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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-17
TENT EVANGELIST
Is KlDNAP victim
Note Demands SIS 900 for Re.
lease; Death Threatened
for Failure

Goldsboro, N. G.. Aug. 17-{R)-A
ransom demand for $4,000 Friday
puzzled authorities investigating the
disappearance Of the Rev. r. H. AS
kew, tent evangelist.
Although the 28-year-old -Four
Square Gospel" preacher apparently
dropped out Of existence Tuesday the
case did not come to light until two
days later when his wife turned over
the ransom note to Sheriff Paul Har-
rison.
The note, typewriter on . piece Of
cheap paper, said: Get $4,000 at
once or you will never see your hus-
band alive again. Instructions will
follow"
Officers said anyone familiar with
the financial status Of Askew and his
wife could not expect $4,000 to be
raised.
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NYE GRAFT CHARGES
. TO REMAIN UNTOLD
{. Until FAIL DRIVE
Fact Finders Refuse 70 Let
Senator Make Disclosures
IN Open Meeting

Adamant In It's refusal to conduct
q public session to hear q. 8. Sen
ator Gerald p. Nye's charges Of ''un-
told graft" ia the administration Of
ousted Gov. william LANCER, the
special session fact finding" SUBJ
committee has informed the senator
1t will stand by It's previous decision
to conduct only closed meetings, It
was disclosed Friday.
Nye, who declined to air the charges
unless the committee held public SEES
siors, reiterated here Friday he viii
refuse to 60 before any executive hear
ing. He first came before the COM
nnittee August 9 when he was notified
that he must recite his chGrges be-
hind closed doors II he was to be
heard. This he refused to do, but
asked the committee to reconsider It's
decision. August II he wired the COM
rnittee which replied the committee
decision must stand"
The senator, however, announced
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-17

Comedy, tragedy and adventure are
al strangely intermingled in the least
publicised agency Of the federal emer-
gency relief program.
Victims Of the depression, some 400
Of them, daily get their board and
lodging ct the local transient bur-
eau. Some stay . day, some q week
and others even longer, but they work
for what they eat and the beds they
bunk In, through q sort Of coopera-
tive community enterprise undertaken
by the federal government.
Stabili1ation Of transient labor and
getting men hack into productive in
dustry Is the two-fold purpose Of the
federal program. Urged to remain in
the camps and earn an honest living
until their legal residence can be es-
tablished OK employment provided, the
men are given every consideration
poesible and In : great measure kept
from roaming the country;s highways
and byways.
Bismarck1 transient home was the
first Of three bureaus to be establish
ed In North Dakota. Other camps
have since been set up at Fargo and
Minot. Since It opened its doors in
December the local set-up has taken
care Of more than 1000 wandering
men and boys.
Four general classes Of men come to
the bureau, according to the officials
Ia charge. First are the professional
hoboes; second are those men who
take advantage Of the depression to
60 from one place to another, taking
their meals and lodging wherever they
can: third are the real victims Of the
times and the fourth class Is COM
posed Of youths seeking adventure
on the "open road"
Heart Break and Tragedy
In one case recently the bureau
sought for weeks to persuade one boy
10 return to his home. At Last the
boy WAS convinced that to return was
the best thing. Contact was made in
. short time with his relatives only to
find that his mother had died during
his absence. Heartbroken, the lad
left immediately.
Case work like the above provides
constant problems tor officials to
cope With. Early this spring an aged
man was picked up starving and sick
on the city streets. He was taken to
the bureau and given medical atten-
ton. After some time, contact was
made with his sister. She, In the
meantime, had searched, advertised
and done everything possible to locate
him In order to divide the estate Of
another brother with the downtrodden
wanderer.
Handicapped In the first two-mouth
period by lack Of adequate housing
facilities, the local bureau began to
expand q the warm weather came on
and more men came for work and
shelter. First they acquired the old
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-17

box In the first game Of the series.
never gave the Tigers . chance Is
he hung up his 2oth victory Of the
season for the first pitcher In the
American League to reach that total
this year. The victory also evsned
the series Ut two-all.
The Yankees got only six hits off
Sorrell but four OF them came In the
first inning, when they scored three
runs. In the sixth, Tony LaSxeri hit
q homerun with Selkirk on base to
account for the other two runs.
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Gomez Blanks Tigers
AS Yanks Win, 5 to @

New York, Aug. l7-fR)-Lefty Yer
non Gomez shut out the league lead
ing Detroit Tigers with eight scatter
ed hits as the New York Yankees
punched their blows off Vic Sorrell
in two innings to take the first game
Of Fridays doubleheader 5 to o. play
ed before crowd Of 5000. The vic.
tory reduced the Tigers lead to AZ
and one-half games.
Gomez, who was knocked out Of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-17

An electric food mixer has an ad-
Unstable speed control which gives 1t a
wide range of, usefulness.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

The architects and builders OF the
glorious cathedrals of medieval France
and England customarily carved por-
traits of themselves and their con-
temporaries in the fabrics they were
raising to the glory Of God. It was an
act of homage, as they saw 1t. 30 to
do. Painters and artists in stained
glass responded to the same instinct.
Giotto, for example, sketched his
friend Dante in a fresco in the Bar
CELLO of Florence Just about six hun
dred years ago.
And modern churches have among
their adornments more or less accu-
rate effigies of eminent laymen as we'll
as notable ecclesiastics. st. Thomas,
New York. for instance. shows por-
traits of Woodrow Wilson and Samuel
Gompers. not to mention Clemenceau
and Lloyd George; and at Washington
Cathedral there are bosses In the
Great Choir which appear to have
had models we'll within the range of
Identification.
Mr.. Athens pediment is beautiful,
and that. probably. is all that matters.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
II. Y. A. Test Case Stirs Debate
On New Deals Power Program

Why not concentrate on one until We
prove whether or not it is practicable?
These manifold enterprises are need
less waste of the taxpayers money at
q time when there is the most urgent
need for economy"
Considering the actual court pro-
ceedings of the Alabama Power Co.,
in which Judge Grubb in the lower
court decided that the T. v. A. has
no power to produce and sell elec-
tricity, except as incidental to q
granted power. as in case of distribu-
tion of surplus" the Chattanooga
Times declares: "n the r. v. A. is
thus restricted in the production and
sale Of electric power, its electric pro-
gram, as 1t is generally understood.
would seem to have involved tre-
mendous stretching of its actual
powers. 1t goes without saying that
the public eagerly awaits the ultimate
effect of Judge Grubb's opinion on the
T. V. AS power program"
The utilities are seeking to make
this an issue whose decision will 20 to
the heart Of the New Deal philosophy,
in the view Of the Owensboro (Ky.D
Messenger, while the Oklahoma News
believes that IF the country wants T
v. A. to point the way to other SINH
lar developments elsewhere. then the
T. v. A. will live" Reaching some
middle ground" is suggested by the
Charleston Is. c. Evening Post as a
means of avoiding damage to invest
ments In utilities stocks. The st. Paul
Pioneer Press feels that the very
presence of Government as a COM
petitor must injure private industry"
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Plenty of Precedent.

Robert Aitken, the sculptor. was
cbedient to an exceedingly ancient
tradition when he conceived the no.
ton of embodying portraits of Chief
Justice Hughes, Elihu Root, Cass Gil
bert and himself in his design for the
west pediment of the new Supreme
Court Building. There was nothing
either new Of novel In the idea. On
the contrary, rather, it is law OF
monumental architecture to reflect In
such q way the human inspiration OF
the time and place. Governmental
and religious edifices throughout the
world are decorated with the efigies
Of great men, past and present.
Some critics, of course, there may
be who will wonder why Mr.. Aitken
should have included himself in the
list Of those to whom his genius was
to give Immortality. But by way OF
answer to their presumptive objection,
1t may be cited that Phidias, judged
by many to have been the most richly
gifted statuary who ever has lived,
reproduced the lines of his own coun-
tenance on the shield of Minerva in
the Parthenon. He likewise pictured
his generous patron, the celebrated
statesman Pericles, in the same COM
position. A legend to the effect that
he died in prison awaiting trial for this
"impiety" has been demolished by his
tOrians.
But Mr.. Aitken need not have gone
hack to the Greeks for a precedent.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Liberty" This was followed by two
ponderous volumes of The State
Papers and Other Public Writings of
Herbert Hoover" edited by Prof. Will
liam Starr Myers of Princeton, who
has written history OF the Repub-
hcan party. and now there is Ted
JoSlin's Hoover on the Record"
Lewis Gannett. literary editor OF the
New York Herald Tribune. erstwhile
staunch Hoover organ, observes that
obviously neither the Myers tones nor
Josllns panesyric could have ap-
peared without constant consultation
with the sage of Palo Alto, and COM
ments that "it looks like studied
preparation for further battles"
Instead Of concentrating on WASH
ington social functions this Winter.
Senator-elect Harry S. Truman,
Democrat. OF Missouri plans to take
night course in the Georgetown Law
School. Il attended Kansas City
School of Law" Mr.. Truman explained
at the Capitol the other day, "but
couldn't afford to finish my course.
Although he never took = law degree,
Senator-elect Truman became
county judge in Kansas City in 1924,
presiding judge in 1926 and was twice
reelected. Former Secretary Of State
Frank B. Kellogg had neither q uni
Versity nor q law education. The
academic record Of Silas H. Strawn
Of Chicago, eminent corporation law
yer, former president OF the American
Bar Association and the United States
Chamber OF Commerce. sets forth only
that he Is graduate OF the Ottawa,
ILL.,, High School.
Retiring Senator Simeon D. Fees,
Republican, Of Ohio will pitch his tent
In an alcove of the Library of Con-
gress during the Winter while he I'M
merses himself in research ON the
two-party system. He does not plan
to resume educational work at Antioch
College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, of
which he was president for 10 years,
or elsewhere. Now and then the pub
lie lecture platform may lure DR.. Fess,
but at present he has only literary
pursuits in view. His writings on the
bi-party system will supplement a
volume he published in 1907. entitled
Americas Political Theory"
4
Another distinguished Republican
relegated to private life. Senator David
A. Reed Of Pennsylvania, plans to
spend good deal Of time in Wash
ington. too. He is expected to hang
out his Shingle at local branch of
his big Pittsburgh law firm, Reed,
Smith. Shaw & McClay, which once
upon 9 time was Knox g. Reed, con-
sisting of the late Secretary of State,
Philander c. Knox, and the Senator's
late father, James H. Reed It's prob
ably one Of the few law offices In the
country which produced two United
States Senators. Senator and Mrs.
Reed built magnificent Washington
home on s street northwest only three
or four years ago, In the Wilson,
Hoover neighborhood, and they will
occupy it in the course of Mr.. Reeds
professional activities here.
tCopyright. 1834)
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Shooting 1t Out With
The Public Enemies
From the San Antonio Express,


AS had been predicted frequently
anG generally, the latest public enemy
No. l. Baby Face" Nelson Oester NJ.
Gillis), has eXpiated his many crimes
with his life.
1t is great pity that two brave
Federal officers had to be sacrificed
In that last battle with the desperate
near Chicago. Both died without
knowing that they had inflicted mortal
wounds upon the enemy The Govern
ment service and the people can ill
spare Herman Z. Hollis-the Federal
agent who got" Dillinger-or Samuel
p. Cowley, who laid the traps for
Dillinger and Pretty Boy" Floyd.
However. the method of shooting it
out" with gangdom necessarily must
cost ofiicers' as well as criminals lives.
Since the Department Of Justice
began its war OF determination"
against the Dillinger gang some
months ago, the score Is even; nine
have been killed on each side. Not
many Of that outlaw band are left:
the extremely perilous distinction of
being mo. /" evidently goes to John
Hamilton. He will be next to say the
price-it is to be hoped without further
cost in law ofiicers' blood.
Obviously, shooting on sight Is not
the best way to punish an outlaw.
He should be arrested, speedily tried,
sentenced and executed. When q
criminal will not be taken alive, how
ever, the ofiicers have no choice as to
their course OF action.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Mr.. Henderson's Peace Prize.

Bestowal Of the Nobel peace prize
for 1884 upon Arthur Henderson, pres
ident of the World Disarmament Con-
ference, announced today. Is not
only a merited personal tribute. but
q recognition of the fact that patience
and persistence are international
virtues worthy Of commendation and
reward. For now nearly three years
the former British foreign secretary
has presided over the tortuous efforts
at Geneva to evolve order out of the
disarmament chaos. Due almost ex-
clusively to Mr.. Henderson's unfias-
sine zeal and invincible optimism, the
conference has preserved Q semblance
Of life and survived crisis after crisis
that threatened to convert it from q
merely moribund institution into an
absolutely dead and futile affair.
Periodically, when Geneva seemed to
be breathing its last, some never-say-
die pronouncement from the veteran
Evening star., 1934-12-10

British labor statesman would revive
the parley and save 1t from extinc-
tion.
The conference, convened 30 hope
fully in February, 1892. has been q
record Of failure. But almost coinci-
dent with its opening. events both
in the Far East and In Europe began
taking 3 course that augured Ill for
peace and disarmament. Japan and
China were at war In the Shanghai
area. The Japanese were preparing
to solidify their conquest of Man-
churia by setting up Independent"
Manchoukuo. It was not long after
ward that the rise Of Adolph Hitler
and the Nazis In Germany gave q
new and perilous orientation to the
European situation. accompanied by
the Reich's insistence upon arms
equality and the threat TO Austrias
independence. Soon both Japan snd
Germany formally deserted Geneva.
Then came the menace In the Ssar.
Then Japan's imperious determine
tion to obtain naval parity with
Great Britain and the United States.
Amid these successive and literally
worldwide impediments to the peace
and disarmament longings OF the ma
tions Arthur Henderson, undiscour-
aged, carried on, confident that the
peoples OF the earth yet would come
to realize that in progressive scaling
down Of their armed establishments
lies the only hope of banishing the
specter Of war.
Despite the disappointments OF the
past, Mr.. Henderson's Nobel prize
comes to him at a moment of inter-
national hope. The Germans and the
French have paved the way to an
amicable settlement of the Saar
problem. The League next month
will tackle the proposal submitted by
the United States for control OF the
arms tratic. At this hour Geneva is
graphing with the Yugoslavian- Hun
garian threat to peace and is de-
termined to ward 1t on.
Germany and Japan continue to
boycott the Disarmament Conference,
and there are other obstacles stlll in
its path. But its outlook, considered
from many standpoints, is brighter
than 1t has been for q year and O
half. Mr.. Henderson has said re-
peatedly that he refuses to contem-
plate even the possibility of failure.
In congratulsting him upon receipt
Of the Nobel prize, the world will
hope with Uncle Arthur" that his
sunny faith may yet be triumphantly
yindicated.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

| of all leaves, q root becomes nothing
| much but decaying vegetable matter
In the soil, and this Is almost true In
Winter time.
There will always be opportunities,
even In the coolest months, TO run
around In the yard after the elusive
dandelions.
And there are other weeds, almost
as bad, which one usually can recog-
nize, especially by reason OF their
being out Of place in the grass.
These can be pulled up without
fear Of harming the lawn. A few
holes left here and there will be for
gotten by Spring, but will not hurt
| the soul OF the grass crank" even In
their making.
He who Is finicky about the grass
Is the basic gardener.
He puts first things first.
If one gardens for pleasure, and
particularly the pleasure which arises
from the creation OF beauty. the lawn
Is the frame for all the rest.
The lawn Is more than frame. 1t
Is a part Of the picture. and q most
important part. The only danger run
by the grass fan" or enthusiast Is
that he may permit lawn failure, to
spoil all his successes.
This Is an attitude easily gotten
into, and not so easily gotten out OF,
so the amateur gardener should never
permit himself to get obscessed with
the subject Of lawns and their care.
Nothing Is more desirable than n
perfect lawn, unless it Is the lawn
which Is good enough.
| Good enough grass Is very good, In
most cases. the sort one can walk
on without holding the breath.
The fact that one Is satisfied, then,
with something less than perfection
is wholesome sign Of horticultural
sanity. 1t seems 10 us.
AS important rs good grass Is, 1t Is
only part OF the picture.
| 4
Wild flower culturists who put new
plants in the ground this Fall viii
tind pleasant browsing in the garden
this Winter ON mild days.
One may browse In the garden a
well as in q bookstore. Ordinarily
one never thinks OF the verb "tC
browse" except TO see the methOdical
cropping Of grass by cows. and the
slow mulling over the pages Of book
by typical reader.
There Is flower browsing In Spring
and Summer, plant browsing during
the Winter. on the milder days.
The accent Is placed on the plant
now. and no plant Is more interesting
than wildnower.
1t Is q pleasure 10 90 out into the
yard at this time OF year, shortly
before Christmas. to see how the
plants OF lObelia cardinals, put In
the earth about q month ago, are
coming along.
1t is pleasure to see and TO re-
port that they are fine and green, and
seem to be doing very well.
Time will tell the story. the time
comprised In the next four months
VIII it be another Winter such as
the last, or a milder season alto
gether? We may hope the latter
from every standpoint except that OF
the fuel sellers.
II 1t Is an open Winter. as we saw
there will be more opportunity for
spending few pleasant hours with
the plants now and then.
Mild days will reveal the ever-ex-
citing small news Of the garden, the
green shoots OF the crocus and the
tulip sticking through the earth, the
occasional flower put forth by such
things as the fOrsythia and the spirea.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

What now. In the garden?
Nature very generously has given
al the shrubs and plants q good
watering, enough 10 carry them
through the dryest Winter with moist
tissues.
Now little remains for the gardener
to do but put his friends Of the out
doors to bed.
This is done about December IS. or
thereabouts, by proper mulching.
Well-rotted cow manure Is the sort
always advocated, but most gardeners
will have TO take what they can get,
and 1t will do very well for the pur-
pose.
There still are few chrysanthe-
NUNS in bloom In some gardens, add
ing their color to the very green
grass.
Lawn enthusiasts are satisfied with
the appearance of their grass at this
time.
Unusually mild days, coupled with
the heavy rains of Thanksgiving
gardeners and their plants were gen.
linely thankful for them-gave q
luster and color not always seen In
grass at this time of year.
That Is something to be thankful
for, indeed, II one happens to be a
lawn enthusiast, as most gardeners
are.
There was a period in middle Au-
tumn when for time 1t seemed as II
grass was to go into the Winter look
ing Its ugliest, in many places almost
brown.
The good rain changed all that.
Today grass is green everywhere,
almost resembling It's appearance In
early April after q few good down
pours.
If this Winter Is anything like the
last one, 1t will not be long now be-
fore outdoor work in the garden will
be q memory.
Still there may be few warm days,
every now and then. when the home
gardener can stroll around among his
plants and shrubs.
lie will do well to spend part OF
his time pulling up weeds. such as the
dandelion. easily recognized in the
dormant grass.
The more OF these he can destroy
before Spring. the fewer he will have
to bother with then, when there will
be more pressing work.
Many gardeners have not found
out how well this method OF weed
control works. They have taken the
word for 1t. from somebody or other
that such q way OF getting rid OF
weeds Is futile.
The truth is that the reason some
persons think the method will not
work is because they do not possess
the persistency to stick to 1t.
Like most phases of gardening en-
deavor, this one demands that the
operator do little here. q little there,
always something every day. not q
great deal one day and then nothing
for month.
If the gardener will make q habit
Of pulling on the leaves of dande-
lions as he sees them, he will be sur
prised At the good riddance it makes
of them. In year he will have far
fewer dandelions than his neighbors,
despite the fact that their uncon-
trolled lawns are continually spilling
seed upon his holdings.
Naturally it is better II the tap
root can be taken out. too. but per-
haps more time is wasted on the ef-
fort to get rid OF this than Is neces-
sary, for the big root cannot live if
1t has no leaves above 1t. Deprived
Evening star., 1934-12-10
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHIIANDER JOHNSON.
Substitution Of Identity.

Substitution Of Identity.
The world is but q masquerade.
After all.
Many a different role Is played.
Great or small.
Many a hero will contrive
To appear as If alive.
Only actors will survive.
After all.
limitations we behold,
After all.
Many splendid scenes unfold
At our call.
But we're left little sad
II no more Is to be had
Than costumes fine on actors bad,
After all.