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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

change. without awakening the
state via a new attached sheet.
AS they always agree, and at the
expense of the state, it is not
necessary to anticipate the devel-
opment of any situation which
would require proof that the a.
tached sheet was part of the
contract.
The attached sheet lacks any
specification of quantity. No
round numbers outline what the
lot basis was for fixing the per-
gallon price. Nothing about it
on either page. The price quoted
is top for the smallest trader in
single drum lots and still, hidden
over on page one is the unassmn-
ing provision for the oil used in
ten districts during one year.
That consumption equals thirty
thousand gallons annually, which
is some substantial lot, in any
mans language, upon which to
command low per barrel prices
on.
But think how sweet the
thought to a seller to close a
deal for thirty thousand gallons
at the price going in single drum
lots ?'szAt any rate it would be
sweet in legitimate deal where
there was nothing off the top
incidentally, the Barnsdallt Co.
is quoting its "Be Square, Motor
Oils at almost exactly the same
price to small dealers and in one
drum lots. That price is fifty
two cents and it is just twenty
cents too high and above reason
abieness for that oil in large
quantity lots. Twenty cents for
gravy, and that is about the usual
forty per cent. Twenty cents per
gallon on that lot totals sir thou
sand dollars of spoils.
The principle hurdle for these
contracting conspirators to get
over was in circumventing or try
ing to circumvent the statutory
provision that purchases for the
state involving five hundred dol
lars or more must be made thru
competitive bidding. There soas
no competitive bidding on this
contract and yet the state paid q
sum thirty times greater than the
legal limit set for morbid p'er-
chdses.
No amount of juggling in de-
liveries and warrants can justify
or legalize that contract. It's
freud pure and simple and the
purchasing agent knows it be-
.c:use he has revived the ancient
legal method of competitive bids
since the Saturday Press COM
menced exposing irregularities
prevailing so generally in the
farmer-labor administered state
purchasing offices.
"Be Square" is such a fitting
trade name to find in this con-
tract! -
The contracts for the two 9TH
er districts are of the same pat
tern and scheme, involving SINH
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

Chicago avenue headquarters had
been few weeks earlier, like q
military camp. Sentries were
established, cruiser cars sent ,out
filled with armed men. Peaceful
citizens were molested, private
cars stopped, traffic interfered
with and citizens assaulted. Po-
lice were threatened with death
by men sent out from general
headquarters of the communist
agitators stronghold in the heart
of the largest city in the north
1VeSt!
Orders were issued from that
headquarters to peaceful pick
ets'' to-comn1it acts of violence, to
lalt traffic, to destroy property, to
block streets and public high
ways, to defy lasU and create and.
carry on zehat aUas actually cioal
1Var. g
The police force of the city
was inadequate to cope with the
rioters. The governor refused
to lend the assistance of the
states troops. He had had them
out in the hinterlands ti1erding
starving cattle away from luscious
grazing grounds - the famous
cow pasture patrol.
In May the communistSagita-
tors had managed to LASH theif
deluded followers. to assaults that
resulted in two murders. They
had sent twenty-severl uniformed
police to hospitals. In July they
expected to increase the list!
They had boosted that they would
get every damned copper" Dur
ling the May strike not a shot was
fired by the police. In July, the
lOrder was reyOked--inStead of
the don't shoot under any provo
cation order issued in May, the
Shoot if you have to" order was
given.
On what the communist and
their red allies choose to call
BLACK Friday" a clash between
police and peaceful piekets'
armed with clubs, iron bars,
shovels, ice picks and the gods
only know what not, occurred.
Two pickets died later as result.
lof their wounds and several more
walked with a limp for many
weeks.
During these weeks, thousands
of dollars in damage was done to
private property by the strikers.
AS a result of the clash between
armed "pickets'' and armed po-
lice, the governor-instead of or
dering the militia into the city
to reinforce the regular police,
declared martial law.
The troops moved in. Mime
apolis citizens, for the first time
in the history of the state, were
subject to military rule-no be-
cause they had grown riotous and
ungovernable, but because COM
mnnists in control of a fesv truck
drivers, sUurehonse stsvedores
and professional ruAians import
ed from other cities, had felt
themselves powerful enough to
Continued on page 5
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
Communists Introduce Bill
For Damages To Local No. 5A

F. 1890 introduced by Rep Bennett and Belman Farmer
Labortes Proposes Taxpayers Pay Communist local 674
Almost Thousand Dollars for Damage Done the Personal
Property By Negligence Of National Guard" The
Guardsmen Must Have Stepped Trained Rats Belonging
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

By Nomad
We have it on good authority
that the mention of oil contracts
inside the, doors Of the offices of
the Commissioner of Purchases,
c. r. Erickson, promptly and
Strangely. >eScites sjitters. 2. Of
course state contracts, because of
public policy, are to be kept as
/, public records. but there seems
to be special. dispensation. relat-.
ing to. these oil contracts. They
are kept in guarded custody by
the assistant to Erickson who,
makes strangers produce excep-
tional credentials before permit.
ting the privilege ofaperusal.
~ The unusual 4precaution taken
before showing the contracts
went to the extent, in one case, Of
/. calling the chief of the criminal
apprehension bureau for a.. per-.
;. sonal identification of the party
applying. Tactics which serve
= to. increase the interest, when one
: considers the legal, right, is, that.
{. public documents be made Access
.lsible simply, on request of, citi-
-. zens.
1t has been, the practice of the
4. state purchasing agent to divide
:. his .lubricating oil purchases for
the highway. departments yearly
requirements among three oil
). companies in a manner unfair to
that general business group. and
constituting illegal conspiracy to-
violate the law relative to COM
-petitiyei bidding for purchases
over five hundred dollars re-.
.csulting in defrauding the state
out of large Sums of money.
q, One of the. three contracts for
last years. consumption is repro
;. duced elsewhere in these columns
for reference.
, the Minnesota Oil & Refining
Andy .McGlynn represented
Co., which is. a. subsidiary of the
Barnsdall Oil & Refining Co. The
+. records, establish a.well defined
habit. in awarding, McGlynn's
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
Highway Department Oil Contracts
That Smell 10 High Heaven
vestsator For SATURDAY PRESS Secure Copies of Oil
State Highway Department Throws Ercksons Assistant
Jttery STAGE One Look the Contracts And the Utter
.rn ia Isolated.

a They Are Scarcely nGentemens Agreement Merely
Scrap Of Paper That May Hide Anything From Circus
Ticket the States Deficit Let Senate Committee Subpoena
esi THOSE Records and Watch the Worms Squirm!
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
ENGLAND TAKES
TRAFFIC DATA

LONDON, Oct. l. UP)-The Minis
try of Transport has begun the big
gest road and transport census ever
undertaken Ten thousand enumera-
tors for a week will take a record
CT pedestrians as well as coaches,
vans. cars lorries and cyclists, also
wheelbarroWs, traction engines.
Horse traffic will receive special no.
tice. Never before have pedestrians
and pushbikes been counted.
Some stupendous figures are ex-
pected. For instance, there are IL
censes current for nearly 100000
motor vehicles of various sorts, and
it is estimated that there are about
100000 cycles. Obviously many
of these will be counted many times
over.
A special count of pedestrians
will be made at 1850 points where
there are either no footpaths at
all or they are less than a yard IN
width. r.
At some places enumerators will
be counting continuously all around
the clock; at others for 16 hours
daily. They are provided with spe-
cially prepared forms.
The census does not include the
County of London That is taken
at intervals by Scotland Yard
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
LAW DESIGNED TO GUARD SALE
OF CURATIVE RADIUM WATERS

cases of 1924. IN 1880, j. W. Sale.
an expert of the United States
Food, Drug and Insecticide Admin
jstration. attacked the highly ex-
aggerated claims. evidently designed
to mislead the purchaser, Tor many
alleged radioactive products" He
found only 5 per cent of the prod
ucts said to be radioactive con-
tanned material quantities of ra-
dlum. A patient would have to
drink 1857 gallons CT water daily TO
get a minimum dosage Of radio
activity from one of the products.
lie said.
A more strict control would per-
nit only government nt-tested prod
ucts on the market ard would reg
ulate their use.
Look to Copeland
Sen. Royal S. Copeland, New York
physician, is looked to by the ra-
dium therapists as likely to intro
duce their legislation. However.
Copeland told the United Press, he
had not considered such an act.
With the controlled use of ra-
dunn and radioactive substances
Dr. Field envisioned more extensive
use and greater curative results.
He has been using these substances
n his treatments for 20 years. He
has made more than 1000 injections
of radium chloride into the veins OF
MS patients.
Many diseases respond to radio
active treatments, DR.. Field said.
One of the worst is arthritis.
Great Benefits Seen
Government control or partial
government control would give con-
fidence to the field of radioactive
Lherapy, he believes. Use of the
radioactive substances, TIL ou g h
known to the ancients who visited
the medicinal springs, is Just dawn
ing he said.
Production Of artificial radium
which would be active for only
few hours but be much stronger and
a great deal cheaper than pure ra-
dium has been announced by Prof.
Ernest O. Lawrence of the Univer-
sity Of California. Each wave that
hits the shore releases a small vol
ume of radium gas.
With these known sources of ra-
dio-active substances to be devel-
oped DR.. Field foresees a new day
in the battle against disease.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
By TED II. MALOY

inItC0 ETG5S stan Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-lUP)-
legislation may be asked to control
use of radioactive waters and
thereby eliminate some Of the fears
that have grown about the use OF
radium in its various forms, DR.. c.
Everett Field OF the Radium Insti-
tute Laboratory here told the United
Press.
The horror of a living death
spread in 1924 when five women
employees of the United States Ra-
dunn Corporation discovered they
mad been poisoned from pointing
brushes with the tongue as they
nainted watch diaIS with luminous
paint. 1t was accentuated on
March 81. 1882, when Eben NJ. By
ers, millionaire Pittsburgh iron
manufacturer, died after drinking a
"adiuln solution.
European health resorts at radio
active springs have appealed to
American therapists to correct the
impression here that such waters
are poisonous.
The contemplated legislation
would control the indiscriminate
use Of radioactive water generators
hy the public" Dr. Field said. There
is 10 recognized harmful influence
of the water he said, "other than
for use of a remedy where it does
not apply"
Byers died after doubling and
quadrupling, the prescribed dose,
DR.. Field asserted. The watch dial
painters were poisoned by meso-
thorium, he said, which is 1900
times Stronger and two-thirds
cheaper than radium.'
Meso-thorium is radioactive and
is used in less refined states. 1t
loses its luminous or its radio-activ
ity much faster than radium which
emanates its rays for 1,700 years.
Claims Called Exaggerated
Federal control of radioactive
products followed the watch dial
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
Houses for Rent

FOR RENT-7-room house and )
acres of land. Fruit trees. Suit
able for vegetables. Close in. I.
Mayfield 649 Main street, Ell
Centre. Ia
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FOR REET-Small attractive, 4
room cottage, $50 per month.
Completely furnished 415 S. p
ST.. Imperial, Phone Imperial
3191. oh
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
Situations Wanted

YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE, now
in Missouri, former local resi-
dents, would like work in valley
Farm-cream testing-feed store
xperience-store clerk-anything
considered. Address Press Box
432. 30-4
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FOR RENT-Modern. well-furnish-
ed apartment and flat. Inquire
500 Olive. l6tO
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

WAN1ED-Work. by experienced
mixer. Married man. Refer
ences. Rt. 2, Box 81, Brawley.
28-4
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FOR RENT-Furnished houses and
apartments. Clean, reasonable
I'll Park Ave. 28-3
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

Yellow, Persian kitten half
grown. Strayed from home, Sept
tember 18th. If found, call 756-R,
or return to Patsy Thompson,
523 Len Rey. 30-2
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FOR RENT-The incest, small
apartments in town, for SO little
money. at 755 Orange. 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
Apartments Tor Rent

FOR RENT-WeI furnished, four
room apartment, bed room and
rollaWay bed in living room. Elec-
trio refrigerator. Country Club
Inn, 9th and Holt 283
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FOR RENT-Furnished apartments,
private bath. 473 Park St. 25-6
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FURNISHED - Large apartments,
GAO Adams. 19-tO
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

JE S SIZE c ON N E p
795 Main Phone 474
For Better El Centro Homes"
Furnished for Lease
2 bed room. elect. equip, gar. $4,000
. bed room, Iect. equip, gar. $4,000
UNFINISHED for Lease
5 rooms, hardwood floors $4,000
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
Help " anted

MEN opportunity with
large company. for men. 18 to %
years. Must have high school
education or better. Write for
interview, p. o. Box 13, El Cen
trO. 28-3
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

WANTED-Genera houseWork. by
competent young woman. 653
State. 28-3
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
VALLEY TUESDAY OCTOBER 1885
p III o n e
2s6
Lost and Found

LOST-DiamCCd from ring. Re-
ward, SIS. Box 434, CaleXico
IA
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

APARTMENTS, 737
Commercial. Large and small
electric refrigerators. Lotto
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01
Rooms for Rent
Il Country Property for Sale

FIVE ACRES improved land,
three-room, modern house, date
palms and shade trees. I mile
south of city water plant on
South Eighth street. Phone 634-J.
27-6
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

BICYCLES-We cannot be UN-
DERSOLD on bicycles, all sizes
in stock and a big stock of re-
pairs. Wilson Machine Shop.
Phone 40. 29-to
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-01

FOR SALE - SEED-Re-cleaned
northern common barley - re-
cleaned choice flax. II. c. Worth
ington, Phone 226, Imperial. 26-to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Fairfax Citizens on
Map in Social Life

FAIRFAX, Va, August 17.-Mrs.
Ronald Blake and her daughter, Miss
Mary Blake, entertained today at their
home near Fairfax, Va. in honor Of
their house guests, Miss Marian Mar
tin and Miss Louise Martin of Win
chester. Va. Luncheon was served and
was followed by contract. the addi-
tional guests including Mrs. Frederick
Dawson Richardson, Mrs. Wilson M.
Farr, Mrs. Ford Swetman, Mrs. Paul
e. Brown, Mrs. Thomas Putnam Chap
man, jr.; Miss Warwick Rust, Miss
Eleanor Rust, Miss Nancy McCandlish
and Miss Mary Frances Cooper, all
Of Fairfax; Mrs. Henry Shackleford,
Mrs. Charles Corse. Mrs. Cora LEIGH
liter. Miss Mildred Shackleford and
Miss Helen Brown of Vienna, Va;
Miss Mildred English and Miss Doro-
thy Patterson of Washington; Miss
Patterson's house guest from New
Orleans and Miss Vivian Gillespie Of
Big Stone Gap, Va.
State Senator and Mrs. John War
wick Rust and their daughter, Miss
Anne Hooe Rust. are expected to re-
turn to Fairfax tomorrow from Re-
hoboth Beach, Del, where they passed
q few days.
Miss Elizabeth Rust OF Powhatan,
Va. arrived yesterday to visit her
cousins
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Peyton Young and
their daughter, Miss Charlotte Young,
and son, Mr.. Frank Young. have re-
turned from a motor "Trip to Harrison
burg and Lexington. While in Lex
ington they were guests of Mrs.
Joseph Chinn.
Miss Branche Grove accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs. Young to Harrisonburg,
where she Is to be connected with the
health unit Of Augusta County.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blake will leave
their home. Bannochburn, near Fair
fax, tomorrow to take a boat trip to
Boston. On their way home they will
spend a few days in New York.
Miss Vivian Gillespie of Big Stone
Gap, Va. who has passed a week with
Miss Randolph Richardson. Is now the
guest of the Misses Rust
Miss Bessie Broun Of Fredericks-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Bedford Springs
Lures CAPITAL Folk

BEDFORD SPRINGS. Pa, August
l7.-Opening Of the racing season at
the nearby town of Cumberland. Md,
finds many Bedford Springs vacation
lists in the grandstands during the
afternoons, returning to the hotel for
dinner and dancing in the evening.
A concert by Ethel Fox. lyric So
prano. will hold attention of the re-
sort colony next Saturday evening.
Repeating a visit Of two weeks ago
Representative Arthur D. Healey spent
several days at the hotel this week,
With him was Representative Joseph
E. Casey.
Capt. and Mrs. Julius c. Townsend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18

are at the resort for a stay Of 10 days
Gen. and Mrs. Charles D. Richard
are frequently at the springs to visit
Mrs Samuel T. Cushing and Miss
Sarah Knox Cushing. Miss Gushing
celebrated her birthday anniversary
recently with an informal dinner party
in the Georgian dining room.
Mr.. Ernest E. Herrell motored from
Washington to spend the past week
end with Mrs Herrell, who is making
an extended sojourn at the spa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18

burg. Va. has arrived in Fairfax.
where she will visit Miss Mary O.
Amber
Mrs. Henry Dudley Ludwig and her
sister, Miss Roberdeau Allison. and
Mrs. Henry Wise Kelly of Fairfax
left yesterday for a weeks stay at
Rehoboth Beach, Del.
MIR. and Mrs. Walter Tansill Oliver,
jr., Of Fairfax. accompanied by Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Windsor Oliver and
Miss Sidr;ey Thompson of Washing
ton. left this morning for two weeks
vacation at Cape May.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18
Duke DELAYED by Tree

Because a 50-foot tree had blown
across the Great North road at Eel
ton Bank. England, the Duke of Kent
recently had to make a long detour Of
several villages while motoring from
Alnwick Castle to the Royal Show at
Newcastle,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-18

Wyoming. who had been spending a
month with Mr.. and Mrs. Parker.
DR.. and Mrs. Dorsey NJ McPher-
son of Chevy Chase Parkway are
spending three weeks in Strouds-
burg, Pa.
DR.. Roger c. Wells and Mrs Wells
with their two sons, are spending two
weeks on motor trip to Cape Cod,
Mass, and Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. Julian NJ Branch and her lit
tie son Bobby of Elm street are spend
ing week at Cape May, N. j.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
CHAPTER w

Some passengers on the night cross
channel steamer from Boulogne no.
uced gray motor cruiser which
passed them in dead calm sea about
halfway across. Her extraordinary
turn of speed excited their curiosity
They must have been even more in
trigued could they have witnessed the
arrival of this mysterious craft off the
French coast.
Stealing through the haze of a gray
and cherries dawn, the mystery boat
edged in, point by point, in the direc-
ton of Boulogne.
Stern on to the fiat beach it lay.
showing no lights, it's propellers
turning lazily. Presently a boat came
out from shadowy inlet. Two row.
ers labored at the oars, and very short
ly drew alongside.
Those five small square cases which
had come from Limehouse were trans
ferred from the motor cruiser to the
boat. Orange Blossom then stepped
gfngerly into the little craft, supported
by Yuan Hee See, who followed her.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03
SYNOPSIS

Matt Kearney, young American living
in London, says good-by to his sister
Eileen, on board the WalIaroo bound
for Colombo. The Wallaroo is convey
ing 100000 in gold to Australia.
Kearney meets Inspector Dawson
Haig, Of Scotland Yard, very much in
love with Eileen. Haig Is convinced
opium is concealed in 10 Lungs ware
house. Called to other duty, he dele
gates Kearney, with Detective Nor
witch, to visit the place and find out
what he can. While in the warehouse
Kearney picks up notebook. YUAN
Hee See, Chinaman, whom Haig has
long been seeking as the leader of a
band Of international thieves, is at 10
Lungs. Discovering the loss of his
notebook, he sends two of his fol-
lowers after Norwich and Kearney,
one of whom he realizes must have
picked it up. Soon after leaving Kear-
ney Norwich is murdered. Haig is puz-
zled over cryptic notes in the book
referring to stops to be made by the
Wallaroo. While he is porting over the
book, a monstrous creature enters
seizes 1t, and escapes.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03

Moulin GAZETTE I'm going across this
afternoon. / should like to locate 10
Lung. The inquiry is at standstin
here. :"
The Restaurant SuIeiman Bey, ad-
Joining the Place Pigalle, seemed to be
quiet little place, with sleepy, cur
tained windows and glimpse. when
the door was open, of narrow counter
where Turkish coffee might be pur-
chased by weight Beyond was cur
tanned door.
The night was wet, and patrons were
few. but presently two men entered.
The one who led, gaunt, pale-faced
fellow, had something of the appear
ance of the traditional artist, notably
shock Of grazing dark hair, small
mustache, and straggly beard.
Since real painters have long since
fled that district, his appearance was
no doubt illusory.
He was accompanied by man who
might have passed for an American
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-03

tourist. He was buttoned up in white
waterproof, and keen blue eyes were
visible through the lenses of tortoise
shell-rimmed spectacles.
Apparently the artistic gentleman
knew the place WE'LL for he nodded to
stout lady who stood behind the
counter, raised the curtain in the OPEN
fng beyond, and the two entered long,
rectangular room.
Faded plush seats lined one wall,
broken by buffet and draped open
ing. A number of tables were covered
with check cloths, badly holed where
cigarettes had been laid upon them
and a little stair at the further end
led up to curtained doorway.
Only six customers were present {:
four of these around a table near the
staircase, two upon the settee The new
arrivals ordered coffee
Their order was taken by an Arab
waiter very dirtily dressed. AS he de-
parted, both stared without apparent
signs of interest, about the room. The
group of four by the staircase, three
men and woman, might readily be
classified, in view Of the reputation
Of the Restaurant SuIeiman Bey as
meeting place of advanced Commu-
nists.
The two men seated on the settee
were of different type. One, slight,
dark-faced fellow. might have been
Portuguese. He constantly glanced
with uneasy curiosity in the direction
of the stairway. The other was
thickset misunderstanding man of tif-
ty-odd, smoking dirty old briar pipe,
who stared straight before him at the
opposite wall. He might have been
Dutch or German, although, as a mat
ter of fact, he was Scotch. He badly
needed a shave; and except that he
constantly ordered more brandy, his
presence in such a spot seemed un.
accountable.
"Notfling seems to be happening"
said Dawson Haig.
Nothing ever does happen here" re-
piled Nj. Ballon of the Surete. "Plots
are made and perhaps carried out. but
as they are never carried out in Paris"
he shrugged-"w what do we care?'
RIO BE CONTINUED