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Show CACHE AMERICAN. I.OCAN. UTAH HEARD SEEN"' Around ths -- National Capital ..&By BMliIngtuii. s -- repre-enlativ- es No Real Efficiency These old employees that there is no real point out efficiency In the plan, although the government saves tbe difference between the retiring salaries and the salaries of clerks Just entering the service. This Is more than offset, they say, by the much greater efficiency, due to long experience of the older employees. They make their chief drive with respect to clerks who would be retired No serious around fifty to argument is made against retiring employees whose efficiency has been lessened by advancing years. Tbe government makes tbe small net saving of tbe difference between the two classes of salaries. It does not have to pay the pensions. These come out of tbe retirement fund. And right here lies one of the real grievances of all federal employees against the measure whether they be in danger of early retirement or nob The point Is that this plan by wholesale retirement of large numbers of employees would cut heavily Into this retirement fund. The employees charge that In two or three years It would enbuilt up tirely use up this back-loby deducting from each pay cheek of federal employees over long years during which they have looked forward to retirement. The original retirement plan was very carefully figured on life insurance statistics. The amount to be taken from each employee was calculated roughly on the Idea of employees being retired when well up In the sixties. Also the probable length of life during which the pensions would be drawn. The Douglas plan knocks all this galley-wesfifty-fiv- g t. Demand for Liquor Not What Expected con-panl- ,!. CARTER riCLCi A .hnr of the noil oiiijr program of Budget Director luted l.t'llll Dollgla Ull it'll keclll for llm UUiaril, line io many en of tin? hmire have (ora mn iiienitx-rgone bin li boiin', U (bat of forcing the retirement of all government a bo bin been on employers the pay roll for thirty jeura. The 1 n :i '..in begun prote-- u (hi pourlug Into MaIui.gtou mini tune b.uk. At tirnt tin-)- ' only ram from a bo a r then over tbe Iblr ty year n'rIoil or r.i phlly approaeli Ini; IL Government employers alio allll litul a few year to go before attaining thirty year service a uineil that tbe ruling would be dunged before It eu-- r bail a cl.aiice to lilt tbein. Hut time baa pnc-e- d aiol tbe ruling bin not bet n rbungeiL I'.eg.n blng uIkiiiI a luontb before adjourn uient, tbe proie-- t mall on tills point began to reaeli null a flood tble tlia l It appeared to be Employee not only In Wiii'blnglon, but In virtually every port ollk-e- , custom boii-e- , internal revenue bu reau and whatnot In tbe country clamored t tbeir seimtora and member of tbe lions for mandatory action by congress to force fiougla to deNt. It la ipilte likely that If there bad Hot been ailcli a hectic rii-- li to adjourn, giuietblng of tbe kind would have miuerluli.'.cd. wn Hut adjournment readied w it bout action and then the semi tors and for tbe niot part went home. In abort, they got biuk where employ eea fearing tbe retirement act could get at them. And they heard plenty. Tbe emplo.vecs attucked tbe plan, of course, because they are personally Interested In changing It. Hut they also make an attack on two oilier grounds. Many of them In tbe customs offices and Internal revenue bureaus, et cetera, entered tbe service when they were very young thousands of them as young as Lndcr the eighteen or nineteen, Dougins plan they would be retired when only forty eight to titty years old. They point out that many of them have Used obligations. Some are buying houses. Some are paying high Insurance premiums. Very many are supporting families. The cut In salaries was not so had. The 15 per cent bothered them, but did not cripple them. Hut a reduction to a pension buds, coming on the heels of what to them has been a tough time due to the cut, and cone lng just as the cut Is being partially restored, would leave them high and dry. W with tiulnes ar.i) corjKiratlo oillilnl lu II t tying promt adiidnirtratli'U up with Cuban sugar and dome-Hdistilleries through Interlot king directorate and I cotine. inm. Joined with I no U K.ltl-claare lm umlaut reprraentutlve from sugar li-- i and grain ute of lh ni-l- Mr. M n Consumption Is Not Half Era. That of Pre-Dr- y of- Washington. Either the Atuerl-tni- i Ihlr-- t brew will for liquor I not wlmt It douwd to be or th bootlegger r bii.im- - thou hi legal ing a t Whatever the cauee. It Checking Up Fares j competitor. Dow appear that the conumpllon Some curl. ai reuli are expect-r- d .of legal liquor In the Arid )ear of to flow from the analyti of acwill lie coiodderutdy lei than tual transportation thket mile now reja'al half the amount consumed In a nor-- , being conducted Jointly by the ami ear of the pre Volstead era. of Rullrond Czar laminino and NRA. Thl I part of an In- I The legal liquor Industry that up almost over ulght after vestigation to determine the com- (prang 13 ear of drydom, I finding It parative volume of passenger trav- dream of quick profit only a dream, eling by railroad busses, boat and and heavy losne are threatening to airplane. Return are now coming In from clone down distilleries and retail throughout the coua iiuestionnulre sent to tbe d ntry. wine aud liquor are Imported and work will goon start on Bing In warehouse and there I repUf from the air and water more than ample liquor now on lines. hand to satisfy even an unpreceTbe broad purjse of the Invesdented demand. tigation la to deti rmtne lint could In short, figures lued hy the he done to Increase the total volume of passenger traffic by common car- Treasury department and hy the riers regardless of which get the code authority for the distilling Inhuslncs. Also to Improve service dustry Indicate a surprising failure and at the same time Increase the on the part of the drinking public to consume the amount of liquor II prulit or cut the loss from pashad been expected to consume on senger operations. the bus! of past performance. Any knowledge of where passenBlam gers come from and where they go Bootleggers. la now concealed effi'ctlvely In the Spokesmen for both the governgros figure on operations hy the ment and the distilling Industry transportation companies Some of were inclined to attribute this the record of Individual thket aai a failure to the continued conqietl-tlohave revealed surprising blind spot of Illicit liquor, rather than to In patronage between dnts where any loss of appetite on the part ext client service has been mainof drinking American. They blamed tained. the high price of legal liquor and rep. Tor example, a cheek of thket resentatlvesof the Industry went fur-sales out of Cleveland hy a nationHot to Marne the high prices on wide Inis system disclosed not a high taxes. single passenger traveling to New What with federal taxes at $2 England by bus. Again, a railroad a gallon, slate taxes ranging even In Maine did not sell a single ticket higher In some places, and heavy Inst summer to the 'Chicago fair, licensing fees In nearly every localalthough this railroad spent con- ity, members of the Industry argue, siderable money advertising the at- prices of legal liquor cannot be low tractions of the fair to people of enough to compete with the prices the Pine Tree state. of Illegal liquor on which no tax It la believer hy ICC officials that Is paid at alL the money now being stent for adMoreover, according to the Invertising hy railroad and possibly dustrys spokesmen, repeal did not boats and busses completely change the drinking habby airplanes, might result In a great deal more its developed during the thirteen cash entering the treasuries of years reign of the bootlegger. The these companies if the advertising Illicit dealer Is still highly patwere more intelligently done. , ronized, they declare, and la one It was estimated that for quarter May Cause Hardship every gallon of legnl, tax paid IlFailure of the senate to heed the liquor consumed, two gallons of untax paid liquor Is sold. licit, of Robert Senator J. Bulkley pleas of Ohio In the closing hours for pasDuring prohibition. It Is estimated, some 100,090,090 gallons of sage of his amendments to the federal reserve act, was the biggest bootleg liquor were consumed each disappointment of the whole session year, and the legal liquor Industry of congress so far as the treasury, argues that because of high prices, comptroller of the currency and which they blame on high taxes, banking fraternity are concerned. much of this huge illicit traffic still officials had exists. The administration Dr. James M. Doran, chnlrman of very ardently urged the adopting of these amendments but they were the Distilled Spirits Institute, distillers code authority, estimates caught In a jam. that more than 30,000,000 gallons of A peculiar phase of the situation Is that no one was really opposed legal liquor will be consumed this to them. Some casual references year on the basis of consumption were made to their being written up to June. This, he pointed out, Is just about half the amount of In Wall Street, and that sort of liquor consumed in even the leansenators a canvass of the thing, but Annual years. afterwards disclosed that this was est normal consumption prior to the Just Idle chatter and that no one dry era, according to Doctor Doran, really meant it. Senator Bulkley was about 84,000,000 gallons a year. Is confident that they w ill be adoptAre Down. Imports meanIn but the ed in January, While the domestic Industry Is time, according to the comptroller! office, considerable hardship may coufrontlng a serious problem due to the unexpectedly low demand for be caused and quite unnecessarily, legal spirits, the foreign producer failure. their by and Importer Is likewise faring For example, one of the amendbadly In the American market, figments, changing the banking act of ures compiled by the Treasury de1933, was to permit orderly liquidaIndicate. tion of the assets and securities of partment Since repeal became a reality on nffillated with securities companies December 5, the treasury disclosed. banks, which are members of the Imports of liquor have totaled federal reserve system, when such 8,2(54,227 gallons. Irlor to that date, companies are placed In formal some 40,111 gallons were on hand, liquidation and are transacting no In bonded warehouses, bringing the other business. total supplies of foreign liquors in Its purpose was to prevent such this country up to June 30 to 8,304,-33- 8 companies dumping their assets on gallons. the market In a rush to dissolve beOnly 3,743,818 gallons have been In fixed the Such law. fore the date withdrawn, however, leaving 4,5(30,-52dumping would not only result In gallons of imported whiskies and sharp sacrifices on the part of the stockholders of the companies because the effect of the dumping would force down the price below what it should be, but In addition the effect on the whole market would be bad. hoar t potent remu.n by Russian Thistle Silt Iltr, Utah. The n th.tie I tha greatest sing's mire of hay fever In , Dr. It.iy M. Hal) eat of the I mveralty of Oklahoma told ph) !i Inna from meMcrn state galhered here In their annual convention. The female cotton-wootree, aoo a prolific source of the ailment, should be banned by law, he declared. Cedar and elm I hew be spread Irritating pollen, he raid. hlt K Imfer to be deter-mine- 1 of-fl- I . umiiii'd In the tok for Allowing present on relull .helve, Hie lrenur) fig than lire would Indiente that ie 3.7uo.l gullon of foreign llquoi have been columned In thl country In the eight uioiuh toiu prohibition ended. At the ume time the link nf demand ha raiiu-In.poitrr to fall far hort of the amount of foreign liquor they rxpeeted to bring to American shore after prohibition ended. luquirt have amounted to only two lilth of the quota allow ml by the control hoard for the period between I ecemlier 8 and April 80. Onl) about one fifth of the ha April quota, moreover, moved Into consumptive channel. rail-roa- FLAID TAFFETA ' Hy rilYLLIS ft d - bonds-Copyrig- , three hour now Marjories roadster hud been parked around th corner from Kugiut House No. 20, not i.oe enough to the men In the shadow of the oudornu engine but close enough lu hear the bell auriouuclng fire. Ikinald bad said: "I.UIen, honey! "Ive been looking for a Jb ever since 1 graduated two years ago. Mho kuow s when thl Uepreoklon going to end? I'm fed up with being the loafing sn of rich parents. This la a Job; I'm going to take It; be proud of It! Hut iHinl Fat her offered . 1.. Ill sensitive, stubborn mouth had hardened He wouldn't, he had Informed her. his life relying ou her father, pretending that lit position as law clerk paid the m-- e 1 MILLIONS TO AID WILDLIFE ASSURED Program Launched for tection of Came. Pro- Washington. Restoration of wildlife will take a big step forward with the Inauguration of the program of the ITesIdenta Committee on wildlife retoratlon, which Is to on. according to plan la N'gln the making now, a bulletin of the American (lame aoclntton point out. A fund of $S,o00,0(0 to start the program I virtually assured, according to Secretary of Agriculture allure. The bureau of biological survey, under hla department, will have chn-g- e of the work. J. N. Darling, chief of the bureau, said that be "hope to make a wonderful allowing during the yenr." This fund la made up of several fund allocated for different work, all, however, for the benefit of wildlife; tl.ooo.oiio was previously set taken from funds for forest purch.w ; $1,500,090 for th pun base of suhmurglnal lands; $3.5i,uo0 from the recent drouth relief appropriation, to he spent In the drouth areas of the upper prairie states; and $2,500,000 from public work funds. This Is not free money to spend as we wiH, Chief Darling said In commenting upon the fund. It Is not granted to us to use as we think test It Is subject to marginal land purchasing regulations, subject to drouth relief regulations, and subject to the rule that we must use It for relief labor, excepting the which we expect from the public works funds, and which we have not yet definitely received from the Rubllc Works administration. liven though most of this money is circumscribed with all kinds of restrictions, and the fact that we must work through and with other agencies to accomplish our purpose, we hope to make a wonderful showing during the year. It will be the first time wildlife has gotten a real break, Chief Darling said. Much of this fund, It Is believed, can be used In employing relief labor In the drouth stricken areas for the restoring of drained lakes and the creation of new water areas hy damming streams, draws and other suitable places, to establish refugees for waterfowl, and thus benefit agriculture by raising the water table, and, In some Instances, live stock by allowing lanes of entrance to the areas for watering stock, conservationists pointed out. ,, freight and-short- Its I II. NIK M Hill AS 1 multi-motore- 275-mil- e n one-hal- Bolivian War Tanks Destroyed in the Chaco For example, such a security affiliated with a member company Campaign bank and anxious to close out on Sugar and whisky are the prime the day fixed by the 1933 law, might Ingredients for a good punch. They own a very large block of some have been used lavishly In the widely held stock. This whole block punch the Republican candidates in- being dumped on the market at tend to force upon their democratic once would force the price down. opponents In the Middle and Far The stockholders of the security West during the coming fall eleccompany would take an unnecessary tions. loss. Iiut in addition, every owner Some of this campaign brew exof that stock would see his assets ploded while being bottled In the dwindle. If he had the stock up as collateral at the bank, his loan closing days of tbe Seventy-thircongress. There would have been might he called. And all Just bemore suds on tbe floor had it not cause of a drastic provision of law been for tbe strict limitations on dewhich everybody concerned, from bate Imposed in tbe house during the comptroller of the currency the last days. down, wanted to change. The bottling of this punch has Another of these amendments been in tbe hands of former Repubcleared up a provision of the 1933 lican Representative John C. Schafact, which has been interpreted as er of Wisconsin, who was defeatbanks from preventing In the 1932 Demoed for dealing in United States governcratic landslide, but who will run ment bonds state and municipal for congress this full either for the bonds as well. The law was aimed senate against La Follette,- or as at preventing banks from having representative from his Milwaukee security affiliates. No one Intenddistrict ed to prevent these banks from All summer the former congressbuying or selling government man has been assiduously working WNU ferric L Et'H 0 Punch .N Marjorie, your futlier patronizes me I lain hud once s.thL It wasn't true) Her father, sizing him up, had seemed cold and Unpenetrable behind the set line of hi facw But he wanted Ion In hla office because he believed In bla ability. Suddenly the hush of the lethargic day was broken hy a clamor The long red engines of hell. winging from No. 20 Into the boulevard, siren clearing their path, were tot difficult to follow. When they turned Into Lafayette square, Marjorie observed a group of people at tl.e curb waving frantically. iHinald, bis expression studiedly Indifferent, for he had seen Marjorie slide from her roadster, wn hauling the massive hose from the engine, several blue coated firemen The crowd wn thickenhelping. ing, squinting tliolr eye against the the fire? sun, Inquiring: "Where' A fulse alarm? Marjorie (lug her arms deep In tbe pockets of her tweed swagger coat as Donald's glance swept over her Ignorlngly. But his fnce, deepening to a crimson paint Job of the engines snorting at the curb, betrayed him. She knew that be was suffering beneath her attitude. For, Indeed, that wa how she felt. 8he was waiting for Don to do his stuff, as he had phrased It ; to perform some 1lald taffeta j! beuiberg steps of the feats that had Inspired him, luto the scene cl active sports with the night before, to say: Why, Marbold design and vivid coloring. This jorie I Firemen are heroes, accharming and practical sports en tually I soluble In gold and brown plaid will She had bristled with anger uncarry high style horn r wherever It Donl I'm der his smug content goes and, having an easy not belittling the fire department! and button skirt, tt will tune to I am criticizing you! Youre taking most any Informal outdoor gattisr this job from gome man who really Durable and good looking, the lng. needs It I taffeta weave which fashions this Who needs a Job worse than I? s skirt costume has a soft But you have a chance In dad's texture, tubs beautifully and Irons office, to follow your own profeslike magic. Ilaids are In favor and sion. You'd be hot If a fireman took so Is taffeta. These lovely plnids a law partnership you wanted! are being shown in handbags, hats, ' Donald was threading the hose blouses, daytime dresses and evethe thick shrubbery of the through ning gowns. They are stunning and park now, other firemen following unique for dining and dancing For close behind. When they reached clothes these youngsters gay plaids the scene of the trouble, they all which look so silky and fine and stood back, startled, mouths agape. which wash so easily are especially A crowd fiad gathered around advisable. man who was obviously too terrorHis eyes dllnted ized to scream. above a luxuriously bearded face, Illegal to Whistle his hands clutched wildly at the air. in Certain London Spot some one screamed. A lunatic Stage-Coac- h Old Driver London. A man was walking Then a youth rushed to DoDald down the Burlington arcade, in the Gets Thrill in Air Trip and began excitedly ; That guy was direction of Picndilly, whistling an Chicago. Above the same route on the bench, mister, 'n' a air from a popular musical comedy. over which he drove stage coaches asleep swarm of bees got in bis beard I A constable tapped him on the arm 55 years ago, at less than ten miles Give him the works I and said politely: an hour, Fred Tice, octogenarian of With that the crowd fell back and Desist, If you please. Medford, Ore., got a new thrill when Donald, manning the hose, aimed "Desist? What do you mean? Im he rode leisurely along In a at the victim. But Donald wasnt a brenking no law. transfireman, really, and the powerful Regging your pardon, sir, 1 port on United Air Lines coastal stream of water sent the man mean desist forbear cease stop. route. Into a blossoming bed of And you were breaking the law Tice pointed out to fellow plane sprawling tulips. Donald, excited, accidentally when you whistled. I will prove It passengers his old route In northincreased the flow and the hose, to you. ern California and southern Orewrithed out of The bobby drew out a little book, gon. His trips half a century ago like an alive reptile, The crowd scrambled thumbed the pages and selected a required 100 hours, and a total of his hands. futilely for safety behind trees, wa92 horses for a passage which read: stageter streaming over them, soaking In the Burlington arcade one Is coach trip, a distance the seven-tothem to their skins; and Marjorie not permitted to whistle, run or to United plane covered In one and drenched with the rest. was wheel a perambulator. The constaf hours. she said brightly. Sxilendid! ble on duty will see that this rule I never dreamed anything like Its a good thing It was bees In Is strictly enforced. this would happen, mused Tice. his beard! She came close, slight against his sturdiness, and tiny, for her dripping thatch scarcely reached his shoulder. Godl What an ass I made of myself Like a fireman trying a case at court! she agreed lightly. Then, Oh, Don! and there was a sob In her voice. If you persist In this, I wont wait! I So swiftly that It seemed all in one motion, he crushed her hands in his own and leaned his dark face to hers. You win! he said. Tell your father! Its not a permanent arrangement, though. When I can get something else . . . And presently only Marjorie and the bearded man remained. Wasnt this worth more to you than twenty bucks, Miss Warfield? I mean, I only the man began. agreed on the bees, and calling out the fire department. . . . Marjorie offered the old trouper her hand and another bill. He squeezed both so avariciously that the little Instrument In his palm went ('ft mechanically, sounding very tike a swarm of bees In a luxurious beard! After all, a jobless actor r.e had earned the money for this act, plenty! IIow did you Thqn, he said, know, Miss Warfield, that things would pan out the way they did? I didn't, she said, I just had a This view In the (Iran Chaco, where the Paraguayans and Bolivians have been fighting desperately for more than two jears, shows some Bolivian tauks destroyed hy the Paraguayan gunfire near Fort Nanawa. hunch III n Would Hit Stockholders M. GALLAGHER Ann-r.ifi- H!1 plrll (Jp fie jmaorv The Hunch ltii-in- 4 Mhing-to- n woik lm been don In their fice. JuC Hay Fever Caused ! ... Tempting Mortsl to Native Appstits. tifr Gfrhl N't Pwlil, 1 c. W.st' Brazil, st the mouth of Amazon river, to the of the vast Amazon valley and region as yet unseen by vv 7 liii,Ktua. PRA, explorer. It Is a colorful city. The market square where throng of house-wlvand servants come to select the day's menu from gorgeous piles of fruit and vegetable, the wulla, the outdoor murals, and even the roofs of the dty, the eye of the visitor from the somber North. Color may evreom, but never clash In Iara. A house of shell pink nmy abut neighbor of orange or of cobalt blue, and the result, uuder magic skies. Is hare l t mony. Founded In 1C15, Tara looks every day of her year, and lielles her looks. Aside from a few church-- . It to doubtful whether there are many buildings really old. Grasse and weeds lift deflnnt heads from the crevices of roof tiles and the cobbles of the streets and blotches of mold and lichens creep Inexorably over the walls. Hut these bespeak the exuberance of the Troidcs rather than senility. The mellowing effect, however. Is the same. Notwithstanding her age and her population of more tlinn 23(3,000, Bara Is sllll beleaguered by the Jungle. She to at once In and of While ehe muet fight the jungle. ceaselessly to prevent recapture of her streets, even her houses. It to to the forest that her nonindustrial, nonagr'.cultural people owe their existence. Mild rubber for a time made Tara's Dame a household word in the Industrial world. Rubber has since fallen upon lean days, but Gie people have merely turned to other gifts of the forest, though less effectively. Marehouses that once reeked of crudely smoked latex now are heavy with the sickly sweet, copra-lik- e odor of Brazil nuts, or are piled high with conical bales of plossaba. Clean City; Poor Water Supply. The dty to clean, neatly ordered, and despite an economic depression that has endured for more than 20 years, since 1910, when the rubber boom burst like an over distended toy balloon. There are tramways, motor cars, teletheaters, and phones, motion-picturparks that are a delight to the soul. Yet there must needs be a fly In the ointment. The water supply still dribbles Inadequately from three old tanks set together on an Iron tower half-waup from the docks. Only he who, soaped from head to heel, has had the bath shower suddenly sicken and die can Justly appreciate the Joyful spurt from a faucet with 75 pounds pressure behind It! Here the traveler takes a and square of stern, perfectly designed In the Netherlands for the comfort A crowd of the Amazon tourist. packs her decks, a blast from the whistle starts an epidemic of some tears, and a general rush for the gangplank; and when the confusion subsides there are left a mere handful of passengers. Here, as at home, the bon voyage Is a fetish, though with more reason In a r region where nil travel Is by and cities are days Instead of hours apart where the Journey from Tara to Manaos, for example, requires more time than the passage of the North Atlantic. Cool Cabins on the Steamer. Mlierever privacy is not essential, solid wood Is replaced by wire screen In the construction of the cabins to permit a maximum of ventilation while assuring protection against mosquitoes. Even during the day. therefore, the staterooms are comfortable unless struck by the sun. However, most of the native passengers use them merely as dressing rooms and spend much of the day as well as the night In their hammocks, which are slung In a place especially provided on the top deck. This custom may account In part for tbe fact that a passenger in pajamas is considered fully dres-ieBut if lie appears In shirt sleeves, no matter how Immaculate, he is thought ill bred. The first day you stream north 300-od- e y twin-scre- triple-decke- r, blunt-nose- d back-pattin- wa-tb- ward along th eastern shore of Jaguar Inland, round It point Into the vast rxiHinae of the Buhl d Mara Jo, and luce yourself In monotony. Upstream and down, only the Indistinct blending of iky and water mark the horizon; to right and left, a level blue tine of tree top Indicates the position of the distant shore, all details are obliterated hy haze of water vapor that make binoculars oselcH for studying even the nearer island. Little left to look at besides the brown river Itself, Its surface whijqied by the trades Into short, choppy waves, you follow th lead of the native passengers and turn in for t siesta. Many Stops for Fuel. Just before sunset you enter Breves strait, one of the numerous deep, narrow, winding channels through which th tide ebb and flows between the Tara estuary and the Amazon proper, and which maze of dissect the terrain Into Jungle Islands. Here yon tie up st a small place to take wood for the boilers. So Insatiable are these Iron maws that wood stations have become typ-- , teal Institutions of the low country and account for most of the steamer's stop during the first two days.' For hour after hour, sometimes far Into the night, men and boys with coppery torsos gleaming with sweat run across the plank In endless loads with line to dump resounding thumps on the steel deck. of the third day yon pass the little whitewashed town of Gurupa, stop the high right bank, from which steps descend to small piers. It one side are brown wall of an ancient fortress, and s mildewed churdi on a green, lawn. You are now In the Amazon proper, though this part Is channel around the southonly east side of Gurupa Island. Above Gurupa, the XIngu discharges waters collected on the plateau of central Matto Grosso, hune dreds of miles to the south. near It sources the gallant British explorer, CoL P. H. Fawcett, disappeared In 1925. No matter how many travel books he may read, the newcomer to the Amazon Is never prepared for the reality. He Is Impressed according to mood. He may turn his gaze ahead to a distant horizon with do thin hazy line of shore Intervening between blue and brown, and let his Imagimtlon wander the width of the continent, to where the river takes Its source In Andean snows within sight of the Pacific; or he may look Into Its depths and see : only mud. Plenty of Life In the River. Actually, the river teems with life, unseen though It may be. Its drainage claims 748 different kinds of fish nearly a third more than Its closest competitor, the Congo including familiar little guppies, electric eels, four-eyefish, murderous piranhas, and the gigantic plrafucu, whose dried flesh In bales befouls the air of every ships hold In AmaThis monster, with maxizonia. mum length of 15 feet and weight of 410 pounds, Is easily the largest strictly fresh water fish extant; yet It Is only a flyweight compared with Its mammalian neighbor, the manatee, which may exceed a ton. Thus, among all South American animals, the palm for sheer bulk goes to the gentle river cow. After eight days the steamer turns from the Amazon against the tide of the Rio Negro. The Change from brown to black Is sudden and startling. No more so, however, than the arrival, eight miles farther on, at a modern city of 42,000 set In the midst of a Jungle. Manaos lies 450 miles from the nearest railroad, and that ts but a moribund line around the rapids of the upper Madeira ; yet one finds streets, electric lights, tramwsrys, automobiles, and the best Ice cream ever tasted. There Is even a magnificent opera house, though It stands empty, a sad monument to the heyday of rubber, when for a moment niaffioc and plrarucu yielded to champagne and pate de foie gras. But the biggest and tallest structure of all Is tbe brewery, a veritable skyscraper as buildings go in Amazonia, ten-stic- close-croppe- d Some-,wiier- d coffee-colore- well-pave- d d |