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MILLICENT GRAVES employ
er. GEORGE DRIMGOLD. tells her
that for years he has been pre-
teeting n murderer. Millicent Eoe
out 40 dinner and. returning 90
the once, discovers G N
taken her purse, substituting one
eKactiy like "a. I'm the elevator
she meet On Observation-Disclosures
mnn Of middle age.
When she reaches the once she
ands DrimGold lead. In panic
she ruHbes away. registering NJ
n hotel nnder an assumed name.
Next morning she meets the din-
misunderstanding strangsr
again. TIE tells her his name I'm
JARVIS HAPP and promises Q
heIp her. Happ sends MIIlicent a.
a beauty shop. Here, I'm spite OF
her protests. she u strapped tnte
n chair and an anesthetie 10 ad-
ministered-
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER v
INTELLIGENT GRAVES heard
- words that merely mean
ingless sounds. yet which grad.
ually conveyed some meaning 20
her drugged brain She realized
that she had been talking. and.
even as the realization flooded her
consciousness. she could hear words
coming from her mouth.
.. don't care what the 1anitor
said. or course I had a fight with
him. I hated him. I'm glad he's
dead. No. I don't mean that. I'm
not glad. I'm sorry. What II l did
fight with him7 That doesn't near
I killed him. There was q woman
In black ermine that he was afraid
OF / saw her. She had cold eyes.
that's all I know about her. I
didn't notice her particularly. I
had troubles Of my own You can't
do this 20 me- You've got to let
me 90. Let me 20 I sayl"
The voice that had dinned words
into her brain beat upon her con
sciousness with steady insistence.
what did be dictate 20 you In
his c~onfessionf What was II about7"
Murder" her voice answered.
$50 you knew about this muir.
der. and
Consciousness seemed 10 return
TO her IN pulsing waves, each sue
eeeding wave clarifying her mind.
She exhaled deeply. opened her
eyes. saw people grouped about the
chair.
Miss Hanson pushed the white
robed figure aside THAT will do"
she said. I'm In charge now
She smiled az Millicent Graves
Breath out she said. Breath
out az deeply a you can. ! was
sorry we had 20 give you an anes.
thetic. but II was the only way and
there wasn't time to waste In argu-
ment"
Millicent ezhaied, opened her
lungs to the sweet breath OF pure
air. exhaled again. felt nausea grip
ping her. and retched
A whiterobed Nurse held q bowl
to her lips.
I'm going to release your hands"
Miss Hanson said, but I want you
70 promise me that you won't raise
them TO your faea Don't touch
your skin Tell ma. does your face
hurt5"
INTELLIGENT had 70 concentrate
Iva for several seconds In order TO
realize where she was and why.
Then she said slowly. There's O
burning sensation-sort Of an itch
ing"
IN just q few moments.- Miss
Hanson said. Il can put something
cooling on. but you mustn't rub
No matter what happens. promise
me you won't rub"
Il promise" Millicent said
Miss Hanson pressed a button Oh
the under side OF the chair. The
steel bands clicked back. and Mil
cents hands we're frea
what was the idea Miilicenf
asked. -of questioning mef-
Miss Hanson Let her face register
surprise.
Questioning your she asked. 4
don't understand I had 10 ask you
about hQN ION felk
, 1935-03-20

In our modern economic life there Is no more crazy
concept than that state lines are controlling boun-
diaries Of American industrial activity-oen. Hugh Q.
johnson.
, 1935-03-20

Never was the screens misuse BY reactionary
quasi Fascist propaganda 20 widespread and menac-
ing as today-Dr. Francis ID. Tyson Of the University
OF Pittsburgh.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

shouldered for what he believ y
to be right, even though that MAI
differs with me on every sub
ject, but FOR the man who for less
than Esau bartered his birth
right, sells his principle and
the confidence of his friends, I
have nothing but loathing and
disgust.
I have differed with you work
ers many times, but I never sold
you out and when you came to
me and told me your grief and
troubles, in confidence, I never
betrayed you.
"Then Jacob gave Esau
bread and pottage of len
tiles; and he did eat and
drinl-, and rose up and went
his way" Genesis XVI:
xxx.
To a petty job in the banking
department.!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

or without good reason, you are
wrong!
Perhaps some of you older
heads remember the "hog farm"
experiment-with other peoples
money. If you do, think that
one over. I'm not going to dis
cuss it now. l might ask, how
ever, just how much you lost in
that noble experiment with
swine?
Then there came the Mime
apolis Steel & Machinery mat
ter. Remember that? Just what
did you get out of THAT game?
What the Irishman shot at? !
thought so!
I understand Tom is so fear
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

g., so,,sone would ask him that
a.o..;o,, th,+ he hoe ,re,,red A.,
aav,1,n,t;or. n. n.n,nhla+ form
e. VII distribution II will re-.
miro /. ,o+ more ordinations
th,r can IN cranmed in a namph.
,a+ 80 .n,,,re tbot de,, with vol,
o,der hoods unless vo,, are en-
.;ra,,, d,,r,h .rd Hind and s,,f-
fer;no with mental anem;a
Gill; ,o,,, hende o1d t;u,e,s
and th;nk bock tn those davis Of
d,on,, b,,bb,ee and cost1v bro.
.,,;,o,, WIZ c.sbod n IN then, ,
Did yOUp
49, 10, ,,o,, wore question
mo Tom Tat;rner,s lovaltv in
tbese two cases .the Old Man"
was defending him against all
cor,ers AID now ann acc,,s-
~ of "es1,;no c,,ty bccouse j
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

thought, so he had. And 1 want
to quote just one paragraph from
my article in that issue of PINK
SHEET. I said, in that:
"These leaders didn't want
Tom Latimer elected mayor of
this city because they knez0
that no man, no clique, could
make Tom Latimer jump thru
a hoop at their command; that
he wore no mans collar and
talked with no mans lips ex-
cept his own. There isn't one
of these leaders, there isn't a
man or woman in the state
who dares charge Tom Lati-
mer with a dishonorable act.
The mans as clean as a
hounds tooth and as square as
a die, the personification of
honesty, loyal, afraid of moth
ing except unintentionally
causing injury to another"
I wrote those words on June
9, 1888. I believed them. Tom
Latimer had for many years been
my ideal. I've said thousand
times, over my signature and in
conversation, that if ever the
gods created a perfect man, that
man 7eas TOM LATIMER.
In last weeks issue I told you
of a conversation I had with
Tom in his office, during which
I asked him that if he couldn't
support cambridge would he re-
main neutral and he gave me his
promise to remain neutral. l told
you that at that very instant he
had in his pocket a statement he
was waiting to hand to the daily
papers-a statement in which he
announced his intention of sup
porting Anderson, the then SER
vile subject of the Olson polit;-
cal racketeers, and I told you
the truth. I told you that with
in an hour after I left his office,
sOith his promise, that he violat-
ed that promise and gave out his
cringing statement to the daily
press. He even went further
than that:
That night he 7Vent on the air
and had the CUTS to ask his fol-
loaOers to surrender THEIR
principle Gas he had done) and
SUPPORT anderson! But I didn't
tell you this-because I didn't
know if I could produce the
proof by locating the old PINK
SHEET file:
An hour before I talked to
Tom about the neutrality stuff
and secured his promise
had turned in to the linotype op-
orator, copy for the laudatory
article. l didn't let Tom read
copy-no man ever reads copy
\. d. ~ ffH
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

Wait a minute, Mr.. Worker. |
want to talk to you, with you, for
a short time-a few moments. /
mean YOU-you fellows with
the CRIME on your face and SCOT
il your hair; you with the stoop-
ed shoulders; you with the dirt
under your fingernails and the
toes out of your shoes; you, with
the soiled collar (I'll bet your
wife washes it in the kitchen sink
at night when you come home
too weary to think, much less
talk) I want to talk to YOU!
You are intelligent. You'll
admit it, so we won't argue over
that. And you are going to vote
for Thomas E. Latimer for may
OF of this city-the city in which
you earn your bread and rear
your brood? Pipe down for a
few moments and let's talk CON-
mon sense. I don't care what
you think about ME-, I've got
ten over all that. I know the
communists and "reds" and the
radicals are telling you that l
have "sold out to the fat boys, to
the Citizens Alliance" and you're
welcome to believe as much of
that as you wish. But before You
pass judgment, look me over!
I don't own my second suit
of clothes. I've got just one shirt
that hasn't a fringed collar. l
own nothing that I can't pick up
and trundle away on a kids
scooter. So if the Alliance has
bought me off" you'll have to
admit, after looking me over,
that I haven't connected with the
purchase price and I'm not in
the habit of accepting rubber
money. So that's out!
But you are hellbent to elect
Tom Latimer? That's what /
want to talk to you about. I've
had that same sensation many
times. For years I roamed
arornd with my eyes rolling like
a dying calf's, in dumb worship
of that same suave, smiling gent.
For years I labored under the
delusion that the Almighty's
Mantle wouldn't make Tom Lati-
mer a bib! When some one told
me of a fault Tom had, ]
promptly denied the accusation.
If some one else told me that
Tom had pulled a Shady" trick,
l was prompt to supply an ex-
cuse and dig up an alibi. No
matter aVhat he did-or Who'll
was on hand with a defense.
I've known and loved and trust
ed him for more years than many
of you have been out Of your
diapers and IF you think !
changed my opinion over night
- = IN = tFN'
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

on my stuff except the proof
reader-but I told him what I
had done and he smiled his
thanks. I had praised him be-
cause he had refused to surren-
der what I thought was his "prin-
ciple" and if any of you have a
copy of PINK SHEET dated
June 9, 1888, you will begin to
understand how high Tom Lati-
mer stood in my estimation.
He knew I had written that
| article and he knev that IN his
| pocket at that time 70as his SER
nile statement" the kept press,
a statement that made me appear
to be dumb ass, a nincompoop.
Had he been RIGHT in the
slightest degree he would have
admitted that he had crawled to
the feet of the Olson bosses and
accepted defeat and servile sur
| render. That was the least he
could have done-and he lacked
the manhood and the moral cour-
age to do it! And if he'd lie to
me-and he DID-he'll lie to
you and you, and YOU-you
| workers. And he has done it!
A worker phoned me the other
day and demanded that l give my
reason for "bucking Tom Lati-
mer in this campaign the first
time in twenty years that |
haven't been for him a thousand
per cent. I wonder if that gen
tleman can begin to see noa0? My
friends, I've taken my Latimer
goggles off. I'm scanning the
pages of the past and I'm find
ing out that the idol I thought
had feet of sacred clay, actually
had underpinning of nasty mud!
I'm through! I'm all fed up!
I can understand why a slave
will shine its masters boots, cur
ry his horses and slop his hogs,
but I'll be externally damned if !
can understand how a Caucasian,
free-born, of mature age and
more than ordinary intelligence
can hold up his head and pro-
claim his independence after be-
ing kicked about, reviled and
cursed, by his political bosses and
still render the obedience of a
| chatteI slave!
l have no apologies to offer
for my years of blindness to-
Latimer's faults and lack of sta
mina-to use very mild word.
I admit my blindness and confess
to no feeling of shame that I
have at last recovered.
And my working class friend,
or enemy, when any one tells
you I have sold out, you will be
telling the God A'mighty's truth
if you'll tell 'em that I didn't
sell out, but the stencil drove me
out!
! respect the man who has the
courage Of his convictions, who
refuses to surrender, principle
and stands square-toed and
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01

Andrew Cooper, formerly
Andrew Kupitz, partner in
the law firm of Latimer &
Cooper, is the secretary of the
FL state, central committee
as we'll as treasurer of the I'm
employed Council = radical,
red, and Moscow directed.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01
Anti -RaCketeering Tom!

Latimey Detests Brackets and
Racketters" and Doesn't Love
the Public Utilities. But He
Established One Latimer
Headquarters. in 1888, in
Building OaUned BY General
Electric. Softly, Tom, Softly.
You're Getting Passed Up!
By Nomad
We are being treated to Lati-
mer's worn out tune about ''rac-
keteering alliances between Min
neapolis public service companies
and city government" The pub
lie utilities question is one that,
Tom has pretended for a long
time was close to his heart. He
started out his last campaign for
mayor by having his campaign
workers secure signatures to a
petition for lower gas, telephone
and electric rates. Tom stressed
his position against the public
service companies in his early
campaign talks as favoring these
petitions and offered as solu-
ton that if he was elected he
would use his influence to secure
the passage of a special city tax
for using the city's thorough
fares for public service equip
ment and thus lower the consul
mers' taxes as an offset for the
complained of high rates.
That was stand Tom expect
ed would have popular appeal.
But he did not stress it long be-
fore a lull developed.
Tom had a friend who looked
after the real estate for the local
General Electric Co. The COM
pany had an ideal location for a
Latimer headquarters. 1t was
located on fifth street across
from the main offices of the cleo
trio company. Toms friend
turned over the keys and Tom
accepted the courtesy, losing no
time in having it fitted up with
signs and other decorations plus
furniture.
But there was soon found a
fly in the ointment. Apparently
someone of higher influence than
Toms friend didn't sanction
Toms carrying water on both .
shoulders in reference to the
public utility matter and the
quarters were promptly ordered
vacated. Remember this. Toml
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-06-01
Wait a Moment, Mr.. Worker! You Asked
Why | Am Not Supporting Latimer

YOU Asked Me That Question: Mr. Worker And Here's
Hnted Declared Openly That ave Sold Out to The Fat
Alliance Read This and Then Repeat Your Accusation Befo
Lets Look at The Record ---His Record
am Addressing Did For
Wake Idol Whose Feet. You will Find.
Did Ordinary MUD I'm Not Telling You NOT Vote
That You Throw Away Your Cooed Goggles and Be
hold Then He Not You Believe Him to Be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-14
By JoE D. WETHERmT

Mrs Wilton J. Dodd stood out side Q telephone booth in a drug store of Chicago's loop and waited for the young lady, in raccOon coat and red hat, who was occupying the booth. to finish her call.
 She heard the click of the re- ceiver, then the chatter of the door as the girl emerged. The girl seem- ed on the verge of the mysteries. Mrs Dodd thought she might have been crying, but she wouldn't be sure. Like some wild, frightened booth, and as she did, she dropped a slip of paper.
 Mrs Dodd stopped to pick it up. She was about to call her back and then the words were halted at phone number, Edgecombe 6744. was Edgecombe 6744i
 Why, that was her number, their own apartment telephone numberl Mrs Dodd prodded her memory. No, she didn't know the girl. Per- haps Wilton knew her! Perhaps he did! She smiled slyly. She promptly forgot her own telephon-, ing, calmly stuck the paper in her purse and followed the girl.
 
 that prompted Mrs Dodd to fol- low. There had been other women in her husbands life, but now things had reached such state between them that she had ceased to care. If this girl should turn out to be one of Wilton's friends she would make pretty and con- correspondent at most convenient time. Mrs Dodd thought 1t very worth while to follow her.
 The raccoon coat and red hat moved terribly fast, darting in and out of the crowd. Mrs Dodd was dressed for such a sprint, but somehow she managed to keep the girls bobbing head in sight.
 If this girl would only turn out to be a good correspondent, she would teach Wilton thing or two! He had absolutely refused to be a He said she could go to Reno and get the divorce on mental cruelty or something, but he would not stand for a messy divorce case. MT Dodd smiled. He had meant he wouldn't stand for a messy case if he was the one to be proved unfaithful, but if he could prove something on her, that would be a different story! She smiled to herself again. If Wilton only knew! But he ddin't and he'd never prove anything on her.
 On west to Clark and then still on farther west the chase went. Mrs Dodd imagined the scene with relish.
 1T am Mrs Wilton J. Dodd," she
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-14

ton seemed close. The red hat was going into the lobby of build ing.
 In the elevator she noticed that the girl seemed refined and there was no question of her beauty. At least Wilton was still showing good taste.
 Out on the fifteenth. The girl was off like Q shot down the cor ridor with Mrs Dodd doggedly in pursuit.
 Her quarry turned into a law of- flee. Berger, Chapman 6 Fiorella was 1ettered on the door. Could it be that she was seeing a lawyer in some connection with Wilton? The reception clerk had already sent the girl in the red hat into one of the private offices. Mrs Dodd sat down in the wait ing room. What to do now? The door of the office into which the girl had gone was open. Perhaps she could hear something.
 'Its gone-I had it." The girls cry came to her ears. "Oh, I've lost 1t and I can't remember what 1t was," she walled.
 
 brushed past the reception clerk who tried to stop her and on into the private office. She extended the slip of paper toward the girl who was seated across the desk from shriveled little lawyer. Pardon me-but could this be what you lost?" Mrs Dodd assumed her most formidable, majestic manner. May ask what you are doing with that telephone number? That number happens to be my own! I am Mrs, Wilton J. Dodd." It was hinging | pronouncement. The girls face became hard, but the shriveled little lawyer only smiled. 'So you are Mrs Wilton J. Dodd and this number is yours?" "Yes"
 The lawyer was thoughtful. Are you t the h, s, only dI, woman living in your
 "Yes-Well, that is, I have a col- ored maid. but I don't see what busin eSs-"
 "None at all, Mrs Dodd, Mrs Dodd. would like you to meet Mrs Mann." The lawyer indicated the girl in the red hat. "Her hus- band is the well-known Frankie Mann. He leads an orchestra. You know him very well believed 2"
 Mrs Dodd did not answer. Her majestic manner wilted away.
 "It seems that this morning. Frankie Mann had 8 very lovey- dovey conversation with 8 lady at Edgecombe 6744-your number! Mrs Mann had hired a gentleman to overhear her husbands conver- sations for reasons which, think, I need not explain! She had se- cured the telephone number and was on her way here wsh it when she lost 1t and yau so obligingly brought it to her. You say it is your telephone number, so you've saved us @ great deal of trouble in trying to trace it."
 The little lawyer got up to close the door. "Now, if you'll please be seated, I'll close the door, and you and I and Mrs Mann will have Q nice little chat. think you'n find Mrs Mann a very reasonable and patient young lady. I think she might even turn her Frankie over to you permanently-for con sideration. At least I'm sure this little affair can be settled out of court"
 Copyright 1885, The Chicago Daily
 News, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-14
|WHOm1o FIR5To| | IN AMERICA / ! By Joseph Nathan Kane
 ! Author of Famous First Facts"

Who was the first woman graduate in geology? When, was window glass first drawn?
 What was the first college to teach political economy?
 Answers in next issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-14

Answers to Previous Questions TN 1880, Borden made a crude A surveying apparatus for meas nrements required by Massa- chusetts. Ira H. Hill of St. AL bans. Vt,, made a large globe map for Fairfield Academy, but James Wilson's factory at Brad. ford was the first of it's. kind. Royal Arcanum is g. fraternal. mutual assessment beneficiary and benevolent society whose motto is Mercy, Virtue and Charity"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-14
DAILY SHORT STORY ---..... DIVORCE PURSUIT Mrs. DOdd Sought Likely Correspondent, and She
 Suspected the Girl in the Red Hat

would say. "What is your uauo. may I ask? You lost this in tIha drug store a few minutes ago (handing her the slip of paper). ft happens to be my telephone num- Der. Of course, I would like 70 know what you are doing with ft. You needn't be nervous! I under stand! You didn't know Wilton D0dd was married? You probably did, but then I'll take your word for 1t. Now let's go some place where we can talk. How much would it take to make it worth your while to be a correspondent fin a divorce case?"
 Was the girl never going to st0p1 Now across Madison and up the
Milford chronicle., 1935-04-12
HOUSECLEANING BLUES

Father is not too keen about
housecleaning. When he returns to
find the chairs on the porch and the
rug out on the grass waiting for
his beating, he wonders what it is
all about. So far as he could see,
the house was in perfectly good
condition before all this upheaval
Furthermore, the house looks just
the same after these mighty labors
are completed.
The ornate fapper who walks the
streets in all her finery, may not be
keen for housecleaning either. The
room from which she emerged in
all her doll beauty, may be a mass
of disorder. If she becomes con-
verted to the housecleaning tradi-
tiOn when she marries, she should
be praised for such noble change
Of attitude.
The men should not discourage
housecleaning, even if it seems to
them futile orgy. From some mys-
terious source the germs descend
OH us and lay us low, and. every nest
of dirt is a home and nursery for
them.
Milford chronicle., 1935-04-12
MAN PIONRERS

Two hundred families now on re-
lief, are to be sent by the FERA to
Alaska, where each Of them will be
provided with 40 acres of improved
land. with home comforts and need
ed farming accessories. 1t is going
to cost $4,000 for each farm, and
they are expected to repay this cost
in 80 years. The location where
they will settle is good. dairy coun-
try, and these folks should be able
to make living.
These people will start out under
far easier conditions than those
which our early pioneers confronted.
Those old pioneers had no homes
built for them, and they had to Gre
ate their communities from the
ground up. These new settlers will
have running water, good stoves
and lamps, and modern tools to
work with.
Will these folks be satisfied in
their remote location, and in the
quiet life of long Alaskan winter?
The people who settled our country
could have done it, as they did not
expect to keep travelling around and
doing things. outside of daily toll.
But the present generation demands
automobiles. good roads to travel
oil, amusements, and hundred other
things.
The selected families who will
take these Alaskan farms may be
content to live in this secluded en-
vironment. But there are not prob
ably many families living on relief
that would consent to do so. The
majority of them would. not know
how to go to work to extract a Iiv-
ing from such farms. And the num-
ber of people who expect to live
without toilsome labor is constant
ly increasing.
The pioneer spirit has too much
died out. Many people will have to |
undergo hard experiences, before it |
dawns on them that man has to win
his support from the earth by the
sweat of his brow.