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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2 1935 tf E i The Herald Every Afteraooa except Saturday and Soaday Moral. Published by the Herald Corporation. 50 South First West street, Provo, Utah. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Provo, Utah, under th act of March 3, 1879. Oilman. Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives, Nw York, San Francisco, Detroit. Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press. N. E. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier In Utah county 50 cents the month $2.75 for six months, in advance; 15.00 the year, in advance; by mail in Utah county, in advance; $4.50; outside Utah county. $5.00. Liberty tkrvvxh all tk laa Liberty Bell "The power to tax is the power to destroy. "Those who are governed least Inflation? Not Yet Every once in a while some gasman stands on a street-corner, street-corner, offering- $5 bills for a dime. Usually, he ells none simply because, to everybody, a $5 bill is wortn $5. no more, no less. It would b? almost as hard for a store to sell shirts at five cents each as at $5 each. For years, people have been "conditioned" as the scientists say to paying $1 or $2 or thereabouts for a shirt,, and it is hard to change the custom. Some time ago, an American dollar became "worth" only around 60 cents. In theory, this should have raised all prices and wages about 40 per cent. Thus, we should have had inflation. But we didn't. The custom of paying so much a week U-for certain work, and of sheHing out so much for a suit of x clothes or a dozen eggs was too firmly embedded in American Amer-ican minds. Attempts to boost prices failed almost entirely. They went up a Mttle but nowherenear 40 per cent. v So, oui "inflation" of the dollfrr has had almost no effect. ef-fect. Even threats of further inflation seem to cause hardly hard-ly a ripple among our people. If we were all afraid of depreciated de-preciated dollars, we would be emptying our savings accounts ac-counts to buy things land, stocks, houses supplies. But savings accounts stand at a new high mark. Millions of words have been written about inflation, but the fact remains that we haven't had it to any great extent. Nobody knows if we shall have it, or when we shall have it. But, certainly, it will come, not from juggling dollars, but from the state of mind of the gr.at mass of the American people. Way To Find On I Critics of the rtrtmTnisti,at ion are demanding to know what President Roosevelt means by the "over-privileged" and the "under-privileged.'' They might ask the Forgotten Man to answer their question. Just a Desert Tent "Princess" Barbara Hutton Mdivani, minus the "prince," i.-. sailing for Egypt. She want, she says, to live in a tent on the Sahara desert. This just goes to prove that vou never can satisfy people or something. With enough money to buy half the castles and palaces in Europe Barbara wants what is probably the most economical eco-nomical life on earth. All you need is a tent and an oasis. The tent costs $8:45 and the -oasis is free.. If you're hungry, you pick dates; if you're thirsty, you drink from the well. You would probably live a year that way on $5, plus luxury tax. Of course. Barbara may be intending to live in a desert tent iust nominally. After all, there is nothing to stop anyone any-one getting a silk tent as big as a circus top. having power and telephone lines run out from Cairo, importing a lot of expensive urniture and having the oasis tidied up a bit by the ACWA the Arab Civil Works Administration. In fact, the more we think about it, the more we are convinced that Mrs. Mdivani will lead an existence slightly different from that of the regular sand-and-camel tribesmen. tribes-men. Maybe at first a tent on the desert will seem romantic, but a couple of shoes full of sand and a few loose tent pegs during a windstorm will change all that. ROOm For 1 .1 1 -ii aik)Ul me on v dosmdip makers are not showing in this rnent for hitch-hikers. THE are governed best." Thomas Jefferson. i PrOteSt 1 a. i.i .i. . new srauirei trie auioinuimt: year's models is an attach (5- STEPFATHERLAND OUT OUR WAY A SHOT? Jif SstStoR lSS A ill & Mes pound W flannel- H rL7fc:;V SINGH 1 FEU- jf ( fl if V 19 1935 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. V 'y ' " Howdy, folks! The council-maniac campaign is now unoer way. Candidates Can-didates will get stung twice: First by the political bee and then by the voters. A noted archaeologist has discovered dis-covered that the installment plan was used thousands of years ago i in Rome. And there are prob ably a lot of payments still due on chariots from that era. WHO'S WHO AT THE LKCJISUXTl'JiE This is Sen. Ezra T. Blowtorch, Blow-torch, of Dagget county, w ho ha j just introduced a bill forbidding restaurant chefs from applying more than three coats of shellac to pie crusts to give them that glossy effect. Photo by Bob Buckley. How to Keep Single During 1935: Get up every morning at 7 o'clock, walk downtown, stand half an hour in front of the show-windows show-windows in each of the ladies' I ready-to-wear stores and gaze at 1 the price tags. i LEGISLATIVE NOTE I One method of lowering taxes I that has never been tried by the I legislature is to spend less money. I You can always tell :f a baby (needs food by rocking it gently 1 back and forth. If you hear no gurgle you will know it is empty. , ... , ... Cynical Carl says: "We have I 1 A LON6HOT. ADJUSTMENT RAISES HOG INCOME Inspected Hog Slauqhter. and Total Paid by Packers, for first 8 Months, 1933 and 1934 1933 1934 RELIMINARY studies Indicate that a substantial Increase in hog Income is resulting fromthe adjustment in hog marketingsNeffec-tuated marketingsNeffec-tuated by. the 1933-34 emergency hog-buying programs and the 1934 corn-hog production adjustment program of the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration. The graph above shows that the total estimated coBt to packers for hogs slaughtered under Federal inspection during the first eight months of 1934, including the processing taxes due, was approximately ap-proximately $100,000,000 larger than for the corresponding period in 1933. This represents an increase of about one-third in total cost and of more than one-half in the hundredweight hundred-weight cost of lire animals. At the same time, the total Inspected plenty of police protection the only trouble is that it's concentrated concen-trated where it will do the most good for the cops. KIPLING REVISED Ship me somewheres in the Tropics Trop-ics Where the bread-fruit falls from trees, Where there ain't no doggone fuel bills And a man need never freeze! Then there was the athlete who played on the shrub team at the College of Tree Surgeons. A Provo song writer has had himself incorporated. But we don't take much stock in that. HOMER BREW'S DIARY At noon to the Dirty Spoon cafe, where, the pie being mighty tough, I do complain to the cooke, who doth snap back: "Pie, young feller? Why, I made pie before you were born." And I do retort: "O. K. But why sell 'em now ?" And so high words between us, but anon he doth give me a very fine lemon p&stie, and we frendlie enough. . . In the evening home, fvhere finde a letter from Dame Brew (she visiting her aunt in the countrie;, and it vastly interesting, in-teresting, albeit It doth take me an hour to read it, the letter jumping from page one to heaven knows where, and from page two to the back of the seventh page. And so to dinner. Love and kisses to (iussic. Bright Moments In Great Lives Louis D Brandeis, assistant chief justice of the United States supreme court, was one evening attending a dinner party, and a discussion of lawsuits and trials came about. - ter listening for several minutes to the discussion, discus-sion, which centered on the causes of arguments w h ich wound up in court for trmina-tion trmina-tion the justice said: "Arguments seem so futile to me, for behind every argument I have ever heard lies the astounding astound-ing ignoance of someone. 7.500,000,000 X Slaughter ( 6,600.000.000 V Pounds . A BY WILLIAMS T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. slaughter of hogs for the first eight months of 1934 was about 12 pei cent under the total for the corresponding corre-sponding period for 1933. A part of this gain has been due to an increase in consumer's income and to some adjustment in tonnage effectuated by the shortage of feed supplies resulting from drought, but production control under the Agricultural Agri-cultural Adjustment Act has been a large factor. Hog prices throughout the current marketing year are expected ex-pected to average higher than foi several seasons. Corn-hog farmers of the United states will have an opportunity to hold gains made this past year by cooperating in the 1935 corn-hog pro gram now being offered by the Agricultural Agri-cultural Adjustment Administration SCIENCE The United States Department of Agriculture hais again taken up the fight to preserve the western plains, many of which were virtually swept away last summer and fall by severe wind storms. This great movement of many tons of earth was made possible by the lack of proper vegetation which would have held the soil together by its root systems. sys-tems. Two plant explorers have returned re-turned from the arid plains of Russian Turkestan and Turkey with seeds from 1800 different varieties of grass and legumes which thrive in those rainless lands near and in Kara Kum desert. Most of these plants with their complex root systems, are expected to bind the soil of the grazing lands in the Great Plains of the west where tne sod has been stripped off by intensive farming and by too much grazing. Happy. I The Herald extends congratulations congratula-tions to William Watson, veteran Provo resident who is 92 years old today; also to Mrs. Minnie Jepper-son, Jepper-son, Thomas W. Allen, and Dr. Madison W. Merrill, who are observing ob-serving birthday anniversaries today. to-day. Mystery Program At the Sixth Ward William M. Wilson will present The El-Campo company, illusionists, illusion-ists, in a merry melange of magic, mirth and mystery. Tuesday evening, eve-ning, Jan. 29, in the Sixth ward chapel, commencing at 7:30 p. m. The M. I. A. is sponsoring the entertainment and no M. I. A. meeting will be held, it is an- j nounced. tnere is to oe a small admission charge. The public is cordially invited to attend. El3Tbti Paid pfl NEBO TEACHERS HOLD INSTITUTE PA.YSQN The mid - winter teachers institute for Nebo school district was' held Saturday at the Payson Junior high school with Superintendent Melvin Wilson Wil-son in charge. The general session was held at 10 ain. preceded by a musicale under the direction of Carl O. Nelson. Speakers at the session included Warren Taylor assistant as-sistant State . Superintendent of schools E. Gundefson, new state supervisor of industrial education; educat-ion; B. F. Cummings professor of languages at Brigham Young un-versity; un-versity; Dr. L. D. Stewart member of board of education in Nebo district. The new teachers association annual luncheon was held at 1 p. m. with Hugh Baxter, president presi-dent in charge. A program was given from the music department of the B. Y. U. during this period. Superintendent Melvin Wilson, Louis A. Baxter and Eleanor Mat-ley Mat-ley were in charge of the departmental de-partmental meetings during the afternoon. Topics and demonstrations demonstrat-ions were given by John C. Carlisle, Car-lisle, Zina Johnson, Jane Woods, Cresta Olsen, Howard Wilson and Myrtle M. Jensen of U. S. A. C. Exhibits by various departments depart-ments and clubs of the Junior high school were featured. ANNIVERSARY PLANS MAPPED Bny scouts of the Provo district will gather at the homes of their scoutmasters February 8 at 8:30 p. m. to join in the recommittal rites to be led by Chief Scout Executive Ex-ecutive James E .West of New York City, over a coast to coast radio hookup. This is one of the outstanding events in the program for observance ob-servance of National Boy Scout Anniversary Week from February 3 to 10. Plans were laid Sunday in a meeting of all scoutmasters of the district under direction of Dr. Wayne B .Hales, chairman of the district comittee on Leader ship training. Shade trees of Provo will be nmriAH on TTphruarv 9 bv the! scouts as their community good turn. They will gather on that day at 9:30 a. m. in places to be - CSV Nt Sc CHAPTER XL f RIFF turned to Bleeker. "You." he said, "have got your work cut out for you. You have got to get men to locate Frank Bliss, the chauffeur for Mrs. Cathay. Your men must take Bliss in custody." "You think it necessary he should be apprehended?" Bleeker asked. "I consider it very necessary." "Then," said Bleeker grimly, "he will be apprehended." He left the criminologist and strode to the telephone booths. While Bleeker was telephoning Griff paced slowly and meditatively up and down the space between the hotel desk and the row of telephone booths. That's taken care of." the pub Usher announced, emerging from the telephone booth. Griff walked to the hotel exit with the man. "It remains." he said, "to investigate the discovery which led toMorden's death." He hailed a taxi at the door. "Monadnock building on Ninth and Central," he said. A S they entered the cab, Griff looked at his watch. "It lacks 20 minutes to 5 o'clock." he said. "We will probably be able to see the party we want at the office, " Bleeker regarded him thoughtfully. thought-fully. "Ninth and Central." he said. "That's where Morden went in the cab." "Exactly." Griff agreed, "and it was that journey which brought about his death." "Why?" Bleeker asked. "I not making any guessos," Griff said, "but 1 would not be surprised sur-prised if we found that the trail of Mrs. Blanche Malone led directly to the office of Edward Shillingby, a private detective. ' "The man who was murdered'." Bleeker, exclaimed. "Exactly," Griff commented, "and now I want to think. Please don't talk. He settled hack into the cushions and wrapped a cloak of silence about Mm, a silence which he did Motion Picture Star HORIZONTAL 1 Market. , 12 Who is the actress in the picture? 14 Balance. 15 Work of skill. 1$ Crawling animal. 17 Father 18 Southeast. Is Wagers. 20 Part of a circle. 21 To challenge. 22 Coin slit. 23 Is ill. 24 Courageous. 25 Consumed. 26 Hawaiian Answer to IV E.h-4 Lmd i LAIC 11 if 1 c 131 YEHUDl HENUHIN ASSETDEP v 1 qlTnTIt lEHNTTI 1 tdc.BSI 38 Deadly pale. 39 Sixth note. 4t Thrashes. 42 Dandy. rootstock. 28 House canary 43 Light brown. 29 She anneared 44 To coat, with on the screen in Lehar's a thin alloy. 45 Game played on horses. 46 Principal. 47 She is a good (pl-). 33 Musical note. 34 Curved laterally. 35 Frozen desserts. 37 Joins close);. 48 She is a native of . -J LJ 1 . Jr3k- s Bpv sr to PL T 3" vb 5o iTj I y " JT Fj35 designated by their scoutmasters; Community church, Merren Sut-to Sut-to prune the trees, under proper ton Troop 75, Bonneville ward, leadership. and M. R. Bowman, Troop 52, Committees were appointed to 1 First ward, jamboree. anange tor a swimming puny and an indoor jamboree' for all scouts of the district as follows:; Qeoree W. Brown. Troop 50, Mar.- om nrorH -inH W VT Wall Troon i 43 Third ward, swimming party; William Jones, Troop 41, Second warj; John Gessford, Troop 51, not break until the pair stood in the corridor on the fifth floor of the Monadnock building in front of an office marked "Edward Shilling by Investigation." Griff opened the door and en tered the room. A young woman, some 23 years of age. with alert brown eyes and quick, nervous mannerisms, looked up from a book of accounts which lay open on a ?ecretarial desk. "Mr. Shillingby?" Griff asked. "Mr. Shillingby is dead. I am his secretary. I am winding up his affairs, trying to collect some of his back accounts." Griff nodded. "Permit me." he -said, "to introduce myself. I am Sidney C. Griff, a criminologist." "I've heard of you." she said. "The information that I want." Griff said, "is relatively simple aad yet quite important." TTE took a picture from his pock-et. pock-et. placed it on the desk directly di-rectly under the reading lamp." "You're interested professionally?" profession-ally?" she asked. "Very much so." he said. "I hope." she told him. "you can do something about it. The police are getting ready to turn Lampson loose. There was only one witness a man named Decker and Lamp-son Lamp-son bribed Decker to fall down on the identification. I thihk.you represented rep-resented Decker, didn't you?" "Let's pass that for the- moment," Griff said. "Tell me precisely what happened, please." She stared steadily at him for a moment, then said: "Mr. Shillingby Shil-lingby was employed to get some information in-formation concerning Lampson. He shadowed Lampson. On the night of the murder a gray Cadillac car with the left rear fender dented drove up to the sidewalk and parked. A gangster got out, approached ap-proached Mr. Shillingby. fired several sev-eral shots into his body, jumped in the car and drove away." "And the witness Decker?" Griff asked. "You should know all about Decker," she said. "He was walking walk-ing along the street a hundred yards or so behind Mr. Shillingby. The man In the gray Cadillac thought at first Decker was the man he wanted. He slowed the. car and poked out a gun. Then he realized real-ized his mistake and drove on." "He didn't get out of the machine?" ma-chine?" "No." "Bjit he did get out of the machine ma-chine when he killed Mr. Shillingby?" Shil-lingby?" "Yes. I believe that's right." "Then." Griff said slowly, "the man who did the killing was someone some-one Shillingby knew and in whom he had confidence." "Why do you say that?" she asked. "Because," he said. "Mr. Shillingby Shil-lingby knew that he was in a position posi-tion of danger. Yet. when this man stopped the car by the curb and approached Mr. Shillingby, Shillingby made no effort whatever to draw his gun or to protect himself." him-self." "Yes," she said slowly, "I guess Previous Puxxle 17 Skewer. lSjLacking head Kkir. 20 Mixture of metals. ( 21 To eat sparingly. 22 Penitent. 23 Toward sea. 24 Poets. 25 Elevates. 26 Looks after. 27 Wall recess. 29 Dense brush wood, 30 Knowledge. 31 Pasha of imp im! VERTICAL 1 Female horse. 2 To perform. 3 Road. 4 Turrets. 5 011as. 6 Tree. Tunis. 32 Bone. 34 Person. 36 Heaven-sent food. 37 To caution. 7 Paid publicity. 38 Large room. 8 Calendar 39 Secular, period. 41 Rumanian 9 Toward. coins. 10 Note in &vte. 42 To accomplish 11 Corpse. 43 Japanese fish. 12 A bulk, 13 Short letter 45 Postscript. 46 Mister. On the death of a man in the about naked, bodies smeared with white clay, for a year, and are then distributed to the dead man's brothers and sons. --3- that's right, although that hadn't occurred to me before." "Now then," Griff said, "can yoa tell me about a Mrs. Blanche Wa loDe?" CUE arose from behind the desk. moved to a card index, opened a drawer, looked through several cards. "A client wished a report upon that woman." she said. "Did Mr. Shillingby make it?" "Yes." "Can you tell us the name of the client?" "It was." she said, "the Second Security Trust of El Paso, Texas." "And Just what did they want?" he asked. "They said that Mrs. Malone was connected with an embezzler. They wanted to make certain that certain cer-tain moneys which she had' received re-ceived did not come from an embezzler." em-bezzler." "And. Mr. Shillingby made th investigation and reported to Um bank?" "Yes." "What did he report?" "He reported that, apparently, her money came to her as the result re-sult of investments which she had made from her savings very fortunate for-tunate investments in certain -oil stocks." "Just one more point," Griff said, "and that is about the work that Shillingby was doing when he was killed. He was getting information about Lampson?" "He was getting it for some other gangster?" "I didn't think so at the time, but that seems to have been the case., Abruptly her face lit up. "Now," she said. "I remember where I saw that photograph you showed me." "The photograph of the man Morden?" he asked. "Yes," she said. "Tell us about it," Griff invited. "He was in here," she said, "a day or two after Mr. Shillingby's death. He was very much Interested Interest-ed in the identity of the man who had employed Mr. Shillingby. H wanted me to describe the man to him." "And you described him?" asked ask-ed Griff. "Did yon see him?" "Oh, yes." she said, "I saw h!ra and can describe him. He was . . "Perhaps." he said, "I can save a little time here." He took another photograph from his pocket and slid it acros the desk under the bright rays of light which came from the desk lamp. - "Is that," he asked, "the person who employed Mr. Shillingby?" "Good heavens, yes!" she, exclaimed. ex-claimed. "How did you know? Who is it? Tell me, can we get in touch with him?" Bleeker crowded forward, to stare down at the photograph, and then gave a sudden exclamation. The photograph was that of Frank B. Cathay. (To Be Continued). Mm IE V I LI mm PiBOOlfelv "KoJIcw tkat eb," Grill in-traets in-traets the taxi driver la tac aext j. Installment. A aaoatemt late. Jl thera u taa laa. f Kaaftra. |