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Show r ' VRt)VO (UTAH) EVENING PAGE -FOUR H5R AJUD, O N4)A , JA NUE Y 20, 13 6 OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS I SIDE "GLANCES - Bjf eqrge Dark WW . m ' :A' ..HZ VI V The Herald Every Afternoon except Satairaay aad Snadaj Maralac Published by the Herald Corpoiatlon, 50 South First 'West street, Provo, Utah. Entered as second-elass matter at the postoffic In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. : r , V Oilman. Nlcoll & Riithman, National f Advertising representatives. New -York. -Ban Praneisco, "Detroit Boston. Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press. N. 15. A. Service, Western Features and the Scrippg League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier In Utah county SO cents the month, 12.75 for six months, in advance; $5.00 the year in advance; by mail In Utah county, in advance, 14.60; outside Utah county, '15.00. Uaerty (areas an Ik Ua" The Fading Stage Out of a group of 60 students at a western rural school, 40 of the youngsters have never seen a professional stage show, a survey shows. The motion picture rides triumphantly through the amusement field, and perhaps rightly. It can offer magnitude magni-tude and splendor never to be rivalled by the stage. It has a freedom of movement that can never be equalled behind the confines of the footlights. The motion picture personifies the Age of Progress. Yet these youngsters are missing a thrill that we who are older will always cherish. There was something in those old-time shows which was a part of American life,. Seeing a show in those days wasn't a matter of pay inir a dime each Friday at the neighborhood playhouse. It was, for most of us, an event which came seldom and which, when it did, was greeted with wide-eyed wonder. The opera house, with its plush seats, crystal chandeliers chande-liers and immense asbestos curtain, was in itself a thrill. Then came that moment of moments, when the house-lights house-lights went down and the foot lights went up and the play, with its infinite possibilities, was about to begin. The scenery usually was pretty battered after a six week's tour, and the leading man's palm beach suit was grimy, but the eyes of youth did not see those flaws. The play was the thing. Whether it was in "Hamlet," "In Old Kentucky" or "The Prince of Pilsen," those old-time actors lifted us from our quiet towns and carried us to the ends of the earth. We suffered, and triumphed, and laughed and cried with them as these flesh-and-blood actors lived out their parts on the stage. In the uncritical eyes of youth, there was a reality to the stage which the films have never equalled. Youngsters of today have many advantages, but they are to be pitied for missing the thrill which the stage once gave the world. Circumstantial Evidence A great many of the supporters of Bruno Richard Hauptmann feel that his conviction has a weak foundation because it is based on circumstantial evidence. They believe that the testimony as to handwriting, the similarity of the wood in his home and the wood in the Lindbergh kidnap ladder, and the discovery of the money in his possession may indicate some probability that he was connected with the crime, but that this evidence establishes no certainty. "Circumstantial evidence can never be strong enough for conviction," you hear it said. -Without any -reference to the Hauptmann case, it can easily be shown that circumstantial evidence can be as convincing- as direct evidence. At a recent murder trial, in which a man was convicted of murder, the prosecutor gave an example of undisputable circumstantial evidence. "Robinson Crusoe thought he was alone on his island," he said. "He saw no men. he saw ao smoke, nor sign of habitation. Then one day he saw the print of a naked foot upon the beach. "Robinson Crusoe still could see no man. And yet when he saw that footprint in the sand he knew as surely as he lived and breathed that some other person had been there. That is circumstantial evidence." . It was evidence as strong as any direct evidence ever produced. And on the humorous side, don't forget Jonathan Swift's famous example of circumstantial evidence. He knew something some-thing was wrong, he said, and changed milkmen when he found a trout in the milk! Italian , HORIZONTAL 1 Pietro . Italian soldier. 8 He is the present pres-ent head of Italy's African 12 To free. 13 Growing out. 15 Over. 16 Timber tree. 17 Reckoned chronologically 18 Armadillo. 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Sad figures: The hitch-hiker who mashed his thumb with a hammer and had to walk. if if. if. if. Political prophets say, a dark horse may be the next winner of the presidential nomination. If it's the same dark horse we bet on at Payson last summer, we'll bet it won't. if. if. if. if. This horse didn't sit down in the middle of the track. He just collapsed when they pulled pull-ed away the starting box he was leaning against. if. if. if. if. Li'l Gee Gee calls her new boy friend her streamlined sweetie. He offers practically no resistance. if, if. if. if. GOOD TASTE Scratching the back with a fork at table is hardly ever done. Wait until the meal is over and take the fork into the drawing room. Good fun can be had at a party from under the scatter rugs if the floor has previously been waxed. If a lady guest spills wine over her frock, the other guests should at once follow suit, so that the whole frock will be stained the same color, instead of being sent to the cleaners. Throwing .32 slugs instead of rice is a novel touch when a girl is being marriaed to a military man. Always leave the spoon in the coffee cup at formal dinners. It simplifies the hostess' chore the counting the silver before the guests leave. if. if. if. if. An old-tinier is a man who can remember when Eugenie hats were going to pull us out of the depression. k Abigail Applesauce says: "A derby hat is something a wife thinks looks very dignified on most men. but terrible on her own husband." hus-band." if. if. if. if. YE DIARY Lay late abed, smoking a black cigarro, and do burn a hole in the sheet, and when mv wvffe tax me with it, I do say the hole is for me to peer thru at night, lest burglars come and I should not see them, but she call me a raffish raf-fish knave and so high wordes between us. But later I offer her a lollipop and we loving again and fonde. if. if. if. if. The flavor lasts. SCIENCE Scientists have found, after years of painstaking effort and research, that at one time the whole of North America was covered with giant sequoias, such as those which now thrive in California. Cali-fornia. At that time, 120,000,000 years ago, the continent swarmed with dinosaurs. During the ages which followed, mountains arose cutting off rain from certain sections, sec-tions, and killing off these giant trees. Later, glaciers swept down and killed all "the rest except those in California.0 ' NEWSMAN 'DIES - WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 (IIP)- Theodore C. Wallen, 41, chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune, died .yesterday after an illness of some weeks. WHY MOTWEC5 GET GCAY. (-- FORUM n Agin 'Em Letters -from Herald readers read-ers are welcome for the Forum and Agin 'Em column. They should bear the writer's name and address; avoid personalities; per-sonalities; be as brief as possible. pos-sible. Herald Fairness Is Appreciated Editor Herald: Your liberal concession of space for discussion of the Townsend question is both commendable and'T timely. This movement has become be-come a national issue to a -much greater extent than the people of Utah realize. It is surprising to me to find so few people in Provo, a town known for its po-gressiveness po-gressiveness in several ways, who have any conception of what the X n l l -t luwiiscnu yimi iiicaiia. I am taking issue with the statement that the articles by John T. Flynn recently published in the Evening Herald gave an argument for and against the Townsend plan. It was very plainly plain-ly an argument decidedly against this movement, as can be provedj by taking pencil ana paper ana tallying the statements both for and against. I figured that the disparaging dis-paraging statements were five, as compared to one concession for the possible good in the plan. Not one statement was made regarding regard-ing the benefit that would come in the way of relief for the misery of the aged and the re-employment of the jobless men. The subsequent articles by Mr. S. H. Jones made no pretense of being an analysis, but rather an open defense. There should be no objections, even on the part of ardent Townsendites, against the publishing of articles criticizing the proposed recovery plan, so. long as the champions of the cause also have a hearing. It is very timely that we have amicable discussions dis-cussions on both sides of the question. The Evening Herald is the only newspaper I know of that is taking a broad stand on this subject. Usually the columnists colum-nists have their say (usually sarcasms sar-casms t with no opportunity for any defensive statements to reach the same readers. And these same columnists seem to repeatedly repeat-edly take the prize for revealing their lack of knowledge of the proposed plan. One of the outstanding out-standing columnists of the United States recently made this statement state-ment in reference to the Townsend plan: "The people with their votes can do whatever they choose. While it lasts, they could, for a little while, with an organ- ized vote sufficiently bis:, take 8000 millions or 20,000 millions a year of public moneys until the money gave out." His last five words prove his unfamiliarity with the Townsend plan. He evidently evident-ly presumes that the pensioners are going to burn or bury their money just as fast as they get it. His inference in no way suggests putting put-ting money into circulation, which is the ultimate aim of the Town-send Town-send plan. It seems inevitable to me that an economic Change in the "United States must come very soon. ., I -am familiar with the principles of several of the so-called liberal factions with their various sug-suggested sug-suggested remedies. (Last spring I was a delegate to a large gathering gath-ering of "liberals" in Southern California in the interests ,of world peace. ) I am for the Townsend plan because it appeals to me as the one remedy for the depression that 'accounts for the fact that with the machine here to stay we must "have a ' leisura class (why not let it be those who have already toiled and have nothing to show fpr it?) and because it can most quickly succeed in putting put-ting money into circulation without with-out any drastic changes in our ; present monetary system. OLA SWARD PETERSON. Bright Moments fN GREAT LIVES David I. Walsh, U. S. senator from Massachusetts, served his state as governor. When first elected to that office, a prominent promi-nent woman told the governor who was a confirmed bachelor that he should marry at once. "What you need," she gushed, "is the influence of a good woman." "Madam." Walsh replied, "I have been under the influence of six good women all of my life my mother and my five sisters." A strange race of people in Chu-tan, Chu-tan, fare to the north of Assam, India, makes its clothes of nettle fiber. Golden Feather by Robert Bruc O 191s nca $, U. CHAPTER XXXI QLOWLY, step by laborious step; the federal men toiioweo m, dim trail across the middle west. Larry 'Glenn and his two aides Tony LaRocco and Ai Peters,, went op th national pike from the village vil-lage of Maplehurst like . bloodhounds blood-hounds on a trail. . asking Questions Ques-tions and displaying; Uttle rogues gallery pictures everywhere rrin restaurants, filling stations, drag-stores, drag-stores, hotels, garages, barbecue stands, anywhere that the. fleeing robbers might have, stopped. And at last, by slow stages, their trail led them toward Chicago. Chi-cago. It was not a clear trail: but, as Larry pointed out, the fugitives had a wounded ; man with them, and their -first thought would be to : get him to a doctor. Obviously-1 since, as the federal men had satisfied themselves, they bad not taken him to any doctor along the way they were nead-j lng tor some doctor whom they knew well, some renegade phyl4 elan Who lived on the fringe o the underworld and conld he trusted not to give them away It was logical to guess thfat they expected to find such a man in Chicago. , So since the trait ? pointed toward Chicago anyway: the three man-hunters gave up their comb-1 lng of intervening . cities and towns and headed straight for the : metropolis. :. 'Arriving, there,- theyVWent at once to the, Chicago Offices of the Department tt Justice, . where .Matthews, the agent 3n charge of the department's Ghteaga division, bad had ills men out fdrjwo dsye trying to find out if any stool pigeon or tipster had heard any. thing of toe Jackson gang's hereabouts, here-abouts, ;,', TTfllBWS d two pieces of 'information for Larry. ! . wThs first,- not Of immediate 4m-1orUhoe. 4m-1orUhoe. came from Washington. The fingerprints ; Larry's iien, had got from She window nt ihe Manlahitrift an Jr:MMfittSisrtirlatB tJthere; ty, she ronnde4 eter, who ,bad steadisd lmaalf momentarily "by pressing ais sand against the glass hadlbeen iden- tified 4a. the, , departments fii irbey',ere ;those;iJf Sandy 'Harl (rins Who was nQWi. by that ideau-Hcatlon ideau-Hcatlon definitely 'branded as member ntths ladsson vangvc ! WThsl second 4lt;ot 4nf ormstlon. was this: ; . Matthews mea 4iad ?ieot otfnd aZ trace p the Jackson, gang & The Ik (.tjonunuea irom 1'age we i i himself knew little of such things,, considered the -, scholarly Utahn a very erudite man.' . ' At any'rate, SUtherlafltf Was defeated de-feated by Senatof Ktng 'and left the senate In m J In 20, he spent several lnoTnths ' advising Harding on his cs&tpatgti. Harding Hard-ing appointed him -to the supreirie court in 1922. On- -the court, Sutherland has established a 'record tn opposing state 'legislation to control business busi-ness and regulate labor conditions. condi-tions. It was Sutherland who wrote the opinion outlawing the mini mum wage. It was Sutherland who wrote the opinion making unconstitutional the child-labor law. It was Sutherland wno. ln the Baltimore Street Railway case of 1930, ruled that a fare fixed by the state nermitung the company a 6V4 per ent return was "confiscatory." "confis-catory." Finally It was Sutherland who wrote the majority opinions up setting Oklahoma's attempt to control her tee industry, and again checking the right of a state to use its taxing power to promote cooperative farming. Justice Sutherland has hypochondriacal hypo-chondriacal tendencies and is constantly con-stantly talking about medicine and his ailments. Two or three years ago he talked about resigning. re-signing. But like some of his other anti-New Deal colleagues, Sutherland now is determined to stand by as the protector of the constitution to the very end. J ON THE JUMP j A few days after his court colleagues col-leagues had riddled the AAA, Justice Harlan F. Stone, one-time dean of the Columbia Law School, met one of his former students, now a government lawyer. "How are you getting on, John?" inquired Stone. "Pretty good, Mr. Jusitce. I was with the legal division of the NRA last year, then I transferred to the AAA, and now I am in the legal division of the securities and exchange commission." Stone smiled, said: "I see. Keeping one jump ahead of us, eh?" Note Some New Dealers fear -3 Chicago. Bnt one of the agents, who had formerly served as a narcotic nar-cotic squad officer with the Treasury Treas-ury Department,, had contacted a weak, sniveling little cocaine addict, ad-dict, a hanger-on on the fringes of Chicago's gangland; and this man had told htm something that might. Just possibly, be import tant. There was in Chicago a doctor named Jeckers; a twisted and corrupted cor-rupted man who had been barred from practice and sent to prison, some .years before, -for celling morphine to a dope peddler. On his release from prison Jeckers had specialised in underworld practice. He would treat a gunshot gun-shot wound -for -;a gangster, and see that news of it did not reach the police; or be would perform a face-lifting operation for a criminal who did not care to be recognized; or, in short, he would do any of the innumerable little Jobs that the underworld could not safely. get done at thousands of reputable physicians. The little cocaine addict knew Jeekers who, as .It happened, was an. addict himself; and he had learned that Jeckers, a night or two previous, had been called te a Worth Side apartment to treat a gunshot wound. That was all there was to the Information: but Ounderson, the agent who had obtained it, thought it a promising lead, and Larry readily .agreed with him. He asked Ounderson where Jeckers Jeck-ers conld be reached. . "I figured you'd Want to know, so I got It out of this cokey while I was talking with him." Ounder son said Jeckers has a little apartment up on North Dearborn, a dosen blocks beyond the river; has his office in his apartment, and seldom goes ut. The number's num-ber's 3$ 87 -suite two, on , the second sec-ond floor. Ton ring the bell, and you don't get in unless you say. This la Uarkua up the speaking tube," " ' AND so, t lv o'clock on bright summer, morning, . five United States government DOcersLarry Glenn i.wlth. Bis ws . ssststanu from; Do vet; and , Matthews and Ounderson of jthls tntiico pmce - droye out ; North Deasborn street to pay icaU on Doctor deckers. Lajrry.hsd With himTa-hastilV ob- ftaused warrant charging; the, doe- tor with harboring a ragtuve. -:They drove psst th'e SSOa.hloek, turned to, .the right.' and parked on ii. Side street lust , off North pwbbro. TJujrtvin Saee,! .said liury. rsomeone ought to watch ths rear. Tony, suppose yott islip up that alley-eee, it's r the third house. If., be -tries to -come? out the back way, collar im; : tou won't know Urn when tyou. see him, of course, but. collar anybody that tries to slip out, ITaybe Al'd better go with you. The three of us ought , to be enbugh for, the front way.-. . Peters and LaRocco strolled up HrtfS?i ellsiaiy dtt a gate in A, dilapidated ;wooflf fence, The other three walked arotthd h eorner ;to North DeaN born " udentovrajthe Ideratlr v.Tne tairea sgests kwsnti up vxe atepa,5ulled;open a'thasaive, itime-? stained door, :nnd entered, a 'small lobby with the usual, letter: hosts and call-buttons on one marble wan. -titerry vent o Hnspectthe fiames 03 boxes, -The no 'Nobody knows how old dust catcher around the SEC will go the way of other New Deal agencies, be declared unconstitutional oy the supreme court. MAIL BAG E. P. S., Madison, Wis. There is nothing in the constitution which empowers the supreme court to declare acts of congress unconstitutional .... V. K., Boise, Idaho Franklin D. Roosevelt's venture into the aircraft business was in 1923, when he became member mem-ber of a company known as "General "Gen-eral Air Service," purposing to run a helium gas airship service between New York and Chicago. . . . . S. H. L., Oakland, Cat Contributions to the Liberty League made by the Du Pont fam- numbered tor suite two where Gunderson said Doctor Jeckers lived bore no name. Larry protruded his lower Up as he peered at it; then, briskly, he Jabbed the button to the num ber two suite. There was a moment of silence. Then, from the speaking - tube, came a gruff voice, "Who's it?" "This is Markus," said Larry. Another silence; then a grunt from the speaking tube, and the lock to the inner door clicked. Matthews had been waiting, and at the first click be Jerked it open. The three men strode - down a short hall, went np a flight of stairs, and came to a door with a brass number "2" on its upper panel. They waited, and the door opened Just a crack and a yellowish yel-lowish eye gleamed out at them. TJNDERSON bad one massive foot against the wood, and the effort to slam the door was unsuccessful. Ounderson bent and pushed, and the door flew inward with violence. Larry and Matthews Mat-thews dashed in, la time to see a spare, gray-haired man in a rusty brown dressing gown go spinning across the little . foyer, impelled by the force with which Gunderson bad thrust at the door. The man collided with the wall with a thud and stood leaning against it, looking sldewaya at them, one arm raised to ward off a blow, one hand in a side pocket of his dressing gown. He bad a dull, pasty color to hit) skin and his -eyes bad' an unpleasant yellowish yellow-ish tinge in the whites; his face was deeply lined from the nostrils to the corners of the mouth, and there was a mixture of fear and defiance in his look. "Watch him!" snapped Matthews: Mat-thews: and at the same moment Gunderson's band shot out, seized the man by the forearm and gave him a Jerk that spun him across to the other side of the foyer. A small automatic flew out of the hand which bed been in the dressing dress-ing gown pocket. Larry pounced on it, while Odnderson pounced on tbe man like a terrier seizing a rat, slammed' him 'heavily against the wall, and pinned hhn .there with his huge hands. A lock 'of -gray hair, -lank and greasy, fell down -over the man's forehead. He glared at his cap tors, panting. - !What is this?". he asked. A stick-up or a pinch?" "A pinch," said Matthews dryly, flipping back a lapel to shojr his badge. The man looked at it and gave what might have been a sigh of relief ; and Larry suddenly realized real-ized that this renegade doctor probably prob-ably lived in greater terror of some of the underworld folk wbo 'made up his clientele - than of the law which he so consistently defied. He held out the warrant where the man could read It. "This Is a federal pinch." he said. "Want to talk to us here, or downtown?" down-town?" ... Doe 'Jeckers read the warrant, then looked np with a contemptu- f ous curl on his lips. "Talk!" he said scornfully. "ItH I Jake more'a a piece of paper like that to -set me talking.'' "Have it your way," said Mat. thews calmly. "But, brother, yottH be talking and 'talking plenty before be-fore you see the last of us." Doe Jeckers gave7 him a sour took; ysyoWe leered. i ITo Do Oontlnaed) it is, bul its lx'cn the worst here for twenty yours. a '. ily during the past year total $23,500. In addition, the Du Ponts made "loans" totaling $129,750. Asked to make a distinction between be-tween "contributions" and "loans" Liberty League officials said, "It was the understanding that loans would be repaid if and when the contributions caught up." Supplementing Supple-menting the Du Pont family, John J. Raskob, vice-president of Du Pont de Nemours, made a contribution con-tribution of $15,000, and Alfred P. Sloan, a director of the company, com-pany, made a contribution of $5,000 and loans totaling $10,000. . . . . F. P. O., Evansville, Ind. Of the nine supreme court justices, only two make use of their private office suites in the new building. build-ing. They are Justices Roberts and Sutherland. The others prefer to work at home . . . . G. T., Chat- I tanooga, Tenn. The $35,000 paid to Newton D. Baker and James M. Beck for their opinions holding TVA unconstitutional was paid not by stockholders of the Alabama Ala-bama Power Company, but by the Edison Electric Institute .... C. L. M., Washington, D. C Secretary Roper's pronunciation of the 'Word "embryo" with the accent ac-cent on the "y" is not correct. The accent should be on the first syllable. syl-lable. WPA PROBE URGED WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 U.R Charging that WPA workers in Pennsylvania are being forced to give part of their earnings for political purposes, former Gov. Gifford Pine hot today urged Sen. William E. Borah, R, Idaho, to propose a congressional investigation investiga-tion into the whole relief situation. Pinchot, in a letetr to Borah, said under WPA in Pennsylvania Republicans are required to repudiate re-pudiate their party before they can get government aid. Regarding Insull's new radio chain, bygones may cease to be bygones if he contracts a crooner. The problem now confronting those who attended the Jackson Day dinners is whether or not that memento, the $3 grape, will keep. Built upside down, that Missouri highway should look odd to the average driver, at least half the time. It doesn't seem quite fair to Senator Norris. His grocer-namesake got but three months in jail, whereas Norris may get six more years in the senate. Italy's ruthlessness cannot readily be appreciated by Americans Ameri-cans who have never been the victims of hospital bombs other than appendectomy bills. UNTIL FEB. 29th We Will Make -and Hang Your Drapes ' Almost Free! Make Your Selections Now ' ; . We'll Hang ThemiTjater DMTIBR 1 |