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WOMAN VICTIM OF
HYPNOTIC CROOK
Forced to Wed Desperate Criminal
and Then Keep Him
, Supplied With Money.
- UNDER INFLUENCE 7 YEARS
Woman Arrutod for Kmbosalomont
Tolla Omaha Pollco Romarkablo
I Story?Often Eoeaped Only to
Bo Caught Again.
Omaha, Neb.?A hypnotic victim of
desperate criminal for seven years,
during which she claims she was
forced to marry the hypnotist, to steal
money from her employers and give It
t* her master and otherwise cater to
him, was the remarkable story told the
Omaha police by Miss Emma Uhler
of Omaha when she waa arrested for
embesxlement.
She obtained her freedom from the
hypnotic criminal only when he was
thrown Into the Missouri river by several
of his cronies, whom he had
wdouble-crossed." Miss Uhler said. The
Omaha police don't know whether or
not to b.elleve the story, but are Investigating
the strange case.
Time after time she escaped from
the hypnotist, she said, and went to
"other cities, only be traced by her master
and brought back to bondage and
, to work. *
Miss Uhler was a bookkeeper at one
of the big stores of Omaha. She was
accused of taking company funds.
Pursued by Gangster.
According to the story told by the
girl, she discovered ten years ago that
m? man and woman she Had looked
' upon as her parents were not related
to her at all, and that she was an
orphan. She thereupon left home and
went out, at the age of seventeen, to
make her own way. Three years laier
she met the gangster, who followed
her from city to city and forced her to
supply him with money.
"It was In Minneapolis," Miss Uhler
told the police, "that I first met him.
' That was seven years ago, when I was
twenty. I was In the public library.
In the most casual way/whlld handling
a book, he spoke to me. We discussed
the book. He was fascinating, so much
so that before I knew It I had made a
date wl{h hint for the next evening.
We went to a theater and to a cafe.
He Induced me to take a drink, something
I had never done before. I didn't
know anything else until the next
morning when I awoke In a hotel.
"Hello, wlfey," said Lou, coming Into
my room. Lou was his name. He t?Ud
me we had been married the night hefore.
"That was the start of the. affair, lie
told mo he was wuuted by the police
and that, for the present, we must
keep our marriage a secret. So I went
back to work." *
From then on, for seven years, the
gangster kept the girl under his influt
ence, she told the police. He forced
hereto give him money, and wheu her
v salary was not sufficient for his needs,
he forced her to steal or embezzle
from her employers. h\. times she rebelled
and escaped, but always be
found Iter again.
"Through his hypnotic Influence.
an/4 ft, Ibkitirlk funs aarl* I oh h lno?lllA*l I
WMV *'UH??. 1VUI nillV H MC IllOUimi
Into niy mind, I hnri to'do his bidding,"
said Miss Uhler.
"He told me he lind killed three people."
she said. "One night he rarae to
nie with a lot of blood on his clothes
and face. He sakl he lihd killed a
man that night. That was In Kansas
City."
From Minneapolis Miss Uhler ran
away and went to Chicago, where she
obtained work. Three months later she
met "Lou" on thlT street, she' said, and
' he re-established his old Influence over
her. and forced her *o give him money.
Forces Her to Qlve Checks.
"After escaping from him two or
three other times, I came to Oiuaha
. and went to work," Miss Uhler said.
"Months passed, and I thought I had
loot him completely. But one day last
$T spring, going to the poet office with
letters and checks, I met him. He
made me give him the checks, which I
later made g<md to the firm.
a ' "Some time in August he disappeared,
but that was not unusual, as
he often did not show up for weeks at
a time. One day I met one of his
friends on the street. He told me ttfey
had thrown Lou Into the Mississippi
river because he had double-crossed
them. I have never seen him nor
heard of him since."
By that time'Mlas Uhler was so
deeply Indebted to the firm because of
money she had taken that she had lost
fekAIMi Sk# a?aa jintnKlnw wsv nstil
?TI ?f?. VXIUIIUT ?|T wu ">W
|D| It wlthoM her employers discovering
the emhessletnent.
"I started to commit suicide/ she
aid. "Then I changed my mind and
took the train away."
After her departure her accounts
vers checked and the defalcation dissevered.
Her arrest followed.
"It's the weirdest story 1 ever heard."
stMOiyttlft Yin Densen, head of the
? vnsstfcs^ which, wu he hfMsed
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INCREASE SHOWN
IN INCOME TAX;
7,463,177 Individual and Corporation
Returns Made in 192ft
Paying $2,700,288,329.
33 IN MILUOH-A-YEAR CUSS
Four Paid Tai)ba on Incomoo in K?
com of $6,000,000, Two of Thoo#
Listed From New York and
Two From Michigan.
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How would you like to have
to pay taxes on an Jncome of
$5,000,000 a year? Four men
did in 1920.
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Washington.?Complete statistics of
Income for the calendar yeac 1920,
made public by the commissioner of
internal revenue, show that 7,259,944
Individuals tiled Income tax returns,
paying a total tax of $1,075,058,686,
and that 203,233 corporations reported
net Incomes taxed at $1,625,234,643.
/As
compared with 1919, the tlgures
show a growth of 1,927,184 In the
number of returns and an Increase In
the total net Income reported amounting
to $3,876,137,735, but a decrease
of $194,576,418 In the total tax.
Thirty-three Individuals In the United
States paid taxes on net Incomes In
excess of - $1,000,000, nineteen paying,
on $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Three
paid taxes on Incomes In excess of
$1,500,(Rib; four on Incomes from $2,000,000
to $3,000,000, and four,, paid
taxes on incomes in excess or eo.uw,(MXW
two of these belnK listed from
New York and two from Michigan.
New York in Lead.
Of the total income tax New York
pnld 23.09 per cent; Pennsylvania,
12.13 per cent; Illinois. 8.68 per cent;
Ohio, 6.76 per <-ent, and Massachusetts,
5.82 per cent. These Ave states
together paid 57.68 per cent of the combined
personal and Corporation tux of
the country. These states, with seven
others. Mlclilgun, Indiana, Iowa, New
Jersey, California, Missouri and Maryland,
12 states in all, paid 65.83 per
cent of tlii* total tax.
The number of corporation Income
tax returns for the calendar year 1920
was 345.395. Of these 203,283 reported
net income amounting to $7,902,634,813;
Income tax, -$636,508,292;
war is'olits ahd excess profits tHX,
$988,726,351; total tax, $1,625,234,643.
For the calendar year 1919 the number
of corporation returns was 320,198,
of which 209,634 reported net income
totaling $9,411,418,458 and
taxes aggregating $2,175,341,578.
There were 160 corporations that
filed returns for 1920 reporting net income
of $5,000,000 an{ over; 836 that '
filed returns of from $1,000,000 to $5,-1
000,000; 1,142 that filed returns of
from $500,000 to $1,000.000; E.124 from j
$250,000 to $500,000; 5,497 from $100,000
to $2504100; 7,092 from $50,000 to 1
$100,000 ; 35.994 from,$10,000 to $50,- i
/UiA . as ar m * re swvrv a _ rvrvj v .
wm; o.uiD iriiiu *ii,uuu 10 lu.uw;
48.808 from $2,000 to $5,000. and 75.005
that reported net income to
$2,000. ,
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Greatest Net Income.
New York tiled the greatest number
of returns, both individual and
corporation, and reported the greatest
mount of- net income, followed by
Pennsylvania and Illinois. New York's
total returns were 1.108,129, of which
1,047,684 were personal and 55,495
corporation. I
The number ef returns filed bjrmon
resident aliens, resident aliens, and
foreign corporations in busjpess or
holding investments in the United I
States was 12,482, allowing a net total
income of $148,449,190, on which the
federal tax was $21,065,882.
The report show^ that out of approximately
845,000 capital stock tax
returns 328.100 were tabulated, showi
ing a fair value of $75,406,625,174. Of
tlilf aggregate fair value, the manufacturing
group reports approximately
; $30,500,000,000 or 40 per cent.
The next highest la finance, hankI
Ing, Insurance, >tc? with $43,700,'000,-'
000 or 18 per cent; transportation and
other public utilities representing $11.-1
490.000,000, or 15 per cent; mining
! and quarrying, $6,700.0QO,000, or 9 per ,
cent. The agricultural group reports
only $1,000,000,000, or 1 1*8 per cent.
SEVEN DEAD IN CUBAN FEUD
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Two Families in Island Republic Aro
Determined on Exterminating
Each Other.
Quanajay, Cuba.?Seven killings In
three years marked the Sanchex-Carache
feud, which, the authorities have
announced, must be ended If It requires
the Imprisonment oi every remaining
member of the two families.
The latest fatalities occurred when
Felix Caracne shot Batilde Sanches
and then himself. The shooting was
the outgrowth of a duel last February,
? In which Juan Batched, Bathlldo's
brother, killed Felix' brother, Luis. |
lianfi Women Buy Mash Tooth. !
London.?An interesting feature of
OH iit?MtliMl dwtal nhtbttioa,
mv Mm MM la Laodbm, are the
' Mte of artllMil tMth nada of a com|
atilUom as black aa abpay. Thaj art
IttaaM for Slanpao wocaoo, tettk
wkoati II la tba caotaaa ta'tffflfethft
NOW IN BREAD LINE
Emperor's Sweetheart Becomes
Victim of Hapsburg Curse.
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^Treasures Given-te Kathorina Schratt
by Francis Joseph Have Dlsappeared
and She New Sepe
Food in Streeta.
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Vienna.?(Catherine Schratt, the
morgantlc wife of Francis Joseph, last
emperor of the Auetrians. the woman
who once ruled u nation through her
influence over the aged monarch, is
now a daily member of the bread line .
in Vienna, standing patiently hour after
hour, uwalting the bread and meat
ration handed out by the government.
Her jewels, given her by her royal'
lover, ure gone. Her clothes are In
tutters, aiid she Is a living reminder |
of the curse of the Hapsburgs.
When the emperor died In 1010 ha
left $250,000 to Katherlna Schratt to
care for her In her dedinlug years.
But the fuvages of war, and her many
gifts to those less fortunate, soon de>
ploted this small fortune, until at last
she was reduced to poverty. Once the
beauty of the Austriun stage, petted
and feted wherever she appeared, she
now lives In a barren garret, dependent
upon charity for her livelihood.
For 35 years, frftui the bloom of
youth uutil middle age bent hel*
shoulders. Katherina Schratt virtually
ruled Austria through her hold ou
Francis Joseph. For her he built a
little villu right by the gates of the
royal palace, and theae lie spent much
of Ills time, especially after the events
which tended to uphold the Hapsburg
curse.
The llrst manifestation of this curae
came with the death of inad King Ludwig
o/ Bavaria, Francis Joseph's
cousin, and of his brother, Maximilian,
shot in Mexico.. Then there was the
ease of .tohanii Orth, his nephew, who
run away to sen as a common sailor
and was never heard from agHtn. The
death of the young daughter of Archduke
Albrecfit, whose dress caught
tire from a cigarette she was smoking,
and that of the Duchess d'Aleneon in
the charity hall lire in Paris, quitkly
followed. In 1880, Francis Joseph's;
son, Jlmlolph. committed suicide In
Meyerling, und nine years later his
wife, Kllxabeth, was nssasslnuted st
Ui'nt'VM,
Then, to crown his sorrows, came
the tragic assassination of the heir to
the throne. Archduke Ferdinand, at
Surt^evo, the incident that started the
World war. Through all his troubles,
the ekuperor clung to Katherina
Nclirntt, hut the Hupsburg curse bus
now descended upon her, and she has
become a member of the bread Hue In
Vienna.
A LITTLE ROSE OF CHINA
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Tluu in v. hut they call little Hetty
Sze. three-year-old Daughter of the
Chinese minister to the United 8tetea
and Mrs. Alfred Sse. Little Betty la
at present the head of the household
In Washington as Mrs. Sse Is In Bag*
land arranging for' the education
there of her elder,children.
Thieves Rob Berlin Billboards.
Berlin.?Bltlboard strippers constitute
a new type of thief on Berlin's
police blotter. Due to the In created
value of waste paper, the plundering
of street advertisements has aet In.
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" Highest Life PoNeytyd
S Last Year Was *1,517,820 ;
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} ' New York.?The * highest In* !
J surance policy paid In the Unit-.
? ed States and Canada last year, i
J was held by Ferdinand Bcbles-i
a singer of Milwaukee, chairman
J of ih* board of directors of the
Milwaukee Coke and Get Com*
J peny of America, according to
the Insurance Preea. Tbe pay*
{ mem amounted to fUUTjM).
1 The insurance was dMithsMil
2 among 94 concerns.
{An inheritance tec eg mors
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RELATES STORY
OF PLANE WRECK
Captain MacmiHan Tells of Thrilling
Experience Afloat on
Wrecked Seaplane.
NATIVE BRIG PASSES THEM BY
Aviators Kngagod In Round-tho.Wortd
Flight Roocuod Aftor 00 Hours
by Steam Launch Sent in
-v Searoh of Them.
London.?"Below ue were sharks;
near the land crocodiles. Would we
float near enough to grouud our Inverted
top hamper and signal some
otfe ashore, or risk swimming for It T
Then our hopes were shattered, for an
undercurrent caught our submerged
planes and fuselage;, and faster than
we could near the land, we were pulled
away from it. Quickly It faded and
our hopes sunk. We were utterly helpleas,
and at the mercy of the wind and
the tide."
The above sentences are tuken from
the long and thrilling narrative which
records the terrible experiences of
Capt. Norman Macmlllan and Cupt.
Mallllns while afloat for 60 hours on a
wrecked seaplane In the Buy of Bengal.
They were engugetl In a' roendthe-w?rld
flight organized by the Dally
News.
Brig Paaass Tnem By.
- "Suddenly we noticed an alteration
In the trim of eur craft," continues
the narrative. "Hound and round we
plunged.'water pouring over us. hanging
on tooth und nail, and soaked by
......I. ?!.?*
me ic|>caii?ru oavn him W1WKC iuiupletvly
over us. Evidently we were In
tide whirl."
Perhaps the most Impressive thing
lr the story Is Captain Mactulllan's account
of ^helr abandonment by a native
brig which passed near them
when they were almost spent. "Mall*
11ns could hear beautiful Instrumental
music," wrrtes Macmlllau, "and I the
sound of the pipes playing laments In
the distance. We did not mention this
to each other at the time. We were
each afraid of thul.
"Suddenly we saw a?atl away down
south. Was It coming up? Yea,
lowly.
"A windjammer. &>on Its yards appeared.
Gradually It came along.
Standing up we could see the hull.
It wua all we could do to remain upright.
"We waved our distress flag, signaling
the International S. O. 8. The
brig was coming straight for us. She
must aliyost run us down. She could
not fail to see ua.
Rescued After Hours.
"Was she changing her oourse?
Surely not, but she was.
"She turned off not half a' mile
oway. and steadily passed up within
half a mile, with two men looking at
us from the poop.
*<God! what inhumanity! Surely It
could not be. C ~
"Mallllns, frantically waving, slipped
and fell half overboard, cursing st his
hurt, cursing the brig and her crew,
and writhing.
"Standing on our rocking float, I
waved and halloed and flred pistol
shots.
."But steadily she swept past, a native
brig. Two men on the poop ran |
forward aa she was abreast of ua.
They saw us, undoubtedly, and were
possibly terrified of ghosts and visions.
"But in mercy let them never know
what we felt like."
The two aviators were rescued sons#
hours later by a steam launch sent
oat In aearch of them.
FLEES MAN; LEAPS TO DEATH
Pursued by Man With Horsewhip
Frightened Weman Jumps Pram
Feurth-ttory Window.
Maw York.?Screams and the crack
ef p horsewhip brought tenants in the
vtatalty of 271 West Twenty-seventh
street from their homes Just In time
to see a young woman leap madly to
her death from the fourth story of the'
building.
"All that the neighbors knew abput
this women was that her name was
Mae Leamon and thnt aha lived in a
famished room on the eecbnd floor.
About T :80 o'clock thoy heard her cry
est and then raise her voice to a sharp
scream as loud reports like the crack
or e -neavy whip were heard. Then
the neighbors saw a sun chase her
te the roof, whence she jumped down
to the third-floor landing of the Are
After her went the man, and she
frantically scrambled up to the top of
h attic window on the fourth floor.
Hum who had rushed to the street
ysftgd to her hot to Jump. Help was
owning for they saw Patrolman tfredtrick
Robeqstein of the Weat Thirtieth
ntsaet station nmnlng toward them,
fme said that he shouted. "Wait ,a
amend?I'll be right .up to help you.'*
Psrhapa the patrolmen gu too fir
away for rim woman to hear him or
patflhly she was so wad with fear that
werdf were migninglme to her.' She
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MAKE NEW MAP OF U. S.
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Uncle Sam Contributes Work at
Part of Sketch of World.
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Apiorican Map Will Taka About Ywolvo '
Yoara to Com plot*? Each Country I
Will Map Torrltorioo and Watora
Undor I to Jurisdiction.
Washington.?Unci* 8am la processing
on g new map of the country,
to be a part of a new world inap,
baaed upon a simple system proposed
by American representatives In 1908,
and accepted at International confer^
encee. It will be the result of years
of effort to create a system of cartog- '
raphy whereby the same scale of dls- ;
tances could be used In a world map, i
with lettering and symbols uniform.
The American map Is expected to be ;
completed In ten or twelve years.
Bach country will map the terri- j
torles and waters under Its own juris
diction.
The globe Is to be divided Into 1,642
sections. Each section Is designated t
by a distinctive letter and number j
combination. In addition to a name
derived from the, locality mapped.
Each sheet, covering one section, will 1
cover 6 degrees of longitude and 4
degrees of latitude. The sheets are
numbered from one to sixty, beginning
at the 180th meridian of longitude und
girdling the globe to the eastward, und I
are lettered front A to V, north and !
south, with the equator as a starting j
point. The north and south polur re- i
glons are to be shown In clroulur sec- !
tlons from the eighty-eighth parallel of |
latitude, and letter Z-north and |
Z-south. m
The main purpose of the Internatlonal
tnap, which will be drawn on 1
the scale of one to one-nillllonth, is to |
furnish a complete world map of unl- |
form drawing, thus obviating different]
scales or distances, and to enuble map
makers and readers of every country
to underatund the maps of every other.
The details of the international map
were accepted by nine world powers at
conferences In 1909 and 1913. While
it la | popularly known as th; "one-millionth"
map of the world. Its correct
title Is the .International map of the
world on the scale of one one-iuilUonth.
SEA MONSTERS ATTACK BOATS
Scare Fishermen Frem Newfoundland
Waters;?Expedition to Capture
Them Is Planned.
8t. John's, N. F.?"Sea monsters"
which are reported to be from forty
to sixty feet long, have attacked boats
engaged In Ashing out of British Har
bor, Trinity Bay, and fishermen are
afraid to go on the grounds. ^
A large school of these "monsters,"
of which no detailed description bus
been received, appeared off the coast
a few days ago and is still thought to
be In the bay. An organized expedition
will be sent from the settlements
ff which the school lies in an effort to
capture or disperse It. Several bouts
which went out recently narrowly escaped
being swamped by the "monsters."
The appearance of the school was
reported to the Department of Marine
and Fisheries by the telegraph operator
at British Harbor.
APPLE TREE IN FULL BLOOM
Freak in Middletown (N. Y.) Garden la
^ &aid by Old Timers to Presage
a Mild Winter.
Middletown, N. Y.?In the yard of
Frank Crawford on South street Is an
apple tree 1n full bloom. Never before
has this tree bloomed at this time of
year. Some of the oldest residents,
careful weather observers for years,
declare blooming of fruit trees at this
time of year indicates a mild winter
aud are sure there will not be a big demand
for coal In this section. Crawford
Is presenting bouquets of apple
blossoms to his friends. j
Sadie Aids Capture of Aute Thieves.
Oakland, Cal.?The Oakland Tribune's
radio station KLX was credited
Dy the Oakland police with bringing j
about the arrest In Ix>s Angeles of
Clifford Heatofr and M. Dyke on a
charge of stealing the automobile of
C. H. Hoyt. The station broadcasts
the numbers and description of stolen
automobllee each night. *
Bit of Flannel Leads
Woman to Kill Other .
Snncook, N. H.?Mrs. Harry
O. Caroenter of this town was
hot sad killed by her next-door ' " I
neighbor. Mm. Barton (toward,
who then went Into her 6wn
house and committed suicide.
When the bodies of the two
women were found It was beHerod
Mrs. Carpenter hfid died
of heart .dleease while running
to summon assistance when she
found her neighbor dead. Bf>
sruination of the woman's body
later revealed a'bullet wound la
the back. .
A quarrel between -the two |
women over this price of a piece '
of dannel led to the Sheotlng. ac- {
uwdlag to Information ptren to
II the pollen. Mrs. Gowfih). the
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FIX GERMAN TAX LEVY
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Tctal Taxable Property 1,950
Billion Paper Marks.
Seventy Per Cent of the Aggregate It
Given as Real and Pereonal Proa
erty?13 Billions Held by the
' Poorest Classes.
Berlin.?The total taxable grepertj
held by the Oerniun people umounts
to 1,95*) milliards paper marks, according
to estimate made by Reconstruction
In Its current issue.. Seventy per
cent of the aggregate is given as personal
and real property, 11 per cent
us town property, 14 per cent rural, 2
per cent mining, and 3 per cent as
goods, ships, metallic currency, etc.
(Milliard equuls the Auiericun billion.)'
The average of prewar estimates on
Herman-owned private property, tha
periodical states, works out at 330 milliards
gold marks, from which amount
the following deductions should be
made:
Thirty milliards gold marks in state
property (belonging to the empire, individual
states and local authorities,
such as railways, canals, forests, etc.) ;
13 milliards of property held by the
poorest classes which 'escupes taxation,
and further, a sum amounting to about
20 per cent of the total which either
is especially favored by the regulations
for economic reasons or manages v
to evade taxation. This amounts to
about 05 milliards gold marks.
Deducting these 108 milliards from
tlie prewar average of estimutes, a
liulun,.,, .if > ? >
i uniniivv vi niiiiiiu vio. i viuuiuo. rivui
this total, however. Reconstruction
states, the following sums must be deducted
as a result of the war: Twentyfive
milliards in values destroyed by
the war (amounting originally to 50
milliards, hue-half having been made
good by reconstruction) ; 30 milliards
loss ?ut capital Invested, abroad; 2.5
I milliards loss of territory, and 10 milliards
surrendered to the entente In
railways, ships, etc.
The sum left after taking off the**
' 00 milliards in losses, the publication
I sois roundly at 130 mllllurds gold
marks. In converting gold into paper
marks, it states, the following index
numbers based on the prices current
In the home Gerinun viurket should be
employed: Personal and reul property,
15; town -landed property, 2; rural
landed property, 10; mining property,
1 10; and goods, ships, etc., 60.
j When the various categories of prop|
crty are multiplied by these figures
I their values In paper marks are determined.
According to this culcula!
tlon, the average depreciation Index
; figure is 15. thus giving 1,950 milliards
j paper marks as equivalent to 130 milliards
in gold.
GIRL ENGINEER ON LINER
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Alius Violet Drun.mond, daughter of
| Capt. and Mrs.. Drummond of Forfarshire,
has sailed as an engineer
! with the Blue Funnel steamer
Anchisea from Glasgow for Australia.
She adopted marine engineerlbg as a
profession and takes on all the dftles
of the Job. During the war she WM
in the engineering department of tbs
Lilly-Bank foundry.
Heart Pierced by Qlass.
Los Angeles, Gal.?James Thomas.
fourteen, student nt the Inglearood
high school, In trying to preveQt a
door with a glass panel from slamming,
thrust his hand through the
panel and a sliver of glass pierce* his ?
heprt. As If nothing had bappaMd.
he talked down the steps of the haH4?
lng. Then he. collapsed and death
came quickly.
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j Married Six Months, ? <%,
; but Never Was Kissed j
' "I Have been married fix [
months and my husband, Wal- i
S ter, has never hissed me," Mm ' j
i Julia Brlghtmore, yeuug sad 11
I pretty, of Chicago^ told. Judfs j
J Mangen when she entered a plea
j To tb* coorf towtloos, ' :
| Wart m?rrl?fe^ a?<T