Nebraska Newspapers

    THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
MAKES FORTUNE
BY SMUGGLING
(Swedish "Rubber Baron" Tells
how He Profited by Trad
ing on Frontier.
WAS CLERK BEFORE TME WAR
Made Hie First Money .Dealing In
Russian Rubles Then Engage In
Smuggling Rubber From Fin.
land and Qeta Rich Quickly.
Stockholm, Sweden. "You wont to
iknow wJmt people smuggle? Go P
the river then, nnd you will soon find
out, They smuggle nearly everything,
no It Is rnthcr difficult to answer the
question offhand." So said a custom
'house officer at Ilnparanda, flio little
Swedish town on the frontier of Fin
iland, to Herbert Urlcsoti, n Swedish
writer, who went up the Torneii valley
to Investigate the smuggling stories.
"WhllQ I was waiting for the Over
Torneii train to stnrt, a motorcyclo
chugged Into the station yard," sold
ErlcRon.
"That Is one of our rublr barons,
remarked an nequiilntnnco to me. A
rubber baron, In llaparnnda talk, Ik
in rnnn who Htiddcnly gets rich on
smuggling rubber In from Finland. I
was l;i luck, for the baron Knrlsson
I will call himtraveled north In my
'compartment. Ho wan a pIcaHant fel
low. Ho did not remind me of the
mnart speculators I had met In Norr
land. Ho even looked embarrassed
when I beiran (o talk about smuggling.
Clerk Before the War.
"Presently lit- told me that at the
hit nt (lie war he had been a
clerk In one of Norland's coast towns.
Tin had earned hlH money In rubloH.
"It Is not generally known that
mnny hundred Sweden have made bin
fortunes out of rublcH. It happened
like, this: After tho occupation of
Poland and other regions of Russia,
tho Germans found that the population
refused to tnke marks In payment for
micli supplies as wcro paid for. Tho
people demnnded rubles, and rubles
the Germans did not have, The only
way of getting them was through
Sweden. The Ilusslnn government
permitted no more than 500 to bo tak
en out of the government ly each
traveler, but with tho incentive of u
good reward smugglers were not lack
ing, Tho llaparnnda agents bought
up theso rubles nnd sent them down
to Germany by bales.
"When the Germans had bought all
1ho rubles they wanted Knrlsson tried
to smuggle drugs to Finland. Thai;
failed absolutely. ITe .met with a pis
fister, at the outset. Ills first consign
DOUBLE OF CZAR'S DAUGHTER
mcnt of several kilos of ncetylsallcy
He acid nnd 100 clinical thermometers
wns seized by (he Swedish customs au
thorities and a Jionvy lino wns Im
posed. "So he got Into touch with somo
Finnish merchant who, for a price,
guaranteed to have a large quantity
of rubber rings on the Swedish side of
tho river at a certain minute on a cor
li.ln duy.
"Knterlng Into relations with a firm
In Stockholm and finding that he could
mnke many thousand kroner profit
thereby, Knrlsson told the Finns to go
ahead. One night he went to Mattllo,
where the rubber "was to be ready,
Mattlla Is a tiny stntlon on the Hap-nranda-Over-Tornca
stretch of rail
way, and almost on the bank of the
river.
"When ho arrived (here was no sign
of n Russian custom house ofllccr
across stream'. The revolution has al
tered matters. The Cossacks who
used to patrol (he Russian shore had
disappeared. TJi new guards appoint
ed by tho revolutionaries found it moro
Interesting to stny in Tornea. ICarlsson
picked up tho rubber. This was only
the first of a chain of such transac
tions be managed with financial success.
Ivinwu'ii ins iiietlciiloumy taken the
goods so smuggled to the Swedish cub
tout authorities, to be assessed for
duty. Quantities of tin, flour nnd 11 it
seed oil have slmllarl;- come over the
river for ninny months past. Tin gives
(he Finns nn advantage. I found one
case where n druggist bad conic to
grief by taking delivery of und paying
heavily for a thousand kilos of n cheap
alloy. The (lour smuggling seems to
Indicate that the Finns engaged must
lie blackguards of a particularly ob
noxious type, for they ship flour out
of their land while they know thnt
tens of thousands of their fellow
countrymen tire nearly starving ami
that their government Is sending out
commissions full of piteous nppenla to
other lands, Americn included, tospare
them a little flour. It seems curious
that these commissions could not have
tarried a weel! at the frontier nnd or
gnnlzcd a guard to put a stop to the
drain of flour there."
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PHONE COMPANY PUTS
BAN ON HUN MESSAGES
Rrookfleld, Mo. Complying
with the request of the Linn
county council of defense, the
Hell Telephone company of this
city, has issued an order to nil
patrons of its system prohibiting
any other language than English
over the telephone lines.
The Habit of
Self-Denial
By REV. ED. F. COOK, D. D.
Director Mloiooary Couree.Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago
LIFE IS SAVED BY
HANDKERCHIEF
Aviator, Stranded in No
Land, Faces Fire
Friend and Foe.
Man's
of
WAVED SIGNAL TO FRENCH
By Fast Running Sergeant Baugham
Reaches Comrades in Safety Is
Rewarded With Military Med
al by the French.
Mrs. Arltulnu llooiuuuov, wife of
tferonsky's secretary, experienced an
unusual surprlso when she arrived In
Tokyo. She Is tho double of Tatlnnu,
daughter Of tho former czur, who waH
reported on her way to America. Mrs
Itoomanov was offered nn entire wing
of tho .imperial palace nt Tokyo for
lier accommodation while In the Jnp-
mjcHo' capital, It being tho belief that
trim reallv wan the dnuuhtor of tho
czar, ,
Washington. Flight Sergeant James
II. Baugham of Washington, who was
transferred from tho -Lafayette escn
drlilo to the Paris Air Defense squad
ron, has been reported a prisoner In
unofllclnl advices to his mother, Mrs,
Mary A. Raugham, president of tho
Dixie Agricultural company of Wash
lngton. Sergeant liaugham joined tho
Lafayette escadrllle in 1017 wluyi ho
Was eighteen years old and won tho
Military modal, tho h chest French
lionjir to noncommissioned pieu.
Tho Incident that earned the ser
geant tho medal Was described In a let
ter ho wrote recently. Paying tribute
to tho wonderful spirit of his French
comrades, Sergeant Uaiigham said : .
"Wo had been sent out to patrol
back of the German lines and to nt
nek anything enemy wo saw. Having
Incendiary balls In my gun, I was pre
pared to attack a German 'sausage'
or observatory bolloon. Just ns I was
beginning tho descent to attack, I saw
i lloche airplane going In tho direction
if our lines to do photographic work,
1 put cm full' speed and signaled to tho
other planes to follow. They evident-
i ly did not see my signal, for they
didn't go down with me. When I got
100 meters from tho Bochq I started
llrlng. Tho enemy replied by turnips
loosu both guns at mo. I must have
got him, however, with tho first blast,
for whenT pulled up to nmko another
dlvo he was silent.
"Then something happened that
would make tho goodest man on earth
cuss, and as I nm not one of tho best,
you can Imnglno that I loft little un
said. My motor stopped absolutely
dead. Thoro was only ono thing for mo
to do and that was to dlvo, lose tho
Bocho and try to volplane to tho
French lines. An I went past the Ger
man mivchluo It immediately cumo
down and, putting some nlco steel very
close to him. I did nil tho ncrobae.v
hud ovor learned.' When 1 had ilulshcd
I found that I had como down from
10,000 to 1,000 feet and there was no
Bocho In sight.
"I then looked around for n nlaco to
land. I saw n "fairly good place off to
the rlL'ht and nnule It. I then stonned
out of the machine right on the faco
of n dead German. It took mo a min
ute to real 1 7.0 what was happening and
I awoke to the sound of bullotn whiz
zing past my head. That didn't disturb
me much, because I was wondering
why somebody hadn't burled the Ger
man. Looking around, however, all I
could see wns dead Germans. It sud
denly dawned on mo that I was In No
Man's Land. Of all the places there
nro to land In France nnd Germany 1
had to land between the two.
"Then I realized what a predicament
I was In nnd began to think up some
way to get fmt of It. Tho thought cntna
to me that If I was nearer the German
lines than to the French, I had hotter
get rid of those Incendiary balls in my
pocket, for If tho Germans catch you
with f'them you are' shot at once. I
climbed bnck Into my machine to the
tune of bullets and took out n lond ol
over 1100 cartridges, throw them on the
ground and then removed my compass
and altimeter.
"Tho first thing I struck wns a grave,
unfinished, with two of the enemy in
It. I eased myself down into it, lifted
up one of tho Germans nnd put tha
cartridges beneath him. I stnrted
walklnir back to iny machine. As 1
got near It tho Roche lines started
their tnltrnlllours and rifles at me, and
tho French, unaware that I was ono of
them, also opened up. I had to walk
f00 feet botweon tho lines and It was
uo Joke with nil that llro concentrated
in my direction. Ono bullet passed so
closo to my faco that I really felt tho
wind. I decided that I'd have to go to
one of tho Hues, ene.my or friend, but
Just then I heard a machine overhead.
I looked up and saw white puffs break
ing nut all around It.
"On tho way tho fire got so hot I
had to fall faco down, and 1 didn't
move for, I guess, live minutes. There
being no good reason for my being
shot like a dog, I yahked out my hand
kerchief and waved It at tho French
lines.
WHAT CAN
IS AS FATAL AS WAR
Tuberculosis Kills as Many
Pall From Bullets.
as
I Dr. Livingstone Farrand Appe t0
People to Enter Battle Against
Disease,
Now York. Mortality from tuber-
icuIohIh among tho civilian population
l nnd in tho armies of all tho countries
engaged in tho war Iuih at least ap
proximated tho total itmnuer or sol
diers killed In btittlo, according to Dr,
ll.lvlngstouo Farrand, director of tin
.American commission for tho preven
tion of tuberculosis lu France.
That tho people of America throw
themselves Into tho winning fot the
Kvnr tignlnst tuberculosis with tho same
real with which they havo hurled
'themselves against tho Hun Is the hur
den of un appeal made by Doctor Far
.1rnnd on tho eve of his return l
ipcy.
i'To make our country really safe
vo must llrst make It' healthy," is tho
slogan Doctor Farrand suggests for
this war against disease
Of the men called to the colors by
the llrst draft 50,000 were found to be
tubercular. This Is cue of tho striking
Indications of thu prevalence of the
disease.
"While the war has thus effectually
disclosed conditions which existed be
fore, rather than produced theso condi
tions, It Is also true that 'In Indirect
ways It has substantially Increased tho
tuberculosis problem In the Kuropcun
countries Involved" says Doctor Far
rand.
"I refer not to tho situation In the
armies, where the mode of life often
tends to reduce this disease, but to cdn
dltlons which affect tho civilian popu
latlon."
Increased food, clothing and housing
costB necessitating, among tho lower
wage groups, diminished quantity and
uuullty and their resultant umlornutrl
Hon, are given as contributing causes.
A uatloii'Wlde campaign ugajnst tho
llseaso and for adequate provision for
elected and dWe'iorgod soldiers suf-
"They finally got It. ufter ten min
utes of waving, and I saw n French
ofllccr bockontng mo from n bit of
woods. If thoro ever )ms been a faster
50-ynrd sprint I nover heard of it. I
ran ho fast that I ran right Into tho
ofllccr, iuid very nearly knocked his re
volver out of his hand. I showed him
my Identification card und then started
cursing him for shooting nt mo. Ho
had been taking potBhots at nio out
there. Ho apologized, saying that ho
could only sec my head, becnuso his
position wns slightly lower thnn No
Man's Laud.
"They took me up to tho divisional
general, and I reported that I Imd seen
more than IKK) dead Germans and only
two Frenchmen. U made hlih so happy
that he gave mo a dinner, and compll
mented me for being a good soldier."
ferlng from It Is planned through 1,500
local societies of the National Tuber
culosls association.
GIRL CUTS OFF TRESSES
SO AS TO BUY W. S. S.
Dayton, O. Junnltn Dowell,
eleven, cut off her beautiful
chestnut curls to help win the
war. She then notified an ofll
ccr of the National Security
league Mint sho wished tho hair
to lie sold In I'ortlund, Ore,, und
that tho money bo used in buy
ing War Savings stomps. Ger
trude Atherton, tho nutnor,
made the first bid on tho tresses
at $5. The child's explanatory
letter Is to be sold 'nlong with
lu linlr ro ihn hlifhest
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if.
All English sclentUt claims to have
discovered n gas mat nas tho nniu
relation to hydrogen that ozone has
to oxygen.
TEXT If any man will come after mo,
let him deny himself, nnd take up his
cross dally, and follow me. Luke 9:23.
It requires Belf-nbncgatlon to fol
low Christ In tho way of everlasting
life, and utmost
self-denial to en
ter fully with him
Into his program
for tho world. In
man's relation to
Jesus Christ aelf
dcnlnl. Is an es
sential mark of
dlsclplcshlp, nnd
a first requisite
to reality of spir
itual experience.
In man's relation
to man nn'd to
world betterment
self-denial Is
fundamental to
all effective min
istry of the Gospel.
The self-denlnl of which the Mas
ter speaks In the test is not to bo
thought of ns an Impulsive net, or ns
a spasm of self-forgetfulness, but rath
er as it habit of life. Tho self-denlnl
to which ho refers Is more than un
selfishness In meeting emergent de
mnnds. It Is more than liberality In
times of speclnl public need; It is in
reality n matter1 of dally practice. The
Master no doubt places special empha
sis upon "dally" when he says, "If any
man will come after me, let him deny
himself, nnd take up his cross dolly,
and follow me." A self-denial which
Is less thnn a fixed principle of life
and less thnn a daily practice cannot
usher a man Into the comradeship of
Christ In service. If ever we follow
him' truly It Is In the wny which he
here describes.
In the day of our nntlon's glory nnd
power, with tho doors of Christian op
portunity wide open In every land, wo
have failed to enter fully into the
Master's plan for his world. Christ
hns been too largely shut out of the
llfo of the American people through
n gradual yielding to tho subtle temp
tations of great prosperity. We hnvo
accepted with Indifference his grent
commission nnd have put forth but
meager effort to evnngellzo the nn
tlons. Tho love of luxury nnd ease
has produced such softness nnd self
indulgence In the churches of Amer
ica ns renders difficult the response
to n chnllcnge which demands heroic
self-denial nndjself-nbnegatlng service.
The American people have, however,
been brought by the exigencies of war
to the practice of self-denlol, self-sac
rifice and liberality In giving to nn ex
tent unprecedented In our history.
Splendid has been tho response to tho
nation's call for men nnd money. Both
are being offered without stint. Tho
moving of tho American heart In pity
for human suffering, nnd the new eval
uation of physical strength and moral
power, have led tho American people
to pour out their wealth In order to
feed the hungry, henl tho suffering,
comfort the sorrowing, nnd to equip
nnd protect our soldiers In both moral
and physical efficiency. In tho awful
RChool of wnr wo nro lenrnlng lessons
of great moral vnlu.
The peril Is that after tho war wo
may lapse again Into tho softness nnd
needless self-indulgence of other days.
Weary of bclf-restralnt nnd self-denlnl,
It will be easy to rush again to tho
frivolities and pleasures of tho world
anU to the luxurious living to which
the American people have become so
accustomed.
In such n return to selfishness, self-
Indulgence nnd self-love, thoro nro Im
mlncnt perils to our nation nnd to the
cnuso of Christ. Against such a peril
our people must bo protected. This
can best ho done by keeping before
them tho Moster's grent world-pro'
gram: Tho enterprise of foreign mis
slpns. It alone of nil human enter
prises carrios the full moral equiva
lent of wnr. It nlono makes n like np
peal to that of war to love, to loy
olty, to courage nnd self-sncrlflco. Tho
missionary enterprise nlono presents
tho utmost nppenl of love to God nnd
of lovo to our fellow men. It devel
ops ns no other obligation or activity
the sense of tho Fatherhood of God
and the consciousness of tho brother
hood of rnnn. If wo would preserve In
the heart of this nation tho finest, the
noblest, the best products In human
character of this great war, wo nmst
nmko of America n grent missionary
nation, tired with n passion for world
wide service. To this end tho ehurche
of America must be lield to u vision
of tho Master's missionary program
for the vorld. They must be led to
seo thnt victory for the allies Is but
n partial victory and tho worid-wldo
peace which the nines demand hut
n temporary peace, unless wo hold the
"snllent" already driven Into heathen
dnrkneBs, nnd resolutely drlvo on to,
fuvst success In the foreign mission
enterprise. Thero is no possible basis
of permanent world-peace which does
not tako account of Christ and his
kingdom on earth.
It Is of supreme Importance, there
fore, thnt wo hear with new Interest
nnd resolution tho Master's challenge
to self-denlnl. Having learned In war
through love of country tho meaning
of willing self-sncrlflce, let us now
for love of Christ learn tho full mean
ing of following him In sacrificial serv-
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From the Ited Cross ISulletin, issued
nt Washington, D. C July 8, the fol
lowing article appears about the
motor corps service:
"More thnn six thousand women
now are Included in the personnel of
the Red Cross motor corps service. As
n result of u conference recently held
in Washington at th cull of the direc
tor of the bureau of motor corps serv
ice, the motor service In six of the
principal cities of the country which
previously had been independent In
its organization, wns nmnlgamated
with the Ited Cross corps. This makes
the Ited Cross motor corps service a
thoroughly co-ordlnnted Institution,
able to meet the local and Inter-local
demands for transportation through
out the length and breadth of the laud
on a nationalized basis.
The organizations which hnve be
come parts of the Ited Cross motor
corps service ore the motor messenger
service of I'hlludelphia, the Nutionnl
Service league motor corps of Atlanta,
the National Service league motor
corps of Now York city nnd Buffalo,
the emergency motor corps of New
Orleans, and the emergency drivers
of Chicago. All these organizations
were represented nt the conference by
their commanding officers, who now
become commanders of the Ited Cross
motor corps service In their respective
cities. The four Independent services
WE
DO?
ndded more thnn six hundred members
to the motor corps rnriks.
In the comparatively few mouths
during which the national bureau huB'
been In control of the volunteer raw
tor corps of tho vnrlous cities, lmpor-i
tout progress bus be?n made In effi
cacy nnd uniformity of service, ltulea
nnd requirements liuvs been standard-;
Ized so that those not enthusiastically!
sincere In their work find no Interest;
in the service. Undo- the conditions
existing u certified driver feels prldo
in her position.
In conformity with the request of
the war department the uniform or
khnkl and the Inslgn'a formerly era.
ployed have been discarded. The new
regulation uniform of the motor corpi
is to be of Ited Cross oxford gray.
Commanders will wear three silver
dlumonds, embroidered on their shoul
der straps. Captains will wear two.
silver dlnmonds, first lieutenants one,.
and second lieutennnts a gilt dlnmoud,.
Peurl gray tabs on the collar will in
dlcato staff officers. Service stripe
will be worn on the sleeves.
The cars of the service are to bo
distinguished by a white metal pen
mint, bearing the red cross und the
words "Motor Corps." This nnd tha
driver's Identification card will Im
sufficient to give the cars the right ol
wnv when on official business.
Georgette and Satin Join Forces
Ice.
Georgette crepe and satin have
rivaled one another In afternoon
gowns during tn present summer,
with georgette the choice a little more
often than sutln. But with summer
on the wane, the Indications are that
satin will outstrip georgette nnd hold
first place In fashion's favor. A
lovely gown Is shown In the picture,
In which these two beautiful materials
huve Joined forces to mnke a dress
of wonderful distinction In which
beige colored georgette nnd black satin
are brightened with a beaded passe
menterie. It Is one of the new evo
lutions that have come along In the
train of slip-over garments.
There tiro several features lu this
new model that will commend It to
tho woman who has present need of n
pew aftenfoon gown. Wo havo come
tpthe place where It goes without say
ing that an afternoon gown will do
double duty as long as It survives tho
demunds made upon It for both after
noon and evening; for It must take the
place lf evening gowns. To begin with
the most essential of all things, this
particular model has beautiful lines.
It Is cut In nn original manner with
n narrow yoke and upper portion of
the sleeves In one. The body of the
gown hnugs in straight lines from the
yoke, to which It Is attached with hem
stitching. The lower part of tho
long flaring sleeve Is Joined to the up
per portion in the same way.
The lower part of the gown shows
two wide bands of black satin, ono of
them set on to an undcrslip of silk and
the other to the georgette of the
frock. Where these are Joined two nar
row hmnts of beaded trimming, In
black and beige, make a very rich and
effective finish. The sleeves are
banded with this trimming ut tho
hand. The undersllp is of, beige col
ored f'Hilnrd, with n black scroll de
sign In It, but plain foulard or taffeta
Is us Kood a choice for a gown that
Is to do duty for evening wear. The
narrow sash Is of block sutln und
loons ovor nt tho back, weighted at
tlu ends with beaded tassels. A hat
with black mnlincs brim and black;
panne velvet crown Is noncommittal
as to whether It Is n summer or win
ter affair; it belongs to cither, and IS
a line compnnlon piece for the gown.
From Center of Ball.
There is a best wny of winding woo
for knitting and that is the way that
causes the wool to- unwind from tho!
center. To do this roll u piece off
stilt paper' two und n half Inches long:
by two Inches wide Into a tube. Meas
ure olf about eight Inches of wool at
the end and begin winding the rest
nbout tho tube. When enough bus
been wound to holu the tube securely
tuck the eight-Inch loose end complete
ly Into one end of the tube. Do not
cover this end lu further winding, but
tho other end mny be covered. It Is
best to wind six or eight times In one.
direction before turning to wind in.
another direction. When the skein in
completely wound, tuck the last end
well Into the ball. I'ull out the tube,
bringing with It the long loose end for
knitting. If many balls nrc wound at.
once or If a ball Is not to be used Im
mediately It Is a good Idea to allow
the tube to remain in tho hall tilt
ready for use.
Darning Tip.
When underlaying and darning n
sleeve, where you nro npt to catch tha
nnder side of the sleeve, ollp a pleco
of stiff glazed paper into the sleeve.
You can then work freely rnd feel sura
that your needle will not cf tch through
the paper.
Lace In Lingerie.
Luce Is still much used In tine lin
gerie, nnd the finest of real filet Is
used with churmlng effect. It wears
well, too, and in these days when wo
try to buy with wisdom, we think a
bit ubout the durability of our lingerie.