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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH July Fourth May Be Independence Day But Its Also Famous for Other Reasons Transatlantic Air, Cable Lines Foots on Tiny Azores Islands cherish July History as will the day the United States declared its independence from- - Great Britain. But before 1776, and in subsequent years, a notable list of occasions has grown around the date. For instance: Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne was born this day in 1804; Guiseppe Garibaldi, the unifier of Italy, was born in 1807; George M. Cohan, the actor, is 61 years old July Fourth. Mary Hunt, organizer of the bureau of scientific temperance investigation, was born this day in 1830, and the event is observed annually by the W. C. T. U. History also tells us that on July 4, 1894, the first automobile ever built commercially made its trial run at Kokomo, Ind. This was the automobile of Elwood Haynes, built by Edgar L. Apperson of 1 Here is Jack Dempsey as he Detroit. Other important July 20 years ago this July Fourth anniversaries are pictured Fourth, the day he won the heavy- here, anniversaries which Ameriweight boxing championship from cans usually forget when they Jess Willard by a knockout in To- shoot off their firecrackers and ledo, Ohio. This year a celebration, wave flags, just as they often forand possible of the title bout is scheduled at Toledo, get the real significance of Indewith both Willard and Dempsey pendence Day in their exuberance over the occasion: ap-pear- ed 4, 1826, was a fateful date in United States history, for within a few hours of each other two passed away. They were John Adams (above) and Thomas Jefferson. A few years later the Grim Reaper struck again on Independence Day. July 4, 1831, found President James Monroe passing away. Q July NC-- 4 OLD AND NEW Aviation history is made twice at the Azores. Upper photo shows the NC-- 4 rid- Stopped There 20 Years Ago During Pioneer Flight. ing at her moorings there during g the transatlantic flight of 1919. Twenty years later, in lower photo, the Yankee Clipper stops at Horta. epoch-makin- Prepared by National Geographic Society, D. C. Washington, WNU Service. Welcoming the Yankee Clipper on its transatlantic flights at Horta, Azores islands, is not forIt took 17 hours and 33 tominutes reach Clipper a new thrill for citizens of the Hortathebut Yankee the NC-- two decades ago, city. was in the air only 15 hours and 17 The navy plane, NC-which minutes. A glance at a map of the Atlantic shows that the differtook off from Newfoundland ence in time is explained by the dison the first transatlantic flight tances flown. The Yankee Clipper 4, 4, in 1919, landed at Horta on May 17. took off from Baltimore, Maryland, Commanded by Lieutenant-Commandabout 2,800 miles west of Horta; the Albert C. Reid, the NC-- 4 was NC-- 4 started from Newfoundland to one of three planes that made the the which is about half northwest, hop. Two planes failed 200 miles the distance. short of the Azores. One was forced Horta is the principal port and down and abandoned by its crew and the other was lost in fog, landed on largest city on Fayal island. Nearof the islands 20,000 the sea, and taxied to Ponta Del- ly live in the city whose inhabitants of the islands. the metropolis gado, d buildings sprawl Again the citizens of Horta peered white, into the skies on November 21, 1933, along the shore of one of the finest and greeted Col. and Mrs. Charles harbors in the Azores. Situated on the southeast shore of A. Lindbergh as they descended into the harbor from Lisbon on the island, the harbor is subject to their epochal flight around the north heavy winds, but a haven Atlantic. jetty makes it a sought-fo- r The Azores port, since then, has during stormy weather. Fifteen to anfrequently been visited by transat- twenty large vessels may safely lantic flyers, especially during 1938, chor in the harbor at a time. Horta was significant as a transwhich was a boom year in transatcenter communications lantic flying. Among the planes oceanic flights alighting on the harbor were the even before transatlantic German Nordmeer and British Mer- were made. It is the most important cury, the latter the famous picka- junction point of transatlantic caback plane. The city was also host bles. In one of its buildings six comto the crew of the German Brandenpanies British, German. Italian. burg and the French Lieutenant de French, and two American are housed. Vaisseau Paris. er one-thi- 9 One of the Civil wars bloodiest battles came to an end on July 4, 1863, when Vicksburg surrendered. The battlefield appears above in its present state, reconstructed as a national park. J A This year on July Fourth will be commemorated the 150th anniversary of adoption by congress of the first protective tariff legislation, constructed largely by James Madison. rd red-roofe- half-mile-lo- World Ey es New Bolivia; Tin Coveted ? Three Presidents died on July Fourth; another was born that date. The late Calvin Coolidge first saw light of day on July 4, 1872. fa Pictured above is the Erie canal. Now a commonplace fixture, it drew great attention when work was started on it July 4, 1817. Newest Streamlined Turkey Makes Debut at Poultry Show CLEVELAND. The modernized small turkey, goal of poultry geneticists of the United States department of agriculture, will be shown in its present stage of development at the seventh worlds poultry congress, to be held in Cleveland July - 28 to August 7. type turkey, Winton points out. For that reason, the department will distribute no breeding stocky hatching eggs, or poults until the geneticists are satisfied that the small-typ-e turkey is genetically pure for small size and other desirable qualities, and able to reproduce itself, true to type, in the future. The department geneticists want to establish in the new turkey the small size of the White Austrian variety imported from Scotland and of strains of wild turkeys from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona. They hope the new turkey will also inherit the meaty breast of the wild turkey. Reinforce Color Inheritance. To reinforce the inheritance for white color, the geneticists are using the White Holland in the breeding program to produce the small-typ- e turkey. They are also counting on the White Holland and two other domestic varieties, the bronze and the black to contribute early maturity and other characteristics. If the department men succeed, the small type turkey will be white, with a compact body, short legs, a long keel bone, and plenty of breast meat. It would mature in 24 to 26 Dictator Busch Can Sway Market of Important Raw Metal. Geographic Society, Prepared by National D. C. WNU Washington, H Another anniversary related to July Fourth is the Washington monument, whose cornerstone was laid that day in 1848. Diamonds Remain Precious Because Theyre Baffling The display, part of the government exhibit at the congress, will LONDON. If diamonds cou.d be white include two live small-typ- e made by the local druggist or a turkeys a young tom and young in big blast furnaces, they baked hen. would be less precious to us than Exact reproductions in wax of now are, in spite of their glitthey be four dressed turkeys also will rainbow flashing. tering shown, two 'of them modeled after Like the ancients, whose passion small-type turkeys male and female it was to make gold from baser with dressed weights of approximetals, modern scientists have mately 14 and 8 pounds, respectivestriven to make diamonds as well. ly, and two after male and female But after years of experiment and of the common bronze variety, with natures recipe for diamonds 21 study, of dressed weights approximately as much of a secret as ever. still is 14 and pounds, respectively. there are probably plenty Indeed, Seek Family Turkey. of diamonds in the world and no The aim of the breeding work is need for artificial ones, but the best to develop a small turkey to fit diamond fields are owned by a very the modern small oven and suitfew corporations which have no inable for the modem small family, tention of producing so many gems that they become cheap. And so according to Berley Winton, iny charge of the departments long as the tiny crystals obtained investigations. There is by melting pure iron with sugar charcoal in an electric furnace, and a growing demand for small marthen plunging the melted mass into ket turkeys, he says. weeks, the young hens weighing 6 and the young cold water, are not improved upon, dressed, It will take probably another five to 9 pounds toms ' between 11 and 15M pounds there is little likelihood that diacharacteryears before the desired . small-monds will be sold in stores. dressed. istics are fixed in the new poultry-husbandr- 10-ce- nt Service. Bolivias newly established dictatorship can affect foreign countries more than would changes in many other parts of South America, beis cause Bolivias government financed mainly by the revenue from its exports, and its exports particularly tin are in strong demand. Tin, one of the strategic metals highest on the United States want-lis- t, is Bolivias number one product and is responsible for its biggest business. As the third greatest country of the world, Bolivia is the nearest source for that metal to all countries of the New World, since its chief competitors are the Federated Malay States and the Netherlands Indies in Asia. Most of Bolivias tin ore exports, however, go to Great Britain, since there are no tin smelters in Bolivia or the United States. Bolivian tin returns to the Americas from British smelters. In Bolivia the tin standard substitutes for the gold standard. This metal constitutes from to of the countrys exports ; and export duties in this land of impoverished agriculture and limited industry are the chief sources of the governments income. During 1937 the nation produced 12 per cent of the worlds tin output. But Bolivia is by no means a land. Some 98 per cent of her exports are minerals, tin being fol-t two-thir- nine-tent- ds hs one-met- al DICT ATOR Col. German Busch, youthful president of Bolivia who dismissed his congress and set himself up as dictator, promising to give his people an election in a few months. lowed in value by silver, lead, antimony, zinc, tungsten, copper, and bismuth. In antimony, too, the country ranks third on the list of producing nations. Its position is now of added importance because China has previously been the leading source of supply but is no longer a factor in the world market. In addition to utilitarian tin and the Spanish silver of such romantic lore, exports of rubber, quinine, and exotic chinchilla fur help to make Bolivia known to the outside world. Some estimates rank Bolivian forests second to those of Brazil for production of South American rubber; since much of the smaller countrys forest products float down the headwaters of the Amazon to Brazilian ports, their origin is |