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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVER, UTAH 1 SNAPPY FACTS Recent Deaths of Two Men, One in the West and (H I LI I - "vnu .f fc......a King George of Greece Is Irked with his public relations experts. They kept him staying In his London hotel room during the Athens mess instead of okaying His Highness' usual routine of making the London late places surrounded by a bevy of beauts. . . . Cuba's Batista will settle in Brazil. THE A m t Y , 'j ' VPr - learned the fine was too high make any profit, even at b.m. fees. They decided it was cheaper to get out of business than make wholesalers rich and themselves poor. ed of lusty, action-fille- d h,i-h- outlaws, life and Boot Hill burials. prefers doing DR. ENDICOTT PEABODY Hol-ma- Tombstone Built by Dr. Peabody. g something Important, such as his recent assignment His excellent reports are credited with actually influencing U. S. policy in the Orient. Faces Aboat Town: Libby In SI e, n to try it. "Peabody was known, to go into Bringing the Law to the the saloons and gambling-house- s published by the Houghton and go up to the gambling-table- s Mifflin company in 1928, "Billy" when they were in operation, with Breakenridge writes of "The Feara crowd around them, and say 'Genless Preacher" thus: tlemen, I am going, to preach a ser"His name was Endicott Peabody. mon on the evil of gambling SunHe was about twenty-fou- r years of day night and I would like to have age, and full of vim and energy. you all come to the church and lisHe immediately got busy building up ten to it' All who could get away a membership for his congregation went to hear him. He had large and getting funds together to build audiences always." a church. He was a good mixer and Less than two weeks after the soon got acquainted, not only with death of Dr. Peabody, the wires carthe very best element of society in ried the news that Albert Bacon Fall Tombstone and there were some had died at the age of 83 in El Paso, educated people there but he un- Texas. The news of his passing dertook to get acquainted with ev- served to recall briefly a nagreat erybody, with the mining magnates tional scandal in the recent past-h- ow and managers, the federal, county Senator A. B. .Fall of New Mexand city officials, the professional ico was appointed secretary of the and business managers, the miners interior in President Harding's caband muckers, the or inet, how he was one of the chief and the saloonkeepers figures in the Teapot Dome oil case, Story of the Week (By Dr. Elisha teamsters, A. King): Do you remember the and gamblers. He soon had a large and how he became the first cabinet officer in American history to Indian Juggler described by William congregation and had the money doHazlitt in one of his famous essays? nated to build his church. When it serve a prison sentence for a crime. The Juggler was perfect in throwing was completed, he had the money Again few, if any, of the newspa- and catching brass balls keeping to pay for it. and the church has per accounts gave much space to his four in the air at once. That was never been in debt since." career as a young lawyer in the How the Money Was Raised. his whole stock in trade, but it was Southwest or told of his associa- An incident which Breakenridge the best he had. Seeing a number tion with some of the notables of of people go to the Shrine of the relates sheds light on the young the frontier. Yet he was the attorVirgin Mother bowing, praying, etc., preacher's money - raising ability. ney for the defense who won freehe became Interested and wanted to One day a group of mining men. dom for the slayers of two famous he went in, including E. B. Gage, general man- gunfighters both of whom illustrate worship. Finally, squatted in front of the Image and ager of the Grand Central and Con- the truth of the age-olsaying that performed. It was the best he had tention mines, was sitting in a back "he who takes the sword perishes to offer and doubtless acceptable. room of the Prospector hotel enjoy- by the sword." I mention this because of a ing a stiff poker game In which freOne of these gunfighters was John report from Guadalcanal describing quently as much as a thousand dol- Wesley Hardin of Texas, possibly a Christmas evening service. Father lars was in the pot. the most notorious killer in the anGehring celebrated midnight Mass, nals of the "Wild West" and popu"Gage was an Episcopalian." but no one could play Christmas writes Breakenridge. "Mr. Pealarly credited with 40 notches on his music. A soldier had gotten a small body came back where they were 39 of them before he was organ from somewhere, but no one playing and introduced himself and 21 years old. could play It However, one man asked them for a donation to help The 40th notch it was was found who knew only one tune, build a church. He explained that Sheriff Charles Webb of BrownDeputy cou"Yiddisher Mama," so he played it was something needed badly, and ntyput Hardin in the penitentiary that. the only way it could be built was for 15 years. He employed them With the heavens for a roof. Mass to get everybody he possibly could law, and after his usefully, was said In Latin, a Jewish boy to subscribe toward building it. release Instudying 1894 he hung out his shinplayed the one piece he knew and Gage counted out about a hundred gle in various Texas towns, several hundred Protestants, Catho- and fifty dollars from his pile in up in El Paso the following ending lics and Jews knelt and listened. front of him, and everyone else In There he became involved in ayear. dis heirthe blues thrush-tobacc- o ess, who is quietly backing Broadway shows. . Band chief John Kirby, $5,000 wealthier after winning a libel action from a Pittsburgh writer, who cast aspersions on his draft status. , . . Canary Bernice Parks, currently at the St. Regis, who will decorate Life's pages as gal. She has 16 fur coats. Her match book covers feature . . Horace photos of her feller. MacMahon, one of the stage's capa-bleserving the nation by delivering war bond speeches while waiting for producers to come to their senses. . . . Milton Berle, who at this tardy time is feuding with Joe E. Lewis over the song. "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long!" Apparently after reading the "Fight or Work" edict. . rado: Mes-quite- ..v.'.' i the room followed his example. Peabody was dumbfounded for an Instant, and then told them that it was a much larger contribution than he had expected, but it was for a good cause and he knew they would never regret it. . "Peabody was a fine athlete, and was named the official referee in all baseball games and other outdoor sports that were carried on by the His young men of Tombstone. decisions were never questioned, as he was known as being absolutely square and he had no favorites. He and freloved a good horse-racquently attended the gymnasium where he kept himself in fine physical condition by exercise; he never refused an invitation to put on the gloves with anyone and never was bested." Bad Man "Backs Down." Perhaps that fact had something of one to do with the "back-down- " of the bad men who infested Arizona in those days when he tried to bluff the "fearless preacher." Breakenridge tells the story thus: "In the summer of 1881 the Reverend Mr. Peabody was invited down to Charleston to deliver a sermon. His subject was the evil of rustlers and the the cattle-stealindrinking and carousing cowboys. bad Billy Claybourn. the would-b- e man who had killed one or two in saloon fights in Charleston and who was afterwards killed by Frank Leslie in Tombstone, heard of the sermon and sent word to Mr. Peabody that if he ever came to Charleston again and preached such a sermon, he, Claybourn, would come to the church and make him dance. Peabody told the man who delivered the message that he expected to return to Charleston in about two weeks, and would preach a sermon that he thought appropriate, and if Mr. Claybourn would come to the church and listen to it, and then thought he could make him dance, En-dico- The first Broadway hit show to beat the jinx of the amusement page alphabetical listing is "A Bell for Adano." . . . Many shows that put an "A" in front of the title to inherit the top of the list flopped. "Angel Street" was the exception for a long time. . . . The commies in Indianapolis, Erie and Buffalo last week started their campaign to discredit Hoover with a national smear attack. . . . They say N. Y, Times' critic, Brooks Atkin--so- n (now in the hospital after a long session covering China's part in the war), doesn't want to resume He ft Episcopal Church tt When death claimed the Rev. Peabody at the age of 87 in disnewspaper Mass., Add rackets: Phones in Florida Groton, are bringing as high as $500 each patches chronicled the fact that he of the Groton from people who lost theirs to the had been the founder armed forces a year ago. . . . The school and its headmaster for many had mobs are set to run the bookmak-in- g years, during which time he of and characters molded minds the in Mexico and Havana. They had been figuring on the tracks suf- many an eastern notable, including Franklin Delano Roosefering disaster for more than a President if any, of these disBut velt. few, year. . . , Sidney Kingsley dashed patches mentioned the fact that this off a five page scenario in 30 minutes, for which Zanuck paid him same Rev. Endicott Peabody had once lived and labored in one of the $50,000. More than a 1,000 smackers wildest towns in the history of the minute. per American frontier Tombstone, Arizona. Though war plant absenteeism Into such an environment in the was a contributing factor, the Washsummer of 1881 came a young Episthe is that ington grapevine saying ordained in main reason for closing the tracks copal minister, recently therewhat and Boston, happened was this: congress was preparing in the words of a to stick a 10 per cent tax on the after is best told man who knew him then and there. mutuels, and the track owners (in- That man was William M. Breaken-ridge- , stead of cooperating gladly in view who was one of Sheriff Johnof the fortunes they've garnered in Tombstone Behan's ny lately) made ready to fight it. . . . It at the time. deputies In his book, "Helldo- was their attitude, more than anything else, which irrita'ted the powers that be. drama-inspectin- ......... y, ," . pute with the Selmans Young John, a city policeman, and Old John, a constable who had a record as a killer himself. The result was that on the night of August 19, 1895. Hardin went down before the blazing of Old John Selman shot from behind, so his friends said, as he stood drinking at the bar of the Acme saloon. Selman, when tried for the killing, denied that he had shot Hardin in the back. He insisted that Hardin was looking him straight in the eye and apparently about to draw his gun when the constable fired. A young attorney, named Fall, who had just come to El Paso, agreed to assist in Selman's defense. Years later, Fall, recalling the case, told Eugene Cunningham, auA Gallery thor of "Triggernomerty: of Gunfighters": "I couldn't help being impressed by Selman's appearance when he assured me that he had been looking Hardin in the eye. I knew Selman well and I felt that he wouldn't lie to me and he had all the appearance of a man telling what he firmly believed. It puzzled me, so I went down to look over the scene of the killing. I stopped at the Acme's door and looked inside. There was a man standing at the bar and he lifted his head. Then I had the explanation of Selman's statement. For as that man stared into the mirror, I had the illusion for an instant of looking him straight in the eye." Apparently Fall's explanation was convincing to the jury, for Selman was freed. "Few of the gunmen of that era lived past the turn of the century," says an editorial on the passing of Albert B. Fall which appeared in the Chicago Daily News recently. An exception to that statement is Pat Garrett slayer of Billy the Kid, the gunman with the 21 notches. That killing made Garrett a national figure. Three times he was elected sheriff of Donna Ana In 1901 county in New Mexico. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him collector of customs in El Paso, Texas. Then he retired from public life and took up ranch ing in New Mexico. He had a dispute over some trifling matter with a comparatively unknown young best-dress- s. j d ... six-gu- The Radloraclrs: Talk about deflation. When CBS last week dropped orchestra Raymond Scott's (which cost the network more than $250,000 In two years) the spot was inherited by Milt Herth's Copaca-band- , which has only three musicians. . . Ted Adams, of "We, the People," had no trouble booking H. Hodgklns. the for the proyouthful ; Because Adams sumgram. mered near where the spies landed for 25 years. e acting-produce- . it t4 f a a- tax tf 1. 'I s. - j' . ! our of a trail-end- , cowboy capital. It was a town of lawlessness and law. saloons and schools, gambling halls and churches; lurid melodrima and business routine, red lights and altar candles The Rev Endicott Peabody. educated at Cheltenham and Cambridge university in England, and now rector of the Tombstone Episcopal church, is anxious to have the churchyard fenced and takes up a collection for the purpose. His con Washington, D. C. FEEDING ITALY Chief issue in the long series of backstage arguments over feeding Italy has been President Roosevelt's desire (1) to get the Italian people to play a greater part in the war; and (2) avoid a repetition of Greece. Already there have been rumblings of food rioting, and should Allied tanks and guns be turned against the people of Rome as in Athens, the repercussions would be tragic. Theoretically, the British have agreed with Roosevelt. When it comes to putting the policy into effect, however, it is different Folsome disagreements last lowing F.D.R. August and September, thought he had the whole matter ironed out at the Quebec conference with Prime Minister Churchill, only to find that in late October nothing had been done. Finally, on October 31, he took the unprecedented step of giving a dito rect order as commander-in-chie- f the secretary of war. He wrote: "I have had before me the shipping difficulties in getting supplies to the civilian population of Italy and I note that we have been'building op some reserves for use when northern Italy collapses. "In the meantime, it seems to me that the situation is so acute, from the point of view particularly of food in southern Italy, that some risks must be taken regarding supplies at the time of the collapse in northern Italy. That collapse may well not come until Germany itself collapses, in which case the shipping situation will be much less acute. "Under the circumstances, I have determined to assume the responsibility for asking General Wilson to increase the ration to 300 grams throughout all of Italy that our forces occupy." Despite this categoric position by the President of the United States, Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, referred to above, did nothing. Last week, Secretary Stettinius empha sized shipping as the reason why increased feeding had not been given Italy. But he did not give the whole story. Actually, as pointed out by the President there has been accumulating a stock pile of food for unliberated northern Italy. PAID CONGRESSMEN The struggle experienced by many congressmen to make both ends meet in Washington, and also the steady retirement of A- -l officials from public life because they cannot take the financial sacrifice, has an interesting parallel in the early days of the nation. Some of the founding fathers, being honest men and without private fortunes, found it impossible to live on their government salaries and were threatened with imprisonment. For instance, the great revolutionary war hero. Gen. William Moultrie was imprisoned for debt. Also, the first associate justice of the U. S. Supreme court James Wilson, had to flee Pennsylvania to escape his creditors and was about to be served with extradition papers in Edenton, N. C, when he died. Also. John Rutledge of South Carolina, one of the chief drafters of the constitution, was threatened with imprisonment for debt and only remained out of jail through the sufferance of his creditors. Today, U. 8. congressmen, cabinet members, and federal Judges remain relatively among the poorest paid public servants In the world. A U. S. ambassador to London is paid $17,500, while the British ambassador to the United States is paid $80,000. A U. S. Supreme court justice gets $20,000, while a New York state Supreme court Justice gets POORLY f Technical man say that aboat threo gallons of alcohol art used to produce sufficient butadiene to make an aver, age-iiz- e synthetic tire. Use of synthetics and oltemal materials, particularly In field wir and telephone cable, resulted hi the conservation by the Signal Corps of the U. S. 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His attorney was Albert Bacon Fall. "Few of. the men who knew these gunmen or who saw them alive remain alive today," continues the Daily News editorial. "Albert Fall knew a lot about many of them. It was popularly believed in the Southwest that he might if he chose, shed light on mysterious circumstances surrounding the sudden demise of a number of them. But, if he could, he didn't And, with his death, another colorful segment of frontier history grows fainter and recedes farther and farther Into the fabulous past" s PERSUADING NAZI PRISONERS the army's shrewd Recently psychological warfare branch installed sound equipment at the edge of a Nazi-hel- d port behind the Allied lines in France and offered the Germans a novel "Trial Surrender." The message broadcast to the Germans went something like this: "Try it out for three days. If yci don't enjoy being a prisoner with us, you can return to your lid I f I t TOMOCCOW ALRIGHT LAXATIVE ! (QUI WORD SUGGESTION FOR ACID INDIGESTIO- N- groves IIT COLD A B LETS J Keep the Battle Rolling With War Bonds and Scrap As a result of the offer, eight Nazis surrendered. At the end of the three days, four agreed to stay; the other four asked to go back. The army let them go. To their surprise, however, the four came back a few hours later bringing more than 50 of their tired Nazi comrades to Join them in the comparatively luxurious prison camp surround ings. CAPITAL CHAFF Students of lend-leas- e will find at gregation gives meagerly. Gam- an American neuropsychiatry rest blers playing poker in the Crystal home at Shugborough park, in Palace learn of the good pastor's England, a rather undistinguished disappointment and. with their com- flagpole about 15 feet high bearing pliments, send the Rev. Peabody the the stars and stripes. At Its base Is a kitty from the night's play, the kitty sign: "This flagpole loaned the comprising chips taken out for all American forces at Shugborough hands above two pair. The Rev. park by the Earl of Litchfield." Peabody returns a note of polite C The Hollywood post office has thanks and the church fence is built. made a special rubber stamp to Waller Noble Burns in "Tombmail to Congresswoman stone: An Iliad of the Southwest." Helen Gshagan Douglas, who once in Hollywood. Doubleday, Page & Co., Publishers. f ! units." . ; r $25,000. ALBERT B. FALL t v. I Gamblers Helped the Rev. Endicott Build His Churebvard Fence Tombstone was unique among the frontier towns that have achieved lurid distinction in the history of the American West. It had, according to its legend, its man for breakfast every morning, but it was touched with the refinements of old and ordered communities. It was isolated i:i an Arizona desert, but civilization was just over the horizon A mining town in the heart of a cattle country, it had the picturesqueness of a boom silver camp and the col RUBBER DREW PEARSON .... . A . . By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union, Old West lived again and, paradoxically, it lived again because of the deaths of two men within the span of two weeks. One of them died in the West the other in the East, but and The Federal Trade commission both had once been closely of prodIs checking up on endorsers ucts in ads. Wants to find out if the associated with events in what celebs who endorse them actually was once known as the "Wild use them. . . . The reason for the West" the West of roaring New York butcher strike is this: cow towns and rowdy mining The Gov't clamped down hard on of quick-shootin- g The butchers camps,officers and black marketing. equally peace to & MHlDY" One in the East, Recall Days When Gunfighters Wrote Their Names in Blood in the 'Wild West' ABOUT 1 GOOD-TASTIN- G mm m TONIC Scott's Emulsion contains natural A & D Vitamins often needed to help build stamina and resistance to colds and minor ills. Helps build strong bones and sound teeth, too I Give I Scott's daily, the year-rouGood-tastin- g good-tasti- ng Recommended by Many Doctors i |