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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-12
Frsiaht Conductor Dies Of Heat

< Harrisburg. Pa. June l2.--(By A.
r.)-Thomss Rockford, sixty three,
pennsylvania Railroad freight con
durtor. was overcome by heat in the
railroad yards here yesterday and died
y the storm which followed II day of
l1eossive heat, wind wrecked II grand =
sGtand at Elizabethville, carrying u por-
floN Of the roof 100 yards away across
f3lscad I acks. The crew of train
IN y few minutes later removed the
i1Eris before the train could proceed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-12
Dixie Carroll

Pittsburgh. Pa. June l2.-,Ry A.
P.)-Curroll Blaine Cook. well known
among sportsmcn of the country. es.
pccially anglers, as Dixie Carroll. n
name under which he had written for
newspapers ard magazines for nearly
ten years, died Yesterday at his home
in Chicago. Cook was born in Great
Bend. SusNuehanna County. Pa, on
November oS. 1889.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-12
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-12
Henry r. kemer

Reading. Pa. June 12.-Henry +.
Keffer. sixty five years old, Demo
cratic leader for many years and for
mcrly school controller here. died YES :.
terday in his home at Germant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-12

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
BENEFIT TO FARMERS
Water Left Fine Silt Of Good Earth
on Impoverished Lands in
Warrington.

Sedro Woolley, Wash.-A fine silt
Of very fertile earth layer from two
to five inches deep was left on the
inundated farm lands when the flooded
Skagit river subsidized to it's regular
channel.
The layer Of silt had added great
value to the valley lands, according
to owners. ! The food, which was the
most extensive known here since the
early homestead days, lasted from De
cember 10 until the middle Of Janu-
airy.
The rise of the river was attributed
to torrential downpours in the foot
hills and mountains through which the
Skagit flows. The heavy rain washed
immense amounts of rich top soil from
the hills into the flood and all this
material was carried into the valley
and deposited.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
CLOTHES KILL PoLYNEs!ANs
More Fatal to Natives of Pacific Is
lands Than Rum or Opium, Says
Captain Salisbury.

New York.-Too many clothes is the
great trouble with the dying Poly
nesians OF the Pacific islands, accord
ing to Capt. Edward Salisbury, who
has spent much time among them.
Captain Salisbury paused In the task
Of Quitting his yacht for another
cruise to those islands and explained
that when the missionaries finally con-
vinced the Polynesians that i. was
wrong to 60 naked the Polynesians
adopted clothing and acquired tuber-
culOsis.
Clothes, he said, had done these
natives more harm than rum or opium.
The fewer the clothes the greater the
health. If this applies also to the Csn-
casians G*w York girls who keep up
with the styles ought to be the health
lest lot on earth at-this instant .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
PLUCKY VET 4 YEARS BELFAST
"Is He Downhearted2 No." and Is
Fighting PIuckiIx for Re- ,
49,. coyery. II

Adrian, Mich.-BedriddeD nearly
four years as the result of SPINAL at
Fiction contracted in service overseas,
the war still has considerable reality
for Brace M. Slater, Adrian soldier,
who is making plucky fight for
health at the home Of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs David S. Slater:
The young mans ailment has left
his limbs paralyzed and he has been
confined to his bed continuously. He
is receiving the best Of care and is
still hopeful of recovery.
Slater is graduate OF Brown Bust
ness university here. Two months af-
ter his enlistment, April 81, 1918, he
went overseas. ! Seven Of the ten
months he served in France he was
in base hospital No. so, Mesves,
France, with complications brought on
by Influenza.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
SHOWS WARS RAvAGES
Astrakhan Much Like New Or
leans After Civil War.
Russian City Trying to Regain Ito
Former Prosperity, but Process
10 Slow-communism Not
Liked There.

Astrakhan, Russia.-Once prosper
Gus but now rayaged by revolution, the
situation Of this city reminds the
visitor Of the condition of New Or
leans after the Civil war;, It is trying
to regain its former prosperity but
the process Is slow In its position
Astrakhan resembles New Orleans in
some ways. The city is pitched on
an island at point where the Volga
river divides into many smaller
streams, forming delta that extends
sixty miles to the Caspian sea.
The commerce of Astrakhan was
once comparable with that of st.
Louis, Memphis or of New Orleans.
1t was rich in furs, in fish, in caviar
and busy handling freight which
traversed the VOlga. There was once
food for every mouth and clothes for
every back, with work a-plenty for
every man. -
Today are seen the wrecks wrought
by combat between the imperial and
revolutionary forces, but no sympathy
is expressed with communism. 1--WE
have had enough" said one of the
wOrkmen who, together with thou
sands of his fellows had for eighteen
days, just after the Petrograd and
Moscow risings in 1917, took to arms
and besieged the Cossack troops and
the wealthy people of the city.
gathered in the Kremlin walls, in SOL
der barracks and other points at the
heart of the business district.
The immediate result of these eight
cen days of carnage was the destruc-
ton of the duma buildings, the gov
ernor's house, the great bazaar and
several blocks of stores filled with dry
goods and Persian and Turkestan car
pets, silks and other fineries.
The ultimate result is indicated by
the bare, fre-burned walls today
standing gaunt and cherries, with no
work on the river and no food in the
homes for these wOrkmen. The peo-
pie have little money to buy anything.
The spirited horses which once filed
the horse market at the riverside have
gone to the wars not to return or
have been requ1sitioned for the pres
ent Budenny cavalry, few troops of
which are -quartered here. - .<zSssa-.z
In the provincial hospital where 300
patients lay there was practically no
broth for famine refugees nor quinine
for fever suffers. Doctor Zakatowsky.
the woman surgeon in charge, said
American relief was promised, but so
far it had not come. s.,
The only public gathering places
opened seemed to be the moving-pic-
ture theater, which was crowded with
young people and soldiers of the
Budenny cavalry watching an utterly
villainous Italian tragedy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
.mExIA TYPICAL
MUSHROOM CITY
Texas Town Grows From Sleepy
Place of 5000 to $4,000 In
habitants Over Night.
OIL BOOM is RESPONSIBLE
Hundreds Are Forced to Sleep Out
Doors and There Is but Ono
T. Bathhouse in the Place
Prices Are High.

MeXia, Texas.-Mexia, which has
come into so much notoriety through
the sending of state troops here to
put an end to outlaw4y, the sale of
Illicit booze and restore order, is a
| typical mushroom city.
Overnight a tented city arose. From
an apparently sleepy little town of
1900 population in October, 1921,
| where old settlers farmed for living
| and eked out a bare existence from
| their lands to a bustling city of 3d.
! 600 people, and all in a few months,
| this is the recent record of Mexia, an
old-time Texas town, which is feel
ing the effects of one of the numer-
GUS oil developments in the South
west.
The population now consists of an
assortment of oil field followers and
| thousands of men and women seeking
employment. Consequently because
| of the exhorbitant prices charged for
| room, if one were lucky enough to
secure one, hundreds of men, favored
by the long continued mild winter, are
sleeping on the grass along railroad
tracks, public parking places and, in
fact, anywhere they can.
Beds in Tents Costly.
Overnight a bed in tent marked
"A place to flop" scared from so cents
night to SO. A night in a crude
plank structure where one didn't
know his bed-fellow or the hundreds
! of others in the single room cost IS.
Rail traffic jumped hundreds Of per
cent. There are two trunk lines, the
Houston & Texas Central and the
Trinity & Brazos Valley, leading
through here, and passenger traffic is
very heavy, while freight trains are
frequently seen running three abreast,
SO heavy is the demand for oil ma
chinery. One road is said to have spent
100000 In enlarging it's facilities. 90
The water situation is not alto
gether what could be desired. Getting
bath here is quite an experience, if
indeed not task. The old saying,
If you want to do something big
wash an elephant" certainly has found
parallel in Mexia.
r. But One Bathhouse.
This luxury may be found, outside
the woodland creeks, only in a down
town barber shop. The bathhouse is
stall in wooden-foored, planked-in
Enclosure. The plain, pine planks are
slippery, but the proprietors of the
house have found that it is not neces-
sary to maintain first-aid kits because
the board floors are warped enough
to allow the bather foothold.
But as for oil. There are a solid
six miles of new derricks, drillers, out
fits, tents, wooden buildings and people
where once there was the open
prairie. A survey of all local lumber
men shows that buildings completed
! or contracted for since October 1
total between $3,5OO,OOO and $5,OOO,-
coo.
Gambling and drinking halls filed
with dancing girls are open every
night, and one may buy openly "red"
and corn" whisky at SO cents
drink. Fortunes are lost overnight
at the dice and roulette tables.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
FIGHT ON PNEUMONIA
Army Doctors Seek Vaccine to
Prevent Dread Disease.
Mortality in Modern War Could Be
Cut 0ne-Half If Preventive for
Pneumonia and Other Respira-
tory Diseases Is Found.

Chicago.-Merritt w.: Ireland, sur
geon general of the United States
army, declared that the mortality in
modern war could be cut virtually one
half If preventive for pneumonia and
other respiratory diseases could be
found.
AS a corollary he asserted the elm
inatton Of the menace Of pneumonia
would cause such rapid increase In
the population of the world that in
short time we wouldn't know what to
do with the surplus.
His statements were made at the
Congress hotel, where he was guest
Of medical men attending the eight
eenth annual congress on medical edu-
cation, public health and hospitals. He
said they are based on figures compiled
from the death lists Of Americans in
the great war.
These figures disclose that while
$1,000 soldiers were killed on the bat
tletield,, $4,000 died from pneumonia
In the hospitals and training camps,
he said. OF these $4,000 died in four
months.
'"The greatest problem before med
ical men today is finding a vaccine or
preparation which will prevent the
contraction of diseases which lead to
pneumonia and DEATH" General Ire
land said. '"This controlled, deaths
from other diseases, especially in war.
fare would no nop1ipih1Q
physicians all over the country are
bending their best efforts to the solu-
ton Of this problem. In the army we
have been making extensive expert
ments and it is possible now that we
are on the track Of prepare
ton which will lead to the desired
results.
"Within the last few weeks army
physicians have been trying out a new
vaccine in the army and some Of the
reports are encouraging. That, how
ever, is all we can say. It will take
months of work before anything def
mite will be known.
IF war should be declared tomor-
row, would not need to have a sin
gle cot prepared for patients suffering
from typhoid fever and malaria, the
diseases which worked such havoc in
the Spanish-American war. These
diseases are under control. But under
present conditions we would have to
make a huge outlay both in money,
beds, and medicines for the fight
against respiratory diseases
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
PROF. OUT AS GOODS POWDER
California University Instructor May
Return II Girls Drop Vanity
Cases.

4 Berkeley, CaI-Diplomatic negoti-
atoms have been opened to have Al
win Thaler, associate English profess
sor at the University Of California,
return to the freshmen class whence
he abruptly walked out because cer-
tain girl students would not stop pow
dering their noses.
Eyes, admit I walked out" Prof.
Thaler said. asked them to put
aside their vanity cases and attend to
their work and they just giggled at
me and powdered away all the hard
5er. =
The gigglers, It is reported have
agreed to park their vanity boxes out
side and the professor Is expected 70
return TO the class 81. once.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
IODINE LEADS AS ANTISEPTlC
Especially Preferred by Physicians
Engaged In Industrial Work, Con-
ference Board Finds.

New York.-Iodine still holds first
place as a skin and wound disinfectant
in surgical technic, particularly In the
Industrial medical field. Such Objec-
tons as have been raised to It were
against the danger Of burns and the
discomfort it causes rather than
against its efficiency as a sterilizing
agent. In spite Of the great popular
ity attained by chlorin compounds In
the treatment of war wounds, iodine
still holds it's general popularity and
favor in medical circles in the treat
ment Of injuries in civil life.
The Conference Board Of Physicians
in Industry, which acts as adviser to
the National Industrial Conference
board, 10 East Thirty-ninth street, on
medical problems in industry, recently
investigated the extent in which iodine
Is used as wound disinfectant in in
dustrial work, the strength in which Il.
is used and the method Of preliminary
cleansing Of the wound before the ap-
plication Of iodine and dressings.
Replies were received from 65 ply
sicians, all of whom we're doing indus
trial work or surgery closely allied
to industry. Forty five replied that
they used solution Of five per cent
strength or less and twenty used q. s.
p. or greater strength. A few indus
trial physicians said they did not use
iodine, or only sparingly. These men
preferred such disinfectants as d.
chloraminT, picric acid, Dakin's solu-
ton and similar products. The objec-
ton to iodine was that it caused burns
too frequently.
Several physicians emphasized the
Importance of having the skin per-
pectly dry before iodine is applied.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
PIGS Milk Cow.

Luray, Va.-The mysterious milking
every night for some time of cow
belonging to David Baker, a farmer
OF this county, has just been explained.
Keeping q constant watch on the COW
for q night revealed the fact that sew
eral pigs were responsible. The pigs
were found standing on their hind
legs pulling and tugging at their break
fast.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
ITALY ROAD WORK AIDS IDLE.
Government Appropriation Of SIS, $780,
900 Provides Jobs for On
employed.

Rome.-Financial depression has in
creased unemployment in Italy. To re-
lieve the situation, the government has
allotted 268,OOO,O00 lire, equivalent at
par to $53,60O,00O, for public works.
This is in addition to relief works un-
dertaken by local government bodies.
The government fund will be used
in hydraulic works, harbor improve
ments, dredging channels, coast pro-
lection works and similar enterprises.
The last official figures showed 492,-
1858 unemployed and 1926 on part
time in Italy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
Nearly SIS Year. I. Teacher.

New York.-Miss Alice Elizabeth
Cranfield retired as teacher in the
New York public schools after con-
tinuous service of fifty-four years six
months and sixteen days. When she
was first employed her salary was
1882 year. Her salary last year.
was $500.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06

This girl prefers wild animals for
her playmates. She is Gladys Dit
mars, seventeen-year-old daughter OF
DR.. Raymond Ditmars, curator of the
Bronx zoo in New York. She knows
every species in the zoo by their first
and last names. The kinkaju and
woodchuck are small enough to be
real pets and they always can be
found around Gladys, who makes a
great fuss over them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
Rescuer Is Left $1oo. 900. !.

Cape Girardeau, Mo.-Jacob Kirc-
hoff, a cement laborer here at 35
cents an hour, was notified that he
had inherited 100000 from his uncle,
Casper Kirchoff of Pittsburgh, Pa,
whose life he saved in railroad ac-
cident in East st. Louis, Ill, thirty
one years ago. sz.s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
BLINDNESS DEC REAsEs IN U. S.
Cases Drop From 57,272 in 1910 to
52,617 in 1920, Say Census
Figures.

Washington, D. C.-The number Of
blind persons in the United States de-
creased from 57,272 in 1910 to 52,617
In 1920, according to figures for the
last census announced by the census
bureau. The decrease was attributed
in part to advanced methods for treat
ment in blindness and also to educa-
ton of the public in preventing blind
ness.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
Man Fights for Life
With Wolf in st. Paul

st. Paul - Arthur Laner,
twenty-seyen, appeared at city
hall with q 6O-pound gray wolf
he killed with his bare hands,
within the city limits. He was
going home early in the morning
when the vol, which he first
thought was dog, sprang on
him. Laner grasped It and bore
It to the ground. Getting hold
of its hind legs, he beat its brains
out on the pavement.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
Poles Bar shimmy and Trot.

Warsaw The .'shimmy,' the "scan-
dial" and even the fox trot are under
ban Of the Polish government. All
American dances, with the exception
Of the one-step, were prohibited by Of
fetal order at the recent annual mill
tary ball. #
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06

Mrs. Lulu e. Daniel, oldest inmate
Of the Arkansas Confederate home
near Little Rock, Ark, is just one
hundred and three years Of age. She
is anything but "has been,' having
a younger outlook on life than many
women half her age. She makes all
her own clothes, even to the Irish
crochet lace on her dainty collars.
She is stranger to digestive or other
Ills. Her lightness Of foot is phenom-
enaf:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
Farmer win Benefit Most.

AS government officials in Wash
ington see it, perhaps the biggest bene-
fit from this new and marvellous de-
yelopment will accrue to the farmer
in reducing his isolation. Some months
back the Department of Agriculture
began broadcasting market reports
through postal stations at SIX points.
Since then three state universities and
half dozen newspapers have taken
up the proposition. -. ~. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
%.5.zEegZ SIS
AIR ''CHAT TER
NOW POPULAR.
Wireless Telephone Receiving
Stations Are Rapidly Crow
ing in Number.
MILLIONS BY End OF YEAR
Washington Keeps No Record Of Re-
-s--ceisias- Stations, but Officials sEsti-e
mate Huge Number Will Soon
- Be in Existence.

Neutrality-suspicious. the end of 1922
there will be installed throughout the
United States minimum of 100000
receiving apparatus to pick up the
chatter" that is being broadcasted
daily through the air by radio, so gov
eminent officials in Washington esti-
mate. ~
No license and no record is required
of receiving stations and there is no
way Of knowing just how many there
are, but where there were only about
25,OOO year ago it is believed there
are at least 100000 now, and of that
number fully half have broken into
the radio game in the past thirty days.
Developing Radio Operators
Washington has never witnessed
anything like the way the wireless tel
ephone has caught the Imagination of
the American people. All ssuch mat
tiers come under D. B. Carson, COM
missioner of navigation in the Depart
ment Of Commerce, Washington, who
is literally deluged with applications
for licenses for sending stations, espe-
cially the big broadcasting plants.
The big growth has come within the
past month since the few successful
demonstrations on large scale Of the
wireless telephone. Prior to this the
department conducted propaganda to-
interest amateurs to break into the
game. so the nation would have a re-
serve of radio operators who knew the
game. Now it can hardly answer the
thousands of queries that come in. e..
Manufacturers of receiving appara-
tus for the wireless telephone report
that they cannot begin to fill the or
ders and are doubling their output
every few weeks, while the turning
out. of homemade apparatus Is being
undertaken by the inventive American
boy. ------e, -
The citizen., 1922-07-06
Why Ship 10 Feminine.

A ship is Invariably spoken Of as
of the feminine gender. This Is traced
Ia the ancient Greeks. who called all
ships feminine names out Of respect
to Athens, goddess of the sea. Fri
day is believed to be an unlucky day
by those who are superstitlous. II
Is derived from the fact IL was the
day Of Chris,s-crucifixion as well as
the one on which Adam and Eve ate
the. forbidden fruit. Few. perhaps
are aware why weathercock Is fire.
queDtly attached 10 a church steeplc.
This Is believed to remind people %
Peters denial Of Christ. II Is a com
mon belief that peacock's feathers are
unlucky This II due to the tradition
that the bird opened the gate Of para
disc To the serpent. Exchange.
The citizen., 1922-07-06

Probably more than one small boy
has "stumped" his father by asking
him what makes iron turn red when II
Is heated sufficiently. The reason 10
simpler than most fathers suspect.
Heat, II there Is enough OF II, al
ways produces light The heat Of the
sun surpasses all calculation and con-
lecture. II is the Aim inside the glass
globe. heated 10 incandescence. which
gives the electric light As iron alb
sorhs heat II first becomes a dun.
brownish red Then 10 becomes a
bright red and rrfaliy, as Il IL heated
10 the melting point. II becomes a white
30 dazzling that II innicts pain on the
eye looking al H. The varying shades
Of color are produced by the varying
hent-Cleveland NewsIeader.