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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-19
NO HIDING
PLACE
By Joseph Francis Albright

One morning, Eva Dellabeck,
Clark's leader on the North Side,
walked into his office.
Clark" she said simply, "I'm
through. Get someone else to
carry on"
Eva Dellabeck was one of the
best organizers in the city. She
was a college trained woman, a
member of many clubs on Stiver's
Row, the Negro silk-stocking dis
trict on the North Side. She was
smart, clever, and we'll nigh in
dispensable. Here was trouble with
a capital ct"
Whats the matter, Eva ?" Clark
asked anxiously.
There is going to be trouble,
Clark, and l don't want any part
of it. The game isn't worth the
candle. l can't afford to be mixed
up in any kind of trouble"
Clark leaned forward and looked
at Eva intently. you knew jim
Scott, didn't your" he asked.
Eyes, his wife and l are good
friends"
Eva, the mob that killed Jim
is on the other side in this election.
l am fighting this thing through
mainly because of that fact. Does
that mean anything to your"
you mean that the killing of
Jim was part of this fight ?"
Exactly"
That's different, Clark. l didn't
know. Count me back in"
Clark smiled and the smile was
anything but pleasant. 81 thought
you would feel that way when you
knew. We have got to win, Eva"
1--WE will. And those dogs re-
sponsible for Jim's death will get
theirs, too"
Right again. Now get back
in there and pitch, Eva. And pitch
strikes!"
At three-ffteen the next day,
Clark received the call for which
he had been waiting. Inky San
born was on the wire.
"Boss, come on down here at
once. Come to the room where we
met before. We've got that louise
who dropped the paper that night
when Toots hit him."
"I'll be there in five minutes"
And he was, too.
Arriving at Hobbs pool hall, he
instructed the detectives, which as
usual had followed, to stay out
side and not to come in until he
called for them. They didn't like
it but they obeyed, anyway.
Without a glance at the bar
keeper-it was the same one who
had been on duty when he was
there before-he raced upstairs to
the room.
A man was standing at the door.
He stopped Clark. "Just a minute,
mister" he said. 81 gotta be
sure"
He opened the door and called
for Inky. Sanborn came to the
door and said, 80. K, let him in. d"
Clark entered the room and be-
held a strange sight. Strapped in
a spread eagle fashion on the bed
was a man whose appearance pre-
scented a picture of extreme an
guish. His feet were bare, and
the only clothing he wore was a
suit of underwear. Precipitation
bathed his body. His eyes rolled
wildly toward Clark as he entered
"You can't do this to me! You
amt got nothing on mel" he
screamed.
Toots, who was standing beside
the bed with a lighted plumbers
candle, struck the PROSTATE vic
tim across the mouth with the
palm of his free hand.
"This is the monkey" Sanborr
said. "The boys brought him in
few minutes ago. He had to be
sorta coaxed. They found him
coming out of Craddock's head.
quarters and trailed him within
two blocks of here. When he
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-19

over here who wanna meet you.
I'm in a room up above Hobbs
Pool Hall. Yeah, it's all right.
Come right over"
"Fine." Inky's eyes CLEANED.
"Toots, you go and tell Slim down
stairs to pass Chappie when he
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-19

comes. Well, Griffith, looks like
the chips are ready to be cashed"
(What will Chappie tell? Is Clark
about to discover who is behind the
plot to kill him? Read next weeks
installment for more exciting de-
velOpments.)
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-19

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water heat, $4,000. Near Fourth
Ave. South and 38th st. $500
down.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-19

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Other Editors Say
WASTEFUL ATTITUDE OF CONGRESS
Santa Monica Outlook

The passage of the crop-control bill by the
national house is the first step toward sub
mittins the demands of President Roosevelt Tor
balanced budget to the acid test
The measure is thoroughly un-Amerlcan a
hodgepodge of ill-considered and confNctng
provisions Its cost will far exceed the s5OO,OOO-
600 which the president seems willing should be
expanded for agricultural relief. The senate is
considering another measure, different IN many
essential respects. 1t also will provide for an eX-
penditure vastly greater than the tentative sum
the president has fixed
The issue between lie two houses may De
jroned out in conference committee. If the
president is as astute politically IN securing
ing members of that conference as he has been
in the past the country eventually may have
measure which will conform in its cost with
the presidents ideas. This however, seems
doubtful
Congress seems disposed TO pass some sort
of an agricultural bill that will give the farmers
as much bonus as possible in as many directions
as they can think of and let the administration
worry over the added expense. If that result
comes, the president will be faced with the
alternative of either vetoing the measure OF
facing an increase, estimated from s20OOOO0OO
10 s5oOOoO000 in puric expenditures for So
called AGRICULTURAL relief with no way OF getting
the money except to 90 into the open market and
borrow It,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
News Behind the News
= The Monopoly Quandary

Observation-Disclosures presidential hints
platform promises and great deal OF eNpiora-
ton, the administration is as far as ever from
a concrete proposal to Congress for Hesitation
to curb monopoly and replace present ineffective
antitrust laws,
This can be said in spite of the fact that the
President and Assistant Attorney General Robert
H Jackson head of the Justice Departments
antitrust section, discussed the issue at length
during FDR's recent fishing trip
Roosevelt wants a Roosevelt issue for the
1888 congressional campaigns. The monopoly
issue would be a good one. 1t ties up with the
nigh cost of living and price Increases such as
at leas. helped bring on the depression.
If any anti-monopoly program is agreed upon
it will almost surely seek to hit at monopoly by
use OF the taxing power. lnter-corporate dlV-
idend and graduated corporation taxes might
be used.
Brt it also has been seriously proposed in con-
ferences that graduated pronlbitive tax might
be laid upon any corporation which does more
than a stipulated percentage OF the business IN
its industry.
Governor George ID. Aiken of Vermont, who
wants Republican party house-cleanins, re-
minds you of ALI Landon OF Kansas AT least
several correspondents who travelled with Lam
don in the last campaign and then interviewed
Aiken at his press conference the other DAY IN
Senator Gibson's office, found very strong
resemblance.
The two men appear to be about the same
are although IandOn is ABOUT i've years OldeT
Yet none of Aikens intervieWerS saw nm as
a presidential possibility. He frankly admitted
7 don't know as much about the problems OF
labor as 1 wish I did; and Il don't know how
far we should go in farm egslation-ltS IN the
experimental stage"
AS farmer Aiken has specialized III nur-
series and trees News photographers posed nm
in every conceivable position but he finally
baked when they asked him to look worried
Il may look bewildered, SAID the governor
but I'm not worried
Col Charles A. Lindbergh established new
high for lodging photographers when he at
tended the Carnegie Institution meeting III
WASHINGTON His first move to avoid them was
his entrance to the institution at 7:3o am. Tor
a meeting which began at TO-
All day he refused to come out and finally
had his dress suit sent in so he wouldn't leave
the building to prepare for a banquet.
Cameramen stood out in bitter cold and
cursed In the evening they built a bonfire TO
keep warm
Finally at 1890 Lindbergh dashed out side
door face completely covered, and the camera
men went back to their offices.
On the other hand, dignified Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes, who usually waves news
picture men off with his cane, willingly posed
with General Pershing and Admiral Grayson
when the Red Cross board OF governors met.
Lets make a record of this' he exclaimed, as
he threw his hat and coat on pile OF naSh-bulb
bags.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Congress Approves
travelling Expenses

Congress has adjourned its special
session. 1t approved resolution voting
members S225, 900 for travelling expenses.
It did nothing else-but talk. The hous-
ing bill and the farm bill are in confer
ence, and will not be acted upon until
the regular session. No other major
legislation was even acted upon
Out Of all this appears the fact that
a national election is in the offing. Out of
il comes, too, the observation that con-
gress has ceased to be rubber stamp.
Under New Deal pressure, congress re-
belIed in its special session. To what
lengths continuation of the rebellion
will 90 after Jan remains to be seen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

much as S100. Anyone who can put
j. P. Morgan on the cuff for $46,-
100000, and then die and leave
nothing to pay the debt with, has
passed into the realms of fable.
BIZ the Van Sweringen debt is
worth considering, not as natural
marvel like the Grand Canyon, but
as a symbol.
Until the debacle actually arrived
the brothers Van Swedingen were
commonly accepted as miracle
workers and distinguished citizens.
Yet their contribution to the life
of their time lay in the realms of
frenzied finance rather than solid
construction.
They belonged to the race of
manipulators. The dizzy pyramid
of holding companies they built up.
The weirdly interlocking chain of
debts, could have been accepted as
noteworthy achievements only by
people who had managed to con-
fuse the. substance with the shad-
ow.
There is a distinction between
the man who works with things
and the man who works with
money. 1t is illustrated-to go back
in history a bit-by the contrasting
careers of Jim Fisk and Commo-
dore Vanderbilt.
Both were very rich men, mast
ers of high finance But Fisk was a
financial manipulation and nothing
more; Vanderbilt left his country
first-rate transportation system.
Fisk manipulated, Vanderbilt con-
structed. Fisk remains a symbol of
the "frenzied finance" of post
Civil War years: Vanderbilt is a
symbol of the forces which built up
the country.
America has always honored, and
richly rewarded, its doerS. 1t is
right that it should The trouble
with the 1920s was that we got
confused, and gave the homage
that ought togo to The doers to the
manipulators We got our Wander
bilts and our Jim Fiskc mixed up
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
One OF The Mistakes
OF Evolution

MY job is an open shop iob-and it's
going to remain open shop!
Imperial Valley will applaud that ut
terance of T. A. Allen, sub-contractor
whose work at the Pilot Knob wasteway
on the All American canal is the target
OF a strike called by labor union leaders
in an effort TO force closed shop agree
ment on the employer. Mr.. Allen, so far
as we have been able to find out, is an
eminently fair employer. Working con-
ditions among his men are not bad. He
pays fair wages and treats his employees
as If they were human beings. His only
sin against the unions is that he refuses
to employ only union laborers.
The closed shop demand is not pecu-
liar to the Allen strike. 1t has been the
spearhead OF more strikes in the United
States the last year or so than any other
one issue 1t is followed almost invar-
iably by the ''check-off SYSTEM under
which the employer is required to deduct
from the wages paid to his men the sum
OF union dues, and pay that sum directly
to the union. The laborer, when he
agrees to the cheek-off system, usually
agrees also that it shall be stopped on
lv when the officers of his union order
il stopped In other words, he gives up
the right 10 quit the union If he wishes.
The only way he can quit the union is
to quit his Job. He ceases to be free
agent in any definition.
We are not opposed to labor unions.
We believe they are accomplishing
worthwhile purpose on broad scale
Their methods are often open to crltl-
cism, but then so may we criticize the
first steps taken by an infant. The labor
unions are Just learning to walk, and
mistakes are unavoidable. The evolu-
tion of unionism in this country is Just
beginning. Employers may as well get
used to that idea. For their own sakes,
they had better recognize that the labor
ing man has certain rights and privileges
Such recognition does not mean that
he employer must bow down in abject
servitude to the labor unions paid or
ganizers and radical chiefthins. 1t only
means that there is a greater degree OF
cooperation needed between the laborer
and the employer to work out mutual
problems to mutual satisfaction.
The closed shop demand and the check
of system are among the mistakes of
the unions They are the growing pains.
They follow the theory that the union
is everything. the working man Is moth
ing Instead of insuring to every man the
right to work, they would deny to many
men that right.
9efnaps IL Is LOO HluCll " Hope Inal
labor unions some day will work for the
greater good of all working men instead
of for the greater power of union mem
bers. We believe, however, that the day
is coming when such will be the case.
When that day arrives, and not until
then, will labor have outgrown its swad
ding clothes. Then labor will not need
to hold a gun in its hand and say to in
dustry, Hold up your hands,! Then
it will stand OH its own two feet and say,
''As equals, let's talk this problem over"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

way and two extra suits are usual
~ the limit of his wardrobe. 1t is
seldom his habiliments are not in
dire need of the presSer's art. and
his neckties are never quite thor
oughly knotted. Clothes simply do
not interest him. And New York
somehow warns to his derelictions.
The town was pretty well fed up
with descriptions of Jimmy Wal
ker's -buttoned great coats,
high peaked lapels and things.
The peg for the sartorial panegy-
RIGS today is. of course, Lucius Bee
be, whose latest fashion rocket
zoomed in one of the night clubs
where he appeared III a dinner jac-
ket of deep tobacco brown, But
Beebe, sly wag in his own right,
is, I suspect. merely needing the
kidders when he dazzleS the pop
ulace now and then. He is willing,
despite the austerty Of his sober
face. to go to great lengths for a
laugh. Also he has by his dressy
didoes, feigned and real, advertised
himself and column from coast to
coast. In two years he is about the
best known reporter in America
l watched an accomplished BRAN
dy drinker in restaurant last
night He was like a kitten with
catnip while basking in the aroma
from an enormous goblet. Now and
then he would sip and roll his
eyes heavenward, heaving an
ecstatic sigh. During our stay he
made away with four pourings and
waiter said his customary quota
was a half dozen, most of us would
go out feet up on a litter.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Bruce Carton Says:
- Rail Empire Idols WronqIy Identified

The patient people who got the
Job Of picking up the pieces which
Uttered the landscape after the
crash of the late Van Sweringen
brothers, railroad magnates, are
work comes in schedule of
claims, debts and liabilities for the
estate of Mantis j. Van Sweringen,
filed recently in the probate court
at Cleveland
According this schedule, Mantis
J. Van Sweringen managed to get
himself into debt to the tune of $68,
1913, 760 before he died. Among
the claims listed are one of S46,-
079,967 by j P. Morgan and Co.,
and three running to more than
$20,000,000 filed by three Cleveland
banks-two of which have gone
busted.
The estate against which the
claims are filed, according to the
administrator, Trafton M. Dye. is
"hopelessly insolvent".
Yet that is only part of the pic
ture. Claims totaling slightly more
than s51 100000 have been allowed
against the estate of the late Or
ris P. Van Sweringen. Some six
weeks ago, a schedule of claims
running to s21,000,0OO was filed
against the partnership estate OF
the brothers.
All of this must inspire a vague
| feeling of awe in the breast of or
binary John Citizen, who considers
that he has done something nota-
| bic when he runs up debt of as
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

iSdulIlS III Il ga-O. u. Mcintyre
zines. And Tor number of years
his fine baritone voice rang clear
at the Dutch Treat and Illustra-
tors shows. But his life has not
been all glamour. Plenty of ups
and downs.
He was on the stage awhile. sang
IN night clubs and had an auto
accident in which he was for
time horribly disfigured aside from
losing part of his tongue. He had
TO learn to talk again. Gene Buck
called him the Bombardier Wells of
literature-often on the floor but
always got up.
Rex Beach can recall the time he
was in a jerry roadhouse on
the shores of the Behring sea when
he was stripping, A youth with
a ten days growth of beard arrived
by dog sled. And Beach, who play
ed the mandolin, started the new
conner singing and he sang until
dawn. Tt was Hines.
On a recent day the Artists and
Writers paid Hines a deserved
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

compliment in welcoming hina
home. Frank Gro windshield pro-
posed him for honorary life menu
bership and Arthur William Brown,
Rube Goldberg, Bud Kellanr,
Grant Rice and Messmore Kendall
were among those arose to the last
man to second the nomination
with a lusty cheer. And Hines sang
his thanks with misty eyes
The short light tan box coat with
the black velvet collar that Billy
(Single) Clifford used to affect in
vaudeville along with a low bowler
is finding expression again. | saw
two exponents On the avenrae in the
late Fall and they threaten to be-
come almost, a plague by Spring.
And a style shark at Sulka's tells
me the silk shirt is in again. 1t
went into eclipse with the market
nose dive and was worn mostly by
the gamblers and tin horn toss
pots.
Mayor La Guardia and the archi-
tect Whitney Warren are, so far as
can notice. the last defenders of
the wide -brimmed black Stetson,
so popular in Missouri and Kansas
in the days when the Younger and
James boys rode. The Mayor ac-
quired a banker for the style dur
ing his early Arizona days, and
Warren, an elderly Brummel. evi-
IDENTIFY clung to the shape as a left
over of his student days in the
Paris Latin Quarter Hatters say
no one can wear the pampas SOM
brero, on the screen, stage or side
walk, like William S. Hart. Altho
the late Maclyn Arbuckel was not
for behind.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Looking Backward
In Our Files
THIRTY YEARS AGO
December %. 1907

Moore brothers drove into I'M
perial with a large outfit yesterday
and made camp. The have several
teams and wagons which they are
driving from San Diego to their
ranch in BraWley.
F. C. Paulin and his daughter
came down from Los Angeles early
today and he has been in confer
ence with Senator Blair and John
F. Giles of the Imperial Valley I'M
sprovement company.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

{ h e writin 6
Wcrld s true SOL
der of fortune,
A gentleman of
m a ny tale nts,
who has roamecl
the worlu as
fancy dictates.
Twenty years
ago he rounded
in from { h c
klondyke TO write
his famous d 9
stories for the
LEADING ~, a uo
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
TEN YEARS AGO
December %, 1927

Registering a field goal and a
touchdown Glossmont high school
today won the southern California
football championship by defeating
Calexico, go
The Pacific Fruit Express will
place 1000 new refrigerator cars in
service early next year according
to H. Giddings, vice president of
the company
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Dpcnmhcr Do ll11

Mrs. M. F. Kepley, chairman,
was hostess to the Twice Told
Tales section of the Ten Thousand
club yesterday
Mrs. L. B. Talbot, who has been
a resident of the valley for several
years but left last summer to make
her home liz Santa Ana, is visit
ing with friends here this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Photographs

A crew of ocean divers soon will
try to recover $250,OOO in gold bars
which sank with the liner Lauren
tic during the World War, off the
coast of County Donegal.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

A formal dinner IN Japan always
consists of II rigidly defined
courses.
U. S. prison population is esti-
mated at 100000.
Dog lovers have the rarest OF
treats in the new Ed Wynn show.
An act called Gordon's dogs Scene:
A man reading a newspaper. One
by one without coaching the dog
actors come on and perform extra
ordinary capers. All are miscel-
laneous NUTS and the climax is
when one outrageous pup suddenly
makes the man perform.
From a trade paper: Mcintyre,
the columnist mapped most of the
time, but jumped to his feet twice
with few words" Every now and
then a lucid intervall
A Mt. Clemens, Mich, man sued
his wife for divorce on grounds
that she poured hot salt water on
his pet rose bush.
n ouINty Vi iO,OOO lui al ilOlilCo
in 33 states indicates that 81 per
cent of farm wives never have va
cations.
In Ketchican, Alaska, the streets
are paved with wooden planks.
The fork is an implement of Ital-
ian invention. Upon its introduc-
ton to England it was considered
highly effeminate.
The ancientS considered the
onion a cure-all. 1t was used TO
treat colds, rheumatism and dog
bites.
Philippine brides often do not at
tend their own weddings.
You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Railroads of the United States
carry approximately 500 million
passengers and one billion tons of
freight annually.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Little Willie says he doesn't care
what happens to treaties as long
as no one disregards the Santa"
clause.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Thirty-five of the AZ highest
mountain peaks in the United
States are in Colorado.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Britain has asked Toxic for some
real war remedies, suggesting that
there are too many headaches in
the armor- plate type Of pill box.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Fishing for sport attracted $685.
448 persons in the United States
last season. The fishermen paid IL
cense fees totalling $8,002,887
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Researchers say the nations toll
Of lost youth rises amazingly, not
even including the women who
won't tell their age.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
New York Day by Day -Byo O. Mcintyre
RK. Dec. %

NEW YORK, Dec. y : Jack
Hines is back in circulation, hav-
ing returned from his latest ex-
pertinent in working a old claim in
q lonely Nevada Valley. Hines is
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Strange thing about collectors. A
Gendish philatelist usually is will
ing TO cancel everything else for
a poOd stamp.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Barbs

The Far East SITUATION having
raised the issue of u S. rights,
runchdrunk Willie insists a few
good lefts also should be arranged
for.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Approximately 100000 youths
and adults in the United States are
enrolled il vocational education
classes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

The Honor the Mayor is the
least style conscious of any metro
pollitan chief executive. He buys
store clothes at shop on Broad
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Owls and hawks are better NOUS
ers than cats
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
The Grab Bag
Oue-Mlnute Test

|. Locate Haiti,
Q. Name the capital OF Pennsyl-
vania.
3. Locate the French penal Col
ony called Devils Island.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
thoughts for the Day --

Ye shall not therefore oppress another; but
thou shalt fear thy God for I The Lord your God
-Levitious 25:17