davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-05-20

away clean?" he demanded his bitter eyes jab-
bing up at TitmouSe.
You ask me?" squeaked the little yegg indig-
nantly.
Titmouse Poster said no more. He had only
one worry. That big HATED yokel who had
walked on his heels he scrambled into Bang
Boys cab. Peerng back, Ttmouse had seen
the hick stoop to pick up something. But the
yegg could find nothing missing about his per-
son or from the briefcase. He wouldn't bother
the Duke. Better forget it himself.
"How's the alibi?" he said, as the Duke
locked up the loot.
"Iron-bound, of course Ffnister snarled
-Four good men, incudin an ex-police detec-
tive, have had drinks with you here in the past
two hours. Stick around. Act drunk but think
wise Get me? Okay."
Titmouse faded to the bar. He began to
catch up on his drinks The shadow of worry
faded in a warm glow. He decided that he had
earned a large night.
Yesterday Titmouse had met blond gown,
a neat number who didn't like to be socked
by big, rough men. 1t was sweet boy like
Titmouse Poster who made this gown blaze.
He called her up. She was still that way
Dinner at g. North Side stuff, in the Coronet.
Detective Sergt Moylan came in and cornered
Titmouse for a bad half-hour. He leered at
the alibi, but it made him quit. Moylan was
an honest cop, which meant nothing in a
crooked court.
Annie doesn't live here any more!" TIT
mouse Poster crooned, as the f1atfoot profanely
departed "A sidecar,' he said to the bar
tender, with all the lights on and the throttle
wide open"
Fiddle music in moony serenade tune. The
soft shine of a rose shaded lamp table
for two. Silver cleaning on snowy damaSk.
There wasn't much glamour around for Bush
Iannon, however. Nor for Anne McElroy,
though this was her first dinner at the Aragon
in a year.
The approach of their parting drifted cloud
of silence between them. 1t was heavy and
dark over empty coffee cups and heaped ash
trays 1t seemed that everything had been
said. Bush was thinking DULY that he just
about had time to take Anne home in cab,
and then catch a midnight train for the West
alone
He leaned back in his chair, gazing duly at
a half smoked cigaret in his left hand, his
right jammed in a pocket of his blue-serge
pants His fingers fumbled with the fiat box
that held the two rings he had bought from
old Veblen. No use now, or ever.
A SILVER dollar slid around the box and
into Bushs fingers. At the touch his
lean face hardened into lines etched by bitter
ness.
Cowboys dollar" His thought beat along
mournfully with the fiddle music. Come a
rollin' home. but your lucks all gone"
Bush" Anne's voice sounded huskily
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Bush LannonI fresh
from the open spaces
busts a perfect aEbi

through the music. the dinner sounds, that
cloud between them. Its not true-what I
said It's your right to know that have loved
you ever since
The husky voice broke in a whisper. Bush
Lannon stared like stone man. The Aragon,
Chicago, vanished. Pictures jiggered Wyom-
ing Summer, year ago. Anne vacat1oning at
a dude ranch. Himself showing her around.
Twilight rides Campfire suppers, while the
butte shadows purpled down.
Anne sighed. She lifted her cigaret in a
shaky hand.
The worst is over" she said at last. I've
told you that, and now I'll tell you the rest.
It's about Mr.. Veblen. This robbery will ruin
him. He was insured, but the insurance won't
cover what he owes"
But where do you come IMP" Bush asked.
Il make living for Aunt Hedvig and
Uncle Fred after school opens. Then Ill be
a paid teacher again"
Your aunt-uncle-"
Mr.. Veblen is my uncle. He put me through
college. Even my vacation in wyoming last
year present from him. Don't you see,
Bush? I hadn't intended to tell you all this.
There was no reason. But now with Mr..
Veblen-Uncle Fred-hurt, how badly we don't
yet Knowles old, and with his business wiped
out"
Steady in the saddle" said Bush. We're
not pulling leather yet. I want to get this
If your uncle hadn't been robbed of his
stock of diamonds, you would shoo-hy the other
reasons and poke West with this here cow
boy? Do get it straght?"
You get it straight, Bush"
Then" said the cowboy, breaking grin,
call We got to do is round up the diamonds
and drift them to their home corral"
Anne shrugged her shoulders hopelessly. Bush
released her hand and stared into the smoke
from her cigaret, thinking fast.
That detective Moylan, he had talked with
knew the robber. One of Duke Finisters yeggs.
OF course, there was an alibi. And if Mr.. Veb-
len Doc Krusch, Anne McElroy and Bush
Lannon tried to crack that albi, it would be
too bad for them.
MoylaI had been cyncally frank, and seemed
ruggedly honest Bush had offered him an
idea for raiding the Coronet Club. A Wyo-
ming idea. Out there, when a blind pig got too
tough, the sheriff generally hired some helion
to pick fight in the place and start shoot
ing. Then the law needed no warrants to
smash in.
"Just find me such a hellion here" Sergt.
Mcylan had prayed.
Bush gripped his cowboys dollar. He had a
notion.
Lets drift" he said casually. I'm stay
ing till tomorrow
TITMOUSE PESTER and his blond gown had
a corner table and Titmouse was in the
corner. He was drunk, but not so drunk as
to be foolish and he could still see well. 1t was
already large night.
Bump glasses, kid" squeaked Titmouse.
They held the goblets high, to let the lift
of beads from the stem catch the light. TIT
mouse Poster heard something strike the floor
with thudding clink The sound was near
his feet He lowered his drink and glanced
downward. A shining silver something was
spinning in a circle on the waxed floor near
his chair Somebody stopped for it.
The Titmouse suspected nothing until the
stopping man lurched against his left shoulder.
jamming it against the wall. Instantly the
Continued on Fifteenth Page.
Evening star., 1934-05-20

sorrow of the parting hour to come. dream
done.
dream of the two of them. starlight rid
ing homeward in the buttes of the Laramies.
memory, a dream, no more, no more.
AT LAST harsh sense OF uneasiness struck
through Miss McElroys tender and wistful
thoughts She felt it like presence sensed in
darkness by one awakening from sleep. In
rapidly rising alarm Miss McElroy realized that
the rear of the store was strangely and omln-
ously quiet.
Suddenly she darted for the partition door,
She paused her hand on the knob. Quiet
quiet-Miss McElroy jerked the door open
she screamed.
Bush Iannon was still snubbing himself
against the parked taxi and shouldering OF
the stampede, but he was wearing out. Borrl-
gan street seemed worse and worse.
In Veblen's they were taking their mighty
own time about closing up Once a minute
Bush locked at his watch, then over the crowd
stream at the door of the jewelry store. At
last he saw it open. At the same time the
motor of the parked taxi hummed up like
giant bee. The door shook against BuShs
shoulder He squared around. The driver
was scowling snarling something at him.
With an apologize grin, Bush sided in from
the curb. He bumped some big, smoky man
in work clothes, shied back, and his right heel
raked down skinny leg. There sharp
squeal of pain quickly smothered
Hurching cautiously around, Bush had one
glimpse of a little man in gray suit scram-
bling into the taxi. The door still open
ing, hard. The handle hit Bush in the short
ribs. For a second or two the blow took his
wind. Then the cab was bucking into the
traffic.
Something on the curb caught shaft Of
sunshine, and glittered Bush stopped and
grabbed He hooked up a silver dollar.
Another slipping into the parking
space. Turning back toward Veblens, Bush
looked at the coin before pocketing it. Then
he stared. The dollar was branded, a circle L
carved on the face.
The Lannon cattle brand. A cowboys dollar.
Bush Lannon's seven-year luck piece.
"And old Veblen promised to keep it by for
me. blast him!" Bush muttered wrathfuly.
"I'm telling him things"
Duke Finister was in his slot of an Office at
the upper end Of the Coronet's bar.
THE duke was in humor. The bot
! tom was still dropping out Of the rackets.
Only brute crime was bringing in the bingays
In lawful competition the Coronet Club
was losing money for the Duke. His expression.
as Ttmouse Poster dumped the Veblen loot
before him. was very sour, indeed.
What a take!" snarled the Duke. Wen
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Cow BOY:
Dollar
Bv JAMES STEVENS
illustrated By PAUL KROESEN

~ USH LANNON teetered on the curb be-
fore Veben's Jewelry store with one
x rock of shoulder against the sidewash
\ of the passing crowd and the other
L. solid against taxi that had parked
Evening star., 1934-10-27
35 STATES ADOPT
TAX RELIEF PLANS
One or More of Six Points Pro.
gram Put in Force to Shift
Burden.

A total of 35 States now have on
o definite campaign upon one or more
points of the siX-point program for
real estate tax relief adopted by the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards in January, 1888, according to
q report placed before the associations
board of directors.
The report is from the National
Committee on Local and State Taxa
ton, which now has approximately
$50 members, representing some 400
cities in As States, each designated
local center of information on tax
relief measures.
Of the IS States, 16 have taken as
O central point Of their campaign a
proposal for a constitutional, or statu-
tory, overall limitation upon the total
rate leviable on general property, and
II take other points of the program.
Overall limitation is urged by the
association as a forcing measure for
widening the tax base.
Seven States already have an over
all limitation OF these, six now have
active campaigns in progress for the
spreading of school costs to a wider
base. The association urges that
school costs be transferred in greater
measure from the local governments
to the State, since the State may ef-
fectively levy on forms of wealth
which cannot be reached by local
governmental units.
OF the IS States listed, 7 are Just
now organizing their campaign.
A total of II States have been added
to the campaign roll since the COM
mittee's June report. June showed
four States already centered on action
for tax limitation. The past four and a
half months have brought a total of 16
States into this column.
Practically every State real estate
association meeting this Fall has be-
fore it the question of action to be
asked at coming sessions of the State
Legislature for better distribution of
tax costs.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
REALTY REVIVAL
CLAIM SUPPORTED
Shannon & Luchs Reports
Ia Sales Made in Last
Three Weeks.

Concrete evidence Of the recent as
sertions of Morton j. Luchs, vice pres
ident of Shannon g. Luchs Co, before
the Washington and Virginia Real
Estate Boards that the real estate
market is experiencing the greatest
activity in years" was furnished to-
day in a report of his firm, which listed
IA sales in the last three weeks.
The list Is as follows:
S02 Leland street, Chevy Chase,
purchased by Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben @.
Haywood.
5201 Edgemoor lane, large corner
residence purchased by Mrs. Evelyn
w. Stacks. wife Of an official Of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Sold to New Yorker.
1928 Beecher street, sold for the
National Mortgage & Investment Corp.
to Mrs. Mara G. Nunez Of New York.
3532 T street, sold to a local in
vestor for Mr.. Claud Livingston, IT,,
of william H. Saunders Co.
3629 S street, sold for Mr.. and Mrs
Norman P. Pond to local investor.
1902 T street, purchased by local
investor from Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Reiney.
Northeast corner Of Sixteenth and
Hemlock streets, purchased by L. E.
Breuninger & Sons from A M
Nesney.
l735 P street, sold to settle an
estate, and purchased by Mr.. and
Mrs. George P. Mcdonald as a resi-
dence.
Buys 4-Family House.
30l2 Fourteenth street northeast
detached four family dwelling, pur-
chased by Julie M. Mayer from thu
Perpetual Building Association.
626 and 628 C street southeast, two
small investment properties, sold fol
Charles Fuchs to a local investor.
| 1884 Wisconsin avenue, store anc
apartment, purchased by Mr.. Joseph
| L. Topper as an investment.
1885 Kenyon street northwest, q
Evening star., 1934-10-27

billion dollars Of the $4,000, 900 900
appropriated for this purpose.
"The reason why public works con-
tracts reflected such q small propor-
tion OF these expenditures is the fact
that large part Of the appropriation
was diverte 1 to other uses such as di-
rect emergency relief. In view of the
fact that such relief is likely to con-
tinue large, the money available for
public works is not likely to show
marked expansion even though Con-
gress appropriates an additional
$200, 900 900, the sum which Secretary
Ickes recently suggested as the amount
which might be requested of the next
Congress.
The failure Of public work to show
any abnormal expansion is not, how
ever, an unfavorab1e factor in the
business outlook. The lack Of demand
for the products Of the heavy indus
tries should eventually exert sufficient
pressure on prices to bring such prices
down to a level that will stimulate
private enterprise and so bring about
full business recovery"
Evening star., 1934-10-27
GLASS PANES MAKE
FOR ALL-YEAR PORCH
Dozens Of Staples Are Manufac-
tured to Harmonize With All
Kinds of Architecture.

There is really no need to abandon
the porch and its pleasant view Of the
outdoors at the approach of Winter.
Removable glass panes make it livable
the entire year-inviting the sunshine
In Winter and cool breezes In Summer.
Removable glass panes for the porch
are made TO order by window and con-
servatory manufacturers. There are
dozens of styles to harmonic with all
kinds of architecture and to suit in
dividual tastes. The porch needs only
to be insulated at the roof and floor
before the glass is installed and
weather-stfipped, making the porch
a weather-tight sun room. When
Summer comes again, the panes are
taken down as easily as screens are
removed in the Fall, and the room
again becomes pleasant open porch.
This improvement is eligible for
financing by Federal Housing Admin
istration property improvement loans.
Practically all porches lend themselves
well to the installation Of removable
glass, which improved the appearance
as well as comfort of the home If the
proper style is chosen.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
CONTINUED FINANCING
FOR FARMS HELD NEED
Myers Tells Bankers, However,
That Creditors Ease Pres
sure for Liquidation.

That Creditors Ease Pres
sure for Liquidation.
Emergency refinancing Of agYicul-
ture must continue as long as creditors
press for liquidation, If foreclosure Of
farmers Is TO be avoided, w. 7. Myers,
governor Of the Farm Credit Admin
istration, told the agricultural section
of the American Bankers Association
at meeting at the willard Hotel this
week. There are now a number Of
indications that such pressure has
lessened materially, he said.
Applications to the land banks for
emergency refinancing have dropped
from 1000 week at this time last
year to less than 400 a week recently,
indicating the demand upon farmers
to repay mortgage obligations has
lessened greatly, and that the emer-
gency activities Of the Farm Credit
Administration In making land bank
and commissioner mortgage loans in
considerably smaller volume are now
meeting farmers needs. More than
10000 emergency cases have been
handled during the past year. Gov.
Myers said that farm mortgage loans
are now being closed at the rate Of
$50 000, 900 TO $100, 900, 900 a month,
whereas in June they reached as high
as S153, ,000, 900.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
DOYLE ANNOUNCES
COMMITTEE LIST
Real Estate Board Head
Reveals Appointees of
Directors.

Harold E. Doyle, president Of the
Washington Real Estate Board, an
nounced today the personnel Of the
boards various committees, named at
a recent meeting by the newly elected
board of directors.
They are as follows:
Membership Committee - A. c.
Houghton, chairman; C. A. Metzler.
vice chairman; L. T. Gravatte,
Thomas Sandoz, William R. Ellis.
Legislative Committee-William ].
Flather, jr., chairman; William L.
Beale, H. L. Rust, Horace G. Snithy,
James A. Donohoe.
Public Affairs Group.
Public Affairs Commitee-W. G.
MCGUIRE, chairman; John H. David
son, E. K. Jones, Owen Howenstein,
Milburn J. Donohoe, J. Lee Donnelly
Reception Committee-H. Clifford
John L. Weaver, Claud Livingston,
Charles H. Tompkins.
Home Builders Committee-A. N
Miller, chairman; Harry K. Boss, l.
T. Breuninger, Walter L. Funderbrk.
Waverly Taylor.
Business Property Leasing Commit
ter. Marbury Stamp, chairman;
Frank L. Thomas, Earl M. Mackin-
toSh, H. Clifford Bangs, Carl G.
RosinSki
Property Management Committee
Francis A. Murray. chairman; Charles
c. Koones, vice chairman; Oliver T
Carr, G.. E. Altemus, Joseph B
Schaeff.
Mortgage and Finance Committee
William L. King, chairman George
Y. Worthington, jr.; Frank Bell, G
Calvert Bowie, William L. Miller.
Arbitration Committee.
Arbitration Committee-James p
Schick, chairman; John F. Maury
John T. Meany, Claud Livingston
George r. Linkins. Alternates-L. F.
Colbert, F. L. Sandoz, Milburn j
Donohoe.
Brokers Committed. H. Brodie
chairman; Frank M. Doyle, j. Wesley
Buchanan. Marshall j. Waple, Will
liam M. Throckmorton.
Zoning Clarence Dodge
chairman; Charles H. Tompkins, O.
L. Conner.
Members of the Appraisal Commit
tee for l934-5 were elected as follows
Morris Cafritz, NJ. P. Candy, Clar-
ence F. Donohoe, William L. King
Vernon G. Owen, Fred A. Smith,
Charles H. Tompkins.
Program Committeeman E. Jar
rell, chairman: William R. Ellis, John
Saul, Frank A. Smith.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
.P.W.A. CONTRACTS
PLACED At BILLION
$2,0OO,0OO,OOO Of Appro-
priation Spent-Difference
to Direct Relief.

The huge appropriation by the Fed
eral Government of $3s0O.O0O. 900
for public works has created an
erroneous impression in the minds Of
many as to the actual amount Of such
construction work now being carried
on, says the Alexander Hamilton In
stitute In its current bulletin.
Contracts for public works." says
the institute, during the past is
months were not greatly in excess Of
q billion dollars despite the fact the
Government has spent more than two
Evening star., 1934-10-27
Under Construction 80 Years.

The Tai Mahal, at Agra. India
considered by many the most graceful
building in the worlds supposed to
have been under construction exactly
80 years. Almost contemporary with
the work was the early career Of Sir
Christopher Wren (1632-1723), archi-
test of st. Paul'S, London. Through
out the entire earth at that time there
was a renaissance Of architectural
genius.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
FLOORS INEXPENSIVE

Estimates made by contractors in
dicate that a concrete first floor in
creases the total cost of the building
only 1l2 to per cent.
Concrete floors are fire-resistant
and reduce to a minimum the hazard
from overheated or defective base
ment heating plants. They also elimi-
nate sagging, detection and lateral
movements, and consequently mini
mize plaster cracks on walls and CELL
inpS
Evening star., 1934-10-27
Dampness Invades Walls.

Cellars are damp and nusty pri-
marly because materials used for
their wall construction-stone, cement
and brick-are all more or less porous
and absorptive. Damp-proofing can
be done inexpensively by applying
sheet copper or other materials to the
walls and floor of the cellar by means
of asphalt or pitch. The house Is
thus made more healthful and its
value increased.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
BUILDINGS NEED REPAIR
Farm Survey Shows Structures
Subject to u. S. Loans.

A study of farm communities re-
veals that a large proportion of barns
and outbuildings are obsolete, or in
need of repair, and that in a great
many instances new construction is
highly desirable.
Loans for these betterments are
easily obtainable under the provisions
of the Federal Housing Administra-
ton modernization program and may
be arranged by application to flnan-
cial institutions in the region in which
the farm is located
Evening star., 1934-10-27
Temperature at q Glance.

A new refrigerator with really new
feature introduces the ''tempostat."
which tells at glance, without open
ing the refrigerator door, the inside
temperature. It also gives complete
control of the temperature by the
simple means Of turning a dial.
Evening star., 1934-10-27

residence, was sold to Mrs. Julia L.
Williams.
709 Second street, business location.
purchased by Mr.. and Mrs. John
Marashlian to be converted into q
store and apartment.
100 Avenue z, District Heights, a
home on one acre Of ground, sold
to Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Dumbell.
Evening star., 1934-10-27
French Architect Responsible.

The popularity Of mirrors as dec
orations and ornaments in public
edifices and private homes traces back
to an innovation introduced by Robert
de Cote (1657-1735), a famous French
architect Of the period Of Louis the
Great.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
THE NEGRO RISES; THE FIGHT
OF THE 'DAILY" AGAINST
LYNCHING AND JIM-CROWISM

lord-police terror Inleashed against
members Of the Share Choppers
Union. 1t exposed the bloody cam
paign Of the landlords to crush the
union and the struggles it was sue
cessfully leading to better the con-
dition Of the troopers. It rallied the
white and Negro masses to the de-
Tense Of the framed leaders Of the
choppers union.
The Daily" persistently exposes
the economic background of the
lynch terror now raging throughout
the country, the lynching of Negroes
for demanding their wages, the
countless rape" frame-ups of mill
tant Negro workers. In addition, In
the Armwood lynching, it was the
Daily Worker alone which dared to
publish the names OF the mob lead
ers and to expose the shameful part
played by Gov. Ritchie, Judge Duer,
States Attorney Robins and other
Maryland State and County officials
in inspiring and organizing the
lynching Of George Armwood.
As result OF its vigorous defense
of the Negro masses, there exists to-
day a widespread sympathy on the
part Of these bitterly exploited
masses for the Daily Worker and
the Communist Party. This SYM
pathy provides the basis for
strengthening the influence of the
Communist Party among these
masses who are moving forward,
over the heads Of the reformist mis-
leaders, into struggle against the i'm
perialist enemy. 1t is the task Of
every Communist and OF every
honest, clear-minded worker TO see
that the Daily Worker penetrates
into the homes Of the Negro masses.
At the same time, the Daily Worker
must become more and more a wea-
pom Of struggle, an agitator, organ
izer and leader Of the oppressed Ne
gro masses, and Of the entire work
ing class and toiling population OF
the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
London 'FDaily Yorker
Halls Tenth Anniversary

Revolutionary greetings to the
American Daily Worker, from the
British Daily Worker on the &C.
caSion OF your 10th Anniversary.
The workers OF Britain are fol-
lowing closely the struggles Of
the workers OF the United States
Of America against American I'M
perSalisrn.
The Daily Worker is the voice,
the guide and organizer OF the
struggle Of the American masses
against the imperialists, who,
through the MIRA, are trying to
shackle the burdens Of the crisis
onto the backs of the already ex-
plotted working class.
We watch carefully the battle
OF the workers in America
against the MIRA. and President
Rooseyelt's prosperity" drive.
On this occasion, the Tenth An
niversary Of our brother Party's
central organ, we send our greet
ings through you to the Ameri-
can masses In the fight they are
waging against ali forces Of re-
action.
No less in your country than In
ours, the difficulties to establish
and maintain q revolutionary
daily newspaper seem unsiir-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
Canada Worker
GreetS Daily

1.-THE Worker" English speak
ing organ Of the militant work
ers and poor farmers of Canada,
sends cordial greetings to the
Daily Worker, central organ OF
the Communist Party of the
q. S. A, on its tenth anniversary.
In the past ten years the Daily
Worker has always been in the
forefront Of the workers struggle
In the United States.
May the C. r. u. S. A. and its
central organ continue to organ
ise, educate and lead the toilers
II the United States towards
final emancipation.
The Worker, Toronto, CanaaaI