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8 MUTT AND JEFF—The Little Fellow’s Out of Luck, That’s Al. ~ a y Dua t ' isner ■ i I’m gonaj* nvr>e I (all 'DAY ANfb PLAY < S SAFE A CHAM6E. j MUTT'LL weUGR X ♦ KNO\a/ IM. , _ . t / -x 'X V > J*>TWS OL'b, J \\ 1 s £ - VACANT LOT. | K I T’LL FOOL MUMBlfWir, "-’"L 'W jWW^SS^" i!1 W ' 'S' W*" XztZ; *A JtH 10/ 1 IFJB/ «feft . JK|fe Ja ft 1. <zfl ? Sfc ISE, Wl ' X*7 (Copyright, 1920. by H. C.'Tteber) I *~| | , I _J REPORT MADE ON REPRODUCTION OF U. S. RAILROADS WASHINGTON, May 27. —Prelimi- nary reports of the interstate com merce commission on the cost of re producing the country’s railroads were introduced before the commis sion today by the carriers as sus taining their property investment ac count figures on which they base their request for freight advances ag gregating $1,017,000,000, so as to yield the 6 per cent return allowed under the transportation act. Thomas W. Hulme, of Philadelphia, vice chairman of the carriers’ valua tion committee, told the commission that government engineering reports for fifty systems with a mileage of 51,853, showed the cost of reproduc tion 1914, prices, including the value of land, to be $3,203,782,543, as com pared with a property investment ac count of $3,158,275,156, and carried on the books of the companies. When inventories are completed for all the roads of the country, Mr. Hulme declared, they would show a reproduction cost on the 1914 prices in excess of the carriers’ own.; in vestment statement, and that on the basis of present prices the total would be far in excess of this. Costs now, he said, are more than 100 per cent above those prevailing in 1914. After Thomas W. Hulme, vice chairman of the president’s confer ence committee oh valuation, con cludes testimony for the eastern group today, accounting and traffic experts for the southern territory will be heard. With proper equipment the rail roads of the country can be oper ated as successfully in the future under private management as they were before federal control. Charles H. .Markham, president of the Illi nois Central railroad, declared Wed nesday in opening the case of the southern railroads for higher rates Expenditures of at least $600,000';- 000 for new equipment for the na tion’s transportation system was advocated by Mr. Markham, who as serted that "nothing was of greater importance • than the immediate placing of orders for cars and en gines; Railroad history, he said, shows continued progress in ef ficiency, and, accordingly, the roads s ould operate as successfully in the future as in the past if given the tools in the shape of equipment to work with. For the southern railroads Mr. Markham asked an increase in freight rates to enable the carriers to earn $134,049,091 annually, which, he claimed, would represent a re turn of 6 per cent on the aggregate value of those carriers, which he estimated at $2,267,484,847. The hearing on the demands of the railroads of the country for in creased rates to give an added in come of a billion dollars a ye&r will he suspended for a week at the con clusion of the carriers’ testimony. Chairman Clark announced today that the commission would recess for that length of time to permit the shippers to study the evidence presented and prepare for cross-ex amination Why the Buffalo Wallow The water buffalo of China, writes C. O. Levine, associate professor of animal husbandry, Canton Christian college, in the Journal of Heredity (Washington) has few sweat glands in its skin, and for this reason can not endure hard work in the sun for a long period, unless its body is wet with water. 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Acting Prose cutor Thomas J. Huckin, in opening the case, said he expected to show that the young woman was murdered by her husband and the body mys teriously disposed ( of. The chief wit ness for the state is Mary Locascio, ten, a daughter of the accused man. She testified her father and mother, quarreled. “Mamma put us to bed and she went to bed, too,” said Mary. “About midnight we heard awful screams from my mamma and I went to the door of mamma’s bedroom to see what was the matter. I saw papa with both hands and arms around mamma’s neck. Soon mamm» stop ped screaming and papa laid her on the bed and straightened opt her feet and put the bedclothes over her. Mamma’s face was toward the wall. The next morning, when I went to the bedroom, mamma lay in the same place and hadn’t moved.” ‘*Why didn’t you speak to your mamma?” asked Mr. Huckin. “I was afraid of disturbing her,” was the answer. But under cross-examination, Mary admitted she hadn’t seen her mother the following morning. When Mary was finally excused, she broke down and cried pitifully and was led out of the courtroom by the matron. The defense contends Mrs. Locascio was fond of cabaret shows and dances and deserted her husband. Mrs. Grace Hupiiston, the woman lawyer vzho figured conspicuolsly in the finding of Ruth Kruger’s body in New York, will be the chief witness fox the state tomorrow.. Boy Strangles to Death on Rubber From Toy Balloon Making tiny “eggs”- by sucking a toy balloon, which had burst, proved fatal to James Stanley Ferry, 12 years old, son of John C. Ferry, an employe of the American Tobacco company, living at 1608 Columbia street, Louisville, Ky. Strangulation, caused by lodgment of a particle of rubber in the child’s -throat, caused his death shortly afterward. With a- younger companion, the boy had gone to a grocery at Fif teenth and Bank streets, where he purchased a toy baljoon. Shortly* af ter he had left the grocery the bal loon burst. He then sucked the rub ber to make smaller balloons. Suddenly he grasped his throat and started running for home, sev eral blocks distant. When almost at his front gate, he fell to the side walk in convulsions. Pedestrians who gathered around were unable to render assistance. Mr. Ferry was returning from a meat market when Jie saw the crowd, i One of the bystanders hailed him. He carried the boy home. Drs. Phil ip Nevitt and D.' H. Borgman were summoned. The child was dead be fore they arrived. Physicians said that this is the first fatality of the kind in Louis ville. Deputy Coroner Singer pronounced death due to strangulation. Besides the boy’s parents a brother, Claude, and a sister, Mar guerite, survive. Also Capillary “Jack is perfectly devoted to that blonde. His family thinks it is a case of hypnotism.” “HuhJ Seems to me more like chemicav’attraction.”—Boston Trans l cript. Spring house cleaning has just been .completed aboard the good ship Mayflower, President Wil son’s yacht, and the skipper. Cap tain Holmes, has reported her j-eady for any cruise. Wilson may spend a good share of the summer months aboard the Mayflower Center, the Mayflower; upper right, the new Mayflower launch, selected by Mrs. Wilson; upper left, “gobs” shining up the presi dential silverware; right, Captain Holmes, and below, Chief Steward Shiro, steward on the Mayflower for the last eight years. Mrs. Morosco Sues Miss Paley for ‘Gifts,’ Autos, Jewels and Furs A novel suit in which Mrs. Annie T. Morosco seeks to recover from Miss Selma Paley more than $250,000 in cash, gifts and property which she alleges her husband gave to her, was filed in the county clerk's office, New York, recently. Miss Paley said the papers had not been served on her and she had heard nothing about them. When told the amounts mentioned by Mrs. Morosco and; her attorneys, she laughingly said, “Judging by those figures, I must be a rich woman, without re alizing it.” She declined to comment upon the allegations concerning her contained in this and suits brought by Mrs. Morosco against her hus band. In her suit Mrs. Morosco alleges her husband converted and turned over to Miss Paley large amounts of receipts and profits from the play “Peg O’ My Heart,” which she claims belonged to her as sole owner of the performing rights. September 1, 1918, she alleges, her husband' fitted out an apartment at No. 44 West Seventy-seventh street for Miss Paley and bought and fur nished a bungalow at Long Beach for her, In addition to giving her motor cars, jewelry, furs and other gifts. Mrs. Morosco asks that the money and properties described as now in Miss Paley’s possession be impressed with a trust fund in her favor. In another new suit filed against her husband, Mrs. Morosco sues to recover sixty-one and a half shares of capital stock of the Famous Play ers Lasky corporation or their equivalent, $7,011, which, she alleges, belong to her and her husband has refused to deliver. • Monument That Swings Gently swaying to and fro, a huge granite monument has been discov ered on Green mountain, several miles north of Canon City, Colo. It is believed to be the only “swinging monument” in the world. The shaft is more than 100 feet high, and in the course of many years lias become free from all sur rounding earth formation except at the base, which is about twelve feet wide. In the center the granite col umn is about fifty feet in thickness and tapers off to a width at the summit practically the same as at the base. The entire shaft moves probably from two to three feet at the apex, and the swing is constant under the pressure of light winds. The base of the shaft rests in a small hollow about three feet in depth, and the contiguous granite formation has been entirely disconnected. The Meanest Editor A man died owing a Missouri edi tor six years’ unpaid subscription to the paper. The editor dtd not seim any flowers. He attended the funer al and placed a palm-leaf fan and a block of ice on the casket. —Cincin- anti Inquirer. Schroeder Awarded Altitude Record for 33,000-Foot Climb The world’s altitude record has been officially awarded to Major R. Vv*. Sqhroeder by the bureau of stand ards at Washington. The true alti tude reached by Major Schroeder at Dayton, 0., on February 27 last, is given as 33,000 feet, after all his instruments were carefully verified and corrected. The announcement clears up def initely the controversy that has rent aeronautical circles ever since the United States army air service an nounced that Major Schroeder had reached an altitude of 36,020 feet in the flight that ended in a five-mile fall out of the skies Before Cie avia tor recovereu control of his air plane. The announcement of the bureau of standards shows that three im portant world altitude records are held by American aviators and Amer ican airplanes. The other two were made by Roland Rohlofs In a Cur tiss Wasp triplane, first for reaching a true altitude of 32,450 feet without the aid of engine attachments, and second for climbing to an altitude of 19,200 feet in ten minutes. An interesting feature 6f the bu reau of standards’ announcement is that by applying the rules governing altitude flying laid down by the Fed eration Aeronautique Internationale in 1919, Major Schroeder actually reached an altitude of 38,180 feet. Major Schroeder used a supercharger to assist his 400-horse power Lib erty engine to maintain its full ef ficiency at extreme altitude. Owing to some discrepancies found in the instruments carried by Major Schroeder, the Aero Club of Amer ica, as representative of the Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale, de clined to accept the figures until the bureau of standards had passed upon them. The Curtis Wasp triplane added another world’s record to its list of achievements recently in a test by the United States navy at Rockaway naval air station. The triplane wap equipped with pontoons in place of landing carriage and was flown over a measured w’ater course by Mr. Rohlfs. The Wasp made an average speed of 138 miles an hour, breaking all former records for seaplanes. The flight was under official observation by the United States navy. The Wasp’s best official record for speed as a landing machine is 162 miles an hour. - “Truth” Unadorned Is Covered With Blanket Vice President Marshall, when still a struggling lawyer in Indiana, was sitting in his little office when a genial book agent entered ami under took to sell him a new edition of the Bible.’* morocco, annoted,” etc.. Before the agent was through with his description of the merits of the new volume, Marshall interrhipted him to aSk who the author was. “W-h-y. this is the Bible,” explain ed the agent. “I am fully aware of that,” an swered Marshall, in full soberness, “but I ask again, who is the author?" Again the salesman explained that he was offering the Bible. Again Marshall demanded the name of the author, and the demand and the ex planation were repeated in varying forms again and again. Finally the man of the books gathered up his samples, retreated to the door, and then, with one hand on the knob,, turned around and shouted: “You pinheaded fool and blithering idiot, it’s the Bible.” About 28 “Pop!” “Yes, my son.” “What are the ‘Middle Ages.’” “Why, the middle ages, my boy, are 4.1 e ones which, when the women re.-Kill, they stop counting.”—Tink ers statesman. WOOD LEADING G.O.P. FIELD FOR THE-NOMINATION CHICAGO, May 27. —Candidates for the Repfiblican nomination for the presidency today opened their final drive to capture the 493 votes that spell victory in the convention which opens here one week from Tuesday. The last of the 954 delegates who will sit in the convention were se lected yesterday, when Vermont Re publicans met and chose eight un instructed delegates. * Major General Leonard Wood, re turns show, will enter the conven tion with more instructed voftes than any other candidate, but his total ot 153 is less than one-third of the. number necessary to win the nomi nation. The division of strength among the large, field of “favorite sons’’ practically precludes any possibility of a nomination on the first ballot. Even the most optimistic campaign managers here are not claiming vic tory before the third ballot, and the more conservative party leaders pre dict the break will not come before the fifth or sixth at the earliest. One big factor which may upset campaign managers’ predictions Is yet to be dealt with. One hundred and forty-five contests have been or will be filed, more than one-seventh of all the seats in the convention being at stake, and the national com mittee which meets here Monday to decide these contests and prepare the temporary roll may materially alter the prospects of several candi dates. The principal contests are between supports of Major General Wood and Governor Frank O. Lowden. Senator Johnson and other candidates are not directly interested in these contests but rntiy raise questions regarding primary contests in South Dakota, New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan, Ne braska and other places. Claims of Candidates In addition to the 14 5 contests, sixty-four surplus delegates, with fractional votes, have been chosen from ten states, and the Republican national committee’s rules provide that their rights to seats shall also be contested. The convention call stated that \no over-size delegates should be seated and no seats have been provided for these sixty-four. Senator Hiram Johnson and Sen ator Howard Sutherland, of West Vir ginia, were, the principal gainers in primaries and conventions held in four states during the past week. Senator Johnson, returns indicate, will get nine of Oregon’s ten'votes and Senator Sutherland sixteen from West Virginia. Texas Republicans split into two factions, each of which elected an uninstructed delegation with 23 votes. ' Figures compiled here show the following division of the vote: Major General Wood 153; Senator Hiram Johnson 109; Governor Low den 74; favorite sons and uninstruct ed 648. In the favorite son list, Senator Warren Harding has 39 votes from Ohio; Senator Sutherland 16 from West Virginia; Senator Miles Poin dexter is expected to receive Wash ington’s 14. and Judge Pritchard, of North Carolina, is expected to. get 17 of his state’s 22 votes. Campaign managers here of the three leading candidates all claim victory in statements issued last night. The Wood and Johnson camps make definite predictions as to their first ballot vote, the supporters of the general claiming 385 votes, and those of the senator 236. • The Low den forces, while professing their confidence, are not prepared to quote exact figures. “Leonard Wood,” says a statement from his headquarters, “has so in creased his votes in the last week that a first ballot prediction of 385 votes was made at Wood head quarters here. This is more than the combined instructed vote of all other candidates. On the first ballot he will be a big leader and his total will indrease steadily until nomina tion is assured.” Hall to Be Ready “The Johnson headquarters, which are now in charge of Hiram John son, Jr., the senator’s son, annour-- ed with equal positiveness: “Senator Hiram Johnson already has 236 pledged delegates who will vote for him on the first ballot and will stick with him to the last ditch. His vote on the first ballot will be equal, if not greater, than that of any other candidate and by the fifth or sixth ballot, he will be nominat ed.” “We are going to win,” said the statement from the Lowden camp. “We have had no time to sum up, and figures therefore are unavail able, but we are going to win, and the situation looks even better than it did last week.” f W’ork on the convention hall is progressing rapidly, and Charles .R.. Hall, superintendent t>f the Coliseum, has assured the convention copimit tee that the more than 13,000 seats will be in place 24 hours before the convention is called to order hy Chairman Will Hays of the national committee. Extra balconies are being erected to provide nearly 1,000 more seats than were available at any previous convention. The speaker’s platform and seats for 2,000 distinguished visitors have already been erected. In the Coli seum annex, offices of the conven tion committees and offices and the room of €he national committee where the contests will, be heard next week, have been in readiness for some time. National commlttemen began ar riving early this week, and a ma jority of the fifty-three members arc expected, to be on hand by Monday. Chariman Hays will arrive Sunday Women Are Forging Ahead At the now justly famous Jackson day dinner a number of good stories were told and the women are enjoy ing one told by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, apropos of the growing influence of women. Referring to the habit of American men of calling their wives “the better half,” he re peated a story told him by the Prince of Wales during his recent visit here. Visiting a dugout occupied by American doughboys the prince was surprised to find there, side by side, large pictures of his father and mother clipped from some illustrated magazine. He stepped closer to note the inscription. Under one was “King George, the Fifth,” under the other, “The Other Four-Fifths!” Girl Returns Home After Seeing A Bit of Life on Father’s Money A roguish smile on her face, Hen rietta Bulte, the x fifteen-year-old schoolgirl who went on a pilgrimage across the continent instead of going to the Harlem Savings bank with her father’s $260, is home again. She returned a little shy and a little repentant, but confident that if let alone she would have become just as great a motion picture actress as any of them. The story of her country-wide jaunt, her experiences as a waitress and her various vicissitudes reads like “The Handicaps of Henrietta.” even though her pluck and her $260 didn’t land her a picture job. Henrietta had $lB of the $260 when she returned home. She came in the custody of Policewoman Mary E. Hamilton. She met her father in the office of Acting Captain John H. Ay ers, in charge of the missing persons bureau, at police headquarters. It was the first time she had seen him since her sudden disappearance April 12, and she promised him that she’d never, never leave home again. But just the same, she has her ambitions, so far as the celluloid films are con cerned. / The scenario of “The Handicaps of Henrietta,” tracing her movements from the time she left New York until her arrival on the Pacific coast, might read like this: Leaves Nbw York with the $260. Goes io Philadelphia. Remains four days and finds it pretty dull. On to Chicago, stopping at the Young Wom en’s Christian association. Gets job as a waitress April 30. Makes good. Four days later goeat; to Needles, Cal.. 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Juat try it. and you will see lam telling ><*> <he truth. DR. J. E. CANNADAY 1164 Park Square SEDALIA, MO. ox,u w d.. “ d “ “ ““* ssgggggsssss all m s . THESE ■ r This Victory Red Persian Ivory , Pendant and Neck Chain, 30 inches > Z# W long; these 4 Gold plated Rings L, -J® fc ~ al ”l this lovely Gold plated Laval- jfeiM Xy liere and Neck Chain will ALL be Given rREE by us to an y One ge n. tng only 12 pieces ff Jewelry at 10 cents each.' Victory Red is all the rage. B, D. MEAD MFG. CO., Province, R. I. and gets another place as waitress. Loses it. On to Los Angeles, the motion pic ture kingdom. Sees house where “Doug” and Mary live. Likes Los Angeles. To Hollywood May 17 and gets job as maid. Two hours later found by the police. Plans upset, dreams shattered. Goes through tangle of legal pro cedure. Placed in care of matron of Santa Fe railroad. Returns east to Philadelphia. Finds it duller than ever. Back to New York to home and mother. THE END Policewoman Hamilton met Henri etta in Philadelphia and personally conducted the homecoming. Made Fireproof Matches Matches are a government monop oly in France and cost about a cent for twenty, without any guarantee as to quality. Parisians have recent- • ly been complaining bitterly that a certain brand would strike, but that the flame would not Are the wood more than about onae in ten times. The Scientific American says the gov ernment instituted ah investigation and “discovered that some one in fatuated with the craze for utilizing every form of waste had supplied the matchmakers with loose ends from a shop where military huts were constructed. It was commend able enough thus to work up the stumps, but no one had remembered that, the timber Had been impregnat ed tip render it fireproof.”