I should like to see my son again—Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, mother of war-time “slacker.” * * OK The de ’s hypocritical cry of “divide the wealth” if followed would take away incentive not only of fu- his men. 13 To plant. 16 Wine vessel. 23 Ferrybéats. 25 Untidier. 27 Inlet. 28 Kind. 29 Honey gatherer, 31 To secure. 32 Before. 33 Form of “I 38 Tea. 39 Pertaining to air. 40 Shower. 41 Slovak. 43 Tanning pod. 44 Hodgepodge. 45 Tribal group. 46 Female fowl. . 50 Like. 51 Right. 52 Musical note. 53Giant king of Bashan. 54 Sun god. TOUT DIE TANF] IRIS MEL IE IAIN) (RIAL TSTE IRI his bureau. 2 Otherwise. 3 Elk. 4 Pincapple. 5 Automat 6 To tal 1 Jars. 8 Doge's medal. Sins. 10 Genuine. 11—s fear ‘ai Nii SSN PH ture progress, but also of further pro- duction—Irenee du Pont. eee It’s not the Republican party that’s dead, but the old Democratic party —knifed in the back by the New Deal.—Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York, nk t The criterion of decency is fixed by time, place, geography, and all the elements that make for a constantly changing world. A practice regard- ed as decent in one period may be in- decent in another—Magistrate J. J. Goldstein of New York. BEGIN HERE TODAY MILLICENT GRAVES, ceeretary te GEORGE DRIMGOLD, finds ber empleyer in his effice dend. JARVIS HAPP, a stranger, offers te help ber. He sends her to a beasty shop where she ts transformed (ate a brunet, then takes her home, introducing her as hie ceeretary. She meets Happ’s con, NORMAN; his step- eon, ROBERT CAISE; MRS. APP: DICK GENTRY, Happ’s partner; VERA DUCHENE, Mrs. Happ’s maid. if apps home Millicent sees the mysterious “woman in black ermine” whem the believes has seme connection with Drimgelé’s death. ear driven by the woman/ia er- mine belongs te PHYLLIS FAUL- CONER. They ge to her apart- MBLLICENT’s scream was swal- lowed up in the vast empti- tess of the dark concrete room with its parked automobiles, gloomy, sinister and silent, as sole witness to that which was taking place. The man’s hand that had clutched her shoulder held her in a vice-iike grip. She screamed again, clawed at the man’s wrist. As well have tried to claw at one of the concrete supports of the big garage. She tried to bite but could not get her teeth around far enough to catch the wrist. She felt the man's other hand clamp about her own wrist, suddenly felt the bite of stee) and heard the ominous click of handcuffs, “You're under arrest, Phyllis Favlconer,” a man’s voice said, “and anything you say will be used against you.” Half an hour before the sound of the voice would bave filled Milli- cent with dread. Now she gave & quick gasp of relief. The voice was that of Detective Buchanan. She whirled around in the seat. “You!” she exclaimed. Detective Buchanan moved with deft skill, pinioned her other wrist, snapped the other wristlet of steel about it. “It happens,” he said, “that I'm Detective Buchanan from headquar- ters. {I've been trailing you for some little time, Let’s have a look at you and see if you're the same person I think you are.” Her eyes were blinded by the sudden glitter of a flashlight. She heard Buchanan's exclamation. “Good heavens!” be said, “So ——ees Your Personal Health By William Dr. Brady will answer ease or diagnosis, Write Brady in care of The Tribuni & stamped, self-addressed en who instructed her became well in @ short time. questions pertainin ers briefly an All queries must be accompanied by Brady, M. D. to health but not dis- in ink, Address Dr. Before I printed the item I tried to elicit further information from the correspondent, but In animals such tion of vitamin G. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) -C% DARK BLOND you're Phyllis Faulconer!” “No I'm not.” HE laughed sarcastically and said, “You can do a lot of-explain- ing, young lady, before you talk yourself out of thie mess, I knew for quite a while that Phyllis Faul- coner must be someone who had access to the Happ residence, but Tl admit that you certainly had me fooled. That trick of yours of giving Sergeant Mahoney the li- cense number of your own auto mobile was one of the cleverest dodges I have ever known in all my years of trailing crooks. You certainly pulled a fast one. “I suppose you thought he couldn't remember the license num- ber of the automobile, but that’s where he fooled you. He's trained himself to remember license num- bers. Later on he pretended that he'd only partially remembered the number, transposing the figures and asking questions of everyone 60 that the real owner would figure he was hot on the trail and try to dispose of the automobile or con- ceal it somewhere. “When he figured he had the trap sufficiently baited he made arrange- ments with the garage man to say nothing, but let me watch the car.” “No, no!” she said. “You're mak- ing a mistake. I swear I’m not Phyllis Faulconer. I'm trying to trail Miss Faulconer. I found out where she lives. I figured she must keep her car here. I made inquiries downstairs. You can prove it by the night man.” “T'm sorry,” he told her, “that I can’t believe you. Phyllis Faul- coner is a very mysterious person. She keeps her car here and main- tains an apartment at 3829 Baronne avenue. Onte or twice a month she takes her car out. No one seems to know very much about her or what she looks like.” “But I'm not Phyllis Faulconer. I can prove it to you. I tell you I’m trying to trail her, and Nor- man Happ has disappeared, and “What's that?” he asked sharply. “Norman Happ,” she said. “He's disappeared.” “Just what do you mean by that?” eee 6¢T-JB went up to try to cross-ques- tion Phyllis Faulconer in her apartment. I was with him—that is, I waited outside in the taxicab. I can take you to the cab driver and prove it. And something hap pened to Norman. The apartment was in an awful mess. There bad been a fight and there were blood “Yes.” ‘The detective gave a,low whistle and said, “You're telling me news, if it's true.” “But it is true. I can prove it— every word of it. The cab driver fg still waiting in front of the it house.” “Wait a minute,” Buchanan said slowly. “Norman Happ went to the apartment. You knew he was going. Is that right?” “Yes, of course. I went with him.” “Yes, I believe you told me that before. And you waited down in the taxicab while he went up to the apartment. Is that right?” “Yes.” He laughed significantly and said, “That simply clinches the case | against you. You're clever enough to have arranged it just that way while you telephoned your accom- plices to take care of Norman when he came to the apartment.” Millicent lost her temper. “As a detective,” she said, “you're @ frost! I love Norman Happ. I tell you I love him! I love the ground he walks on. I love every. hair of his head! If you want to know, Norman Happ asked me to marry him tonight and I was never so happy in my Iffe.” There was sudden doubt in De tective Buchanan's voice. “Asked you to marry him?” he inquired. . “Yes.” see PD Ptective BUCHANAN re mained silent for a moment while he seemed to be deliberating. Suddenly the beam of the flashlight moved down to the purse which lay in Millicent’s lap, “I'm just going to check wp on this story,” he said. “Go ahead,” she told him. He took the purse in his hands, snapped open the catch, let the beam of the flashlight play upon its contents while he said musing- ly, “Phyllis Faulconer—I wonder if your story is true. I hope ft fs. I wanted to believe you. I would have sworn that it was another who...” He took @ folded paper from her purse. “What's this?” he asked. Her eyes, blinded by the fiash ° light, failed to recognize the paper. She saw only the glitter of the light from a folded square of paper. “I don’t know what ft is,” she said. He unfolded the paper, and she would have given much to have re called her words, for suddenly she recognized it. At that moment Detective Bu- chanan gave a low, taunting laugh. “Oh,” he said, “so you don’t recog- nize it, eh?” She made some stammering at- tempt at speech, but Buchanan in- terrupted her, reading in a slow, mocking tone of voice the contents of the letter that she had taken from Phyllis Faulconer’s apart- ment. ‘When she had first seen that let- ter she hadn’t appreciated how utterly damaging it would be if found im her possession. Now, as she heard Buchanan’s voice making a damning accusation of every sen- tence, a black d ir engulfed her. “YOU'VE GOT TO DITCH THE CAR. SERGEANT MAHONEY HAS THE LICENSD NUMBER. HE’S GOT IT TWISTED BUT IT WON'T BE LONG UNTIL HE GETS THE RIGHT NUM- I TRIED TO GET A ME TOO CLOSELY AND I DON’T WANT THEM TO 8US- PECT YOU. SO FAR YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY ABOVE SUSPIC- Irs THE I'M GOING TO TAKB CARE OF HER. WHAT’S MORE, YM GOING TO GET THAT NOTEBOOK—THE ONE THAT CONTAINS DRIMGOLD’S CON- FESSION. THAT WILL CLEAN UP THE LAST PIECE OF EVI- DENCE. YOU DITCH THE CAR. LEAVE THE GIRL TO ME- BOB.” (To Be Continued)