The Hermiston herald., June 24, 1921, Image 2

Krupp’s Scrap
Munition Plant
Month After Armistice Army of
115,000 Employees Was’
Reduced to 40,000.
TAKE UP PURSUITS OF PEACE
Else, In a Self-Contained
Works, Has the Process of Turn­
ing Swords Into Plowshares
Been on So Vast a Scale.
Nowhere
A feature of Krupp's works at Es­
sen at the present time which struck
Walter Meakln, writing in the London
Dally News, is the stropping of (he
huge extra equipment required for
lllndenburg's munition program, which
raised the number of employees from
42,000 to 115,000.
The whole of the works, with no less
than 500 acres, or nearly a square mile
of covered floor space, wus concentrat­
ed entirely on production for the war,
when, at the signing of the armistice,
the vast organization of lubor for de­
structive purposes suddenly collapsed.
The social portents In the Ituhr were
sinister. Revolution was in the blood
of the workers, and no one could fore­
cast the development of the upheaval.
Partly as a precautionary measure,
partly to hurry on the tusk of adapt­
ing the works to new conditions, the
staff was reduced to the 42,000 prewar
strength within a month of the ar­
mistice. The additional workers, in­
cluding all the women, were paid four
weeks’ wages and sent to their homes
throughout Germany.
The position at this time was ex­
plained by one of the chief officials.
“ Although before the war,” he said,
"we manufactured other things, rail­
way and shipping material, motor car
parts, high-grade tool steels nnd so on.
the production #f guns, munitions nnd
war vessels was the mainstay of the
works. All that was irrevocably end­
ed.”
In the Intervening two years the
task of converting the nrsennl to peace
production hns proceeded uncenslngly,
and still goes on. Nowhere else. In a
self-contained works, has the process
of turning swords into plowshares been
carried out on so vast a scale.
Titanic Transformation Spectacle.
Under the supervision of the allied
control commission the whole of the
new shell nnd gun equipment In the
mammoth buildings of the Ilindenburg
program hns been made useless nnd
thrown to the scrap heap. The most
complete nnd spectnculnr transforma­
tion has taken place In one of these
buildings. Within twelve months It
wus re-equlppeil with machinery for
the mass production of locomotive
goods and engines for the state rail­
ways.
From n balcony one looks down Im­
mense avenues of roaring machinery,
nnd the whole scene, with hundreds
of workmen busy nt forge or lathe, or
crowded about the assembling stands.
Is one of titanic enterprise. From the
bays on the side come the plates nnd
other heavy parts. From the other
side flows a stream of machined parts,
and in a wide central bay they come
together at thirty-five assembling
stands.
The normal rate of production with
each engine and tender on the stnnd
for nineteen days, would give, roughly,
a dally output of one completed engine,
hut while the artisans nre underfed
nnd domestic troubles foster political
discontent normal work Is impossible.
Nevertheless this engine shop present­
ed the most Impressive picture of in­
dustrial activity seen In Germany,
Maks Costly Experiments.
In the famous cannon halls of pre­
vious years nnd in other parts of the
works elaborate nnd costly experiments
in the manufacture of textile and agri­
cultural machinery, tractors nnd motor
vehicles are being carried out, In the
belief that the home market, which hns
been almost monopolized by America
in the past, can he supplied by mass
production methods.
This Inteuse reorganization effort Is
“Shoving O ff’ for a Day’s Fun in New York
| Trusting Pastor Gives
♦ Collection for Bad Check
♦
Riverside, Cal.—The pastor
j of a locul church was taking a
| special
collection.
Eighteen
t dollars In small change had been
| received but $2 more was
only possible to a firm with a prewar ♦ needed. After repeated pleqd-
capital of $00,000,000, anil enormous re­ | Ings by the minister a stranger
serves built up (luring the war. No j arose and said:
dividend is being taken by the four i
“If you will cash my check
or five holders of the capital.
I'll make it $20." The offer was
Thousands of old employees, for
accepted and the stranger de-
whom there is little work, are kept on
T parted with the entire collec-
et full wages. All the resources are
f tlon.
being staked In the attempt to carry *
That was Sunday evening.
the concern through the uncertain
Next day the pastor reported
years which He immediately ahead.
to the police that the check had
“If we go slack now,” the officials
been returned marked “no
say “there must be a crash. It may f funds.” The stranger had dis-
not be possible to avert It ultimately. ’ appeared.
Our workers have settled down more
contentedly for the present, but If ’ ........................................................... •
their privations continue a breaking
Coal for the Digging.
point must be reached sooner or later.
Flushing, O.—Coal Is obtainable
“Also, If coal difficulties, high prices
and the disastrous fluctuations of the free here for all who care to dig It.
exchange cannot be overcome a return Contractors, grading on the Morris­
to a healthy state of industry Is im­ town state road, struck a vein of coal.
possible. Impoverishment must in­ When winter stopped work they of­
crease nnd productive effort will de­ fered persons who wanted coal the
cline, even if the country is spared an right to obtain it if they would dig It.
extremist uprising. The whole situa­ The offer resulted In material progress
tion is uncertain, artificial and un­ being made on that part of the road.
stable. We are simply going forward The digging done by the persons who
In the hope that final collapse may took advantage of the offer aided in
completing the grading of the road.
be avoided.”
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Courted Them
Off Their
«------- Feet
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Remarkable Story of Lydia
Southard, Said to Have
Had Five Husbands.
FOUR MEET SUDDEN DEATHS
Now Woman Is Charged With Murder
of Number 4 and Will Be Tried in
Montana—Present Husband Re­
mains Loyal to His Wife.
San Francisco.—"She swept the men
of her choice off their feet—courted
them so persistently that they could
not esenpe.”
That’s the way V. II. Ormsby, n dep­
uty sheriff of Twin Fulls, Idaho, de­
scribes the romance of Mrs. Lydia
Southard, under arrest at Honolulu on
a charge of murdering Ed Meyers of
Twin Fulls, her fourth husband.
Mrs. Southard denies the charges
nnd says she can satisfactorily ex­
plain the death« of her former hus­
bands. She told officials she believed
she was a “typhoid carrier,” and that
this may have been responsible for
some of them.
“Take poor Ed Meyers, for ex­
ample,” says Deputy Sheriff Ormsby.
“Ho was the woman’s fourth husbnnd.
In 1920 he was running a little rnnch
out near Twin Falls, when Lydia came
home after Harlem Lewis, husband
No. 3, had died in Montana nnd she
had collected $5,000 in Insurance.
“She rigged herself out to kill,
bought a long mink coat and a closed
car. Everybody in town was talking
about the way she ran around to
dances.
"She courted Ed right off his feet.
“Well, In August she nnd Ed were
married nfter he took out a $10,000 In­
surance policy. In September Ed
died.
"The townsfolk weren't Just satis­
fied. They started a lot of tnlk nnd
the Insurance company held up pay­
ment on the policy.
She Didn’t Worry.
“But Lydia didn’t seem to be worry­
ing. After Lydia left Twin Falls late
In 1920 she met Southard, a petty of­
ficer on the U. S. S. Chicago nt a
dunce. Later they were married, nnd
when Southard was transferred from
San Francisco to Honolulu he took
his bride ulong. lie's still loyal to his
wife."
The marital experiences of the one­
time Missouri country town girl
eclipse even those of fiction.
Ten
Óur Warships at Target Practice
yeurs ago while still in her teens she
wus living on n farm of her father,
William Trucblood, about two miles
from Keytesville, Mo.
Following the opening of new i t ’.’
gated territory In Idaho, Trueblood
moved his family to a section near
Twin Falls. Robert Dooley, a school-
day sweetheart of Lydia, and his
brother, Edward, followed soon after,
and settled near the Trueblood farm.
Married to Dooley.
In 1920 Robert Dooley took Lydia,
then twenty, into Twin Falls one daf
and the two were married. Edward
went to live with them.
One day Edward Dooley became III.
Within u few hours he was dead.
Lydia explained that he had eaten
salmon from a can that had stood
open for some time. Lydia and Robert
Dooley accompanied the body back
to Keytesville for burial and folks In
the home town got their first glimpse
of baby Laura Marie, daughter of
Lydia.
About three weeks after Lydia and.
her husband retume'd to Twin Falls,
Robert Dooley died. Three weeks
later baby Laura was dead.
Mrs. Dooley collected $4,500 on In­
surance that had been carried by the
brothers and a short time later was
married to William McIIaffle.
The two went to Montana to live
nnd settled on a ranch. McHuffie took
out a $500 Insurance policy nnd made
one payment on,lt. In a short time 1»
died, but when Lydia went to collect
the insurance she found that the pol­
icy had lapsed a few days and the
company refused to pay It.
In June, 1919 Lydia married Har­
lem Lewis, an automobile salesman,
with whom she had become acquaint­
ed in Montana. One month later, on
July C, Lewis died from what doctors
said was ptomaine poisoning, and
Lydia collected $5,000 In insurance.
Following the death of Lewis, Lydia
returned to Twin Falls, where she met
and married Myers, husband No. 4.
SEEKS BIBLE TIME CHARIOTS
Doctor Fisher of the University of
Pennsylvania W ill Delve in Ruined
Cities of Holy Land.
Philadelphia.—Dr. Clarence S. Fish­
er, curator of the Babylonian section
of the University of Pennsylvania mu­
seum, left here for Palestine to un­
dertake what he described as one ot
the most Important excavations ever
made In the Holy Land and the first
since the beginning of the World war.
He expects to find among other
things some of tbs Iron chariots men­
tioned In the Bible which prevented
the children of Israel from capturing
Bethshan, near which city some of the
grentest battles of early history were
fought.
Bethshan is near Nazareth, close to
the Mount of the Transfiguration. It
has been uninhabited for centuries.
WOMAN I F MINUS” STOMACH
Organ Not Needed, Says Doctor Pau-
chet, French Specialist, if Diet Is
Properly Regulated.
Thia Illustration shows a kite balloon being hauled back to the deck of the
8. 8. New Mexico after lielng used by observation officers to spot the re­
sults of shot» in target practice In California waters; and, at the le ft the
auperdrendnaugbt Mississippi firing a broadside from twelve 14-lnch guns dur­
ing Ibe same practice work.
U.
Paris.—That the stomach Is a super­
fluous orgnn is the startling disclosure
of Dr. Vincent Pauchet, reported in the
Academy of Medicine.
Affirming that he ha« successfully re­
moved the stomach front a woman fifty
years old who had continued to live
happily In perfect health, he report»
that the operation also cured Iter of
cancer.
“The stomach's action Is purely pre­
liminary," stated Doctor Pauchet
“The mechanism for the vital part of
the digestion la in the small Intestine
with the Intervention of the pancreatic
Juice and the bile. Therefore, pro­
viding the patient follows a light diet
Hie stomach can be dispensed with ad-
vnutagvously.”
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These wearer« of the navy blue are “shoving off” down the gangplank of the U. 8. S. Arizona at Brooklyn navy
yard for their first shore leave since the big dreadnaught returned from Southern waters, after a six-months cruise
Spinner’s Size
Regulates Bets
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In 37 against the bettor. The
Fat Man, Big Numbers Win; chance
odds are 19 to 18 iu favor of the house.
With absolutely even luck. In every 37
Thin Men, Small Numbers,
bets you will lose one more than you
Is One System.
will win. The odds are all calculated
on the basis of the thirty-six numbers
on the table, and the thirty-seventh
number (zero) Is the perquisite of the
establishment. With this qualification
the game Is absolutely fair.
Heavy Losses at Monte Carlo Prove
Few sane men, I think, suspect the
Big Card for Advertising—Many
Casino of cheating. It does not need
Systems Offered the Gullible
to. That thirty-seventh chance—which
_Yet Casino Continues
Is no chance, but a certainty—Is suf­
ficient. It operates Inevitably; as re­
to
Make Profit
morselessly as “the blind Fury with
London.—There Is one Infallible way the abhorred shears” does at the end
of winning money at Monte Carlo, of the life of each of us.
writes a correspondent of the London
The tables in the various salles in
Times, and that is this: When a fat the Casino nnd the Sporting club do
man is spinning the wheel bet on the not all run for the same hours. Also
high numbers; when It Is a thin man some of them are for treute et quar-
bet on the low. It stands to re a so n - ante nnd not for roulette. But I be­
does It not 7—that a small man can­ lieve It is fair to say that the result
not throw big numbers. Another good is about equivalent to twenty-one
plan la to put your stuke in front of tables at roulette running for ten
you, shut your eyes and push it out on hours a day. At all events the rough
the table with a rake.
The god of calculation will suffice.
chance, being blind, naturally likes
How It Figures O u t
blind people. Which also stands to rea­
Now.
the
time taken by each turn of
son, does it not? There you have the
the wheel, with the necessary settle­
whole philosophy of roulette.
Of course there are people who tell ments, is about three minutes; or It
you that you have no right to begin to has been when I have timed It in these
gamble until, at least, you know the last days. That is to say that on one
order of the numbers, both on the or other of the 21 tables seven coups
wheel and the table, by heart. Other­ are being cleaned up every minute.
wise, how can you tell the voislns— The house wins one bet In every 37;
the neighboring numbers—to the last nnd It Is, again, not unfair to reckon
throw but one, so that you can know that same number—37—as the aver­
age number of bets on every table,
where the ball Is coming back to?
Also you can buy elaborate and In­ taking the two ends together. There
fallible systems, which makes no men­ may be only 10 or 200. But 37 is not
Therefore, if
tion of fat men or thin men, at fifty an unjust average.
shops In Monte *Carlo. to r forty seven tables clear up each minute. In
francs you can buy a system which each minute the bouse Is seven bets
tells you how, on a capital of £20, you to the good.
THfe average unit staked Is Impossi­
can make—“lufalllbly”—£19 a day.
There Is another, much sold, which ble to guess. The bets range all the
offers you 1,000 chances to win against way from the humble Sf. white counter
to (rarely) the permitted limit of six
one chance to lose.
plaques of l,000f. each. But whatever
Casino Always Wins.
Others guarantee—well, nearly guar- the average unit Is, the Casino wins
antee—a winning of from 500 to 1,000 It seven times over every minute, or
fruncs a day, and there are any quan­ 420 times every hour, or 4,200 times
tity of systems under which “losses” , j-ach day.
So fur ns the Individual Is con­
are “Impossible.” le t. In spite of It
all the Casino Is one of the most suc­ cerned that 37th chance—the pesky
cessful business institutions In Europe, zero—may not operate to his disadvan­
and will doubtless weather even the tage In a long sitting, and If luck Is
difficulties of the exchange and the with him he will win. Or It may
operate so actively as to ruin him.In
rise In the cost of living.
Three days ago there a man won, at half an hour. But regarding the pub­
one of the tables, 37,000 francs at a lic as a single bettor, that bettor is
single coup. The rules, it should be roughly losing regularly to the tables
explained, forbid a larger stake than 4,200 units (subject to more accurate
will produce more than 0,000 francs calculation) every day In the year.
It has to be so. The Casino, with
at a single bet. But. linving staked
the limit on an Individual number,
you can also lay bets—each to the
limit—on the vurious combinations of WORKED HIS W AY TO TOP
that number as well as on the “color,
the high or low, odd or even, the
"dozen"—whether the first, second or
third of thirty-alx numbers—and so
forth.
I am told, but I have not calculated
it, that it is thus possible to win over
80,000 francs on a single turn of the
wheel. But 37,000 Is good enough and
the friend who had seen It and told me
added: “And that loss of 37,000 will
be worth 370,000 to the house." He
probably underestimated I t
Aa it was three days ago, the man
who won the money hns probably lost
It again by now and In any case the
fame of It has gone far abroad and
brought any number of new gamblers
to the table. It Is by such advertise­
ments that the Casino thrives.
“ KILLINGS"
LIVEN CASINO
Thay Keep at I t
Almost every year new books telling
you how to win at Monte Carlo are
published. Every year series of charm­
ing articles are written for one Journal
or another analyzing various “sys­
tems." One presumes that the writers
receive no payment from the Casino
for their labor. But how handsomely
It could afford to pay them ’. There Is
surely no money making institution
In the world which gets so much and
such admirable free advertisement as
the Soclete des Bains de Mer (as the
proprietary organization is called) of
Monte Carlo.
The one cardinal and dominant fact
la that there la always one extra
¡Gives Birth to Three
Husky Heifers and Bull.
Belmond, In.—Four husky
calves—three heifers and a bull
—all doing nicely and able to
take and obtaining nourishment
from the original source. Is the
contribution toward reduction
In the price of meat, butter and
milk offered the world recently
by a cow owned by Ralph Chris­
tie, farmer here.
Last year the cow gave birth
to twin heifers.
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all Its adjuncts, 13 an immensely cost­
ly institution to support. Besides its
own upkeep it provides the money
which makes Monte Carlo the most
beautifully ordered and most luxuri­
ously appointed town in the world.
The dividends of the Soclete, over and
above all this, are no secret. And the
public has to pay for It all. Against
that inexorable 37tb chance no system
is of any avail, except for the fun ol
working at it and for the pleasure ol
self-deception. Even the fat man and
the thin man are powerless.
THIS BIRD HAD REAL TEETH
Lived 25 Million Years Ago and
Chewed Its Food, Says Museum
Curator.
Lawrence, Kan.—One of the two
known specimens of bird’s teeth
was found In the chalk beds of west­
ern Kansas and lias been preserved
at the University of Kansas museum,
according to Curator H. T. Martin,
who found the specimen.
The other Is at the Yale university
museum. The Kansas fossil Is of the
cretaceous period, about twenty-five
million years ago and Includes ten
teeth.
It Is the most complete specimen
that has been preserved. The bird
was of the Hesperornls family, wat
five feet long, had a short vertebrae
tall and possessed no wings. It was
a marine bird.
The specimen Is more valuable than
any other, according to Professor Mar­
tin, because it gives a clear idea ol
the semi-plumaceous feathery cover­
ing that the bird possessed. No oth­
er known specimen gives this evi­
dence.
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MAKE BALLOON INTO CANOES
Hudson Bay Indians Get Wonderful
Craft from Wreck of Giant
Airship.
Cochrane, Ont.—Some wonderful ca­
noes appeared mysteriously recently in
the James Bay region. They were con­
structed not of blrchbark, but of a
strange material the North had never
seen.
The big balloon that carried three
United States naval aviators Into the
wilderness several months ago has
since lain where It descended. Officials
of Moose Factory, one of the earliest
posts established on American shores
by the Hudson's Bay company, had
given orders to all the Indians who
owe allegiance to the ancient fur com­
pany. to leave the great gas bag un­
disturbed. These orders bad been
strictly observed, but a band of out­
law Indians, whose home village is
sixty miles northwest of Moose Fac­
tory, found the balloon and from the
sides of the fallen monster made
canoes that rode the waves like thistle­
down.
Woodman, Spare T hat Tree.
Columbus, Ind.—For twenty years
students at the Garfield school have
looked out upon a tree which each
spring held a nest of robins. When
a man employed to trim the trees on
the school ground started to cut down
the favorite tree teachers and students
almost caused a riot. The school
board, when appealed to, took a stand
James W. Harris, on April 1, 1879. in favor of the robins.
was given a Job on a construction
gang of the California Street Cable Dog Would Have Been More Fun.
Car company of Sen Francisco-. Just
Louisville, Ky.—Three months ago
42 years later Mr. Harris was made Ray Johnson, aged twelve, sold hit
president and general manager of the dog. He received 50 cents for the
Company and chairman of the board animal and when he put the coin In hit
of directors. Having been for 38 mouth it slipped Into his th ro at Phy­
years the superintendent and general sicians in Brownsville tried in vain
manager of the road, he is the oldest to extract I t so Johnson was brought
American street railway executive in here and the coin was taken out with
forceps.
point of service.
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