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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEIII. UTAH i Antarctic 'Snow Cruiser' Goes for Trial Spin Knit Practical Blouse Over One Week-End r-m9 'i I in aDVENIUKCKs uud oC .UOIINIS FROM TH E II VE S ) Of f EOPIE II K E YOUKSEIFI H "Tie flake in tie Blazing House" ct r 0 EVERYBODY: Adventures provide a cross-section of life, and w didn't show its grimmer side occasionally, they St show a faithful picture. That's why I chose for this ctnrv I IOUna Unusually gwyyuig ucuauac n uemuu-5lulJ uemuu-5lulJ . , i ,, U. n. ; - i. Ciearly nOW CiUSc we war ok oiijr umc if time a strates so c. j . p . (jv Mary uui uiuu ---j . ? Sre was only a child of nine when it happened, and jjj6 e, added particular poignancy to the tale. Imagine running back into a blazing house to rescue your , i7months'-old baby brother only to find the smoke so e you couldn't see what you were doing. That's what happened to Mary. The time was the fall of around September, and at that time Mary's father and ,t . T .nd Mary's three brothers lived In Thayer, a small mining town tSSiv ol West Virginia. Tharer Is a valley, situated between two large hills. To get out of JV- jiary tells us, you had to ride on a sort of Incline. It was a jiXped affair, the car, let up and down the side of the hill by meanJ ot cable. On flils fateful morning Mary's mother and dad had to go to town, mother Was going to have her teeth fixed. Before she left she died Mary, who was the eldest child, aside and warned her to watch Zftree younger children, her brothers, while her parents were away, jiary had occasion later, as you will see, to recall that warning. Of the three John was the oldest brother, then came six-year' lid Fete, and last of all little Eddie, who could show only a scant eight months. Mary had her hands full keeping them all out of mischief, and when night began to fall she began to glance nervously out the window, wondering why mother and dad didn't come. The younger children grew frightened with the approach ef darkness, and, at their urging, not to mention her own uneasiness, uneasi-ness, Mary finally bolted ail the doors and windows. Children Were Locked Inside House. To set the scene for this story it is necessary to explain that next to the house they had a little wash-house, where Mary's dad used to wash when he came home from work. This wash-house wash-house had a little coal stove In It. On this particular afternoon the stove was lighted, but with the children locked Inside the house there was no one to tend it or check the dampers. And so it came to pass that as the children sat huddled in the dark-ness, dark-ness, queer red shadows, ghostly and lengthening, began to dance on the walls of the children's room. Alarmed, the children began to whimper, whim-per, and at length, unable to stand the strain any longer, Mary went to "Is the black paQ she stumbled against something the crib she the window and looked out to see what was causing the strange play of lights on the wall. Then she understood the wash-house was on fire! Remember, this was no grown-up. This was a nine-year-old child with the care and responsibility of three younger brothers on her shoulders. shoul-ders. And now, as the fire spread to the main house, igniting the old, dry wood like tinder, the children fled from the blazing wall into the open air, Mary as scared as any. This will explain, perhaps, how it happened that on looking around, they discovered that eight-months-old Eddie was missing. Mary, who was frantic by this time, berated John for leaving the baby behind, as she had understood he bad taken Eddie from his crib while she was looking after getting Pete out. Bat John protested that he had thought Mary was taking Eddie, and so kadn't bothered to go after him. Meanwhile, inside the burning house, little Eddie lay asleep Is his crib. The thought of her beloved little brother in that Mating inferno was too much for Mary. With no sager heads dissuade her, she rushed back Inside the burning house, groped her way through dark, smoke-filled halls to the room where the My lay asleep. , Smoke Was So Thick She Could Hardly See. ,5' t"ne' Mar says tt smoke was getting so thick that she wuia hardly see. Reaching the bedroom she found herself In the center nit . T romn fog choking her, blinding her so that she could see her hand before her face. Heat seared her eyeballs, tore at her wo . d lunS3. But the nine-year-old girl had made a promise a wuld h mother who trusted her to care for the younger ones. Mary ber f mother's last words echoing In her ears as she groped ihik T.7 where she bought the crib should be. "Look after them "oueim gone, Mary. I'm trusting you." The flames were searing hot now, but Mary had but one thought: irjl get rddie ouL la the black pall she stumbled against some-whatTh some-whatTh ft, crib" she thought Hurriedly she reached down, grabbed toescarlf to be Eddie Bnd almost delirious now with the desire open 01056 hungr flames she, rushed out of the house Into the bunUe'lif6; ,afC nnder the open sky agam she thongM of the herself i rms the smoke-suffused house, Mary says Now h. DOt know for sure whether I had him or not." dared tCd by norrible premonition of possible disaster she not put into words, she forced herself to look down. JVaiVCOnteinplate h0W easy tt would be for ' nearly hysterIcal awke. "age 10 mistake her precious burden in fog of rolling you will nni4ot..j a. , u .- d fragedv v olauu nw ciose is me line Deiween oappuiess toethin L had Mary's eyes met, not what they did see. but Yej wai tvu- 7 would not have the happy ending it now ha Yo answer TT Cryklg for aa he was worth- And wa5 Mary glad? 15(1 dad eot h De" FU just g0 on to add 0131 when M17 mother ome all that was left of the house was the standing chimney. - (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) i . ' rnC!lc Natiyes Learn Jitterbug Dances eastern i . uiern "ghts of I the dance was held in the railway freight sheds. From all directions came all kinds of people. Cree and Chippewayan Indians, Eskimos, trappers, Hudson bay men and their wives, railroad workers and sailors from the ships waiting to take out the grain, all came. So hot was the pace that the local orchestra was forced to work in two shifts. Between dances incidental inci-dental music was furnished by the howling and growling of dogs outside out-side the dance halL Attending were 90 American tourists, tour-ists, some from as far south as Texas and southern California. chl CUc' to fte vicinity of reL . " raee i waiting Wrc:sdance a v. iuerhug, ,ntlcs 01 e modern gCtytrt60113 of Day Prt saw he Eskimo 8erly ofi?;CSt fPsichorean tnly. they .aid. 11 the social season. Thousands of persons gathered In Chicago's Grant park recently to view the "snow cruiser," a huge glacial dreadnaught built for Admiral Kichard E. Byrd's expedition to the Antarctic. In an experimental trip the huge Ice buggy traveled 15 miles per hour on its 10-foot wheels. Fifty-five feet long, the gigantic machine Is built to carry an airplane on Its top. Steering levers control the wheels In pairs, although any one wheel may be turned separately. sep-arately. Two 150 horsepower Diesel motors supply power for the cruiser. May Head England's 'Rightful' German Government f , ) . W'( ' ' ' 'II'- " f I ' I' Should Great Britain set np a "rightful" German government (similar to the Polish government now. seated In Paris) as is rumored Internationally, these three men would undoubtedly head It. They are: Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid, left, former social democrat, who would be foreign minister; Dr. Hermann Rauschning, center, one-time Nazi president of the Danzig senate, who would be chancellor, and Dr. Joseph Wirth, right, former German chancellor, who would be finance minister. The three men are all exiles from Germany. The rumor adds that Britain would loan the "government" 2,000,000 pounds sterling to defray expenses. Volunteer i s s : - j : , J "ittnk 'r I il i il rfjff"flf if'''"1 ' irrri-ii-f in A Former British and American championship golfer, Pam Barton, now does all her driving from behind be-hind the wheel of an ambulance. With thousands of British women, Pam volunteered for ambulance service and is now in training. Flees Exile A ' , , i ' Fears that Ham Am in El Husse-ini. Husse-ini. former grand mufti of Jerusalem Jeru-salem who recently escaped from exile, may start a new anti-British terrorist campaign were expressed by government officials. The mufti, now in Iraq. Is held responsible for the Arabs campaign of terrorism. Aerial Musketeers Don Fighting Togs F'J 4 y. -:;:;-,::- JITS ,v. ,;.-.X . nta - I- t -3 r j : '. Y '-f.r " "' - Bound for an observation flight over enemy territory, these three British musketeers of the air head for their bombing plane. Equipment includes oxygen masks, telephone apparatus, parachutes and machine guns. In addition to the gunners, the plane carries a pilot, co-pilot and photographer. ' Convicted Pastor Fights for Life h f r - v '2."- v Rev. Walter Dworeckl, Camden, X. J., preacher, sentenced to die hi the electric chair, is getting another chance to prove his innocence. The pastor will appeal his sentence, given him when be was found guilty of plotting the murder of his daughter, Wanda, who was slain by a stran-gler stran-gler who testified Dworeckl hired him to commit the crime. lie Is shown receiving a final embrace from his daughter, Mildred. The appeal automatically auto-matically postponed the execution date, originally scheduled for the week of November 12. JLopics 1 PLANT DISEASE EASILY SPREAD Insects Are Found to Be Chief Carrier Agents. B C. W. HUNGERFORD How are plant diseases spread? There is little mystery In the an swer to that question, though plant scientists, entomologists, and others are constantly adding to our knowledge knowl-edge of the subject, Man, domestic animals, rodents, slugs, snails. birds, insects, wind and water are among the more common agencies that spread plant diseases. Insects are the most Important spreaders of certain types of diseases, according accord-ing to the results of tests conducted at the Idaho college of agriculture. Perhaps you have wondered Just what causes plant diseases. Plant diseases have about the same causes as diseases of animals and humans. Fungi and bacteria cause many plant diseases. Others are caused by a group of organisms known as viruses, which are too small to be detected with the most powerful microscope. Wind and rain act as agencies for spreading many plant diseases. In some of the winter wheat growing grow-ing areas of the country the spores of the stinking ant are blown in such quantities that "smut showers" show-ers" occur and many thousands of spores fall on every square foot of ground. Birds may also carry fungus fun-gus spores. In one case a single downy woodpecker was found to be carrying over 750,000 spores of the chestnut blight fungus. The secret of eontrol for many virus diseases lies in the control of insects, which are the principal means of spreading these disease in the field. Much can be done to prevent the spread of plant diseases In general by seed treatment and by general sanitary practices around the farm. Burning of diseased dis-eased plants and disinfection of pruning tools and various containers contain-ers are examples of proper sanitary sani-tary practices. Silting Rate Increases In Historic York River This historic York river of Virginia Vir-ginia is an example of the way in which too much land in clean culti vated crops, and land worn out and abandoned because of too much row cropping, may Increase sedl mentation in a stream. Sediment has been accumulating in the York river during the last 27 years at a rate five times as great as dur ing the preceding 5v-year period, the soil conservation service finds. Carl Brown, geologist in charge of the studies, says this sedimentation is the result of increased erosion on the slopes draining into the bead-waters bead-waters of the river slopes on which la recent years there has been an increase in land either in clean-cultivated clean-cultivated crops or abandoned because be-cause of too much row-crop farming. farm-ing. A comparison of navigation charts prepared by the coast and geodetic survey indicating water depths on the stream in 1857 and 1911 shows that during that 54-year period approximately ap-proximately 5,600 acre-feet of the soil from the watershed settled as sediment in the York river estuary. Sediment accumulated at the rate of more than 100 acre-feet a year. From 1911 to 1938, when scientists of the service made soundings to determine the extent of accumulation, accumula-tion, 15,293 acre-feet 568 acre-feet a year lodged in the river bed. In determining the amount and rate of accumulation, the surveyors took water depths at the same points along the river at which measurements measure-ments were made in 1911. Low Advertising Costs Of all commodities retailed in the United States, agricultural equipment equip-ment bears the lowest advertising expense. In other words, when a farmer buys farm machinery less of his money goes to defray the cost of advertising that commodity than it does in the purchase of many other advertised products. This is the rinding of the Twentieth Century fund. An advertising analysis recently conducted by the fund discloses that out of each dollar spent on farm machinery but 1.0 cents goes to advertising. ad-vertising. This compared to 8.2 cents by tobacco manufacturers; 6.7 cents for confectionery and bottled goods; 6.2 cents for groceries; 6.1 for furniture; 4 cents for automobiles; automo-biles; 3.7 for clothing; approximately approximate-ly 3 cents for home furnishings; and 2.2 for hardware. Agricultural News Close observers of conditions in the farm Implement industry now believe that sales for the year will probably run about 10 per cent under un-der the 1938 dollar totals. The oldest horse of which England has any record died at the age of 60 years. In this country, so far as we know at the moment, the oldest horse lived to be 52 years old. 0 14 M Tattem 6178 For that college girl's ward robe I You can knit this blouse over a week-end it's done on huge needles with that popular soft wool that's heavier than can- dlewick. The trimming easy embroidery em-broidery In two colors. Pattern 6473 contains directions for blouse and a plain skirt in sizes 12-14 and 16-18: illustration of it and stitches; materials needed. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address ad-dress and pattern number, plainly. Keep your body free of accumulated waste, take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Fel-lcts. Fel-lcts. f0 Pellets 30 cents.- Adv. Our Will It is our will that determines, not our intellect. Edmund Waller. INDIGESTION Sensational Relief from lodigeUioo nd On Dot Prom It Tf th Or dM ot Ullt plauatit-Ultlllf Ii!U fcltrk Ublal doan't brlnf you tin I., tool nu hkhii complrta rUf rti ba.a ipntnLMl kiuI bout tik la n nd PouHMf MonkH BACK. Thla ll.ll-n, Ittilrt IwlM tb nuB.rh dil (aid. ftitkat tht Mrasf tUKnarti Hulit iMrmlwl and leta tou tat tha ntturtihlng fuoda yoa omhL For heart-urn, heart-urn, ll k bdarli and ursU ao oftn eauMd tot trmt inw;h fluid, mtkint yem tml tour and atr ill sixrJTlrlT ONK ImHJS t IkU-tua ttvim uwadr talltb Wa aviuywbant Quiet Times Coir quietest times are our growing times, Anon. 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