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Show i Ice Patrol Keeps Watch on Ocean Traffic Ianes HOMESPUN PASSE Woolen homespun was iniu-l- i wort in l lu1 early days of our Republic iart mill played a very Important in keeping the nation clothed and warm, sajs I'atlifluilcr Magazine, hut homespun la priietically unknown now. Today moat of our fine nool adiipleil to the milking of choice wiMden und worsted yariiM goes into the different goods, Hucli aa null lug, dresa goods, Medium winds, which are etc. nuirser thnn the fine wools, are used princiimlly in the manufacture of woven fabrics of nearly all dewell scriptions, being esjMvIully adupted for Idankets. tweeds and flannels, suitings, and very choice knitting yarns. 4 Keeps Vessels Informed of Position of Bergs. d The U. 8. S. Mendota of the International Ice patrol report ICS Ireberge In the Atlantic ship lane the largest number since 1012 when one of the floating moiintalne of Ice wrecked the Titanic, palatial British iteamahlp, "Icebergs have alwaye been the dread of transatlantic navigators," rays a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "They juat drift here and there. They give no warning of their p returnee. They are prutellrd by ocean currents, winds, and waves Fog is their constant companion. "A vessel speeding through an area Infested with moving Ice, during the night or In fog, play a game of chance. Even on a starlit night a berg cannot be seen beyond a half mile; but when the position of the Ice la known to the navigator the danger le eliminated; he can alter hie course to avoid the menace. "The Ice cornea down every year, as R has for centuries; but now every berg that follows the eastern edge of the Grand Banks Into the steamer lanes Is kept under aurveillnnce by the International Ice patrol. From thla service navigators can learn the answer to he question which each asks: Where Is the lee! Born of Titanic Diaaatar. "The founding of the Ire patrol was a result of the sinking of the Titanic which collided with a berg on the 1012, with a loss night of April of more than 1,500 lives. Following the disaster, a general demand arose for a patrol of the Atlantic Ice area. Immediately the United States navy detailed two cruisers for guard duty until the lest bergs disappeared from the steamer lanes In late June. "During the full of I lie same year the International Conference fur the Safety of Lll'e at Sea was convened at London, to organize the Ice patrol on an International basis. Representatives of the principal maritime nations of the world signed the agreement on Junuary 20, 1014, creating the International derelict destruction. Ice observation, and Ice patrol service. "The United States was asked to undertake the muiiHgeinrnt of this service. This country agreed to send two vessels which would patrol the danger area during the Irelierg season. Each of the contracting parties consented to bear a share of the cost In proportion to its shipping tonnage. Not a single ship lias been lost In the policed lanes through collision with an iceberg since the patrol was Inaugurated. "Greenland's icy mountains are the source of most of the Icebergs that come aa far south as the steamer lanes, Journeying about 1,800 miles before they become white specters' to With the exception of a shipping. small atrip of ronstul line, Greenland DOWN ON FOOD I lost 57 lbs. by taking Knucbea Salts and it laid no ill effect on me. 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Italy and But the failure of Czechoslovakia. Britain to file notification has caused great disappointment The flying route rovers 0.400 kilometers, as follows: Warsaw, Koenigs-berg- , Berlin, Cologne, Brussels. Paris, Bordenux. 1uti, Madrid. Seville, Meknes, Slill Bel Ahhes, AlI'.Ukii. Tunis, Palermo. Naples. giers, ltome, Rimini, Zagreb, Vienna, Brunn, burning and Itching. My hands were sights and I was ashamed. I tried a lot of different remedies that did not help. I sent for a free ample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and It helped a lot. I bought more and now my hands are completely healed." (Signed) Mrs. II. S. Hammond, 10 1lcasnnt St., Ilollia-toMaas., Aug. 10, 1933. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and r0c. Talcum 25c. Sold everywhere. One ample each free. Address: Cuti-cur- a Laboratories, Dept. It, Malden, Mass. Adv. n, CRISMON & NICHOLS ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS Vt and Laboratory 229131 A Temple PL. Pah Lake Hiy, Utah. P. o. Hoe 170K. Malltnic envelopes and prices furnished on rrquenL oittoe Cost-blanc- a. i HER GOLD SEIZED Salt Lake Citys Newest Hotel Si if "4 HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Hie Baths Radio connection in every room. RATES FROM 1.50 ERNEST C Mmaiir ROSSITER, Jfgr. V ACCENTS SMARTNESS Replaces Oldest Portage, Wle.-I- .est year Bt church here Episcopal claimed to have the oldest organist In the atute. This year the church believes Its organist Is the younge est paid musician In the . Alice denomination. Eplsro! Helen Jurnn, sixteen years of age, has replaced Mrs. Josephine Shac-kcl- L who died after seventy-nine- , playing the organ at EL John's for 53 years. do-to- ship." Commissioning the Minneapolis WE KNOW THEM, TOO frock unless It la cleverly cut and then It becomes one of the smartest thing a woman can wear In summer. But choose your design with the greatest care remember it will have no help from frills or furbelows. To be dead certain of getting something chic, you cannot do better than this model with Its smart and becoming neck and its well fitting panels. It Smart was looking rather puzzled. "Tell me, old fellow," be said to a friend, "have you ever beard of such a thing as cold eiubera?" The friend shook his head vigorously, There can't "Never," he replied. be such a thing, Kmart smiled artfully. Oh, yes, there is," he replied. November and December they're cold enough, arent they?" According to Cnstom The Usher Hey, you I This guy says you bounced a bottle on his bean. What's the idea? The Guest Nothin, Only he butted in on our party an Introduced himself aa the "Unman Battleship, and I thought It was time be waa tested. Brooklyn Eagle. Morciloss Campaigning Several of your friends In congress are physicians. "Tee, answered Senator Sorghum, "but they are cautious doctora who prescribe only simple remedies. What we need Is a bunch of denliata who can pull teeth and administer gas. Soma Liko That My wife la a good driver," boasted Jones, and she believes In giving the man In the other car hia place along the road. "Mine does, too," sighed Smith, "only she seems to think hia place is in the ditch," Philadelphia bulletin. Influence "Women have assumed a position of power in politics. "Yes," answered Alias Cayenne. "Sometimes it looks to me as if even a beauty contest had been decided by is. by the way, a wonderful style for Influence rather than by merit." slimming the figure. Use cotton or linen for chic results. A Snggoition Complete, diagrammed sew chart Kathryn Oh, dear! It's so hard included. fur me to find a fit In any kind of Pattern 9SI00 may he ordered only In sizes 12, 14, 10, 18, 20, 30, 34, 38, shoes. snowshoes? 30 and 40. Size 10 requires 3S Kitty Ever try Brooklyn Eagle. yards 30 inch fuliric. Bend FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or Not Yet Rip stamps (coins preferred) for the patGuide The green garden snakes tern. Be sure to write plainly your around here are not harmful. NAME, ADDRESS, the STYLE NUMOld Lady Aren't they ns dangerBER AND SIZE. ous as the ripe ones? Send your order to Sewing Circle 232 Pattern Department, West Eighteenth Street, New York City. X. S. Minneapolis, latest of the treaty cruisers, was commissioned at the Philadelphia nary yard. BOTH SAD CASES View of the ceremony by which the U. lO.OUO-to- n Prague, Kuttowitx, Lvov, Vilna, Warsaw. This route is 2.900 kilometers farther than that of 1932. The distance must lie completed between September 8 and September 15, that is over 1,100 kilometers per day. With the Inclusion of the African laps, for the first time the flight crosses the frontiers of Europe. The flight starts officially on August 29 with the technical examinations, which lust until Xeptemlier 7. This hard trial includes: Minimum speed, start and landing within the shortest stretch, examination of gasoline consumption, and dismounting and reassembling of airplanes. After the round Europe flight, on September 10, Is the sliced test, ulways awaited with great curiosity. Savants Explode Ideas Regarding Pearls, Opals Washington. Two scientists at tlie Smithsonian Inst it utioii have exploded the humbug' ngnnling pearls and opals. Dr. Paul llarluscli, curator of mol Iukcs aiel authority ou pearls, disproved the theory that pearls require contact willi liiimuu skin once a year to preserve their lieauty. Every pearl, lie asserted, eventually lust's its luster, no matter how preserved. However, Doctor Bartusch continued, a pearl may have Us beauty reA laystored by a simple operation. er of nuere n moved by the dellcute Instruments of an exiicrt does the work. Faded pearls, he added, often are bought cheaply, "operated uihid, ami sold as new. Humbug!" excluimed Dr. J arm's Been, institution geologist, In exploding the belief that opals. soaked In water will retain their fire. Opals, he disclosed, are 40 per cent water. As the water evaporates the fire dies, and. Doctor Been contended, all the Bonking in the world won't bring the glow hack. Boston Artisan Builds Helen Black, teacher of social science In an Oklahoma City public school, whose smull supply of hoarded gold was seized by government agents. Miss Black's safety deposit box at a local bank was broken open after she refused to accompany officers to the bank with her key. A full-tim- period that the cutter patrol the areas, "The lee patrol cutter stands aa traffic officer on this avenue of tha sea. If the ice threatens a blockade, the cutter seta the atop sign and turns the truffle into a aide rood' to the south. Like a good traffic officer, the cutter on duty a uswere all queries about the condition of the road and will help a ship In trouble. On one day a cutter may hear from aa many aa 38 vessels. "Thousands of Americana sail to Europe during the iceberg season. Few of them are aware, ns they retire to their staterooms at night, of the precautions taken for their safety an message after message from the Ice patrol comes Into the radio rooms of their teas simple frock la Just a simple PATTEHX John's Town Clock .7 Minutes Fast for 681 Years Germany. This city probably lias the only clock in the world which is always wrong. It is a distinction dear to the heart of every good Goerlitzer. It was in 1253 that the whole thing started. A small group of dissatisfied conspirators had decided that the current town council was superfluous. With true medieval efficiency they arranged to kill them aa they left the Rnthnus at noon. But one of the conspirators got a touch of conscience and set the rlock on the Monk's Tower of the Rath-au- s seven minutes ahead. The result was that the civic minded conspirators arrived early, were met by the guard, and promptly rendered Ineniiable of further activity. Seven minutes tutor the councllmen mured s.ugustly dewn the steps, heard of the attempt, mopiied their collective brow, and proceeded on to lunch. Since then the clock has remained seven minutes fast, in honor of the occasion. Goerlltx, Cuticura Healed mi pperitt Utnmm nne-ulnt- Round Europe Airplane Flight in August in Pieces 200 Rooms movin'; down the slope of the laud towa.d the sea, In great glaciers, pushing oi. t through the valleys. Aa the Ice reaches the sea It noses out Into the water until buoyancy lilts It up, and then the front of the glacier breaks off at a weak smL A New Berg la Born. "There la a deafening roar and a thunderous crash as the glacial fragment plunges heuvily Into the sea, almost submerging. The water la churned Into creamy waves as the new born berg shakes off the sea, regains Its equiiibriam, and settles Itself comfortably for a long Journey southh of an Iceberg ward. Only may be social hove the surface of the sea. The bergs that menace Atlantic shipping come from the glaciers of west Greenland, floating aouthward in current that keeps the cold them Intact The east coast glaclera usually melt before they float so far south, for warmer water prevails on that aide of the great Arctic Island. "The Irelierg danger period la from March I to July L It Is during that SIMPLE FROCK THAT Youngest Organist 14-1- Ok C&UIZQ. 400 ROOMS la eomn'etely covered with a vast Ice cap estimated to be 5,000 feet 'in thickness. Alwaye the Ice mantle la Washington. LOST 57 POUNDS OF FAT DIDNT OUT Ss'inChicaq PUBLIC OPINION Worlds Smallest Organ Boston. IiOuis Weir, organist, has built whnt Is believed the smallest organ In the world 14 Indies wide and 8 Inches high. It ran control all the stops of a large console and was played for the first time by him In a Boston theater. Will Celebrate 200th Birthday of Noted Light Brant 1oint Nantucket, Mass. Light, at the entrance to Nantucket harbor, is lookiug forward to its two hundredth anniversary. Second In point of age to Boston Light among lighthouses of the United States, the venerable Cape Cod marine lookout was established In 1730 and has been rebuilt seven times. Kei'pers Gerald M. Reed and Frank W. Craig, who alternate on. shifts, rare for the light Itself, two range lights, a fog horn, and an automatic acetylene flashing light. Roth live with their families at Brant 1olnt. 12-ho- 99 Per Cent of Speeders Fined in California Sacramento, Calif. Alibis produced traffic courts by motorists cited for speeding apimrently aren't making the grade. Figures compiled by the state department of motor vehicles show that 99 out of every 100 driven tagged for speeding are convicted In court. The report revealed, however, that 20 per cent of those found guilty were granted probation, or received suspended sentences. The average fine assessed for speeding amounted to $9.11, e study of such cases disclosed. In California 10,-00- Two men met after 40 yenrs. Black I have lost my whole fortune and must go hungry. While And I have been forbidden by my doctor to drink beer amt must go thirsty we all have our sorrows. Lnslige Ilactter (Berlin). Cant Blame Him Blinks How did it happen that man In Perkins' circumslunces sent his daughter to Europe for a year? Jinks She had fallen in love with a crooner, and he said he'd a darn sight rather go to the poorhouse than have such a tiling for a Cincinnati Enquirer. .- Curiosity Warsaw A young man was arrested because he was lying across railway lines near Warsaw. "Suicide?" he said when questioned by the police. "Certainly not I was Just trying to find out how quickly a train could draw up." Tips "Can the slock market be regulated?" "Yes," answered Mr. Dustin Slav, "luit you'll never stop speculation. You can't keep lambs from taking tips any more tiian you can hotel waiters." Sound Advica "You have a beautiful bride." "Yes, but we'll have to live mi bread und cheese and kisses." "It's a nice diet, my boy, hut don't invite too many people to dinner. Philadelphia Bulletin. Worthless Lot hare a devoted wife and eight charming children, sir." "1 They must be a poor bunch If they can't support you. Brooklyn Eagle. |