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Show Scenes and Persons in the Current News BRITAIN SEEKS ISLE OF TIMOR? I. , U. lm f f 5I fsi Ci -- NecJetl as Link in Vorld Air Route. The British government Is reported by a news dispatch from London to he Interested in Timor island of the East Indies ns a possible sea and air base. An offer of to ooo.ooo may he made for the is l.irul.it Is declared. 'I lie easlern part of Timor and a tiny nick of ttiewest ern tart now belongs to Portugal, and tiie remainder to 'I lie Nether if lands. .S rr I,- i s i.- g lit-tl- Jack Has a Day Ashore in Panama uj JAVELIN THROWER Finds Moral in Life of Disraeli Organizing Fourth Internationale Good Wife She Who Makes Husband Happy, Says Woman Writer. According to contemporary opinion, the vvPc of Disraeli, prime minister of England, was ignorant, frivTo her brilliant, olous, (1 m rimin iting husband she was everything a wife should lie. the olijeit of his undying devotion lien they married, lie was thirtv-tiine- , she foity five. Iiis personalhors, nothing. ity had everything, To society their maniige was ride lilous. do Disneli it was a par of adoration, a refuge of lastad ing tondorm s " "Where tin a is the eatili or the conrei tion? "It nppeirs that though Ignorant, Mrs. Disraeli had good sense, wlmh found more emu the prime tn fori. ng than the wit of the brilliant women he knew. Mary Anne used ' -- ni-t- er ''i, I.e Gore of North Carolina javelin better than anyone fFe at tiie Penn relay meet in Philadelphia, and so won that event. Ral-to- RAIL TURTLE IS SOMETHING NEW which sometimes log and death. cuu-- e blood poison "There appear to be no limits, other than wtaltli and inclination, to the number of wives a tribesman may have. The native home is a round, wooden structure with a roof of grass or palm leaf thatch, and not too clean Inside or out. To appease tiie angry gods and to avoid destruction by evil spirts, the tribesmen place palm brnni lies before fruit trees, houses and growing crops Ag rtciilture Is carried on with crude, primitive Implements; and, although there are many streams on tiie is land, irrigation Is hardly known. During tiie dry season vegetation hows to (lie torrid sun even to Uip extent of the trees losing their leaves. "If the reported purchase Is eon summated it will not be Groat Britains tirbt possession of Timor. In 1707 the P.riiisli nt tempted to drive out the Dutch, then dominantly In control of the Island. At first they failed. Eater tiie British succeeded, and the Dutch Dag was lowered Portuguese influence then swept the Island until 1S14. when, by treaty, the Dutch resumed their old status, "Today the Dutch portion of Timor Is about 5,000 square miles with 300.000 Inhabitants. The Portuguese portion Is 7,335 square miles with about 4 13,000 people. Both por tlons are mountainous. Many peaks are more than 0,000 feet high. Mount ltnmeau, near the center of the Island, rises 0.000 feet." one-roo- Force of Habit Dentist Gas? Chauffeur Ub huh. And look at the oil, too. take Mary Anno know vvliit was good for lior D.zv. She relaxed him and she fortified him for Ids great task She was good for 1dm. And she made him young, distinguished love tier, commonplace arid middle-ageas she was, so that after her death no one mil d take her place, r and for tiie rest of ins life Ids was edged In black" Kcfleiting on the foiegoing, a woman wr.tir whose views on life are mover-allrespited mikes tiie follow ing common! : "I thought of Mary Anne wiiui a worn in I blew complained of tin girl tier son married. In tier opin d note-pape- y 5,000 pounds of vehicle weight for each passenger In the "conventional It was asserted railroad coach." that tiie rallphme eould be operated at a passenger rate of one cent a mile, or less than the busses charge, and that berths could he sold at approximately the bus rate of fare. In addition to these mutters of popular Interest, the technical matter of the streamlining of tiie ear was described In a picturesque way. It had to he different from that of an airplane or a ship, it was explained, because a rail coach does not permit The lines on a any such side slip. rallplane are much more like those of a turtle than those of a Ash," tiie A turtle walkspokesman said. ing on tiie bottom of a river must permit water to slip under and over It with a minimum of resistance. Thats what the rnilplane does with a benm wind." Who would have thought of a turtle as model for a vehicle capable of traveling at the rate of 70 to 00 miles an hour? Indianapolis News. "Girl" in the Bible a The word "girl appears hut once In the Bible. her good sense to understand her husband, mid umlerslandlng him, she devoted herself to Ills happiness, which was her single purpose In life. Her outrageous taste In dress might expose them both to ridicule In the arisloeratie circles In which they Her oll.er shortcomings moved. might embarrass the prime minister. Put all that was unimportant In tiie face of an umlerslandlng and devotion wlmh a man willi Disraelis qualities of heart and mind eould not tail to nppri elite and to respond to. ( Whether the railroads, now predominantly equipped with heavy engine and rolling stock, can recover soma of the ground lost to lighter competitors by adopting some of their methods of construction and applications of power has long been a matter of popular speculation. Technical problems huve evidently stood In the way of transformations ns rapidly as the Imagination may have expected, but gradual developments in tlint directum nre becoming increasingly apparent. A rec ent test run of u typo of coach between Detroit and Della, Ohio, a distance of 154 miles, was one of tiie latest evidences of this. It was a self propelled roach, said to be capable of running at ninety miles an hour without straining, hut kept within 70 miles In its "breaking In trial. To attain 70 miles, a representative of tiie lalunatories where tiie car was roust rueted said, needed only half the horse power required hy pnsseiii r ears of tiie conventional railway design. Light weight was obtained hy use of materials adopted for airplane construction, and it waa explained that there would he COO pounds of weight for each of the B4 passenger seats as compared with rall-plu- s Timor Is tiie eastern Jumping off plaie of the Sundu Islands, that chain of hind spots wlmh is strung out from Sumatra eastward toward tiie north coast of Australia," sa.vs a bulletin from itie Washington ( D. (' ) headquarters of the National (loo graphic society. "It is about 300 miles from the Timor coast to Aus 1!? i ? r P Vi V- tralia. Timor is thus a vital link In tiie Europe Australia air route. r ?.' . Although Timor had a Portuguese settlement on its coast more than a century before Onpt. John Smith with his hand of English colonists disembarked at Jamestown; and alin,,,, r- ' ''v" " though the Dutch landed or the is1,0 Stephen Donohue who was cmiM-- i..t, lh i,lll(lil about tiie time of tiie Onpt. land llj-u,"f ii'- -t dross parade of the ear at Annupohs Vivul a, idcnn" homoTi " i" ' ' -- -I fi. .a, "t '' ' ul"1,11 John Smith Pocahontas L "etyUunVlU'U;:;:;' tlll"lt .,:,d .he fandly cow being transported aero. ,he Ren, o, Mai; episode in Virginia, Timor shows effort of Its contact with the western world. "About 3IK) miles long and averaging GO miles in width, tiie Island has but few settlements that eveD enn lie railed township. Even Koopang, capital and largest port on the Dutch or western end of the Island, has only 5,500 Inhabitants; and Dill, which is the chief town In the east ern, or Portuguese portion of the Is land, can account for only 8,500 permanent residents. "There are no railroads on Timor and one of the best roads of any great length Is a horse trail that traverses the Island. No cable links It with other islands. Steamships that touch other East Indian islands atop at Timer ports to deliver cotton goods, oil and wine, and to take away coffee, copra, hides, cacao, shells, wav and sandalwood which are the leading exports. And now and then an occasional visitor off the beaten tourist path walks down a steamship gangplank bent upon roamlale the I nited States licet was at Eunania on its from the P.uiiie to tiie Atlantic the sailors were given ing over the mountains and through vnllevg where live most of the Is weluane shore leave and thronged the cities. A party Is here seen leaving one of the ships. &&& land's 80(1,000 Inhabitants largely a racial mixture of Malayan, Polynesian, and Papuan blood. The natives are divided Into many tribes, ruled by chiefs whose Jealousy of neighboring leaders, and land grabbing habits, frequently have caused bloody clashes. Bows and arrows and spears are the war weapons of the natives. For hunting game, they use blow guns and sirmll darts. idle tiie loin cloth still const! tutes the entire wardrobe of the men of some of the tribes, oilier tribesmen wear two piece cotton garments and turbans. Tiie women don colorful sarongs ami shawls. Irom tiie appearance of exposed aims and other portions of the natives' bodies, It Is evident that tattoo arti-dare kept busy in Timor. The tattooing Is done with crude and dyes ion thp girls upbringing and training weru tlm last In the world to make her a good wife. And her attitude on life Is nil wrong. In these times of stress, It seems, she Is eusy going, frivolous, even extravagant. And tiie Is Joke of it, savs her mother that tier husband regards tier ns perfect. Sin gt ts appreciation that la given to few good wives. Arbitrarily, Im afraid, I turned upon tills woman and said. Your son has a good wife. If she makes him hnppv. she's good! Fi n 11 Sj iidi ate WNU 8rvle. CuIicuraOinlmeni SoollwS and 7le(lls pkin irritations ijuiikly and easily. Let it ho your first thought in treating itching, burning affections, eczema, pimples and other disfiguring Idol. firs. No housi hold should he without it. ITice 25c and 50c Sample free. Addriss: o "Cuticura,' Dept. 15S, Malden, Mass. n hurled thp FOR BETTER FERRY'S SEEDS rc GARDENS ,n fresh dated DRAFTED AS MAYOR scrub lady Is the "A c.tr in every garage and two fur coats for every for Leon Trotzkys In York New platform outlined by Arne Swabeck, organizer iMMMWmu PUREBRED VEGETABLE at packets local store your American Industrial Fourth Internationale. Ills organization has brandies in all In its policy of interCommunistic only party centers and differs from tiie will work out. he says, national rather than national socialism. "Everything stores and "after the government has seized the factories, railroads, steamships, NOW sJ banks. Iowa Fanners Get Money Corn-Ho- g TUB Salt Lake Citys ?enest Hotel NEWHOUSE MOTEL A Distinctive Residence e An Abode , fealgr Washington, Ark., being to hold oilice, called on the nipn to run the town, and Mrs, Char- PU Ms Williams was drafted as '!'!' "r ,,l('Ugh she is sixty-fivyears HI ' "randmothcr. She said that 'lfr complete set of women ofll- eiii.'.1'.? "nuld do a llule lltmse I 3 hu-- y TEMPLE SQUARE e !1 I In It I ii' 414,011,000 in China s population Is estimated at "U.Ooo, and is the largest lin ?r'd n(ia nPxt ond Russla rd at 147,- - 111 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Radio connection in every room. 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