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Show UINTAH TUSIN RECORD USTRALIAN CATTLE ounted STATIONS 4 VfT x' y, V-f- F!51.:-:1'r-?.'vv-5. - : L ,V ' R t jfefoS&,a9fttoB6U- .urtmtfltfS- ?, 24 V .' )s' MvV .s mustering cati!e. Continent Measured in Square Miles 'UT in the more remote ", rcgins of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia, and in the etk d center of Australia, cat- balli fit. . properties are still meas-p-e- d in square miles, not ires. CREActure single cattle station t. Kma'ser tlan Massachusetts and Look at it also as a band gff miles wide extending all the y from New York to San Fran-:o: or, fantastic thought, a land more than a mile wide all the a ij! y from the farthest side of to Maine! For it is 13,000 Mtiare miles! Dise Jne cattle man, whose station lies Terri-,ofr- J ch u the Queensland-Northery border, tells you quite casually nts horseback jour-u- " it it is a V from his back porch to the iCALik line of his property. iilLike many of the older holdings, le of his land is fenced, so the Pintle often stray far afield. 3Ch )uring the summer months they n"Ave southward into the prevailing to rid themselves of the my- q ids d flies that pester them. Consequently, the station hands often h. 8 ve the task of riding 250 miles to BLJ their stock back to their own iperty. The herds also may wart-S- v 40 or 50 miles in the direction we storms if they . lack water, h iarly one morning a Geographic writer flew out to a cattle sta-- J lin, 300 miles into the Queensland J erior, landed in a field near the ise, and taxied up to the gateway. What One Station Is Like. Biifcthe station was not large as many rg8lithe inland stations run, but it was -joodly block of land 1,200 square PS les pasturing 25,000 head of a o Aus-r-li- n 125-mil- e IDE-C- roce ranges, he saw one rd of 1,500 steers that had just ived from a four months trek n a thousand miles down from the country. From the fattening ddock where they grazed to mar-- t was still another over-i- d titl. journey. ike wjpon food and water hinges suc-s- s or failure. How many times igedy has stalked beside dried-i- ij water holes and parched Whole herds have perished rigorous seasons and the stren-fwu- s labor of cattlemen has come nJ1 dramatic nought. J Hs shearing is the big event on ?ep stations, so mustering for ME'anding and sorting is the chief gtivity on cattle ranches. on this property are d from 15 mustering camps and usually takes four to six months complete the work. .Here, where life is attuned to the tseless moan and bellow of cattle Jout water holes and in branding Jut rals, the American Wild West is Stetson hats fleeted in n have come into fashion in the t few years. fc3i.it , th a the swaggering cowhand handy lariat and a pair of strapped on his thighs unknown. Australian cattlemen, .tend of roping their beasts for in most cases pen them rd randmg, d hold them ran If 200-mil- e C pas-tn'e- han-.Lw- gpi-- 'tes. Is, i Is Rare. Why Duffing" Do you have any cattle rustling? ask. LVrfu y(rWe call it duffing here, replies w, 9U, But its very rare. manager. stances are too great; it doesnt s y. Due story that you hear stands as an excellent example. Sf'cms that two men desired Jill' increase their stock, so when j 1 ins had filled water holes along in,i way, they rode 230 miles to a " it ion and drove off about 300 cat-The ranch ownnrs and police kiked the animals down and ppught them back, together with ib culprits. The men im were then committed to uid trial in Darwin, nearly a thou-i- d miles away. Eventually one viftn pleaded guilty and was to five years imprisonment. Ap" sen-ice- d kw' jjins released. But by the time he t home again he had traveled jii oi ly 3,000 r far mJcs! out in the interior, remote mi railways and easy means of pelt, station homes have f There are no electric in 'k Seth Comes Bach Hy WNU four youthful Chicago crim-inals started out to give Canada a few thrills by staging a crosscountry crime wage, and how these conceited young punks finished up as riddled corpses inside of two weeks, makes one of the best police stories in years. They had had such a long and uninterrupted career in their old home town that they thought that criminal freedom was plentiful everywhere else. Equipped with pistols and ammunition, several bottles of hair oil, a few shirts, and a fine big shiny automobile that had a powerful engine under its hood, the squad set out for the Dominion. Sneaking into Saskatchewan unobserved, the first act was to get the right sort of license plates. This done, and traveling mostly at night, they headed northward and were soon in the heart of the prairie country. Here their projected crime wave was held up a bit, for they took in too much alkali water and were quite ill for several days. Two of them almost died, it was later learned. However, a day or so later they were in the west central part of the province and had "holed up to get their bearings and to see what could be done thereabouts In the way of pulling a profitable job. They finally discovered something that looked promising and sat down to do a bit of planning. Meanwhile, a lone member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was fighting his way along a slippery buffalo trail in an old crate of a car that happened to be one of the three in the whole region. And, as he and lurched along, he saw the dim lights of oil lamps burning in the homestead cabins of the Smiths, the Joneses and the Browns. Further on a bit he would pass the MacDonald homestead in which was kept the only safe and strong box in all the vast prairie territory. Hector MacDonald, which isnt his real name, of course, was a polished, cultured gentleman in whom scores of outlying settlers placed full and complete trust to the extent that they deposited their valuables, without charge, in the great big safe. And, as the lone Man of the Mounted passed, he noticed the MacDonald home in total darkness and decided to investigate. Moving cautiously over to the homesteaders cottage, he peeked Into a window to discover four men hovering over and about the great big safe. Two were standing upright, holding flashlights, and the other two were busy with the knob and dial As the Mounted Folice-ma- n backed away from the window, however, one of the two flashlight-holdespotted him and at once fired a bullet at his head. Being an old timer, he had a bag of tricks ready at hand, so he crumpled up, dropped to the ground, and lay still. Out came the safecrackers, and a moment later they were standing around the body of the dead Mount-iThat is, three of them were, for their expert was still working on the safe. Well, dats one of em outa der way, by cripes, said one. . . . Well rub em out like dis as we go along," said anNo we wont do nuttin of other. der kind, spoke the third. Well do no killin Iessn we hev ter. They hang fer a killin up here. Taint like ol Chi, an there aint no Snor-k- y up here ter help yout of a jam. Meanwhile the lad inside worked feverishly but unsuccessfully on the safe, and the three began discussing ways and means of hiding the policeman's body. And then when the crooks were absolutely oft guard the lone Man of the Mounted moved ever so carefully until his gun hand was in the clear. In that the crooks saw him moving, and pulled their guns. Two of them fired point blank, but the Man of the Mounted was faster, in spite of the fact that he was the last to draw. He fired three times, and hit each one of the three in the forehead. The safecracker inside, knowing that their plans had gone haywire, lit out through the east door and disappeared into the Saskatchewan gloom. Leaving the dead where they lay, the lone Man of the Mounted set out after the fourth, and after hours of searching, finally gave it up. A few days later, the cornered by another Man of the Mounted, tried to shoot his way out, and lost. The Man of the Mounted fired once, while the fired four times, and died. No one can say they didn't get a break, for tlie Men of the Mounted draw their weapons only after the criminal has drawn his. At any rate, these poor, misguided lads had been on Canadian soil less than a fortnight and were now dead. e. month-and-a-ha- r, safe-crack- ROLLS DEVELOPED - prints i double W'HphtPnl&rffonienui or your oluut of lu iirinm wittiuafc nlartft?UH?nts i&o coin Ku prints do 8 f trial separation NORTHWEST PHOTO SERVICE Nortti Dakota Dept K Fargo PHOTO-KRAF- T .... ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Developed with 8 Quality Prints 25c Extra Prints - 3c Wrap coin and film carefully PHOTO KRAFT Box 749 HnU Lakr Cilv. tah They were such a pleasant young marriage had been SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- couple, and their DRUGS N Simple Embroidery For Luncheon Mats By RUTH WYETII SPEARS mats yet, IUEmoreSAYandluncheonmats are be- ' SAMS census IN UNCLE at Washington Americas change from the traditional table cloth saves time and laundry; the color and variety of mats add interest to table settings. A set of sheerest organdie is used with dainty china. The mat shown here is the other extreme. requires intricate equipment, skilled workers. From all corners of the nation come census reports. These are sorted, checked, edited, and finally trans lated into figures on the card puncher below. 1 IWPU"UI more, ing used three times a day. This official nose counters aie already for the 1940 population check, a stupendous job that 1 V 'u V vfc1 1 M. i.x RICHARD ARLLN such a in Holly- A scrambled matrimonial woods background. They had a beautiful home at Toluca lake, a fine young son, the sort of home life that is all too rare in the picture capitals history. Well, heres hoping that the trial separation will be a dismal failure, and that soon the Arlens will be back together again! Information compiled each 10 years by the U. S. census bureau finds its way into thousands of hands and is used for thousands of constructive purposes. The bureau provides Uncle Sams only method of discovering what his people are doing, and of uncovering the popular trends of the times. More frequent nose counts have often been proposed. All Hollywood ft wg V7 cv Ji A 6 CVD . y y It is made of soft blue denim and is embroidered in heavy white cotton. Napkins may be made to Speaking of severed matrimonial bonds, Margot Graham is finally having hers cut, In Reno, but nobody is surprised. For a long time now Its been predicted, what with her living and working in Hollywood, and her husband, Francis Lister, living and working in England. Its been rumored that when she is free the pretty English girl will marry Alan MacMartin, the fabulously wealthy Canadian. was saddened by Jack Dunns death; it was those tragedies that people one of go on talking about for a long time. A superb skater, he had the sort of good looks and personality that made him a "natural for the movies. But, although he was signed up when Sonja Heme was, after their exhibition in Hollywood, he just couldnt seem to get anywhere. Finally came file announcement that he would have the Rudolph Valentino role in a picture based on that actors life. His death, almost immediately afterward, was the result of rabbit fever. match, or plain white napkins may be used. Here are all the directions you will need for the embroidery. Cut the mats the desired size, pulling a thread of the fabric to guide you in cutting the edge straight. Hem the edges by hand inch hems, using matching with cotton sewing thread or raveled threads of the fabric if they are strong enough. Now, blanket stitch over the hems with the embroidery thread as shown here at A. Next, make tiny chain stitches between the blanket stitches as at B. This completes the embroidery for the long sides of the mats. The short ends are embroidered more elaborately. Make a V stitch at the top of every other blanket stitch a3 shown at C. Chain stitches are then made as at D. NOTE; Mrs. Spears latest book gives complete directions for many novelties, gifts and things for yourself and the children. It also fully illustrates 90 embroidery stitches with interesting variations. You will use these again and again for reference. Ask for Book 2, enclosing 25 cents. Address Mr3. Spears, 210 S. St., Chicago. -- Des-plaine- Here's good news for all of you who remember the Seth Parker programs that so many of us used to look forward to on Sunday eve- nings. Remember the delightful group of people who met each Sunday evening in Seth Parker's parlor to sing hymns? All over the country that program was a must on Sundays, and frequently groups of listeners got together and sang the old hymns with the radio folk. Well, Seth is returning to the air this fall, with a big sponsor backing the program. And Phillips Lord, who was Seth, and has been connected with Gang Busters more recently, will once more be saying Start - success for so many years, that they were outstanding side-slipp- rs Yale- and Mrs. Richard Arlcns has disturbed a lot of people who have never met either the delightful Jobyna Arlen or her handsome husband. A split-secon- Virginia THAT BATTLE AT McDOXALD'S FARM lights, no refrigerators. Water in canvas sacks is cooled by evaporation on the shady verandas. Yet life is pleasant, and afternoon tea is an established custom. The radio, magic destroyer of distances, brings the worlds news and music to the family living room. Across the vast region, popularly dubbed the back of beyond, ether waves crackle in the evening with friendly chatter between neighbors perhaps 50 or 100 miles apart, for many stations are equipped with radio sending sets. Doctors from many times that distance prescribe remedies to patients when these radios relay to them the symptoms of a case. Out here the airplane has likewise proved its worth, for flying doctors now race hundreds of miles on their errands of mercy. Now and then, too, a flying parson may drop in on a station to hold a service. Stock Routes Well Maintained. The government maintains a system of stock routes and tends them with religious care, for they are the arteries of a enterprise. Across dry areas they wind and twist to touch every available spring, stream, and billabong. Australias land map is sketched with a number of these long snaky paths which radiate out to railways and seaboard cities. One begins up in the tablelands of Northern Territory and reaches out to the railheads of Longreach, Winton and Charle-vill- e to serve Townsville and Brisbane. Another starts up in southwestern Queensland, swerves through the northeastern corner of South Australia, and follows down the western boundary of New South Wales until it contacts the railway at Cock-burto find eventual outlet at Adelaide. A third trail connects the Kimberley region of Western Australia with Wyndham, whose meatworks op- -' erate during the winter months. In Western Australia, too, another seemingly endless meandering line ties the railheads thrust out into the interior with the expanses of Northern Territory. On these tenuous channels, hundreds of miles in length, you see streams of steers moving out toward the ports, eventually perhaps to provide chilled beef for the London market or bully beef for British Tommies or jack-tarUnlike Argentina, where wild herds once roamed and men needed only to round them up, the Australian cattle industry has been built up gradually from small beginnings Frozen-mea- t of half a century ago. contracts have provided the impetus. In recent years, however, Australia has seen new handwriting on her economic wall. With improved refrigeration facilities and fast ships, fresh chilled meat has come to England from the Argentine. Against it frozen meat cannot compete. Learning to Chill the Meat. So the commonwealth has turned to its scientists to learn whether it, too, can deliver chilled beef to the London market, a distance handicap cf 13,000 miles. In the Brisbane abattoirs experts With have tackled the problem. test tubes and refrigeration chambers, and with bacterial, fungal and yeast growths under their microscopes, they are learning the conditions necessary for neat to maintain its full freshness and color durthat it ing the must be on the high seas. Romance is in their refrigerators, which are controlled to fractions of a degree, and their pipettes reflect future profits, because these quiet workers have been remarkably successful in their experiments. Several trial shiploads of meat, sent in 1034, arrived in Londun without deterioration. To this heartening assurance, the operators of various meatworks quickly reacted; plants aie being altered to meet the new requiiernents. Less spectacular, perhaps, but doubly more profitable than the Nomllcs Once Impoited herds that toam the interior, is the are a paste, hut plain Noodles in the stock fertile pastured dany coastal belt, mainly in New Suuih noodles are made of ordinary wheat Wales, Victoi u, and Queensland Ap- flour and water, egg noodles with UntJ a few years proximately a sixth if the countrys flour and egg. ago noodles were imported from cattle are bred for their milk Germany, hut American manufacturers now supply the market. hand-operate- d PHOTOGRAPHY Elaine a Must' le TJ OW ocl: Ranches of tho 'Down Under' Society, apnred bv National Geographic Washington, D. C. WNU Service, Elliott-Nightinga- Copyright, &&&A Australian cowboys ng G. f Sc & Trial Separations' by Captain V - BDus en of the it olf, Ma. John Barrymore told Twenlieih x that he Just wouldn't play unless his wife played too in Hold That Hiey wanted John, so they had to take Liaine. An ini iilenl was written in especially for her, based on her meeting with him in New Yoik, when she interviewed him for her college paper. But the whole tiling has been handled ho that that hu ident can he temoved without altecting the story. s NERVOUS? Po you fool bo norvouB you want to scream? Are you cro and irritable? io you coid thoae dearoMt to you7 H your nerves are on edp and you feel Rood Kenerai ayatem tonic, try you Wfd Lydia E. IMikhum'B Vex table Compound, ni&da CHperuilly or women For over bU years one woman haa told another how to go smiling thru" with reliable Fmkhamfl Compound. It helps nature build up more phynical remstance and thus helps calm quivering nerve and lessen discomfort from annoying nvmptoma which often female functional disorders. Why not give it a chance toheip YOU? Over one million women have written in reporting wonderful benefit from 1inkham'a Compound. As Becomes a Man I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more ta none. Shakespeare. Century-Fo- The Road to Reno goes on and on, at Universal. They'd thought it would be finished in 24 days. But tin n, her tests took 17 days, (for two reels) instead of half of one. Mrs Hampton is determined to return to the screen, from which she has been absent for ten years. ).S Coroe t AM) I hint a lot of fun ulivn shi took in vr tie inthlmty itiiiirlinont at Solz-nk liitiriiiitioiuil unit hor next picture, Undo for I nrh Othvr got a lot of inibluity . , . Jjtir Bergen km to n iiort to uit inii rii nro com jniiy uhin he hill is loan, tilling just u hot t mn lime non mwle for Clou lie Vi Cm tliv' safety mhi he's onuv liiintise (limin it insured for $10,01)0 , . . Ioiil Ins lor, the man u ho miuln chin uses popular on the mr, thmiuht Inst ii eel, that someone hail sloh n the tinder in tihuh he departs for the unintry alter the Untie Crosby brood-tint- s mid remembered, just before lulling the polne, thot hed let his don liter use it for a Camp lire Cult tinting. iV We'.liro Newse iprr Vntun. OlI)S l.nin-bun- o pro-lis- KILL ALL FLIES Tkr, Co-E- anywhere. w V , ' , 't ,r I i hub I feen on i 0 at Ul Ir i , Jt) r lit H'D feiyu.lN.Y, fell M J L ply PM-r- ti 1 iii r otiuif tii d k.us fl' s. C.1UI ir liVM, II c I.vt nil 1,1 i t if Jlltioi oilnrlrmirt ftTijti Ire 1 ulJeK-mAv- r. EZ2EESII3H3Hii WNU 3233 W Caution and Chance Some get ahead through caution, and some do it by the opposite. wmwt Help Them Clrane the Illooil of Harmful Body V unto Yoiir Vlilnrys r mnstanlly fillpHn, Waste matter from the blod ream, but Itidnevs aomet imea lag in t heir wot k do not at t as Nature Intend d fa'I to remove (rnpuniieg that, if retained, may jioiaon the sstenj find upset the wbote Lody machinery. Nvmpfoma may he rating hiukiche, friilent hcadnn h, atti ks of dirnnews getting up mph!, awaiting, puthne under the eyes t fl.ng of nrvou ninety and Ions of pep and afrngttu Other signs of ludmy or bladder tus-fd- er Tnny be burning, scanty or too Iren iicn t urination. 1 here should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than muhit. I w Joan's 'tJji. Notin' have bon winning rear friend for more thnn forty ycar reputation. They have a ration-wirl- n Are recommend d by grateful people Uie country ovir, Ahk your 1M JlilM |