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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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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,”
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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»
