The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1935, Page 6

a 6 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper . ehind the Scenes in Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER CONTINUED Legislative Body Considers Pleas ~ For New System Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @s second class mai] matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W Simons Secretary and T Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). “ Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year ...... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin vublished herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. | And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and | gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that both he that | soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. | —St. John 4:36, see Inspiration for Today I Work as though you would live forever; but live as though you would die today.—St. Edmund } of Canterbury. An Old Warning With the first snowfall of the year giving us the thrill of walking in a winter wonder- land, it becomes necessary again to call atten- tion to the danger of children coasting on city streets and the necessity of protecting them. | Sunday morning many a child could hardly | wait to eat breakfast before getting out his sled: and taking a slide. Perhaps, if the truth were known, even the grown folks were tempted. But on the hills designated for coasting no protecting signs have yet been erected. The city authorities know where these hills are. It is to be hoped that they waste no time in desig- nating as stop streets those which cross others on which children are coasting. SUB-| STANTIAL SIGNS SHOULD BE ERECTED SO THAT MOTORISTS CANNOT IGNORE THEM! It may be a little troublesome for automo- bile drivers but it is far better to trouble them endlessly than to have a crumpled little form gasping in pain in the hospital or lying lifeless in the morgue. This is a matter which will permit of no delay. It should be done at once. A Kind of Immortality Proof that Shakespeare's sage comment, “the evil a man does lives after him, the good is oft interred with his bones,” may be wrong is found in the habit of the | Future Farmers of America of naming chapters for those leaders in their communities who have given them en- couragement and assistance. Thus we find the chapter at New Salem named ‘for! John Christianson; that at New England for M. J. Con- | nolly and that at Ray for J. H. Shepperd. Farm lads in other parts of the state have shown a similar tendency. ‘The effect is to give at least partial recognition to/ the men who have quietly and year after year, worked | to build up their local communities and their state. Christianson, farmer, did much to establish dairy-| ing in the New Salem area, a move which has made it| somewhat immune to the ills which have beset other; agricultural areas in this state. i Connolly, a newspaper publisher, has done much to! stimulate activity in New England, make it one of the | few small towns which showed an increase in population | and business in the last census. | Shepperd is president of the state agricultural col-! Jege who has brought to that task sound common sense |G. = as well as the latest ideas in agricultural development. This distinction is of more moment, in some ways, than political preferment for it expresses the views of the neighbors who know these men best. The effect is to confer upon them a sort of immortality, for the prob- @bility is that this movement among farm boys and girls will endure long after most of us are gone and that their names will remain a guiding light to future generations. That Constitutional Issue It is a shame, in a way, that the issue of constitu- \ionalism already has dropped from view as a political question, although any intelligent observer of political uffairs knew that it would. For the presentation of such an issue served at least to concentrate attention on the nation’s fundamental document. Had it continued for long a considerable number of our people might even have been induced to read it. ‘The fact of the matter is that an intelligent reading of the constitution is in itself a liberal education. That and study of the background against which it was writ- ten will do much to acquaint anyone with the funda-| mentals of America and permit him to expose the deceits and shams of those who, for purely selfish or misguided reasons, seek to effect changes and those others who ‘would approve of no change whatever. Tt doesn't take much study, either of the document or of the conditions which prevailed when it was written, to realize that its fundamental strength Hes in its sin- cerity and its open-minded appraisal of the condition to be met. That same spirit serves to refute both those who nullify it by indirection or by radical amendment who oppose all change. ho takes an evening off to give this | presided. Scheduled those by H. O. Saxvik, Bismarck, ot NRA Isn't Total Loss; It’s Making Some Ammunition for . Borah . , . Hit ‘im Again, Is Plea to Lewis... Mules |SCh0ol finances; Walter M. Loome! Grand Forks, for the committee on a handbook for local chapters; J. |Frederick Weltzin, Grand Forks, on teacher tenure and George W. Han- na, Valley City, on necrology. Agitation for an active teacher as Just Seem to Be Part of Hugh Johnson's Life . Looks Like Great Season for the Gate Crashers. Washington, Nov. 6.—The mystery as to what NRA is doing may be considered partially solved. It's making campaign material for Senator Borah. | head of the organization was directed One may be neutral in the argument whether NRA’S/ at the fact that most of the associa- post-Schecter activity as a great research project—code) tion presidents have been school exec- histories, post-code studies, and whatnot—is valuable, or) utives, whether NRA 1s merely pawing through its own files to no particular purpose, To Probe School Finances | But the fact that NRA, which was instructed by law; The general question of schoo! fin- to prevent monopolies and has often been accused of} ances and the operation of the state fostering monopolies, is spending millions of dollars on|sales tax and equalization laws were business and post-mortem research without making any|slated for searching inquiry. study at all of monopoly has struck the few persons who) At the World War Memorial build- realize this as most bizarre. ing, Miss Rita Murphy and a staff of Several weeks ago a unit was organized to study the/ assistants were busy assigning visitors evils of monopoly, coercion of business, and predatory} to rooms in private homes, the hotels} competition. Its dozen lawyers and economists were told] peing unable to accommodate all who to find out whether codes had bred monopoly, whether | will attend. they had resulted in coercion, and whether the monopo-| Gov, Walter Welford, Dr. Morti- lists, coercers, and predatory competitors were now doing! mer Adler, University of Chicago law professor, and President Urness will their stuff without legal sanction. be the principal speakers at the first A owe RIGHT DOWN BORAH’S ALLEY general assembly which convenes at 7:30 p. m., at the City Auditorium. The unit has been summarily abolished, with the ex- planation that its work might irritate monopolists, co-| Dr. Adler, recognized leader in the ercers, and predatory competitors. The abolition is| progressive education movement, will traced to Maj. George Berry, one of NRA’s bosses, who|speak on “Progress in Progressive will have a convention of business men to get ideas as to|Education.” Dr. Adler is co-author new NRA legislation and apparently doesn’t want to hurt|of two books, “Diagrammatics” which he wrote fn collaboration with Maude anybody's feelings. Phelps Hutchins, and “Crime, Law and Social Science,” of which Prof. Jerome Michael is co-author. Fargo Man to Preside Urness will review the aims and progress of the association during the last year and the state's chief execu- tive will talk on the relation of the government to education. J. G. Moore of Fargo, past-president of the association and member of the ex- ecutive committee, will preside. A half-hour concert by the Juvenile band directed by Clarion Larson will open the program. Rev. Opie S. Rin- dahl, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church, will give the invocation. The second general assembly will Borah, in his fight to make monopoly a Re- publican issue, undoubtedly will make use of this quaint incident. Especially if he gets hold of reports of investigators who scratched surfaces for two weeks in New York, Philadelphia, New- ark, Hartford, and Boston before they were called off. Under direction of Thomas W. Holland, an attorney and ex-professor of economics at Rutgers, investigators went interviewing business men themselves as to prac- tices of competitors, customers, and corporations from whom they bought. ‘The business men proved eager to talk. Price-fixing, discriminatory prices, boycotts, monopolistic oppressions, and an infinite variety of other unfair methods, mostly in violation of anti-trust laws, were quickly turned up. Then Holland, submitting a three-month program tor such research, found his men hadn’t been supposed to # be contacting business men at all and that his unit must|be held Thursday morning at 9:30 a. disband at once. m, The program will open with So the business man’s own story of what he is up|umbers by a chorus of grade school against among his own kind will not be told. children under the direction of Miss ee Ruby Wilmot, teacher in the Bis- 0. K. ON LEWIS’ K. 0 marck schools. Rev. Walter E. Vater, pastor of the McCabe Methodist An hour after President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers had punched President William L. Hutcheson of the Carpenters’ Union at the A. F. of L. convention, the miners’ leader received a telegram from a member of the Car- | Weather Report penters’ Union in Kansas City, Mo. It simply said: “Sock him again.” WEATHER FORECAST aos oi For Bismarck and vicinity: Un- reports were} i Episcopal church, invocation. i Sectional Meetings Arrangea | Speakers will be Hon. Walter L. Stockwell of Fargo, speaking on “Is There a Way Out?”; Dr. D. A. Wor- cester, professor of educational psy- | chology and measurements, Univer- sity ‘of Nebraska, who will take “Teachers’ Mental Health,” as his jopic; and Dr. P. J. Everson, State ollege, Fargo, who will talk on “The Relation of the Public School to the Music Festival Movement.” Sectional meetings will occupy the delegates Thursday afternoon. All of these meetings will be held in the new high school building except the elementary section, which convenes in the junior high school auditorium, and the music section, which will meet in the city auditorium. Sectional meetings will be held in kindergar- ten-primary, secondary education, modern language, cloak room, Indian service, English, history, civics and social science, Indian school exhibits, school officers, home economics, in- dustrial arts, physical education, vis- ual education, conference room, geo- graphy, county superintendents, pen- manship, science and libraries. To Install New Head At Gospel Tabernacle Rev. Herman Johnson, who for more than two years has been pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle of Bis- marck, has been elected state super- intendent for North Dakota and will o'clock Wednesday night at the church, located at the corner of Elev- enth St. and Rosser avenue. The installation of Rev. R. E. Smith, former pastor of the Lake Gospel Tabernacle of Devils Lake, will be made at the same service. Rev. Smith is one of the state presbyters of the denomination. Rev. and Mrs. Smith are well known throughout North Dakota, having been stationed at Devils Lake for three years. During that time they gave many broadcasts over KFYR and also were heard over sta- tions located in Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, Minneapolis and Seattle, Wash. In taking charge of the tabernacle activities here, Rev. and Mrs. Smith announced their plan to launch a special campaign in the interests of the young people. In this connec- tion, an orchestra will be formed. Friends of Rev. Johnson and the general public are invited to attend the farewell and installation service. will pronounce “Ic ri NTINUE Committee Will Direct Rogers Memorial Drive famous opera singer, and George Ade, who comes closer to being Will’s rival as a humorist than any other man. Will's advice as Ade recalls it, was this: “My most amusing experience with him was at Orchestra Hall in Chicago at @ matinee performance. He learn- ed in some way that I was out in front and called me by name and later when his show was over and he was sitting on the edge of the stage with his legs hanging over, trading wise-cracks and small talk with the ladies in front, he spotted me when I arose to edge toward the door. I had been seated below a box in which Mary Garden had been # much- observed celebrity. “Will suddenly halted me and gave me a long-range introduction to Mary in the box above and she acknow- ledged the introduction graciously and then Will suggested to her that it would be a good idea for her, as a preach his farewell sermon at 8/UP to us to act on this grand sugges- confirmed old maid, to immediately have a conference with me, as a tougi: old bachelor, with the idea of getting married. He said we would make a dandy couple because I could work in the back room, writing my stuff, and Mary could close all the doors and do her vocal practicing at the other end of the house. He thought we were old enough to get married and it was tion at once. “Of course, the crowd shrieked with laughter and Mary Garden went into convulsions but I didn’t do anything but stand there and grin. “Usually when, I met Will Rogers we talked mostly about Jess Andrew, with whom Rogers was very friendly because of polo and horses, and Kit: Hubbard, the lovable and unforget- able ‘Abe Martin.’ “Rogers had a great liking for Kin and that can be understood because they were very much alike in their general attitude toward the human race. “By the way, one of the great things that Will Rogers did was to marry the charming and _ intelligent woman known as Mrs. Rogers. When I hap- pened to be with both of them he certainly did not conceal his attitude of deference to her and heg opinions." | etchant mete ‘The Australian bushman eats his| “Dr. Brady will answer ease or diagnosis. Write Brady in Tribune, | + Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ons, pertatnin briefly an otters Pgueries must be sccomp! care of & stamped, self-addressed envelope. to health but not dis- . Address Dr. in ink. Le A WHEAT BIN question: “white bread is with our own and reject as without another. the role of vitamins was known. It equivalent to bread made of (at least for many persons). AS & some and nutritious. whole wheat bread in nutrition. tions. Prof. H. C. Sherman, (Macmillan, New York): “In general it is only when monly and abundantly though probably less important G value.” In many homes these are to be met. and white bread is used from habit, a vitamin B shortage is inevitable. B, G and A. This is only one good flour as it is used from day to day. dog when it grows old and useless. (Copyright, 1935, w 4 nutrition authorities of a generatio! are seul earrent "AIDE the laity, assumed that refined white flour fairly representea wheat and constituted an adequate staff of life. er day an aggregation of old timers purporting to tell the and whai isn’t officially “accepted” this odd statement . wholesome ance for fear of any harmful consequences or cause of any diseased condition when properly used in the normal diet, is entirely without scientific foundation.” 1 think we doctors regard as “scientific” those ideas which coincide whole wheat the balanced proportions of fat, protein tests on men under control is ‘Hindhede. tee emit or expert in America can successfully controvert his Cryined Indeed, no one here has made any actual tests to substantiate the assumption that white bread is as adequate as one of the foremost nutrition country, makes this remark in his book not properly supplemented with milk, molelats ‘and nutrition authorities agree it must be if the needs of the body In ordinary cooking where the water in whi fruits is cooked is drained off and thrown away, vitamin B in these foods is discarded. * It is my own belief that a large part of the population, irrespective of economic status, suffers from a partial deficiency of vitamins, ¥ HOME IN EVER n ago, whose ideas Only the oth- public what’s what in reference to the . nutritious . . . its avoid- the fear that it is the such foundation any new ideas which we do not get or ideas which we reluct to acknowledge for one reason oF ‘The elders conceived their opinions and formulated them long before is true that white bread is practically meal in ‘calories or fuel value, in and carbohydrate material, in taste white bread eater I agree it is whole- But frankly we must admit that it is inferior to itrition ‘One authority who has definitely proved No physiologist or nutri- whole wheat meal bread. authorities in this “Chemistry of Food and Nutrition” too large a proportion of on trae aie taken in the form of artificially refined foods that there langer 0! : deficiency of vitamin B; but, since artificially refined foods are so com: used by people of all economic conditions in nearly 5 vitamin B value of a food may be of practical interest, SravaguiEroURbIy as than is the vitamin A, vitamin C or vitamin days bread is the mainstay and too often it is butter, eggs or cheese, as ALL phy- Referring to Sherman's view, if bread 1s the mainstay in the diet, choice or availability, then artificially refined food supplies the greater proportion of the calories in the diet, and h the vegetables, cereals or particularly reason why there should be a wheat bin in every kitchen and a suitable mill or grinder for preparing meal or John F. Dille Co.) BEGIN HERE TODAY JEAN DUNN, pretty, 21, ts sec- by Robert Bruce © 1935 NEA Service, Ine Larry continued to look about @ considerable part of the — HUGH “RUNS TO” MULES Some who believe General Johnson is trying to de- your the Democratic donkey (whether he means to or; not) recall that Johnson was sponsored for West Point 35 years ago by an Oklahoma politician known as “Eat-/ a-Mule” Callahan. | Callahan was a Populist and was elected on a Popu- list-Democratic ticket as territorial delegate to congress. The big issue was free land for settlers and Callahan ran for office promising that if he didn’t get free land he would “eat a mule.” So when Callahan didn’t get a free land bill through and came to the political convention ex- pecting to be renominated, some of the boys killed and barbecued a mule and served it up to him, Then they laughed Callahan out of the renomination and named Dennis Flynn, who later got free land for them. Meanwhile, young Mr. Johnson was safe at West Point. cee GRAND SCRAMBLE ON Opening of the diplomatic social season indicated a big year for the gate crashers. “My God! Where did some of these people come from?” exclaimed Counselor-of-Legation Joseph Neme- cek as about a hundred uninvited guests flocked in with several hundred others at the Czecho-Slovakian inde- and drink at a big party celebrating the anniversary of the Turkish republic. Not forgetting a fat lady who waded through and pointed to a big roast turkey, bel- alse southern states. lowing: “I want some of that beef!” (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, +Inc.) With Other Reprinted to {o] | show. what | | re | Boctbee eu Rocky Mountain slope an 2 settled tonight and Thursday; warm- night east of Divide. night and Thursday, probably light local snows or rain; rising tempera- ture tonight and in extreme Thursday. over Prince Albert, 29.68, while high pres- | sure areas overlie the lower ; Lakes region, Chicago, 30.34, and over pendence celebration. itl Nearly as many others, or perhaps including many | 30.46. of the same, raided the Turkish embassy for free food |curred from the weather is generally fair in the cen- er tonig) cold- er_Thursda: For North Da- kota: Unsettled tonight and Thursday; warm- er central and east tonight; omewhat colder Thursday west. For South Da- kota: Mostly clou- dy tonight and Thursday; slight- ly warmer ex- treme southeast tonight. Z Unsettled tonight somewhat colder to- For Minnesota: Mostly cloudy to- east | WEATHER CONDITIONS A low pressure area is centered | Saskatchewan and _ Alberta, | Great he far western states, Winnemucca, Light precipitation has oc- ie upper Great Lakes egion northwestward to Alberta, The Tempera- rose considerably along the in the Dakotas, . Bismarck station barometer. inches: | 8.07. Reduced to sea level, 29.92. Sunrise today 7:33 a. m. Sunset today 5:20 p. m. | Chey any. __ PRECIPITATION We may or For Bismarck Station: DI | may not |[|Total this month to date 32) agree with {Normal, this month to date 10 them. Total, January Ist to date .... 16.72 = a) Normal, January ist to date aa The Easiest Way Out (Minneapolis Tribune) far Jimmy Walker was reported to be fable toward his } |Accumulated excess to date . NORTH DAKOTA WEATHER | When Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt told a Chicago fan Pet. audience on Friday night that the first and most prac-| BISMARCK, cldy. . 26 «OL | tical step that the nations of the world could take toward|Devils Lake, cldy. . 14 (01 peace would be to nationalize the munition industry,| Williston, cldy. . 30.02 she voiced an opinion that many share. After making| Jamestown, clear aT) “this business of war supplies a government business|GT@nd Forks, cldy. 17 OL} only,” Mrs. Roosevelt felt that we would be able to get | Valley City, clear . 20 .00/ FOmERD Se with disarmament conferences, Until that|Minot, peldy. .. 20 00) is done, however, she wi winced ti ee Fe ceasinplished, “ne Was convinced that not much would) Weapuer AT OTHER POINTS | Whether governments that make their own guns seg would be any more anxious to discard them than those| amarillo, Tex.. clear .. 30 58 .00 who do not is open to question. The importance that is|Boise, Idaho, clear .... 20 30 .00 made to attach to the private munition industry as a/Calgary, Alta., cidy. .. 34 42 00 cause of war overshadows all other factors in the minds|Chicago, Ill, peldy. .. 24 40 .00 of some people. This was clearly evident in the last ses-|Denver, Colo. peldy. .. 26 52 .00 sion of congress where the neutrality. law was looked opie pe peley, a om a upon by many as a punitive measure directed against|Pontonton”’ Alte” nay, 3 a the munitions industry. Admitting that munition makers| Havre, Mon| "36 38 00 are not, as a general rule, illustrious pacifists, the fact|Helena, Mont., cl 38 4200 remains that they play only a relatively minor part in|Huron, S. D., cldy. 18 36° 00 fomenting war. Granting that it might be desirable to| Kamloops, B. C., cldy 34 4000 make the manufacture of munitions a government|ansas City, Mo. clear 30 44 00) monopoly, this single step would still leave the essential |105 Angeles, Cal. clear 52° 74 00 problems of maintaining world peace far from solved. | Minneapolis, Mo snow. 12 26 02 The manufacture of munitions, furthermore, supplies} Modena, Utah, clear .. 14 44 .00 only one of the many resources necessary to carry on a} Moorhead, Minn., cldy. 4 18 .04 war. Since the United States has begun to experiment) No. Platte, Neb., cldy. . 32 48 .00 with its new neutrality legislation, it has been reminded | Okla. City, Okla., clear 38 56 .00 that cotton, copper, steel and other raw materials are pent hare pesietl 6 a me just as important to a belligerent nation as finished |Q\i-4, pelle, Pe one a ap, 2 munitions. Just where to draw the line in defining mu-| Rapid city, 8, iy 00 nitions is a ticklish point, since almost every necessity | Roseburg, Ore. 00 that is supplied to a belligerent nation contributes to its/St. Louis, Mo., 00 fighting machine in some way or another. Since this is|Salt Lake City, 00 the case, it becomes quite apparent that if we are to|/Santa Fe, N° M., cl 00 “make this business of war supplies a government busi- GPs ey faleh, snow as ea ness only” we are going to have to take in more indus-| Sheridan, Wyo. 29 ¥ t ‘00 tries than those which manufacture guns and ammu-| Sioux City, (AS cldy. 00 nition. Under the circumstancés it would appear that | Spokane, h., 00 the world would not be justified in building its hopes for | Swift Current, 8. 04 too high, even though it made govern-|The Pas, Man., 5 3 0 ea & o'clock Diner at the New a) ACE CAFE Across from Lozan’a 119 3rd St. Chicken Fried Steak, Hash Brown Potatoes, Vegetable, Cole Slaw Salad, Hot Rolls, Beverage and Dessert. retary to DONALD MONTAGUE, u BOBBY WALLACE, n er to marry delays ber answer. At ‘The Golden Feather night club she meets SANDY HARKINS. LARRY GLENN, f Frying to locate bank robber. of the ecnse to é HAGAN. of the local vs and Bobby go to The ather again am ith MR. and ays it Bol for him he bay thi Bobby: will have 82000 preat. Bobby arranges to ae! Jean's employer, seeps NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER X LArry GLENN sauntered tuto the Golden Feather night club, handed his hat to the checkroom sirl, and persuaded the head waiter to give him a small table partially screened by the palms at one cor ner of the little stage on which the orchestra sat. He took his seat, ordered a sandwich and coffee, anc took a leisurely survey of the place. It was getting on toward mid. night now, and there were few va- cant tables. Almost in his ear, the orchestra was blatting and blaring in the fevered manner peculiar to night club orchestras; on the tiny dance floor a dozen couples were sliding and shuffling back and forth. | Larry looked about him, resting his gaze slowly on one face after another. That stout, red-faced man there in the gray suit; obviously a boisterous but basically harmless citizen, ‘of the good-sport-heavy- spender type. The girl with him was just as easy to classify: party girl, neat in appearance, gay in manner, proud of her ability to take care of herself but apt to over- estimate that same ability, once in a blue moon. Next table . . . two boys and two girls in evening clothes; nice- looking youngsters beginning to get a bit loud and uncertain in speech. . . . Now what business, mused Larry, have four decent kids like them coming to a place lke this? They can’t be out of bigh school yet. Oh, well, they're not my children. Next table . . . a woman in black, 35 or thereabouts, sittiug alone and looking forever toward the entrance; waiting for someone, clearly, with scant patience, and me- thodically downing old-fashioneds as she waited. Whoever it was that was late for his appointment was going to hear something when he did show up. Next table . . . three men and a girl, the latter seated with her back toward Larry’s table, so that all he could see of her was a dark dress and a large, floppy hat. One of the men wore tweeds and talked to her affably; a business man, by the look of bim, prepossessing ex- cept for a vaguely secretive look about the mouth. One of the other men was a rangy chap ip blue serge, who was dreamily looking at the dancsrs and puffing at a cig- aret; the other was a smal) man, black-haired, almost foppish in a dinner suit, who was slumped down in bis chair and seemed to be lis- tening {nattentively to the man in tweeds, Mixed grill, thought Larry; a queer combination, that party. iu some ways. And I can’t say I care whole lot for that little man’s looks, either. eee F008ING up, be saw his friend, Mike Hagan, the sergeant of detectives. ip: “jantly. Larry gingerly picked up the gla Hagan replied to his greetings, pulled out a chair, and sat down. “Still looking?” he asked. Larry nodded. Hagan followed the direction of his eyes, and, like Larry, seemed to find the foursome worth atten- tion. After studying each of the three men carefully, he turned to Larry inquiringly: “Know any of 'em?” asked Larry. Hagan nodded. “I know the guy in the tweeds,” he said. “He's Mark Hopkins. ‘Runs an auto agency here. Up in the bucks, so they say. Good-time Charlie on the side; sports pro- moter in the wintertime.” Larry wrinkled his eyebrows. “Mark Hopkins? Where’ve 1 heard that name? Oh, sure. Young fellow I know here in Dover works for him. Sells cars—or tries to.” “Yeah?” Hagan seemed only mildly interested. “Know any of the others?” Hagan shook his head. “ve seen ‘em in here several times, that’s all.” Tho music stopped, the dancers returned to their tables, a young man with an accordion came out and proceeded to sing, badly, a somewhat risque song, made more offensive by the smirks and leers with which he accompanied it; and the waiter brought Larry the food he had ordered. Larry ate in si lence, and presently the entertainer withdrew and there. was more music, The government man looked again at the party which had at- tracted his attention, The rangy young fellow with the unruly blond hair had got up, and so had the girl in the floppy hat; they made kerchief and put it in his pocket. ss... wrapped it in his hand- Hagan laid a hand on his arm. “Larry,” he said, “did you get a look at the girl? If that isn't your Evelyn Brady, I’m cockeyed.” Larry looked again. As she and her partner slowly revolved and pivoted among the other dancers, he got fleeting glimpses of her face. “Looks like her,” he said. “But” —his eyes returned to the table she had left—“none of the men in her party look in the least like our friend Wingy. Wingy’s a red-head with a busted nose. Try and find anybody like that at that table.” They looked again at the man who was dancing with the girl. “He's out, anyway,” said Larry. “Wingy Lewis is short.. This guy must be six feet tall.” “Well,” said Hagan, “that black- haired guy in the dinner clothes is short enough. Only his hair ain't red, and his nose is as straight as | mine.’ | eee |DABRyY looked at the detective and grinned. “Straighter,” he said, Then the grin vanished. “You want to remember, though,” he said, “that there are such things as hair dyes and beauty doctors.” “Hair dyes—sure,” said Hagan. have to do with beauty doctors?” Larry laughed shortly. “You'd be surprised,” he said. ‘Didn't Dillinger go to one? They know all the tricks, these birds. If one of them has a pan that’s known to too many detectives, he doesn’t him until he caught the eye of a waiter, whom he signaled with a jerk of his head. The waiter came to his table and stood there expect> Larry took a bill from his Pocket and unobtrusively showed it to him. “See that little black-haired man at the fourth table over?” he asked quietly, indicating the direction with a nod. The waiter looked. “Him there by the corner, under the light?” he asked. Larry nodded. “I’m a queer guy,” said Larry. “1 like to collect drinking glasses that have been used by perfect strangers. This bill is yours if you'll bring me that man’s glass, when he’s through with it.” The waiter looked at Larry to see if he were joking. Then he looked over at the little black- haired man once more. Then he stood motionless for a moment. ap- parently puzzling over the propo sition to see if there might be a catch in it anywhere that would get him into trouble. “Yes, sir,” he said at last. “I'll get it for you. You in a hurry for iter Larry shook his head. “No rush,” he said. “Only be dead sure you get his, and don’t touch it with your own hands any more than you have to.” cee ‘(PHE waiter looked at him blank- ly, then comprehended. His mouth tightened, and he seemed to be about to refuse the request, Larry let the corner of the bill ap pear, from under his hand once more, “This 1s a perfectly good bill,” he said. “You might as well have it as the next man.” The waiter nodded. “Order a drink,” he said sud- denly, out of the tide of his mouth. Larry’s eyes met his again, and Larry gave an order, The waiter sidled away; halfway to the service entrance, he turned and made his way to the table of Larry's quarry. The glasses there were empty. The waiter calmly put them on his tray, bent for a minute to take a new order, and then left. A minute later he reappeared. He came straight to Larry's table, bearing his tray. In front of Lar ty he placed a small bottle and two glasses, one full of cracked ice and the other containing a half-melted ice cube and a little pool of watery liquid. “That's her,” said the waiter softly, Larry looked at {t care fully. Smudged tingerprints were clearly discernible on its surface. “Okay.” he said, pressing the bill into the.waiter’s palm. The waiter thanked him and left. Larry gin- serly picked the glass up, glanced about him to be sure that no ove was looking, emptied the dregs into a palm tub beside him, wrapped the little glass in his handkerchief “But what do any of these hoods |. mind going to some unscrupulous face-lifter and having it changed You can’t always tell much by pho- tographs, these days.” “Makes our jobs kind of tough, then, don’t it?” asked Hagan. their way to the open floor and be gan to dance. {[u a moment they passed‘ close-to Larry's table, “Yes . . . except that there are other ways,” sald Larry thought fully. . . % and put it in his pocket. “Well” he said, “this; ought to tell us whether that gent is Wingy or not.” But out in the kitchen the waiter who had brought it to him was talking quietly with Art Lanning, Droprietor of the club. “So,” he said in conclusion, “1 just picked up a glass off the sink there and give ft to him. Lewis's glass is over there already.” He pointed to a dishpan. in which a weary pearl diver was languidly washing a dozen glasses. “1 don’t know whose glass it was, and I don't know whose prints was on it.” added the waiter, “But ft won't do this guy much good, that’s a cinch.” 4 (To Be Continued) »