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Show I BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937 OF TIME The MARCH imnn Prepared by the ur..ii Editors of TIME TJe IFeefcy Newsmagazine j (Continued From Page One) with John L. Lewis, emerged j huddledown peace a IL three-poi- fiiap pro-sa- l" nt A. F. of L. to adopt a policy not only !f strict industrial unionism JJr mass production workers but utilfor maritime, service, public ity and basic fabricating industries; Srmation of an autonomous "C. I. A. F. of L. olepartment" withinover industrial jurisdiction I. O. F. of L.-Sons- a joint the to convention ratify national agreement. First to leave the session document fter this uncompromising . thrnwn at A. F, of L., tough President Joseph Curran of C. I. O.'s, a w National Maritime Union explain-..hv the meeting had broken up. v snapping: "Hell, you can't expect come out of a dead faint and jptn to on negotiating." go right f Back at C. 1. O. next day was Jlammed A. F. of.L.'s counter proof its old stand: posal a reiteration O. unreturn of the suspended C. I. new C. L. of F. A. fold; ions to the unions to amalgamate X. terms to with A. F. of L. unions on dissolua at conference; be settled ji - C. tion of C. I- - O. A. F. of Philp Murray declared the C. surrender." demanded "abject . unconfor likewise was asking o. j, ditional surrender but on terms more A. F. of jubtle, for if C. I. O. entered Jj. as an autonomous department, folJohn L. Lewis and his 3,500,000 lowers would soon run the whole show. Hopelessly deadlocked, the conference broke up but not until the delegates tad agreed to meet again in a week. O I :f MORE BATTLESHIPS - - - idelphia Navy Yard next spring, the 0 JJavy will have the two biggest d tons , fastest (27 knots , (nine guns) and most expensive '$60,000,000 apiece) battleships ever built in the U. S. (35,-00- best-arme- n. rfSNl wLi W'l i ,f M WART, the Speed Cop - - By Fronk Chevrolet fES ' . SURELV A LUNATIC- - J FIND WWT fcNO HAVE MAN ARRESTED AND ININ THE MAD ( KFOB6 HE KMOL.SHES ) . " r,." ' ' '--- .r'J CI 'TS eS ""lcJl ; m) (Wu. VJMV JUST CELEBRATING ARMiSTiCE OAV s ( - LET VOU FINISH YOUR CELEBRATION IN A PADDED CELL.' V. T JUST J LZTwT uui ntuc TO) I IN TIME I V 'V raSfejl-- I SAVE THE ( vTlt; ' yTlCE -- f If NpTHERCAR). ' VCS AWIfcMWll NEW YORK Arriving in the U from France 29 years ago, ambi tious Charles Eugene Bedaux got himself a job as a "sand-hog- " digging skyscraper and subway foundations in Manhattan, used his brain as well as his shovel, was able after a few years to begin living the American success story which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "effic iency expert" had fired his imagina tion and he invented the Bedaux Sys tem of "B" (for Bedaux) Units- "a wage payment system in which work is subdivided into units equiva lent to the number of minutes that a task should take and the payment of the worker on the basis of the number of points of work accomplish ed in a given length of time. Soon Bedaux married as his second wife a pretty Daughter of the Amer n Miss ican Revolution, Fern Lombard; returned to his na tive France and bought for $750,000 a princely chateau in Touraine. Mr. and Mrs. Bedaux disported themselves on the Riviera with a wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, one of whose dashing friends was a Mrs. Simpson. Then the abdicated King of England married Mrs. Simpson in their chateau in France, later honey mooned at their chateau in Hungary. Finally, Mr. and Mrs. Bedaux last week landed in Manhattan to arrange a tour of the U. S. and possibly Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Wind sor, expected November 11 on the "Bremen." Nobody knew whether or not, as 1 11 ii B a i I If naif m i'l Complete with IGO - watt n NEW "' FO( MOLEST INu TMIS iGENTLi l.g. Wheel Bas G.M.C.TRUCB $595.00 ' K CHEVROLET CO. M FINE AVOUtlO V faWMl Vf DfeS- iy 0K MM CHEV.TBUCK V 5425.00 - 1935 $325.00 h;..3V. if'". 500,000 annually. President John J. Phelley of the Association of American Railroads summarized the current gloom of railt I roads by further plain speaking: i "The margin between income and op erating expenses has been so thin that the railroads face a real crisis. Because there is no other way to meet this crisis than to make a general increase in rates and fares, the railroads will ask the commission to expedite consideration of the matter. Facing the railroads today is an increase in operating costs totaling Buyer of Death $663,303,000 annually. . . Of that By FLOYD GIBBONS results amount, more than Famout Headline Hunter. from new taxes under laws passed Congress and from a 40 per cent PTHIS is the story of Aaron Cohen, of Chelsea, Mass., and an ad- -' by increase in the prices of materials and venture he had on the first day of August, 1930. Aaron had one of supplies and fuel which the railroads the most amazing and most terrifying experiences I've ever heard or use. The rest is due to restoration in read of, and he acquitted himself mighty creditably in a set of trying 1935 of the 10 per cent wage deduction originally made in 1932 and to circumstances. recent wage agreements with the opSome few years ago, Aaron owned a variety store in Revere,) unions. . . and erating And while I hate to say' The average revenue n Mass., and in it was a postal mile and anything detrimental to our old reliable United States mails, I've got to admit per passenger-mil- e has steadily deft was that that caused all the trouble. clined since 1921, until today railAbout the time this story begins, Aaron had decided to sell his roads haul a ton of freight one mile store, and he put an ad In the paper announcing that fact The next day for an average of less than a cent the ad appeared in the classified section, and that same afternoon a and carry a passenger a mile for less man came In to look the place over. than two cents." The man spent quite a while looking around. He listened to Aaron's propoO sition, and finally said he would buy the store If he could be sure the postal went with it. PROFESSIONAL VIEWPOINT - - v - Adventurers' e Club one-ha- lf non-operati- sub-statio- n. per-to- sub-statio- n legitimate commercial firms. Should an outfit have a putup touch (opportunity for theft suggested by an outsider for 10 per cent, no other outfit would think of offering the putup man 15 per cent for it. . . Lying Is perhaps considered by thieves to be more unethical than it is by the . ." A member of Yellow Kid Weil's famed Chicago confidence gang reported: "In all my life I never heard of a racket man padding an expense account." "The central principle In all true con (confidence) rackets is to show a sucker how he can make some money by dishonest methods and then beat him in his attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares la smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeit machines. When professional thieves are arrested, they rely first on the police ("in hard times a dollar or two or even a drink may be enough"). More difficult arrangements are handled by a fixer who works through the complaining witness, the prosecutor (by trading cases), the balif (who forges vacating orders), or the judge. There is comparatively little fixing of Federal Agents. . . When the Eye (Pinkertons) are brought In. . . that is bad. They don't think of anything except catching thieves." law-abidi- Fake Postal Inspector Tricks Store Keeper. Well, sir, that was a matter that only the postal authorities could decide. CHICAGO non-viole- Aaron told him he'd have to go to the Boston post office to find out whether, they would approve the change In management. The man left. In a few hours he came back. The deal, he told Aaron, had been okayed. While they were still talking, the telephone rang. A man on the wire said he was a postal Inspector, and told Aaron that If he were going to sell his store he would have to bring all his post office equipment to Boston to be checked before he turned it over to the new owner. That sounded reasonable to Aaron. He gathered up his stock of stamps r and started to and blanks, scales, rubber stamps and what-noout to them his car. But there his prospective buyer Intervened. "Put carry them In my car," he said. "I've got to go Into town. TO drive yon In and take t, money-orde- jfon back." i " The r Strange Ride of Lardn Thievery, defined as methods, is stealing by a profession as exclusive and exacting as law or medicine and includes every g to the suavi-tive- s thing from of the confidence man. Published last week by the University of Chicago Press ($2.50) was a solid ac count of the life and activities of "The Professional Thief," notable for the fact that it is not a thriller but a sociological document written by a thief named Chic Conwell and edited by onetime University of Chicago Sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland. Highlights: "Codes of ethics ate much more binding among thieves than among ohen. ng. or Bronchitis oub-statlo- n Soughs Colds nt shop-liftin- Acts Like a FLASH It's different It's faster In action It's compounded on superior, medical fact findings new iti this country. BUCKLEY'S MIXTURE (triple acting) Is the name of this amazing cough and cold) free from prescription that Is so pure and harmful drugs that a child can take it and stop coughing. One little sip and the ordinsry couch eased a few doses and that touh old hang-o- n cough ts seldom heard n,inn it's really wonderful to watch how speedily hard, lineerinc co'ds arc put out of business. BUCKLEY'S MIXTURE is now on tale at all good stores over 9 million batCanada. tles have been sold in co'd-wmtr- v City Drug Co. J(!W.f.'.fl,ffAWW Schenley's HgH Lateen Aaron Hears the Thugs Plan His Funeral. rode with them, a prisoner In the back seat. The crooks didn't dare let him go, for that would mean an alarm and a close scrutiny of r blanks cashed in the vicinity. And gradually, It dawned on all Aaron that they didn't mean to let him go at all He gathered that from snatches of conversation he overheard as All Cash Price that time-Aaro- n money-orde- ! If For general they rode along. Finally when they began to talk openly about how to dispose of his body, he knew for certain that they didn't mean to let him out of that car alive. They would bury his body in some deserted spot along the road or sink It in some lonely swamp, and let the world believe Aaron himself had cashed those r money-orde- r blanks, collected the money and run away. lighting, read- ing, serving, card or piano playing. Stands Alllllllllilm 57 inches high. Ivory base. o i Choice assorted parch- f-- ". -- a. Complete with bulb ... $645 Terms, ii desired Cash Price ISO-wa- E LAMPS g give more glare-free- , ordithe than light nary lamp, using the same amount of current. Recent reductions in the domestic lighting rate, and Extra Elecmakes tricity at Hall-Pricmore light available at lower cost than ever before. sight-savin- reported, President Roosevelt had decided to ask the Duke and Duchess to lunch. It seemed certain that Mrs. Roosevelt would be away on a lecture tour. At latest reports the President seemed to be waiting for U. S. opinion to crystallize, the. higher officials of the British Embassy in Washington were icicles of frigid leserve, and cables from the Duke and Duchess had declined with thanks invitations to dine at the Gridiron and Women's e, t 3 Mil IIIEIh I !rmrrfT m I Irtrl fill tfii V. H'rVWK "Mark of Merit" n""" Aaron was frantic. He began working his facial muscles, trying to loosen the adhesive tape that covered his mouth. At length, he got It off, just as the car pulled up before the post office in P.rookline. Aaron waited until one of the bandits had gone inside to cash another money order. Then he acted. Rising to his feet yelling for help at the top of his lungs he struck with his manacled hands at the man remaining in the front seat. He caught the crook unawares hit him a stunning blow with the steel cuffs that encircled his wrists. The man struggled, fought back in a dazed sort of way, but a crowd gathered swiftly and came to Aaron's aid. Then a policeman appeared on the scene and took the crook in charge, while, others went after his companion. They caught the second crook later, and Aarop. got a hundred dollar bill reward from the government for the part he played In their arrest and conviction, and that's not at all had for a day's work obtained through a want-ad- . S BARGAIN Hi Jim ; Handcuffed and Gagged, Aaron Wins Fight for Life. ment shades. THESE A FROM once more, decided to ask the I. C. C. for a flate 15 per cent rise In general freight rates estimated to produce $459,500,000 a year in added revenue, a cent a mile rise in passenger coach fares to produce an additional $48,- - Aaron didn't see anything wrong with that He got Into the other fellow1 car. There was another man in it, sitting behind the wheel. They drove a short distance until they came to a lonely spot near the old Revere cycle track and then the next thing Aaron knew he was looking Into the muzrle of a revolver. Then followed the most exciting most terrifying time of Aaron's whole life. They put handcuffs on him, plastered adhesive tape over his mouth, and threw him into the rear of the car. He hadn't the faintest idea what those men wanted, but he soon found out. Money Order Blanks Were What the Crooks Coveted. r blanks that was part of his postal equipIt was that book of ment Properly filled out, they were worth thousands of dollars. Bound, gagged, and covered with a blanket, Aaron rode for what seemed miles. At length they stopped the car at another lonely spot and tried to make him sign the blanks. Aaron refused, but that didn't bother the two crooks. They forged signatures on them, using Aaron's own rubber stamps and paraphernalia to make them look authentic. Then they began driving from town to town and from city to city, cashing the blanks at post oflices. $445 bulb CAR No shrewd buyer passes up our used car bargains money-orde- ! USED 1935 SAFE CIIEV. TRUCK Lg. Wheel Base j For desks or tables where reading is done or beside chairs or 28 inches high. divans. Ivory or bronze finish. Assorted parch-me- n shades. Terms, ii desired. BUYING I JorrYvJAtlT Stt - JUOSl PORCHASEO l FINE OueLtT YZK WHO MAKES USED CAB -- VOU NITH CAtl 1 BEDAUX AND WINDSORS S. Co. HE JUStYwE JUST GOT THERE BUSTED () FO0E HE STARTS O . ONE CAftllBuSTiN' THE OTHER, ----ALL TO PlECEs7 rVHEVRE CftATV --i , I A I WAS JUST CtLt Y 6RATINS MV ARMIS O Middle-Wester- f NEW YORK At New York Navy Yard, Assistant Secretary of the inNavy Charles Edison, son of the ventor, last week grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, secShot a flaming bolt into a 70-f- t. Caroof keel "North the tion of the lina," first battleship the U. S. has built since the "West Virginia" was commissioned in 1923. When the vessel is completed some time in 1938, along with a sister ship ("Washington" ) whose keel will be laid at Phil 16-i- Of the 325 fighting ships in the U. S. Navy at last year's end, 212 were classified as "over age." Now abuilding or appropriated for in the present push are 87 vessels, including besides the "North Carolina" and "Washington" three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines. Only nation to admit to bigger naval rearmament is Great Britain, whose 285 vessels are being increased by 96, including five battleships. In charge of the new U. S. Naval construction program is shy, greying Assistant Secretary Edison, who has already announced the Navy's inten tion of asking Congress for two more battleships at the next regular session. PAGE THREB L. I - WmM - - "There are only four or five Western Railroads which are not in financial difficulties today, and individual railroads cannot stand alone. Unless revenues can be obtained so the railroads can be made to pay, Govthe answer is. . . bankruptcy. ernment operation." These remarks by Union Pacific s Railroad's President William M. Press Clubs. last week followed by only five Com Meanwhile in Paris, the Duke lunch- days a decision of the Inter-stat- e railroad to mcrce raise Commission ed with U. S. and British correspondents, declared himself "a very hap- freight rates for certain commodities pily marrie man," added: "Sportman-shi- enough to give the U. S. roads an is absent from some newspaper estimated $47,500,000 more revenue comment on the activities of the Duch a year a sum President Jeffers calls ess and myself. We are looking for- "a drop in the bucket." With 200 ward to our tour of the United States other top U. S. railroad executives to study methods of housing and in- In Chicago last week, he discussed passing; the bucket to the C. X. O. dustrial condition. . ." p iJs BUCKET PASSING CHICAGO . . Jef-fer- I FOOT No. 223 Joe. S. Finch It Co , Int., SchenWy, Pi. SCHENLEY'S RED LABEL BLENDED WHISKEY. mitral or norc old. 30 triihe hiktr, 70 The ttnltht whUkiu in thu product ire 2,H 5J whiskey rlM HnlM tnm American triiM. 24 ttmiaht whi.hy 2H M. 90 HOOf . rir. jntt rr ttrait i |