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Indians Spurn All Beads but Those Made in Italy Red Folk Are Very Particu lar About Quality. New York. ? For generations Italy has been supplying the Anierlcao In dian with beuds employed In the dec oration of his nppurel and his horse gear, to the exclusion of the products of any other nation. The red folk will buy nothing that Isn't up to their own standard of quality, and. thus far, no people, save the Italians, have been able to meet this demand. Just how American manufacturers have managed to neglect this tleld of production la yet to he explained, but the fact remains that they don't count at all In the competition for the In dians' trade, and, in point of fact, Czechoslovakia Is the only other coun try which has attempted, without suc cess, however, to "horn in." Right in New York Is the center of this bead Importation for the whole aboriginal population of America, and from the wholesale district her con signments of these tiny decorative globules are dispatched almost dally to trading posts all over the West and to a considerable extent to the re maining Amerind communities of the Kast, such as the New York State In dians, the Seminoles of Florida and the little groups In Maine. Tribal Taste Varies. According to tribal taste the size and colorations of the beads vary, but whether the eventual output of the Indians' Industry Is moccasins, war bonnets, war shirts, knife and toma hawk sheaths, belts, leggings, rifle slings, or papoose cnrrlers, the bends themselves are Italian, made for the most part in the neighborhood of Milan nnd from there shipped to New Y'ork via Venice. Dan Frost, sole proprietor of S. A. Frost's Son, in Howard street, explains that the buying of the Indians' sup plies of beads requires a complete knowledge of the taste of the various tribes. "Alaskan Indians, for example," he said, "buy the sninllest bends manu factured. Eastward from that terri tory slightly larger heads are pre ferred. None of then), however, are large, for the delicacy of the designs most generally requires the use of quite tiny beads. Hut every Indian tribe hns some variation of taste, either as to size or color. In the beads they acquire for their Industry. They are disposed to use the more delicate and exquisite for the things they make for themselves as compared with the things they make for sale, hut they maintain a pretty even standard In the matter of demand at that." Forty Shades Are Used. Difference in the size of the beads Is not the only test of Indian taste, according to Mr. Frost. Some of the tribesmen want clear glass beads, whereas the larger demand Is for those of the opaque -type. The color range Is wide, about forty different shades of glass beads being sold here with all the rainbow colors and many variant tints based upon the seven shades of the spectrum. The larg est demand for beads centers upon the opaque white variety. "Of course." Mr. Krost resumed, "the latter-day Indian makes no bends of Ills own. He uses porcupine quills, dyed and sewn In Intricate designs, for some of the decorations on his ap parel, or other gear, and th^re are horn and bone and feather embellish ments to his ceremonial dress. Rut It Is a remarkable, and to me unex plained. fact that the Indian In dis tant centuries possessed beads and used them. Whence they came I do not A "Smith" Is Born Every 11 Minutes Glasgow. ? A man named Smith who haB retired from the army and Is living lu Glasgow with a lot of time on his hands, has devised the agreeable pastime of counting all the other Smiths there are In the world, the net of It being that on December 2d last, the llgure was 12/53f?,OOr>, This presumably In cluded all the national variations like Schmidt and Smythe, and fig ures out to the effect that there Is a Smith born every 11 minutes. know. There were bead designs on the costumes of t lie Peruvian Incaa and the Azetecs. In the burial mounds be side the Mississippi they have dug up remains of burled heroes, laid to rest long before De Soto ever saw the riv er, that wore on their last Journey gar ments embellished with beads similar to those sold today." And He Calls Himself a Hermit "1 t'eel Gu years younger already," declared Dud Juwett, Beventy-nve-year-old World war veteran of Jackass Mountain, Ore. He had gone to Miami, Kia., for the sixteenth national convention of the American I.eglon. He is a self-styled hermit up Oregon way but lost his status when Paula Roberts and Francos Jones, local bathing beauties, came out to greet him. "This must be the fountain of youth," said Jowctt Wife Rents Her Husband From His Mother ? Many Strange Marriage Cus toms Among Malay Tribes. San Francisco. ? In Mlimngkabau a wife rents a husband from his mother ? and he Is only permitted to see her secretly and at night. In the IiatnU tribes, next door neigh bors, the husband buys the wlfo out right and neither appears In public tin til their llrst child Is born. While In Mentawnl, wives do the heavy work and no man marries until his children are able to support him satisfactorily, In the style to which he Is accustomed. ' These and other customs among the Malny tribes were discovered by Dr. Kdwln M. I.oeb, University of <xnll fornln anthropologist, who has returned her after live months spent among the natives. Among the henpecked husbands of Mlnangknbau, Doctor I .nob found di vorce exceedingly simple. The wife si mply was not In her room when the A : ? rr*.T- - :OUGAR QUARTERBACK lloyce Miikiiohh, who Imiln from Tex J . ??, In qoftrtorhnok of thf? Wellington BUt? ?oll?ge team at Pullman, Wn?h. loverlike husband crawled through the window In the dend of night. In the Biitnk tribes, however, divorce la unknown. Wives cost too much to he divorced no matter how naughty they may behave. Only If a wife bears no children Is she freed from her hus band, who Is furnished with a new one by the family with no deduction for the trade-In. The practice of remaining Rlngle un til his children grow up follows the Mentawal men's stubborn aversion to labor. If a man married before his children were grown, he might have to toll. To avoid this, he eschews the nup 1 1 n Is. leaving the children with their mother's family until they can earn a fair living for him. Cannibalism was practiced among the Hataks until the Dutch took over the country In 1800, Doctor Loeb re ported. Any enemy of the tribe, be be thief, traitor, or other type of miscreant, was tied to a stake. Then the other mem bers of the tribe danced about him. sllclnc off strips nnd eatlnc them. This practice, Doctor Loch added, was considered quite humiliating to the victim's relatives. Signal System In Used in Postal Spy Galleries Kansas City, Mo. ? A new signaling device for the 48 lookout galleries of the new post ofllce here resembles an nlrp'' t on a dark night. nil red lights glow In the unllght ed corridors, Indicating plug In points for band telephones carried by Inspec tors when they enter Fhe galleries for observance of postal employees at work. By telephone the Inspector can com municate with the central ofllce when tie sees anything amiss In the handling of the mall. The galleries are connected by se cret corridors. The en tiro system cov ers two miles. Minors Need No Permit to Wed in Washington Wenatchoe, Wash.? Marriage between minors, without psrontal permission, Is valid In Washington. Oomt.ionlaw marriage* are still . permissible. The state never has, by law, raised the common-law female age from twelve to eighteen and the male age from fourteen to twenty rtne. These and other revelations brought out In an annulment cane here recently probably will tnrn the leglnlature's sc tlvltles to a thorough study of the state's marrt'ige and divorce laws when It reconvene*. I*. J. Oemmlll, Wenatchee attorney, uncovered a twenty-year-old Supreme court decision holding marriage be tween minors without parents' permis sion valid. Oemmlll's discovery was supported by Superior Judge W. O. Parr, who agreed that divorce Judges today should he governed by a 11)14 ruling which never has been amended. The twenty-year-old decision of the Supreme court reversed a lower court ruling annulling a marriage between minors on the ground neither bad per mission of parents. New U. S. Aviation Map Prepared in 87 Units Washington. ? -The Department of Commerce Is preparing a map, prin cipally for air commerce use, which will constitute a unique piece of car tography. Comprehensive In detail, It win in clude all geographical characteristics political boundaries, airway beacon lights, airports and radio stations. It will be compiled In 87 unltR, and Is expected to be completed within 18 months. Although the nation has neen mapped In Its entirety, the department pointed out, the thorough process by which these new air navigation maps are being drawn up never has been duplicated. In some sections of the country It will be the only detailed map available. The purchase of five new airplanes Is contemplated by the department to be used along with other equipment In compiling the map. U. S. Midshipmen Get Best Wisconsin Cattle Waukesha. Wis. ? The cream of Wis consin cattle will provide the cream for midshipmen at the United States Naval academy. Sltty-seven pure-bred llolsteln- Krifl ?Ian cows, the largest shipment of Its kind In recent years, has been sent from hero to the academy dairy at flambrllls, Md. These cows were selected from 27 herds In nine different counties of Wis consin's dairy country. They were chosen for their high production and excellent type. M?k?i Hard Promts* Provo, Utah. ? School Attendance Of ficer T. W. I>yche? has given himself n tough Job. He has tentatively prom ised that every school child In his die tract will be to school on time every day during the school year. LABOR ADVOCATES MORE PRODUCTION Green Urge* Great Effort by All Industry. Washington. ? The American Federa tion of Labor has adopted new tactics in Its tight on an unemployment prob lem which It says Is growing in sever ity. Without mentioning the thirty-hour week, William (Jreen, president, Issued a statement seeking federal action to have all Industry join In a huge and simultaneous elVort to Increase produc tion by 30 per cent. Asserting there were 843,000 more Jobless last month than In September, 1033, Green said : "If the nation-wide level of all pro duction were lifted 30 per cent in a balanced program, adjusting produc tion to consumption needs, each in dustry would then be assured that all other Industries would Increase their production, and the wealth produced by putting labor to work would create Income to buy the product of all." The recent A. F. of L. convention urged a thirty-hour week. The admin istration frowns on that. Observers wondered whether Green had temporar ily put the Idea In the background pending the convening of congress In January. The "boost production" slogan falls more In line with recent thinking of high otlk-lals. There have been signs NKA may favor scrapping some limi tations on production. Also, the AAA Is modifying Its curb on the output of farm goods. Though noting that "small'' seasonal gains in employment appeared In Sep tember and carried Into the tirst part of October, (Jreen said: "For the lirst time since the Presi dent's re-employment program started in July, 1033, unemployment has ex ceeded last year's level. The total num ber at work In the I'nited States was 30,740,000 in September, 1033, by Sep tember, 1034, it had declined to 30,307-, 0(H). "In these twelve months the normal Increase In population has added close to 4.~>( >.( HK) to the army of job seekers for whom Industry provides no work. Thus the number without work in In dustry has risen from 10.10S.OIK> In Sep tember, 1033, to lO.Ool.OOO in Septem ber, 1034." Two Duck Hunters Die Sucked Into the Mud Frankfort, Mich. ? The bodies of two Frankfort, duck hunters were found in Little Platte lake, where they had met death In one of the strangest mishaps of the hunting season. The victims, Identified as Heliner Krlekson and Gale Robinson, were caught In the heavy mud near the shore of the lake and pulled down to their denths by the terrltlc suction. They died In about two feet of water only a few yards from the sftore. Their bodies were found standing upright in the mlro with little more than their heads above the surface of the mud. The two feet of water near the shore had barely covered the tops of their heads. Former Bank Official Kills Self With Gun Yonkers, N. Y. ? Hertram Orde, sixty, former ofllclal of the Chase National Hank of New York, was found dead at his home of a bullet wound which po lice said was self-Indicted. Orde addressed a note to the police, stating that Ids "relations with the bank were honorable and satisfactory" at the time of Ids retirement October 1. but that he had "business cares" and was "tired of It all." Cuban Cabinet Shaken Up; Nationalists Are in Control Havana. ? President Carlos Mendieta reorganized his cabinet, making il to tally Nationalist party In political alignment with the sole exception of Manuel Oespaigne, new secretary of the treasury, lie Is a nonpartisan for mer treasury secretary under the Gran regime. Ford Motor to Reopen St. Louis ARBembly Plant Detroit.- ? The Ford Motor company said It was planning to reopen Its as sembly plant in St. Louis, which had been closed for two years. The plant will reopen in time to start produc tion of U>3!"> models. Grand Jury Foreman Accused of Boodling Hoston. ? Foreman George Anderson of a federal grand Jury which has been Investigating the emergency relief ad ministration was arrested In the fed oral building on a charge of accepting a bribe. Two Mexicans Slain by American Guards K1 Paso, Texas.? Two Mexicans were killed In a battle with United States border patrolmen of the Ulo Grand? river within the city limits of Kl Paso Chief Inspector II. C. Ilorsley said his oflleers challenged five men cross Ing the river to the American side when two of the men opened lire while the threo others fled The two Mexl i-ans were killed when the oflleers re turned the tire. Fifteen gallons ol liquor were seized. MRS. J. G. ROSSMAN Mrs. .Tamos Curdner Rossnum of Pittsburgh has tiled suit for $10,000, IXK), charging the Pullman eompam and associated railroad companies with nntent Infringement She claims sh? invented and patented the ultra-mod ern berths now in use. She appeared on the stage as Richard Mansfield's leading lady. LOU TELLEGEN DIES BY HIS OWN HAND Health, Fortune and Fame All Were Gone. I. os Angeles.? Another star which rose high over Hollywood lias fallen Lou Tellegen, former husband of (!er aldine Karrar. killed himself. The in::n, who as a youth, was chos en by Sarah Ilernhardt to plav opp;>sit * her; and who was m matinee idol for years both on the stage and the screen decided he was "through" at lifty-thre* years of age. Health and fortune had deserted him. and fame was fading, lie stabbed himself to death in the home of a friend here where he was living prac tically on charity. One comment might sum It up. When Tellegen walked on the set in "Call to Arms," his last iilm plav, some one asked : "Who Is the new character actor?" It is said that remark brought to Tellegen n realization that a new era had begun; that he belonged to the old days. So In the bathroom of the Vine street home of Mrs. John 1'. Cudnhy. was closed one of the movies' most spectacular careers in a role from which no director, no younger player could ever shoulder him. He etabbed himself In the breast seven times with a blunt pair of scissors, and died an hour later. The blood-stained shears were lying near his out-stretched right arm, as he was found lying in the bath room adjoining his bedroom in the Cudahy home. Cast Over Cliff for Possessing Only $2 Alpine, N. J. ? Shoved over the edge of the Palisades and showered with small rocks by two holdup men who were angered because he had only Russel A, I ley of P.ogata was rescued by the police from a perilous per"h on a one-foot ledge 1.") feet from the top. Finds His Stolen Car Has New Tires, Radio, Heater Cadiz, Ohio. ? Robert Ilennen wants to thank the thoughtful thieves who stole his automobile. The car wa I'ound abandoned near Wierton, \V Va . and ilennen found the thieves had .n stalled n complete set of new tires, a radio and a heater. Two Die in Crash as Wing of Plane Falls Off Albert, Okla. ? Vernon Ollger, twen ly two, a licensed pilot,' and Roy ( op page, thirty, a motor company em ployee, both of Knid, ??Ula, were killed here when their plane crashed Postmaster Kred Applewhite said a wing fell off. v Italy Lays Keels of Two Big Battleship* (lenoa, Italy. ? Keels were laid fot Italy's long awaited Mf>,000 ton battle ships. One being built here Is to be named the Llttorio, and the other, nt Trieste, will he nnrnod Vittorio V'eneto Told She Ha* Sleeping Sickness, She Kills Self Louisville, Ky. ?Told that she nad encephalitis, Mrs Alice (5. Adler, flftv three year-old widow, was found In her bathroom with her throat slashed. She died two hours later. Spanish Womnn, 110, D!n? Oorunna, Spain.? A woman one bun dred nnd ten years old, Manuela Vlg.. Pequeno, died In the nearby town of Coreublon, She was married at tlx age of sixteen and had 18 grandchll dren and KM) great grandsons and great great gra ndsons. Rridn Killntl in Auto Napa. Onllf, ? Mrs. Nephl Kuyken da II, wlio was married October 17, was killed when an automobile driven by her husband crushed Into a South Pn eiflc freight train south of her*. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Sun Spots and Wars No Toy Pistol, Money Plain Language Needed Why Revive Sparta? The Abbe Moreux, looking through his telescope In Bourses observ utory. Bays, "Hewnre of HKIG ami l!K17." Sim spots will Increase violently In those two years, according to the abbe, and when sun spots Increase "we hav? wars and social disruption." On the other hand, according to the reverend observer, when the sun ia calm "the world usually has been at peace." Others believe that "spots'" cuuslug war, international and Individual hatreds, are not sun spots, hut spots on the human brain. Many "spots" will have to oe ro nioved Irom the human brain bofvire war can end. Indiana Is Investigating two officials connected with the prison from which the late Mr. Dillinger escaped, sup posed to have frightened his Jailers with a toy pistol. New evidence indicates that, In stead of frightening somebody with a wooden pistol, he bribed somebody with good, real money. Half the success and immunity of the usually dull-minded criminal Is based on the corruption of public offi cials. and criminal lawyers ready to accept criminal money. The New York Times quotes "one of the most distinguished of all ItrlMsh diplonnts" as follows: "Anglo-Amer ican relations have never been In such a grave condition since the war." There Is talk of Japan having a navy as big as I-ngland or America, with Kngland's consent', Kngland building 7u cruisers, etc. Some Americans would like to know why I'ncle Sam does not say to .Japan and Kngland: "l'.uild what sh'ps and make what new secret treaties you d ? n please. We shall do as wo please." We have had in America men that would send such a message to any group of treacherous "friends." I Ilome reports that Mussolini, de termined to make Italy a really? mili tant country, ready to lig.it anybody at the drop of any hat. plans a "New Italy" with the motto, "Hack to the glory of the Caesars, A revival of Sparta." All right about the Caesars, but Sparta did not work out well. Where Is Sparta now? Where Is the ancient glory? Fighting will bo done hereafter by scientists, chemists with poisonous Hnd explosive gases; engineers with fast planes, deadly air torpedoes. Fighting will be in the air and under water. No need to make a whole nation parade and drill. An oasis of cheerfulness In this world of gloom Is Leonid M. Tolokon ?U' tussian consul general In New \itrk. Many things make him happy. In* .ndlnt, the fact that Itnssln can produce everything she needs, "except bananas and coffee." She is growing fine grapefruit now. can worry along without the bananas ,.nd drinl< tea, In stead of coffee, as she always has don?. Russian coffee never was very good, anyhow. The late Australian general, Sir John Monash, described in Lloyd George's mumoirs as the "only gen eral on the Mr'tlsh side who could have successfully replaced the late Field Marshal Karl llalg as com mander In chief of the I.rii is.'i forces," was of Jewish descent. Flirhflnsr ability in that race sur prise* nobody, for some of the great est fighters in history. Including Han nibal ar.d bis f'a flier, were of the Semitic rare. A well known actor, I, on Tellegen. who used to play "perfect lover" parts, and married four ladies. Including tier nldine Farrar lost his popularity and has killed himself after telling bin friends "there Is rwt place in Hollywood for a has been." There Is no place anywhere for n tins been. but. fortunately, there Is no need fo remain a has been forever. If vmi can't always be a "perfect lover," be something else perhaps more useful. San Francisco rejoices in completion, after twenty years of work, of the (/rent I letch lletchy project.. >i $100, (X >0,00(1 undertaking that brings pure water 150 miles from the high Sierra* In Yosetnlfe National park. A great bridge Is building over th? beautiful Oolden (Safe that leads In from the Pacific ocean, and soon Snn Francisco will bo connected by rond with the great city of Oakland, across the liny. Veterans demand fhelr bonus now, without shilly shallying or tergiversa tion. It Is said that the President "will oppose with all his strength any effort in congress to pnv the bonus now." Ti ls Is how It seems te one observer : The government must pay that bonus a little later (t Is pledged In law and In honor t*> pay It Veterans need the money now whllto times are hnrd and their children ar? young. '''he country needs to have the money tpent now while times are bad an4 business Is dull. ? 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