EXPERT EMBROIDERER
Indians to Hold Big Convention
WILL SEEK WEATHER
DATA HIGH IN AIR
To Make Daily Flights to Study
Conditions.
fortune Claimed
by Pea Sheller
Washington. — Knowledge of tilth
erto unknown air conditions at high
Kansas City lawyer, charged with
altitudes wteick win lasM«
Market Woman forging a will giving himself the for
weather bureau to make forecast» London
tune of the reofuse, whom be claimed
with more certainty ami for a more
Seeks O’Connor Wealth.
as an uncle. This was O’Connor’s
advanced period will be made avail
able to that office under arrange
Hastings, Neb.-Mrs. Mary O’Con third trial.
ments completed with the naval air nor Tindall, 86 Doon street, London. ■ One trial In 1922 lasted for four
station nt Anacoatla.
Englund, who has been shelling peas months. This was the case In which
According to the program, naval in Covent Garden, London, for -41 years four claimants of the fortune—one
planes will make »pedal dully flights and claims to be the champion pea from North Carolina, another from
carrying an aerological observer sheller of the world, baa put In a claim Lapeer, Mich.; a third from Fresno,
i-qulpped with Instruments to record for the fortune of John O’Connor. Cal., and the fourth from Selkirk, Man.
the air temperature and humidity far HaatiAgs’ shoemaker recluse, who died —were fighting one another for the es
A nuvul Morolo- 12 years ago leaving $150,000 and no tate. The Selkirk claimant was a half
IIbove the eurth.
gist schooled In weather observa known heirs. The property Is now breed Cree Indian who said old O’Con
Rons und forecasts, will be assigned worth about $250.000 und is held by nor was his father, and that be for
to the work.
He will carry with the state until the true heirs are lo merly had been a trapper for the Hud
son's Bay company. None of the four
him In the plane thermometers and cated.
barometers which will record con
Meantime, some 300 or more O Con proved bis claim.
dltions with mathematical accuracy. nors all over the world have been after
Kept Affairs to Self.
“• Im- the fortune, but none have been able
When Princess Mary of England an
Upon descent the officer will
O'Connor came to Hastings when a
mediately transmit the data he has to prove relationship to the recluse.
young man, opened a shoemaker’s nounced that there would be a gold
The fortune consists of cash, gilt- altop, attended to business, saved thimble prize offered for the best ex
gathered to the weather bureau for
use In dully forecasts and to army and edged bonds and mortgages and sev- every cent, and made no confidants ample of masculine needlework as part
navy aviation stations In and near eral of the finest farms In Adams He never wrote a letter nor received of the soldiers' handicraft exhibition
Washington for their guidance in fly county.
one, and never spoke to a woman ex to be opened May 6 at Norfolk, many
Mrs. Tindall has Just written Judge cept on business. He Invested every of the peers of England made applica
Ing.
Temperature and humidity
at Waldo Wlthersteen of the District cent he got in lands at $1.25 to $2.50 tion to exhibit. Among the competi
great distances altove the earths sur court that she believes she is a sis an acre. That land is now worth $200 tors «U1 be Lord Gainford, one of
face have always given un element ter of John O'Connor and, as such, an acre. He died without leaving a Britain’s “coal kings" who whiles away
his time during long Journeys em
of uncertainty to weather forecasts she thinks she Is entitled to the will.
I mid have made “long range pred c »860,000.
The court took over the property. broidering on canvas. Since the war
tlons" almost Impossible. These ele
Referred to Three Brothers.
The story got Into the newspapers, and he has amused himself with a tjpe of
“The Bea e Sign’ right bund h.-ld high has been adopted u» symbol tor ments in the upper air have a direct
It fairly rained claimants. At one embroidery of bls own invention.
Mrs.
Tindall
tuiys
that
55
years
ago
the National Indian convention In Iwa City, Okla., May 18-24 Seven thous- Influence on weather conditions of the
time over 500 men, women and chil
.nd Indiana from various »actions of the United StatM, Canada and Mexico surface. With accurate Information her little brother, John O’Connor, at dren bad formally applied to the court
that time twelve years old, started
N. Y., who Immediately recognized
as to the conditions available the
are expected to attend.
for America In company with Dan, for the fortune.
It as the body of her runaway bus
weather bureau Is expected to estab Denny and Mike Kyan, brothers and
O'Connor’s body was kept In cold band who had deserted her 51 years
Hub n Dew recurd for veracity und nr friends of the O’Connor family.
storage for five years awaiting Identi
previously.
«Igliteduess.
‘‘If you can find either Dan, Denny fication, and every O’Connor who saw
But none has been able to prove re
It
positively
Identified
It
as
the
body
or Mike Ryan, they will tell you I am
lationship and the fortune Is still here.
John O’Connor’s sister," Mrs. Tindall of his father, grandfather, uncle, Mrs. Tindall, champion pea sheller ot
Famous Coast Whaler
brother, cousin, or some other rela the world, has Just as good a chance
naively remarks in her letter.
Becomes a Movie Ship Mrs. Tindall was “written up” a tive, although none ot them had seen of getting the money as anybody else,
Los Angeles.—Conversion Into a mo couple of years ago as^the champion him for 50 years.
esi>eclally If she can find Dan, Denny
After burial It was exhumed for the
tion picture ship will be the fate of pea sheller of the world. Her story
or Mike Ryan anywhere.
the picturesque old barkentlne, Nar gradually drifted around until a wom benefit ot a woman from Watervliet,
whal which for more than forty yean an In Spanlshburg. W. Va.. read It. The
reached the village ot Ylcbesun, where was conspicuous In Pacific coast ship West Virginia woman had also read of
ping and whose romantic history over the O'Connor fortune. She wrote Mrs. !
Has Narrow Escape From we had to stop for the night.
that'period reads like the pages of old Tindall about the American fortune
Chinese Bandits.
Brigands Ch ass Guards.
awaiting proof of relationship. Mrs.
time fiction.
I arrived and passed
The Narwhal, built at San Francisco Tindall remembered her brother of
"JuBt
Washington.— Within a few days aft through the dilapidated old gate (but In 1883. Is one of the finest examples half a century ago. and Immediately
er the United States public health no wulf) there also arrived 33 soldier afloat of sailing-ship construction. In addressed Judge Wlntersteen.
For over fifty years Mrs. Tindall has
service announced the release of lep guards sent to us from CLaotung. the view of the shipping men. Imme
ers us “cured" by a treatment which As I was talking with their officer, diately after her launching she was en done nothing but shell peas, she says.
included the u»e of chaulmoogru oil, one of the Tungchwnn soldiers came tered in the whaling Industry, In which Shelling peas Is her one and only Job.
word came from Joseph F. Rock, who runnlng Into the village to tell me she remained for many years. During But she has never seen a pea growing
high speeds in airplanes, brain Injury
located the diaulmoogra tree In Bur that 200 robbers were only oue and that time she established many records on a vine. She hasn’t been out of Speed at Turns Must Not Ex or rupture of a vital blood vessel might
ma. telling of his narrow escape from a half tidies from the village and that both In whale catches und fast cruises London for over fifty years and sel
result
they could not hold them back. I sent After leaving the pursuit of whales, dom has left the block where she
ceed 250 Miles.
Chinese bandits.
Even when supplied with oxygen, the
Mr. Hock was leader of the National the Chuolung soldiers to help the the craft was used for a number ol works.
flight surgeons hold, an aviator cotud
In Hastings there's always some-
Geographic »«defy expedition to Yun- Tungchwan soldiers, but soon they all years in the trade to the South seas.
Washington.—Flight surgeons of the
China, which found returned with the robbers at their
The final voyage ot the Narwhal thing new in the O’Connor case. army air service believe man has about not survive beyond a height of 45,000
nan
feet, under ordinary circumstances, be
tor
“
O
’
Connor
”
is
a
standing
assignment
chestnut
ended lust year when she crept into
heels.
blight rvslsilng
reached the maximum flying speed at cause the available oxygen pressure In
transplantation In the United States,
"1 was quartered In a miserable old San Francisco harbor from an expedi- on the books of the city editor*. Re which he can suddenly change direc
the lungs would be too low to sustain
After u few months In this country be temple ftiil of coffins In the center of tlon to the South seas. Ou her out porters, every duy, stop by to see. tion. owing to the centrifugal force
life.
Yunnan
to
seek
plant
spe
not
If
there
’
s
anything
new
in
O
’
Con
The
brigands
came
to
bound
trip
from
San
Francisco,
the
the
village,
returned to
exerted on the body and Its effect on
Between 23.000 and 25.000 feet Is the
lile
Arnold
arboretum,
at
nor
affairs,
but
what
the
new
thing
within half a mile of the hamlet barkentlne disappeared for a period ot
rituens for
the
blood.
This
speed
is
placed
in
the
“
upper
limit of consciousness" without
was a large temple, and sixteen months and was recorded ax Is. There's always something new.
Cambridge.
vicinity of 250 miles an hour.
oxygen, say the flight surgeons, and at
Mr. Rock spent one night In n di- of this they took possession. Dark- lost at Jea. She later appeared at a For 12 years It's been the standing
The limit of speed on a straightaway higher altitudes oxygen is Indis
lapidated village temple, full of coffins. news came on. I never spent such a South sea port, however, bearing sto news of Hastings.
Last month the new O'Connor story course, they say. can probably be pensable.
Ills native guard deserted him; outside terrible night In all my life. At mid- ries of terrific wind storms.
placed much higher than Is now me
Only If Inclosed In a cabinet or suit
the town the heads of native victim* night the officers of the soldiers came
Shortly after casting anchor at San was the trial of James B. O’Connor, chanically possible, but experience will
In which the barometric pressure were
raptured some days before, were hang and announced that the brigands were Francisco the Narwhal was sold at
have t<> write the actual figure.
kept at a degree compatible with Ufa
outside and that they could not hold auction to satisfy claims, and the mo
Ing from
The : .dght Umit. they add, Is around would It be possible to ascend beyond
Tungchwnn
Io
Chaotung
1»
4
»i
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h
111i
m
mu
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/
' the place nnd that they could not pro tion picture Interest that acquired the
“From
45,000 lot.
the 45,000 limit, with suitable arrange
five days' Journey, and two days out . tect
__ ___
_
Sie. ____
I hnd opened
my trunks nnd old time whaler will move her down
; Death Ends Dog’s Long :: This contention regarding the maxi ment made for disposing of the surplus
of Tungchwan 1 bad the most, terrible i (|j.tr|buted $<>00 in silver among my the coast to Snn Pedro.
mum speed for turning, the flight sur
dioxide.
experience of my life," Mr. Rock men. wrapped up some extra warm
: Vigil at Master’s Tomb . geons point out, is predicated upon the carbon
underwear, a towel, condensed milk
writes.
‘ J
Lancaster, Ohio.—Death has . experience of Lieut. Alvin J. Williams Queer Experiences at High Altitude.
“With much misgivings I left and some chocolate, besides ammunl- Gets Electric Ray Fish
The aviator experiences, among
•• ended the long vigil of Nero, a • of the navy, at the Pulitzer air races at
Tungchwnn. The first < day pawed ! (|on fur my (WO ,45-Colts. I nut fully
;; dog who died on his master’s . St. Louis in October, 1923, who said he other things, as the result of high alti
That
Could
Stun
Elephant
without Incident, but the second had clad waiting for the turn of events.
grave in a lonely cemetery here. ‘ became practically unconscious at the tude flights, sleepiness, uncontrolled
Danville. Va.—Dr. Russell J. Coles
much In store for us. After lunch, Every minute I expected the firing to
;
I
His owner, Charles Farmer, . turns of the triangular course, when be emotion, including giggling, singing or
under an old walnut tree we made our commence. The soldiers said that tobacconist, whose hobby Is deep-sea
laughter; muscular weakness, short
was shot to death last July In a ; rounded at 243.67 miles an bouz.
Ashing,
and
who
taught
the
late
The»
wuy over the mountains with my 12 they could protect me but not my
ness of breath. Impairment of the In
J gun fight with prohibition offi- •
dore
Roosevelt
harpooning
of
devil
Blood Carried to Stomach and Legs. tellect and Judgment, and Impairment
Nashl men. 26 mules. 40 soldiers, and boxes, nnd that the best thing would
’
’
cers.
Nero
followed
the
funeral
;
all the followers who look advantage be to retreat nnd hide If the brigands fish, has presented'to the Museum ot
The flyer at the turn banks bls craft of vision and bearing.
procession to the cemetery,
of my going and Joined on for the rushed Into the place. The people of the Natural History in New York a giant
at right angles, the centrifugal force
where he kept watch dally,
These are chiefly due, medical men
specimen
of
the
electric
ray
fish.
He
sake of protection which the soldiers village began burying their few val
acting at right angles to the new direc explain, to a lack of oxygen in the
leaving the grave at short Inter
caught
it
off
Morehead
City,
N.
C.
It
uables nnd great excitement ruled the
tion of travel and the blood being car brain.
gave.
vals for food. All efforts to coax
Robbers Pursue Csravan.
hnmlet. it wus a terrible wait and a weighed 12« pounds, and. according to
ried away from the head toward the
fulled,
the
dog
away
There are 50 army flight surgeon«
Doctor Coles, had a sufficient charge
“We had not gone very far when long night.
stomach, and probably even Into the stationed at different flying fields, all
A boulder now imarks the
to
“
stun
an
elephant."
It
was
strand
my head muleteer cams ami said that
“Outside of the hnmlet were hanging
legs, causes faintness and possibly un on flying status. A flight medical
grave of Nero.
robbers were behind the caravan. I from poles beads of brigands that Imd ed near his boat, he says, by a reced
consciousness.
sermons
their
school Is maintained at Mitchel field.
Ministers
tn
waited for the mules to catch up with been captured some days before. I Ing tide. Members of his crew pre
Blood circulation quickly adjusts New York, where courses are given se
ferred. Just as they have In the
vented
It
from
regaining
the
sea.
us, and ns they came In sight 1 rode wns Informed that 600 bandits were
itself, the flight surgeons say, and the lect medical officers picked for avia
past six months, to the love and
on but not for long, as my boys yelled outside the village nnd (lint capture When dead the electric energy stored
; direction of centrifugal force Is rap- tion duty. Aviation psychology forms
devotion
of
Nero
for
bls
master.
In
what
Doctor
Coles
describes
as
bat
■Robbers nre coming,’ and ■ at * that mo- wns irresistible. 1 cannot tell you how
• Idly changed, although at turns at very a large share of thefr work, and they
■MIIIH I I I IIIHIHI l l 'l-H-
ment they opened lire on us. My na- I felt. iNwever, at 4 a. tn. they were teries near the head of the fish, was
are acquainted with first-hand condi
found
to
be
negligible.
It
was
placed
bravely,
tlve soldiers behaved rather
still outside and no ehot bad been
tions of the men who go up tn the
In
preserving
fluid
and
shipped
to
the
brigands
but we soon found that the
fired. At dawn there was no one to be
air In ships.
curator of the museum.
outnumbered us considerably and that seen. They hnd vanished."
The National Aeronautic associa
the battle was to bo a one-aided affair.
records show that the present
tion's
“We pushed on under lire us best we
maximum altitude record Is held by a
could through n pine-covered slope
French flyer with 39.586 feet, and the
while the soldiers engaged the brig
speed record in a straightaway course
ands; the Inttcr pursued us. and we
Is held by another French airman at
retreated. all of us, soldiers Included,
278.48 miles an hour.
under the fire of the brigands down a
deep ravine which we had to cross nnd
other side over a most . terrible
up the
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,
Red Tape Costs U. S.
rocky trail. The firing continued ‘ the
$970 in Man’s Death
rest of the afternoon. Thanks to the
bad aiming of the brigands we lost
Washington.—Because the check
the
only one soldier. Wo reached the
for a cash settlement on his $1,000 In
small plain of Ylcbesun, on the edge
surance policy was not mailed by the
of It being a small hamlet called Pun-
veterans’ bureau until 16 days after he
plengal. As we reached the plain, 1
died Comptroller General McCarl has
thought, ’Thank God, now we were
ruled that the government must pay
safe,’ but. alas, the brigands followed
to the beneficiary of John Chard the
us, they looted the small hamlet, cap
full face value of the policy.
tured three soldiers with their guns.
On his discharge from the army tn
and while they were busy there we
May 1921. Chard naked for a cash set
tlement of his 20-year endowment pol
icy and signed a release. He died
on June 27 and the settlement check
for $30 was mailed July 13.
Dog Plays Mother to
Finder of Leper
Cure in Danger
45,000 Feet Aloft
Is Flying Limit
Newest Member of Supreme Court
Face Paralyzed—She Cannot Laugh
Pair of Baby Tigers
Macon, Ga.—Two baby tigers,
born In the winter quarters of a
circus here, are being mothered
by a huge bulldog. An anlmnl
trainer, knowing the custom of
n tigress to slay Its first born,
took the animals from the moth
er and sought a dog. For, the
trainer said, the dog Is fond of
this untamed relative of the ent.
The dog. with two of Its own
puppies and the two tigers. Is
being quartered In a hotel room.
Italy Makes Bonfire
The above nre likenesses of fourteen year-old Muy
" . .
awarded $25,000 for facial Injuries received in an auto accident In row xors
At the right I h a picture taken two years after the accident—she cannot smile,
owing to paralysis of the facial nerves. The picture at the left was taken be
fore the accident.
Rome.—A bonfire was made of 100,-
000.000 lire ln bank notes. The fire
was started In the presence of Signor
I de Stefani, minister of finance, and
other officials, as the Inauguration ot
the policy of the government to reduce
the circulation of paper money.
1 Other bank notes amounting to
Hurlan F. Stone, former attorney general, has been sworn into
, 1.000.000.000 Ure will be burned
associate Justice of the Suprame Court of the United States and is here seen |
in his new robes of office.