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Lester Archer son of Mrs. Dorothy Archer of Toledo. 0., wit h his wireless set with which he found his sister, Caeo, ajred seventeen, for whom he and his mother had been searching for 13 years. No trace could be found of the girl shortly after she had been placed In a children’s home near Lima, 0-. until one of many wireless appeals sent out by Lester located her on a farm near Rockford, O. Cleo Is shown at the right.

Magic of Law Puts Millions in 9 Pockets

forflotten Poor Cousins Share in Estate of Wealthy Oil Man. MILLIONAIRE LEFT NO WILL Wealth Cornea to Aged People Whose Lives Have Been Largely Filled With Hardships—Hunt for Heirs le Difficult. Wheaton, 111. — Satisfied smiles apread over nine faces in the corridors of the red courthouse here recently, for nine persons, whose lives had been largely filled with hardships, knew that within a few weeks they would be rich. Rich is the only applicable word—wealth to these people had been nothing but a dream. Judge S. L. Rathje of the DuPage county court had just Indicated that Jive of the nine were legal heirs to the 53,000.000 estate of William P. Cowan, former president of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, who died at his Wheaton country home In the summer of 1918. The other four were husbands and wives of the heirs. Nina to Share $2,500,000. With the establishment of heirship by the five relatives of the wealthy oil man the total number of heirs who will receive a share of the estate Is nine. After expenses have been deducted. according to attorneys, the estate will total more than $2,500,000. Each of the nine heirs will receive something like $200,000 when the Inheritance taxes are paid. Three of the heirs are more than seventy years of age. one Is ninety, the youngest is forty-four years old. None of them remember personally the man whose death brought them this benefaction. But two ever saw him. They look upon their Inheritance as some vague dream of paradise.' The heirs who established their claims are:

William Saxton, seventy-two years old. Eagle, Mich. Walter Saxton, seventy-two years old, Wancausta, Mich. Charles Saxton, sixty-eight years old, Elsie. Mich. Mrs. Caroline Saxton Hart flftyelght years old. Grand Ledge, Mich. Mrs. R. B. Colby, forty-four years old. Cadillac, Mich. William and Walter Saxton are twins. William la married and his wife was in Wheaton with him. Mrs. Colby and Mrs. Hart had their husbands along, too. Other Cowan Heirs. The other heirs who have established sufficient evidence of relationship to Mr. Cowan to win an Indication of equity from Judge Rathje are: Judson Phelps, ninety years old, Detroit Mich. Henry B. Stillwell, seventy years old, Gloversville, N. T. William G. Stillwell, seventy-two years old, Springfield, Mass. Heirs at law of Mrs. Helen Shadboit Plymouth, N. Y„ who was ninetyfive years old when she died a few weeks ago. All of the heirs are cousins—first, second, or third. No nearer kin could be found by Alfred C. Hoy, public administrator of DuPage county. The day’s hearing before Judge Rathje did not close the case. A few more depositions must be taken, a few more weeks must elapse before the Jurist can enter a decree. But the Saxton boys are happy. When In 1918 It was learned that Mr. Cowan, a successful business man and one of the rich residents of the Chicago Golf dub colony at Wheaton, had died -nd left no will, Wheaton wondered. Then lt was announced that there were no heirs In this state. Mrs. Cowan's death had preceded her husband's, and there were no children and no. brothers or sisters. Public Administrator Hoy took Immediate charge .of the estate and appointed Charlte W. Hadley and George Thom? his attorneys. Mr. Hadley is State's attorney of DuPsge county ' and has a weakness for flaring ties.

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Nine attorneys presented him with a new one In court. For more than a year the only relatives Mr. Hoy could locate were the Stillwell boys, Judson Phelps, and Mrs. Shadboldt. A few months ago one of the Saxton boys, Walter, read a newspaper article which referred to Mr. Cowan’s death and his estate. A few days later the Saxton claim was entered. The Saxtons claimed to be the children of two daughters of Ppter Cowan, Cayuga county. N. Y„ the grandfather of William P. Cowan. Their claim was established by a marriage license, census reports, old tintypes, and testimony. One of the twins saw Mr. Cowan when he was three years old. Another Saxton said he was born in the Cowan home. But further than that they had no personal recollection of their wealthy relative. Views on Liquor. Walter and William Saxton are Interested In airplanes, but they don’t

THEY ARE JAZZ MAD IN LONDON

Night Club Fever Sets in as Gay Life Is Resumed. EN6USH LEARN TO DANCE Shortage of Eligible Young Men Puts Crimp In Dancing Aspirations of Many English Girls—Resort to “Paid Escort." London.— “-“Making a night of It” became almost a lost art in England during the late war. The owl and the Briton were scarcely on speaking terms. In the first place, it wasn’t patriotic to “stay out at night.” Then there was the absence of lights, the shortage of taxis, the ban on dancing and —the Gothas. So nights were spent in bed, and the only time a Londoner saw the sun rise was when he got up early to work in his allotment. London, once the gayest of cities, became a silent tomb of somber grays and deep shadows after nine o’clock at night I can remember when it was actually a penal offense to strike a match in the street But those who only saw It in wartime wouldn’t know the old place now! The grays are pnrples now and the lights are bright and red, and in Piccadilly Circus they have four electric signs that flash on and off. London has acquired the night club fever. Prom il p. m. to 3 a. m. has become the recognized space of time for worshiping at the shrine of Terpsichore. How the Night Is Spent. “Are you dancing tonight?” no longer means are yon going to spend the hours between dinner time and midnight at a hall or club. It means are yon going to Rector’s, to the Grafton galleries or to Brett’s, picking up your party somewhere about midnight and never thinking of going home until the milkman’s horse has got his second wind and the pink finish of a London dawn colors the cold night mists. Then, and not till then, does one turn homeward In a private car, if one has one. or a taxi, if one can get one, with perhaps a brief halt at the nearest coffee stall for a cup of muddy fluid which tastes like nectar at that hour, but which, taken six hours later, would spoil one's whole day. But such Is night life In a big cityl The night' dubs of London are a peace product They range from the -exclusive ones of Bond street to the frankly democratic and even mpre so ones of Leicester square and Charing Cross road —clubs to suit the taste and deplete the pocketbook of every one. ■ - London has Its closing hour, and that la ten o’clock. At none of the

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believe they will spend much of their fortune on the aircraft. “You can get a drink of red eye or an airplane ride for $25,'” Said Walter. “I believe the airplane ride would be the best You can get the same results from either one. They’ll both kill you.” . — Walter and Mr. Hart have been sextons in different cemeteries ever since they can remember. “We beA huryln’ ’em" fast as they’d die,” said Mr. Hart “But I reckon we’ll retire now. .Maybe not though.” Mrs. Colby Isn’t sure what she’ll do with her money. Neither Is Mrs. Charles Saxton sure what she will do -with her husband’s, but Elsie, Mich., Is going to have some thrills, she said. “I guess we could all go In the moving picture business,” said Mrs. Caroline Mart. (She doesn’t like to be called Carrie.) "But maybe we’ll all retire now.” “Pretty hard to quit work,” said William Saxton, “we’ve been working so long. Gee, I’m klnda glad we heard about It, though. No, I ain’t got no daughters for any one to marry.” Mrs. Charles Saxton said she had two daughters, but thought they could take care of themselves. Meantime 11 lawyers, who have been in the litigation, were conferring in the judge’s chambers on a tombstone to be erected over Mr. Cowan’s grave. "I hope them lawyers leaves us some of the money,” said Walter.

clubs or dance halls is any form of intoxicating liquor sold openly. Ostensibly one does it on pink lemonade and cider cup—unless one has a large hip pocket or knows the proprietor. Every place in London which dispenses jazz music and French pastry during the wee sma’ hours is a “club.” In most of them membership consists merely of filling In a form at the door. Many, however, are sure enough clubs, where only members and their guests may dance. Of the former class, Rector’s, on Tottenham court road, Is unquestionably the most popular. Needless to say, it has an American orchestra; all the dance clubs have bands that are either American or good imiof American musicians. Rector’s draws the theatrical crowd, folks from behind the footlights -as well as those who have been to a “show” and are put to make a night of it. It charges $5 a ticket, or 37.50 for a couple, which includes a light, very light, “buffet supper.” London is jazz mad; they are learning to dance over here, and when an Englishman dances he likes to get plenty of exercise. Woe to the slow or tender of foot when the band strikes up a fast one-step. The shortage of eligible young men has, of course, put a severe crimp In the dancing aspirations of many English girls. This has led to the “paid escort,” usually an amiable youth with enchanted feet and suave ballroom manners and a rented dress suit.

WOMEN MOTOR COPS

Some of the squad of London women motorcycle police starting off on doty. These policewomen did such fine work that the machines, which they ran themselves, were given thorn N they might do greater week.

Old Testament History In the Southwest

xfZ77Z7&T' 1 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. LL the world seems to be turning topsy-turvy. V/A mm Just as 1£ the great war 7/iA IB had not maile chan ß es enough to satisfy the most prononunced feeling of what we call “unjP>’l rest.” all sorts of people . ~ — J are breaking Into the limelight with all sorts of iconoclasms. Hardly a day passes without some iconoclast getting on the first page. For example, there’s that German astronomer and scientist Prof. Albert Einstein, with his theory of “relativity.” This “relativity” so wonderful that only twelve men in all the world are able to understand it, it Is stated. No wonder, it knocks all established theories into a cocked hat. The professor holds, It is generally understood, that our Ideas of time and space are all wrong and that NewtPn should turn over in his grave and guess again at the law of gravitation. Then there’s Marconi, the Italian who is so busy in the world of wireless telegraphy. He come forward with the statement that Mars or Venus or some other planet is running in signals on his wireless and is trying to say “Hello, Earth! Let’s have a little talk!” And now jumps into the spotlight L. B. Larsen of Portland, Ore., author and theologian, who says—well, anyway. his discoveries are calculated to shake our faith In the Bible, which nowadays is about the only thing a man can really tie to. But first a few facts by way of preliminary, as a sort of shock-absorber. In the State of California, on the Pacific, Is the Cabrillo national monument. It was created October 14, 1913, by proclamation of President Wilson, under the act for the preservation of American antiquities approved June 8, 190 Q. All regular, you see; here’s something, moreover, on which the president and congress agree. Cabrillo national monument was dedicated by the United States to the people because it is believed to Be on the identical spot first sighted by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo September 28, 1542, on his voyage of discovery of the Pacific coast. Vasco Nunez de Balboa, first of Europeans to see gazed on it from a high peak of the Isthmus of Panama in 1513. Cabrillo was the first of Europeans to see California from that same Pacific. To be sure. Hernando de Alcaron explored the mouth of the Colorado in 1540 or thereabouts and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was exploring Arizona and New Mexico about the same time —he may even have got as far as Kansas —but Cabrillo national monument is a sort of Pacific ocean Columbus’ Watling island. This American Southwest had its own civilization long before the Spaniard “discovered” it —so long before that the prehistoric people who lived in its cliff-dwellings and pueblos had vanished before his arrival. Nobody knows who they were, where they came from or what became of them. Excavations in Mesa Verde national park in Colorado, in Bandelier national monument in New Mexico and *in other regions abounding in prehistoric ruins, have so tax failed to solve th« mystery- That they had progressed quite a way on the way to civilization is evident. They made clay utensils, wove cloth, constructed stone buildings, had ceremonial structures, practiced irrigation, “used cold-air refrigerators' and lived under community organisation. „ _ And now this L. B. Larsen of Port-

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Dedham, Mata, Very Properly Celebrates Its Founding Nearly _ Three Centuries Ago. to celebration of the two hundred end seventy-fifth anniversary of the starting of a free public school In Pedfcatn. Mass., heid by many to have been the first one on the continent, the icboola of the town held special exerrmmm The free school commemo-

land, Ore., author and theologiflh. throws all this Interesting past Into the discard as modern and unimportant. Of the Cabrillo national monument he says “pooh, pooh,” and of the cliff-dwellings “tut. tut.” This American Southwest, says L. B. Larsen of Portland. Ore., author and theologian —and he doesn’t care who knows It —is the Biblical land of the Children of Israel, and the history of the Old Testament took place right there. And What’s more, Mr. Larsen of Portland, Ore., has written a book to furnish proof that what he says Is the truth. The title of the book is “The Kjy.tP the Bible and Heaven." Mr. Larsen says, by way of starter, that Adam and Eve were the original Argonauts and the progenitors of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West. The Garden of Eden was in the present State of Missouri. Noah, says Mr. Larsen, landed on a California mountain, after the flood. Strangely enough he makes no mention of the mighty Paul Bunyun. Of course, it is possible that 'he never heard pf him, beihg an author and theologian, and not a lumberjack. Now, this boss logger of all boss loggers, Paul Bunyun, is the very fellow who got out the timbers for Noah’s ark. Maybe he caused the flood. A writer in the Saturday Evening Post used Paul to bolster up a piece of fiction only the other day, and spoke of him thus: “The contract, as everyone knows, called for the delivery of gopher wood. But old Bunyun was something of a shipbuilder himself and he knew gopher timbers would never do. So he searched the whole world over and finally decided that Oregon fir was best suited for Noah’s purpose. “At that time, as you will remember, the Cascade mountains and the Sierra Nevadas formed the unbroken western shore of an inland sea that extended eastward to the Rockies. Bunyun discovered that the level cl this inland sea was much higher than the level of the Pacific ocean, so he set the Big Swede to work digging a ditch through the Cascades. The Big Swede, as loggers know, Is Bunyun’s foreman and has charge of all the log drives. “When the ditch was finished —today folks call It the Columbia river— Bunyun was ready with his logs. It took the best of his white-water boys to handle that drive, for the rush of water from the inland sea carried the logs out to the ocean ip a great hurra and created such a tide that they had hardly time to gather the logs into a raft before they found themselves -in Noah’s home port” ( “Some of the'scientifically inclined

rated Was built In 1645, it having been voted by the citizens assembled In town meetings that sufficient taxes be raised to establish the school. There has bean free public Instruction in Dedham ever since. So fundamental arid all-important Is this early ftffep bf the Puritan fathers considered that the anniversaries are ever kept uppermost in the thought* at educators and other patriotic citi-

loggers like to argue that this sudden draining of the Inland sea caused a slight shifting of the earth’s center of gravity and that this shifting caused the flood about which Noah had received advance information.” Los Angeles, says Mr. Larsen, is the site of ancient Jerusalem. . Sodom and Gomorrah were in Utah. Mount Whitney, he says, is undoubtedly Mt. Sinai, and Moses is burled at its base. Mount Whitney is in Tulare county and marks the eastern boundary of the proposed Roosevelt national park, to be created out of a greatly enlarged Sequoia national park. So Roosevelt national park will be a double memorial.. Arizona is where the Israelites sojourned while awaiting the return of Moses. They had their headquarters either In the Grand canyon or at Casa Grande. Grand canyon is now a national park and Casa Grande (Great Building) is a national monument. Mr. Larsen shows that Israel’s twelve tribes occupied practically all the Pacific coast from the Mexican border tp the Canadian line. The tribe of Simeon lived around San Diego, It seems, spilling down into Mexico and the Gulf of Lower California. Judah occupied the domain from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Levi made headquarters at Bakersfield, and Benjamin flourished near San Francisco. Ephraim’s territory extended up well toward Eureka, and Ruben and Gad spread out over the regions of Nevada and the eastern border of California, while Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh and Napttali and Dan lived In Washington, Oregon and Idaho, respectively. There seems to have been two Dans, for we find one occupying the 1 coast just west of Bakersfield, about where Paso Robles is now located, * The writer also clears up a moot question, in that he has fixed definitely the ground covered in that time-hon-ored phrase, from Dan to Beersheba. He says it represents the distance on a crow’s line from Coeur d Alene, Idaho, to the Colorado river. Notwithstanding the fact that L. B. Larsen, author and theologian, lives In Portland, Ore., and should therefore be more interested in Cratei* Labe and Mount Rlanfer National parks than in Sequoia and Grand Canyon National parks, Californians will doubtless hasten to deny that his book is “jus! some more Southern California literature,” concocted with the Idea of Increasing the tourist traffic. To this denial difer parts of the country will pre# sumably' Shy. “Ha, ha,” for the ingenuity and persistence of the Golden state booster is a household word in America. _ :—--— : "

zens. to 1898 the commonwealth erected a tablet on the spot where this first school was located. In 1896, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the school,.a big public celebration took place, with prominent men present And It Is expected that the same will occur In 1945. be three hundredth anniversary. — Christian Science Monitor. '

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