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Show THE rhursday, September 17, 1931 Ir X Item in Newspaper Reunites Brothers .X .a - ; 3 iff .. a. r i C4 r '- rCs ' VI At slY i JJ Experts Foresee Danger From Airplanes. of the British Medical association. Sir Malcolm Watson culled almost V attention to the likelihood, 0 the certainty, of "aircraft carrying V 'yellow fever from West to East Af0 rica." If that happened, he 'there was nothing to prevent It from spreading to Aslu, from completely the brontosaurus, or thunder lizard, 'paralyzing Itself. Other physicians now In the I'eabody museum at New at the conference undertook to show Haven. When alive Its weight is how airplanes might be the means of estimated to have been about 40 "propagating plague, cholera, small And Sir (leorge tons, and It lived about 120,000,(M0 pox and typhus." years ago. The jaw of the tllluino-- ' Buchanan stated that, as there was there, to which family belongs the a possibility of aircraft Introducing modern horse, tapir and rhinoceros, 'new types of influenza and cerehro-wafound In the White River Bad spinal meningitis into England, the Lands of South Dakota In IS Id. subject was engaging the attention jof both the air ministry Hnd the ministry of health. For hhnself he Border Smuggling Cut an important matter jregaru(, lt cliow measures In the by Help of Mexicans ,reiulrliig zones to prevent the spread of 'ever Mexico. opSmuggling Juarez, disease." I'aso erations along the Juarez-E- l Almost simultaneously with those section of the Rio Oninde have been though without any cut In half since the Mexican ernment ordered armed patrols ort of connection with them, came along the boundary. Gen. Miguel S. an article in the London Times Juarez garrison command- - ting forth facts regarding the trans mission of cholera over the world er, declared. "While we never will be able to 'after its appearance at Calcutta In stamp out smuggling, we have cutlS17, and asserting that by IKil It activities to a minimum," General had become certain that no country was secure against the Inroads of Gonzalez said. "Our greatest trouble Is In air- - the disease. Appearing successively plnne smuggling. We are not yet at Bombay nnd Madras, It reached equipped to cope with It and, as Ceylon in 1S19 and spread thence nnd planes allow night operations at from India over eastern Asia nnd the Inland towns or secluded spots, we Islands of the Indian ocean.' By 1S':1 are In a difficult position." jSyria was reached and Europe threatGeneral Gonzalez said that a 'ened. It disappeared from Turkey, large amount of merchandise being but began to push north and west smuggled Into Mexico from theagaln after ravaging Persia and the United States also has been seized lands south of the Caucasus. In Rushy his men as well as a large quan- - jsia more than 250,000 human beings tity of liquor being taken Into the died as the result. In Cairo and States from Mexico. andria 30,000 were swept away In 24 j Burnstine, the contract bridge champion of the AmprlcHn Bruin? league, with some of his trophies which he has won since the first of the year. David Ancient Fossils Common in U. S. United States Fertile Field for Paleontologists. found by one expeuulon. One of the largest skeletons of this beast was found in Utah In 15)23 the dip- lodocus of the species. This speci men was 71 feet long and the pieces discovered weighed about fi2,(H0 This orenture is supposed pounds. to have lived 170,0OO,O0 years ago Mastodons, it is believed, were abundant here about 2o,iX)0 years this animal was ago, whereas thought to have become extinct in Europe 1,000 centuries back. teeth 7 Inches long have been discovered in the ocean off the New Jersey coast; and tiie vicinity of Niagara falls has furnished a fertile field for such discoveries. Huge Thunder Lizard. Near Medicine Bluff, Wyo., was found the skeleton of one of the largest of the prehistoric reptiles, Washington. The discovery In rexas of the dorsal armor of a iant phytosnur, a crocodile-lik- e reature wihch lived more than years ago, empliasizes the ract that the United States is still fertile field for paleontologists seeking the fossils of prehistoric Traces of many species of hese monsters have been found rom time to time. Judging from the number of racks found, the dinosaur, or "ter-lbl- e reptile," seems to have been he most common In all parts of the Beside the Connecticut ountry. iver near Northampton are pre- ierved dinosaur tracks said to be he most perfect ever found. Near-- r New York, at WoodbrHge, N. J., linosaur tracks were discovered last ear measuring 20 inches across the oes. They are thought to date ack to the cretaceous period of the esozoic age. Sao Paulo, Coffee Center, Haunts of the Dinosaur. Now Gets Service. The haunts of the dinosaur In few Jersey were discovered, how-ve- r, Washington. Sao Paulo, capital in 1858, and a mounted skele-o-n and business metropolis of Sao is in the State museum at Tren-on- . Paulo state, P.razil, is one of the the to be enmeshed latest cities In the western states and in the network of air mall routes by which anadian province of Alberta dlno-au- r are spreading over the South Amerbones have been most ican republic. The trip from Rio de found and most easily exca-ated- . Janeiro to Sao Paulo takes 12 hours Some huge tracks, 38 inches The air mail schedule calls rail. by Colo-ado; ng, have been discovered in for a three-hou- r trip between the and in Dinosaur canyon, near two cities. were 300 tracks Ariz., flagstaff, "Sao Paulo is one of the oldest cities in South America," says a bulletin from the National Geoncient Cuban Letters graphic society, "but its age has not to Be Placed in Case deprived it of modern commercial Havana, Cuba. Valuable docu-nent- s development. written by General Albe-narlBoom Started In 1875. who led the English invasion "Fifty years before the Capt f Cuba against the Spanards in at 1762, are to be placed on display John Smith Pocahontas episode sailor a Va., Jamestown, Portuguese In the ancient city hall under glass of Havana, it has been announced founded Sao Paulo and married the daughter of a native Indian chief. by Mayor Tirso Mesa in Havana. estabSome of the most historically val- Later Jesuit missionaries uable documents In the archives of lished a church at the settlement Havana, they were written on and held the first religious service rchment and are in a fine state on the feast day In celebration of the conversion of St Paul. Hence y They Include preservation. orders and decrees and a num- the name of the city, Sao Paulo, which means St. Paul. ber of personal letters. "For three centuries Sao Paulo enjoyed Isolation, unfettered by coCows Recognize Calves; lonial laws of Portugal. It was Man Arrested as Thief about 1,000 miles from the Portuwho Harper, Ore. Four calves pas guese government officials tured In R. Faust's yard. Faust were, at that time, at Bahia. In denied he had stolen them. So four 1875 the ball of commercial progcows belonging to Virgil Smith were ress started rolling among the indriven up. The calves seemed glad habitants, and newcomers were into see them. The cows gave every stilled with a boom spirit. In slightevidence of fondness for the calves. ly more than 50 years the city has Increased In population from 26,000 So Faust was accused of larceny. anl-nal- JJas-toilo- n period, scientists and mil-.tar- Vou his can't talk i ' PAGAN GOD UNVEILED a Washington. How strong man? The answer has Just been aade by the United States public health service through a series of tests given to 500 men. 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V d to be stronger than men of a lighter weight Men In the Inch class were found to be the strongest 9 in the The statue of the pagan god, pound class, as they were In the next weight class, "Radigast," which was solemnly unveiled at na Pustevnnch, Czechopoands, and also in the pound class. However, the tallest slovakia, as an addition to the men in the pound class monument of St. Cyril and Method, proved to be an exception to the who, 1,000 years ago, came to that general rule, for they were found country and converted the western to be the strongest But the gen- Slavs to Christianity. The entlr eral rule held again In the heaviest monument is the work of Albin director of the Chicago Art class, pounds, where the shortest men were the strongest institute. -- 1 Ford- Measure Man's Power in Series of Tests You can be tolerant of the foolish, but how about being tolerant of the Intolerant? ' V r-M- L t'lHiSjJ: In Agreement "How Is your boy Josh getting along with his employer?" "Well," replied Farmer Corntossel, "they have come to an agreement at last. Josh said lie was goin' to quit an' the boss, he said so, too." rose-strew- choose your friends or do they choose you? Tiny Mummy Found Vernal, Utah. A strange discovery, the mummy of a mature person only 32 inches in height, was made in Kuin canyon recently by Lee Snyder and E. S. Noe. to more than half a million. New streets that were built were made broad and straight and flanked with modern buildings.' "The railway depot municipal and state government buildings, museums, libraries, schools, and some of its new business buildings would be flattering additions to many cities of the world of the same size. Three huge public gardens and more than 50 parks break the monotony of the miles of streets. City That Coffe Built "Sao Paulo might properly be called the city that coffee built. Many of the palatial residences are those of coffee 'barons.' In Sao Paulo streets huge trucks, heavy carts, and perspiring men laden with sacks of coffee are always within eyeshot Coffee was not Introduced Into Brazil until two centuries ago, but the price of coffee now largely governs the rise and fall of Sao Paulo's prosperity. While Ethiopia is the original home of coffee, Sao Paulo state has adopted the greater portion of the descendants of the original coffee berries. If all the coffee plantations in the state were In one plantations, It would cover an area as large as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. In a single year more than one and a quarter million pounds of coffee are produced in the state. There are more than seven coffee trees for very man, woman and child in the state." rose-strew- often eccenhir.self. Do you Jack Mail Rout. The carry ing of the mails has progressed so rapidly In late years that the airplane now speeds across the country with mall In only a fraction of the time required by trains of a few years ngo, yet In spite of nil the progress there Is one mull route which goes on unchanged In the 3(1 yeurs of Us operation. In Kd wards, Colo., W. II. Wellington, a veteran of the mull service, has the contract for transporting the mail from the post ofllee to the railroad station, and thrice daily for SO years he has driven the mail back and forth In a buckbonrd wagon drawn by a Jack mule. His Is believed to be the only Jack powered conveyance in the federal mall service. t. bachelor out of though tric ways of enjoying time-trie- away w ith the thorns," said Mr. Cafo Nlnetalls. "Perhaps it is Impossible, or perhaps, In some Instances, they have succeeded, but the roses of the garden still have thorns; and vicious enough they seem to the amateur, who, when he prunes his bushes or his climbers, should be sheathed In plate armor; even the experts do not escape unscathed, I understand. I have sometimes had the feeling when I was applying an antiseptic solution to my lacerated arms and hnnds that roses shouldn't he allowed at large, but that their cultivation should be wholly within guarded boundaries where they could do no harm. And yet, ft rose In bloom Is a rose In bloom! And us long as such blooms are produced ( seems highly probable that we'll endure the thorns. "In horticulture rose thorns nre menacing; In literature I hoy nre monitory. Many of the classicists, for many a century, have recorded the discovery which has been made by so many other people that there Is no rose without a thorn; and then, with their usual Ignoring of facts, the talk of ntetaphorlsls paths as the ways of delight, nnd beds of roses ns couches of luxurious coin-forFellow amateur, who has done some of his own rose pruning, would you like to walk nlong n path or lie on a bed of roses? You needn't answer. I'll answer for you. Certainly not ! "Let us, then, bear all this In mind as we contemplate the superior blessings of our more fortunate fellows. n Those whose ways lead nlong paths must often lind them rather painful to the feet, nnd those who lie on beds of roses probably have a good deal of difllculty in adjusting their posture so that tender rose-strew- Sol Voter Leaveg Precinct The city, of New Vork will save $100 next primary election day, four men will he out of work and Manhattan will be minus one election district, because George Scbrader has moved. Mr. Scbrader for two years has enjoyed the distinction of being the only voter in the Thirty-eightelection district. Alex-Unite- Plymo'th, Public Health Service Put 500 Through Paces. are the physicians In their campaign against that enemy of man, the poison microbe. working Air Mail Grows in South America ly of (heir bodies will not be painfully pierced. All of this, of course. Is merely another form of a most comforting philosophy a compre hension that there are flaws In tha advantages that ure enjoyed by the most enviable. " 'Buck,' I said, referring the sub ject, as 1 do most puzzling questions. to a man who has Ideas, 'don't you think that, with all the advance hor ticulture has made, the experts ought to be able to develop a rose without a thorn?' "Perhaps, he responded ; 'but why should they?' " 'W hy, because thorns hurt people. They nre bud things that serva no good purpose.' " 'As usual, you are wrong,' he declared. 'Thorns serve a very good purpose. They keep people within bounds. In fact, they ought to be on a good many other things thnn rosea. InAccelerators, for Instance.'" dianapolis News. Serve to Keep the Individual Within Bounds. 1S17, there were none of our modern airplanes In existence, and no possibility of the cholera be ing carried by them. Are they In any way specially lilted for the conveyance of contagious diseases, for stimulating to special precautions, and for thus alarming the world? Must lt not be assumed that there Is a like risk In the to and fro trips of our ocean steamers ami sailing vessels that have been so long connecting the continents, the latter for Introduced many centuries ptist? disease, whether Imported by airplane or steamer, Is dangerous In any case. The call is to prevent such Importation so far as tliat can be done, hut especially to continue the fight against disease in nil the countries which are affected or serve as Its breeding ground, so that there will he as little as possible of It to export. And this Is the task at which the ning with SEVEN parts THINKER HAS GOOD WORD FOR THORNS "The rose culturlsts have accom aviation peril," wild to be that "the plague established Itself plished so much In the development of bliioms that I have often wondered sensatlonul in Its possibilities, mrne in England for the first time." why they have not been able to do up for discussion at the annual Vet all through that beginA "new s Vv?r. VAV.K days. And the alarm In Great Britain "increased euoruiously" In June, I V.I, w lu ll Londoners received the news that I lie cholera had reached Itinit. where "TOO or Wi tail of English csselH, loaded cliielly with hemp and llux," were waiting to come to It was then, after an or England. der hud been Isnued for the quaran tining of all ships from the Baltic, oooooooooooooooo 1 r v? 'TAN I OF YELLOW FEVER Clyde. N. V. An Erie (I'a.) newspaper which mentioned (he nitn.e of Kilwurd Dam of Erie brought about the reunion of Kilwurd and hit brother Joseph of Clyde, whs had not seen each other for 34 years. A relative noticed the name and notified Joseph. The brothers were separated when Edward decided to "see the world." V UP NErill. S oOoOdooOOOOOooOO POSSIBLE SPREAD He Is the Contract Bridge Champion ? TIMES-NEW- .231 .250 5 6 5.20 5.20 $6.65 f 6.65 Ty' 17-0- 2 .598 .250 -- . "or. dsrTka 16.10 .561 .234 ' 6 475 $4.85 4.75 84.85 |