Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1926 — Page 6

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Campaign Against Old Time Piracy Undertaken By League Os Nations Ry Henry Wood United Press Staff Correspondent Geneva, April 29. (United Press.) —Pirates nn<l piracy still exist an in the good old days of Captain Kidd and Lieutenant Blood it Is Indicated by the fact that the Ix-ugue of Nations has just submitted Io ull of the nations of the world a draft project for an international law on the subject. Should the proposition meet with the approval of a sufficient number of nations, an International conference will later be summoned for enacting an International convention on the| subject. The latter would then up part of the codified international law of the world, which the league isj setting out to attain progressively. | The draft project which has just been sent out is largely the work of Matsuda. Japan, and Wang ChungHui, China, both international jurists of world wide repute. In preparation for their project both made a profound study of all existing laws and customs relative to the suppression of piracy. The proposed codified international law on the subject is very short consisting of only eight articles. The law specifies that piracy can only take place on high seas, as against the territorial waters, of the various nations, and that it is not necessary that in the acts of depredation committed there should be the specific put pose of gain. However, such acts of depredation which are committed for a purely political object are not regarded as constituting piracy. It is also specified that only private ships can commit piracy. Where mutiny has taken place on a warship and the crew utilizes the ship afterwards for piratic purposes the vessel loses its public character and becomes a private ship subject to the penalties inflicted for piracy. When a crew has committed acts of piracy every warship has a right to stop and capture it on the high seas. A pursuit started on the high seas can even be continued into territorial waters provided that after the capture of the pirate ship it be turned over to the authorities of the littoral state within whose territorial waters it was taken. Where suspicion of piracy exists the commander of every warship, on his own responsibility, has the right to stop the ship and make an investigation on board. In case the suspicion proves correct the commander of the warship, if the capture took place on the high seas, has the right either to try the pirates himself or deliver them over to the competent authorities. If however, the suspicions prove incorrect the captain of the suspected ship will be entitled either to reparation or indemnity as the cas e may he. The league has asked all of the nations of the world to send in their observations on the proposed law before October 15th. It is then that the league’s commission on the progressive codification of international law will decide whether the responses are sufficient for justifying the league in summoning an international conference for the codification of the project into international law.

Cheaper To Live Than Die In City Os Moscow Moscow, (United Press) —The Moscow Soviet has placed a premium on living, at least for private traders and businessmen, by raising the charge for graves in the municipal cemeteries from ten to twenty-five dollars. Class distinction does not stop at the grave in Moscow'. Workers and employees belonging to trade unions are only obliged to pay fifty cents for their burial places, just as they are charged relatively low rents for their rooms. Professional people, doctors, lawyers, etc., pay 22.50 for

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their graves; and the rate for the harassed trader has now been put up to twenty-five dollars. The funeral department of the Moscow municipality has been running at a loss, estimated at a penny to every grave. In order to overcome this deficit the new charge lias been Imposed upon th (businessmen. The Muscovite who might be driven to contemplate suicide because of* the extremely crumped conditions In which he lives would only be Jumping from the frying pun into the fire, for the cemeteries of the city are passing through a crisis of overcrowding. They were very much neglected during the times of civil war, and ten of the thirty-three city j cemeteries have been closed down as (insulted for new burials. Fifteen of the other cemeteries j have been turned over to religioncommunities, while the eight largest remain In the possession of the municipality, which is desperately endeavoring to run them at a profit. The projected building of a municipal crematorium in the fall may relieve the excessive overcrowding of the cemeteries.

Home Dressmaking Is Being Made Simple By Hedda Hoyt (Written for the United Press) New York, April 29—(United Press) —Everything has been done to make: home dressmaking simplified. Patterns are so perfect nowadays that one can’t go wrong using them providing one has one's correct size. Nevertheless, women who do their own sewing often! do go wrong and simple frocks are botched because women do not always know the simpel rules which should be followed —rules other than those of cutting. In making a dress one should always run a basting thread down the, center front and center back of the material to prevent the dress from becoming lopsided. Always run a basting thread about the patternos o that you will have the exact pattern outlined while fitting. Allow at least an inch beyond this thread if you are not familiar with your pattern so that you are certain to have enough material. It is best to finish the shoulder seams and neck line before putting in sleeves. The hanging of the skirt should be done last. Where the material is cut circular, that is where the hem is to be a circular one, hang the dress over a figure a day or two so that it can sag a bit before you finish your hem. The most difficult material to work on is chiffon or other flimsy fabric. I Only the expert should attempt a chiffon frock, particularly if the skirt is to be circular. In sewing buttons on a frock place a pin across the top of the button and sew over this since buttons do not look well when sewed too tightly to the material and one can not sew them loosely and evenly without placing some small object on the button. Each seam should be pressed as soon as one is certain that it is correctly stitched. A skirt should never be hung until the, side seams have been pressed. The hemstitching machine has done much towards taking the home-made ■ look away from home-made frocks. Sugar Producers Form National Organization Chicago. April 29. — At a meeting held here during the past week the beet sugar producers of the United I States organized the United States Beet Sugar Association including every active beet sugar company in the country, extending from Ohio and Michigan in the east to California and: Washington in the west. Its members | produced approximately 18,000,000 bags of sugar during the past season.' Stephen H. Love of Salt Lake City, j sales manager of the Utah-Idaho Su-. gar Company, was elected president of the association, with W. L. Petrikin of Denver, president of the Great Western Sugar Company, A. E. Carlton of Colorado Spring, president of the Holly Sugar Corporation and C. M. McLean of Holland, Michigan, president of the Holland-St. Louis. Sugar Company as vice-presidents.' H. A. Austin of Washington is secretary and treasurer.

North Dakota Safety Conference Convenes I Bismarck, N. D., April 29.—(United Press) —Minimizing of accidents in North Dakota is the object of the safety parley opening here for a twoday session at the call of Gov. A. G. Sorlie. The state railroad commis- • sion, county commissioners, mayors, councilmen, commercial clubs and 1 other civic bodies over the state are ' represented. Four sections were ' formed to consider legislation, rail--1 road crossing, education of public, 1 and city traffic! regulations. J o |The Daily Democrat for Job

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1926.

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Synopaia CHAPTER I.—Bud L**. horse torwwian ot th* Blue Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trevors, manager, 1* de-, liberate!/ wrecking the property owned by Judith lanford, a young woman, her ooueln, Pollock and Timothy Gray, decide* to throw up hl* job Judith arrlv** and announc** she. ha* bought Gray* ahare In th* ranch and will run It. Sh* dlecharge* Trevor* CHAPTER ll—Th* men on the ranch dlallke taking ordere from a g.rl, but by eubdulng a vicious horse and proving her thorough knowledge of ranch life, Judith wins the best ot them over. Loe decide* to »tay. CHAPTER llL—Convinced her veterinarian. Bill Crowdy. I» treacherou*. Judith dlachargee him, re-engaging an old friend of her fathers. Doc. Tripp. CHAPTER IV Young Hampton Proteat a It was after eight o’clock when Tripp rode In on a sweat-wet horse. Judith met him In the courtyard, giving him her two hands Impulsively. “I’m so glad you’ve come, Doc I” she cried softly. “Oh, you don't know how glad—yet.” She called Jose to take Tripp’s mount and then led the way into the great living-room where deep cushions and leather chairs made for comfort. She switched on the lights and turned to look at Tripp. lie was the same little old Doc Tripp, she noted. His wiry body scarcely bigger than a boy’s of fourteen, he was a man of fifty whose face, like his body, suggested the boy with bright, eager eyes and a frank, friendly smile. "Prettier than ever, eh, Judy?’ Tripp cocked his head to one side and gave his unqualified approval of the slim, supple body, and superb carriage of this girl of the mountains, warming to the vivid, vital beauty of the rosy face. “Been driving those cow-college boys down at Berkeley plumb crazy. I'll bet a prize colt!” Judith laughed at him, watched h!g slight form disappear In the wide arras of a chair which seemed to smother him In Its embrace. Then from her own nook by the fireplace she opened her heart to him: “It's not just that Trevors has crippled me by taking all of my milkers away; not just that he has come near doing I don't know how much harm In having Crowdy turn those calves with the lung-worm out Into the fields with the others, not just that during the last few months, he has lost money for us right and left. It Isn’t Just these things which have set me to wondering, Doc. What I want to know Is this: In how many other, still undiscovered ways, has Trevors been knifing us? And what else will he have ready to spring on us now?’ “Just what do you mean?" Tripp looked at her keenly. “This case of lung-worm, to begin with: where did it come from?” “Imported," said Tripp. “Trevors bought those calves, or at least four of the sick ones, last month. Brought them In from somewhere down the river. Smuggled them In far as I am concerned. Never gave me a chance to look them over.” He paused a second. “Specially Imported, I might say.” “I knew It!” cried Judith. "That's the sort of thing lam afraid of. If he has gone to the limit of Introducing one disease among our cattle, what other plagues has he brought to the ranch? Has he Imported any other outside stock?’ “No. He's been busier selling at a sacrifice than buying, just as I wrote you. Never another head has he bought lately—unless,” and Tripp’s eye twinkled at her, “you - count pigeons I” “Pigeons!” repeated Judith.

Tripp nodded. “Funny, isn’t it," he went on lightly —“that a man like Bayne Trevors, hard as nails and as free of sentiment as a mule, should fancy little cooing, innocent-like pigeons? You’ll hear them in the morning.” But Judith was not to be distracted by Tripp's talk. She smiled at him, however, to show him that she had understood and appreciated the purpose back of his light words. “We're all going to have our hands full for a spell, Doc," was what she said. “To Trevors, with a free swing here, It must have appeared rather a simple matter to make so complete a failure as to force us, encumbered as we are, into selling out to the highest bidder inside the year. But, Doc, he, must have known, too, that at any time there might occur the very thing which has happened—that h«’d lose his job. He strikes me as a ratfier long-beaded man, doesn’t he you?! Now, a man who saw ahead, figuring’ on this very contingency, would havq more than one trick up his sleeve. I think the obvious thing for you to do is to make certain that all the rest of the stock are in shape. ®UI you be-

gin Tomorrow" mating ~a fhorougli Investigation ?" “I’es," lie answered. "You’re right there, Judith. There's nothing Ilka making sure.” “Another thing I want you to do," Judith went on. “is to try to locate ull of dud’s old men whom Trevors let go. Johnny Hodge and Kelly and Harper and Tod Bruce. We'll need them. We’ve got to'have men that crooked money can’t buy.” “Aren’t you magnifying things, Judith?" asked Tripp quietly. "There’s such a thing as law in this country, you know." But she shook her head. “Maybe I am seeing the dangers too big. But I don’t think so. And It will be a lot better for Blue Lake ranch If I see them that way at the beginning. And as for the law, it costs money. I’m not sure that Trevors or the lumber people would be averse to getting us Involved in a lot of legal Intrlcacles. Oh, he has been careful not to leave any definite proof behind him." “You hit the bell that time!’’ laughed Tripp, and Judith smiled with him as there came to their ears the faint tinkle of the telephone-bell in the office. Judith excused herself and hastened to answer the summons. Hastened because she wanted, to be back with Tripp as soon as might be. So, know-. Ing her way so well about the big house she went quickly through the dark, hall-way without turning aside to switch on the lights nnd came into the office, dimly lighted by the stars shining In through the windows. She snatched up the telephone Instrument. “Hello,” said Judith. “Who is it?" : It was the telegraph operator In Rocky Rend. A message for Miss Judith Sanford from Pollock Hamp-’ ton, San Francisco. And the message ran: “What were you thinking of to chuck Trevors? Thoroughly excellent man. You should have consulted me! Don't do anything more until I come, Send conveyance to meet Saturday train. Bringing five guests with me. “POLLOCK HAMPTON.” I Judith turned frowning to Tripp. "As If I didn't have enough on my hands already,” she exclaimed “without Hampton dragging hfs fool guests Into the mfxup! I could slap his face.” “Do It!" chuckled Tripp. “Good idea!" • * • • • • • , Busy days followed for Judith. San.ford and for every man remaining •upon Blue Lake ranch. A score of men, including the milkers, Johnson, tha Irrigation foreman and his crew of laborers, had quit work, going over t openly to Bayne Trevors at the Westi ern Lumber camp. Almost her first answer to Trevors’ coup was to telegraph San Francisco for a milking machine, together with, an expert sent out by the company to Install and superintend its working for the first few days. At the same time she hired from one of the Sacramento dairies a man who was to be’ foreman of her own dairy industry, a capable fellow with an Intimate knowl-J edge of automatic milkers. He, with a couple of strippers paid overtime wages managed until the dairy crew could be butlded up again. Mrs. Simpson, the matron from. Rocky Bend, arrived, true to hen

t Mr*. Simpson, the Matron, ArrivecL promise and, motherly soul that she was, took a keen Interest in Judith's comforts and In caring for the big house, of which she Immediately waxed proud with an air of seml-proprletor-■hlg. Jose, from, the first b eetowed

upon the cheerful, bustling woman a black hatred born of his thoroughgoing Latin jealousy. Busy days also for Bud Lee, who had already begun the education of a string of colts. Buay days for Doc Tripp who, unhampered, trusted, aided at every turn by his employer, was from dawn until dark among ths ranch live stock, all but feeling pulse and taking temperature of horses, cows, colts, calves, hogs and mules. He stopped the calf sickness; effected cures In every case excepting one. And the rest of the stock he finally gave a clean bill of health. (TO HR CONTINUED!

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Bobby Leach, Who Rode Over Niagara Falls In A Barrel, Dies Today Christ Church, New Zealand, April 29 —(United Press) — Hobby Leach who once plunged over Niagara Falls In a barrel, died today following the amputation of his leg which he broke when he slipped on ah orange peel I lying in the street. (>. E. Harmony dance, Friday April 30. I-a dies free. Masonic hall. IQOtl

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