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Show THE BULLETIN ft I f V f:!L:.::' 111' XI ''TJ'jtr"-'- Americana By E. P. O'BRYAN 3i M;'"lUH jn i 4Curiosa It Works Both Ways KT1 sr sa w as m mnv. W WM in-- 1 ffrvif. ityjidiratfe. - jyK?-- lit.-- t.If'i... storm brat against the barn. each fresh onslaught, Pop Travers wriggled a little deeper into d coat and vatched his Mose mix the paint. "You sure that stuff won't rub off?" Pop inquired somewhat skeptically. "I wouldn't want that paint to start running in this rain." "Ah knows hit won't," Mose assured his employer. "Hit's de paint you ever did see. Once hit dries ain't 'nough rain in de whole world to wash hit off." "I hope you're right," Pop said. "I want Meade to get that hoss clean out of the country before that spot on his forehead shows up. If the paint runs off well, I'll blame it all on you, see? I'll tell him you did it on purpose because you didn't want me to sell Thunderbuster. I'll just say it was a put up job on me." Pop Travers was about to pull one of his fast ones on Squint Meade, who had been angling for a deal on Thunderbuster, a promising Pop had groomed for the track. And Pop had good reasons for pulling a fast one on Meade. This was a natural. not Ranger, another half as promising as Thunderbuster, was the spitting image of the colt to which Pop had pinned all his hopes for a Derby winner a spitting image, except for a white spot on the forehead. The two animals weighed within 40 pounds of each other, both were roans and stood so many hands high. You couldn't have told them hapapart unless of course-yopened to know that Thunderbuster carried himself like a thoroughbred, while Ranger had all the earmarks of the ordinary plug Meade had seen Thunderbuster in action while he was in training, and had made up his mind to have him, He had offered Pop a price that was. very tempting, yet Pop had hesitat ed. Then Pop had hit upon the foul scheme now well under way. The spot on Ranger's forehead was to be painted over, with paint that matched the hair so closely the eye could not detect it. As Mose had said, only ether would take it off. And by the time it wore off Meade would be too far. away to make a trip back. Also, if the spot appeared gradually, the paint wearing away a little at a time, Meade might even assume that the spot had just appeared on the horse, as spots will, sometimes, on young animals. Meade came the next day, paid Pop the fifteen hundred he had offered and departed with Ranger, though the papers called for the sale of one horse, male, named Thunderbuster, possessing certain breeding pedigrees as specified in the bill THE wool-line- LL'JL" "y""- - w nwufcin i iirtin ai,n . Washington. The arrival of the when Mr. Farley will recognize first robin does not guarantee the their importance. immediate arrival There already has been evidence The Smith of spring but when of the influence of the Lemke radithe first robin cal segment. I think everyone Belt is observed, folks agrees that the announcement of generally consider that there is lit the third party's organization vitaltle left of winter. An out and out ly affected the type of platform bolt by an individual in party poli that was written in Washington and tics likewise does not guarantee adopted by the Democratic convenImportant defections, but, like the tion at Philadelphia. From many arrival of the early robin, an indi- sources comes information that the vidual bolter, if he be a man of Democratic platform was made consequence, has a story of its own much more liberal some critics to tell. A bolt in party politics describe it as more socialistic never attracts attention unless the than would have been the case had bolting individual is of sume con- Representative Lemke stayed out sequence and, therefore, has a per of the political picture. He has the sonal following. Thus it is that backing of Father Coughlin, the when we observe a bolt by a na- Detroit radio priest, and his nationtionally known individual from his al union for social justice and he lifelong political affiliation, ve im- has the backing of the remnants mediately understand its signifi of the late Huey Long's cance. The scope of this signifiadherents. In addition, the cance, however, is the thing that Town send pension folconcerns us. lowers will be found behind Lemke Nearly everyone knows now that to some extent. I have observed these third parformer- Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, Democratic Presiden ty movements many times before tial nominee in 1928, has made and usually they have failed to live known that he cannot suprort Pres up to expectations. They nearly ident Roosevelt for always have developed fights They know as well that the four among themselves because the other individuals who asked the very nature of and the very reason Democratic National convention to for their existence lies in their push Mr. Roosevelt aside and nom varied conceptions of what governinate a Democrat can be classified ment ought to be or ought to do. as important individuals along with Their sincerity precludes them Governor Smith. No one dare say usually from compromise and that former Sen. James A. Reed when politicians refuse to comproof Missouri, former Governor Ely mise, their organization, whatever of Massachusetts, Bainbridge Col it may be, naturally disintegrates. This may be the year when the by, secretary of state in Woodrow Wilson's administration and Daniel leftist segment will stick together F. Cohalan, one time Tam- and if it does, it naturally threatmany .chieftain, are unimportant in ens Mr. Roosevelt's success. I conpolitics. They have consistently fidently expect to see overtures figured in Democratic party coun- seeping out from New Deal sources cils, and thus it becomes appar- in an effort to placate some of the ent that these five robins presage Lemke followers. It is a logical something more than just their piece of strategy for the New Dealown departure from the ranks of ers to seek to wean these recalci trant folks from the third party. Roosevelt supporters. I make this statement notwithThe European disturbances con standing the declaration by James A. Farley that he would not digni- -, tinue apace. It is a situation that is extremely . fy their statement with a reply. Of tcresting and one course, Mr. Farley as postmaster general, chairman of the Demoin Europe that probably will cratic National committee, chairunfold as the man of the New York State Demo- weeks go by, in curious ways. I cratic committee and delegate to say curious because to us in Amer the Democratic National convenica, it has been rather difficult to tion, necessarily was a very busy understand the meaning of many man at the time the Smith state- of the maneuvers that followed the ment, refusing support to President outright subjugation of Ethiopia by Roosevelt, was released for publi- ine power tnirsty Mussolini of Italy. Word that comes rather direct of sale. cation. Nevertheless, I am in a Pop sold Thunderbuster to the position to know that the Smith from inner councils in Europe in statement threw quite a scare into dicates a tremendous fear on the Miller stables, and he was to run of Italy and France about that spring at Caliente. New Deal ranks. Frankly, they part German plans. The British likedid not like it Pop had another horse that spring Hew much they do not like the wise are displaying nervousness one he had brought in from the Smith statement remains to be and the present alliances and com. desert He was about the fastest seen. ' I believe that no one can binations of power existing in Eu thing on four legs, according to forecast how much rope are none too stable. It is Pop. exactly strength this group can pull away just possible that Germany's Hitler Thunderbuster's name had been from Mr. Roosevelt in the Novemmay, by his present activities, and the papers switched. ber election.- Much will depend force a new cementing of these at changed had become Ranger. Thunderbuster activities liances and understandings among And Ranger was really Thunderupon their personal henceforth. If men like Smith and other powers but at this time there buster. Jim Reed and Ely take the stump, is no mistaking the fact that EuSo when Pop showed up at Caliif they go out onto the hustings rope, outside of Germany, is a ente with his fast horse, Thunderand actually campaign for Gover- bundle of nerves. was just another plug that buster nor Landon, the Republican nomiIt seems that the basis for this is, the horse that carried Thundenee, it seems to me obvious that nervousness is rooted in the clever rbuster's name. Carbarn, Pop's such campaigning will damage the scheming of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, was fast. He turned horse, plenty Roosevelt cause materially. who is something of an economic the track within of a secIt was the natural strategy for dictator unrior TTitloi. Di. Cnk-.- t, ond of the record. Mr. Farley to follow in declining is a brilliant negotiator. He unBut Pop kept an eye out for Rangcomment on the Smith defection. derstands economics, trade and the original Thunderbuster. His assertion that the Smith state- finance as well as any man in Eu- er There had been something about ment was so unimportant as to re- rope today and when you couple quire no reply will be convincing such knowledge with diplomatic that horse that Pop liked. of the meet It was the fourth to a very great many voters who keenness, you obviously have a man and all three horses day were entered in already have made up their minds capable of accomplishing results. the Coffonwroth handicap. to support Mr. Roosevelt But the Dr. Schacht is the But it turned out that Thundertruth is that the election has not methods he knows employing best, namely, buster and been won yet by either side and economic Ranger constituted a understandings, in makay , votes that are influenced by ing new connections with central double entry both owned by Meade. such a group as that headed by European power and the Balkan j When Pop heard this he cocked a weather ear. But when Ranger was Governor Smith will have weight in states. the final determination of our next suddenly scratched, and Meade of resident In the case of Italy, an eco- fered to bet Pop two grand that nomic weapon in the hands of Ger Thunderbuster would beat Carbarn, should have scon Pop go for his The Smith defection becomes the many might easi- you roll! With Ranger out of the bank more important in my opinion be- Italy', ly prove disas- way being Pop's old Thuncause it occurred (Ranger . , trous Case because Ita and with Thunderbuster derbuster) almost simultane-Thir- d ly virtually exa flying false colplug only (really Party ously with the de hausted her gold reserve in the ors) Pop figured he had a cinch. velopment of a late war and her government canwith the third party under the leadership not go on much see horse I can that yet, longer in furnish- white of Rep. William Lemke, of North on his forehead, roundspot for her peopurchasing power home stretch, and Pop's Dakota. This picture may net be ing ple. France has been able to open ing into the to clear entirely everyone. It is certain markets to the little en- Carbarn a length oehind. Then substantially this: Lemke and his tente and to the Balkans and has, down the home stretch with Thuncolleagues are attempting to draw in addition, provided some finan- - derbuster rapidly gaining. Carbarn together the extreme radicals, the cial aid. Thus, when Dr. Schacht was l000' 8,1 ng,u' Dul not gooa leftist groups. The bulk of these Dats the neichbora nf n.rmn enough. Dnn ain will come from the Democratic on the back and ..m.f in np.ifiic.nl.. .iiUah out where points party if the Lemke organization de- markets can be made for them in i I found him, and fanning himself velops any particular strength. Germany, France and with his Stetson. "It ain't possi- Italy quickly The Smith group represents the ble," he said. "That plug bcatin' cases of develop jitters. conservative, or rightist, element It seems that Austria and Hun- my hoss." In the Democratic party. Thus we Then someone slapped him on the cannot depend fully on Italian gary see detraction from tha Roosevelt "Come over here, Pop, you back. markets because of the low gold strength cn two sides. I want to show you old buzzard! in Italy. In the meantime reserve I do not mean to say here that as well, France It was Meade. something." has been losing the combination of these circum- millions in We followed him to the judges' gold as her own dostances will insure President mestic situation has been em- stand where Thunderbuster was Roosevelt's defeat Anyone who broiled in a political whirlpool. The about to receive a wreath of roses. would make such a declaration at "Look, you old fogy," Meade said. and the Hungarians and this time demonstrates his lack of Austrians some of the other central Euro- He rubbed a finger through the knowledge of political maneuvers. white spot on Thunderbuster's foreWhat I am seeking to show, how- peans recognize that unless France head and it left a brown mark. gets there straightened out, will ever, is that robins have arrived in tiot be And "Paint! you can't protest the purchasing power available the back yard and in the front '.here for race cither. This is Thunderbuster; their surplus produce. of the New Deal party and if yard is cultivating what you see. Just wanted you to know the leaders of the two obstreperous So, Dr. Schacht from this distance to be you can paint on spots as well as appears groups engage viciously in this t fertile field. you can paint 'em out, Pop." campaign, the time may come Newspaper fnior Pop never has completely cling-in'e- st two-year-o- ld share-the-weal- th $200-a-mon- th two-year-ol-d, - j - I ! ! ! Lme i i I I two-fift- hs By Elmo Scott Wataoa Adventurers' a Heritage HAD been a prominent and sue ctussful lawyer in Chicago. Then misfortune overtook him and he died penniless. Among his effects they found his last will and testament It was so unusual that lila former in the Chicago Bar assocla-tin- n HE Club lyflfell fellow-membe- rs passed a resolution ordering It probated iu court Today it is a part of the Cook county records. It readi: I, Charles Lounsberry, belnc of sound Tons of Chain" and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make and publish this my last By FLOYD GIBBONS will and testament, in order, as Justly Famous Headline Hunter as may be, to distribute my interest la tha world to succeeding men. TLI ERE'S a detective yarn for you a That part of my interests which la story, with all the smuggling A good points of an old-tim- e in law and recognised in the) thriller, plus the additional good point known sheep-boun- d volumes a my property, that every word of it is true. Maybe some of you boys and girls being inconsiderable and of none achave wondered what really goes on behind the scenes with the cus- count, I make no disposlton of in this my will. My right to live, being but toms men. life estate, Is not at my disposMl, but, these things excepted, all else in the Well, here's one of them to give us the low-dow- n and spin us the world 1 now proceed to devise and yarn of an actual happening. He is John Lynch of New York city, a bequeath. ITEM: I give to aoud fathers and Distinguished Adventurer, and a heck of a swell yarn spinner. mothers. In trust l or their children, all John barges right into his yarn without any preliminaries. good little words of pruive and encouragement, and all iiunint pet names and "Well," be says, "it was back in 1914. I was discharged from the said parenta endearments; and Fifteenth United States infantry at Tientsin, China, and got a job to use them Justly, but generously, aa with the Chinese Maritime Customs In that port of the ihall require. the needs ITEM: I leave tii iliildren inconclu"My duties were to search all ships, coming and going, for' smuggled of their for the term but only sively, goods and it's not as pleasant a job as you might think, because it entails childhood, all and every the flowers of crawling into all sorts of odd corners and out of the way places during the fields and the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play among them the course of your search." freely according to the customa of chilCustoms Officers Ordered to Search the King Sing. dren, warning them at the same time l thistles and thorns. And I de m a nuisneu. ine picture, mat is against J viM t0 children the banki of tha brook., mnXArnn oi ine averagea. working ffflV But h A alwavs aanrisi hamtiAth tha wrm to thai a liable there's that's and day. i . .m .... . r 1141 Jif mue uuierem irom ine ters thereof, and the odors of tha wilaverage ana it's just such .. one that John Lynch lows that dlD therein, and the white is going to tell us about now. I clouds that float high over the giant It was in 1916, two years after he had entered the customs trees. service. John came to work one morning and took his instrucAnd I leave to the children the lonii. tions from the bulletin board. "Officers Mitchell, Galvin and long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the train Lynch," read a notice on that board, "will search S. S. King Sing of the Milky Way to wonder at, but before departure." aubject, nevertheless, to the rights It was all in the day's work, and there was nothing in that order that hereinafter given to lovers. ITEM: I devise to boys, Jointly, all promised any excitement. Mitchell and Galvin arrived a few moments the useful. Idle fields and commons later, and the three of them beean eettins together their overalls and ' where ball may be played, all pleasant The one may swim, ail snow waters was where to due lamps. leave in half an hour, so they had to King Sing and ai work fast. They went out to the ship and John began searching the fo'csle i c!1 hiU ,here ne ponds where one may fish. ana ?.rew s quarters while Mitchell and Galvin worked amidships and aft. or where, when grim winter cornea, one-maskate, to hold the same for the John Goes Sleuthing Into Anchor Chain Locker. period of their boyhood. And all meaJohn prowled and poked around the crew's quarters, but he didn't find dows, with tha clover blossoms and butanything. Then he began looking for other hiding places in the fore part terflies thereof; the woods with their appurtenances; the squirrels and the birds and echoea and strange noises, and all distant places which may be visited, together with the adventures there found. And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night, with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance, or without any incumbrance or care. ITEM: To lovers I devise their Imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the aura of the sky, the red roses by tha wall, the bloom of tha hawthorn, tha aweet strains of music, and aught else they may dealra to figure to each other, the lastingness and beauty of their love. ITEM: To young men, Jointly, I devise and bequeath all boisterous. Inspiring sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence In their own strength. Though John Picked Up One of the Boxes to Open they are rude, I leave to them the power to make lasting' friendships and of of the ship. He spotted a manhole mat led down to the anchor chain locker. P"e"in companions, and to them and that struck him as a likely place to hide contraband, so he lifted the cover and crawled down inside. ITEM: And to those who are no longer children or youths or lovers, I leave The r.nchor was down, and with it the fathoms of heavy an:hor memory; and bequeath to them the chain, so the locker was empty. But John noticed something that volumes of the poems of Burns and looked suspicious. Footprints quite a bunch of them on the fie or Shakespeare and of other poets, If there of the locker. De others, to the end that they may Now the anchor chain locker isn't such a nooular nlace aboard a shin live the old days over again, freely or diminution. tithes fully,IT".without It's dark, and stuffy, and little frequented except by the anchor chain, andsfinff. a ... .. l "There's sometling doing down here." John said to hhnself. and he hei r age. the love and gratitude of their poking around in the darkness to see what he could find. children, until they fall asleep. in the Bottom of the Shanghaied "Ten 1 " i"""" M "r ct. It SZ2ZJJFJ&Jtt i 'T.7Lajr Ship! Then he found it. In the floor was another manhole leading to the Mr. Webster! bottom of the ship. He opened that and went down. In the compartment TF TOUPage like to "talk high, wide and below, wera several small wooden boxes. John picked one up and started handsome," you might practice up to break it open, when suddenly he heard the rattle of chain above him. by learning the text or this letter The crew were pulling in the anchor and the chain was pouring into the which a Louisiana clergyman once locker overhead. wrote to a gentleman In Virginia with John picked up his lamp and started up the ladder. It was no whom he seems to hare had a dls--! use. Already, a ton or more of heavy chain was lying on top of the Here Is his letter: agreement. He for opening. yelled help until his throat was hoarse, but the Yon "Sir: have behaved like an Im-- i noisy rattle of chain deadened all other sound. The ship got under like those Inqnlnate petlglnous acroyll way, and there was John, in that stuffy hole, lacing a journey of ' oroRKcroIest who, envious of my moral live days and nights to Shanghai, with no food no water and e ' celsi tude, carry their musuclty to the little air. 1 At first, ne nearly went crazy. Then, as the hours and days dragged ympoicaly the fe- ?, of,creil"" CU w" m' P1J'matn,c on, he got so he didn't care. The foul air drugged him into a sort of a nberl,J t0 aWlicare the but he knew that wasn't th ' n' uses w,lh stupor. Huncer pains gnawed him inside, . Ll- J. tin.. A m.. l " fliA ""bhu. nr. jUU greatest iu i.is wurries. me oig prooiem was water. John would have tnnmioj have n pet oraS9!y I)ar0,,led m7 given all his savings for Just one big long drink of it in those dark hcurs. worl, as though they were tnngrams. Five Days in an Opium Smuggling Cache! I will not conceroate renroaches. I After a while, hunger and thirst roused him from his would oPdure a veil over the atramen-- ; began to look around the compartment he was in. He hoped he might find tal Ingratitude which has chunilered some way of getting out, but he was disappointed. Then, idly, he turned even my undisceptible heart. I am slhis attention aj the boxes on the floor. He broke one open and it was full lent on the foscillation which my coad-- , of opium. His hunch about those footprints had been right There WAS ful fancy must have given you when smuggling going on. The opium in those boxes was worth a fortune. j I offered to become your funton and Five days and five nights. Then they reached Shanghai. adminicle. I will not spenk or the lln-- l he could hear the anchor chain snaking out of the locker. titude, the ableiwy you have shown in Mvisaie, jonn cumoea tne Udder. exacerbating me; one whose genius When he came to the second ladder, he almost fainted from weakness you should have approached with men- ana inirsi. ne was au in wnen he tumbled out on deck. Th. fire tal disralcation. So, I tell you, Sir, found him lyinp there and took him to his room. Whei. the customs launch syncophleally and without suiervaca-neoti- s came, John told his story of the opium cache, and then he was sent ashore e words, nothing will render a to nubpuai lur a going over conduct to me. I warn you your "And I haven't been in a chain locker alone since that I will velllcnte your nose If I then," he says . "It's not so bad when yon have company." your moral diathesis could be thought v w.NUBerrtee. thereby performed. H 1 thought that ; j : I : j dor-con- 1 : i. A M j . -j j , Ignos-clhl- mucn-necac- I should not implgorate my reputation Telling Hours by Bells night have eight the next. This is by such a deglndintion. Go tngygruph-1c- ; n your oness inqulnate draws Common Practice on Ships the reason for having Kthe dog from the greatest poet since Mil-watches, which art marls oblec-tatio- On shipboard, for purpose of discipline, and to divide the watch fairly, the crew is mustered in two divisions, the starboard (right side, looking toward the head) and the port (left). The day commences at noon and is thus divided: Afternoon watch, noon to 4 p. m.; first dog watch, 4 p. m. to 6 p. m.; second dog watch, 6 p. m. to 8 p. m.; first watch, 8 p. m. to midnight; middle watch, 12 to 4 a. m.; morning watch, 4 a. m. to 8 a. m.; forenoon watch, 8 a. m. to noon. This makes seven watches, which enables the crew to keep them alternately, as the watch which comes on duty at noon one day has the afternoon the next day, and the men who have only four hours' rest one ton Bnd (,raw' upon your nend t,lia ,ct" ing the hours between and ter8 p. m. into two watches, wh,cn wH1 urive J00 t0 Webster, not. vriter in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Bnd Kni m t0 ,,CP over lt ' vnowieogo is power.- ana power is rimeI is. Kept by. "bells," rung . : mm. ao i wish you do rovoae mat mercy; ana vcijr oeginmng with lt each watch (except tha. may prove an external hypnotic" one series of "bells" runs through the two 6 Western Nswapsper Union. dog watches). MEANING OF "HATCHINGS" The time recorded by the bells is therefore as follows: In connection with art "hatchings" A. M. or A M. or A. M.or are lines, either parallel or crossed, by Bells. 4pm i . - - 1 nau-nou- r a 1 j P. M. Bells. 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