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Copeland. Senator Copeland
The legislation will be drawn
from the report of Senator
Copeland's special subcommit-
tee that investigated rackets
and racketeering last year.
In the estimation of SEN
ator Copeland, the most i'm
portant bill to be presented for
action will be the measure
which he introduced last year
but did not succeed in having
passed.
1t deals Nth the interstate
transportation of pistols, S11Oed-
oft ShotgunS, machine guns and
other lethal UeaponS.
Developments in the Lind
bergh KIDNAPPING and others, as
we'll as sensational crimes of
various natures, will stimulate
the Senate to act on his meas
ures, Copeland believes.
At any rate, the Senate will
have ample opportunity to
center it's attention on some
very important crime preven-
ton measures.
Director of National Parks
Arno B. Cdmmerer discovered
recently that he 1DdS in the mo-
ton picture business in a big
Wdy.
Emergency funds supplied for
emergency conservation work
here we're to be expended for
motion picture projectors and
finn services of an educational
nature for exhibitions in CCC
camps. The appropriation was
rather generous.
One of Cammerer's bureau
chiefs apparently was bitten by
the Hollywood bug"
Fat orders for motion picture
sound recording equipment were
handed out. Plans were made
for a studio and laboratory. All
was going well.
1t would have cost over $780,
900.
BY chance, Director Cammerer
noted the arrival of strange
equipment. He made inquiries.
Told that sounds" were to be
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T human Side of the News - ByEdwin c. Hill
By Nelson Harding

pulled the whiskers OF death.
And he had nothing for it. Not
a dollar, getting nowhere. I'm
til he followed the counsel of a
red-haired lady.
Mrs. Culbertson likes plain,
close-fitting afternoon dresses.
Her red-gold hair is carefully
marcelled. Her skin is fair with
many freckles. She wears no
make-up-or little, so far as the
eye of mere male can detect.
Her forehead is high, narrow
and slightly furrowed. Under
thin, blonde and unpenciled
eyebrows and yelled by long,
dark lashes are pair of very
bright blue eyes. Her cheek
bones are high, which seem to
create hollows in her cheeks.
Her chin and jaw are firm-un-
mistakable marks of resolute
character. Her hands and fin
gers are long and slim.
The impression one gets Tost
markedly of Mrs. Culbertson is
reStraint-Self contrOl-the Ca
pacity for planning and think.
ing things out. She gives also
the impression of shyness,
which is we'll within the fact.
She was Wilbert C. White.
heads secretary when she first
met Mr.. Culbertson in 1922. She
didn't fall in love with him at
first. She hadn't known him
an hour when it occurred to her
that here was an extraordi-
narily intelligent young man.
Then she began to investigate
the quality of his intellectual
equipment and found it first
rate. Both were deeply inter-
eSted in bridge.
In Paris he had played "pla-
fond" which means ceiling"
which was a kind Of grand
father of modern contract.
She was teaching bridge a
good deal then because Mr..
Whitehead was writing most
of the time and she had taken
up the teaching side Of his
work.
They were married in 1928.
She was "a and Mr.. Culbert-
son was 80. They spent their
honeymoon writing their first
book on bridge.
Her goal is to attain half a
million dollars clear and above
all other means, half a million
to be funded in dependable
securities. Then they will re-
tire to the country and de-
vote their lives to Joyce. the
daughter, and Bruce, the son.
Mrs. Culbertson looks forward
to the day when she can play
bridge solely for the fun of it,
as Bobby Jones now plays golf.
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.p
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Forbid Ransom Payments
Thew ENCOURAGE KIDNAPPING

They ENCOURAGE kidnapping
The brutal kidnapping Of Mrs Berry v stoll, 27year-
old Louisville woman proves again that this type Of
crime can never be dealt with until the payment of
som is made ILLEGAL.
Mrs. Stol's abductors demanded $5O0OO Her husband,
naturally agreed to pay it. You cannot blame him. Any
one else in his position would do the
But if ransom payments were absolutely forbidden
if they treated compromising felony'if they
subjected the persons who paid them to Imprisonment,
hdnapings would practically There would be
motive for them. There would be profit in commit
ting them.
kidnapping is almost unknown in England in France,
and-since Mussolin took control-in Italy.
The recent kidnapping attempt in Canada fell through
without the payment of cent to the kidnapers.
The penalty for payment in most of these countries is
clear.
Compromising felony is no light offense, and this
species of compromising brings swift and drastic punish
ment to whoever is guilty of it.
Harsh doctrine?
It so, at first thought but is the contrary
It would save many innocent victims in future from
this cruelest of Crimes and would make America far
safer than it is for American men and women and
children
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The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

recorded in the national parks
that would require elaborate
sound recording equipment
mounted on special trucks he
became curious.
He tUaS informed that the
sounds" Mould be those of
materials, geySerS, bear gruntS,
storms and bird calls.
He cancelled the orders hand
ed out by the bureau chief.
And the plans for studio and
laboratory were discarded.
Around the toWn are some
diSgruntled statesmen. They had
received orders amounting to
thousands of dollars.
Some threaten to ask the
courts whether Director Cam
merer had the right to cancel
their orders. Director Cammerer
may yet find himself in the mo-
ton picture business.
Had the bureau chief made in.
quirieS before ordering equip
ment he would have found that
such sounds "are not made that
way"
Back to town comes Senator
Hugo "Airmail" Black of Ala
bama.
Black had a hard time in his
native State this summer an
swering questions about the
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Nature, which fashions a
barely adequate supply Of that
practically flawless creation,
woman, sometimes excels her
self. Sometimes she turns out
a red-haired lady. Such as C.
j. Caesars girl friend by the
Nile; or England's Gloriana.
Girls who have what it takes.
Such a one, indeed, is Mrs.
Josephine Murphy Culbertson.
Her intellectual radiance and
personal charm are too bright
and warm to be dimmed even
by that perpetual exhibition of
skyrockets and Roman candles
to whom she is married.
Sitting night after night with
emotional and edgy-nerved
gentlemen, her calm composure
must be pleasant in the sight
of the gods.
Columns have been written
about Mr.. Culbertson (the man
has a powerful affinity for
printers ink but relatively
little about the lady who put
him where he is today. There
is no argument about that.
He is the first to admit it.
Naturally, he had to have
considerable behind the eye
broWS.
It is entirely likely that
without the extraordinary COM
bination which produces his
peculiar personality-the cal
culation and resolution of an
American father and the
impetuosity and half mystic
idealism of a Russian mother
with Tartar blood-he couldn't
have made the grade even
with Mrs. Culbertson plotting
the course. But he had the
gray matter. He had the per.
sonality. And he had his red
haired lady. And the greatest
of these was the red-haired
lady.
The man had an almost in
credibly varied career before
luck took him under the bright
eyes of Josephine Murphy. His
father, Almon Culbertson, had
dropped $4,OO0,0OO in Russian
gold bonds when the Bolsheviki
turned Russia into a firSt-rate
imitation of hell.
Young Culbertson himself was
arrested, but skinned out Of it
some way. He landed in Paris,
well-nigh broke, and dabbled
around at cards, knowing moth
ing else to do or how to do it,
the usual flower of a useless but
highly decorative continental
education.
Down to his last 100 francs,
he dropped into a club in the
Rue Volney one night and put
a 20-franc chip on the ecarte
table. Somebody stepped upon
his toe and refused to apologize.
After the battle was over, Gull
bertson returned to the table,
busting off his hands only, to
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with Bill. You we're only young
once-they reasoned-so why
not enjoy yourself while you
could? It was all right to
work during your regular hours.
But what'd it buy you to give
up all your evenings and week"
ends?
At this point Dad barged
into the picture-began to tell
them how folks figured things
out when he was a kid. Sure,
it was hard to tie yourself
down. But that was the only
way you could be sure of
future. You had to be ready to
grab your big chance when 1t
came.
That-cried the youngsters
was just the point. Big chances
didn't come any more. 1t was
different when Dad was young.
People appreciated work then
and rewarded you accordingly.
Whereupon Dad grinned
largely. The good old days, he
protested, hadn't been as much
of a snap as they imagined.
Of course just now the depres-
sion made things unusually
tough, but generally speaking it
wasn't any easier to get a job
then than now. Perhaps not as
easy. Pickings were always
lean. You always had to take
your chances. But you couldn't
do much, then or now, with a
chance if you weren't ready for
it. After all. people mostly
made their own chances.
But the crowd had come
back for that. After all, they
argued, money isn't everything.
Suppose you did get a good
opening ten years from now,
was it worth the price you paid
for it? That was the trouble
with successful people. They'd
gotten ahead by turning them
selves into machineS-but in DE-
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knack for picking out the dregs
of each foreign nations humor
and reprinting them. It some.
times almost looks as if they
did it deliberately.
"Kladderadatsch" of Berlin,
passing Show" of London, and
lie Rire" of Paris can't be as
bad as the jokes we get clipped
from them for us, and certainly
the cream of the American jest
does not appear in their ex.
change columns. There's trick
cry afoot here somewhere.
Here are some representative
American jokes which have
found their way into English
papers of late. If you will note
their sources, they are not ex-
actly tiptop in the field of
humorous publications in this
country. How they got to Eng
land to be clipped is one of the
points we shall have to look
into.
BIFF!
The old-fashioned woman who
darned her husbands socks has
a daughter who socks her
darned husband.
Gainesville NeUS.
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

ing so they'd passed up the best
things in life.
Look at them! They never
had time to go anywhere or do
anything except work. They
lost touch with their friends
even with their families. They
forgot how to play, and turned
themselves into such old
grouches that it made them sore
to see anyone else play.
But why all this emphasis on
'play"? Dad parried. Why
should people want go on
wanting to play" like a bunch
of kindergartners? OF course
every one ought to have some
time off-some fun now and
then.
Try to get anything done on
a Saturday morning or even on
a Friday-no one paid any at
tention to you. All they could
think of, from the office boy
up, was where they were going
over the weekend, and what
they were going to do.
Look at how young people
acted nowadays if you asked
them to work an hour over
time! Why, you'd think you
we're suggesting a major opera
ton! Whereas, really, work was
the best fun there was, if you
had the sense to see it. Any
body with sense got big kick
out of doing a good job and
learning to do a better one.
But this the youngsters
wouldn't admit. Those ideas
might have worked in slave
days, but all that old drool about
the beauty of Sacrifice and La
Dor was OUT now. People knew
better now. They knew that
LIVING was the important
thing-living and enjoying your
self-not drudging like a worm
out animal.
Which. of course, Da d
wouldn't admit. And so 1t
went-on and on.
And which, I wondered, was
right? Dad, of course, was
preaching fine old stuff. But,
on the other hand, the KIDS
weren't just Talking Smart.
They were a fine bunch-lntel-
ligeht. willing. They honestly
Thought that THEIR way was
best-and they have a big per-
centage of the population as
hackers. ~
But how is it all going to work
out? How far can they hope to
get inl life, feeling like that?
Or will they maybe get more OUT
of the deal than We their
drudging elders, did?
What do YOU think?
(cOpyrg ght 1884. by King Features
Syndicate. Inca
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more and national burden less.
Nevertheless, there is some
question as to whether Black
will resume his committee in
vestigation of air and ocean
contracts when Congress con-
venes.
He will be occupied by an
other problem. however.
Black realizes that 3O-hour-
week labor luWs in Which he
has been interested for some
time will be of major 1n1por-
lance.
He also knows that he will
be in the national limelight
again if he fights for 30-hour-
week laws.
Consequently, Mr.. Black is
not as interested in air and
ocean mail as he was last ses-
sion.
And when Congress opens it's
doors he will be there to wage
a strenuous campaign for his
3O-hOuI week measure.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington Times
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DIFFERENCE

"Biggs is having trouble at
home, I see!"
mo, that's not a bump on his
forehead, that's a wasp bite"
Springfield Globe-Ne1Ds.
DEFINITION
whats your idea of gentle
man farmer?"
Hes a person who is so COM
fortably off that he can waste
profanity on a golf ball instead
of on a mule"
-"Hokun1" (New York;
The French journal lie Rire"
calls its collection of hooey lie
Rire a L'Estranger." Its IA
vorite American funny paper is
'Hooey," printed in Louisville.
You have to see the pic
lures to get the point of the
jokes. It is usually the same
point, which is why you seldom
find "Hooey" lying around in
public libraries.
Just in return, to cement the
good feeling between France
and America, we will translate
(roughly) a little French joke
for our readers, which will give
you some idea of what has been
going on in lie Rire" for some
years.
Two men are looking at the
ocean. One says: THE beauti-
full ocean is rough today" and
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Foreign LaHghtey
By Robert BenchIey

There is no sense in trying to
get the nations Of the world into
a good frame of mind toward
each other, so long as their
humorous magazines continue
to run those clipping depart
ments called Laughs From
Other Lands" or "Wit of the
World"
Whoever the editors Of these
departments are, they have a
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scribed to a
c orr e S p on
dence course
and is work
i n G a t i t
every night.
Gosh, what
a sap pass
in G u p a ! l
t h e G O o d
t ! m e S !
groaned Bill.
And the fight
was on.
Most of the
nine y o u n g
people pre- s.
on = c i n o n
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hear the croupier say: "This
sum can go no further. Whose
is it?" Culbertson stepped up
and received 20,48O francs.
Previously he had worked as
a timekeeper with a gang of
Galician and Ukrainian laborers
building the Canadian National
Railroad to Prince Rupert. He
had been arrested and jailed
by the Canadian Northwest
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Still Paying for POnzi
Some of Us

Charles "Get Rich Quick Ponz has been shipped out
of the country But his deportation and his twelve years
in Jail cannot pay back their life savings to the thousands
of guibe persons who fell for his wildcat scheme back
in 1920.
Unfortunately we don't have laws by which we can
deport from this country the idea of quickism
Some of the millions Of Americans who have paid for
their yielding to silly schemes and illusions of financial
grandeur by serving terms in the prisons of poverty
probably will learn nothing from their experiences
But for the rest the msfortunes of Pon and his VIC
tins should be beacon of warning for the future
Beware of Ponzsml Beware Of rich-quickism! A
few Ponzis manage to escape reckoning But very few
And no Pon1 followers ever fail to pay
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Mounted Police as a dangerous
radical.
He had known what is was to
bum his way and to beg a crust
of bread with the manners of the
Regent of orleans. He had been
a hobo and hash singer in a
cheap restaurant. He had nearly
died of pneumonia in hobo
camp.
Half a dozen times he had
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S e n a tor
r o y a | S.
C opel a n d
CD of New
York will re-
! a u nc h his
campaign for
anti-crime leg
iSlation that
began la S t
session.
A p p r o x l.
m a t e ly go
bills designed
as c r j m e
d e ere nts
will be intro
d u c e d by
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cotton leglSla-
ton, partic-.
u ! arly t h e
B a n k h e a d
CO t on act
that seems to
be out Of ia
vor with Ala
bama farm
erS.
T he folks
a t h O m e
w O n d e re d
why he did
n OF cOncen-
trate on State
-sAh1A m q
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When Congress cOnveneS in
January the war against Grim
inals and their rackets will
become one of the important
businesses of the Senate.
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the other one says: "She is
rough every day." the gag being
that, in French. beautiful
ocean" is "belle mer" and moth
er.in.laW" is "belle mere"
Now let's call it quits for
while!
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and ThMfSday.
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n Warrington,
WPrhed
q. J. FhEDaaich. managing editor -
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Does 1t Pay to Drive?
heard this at a party the
other night. Ed, it seemed,
couldn't come; he has sub
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-02-15
TOWN OF KETTLE RIVER
Township FOrty-fOur CAD
Range Twenty (2O)

Victor c. Tarnowski, mex of s
Jess Tarnowski, nwH Of Sw
Minnie Northrup. 2h acres in
of Lot 4 ..... :.
Aug.I Klatt, Part of Lot :.
Adoline KIatt, Lot north of
Carl Guessing, Lot z ........
Carl Guessing, eli of Lot :.
State of Minnesota, nwH of S
VIM. Tarnowski, sen of sc n
State of Minnesota. swA of S
State of Minnesota, neA of s.
State of Minnesota. nwA of 81
Frank Stelmaszewski. neA of
Frank StelmaszeWski. nwA Of
Agnes Zywicki, swA of swA
L. p. Gerard, ne 4 Of neA -.
Jos. Mlaskac, nwA of neA ..
Jos. Mlaskac. swH Of neA ..
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Gust Klatt, Lot 8. less parts. Rear.
VI huu ouU.
Carl Guessing. acres of Lot 3.
less w Is rods. Rear. of Aud. Sub.
Mrs. Olga Guessing. Lot less parts &
less w rods of road Rearr. OF
Aud. Sub. ..............
August Klatt, w Is rods OF N acres
of Lot 3 & w 2 rods of lot S of
road, Rear. of Aud. Sub. ..........
Susan Sharlow, Lot 6. Rearr. OF Aud
Carl Guessing. Lot 9. Rearr. of Aud.
SUB. .:.;:..;;.. ........:.: -,
Carl & Nellie POpek. Lots 10 and H..
Rear. of Aud. Sub. ................
Carl & Nellie Popek. sh Of Lot IL.
Rear. of Aud. Sub.
Ernest w. Doe, Lot "a. Rear. OF Aud.
Margaret T. Blackburn. w 12.5 IT. Of
Lot Is. Rearr. Of Aud. Sub.
w. c. Ehmke w AZ IT. Of E 100 It. Of
Lot Is, Rearr. of Aud. Sub. ........
Kate & VIM. Weekly. w 40 TT. of Lot
&c. Rearr. of Aud. Sub.
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TREASURY BARS'
D, {, LAWYER |

Among the II LAWYERS disbarred
from further practice before the
Treasury Department are Abner
Seigal, Of the District of Colum-
bia, and Joseph Lichtenberg, Of
Baltimore, Secretary Morgenthau
announced today.
Extending Sthe drive against
lawyer lobbyists" Mr.. Morgen-
thau said Charles c. Birmingham,
former president Of the New
York City Bar Association, will
come here next week to discuss
methods Of wedding out undesira-
bles practicing before the Treas
ury Department.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09

The washingtonians, at their
meeting in the Brighton Hotel last
night, adopted resolutions request
ing the President and District
Commissioners to give preference
10 bona fide residents Of the Dis
trict in filling local positions.
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan, vice
president Of the Federation Of Citi.
zens Associations, who introduced
the resolution, said residents Of
washington are being discrimi.
mated against in the filling Of post
tionS that rightfully belong to
them.
Referring to the recent appoint
ment given a woman from Mime
sofa in the supervision Of public
school lunches, Mrs. Sullivan said
this city has supplied dieticiAnS
for the whole country, and Ger.
tainly should be able to fill the
local appointment.
The Smith bill to increase the
local gosoline tax was opposed in
a resolution introduced by Miss
Ellen Taggart, who said the bill
was intended to increase the rev.
enueS Of the State of Virginia at
the expense of Washington auto
lists.
resolutions Of coincidence were
passed on the death of George s.
Watson, chief of the D. C. Fire
Department. Miss Eta L. Tag.
gart, president, said the present
high efficiency Of the department
was due to the efforts Of the late
chief.
In adopting o report from its
law and legislative COMMITTEES, the
association re-affirmed its former
stand providing for suffrage in
the District.
Following q report on the com.
ing membership campaign, the fol-
lowing were appointed to assist in
the drive:
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AUTO RACING NEEDLESS, SAYS VETERAN

Enterprises, Inc, Of Detroit. BE
became associated with the son
of John e. Dodge, the famous
creator Of the Dodge Bros mo.
tor car, more than a year ago.
Says lesson:
TN my opinion, there will
be no need to forbid speed
way auto racing by law, for
the reason that manufacturers
Of motor cars themselves will
refuse to enter cars in such
races In the future. These
manufacturers now realize that
the proper place to test cars,
stock and otherwise, 10 on the
factory proving grounds, and
not on speedways.
"The speedway in my day
on the circuit served the pur-
pose I. of testing engines, tires,
and the capitalization Of metals.
The speedway no longer serves
that purpose.
81 will admit that I had
many thrills when I rode with
Joe Boyer. They were great
days. In spite Of Joe BOyer's
craze for speed he had fewer
accidents In street driving and
on country highways than the
most cautious mOtOrist. Boyer
also had q vital technical inter.
est in the development Of the
motor car and in his racing he
gained wide experience in the
technical features Of motors.
''MOst Of the speedway kings
Of my day realized full well the
purpose they served. Today
such is not the case or the
necessity. Today 1t IL the
crowds craze for speed which
sends drivers to their deaths.
The speedway driver IL NO
longer Q necessity"
lesson iS at the Mayflower he
tel with John D. Dodge, jr. The.
are here on q business trip.