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Show Th Trie university preserve will be divided into two districts. In one animals will be left in their natural state and not disturbed. In the other changes in natural conditions will be made to determine the effect on wild life. BRANDS FLORAL SHOP 2034 South 11th East Sugarhouse AT YOUR SERVICE CUT FLOWERS milk on steaks coats may and genuine musk-o- x some day be available to the American consumer, according to the Academy of Natural Science here. boon to Arctic exThe musk-ox- , with faced a diet of pemmi-ca- n plorers and hardtack, gives milk richer than that of the Jersey cow, takes readily to domestication and provides excellent steaks for the table, according to an academy announceMusk-o- Philadelphia. the breakfast cereal, Rea. rhona SPECIALIZE IN FUNERAL SPRAYS Hy. 1848 FEW GREAT RIVERS FREE FROM FLOODS China Worst Sufferer From Swollen Streams. rilONE Hy. 970 oi tne Rhone and Saone swept away many villages and flooded Lyons, Avignon, Nimes and Marseilles. A flood on the Seine in 1910 caused damage amounting to $200,000,000 in Paris and the total of dead is unknown. "The beautiful blue Danube sometimes becomes the furious flooded vilDanube. In' 1811, twenty-fou- r lages in Hungary were swept away by its overflow, and many disastrous floods have devastated its banks. "The Lena, draining 895,000 square miles of northern Siberia into the Arctic ocean, spreads to a width of four to twenty miles in flood time, when ice on its upper reaches melts before the ice at its mouth. This is characteristic of almost all the rivers that flow into the Arctic ocean, including the mighty Mackenzie of North America. Washington, D. C The floods on the mighty Mississippi and its tributaries are only the latest of countless freshets that have rolled down the rivers of the world since a Mesopotamian flood about 4000 B. C. gave rise to the Biblical story of Noah and the Aik. "From the frigid waters of the Lena in Siberia, where natives build houses on stilts to escape the spring rise of the stream, to the lush Jungles of the Amazon, floods are an visitation, says the National Geographic society. POLICE PLAY ROLE "In the tropics, periodic rainy IN GUARDING DUCE seasons send murky freshets to overflow the banks of jungle streams. In the Far North, the mouths of rivers flowing into the Appear in Costume When He Arctic ocean stay frozen after the Goes Before Crowd. upper reaches have thawed, damming up the water until warm Rome. Benito Mussolinis secret weather finally releases the pent-u-p bodyguard is of 303 torrent.' Other rivers flow quiet- picked policemencomposed who must appear ly for years, only to flood sudden- at ease in dinner clothes, workly when unusual rains fill their men's overalls or sports costumes. headwaters and tributaries to overWhen Mussolini threshes wheat at flowing. in the reLittoria, model farm-tow- n "Perhaps China holds the unwel- claimed Pontine marshes, these come championship for floods that agents don overalls and farmers periodically produce greatest hu- boots and, waving picks and shovThe Hwang-hman suffering. els, mingle with the peasants hailChinas sorrow,' not only often over- ing the "Founder of the Empire. flows its banks, but even changes When the dictator, wielding a its course at intervals. One of its heavy pick, breaks ground to inaugfloods, in 1887, is estimated to have urate work on new public parks caused the death of 900,000 people. and scores of agents Its channel last shifted in 1852, dressedbuildings, laborers as swing picks and entering the sea 165 ' miles north of cheer the chief. its former mouth, and bringing Recently Mussolini made a surdeath and huge economic loss to visit to skiing reprise thousands who lived in the new sort about 30Terminillo, miles from Rome. territory invaded by the river. Habitual skiers were surprised to see the large number of new fans 100,009 Lives Lost. who appeared at Terminillo. All in "The Yangtze, farther south, were beginners and could hardly 1911 inundated a vast area in which stand straight on their skis. Many it was calculated that 100,000 Chitheir skis on their shoulnese lost their lives and 3,750,000 carried followed II Duce around on and ders were rendered homeless. foot. They were policemen. "By contrast the St. Lawrence These 300 men who follow II Duce in North America, draining an area elbowand are constantly,' far exceeding that served by the ing in the crowd whenalways in he appears is almost a floodless rivHwang-hcost Italian the government public, er. The Great Lakes, really a part 5,000,000 lire a ). year (about of the St. Lawrence watershed, and exthe rivers own large lakelike At all public ceremonies in which panses, impound the water and al- Mussolini participates, his special sea. to the low it to flow gently Only of "Black Musketeers jam bodyguard during an occasional spring iceLawaddition to the plainclothes (in St. on the water is there high men) is called out. This special rence. corps was founded 14 years ago The floods of the Nile, famous when Mussolini personally picked almost since the beginning of writ- 100 youngsters belonging to the ten history, are a blessing to the fascist flying Dare and Die Egyptian farmer, fertilizing his squads. fields free of charge. But the blessThis bodyguard was meant to reping is not entirely unmixed, for on resent, as II Duce himself once occasion the benevolent Nile has out, the ideal continuity risen high enough to flood the pointed between the flying squads of action streets of Cairo. and the armed guard of the fascist "Like the Nile, the Indus, drainrevolution. They arc recruited for one year, which may be renewed. ing a large part of northern India, floods each spring and deposits Their service, however, is volunsilt to enrich millions of acres of tary. farm land. When a sudden warm spell melts snows in the Himalayas too quickly, however, the Indus beUniversity of Missouri comes a destroyer. Its floods have Plans Wild Life Farm been known to sweep whole villages Mo. The University of thousands from Columbia, soil away, strip the of acres and change the course of Missouri is preparing to operate the preserve in the United only wild-lif- e the stream. "In the jungles of the Amazon States maintained exclusively for s of that purpose. watershed, draining e A tract south of here South America, some of the world's been has by the resetpurchased to the down floods roll sea, greatest to be used administration tlement sitlittle noticed because, unlike the uation along the Mississippi, there for studying Missouri wild life in is not yet a vast population living its natural state. "There are many game preserves close to the river. in this country, but there is none Floods. Has Its Europe conducted exclusively fof this purt, "Densely-populate- d Europe has pose, explained Dr. Rudolf its own floods, which in the past professor of zoology in the unihave done serious damage. The Po, versity and director of the prenorthern Italys largest stream, has serve. "In every other preserve, he been held in check by dikes since Roman times, and 3,000,000 square said, "such interests as lumber, miles of the plains of Lombardy fishing or commercial interests are are now so protected from its overrepresented. In addition to the chief purpose of flow. Despite this protection disastrous floods often have swept the the preserve. Dr. Bennitt said, the fertile country along its banks. preserve also would serve as a con"In northern Russia, in 1824, a servatory for native vegetation and disastrous flood of the Neva took as a demonstration area to show the lives of 10,000 people in St. the desirability of converting agricultural regions into Petersburg (now Leningrad) and and forest reserve". . . Kronstadt. In. 1840 Jn Fxr.ice. floods -- far-aw- ay - ever-recurri- - o, . o, $250,-000- two-fifth- 2,300-acr- Een-nit- C non-profita- g.ie PEERLESS LAUNDRY Philadelphia Scientists Steaks Try Out Musk-O-x iir0 POTTED PLANTS, all kinds BULLETIN x musk-o- x ment. At one time, according to academy scientists, the musk-o- x roamed as far south as Philadelphia, but today they are The oxen eat the Arctic grasses, lichens, and moss, and in winter they use sharp hooves to break through the snow crust to reach vegetation beneath. They have deon their nosveloped "pushers trils, similar to the snout of a pig. Staten Island Zone Is Only Cne cf Kind in U. S. New York. Shining day and night, casting its piercing ray through fog and across 2,700 feet of sentinel guards water, an evcr-alethe entrance to the new free nort at StsDleton, Staten island, N. Y. This sentinel, warning of any object, no matter how large or small, that breaks its intamuble barrier, is the "electric eye that protects the first and only free rort of modern times in the United States. A free port is a restricted foreign-trade zone where foreign goods may be repacked, graded, stored, mixed with other foreign or domestic goods, assembled and transshipped without going through customs. Regular import duties are paid if and when the goods ultimately are imported into the country. Four Torts Proposed. About 43 ports have been set up in various parts of the world. The Staten island zone, the only such port in this country, possibly is the predecessor of four free ports in the United States. Two would be located on the Atlantic coast, according to plans revealed a year ago by representatives of the administration, one on the gulf coast and one on the Pacific coast. The most novel feature of the New York free port is the electric eye which went into operation as soon as the zone was opened February 1. Its use for such a purpose marks the first time that an actual physical barrier has r.ot been used in free ports. All other free ports throughout the world use barriers which are opened or closed to admit vessels to enter or leave the unrestricted sections. The electric eye is constructed so that a light shines out of a black, trunklike box which rises and falls with the tides. This light sends its rays from the north boundary of the free zone to the photoelectric cell at the other end. While nothing interrupts the beam, all is quiet but the instant a vessel enters the zone an alarm is sounded. At night the light sends a white line across the water. It shines so brightly that it is possible to read a newspaper by its light a away. Four Piers ia Zone. Customs men, paid by New York watch at the city, keep a port. Its physical makeup includes four piers, owned by the city, 30 acres of land on which warehouses and other buildings will be consteel fence structed and a around the restricted zone. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, one of the original sponsors of the port, estimated that its operation will yield about $150,000 annually. A movement tc establish free ports in the United States first started a generation ago. The enabling legislation which made the free port of New York possible was the Celler bill, which President Roosevelt signed on June 13, 1934. This act created a free trade zones board, consisting of the secretaries of commerce, war and the treasury. The principal free ports in Europe now are Copenhagen, Danzig and Hambur. rt 1,000-wa- tt half-mi- le 24-ho- ur 12-fo- ot SNOW WHITE CLOTHES 1206 East 21st South Modern Inventions Open Up Tract in Alberta. - Alberta. Coldflclds, Millions of square miles of land, for centuries accessible only to Indians, Eskimo?, trappers and traders, are slowly being conquered by manmade Twentieth century inventions. a Along the shores of Lake and throughout the neighboring territory, towns and villages are springing up like mushrooms as the frontiers are forced back. Gradually the tremendous wealth of the area is being developed. Where Samuel Hearne fought his way across the arctic coast and where Hendrik Hudson died, tiny settlements of miners, mining engineers and government officials are coming into being. Some of them have risen during the last two years. Most of them in the last six months. Gold and redium created them and will keep them alive until the resources of the country are fully exploited. Outpost, Yellowknife, Gordon Lake and Fond du Lac are a few of the newborn villages. GoldAelds is another, but is quickly developing into a modern town. ' Already it boasts a badminton club, hockey learn, barber shop, liquor store and a bootlegger, too. Ten years ago this barren r.orth-lan- d was guarded by a then impregnable barrier of snow and ice. The gold and radium now being taken from the earth were immovable because it was impossible to ship the necessary machinery and equipment into the country. And then aviation came into this ageless land and tossed back the frontier that time, distance and climate had held strong since the ice age. Daily now, men and thousands of pounds of material are flown in and the gold and radium Alha-back- . flown out ' Airplanes in this country are the equivalent of busses in the civilized sections of the province. Their traffic is part of this industry that is swiftly becoming the greatest in the country. Hyland 2182-218- 3 Royal Fishing Temple in England to Be Wrecked London. Britains only royal "fishing temple is to be demolished because it interferes with the view from King Edward's country home at Fort Belvedere, near London. Built by King George IV on the edge of Virginia Water lake, in the grounds of Windsor Great park, the temple was used frequently by King George V and Queen Mary. King Edward and his brothers were taught fishing from the building. Already boats in the "temple have been removed. They included the Una, presented to Edward VIII when he visited the United States as Prince of Wales. The present King Edward complained the temple interrupted the view of the lake from the grounds of his home. THEY DO BREAK! Heavy winds, boys baseball once in a while crash the window. DONT WORRY! Just Call Hyland 928 SUGAR HOUSE GLASS CO. Homesickness Epidemic Depopulated Mining Town 2023 South 11th East Sundance, Wyo. "Homesickness And We Hurry killed many a miner around this remem1870s a and 1880s, in the gion ber of the Federal writers projecl discovered. The disease which affected the miners was diagnosed by some ar "mountain fever and as home 2145 Highland Drive sickness by others. Doctors saic the disease was peculiar to the minExpert in Fender Work, also ing camps. After a few months the and Body disease disappeared from this re - Welding - Repairing Painting gion and never returned. Ove 15 Years Expcrionco Bill Edglngton She Got Her Dream Sian Sim Walton Cleveland. Mrs. Mamie Winston thought she saw a prowler crawling We Can Furnish Ycur through her bedroom window. She Homo With grabbed the shotgun near her bed GOOD USED FURNITURE and fired. Police found the window unopened, no footprints beneath it, and Mrs. Winston staring at a hole in the wall where the shotgun CO. charge had struck. "I must have been dreaming, she said. 2014 So. 11th East Hy. 6363 The AUTO METAL SHOP ELEVENTH EAST FURNITURE GRANITE MILL AND FIXTURE CO. Wyoming Charts Steps GENERAL MILL WORK and KILN DRIED LUMBER Office Fixtures and Stair Building a Specialty F. TL Sandberg, Mgr. to Wipe Out Rustlers Cheyenne, Wyo. Full police powers of every state in "cattledom must be convoked against modern mechanized marauders of the plains whose rustling of a single steer today is costing ranchers more than did the loss of a small herd in the 2167 Eleventh East IN SUGARIIOUSE Hyland 1617 days, the Wyoming Stock Growers association has cided. First step in the plan to rid de- GENUINE Wyo- ming of its epidemic of rustling is doubling of the states highway patrol and adopting a system for highway commerce. The plan ia designed to prevent trucks from carrying out of the state slaughtered beef stolen from ranches. Rustling nowadays differs from e the raiding only in the increased efficiency of the modern thieves, according to the association, The rustler backs his truck into a field, captures and butchers 12 or 15 prize animals and drives away to market. Since the rustlers leave only a tire track as a trace of their work, animals taken from large herds often are not missed until the rancher attempts to market them himself. Authorities have found it virtually impossible to capture the bandits, and when captured, to convict them. port-of-ent- ports-of-entr- Dexter W asher ry y old-tim- te Now For Only 34.95 Demonstrator WE CARRY PARTS FOR ALL WASHERS. Also All Kinds of Wringer Rollers. Singing Mice Were First Observed Back in 1878 Urbana, 111. According to Dr. E. Roberts, professor of animal genetics at the University of Illinois, the state institution has had "singing mice in previous years, although the laboratory does not have any at the present time. According to Prof. Roberts, singing mice were first observed in 1878, hence Minnie, the "singing mouse, Sisters in America 50 which received much newspaper Years Arc Naturalized publicity in recent weeks, is not Cincinnati, Ohio. Two Irish sis- such a novelty after all. Singing mice, according to Proters who have been in America more than a half century are natur- fessor Roberts, are generally quite alized citizens at last. The Misses small, and they have very large Catherine and Margaret Begley, ears, being darker than the average mice. According to Professor Robseventy-tw- o and seventy-sirespec91 erts, it is possible that the mouse the aliens were among tively, who received naturalization papers is able to "sing because of some from Judge Robert R. Nevin In abnormal structure of the throat United States district 'court here. FOR WASHER SERVICE Phone Hy. 7312 Hansen Dexter Company; 967 East 2 st South St. x, 1 r 444444944444444444444444444 44444444444444444444 |