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V V m ■ j disappearance of JUDGE IS MYSTERY b \ Two-Year Search for New j York Jurist Unavailing. — New York.—Two years ago Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater sauntered casually out of Haas’ res taurant, 332 West Forty-fifth street, Manhattan, stepped into a taxicab, waved a jovial fareVvell to the friends with whom he had been dining, and drovevolY into oblivion. Not only have the police been un able to find any trace of him, dead or alive, but they have been unable to locate the taxi driver or cab in which many of his friends believe he took his last ride. But whatever his fate, he left be hind him a baffling mystery that al ready has taken its place beside the mysterious dtsappeanyice of Dorothy Arnold and Charlie Ross. Intensive Search Futile. Never in recent years has there been so intensive or so futile a search for a missing person. Coming in the midst of the investigation of charges that District Leader Martin J. Healy had accepted a $10,000 bribe for ob taining George W. Ewald an appoint ment as city magistrate, It created a political sensation. The attorney general’s, investigation into the Healy-Ewald charges was ex tended to cover other charges which were sent from various sources to the attorney general affecting higher and lower courts. The attorney general dug deep into the Crater disappear ance in an effort to learn whether his mysterious absence had any connec- - tion with the Judicial probe. He cpuld find none. The police, personal friends and members of the family of the Jurist were equally unable to find any rea son why he should vanish. The board of aldermen offered a reward of $2."),- 000 for information as to his where abouts. Mayor Walker offered $.'>.000 reward. Other rewards were offered • by the newspapers. It was estimated that In., all some $2.">0,000 was spent in running down will o’the-wisp clews in various parts of the United States, Canada. Mexico and Cuba. The search is still on. Legally Justice Crater is still alive. His wife, Mrs. Stella Crater, still clings to a tenuous hope that he may ^actually be so. If he is alive, a secondary mystery is how a man with such unusual charac teristics can remain undiscovered after his photograph and description have been spread so widely throughout vir tually the entire civilized world. For Crater’s appearance was such as would attract attention anywhere. Although he was six feet tall and weighed 183 pounds, his head was so small that he wore a (\% hat. With all his bulk, he had a long, thin neck, and wore a size 14 collar. Crater was appointed to the Su preme court berch on April 8, 11)30, by Governor Roosevelt to succeed Joseph F. Proskauer. Spending the summer of 1030 with his wife at Belgrade Lake, Maine, where they had been going for 13 years. Crater received a telephone call on August 2 and told his wife lie was going to Manhattan on impry/ant po litical business. , __ On August 4, 5 and C he was in his chambers in the New York county courthouse, according to his personal attendant, Joseph Mara, son of John Mara, Tammany leader of the twenty- third A. D. On August C, Mara said, Justice Crater spent most of the morn ing tearing up papers and putting others in a brief cas^and in four card board boxes. ’• •. . 4 Then he sent Mara out to cash two checks totaling $3,100. Mara returned with the money and helped the jurist carry the boxes of papers and the brief case to his apartment at 40 Fifth avenue, Manhattan. He told Mara he was “going up in Westchester for a swim” and would be back the next day. That was the last Mara ever saw of him. But he did not go to Westchester that afternoon and his movements have been traced that night up to the time he entered the mystery cab. At 0:30 he purchased a theater ticket at the theatrical ticket office of Joseph Grainsky in Times Square. Then he went to the Forty-fifth street restau rant. In the restaurant he dined with William Klein, attorney for Shubert brothers; a show girl named Sally Lou Ritz, and her parents. They left the restaurant with him and it was to them he waved farewell after he stepped into the taxicab. " Sea Shelia Hide Bones Romelanda, Sweden.— The shin bones of two immense prehistoric ani mals, said by archeologists to have lived more than 10.000 years ago, have been found near here in a bank of sea shells. Perfect No Trump Hand Dealt Player Buffalo, N. Y.—Mrs. George C. Lehmann was dealt a perfect bridge hand in a recent game with her husband and two other players. Mrs. Lehmann kept a straight face when picking up her cards and with no trace of emotion bid a grand slam at no trump to the astonish ment of the other players. The unusual x hahd contained ev ery ace, king and queen In the deck, together with one jack. LIGHTS > muMBuix of NEW YORK NILE WILL ENGULF EGYPTIAN TEMPLE On the w&y to dine at the Stork club, which used to be Heywood Broun’s rendezvous with food and now is Bill Corura’s favorite restaurant, my wife called my attention to the tre mendous change In New York in the past two years. In former days, be fore renting an apartment, you always looked to see whether there was a vacant lot or an old building next door. Should there be either of these things, the chances were that building soon would be going on, which meant that riveting machines would be in cluded in your lease. They would start their clatter eafly in the morn ing and continue until the evening shadows fell. Anti-noise societies used to have spasms of indignation and Franklin P. Adams used to write scathing paragraphs, but old man riv eter just kept roaring along. Those were the golden days of ’29. • • • Old Twenty-niners can remember when streets were blocked with boards, beams, and piles of bricks; when pedestrians walked through block after block of protective and temporary wooden tunnels; when bath tubs and other fixtures stood crated on the sidewalks and plumbers, car penters, plasterers, steelworkers, and masons each contributed their brass filings, sawdust, lime puddles, steel shavings, and brick and plaster par ticles to the city ozone. Bat this is 1932. The air is clean and so are the streets. The sight of building litter would be as welcome as the discovery of land to Columbus. The sound of a riveting machine would be a witch ing strain. About the only place you can see and hear construction going on is around Rockefeller Center. And a fellow can’t hang around there all day. We are thinking of asking Deac Aylesworth to use his influence to get a riveting machine fifteen minutes a day on the air. The great radio audi ence would tune In from Maine to California. Edward G. Robinson, the film favo rite, looks quite a bit like Emil Fuchs, the baseball magnate. They say that Judge Fuchs, as a criminal lawyer, never lost a decision. Ed Anthony and Frank Buck have,been literary collaborators. Ed might have caught the animals, but Frank never could have written the books. The Ed An thony and Charles Dana Gibson domes compare very favorable with those of the Capitol at Washington. The Mar tin Egan and John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum domes might be in the run ning. The Marcus Cook Connelly roof is more like a minaret. It might be said Sculptor Borglum and Senator Borah were two of the busiest Bs who ever came out of Idaho., except that William Edgar Borah was born in Illi nois. Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, pres ident of Gettysbufg college, says there are no new problems and that there has been no fundamental change in youth, it being the mature generation which has gone balmy. Victor Moore is one comedian who makes me laugh. * * • New York is represented in the United States senate by Royal S. Copeland, born in Dexter, Mich., and Robert B. Wagner, born in Nastatten, Germany. At a wild guess, not more than half the senators were born in the states they represent. • • ■ Ours is in many ways a peculiar form of government. A senator from New York, with its 12.000.000 popula tion, has no more voting power than a senator from Nevada, with its 91,- 000 population. The vote of a sena tor from.Texas, with its 262,398 square miles, has the same weight as the vote of a senator from Rhode Island, with Its 1,067 square miles. Texan Gets Education as Riding Instructor Fort Davis, Texas.—A riding school which Johnny Prude started as an ex periment has put him within striking distance of a degree from Sul Ross State Teachers’ college and may de velop into such a lucrative business he will ultimately devote all his time to it. t Prude enrolled in the school in 1920, but dropped out of school when he married. He taught rural schools In the winter and took summer courses from the teachers’ college. In 1930 he started his riding acad emy for Sul Ross students, a project which authorities endorsed. In two years the enrollment jumped to forty and he has employed three college stu dents to aid him. 6,000 Pies Are Spilled on Road in Auto Wreck t Clear Lake, Minn.—Six thousand pies, en route from Minneapolis to Fargo, N. D., were destroyed when a truck ran into a horse here. The horse was being led along the high way when it was startled by the lights of the truck, and failed to get out of the path of the approaching truck, which could not be stopped. The horse was killed and the pies scattered over the countryside as the truck turned over three times. Miniature Engine Will Travel 30 Miles an Hour Kaokauna, Wia.—A miniature loco motive, 43 inches long and eight inches hlsh; that will travel 30 miles an tour under its own power, has been con stracted here by Arnold Ristaa. It was modeled After a Great Northern oil burner. Was Erected to Isis, Goddess of Fertility. Cairo, Egypt.—Again one of those extraordinary coincidences between the super natural mythology of ancient Egypt and happenings in the land of Pharoahs In the present day has come to startle believers in the occult. When the late Lord Carnavaron, who, with Howard Carter, brought the relics of Tut-ankh-Aman’s tomb to light, died as the result of the bite of an insect, mystics pointed to the fate of the great archeologist as the ful fillment of a dire prophecy. The mod ern world considered the death of Lord Carnavaron as merely a strange coincidence. And now those conversant with Egyptian mythology point to the forthcoming submergence of the tem ple of Isis, ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility, which Is so oddly linked with the mythology of the goddess. For the mysterious temple of Isis, which is located on the most beauti ful island in all Egypt, Philae, seven miles south of the great Assuan dam, will be completely submerged when the Assuan reservoir, now' being en larged, is filled by the annual flood waters of the Nile. And as the waters of the Nile an nually recede from the flood stage, this great temple, one of the most beautiful ruins of antiquity, will, as If having imparted to the waters the fertility which the ancient Egyptians believed was in the power of the god dess to bestow, again for a season, appear in its former glory. Isis, the patron goddess of the Pharaohs, was the goddess of nature and fertility, and the greatest goddess of Egypt, who, with her husband Osiris, legend relates, dwelt when on earth on the fruitful island of Philae. Osiris was a kind and beneficent god. He was the first to teach his children, the Egyptians, how to grow barley and wheat and how to make wine. He also built banks along the Nile to pre vent It from destroying life and prop erty at flood times and constructed irrigation canals to make richly pro ductive the barren lands near the Nile valley. In addition to being worshiped as the god of agriculture, Osiris was looked upon as having the same pow ers as Hep. the divine keeper of the Nile. When the mineral impregnated waters of the great stream made fer tile the lands along its banks so that the crops grown thereon were boun teous, offerings were made him |y the priesthood in the temple THE le him bj of IsUg Boys Mixed Up at Birth May Get Right Parents Berlin.—A mother’s recognition of familiar features of a son twelve years old may restore to her her rightful boy in place of the child given her by mistake at the time of his birth. Frau Marie Donk of Gladbach, Ger many, has a suit on file to force Frau Mathilda Beuth to exchange sons born 12 years ago in a maternity clinic. The prospects for the exchange are favor able, but the happiness of the boys, in finding natural parents whom they do not know, is being considered. Though Frau Donk declares she pro tested to nurses in 1920 that they had given her the wrong baby, it was not until a few months ago when she chanced to meet Heinrich, son of Frau Beuth, on the streets, and found his resemblance to her eldest son so strik ing that she became convinced she had been given the wrong baby at the hos pital. Blood tests, fingerprints, and facial features seem to prove Frau Donk’s Judgment. If the court confirms the scientists’ Judgment, the Beuth family has agreed not to challenge the de cision. Two Great Expositions Are Planned by Paris Paris.—Two great world expositions are planned for Paris during the next five years, a first World’s I^bor fair, in 1933, and the second International Decorative Arts « r xposition, in 1937. They will be followed by a third In ternational Colonial exposition before 1940. Modern decorative arts, particularly In furniture, interior decorating, jew elry and architecture, have changed so rapidly that the lines which existed in 1923, the epoch of the first arts exposition, are sadly out of fashion. The Labor fair is intended to revive the trades and corporations of other centuries, to re-establish the bands of each branch of industry. It will also revive the great labor fetes of the Eu ropean calendars of the days of kings and serfs—the annual harvest fetes, grape picking parties, and other cele brations which went out with the revo lution. Red Ants Fill Signal, Halt Trains in Texas Marshall, Texas. — Ants—common red ants—stopped traffic on the Louis iana division of the Texas A Pacific railroad for a time, much to the an noyance of everybody. Passenger train No. 24, eastbound, encountered a red light near Scotts- ville and halted. Trainmen were un able to find the cause. Train No. 26 had the same trouble. 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