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Show THE BULLETIN 19.1S FriiJ.iy, August 5, " BIG- Red Cap Was. 986 and INSURANCE MOTOR FINANCE CO. MORGAN Grant Morgan, Mgr. 702 So. Main St. Wat. 6105 No Trick to Find a Bargain At MORGAN'S FISHING TACKLE Headquarters Tennis Rackets Restrung PHIL and JOES SOUTHEAST REPAIR SHOP E. 21st So. 1113 JvV . Hy. 8598 a3l .1 York. For the first time since the World war, Fifth avenue will resound to the beat of marching feet of more than a half million war veterans, amid the blare of martial music. The parade will mark the second day of the American Legions 1937 national convention and this citys first conclave in Legion history. During the four-da- y Legion caucus, it is estimated, September. conservatively, that 600,000 men plus their wives and children who are represented in auxiliary units such as the Womens Auxiliary and the Sons of the American Legion will attend the meeting. Tiie high, lights of the convention will iiiclRae the opening session Monday, September 20, in Madison Square Gr.rden ; the Drum and Bugle corps cratest, in which 621 individual mvilcal units will compete later at the Polo grounds, and the gigantic convention parade on Fifth avenue, Tuesday, September 21. Twentieth Anniversary. The forthcoming annual gathering is planned to eclipse by far all its previous efforts and officials of the American Legion describe the 1937 affair as the largest ever held on earth by any organization." This years great convention, marking the twentieth anniversary of Americas entry Into the World war, will have as its slogan, Peace In a Unthrough preparedness." denominational religious and patriotic service, a thanksgiving for peace since the World war will be offered. The press, radio and Legion periodicals are being used by the promoters to indlice the members to defer their vacation to coincide with the Legionnaires convention. From the convention offices here reports indicate more than 100 veterans societies and associations plan to hold reunions at the same time. Major-GeJohn F. ORyan, 20-2-3, ce n. Buy Only New GOOD COAL Yorks commission- ex-poli- er, will head the reunions commit- tee. 40 Call Hyland and 8 Reunion. CASTLE GATE BLUE BLAZE ABERDEEN KING COAL for color and interest, at the 1937 convention, will be that of the famous 40 and 8. Because this reunion plays an integral part in the convention proceedings, there is a 40 and 8 committee, of which the l, chairman is Pelham St. George president justice of the Municipal court. Justice Bissell is chief chemin de fer passe of the 40 and 8, and of a number of Legion offices. He served with the Seventy-sevent- h division in France. Simultaneously with the convention is the annual assembly of the American Legion auxiliary, headed by Mrs. William N. Corwith, present national radio chairman of the organization and past president of the New York Department auxiliary. Bis-sel- Agents for Sentinel Stokers & Prepared Stoker Coal io LOBBS on the JOB SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. Ily. 520 tl91 IUghland Drive 4 France I Second Only to Russia in Air Power SENSATIONAL NEW WATEKER! Soil-Soa- ker Ideal for O LAWNS 6 SHRUBS FLOWER BEDS TERRACES NARROW PARKINGS t e r seeps through entire put length gently no spray miter where you want It all soaks I ;n DEEP! I WATER SEEPS GENTLY I Made of r.pi'clal porouo canvas I very durable ono end screwo to water hose, other cud closed. Water seeps through every pore, waks directly into the soil over oren of 3 to 4 fret cn all in 1 nilcs. No spray no soil washing no waste on walks, driveways, in .tree -- no rxrcrivo evaporation. wondr.ful for nnr-ojxiti, park- ngs, terraces flower beds and it -- w I hruh- -. I 'OAKS Dl:EP Tuts all the water down diep to the heavy root sys- Thin method approved by Colleges and big Much better than light Other Adiantagm! tests prove I'em. SOIL-SOAKE- Actual R 22' i more water than Easily moved without off water or getting Manufactured license from a leading State Apr. .College. U. S. Patent No Self-cleanin- g. 1.989.427. NOW! Send $2 00 for 18 I ORDER ft. size or $3.00 for 30 ft. size. Packed and mailed postpaid. HASTINGS CANVAS CO. l,l,t- M - Am Hastings Nobr Paris. Air Minister Pierre Cot declares France today is second only to Russia in air power. No air force in the world has ever made the progress in 12 months that we have made in the last year, he said. He listed the accomplishments. We have increased our modern equipment in use by 110 per cent. By the end of 1937 the increase will be 180 per cent. There has been an increase of 80 per cent in the reserve. Our bombing power has increased 400 per cent. Our air force has become one of the most powerful in the world; second only to that of Soviet Russia. Nationalization has strengthened the aircraft industry, he said. Our industrial potential has been raised in the course of a year by 30 By the end of per cent, he said. 1938 it will be 100 per cent greater than it was in 1936. We have raised the officer strength by 25 per cent and in order to give our air force vigorous commanders have lowered the retiring age limit. World War Hand Grenade It Unearthed in Indiana Pottsville, Ind. Citizens here still are puzzilng over the mystery of how an unexploded World war hand grenade found its way into the ground of a Bethel township farm where it was turned up by a plow without exploding. Children found the grenade on the farm and sold it with some other scraps to G. C. Byrd, a junk dealer. He retrieved it as it was lying on the floor of his truck w'ith heavy steel being loaded upon it. The popular supposition is that the grenade was brought back from the war by some Posey county veteran who either lost or threw it away. Byrd destroyed it. 85, Fears lie Is Lazy Because he Rochester, N. Y. fears he is getting lazy and too indolent to work, Howard Smith, years old, Honoye Falls, N. Y wants to sell his farm that has Leen in the Smith family for eighty-fiv- e 150 years. Horse of Hanover, to show that these regiments saved the Hanoverian Succession by defeating the Stuart rebellions in 1715 and 1745. The first white horse standards were carried into our country by n the invaders, about 400 years after Christ. A white horse was their battle emblem. You can still see it carved in the Berkshire Downs above Ufflngton Vale to mark the site Of one of their victories over the Danes. Their principal chieftains called themselves after it, Hengist (steed) and Horsa (horse). The Kingdom of Hanover covered the land of the ancient Saxons, so their white horse became the emblem of the Hanoverian kings. Lancer and Hussar regiments have no colors. Their battle honors are emblazoned on the saddle cloth instead. They have appeared here, as on flags, ever since the Peninsular war. No battle before Minden (1759) was recorded on them at first, but the rule relaxed with the years and battle honors now go hack to the end of the Seventeenth century. The colors have ceased to he carried in battle. British regiments last carried their standards into action against the Zulus at Issndht wana in 1879. Anglo-Saxo- Loud-Chirpin- Cricket Usually Fierce Fighter g Cricket fights appeal to cultured and wealthy Chinese who often wager large sums on the outcome of the insect battles. Fighting crickets get very special attention. To make them strong and sleek, a tasty dish is mixed for them consisting of fresh cucumbers, boiled chestnuts, lotus seeds .and mosquitoes. When the hour for the fight approaches, relates a writer hi the Detroit News, they are frequently dosed with a bouillon tonic concocted from the roots of exotic flowers. The best cricket fighters, according to Chinese authorities, are the loudest chirpers. On tiny scales especially constructed for the purpose, the crickets are frequently weighed during training. Extremes in 'temperature, reputedly bad for cricket organisms, are carefully guarded against and the crickets minute mustaches, barometer of its health, are constantly watched1 for the least sign of drooping. No smoke is permitted in the rooms reserved for cricket fights. The entrants are elaborately matched as to weight, size and color and then are placed in a large container with screened sides and top. Like cocks, crickets almost invariably fight until one of the contestants is dead. Victorious crickets are carefully- guarded and highly prized. When they, too, eventually die, they are buried with ceremony in little silver coffins. . One of the outstanding reunions, 2520 . Wa All cavalry fldgs are crimson, says a writer in Pearson's Lond m Weekly. Dragoon guards cariy New AUTO LOANS 8 MEET IN FALL flags-calle- Finer Flavor and Quality Main - New York Prepares to House. square standards, dragoons pointed guidons. A white horse 600,000 Veterans. appears on all. It is the White MILK 103U WILL HOLD LEGION ARDEN While Horse of Hanover Used for Battle Emblem - Indians Killed White Spy Although Michigan has been a battleground in several wars, Saginaw was the scene qf one of the few spy executions ever recorded in the state, relates a correspondent in the Detroit Free Press. During the War of 1812, the Americans were troubled as to which side the Saginaw tribe of Indians there would take. Jacob Smith, an Indian trader, was sent with two assistants, ostensibly on a trading trip, but actually to learn where their sympathies were enlisted. One of the assistants drank too much and revealed their actual mission. Smith and his other assistant fled, leaving their stock. The one who exposed the plan was killed as a spy but the others escaped. Smith later again won the good will of the Indians and opened a trading post where Flint now stands in 1819 and operated it until his death in 1825. Plinys Panther Story Pliny's story about the panther was: Philinus, a philospher, saw a panther lying in the road, evidently waiting for some one to pass. He tried to go around the animal, but the panther headed him off, rolled over on its back to attract his attention, and showed signs of grief. When he attempted to draw away, the animal fixed her claws in his garment, evidently desiring him to follow her. When at last he recognized what she wanted he followed her and she led him to a pit into which her cubs had fallen. Moved by pity, he helped the young ones out, and the happy mother showed her joy and gratitude by frisking around him, and by escorting him with her cubs trotting after her, to the edge of the desert. Discovered Chromium The existence of chromium as an element was discovered independently in 1798 by Louis Nicolas and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Many years passed, however, before the free metal was isolated from its compounds, and even then it could be produced only in minute quantities and in an impure state. It as not until about 1900 that chemical technology had advanced sufficiently to permit the production of the metal la commercial quanta Vau-qucl- in U. S. WOULD RAISE . VALUES - OF- - CROPS Open Farm Laboratory to duct Research Work. Con- Washington, D. C. The most modern farm laboratory in the world has been opened by the Department of Agriculture in an effort to raise the standards of American farm products. In an expensive, bdilding are all the latest fleVites for testing, grading and classification of cotton, grains, w'ool, hay and other agricultural products. Scientists of many years experience are in charge. Agriculture department officials described construc tion of the new Standardization building as another step on the tong road of standardization and reseaich that seeks to raise higher the quality of American farm products. In the building are located the bureaus directing regulatory and marketing agencies dealing with the principal farm products. Technological and economic research scientists also are housed in the aircooled building. Cotton experts prepare atandards for use in domestic and foreign trade. The appeal board of review examiners, the final authority in the interpretation of standards, has Its classifying rooms in the building. Along with cotton standardization and classification work, the physical and chemical properties of cotton fibers, lint and seed will be studied as a part of the expanded federal-stat- e cotton research programs. These studies and tests will be related to practical problems in the principal branches of the cotton enterprise from the production of raw cotton through to the finished products of cotton manufacture. Real Indian Wedding Is Performed in Oklahoma Watonga, Okla. Emma Standing eighteen-year-ol- d Montana Elk, Cheyenne princess, became the squaw of Horace Howling Water of Hammon, Okla., in an Indian ceremonial wedding that attracted hundreds of Indians. White mens customs were tossed aside. There was no license, ring, minister, bridesmaids or best man. The Indian encampment was built on the farm of George Rearing Bull, Cheyenne leader, with a large tepee erected in the middle for the bride. There were other tepees scattered about the premises. The bridegroom's relatives, as is the Indian custom, gifts to the bride's land and placed them on the ground. The Indians settled themselves around the brides tepee and divided the gifts among themselves. There were shawls, coffee pots, tea kettles, blankets, flour pans, dried beef, white mens cigarettes, dresses and other articles. The exchange of gifts, from all outward appearances, ended the wedding. There was no formal ceremony. The bride hid in the house of Rearing Bull to escape curious onlookers. The bridegroom was not permitted to be near the bride during or immediately after the ceremony. He had to wait until his tepee was torn - . n1 The Mastiff dog is referred to as being one of the oldest and noblest dogs of all British breeds and their ancestors were once the heroes of the Roman amphitheater. That is if they were big enough, strong enough, and lucky enough. They might be called the Gladiators of the Canine Empire." In that ancient period when ths "Head. Man had the power lb bay Thumbs Up, or Thumbs Down1 Mastiffs were Imparted from England by ihe impressed by their hugeness and strength they were sent into the arena against wild beasts as part of the entertainment staged for the gentlemen in their "togas," relates a writer in the Lea Angeles Times. Naturally such fighting ability gained them too savory a reputation to induce many to look upon them as house pets. However, association with humans developed their intelligence and disposition and gradually they came out from under this cloud. They became nefed for their high intellect and faithfulness; as guard dogs they certainly had no equal. ' At first sight a Mastiff may give the impression of clumsiness but watch him move. They carry themselves with grace and unexpected freedom.' Considering that some of them weigh as much ad 160 pounds and stand as high as thirty inches At the shoulder they make rather an impressive picture. The face is short and broad, looking almost square, and the lips hang deep and pendulous. The coat is short and close but is' not too fine in texture. The colors are apricot or silver, fawn or dark fawn and one requirement is the black mask. Whatever shade the specimen is, the muzzle, ears and nose should be black with black around the eyes and extending upwards between them. Birds Taken 1,000 Miles Find Route Back Home The "homing In many wild instinct, observed creatures, is one of natures most fascinating phenom- ena. Among the terns, species of sea birds akin to gulls, the homing instinct is developed to a remarkable degree. Noddy and sooty terns, subjected to scientific experiments to test their powers of orientation, have found their way back to their nests after being taken to points nearly 1,000 miles distant and never before visited, notes a writer in the I Saturdays Special LARGE! ! Betty Crocker CAKES W SUGAR HOUSE BAKERY E. 21st So. 1063 Hy. 8221 frjlL V Paramnesia The word used when, although you are doing something for the first time, you have an odd feeling thaw you have done the exact thing be- fore is paramnesia. It is a common experience, and, briefly explained, the reaction depends upon a little trick of the mind manifested by a momentary loss of a Bense of time and space. The individual enters into an experience or a situation, obtains a fleeting impression of this Situation, then the attention is momentarily attracted to something else. The period of time may be almost infinitesimal. Then upon the return of the attention to the original situation this lapse of time is lost to tiie individual and the period between the two experiences seems occasionally to expand into a long period, even into the remote past. Where the Okapi Lives The okapi lives placidly in the depths of the Belgian Congo and is highly esteemed by the pygmies of the region for his succulent meat, but aro greatly feared because he can repel even a lion's attack with skull and his ribhis battering-racrushing hoofs. Possessed of four stomachs, and eyes which operate independently of each other, allowing him to look two ways 'at once, he lives a solitary life behind the camouflage of his striped red and purplish markings. He is fastidiously clean. Every morning and night he bathes himself thoroughly, with the result that he ia the most nearly odorless animal in all Africa. Ha is never bothered by ticks or flies. But this bathing enthusiasm of the okapi is also his Achilles heel. He is usually caught in traps plant i fed at hiS favorite Watering h0l6 m ght WHITE PORT Detroit. The schoolgirl of today may swim like a fish, play a fast game of tennis and go in for rough and tumble to extents undreamed of in Mothers day, but according to Dr. Harry J. Baker, director of a psychological clinic In Detroit schools, the modem schoolgirl favors, of all things, sewing as her favorite hobby. In several tests conducted in Detroit schools, we found that sewing was not a lost art, but ranked head and shoulders above other hobbies, Dr. Baker told a conference on men tal hygiene at the New York State Teachers college in Buffalo recently. The boys of today don't deviate much from the bovs of another generation, except that they are deeply interested in aircraft of all types. Dr. Baker said. Code No. Washington. Jumbina, potentially the biggest radio attraction of the year, failed her mike test because she muted her trumpet. d Jumbina is a elephant at the National zoo, and d usually it takes a maxim silencer to still her blasts of trumpeting. Recently, however, Jumbina refused even to whisper when officials of a sound recording company tried to make a record of her elephantine calls. Instead, she stood sullenly and glared, and then, irritated by their insistence, she hurled a fistsized rock at her audience, which withdrew abruptly. 9,000-poun- good-size- 970 GALLON Code No. GALLON 948 Code No. 977 . SivV'.'. 4 rrt. - vr, it?7: BIKEGUABKtfXEUARS SWEET WINES 20BY VOLUME Served with CODE NO. 810 Paradise 818 ParadlNA 827 Paradise 828 Paradise half-pric- . Biggest Radio Hope Big Flop at Mike QUART 947 ALCOHOL Water Priced as to Use Little Rock, Ark. It is cheaper to water the lawn than to take a bath here. ' Mayor R. E. 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