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Show THE UTE SENTINEL PAGE TEN - Queer Transports Still in Business Natal, without employing a Zulu rlkshnman? The dark-hued tribesman ln gay-feathered headdress and scant clothing, ls one of the colorful fen· tures of the South African clty. In remote Szechwan province, China, wheelbarrows, which are the local transports. have worn ruts in flagstone pavements: ln Sumatra, if one goes native, he must travel in a buffalo-drawn cart whose thatched top is shaped like a sway-backed horse, pointed at each end. In Palermo, Sicily, the purely Slclllan way to get about town is by native cart, a two-wheeled vehicle on whose side panels are gayly depleted Bl· ble scenes and Slct11an panoramas; and tn Ireland, the Irish jaunting car on which passengers slt back to back ana tace outward lends at- In Odd Contrast With Modern Speedy Traffic. Wastilngton. - Record- brea ktng streamline trains and glan~. alrllners bave recently been news sensations ln America; Italy ts atlU applaud· lng an air-minded son wbo sped through the atr more than 400 mile~ an hour a short time ago; and Great Br.ltaln Is just quieting down after ~elebrating the victory of two of her flyers who won the Londonto-Melbourne alr race. Modern transportation, this. But one can stlll find types of tran~ portatloo facilities, even in the worldts largest cities and their rural neighborhoods, that were ln use decades and even centuries ago. ~here ls not a sizable town tn the United States In which one cannot ball a taxi. and ln many of them charter a plane; yet the top-hat· ted cabbie, whose pompous figure beld sway over tratflc on boulevarl'l~ 1n the gay nineties has not been entirely shelved:' says the Natlona: Geographic society. ''These •taximent of another era have jealously watched as new traffic lights havE> been installed, traffic lanes hnve been painted to keep modern motorIsts from crushln~ bumpers and fenders, and streets have been ;widened and trees sacrificed to make room for more of their rivals ; yet they still constitute something of a traffic problem. ••wtthln sight of concrete, 40-mllean-hour blghwaye, and less than a hundred miles from \Vashington, D. C., and Annapolis. Md., o:x-drawn velllc1P.s still lumber along: while in tbe isolated mountnln regions of the 'Vest, sure-footed burros ant! vack mules continue to be the only companions of many rugged prospectors. ..Millions of visitors arrive at Atlantic City by automobile, nlrplane and train, ~t to see the 'sights' along tbe boardwa~ they hlre three.w heeled rolling chairs. Others arrive at Bermuda aboard palatial teamshlps. hut take to bicycles to tour the tsland. "On the corners of modern, wtcle thoroughfares of Shanghai, HongKong and Canton, China, the traveler hails the rikslla and weaves perlJously through a maze of motor and pedestrian traffic. In the alleylike back streets tlf the native towns, however, be may prefel" a sedan chat!" to avoid jostling men and women and stumbling over children to whom these mere byways are plu,ygrou nds. .. What traveler leaves Durban. <~u.ite a social gathering can be depended on when Mr. and Mrs. Chimpanzee entertain their relatives at tea in their Detroit apartment. The entire famil.Y Is being trained for public appear· ances at the zoo theater next spring, and the occasional tea party Is the only relaxation the young thespians get from the tirIng rehearsal routine. mosphere to a tour of the Emeralu Isle. •'Llamas stU carry loads ln the Andes, and elphants still are favored among the tiger hunters of lndla. In spite of progress in Belglum, the morning milk Is stl11 dell vered by dogcart at many a doorstep, and dog sleds are yet the most dependable transportation in the icy wastes of the Arctic anrl Antarctic. The tired explorer enjoys comfortable travel in a hammocklike 'chair' borne by native porters In central Africa; tbe mountaineers of northern India and western China employ the yak as their beast of burden; the camel still plods the caravan routes of • Torth Africa, Arabia and central Asia; anrJ the carabao (water buffalo) ~ the dependable draft animal or the East Indian islands." Father Slays His Girl to !--lalt "Life of Sin" ILights of New York Henry Goddard Leach, eilltor or the Forum and recently elected president of the Poetry Society of America, received much publicity when, just after he had concluded an editorial on crime, he was slugged anct robbed in Central park. Bls case was by no means unique, however. There have been many holdups In the biggest open space ln the heart of .Manhattan. A number of them have never even come to the atteptlon of the police, though ln some instances, injuries were In· fllcted and considerable sums lost. The victims were unable to Identify their assailants, and conffidered themselves lucky to get off' as lightas they did. Others withheld ly The girl chum says she likes to reports because they feare.-l their cry at the movies because It gives publicity. Residents tn the vicinher one more chance to use her Ity of the park hesitate to walk in make-up kit in public. evenings, especially in the upper it WNU Service. • • • • • • •, By L r.. sTEVENsoN I I"eacues. There are pleasant walks -but there are also criminals, hoodlums and degenerates. • • • Central park covers an area ot 844 acres. It ts easily the most valuable piece of land In America, yet lt lR pollced by something Ilk& 100 men, only a portion of which are really eft'ectlve since polleemen, Injured or convalescing from injuries are assigned to parks. The result ls attacks. rowdyism, vandalism and even in broad daylight. annoyance of girls and women by degenerates. Some time ago. there was talk or reviving the ..sparrow cops"-plaiu clothes men who pa. trolled Central park-but nothln~ came of it. The best explanntlon of lack or proper pal"k policing seems to be lack of funds. • • • bootblack who shined my shoes on Eighth avenue had the hands of an artist. Also he had a sense of humor. He was chu<'klin~ over a recent happen1ng. Along with a number of others of hls trade he had been arrested and talten to a pollee station. The arrest occurred shortly after one o'clock. and by the time they were nil registered and tnken Into court, it was well after 2 :30. They were nll given a day ln ja11 by the mngl::Jtrate. and after sentence were herded tn a big room. At S :30. they \Vere turned out, a jail day officlallv ending at four. And the bootblack was tickled because he had served a day in less than an hour. The • • • Owners of shoe shining parlo and stands are the ones who make trouble for bootblacks, my Informant said. The men tn the street If It take a way their buslnes9. weren't for those complaints. tbe cops wouldn't bother them nt all. e declared, cops being hnman. after \Vhen he remonstrated with all. a cop for arrestln~ him. the officer informed him that the owner ot the nearby store was brol.:e. "Baa he got a bed '?'• the bootblack asked the policeman. ''Sure. he's got a hed,'' was the reply. ''Then he atn•t Expects to Make Crossing in talnlng that the Queen Mary will be as broke as I am." dectnref1 the the largest liner, the French have bootblack. The cop took the bootNinety-Six Hours. announced n set of fl~ures to prO\'e black around the corner and sal~ ''Beat it." lt will be their Normandle. Lonclon.- New York wlll be • brought wlthln 96 hours of the EuW. Reid Blair, director ot the ropean continent when the giant Thief Sends Owner Check zoo, Is a tradition shatterer. Bronx British liner. Queen Mary. launched Stolen Had He Stock for don't know any more about Animals last September, takes her place tn Salem, Ohio.-.Tefferson Schawl. whether a winter will be mild or sethe Atlantic steamer service. in human vere than do human beings, be The schedule now being worked sixty, has a new fnlth honesty. holds. If they store np a lot or out for the liner wlll provide for recently thief unidentified An it means nothing more than food a 96-hour passage between Chertwo is plenty. If they grow stole there and that home his lnto broke bourg and New York, at an averaJe 100 for each certificates, stock tt is because there Is coats, thick speed or 32% knots-four knots and their henltb Is week food one of Just plenty stock. faster than the fastest crossing ever shares of made. This would bring her near later Schawl received a letter from good, also because nature has a to the dirigibles with respect to the unidentified thief who, It de- way of providing for emergencies veloped, ltad a c:msclence. \Vith the and thus supplying the animal wltb speed. a coat heavy enough for the cold. was a check for $2,100. letter One hundred and eleven hours The note told Schawl that the est part of lts range. As for th& is the present record for the Cherit's merely a groundbourg-New York passage, made a writer bad sold the stock to an groundhog, few weeks ago by the liner Bremen Akron brokerage firm. But the hog nnd not a weather forecaster. The actual Atlantic record is held thief apparently had succumbed by the Itallan liner Rex, which in to his conscience and had sent the Subway eavesdropping: "' tells August. 1933, covered the 8,181 check to the owner. hlrn I'll square lt np as sooD as 1 mlles from Gibraltar to New York get a brenk, an' he snys an rlgbt in 109 hours at an average of 28.92 Mail Carrier Retired here's a break for you-an' busts a beer glass on me head." knots. After 30 Y eara Service To make up for delay due to fog @. Bell Syodlcate.-WNU Sem Westminster, Mass.-Now that or bad weather, the Queen Mary, if the 96-hour schedule Is to be Frank A. Adams. rural mall car"ROPED," AS IT WERE maintained, will sometimes have to rler, has been retired on pension, travel at a considerably higher he can slt by the cracker barrel In the general store and reminisce speed than 321A, knots. "about: the that howevert asserted, It ls The more than 270,000 miles he reserve power in the propelllng rna· chlnery ls great enough to drive the covered in hls 30 years as mall cargtant at 84 to 85 knotst without rler. The various types of vehicles he causing undue vibration or making her ship much water in rough used to carry the mall-horse and buggy, bicycle, motorcycle, automoweather. The Queen Mary apparently must bile, snowmobilet the sleigh he used "Been taking in any of tbe countJ be content with being the world',g for 111 consecutive days during the speediest ship, rather than both severe winter of 1918-19, and thP. fairs? .. "Yes. rve been taken ln at DlOst days when be shuffled from mailbox that and the world's largest. of 'em... \Vhlle British interests are main· to mailbox on snowshoes. New British Liner After Sea Record • • • • • New Yo!·k.-Chlldlsh accusation succeeded where pollee grilling had failed when .John Santnpaelo, undertaker, conf~y·sed he slew his marrled daughter and seriously wound· e!l her man friend. Stoically withstanding repeated pollee cross-questioning, Santapaelo broke down and confessed when seven-year-old Joseph Cincotta point· ed an accusing finger and said: .. You kllled my mother. grandpa." Santapaelo's shoulders sagged. He grabbed Joseph and hls three-yearold brother John ln his arms and caressed them. Tears streamed down hls cheeks as he sobbed: "Yes. I killed her. She was a scarlet woman. I k11led her because she was living a life of sin. I kUled her to protect these two Innocent "A girl generalfy chooses the nar· boys from seeing what a mother row rath when she's driven to it.'' they had." ••••• , By NINA WIL.CPX PUTNAM Tea Party at the Zoo in Detroit 1!/ABBY !]ERTlE I l •••, WITTY KITTY Midvale. 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