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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH OLD WOMEN VICTIMS OF MEANEST SLAYER Spreads Terror Through the West Side of Manhattan. "meanest murderer" U spreading terror through the West tide of Manhattan, while some 10,000 policemen and detli?e ck finest-wraglorifying in the title of "the their brain and exhaust their energies Id a rain search for him. The "meanest murderer" specializes In the killing of helpless old women living alone. He jtounces upon them, generally when they are asleep, and mothers or strangles them to death without giving them a chance to make an outcry. Four of them have gone to their rewards at his cowardly hands In this fashion In the last few weeks, all within a radius of a dozen blocks or so, and so stealthily has the slayer gone about his work and so skillfully has he covered up his tracks that the police are yet without the slightest clew to his identity, or whereabouts. Indeed some of the best detectives of the force have suggested In view of the character of the crimes and in lieu of any definite evidence that the killer might be a woman. Motive Uncertain. Moreover the "best minds" of the department bnve so far been unable to determine for a certainty Just what motive may actuate the strunge killings. In some cases, evidence has been found to warrant a theory of rob bery, but since none of the victims a station In life which might be -dignified even by the title of well to do" and since In at least two Instances, the victims' hoards of a few coins were left untouched, the suggestion seems somehow lacking. Some investigators express the opln Ion that the fugitive Is a maniac, but Just why he should limit his operations to elderly women no one can guess. Whether one or many, however, the "meanest murderer" still stalks his way unmolested unless his fnte hns overtnken him unknown to the police while old women quake In terror and refuse to be left alone. The latest victim of the scries was Mrs. Mary Txiy, seventy years old, who was found smothered in bed in her little flat on the second floor of street, a building In West Fifty-thirA small bottle of milk and a copy of the Irish World still untouched in front of her door brought about the discovery of the murder. Sometime between 7 and 9 a. m., according to the police and Ir. Charles Norrls, chief medical examiner, some one came Into the three room flat, threw a shawl and a blanket over the head of the victim, held it tight until she ceased to struggle, and then tied her frail arms behind her with ban dagos Mrs. Pay hnd received recently from a hospital. Whether it wns a man or woman or more than one person the twenty de tectives reporting at the scene were unable to say. Mrs. Pay was so frail it was believed that even a woman might have killed her without arous lng the neighbors. Neighbor Finds Body. For five years Mrs. Pay had lived alone In the tenement house, supported apparently by a savings account In the New York Savings bnnk, of which there Is still $3,254 left. She had no known relatives, and during the years she lived In the building Mrs. Pay al ways left her door open during the day, a sign that neighbors were wel New fork. New York'i come. The copy of the Irish World and the ." ... m d lrk. raUegulations provide that the tion for each soldier must tnclude . For years a six ounces of part of the daily fare has been dry ssilt irk, generally cooked with Its !! known comrade equally home. Karh of the other murders has t.ik en place In much the same manner the same neighborhood, and each victim was un elderly woman living alone. In Muskrats Fail IntJ'an Prophet on Bad Winter I.ac du Flambeau. Wis. Old Sarin esco, venerable brave on the Flambeau reservation, retains his prestige as a weather prognostleator despite his miscalculations of last year. One of the surest signs of a hard - 7 i'llH --- v d winter. Sarineseo says, can be found in the autumnal activities of the muskrats. Last year he based his prediction of a cold winter with much snow on the size of the musk rat houses. -Had winter coming." he said. "Muskrat houses big. Iie;.p big, this year. Sure si'ii of bad winter. Hats know when cold winter coming and build big houses," There are ether signs, however, that enter into Karinesco's calculations. Moss on north side of trees very thick." he said last year. "That's a sure sign. Husk on maize very thick, too. And hair on ponies very thick. We have big winter with lots of snow." Sarinesco's "weather signs" failed him In this region last year, for the winter was unusually mild. A nickl i 1 sS- , - - , J ,r i This heroic bronze equestrian statue of MaJ. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Robert Altken, N. A., was unveiled on the Battlefield of Gettysburg recently. It wns erected by the state of Maine in honor of her valiant son. U. S. A., by Persons Are Most Neglected of All Survey Finda 887 So Afflicted in United States. New York. Five years' reasearch has located 887 persons In the United States, and 57 in Canada, who are both deaf and blind. It is disclosed In a report to the American Hraille Press here. The report suiunuirl7.es the findings and conclusions of an exhaustive sur conducted by vey of Mrs. Corrinne Koehelenu liouloau, of and Miss llrhecca Washington, P. Mack, of Cincinnati. Ohio. Mrs. Kmi leau, author of the reiwwt. has been deaf since childhood, but has perfect sight Miss Mack has been partially blind since childhood, but has perfect hearing. In our "As a class, the d"af-bllnmidst are not only the most heavily handicapped and the most lonely of all human beings, but also, as a class, the most neglected," declares Mrs. "We even know of deaf-blinRouleau. children who have been placed withIn asylums for the feeble-mindeIntelout proper trial the ligence tests being quite worthless in evaluating their potentialities. "How often have we learned of deaf-blinchildren or adolescents being refused entrance In schools for the deaf because they nre blind, or In schools for the blind because they are deaf; or because schools have no trained touchers available; or because they fear that such pupils will prove too difficult, expensive and burden- (, men, women and children of all ages. Many of them nre maimed as well as deaf and blind. A small handful are war veterans. In addition to braille, the deaf-blinhave various other methods of communication, such as the sign language, the Morse code, etc. In most of our listed cases, the persons have retained or acquired the faculty of speech, of the spoken word." Some efforts to register, educate, and care for the deaf Mind are now being made In London. Paris, Berlin, and Montreal, according to Mrs. Rouleau, who adds: "We hope that all these things r.nd more will he done for our American cases through I he efforts of a central committee for the Such a Joint committee was started last year, with Mrs. Rouleau as chairman, by the Volta bureau, the American Federation of Associations for the Hard of Hearing, and the American Foundation for the Rlind. deaf-blind.- d some. "We have the names and addresses of deaf Mind persons living In the United States and Canada, and much assorted information about them. "Of our cases, most are white or although a number of negroes also figure, and one Indian; there are sons, Harvard Has Monopoly on the Word "Detur" r.oston. Award of ," deturs to Harvard students, the largest number since this practice was Inaugurated here U'JO years ago. was announced by the university. The word "detur" Is defined in the New Standard Plctionnry as "a book, or set of books, given as a prize to each meritorious undergraduate t In Harvard university; from the I.ntin word 'detur (Let It be given) on the presentation bookplate." As Is known, the word never has been adopted at any other nnlversitv. Peturs date back to the death of Edward Hopkins, a Seventeenth century tendon merchant, who left a fund "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of hopeful youths." stn-den- fars Im't very much. dollar. Bat twtnty makt And dollara arc th little things. That make our baildinti talltr. HOME INDUSTRY. PATRONIZE aS ai m ttiX m.f Professional Letter Writers in Mexico City. Prepared y - IV Society. Service. National Geosruphlc Washington. U. C.-- fKXICO City, North America's A oldest metropolis, recently JY 1. hailed a new president. Almost as suddenly as Paseual Ortiz Rublo resigned. Gen. Abelardo Rodriquez became the pew master of Mexico's "White House." Mexico City Is an astonishing place. Things have happened here so strange and unusual that were they not set down in authentic records they would tax all belief. It looms largest in the mind of the average American because of its supremely Important diplomatic relations with Washington, growing out of the many old, unsolved questions between the two republics; but in modern, superficial aspects It Is not capunlike some other itals. It has old palaces, parks, paintings, and libraries; colleges, convents, great newspapers, and broadcasting stations; likewise diplomats, soldiers, traffic Jams, and jails. It buys and sells, and makes soap, soda water, shoes, shirts, candy, cigarettes, furniture, machinery, loatherware, patent medicines, nnd textiles. Sit in one of Its theaters and watch a "news reel';; swim, dance, play golf a or tennis at a club, or land at field In a passenger plane from El Paso, and except that you hear Spanish Instead of Yankee chatter you might as well be In Penver. In fact, the high top light and nearby snow peaks much resemble the scenic settings of Colorado. F.ut under all this standardized modernism is i:,tich more a blend of Spanish and Aztec forces that goes back 400 years. You see signs of this, now Aztec and then, in flat, faces moving stolidly In street crowds. Probe the mystic past and you find that certain historic events staged here swayed the destiny of our continent for centuries. Here Christianity got its first foothold In North America, when idols were turned Into altars and a glittering but cruel pagan culture yielded stubbornly to European civilization. Here America's first sheet music and first book were published. Here its first money was coined. And here, too, appeared the "Flying Mercury." Some have styled It America's "first newspaper," but. more likely It was but a pamphlet on history or political discussion. When Cortez Came. Imagine yourself in Mexico City that fateful day in 1.110 when Cortez came. (Y'ou remember his first arrival was peaceful; the dreadful 0" days of came on fighting, often a later visit). Monte7iinia. glittering with jewels and golden decorations, gorgeous in his royal robe and sandals, comes out to meet Cortez and escort him into thejsland city. Unseen till then by any white man's eye, the greatest city in North America Is astir with pagan life. Could yon have been there, walking and talking with Cortez nnd the Emperor Montezuma, you, too. would have marveled as the Spaniards did. Down a broad, Fifth avenue-likthoroughfare Cortez and his amazed men followed the Aztec emperor. Throughout the Venice-likcity ran canals crowded with thousands of busy canoes laden with passengers, fruit, fowls, flowers, grain, and fuel. Stone buildings lined both paved streets and canals, and on a great plaza stood the palace of Montezuma's father, faced by a great teocalll. or sacrificial temple. Here, In' 1TJ.". the Aztecs first saw the symbolic snake and eagle and built their first temples. Here, in 1o21. was staged one of the most bloody of all combats between Aztec nnd Spaniard, when Spanish .prisoners of war were sacrificed to the idols. Undoubtedly more people were executed here than at any other spot on earth. More than 100,000 skulls were found In one temple, and It Is estimated that at least 20,000 men. women and children were sacrificed here each year. Even the Spaniards themselves, after the conquest, executed their own Castilian criminals here and exposed their heads, after the manner of the Aztecs, to the astonishment of visiting Indians! nere Itnrbide was proclaimed em reror in 1S23. Here the American peneral, Wlnfield Scott, raised the Srars and Stripes In 1S17. and here three-cornere- Deaf-Blin- d MM 1:1 Latin-America- n " ff beans. Maine's Tribute to Howard Unveiled d Water from the faucet stopped to pose for its portrait when this un usual photograph was made at an ex of a second. The posure of constantly changing pattern of flow leg water, which ordinarily appears to the eye as a blurred vision. Is now revealed In strange forms not unlike hitrn. The photo Icicles or molten graph wns made by means of n new electrical Circuit developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Prof. Harold h. Kdgerton and Ken netli J. flermeshausen. 111- Ileeent revision of the regula tioiis permits substitution of sugar-corebacon, and the quartermaster corps is laving in a large supply. Troops stationed abroad will continue to get salt tork. however, a It is particularly adapted fur shipment into warm climates. n s mm of bacon that curls and crisps of the familiar slabs of salt kit'-'it-n- CAMERA STOPS WATER JUS? Washington. The. army has Just moved to benefit both the soldier's palate and the farmer's poeketbook by decreeing for Its troops the kind prf-- and Astorvishm; Mexico Gitij Army Prefers Bacon to Salt Pork Slabs bottle of tullk drew the attention of Mrs. Julia lienedrtti shortly after 1 p. m. She had not sven the aged suu an since the morning before. Mr. Benedetti told Murray, son of the Janltresx and he found the body and notifid the police. hen Nothing had been disturbed the M.lioe arrived. The twKly lay on a bed in the room which artfl as lier . Only an living room and sbou-pthat rob bureau drawer bery might have bet-- the motive. A poekethook containing a little more than $5 was on tlit floor beside her ted. While the police were mystified as to the cause of the murder they ad mitted that Mrs. Pay bad withdrawn a sum of money from her savings account some time ago and that possibly the slayer or members of the same gang re(orisitle for the death of the women, might have three other followed her from the bank and learned where she kept the money at Sally Sez d hand-to-hand- gold-sole- twenty years kiter, the Emperor Maxt milian bade sad farewell to his friends before he faced the firing squad. So on through the Piaz, Madero, Calles, and other Obregon, area has regimes, this seen Mexican history made. Palaces, pawnshops, churches, markets, and other institutions face it now, and into it run no fewer than ten thoroughfares, including the stately avenues of Cinco de Mayo, Madero, and the 10 de Septiembre. Old Market and Little Shops. On tramcars, on foot, and in motor cars an incredible traffic stream pours through this plaza every day, and on Its west side there flourishes what Is perhaps the city's oldest market Since 1524, when city officials gave merchants permission to build porticoes to shelter goods displayed on the sidewalk In front of their stores, retail trade has gone on here. For years the s plied their pens public here, helping many lovesick Indians to "woo by mail." A few still do busi- Centennial Exposition The Centennial exposition In Philadelphia in 1876 was really the first in this country, although at exhibition of Industry of All tions was held in New York is 1853, with several foreign govern, ments participating. Car-ranz- blood-staine- ASK YOUR DRUCCIST FOR APES a?ax" INTERMOUNTAIN AN PRODUCT The Big Noise Movie theater organs contaii hundreds of pipes, ranging froa reeds the size of toothpicks t those large enough to hold a ma There may be as many as 200 stops, 240 keys and 32 pedals to them. letter-writer- THIS WEEK'S PRIZE ST0EI ness. Walking by this plaza market now, you pass under arcades whose old walls are plastered with bullfight posters and notices of lottery drawings. Mexican street crowds loiter before the little shops. These sell toys, sweet meats, newspapers, cheap jewelry, and odds and ends of hardware and dishes, eyeglasses, postcards, and other trivial wares, for the city's large department stores and finest shops are out on fashionable avenues. Here, nlso, under these arcades, stuck away In tiny nooks, are men little running presses for making cheap calling cards and stationery, and other Indolent artisans who mend clocks, guitars, tell fortunes with canary birds, and, peddle lottery tickets. And here, too. Is the beggar known In Mexican slang as the pordiosero, or, literally, the KNOW IT BY NAME. When yon are Interested in the tojnt of qnality commodities, yon will lean a That Name ask for them by name. ere year taarantee of the mannfacturer's fidence in his prodncts. Yon may b a Into for ask cured of quality when you Patronize H mountain Made Goods. Slow-movin- g Industry. MRS. HAItVEY JENSEN, Hyrum, TJttl In Trade Your JOSEPH WM. TAYLOR, UtaVs Leading il Salt Uki City. tl - 1)' 321 in 'Phona Was. f o Illogical to Bear Grudge is required by rei-Hi Ho, the sage J f to son," said 1ft Chinatown. "No one has cease to enjoy honey because he has been ; t or stung by a bee. tn: MEVV pa ed SO: fc MOTOR OIL Sold with a Money Duck Guaranl Named From Pioneer Erattleboro, Vt, was after William Brattle (17 0 a Massachusetts loyalist, th? original patentee". CI; nameJ ar o one sn "GRAINS OF GOLD" THE WHOLE WHEAT CEREAL ' "Makes Cream Taste Better" Western Mads Far Western Tradeg One f Ask Your Grocer Citrus Fruits Citrus fruits came first fro China and other parts of Asia a long time ago were introduce into the country near the Medils-- ' ranean sea and then into the ern hemisnhere. Miss L. writes about fruits f the series of articles in H.vg" i Magazine. s man-mad- ,f Plaa so disited "Forgiveness e df The first double star, Mizar, covered by Jean Bapliste TadH I in 1630. i ' week will be P'J bmt on " h .00 & the not centuries of St,,,) .i ork. that the city was made' sare when the great nm del Pe--' sague was completed. On it thousands of men worked for years, with teams trams, and steam .shovels. It Is easily the most spectacular modern engineering feat from the Roosevelt dam to the Panama canal Inc. Morticians Fuiisrals on Tims Payimnt Ana-huac- T ' First Apostle Spoons Apostle spoons, the one3 bearing the figure of an apostle with te emblem, were first made in Enf-- i land during the latter part of the L I C Fifteenth century. d till 1000, I Salt Lake City, Utah for San Excellent Values-Sen- d Wool On the south side of the plaze is a section known as the Portal de las Flores. This was the old flower market In days when canals still led to the plaza and Indians landed their canoes here. The Valley of Mexico. Sheer theatrical geography, that Is . the historic Valley of Mexico, or A vast, mountain-fringeoval it is. of 1,75$ square miles. It tops the Mexican highlands as a great natural colosseum, a dramatic, sundrenched setting for all the stirring events it has staged. Though In places more than 8,000 feet above the sea. flood waters long menaced its lower areas. Lakes and marshes were once more numerous than now. To protect ancient Tenoch-titlan- , the Aztecs built many dikes in salty LakeTexcoco. Three great causeways connected their Venice-likcity of water streets with the mainland, and a waterway for canoes and barges ran out to Lake Texcoeo, Floods were so bad, even before the Spaniards came, that the Aztecs had built dams, and as early as 1553 the Viceroy Luis de Velasco struggled with the problem. ln "n"anA- MILLS i BLANKETS for hand-printin- g gigantic trench the still Talo de Nochistongo was begun In 1007. In which task thousands of overworked Indians perished. It was first opened as a tunnel to drain the valley lakes ; then, closed In a disflood waters rose three feet pute, deep In the city streets. Changed later from a tunnel Into a great trench Ic places 100 feet deep and 300 feet wide the Tajo de Nochistongo remains an amazing example of what early Span-lardcould do with Indian slave labor From your train you can see this hlr toric mountain pass now as you ride into Mexico Citv from the north. One of the strangest asnects nf ki leo City Is that, though perched so high up near a continental divide It long diked and drained Itself like a UTAH WOOLEN hould IriMNU" use LaLe Ci y He l" ' f'nlnmn I' ere lrm(iiir.'nl-- Prnl.., Boa 151S, Silt LrJte City. lory appears in 1 . ... this t" ...iHoft, vn win receive rH.ek for V.N.U.-fc- V.t "'' Intcrmountatn 10 lioe. SimMar tout story in prone or , If r ,00 W k J to |