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Show THE BULLETIN 5 ' '''T Years Ago This Month The Whole World Was in Mourning tor America's First Martyred President Seventy-Fiv- e r WHO'S NEWS f E OFFER here two new cut- - Practical as well as decorative features are incorporated in the duck; decor ative-nealone is the purpose of the outs. THIS ELMER SOUNDS A CALL "I don't know no more than nobody else who will be the candidates for President this winter," declared Elmer Twitchell today, "but WEEK I would personally go for a sour-puss- ." ss sunbonnet girl. These designs, of course, are to be traced on plywood or thin lumber. Jig, coping or keyhole saw may wall-boar- d, By LEMUEL F. PARTON "A sourpuss?" the reporter asked, s little puzzled. Paul Reynaud, "Yes, sir," snapped Elmer, "a XJEW YORK. who was asked to form a new sourpuss. A deadpan candidate with French cabinet, and successor to out a smile in his Premier Daladier, put through the system. A fellow French Brit- who can't photoPreimer Desires ish monetary graph or screen Briti$h-Frenc- h and economic well and who knows it. I am fed Union accord of last (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) Monetary relationships. He is a, lawyer, financier and economist, minister of finance since October, 1938. In Ihe chamber of deputies, he represents a "blc; buslnctis" section of Paris and has contended vif orouxly against "jovernmontal meddling; in business." In 1935 and 1936 he made a courageous fight for the devaluation of the franc, an issue which is always loaded in Trance and always by more cautious politician!!. His business sagaci"STOP THAT MAN!" John Wilkes Booth fires across the stage or Ford's theater in Washington ty was demonstrated in the sum after firing the shot which ended the life of Abraham Lincoln. (From a drawing which appeared in mer of 1939, when he warned all 18G3). Harper's Weekly, April 29, and sundry that a big r.mash was coming, and withdrew all By ELMO SCOTT WATSON of his securities from the mar'Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ket. IS the evening of April He is as direct, decisive and fiery 14, 1865-G- ood Friday. as Daladier is ponderous and medi On the stage of Ford's tative, and for many years has been theater in Washington the famaking prophecies more gloomy mous actress, Laura Keene, than Cassandra's foredoom of Troy, as he urged France to prepare for coma in is playing delightful the worst He parts his hair in the Cousin." American "Our edy, middle, strings with the Alliance Joining in the laughter that Democratique, a center group, and has never been classified as either sweeps through the audience to right or left He is said to be "too a is time from time gaunt, intelligent to be liked," and does sad-fac- ed man sitting at ease not seem to mind. He is small and in a high-hacke- d, alert, only slightly gray at 60, carefully groomed and the master of a rocking chair in an verbal short jab which seldom in box. Abraham sih-s(rpX'- IT satin-upholster- ed upper stage Lincoln is forgetting for a few minutes the crushing responsibilities which he, as Chief Executive of a nation torn asunder in civil war, has been bearing for four long years. The third act of the play begins. The President leans over to whisper something to Mrs. Lincoln who sits beside him. Neither the Lincolns nor Maj. Harry R. Rathbone and a Miss Harris, who accompanied them to the theater, notice that a young man has slipped through the door at the rear of the box and is now standing behind the President The next moment there is the dark-moustach- ed muffled sound of a shot. It is unnoticed by the players on the stage or the audience, still chuckling over the last funny line they have heard. But the President's head drops forward on his breast. Startled, Major Rathbone looks around. Through the smoke he sees the dark young man with a pistol in his hand and hears him .mutter something which sounds like "Freedom!" The major leaps to his feet and grapples with the intruder, who slashes at him with b knife, tears loose from the officer's grasp and springs to the front of the box. As he vaults over the railing, his spur catches in an American flag which drapes the front of the box. He drops heavily to the stage with one leg doubled under him, then scrambles to his feet. With blood streaming from his wounded arms, Rathbone rushes to the front of the box. "Stop that man I Stop him!" he shouts. "The President has been shot!" But everyone is too stunned to move for a moment. The young man, waving aloft the bloody knife, drags himself across the stage and disappears in the wings. But before he does so, the startled actors recognize in the white face and the black eyes blazing with fanatical hatred the familiar features of one of their John Wilkes own profession Booth. All this has taken place in less time than it takes to tell it. The next moment Ford's theater is a of screaming pandemonium women and shouting men, shoving, pushing, breaking chairs, crashing through railings and trampling upon each other as they surge toward the stage or try to climb up to the box where the moaning Mrs. Lincoln is supporting her stricken husband and Major Rathbone is trying vainly to open the door which the assassin had barred from the inside. Now the soldiers of the President's cuard come bursting into the theater and with fixed bayonets and drawn pistols they charge IN SPRINGFIELD Outside the old Globe tavern, where Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd spent their honeymoon, members of the martyred President's cabinet and other dignitaries awaited the arrival of the funeral train in Lincoln's home town. the milling crowd. Their hoarse ing military and civic procession, shouts of "Clear out! Clear out, was transferred to the rotunda of you sons of hell!" rise above the Capitol. The was observed the tumult as they drive the day audience out of the the- throughout the Union as one of ater. fasting and prayer. Services in Meanwhile Rathbone has suc- the churches throughout the land ceeded in unbarring the door to were held in unison with the servthe box and several people, ices at the executive mansion, among them a surgeon, rush in. and were everywhere attended They see the tall form of the with exhibition of profound perPresident slumped forward in his sonal grief. The South In Sorrow. chair, his sad eyes closed, never to open again. Someone brings a "In all the cities of Canada shutter, torn from a building near business was suspended, public by, and they lay his gaunt form meetings of condolence with a upon it. They carry him out of kindred people were held, and the theater to the house of prayers were read in the across the churches. Charles Peterson street. "Throughout the Confederate Ford's theater is empty, de states, where war had ceased but serted now. Its curtain has been peace had not yet come, the peorung down upon the comedy, ple joined in significant expres and sions of sorrow over the death Our American Cousin upon one of the greatest trage of him whose very name they dies in American history. had been taught to execrate. Death at 7:22 A. M. "Early in the morning of the The next morning Washington 21st the body was removed from newspapers carried this story: the capitol and placed on the "The body of President Lin- funeral car which was to trans coln, who died from an assassin's port it to its final resting place bullet at 7:22 o'clock this morn- in Illinois . . . The train which ing, was removed from the Peter- moved from the national capital son residence opposite Ford's the- was attended on its course by ater to the executive mansion in extraordinary manifestations of a hearse and wrapped in the grief on the part of the people." American flag. It was escorted As for the story of that sorrow by a small squad of cavalry and ful journey westward, no one has by Gen. Augur and other military ever told it better than Carl Sandofficials on foot. A dense crowd poet and Lincoln biograaccompanied the remains to the burg, The closing words of his pher. White House, where a military "Abraham Lincoln masterpiece guard excluded the people, allow- The War Years," (published this houseing none but persons of the Harcourt, Brace and hold and personal friends of the year by words whose stark company) Grant Gen. deceased to enter. one of such remind simplicity arrived here at 2 o'clock in a speas the Gettysburg Acial train from Philadelphia. His writings these: ddressare presence tends somewhat to allay "There was a funeral. the excitement." "It took long to pass its many Leaf through the pages of James G. Blaine's "Twenty. Years in eiven points. millions of people saw Congress," published in 1886, and it "Many . . . read there this description of the "The line of march ran seven events which followed: hundred miles. teen "The remains of the late Presithere was a funeral. "Yes. execudent lay in state at the "From his White House in tive mansion for four days. The began entire city seemed as a house of Washington where it ana loi The martial music they carried his conin, mourning. for and it lowed days in nights been had which resounding . . . twelve days celebration of the national; glad . i "Bells tolling, bells sobbing the triumpn naa ceasea: pudiic ear flee and private mansion were requiem, the salute guns, cannon alike draped with the insignia of rumbling their inarticulate grief. "To Springfield, Illinois, the old "Funeral services, conducted by the leading clergymen of the city, home town, the Sangamon near were held in the east room on by. the New Salem hilltop near- Wednesday, the 10th of April by, for the final rest oi ine cner- Amid the solemn tolling of church ished dust. "And the night came with great bells, and the still more solemn thundering of minute guns from quiet. "And there was rest. the vast line of fortifications which had protected Washington, "The prairie years, the wat the body, escorted by an impos years, were over. half-craz- ed up with the old personality December, and, even before the start of the war was an advocate of a close financial union between the two countries as the first bulwark of their joint defense. For several years, he has been studying English finance and history, insisting that both nations must abandon their old plan of remaining opart in the matter of monetary and economic vites a return engagement for anyone inclined to mix with him. He was a holdout on Laval's deal to give Mussolini a green light in Ethiopia and in this connection warned France that it had better be looking to its empire. In politics since 1919, in the chamber since 1928, he was previously minister of finance in Tardieu's cabinet He comes of a family high in the moun tains of Barcelonnette, of a clan which has extensive holdings in several foreign countries, including M stuff in all public offices, and what is more I think a candidate with a severe mug and a - to grin - over attitude what's-ther- e might sweep the country." "You don't mean that Elmer," i the reporter argued. "Everybody likes a radiant personality; everybody reacts to charm." "Yeah," admitted Elmer, "and I'm for it too, up to a point But I think the personality theme has reached the point where the public is ripe for a swing the other way. This may be a sourpuss year." Mr. Twitchell seemed quite seri ous about it "I like a genial, warm personality as well as the next man," he continued. "I am a sucker for charm, like the rest of the American public. Ordinarily I will vote for a man who screens well over a candi date who has nothing but efficiency to recommend him. Nine times out of ten I will go for the candidate with an appealing radio voice over sides grinning from ear to ear, trying to look like personality plus be used to cut them out, and when painted they become attractive ornaments for your lawn. Outlines for the duck and his "Keep Off Grass" sign are on pattern ZOOM, IS cents. A "Use Walk" sign is also given. In about size, the sunbonnet girl and her sprinkling can are on pattern Z90S3, 15 cents. Select one or both of these clever cutout figures. General cutout directions, as well as spe19-in- ch 24-in- ch ever-popul- ar cific painting suggestions come with each pattern. Send order to: AUNT MABTIIA Kansas City, Mo. Boa Enclose IS cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Nam Address 1GC-- Kangaroo Court in Jail About 1,700 of the 3,100 county and local jails in this country allow inmates to hold kangaroo courts, or mock trials presided over by the tougher prisoners, for the purpose of ' maintaining discipline," which consists merely of delegating distasteful jobs to those they dislike and extorting money from others through ridiculous fines. Collier's. boys on the York Are Being Built municipal By Fritz Mandl fourt, anarchi- "You wouldn't get to first base as a candidate for inspector of manhole covers," the reporter Insisted. tect sues Mr. Mandl for payment "Maybe not," said Elmer, "but X for designs for a new wing on his think otherwise. And I hope still Alpine castle, when he was married am I right because no country can to Hedy Lamarr, the screen star, now the wife of Gene Markey, Holly- stand government by personality charm Indefinitely. wood producer. The castle and the and microphone a sourpuss Is necessary Ultimately war a were Mr. plans casualty, but medicine. In fact, I am busy on Mandl is sitting pretty in Argentina, I have already started orthe hidalgo of a great estate, and the idea. the Sourpuss for Presiganizing getting a fast running start with dent Clubs. No candidate with new steel and munitions plants in even get close to us." can charm the land of the pampas. He fooled Hitler. His great arms plants. Including the plant, were supposed to be worth about 166,000,000. That was a nice, fat grouse for the Nail nimrod, but when Der Fuehrer moved la, he found the great plants Just a hollow shell, the securities long since liquidated and Mr. Mandl at a safe America's outstanding invendistance with his tors were honored at a big banformer fortune remaining more quet the other night But noor less Intact body has yet loomed up who Now 40 years old, and can devise a paper napkin that merry, he was a playboy In his will stay on the knees at least youth, but stayed on the Job in his through the soup course. later years. The munitions works were a family holding, founded by UNCHANGED his grandfather, Sigmund, and ex She used to be In the pony ballet. panded by his father, Alexander. He life had that source; Her stage was an associate of the fallen She now is a star in the talkies . . . Prince Ernst Ruediger von But she still is a little hoarse. in the Vienna putsch of Alma O'NeiL 1934 not at an Interested in political ideologies, and smarter than the Admiral Byrd says the South prince in both making a Pole has shifted. Maybe both from Hitler and from Germany as the Republicans and Democrats well as being able to save his for cast get something In their plattune. forms promising to get It back. Hirt-enbe- ' the fellow for whom nothing can be said except that he would make a good President But I now want a sourpuss. And for once I can be stampeded by a candidate whose voice on the air sounds like some body filing a saw." "It's a very strange argument you are making, Mr. Twitchell." the re porter put it "A smile and a radio voice are generally considered im portant assets in any campaign." That's what you think," barked Elmer. "I think there's a reaction. And it gives me a pain in the blouse to observe all the candidates on all screen and trying to register as the Voice of the Year on the radio. I tell you that if I was a candidate for public office today I would have my picture taken only when I looked like I was having an argument with a taxicab driver, and I would open Mexico. all my radio speeches with, 'Well, folks, I am a punk on the radio; BUILDING more stately mansions I don't intend to bother acquiring a soul, Fritz Mandl, the technique. All I expect to do Is to Austrian munitioneer, runner-u- p for quote facts and figures in a dull Zaharcff, was interrupted by Adolf voice.' This alone would make me Hitler. In a a sensation." New Arm Planta New " A CONSTIPATED? Don't Let Gas, Nerve Pres- sure Keep Yon Miserable When aonsUpated' two tilings soar fcappn. THIKT: Accumulates vsstea awirll up tha bowda and pros oa nerves ia tha digestive tract. 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La Rochefoucauld. rg r mm Many Insects on 'lowers riims lost h v svaieei . . : ujnj: man r tuiuit vcetTAMtc. jl : ummamm bo ftas, from yowr deafer nose-thumbi- ng round-face- d Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL Star-hembe- rg get-awa- y a refugee fortune, but the of a new one appears in the operations of Arnold Bern' stein, who also found a hole in the Nazi line. A freighter of the Americanized Arnold Bernstein shipping lines burns at Baltimore, but it was insured and hit newly recruited ships are running cargos to Europe and his fleet is expanding. He came here last October, from a Nazi jail, where a tangle over the mysterious blocked marks had landed him. At 51. a tall. pale, thoughtful man, he gets a new start NOT Henry Ford has perfected a sys tem for continuous metal pouring, making It possible to "pour" out Ford cars from hot metaL Flivvers will seemingly come out of spouts or faucets in great gushes. You open the plug and presto! out comes a sedan. May Henry pour a car that will have the battery in the same place it was last year. Arthur Boran wants to know how about a movie of the world's most annoying dictators to be called "Apes of Wrath"? Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE Oppaahs Hormum Ttmpia HIGHLY KECOMHEKDED If. I RjfM$1.50tO$3.00 mirk of distinction to (top hottdry it this beiuriful EKXfcST KOSS1TEK, C Ugr. |