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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH STYLES FOR safeta j ISow Its Safety First Baseball Manufacturers Show How in Swingtime ADVENTUROUS )R I Its Done AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson A Frontier Paul Revere WATSON WEBB was the editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer who also had a career as a politician and diplomat. But he deserves more honor for a daring exploit which he performed as a young man on the Illinois frontier. The scion of an old New York family, Webb ran away from home at the age of 17 and went to Washington where he persuaded John C. Calhoun, secretary of war, to give him a commission in tiie JAMES paper, a no, or of I Cl & 8? vs - .. y -- ' 3 ' embers of the Greater New York ejy council, when they met 0;,pti, found out what the safe horse; rker of 1939 will wear. Miss 2 Sam-3- 0 anye Cunningham demonstrates toe guards, fiber shin , rds, n eye shield of Jf.jiie pUs tercel and a respirator. belt with red I, bolds a safety luly, lSectors. n, a few- - jfwo F riendly Watchdogs Patrol Mount Hood Resort leat ) i Swing music has at last made its influence felt in the field of safety education. Cleveland, Ohio, police erected this sign addressed to motorists and pedestrians in the center of the street at public square. Pedestrians, however, are not expected to shag across the intersections. one ' ctor, aid. ad of 1 ho- ers to tt, great on a ip oti ,'olving is moment i. There army. In October, 1821, young Lieutenant Webb was sent to join the garrison at Fort Dearborn. In the middle of the winter John Kinzie, the Indian agent at Chicago, reported to the commander that the Sioux and Foxe Indians were plotting to surprise and massacre the garrison at Fort Snelling the next spring. Colonel McNeil immediately called for volunteers to carry the news of the plot to Fort Armstrong (near Rock Island. I1L) so that word could be sent up the river to Fort Lieut. Webb offered to Snelling. make the journey. Accompanied by a sergeant and a Pottawatomie guide, he set out early in February. He intended to go first to the post of a French trader on the Rock river and there secure a Winnebago guide. But when he reached the post he found the Winnebagoes holding war dances. So Webb and the sergeant cautiously circled around the camp and headed toward Fort Armstrong. The weather was bitterly cold and the two men faced the danger of perishing in the raging blizzard. But in spite of this they reached Fort Armstrong in safety. As a result of their trip, the commander at Fort Snelling so reinforced his post that the Indians did not dare attack and a possible massacre was averted. A nd the drt, George al 'I Massive, friendly and famous are Lady, left, and Breuhl, the huge St. Bernard dogs who dwell at Timber-lodgon Mount Hood. The dogs are hitched to a toboggan at the mile-hig- h Oregon resort. In the back-lnleorge e Mount is Hoods Breuhl and national fame last summer when they Lady peak. gained ier harvest" climbers to the mountain summit. Lady made the descent alone, but Breuhl lost his nerve. A steam b'yj reecue expedition was sent after him, and only through a long struggle was he saved. . ied on ml! e live. d Di two-mil- off wenir would i ni automobile ne Bullpower Caravan Takes to Road art rrite horn it rre putt pT he first jefi leld at a ehind the cylinders i? of the gh the boit afemng cit nose, strut ut r. CybndH that macb latform. during the ;ood marj.. rs of metife e madeb; I .it l lil of flye could do t le the hors ard by bot. en with the f, L., Talent wagered 50 pounds that he could take himself, his wife re cll'rcn n this unique caravan from Mildura to Melbourne, rtlla, a distance of 350 miles, in 12 weeks. He had traveled for 10 wlen tfis picture was taken, and expected to reach Melbourne in more week. The e peat hors conveyance is mounted on an abandoned of icces smobUe chassis. Talent requested that no cameras be used, but offered ter, hesi,e pjcgures t0 curioug onlookers. 1 0F se box-lik- Gueneth Omeron of Los Angeles smiles approval of a unique, allsilver automobile model in the collection of Philip Paval, California art collector. More than 5,000 pieces of sterling silver wire were used in construction. 13 Year s Old, to Celebrate Birthday Lk her WW Brookbank of Dayton, Ohio, who will celebrate her fourteenth birthday anniversary In April, 'ilh her young son, who was born in March. Her husband. Merrill Brookbank. is 15. The child Shed four pounds, 8'i ounces when it was horn. Needless to say, the father is very proud! until Maj. J. W. Powell made the first authentic survey of its canyons in 1869. It lured many daring adventurers to their death both before and after his first expedition. Strangely enough, Powell was a scholar and not an adventurer by purpose. Even when he made his successful journey down the river, it was his methodical preciseness rather than engineering or navigating ability that brought success. The Colorado descends an average of more than eight feet each mile and makes this drop by a series of rapids. It rages through canyons with perpendicular walls that often tower several thousand feet. Powell never ran into anything dangerous when he could avoid it. Being a geologist and not a navigator, he beached his boat and sent men along the cataract walls to the rapids ahead before he attempted to descend them. Powells methods were so successful that he is one of only a few who ever made expeditions down the Colorado without losing a single life. He traveled the Colorado from the Green river in Wyoming to Virgin canyon below the Grand canyon, bringing back the first authentic information about that natural wonder. Although he was a professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan university and had had no navigating experience before his first venture, he designed boats that became models for Colorado river work. Major Powell was a paradox a cautious man whose motto was safety first and yet he was one of Americas greatest adventurers. King Strang fN James Jesse Strang and the first two names are in the proper order! led a colony from Voree, near LaCrosse, Wis., to the Beaver islands just west of Traverse bay in Lower Michigan. There he set up a kingdom over which he ruled with an iron hand. He was a picturesque figure with his flaming whiskers almost as red as the kingly robe he wore. Not only did he dispense his own cruel brand of justice to the people m his colony but he constantly made war on the Irish fishermen on the mainland and often pillaged their homes. Finally he became so bold that President Fillmore issued a warrant for his arrest on a charge of treason for setting up an independent government within the United States. For some unknown reason he was not found guilty and returned to his kingdom. But his downfall was not long in coming. He made a law that all women were to wear short skirts When Mrs. with baggy bloomers. Thomas Bedford refused, her husband was flogged for upholding her refusal. This was a fatal mistake. For Bedford and another man who had been flogged at the same time, waylaid their hated monarch and shot him. He was taken back to die of his wounds at Voree and the peowere driven ple of his kingdom away from their island by the inhabitants of the Michigan mainland. 1847 4. A RUG calls for mass production. These pictures show the construction of leagues. Left: By machine the cushion center, rubber over cork. Is wool winding, then a fine cotton winding. Center: The horsebide cover band. The ball is examined for weight at each step, and undergoes Speediest Toy Auto Captivates Children OF GLASS d Adventurer river was referred THE asColorado a mysterious monster away. : Safety-Minde- Even the manufacturing of baseballs balls used by the American and National wound with woolen yarn. Next comes a Is inspected, and (right) is sewed on by close inspection during each stage. Western Newspaper Union The young lady can roll this glass rug because it really is a broken sheet of the new safety plate glass for automobiles. A new type of solvent has been placed between two thin layers of plate glass. The broken fragments cling to the Not exactly a plaything for kiddies, this toy automobile is said to Dick Sinclair was burn up the road at 80 miles per hour. a bit shy, but mighty proud to pose with the racing car at the spring hobby show of the Detroit Yscht club. It was one of the most popular exhibits at the show. Children's toys, according to manufacturers, can be educational as well as Interesting. Modern toys are largely mechanical, and many require skill to operate. Seven-year-ol- d er Cadets Experiment With New Type Diving Suit Cadets of the Admiral Farragut Naval academy watch as a new diving suit Is tested in the Toms river to determine the feasibility of using a mixture of helium and oxygen for deep sea diving. The experiment was made by Cyril von Vaumann, traveler, writer and explorer. The diver controls the amount of air by manipulation of the valves of the tanks he carries with him. The suit weighs 1,100 pounds. Focal Points in Italo-Frcnc- li Crisis Arrows indicate key Mediterranean and African territories where Italy is pressing concessions from France. In Tunisia, with almost as many Italian residents as French, Paris is willing to grant minority rights to the followers of Premier Mussolini. Italy also wants equal administration rights over the Suez canal, lifeline to her Hast African territory, and control over the railroad which runs from Djibouti, in French Somaliland, to Addis Ababa, in the heart of Italian East Africa. The island of Corsica, for which an unofficial Italian campaign has been started, will likely remain Frcrch territory. BIRD HOUSE 1IATS houses look like look like bird house is a debatable question. The spring bird house bonnet demonstrated by Dorothy Coggins is made of clothesline and glue. It was one of many entries in a Detroit, Mich., bird Whether bird hats, or hats house contest. |