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Today Your Glands Are You. Solid Department Stores. Those Dinosaucr Eggs. By ARTHUR BRISBANE V_> Follow the proceedings of the American Association for Ad vancement of Science at Cincin nati. The firist day’s meeting teaches these things: We are what our glands make us. If they break down, we break down. Our characteristics are trans iMtted through the chromosomes. Thay can be seen and counted un der the microscope. Glands secrete hormones and on these we depend for growth, intelligence, all our powers. The thyroid gland if swallowed digested cures idiocy, in many cases. The thymus gland just over the heart is absolutely necessary to the well being of children. It fades away, as they grow older. Female pigeons lacking thymus cannot provide egg shell or albu men for their eggs. Feed them dried thymus and the eggs are all right. Transplanting reproductive or-' gans in human beings stimulates activity only for a while. Such transplantation in the flesh where heat is excessive, causes eventual sterility. Red corpuscles that give energy to our blood come chiefly from the marrow in the bones, and more frgely in spring than at other times. , Certain animals, are first male, then female. Some times in shellfish and birds the sex actually changes. , completely. i Science is worth1 Watching. Bank reserves report the sales of department stores remarkably steady and uniform. Nobody can estimate the future of department stores, well managed as profit earning and public service enter prises, offering opportunities of solid, conservative investment. Department store buiness is still in its infancy—and by the way, for intelligent, ambitous- -young people, the department store is the best business college. In New York’s great Natural r History museum you may gaze upon eggs that dinosaurs laid in far off Tibet, millions of years ago. Those eggs and the date of their laying, which will be ques tioned only by the ignorant, should cause thought. W. J. Bryan will be interested in them. The pair of dinosaurs responsible for those eggs were too big to go into the Ark, ac cording to the measurements given in the Bible. Professor Langfeld in Harvard’s psychological laboratory compared Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls as to their speed in observation, deduction, mental applications and interpretation. A boy and girl - tied for first place with 86 per cent. A Har vard boy had the lowest score, with 9 per cent, the lowest for any* girl was 28 per cent. The girls beat the boys on the average by • good percentage. Nothing surprising in that. Women are compelled to do t' ’ir work within, populating the\arth, replacing those killed by famine, plague and war. In the past the women have had on an average 15 to 20 children each. When the earth Is fully populated and families limited to two, the women will be far ahead of the men. They have more power. His lordship &t Canterbury, chief of all the bishops in Eng land, says that the union of Eng land’s church with the church of Rome is “a mirage.” All London newspapers printed that on the first page yesterday. But you can’t tell. Old English prayer books included a prayer for protection “against the bishop of Rome.” That’s been cut out. Once a Catholic could not sit in parliament. That’s ended. Hatred "is hard to keep alive. And some day, of course, there .vifl be only one religion on earth; which ever of the many hundreds is absolutely true is bound to rule in the end. (Copyright, l»SS) - Howard Files. Lincoln, Dee. 28.—Congressman Ed gar Howard, democrat, of Columbus, Thursday filed his nomination for re slectlon with the ^secretary of state. This disposes of rumors that Howard might be a candidate for the United States senate. Howard 1s serving his first term In the house. Judge George F. Corcoran of York placed his numo on the ballot for re-election today from the Fifth Judlc ial district. Other candidates from that district Include Judge Hastings and H. D. I-andls of -Seward. Eighty-Mile Breeze Recorded on Gauge at Cheyenne, Wyo. The swiftest wind flint ever Mew •- In till* part of the country was recorded af Cheyenne Wyo.. Filday j morning, according to dispatches to Meteorologist Robins here. It was moving Ht the rate of 80 mdles an hour, th« anemometer ■hawed. The highest wind ever recorded ■t Omaha moved only 60 miles an hour. That was on the night of January 28 1010. It blow in many plate glass windows and did other great damage. The bureau records aay It “was the worst storm In the history of the station.” “Of course, this does not Include the tornado,” said Mr. Robins. •"Tornadoes move ns fast ns M0 or 600 miles an hour. A waterspout < which appeared on the Atlantic const offered means of measure ment which showed if• ^velocity to be 600 miles an hour. A water ■pout la produced by a tornado Ilka wind at sea.” Somewhat warmer tonight and colder Saturday la the forecast \ CREPT UP TO VICTIM’S ROOM AT MIDNIGHT AND I STIFLED CRIES FOR HELP ____»— Bj- l nlvpr««l Service. New York. Der. 2H.—A man who is believed to have strangled six women to death and attacked several others, was raptured here In the arrest of Frank Renner. Tile prisoner confessed that he is the slayer of Estelle Phillips, sales woman in a Broadway department store, who was strangled in her room! 10 weeks Hgo. He akso confessed, the police say, to the murderous attack on Mary Mitchell, a Philadelphia nurse, who was attacked on the grounds of the Tuberculosis hospital. Chestnut Hill, early this month. The nurse is in a dangerous condi tion and is not expected to live. -While Benner was being grilled, the authorities were in communication with officials of other cities who had reported that a man answering the prisoner's description, had mistreat ed and choked to death five other women. Kepeliant in Apijearanee. Itennee occupied a roorp adjoining that of Miss Phillips ip • R looming house here and was Seen hurrying downstairs with two suitcase* after File was slain. He is stockily built and repellant in appearance. He has long, powerful arms and targe hand*. Since the murder he has been sought all over the United States. He was arrested today in an employ ment 'agency where he applied for a position as a cook. Detectives were called when the clerk in the agency ■ recognize,! hipi from a photograph. At first he deniei}~knowledge of the killing, li«t when detectives rolled up ids sleeve and' identified him by the tattooed figure of a irtermaid on his forearm, ho crumpled up and con fessed. i „ .. It took five houirSf wiWever, for the detectives to draw front the prisoner the details of the hilling. Creeps In Door. The details of the staging of Miss Phillips, as the police Say they got it from Benner's lips, follow: "Miss. Phillips’ room was on the fqurth floor in the rear of the house next to mine. At midnight, or soon after, on October 11, I crept to her door. It was locked. I forced it open. "Before she could scream I grabbed and gagged her to, prevent any out cry. When I saw she had recognized me I put my hand around her neck and choked her until.she was dead." The police sa’y he detntl'ed hik sub sequent movements in these jvprtls: "I went to Philadelphia right away and took a room at Edwards hotel. Next day I got a job In the kitchen of Curran & Mende's restaurant. Father C htirchniqii. "After awhile I-went to an employ ment agency anil got a job U) the kitchen of the Tubercular hospital, and later I went to work at Bryn ,Mawr. I saw the Mitchell girl at the hospital and Just picked her out. The first chance I got I attacked her anil escaped.” Later he is reported to have said: "Sorry for all this, am I? Well. I just can’t control those Impulses.” The pfisoncr' said Ire was raised tn Brooklyn and'.that Ills father was a prominent churchman and ran a plumber's shop until 1905. when he died. 1 Omahan Invents Airplane Device Patent Granted on Landing Apparatus—ill Aid Flying. Landing airplanes on the root of a building, on a small plot of ground in the center of a city, on the deck of a ship or almost any other place, is believed possible w 1th the aid of an invention of Dr. F. H. Kinyoun. 2423 Crown Point avenue, the pat ent on which he has just received. The landing device is comparative ly simple In construction. It con-1 sists of an endless apron, motor driven, that is mounted on a turn table. The pit for the turntable is 60 feet in diameter and from 20 to So feet deep. The motor that drives the apron also furnishes power for moving the table. Leveled gears, easily> disengaged by , the attendant of the machine. rrmVe it possible to turn the apron, to meet the approach of a ship arriving from i any direction. The apron works In the opposite direction from that in which the ship is coming, at a speed of about 50 miles per hour. An airplane in landing travels at about an equal speed to that of the apron. It is possible to stop the airplane within 50 feet of where It strikes the ground. In taking off, the airplane 'gathers Us speed while standing on ihe apron and rises into the air ufter lunning on tlte ground only a few feet. "The greatest drawback to aviation now,^ Dr. Kinyoun said, "is the space that is necosspry' tor a landing field. In the air mail service the field is of necessity placed a long distance from the postoffice and the haul from the field to the postoffice is made in trucks. This device' will make It possible to land the plane on the roof of the postoffice build ing and save time and .abpr.in the haul and in the handling." Dr. Kinyoun has not received of ficial notice from the patent office in Washington, although word has come that the final papers are now on their way to Omaha. -0-00< CKX>0 Guaranteed to Satisfy After You Compare Our Diamonds w i t h others, yon will realize why we have sp many sat isfied easterners. They are guaran teed to satisfy vou, both ns to quality and priee. Take advantage of this opportunity to please yrtur wife, mother or sweet heart by the gift of a perfect Diamond. Diamond Shoppe Iu08 IIiiiikIm* Street x World Theater Hide. Gifts That Last Iowa Observes „ 77th Birthday Historical Review to Be Read ' in Senate- as Part of Program. Bj* Amioriittfd PrfM. Des Moines, Dec. 28.—The 77th an tdversary of the admission of Jowa to statehood is to observed in the senate statehood was observed in the senate today with a program that included the reading of a historical re view of the state and a number of 'speeches on the progress of Iowa and the high position it holds in the union today. Col. D. \V. Ainsworth, secretary of the senate, was to give the his torical review' and several senators were to speak in tribute to early Iowa ns, .. Indications were that the an niversary program would mark the fxtefct of today 'a session and that both houses would again find (hem selves without a quorum. Twenty two members vote present in the up per house yesterday and only 34 mem ber# of the house were here for the reconvening. Some <#fcthese were convinced that no businfaTs would be transacted un til after New Year's day and planned to return to their homes ton gji*. Many of the lawmakers wished to adjourn until January 3. but the mat ter was put over without action. Vernelle Head Whisks Fiance From Station as Staring Throng Looks on | V^netlQ Head, asp Raymond $aut K.'iVmojWtr #Bfinr, " (tame of .Miss Vemeile Head., stepped from a train at i’nion station yesterday morning, kissed his bride-to-be, unmindful of a staring throng, stepped into her coupe, and was driven to Hotel Hon tenelle. His mother, Mrs. Arthur Baur: his brother, Marcel, and Elbert Isom of New York City, who will he best n.on at (he wedding next Thursday at Ho tel Fontenelle, arrived On the same train They followed with Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Head in another au tomobile. Mr. Baur is a representative of the Sinclair Oil company at Paris. He is 27. He is somewhat “Stocky as to build, witti dark hair, large brown 'yes and rosy cheeks. At the station | he wore a dark |my overcoat, light gray felt haf, anYT'cSt fled TT eralkiTig stick. In one hand ho carried a smiill gray suede traveling liag. He was born in California, but has lived in Paris for several years. The family speak French fluently Following the wedding Mr. Raur and his bride wHI return to Parts, where they will make their Jjorne for four years or more. Miss Head left France last Novem ber. "Rut it seems a year," she de clared this morning. Mrs. Raur is a small woman.) with bobbed, auburn hair, who speaks ling iish with an accent. Fhe wore n dress with deep ruffled skirt and short vamp French slippers. II. S. Cities Living Bevond Incomes * 261 With Population of 30, 000 or More Show $5.56 Per Capita Debt. By AkkOrintfd I’rPM. Washington, Deti 28.—The cities of the country generally—there are ex ceptions—are not living within their incomes, census bureau statistics an nounced today indicate. A compilation of revenues and ex penditures In the fiscal year 1922 for the 261 cities having a population of 30,000 or more, shows a total indebt edness incurred that year amounting to $6.56 for each resident. The tost of government per capita, Including expenditures for permanent' improve ment. amounted to $57.38 for the year, against revenues of $51.81, the total figures being $2,222,366,619 and $2,007,008,796, respectively. The total indebtedness at the close of the year was $3,618,967,272. or $93.12 per capita. The total cost of government In 1922 was highest In the cities hav ing a population of 500,000 or over, with a per capita cost of $06.88. The next highest per capita, $64.29, is shown fop cities with a population of Oiaas Urol hens, ■ » » m' -- f New York Omah|i Minneapolis Year End Clearance of Stout Apparel “Gravj Shop” Fourth Floor Sizes HO to 56 To fbe large Women'of Nebraska and Iowa This Sale is of Extreme Importance Here is a decisive Clearnway of every Stout gn.ment in the Haas Brothers' stork. An opportunity whereby tvomen requiring large size wearables may en joy most exceptional money savings. Stout Coats. Suits nmi Dresses that were especially designed to give the wearer those highly desired slenderizing lines. Co ats—Suits—Dresses, It is a rare occurrence in merchandising when the large woman is privileged to enjoy the same buying advantages us her ale rule sister. This is such an occasion. The lowest prices of the entire year now prevail. Re here early Saturday. Haas Brothers " '{/ray Shop” FourVh Floor “ Brown Block >«•»* *"d ................wmmtinivtniiimiimsmnarmnijmnsnnnn ii iff 300,00ft to 500,000. The per capita from 100,000 to 300,00 amounted to $4S.71; of cities from 50,000 to J"0,000, $44.M, and in the small cities, having a population of 30,000 to 5VfOOOt, $44.38. Comparable statistics for 199 of the principal cities show the per rapita cost has Increased from $34.63 :n ISIS to $53,007 In 1922. An analysis of the costs of the city government shows the per capita cost for main tenance and operation of genera! de partments was the principal item*and amounted to $33 15. The per capita cost of permanent Improvements was $15-95. New TfWk, the country's largest city, came through the year with a surplus of revenues of $3.23 per capita over expenditures but the per capita net Indebtedness amounted to $182.72 Chicago'^ revenues lacked $3 36 per capita of meeting Its expenditures, hut Its net indebtedness amounts to only $46 38 per capita. Among cities with a population of 100,000 or more Rattle had the high est per capita revenue receipts J amounting' to $93 85; Hasten was sec ond with $80.55, Los Angeles thud with $79.81 and New York fourth with $69.94. The highest per capita cost of gov ernment was at Detroit, where if amounted to $120.30. Seattle was sec ond with $110.71, and Los Angeles third with $99.34 Dixmude Lost in Sea: Body of Chief F o u n d Corpse in Mediterranean Near Sicily—All 50 Aboard French Dirigible Believed Dead. Hy International News Service. Rome, Dec. 28.—Barop Russo, mayor of Bciac'-a. Solly. telegraphed today to the French ministry of marine that the body of Lieut. Commander Dqpletism De tirenedan of the French airship Dixmude wait found accidental ly by fishermen. It was float mg be neath the surface of the water and was brought up by fishjfig tieHC According to the MeSsagero, the commander of the steamship Alessan dretta on Sunday picked up an "S O. 8." from the Dixmude which at that time was caught in a gale and -was being driven liefore the wind at the rate of 125 miles an hour, Aji othei Italian destroyer has been placed at the disposal of the French to help search for bodies and wreck age. , , . By International »w* Service. Purls. Dec. 28.—The tragic fate of the giant French dirigible Dixmude Was revealed toddy when official atj nouncement was made that it had been lost in the Mediterranean. *Th» body of the coipronnder—Lieu tenant' Commander- f Dupiessis de iGrenedan—was picked Up near Sicily. It is feared that all the 50 persons on lwjard were drowned. Official announcement of the loss fo the Dixmudg was mside by the ministry of marine. Tile commander's body was picked up by Italian fishermen. The ministry of marine issued a communique saying: The French naval attache at Rome has been informed by the Italian naval authorities that the body of Lieutenant Dupiessis de Grenadan has been fbtind by Italian fishermen. •‘The body was picked up six miles from land In the vicinity of Sciacca. near Girgenti on the coast of Sicily. "The French naval attache at Rome will go immediately to Syiacca. The cruiser Mulhouse and three torpodeo boats likewise w ilj go to Sciacca. Other Vessels will con tinue the search for wreckage and bodies." The Dixmude had been missing 10 da y s. French, Italian and British de .STRIKE, iN^IIS TOASTEtf^j Pigarette Toasting the tobaeco for LUCKY STRIKE costs a fortune but it saves the flavor. -troyers are searching for the missing boUje« ,\,mj of the loss of the great air ship followed a report that It had been sighted 250 kilometers south of In Salah, In the Sahara desert. Hope tl-at the er^w end passengers might be safe was turned into sorrow by news from Naples that the body of the commander had been found. This news made it certain that the Htx mude. helpless from lack of fuel and a disabled motor, had been forced down into the sea. The Dixmude had set out from the air base at Toulon 10 days ago to fly over the Mediterranean to Algeria. It was charged that the commander failed to communicate with the air ministry before departure-of the ship arid failed to bake ph© precaution of learning future weather conditions. The last message, from the Dixmude was a radiogram last Friday night hi • iniring -about atmospheric conditions over northern Africa. According to information from Naples, Commander Duplessis was Identified by papers in the pockets, \ Ills body was received on shore with military honors. The laxly was found, floating on the water off Sclacca, bn the Sicilian coast. ' When the Dixmude left. Toulon oft December 18, it was expected that she would reach her destination In *2 .hours. Forty-eight hours later she W0MS reported from the French naval..: station at Blzerta on the African coast. The Dixmude at that time was traveling in the direction of Biskra. Price of “Gas” Hiked in Chicago Chicago, pec 2**&.'55ent inn - sc in the price of ggenBnc, effective to morrow, was anruitfaced today by thy' Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the l i st upward prj£e.»jnoyement sin< c ’li« gasoline war. l£5t Stall brought gasojjne privet! d<wvn-P> most of the country to the lowest levels in years. P. L. Kelley, superintendent of the Standard Oil company warehouse in Omaha, declared that no notice of an advance in the price of gasoline had been given here. Building Slumps in Middle-West Chicago, Dec. 28.—The seasonal de cline In building activities in the states included In the seventh fed eral reserve district came during vember this year, when contguM^ awarded amounted to J43.590,35^^Tr^ 25 per cent below October, the month ly business condition report of the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago an nounced today. The decrease In residential con struction amounted to 18.9 per cent for the‘-district, although in Iowa It Increased 41.2 per cent. Decreases for November amounted to 2.0 per cent for Chicago and 5.1 per Cent for Dca Alpines. Neyer afldw anyone having a cold to hold the baby.' ! Tour Credit | IS GOOD HERE! GOOD cun HES - Men Women. Children* QUALITY DIAMONDS - Elgin Watch**, 1847 and Com* jl . moaitv Silverware. ! Advance Style* lo EVERY Oa^t. | ' ; Si* Bu Store* memo Urge* return* towce li i '5rlcw trxi etie term# Drrnt *td' E ' , m i»«n g the monet Open rou* *cc###l B | * torn Arrow ot writ* tor Free Cdtaln# | mmm. 5071» 511 SOUTH IS™ SI FINAL CLEAN-UP OF MEN’S ALL-WOOL . SATURDAY ONLY afbs PC' 4 - J w , ‘ HABERDASHER No. 15 315 So. 16th Street QUITTING BUSINESS SALE EDWARD REYNOLDS CO. 1613 FARNAM STREET » ■« ■ * y ... -1 ” Charge Items Will Be Posted on Your January Account If Desired ** / The One Sale With An Irresistible Appeal to All Women Who Love Quality Apparel The Edward Reynolds Extraordinary HALF-PRICE CLEARANCE V - ' of Their Entire Select Seasonable Stock of Coats-Frocks-Furs Suits-and Skirts A buying opportunity that is not approached in Omaha today, became in this disposal a Genuine Half Price Reduction prevails and this reduction is based on the Edward Rey nolds low price all-season program. The woman who serks quality, style, dependability and real value in her ^ / clothes is the woman oh* will find unlimited satisfaction in making her f selections here. Everything involved hut advance spring frocks. PRICE -Share in This Wonderful Half Price Sale Saturday SU"Srs£gag Bee Want Ads