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Friday, March 15, 1955
That Life-Saving Comma
Nearly four years ago, three officials of a defunct
mortgage company in Cleveland were convicted of
fraud charges In connection with their company's
sale of partial payment gold trust bonds.
The conviction didn't end the matter. It went to
the state supreme court, which ordered a new trial
on the ground that the Judge erred in his charge
to the Jury. The other day the retrial finally began.
» *Then the defense attorneys argued that the Indict
ment in ,h* case wav faulty—because of a misplaced
oomms. jf ip argued so well that the trial Judge
was obliged tb agree with thenf and the men were
freed.
Addressing the Jury-, the judge remarked that
“this should Illustrate the fallacy of making a erm
inal case a game Instead of a method of arriving at
Justice 1
Thai s putting It mildly. Here we have a criminal
case that had dragged out for four years—and It Is
finally disposed of because some typist put a com
as hi the wrong place! Is it any wonder that
laymen grow impatient with the technicalities of the
law?
St. Patrick’s Day at Port Isabel
Ito spite of slight dissatisfaction expressed by some
of the “Ould Sod" Irish era of the Valley. It appears
that Port Isabel's St. Patrick's Day event Is moving
to the same success usually enjoyed by functions held
at the seaport city. As a matter of fact. It may be
Imagined that the dissatisfaction expressed by the
“Ould Sod" over too few Irish names appearing on
the program is more in the nature of an advertising
stunt than real concern over the program as arranged.
All this, of course, in fun.
Valley folks will throng to Port Isabel on Sunday
as they always do throng to Port Isabel, and the
aame good time will be had by all.
Port Isabel has the happy faculty of knowing how
to entertain how to make folks enjoy themselves, a
facility of which the Valley Is well aware as evi
denced by the well known slogan—“Never pass up a
party at Port Isabel."
A New Green Fruit Law
Early shipment* of Valley grapefruit will be cut
down materially under ths terms of the bill which
has passed both houses of the legislature, making
more stringent the testa to be applied under the
•Green fruit" law.
For yean the same old cry has gone forth, that
early shipment* of immature grapefruit have ruined
the market for the ripe fruit It was thought that
that difficulty ha* been solved when the first "Green
Fruit" law was passed, but the passage of yean has
proven that the teats applied by the law were none
too severe and that fruit that passed the tests was
not of necessity edible fruit.
So Representative Homer Leonard introduced a
till} providing tests that are tests, and It passed the
house and senate We may expect that early fruit
shipments will be curtailed and that unedlble fruit
will not spoil the fair reputation of ripe Texas grape- ;
fruit.
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He Ought to Be Re-elected
For no other reason than that he summoned ths
nerve to tell a constituent to "please take two run
ning Jumps and go to hell", Congressman John 8.
MeGroarjv of California should win a unantmoos
renomln&Uon and re-election.
Chided because he had failed to carry out a cam
paign pledge attempt In hla first two months In
congress, the California representative answered the
chiding constituent as quoted above, and we Imagine
has the unqualified backing of every senator and
every representative on Capitol Hill.
Ridiculous as many campaign pledges are in the
light of their possible fulfillment, they are not half
as ridiculous as the demands made upon our repre
sentatives by perhaps well meaning, but surely half,
cracked, voters who reside In their districts.
Perhaps a few more answers like that given by the
California Irishman who sits In the House of Rep
resentatives. would solve the problem.
Find Right Weather
For An Active Life
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By DR. MORRIS FISH BEEN
Editor, looraai of tbs American Medical Association,
and of Hygela. the Health Magailns
If you've ever wondered why westerners are ao
breezy and active and optimistic, science has the an- j
swer It's the weather, the atmosphere in which these ;
people live.
Recent research has shown that growth and bodily j
development are greatly Influenced by the atm os*
phere in which animals — and persons, too—live, j
For instance, continuous moist heat leads to devel- !
opmen. of lean, stringy types of animals, with low .
heat production. Such animals stand chilling poorly.
They are also easily infected.
The investigators found, however, that a few hours
of cooling each day would overcome this condition
and bring about definite changes in body functioning.
Prolonged periods of beat and the constant stimu
lation of repeated storm changes keep people in the
northwest, for example, living on a high energy level
and full of vitality and pep.
On the other hand, such stimulating regions seem
to produce a little earlier mental and physical break
down than are met with in places where the climate
drive is less intense •
• • •
Investigations of relationship between wealth and
health have brought out some exceedingly interest-1
lng facts. Diabetes is less frequent and less trouble,
some in the south than in the north. This disease is
especially associated with excessive drive.
That form of breakdown of the adrenal glands call
ed Addison s disease also is seen far more frequently I
in northern areas, where the drive is intense, than in
the souths
Of especial interest to many people are the figures
relative to distribution of rheumatic disease. It is
generally well known that people with this type of dis
ease find their greatest relief during the hot summer
weather and suffer most during the late winter and
early spring months, when weather changes are most
sudden.
• • •
A study of the human body shows that the pains In
the joints also are associated with a lessening of the
blood supply and that sudden changes in temperature
Intensify this change In the circulation
In general, chronic rheumatic conditions attack
people in the latter half of life, which is particularly
the time when all physical activities 01 the body tend
to become more sluggish and inactive.
Under such circumstances, people need more pro
tection against the rigors of our norther In storm
seasons, since then- ability to adapt themselves to
changes in the weather is greatly lessened.
However, when people make a change of climate and
begin to feel better, they must not take it that the
condition Is cured. A return to the climatic conditions
under which they formerly lived Is likely to bring
about a return of the symptoms.
Private shipbuilders will soon come to grief if they
continue to feel that there's something immoral and
unpatriotic about the government building its own
ships — Senator Homer T Bone.
_
Academic freedom should be the freedom of the
learners to learn and not the freedom of the profes
sor to profess or to indoctrinate. — John W. Stude
baker, U. 8 commissioner of education.
It is not sufficient to be known as "good citizens;"
we must be good for something. Our greatest prob
lem is the number of Intelligent people who are mor
ally unemployed. — Bishop Ernest M. Sttres.
Organize and demand equitable distribution of the
earnings of the automobile Industry, which made mil
lionaires of owners through exploitation of workers
— William Green. A F. at L. president, to 8t. Louis
workers.
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WASHINGTON
By GEORGE DURNO
Crash — Organized minorities.
several ol which have nothing par*
ticular in common, are welded into
a temporary bloc here that has up
set the entire White House legisla
tive program As a result, much of
it promises to go overboard for the
session
Reading from left to right — and
the expression is used advisedly —
are Long. Coughlin A Co., spear
heading the whole antLadm Inlstra
tlon drive; the Townsend plan and
EPIC backers: the inflationists: the
American Federation of Labor,
which (eels it has been sold down
the river: the American Legion and
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, de
manding cash bonus; the American
Bankers’ assor'pi'ui and the Am
erican Liberty League, opposing
bank refonn legislation, and the
power lobby, which very much does
not want the Wheeler-Raybum bill
abolishing holding companies pass
ed
And to this, where it doesn't na
turally synchronize, the republican
minority which has been giving aid
and coinfort to the extent of nor
mally unexplainable votes. And
then toss in the progressives, who
have now decided to go their own
a ay.
• • •
Freedom — The 40 left-wing lib
erals who organlred into a bloc In
the house under guidance of Rep
resentatives Paul Kvale fF-L),
?Jinn., Gerald J. Bollmu *P>. Wis..
and Merlin Hull <P>. Wi*.. are Indi
cative of the new political order—
althongh this group concedes it
won't be able to do much but make
noise. Existing house gag rules will
limit that.
When Bolleau finally produces a
statement of policy, he being in
charge of that. It will bear a pre
amble allowing anv bloc member to
dissent from legislation generally
endorsed therein.
Those who are for everything else
will not stomach the Frazler-Lemke
farm mortgage refinancing bill. A
few will not go along for still more
nubile works. There mav be some
defections on the proposition of gov
ement ownership of all natural re
sources and monopolies vested with
public interest.
• • •
Liaison — The house malcontents
do think they have an outside
chance to soften the stringent dis
charge rule so that 145 members,
instead of 218 majority, may again
force legislation out of committee
for a vote. Veteran observers doubt
thev will get to first base.
Representative Kvale. as bloc
chairman, points out for Instance
that he personally Is opposed to the
Townsend cM age pension plan. Yet
he feels It should be met squarely
and voted down by the house be.
-«use of the widespread following it
has enticed with Its Utopian for
mula.
mmaniy, rne Mavericks" — as
the 'w grouo Is called with a Texas
democrat of that famous name who
Is x member—olan to establish clos
er liaison with senate progressives.
Senators Norris of Neb.. LaFollette
of Wise. Cutting of N. Mex.. Shin
stead of Minn., and others are said
to have encouraged the bloc's Incep
tion.
• • •
Barks — For months the eountrv
watched the New Deal make some
of the strangest bedfellowa In po
litical history. Now. by the same
token. It is witnessing the end of
some beautiful friendships.
Witness the verbal battle between
Senator Bill Borah and Chief Co
ordinator Don RWrhberg over the fu
ture of NRA. This pair of former
liberals who saw eye to eve for years
have gone to the mat like a couple
->f «rudce fighters.
Ever since Borah came rewiring out
of the wee*. to belabor trusts and
special privilege during considera
tion of the Pavne-Aldrtch tariff bill,
he has been lifting his eloquent
voice against monopolies. So it is
small wonder that Don penetrated
Bill's epidermis when he hung the
"friend-of_monopoly" tag on the
™*hoan because of his fight against
NRA.
On the other hand. Rlchberg rose
to national notice as a labor attor
ney (although he now makes It
clear he always was on a straight
retainer! and a supporter of the late
"Fighting Bob" LaFollette. For
vears he was regarded by many as
a naming radical if not a "danger
ous Red." Now Borah says he is
the friend of big business, and the
pair are stlred to bitter words.
• • •
Water —It makes a lot of dif
ference whose ox is being gored. Un
der ordinary circumstances the tes
ty and able Senator Carter Glass.
* Va„ would fight with all the
amazing strength within him
against any proposition to apply gag
rule to that "greatest deliberative
body on earth, the U. 8. Senate "
But when a man’s pet aversion
happens to be Huey Long, and the
Louisiana King-fish takes up hour
after hour of the senate's time talk
ing about ships, shoes and sealing
wax. that makes a difference
The Olass proposal to make sen
ators confine themselves to germane
subjects when debating appropria
tion bills Is doomed to failure but It
partially expressed the Virginian's
views on what should be done about
the Delta Dictator. It was so much
water off a King-fish's back.
• • •
Safety — Chairmen Jesse Jones of
RFC is out to show mortgage invest
ment concerns how to make money.
He is organising a mortgage corpo.
ration to lead off in the business of
handling eovemment-tnsured mort
gages. The new corporation will
deal in mortgages on business prop
erty and apartment houses — a
branch of business that has been
stagnant for several years.
Under Title III of the Federal
Housing Act the government en
courages organisation of mortgage
Investment corporations. A new
act authorises the Reconstruction
Flnanee Corporation to Invest as
much as S100.000.000 in the securi
ties of these corporations With
mortgagee Insured by Uncle Sam
a distinct loosening up of the reel
estate and construction business Is
reported. Banks, building and loan
associations, and contractors have
found a way to do business safely.
The sooner they catch on to the new
system the better for employment.
• • •
Notes — Downs of banks are add
ed dally to the number that are
lending money on real estate mort
gages insured by the Federal Hous
ing Administration — and building
operations are increasing ... All
official reports Indicate Improving
business conditions _ . Represen
tative Welch. Rep. of California.
Joins the insurrection against Lead
er Snell... Tariff concessions grant,
ed to Belgium In the new trade
agreement are extended to over 50
other nations.
An important branch of education
in Japan Is the artistic arrange
ment of flowers. This subject Is
taught In elementary schools and
even has Its place in college courses.
THE PRAJADHIPOKS ARE LIVING NEAR LONDON
Darling—
rAAYBE YOU
SHOULD HAVE
KEPT THE
TWENTY-FOUR
UMBRELLAS
DARK BLOND
____ CAgLHOW Ken DRAKE •«» «*«»«*■*_
CHAPTER 1A
CHE stood In (root of tbs mirror.
giving flooding touches to her
face, and thinking of Drimgold's
strange confession She might have
known it was something like that
No man who was guilty of the pet
ty. chiseling tactics George Drlm
gold used could be quite the pillar
of society that be liked to simulate
She snuggled into her fur coat
scooped op the mall, snapped an
elastic band around the pack of
letters, took care to throw the
spring lock on the door tnto posi
tion. nodded to the assistant )anl
tor as she stepped out into the cor
ridor.
She went to the elevator, dropped
her le:ters down the mall chute,
pulled her coat tightly around her
figure as she met the cold wind
of the street. The tingling air felt
good to her skin.
She pushed the door and entered
the welcome warmth of the tea
room.
She bang up the fur coat where
she could keep an eye on it. dropped
her purse to a chair beside her and
consulted the menu
She could, she saw. get some
chicken croquettes and tea and still
leave a 10-cent tip for the waitress
out of the FO cents Drlmgold bad
given her.
Millicent decided on the cro
quettes. aud gave her order She
took a clgaret from her purse and
was bolding a match to it when ber
eyes suddenly snapped to quick at
tenrlon. A woman, with a coat of
black ermine wrapped around her.
had entered the tea room 8he
walked with quick, nervous steps
Millicent couldn't eae the face, but
she could glimpse a coldly baleful
eye.
Then the woman in the ermine
coat swept past her and took the
table Just back of the one where
Millicent sat.
VpLLICENT at* In alow, thought
‘ 1 fnl silence. The woman,
dressed as a gypsy, whose duty It
was to tell forfnnes. came across
the room toward her.
“1 feel." she said, “that you're
going to have a very Interesting
fortune. Have you finished your
tear
Mllllrent smiled wanly. "Really."
she said. "I’m not particularly In
terested. and I haven*' any money
for a tip If you should give me a
good fortune.*
Tbs woman tank Into a ebalr bo
aids bsr. pulled Ifillicont’s tea cup
across tbs table
She stared steadily down Into the
few tee leaves In the bottom of the
tee clip.
Millicent felt a sensation of
vague uneasiness creeping over her
"Look." said the fortune teller
"Look at the way those leaves are
arranged 8ee bow Mack they are
and notice this leaf which has
twisted Its edges.”
"Wbat do they mean?" Mlllleent
Inquired.
“Dark deeds of violence," the for
tune teller eald. "There’s murder
In the tea cap."
"Murder!" MlUicent exclaimed.
"Not yours." the gypsy said baa
tfly. "The murder of someone
who’s close to yon. There’s danger
to you. but you’re not going to be
murdered. The danger comes from
a woman. I can’t see her dearly
She’s menacing yon. and yet sbe’a
the woman you'd least suspect."
Mllliceot hastily poshed the tee
cup away.
"I’ve beard enough.” she said Ir
ritably. "I’m tired end nervous
and 1 don’t want to bear any more
of your predictions."
The gypsy scraped back bar chair
from the table.
"I'm sorry," aha said, "ftanqtna
Sfillicent Crave*.
!y sorry. I*r# only told yon because
I thought you should be warned.”
MUllcent flashed her a quick
glance and saw that tbs gypsy’s
face was whits snd strained
Tleuse forgive me.” the said.
MUllcent left a tip for tbs watt
ress. picked up her check, her
gloves and purse, strode to the
door.
• • •
T’HE fresh bit# of ths wind hslped
* to steady her nervea She was
sorry that tbs walk was not longer
As she turned Into the lighted lob
by of tbs offles building, sbe signed
her name on the night register, end
was swept np to the 17th floor She
walked down the flagged corridor
with quick, nervous steps, tbr
sound of bsr heels clacking In
echoes from the aides of the eorrl
dor. 8he paused before Drlmgold’s
office and opened ber purse.
Consternation gripped ber.
MUllcent turned the purse over
in her hand and atared at tt enri j
oualy. It waa an exact duplicate
of ber purse—even to the initials.
“M. G..” monogramed on the
leather.
•
With the quick mental processes
of one who has worked for a living
and who. then re. baa grown ac
customed to rehponsiblUtiea. Mill!
cent Graves, standing bsfore Orlm
gold’s door, made hasty mental in
ventory of the situation.
Shs bad mads np hsr face befo.e
leaving Orimgold's office She knew
therefore, that she bad taken ber
own purse when sbe left the office
Tbs substitution must bavt taken
place at tbs restaurant Tbs woman
In ths black ermine coat, with the
high collar, in taking tbs table tm
mediately behind MUllcent. musi
have left tar own purse near Mllll
cent* - 1
jf
I Mlllirent tucked the puree under
ber arm. whirled and almost ran
toward the elevator*.
She pressed ber gloved finger
against the bell which sum mooed
the elevator. It seemed ages be
fore it swept Into view. When It
did sbo saw. to ber surprise that
the mao at the controls was not the
janitor st ell. but a well dressed
Individual of suave manners, who
swung open the doors for bar with
something of e flourish, end. at the
same moment, raised bis hat.
•’You’ll pardon me." he said, “but
I found the elevstor on the 16th
floor. 1 was In something of e
burry to go down. 1 rang several
times for the janitor. Hs didn’t
■how np. so 1 decided to take a1
hand at the controls myselt 1 fig
ured the janitor could walk down
16 flights of stairs batter than 1
could. Then I heard you ringing
from the 17tb floor and couldn't
conscientiously abandon you to a
long climb down tbe stsirt. Would
you ear# to share in my advan
tore?"
• e •
pERTURBED ee sbe was. 111111
cent nevertheless recognised the
man's Inherent strength of charae
ter. was moved by ble magnetic
personality.
"Are yon." the aske* "'mite cer
tain that yon know ho * u> operate
itr
“Oh. quite* he told her. "After
all. It Isn’t loo complicated.*
As she entered tbe cage, tbe man
moved a lever, tbe door clanged
sbnt He pressed over on the con
trol throttle and the elevator shot
downward.
"The trick* be said, smiling,
"lies In knowing Just when to stop
And theu. before leer couid grip I
hack Into neutral and tba cage «IM
smoothly to a atop. Ha moved tha
lover which opened tba doer.
“Permit me" he said and. taking
her arm. escorted her to the street.
“You go this way?" he asked. mA
ding toward the right
“Yea." she eald. hardly knowing
whether tt wee propel tor fc ' te
continue the acquaintanceship a*
Informally begun.
~WelL“ be eald. te bar relief. 1
go the other way. Ton wont tail
the janitor about the elevator, will
you?"
He raised his bat, end. smiling,
turned to sweep down on the wlaga
of tbs cold night wind.
Mllilcent almost ran through the
* winring door Into the tee roo«
Her eye encountered tbs gypsy girt?
“My purse.“ she eald breathless
ly. “Whet became of the women
in the black fur coat? The black
ermine with the collar around the
neck?"
The fortune toner stared at MIS*
Meant strength.
“She crossed to n table beck •*
you." cbe eald. "and only stayed t> *
e minute or two, She wave*
served."
"Do you know who aks was?" /
"No."
s e • *
\f ILL I CENT CRATES staved
* 1 down at the black leather perse
she held in her hand.
"If." she said, “she comes ta. tel
her to gel In vouch with MMg
Gratae, at Mr Drlmgold'e office m
the 17th floor of tbs Wolgamolt
building"
The fortune teller nodded.
“HI tell her* she said.
Mllilcent flung away Impatiently,
fled out of the door.
She waa within some M feet si
tbs entrance to the Woigamett
building when n figure, garbed ta
white, came rushing cat of tba
lobby. 8he recognised Up* man se
the assistant lanitor.
As she looked at kle wktt*
frightened face, conscious of the
cold perspiration on hie forehead,
of the manner In which the night
wind whipped h!s hair shout hie
forehead, be screamed the stogie
word. “Murder!" Th*n be turned
and ran down tbs sidewalk aa fast
as be could go. the wind at bfs
back helping him In his burst of
■peed
Mllilcent Graves, filled with some
sudden premonition of Impending
disaster. In turn raced toward the
lobby of the building She found
the elevator open and deserted She
had remembered enough of the
manner 1o which tt should tie ope*
sted to work the lev* which closed
the door, end pushed the throttle
over to the left.
It took bor e moment of fumbling
with the controls to get tbs cage
stopped at the 17th floor Then,
having opened the door, she ran
down the eorrltfor. -
The door of Drlmgold'e pi rain*
office waa open. ~
Drtmgold lay an the floor. A huh
!st bole te the center of hie for*
heed welled a thick, red stream
across the carpeted floor. A half
opened purse wee clutched In the
fingers of his left hand. The ce*
tests wars scattered over the floor.
One swift look at the pone, and
the recognised tt. It was her own
pnrea, Tbs things which wars
strewn about the room were her
own—lipstick, compact, haadke*
chief, keys, visiting cards
8be felt panic tighten her throat.
Moved by Impulse. sb« ran te the
window, flung It open end looked
dors the 17 floors
The wbits-garbed asslstiint Mat
tor was lust rouedlug the corner*
•ad. sltchHv »«#Mnd Mm ran a mob
tanned m- Urnimii