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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH This Week ij Arthur Brisbane The Voice of Edison The King Is Dead Money Is a Puzzle Identity of Bank Bomber Baffles Penn. Detectives Economic Highlights In this weeks thrilling mystery story from the files of the United States Bureau of Investigation, E. E. Conroy, special agent in charge of the Charlotte, N. C., office, tells us of a Lank bombing which terrorized Pittsburgh in 1926. The story follows: It was late in August, 1926, in Pittsburgh. During the middle of the afternoon, a stockily built man, approaching middle age, ambled along the streets through the business district. He was a rather nondescript individual, quite shabbily dressed. In his right hand he carried a harmless looking black handbag. When in front of the Farmers National bank, just before the closing hour, he abruptly turned and entered the bank. With furtive glances about him, he quickly walked .to the window of the paying teller. There, ha'phacednn the counter a note' written in very poor English. The eyes of the paying teller widened as he read: Sir you' are held up for two thousand dollars, With 50 sticks-odynamite,- the dynamite is in the grip the. .one .1 hold in my. hand, it will discharge when the handle is out' of ihy hand, if you . or anyone 'else fires a gun at me; there will be no cage left we up to pieces, if to come with two thousand be quit and keep off from the .alarms, the help wont do you' no : good, if they CQme they come'for t'heir death, if not make all the hoise. you like I help you with noise all Pittsburgh will hear. If you wish Jo see the death machine, ask for other wise absolute silence death or two thousand either you like,.' . . . ' Having finished, readirig. the note, the teller, with great presence of mind, told-thbandit, who was standbefore him, that it would 'be ing necessary for the bandit- to give' the note to the' cashier5 of the saving department, located directly across the bank from where he was standing. This scheme to effect a delay was successful. .The bandit, with only a slight indication of suspicion, immediately turned and walked across the lobby of the bank. As soon as the bandit had his back, the teller summoned and aid. He. notified a the banks, police officer. Holding the black bag in his right hand, the- bandit, with his left hand laid the note at the window of the cashier of the savings department. The cashier attempted .to engage the bandit in conversation in order to effect an additional delay. The cashier said that the paper was valueless, and that 'no money could be paid on it. The bandit became aware of hurried footsteps down-tow- after-death- . , - . big shot. ' THE. FARM. But the "biggest big shot" can be made sn:Al I y one small shot, fro.m a Farm prices recently ' showed, a small revolver in the hands of a small 'advance, led by strong grain time gangster. "King" Solomon had bullets in his quotations. Cottpn markets strengthgtomaeh, his neck and his head, when ened, with demand improved. Hog ' and lamb market helped, by better found, '' In the hospital police asked who meat prices. Cattle and veal lagging. .did it? King Solomon sneered at Butter, market unsettled because of . police, said the dirty rat got me," excess 'supply. ' and died. The general farm situation in the That is the gangster code. middle west is still . extremely bad, all-b- blo-win- ' ..." strange thing is money. ' Every day you wonder whether, anybody .really knows anything about it. . Recently, as you may have read here, New Zealand deliberately inflated its currency by 23 per cent, making fouF' dollars into fiv dollars. Best minds of the U, S. A. brand would have told you, There they' go, no . . hope for them now." But what happens? A boom devel-- ' ' ops in New Zealand values of stocks A with many counties collecting but 35 . tp 40 per cent of tuxes' due. World traffic in wheat rose sharply during the- Week ending January. 14, with Nor.'h America arid Australia , of the clearing the' bushels cleared during this' period. During the first six months of the current crop season, weekly ' shipments averaged only 10.800.000 '. major-share- .' bushels. ' . . - - ' disturbed. In Iowa telegraphs the Insurance company that hires him to .foreclose farm mortgages: These farmers are going to hang me If I cant raise our bid on this farm." The head- of the farmers Holiday in Nebraska announces Movement, if we dont get beneficial services from the legislature, 200,000 of us are coming to Lincoln and well tear that new State capitol building to pieces," and 2,000 farmers cheer wildly. - ' " vice-preside- nt - INDUSTRY. Overproduction of crude oil and doclining sales of gasoline have resulted in reduction 'of gas prices to lowest level in many years in various parts of the. country. : Automobile expect a JO to 15 per cent gain in automobile sales this year, with some leaders forecasting- 30 per cent.The-- ' volume of steel business has gained moderately, and the industry is encouraged in spite ef disappointing sales to 'railroads. During 1932' the iron ore industry mined 9,588,000 tons, a decrease of 65 per cent from 1931 and lowest output since '1885. Total 1932 value was aS against $74,123,910 in the preceding year, i Bankers are opposing the issuance of scrip to be used as money, while the movement gains headway in many small towns. Bankers feel that if the movement becomes national in scope, financial chaos will result, Farm tool firms opening 1933 sales drive. Pin hope's on, certain new featrucks. Farm tures such as equipment export business growing. Federal regulation of workers' wages is being urged by representatives of various labor organizations. fexec-u'.ivC- behind him. He became alarmed- - and He saw the bank turned - - $13,-042,00- 0, low-price- policeman and three bank The bandit ' ordered .them o stop. They kept coming. The policeman made almost superhuman, efforts to get the bag. Before he succeeded; the bandit pressed the handle, dropped the bag and kicked it away from him; There was a . terrible explosion. The city trembled. Buildings rocked on " . their foundations, The bandit's body was tom to bits. The policemans body was dreadfully mangled and he died almost immediately. Over' forty bank employees and customers' were seriously injured. Everyone in the bank was knocked from his feet. Only the heavy counters prevented instant death to the were tellers. Hundreds of passers-bhurt by flying glass from brokeriwin-dowThe cries of the injured and rose above the din of crashing marble Hysteria reigned su- officials-ap-proaching- . announce their determina. Farmers tion to reduce interest rates, scale down mortgages, stop foreclosure and tax sales, and generally defy the lights of capital and government. ' All this Interests eastern financial concerns that hold mortgages for more than two thousand million dollars on farms in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota alone, to Eay nothing of the other States. Repudiation of debts is not exactly revolution, but accompanied b y threats, It is disturbing. Men can - stand Just so much, and then they do something. . It might be a good Idea for Congress to add some definite action to the flood of talk. d y s. panic-stricke- Dean Inge, a learned head of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, says oth' ABROAD. The idea er planets are inhabited. that the Lord made thousands of milThe unusual export activity that lions of planets without planning to marked the past two months in put anybody on them seems to him French a has now ceased; ridiculous, trade balance favorable continues, but And it is ridiculous. Dean Inge adds is finance the public .unsatisfactory. that if "the other worlds need redemption doubtless God visits them as he Copra trading is dull in the Philippine Islands and but one cocoanut oil has visited us. Let us hope that visits to the mil- mill is now operating. Shrinkage in lions of other planet- - are not met with Rumanian imports has followed tariff the ingratitude and suffering that fol- and foreign exchange restrictions. lowed the visit to our earth. Chilean business sentiment, recently reported as improved, has received a Professor Huntington, who does re- setback, seasonal turnover extremely search at Yale, tells the American low. Birth Control League that birth control does not diminish the number of Page the White Mule, children born of the ablest parents. News dispatches from Europe tell Statistics from Yale and Harvard the .f discovery of a liquid that will prbve "an ultimate increase of des make rabbit spit in a bulldogs eye. of the a leaders of the group. pendants More important, there will always be People who live in easy reaching dis-- 1 large Increases in the groups that pay tance of the Tennessee Mountains little attention to birth control, and have known about somewhat similar produced such men as Franklin, Lin- stuff for generations. Nashville Bancoln, Edison and others that were -' useful. Paderewski says ''machines destroy culture, and deplores crazy production. He forgets that the piano, to which he owes his fame, is a machine. and very complicated. Without that machine he would be playing the tom tom or the banjo, and there would be no Paderewski, ($.1932, by Kint FrmturM Syadutu, lac.) . . Indo-Chin- . you-willin- e and products go soaring. We ought to believe what our best minds tell us. RETAIL TRADE,' . even though they have not been brilRetail dry goods sales registered liantly successful of late. But it is all most puzzling. An- Canada Is plan- a decline of 22.6 per cent in 1932. Wholesalers believe the usual spring ning to do the same. They are not exactly "crazy radicals in Canada, a buying movement will spread out over land free from bank failures, while we the season, instead of being lumped have thousands of them. at one time; Current activity, among wholesalers- is largely confined 'to Real dissatisfaction begins to show odd lot sales. among farmers. There w ill be no revMerchants generally feel that, if a olution, but If men ir. cities acted as price do in change occurs m 1933, it will be bread farmers the national basket, Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas in the upward direction. . and other wheat States, our best A lawyer n f . would Situation-- Industrial News Review Happenings that Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual. Nation-- j Dr. Hutchison has heard the voice of al and International Problems InThomas A. Edison, speaking from the separable from Local Welfare. beyond through a medium. Mr. was Dr. Hutchison, who Edisons engineerfor ten years, says Mr. Edison . GENERAL. . sent this message: Well, Hutch, I is little changed outlook Present have had to revise my ideas about life I am. on the other side of from recent Weeks but there is slight the river, but I dont know where lam improvement in car loadings and electric power production. going from here.". Dr. Hutchison recognized EdisonS Commercial failures continue high. .voice absolutely, so we may not doubt Stabilization, rather than expansion, that the medium found' him on the Is the goal of the moment. Decline of other side of that river.' commodity prices- seems to have been But those that knew Edison for arrested, always an encouraging sign. many years would have expected someclass .bonds are registering Highest thing more exciting and enlightening. advances. Not one word about the trip through steady Business leaders, .as with one voice, the ether,- colder' than 400 degrees continue to reiterate that a balanced below. budget, tax reduction and strong and ' King Solomon is dead. He owned constructive Washington .leadership 'the Coeohnut Club in Boston, had an are essentials of recovery. Interest in the Cottpn Club, ' was a minds- Livestock:, ner. British girl fliers, lost in the Af r'can jungle, sent for aid with a note written with lipstick. So they use that stuff even in the jungles. Mrs. Harriet Crouch of Chelmsford, Eng., kissed all members of the jury that acquitted her of murdering her j husband. n Theyre Coming a doctor Fireman neighbors from around the corner or the next farm theyre coming to help you because of your emergency telephone call. . . . . . Isn't it reassuring to know you live in miles or town out, you can reach others instantly by telephone? that whether That alone is worth the a day you pay for few cents telephone service. In addition, a telephone saves many' errands, brings social chats with friends or business information. The more you use it the more useful it becomes. The Mountain State Telephone & Telegraph Co. preme. Ambulances were called to carry away the dead and injured. Police lines were thrown around the bank to keep away the morbid curious. After some order had come out of the chaos, an opportunity presented itself to make observations, There was a deduction that the bomb had been composed of an ordinary storage This was battery and assumed by reason of the fact that the floor was only slightly damaged, while the walls and the ceilings bore the brunt of the explosion. Beautiful marble fittings had been crumbled to dust. Bronze cages were twisted and lorn. Counters were splintered to bits. This beautiful banking edifice was damaged to the extent of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A detailed investigation was made to determine the identity of the bandit. The concussion had been terrific. It had mangled the body to the extent that identification seemed impossible. The bandit had been completely dismembered. The shock had torn off his head, portions of which had sifted through the mesh of the tellers cage and were plastered to the walls. In fact, only the forehead and scalp were found. His left hand had totally, disappeared. Further search was made. Finally, there was found, adhering to the ceiling, the right ear and the right hand of the bandit. Who 'was. the bandit? Was he a desperado or a maniac? Public curiosity became aroused. The Pittsburgh' tte-Times posted a reward of one theusarid dollars for an absolute identification of this man. Thousands of persons viewed the mangled fragments of human remains in an effort to establish his identity. Near the place where the explosion took place there was found an German silver watch. This was traced through the watch manufacturers in an attempt to identify the bomber, but A telephone number was found on a card in the torn clothing of the body. Checking this proved futile. Investigation was made of a belt buckle with the initial L. Inquiries regarding this article were unproductive of results. A book containing the names and addresses of prominent persona in The vicinity offered other clues. They were run down withwhich was out nuecess. The found contained ' gold fillings. Diagrams of the teeth were submitted to hundreds of dentists. These teeth could not be identified. There remained only two additional possibilities Tf identification. One was the ear which had been found, adhering to the..eeiljng near the' right hand. The ear was carefully in order that pictures might be submitted to the various Bertillion officers throughout' the United States. For the benefit of my readers, it might be noted that expert identifiin the Bercation tillion' system, often rely on structure of the ear for purposes of identification.. This' is one of. the" main rea sons why police photographs invariably contain profile views of prisonnitro-glycerin- e. jaw-bon-e, - Gaze- open-face- d -. wiihout-5mm?ss- jaw-bon- e photo--graphe- d officers,-well-verse- ers. The right hand of the maniacal fiend was also taken to tHe Pittsburgh police department, where fingerprint impressions were taken from this one- hand. An identification circular- was then- prepared. This set forth a history of the crime, a description of the bandit, a photograph ear and a photograph of of the fingerprint impressions of the .right hand. This circular was mailed t6 various police identification bureaus throughout the United States. A short time after this identification circular was received by the United States bureau of investigation at Washington, D. C., the card was carefully examined by the chief of the division. He immediately communicated with John Edgar Hoover, the director, and explained the details of the horrible crime which had been committed. The chief then inquired of Mr. Hoover whether a detailed search of the fingerprint files should be made, in view of the difficulty which would be encountered in a search of this na iure. For the information of my read ers, I might say that at that time, which, was only about two years after the establishment of the national fingerprint files at Washington, there were over one million fingerprint cards on file. The cards are. filed by take into consiclassifications, deration all ten fingers of a normal human being. When one finger, or more, is missing, the search becomes more and more difficult according to the number of missing fingers. Direc-- j tor Hoover gave instructions to the chief of the identification division to the effect that one of his most competent fingerprint experts should be assigned to the search, and that his efforts should be confined to that job until it was definitely established whe- ther the fingerprints of this individual were in the files at Washington. Late the same day, Director IIoo- ' . - the-righ- t Although the demand for stocker and feeder cattle has shown marked improvement and there has been some strengthening of values on that class of stock, the general fat cattle market has lacked a healthy undertone. A huge amount of meat is being consumed in Southern California but there appears to be quick protest against .1 NAUTICAL ..-- : s'. NOVELTIES The following Nautical Novelties are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station at Salt Lake City: Icebergs or extensive fields of compact ice, are carried southward from the Arctic regions by the ocean currents. It is in the vicinity of the Great Bank of .Newfoundland that these masses of ice appear in the greatest numbers and drift the farthest southward. Most of the icebergs which commonly appear in the North Atlantic originate .on the western coast of Greenland; a few come from the cast coast and from Hudson Bay. Coast guard vessels watch these bergs and report their location to the navys hydrographic office, which sends out radio reports to ships daily so that the ships may avoid the bergs. The frigate which Constitution, was launched at Boston on October 21,- 1797, arrived at San Diego on January 21, 1933. She remains at San Diego until February 27, when she sails for San Pedro. The Constitution was .built of live oak and red cedar; the bolts that, fasten her timbers were made at the foundry of Taul Revere. Her first flags and signals - - ... were made by Betsy Ross.. enlisted men of the Up joUnited States navy and Marine corps are selected each year for appointment as midshipmen at Annapolis; as .the result of competitive examinations. Such men must have been in the service at least one year and must not he more than 20 years of age on April first ef the 'year they enter the - 100 . naval academy. . . . The tallest lighthouse in the world is. located at Cape Mendocino, Calif., and can be seen, a distance of 30 miles at sea. This lighthouse is 422 feet 'in height. . . Upon the expiration of the London Naval treaty, which will terminate in 1930, the United States will drop to fourth place among the sea powers of the world. The American navy will be surpassed by Great Britain, Japan and France. Year by year during the past decade, the American navy has bee.n declining in strength because the United States has not built or provided for building the vessels permitted to be built by the Washington treaty. Since the ratification of this treaty, the United States ha3 provided for 40 ;' ships, aggregating a tonnage of Great Britain has provided for 148 ships with a tonnage of 472,311; Japan has provided for 164 vessels aggregating 409,867 tons; France, 196 ships totaling 507,737 tons; and Italy J44 ships of 29.7,072 tons. From the marine standpoint,- the norther is any strong northerly wind which blows over the Gulf of Mexico, the Western .Caribbean sea, and in the Pacific coastal waters of Central America and southern Mexico during the colder months, or during that portion of the year when powerful move farthest southward. In the Pacific it is known locally as the Tehauritr-pecewhen it occurs in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, and as the wlieh it occurs in the Gulf of Papagayo, on the northwest coast of Costa llica and in neighboring waters. Similar winds hi the Mediterranean sea are the Mistra of the Gulf of Lyons, and the Bora of the upper Ad' riatic. any upward revision of prices. With feedlots near Los Angeles practically emptied of cattle, many in the trade had been optimistic of some improvement in cattle prices. So far, this optimism has not been reflected among buyers. As indicated by the record slaughter of cattle and hogs in Los Angeles county in 1932, there is tremendous demand for all kinds of fat livestock in Southern California, and actual sales indicate a generally higher market on the Pacific coast than prevails on the eastern markets. The range of prices continues very narrow on cattle, with good quality steers selling at a very smalLpremium over mediocre and plain stock, and at , prices that make steers appear relatively low in relation to cows and heifers. One of the chief difficulties faced in the cattle market is the very low value of hides and other When it is remembered that the average hide weighs roughly seven per cent of the total weight of pie beef animal, and with cured hides selling at only three cent3 a pound, it may be seen that the hide is generally selling for less per pound than beef critters. There has been some strength in the lamb market, due in part to smaller numbers of Iambs available, and also to the fact that the wool market is in much healthier condition than the hide market. The 1933 crop of lambs is already being marketed, mainly from Imperial Valley of California and Salt River Valley of Ari- zona. "Baby lamb is meeting with good reception from consumers and rightly so because ffce early lambs offer the consumer strictly choice meat. It is likely that there will be some decrease in numbers of early lambs marketed by California' flockmasters this season. Also, because of the indications of an abundance of late range feed, it seems likely that there will he a disposition on the part of wool growers to market their lambs heavier than usual, and possibly later than usual. The meat trade is now engaged in the seasonal warnings to sheepmen to market their lambs as fast as they are ready for market, topping out the fat ones and making an effort not to carry them until they weigh too much for popular trade demands. Spring lambs weighing seventy to eighty pounds 'are popular; when heavier weights are offered, the early lambs come into direct competition with feedlot products and are likely to sell relatively lower. . " . 197,-600- anti-cyclon- es Pa-paga- . . . We recently saw a news photograph of an American family with 34 living children. But this impressive record is relatively modest when compared with . that of Fedor Vassilet, a Russian peasant, who died in 1872 at the age of 75. Vassilet was the father of 87 ' children, of whom one wife was the mother of 69, including four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and 16 pairs of twins. ; s Some may consider it a compliment, but others may think it a mean trick that the North Dakota house of representatives elected Mrs. Mina D. Craig as speaker. The latter idea being based on the fact that Mrs. Craig is a woman, and that under parliamentary rules the speaker is not to speak much. per--mitt- For some unexplained reason Miss Mary Wichelman of Cincinnati, who has not yet completed her business course, and who has never held a job, was selected as the :itions "ideal secretary by the Apha Iota business sorority. Perhaps it was decided that no young woman could remain ideal after working for a pestiferous boss. The only time the average small boy likes to use soap i3 on Halloween. : ver flashed a telegram to the Pittsburgh police advising that the bomber was none other than William Chowick, a former convict at Milwaukee, Wis. lie had been released from the Wau-pupenitentiary at Milwaukee on August 28, 1915, after having served a term for burglary. A photograph of Chowick was forwarded immediately to Pittsburgh by mail. Thi3 photograph was positively identified by three of the banks employees as the picture of the bomber. It might be of further interest to my readers to learn a little of the history of this individual. Chowick, in addition to having a criminal record in Milwaukee, was also a parole violator from a Wisconsin institution. He had disapoared from the middle west and later had been under surveilanee in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, for alleged anarchist utterances. This man had an uncanny genius as a locksmith. He had even made keys out of pieces of bone and table ware, which he had used to escape from prisons and jails in Wisconsin. On one occasion n Mrs. Gladys Moore of St. Louis, testified in her divorce suit that her husband smashed all her china and every window and also broke her nose. The meanest thief is reported to have entered the Moosburg Cemetery tool house in Bluffton, Ind., and taken every article of value, including lawn mowers, spades, shovels and rakes. Malaria takes more than 2,000,000 lives throughout the world annually. he used these keys to put himself back ino a jail from which he had previously escaped. At other times, he would use the keys to release himself a cell to rob the jail officials at the institution where he was confined. He would then place himself back in the same cell. It would be impossible to convict him for these thefts because he would have an abili that he was in a cell at the time the robberies took place. It was his genius along these lines which made possible the construction of the bomb which caused his own death. |