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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH I am, before I murder him! ZANY NO MORE No one answered. LION Garrison beckoned two men in overalls from the onlookers. 88 This has gone far enough, boys, he told them; during all my years in the publicity racket, never have By THAYER WALDO Lseen a cruder gag. This dames (McClure Syndicate WNU Service.) nitwit whos just some movie-struc- k gotten hold of a flossy car and HE swung the Hispano-Suiz- a swigged a little gin to fix her nerve. into Western avenue and saw Well, the acts not even funny. Put the gates 50 yards ahead on her out. Promptly they seized the girls her right. As she approached they swung open and a truck came arms. In a tantrum of she lumbering out. With a swerve that squealed rubber across pavement, fought and kicked and writhed, she veered around it, turned into but to no avail. Strength and stolid determination the studio driveway, and shot forwere with the workers. ward. Into the foreign autos rear seat t From behind sounded an angry d they half-leshout. hej The watchman clambered in front. The little mirror at her side showed a man in uniform following Dont use any rough stuff, Garon the run. In front loomed a build- rison instructed. Just drive up to the boulevard and sit there till with Zenith ProLtd. Pictures, ing duction Offices, in gold lettering she calms down. Then leave her and report back to me. over the entrance, Incoherent sounds were coming Once more she slid at right angles, and pulled the long phaeton to a from the girl as the car rolled away, stop before it. Then the gate guard down the drive and out through the was alongside, puffing his indigna- gate. tion. Gradually those who had watched Look here, madam, he splut- drifted off, exchanging amused comtered, Ill have to see your pass to ments on the episode. As Garrison turned to the come on the lot and no cars is allowed in, anyways. building, he was hailed from behind For one surcharged instant there and a tall dark man approached, was no response. saying: Nice job you did clearing up The man stood with a foot upon the running board, that rumpus, Louis. Going my his hands gripping the d way? Garrison gave affirmation; togethdoor. The girl sat immoer they went inside and along the bile, erect, inscrutable eyes staring at him from a pale and almost broad corridor. As they reached the publicity bony face. Then suddenly the tableau broke. mans office, he suggested: Come on in a minute, Walt. Got With a movement, she to show you. something snatched off one driving gauntlet Facing them as he opened the door and slapped it smartly across the was a large portrait photograph. guards cheek. It showed a woman whose prominenAs he staggered back, grunting t-boned face though amazedly, she vaulted the car door not beautiful was arresting, an untopped by and came down facing him. ruly mass of hair. Words commenced firing from her Our new star, Kathleen Hodgson, in an edged, staccato voice: Garrison said; the one the New You lout! How dare you have the York office signed last week ands infernal impudence to order me! going to send on. Thought you might Get back where you belong before be interested; this happens to be the I have you thrown out of this stu- only picture of her we have so far. The other was staring at it like a dio. He wavered, momentarily inde- man transfixed. After a second of stunned silence cisive; then: he cried: But, lady, he began, theres But, great Scott, Louis thats strict rules about The words were drowned by a the jane you just had bounced! Garrison had seated himself on shrill blare as the girls fist slammed the desk, back to the portrait, and down upon her cars horn button was setting fire to a cigarette. and relentlessly held there. A slight smile tweaked his Wave after wave of din reverberated through the lot. Sure it is, you chump, he agreed In a moment people were appear- calmly. I knew that the first mining. ute I looked at her. But my techOut of the building close at hand nique had to be used for its chastencame a slight man with sandy hair. ing effect. Remember, actresses get He strolled unconcernedly to the screwy enough in this game even Hispano-Suiza- s side, lifted its hood when they start off like lambs! and gave something a quick twist. The racket ceased. Takes The girl turned her head sharply Byrd Expedition Newest in Dairy Foods to glare at him. Sauntering around toward her, he Some new dairy foods, not yet said : on the market, will add variety to Its okay go right on as you the diet of Admiral Byrds men durwere. There just wont be so much ing their stay in the Antarctic. noise now. The new products were made in She didnt wait for him to reach the laboratories of the Federal Buher, but stalked aggressively for- reau of Dairy Industry and repreward. Her long legs were clad in sent the efforts of dairy scientists blue flannel slacks; a kelp green to devise new ways to utilize skim blouse of loose pattern was tucked milk and whey as human food. into them. The tawny, windblown The list includes a new kind of dried pea soup, made with whey hair had no covering. So the menials, she snapped, powder; a new kind of wafer to eat arent the only insolent ones around with the soup, which is a mixture of potatoes, skim milk, and salt; here, eh?. He gazed at her coolly and re- and new kinds of candies that contain whey solids. torted : In addition, the bureau sent a Yeah I was thinking that myself. What kind of trouble are you quantity of American Cheddar cheese was made and trying to start, and what are you cheese. The d in cans, a packaged doing here, anyway? The glitter in her eyes held real process that represents a relatively new development in merchandising venom now. type of natural cheese. Cured Publicly flaunting such filthy ig- this in the cans, which vary in size from is norance your idea of a joke, I 12 ounces to five pounds, this cheese not in the mood. Im Well, suppose. no forms rind, does not dry out or This swine with an outfling of shrink, and is more convenient for inher arm toward the gateman sulted me, and I want him attended small servings than the usual bulk cheese or large size and odd shape. to. The dried soup is a precooked All right. dry powder which makes a comof in front her addressed The man soup when one can of the powplete the other: is mixed with four cans of wader Frank, take this gimcrack on ter and boiled. It contains 65 per wheels out in the street and park it cent split pea solids, 25 per cent with the rest of em. whey solids, and 10 per cent fat. Viciously the girl struck at him It has the advantage of being easwith her open hand. He ducked, ily transported . and quickly precaught her wrist, and added: pared, and it also keeps well. The Guess you better take this hel- dairy scientists expect that the fat lcat along, too. Unless you want me it contains will remain free of ranto get a straitjacket for her first. cidity for at least a year at room The fellow in uniform came to- temperature or below. The skim milk and potato wafers ward them, saying: I didnt know what to make of It, are somewhat similar to potato Mr. Garrison. , She hit me when I chips, but contain no fat and theretold her cars couldnt come in fore do not become rancid. The wafers are made by drying or toastand ing a mixture of boiled potatoes, With a jerk that nearly cost Gar- skim milk and salt. rison balance, the girl wrenched Two kinds of candy caramels free of his grasp. and were made by formulas Her sallow features had grown that fudge include 25 per cent whey soldark and were working spasmodi- ids. The whey candy is superior m food value to ordinary candies, becally. For the first time she appeared to cause the Whey solids displace some become aware of the small crowd of the cane sugar and corn syrup. that had gathered. Hoarsely she It contains extra milk sugar, milk cried: salts, milk albumin, and water-solubvitamins. Also it is slightly For Gods sake will one of you gaping vultures tell this jackass who less sweet than ordinary candy. near-hyster- ia d, half-carrie- i re-ent- er hard-breathi- nickel-trimme- cat-qui- ck mouth-corner- two-ton- v s. ed ; Martin Dies Grows in U. S. Esteem As 4Ism Investigation Bears Fruit By HOWARD LANCASTER (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) The only in these what is investigations gets into WASHINGTON. the papers. That was Martin Dies credo the moment he opened the first hearing before his congressional committee investigating activities and propaganda. Within a few weeks most of the nation was laughing at him. Gypsy Rose Lee offered to bare all for the committee, and little Shirley Temple was labeled a Communist decoy by one of Mr. Dies witnesses. It seems strange, therefore, that much of America is laughing on the other side of its face today. There er Strip-Teas- are still plenty of people who think the committees early investigations were a farce (and Dies admits he got a few crackpot witnesses), but a peculiar combination of circumstances has placed the committee front and center on the Washington stage. This month, having submitted a report on its second Heres why investi- years gation, the committee is asking congress for a new appropriation. it happened: First, you have the correct com- bination of men and times. Dies is Texan with heavy the hands and yellow hair whose sole claim to fame after seven lean years in congress was his penchant for speech-makin- g and a hatred for isms. Two other men instrumental in this g affair were New Yorks Rep. Samuel Dickstein and Vice President Jack Garner. Dickstein used to have a habit of baiting Hitler from the house floor and reading long lists of citizens whom he accused of being Nazis. His fellow Jews thought he was doing the race more harm than good, and the house didnt like to be embarrassed. So the rules committee (of which Dies was a member) decided to silence Dickstein by stealing his thunder. Jack Garners place in this affair is mysterious, but possibly very important. Being a fellow Texan and a friend of Dies, he might have seen an opportunity for poking the red-hspotlight of publicity into g elements of the New Deal, thus paving the way for his own candidacy in 1940. By 1938 the shirt crowd black shirts, brown shirts, silver shirts, etc. were getting to be a dirty shirt crowd. When Martin Dies read about Bundsfuehrer Fritz Kuhn, his shirts and his camps, his blue eyes saw red. Another reason was the LaFol-lett-e civil liberties committee, which had been accusing industrialists of employing spies to prevent their employees from organizing. To provide an offsetting influence, many congressmen thought somebody Nazi-hatin- ot left-win- Martin Dies only claim to ORATOR Until he started fame was presidency of the Demagogues club, whose tin badge is awarded only to those congressmen who get particularly windy. should investigate subversive influit proved the swastikas were blood brothers to the ences. was the Dies mania there Finally, Since the war started America for publicity. Its rumored that he called off an important hearing last has tried to lock its gates against autumn because the world series foreign propagandists, and has bewas monopolizing the headlines. gun wondering if Martin Dies isnt And hes not ashamed to admit it: something of a prophet. Suddenly The good that this committee does the nation has realized that despite depends on how many people read his blustering and apparently mishas the testimony in newspapers. Who directed efforts this in the world is going to bother actually hung quite a few scalps outside his wigwam. about the official record? In 1938 he pointed the commiPaying $5 a day and traveling expenses for each witness eats up a ttees guns westward from Washing$25,000 appropriation like a cat laps ton and helped mow down 45 Demoup milk. Which is one reason the cratic congressmen. Dies charged committees first year was a per- that Frank Murphy failed to carry fect model of what congressional in- out his gubernatorial duties in the strike back in 1937, vestigations shouldnt be. Dies had Flint no counsel, no from the and the resultant rumpus contributadministration and no reason to ex- ed to Murphys defeat when he pect any. sought But he did get publicity, and last Even the administration has startyear an alarmed citizenry demand- ed to President Rooseed that these upstarts velt called it sordid procedure be ferreted out and shot at sun- when the committee published rise. Result: A $100,000 appropri- names of 565 government employation. of the AmeriDies couldnt fight a world series ees on the mailing list and DemocPeace for can League but he used a much bigger competiinference that these the being racy, tive news story as a stepladder to people were Communists. But a fame. That story was World War few days later Dies charges against II. The Communist-Naz- i pact last Communist Earl Browder took new him stature, for August gave shape in a federal indictment. Bundsfuehrer Fritz Kuhn, limelighted by the committee, was sent to Sing Sing by New York District Attorred-baitin- hammers-and-sick-le- s. i red-bait- er sit-do- an ney Tom Dewey. The case of Harry Bridges, radi- cal west coast labor leader, was shouted from the housetops until Madame Secretary Perkins agreed to a hearing on charges that Bridges was an undesirable alien. A deci- valve-vente- le g, sion is now pending. Glaring at labor, Martin Dies accused the unions of harboring foreign agents. He now claims one pf the largest unions is quietly purging its ranks. He was partially responsible for the recent house investigation of the National Labor Relations board, in which unsavory FRITZ KUHN JAMES A. FARLEY New York became inter- His national Democratic suffered in organization 1938 when 70 congressional seats were lost, most of thanks to Martin Dies activity in critical states. ested in his German-Ameri-ca- n bund after the Dies committee had polished him off. Result: Hes now serving tirrie at Sing Sing. reports were aired. Dies put a stop to the WPA fedHe admitted traveling eral theater project, which he said abroad on a fake passport was alive with Communists. He also in testimony before the talked congress into halving the apDies committee. Now Amerpropriation of Senator LaFollettes icas No. I Communist is civil liberties committee, which is under federal indictment. working the other side of the ism street. Even his most severe critics now admit Martin Dies is coming of age, though they still notice a lot of rough edges that need polishing. Oblivious to criticism. Dies has made his report to congress and started campaigning for more funds. Heres his view of it: Hes proved conclusively the existence of isms in the United States. Therefore the next logical step is to get at the cause of These radical movements. To this end he would ask congress for funds to interview FRANK MURPHY laborers, sailors, dispossessed He lost his Michigan gub- farmers, bootblacks and all other ernatorial reflection cam- unhappy Americans who come withpaign, mostly because the in ear shot. Dies committee charged he It would be the biggest show on shirked his duty in connecearth, with Martin Dies as EARL BROWDER share-cropper- s, BOB LA FOLLETTE His civil liberties committee it accused by Dies of coddling undesirables. As a result, LaFollettes committee received a smaller fund last year. HARRY BRIDGES Dies hammered against this alien west coast labor leader until Madame Secretary Perkins was forced to hold an extradition hearing. Decision is pending. tion with a sitdown strike. |