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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH, UTAH SHUT OFF SALE OF GUNS TO GANGSTERS Thompson Arm to Be Confined to' Military Use. Washington. Taught a lesson by the hundreds of gangster killings In the past six years, lawmakers throughout the country are considering ways and means of removing sub machine guns from the underworld, The first move in this direction has been taken by the single concern manufacturing the gun. Sale of the weapon has been forbidden except for military purposes. But the damage has been done. The gangsters have the gun hundreds of them and only time and unrelenting vigilance on the part of police officers will serve to clean this potential source of sudden death from the haunts of the lawbreakers. Brig. Gen. John T. Thompson Is horrified at the use to which his invention put Placed on the market in 1921, the guns almost Immediately began to reach the underwirld. More and more of the guns were diverted from , the legitimate trade channels Into this quarter, as the gangsters began to realize that here was a gun vastly superior to the automatic pistol and other old weapons. For ten years there was no supervision over the sale of the guns. When occasion arose, as it usually did after a gangland killing, of checking the ownership of a gun the quest always ended at the dealer who sold It In most cases fictitious names were given by persons who bought the has-bee- n machine gun been put to use. Not all of the guns; however, were acquired by gangsters through purchase from dealers. Thompson submachine guns have bad a habit of disappearing from the hands of the police, bank and industrial guards, and other, legitimate, possessors and turning up , .with.; gapgsters behind them. That Is why the manufacturers have stopped selling to such persons. Iq one .case a fake company was organized specifically by gangland to obtain he guns in carload lots.. It operated, for,seyeral months before authorities discovered what was , . t ,, . name. After the Weiss killing there followed a string of machine gun murders and holdups too numerous to mention. The tigers were biting In the underworld jungle. There Is every evidence that such weapons were and are an essential part of every efficient gangsters equipment. The infamous St Valentines day massacre in Chicago, when seven of Bugs Morans gang were lined up against a wall and mowed" down, brought to light many more facts conwarfare cerning the machine-guamong the cliques of the underworld. A girl, cruto-lnon a pleasure yacht at Waukegan, 111., a short time ago was shot when a machine gun sputtered from the shore, sending her to the deck and imperiling the lives of 19 other per- - NEW PRO CHAMPION n twenty-three-year-o- Th? gangsters obtained the guns by hook by crook." .If one state made rigid, .regulations for the sale of all guns as a, number i have in the past few, years the gangsters motored to an .adjoining .state, bought, all they i wanted, there, and ,, smuggled them across the border. One of the first incidents calling attention to the use to which Thompsons invention was being placed was a mall truck robbery in Elizabeth, N. J., In October, 1926. Eight gangsters, armed with guns, drove np to a mall truck and, without warn-ingturned .one gun full on the truck. With another . they laid a protective barrage across the street intersection, driving the populace to cover. The guards In the truck didnt have a chance. One was killed, and three . - , sub-machi- ,, -- Four Mascots Given i Free License Tags Al," Matt, Washington. Buff" nd Jack Rags" are just plqln dogs, but as far as the districtgovernment is concerned they rate high in canine circles So, high. In f apt, that they were Issued new tags without cost ?A1" is the brown and white bull mascot; of No. 8 Engine company. Matt" is official, watchman at the street cleaning department stables. Buff,". an English shepherd, is mascot of No. 22 Engine company, while Jack Rags" plays around the garbage transfer station. ld g sons. No one knows who did it No one knows why. It was just another tiger loose in the jungle of the underworld. He doesnt look a day over fifty. And feels like forty. At the age of 62. Detroit, Mich.. Because none of the Betties who claimed the estate left by Thomas F. Sheehan could prove their claims, the estate, amounting to r, $2,000, went to Mary Margaret a distant relative living at Martins Ferry, Ohio. The Ohio girl, a seventeen-year-olorphan, had never even heard of Sheehan, who left a note, on his death, bequeathing his money to Betty. 67 . ve Stimulate the Eatent medicines. bowels. Use a famous Gil-ne- Olln Dutra of Santa Monica, Calif., who won the national professional golfers, championship at St PauL in the tourney , Strange-Soundin- Reason g Names Puzzle to Ozatk Visitors for Queer Titles Is Often Obscure. Hollister, Mo. The Ozark country, or at least that part of it known as the White River district, Is a country of caves, coon dogs and hospitable folk, not to mention original and names. Visitors seldom fail to wonder at such names as Gobblers Knob, High Lonesome, Loafers Glory, Glad Joe, Virgins Bluff, Naked Joe, Possum Trot and others no less characteristic. Take Ava, for Instance, the county seat of Douglas county. When,. In 1871, James , Halley was confronted with the Important task of naming a town he went to his Bible for guidance and found In II Kings, 17 :24, his inspiration ; the town was duly named Ava. which in Hebrew means "overflowing. Not all Inspiration came from books. One of the highest knobs In Stone county bears the somewhat modern name of Naked Joe. Old settlers relate the story of a duel fought on this peak before the Civil war by two naked men, the victor of which was named Joe. Wild turkeys led, to the naming of Gobblers Knob. Taney county was named after Roger B. Taney, a chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for 26 years, whose decision In the famous Dred Scott case had such an important reaction in shaping events that led to the Civil war and whose wife was a sister of Francis Scott Key. Douglas county was named after Stephen A. Douglas, whose life also figured so prominently in pre Civil war days. John Forsyth of Georgia, secretary of state of the lent his name Unitefi States, odd-soundi- . 1834-184- 1 to the county seat of Taney connty. Qzarklans took their politics seriously enough in those times to name their county seats and landmarks after , prominent public figures. . Gobblers Knob is one of the smaller balds four miles from Hollister .In Taney county. There was humor in the name ,of Loafers Glory for a second building In Toney county. In many instances places were named with a descriptive significance. From Possum Trot, a valley In Taney county where these animals abounded, to High Lonesome, a ridge on a divide between Beaver creek and Swan creek In Douglas county that was particularly high and lonesome Virgins Bluff In Stone county, with its legend, of disillusioned Indian maidens love, each has its own particular story. shape, feel fit the year 'round, take a spoonful of Dr. Caldwells syrup few Youll eat Eepsin every betterdays. and feel better sleep in every way. 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When your system is stagnant and you feel sluggish, headachy, half-alidont waste money on tonics or regulators or similar 67 Betties Fail in Claims to $2,000 Estate go-Ing- , Gang- sters call it a lawn mover," an apt - guns. V fell wounded. The bandits fled, abandoning one gun as they departed with about $100,000 of Uncle Sams money which they obtained from the truck. In the same month in Chicago came the Bymie Weiss murder. A gang leader and foe of Al Capone, he was shot down on the steps of a cathedral where he had taken refuge. The killers fired from an upper window of an apartment across the street, and Weiss fell dead with 12 slugs In his body. In such ways has the- Thompson sub- - Student to Till Lend Scientific Advice for Placing university trained yonng ' the Short in Stature men op farms Is .the object of assodemen. 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