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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH That Man Again Speaking of Sports Boston Red Sox Seen as Threat me 0 By ROBERT McSHANE HEN the New W v clinched their York .Yankees third straight American league pennant last year to say nothing of the world series the worry boys started working overtime. Moans of pure, unadulterated anguish could be heard' distinctly from. East Cape, Fla., to Tatoosh, Wash. Break up them Damyanks became the rallying cry for thousands of The Yankees were too good. They were throttling baseball because they had a corner on all the talent. No one would be Interested in a sure thing. Etc., etc. Only one club ever won four straight pennants since the begin' viewers-with-alar- CONVERSATIONALLY Max Baer has already flattened Lou Nova, disposed of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, and is in possession of ringdoms crown of supremity. Actually the enigmatic Maxie is on the comeback trail, training for a bout with Nova on June 1, and hoping for another match with Joe Louis a match that he has not thus far earned. He claims if Lou Nova beats him he will quit the ring for good because no Baer is gettin himself slapped happy. In training quarters Maxie looks like the" world-beathe really should be. A fine physical specimen, the wide shouldered, rugged Hercules seems to have all the attributes of another Dempsey. He struts and swaggers for the benefit of gymnasium customers. He isnt at all shy, and seizes every opportunity to tell how dangerous he is when aroused. The wise boys pay no attention. The uninitiated get a thrill out of it. It doesnt do much harm. One of the severest beatings of Baers career was administered by Joe Louis, and today Max is talking his way to revenge. He swears that he is ready that he is determined to win out that he will whip Joe Louis when he gets to him. Maxie uttered the remark recently that hed like to make a iot of guys holler Uncle for some of the things they said about his last fight with Louis. Baers courage was questioned in many corners, and that hurt. In fact, his knockout by the Brown Bomber perhaps hurt him less than some of the resulting tales questioning his willingness to fight. He now claims that his wife and little Baer have reformed him, have torn him from the primrose path. Maybe its true, but weve heard similar statements from Max in the past. One thing can be said in his favor. He started training early, er , Nut Processing Theyre probably just nuts to you but to industrialists, the walnuts, filberts, almonds and other varieties sold in stores throughout the country, represent a highly technical food processing technique. In preparing the nuts for market, they are first passed through monel rotating drums containing a solution which removes fuzz and dirt. They are then washed in clean water and sent through another drum which polishes the shells, after which they are discharged onto slabs of oiled wood and are dried and sacked. - Beavers Increasing Beavers were once plentiful from the Rio Grande north to the subIn 1926 it was arctic timber-linestimated that the entire beaver population of the United States had shrunk to about 200,000, reports the National Wildlife federation. There has been a remarkable increase in the past 20 years, and beaver trapping is now permitted in a number of states, to keep the population within the limits of the natural food e. supply. . Oldest Form of Gambling The Encyclopedia of Sports says that the oldest form of gambling is with dice, which were known to earliest civilization. Recently there was dug out of ancient Mesopotamia a pair of dice at least 50 centuries old, still in good enough state of preservation to be used for gambling today. Most of the tombs along the ancient Nile have produced dice, some accompanied by cups and boards. Village of 750 Steps of Chimney Lost Tribe The Rock lives on top of a precipitous mountain in Rutherford county, North Carolina. One way out leads lumber over a tortuous eight-mil- e trail, impassable in severe weather. Usually the villagers prefer to come down 750 steps which climb the face of Chimney Rock, shopping at the village beneath, and then ascending the cliff again to their homes. Harpoon Returned Formosa fisherman who lost his harpoon recently when it broke off A LOU GEHRIG swordfish, was surin a that George Engel to learn prised found it while dressing the fish in his market at New Britain, Conn. The harpoon had sunk deeply into the flesh and was covered over when the wound healed. 300-pou- nd ning of organized major league baseball in 1876. The New York Giants, headed by John McGraw, annexed four National league pennants in a row from 1921 through 1924. However, all good things come to end sooner or later. The law of averages cant be repealed, and has just as much force today as it had before the Yanks started their xampage. One more thing the lus- an Kitchen Mechanics Where Is Goshen? Washing,- chopping, mixing and The location of biblical Goshen cannot now be positively identified, cooking are just as important operabut it was somewhere on the eastern tions in modern paper mills as they border of Egypt. The Egypt on our are in kitchens. In making most maps of today, however, is not the printing papers, the ingredients are Egypt of the Pharaohs. Ancient trees and chemicals; and the work-of Egypt consisted only of the Nile val- ing equipment is usually made nickel alloys that will resist the ley, the Fayum and the Delta a long narrow strip of land watered strenuous operations and the corroeach year by the inundations of the sive action of the chemicals. ChopThe Land of Goshen ping is done in chippers, the bark Nile river. was located somewhere between the having first been rerftoved by means Delta and the Isthmus of Suez, not of chemicals. The wood chips are in ancient Egypt proper, though it then sent to huge cooking vessels was under the jurisdiction of the or cauldrons, where they are cooked with other chemicals from eight to Pharaohs. twenty hours, depending on the type of pulp being produced. Artemus Ward Artemus Ward was the pseudoIrish Leprechaun nym of Charles Farrar Browne, who The old Irish people had a very was born at Waterford, Maine, in 1834. His first literary effort was useful superstition concerning a litof that writing as a showman to an tle fairy called Leprechaun. He imaginary traveling menagerie. He was a little fellow who could somelater traveled over the United States times be 'caught in a' quiet place lecturing, carrying with him a plying the trade of a shoemaker, whimsical panorama which afforded which he would always abandon and texts for his numerous jokes. In run away at the sight of mortals. The 1866 he undertook a highly successsuperstition was that if you followed ful tour of England, where he died this little fellow and never took your in 1867. eyes from him despite every sort of distraction which would assail Giant Testing Machine you, he would lead you to a crock of gold. One of the largest universal testing machines in the world is being Arab World Definedinstalled at Aluminum Research The Arab World includes some Laboratories, in New Kensington, Pa. It has a test capacity of three 50,000,000 people living under varimillion pounds in compression and ous flags and forms of government one million pounds in tension. The between the Strait of Gibraltar, and machine is expected to help in de- the Caspian sea, according to the termining the proper proportions of National Geographic society. This engineering structures such as belt of Arab influence and culture aluminum cranes, booms and ma- dates from the Arab conquest of 13 centuries ago, when Mohammeds rine applications. followers launched from Arabia the westward drive for empire that was Rice Production The United States ranks about to carry the Koran and the sword across North Africa and even up tenth in the production of rice, prointo comas billion a Spain. pounds ducing only pared to Chinas hundred billion Gold From the Sea pounds or more. China, India and River have long been an imbeds in order followed are Java by Japan of the worlds gold source portant and Madura, French to recover the In order Taiwan Chosen supply. (Korea)", Siam, been washed out to has that (Formosa), the Philippines, United gold a special sea river mouths, Louisiana', through California, Texas, States, Arkansas, South Carolina are the deep sea dredge has been designed this gold at ocean for mining chief rice producing states. depths as great as 1,000 feet. WorkSound Absorption ing parts of the dredge bucket are alloy The National Bureau of Standards made of chromium-nicksays that sound passing through air steels in order to withstand the tresuffers a selective absorption; that mendous water pressure involved is to say, notes of higher pitch are in this unique operation. absorbed somewhat more than those Limit on Borrowing of lower pitch. In consequence it North Carolinas Constitution procan low tones be heard be that may a greater distance than higher ones. hibits the state or any county or city within it from borrowing durSimultaneous Messages ing any two years more than of what was paid on the pubIn submarine cables the use of lic debt nickel-iro- n wire makes of during the preceding two loadings it possible to send several messages years. - - Indo-Chin- a, el Statue Has Wardrobe Probably the most famous statue in Brussels, Belgium, is. the He is a little naked boy who is anything but and he has a large wardrobe of cos- - over the same line simultaneously. Manne-ken-Pi- self-conscio- ter of Lou Gehrig, one of the greatest first basemen in diamond history, is almost certain to be dimmed to the vanishing point this year. Granted that the loss of one man vront break np the Yankee club. But it will be a serious psychological loss almost as great as if Manager Joe McCarthy decided to re- s. o,oo Facts That Concern You tire. In 1925 Columbia Lou started one of the most remarkable sporting teats in history, a streak of 2,123 consecutive games at the close of the 1938 season. During the past two seasons he played in 157 games each. His inevitable loss to the Yanks MAX BAER will be a serious blow to pennant liopes. gradually working into shape usual stead of depending on May Upset Yanks month of feverish preparation. He Who can upset the Yanks? Most has quit smoking, and, unlike Two-To- n authorities are of the opinion that Tony Galento, will even drink this season. But a glass of milk without the forceful it cantarebea done few who are willing to aid of his manager and a couple of there concede the Boston Red Sox an out- roustabouts. side chance. And well they might, (or the Sox have a lot of what is needed to turn over a X7HETHER or not Ellsworth apple cart. The Red Sox have the best spirit Vines, who has forsaken pro of any team in the league, and tennis to concentrate on an amateur theyre going out toofwin with a team golf career, can isever becomed a sucannexing that cessful golfer a' entirely capable coveted banner. The Bosox are a g outfit. They himself is quite optimistic, young,' have one of the brightest assem- believing he will do more than all blages of rookies in either league, right for himself. Others, particuincluding Ted Williams, the larly golf experts, are not so sure. American Association bating The former tennis notable qualiking from the Minneapolis Millers, fied for the National amateur golf who will be stationed in right field, tournament last year, but went out and Jim Tabor, a .330 clubber with early. He is of the opinion that if the Millers a year ago. Tabor is he devotes all his time to the links being groomed for second base. An- game he maw advance further. other Woodrow Rich is being toutPerry points out, very logically, ed as a real find. With Little Rock that Ellsworth Vines, the tennis star, last year, he won 19 and lost 10 and playing around 75 is quite an attracyielded, only 2.47 earned runs a tion, but when he becomes exclu' ' game. sively the golfer hes merely one out is considerable of thousands who play about the there Though doubt about Lefty Grove, whose arm same kind of golf. went dead last season, their pitch' If Vines carries his tennis tenden ing staff will be sufficient, even if cies over to his golf debut he will the ancient Lefty does fade out. run into trouble. Vines has always The Yanks, who have cut three tended to fold up when there was melons, arent something at stake in a tennis straight world series as hungry for the honors as the Red match, and is likely to do the same Sox. Three straight titles dulls to when he is in a crucial golf test. some degree the urge to win, and His tennis game went to pieces in that spells dynamite for any club. National, championship and Davis And it wont be the biggest surtests, and as a pro it crumto the cup alarmists the of year, in matches against Tilden, Perbled prise contrary, if the Boston10 Red Sox wind ry and Budge. games ahead So Ellsworth may go back to the up the season about of the Yankees. And the break em tennis courts after a year on the up boys would have to find some- links, western Newspaper Union. , . thing else tp worry .about. . well-stock- No. 6 of a aeries. THATS INCREASED MIGHTILY SINCE in-h- is . two-thir- . Turnabout ed much-debate- hard-fightin- . - . IN 1932 (lastyear before repeal ) BEER'S TAXES WERE PRACTICALLY NOTHING! Da1a fro m Liquor Control Commission . Beer helps even those who do not drink it ! To for us? Brewers of America realize this depends retailing as wholesome as beer itself. 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