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Surviving settlers of Dodge City, Kan., met there last week in a "Last Roundup." Hoar and weazened pioneers spun yarns of the bad days, recalled the town's early importance as shipping point for buffalo hide, as "payoff centre" after the Santa Fe railroad went through (1872). A parade was held with a covered wagon, stage coach, "buffalo bones" float (displaying a famed pioneer commodity), oldtime "soddie...
...secret code. Months prior, mysterious aerial buzzes had been picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located the syndicate headquarters. New Jersey's Prohibition-Administrator William J. Calhoun, superviser of the syndicate roundup, boasted that by eavesdropping on this telltale radio he had for months checked every pint smuggled in. Unperturbed by the 10,000 cases of liquor whisked in every week, Administrator Calhoun had shrewdly plotted his concerted raid. Following up radio clues, he had learned all the privy affairs...
...neck ties, whisk brooms, Victoria records are not unusual contributions to the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that inevitably finds its way to the P. B. H. van. Uncle Eph and the H. A. A. are forced from competition by the wide appeal and intensity of the annual roundup. Antiques, and unique articles of wearing apparel fascinate those spectators who annually follow with interest the progress of the collection...
...cowboy spoke to the President; the President spoke to the cowboy. Later he asked the cowboy into the Executive Office, where they chatted for some time, presumably about the big roundup which the President is to see next month at Bellefourche. At length the cowboy departed, having secured that none too readily accorded privilege, a personal audience with the President...
Yesterday, the second and last day of the drive, was even more successful than the roundup a week ago. The number of books collected yesterday was 609, while last week's total...