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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-23

Last
alDay?
| Was it spoiled because
your new dress wasn't de-
llivered in time?
I, Better not take any
chances this year, when
1t is SO easy to carry the
package home yourself and
be sure of having it!
The J. c. Penney CO.
feel that most shoppers pre-
fer to carry their packages
home, especially when they
can save money by doing
SO. The elimination of an
expensive delivery system
helps us effect Q consider
able saving that B passed
on to yen in the form Of
Lower Prices. i
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-23
Good Essays on Posture
ByLocal School Pupils

The following articles were hand
ed to the Herald by Miss Kallstrom,
school nurse. We believe them all
very good and worthwhile, hence,
their reproduction in this issue:
Evening star., 1929-12-20

Gen. Bouquet. Said by Fed
erals to Have RenounCed
VasconCeIos in Last Hour.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NOGALES, Ariz., December 20. -
Gen. Carlos Bouquet, officially consid-
cred the military head of the latest
incipient revolution in Mexico, died
Wednesday in Nogales Sonora, before a
federal firing squad. it was announced
yesterday by Jose ValenZuela, Mexican
consul here.
Gen. Juan Rico. who made the arrest,
conducted the trial and ordered the
execution, confirmed the announcement
and said Bouquet at the end repudiated
his asserted chief - Jose Vasconcelos,
who was defeated in the recent Mexi-
can presidential election.
The rebel general expressed hatred
for VaSconcelos and the eXiles in the
United States, which left the rebels in
Mexico in a trap" Gen. Rico reported,
adding that Bouquet had said the oper-
ations Of Mexican plotters in the United
States were infamous"
Consul ValenZuela said Col. Miguel
Mendez, Daniel Navarro, ReZio Lougo
and two other MeXicanS, supposed aides
of Bouquet. were in custody of MeXi-
can Federals in Nogales, Sonora, just
across the international border. He said
Bouquets arrest followed reports of
spies in the Mexican quarter here, who
mingled with Mexican eXiles. He as
serted that Bouquet and his aides had
come North to obtain money and in
structions from the revolutionary Junta
at Tucson.
Vasconcelos reached Arizona late to-
day from FL Paso. He. was met at
Tucson by his son and daughter, with
whom he planned to motor to Los
Angeles for the holidays. He only yes
terday disclosed in El Psso his plans
for an imminent revolution.
Evening star., 1929-12-20
The Villain of the Ocean Depths.

The lightning change artist Of the
deep, and usually considered the villain.
is the octopus. It tucks its soft body
away in some coral rock cavern and
hangs out its eight tentacles like hSh-
ing lines to drag in its prey, hooking
The arms are lined with hundreds Of
little vacuum cups that not only hold
the victim firmly, but help to rend 1t
and prepare it for the comparatively
small beak-like mouth between the
tentacleS.
When in repose the octopus Is Of a
gray, ghost-like color. but when in ac-
ton its color changes fantaStically
from a dark brown to red, and even
dark purple when it is infuriated.
Evening star., 1929-12-20

6,357 and those in universities and
other schools Of similar grade 4,766. The
number Of primary school boys Is 23l,-
e43.
Students in the middle schools num-
ber 12o,833 and those in the UNIVERSE
ties and other schools of similar grade
1854. The figures mean that one
teacher cares for an average OF 40
pupils in primary schools, while in
schools of university grade, one teach
er handles 10 students on the aver
age.
rs Christian Churches.
There are 232 Shinto shrines, 1882
Buddhist temples and lis Christian
churches.
Tokio's commercial and industrial &C
tivities are indicated by the number Of
Evening star., 1929-12-20
TOXIC IS GREATER
FOLLOWING QUAKE
Progress in Building, Trans
portation and Educa-
ton Shown.

TOXIC Especially .-Tokio's progress
in number of buildings constructed, i'm
provement in transportation facilities,
in education, increased population and
city's finances is shown by a recent re-
port from the city's statistical bureau.
Thirty~four per cent of the total space
of the city is covered by buildings.
Statistics on buildings reveal that there
Evening star., 1929-12-20

are a total Of 311,2 blocks or build
ings.
The total area of Toxic Is 20,2S7 acres.
The total length of streets Is So. .31S
ken, one ken measuring about feet,
and the space of the streets is 2,S21 ,483
tsubo, / tsubo being a space approxi-
mately 6 feet square. Compared with
figures before the earthquake OF 1928,
the total length has expanded by 10000
ken and the space by 100000 tsubo.
Street Cars Garry 446,266,4S7.
The railway stations in Toxic num-
Der 20 and the total number Of incom-
ing and outgoing passengers served by
these stations for year is 302, TOT ,991, ,
who pay a total of 33,454, $40 yen in
fares. Suburban railway stations num-
Der 65, which care for 407, 500, ,s45 pas
sengers, who pay a total of 2l,766, ,0lS
yen during year. The street car stops
in Toxic number 485, and the number
of cars is 628. Passengers total 446.-
266,457 and receipts total 29, ,203, ,651 yen.
TokioS primary schools total 331,
middle schools 276 and universities and
other schools of similar grade SO, the
number of teachers IN the primary
schools is 6,279. those in middle schools
Evening star., 1929-12-20

business companies, banks and fac
tories. There are 5,178 companies
capitalized at 1850 .S49,141 yen. Banks
number SO capitalized at S13,S38, SOC
yen and factories number 1925.
Total horsepower being used is 103.-
ia, and the number of workers 90, ,449
Total production during the fiscal veal
of 1927 amounted to 494, ,641 .346 yen.
The total income of Toxic munici.
pality during the same fiscal year wa:
26l, ,283,253 yen and the expenditure
261 ,936, ,394 yen.
Evening star., 1929-12-20
Artists Union Is Planned.

NEW YORK, December 20 (P).-
Attempts are being made to unionize
magazine illustrators and commercial
artists. One meeting has been held and
another has been called. Some out
standing artists are strongly opposed to
the idea.
Evening star., 1929-12-20
CALLED OUTRIGHT MURDER.
Execution Of Bouquet Revenge by Rico,
DECLARES YascnnceIns.

TUCSON, Ariz., December 20 P).-
Jose VasconceloS, defeated presidential
candidate in the recent Mexican elec-
tion, tonight termed the execution of
Cen Carlos Bouquet at Nogales, Sonora,
as an outright murder"
VasconceloS said it was his belief that
the execution was personal revenge on
the part of Gen. Juan Rico, command
ing officer at Nogales, who had fought
against Bouquet in previous revolutions.
Evening star., 1929-12-20

King George has granted the use OF
suite of apartments at Hampton
Court Palace, London, to Lady Shackle-
ton. the widow of Sir Ernest Shackle-
ton. the Antarctic explorer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

any rate, on June II, 1921, q translation OF
ex-Corpl. Schreiber's letter was sent to the
American Graves Registration Service head
quarters In the Rue Molitor, Paris 1t Is the
"a G.. r. S." which has superintendent and
conducted the search for our missing soldiers
ever since 1919. Here was an entirely new
lead, supplied by German ex-corporal from
q village in Lithuania. The quartermaSter
generals accompanying notation was:
"It is thought that the dead American re-
ferred to is Pvt. George West Stevenson, 18th
Company 9Th United States Marines, who en-
listed May Is, 1917. This marine was missing
in the early part of the st. Mihiel drive and
was later presumed to have been killed. The
date of his death is on the records as September
is, instead of September IL.
That same month the @. NJ C. secured from
Pvt. Stevensons mother, out in Utah, her sons
dental chart. She expressed her happy surprise
that there was still a possibility that her boys
body would be found and she expressed what
hundreds of other American mothers have felt
when she added 1--WE appreciate the efforts
of the Government service to clear UP all such
cases as our sons and we feel grateful for what
has been DONE.
Thus, in July, 1s27-almost full nine years
after-the search was launched for the body OF
Pvt Stevenson. 1t had been started years be-
fore like so many others, but there had been
not a single definite clew. Now the American
Graves investigator in the st. Mihiel sector was
supplied with the above correspondence, with
the dental chart, with maps of the st. Mihiel
salient showing the German and American posi-
tions near Thiaucourt on the days and nights
of September IL, Is and IA, 1918.
BY checking up on the locations and distances
mentioned by Schneider. the partially completed
dugout which his letter mentions was found.
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as souvenirs. We buried the American ON that
spot The next day we were relieved and sent
to different part Of the front.
"The dead American named Geo. Stefenson'
was buried on the 18th of September, 1918,
and was killed the night before during our at
tack.
During the march to the front my officer
came to me during halt and told me to de-
stroy the snapshots that had belonged to the
American, for If fell into the hands of the
French and they found them on me- it would
go hard with me. So tore them up. stayed
with my regiment until the armistice and came
home, not quite healthy, but happy, to my
mother. My brother did not come home from
France He is buried there.
''Now to my wish to the editor If the rela-
tives of George Stefenson could be found it
would afford me great pleasure to transmit to
them (and they would also perhaps be happy
to hear where and when their brother died.
know how much am interested in my dead
brother, and no doubt they would be just as
interested.
:'Now comes a matter wholly concerning my
self. America is a rich land and there is much
work there. Is there not in great America
some person who could help me, give me credit
or help me find work? have suffered much
since the war. For long time since my dis
charge was out of work and now am tenn
porarily engaged as a painter in foreign land.
It is awful hard to make living.
OUCH is Paul Schreibers letter. Although
~ he may not have realized it, the letter in
reality contains two stories-one of the Ameri-
can who didn't come back, the other Of the
German who did. The translation is taken
from copy now part Of the Army records
Just how it got there do not know. Some
fellow with heart in him must have got hold
of Schreibers letter In the editorial depart
ment of the New York newspaper. Eventually
1t found its way to the War Department and
b the Quartermaster Corps in Washington. At
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A. @. r. s. has found scores of men who on
logical grounds were hopelessly lost.
have talked with several veteran inveStiga~
tors, each loaded with stories if you can shake
them up and pry them loose. One of them gave
me this prescription for finding lost soldiers:
st go into the woods with the Army and come
out with the Army" he said. First Of all I'm
going to find the equipment belonging to the
outfit of the man I'm after. When an outfit
goes in, it's going to leave its equipment behind.
Once you locate its equipment you've got .
starting point. They you line up the enemyO
front and follow your company right through
Any Americans killed from that company during
that push ought to be buried there somewhere.
OF course, sometimes they ain't-but the
chances are they ought to be. It's mostly q
question Of elimination.
ct remember one day Jim McGourty and
were up in the Bots de Haumont in the MeuSe-
Argonne. We had a new case to work on ana
we found the body right to the blueprint. You
don't often get them that easy.
I'VE needed water for the trucks radiator, so
decided to wander down into the woods
where there'd be some rainwater in q shellhole
something took pail and, just by force
of habit my shovel. You get so on this inves-
tigatln' job that you almost take shovel to
bed with you.
''WelI, on the way down through the woods
1t came to me all of sudden that this same
chaplain who had tipped us of on the chap
we'd just found had never made mistake!
Wherever he reported that he'd buried body.
sooner or later we'd always found it right in
that locality. And I remembered that this
same chaplain had reported long before how
he'd buried an American at the end OF trench
in this same Bots du Haumont. That's funny
I thought to myself. Different ones have been
down that trench and they all reported nobody
but Germans was buried there. But this chap
plain has always been right
$50 I wandered over there to take look
myself. The Germans were buried there all
right hundred or more, lying head to foot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
By LELAND Stone.

No body could be located there nor for so meters
ON any side of the dugout. Nor, so the inveSti-
gator reported, could the missing identity tag be
discovered in a minute search Of the terrain.
Meanwhile, further possibilities had been
opened up by another dispatch from Washing
ton, "Your attention is called to unidentified
United States soldier U-3261, exhumed May 3,
1919 from near Xammes, Mouse ct MoSelle, E.
$685., north 244.6, and reburied in grave 100,
section 16 plot 4, st. Mihiel American Cemetery.
The present grave location is grave 19, row %,
block B, in the same cemetery. It will be noted
that the dental chart for this unidentified
soldier checks in many respects with that OF
Pvt. Stevenson"
The co-ordinates or Army map localities mem
toned above for unknown soldier U-3261 proved
to coincide very closely with the frontline spot
where Schneider reported the American George
Stefenson" had been buried The investigator
found that "U-3261" was the only unidentified
American soldier who had been discovered IN
that particular spot. In accordance with in
strlIctions the body Of "U-3261" was exhumed
from ST. Mihiel Cemetery and report sent back
to Paris.
ON November 3, 1927-approxmately nine
months from the day Paul Schneider wrote
his letter in Lithuania and only five months
after it came to the Governments attention
Capt E. j. Heller of the American Graves Reg
istration Service wrote to the superintendent OF
st. Mihiel Cemetery:
Unknown United States soldier U-3261, now
buried in grave 19, row %, block Of your
cemetery has been identified as Pvt. George
West Stevenson, 10th Company, 9Th United
States Marines You are directed to change all
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German infantry regi-
ment We were stationed
IN the front lines of the st. Mihicl
salient in France"
The writer is ex-Corpl. Paul
Schneider of the German Army. The
letter was written from q small town
in Lithuania in January, 1927. Writ
ten in German, 1t was sent to the
editor of New York paper, expect
ing that perhaps you can do me and
an American family great favor"
That is how the letter-and the
trail back over more than eight
years-began. Ex-Corpl. and ex-
Heinie Paul Schneider thinking back
to a certain September night Of 1918
I'm the front-line trenches at st.
Mihiel
For the time being we were very
short on rifles" he recalls. 1--WE
marched about eight kilos TO the
right under cover of night to the
place where the Americans were far
theSt advanced and where they had
dug in. That same night we counter
attacked and drove the Americans
back about one kilometer. Many of
our own troops and many Americans
fell here. We were stationed, about
20 men and 1 officer, in dugout
which was not completed and from
which we had driven the Americans.
Here lay q dead American. He
had received bullet through the
chest and a head wound. He wore
two small Identification tags which
were marked Geo. StefenSon, Is
May, 1917. One tag was left on the
body, the other one the officer took
to, send back to regimental Head
quarters. The American also carried
q wallet, in which were photographs
of his father and mother, many
snapshots, calling card and a let
ter from his mother.
''The card bore the name Geo.
Stefenson, N. Y, Broadway I've
forgotten the house and street num-
Der. One of the snapshots was of
the dead American himself standing
by an auto. The letter from his
mother said that she was glad he
would soon come home on a furlough.
The German officer read us the let
ter, translating it into German. He
kept the wallet, together with the
Identification tag. Also the photos
Of his father and mother. He gave
me the snapshots and calling card
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

RI I'm September, 1918" the let
ter reads, ''I was a non
commissioned officer of a
German infantry regi-
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SnH Missing in Action
Letter U1ueu Soldier During the World War Edition Of Ne7O f
Location DhyS Body N'"e Years after and IS but O"e
Of NAM Curious ad Organized Search for Missing Soldiers

records and the inscription on tHI0
grave marker to read accordingly"
BY comparison of the teeth OF
"U-3261" and the dental chart OF
Pvt. Stevenson positive Identification
had been made-as had been done
literally in hundreds of other cases
in the search for Americas lost sol-
diers since the war ended.
At the same time these instruc-
tions were sent to France another.
letter from Washington went west to
Utah. It told Pvt. Stevenson's
mother that her boys body had been
found, that it rests in an American
cemetery in France and that soon
his name would replace the now un-
necessary letters "U-3261" on the
white marble cross above his grave.
That is the story of one missing
American soldier who never came
back. And the story of Paul Schrei-
Der, the German ex-corporal, who
did go back home? The Army rec
ords do not show whether some one
in great America" helped him 10
find work or even whether he has
ever been told that his letter was
chiefly responsible in bringing back
one more from the nimbus of the
missing and unknown to the roll call
of the identified known.
Here is but one of hundreds OF
stories which the Graves Registration
Service has written into the official
Army records during the last nine
years. In that time at least 1000
American soldiers, either missing or
unknown, have been found and
identified as a result of what is un-
doubleday the greatest organized
search for missing soldiers that the
world has ever known. And 1t fol-
lows war which made their discov-
cry a thousand times more difficult
and discouraging a task than any
previous war had done. But the
work has gone on and still goes on,
in every battlefield in France, while
very few Americans are acquainted
with its scope and its unique service
to American homes and families.
It is a task filled with mystery.
with wonder, with harsh reality and
with q heroism of its own. And.
curious as it may seem, the majority
of investigators have been doughboyS
themselves. Old Army men who
were with the A. z. F., fellows who
know Army methods, habits and
clothes; who knew trench life under
fire and what awful apologies were
sometimes dignified by the name
dugout. Perhaps that, more than
anything else, explains why the
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BUS LINE DlSPUTATION
BEFORE UTILITIES BODY
Protests Against Permits to Two
Companies for Washington-Rich-
mond Services Considered.

A protest Of the Greyhound Lines
against the granting Of petitions of the
Nevin Lines, Inc. and the East Coast
Stages, Inc, for permits to operate serv-
ices between Washington and Richmond
was taken under consideration today by
the Public Utilities Commission.
It was announced that the commits
sion would call o public hearing.
The Greyhound Lines. operated By
the Pennsylvania Railroad, are expected
to oppose the applications Of the Newt,
Lines and the East Coast Stages on
the grounds that the business TO be OBJ
tanned between Washington and Rich
mond Is inadequate to warrant estab-
lishment Of additional lines.
The independents are expected 70
fight for the privilege Of extending their
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
AIR WEDDING ENDS
IN PARACHUTE JUMP
Bride, Bridegroom and Best Man
Leave Plane Over Roosevelt Field
Following Ceremony.

BY the Associated Press.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, Novem-
Der 26.-Two thousand feet over Roose-
welt Field in an 18-passenger, two-mo-
tored bombing plane, Miss Marguerite
Klinger Of New York and Donald Bah
cock, chief of a crew of flying field
mechanics, were married today.
As soon as the ceremony was COM
pleted the bride and bridegroom made
parachute jumps, the best man fol-
lowing them. Both Babcock and his
bride had previously made several para
chute leaps. and Eugene Kraus, the
best man, is a professional jumper.
The airplane was Diloted by Harold
Mcmahon, who played a laundering
wedding march on tgo 525-horsepower
motors. Judge Eugene L. Flanagan of
Bayville, Long Island. performed the
ceremony, and Miss Elaine Lewie of
Far Rockaway was the maid of honor
The brides wedding costume con-
sisted of o khaki-colored canvas fly
ing suit, extra heavy fur-lined boots
and a leather helmet. For a veil she
wore q 24-foot silk parachute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
French Senate Honors "Tiger,"

PARIS, November rs P.-The
French Senate today adjourned until
tomorrow as a mark of respect and
mourning for the late Georges Clemen-
ceau. President Paul Doumergue and
Premier Tardieu paid tribute to his
memory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
POLICE OF COUNTRY
SEARCH FOR YEGGS.
Blanket Warrant Issued for
Six in Jefferson, Wis.,,
Bank Robbery.
BY the Associated Press.


WATERFOWL, Wis, November 90
Six men with police records in Middle
west and Eastern cities were sought
throughout the country today on q
blanket warrant, charging them with
the $352,ooo robbery of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Jefferson, Wis, No
vember 7.
Two of them are wanted for holdup
and murder in Toledo, Ohio. A third Is
a former st. Louis gangster. All are be-
lieved to be in hiding since a quiet
search by surety company detectives has
failed to find them in their old haunts
Those named are:
Gus Winkler, st. Louis gangster; Rob-
ert Carey, st. Louis, and Philip Ander-
son, Lexington, KY, wanted in connec-
ton with the holdup of an American
Express truck in Toledo and the slaying
of a policeman; Fred GoetZ, alias Fred
Won Easch, Chicago; John Carl Conley,
New York, and Herman Upton, alias
Herman Tons Of Kentucky.
Their identifications were established
some days ago, when Jefferson citizens
and bank officials picked their pictures
out from a large number as the men
who engineered the robbery with such
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26

White and Brown were the names OF
bride andbridegoom, and Green and
Black were those Of two of the brides
maids at q recent wedding at Hail.
we'll England
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26

electric toaster, waf1ie iron and perco-
lator.
In Spirits Division Once.
The two women, it was explained.
were in the old distilled spirits division
Of the Bureau Of Internal Revenue be-
fore its functions were transferred to
the Prohibition Bureau in 1927.
During the period of her service, Mr..
Under said, Miss Mozart sat at the
same desk beside the same window in
the Treasury Building every workday
for more than as years.
Miss Farrelly, who lives at 2417 First
street, and Miss Mozart, who lives at
l21 Willow avenue, Takoma Park, Nd,
are going to Florida soon, the former to
Miami and the latter to Fort Pierce.
Both agreed they felt the necessity of
relaxing a bit from the routine that 80
long has dictated their lives.