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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-25

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE. Mani
toba. March 24.-Mr. and Mrs. Max
Warhaft their three children and a
maid were burned to death when fire
destroyed the Warhaft home al
Amanth. Manitoba. Friday
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-25

Indiana showers ana probably
thunderstorm saturday. warmer fn
extreme north portion Saturday
SUNDAY showers and cooler
Lower Michigan Ram I'D south
and rain or snow in north r.r' HE
saturday and sunday uo decided
-hauge Bro temperature
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SIX BURNED TO DEATH.

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Evening star., 1922-03-21
LOSES HER $4,000 SUIT
FOR BREACH OF PROMISE

Ms. Ida F. Maupin. widow. yes
terday lost her suit for $4,000 dam
ages against Edward D. Wilburne,
railroad conductor, for alleged
breach of promise to marry her. A
jury in Circuit Division No. before
Justice Hoehling, after hearing the
versions Of both the widow and
Wilburne, who is a widower, with an
eighteen-year-old daughter, returned
verdict for the man.
Mrs. Maupin said she made all ar
rangements for her wedding which
was scheduled for June Is, 1921, but
on the morning set for the ceremony
Wilburne called her up and declared
it all Off Wilburne declared he and
his prospective bride had a dis
agreement a few days before the
wedding date and when he suggested
a postponement of the wedding un-
til they could better understand each
other quoted the widow as saying:
"You can postpone it If you want,
but if you do it will be for ever"
Taking this as his dismissal. Will
burne said he considered she had
broken Off the match.
Attorney F. S. Key-Smith appeared
for Mrs. Maupin, while the defendant
was represented by Attorneys Wilton
]. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman and
Charles S. Baker.
Evening star., 1922-03-21
GA|NOPPOSE SITE
OF HEA[THSCHOOL
Foes Of Local tuberculosis
Project Supported by Three
Associations.

Another effort to sway the Com
missioners from their decision to erect
the health school for tubercular chill
drcn near 14th and Upshur streets
was made today by representatives of
three citizens associations. who ap-
peared before the ,city heads at the
District building.
Residents of the community recent
ly obtained temporary injunction in
the District Supreme Court on the
contention that the lSnd in question
vas not acquired for the purpose of
erecting such d school.
Law Asked Of Congress.
Following issuance of the tempo
rary restraining order the Commis
sioners asked Congress to enact law
authorizing the use of the 14th and
Upshur site for that specific purpose.
The associations which appeared in
opposition to locating the school
north. of 14th and Upshur were Piney
Branch. Sixteenth Street HfghlandS
and Brightwood.
E. r.. Woodson. spokesman for
Sixteenth street highlands, injected
new point in the controversy when
he declared that erection of special
school at any location will not do as
much to restore these children To
AIdllH dS Inc uolulHS Oi open al
classes for ahem in each section
where any of them live.
Mr.. Woodson asserted that to
segregate these fifty or seventy-five
children in a special school a long
distance from their homes marks
them as objects of pity and causes
other children to shun them.
Medical men agree" Mr.. Woodson
said, that the only cure for this
disease is fresh air, sunshine and
happiness, and 1 submit that you
cannot provide them with those
things in a building
VIII Have Open-Afr Glasses.
Engineer Commissioner Keller ex-
planned to Mr.. Woodson that it is
planned to hold open-air classes at
the Health School. except in incle-
nient weather. Clinton r. Thompson.
chairman of the school committee of
the Piney Branch Citizens Associa-
tion, argued it would be an unwise
financial proposition to devote So
valuable a site as that near 14th and
Upshur streets to a school for the
accommo odation of a small number OF
children, when there will soon be
need for the erection of new business
and technical high schools.
f. u Henderson of Piney Branch
and MI. Randolph of Brightwood AS
sociation also spoke.
Evening star., 1922-03-21
Mr.. .HUGHESGUEST
| OF PERSIAN ENVOY
Honored at Luncheon at Le-
cation on Occasion of
"Mo-R0uz."

Secretary of State Hughes was the
guest of honor at luncheon given
today at the Persian legation by the
minister. Mira Hussein Khan Alai.
on the occasion of the Feast of No
Rouz, or the Persian New Year day.
Other invited guests included: The
French, Chilean, Belgian and Bra
lillian ambassadors. Minister SEE of
China. Secretary Mellon of the Treas
ury. Senator Pomerene of Ohio;
Representative Linthicum of Mary
land, representative Porter of Penn
sylvania, Robert Lansing. Fred Nor
ris Dearing. Robert Woods Bliss.
Phra Sanpakitch, the Siamese. charge
d'afraires: DR.. 4. c. Millspaugh. Fred
Morgan Shuster and Ali Asghar Khan
Minister Makes Address.
After the toasts to His Imperial
Majesty the Shah. President Harding
and Mr.. Hughes, the minister made a
brief address in which he explained
the significance of this national fes-
tival of Persia.
in America and Europe" he SAID.
the New Year day is celebrated in
midwinter, when the earth is often
covered with ice and snow. In Persia
We celebrate the No-RouZ, or New
Day, when the sun begins to warm
the earth into fresh life and spring
is ushered in with the entry of the
beneficent luminary into the sign of
Aries. The vernal equinox has al
ways been "a. great. festival among
Aryan peoples and we Persians have
inherited the No-Rouz and its at
tendant ceremonies from Zoroastrian
times 1t is a period of feaSting and
rejoicing and lasts ten days. during
vlrl,i ,irst, f,rNf ftsat i'm MOI rcf 4 70
work is DONE"
In accordance with Persian Gus
tom. the minister presented each Of
the guests with a small Persian gold
coin and some wheat and rice-a
symbolic offering to wish ones friends
accompany this gift continued the
speaker. with the words 'Mobarak
bashad.' thta means May it be propi-
tious to you l venture to follow this
custom of my country and say to you
Mobarak bashad.'"
The minister said the ancient Per-
sian people, as they once more enter
upon new year. are convinced that
in the eternal struggle between right
and wrong the genius of good will
finally triumph over the powers of
evil"
In his toast to Secretary Hughes
the minister said: Il drink to the
health of the eminent statesman. Mr..
Hughes. whose brilliant leadership of
the Washington conference has won
him the admiration and respect of
mankind"
The national dish of Persia. the
polow. made Of rice and chicken. was
served The general scheme of floral
decorations was green. white and red,
the national colors of Persia The
rooms were decorated with beautiful
Persian rugs and embroideries and
some handsomely carved brass orna-
ments were IL peculiar attraction.
From 4:30 to o'clock this evening
there will be reception at the lega-
ton. Nine. JusSerand, wife of the
French ambassador. will assist the
host in receiving. A program of mu-
sic. including some Persian melodies,
will be given.
Evening star., 1922-03-21
BRAUN CASE CONTINUED.
Further Hearing Planned March 27
in Suit Involving Bergdoll.

Justice Bailey of the District Su-
preme Court yesterday heard testi-
mony in the suit of Charles Braun,
a brother of Grover c. Bergdoll, the
draft evader. against the alien prop
erty custodian for the return Of $15.-
600 said to belong to him, but which
was seized as the property of the
brother. Grover. The hearing was
continued until March 81, when the
court will hear testimony on the
claim of Mrs. Emma 6. Bergdoll. the
mother. who seeks the return of
s75O.OO0 said to have been illegally
seized under the trading with the en-
emy act.
Braun. on the witness stand. said he
had no business dealings with his
brother Grover since 1916 and had
paid his mother $4,000 in cash for
the note in question. Asked where he
got the money Braun said he always
kept reserve of $4,000 since he
was twenty-one years old. Mrs. Berg
doll testified in corroboration of her
son Charles.
Braun had his name changed by
law. it was stated
Evening star., 1922-03-21
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Will. NOT EE RESPONSIBLE FOR
debts unless contracted by myself. FRANK
wEISBACkER. Capitol Heights. Md. rs
JOHN 1. EDWARDS COMPANI.-NUTICE
in hereby given that tho Undersigned ali
residing in the District of Columbia. have
formed Il limited partnership for the transac-
ron Of business stock brokers: that the un-
dcrsigned. John l.. Edwards, Albert r. Ma
dcira. and william Thompson Rurch. are gen
eral partners: that Henry T. Erwin is spe-
rial partner and has contributed to the com
mon stock Of the partnership the sun, Of
5000 which has been actually paid in in
cash: anil that said partnership mmerced on
January 3 19.,o and is to terminate de-
cemiper 80, 1912. Dated at the City Of Wash
ington, January 3. 1872. tSisnedl JOHN J..
EDWARDS. ALBERT p. MADEIRA. WILL
LIAM THOMPSON BURCH, HENRY p. Err
WIN.
wANTEDITO CARRY 4 VANLOAD OF
household goods frGm Washington to Pttts,
Evening star., 1922-03-21
Lord Bacon Stuffed
Foul With Sno.v,

Lord Bacon gave his life to sci
ence in making what was probably
the first experiment in cold stor-
age. He left his coach one snowy
day some 2o6 yeai, ago to collect
snow "in order to observe the ef-
feet of cold OH liz. preservation OF
the fowls flesh lie never recov-
cred from the effects of the expo
sure. In his last letter he wrote
that the experiment with the snow
had succeeded excellently well. !"
Nosc in the ice bo.res of more than
half of Washington. its bhre .4mefican
Ice that keeps the foacl fresh and ssvect
.ntH its ready to roast. broil, fry or
fricassec.
Evening star., 1922-03-21

proposed tax which would force a
merger or make the stockholders of
his company agree to a merger.
Mr.. Hanna declared that the Capital
Traction Company is operated eco
nomical1y today and is rated one of
panies in the country. He said, how
ever. that there had been falling
off in the number of passengers car
ried. amounting to something over 2
per cent, since the first of the year.
as compared to a similar period last
year. II merger Of the compan MES
were effected, Mr.. Hanna said, the
main saving would come from the
merging of the power plants. He. too.
said there would be little overhead
saving, practically none. in rerouting
of>cars; that there was no surplus Of
trackage in the District and that the
advantage would be to the companies
rather than to the public.
Mr.. Hanna said that the street car
companies were constantly operating
under competition. with each other
and with the automobile and the
man who walks" He said that the
scent fare, OF six tickets for quar-
fare than the fare charged today,
when everything was taken into con-
sideration..
He pointed out that in 1914 the
conductors and motOrmen were paid
s2.25 a day and now they are paid
$3.50; that coal cost $3.30 a ton, and
today it costs $3.50 ton, and
that other materials and labor had
gone up correspondingly. When these
charges go down, he said, there
would be reduction in fares. He
predicted that the pay Of the motor
men and conductors would never ap-
proach again the low level Of 1914,
and added that they should not. A
5h cent fare on the Capital Trac-
tion lines last year, he said. would
have meant that the company would
have had no earnings at all.
"What would you do to cure the
situation here?" demanded Senator
King of Utah.
Would Eliminate Tax Feature.
"1 would pass the bill permitting
the merger of the companies with
c,'+ the, tax feature" replied Mr..
Hanna
-c..ator King said he was opposed
to the tax feature as manffestly un-
fair, and Senator Stanley ,.of Ken
lucky said he was inclined to that
view also.
Mr. Hanna said that with one-third Of
the trackage in the city proper the
Capital Traction Company had carried
4S per cent of the passengers. He In
sisted that it was because Of the good
service and the traditions Of the COM
pany that this was so.
w. F. Ham, speaking. for the WASH
ington Railway and Electric Company,
Evening star., 1922-03-21

Lafe Bud is sellin' stock in
company that's t make quick
Silver fer movie tears.
If mother ever gifts a six-hour
day somebuddy's goin' t go
broke payin' fer overtime.
Copyright National Newspaper service)
Evening star., 1922-03-21
SPECIAL NOTICES,

O1 IV1AA VV1xVC0.
SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING COURSE
for divine ministry. Noon silence daily, Phone
Lincoln 311.
HAVE YOU FRIEND?
Do them favor and explain how reasonabl
we do your laundry and dry cleaning
CARMACk.
24l1 14th st. NV. Phone Columbia 1916
SPRING PAINTING HINT: BRUSH-NU RE-
news your brushes. cleans floors, saves a coat
OF paint or varnish. It's a mild powder used
in water. Mixed tan. half pound-35c-
makes six gallons Of PAINT SAVER or mixed
thick half gallon of BRUSH-NEWER AND
FLOOR CLEANER. A pound makes twice as
much for GGc. BUY BRUsH-NU ut paint or
hardware stores. Geo. Il. Gill, Distributor,
u. Pa ave. Sc. Phone Lincoln $500.
RIALTO GIFT SHOP. us 9th ST. NV.
Make money hand coloring cards. We carry
an attractive line of Easter and birthday cards
for colorinS. Martha Washington candy.
Open evenings and Sunday 26s
Evening star., 1922-03-21
Have Your Wood

Floors dressed up now. planed. scraped or
cleaned with chemicals and highly polished.
L. ADAHS.
Main 1851 Night Frank. 6347. 21s
EXPERT BOOkkEEPER. WILL WRITE UP
and keep set books daily weekly; part time
Office 33s
Evening star., 1922-03-21
Liquid Asbestos Roofinp

Cement put on with a brush, on any kind Of
roof. L sell wholesale to the consumer: no.
agents commissions. 81 gallon, in 5-9allon
buckets. delivered. From two leading manu-
facturers. Contains no tar. I apply same and
guarantee your roof Iom leaks years. Es-
Inmates furnished free. MADISON CLARK
1914 Pa. ave. Sc. Lincoln 421a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
Nature and Bears
Balk Native Hunters

"Bears are also very fond of the
fruit flesh, and large numbers of them
roam the forests in search of kalaw
fruits. Therefore, at that particular
time, the natives refrain from going to
collect these, as they have no firearms
and their spears are inadequate weapons
with which to meet horde of bears.
''Thc heavy rains wash the large
and often buoyant seeds into the creek
and thence into the Khodan stream,
the fish of which feed on them. The
natives stated that they dare not eat
any fish from the Khodan stream, as 1t
would produce the same effect as the
eating of number Of fresh kalaw
seeds.
"Wild pigs are also fond Of the seeds,
and the natives refrain from eating pork
at the kalaw fruiting seasons. as the
flesh of pigs which have fed on kaaw
seeds Is poisonous, producing nausea
and vomiting.
after the rains have ceased, when
the animals have had their share of
kalaw fruits and seeds and the heavy
rains have washed large numbers OF
them into the stream, the natives pro-
coed, in parties Of twenty to thirty, to
collect the remaining seeds. Needless
to say, they lose about 10 per cent o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
Explorers Are Feted
R0EallY at Jungle's Edge

But the expedition was not all dan
ger and drudgery. There were the
! charms of Bangkok, with it's wonderful
temples, the gorgeous colors of its tiled
roofs, it's green jade Buddhas under
golden umbrellas. There were garden
parties, and in the jungle itself were
beauties found only in the tropics.
In an article written for the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine, supple
menting his official reports to his su-
periors. Prof. Rock thus describes one
of the entertainments given in his
honor:
Entertainment followed entertain. .
ment. the series eliminating in n gar
den party on the lawn of the Viceroy S
residence lin ChiengmaiD, facing the
Meh Ping, which then reached almost
to the level Of the road. 1t was moon
light night, flags and lampions deco
rated the trees. and to the soft murmur
of the peaceful waters of the river, on
whose placid surface the moon was re-
flected, old Lao orchestras played weird
chords which harmonized with the fam
tastic movements of the strangely cos
TUNED Lao spear and sword dancers.
These agile and graceful Lao ladies
welded long spears with great dex-
terity. A Siamese military band played
strange and yet familiar airs at inter-
walls, and it was long after midnight
before this really royal entertainment
came to close"
But those were only incidents which
broke the journeys into regions where
wild beasts stalked their human prey,
and where eternal vigilance was the
price of safety. There were mighty
gorgcs. deep detilcs, dangerous rapids,
forested mountains. The natives showed
the American the spot where, they
said, Buddha crossed the hill with
fighting cock. which scratched the sur
face of the ground to such an extent as
to leave it bare today!
And the Lao crew, instead of buying
fresh fish, ate the oldest and rottenest
they could hnd.
In the same magazine article Prof.
Rock elaborates the official report of
the killing of members of his party by
n tiger in the following language:
II had planned to begin the return
tourney to Mawlaik the next day. but
| had reckoned without the tiger. Two
of my coolies had q small rice field
only a quarter of a mile distant, in
the jungle, with small hut in which
their children and womenfolk slept and
guarded their harvested grain. Instead
of returning that evening to their hut
they remained in the village, leaving
their women alone In the field.
"At q o'clock the next morning. as
l was about to start, and the coolies
were ready 70 take their burdens, the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
TUO Cases of Leprosy
Found Here in 1911
YEPROSY has raised its grizSly

| ! EPROSY has raised its grizzly
head Within Philadelphia as re-
Gently as 1911. In that year tt0o
lComen - both Russians - aDere
taken to the Municipal Hospital
With affections a0hich Were iden-
tilted as ieprosy in mild form.
Neither had ever seen the other,
one having been in this country
for tOenty-cight gears and the
other eight gears.
New York, aOith its large vol-
ume of immigration, has frequent
experience Nth lepers. 1t is es-
timated that there are about 500
of them in continental United
States at present.
Although now considered an
Oriental disease, leprosy aoas so
widespread in medieral Europe
that there were more than 10000
leper houses of known record.
During the fifteenth century the
disease underWent a remarkable
diminution. VI
Its presence there today is conf
paratipely negligible, although il
still erists in Norway, Iceland,
along the shores of the Baltic. in
South Russia, Greece, Turkey,
Portugal and Spain. In the last
named country il is reported
slightly on the increase.
Leprosy has made such er-
tensive gains in South America,
China, Japan and the Antipodes.
however, that the discovery Of
the true chauInsoogra oil, whoss
curative effects are now proved.
is regarded by medical author-
tiles as of the highest importanos
in checking a situation thct was
rapidly becoming serious.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10

more of each crop through the causes
Just enumerated.
The writer found many seeds ger
minating on the edges of the creek bed
and In the pure sand of these dark and
somber hill forests where the sun can
hardly penetrate. a number of these
seedlings set established sufficiently to
withstand the heavy downpours which
must swell these creeks to a consider.
able extent; for only short periods,
however, as the sandy soil takes up a
great volume of these rushing torrents.
Large kalaw trees have been found by
the writer growing in the middle of
these beds. Taraktogenos kurzii de-
velops n strong and vigorous taproot,
which enables the tree to withstand
strong currents. That the currents are
swift was made evident by the exposure
of the whole root system of an cnor.
nous tree of Dipterocarpus alatus
which grew on the steep banks of the
creek.
''The collection of seed. even in the
winter, IL exceedingly dangerous, owing
to wild animals, especially tigers and
elephants. The cold season being the
mating season, these animals roam
through the forests. Tigers wreak havoc
in these jungle villages by carrying off
bullocks, and often. as was the case
during the writer's visit at Kyokta,
human beings. A tiger followed the
writer and thirty one coolies in broad
daylight for II whole day up the creek
bed into the kalaw forests. Returning
during the following night, the beast
killed three women and two -year-old
child"
Then Professor Rock observed in
matter fact tones:
by the writer and packed in moist
powdered charcoal in cotton bags. These
were wrapped securelw in strong oil
paper, then in heavy manila wrapping
paper. securely tied, and dispatched
from Mawlaik to Honolulu. Washing
ton. ID. g.. the philippines, and Singa-
pore. The seeds sent to Honolulu and
Washington arrived in good condition
and germinated well in both places, the
result being several thousand trees which
give promise Of becoming well estab.
lished.'
That was all of the hazards of that
particular journey-a man eater kills
three women and two-year- old child
and the kalaw seed are shipped as
per directions!
In another passage Rock tells Of a
trip he did not take because of the lack
of time and threatened railroad strikes.
The chaulmoogra tree, the report
states, is apparently very common in
the Chittagong hill tracts and the Kas-
salong forest reserve.
'This reserve" Prof. Rock goes on
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
Chaulm0Ogra Healing
Appears in Legends

Prof. Rock found, too, that the nat :
ives of the Upper 'hindwin district
cherished legend which credits the
kalaw or true chaulmoosra tree with
the mower 10 heel leprosy, indicating
that its unscientitic Use in the treatment
OF that disease dates back to antiquity
Here rs a free rendition from the
"Mahawin," the history of the Buddhas
and their Rahandas. relating to the
kalaw, as translated to Prof Rock
by deputy revenue collector of that
district:
"This legend" Professor Rock says,