The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 14, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 August 1929 — Page 6

Millionaires Are Jailed in France J

Latest Recruit Among the Moneyed Jailbirds Is Accused of Two Murders. Paris. —The United States may hnv* Its Sinclair case, but France has beet' busily occupied during the last few months in {ailing many of her million aires. The affair started in the ranks 01 bankers. There was an epidemic ot suspicious failures in business and in vestigations led to many inteieslim disclosures regarding the transaction* of many notable men in the world ot finance and likewise led to prison toi the individuals concerned. - i'he latest recruit among the moneyed Jailbirds is painted as a much more sinister figure than any of the otb ers. however, since his financial trans actions are alleged to have involve') Hie violent deaths of at least two peo pie. Enraged Mob. This man. declared n be the most remarkable character to have ap peared in a French criminal trial since the days of Landru. is thirty-three year-old Charles Barataud. being then at the assizes at Limoges, in south western France. Every day when h» is conveyed from jail to rhe courthouse he is surrounded I • a squadron of cavalry to beat back the angry mob clam oring for the head of the youthful mil liomiire. The trial had to be postponed one day because rhe general commanding the local garrison wrote to the judge stating that he could not supply a force of troops sufficient to insure th< safety of the prisoner against the en raged mob in the streets. Barataud is accused of having murdered the driver of a taxicab for th<sake of his money and to have later shot down a youthful friend who knew Barataud’s secret. If is allege)! also that he planned the murder of twr other persons who. however, suspected his intentions and were able to over cothe him when they kept the ren dezvous he had made with them in the woods near Limoges. The weak point in the prosecution s case is to show cause why Baralaud. the son ot a millionaire and himselt 7/- ranking as having a like amount of wealth, should kill a taxi driver, un less he had been overcome by mania Two Suicide Attempts. All kinds of legends have been woven around Barataud by the local K J Shop Room in Which I ! ‘Y’ Started Is Preserved J i London.—The humble simp * • room in which Sir George Wil t ! liams founded the Young Men’s J • Christian association eighty-five f i years ago is fast becoming a * J spot of historic interest. The « • room, rhe upper floor of a targe J J drapery establishment in St t • Paul’s church yard, was the bed- J J room of Sir George, then a shop » • assistant, am! it was there he J J gathered the small group which » • organized the Y. M. C. A. ,

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More than one Hundred workmen lowering the huge uase ot a lO.UUU.UOO-cubic-foot gas tank for the Pacific Gas • & Electric company into position in San Francisco. The tank will be 228 feet high and 276 feet in diameter. It vill be of ihe telescopic type, having five collapsible sec ions.

GEMS OF SHAH OF PERSIA WORTH NEARLY $170,000 000

Includes 10 Pounds of Pearls. 12 of Rubies. 13 of Emeralds and Other Stones Teheran. —For the first time in history a complete record has been made of the enormous number of valuable gems ’collected in rhe treasury ot tne Shah of Persia Hitherto no attempt et valuation had been made, but Riza Khan ordered a committee of French and Dutch jewelers to undertake the task. The committee has valued the whole state Jewelry at over £34.<km>.(hh> with the exception of the famous diamond “Darva-l-Noor." or the Sea of Light, which according t<- the experts is beyond estimation. The jewels consist In most part of emeralds, diamonds, rubies and pearls. Their weights have been taken and some idea nf the Persian s»'> ,h ' !s measures can be had from * the fact that there are ten

people. He was credited with the declaration that he would never be brought to trial. Twice he was found in his cell with knife wounds and nearly died both times. The trial is likely tb go on for weeks yet. Meanwhile fresh forces ot in fantry and cavalry have been request ed from neighboring garrison towns. The town is well placarded with bills denouncing the partiality of the court towards the prisoner, since it is contended thtit bi^money is in his favor. This case recalls that ot an other millionaire ami aristocrat, the Comte de Rojac, wfio a few months ago received sentence for seven years imprisonment for the murder of his son born to the family servant girl There was an outcry then because it was claimed that the family’s money had saved rhe noble youth’s head from the guillotine. Island in Seine Is Now American Colon" Paris. — Historic lie Saint Louis on the Seine in the heart of Paris Ims be come an American colony. During the past few years the is land, which is linked by a bridge to the He <le la -Cite whereon Marie An tdinette was imprisoned before het execution, has drawn increasing num hers of American residents attracted by. the seclusion of the Old world streets, the serene i atmosphere and cheapness of rents. | The most imposing home on the ts land, which covers only n few square miles, is that ot Andrew Mellon American secretary of the treasury Mellen has purchased one ot the most desirable sites on the island and transformed the property to his own tastes. other Americans nave followed the lead and today most'of the old world properties are in the hands of people from overseas who have forced the natives to emigrate and take up othet abodes on the mainland or the adjoin ing lie de la Cite. The island has a romantic history since, during the time of the poet. Roger Desvignes. it declared itself as autonomous and refused to be gov erned by the authorities on the main land But the revolt was more of tin artistic gesture than a serious effort Named after King Louis IX. who came to the throne of France at rhe age of eleven the island is one of the most picturesque examples exist ing of medieval French architecture It harbors some of the most anti (plated inns in the capital, while its curiosity shops are renowned haunts for connoisseurs Wheat Transformed to Biscuits in 18 Minutes Ranget. Texas.—Just 17 minutes ami 38 seconds after wheat had been cut in the field it had been transformed into hot brown biscuits The wheat was reaped. thresh<j>tl. rushed in an auto to a mill, made! into flour thrust into ovens, and emerged ready to be consumed, in less than 18 minutes. K C. .Jones. Ranger mill owner, mid Ben Whitehouse, agricultural instructor conducted the race against time aided by two chefs. Last year a similar rest required 41 minutes

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pounds of the finest pearls, twelve pounds of rubies atid thirteen pounds of emeralds The largest emerald is valued at over E.’kV.tKM) The most valuable of all the trehs tires is rhe famous Peacock Throne of the Mogul Emperors of Delhi, removed intact from rhe throne room of Dewan i-K”as of Delhi to! rhe shah's palace in Teheran, ft Is Valued now at over £lt).tinn.iMM; The famous string ot pearls worn ny the shab al the Durbars field in r he palace is value' 1 at over £r>n.(MMt while the wonderful diamond "Darya-t-Noor” stands almost unrivaled among the costly jewels of the world Deportment and Thought Some say rjitti holding oneself erec induces pleasant thoughts, that » slouching deportme breeds evi thoughts, and sitting down mean-third-rate thinking.

WORLD STILL FLAT

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Wilbur Glenn Voliva. head ot Zion City, near Chicago, photographed on his return from a trip to Palestine, lie still insists that the world is a tint disk at the center of which is what we call the North pole. Louie’s Place. Airmen’s Mecca. Soon to Pass St. Louis. —’’Louie’s Place.*’ rendezvous of ’‘Slim Lindbergh and his pals of the airmail lines, must pass to make way for progress. It lias been decided that in converting Lambert field into a s2.ooti.tioo municipal airport the little frame lunchroom where many famous pilots ate their meals during the lean mid obscure days, must be torn down Scores of flyers now leading figures in aviation, have spent long hours “down a I. oiiie’s >-(>n rainy days when argument waxed hot about propellers. motors and “ceilings’’ or on cold windy (fights when conversation paused as the distant roar of motors told of another fellow taking a chance. “Louie”— Louis de Hatre is his full name—says he’s going to start a new and fully equipped restaurant. He’s going in. says, for wallpaper, whitetopped rabies and electric lights But many a pilot will never forget rhe spluttering lamp, the wooden bar mid hoard walls of Louie’s place. Toy Balloon Makes Flight of 700 Miles Budapest.—Last autumn Gyula Koch the five-year-old son of a Budapest postal official, released a red toy balloon. to which his father had tied a label bearing a message in the city park. A letter has just been received from Ukrainia. in which the writer, a boy living in the village of Gadjacs stares that the toy balloon and its message were found by workers in the fields near the village of Velikaja Bitdogda. in the district of Romeni, ?()(> miles from Budapest Aviation Sweeping Finland by Storm Helsingfors. Finland.—Special air defense measures are scheduled for discussion at the first meeting of the newly elected parliament. Flying has swept Finland by storm, and as a result President Rosenthal of the stale airplane manufactory has said Finland would prefer airplanes to warships as defense forces.

Girl of 14 Owns Piano Made by Huber in 1767 Chandler. Okla. —one ot the three oldest pianos in America belongs to a fourteen-year-old girl, Sara Eliza beth Crieder. here. The instrument is one of the three made by John Hu bet of Switzerland in 1767. One of the pianos is in the Metro politan museum while the other is on exhibition in me Mount Vernon heme of George Washington. ■ ’ The instrument, entirely hand made, nus a key board with but ’’live octaves. The soft "pedal” is operated by hand and is located on the players left. The sounding board is on rhe play er’s right. The strings, made of vari ous materials, fasten to iron turn keys. Find New Oil Field The Hague.—According to a mes sage from Java, the Batavian Oil com pany, a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch has discovered important oil fields on the northeastern coast of the isle ot Ceram, in the Dutch East Indies.

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAI

Improved Uniform International Sunday School ’ Lesson’ (By REV P B. ITITZWATKK. U D, Dean Moodv Bible Institute of Chicago.» (©. 1929. Western Newspaper Union. >

Lesson for August 4 BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST Temperance Lesson LESSON TEXT—Daniel 5:1-31. GOLDEN TEXT—Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. PRIMARY TOPIC—What Wine Leads To. JUNIOR TOPIC—What Drink Leads To. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— What Drink Leads To. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Reveling and Ruin. I. Belshazzar’s Impious Feast (vv. 1-4). 1. The attendants (vv. 1,2). Belshazzar, his wife and concubines and a thousand of his lords. 2. Their behavior (vv. 3,4). (1) They drank wine; they engaged in revelry. (2) They committed sacrilege, drinking wine out of the sacred vessels taken from the temple at Jerusalem. (3) They worshiped idols, gods ot gold, silver, brass, iron, wood and stone. 11. The Handwriting on the Wall (vv. 5-16). L The time of (v. 5). It occurred In the same hour in which they were en gaged in their drunken revelry. 2. The effect upon rhe king (v 6). He was seized with consternation. 3. The king’s behavior (vv 7-16) (1) He called forth astrologers and soothsayers, offering rich rewards (vv. 7-9) Their utter inability to interpret the writing left the king even more perplexed. (2) Daniel brought in at the suggestion of the queen (vv 10-16) The queen reminded the king ot Daniel’s service to Nebuchadnezzar. He was sent for and promised great reward HI Daniel Interprets the Writing (vv. 17-28). 1. Daniel’s address to the king (vv. 17-24.). (1) He brushes aside the promised gifts (v 17). He would not have his speech limited by the king’s gifts. (2) He reviewed before him the history of Nebuchadnezzar and applied the lesson to the behavior of Belshazzar (vv. 18-24), showing that Belstmzzar'should have profited’by the experience of his father. 2. The interpretation of the writing (vv. 25-28). (1) “Mene” means “numbered” (v. 26) “God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it.” (2) “Tekel” means "weighed” (v. 27) “Thou art weighed in rhe balances. and art found wanting.” (3) “Peres” means “divided” (v. 2S) “Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and* Persians.” IV. The Judgment Executed (vv. 29-31). In that night was Belshazzar slain and Darius the Median took the kingdom. The Chaldean dynasty ended with Belshazzar. So we may interpret this whole scene as pointing to the vm ilitions at the close of the times of rhe Gentiles, and as foreshadowing rhe prevailing conditions. Let us note: 1. The stupidity of men. They, like people today, would not learn by example Nebuchadnezzar’s fateVhould have deterred Balshazzar from\uct frivolity. 2. The magnificent splendor. This great feast was characterized by pomp, display, parade. How characteristic of this age! 3. Luxury. The famous hanging gardens of Babylon were a noteworthy example. Signs of luxury today are on every hand. 4. The licentiousness of the king with his wives and concubines.. IJ centiousness is notoriously prevalent today. 5. Blasphemous sacrilege. And may not the sacrilege of today be in excess of theirs, expressing itself in (1) a profession of religion for pecuniary gain, social and political preferment; (2) use of rhe pulpit and of the ministry for display and notoriety, even for the propagation of false doctrine: (3) union with the church, attendance on the comtnunion, so as to cover up secret sins; (4) thq use of the Word of God to give point to a joke; (5) denying that the Bible is God’s Word, making it a book of errors, myths and legends; (6) sneering at the virgin birth, repudiating Chirst’s deity and setting aside His vicarious atonement. 6. Drunken carousals. The handwriting is on the wall. God will not endure this forever; His judgment shall fall. Conditions in the world indicate that the time is drawing *near. Are you ready? In the Present Tense “There is one thing more pitiable, almost worse than even cold, black atheism,” once wrote Mark Guy Pearse. “It is to kneel down and say. ‘Our Father.’ and then go out and lead an orphaned life: to stand and repeat the familiar words. ’1 believe in God the Father Almighty.’ and then go fretting and fearing, saying with a thousand tongues in a thousand ways, ‘I believe in the love of God. but it is only in heaven; I believe in the power of God, but it stoppeth short at the stars.’ ” An Advocate With the Father While He was, here in the days of His flesh our Lord was God’s Advocate, presenting His grace to men and pleading with them on His behalf. When He went away the Holy Spirit came in His room, and He continues evermore pleading with sinners. And our Lord in His glory is an Advocate still —no longer God’s Advocate with : men, but their Advocate with God. i interceding for them in the court of | Heaven, “our Friend before the Throne j Love.” —David Smith.

Beautiful View of the Great Coolidge Dam

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Here is a remarkable view of the new Coolidge dam on the Gila river in the heart of the San Carlos Apache Indian reservation in Arizona. It is the first multiple dome dam ever built. It impounds 1,200,000 acre-feet of water to irrigate 100,000 acres of desert land, generates 13,000 horse power of electricity, and provides a great bridge for the transcontinental automobde highway.

Lincoln Memorial Bridge Is Completed

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This is the new Abraham Lincoln Memorial bridge which spans the Missouri river between Blair, Neb., and Missouri Valley, lowa, which will be formally opened and dedicated on Friday, July 26, with Gov. John Hammill of lowa and Gov, A. J. Weaver pf Nebraska participating. Tom Osterman, editor of the Blair Pilot Tribune, is president of the dedication committee. This bridge makes a cut-oil on the Lincoln highway, shortening the route by 28 miles.

SUMMER GRID COACH

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Bob Zuppke, for sixteen years a coach at the University of Illinois, is shown teaching Barkham Garner, a San Diego (Calif.) Start college studen; how to “hit ’em low.” Football is simple, Zuppke says, if players will only use their head, keeping it down, tackling low and turning their face in toward the knee. Zuppke gave a summer course on the sand of the Pacific at Coronado, Calif., where eighty California college boys learned something of the Illinois “system.”.

NEGRO ALBINO

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This five-months old negro girl cf Cincinnati is one of the very few negro children in medical history to be born a pure albino. The child has pink eyes and white hair and skin. Her father and mother are both dead. A ———— Nightingale Elusive Bird The nightingale is an elusive bird, shy, retiring and sober-colored, says Nature Magazine. When he is not singing one who is not familiar with him probably overlooks him. Get to Be Endured Jud Tun kins says he is never disappointed when the man he helped to elect turns out to be a disappointment.. Everybody has to get hisself goldbricked more or less.—Washington Star.

Prize-Winning Peace Poster

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John J. Eppensteiner of Si. Louis, Mo., won first prize for tiie peace poster, photographed above, in the contest conducted by the Christian Herald. The jury consisted of Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rottweil and Gifford Beal. 9

Fine Summer Quarters for a Senator

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This is the yacht Felicia on which United States Senator Jesse 11. Metcalf of Rhode Island and Mrs. Metcalf are spending their summer cruising in eastern waters. This has been their custom for thirty years.

FROM HERE AND THERE

Snakes sometimes contract a form of tuberculosis. The Roman poet Horace held a minor position in the Roman civil service. Almost 3,000 Mexican quail havebeen shipped to Italy for restocking purposes. The whistle of a locomotive can be heard to a height of one and onehalf miles in the air.

The beautiful Tiffany yellow diamond after being cut had 101 facets. Nearly 500 brands of tobacco are now being grown in the British empire. The British government is expending 580.500.000 for aviation developments this year. The highest point to which a human can ascend without involving injury to health !* 16,500 feet.