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RUSSIAN PRINCESS IN U. S.
PLANS FOR STAGE CAREER
Princes.-. uei.c -iiagaiuieic-Saxuu
sky, sixteen, daughter of Prince Sax
ansky, killed by Bolshevists at the
time of the revolution, is now In Bos¬
ton. with her mother. The young
princess seeks a stage career, while
her mother will give piano lessons.
Botli are destitute.
DOG FINDS TREASURE CHEST
Searches Near Old Alabama Home¬
stead Fruitless Forty Years.
A dog, clawing frantically in a tower
near an old homestead, uncovered a
“treasure chest,’’ filled with gold and
silver coin plate of the Saunders
family at Courtland, Ala.
According to an old family legend,
an aged negro hid a chest of money
and silver in the Civil war and died of
apoplexy before he could get back to
his master. Searches at intervals for
forty years brought no trace of the
fortune, and the family -dismissed It as
aii "old uumpny’s tqlel’ of/later i .
Gold coins, none date than
1860, and some dating back to 1790,
were in the treasure chest. The coins
are valued at. about $200.
SMOKED 92 YEARS—SICK
Negro, 104, at Last Goes to Hospital
for His “Misery.”
Over one hundred years old, “Doc"
Young, negro, had the “misery,” he
:'v!d Ambulance Driver Guy Diddertli
aa he was being taken to Parkland
hospital at Dallas, Tex. “Doc” said
he is one hundred and four years old,
has been “courthouse” married nine
times and is the father of about thirty
children. “Doc” said he has smoked
for ninety-two years.
He does not use a cane to walk with
nor does he wear glasses. He can see
fine print, but can’t read it, he de¬
clared.
“T ’spects to last eight or ten years
more,” Young said. "I slio’ is sick
now, though.”
Swallowed Radium Needle.
A patient in a Philadelphia hospital
swallowed a radium-coated needle
with which his doctor was treating his
throat. Realizing the danger to the
patient if the needle found perma¬
nent lodgment, the doctor called a sur¬
geon who Immediately performed an
operation and recovered the needle. It
is said the needle was coated with
$2,000 worth of radium.
Injured in Peculiar Manner.
During a snowstorm at Glace Bay.
Quebec, a young woman lost an eye
In a peculiar manner. She was walk¬
ing along the street with her head
down to protect her face from the
wind. She failed to heed a sieigl; ap¬
proaching from the opposite direc¬
tion and walked right into it, one
shaft piercing an eye and knocking
her down.
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STUDENT ‘SEES’
WITH HIS CHEEKS
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Carl Bostrom Finds His Way
Easily on University Campus.
EACH BUILDING HAS “FEELING”
By Noting Delicate Variations of Air
Pressure, Blind Student, Through
Sensitive Nerves of His Face, Is
Able to “See" Buildings and Trees,
Streets, Doorways, Stairs and the
Lake—Is Studying to Be Reporter
and Is Confident of Success.
Deprived of eyesight, Carl Bostrom,
3349 Clifton avenue, Chicago, has
learned to “see” with his cheeks, so
that he walks briskly and unaided
about the campus of Northwestern uni¬
versity, where he Is studying journal¬
ism.
The sensitized nerves of his face
“see” buildings and trees, streets and
the lake, doorways and stairs, by
noting delicate variations in air pres¬
sure. They respond to faint differ¬
ences more sensitively than a barom¬
eter does. Out of these differences
Bostrom lias constructed such an ac¬
curate mental picture of the campus
that he goes about without a guide or
a cane.
“Each building has an atmospheric
aura all Its own,” the sightless student
said, as he breezed across the campus,
guiding a reporter who had expected
to guide him. “You recognize build¬
ings by the light rays emanating from
them; I know them by their peculiar
influences on the air about tliem. I
‘see’ them with the nerves of my face.”
Campus Easy to “See."
Northwestern university’s campus is
easy for him to “see,” Bostrom ex¬
plained, because It lies beside the
lake.
“Owing to the water there’s a
marked difference in the atmospheric
pressure at opposite ends of the
campus,” he said. “The air near the
lake Is- hu»>iI<1, of ee irse.
other side of the campus It’s drier.
That makes It easy for me to place
myself when I come out of a build¬
ing.’’
Nevertheless, Bostrom has trained
his facial nerves so well that he
doesn’t need a nearby lake In order
to “see.” In Chicago, in the country—
anywhere, in fact—he can feel build¬
ings as he passes them, recognize
streets, detect even passing automo¬
biles.
“I’m sure I’ll be able to get about
ns a reporter, even though I’m blind,”
he said. “I’m determined to be a
newspaper man. That’s why I’m stick¬
ing so hard to college.”
Bostrom has to familiarize himself
with a locality, of course, before he
is able to find his way unerringly. He
must memorize the peculiar “feel” of
different buildings. At Northwestern
he had to make a mental map, keeping
in mind the “appearance” of each of
the many buildings of the 51-acre cam¬
pus.
Each Building Has “Feeling.”
That was easy, he says, because
each building has a feeling all its own.
Stones give the air a quality unlike
that of brick; frame buildings are un¬
like any others; store fronts, with a
great deal of plate glass, have a pe¬
culiar "look” to the man who “sees
with his cheeks,” and different build¬
ing heights make differences in the
air.
Entering one of the buildings a step
ahead of the reporter who was accom¬
panying him, Bostrom found the steps
without hesitation, took the doorknob
without fumbling for it, and walked
straight to his classroom.
“There’s a stairway,” he remarked,
pointing, “and there’s an open door.
Over yonder is a radiator. That's easy,
of course, and there’s a closed door
right there.” He was invariably right.
Storms are Bostrom’s only bogles.
They “blind” his cheeks. Snow Is the
worst, with rain a close second. On
days when the air Is full of snow or
rain the blind man’s cheeks can’t
“.see.” On such days he has to rely on
his memory of the number of steps
required to go from one building to
another.
“But when you count ’em, such days
aren’t many,” he said. “Most of the
time I can ‘see’ easily.”
savy Damage By Oil Field Blaze
Houston, Texas.—Fire which threat¬
ened ior a time to sweep the Humble
Oil field tank farms near here, where
more than three million barrels of oil
are stored, was under control v ter a
grueling 24-hour fight by gange of oil
workers. A change in the kind is be¬
lieved to have saved the day. Two
huge tanks of the Gulf Pipe Line com¬
pany. storing more than eight hundred
million barrels of oil, are a total loss
from the flames, which started when
one tank was struck by a bolt of light
aifts during a sever flegtrica l
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAR. 23. 1923
SAILOR LIVED IN BOILER
SINCE 1906 EARTHQUAKE
San Francisco Policeman Res¬
| cues Old Man From Flames
and Home Is Found.
John McKenzie, a retired sea cap¬
tain, and a patrolman named Callahan
are in a San Francisco hospital, re¬
ported recovering from burns which
the policeman suffered when lie beat
out flames from McKenzie's clothing
in time to save the old man from fatal
injury. With the rescue was heard
an old, remote echo of the great
earthquake and fire of 1906.
McKenzie caught fire accidentally
and rushed out into the street, where
the policeman saved him. Later, at
the hospital, McKenzie described his
home and policemen, curious, looked
it up. The dwelling was situated in
the middle of a vacant lot for many
years given over to a vast assortment
of junk. It was nothing more than
a large boiler. Within were a few
modern comforts—a mattress, n blan¬
ket, even an old bathtub.
McKenzie said he was caught in a
maelstrom of relief work when most
of the city was burning in 1900. For
three days, lie explained, he had no
rest. Then, immeasurably weary, he
crawled in among some junk, making
his bed on bricks still warm from the
fire. Ever since he had lived llius—
on the border line of progress—until
fire, which drove him from the civili¬
zation at liis elbow, thrust him back
into it.
BRIDE 65, HER MAN 75
And Both of Them Admitted a Pre¬
vious Marriage.
Blushing und just a little bit bash¬
ful, Celia Fredericks took hold of
Charley Salow’s hand and piloted him
before Judge Standart In City court
at Buffalo, N. Y. Standing In front
of the bench like two runaway rXiool
children, Celia finally managed to tell
the judge that they wanted to be
married.
“How old are you?” asked , the
judge. “Sixtr-fiyo” replied Celia. ^
.A hT
’Tlow old is Charley?”
“Seventy-five.” Charley had f|und
his voice and answered for himself.
Digging down in his pocket, Char¬
ley, just like all grooms are supposed
to do, looked a long while for the
ring and then found it in the last
pocket he felt in. He also found a
marriage license.
“Do you take—” said the judge..and
they said they did. Hand in hand
they left the court room.
Both had been married before and
both gave their address as No. 228
Mulberry street.
FOUGHT TO PERISH
Captain Wanted to Go Down With
Battered Schooner.
Standing on the icy, sea-washed deck
of his sinking schooner, the Santino,
Cnpt. George Poppe directed the res¬
cue of his erew T of four men, ordered
the remaining sailors into the lifeboat,
and then declared lie would go down
with his vessel. Members of the San
tino’s crew knocked their commander
down, put him in the lifeboat and took
him to the rescue ship. The rescue
was made in a blinding snow storm off
Nantucket,
Captain Poppe, whose home is in
New York city, had no hope that his
ship would be saved when he refused
to leave it. All the canvas had been
stripped from its masts, its decks had
been washed clean and 22 feet of wa
er was in the hold.
ASKS TO BE OWN JAILER
Prisoner Convicted of Coat Theft
Makes Request.
William Tull, who was his own at¬
torney in his trial at Columbus, Ind.,
on a charge of stealing coal, now
wants to be his own jailer.
Tull was sentenced to the Indiana
State prison for from one to four¬
teen years, and he lias asked to be
given liis commitment papers and be
permitted to go to tlie prison alone.
“If the county could not afford to
hire a lawyer to defend me, how can
it afford to send a man clear fi> Mich¬
igan City with me,” Tull argues.
DOG DIES; BOY SHOOTS SELF
Lad May Be Crippled for Life as Re¬
sult of Act Done in Grief.
Grief-stricken by the death of his
pet, a Boston terrier, nine-year-old
Charles Weber of South Bend, Ind.,
shot himself with his father's revolver.
Physicians say he may be crippled for
life as a result
While the family was at dinner the
lad took his father’s pistol and shot
himself through the thigh. Hearing
the shot, the parents ran to the boy’s
room and found him crumpled on the
floor, with a small picture c#hls dog
. ,
JUDGE MAKES CITIZEN OF
MAN WHO SPA NKED HIM
Strange Meeting in Courtroom of
Two Who Had Not Met
for Years.
Will Roche, late of County Water¬
ford, Ireland, is a citizen of the Unit¬
ed States, thanks to the man he
'spanked many years ago when both
were boys.
Judge Michael Roche, no relation
to Will, was sitting in the federal
court at San Francisco, hearing nat¬
uralization cases, when a man well
past his prime appeared with a pe¬
tition for citizenship.
“What’s your name and where are
you from?” Judge Roche asked.
"Will Roche, and I’m from Water¬
ford county, Ireland,” was the reply.
“How’s that?” the judge asked and
the answer was repeated. Judge
Roche swallowed hard and looked
more closely.
“Your face looks familiar; I won¬
der if I didn’t know you,” said the
judge presently.
"Sure,” said Will, “you know me
well, I licked you once, for teasing
my father's bull.”
The judge remembered how as a lad
in Ireland he used to crawl up on the
fence and tease neighbor Roche's hull
to make it chase him and how neigh¬
bor Roche’s son, a little older, spanked
him soundly for it one day.
So the Roches, one a judge in a
court of the United States and the
other an immigrant, spanned the
years with a handclasp as one wel¬
comed the other to citizenship.
“By the way, Will, wliat became of
that bull,” Jud're Roche asked.
But the remab der of the conversa¬
tion was private.
READS, PLAYS PIANO AND
WRITES SIMULTANEOUSLY
Mis. Thin Alba has created a sen¬
sation in all Europe by her ability
and capacity to tliink and write in
three different languages at the same
time. She is able to write witli both
hands, in different languages, upside
down and backwards, simultaneously,
and even has used lier mouth, as well
as hands, in writing. Mrs. Alba lias
attracted the attention of scientists
throughout the continent, and gave a
demonstration of her abilities before
the Berlin Medical society. She is
shown here writing with her left
hand as she plays the piano with the
right.
Mother Cat Saved Kitten.
A little kitten fell down a deep well
at Oswego, N. Y., and two unsuccessful
attempts were made to fish it up in
a bucket. Then a policeman had an
inspiration. He lowered the mother
cat, which immediately seized the
drowning kitten by the neck and held
on until both had been pulled to the
top.
Landru’s Range Brings Fortune.
The kitchen range from the house
of Landru, tlie French “bluebeard”
executed for the murder of a dozen
women, was sold at auction recently
for 4,000 francs ($800). Landru is
supposed to have burned the bodies
of his victms in the range, originally
worth a hundred francs. I
Flock Worth Owning.
An instance of prolificacy is men¬
tioned in the lambing returns from a
purebred flock on Coutt’s island, Can¬
terbury, New Zealand. Twenty-three
ewes produced 66 lambs, an even num¬
ber of each sex.
Armor to Protect Paris Police.
A rectangular sheet of steel to pro¬
tect the face and armor made of
sheets of steel overlapping on heavy
cloth will be worn by police of Paris,
France, when they go to arrest dan¬
gerous criminals. The garment cov¬
ers the entire front of the body and
is capable of deflecting a pistol bullet
fired at the closest range.
COUNTERFEITERS
TAKE MILLIONS
Most Gigantic Plot in History of
Country Is Broken Up.
MEN “HIGHER UP” ARE CAUGHT
Business Organized Along Modern
Lines, With Many “Salesmen"—
Widespread Circulation Due Partly
to Its Use to Buy Liquor and Drugs
From Bootleggers and Smugglers—
Trail of Spurious Bills Leads as
Far Away as Egypt.
The most gigantic counterfeiting
plot in tlie history of tlie country has
been broken up by the arrest in New
York city and other large centers of
nearly 100 counterfeiting chiefs, as
well as the arrest of hundreds of
agents of the fake money ring. Be¬
tween $1,000,000 and $10,000,000 in
spurious money was" dumped into the
trading marts of a score of nations
before tlie arrests, however. Bogus
money lias been reported from as far
away as Egypt, according to reports
to Joseph A. Palma, chief of the
United States secret service squad,
which has been investigating the situa¬
tion for the last eight months.
Tlie widespread circulation of the
counterfeit was due partly to its use by
counterfeiters to buy liquor and drugs
from bootleggers and smugglers of nar¬
cotics, and partly to its passage by a
band of men and women who toured
the- country in automobiles, getting rid
of considerable sums of the bogus
money in every city they visited.
Ringleaders Are Caught.
The secret service operatives are
confident that tlie ringleaders nre now
in custody, and that nearly 1,000 mem¬
bers of the gang who actually passed
the money, or acted as agents and
lookouts, will soon be caught. More
than 600 arrests already have been
made. The ring was developed along
business lines, with retailers and
wholesalers, and t'hen the maiivrnctur
ers. Each section worked separately,
and tlie makers of the bogus money
never met the retailers, all transao
tinns being made by liaison officers.
Mr. Palma said that lie did not be¬
lieve tlie counterfeiting gang had any
direct connection with either tlie boot
loggers or tlie drug smugglers, bill
thought that tlie latter were victim¬
ized by the counterfeiters. Both the
bootleggers and drug smugglers, lie ex
plained, are lawbreakers, and the
counterfeiters found it easy and eon
sidered it safe to buy liquor and drugs
with tlie “phoney” money, relying
upon tlie fact that the victims were
nlso violators of tlie law to prevent
them from making complaint. Newly
arrived immigrants were also easy vic¬
tims for tlie passers of the-counterfeit
money.
The places in New York city raided
by tlie operatives contained immense
loot, according to Mr. Palma. They
were stocked with bundles containing
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
spurious money, thousands of dollars,
worth of postage stamps, fake whisky
labels, revenue stamps, bogus coins,
and memoranda. Engraving boards,
presses, moulds and dies were also
taken.
The main office of tlie counterfeiters
was found to lie in an Italian res¬
taurant in New York’s famous Green¬
wich village. Nine branch offices were
discovered tn Brooklyn, New Jersey,
Long Island, and other near-by places.
These places were guarded by an elab
orate system of guards and lookouts
and it was only after months of pa¬
tient work that the government agents
were able to penetrate the lines and
arrest the men said to be “higher up.”
Sold in Wholesale Lots.
Secret service agents, who posed as
criminals during the long investigation
of tlie plot, found that the largest dis¬
tributors sold tlie counterfeit notes for
17 cents on the dollar in “wholesale”
lots, while the smaller distributors dis¬
posed of them at 50 cents on tlie dollar
in “retail quantities. Tlie agents said
that when they bought tlie spurious
money for 17 cents on tlie dollar tliej,
knew they were hot on tlie trail.
Bogus gold coins, together with the
equipment for making them, were also
seized by the federal agents. Tlie coun¬
terfeiters are believed to have turned
to the manufacture of spurious gold
coins after the bootleggers, already
“stung” by faked paper money, began
demanding specie for their illicit wares.
Two Children Arrested.
Tlie investigation began with the ar¬
rest in Detroit, Midi., of two children,
Zigmund, fourteen years old, and Freda
Rossi, eight, who passed a spurious
note. Their father and mother, now
serving sentences, were placed under
arrest, and through them the first faint
clews leading to the nation-wide plot
werg. discovered.
12’
WINS BATTLE WITH WOLVES
Wounded Trapper Has Exciting Expe¬
rience on Wisconsin Island.
Two large timber wolves attacked
Anthony Delo, trapper, while he la
helpless with a sprained ankle on an
island about six miles from South
Shore railroad at Lake Nebagamon,
Wis.
Delo was returning to liis home
in Lake Nebagamon with tlie §}dns of
several freshly killed animals In his
pack when he slip|»ed into a deep ra¬
vine, spraining his ankle. A snarl at
traded his attention as a wolf came
| In The eight. animal
sprung at tlie helpless
man, who defended himself with an
ax. In a few moments the wolf’s mate
joined tlie fight. Delo threw his lunch
to the animals. But as soor. they
had devoured it they attacked him
again. mortplJw _
Finally Delo wounded one
of the lieasts. -It fled into the
woods. The remaining wolf watched
Delo, awaiting an opportunity to
spring at him.
Shouts for help attracted the atten¬
tion of John Dagerman, a farmer, who
fired several shots at the animal, driv¬
ing it away. Delo was taken to Dager
man’s home, where a physician at¬
tended him.
Woman Too Busy to Be Mayor.
“I’m too busy; the duties of mayor’
in a small town require too mud
time,” explained Mrs. Arthur Daven¬
port of Ransom, W. Va., when she
declined nomination ns chief officer
of tlie town. Ransom has a popula¬
tion of 700 persons.
Mr. Palma, then working in Detroit,
was told to seled his own secret serv¬
ice operatives and nn down tlie coun¬
terfeiters, regardless of the amount of
time or money needed. Then began
tlie long chase after tlie lawbreakers.
Many times tlie agents could have ar¬
rested as many as ten of the passers
of tlie bogus money hut to have done
so would have warned those higher
up and aided them to escape.
Led to Many Cities.
The trail of tlie counterfeiters led
to ninny cities, hut always the “shovers
of the queer” kept ahead of the
agents, so far as tlie chief counterfeit-" „
era were concerned. The net drew
'Fighter and ligSter. however, until at
last tlie word was given to “go over
tlie top,” and within a few hours the
ringleaders were arrested, the manu¬
facturing plants of tlie counterfeiters
raided, and tlie greatest plot of its
kind in tlie country was definitely
smashed, according to the federal au¬
thorities.
During the last few months there
have been scores ol’ counterfeiters ar¬
rested in many European cities, and
in almost every case their trail led di¬
rectly back to the American organiza¬
tion. Bermuda lias been flooded re¬
cently with bogus money, due, it Is
said, to the big whisky trade centered
there.
Foreign Coinage “Faked."
Because of tlie international ramifi¬
cations of the scheme, police nction
may he taken in foreign countries,
especially Italy and Austria. Among
the effects of tlie prisoners were found
many counterfeit lire and Austrian
kronen, possibly designed for shipment
abroad, according to the government
agents. Tlie Canadian authorities have
also been informed of the discovery of
counterfeit Quebec liquor commission
stamps.
Mr. Palma has issued a warning itiat
any person caught passing any of the
counterfeit money will be arrested and
held as an accessory. Most of tfie
spurious hills are the Federal Reserve
Bank $2 notes, the $5 “Indian head” sli¬
ver certificates, $10 national hank notes
of the National bank of Ozone Park,
L. I., and $20 national hank notes of
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