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GRID KERO FUMBLES
IN BURGLARY GAME
Former University Star Now
Shattered Idol.
Los Angeles, Calif.—On the foot
ball field, as a star player for the
University of Southern California,
Capt. Johnny Hawkins played the
game and won, but when he stepped
out into life and played the game of
burglary he lost,
And so today he sits in his cell in
the Los Angeles county jail, a shat
tered idol, convicted on five counts of
burglary, ang facing a term in the
state prison at San Quentin of from
five to seventy-five years,
As on the football field, Hawkins
played the game for all it was worth,
80 as a burglar he was no piker. Po
lice estimated his total thefts, in
about twenty burglaries, at about
$35,000. His burglaries were commit
ted exclusively in homes of the well
to do, and his plunder consisted al
most entirely of wearing apparel, sil
verware, jewelry and the like.
Said His Wife Was Il
Naturally, when the tens of thou
sands of persons in southern Cali
fornia who had cheered themselves
hoarse at Hawking’ athletic exploits
for his alma mater read of his being
caught red handed by the police in
the act of burglarizing a Los Angeles
residence last June 17 they were
shocked. There must be some mis
take, they thought, there must be
some explanation,
Well, Hawkins was there with the
explanation, He asked his friends
through the newspapers, to withhold
judgment until all the facts were
known. Inferentially, he had a bona
fide alibi, There was no escaping
the fact that the police caught him
in the act, and the bulk of his loot
was found cached in the attic of his
parents’ home in Whittier, a town
about fifteen miles southeast of Los
Angeles, where he had gone to kigh
school,
As soon as Hawkins retained an
attorney the ‘“explanations” he had
promised were forthcoming. The ex
planations were two,
First, he had an uncontrollable
urge to steal things, due to a head
injury received while playing foot
ball. Second, he had experienced
financial reverses since leaving col
lege and taking up the business of real
estate operator, and he had to steal
to obtain money to finance a major
operation for his young wife.
These “explanations” Hawkins gave
to his friends through the newspa
pers. There was a series of legal
jugglings, the outcome of which was
that Hawkins pleaded guilty to five
of thirty counts of burglary on which
he had been indicted. The twenty
six-year-old athlete was permitted to
file an application for probation, The
belief among those on the “inside”
was that he would receive probation.
Recently Johnny appeared before
Judge Charles Fricke of Los Angeles
County Superior court on his, appli
cation for probation. After his at
torney had made his plea for mercy
and another chance for his client,
Hawkins himself was given an op
portunity to say a word.
Fails to Explain,
“Den’t you think I would be a re
spectable citizen after all this trou
ble if I were given another chance?”
he asked the judge.
“]I am sorry,” the judge repiied,
“put I don’t think you would. Why
did you commit these burglaries?”
And here was the big opportunity
for the former football hero to give
his friends the “explanations” he had
promised.
“I don’t know,” was his answer,
The talk of the “delicate opera
tien” on his head had gone no fur
ther than talk, No explanation was
offered to Judge Fricke about the
wife’s operation, There was only the
report of the probation officer, wkich
the judge sald was not encouraging
Judge Fricke sentenced Hawkins to
the penitentiary on each of the five
counts. The former idol was a pie
ture of dejection &s he was led from
the courtroom manacled to a deputy
sheriff.
Hawkins may ask for a new trial,
and failing to receive it he may ap
peal, Until these legal aspects are
disposed of ne will be held In the
county jail for about thirty days be
fore being taken north to begin serv
ing his sentence,
Hawkins played on the University
of Southern California fotobala team
as a guard for two years, and in his
genfor year, 1025, he played quarter
back and was captain. He was rated
as an excellent player, but coast sport
writers say he was not popular with
his teammates, despite his selection
as captain, because he was “cantan
kerous and domineering”
Calf Has Two Heads,
Two Tails, Seven Legs
Truro, N. B.~Among the numerous
attractions at the annual maritime
winter falr at Amherst, N, 8, Is a
freak calf. The little animal has two
heads, two tails and seven legs, and
has been the attraction for large num
bers of persons for several months at
the farm of its owner in Kent county,
New Brunswick.
Police Dog His Guide.
New York=-A police dog Is sup
posed to be the eyes of a motorist who
left for Los Angeles blindfolded. It
was announced when Jimmy Burns,
racing driver, departed that he would
be guided solely by Pedro’s barking,
whining and seratching.
CONFUCIUS’ GRIP
ON CHINA SLIPS
Policy of Religious Freedom
Dooms Old Creeds.
Nanking, China.—Confucianism, un
der the nationalist regime, has lost
its last claim to be the state re
ligion of China.
The Nanking government has de
creed that nothing be done to pre
vent veneration to the memory and
teachings of the great sage, but the
old influence of Confuclus has erum
bled under the weight of modern
istic nationalism.
This summary of Nanking’s atti
tude toward the ancient faith and
code which has molded Chinese
thought and conduct for more than
two thousand years was given the
Associated Press by a direct descend
ant of Confucius who is also a mem
ber of the nationalist government. He
is Dr. H, H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-shi)
of the seventy-fifth generation in di
rect line from the sage, whose Chi
nese name was Kung Fu-tzu, Doc
tor Kung, alumnus of Oberlin and
Yale universities, is minister of in
dustry and commerce and, while
proud of his Confucian lineage, is a
Christian.
“Many persons, especially abroad.
erroneously conceive of Confucianism
as a religion,” said Doctor Kung.
“Confucianism actually is a code of
philosophy, a standard of ethical con
duct for which no claim is made of
divine or supernatural sanction.
“However, the policy of the nation
alist government is complete religious
freedom and toleration, and we shall
do nothing to interfere with those
who still worship Confucius.
“Certainly we shall do nothing to
cast disrespect on the memory of
this great man, who is venerated as
the great sage and teacher of the
Chinese people.”
Noted Scot to Judge
. Steers at Exposition
Chicago.—Visitors at the Interna
tional Live Stock exposition, to be
held in Chicago from December 1 to 8,
will have the opportunity of seeing
Walter Biggar of Dalbeattie, Scotland,
judge the individual street classes
again.
It will be the fourth time that Mr.
Biggar has crossed the Atlantic in
this capacity. Opinion is that this di
vision of the exposition requires a
fund of knowledge of animal form and
a great deat of care and good judg
ment in exercising it. Ring-side audi
ences, reporters of the show, and ex
hibitors themselves are united in their
opinion that the work has never been
performed more faultlessly than by
this Scottish judge. It will evolve
upon him to pick the grand-champion
steer of the show. From sl.lO to $3.60
a pound have been paid for these
grand-champion selections of Walter
Biggar, in the auctions of fat cattle
that follow his judging.
A Canadian of note among live
stock circles who will visit the Chi
cago show in the capacity of judge is
William Dryden of Brooklin, Ontario.
He will serve as one of a committee
of three to pass upon the Aberdeen-
Angus breed, and another illustrious
Canadian is W. L. Carlyle, who will
journey to Chicago to tie the ribbons
in the Clydesdale horse classes. Mr.
Carlyle is the manager of the Prince
of Wales ranch at Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Soldier’s Pay Is a Gift,
Court Rules in Canada
Vancouver, B. C.—Holding that a
soldier cannot sue for his pay, Justice
Audette, in exchequer court, dismissed
the suit of John Williams Cooke for
$3,275 claimed due as pay and allow
ances for time he was held as a pris
oner in Germany. During the time he
says he was prisoner, he was classified
on army rolls as a deserter and his
pay stopped.
The case was decided on the crown's
contention that there was no con
tractual relation between soldier and
crown, the undertaking of the latter
to pay being voluntary and the pay
itself a gratuity, since the soldier, as
a citizen of the state, could not enter
into a contract with himself,
2,976 Languages
Berlin.—A total of 2976 languages
spoken throughout the world is given
by Der Deutsche as the result of care:
fully compiled statistics from the vari
ous countries. This number includes
the many barbaric means of expres
sion used In various obscure corners
of the earth, |
Liberia Floods Uncover
Rich Diamond Field
Monrovia, Liberia, — Recent
heavy raing have disclosed the
exlistence of what appears to be
a rich diamond field, In the
wake of disastrous floods which
changed the landscape In many
sections of the country four diu
monds of excellent quality have
been found,
A report of a survey made by
an English engineer 20 years
ago says: “l have every reason
to belleve that on this spot u
new dlamond field will one day
be found having the same char
ncter as the great Kimberley
mines.” The report designaten
the exact locality where the re.
cent discoveries were made,
CHARLTGN COUNTY HERALD
MENDOZA HEADS GANG
OF MEXICAN BANDITS
Displaces “El Catorce” in
Front Page Honors.
Mexico City.—~Benjamin Mendoza,
a bandit who sometimes operates al
most on the borders of the capital, is
seizing the front page honors former
ly held by the famous “El Catorce.”
The bandits or rebels who recently
fought with federals on the Cuerna
vaca-Mexico ‘City highway almost
within sight of an automobile con
taining United States Ambassador
Dwight W. Morrow and Mrs. Morrow
were said to have been members of
the Mendoza group.
Mendoza with Maximilliano Vigu
eras is regarded as res“ Psible for
most of the recent holdupS’of motor
ists on the highways ar«fig;_t,hg cap
ital. In at least one of his attacks
Mendoza exhibited a savagery which
is generally rare among the bandit
gentry in Mexico.
Assault Victims.
This was the holdup and assault
of a dozen or more automobile loads
of Sunday week-enders on a visit to
the famous cave near Cuernavaca.
Besides being deprived of their
money and valuables, several women
of the tourists’ party wexmuaulted
brutally by Mendoza's n The
bandits, using the tourists’ car, elso
fired on a nearby village.
Facts of the holdup, including the
details of the assault on the women,
were slow in reaching the capital.
Mendoza’s attacks on villages and
towns in the region around Cuerna
vaca where he generally operutes
have on one or two occasions been
extraordinarily relentless. At one
point where he wiped out a small
federal garrison, his men came away
with fifty federal uniferms, according
to a foreigner who was in the dis
trict at the time.
Turn Loose Locomotives.
With himself and a picked band |
wearing the uniforms, Mendoza and ‘
fifty men entered another town in |
the guise of federals and asked for
local volunteers to help hunt Men
doza. Twenty-seven citizens respond
ed. They were barely outside the
town, according to the story brought
to the capital, when the bandits
turned on the volunteers and kiiled
them without warning.
Twice the Mendoza band, or a
group believed to have been under
his direction, set loose wild locomo
tives on the Cuernavaca-Mexico City
railway in an attempt to wreck pas
senger trains, Each time, fortunate
ly, the locomotive wrecked itself.
Within the last few weeks a fed
eral escort of twenty-five men .om &
Cuernavaca train was completely
wiped out by bandits, and the train
burned. There were almost no pas
sengers aboard and the dead were
confined to the soldiery.
Plane Successfully Used
in Seeding Grass
Portland, Ore.—Success of grass
seeding experiments carried on by
airplane over a 1,000-acre area in
Coos county, Oregon, may result in
the seeding of large pasture areas
along the Pacific coast from the alr
in 1929.
An excellent stand of grass, even
ly distributed over the area, was ob
tained at approximately oné-third of
the expense incurred by hand seed
ing. Harold R. Adams and N, W.
Perkins, commercial flyers at Lyrtle
Point, set a record for speed in seed
ing grass lands when they covered
the 1,000 acres in slightly more than
ten hours,
The idea, which was conceived by
Dr. Ear! G. Lowe, a physician at Co
quille, Ore., and one of the stock
holders in the Coquille Valley Sheep
and Wool company, may be extended
to other pasture lands next year,
Using a specially constructed hop
per to hold the seed in front of the
cockpit, the valve opening of which
was controlled by the pilot in the
rear cockpit, the pilot was able to
seed strips 90 feet wide flying 70
miles an hour from an altitude of
500 feet, .
Communist Girls Adopt
Signet Wedding Ring
Moscow,~—Communist girls, longing
for something more than a two-minute
marriage registration ceremony to be
come the lawful wives of the men they
love, have Invented a “red” signet
wedding ring for hushand and wife
to wear. It is to be a symhol of mar
riage. The ring Is a plain band of
gray iron. The seal Is the Soviet em
blem of a crossed hammer and sickle
with the addition of an engraved por
tralt of Lenine in the center,
Violent opposition to the ring, and
wedding rings of all kinds, has arlsen,
The subject 1s beinz debated in Com
somol (young communist) meetings,
Opponents declare that wedding rings
are petty bourgeols ornaments, a sym
bol of slavery and barbarism,
St. Louis Standard in
Use of American Tongue
New York.~'The Amerlcan lunguage
seems to be spoken in Bt. Louls more
than In any other city,
Such was the conclusion of an audf
ence at Columbla after listening to 20
records of as many varleties of speech
in the country, from the Vermont
twang to the Southern drawl
Prof. Willlam Cabell Greet of Bar.
nard suggested thut 8t Louis waus the
standard and the audience, 100 grad
uates of Columbla, agreed
Greets Friend, Finds
He’s a Holdup Man
Kansas City, Mo.—John Pal
stl, owner of a restaurant, was
alone in his place of business
when in walked a former waiter,
“Hello, Jimmy,” greeted Pal:
sti,
“You recognize me, 1 see,” the
visitor grinned,
“What are you doing these
days?” inquired Palsti.
“It would be a surprise to
you,” answered the former wait
er and drew a gun,
*Oh, you are a policeman!”
Palsti said.
“Oh, no, just what the police
are looking for,” Jimmy an
swered cheerfully as he ordered
Palsti to open his cash drawer.
After taking the money the
waiter ordered his former bogs
to the kitchen and escaped.
‘DEAD” SOLDIER IS
BACK HOME AGAIN
He Was Town’s First Reported
Killed in War.
Chesley, Ont.—Chesley's first sol
dier reported killed in the war has
returned from the dead. He came
back from California to find his name
heading the list on the town's war
memorial., And now Chesley wonders
what should be done about it.
Joost Wilhelm Van Os, his body still
showing the signs of war battering,
has convinced his old comrades that
he i 3 neither an apparition nor an
imposter,
He is back at his old job and every
day walks past the memorial where
his naume heads the list of “the glori
ous dead.”
Van Os doesn’t care what the town
does. It can remove his name if it
likes. But in the meantime he is en-
Jjoying the ante-mortem thrill of read
ing his own obituary.
There is no precedent in Canada to
govern the case and it looks as if
Chesley would continue to honor as
dead one of its living citizens.
Van Os was left for dead in no
man’s land. His identification disk
was taken off his neck, given to the
commanding officers and forwarded to
his next of kin, He was Chesléy’s
first soldier to enlist, the first re
ported dead and the first to head the
list of heroes on the town's granite
obelishk.
Gpat Eats Dynamite
i —and Town Shivers
~ Aurora, N. Y.—A common or tin
can-eating variety of black and white
‘goat spent a considerable period
without food recently all because of
his voracious appetite, It was a very
hungry goat, yet the residents of Au
rora unanimously agreed that they
would let the goat starve before they
would feed it.
Cruel, perhaps; but these folks had
their reasons. For the goat had just
eaten two sticks of dynamite.
The man who owns the goat saw
it swallow the last stick of the deadly
explosive. Before he realized what
he was doing he had tied it up in the
barn. Then, reflecting on the risk he
was taking, he nearly had nervous
prostration.
After that the townfolk sat shiver-
Ing in their homes waiting for the
goat to blow up and take the town
along. The goat did not explode—
but it was a very hungry animal be
fore its owner fed it again,
Crazed Polish Peasant
Kills 7 With Bayonet
Warsaw, Poland.—A peasant became
crazed in the village of Smidy, In
Molhyplen and killed seven persons
with a bayonet, including two police
men, He wounded five others,
The peasants were holding a meet
ing in a school building when one,
bamed Mezowiee, started a quarrel,
He was forcibly expelled. When po
lice came Mezowlec seized a rifle from
one and stabbed him to death with the
bayonet. Some of the peansants rushed
to ald the policeman and the madman
struck out with the bayonet in all di
rections,
In prison he explalned that he had
thought he saw a devil,
Gives Up Wife Rather
‘ Than Change Neckties
Los Angeles.~Happiness bung on
necktles for Arthur J. Brown, depnty
sherift. The oflicer related his troubles
to Judge Joseph P, Sproule, who gave
him a divorce from Edith J. Brown,
“She sald 1 bad an Inferiority com.
plex,” testified Brown, *“She wouldn't
go out with me, but mlways kept
nagging about my veukties. She sald
they were too loud. | didn't think so;
they were just colorful, A fellow has
to have a bit of color now snd then
She suld that if 1 didn’t change my
necktles she would leave me; | stuck
to my guns and she left.”
The couple married a (ttle more
than a year ago.
Swallows Safety Pin
Denver, Colo, = Virginia Hodges
elghteen years old, of 532 West Fourth
avenue, tried to do three things at
once the other night, chew gum, plek
her teeth with a safety pin and whis
tle. The attempt ended disustrously
and another patlent was chalked up
at Denver General hospital, Virginia
forgot the gum, and the safety pin. In
the desire to whistle She swallowed
both.
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Many a young man
old before his time
EVERYBODY will tell you some
thing different. Some people
arc past their Xrimc by the time
they're forty. few never know
what it's like to feel in their Erimc.
And then you talk to some hale and
hearty man of 65, and he'll tell you
he's been in his prime as long as he
can remember,
“I'm still in my prime,’" he'll de
clare, “'lt’s all a matter of how well
you feel. And that's largely a matter
of keeping your system in good
working order. Living by regular
schedule.
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It's these poisons that sap your
health and energy, slow you up,
He Kicked Then, Too
Blinks—las your wife ever been on
time?
Jinks—Well, once she sat on my
watch,—Cincinnati Enquirer,
There is a lot of bad taste that is
intelligently—and wisely-—concealed
by those who have it. '
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The man who goes about wishing
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the only one who regrets it.
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“Did you persuade your hushand te
buy You a new fur coat?’ “Oh, yes,
without half crying.”—Town Topics.
Great quantities of skim milk are
still wasted, even though dried skim
milk can be successfully used in fice
cream making,
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Pob—What did you do when Mabel
said you were odd?
Bill—l told her I would get even. f
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but the trouble is, tushlonable‘mq
ple are always changing the rules.
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