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Show TTTC I To Your BULLETTV DISASTERS HARRIED WORLD DURING 1936 VALENTINE TO COACH SYRACUSE FIs cc!s, Earthquakes, Fires Take Heavy Toll. BRAND'S FLORAL SHOP One of the Washington, D. C.. most spectacular of the world's natural disasters of 1936 was a fall of rock into Leon lake, Norway, which threw up a flood wave that wiped out two villages, says the National Geographic society. Most devastating disaster of the year was the spring famine in the Szechwan and Honan provinces of China, in which thirty million people faced starvation. This was an added blow to a country which, since 1920, has been prostrated by sixty-eigfloods and famines. The United States had its share of misfortunes .with drouth, fires, floods, and tornadoes. In summer the most serious drouth in the countrys history for scores of years parched the northwest and central states, burning up wheat and corn crops and killing cattle. The accompanying prolonged heat waves of approximately 100 degrees, which also assailed the eastern states, took the lives of more than 4,000 people. In August and September forest fires devoured thousands of dry acres in Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, and southwest Oregon. Floods in East. Although the West suffered for lack of water in summer, the East was deluged with it in spring. March floods ravaged thirteen eastern states, destroying millions of dollars worth 0! property, and 169 lives. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, par--. flood, realyzed by an eight-focalled its famous disaster of 1889. In western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, a blizzard increased suffering of the homeless. Floods inundated southern England and France in January, and Luzon island in the Philippines in December. "On November 20, the dam of a copper mine reservoir in Japan collapsed and at least 300 people were killed by the released - poisonous solution. Wind and weather reached their climax in February. Gales, snowstorms, and extreme cold swept across twelve countries of Europe and the Near East, killing hundreds, wrecking shipping, ' and causing tremendous property damage. A terrific blizzard, the worst there in decades, swept through central cliff-rimme- d 300-fo- ot AT YOUR SERVICE 2034 South 11th East Hyland 970 or Ily. 1848 553 TO HIS HEART THRU HIS EYES KAY STEVENS ht APPAREL 1 8 East Broadway SALE DRESSES SALE New Spring Prints New Spring Plain All New PERMANENTS $3.00 to $6.50 SOUTHEAST BEAUTY SHOPPE East Uy. Stock $595 Shampoo and Finger Wave 50c 2104 South 11th Colon Big Values For Valentine . . WE FEATURE Critzy-Bell- Frocks e 8C05 Ilene Cox, Operator For Your Party Servo Hot Buttered POPCORN Peanut Brittle Carmel Corn Cheez Corn - ITS DELICIOUS NU-CRIS- P PRODUCT CO. 1027 East 21st So. Hy. 308 We make only the best ot Japan. The United States was struck by a severe cold wave, and on its heels dust storms harassed Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, and caused brown snow to fall in New England. During the same month, in northern Transvaal, South Africa, hail fell three feet deep, killing crops, cattle and nineteen, natives, some of whom had to be dug from their blanket of ice. Tornadoes ' harried Florida, Georgia,-- ' and Alabama in January, southern California in February, and, in April, lashed through six Southern- states, killing 421 persons, and causing damage amounting to millions of dollars. In September a hurricane raged up the Atlantic seaboard. . Villages Swallowed Up. AFTER YOUR PARTY VALE'NTINES Try Roys DELICIOUS HAMBURGERS and Widest Selection French Fried Potatoes IN THE CITY 1069 East 21st South in Sugarhouse ROYS 981 DRIVE-I- N East 21st South FINLAND'S PRESIDENT Make Your Own Typhoons did VALENTINES a lot of fun and easy, too, with our complete sets of parts. Val-enti- to 250 - Valentino Greeting Cards A wide selection of personalized greeting cards for Valentine Day. Select yours now. We also have paper costumes table covers and favors for Valentine parts. 44 EAST on SOUTH TEMPLE Books For Every Mood" EYES on the Difficulties (Continued from last week) The increase in the number of motor vehicles registered was blamed for much of the increased death rate in automobile accidents. But the recent decrease' in registration did not bring a corresponding decrease in fatalSo wo must look else- -, ities. where for the cause, or rather, causes, of our national slaughter. (ConUnucd next week) Dr. W. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST Charter Member of the Foundation 1090 East 21st South President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud birthof Finland whose seventy-fift- h day was celebrated throughout the country with great enthusiasm recently. He was hailed as the father of his country and praised for making a protracted fight for the constitutional rights of Finland against czarist Russian oppression. Remember that difficulties made only to be overcome. ROAD Hy. 7749 - ... Come in and see them. DESERET BOOK COMPANY their share of dam- age in the Pacific. In August they destroyed crops in the Philippines and in October took 310 lives there. In August, 1,516 persons perished in Chosen (Korea) in its worst typhoon of recent years. Landslides following a- violent earthquake killed approximately 300 people in January in Colombia. Two hundred perished when the village of La Chorrera was swallowed up by the earth and its place taken by a roaring volcano. Earthquakes killed several hundred in China in May, destroyed Tuquerres, Colombia in July, and leveled the city of San Vicente, El Salvador in December. Mounts Vesuvius and Stromboli, Italy, and Mount Asama, Japan, erupted during the year. Its 10 are My Neighbor 5ays: can of chicken and a can of vegetable soup combined makes a delicious soup. Milk With Acid Fruits Held Aid to Digestion Amherst, Mass. Acid fruits when used with milk are an aid to digestion, Professor Julius H. Frandsen, State college, of Massachusetts says. Persons believe that cherries, oranges and other acid fruits, when used with milk are harmful and cause digestive disturbances, Frandsen said. The idea is apparently based upon the fact that milk is curdled by the acid in these fruits. These superstitions are baseless, because the acid fruits, by their curdling action .on milk, are aids to digestion and should be welcomed rather than spurned. He said acid milk often is recommended for A Line your clothes basket with oilcloth cut to fit basket. Fine fabrics will not then catch on loose pieces of cane. If the cement floor of your cellar has a rough finish, paint with a special paint used for this purpose sold by paint dealers. If iodine is accidentally on a linen towel, cover al I A dropped the spot immediately with dry starch and the stain will soon disappear. Ossie Solem, newly appointed football coach of Syracuse university. Solem comes to Syracuse from the University of Iowa where he was athletic director and football coach for four years. lie replaces Vic Hanson who resigned as coach of football at Syracuse at the close of the 1936 season. . (Basketball Cont. from Page 1) ing turned in brilliant performanEdgehills success was primarily due to a tight defense which Cal contributed to during every game, always playing against larger pivot men but nevertheless coming through with his stellar floor play. Marvin Ashton leads the stake as the deadest of the dead eyes, ringing up the highest total yet to be scored in one season in Highland Stake. He will always be remembered by his Clock shot and the way in which he led the scrappiest teams of the stake during 1936-3Ralph Knight is also a perennial man on the selection, having rated this quintet for the fourth straight year Ralph's floor play and good sportsmanship marks him as an ideal M Man Bob Rigby from representative. comer to the new is a Edgehill laureled five and baa definitely clinched this distinction by some of the beet ball handling and defense in the stake. Bob likewise is recognized by all competitors as a good sport and for this reason Is also a true representative of tne ideals of the M Men of Highland Stake. LOCAL TEAMS TOP JUNIOR HOOP PLAY Basketball games played Saturday in the Interchurch Junior League found all of the local teams topping their apponents. East Bench turned back the First Presbyterian,' Sugar House topped Emerson, Highland Park smothered Wasatch and Hilltops and Parleys aB squads kept in their winning stride. Seven games will mark the third round of play Saturday at the Westminster gymnasium. Feature games End East Bench clashing with Baptists, Parleys B meet ing Highland Park B, Emerson B taking on the St. Pauls Epis- ces all season. 7. c -- o'O' Im-manu- al copate. MISS IDA MEYER ESTABLISHES HEMSTITCHING IN SUGARIIOUSE A real fine Hemstitching plant has been established in Sugarhouee by Miss Ida Meyer, who s known for her fine work in this line, in tho southeast. SUGAR HOUSE CAFE CHANGES OWNERSHIP The Sugar House Cafe was recently purchased by Mrs. Caroline Flenauer. Mrs. Fienauer is an excellent cate rest and it is their aim to give to the patrons of the cafe the best in food and to maintain the high standard of service that the people of the southeast expect POTPOURRI Europe's Greatest River The Russian river Volga is the longest in Europe. The river itself is 2,300 miles long and with its tributaries furnishes 20,000 miles of navigable waterway. 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