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Evening star., 1932-04-12

That's right, my dear fellow" said
Old Owl, benevolently. We shall have
to make a little incision. You won't
mind that. You won't feel anything.
We shan't be long about 1t, you'll see.
Martin bcame a little more alert at
the words long about it" He made
no answer. He was silent for a minute
perhaps, and during this minute he
woke up completely and his perceptions
became extremely clear. There were
four people in the room-the white
bearded professor from Salzburg. DR..
Mayreder, the mother superior and
nun. All four wore white aprons and
had the wide, excited eyes of people
called up to do something in the middle
OF the night. Martin recovered all his
senses and went white.
Are you going to take off my arm?"
he asked in a low voice
Why do you straightaway imagine
the WorSt?" asked Old Owl in an equiv
ocal tone. I'VE have got to cut away
a little-to get to the bottom of it. We
shall only cut as far as is necessary.
But so much we must cut aWay-even
II it we're the arm. But don't worry.
1t won't be as bad as that. Well soon
put you right
Martin lay back on the pillows a
moment and shut his eyes. He was
tired, utterly tired out. He had the
letter now. He had work now, and
money and happiness, and May was
waiting for him in waikiki. And now
they came along and took off his arm,
Evening star., 1932-04-12

this sick and miserable arm that lay
beside him in the bed, as II 1t did not
belong to him.
"Pity." he said in a low and resigned
voice He gave way to moments rage
against the deaf and dumb girl to
whom he woed that dive into the water,
and that ill-fated scratch Of the rusty
nail. and he cursed his whole career
as a swimmer, which had ended in his
beinp disqualified, and had finally
brought him to his present pass A
MN bent over him and unbuttoned his
night shirt as If he were child. Her
fingers trembled. Some one else applied
a hvpodermic syringe to his thigh He
was then lifted from the bed and laid
Somewhere, where it was cold, and
where rays of white light moved over
the dark walls. There was smell of
ether and chloride and iodin. He felt
at home with this chemical smell and
found it almost pleasant:
"Td give a lot to save my arm,
doctor" Martin said. now in full pos
session of his senses. IT am a rich
man. and I'd give you 10000 marks. /
can't do without the arm. I hold the
2O0-meter record for Austria as an
amateur swimmer. Besides. 1 want to
get married and I can't II you amputate
my arm. beg you most particu-
larly. -.
Yes, yes-tell me all about it.
he heard some one say encouragingly,
and at the same moment his mouth
was stopped with chloroform. The last
Evening star., 1932-04-12
kG< MARTINS SUMNER &A||
N AyhtaR R4w AG%l

Good evening. sir" he said respect,
fully. They used to call him Old Owl
when they were boys. Old owl mad
always interfered in matters that did
not concern him, and this time, TOO,
he proceeded to remove the dressing
from Martins arm Then he looked
at the arm and tapped it with an object
resendAling a fountain pen. This was
decidedly unpleasant. Martin had large,
broad teeth in his shrunken face, and
at this he clenched them with snap:
Courage, my dear boy" Old Owl
said cheeringly, as if it were school
examination.
DR.. Mayreder-yes, that was the
name of the stout fellow-put a bril-
liant light near by. 1t was evening or
night Then he said: THE professor
has come from Salzburg to get you well;
M&tin. So don't be afraid. You Il
come through all right"
Martin was not in the least AFRAID.
"Oh, rather" he said, and grinned with
all his white teeth. III get through.
I'm through already. I've had the
letter, too"
Evening star., 1932-04-12

had been In and around New York for
the past several years, and for seven
had been a painting contractor.
Bannigan was sent to prison from
Westchester County July 10, 1908 under
four sentences, one for assault and
three for blackmail, for a total aggre-
eating IA years and four months. In
the early morning Of october Z, 1910,
he and four other prisoners escaped
from the prison dormitory by overpow-
ering two guards, forcing the bars and
going over the prison wall. One of the
tured a year later in California
Nothing was heard from Bannigan
until he surrendered today.
Evening star., 1932-04-12
CONSCIENCE RETURNS
FUGITIVE TO PRISON
Man Who Escaped From Sing Sing
81 Years Ago and Made Good
Gives Self Up.
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y, April 12.-Walter
Bannigan, Al. who escaped from Sing
Sing Prison more than 81 years ago,
drove to the prison from New York
yesterday and surrendered.
Il became very religious some two
years ago." he explained to Warden
Lewis E. Lawes This has been on my
mind I thought I'd get it of. I de-
cided to give myself up"
Bannigan told prison authorities he
Evening star., 1932-04-12
Will Present Operetta.

GAITHERSBURG, Md, April ~
Especially The operetta Cinderella"
will be presented In the Gaithersburg
High School auditorium Thursday eve
ming with large number Of the pupils
Of the Gaithersburg School partici-
Evening star., 1932-04-12
MADRID CELEBRATES

City Dresses Up to Commemorate
Republics First Anniversary.
MADRID, April II (P.-The capital
was bedecked in flags Sunday as it
began a weeks celebration commem-
Grating the first anniversary Of the re-
public on April IA
score of bands paraded the streets
and all the military garrisons fired mil
itary saultes of honor.
The press heralded the anniversary
with appropriate interviews with prom
inent government officials.
Evening star., 1932-04-12

he heard was Old Owl saying In his
schoolmasterish voice: THE arrange
ments in this hospital, date from the
seventeenth century, I should say.
what?"
(To be continued)
Evening star., 1932-04-12

The Mems Store makes speciality of catering many Of Wash
ngon bestdessed executives Here they enjoy the best
tom services and really fine grade ready-made apparel
worth Of dollar and the value they should receive, they are
pleased shop The Mems Store Every article offered at
price that uste inclusion in carefully chosen stock-and
that assures worthwhile values
Evening star., 1932-04-12

pating. 1t will be directed by Mrs.
Helen Bickmore.
Evening star., 1932-04-12

A British film quota Is expected In
British Columbia
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-03
LAST MONTH WETTER,
WARMER Than USUAL
May Was is Degrees Warmer
and 1.46 Inches Wetter
Than Average

Last month was is degrees warm
er and LAB inches wetter than nor
NAL for May during the last So years.
according to the monthly meteoro-
logical summary issued by o. w.
Roberts, in charge Of the federal
weather bureau here,
Precipitation last month totaled 1913
inches compared to a normal of 2.32
and the mean temperature for the
period was 56 degrees above zero,
compared to normal Of 54.5.
-Four inches of snow fell May rs.
The greatest precipitation for q "a
hour period during the month was
2.O8 inches, recorded on the 25th and
26th. On May 81 the accumulated
excess of moisture over the normal
since Jan. was $50 inches.
A high temperature of 81 degrees
was recorded on the 18th, the low be-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-03

ing 80 on the first. The greatest
daily temperature range was 80 de-
grees on the 18th, the least range be-
ing six degrees May 6. The absolute
maximum for the month is 81 de-
|grees, the absolute minimum 10. On
May 81 the average daily excess in
Temperature over normal was two
degrees.
Prevailing wind direction during
the month was from the east, the
total movement being 1906 miles at
an average hourly velocity Of 9.8
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-03

miles. The maximum velocity for
five minutes was IS miles per hour
from the southeast on the 22nd. The
maximum wind velocity for May dur
ing the last So years was AZ miles
per hour from the northwest in 1875.
May had IL clear, eight partly
cloudy and IL cloudy days, sunshine
being two per cent below normal.
Mean atmospheric pressure was
1895, the highest being 1898 on the
26th and the lowest $3.50 on the last
day of the month. Mean relative
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-03

humidity was 81 per cent at Z q. r1
Sc at noon and So at p. m.
The. month had eight days on
which 0l of an inch or more Of pre-
cipitation was recorded, and had
thunderstorms on the fourth, fifth,
18th, %, Gath and 3lst. Heavy frosts
were recorded May and %.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-03

DR.. T. w. Buckingham an
nounces the opening of offices
for the practice of eye, ear,
nose and throat. Cowan Bldg.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
G. M. League Briefs
By Wilfred HetZel

Grey Eagle enjo(s. an open date
this week. That club can clinch a
play-off berth with victory over
Belgrade on Aug. IA. Should they
lose that tilt they would probably
play off their postponed contest
with Regal. .
Unless Belgrade can trim Melrose
and Grey Eagle in their next two
starts it is unlikely that their two
postponed contests with West I'm
ion will be played off.
Regal kept in the running by
downing Sank Centre to virtually
eliminate the locals from the PEN
nant chase.
Melrose copied two games dur
ing the week to move into undisput-
ed possession of first place. They
overpowered Grey Eagle 9 to 6
and then out-classed Belgrade. 10
to 1.
West Union received it's 7th de-
feat of the season Sunday when
they lost to Grey Eagle 10 to 4.
The latter advanced into a third
place tie with Regal.
In Sundays struggles Melrose
should manhandle Belgrade, Regal
should trample on West Union and
Brooten should annex the verdict
from Sank Centre.
Regal must play off at least one
of it's three postponed games with
Belgrade, Grey Eagle or Brooten
before it can be assured of first
division berth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04

icles under Minnesota licenses of
other states and other countries;
as much useful information, in
fact, as can be obtained without
the traffic to stop.
The information secured through
these surveys displaces the need,
the bulletin point out, for the guess
work that was necessarily an ele-
'ment of earlier day highway plan
ming, and in addition what had not
been an anticipation at the COM
mencement of the survey practice
frequently enable local commun-
tiles to benefit through adaptations
to correspond with the travel
showings.
Instructions to district mainten-
ance superintendent, under whose
direction the traffic counts are
made, took particular note of the
present unemployment situation
and provided, the highway bullet
in states, that preference should be
given to unemployed who had de-
pendants and were. in financial
need; also that children whose par
ents were already in the employ of
the highway department should
not be put on. .-
The work of checking the high
way traffic will be continued un-
til midnight Sunday, the checkers
working in relays from six A. M.
until midnight each day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04


Earned runs; Westport 8; Sank
Centre z.
First base on balls: off Mischke,
2 in 4 innings; off Degree 2 in in
nings; off Edwards in inning;
off Buchholz z.
Struck out by Mischke 2 in 4 In
nings; Degree 1 in 2 innings; Ed
wards 2 in 1 inning; Buchholz 6.
Double plays: Sank Centre 2;
Westport 1.
Wild pitches: Degree 2.
Passed balls: Schaub IL Klein 1.
Hit by pitcher: Hermanson by
Degree.
First base on errors: Sank Centre
2; Westport. A.
Hits off Mischke in A innings;
off Degree 3 in 2 innings; off Ed
wards none in one inning; off Buch-
holz in seven innings.
Umpires: Mr.. Fredericks, of
Westport; Thos. Clough, of Sank
Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
10000 VOLTS PASS THROUGH
MANS BODY

Emil T. Bredeson superintendent
for the Northern State Power
Company at st. James, and a for
mer Lake Crystal resident had a
very narrow escape from electro
cution Friday afternoon, when a
limb he was saving at height Of
so feet from the ground, fell on the
high line. Mr.. Bredeson was hold
ing the limb with his left hand and
saving with the right hand. As
the limb hit the high line 10000
volts of electrical energy passed
through his body, badly burning
his left hand and going down
through his right leg, passing out
at the right foot, which was also
painfully burned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
Gov. Olson Has Named
Committee of One Hundred

Minneapolis, is vice-chairman.
Other members of the committee
are: r. A. Trovatten, commission
er of Agriculture; Roger B. Shep-
ard, H. J. Seesel, A. B. Lathrop,
Leo E. Owens, L. w. Kube, H. O.
Defiel and Carl T. Schuneman Of
st. Paul; H. A. Douglass, M. O..
Grangaard, w. H. Bremner, J. H.
Ellison, G. r. Martin, Axel Han
sen and s. U. Berdahl, of Mime
apolis.
Representatives of the State
Fair on the executive committee
are: Lee F. Warner, of st. Paul, D.
w. Murphy of Minneapolis, and
Raymond A. Lee.
More than 5000 head of premier
livestock will be shown as a part
of the Exposition. Educational ex-
hibits will give visual illustration
of the progress of diversification
on Northwest farms during the
past year. The United States De-
partment of Agriculture exhibit. -,
will demonstrate practical and
economical farming methods.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
GOPHER PRAIRIE LII

Tuesday evening the Gopher
Prairie All Club held it's monthly
meeting. Revert Vandesteeg acted
as chairman. Monica Otte, Eleanor
and Estella Winter gave reports on
the Home Economics achievem ent
day at st. Cloud. Mr.. Pontius gave
a talk about club work. Mr.
Schoenhoff talked about the State
Fair Booth.
Word was received from the state
that the following Stearns County
girls won out in the district. Lor-
eta and Alvina Meyer, of the Fair
Haven Club, canning demonstra-
ton, Eleanor and Esella Winter, of
Gopher Prairie, class A bread.
Gester Staples, of Sank Valley, on
her room furnishing exhibit
Club Reporter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04

plan to send Troop No. Is, Of the
Central Minnesota Area. to the
State Fair early in September.
: The Club members present decid-
edly were in favor of the plan.
They appreciate the fact that Troop
rs was signaliy honored when they
were accepted to, make this trip to
the Minnesota State Fair solely up
on ITS merits. s.s.' Sea.
Ways and means of raising the
funds must be talked over. To COM
plete this important work President
Fischer appointed the following
committee: l.. L. Kells, Clyde
Thomas, Asa Wallace, DR.. j. F. Du-
Bots and p. w. Hanson.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
Record Making Cow


Breckenridge, July 20-Lady
Pride Pontiac Lieuwkje, a Holstein
queen owned by F. E. Murphy, pub
Usher Of The Minneapolis Tribune,
has not even heard of the depres-
sion.
This cow has just broken tha
worlds record for combined milk
and butter production by yielding
IS, 626 pounds of milk and 1883
pounds of butter. in 1855 days.
The record was made at Fence
Farms, near Breckenridge, under
the supervision of the Minnesota
College of Agriculture and is certi-
fed by the Holstein Friesian As
ISOLATION, of America.
The average daily production Of
Lady Pride was 81 pounds of milk,
or approximately so quarts. The
significance of this record is appar-
ent when compared with the aver
age dairy cow production in the
United States, about 1000 pounds of
milk. This cow, therefore, pro-
duced as much milk in one years as
nine average cows.
This animal produced enough
rich milk to furnish a pint a day
to one hundred children. Her rec
ord makes her the highest living
butter producer in the world.
In making this production record
Lady Pride consumed enough fod-
der of various kinds to make the
expression IAN appetite like a
horse" seem feeble. Her daily menu
is as follows: 26 pounds of grains,
35 pounds of corn silage, Is pounds
of alfalfa hay, Is pounds of dry
beet pulp, and from 220 to 225
pounds or 25 gallons of water. She
produces more pounds of milk
daily than the solids she eats, 81
pounds as compared with "a. She
is a1arge cow, weighs nearly 1900
pounds.
Breeding authorities point to this
cow as a triumph of scientific
breeding. Her pedigree is a con-
centration of famous sires and high
producing cows. She is also the
dam of two daughters, who, breed
ing authorities believe, may surpass
their aristocratic mother.
Her record having been made,
Lady Pride is now being given a
vacation. High production cows
on test are kept in their stalls all
day, spending most of their time
eating to produce the milk that is
taken from them four times daily.
Now Lady Pride can lie out under
tree, peacefully chew her cud, and
gossip with the other ladies of
rank on Fence Farms with moth
ing much to do until the big state
fairs start.
Then life will again become a
matter of private express cars,
grooms and bovine manicurists,
and jostling, noisy crowds anxious
to see a real tactical champion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
FIGURES ON STATE
EXPENSE FOR 1881
Compiled By State Auditor
and Released By Bureau
of Census
IS $15.O6 PER CAPITA
In 1917 the Per Capita Elk.
penses Amounted to $S.15
Big Increase

Statistics compiled by M. J. Des-
mond, deputy state auditor for
Minnesota covering the fiscal year
of 1881, were made available dur
ing the past week. The report is
made through the bureau of the
census in Washington, D. c., and
includes expenditures and reve-
nues for the State of Minnesota.
The figures are based upon an esti-
mated population of 2,573,OOO.
The payments for operation and
maintenance of the general depart
ments of Minnesota amounted to
$3S, 1885, 53, or $15,06 per capita
This includes $1O,441,O37, appor-
tionments for education to the
minor civil divisions of the state.
In 1880 the per capita for general
departments was $14.52 and in
1917, $S.15. The interest on debt
in 1881 amounted to $4,183,3 1929 and
OUTLAWS for permanent improve
ments, $20,989,252. The total pay
ments, therefore, for operation and
maintenance of general depart
ments, interest, and OUTLAWS were
$63 ,92S,134.
OF the governmental costs re-
ported above, $23,574,994 was for
highways, $4,414,251 being for
maintenance and $19,160,743 for
construction.
The total revenue receipts were
$65, 662, 90S or 025.52 per capita
This was $22,724,026 more than the
total payments of the year exclu.
sive of the payments for perma-
ment improvements and $1,734,7 TIA
more than the total payments in.
Guiding those for perma'
nent improvements. This excess
of revenue receipts is reflected in
purchase of investments and in
creased cash balances, not shown
in this summary. Of the total
revenue receipts $76,64S represents
receipts from a State department
or enterprise on account of ser
vices.
Business and nonbusiness Ii
censes constituted 1877 per cent Of
the total revenue for 1881, 3d.
per cent for 1880, and 30.6 pei
cent for 1917.
Receipts from business licenses
consist chiefly of taxes exacteo
from insurance and other incor
porated companies, occupation ane
royalty tax on iron ore, and o.
sales tax on iron ore,< and of sale!
tax on gasoline, while those. from
nonbusiness licenses comprise
chiefly taxes on motor vehicles arlt
amounts paid for hunting and fish
ing privileges. The sales tax OF
gasoline amounted to $7,328,457 ii
1881 and $6,750,331 in 1880, an in
crease of SO per cent. -
The total funded or fixed deb
outstanding June 80, 1881; wa!
$n,151, 759. OF this amount %,
600, 900 was for highways. ga
The assessed valuation Of prop
erty in Minnesota subject to &C
valorem taxation was 1894, S48, 744
the amount of Slate taxes Levied
was $11, 060,642; and the per capits
levy, $4.30. In 1880 the per capits
levy was $4.98 and in 1917, &2.58.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
Hitchcock Outlines State
Economy Legislative Plan
Continued from Page Onel

Adjustment Of the conservation
commission under the proposal
would return the divisions of game
and fish forestry to near independ-
emit departments. They were placed
under the new five-man commits
sion at the last session together
with the division Of drainage and
waters which the proposal would
eliminate. The state auditor would
continue to have supervision Of
lands, minerals and timber sales.
Abolition of the securities or
"blue sky" commission and insur-
ance department would leave only
the department of banking in the
triangular group which now forms
the state commerce commission.
Mr.. Hitchcock and Senator A. J.
Rockne of Zumbrota, chairman of
the senate finance committee,
have both in recent weeks advo-
Gated closing down the rural cred
it bureau on the theory that its
work is now done.
If the farmers of Minnesota,
who pay 40 per cent of the taxes
of Minnesota, and the small own
ers who pay grievious proportion
of the balance want to do some.
thing that will give them substan-
tial relief so far as the state at
large is concerned, they should
move in force on the next legis-
lature for the abolition of such de-
o,.fy re Of ~
securities commission, the insur-
ance department, the rural cred
department, the department of
drainage and waters, the conser.
walton commission, the bureau of
criminal apprehension and various
minor commissions, Mr.. Hitchcock
said.
At the same time they should
demand radical limitation of the
activities of the department of adj
ministration and finance, the
board of relief and perhaps some
other activities of state govern
ment..
Even such a left-handed pro-
posal as this, he continued, will
raise a hue and cry from every up
lift organization in the state. No
department of government, once
established no matter how useless
or injurious, ever gives up without
a desperate Struggle. The job hold
ers can produce hundred reasons
why all these activities should be
continued.
But the real power back of these
good men and women of the state,
the people who have been moved
by high ideals and high enthusi-
asm to inaugurate movements for
the public good. Most of these
movements, as crystalized in new
departments of government, fail to
accomplish a 1.-THE of the good,
hoped for, but inevitably they pile
taxes higher and higher on the.
people.
A thorough housekeeping in the
state, with the elimination of use
less and semi-useless departments
will save the state hundreds of
thousands Immediately and mil:
lions in the future. 49,.
Here is an opportunity for the
farmers and small home owners to
do something for themselves" he
said. "They can put it over. No one
else can even get il. started.
,"If the farmers and small home
owners make themselves felt in the
next legislature with half the force
that lobbyists display in the corri-s
doris of the capitol, there will be
such a. rafting of dry bones as;
Minnesota has never seen" -,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
Inner Tube Carried Boy,
10, Far Out Onto Lake
CONTINUED From Page One)

reached him the boat, carried 20
feet ahead at each surge, was go
ing too rapidly to enable them to
pick up the boy. So Jimmy ROBBIE
son dived out of the boat and swan
to Freddie, helping to keep him up
until Leroy Lindstrom and Robert
Bennett, Jr., the other occupants of
the boat were able to turn around
and manage to row the boat back
to where the two were in the water.
After helping them into the boat
they let the boat be carried towards
shore, where they landed about a
mile and a half from where they
started.-Starbuck Times.