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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH HE OFFENDS BRITAIN Panama Canal Has r-- --7' Qu of Dignity and Elegance Fire! Thief! 'J Velvet! I By CHERIE NICHOLAS Few Interruptions By PEGGY STOKES WNU borvic High Flood Cause of Recent Traffic Suspension. Too much water, Washington. where engineer! had feared there Bight aonietlm be too tittle, made accessary the closing of the Panama easal to traffic for the better part of day t few weeks ago. The reason for the suspension waa an unusually high flood lo the Chagres river which a 4iachargea Into the canal, make Gatun lake through which ships pass, snd Is the chief source of water for Derating the locks. A special dam to cost $ l!5.5Of,nO0, Is under construction now, designed to prevent an overabundance of water in the canal In the future, and to bold an additional upply In reserve for the dry aeason. The chief damage wrought by the flood, probably not over $50,000. was te the uncompleted dam. 12 Ships a Day for 18 Years. "On December 1, 1932. exactly 6.C82 days had passed since the canal was opened to the commerce of the world ; and on only a little handful of these days had there been no procession of ships pausing from Atlantic to Pacific or from Pacific to Atlantic. The few and brief occasions when traffic was uspended were for the mow part during the early days of the c&ual's service, when landslides hud to be cleared from one or another of the deep cuts. "Up to July 1 last, when the canal had been open Just 4.1 days short of IS years, an average of Just under 12 hips had pawned through the water way every day almost 'half a ship an hour, if ontakes his statistical averages that seriously," says a bulletin from the Nutlontil Oeographlc society. "The Panama canal is a gateway of pos-albl- Is Happy at School in Spite of Bone Disease Annnbelle Fessler, suffering most of her life with eleven bone breaks, has attained one of her big desires. She goes to the public School In Blue Kldge, not as other boys and girls, but has to he carried For several years the child sat at the window of her home and watched children at piny In the school yard, near her home. Because of her ailment, which left her bones brittle and easily broken, she was not able to go Inrt. Shelbyville, to ' school. She has been a patient several times In the Itlley hospital at Jndlnmipolls. Thyslclans there are hopefu that some day Annnbelle will outgrow the trouble. IJer legs are In braces, heavy, awkward, but she Is happy to be at school with the other children. British Shaft Will Honor Pocahontas England. The Norwich consistory court has Issued a decree permitting the erection in the lleacham parish church yard of a monument to Pocahontas, who Is said to be burled there. Tocahontas, among other distinctions, set the fashion for American girls by being received at the English Royal court. She died off Gravesend In 1617 after having set sail for Virginia with her husband, John Rnlfe. Norwich, the seas. Merchants snd their products through it, as medieval traders sent their caravans through guarded gates of fortified cities. One can see the traffic coming through the Panama 'gate and tell much of the countries from which the goods come. "From Argentina's plains come, meat, bone fertilizer, and tankers with blood; from Brazil, coffee; from Mexfrom the West Indies, ico, crude-oil- ; bamboo, sugar; from the tea, peanuts, fireworks, gallstones, hemp, coconut oil, and rice; from Australia, cold storage products, beef, casein, cheese, mutton, pork, tallow; from California, fruit, oil, apricot seeds, borax, onions, walnuts; from Washington and Oregon, lumber and salmon; from Vancouver, wheat; from Chile, nitrates and Iodine; from Peril, guano; and from the South seas, copra. A Bridge of Water. "In the language of engineers the Panama canal Is not a canal at all; It is a 'water bridge. It Is said to be the first great 'water bridge' In history. The engineers' term does describe the canal more accurately than Its popular title. From the Colon en trance, guarded from 'northers' by breakwaters. It Is about seven miles to Gatun locks. At the lock gate to the right of an Incoming steamer Is the great flat tin dam more than a mile and a half lout;. It Is this dam which mines the Cliagres river to the dignity of a 'water bridge.' "Through vast, artificial C.attin lnke. so formed, steamers plow 24 miles until they reached the Culebra or Hall-larcut, severing the mountainous backbone of North, Central and South America. In the eight-milOalllard cut. the most dramatic excavation work occurred. "At the Pedro Miguel locks, called 'Peter Maglll' locks by the Americans, the ships step down from their "water bridge.' Crossing the mile-lonlake they reach the two locks and sea level. It Is eight miles from here to deep water in the Pacific .Gatun dam raises the 'water bridge' to the height of a seven story building." Far-Eas- t, e g Mira-(lore- s Mira-flore- s m mh i v. .v it : Itiza Shah Pahlevi, the shah of Persia, who sent a note to the British foreign office that was declared extremely In it he warned the British offensive. government that If a single soldier or marine were sent to guard the Oil company's oil fields, be would regard it as a direct provocation. The trouble had its beginning when Persia cancelled the company's concession. n Anglo-Persia- Anglo-Per-Ria- n Mining Company Gleans Gold From Old Dumps Tonopah, Nev. That fortunes from little Ideas grow. Is being exemplified here by Mark Bradshaw, a miner, who Insisted back In 1924 that Ooldfield miners were careless men, who sought wealth In large chunks. Bradshaw strove desperately to finance a company devoted to gleaning mineral from the dumps and refuse of the old abandoned mines. It was a silly proposal, said other miners. But Bradshaw. persisted and since 1!''4 has paid stockholders more than $182,000 on a minor Investment. He was right. The old dumps were rich .In gold, which pioneer mining methods failed to extract old-tim- e No Mystery in Plant Accidents Causes in Most Cases Are Easily Ascertained. Washington. The public has gained the Impression, from published accounts of airplane crashes, that most of them ore due to unaseertainable. causes. As a matter of fact, of 1,502 airplane accidents that took place In lim the cause of only half a dozen, remains unknown. This misconception arises from the fact that the aeronautics branch of the United States Department of Commerce has tio authority for making public results of specific investigations. The Interstate Commerce commission, In Its Investigation of railway nccl-dentcan hold hearings, snbpena witnesses, and compel testimony which is Immune from use In suits against a railroad resulting from the accidents In question. Not so with the aeronuutics branch in Investigation of plane crashes. An Last Stone Placed 70 Stories in Air 0yl an absurd thing, the quarrel IT that made Marian decide not to marry Stewart Brownley. It wasn't that they didn't love each other. They But they were both a bit hot did came out tempered, and when Stewart allow flatly and said he wouldn't Marian to work after she was married, they both said more than they really inmeant, and soon found themselves volved in a real quarrel. Marian hadn't wanted to work, really. She had even told the principal ef her school that she would resign at Christmas because she expected to be married early in January. But she had fought for the right of a woman to work outside her home and still be a good wife. "And," Marian had ended up, after hot and unconsidered words on both sides, "I won't be a slave In your WAS Inconsiilcuous reference to the arrival of a government Inspect6r on the scene of an accident to determine the cause Is the only public reference made to these men. The nature of his work, his detailed findings, and his recommendations never get Into the press. With no other aid than their technical knowledge, acquaintance with the personnel of the Industry, and ability to root out facts, the government Inspectors must reconstruct accidents nnd establish causes. Their findings then remain locked In the files of the department. These files serve a definite purpose, however. They are In constant use as a guide to manufacturers and In the creation and amendment of regulations for commercial aviation. Yet to make them public would mean having the members of the department's staff in court most of the time. In virtually every accident a part of the testimony Is obtained In confidence, because that Is the only method by which complete and accurate information may be obtained. " v. 7 Si V re" kitchen." "I don't want a slave," said Stewart. "If I did I'd hire one. What I want Is a decent wife not a shouting, quarreling " So. before they knew it. they had broken their engagement Within five minutes after they had parted each had realized the mistake the absurdity of letting something trivial break what was so beautiful, so strong. And it wasn't just that Their house was waiting for them Marian couldn't think of that house rented to strangers. Half the time she abused herself for her stupidity. She realized that she and Stewart were unusually well suit edunusually likely to make a real success of their future together. If anyone had kept track of what Marian did with her time. It might have seemed strange that she spent so many hours shut In her room sewing. Marian never looked at the house, but turned her gaze io the other side of the street. Nevertheless she could feel the unfriendly and resentful attitude of the house that should, even now, have been filling with furniture and rugs, dishes and eurtains, to make ready for her first homecoming. That's what started Marian to sewing. Table and household linen lay all finished and marked in a trunk. She had done that work In summer vacation. But she had planned to make the curtains for the seventeen windows of the little house after she had had a chance to measure them and now that most of her evenings were free, she could Just as well spend them sewing as not well,' she decided to make the curtains anyway. Those staring windows were getting I from use, frieDdi There he did; legaphooe. first nea Cot Mo ill i Just iirtcles of rtj tne u ipestlog hslr. He lill, alrnoi , f v - j i ' (fXi TTWW-W- i continues to hold swa m it Is very aiiparent-lthose who are checking up on fash ion trends that the luxury of., velvet is being played up this winter at the uter. opera and all formal occasions to even a greater extent than heretoVKLVE'l fore. In describing velvet fashions as are this season one Is Inclined to refer to them as dignified velvet so regal are f e.v in their imposing i ance. their stalely sweeping lines nnd their sophisticated simplicity, t The dominance of velvet for formal wraps Is especially noteworthy. In most of the new coats designers seem to he working, along the that ' velvet unadorned Is theory Horned the most, for the really out. ' on her nerves. standing models have not nn Item She took the dotted net from her trimming save '.flint formed' of sell-- ' bureau and went to work. 'fabric. Then, one moonless night with a This fashion for uutrfmrned velvet flash light In her pocket and a yardwhich is so among styles stick buttoned tinder her coat, she of highest tone is at Its most dlstiu stole over to the little house, went guished In the new' coats up the front porch, measured a winwhich ore almost puritan In their sim dow. plirity. Some of these fasten down When all the downstairs curtains 'he front with a row ot velvet cov were finished Marian faced the probbuttons, ns is shown In the piclem of the upstairs windows. Those ture to the left. As to heing on the side of the house were probquite as if they had stepped ably the same height as those downout of fashion hook of the early His but those at the front and back, or stairs, perhaps the Victorian period, many dormered out from the deeply sloping of them are lust that even to the point roof, were surely shorter. She's have to measure them. That night, with her trusty flash- CHOOSE NECKLINE light and yardstick hidden away, she THAT IS BECOMING went to the dark little house. She would have liked a ladder, of course. The best advice on the But she hadn't lost her childhood subject of ability to climb trees, and it wasn't vvhat sort of neckline to have is to Mr. Is long hefore she was stepping along choose the one most flattering to you the flat little strip of roof outside the Those that are high in the from nnd by Gypsy Women back dormers. nothing much of anything behind, are Detroit Three women of a wanderIt was rather spooky work up there chic, but since so few of us entertain ing gypsy tribe visited Jack Kidder, In the dark. Marian thought. She or are entertained formally, snmethln" proprietor of a gasoline filling station. into the darkened windows as less extreme is really better peered An They promised excitement If Kidder she fashion at amusing the is to have a high hack pulled under six yardstick her In a bills up wrapped handkerchief. Kidder followed their coat. But they weren't dark. A dull with an opening clear to the waistline Another seasonable Instructions. When he opened the glow, flickering, now hriffht, now dim, suggestion is the handkerchief after the gypsies were showed through the door dinner hai. It Is the thing to wear Into the hall. The house was on fire! some sort of gone the bills had vanished. headcovering. Marian's only thought was to get by courtesy, since these finv Kidder called police, who arrested pancake the gypsies. Unperturbed, the women Inside nnd put out the blaze. It was do not mver the head at all her house was that burning hers by pointed to Kidder's shirt front Kid-doevery rifht. She couldn't bear to see opened his shirt. The six It consumed or even damaged by Detachable Trimming Is bills fell out. Practical Style Device "You wouldn't kid a Kidder?" he flames. She must snve it. She tried frantically to 'he Pans designers asked the women as police released open the have learned. M'I'in the last few months, at But they were them. "We would and we could," one windows. least securely locked. Then she tried her shoe. gypsy replied. If ""e good American dressmaking trick she could only get in ! She didn't re' is the drtachnhle trimming trirk-- hat Gold in member, at the moment, that the water thrifty device b, which one dress would not have been turned on '' be made to wear and dozer, Grizzly Bears that a far more sensible course would a ,nzen C()or Ann Arbor, Mich. A new gold disnave neen to notify the fire dozen necklines with lust a few Ee covery Is claimed by University of ment. And when she heard depart- Mires the glass Michigan scientists. The gold, accordcrack under the heavy Impact of her ing to Dr. Dow V. Baxter, professor shoe heel she gave a little cry of Joy. the method. A new kind of collar a of civics and forest pathology, was Then she screamed. "cart tied In a new way-and found In the pelts of four silver tipped they nve made a plain There was a loud sound of footdress Into As a grizzly bears, shot In Alaska. fash inable steps the coming up frock; and stairs, and In anshove result of the find. Doctor Baxter has other a minute one of the windows was whirl, looks different from all written to Alnska in an effort to learn he A pushed up. man's head appeared before. It Is a bit of something of the habits of bears. He and, cleverness bich nowadays, is "Stop, thief!" he cried not beneath the believes the grizzlies "picked up" the ' "Fire!" shouted Marian. '"fty of the Paris gold while rolling In a Yukon stream. And that's all there Is to the hose designers who make cloth"! for" story the f"sslp The man crying thief, on Old ""'Hence In the world Ma- hearing mi a voice, naa crawled through the Proves Death window to the roof nnd taken her Into Coats of Velvet V;tK his arms. Boston. The historic Newburyport Decoration Are Popular "Flrer he echoed, as he pulled her turnpike, about 30 miles long and connecting Boston with Newburyport, Is Into the empty house after him one of the nation's deadliest highways. -d- own In the living room-- the where I was During the past four years, 343 perto think sons have been killed and 20,52.1 In- things out. wondering trying how I could c?t jured In automobile accidents on or on without you. Marian" near the p!ke. "Thief!" echoed Marian. m" again Stewart. If you'll Win Race, Kill. Self back in never again try to ,nke steal Tarls. Jockey Albert Pavee won that belongs to you or your little the Trlx Hennebont on F.stlme at house, as I did when I left y0 Stew race track, left the grounds rari. Have yon some candles? "tner ret many adhere Let's m th . diantly hnppy, went home and killed go get the downstairs curtains and put himself with a revolver. mem up. floor-lengt- qualnt-Miokin- is r 13 i the mw hlnk he e j others, iJi Idea Could sing dice, but is head t Is cheeks .at sort Err which in' smart ttpimrel - credifei' now. The sleeves are - hi iroimd full-lengt- h big-bo- In 1 !jmud 01 oeiug umtsiug. .Neveriueiem spite of their quaintness they ht about them that grande dame li which Is nothing less than Impressiti In the Instance of the model picture: ttle wearer has consented to depe from the untrimmed Idea to the erteE of wearing an ermine bow to bed accent, by way of contrast, the high velvet collar. Theli1 shirred sleeves are typical of fashte doings this season. The lady seated also Indulges li coat made of velvet, then gal quality of which is recognized t aglance. In this Instance a Korxeo! sable collar completes the picture i affluence. Shown to the right is a coat irtis holds to the Idea that when telm trims velvet to the exclusion of ti; other (TortiJ"6f 'adornment then tolls story of fashion told In terms ol most eloquence. This model feature the. sti bis i so WgSlif circles Jus hlsper. . Is Id :aa He elL ctor; but those Im There a: who i May, but e knew ien f ecelver 'sM W tiarge, b illiire, as a g loing digging ;elf to di :o thai Hound a! faking kf graft. fbelp, put treated w Sob for h! 14 In perfect ton The dig m serioi t accenting as they do the new tii recently bus. As armhole silhouette. the aisle, group left the in Below to the if see an evening ensemble which W tin for tl dares In favor of velvet for Ixitli tli her dime. dress and Its detachable draped rapt The gown has beautiful simple M One of from a vt a soft bow of the velvet adding to locality, t the an fox borders Black grace. it P Western Newsnapet 19S2 propped After try; Onto balky an BOW-TRIMME- B five It ti HATS D ( ped I tol HKKIE NICHOLAS mm along, fo tbreatene joar hors way an Kidded Kidder Trio of The jnan the office the truth them hat horse. five-doll- tnirnat, 1 stand wii half-opene- d V,t: 1... .."v. :. if i mr :.. M ,v'.; m m A Hi that wnslderr tramps r v s..t n iwJm I .js7r-- " I I M u p 'V 4 I si z V i ' 1 'Li' J il While workmen cheered, a piece of flag bedecked limestone was swung y syst bill on sked ai turned. orked. When , wT. Turnpike a Trap "is fire-plac- e, any-thin- g RCA building In Rockefeller Into place on the topmost unit of the Center, New York, the largest office building in the world. ThU was the last stone to be placed on the structure. metho shore bu Bis Professor Finds Pelts of Famous ! ,r: I ' i Keeentl? five-doll- J ; H dttk. When told v (ID on liel rrochs u coats and Jackets, on her w ( and on her blouse ano hm" of all. bows on her chi,pe fv bows and bows this season , to milady's costume s pretty touch The hnnnsnme " k hat sketched at the top an" na call of the mode In that it H ' artfully posed bow. Interest model, of exceptional It argues In favor of brims. Bows ' thrtr Mm r'k, ! " 1j as readily, Never ntll it ?sy. Tod ftewal ther Molded Boa.i." The molded bodice thai tlon to width at the arms draped movement is imi" width at the shoulders proved. 1 . e d: Neei The, s i th, Poontu: f watei , |