Show TJIK SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING im Tape Feveri A MYSTIC NUMBER HUNTER AND HUNTED fish is swimming: desperately for he is in terrible 'danger A certain one of his traditional enemies is hard on his tail and it looks as if he is going to be caught Well here is the "hitnted” Where is the “hunter”? Turn the picture upside down and see This APRIL 27 big: The digits above are full of tricks if you consider them as a number reading in a clockwise direction around the circle starting at Number 1 This gives us 142857 Multiply by two and get 285 714 — which can still be read around the circle starting at 2 Multi ply by three and you get 428571 which is also on the circle The same thing happens if yoit multiply by four five or six giving you 571428 714285 and 857142 Jh makes every possible number that can be read in one direction since there are only six digits - But multiply by seven and yotf get 999999 — six nines Now add the pairs of opposite numbers on the circle 1 and 8 4 and 5 Ac and you also get six nines! The digits missing from the circle are 3 6 and 9— forming two more nines Truly a remarkable arrange ment of numbers SOME EXCELLENT PALINDROMES Our recent comments on palindromes — sentences which read backward as fonvard —have brought forth some very in same the teresting examples Here are three good ones from Mrs Rene H Himel: SORE DOG SEES RATS LEER—REEL STAR SEES GOD EROS —one half of which is a reversal of the other BARD LIVED AS A DEVIL DRAB EMMA I WON NOW I AM ME And here are a few of an even hundred sent in by Maurice Shapiro: (Copyright Ton 3Iust Use Care in Selecting Your Synonyms In Judging the synonym contests the Judges reserve the right to reject any suggested synonym that is in You their opinion not permissible must realize that the matter of synonyms is largely a matter of opinion and if a use may be allowed the Judges will allow it On the other hand it obviously wouldn't be right to admit as synonyms words whose meanings are not synonymous with the accepted meanings of the given word In the list tills week for synonyms for "cute” almost every list has contained a number of unallowable words The number of words listed by your name therefore may not be the number you sent in The difference lies in the discarded words which in some cases were as many as twelve Knight Marshal Hope Nelson won first place with 202 words Knight Velma Bierl Rexburg Idaho came second with 149 Knight Steve E Hatch Woods Cross won third place with 106 words and Esquire Kathryn Carter Mohrland won honoiable mention with 92 words PUZZLES Puzzles may be submitted at any time Fifty points are awarded for each one published A MESSAGE TO OUR READERS Can you solve this puzzle? Each number represents a letter When you have the letter represented by 1 you can find the others easily as Thus they are numbered in sequence so on If 1 means X 2 means Y and 5 5 Pres LOOT A MAN? I AGAIN AM A TOOL! —says the apprehended thief TAR ASTIR OR IT’S A RAT —said the Captain on the bridge RED RUMOR O' MURDER —the papers are full of it If you like to construct palindromes — it is great fun to make one that might possibly occUf in ordinary speech like those above — send the results along Publishing Company Nw York World !30 2-- MAE WILHITE Age 12 Sandy A KNIGHTHOOD CHARACTERISTIC The first is In chair but not In seat The second is In honey but not on meat but not In greet While the fourth is in perform and also in feat The fifth Is in soft but not in fine The sixth Is In manufacture but not The third is In know In mine The last Is in youth— and that ends the rhvme KNIGHT ALICE DENNEY Age 13 Downey Idaho ANSWERS TO PUZZLES A Message to Members: Let's make The Tribune Junior the finest paper possible by our con- stant efforts A Knighthood characteristic: Hon- - esty Janies Monroe — A ISiogrn pliy James Monroe was born on April 1758 on his lather's estate on He went Monroe Creek In Virginia to common school liut unlike Clay and Lincoln he was starting college when the Revolutionary war broke out He went to war and was soon a colonel In command of Fort William Henry He was brave and held the t lort heroically Monroe married Miss Elizabeth Kortright in 1786 In 1790 he filled a vacancy In the U S senate In 1794 he was appointed minister to France In 1796 he dissatisfied- - the ' president and was recalled In 1799 Monroe was elected gov 28 ernor of Virginia During the War of 1812 he served bravely A year later he was elected president He Was reelected In 1820 On the death of his wife in 1830 he went to live with one of his daughters In New York Here he died on 4 1831 He was burled in Hollywood cemetery Richmond Va ESQUIRE RALPH TANNENBAUM Balt take (50 Points) July The sun is 1369000 times larger than the earth |