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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
These Parrots Wanted
More Than Just Crackers

Notsso well known, perhaps, is the
story of the kea, sturdy New Zea-
land parrot which not only survived
changes in its environment but even
altered its food habits and prospered
to the extent of becoming a serious
economic problem. When first dis
covered in 1856, keas inhabited rela-
lively limited areas in the rugged
mountains of the interior of South
island where they subsisted upon
mixed vegetable matter, insects and
worms. Scarcity of natural food in
this bleak habitat doubtless limited
the distribution and abundance Of
keas at that time
Permanent European settlements
we're established on South island in
1889. Sheep ranching became the
principal occupation and soon vast
fiocks grazed over the highland val
legs and plateaus. The aggressive
keas were not long in utilizing this
new source of food. In 1867 wounds
were found in the loins of MANY
sheep of Otago province and in some
instances even the entrails were seen
hanging from the ripped sides of the
abdomen. Within a year investiga-
tors discovered keas attacking fiocks
of sheep which were showed in. They
were amazed by the strength and
ferocity of the birds, which they saw
literally tearing the flesh from liv-
ing animals.
The kea population thrived upon
this unaccustomed diet and extend
led its territory as new sheep ranges
were opened. In recent years depre-
dations by keas have been reduced
by adequate care of sick sheep and
the removal of carcasses from the
open range so that the parrots have
less opportunity to develop their per-
verted taste.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Toehold Saves Aerial
Gunner at $4,000 Feet

UNITED NATIONS HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AUSTRALIA.-An American
aerial gunner, Sergt G. c. Hollister.
owes his life to lucky toehold
Is, 000 feet above the earth.
Hollister was firing from the bot
tom turret of a bomber under at
tack by Zero fighters over New Gui-
nea when one of the Zeros whipped
in close and a cannon shell blew off
the turret door.
The sergeant fell out backwards
but his fet caught behind a bar
connecting his two guns.
His earphones were torn off but
he still was able to shout for help
through the intercommunication
system transmitter. Another gun
ner rescued him.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Wild Winds Blow Bride y
Into Bridegroom's Arms

MOLINE, ILL.-During one of the
worst tornadoes to strike this area
in years, Orpha Johnson of Moline
and Samuel Munson of Washington,
Iowa, found themselves stalled in q
car on a Moline street corner. The
auto wouldn't bulge, so, while the
storm was at its height, Munson
proposed marriage to his compan-
ion.
Just then Wilfred Culley of Sill.
Wis, ILL.,, happened along, and gave
their car a push with his. A little
later, MunSon drove back to the
corner to place the. engagement ring
on his fiancee's finger.
They were back at the same cor
ner the other day This time they
stood on the sidewalk in the bright
sunlight while the Rev. Frederick
w. Eastwood of Washington stood
on the curling, reading the mar
riage ceremony. Mr.. Culley was
best man.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Had to Mind Baby
So He Killed Wife
Says She Was Going Out to
Meet Other Men.

CHEYENNE, WYO.-Sergt. Carl
ton R. Rufenacht, 81, of Lodgepole,
Neb., killed his wife because she
asked him to take care of the baby
while she went out with another
man, he told coroner'S Jury
Rufenacht, who is stationed at
Fort Warren, testified before the
jury investigating the death of his
wife, Evelyn, %, Divorce, whom
he married four months ago.
He said his wife had been "going
out with soldiers from Fort War
rem, civilians and an officer" They
spent the afternoon in taverns and
when they returned to their fat,
Mrs. Rufenacht asked him to care
for her one-year-old baby, born of
her previous marriage, while she
went out
81 knew she wanted to meet a
man and / told her So" Rufenacht
said Then she hit me on the fore
head with whisky bottle and I
don't know what happened to me.
l just saw red and didn't know what
l was doing until after l stabbed
her"
Neighbors testified that the Ru-
fenachts had engaged in a violent
argument and that Mrs. Rufenacht
had jumped from a first-foor win
dow with her baby. She handed the
child to neighbor and said: "Take
care of her. Call the police quick"
Witnesses testified that she turned
to flee but Rufenacht caught her,
pulled her into a room and stabbed
her.
Officers Les Sieber and Allen
Rose, who arrested Rufenacht, said
he told them:
well, l fixed her. She'll never
chiSel on me anymore.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
BILLY MINK FINDS LITTLE
JOE OTTER

OILY MINK ran around the ed ,e
- of the Smiling Pool on his WV
to the Laughing Brook. His e, IS
twinkled with mischief, and he hls.
ried as only Billy can. AS he pass d
Jerry Muskrat's house Jerry 81 "
him.
Hi, Billy Mink! Where are \ N
going in such hurry this fine mo n.
ing?" he called:
TO find Little Joe Otter, HI 7e
you seen anything of him." repl I'd
Billy.
No." said Jerry. Hes ORC. a.
bly, gone down to the Big River f h.
ing. l heard him say last nj hi
that he was going"
Thanks" said Billy Mink, I'd
without waiting to say more he ' as
off like little brown flash.
Jerry watched him out of sit At.
"H1mph!" exclaimed Jerry. "B sly
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Country Doctors Will
Cancels All Bills Due

ETNA, OHIO.-The last wish of
DR.. Charles D. Watkins, 70, who
died recently after practicing medi-
cine in this country hamlet for SIS
years, was that all bills owed to
him by his many patients be can
celled.
Father was like that" said his
daughter, Mrs. Irma V. Rector, of
Columbus. If he got the money,
1t was all right. And it was the same
if he didn't get it."
The fee for rich and poor alike
was so cents, that is, providing they
could afford to pay at all. Often
former patients would return after
many years and pay an old &C
count" to the doctor.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Sweet Clover Disease

The disease of cattle, knoySn in
veterinary practice as "sweet over
disease" arises from the Eating
of improperly cured hay OFF lage
made from the common swee clo-
yer, Prof. Karl Paul Link . the
University of Wisconsin said. The
disease is in sense without ps rallel
in animal pathology or human inedi-
cine" Professor Link points .out.
When cattle eat spoiled swee : clo-
yer hay, the disease is mani ssted
by a progressive diminution the
CLOTHING power Of the blood a, re-
sultant hemorrhages which u ually
become fatal. In certain are Is of
the upper Mississippi river bas n the
disease has economic significl nee.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
A Few Other Actions.

Here are few more actions pro-
hibited under old Illinois laws " ich,
so far as the records show, ART still
on the books.
No person shall battle in the iver
or its branches or in the lake 9Th
in one mile Of the shore durirEMhe
day one hour before sunrise anl&one
hour after sunset. Fine, 81 to Fs'for
each offense.
1t is prohibited for anyone to- Naise
or attempt to fly a kite in any bust
ness street of the city. Fine, s for
each offense.
It is prohibited for anyone te play
ball in public park or to Wa k OF
lie on grass in parks or enc osed
public places. Fine. SIS to $40,
No bicycle shall be driven 9 the
streets Of the city faster til IN a
speed of ten miles an hour. hose
who violate this law are subj It to
a penalty of So and costs.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Daddy Two Hours Late
And Doctors Don't Wait

PHILADELPHIA.-Sitting up in
bed with her dolls, four-year-old
Sharon Bell agreed with daddy it
was too bad he had rushed all the
way from Vancouver, B. c., only TO
miss her operation by two hours.
DR.. c. L. Jackson of Temple uni
versity hospitals bronchoscopic
clinic has removed from Sharon's
throat tiny metal key-the kind
you use to open tin cans.
Sharon and an aunt spanned the
continent by plane and train for the
emergency operation, and beat dad
dy-Gordon Bell, Vancouver police
man-who couldn't get plane accom-
modations. Doctors have promised
that Sharon can head home again
in about week.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Sensitive People

Human barometers" rece ed
scientific recognition recently a, he
International Congress of Ply cal
Medicine, meeting at the VII m
cliffe rooms, reports the Mont cal
Gazette. {,
DR.. K. R. Coils Hallowes, forr aer-
ly of the Royal Mineral Water hos
pital, Bath, spoke of persons who
were aware Gin no uncertain I Ian
ner" of the electrical changes pre-
ceding a thunderstorm; and of 9TH
ers who were sensitive to chang in
barometric pressure.
There were rheumatic subjei Is,
he continued, "who, if they go t the
seaside, suffer from aches and
pains, while other sufferers rom
rheumatism will be equally un ON
Portable inland"
The whole subject of "clin ltol-
ogy," he urged, had been too ong
neglected, and should be ins esti-
gated.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Proves Failure;
Man Kills Self
Shoots Rival Tells Why in
Suicide Note.

SAN FRANClSCO-A suicide note
and a rambling, l2-page letter told
me story recently of the contrasting
IVes OF DR.. Ernest B. Vamos. As,
successful dentist, and Dr. Ray Mel
son, ms one-time employee who was
failure In business and love.
Nelson shot VamoS with a pistol
IN a dental office where they once
had worked together. He then
walked downstairs into the alley.
where he shot himself fatally
through the heart VamoS was given
$3.50 chance to live.
They had been roommates at den
tai school, but even then Nelson had
hated Vamos, the letter found in Mel
sons room revealed. The letter was
addressed to "V."
II you were trying to impress me
with your bignesS and my smallneSs
~ wasn't necessary" Nelson wrote.
i was painfully conscious of all
mat from the beginning 1t is
OBVIOUSLY futile to attempt to estab-
hsh anything resembling a basis of
renewed friendship and understand
ing between u.s."
Nelson's letter told how a pretty
nurse had refused to marry him. He
loved, lost and wrote:
"She told me there was somebody
else She was in every re-
Spect too much woman for mel
was a mouse -
IN Nelson's pocket was a suicide
note referring to Vamos. 1t read:
This disciplinarian tormented me
for a long time without getting much
of rise out of me. Then he made
remark which Infatuated me. l
told him if he ever repeated that re-
mark either to me or anyone else,
l would kill him. He has repeated
the remark to somebody else. That
IS why will kill him. AS for me,
oy cracky, / was going to check out
anyway. / just feel sorry for who
ever has to handle my carcass"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Hundreds of Villages
Raced in Yugoslayia

LONDON.-German and Italian
troops have destroyed hundreds Of
villages throughout Yugoslavia in an
attempt to break patriot resistance,
q Yugoslav government spokesman
said.
Quoting "unimpeachable" reports,
the spokesman said that along the
Montenegrin coast on the Adriatic,
Italian warships had wrecked whole
villages in the interior with incen-
oiary bombs. In June, the spokes-
man said, the Italians burned AZ viii
lagos in Slovenia
In some provinces of Yugoslavia,
villages wee wiped out and farms
burned to the ground" he asserted.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Uhromantic Police Rage
At Parachute Courtshiu

EBENSBURG, PA. - Nineteen
year-old Arthur Evans courtship
may cost him his flying privileges.
A railroad engineer saw a tiny
parachute floating earthward, stopped
his train and called police. Civilian
defense patrols prepared for the
worst, were on hand when it landed.
Attached to the chute was a note,
informing the fiier's girl friend
VIII be down to see you tonight. "
State police automatically said
dropping an object from a plane
was illegal and recommended 10 the
SiVii Aeronautics authority that
Evans be grounded.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Rich Eskimos Swing 1t;
Mounties Can't Keep Up

TORONTO.-They're swinging il
I'D in the Eskimo countrywide hot
and fast for the mountieS.
Pockets lined with cash from .
bumper hunting season, Eskimos
f1ocked down to the Mackenzie
river this spring in expensive motor
boats to celebrate.
Their idea of celebrating-dancine
10 the juke box all night and sleep
ing all day-put strain on Can
sda's mounted police, who had to
play chaperone ut night and carry
out their regular daytime duties.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Animal Protein Exports

Animal protein products have led
the list in terms of dollar value since
Great Britain turned to the United
States as the main source of SUD
plies formerly obtained from the
Low Countries. Cumulative value
Of all dairy products and eggs to-
tailed about $4,000, 900; meat, fish
and fowl, over 500. 600, 900; fruits.
vegetables and nuts, more than S39.-
600, 900; lard, fats and oils, over $685.
600, 900; grain and cereal products.
about SIS, 900 900: and miscellaneous
foodstuffs, including numerous con-
centrates and vitamins, accounted
for over 5000, 600. Non-foodstuffs.
such as cotton. tobacco, vegetable
reds and naval stores, totaled
::.r"c sr7.o0o, 900.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Triplets Arrive Once in
1000 Births in Britain

LONDON.-One in every 1000
births in Britain in 1898 produced
trlplets, 1t was revealed in the regis
trar generals review of vital Stats
tics for England and Wales. The
proportion of twins born in the same
year was 23.7 for 1000 births.
Total births numbered 621, 2O4, a
total said to be insufficient to main
tain the country's population at the
present level over period of years.
The number of marriages was
Sol, 1853 against $780, in 1887.
Thlrty-eight youths and 1874 girls
married at the lowest legal age, Is.
Divorce p. DEGREES granted totaled
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Bottled Note Travels
200 Yards in Two Weeks

ALAMOSA, COLO.-Three police
men put a note into bottle-plead-
ing with the finder to write them
and tossed the bottle into the raging
Rio Grande.
The note asked the finder to write
the patrolmen telling them where
and when the bottle was discovered.
For days the officers waited. They
visioned the bottle floating down the
river into the Gulf Stream and drift
ing to some lonely tropical isle.
In two weeks the answer came.
The bottle was found by an Ala
mosa man, 200 yards downstream.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
20 Bear Bad Actors
Executed in Yellowstone

WASHINGTON.-The government
disclosed death had been decreed az
the penalty for bad actors" in one
Of the nations greatest box Office
attractions, the Yellowstone bear
chow. The National Park service
reported that over 80 bruin offend.
ers proved to be dangerous to hui
mans. had fallen before the crack
81 rangers rifles, the death verdicts
being melted out after ten persons
were attacked in Yellowstone Ma.
,;onal park during the first few
.seks of the tourist season.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Saved After Torpedoing;
Lost Visiting Rescuers

BARNEGAT, N. 1.-Two months
ago Conrad H. Carlson, 58-year-old
junior engineer on a merchant YES
sci, was rescued of this resort after
his ship had been torpedoed.
Recently he returned to visit the
coastguardsmen who had saved his
life and entered the surf for a brief
swim. Caught in the breakers he
was drowned.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Terror Killer,
Motive Robbery,
Hanged in London
Raj Cadet Murdered Four
Women Within a Week,
Attacked Two Others.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wine to a
club in Piccadilly, in the almost
zimmerman gloom of the blackout,
one night last February, a London
errand boy heard woman scream.
He flashed on an electric torch. In
he momentary beam of light he
saw a man dasl from a doorway
and vanish.
That man was hanged at WandS-
worth prison the other morning, and
as he died a heavy mantle of dread
was lifted from the shoulders of the
women of the metropolis. He was
Gordon Frederick Cummins, 90
year-old married air cadet, who in
a single week, within a two-mile
radius of Piccadilly Circus. had
slain and mutilated four women and
tried to kill two others.
Recalls Jack the Ripper.
There had been nothing like the
widespread terror he created since
the name of Jack the Ripper was
given to an unknown man who muir
the East End between Christmas
1887 and July 1889. Women were
afraid to venture out unescorted aft
er dark
CumminS' motive was robbery, in
spired by vanity; he wanted more
money with which to impress his
friends. He had passed himself off
as 1.-The Honorable Gordon Cum
MINIS" pretending that he was the
illegitimate son of peer, and boast
ed of his amatory conqueStS.
The four murders he committed
by strangling his victims. Three of
them had admitted him to their
apartments The fourth was killed
in raid shelter He was attacking
a girl he had accosted when her
screams caused the errand boy to
turn his f1ashlight on the doorway
where she had sought to elude her
annOyer.
Protests Innocence.
Police who also had been attract
ed by her outcry picked up a serv-
ice reSpirator on the doorstep. It
bore Cummins' number, and by this
he was easily traced to North Lon
don, where he was billeted with 9TH
er cadets. He said he had lost it
and denied ever being near the
house where it was found
But Scotland Yard men who had
been securing all London in search
of the swift-acting killer pinned the
shelter crime upon him. Particles
Of sand in the reSplrator were identi-
fed by the scientists of the police
college as having come from the
refuge. Fingerprints convicted him
Of the other three murders.
1t was the theory of the Yard that
ne mutilated the women with the
idea of deluding the detectives into
the belief that a maniac was at
large and thus throwing them off the
trail.
In summing up the evidence, JUS
tice Asquith, in the Old Bailey court,
characterized the crimes as "sa-
distic sexual murders of a ghoulish
type"
Cummins, gripping the front of
the dock, exclaimed: Il am abso-
lutely innocent"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
White Crow Reverses
Adage in Illinois County

JERSEYVILLE, ILL. - The old
comparison of BLACK as crow"
may have to be discarded in the Jer-
sey county area, for this locality has
snow-white crow.
Last spring, according to sbserv-
ers, a pair of crows nestled IN q big
uee in the vicinity of the William
Schaefer farm northeast of Delhi.
When young birds emerged, three
were black and one was white. The
TOUR grew to adult size. ~
\ Charles Terry, assistant cashier Of
.ne Jersey State bank, recalls seal
ing white crow in almost the sAme
neigRborhood, about 40 years aga !
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06

Mink is in a terrible hurry this
morning. Now, I wonder why he. is
so anxious to find Little Joe OF er.
When they get their heads toge Yer
1t is usually for some mischief.
Jerry climbed to the top of lis
house and looked over the Smi hg
Pool in the direction from wi Oh
Billy Mink had just come AL
most at once he saw Grandfather
Frog fast asleep on his big gsAen
lily-pad. The legs of a foolish green
fly were sticking out of one .cdner
of his big mouth. Jerry coul int
help laughing, fotGrandfather sog
certainly did look funny. =.
Hes had good breakfast his
morning, and his full stomach las
made him sleepy" thought j, ~.
"But he's getting careless in hi Old
age. He certainly is getting re-
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Old Egypt Reports
Ulhamodern Theft

CAIRO. EGYPT.-The janitor
OF a Cairo apartment house re-
ported that thieves had stolen the
elevator-motor, cables and all.
"They said they had come to
repair it," he walled. "They dis
connected the electricity, took
down the cables and carted it all
away in pieces. They said they'd
bring it back at seven o'clock"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-11-06
Bombers Kept Aloft
To Help Wild Dog

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.-See-
ing a dog on the field, the army
ar base control tower operator
neld several bombers aloft. Mill
tary police dashed to clear the
runway just as three pups were
Dorm. The mother, ancestry un-
certain, was as wild as a coyote
and fed into the nearby sandhiIs.
Down came the bombers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
pOLICEW0MANIS APPOINTED FOR
 JUNEAU'S FORCE
lsobeIIe Hdrtung, Graduate Nurse, Will Join
 Department

Mayor Hary I. Lucas, after hear ing a recommendation by the Police Committee, last night appointed a policeWoman to serve on Juneau's police force. She is Isobelle Har- tung, employed temporarily at the Government Hospital, a graduate nurse who already has had exper- fence in the field of law enforce ment.
 Miss Hartung will go to work shortly. Her salary will be $175 a month Previously she was em- ployed for three years at a Homo lulu school for girls and also worked as a nurse at Palmer, Alaska.
 The City Council authorized the re-roofing of the City Hall, badly in need of repair, at an estimated cost of $950. The report of the Street Department was read and it was announced that city crews have repaired the steps in front of the old A-B Hall.
 The Police Committee also rec commended that the Mayor appoint an additional patrolman on the police force. The Mayor will take action on this at the next regular meeting of the Council on October
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
RED GROSS TO
 START CLASSES,
 HOME NURSING
All Women of Gasfineau Channel Are Eligible to
 Valuable Training

Home Nursing classes, to which all women of Gastineau Channel are eligible, are to be started in Juneau in the near future, it was announced today by Mrs. R. H. Williams, Chairman of Home Nurs- ing for the Juneau Chapter of the American Red Cross.
 These classes are considered among the most valuable courses offered during wartime by the Red Cross because the increasing con- gestion in hospitals is making it necessary for more and more people with minor illnesses to be taken care of in the home As this situ- ation will become more and more acute, in Juneau as elsewhere, it is expected that this opportunity to learn proper care of the sick will receive enthusiastic response among women and girls of Gastin- eau Channel.
 Contents of the Course
 Content of the course, which is given in 24 hours over not less than siX-week period include the fol- lowing:
 l. Individual health and personal hygiene.
 2. Healthful home environment, care of the home, normal family life
 3. Home care of the sick, care of the chronic and the aged, minor illnesses and emergencies.
 4 Care of mothers, babies and small children, in health and in illness.
 F 5. Community health, prevention and control of communicable dis ease.
 Expert Instruction
 The classes will be given in rooms of the Public Health Center under the direction of registered nurses who will demonstrate all phases of care of the sick in the home in interesting fashion.
 High School Classes
 It is particularly desired to have one or more classes of girls of high school age, Mrs. Williams an- nounced. Often responsibility for care of the family falls upon young shoulders and during an epidemic or emergency, young women trained In home nursing would prove iu- valuable to the community.
 Register During Week
 Women wishing to register or inquire about registration are re- quested to telephone Mrs. Williams at 800 or call at the Elks Hall on Monday or Tuesday between lo a. m and 4 p, m, when she is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
WARNEkE I5 FACING
 OLD TEAM
Cub Pitcher Goes Agdnist Cooper in Cardinal
 Game Today
(By Associated Press)

Lon Warneke will be on the fir ing line against his old teammates in Chicago this afternoon when the Chicago Cubs take on the fiercely battling St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of the important two game in the Cub-Card series.
 Opposing Warneke will be Mort Cooper, the Cardinals famed 20- game winner who will seek to keep St. Louis in the lead for the Ma tional League championship of 1942.
 Warneke declares he bears no malice toward the Cardinals but is going to bear down. He asked for the assignment on the mound in today's battle.