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Newspaper Page TextClaims “Love Potions” Were . Given as Tonics, Vienna.—Anna Pistova, age ninety two or ninety-three 8 to go on trial shortly In Pancevo, Yugo-Slavia, on the charge of furnishing polson to wives who wished to get rid of thelr husbands, BBix wives who tried her “love potions” on their husbands and became widows are to be tried with Anna, or after her case is settled, Some say she has led to the deaths of 60 husbands, and of many wives, for men also patronized her, While Anna is ecalled the “Witch of Viadimirovac,” a place -not far from Belgrade, and is an exceedingly aged person, it appears that she is by no means a peasant crone, EHer story as now told is one for a novelist, but it Ils difficult to say how much truth it contains. The United States is not the only country in which a woman on trial for murder is provided with a romantic past. The Village Enters. The story is that Anna was the daughter of a rich cattleman of Ru mania, who moved to Vladimirovac 80 years ago, and that she received an excellent education. The villain, goes the story, entered her life when she was twenty-one, As is always the case with more than ordinarily heartless female killers, she had to be more than ordinarily beautiful. The villain was a young officer, who finally cast Anna aside and left her a pessimist and misanthropist. + Anna sonf;ht seclusion after the af fair of .he heart, and with her knowl adge of five languages gave herself up to medical and chemical studies. She came out of her grief sufficiently to marry a landowner named Pistova, by whom she had 11 children. Only one survives, a prosperous merghant. Her husband's death sent Anna pack to the test tubes and beakers. She built a laboratory onto her house and evolved from herbs many real or | supposed remedies for diseases, but she is charged with having plenty of arsenic around. She dispensed many | of her remedies to wives who were not inconsolably distressed when their husbands tried the remedies and left ‘ the wives with property and prospects of other husbands, As has been said, it 1s charged that not a few husbands who bought remedies of Anma were ‘careless about leaving them around where their wives could sample them Wwith djgastrous consequences for the safiplefs. « That is the defense. Anna’s coun sel gssert that she was not responsi ble 1f wives or husbands took over doses of her medicines. Some of the | fatal medicines are said to have con- ‘ tained \'g*_getalgle poisons which were | exceedingly difficult to detect, byt some of them appear to have con tained arsenie, - . Called "Em Tonics. | “ Arsenic ﬁ {i€ed 4§ a 'toniC and some people became arsenie addicts. The husband of Mrs, Florence Maybrick Was an avsenic addiet, whjch fact %n}de Mrs. Maybrick’s conviction Qf oisopifig him to degth with arsenic xtremely doubtful as to the charge Javing been proved, Anna's defense is sofffewhat along the sime lines, She says that the (eath dealing medicines ‘contafining uarsenie which she dis penged were first rvate tonies for the Purchazers, if tised properly, » “Anna herself is said to De a walk ing advertisement for her own tonics, if she takes them, She is described as looking not more than fifty-five years of age, instead of ninety-two or ninety-three; has her hair curled daily and uses cosmetics. 2 : Criminals in Belgium Inclined to Be Tail Antwerp, Belgiuni.—ln the criminal population of Belgium the proportion of tall persons is much higher than it 1s among recruits, representing pre sumably the average of the male pop ulation. Doctor Vervaeck, a Belgian psychologist and authority on <erimi nology, made this discovery ‘after a ¢omparison of the measurethents of about 25,000 individuals, The Belgians are a short but broad race. Their average height is about 5 feet 6 inches. Doctor Vervaeck classified the recruits ‘and criminals into four groups—the shorts, between 5 feet 1 inch and b ‘feet 3; the mid dles, from 5 feet 8 'to 5 feet 7 inches; the talls, from 5 feét 7 to 5 feet 10% inches, dnd the stiperior talls, 5 feet 11 inches and ‘over. The shorts in cluded 13.5 per cent of the recruits and enly 11.6 per cent .of the crimi pals. The middles included 63.5 per cent as the recruits and only 55.9 per cent of the'‘criminals. In both tall groups proportions of criminals are in excess, the talls having 221 per cent recruits and 30.6 per cent crim inals, whilé the very talls include only 0.9 per cent of recruits and 1.9 per cent of the criminals. One Street Housing 100 Incorporated as Village st." Louis, Mo.—One street, fifteen families ‘numbering with servants less than ‘IOO persons; five trustees and a ‘pridle clubhouse as town hall com _prisé the newest village in St. Louis " county. The Village of Huntleigh, lo cated’ on Denny road, was recently fncornorated by the County counrt ¢4’ avoid the possibility of annexation by 'some other community. Trustees, ~who were appointed by the court, will W@m.ﬂmﬂm purpose giig & mayor. ~ - LIGHTS OF * NEW YORK Dixon NEW YORK.—~Vocal understudies are the latest, ever since the so-called talking movies came into vogue, A good many of our screen heroes and heroines, it has been revealed, have poor voices and must have others to do thelr singing and talking. Some times this provides startling and amus ing results, as witness a recent ple ture in which the movement of the actor's lips didn't at all coincide with the words of the song he was sup posed to be singing. On one occasion a screen actor re cently was introduced at the premiera of his first all-talking picture. When the audience heard his voice the house rocked with laughter and boos. It was explained by the management that the actor had a cold—but this weak ex planation left the audience, skeptical to the last, very, very cold, * » - Dark Ghost of the Past Now and then you may see a col ored gem'men of about fifty years or so, his form still stiffly erect, walking along Broadway. He is Jack Johnson, one champion heavyweight of the world. The once famous champ, they say, has fallen into days that lack the glamor he enjoyed in another decade. Johnson, though he made quite a bit of money, saved little of it. He no longer lives in the sumptuous apart ment of the past but in a modest Har lem hotel. There were days when he made a big splurge in Broadway. Today his activities cause no more ripple than the humblest pebble in the big gest sea. *t * * Beggars on Horseback It happens quite frequently in New, York but still the populace falls for it. The city is filled with professional beg gars and, in spite of the current leg end that New Yorkers are hard-heart ed, they seem to make quite a living at their profession. The other day a woman was arrest ed as a beggar and when searched $3,000 in bills was found on her. An other “beggar,” it was learned, had SIO,OOO in the bank. : Beggars travel up and down the sub ways, and adopt all sorts of subter fuges to gain sympathy and, which is more important, money. | - x * The Man Who Hit Back | An excellent story of revenge is told by Walter Winchell, the Broadway commentator, concerning John Farrow, now of Paramount’s local scenario de partment. Four years ago he was a sailor whose life was made miserable by the captain and chief officers on g trading ship. He vowed that some day he would even things. Recently (with the aid of his sav ings from a $75 weexly wage) Farrow ciéaned up in Wall St,r%gt‘. One of the first things he did to celebrate, accord ing to Winchell, was to buy the major inferest in the trading vessel and to fire the captain and his chief officers, * x % Ritzy Talent On day recently Florenz Ziegfeld noticed a girl in the dancing gfudio displaying talent on her toes. l?‘e fn vited her to dance in “Show Girl,” hi§ next production,, The girl fiT&t had to have her fa ther’'s permissiot and then it was re vealed that the girl, Louise Peck, is the daughter of a multi-millionaire Wall ‘Sireet broker. Flo seéms to get them classy—sometimes i looks, some times in family connet¢iions and, as in this case, sometimes both, - @ A Flood of Words Somebedy ought to take a census of the mamuscripts that come into New York #i4ily from hopeful writers in all parts ‘of the country. Niost of these, the publishers say, ‘-‘ﬁ"re worthless, amateurish attempts. Some are written in long-hand, even with pencil, and they have to be mighty good to get much attention. Professional writers always have their seripts typed if they do not do it them selves. Magazine and book publishers, fearing they may pass up a good story, are forced to maintain large reading staffs. If an “unknown” writer doesn’t get a chance it is in 99 cases out of a hundred his own fault. (©, 1929, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Cat Hunts Out and Kills Copperheads Mount Savagé, ' Md. — Miss Katie McNamee, who lives in the porth end of Mount Savage, has 2 cat that hunts copperhead snakes, Tabby, answering to the name of “Puff,” has killed eight copperheads this season, ranging from 14 inches to 2 feet in length. Most of the dead snakes were carried to the house by the cat. The snake-hunting of. the tom cat has not changed his disposi tion as he is tame and affec tionate when in the house. The unique feline acts 'as an alarm clock for his mistress, when he dwakens every morning at b o'clock. He climbs a tree near the house, leaps to the porch roof and thews at:the bedroom* window until Miss' McNamee is. aroused. The McNamee home is’ near a cliff and rocky hill, where snakes are said to be abundant, THE HAZELHURST NEWS Volunteers Admit Chance of Return Is Small. Parls,—Slx .nen hav. asked for the privilege of riding in the rocket which may be shot into the sky for a visit to the moon within the next year. Professor Oberth, creator of the plan for the rocket, has persomally received three applications and Robert Esnault- Peletier, the astronomer, has received the others. Both admit that the possi bility of a safe return is exceedingly small. The first danger lies in the rocket's going uwry before it clears the earth; the result in that case would be a crash and certain death. The second is the possibiltty of striking the moon or some other hard, opaque body in the heavens. The third is in descend ing, in which case Professor Oberth has pointed out that the projectile is sure to be either dented or destroyed in striking the cushion of atmosphere which envelopes the earth, [Finally, there is the question of air, although an American astronomer has devised 2 scheme for supplying oxygen to the passenger., , Will Become Hero. If, however, the chosen passenger outwits the law of probabilities and comes safely down to the soil of France—and not the middle of the ocean—he will become a greater hero than Lindbergh and will probably have a message for the astronomers of the world that will add more to the solu tion of their problems than a year of patient labor in an observatory. Esnault-Peletier stated that only those will be chosen who have no de pendents and who in additicn are not subject to seasickness, Old sailors or ex-aviators, in his opinion, would be ideal subjects for the experiment. One of the difficulties is that after leaving the earth behind the passenger will lose all sense of direction, hence will probably not be able to say what land he sees, or touches, This would re main a mystery unless the ingenuity of astronomers devises a method of tracing the rocket’s course in the sky. ‘ Can Cruise Heavens. ‘ A soluticn of this problem has to a certain extent been supplied by the‘ Germans who now frequently send up uninhabited rockets to an altitude of sixty and a hundred miles equipped in each case with registering appara tus. Professor Oberth has further suggested the creation of veritable laboratories in space by means of rockets with ft_\(;l_],l.t‘ies for remaining aloft for some time. The plan of the rocket, which has' been found feasible, is such as to gnable it to escape not only the pull of gravitation from the earth but from other planets and the sun as well, %I will %Té'rgm Byé able {0 cruise the heavens free of danger of being forced down uniess It goes square into a reef projecting from the moon. y ] Man Builds Tower to Solve Parking Problem Sandusky, Ohio.—One of America’s great problems—finding space for its fillllions of autos when they are not in moflon--géems solved by the invention of ¥, . Morton of Sandusky. Morton heads the Parking Tower corporation which recently ¢6mpleted a ten-:ar storing device here, occupy ing no more space than the commoi backyard garage. The invention is a “tower” of wsteel, five stories high. The mechanism op erates on a ferris wheel principle. The inside of the tower suggests a double elevator shaft. In each shaft are suspended chains, one above the other, individual parking spaces. When an auto is driven into the tower it rests on an all steel platform. There are always two of these plat forms at the ground floor level, while the others are either above or below. At a touch of a button, numbered to correspond with the parking space, that “space” rolls to the street level. Towers to accommodate a 8 many as 60 cars may be constructed and op erated as easily as the ten-car tower, Morton says. The actual ground space required for the 10-car or 60- car tower is but 17 feet 8 inches by 25 feet, Ninety, He Defies Jersey to Bar Him as Motorist Cape May, N. J.—Because he is hale and hearty, “Uncle Jimmy” Clark, Civil war veteran, is irate at the refusal of the state motor vehicle department to renew his driving license, the ban be ing based on his age. “Uncle Jimmy” is ninety years old. He announced indignantly recently he was ready to enter into any contest to show his mental alertness and physical ca pacity. He said he’d be glad to show President Hoover how to catch bass. “I can see and hear better than these youngsters who drive at break neck speed,” he said,., “If Commission er Dill thinks my faéllties are being impaired, let him come here in quail season, and if I don’t kill a bird with each shot, then I“don't want the li cense.” . Cripple Does Housework Knoxville, Tenn, —G. C, Cloud, slightly crippled, stays at home and doés the housework, while his able. bodied wife works in a factory and supports the family. Mrs. Cloud says her husband is an excellent housewife, and Cloud declares\bis ‘wife an able mw’*‘ " '\w" - i ] T ! : ArwATER KENT RADIO Operated by BATTERIES! . Screen-Grid Electro-Dynamic ‘ New improvements heretofore only in : ‘ house-current sets NEW!-HEAR IT-TODAY STATE DISTRIBUTORS ATWATER KENT RADIO Hopkins Equipment Co., Atlanta, Ga. See any Atwater Kent Dealer for Demonstration in Your Own Home. Dealers—lnvestigate this Valuable Franchise Crust of Mother Earth in Constant Movement Man’s share of the earth, its crust, is constantly quivering and is given a big jolt in the form of a real earth quake at least once a day. “There is no moment, day or night, year in and out, during which the earth is not undergoing lesser move ments,” says Rev. Francis A. Tondorf, of Georgetown university. He has learned that after years of studying the wavering lines made by the needles of his sensitive earthquake recording instruments. This constant vibration, he believes, may be accounted for by the pounding of ocean waves on the shallows and by great storms. A$ times, when mighty hurricanes are tearing across the surface, it reaches the intensity of genuine earthquakeg, which are caused by the slipping and sliding of great masses within the crust where cracks have occyrred. | The Georgetown Seismological ob servatory now has eight quake-record ing instruments, having recently set: up two new seismographs of the Galit-‘ zin horizontal type, the only installa-‘ tion of the kind on this side of the Aflantic, . : By providing more satisfactory records of the hotizontal vibrations caused by quakes for consideration with those showing the up and down movements, the new installation is expected to increase the accuracy and gcope of the observatory’s readings. Earth shocks reach the observatory in three waves, one traveling along the surface and two others of dif ferent types coming through the crust in a somewhat straighter line. Con sidered together, they give the seism ologist the distance of his instruments from the disturbance and its intensity, and compared with similar observa tions at scattered points, enable him to place its center. A catalogue of earthquakes reg istered by observatories all over the world between 1918 and 1924, just received from the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Father Tondorf, indicates that Sep tember is the month in which the greatest number of these disturb ances occur, the average being 51.— Washington Post. Sensible Canadian A heat wave that prevailed in On tario, Canada, for several days in duced a male citlzen of Tillsonburg, after observing feminine styles, to ap pear on the street in short blue pants, bare legs and sandals, silk shirt with open neck and short sleeves and a straw hat. He first took the precau tion to ask the chief of police if he would be arrested and was told that his costume was within the law. Must Have His Fun Harem Lady—ls it true that you murdered your last four wives? Sultan—No; they were just victims of a practical choker.—Tit-Bits. Peace at Any l’;ice : She—So you are not’going to get married again? > He—No, dearie, I've’ become a pacifist—Pathfinder Magazine. After a good dinner one can for give anybody; even one’s own rela tions.—Wilde. : Try to wear out your old clothes: and feel wretched all the time you're doing it. ) v it g e » A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.—~Emerson. ™ sid B v 7 ’ Pathos in Passing of Old-Time Family Album The London Sunday Times notes the wane of ancestor worship (western type) : “Ancestor worship is, apparently, on the wane. A French writer has point ed out that the custom of keeping a family album is no longer popular, and draws from the fact a moral concern ing the decay in pride of race, There is, indeed, a certain pathos in the de cline of the album of family portraits. “There is pathos in it, and there is danger, too. How many a man, in vears gone by, tottering on the verge of dipsomania, has been saved by the recollection of ‘his sisters and his cousing, whom he reckoned up in dozens? How many a man was res cued from the primrose path by the contemplation of Aunt Susan, awful in her shoulder-of-mutton sleeves? Today, alas! it is unlikely that the forger’s hand would be stayed, the‘ burglar's jimmy arrested, by the sol emn thought that Great-Uncle Robert would never have acted thus.,” Shorn John has been attending Bible school. Of course, one of the stories he learned was of Samson and Deli lah., After mother brought him home from the barber shop the other after noon he was romping with other children on the lawn. Suddenly he “flopped” on the grass and gave every simulation of complete exhaustion. A little girl playmate anxiously inquired the cause of the trouble. The answer was, “I've jist come from the barber shop an’ I lost my stren’th!” Friends of Youth Both Alfred E. Smith and Presi dent Hoover are ardent believer§ in young men. To the latter a graybeard said in Paris during the World war: “But young men are totally lacking in experience.” “Pooh,” said Mr. Hoover. “What's the good, after all, of knowing what ‘the weather was like day before yes iterday?" e | Life Sled for Fire Rescues ~ In saving persons from burning ' buildings firemen of Germany may use }a “fire sled,” invented recently by a German. The vietim is strapped in ‘a bag, which Is mounted on runners, ‘and given a slide down the rungs of ‘ a ladder, the speed being controlled by a rope stretching from the top of the bag. ‘, Reason is the life of law. I 00§ ) - »ﬁ# 7 L UN U NN e pigvseie datod,do 08 8 N PN Vol i sot, L ‘!ﬁiJi( b ’l('a"}? f‘;/.*‘n ogi@-"’g 24 FLT IO e ol U 4 g 12 Y N : IO Ehanad o g | NS DD ''' \/ ws J &/ & VIRIB /DT A 7 A \' 3 Dy <% Y <, &/ 4/ [ ‘ . / vN& < O ies v e o i die faster oL/ black band” > —when you spray clean-smelling ‘ Flit with the handy Flit sprayer! Mosquitoes drop just-as fast. More - r people use Flit because it contains 1 a greater ainount.ofimect-kiﬂng P B poe | " ingredients. Harmless to. humans, . G : e and its vapor does not stain, v . - Too Humble “We farmers are humble, but we're not as humble as some of these poli~ ticians seem to think,” George L Quackenbusgh, the million aire farmer of Virginia, was talking in Richmond about the farmer’s har® luck and his demand for governmeng aid. “Yes. we're humble,” he went om, “but we're not like little Willie. ““Where are you going, Joe? little Willie asked his friend. “‘Down to the drug store,’ says Joe, ‘to get an ice cream soda.’ “Little Willie looked up at Joe wist~ fully, and said: “‘Say, Joe, can I come and wateh ye?v ” Evan Fuller was graduated by the West Union (Iowa) nigh school with out having been absent or tardy aft he entered the first grade. 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