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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
MRS. KEY PlTTMAN
STILL QUITE ILL

Senator Key Pittman arrived in
Las Vegas yesterday morning alter
an absence of several weeks in
Los Angeles where he was called
by the illness of Mrs. Pittmou.
He reports that his wife suffer
cd severely following a nasal oper-
d;Iyn and that she has been con
fined to Los Angeles hospital
since the latter part OF May. She
is now improving and the Senator
hopes for her complete recovery
speedily.
Senator Pittman will leave We
gas Sunday morning by automc-
bile to attend a conference to be
held in Carson City Tuesday, June
81, for a discussion of the Boulder
Dam project.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
McGRIFF PEACHES
FILL THE MARKET

Peaches from the ranch of E
G. McGriff, eight miles south OF
Vegas, are filling the local mark
ct. The fruit is beautiful for this
early i'm the season.
Mr.. McGriff expects to supply
much fruit this sumner to the dir
ing car service of the Union Pa
cific.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
FLAG CEREMONIAL
SUNDAY EVENING
EIks Lodge Will Perform
RituaIistic Work at Elk
dome To Commemorate
Birth of Old Glory.

Las Vegas Lodge 1853, B. P.
0. E., will hold its Flag Day ex-
ercises tomorrow Sunday even
ing at 1880 at the ElkdOme. The
affair was postponed from Tues
day because. of the threat of rain.
Past Exalted Ruler A. S. Hend-
erson will conduct the work ac-
cording to the ritualistic flag SER
vice of the order. He will be as
sisted by the other Past Exalted
Rulers and by the officers of the
Lodge.
Musical numbers will be given
bv the Union Pacific Band during
the services.
The general pubic is cordially
invited to be present.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
IN GOODSPRINGS DIST

Henry Robbins, for many years
heavily interested in the mining
properties of the Yellow Pine dis
trict at Goodsprings, wa sin this
city on business yesterday.
Mr.. Robbins reports that there
is much activity in the Good
springs section and that the caInp
is looking better now than for
some years past.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
MARRIAGE LICENSES

SARGENT-DOTSON: George B.
Sargent % of Mojave. California,
ia Vcrla Do.sCl, Is, OF Moapa.
Iicrppsa issued June IL.
nRAKF-C CHRISTENSEN: Arthur
Henry Drake, 20. an employe in
TIA Clerks Office at Needles,
california, to Dorothy Christensen,
Ok OF Wilkes Barre. Penn. The
couule were married by Justice
Of the Peace c. ID. Breeze last
Saturday.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
STRANGER DIED FROM
NATURAL CAUSES

The body of a man later identi.
fled as Geo. Derickson, who was
travelling with a train of livestock
was found Tuesday evening at tine
stockyards. Investigation by the
coroner showed that death was
due to natural causes.
The wife Of the deceased arriv-
ed Thursday to take charge of the
body. Besides his widow, the de-
ceased left several children.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
NEVADA WOMAN DIES

Word has been received IN this
city of the death in California of
Mrs. E. I. Patrick, widely known
IN this state. Mr.. Patrick was for
some time assistant attorney gen.
eral Of this state.
The Patricks resided for some
years at Goldfield, later moving to
carson City. Recently they have
been living in California.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
CAPTAIN LIZ BARON
FINDS NEW POTTERY

Capt. LeBaroa, archaeologist
who has been engaged in re
searches at Forty Mile, west OF
the Groom Mine, arrived in Vegas
Yesterday.
H reports that he is making
some interesting discoveries in
that field, among them being a
new type q very crude pottery.
Inherent in form and decoration
from any vet found. He takes
tbat as an indication that it was
nroduced in prehistoric ages by a
race of people about whom, as yet,
we have little or no knowledge.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-06-18
BORN

SITTLE: At the family resi-
dence, 313 S. Fifth street, in this
city, Wednesday, June 8, 1921 to
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Sittle, a son.
SANTA ANA: At Sloan, Ne
vada, Monday, June 6, 1927, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesus Santa Ana, a
daughter.
Evening star., 1927-10-11
THE EVENING
STORY
Something Sings.

~ ETTY ANN hung over the
butcherman's back yard fence,
resting firrnly upon her sfna !, !
stomach. one ecstatic toe hooked
securely in a knothole, her race
ashine with delight. Beneatn neI
, tumbled four clumsy balls OF pTo"h
fur, aged two weeks. o,5
And when they are eight weeks ola
I will get one" murmured Betty ann
to herself. He said / could. lie said
they would be old enough before. Let
see. which 'un do i want? Ihat uh
that's kinda white in front, l guess'
But maybe I'd better Ike that p,sSes' ;
one-Td get more pup for my oollaF'
then"
BETTY Ann" A voice sang out from
a door four back yards away. Nv her-
ever have you gone?
Retty Ann unlocked her toe and
scrambled down hastily. Her motner
had a. peculiar aversion to little girls
hanging on fences.
ON the way down street for the eggs
her mother wanted BettJ Ann
thoughts reverted to the subject OF
pups. Julia Anderson, who lived next
door had a kitten. 1t had been given
her and she loved it with fervent Vio'
lence.
BETTY Ann did not dislike kittens.
She merely entertained toward them a
profound indifference. What she de-
sired with every atom of her ardent
little soul was pup. 1t appeared that
bows were sometimes given pups, but
girls never. So she purposed buying
one.
The butcherman had said that he
would sell his pups for a dollar apiece,
and all of Betty AIMS financial re.
sources were strained toward the ac-
cumulation of that amount.
Once more she went over in her
mind the items of her treasury. There
were the seven pennies which, one by
one, had dropped from her fathers
careless hand into hers; there was the
battered 10.cent piece, found in an ash
nile and rescued with palpitating
heart; a nickel saved from Baby Sis
ter's pink mouth, and last and greut-
est of all a whole quarter derived from
the sale of a great glass marble to a
boy. The marble had had little
white rabbit inside of it, and parting
with it had cost Betty Ann more than
one secret tear, but then the pup
would be alive and the rabbit wasn't.
That evening Betty Ann Sensed
trouble underneath the roof which
sheltered her. 1t seemed that her
father, who sometimes chucked her
under the chin or tossed her ceiling
ward, but more often did not see her
at all, had lost his job. Betty Ann had
a very vague notion of what the term
signified, but she understood that lis
job mattered a good deal to her father.
Jobs were evidently desirable posses
sions.
Here confusion entered Betty AIMS
head. since it appeared that the man
agement gave the job and then took
it away Why such an unheard-of
procedure? 1t was never nice to give
t ings and then take them away.
Further confusion was visited upon
Evening star., 1927-10-11

her bv her fathers talk about rights
These were his, it seemed, not gwen
to him, like the job, but his. Yet the
management took away these, too.
But her mother interposed with
reference to duty. This stopped her
father in midcareer. Betty Ann dld
not see why. What. again. was dutH !.
1t was something you owed IKE olils
and milk tickets.
Betty Ann pondered these problems
till her head ached and wisely con-
cluded that other things were easier
to think about,
For instance, Julia Anderson had
baby sister almost{ as big as Betty
AIMS baby sister. But Betty Ann hao
the inestimabIe advantage OF haVlng
her baby sister sick. This fact lent
her an important. grown'up ar. Hef
father walked the floor nights win
the baby, she proudly Informed Jula.
She did not inform her that he sald
some very curious things While ne
performed that rite.
The matter of the pup returned 10
her thoughts as she sat on the curp
and with q tin lid scooped sunheams
into a. bright new pan. A passing gen.
tleman. arrested by her apparently
pointless occupation, asked her Wnat
She did. Her explanation brought a
strange expression to the gentleman
face and Betty Ann explained further
You see, the doctor said baby sis
ter needed more sunshine n mother
said how was she TO get it with the
washing m everything m So"
She ceased abruptly. clapped the
lid hastily on the pail and scrambled
to her feet.
Gould you use these?" asked the
gentleman, holding out his hand, in
which rested three bright new dimes.
"Oh.h" breathed Betty Ann rap
turously, not moving.
Lets pop 'em in the pail with the
sunbeams," suggested the gentleman.
No sooner said than done, and the
gentleman's eyes blurred before Betty
AIMS speeehless gratitude.
When she tried to tell her mother
Evening star., 1927-10-11
DAVIS may DIRECT
BARGE LINE SURVEY
Equipment and Traffic Posi-
biIities on Mississippi War
rior Rivers Involved.

A survey of the equipment and
trafic possibilities Of the Mississippi.
Warrior Rivers Barge Line probably
will be directed by Secretary Davis
of the War Department as a result of
the visit here last week of a commit.
tee representing barge line users,
which urged an increase of the capital
stock OF the lire by $50 ,0OO, 900.
The committee presented its pro-
posals to the advisory board of the
Inland Waterways Corporation, which
yesterday recommended to the Secre.
tary of War that any action toward
increasing capitalization be deferred
until a comprehensive survey of con-
ditions surrounding the barge line
operations could be made.
Situation i'm Report.
The War Secretary feels that the
problem is one which Congress must
deal with, and is expected to outline
the situation fully in his annual re-
port. The survey proposed by the
advisory board would assist in prepa'
ration of this report.
1t was emphasized at the War De
partment that the plain intention OF
Congress in creating the Inland
Waterways Corporation was to pave
the way for transfer of the barge line
on the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers
to private hands il the venture proved
commercially successful. Congress
specifically provided, it was recalled.
that no new lines should be started
or any existing lines abandoned with
out its direct s. notion.
Two Courses Open.
That provision is regarded as pre-
venting any consideration of pro-
posals of barge users to expand opera
tions to the Missouri and Ohio rivers
without further legislation.
Secretary Davis annual report is
expected to say that the time has come
when Congress must decide whether
the barge service is to be increased
sufficiently to meet the needs Of ship
pers under Government or private
ownership and operation. There is
nothing to indicate that he will eX-
press a definite opinion as to which
of these courses should be adopted.
Evening star., 1927-10-11

mother stepped across the room-and
stood rigid.
Betty Ann looked from one parent
to another Some way they reminded
her of Julias cat when it had been
on the table.
At last her father said in a slow
voice:
lis this our chld?"
Then Betty AIMS mother was down
on her knees beside her crying down
her neck: and her father, in some
mysterious way, had his arms around
both of them and was Whispering:
There, sweetheart. Wen get at this
together and not pull against each
other any more"
So Betty Ann went to sleep In her
fathers arms, with her mother S KISS
warm on her cheek.
THE END.
(Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-10-11
H. P. H0LLER PR0CURES
RELEASE FROM PRISON
president of Defunct Oriental Uni
l.. versity Liberated Upon Sub
3 scribing to "Pauper's Oath"

Helmuth P. Holler, self-styled
bishop and president of the defunct
Oriental University, is at liberty
after taking the ''pauper's oath
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage.
Holler was sentenced February /,
1926, to serve two years at Lorton
Penitentiary and to pay a fine of
81 900 for using the mails to defraud
in connection with the issuance OF
stake diplomas for medical degrees
to persons in various States of the
Union and especially in st. Louis
Mo. With time off for good behavior,
Holler completed his term of service
September 3, but had to serve an
additional 80 days before being
eligible to cross off the payment OF
his fine by. taking an oath that he
Is destitute.
Evening star., 1927-10-11
designations Accepted.

Resignation of Capt. Lewis B. Rock.
United States Infantry, recently sta.
toned ut Camp Devens, Mass, and
that Of Second Lieut.. John A. Schwab,
Field Artillery. recently stationed at
Brooks Field. Tex, have been accepted
by the President capt. Rock is from
Illinois and aerved in the World War.
He reached the grade of captain in
January, 1926.
Evening star., 1927-10-11

She balanced a wooden pencil box
on his knee and drew back the lid.
"See daddy. For baby sisters op-
ration. I got it for a pup, but this is
more 'pOrtant.
The man looked down--and his race
changed in a way that haf frlghteh-
ed and half fascinated Betty Ann. Her
Evening star., 1927-10-11

of this startling good fortune her
mother snapped:
For heavens sake. shut up, Betty
Ann! Can't you see I'm too tired to
listen?"
Her mother did not seem like her
mother any more. She connected that
fact, some way. with her fathers job
The doctor came and commanded
Evening star., 1927-10-11

hospital treatment for the baby. Betty
AIMS mother turned quite white, but
did not say word. She did all her
saying that night when Betty AIMS
father came home. still jobless.
The talk was wild and bitter and
most of it went over Betty AIMS
head. But there was one word whose
meaning was perfectly clear to her
Evening star., 1927-10-11

money. 1t appeared that everything
would be all right if there were just
some money.
Betty Anne had money.
Her father became aware of n hard
object being showed under his hand
where it rested clenched, on his knee.
"GO away" he commanded.
"But it's for you, daddy! See"
Evening star., 1927-10-11
ordered to Alaska.

Mai. Malcolm Elliott, Corps of En-
gineers, district engineer at New
Orleans, has been, ordered to Juneau.
Alaska, for duty as president OF the
Board of Road Commissioners of
Alaska, vice Maj. Dogulas HI. Gillette,
Corps of Engineers, who has been as
signed to another station.
Evening star., 1927-10-11
How Are Your Children?
MAKE THEM WELL AND KEEP
THEM WELL WITH
FATHER JOHNS MEDICINE

UNLESS your children are healthy they
~ will not be happy. For healthy,
happy, handsome children give them
Father Johns Medicine to build new
strength and give bright eyes and rosy
cheeks.
Father Johns Medicine is a tonic food
medicine perfectly blended pleasant to take and
Evening star., 1927-10-11

Roll tops that can he shifted en-
tirelv to the rear like the lids Of old
fashioned desks are used on English
automobiles.
Evening star., 1927-10-11

Mrs Henry Desaute l9 Fishes PI Aleboro Mass writes
The slogan take Father Johns Medicine and stay
healthy used successfully for We hnd
children weight and get rugged each day whe
they aret taking Father Johns Medicine .
medicine for chdrenno alcohol or harmful drugs
seventy of success.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
COMMAND OR "REQUEST"

An interesting legal question is raised by fatal auto
mobile accident in this state policeman sprang the
running board Of machine Samuel Golden was operating
and Commanded" him chase speeding roadster, which
believed to be stolen Golden obeyed the command
The policeman fired several Shots Someone in the fleeing
car returned the fire One of the bullets wounded Golden
causing his death within few minutes.
The layman would be justified in believing that the
CITY or State could be held liable Responsible Officials
claim however that Golden killed result OF per-
uniting himself be pressed into performing puDlc
service and that the members of his family who are left
bal assembly for special award They support their claim
Inv quoting from court decisions similar asolvng
the constituted authorities
The Golden case is isolated one There have
been many others like it in all sections OF the country
There will be more. Ii fair to ask whether any
policeman should request command the assistance OF
private individuals if the city State employing him moi
only refuses to assume responsibility but upheld in the
courts in the position takes To the average citizen inc
word of policeman is law He asks, indeed commands
certain action and the citizen does what he is asked to DO
He feels that his services have been conscrped in an
emergency and that he refuses act he Is IN effect
oIsiructing Justice aiding possible criminal
At heart every honest citizen is policeman lie De-
eves in law and order He regards it to be his duty to
render assistance whenever that needed What
ever the law NAV be- unfair and unjust to ask NM
10 hear the burden alone Why should he suffer the loss
f his automobile for example, wrecked! Why should ne
nav all the expenses if he is injured while performing
nnbc DUTY actually protecting society at the request or
command of representative of the law! And why should
his family be compelled to plead Tor help ne loses ms
life in doing what the last analysis is the right thing TO
lo2 These are few questions that should receive the
Of the aw-makng bodies OF society 1t there
are no laws on the books to cover such cases. then
,hev should be enacted The public should not ignore It's
responsibilities.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
BY IDAH McGLONE GIBSON

Sometimes / am prone to think
that most married women spend too
much time in making themselves
beautiful and too little time on
making their husbands comfort
able.
No woman ever kept man faith
full to her after marriage because
she was beautiful.
Beauty is splendid bait, but there
are many attributes that are better
for keeping ones husband after he
is caught than mere beauty.
| heard a woman who bad been
married twice say the other day,
that getting a husband is snap to
keeping one"
1t used to be a slogan that "the
way to mans heart was through his
stomach"
Today this seems to have changed
to "the way to mans heart is
through the beauty parlor.'
This is poisonous propaganda,
both for husbands as well as wives.
If man comes home TO a smil-
ing wife and a good dinner, it is
dollars to doughnuts that he will
be perfectly satisfied to sit com
fortably the rest of the evening
reading the baseball score or listen
ing to the radio, while mother pratt
ties on about the bridge club or
church supper, before putting the
children to bed.
A comfortable companion is
worth a dozen women who are all
the time wondering if their hair has
been shingled correctly, and if the
present style in makeup becomes
them.
Men do not worry when they
grow fat and wrinkled, or even
bald-headed. They still think their
wives love them-and usually they
do-so why should woman have
her CRAVING hair touched up, her
sagging flesh pulled up and her
dul1ipo cor,rJayio,, p,ado nm ,,pti1
she looks like a nice wax doll who
would crack if she did not Away
keep in mind the advice of hei
beauty doctor.
Some woman has said, that no
woman can lose her husband, pro
vided she has plenty of good looks
and plenty of cleverness."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
Stanley


in New York Work scarce. Kindly
send $50 to Western Union office.
1t would be signed bv the missing
person. whose identity Joseph had
temporarily taken over.
Joseph went a little too far the
other day. however. when he made
the request of the parents Of
Arthur Louis Ezra, Akron, O. His
message came after Ezra had re-
turned home. Upon calling at the
Western Unicn office for the money
he was met by detectives and
charged with forgery.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
| Have Said in MY Heart
PROPAGANDA

after year admitted he was baffled.
The Government expert examined
bark, soil, tested atmosphere and
winds. and then said he had just
theory. 1t might be the northeast
winds blowing between the houses
that aged the tree aud advanced
it's time of shedding. But a COM
panion rec thirty feet away does
not yield to winds and does not
behave so strangely. Moreover IL
has a good yield of chestnuts'
while the freak this year has but
one chestnut. The southside she'd
ding continues and in ten days
more one. side Of the tree Will De
perfectly bare.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
STUDYING HABITS OF FISH

Movements Heretofore UnexpIain-
able are now under Investigation.
Throughout the centuries the
movements and migrations OF flsh
in the sea have been accepted as
mysteries says a bulletin OF the
American Game Protective Asso-
citation. In these modern days,
however, man has become more
curious and is seeking reasons for
the heretofore unaccountable phe-
nomena connected with the life OF
the inhabitants of the deep.
The United States Bureau OF
Fisheries is capturing the young
salmon and tagging them to learn
how long they remain at sea be-
fore returning to the fresh water
streams to fight their way to their
mountain sources that they may
reproduce their kind and die. 1t
has already been found that they
do not remain as long at sea as
heretofore believed, and that they
do not all return to the same
streams in which they were born
The North American Committee
of Fish investigations, consisting
of representatives of the United
States, Canada, Newfoundland, Por-
tugal and France, is studying the
movements of the schools of mack
erel, the reasons for which hereto
fore no one has hazarded a guess.
Much has already been learned a.
bout their movements by the tag
ging system.
The life history Of the Gods, that
| humble fish which is the foundation
of so much prosperity of the North
Atlantic Coast, is being studied
scientifically. The bulletin says
that it is a s'5nificant fact that the
annual cafch of cod on the New
foundlani banks is as great today
as il was forty years ago. Yet
| this does not necessarily mean that
the supply is inexhaustible, and
depletion may come suddenly, as it
has in the case of many of our land
animal sand birds, says the bulletin.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09

razors. Now. can see nothing in
teresting about a razor. 1t is just
something to get the beard off your
face. l have used dozen differ
ent kinds, and do not like any of
them. Shaving is to me an unpleas-
ant daily exercise, whether | do
the job myself or hire barber to
do it.
But there Is re accounting :cr
tastes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
HORSE CHESTNUT
TREE A MYSTERY
Experts Unable to Learn Why Tree
Acts AS 1t Does.

ACtS AS 1t OocS.
Atlantic City has mystery
tree and despite the wisdom of
State agricultural station and
United States experts from the De-
partment of Agriculture, why the
tree should behave as it has for
ten years remains unsolved AL
ready the tree, a horse chestnut,
standing in the front yard of DR..
Clarence Garrabrant on Penn
sylvania avenue, has begun to lose
it's brown leaves that drop as fast
as they wither, but the oddly holds
good only on the south side of the
tree. On the north side the leaves
remain as green as other trees
standing about, and only acknow-
ledge defeat when frost comes.
The State expert summoned to ex-
plain this freak action for year
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-09
UTICA SCHOOLBOYS BECOME PRACTICAL
RIFT DERS

Construction of dwelling houses is undertaken by
pupils in buiding-trades classes in the technical and
vocational departments of Utica en- - public schools.
The building project during the past was construction
of am Broom colonial home with ground dimensions OF 80
by 40 feet
The boys do all the actual work with the exception OF
plumbing plaering, and installation Of heating plant
They spend half their time the job and the remainder
in the classroom Work done under the supervision OF
instructors who are skilled mechanics and have had pro-
essonal experience in trade teaching Organized labor OF
the city cooperates the enterprise Each building is in
dependeny financed with the approval of the board of
education. The house built for private owner, who
provides suitable lot in the vicinity of the school and
furnishes supplies and materials. He pays small fee,
equal percentage the total of the job and the
money goes into equipment fund.