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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HE RAL D, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 4, 1935 The Herald Kvery Aftcraooa except Saturday mad Saaday Me r alas Published by the Herald Corporation. 50 South Plrt West street, Provo, Utah. Entered as second-clan matter at the postoffice in Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives. New York, San Francisco, Detroit. Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press, N. E. A. Service, Wutvn 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; $5.00 the year, in advance; by mail in Utah county. In advancer $4.50; outside Utah county, $5.00. Liberty tkrh mil the land" Libert? Bell "The power to tax is the 'Those who are governed least are governed best." Thomas Jefferson. How Relief Problem The unemployment relief problem is one of the queerest puzzlers any society could be asked to solve. For when you work out a solution, you are apt to find that you have taken steps which will alter your whole social and economic base in a way you never intended. An example is the subsistence-homestead plan. Recent Washington dispatches say that the administration administra-tion may develop this plan on an elaborate scale this year. It is suggested that nearly a billion dollars may be used to put 1,000 000 families on 10-acre plots of ground. Each family would be installed in a comfortable house and equipped with a horse or a cow and enough seed for a year's planting. Figuring four persons to a family, government experts point out that in this way thev would "take 4,000,000 people off the relief rolls and make them self-supporting. The money spent, furthermore, would not be a dead loss, since much of it would be laid out in the form of loans, to be repaid re-paid in 15 or 20 years with a small addition of interest. iC 5j Viewed from this angle, the idea is all to the good. Nor is there much doubt that the individuals settled on these plots of ground would have a better time of it than they have been having on relief. It is the secondary implications implica-tions of the nlan that make one pause. We are now engaged in an enormous program to reduce farm production and raise farm prices How would creation of a million new farmers affect this? It is argued, to be sure, that these people would produce for their owi! ue only, and not for the market; but even this would take a million potential customers out of the market mar-ket and,, to that extent, would reduce the demand for farm products. !; Then there is the industrial angle. A leading feature of the plan is that the homesteaders would not be full-time farmers; thev would supplement their earnings by part-time ""work in local industries. What sort of impetus would creation of a million part-time, part-time, small-town workers give to the decentralization of industry? in-dustry? What would it do to wage rates? Would it not put a new', unknown factor of incalculable potentialities into our great industrial equation : The subsistence-homestead decisions of the most tar - into i whirh would he taken, planned attempt to revise our industrial and economical set-ud set-ud but simplv as incidents in a campaign to solve the rehet up, but problem. . , . , A1 A i This is iust a .--ample of the way in which the strufrjrlo to cope with this relief problem may have undreamed-of consequences on the whole fabric of our national life. - i SCIENCE ven after the normal full period of quarantine in uncomplicated cases of scarlet fever, the victim can still transmit the disease to others, a study of 3000 cases of the disease in the city hospitals of Chicago has revealed. Out ol that number, 188 of them trans mitted the disease to others, which resulted in 282 more cases being admitted to the hospitals, and others were treated in their homes r This investigation was carried on by Dr. Archibald Hovne and AT power to destroy. Affects Our Lives plan easily lead us j reaching importance dec ;s- not because ol any careiuuv Dr. John Hay? Bailey, of the Municipal Contagious Disease lios-i lios-i pital, under the auspices of the Chicago Board of Health. Resulting from their investiga- tion, physicians have reached the : conclusion that the spread of scar- let fever cannot be effectively con-1 con-1 trolled by methods of quarantine now in use. and that the number of secondary cases could be re- i duced bv longer quarantine. j imuu r, i i , Amelia Earhart left her husband hus-band in Haw-'ii and flew to San Francisco to get home lefore. him and prepare his dinner. THE CROSSROADS OUT OUR WAY v I HEVl YOU. BETTET? GET " ' ' Jglg I I VOUR ORDERS BV PHOI4K ! I J . ffiljvou got Th' customers' J pTl vV Jr h MyWALKS CLEAN BFOR, , $ "V ' XTYiy "'"TL HEROES ARE MADE -NOT BORN ". T. L BCG. 0. 6- MT. OfT. UpOTlP I 134 BY NCA StRVtCE. INC- Bright Moments In Great Lives Shortly after the entry of the United States into the World war. General John J. Pershine praised and criticised bv those whol thought they knew as much about running the army as he did. As is the case with most public figures, he had a hard time pleasing everyone. every-one. One of his chief critics called him to task for spending so much time on small details. Pershing replied: re-plied: "I am doing now, while I have the time, in order that those under me will know how my mind works when I have not the time to spend on minor details." Munition Magnate Avoids Testimony WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 UR The --- e l. Cord, millionaire automobile, airplane and shipping executive, has not been available for questioning in the senate arms investigation. Chairman Gerald P Nye. R.. N. D.. said "our committee wants very much to question Cord and we are very much surprised to fir.i that he is not available for such important investigation." V. t-H a nrinpinal nonpr of the New York Shipbuilding Corp.,! now under investigation by the i Nve group, is in Europe. I FAVOR RECLAMATION WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 r.i: I The Haw-Schmitt land survey ! committee recommended today i by Secretary of Interior Harold 1 L. Ickes that the federal gnvern-' gnvern-' ment continue reclamation work in . K ...oof ..tV , - "Except for the influence ot ; the present depressed farming j conditions and operating projects are in the main excellently devel-1 oped and represent strong pros- i perous communities, the board reported. Howdy, folks ! The earliest sign of spring is when angleworms angle-worms being to watch you to see if you are a fisherman. if if if if Motto of the state legislature: Now is the time for all good men to come to the raid of their party. ! LOCAL MAN AWARDED NATIONAL HONQR ! Amos T. Flea.bite, Pravo inventor, has just been elected elect-ed nat i o n a 1 president of the! Poison Ivy club. Mr. Fleabite is the man who Invented cold steam heat for apartment houses. Photo by John Harrison. if if if if Let's cut out this talk ot a third party and see if we can't get the Republicans together and maxe a second. BACK TO SCHOOL "Make a sentence using the . ivvnirr " "Yesterdav I was in had with the boss, but today I am invoice." jf, if, f. f. A bright glare in the sky was recently seen by Provo residents. One fantastic theory is that it was the sun. if Sf 3f f ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SEZ: "D e a f n e s s isn't a hardship to th' woman who has to listen to her husband tell how he bawled bawl-ed out th' boss at the office." Ol' Silas Grump declares that the town of Pumpkin Hollow is in urgent need of more beauty shops, per capita, than any place he knows of. 2f 2ft $f if MUSIC SECTION In one way Li'l Gee Gee's piano playing reminds us of Paderewski. She uses both hands. 2f if ifw if "I visit my friends occasionally," occasion-ally," remarked the book lover, "merely for the purpose of looking look-ing over my library." A $20,000,000 bank has been organized or-ganized in Wall Street to finance foreign trade. This will come in handy if there's ever any more foreign trade. Cf if if if HOMER BREW'S DLARY j Earlie to bed, where reading "Lightship," by Milord Archie Bins, with greate pleasure, and to smoking a black cigarro, and do fall asleep and do dream I be burning in Hades, and to awake with a start, and do find the blanket smouldering, but do soon put the fire out, and no harm dene, except to the blanket. And so, cursing myself for the sillie zany I do be, to sleep again. ift if if if Perkins, have the chauffeur bring the purple Rolls-Royce around to the side entrance. And be sure the flower vases are filled with American Beauty roses. 5 CHILDREN PERISH -MONTREAL, Que., Jan. 22 i:.i;i Five children, the oldest of whom was ten. lost their lives today and seven other persons were injured by fire at the home of Themile Gadbois at Longeuil. The children, four girls and a boy, were found huddled together in an upstairs bedroom when firemen fire-men arrived. BY WILLIAMS 100,000 Musicians Play For Parties NEW YORK. Jan. 22 An army of more than 100,000 musicians today prepares to lead the nation in a war on infantile paralysis. Joseph N. Weber, president of the American Federation of Musicians, Musi-cians, declared here today that 100,000 of them will lead the attack at-tack in more than 5,600 communities' com-munities' on the night of Jan. 30th, when Americans from coast to coast attend the Birthday Ball for the President. Proceeds from the celebrations will go toward fighting fight-ing poliamyelitis, technical name for the disease. "We are glad, indeed," Mr. Weber stated, "that living music will play so large a part in the great and' worthy celebration of the president's birthday. With more than 5,600 balls in progress throughout the country, it may be estimated that 100.000 musicians will be engaged in providing dance melodies." How large a role musicians will play in the Birthday Ball parties was indicated in word from Chicago Chi-cago today that twenty orchestras will play at the grand ball in the city's International Amphitheater on the night of the 30th. Fort, the Chicago ball the Chicago Musi- , cians' union has also donated a 100 piece dance band. Another twenty i" mwit- m ue iqa uu ai un m- ! cording to Col. Henry L. Doherty, onfa airman of the Birthday or ne President. Other or- v ? - kj-- j dozens in great population centers. and every small community participating par-ticipating in the programs is planning plan-ning musical entertainment. Proceeds from the parties will be divided, 70 cents of every dollar dol-lar to be used by the community raising the money for rehabilitating rehabilitat-ing local infantile paralysis victims, vic-tims, and the remaining30 percent to be turned over to the National Committee fdf Infantile Paralysis Research. WHOffiaFIRSTp IN AMERICA By Joseph Nathan Kane Author of "Famous First Facts" When were the first quarantine quaran-tine regulations passed? Who invented the railroad coupler? Who was the first woman to be elected to the U. S. Senate? Answers In next issue. FlPST PRACTICAL PNEUMATIC PLAYER PIANO BLHLT IN )eO BY EDWIN S VOTEY! IfeACK TANKS POP 1LP0AD TRAINS INSTALLED ON PENNSY1VATA RAILROAD. 70. WILLIAM DUN LAP FIRST PROFESSIONAL PLAYWRIGHT Answers to Previous Questions TTOTEY coined the word "pia- nola" for his instrument. The Pennsylvania built the track tanks, for scooping up water into in-to the tenders, at Sang Hollow on the Pittsburgh division, early in 1870, and the New York Central followed suit the same year. Dun-lap Dun-lap wrote or adopted 63 dramatic pieces. He also wrote the His tory of the American Theater. Utility Holding Companies Facing Two Alternatives WASHINGTON, Jan. 23jt.F- Prospective legislation affecting legislation affection public utility holding companies has simmered down to two alternatives federal control or confiscatory taxation the United Press learned today, v The two alternatives were the principal issues discussed at the White House when President Roosevelt conferred with members mem-bers of his administration regarding regard-ing the legislation which he hope: to send to congress shortly. Those at the conference included includ-ed members of the federal trade, power, securities and exchange cominissions. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Atorney General Homer S. Cummings and Donald R. Rich-berg, Rich-berg, recovery coordinator. Professors List Student Dislikes BOSTON tl'.Kt If you are a student who 1. Wears an old high school sweater, a soiled shirt and no necktie. 2. Enters an office with your hat on, sits on the professor's desk and lights a cigaret. 3. Feels that you are misunderstood misun-derstood and persecuted. 4. Finishes an examination last, especially when the rest of the class has finished' half an hour before. 5. Monopolizes a conference hour. 6. Insists on trying new dance steps on a crowded floor. 7. Excuses poor work because of a party the night before. 8. Wrestles and yerTs on a sidewalk. side-walk. 9. Maintains that since you are paying for the course, you can work or not, as you please. 10. Boasts about the number of books you have read If you are that type of student, then you will not be popular with the Northwestern university faculty. facul-ty. At feast, that was the disclosure disclos-ure in a survey made there on "what professors habitually dislike dis-like about students." ITIhie OTew CARLTON KCNDRAKE Ct954 HtA Setxcthe. CHAPTER XL11 "RIFF completed his statement to Captain Mahoney of the homicide squad. "I admit," he said, "that I cut It a little fine, but I thought that when 1 told Fisher of the arrest of KeDneth Boone and of the girl who was known both as Esther Ordway and Alice Lorton, 1 would account for his time for at least an hour." "Then he didn't go to pee Mrs. Malone at all?" askpd Rleeker. "Of course he dldo'l." Griff said. 'He wanted to try to get some message through to the girl who was arrested and he wanted to arrange ar-range to secure counsel who would get her out on habeas corpn? h fore she could make too many dam aging statements." "Then." Bleeker said. "Fisher must have Just been lenring Miss Morkley's room Instead ot going tn It when wr bsw him there In the hotel." j "Of course." Griff said. "Fisher i had Jur.t drilled her nn the story T she was to give If she was qnes I tloned." "And Fisher was really the ac- j complice of Peter Malone?" Cap- ! tain Mahoney asked. "Yes." Griff said. "Peter Malone : embezzled more than $25,000 from the Second Security Trust of El i Paso. Texas. That was more than 20 years before. He ran away and left a wife, and daughter. The wife subsequently divorced him. She came to this city. In the meantime Peter Malone had gone to River view, taken the name of Frank B Cathay, posed as a business man who had sold out Interests in South Africa and therefore had some cash to Invest. His accomplice, whom we knew as Fisher, naturally shared In his resulting prosperity. The two men became prominent In Rlverview. They had the secret of their past locked safely In their own breasts. TheD Mrs. Malone happened to make the discovery that her husband was a Rlverview millionaire. Immediately she com menced to participate In his wealth and so did her daughter who had been going trader the name of Alice Lorton." "Then." Mahoney asked, "the marriage of Cathay was legal?" "Yes." Griff said. "Mrs. Cathay Is really his wife, although he did not know it. She knew enough of his past history to realize that he had probably left a wife. She knew his real name and knew that the wife's first name was Blanche. When Cathay died she moved heaven and earth to try to find Mrs. Blanche Malone and make some sort of a deal with her." "And Mrs. Malone wouldn't settle?" set-tle?" "No. She had been carefully coached by Fisher." "How was that?" Griff said. "Perhaps I had better bet-ter explain from the beginning. The two men embezzled money. They became respected citizens in River-view. River-view. Then the bank employed Shllllngby to Investigate Mrs. Ma-Ion j SIDE GLANCES 'Now, study hard every day proud when they Townsend Plan Is "Fantasy" Perkins WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 ri'- i The Townsend plan to give $200 , monthly pensions to all persons over 60 was described as a "fant-, asy" by Secretary of Labor ; Francis Perkins . I Testifying on the admlnistra-, tion's economic security program; before the house ways and means committee. Miss Perkins said the . plan would eat up more than i half the entire national income. tt "I shall continue to refer to the real Malone as Cathay, because that is the name under which we knew htm. Mrs. Malone' reported to Cathay that Shllllngby was making an Investigation and naturally Cathay thought Shillingby. had un covered the secret of his past and was going to threaten him with es posure. "Cathay's appearance had. of course, changed in the 20 odd years since he had been guilty of the em oezzlement. a fact upon which h-decided h-decided to capitalize. He talked t: over with Fisher and thev auiecd that Shillinghy must he kiMcl fore he cmild cnpitalize upon hi-Information. hi-Information. "In any event, tt was acreed thai Cathay was to kill Shiiliis:;hy. In order to do that, however, he want ed first to have an alibt as Cau-av Second, to havp it nppe.T Mint Sl;li lingby had tieen killed tiy a cane ster. Therefore. Cathay. tMuig as another gangster employed Sim lingby to shadow the most danger otis gangster he could tlfink uf H' picked upon "Cininrnii lied" Lanipson "Lampson had a cray Cadi'lar coupe with a denied left rear fender. Cathay secured a dupii'-ai-of such a car. kept it stored at a place near Lampson'n headn.ua rters When Shtllin&by had shadowed Lampson to this neighborhood Cathay drove up to Hir curb Sbillingby. recognizing the man who had employed him naturally was not suspicious. It gase Cathay an opportunity to shoot him and escape." "And Decker," asked Breekcr, "the man who was a witness?" "Was an innocent cog In the murder mur-der machine. Of course. Cathay needed a witness who could testify to the gray Cadillac coupe. So he trailed Shllllngby. who was trail Ing Lampson. until a pedestrian was encountered. Then Cathay worked his prearranged plan. "Fisher was to take the name of Cathay, go to a hotel, register, keep an appointment as Cathay and cash a check. He went to the hoiel, reg lstered and cashed the check, but before he could keep the appoint ment he got playing around with Stella Mockley. They had a few drinks and the unexpected happened. hap-pened. Fisher was arrested, (t he-came he-came necessary for him eventually to assume the Identity of Cathay with the police. That led to the publication of the story. wnen tnat happened the men were In a panic. And there, gentle men. Is where we must give a trib ute to Morden. "We know that Morden took a taxlcab. That he went to Ninth and Central. That he went to Shilllngby's office and asked questions. ques-tions. Undoubtedly. Morden was shadowed. That trip cost him his life. The conspirators were In a panic, IX was decided that Morden must die. "They knew that Cathay would be suspected. Therefore, be must have an alibi. Fisher undoubtedly agreed to give him some medicine that would make blm Quite ill, so me : Forgot t ft Murtle'y By George Clark J so mother and daddy can' be return next spring-." Congratulations are extended to Mrs. Amanda Banks, Provo beau- tician, who is celebrating her birthdav todav. i Now wo will listen to the German Ger-man carpenter. We will hear Hauptmann. train our ears for his every syllable, strain our- eyes for the faintest shade of expression. expres-sion. that he could be under the care ol a doctor. That was Fisher's opportunity. oppor-tunity. He suddenly realized how much better off be would be If he could kill Cathay, stand In with Mrs. Malone. and milk Mrs. Cathay by blackmail. "Fisher had been having Morden shadowed and. therefore, had no difficulty locating him. Murden was waiting for Alice Lorton to come in. Flatter showed up and produced pro-duced a key to the apartment. Mor-den Mor-den recognized Fisher as the mau ho had been arrested and lven 'he name of Cathay Fisher clubbed Morden from behind, left ihe body in the apartment and slipped out, "Alio l.'irton fnurd the ttody when ment. it. "F; left !' thp rt'iurtiffl to her apart-I'. apart-I'. t ne helped her eel rid of cr t')f thdt Cathay had I aiiil-'it a larue beauest- Tliis I., -id protiulily neeri ri'Uin for a rtason We may neve; know what that reason was. 1 was atrald that hey would ither murder the chauffeur chauf-feur or get lii:n to skip out of the "iiniiy for a la rue rash considers tion. Therefore. I was anxious to It "Id him as a witness. The story, of course, w hich Stella Mockley told us about the mysterious conversations conversa-tions of Peter Malone over the telephone tele-phone with the chauffeur at the Cathay residence, was made up out of go much whole cloth. She had been carefully coached in that story by Fisher. When she had told her story Fisher wanted, her removed. He telephoned her fo take a taxi-, cab and met him at a certain place. Then be took out the gray Cadillac which had undoubtedly been stored In some private garage near the scene of the crime." "When did you first uncover all this?" Captain Mahoney asked. "I should have known it much sooner." Griff said apologetically. '1 realized what must have happened hap-pened when I began to realize that the man who had assumed the Identity Iden-tity of Cathay must have done so with Cathay's knowledge, consent and co-operation. Then i realized, of course, that it had been done to give Cathay an alibi and that a man would go to such trouble to get an alibi only In the event he planned to commit a murder. I then thought back to remember 11 a murder had been committed at ; that exact time and remembered at ! once that Shillingby had been mir-j mir-j dered at 19:15 o'clock." I The criminologist sighed as i got to his feet. "Doubtless." he ne ' ! said, "so far as you gentlemen are concerned the case Is completely explained. ex-plained. As far as I am concerned, it will never be explained." "If Morden merely obtained some tip," Bleeker said, "how could he have obtained IL" Griff 8 hook his head. "1 wish." he said softly, "that I could answer that question. The murder of ShUIingby was the key to the entire mystery and yet that murder was overlooked bv all Of us all except Morden. He remem bered the forgotten, murder. "GeQtlemen. good morning.' THE END. Happy-1 i 558 0'i P, |