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His nostrils were fierce and wide, and many a Washington schoolboy his nose pressed against the great lizard's glass cage swore he saw Koko snort sparks. Koko came to the zoo from faraway Komodo Island, in the Malay Archipelago, between Sumbawa and Flores. The 35 mile long island, named after the huge lizards, is the only place in the world where they are said to live. The reptile arrived at the zoo almost two years ago, shipped in a cage of stout walnut. It took six men three hours to transfer him to his glass cage. His first meal was three dozen eggs and five pounds of raw beef. He was the image of the prehistoric monster as he moved his ponderous body about the sand and rocks. Children came from every local schoolhouse to see the zoos biggest attraction. And then Koko got sick. He wouldnt eat. He lost weight. For the last six months officials knew he wag dying. But the kids didn't. Up to the last day they came and pressed their noses against the d wonder reglass and in counted all those fairy tales. wide-eye- jf tnramraaa New Data Is Discovered by 15-fo- ot Less eled metal case, flare batteries. Reduced from 47c . . 1049 E. 21st So. Hy. 3062 SUGARIIOUSE STORE D10-- 1 An improvised Colma, Calif. drama here would indicate that both gangsters and producers of gangster films have overlooked the possibility of using a bull as a bodyguard. Godfrey Twerder, local rancher, was standing by the side of his pet bull when Paul Perussima, state .highway patrol captain, came cruising by looking for a murder suspect. He thought it woiid be worth while to give Twerder, whom he did not know personally, the "once over. He started across the field. Twerder saw him coming and, thinking it might be a holdup man, started running. Then Perussima started running. Then Twerder, looking back for a second time, decided after all it was not a holdup man and stopped running. But Perussima kept on running. Even when he reached Twerder he didn't stop. Perussima just had time to reach the fence before the bull reached him. He had to walk a mile around the fence to. his. car, where he found Twerder calmly waiting. Drouth Hits Fishworms; Price Booms to lc Each Des Moines. The price of com is going up and so is the price of fishworms. "Its the drouth, John Keener explained. "Its so dry in Iowa and the rest of the Midwest that the worms are digging deeper and deeper into the ground, so deep, in fact they dont even come up at night. Keener operates a bait house on the banks of the Des Moines river and supplies fishermen with fishworms if they're just common, ordinary fishermen, or with grayflsh, minnows, doughballs, flies, etc., if they are "anglers." He gets his worms from a farm neai Des Moines, but where that farm is situated is one of his trade secrets. We have to dig at least five feet down for 'em now, he moaned, .and besides we have to use a team and plow to break the hard-bake- , j n Find First Editions of Famous Books at CoIIegs A caretaker lookReading, Pa. more than ten found tools for ing rare volumes, many of them limited first editions, in a locker room at Albright college. The books, which perhaps were mislaid nine years ago when Acolleges lbright and Schuylkill merged, include a first edition of "Uncle Toms Cabin," printed in 1852, and "a complaint on life, death and immortality," printed in - page of dements by the Rev. John Davis, was written: "Oh, meet me by moonlight alone down at the comer It was signed "Louisa. .- .lie-prera- of Astronomy, At 100 He Strolls Eight Miles to Consult Doctor Light." Millar has never married. lie is the only son in a family which had fifteen daughters. DCiQlfcfufly Scratches Reward Hero Who Saved Trapped Cat A rescue San Francisco, Calif. man for thq S. P. C. A crawled a forty city blocks through a Los Angeles, Calif. Feeling cut total of h pipe to save a black tom of sorts, W. E. Millar, one hundred thirty-incin the mazes of the drain. lost cat miles from walked eight years old, He was decorated for his deed with his home to consult a doctor. You're too active, the physician deep scratches. The cat was trapped several days 1743. told Millar, you ought to relax twenty blocks from the entry, ago, the doctor Millar agreed Robert L. Work, librarian, and more.' residents and complained about its the walked and eight Lois Hemich, student assistant, sal- might be right, dismal yowling. back home. vaged the books and will display miles William Polk, the rescue man, He took an hours rest, cooked his them in the new library building. to lasso the cat through a ventried washed the ate The entire set of the "Debate in supper and walked it,another mile to tilator, using pieces of juicy fish dishes, and the Pennsylvania Convention, for bait. The cat ate the fish and an open air Salvation Army meetin German in written Pennsylvania scampered away. ing. at which he sans the bass solo. 1837, shows the most wear. It required two hours for the res- - rove DISTINCTIVE yy STOP! crust of dirt." Keener said he had heard that in Minnesota conditions were even worse, with worms selling "two dozen for a quarter." He sells "ten or twelve dozen for that amount, he says. Losing Candidate Out 3 Pairs of Half Soles Chapel Hill, N. C. An unsuccessful candidate for the state legislature listed his campaign contributions as follows: Two haircuts, two batches of announcement cards, five nights' lodging, cheese, crackers, soft drinks, tobacco, four rides to neighboring and towns, three pairs of half-solheels, $14.80 in cash from friends and admirers, one light lunch and accompanied by heavy advice, and one heavy lunch accompanied by light advice, the latter disregarded. es Cream 4 LISTEN! Woman Searcher. New York. The contents of a number of old Spanish documents bearing on early American history have been saved, even though the originals may have been destroyed in the Spanish revolution, Miss Irene A. Wright, historian, revealed here after arrival from Lisbon, Portugal. For twenty-threyears Miss Wright has lived in Spain and she has written several books on early voyages to the Caribbean. For the past several months she has been engaged in special research on the life of Fcminando do Soto for the United States De Soto Expedition commission, which will celebrate between 1938 and 1942 the fourth centennial of De Sotos expedition into Florida and other parts of the ONE-MINUT- Has Copies of Documents. Miss Wright left Spain a short time before the Spanish hostilities, began. Hence she docs not know whether the original documents into which she delved for facts about De Soto have been destroyed, but she deems it highly probable that some have been lost. Of a number of these Sixteenth-centurpapers she brought back copies and photostats, but of others of great interest she has no records. Miss Wright expressed special fear that the collection of old documents in the attic of the municipal building in the village of Jerez de los Caballeros, where De Soto was born, have been destroyed, since severe fighting has been reported in this area. The papers were all neatly stored in the attic of the building, and the mayor, who was the village blacksmith, gave her every assistance in her researches. The rest of her work Miss Wright did in the Archivo General de Indias, in Seville, which contains an extensive collection of documents relating to the discovery, conquest and early government of Spanish America. There is a mine of information there about American history as yet untouched by research workers, Miss Wright said, and if the structure should be destroyed, the loss to historians of early America would be incalcu- ' lable. Establishes Birth Date. By her researches Miss Wright established fiom original documents that De Soto was born in 1500. She found much material about his early career in Central America and Peru and thinks that he played a much more important part in Pizarros expedition than historians have given him credit for. The estimate of De Soto's character also must be revised, Miss Wright thinks. He has been considered the gentleman conquistador hitherto, but Spanish documents indicate that he treated Indians of Central America and Peru with considerable cruelty and that he was exceptionally "mean about money. He financed his expedition to Florida with gald and silver taken from Indians in Central America and Peru, much of the metal having been adornments of the Indians. Fewer documents exist in Spain about the Florida expedition, which was considered a fiasco, about which the survivors were not eager to talk. De Soto also was proved to be an unusually successMiss Wright ful "ladies man, said. y SERMON E ON e South. LOOK! EYE-SIGH- T But pity the one who DOES sec well but, with eyes to the bookneeda, Is condemned as being dull, or lazy or simply bad, because he rebels at books, and prefers the natural of the away from books. Optometry is not interested In merely whether the child sees well; as a Profession It Is Interested In knowing if he sees EFFICIENTLY. No minute test, nor several minutes, will determine this. But it is a safe conjecture that when a normally Intelligent boy or girl, with all the natural eagerness of childhood to emulate and lead, turns from books and la content to take a secondary place, something is wrong. Continued next week by Dr. W. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST Charter Member of the Foundation 1090 East 21st South Hy. 7749 TIME TO PLANT BULBS NARCISSUS DAFFODILS TULIPS SNOW DROPS HYACINTHS CANARY BIRDS Cages and Supplies GOLD FISH Aquariums and Supplies O Klzn Largo PINE NUTS Special Frico in Large Quanitlea AT ' VOGELERS 12 West 1st South Was. 804 Housemaid Uses Planes to Reach Various Jobs - i Goldfields, Sask. May Jean Rice, Canada's only "flying housemaid, has a monopoly on the domestic service business around this new, town. rough and tumble She is the only housemaid for miles around, which is why she has the business "sewed up. The sprightly miss hails from Grand Prairie, Alta., she commands high prices for her work and commutes to and from "jobtf Seventeen years of by airplane. age, May is "having too good a time doing housework for the miners hereabouts to settle down at present, but when she finally decides to marry she said "the good man must be a miner. On Mondays she scrubs floors, does the mens washing and cleans On up their cabins at Goldfields. commercial boards a she Tuesdays Canoeist Sets Record in plane for Warren camp, on Neilly lake, 35 miles away. She returns Crossing English Channel by plane on Wednesday and starts London. A London clerk who set all over again. out in a small collapsible rubber canoe for a holiday paddling along Gold Coin Now Mined the coast of France found afterGold mining Calif. Johnsville, ward to his surprise he had broken has become so modernized that the record twice for a canoe cross- miners now dig out the gold already ing of the channel. cpined. John Pezzola, operating a The startled clerk, Frank M. mining claim near here, struck a Whittingham, twenty-fiv- e years old, cache containing 170 rare $1 gold will receive a trophy to commemocoins, five $20 pieces and seven $10 rate the event. pieces. Whittingham crossed from Dover to Wissant, France, in five hours, Beggars Baise Ante Local beggars Pueblo, Colo. fifty minutes, and returned in six hours. 'and have raised the ante. No longer do "I set off from Dover, he ex- they want a "nickel for a cup of plained, and halfway across the coiTee. Now its a "dime for a channel 1 spotted bad weather loaf of bread. ahead arid increased my speed. I had to contend with a heavy gale, Fish Mystery Solved; and was driven out of my course off North Foreland. Gills Give the Clew "I arrived safely at Wissant, and back for Washington, D. C. The bureau a few days later started of fisheries has bobbed up with Dover, but met with bad weather. I was surprised to find I had done something definite on the old and baffling question of how to tell the journey so quickly. a gentleman goldfish from a lady three-quart- gold-mini- er . goldfish. Dog Braves Mine Fire to Save 2 From Death Downieville. Calif. A faithful dog ran 900 feet through a fire and smoke filled tunnel and attracted two miners to the entrance where flames which soon would have trapped them, were raging. The miners, Joseph Stark and his son, Herman, left a Are in the stove in theifl quarters in the mine mill before they entered the tunnel. The stove pipe became hot and ignited dry timbers. The tentative key to the mystery has been supplied by Wallace A. Little of Richmond Heights, Mo., and partly substantiated by Edwin H. Perkins, the Baltimore fish author. as subMr. Littles theory mitted to the bureau is simple, but so was Columbus' egg trick. The formula: "Male the gills will be flat; female the gills will be noticeably round. The Missouri fancier stipulates, however, that he won't guarantee the system to work unless the goldfish are two years old. . |
