Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 6

TUESDAY) JUNE 22 1937 MIAMI NEWS RECORD MIAMI OKLAHOMA 'PAGE OUR OHBOYOHBOYOHBOY! MIAMI NEWS RECORD TRI STATE DISTRICT DAILY xl BARTLETT General Manager I 1 STORIES IN 3 BY I KLEIN 1 By Williams OUT OUR WAY Too ast for His Lights But however rich there is a WAIT Subseriba for the Nawa laeaaL Mi newspaper You will WELL 1 GET NO SLEEP tonight WHUT A NARROW ESCAPE I HAD ROM WINKIN' 1 1 3 It will take a sober world to make a peaceful 8 Sen ator Morrh Sheppard Texas dry leader WELL I GUESS IT AINT MUCH IJKl 2 A LID TO WIN A HUNDERD BUCKS AT A MOVIE BANK NIGHT ti S' ft tl i I (A tj oiw SI hi st cl ii There are hundreds of indus tries thousands of factories To make certain of exactly the right production to fill all needs and provide adequate jobs quotas ap parently would have to be assigned to each industry and to each fac tory Prices in turn would be set at a level to insure demand for all the production If the board could accurately arrive at such a goal the plan likely would work If (housing) conferences were houses the underprivileged would live in Mayor LaGuardia New York DANGERS BEING CAREUL The customs of automobile driving have produced a strange state of things in that it is sometimes dangerous to try tobe safe and careful If you take your car out in a highly cautious spirit and plug along at a moderate pace you may think you are perfectly safe But meanwhile a line of speeders will probably collect behind you They will get so impatient that some of them are likely to tear ahead in some un suitable place Perhaps in so doing they will fail to notice some car coming around a curve In the melee that results you be forced off the road as the result of your own carefulness plus the reckless act of some other driver It is often safer to proceed at 40 miles an hour where other people are doing thesame thing than to slow down and run at a pace that in former days would have been considered wise and prudent The above is not intended to mean that people who drive fast come out better on "an average than those who drive slow On the whole the driver who takes a moderate pace will reduce his chance of accident But a car that travels at rates of speed that do not conform to the general custom takes chances too Years ago it that 20 or 25 miles an hour was a good safe speed on the highways and some states passed laws establishing such speed limits But if a 20 mile an hour driver man gets out now on a popular highway on Sunday afternoon he is likely to cause a lot of irritation as a result of which he may get hit 0 Hard words kill love You see they make a scar and any doctor will tell you that scar tissue function The kid lie worse than grown ups You must remember that he is on trial before his judge every day 0 Women are lucky No man who is blue and discouraged can make everything UN? WHY 1 HOLD OUT OK 'EM THEY'LL HEAR I WON IT AND IN BANK GO OR MV EDUCATION ER MY OLD AGE ER SUMP'N OH UN I COULD HAP OH TH OOOO A NATION BILLIONAIRES The cost of living is increasing faster than at any time in statistical history ex cept during the Civil and World wars ood rents clothing as well as luxuries are increasing in cost not to mention the fifty percent increase in'the price of post age stamps during the with Ithe result that public employes and school teachers are seeking to boost their in Tcomes resulting in higher if possible taxes Higher taxes in turn will mean stillhigher rents and quotations for foodclothing and luxuries Strikes by laborers i who think they are worth their hire and right by buying a new hat When you get a work of science you have to obtain the latest edi tion but great poetry is always contemporary poetry if founded on the unshaken basis of human na ture Dr Arlo A Brown presi dent Drew university I believe in Americanism and the right of men to Daniel A Knaggs mayor of Monroe Mich scene of labor trouble In key industries Russia Bow leads all other European nations Europe can teach us little moroj America can teach us An astas Mikoyan Soviet eed Com mtoaar Reports are that Mr Garner just had to go fishing These have it that Mr Garner left the capital city very "reluctantly and that if it been for the fishing he have left at all some re porter please interview his sister down in Detroit Texas? But whatever the reason for his de parture from the halls of Congress we ap peal to Mr Gamer to please return to Washington He was never needed as he is needed no not in thirty six years It seems in Washington Congress tak ing advantage of the vice ab sence is threatening to pass a bill mak ing everyone work forty hours a week Hearings are being held and various gentlemen are expressing themselves volubly to the effect that everyone should be compelled to work forty hours We just want to ask one question to wit: What would this do to the WPA? Dash back to Washington Gamer be fore Congress enslaves the populace 0 LET HANDED TRIBUTE It is getting so that no prominent Amer ican who makes speeches can claim to have attained any distinction at all unless some thing that he says has made Herr Nazis raise an angry protest This distinction was most recently at tained by Dr Robert A Millikan the Nobel prize winning physicist of Califor nia Tech In a speech at Copenhagen he was quoted as saying that world has not known for 300 years a Reaction similar to that prevailing today attempting to lead mankind back to an authoritative ir rationality ajid unscientific As you might expect this drew fire from Germany The Nazi newspaper deplored the of the remark and predict ed that Danish public opinion value tact and courtesy enough to disapprove such gross misuse of Mild enough as Nazi protests go But it does give Dr Millikan the accolade without which no public speaker nowadays can feel that he has said something worth saying then some add to the momentum of the in creasing cost of living This time prosperity judged by the price level is going to be the real McCoy and no mistake Instead of adopting the Bryan panacea of silver for prosperity we are in danger of going off the silver stand ard entirely as the New Prosperity gets into full swing A dollar threatens to be the smallest unit of the wherewith for which there will be any demand and ten and twenty dollar bills will be used merely for the changing of the hundred dollar denomination Prosperity is coming fast The politic ian who wants to capitalize on it will be forced to run on a platform of 10 hours work a week for $100 a day minimum pay COME BACK GARNER! In all his thirty six service at Washington nothing like this has ever happened Reference is made to the ab sence of Vice President John Garner from Washington while Congress is in cessful scenarist A third brother (they run to boys those Lief families) Alfred writes stu dious books 'on the judiciary Then there is Alfred Lunt' who used to clerk in a department store and Leslie Howard and Ronald Colman were employes in London banking houses until sheer bore dom drove them into the theater Kathaeine Cornell almost gave in to her inclination to be come the prioress of a kindergar ten in Buffalo Charlie Mac Arthur and Ben Hecht are prod ucts of Chicago newspaper offices Garbo herself once toiled in a corset shop and Norma Shearer was a penniless office girl Billy Rose might still have been a song plugger if Barnum like ideas persuaded iSiNUrSlS JuaeJUhnsliop my old fiame it myrteriotulv shot to death That starts our stormp weekend at arrington Bluff home of aunts A scries of strange attacks Then we find the body of Michael's mad father below the bluff Aunt Mar tha is shot in the shoulder then nearly finished with sleeping powders The Skipper tall tweedg younger aunt disappears and we search for her Cook William the chauffeur and Annie the maid suspect Higgins the old butler William tells me why PasttoplTuRhbD Entered at the postoffice at Miami Oklahoma as Second Class Mail Matter Under Act of March 3 1879 MAN ABOUT MA la: cl but no one should be allow ed to suffer from want Jesse Jones chairman of This is no longer a simple civil wart It is an international war between Spanish nationalism and the internationalism of Gen rancisco' ranco of the Spanish insurgents Organised womanhood filled with a zeal for a righteous cause is a political power to be reckon ed as some of our politicians have discovered Dr Ella At president Rusians seem contended but there is grave evidence of a rule by Norman Thomas Soci alist party chief Consolidation of Miami News end Daily Record Herald Miami News Record Publishing Company (Incorporated) Publishers Independent Newspaper Devoted to Upbuilding of Northeast Oklahoma and bordering counties of the Tri State District of Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri ipHfi parents of Matthias Jocfi umsson directed him toward a business career but he left col lege in 1865 as a clergyman and finally turned out to be one of most prolific and popu lar poets During his pastorate in Iceland he developed his tal ent for verse and soon found himself devoting more time to lit erature than to his church Ex cept for a six year interval how ever when he was editor of a magazine he held the pulpit until 1900 when he was 65 At the same time he was recog nized more as a poet than a pas tor or half a century he was the chief poet of Iceland He translated Shakespeare Byron and other European poets com posed a great epic besides a vast number of com memorative verses and wrote several plays The University of Reykjavik made him honorary Doctor of Divinity and the city In which he lived made him hon orary citizen Jochumsson died I in 1920 at the age of 85' In 1935 on 1 the centennial of his birth Iceland I issued a special I 1 felt that 1 wu making a great mi fl take Where and how I could not see fl but I was sure that I was making one I had a strong conviction that if Hig gins were guilty he would never have taken the accusation as he had If Higgins had done all the things we had imagined his doing Higgins was insane for he was without a conceiv able motive And an insane man con fronted with captivity is not usually as placid as he was At leasti I didn't think so It was a straw but I gasped at it frantically I said you any thing to say to defend a thing William and I took him upstairs It was consistent with my general stu pidity that although 1 had many qualms about his guilt' I no sooner slipped the key of his locked door into my pocket than I regarded the en tire episode as closed Itwas all over And what? I William stirred uneasily at my el bow feel like a rat jsir an awful old I wanted to get away from William Without replying I made off down the corridor to the main halt Lights still glared there and 1 could hear the intermittent murmur of voices in arrington's room I knew that I should go in there and tell them what had happened 1 knew that they were in all probability working themselves into a line frenzy waiting for me But I was in no mood to face arring or even MlchaeL 1 The Case Against Hig gins I WENT downstairs ipto the cold deserted library where I made a i fire helped myself to a stiff drink and sat down to think or the most part I was concerned with the where abouts of the Skipper That Higgins in his right mind would in any way i injure the Skipper seemed to me out of the question And I could not con vince myself that Higgins was not in his right mind' 1 went over and over the qusetion took another drink and then another threw myself down at the desk and tried to write The feel of a pen in my handwas comfortingly familiar More to quiet my nerves than in hopes of proving anything I sei to work HIGGINS Knew of the presence of Norman arrington Whereabouts at the time of the death of Jude suspicious Easy to imagine him in the confidence of every single person molested to date Norman arrington ar rington and the Skipper Seen up stairs when the cat was killed and the room torn up Lied about it afterward Only person who might have re moved letters from room Witness for his alibi on the shooting of arrington (Skipper) missing Obtained something from drug store Poison? Started to tell me something A confession? Tried to get my finger prints on the gun used on Earring ton Carried keys to every room in the house Nors: Standing at my own elbow when Cook was attacked Locked in room with others when William and I were attacked Has seemed of something from the beginning Seems relieved to 1 locked up Mo tive inconceivable Pausing for a cigarette I surveyed my results A pretty disorderly mess Well it could be straightened out later At least my nerves were steady ing down WILLIAM Convicted of felony Served full term in spite of interes of Mr BHn shop Seems to indicate that no vindi cating evidence has yet been found Knew the Blinshops Only person with conceivable motive revenge Only person to give evidence against Higgins Substantiation of all his evi dence comes from his wife and Cook who arc clever enough to have fooled the household over a long period of time Knew of gun ana aamws ro being a good shot Alibi covering kill ing of cat and braining of wife and i Cook questionable Proof of where abouts during death of Jude again rests on those two ound body Might have dealt with me in his room Might have planted and removed let I ters to cast suspicion elsewhere Sug I gested the locking of upstairs rooms Mag have had Higgins' keys at the time May have seen Norman arting ton when Michail saw him gossip from the might have told him who Norman was Might have had Higgins suspecting nim Strong enough to have overpowered both the Skipper and her brother Seems well versed in drugs Admits going to drug store Now: Was in jured when I was (Might have thrown himself down the stairs) Did revive arrington Admits locking ue in cellar I placed the two lists ride by ride knd considered them with unabashed delight It seemed to ma that the ease against William overshadowed the case against Higgins (Copyright Stir NMer Tyler) Tomorrow I eheek the cases against Mike Gay Cook Annie and arrington AlSWashingtonDaybook gmiuanaae ammamnnemaaaenm By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON This country has taken several tentative steps in the direction of a planned economy and be fore it takes further steps some of which already are en visaged the public should be shown the problems and the changes entailed A planned economy is held up as a national program with clear ly defined objectives in contrast to haphazard progressin response to economic and social pressure groups That way it sounds fine and wholesome and everybody is for it But getting it is a frog in another parlor Under a planned economy the production of industry would be governed by a plan instead of be ing left wholly to the influence of prices and markets NRA AAA and the Guffey coal act included fragments of the ma chinery of a planned industry The wage hour and Joseph plan farm bill carry additional They do not go the whole way by any means Chapter 42 We Lock Up Higgins ABOUND from the stair railing i grated on our ears spinning us 1 all about simultaneously Higgins fully dressed stood on the landing staring down at us How long he had I been there we had no way of know i ing It is one thing to confront mur derous fiends in tabloid headlines but it is quite another to stand face to face with one in the form of an old i family servant whom you have known for algood part of ygur life My lips were dry as I slipped the key case into my pocket i Higgins" I said "Come on down We were just talking about The silence got under my skin 1 waited for the man to answer for Cook to explode for Annie to scream Nothing happened or a apace of fully 15 seconds we stood there while the old man studied our faces "Were you sir? I seem to sleep and I thought I would make myself a pot of coffee" He came down the stairs slowly as deliberately as he had ever descend ed them in his life Habit is certainly a powerful factor If ever I had want ed to collar a man Higgins was that man And yet I couldn't I said casually "Sure Make enough for the rest of us I guesa we can stand No one spoke We sat there and watched him measure out coffee pour in water and set the pot on the stove He turned from the operation smiling glad nearly over Mr Jim mie There will be a boat here by morning see if there isn't" I could do nothing but murmur He was guilty I was sure of it But sitting there looking at him I see myself telling him so I cleared my throat 1 said lied to me on every single question asked haven't or one fraction of a second the eyes turned toward me were the sick tired eyes of a very old man In the next instant they were veiled and calculating gives you that Impression I stood up were seen out of your room on the night when Miss Blinshop was killed You were seen going into your room fully dressed just before Mr Michael called you and reappearing as if you had been asleep a moment later You own the only gun in the house You were seen coming down the stairs immediately before we discovered the injured cat when you swore that you had been in the next room You were on hand when Miss arrington was wounded You even tried to get my fingerprints on the revolver William and I are going to lock you in your room You will be kept there until the police i Those strange eyes never once left my face not even after I had com pleted my distasteful task Making A Mistake? "KAR he said very qulet 1VJL known me for a long time Do you believe what you are sorry Higgins A ehost of a smile crossed his face he said you object to my having my coffee before you lock me take no chances with cautioned William And so we sat there waiting for that coffee waiting to be served by a man whom we intended to deliver into the hands of the law to lose his life I was tod busy with my own feel ings to notice particularly what went on in that room Once or twice the clumsy shuffling Of feet pane? trated my consciousness but that was all I doubt if any coffee on the face of the earth ever took as long to boil as that did' At last Higgins moved to the closet and set out five cupe and saucers Cook stood grimly over him while he poured her mind running I imagine to all the varieties Of poison that could be dropped into those cups My own mind was too full of all the other cups Higgins had handed me of all the decent little favors he had done me I choked trying to drink the stuff Higgins drank his calmly and set the tup down quite ready Mr Wells he said But 1 Suddenly strangely Set Quotas UNDER a fully planned produc tion system each output would be set by a national planning board honor: (Copyright 1937 NBA Service Ine) NEXT: or what is the Town Hall in Brussels noted? 23 to become a purveyor of bizarre entertainments Difficulties BUT how could it? Could it con trol demand or even predict it? Changes in weather in styles in public moods and scores of other factors cause demand to fluc tuate Yet if a planned production is to work factories must produce according to schedule else a spi raling cycle of unemployment re sults just as under the present unregulated system To preserve harmony in a planned production undoubtedly a central governing board' would have to be in control Socialists say the profit system could not sur vive in the face of such central ized authority And many econ omists agree with them (Tomorrow: Why not regulate production by managing wages and I costs? It is a strange rate tpat maxes dui actors of chemical engineers and limit to what a government can do cowboys as inexplicable probably as the one which lifted James Walker from a Beat among the po litical highland mighty and de posited him on Long Island chicken farm where Jimmy is today counting the eggs fast as the hens set up a cackle By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK The glamorous figures who move in the smart so phisticated world of the theater really famous ones whose names conjure romantic legends and spell starry success in the spotlight and in always been the singled out dar lings of a fairy godmother Most of them are able to trace their rise from obscure beginnings "rank Morgan for instance used to ride the range tin a ranch in Nevada It was only a few years ago that Ethel Merman trudging reluctantly to her office each day was an unhappy stenog rapher Warner Baxter used to work for the Ohio Bell Telephone company Howard Dietz edited a magazine for the navy before he became the author of Go and other Broadway musical shows Miriam Hopkins a green blonde kid from the rose gardens of Atlanta was ready to embark on a dancing career but a broken ankle eliminated her from a troupe that was bound for South America and she became an actress Although a Presbyterian aith Bacon was reared in a convent until she determined to become an model posing in the nuae This eventually landed her on the stage behind footlights rank Merlin gave up a vagabonding existence to become an author and Edward oran decided that authoring books was a saner pastime then going through life as a circus roustabout Dr Nathaniel Lief whose prac tice is largely composed of litera ry theatrical and musical stars re ally thought his future lay in con structing engineering projects tn ths jungles of Paraguay but he flipjied a coin and became fash ionable dentist instead His brother Mat was dramatic critic for the News until he went to Hollywood and became a sue Office of Publication A Street and irst Ave Business Office Phone 128 Editcrial Department Phone 127 SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL IN ADVANCE or Delivery in Oklahoma Only Year 6 Mo 8 Mo 1 Mo Ottw and Adjolnlna Cmntlea UJ lu State Tax 01 Sunday Only Plus State Tax By Carrier in Cities per wk 1 Year 8 Mo 8 Mo i Mo Outside Ottawa and Adloinlns Ooantiaa8600 8320 180 60 Plus State Tax Sunday Only lus state vw The Oklahoma Consumers tax law requires that iux a 0T nnnn inn SSlM puDilsncrs cunoci wwvww oleate therefore remit the additional sum of 2o for each dollar which ts contained in your remittance or example If your remittance it over 15c and In any amount up to and incluaing 50c the tax is 1c If your remittance I over 50o and in any amount up to and Including 11 00 the tax 1 2c etc Year 6 Mo 3 Mo 1 Mo Outside of State of 8320 1160 I 60 Sunday Only 250 (Sale Tax Exempt) mpmprp au Awsnri atfd press The Associated Pre' is exclusively entitled to the session use for re production orwi news ensparenes crecmeo to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Lorenzen Thompson Inc Chicago New York San rancisco Los Angeles Kansas City St Louis Atlanta Detroit i a 7 Tim fl I a Ml VOSk 1 i i A i mm M' iAwiib a1 NHATTAN AAMAAAAA4 IHBlIir A.