New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1928, Page 4

QGHAPTER XLIX Music had always thrown a spes over Emmy. She had told Robb once that it went to her head ana made her drunk and dizzy. And so it did. It did now. She closed her eyes, swaying a little to the rhythm of ir and holding her breath. She almost | the | forgot that Harbison was in room until he spoke again. “I sat there in that restaurant s le tonight,” he said. | | Siih Lioke Boanle A1 K | things. I've been in love with you | close behind her, *“and I realized how little they—or anybedy but you Emmy—mean to me.” She felt his hands on her shoul- ders. She wanted to tell him to take them away, but she could not think very clearly just then, with the mu- sic unwinding all around her like =old thread from a spool. His volce came to her from a long distance, along with the music | ind, in some mysterious way, her whole feeling for Wells Harbison seemed to be tangled up with tne music and its magic. Her feeling for him became part of the thing that always had stirred her and gone to her head and made her drunk and dizzy. She did not know it. but she almost any man while that mus= played on and wrapped her into its enchantment—and Wells Harbison was far from being “just any man” to Emmy at that time. He was the outstanding figure in her narrow little life—the life she had made for | herself. “Emmy,” he sald, and she felt his cheek aganst her hair. Even then she did not protest and they stood there without mov- ing until the last note of the great music died away on the air of the little, room where the lamplight flowed around them like sunlit wa- | little Lovey would be glad to know | hecause you were lonely and poor, | except that I know |about Saturday' afternoon?"” would have been half in love with | | finger of her left hand. ‘ o e It was six o'clock on Friday when want, Emmy. I want you. to marry you.” “He wants to marry me,” thought Emmy, and it flashed through her mind that Marianna and Cassie ana 1 want Wells Harblson's wife and gad about with her. “I kidded myself that 1 was inter- ested in your voice,” he said next; “and I thought I was sorry for you Emmy. But it wasn't either of those | from the start, and 1 suppose I'm a vicious kind of man to tell you so. I wouldn't tell you, by Jove, either, it doesn't make very much difference to my wite what I do.” He stood up. “T want her to d1- vorce me, and I want you to marry me. T can't live as T have been MNv- ing, Emmy.” He laid his nand over her lips as she started to soeak. “Don’t say a word now. Think it over. TIll see you in a day or two." “Give me as long as you can, said Emmy, as he went out. “I'| have to have time to talk this aw over with my mother. . How She felt very helpless and young just then. For the firat time 1n months and months she felt the | need of her mother. She felt thav | she had to ask her mother's ad- vice on this thing that had croppea | np—this problem of herself ana | Wells Harbison and Wells Harbi- !son’s wife and his child. She dropped off to a troubled sleep that night with a frown be- tween her evebrows and Robb | Hollis' modest little pearl-and-gar- net ring still shining on the third | Mrs. Mitburn, watch me set my bread—I thought I'd make a batch before I went away. The boys love home-maae bread, and Lovey has only reachea the pancake stage of baking.” She laughed. “I guess pancakes are fried, though, aren't they Emmy stood stl! in the little hall, looking around her. She scarcely knew the house. All the old, faded wall paper had been stripped from the walls and they were covered with some that was new and plain. he hoys did it said Mrs. M- burn, running her hand over “and they fixed the hot water pipes, too. . Just come out here ana take a look at the Xitchen. In the dining room, as she passes through it, Emmy had a glimpse of the table set for supper. It was a most unfashionable-looking table, with its celery in a tall glass like a houquet of flowers, its glass dishes of corn salad and catsup and ho made currant jelly that glowed like a mound of garnets. But it was clean and appetizing. and from the kitchen came the tantalizing smell of hean soup boiling in its kettle. “We aren’t having much tonight— just bread and soup and salad,” sald opening the Kitchen door. *“But will you stay, anyway, Emmy? You know what the Serip- ture says: ‘Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox ana hatred therewith.”" “No, I can't stay,” answered Em my, thinking of love and Robh Hollis and the ring of garnet and pearl. She would talk things over with her mother and then, as she was leaving, she would give Robt back his ring. And so would enl that chapter! 1%e kitchen had been painted white, and there were new cretonne shades at the windows. Mrs. Mil- burn turned on both of the faucets, LINDSEY OPPOSES BIRTH GONTROL Discusses Decision of Cleveland Judge Enforcing No Children Les Angeles, Calif., Dec. 5.—(UP) famous Denver judge and champion of com- panionate marriage, is opposed to —Judge Ben B. Lindsey, compulsory birth control. “I cannot agree that any court has the right to impose birth con- trol on a man or woman,” Lindsey in a statement to the United | Press, commenting on a unique de- | cision handed down by a Cleveland young conple to three years of birth con- | said, Ohio judge sentencing a trol. Judge Lindsey the decision: sion is unique in trol,” Lindsey said. Judge Harrison Cleveland, Ohio court, told Mr. Evwing, common and Mrs. dren born in Ewing said this was many to raise on Kourim's salary. No Legal Right Apprised of the Cleveland judge's action, Judge Lindsey told the United Press that in his opinion no judge has the right fo say to any man or woman* you shall not have legally children.” Judge Lindsey meanwhile intends to carry on his fight for the “oppor- tunity for the freedom of choice of women in this country to have their children when they want them and not on a basis of chance.” Noble Thing recognized, how- ' ever, the precedent established by "The Cleveland deci- that the judge recognizes the legality of birth con- of the pleas Otto Kourim they must refrain from hav. ing children for three vears. This dictum was in answer to the couple’s petition for a divorce. The divorce was refused. Kourim was earning $24 a week. There were three chil- three years. Judge entirely too AVIATORS SMUGGLING Coast Guard Head Declares Planes Are Constant Source of Worry to His Fleet. ‘Washington, Dec. 5 U» — Liquor smuggling by airplane from the Ba- hamas into Florida has added to the worries of the coast guard. Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, com- mandant of the coast guard, testify- !ing before the house treasury appro- | priations sub-committee, said that three planes of the service had been operated in Florida during the past winter “as a deterrent at least on i such operation: The officer estimated that liquor | smuggling into the United States had been reduced to one-eighth of its | former proportions within the last | two or three years, and asserted thut the rum ships that formerly plied along the north Atlantic coast had disappeared. Most of the liquor vessels that fall into the clutches of the coast guards- men along the north Atlantic shores now come from the French island of St. Pierre, Admiral Biilard said. This island he characterized as the source of supply for most of the smuggled diquor that reaches New York. Virginia and North Carolina are Jittle troubled by smugglers, he add- ed, attributing this largely to the fact that the smugglers desires to land their cargoes in the vicinity of large cities. Florida was an excep- tion, he explained because of the | proximity of the coast to the Ba- hama Islands. While the coast guard has 25 de: troyers assigned to duty along the Atlantic coast, the admiral said it had no vessels of this type on the Paci- fic coast and that “there is some smuggling out there.” “The only craft we have out there now,” he said, “are three first class cutters, some tugs, and some patrol boats at San Francisco, on the sound and in southern California. Two new vessels will be assigned to duty, however, he added. Admiral Billard said that some of the liquor that was smuggled into LIQUOR, BILLARD SAYS H. . TEAM RAISES Tor Gold Footballs According to the report of Edward Sowka, fuliback on the New Britain High school football team and one of the players in charge of the New Britain High school Independents- Alumni football game on Thankagiv- ing Day, the team realized approxi- mately $50 for its share of the re- ceipts. This money is to be used in a fund for gold football emblems in token of the team's success in win- ning the triangular championship. According to agreement, the high school’s Lalf of the receipts was to raise funds will be to have a gold football dance at Odd Fellows' hall, | on Friday, December 15. Coach George M. Cassldy, team | managers, and the entire squad will be the guests of the Boys' club of Hartford Public High school Friday evening of this week at the cliib's annual banquet, ‘The barber, the tailor, and the owner of the shoe shine parlor where the members of the New Britain High school championship football {8quad had the best of service free as a reward for winning the annual football game with Hartford on No- the work thrust upon them when the victorious team returned from Hartford. The result summed up is 18 free hair cuts, shaves, and shampoos, 20 | hats cleaned and several suits press- ed, and more than 25 shoes shined. Two girls, cheer leaders, made the most of the offer of James Bordiere, barbers, by having their hair cut and | when he opens Bordiere's Beauty Saloon at 139 Main street during the latter part of next week these two girls will be the first customers, each getting a free hair cut, sham- 550 FOR EMBLENS Will Have Dance to Get Funds be used in the fund. The next step to | vember 24, are now recovering from HEADLESS BODY 1§ MYSTERY 10 POLIGE mymmummm in Barrel Near Westville, N. Y.—Is Woman Westville, N, J., Dec. 5 (UP)— The mystery of the headless body of a woman which was found fleat- ing in a barrel in the Delaware riv- licé today. The officers communicated with Camden and Philadelphia police in an attempt to identify the woman. Two boys, Arthur Fox, 12, and Edward Bloger, 11, both of West- ville, told police they had seen the |barrel floating In the river since Bunday, They wanted to see what was in it, they said. They pulled the barrel ashore last night. Tearing away the burlap top, they found the {headless body of a woman. | New wood that had”not been wa- ter-lo'ked led the police to believe ithe murder was of recent origin. Of- ficers admitted the barrel might {have been thrown off a boat but said |they believed it was a land murder. Chloride of lime, it was sald, was found on the body. THNK DILANPART OF BODTLEG FORCE Federal Officers Tie Him Up With Rum Organization Henry F. Dolan, formerly of 1310 Stanlcy street, this city, 4nd Henry Davidson of 22 Elmer street, Hart- ford, were in Methuen, Mass., dis- trict court yesterday, the former for illegal possession and transportation of liquor and driving an automobile without a license, and the latter on the same liquor charges and the ad- ditional count of allowing an unli- 1 WALKING EXTINC; " EVERYBODY RIDES Dr. Arnold Says World is For- gotting to Exercise “The world is getting too comfort. er near here confronted county po-!able to live in because of the many conveniences of the modern age™ said Dr. E. H. Arnold of New Haven achool of Hygiene, speaking before the members of the Exchange cub at the Burritt hotel last evening. Dr. Arnold’ told his listeners that all sorts of Inventions are being made to add to the comfort of peo- ple and the modern age is being made too smooth and easy. Automo- biles, trains, etc. are built aleng comfortable lines 30 as to assure their passengers of every possible convenience. When the automebile first came out, riders experienced jars and bumps but modern inven- tions have overcome these annoy. ances and now cars glide along with. out any perceptible jars except when on an exceptional bumpy road. Continuing, the speaker atated that the majority of the people go to their places of business or labor in cars and do practically no walking at all. People travel bundreds of miles in trains and spend hours ‘n making the trip but actually walking no more than a few hundred feet. In many cases travelers get into & taxi after leaving the train and mo- tor to their homes All this, said the speaker, is lead. ing folks away from one of the ese sential things of life, that of exer. cise, Walking, which is one of the best forms of exercises, is practically becoming extinct and people are neglecting their physical makeups becaude living conditions are being made too smooth and easy for them. Dr. Arnold's speech proved very interesting and he was giving'a ris- irg vote of thanks by the club. End- ing his talk, the speaker urged his ter and the roses smelled likc & Emmy turned the corner on Flow- June garden. |er street. “Emmy, I shoudIn’t say this, per- | Tha sun was shining and the ugly haps, but 1 love you better than jittle place did not look nearly so anything in this world—or' anvy- | ygly as usual. The rain of yester- listeners to get out daily and do more walking and participate in some kind of sports so as to indulge in exercise needed for their digestive systems. and it was like a miracle to Emmy to see hot water come steaming into the sink where no hot water haa steamed for twenty-six s “Electric lights turned on, too,” New York, Dec. 5.—(UP)—Con- sensus of leading advocates of birth control here today was that Judge Harrison Ewing of Cleveland com- mon pleas court did a noble thing fn censed person to operate a motor vehicle. Their cases were continued until Friday. According to the federal author- ities in Massachusetts, California came from European ports by way of the Panama Canal. The commandant expressed belief that, given sufficient equipment, the poo, and marcel.The tallor is the 1deal Pressing and Cleaning Co. on Church street and the shoe shine parlor is owned by Raymond Cian- body,” Harbison said, his face still against her hair. And Emmy, still under the spell of the music, nod- ded her head. “I know,” she sald. guessed it for a long time. “Look at me, dear.” He turned her so that she faced him. He put one hand under her chin, lifting her face to his. He bent his head— The telephone rang again. This time Emmy answered it, and it was Robb at the other end of the wire. “I've been trying to get you for an hour.” he sald, briskly; “your mother asked me to come down here to Burkhardt's to call up and see if you were all right. She's been worrying about you all eve- ning.” “How silly of her! Of course, I'm all right!” Emmy snapped. “Tell her | T'll be down to see her soon. Good- night, Robb.” She came back to Harhison. the spell of the music and the lamp- light and the roses was broken, and she was perfectly matter-of-fact ana calm. She stepped back from him when he would have touched her again and dropped down into a chair beside the piano. Harbison stood looking at her for a minute or two. Then he sat down in the window seat and began fill his pipe. He struck a match to it and turned to watch the firefly lights of automobiles in the rain- She had id presently, “coms over here and sit beside me. T want | to talk to you. I want to tell you something that I should have told you a long time ago, but T kept putting it off because 1 wanted to keep on seeirg you." He cleared his throat. T'm married.” The girl gasped. It was a full three minutes before she could make a sound. “I don’t know why T'm amazed,” she stammered at last; If suspected that right But she felt as if she haa bheen dropped several stories in an elevator, nevertheless. “Where's your wife?'" “She’s here—in this town. heen here all day.” He looked like a beaten dog. “Emmy. “Emmy, s0 at her 1 told you & lie when T said I had to have | ginner tonight with some business men. T had dinner with her—with her and my young son. They've been in Europe for two years, and today they came out here and joined me at my hotel. That's why I'm | here now. To explain things o you and to talk them over.’ “He tied to me,” thonght Emm sitting very straight and still. with her chin raised and her eyes staring straight ahead of her at cmbroidery on the wall opposite. He's not honest. He's a liar.” “I don’t love her,” Harhison went on with his tale, “and 1 never veal ized just how much T do care for you until T saw her today. But Les fore T hurt her by telling her so, 1 a want to find out how vou feel ahout | vou. ! me. 1 want fo he sure of There's no good of my from her unless vou love me. want to break her heart for ing.” Emmy nodded her head, eyes wore grave and der turned them on him. 7T see 3 an inkling of the feel abont her separatin 1 doy noth- and e p when she 5 ¥ vou - then?" Harhison blond head *tampli war god 3 “But it won't br she does know a She's so wra ours that alive. She who don't « their hushands children. vou provide for her won't care whether sh nie or not Tuist heen perfectly confen: me for two lonz v He pansed for a i said nothing, “Rhe dor voice ran an. S she was elehtoon what she did. aliy that gleame thie ity shosk d4 in gk r heart wi it, Fr pped up in that kid o 1y know fhose ha Jont ‘s one of r ' &0 and di w any But now I do know what |day had washed the road and side. | hardly helieve her eyes, |longer a dark green that But | ground, Perry, also in blue overalts, | | a tin can with a long stick. to strips of linen. There they stood like | moved into it!" vellow | think, She's | Chinese | aid | to walks, and the sky above the woolen mill was a clear blue that was re- flected In the puddles along the ! road. Halfway up the street Emmy stopped dead still in her tracks. Her mother had come out of the | little yellow house and was stana- | | ing on the sidewalk In front of It shading her eyes with her hand as she looked at it. Emmy looked, too. She stared. She could | For the little yellow house was no did not show the soot. ‘ Tt was yellow—a pale, soft yellow | with snow-white trimmings! And | against the gray background of | Flower street it was as clean ana | | zay looking and fresh as a daisy un | a duvgt heap. As she came nearer she saw lh:nt{ there were laddes propped agains the side of it under the sycamore tree. On one of them stood Robb | Hollis, hard at work in paint-smear- | ed blue overalls. Below him. on the | was mixing paint and turpentine m CHAPTER L The fence had heen been painteu white, too, and Mrs. Milburn had tied all of her broken bridal-wreath hushes against the pickets with little cripples in a hospital ward. She turned swiftly when she saw | Emmy, and into her face came fits old, bright, rosy look. “Sce, Emmy, here’s the little yei. low house again!” she called as she waved her hand. “After all these | years! Now you can see how pretty | it was when your father and I Emmy nodded silently arm around M der. “Isn't it see it the with one Milburn's shout- a shame that he can’t way it used to be? A crept into her mother's pretty v “He a'wi like th paint so much. Tust Emmy, you've all grown up and I've got old and tired out and | our father's gone. But the house | s just the way it was when your | father rented it.” She swallowed hard for a minute. | “I always feel, somchow,” she wound up, “that so long us I've got the house I haven't lost—him."” From his ladder Robb waved a paint brush at Emmy, but he did nut come down to he “How's Old Maid's Castle?” he d, his teeth flashing in a boyish n, and Emmy answered cheer- | tully that she loved living in ft. “o you're painting houses now instead of pictures, ch what?” she chaffed Perry as she and her moth- er started up the path to the house. He luughed. “Yeah, T've given up painting for a while—I'm going to ¢ 1o sell some of my stuff for a| o “What do you Emmy, puzzled. Her mother s mean?” asked | answered her ques- “He means he's going down to York tomorrow night with ne of his things to show them to art editor. Is that what you them? One of those men Wwhe wiy the pictures for magaz my nodded Well. Perry has heen sending his | tures around to the different art ditors” Mrs, Milburn went on to ! explain, “and one of sked him to i I =1l him that I'm sure he'll get some regular work now. doing illustrations fnr stories ann and things. I'm ion. nes? pic sead on some more things. r articlos just sure Aded breathls < mind ng to take thir instend or t donr. “Ana.+ this morn them—and—1 zoing Her hlue eves shane t does Lovey fhink ked Emmy with hir oY am “Toesn't st Ip me. Tonight she's coming to | | worked with | this street up better than your T'nee | yesterday | a titt1e them wrote and | her mother went on, counting th miracles, ‘and a new water heater! And that broken place in the col- orde window on the stairs fixed! 1 just can't believe it's the same old house. I truly can't!" Through th= kitchen windows with their snowy sash curtains push- ed back, Emmy conld sce young | Dan raking up the wet brown leaves !of last autumn in the hackyard. whistled, “I'm Tired of rything But You,” as he worked, and he will. 1y flung up window to him. “Well, e reformed even you, Daniel ez which?” Dan called back at her, with a sheepish smile. “Robb gives him a dollar a week to help me around the house, and on Saturdays he delivers packages | for Mr. Burkharat,” his mother sata. “He pays for his own lunches at school—he won't carry one, you know—and he's saving up for bus- ness school or college or whatever place he wants to go after he gradu- ates from high school. And really. Emmy. he's doing well at schou Robh makes him study. He likes Robb, and he'll do anything for E a and the { him."" They went upstairs. “I want to show you the new | bathroom bowl,” Mrs. Milburn said “Robb bought it at some wholesale place and put it in, himself. Tt's some new kind of porc that | won't crack and won't br rapped the smoo‘h, shining surface with great satisfaction. “Where does he get all the money | to do these things?” “Well, he’s been superintendent at the mill ever since a week ago Sat- urday,” her mother explained. “The | old one left to take a job in some rubber works down in Akron and Mr. Robb stepped right into his shoes. He can fill them, too. T saw Jim Tello on the strect the other day and he told me what a fine | ung chap Robb it-—not that T or 1y else had to fell ME am, - | about Robb Hollis!” she bridle “I told Jim Tello a thing or twe, myself,” she added with spirit. * Till Parks ever did. And T told him | he would be doing me a good tury if he'd plant a little ivy around thaw | mill of his. It would fake only a | few years to cover that eyc-sors and make it look just like an lish castle. . 1 gave him a slip from my own ivy that came from our lot in the cemeter Emmy Mother, you're a ] ure Jim Tello ound his mill!" dh, but T really He took As usual, the he for it, but ! 1 can just e planting tvy | think he wine | Mrs. Milburn was hoping —and not only hoping ictually expecting it to | happen. | “Perry just wonld ew York with hin.* panse, “H take me to id. after said it wonldn't ! cost so very much. so long as he had to go himself. Well, anyv ‘m going and T can't helieve it. ppose T shouldnt, hut you can't think how I've wantea the aquarinm and the Flat huilding, and the elevated, mmy, you read and’ hen. inings, and you cant | to see them. Only Y t 1 shonld get tne She was pleased as a all my life on | You Know, ahont 1h “lp ing (TO BE CONTINT ot Economical cictered Pharmaclst » of C. W. Brainerd, formerl; Beainerd lof the | fire | ordering Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kourim not to have any children in the next three years. Dr. James F. Cooper, medical di- rector of the clinical research de- American birth partment of the’ coast guard could entirely plug up the holes through which foreign liquors comes into the United States over the coast lines. He declined, however, to make amy estimate of the size of the fleet that would be required, control league, told the United Press he believed Judge Ewing did well to solution to the domestic difficulties of the Kourims to support three $24 a week . Dr. Cooper said he believed the judge used sagacity in refusing to break up the Kourim home. recommend such a who were trying children on Kourim's Dr. Cooper is author of Technique of ConfPaception,” treatise on birth control which enly the medical profession may lu\flully‘ possess. May Give Advice Under Ohio laws, any physiclan folk on birth for economic or health reasons. In New | York state it is unlawful to give out may advise married control if it {s deemed wise contraceptive advice, Officials of the birth control clinic of the league in New York city, have found by observation since 1923 that more than half the cases appealing to the clinic included men or wom- |en with incomes less than the in- board’s $36 to $40 a week estimated standard liv- family of mother, | dustrial conference ing cost for a father and three children. The Kourim family is exactly this size—the size of family adopted by statistical experts as the aver- |age family. Cooper complained that the law has prevented in cases where advice might have brought about cure or prevention of disease. . Robertson Jones, president Birth Control mpioned Judge Ewing control a great deal of marital un- | | happiness.” all Dr. ew York state the lcague from helping Mrs American league, ¢ and said, causes ‘lack of birth |Firemen Overcome in Hartford Blaze (UP)—Four a policeman and a chorus late um- nd store building Hartford, Dec. firemen, girl required hospital treatmen: after fire swept a bull street hotel with loss estimated at nearly $100,. 000, Official fire department investiga- The was thought to have originated {in the Connecticut Tire and Rubber | stores oc- the he upper four floors were tion of the blaze began today. company, one cupying the building. occupied by the Trumbull hotel. several occupants of the were of three ground floor of-~ filled corridors, Charles Wilson, fireman, ahout the face and hands. John P, Wamester of Firemen Isadore 17lift Mesweegan were Miss Yvonne wis overcome an Jered Engine overcome smoke. girl, Polic miah them both down a ladder. Vi |rg|ma Students Say They Drink But Little 5 U®-- charges by Rev. superintendent of {the Virginia Anti-Saloon League, of | univer- students was voiced here yes- commiftee of Charlottesville, Resentment over David Hepburn, Va.. Dec. excessive sity drinking among terday the university. In a formal dents declared less drinking hy the honor statement at the university century of existence. CROP Fort au Prince, Ha Coffee scored - she heavily in et of Haiti's fi ich ended September the ne bis vear's er wm in all of H e humper pounds, aromatic period v react herry clop of “The a hotel forced to descend ladders Mu:r‘ the little slip I gave him.* |2roping their way through smoke- was cut Captain 1 and James by Burke, chofus and rescued by | O'Connor. * O'Connor collapsed after turning the woman over fo firemen who carried the stu a belief that there is at | present than ever hefore in its more . Dec. § (P~ | the 0 crop of §7,000.000 for i f ten vear: 4 the maxi- |a tian history with 0,000,000 | size URGES FULL USE OF WATERWAYS Rivers and Harbors Congress Addressed by Secretary Davis ‘Washington, Dec. 5 () —The open- ing session of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress was told by Secretary Davis of the war depart- ment today that the nation‘'s needs require coordinated use of every form of transportation and that the waterways should be used to their fullest possibilities. “The water-borne comimerce in 1927 was over 500,000,000 tons,” he said. “The increase has been steady with resulting benefits to the coun- try in reducing its freight bill. On | domestic commerce alone the sav- ings have been estimated at $500,- 000,000 annually. We have seen great developments in our water | way program. We have become & great nation. Railroads are reaching a high state of efficiency. We have thousands of miles of improved highways. We are developing air transportation, Are Inadequate “But these transport agencies op- erating alone will soon become inad- equate to handle economically our commerce. We must plan, not for next year alone, but for the next decade, the next half century. improved harbors provide adequate facilities for a much larger foreign and coastwise trade than at present. Hundreds of miles of improved in- land waterways have been added to the net work and other promising water ways are being completed. “The country needs every form of transportation facility. However, their use must be coordinated, in- terconnection is also of great na- |tional need. The movement of freight by water results in large sav- ings, which are reflected in reduced cost of living and in great commer- cial benefits. We do not want to limit these savings to strcam bor- ders and seashores. The whole coun- try is entitled to the cheapest and | best methods of transportation. “Air, roads, railways, waterways, |should, carry the part of the load for which it is cconomically best fitted. Only by the cooperation, ceordination and interconnection of all means of transportation can the people get the full benefits to which they are entitled and which they must have for their future progress and pros- perity.” Davis Opposed Scparation of the corps of en- | gineers of the army from its impor- |tant peace-time duties of develop- sz and improving the country's Irivers and harbors was opposed by Mr. Davis. Such separation he op- posed not only as a direct blow against military preparcdness but because of the possible introduction of “pork-barrel and | methods.” He declared it to the in- terest of the users of the waterways, to the nation at large, and to the proper performance by congress of its duties that the country continue 1o avail itself in its problems of the non-partisan, non- political. Efficent and | minded service of the corps of en- gineerd. GERMAN SUBMARINE HERO Herford, Germany, Dec. 5 (P1— A bionze monument to Captain Otto Weddigen, Germany's submarine Tero, is to be erccted on the river Werra near this fown It will take the form of a bow of bmarine 26 feat long and 10 | feet high, on which stands in natural the statue Weddigen dressed in oil skins. of Qur | jointly and separately, cach | log-rolling waterways nationally an island | flone on Main street. The cheer leaders are Rose Frey of 60 Monroe street and Edna Kief- fer of 259 Arch street. ART FAKES FOOL SEVERAL CRITICS Ruthorities in Boston and Cleveland Taken in New York, Dec. 5.—(#—One of the sculptural fakes of Alceo Dos- sena fooled not only the authorities of the Boston and Cleveland museums and the Frick collection here but even penetrated the bar- riers of the famous Metropolitan museum of art, In the basement of the metropoli- tan today stands a smiling little statue in Archaic Greek style, a maiden of the type known as Kore. The figure is about three feet high draped in a Himation and has the rigldity characteristic of archaic work of about 50 B. C. Both arms are missing and the statue has been broken above the knees and reset so that the break is obvious. Author of Work ‘The statue, bought for the museum by the late John Marshall one of the world's most eminent archaeologists and largely responsible for the fine classical collection of the Metropoli- ton turns out to be another of the works of Dossena, reported in re- cent cables from Italy as having ad- mitted the authorship of numerous rennaissance and antique art fakes that duped American museums of well over $1,000,000. After the pur- {chase Mr. Marshall became sus- picious of his find and the museum, never placed the work on exhibition or announced its acquisition, and if Mr. Marshall was fooled. he was in the most eminent company. Fool All The Dossena sculptures deceived not only the most painstaking and scholarly archaeologists, but geolo- gists as well. It has been learned that geologists declared the appar- ent crosion of the fraudulent sculp- ture was the result of natural pro- cesses working over 24 centuries. Experts are still puzzled as to how Dossena developed the remarkable technique that gives his works the effect of *“age.” Sand blasting has been suggested as the means of get- ting the effect of crosion, and it is | believed that some use of fire w made to give a crackle to the marble. Both European and American geolo- gists have declared that the sup- posedly Greek Athena purchased by the Cleveland museum was damaged by time, | Are Soaked The carth-stained appearance of the sculpture is thought to have been obtained by soaking the marbles in a penetrating chemical, since chipping the stone with a hammer shows that the stain was does not remove t. Dossena himself is said to be about 53 years old, a native of Cremona, tall. stoop-shouldered, with the quick nervousness popularly believed to be joined with the artistic temperament. Experts here belfeve he must be not only an able sculptor, but a com- petent archaeologist, architect and | chemist as well. Six Reported Hurt In Train Smashup Wilmington, Mass., Dec. 5 (CP)— | Six persons were injured when a milk train collided with a passeng:r frain about 100 yards outside th- sfation here last night. The engine of the milk train hit the haggage car of the passenger frain, which was abeut to go on the main track from a spur. The bag- Rage car was overturned and the ivhrve members of the train's crew and three passengers were injjured Traffic was rerouted through the Wilmington yard tracks while a wrecking train removed the over- turned car, well below the surface and water | the young men are members of a gang whose operations in the liquor traffic have supplied many Connecticut cities with Canadian liquor in small units. The arrests were made by Officer Cyril Feugil of the Methuen police department and Inspector McDonald of the Lawrence registry of motor vehicles, near the Nevins Home for the Aged on Broadway, Methuen. The officers were checking up on motor vehicles lights and brakes when they found 24 quarts of whisky in the rear of the car which Dolan was driving. Dolan has a local police court re- cord, but was never arrested for vio- olation of the liquor law, so far as the records disclose. He and David- son told the MassRchusetts officers they were salesmen in the employ of the Canterbury clothing Co., of New York city. YORK' DOCTORS T0 COMBAT WITCHCRAFT Beliefs of Rural District Population Thought Responsible for One Recent Murder York, Pa., Dec. 5 (UP)—The York County Medical society today start- ed plans to Kill the bellef in witch- craft prevalent in this section—a | belfet which 1s blamed for at least one recent murder. A series of mass meetings will be held to educate the residents, mem- bers of the society said. York County Medical society, told the United Press of the plans today and said he would present a resolu- tion before the medical board to- night asking for the mass meetings. The local board will cooperate with the Pennsylvania department of public instruction in the movement. These actions were taken in view of the recent murder of Nelson B. Rehmeyer, a farmer, who allegedly was killed because he would not vol- untarily give a lock of his hair to oftset a “hex.” One pow-wow doc- tor and two youths are held for the murder and the youths are said to have confessed they beat the farmer and then burned his body, Those held are John Blymire, the alleged witch doctor; Wilbur Hess, whose father suffered from the hex, and John Curry. The medical society also will ask the cooperation of all welfare and clvic organizations in York county. Dr. Noll told the United Press that the Dr. Charles G. Coch’ of the educational Board would . obtain speakers for the mass meetings. The state officlals also will aid the York County Medical soclety in gathering evidence against the witch and pow- wow doctors. Dr. Noll and other physicians have pointed out that al- most the only way of halting the spread of the witchcraft cult with its “hexes” and “spells” and weird {formulas for the cyring- of disease |is education. They say that prosecution of the witch doctors under the state law against practicing medicine or heal- ing arts is extremely difficult. They point out that the men and womer, who patronize the witch Renerally refuse to testify againet the practitioners, MAYOR ELICTED New Bedford, Dec. 5, (M—"They won't be as hard a two years as vou think.” mayor-elect Charles Sumner Ashley assured his daugh- ter whose pleasure at his reclection |for a two-vear term yesterday was finged by some concern for the con- tinued good health of her 70.year- old father. Being mayor comes eas- | |ily to Ashley. Yesterday was his !24th victory in a mayoralty contest. He looks forward to rounding eut the recérd time of 25 years in the mayor's office on January 1, 1930. ENTERTAINS O. E. S, )-l MBERS | Mrs. E. J. Burdick of 618 Stanley | street, entertained 16 members of the supper committee of Martha Chapter, No. 21. O. E. 8. at her home last evening. Cards were played and prizes awarded to the winners. A luncheon was served. Dr. P. A. Koll, secretary of the| doctors | Dr. Arnold predicted that within five years there will be a reduction of working time and that the aver- age working week will consist of five days a week, six or seven hour day, Plans for the Christmas party te le held on Tuesday, December 18, were announced by the entertain- ment committee. POTATO EATI HAS FALLEN OFF Women Seeking Slim Figures Reports Indicate Chicago, Dec. § (UP) — Repre. sentatives from all the great potato states met in a Loop hotel today in an attempt to elevate the lowly spud in the estimation of the house- wife. Statistics given out at the na- tional conference of potato growers by Gov. H. C. Baldridge of Idaho, sho wthat since women started in search of . slender figures potato consumption has fallen at an alarm- ing rate. Where a few years ago each per- son in the United States ate three and three-quarters bushels of pota- toes a year, the average now is three bushels, the governor sald, and it is the women who are to blame. The figures show that wom- cn have reduced their potato con- sumption one and one-half bushels a year, Wrong Idea The potato growers say the wom- cn have a mistaken idea. Potatocs, it is claimed, do not round out the figure. One bulletin issucd at the conference declared that ‘*‘except for fats” one could live entirely on potatoes. Russell Shepard, of Jerome, Idaho, president of the Twin Falls North Side Land and Water' com- pany, said that last year there was a surplus of 80,000,000 bushels of potatoes and that this year the sur- plus will be even greater. It is to mect this problem of surplus that the growers have as- sembled here. There are 450 pres- ent, representing 36 states. Bad Situation John 8. Welch, commissioner of the Idaho state department of agri- culture, told the Upited Press that the growers are faced with a critt- cal situation. He said prices for the crop hardly are sufficlent to make a return to the farmers. The cost of marketing the crop is by far the major expense item. Welch offers as a solution the proper grading of potatoes so that & better return will be gvailable. He pointed out that if potatoes are uni- form in shape, size and quality they will command a higher price, both to the farmer and the retailer. “Small potatoes mixed in with large ones are bound te lessen the value of the large ones” Welch said. “Naturally the housewife would prefer potatoes of uniferm size and shape, just as she prefers uniformity in everything.” The smallest needles are made from wire .0085 inch in diameter and 1,000 of them weigh less than & quarter of an ounce. / to constipatios, " quickly te l"m -nld lauuve uflm \ vae ’s N BROMO QUININE LAXATIVE TABLETS HEADACHE 7