New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1923, Page 5

| murmured 1 thank 3eu Now!These are Bhanghal, Hankau. Caleut dry desires | then, | was thinking of making friend 13, Bombay, Tokie and Osaka. Bt A B of William Jennin ), 80 fa Maliow @ business propesition, bu ish Indla s eredited wit arge S0 SUnaIagt BEFes, 88 f9¢ 08 perhaps | oo Subtaant” s “Stan itloni( 28 has $ : SR ‘ , the demoeratic party is concerned woll ber 19, Inciuding thre or for stance, New York with votes, Ve're live cnes” Btone eite ’ b : L L Aive A;hl ““’l ‘. i:u “ i eign possesslons St sylvania, with 76; Nlinels with or one 3 i 10 hire the Nowth wesoand A J A% Massachusett 1 ou :““m' oil scout In the distriet, but | Nopn America follows Asia (Continued ¥rom First Page) with 36, and Ts ivl‘-:‘v.hmhs\m:'-)m: or the time being, to suspeet that | you " G0 Philag f four unobtainable beeause they are . o Roks wattas et T will double k cago, Phlladeiphia and Mex an extremely large part in dietating = COPYAINT IR B MEX BEAcH pals e - ) ieo City, are placed In the million AProsd platform planks and eandidates to the WD 0 ALLANSIMINY wire miTeomyTe R SERVICH, M o uh Salary 10 Wateh ONe OPSTAION: | .iams. Of the nations on that ean. . TH® Arye were greatly cheered by | o, oo ol Perhaps he could appear to be in | e alted & 5 the result of the poll which would in- ! ot S hidtse SRR 1 intend 'iNent, the Un ted Btates leads with Therefore, the results of the straw ————— pur employ urthermore intend .0 vt T dicate on Its face the apparent impos § large citiea, 12 of which record vote taken of state ehalrmen i not Caink ?;l!n Here Today, N Gray eccupies the it ex: :.ndvl suite , exelunte otel:in Dallas, He makes friends With Gus Briskow, whe has struck €l and meets Allegheny, the daugh- ter, and Opark, the son. Bob Par. ker, daugh of Tom Parker, comes home from college and goes inta the but the taller 1and business, She buys for Colonel Henry Nelson, son of Rell Nelson, tanker. Gray is Henry Nelson's enemy and when Gus Rriskow tells of & trick that Henry Nelson works on him to beat him out of & land sale Gray takes a hand and bests in the de Now Go On With Story, Of the men engaged in this shear. &% Dbusiness, none, perhaps, had bathered niore wool in the length of time than the two mem-. bers of the firm of MeWade & Rtoner, One morning MeWade and his part. ' ner provided themaselves with some dice and several hundred dollars in Kold coin, With these they shooting craps on the sidewalk In front of their office, Now gambling was taboo, henece the spectacle of two expénsively dressed, eminently prosperous men squatting -upon their' heels with a stack of double eagles before them caused a sensation, and people halted to witness their pending arrest, Soon traffic blocked, Calvin Gray, but just arrived from Dallas, looked on at the game with was some curjosity, not divining its pur. | pose, until McWade pocketed the dice, | then mounted a box at the curb and began, loudly “Now, gentlemen, that is one way of making money, but it s a foolish and a hazardous way. There is a much saner, safer method, and I'm &oing to tell you about it. Don't pass on until you hear me, for I have a most incredible story to re- :n!’, and you'll be sorry you missed £, There was a ripple of appreciative laughter, but the crowd pressed closer a8 the orator continued: “You've all heard ahout these ‘doodle bugs' who go around locating cil with a divining rod, haven’t you? And you don’t believe in them. course you don't. Neither do T. then, for the plot of my story, and 1* will pay vou to do a week of listen- ing in the next five minutes. Awhile ago an eminent scientist, unknown to me ar to my partner, Mr. Stoner, camg inta our office, which is at your backs, one flight up, sccond door to the right, and showed us an electrical device he has been work- ing on for the last eight years. He claimed he had it perfected and that it would ‘indicate the presence of oil on the same principle that one min- eral attracts another, eral,’ said he, ‘and T think I've got its magnetic complement. T belleve | my invention will work.' { “‘I'll bet a thousand dollars lt‘1 | won't,’ I told him. But what do you think that pilgrim did. He took me L up. Then he bet Stoner another| thousand that I'd made a bad ' bet.” | McWade grinned in sympathy with the general amusement. “‘We ar-| ranged a thorough test. We .took| him, blindfolded, through the field, and believe me or not, he called the turn.on forty-three wells straight and never missed once." | McWade now introduced the mir- Oil 1s a min- | B the most exelusive mer! same | NEW BRITAIN DAILY peered at him apprenensively, e said; | 19, 40 considerable secret buying and ‘Come, come! Let down your ham.|#/ling and T will need several dum- 'neell! mies-—moral eharacter unimportant “Iisten, ¥ou!" the other burst forth ‘": e after 'l‘"‘ e T take 103" “I heat that thing out P otadr e inquired, mildly and I dent t g The biggest in these woods ‘ Intend to g0 back| .qne man, 414 you say?" more Twenty-four in Reuth Ruesnos Aires ahd Rio de Janeiro are the enly milifen-resident eenters. Australia counts eight HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 21, 102, aibility of adoption of any plank for maodifieation of the Volstead act The elght state chairmen lsted as favoring modification are Conneetieut, Minels, Minnesota, Missourl, New Jer. sey, Oklahoma, Nevada and Wiscon sin than a half-million inhabitants rEe cities are loeated Ameriea, Brazil having 18 large citles, You're a strong guy and you t @ ‘b\mt’h Pl iy ynu‘n" 5 '"E: “Ope man." nene of which runs up into a mil. 28 States Opposed ‘they come the harder| "We're “a legitimate Arm you | llon o The 23 states regurded as opposed they fall, You can he had.” The "0V B to modification, because the state speaker was desperate; his fuce was G7AY'S eyes twinkied as he ex- chairmen said so, are Alabama, shed with anger, the tone of his| C!MIMed: “Exactiy! If 1 have caused Arizona, Arkanmas, Tdaho, Kanss, voice waa defiant and threatening you to infer that T shall employ any- Kentueky, Maine, Michigan, Mississip Gray helped himselt to a ehair, 'NNE €xcept legitimate means to ;:‘ “\I“»m‘nnn \'.'."-“"“l\';‘v Hamp effect my purpose, it s my error pl, &6 s crossed his legs, and lit a eigar, Me. Cffect my purpose, | . Vo o, N ) Wade and Stoner nelther moved non Now then, how about you, Mal Scaday. Say 81 shire, New Viexica, North Carolina, spoke. Wonld you care to work for me?" DKA Tenneasee, Toxas, Utad, Virginia, We "My M «| The latter's pale face broke into & (o : Virginia and Wyeming. y dear Mallow, you wrong me, e “r dm working for you he (Westinghouse—East Plttaburgh), The 17 states whose chairmen was In "w. neweomer's voice '“hu-r WaS 10| GO0 0l “I've heen on your pay ? ; . either non-committal or whose views longer any mockery L mave po ] OO Ao mlnutas 6:00—Rall scores were unobtainable are Colorado, Call- edit r 0! Ntelligence. y D! 0 - . . WY = o - L, plas a ar™Y arrive At terma with you gen. | lditle Symphony orchestra Georgin, Indiana, Town, Loufsiana, =~=the episode in closed, so far asn ] am Colanian T T:00-=Rall scores. Current events, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohlo, Penn. {concerned. I supposed you under. TCUGIC e own tieket,” McWada The visit to the little folke hy the |aylvania, Ithode Island, South Dakota. began | im- | | | | acle worker himself and Gray rose on‘xdnrk goggles upon his friends in a| Asia First in Cities | 8:00 —Violin solos by Richard |1Morida, Georgla, Louislana, South tiptoe to see nim, A moment, then blind stare of bewilderment. It is considered surprising that Asia | Stout.: Dakota and Vermont, to the dry he smiled widely, for the eminent; “What's the odds why he done it |} 00 0 jarge cities than North Am-| 8:15—Concert by Melodie Male |¢qrcnq scientist -was' none other than Mr. | Stoner Inquired, sharp Yoo MAny man oo USix of the 92 Asiatic citles quartet of Middletown, N, Y. | 30 Must Be Dry Mallow—Mallow, a bit pallid and)that can squirt my eves full of to-/) 0 more than a milllon aplece| 8:30—Tdterary talk by Outleok| mpirty states in the union may be pasty, as if from confinement, and|basco, and 'me with a six gun on him, company. with eyes hidden behind dark goggles. |is all right. And him with a bottle | 8:45—Concert by Melodlc male — Gray looked on as the comedy was|of milk duly made and provided!" | |quartet of Middletown, N. ¥, | It transpired that Pro-|The field member of the firm slapped | | 9:00—Opera recital of Gounod's played out. 66 ’ fessor Mallow had tested, among other | his thigh and laughed loudly. i ::-p,,u,tln properties, the newest McWade-Stoner| The object of this commendation | D, Isaacson. jease, a company to drill which had|was pleased. just been formed under the title of | “The Desert Scorpion,” and he reallyl, judged from the behayior of his ma-| chine that a remarkable pool under-; laid the tract. { JThen McWade resumed his sway over the crowd, and soon shares in| ‘The Tiesert Scorpion” were semng‘ rapidly. | Shortly after lunch, Mallow and the two partners were seated in the office upstairs, their work done for the day. Another successful promotion had gone to the credit of McWade and Stoner; all three were in a tflumphul‘ mood. | There came a knock at the door, | and in answer to an invitation to enter it opened. The next instant both McWade and Stener sat erect in their chairs, Wwith eyes alert and question- ing, for at sight of the stranger Mal- low had leaped to his feet with a smothered exclamation, and now stood | with his back to the desk with his tead outthrust in a peculiar attitude of strained intensity. CHAPTER X. Nelson. Has a Caller “Well, well, Mallow!” The caller's face broke into an engaging smile as he crossed the threshold. “Btill wearing dark glasses, eh? 1_'m ;?.lmld‘l you.didn't heed my instructions. Mallow spoke huskily. *“What the Yell you doing here?” “Following the excitement, merelys I shall open an office and spend a good deal of my time in Wichita Falls. I hoped T'd find you here, for this| morning 1 heard you describe your {nvention and-—-admiration overcame | I felt constrained to congratu- me. late’ you upon your scientific attain- ments.” “What do you want?" Mallow barked. ! “Momentary agitation has robbed | our Professor of his habitual polite- ness—a not unusual phenomenon of | the preoccupied scientific mmd.‘j These words were directed at Mc3 Wade and Stoner. “My name is, Gray. Perhaps Doctor Mallow has made mention of me.” | “8o you're the lad that threw pep- | per in his eyes?” Brick Stoner stared | e newcomer with undisguised in- Seres McWade. teérest. He rose, as did a “I'll say we've heard of you. \our‘ name's getting as common as eaftey- razor blades. You've been cleaning up, haven't you?” : “Um-m, moderately.” Calvin Gray #hook hands with the promoters, then 80 the agitated Mallow, who still | SCORPION" WJ jeclared, and Mr, Stoner echoed this statement with enthusinsm “Very well! Detalls later Now, I shall give myself the pleasure of calling upen my man and telling him exactly what I intend doing.” The | speaker rose und shook hands with| | the three precious scoundrels, (Continued in Our Next Issue) talos. 1S 180487631 Mary Interesting Facts Berli®h, May 21,—Scattered over the SHARES IN “THE DESERT|' ‘RE SELLING RAP-|tion of 1,504,187,631, only seven per | | cent of which is in cities of more| 20 —— — than 100,000 inhabitants, according to |ard: stood that much. T helped you and |gatistics compiled here and based | I came here to enlist your help.” | largely on 1822 census reports. Only "You helped me?" Mallow Fho“‘r'nl‘-‘gn of the 70 nations listed have cities his teeth in a snarl. of or above the 100,000 class, which IDLY. “Precisely. Think a moment o : : . Jowest counted within the clas- Was it not odd that 1 failed to ap- | ° th° "’“‘:‘}“’""l e pear against you? That the case wa sification o arg i 3 | a : Approximately 40,000,000 of the never pressed, the dropped 2" “I #'pose vou were afraid to go through, Thought 1I'd get you." Gray shook his head impatient “Afrald? Of you? Oh, Mallow 4 Had T feared your majestic wrath, dd The average large city is you think I would have arranged for | ber some 320,000 souls. T ik that doctor to see you every day?|fiBures, it is stated, every forty-fifth, And paid his bill? Who, pray, sent|human resides in citles housing mil- in those good things for you to eat?" | lions, while every fourteenth finds his | There was a pause, | home in a large city of some sort. | New York Targest City prosecution | o, 0's inhabitants live in the centers having a million residents or more each. About 99,000,00 live in| the smaller large cities, of which| | there are only 33 in the whole world. | gaid to num- “Did vou?" | | “T did.” New York is given as the largest/ Again there was silence. | city in the world, with a population of |bulletin board, “Why?" | 5,620,048, London is second with 4, L m “For one thing, T was sorry for|453,249, and Berlin third with 8,803,- Boston. -7“!} l‘iov. a broadcast from you. 1 really was. 1 had caused|770. | American Boy Magazine. vou and Tony a great deal of suffer-| Rurope leads the continents in| ing, and I cannot bring myself to in- | point of population. It has six cities| flict actual suffering upon anyone|in the milllon class, London, Berlin, | without doing my best to alleviate it. | paris, Glasgow, Vienna and Moscow, | Then again, T had nothing against you (and 103 with more than 100,000 in-| versonally. We merel clashed in|pgapitants. Of the | fhv“c?lurs" 0]:-—?7"’5"'1?“-“" ; o tries, England has 53 large cities, Ger-r Mallow allowed himse o sink | nany 45, Ttaly 16, F e 15 and Rus- back upon the desk; he turned his manyi€Bidialy Ll iancet |sia 15, “'Gratitude is rare,”” he DOINGS OF THE DUFFS SAY TOM, LET'S STAY DOWN AND HAVE DINNER TOGETHER - WE CAN HAVE, ¢ A GAME OF BILLARDS AFTERWARDS - WHAT DO You SAY P YOUR WIFE IS LT OF TOWN | TAKE b g Dreamtime Lady Ve 7:16——Fashion talk to girls by Elin. or Darton of the Josoph Horne Co., Pittshurgh, Pa coupons,” by Mrs. Chester B, Btory. 7:80 —. Coneert by Knight Templar band | 8:30——National Stockman and Far. mer market reports. §:46—Conce | Symphony orchestra soprano; Frank Madden, tenor; Pro (Westinghouse—Springfield), So, §:30—Baseball scores ot American and National leagues, Fairy §:45—"Business Conditions," as ob- | 1 Satstos Complled n Bl Gie 5%, i o T 9:00—Rnseball scores. Felice DeGregorle of studlo of New York city. 9:26—Laughs from life 9:30—~Continuation of musical pro- turned non-committal replies or none ace of the carth is a total popula-|gram by Felice DeGregoric. 9:50—Bedtime story for grown-ups, las wet, and ‘the tota! 9:56—Sayings from 11:00—Time signals. (General Electrie Co., Schenectady, these, and the presumably wet states 6:00—produce and stock market cither side from the remaining 12| 1§ report and quotations; news bulletins; |states, controlling the other 240 votes. | | | baseball results. 8:40—Baseball scores. 8:45—Musical program. From thee) (American Radio & Research Corp,, 6:00—Late | sports news. 5—Code practice, lesson No, 52. 6:30—Boston police reports, | furnished by Commerelal Bulletin of (Aeolfan Hall, N, 6:00—Bedtime story by European coun-| W. Burgess, 7:80—Vlolin solos by Richard Stout. [tions favor a plank for modification, 7:45—Soprano Fjelde, Norwegian soprano. e WORSE THAN OUT OF TOWN- SHE'S HOUSE CLEANING - WELL, M LUCKY- WE mont and Washington he “drys” declare that seven of the states whera the chairmen was non committal helong In the dry eolumn They hold, therefore, that with 30 states against modification and only eight for it and tinkering with the Volstead act by the democratic con- vention i out of the question Analysis of the figures, however, Alseloses that the drys have overlook- |ed one very fmportant fact. That | vote on adoption of resolutions in con. | vention {s by delegates and the states 40 not all have equal voting strength, taking the 23 dry states—we find that they have 382 out of the 1,082 votes in the convention, | Fight Wet States J The eight wet states—Connecticut, | Ilinols, Minnesota, Missour!, Nevada, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Wisconsin -~control 212 of the votes, Add to Concert by these New York, whoso chairman is A DNossert out of the country and did not an- swer; Pennsylvania, Maryland and Rhode Tsland, whose chairmen re- “Cutting your socia! Willlamsport by KDKA Little Martha Hooper, WBZ Eastern, ws of the day. Dean at all, but all of which are regarded wet vote s Rich- swelled to 440—more than the avowed | dry vote, A majority of the convention re- quires 532 votes. With the incontest- nbly dry states controlling 352 ot‘ “Poor Baseball scores. WGY - | 440, the contest would seem to hinge | N. Y) |on the mustering of a majority by | | Theso states, with the number of | |delegates {n the national convention | | for each are as follows: Californla, 26; | | Colorado, 12; Delaware, 6; Florida, | 12; Georgla, 28; Indiana, 30; Towa, | |26; Loulsana, 20; Ohlo, 4§; Houth‘ Dakota, 10; Vermont, 8; Washington, | |14, Of these, the seven claimed \yy‘ Enrlyithe drys on their past records are | Callfornia, Delaware, Indiana, Towa, Ohle, South Dakota and Washington. Amrad | The combined voting strength of these | states {8 160. Added to the 382 votes |of the 28 dry states there is found to | be a total of 542, barely more than the 582 required for a majority. | But the dryness of all these seven |states {s by no means admitted by | |those in favor of wine and beer. The |three states controlling the largest | delegations, California, Indiana and Thornton | ango, are particularly open to ques- tion; and should these state delega- " Wal Medford Hillside, Mass.) news flashes, Wool market news, Wiz Y. 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