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Show FLOYD GIBBONS Adventurers' Club By WILLIAM C. UTLEY are now part owner of Dam, the sentinel YOUthe Colorado, and the The Fish That Caught a Mari By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. did you know that your old Headline Hunter was an Yes, sir, Ive got a big stuffed sailfish over my desk. I hooked that seven-fobaby, weighing 67 pounds with light tackle, in the Gulf stream off the Florida coast. and old Izaak Walton It took me an hour to land the AND ot Never mind what luck Ive had since then. Im not talking about that But what I am talking about Is the story of a real fisherman and his battle with a giant ray that made my fish look like a minnow. Elmer E. Garretson of New York city is the gents name who caught the ray. Elmer was engaged some years ago to open up a fishermans camp on Soldiers Key an island some fifteen miles off of Miami in waters that abound with all kinds of tropical fish, both large and small. I guess the place Is about the best fishing ground In this country and theres no limit to their size. Sharks big enough to bite a man In two and sea turtles play around in those blue waters like carp in a pond. Gibbons had sore hands for a week afterward. big- gest contract construction Job ever completed and turned over to the United States government It W88 turned over to the government which Is you just five years, minus a few days, since construction began March 11, 1031. The ceremony of presentation was Indeed a simple one for the completion of a task so large and long. Its participants were two big, husky engineering fellows who met at the dam, near Boulder City, Nev. "Take It its yours now," said Frank Crowe, construction super- - thelr futures has been vastly Increased. Water supplies have been guaranteed for their farms and cities. A source of a tremendous amount of cheap power has been provided for use In Increasing their comforts and developing their Industries. Worth Found Already. In more than one Instance, the Importance of Ickes statements has been demonstrated already. It was only a few months after the diversion tunnels were first closed that Boulder Dam asserted Its supremacy over the most dangerous river In America; that was In February of 1935, when It caught and stored the waters of what would have been .'j d Catches Sight of Sea Monster. One day while Elmer was idly glancing at the water from the dock he saw a ray as big as a barn door loafing around the coral channel near the key. That was just about the biggest thing Elmer had ever seen swimming and he decided to try and catch it. Now a ray Is a mean customer. Besides being a tremendous size the fish which la a sort of sea bat with enormous flippers Is armed with sharp, long, bone daggers. Those daggers are operated by the tail of the fish and can make a frightful wound. But Elmer had a reputation to sustain and he wanted that giant ray. So he got out his small motor driven dory, packed his rifle, harpoons and lines aboard and with a guide, Charlie Ilaggerman, started after him. Sf 1 4V W'i&'i sr v S'XMz n 'H ; t $ ifti Ray Tows Boat to Sea. Well, sir, Elmer spotted the monster lying still on the bottom and, standing up in the boat, made his throw. Zowlel The harpoon sped true to the mark and burled itself in a ton or so of filet de sole. Wham! Mister Big Fish, when he felt that harpoon go Into his neck, gave his flippers the throttle and hit for the open sea like a racing carl The line shot out so fast that It smokedl In a Jiffy the dory sped through the channel and Into deep water. Elmer didnt want to lose that precious line and he didnt want to lose that fish. So he and ITaggerman pulled as hard as they could to draw the boat up closer to the fish. They didnt have a chance to draw the fish to them, so they Just tried to draw themselves to It, you know, like Mahomet who went to the mountain when the mountain wouldnt come to him. And Elmer says that ray sure was a mountain 1 V Giant Fish Crushes Motor Dory. In this way, Elmer whites, we drew near the fish. To my delight he rose to the surface, so I grabbed a rifle and got set in the bow of the Boulder City, Nev. Heres the latest air picture of the Boulder dam since the completion of pouring at the top. Photograph taken from upstream angle. lntendent of the Six Companies, Inc., the contractors on the job. "Its a great dam, Ralph. Well, you ought to know, Frank, replied Ralph Lowry, engineer of the United States reclamation service. And that brief remark was Uncle Sams speech of acceptance. Roulder Dam was completed two f and years ahead of schedule. It cost the government Including both the dam itself and the power stations. Of this amount $54,700, 000 will represent the gross earnings of the Six Companies, Inc. After deductions have been made for services like the supplying of power to the contractor, and rentals at Boulder City, the actual amount of money paid for the construction job will be about Other projects associated with Boulder Dam will cost approximately $230,000,000 when completed. Is 727 Feet High. The great mass of concrete tow-er- s 727 feet from the bottom of the canyon, making It about the same height as the Eiffel tower in Paris. Into the gigantic molds which shaped the great gate that will hold nature prisoner in her own wildest and most fearful lair have been poured 4,500,000 cubic yards of concrete, made from 5,500,000 barrels of cement. This vast quantity of $105,-000,00- Dragged Overboard by Infuriated Ray. "The next thing I know I was being dragged over the side of the boat ATTACHED TO Till) FISH! I managed to giab one of the hooks on the side as the fixh slipped into the water. Haggerman was now . hanging on the other side of the boat and only this kept It from capsiz-lngBut the ray didnt stop tlieie. lie started flailing me with bis powerful tall as my body hung over the side In the water! "I thought my arms would be pulled out of their sockets. They would have been had the boat been tied, but as it was I was the tow line and pulled the boat after me. Haggerman meantime had climbed Into the boat As the ray beat me with his huge wings I begged Haggerman for a knife. He couldnt find one but gave me a pair of pliers. While 1 hold on to the boat with one hand and Haggerman, too, hold on to me, with the other hand I forced the pliers In between the fish anl my leg and one by one broke olT the daggers at their base. The pain was terrific. It was like operating on ones own leg, but I had to do It. Pulled Into Boat Nearly Dead. "Finally the last one snapped and I was pulled into the boat more dead than alive. A tourniquet saved me from bleeding to death. Dagger man then attached the fish line to the anchor and threw It overboard and we were free. Boy, or, boyl What an experience. Elmer was free, but he had to pull those poisonous daggers out of his leg before they killed him. As the boat staggered back to the key, half full of water, he took the pliers, using 6ea water as an antiseptic, p lied the Jagged darts out of his leg with his own hands! To me that part of the Job was the hardest of all. Elmer was In the hospital for two weeks and It was a year before he could walk properly and the worst of It, he says, was that the sharks ate up most of the ray before the other fisherman could rescue him. What remained was only three or four bundled pounds of fish. Thats all I W.NU Service. Rule Is an Aid to Evil-Doe- rs No person . , . shall be compelled In any criminal case to he a So witness against himself , . reads the first amendment to the United States Constitution. Similar language, embodying the same the constitution of every state except New Jersey and Iowa, nevertheless the principle Is held to be applicable. In thousands of enses, the rule 1ms been Invoked by criminals to escape Just punishment for their mis rule, Is found In deeds. Writing In the Journal of the American Judicature Society, an authority siys It was adopted by the English parliament In the Seventeenth century to offset petsecu-tton- s of Innocent persons by the process of Investigation and Inquisition. This process, borrowed from the old Roman law, was used by English ecclesiastical courts "In furtheinnee of their selfish purposes" Frequently persons who lefused to testify against themselves were put to torture until their resistance was broken. Although the special conditions giving rise to the rule have long since disappeared. It remains deeply rooted In modern American law. . &&, one-hal- The Giant Black Fish Fell Right on the Boat. boat for a shot He was so big I couldnt miss. I drew a quick bead on him. And then it happened! Before I could shoot the ray turned and with a tremendous wings Jumped clean out of the water at us! flap of its kite-lik- e The pull on the line drew the boat under the fish with such force that it sent Haggerman sailing through the air Into the water. And Its a good thing it did because the next second the giant black mass fell with a crash right on the boat! The boat deck crumpled in as though It were made of cardboard instead of hard I mahogany, and the giant form seemed to cover the entire boat shock from fast hot but the backward enough. fell "An agonizing pain shot through my log and I fell prone with four of the rays daggers inbedded nbove my knee. These daggers are from six teeth. to eight Inches long, sharp ns a needle and lined with saw-lik- e The daggers, I saw with horror, were inches in my leg! One of them had gone clear through and I could .see its jagged point protruding on the other side! Who Are You? Government Takes Over Boulder Dam devastating flood. During the summer of 1935, the dam worked the other way, and used some of the stored up flood waters to prevent a disastrous drouth in the Irrigated valleys along the lower Colorado. With the water stored above the dam in Mead lake, which Is already the world's largest artificial lake, despite the fact that it a is only full, it was possible to release more water than the river carried last summer and falL In 1934, a drouth like that which was averted cost the valley one-sixt- h me i B mates have It that the sale of elecof tricity will bring an average a be would This a $7,000,000 year. total of $301,000,000 In fifty years, with an operating surplus of The Romance of Your Name $166,-000,00- Having accepted the dam, the government now operates and . maintains it, as well as the reservoir, the pressure tunnels, the outlet work and penstocks to the valves at the Inlets to the turbine cases in the power plant The dam has really not all been completed, but is nearly so. At least the work of the construction company Is done. There still remains the work of plugging up one of the diversion tunnels, but until the power plant Is placed In operation the tunnel will be used to regulate irrigation water. When the time is right, the bureau of reclamation will have it plugged up by day laborers. By RUBY HASKINS ELLIS A THIS the word bagster, meanConsequently, It Is "baker. ing name. a trade classed as Baxter figured conspicuously among the landed gentry of old branches pngland. There are many of the family, all having more or less the same common family characteristics. A great love of books and a very strong attachment to their own blood is perhaps the most outstanding. The Baxter Memorial speaks of Rox-burGregory Baxter, who settled In Uncle Sam Cleans Up. 1630. nis In daughter, Mass., In ordinary cases the construcAbigail, married Joseph Adams, on the would remain tion company and they were the grandparents of job to perform all the cleaning-u- p John Adams, second United States operations and to remove all equip- President ment no longer needed, but In this A number of Baxter families of Instance the bureau of reclamation Shropshire, England, emigrated to bas agreed to take over the work. Massachusetts in 1630. Being peoThe bureau will occupy the admin- ple of strong convictions, they were istration buildings of the Six Com- forced to seek religious freedom, panies, Inc., until October 1 to fa- and were among that company of cilitate the installation of the equiplltllUlllllll!IUIIll!llllllMIIHIIIll!t!IIIUII!ltllllIllUI.I'll!lllllIIUIIlllCIIllCall!l!, ment In the power house. For nearly thirty years Irrigation and flood control projects on the Colorado river have been talked about In the circles of government In 1857 an army officer sent out to find the head of navigation of the Colorado wrote: It seems intended by nature that the Colorado river along the greater portion of Its lone and majestic way shall be forever unvisited and unmolested. And not until 1907 was the first note of defiance to this attitude sounded by President Theodore Roosevelt Then In 1918 Arthur P. Davis, a civil engineer, conceived the idea of building the worlds largest dam to stem the Colorado. Herbert Hoover, as secretary of commerce, In 1921 created the Colorado river commission. On November 24, 1922, the states of California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah signed a compact. A survey authorized by congress selected Black Canyon ns the site. Two years later the bureau of reclamation recommended Boulder Canyon as a better site, and this site was iY jsv cost'u-sa- s What They Should If we would amend the B, should mend ourselves and v children to be not what we what they should be. Pem the on i or lives. Isa u And Living The man who thinks he i all has merely stopped thin. s ce, ns w GAS, GAS ALL ato Nmts. THE TIME, EAT OR eat or to mi Bair SLI Puritans who came over with Governor Winthrop in 1630. Among others of the name of Baxter In the was George, who has company, many descendants in New York and other states. Baxters of Ohio are of Scotch-Iris- h descent, a great many of them being the posterity of Daniel Baxter, a weaver, who came from Ireland, married a Miss Cook of New Jersey, was living In Greene county, Pennsylvania, In 1778, and died In Pennsylvania In 1S08. Maryland Baxters are descendants of Joseph Baxter, sheriff of Balti- Ji it eri I b Of t! Snfi k t Bleep I A fr Rested Adlenka dose I took bt e relief Now I eat t Bleep fine and n is DC CA ifT heart hurt. imiii 0 SO seter otiiiiiiii linn Uiitiiiuiiiinuiniiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiinuiiiuuiiiiimiuiiiiii y. of The as on mv was ao bad 1 ct There are five purposes. In reality, more In 1779. behind the construction of Boulder Andrew Baxter was a first lieuDam. The project will regulate tenant In the American Revolution flood water, control silt, In Col. Wade IIamilton'3 regiment irrigate the thirsty valleys, create cheap elecof Light Dragoons; was captured by tric power and provide a supply of the British and held prisoner at water for the cities in the southCharleston. western area which It serves. The arms used here are ascribed It will be about six weeks before to Thomas Baxter of Key West, A? r if i J Fla., In 18S2, a descendant of the z the power generated at the plant will be used. The power plant, English branch of Wolverhampton. which will be operated by the city f i of Los Angeles and the Southern A Munro? ,'i y , California Edison company, will AT'HE Munros are of an ancient A and eventually generate 6, 000, 000, 000 powerful Scottish clan Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the whose Kilowatt hours of energy every territory was on the north year. The Installed capacity will interior, changed the name of the side of the Firth cf Cromarty. It be 1,S35,000 horsepower, which may dam from "Hoover to "Boulder. is said that they are descended from be compared with the 575,500 horseThe In the Boulder Canyon art the original tribes of Moray. accepted power which the United States head of the family Is known as the both houses passed by and signed Munro of generates at Niagara Falls. Foulis, and the war cry It Is expected that the city of Los by President Coolidge In 1928. is "Castle Foulis Ablaze." Their President Hoovers proclamation la is Club Moss. Angeles will take over operation of 1929 badge declared the act In effect! the generating plant May 1, but It The Clan Munro has contributed In 1950 contracts to deliver wuter will probably be more than a year men to its own and provide electric power were many distinguished and tlielr descendants have before all the power required by country, the city will be generated tlrcre. signed. On September 17 of that been a constructive influence In other countries. In the Swedish army About May 1 the Southern Nevada year, Ray Lyman Wilbur, seeletary of the Interior, dioxe the fust spike under Gustavus Rower company will begin Adolphus during serving in the construction of a railroad to cheap Boulder Dam power to Las the dam iiiiiiiiiii timin'! li a ininii uiiiiiaiiinaui lujiumtmti ptiiiiiiini then and site, there givVegas and the adjoining territory the ing the name project Hoover In Nevada. The company has conI . ... S. Dam. This name It bore, In honor . " t tracted with the state of Nevada of the man who had had more to for 4,000,000 kilowatt hours per do with its realization than any year, at rates which will begin at 2 6 mills per kilowatt hour. It is other, until the present secretary of the Interior re named it "Boulexpected that these rates will be der Dam on May 4, 1933. decreased as time goes on. President Dedicates Dam. Cost of Making Power. Construction contracts were a warn-e- d The primary cost of generating to the Six Companies, Inc., In power at the dam is estimated at 1931, and the actual work 1.G3 mills per kilowatt began hour, and on March 11 of that year. Diversecondary power at .5 mill per kilo- sion of the river was completed the watt hour. Capacity Is 750,000 horsefollowing year, and the first com power primary and 750,000 horseCrete placed In the dam in 1933, Former President Herbert Hoover, power secondary. Towers 109 feet LWA funds were allotted 3Uutu to the the carry electricity 275 miles for whom the dam was originally high in 1934 to project make tutu iflrnti nil from the dainlnto California, Nelaiiiiiniiim imunm miiniiuitmi'iiiiimiiipts possible Its named. completion two years ahead of vada and Arizona the In thi Seventh Continental wars scheduled time. T tie dam was The most expensive of the addid material could have built a standwere there century twenty-seve- n and the exactly tional projects In connection with storage of water beard highway across the entire confield officers and eleven captinent. Instead, It has built a grent the dam Is the aqueduct which will gun last jear. tains by the name of Munro. A pleasant result incidental to wall 1,180 feet long, 053 feet thick curry drinking water to the city of The first settler in this country the construction of the dam will be at the base and 45 feet thick at the Los Angeles. The great duct, when by the name of Munro was William, the a of opening up vust will recreationhe more than 200 top. completed, who was born In Scotland In 1625. al and scenic wonderland alon- The finish of construction was miles long and will cost $220,000,-(rfKthe lie located In Lexington, Mass., In of the artificial lake and hailed by Secretary of the Interior An ambitious undejtaklng, It wn'ers 1651. the river above it. The Is L. In Harold lake Is exIntended to care for the needs likes Washington, I. The name Is spelled la various cellent for fishing, boating and In the of water of the greatly Increased C., as "another milestone the most familiar In this wajs, sw limning, and added to the attrachistory of the West. populations w liieh are expected In country perhaps being the spelling tion of the dam for .Man has asserted Ills mastery Los Angeles and other southern curiosity seek- Monroe. ers are the presence over a great and dangerous river, California cities In the future. One of the first of this neaiby of the family to one which ondangeied tens of thouIt is through the sale of power Grand Zion and Bryce canyons settle In the Southern states was Already visitois sands while It was uniegiihited, hut that the govunment expects to nio arriving in Andrew Monroe, who came to Marywhlih will he an active beneiit to get hack all of the taxpayers money considerable number. The Hvera-- e land and died In Virginia In 1068 is about l.oiio a now that It has been bar which will have been spent on millions, ,ay Last yeaFs James Monroe, fifth President of total was approximately Boulder Dam. iiessod," said likes, the United States, was a great-gran400 0n(), According to Sec "The people of southern Callfor lelary' lekes. it will he repaid to mid cliini ofiielnls estimate that If ton of Andrew. will not be long hefoie The Munro plaid Is red, black and ilia, Arizona and Nev ad i nre to he the federal government with 4 In they p(.r erense to half H tan. million a n 50 years congratulated, for the security of cent lntere-- t Tubllo LeUger, Inc. WNU Service. Win N. ( r On tayear s r g Baxter? name Is taken from i uu1Ps Institution they were ana I to new developments In iJ turning and plastique X folds genius In usm- - I as painters use the content tubes. lie g stlnct when it came Some of his girls had a n.! as! than beauty- -a unique characterise t would never see. I have often sat with and wondered why" Iff certain types. There m I the faintest glimpse of & a long, lean body and place face hut afterwards, girl was made up and what a magnificent that long, lean body wasfot nerlike draperies, and how ti ness of that face had arr.in into txvo eyes that looked " and a mouth adventurous citing. Fannie Brice in c tan Magazine. better Adlerika acts an BOTH up lower bowels while ordinary act on the lower bowel only. gives your system a thorough : bringing out old, poisonous mr you would not believe was inj tem and that has been caL pains, sour stomach, for months. Dr. H. L. Shoub, New York, r. In addition to intestmalck Adlerika greatly reduces A. st Im Lie 1st t f lie d h S'cir c: dspe rHd steiei qm no 1. and colon bacilli " ppo Give your stomach and bowels s cleansing with Adlerika and good you feel. 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