Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1929 — Page 3

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.WARFARE OVER RAIL MERGERS TO FLARE ANEW Third Unification Move in Week Is Announced by B. & 0. Bv United Prit NEW YORK. Feb. 2.—Warfare I over establishment of great eastern trunk lines, brewing for years, is expected to flare anew following the third unification move announced within a week. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad announced Friday it intended to file with the interstate commerce commission soon an application to acquire control of the Reading and the Central railroad of New Jersey, over whose tracks it operates on its route to the west. "The Baltimore & Ohio will also file with the commission recommendations as to the system it hones to build up. Combined assets of the Baltimore <fc Ohio and the two roads it seeks to control are $1,712,826,542. The trackage total is 10.601 miles. The B. & O. already has a largeinterest in Reading, sharing its control with New York Central. Its desire to get single control presupposes an arrangement with the -New York Central, which hitherto has been neutral in the fight between the B. & O. and the V in Sweringen interests on the one hand and the Pennsylvania on the other. The B. & O. announcement comes a week after the interstate commission approved in principle the merger of the New- York Central . ystem with the Big Four and the Michigan Central. It follows by only a few days the j announcement that the Vai Swer- j ingen railroad holdings w-ould be i centralized under a single corporation. Belief here is that the Van Sweringens and the B. & 0.. if their main trunk line plans are approved, expect to share jointly in several tributary short lines. Previous consolidation plans have been opposed by the Pennsylvania. RULE AGAINST KNITTING AT OFFICIAL COUNCIL Out of Order After Protest of Miss Isabel MacDonald. Bu United Press LONDON, Feb. V—Whether to knit or not to knit during meetings of the London County Council, is ■x question that has been decided in the negative. During an all-night session of the council, Miss Isabel MacDonald, daughter of the ex-prime minister, called the chairman’s attention to the fact that she and other Labor members of the council had been observing Dame Hudson Lyall with a certain amount of envy, because while they had been restlessly sitting hour after hour with idle hands, Dame Lyall had been contentedly plying knitting needles. After a long consultation with the clerk of the council, the chairman announced that knitting was out of order and asked Dame Lyall to stow away her needles and ball of woolen yam. DIVERS HUNT ARMS OF VENUS IN SEA Island of Milo Stirs as Search Is Made for Appendages. ByXEA Service ROME. Feb. *.—There’s a stir on the Island of Milo. Divers are engaged in a hunt lor the arms of the famous Venus de Milo statue, the original of vhicn is in the Paris Louvre. The search comes as the result of a story to the effect that the arms were lost in the harbor during a fight betwen French marines and inhabitants of the island. Proponents of the story are certain the arms were broken off in the struggle and dropped into the Aegean sea. Yerus de Milo statue is one of the finest pieces of Greek statuary extant, it da , es from the second century A. D. and is regarded as one of 'ne most perfect expositions of the *emale body ever carved out of stone. ANOTHER QUAKE SEEN NEAR FOR CALIFORNIA Severe Earth Shock Is Forecast After Other Disturbances. By l nited Press EUGENE, Ore.. Feb. I.—Another severe earthquake in California, probably south of San Francisco, is due within the near future. Dr. E. T. Hodge, professor of geology at the University of Oregon, has announced. Seismological relation of the California coast with that of Chile leads the university geologist to this conclusion. Dr. Hodg<* pointed out taat the San Francisco earthquake of April. 1906. was followed in August of the same year with a severe shake in Chile. This bore out the prediction ts Omori, Japanese, for whom the Omori rule of seismological relations has been named. USE POSTAL PULMOTOR French Try to Revive Bulletin Missives With Lower Rates. Bv United Pnas PARIS, Feb. 2.—Post card manufacturers are making a final effort to revive the dying industry’ of printing picture postcards. They have petitioned the French government to lower the postage rate on cards from two to one cent in an effort to interest the public again in that form of correspondence. The manufacturers produced statistics to show that whereas 442,000.000 cards were mailed in France annually, several years ago. the figure has fallen to 156.000.000 annually, and threatens unemployment for many of the 40,000, printers engaged in that Industry.

Radio Singer Carols Way to Stardom in Talkies

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Warner Brothers Tune in by Chance and Make 'Find’ for Screen. BY’ GENE COHN NF.A Service Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—“ Career romances” already are beginning to find their way into the talkies—even as they were w’ont to do in the silent films. Take, for instance, Carlotta King, who has been in New York getting properly introduced to the who's who and the w’ho isn’t. For she had been almost unknown to the east, though she had prima donnaed in a number of west coast show’s. At any rate, a couple of the Warner brothers had tuned in on the family radio one evening some months back. Miss King was broadcasting from a Los Angeles station. And the Warners w r ere looking for new r talent for the first musical comedy screen production, “The

RUSSIA PAYS HIBBEN TRIBUTE Ashes of City Man Honored in ‘Red’ Moscow. “Red” Russia today paid tribute to the ashes of Paxton Hibben, former Indianapolis man. The ashes of the noted liberal, journalist and diplomat arrived in Moscow today, according to a United Press dispatch. Bands played the revolutionaryfuneral march and several organizations carrying banners inscribed “The Russian Children’s Best American Friend” escorted the ashes to the house of unions where they W’ili lie in state until burial Sunday. Paxton Hibben was the son of the co-founder of the Hibben-Hollweg & Cos., Indianapolis wholesale drygoods firm. Education in the Indianapolis schools he graduated with highest honors at Shortridge high school. He then attended Harvard. During the war he became a captain. After the war he toured Europe as secretary of the late Albert J. Beveridge. The latest tribute paid him w’as a citation by The Nation, liberal weekly, in a review of 1928. It pointed out that he had ever been on intelligent sponsor of liberal '-auses. On his death recently it was discovered that his will requested that his ashes be buried in the historical Kremlin w’all in Russia. Marriage Licenses George Sands. 21, Ft. Harrison, soldier, and Florence B. Wilkerson. 24, ot 3034 North Euclid, housekeeper. Jonathan Shepard, 85. of 2627 East Michigan, retired carpenter, and Lucy McCreery. 58, of 2054 Bellefontaine, nurse. Lawrence Bailev, 25, city hospital, medical student and Hazel Bensinger, 24, of 1735 North lUinois. nurse. D. D. Kenrlck. 25. of 402 North Chester, sales service, and Nohondas Richmond. 23. of 402 Nort’. Chester. Henry Basham. 25. Ft. Harrison, soldier, and Allean McDonald. 29, Lawrence. Ind. Milton Martin. 24. 21 West Sixteenth, bank clerk, and Beulah O'Brien. 23. of 513 East Fifteenth, private secretary. Harold Ludwig. 37. McKinley hotel, engineer. and Mae R. Boston. 44, of 1101 West Thirty-third, stenographer. Dial Phones at Bloomington Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 2. ; Dial telephones will be placed in ' service here at 10 this evening. The j first call over the new’ system will ; be mad; by Mayor John Hethering- | ton from the local exchange to hi£ i home.

LETTER ‘M* REGARDED AS JINX OF ALPHABET FOR SKY WRITERS

IF a motorist feels foolish when he runs out of gasoline, it isn’t hard to imagine how r r sky-writer feels when his smoke gives out. One of life’s darkest moments for one sky-writer—Captain C. B. D. Collyer, who met his death not long ago in a cross-country race against time—was during an advertising campaign over Brooklyn. Spectators saw his plane weav-

Desert Song.” She registered so well on the air that the Warner chiefs left a memo to a staff member. urging that the singer be called into the studio. “If she photographs, sign her up,” was the order. And she did photograph, or else the camera fabricates worse than usual. At any rate she became an overnight star in a picture which soon will be released. And already she is getting ready for another. SCIENTISTS FIND ANCIENTjONES Remains of Mastodon Are Dug Up in California. By Science Service WASHINGTON. Feb. i.—The molar teeth fcf a mastodon, a gigantic extinct elephant, together with fragments of a tusk and pieces of ribs and other bones, have been found 22 feet beneath the ground level, near Menlo Park, Cal., about twenty-eight miles southeast of San Francisco. Dr. Eliot Blackwelder, geologist of Stanford university, just has reported the find to the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. With the exception of one tooth, the bones have been placed in the university museum. Because a human skull was found buried under the Stanford campus some years ago, at about the same depth, Dr. Blackwelder hints at a possible great age for this relic, saying, “the suggestion of contemporaneity is not to be dismissed lightly. However, Dr. J. W. Gidley of the United States National Museum, is inclined to look somewhat askance on claims of such great age for human skull. “If this mastodon is of late Miocene or e >*rly Plicen eage, as Dr. Blackw’elder says it is. that sets it back some two or three million years,” he told Science Service. “And we have no evidence that man has been on earth that long.” NAGGING WIFE IS CURED Husband’s Silence Treatment Is Too Much for Mate. By United Press HOBOKEN, Feb. 2.—Because her husband had refused to talk to her for a year. Mrs. Anna Rautenkranz went to court and demanded reconciliation or separation. Her husband told the judge that he had been nagged for twentyfive j-ears and had taken to silence in self-defense. They finally agreed to try getting along with a little less of both. ATHLETE HOLDS PLANES Two Aircraft Unable to Budge Powerful Jugo-Slav. MOSCOW, Feb. 2.—A Jugo-Slav super-athlete has performed a seemingly impossible feat of unusual strength. With a passenger plane tied to his right hand and a sport plane to his left, he held the two from moving when their engines were going full power. Onlookers expected him to be torn assunder, but he didn’t budge under the terrific strain. Farm Leader Speaks Bu TANARUS, .es Special ANGOLA. Ind., Feb. 2.—H. S. Winder, Chicego, executive secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation, was the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Steuben county farm bureau here Friday night:

ing a message and then, in the middle of a letter, the smoke stopped. Collyer traced two or three more letters, not realizing his plight. Then the truth dawned on him and he hovered for a second or two undecided. Watchers next saw the tiny plane turn tail and . scud away as fast as it could go for Long Isiand and the landing field.

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APACHES MAKE LAST STAND IN WAR TO DEATH Grim Man Hunt Is on in Mountain Wilds of Mexican Border. B:> I II " 'I Press DOUGLAS, Ariz.. Feb. \ Nearly a half century after Geronimo led his marauding Apache Indians down into old Mexico just prior to his capture by General Miles, a band of direct descendants of his bloodthirsty warriors are making their last stand against civilization today. In the wild and desolate Sierra Madre mountains south of the border here ,the war to exterminate the redskins is on. Indian fighters are on the trail again and the fighting is being staged much as it was in the frontier days of the southwest two generations ago. The Mexican government has decreed that the reign of terror caused by the Apaches’ pillaging raids on peaceful American and Mexican ranches along the border must cease. Posse Out to Kill To this end it has commissioned a posse which set out recently from Agua Prieta—just across the international boundary from Douglas—to kill or capture every member of the band. Francisco Fimbres, a rancher, is the leader of the jws.se. The scenes of the shifting battle —which would make a western movie thriller look tame—are laid from forty to sixty miles southeast of Douglas in the Bavispe river valley and extend back in the Sierra Madres to the boundary line between the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. More than a spirit of adventure fires Fimbres as leader of the party determined to kill or capture the Indians. It is a spirit of vengeance, nursed for two years, against the redskins W’ho murdered his wife and kidnaped his child. Above all, he hopes to find the boy safe and sound. Determined on Vengeance It was with this motive that he persuaded Governor Fausto Topete for authority to stage the thrilling man-hunt. The governor granted this on recommendation of Rogerio Loreto, president of the city of Agua Prieta. No one knows definitely w r hat is going on back in the narrow mountain passes today as Fimbres’ party pursues the redskins, but reports brought out by runners say that engagements have taken place far back in the mountain fastness. This is a wild and uncivilized country and believed to be the refuge of many American criminals, as searching parties there have found old magazines, newspapers and tobacco cans around abandoned camp fires. It is believed that outlaws have-fled there from the southwest.

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Back to Bolling Field, Washington, with two transcontinental journeys and a sensational endurance flight record to their credit, came the Question Mark and its proud crew. Here you see Major Carl Spatz, center, commander of the ship, being congratulated by Secretary of War Dwight Davis. At the left is F. Trubee Davison, assistant secretary of war for aviation.

EATS; HAS NO STOMACH E glishman Enjoys Health After Major Operation. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 2.—A man without a stomach who takes his meals regularly and is able to do light work has been the subject of medical interest recently. Hepworth Etherington of Batley, near Leeds, was operated on eighteen months ago as the only hope of saving hi§ life. His stomach was removed, leaving only certain glands. After two weeks he was able to eat solid food and has enjoyed good health ever since.

r I ''HE script letter “m” is partieularly disliked by pilots, according to Captain O. C. Le Boutillier, famous sky-writer, relating his experiences in the March issue of Popular Science Monthly. The last two loops have to be added, one at a time, without disturbing the part of the letter al-

Second Thrill Slayer Goes to Trial

With his‘“thrill slaying” companion already sentenced to die in the electric chair. Richard Gallogly. Georgia college student, went to trial as an accomplice in the hold-up murder of Willard Smith, a drug clerk in Atlanta. Gallogly is pictured, left, waiting in his cell for the summons to the courtroom. In the court session at the right he may be seen between Hoke Smith, former United States Attorney, and Mrs. Worth Yankey, right the youth's mother.

OWES PRISONS LIFE SENTENCE Admits Check Swindles in Forty Cities. If lie served a day in jail for every fraudulent check he has cashed, Joseph L. Parent, 33, of Galveston, Tex., would spend the rest of his life in jail, he admitted to Detectives Ed Tutt and Charles Jordan. Parent glibly rattled off the names of thirty-five or forty cities in which he has worked his check swindle scheme and described his method, the detectives said. The last city in which he worked was Louisville where he cashed a SSO check at the Seelback hotel, according to the officers. He likely will be sent there for trial. Tutt and Jordan arrested Parent late Wednesday at the Claypool. They recognized one of his aliases at the registration desk. "Here I am —there is no use of me saying anything, boys,” he said as the detectives walked into his room. Parent, according to the detectives, described his method as follows: Upon arriving in a city he opens a bank account by depositing a fraudulent check on a far distant city. Then he would lease a room on the pretext of opening up some sort of office and order an elegant outfit of furniture from some local dealer. Presenting his lease for the office and his order for the furniture as evidence of his reliability, he would cash a SSO or $75 check at his hotel and skip.

GIRL IS LAWYER AT 19 Y’outhful Attorney Admitted to Bar Without Attending Law School. By United Press DECATUR. Ga., Feb. 2.—At the age of 19, Miss Irma von Nunes is a lawyer, although she never went to law school. The 1.9-year-old girl was admitted to the bar recently, the Georgia regulations allowing minors over 18 to the bar provided they pass the state examinations creditably. Her first case was a divorce suit. She also has been before the state supreme court in a pending damage suit.

ready written—no mean job. A capital “E” requires a bothersome number of loops. Os course, “I” is the simplest of all. By all odds the easiest sky-writ-ing ever done w-as in England in weaving the name “OXO. ’ And the curious part was that, besides having simple letters, it could be written forward or backward.

Boy Radio Amateur Talks to Byrd’s Antarctic Aids

Youth Achieves Fame in Ether Field Because He Got Up Early. BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer FALLS CHURCH. Va., Feb. 2.—At 9 o'clock each night Edward Redington’s mother tells him to get off to bed. which means that the boy must desert his home-made wireless set by 10 at the latest. But Mrs. Redington allows her 15-year-old son to rise as early as he likes and 6 o’clock in the morning finds him back with the dots and dashes. It was thanks to her enforcement of Benjamin Franklin's sleeping system that Edward achieved fame by establishing two-way radio communication with the Byrd expedtiion in the Antarctic soon after 6 o’clock on a recent morning. Picked Up Base Ship Otherwise, one fears, Edward might have been up all night and sleeping soundly at the moment of his golden oportunity. That was not the first time young Redingtcn has picked up the base ship, City of New York. Some seventeen or eighteen times before, he says, he had received her signals. But it was the first chance he had to talk back. Redington is a member of the American Radio Relay League. He received his license six months ago. It was in Q-S-T, the league’s magazine, that he obtained most of the aope which enabled him to construct the set with which he has talked to the Byrd party. Works Hard to Learn It was the issue for November, 1928 one might add for amateurs, which contained all the latest information for 1929 construction work. Edward supplemented that with numerous inquiries among his friends and considerable reading elsewhere. Edward works in his bedroom, from which his thirty-five-foot aerial is strung to a nearby tree, ilis antenna arrangement permits him to transmit and receive at the same time, allowing the operator to whom he is sending to break in and ask for a repeat if necessary. He is trying each morning to reconnect with the Byrd operator. 10,000 CUPS OF JAVA PURCHASE USED CAR Case Owner Trades With Youth; Takes Him 9 I'ears to Collect. By United Press TRENT, Feb. .. —A second-hand automobile for 10,000 cups of coffee W'as the bargain made between a young man of Rovereto near here and the proprietor of a local case. The case owner, having stated that he was willing to buy the young man’s car, but had not the ready cash, the latter offered the above terms, which were put down on paper and duly signed. Two lawyers who were in the case at the time acted as witnesses. The terms of the contract permit the 10,000 cups of coffee to be consumed by any persons delegated by the former owner of the automobile. It was calculated that if the carowner had to drink all the 10,000 cups himself, it would take him more than nine years to get even with the case proprietor, if he took three cups a day. WINS SNOW BATTLE Home-Owner Victorious Over Tramp Who Sneered at Pay for Work. Bn United Press * MUSCODA, Wis., Feb ..—Elmer Richter offered a tramp 50 cents for his breakfast when he had finished shoveling the snow from the walk in front of Richter's bakery here. “It ain’t enough,” said the tramp. Whereupon he took his shovel and started throwing the snow back upon the walk. Richter hurriedly procured another shovel and started a “duel” with the stranger to keep his walk clean. After fifteen minutes of violent endeavor the tramp admitted defeat and obtained his meal from the county.

rightside-up or upside-down, and it would still read the same. S~ K Y -WRI’HN G planes are speedy little fighters—wonderful craft to pilot, but so tiny that a shoe horn is needed to ease yourself into the cockpit. They can fly at 135 miles an hour and climb 10,000 feet in twelve minutes, he continues. On the joystick is the smoke

MORE FEDERAL PRISONS ORGED Revision of Penal System Suggested to House. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. '..—The special house prison investigating committee recommended today that the entire federal prison system be revised and modernized. It urged passage of legislation to erect new penal institutions to relieve overcrowded conditions in penitentiaries and extension of the parole system. The committee report did not mention allegations that Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant United States attorney-general, detailed undercover agents to investigate conditions at penitentiaries. The report recommended erection of two new federal penitentiaries, one in the northeast and one in the southwest, and that federal jails or workhouses to care for short, term and detention prisoners should be ouilt at New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco. It urged the reformatory at Chillicothe, 0., be rushed to completion and that the age limit for prisoners there be lifted to care for all first offenders. FLAT-FOOTED WOMEN ARE URGED TO TOE IN Trouble .More Common Among Ladies Than Men. Em United. Press NEW YORK. Feb. ..—Flat foot is more common among American women than among men, according to statistics gathered by Dr. William S. Sadler, director of the Chicago Institute of Research and Diagnosis. And the situation is likely to become more and more aggravated, these statistics show, unless American women will cease toeing out, and began to walk, Indian fashion, with their toes pointing in. Dr. Sadler, analyzing his studies in the American Magazine, says: “A reason why women suffer more from flat feet is because they toe out more than men, both in walking and standing, and this places a great strain upon the arches of the feet. The persistent practice of toeing in, standing and walking Indian fashion, and the daily exercise of the leg muscles, rising on the toes twenty to forty times night and morning, will do much to prevent flat feet. BAD BLEND—THE END Fags and Dynamite Don’t Mix, Workmen Are Demonstrated. Bu United Press PORT DEPOSIT, Md„ Feb. I. Cigarets and dynamite don’t mix. Two workmen watched superintendent of the Cameron quarry, William P. Cameron, walk down a road with six. 10-inch sticks of dynamite in his hands and a cigaret in his mouth. All was serene until they were thrown on their faces by the force of a terrific explosion. Cameron was blown to bits. Building Permits R. E. Willey, dwelling: and ga.ra.xc. 5816 Winthrop. *9.750. R. E. Willey, dwellne and garage. 5735 Winthrop. *£loo. R. E. Willey, dwelling: and garage, 71t East Fifty-eighth. *12.500. W. Wj Garuth. excavate. 910 Bnrsall parkway. *350. T. E Grlnslade. dweling and garage 1619 South Randolph. *2.350. T. E. Grinslade. dwelling and garage. 1623 South Randolph, *2.350. Crown Laundry Company, furnace. 27 South Grace. $315. A. G. Bush, repair. 4818 Winthrop. $375. F. Hanley, garage. 829 North Temple. S3O. W F. Smith, garage. 237 ViUa. $283. C. Hartman, garage. 3733 East Vermont. *450. J. L. Holloway, dwelling. 411 West Thirty-ninth. *2.800. Invalids should not be asked to eat the same food at two meals in succession.

trigger—a small lever resembling the catch on an automobile hand brake. Press it, and a puff of smoke issues from the tail of the plane and continues in a steady stream as long as the lever is squeezed. Smoke of different colors—green, red and yellow—have been tried. But white smoke stands out best

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WHITE HOOSE IS REFURNISHED IN COLONIAL STYLE Mrs. Coolidge’s Plan Wins Over Bitter Opposition of ‘Standpats.’ BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1929. Scripps-Howard Newspapers.) WASHINGTON. Feb. I.—Restoration of the interior of the White House to the style of colonial furniture of the period in which it was built has been begun, it was learned today Asa result of the plan conceived by Mrs. Coolidge, but delayed because of bitter opposition from certain quarters, the green room, one of the three formal parlors, has been furnished with beautiful Sheraton and Heppelwhite pieces. They were pui chased from New York antique dealers, and probably will be paid for by persons interested in the movement to hare the President’s home typify the republic's early days. The new. airy and graceful pieces have supplanted the stuffed and rather heavy French empire furniture with which all the public rooms were fitted at tlie time of the major repairs made during the Roosevelt administration in 1902. It is understood that other rooms on the ground floor will be treated in the same manner. Antiques in Greenroom The greenroom now lias such pieces as a Sheraton sofa, six Heppelwhite chairs, several spindlelegged tables with piecrust borders and a low stand with spreading legs. Rugs and other decorations are in keeping with the colonial effect, and the green satin wall paper was designed to harmonize with furniture of early American days. A low, curving bench with arching legs completes the purely colonial furnishings of the room. It is not known how PresidentElect and Mrs. Hoover feel toward the proposed change, but it is believed they approve. Mrs. Hoover has been taken through the White House by Mrs. Coolidge since the greenroom was done over, within the last few weeks. Approved by Mrs. Coolidge Renovation of the interior was placed in the hands of a committee of nationally known experts in antique furniture a few years ago, when an appeal was made to Individuals and museums to contribute early American furniture for permanent use in the White House. Members of the committee are said to have selected the new pieces, with the final approval coming from Mrs. Coolidge. At the time the plan was broached she visited the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York to obtain suggestions. TRAMP QUEERS SOB TALES FOR BRETHREN Takes French Leaves After Receiving Purse and Pajamas. By y I'A Service LONDON, Feb. 2,—There's a surprise awaiting the next person who approaches the magistrates at Wymouth with a sob story. A tramp is responsible for a turn to more severity and less kindness in the I court. The vagrant was hailed before ; the bench of justice after being found with a razor wound in his throat. The court listened to a most convincing tale of woe. It was such a good story that the jurists made a purse of ten dollars and | one magistrate provided a suit of ! pajamas for the fellow’. ! Then arrangements were made to send the tramp to the Home of St. Francis of Assist at Batcombe, Dorset, but he disappeared from tiic colony while final arrangements were being made to icceive him. The pajamas were found in the reception room. ’GATOR EASY TO WHIP Jaws Can Be Held Shut With One Hand, Says “Dogger.” By Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Next time you see one of those news reels showing a husky young man wrestling with a huskier alligator just for the sport of it, don’t gasp. It isn’t half as dangerous- as it looks, and Thomas M. Carnegie Jr., who is ’gator-dogging champion of the Georgia coast, tells why in the current Golden Book magazine. “An alligator has little or no power to open its jaws,” he explains. “The jaws of the largest easily can be held closed with one hand, but two men with a crowbar inserted can not force them open. Needless to say, this is a valuable bit of knowledge for the prospective alligator hunter.” FIRST BEAR TO WOMAN Huntress Bags Bruin in Union River Section, Maine. AMHERST. Me.. Feb. 2.—A woman is credited with gening the first bear in the Union river section this season. Mrs. Roy Richardson was hunting porcupines when a 200-pound black bear came upon the scene. An experienced hunter, Mrs. Richardson let Bruin have it between the eyes and then shouted for aid to haul her trophy home. LIGHTHOUSES ON LAND England Will Build Towers as Aid to Aviator u Bu United Press LONDON. Feb. 2.—Great Britain is planning a group of lighthouses on land. These lighthouses will act as signal stations to airplanes. A light will flash instructions to plane pilots, who will carry code books with which to interpret the meaning of the flashes. *