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Show THE Thursday, November 3, 1938 TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. ADVENTURERS' CLUB of the by Danger "Dogged EVERYBODY: ?? i if - i .r r I ill i f OHILLTf fall days and cranberry relish go together. Tart relishes do so much to perk up th meat roast. Raw cranberries and fruits put through the food chop per are simple to prepare and in expensive. No cooking and can be By 1840, a total of 21 platinum put up for future use in sterilized mines had been opened. Here was glasses covered with paraffin. enough to supply per cent of Cranberry Orange Relish Geographic Society. Prepared by National Washington, D. C. WNU Service. WITHOUT HELLO John Gerien wants is a job that's safe. He tried out two jobs, but they were too hazardous. Old Lady Adventure stepped in and spoiled both of them for hirn Now he's working at the safest job there is. That's thinks. Well, after seeing what happened to him fpgiJohn on his other jobs, maybe he's right in his own" case. Anyway, let's get on with the story and see how he made out with his first two. d heat the world's market, until the World (No cooking) war and the Russian revolution for The aristocrat of relishes. Par a time halted activities. Accumu ticularly good with all meats, hot lated stocks could not hold up. Once or cold. 1 nound more platinum users worried, but (4 cuds) cranberries X 2 cups sugar oranges needlessly. Put cranberries through food Netc Diggings chopper. Slice oranges, remove Two important new sources came seeds and put rind and oranges a to of wealth plati through chopper. Mix with ber suddenly light, num metals mixed with copper-nic- k ries and sugar. Let stand for a el ores of Canada, and in large few hours before serving. This rock deposits of South Africa. Or, easy, uncooked relish can as one British platinum house naive be putpopular for future use in steriup ly put it, these opportune finds came lized glasses covered with par "with the good luck which so con affin. sistently favors this country." Cranberry Horseradish Relish Individually, however, prospectors Mix chopped raw cranberries make few lucky hauls. Big plati num nuggets, such as excite gold with grated fresh horseradish in proportions of cranberries to hunters, are rare. The nugget discovered in Russia in 1843 horseradish. Serve with meats. is the largest the world has known. A shining heap of all platinum yet recovered, it is estimated, would weigh little more than 580 tons, or less than half the weight of the gold produced in 1936. Canada, Russia, Colombia, and the Union of South Africa furnish the bulk of our platinum needs and for a time con trolled the industry through an in ternational company. Other countries, including Spain, Timlin KJ" Panama, Brazil, Australia, and Ja pan, as well as Alaska and some of our own states, also yield the V: metal. rl-;From many placers only a few grains of crude platinum are re covered from each cubic yard of material treated. To supply a metal-hungr-y world, however, even such tiny amounts are worth the effort. Worth too, hardship in primitive country and struggle against hostile nature. 'j hitch-hiker- s. pro-tradi- T" quantity of equipment such as platinum and its alloys afford the laboratory, the tremendous ' ' " progress of chemistry in the , last hundred years would not have been possible. Platinum utensils, able to withstand white heat neces Whether Hollywood producer need doublet tor dangerou roles, or insects or animals for atmosphere, their wants can be sary for analysis, have helped supplied at almost a moment's notice. This constant striving geologists determine the comImila-tator- s In the beginning John wasn't worried about safety. He hadn't even started thinking about it when he signed up in the year 1917 to learn the trade of ironworker. He worked at that until the summer of 1922, and that year found him roaming around on the gaunt, iron framework for reality has made vocations out of many an avocation. of a skyscraper in Newark, N. J. find a ready market when needed for their specializaPlunged From Fourteenth Floor. tions. Collectors can rent out their menageries, early vintage or John was on the fourteenth floor of that building. From where imported cars and other objects needed for "props" or gags he stood he could look down clear to the cellar and see nothing in colossal or just spectacular but the large board that stuck out from each floor boards that Jack Lipson productions. were there to set kegs of rivets on. He was looking at those with the man the is (ubove) boards just a few minutes before lunch time. Then the whistle all is the that thumb of envy blew and all hands ran for the lift to get down to the earth and It brings him $50 cat. a day when used as a comedy John ran just a bit too fast this time. Be missed his step gag- and plunged over the side. Down he went. At the thirteenth floor he passed one of those boards. A large nail sticking out from the end of it caught him on the jaw and ripped his face open clear to the temple. And then on he went again. He passed the twelfth floor without even hesitating, but eleven was his lucky number. At the eleventh floor another protruding plank caught I 1 Above, S. W. Allman, who gathers bats, spiders, bugs and snakes, examines part of his collection of tarantulas. At one time he had a call for a dozen big bats from a producer who didn't want to make a $400 trip to Arizona for them. Allman visited a mine He was headed for the path of a moving train. near Los Angeles and returned the straps of his overalls, and there he hung, with nothing but a coupls with eight bats, renting them of thin cloth bands saving him from a death plunge to the basement. for $5 apiece. Right, Slicker, the trained seal, gets instrucMen came running from all over the framework, but there was little they could do for John. The plank would just about ' tions from II. W. Winston. hold his weight that was all. If anyone tried to walk out to get him, the board would break and then two men would hurtle to position of rocks, and chemists to make many alloys. For absolute accuracy, the national bureau of stand ards in Washington, D. C, as well as similar institutions abroad, uses weights of 90 Wait, Mother- Ask Your per cent platinum and 10 per cent iridium their untarnishable nature insuring constancy. Again, in electric-furnace and in apparatus, measuring extremely high tempera tures, platinum serves the scientist. With it operations may reach a temperature up to 3,000 degrees Fahren- Doctor First heit A continuous circle here; but not jpm one to cause economic pain! Fantastic now the thought of that South Seas merchant who cursed his luck on receiving payment in platinum "debased" bars that he could "neither dispose of, nor find any means of refining." Incredible, too, that a metal prominent now in jewelry cases the world over should have been used in remote Siberia for hunting-bulletjust as gold bul lets were used in old North Caro lina. . V. blVr r 1' Decided to Look for "Safe" Job. 'ty v Juan, passengers meet strange contrasts. First a dredge, insatiably 1 Never give your children unknown "Bargain" remedies to take unless you ask your doctor. A mother may save a few pennies giving her children unknown preparations. But a child's life is precious beyond pennies. So Ask your doctor before you give any remedy you don't know all about. And when giving the common children's remedy, milk of magnesia, always ask for "Phillips'" Milk of Magnesia. Because for three generations Phillips' has been favored by many reliable physicians as a standard, marvel-ously and proved preparation gentle for youngsters. Many children like Phillips in the newer form tiny peppermint-flavore- d tablets that chew like candy. Each tablet contains the equivalent of one teaspoonful of the liquid Phillips.' 25 for a big box. A bottle Of Phillips' liquid Milk of Magnesia costs but 25. So any one can an or a ine genuine, areiui mothers ask for it by its full nnme "Phillips' Milkol Magnesia, 1 PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA scooping up mammoth mouthfuls of sand, gravel, and water, to pass through screens and over riffle boards. Then, just around the next bend, brown diving girls tie heavy stones to their bodies before sinking to river bottom in search of plati- - 4m&tfMem mmmm mm JS John went to the hospital with a badly torn face. When he got out of another Job and this time it was going to be a one. The safest one he could find was driving a milk wagon. What danger could there be in that A bottle of milk never bit anybody. If it could, they wouldn't feed so much of it to babies. It was as simple as falling off a log and a darned sight safer than falling off skyscrapers. For two weeks it was fine. John didn't mind jumping out of ' f "5 , f M the wagon every 10 or IS feet to run in with a bottle of milk because it gave him a chance to get his feet on the ground, and that was a swell, comforting feeting. He was having the time of his life until one day, when he was just finishing up, he pulled ,4 Into the railroad yard to load his empty bottles on a freight car. Then, half way to the yards, one of the hitching straps broke. The horse bolted. ISo spine where the spine should be . . . Lionel Comport, Says John: "Nothing was holding the wagon away from the horse. When I pulled on the reins to try to stop him, the wagon whose specially is supplying swaybacked horses for gag pur would run into him and that would make him run all the faster. poses, measures the spine dip of one of his equine freaks. From We shot through traffic and into the freight yard, and as we came drop. Nature, it seems, has top to' bottom, it's an lll-inc- h to the yard I could see that the crossing gates were down. If I let him go, he would crash through those gates aud right into the provided this nag with its oira saddle, bringing Mr. Comport $15 a day for his rental path of a moving train." For a minute, John thought of jumping. Then he ruled that out In the first place, jumping wasn't such a safe trick with the horse streak an hour speed. And in the ing along at what must have been second place, he couldn't quite see the justice of leaving that poor fear- crazed horse to dash to his death without trying his best to save him. They were half way to the crossing gate then, but John look a chance, he climbed out on the front of the wagon and started talking to d horses calmed down before by a the horse. He had seen few reassuring words, but this horse wasn't to be talked out of anything. He ran on, faster than ever. hehegan to think ill,' Played His Last Trump Card. John climbed back ! the seat. That In Itself was a feat. If yoy think It's any joke to move around in a wagon drawn by a he did, the horse was within 10 feet of the cross-I- n He dropped one rein, John played his last trump card. j. Then In both the sciicd other hands, and pulled with all his might. The bit dug into the horse's mouth and turned her sharply to the right The wagon swerved, skidded along on two wheels, and then over it went dumping bottles all over the place, and dumping John out on top of the bottles. John lay on the ground, sut cold. lie woke up la the hospital with two broken ribs and a broken arm. Milk wagon driving a safe job? Bolony! Then John stopped fooling around and got himself a Job that really was safe. And if you ever walk around a corner and run into a cop spending a quiet evening shooting It out with a bank robber or stick-u- p artist well maybe it's John. He's on the police force now. Tiro more different ways of earning a livelihood a la Holly wood. Mary Wiggins (left) examines the scrapbook filled with pictures of some of the stunts in which she has taken part. She Bibla Does Not Mention Caspar and Balthasar became at- thinks nothing of running a motorcycle through a fence, and tached to them Melchior means Names of the 'Wise Men "king of light" Caspar, "the white her specially is high and fire diving. Right, Cliff Jones shows fl of the "wise men from one." and Balthasar, "the lord of some of the grasshoppers he rounded up for a "plague" scene. The the IC" who followed the star of treasures." The first king offered He gathered 35 barrels of the bugs. fv-bor- n Jesus to Jerusalem gold, the emblem of royalty; the WNU Service. npi-ti- thlehem are not given in ths Neither does the Bible men-linthe number of wise men, nor their nationality. Early churchmen Axed the number at three, probably because the Biblical account mentions three gifts gold, frankincense and myrrh, writes Flora MacFar-lan- d In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A tradition as old as the Second century (resting on Ptalrns LXXII: 10. and Isaiah XLIX: 7) refers to the three wise men as kings, and at a later period the names Melchior, Uiole. n second, frankincense, in token of divinity; and the third, myrrh. In prophetic allusion to the persecutions which awaited the Child. Many Bible scholars suppose the three wise men to have been Magi, members of priestly order of ancient Media and Persia, Medieval legend calls them the Three Kings of Cologne, and the cathedral there claims their relics. They are commemorated on January 2, 3 and 4, and particularly at the feast of the Epiphanj. , rr ' AT - . ?ri umF , , ,,,, ,. 4a , IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM .X. Weldine nlalinum to fashion a selling for star sapphires. It is hard to realise that this metal, which brought more than $150 an ounce shortly after the World War, and sold for 3t cents an ounce in the early ltSUU s. ding bands, cuff links, pencils, knives, cigarette cases, settings for Jewels all turned pale to meet the demand. Ups and Doicns Like silver and gold, platinum has had its rushes and speculative booms and its depressions. Small finds, scattered over the globe, add their bit to problems of adjustment between scarcity and surplus. A few years back, when platinum fields were discovered in northern Alberta, Canada, nearly every available man in the region made for the "diggin's." A de luxe rush, writers called this short but enthusiastic stampede, because parlor cars and comfortable river steamers made the trip easy for sourdough and greenhorn. In South Africa, on the Johannesburg stock exchange in 1925, platinum madness took its place beside diamond frenzies and gold fevers. Everybody was buying or wanted to buy shares in the unexpected platinum rock deposits. "Lode deposits In Die Bushveld Complex alone," wrote one commentator, "probably contain in the aggregate more platinum than all the rest of the earth's crust." Yet later this industry came pracstandstill because of tically to the low prices then prevailing for platinum. Some years ago the course of native life in a deserted plain at Yub-dEthiopia, took a new turn when an Italian explorer and prospector discovered there platinum-bearinsands. Fringing the edge of shallow ponds, whole villages of rough- thatched huts sprang up. Men and women stooped to wash the sands in crude wooden basins, a primitive method still used in many places. g sands. Some dive with out stones, working fast at depths from 6 to 12 feet Emerging with as much gravel as they can carry. they give it to men waiting along the banks to wash in shallow basins. Along meandering river! of the vast Union of Soviet Socialist Re publics, quantities of platinum are annually extracted by modern electrically equipped dredges, to which peasants working by hand add a considerable amount Five such monster robots were made in the United States and In shipped to Leningrad in 1925-26- . n pieces they went over the railroad to the foothills of the Urals and thence through the mountains on specially constructed rails. It was even necessary to build dams on two of the smaller rivers to get enough water to start several of the dredges. Since it happened that the Novenv ber day in 1927 when the first of the dredges went into operation at Shaitanskl Zavod was also the tenth anniversary of the celebration of the revolution, the Soviets made an official occasion of it To the strains of the local band, the district Soviet manager care fully cut the red banner tied about the bucket line and digging ladder. of the supreme Representatives council from Moscow gave ofTicial blessing. Heads of various workers' organizations spoke, and finaaccord with the formal Invllyin itations Issued fur this "triumphal start of electric dredge No. 11" all for a glass of tea at forgathered the school of industry." "These dredges must have been successful" reasoned the San Francisco company which sold them, "because we have heard so little oi them sines." Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On num-bearin- g o, Eugene Lejnine rents old cars for movie productions. v Reign of Ages At 20 years of age, the will reigns: at 30, the wit; and at 40, the judgment. Gratian. g just try it some time. John got back all right, Copyright. t . fear-craze- X Riding small steamers up the San But platinum was not always in the luxury brackets. The crude metal sold for as little as 34 to 41 cents an ounce in the early 1800s, e in contrast with that high. after the World war, of more than It was then appar$150 an ounce. ently because of its scarcity and high price, that a fickle public reached for platinum jewelry. Wedall-tim- '' l Dredgers and Divers Cents to Dollars ... their deaths instead, of one. , Somebody turned in a fire alarm, and the firemen worked out the problem. They rushed to the tenth floor and spread a fire net under the spot where John hung. An ironworker, armed with a long knife, crept out as far as he dared on the rickety board and cut John's overall straps. Down John plopped into the net. "And that," he says, "finished me with ironworking." horse, - bCt by the time 'awnawiy Wank Heat and acitl resistant, capable of withstanding intense heat, this ore now competes with gold on jewelry counters and commands high prices on the metal markets. HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! . Tavotite Kecipe Platinum, Once Worthless, Now Joins Metallic Nobility Avocation Into Vocation r PAGE THREE Trans-siberia- No matter how many medicines you have tried for your common cough, chest cold, or bronchial Irritation, you may get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion, whichv goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids nature to soothe and heal the Inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel germ-lad- en phlegm. 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