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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
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Turning from the telephone,
Thatcher Colt said to me:
"Pretty little thing, that Betty
Garfield, eh, Tony?"
Looks like little beaver with
those bright eyes,"
1t is a habit of Thatcher Colt
to compare human beings to ami
mails, birds or fshes-every face
he sees suggests to him a parallel
from natural history.
"But she didn't tell US all she
knows, Tony" added the Commits
sioner with a sigh. "Nice, sweet
girl, from good family, but she
comes down here and tells me lies.
That's too bad"
"But, chief, how did She"
Thatcher Colt waved nv cues
ton aside. Bending again over his
traffic blue-prints, he added:
Get your dinner, Tony, and
meet me at the garage in an hour.
! noticed how you admired NV
friends niece, so | am taking YOU
up there with me tonight"
What had made Thatcher Colt
believe tina: Betty Garfield had
lied to him? ~
Over my solitary dinner in a
Pearl Street lunchroom I puzzled
that question with knitted brows.
put came no nearer to the answer
1t was generally that way when !
tried to follow the strange thought
ways of the Police Commissioner.
IN all the years that l had known
MN he had invariably baffied me,
and yet | was closer to him than
any other person. During those
days at headquarters, and especial.
~ during the Geraldine Foster ex.
cltement, his political enemies ali
said his personal activities in the
case were mostly interference for
the sake of publicity, that he had
desire to be on the front page
every morning, and that his secre,
am bltlon was to be Mayor of New
York.
Nothing could be farther from
the truth. What Thatcher Colt
really wanted was to be 4 musician
and poet Tin deadly privacy he ap
piled himself to the form of thu
sonnet and the willamette and prac.
tlsed cadenzas on a flute). bu,
unfortunately nature had made
him a detective, and, as he once
told me, with that quirkish smile
OF his, "Not even my duties a.
Police Commissioner shall keep mt
from the business of solvins
crimes"
More than anything else in tn,
world, Thatcher Colt was afraid o,
being exposed in his true personal
ity as a sentimentalist. He de
spised all emotion as a weakness
and he got quite angry when | as
sured him that the cold reason h,
brought to bear upon his dali,
work was also an emotion of an
other kind, a type of oreiasti
mental frenzy. | knew him bette
than he cared to know himself. III
could sit at his desk and dcride 81
human feelings as glandular an,
depraved, and at that very momen
have in his pocket a just-compose,
sonnet to the red-headed girl VIII
had ditched him for 4 duke Will
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
CAApTEp III
CHAPTER Ill.
[kvXTHY didn't you like Ger
" aldine's employer"
asked Thatcher Colt.

suddenly.
Betty's dark eyes flashed.
"The reason why l cannot tell"
she quoted from the old rune about
Doctor Fell. 81 mean | dislike him
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. any real rea-
SON whatever. But there must be
something wrong with a man whose
own father and brother won't have
anything to do with him."
''Thanks, Miss Garfield. Stop
worrying and we'll try to find
your friend. Give my best to your
uncle-and expect US about eight
tonight. The address,"
She gave. the number of the
Esplanade, an apartment house
on Morningside Drive, and had
reached the door when Thatcher
Colt called out:
"Miss Garfield, would you mind
telling ME what you and Geraldine
had for lunch on Christmas Eve
at the Brevoort?'
The girls eyes held a startled
CLEAN as she considered for a
moment. Had she possibly OWNED
the gruesome import of the Com
missioner's question? Then she
answered.:
eve had snails, Mr.. Colt. Why
do y you ask?'
Thatcher Colt picked up his desk
telephone.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01

ne was fighting in France. had
known him some years before that
disastrous romance, having met
hlm first when l was a reporter on
the staff of the old Sun. Later. I
served under him in the Argonne.
but Tor many years after the de-
moDlilzatlon we did not see each
other. | had returned to news
paper work and Thatcher Colt was
travelling in the Orient. AS soon
as he came back to New York. he
was appointed Police Commits
sioner and promptly made me his
secretary.
All this ! recalled at dinner. but
as later | hurried through par
ticularly dank and unplcasant
night back to Headquarters. | con-
Tess that !! was also beguiled with
musings about the pretty girl who
a few hours before had come to
the office with her strange story.
Would Thatcher Colt be able to
solve the mystery she had laid be-
fore him?
In the garage, | found Neil Nc
Mahon. the Commissioners chauf-
feur, seated at the wheel of that
powerful motor car which a great
manufacturer recently presented
to the department in gratitude for
one OF the unpublished exploits of
Thatcher Colt. 1t is an extraor.
binary machine, equipped with
many secret devices from the trip-
lex non-shatterable glass of it's
windows and windshields to the
two concealed sub-calibre Thomp-
son machine guns.
Soon We were joined by the
Commissioner, and Neil drove us
out into Broome Street. All this
part of New York now seemed de.
serted, and yet within few
minutes walk Of us were half of
the city's millions, compressed into
few huddled and jagged tene-
ment streets-the Italian section
around Mulberry Park, and China
town, the Bowery and all tho
crowded Lower East Side, in
habited chiefly by Jewish im-
migrants, made famous in the
novels Of Fannie Hurst and Nat
Ferher
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
Best Dairy Herd

Records Of North Dakota Dairy
Herd Association members show that
the "a pure bred Eolstein cows at the
state penitentiary averaged Ala
pounds of milk each during October
to lead all other herds in the state
and more than double the average of
association members.
This is distinction which means
much to western North Dakota. 1t
shows that this climate is especially
favorable for dairying and that the
feeds raised in this section are as
succulent as those produced any
where.
Unquestionably the grimmest of
the states institutions, the peniten-
tlary brings new glory to Bismarck
and western North Dakota by this
distinction of having one of the
finest dairy herds in the Northwest
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abide such an anomalous position,
Greta Carlo, film actress.

abide such an anomalous POSITION
Greta Carlo, film actress.
X X x
The most degrading punishment
that can be meted out to any GRIM
inal is to deprive him Of the fran
chise--Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, vice
president, New York Herald Tribune
X X X
A good old whipping post in City
Hall courtyard with 10 days of 100
lashes each would soon rid the city of
its crininals.-Judge Harry S. Nc
Dewitt, Philadelphia.
x X X
Two things that must be achieved
in European diplomacy are the
security of France and the equality
of Germany. The only way to do
that is through recognition by all
states that war anywhere concerns
anybody. - Lord Lytton, chairman,
League of Nations Manchurian COM
mission.
Lack of understanding between the
Soviet Union and the United States
is the greatest plague in the world
today - Colonel Hugh l.. Cooper,
builder of Russia's huge hydroelec-
trio plant at Dnieprostroy.
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Barbs

They say beer is coming back, but
we haven't seen any signs yet on the
drug store windows.
X X X
Among other items that seem
to be missing in the newspapers
is one about ex-Candidate FOs-
ter receiving telegram from
ex-Candidate Upshaw.
X X X
Senator Borah still refuses to tel
how he voted. Anyway, it doesn't
seem to have made much difference
X X x
Three men were SENTENCED in Chi
cago for carrying weapons in theil
automobiles. They should have un
derstood that in Chicago that's VIVA
violin cases are for.
X X X
The head of the Bank of Eng
land says he approaches the
problems of the depression mot
only in ignorance, but in hu-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
TWO KINDS OF DUCK

Toledo, O.-County Prosecutor Carl
Christensen didn't figure on any
more than one kind of a duck when
he went hunting recently. His hunt
ing luck was good because he brought
down two mallards. But when he
tried to fish them out Of the water
he received a duck that was not SO
good. While wading out to the ducks
he stepped in deep hole and received
q thorough ducking.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
I lHE MYdERY0FG GERALDINE
j by ANTHONY ABBOT

Geraldine Foster, a very at
tractIve young reception clerk in
the Washington Square office of
Dr. Humphrey MaskeH. vanished
from her Morningside Heights
apartment on the night before
Christmas. Her room mate, Betty
LanheId. reported her disappear
ance to the police three days after
Christmas and appealed directly
to Police Commissioner Thatcher
Colt for aid. Betty held phone
conversation with Geraldine on
Saturday, Christmas Eve, during
which the latter said she wished
she was dead. Betty telephoned
Geraldine's mother and learned she
had not arrived for the holiday.
The missing girls fance, Harry
Armstrong, had not seen her since
Friday. DR.. MaskeH says he re-
turned to his office Saturday after
noon to find Geraldine gone.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
AFRICA DEVELOPS

Cape Town.-The Belt Trust has set
aside some 100000 for development
of aviation in Africa. About $4,000
of this amount is earmarked for work
in Rhodesia along the Cairo-Cape
Town section OF the Imperial Air
ways. Four new emergency landing
fields are to be erected along the more
remote sections of the route.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
TRACTOR CRANKS PLANE

Chicago.-Ralph Caffarello doesn't
believe in starting airplanes by hand.
At the Municipal Airport here he has
rugged up a tractor to do the crank
ing for him. The power takeoff O.
the tractor is hooked up to the start
ing mechanism of the plane.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01

mility." Some of our own
statesmen would be in the same
boat if they had the humility.
* X X
When school fires a coach, that's
not news. But it is when 1t keeps
him after a defeat.
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, 1nc0
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01

The inspector is model Of dis.
cipline for the whole Department.
Showing no surprise whatever, he
quietly acquiesced and departed
without another word.
The Commissioner was again
talking on the telephone.
doctor Humphrey Maskell:
This is the Police Commissioner
speaking. Could you arrange to
be in your Office if l dropped in
around ten o'clock tonight? Mind
Thank yOu.n
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01

institutions have placed upon the
farmers of the state who, after all,
pay an imposing amount of the taxes.
This is a pill which cannot be
Sugar-coated.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Missing: A Boys Cyula

Sons tonsils removed two months
ago Comparing his throat with the
Threats Of other children who have
had their tonsils removed / find his
palate completely gone. Would this
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01

There have been a lot of foolish
rabble-rousing utterances about en-
bargoes on farm products to force
prices to higher levels. Many farm
ers are realizing to their sorrow that
the economic forces at work now are
more powerful than embargoes or
theories advanced by blatant dema-
gogues. Constructive steps must be
taken, it is true. Those who have
the farmers, cause at heart don't en-
gage in sky writing or futile theories.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
A PLAYFUL TRIO

Knoxville. Tenn.-1f the three Me-
groes in City Court recently were
playing. we'd hate to see them IN a
fight. They told the judge that they
were only playing, but he didn't be-
|lieye them even when John Williams
admitted striking his wife over the
head with pick handle.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the
trend Of thought by other editors.
They are published without regard
TO whether they agree or disagree
with The Tribune's policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY William Brady, M. d.


diagnosis treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady stamped
should
No reply be made queries not conforming insru
tons. Address Dr. William Brady of this
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Circulation
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Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively
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Of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited In this
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EX-Mayor James Walker has taken
to chasing photographers. Good sign
that recovery is at hand.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-01

Trade Mark Reg. u. S.
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seven pieces and fit them together in
a manner that will form the sill
houetted figure shown above. Blacken
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of the puzzles requires that certain
pieces be turned over. All seven
pieces must be used in each puzzle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
Revive the Proclamation of OutIawry? |?
Cincinnati Enouirer. )


 The proposal seriously is suggested that the old English proclamation of outlawry, following the is- of which the persons declared without the pale of the law may be summarily killed by any citizen If they refuse to surrender ought to be revived throughout the United States The Kidnapping of the IIndbergh baby is said to have inspired the sug- gestion, which has been made by Justin Miller, Dean of the School of Law at Duke University, North Carolina, and Gordon Evans, Chairman of the Section Criminal Law and Crimnology of the American Bar Association.
 This proposal is discussed in the current issue of the Panel published by the Association of Grand Jurors of New York County.
 Kidnapers and other dangerous criminals have conservative citizens are becoming convinced that eventually they must be suppressed summarily, de- lclares the foreword to the article.
 That something must be done to cope with the crime situation will not be questioned by any inte- lgent and lawloving citizen of the present It might lbe that the egalizng of hunting down and killing Iof outlawed criminals would serve something of Ia deterrent in the matter of criminal activity, but there would develop certain dangers and difficulties from the practice. These might be overcome, but the authorized killing by private persons should in such case be hedged by careful restrictions. How ever, of the States of the United States in lcluding North Carolina, have effective laws against Ioutlawry
 It may be that the enactment of outlawry statutes at least would put something of fear into the hearts of dangerous enemies of society Dur ling various periods of the country's history the work of vgilaneS served effectualy to teach crim- inals that law and order could be maintained.
 The article concludes Legislators may find in outlawry effective historic weapon applicable to present-day administration of criminal justice"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
|A You Can't Marry
 MSS by yulia CleftAddans 4SSG%sM

SYNOPSIS: As soon as she meets Garth Agency, Jenny Revell is attracted to him, but Agency seems much more in- terested in Georgie, her cous- in. Jenny is just "A and Av- eny asks her whether she likes the dinner they are having as a birthday party. She says mo" and then Is afraid their host, Ryder Vale, has heard her. But Vale is quite busy taking care of her, when Av- cny repeatedly deserts her for Georgie. Jenny is loyal to Georgie, who is providing a home for her, but she realizes that Aveny's interest is wasted because Gecrgie is in love with Eddie Townsend, and will not promise to marry him, for if she marries she loses a valua- ble job. While dancing with Jenny, Vale tells here that Agency must have seen Geor- gie somewhere, though he said he hadn't when he asked Vale to arrange the party.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
The Philippines.
Manchester Guardian.O

bill providing for the autonomy within eight years, of the Philippine Islands has passed through the United States House of Representative by large majority The support for the bill is distinctly mixed. There is strong current of genuine feeling against any form of colonial imperialism in the United States, and that the policy of inter
 vention in the affairs of Central America is not being pressed so nakedy as in the Coolidge regime the attention of the ant-imperiasts has swung back to the standing claims of the Philippines. There other and material reasons for SUD- porting the bill. While the islands are territory of the United States their produce enters the coun- try untaxed This pains American sugar-beet farm CTS; still more it pains American capitalists who have put their money into Cuba and exasperated to Cuban sugar kept out by tariff, while Philippine sugar in free. There are others who wish to check not only the products of the islanders but the Fflipnos themselves During the last ten years there has been rapid increase in immigration. There more than 50000 Fli- pnos in the United States and, they are con- centrated on the Pacific Coast there is beginning to be Filipino problem similar to, though still a smaller scale than, the Chinese and Japanese racial problems in California. But immigration cannot be checked so long the Filipinos citi- zens of the United States. The bill will also meet with a response in the the islands, where the governing classes at least, strongly for independence. It is unlikely to become law in the immediate future. MT. Stimson the Secretary of State, himself former Governor of the Philippines, is strongly against it on strategic grounds But a compromise in the form of much-ncreased local autonomy, is not unlikely. good many members of Congress beginning to feel that any settle ment of the question would be better than none.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
ANOTHER SOURCE OF STATE
 REVENUE.

Florida has found source of revenue Tor public purposes The State has racing comission that has supervision of horse and dog racing Among it's duties is to control the betting at horse and dog racing tracks The first season of State super vsed racing and betting at the three horse race tracks and six dog tracks produced for the State from commissions on betting $737,2904o. The racing commission cost including salaries and all expenses amounted to $45 8O008 This left the State a net profit of s69l ,49O.32
 The report of the racing commission showed that 1130234 persons attended the races in that State during the season and they wagered $17365,424
 These figures indicate that there must be pros- perity in some quarters down there in that State of sunshine and winter playfelds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
by Julia CieHAddams

of laughter hidden in him, some elusive yet intimate mocquerie, sem her blood faster thruogh her veins
 and she said rather dazedly; "l don't think it matters now, wheth- CT I wanted to or notl" But she knew that her running, lowering sliding feet in their silver shoes were giving her the lie. She was dancing now as she had never danced with Ryder Vale.
 Not your kind of a birthday party at all.v His voice was very quiet What kind of a birthday party would you have liked it to 1 be?"
 She was dumb the song in her heart saddened though lovely still. Psople who really didn't belong anywhere couldn't have birthday parties-5ut she couldn't tell that to d man who had so openly fall en into love with Georgie, be- cause it would sound as though Georgies charity were a grudging thing And it wasn't that. Never that
 {. T should like to give you a little birthday parry" He let it. tie swaying pases creep between their steps, as though his fancy halted in it's gait. T think there should be tree-a very straight, dark, green tree-standing in a clearing in a forest-wlth twenty-four silver candles on it.. And at the foot there would be twenty -four parcels. tied with sil- yer string, each holding something very delicate and rare. Except one which would be bulky and sensible-a white fur coat to keep you sheltered from the snow"
 Snow? In AuguSt?"
 He met her eyes for the first time since that long look at the table
 T suppose so. No. Perhaps the white glitter would be moon-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
GARNER WINS WHEN VETS SPLIT.

The loss of California was terrific niow to 'ile Gov Roosevelt campaign for the Democratic Presi- dential nomination That he was defeated through the candidacy of Al Smith there is not ooupC' though the latter ran third in the race. speaker Garner seems to have the victory and the California delegation will be led by William G. McAdoo Al Smiths foe at Madison Square in 1924 However if Smith had not been candidate, thus dVlolhs the wet vote of the State, Roosevelt certainly would have won in California. While Hearsts four great daily newspapers built Garner up, they could not have prevailed if the vets had not been split oe- tween Roosevelt and Smith.
 The indications are that Roosevelt will nave every State west of the Missouri River except California but it must be admitted that the cir cumstances also indicate that he may not win the nomination in the primaries before the meeting of the National Convention.
 If it should turn out that Roosevelt IS perm anently stopped for the nomination 1t is not at all likely that either Garner Smith will be the nominee Roosevelt is still the best bet, but the next best we believe, is former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
NEGROES MAY BE DEMOCRATS IN
 TEXAS

The Democratic Party in Texas had a party rule that forbade Negroes from voting in the pri- maries of that party in the Lone Star State. Prominent Negroes, claiming they represented 100- 900 of their that wished to be Democrats and to vote in Democratic primaries, appealed to Demo- cratic State conventions to change the rule While they received encouragement they were never able to get the rule set aside. Then they went to the State Supreme Court with test case. and they lost there. From the State court they appealed to the United States Supreme Court on the ground that the rule in violation of the Fourteenth Amend ment giving the right of suffrage to Negroes. The State Supreme Court had held that it was party matter wholly outside the authority of the State
 The United States Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Cardozo, holds that the State