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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-13
PREP RATIONS FOR
annual auto show
NEAR COMPLETION
II Bismarck Business Firms 20
Have Booths; More Ex-
pected to Take Space

Eleven Bismarck business houses
Tuesday had signified their intention
Of exhibiting products and merchan-
disc at the World War Memorial
building during the annual automo-
bile, style show and trade week
March %, % and "a, according to D.
E. Yeater In charge Of the booth de-
partment of the show.
Yeater had not contacted many
business houses and was making his
preliminary lineup Tuesday but he
was OF the opinion, judging from
the reception given him by those he
had interviewed, that the exhibit this
year would be much larger and more
complete than that Of last year.
Exhibitors will start preparing their
booths Immediately after the close of
the basketball tournament March II,
Yeater said.
A platform will be erected through
the middle OF the auditorium for the
style show. to be used for the parade
OF models who will display gowns,
coats, suits, millinery and other wom-
ems wear. A showing Of mems styles
for 1894 will be q new feature this
year.
Many Plan Displays
Those listed for booth displays up
to noon Tuesday included North Da.
kota Power and Light Co.. Mont
gomery Ward. Quanrud, Brink and
Reibold. o. H. VIII Co., -Dady
Company, Webb Bros. Gussner's.
Montana Dakota Power Co., O. H.
Stow, piston rings: Copelin Motor,
Co., and Corwin Churchill Motors,
Inc.
The firms which will feature model
displays at the style show include A.
w. Lucas Co., Robertson's, Rose
Shop, Penney's, S. q L., Rosen's and
Bergeson'S. Bathing beauties, wear
ing the latest In beach styles from
California and Florida, will feature
each evenings show.
Henry Gordien. magician-entertain-
er OF Minneapolis, has been engaged
as master of ceremonies for the auto
mobile and style show and will put
on an entertainment during the aft
ernoon and evening. Kontos orches-
ira will play during the afternoon
and evening.
A talking picture show will be CIV
en- In the basement dining room Of
the Memorial building, both after
noon and evening. by Corwin-
Churchill Motors. Inc, which will
show two pictures, Hell Drivers"
featuring Barney Oldfield and other
speed demons. and Fashioned by
Function" illustrating the reason for
the design Of the new Chrysler AIR
flow Eight.
Between 80 and IS cars viii be dis
played by seven dealers, according to
Jack F9eck, Of the F1eck Motor Co.,
and he expects the automobile show
to attract the largest number Of visi-
tors and the most attention Of any
show ever given In this section Of
the state.
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Match Consolidated
School Elves Tuesday

DismAsck, N. D.. March l3-R7-
DRAWINGS for the state baskethall
tournament Of the consolidated high
school league Of North Dakota win b
hele here Tuesday night.
The state tournament 1t Arthur
March u and II, win match Zahl,
orandin. Toxic, Medina, Beulah, Ham
nah, Nome and Thain.
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ice commissioner, and Jack williams,
Fargo, department adjutant.
Legion posts expected to be repre-
scented are those at Ashley, Gaclkle.
Garrison, Hazelton, Linton, Max, Ma
poleon, Regain, Turtle Lake, Under
wood, Washburn, Wilton and Wishek.
Officers Of Lloyd Spetz Post No. l,
Bismarck, host to the gathering Tues
day. issued q special invitation to all
ex-service men, whether or not they
are Legionnaires, to attend the meet
ing, since matters Of interest to all
veterans will be discussed.
Following the meeting q lunch will
be served in the dining room Of the
World War Memorial building.
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Veterans from all parts Of the Bis
marck area were assembling In Bis
marck Tuesday for the annual winter
meeting OF Legionnaires Of the fifth
district. t-s.e.--. S.-.-s'as :,
Robert q. Mcnsing, Ashley, district
deputy, will preside ct the session
which will begin at p. m, at the
city auditorium.
Others who will attend are Ed
gar w. Carruth, Herington, KAN.
national vice commander Of the L.
gion, who will be the principal speak
er: w. H. johnson, Minot. comman-
der Of the North Dakota department:
T. o. Kraabel, Fargo, veterans serv-
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(CoDQ1a106 1SSA ~ TAe =. ~
London, March l3.-R3-LAura Il
Plante. motion picture actreGs, said
Monday che Is suing her husband,
William SETTER, film director. for :
divorce ana that she hrs filed the
suit d Riga, LAtvla.
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him, or do we just say, Naughty!
Naughty!"
He'll have to take his own
chances"
Fair enough" His hard face
was good-natured again as he
moved toward the door. Eleven
o'clock at Van Ness and Geary." j"
I went back into the opera
tives' room, where Jack Counihan
was slumped down in a chair
reading magazine.
II hope you've thought up
something for me to do" he
greeted me. I'm getting bed
sores from sitting around"
Patience, son, patience-that's
what you've got to learn if you're
ever going to be detective. Why
when I was child of your age,
just starting in with the Agency,
I was lucky"
Don't start that" he begged.
Then his good-looking young face
got earnest. II don't see why you
keep me cooped up here. I'm the
only one besides you who really got
a good look at Nancy Regan. I
should think you would have me
out hunting for her"
II told the Old Man the same
thing" sympathized. But he is
afraid to risk something happen.
ing to you. He says in all his so
years of gum-shoeing he's never
seen such a handsome cop, be-
sides being a fashion plate and a
social butterfly and the heir to
millions. His idea is we ought to
keep you as a sort of show piece,
and not let you"
go to hell" Jack said, all red
in the face.
But persuaded him to let me
take the cotton packing off you to-
night" continued. $50 meet me
at Van Ness and Geary before II
o'clock"
"Action?" He was all eagerneSS.
Maybe"
what are we going to do?"
Bring your little popgun along"
An idea came into my head and
1 worded it. You'd better be all
dressed up-evening duds."
Dinner coat?"
"No-the limit-everything but
the high hat. Now for your be.
havior: You're not supposed to be
an op. I'm not sure just what
you're supposed to be, but it
doesn't make any difference. Tom
Tom Carey will be along. You act
as if you we're neither my friend
nor his-aS If you didn't trust
either of us. Well be cagey with
you. If anything is asked that you
don't know the answer to-you
will fall back on hostility. But
don't crowd Carey too far. Got it?"
II think So" He spoke
slowly, Screwing up his forehead.
I'm to act as If I was going
along on the same business as you,
but that outside of that we weren't
friends. AS If I wasn't willing to
trust you. That it?"
every much. Watch yourself.
You'll be swimming in nitroglycer-
inc all the way"
what is upP Be a good chap
and give me some idea"
grinned up at him. He was
a lot taller than I.
II could" admitted, "but I'm
afraid it would scare you off. So
I'd better tell you nothing. Be
harry while you can. Eat good
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dinner. Lots Of condemned folks
seem to eat hearty breakfasts of
ham and eggs just before they
parade out to the rope. Maybe
you wouldn't want 'em for dinner,
but"
Secrets
At five minutes to eleven that
night, Tom-Tom Carey brought a
black touring car to the corner
where Jack and I stood waiting
in fog that was like damp fur
coat.
Climb in," he ordered as we
came to the curb.
I opened the front door and
motioned Jack in. He rang up
the curtain on his little act. look
ing coldly at me and opening the
rear door.
I'm going to sit back here" he
said bluntly.
mot a bad idea," and I climbed
in beside him.
Carey twisted around in his
seat and he and Jack stared at
each other for a while. I said
nothing, did not introduce them.
When the Swarthy man had fin
ished sizing the youngster up, he
looked from the boys collar and
tie--all Of his evening clothes not
hidden by his overcoat-to me,
grinned, and drawled:
Your friends a waiter, huh?"
1 grinned back at Carey and
asked, Are we waiting for any
thing?"
He said we weren't, left off star
ing at Jack, and put the machine
in motion. He drove us out
through the park. down the
boulevard. Traffic going our way
and the other loomed out Of and
faded into the fog-thick night.
Tom-Tom Carey swung our car
off the boulevard, into a road that
was smooth and we'll made, but
not much travelled.
Wasn't a man killed down
along here somewhere last night?"
I asked.
Carey nodded his head without
turning it. and, when we had
gone another quarter.mile, said:
Right here"
We rode a little slower now, and
Carey turned off his lights In
the road that was half moon-Sil.
YER. half shadow.gray, the ma
chine barely crept along for per-
haps a mile. We stopped in the
shade of tall shrubs that darkened
spot Of the road.
"All ashore that's going ashore" :"
Tom-Tom Carey said, and got out
Of the car.
Jack and I followed him. Carey
took off his overcoat and threw
it into the machine.
THE place is just around the
bend, back from the road" he
told us. Damn this moon! I
was counting on fog"
I said nothing, nor did Jack.
The boys face was white and ex-
cited.
We'll bee.line it," Carey said,
leading the way across the road to
a high wire fence.
He went over the fence first,
then Jack, then-the sound Of
some one coming along the road
from ahead stopped me. Signal
ing silence to the two men on the
other side of the fence, I made
myself small beside a bush. The
coming steps were light, quick,
feminine.
A girl came into the moonlight
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just ahead. She was a girl of
twenty-something, neither tall nor
short, thin nor plump. She was
short-kirted, bare-haired, sweat
cred. Terror was in her white
face, in the carriage of her hurry
ing figure-but something else
was there, too-more beauty than
a middle-aged sleuth was used to
seeing.
When she saw Carey'S automo-
bile bulking in the shadow, she
stopped abruptly, with a gasp that
was almost a cry.
I walked forward, saying:
Hello. Nancy Regain"
This time the gasp was a cry.
"Oh! Ohw Then, unless the
moonlight was playing tricks, she
recognized me and terror began
to go away from her. She put
both hands out to me, with relief
in the gesture.
"Well?" A bearish grumble came
from the big boulder of a man who
had appeared out of the darkness
behind her. whats all this?"
Hello, Andy" I greeted the
boulder.
"Hullo," MacElroy echoed and
stood still.
Andy always did what he was
told to do. He had been told to
take care of Miss Newhall. I
looked at the girl and then at
him again.
"Is this Miss Newhall?" asked.
yeah" he rumbled. II came
down like you said, but she told
me she didn't want me-wouldn't
let me in the house. But you
hadn't said anything about com.
ing back. So I just camped out
side, noSeying around, keeping my
eyes on things. And when I seen
her shinnying out a window lit
tie while ago, I just went on along
behind her to take care of her,
like you said I was to do"
Incoherent
TomTom Carey and Jack Count
han came back into the road.
crossed it to us. The swarthy man
had an automatic in one hand.
The girls eyes were glued on mine.
She paid no attention to the
others.
What is it all about?" I asked
her.
II don't know" she babbled, her
hands holding on to mine, her face
close to mine. Eyes, I'm Ann New.
hall. I didn't know. I thought it
was fun. And then when I found
out it wasn't I couldn't get out
of it,"
How did you get in with them?"
I demanded. Talk fast"
I had told the girl to talk fast.
She did. For 20 minutes she stood
there and turned out words in a
chattering stream that had no
breaks except where I cut in to
keep her from straying from the
path I wanted her to follow. It
was jumbled, almost incoherent
in spots, and not always plausible,
but the notion stayed with me
throughout that she was trying to
tell the truth-most Of the time.
And not for a fraction Of Sec
ond did she turn her gaze from my
eyes. It was as If she was afraid
to look anywhere else.
This millionaire's daughter had,
two months before, been one OF a
party OF four young people return
ing late at night from some sort
of social affair down the coast.
Somebody suggested that they
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CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XVIII
The afternoon papers carried
photographs of Big Flora Brace
and Angel Grace Cardigan, with
story of their escape. The story
was not far from the probable
facts. On another page was an
account Of the discovery of the
dead barber in the lonely road
At S o'clock Tommy How'd
came to my door.
THAT guy Carey wants to see
you again." the freckle-faced boy
said.
"Shoot him in"
The swarthy man sauntered in,
said "HoWdy," sat down, and
made a brown cigarette.
Got anything special on for to.
night?" he asked when he was
smoking.
Nothing can't put aside for
something better. Giving a party?"
"Uh-huh. I had thought of it.
A kind of surprise party for
Papadoodle. Want to go along?"
1t was my turn to say, "Uh.
huh"
I'll pick you up at eleven-Van
Ness and Geary," he drawled.
But this has got to be a kind of
tight party-just you and me
and him."
mo. There's one more who'll
have to be in on it. III bring him
along"
Il don't like that" Tom-Tom
Carey shook his head slowly,
frowning amiably over his ciga.
rette. "You sleuths oughtn't out.
number me. 1t ought to be one
and one"
You won't be out-numbered, ,"
I explained. This jobbie I'm
bringing won't be on my side
more than yours. And it'll pay you
to keep as sharp an eye on him
as l do-and to see he don't get
behind either Of us If we can help
it,"
In the Dark
Then what do you want to lug
him along for?"
Wheels within Wheels" I
grinned.
The swarthy man frowned
again, less amiably now.
1.-The hundred and six thousand
reward money-1'm not figuring
on sharing that with anybody"
Right enough" I agreed. mo
body I bring along will declare
themselves in on It,"
"I'll take your word for It," He
stood up. And we've got to watch
this hombre. huh?"
If we want everything to go
all right"
Suppose he gets in the way
cuts up on US. Can we put it t.
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By DashieII Hammett

stop at a roadhouse along their
way-a particularly tough joint.
It's toughneSs was it's attraction,
of course-toughness was more
or less of a novelty to them. They
got a first-hand view of it that
night, for, nobody knew just how,
they found themselves taking part
in a row before they had been
10 minutes in the dump.
The girls escort had Shamed
her by showing an unreasonable
amount of cowardice. He had let
Red OLeary turn him over his
knee and spank him-and had
done nothing about it afterward.
The other youth in the party had
not been much braver. The girl,
inSulted by this meekneSs, had
walked across to the red-haired
giant who had wrecked her escort.
and she had spoken to him loud
enough for everybody to hear:
will you please take me
home?"
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THE BIG KNOCKOVER'
PART SEVEN

The shadow In his eyes could have been slight dis
appointment
"ShsS funny sort Of kid" he remarked IT wouldn't
cay Paddy didn't show good when he picked her. but
shes . queer Onei''
"HowS the Papadopoulos hunt progressingi"
cit H. But you oughtnt have split your word. You
halfway promised you wouldn't have shadowed''
ATm not the big boss, apologzed Sometimes what
want don't fit in with what the headman wants. This
Ahouldnt both you much-you shake him, can't you9"
"Uhhuh. That's what I've been doing. But it's damned
nuisance jumping in and of taxis and back doors
We talked and drank few minutes longer and then left
Carey and hotel and went to drugstore telephone
booth, where called Dick Foeys gave Dick the
swarthys man description and address
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CHAPTER, XVII

Then I phoned the detective 0u-
reau and made a date with Ser
geant Hunt to visit Angel Grace
Cardigan's apartment. After that
I busted myself with paper work
until Tommy came in to announce
the swarthy man from NogaleS.
"The iobbie who's failing you"
I informed him when he had sat
down and begun work on a cigar.
cite, "is a barber named Arlle, >
and I told him where Arlie lived:
Eyes. A slim-faced, sandy lad?"
I gave him the description DICK
had given me.
"That's the hombre," Tom-Tom
Carey said. Know anything else
about him?"
mo"
"You had Angel Grace vagged."
It was neither an accusation or
a question, so I didn't answer 1t.
"It'S Just as WELL" the tall man
went on. "I'd have had to seno
her away. She was bound to
gum things with her foolishness
when I got ready to swing the
loop on the Papadoodle guy"
'That'll be soon?" =,
"That all depends on how 1t
happens" He stood up, yawned
and shook his wide shoulders.
But nobody would starve to
death If they decided not to eat
any more till I'd got him. 1
oughtn't have accused you OF hay
ing me Shadowed."
"It didn't spoil my day." =,
Tom-Tom Carey said, $50 long,
and sauntered out.
I rode down to the Hall Of JUS
tice, picked up Hunt, and we
went to the Bush Street apart
ment house in which Angel Grace
Cardigan had lived. The mana
ger-a highly scented fat woman
with q hard mouth and soft
eyeS-already knew her tenant was
in tho cooler. She willingly took
us UP to the girls rooms.
Exit Arlle
We got rid Of the landlady and
raked the place over thoroughly.
We came away knowing all there
was to know about the girls
wardrobe, and a lot about her
personal habits. But we didn't
find anything pointing Papado-
pouloS-ward.
At three o'clock in the morn
ing my bedside phone took my
ear out Of the pillows. The voice
that came over the wire was the
Canadian ops.
EXIT Arlie," he said.
"R.IP.?"
"Yep."
~How?"
lead"
"Our lad'S?"
yep"
Keep till morning."
"Yep."
'see you ct the office" and I
went back to sleep.
When I arrived at the Agency
at 8 o'clock, one Of the clerks had
just finished DECIDING a night
letter from the Los Angeles opera
tive who had been sent over to
Nogales. It was long telegram,
and meaty.
It 0aid that Tom!Tom Carey
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don't want yeu to tail Carey,
Dick. I want you to find out who
is trying to tail him-and that
Shadower is the bird you're to
stick to. The morning will be
time enough to start-get yourself
dried out"
And that was the end Of that
day.
My back was better the follow
ing day, and so was the day. I
went down to the agency. There
was a memorandum on my desk
saying Duff had phoned that
Angel Grace Cardigan had been
vagged-30 days in the city prison.
There was a familiar pile of re-
ports from various branches on
their operatives inability to pick
up anything on Papadopoulos and
Nancy Regan. was running
through these when Dick Foley
came in.
Made him." he reporte d.
Thirty or 80. Five, six. Hun
dred, 80. Sandy hair, complexion.
Blue eye. Thin face, some skin
off. Rat. Lives dump in Seventh
Street."
What did he do?"
Tailed Carey one block. Carey
shook him. Hunted for Carey till
two in morning. Didn't find him.
Went home. Take him again?"
go up to his flophouSe and
find out who he is"
Sam Arlie," he said when he
returned. Been there six months.
Supposed to be barber-when he's
working-if ever"
'I've got two gueSses about this
Arlie." I told Dick. THE first is
that he's the gink who carved me
in SauSalito the other night. The
second is that something's going
to happen to him."
It was against Dicks rules to
waste words, so he said nothing.
I called Tom Tom Carey'S hotel
naaSAgot the swarthy man on the
me over" invited him. "I've
ome news for you"
As soon as I'm dressed and
greakfasted," he promised.
when Carey leaves here you're
to go along behind him." I told
Dick after I had hung up. If
Arlie connects with him now, may
be +hereu be something doing.
Trv to see it."
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note I used his phone again to
call the Agency, to tell the op-
orator to get hold of Andy and
tell him I wanted him. I ate
lunch before I returned to the
Agency. Andy was waiting when
I got there.
I gave him the lawyers note
to Miss Newhall, told him where
to go and what to do, and Miss
NeWhalPs troubles were off my
mind.
Three times that afternoon I
heard from Dick Foley and
Mickey Linehan. Tom-Tom Carey
wasn't doing anything very ex-
citing, though he had bought two
boxes of "A cartridges in a Mar,
ket Street sporting goods estab-
liShment.
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CURE GANGSTERISM

TT is long distance from big city under
Il world gang to one of the forest camps of
the CCC. But nation that is plagued by
gangs and wonders what on earth it ever is
going to do about them could do worse than
study the connection between the two.
The other day United States army officer,
Captain Thomas E. May finished a six-month
tour of duty with the CCC and told of his
experiences in that outfit with certain budding
gangsters from New York.
Captain Mays camp had more than its
share of tough young mugs from the New
York east side. Sometimes, the captain admits,
he felt that the New York welfare organiza-
lions that enrolled some of his young foresters
must have sent us most of their problem
cases."
Some of the lads even tried to organize
racket in the camp itself, forcing companions
to pay them for protection; one youngster
wrote proudly to his mother telling about it.
But eventually the captain got the boys
Strengthened out. Ee separated the young
racketeers and sent the individuals to other
camps, where they could escape from aSsocia-
ton with their own kind; and he was amazed
30 see how quickly these hard-boied young
street DULLES turned into honest, decent, hard
working and ambitious specimens of healthy
young manhood
They never have had much of a chance"
he says. "They hardly knew anything about
civilized living. But never saw group more
eager to do the right thing or more. willing to
follow right example"
Now there is enough moral in this little
story to fill book.
Nothing could show more clearly how the
modern underworld gang is product of So
ciety as a whole. The lads who go into the
gang are forced in by environment.
Change the environment, give them
chance to earn an honest living in decent sur
roundingS, put them in an atmosphere where
that kind of endeavor is appreciated - and,
presto! they abruptly cease to be the kind of
material gangs are made of.
If it taught us no more than that, the for
est army project would be worth every dime
it cost.
We simply do not need to have gangs. The
lads who grow up to be hired killers are not
irredeemably vicious. Society can make useful
Americans of them if it cares to make the
effort and spend the money.
Reformers and sociologists have been say
ing that for years. and we have scofed and
said that was impractical theorizing. Well
it works.
If we have half the sense we think we have,
we shall go ahead and make it work some
more.