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Evening star., 1927-12-04

n
closely. There was nothing fresh to
| be learned Nor did the exhibition
| of a number of photographs of some
of the proteges of the Yard help.
| The only thing that was certain was
| that some one had sold stolen prop.
erty. Whether the man was the muir.
| derer Cough sought or not, he was
| unquestionably a breaker of the law.
| The chief detective inspector gave the
| jeweler his card.
There may be something more
, serious in this than a mere question
| Of burglary" he said II want you
/ to help me-. If this fellow should
come to see you again hand him over
] to the nearest policeman. Don't make
| any mistake about it. If the con-
! stable should hesitate to arrest him
give him my card and say you are
| acting on my instructions"
| This was a simple matter OF pre-
| caution. In fact, Cough scarcely eX-
| pected the man to come back, espe-
| cially if by any chance he was re.
| sponsible for the murder.
| The wanted man did not come back.
/ But a day or two later the jeweler,
| passing along Wardour street, paused
with casual professional interest to
| inspect the display in the window of
| a trade rival. His eye wandered to
the interior of the shop and he at once
| became alertly interested. For there
| he beheld in consultation with the pro-
| prietor no less person than the young
gentleman Cough had urged him to de-
| tain at any cost
| He slipped quietly into the shop and
managed to get the proprietor aside
| without attracting the notice of the
| suspect to himself. Strangely enough,
| the other jeweler was reluctant to
take any action. He may have
thought the thing a mares nest, he
may have felt some diffidence in being
mixed up in legal proceedings, or it
may have been that he thought his
brother jeweler unnecessarily officious.
| Whatever reason was in his mind, he
| bluntly refused to do anything.
| X 4 X
| THE other was in a quandary. To
l. go away to call an officer would
/ be to afford the suspect chance to
1fescape.- So he waited outside the shop
and when his man at last emerged he
followed closely in his wake, keeping
an eye open for a policeman. Now in
the West End of London policemen
are usually as thick as the proverbial
leaves in Ballombrosa. BY perverse
| freak of Providence none were to be
met with that day until they reached
| Piccadilly Circus.
| With Coughs card in his hand the
! jeweler gave hasty explanation to
one of the men on traffic duty. The
policeman wasted no time. Leaving
the tangle Of cars and busses to sort
| itself out, he crossed the road and laid
Evening star., 1927-12-04

who would be at loss to explain
a later development of police method,
although it's essential principles go
back to the days of the Bow street
runners. The m. O." system-short
for "modus operandi on
the fact that most people, particu-
larly habitual criminals, are creatures
Of habit. There is in SO cases out of
100 some popularity of method about
man who repeats crime that will
give him away as the author of a
previous effort.
THUS the Criminal Record Office at
Scotland Yard has a department,
officially called the "crime index"
which is worked as a clearing house
in conjunction with all the police
forces Of Great Britain. This is en-
tirely devoted to tabulation of the
manner in which crimes are commit
ted. 1t was to this department that
Cough now turned.
There was no record of any recent
case in which a poker had served
as weapon for a burglar, but there
was some account of a series of tri-
fling burglaries in the Streatham dis
trict in which the robber had entered
and escaped by means of an unfas-
tened servants entrance. The coin.
cidence was very tiny-but Cough was
looking for any kind of coincidence.
There was only one clue to the
identity of the Streatham burglar. 1t
had come to the ears of Scotland
Yard that he had managed to sell
some few articles of stolen jewelry
to a working jeweler in Wardour
street. Soho. This man had pur-
Hchased, them quite = rinHocently--they
Iswere quite commonplace goods, of
no special value-and it was only
when the daily list Of stolen prop
erty which is issued by the London
police reached him that he reported
the facts. He gave a description of
mis- client, which was not particu-
larly helpful, but declared that he
would be able to recognize him again.
Cough poured over this description.
His knowledge of London crooks was
extensive and peculiar, but it cor.
responded to no one that he remem-
bered. He sought an interview with
the jeweler and questioned him
The producers news., 1927-12-16

HarlowtOn-Glenn farm produces
10000 bushels wheat from 1000 acres.
The producers news., 1927-12-16
PENNEY STORES IN
CREASES SALES
j. c. Penney Co. Reports 27.91 Per
Cent Gain for NOvember-EIeven
MO1th Period Shows Increase of
30.56 Per Cent.

Gross sales for November, 1926,
reported by the J. c. Penney Co. are
$1I054, ,055.62.
This is an increase of 3,721, ,073.T7
over gross sales for the same period
for 1926 which were $13,332,981.85
and shows a gain of 27.91 per cent.
Cumulative gross sales for the IL
months of this year are $130, 149, ,214.-
65 as compared with $99,6966, ,606.43
for the eleven months of 1926, with
the gain for the year, to date, being
1886 per cent over last year.
Total sales for 1926 were $115,682,-
1877, which shows that sales for this
year are already 11.2 per cent ahead
of the total volume done last year.
The J. c. Penney Co. has steadily
maintained leading position among
all the larger chain store groups this
year in percentage increase over last
year.
According to a statement made by
Earl c.. Sans, president, the estimated
volume of S150,O00,000 set for this
year. will be reached if not exceeded.
Sales for November include those of
the Jones syndicate which was ac-
quired by tn eJ. G. Penney Co. during
the summer.
The recent addition of the 20 stores
operated by the Golden Rule Mercan-
! tile Co., with headquarters in Ogden
| Utah, will not show in the sales vol
ume of the company until January
when they start to operate under thC
]. C. Penney Co. management.
Commenting on general sales con
ditions, Mr. Sans, who has recentl!
completed a tour among the J. C. Pen
ney Co. stores in Michigan, says, eth
general mercantile business of tn
country has gone through a succession
of artificial sales periods induced b,
severe floods, unusual weather cOndi
tions and, more recently, by a pro
longed period of unusually war;
weather over most parts of the cour
try.
Merchants have been forced t
find means to meet these condition.
which undoubtedly have a marked il
fluence on buying, especially in til
dry goods field.
cit is interesting to note that tt
increase shown by the j. G. Penne
Co. in Octobre was 29.4 per cent owe
the same month of last year and witt
in Is per cent of the gain for the t.
month period closing with October.
Mr.. Penney, who returned tods
from a protracted visit among tt
western stores of the J. c. Penney c,
reports healthy increases in ali ives
ern points, with California, Orego
Washington and Utah showing up
J. C. Penney Co. in excess of increas
registered by business in general.
The producers news., 1927-12-16

alton of new buildings and improve
ments authorized since the first of
the wear reaching a total of S1,141.-
911. Buildings authorized or con
structed in October alone in Great
Falls passed the 100000 mark in val
uati0n. This is approximately 200
per cent increase over October of last
year.
Buildings in the Helena vicinity in
clules a number of residences and
garages, a mill at the Springhill
Mine and a zinc-reducing plant at
East Helena which is just being com
pleted. When completed, this plant
viii employ force of approximately
100 men.
One Of the most noticeable features
in this years building and construc-
ton work is the number of new school
buildings that have been or are being
erected throughout the state. In
some instances the buildings were
ready for occupancy at the beginning
OF the school year while in others
construction is still going on.
In some localities new school build
ilCs have been authorized but work
Will IOl bCSlu ulLCu next spring.
Among these are: Worden, Huntley
project high school; Great Falls high
~hool building; Corvallis, grade
srhool building, and Glasgow, junior
high and auditorium.
The Roosevelt grade school and
! Kindergarten on Second avenue north
in Great Falls will be opened Decem-
her l. The new school building dt
/ Whitehall is nearly finished. It is
being built at a cost of $4,000.
The new unit of the Fergus county
high school at Lewstown is now un-
! der roof. The outside brick work i
finished and the S13O,O0O structure
viii be ready for use about the first
Of TIE year
Among other building projects now
urder way in the state are: the con
struction of a new postOffice building
at Poison and the erection of a new
depot or the Northern Pacific line q
/ Stevensville. Poison will also have
new hotel, construction of which wa
started last month.
The producers news., 1927-12-16
Abstractors VIII Hold Re
gional Meet in Glasgow

Glasgow.-The abstractors of dis
trict No. 1 of the Montana State
Title association held a regional meet
ing in Glasgok Wednesday, Decem-
Der 18th. The district includes
Sheridan, Daniels, Roosevelt, Valley,
Phillips, Blaine, Hill, and Liberty
counties. Representatives from 12
abstract companies attended. The
meeting was held in the office Of the
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.
This meeting was the last of seven
regional meetings held in the state,
the others being at Miles City, De-
cember 5th; Billings, December 9th;
Butte, December 7th; Missoula, De-
cember 8th; Kalispell, December 10.
The object of the meetings is to
bring about a similarity in abstract
\ ing throughout the state, w. B. Clark
president of the state association, ex-
blamed. All abstractor in the several
districts were invited to attend wheth-
er members of the title association
or not.
The producers news., 1927-12-16

Manlapit's tour will begin in Los
Angeles on December 1. His schedule
will take him through all the Pacific
coast, northwestern, middlewestern
and Atlantic coast states. According
to officials at the United States head
quarters of the All-America Anti I'm
perialist Legue, 80 Union Square
New York, Manlapit should arrive in
this city about the middle of January.
This will be the first time that a
recognized leader Of the Filipino peo-
pie has made such a tour. Quezon
and Osmena and other nationalist pol
iticians have visited this country
time and again but they have address
ed themselves almost entirely to the
ruling elements of sOciety-those very
elements who are responsible for
American Imperialist rule in the Phil
ippines. Manlapit will talk straight
to the masses: His opinion is that
Americas largest colony will never
win her independence by polite peti-
titions to Washington or even by al
ter dinner speeches at chambers of
commerce banquets."
"Two years ago. Manlapit points
out, "the Philippine people gave ST.
/ 100000 to an independence fund.
which was squandered by futile junk
citing trips to Washington. Only q
few months ago another large fund
was raised, entirely through voluntary
contributions. There is much criti-
cism in the Philippine Islands as tC
the use to which this money has beer
put. Doubt is everywhere expressed
as to the intentions of the so-calleC
nationalist leaders who were elected
to office by overwhelming majoritie!
on the program of immediate, com
plete and absolute independence fol
. the Philippines We are a nation O.
12,OO0,000 people. We want our in
dependence and are able to make ou
! demands felt. Our movement mus
: have faith in the Filipino masses
particularly the workers and hard
| working farmers. AS far as our at
, titude toward the United States i
concerned we must have faith in tn
: common people rather than in the i'm
periaists and the mOneyed interests.
! Pablo Manlapit was born at Lipa
Batangas, Philippine Islands some 3
7 years ago. His father was a poo
3 peasant. He attended school at Ton
do, Manila, but at the age of 10 h
t was oblidged to ship to the Hawaiia
Islands as a common laborer, as S
7 many Filipinos do. Labor is contract
1 ed for by the Sugar Trust interests
$ who make big promises to the work
ers in the Philippines, promises whic
I are never kept after the workers hav
: been led far away from their home
and are at the mercy of the suga
trust.
S Manlapit, along with many otht
/ Filipinos, toiled for three years Q
|, the plantations of the sugar trust
/ Hawaii. Conditions were almost III
y bearable and he developed bite
The producers news., 1927-12-16

hatred for the sugar planters. per
sonified in the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers Association.
Some way or other he found time
to study law and he resolved to use
has legal training in the interests of
the Filipino workers among whom he
lived. His first cases were in con-
nection with the efforts of the work
ers to better their conditions. A BIG
strike took place, involving 10000
Filipinos, $4,000 Japanese and work
eTs of all other nationalities in the
territory. The strike was successful.
A wage-increase of so per cent was
secured.
The sugar trust never intended to
give in permanently however, and
wages were soon reduced below the
pre-strike level. Before II months
had passed they were down to $4,000
a month.
] Meantime Manlapit was active in
the labor movement. He established
relations with the American workers
/ in Honolulu and worked closely with
George w. Wright, president of the
Honolulu central labor council and ed
itor of the Labor Review. He also
published hi sown paper, "Ang Ban
tay'' which was printed in Tagalog
"a native Filipino dialect land Span
ish.
The year 1924 was a year of crisis
for the Filipino sugar workers in Ha-
wall The big sugar strike broke out
on April l, 1924, the men responding
, enthusiastically to the leadership of
Manlapit
The sugar trust resorted to all
means to keep the workers from i'm
proving their conditions, even going
to the extreme of having Filipino
babies evicted from hospitals. Man
lapit was the soul of the strike anC
the planters early determined to rail.
road him to Jail.
He was framed up, in one of the
most notorious frame-up scandals II
labor history, and sent to prison OF
May %, 1925.
) After the arrest Of Manlapit thu
strike collapsed.
Sentenced to from two to ten years
at hard labor, Manlapit served hi
) minimum sentence and was eligiblt
r for parole January 5, 1927. Despit
: the agitation in Manlapit's behal
. from all parts of the world and de
/ spite denunciation of the frame up i
} every newspaper in Honolulu the pa
: role board refused Manlapit parol
!. until he agreed to leave the island
: and come to the United States.
h Incidentally it was proved by tn
Q Honolulu Bee that the members Q
: the parole board were themselve
r linked up with the sugar interests.
Manlapit was released only a fe'
r months ago proceeding to Los Ange
n es. He Immediately became a dom
n nant figure among the Filipinnos 0
l. the Pacific coast with whose interest
n he lost no time in identifying himsel
The producers news., 1927-12-16

He began the organization of the FIJI
lpino labor union of America of which
he is now president.
For many years, even before leav-
ing the Philippine Islands for Hawaii
Manlapit has been an ardent partici-
pant in the movement for freeing the
Philippines from American rule. He
insists that the Filipino workers can
not properly defend their economic
interests unless they take a leading
part in the movement for national in
dependence. In a general way, the
sentiment for independence is virtual
~ unanimous among the Filipino
people. What is needed is militant
struggle to achieve independence.
Feeling himself in accord with the
The producers news., 1927-12-16
1r115iIC CONDITIONS
SSIIJ'N S10 IN MONTANA

asaa-BaF5Io5 Ba5I5l4.I aF5or5.1e up better than
I for tn, .s. s5i,f.i division Of publicity icb5,.
sa 5sPar.m'IP5 Reports % sent in to -sas the
s,. s.' '.dcgnenters og ten indicate that ,d0 N
..5y every y+5s lo0rll.1 members are at work ,
+ osnt osntt.o5,t. o5 s..' are good for the con-
y pros y employment a,,.;
BILLINGS, 5..1.sosI' P'lii Miles City, Liviogs- l15.,
~. hal5Po'. 5Ie and White.i.5 every =
. ROUNDUP l5s 'I5a local brotherhood 81 81
5H= oI IN reported employed but
easa.ers Is outside OUTSIDE help called for, 5o5
% case : gfere gf there are 2O2
nae9no11i ii are employed and .T the. there
IT, d demand for outside he.P; p; ,
....- sa. Fai.s where t5e1e ate ~ ~
b gEsa. -lenorte5, y per ceat arr
asi Building activity IN th5 h,
d r however has Aeea holo-
@ .. r.i vii during tie Year. III. |''".
The producers news., 1927-12-16
Westby Lad Makes High
Record for Attendance

Westby-Olaf Christofferson, who
for five years and three months has
been neither tardy, nor absent from
school was held at home Thursday,
December 7th because of a severe
"Old
To the best of our knowledge this
is the highest mark for attendance of
any pupil at the Westby school,
The producers news., 1927-12-16

activities Of the All-America Anti
Imperialist League, Manlapit became
a member Of that organization sever
al weeks ago. The League now has
sections in eleven countries of Latin
America as well as in the United
States. Under the leadership of Pab-
10 Manlapit it is believed that a very
strong section of the League will be
established in the Philippin Islands.
The producers news., 1927-12-16
Plane Service for Parks

Great Falls, Dec. daily airplane
service between Yellowstone national,
and Glacier national park, is planned
for the coming summer by the Ma
tional Parks Scenic Airway of Bill
ings, according to V. R. Lucas.
The producers news., 1927-12-16
RAILWAY BOARD TO
MEET AT OPHEIM

Helena.-Montana' state railroad
commission has announced a hearing
at Opheim, December ID, to consider
the request of the Great Northern to
emf down train service on the new
Scobey-Opheim extension. Train SER
vice has been maintained daily ex-
cent Sunday since the completion Of
the branch and the railroad now pro-
noses installing tri-weekly service
between Scobey and Opheim. Merch-
ants and farmers of the district af-
fected have lodged protests.
The producers news., 1927-12-16
To Carry Filipino Message 10
American Workers. -Manlapit
Tours For Anti-Imperialists

Despite the conspiracy of silence entered by President
Coolidge and the FlPon nationalist senator's QuezOn O
mena the demand the people of the Philippines national lib
GRAFTON will be carried directly the and farmers of
America Such Is the significance of issued to-
day. that Pablo Maat noted fighter for Filipino liberty has
agreed to make TOUR OF American cities speaking the
pices of the al[Amerca Ant-Imperiaist League.
Evening star., 1927-06-03

Suddenly Margaret collapsed. She
burst into unrestrained weeping. She
sat there, her face turned up and
screwed into the hideous contortions
of grief. She did not even feel for her
handkerchief; there was something
shameless in her c.bandon.
Holly put an arm around her.
TELL me- she said. Come into
the drawing room and tell me-"
Margaret got up, but she did not
wipe her eyes. Tears fell to her
worn black furs and hung there like
beads.
"Now," Holly said, after closing the
door into the hall. What has hap
pened? Is it Mr.. Cox"
The name brought Margaret to her
self. She stopped crying and stared
at Holly.
You know perfectly well what 1t
is. You must know"
But I don't. He isn't hurt. or
sick. is hep
Then your mother knows! It was
like her, just when we were SO happy,
and no thanks to her for that, either.
When did she ever think of anybody
but herself? And to help that man,
after the way he's ruined her life"'
What man."
"Your father. Get away from that
door, Holly. 1 don't care Whether
she's asleep or not. I'm not, and I'm
going up"
"I1l let you up, of course. but tell
me first. You haven't told me
thing
Margaret gazed at her bitterly.
"Oh, I'll tell you, all right" she
said. "My James--my honest James,
has been arrested for receiving stolen
goods"
Holly felt a vague sense of relief.
Somehow, nothing but murder or
sudden death had seemed to justify
Margarets woe.
But it's a mistake" she said
gently. Hes been at the store too
long for them to believe he'd do any
thing wrong now"
Suddenly Margaret laughed, hys-
tcrical high-pitched laugh that ended
in a wall.
"At the store" she said. ''At his
own home. In that suit case your
mother sent down"
"Oh, no." said Holly. "Oh, no"'
"Oh, yes" sneered Margaret. "She
was using me, as she's always used
me. | dare say your father was to
call and get it, and then abscond for
Europe or some place. She'd do any
thing to get rid of him, even to
killing my husband. And it will kill
him. If you could see him, sitting in
the district attorneys office, with his
poor head bowed, and not even .ow-
ing what it's all about! And when l
told them, they didn't believe me-"
She moved toward the door.
"Sick or WELL" she said, "she's
going to get out of bed and go down
there. Let them Jail her"
Let them Jail me-" said Holly
quietly. You see, 1 sent the suit
case, Aunt Margaret. She doesn't
know anything about it."
Margaret stopped, her hand on the
knob.
"You?"
Next to James, she loved Holly.
Together they had run the house and
counted the pennies. 1t was to her,
Evening star., 1927-06-03

"If I'm not good enough for them.
my wife isn't, either. Let them come
to you: don't object, so long as I'm
not here. But you don't need them
any more. The shoes on the other
foot, my girl. Let them have their
pride; I've got mine. too"
She had acquiesced. She loved
Holly, but Annie rayno had never
more than tolerated her, and the
house itself held only bitter memories.
And now. when, in answer to the
furious ringing of the bell. Holly
opened the door, Margaret was there.
A strange Margaret, wild eyed. dis
heveled Margaret, her hose red with
weeping.
Holly stood staring at her. and
Margaret brushed past and into the
hall with sort of savage violence.
where's your mother?'
shes asleep. She's not Well.'
Evening star., 1927-06-03

space before tie McCook house to
take up position there.
Margaret passed him as she entered
the Bayne house. She had not been
there since her marriage.
"It'S like this" James had said.
Evening star., 1927-06-03

because she had found 1t. She'd
already sold one bond; I was afraid
she would sell some more"
The full import of the thing dawned
on Margaret slowly.
"She sold bond" she repeated
slowly. "Then-to clear James we
Evening star., 1927-06-03

II don't believe it." said Margaret
sharply. she's hiding. Anyhow, I'm
going up"
mo, you're not" said Holly.
You're not going up like that. I'm
not going to have her startled
Evening star., 1927-06-03

stout, housekeeping gentleman had
just stopped to light a cigarette.
Some time, at some place. he had
seen that same picture before.
The man had gone on. Warrington
turned off his light nd took UP his
Evening star., 1927-06-03

not to her mother, that the girl had
gone with the small worries, the little
snubs, the constant struggle between
gentility and poverty which had made
up their lives. She came back into
the room.
"Why did YOU do it?'
Evening star., 1927-06-03
yVTETgTINIIITIgNVIgMVIgNE

vigil once more He was rewarded
within five minutes. by seeing the
individual again This time, however,
he did not pass on. He phesumed
on the growing darkness and dark
Evening star., 1927-06-03

Warrington washed and changed
his collar and once he heard the front
door close and went to the window to
see if Brooks had gone. But his car
was still outside. Across the street
Evening star., 1927-06-03

would have to implicate her. Oh,
Holly! What are we going to do?'se
Continued in Tomorrow's Starr :
Men no longer hide behind women's
skirts. Neither do women.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-05-19

wrecked
Seward daily gateway., 1927-05-19
MAJOR JOHN COTWALS
 IS DISTRICT ENGINEER

For the past three years Major John c. Gotwalls, for a number of years first assistant to Col. J. G. Steese on the Alaska Road Commission, has oc- cupied the position of district en- gineer for the St. Louis district, hence the appearance few days ago of his name in connection with the Mississ- ippi flood rescue work.
 The result of the floods has been to call practically the entire Engineering Board of the Federal government to the South, including Major Gotwals and other district engineers, to grap- pie with the immediate problem and find way, if possible, to prevent a recurrence of the disaster.