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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-29
t1HE MYg6kYolF GERALDINE
i by ANTHONY ABBOT

Geraldine Foster was hacked "a
death in 4 house on Peddler,s
Road. leased by her employer. DR..
MaskeN, and her nude body buried
IN q grave filed with tannic acid
Two women were seen leaving the
doctors office carrying bottles
similar to those found near the
grave. Mrs. Morgan, a neighbor,
substantiates the doctors state
n7ent that he was with her daugh-
ter. Doris. the day of the disap-
pearance. MaskeH claims there
was a strange woman outside his
office when he returned. Other
suspects are Harry Armstrong,
Geraldine's former fiance. and her
brother, Bruce. who will receive
her inheritance. Bruce is an
adopted SON whose father was a
murderer. Dr.. MaskeH reports to
Police Commissioner Thatcher
Colt that Geraldine phoned him on
January S. ten days after her dis
appearance requesting that he
meet her, but failed to appear. The
autopsy shows she was killed on
December ~, and her body pre-
served by the acid to make it APP
pear that death occurred within
% hours. MaskelI, accused: sticks
to his story. His brother and
sister-in-law, George and Natalie
MaskeU, call to see him. but are
turned away.
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It is to the effect that the worst
system, under competent and honest
men, Is better than the best system
managed by crooks and incom-
petents. Its truth, OF course, is OBJ
vious.
At the beginning, of course, a new
system, faced with the obligation of
proving itself, does it's best. 1t lives
in the public eye and everyone is in
terested. Efficiency and economy
are inevitably the result.
But as the system grows older, the
public attitude changes. The accept
ed order is taken for granted and,
all too frequently, old conditions re-
turn. Eventually the public wakes
up to find that its pet gadget of
government is being used against it
rather than for it.
There is no substitute for active
public interest in public affairs.
There can be no better safeguard.
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Hundreds

dice and costly pendants. Hundreds
Of items were listed.
There was another tale to the ef-
feet that, In country estate, the
widow had thought Of setting out an
estate-like Rome-a hill to each son!
just what happened to the idea, I
have never heard.
At any rate they did hold the last
obsequies over the old Marshall Field
showplace in Fifth Avenue, and every
one slipped tea at the wake, while the
swankiest club New York has ever
known was coming into existence
with glassed-in tennis courts, croQuet
grounds and all that sort Of thin
Frank Crowninshie1d, editor Of smart
magazines, IS said to be operating it.
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An Important Witness

My chief explained to me, in an
aside, that the Inspector and some
Of the men had been talking with
Checkles. The best they could get
out of him was that he was with
the doctor all through Christmas
Eve afternoon. Beside Checkles
in the car, smiling a little wanly,
and as pale as moon at dawn,
Doctor Maskell took his place.
Then he looked back and in the
rear seat, he saw a woman and a
child. The mother, / recognized
a. Felise Morgan, and the little
girl was Doris Morgan, the child
companion Of Doctor Maskell, his
living alibi. She was quite pretty.
Later I learned that she was ten
years old. Her golden hair and
large blue eyes and colorful dress
and hat gave her a rather spoiled
and STACEY air-one would expect
her to grow up into a cinema star,
If cinema stars ever do grow up.
But what interested me most was
thu love and tenderness in Doctor
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Shattered Alibi

This conversation took place in
the Westock apartment. and nat
urally Doctor Maskell did not hear
It, Tor he remained in the car with
Detective Burke guarding the
whole party. Thatcher Colt did not
tel! the doctor about Mrs. Wes-
tock,s story; Soon the car had
crossed Fifth Avenue, continuing
east until Park Avenue, where
finally we stopped in front Of =
large apartment house.
oh" exclaimed Doris, 'shere il
where l had the ice cream"
Thatcher Colt had his hand on
the door, but at this remark. Ia
settled back and looked 1ravaIv
down ct Doris. Watching Maskeli.
! saw that he did seem concerned'
Where did you have ice crew.
Doris!" asked the Commissioners.
casually.
"Checkles and had Ice cream
while Doctor Maskell delivered
some presents by himself" an
"Where?"
Fright there!'
The Child pointed out Of the or,
windoW to confectioner's on TN
opposite corner. s
Did you have more than on.
plate Of ice cream?" asksS
Thatcher Colt. "
Three! / had three!" cri.a
Checkles gloatingly, as he turne1
ana looked ct US over his shoulier
But Doris is lady and took oniv
one. She had to wait for ma ma
though had three"
1 Aze q c2nsinsed Tsasrsx.l
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+, Maskell's eyes when he looked n
little Doris. think the sight o.
her quite unnamed him. HI
caught her to him az she rose will
a squeal of joy at sight of him
and she kissed him in lively, init
mate and trusting fashion.
"Helloa, Doris! Helloa, Check.
les" called the Commissioner, tax.
ing his place beside the child and
motioning me to a folding seat in
front of him.
Good mornings and good nights
and good fellows and good gods u
said Checkles. His head bent over
the wheel Of the car, and he pushed
the horn button in the middle of
the wheel with his long, peaked
nose so that the car cried out as
if in fright at his behavior.
Doris laughed.
''Isn't Checkles too funny for
words?" she asked, with a
grown-up glance at Thatcher Colt.
'He always blows the horn with
his nose."
The Commissioner nodded, as he
drew a slip Of paper from his
pocket, and read off the names and
addresses of the patients of Doc
tor Maskell, to whom, SO the sus-
pect declared, he and Doris and
Checkles had delivered the pres
ents.
CAN correct" said Maskell.
Then we further delayed our
start while the Commissioner
talked earnestly with Doris. He
told her she was a very important
person, and that she could help
the great City of New York, and
she must try to remember every
thing she could. She promised
with the most grown-up and gra-
cious smile imaginable.
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I<AYJW, SAID thatcher Colt
IN suddenly breaking the
silence, "my dear doc.
tor, / have taken the liberty
Of making some arrangements
for our morning."
eyes, certainly" said Doctor
Maskell, turning from the window
with a deep sigh.
"There is another car down.
stairs, in which you will find some
of your friends. We are going on
. journey"
"Without breakfast" asked the
II am afraid so," replied the
Commissioner, while Dougherty
laughed, shook hands with my chief
and promised to see him later in
the day. Then he and Hogan de-
parted, leaving the next stage of
the investigation in our hands.
IF you think that extra little
torment will help in breaking my
nerves." said the doctor; "let me
disabuse your mind. I have eaten
no breakfast, except hot water, in
twenty years, and, as a doctor,
staying up all night is no great
great strain on me-"
We descended into the fresh air
of the young morning. At dawn,
there had been a sun, but already
banks of rain-clouds were massing
in the heavens; the air was damp
and cold; it was the beginning,
after an hours interlude, of an
other spell of dismal and cheer
less weather.
In front of 24O Centre Street a
maroon-colored Auburn car was
drawn up at the curb, with that
strange little fellow Checkles sit
ting 1t the wheel.
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finished that twisting and traffic
tormented itinerary. In and out
Of the crowded New York streets
we drove, while Checkles pushed
the horn button with his nose, and
heaped maledictions on taxi driv-
ers and pedestrians who tempted
death under our wheels. From
house to house we drove, from a
broker in East Twelfth Street, to
an actor who lived at the Chelsea
Hotel Farther north we were
slowly creeping on our tourney,
which was confined largely to the
West Side, but by the time we had
stopped in front of the Sherman
Square Hotel Doctor Maskell re-
minded US that it was just three
o'clock on Christmas Eve after
noon that he had been there be-
fore. He knew by the fact that he
had inquired the time of the door
man, wondering if he would be
able to complete the rest of his
trips before it was time for Doris
to be back in her home. The door,
man knew the doctor, who often
called to visit one patient, a re-
tired merchant tailor who lived on
the eighth floor Of the hotel. When
questioned, the doorman perfectly
recalled Doctor Maskell asking the
time and he further recollccted
that it was three o'clock.
AS we drove past the barren
Shakespeare Garden in Central
Park, l had to tell myself that so
far the Doctors alibi had been con-
sistently sustained. Then, at the
next place we stopped, small
hotel apartment house near Gem
trail Park, we came upon a surpris-
ing piece of information. The
patient to whom Doctor Maskell
had delivered a present there was
q Mrs. Westock. She told the
Commissioner that, on Christmas
Eve, before the doctor reached her
house, someone had called on her
telephone and asked for the ply
sician.
1T was a woman's voice." said
Mrs. Westock. "She seemed to be
very anxious for me to get word
to him. The message she left was:
Please come at once to Peddlers
Road: Something terrible has hap
pened.'"
"She did not leave any name?"
"No, sir. Nor her telephone
number"
did you give the doctor the
message?"
eyes, sir.'
"What did ho cov7v
HE looked surprised, but all he
said was "Thanks.."
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An Interesting Experiment

Citizens of San Mateo county, Cali
fornia, exercised at the high cost OF
county government and desiring to
modernize its system OF operation,
have adopted the county manager
form Of government which will be-
come effective soon.
The county charter provides for a
board OF supervisors to be elected at
large. It will select the county
executive in collaboration with a
special board, which will review the
qualifications Of applicants for the
post. The executive will appoint all
administrative officers in the coun-
ty, except constitutional officers, SUBJ
Ject to confirmation by the board.
The California commonwealth is
the second in the country to adopt
this system, the first having been
Arlington county, Virginia, where
the plan. has been effective since
January !, 1881.
It seems q safe bet that review a
few years hence will show conditions
In these two counties materially i'm
proved. not because the system Is es-
sentially better than those we now
have but because Of greater interest
on the part Of the people and a more
watchful attitude on the part Of the
taxpayer.
New brooms sweep clean, but only
a. long as they are new brooms-
and the processes Of time apply to
brooms as well as to men.
Hence . review Of conditions 10
years from now may show still
another picture. It may show that
the gains made under the new sys.
rem have been lost and new disadvan.
tases encountered to shatter the
dreams Of those citizens who launch
"a the county manager plan 90 saily
IA 1882.
There u IN old saying about gov
eminent. particularly municipal gov
arnment. which sponsors Of radical
lnnpvedons might well bear N mind.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
InSulin for Phvsician's VJse

have been to several doctors, In
Guiding our family doctor, and not one
will give me insulin for gaining weight.
I thought perhaps could take 1t my
self, beginning with three units and
gradually increasing to 10 units, but
our druggist advised against it and
said it should be given only by ply
sician who understands his patient.
(Mrs. E. q. F.
Answer-That is right. II your ply
stefan does not consider the treatment
suitable for you, you had better try
other means Of gaining weight. Glad
to send instructions for gaining weight
II you will inclose with your request q
stamped envelope bearing your ad-
dress.
Drinking Water
Can one get fat drinking water9
Your answer will settle an argument
IN our family. (Mrs. H. L.
Answer-Yes. il one eats enough.
Water has no influence on obesity.
Immunity Against Diphtheria
Criticised because have not had
our two young children immunizcd
against diphtheria. believe it Is bet
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Member Of Audit Bureau Of
Circulation
Member Of The Associated Press
(OfficiaI City, State and County
Newspaper)
Foreign Representative
SMALL, SPENCER. BREWER
Uncorporated)
CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON
Let the People Rule

When the North Dakota delega
ton in the present lame-duck con
gress divided on the issue of submit.
ting to the people the proposal II
repeal the prohibition clause in the
national constitution, some comment
was caused by the fact that j. H
Sinclair, only one of the three re.
elected in November, changed hi
additionally dry attitude and votec
for the resolution.
Explanation of his position is CIV
en- by Sinclair in copy of remarks
made by him when the measure wa:
under discussion. At that time he
said in part:
North Dakota, the state which
have the honor to represent,
came into the Union constitution
ally dry. Last November 8 a refer
endum was had on the question of
repeating the prohibition clause
of our state constitution. The
issue was clear and so stated as
to leave no confusion in the
minds of the voters. Repeal was
voted by a majority of 35,270.
This majority was cast not in
any one section of the state or
in the cities alone. It carried in
all but Z out OF a total OF So
counties. 1t is obvious, therefore,
that a change Is generally de-
- sired by the people of North Da-
kota.
Il have repeatedly stated my
belief that a representative in
congress should vote as nearly as
possible in accordance with the
constitution and laws Of his own
state. This I have done during
my service here. The fundamen-
tai principles of self-government
on which our nation has been
built demand that the majority
shall rule. Therefore, a major
ity of the citizens of North Da-
kota having spoken decisively on
the question. I deem it my duty
to accept their mandate and sup
port the resolution"
The position which he states is
fundamentally sound. The will OF
the people is given force, under our
form OF government, only if the leg
islative and executive officers elect
ed by them carry out the mandates
which the people give them.
Failure of some officers to do so
in the past has led to the adoption
of the initiative system which We
have seen in action in this state dur
ing the last year. Even the strong
est advocate of initiated measures
will agree that better action is OBJ
tanned through the ordinary process
es If those processes are truly respon-
sive to the will Of the people.
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Is only 100 feet high.
X Y X
One way to spread the influ-
ence Of Christmas is to let the
tree stand until the needles are
dry and then drag II out
through the kitchen.
X y X
Don't worry about the flappers who
stick to their chiffon hose, zero or
no. Many are cold but few are
frozen.
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, Inc
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ter to wait until I know they have
been exposed or until they show signs
OF the disease. (MrS. H. McC.)
Answer-That would be too late. 1t
requires two n three months for the
immunity to develop after the toxin
antitoxin Cor toxoid) is given. So you
should have the children immunized
now.
Copyright, John F. Ollie Co..
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FIVE POINTS OF LAW

Columbus, O.-Judge Joseph Cliff.
ford gives everyone break. Recently
after having imposed a fine Of $500
on Harry Peterson, alleged bookmak-
er, Judge Clifford dismissed the fine
on motion Of Stanley Schwartz, de-
tense attorney, that evidence was OBJ
tanned BY Illegal search. Peterson had
been arrested In . raid on a gambling
Joint. but the vica squad made the
mistake Of searching his pockets for
evidence before placing him under ar
rest.
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THE POOR LITTLE LONE CHILD

An attorney writes:
My 6-year-old son has been &C
cused of being high strung" He
abhors large gatherings of friends,
relatives or strangers, but is on
the highest plane of social ability
with all new people whom che
meets singly or in pairs. Intro
duce him into a large group and
he is the proverbial wallflower.
When he began attending school
he developed peculiar reaction,
which may have resulted from this
timidity in meeting large numbers
of strangers. The first morning
he vomited his breakfast just be-
fore leaving for school. He re-
peated the performance regularly
each day. Saturdays and Sundays
intervening between school days
were not marked by vomiting.
What is the cause and what can
be done about that? The doctor
attributes it to his "high-Strung"
nature.
In practice a doctor can't always
tell the truth, lest the patient drop
him and take up with another doctor
who knows better. Even in print 1t
isn't always safe to tell the TRUTH
have lost some Of my best customers,
subscribers, patrons by telling the
truth in print.
But I'm going to chance it again,
just for fun.
From the history as recited by the
correspondent it seems to me that
what the doctor means by accusing
the child of being high strung" Is
that the poor little lone kid has neu-
rotic antecedents. Oh. we'll, now that
we're in we may as well duck all the
way in and have it over. The child
comes by his abnormal behavior nat
urally; some faulty material entered
into the child's making.
But then, aren't we all?
Somehow I get the impression
though certainly the correspondents
letter doesn't say, that this is an only
child, and consequently spoiled child
An only child is unfortunate: his par.
ents owe it to him to adopt one OF
two brothers or sisters to share things
and to contend with him. Brothers
or sisters save the poor little lone
child from being spoiled.
The child vomits for the purpose Of
getting something he can't get with.
out vomiting. Even if 1t be only sym.
pathy and attention from parents
nurse, teacher or other children. The
cure for that sort Of conduct is tf
ignore the act and besides to impose
some penalty for every repetition, such
as denial of privilege or a pleasure
which the child would ordinarily bt
given.
This boy should either be placed In
well conducted private school where
the staff understands such cases, ant
left at the mercy of the school teach.
ers, that is, he must be made to un.
derstand that the teachers have entire
charge of his education and they arr
to employ whatever discipline they
deem best; or the boy should be SEN
to the nearest public school where HI
will be thrown amongst other boy!
of his age and he must be left to fight
his own battles, within reasonable
limitations.
The less the parents, uncleS, aunt.
or other relatives interfere or concern
themselves about the boys behavior
the better. He is unhappily sensitizee
to neurotic environment. The par.
ents and other relatives are the neu'
rotic environment.
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REAL BIG CITIES

Russian cities are increasing heav-
lily IN population. Moscow now has
population Of more than $500 900.
while Leningrad. the second largest
city OF the Soviet nation, has pop
ulation OF 2,22sO 900.
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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.
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eradicated sign which, deciphered
says: Don't feed the animals.
PALACE FOR CARETAKERS
In extreme contrast, just down Fifth
Avenue to 9th Street, one Of t1f
towns most famed and super-luxur1-
GUS mansions has been entertaining
for some five years, only the care
| takers.
Just what a few caretakers find to
do in. a huge, multi-millionaire home
I have never ascertained. The nearest
peep we have ever had was when the
last of the Wendels died and 1t was
discovered that one old servant took
a dog out for walk around the tiny
back yard each day.
However, the Sixty-seventh Street
showplace of which I speak Is the
former residence Of the picturesque
magnate, Thomas Fortune Ryan. His
art gallery, alone, at No. 3, attracted
collectors and art students for many
year. The garden, formed by an
Like construction of the mansion,
was said to have been Ryan's break
fast place for many a year. Rare
shrubs and flowers were imported for
it; the house was adorned with the
most luxurious items the world af-
forded. And then, like all humans,
Ryan died!
X X \
COSTLY HOBBY
The case of Thomas Jr., however,
attracted amused attention during the
summer. Left huge fortune and in
come, he was pursued by creditors
from all directions. Bills running into
the hundreds of thousands came pour
ing into court proceedings. The items
indicated that he had gone in for an
tiqueS and trinkets, such as ivory ele-
plants and Jade tigers; for ieWeled
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters personal health hygiene
diagnosis by stamped
be made
Address William Brady newspaper.
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DR.. Ambrose, East Ham coroner
England.
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CHAPTER XVI.

<<AY0W," said Thatcher Colt,
IN suddenly breaking the
- silence. tmY dear doc
Evening star., 1932-09-18
WAR FLYER SETS RECORD
WITH 45,OOO-FOOT CLIMB
Capt. Cyril Unwins Of England
Claims He Shattered Sou
cek's Mark.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September IT. Capt
Cyril Unwins, World War flyer, claimed
a new world altitude record for air
planes Yesterday with flight to $4,000
feet His performance must be ratified
by the Royal Aero Club.
He used plane of 500 horsepower.
The cold was so intense he utilized a
special oxygen pumping apparatus. His
goggles, gloves and clothing were elec-
trically heated.
James "AIl the Worlds Aircraft" says
the airplane altitude record was 49,
1549 feet. set by Lieut.. Apollo Soucek
Of the United States Navy, June 4,
1890.
Evening star., 1932-09-18
Nine REBELS KILLED
Two Encounters in Nicaragua Are
Won by Guards.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, September II
R).-One rebel was killed and several
were wounded, National Guard head
quarters announced yesterday, in a
brush last Monday between gltarS
detachment and Sandinistas at Yanqui
in Matagalpi department.
Headquarters also said there was a
running fight in the vicinity Of Villa
nueve and Ell Sauce in Leon depart
ment on Wednesday, in which eight
rebels we're killed and ten wounded,
with the guard suffering only one man
wounded