BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY. MAY 27, 18S7 Sparrow Hawks Eat Insects, Stomach ARE YOU A BLANKET BUYER? Analysis Reveals JEJUNE HUNTER, IfjW The sparrow hawk is one of the smallest and most brightly colored of the hawks found in Utah name given is an unfortunate one as this little falcon doesn't deserve its reputation as a bird restroyer. Under nearly all conditions, it should be ranked as a beneficial species, living almost on injurious insects. In Utahentirely it is one of the g r e a te s t grasshopper destroyers among the birds, according to a study made at the Utah State Agricultural college. Only when extremely cold weather prevails and the insects are dead or dormant will these birds take to other kinds of by Mary By FLOYD GIBBONS, 7ILLIAM HAESE of Lakewood, N. J., saw an article in a mag- about a war veteran who rede a dead azine a few months ago, When he finished reading it ... in the middle of the Atlantic. I could tell a better one than that." So "Heck, himself, to aid a reai auvcmuic rthave .uveiuurer me nexi 10 oign-Htffi'g yarn manes mm a m this club but he could also qualify as Grand Magnificent . , .,. l6lB . - !i na um sis ugui. it s"v tie iias got a siiuy I'll sunni a a bird of a one at that. That lad who, Bill says, rod even in the running; with Bill and torse in the Atlantic, wasn't rough-ridinof he gave in the Sv iju exhibition dalles islands in July, 1901. savs he's been in this country for 32 years and now caU : liiin- small New Jersey farmer, but in 1901 he was a sailor in ih': on the cruiser Irene after 11 months active ijjnavy, homeward-boun- d Boxer war. The Irene left China in June, and the early W July found it coaling at the port of Mahe in the Seychelles jfwp. g er s-- round-ende- In The Sports' World Bffl BUI SHARK! KKOFVTHE if Wrangling a Sea Tiger Is No Child's Play! Wat happened next still seems like a nightmare to Bill. The 'it snapped at the signpost caught it on the end that held the sign, E started to swim off, the broken pole sticking upright out of the Bill reached out and grabbed it. ;& Instinctively, The shark was fairly tearing through the bay, but though Bill kd got off to a swell start on his career as an aquarium rough-ride- r, that career wasn't to last long. In another instant he felt a tug on his left wrist. The line was still wrapped around it, k other end was still tied to the dock, and the swiftly moving shark had taken up all the slack. Bill was yanked off backward Into deep water. In the next minute or so, Bill doesn't remember taking a breath, ras in d water and it would be a miracle if he didn't pa leg before he got out a miracle indeed if he ever got out alive. togged on the line like a madman, pulling himself toward tne oock. Shark-HerdReaches the Dock Unscathed. seemed as if he'd never get to the dock and with every pull on that line he expected to feel a shark's sharp teeth crunching tones. At last he reached the pier and began clambering up a But the X Even then he didn't know whether he'd get out. is down in the water were that and left day. tricks right missing ?to they were afraid of a bird who would jump on their backs and ride them. Anyway. Bill finally got both legs out of water. Back in the tavern, the officers had heard the splash and they came running just as Bill clambered over the top of the W. The caste system in the German navy was mighty rijid in those days. It was a great honor in fact, a thing almost snheard of for an officer to fraternize with an enlisted man. But a shark rider must have been different. real, 'those officers took Bill up to the tavern and entertained him urtU Jw ready to go back and ride that shark all over again. shark-infeste- La-Re- ne 4-- H day. Mr. and Mrs. Will Bradford of nnr. land, Mr. and Mrs. Rast Peterson of e. Isft Takes an Impromptu Ride on Shark's Back. Braddock started fighting in 1926 After a while, the pickle barrel began to move very slowly. Bill in that year won 11 fights by and the h line a jerk to see if he really had a bite. The line gave a jerk won 3 by decisions and aback. There was a shark on the end of it no mistake for the knockouts; one decision no had fight. s had nearly pulled him off the piling. He hung on to the signpost : ill his strength and pulled back. There was no time to blow the It is estimated the 1936 football 3le now, for it was in his pocket and the shark was giving him all pool racketeers cleaner up about bfork he could handle. $10,000,000. Bill's cap fell off and landed in the water. He saw a streak of frer in the water and the cap vanished. Another hungry shark Lou Gehrig, New York Yankee ad popped up and swallowed it. And then, suddenly, he heard a baseman has won the most valfirst sack. The signpost to which he was clinging the only thing uable player award four times. H was holding him on that piling was breaking. Ball happened quicker than it takes to tell it. The post snapped off, Annually 400,000 people pay to see into the water and Bill fell with it. Down he went with the shark the running of the English Derby pi under him. Then he hit the water and landed STRADDLING THE horse race, in England. visiting in this city with relatives also in Brigham City with her parent, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hansen. Mrs. Bertha Reynolds of Price ia visiting in this city with her daughter, Mrs. Leslie Jensen and family. Wednesday evening the eighth grade students held their graduation exercises in the ward chapel, under the direction of their teacher, Glenn Taylor. Don Hansen took charge of the following program: vocal duet. Margie Dallin and LaRue Christens) ; prayer, Melvm Johnson; retold story, DeNiece Anderson; violin duet, Arva Arbon and Leloa Iverson; address, Mary Jensen; piano solo, Mich-ak- o Watanabe; address to graduates by Mr. Nelsen, of the Box Elder Seminary; accordian solo, Carlyle Gardner; remarks, Glenn Taylor; benediction, Bishop Charles Checketts. There were thirty-on- e graduates from the eighth grade. Mr. and Mrs. Heber Hailing, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simpson, and Mrs. Eliza Hailing spent Saturday in Salt Lake City visiting relatives. Miss Beth Wankier is staying in East Garland with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moore and family.' Miss Maxine Hansen of Salt Lake City is visiting with relatives and friends in city. Mrs. Sarah M. Fridal, who has been spending the winter and spring in Salt Lake City, returned to her home in this city on Monday. The Winning Eight club held their cooking lesson at the home of their leader, Mrs. Edna Christensen, on Saturday. They will meet Wednesday, May 26 at 1:30 o'clock and will go to the cemetery, where they will be assigned lots to be cleaned, these lots are to be clean by Decoration th. n, "71 Here is an all star team for 1936. How many will repeat? Gehrig, Higgins, Appling, Medwick, Averill, Ott, Dickey, Hubbell, and J. Dean. r, Geh-ringe- THE SPOVLIGHT There has been eight players picked so far for the Hall of Fame. They are: Cobb, Mathewson, Ruth, Johnson, Lajorie, Speaker, Wagner and A dish of statistics (by Albin O. Horn, Chi ptr), hoping they'll be interesting . . . 6,200 babies are born each hour . . . but only 5,600 persons are laid to rest . . . 2,500 couples are married, but only 85 are divorced each hour . . . one perpetrator of every 10 crimes 45 Stude eludes discovery Young. Johnny Vander Metr, pitcher for Durham in the Piedmont League and now pitching for Cincinnati, struck out 295 batters in 214 innings, in ... bakers are made every nour . . . 700 new cars (total. Including Studebakers) are made every hour and cars use 170,000 barrels of petroleum every single hour . . each hour rinds the world richer oy $120,000 from gold mined . . ". one million copies of newspapers, periodicals and magazines are 4 major printed every hour storms take place on the earth's surface every hour . . . now all that and more happens every hour, but when you think that only 8 people die each hour because ot motor accidents all over the world, maybe the automobile isn't such a bad device after all. Still drive yours more carefully. 1936. George Selkirk, Yankee outfielder One of the most re.narkable only recently became an American in baseball last season was things Johnny citizen. Mize beating Jimmy Collins out of job with the CardiMax Carey, Pittsburg Pirate out the first basing was a recognized start nals. Collins fielder, led the National League ten at the time. seasons in stolen bases and stole 738 during his National League career. Eleven Western States will display If you like plenty of thrills with their resources in one building at the your sport, you might go to Lake 1939 Golden Gate International Placid, New York and try bobsled-dinA ride down the run calls for A "Port of the Seven Winds" will sixty-fiv- e to seventy miles an hour to accommodate trade ship exhibits from on the straightways and forty-fiv- e turns, many foreign countries at the 193D Golden fifty on the twenty-siGate International Exposition. of them hairpins or worse. . ... g. x Cer- oid, of Los Angeles, California, are adjust f I Mrs. Earland Ohman and son. Talbot wake up shivering miserably? Gutch a heavy quilt up .J around your shoulders or hunch down under a burly blanket? Wake again ten minutes later dripping with perspiration? Next a Gcold! And V all, according to day Nonhup, Jr., president of the North Star Woolen Mill Co., because the blanket-buye- r of the household forgot to provide for the problem of "adjustable warmth." $ During tbe day." says Mr. and roll up in little bails or lint "we which shake off when tie blanket Northup, our Is i ted." Another thought. Probably you clothing for wide variations supply each bed with tvo pairs of of temperature blankets one winter weight and in and out of on-- for summer, light as a nocOut turne. Well, why not '.ry an idea doors. ta growing increasingly popunight Beems to lull us Into false lar? Choose a double pair of sheer Conblankets. If it is brick end cold security. sequently, sta- yu can pull up all four and still feel weighed down, trey are tistics show rmtfeather-light. If it is wa"m, on that many colds 87 Mary Talbot are caught at blanket will repel that firet treachnight, because ot lack of knowl- erous spring breeze. You'll love edge of proper sleeping teing able to adjust warrctR with & fdek of your wrist. Naturally warmth Is a prime Washing and Storing ol consideration in bealthful sleep. Woolens Important The still air enmeshed In the Aud now a word as to (are, for blanket protects a person trtm cold drafts and keeps the heat gen- the newest bride and the most erated by the body from escaping housekeeper bctb face too rapidly. In other words, an the same problem of washing and all wool blanket acts as an Insu- storing winter woolens crer the lator. Mills, of course, have ma- summer. Wash your blankets in chines to measure the heat trans- lukewarm water (from 9f to 100 mission, air permeability, weight, degrees F.) but never soafj them; resistance to abrasion and all these wool is sensitive and requires careImportant sounding things. How- ful handling to prevent interlockever, Mr. Northup gives a practical ing of the fibres. Soap should be suggestion as to how we house- neutral and suds generous tnd the keepers can check on the blankets &ctual washing time, if a nachine we buy. 's used, not more than five minutes. A blanket should bo buhg un"Warmth will depend largely on napping," he says (napping being folded across the line and Shifted the technical word for the process occasionally as It dries: Outdoor which produces that soft fuzz or drying is preferable, but if the day bloom on our blankets). "A wom- Is damp, do not hurry the drying an should examine a blanket to with artificial heat. When the nap make sure that the fibres used In ts thoroughly dry, brush it gently the foundation are long and with a soft brush. Then, for tbe strong. If so, when the ends are last finishing touch, press th bind pulled up for napping, the rest of ing with a warm iron. And there the fibres remain anchored In the you are, all ready to spray on your yarn. If fibres are short and weak moth preventive and store away they are broken in this process your extra woolens till frost-tim- Results of examinations, as listed in "Hawkes of North American" shows of the stomachs taken from sparrow hawks that out of 427 pvam. ined 147 contained mannals, mainly small rodents. None containd game or poultry. Sixty-nin- e contained small birds, while 282 contained insects, 30 miscellaneous and 29 were empty. These results show that these birds which have often been thought to be injurious species are one of the most valuable in relation to agriculture of the bird family and should be protected instead of killed. Its smallness in size. tvrrical fal- conine outline and bright color make tne bird easily recognized. It is very different in silhouttee from the sharp skin, which is also about the same d size but the latter has short German Sailors Seek Recreation in Shark Fishing;. wings. Because of the laree number of in midst of the coaling operations, three of the ship's officers and they took Bill along with them to sects and rodents destroyed by the a notion to go shark fishing, and bait. They went out on a private dock not far from sparrow hawk, an appeal is made to js the tackle there Bill rigged up a shark line, baiting the hook, the farmers and SDortsmen of the and (tctopier state to refrain from shooting or des 'raj a smtfl pickle barrel two feet above it to act as a float, and then troying this valuable bird. of to of of the one end line the fast other the the tfej pier. pilings Tbe omcers nsnea ior nan an nour, dui mere was no sign d i shark and they were getting impatient. They turned tbn jteorer to Bill and one of them gave him a boatswain's whistle. "It toe pickle barrel begins moving," he said, "blow the whistle lid we'll come." And then they walked off to a nearby tavern. climbed up and ?at down on a piling, with one arm around a tpost to steady him. He wrapped a couple turns of the line aro:v)3 Jimmy Thompson, golfer, drove a wrist ana wauea. ball 308 yards. salt-wat- By Mrs. C. W. Brailsford 17 VER food. BEAR RIVER CITY 1 I Household Expert Advises On Care and Keeping Of Blankets tw "Cowboy of the Seven Seas" PAGE SEVEN this city motored to Ogden Saturdp-- r night, where they attended a party at the Green Gables, given in honor of Mrs. Lena Turner of San Francisco, California, who is visiting relatives in Utah. Quite a number of the parents from this ward attended the graduation dance held in Brigham, Friday evening for the eighth grade graduates. Mrs. Ben Grant and two children are visiting in Brigham City. Mrs. Sina Thorsen entertained a few friends at a quilting party at her home Friday. Two quilts were quilted and a delicious hot dinner was served to fourteen. The Daughters of the Pioneers will hold their meeting- at the home of Mrs. Mary J. Holmgren Friday, May 28 at 2 o'clock. - An international trap shooting meet will be held in San Francisco during the 1939 World's Fair there. Three hundred proposals of marriage have been received by Shirley Joy Ellis of Seattle, chosen "Miss Western America" in a contest sponsored by the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. er nrrr n B v t sook -- ? dved-in-the-wo- Correct Jr. and Sr. may a capital let- - oegin with 1? a letter to the President f b RcZ kjrf of salutation : Sir, To or Dear Mr- - President. closing: Respectfully sub- ' yours, or yours not lico . t. sm- - .. . numbers giving the of.7; Person or object. records: It ia N "at6 10 our Wr YOU ed 10 t?K 4ed VhTv r 'Hillrfm t CftCISE 0Xr ll Mr. Dvm'i e Cmitun.. 'omL? abbreviatlon if the l dJJ B. F. 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As the big spaces of Texas test both cars and friendships, I think our long-tim-e loyalty both Chevrolet of the for much the dependability eays car and our local Chevrolet dealer. While we can get values like these, nothing but Chevrolet will satisfy us." THE ONLY COMPLETE CAR-PRI- CED SO LOW CHEVROLET MOTOR CMrol Hourt Smi DIVISION CorpwadMi nrrROrr, michican fe rActrl-8Hlcylt- e. lBeftUamen "Parted that j5t pin pnii ipqwiipg : , tnr Uirt. It contains MBottom nl-irM- V?u2K DEALER SciaUo PalnaT If00 CHEVROLET Alka-Seltz- Why f '''' -n EXPRESSED BY THIS BUYER OF as- - letter ""J imwuiiii 'in CWIU3. advise you Ihta-r,.0- Nion. ipipii n5. 2c TIME TO JsJJJjS a lttter do not use the "Wish i d that's just the ALKALI - nut tv. n , BUY IT IN TREMONTAN - SAVE TOO MUCH r AT NO JM1 4 niiiinmpff0 -- sive begun, heavy fighting raged in the sector west of Madrid. Corrected: Loyalist militiamen reported that 10,000 rebels trapped in University City, had raised white flags of surrender. The government trooDS. fearing an ambuscade, refused to go forth and contact the rebels. On Drevious occasions they had been gunned. They decided to wait for dawn. As the fifth dav of the loyal ist defensive began, heavy fighting raged in the sector west or Maana. shell-satter-e- not -- .'.r'A'.n" niri ol Usage abbreviations 1 - Try Tmrm - ud mlwrml mnta f tb Ymrt Wtr. neto to wr- - ocUtd with hyperMMitf toniMcn. dnmM selli AIka-Mte- f. lFrosnk (CHiewaBeti: Trcmonton, Utah (Cd. Phone 20