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continued through the night, Police
Selling documents and OBTAINING
300 persons, most of whom were
later released One report said a.
quarter of million documents were
conflscated.
Soviet officials at Moscow today
refused to comment on the raid
until they had received further in.
formation from London.
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ANDREWS NEEDS
UNFETTERED HAND
SAYS DR.. WILSON
Methodist Temperance
Head Believes Sentiment
FavorS Dry Chief.
By Roscoe b. Fleming,
Times Staff COyTesDOudeut


WASHINGTON, May 13.-It
would be a grave mistake to tie the
hands of Lincoln c. Andrews in the
enforcement of prohibition, in the
belief of DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
executive head of the Methodist
board of temperance, prohibition and
public morals.
DR.. Wilson, who has just returned
from a two-weeks' speaking tour
throughout the country, said this
was not only his opinion, but that
he had found sentiment among those
with whom he had talked strongly
in favor of Andrews.
Fighting for Haynes
Washington believes that the Anti
Saloon League, which is fighting, so
far successfully, for the appointment
of Roy A. Hayes to be prohibition
commissioner under Andrews, hopes
ultimately to sidetrack the latter as
he sidetracked Hayes.
Il find people generally give An
drews the credit, for instance, of
drying up Rum Row off our east
coast" said Wilson. "They like his
methods and think them more sue
cessful than those of his predeces.
sors,
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ParlOr-Ruffet
Schedule

These luxurious coach
es leave Indianapolis
for FIT. Wayne at TOO
A. NJ, 100 and 500
P. M.-and leave Fl.
Wayne at 700 and
1915 A. NJ, and 4:15
and 5:15 P. M. Two
fast routes-via Nun
Gle and via Peru.
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Not Outsiders

Il do not like to deal in PERSONAL
ties and therefore prefer not to say
anything about Haynes possible APP
pointment as permanent commits
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DELUGE DOOMS
SUGAR BOWL; Dixie
CREVASSES GROW
$4,000, Loss Looms
Workers EvaCuate
COttonport.

BIZ United Press
NEW ORLEANS, La, May 10
Flood waters clipped another great
section off the Bayou des GLASSES
levee today at Bordelonville, in the
heart of Big Bend. Engineers and
relief workers said the crevasse was
already $50 feet wide.
The levee was cracking gradually
eastward, booming the Sugar
Bowl" lands of Louisiana. where
10000 people have lived and
property worth more than 100000.
600 lies in the flood path.
The levee stretched east Of Cotton
port along the Bayou des CLASSES
was doomed, however, and most of
the 1000 workers there had with
drawn, according to engineers.
Weakening Levees
Heavy rains along the Missis-
sippi north Of Baton Rouge today
were weakening levees in that
threatened flood area and making
hazardous the work of strengthen.
ing ramparts.
The river has risen two-tenths Of
a foot here in the last twenty-four
hours, the river gauge reading 20.4.
The predicted crest is twenty-one
feet.
The benefit show for Mississippi
flood sufferers, presented at the
Hollywood (Cal) bowl last night by
stage and screen celebrities, raised
approximately $4,000. More than
10000 attended. John Barrymore,
the Duncan Sisters and Eddie Can
tor were headliners.
Now S11 ,O64,Si9
The Red Cross flood relief fund
today reached $11.O64,S $40. Washing
ton headquarters announced. Lin
coin, Neb.. chapter reported a con-
tribution from Guatemala. Central
America. Between rs and so per
cent of all Mississippi flood re-
fugees have been inoculated against
typhoid. Red Cross officials said.
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DUVALL M|SS|VE
STRIKES JOHNSON
Continued From Page u

amounts Of city property for their
own use and the use of others for
merly connected with the city adj
ministratiOn.
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British food experts say Cleopatra
ate onions and used gaelic and other
! highly scented ingredients in her
food.
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Easy Chair Comfort

CINK down lazily in a deep
- cushioned easy chartered or
talk or rest-enjoy the luxury of a
roomy, individual seat while you
ride along speedily and comfort
ably in a clean, safe UNION
TRACTION car.
UNION TRACTION offers this
easy-chair comfort between Indi-
annapolis and Fl. Wayne for only
an extra fraction of cent per
mile. The parlor-buffet cars are
the finest form Of interurban
travel.
And while you are riding so COM
fortably, you can order a delicious
ly prepared luncheon or dinner.
Could anything be more con
venient?
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Building a Barrage

Johnson asserted ut seems as
though the mayor is building up
barrage." He said that if aft
davits are filed in the political cor
-ruption probe, any one involved will
"be given a fair and impartial trial"
ut is up to the prosecutors TO pre-
sent the evidence and the court TO
determine the guilt" he said.
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u TO CIRCLE
GLOBE TONIGHT
Continued From Page II

and thence back to Columbia, where
it will return to it's starting point
bearing the signatures of United
Press men who handled it in en-
route, after a journey of 26,605
miles. The time required for this
feat is problematical. but cable com
pany officials feel confident it can
be done before the dinner is finished.
ReIayed TO South America
Another message will be sent from
Columbia and relayed around South
America. from New York to Lima,
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and
back TO New York and Columbia, as
test of the ease with. which the L..
p. can communicate with its bureaus
on that continent.
The demonstration Of quick COM
munication with ships at sea will be
staged through the cooperation of
the Radio Corporation of America.
which will use its wireless towers
at New York and San Francisco to
aid the United Press in making
quick contact with vessels every
where.
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Remy's UItimatum

Remy has indicated he will not
act until receipt of laws passed in the
recent Legislature are obtained from
all county clerks and the acts de-
clared in effect by Governor Jack
son. This viii make effective an act
which provides affidavits may be
filed in a grand jury term.
Two witnesses before prosecutors
Thursday were Ernest L. Kingston,
board of safety president in Shank s
administration, and NJ. J. Hanrahan,
political worker and investigator.
DuvalPs Letter
Mayor Duvall's letter to Judge
James A. Collins follows:
II have your letter of May II In
answer to my message to you of
May 10 and, of course, appreciate
the high position and stand taken
by the court.
my letter to you in part recalled
again to those who are familiar with
the circumstances surrounding the
dismissal of my park board some few
months ago, what / consider and
what Alva j. Rucked considered
while corporation counsel under my
administration, gross negligence of
Office and unlawful management on
the part of the members of said
board. You perhaps recall the Hon.
Emsley Johnson, whom you appoint
"a ioI a4f In,
this probe, was at that time and
during the previous administration
president of the board Of park COM
missioners of this city.
1.-THE following is a brief synopsis
Of the unlawful acts which occurred
and was carried out by employees
who were under the direct supervi-
sion and with the knowledge of the
governing board, commonly known
as the park board.
During the year of 1925 and re-
ferring to the charges filed by Mr..
Rucker find, in part, the following:
That vast amounts of property be-
longing to the city of Indianapolis,
at the instigation of the members of
the park board in their official capac-
ity, was appropriated to their per-
sonal use and the use of others,
namely. ex-Mayor Samuel Lewis
Shank, who received a large amount
Of shrubbery and other property and
many hours of labor paid by the
city. Herman Rikhoff, former chief
Of police; Frank Manly and Albert
M. Mcguire, who were then members
of the park board, and others profit
ed by obtaining large amount of
city property because of the unlaw-
full acts of this board of park COM
missioners.
II feel that after you have re.
fected on this letter you will in
stantly recognize the fact that it
would be impossible for me to re-
ceive fair and impartial treatment
at the hands of those who are now
conducting this probe.
Assuring you again of my earn
est desire to present the evidence
which l have to the proper tribunal
and this particular evidence being a
part of that which will be carried by
the statute of limitations before the
converting of the July grand jury,
and it being my desire that Justice
be obtained and that the people be
Informed of the truth
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MOTION PICTURES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07

Before the mike. Walter Johnson telling the fans
here and everywhere of his appreciation of the honors
accorded him in the celebration at Griffith Stadium
Tuesday of the twentieth anniversary of the big
pitchers service with the Washington base ball team.
Nation
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Mans Food Supply for
Seventy Years of Life

If man Of seventy years were
starving 1t would probably be Of little
comfort to him to reflect that he had
consumed in the course of his life 53%
tons Of solid food and 42A tons OF
liquid, or about 1880 times his own
weight In both solids and liquids, but
it would be quite true.
Being a man Of average appetite
and purse, he would have eaten Is
tons of bread, which would have made
a single loaf containing 1000 cubic
feet and appearing about as large as
the average suburban home, and on
this bread he would have spread one
ton Of butter. If his bacon had been
cut In single slices the strip would
have been four miles long, and his
chops, placed end to end, would have
extended two miles. Twenty ordinary
sized bullocks have supplied him with
beef, some IS tons of which he has
eaten, along with 5 tons of fish and
10000 eggs and $50 pounds of cheese.
If he had elected to have all his vege-
tables served at once, they would have
come to him on a train of cars, the
pod containing all his peas being over
three miles long. He has had 1900
pounds Of sugar, 1900 pounds of salt,
8 pounds of pepper and 100 cans of
mustard. Three pints of liquid a day
would have amounted to 10000 pints
or 42A tons.-Washingto Star.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Old English Monarch
Man of Modern Ideas

Burglary insurance is no modern in
stitutiOn. 1t seems to have existed
from the time Of King Alfred and was
probably introduced by this king who,
had he lived in these times, would
have made a name as a successful
business man.
The town of Ripon, England, he
gave in S66 into the charge of coun-
Gil, who appointed a Waterman to
blow horn every night at nine
o'clock. Between that hour and sun
rise the town was quiet and no one
was supposed to be abroad. But
Ripon was not altogether law-abid-
ing place and presently the town au-
thOrities found it necessary to pro-
tect its peaceful citizens against raid
ers and robbers.
And so law was passed that any
householder wishing so to protect his
house from robbery should pay 4
pence year to the authorities. Then.
if his house was entered and his goods
stolen or damaged between the blow
ing of the horn and sunrise, he could
claim from the town council, who un-
dertOok to compensate him.-Music
and Youth.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Lurch of Avalanche
Stoned bv Concrete

The lurch of the Rocher de la Gu
settle, in the Jura, near Neuchatel,
Switzerland, some twenty years ago,
was one of the rare cases where man
has been able to avert a threatened
avalanche. Engineers were so lavish
with concrete that they managed to
prop up the mountain and save the
valley of the Arouse, and its electrical
power-generating torrent, from block
age.
Britain has a sliding mountain-the
TrOedrhiwfuwch peak. near Bargoed,
Glamorganshire, whose restlessness of
late years has broken the Rhymney
valley water mains, which supply more
than 100000 persons, twisted railway
lines, cracked walls, houses and roads
and opened great assures. Alarm was
caused and damage done by the slid
ing of Oaker hill, just north Of the
Matlock, in May. 1925; and a hill
above the Mole, near Dorking, was
slipping recently.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Natural Pendulum

A giant pendulum, formed by u
strange freak of nature, swings in
Yellowstone National park, not far
from Old Faithful geyser, according
to the official government naturalist
in charge of the lecture and nature
study work of the United States ma
tiOnal park service. 1t consists of the
trunk of lodge pole pine, suspended
by its top between two other trees of
the same species and swinging by its
base, so that a mere touch will set
it to swaying. Apparently the tree
fell or was blown over many years
ago, its top becoming lodged in the
tops of its neighbors, which grew out
and surrounded it, supporting it Sc
curely. Subsequently several feet Of
its base rotted away, leaving it sus-
pended in midair. One of the park
nature trails has been run near this
strange natural grandfather clock, and
tourists are permitted to set it swing
ing.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
PoOerless to Resist
SUeep of Avalanche

There were several destructive
avalanches in the st. Gothard region
in 1925, when the railway was dam
aged at several points, and many
peasants and workmen were killed.
But one rainy Sunday in September,
forty-five years ago, 100 persons per-
ished when large portion of the
Plattenbergkopf split off and slid
down on the village of Elm.
Early in the day great boulders
began to come crashing down with
disturbing frequency, and quite a
number Of men were out watching
them. Suddenly they saw a whole
cliff sway and topple over. Seven
teen minutes later another cliff fell,
and, to their horror, the doomed vii
layers saw that the mountain had
thus been undermined, and was poised
over thin air far above them. Four
minutes later it fell, shattered into
millions of fragments, and came slid
ing down at terrific speed. Through
the village went the avalanche, across
the tranquil meadows Of the valley,
and up the opposite mountain-side for
couple of hundred feet, when it di-
verged right and left, like the wash
of a spent wave, for many hundred
yards.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
California's Borax

When the search for gold in Califor.
mia was at its height in January. 1856,
DR.. John A. Veatch discovered borax
in the waters of Tuscan springs, TIE.
hama county, thus disclosing another
source of wealth among California's
natural resources. Today California
produces the largest part Of the
worlds supply of borax. In the early
days borax deposits were of the playa
or dry lake bed type, and these were
worked until 1887. when the coleman
lite deposits, SO named after w. T.
Coleman, associated with F. w.
(Borax) Smith in their development,
were discovered. Since that time the
dry lake deposits have been aban-
doned and colemanite has been the
only type Of borax mined for 40
years.-Mercantile Trust Review.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Big Journeys by Animals

Tigers are great travellers, especial
ly those of China, Mongolia and Man.
churia, which have been known to
cover 60 and 20 miles in the course
of single nights slouching trot
along the game trails on the sparsely
timbered hills. Sea lions, it has been
proved, make 10000 mile journeys,
and seals from the breeding isles off
Alaska have been found on Antarctic
beaches. At harvest time, and in bad
droughs, enormous armies of mice
have been encountered on the move
on the plains of Hungary and else
where in eastern Europe. In winter,
all along the Arctic coast from Lap
land to far northeast Siberia, armies
of little jennings are necessarily on
trek; they must run thousands Of
miles in the course of few months
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Canary Islands Prize
of Many Adventures

The Canary islands have the dis
tinctiOn of being the most bought-and-
sold islands known to history. They
were known to the ancien.s and
named Canaria by Pliny from 'the
multitude of large dogs that do there
abound" Warren Fl. Miller relates in
"All Around the Mediterranean" A
French vessel was driven ashore there
in 1884, and in 400 Jean de Berthen-
court sailed from Rochelle to take pos
session, but the natives would have
none of him, and he sold bad bargain
to Spaniard. From then on these
islands were sold and resOld to various
Spanish adventures. all of whom had
bad luck with the natives, until one,
Parazza, finally sold them to the Span
ish crown. In 1910 a group of 1000
Spanish soldiers set sail for the Ca
naries to reduce the islands to the
glory of God, under AlOnZO de LugO,
who completed his task in 1895.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
WHERE ALL THE MONEY GOES

In attempting series of articles which vitality
economic life the Twin Cities The Echo offers apologies
to outstanding the field of economics and to atscans
in this community Nevertheless, will attempt to show
readers where their money and then ask what do they
in return for
There doubt that there 200 colored families
Saint Paul all of whom milk daily conservavey estimate
quart of milky per day O making total spent by the
each day for milk alone $780, for the month $780, which
year runs to the enormous sum of $43,2O0.
There idea of what the various milk companies
of the city St. Paul. what do get return for
by of employment for boys and girls? Have single
rapher the Office force company? If these
questions in the negative the Echo feels duty bound to ask what
do in return for than worth of business
nuay? How milk companies do know that employ COL
ored help? Do the ad of your milk company
the journals? Don't you know that company wants your
trade that company will put it's d where you will be
read it? doesn't enough for your trade ad
verse journals that is pma face evidence that they
don't want money why force that take
money if they don't want it?
What true of milk true of other commodities and
ices Let's each coor family St. Paul spends not less than
o5c per week for laundry which extremely
glance that this per laundry
just think it, More than year the laundry item
alone
goes without saying that The Echo asks the questions
about your laundry about milk companies and
again the negative therefore, say that you
should not send clothes x laundry simply because
have always sent them there but send them to the laundry
which soics business through ads
nails and to the that is willing employ at least
colored help
Until get to the place where cooperate along these
lines hope to hold decent jobs and in
dusy hope to above the level of the door
MONEY the motor which the wheels the great
machine.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Az, That's the Rub

The word "scrape,' meaning a diff.
ficulty or some unfortunate predica-
ment, has several synonyms, as rub"
a squeeze" pinch" ETC., all of
which are younger than the term
"scrape," and of slightly different in
depreciation. Getting into scrape"
came from Scotland, and the express
sion is as old as the ancient and
honorable game Of golf. In Scotland
a rabbits hole or burrow is called
"scrape." When players ball rolled
into one of these holes it was mani
testify impossible to play 1t, and the
rules Of the game recognized this
fact by naming but a slight penalty for
the player He merely got into a
scrape. Chicago Journal.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
A CENTRAL SOCIETY

of the Twin Cities needs of the Echo readers Central
Society that shall be clearing house and promoter OF local
needs The leader of that society would be leader and sokes
would supecede and nuy the authority of what have
been called Sf appointed leaders, Recently St. Paul great
paving school building has been completed and
have had word say The paving spent and now
we are wishing paving homes Perhaps it is
information that assessed for weveoo strip in front
property and that the whole city for street ntersec
tons and all A-foot roadway.
The school building millions been spent Our taxes have
been raised pay for the bonds At Maxed and Mckinley
schools where most children attend the dirty walls have
decorated They did add desk by hauling some
antquated portabs That condition does not obtain in well
ganzed districts like the North End West End Goveand Park
Hamlne or St. Anthony Park.
Whether intentional not principal employed IN one OF
the schools largely attended by children who for several
could keep her job for month highly organized
She openly opposes the organization of ParenTeacher
Association The function of that society school bettemen
We paying for good paving and schools all St. Paul
receiving the poorest for taxes because have
Central Society that speak for with authority
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Dc ctor Gaze Old Man
Bit the Best of II

There were no less than eight pa
tients that morning at the country doc
tors Office before he could finish his
breakfast. One was pitiful old man,
dreadfully poor and nearly blind. The
trouble was In his ear-which ear he
did not indicate at first. He seemed
apprehensive about taking the doctor
into his confidence until a certain
doubt had been cleared up.
"Will your charge for an Office
visit?" he inquired. with a kind of
stealthy apI roach to the subject on
his mind, pay for the examination Of
two ears?"
"Oh. yes" was the doctors prompt
answer. He was a little impatient
with the old mans hesitancy and
wanted him to come to the point with
out loss of time. "Oh, yes! The fee
will pay for both ears"
swell, in that case" the patient con.
tinued. lone ear will be only half
price, won't it?"
That was clever piece of bargain
ing the doctor had to recognize, when
he recovered from his surprise The
old fellow had put up a case for half
price treatment that was difficult to
overcome. So the doctor said half
price for one ear would do.
The afflicted ear was examined and
properly treated. The patient offered
the half price, but that was where
the country doctor scored.
mo. keep your money. Half price
is no price this morning."
The old man tottered feebly out of
the door and the doctor. while, plying
him, laughed softly.-Springfeld Re-
publican.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
Douglas Fir Entirely
Distinct Tree Species

The Douglas fir, a native Of the
Northwest but now being planted ex-
tensively in the East, is becoming
popular Christmas tree, according to
the American Forestry association.
The species was named for a Scotch
botanist who discovered it on an ex-
petition in 1925, but its scientific name
is pseudotsuga, meaning false hem
lock-" AS a matter of fact, it Is
neither a hemlock nor a fir, and,
though it is sometimes called spruce,
it isn't that either. The tree belongs
to an entirely distinct species. The
tree most commonly used for Christ
mas trees Is real fir-the balsam, so
called because its blister-like pockets
yield the resinOus liquid known as
Canada balsam, which is used among
other things for attaching cover plates
to microscope slides.
The St. Paul echo., 1927-01-22
kissing Discovered Early

A young Cretan fondly embracing a
pretty maid who shyly rests her head
on his shoulder is sculptured on a
vase recently exhumed on that Gre
clan isle. It proves that kissing was
a popular pastime Is centuries before
Christ and that modern sheiks and
flappers could teach the Cretans moth
ing about the soul kiss" Ages ago
the Cretan civilization was buried on
this island-perhaps by an earth
quake. Now excavations are bring
ing to light many evidences of the
joys, sorrows and loves of the domes-
tic and social life Of its ancient in
habitants. They were people much
like us.-Capper's Weekly.