The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
Disappearance of Judge
Still Remains Mystery
Two-Year Search for New
York Jurist Unavailing.
New York.—Two years ago Supreme
Court Justice Joseph Force (’rater
sauntered casually out of Haas’ res-
taurant, 332 West Forty-fifth street,
Manhattan, stepped into a taxicab,
waved a Jovial farewell to the friends
with whom he had been (lining, and
drove off 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 Ills fate, he left be-
hind him a baffling mystery that al-
ready has taken Its place beside the
mysterious disappearance of Dorothy
Arnold and Charlie Ross.
Intensive Search Futile.
Never in recent years has there
been so intensive or so futile a search
lor a missing person. Coming in the
midst of the investigation of charges
that District Leader Martin J. Ilealy
had accepted a $10,000 bribe for ob-
taining George W. Rwald an appoint-
ment as city magistrate, it created a
political sensation.
The attorney general’s investigation
Into the Ilealy-Kwald 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 could
find none.
The police, personal friends and
members of the family of the jurist
were equally uuable to find any rea-
son why he should vanish. The board
of aldermen offered a reward of $25,-
000 for information ns to his where-
abouts. Mayor Walker offered $5,000
reward. Other rewards were offered
by the newspapers.
It was estimated that in all some
$250,000 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
bow a man with such unusual charac-
teristics can remain undiscovered after
bis 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 185 pounds, his head was so
email that lie wore a 0*4 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 bench on April 8, 1030, by
Governor Roosevelt to succeed Joseph
F. Proskaner.
Spending the summer of 1030 with
his wife at Belgrade Lake, Maine,
where they had been going for 15
yenrs, Crater received a telephone call
on August 2 and told his wife he was
going to Manhattan on important po-
litical business.
Never Saw Him Again.
On August 4, 5 and 0 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 G, Mara said,
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 hand contained ev-
ery ace, king and queen in the deck,
together with one jack.
Justice Crater spent most of the morn-
ing tearing up papers and putting
others In a brief case and In four card-
board bojes.
Then he sent Mara out to cash two
checks totaling $5,100. 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. lie 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
6:30 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
Rltss, and her parents. They left the
restaurant with him and It was to
them he waved farewell after he
stepped into the taxicab.
Red Ants Fill Signal,
Halt Trains in Texas
Marshall, Texas. — Ants—common
red ants—stopped traffic on the Louis-
iana division of the Texas & 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 hnlted. Trainmen were un-
able to find the cause. Train No. 20
had the same trouble.
An investigation revealed that ants
had worked into the signal box and
formed the contact. Many ants had
been electrocuted, breaking the cur-
rent and causing the signal to remain
red.
“BO” CALLS TEAM OUT
“Bo” McMillin, as ne was known
when he led the “praying colonels” of
Center college, Kentucky, has lined up
some promising material for the new
season at Kansas State college, where
he now officiates. The future quarter-
hack in the picture is Jere Robert Mc-
Millin, ten months old, who shows con-
siderable aptitude in learning signal^
according to his proud dad.
England’s “White Horses"
There are three “White Horses”
in England, one in Berkshire, oue on
the downs three miles east of West-
bury in Wiltshire, and a third at Lul-
worth near Weymouth In Dorsetshire.
On the top of the White Horse hill
In Berkshire Is a magnificent Roman
camp, complete as if left only a few
years ago, and on the downs at West-
bury the earth works are as perfect
as any could be found in France from
the World war. As these two horses
are only a few miles apart, with their
camps, there seems good reason for
believing the legends told of them to
he founded in fuct. There Is no doubt
that battles were fought In that sec-
tion. The Dorsetshire horse was cut
to commemorate another event.
Two Great Expositions 1
Are Planned by Paris
Paris.—Two great world expositions
are planned for Paris during the next
five years, a first World’s Labor fair,
in 1935, and the second International
Decorative Arts exposition, 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 1925, 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.
Poems Were Returned
Educated, pure young Japanese poet
seeks position as journalistic worker,
window cleaner, tutor, housekeeper or
schoolboy.—Japan Advertiser, Tokio.
Nile River Water Will
Engulf Temple of Isis
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
wt ters 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 ns 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 hanks so that
the crops grown thereon were boun-
teous, offerings were made him by the
priesthood in the temple of Isis.
OLD CHURCH BELLS
RECALL THE PAST
Drifting helplessly for 115 days in a disabled .'10 foot fishing boat, B. A.
Riggs of Dutch Harbor. Alaska, was picked up off Point San Luis, Calif. He
was weak from hunger and exhaustion after nearly four months of wandering
over the seas, during which, he said, he was once driven by tire wind to a
point only !>00 miles from Honolulu. The photograph shows Iiiggs on the bow
iof his boat.
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
hoy in place of the child given her by
mistake at the time of his birth.
Frau Marie Donk of Gladhach, Ger-
many, has a suit on file to force Frau
Mathilda Beut.li to exchange sons horn
12 years ago In a maternity clinic. The
prospects for the exchange are favor-
able. hut 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 laid
given her the wrong baby, It v:r.s not
until a few months ago when she
chanced to meet Heinrich, son of Frau
Beuth, on the streets, and found his
respmblan(*e to her eldest Ron 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 Dong’s
judgment. If the court confirms the
scientists’ judgment, the Beuth family
has agreed not to challenge thff7 de-
cision.
Their Music Brings Back
'“Good Old Times.”
A recent announcement that the
church hell that began calling “the
faithful to service” on old Westport
In 1S54 had been rung again on a
recent Sunday at the Westport Meth-
odist Episcopal church, South, the
first time in twenty years might he
heralded by the more reverent ad-
herents to old-fashioned customs as
an occasion for rejoicings.
Indeed, for those mortals who are
blessed by occasional spiritual rev-
eries, there is no music in these
somewhat hectic modern days com-
parable to the music of an old
church bell. Seemingly its sonorous
pealing carries one back to the days
long ago when Sunday was called
“the Sabbath.”
One slept late of a Sunday morn-
ing, of course, in those days, yet not
so late perhaps as today. Then no
one who ever went to church in a
small town Sunday morning stayed
out quite so late the night before.
So even the first notes of the bells
calling the sleepy-heads out for Sun-
day school about half past nine did
not go unheeded. Yet there was the
usual scramble for the elder mem-
bers of the family in getting the chil-
dren off to Sunday school and them-
selves ready for church by 11 o’clock.
In residences where there was only
one bathroom (or none at all) some
nice calculations were required.
Mother herself always was up first
and busy supervising schedules. No
sooner did she inspect the ablutions
of the youngsters, with particular at-
tention to their cleansing behind the
ears, and seeing whether they had
blacked their shoes (including the
heels) than she had to begin on fa-
ther and insist that he complete his
shaving and get his Sunday suit
brushed well. And, of course it was
a black suit of worsted or wool, or
a broadcloth remnant of a palmier
day, that did require a pretty
thorough application of the whisk
broom. Few there were, or no pave-
ments in the small town in those
days, so the dust of summer did
things to black clothes.
Mother then gave final prechurch
attention to the dinner, seeing that
the fire was not too hot for the
roast In the oveu, or that the light
rollls would not rise too much, be-
fore giving last touches to her own
fixing up for church. About the
time she was well down the steps
and out the front gate, appealing to
father that he shouldn’t be seen
smoking a cigar on the walk to
church, she’d recall that she’d for-
gotten her gloves—long black gloves
usually—and her fan. Then father
would stroll on ahead enjoying the
few last leisurely puffs of his cheroot
while she went back for them.
The old church bells would begin
ringing while they were still several
blocks from church. Yet there was
time enough to get to the “meeting
house” and go in while the congre-
gation was singing the first hymn.
One advantage of the old days in
getting to meeting on time was that
there were fewer interruptions-
none—by telephone calls. Mother,
after she got her gloves and her fan,
could go on without being called
back to answer the phone. And fa-
ther could walk along slowly and
think philosophically without having
to wait for traffic lights to change.
There’s lure and happy reminis
cence in the old church bells too
often missed these days in modern
cities.—Kansas City Times.
Delouse Sleeping Chickens
Liee-infested chickens that go to
roost on poles painted with a 40 per
cent nicotine sulphate solution come
down in the morning wholly free
from lice, the University of New
Hampshire experiment station found
in testing this new method of con
trolling these pests.
“Black Leaf 40” is universally used
to control sucking insects on plants
by spraying, and as a dip to control
ticks and similar pests on sheep and
cattle.—New England Homestead.
You Lose!
The teacher was testing the
knowledge of a kindergarten class.
Slapping a half-dollar on the desk,
she said sharply:
“What Is that?”
Instnntl.v, a voice from the back
row, “Tails.”
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The sheriff in a small Indiana
town had arrested a woman who was
wanted for house breaking in n
neighboring city. As there was a
handsome reward offered for the
guilty party, there was considerable
speculation In regard to the possl
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city authorities, the sheriff was
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trip.
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minister, Baron Ivan Ilubldo-Zlchy,
inserted this advertisement: "The
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Faux Pas
“Hi! Where the dickens are you
putting that (leek chair?”
“I’m not obstructing your view,
sir. surely?”
“No, but hang it. you’re keeping
the sun off my left foot!”—London
Opinion.
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Martin, W. L. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1932, newspaper, September 23, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth728107/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.