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fit};' - *•>" - -*'<• -- <?%"*?* ,"\:-k »•" mm ^ **<* ' vc-'* " ^* "t .,¥ 5 A:, -ii " • , > -fc-vaJ' '-?' /* 5 fe1i,'>J,'i#--'-!-!-.'£ ^*-v* -^'4i VOLUME 55 HENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY. MARCH 20,1930 No. 4* GOTHAM DUPES PAY PALMISTS MILLIONS Sy GRANT DIXON • . t» ^V." * ,* ^ 1, \i. . . . ' i m 11 n m 1111 m i n i n i Jhe Duty of Dancing - a$ JANE OSBORIf nm n i i i i i i i i i i m u n i said the girl in buttercup BjA Irs PRAISE LASHINGS : FOR LOVE CRIMES French Press. Appro-re Form of Punishment 3 'VH S&-' (Copyright.) (««\TOU really are a wonderful dan- ! 1 cer," fellow. "Thank yon." Jim Harper sitting (beside the girl--both on camp chairs ®t one end of the room--looked at her [with a quizzical smile. "You said that as if you fully expected me to dance like a clown." The girt in buttercup yellow, small, with clear, pale face, had deep gray >«yes that thrilled Jim when she looked -lit him. "I was surprised," she admitted, "because you really are an extrat ordinarily good dancer, and from what 11 had heard of you I didn't expect it-- 'living out West there, working on thnt 'big dam, without any girls anywhere, .around to dance with. And, besides. • you're so big--and outdoorsy. You know what I mean--so rugged and--" *You're right about there not being •any girls but there," Jim said. "I guess my sister has been talking about me. You know Patty, then?" They were sitting at one end of the room midway between a group of chattering older women who were the chaperons, and the orchestra, hedged about by palms and ferns. The girl In yellow nodded to the chaperons, and her eyes cast about the room .watching the other,couples, in a way that anhoyed Jim. "I think Patty likes nursing," said -the girl in yellow, and Jim said he was sure she did. The rest of the family were much opposed, he said, but he had sided with her. He knew how it would be to want to do something as much as Patty wanted to nurse, and then have a family set against It. •"You're a nurse, too," he remarked to the girl lq yellow. Of course she must be or she wouldn't be there at this dance given by the girls In the training school of St Elizabeth's hpspltal. "It's funny," remarked Jim, looking so intently at the girl beside him that she could not take her eyes away, "but vc'ien I was a boy In boarding school and broke some bones playing my first footbnll and had to go to the hospital. It seemed as if the nurses were all old and prim like school teachers, you seem just like a little girl, wonderful--really wonderful--with all that you must go through, that you are able to keep so sweet and flowerlike." "Maybe the way we dress nowadays has something tp do with it," suggested the girl. •"And, of course," ad<>d Jim, "there must be a lot of the nurses who aren't llki you--head nurses and superintendents. Patty has told me quite a bit about the head nurse here," he added. "She must be a courageous kind of a -rrnmaa." There was a pause which the girl in buttercup yellow did not attempt to fill. Then Jim tfent on. 4lPatty wanted me to dance with her and I suppose I oudht to look her up. But it's a funny thing^-a man can hear a lot about whaV a fine character 4i woman has and how brave and faithful she is, and though he admires her fee doesn't specially want to dance with her." "I suppose so," said the girl, and Jin went on. *1 wish I didn't have to dance with .anyone but you. But I've got to look <«qp that head nurse. I promised Patty. And I suppose you've got your dances promised. Maybe you could give me j Just one more?" "Supposing 1 take your dance order," suggested the girl, "and look up the head nurse. I'll get her to give yn a dance or two. Fm afraid I won't h*ve any left." Jim looked appealfngly at her--a little bit frightened. "Do you mean you j don't want to dance with me again?" She did not answer him directly. "I must go and look up that head nurse-- Jane Bradstreet is her name"--and then she hurried away and Jim watched her as she stood and talked to the chaperons and then went on and talked to the leader of the orchestra. Jim still sat there, not troubling to flad a partner for the next dance, until a dumpy little girl In spectacles and a blue satin dance frock came up to him. "She told me to say that the head nwse would give yon the tenth and the last dance," she recited, "and she said she would be glad If you danced every dance." Jim stood up awkwardly. He was «rer a foot taller than the dumpy little girl in blue and she looked clumsy. Td be very happy if you'd give me ftl« next dance," be said to the girl who beamed with joy at having found aoch a good-looking partner. "Our head nurse is perfectly wonderful," the girl told him as he led her out to the floor. "That time when there was a Ate in Ward C--you should have seen fcer a regular Florence Nightingale." "She must be remarkable," said Jim without enthusiasm. Then came the tenth dance and he suked the girl with whom he had danced the ninth to point out the head nurse--Miss Bradstreet--and the girl pointed out the lovely nurse in buttercop yellow. "But you can't be that head nurse they have been talking about," be told her. "It is enough to be so beautiful-- end really you will let me have the last dance with you?" "Of course I'd rather dance It with you," said the girl, "than with anyone Patty has told me how clever you are and how brave, but I never Imagined that you were so good looktag and entertaining besides." Parts.--The Prench press hailed as an admirable solution to prevalent love crimes" the recent lashing la Temesvar, Rumania, of a woman sentenced to six years of forced tabor for having killed her rival. Madame Borugsch, convicted of having murdered Mile. Anna Lowinal last October, was given 60 blows of the lash on her naked back a few days ago. Various newspapers of ceo-' tral Europe Voiced an indignant protest that a woman should be so badly flogged that her back resembled raw beefsteak after the ordeal. Not so the Paris journals; echoing the satisfaction manifested by the Temeshwar Hirlap at the added punishment inflicted on the murderess, Parisian editors are pointing out the excellence of this phase of Rumanian criminal procedure. Despite the spectacle of a woman's back being slowly beaten Into a bloody pulp, French critics are Inclined to attach more importance to another angle of the affair. They find exceedingly significant the statement by the Temeshwar Hirlap that since the flogging law went Into effect the so-called love crimes have almost been exterminated In Rumania. Such crimes committed by women numbered 164 in 1920; this formidable figure was reduced to 88 In 1922, to 26 In 1923, to 22 in 1924, and dropped to 8 last year, thanks to the rigid application of the law of the knout. Madame Dora Borugsch has had her back pounded Into a jelly, say the French journalists and the Temeshwar Hirlap, but 156 persons who would normally be rotting In the cemeteries are now sleeping tranquilly ,ln their beds. The Temeshwar Hirlap looks favorably on the result, and so does the French press. Enough of sloppy sentimentality, say the French; "love crlenes" are committed not for love or love despised but by assassins enraged by the poison of self-love. Who will then have the courage, demands one Pari slan editor, to propose in the chamber of deputies a similar law designed to save 156 lives? i LIGHTS of NEW YORK _ - •• • 4 Stolra St**l One of the most agreeable restaurants in the city Is an establishment in the market zone on West street. Here one 6nds the freshest food, the most generous portions and the low- i est prices. The place is never closed, and its busiest time is around 4 a. m„ much as in the famous Halles of Paris. That hour is noonday for the truckmen and commission merchants, and their appetites are tremendous. The other night 1 visited the restaurant for a steak, and the waiter neglected to bring me a steel knife. I asked for one, and he came back with an ordinary silver knife whose edge had been whetted on a stone. "We have no more steel knives tonight," he said. "Our customers steal about thro dozen a day, and we've run out.*, - Alabama Man of 110 Defies Centenarians Birmingham, Ala.--Lonnle Boutwell, one hundred and ten years old, who lives near Dublin,' Ala., Is challenging all the neighboring communities to bring out their centenarians and let Mm tell them a thing or two that happened before they were born. Boutwell was born In August, lSl8, a year before Alabama was admitted into the Union as a state. He can tell of events which took place more than 100 years ago, and Is an interesting conversationalist. He was born In South Carolina, but bis parents moved to Alabama when he was an Infant, driving all the way In an ox wagon. He/lives with his son, Isaac Boutwellr Boutwell is the father of eight children, six still alive. Those living are Mrs. V. S. Rowells, seventy-three, of Greenville, Ala;; W. B. Boutwell, sixty- nine, of Selma, Ala.; Isaac Boutwell, sixty-seven, of Dublin, Ala.; Henry Boutwell, sixty, of Fsrmersvllle, Ala.; Mrs. Clarissa Johnson, fifty-five, of Pritchett, Texas, and Mrs. P. H. Philpot, eighty, of Gladwater. Texas. Boutwell farmed until the Civil war, when he enlisted In Company M, Sixth Alabama regiment, and served under Gen. Stonewall Jackson. He recalls seeing Jackson, when the general was shot by one of his own men, throw up his hand with his cap ba it and say, "Boy, you wounded me badly." During his service in the war Boutwell received a wound In the thigh from which he never fully recovered. After the war, Boutwell returned to Alabama and resumed farming. His wife died five years ago. Royal Air Force Raises Speed of Its Planes London.--The huge fleet of the Royal air force is now undergoing the process of complete re-equipment for the benefit of speed and as a result of the lessons learned from the research which led to Great Britain's victory in the Schneider cup races. Roughly, the Royal air force now Is passtng from the 150-mile per hour stage to the dizzy pace of 180. The classes of aircraft concerned are the single seater fighter, the Interception fighter, the fleet fighter and the day bomber. It will not bs long before these four important classes are ready for service with their new equipment. The Bristol "bulldog" Is the new fighter with which four squadrons of the R. A. F. will be equipped, a type which with full service load has s speed of 174 miles per hour at 15,000 feet. It takes this machine but 27 minutes to reach 26,500 feet, at which height it is still below Its celling, ! MfhiWSpends Time in Bed to Escape Cokl|s Berlin.--Because be feared contracting a cold, Fritz Babel, living In a German village, spent the greater part of his life In bed. He finally died of a broken blood vessel when a visitor raised a window in the stuffy room in which be lay. Important Question A certain spiritualist has built within the last few months a targe, wellpaying clientele from the ranks of New York's Intellectuals. His specialty is to put himself in what he calls a mood and communicate with the dead. Artists, writers and society people are his customers. The other night s group attended a seance, among them being a very wealthy, very well known society woman. She asked to communicate with her departed mother. The spiritist went into his mood, and soon the voice of the mother spoke from beyond the grave. It was too much for the society woman, and she fell to weeping. She sobbed, sohbed and sobbed, until finally the medium warned her that his mood was leaving, and she'd better hurry up If she wanted to ask her mother anything. Repressing her tears, the woman cried; "Tell me, mother, is there anyeos else I know down theee?'* You can get a line on whither this age is drifting by visiting a certain parcel check room in the Times Square sector. At first glance it Is just like all check rooms--filled with steel shelves Just the right height to contain handbags and brief caees. But there is a difference. One shelf Is of unusual size, and is devoted to drums --snare and bass. It is always full. There must be hundreds of jazz hand drummers In town, and they have to park their instruments somewhere when they are not working. k--t" • • • ^ NmI Trick ;- I hSm fcften been aiaaSed bf the pretty silly idea of having a disabled airplane towed by another one. That is still impossible, but a pilot up in the. Canadian woods recently thought of a trick almost as good. He landed on a frozen lake and found that another plane tats marooned there. It hadn't quite enough power to lift Itself off the snow. It would glide along on its skis, rise a few feet, and then squash back to the ice. So the newly arrived pilot. Instead of giving the other plane a tow, gave It a blow. He placed his plane in front of the other one, and both taxied across the lake. The first ship left the ground easily, and was kept only two or three feet In the air. The backwash from its propeller really increased the air speed of the second plane, enab&ag this ship to lift Itself free. • * * Old stuff St. John Ervine, the noted English critic and playwright says. "What jest is so new as the old jest? Every Joke, indeed, is new to somebody, however, sncient it may be to you, and in a few years a generation grows up which has never heard the chestnut and is ready to agree with you- that it is the funniest, and freshest, that ever was uttered." That may be true In England but not even Englishmen can get away with that over here. A member of the young sophisticates reports that she heard Hugh Walpole IU a lecture the other evening tell a story which she has already beard five times this winter. "Really, some one should tell him," was her reaction. (Q. 1*3*. Ball Srndhatt*.) Sues Dentist for Not Filling Teeth With Gold Butte, Mont.--All is not gold that glisters, and although his new false teeth glitter bright, Arthur Reyman Is convinced they are not made of gold. So certain is Reyinan that bis "uppers" are not made of the precious yellow metal, that be has brought suit against C. N. Bucher, dentist, for recovery of $475. "Ho»h Money" Paftvf $25,, 1 ^ 000,000 Annual TolL New York.--Fortune telling nets $25,000,000 annually In New York, ao cording to John Mutholland, magicianlecturer and arch enemy of fraudtK lent fortune telling. Paris, he sayV pays just $6,000,000 for its glimpses into the past, present and future. A major poition of this huge sum is nothing more thsn pure blackmail, Mulholland says. "A man will tell his wife that he Is going to work at his office, but he plays poker with the boys," Mutholland said, illustrating one form of blackmail. "The blackmailers get wind of It in ways which they alone can divulge. They make the man believe It is 'in his fortune.' They threaten to tell his wife he was seen in a cabaret with a blond. "He waln't with a blond, but he wasn't where he told his wife he was going to be--so be pays off. "One group once worked three years to get its 'evidence.' A setect girls' school was singled out. Its students were told 'Aunt Beatrice' would invite them to spend the week-end with her and send a liveried chauffeur to the school for her--all for a very nominal fee. The students took advantage of the opportunity and sever ' visited 'Aunt Beatrice.' Pay Heavy Toll. "Three years later, after they had been Introduced to society and married, they paid heavily for the visit to 'Aunt Beatrice'--and a fortune teller claimed to have read their 'indie cretions' in their palms. "The blackmailing fortune tellers never collect toll from guilty persons, they scare vulnerahles by threatening to tell an untruth that cannot be proved an untruth gracefully." Mulholland will walk into your office, write something on a slip of paper and tell you to put it in your pocket without looking at It. He then causes you to write a series of letters, numbers and draw pictures on another piece of paper. You may write what ,vou please at this suggestion, selecting what numbers, what letters and what pictures to draw. He then allows you to eliminate ail but one number, all but one letter and all but one figure. You look at the slip of paper in your pocket and discover that you have left the same letter, number and figure that he wrote In the first place. He has caused you to do his bidding by suggestion. Proof of "Power." And to convince you thatjlf# toows his stuff he'll change a quarter to s half dollar, make It disappear and then renppear--all of this not six inches from your eyes, and the coin, apparently, never out of your sight until the moment It disappears. But like all magicians he doesn't explain the trick to you. He tells you that be has mystified you in order to illustrate that magicians really know a lot about the phase of psychology which has to do with reactions. The magician's trick is knowing Just what to do to make an audience feaet the way he wants to, ^ Surprise! for •tipix-'j* i mm ' 1 i, j *2 i • %.,t - ' • * !S' "' '•</ • '§ 'i CHCHOHCHMHHlQOOOflHMHSnQOSHCHQHtiHCHOHtf Great Britain Keeps Tea Drinking Record New York.--Great Britain still holds the tea drinking record of the world, according to figures of the India tea bureau in the United States. This country Is gaining in tea consumption, the statistics show. India furnished 7.°» per cent of the world's tea output, production for the year totaling 8C:*.000.000 pounds. This amount, figuring 200 cUps to the pound, means that 172,- 600,000,000 cups were consumed. Britons drank 424,000,000 pounds, or nearly 85,000,000,000 cups of tea in 12 months. Americans In the same period drank 18,000.000.000 cups. and save a Here's a chance to save so% L I S f Jiki, Teiki and Nobe Are Tokyo Market Terms Washington.--That the jargon of Wall Street, with Its "bulls" and "bears," "trends" and "cycles" to worry the laymen, Is not less Intelligible than the vernacular of the Tokyo Stock exchange Is Indicated by a report of Japanese stock trading by Her bert M. Brutter of the Department of Commerce. Three kinds of transactions are, made--spot, known as Jiki, deferred, or nobe, and teiki or long term. Spot deals form the least Important group. The short-term deals are similar to the New York, while the long term are patterned after the London system. Certain spot transactions failed jlkiys are effected outside of exchange hours by unlicensed brokers. The system has no official status. Japanese traders have a significant barometer of market conditions In thestock of the Tokyo Stock exchange Itself, known as Tokabu, which Is wide !y traded in. Japanese Stock exchange practices were modeled after the customs of the early rice exchanges. Professed Vegetarian Runs Amok for Steak Millville, N. J.--Obsessed by thoughts of succulent steaks, Leon Roun, fifty, s professed teetotaler in meat, fell off the vegetable wagon at sight of a plump Jersey cow In a pasture here, backed the animal to death with a small pen knife and took about $50 worth of beef home In a child's express wagon. He so testified yesterday when arraigned before Mayor Harry Jones. When his housekeeper saw his cargo of meat she became Irate, be said, and he threw It all in the Maurice river, maintaining his vegetarian status after all. Roun, a Junkman, was sentenced to pay $75 to the owner of the cow. His brother paid for him. On this Dollar Day. Saturday, March 22, you can get j m One Year Either New (or $1.00 Subscribers -'J: or Renewals Portsmouth, England, Bans Movies on Sunday Portsmouth. 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