Moslems Use Automobiles
Taking Grave Journey
BEIRUT, Dec. 2—The home of
pious Shiah Moslems, whose rela
tives can afford to pay the price are
now transported part of the way by
automobiles from Teheren, the Per
sian capital to Kerbela in Mesopota
mia, where every good Shiah wishes
his bones to rest.
A local motor transport company
recently extended its service be
tween here and Bagdad as far as Te
heran. The conveying of bodies of
Persians from the capital to Bagdad
for railway transportation to Kerbela,
about 60 miles from Bagdad, is a side
line in the company’s business.
Kerbela has been a place of pil
grimage since the seventh century,
when a great tomb wras erected to
the martyred Hosian, son of the
fourth Caliph, slain by a rival’s sol
diers. The town owes its existence
to Hosian’s shrine for tens of thou
sands of pilgrims go there-annually,
many of them carrying the bones of
their relatives to be buried in its sa
cred soil or bringing their sick and
aged to die there.
High cost of burial in Kerbela has
long worried faithful Persians. In
addition to paying the mullahs, who
extract enormous fees for the burial,
they have to bear the transportation
cost of about $1,000. The latter is
said to be trifling for the fees asked
for a burial site at Kerbela.
, NURSES GET AWAY
WITH BOBBED HAIR,
DESPITE HER BAN
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 2.—Two nurses
were kept from graduating from the
Evanston, 111., Hospital Training
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School lor Nurses in the Spring of
1924. They had bobbed their hair,
and Miss Ada Bell McCleary, super
intendent, said they could not wear
their caps with dignity on heads that
were bobbed.
Today 75 per cent, of the total en
rollment of the same institution, un
der the same superintendent, have
snipped their locks, and Mis Mc
Cleary is not inclined to answer
questions, or issue any statement on
the matter.
“The matter has gone by default,”
one of the hospital authorities ex
plained. “You see, we learned that
the patients didn’t find bobbed haired
nurses at all objectionable. So the
ban on them has been automatically
withdrawn.”
In championing the lost cause of
long hair, the hospital superintendent
had the whole-hearted support of
Mrs. James A. Patton, a benefactor
of the hospital, whose recent gift
was one-quarter of the $1,500,000 in
come from the rental of the land on
which one of the Northwestern Uni
versity club buildings stand.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE
APPROVES STANDARD
FRENCH LICK, Dec. 1—The Amer
ican Institute of Steel Construction in
convention here today approved the
Code of Standard Practice for the
Fabrication and Erection of Structu
ral Steel. This code was developed
by the Institute to bring about fur
ther uniformity in the industry with
a consequent decrease in building
costs. It is the second conspicuous
step taken by the organization toward
uniformity in the structural steel in
dustry, the first being the standard
specification for fabrication and erec
tion of structural steel.
It is expected by the Institute that
the Code of Standard Practice will
have a nation-wide effect commen
surate with that of the standard spec
ification promulgated by the organiza
tion which has now been embodied
in the building codes of more than
25 of the leading cities of the United
States.
The Code of Standard Practice is
designed to cover those phases of the
structural steel industry not touched
by the standard specification. In or
der to eliminate the sources of mis
understanding that have been the
cause of expense and confusion for
years, the code classifies definitely
the iron and steel items entering into
a structure. A plumb building is de
fined for the first time. The manner
in which invoice weights are to be
determined is clearly set forth. Thai
elusive term, “good workmanship,’
is reduced to definiteness.
Engineers who reviewed the code
prior to its adoption today, have
characterized it as the most accu
rate cost of practice that has been
compiled for any industry.
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Threw Pepper In the Eyes
of Sheriff in Jail Break
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WOODLAND, Calif., Dec. 1.— A j
daring jail break was attempted to- |
day and almost succeeded. The par- I
ticipants were W. H. Richards, who
formerly owned a hotel at Klamath
Falls, Ore., and Joseph Duncan, a ne- |
gro. Both men are suspected oi hav
ing taken part in the robbery of the
Bank of Italy here on September 30,
when $12,000 was stolen. The men
threw pepper into the eyes of Sheriff
Monroe blinding him. Despite the
pain the sheriff grappled with Dun.
can and overpowering him returned
him to his cell. Richards was later
captured at his own office in this
city.
Fishes Treated to Shandygaffs
It will be with many sighs and
groans and possibly jubilant shout
ings, when it is announced that at
2:30 the other afternoon, 250 gallons
of illicit moonshine was dumped off
the Ocean dock into the briny deep,
quivers the Anchorage Daily Alas
kan, in a recent issue.
This was the catch that was made
at a raid on the Chicaloon Pool
Room, about a week ago, in which
raid, “Dusty” Malehorn was arrest
ed and given three months and
$1,000 fine.
Mr. Flanagan, prohibition agent
of Alaska, assisted by Chief Lew
Powless and Deputies H. Staser dnd
C. Watson, witnessed the public
demolition of the “pay dirt.” Pete
Peterson the official carrier was al
so present.
An oldtimer, who took his ablu
tions in Knik Arm water shortly
after the mule was dumped claimed
to have seen a flock of herring
soaring above the old cannery plant
chirping like gulls.
Navigators on the inlet report
that for the first time in ten years
the upper arm was free from ice,
and the only way they can account
for the phenomena is that the fish
took the ice with them in one grand
stampede to get room to celebrate
after imbibing the highballs and
standygaffs occasioned by the pre
sence of the mule and a thousand
bottles of home-brew.
SCOTT BREAKS LEG;
SLIPS ON ICY WALK
Howard Scott, head of the filing de
partment of the Alaska Railroad in
Anchorage, slipped on an icy side
walk the other day and is under the
care of Dr. Beeson from a broken
limb.
Mr. Scott, arrived in Anchorage
i from Seattle about three months
ago. In Seattle he was employed in
C. E. Dole’s office, of the Alaska
Railroad. He is about 50 years of
age.
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British Employers Decry
Handicap Made by Drink
LONDON, Dec. 1.—While it is gen
erally admiitted that drunkenness
has greatly decreased in the British
Isles since 1914, there is still much
room for improvement, according to
some of the country’s big employers
of labor.
At a luncheon of the Business
Men’s League Sir Dyson Mallison,
head of a firm of cotton brokers, said
England could be the envy of the
world but for the great handicap im
posed by the drink habit. Sir Mur
ray Hyslop, an employer of 40,000
men, testified to the extremely prac
tical work of the National Commer
cial Temperance League.
For every 20 shillings spent on ed
ucation in England, the speaker said.
70 shillings were spent on drink. It
was said that clubs had sprung up
in places where public houses were
formerly seen. He expressed admira
tion for Ameidca’s courage in adopt
ing prohibition.
DAN M’ARDLE OF
WASILLA DIES AT '
ANCH. HOSPITAL
Dan McArdle, 60 years of age,
died at the Anchorage hospital the
other day. Death came during diag
nosis. Pending funeral arrangements
the body is at Williams Undertaking
Parlors. Dan McArdle is survived by
a number of relatives residing in
North Dakota, to whom telegrams
were dispatched yesterday afternoon,
notifying them of the death and ask
ing what disposal is to be made of
the remains.
Dan McArdle, entered the Anch
orage hospital, a week ago last Wed
nesday, at which time he was in a
very week condition. For the last
eight years he was ranching at Wa
silla and was considered to be pros
pering. D. Donovan, a rancher on
th ‘eWasilla-Knik road, accompanied
Mr. McArdle to Anchorage last
week, tendering to him what aid he
could on the journey to town.
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CREW WANTS COUNSEL
APPOINTED BY COURT
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30.—The
crew of the adventure craft CJuilia,
appeared in the Federal court today,
penniless and unkempt, and told the
judge they were unable to employ
counsel to defend themselves on the
charge of liquor smuggling. The
charge is an aftermath of the scut
tling of the vessel and the crew set
ting themselves adrift in a small boat
when the Guilia ran short of fuel. The
Guilia is said to have had a cargo
of liquor at the time. The craft was
formerly owned by the King of Spain.
DAN M’MILLAN SOUGHT
The whereabouts of Dan McMillan
is requested by Mrs. A. C. McMillan
of Los Angeles, in a letter received
at railroad headquarters. According
to the letter McMillan was thought
to have been in the employ of the
Alaska railroad but the records fail
to show it. Mrs. McMillan resides at
5231, Ruthelen street, Los Angeles.
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