Show THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- SUNDAY MORNING JULY 23 1939 R The Open Season for Tail 'Tales STAMP SAUERS tTAaUMCO W90 mins? IVIN PUBLISHING COMPANY a f ctasMANN- - PTMTQR AND GENERAL MANAGER G Dleh1 Associate General Manager SYank Francis Associate Editor Leonard AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 1879 clasa matter according to Act of Congress March 3 A G Service and NEA United Fresa to to the use for republlcauon of all news dispatches credited news l1otgpwl0 credited In this paper and also the local rwn nth u second Press Entered at the The Associated Press la 1 BJ Carrier Ninety-tw- I£So WrSmtaLCAl? Oth5“ SuImSmO 83c Years Ago o a t of July Tomorrow is the “Twenty-fourt- h o years ago the day we celebrate' Ninety-twsite of the pioneers arrived on the present Salt Lake City and started to make the Great Salt lake valley their homeland of They 'were a hardy courageousto body do and men women and children ready dare Think of them planting crops at this latb date in the summer season under the most adverse conditions! to farm They dug canals and proceeded known on a different basis' than they had Because they stopped at no handicaps and had unbounded faith in their undertaking dreams they succeeded beyond their fondest - 'Summer Slump' Falls to Materialize It is now getting along toward the time of year when people would rather lie under an apple tree than call on that last customer whose place is way over at the end of town Because at this time of year millions of people feci a little bit that way there usually of business ensues a noticeable falling-of- f (and all other) activity This has been christened ‘the summer slump” But thissummer there isn’t any which is a very heartening thing indeed The Wall Street Journal whose business it is to keep in touch with these matters surveyed all the reprominent fields of trade and industrymost cently and came to the conclusion that of the trades and industries which usually drift into the doldrums at about this time are stubbornly fighting their way upward Here are some of the conclusions reached: department store sales were bettering the seasonal average well above 1938 automobile sales holding up unusually well gasoline consumption at a new high replacement auto tire trade at a high in June sales of building material at the best level of recent years with construction contracts up expanding orders in the machine tool electrical equipment and utility' fields Not all industries showed so bright a tendency with steel production still at a low' level and railroad equipment lagging But new' seasonal traffic records are being set on the airlines the machine tool and airplane industries are buzzing (with W'ar orders it is true) All this activity flying in the face of traditional seasonal dullness is further proof demand which of the tremendous backed-u- p lies beneath the surface of today’s conditions It is now almost certain that 1939 is going to be a far better year than 1938 as regards business progress! and the first sign six-ye- ar of sanity to return to the international sit- uation should make the green light burn mediately brighter im- IN BATTLE GANG BUSTING Law Steps Into the Heaven Of Collectors of Rare Stamps Plenty 'Wrecking Dpne But Much Remains To Be Accomplished By ED MILLS By CHARLES FOLTZ JR PARIS (Correspondence of the Associated the Press) — Under spreading (horse) chestnut trees of the Champs Elysees the Paris detective stands That Is a fact which has led to a minor crisis in the famed open situation was a critical problem then and it is a somewhat less critical but none KANSAS CITY July 22 (AP) — In the 15 Weeks since Good Fri- day —April 7 — Kansas City has learned it takes more than one d wrench to monkey wreck a machine On that date a federal grand Jury hurled & wrench of Imposing proportions into the drivfe shaft of the st engine with which Boss Tom ran Kansas City It indicted the boss himself Since then — and for months even years before— the pliers and wrenches of politics and civic reform have been turning away at the dismantling process It still lacks much of completion Only future city and state elections can determine whether the job will ever be finished—whether Kansas City even wants It finishWell-aime- business Pen-derga- 1 : change or sell postage stamps there are more than a i Sometimes thusand ranging fiam small boys But it is a different problem One of the curious aspects of' it is this: the insurance companies pitchforked into widespread farm tiemen looking for some rarity to ownership aSainst their will are now somewhat reluctant to get out The reason is hRg stepped the law The city fathers of Paris suddenly discov simple: they have found that their large ered the stamp market as a pos farm holdings are a sound asset and almost bhj0 new source of revenue for the the only one they can hold that provides depleted city treasury do’ng’buttaM 1" any security against possible inflation ed I “1” So now insurance commissioners in van- - ““sso ous midwestern states engaged in trying francs (about $7) and continued business under the chestnut gradually to weari farm property away from doing First the insurance companies are meeting resist- - Then came the detective' dealers' demanded to sea every he ance receipt card Then he announced Many’ of these states the Wall Street that the market must henceforth In Journal points out in surveying the situa- - deaUretiiing for of other for collectors exchanging tion have statutes limiting the length farmltamps own Jime insurance companies may Howl Reult have laws sold one of his states Such collector a in those if property p seldom been enforced and there is reluctance to enforce them too drastically at any one dealer and was liable to arrest for his identity card time ’ lest the dumping of many farms on notThehaving resultant howl from hun- the market at once break down land values dreds of irate collectors and dealers Further the insurance companies are good and prompt taxpayers and county ments They came and went to treasurers are wary of getting too many gentleroen of u wIk5 o( farms suddenly back into the hands of those jif who had appeared at the mar By BRUCE CATION - Examiner Washington to Standard lor market years day who may or may not be able to pay taxes kt ®very exchange stamps with their cronies Corespondent But on the other hand of course there is swore vengeance WASHINGTON July 21— When Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa heat pressure in every such state to reduce tenancy and one of the most easily avail- - variety of the ’British one penny able ways is to get those farms out of the hands of the insurance companies and back that an exchange could be ar- mean than himT ' into the hands of farmers In one state it P c£ahno other last summer's primary!'“he was found that 15 per cent of all farms They called on small boys to had arned the right to have his ftatement taken at were in the hands Of insurance companies testify that they too were only just K so and Forlfthe senator really wanted certainly nothing an unhealthy Situation in a country which beginners lofty as dealers but that they too to get even with the administra- tion he could have done it in a aims at the widest possible personal owner- - occasionally had sous (the French beequivalent of pennies) passing much more spectacular way than tween them Ship Of land by those who use it that During this- session he was The a chance to fire a shotgun Ulven The problem now is gradually and with- law waspoI!ue YerB a?anLan TSe the middle of the presi- into Anybody right out disturbing unduly the land market to took money for postage stamps Uent’e cabinet-a- nd he refused to was a dealer and institutional-owneautomatically take it farms back get these setP out into the hands of men who will personally ToBeat Detectives A detective was assigned to see till them that the law was obeyed and the Insurance compames Will then have the Stamp market amateurs and pro- ud mat ct beat him problem of what to do with the money re-- 1 feonajsanke ceived for them investing it in a market though amateur stamp selling took fr ar8in!!emewLt°he from them lt which offers all too little chance for new at leastbusiness away wanted was an Investigation of brought customers to the ly subject of grain futures investment j market They joined the war the whole its effect on domestic and But that is tomorrow’s problem Today’s In the end the philatelists won trading farm prices introduction of this is the graceful easing out of the farm out Officially the detective is still bill offered a way to get it to see that the law is ob He got a good deal of support ownership problem which arose in the there served but unofficially the ama from various farm organization 3 teurs still sell for cash leaders here and his bill was redepths of the depression in subto I ’ : I - face’ I - ’ - -- I d 1 S I 1931-193- south- ern ‘ On one occasion it refused to award the middle states prize to a fisherman in Indiana who claimed to have caught a small-mout- h bass in his state weighing more than eight pounds on the small-mout- h grounds that the species simply doesn’t grow that big ' Just for the record we hope that Mr Cagle had his catch HOME FRONT A WORRY TO NAZI GOVERNMENT (Willson Woodside In Harper’s Magazine) The greatest of the Nazi worries on the home front in a future war I think would be the morale of the population It Is not for nothing that the regime maintains an elaborate secret police system and the threat of the concentration camp that it Opens mall and listens in on telephone conversations and above all plans to keep the Black Guard at home in nt wartime The German people of today are not the confident cheerful well-fe- d nation of 1914 There may be millions of young men raised in distributed Introduced into wa- the Nazi school healthy and willters where they were not native ing enough to fill out the first naarmies at the front But the adult they have h thriven In Florida been bass have population which would :be left to tive 12 over well carry on at home Is a people who taken which weighed southhave been through a succession of In the while upper pounds Carodisasters The defeat In the last North in ern states notably been war starvation occupation inflahave mouth lina small depression unemcaught which weighed more than tion the world the Hitlej revolution ployment eight pounds to be war crises which have folthe tend and bass Is It a fact that are harassed one it lowed that north goes they farther the smaller is uncertain really mentally sick h species and the Together with that millions of more common in the south than in them seems hate the regime bitterly the north Therefore it Illinois for the smashing their political parhighly probably that — a for breaking their trade unh and ties a was bass bass of eight pounds seven and a ions their housing half ounces is for northern wa- and their sports clubs for perseThe sporting cuting their priests and pastors ters a whopper Stream and for degrading the German and Field magazine which for many years has con- name in the world through their ducted an annual angling contest assault on the Jews the burning divides the country into three sec of books and the destruction of the large-mout- large-mout- small-mout- ‘ FRENCH LAUGH On All This Revenge Talk Oast Vote On Face Value I a They reach a bargain on the ferred for hearings senate agriculone of the saunter behind off and committee price This of the chestnut trees to complete tural committee headed deal was by Senator the The detective is philosophical Bulow of South Dakota and includabout it all ed Senator Gillette and Senator said he Morris Since Norris was busy on TO RIVAL AUTO “They’rehis impossible” at arms the stamp other matters the hearings have waving market humming busily with a een conducted almost entirely by hundred bargainers at work “Tell guow and Gillette and since the FRESNO Cal (UP)— If Karl O me to stop big gambling and I js Gillette’s bill by senatorial do it Tell me to break up the custom he has to all intents and will Veilhs theories are correct the j Montmarte gangs and I will do it purposes "had control of the hear public soon wall exchange Its Tell me to find a murderer and I mgs streamlined automobiles for new will do it Now in the group which wanted colfool these “But crash-proo- f stamp keep of grain futures airplanes from selling those little bits this investigation so a was The inventor has been expen lectors trading there of paper— zut! Impossible!” to drive dewanted with which various to speak plane menting Wallace out of his job as signs for the past 20 years and Henry These now believes his latest a new type secretary of agriculturea bill of will for the way monoplane pave people had drawn up Wallace great advances in aeronautics particulars accusing Veith an Austrian who settled in Chicago and recently was transferred to Fresno by the U S Army Engineering Corps insists his new ship will eliminate flying dangers cut production and operation costs KANSAS CITY (AP) — Frank and permit higher flying speeds Colley director of the American Association Press and Radio bu New Wing yAs lB-- tar The outstanding'feature” of his ? e 3 fkis SrevS?Sy'S plane Veith said is alame’ Near the end of last year’s new type wing which permits MONTGOMERY Ala (UP) — battle in Indianapolis the club much stronger construction and greater safety In comparing it with the conventional type wing which is spread at right angles across the bow and has only two points of contact with the body of'the plane he explained the new wing is in the shape of a U and fits around the plane with six separate body connections Controls are located In the extremities of the wing on each side of the tail Expanding on the qualities of his new wing design Veith said S it not only decreases air resistance which would lower operating costs but its position affords greater support for the plane and prevents sub-com-mitt- ee PLANE DESIGNED J sub-gro- ed I fool-pro- of 1 up Prshrt all-st- ar Pfirch dangerous tail spins and side slips Small Engine Adequate He estimated his ship with an wing spread could be pow- - I LEXINGTON Ky CAP)— Police ered by a 25 horsepower motor are had convinced said it who a bandit and Negro Taylor hunting Equipped with this small engine apparently believes in sharing the road department officials of the the ship would cost very little to wealth practicability of the glowing glass manufacture on a large scale E q Kirk reported the man balls and materials had been order- snatched a wallet containing $18 ed to equip other roads Taylor said he believed Alabama universities and general cultural from his hip pocket He calmly the first state to experiment the was bill handed selected a $10 life of the country This is not a money with the new highway marker but healthy population to carry into a walleU and the rest of the war to the death or into any war back to the astonished Kirk and 1 that Montana had now begun using it fled but one of absolute 18-fo- ot I self-defen- se ( refusing to enforce the grain futures trading act and asserting that his refusal to accept the “cost of production’ plan for agriculhe was unduly ture was because ' the with grain speculafriendly tors They wanted a sounding board for their charges The hearings on Gillette’s bill looked like a handy one If they could spread their detailed charges on the committee record they could get a lot of publicity for them In the end they probably would fail to get Wallace out of office but they would at least create a tremendous lot of trouble for him and for the administrasub-com-mi- tte tion Would Have Been Easy Gillette’s part In all of this would have been simple He wouldn’t have had to turn a hand himself All he would need to do would be to let these people have their way at the hearings If revenge for the “purge” was what he was after here was a fool — proof chance to get it and to get even seeming to it without it The he didn’t do it and on hearings have been going a not ripple created they have Somehow the attack on the secre tary with its implications that the administration’s whole farm poli ey is a fraud hasn’t been taking i shape Senator Gillette Is going to find out all he can about grain futures to let trading but he isn’t going into an be turned his investigation administration on the attack Gil Just incidentally Senator of hear lette is getting a bit tired he ing about the “purge” When as administration— votes with the he he did on the monetary bill— crawlof him accusing gets letters it as ing when he votes againstbill— he he did on the neutrality a grudge of harboring is accused Meanwhile you might just re member that when a real chance to put a knife into the administration was offered to him he turned that it down— and did it so quietly even has here hardly anybody heard of it Well New Record? No? Well Secretary So They Say Will Fix Thai Up Alabama Tests Small Marbles Never forget this Our country could survive any shock if our lib erties remained — William Allen Road Stripe White Emporia Kan editor and ”3 " HU ‘Purgee1 Gillette Fed Up I V) that J I ever-prese- The boss and R Emmett O’Malley the man he made state Insurance superintendent are numbers 55295 and 85296 at the Leaven-wort- h federal prison now They went up the river after each pleaded guilty to income tax evasion but many of “Uncle Tom’s” boys still hold power Only Beginning The day they were accused M Maurice United Milligan States district attorney termed their Indictments “in a sense only the beginning”-I- n another sense It wasn’t even I tions: north middle and MISSOURI'S AGAINST TAX air stamp market for it has suddenly been invaded by the law Since the early part of this century Paris stamp collectors and dealers have gathered regularly It is now about six or seven years since- un(jer e horse chestnut trees of famed Paris avenue every the jrreat deluge of insurance company fore- the and Sunday afternoon to Thursday closures descended on the farm DelL Ane engage in their favorite hobby of Opinions of the Press BASS GROW BIGGER IN SOUTHERN WATERS (Baltimore Evening Sun) Freeh water game fishermen will be intrigued by the report from Eldorado 111 of the capture Of the "largest bass ever caught In southern Illinois’’ The fish is said to have weighed eight rounds seven and a half ounces— in which case it may well be the largest bass ever caught in the northern part of the whole country was A Mrs Cagle it seems a retired husband her with fishing mining engineer in an old mine pond While he a3 not looking she put the tail of a small fish on his hook thinking to play a joke on him But when he pulled in his line the big bass struck From there on the story Is Was it tantalizingiy incomplete small-mout- h a or bass large & mouth? It used to be generally believed that the large - mouth species was the only native black bass in southern waters that small - mouth species seldom attain a weight of more than five decade or pounds Within the last so however these two branches of the family have been widely BIGGIES’ FALL writer freedom in the paralysis Germany and Italy of governmental and social services by uncompromising conflicts among numerous political parties labor unions religious and soda organizations that led —to the limi-G Edwin tation of all freedom the nabefore Princeton Conklin tional education association It was the abuses Of It’s only because I haven’t died 104 so lived he how asked on being long — Dr William E Thompson VACATION GOES UP IN FLAME GREENWICH Conn (UP)— Mrs Hazelene Orr saved $100 for 'a va cation trip and put it in a paper it disbag for safe keeping When An in police appeared she calledfull when was in swing vestigation Mrs Orr suddenly rememberec with grief she had absent-mindedl- y tossed the bag into an incinerator with other rubbish and burned her savings vi“Dog’s tooth violets” are not olets but lilies s EXPENSE AT The first wrench had been turned by a federal judge in December 1936 when he launched a grand jury investigation of vote frauds which saw scores of Pender- gast satellites sent to jails and prisons Governor Lloyd C Stark turned on the organization which had backed him in the 1936 election He dropped O’Malley and - other Pendergast aids from the state payroll he beat the machine In a statewide supreme court election' fight he accused Kansas City officials of permitting “a general breakdown of law enforcement” the up governor’s Picking “breakdown” charge Judg AUeq C Southern opened a drive on gam- Other bling ordered two raids gambling houses closed They 'haven’t opened since The judge’ summoned a county grand Jury With wrenches of its own the jury set to work on other bolts which helped hold the machine to- OF OFFICIALS Recent Masterpiece Theft By CHARLES FOLTZ Jr PARIS July 22 (AP)— The re master cent theft of from the piece “L’lndifferent” museum has Louvre given Frenchmen a chance to do what they enjoy most— laugh at their government officials gether It indicted County Prosecutor W W Graves for neglect of duty accused presiding Judge David E Lon of the county court and a former judge J W Hostetter of misapplication of funds indicted Charles V Carollo whom a federal the-Watt- eau ealofFrnchofticfal r & ln° £2UIln5 ministry o! education They know dieted Charles assault it means trouble with Intent to kill after Prosecutor The biggest laugh Frenchmen Graves had dismissed the' charge had at the expense of Louvre of- - hjringing forth a verbal a 1 1 a c k ficials was back in 1911 when an I from Governor Stark Italian walked off with the world A11 that had happened before the famous “La Joconde” b 1 1 e r I blgf monkey wrench was thrown known as the “Mona Lisa' j jn rapid succession since Da Vinci’s- - masterpiece was re- Biggies Fall covered two years later but by have broken a Federal agents that time M Jean Hornolle direc- -- 112000000 a year narcotics ring tor of national museums and oth- j numbering among its members a er officials had long since been police patrolman a deputy qonsta-laughe- d out of office Hie and a political leader carried It’s not that Frenchmen don’t on the payroll as a city health e their art seriously They do I partment inspector an appropriate period of Henry F McElroy the boss’s after but hall mourning for the “Mona Lisa” JJ first lieutenant at the city man-4 they relaxed with delight to enjoy stepped down from the city a laugh lagershlp he had heldl since 1925 The theft of “L’lndifferent” was He since has been indicted along a boon to French humorists With- - with J J Pryor a Pendergast business associate on embezzlement charges in connection with a $356500 “water leak” scandal Auditors and newsmen delving Incomplete McElroy’a through is “Country bookkeeping” — it’s a own term— files found $6000000 city” managers emergency fundfew knew existed From one &e- J de-tak- o’clock Sunday afternoon Jun 12 1 3°‘lLei J I fund to his own ledg When the guard advised mu ‘wnferred he used to speed ers sums These seum authorities the doors were projects to buy real esslammed shut and all those still In lagging some of “the boys” to tate but he didn’t pay the museum were searched should take the think the picture was not found Ordered annually cuts he to deep pay It developed later that due the purposes balancing UUrTnlifor budget hands wXnot dvfofd "unUl'newsraper I men told them about it the next electe(J with pendergast backing French newspapers said museum officials were men have dropped to the indifferent” It seems that key machine Clty posts Mgh M Jacques Jaujard assistant rector of the museum and the first informed of the robbery immedi- - copy could be told from tne origl - J nal only by an expert ately telephoned M Georges HuisA girl tucked Hhe copy under man director general of the section of beaux arts in the ministry-- her arm the day after police went to work on the case and sauntered' of education ' M Hulsman suggested thatM toward Jthe Louvre took pictures of Jaujard telephone toM Abrahamof Photographers of a policedirections her Minister asking personal secretary Education Jean Zay and tell him man In the courtyard of the Louabout it Muard "couldn’t find vre museum from a soldier staM Abraham’s telephone number tioned before the palace of theoc and there the matter ended ' for ministry of the interior and fromovfJ a detective who stood on guard twenty-fou- r hours M Jaujard thought M Huisman police headquarters the All three must have seen was tending to the affair and M or her M None questioned Huisman thought picture Jaujard Paris roared while newspapers M Abraham was working on it One reporter of the weekly pic- and magazines between humorture newspaper “Match” walked ous digs demanded the resignainto the Louvre with a photograph- tion of the director general of all er and cut another painting La Paris museums He had an excuse for months Hire’s “Virgin and Child” whose 100000 before he had asked for more value is estimated at wall off the francs guards for the Louvre museum “Come to Paris” said the weekWith the photographer busy he tucked the painting under his arm ly “Aux Ecoutes” to the world at and walked briskly out of the gal- large “Come to Paris and take lery corridor and down the stairs back a masterpiece as a souvenir He met an acquaintance stopped of her treasures” shook hands and went on leaving Now IT’S EGG RUSTLERS the acquaintance convinced that PETALUMA Cal (UP) — This he carried a copy of some paintJ city known as the “egg bowl” of ing under his arm has States United developed He reached the exit and waited the before an unguarded door finally its own criminal problemof Instead earlier rustlers calling a guard identifying him- of the cattle rustlers" has now it “egg self and returning the picture The days whole operation took little more The last one rustled off 10a cases truck “Rustlers” merely back up than three minutes storean of entrance egg Another Parisian editor borrow- to the house and get away with as many ed one of the best copies of from an art dealer The case as possible £ ''H dl-Hr- be-fo- re i L’ln-differe- nt |