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f Sometimes authors choose titles ■which virtually at first, guarantee a best sellpr position. That seems to bp true with "Thp Middle Child." written by Eleanor Morse. It is published by H. C. Kinsey fc Cos. f BY WALTER O. HICKMAN YOU rerall what a furore that Trader Horn paused when he first, struck the printed page, in story form. Am beginning to believe that Jan Welzl is going to do the same thing with his "Thirty Years in the Golden North,” published by the Macmillan Company and sells for $2.50. In the introduction, it is stated that "the book was produced by means of countless questions” put to Welzl in his home in Zabreh, Czechoslovakia, by journalists, over a cup of coffee, tea, or a glass of rum, amid clouds of smoke. The two men who interviewed Welzl for months after his thirty years’ experiences in roaming in the far north met many difficulties. In the words of Edvard Valenta and B. Golombek, "A second obstacle was Welzl's absolute ignorance of geography. Welzl, who had tramped all over the world, was unable when confronted with a map, to distinguish the north pole from the south.” And again the statement of the same two—"Welzl never knowingly littered an untruth.” Once more when they caused him to repeat certain experiences at other times, they were identical and always "gave proof of what was sometimes an almost incredibly intimate acquaintance with every inch of the polar regions.” a a a While T was reading "Thirty Years in the Golden North,” I had the feeling that sometimes I was being spoofed by a wild man and then the next second I was being led into an adventure that could be proved. You start with Welzl in 1893 when he started his long journey from Irkutsk "across the endless regions of Siberia to the distant north to seek my fortune.” At times I thought I was riding behind his horse and on the cart and then farther north by reindeer over the. ice and snow. He records many intimate things that an esyslorer would never record such as the strange custom of one tribe of women who enjoyed lice at each other.” The women, according to Welzl In that strange part of Siberia, “would chew a large, flea, swallow one half, more or less, while they threw the other half at me.” He found out that the women were trying to make love to him. But don't, let those queer recordings prevent, you from reading a travel book that will keep you on the edge of your seat all of the time. It is the strangest travel book I have ever read. tt B B Among the new fall novels announced by Claude Kendall are: “Lake of Fire,” by Lionel Houser, literary editor of tire San Francisco News; “Bed and Bored.” by Max Trell; “Sweet Dust,” by Jeanette Greenspan; "Sex Marks the Spot," by Gremin. and “An American Girl,” by Tiffany Thayer. a a u The 1.875.000 th copy of a Grace Livingston Hill book was sold yesterday. Happiness Hill” <LippinrottL is the present book which brought Mrs. Hill's total sales to that astounding figure. Her biggest sale is “The Enchanted Barn.” which has sold approximately 125,000 copies. , a a a J. B. Lippincott Company announce the publication this autumn of "The Perils and Fortune of the Duke of Osuna," bv Antonio Marichalar. Marichalar is the Spanish correspondent of the New Criterion. London, of which T. S. Eliot is the editor. a a a Sidonie M. Gruenberg's book. “Your Child Today and Tomorrow.” has been selected for inclusion in the exhibition of books to be on view at the sixth world conference of the New Education Fellowship, now being held at Nice. Mrs. Gruenberg will also give a course, “The Family in a Changing Society," during the conference. a a a Another book that I have before me is "Respectfully Submitted.” by Harold G. Aron and published by J. J. Little and Ives Company of New York. It is a brief for the present right of men to attain through justice his own true and substantial happiness. In writing on "The Job and Justice.” the author states: "No human being can be truly and substantirlly happy without the conviction, whether it is shared by others makes no differerce, that he or she is accomplishing something worth while, making something of themselves, pushing the peg of their family progress at least one notch higher, leaving something behind, either offspring or achievement, which will be ‘footprints in the •ands of time.' ”

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KEY TO PEACE IN S. AMERICA HELDBYCHILE Transfer of Arid Strip of Land Could Halt War of Bolivia and Paraguay. WANTS OUTLET TO SEA Section Has Value Only in Nitrate Fields, Now of Little Worth. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripn.-Howsrd Forcltn Editor WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—Transfer by Chile to Bolivia of a now almost worthless desert pathway seventy-five miles long and a few miles widp, giving Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific, would, it is believed, permanently block the threatened war between Bolivia and Paraguay. Feverish efforts are ijnder w'ay here to form a united Pan-Ameri-can front against a dangerous war in the South American continent, but behind the scenes it was admitted that if the Pan-American League of Nations is to prevent a clash now. or later, it will have to remove the causes. It is not really for possession of the steaming jungle of the Gran Chaco, lying just under the tropic of Capricorn, that Bolivia and Paraguay have mobilized their armies. Bolivia is after an outlet to the sea. and even if she won it via the Paraguay, the Parana, and La Plata rivers, it would be an outlet in name only. Source of Discord It 'would not be a permanent solution. On the contrary, it would be, in itself, a permanent source of discord between Bolivia and the countries astride those streams. On the other side, however, west of Bolivia, the landlocked, lies Chile, which is nearly all sea coast. In the extreme north, bordering on Peru, are the provinces of Tacna and Arica. There, the frontier of Bolivia is within seventy-five miles of the. sea. From La Paz to Arica there already is a railway across territory •which Chile took from Peru in 1883 in the war of the Pacific. Arid as the Sahara, the sole value of this region lies in its nitrate deposits. And nitrates today are a drug on the market. Not only that, but experts declare that these nitrate, beds will have a decreasing value from now on. Chile Hurt by Science In the United States, Germany, Japan, and other countries, engineers are taking nitrate out of the air, synthetically producing what for a long time w'as Chile’s principal source of revenue. Once she supplied 90 per cent of the world's nitrates. Today, if need be, the world could do without Chilean nitrates altogether. Science has dealt Chile a hard blow'. Asa result, Tacna and Arica are of waning importance and she easily could afford to dispose of a narrow strip across them to form for Bolivia a corridor to the salt water highways of commerce.

Wades Through Legal Books to Snare Rival

Woman Finds Law Which Attorneys Never Had Heard About. By United Prest CHICAGO. Aug. s.—Mrs. Alice C. Alden read through seventyfive sections of the Illinois criminal code .and thirty-seven chapters more, before she found what she wanted. Then she had Mrs. Anna Marr arrested on charges which the state's attorneys’ office didn't know existed. Mrs. Alden's husband left her three years ago. she said, and married Mrs. Marr bigamously. Mrs. Alden had Anthony arrested, but when she sought the arrest of Mrs.

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A blaze in the old Quincy grain elevator in Chicago turned into one of the most spectacular fires the city has seen in a decade when the flames engulfed the structure within a few minutes and spread •4*

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Use Police Guns as Last Resort, Glassford Warns

BY MAX STERN Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—" Policemen. in this time of national unrest, should be careful to use their pistols and batons only as a last extremity and in protection of life.” This is the advice of BrigadierGeneral Pelham D. Glassford, police chief of the capital city, and to the veterans and most of the townsmen the one hero of the recent and tragic "B. E. F." disturbances. Glassford is a westerner, as well as a West Pointer. Tanned, athletic, -brainy, and under 50, he seems tomave about the measurements of the ideal American police officer as described in a Wickersham commission reoprt. Having policed the 20.000 bonus lobbyists for two months without disturbance or blood-letting up to the day the federal troops were ordered by the

TWO MILLIONS TOLL TAKEN IN CHICAGO FIRE Blaze One of Worst in 25 Years in Windy City; Two Blocks Swept. : By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. s.—Nearly half of Chicago’s fire-fighting forces j poured tons of water today on the fiery embers of a conflagration that, sw'ept two square blocks and did damage estimated at nearly $2,000.000. Fifteen persons were injured, none ; seriously, in the fire which blazed in | the heart of a packing i;ouse district and was one of the w'orst Chicago had seen in twenty-five years. Flames starting in a large grain elevator, presumably as a result of | a dust explosion,* rushed forward on a block long front. The huge packing plant of the Omaha Packing Company w'as%viped out. In the pens, 800 hogs, 60 cattle and 200 sheep perished, and tons of packed j meat W'ere destroyed. Licks Across River ; The fire jumped to a coal yard j and licked across the Chicago river I to consume a yacht and a fishing j smack anchored there. Warehouses ! and office buildings were destroyed. Heat from the fire was so intense firemen were forced to w'ork at long | distance. A block to windward of the blaze the heat w’as terrific and spectators were driven back. Thirty thousand people w'atched the conflagration, attracted by a mighty tower of flame and smoke that w'as visible from the Loop, many blocks distant. Traffic Is Halted Traffic about the stricken area w'as halted. Small storekeepers in the area handed out their w'ares to ; passersb.v, convinced their shops could not be saved from the Ynsh of flames. Search of the district, for possible J victims w'as to be made as soon as | flames died down in the ruins. Many narrow escapes from death were reported, but, so far as police 1 could determine, none w'as missing.

Marr, authorities said no charges could be placed against the woman in a bigamous marriage. “'There must be,” fumed Mrs. Alden as she went to a law library and sat down for a month, more or less, of constant reading. In the thirty-eighth chapter of the seven-ty-sixth dusty tome she persued she found a statute which said that any woman knowingly living with a man married to someone else could be placed in jail for one year and fined SSOO. Mrs. Alden copied the statute verbatim, took it to the state’s attorney, and Mrs. Marr's arrest followed. The latter said, incidentally, she was glad she had been taken to jail because she would be “near to Anthony.”

to a lumber yard and the yards and plant of the Omaha Packing Company. The doss was estimated at $2,000,000. The above photo shows flames and smoke pouring from the roof of the elevator during the fire.

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White House to intervene, he is looked upon as something of a practical authority on the psychology of hungry, desperate men. a e a "TN handling mobs, firearms A should be used only in defense of life," he says. "They should be drawn, not to prevent minor disturbances, but only as a last resort, when human life is endangered. The baton should not be used except when a policeman is overpowered by superior numbers. "This is not a matter of sentiment. It is practical intelligence. Much better results may be secured through firmness, coupled with good judgment and kindness.. Glassford sees the police of the country confronted with grave responsibilities, not only because of the powerful underworld of criminals, but because of the danger of rioting of citizens.

Merchant Wounded in Holdup Dies

Jack Werner

Succumbing to wounds received in resisting a holdup Tuesday, Jack Werner, clothing merchant and loan office operator at 234 Indiana avenue, died at 9:40 Thursday night in the oxygen room of the Riley hospital. With death of Werner, charges of murder have been placed against Roy Love, 17-year-old bandit, who is held in detention ward at city hospital in critical condition,-after being shot down by Werner, according to detective chief Fred Simon. Stanley Parker, 25, said by detectives to have admitted accompanying Love in the attempted holdup, also will be charged with murder. Parker and McCleary were to be arraigned at 2 this afternoon before S. C. Bodner, municipal judge pro tern. Parker is held without bond, while bond of McCleary has been reduced from SSO,COD to $25,000. Love's arraignment has been set for Aug. 16. Charge of being an accessory before the fact has been placed against Glenn McCleary, 23, who was arrested with Parker after the latter fled to his home at 924 West New York street, when Werner routed the bandits by opening fire with a revolver concealed in his store. Funeral sendees for Werner will be held at 2 Sunday at the Werner home. 3539 Balsam avenue. Burial will be in Beth-El cemetery.

In each case, he says, the demand is for policemen of the highest possible intelligence. He has established a police school here. nan “•QOLICING has become a projL session. While Ido not claim a college education is necessary, I think a policeman should be equal in intelligence to any citizen. He should be trained in police schools to learn the law, the legal rights of the citizens and his own legal rights. "A policeman is different from a soldier. He works as an individual and trusts to his own judgment. Often he is judge and jury of the first instance. "By his decision, often a quick one, he may affect the life of a citizen for good or evil. Always he must remember that he is part of the community and is obligated to help make the community safe and comfortable.”

| BONUS ARMY’S EVACUATION IS HELD UP AGAIN Johnstown Mayor Seeks to ' Get Trains and Gasoline for Autos. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY I'nitfd Pres3 Staff Correspondent JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. Aug. s.—Final mustering out of 2,500 remaining members of the B. E. F. was halted temporarily today, due to lack of rail transportation and shortage of fuel for automobiles. Fewer than 100 men have left the camp in the last twelve hours. Mayor Eddie McCloskey, however, believes that he has solved the gasoline problem. He drew SIOO from the $1,200 B. E. F. treasury and announced that he would give each member of the automobile caravan a dollar bill for gasoline. Meanwhile, difficulties with the Pennsylvania railroad over securing a special train eastward held up an exodus of about 100 persons. McCloskey. acting as evacuation dictator. was endeavoring to get General W. W. Atterbury, chairman of the railroad board of directors, to authorize special trains. Tobacco and Food Arrive Fifty dollars’ worth of tobacco arrived from the B. E. F. treasurer ana this, with a supply of food made available at noon, raised the spirits of the men. It was the first meal served in twenty-four hours. Robert Ellison, in charge of the army, announced that William Waite of Kalamazoo. Mich., had been removed as camp commander and that Bill Norman, leader of the "Hell Kitchen” outfit of New York City, had replaced him. The Pennsylvania American Legion marched into Johnstown several thousand strong, planning to celebrate Legion day. Bands were playing and colors flying, but all this had nothing to do with the bonuseers, who had no breakfast and were a doleful lot. Bootlegger Is Sought The mayor Thursday night ordered Vernon Butler, Detroit, to leave town for being an alleged “chiseler.” Also, the red-haired executive ordered officers to find a bootlegger who had been supplying the bonuseers with liquor. The mayor and bonus leaders were confident there would be no trouble from alleged Communist activities.

Cop in Solomon Role Halts Parking Fracas

Mention of Court Cools Passions of Motorists, Brings Peace. KING SOLOMON had nothing on some of Indianapolis’ traffic policemen, particularly Charles C. Crouch, when it comes to settling disputes. Attracted by a large crowd gathered around two automobiles on Washington street between Illinois and Meridian streets, officer Crouch decided to investigate. He found a large new sedan, chauffeur driven, parked at the curb, and beside it a sedan of earlier vintage, the drivers arguing over the one parking space available in the block, which had been won by the big sedan's chaffeur. Each driver wished Crouch to do something to the other. Crouch listened courteously to the two versions, which did not tally. •'Well, boys,” he remarked at last. “I didn't see this happen, so all I DEMOCRAT HOPES RISE Colorado Victory Seen; Costigan to Attend Convention. By Scripps-Hoicard newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Senator Edward P. Costigan, progressive Democratic senator from Colorado, left Washington today at the urgent appeals of party leaders, to attend the Democratic state convention in Denver, Monday, when designations will be made for the primary election Sept. 6. Prospects for a Democratic victory in Colorado this year are regarded as unusually bright. Aspirants for the Democratic senatorial nomination are former Senator Alva B. Adams and John T. Barnett, former national committeeman, both favoring repeal. The Phipps-Hodges Republican wdng. now virtually in control, is backing a dry, U. S. District Judge J. Foster Symes for the nomination. His opponent is N. C. Warren of Ft. Collins, a state senator. i

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Champ Clark’s Son Likely To Win U. S. Senate Post

Famous Speaker Predicted Political Career for Boy at Age of 10. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. s.—Colonel Bennet T. Champ Clark, who as a boy “took to politics like a duck to water,” today appeared near the realization of a childhood ambition —membership in congress where his father, the late Champ Clark, ruled for years as Speaker of the house. Champ Clark predicted a political career for his son after hearing him deliver a political address at the age of 10. “That boy’ll go to congress some day,” the father declared. “He takes to politics like a duck to water.” That was thirty-two years ago. Today, at 42, "that boy” held the Democratic nomination for United States senator from Missouri after a political battle that stirred voters in the most remote sections. His victory in Tuesday’s state primary won for him the right to oppose Henry W. Kiel, Republican nominee, in the November general election for junior United States senator from Missouri. Clark fought the powerful Thomas J. Pendergast Democratic political machine of Kansas City to defeat its candidate, Charles M. Howell. A firm friendship that existed between Speaker Clark and Senator Jim Reed has continued between Reed and young Clark, Clark based his campaign upon an appeal for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and upon economic issues. JOAN IS ON HONEYMOON Blond Film Star and Cameraman Have Outing in Oregon Cabin. By United Press GOLD BEACH, Ore., Aug. 5. Joan Blondell, blond film star, and George S. Barnes, film cameraman of Hollywood, were reported honeymooning in a cabin near here today.

can do is to arrest you both, and let you settle it in court.” This w'as too much for the motorists. "Wait a. minute,” they pleaded in unison. “Can’t we let this drop?” And almost before Crouch could agree, the unsuccessful parking space seeker departed, and the crow'd scattered as the officer walked aw'ay triumphantly.

Troops on Guard at Dixie Bee

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McCormick to Wed Divorcee, Society Says

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 5. The contemplated third marriage of Harold Fowler McCormick, multimillionaire reaper manufacturer, to a wealthy New York divorcee, was reported in society circles today—and was not de-

nied by the prospective hridegreom. Wedding plans, however, were described as “absurd” by Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday, whose name was linked with McCormick's in the romantic rumor. A somewhat dis-

ferent version was supplied by the elderly Chicagoan, here to attend the Olympic games, the same mission that ostensibly brought Mrs Doubleday to Los Angeles. “I have known Mrs. Doubleday for years,” he said. “She is the most charming woman I ever knew’. She is fascinating. I will not affirm or deny any reports. Ask Mrs. Doubleday.” The romance, if such it is, has been a subject of drawing room discussion at social circles at fashionable European watering places, in New York, Chicago and Santa Barbara. McCormick's first wife was Edith Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller. Next he married the famous operatic star, Ganna Walska. They were divorced some years ago. Mrs. Doubleday is divorced from her first husband, wealthy Felix Doubleday of New York. McCormick, several years Mrs. Doubleday’s senior, is the son of the late Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaper and founder of the j vast McCormick fortune. MILLIONS IN DRY NET Huge Seizure of Property, Heavy Fine Total Reported. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance\ WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—Prohibition in the last two years caused j federal seizure of property worth mere than tw’enty-one million dollars, and imposition of fines totaling, more than twelve million dollars. Federal dry law arrests increased during this year. These official figures are included j in a reprint of the 1931 annual report of the prohibition bureau.

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jWAR THREATS RUMBLE AGAIN OVEREUROFE Showdown Near Between France and Germany, Washington Fears. DEBTS ARE BIG ISSUE Mussolini’s Sudden Change -of Attitude Increases Doubt on Situation. By Scripps-Howard Xetctpaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—lmminence of a showdown between Germany and France, admittedly fraught with peril, today is stirI ring this country and Europe to ’ action. First, it is behind Washington's stubborn resistance on arrfls reduction and limitation as the price of war debts revision. Second, it is behind the campaign 1 of senator William E. Borah, chair- | man of the foreign relations com- ; mittee, for immediate war debts cancellation as part of a broad settlement of the major problems growing out of the World war. Third, it is behind the mysterious new Anglo-French entente, secretly negotiated at Lausanne under cover of the reparations parley. Mussolini Makes Switch Fourth, it is behind Mussolini's sudden shift in the direction of a more cautioius attitude toward Germany, which he ardently has supported in the past, and his mild flirtation with London and Paris. ' It is now crystal clear that Germany wifi not rest content with any mere cancellation or reparations, i She demands disarmament of her neighbors or equal armament rights for herself. Danzig, the Polish corridor, and Upper Silesia must be returned to her, along with some, if not all, of her former colonies. Union with Austria must not be denied. German Chancellor Franz von Papen and his Hohenbollern cabinet make no bones of what they want. The Hitlerites and the other firpeating Nationalists are even more outspoken. If they only can agree among themselves, Germany's > present masters now are prepared once more to demand for her the long-denied "place in the sun.” Borah Watches Danger Senator Borah is. known to have been watching the approach of this danger for some time. He has made an intensive study of its background. For more than a year he | has been warning the administra- | tion that it was coming. And for fully that long it has been known to those about him that he intended to take the matter to the country all by himself, if need be. if neither of the big political parties took on the job. This the thundering Idahoan is doing with a vengeance. He is invading the w-est, reputed hotbed of the isolationists and anti-debt cancellationists. And he is getting a big reception w’herever he delivers his message—a strange one for him—of world co-operation to bring prosperity back to American farms and factories. Washington Is Pleased War debts cancellation, disarmament, tariff reduction, monetary stabilization, and a general settlement of the problems left over by the World war, Borah insists, are the only road back to better times. Along this road the United States must lead boldly. Far from being upset by Borah's blasts, Washington is more than a littlfe pleased. He is saying exactly what most of the administration leaders here believe, but do not have the political courage openly to advocate. Aside from his tariff reduction “heresies,” they probably are 90 per cent for what he says. Gun Explodes; Eye Injured Injury of the right eye w'as suffered by Colvin Harris, 16, of 406 South Harris avenue, when an old shotgun he was firing Thursday on the banks of Eagle creek, exploded.

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no resistance, and freed the miners, who had withstood a forty-one-hour siege. A machine gun crew of the Indiana national guard is shown above on duty at tfce mine to preserve order.