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» El Paso, Tex -(UP)- Bnr-But viiflies. That’s the title of an auxiliary now being formed here and in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, for women drinkers. With the steadv increase in wo men drinkers. Harry Mitchell, owner of an internationally known cafe In Jaurcz, has decided milady 'hall have an organization of her own. Trap No, 1 Bar-Butterflies. Trap No. 1. as the local unit will be known, will be a take-off from the Interna tional Order cf Bar Files, of which Mitchclll’s trao is the second larg est in the world. A committee of prominent El Pasoans has been selected to nom inate rone c>f the best women drinkers for offices in the trap. With the expected repeal of the prohibition law, Mitchell expects to see nation-wide expansion of the Bar-Butterfiic.s traps. < lab’s Code Mitchell wall send copies of the Tar-Butterflies cede to all Bar Flies traps. An extension cf the Bar Flies also is planned by Mitchell with the return of beer to the United States. At present only one trap, Paris, is larger than Mitchell’s. Mitchell said Rule NO. 11 of the Bar Flics, “Nothing on the Home But the Roof,” will be incorpor ated into the Ear-Butterfllr.s. Women with “the weeps’’ over the boy friends will be penalized a round of drinks, decrees another rule. The preamble to th°. Bar Flies membership will be revised for the Bar-Butterflies to permit members “to cco drinks from masculine members.” Ribkcr* ard Saal Decorate Death Warrant Bconville, Mo. —(UP)— A long black ribbon, fastened with a black seal, adorns the death war rant of John I. West, who was hanged in May, 1379, for killing a man after robbing him of a cheap watch and 35 cents in silver. The black-edged document came to light recently in the cir cuit clerk's office, and brought to mmd tha days of 59 years ago. when hangings were the signal lor farmers and townspeople to gather with picnic lunches, lor a ho'iday. West rode to the execution grounds on his own coffin, which rested on a cart drawn by two black mules. He. was dropped through the trap hung there mo mentarily. then dropped to the ground when the rope broke. Back up the 13 black steps he was tak en, to be dropped through the trap again — that time to his death. Hundreds of persons crowded the old fair grounds to watch the execution. A few years later a law was passed forbidding the state to exact an eye for an eye in the presence of the public. --- « « — — Even a Casket Helps to Sustain College’s Life Evergreen, Ala. — (UP) — Cas xets are life-savers in Evergreen. “Our agricultural school will die if we don’t raise money,” Mayor J. L. Kelly said to W. O. Galloway, owner of the .Georgiana Casket Company. “I’m broke,” Galloway said, "but I’ll give a casket.” The industrial campaigners took the casket, sold it to Wild Brothers Hardware Company, and the school will not die. partly be I’ll give a casket.” Plane Victims mn,. .....__. Patrick Tuohey, 30-year-old air plane pilot of Detroit, Mich, (topi, who was piloting the plane which crashed into Lake Erie while on a flight to Pittsburgh, causing the death of four, Inset is Marcella Kopnitsky. formerly of Punxsu tawiipy. Pa., one of the victims. Her sister. Catherine, was another. Watch Three Cer.iurles Old May Make a Record Dothan., Ala —(UP) Rav. W. R. Quinton on ns what lie believes is the oldest portable timepiece in existence. It is a watch, made in Plymouth, England,-in 15i)5, in excellent con dition and is still running. The dial is made of cement on wood which Rev. Quintan says is a “lost art.” Above the regular dial is a semi .)_1_ Out Our Way By Williams ! Cri'IJ /.q.wiLU^MS * p O £> v*\ . f) 1^2 BY WCA 8ERVtrx. »VC. RE3. U. 5. PAT. OFF. ^ ' ■ i i • ■ „ .... -- ■■ ■■■■■«<» .. - ■ I ' . . -- --^ New York —(UP)— an irrepres sible interest in people prompted Claudia Cranston to abandon a position os associated-editor of a nationl woman's magazine for a job in a department store. For years the lives of the people around her filled her own life. Today, ns a writer with countless short stories to her credit and her first novel just published, the pan orama of the modern department store still continues to occupy her imagination. So much so that she has chosen it the locale of her novel, aptly titled “Ready to Wear.” It a’so forms the back ground of her second novel on which she is now at work. “The average person, who goes into a store little suspects the drama continuously enacted be hind the scones,” said Miss Cran ston. “While 'Madame’ Is making a calm selection, or casually finger ing this or that piece of merchan ; disc, comedy, tragedy laughter, and tears stalk about. “So often I hear women and i men say a department store is drab and humdrum and machine like. It's anything but that. Things move swiftly, incidents occur con stantly that make or break. “When young people come to me and ask which business setting I would recommend for a career that provides opportunity to study life. I unhesitatingly suggest the department store.” -« + FIREMAN’S DAY OFF Boston — The old story of the mailman who went for a walk on his day off has nothing on Thomas L. Kane, a fireman. While visiting a friend he heard the fire engines pull up in front of his friend’s hous?. Going out he found mem bers of his own crew trying to open his auto from which clouds of smoke were pouring. He unlocked the doer and assisted the men to put out the lire on his seat, which was caused by cibaret spark. Your Children By Olive Roberts Barton <-nv.v. I.Y ~nT'a -Stljy'lCR IIMC. The little girl had left her home when eho was three years old to live in another state with her parents where her daddy had bean called on business. They stayed two years and went back when she was five. Her parents wondered if she j would rsmember anything about her old home. Most of the furni ture had been left there, just as it was because they had taken a fur nished house in the temporary home. As she walked in they watched her. No one said anything. Would she remember the radio, the little place at the end of the sunroom where she had kept some, of her toys? In fact, a tiny doll buggy j still stood there. Cock Robin Bleeds Again i She stood and looked about ! strangely. Then suddenly she said j to Helen, the maid, who had gone with them and who had helped to j look after her when she was a | baby, “Come, Helen, I want you ! to rend me that story again.” Helen was dragged over to a j bookcase. Patsey got down on her ! knees and pulled cut “Mother i Cogsc.” She recognized the book | without any trouble, j She opened it — or rather it fell i open to a certain place. “Now read ! me about Cock Robin, that placa | where the fish holds a little dish j to catch the blood.” Interest and Memory She remembered that Helen had ! read her the little story over and I over, not her mother. She re ! membered the book and where it was kept. the remembered the story. Her parents were Intensely in terested. because, jis they told me, she seemed to be utterly strange to almost everything else in tho house. Vet she hadn’t her hat or ecat off before she was after her favorite story. It shows us something, I think, In this matter of memory. Where there is in.cnco interest there we find memory lasting long est. We cannot make life a series of intense moments for children, but there is a certain truth here that we should make use of when it is possible* Drama in Education A child will remember in detail everything he saw at the cirrus, for instance, or in a movie, or on a picnic. By association of ideas memory is more deeply carved when it Is interested. To go back, a hero is remem ber; d if his part is played in drama rather than drummed in through the routine school work. Mem ory clinches by interest. I believe that the dramatic Is going to play more or less part in the school lessons of future genera tions. ' Old Documents Found in Junk Yard Springfield, 111. —(UP)— Col lectors dug frantically through heaps of documents in a junk yard here recently when papers from the office of the Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard were thrown out. Among documents salvaged were a muster role bearing tha name of Richard Oglesby, Civil War Governor of Illinois, and order for the transfers of troops which bore the signature of Genarl U. S. Grant, and records of the Mex ican border uprising. Stamp collectors also made "finds” in the junk heap. They found papers of Civil war days with stamps of that era on them. Navy’s New Dirigible Nearing Completion With live-sixths of the outer covering applied to the early March. The above photo, made in the big con framework of the U. S. S. Macon, workmen are rush- struction hangar at Akron, Ohio, shows one of the ing completion of the giant airship in order that she horizontal fins just after it had been placed ia will be ready for her first trial flight, scheduled for position. Jobless Plan Earns Living in Unique Way Detroit — <UF)— When Charles H. Williams, 70. could find no work lo t spring, he decided 10 £0 into business tor himself. He returned recently from his business trip, which carried him more than 2,!iCJ miles through six states. Accompanied by his wife, he made the entire trip on foot. Tim couple equipped themselves with a small cart loaded with shoe strings, handkerchiefs, and nick no«!»e vr.IrrHf i hriir furt forced them to turn down ir.ony i proffered "lifts,” Williams said. He reported the rural districts the test market for his goods. Fanners, according to the elderly salesman, always seemed to need new shoelaces and handkerchiefs. Williams, a painter by trade, plans to make another trip neat spring, this time venturing into i tiie eastern states. « JUST A GIGGLF-OIi El Paso, Tex — No one could sec j the joke but Mrs. Genoveva, 16, ! when she tried to commit suicide. IIUmaw Ilrt TlottAimim tvoe to I'tltl to L berty hospital, Juarez, she was gigg'ing so much that she was un able to tell why she took poison, "My husban left me,” she gigled. “I guess that was why. I don’t know. I think I'll try to commit suicide again.” Cute. Eh? From Tit-Bits. Little Peggy had gone to the country and was learning the names of the new things around her. ‘‘Now. what arc those?” asked her mother, pointing to a cow with two calves. ‘‘It’s a bull and two little bullets " f Franco-Russian Peace Pact k----—-' v~\ u1. rp;.„ _ J- I UWJ AH. « A Win 4. France and the Soviet Union have signed a tr -ty of non-aggression, both military and commercial. This follows close upon the ratification of a similar tr- ..ty between Russia and Poland. It will almost surely be followed by a similar treaty with Rumania, where a r.u 1 bcr of points involving pride and prestige need a b ile time for settlement. Poland and Rumania used U- tv? familiarly described as the satellites cf France, 'lhat was when the French “militarism” was in turn regarded as the great menace to European peace. A satellite fol lowing Its patron in the ways of peace would seem to deserve a better name. Perhaps we shall see Poland. Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia gradually w o k up In the world press from the role of French sate Mes through that of French proteges and French allies to the wholly commendable role of friends of Franco. It Is something to be grateful for, in viewing the European scene, that at least the peace situation is b< it. r than the economic situation. The disarmament cciu.r ence, to be sure, is making heavy weather, ami the ulti mate consequence may be bad. But for the mono r.t i Europe suffers less from war temper than she did a y nr ago. At that time there were two bad spots. One v; s Hitler and his violent threats against the peace of Europe as involved in the Treaty of Versailles. The other was the chronic situation as between Soviet Russia and an Im perialist world alleged to be lying in perpetual ambus n for the communist fatherland. Hitler is much less cf a threat today. The Imperialist nations arc almost falling over each other trying to be friends with Soviet Rur-*a-~ at one end Japan, at the other end France and her friends among the border states. The Franco-Russian treaty can be explain* d, cf course, as meaning war rather than peace. It will bo said that France and Poland arc eager to make them selves secure on the side of Soviet Russia in or dr to deal effectively with Germany In case she dees go H'tl v But In Germany there seems little inclination to v> ad that meaning into the pact. The treaty is rather v, I comed there as signalizing the conversion of Fra .rt to the rational Russian policy initiated ty Germ: ny r.t Rapallo ten years ago. Altogether it is pleasant to hr..*. a peace agreement between two nations received v Ah approval by various third parties. The Soviet Govern ment, to be sure, has to make one saerilice. That i- the pet theory that the capitalist nations would rp * J up "their” war on Soviet Russia as a diversion from t, ir own unhappy economic circumstances. But as the r do mic situation in Europe has grown worse the f '.eila ments have not tried to launch a crusade agai : t K d Russia. They have been making friends with her. _ Pressing Business Sir Harry Lauder, famous Scotch comedian, is shown as he exhibited some of thrift for which his coun- ! try is noted, as he pressed his voluminous MacLennan tartan (kilt to you) preparatory to t recent ap pearance in P&sadena, Cal. Sir Harry says of the kilt: “I’m more at home in it than in me troosers,” -— ♦ -- Hearse Suddenly Cures Injured Man Pueblo, Colo. —(UP)— Ignacio Montez was lying, nearly uncon- ; scious, and badly beaten up, in a police ambulance when he saw a hearse pull up along side of the ambulance. That was enough for the 2G ycar-old Ignacio. He left that place, and left right then. Injuries and all, he scurried away as though he was in a hurry, and police never did find him again to take him to the hospital for treatment for his bruises. Ignacio, police said, had threat ened a fellow Mexican, and the man he threatened promptly levelled the pugnacious Ignacio with a two by four. Ignacio didn't mind the am bulance ride, but when he saw the hearse he must have thought the police were going to transfer him to that. Mule and Wagon Value Hit New Low Blytheville, Ark. — (UP) — The “market value” of a mule and wagon hit a new low here. Muni cipal Judge C. A. Cunningham re duced charges against a youth Watershed Caretaker Has Strenuous Tasks Colorado Springs, Colo. —(UP> — The duties of a caretaker on a watershed include strenuous tasks. Clyde McReynolds thinks one of the most strenuous is rescue ing deer that fall into the reser vior. A young doe wandered out on the thin ice of the reservior here and fell through. McReynolds saw the animal from grand larceny to p at lar ceny after cne witne,:t; testified “you couldn't give me the mule,’* which the youth was ehni",<d with stealing, and another Witness iid $2.50 would be a good p. :ee lor the mule and the wagon would be a handicap. Judge Cunningham luv-d M. I on Crowe, the accused yo but ordered the line susp;v>nf" I during good behavior. A gr;u il larceny charge is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the ‘t-.te peni tentiary and is filed in eu;e: where the theft is nioro than $10, - ----- Mountaineer Firi.ii Indian Signs on Peak Colorado Springs tMo. — (UP) — The question whether In dians ever were suffl iently curi ous to scale the high peaks cf the Rockies — an arduous end often dangerous task, was nr tiled. ro far ns Alamngre Mountain r. con cerned by discovery < t ancient flint arrowheads on the mnunlt of the peak. The heads were found by Wil liam F. Cochrane, a f ve t ranger. There are a numb, r of springs on top of* the peak and it war; l>e lieved these might have attracted the Indians. Curiosity, however, murr h..ve taken the first Indian to the top of the peak, because the presence of the spring could have been learned only by exploration. Q. Do Germany, Fr; nee and England have tree t id le: choojs. as the term is understooil Id America? C H A. In Germany, Franc, and un til recently, at least, in England public education has not b> i = . and is not even now, Rem r,dl> tree, since, though most oi the expenses have been met from public or in stitutional (usually religious) sources, each pupil .. a paupet has liad to pay school fees. --*-♦ Aids Nicaraguans | Major Julian D. Smith. U. S. i Marine Corps, who has been de tailed as Chief of Staff of the Nica raguan Guardia Nacional lie was commissioned brigadier general in the army of the Republic as part of the program for training Nicara | guan officers preparatory to the evacuation of the 0. S. Marines back onto the ico. lio. pushed a i flat bottom bot.t cut over the lee, to save b rnsolf f"om ^.olng I through, and I cully managed to herd the deer shoreward, whore it reached firm ground and made its way hurriedly into the nearby ) timber. - Oh. Very Happy! Prom Pathfinder. I “Now let me give ycu a place of i my mind," the wile begun. "I don't believe ycu c.m do it, retorted the huiibu in! ’ it v>< ■’d take an exptrt scientist to split ai»