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Evening star., 1932-06-16
The American Language.

EAR Mrs. Post: Will you please
describe just the kind of girl
that you call sophisticated? A
. friend tells me when I call a
Wl sophisticated I am saying
at she 8 Alpure. I understand the
'rd as meaning well groomed and
Evening star., 1932-08-31
FREED BY HOOVER
IN GOLD NOTE CASE
Former Minnesota Official Receives
Pardon and Escapes Rest Of
20-Year Term.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, August 31-Andrew
E. Nelson. former Minnesota securities
commissioner, convicted in the famous
Cochran gold note case in 1923 and
sentenced to a 20-year term in Leaven-
worth Federal Penitentiary, has been
pardoned by President Hoover.
Nelson was released from the peni-
tentiary August "a, after President Hoo
yer had signed the pardon August 8, it
was learned here, and he has returned
to his home in Minneapolis.
He has been in i'll health the last
few years.
With more than 20 others, including
c. A. Cochran, Nelson was named in an
indictment returned by a Federal grand
jury in st. Paul in 1927. The indict-
Evening star., 1932-08-31

All-silk washable fiat
crepes, in black, white
and about 80 shades.
40 inches wide.
Evening star., 1932-08-31
by Morris Green. %. Sheriff v. L.

by Morris Green. %. Sheriff v. L.
Bowers said.
The sheriff said Greenn confessed
the crime several hours after Miss
Jones died in hospital here. She was
a teacher in the Richmond, Ind, public
schools.
Sheriff Bowers said Green told him
he found the woman alone at her
parents farm home, Is miles from here
when he went there to borrow tool
kit. When the teacher resisted his
attentions, the farm laborer became
enraged and struck her four times
with hatchet, he admitted.
Besides being hacked, Miss Jones
body bore evidence of having been
kicked and beaten.
The young man reported to author
tiles that he had gone to the Jones
Evening star., 1932-08-31
Trend to Two Rooms.

Fully 80 per cent of the people Of
Copenhagen, Denmark, live in two
rooms, a survey shows, and an equal
number in apartments of three rooms,
about IL per cent in apartments of
four rooms and approximately 20 per
cent in apartments Of five rooms. The
Copenhagen trend Is TO two or three
rooms, whereas the trend in provincial
cities is to apartments Of three or fow
looms
Evening star., 1932-08-31

ment. which cited the alleged inner
workings of the Cochran organization,
charged that Nelson issued permits for
the sale of securities of the Duluth &
Little Falls brick companies. 1t was
charged that the companies never were
intended for the manufacture OF brick.
but merely to further central Cochran
promotion.
Evening star., 1932-08-31
The Same Stuff.

Tests applied to piece of meteorite
that fell to Mexico from out in space
revealed that it was almost identical,
chemically and mechanically, with the
nickel-iron known to earth.
Evening star., 1932-08-31
GAS QUIETS CHICKENS
Court Decides They Were Silenced
Without Being Damaged.

CHICAGO, August 81 up. - What
happened to Sol Levin's geese and
chickens took him to court.
Something has happened to them,"
he told Judge William E. Lelander.
"8hey're so quiet you can't hear them"
Judge Lelander asked an explana-
ton of Theodore Fishman, who had
previously complained of their noise.
That's easy" Theodore replied. Il
got the mildest anesthetic I could
find. It's laughing gas. and ! dumped a
container of it on Mr.. Levin's coops."
The Judge dismissed the proceedings.
Evening star., 1932-08-31

Sturdy, well-made shirts
school or dress. Colorfast bros
cloths, in white, tan, blue, gre
or light and dark fancies. Coll,
attached. 8 to IL and 1914 to Ia
sizes.
Evening star., 1932-08-31

Two sizes, 45x36
and 42x36 inches-of
serviceable pillowcase
cotton.
Goldenberg's-Main Floor.
Evening star., 1932-08-31
LONDON BLOCKADES
MOTOR BANDITS"
Scotland Yard Conducts Sc.
cTet Drive Against Auto
Gunmen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press,
LONDON, August 31-Scotland Yard
ringed London today with a blockade
against motor bandits
Several hundred motor cars were
stopped by policemen called secretly
into action by Lord Trenchard, Scot
land Yards new chief.
At dawn the secrecy was still strictly
maintained and it was not disclosed
whether any arrest had been made in
the most impressive combing out of its
kind London has ever known.
The action was taken on the heels of
Evening star., 1932-08-31

This fine new rayon has un-
usual wearing qualities-and the
tailoring of these vests, panties,
step-ins and bloomers is unus-
ually good.
Evening star., 1932-08-31

Pure silk French crepe gar
ments like these at a dollar will
soon be as scarce as hens teeth
silk prices are advancing, you
know. New styles, lace trimmed.
Flesh or tearose.
G0ldenberg's-Secon Floor.
Evening star., 1932-08-31

farm and found the teacher, uncon-
scious and mutilated. He was held
for questioning and. the sheriff said,
confessed after being examined a
quarter hour
Evening star., 1932-08-31
FARM HAND STAYS
SCHOOL TEACHER
Woman Hacked to Death After
Repulsing Advances of
Laborer.

BY the Associated Press.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, August 81
-Repulsing the advances of a young
farm hand, Miss Lila Jones, 33, a
school teacher, was hacked to death
Evening star., 1932-08-31

Foxes have been raiding farms in
County Derry. Ireland.
Evening star., 1932-08-31

demands for drastic methods TO cope
with increasing criminal violence. In
recent months almost every day has
brought fresh stories of brutal hold-ups
and assaults by motor gunmen" who
cruise about in automobiles.
Lord Trenchard launched his block
ade in the early morning hours. There
were flying squads Of speed cars and
motor cycle patrolmen and large force
of patrolmen.
All the main approaches to London
were posted, as were the bridges and
important centers inside the city, and
the orders were to halt every car, no
matter what it looked like.
Hundreds of motorists were stopped
and questioned and their cars searched.
Today's was the second big drive by
Lord Trenchard against the modern
"gangster" type of criminals.
In April he established the "D-2' or
scheme of operations" department to
accept and devise advance plans to pre-
vent burglaries, hold-ups and similar
violence. The new department was a
part of the general overhauling ordered
by Lord Trenchard and today's crime
blockade" possibly was one of the clean
up methods determined upon.
Evening star., 1932-07-10

that you nave goou pa"lhg OUT III I1e
offngr'
What now?"
It\/OU know what?" Her blue eyes sparkled
from their canopy of long lashes. Don't
tell me you'ls forgotten all that mush you
wrote about a certain young engineer In your
employ j.. Mr. Wayne Kitcheh?"
He smiled saying "Wel, I couldn't help it
if this chap fell in love with your picture.
could II AnyhoW"-his manner became de-
fensive-"Td rather have Wayne Kitchell for
a son-in-law than any man I've ever seen. That
chaps a prince; and if you think he doesn't
know his engineering, you're"
"Engineers-blah" The piquant girl ig-
nored her fathers seriousness.
I've had my fill of theml Wasn't George
Tracy an engineer? And jeff Barclay-and
Al Fenton? Yes! And every time I'd
stroll with any one Of them down to the old
river bridge to watch the moonlight sllvermg
the ripping water all they could talk about
was the construction of the bridge! And how
much better they could have built one
Hull
M WANTED romance; but all those chasm-
| spanners could talk about was cement
mixers-and the tensile strength Of steel
stringers So we'll just forget about the engi-
neers, Dad. Glass them among the necessary
evils. and let it go at that
so you're looking LOT TUiLlduCt, dIe yodf
His eyes narrowed shrewdly.
We'll" she admitted, 1--WE always had
hankering to meet one of those guitar-st
ming eaballeros one sees SO often in the
talkies."
Then you didn't come down here especially
to see me, or the luxurant vegetation in this
Motagua Valley?"
Don't be silly, Dad" Her red lips curved
roughishly But where's this stalwart young
engineer of yours? promise I'll try to be civil
to him during my sojourn here"
"Oh, he'll be along in time for lunch.
Come ON inside and have a look at the house"
The blazing MONDAY sun had reached its ze-
NTH when footsteps sounded on the Stannard
porch. moment later, as young stranger
appeared in the open doorway, Luanne re-
ceved a rather unpleasant shock. The man
was tall ungainIy, sandy -complexioned, awk-
wardly embarrassed.
CTANNARD rose from his chair and to the
y occasion Mr. Kitchen, this is my
daughter. Luanne."
The young man blushed and stanmered,
Eyes Yes, I knew that from her pic
ture"
Oh boyi thought the girl as the three OF
them sat down to the lunch prepared by the
Chinese houseboy. Just wait until she and her
father were alone He'd suffer for even men
Evening star., 1932-07-10

ECAUSE the indulgent widower John
Stannard had urged his only child to
- continue with her piano studies, she
had taken up water coloftng; just as
in those days of joyous 1uvenility she
had run away to play tennis while
softly -cursing chauffeur searched for Ter in
vain, and a distracted dancing instructor
Wrung his hands-and waited.
And, judging from her more recent letters,
written by Luanne from a college in New
York to her father in far-away Guatemala, the
latter shrewdly guessed-nuch to his disnlay
that this irritating complex of contrariness
had developed rather than diminished, in his
daughter
Just now the troubled parent was sitting in
his comfortable home at the edge of the clear
ing which bordered vast banana grove. He
had just finished writing a letter to Luanne.
urging her to come to Guatemala at the ex-
piration of the school term when she was to
be graduated.
But-he sighed and knocked the ashes from
his ppe-he knew darn well she wouldn't!
6he would go somewhere else for the Summer
vacation if for no other reason than Of his
imploring letter. She was like that.
For several minutes he meditated Then,
grabbing up the long and feryent missive in
tended for a recalcitrant daughter, he tore it
into shreds; seized fresh piece of stationery,
\h nth solicitous dietion he entreated his
w Luanne TO 60 to Maine for her vacation;
Or to a Wyoming dude ranch; or, perhaps, to
Europe.
But by no means was she TO come to Guate
mala. 1t hot there; the buzzing swarms
lf mosquitoes were ever vigilant several cases
f fever had developed recently; the trip on
the fruit boat would be long and arduouS. Be-
sides, he would be in New York not later than
next October. He could see her then.
The results of that letter proved most graft
flying if not at all surprising to the banana
king; for just a month later, a taxi of ancient
vintage came to a brake-screeching stop in
front of Stannard's residence, and Luanne,
her golden hair shining in the tropical sun
light, rushed into her parents outstretched
arms.
StannaTd tried to be stern.
''Of course, I'm glad to see you, deari And
terribly surprised But I thought I told you
very explicitly that you mustn't come. Didn't
give you ample reasons?"
"Yes, Dad" She laughed gayly But
you've told me 50 much about this country
just had TO see it. And what do you care
about mosquitoes?
Besides. I've reached that age when
Graves maj iinba music and romance. Oh
yes! And sp4sking Of romance reminds me
Evening star., 1932-07-10

ECAUSE the indulgent widower. John
Stannard had urged his only child to
continue with her piano studies she
had taken up water coloftng; just as
in those days of joyous 1uvenility she
had run away to play tennis while a
Evening star., 1932-07-10

is J. ft 7fis sntEsig
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11

ridin' in to Tucson to see Ethel while
she was at school an he tried goin' to
the ranch. Wish I'd been there when
he showed up, but wasn't. Anyhow,
Miss Ann gave him the gate. For that
matter, the iii sister was plumb
through with him when she found out
what he'd DONE"
You're maxim a long story of It,
Dave"
I'm comm to business now. The
mornin' Tom was killed four of US
from the Circle Cross had camp near
the foot of Round Top. There was
Tom an Jas an Gitner an myself.
We separated to pick up bunch of
vacas to drive back to the ranch. Long
about sun-up heard shot right close
to me, over to the left where Tom was
l rode thataway an met Tom. He
was laughing fit to kill an right away
began to tell ME the joke. He'd Just
seen Miss Ann an been devilin' her
again. I didn't say word but lis
tened to him dig his grave with his
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11

frightened he would not have jumped
so eagerly at Gitner's suggestion. But
he quaked like the coward he was at
thought of what the little man knew.
The terror Of it walked with him day
and night. Stone was dangerous. a
ruthless tool Of Nemesis logging his
footsteps to destroy him. He had fol-
lowed Gitner's logic, that the only
safety for them lay in putting an end
to the man.
Now way had opened, without dan
ger, with no possible comeback. II
Mesa rose up and lynched the MUIR
derer of Tom McArdle he could not be
blamed in any way.
Lets go to town, Carl" he pro.
posed. 1--WE gotta find just how things
lay"
Reckon I'll go back with you, boys"
Bud said.
The three rode there together. They
dismounted in front of Pedro's place.
Gitner led the way to the bar "Free
drinks on me today, boys. Everybody
welcome. Set 'em up, Pedro"
The process Of working up public
sentiment for lynching had begun.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
Explosion of Krakatoa Believed to Be Record

The greatest explosion which the
world has ever known took place in
1888 when the volcano, Krakatoa, 10
Gated in the Sunda strait between
Java and Sumatra, blew up. "At that
time huge crater stood there, with a
rim of islands 1900 feet above the
sea-" writes Charles Baker, Jr., in
Boys Life the monthly publication
of the Boy Scouts of America THE
whole cluster of islands were blown
into bits, leaving a hole in the sea
1000 feet deep; 5000 vertical feet of
rock were thrown aside.
".rhese explosions were caused by
steam from sea water in the throat
of the new crater meeting the first Of
the molten lava" continues Mr.. Baker.
after the first explosions, water prob
ably chilled the lava to a crust, en-
closing enormous quantities of steam
within. This finally burst through the
chilled crust in the most violent eX-
posion, hurting a vast mass of cool
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
MAGGIE

THE hero of that familiar song,
L when You and l Were Young,
Maggie" was it's author, George w.
Johnson; it's heroine was Maggie Har-
ris, the girl he found and won for
his bride during gold prospecting
trip in the wilderness of unexplored
forest Indian ambuscades and occa-
sional white pioneer settlements which
in 1880 comprised East Tennessee.
Many years later. old and gray and
alone, Johnson returned to the spot
Oh the Haiwassee river that was the
scene of his courtship, reviving in his
minds eye every dear detail of the
settlement as he had first seen it, the
green grove where stood the Harris
cabin and where he had first seen
Maggie, the old mill where they had
walked on summer evening. Noting
sadly every change, he wrote down his
poem to take home to his wife in the
East:
The green grove is gone from the hill,
Maggie,
Where first the daisies sprung;
The creaking old mill is still, Maggie,
Since you and I were young.
And now we are aged and gray, Mag
gle
The trials of life are done,
Let us sing of the days that are gone,
Maggie.
When you and l were young.
The poem remained unknown until
1856, when the composer, ]. A. Butter
field. wrote the music to which it is
sung today.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
SYNOPSIS

Wilson Mccain. young Arizona ranchmen,
finds old friend. Jim VERIFY, with a broken
leg. Julia Stark. daughter Of Matthew Stark,
inveterate enemy of the McCanns, is with him.
Jasper. Julia's brother, attempts to assassinats
Wilson. Ann Clifford with her young sister,
Ethel, are sheep raisers, and on that account
unpopular with the cattlemen. might riders"
shoot Mccain rider. Peter McCann Wilson,
father, offers reward for the disclosure OF
their identity. Wilson Mccain horsewhips
Jasper, he making practically resistance.
Matthew Stark posts notice he will kill Wilson
Mccain sight. Ann Ciffords tragedy is the
fate of her dead sister. Nora. betrayed and
abandoned by her lover. Jasper Stark and Carl
Gitner, known as "killer," hold secret con-
ferences A Stark rider. Tom McArdle, is be-
ieved by the Starks to have been killed by the
McCanns, but rumor links his name with that
of Nora Clifford. Matthew Stark is killed, from
ambush. Julia finds him dead. with Wilson
Mccain STOPPING him. She and Phil her
younger brother, accuse Mccain of the killing,
despite his vehement denial. Wilson is shot
from the chapparal while standing over Mat
thew Starks body. Believing him dying, the
Starks have him taken to their home. Dave
KILLER" openly doubts Wilson's guilt. Jasper
is disinherited by his fathers will Wilson Nc
Cam is restored to health. Jasper Stark, de-
spite the girls aversion, seeks to persuade
Ethel Clifford to marry him. holding over her
the threat Of revealing Ann the slayer of
Tom McArdle. Ann drives him from the
ranch defying him. Later she admits to Ethel
that she killed McArdle. Morals betrayer. No
action to Matthew Starks killing is taken.
An anonymous letter to the sheriff charges Ann
Clifford with McArdle's murder.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
Who Was
Who?
SANTA CLAUS
By Louise M. Comstock

lust as many children speaking
y many tongues have gradually con-
verted the name of Saint Nicholas
into the familiar American Santa
Claus, so his many admirers in many
different nations have created the
conventional Christmas saint out of a
figure which was in real life very
different.
Nicholas was bishop of Myria, in
Lycia, Asia Minor, during the Fourth
century of the Christian era, the
youngest bishop in the history of the
church. His father was wealthy
merchant, and Nicholas by inheriting
his fortunes was enable to build up
for himself reputation for gener-
osity and benevolence toward the poor
that has lasted down the centuries. 1t
is matter of legend that Nicholas,
because he disliked to be thanked for
his gifts, once dropped a purse of gold
down the chimney of the hut, where
lived a poor old man and his little
granddaughter. Instead of landing on
the hearth, however, the purse fell
into one of the little girls stockings,
hung up before the hearth to dry.
Thus commenced the custom of hang
ing up Christmas stockings for Santa
Claus to fill.
How the grave saint of the early
Christian church became the jolly fat
Santa of today IS another story. His
figure and smile-wreathed face he bor-
rowed probably from some jolly pagan
good-fairy such as were worshipped
before the Christian era His gay red
where he is patron saint. His rein
deer are the gift of admirers in Lap.
land.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
KING ARTHUR

&AIHETHER King Arthur was his,
Wv 1orical figure or not, and schol-
ars are recently renewing research
into this Fascinating subject, there
stand today in Cornwall, England,
ruins OF an ancient fortress, browning
the promontory Tintagel Head, which
are generally known as king Arthur's
Castle" AS the birthplace of the glo-
rious King of the Round Table, this
spot has recently been transferred to
the possession of the English govern
ment to be used as national park.
If King Arthur was historical
figure he was comparatively insignih-
cant Cornish chieftain of the early
period just succeeding the withdrawal
of the Romans. Such chieftain is
celebrated by the Sixth century his
torian Gildas, in connection with an
account of the Battle of Mount Badon
in SIG, the decisive struggle which
checked temporarily the advance of
the Saxons against the Celts. Mem
MUS, writing in the Eighth century,
calls him by name and attributes to
him victory in twelve battles. The
date of his death in the battle Of
Camlan in 537 is added in the Tenth
centur. Cambrian Annals. By the
Twelfth century the Monks Godfrey
of Monmouth and William of Malmes-
bury were able to produce accounts
of his heroism already embellished
with mnch of the legend made familiar
by Mallory and Tennyson
Actually, only the foundations of
the chapel of king Arthur's Castle"
date from anything like as early as
the Sixth century. The rest of the
r,irs have been established as Thir-
teenth century Norman
&c, 1882 Western Newspaper Union.)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
Famous Irish Race Course

The word "curragh' derives from
the Gaelic cuirrech. Cuirrech means
race course and also low-lying or
marshy ground. The double meaning
is understandable in that fiat land
would naturally be selected for
race course. The Curragh of Kildare
is one of the most famous race courses
in the world. Beside the River Liffey
near Dublin, it is the scene of the
Irish derby and many other famous
races. Also, the great Dublin horse
fair is held there annually. In the
Tenth century the king of Leinster
granted the Curragh of Kildare, which
embraces some 4.S0O acres, to st.
Bridget who gave it to the people as
a common. For 1000 years it has been
preserved as open land.