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Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

Senor," said the Emperor with
an ingratiating grin, "It is well
for me that we met here. You are
the best general in Mexico, if
my men are to be believed" No
reply. "Porfrio Diaz, l want
your help!"
"My help? At what price?
Your imperial favor - COM
mand in your army-a medal
or merely money!"
"If any material consideration
could buy you, General Diaz, I
should not be here. l want your
help in bringing peace to
Mexico!"
"Only one man can bring peace
to Mexico-Benito JuarezP
"What is Benito Juarez - to
inspire such men as yourself?"
Impressed, in spite of himself,
by the honesty of the question,
Diaz enlarged upon the virtues
of his master. He told of the
early poverty of Juarez - of his
struggles for an education-how
he fought for the poor-how he
helped to destroy a dictator and
freed Mexico-how he wrote the
Constitution-became President
how he ruled justly and well,
till traitors and landowners and
spectators brought the French
to depose him. The dark eyes of
Diaz were afire as he said: "To
depose htm-and put you in his
place! You - Macmillan Won
Habsburg!"
What is it, then, Juarez
seeks?"
"To liberate to educate to
uplift - through democracy"
"Then all that lies between us
is 1Vord, General Diaz! Other
wise we are in accord. Will you
take this message to him for mel
Tell him l want him to be my
Prime Minister"
"If I go for you, Maximilian,"
said Diaz gruffly, at is for you
as a man, not as an EmperorI
And if go, ] shall not return!"
ITO Be Continu
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

and away toward the secret hid
ing place of his hero. This he
could not reach in less than three
weeks.
Elated with the apparent sue
cess of his mission, Maximilian
hastened back to Chapultepec
where on the sunlit terrace
Carlota awaited him. Lovely in
her white Spanish gown, with
high comb and mantilla, she ex-
pressed her joy at what seemed
to be a solution of the difficult
problem. IF Juarez accepts"
she cried "all Mexico will be in
your hands! Napoleon, Bazaine,
the Conservatives, must bow to
you! Oh, my darling, what a SUBJ
lime stroke of statecraft!"
at is destiny that | should
join the Indian!" ne said with
conviction. eve are opposites-
yes; but united opposites E. like
magnetic poles!"
As he spoke, from somewhere
among the leaves came the plain
tive sound of a guitar and a
singing voice. "Listen," mur-
INJURED Carlota, "it is the most
beautiful song 1 ever heard! =.
It's La Pdlonad' the dove :"
"Where does it come from my
Carla? :. Who is singing?"
"Who knows" Carlota sighed
dreamily, "the wife of the gar
dener the sweetheart of a
soldier r" Maximilian, listen
ing, gazed across the mighty
panorama of mountains and
valleys. "Mexico!" he said, and
the word was like a prayer.
Carlota told him the words of
the song: "If to your window
there should come a dove
treat it tenderly . .. for it is I
.. E. Tell 1t of your loUe -. croscn
it a0ith fowers :. for it is l.. :"
The music stopped abruptly. "It
must be terrible to be separated
from ones love " whispered
Carlota. II do not think l could
live apart from you 49,"
eve shall never be apart,
never ="
al Navf UyaaIyN
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14
REDEEM

Sunday school at 1880, preaching
at $3.50. There will be no services
during the month of August. Don't
forget the annual outing at Oak Or
chard.
The Ladies Aid will meet at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gold
en-, July II. Those who can, are re-
quested to bring cake. There will
beNprizes given for the cake bring
ing the highest price. There will be
other prizes given also The ladies'
are requested to bring small pack
ages for the fish pond.
Swat the fiiesi
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

Hollow" had as guests at her Beth
any Beach cottage over the week
end, Miss Betty Hudson and Miss
Dorothy Long and Mrs. Essie MUIR
ray was a guest for the day on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank M. Long. Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Law and Miss
Addie Furman were here for the af-
ternoon and the Law family spent
the early evening with Mrs. Ada Nc
Cabe and son Law. of Middletown
and Mrs. John r. Furman and son
Elmer of Wilmington, VINO are at
their cottages at Pittsburgh Beach,
Fenwick Island.
Get busy-shoot the fly. or there
will be a million bye-and-bye!
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

The cost Of stopping and starting a
$50 ton passenger train travelling at a
speed of SO miles per hour varies
from about "a cents to $3.50.
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

THE STORY THUS FAR BenO Juae educated indian fights
his to the heights has nGtve MeSic and IN 1861 elected
president HIS decree temporarily stopping debts
embTO Merico NTH France Napoleon Uto strengthen
himself against JuGrez-uTges MGrd and CarlOtG to accept
the position of Emperor and Empress of Mexo making promises
Of his nfGng support On aTTiva MerO they 0dTg
letter from JnGreS nh0 continues his ruthless campaign to keep
Me1cO democracy Macmillan, WhO Oves the people
realizes that he has been dped coming and decides to reach
JGGreS to ask has aid ia ruling MericO.
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

"About what?" inquired Diaz
insultingly.
"Sorry the meeting has to be
in prison cell?"
"Where else could it take place
than in a prison cell or on the
battlefield"
"Then, from all accounts,
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

"That is for you alone to de-
eide, General-but l trust that
you will return with Benito
Juarezi"
Moved by the sincerity of the
stranger, Diaz bade him good
night and hurried out of his cell
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14
CHAPTER v

PORFIRIO DIAZ-most powerful aide of Juarez-hav
ing been wounded and captured by the French asleep
his prison when the sound of the turning key in the
cell door awakened him. blonde giant in long dark
cloak stood before him.
General Diaz-do you know who am ?" The voice
anything but imperial, and the stranger smiled 81 am
Maximan Emperor of Mexico. want to talk with you"
Milford chronicle., 1939-07-14

Ito Be Continued Next Week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17
1S69-THE REDWOOD GAZETTE-1939

of revolver cartridges" charged
Judge Weber, "You will nat
urally consider whether it is
reasonable that he would have
left his employment and ridden
some IL miles for so trivial a
matter"
After the charge the jury re-
tired. Reports are that they took
only one ballot-and Roses fate
was sealed.
His appeal to the state sup
RENE court was denied and his
execution set for October Is,
1891. sgS.,
The tragic story Of HpxS
hanging is told by the Gazat9e
and Twin Cities newspapEfs.
Just a few days afterWard hiese
stories indicated state wide a-
dignation against capital pli9is
ment-and an uncertainty H to
whether or not Rose was llStay
executed. s ~ e
Under the head, .The Rope
Broke" Twin Cities papers said
this: .~es q x 81.
civilian Rose was hanged sat
Ass a. m. under the new law
which requires that all execu-
tons must take place between
midnight and dawn andtoutSpf
sight of all newspaper men,
(The law was that only officials
concerned should witness ex--
ecutions and a high board bar
rier had been built around the
galloWs enclosure at the site of
the present Church of Christ.
But residents here were at every
knothole of the fence and several
oId-timers can tell the story of
the execution as one-eye wit
nesSes.)
''The trap was sprung at 4:46
a. m. There was dull crash and
the rope parted three feet from
the neck.
without word being spoken
by anyone, the limp body was
picked up, carried on the plat
form, laid face upward upon the
readjusted trap.
"The second moose dangling
from above was pulled down,
adjusted quickly and the trap
sprung without any attempt to
raise him to his feet. Then en-
sued slow process of strangu-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17
August IL

John Sinclair made expressions
that are hard to reconcile with
his previous history and ante
cedents, aside from the array of
evidence which fixed the crime
of murder upon him.
''Mr. Sinclair makes the fol-
lowing statement in regard to
Rose:
From my first contact with
him he declared firmly his in
nocence. He often said, God who
knows the heart knows that am
innocent and he will stand by
me when 1 die
I'm the afternoon (of the day
before he was executed) accom-
panied by his guards, he went
Continued on page 11)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17

throat with a razor
But Rose was to have another
romance within the shadow of
the hangtree-to be loved by a
young girl who had never seen
him and to return her love, ac-
cording to all indications.
The Gazette's story of his last
days and last love says:
Redwood county has suffer-
ed a surfeit of notoriety the past
week.
ssThe condemned man arrived
here last Thursday morning, and
from that time to the instant of
his death showed a degree of
courage worthy of a better fate.
He was not only courteous to all,
but in his interviews with Rev.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17
CRUDE HANGING
STIRRED STATE
CONTINUED from page %

Continued from page 81
Several members of Roses
family swore that Rose was AT
his Uncle Toms that night.
many miles from the scene of
the crime.
Another witness, Mrs. Potter
of Tracy, saw the buckskin
horse and rider described by the
prosecution, pass within few
feet OF her aEAerx nfspand's farm
Soutn OF IIaeys MIS- Potler was
positive Inat. 5t was not william
Rose. - *. 8
Still other Witnesses swore
that the guns&fth which it was
alleged the cTaff1e was commit
ted, was at Roses house after he
rode away that afternoon.
: That public sentiment was
high against Rose is indicated
by the GazetteS Eomment dur
ing the second trial:
Whatever verdict the jury
may render, the people near the
scene Of the murder who knew
the relations of William Rose
and Moses Lufkn, will continue
to be unanimous In their belief
in Roses guilt.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17

lation.
sThe murder for which Rose
was hung was a sensational one
behind which there was a
romance.
Rose came to Redwood coun-
ty from Pike county, Illinois,
where he was born January 81,
1861. (He was 80 years old at
the time of his death.)
Here he fell in love with
Grace Lufkin, a pretty girl of
20.
After her fathers death and
Roses trials, ssMiss Lufkin be-
came deeply respondent and
went to Chicago where, at the
home of a married sister, she
committed suicide by cutting her
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17

We are proud of our record in the
Matching business. Proud of the
chicks we produce every season,
proud to be- of service to you.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17

May we look forward to serving you
again and again in the years to
come and thank you for your pat
ronage- in the past.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

Certainly the Democrats are far
more eager for the war to end than
they were last September, when some
of the politically minded among
them thought sure the outbreak of
hostilities abroad insured Roosevelt a
third term. AS the war issues tend
to grow less and less important, the
arguments for third term likewise
are rendered less persuasive.
The expectation of an early end
to the war has begun to dominate
thinking here. What economic ef-
fects may be anticipated from a
shrinking of war orders, if any?
What will be the effect on national
defense plans? For the moment the
administrations statistical output
indicates boom year for 1910 ire
spective of the war, due no doubt
to the stagnation which had brought
on low inventories and low velocity
of transactions in 1887 and 1888.
Psychologically an early ending of
the war may bring a bit of hesita-
ton but the underlying trend of the
whole Nation toward conservatism
which in June, 1899, started giving
businessmen the confidence they
had been pleading for has produced
a momentum in business that may
not be affected at all by a cessa-
ton of war orders.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

prints on each side of the West Wall.
Franz Won Papen thinks the new
commonwealth of Europe will be
devised by Germany, while Paul
Reynaud, French minister of
finance, and his conferees in Lon
don, are making other arrange
ments The wide range of planners
swings from intellectuals, such as
Julian Huxley, the British scientist,
to the man of action, Gen. Wladislas
Sikorski premier of the Polish gov
eminent which is just now camping
out in France.
Gen. Sikorski, the latest matric-
ulate in the peace seminar, visions
consolidated Europe" but one in
which a reconstructed Poland will
somehow be happily encysted. He
concludes that this war is no longer
merely conflict between nations.
He is a soldier who became q
writing as well as a fighting man,
also, with his gift of ready speech,
an orator and politician. He was
an effective leader of the war Of
1920, when the French general,
Maxine Weygand, helped the Poles
stop the Bolsheviks, and he became
Premier in 1922 when he was re-
placed by Marshal Pilsudski as chief
of staff. He was forced out in 1923
and in 1924 became minister Of war.
One of his first official acts was to
forbid woman workers in the de-
partment to wear silk stockings. He
decreed dark, high-collared dresses,
high shoes and cotton stockings.
He is strict disciplinarian.
A handsome and romantic figure
of the old feudal Polish aristocracy,
he took full account of modern con-
ditions as he tried desperately to
tool his country into modern state
hood. Now, it appears, he would
just skip it and take a chance on
the world of tomorrow. The spirit
OF our Worlds Fair seems to have
caught on generally in Europe.
(Released by Consolidated News Features.)
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Open Door to Infinite
Christion Science Topic

William Duncan Fitzpatrick, c..
S. B., of Detroit will lecture on
Christian Science: The Open Door
to the Infinite" at pm. tomorrow
in the Fourth Church of Christ
Scientist, Sixteenth and Oak
streets NV.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick, a member of the
Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church in Boston, will be introduced
by DR.. L. v. B. Marschalk, first
reader of Fourth Church.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

parative youth which the President
has set UP.
For all these reasons Mr.. Murphy
Is, indeed, as the phrase goes, a
natural" But to say that the Pres
ldent will name him solely because
OF his New Dealism, his religion, his
birth and upbringing in Michigan
and his youth, with no regard for
judicial capacity, is to attribute to
Mr.. Roosevelt an indefensible con-
ception of the Supreme Court.
Some will say that the President
proved himself guilty of just that
sort of conception when he brough:
forward his 1887 bill to enlarge the
court and so gain a majority for
controversial New Deal measures
Others will say, in view of the pc
culiar circumstances of the time
that he was justified in his pack
ing effort, that at the most he was
guilty of impatience to do what
other Presidents have been content
to do In the normal course of events
The Presidents Attitude.
But the controversy over the
court enlargement bill, grave
though the effects have been on
the Democratic party, is ended, and
there is no intention here to rake
over the ashes. It. is, however
pertinent to ask what is to be the
Presidents attitude toward the
court in his next appointment.
The President has appointed four
members of the court - Justice
Black, whom he rammed down the
throat of the Senate, and Justices
Reed, Frankfurter and Douglas
and all of them have been sub
scribers, in varying degree, to the
philosophy of liberal Interpretation
of the Constitution. Save in the
case of Justice Black, there has
been very little criticism of any of
these appointments. With Justice
Stone, a longtime tower of strength
on the progressive side, the four
Roosevelt appointees constitute a
new majority of the court, and in
the middle ground, but leaning to-
ward the liberal-construction side,
are Chief Justice Hughes and JUS
tice Roberts. The only out-and -out
conservative left on the court is
Justice McReynolds.
1t is always dangerous to use
such labels as liberal" and CON
servative" in desr 'ibing the men,
bers of the court, to attempt to
separate it into chambers. The
writer here employs the tags with
reluctance, and only as conven-
lent means of showing how the
court has changed since the nine
old men" fell under the displeas-
ure of the President.
Sartor Resartus.
1t comes down to this: That Mr.
Roosevelt by his four appointments,
has completely remade the court.
For want of better word, he has
given it decidedly liberal
what the late Chief Justice Taft
would have called a "latitudina-
rian"-outlook, and in all human
probability this is the outlook it will
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Supreme Court Vacancy
Murphy a. .'NoturoI.' but Appointment
Would Ruse Expediency Question

have for many years to come. It
may well be that historians will
reckon the remaking of the court
as the most far-reaching of the
Presidents achievements.
Let it be conceded that Mr.. Roose-
velt up to now has been entirely
justified in giving heavy weight to
the known economic predictions of
his appointees. Such packing" of
the court, within limits, is not CEN
surable in the American political
system. At any rate, there is ample
precedent for it In the appointments
Of other Presidents. The first Roose-
velt, for instance. appointed the late
great Oliver Wendell Holmes only
after he had assured himself that
Holmes thought in the same grooves
as the President. 1t is beside the
point that in the first important case
in which Holmes participated, the
Northern Securities case, he went
contrary to Roosevelts views.
Other Kinds of Precedent.
But if there is ample precedent
for all that the present Roosevelt
has done by way of changing the di-
rection of the courts thought, there
Is precedent, too, for appointments
dictated by higher considera tons
than political or economic expedi-
ency.
One might cite the splendid toll
erance shown by Taft when he made
the late Edward Douglass White, a
Confederate veteran, a Democrat
and a Catholic, the Chief Justice
of the United States.
If it be objected that this had no
deep significance, since White was
conservative thinker, one might
cite the appointment of Harlan F.
Stone by Coolidge or that of the late
Benjamin Cardozo by Hoover. Ger
tainly the high judicial qualiflca-
tions of the appointees equaled If
they did not outweigh all other fac
tors in these two cases.
If Murphy Is Named.
Mr.. Murphy may be qualified on
the score of judicial temperament.
skill in the law and the like, but
if he is named the presumption will
bulk large in many minds-and not
only minds unfriendly to the Pres
ident-that the appointment was
due primarily not to his judicial
fitness. but to the expedient con-
siderations which have been named.
The President will be accused, not
without warrant, of pressing his
victory too far. 1t does not dis
parage the admittedly fine abilities
Of the Attorney General to say that
there are other men in the United
States better fitted intrinsically to
sit on the supreme bench.
Why should not the President, in
his next appointment, rise above
all thought of strengthening what
is already the dominant school of
constitutional Interpretation in the
Supreme Court? After all, hardly
any great questions go before the
Supreme Court that cannot be re-
solved honestly in more than one
way. Why should not that body of
opinion in the United States which
believes in putting a brake on the
present court majority have greater
representation in the court than it
now has?
Mr.. Roosevelt is given to doing
dramatic and unexpected things.
Perhaps he will add to the list with
a generous gesture to the opposi-
ton in the forthcoming appoint
ment.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Lost Child Is Found Safe
In Rugged Utah Canyon

By the Associated Press.
GUNNISON, Utah, Nov. 20.-Five-
year-old Nedra Baxter, lost more
than IL hours in chill, rugged
Dastrup Canyon, was sitting COM
placently on a rock last night as
Clement Jorgenson, one of more
than 300 searchers, located her with
his flashlight.
The child, found more than three
miles from the spot in the canyon
from which she wandered while her
parents were gathering wood, told
her rescurer she had descended a
ravine, then climbed to the top of
hill.
"She was cold and hungry, but
apparently unharmed," Mr.. Jorgen-
son said.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Better Shaving Methods
Sought by Researchers
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Several Bureau of Standards en-
ployes are doing daily homework in
the interest Of better shaving.
At the request of the Federal
Trade Commission, workers volun-
teered to make a series of observa-
tions on the care necessary to get
the most out of razor blades. The
Bureau of Standards also is making
tests of the steel and the sharpening
methods used for various blades.
The Government is interested in
razor blades because millions are
purchased annually for the War and
Navy Departments and the Veterans
Administration.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

made vacant by
the death of
Justice Butler
He is an impec-
cable New Deal
er, he Is a Cath
olic, as was JUS
tice Butler; he
comes from a
section of the
country which
Is now without
r e p resentation
on the h i g h
b e n C h, being
only 46, he full
fills the require
y,ooy,f 0f cav,o
Evening star., 1939-11-20

Over in Europe,
they're "fxin" to
build a federat-
ed Europe, fore
handed about it,
as above, with
the b uil di n g
apparently de-
pendent on a
pr e Ii m i n ary
wrecking job.
w h n the
last few days,
plans for the
grand remodel
ing have gone
forward, with
tIIrn catc of hl11a
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Deaths IRONY

PLYMOUTH, Ind, Nov. 20 R.-
Alfred Hand, IS. had a heart attack.
Otto E. Richardson, SIS, under
taker, took him to a hospital in an
ambulance, helped carry him inside,
then had heart attack himself.
Mr.. Richardson was dead when
picked up.
Doctors said Mr. Hand had a good
chance to recover.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

the departments administrative
problems. That injected him with
his life passion. In the last three
decades, he has had all sorts of
titles in all kinds of administrations,
but he has stuck to his chosen task
till he knows more about the Gov
ernment service than any other man
in the country.
To find the best way to run
things Is all he cares about, and, in
order tn do ca he hoe e+,diod fbo
Evening star., 1939-11-20

p e a ! e d have
failed to mate
rialize. In real
tty, a calm has
s e t t ! e d over
w a S h / n g t o n
which tends to
emphasize that
t he U nj t e d
States is even
more re m o t e
from the Euro
pean war than it
ever has been
before.
Something has
happened a lSo
abroad. History
Evening star., 1939-11-20
HeodIineFo|k
And What
They Do
Gen. Sikorski Ready
To Take Chance on
World of Tomorrow
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON,

There was once hillbilly girl who
went to a neighbor's cabin to bor-
row hammer. She said, "Pappy's
fiXin' to build house next fall"
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Packed Pork

LOGANSPORT, Ind. Nov. 20 up.
Ten weeks in drain pipe proved
an effective weight reducer for
Richard Waddup's pig.
The pig weighed 125 pounds when
it vanished in September.
1t weighed only As pounds when
found caught in the pipe.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

HE opinions OF the Driters this opn
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to gtDe all sides questions interest
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
BY CHARLES G. ROSS.

1t is being commonly said here
that Attorney General Frank
Murphy is natural for the place
on the United States Supreme Court
Evening star., 1939-11-20
u. S. Unlikely
Get Into
War Now
Embargo Repeal
Seen as Bringing
An EdrIy Peace
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

More than two weeks have gone
by and the dire predictions about
Americas being dragged into the
war if the arms embargo were re-
Evening star., 1939-11-20

French English German civil ntermnab
vacations learning the methods
Telephone Metropolitan
service system McReynod
helping devise
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