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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT a Floodlight Turns Night Into Day JRf JVO , ft ti w i - r r-- , t ' rs ,y Ivr 'W xm. t Suckling Pigs Pay for Girls' Beauty I ,. 4. ij "" v '' ;" v'vSix.?B ' , ! 1 ' A Danish Copenhagen. girl had a hair shingle at the barber's and paid for It with Another one suckling pig. girl gave four pigs for a permanent wave. It was a symptom of the Increasing system of trade by barter because of the agriThe girls, cultural crisis. working on farms are paid In live stock or farm produce Instead of money. annual replacements amounting to between 800 and 900 planes. The Increases for the navy would be utilised afloat as the carriers and flying deck cruisers allowed this country by the London treaty were built. The army planes were reWith the aid of the new 6)00,000 candlepower floodlight now In at Central airport, Camden, N. J theee planet have Juat made quested by Major General Fechet to a perfect! cafe landing. The light la a elngle lent type, like those need aerial coastal defense work, a mission assigned to the army by the in lighthouses, olnt army and navy board this last year; Better Airplanes Is Countrys Big Need improvement in Efficiency of Aircraft If Asked by the Advisory Board. A call for ImproveWashington. ment In the performance and efficiency of American military, naval and civilian aircraft wu sounded by officials of the national advisory committee for aeronautics and beads of army and navy aria don activities. In summarizing its Investigations during the last year, the advisory committee asserted that the fundamental problems confronting aviation In all Its branches will not be solved until aircraft are made safer, more economical, easier to control at low speeds, and more efficient In private aircraft. It states, the airplane must be given greater safety and greater economy In production, In maintenance and operating costs If the aircraft Industry Is to thrive In the face of threatened decreasing military purchases. Speed Crowns Lost Officials in charge of the bureau of aeronautics and the army air corps state In their annual reports that while progress has been regis tered In all phases of military performance, the speed crowns lost to Great Britain, France and Italy will never be regained until mors money la expended on experimental research on racing planes In Oils country. ' Both urged expenditure of Increased funds to boost tbs speeds of all types of lighting aircraft. To stimulate depressed conditions In the aircraft Industry In the interests of national defense army and navy air heads have recommended Increased purchases of airplanes for the army and navy. The advisory committee takes the position that nothing would have such a beneficial effect upon the stability of the aircraft Industry as "assurances of continuity of government procurement of military and naval aircraft. Would Add 1,500 Planes, Adoption of the programs recommended by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, and MaJ. Gen. Jamas H. Fechet, recently bead of the army air corps, would add from I,- 000 to 1,500 planes to the national defense establishment during the next live years In addition to 'aris Leads World in Missing Persons Paris. Paris holds the world's record to being the city with the greatest number of missing people, according to statistics. The Society to the Protection of the Family, which aids the French police In tracing missing Individuals, announces that 27,000 people have disappeared from Paris during the last year. This Is an Increase of TjOOO over 198 It Is emphasised, however, that many of these missing have not fallen victims to crime, nor accident, but have merely sudreasons denly left town their own. to New Orleans. Upon the occasion of the opening of a new store here. W. H. Alexander, president of chain store company, received tons of floral offerings. Among the expressions was a bunch of flowers to which was attached a card reading: Alex"May you rest In peace. ander was puzzled and called up the florist "Oh, that Is terrible," came the answer. "I have mixed your card with some one elec's. An Investigation showed a bouquet went to a funeral reading: Conwishes In your gratulations and best new undertaking." ' Goy-ernme- nt Mat-trimon- ial While Harry F. Washington. Powers prepares to go to the gallows In March In the state penitentiary at Moundsvllle, W. Va, federal authorities are making a nationwide Investigation of matrimonial agencies and love clubs such as the one through which Powers met two women he murdered. There are more than 800 such agencies In the United States, it Is asserted, and they have more than a million "members, Including both men and women. . The government charges that men and women are not only being swindled by these organisations but also that through them they are also being placed at the mercy of confidence men, blackmailers, and even killers. Many Others Like Powers. Powers, who was condemned to die to killing a Chicago woman after he had made love to her and obtained her money after meeting her through a Detroit matrimonial agency. Is not the first to take life under such circumstances. Still remembered Is the case of Desire Landru, called "Bluebeard," the Frenchman, who dismembered the bodies of 11 women to whom he had made love before robbing and then killing them. Landru lured his victims through "love wanted" notices; as also did Bela Kiss, a Hungarian. Kiss became engaged to more than 125 women through various matrimonial agencies and killed 80 of them. Tears ago Johann Hoch of Chicago became acquainted with 12 women whom he married, robbed, and then killed. Agencies Are Thriving. The fate met by the victims of Powers has not by any means put a damper on the business of the matrimonial agencies and the love dubs, Investigating agents have learned. Hundreds of letters are put Into the malls every day In all parts of the country as men and women from all walks of life take advantage of honeyed offers of "soul mates" and connubial bliss. Investigators assert that all acquaintances arranged through these matrimonial agencies are dangerous. There are numerous cases where "love club correspondence has resulted In happy marriages, but at the same time the dangerous contacts so greatly outnumber the safe ones that federal authorities have asserted that there should be more strict federal supervision of the activities of all of them. Robbery Recalls Days of Road Agent Activity 1 1 1 1 1 By Louise hi. Comstock ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 AUCE BEN I 'M 1 1 1 II H BOLT slab of the granite THERES In"aone of those tiny old e cemeteries Just off the main highway two miles east of Tazewell, Va, under which, they say, "Sweet Allies lies"; the same Alice of that timid, brown-haire- d familiar long, "Ben Bolt." It doesn't matter that the name carved on the tipsy old stone Is not Alice, but Olivia, to Olivia Wynne, a girl who lived In an old brick house Just up the road from the cemetery and died there early In the Nineteenth century. The countryside has long cherished the legend that Alice and Olivia were the same glri. ' The story Is an old one, of the country girl of. sheltered life who Ml In love with the stranger with 1 Members of the senate finance committee hearing testimony concerning the sale of foreign aecuritlan the city ways, this time an Itinerant in the United Flew in Lausanne, Switzerland, States, which Involved the State department of tha music master, who was engaged to conference on 8 EL Gen. MaJ. Booth who has been assigned to the remwwn Ewing teach her the not unromantlc art of department of reparations, the Philippines, succeeding General Hines. playing the melodean. There were a the plans to wedding, Strangs'! departure to "make arrangements," the girl's loving dreams over her trousseau and the fatal letter revealing the perfidious music master to be already married and a man of considerable family. Olivia died, as a true heroine of the period must, of broken heart. In 1842 Dr. Thomas Dunn English of Pennsylvania visited hk Brtlmate friend, Gapt Wifflam Edward Peer, then owner of the old Wynne homestead, was captivated by the legend, and subsequently wrote the words . of the familiar ballad. auto-mobil- 2' On Their Way to Troubled City of Honolulu ABELARD AND HELOI5E THE Paris cemetery of on summer Sundays, the sentimental still lay wreaths on the tomb of two lovers, who died almost 800 yean ago, but are hero and heroine of a love story which still lives on In the famous "Love Letters of Abelard and Helolse. Abelard wu a brilliant and handsome young professor who by the time he was twenty-fiv- e wu attracting thounnds to his open-ai- r speechu for the rights of the Individual to make his own Intellectual Investigations. In time he came to verbal blows wth the ven- UNVEILED erable St Bernard himself, who stood to traditional authority. In 1117 Abelard wu hired by the canon of the Episcopal school In Paris to tutor his beautiful niece Helolse, then Just seventeen. The pair fell madly In love and fled together to Brittany, where there was a secret marriage. The relatives of Helolse .followed the couple, found and separated them, and the canon further hired men to Invade Abelards rooms and brutally mutilate him. Abelard In despair entered the monastery of 8L Denis, and Helolse, at bis Instigation, became a nun. Ten years later Helolse turned that bis retirement had not brought her lover puce and wrote the first of five famous love letters In which Is revealed the tragedy of two noble souls who tried to forget uch other Abelard died in but could not. 1142; Helolse twenty years later. Pere-Lachals- IN RICHMOND - Bannock, Mont. Once the center of operations for road agents In the stirring vigilante days, Bannock has slept peacefully to some 40 years. HARUN Now the revitalized gold mining Industry la bringing people back. For the first time In the memory ALMOST as thrilling as Slnbad, or any of the fasof most residents, a robbery occurred here recently. cinating tales by which Schehazer-ad- e Two men robbed Monte Vurdlck through a Thousand and One bar of 800. Nights entertained the caliph of Bagdad and uved her own life, is the story of the caliph himself. The caliph of the "Arabian wu Harun Nights ruler of Bagdad during its palmy His days In the Eighth century. story is made up of the very stuff of romance: harem intrigues, poisonings, splendid glfta, hideous tord ments, with which his slaughter of many brides after a the report statu that 80 per cent single night of marriage Is quite of them developed cavities In 140 compatible, though not authenti-ute- d With balanced diet properly days by history. Schehazerade, who this deny wu cut to 0 per cent won his permanent affection by her The Investigators further ascer- gifts as story-telle- r, was a lady of tained that the portion of the phos- high birth. phorus ih the blood is of vital imwas son of the Harun portance, and that this Is related to Caliph Mabdl and a freed slave girl, vitamin D. who ordered his own concubines to Calcium and phosphorus are two kill her eldest son, the rightful heir, of tbe principal fertilizers. They in order to set her youngest and reach man dally In many different favorite In the throne of an emkinds of food, bat their proportions pire then extending from Spain to Vitamin D cornu India. At first, under the wise advary greatly. both from utlng food and from ministration of his grand vizier, sunshine or ultra-viollight on Tahla the Barmecide, tbe empire the skin. flourished and Harun devoted himself to luxury, pleasure and the aria. Later a quarrel between the Archeological Work caliph and the barmeddes led to Shows Increase in U. S. the execution of Tahla, his four In contrast with sons and all their descendants, and Washington. business conditions, and the ultimate downfall of the empast slightly ahud of thou of the pres- pire In rebellious disorder. The caent, archeological research is ex- liph himself died In a manner quite periencing a boom In southwest unworthy of a fairy story hero of United States. apoplexy I (Ck lilt W torn Mswipspw Onion.) With activity centering around Santa Fe, N. M 84 permits were Nation's Toll Bridges loaned during the past year to variare about 800 toll bridges There uniscientific ous Institutions and versities, while 22 were tuned the in the United States. They are privately owner and fees are only supprevious year. Prediction of requests for a great- posed to be assessed until the costs er number of permits to this yur of the bridges are defrayed. The has bun made by Jesse U. Nus-bau- government has the power to fix the tonsuiting archeologist In fees, but only Interferes when the owner Is charge if the archeological labora- fee charged by the tory at the point of Decay of Teeth high-bande- Baltimore. Two Johns Hopkins university scientists have made public discoveries that go far toJUNIOR NET CHAMP ward explaining the ways In which diet causes, or prevents, decay of teeth. Two fertilizers, phosphorus and calcium, regulated by vitamin D, are the teeth savers. The experiments showing how to work the combination of the three were explained In substances Science, official organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, by Dr. E, V. McCollum and Henry Klein. Their work was aided by grants from the American Denial association. The tests were made on rata, In the laboratories their caretakers grew tooth cavities In the rodents almost at will, or prevented them almost entirely. All this wu done simply by giving the rats the right proportions of phosphorus and calcium. This correct ratio wu about four parts Miss Katherine VHnthrop of Bos- of phosphorus to three of calcium. ton made her winter vacation from Proportions of three to two did not the Foxcroft school In Virginia a work. Not only the ratio was Imporprofitable one, for she successfully defended her national Junior girls' tant but the amount also. There tennis championship on the Long-woo- d was a minimum of the fertilizers covered courts, defeating Miss below which they failed of effecJones of Vwampscott, Mass, In the tiveness. When the rats were fed too little and In wrong proportional final. i! WHO? Rats Used in Study Find Soundness of Dentition Depends on Diet. Scenes and Persons in the Current News IH'-l-tH- i I WHO WAS Floral Cards Cause of Mixup at New Orleans IN U.S. Sleuths Scan Love Cluhs Powers Case Starts Probe of Agencies. OlfHHfl bronze statue, by Rudolph R. Evans, of Robert EL Lee, Full-lengt- h Confederate leader, which was unveiled in Richmond on January 19, the one hundredth and twenty-fift- h anniversary of the birth of Lee, The heroic figure stands on the exact spot where Lee stood when he took command of tbe Confederate forces. This first air view of the amphitheater at Arlington National cemesince the recent Improvements was made while Father Coxs great army of Jobless was holding services at the tomb of the Unknown tery 8oldIer. Randi Finally Reaches Salt Water NEW HEAD OF DRYS et Bishop Ernest G. Richardson, head of the Methodist Episcopal church In Philadelphia, who was elected n president of the league at the annual convention In Washington. He succeeds Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Detroit Anti-Saloo- On her way to "see salt water like my ancestors did, Miss Bandl of Superior, Wla, is shown as She arrived in New Lerohl, forty-eigh- t Orleans on the towboat Louisiana of the Mississippi Barge lines. She rowboat and spent two months in began her Journey in a leaky it drifting from her home to Cairo, I1L, where she was offered' a lift by the towboat She declared upon arrival that she would soon float down - to the Gulf of Mexico to see salt water. 20-fo- |
