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20th Victim Claimed By Radium
Poisoning
•Newark, N. J.— Radium poisoning
has claimed former employes of the
United States Radium Corporation’s
plant, now closed.
Mrs. Irene Frances Laporte, who
contracted the disease while paint
ing luminous watch dials, died dur
ing the night.
Chief Medical Examiner Harrison
S. Martland, who in 1924 discovered
the nature of the poisoning, report
ed after an autopsy Mrs. Laporte
died of sarcoma of the hip and thigh
caused by ingestion of radium.
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Easier Divorce Laws Propored In
Georgia
Kllijay, Ga.— Watkins Edwards,
state representative of Gilmer coun
ty, raid today that he would favor
easier divorce laws in this state.
“1 am in favor of legislation that
will permit a person to tile suit for
divorce in Georgia after having re
sided in Georgia three months in
stead of 12 months as under the ex
isting law,” he said.
“And 1 think one verdict by a
jury should be all that is necessary
to obtain a divorce, instead of two
concurrent verdicts at different terms
of the court, as now exists."
Boy Parachute Jumper Lands In
Yawning Grave
Rochester, N. Y.—lf Barron Bro
dine, 19-year-old student parachute
jumper, of Pittsford, believes in
omens, signs or portents, Monday’s
experience should make him think
twice before continuing his career. -
Bodine jumped at 2,000 feet from
a Brizce Field plane piloted by Rob
ert Hoffman. He waited the re
quisite three seconds and pulled the
rip cord. The chute blossomed out
and he floated gently to the ground
—to land in a freshly dug grave in
White Haven Cemetery, adjoining
the flying field.
* * *
Girl Dies In Church While Singing
Duet
Kansas City.—Miss Inez. Evelyn
Anderson, 25, died while singing in
a duet at the Calvary Baptist Church
here Sunday, thi^ words of an unfin
ished hymn on her lips.
Physicians attributed death to
heart disease.
The victim collapsed as she sang
the hymn, “1 Head the Voice of
Jesus Say.”
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Loved Wife “Lot,” But $5 Too
M uch Alimony
Detroit.—James P. Robinson, a
salesman, loved his wife, Elrona, “an
awful lot,” but not enough that he
was willing to pay $5 a week tem
porary alimony.
“If you love her as much as you
say, why object to a $5 a week ali
mony,” Judge Harry B. Keidan ask
ed Robinson.
“Well, 1 love her all right, your
honor, but not that much.”
Little Lindy Complete* Firt Year
Flightless
Princeton, N. J.—Charles Augus
tus Lindbergh, Jr., celebrated his
first birthday today with both feet
on the ground.
The Lindbergh baby was born on
his mother’s 24th birthday in Engle
wood. N. J. He will stay with his
grandparents when his parents start
on their flight to China and Japan.
Charles, Jr., has not been up for a
plane ride yet.
* * *
Schools’ Use Of Bibles Is Upheld
By Court
New York. —The appellate division
of the supreme court today approved
the use of Bibles in public schools of
this city.
The decision was made in an ac
tion brought by Joseph Lewis, as
president of the Freethinkers of
America, Inc., to prevent the board
of education from continuing use of
the Bible on the ground that state
and religion are separate in this
country.
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Bust Of Washington To Be On New
Quarter
'Washington. George Washing
ton s portrait will be the emblem of
liberty on the new quarter dollar,
supplanting the familiar goddess of
liberty.
Sculptors have been so notified
by Director Grant, of the mint, in
opening the design competition for
the 25 cent piece authorized by con
gress to commemorate the 200th an
niversary of the first president’s
birth.
On the face of the coin, with
Washington’s portrait, the word
“Liberty” and the year of coinage
are to appear. The reverse side will
have the traditional eagle and in
scriptions, “United States of Ameri
ca” and ”E Fluribus Unum.” The
motto, “In God We Trust,” may go
on either side.
The winning designer will receive
$1,500.
THINGS ONE SHOULD KNOW
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Chicken pie is delicious for sup
per dinner or luncheon. A variety
of seasonings, such as green peppers,
parsley, onions and pimento improve
the flavor.
* * *
To clean copper kettles when they
become dull and black-looking, dip
half a lemon in salt and rub it all
over the surface. Afterwards wash
well in warm water to prevent the
acid from eating into the metal, and
polish with a dry powdered bath
brick.
* * *
Use confectioner’s sugar instead
of powdered sugar for frosting.
• * •
Milk is one of the best sources of
protein, the food clement necessary
to every living cell and to the growth
of muscle tissue, without which a
child cannot grow, nor the health of
the child and adult be maintained.
Milk contains fat (butter), which
yields energy and which is also espe
cially important as a source of the
vitamin A that helps the body to
grow and maintains its vigor ugainst
disease.
• * *
A variation in cornstarch pudding
is accomplished by adding to the
cornstarch a tablespoon or two of
raspberry or currant jelly, just be
fore setting aside to cool. This not
only adds to the appearance of the
cornstarch, but improves the flavor.
* *
Lime water will sweeten jars and
jugs which soap and water fail to
cleanse. It is admirable for cleans
ing milk and nursing bottle.
* * *
Home-made bread is often spoiled
by too much salt being added to the
dough. It makes the loaves heavy.
Cheese is the form in which milk
can be preserved for years. It is of
ancient lineage, for it “was probably
the first product manufactured from
milk and the first form in which milk
was preserved for future use.” There
are 350 varieties of it known to be
made in the world.
* * *
When buying fish see that the eyes
are not sunken in the dull. A fresh
fish has clear eyes and the fish is
firm to touch.
* * *
Do not let hardwood floors get bad
ly worn before having them polish
ed. A little polish on the worn
places each week, keeps floors al
ways looking well.
* * *
Sour milk beaten into mayonnaise
dressing gives it a delicious flavor.
* * *
Panama straw hats should be
washed in a warm castile soap lather
to which a few drops of ammonia
have been added. Rinse well in tepid
water, using a soft brush and rub
with a soft rag.
* * •
Slices of brick ice cream served
on angel-food cake make a delicious
dessert for a summer luncheon.
* * *
It is not generally known that
wringing out a cloth in hot water,
and wiping the furniture before put
ting on furniture creafn will result in
a very high polish that will not show
finger marks.
* *
Fruit that is eaten raw should be
ripe and clean. The skin should be
eaten when possible.
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Sugar, used wisely, is an important
source of energy to the body.
* * *
Plain white sugar is used best with
cereals and in the preparation of
milk, eggs and fruit desserts. Used
thus it makes more palatable and de
licious foods that have greater im
portance for body building, while
also adding to their energy value.
FEDERAL CONVICTS AT 39,993
ON MAY 31
At the end of May 39,993 per
sons were under sentence for viola
tion of federal laws, as compared
to 81,467 a year earlier, according
to a report made by the U. S. De
partment of Justice.
Of the total 26,689 were in pri
sons or jail, as against 25,898 on
May 31, 1930; 2,451 wer on parole,
compared to 1,447, and 10,853 were
on probation, as campared to 4,122
the y.ear before.
The increase of 793 in confined
prisoners represented to a large de
gree activities in the enforcement of
prohibition. The increase in the
number of prisoners on probation
marked a move on the part of the
federal courts to ease the congestion
in the prisons and as a result of a
policy of placing on probation minor j
offenders.
Of the 26,689 in prison 13,473
were in federal institutions and the j
remainder in state, county or local
jails, as against 12,975 in federal in
stitutions a year ago.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, of Missouri,
secretary of agriculture, struck back
at the critic of the farm board last
week.
* * *
Attended by the friends and asso
ciates of his years in the capitol,
formal services were held for Asso
ciate Justice F. L. Siddon of the dis
trict supreme court June 22, at 19
o'clock, at St. Margerts Episcopal
church. Flags of the district gov
ernment were at half staff until af
ter the rites. Justice Siddon was
born in London, England. He came
to America when he was 10 years
old. He was 66 at the time of his
death, June 19, 1931.
* * *
Mr. B. M. Betts, formerly of Ath
ens, Ga., but now of Charlotte, N. C.,
was a prominent visitor at the capi
tol last week.
In the first three months of 1931,
the Association Against Prohibition
Amendment received donations of
$230,565; while the campaign com
mittee of the Anti Saloon League
received but $7,427. The anti-dry
organization expended $212,330 in
the period, while the drys disbursed
$6,762. Hon John Raskob contribut
ed $17,500 for the fight against pro
hibition. The next largest gift was
$12,500 by Irene Dupont, of Wil
mington, Del.
* * *
President H. C. Hoover and the
American Government on June 19,
1931, proposes postponement for one
year all payments of debts by the Al
lied Government and the German
Empire.
* *
Hon. J. W. Barker, secretary to
Hon. W. E. Hull of the sixteenth
district of Illinois, was the principal
speaker on June 21 at 8 o’clock in
the chapel of the Central Union Mis
sion at 613 C. St., N. W.
* * *
Miss Bettie Pryde, of Oregon, who
is secretary to the ways and means
committee, in the capitol, returned
to the capitol June 22, from a 30
day’s vacation in New York. Miss
Pryde is a popular and intelligent
young lady on Capitol Hill, with
Republicans and Democrats.
BUSINESS AND BASEBALL
We were talking the other day
with a friend whose main interest in
life, outside of his own business, is
baseball. We were talking, as most
men do when they meet these days,
about the business situation.
“The business situation reminds
me of the baseball situation,” said
our friend. “You remember that
for the past few seasons an enorm
ous number of big league players
were battling home runs? They
would stand at the plate, holding
the bat by the tip and line them out
over center field fence until home
runs got to be almost commonplace.
People began to get tired of them.
“Last winter the baseball magnates
got together to see how they could
tighten up the game. They develop
ed anew ball, which is being used
this season. The leather cover is
thicker and the seams are rougher,
which gives the pitcher better con
trol and a Sharper break on his
curves. Players who used to bat
the old ball over the lot found they
could not even hit the new ball half
the time. Then somebody began to
think back, and recalled that Ty
Cobb, the greatest batter of them
ail, used to hold his bat somewhere
in the middle and crouch over the
plate. He didn’t hit many home
runs but he got to first base often
er than any other batter in his time.
So the baseball players of thtf sea
son instead of swinging high, wide
and handsome, have just shortened
up their bats and are playing for
base hits instead of home runs.
“Now it seems to me,” our friend
went on, “that there is a lesson in
that for business men. Everybody
in business was batting home runs
two or three years ago. But we are
playing with anew kind of ball, and
the fellow that swings a long bat
and keeps trying for home run3
these days does not even get to first
Base. But the wise business men are
just shortening up their grip, play
ing up close to the plate, and they
are batting out base hits, while the
ones who have not found out yet that
the new ball is harder to hit are
beefing about hard times and blam
ing their troubles on everybody but
themselves.”
It seems to us that there is a good
deal in what our friend said. There
are a lot of business men who ha<d
things coming their way too easily
during the boom, but the ones who
are holding their own today and get
ting ahead are not the ones who are
waiting for the old times to come
back, but are the ones who are adopt
ing their ideas and their business
methods to today’s conditions.—Ex.
LAUGH AND GROW FAT
(Furnished by Rev. J. O. Burnette)
“Johnny,” said the mother as she
vigorously scrubbed the small boy’s
face with soap and water, “didn’t I
tell you never to black your face
again? Here I have been scrubbing
lor half an hour, and it won’t come
off.” “I-I-ouch” sputtered the small
boy, “I ain’t your little boy, I-ouch!
I’se Mose, de colored lady’s boy.”
• * *
The life of a minister must be a
bove reproach. He is like a town
clock, if wrong, many others will be
wrong. It was said of one man who
had great ability, hut questionable
morals, “It is a shame when he is in
the pulpit that he ever comes out;
and is a shame that when he is out
of the pulpit that he ever gets in
again.”
# * *
There are a lot of empty pants
walking about—no real men in them
—they should not scare anybody. It
happened in front of the village post
office. An old farmer was holding
his frightened team, while an auto
mobile rushed by. “Queer how
horses are so skeered of these
things,” said one of the loafers.
“Queer?” grumbled the farmer,
“what would you do if you should
see my pants‘coming down the street
with nothing in them?”
* * *
A member of a camping party was
shaving himself outside the tent one
summer morning, it being both hot
and dark inside. Another camper,
strolling by, remarked: “I see you
are shaving outside this morning.”
“Naturally, “was the snappy answer;
“d’ye think I’m lined with fur?”
* * *
The priest was remonstrating with
one of his flock in an effort to make
him give up drink. “I tell you, Pat,”
he said, “you should give it up;
whiskey is your worst enemy.” “Me
enemy, is it, Father?” said Pat, “and
it. was your riverence that told us
last Sunday that we should love our
enemies.” “So I did, Pat,” retorted
the priest, “but I didn’t say you
should swallow’ them.”
AN ECHO FROM THE PAST
Excerpt from a speech of Henry
W. Grady, delivered during a prohi
bition contest in Atlanta, Ga., and
printed in an Atlanta paper which
commended it to youth “as a speci
men of oratory rarely surpassed”: “I
assume to keep no man’s conscience;
I assume to judge for no man; I do
not assume that I am better than any
man, but that I am weaker; but I
say this to you :I have a boy as dear
to me as the ruddy drops that gath
er about his heart. I find my hopes
already centering in his little body,
and I look to him tonight to take to
himself the work that, strive as I
may, must fall unfinished at last
from my hand. Now I know that
they say it is proper to educate a
boy at home; that if he is taught
right at home he will not go wrong.
That is untrue to begin with, but it
doesn’t matter. I have seen sons
of as good people as ever lived turn
out badly. I accept my responsi
bility as a father. That boy may
fall from the right path as things
now exist. If he does, I shall bear
that sorrow with such resignation as
I may; but I tell you, if I were to
vote to recall bar-rooms to this city,
when I know it has prospered in their
absence, and that bpy should fall
through their agency, I tell you
and this conviction has come to me
in the still watches of the night—
I could not, wearing the crowning
sorrow of his disgrace, and looking
into the eyes of her whose heart he
had broken —I could not, if I had
voted to recall these barrooms, find
answer for my conscience or sup
port for my remorse. I don’t know
how any other father feels, but that
is the way I feel, if God permits me
to utter the truth. The best reforms
of this earth come through waste
and storm and doubt and suspicion;
the sun itself, when it rises on each
day, wastes the radiance of the moon
and blots the starlight for the skies,
but only to unlock the earth from
the clasp of night, and plant the
stars anew in the opening flowers.
Behind that sun, as behind this
movement, we may be sure there
stands the Lord God Almighty, Mas
ter and Maker of the universe, from
whose hand the spheres are rolled to
their orbits, and whose voice has
been the harmony of this world since
she morning star sang together.”
We promised not to publish his
name, but a farmer came in and
confessed ■ last week that he bought
his seed corn, bought his syrup cane
seed, bought his pea seed, bought his
seed irish potatoes, and bought his
sweet potato plants. The only seed
he planted that he produced himself
were his cotton seed. He further
said that from this on he proposed
to grow his planting seed at least
and depend on something else than
cotton for his livelihood.—Lavonia
Times.
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IF you want to start the day
feeling as chirpy as the little
birds in the branches outside your
window, include plenty of fruit
in your breakfast, and lots of
milk and cream. In the follow
ing suggested menu you can have
top milk or cream on your cold
cereal, there is a sauce made of
milk on the sausages and you
can have cream in your hot bev
erage. Most people prefer this
variety of ways to just drinking
milk or cream. Here’s the menu.
Iced Cantaloupe
Cold Cereal
Sausage Slices in Cream Sauce
Strawberry Jam Toast
Hot Beverage
Iced cantaloupe is delicious on
a hot summer morning,, and
Simplifying Picnics
PICNICS that are picnics to
prepare as well as to enjoy—
are in sight this summer with
the advent of prepared canned
sandwich spreads which will not
only prove a contribution to pic
nic provender, but will give their
planners more hours in which to
enjoy them, since the labor of
preparation is reduced to a
minimum.
Variety of Spreads
There should be a variety of
sandwiches at all picnics in or
der to appeal to the tastes of
everyone, and these sandwich
spreads were planned with that
provision in mind. They include
a ham, a tongue, a liver and a
mixed meat spread which cover
a wide range of tastes. The liver
spread, for instance, suggests
A Can of Corn
W HAT can *d° wit k a can ° f
corn?" asks a housewife
who is open to conviction, and an
able answer has been provided
for her in a leaflet recently issued
by the magazine “Charm” pub
lished by L. Bamberger & Cos.
Publishing Company, Newark,
N. J.
This leaflet enumerates twenty
two different things which a
housewife can do with a can of
corn, and gives the recipe for each
of them. These recipes include
Corn and Celery: Creamed Corn;
Cream of Corn Bisque; Fried
Corn; four kinds of Corn Frit
ters; Corn Pancakes; Corn Pud
ding an Gratin; Corn Timbales;
Spanish Corn; Scalloped Corn
and Bacon; Scalloped Corn and
Tomatoes: Corn and Pimiento au
Gratin: Corn and Cheese Pud
ding; Egg Plant with Corn; Corn
Pudding two kinds of Corn
Chowder; Corn. Tomato and
strawberry jam adds one more
iruit. For the main dish make
a white sauce of two tablespoons
butter, two tablespoons flour, one
and one-half cups milk, salt, pep
per and one-fourth teaspoon kit
chen bouquet. Slice the contents
of a 9-ounce can of Vienna sau
sages thin,, and add to the sauce.
Reheat and serve on toast. This
will serve six people.
Good Coffee
If you are a lover of coffee and
want that for your hot beverage,
be sure to select one of the brands
that is vacuum packed. These
retain all their flavor and aroma,
and assure you coffee with a
kick. Nothing is flatter than cof
fee that has been exposed to
oxygen, allowing much of the
flavor and aroma to escape.*
pate de foie gras in its succulence,
and every one of them is delicious
and delicately prepared.
The making of sandwiches with
these spreads is simplicity itself.
Just slice your bread, open the
cans, and smear them on, thick
for the youngsters, and with a
little more restraint for the
older members of the party. They
can be varied, if you like, with
a little mayonnaise and chopped
sweet pickle, but you will find
that they are most acceptable just
as they come from the can.
The cans in which these new
spreads are put up contain three
and a half ounces each, so that,
with a little practice you can fore
cast just how many you will need.
And think of the time saved
which you can put in enjoying
yourself now that picnics have
been simplified.*
Cheese, and Corn Custard gar
nished with Fried Tomatoes.
An Attractive Recipe
One of the most attractive of
these recipes is that for Cream of
Corn Bisque: Melt one tablespoon
butter or bacon fat in a saucepan.
Put one onion and one green pep
per through a food chopper and
cook until the onion is golden
brown. Put the contents of one
can of corn through a food chop
per, and add to the mixture. Pour
in one pint milk, or one cup
evaporated milk and one cup
water. Cream together two table
spoons flour, two tablespoons but
ter, or fat, one teaspoon salt and
one-half teaspoon celery salt. Di
lute with a little hot liquid. Pour
into the hot bisque and stir until
the mixture comes to a boil. Add
one slice lemon, and let It boll
up once. Remove the lemon, and
serve in cups with cheese flngerfc®