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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1937 PACT SIX U. P. To In The Sports' World "LITTLE GIAHT" STOPS BACK-ROLLIN- Features to G Z V HEADLINE HUNTER p WlNC 17-C- ar Streamline Tral James Harvey of Honolulu, succeeded in landing a 620 pound swordfisb, which broke the previous record of 568 pounds. VV. " Afirl pT77mans "Two-stor- y" JJ among the new features of th streamline trains now , construction, to be delivered for sen-icbetween LoS Aneeul? Chicago and between San fW and Chicago, according to offlc3 the Union Pacific railroad. In these unusual sleeping ra j signed by the Pullman company i will be "upstairs- - and "downsil single bedrooms, each with suffti headroom for the passenger to I erect. The new Union Pacific traiJ be the first streamline trains to I accomodatoins of this type the result of long experimentatil obtain the most comfortable arre ment of the rooms. All the usual let facilities obtain in each bed! For daytime use, these cars are! ably furnished for comfortable kf ing and complete privacy. The new Los Angeles train wif place the present streanf 17-c- ar e Horse racing is the most popular 6 port in Australia. ? Dice shooting is the oldest form of gambling in the world. 'fyj' L- - a J Two-ma- n bob sleds used at Lake Placid winter resort weigh 352 pounds and are 9 feet long. They are made of steel and cost from $500 to 'Torn y4part" $600, By FLOYD GIBBONS. One million people paid to attend Bill dog shows In 1935. f T HAVE "been reading your thrillers in the' papers," writes A King of Belmont, Mass., "and I am writing you my adventure Joe McCarthy, New York Yankee to see if what I've been through is good enough to publish. If not, manager, never played in the major it' things like that that waste baskets are made for." leagues. Well sir, the answer to Bill's implied question is "Yes." The answer to that big, hungry waste basket is "No." I wouldn't have missed Bill's Lefty Gomez, Yankee pitcher is the yam for a million bucks, because it's a strange and rare adventure only pitcher to have two victories in as well as one that will curl the hair on the back of your neck. the games. Bill is the only man I ever heard of who has had to fight for his life with an infuriated seal. Chicago and Boston are the only Bill went into the sealing business when he was seventeen. He was two National League teams that born and raised in Newfoundland, and plenty of sealing ships set were charter members of the league Bill had lived. out each year from the port of St. John's near where he in 1876. wanted to go sealing for a long time, and finally, In the winter of 1923, when organized him to his dad let go. he prevailed upon Bucvk Newsom of the Red Sox and Bill Becomes a "Dog" for the Seal Gunner. Lamar Newsome of the Athlettics are Things were a little strange at first, but after a while he got used cousins although their last names are to them. And then, when spring came along, Bill got so he actually liked spelled differently. the business. That's because Bill had always loved hunting, and after April Ty Cobb, Tiger outfielder, led the or thereabouts, when the ice breaks up, seals have to be hunted American League in batting 12 times with rifles, just like any other game. They made Bill what they snice 1900. eaU a "dog" for the gunnersort of a gunner's assistant wLose Job it was to carry extra shells and keep an account of the numSorne matadors make as high as ber of seats shot. for a single bull fight. The The account books of a seal hunter are pretty simple. When Bill's $5,000 last about 15 generally fights gunner shot a seal, Bill just cut off the tip of its tail to prove it. "Once talked." Tail no was "there had Bill, argument. tips you it," says And one of those tail tips doggone near talked Bill King into an early Dominic Dallesandro, Boston Red grave. Sox recruit outfielder is only 5 feet, Resurrection. a Seal "Dead" Noisy Stages 4 inches tall. It was a bright warm day, early in April 1924, and Bill was kept plenty busy cutting off tail tips too busy, he says, to be careful. "As Don Gutteridge, St. Louis Cardinal you know," he writes (I didn't know, but let it go at that) "a seal, in third baseman and Ray Mueller, Bosthe late season, can get very mad when you arouse him from a sun ton Bee catcher, are cousins. bath, and boy, can they run!" Bill was running around slicing those tall tips off the dead Larry French, Chicago Cub pitcher, seals his gunner shot, and he did pretty well until he came to an was credited with three victories in extra large piece of floating ice. "It was right in close to shore," four days in 1931, when pitching for he says, "and the seals were coming up all the time to let the sun the Pittsburg Pirates. play on them. As it happened, a very big seal came up and stretched himself out alongside of a dead one and I didn't know teeth and mouth. he was alive. I cut the tail off the dead seal and slipped it into the The great white shark is often call " bag I carried, and then shark. The man And then, Bill did just what you're thinking he was going to. He ed the out a is sometimes let eater and That seal has off teeth live seal! a big reached over and tried to cut the tail roar that scared Bill half out of his senses. Then he turned and took thirty feet long. The hammerhead is a queer shark. after Bill. has its eyes on the ends of bulges It One. Bill's Plight Was Becoming a Most Unhappy stick out from each side of its that their Those brutes have sharp teeth and powerful jaws, for all .harmless atroearance. and Bill says they can move across the ice head. with those awkward looking flippers as fast as a man can run. As fast THOMAS EDISON as Bill could run, anyway. When the seal roared, sm aroppea nis Dag behind was gainThomas seal Edisons schooling was But him, the and started scrambling away. right have sealer A to more limited months. At 11 he bethree inch. inch on might experienced by him, ing fought him off with his knife, but Bill was new at the game, and that came a newsboy, later he became a bellowing animal behind him was frightening him half to death. telegraph operator. His first inven BUl's gunner, who had started to laugh when the seal tions were in the field of telegraphy. He invented the carbon telephone charged, now saw that it was a serious matter, and was edging around on the ice trying to get into a position where he could transmitter almost contemporaneous shoot the beast without hitting Bill. And then, suddenly, came, ly with Berliner and sold it to the the end. Before he knew it he had reached the edge of the ice Bell company. Out of this work came cake, leaped over it and tumbled into the water. the idea for one of his most original That made matters iust about a hundred times worse. On the ice, the phonograph. The elec inventions, A seal have Rill had an even chance. In the water he didn't any. is more controversial, since tric light can move like lightning in water. A man, as a rule, has all he can men were working in many capable do to keep afloat. the field and several had produced Enraged Seal Charges on Helpless Hunter. light in glass tubes before Edison, "If I live to be nine hundred years old, I'll never forget but Edison's light proved more prac Bill: Says the. frieht I eot in that next tew moments. I couldn't swim, because tical. In 1887 Edison patented the mo there was ice all around me and my heavy clothes were weighing me tion picture machine. Edison was one down. I clung to the edge of the ice for support. of the most prolific inventors holding "The seal wasn't ten feet away. Even if I had been able to over 1,200 U. C. patents besides forpull myself out of the water, I wouldn't have had the time. I eign ones. Edison was not considered thought of my knife then only to remember that I had dropped a profund scientist, but was a gen it as I ran. I was helpless. And the seal kept coming on." ius at embodying scientific principles Bill's gunner knew seals even better than Bill did. He knew that EU1 in practical devices. was in grave danger like to be torn to pieces by the animal's slashing snout. It Was a Case of Straight Shooting or Death. He knew, too, that he had to make a direct hit kill with one shoU lor a wounded seal can be even more terrible than one that is simpflr tnnoyed. He lifted his gun and ran in closer. It takes a long time to tell it, but actually, everything happened in a few seconds. Bill, clinging to the ice, watched that seal streaking toward him over that scant ten feet of ground and gave himself up for lost. He was about to let go of the ice when suddenly he heard a shot. IN SALT LAKE CITY The seal gave a convulsive leap and fell dead in his tracks. Thsa the gunner was at Bill's side, helping him out of the water. That A Hotel of hospitality gunner's face was white as a sheet, and he told Bill he never in hU and Refinement life saw a man come so close to being torn apart. As for Bill well1! was quite a while before he could stand on his feet again without Ml knees buckling under him. HOTEL All-St- ar man-eatin- Interesting Stories SHARKS Sharks have a bad reputation. It's such a bad reputation the sharks aren't able to live up to it. Some sharks are probably dangsrous to man. There isn't any doubt that sharks will eat a man found dead in the water. Pieces of human bodies have been found in the stomachs of captured sharks. But there is no evi dence that sharks will attack and eat living man. It is known that the fish called the barracuda will attack a man in the water and tear him to pieces. But sharks are really more timid than is generally supposed. There are many sharks that could not attack men if they desired to. Some of the biggest sharks have small teeth and live on very small pieces of food. Such is the huge basking shark, the largest of them all. The basking shark is said to grow to a length of seventy feet. Yet the backing shark couldn't eat a man if he tried, due to its type of AMBASSADOR up-grad- e. Laboratory on Mount Evans Built to Solve Mystery of Great Power Supply On lonely Mt. Evans, a 14,000-fopeak near Denver, Colo., stands the only laboratory of its kind. It was erected recently to study the mysterious cosmic rays which pelt the earth like bullets.. The source of these rays from ths sky is a riddle. Scientists, however, are fascinated by them because they can penetrate lead In 100 times farther than the thin air of a mountain top the rsys Ere found to be more numerous than at sea level. They represent the largest "packet" of enthe ergy available on earth. If will rays can be harnassed, they of provide a tremendous supply perpetual power. The first permanent cosmic-ra- y laboratory was specially designed by Denver University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is built of heavy timbers in the shape of a triangle to resist the arctic gales and heavy snows which fall nine months of the year. To protect the delicate recording instruments from the weather and lightning, the entire building has been covered with copper roofing. The roofing, a product of the Copper Roofs company of Salt Lake City, was invented several years ago and has now spread all over the country. The construction methods used cut costs in half and made the roofing available for the average residence. As a result, the mines of Utah have had their market enlarged by this fast growing industry which is already using over a million pounds of its copper yearly. Prominent users of the roof in Utah include the International Smelting company, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y Saints, International Housing corporation. Anaconda Copper Mining company and the federal government. ot s. Massed Snoozers Very much unlike the hotels of more recent times, the early Ohio tavern frequently would take care o 50 travelers in one night by arranging them on some sort of mattresses on the floor in one large room. They would lie in a circle, with their feet in the center. Inevitable Work Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. s Angeles! ELWOOD By Mrs. H. P. Kasmussen TO PLUCK OR NOT TO PLUCK Cosmic Rays to Be Studied Chicago-to-Lo- will follow the same fast 393 1 schedule and will be known a "City of Los Angeles" when itf into service. It is designed to I 244 passengers, nearly 50 per more man tne present streamli: that schedule. The new San Francisco strea will be called the "City of San j riqrrw" And fllar' J will ..... rmoMt-vvihlc yu I hour schedule. Better known as Studebaker's exclusive, automatic Hill Holder, the "UttU Giant? shown in the man's hand above, is the mechanism which, as part of Studebaker's hydraulic braking when stopped system, prevents the car from rolling backward The driver of the Studebaker in the photoon an graph above is holding the car on a 26 grade by merely is to keeping the clutch pedal depressed. The right foot free When operate the foot accelerator for a smooth start forward. the Hill Holder is used, the car will not roll back at all, it Is claimed. Sensible Prices For Rooms and Food A The answer to the flower gardener's question, "To pluck or not to pluck?" depends principally upon whether the flowers are annuals of perennials. With few exceptions, annuals are helped by picking, according to flowe er experts of the Seed Breeding Institute. Stripped of their flowers, most annuals will bring forth new crops of blooms as beautiful as the earlier ones. Annuals have but one season in which to produce seed, and they kep unceasingly at the task until cold weather halts them. With perennials, of course, the story is different. They flower once, or perhaps twice, a season. Some perennials are more likely to flower a second time, later in the season, than others. Prominent in this group are the Delphinium, Sweet William, Perennial D'ianthus and Pyrethrum. If a second bloom from these perennials is desired, gardeners are advised to cut off the flower stalk shortly after the bloom has passed its prime.. Should it be desired to use the flower of the perennial as a house decoration, it should be cut off when in its prime. Another question is, how to pluck. The great majority of flowers should be cut, with scissors or knife. With viola, pansy and nasturtium, it is best to trace the flower stem to its base, and break it there. The sweet pea can literally be plucked by pulling the flower stem upward and backward from the axil from which it springs, at the same time holding firm the portions of the vine nearby. This method, when mastered, is more desirable than cutting because it is speedier and somewhat easier, and it leaves the stem better able to take up water. Ferry-Mors- welcome-hom- e program dance for Miss Wanda Andersef turned missionary, will be given1 Friday, commencing at 8 p. m. public is invited. The Petersen-Jense- n reunion was in Logan canyon last week. A number from here attended ana joyed the gathering very much. H. P. Pvasmussen conducted a tism service at Gar land Satuf than 25 people were athered. Al program was rendered J. J. S way gave a splendid talk to the dren, who were baptized. Five of the stake were represented, children were baptized. The Elwood M. I. A. had a real ing on Saturday and Sunday al LiOgan canyon. About bo people f. ..a in attendance. On Saturday all of sports and a picnic was er.jtr Early Sunday morning at sunrisi . bugle called all together and afii $ program was rendered. " Anne Andersen and Gertrude Er. sen went from there to Prestoil r Mink Creek to participate in the bration on Monday. Fred Barfus, Elias Andersen, bert Bessinger and Henry Rhodf turned from a week's work at mine in Nevada. They report prospects. Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Friday children accompanied Dr. and Vern Fridal of Los Angeles, to lowstone Park last week. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hansen children spent the wreek in Ye stone Park, in company with Mr. Mrs. John Barfus and children. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hunsaker to Sugar City, Idaho, to visit tji r daughter and family, Bishop and S I Murdock. T. A. Meldrum and family sp Monday in Provo, visiting Mr. f f drum's mother. . 1 StadlelbakeiSj IdDw price tag me sums J Sir? 5v7 mm A IS ij A Food is Good Health New Linen New Silver Spic and Span Dishes SENSATION IN GAS AND OIL SAVINGS! 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