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Show FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ' 25, I9M THE SIT.ARHOrSE THE SUGARHOUSE BULLETIN A WEEKLY publication I.usterware enjoyed a great vogue in England at ttie beginning of the POPULATION FOUND Printed fit 2044 South 11th East Sugarbouae, Utah Bureau Discloses Forecast of 1C72 Is True. Census . at 2044 South lltli East on Application Rates Advertising O. C. CONNIFF, rublishei Sail City, I' tali Businosa Office and Pljmt Phone copy for news items and events of interest to Hyland The Pullet in" 334. Copy for news items, social and spoit activities, mint he in the office not later than noun Wednesday, for publication In the fulloAing lame cl The Bulletin." CLEVELAND MURDERS ARE STILL MYSTERY AFTER TWO YEARS TMrtzen Detectives Work on Case of Butcher Who Beheads Victims. Cleveland. A man hunt which 300 suspects a score or more of whom have been jailed for other serious crimes has passed the mark without shedding a sigle clew on the mystery of Clevelands ten headless victims of a latter day Jack the Ripper. It was in September, 1935, after the finding of two decapitated bodies in Kingsbury Run, a desolate region near the. heart of the city, that Detective Sergeant James Hogan took up the trail of "the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Today 13 detectives are working full time on the case. In the meantime they have not turned up one substantial clew to the identity of the surgically skilled murderer who prowls the citys industrial flats and the lake shore, lures his victims by making friends with them, lops off their heads while they still are alive, and then severs arms and legs with the precision of a practiced anatomist. Earlier Murder Reealled. The mystery began with the finding of the first two bodies two years ago. Exactly one year before that the nude torso of ' a woman was found on the shore of Lake Erie. Investigators since have linked that death with the series of torso mur- has netted two-ye- ar ders. Sergeant Hogan has kept no record of the number of telephone calls from persons who think they have a solution to the mystery. He says the number would run into thousands. He has on file more than 500 letters and telegrams contai- ning fantastic information. Every suggestion has been investigated from that of the New York .criminologist, and psychiatrist who suggested the murders might be the 'act of a suicide club to the advice of a man who said he was an expert and wrote in offering to solve the case within three months if paid $200 a month and given 20 men to work with him. Most dramatic part in the chase has been played by two detectives who were assigned as a special detail. Combing the three-mil- e length of gully cut Kingsbury Run, they have dressed as hobos, crawled into sewers, mingled with shifty transients, addled knife grinders, and demented former interns. Suspects of Many Types. They have brought in a huge assortment of suspects tramps, butchers, perverts, demented persons, paroled convicts, barbers, male nurses, employees of slaughterhouses, and voodoo doctors. But there has been no trace of the mad butcher. Numerous tests have been made for the killers finger prints. Not one print has been found. The roundup of suspects has produced some unusual cases. One muir.ba jumbo character brought from the wastes of Kingsbury Run had adorned himself with beads and ornaments. He had discovered a secret formula, he told officers, for transplanting human heads. The investigators lost interest in him when it was revealed he had been in prison while some of the murders occurred. Another suspect, long sought but never caught, lived on a street bordering the run. His favorite recreation was performing Tarran style acrobatics on a 40 foot hand cable car of his own construction. He had dug a tunnel for what purpose police did not know and as a pastime he indulged in strangling rabbits and rats with his hands. Charles went to the courthouse to see about being resurrected. Slate Senator Emmett Crouse, an attorney, said he would beIc the court to set aside the death decree. Live Wire Kills Monkey Manchester, N. H. Curiosity killed a monkey. After wandering and shivering around the city for a week, the little fellow nosed around to see how the state's public service generating plant worked. The monkey touched a circuit carrying 2,300 volts of electricity and fell dead. Project Will Inundate Large Farming Section. Greenville, Mo. This Missouri town and surrounding Wayne county, which contains some of the most fertile farm land in southeastern Missouri, soon may be inundated as a sacrifice to hill folk in surrounding Ozark communities. Its doom awaits construction of the government's $22,500,000 dam which will control the St. Francis river, rampaging which in less than 30 years has caused approximately $30,000,000 in property damage. Southeastern Missouri long has faced the problem of harnessing the river, which has frequently swept over its banks, destroying homes, washing out crops and farm land and drowning livestock. When the government completes the dam, all of Greenville and most of the valuable farm land in Wayne county will be inundated. The town, notedly prosperous in good crop years, must leave behind millions of dollars worth of buildings. The state's first PWA project, the $116,000 high school, and the almost new $65,000 Wayne county courthouse, are slated to go. Much of the building material can go for but the government, salvage, which reimbursed citizens for their property lossee, will take a tremendous loss. An estimated 2,000 property owners throughout the county will receive condemnation remuneration from the government, but not all of them are in accord with the project. It will mean termination of business relations which they have established over a period of years, severance of family ties and reestablishment of homes in other communities, they argue. Others, in favor of the gigantic undertaking, picture the huge flood losses of past years, the feeling of apprehension that has been a part of life within the area and the fact that condemnation checks will give n many persons a chance to start over again free of obligations. Surrounding counties probably will annex the land in the county that is not inundated. The lake which will be created will be developed into a recreation area. ld Wap-papel-lo debt-ridde- War Servant Runs Barber Shop at Sherman 101 Lexington, Ky. "Uncle Billy born on a planAnderson, tation near here on Christmas day, 1836, is on the job daily at his barbershop here. The negro centenarian has been working since he was five years old, when he served as his mistress personal servant. Although "Uncle Billy says his "apprehension ain't as good as it used to be, he can recall having served in his barbershop such distinguished Kentuckians as James Lane Allen, John Cabell Breckinridge and William C. P. Breckinridge. When Billy was sixteen, his owner died and he was sold on the auction block. . One day after he changed hands he slipped sway to Lexington to attend the funeral of Henry Clay. Upon his return he was whipped. Resentful, Billy ran away. A friendly itinerant peddler helped him to escape, but the service cost the boy his entire Returns From Alaska to savings $20. Finally he arrived in Cleveland Find I!e's Drvclired Dead and then crossed into Toronto, St. Joseph. Mo. Charles McDanwhere he learned his trade. He reiel came home liom the A'askan turned to Ohio in 1862, and met mines after an absence of nine some friendly Union soldiers, who years, in which he never got around took him to General W. T. Sherto writing the family. man. The general liked the negro He called his brother, Laurence, and made him his personal servant. Billy served Sherman until the by telephone. "Hello, Laurey, how's dad? close of the Civil war, when he reHes dead, died a year ago, turned te Lexington and opened his the brother replied. "Who is this. shop. Hes been at the same locaCharlie? tion for sixty-fou- r years. Yes." You cant talk to me, Charlie, j Professional letter Shanghai. youre dead, too. writers in Shanghai are getting wri"The I am. ters cramp these days. War and When the brothers were reunited, the tragedies it has brought to the Charles learned that only a week city's 3,000,000 people has made Ictr ago Judge Fred J. Frankenhoff sus- ters to relatives in the provinces a tained a petition presuming his necessity. Because the greater numdeath after a r absence, ber of the war victims are illiterate, The petition was in connection with professional scribes are turning out 'settling the estate of the father. the letters at tic xute of 50 a day '.Daniel L. McDaniel. apiece, I ! i I ; nine-yea- i ex-slav- e, Nineteenth century. All the Staffordshire potters made luster. Wedgwood produced his gold luster as early as 1776 and his silver in 1780. His lusterware is distinguished by the high quality of the body. This was essential to a surface free from roughness and is a mark of fineness in all good luster. Spode made luster and it was produced at Leeds, Swansea, Liverpool, and other places. Brialingtcn Though usua'ly considered in the class of antiques, most of the English lusterware dates from about 1320 to 1310. The lustrous effects, relates a writer in the Los Angeles Times, were obtained on earthenware and porcelain by the application of a thin glaze of some metallic oxide. The process is a very ancient one which some autlsoritics say originated with the Persians. The art was rediscovered in the Eighteenth century by the Staffordshire potters, and provided a new form of decoration which at once became very popular. Credit is usually to John Hancock of the Derby factory as the originator of English luster. It was not long, however, before the potters not only in the Staffordshire district but in the northern districts as well were decorating their pottery in this manner. The variety of decorative effects in lusterware is very great. They may include narrow bands, mottled effects, classical figures in white relief, reverse panels in which drawings or inscriptions are transfer-printed over the glaze. Then there is the cottage type of china with the overglaze prints of Faith, Hope and Charity, the Mother and Child series and so forth. Jo-si- ah Isaued every FrMay p. in. or Commercial Printing Company thi7 country, ne lougnt lor Tis 'independence and became one of the outstanding statesmen of the infant repiiblic. His work as first secretary of the treasury, in Washingtons administration, when he laid the groundwork for a sound money system in this country, is perhaps his greatest contribution to posterity. Hamilton advocated a strong centralized government and a liberal interpretation of the Constitution, but his theories were opposed bitterly at that time by leading statesmen. Lusterware Was Popular In England Century Ago STEADY CENTER OF , RILLETIV Washington, D. C. A prophecy made by a noted geographer C5 years ago that the cen'er of population of the United Stotts would ultimately be ot a point 2!) milts erst of St. LguIs appears nearer of fulfilment. The term center of ponulation," es used by the census bureau, is that point which may be considered the center of gravity of the United States; that is. if it were a rigid plane without weight and the population distributed over it, with each individual being assumed to have equal weight and to exert an influence on a center point proportional to his distance from the point. Although the bureau has not made a study to determine the center of population since 1930 because of the expense involved, it was believed that on the basis of most recent population distribution estimates, the hypothetical point Is several miles west of Paxton, Ind., close to the Indiana-Illinoi- s line. Stationary Point Forecast. In 1872, J. D. Ililgard, prominent geographer of his day, predicted the line which the center of population would follow and prophesied that the imaginary center of gravity would move by the year 2000 to a point approximately 30 miles east of St. Louis where it would remain stationary in subsequent year3. The census bureau In 1930 computed the pivotal point at a site 2.9 miles northeast of Linton, in Stock-to- n township, Greene county, Indiana. In the decade from 1920, the center moved 22.3 miles westward and 7.6 miles southward. Because of the l&rge westward migration of population in 1933 and thereafter, experts believed that the shift in the center would exceed 25 miles. The greatest movement west was during the decade from 1850 to 1860 when the center advanced 80.6 miles. The least movement west was during the decade from 1910 to 1920, when it advanced only 9.8 miles. The total westward shift from 1790 to 1930 was 589 miles. Parallel. Along Thirty-nintIlilgard predicted that the center would follow close to the thirty-nint- h parallel of latitude. Census h bureau experts said the line of the movement since 1872 has been remarkably close to that parallel. The point farthest north was reached in 1790 and farthest south in 1830. In 1790 the center was approximately 23 miles east of Baltimore. In the next decade it had moved to 18 miles west of Baltimore. Succeeding decades found the center moved successively to points 40 miles northwest by west of Washington; 16 miles east of Moorefield, W. Va.; 19 miles of Moorefield; 18 miles south of Clarksburg, W. Va.; 23 miles southeast of Parkersburg, W. Va. ; 20 miles south by east of Ohio; 48 miles cast by north of Cincinnati ; 8 miles west by south of Cincinnati; 20 miles cast of Columbus, Ind.; 6 miles southeast of Columbus; in the city of Bloomington, Ind., and in 1920, 8.3 miles of Spencer, Washington township, Owen county, Indiana. wes-southw- Chil-licoth- south-southea- e, st First Alchemist Lived in Japan 2,169 Years Ago New York. The earliest known alchemist, named Jofuku, lived in Japan more than 2,160 years ago, according to a study reported to the o American Chemical society by Nakaseko of Tokyo and Tenney L. Davis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The emperor Ch'in Shih Huang Ti of Japan, ruling about 225 B. C., is said to have sent Jofuku on an elaborate naval expedition to find three supernatural islands in the midst of the Eastern sea, where the immortals lived and a drug existed which prevented death. The alchemist, whose career is recorded in the Shih Chi or Historical a Memoirs of Chien, discovered a remarkably peaceful and fertile land where he became king. Jofuku s tomb stands on a plot of sanctified ground at Shingu in Wakayama prefecture, Japan, where it is visited by pilgrims who burn incense, make offerings of pennies or rice, and pray for long life and happiness. Ro-kur- Ssu-M- wall-enclos- ed If Her Hats Crazy Get a Load of This! Hollywood. A test to deter- mine just how fantastic Miladys hat can be without arousing comment is a failure. Miss Marion McKenzie, former New York show girl, who carried out the experiment along Hollywood's boulevards, attracted no more than ordinary attention when she wore on her head: A lampshade, quite gaudy One rubber band; Two artificial flowers; One chain off a bathtub plug ('ne shoelace. A laundry truck driver offered tin comment; "Hull! If you think that hat's screwy you ii'.t to see the one my wife just bought. y Platypus, Strange Animal; Lays One to Three Eggs d The platypus, a mammal that lays eggs, whose scientific name is Ornithor-hynchanatinus Shaw, is a native of eastern Australia and Tasmania. It lives in rivers and digs burrows in the banks. It feeds on shellfish, water insects and their larvae, and other small aquatic creatures which it procures from the mud of the It is especially river bottoms. adapted to this mode of life by the duckbill - like . development of its mouth, and by its broadly webbed feet. Its burrows are from 20 to 30 feet long, and have a nest chamber at the end or at the side of the tunnel, states Colin C. Sanborn, curator of mammals, Field Museum of Natural History. In the nest, lined with grass and reeds, the female lays from one to three eggs, which she alone incubates. The young are not nursed for some days after hatching, but are held against the mother's abdomen by her taiL The platypus was first described from a single specimen in 1799, but it was not until more specimens were secured that the existence of such a curious mammal was fully credited. duck-bille- d, web-foote- us Ilaman Hair for Wigs Human hair, secured from the heads of European peasant girls who make a regular business of it, is used in wigmaking. In most instances the money obtained from the sale of their hair goes toward their dowries, and some of them have as many as eight cuttings in the course of their lives. The hair is taken from a three-inc- h diameter in the back of the crown, and the front and the side hair is draped to conceal the shorn spot. The best quality hair is Scandinavian, blond and silky. Italian and Spanish hair have a dark, wavy, lustrous quality. Eastern European hair has a coarser texture; by the time one gts to China, the hair is almost wiry and is of use only for theatrical wigs of inferior quality. Life of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton, born January 11, 1757, on the British Isle of Nevis, in the West Indies, was forced to support himself at the age of twelve and came to America later. Having adopted Lake Okeechobee, Florida Lake Okeechobee in Florida is circular in shape, and about 30 miles in diameter. It is, with the exception of Lake filichigan, the lake wholly withlargest fresh-watin the United States. It lies immediately north of the Everglades. At 0 mean level it has an area of acres. Early explorers believed the lake was fed by subterranean streams or large springs. A few years ago this theory was more or less exploded by investigations at low water; these failed to disclose any such source of supply. It is believed that Okeechobee relies entirely on rainfall. er 4G3,-8G- Name Laura Is Traced to Fourteenth Century Fast Overseas Airplanes Being Builtjby French I Paris. Breikfast in Paris and dinner in New York will be realized in 1940! France is building two giant trans-- 1 atlantic airliners for such a service. Late- -' They will be ' coere ships, C5 tons, streamlined, with de luxe accommodations for j 20 passengers. will be 4,000 Their cruising range miles, and they will average some 215 miles per hour. It will be possible, just three years i from now, to have a cafe au lait at the Cafe de la Paix, and, due to the five hours difference in time between Paris and New York, have tea in Gotham. There will be eight in the crew of these formidable airliners, and they will carry three tons of freight and mail. I A meteorological ship, the n to will cruise in advise the flying liners of atmos- pheric conditions. - I ' j , j : Cari-mar- e, mid-ocea- ; Turning Her Coat Once Saved Margaret of Kent In olden days in Britain, Queen Margaret of Kent, the first Christian queen to teach her people that religion, was imprisoned in a tower by her cousin Frith, who wished to rule Kent himself. Queen Margaret longed to escape to join her soldiers, who were gathered across the river, afraid to attack the tower. Margaret saw them from her prison and knew she must reach them some way to inspire their flagging courage. But if she tried to cross the river, which was frozen d solid and white, her The name Laura (Latin) is the feminine of Laurence. It therefore vichas the same meaning, torious. The laurel is the symbol of victory, the winners in ancient games being crowned with it. One authority gives Laura an additional Greek meaning, cloistered. The earliest Laura of whom we know is she who in the Fourteenth cloak of bright patches would be century inspired the lyrics of the easily seen by Friths men. great Italian poet, Petrarch. She is However, the gallant queen made supposed to have been the wife of the attempt, relates a writer in the Hugo de Sade and the mother of Washington Star, and escaping the eleven children. Petrarch worshiped tower, had an inspiration at the her for years but never so much as river side. By turning her cloak touched her hand, observes a writer inside out, its white lining protected in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. her from sight on the ice as she To Laura I. Secord braved the crossing and joined her New England born Canadian pamen on the other side, undiscovtriot, two monuments have been ered. The next day Kent was in erected, one at Lundys Lane and her power again and Christian rule one at Queenston. She walked 20 restored. miles through a forest on the rainy Early times in Britain were dannight of June 22, 1813, to warn the gerous, indeed. Every town was British that the Americans were go- surrounded by a deep forest for ing to attack. As a result, the battle protection. If a stranger entered of Lundys Lane was indecisive. he was compelled to announce Laura D. Bridgman (1329-8was here, his coming by blowing continuous to an earlier generation what Helen blasts on a horn. Otherwise he Keller is to this one a blind deaf would be speared on sight if dismute of amazing achievements. She covered. Skulking strangers come taught those similarly afflicted. for no good," was the belief. Laura Keene (1820-73English actress of distinction, was being watched in Our American Cousin Historical Inconsistency by President Lincoln when he was is anything but logical or History assassinated. Her true name was consistent. The Pilgrim fathers, for Mary Foss. instance, originally sailed for the Hudson and, found themselves at the end of their voyage on the MasPanic, Pertaining to Pan sachusetts coast. Their destination Panic is defined as: Of or per- was the Hudson, then Dutch, betaining to Pan. In mythology Pan cause had come from Holland, was the god of shepherds and i whencethey had sailed from Engthey herdsmen, of groves and fields, and land seeking religious freedom. But of rural life generally. He was said in life was so good that be the son of Mercury and the Holland, little band of Pilgrims, seeing Dryope. His favorite residence was imminent with so many in the woods and mountains of Ar- absorption with the Dutch, deintermarrying cadia, where he was frequently termined to keep themselves sepaheard playing on his pipe or flute rate to the New of seven reeds, called a syrinx. It World.by journeying was fabled that this pipe was a metamorphosis of a nymph named Syrinx, whom he had loved. His War Against Germany pride in this invention led him into The United States declared war an unlucky contest with Apollo. His against Germany a few minutes aftfestivals were introduced by Evan-de- r er 3 oclock on the morning of April among the Romans, and by 5, 1917, congress passed a joint resthem called Lupercalia. Goats, honolution that the President is hereey, and milk were the usual offerby authorized and directed . . . to ings to Pan. Pan, like other gods carry on war against the Imperial who dwelt in forests, was dreaded German Government and to bring by travelers, to whom he sometimes the conflict to a successful termiappeared, and whom he startled by nation. Thus empowered, the Preshis uncanny presence. Hence sud- ident, April 6, issued a proclamaden fright, without any visible cause, tion that a state of war bewas ascribed to Pan and was called tween the United States exists and the a panic. Imperial German Government." many-colore- ! (1775-186- 9) ), . Iris, Snake Bite Cure Iris typifies wisdom, faith i courage. Its early medicinal vali according to doctors of the tin was as a cure for snake bites, dropsy, bruises, anger and coug Some doctors went so far as say that if petals of the iris w placed on a black and blue spot five days the flesh would assume natural color. The roots of the i were used as teething rings for bies and are used to this day some countries. The iris was us by Louis VII in his crusades in 11 1 I Named Bay of Paria When Columbus discovered Trinidad in 1498 he called the Bay ol Paria the Gulf of Pearls, because ol the quantities of oysters attached to the trunks of the mangrove treer rooted in the waters there. It was his belief that when the oysters opened, drops of dew fell from the trees and eventually became pearls He hoped to find enough to make a necklace for Queen Isabella, but enemies sent him hon.e.in chains without the pearls. |