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Show IV - th flak' itrne creature Tree In It rJE It the mudsklpper. even 00 land why It tuL P fish. found In jjShem Queensland, Itf TavotiiQ -.. J about A 10 real Pan-America- In nature. they have lungs eir thick front to Hu. and size of about the hap A Ob these they walk. ii Adventurers1 Club U 'Jla, fl or. -' usually goe. ashore pur1 enemy, crab, tu rno. roots of ,eeDd . It gets fish." J whettp- tta aet esi fun, Glenn L Martin and British Imperial Airways Are Building Planes to Begin Commercial Service. Chicken Salad. 1 44 The Halifax Explosion By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Of1 I and Dl beUev? hurts any of us to stop once In a while take stock, to reflect how lucky we actuaUy are. That s one reason why Im telling today the adventure of A; Henneberry of New York, N. Y. Its an lncred-Ibl- e tale, this story of how out of two hundred people living withm range of an explosion, only ten survivors remain of whom Mrs. Henneberry is one. easurt I is 17- - 5000 w1 mUOA Comparative Distance In the Two Proposed Trans-Alla- X. Henne-berr- idrea IS" i ys Henneberry, wishing to make sure the children had gone around the corner to school, as was her custom went to the front door Magadi and opened it ale Magadi, situated near the In the harbor, aha noticed a cloud of smoke act volcano Kilimanjaro In East rising. She remember hearing someone say, MY GOD. THE BOATS EXPLODED! ct is thirty miles long and eight Then e. It is fed by waters carrying o blast of air lifted her bodily. She lost consciousness. . . toda in solution. As soon as the Mrs. Henneberry' husband had served overseas with the second cr runs into the lake, the sun draft of the Sixty-thirdOn the day of the explosion he was in th hospontes it, leaving a precipitate pital. - When he heard the noise of the explosion, he said to (me of his oda. and the deposit accumulates buddies, The German have got us. thinking it was an air raid. cr than it can be removed. Joat then one of the boys came la end ax Id, "No, Ben, an Liied Smithsonian Institution the North Side io blown np, one of the boa to exploded carrying on than a century ago the ammunition. When Ben Henneberry heard that, he said: "My family U government filed suit In up there." Hastily he assembled some of his friends and itarted for the English courts for the $300,000 ueathed by James Smithson, on north end of the city. All th soldiers and sailors were out to help them. death, without issue, of his Throngs of Hysterical People. hew, Henry Hungerford. The was The city roped in because si) the people who had relative liv:ey wai used in establishing the ing there were trying to rescue them shouting and yelling and nearly Juonian Institution. going mad with fear and anxiety, so Mrs. Henneberry relates. If the people were not stopped some of them they would actually run into istenational Peace Garden he International Peace Garden flaming buildings. Into this rush of hysterical human beings, Ben Henneberry pushed ocited on the boundary line behis way, making with agonized premonition for th unrecognizable mass en the United States and Can' of fallen stone and timbers that had been his home. . . It contains 2,200 acres of When Mrs. Henneberry came to, after the explosion, she was lying fertile and cellar of her home. All around her she could hear people screamdotted with lakes. Part of it in the n North Dakota, part in Mani- - ing for help. She was completely pinned by the large timbers and foundation of her house. She was lying on her back, and all she could do was to move her fingers, the says. One thing, and that enly, saved her from being burned to The Chronometer Her home was to close te the water that the waves death. chronometer is just a time washed all ever the demolished building, extinguishing flying i surer," and all watchea are sparks. Otherwise, Mrs. Henneberry says, I wouldnt be her they have stopped. But to tell the story. ammeter is usually applied on- Not far off, completely crushed and buried under timber and de- -' the timekeepers of exceptional bris, lay one of Mrs. Henneberry children. She could hear the child aricy used in navigation, moaning and crying, but she could not move to help her. After a while and other sciences. she heard the childs cries cease, and the knew the was dead. Then Mrs. Henneberry sank into merciful unconsciousness. Uapards Love to Fight mpsrda are the Their Five Children All Dead. slyest and most ewus of the big cats, but they At three oclock, Ben Henneberry, frantic with grief, came upon the loo light of weight to be a se-- s unconscious form of his wife, and the scattered bodies of hit five dead threat to their cousins, the lions children. Of this I simply cannot write. No words of mine could ever tigers. Their one n great quality portray this scene, nor would I if I could. Suffice it to say that the kr of fighting. husband and his friends assisted in putting Mrs. Henneberry on one of the numerous boats that were taking victims in relays to a hoseld funerals for Cats pital in the south end of the city. weg the Egyptians cats were So extensive was the damage that all hospitals were jammed, viclled, funerals were held for tims were taken to the colleges for treatment and hospitalization. Mrs. s. families Some docwent into mourning Henneberry says she was taken to the Womens College. ihere was a death penalty for tors and nurses from Massachusetts had been sent along, and aha hapwho deliberately killed a pened to be one of their patients. She was so badly hurt that she just lay numb for three weeks. When she got out of the hospital, she had to walk on crutches for a year. he s Man While Mrs. Henneberry was In the hospital, her family doctor I, Forgetful es man tells came inte the ward and was talking to one of her neighbor. you he never mything hes sorry for, Speaking of Mrs. Henneberry, he remarked how badly he felt, said ' . It dont after being her doctor for so many yean; for, bo said, he could necessarily bold out Uttle hope for her. When Mrs. Henneberry beard him say ' 8 good disposition. It dat hes forgetful. that she spoke op: No, doctor. Im still here. Ho waa the most surprised man I ever looked at Mrs. Henneberry Higher Than says. Niagara Relatives In Massachusetts mourned her as dead. On Christmas Day rin,tou fails on the Black ..hLern Wi3Cnsln, called they got word ahe waa still alive "The beat Christmas present they ever P1 Great Spirit by In- - got they said. WNU Service. tha the Canadian at N Lake s. Unit-State- s roll-hill- wood-covere- s, d, y, grief-stricke- rl'J. EOS ItSU ' Sapreme Court Session session of the United State S '0"" as held wits3,?0 in New York Feb- of the six justices the ame of Lake la Longest in the English Language Lake Chargoggagoggmonchaugga-goggehaubungungamau- g Is a beautiful body of water lying within the limits of Webster, Mas., and near the Connecticut line. It ha an area 'C of about two mile and la noted Turn YcUow sionctj incandescent for its unusual name, which chiefly lamp. burned believed to be a combination of constant voltage. I'bangerni31 of three Algonquin Indian j nameswhich once stood on the in the light it villages shores of the lake, with a termination meaning, fishing place at the measboundary thrown in for good ure. The lake has three divisions, notes writer in the Indianapolis News-up- per, middle and lower, and actwo Incording to a popular atory dian tribes living on opposite ends the lake had a long dispute as to which tribe had the right to fish in the middle section. Finally they framed a treaty providing that each tribe had exclusive rights fn its own of the lake, but neither bad the t to fish in the middle, and name they applied to the iake a made up from the term of the on treaty and meaning: You fish noour aide; on flah we your aide; body fish in the middle. g Th word is pronounced char-gogga mon chowg a gogg gung gogg chow - bun accent on the 1, 2, A 6, t, 12 syllables. On many map in many reference work the Chaubunagunga-maula labeled which is a contraction of ns-o- f longer name. The average the region la satisfied to call It simply Lake Chaug. In 1932 a committee appointed 36 by the commonwealth government to determine the correct spelling of the names of cities, towns, lakes and rivera in Massachusetts decided that Chargoggagoggmonchauggag-oggehabungagungamau- g i the correct spelling of the lake. Formerly the name was also often written oi n Waim sumua maeue into (Mi tic Routes Are Shown la the Map Above. to get there, as the termini! and intermediate landing points are controlled by the British. This is true as to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Ireland on the northern route, and Bermuda and the Azores on the southern route. The Azores are Portuguese territory, but conceded to be under the British sphere of Influence. The Post Office department visu- alizes Immediate success for the service and a complete fulfillment of expectations in a big way, Ludairways (of Great Britain) have of the new 42B is 201 miles an hour low continued. "Whether or not long been making preparations for and cruising speed 184; this com- its optimism is well founded rejoint operation which would involve pares with 192 and 157 for the S42. main to be seen, but certainly all four round trip crossings per week. of the factors of success seem to Tw Trans-AtlantRentes. Recently a third party, Glenn L. be in the equation. The air mail Martin, announced plana of comc The new clipper is standing ready postage rate proposed for c service. for the China run, which completes peting in the mail is 23 cents per letter of Martin was the builder of most of an ounce and 25 cents addiair mall route cir- one-hathe great clipper now flying the cling more than half the world. Air- tional for each half ounce or fracPacific and of many of the armys line distance from New York to tion thereof. This compares with most successful bombardment Hong Kong is about 11,600 miles, the existing foreign mall rate of S planes over a span of 18 years. while the distance around the globe cents an ounce and 3 cents for each For his service Martin has de- in that latitude is some 21,000 additional half ounce. The service signed the largest transport flying miles. The planet beat the fattest contemplates the use of air mail all boat ever built. For construction surface between the way from point of origin to phlnt transportation of ships of this type his Baltimore Hong Kong is about 11,600 mile, of destination. plant, which was taxed to the limit days, making the trip in 6V4 days. Based on close calculation of the in the building of the Pacific clip volume of mail, the dec On the prospective two flight, pers, is being enlargqfJhe type routes will be used, the southern partment predicts that at the of ship he la building for trans- - route rate, the revenues would pay taking preference over the Atlantic service Will carry 40 pasnorthern in bad weather. They were the contractual obligations at $2 per sengers, 5.000 pounds of mail and described by Louis Ludlow, con- mile and the service would be fuel enough for 5,000 miles of nonfrom tha start, which gressman from Indiana who constop flying at a cruising speed of ducted would it very markedly differentiate esthe hearings concerning 175 milea an hour. tablishment of trans Atlantic air from the air service to China, British Have Tw Ships. which, although it hai been in opmail rates: At such a rate of speed it would The distance by the Northern eration since November 22, 1935, still register a big annual deficit. be possible to make the crossing route from New York to London from west to east to continental via Shediac, Nova Scotia, and IreAir Mail $2 a Mile. Europe in 18 hours, and to make the land. he explained, is 3,418 mile. c The picture of the return trip, against prevailing The step-of- if from Newfoundland to air mail that is in the minds of the winds, in 21 hours. This is about Ireland is a sheer distance of more Post Office department officials visequal to the time required by limthan 2,000 miles over water, with- ualizes London as the funnel ited railroad trains between Chicago out any landing places. By the through which air mail from all and New York. It is faster by four Southern route the distance from over Europe will be gathered and full days than the Atlantic crossNew York to London is about 5,000 sent to America. ings of the Queen Mary and the miles, but the hazard of flight is On the other band. New York is Normandie, the two fastest liners afloat Imperial airways already hat two giant flying ships, the Cavalier and the Caledonia, engaged in experimental flights in preparation for the service. Two other ships of this, the C type, have been in experimental service over for several the Mediterranean months; one of them not long ago established a record of 13 hours and 35 minutes for the 2,000 miles from Southampton to Almrrjjdria. more type"C ship Twenty-fou- r have been ordered. The total cost of the fleet will approximate They are a type of transport new to the British. They are comparable in many ways to the Skorsky clippers of although they are somewhat smallOne ef the Giant China Clippers of Ready to Take Off. er. They carry a gross weight of Roots. Ships of This Typo Will Probably Bo Used on the Trans-Atlantfor 42,000 as 36,000 pounds against 88 feet long, relieved by numerous landing visualized as the funnel the Sikorsky. They are through 24 feet high and have a wing span placet. The various legs of this which mail coming from the Orient, four 114 Their of feet. Pegasus flight are as follows: New York to all countries in the Western Hemiengines are capable Bermuda, 773 miles; Bermuda to sphere north of Brazil, and all of of a top speed of 210 miles an hour Azores, 2,067 miles; Azores to Listhe United States will pass on the and a cruising speed of ICO to 170 bon, 1,050 miles; Lisbon to Gironde, way to London and points in Eumiles an hour. 609 miles; Gironde to London, 500 rope. From Hong Kong to San The plan is to use these planes miles; total, 4,999 miles. Francisco is six days by the China for passengers only on flights beThe northern route, it will be Clipper service; from San Francistween New York and Hamilton, Beris the shorter of the two routes co to New York is one day by fast seen, muda; on such flights they will by more than 1,500 miles, but the plane, and from New York ip Loncarry 18 in addition to the crew. safety factors are on the side of don will be 3ff hours, so that mail They will be used for air mail only, the southern route, and will be unfrom Hong Kong crossing North on the hop across the Atlantic to til more America will reach London in eight acbeen has experience airEurope, carrying only first and sec- quired in combating storms and ice or nine days by ond pilots, ships clerk, radio opmail. in the high northern latitudes. Unerator and steward. While the contract for carrying til such time, therefore, it is exc Unbroken Safety Record. the air mail at a Of most will that the flying pected claims to be ready be by the southern route, which maximum cost of $2 a mile will be to begin flying at a is safe at all seasons of the year. awarded on the basis of competitive moments notice. It has available The scheduled time for making the bids, it is believed there is only one many crews enriched by the experi- flight by the northern route will be company in America capable of exence of five years of flying over the between 24 and 30 hours and by ecuting such a huge contract, and which Caribbean sea. The route from Mi- the southern route between 38 and that is the ami to Panama was for years the 40 hours. When we recall that the carries the mail to South America, the Queen Alaska and China. In England a hop on any of fastest steamships longest over-watcommercial ' airlines. Mary and the Normandie consume like situation prevails, where Impethe world Since the first flight was made 4 days and 20 hours making the rial airways, a government-subsidize- d c concern, is the outstanding over this route on December 2, 1930, trip from port to port, the line has made two regularly we have an idea of the extent to aviation company. It is probable scheduled round trip flight a week. which the new air service will that the service would start with e the clippers that piIn a total of 2,400 crossing there quicken mail, passenger and exoneered the Pacific, but testimony has never been an accident, jf any press transportation. before our subcommittee described kind, and only a few tups were War Department Approves. plans for constructing enormous canceled because of hurrtaanes. Two departments of the governc new ships for this has also flown dozservice, one of 60 tons and one of ens of successful flights from San ment the Post Office department are 125 tons. Francisco to Manila. With the early and the State department deeply interested in the 'establishThe China Clipper ships now in difficulties ironed out it is now posc air serv- operation are about 25 or 26 tons, sible to extend the flights aO the ment of this the Indiana legislator told with a wing spread of 130 feet. The ice, way to China. It also is new ships will be immensely larger. members of the house. A new addition to the Martin clipin cordially approved by the War dehas It will be written into the contract which per that all airships used in this Amerservice on its Pacific route is a partment. which sees nothing objectionable to it from a national de- ican postal service must be built Sikorsky 42B, larger than any of the As an argument in America and that the contractor ten Sikorsky clippers now being fense standpoint is contended that it shall employ only Americans. it Panand delay Indies against West to the flown The; Post Office department and ama. It i larger and improved would be in the interest ofmerica over the earlier S42 which pioneered to close the matter at once while it State department believe after exc has British acquiescence. haustive Investigations that the. Pacific route, its grosa weight air mail will be very profitIt is pointed out that the United being 42,000 pounds as compared with 38,000 pounds for the earlier State has no waj to send air mail able and desirable from the standIs 118 feet to Europe now, or at any time in point of America. type. The wing span Western Newspaper Union. the future, unless Britain allows it 114 feet Top speed old the against ic trans-Atlanti- trans-AtlanU- lf trana-Atlantl- nt trans-Atlanti- trans-Atlant- Joint the dressed chicken and boil until tender. Allow it to cool, then cut into small pieces until the required amount is obtained. Use only the whitest celery, and none with coarse strings. Cut two of the eggs, not too fine. Mix chicken, celery, eggs and seasoning. Allow the mixture to stand with a little French dressing' for an hour or more in a cool place. To serve, the mayonnaise may be mixed with the chicken or served as a top dressing, according to taste. Serve on fresh lettuce leaves. Garnish with slices of the third egg and atuffed olives. Sprinkle with paprika. Foreign Words and Phrases Tout medaill a eon revers. (F.) Everything haa its good and ita bad side. Chacun pour sol et Dieu pour tous. (F.) Everybody for himself and God for all of us. Je suis. (F.) I am. Ad nauseam. (L.) To tha point of disgust. Argumentum ad absurdum. (L.) Ah argument Intended to prove the absurdity of an opponents ar- gument Pater patriae. (L.) Th father of his country. Chronique scandaleuse. ic trans-Atlanti- trans-Atlant- The Guelph Treasure The Guelph Treasure is a collection of ecclesiastical objects including portable altars, crosses, tablets, monstrances and a number of reliquaries. Its origin and history are closely bound up with the Brunswick royal lineage of the Guelpha and their predecessors, the according to an authority in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is a unique and final witness to the wonderful mentality of the Middle ages, In which we find expressed both the religion and the understanding of art of a mighty German state a catalog on the lineage, Otto Guelph Treasure, edited by and Schmidt Robert Van Falke, Gsorge SwarzenskL Bru-non- Don't Sloop VJhonGao Presses Heart If you want to really OCT RID OF OAS and tarrlbla bloating, don't axpoot to do it by Just doctoring your otomach witti harob, Irritating alkallao and gaa tablet. M Moat OAg I lodged In thI otomach and upper Intaatm and du to old poloonou mattor In th eonatipatod bowola that or loadod with bacteria. If you r eenotipatlon I of long otand-Inenormous quantities of dangerous bacteria accumulate. Than yeur dl- gastion la up at. OAS often proas heart and lunga, making Ilf mlaarabl. 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Butler declared he would writ no more for hia contemporaries but And would write for posterity only. was right He died iure enough, he book elmot In 1902, be end bi after hi unknown, and immediately world death hia Erewhon took the he wa. deeed among and storm, by of his generation the great writer wn vttrt a wwto in M6lt 1a of oaf dlui NUoafotr liBBgrf MWHiCllokMItl BboM, Iralij perfected dmff aioraa hb4 dlBorlai Mod U ra erMtloa it puwibl to obuua tfco ibis dtRtlfMUr braIIUm Wat oh bo tdalmblj ooiTMt Of I r 8kl u4 Am nl eoatlBU lrr ttia, of TrftOfPrat i Io Mi bb lto et rrm IoUoa. Volvo Ttmoo 6rm tod BoLdtfld MomIo OIL Boioll It M. MffleUBt for IU foe ill Inti' biobu. PoMlbHItlMfor lorvo oornlBC T oar on invMUDMt KLfl for imnwinUoaoKfitugtf Ability, writ tooMt HE UtOMTOMOg 463$ (n, CUoago W Trf Mans Way a man is wrong and wont admit it, he always gets angry. Haliburton. When HELPJKIDN&YS Te Get Rid ef Arid and Poisonous Waste Your kidoays Mp t hasp yea-wa- matter (Uterine uraat by constantly (ram th blood. If your kidney gat functionally disordered and fail t man axcaaa of impurttka, there may b th who! aystem and body-wi-d . dMrem. Burning, scanty or too irequont may b a warning of soma kidney or bladder disturbance. You may sufTer nagging backache persistent baadarha, attack, of diaxmaaa, getting up sights, swelling, pofHneaa under tbs eyes feel week, nerroua, ail played out. In euck caaes It k better to rely an S medlcla that haa won country-wid- e acclaim than so something lam fseor-abl- y knows. Du Don't Pitta. A ef grateful people Doani'. Au pear aetrbeerl poisoning ic lawmiina four-engin- trans-Atlanti- trans-Atlanti- A Bon march. (7.) A bargain. Empressement (F.) Eagerness. Embarras da richess. (F.) Oversupply of material. Entracte. (F.) Between tha acts. Laissez ces - vains scrupules. (F.) Discard or lay aside those vain scruples. c trans-Atlanti- (F.) scandalous story. 0. n, WNU Sarvlo. Capjrrlchl. trans-Atlanti- 10 g, - cupfuls mayonnaise Small bottle of olives Salt to taste Paprika I kaae Watt. Hymn lye Watts, the hymn quart cold chicken pint finely cut celery 1 By WILLIAM C. UTLEY flying on regular schedule across the 7 ant COMMERCIAL tea J to Europe is expected to become a fact Oenerals housa Lieutenant 1406 S. wal r. Barrington street, Halifax, Nova cIrLHenfeb?y Because the Urge row of houses was owned by a Mr. icr in the late summer or early fall. Five years of relieutenant generals In the directs Flynn, it was known at Flynn Block. The day was December 6, 1917. been Win jted States army have search, experiment and study have convinced the three Wil-- i At 1:36 a. m. the Scott. Ulysses S. Grant Henneberry children, an five cf them, were prospective operators of the two proposed routes that the SheriH. t Sherman, Philip getting ready for scbooL The two eldest children had just left the is at hand. Repeated success in flying the wide Patime Laterial s boose, and the younger enea were eating their breakfast John M. Schofield, Nelson A. cific and Samuel B. M. Young, Adna the blue Caribbean with the giant clipper ships has A.hundred yard out In the harbor, directly acroa from Mr. PSWccu (Chaffee, Arthur McArthur, John house, several boats Uy at anchor, one of them equipped the operators with the experience needed for flycarrying amUipatk1 gatea, Henry C. Corbin. Hunter munition, for this was during the World war. the most important oceanic course of them all. ing JeedlKi gett Robert L. Bullard and New Ye The Ammunition Ship Exploded. . airways and Impe-rial etthe, JQecipe "ST .which Writer w jftoni st Southampton in L 1656 to 1701 he was a tutor In fumOT of Sir John Hartopp. He fame minister of the Independent Lb t Mark Lane, London, fgunf to 1712 because c U Watts was a popular writer i theological works were Li, His tretise on Logic LI1 known, but his reputation L (hiefly upon his hymns. He n, THEOmFULCMlB I love the. night so I I soft tJd deep, love, the cheerFul dt.y, yt to sleep hfcte to go And miss tsoma time, that zy. trans-Atlanti- i |
