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Show riUDf TH5 SUGAR IIOl'SE BULLETIN ERROR ADDS VALUE -- - TO FRENCH STAMP Peerless Laundry SNOW WHITE CLOTHES 1206 East 21t So. Hyland 2182-218- 3 RABAUL CLEANS UP For AFTER EARTHQUAKE INDIAN HOUSE TRAILERS NEW and USED CARS AUTO LOANS and INSURANCE Capital of New Britain in Zone Used to Skakes. SEE Washington, D. C. Residents of Rabaul, New Britain island, in the southwestern Pacific, which was badly damaged by an earthquake, now are returning to their homes and resuming normal trade. .The 5,000 inhabitants, of which 4,000 are natives, and the remainder whites, Chinese and Japanese, will be employed for days repairing buildings and clearing debris from the streets. Rabaul, the largest town and capital of New Britain, is situated at the western end of the crescentshaped island, and is in a zone accustomed to earthquakes, showers of volcanic ash and devastating waves," says the National GeoBut, unless the graphic society. shocks and eruptions are extremely severe, the natives merely shrug their shoulders and go about their usual tasks undisturbed. Caused Heavy Damage. The recent quake was so severe that residents fled to higher ground inland. Many buildings were demolished or their foundations were made unsafe by the quivering earth. Three thousand tons of pumice, blown by frequent explosions from the crater of a nearby volcano, covered some portion! of the town a foot deep. And then came a great wave of sea water from the harbor whose bed had been raised by the seismic disturbance. Lack of water in the harbor temporarily left large cargo boats careened on mud banks, and an island, formerly low, rose to 60 feet above the water. Such disasters are not new to Rabaul. Old residents recall that their town was somewhat similarly stricken in February, 1878; when an earthquake of major proportions shook it like a leaf in the breeze, a new island rose in the harbor, and a great wave swept inland. New Britain, which is the largest of the islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, lies about 50 miles off the northeast coast of New Guinea and like many of its neighbors in the southwestern Pacific, is of volcanic origin. Throughout Its 370 miles of length, a high mountain range, with peaks rising to more than 7,000 feet, forme a lofty backbone. Cannibalism Once Rampant. The island is only a short distance below the equator and lush tropical vegetation blankets the moufitains and valleys; but trade winds so temper the atmosphere for many months of the year that the climate is not oppressive. Seldom does the thermometer touch one hundred degrees. While the greater portion of the island has been explored, civilization, for the most part, has penetrated only a narrow coastal zone. The natives are Papuans who wear little more than a loin cloth and metal arm bands. Most of them are employed in gathering coconuts and cocoa. Before white men established themselves at Rabaul and other towns on New Britain, the natives were cannibals, infamous among the early mariners for their treachery and cunning. Tribes were constantly attempting to annihilate one another. Even now there is some danger in traveling through villages of isolated tribes, although missionaries and agents of Australia, of which the island is a mandated territory, have made great strides in wiping out cannibalism. The unexplored part of the island where cannibalism may linger is in the central part of New Britain; both ends of the island long have been ninated by Australian officials." MORGAN MOTOR FINANCE CO. 3702 So. Main St. Was. Cl 05 Grant Morgan, Mgr. I Buy Only C00D COAL Call Hyland n CASTLE GATE BLUE BLAZE B ABERDEEN KING COAL Agents for Sentinel Stokers Prepared Stoker Coal LOBB'S on the JOB SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. Ujrland 2520 Was. 671 5UGARHOUSE TRANSFER Furniture Moving Our Specialty COURTEOUS . - REASONABLE OO Phone: Hy. 1220 i MAKE YOUR OWH ;f ; English Horn" Not a Horn In spite of its name, the English n orchestra instruhorn, ment, is not a horn at alL It is a "woed-win- d instrument, observes a writer in Pearsons London Weekare the clarly. Other inet, oboe and bassoon. The true horns of the orchestra are the brasses," such as the cornet, trumpet, trombone, tuba and others. One instrument in this section is the French horn. This is called briefly, the horn"; and this expression usually refers to the French horn rather than any of the other brasses. well-know- wood-win- Broadway and 2nd East i Flying Lizards in Malaya Flying lizards are found in The wings cf these creatures consist of the outward extension of the ribs covered with skin. When at rest they are able to bring the ribs to their side, but extend them when they leap from one perch to another. These wings would be more correctly described as gliders, for they spread out almost like the wings of a small airplane, supporting the lizard as it travels through the air. ds Ma-,ay- a. skin-cover- ..4 Gibbon Ape Nearest Human Smallest of the apes, and supposedly the least developed, the gabby gibbon is, nevet theless, one of the most human. It walks erect, with its long arms almost dragging the ground. That isnt its only manlike action. Like a human gymnast, it swings from branch to branch, using only its arms. Ollier niuukrys push pH with their feet. . I 5 Issue to Be Destroyed? Some Will Escape. It" was the Drake well Drake's drilled' In 1859, thgtrreaUy, was responsible for the beginning of the great oil era. Advancing prices of rock oil and a growing knowlfetiyv but Philatelists will Paris, France. have another minor variation, which makes all the difference between an ordinary stamp and a rarity, to hunt if any of the several thousand original version Descartes stamps escape from the incinerator of the French postofflee. Although the issue is to be destroyed because of an imperfection, it is virtually a certainty that some will slip into collections, for France as a nation is avid about postage stamps, and someone in the printing office has acquired samples of the new stamps that will never go into circulation. The stamp, issued in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the appearance of Rene Descartes "Discourse on Method, bears his picture surrounded by books, on one of which can be read the title DisUnfortucours sur la Methode. nately, by general agreement, Descartes book is known in academic circles as "Discours de la Methode." Hence a red stamp bearing Descartes picture, with the "sur," will Identify the issue. The curious thing about the suppression of the stamp, of which several thousand examples already exist, is that there is no evidence that Descartes wrote "de" or for that matter, that he wrote "sur" or that he gave his book a title at all. In those days such things as titles were likely to be left to the printer. Both mean the same, but de" has a rather more archaic flavor. Yet on the famous portrait of Descartes by Franz Hals, the title appears as Discours sur la Metfo ode." In the first edition of Lan-soHistory of French Literature" it is "sur. In Graziers dictionary it is "sur." In Larousse it is "de." To the French postofflee, even a ns single, letter is a matter of concern', to say nothing of two or three of them. So despite plenty of authority for sur," the purists will get their "de," and the philatelists, with luck, another rare stamp. Minnesota University Has Rare Scandinavian Works With more than Minneapolis. volumes in its Scandinavian department library, the University of Minnesota's collection is recognized as the finest library of Scandinavian works in the United States, according to Andrew A. Stromberg, department head. The university collection is the only one in this country which contains a complete record of proceedings of the governing bodies of Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Stromberg said. In the past, Scandinavian students have shown slight interest in the courses our department offered," Stromberg Said. They were too close to the immigration period of their parents. ' As they become more widely separated from that era they are taking an increasing interest in studying the culture and historical backgrounds of their origins." Stromberg, who has headed the universitys Scandinavian department for 30 years and under whose direction its library was developed, believes the fourth generation since the heavy immigration of Scandinavians will produce even greater interest in the courses and facilities available for study of those peoples. 100,000 Heat Stored Up by Earth Cooks Plants to Death Minneapolis. Temper a t u r e s reach 175 degrees a few inches beneath the earths surface, it was revealed in the annual report of Dr. Raphael Zon, director of the Lakes states forest experiment station at University of Minnesota farm. The information was obtained from thermometers buried in the surface soil last summer. The difference between the temperatures was due to the earths capacity for storing heat, Doctor Zon explained. Many plants do not die from lack of moisture during a drouth, as is generally believed," he said. "They are simply cooked to death." above-and-be-lo- w Farm Lies in Two States Marinette, Wis. Farming is an interstate proposition for Michael Brost, sometimes requiring use of a rowboat. The Menominee river, on the boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan, runs through his property. Calf ! Rated Low in Cattle Country Bisbee, Ariz. City Magistrate Barney Norton handed down a judicial decree that calves are not legal tender for payment of a fine although Bisbee is in the heart of the cattle country. A Mexican, charged with being intoxicated, was given a sentence of (10 or 10 days." A. few hours later, the prisoners son arrived in' the court room with a calf which he offered for his father's freedom. "Ten dollars or 10 days means what it says, said the judge, the prodigal prisoner will return to the fatted calf in mr.c days." k I - 13, 193 Drake's Folly Brought Forth, the Gat Oil Era t . AUGUST edge of petroleum and its uses in the production of kerosene, paraffin and lubricants, were developing a widespread interest in petroleum in America, and on Oil Creek, Pa., where oil seepages occurred, E. L. Drake, superintendent of the Seneca Oil company property, assembled his drilling equipment. After boring 33 feet, the drill fell into a crevice that made the total depth of the well 69 Mi feet. The next day, observes a writer in the Washington Star, that well was nearly filled with oil. There ensued the first race for leases and wild speculation in oil properties. By 1865 drilling had begun ita march from Manitoulin island to Alabama and from Missouri to central New '.York." The early years of the Twentieth century were marked by great advances in development, in petroleum technology, in the application of petroleum in the srts, warfare and commerce, and in geologic methods of discovering oil fields. This black gold grew to be the second largest industry in the country, and in production, transportation, refining and marketing, some being invested in the United States. In one year, 1934, Italy produced as much oil as this country produced rin half an hour. Don Hardman Service On Site 1st Sugar Mill West of Bllsslsslppl River" GASOLINE 20C GAL. I "Try Our Speedy Service" JtrMtnn Tubes Tires Accessories Lubricant! Blotor Oils Hyland 8715 21st South and 11th East oil-fie- ld Ancient Arizona Church One of Finest in U. S. History tells us that once there were twenty missions and mission vistas in Arizona. All save one, the finest of them all, the incomparable mission church of San Xavier del Bac, eight miles south of Tucson, are in ruins. A second, Tumacacori, forty-eigmiles south of Tucson, is a national monument, and is being preserved lovingly for posterity by the National Park service, says S correspondent in the Los Angeles Times. ... No one knows accurately when the church of San Xavier was built, though the name,' Pedro Bojorques, 1797, is carved on one of the sacris-ta- l doors. But this may be merely the name of the man who did the carving and the date when he completed his work. Tradition has it that the church was built by the Gaona brothers of Caborca. Credence is lent to this tradition by the fact that the Gaona a brothers built the church of Concepcion de Caborca, which so much resembles San Xavier. But whoever the builders, they constructed an edifice that is incomparably the finest church building within the limits of the United VICTIMS OF DROUTH NOW NOMADS 25,000 Farms in Great Plains Are Abandoned. Washington, D. C. More than deserted farm homes dotting the Great Plains are reminders of drouth years which made nomads of more . than 100,000 Americans. The Department of Agriculture 25,-0- 00 - estimated that at least 100,000 per- sons have moved out of the Middle We$t in the last year. Most of them packed their few personal belongings and headed westward. Three crop failures had impoverished them. Lands among the most fertile in the world had suddenly become barren because of lack of water. Cattle died of starvation and thirst. Crops withered under a burning sun. Most of these families packed their household goods on trucks, old motor cars and a few into covered wagons. Few of them had more than (100 in cash. Many had nothing. All had hopes of making new homes in the West. CaUed Last Bligration. The resettlement administration described the exodus as probably the last great migration of settlers to the far West. Western highways, it said, were choked with cars, trucks and trailers carrying thousands of farm families with all their worldly goods. The exodus began after the 1934 drouth. Many counties lost half of their population. Most of those who moved were farm owners and tenStates. ants. Despite federal efforts to check the westward drift, the resettlement administration said the end Ancient' Looking Glasses not yet in sight. Looking glasses of the Seven- of the migration is These families, mostly too poor to teenth century were sometimes made with frames entirely of glass. buy farm equipment and start anew Gilded leaves and flowers carved in the northwestern states of Oregon from wood is another indication of and Washington and in- California, an early date. Chippendale mir- have become a serious- problem to rors of the Chinese period are said relief agencies. They continue to work in harto be the most elaborate ever, pro- drift, seeking part-tim-e duced. Those of the rococo period vest fields. "These new settlers, for the most are so daring and magnificent that farm few rooms can stand them. With part thrifty and the Adam period a complete change families from the Middle West, in ornamentation appeared urns, found an altogether different farm sphinxes and other devices strictly west than did the early pioneers, Free classical. The circular convex mir- a resettlement report said. ror usually with an eagle ornament land was gone with the closing of and candelabra are products of the all public lands to homestead entry. late Eighteenth century and the Good, develoned farms were scarce. early part of the Nineteenth. ht . Puri-sim- hard-worki- ; Devils Tower, Old Monument Devils Tower, in Wyoming, the oldest national monument under the national park service of the Department of the Interior, is, it is asserted, 20,000,000 years old. It is a unique and colossal geologic formation which stands stumplike in the Black Hills. The striated stone, measuring 1,000 feet in diameter at its base, occupies one and a hall acres of territory, and stands 865 feet above ground. Geologists hold that about 50,000,000 years ago, when the Black Hills were forming, molten rock started to force its way through weak points in ths limestone and sandstone in the area. These formed surface flows, sills and lava "blisters.", agents Unscrupulous were ready to rob them of their, meager savings by selling them, worthless farms in the vast cutover areas where firewooi and water were their only assets. They found employers of cheap labor ready to exploit their destitution. Residence requirements made them Ineligible to WIA assistance, and state relief lawa in at least one state made railroad fare back to their devastated homes the only aid: available. The small percentage of families witff capital managed for the most part to locate on productive farms. Those with smell savings were forced to locate on farms in the cheap land areas, doomed to failure before they began. Of the problem crested by the migration of these fami'Jes the report real-esta- 100,000 Station W-A-N- te once-abandon- ed said: It is not a state problem but definitely a part of the national drouth problem that has migrated to the Pacific Northwest and to California, and should be considered as such. They cannot be returned to the states of their origin. Yet, they cannot become permanent indigent! and transient agricultural workers supported most of the year by the state or federal government." Basques Solved Caste Question The Basques are one of the oldest peoples in Europe and have lived in their mountain home in northern Spain and southwestern France from times, and their language, peculiar to itself, is said to bit older than any Aryan tongues. They early solved the question of caste by declaring every Basque a .noble,' and, although they acknowledged the king of Spain as their ruler, they regarded him only as an equal. Before they would acknowledge him it was necessary for him to come into their country and wear under their sacred oak tree to abide by their ancient rights, or ' fueros. Even then they gave him no title. Their king might be the Holy Roman Emperor, but to them he waa just plain senor." ,.j i pre-Ary- an : . Ancient Skeletal Found Saskatoon, Saak. The skeleton of what is believed to be a Neolithic human being who roamed Saskatchewan 10,000 years ago was found in a gravel pit near here. Jenny Linds Grave Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale, is buried in Malvern, England. Calling -T If you have anything to Sell, Trade, Exchange or Rent; or rent a place, buy a place, or need anything, let the public know in thia Department W-A-N- -T PHONE THE BULLETIN" Hyland 364 WASHING MACHINES REPAIRED , II. Van Ilarten Barber Shop We Repair Bicycles - Tricycles numus. 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