Show UTAH THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON Weekly News Review Germans Poles Hungarians Covet Part of Czech Nation ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES OF PEOPLE Business a By FROM THE LIVES LIKE YOURSELFI Joseph W LnBInc KT" “Death’s Sleigh Ride?’ Hello everybody: Donovan of Chicago is bringing us a regular a yarn— the tale of an adventure that happened to her in 1888 when she was a little girl In those days Kathleen lived on a farm in Alcona county Mich with her mother and dad and her five brothers and sisters It was of RUMANIA pretty wild country up there then Hunters Shunned Desolate Forest "There were thousands and thousands of acres of forest” Kathleen Settlers says “where even the most daring hunters never camped On the borders of this wild tract were just were few and far between a few settlers living along a road that was fairly passable” Kathleen says that winter hung on until an unusually late date In the year 1888 The cattle In the neighborhood were on short rations and the wild life in the woods was beginning to feel the It was not an uncommon occurrence on ttyse pinch of hunger long cold nights to hear timber wolves howling calling comrades to join In a raid on some farmer’s barnyard The nearest neighbors lived five miles away and there wasn’t much But one Sunday morning in March a family visiting between families came over to Kathleen's home to spend the day bringing their own little girl with them They had walked the1 whole distance in the morning before the sun began to melt the snow and intended to remain until evening when the muddy road would freeze again and walk home by moonlight Horses were scarce in Michigan in those days but Kathleen’s dad had just bought a fine young team Kathleen’s Dad Suggested a Sleigh Ride the plow” Kathleen would remain until "They were splendid for driving as well as on says "and my father suggested that if our guests about 9 o’clock when the mud and slush on the frozen he would drive them home and we children road would be well could have a sleigh ride” Well sir that plan was agreed upon When night came th$y started out dad and the neighbors on the seat And the kids burrowing into the straw P11 1° the back of the sleigh After an hour’s ride they reached the friend’s house stopped for a cup of hot milk and then started for home again The moon was bright and the The kids were enjoying the ride They had covered about a mile sleigh slid easily over the frozen road of the distance when away to the south they heard the long piercing i CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND IIER MINORITIES Foreign of peace we were overviolent crisis taken by Dynamic politb states cal forcet from neighboring England and threatened our landt France two democratic i informed us that arbitration could not solve the difficould do The government culty but accept the tuggettion of the two beNothing else remained powert cause we wera alone" "After 20 yean Thus to her angry downhearted little Czechoslovakia expopulace plained why Sudeten borderlands Two were being ceded to Germany days had passed since faithless England and France had capitulated to Adolf Hitler's deReichsfuehrer mand for immediate "release” of the 3500000 German Czechs whose protests have kept Europe in a dither all summer Further delay would it was the better bring invasion part of valor to surrender The German terms: Predominantly areas would be ceded immediately while part German areas would be In return Adolf given a plebiscite Hitler would join in guaranteeing Czechoslovakia’s future But even while Europe began breathing easier new troubles were brewing mostly caused by the hopeof nationalities less conglomeration from which the Czech nation was (See Map) carved 20 years ago The troubles: In Prague itself democracy gave as Preway to mier Milan Hodza’s cabinet resigned replaced by that of Gen Jan d Syrovy army chief Meanwhile blood splattered throughout Sudetia as Czech troops quelled Nazi riots In Warsaw was heard a growing cry for "liberation” of 82000 Poles in the Silesian Teschen belt which in Poland lost to Czechoslovakia DISTRIBUTION With more than 400 dead floods standing with property damage above $400000000 with thousands homeless many communities were so hopelessly shattered they could To the rescue not help themselves came the Red Cross U S coast guard and WPA while from Washington President Roosevelt ordered all federal agencies to give every possible assistance SouthO Shortly after midnight Califorern Pacific’s Chicago-bounnian pulled onto a siding at Tortuga Calif making way for the Los Angeles-bounThough Argonaut Brakeman Eric L Jacobson threw thundered the switch Argonaut into the through crashed head-o- n Californian to kill 12 injure 100 Told that he had opened a closed switch Brakeman Jacobson became shrieked over and over: hysterical "I’m not eriazy but I don’t know why I did it I” Politics All summer the U S has waited for Franklin Roosevelt to say yes or no regarding his third term candidacy Only known facts were (1) that he would retire if a strongly liberal congress approved his legislative program by 1940 and (2) that having control over the Democratic party lie would then be able Thus it was to name his successor obvious why he strove to defeat such senators as Iowa’s "obstructionist” Smith South Carolina’s Gillette Maryland’s Tydings and Georgia’s George But by last week as primary season closed the President’s only ma- - 1920 In Budapest Hungarians demanded annexation of 700000 Magyars in Czech territory contiguous to Hungary In Treviso Italy Premier Benito Mussolini decided treaties mean The horses were doing their best nothing in modern Europe therefore of Czechoother wolves took up the cry Inside of urged complete split-ucry of a wolf Immediately half a minute it seemed to Kathleen as though the whole forest were slovakia to satisfy Czechs Germans SloPoles Ruthenians Magyars ringing with their terrible howls "I heard my father exclaim ’My God I’ and from that moment on vaks Meanwhile Britain’s Prime Minwe children knew it was a race for our lives There were three of us who was about 10 ister Neville Chamberlain who had taken the little excursion— ray brother and France’s Premier Edouard Daladier my sister who was 12 and I myself then about 8 ate crow In Paris a crisis threatA Race for life With Hungry Wolves ened in protest against the Franco-Britis"My sister covered my brother and me with straw and told us to scheme whose stench almost lie flat under the seats The horses seemed to understand our terrible that of the notorious paralleled danger and fairly flew over the road plan for Ethiopia’s partition Three cabinet members re"From the first alarm there was no need to urge them I had signed In London where the ’’sellseen the flash of fire from their feet when they bounded forward out’’ created equal protest Neville When we were about two miles from home we could see dark Chamberlain had good1 reason to shapes on the long straight road a scant half mile behind us” worry about his job The kids huddled on the straw in the back of the wagon None of As the prime minister boarded his them spoke until Mary Kathleen’s older sister put her head down and plane for Godesberg Germany and whispered: his second conference with Adolf "When 1 Jump don’t tell father Let him keep right on” Hitler in a week’s time there were Kathleen stared at her sister She was going to sacrifice herself to some indications that Der Fuehrer Kathleen caught Mary and clung might delay those wolves for a few moments eventually reject the Sudeten to her Her brother told Mary he would certainly scream if she jumped settlement might demand complete And meanwhile the wolves were gaining! division of Czechoslovakia among The horses were doing their best but they had a heavy sleigh to Germany Poland and Hungary haul and the wolves were- running free They were less than a quarter Only definite fact was that Gerof a mile behind now and the sleigh was a mile from home many had bluffed her way into EuMother Was Handy With Shooting rope’s No 1 position relegating both The sleigh creaked as it lurched along the road They were almost France and England to the classifiin sight of home when they heard the report of a rifle Then they heard cation of second-rat- e powers a second shot Thus they knew that their mother at home had heard those terrible howls and was ready to help them Domestic Ion they rounded a turn in the road they saw a great bonfire built near the spot where the sleigh would turn into the yard A wolf is afraid of fire and they knew if they reached that blaze alive they’d have a chance As they came closer to home they could see Mother standing near the fire Dad owned two fine repeating rifles— the first that had ever come Into the locality— and Mother had brought out both of them New England had already weathered three days of rain when tropical storm warnings were posted on Florida’s east coast By midnight the hurricane was Safely past Florida far at sea Next morning Jacksonville warned North Carolina’s capes but high tides and wind had Closer and closer they came to the blaze And still the wolves the word By noon As the sleigh turned into the yard and pulled up beside already spread gained on them the weather bureau at Washingtori the fire Mother threw one of the rifles to Dad And together firing shot ordered storm warnings posted from after shot they held the pack at bay Kathleen says there must have been at least 30 wolves in the pack Atlantic City to Eastport Me By late afternoon the storm hit They circled around the big fire snarling and snapping while Mother fashionable and Dad blazed away with the guns West When nine had been shot down Long Island’s wind a the pack broke and scattered And the next morning two more were hampton with a tidal wave Luxurious homes on found dead a short distance away the sand dunes were blown to sea When the wolves were gone the horses were cared for Says Kathleen: and bodies were scattered for miles "There was a look of wonderful thankfulness on my mother's The storm’s full along the beach face as we gathered around the kitchen fire but all she said was had struck the island from force ’Children— your prayers And then to bed ” But I wonder if any one of those kids did any sleeping? How about Montauk down to Queens and Brooklyn it Kathleen? — Roaring across Long Island sound Copyright— WNU tarvlc it brought flood wind and fire to Connecticut in a night of horror that U 8 Soldiers' Biggest Battle cost $30000000 At Providence Meaning of Dollar Diplomacy R The biggest battle in which United Dollar diplomacy is diplomacy to L waves that broke 1000 feet into States soldiers ever participated promote the financial or commer- the city left 25 feet of water in some was the battle in cial interests of a country abroad streets By the time it reached' the World war which lasted 47 days or a diplomacy which seeks to use Massachusetts four days of rain American soldiers in that fight numthese interests to strengthen a coun- had already swollen rivers to flood bered 1200000 As only a hurricane can it try’s power or effect its purposes stage in foreign relations ripped northward into New Hamp-shir- e Folnts Farthest Apart and Vermont thence across Two points in the United States to Montreal where it took two more Female Ticks Hearty Eaters farthest apart are Cape Flatery The females of certain species of hves before playing out Behind was Wash and a point on the Florida ticks often eat food at one a picture of amazing desolation that coast south of Miami an airline meal to increaseenough their weight 39 stretched across 'six states distance of 2833 miles times Next day began the biggest rehabilitation job since 1937’a spring As I NEW YORK'S O’CONNOR Biggest fish in a summer’s angling r 7 Foremost among American Industry’s problem children are the railroads who Jointly fell $180000000 short of earning fixed charges' dur- whose ing 1938’s first six months proposed 15 per cent pay cut a year) is met by labor’s alof financial mismanagelegation Last ment and overcapitalization spring almost simultaneous with the announcement cut congress wage received rail legislation but tabled it on the insistence of Wisconsin’s who arSen Robert M LaFollette gued that pay cuts and government aid do not go together Called for October 1 was a general railroad strike which under federal legislation can be averted fact30 days while a presidential deliberates 30 finding comlnittee more days jifter its report is submitted Though President Roosevelt he plans to follow this procedure began thinking early in September in broader terms than a strike To the White House were summoned three experts of rail management (Union Pacific’s Carl Gray Pennsylvania's M W Clement Southern Pacific’s E C Norris) and three experts of rail labor (Railway Employn ees’ B M Jewell Brotherhood’s D B Robertson Railway Labor Executives’ George M Harrison) Their job: To draft for next wine rehabiliter’s congress a tation plan for the $26000000000 inof which is now dustry bankrupt Though the President obviously hoped to avert a rail strike though legislation by promising steadily increasing carloadings plus the prospect of business recovery gave promise of obviating a wage cut labor remained adamant At the committee’s first session its three experts told management’s three experts that no legislation could be talked until wage cut demands were dropped PHOTOGRAPHY ROLLS DEVELOP I prtnUI-ta- trimmod enlr- or your ahole of anlurasnants ttt aoln print KeprwJMOimiWnT PHOTO Pars Papt K loill' hJJP Hero's an Answer to School Hat Problem By RUTH WYETH SPEABS M S writes: "I followed directions in Book 2 for a fabric hat and it was so satisfactory I wonder if you could tell me hot to use a piece of woolen materk that I have to make a hat for D little girl who is just starting V school?” Here is a cunning schoolgirl1 You netj that’s easy to make two pieces of goods— one for fe hat and one for the lining may either match or contrast Each piece should be longer than the measurement around th largest part of the child’s headit The depth of the pieces should The diagram half their length the upper right of this skate shows how to make a paper pr in it became apDepression Early tern for the hat Cut a squan recovery piece of paper parent that permanent inch wider e was a proposition Thus than half the head men since 1931 each year has brought an deeper urement Mark point A on International Management congress edge hall way between th which woos international prosperity rightand bottom as shown Poii: top through means that have thus far B and C are marked at the cents failed to win international peace top and bottom of the paper Tb namely dotted lines are guide lines totei To Washington for this year’s con- -' shape the curved lines between J gress came 2000 executives and and B and C and D Point D i But a fortmanagement experts th© center front of the top of t: night ago after the first day’s seshat pattern and is placed oni sion it was plain that the weight of fold of the goods in cutting esc American delegates would change of the two layers The diagou an impersonal discussion of business line from A to C is the center bac ills into a field day for protests seam line against what U S industry considStitch the back seam of bothk ers its No 1 foe the New Deal and lining and press it open asi From France’s Alex Brule came Now place the two piece the simple analysis that most of E right sides together and stitch management’s problems are reducat Turn right side out bar F ible to human problems Germany’s along turned edge and stitch as Dr Gorg Seebauer was interested G the top as at H Gather in “the social aspects of scientific finish with a ribbon or a stii management” But one U S speak- fabric bow and a feather er after another found reason to lay Use what you have NOTE: American business ills at the White hand to make things of real vak House door Samples: You can save by doing— instead® Lewis H Brown: Mrs Spes without doing "Adding to the misunderstandings 2— Gifts Noveltsj between business and government planned Book to and help j&( Embroidery— is our present confused state of i Every page contains comply mind We are torn between conclearly illustrated direction! x tradictions” you can make at almost Westinghouse’s A W Robertson: things Enclose 25 cents and addis must struggle to cost "Management Mrs Spears 210 S Desplainesfc maintain the cause of free enter111 prise in a world threatened by too Chicago much regimentation” Labor's complaint came from Robert J Watt U S workers’ deleHOUSEHOLD gate to the international labor office: ('My message to management QUESTIONS is that you can have discipline and responsibility within unions as soon as you stop waging war against for Cleaning Fa Chamois them and give your workers a chance to develop their own patterns ture—A piece of chamois wru r out of and rubbed 05 of discipline and responsibipolished furniture will remove fj lity” with K Polish marks ger Soundest advice of all camejrom William Allen White wizened editor chamois ' of the Emporia (Kan) Gazette who Before Storing Garden Toohj When putting away garden for the winter clean them off p with kerosene or grease and it' in a dry place International jor success had been against New York’s Rep John J O’Connor defeated by administration-blesse- d James II Fay war veteran Though Representative O’Connor won Republican nomination (he entered both tickets) Candidate Fay is a safe bet next November since he carries both American Labor party and Democratic endorsement Since little John O'Connor was the biggest fish Franklin Roosevelt has been able to hook in a summer’s at best his angling “purge” was only 25 per cent successful This means the President’s program will not be completed by 1940 also that his tremendous per sonal popularity would bog down if he attempted to choose his successor Though he can win votes for himself he cannot do it for others two choices remain Apparently Either Franklin Roosevelt open will run for Democratic renomlna-tio- n or be will head a new third party a step not considered unlikely in view of his recent promise to liberals whether Democratic or Republican O In Massachusetts James M Curley staged a comeback won Democratic gubernatorial nominaEMPORIA’S EDITOR WHITE tion over the incumbent Gov Capital was "Just plaits dumb Charles F Hurley Opposing him spanked both capital and labor while next November will be peaking as a “representative of the Leverett Saltonstall liberal Repub lican who scored three times the public” Editor Whife to capital: ‘You vote of his three opponents comwere for not seebined t ing that the day was com-in- g O In Wisconsin where You had to fight it’ every popular Gov Phillip F LaFollette could Inch and make the consuming pubbe beaten only by a n lic think you were greedy You fusion ticket against the were just dumb” powerful Progressive party NovemEditor White to labor: "The prop-e- r ber’s gubernatorial race will again business of a labor union U to get find three candidates: Governor wages better hour and good LaFollette Democratic Robert Hen-1- 7 higherconditions But when labor shop Republican Julius P Hell Most en masse plunks Its vote for its own interest will center in the senatorial (political) party then the spirit of where Democratic Sen campaign F Ryan Duffy must face Repub loyalty begins to obscure labor’s objectives” lican Alexander Wiley and ProgresNext day Secretary of Commerce sive Herman L Ekcrn currently Daniel C Roper promised less govlieutenant governor ernment interference with business r t Place for Children’s ThinPI Children need places on 5 ground floor of the home to R larly store schoolbooks I gear things and rainy-daMildew Stain Removing remove mildew stains from linens boil in a water to 7 two tablespoons of peroxide v been added to each quart J How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract f IWa food adrloa for a wo thatifu (usually from S8 la W) ha’ll loss bar app-to about hot flaahaa loaa of P bpart ftarraa and oodr apalla Gat fro air Skim Itaad a food ranxral syitsm tonic to K Pin Chain a Vafatabla ComPO“"“or women It balpa aapannUa up physical rssiatanoa thus blp P “ Ills aad llaturblo mnany 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