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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31

sible to get stock one year older
and Is of an inch in caliper.
Obviously this saves one years
time and is an excellent size to
buy if you can get it. But
watch out-this size is often
miscalled "bearing-age," which
it really is not.
Sizes smaller than 11-16 of
an inch are very commonly
sold. the accent being placed on
their height rather than their
caliper.
While these baby trees will
grow perfectly well if good
stock is purchased TO begin
with, il is far more satisfactory,
and fruit will be had in shorter
time. il the standard grade is
bought.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31

old trash for the salvage drive.
But when ii comes to going on
midafternoon shopping tours in
spiked heels and enameled
nails, with trick permanent, 1
proclaim and protest that slackS
have no place in the program.
And make most women look like
either moronS or monkeys.
No Excuse for Them
The plain truth is, the female
figure, unless composed of a Stat,
is not and can not be adjusted to
Stacks and skin-tight sweaters.
There is. if you get what I
mean, too much and too many
of it in proportion to the yard
goods involved. Moreover, I'M
less used for sports or for afore-
said industrial emergencies,
there's no excuse for them.
If your aim is to be palpitat-
ing, sisters, you have far over
reached it. You are positively
pulverizing. And 1 have yet to
see the man who doesn't agree
with me.
The human form may be di-
vine-but it certainly does need
little extra calico and a few
dim lights.
Not a Crouch
No, I am not an old crouch.
Nor am l yearning for the bulky
fashions of the Gay Nineties.
Nothing could have been more
unhealthy or unhygienic or gen.
orally hideous.
I'm all for anything that will
make women modern, that will
keep both their bodies and their
minds Streamlined. And Yet /
believe that nine-tenths of
charm consists Of what you don't
show.
AS for the men, I've heard
many and murderous orations
on this subject.
Sure. they like their women
TO be agile, up-to-date and prac-
teal. They're strong for the all
around girl friend who will pitch
in and help them carry this war
burden.
Keep II Special
But if you think it'll warm
your hubby's heart TO come
home and find you looking like
the guy he got stinko with in
Melbourne. you've a long guess
coming, sister.
Yes, girlish glamour is nice.
Very, very nice.
But for Pete's sake, Mabel,
keep il special,
Don't make il a free-for-all.
Copyright 1912. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
Keep II Special
ADD FLAVOR

Add flavor and extra food
value TO gelatin salads and deS-
serts by using leftover juice
from canned fruits. instead of
water.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31

Ensign Visits
ENSIGN GEORGE YEOMAN. -.
En- route from GAINESVILLE Wis.
To Harvard to take training &c.
Stopped off TO visit his fancee Angelina Frazer
And her parents the Dudley Frazers. 80.
Of the Indian Village Manor.
Mrs. Frazer arrived home Saturday..
From near Rochester, N. w..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
By
Frances
Drake

Look in the Section Birthday Comes H. and Find What
Your Outlook Is According to the Stars,
For Tuesday, September l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
Buy Trees
By CaIiper
Not Height
BY ISABEL FUCKER
Garden Editor. The Detroit Time

VEGETABLES AREN'T the
only foods we're asked to sup
ply ourselves with from our
own gardenS-fruits are almost
as important. Plant them now
this fall-Says the national
garden advisory committee, and
let them get a good years
growth.
Now fruit, as you know, is not
a crop that can be harvested
the year of planting exception
is Strawberries), but still most
fruit will bear much sooner
than most people expect.
If 1 asked you how long it
would take a fruit tree to bear.
what would you say? Most
people answer 10 or Is years"
which means they're thinking in
terms of apple trees, which are
not representative of all the
trees and small fruits-not by a
long shot. So let's forget that
figure Immediately.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
SIocums Return From Cleveland

THE GEORGE M SLoCUMS just back from a
jaunt to Cleveland. .
Mrs Slocum renewed her friendship with friend of
her girlhood Mrs Raymond English who used to live
in Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
Briggs Children Live Up
To Horse-Loving Tradition
By FRANCES OWENS

THERE WERE three new faces among the many familiar
Show Metamora Saturday.
They belonged small of Mr. and Mrs Walter
Briggs Jr, Jimmy and Mickey and there
excited spectators in the trong than these three
little fellows s. and years old began their horse
manshp training early they by their taste for riding
naturally Spike" Briggs in the but he
master Bloomfield Open Hunt Club happier
days Mrs Evere Fisher and Janey Briggs have
been splendid riders since their early teens
Geraldine Hiebie Wins First
yellow ribbons handed out about
Geraldine Hge and Avourneen first in the class
Margot Yaw won first prize stamps and
sister, Betty red in Horsemanhip Class
Mrs Harold Raymond Boyer on hand to admire the fine
riding lovely daughters Tall Frances is rapidly
ing beauty Small Mary looked bit lonely without 'her
Harold J who has been her constant riding companion
for years.
Riding her cousins Boyer sisters suzette Agr
And mother Frederick M Ager hand to cheer
her
Helen Parker Adds Trophies
Little Helen Parker whose ribbons and trophies
proportion her and experience was adding to
her collection in every class she entered
Walter Briggs arrived in her station wagon as did
Mrs. S. S. Pierce
Mrs Butler Hgbe was sroing around chatting with
friendly from Lazy Day Farms
to watch her children ride
Janey Briggs Brings Suzy
Janey Briggs not in riding enjoying
admiration being bestowed her beautiful Damaan
Janey which being shown in several classes
A. E. Reuben string of horses up from Hasty
House Farms in Toledo.
And also showing were such regulars Elliott S. Nichols
Fucker, Mrs Graham John Graham Mrs James
Backwood, William Reeve Clark No Meamora morse snow
would complete of these familiar names were
missing.
william B. Alexander of Columbus o. judge of the show
And on the Marvin l. Pardee chairman and
Frederick Alger Jr, Mrs j. A. Backwood, W. o. Bridge
william Reeve Clark Mrs Miss Geraldine gbc
Jobn j. Loyett c. J. Mcdonald William A. McIIattie Curtis
Dr. Morris Elliott Nichols Frank W. Snue
Wilson and Mrs Washburne Wright.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
Besrine-Aee Trees

In the first place. if you have
enough money you can buy
"bearing-age" fruit trees. I
mean trees that are really old
enough to give a crop practi-
cally Immediately.
The age of these trees will
vary from three years in cher
rieS 10 10 in apples, but bought
from a good nursery where they
have been Kept root pruned, they
are perfectly safe to move.
If your pocketbook doesn't
run TO the size trees described
above (Which would cost 81 or
SO per tTee) there are still two
good sizes available for you to
buy.
First. remember that fruit
trees are not valued according
to height, but according TO the
diameter of the stem at a foot
above the ground.
Cali per Measure
This measurement is called
the "caliper" and the smartest
thing you can do in planting
fruit trees is to plant only the
largest caliper it is possible to
buy for each age of tree.
The star d ard commercial
grade is 11-16 of an inch caliper
and two years old. This meas
urement and age applies to all
com mon fruit trees except
peaches, which are gle of an
inch in top size and only a year
old. and ounces, which while
two years old don't grow much
thicker than q of an inch in
this length Of time.
This standard commercial
grade is the cheapest tree you
can buy that is really good.
In some kinds of trees. nota-
ably apples and pears. It Is pos
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31

their mother, MRS. WALTER o. BRIGGS JR., seen
at the Hunter Breeders Show in Metamora Saturday.
In that attractive studio of his in West Grand boulevard
The first a dinner party.
At which he and David Allen Wright hosts
Sunday. -.
To the Paul Suherands of Crosse Ponte
The Stanley Steiges of Birming CHAM
Joan Macdonald. and Gordon Grant. ..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
Nancy Ford Back From West
Arts Exhibition Opens tuesday

THE EXHIBITION the Detroit Institute of
Arts
Tomorrow night. will be opened with great fan
fare.
Triple exhibits include. army illustrations from Fort
Custer. -.
The Jerome Myers Memorial Exhibition.
And the Parade of Champions dog photos by Arthur
Mawhinney....
The womens committee of the Founders Society.
Will stage a reception. to honor.
Major McVeal. special service officer
Sidney w. Seeley. art director at Fort Custer
And Mrs Jerome Myers of New York. -.
Who comes for the opening of the Jerome Myers exhi
biton -.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31

AT $50 prior to the reception Mrs Myers will give
lecture illustrated with kodachrome many pic
lures by Jerome Myers in museum collections
Hostesses for the evening include Mrs Edgar Thorn
chairman Mrs Trent McMath vice and Mes
danes James B. Angel Howard M. Bingham.
Booth Wilfred Casgrain Cornelius Chaplin. Roy D.
Chapin Frank Couzens. Charles T. Fisher Graham
John Graham. Carl B. Grawn =. Lillian Henkel Haas 49,
Robert O. Kales. George Kamperman Ernest Kanzer
Alfred C. Marshall. David B. Moreing. :. John Owen
H. William Rea Henry Reichold Edward E. Roth
man Allan Sheldon Arthur d. Spencer . R hard
Weber A D. Wilkinson Miss Sarah NJ. Sheridan . and
Edith Ferry.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
Mrs. Sheldon to Give Dinner

PRECEDING THE reception Mrs Allan Sheldon will give
a dinner. for Major McVeal. :. and Mr. Seeley
Mrs Myers will be the house guest of Miss Julia E.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-31
In N syt:s:;,ir

COXSWAIN EDDIE STROH.
Who has been taking a weeks
Lakes Naval Training station in Illinois
Arrived home a nine days furlough.
To his mother. Mrs. j. Dwyer Kinnucan.
And his fancee. Jane Malcolmson.
Ensign Wadsworth Cauchoise, United States
Naval Air Force
Whose engagement to Elizabeth Cooper.
Recently announced.
Came dashing West from Yonkers, n. "
To spend his weeks leave in Detroit. X
Jane. Eddie on Party Saturday
BE MERRY while you may.
Seems to be the attitude
OF young things today whose lives involved in the
Jane and Eddie and Elizabeth and "Scotty'.. -.
Are going places and having fun every day..
With number of their friends -.
T They made up party Saturday night. -.
Came in from Crosse Pointe for cocktails.
And then went to the circus.
Nancy Ford Back From West
NANCY FORD. - who got in Saturday afternoon,...
From San Luis ranch. in Colorado.
Where she has been all summer.
Was in the party.
Squirrel by Ken Dewey.
And Dan Johnson.
And Patsy Wells of Bay City &c.
Betty Hunter gave a cocktail party
For Eddie and Scotty...
And. there galas in the ofing
Arts Exhibition Opens tuesday
THE EXHIBITION season at the Detroit Institute Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

piled for a $4,000 policy, to be added to the
$4,000 her husband already carried on his life.
Only ID days after the marriage ceremony,
Meyer became sick after eating his dinner,
prepared by LYDIA, and on Sept. Z, he followed
her three previous husbands TO the grave.
Here was $4,000 insurance the biggest
death-plum yet, waiting for her but just
then, LYDIA learned that there was unpleasant
speculation as to why life with LYDIA had been
so short and sweet with four husbands.
Just for that she left town without even
applying for the money which famed sus-
picon more than almost anything else she
could have done.
However any qualms she may have felt did
not deter her from marrying again. In
November, 1920, Paul Vincent Southland, Chief
Petty Officer on the u. S. S. Monterey, sur
rendered TO her charms in Los Angeles. South
ard was transferred in January, 1921 to duty
in the Hawaiian Islands and took his young
wife with him. The couple lived quietly at the
married quarters maintained in Honolulu by
the Army and Navy Y. NJ. c. A.
Meanwhile Frank l.. Stephan, Twin Falls
County Prosecutor who later became State
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

marriage, Benjamin, nine, was taken SUD
denly and mysteriously Ill ana thal nS
wife had demurred when he suggested
a doctor. telling him she was a graduate
nurse.
When Whitlock insisted on physician, he
said Mrs. Whitlock mixed up the whites OF
eggs, gave them to the boy, and that ne
improved rapidly. Whites of eggs are the
antidote for several kinds of poison.
And now, after serving ~ years, she Is
out on parole. Governor Clark, one OF the
three members of the State Pardons Board
protested against letting such person loose
but the other two insisted that she should
have another chance.
So. If anyone wants first-class plain and
fancy cook, LYDIA is unemployed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

LYDIA is a sweet, fine
girl and wonderful wife to me-"
Convinced of her innocence he remained by
her side throughout the trial.
Another development concerned LYDIA with
the disappearance of Ben Cheesman, an Idaho
auto salesman who alleged to have met
her after the death of Lewis Husband No. 3,
and to have taken her to the Pacific Northwest
with him. Cheesman mysteriousy dropped
from sight leaving his trunk in a hotel room,
and he never called for $500 salary due him.
Mrs Southland, however, was tried only for
the death of Meyer.
Prosecutor Stephan explained to the jurors
at the internationay-pub trial that the
voluminous testimony offered in connection
with the other deaths was laid before you
only as an aid to the State in showing the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

the lady at Iopeka' hdIISdS'
where she had been spending
most of her freedom as the
wife of Harry Whitlock, a
Denver widower. When the
cops told him who his wife
really was, he told them one.
He related that shortly af-
ter their marriage, his bride
suggested they take out a
Joint life insurance policy for
$4,000. He also recalled that
only two weeks before his wife
anh his son by a previous
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

Attorney General, and Dep
uty Sheriff Virgil c. Orman
were literally digging up Ly-
das marital past.
The bodies of her four
husbands were exhumed and chemists reported
them to contain traces of arsenic. Also they
learned that she had been an extraordinarily
good customer for fly-paper, the kind that
contains arsenic and is soaked in water to get
results.
However they could not locate their lady
bluebeard" until May, 1921. On that day
she was arrested in Honolulu, blissfully honey
incoming with her fifth spouse who thought
he was her first and only love. The accused
woman waived extradition but then and ever
since insisted on her innocence.
IT did not poison any of my husbands"
she protested. They all died natural deaths
and 1 have physicians certificates to prove it.
1 believe that I am typhoid carrier. That
is the only mystery of 1t. 1 am typhoid
carrier and all my husbands really died of
typhoid, even If some of the doctors did not
recognize it,"
Though somewhat rocked by the discovery
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31


absence Of the element of accident or mis-
take"
On Nov. 4, 1921, the jury returned YER
dict of second-degree murder after more
than % hours of elaboration. Southland OBJ
tanned a divorce seven years later.
BY strange coincidence, the trial Of the
most celebrated of all modern 'bluebeards'
Henri Landru-charged with the murder
of IL women and their subsequent crema-
ton, began in Paris, France, on Nov. 8,
1921, the day after the American arsenic
widow" was sentenced in Idaho.
Both were bombarded with letters Of
sympathy. love and proposals of marriage
Landrll went TO the guillotine but LYDIA had
better luck. Eleven of the jury were said
to have been for verdict of first-degree
murder.
One held out for acquittai because he
would not hang woman no matter what
she had done. verdict Of second degree
was the final compromise and sentence
of ten-years-to-life.
Male convicts enter prison stripped OF
any weapons that made them dangerous
while free but LYDIA went in armed with all
her charms and she did not fail TO use them.
After serving nearly ten years. the
fatal woman" escaped from the peniten-
.A.LA WIam
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

W. "Lethal LYDIA" also the arsenic
widow" and the lady bluebeard," has been
paroled from her 10-year-to-life sentence in
spite of the protest of Governor Chase A.
Clark OF Idaho.
LYDIA explained the sudden deaths of four
husbands one brother-in-law and her own
baby not to mention the unaccountable van
ishing of one boy-friend. without collecting
$500 salary waiting for him, on the theory
that she must be typhoid carrier
The authorities of Idaho found no evidence
Of this and convinced jury that she was an
arsenic carrier" They offered evidence that,
like Florence Maybrick the famous Fly paper
murderess," who died recently, LYDIA bought
the poison in the same form but apparently
used it on far grander scale
LYDIA now 40, has put on weight in prison
where although she knew poisons, she was
given the job of cook, but her hair is still the
cleaning red that attracted men from afar
and there still is in her eye that certain
something" which fascinates them when they
come closers-
No explanation of what might have turned
her mind in the direction Of arsenic divorces
is to be found in this strange characters child
hood or heredity.
She was born at Keatsville, Missouri
daughter of Mr. and Mrs William j. True.
blood healthy, normal, respected farmers
When LYDIA was in her early teens, the True
bloods moved to farm near Twin Falls
Idaho, where she graduated from high school
distinguished from the other pupils only as
an extra-attractive, red-haired girl with
a figure slightly on the buxom side, just
about the ideal of that time and place.
Also she was an excellent cook
After graduation the girl found work
as cashier of a Twin Falls restaurant
and at once her powers to interest men
became apparent, in the needlessly-long
time required by male customers to pay
their checks. Many Of them had "seri-
Gus intentions" but before the fascinator
could make up her mind, there appeared
at her window, eager handsome face
that put them all out of the running.
1t was Robert Dooley who had been her
childhood sweetheart when he carried
her slate and books to school in Keats
vile.
Married March II. 1912, LYDIA found
herself back in Missouri, farmers wife,
just what she had determined not to be.
So she protested and after year. the
couple returned to Twin Falls, house.
hold now of four, including their baby,
n r;o ord Pol
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

quite similar symptoms but this time the GER
tificate read Influenza and dphtheria."
McHaffie had $4,000 life insurance policy
when he married, but when she went to col
lect it, the widow learned that he had let the
policy lapse
Less than two years later Harlan c. Lewis
go-getter automobile salesman of Billings,
Montana, thought he had done the best bit of
craftsmanship of his life when he persuaded
the lovely redhead 10 marry him.
Like Dooley he accepted her suggestion
TO take on life insurance, for $4,000. Less than
four months later Lewis was taken violently
i'll and died the same night Of what the doctor
called "gastroenteritis" which means inflam-
nation Of the stomach and intestines. Death
came too soon for the policy to lapse and this
time the $4,000 was hers.
AS LYDIA Dooley McIIaffie forgetting her
last husband. she became cook at a ranch IN
the Snake River country, once negotiated for
by Mary Piclford and Doug Fairbanks. Ed
ward F. Meyer bachelor Of 35, the
ranch foreman, well-to-do, and on August 10
1920, LYDIA promised TO love, honor and obey
him. The next day the new Mrs Meyer APP
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

Lorraine MARIE, ana hODeTt
unmarried brother, Edward.
The brothers thought it
a good idea when LYDIA adj
vised each to take out $4,000
life insurance, in favor of the
other. 1t e c m e d almost
providential because on All
gust 10, 1915, Edward died
after a short illness.
The doctor wrote "ty-
phoid" on the death certifi-
cate, Robert placed his broth
er's $4,000 in the bank and
made his wife the beneficiary
of his own similar insurance.
In October of that same
year Robert died in much the
same way and the same doc
tor wrote the same cause on
the certificate. The widow
now had - 1000 but hardly
was the money in her hands
than her baby died.
For a third time the SYM
toms were the same and
death was attributed to the
same cause.
On June of 1917, she had
spent most Of two years as
a widow and most of the
money when William Gordon
McHaffie, heir OF a prosper
Gus farmer, married her. The
newlyweds moved TO Har-
din, Montana, where William
died the following Fall of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

ttdl y pAiN AAb III NNy
in 1881. II involved
one Of the few cases on
record where a former
inmate has brok en-
back into a prison.
w ar d G n r. f.
Thomas learned that
David Minton. a no.
torious criminal from
Colorado who had been
pardoned from the Ida
no prison three weeks
earlier. had been car
rying on a surrepti-
tious love affair with
Mrs. Southland behind
the prison walls ana
that he actually had
broken into the prison
TO arrange for her es-
cape.
The warden also
found that an impro-
vised ladder she used
TO scale up the prison
wall had been manu-
featured in the prison
blacksmith shop.
NJ n I o n, II was
learned later, waited.
by pre- arr angement
with LYDIA, in an auto
mobile on a mountain
road nearby. Finally,
after fourteen months,
Minton was arrested at
his home in Denver,
but could only say that
LYDIA had loved him
and left him.
A month later, how
ever. they tagged"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31
The State Parole Boord Adds a
New Chapter to the Already
Fantastic Career Of LYDIA South
ard. Idoho's Fatally Charming
Arsenic Widow

A AIRS. LYDIA DOOLEY McHaffie Lewis
M Meyer Southland Whitlock, known a.
W. "Lethal LYDIA" also the arsenic
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-11-27
R0TARY'S GIFTS
 TO SERVICE MEN
 ARE APPRECIATED
Enlisted Men at Outlying Posf Pound Piano
 Steadily

Lieut.. Robert Schoettler, US. Navy, Tuesday expressed appreci- ation of the enlisted men of one outlying Alaska post for the piano and barber's chair which members of Juneau Rotary Club shipped out to the men. 9is
 He told members of the club at their luncheon Tuesday in Per cy'S Cafe that the piano is in use from 5 am each day, steady until late at night.
 William Carter Editor of The Empire, spoke briefly on the new Alcan Highway. High School Rep resentative Bob Helgeson also gave a short speech, pledging support of the high school for Rotary ac- tivities.
 Guests included Lieut.. Bert Green, Ensign John Glasscock and Bob Weldeie, US. Coast Guard, Roger Jeffrey, Calvin Pool and others Lieut.. Green has arrived in Alaska to assume the position of port captain at an important new location
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-11-27
Heroic Adj Channel
 Recognized
Hugh (. Smith Thanked for Saving Life of U. 5.
 Navy Man

For the rescue of a Navy man from almost certain death in the waters of Gastineau Channel on October 10, Hugh Clinton Smith, formerly on the staff of the Du- pont Powder Company at Dupont. has received two letters of praise and sincere appreciation in recog- milton of his heroic act.
 One of the letters has been re- ceived from A. J. Isbell, Captain U. s. Navy, Commander of tn e Sitka Naval substation, and the other is from c. s. Freeman, Vice Admiral United States Navy, Con- mandant, 18th Naval District.
 MT. Smith is wellknown on the channel as we'll as in other parts of Southeast Alaska. There is not an inlet nor bay adjutting from the waters of this section of the northland that he does not know thoroughly. He is an experienced boatman as may be attested from the fact that he has made one trip, Juneau to Seattle, in a TOW boat, and round trips to Seattle from Chichagof, also in TOW boats