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The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-15

XXTHEN John Greenleaf Whittier
w used popular tales circulating
about the fishing village of Marble
head in his poem skipper Ireson's
Ride" he unwittingIy served to per-
petuate a great injustice.
Floyd Ireson, for his hard
heart" wrote Whittier, was tarred
and feathered and carried on a cart,
by the women of Marblehead. :"
On the night of October %, 1908,
the fishing schooner Betty, Skipper
IresOn in command, passed almost
within hailing distance of the Ac-
tive, about to sink in the heavy sea.
Skipper Ireson would have stopped
to give aid; his crew, fearful for
their own lives, disobeying his or
ders to stand by to succor the Ac-
tive and set sail for home while
he was taking a bit of a nap be-
low. Once safe home they accused
the skipper of refusing aid, and
their story was affirmed later when
four survivors of the ill-fated Active
reached port. The angry populace
of Marblehead seized Skipper ire
son. stripped and bound him, tarred
him and covered him with feath-
ers and dragged him through the
streets in an old dory. When its
bottom fell out they put their vic
tim in a cart and proceeded, howl
ing, on their way.
Not till many years later, when
Skipper Ireson was old, blind, and
destitute, and it was too late to
make amends, was the true story
told by the Betty's cabin boy, now
grown to manhood and a new sense
of honor.
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'TTT@T'@T''T''7
WHO WAS
WHO?
By Louise NJ. Comstock !
FAUST
FAUST

1T WAS no grisly bargain with
l. the devil that made Faust the
central figure of at least two plays
and three operas. In Main, Ger
many, in the Fourteenth century,
people won a reputation for undue
intimacies with the devil very
easily; and Faust won his over
night, almost, with a printing press |!
Johann Gutenberg had just in-
vented the process of printing with
movable type. To commercialiZe mis-
invention he formed the first print
ing company, Gutenberg, Faust and
Shoeffer, to which he contribut ed
the idea, and Faust the capital and
flare for sales promotion. Shoeffer
was Faust's son-in-law. Since there
were no patent laws at the time,
the printing had to be done be-
hind closed doors. often at night, to
prevent the idea being stolen. The
public, accustomed to slowly and
labOriOuSly hand-printed letters,
gazed in awe at the freshly print
ed pages turned out so rapidly in
that mysterious shop, and hinted
magic. Faust perceived the sales
value Of that word, encouraged its
use and became pOpularly known,
not as a printer, but q man with
some strange allegiance with the
devil
Old records show that Faust later
won a law suit against Gutenberg
for funds invested and lost in the
printing of the famous Gutenberg
Bible, a single copy of which, per-
haps proving the theory of magic,
sold in 1926 for S305,0O0.
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Y Y Y
CASABIANCA

TWO generations of school boys
l. have declaimed and parodied
Mrs. Heman's poem commencing
THE boy stood on the burning
deck" few of them perhaps realiz
ing that the small hero therein de
scribed really lived. and died as the
poem tells.
During Napoleon's expedition
into Egypt, England sent her IA
nous admiral, Lord Nelson, against
the French fleet, and all but four
of the French vessels were sunk or
captured. The French admiral had
fallen, and the flagship, wrapped
in flames and sinking. was deserted
by all of her crew who could
squeeze into the lifeboats or swim.
Only the captain. Louis Casabianca,
already badly wounded but follow
ing the time-honored tradition of
sea captains, refused to leave his
post, determined to go down with
his ship. Suddenly those on the
attacking British vessels saw that
the gallant captain was not alone.
His ten-year-old son, who had hid
den in a coil of ropes until the
decks were cleared, now rushed up
to his father, threw a supporting
arm about him and stood ready to
share his fate. Commands and en-
treaties failed to move the boy. And
fighting was suspended and the
British cheered and wept as the
flaming ship bearing the two he
roes sank into the water.
(G. 1892. Western Newspaper Union)
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to the states attorney Of Cook
county in Chicago and tell him
something that may interest him. OF
course, if what passes as a memory
for me has done me another of it's
tricks, won't be writing him any
thing"
October 16 the states attorney in
Chicago had a letter from Dorset:
MY Dear Sir: am a practicing
attorney in Dorset in the state of
Vermont. Five years ago | was
asked to draw a will. A number of
circumstances have impressed 1t on
me. 1t was Thanksgiving day. My
wife had been called out of town
by her mothers illness, and that
knocked our Thanksgiving dinner
into Christmas. The house was too
forlorn to be abided. Consequently
| was at my office. / should inject
here that this letter relates to your
Dunn Clayton murder and others
and not to my Thanksgiving tribula-
tions five years ago. Nevertheless.
l must say that my resentment of
the small steak and German fried
potatoes l ate that day is perma-
nent.
The man who visited me in my
office that afternoon was casually
known to me. He had bought an
extensive and lovely tract of land
near here the year before. Some
touch Of ecceEtricity attached to
him. l do not recall why.
when | asked him, after his
knocking at my door, why he had
looked for Vermont small-town
lawyer at his office on Thanksgiving
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CHAPTER ~
Mr.. Whittlesex Pops In and Out.

Mr.. Whittlesex Pops In and Out.
John WHITTLESEX in Dorset,
- VT, reading his New York paper
at home, the early morning of Oc-
tober II, laid it on his knee and
closed his eyes. Little burrows
came in his forehead. He opened
his eyes, picked up his paper and
reread the story which had caused
him to close his eyes and think.
Darn It," he said. Martha" he
called to his wife, who was in the
kitchen, you remember the names
Of those fellows in that story
told you about the will | wouldn't
draw up some years ago? Wasn't
one of them Clayton? Dunn Clay.
ton? You remember me telling
you?"
Mrs. Whittlesex called back that
she did not remember.
you know what | mean?"
Yes. Mrs. Whittlesex knew what
he meant, but she did not remember
any of the names.
81 can't blame you for that" said
John. Il can't remember them my
self. No one ought to have a men,
DRY like mine. Darn it! Yet I'm
pretty near sure. Anyway, I'm go
ing to call up Matilda Field. What's
her number, Martha?"
"Four-six-eight, two rings"
"Sure, | remember that"
He went into the hallway where
the telephone was fixed to the wall
and in calling asked for three rings.
When there was response he said :
Matilda? Oh, Mrs. Bart
lett, sorry to disturb you.
Yes, | wanted Matilda Field. Oh,
shucks Yes, two rings. Sorry, Mrs.
Bartlett. I'll blame it on Central,
but | certainly did ask for three
rings"
He replaced the receiver for a mo-
ment, put it again to his ear and
waited.
Central" he said, III bet the
best way is for you TO give me Miss
Matilda Fields number. III be
obliged to you. Thank you.
|. Matilda, is that you? Ma
tilda, do you remember the names
in that will we didn't draw? You
know what | mean. Wasn't one of
them Dunn Clayton? You
said you kept your notes. Will you
look them up and give me the
names? I'll De obliged, Matilda. Call
me up. after supper. :"
Whats plaguing you, JOhn?'
Mrs Whittlesex asked as ne came
and stood in the kitchen doorway
"Plaguing is Tie right word, Mar.
tha. If Matilda telephones me what
think she may I'm going to write
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decided something had to be done
about it. He drove back intending
to go to the construction camp and
raise HI but the lanterns were
there"
"They might have been late in
setting them out"
The man who was responsible
for them swears they were in place
long before dark, and there's other
evidence that they were. Somebody
took those lights away, and Trembly
went through the barricade, off the
road and into the thoroughfare. You
have to accept it as intended, and
that leaves US a killer still at large
and story we don't know"
ITS Wisconsin jurisdiction" said
the states attorney.
"In a county which has no way
of getting at nonresident hoods
who haven't left trace. You
couldn't expect the sheriff there or
the states attorney even to try It."
what do you want dOne?"
I'm curious now." said the lieu
tenant. I'm not a detective, but
I'm curious. I'd like to know this
story. The detective bureau will
hunt for Maisie. The'l get into
Browns history and Trembly's
Anything that comes of that will
come of it. Suppose you try what
comes of some publicity. This is a
newspaper story which hasn't been
really told. Three murders, all with
unusual angles, unknown motives
and some killers still at large. If
you extend yourself bit it will go
all over the country. It's making q
cast blindly but you may hook
something. And it won't be bad
publicity for our young prosecutor"
'I'll think it over" said the
states attorney.
Don't kid me, mister" said the
lieutenant ''I'll read it tomorrow"
Preston Brown was the son of a
Tennessee Baptist clergyman. at
an early age it was evident that he
was not disposed to satisfy his ia
theirs desire to have him in the min
istry. He could sing mountain
songs and play the guitar. He
joined troupe in time to avoid ap-
pearance for questioning in a pater-
nifty case. He had measurable luck
as card sharper and later made a
respectable success as bucket shop
broker. He married the widow of A.
PeytonSharpfield. She divorced him
in Paris in 1924 and afterward
was killed by Apaches who robbed
her Of her pearls. 1t was obvious
to the surete that a Partisan gang
had been guilty, but no one was ap-
pretended. The stolen necklace,
however, was a paste imitation
of Mrs. Peyton-Sharptield Browns
pearls which were never found
after her death but which, II was
later known, she was not wearing
when she was murdered. She was
wearing the paste. The story
might have been interesting and Mr..
Brown might have told it. He was
destitute when his wife divorced
him, but her death marked the be-
ginning Of a solvency which en-
dured for tn. remainder of his life.
1t was beyong doubt that the neck
lace for which the Apaches MUIR
dered her was synthetic, but the
genuine pearls were very valuable ]
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Study Long Over Game

The average length of a game be-
tween experts in national or inter
national chess tournaments is 10
moves. Timing clocks are employed
and the moves are made at the rate
Of Is moves an hour. There is no
record of the longest time for a
move, except that on one occasion
o. S. Duras consumed an hour in
making up his mind about one of
the early moves in the opening.
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day he said he understood that |
was an eccentric. This on top of
the small steak and almost cold pO-
tatoes was almost too much.
hardly refrained from asking him
to close my door and be on the
other side Of 1t at the time. l am
the soul of conventionality almost
its victim. The man was big, not
fat but hard. He had a smile you
might like or not. | couldn't tell
whether ! did or didn't, and can't
now.
I'VE finally got down to business.
| mean there was some preliminary
chaff in which he laughed a great
deal and asked me If | believed in
a benevolent God, and if | did how
could | prove him up. He asked
me what | thought of hate as an
ennobling emotion, as a cherished
possession. | said that he might
persuade me of it If he remained a
half hour. He laughed at that.
"He then explained what he want
ed. 1t was a will to be drawn,
signed, witnessed, attested. etc. II
was necessary to take notes and
was fortunate in persuading Miss
Matilda Field. very good dictation
taker. to come over with her note
book. Then we got down to cases
THAT mans name was Thomas J.
Turner. Ee started out, when Miss
Field was ready to take him, by
asking me if ever had been an ac-
cessory to murder before the fact.
Well, you're going to be- he said.
saw Matilda give him a look. Here
in Vermont we have a different fund
of humor. l was glad then-but
didn't care afterward-that she
didn't hear him talking about a be-
nevolent God. Vermont doesn't ask
anything to be benevolent. That
would cheat us of opportunity and
character.
This Mr.. Turner began to die
tate. He provided a trust fund for
his only child, son, then seventeen
years old and in preparatory
school in Westchester county, New
York. The boys education was to
be provided, and when he had been
graduated from a college to be Sc
lected by himself he was to receive
five thousand dollars a year. When
he married this was to be increased
by one thousand dollars a year,
and if there were children there
should be another one thousand dol
lars year for each child.
THE boy, Mr.. Turner said, would
not need and should not have any
more. He will select a small and
probably obscure college, said the
father. He will select and marry a
girl of no ambition or get up. They
will have insignificant children.
| From my point of view such people
are of no consequence. The world
| doesn't need them, but after all, Mr..
Whittlesex, am the parent of one
of them and | acknowledge the re-
spOnsibilities. | have no feeling of
disappointment in my son. If he
had been of a different character J.
would manage his future other
wise
"He said that his son indicated too
much conscience and no hardness.
Hardness, he said, was essential.
The trust fund as stipulated would
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dren form regular bowel habits, and
at the first sign of bad breath, coated
tongue, biliousness or constipation,
give them a little California Fig
Syrup. 1t regulates the bowels and
stomach and gives these organs tone
md strength so they continue to act
is Nature intends them to. 1t helps
build up and strengthen pale, listless,
underweight children. Children love
its rich, fruity taste and it's purely
vegetable, so you can give it as often
as your child's appetite lags or he
seems feverish, cross or fretful.
Leading physicians have endorsed
it for so years, and it's overwhelming
sales record of over four million bot
ties a year shows how mothers de-
pend On it. A Western mother, Mrs.
R. w. Stewart, Alp Raritan ST.,
Denver, Colorado, says: Raymond
was terribly pulled down by constf-
patton. He got weak, fretful and
cross, had no appetite or energy and
food seemed to sour in his stomach
California Fig Syrup had him romp
'ng and playing again in just few
lays, and soor he was back to nor
NAL weight, looking better than he
had looked in months"
Protect your child from limitations
Of California Fig Syrup. The mark
of the genuine is the word "CaIi-
fornia" on the carton.
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Relieved this
Quick Way

If stabbing pains
shoot across your
back and cripple
you, rub on good
old St. Jacobs Oil.
Relief comes before
you can count 60!...
Relief without burn
ing or blistering
This fa oil
simply draws out
inf animation and
pain. 1t is soothing,
he aling. For the3
aches and pains Of;
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Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lumbago,
Neuralgia or Backache there's moth
ing so quick or sure to bring relief.
Get small bottle of st. Jacobs Oil
from your druggist.
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Denver Mother
Tells Story

Nature controls all
the functions of our
digestive organs ex-
cept one. We have
control over that,
and it's the function
that causes the most
trouble.
See that your chill
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SKIPPER IRESON

Y Y Y
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The letter of John Whittlesex
sent the lieutenant travelling east.
His protest thereat was so weak he
laughed at it himself as soon as he
began it. Certain information re-
garding Turner had been easily OBJ
tainable. 1t did not give any real
measure of the man but there was
enough for first directions.
He had died two years before, Oc-
tober 20, 1926, on his country place
in Westchester county, New York,
of pneumonia after a fall from his
horse. His will had been probated
at White Plains. It's peculiarities
had brought it some newspaper pub,
lication at the time in the East. II
was not contested. The son accent
ed the provisions made By his ia
ther.
(TO BE COSTINUEDl
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Insects caused considerable damage
to the crops in New Mexico, G. r.
Quesenberry, of the New Mexico A.
and M. college, said at State College
N. M. recently. The grasshopper, he
said, was the chief offender, however,
the other insects such as ants, false
chinch bugs, cotton boil worms, cot
ton leaf worms, false wire worms,
army worms and granary weevils got
in their share.
Winnie Ruth Judd became No. 1922
at the state bureau of criminal iden-
tification at Phoenix a few days ago.
Fingerprints of Mrs. Judd, charged
with the murders of Agnes Ann Leroi
and Miss f edvig Samuelson, were
filed with ]. F. Mcdonald, superin-
tendent of the state bureau, by county
authorities. Her photograph also was
filed for state record. Her trial is
scheduled for January 19 in Phoenix.
A jury in Superior Court in Phoenix
convicted Colonel Charles Harris, for
mer adjutant general, of defrauding
the state of Arizona Of $53323. The
complaint on which Harris was tried
charged him with presenting a claim
to the state for National Guard sup
plies which the prosecution contended
never were received.
Governor George W. P. Hunt OF
Arizona has reappointed DR.. Norton
J. Wood. Tucson, as a member of the
state board Of dental examiners.
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$86,0OO TRUST FOR PETS
 Is OPPOSED IN COURT

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept IA, The plan of a retired oil broker who died at the age of 86 leaving an $86,0C0 trust fund for dogs and cats is under fire in the courts here.
 A dozen relatives of the late H. c. Babcock, who sought to set up the "Babcock Relief Fund for Dumb Animals" assert the testator was "obsessed," a "monomaniac" on the core of dogs and cats,, and mentally incapable" of executing the trust agreement.
 Trustees under the agreement were empowered to administer the fund virtually as they saw fit.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
OVER HAST TRAIL"

From Anchorage comes word of the death of M. R. HuSSey at Vancouver on August 26. MT. Illus sey was Sourdough of the North land and had, until a few yeas ago, been a resident of Anchorage for many years. A sudden heart at tack brought death. Since leaving Alaska the Oldtimer had travelled extensively, in China, Siberia, Jap- an and throughout the States. He was born in Ireland in 1874.
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ANOTHER DEATH THREAT

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 16, = Another death threat was received by Miss Marion Lambert, former secretary to Frank E. J. Egan as Egan, convicted with Albert Tin min of murdering Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes, took a defiant attitude in the county jail. Police are inves- tigating the latest threat against Miss Lambert.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
GREAT BEAR AREA
 SENDS OUT METAL

TORONTO, Sept. 15, Evidence of strike of silver radium ore in the Great Bear district were brot here by Major Bernard Day.
 Two tons of ore were brought out by airplane and freight train, the first ore from the two veins the company is working at present, one silver and one radium.
 Major Day said 24O men and one woman are scattered turnout the Great Bear area, searching for the riches it's 15 square miles are be- lieved to hold.
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FAMILY LEAVING

Localities departing tonight on the SS. Yukon for the States will be Miss Roberta O'Neel and broth CTS Kenneth and Milton. The three are bound for Oregon, where they will stay with relatives and attend school. During their residence with their parents in Seward for the past year, they have made many local friends who all will regret their departure.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
VIC WAS SURPRISED

SEATTLE, Sept, 16,-One of the most surprised men in the State of Washington Thursday was "Vic" Meyers, the orchestra leader, who won the Lieut.. Gov nomination by wide margin. He said that he entered the race upon an impulse. He was a candidate for mayor of Seattle in the recent election.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
DELEGATE TO CORDOVA

This evening Alaska's Delegate to Congress, James WickerSham, and his charming wife, leave for Cordova on the SS. Yukon and at Cordova, says. the Judge, he will make his last speech until his Dem .ocratic opponent, A. J. Dimond, re- covers from his recent injury and resumes campaigning. Judge and Mrs. Wickersham will go home-to Juneau-from Cordova and remain there indefinitely.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
SWALLOW SAILS TONIGHT

The U. s. s. Swallow, former mine sweeper, in port for two days, is expected to lift anchor htis even- ing and steam for Cordova. The Swallow is taking oil tanks over to the Mile ' Naval Radio Station, and returns to Seward early next week for a longer stay. A crew of 10 or 20 men will be left here to disman- tie the local abandoned radio plant.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
CHEYENNE, BUTTE TODAY

TOPEKA, Kas., Sept, 16,-Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and party left here Thursday for Cheyenne and Butte. Chairman Farley, of the Democratic National Commit tee, the 44-year-old president mak- CT and fight promoter, is enroute to California in the role of advance agent for Roosevelt.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

The Cordova Times this week re- duced its eight page daily news paper to four pages, but one column wider than the present size of The Gateway.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

Great coal veins are exposed on Alaskan hillsides, some to a total thickness of 200 feet or more, and gold, copper, and tin. Its forests there are great hidden stores of are among it's greatest resources, with spruce. hemlock, cottonwood and birch in billions of feet.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

Pilot Matt Nieminen, of the Pa cific Alaskan Airways, Inc, landed at the radio station airport late Thursday afternoon from Anchor age bringing four passengers.
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ATTACKS SPEECH

HAMMOND, Ind, Sept, 16,-Sec- retary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde attacked the Topeka address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, asserting that his admiration of Al Smith rises higher with each new RooSe- welt speech and each succeeding address.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

Arrivals from Cordova today re- port that the Copper River & Northwestern Railway has resum- ed traffic after several weeks of be- ing closed down after the recent floodwaters had damaged bridges and roadbed. ...
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

Dr. Baughman, who has been in the Moose Pass, Hope and Sunrise country for several weeks, returned to the city Thursday.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

The delayed freight train from Anchorage, due Wednesday evening, arrived in the local yards late yes terday.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

The SS Starr is expected to re- turn to port from the Westward about September g when it will proceed to Seattle.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16

c. H. Flory, Alaska head of the Department of Agriculture, arrived in the city Thursday from the In- teriOr enroute to his Juneau office.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-16
PLAYFUL PETS

Extra fancy Alaska pen raised Fitch. Gentle, easy to handle, pro- duce two filters per year. Bargain price S20 pair. Yukon Fur Farms.
 Petersburg, Alaska
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hAIES-Fifteen cents per line first inser ton. Seven and one half cents per Iirs Tor subsequent insertions. Count six av. craze words to a line Minimum charge ,C cents.
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Man ought to love old Mother Earth-she never fails him.
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