Why San Francisco’s
Old China Town Is
Quiet In Tong Wars
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19. (/P) —
While several Large cities were scense
of sanguinary tong wars, resulting
in scores of Chinese being deported,
San Francisco’s China town, the
largest in the country, remained at
peace, despite the fact thait one of
the warring tongs, the Hip Sing, has
headquarters here.
Detective Sergeant John J. Manion,
head of the Chinatown police squad,
explained why.
"Keep out gambling houses. Pre
vent traffic in slave girls and in
narcotics and you’ll have no tong
wars. With the cooperation of the
peaceful elements—the merchant class
and the Christians—we have largely
eliminated those causes of trouble.
Watch for highbinders, or gunmen,
and try to keep them out of China
town.”
URGES TEACHING OF
CHESS AS STEADING
EFFECT ON WOMEN
LONDON, Nov. 18. (/P)—Chess as a
steadying influence tor girls who
seek the excitement of a hectic life
is urged by Mrs. Arthur Rawson,
president of the Imperial Chess club,
in furthering her contention that
teaching of the game should not
alone be confined to boys.
Many English secondary schools
are teaching boys to play chess on
the ground that it is a splendid ex
ercise in logic and mental training.
“Chess develops the power of con
centration, ordered thinking and
foresight, and above all, trains the
mind to work logically,” said Mrs.
Rawson, who believes that with char
acter thus developed there would be
less dissipation among men and wo
men.
It is claimed that hite Bristol
London express is the fastest train
in the world, with a schedule requir
ing a speed of 61 miles an hour for
107 miles.
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As Pioneer In Many
Fields, Equals Test
CHICAGO, Nov. 19. A typical
pioneer is the 100-pound bit of femi
ninity, Mabel Gilmore Reinecke, ■who
presides as collector of internal rev
enue for the Chicago district.
Five hundred employed in her of
fice, nearly 200 field employes, and
collections of approximately $200,
0Q0.000 a year from 700,000 income
taxpayers, leave her unruffled of
temper, and never groping for com
mand of the situation.
“First woman to” is an expression
found frequently in a sketch of her
14 years in public life, which started
well before she had attained her
majority.
MAXIMILLIAN’S DESK
USED BY GOVERNOR
OF LOUISIANA DAILY
BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 19. (Jp)
—The desk at which the governor of
Louisiana sits daily is a handsome
piece of furniture made of Circas
sian walnut, curved and carved with
matchless skill, and once served
MaximilWan while he occupied the
throne as Emperor of Mexico.
Legends say that, after the execu
tion of Maximilllian, the desk and
two other pieces of furniture from
the ill fated emperor's office were
brought to Louisiana and placed in
the executive offices.
In the reception room is a mirror
approximately 15 feet high and three
feet wide, framed in the finesit of
walnut, that once was a part of the
furnishing of the St. Louis Hotel
at New Orleans, which was famous
in the early history of the oity and
state.
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Desert That Baffled
Cortez Is Conquered
By U. S. Engineers
MEXICALI, Lower Cal., Nov. 19.
(/P)—'Four hundred years after the
desert south of here and surrounding
the head of the Gulf of California
had defeated the undaunted Fernan
do Cortez, an American railroad is
being built across those sands that
promises to wrest unestimated wealth
from the waste which balked the
Spanish conquistador.
The line, 170 miles long, which will
connect this town on the California
Mexico border with San Felipe, the
nearest point on the Gulf of Califor
nia where a deep water harbor is
available, must be completed, accord
ing to contract, in 1927.
Residents of the desert domain
look to the railroad to spin the wheel
of progress with three great chang
es:
Connect the lower Colorado river
basin with tidewater.
Provide a new system of defense
thru levees on which the road will
travel, against the floods of the Col
orado.
Open the way for reclamation of
250,000 acres of fertile delta land.
Henry Ford Leads
Class In Revival of
Old Dance Steps
DETROIT, Nov. 19. (JP)—St. Paul’s j
Cathedral hall, which has seen the!
election of two bishops and the set- j
tlement of many weighty diocesan
problems of the Methodist Episcopal j
church, has become a Mecca for |
those who believe, with Henry Ford,
in the revival of the old-fashioned
dances.
With the hearty endorsement of
Bishop Herman Page, the hall is be
ing used twice monthly for classes
of instruction in the almost forgot
ten steps; and there is being aroused
an enthusiasm which Mr. Ford is
hopeful will return the waltz, the ga
votte, the schottische and even the
homely, boisterous quadrille to a
parity .with *th.e Charleston.
Noxious Plant Found
To Be Productive In
Way of Paper Pulp
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 19. (£>)—
The Chinese "tree of heaven’’ wiil
produce paper pulp of good fibre
length. Whereas it was about to be
condemned as a noxious plant, it
may in later years help to solve
the problem of wood shortage for.
paper manufacturing purposes.
The tree’s paper pulp possibilities
were discovered in experiments con
ducted by the Pennsylvania depart
ment of forests and waters, cooperat
ing with the forest products labora
tories at Madison, Wiis. As a re
sult, the department will plant thou
sands of ailanthus (tree of heaven)
seeds which in 25 years should pro
duce 43.2 cords of wood to the acre.
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Two Living Buddhas
of Tibet Make Split
Threatening Warfare
TATSIENLU, Province of Szech
wan, Nov. 19. (/p)—The two “Ldvlng
Buddhas” of Tibet are at outs. One
had fled the country, and strife now
threatens.
Intrigues, political rivalries, and
the superstitions of the Tibetian peo
ple are woven into the fabric o,f the
troublesome situation. The unrest
is not apparent on the surface of.
things, for Tibet is ruled by the"^
“lamas” or priests of Duddha, but
there are signs of d'issention among
the lamas themselves.
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