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Show FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 32, 3987. - Swiss Watchmaker First FIND NEW SOURCE to Use Jewel Bearings the year 17M, the pivot Before OF MANGANESE ORE holes in watches were 'j'u& holes CHIEF CAFE New Mr Management . 25c Including Dilnk CHILI - TABL4LES - MEAT TIES - SANDWICHES of all Kind DINNER MERCHANTS Discovery Vitally Important to Steel Industry, LUNCH CUT FLOWERS Special Attention given Parties KINGS Washington. With Cuba today the United States' only nearby commercial source of manganese, vital to the manufacture of etec-1- , wideofspread interest was aroused in ficial circles here by the recent announcement of Cyril von Baumann, noted explorer, that he had discovered rich deposits of the ore in Ecuador, South America. Von Baumann, who returned to this country from South America recently with his wife, leaving his Andre Roosevelt, in the Ecuadorean jungles to complete their explorations, did not announce the exact location of his discovery. However, he eaid he estimated the deporit was worth $5,000,000. Only a small amount cf manganese is row mined in the United Slates, which, except for Cuban supplies, is dependent on such far away countries as Russia, India, South African Gold Coast and Brazil. Used in Sieel Making. In the nine years through 1936, imports accounted for about 90 per cent of total United States consumption of manganese ore in steel making. Of the total ore imported, Russia accounted for 44 per cent; Brazil 23 per cent; the Gold Coast, 19 per cent; British India, 9 per cent; Cuba, 6 per cent; all other countries, 22 per cent. At prerent, production of the ore n by the Manganese company, near Santiago, Cuba, amounts to between 10,000 and tons monthly. While it is pointed out that this amount probably could be stepped up considerably, additional nearby stocks of manganese would be desirable to supply the demand of the American market in the event of an emergency. Manganese is of particular significance to the United States in that it is one of the eight basic war materials in which this country is not according to the natural resources board. The army and navy munitions board places it at the head of the list of 23 vitally necessary raw materials for wartime manufacturing. Vitally Important. With daily threats of general conflict in Europe, and the Far East already involved in undeclared war, officials here see a double importance in von Baumanns announcement. It is pointed out that if the Ecuadorean supply proved as rich as the holdings, the American steel industry, largest user of manganese in the world, would be able to get its supply at lowered cost because of the shorter distance it would have to be shipped. But more important, it was noted here, the United States navy also would be in a position to protect shipments from this source as well as from Cuba, in time of war. It was felt here that while difficulty of production in the undeveloped interior of Ecuador would defer for many years the actual appearance of Ecuadorean manganese on the market, development of the new find could be speeded up, in event of emergency, to the point where it would be an important supplement to the rich Cuban supply. expl- orer-partner, ot floral "Flowers That Satisfy 2137 Highland Drive Hyland 8193 EE3382gSBSHS2S5 Have you thought of mirrors M CHRISTMAS GIFTS Our line Is complete and we hell be glad to lay one away for you. THE PAINT POT 1074 E. 21st South Hy. 8739 Cuban-America- Ammunition and 12,-0- Hunting Equipment " PHIL & JOES Southeast Repair 111 Shop E. 21st South Hy. g59g I 'i 00 nt, F. W. KIEPE the tailor Suits made to order and remodeled for and Gentlemen Cleaning Pressing 1080 East 21st South WELDING? 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An American surgeon began recently in San Sebastian a mission of mercy through insurgent Spain to repair the shattered faces of thousands of men. The surgeon, Dr. J. Eastman Sheehan, professor of plastic surgery of the Polyclinic Medical school, New York, has a distressing assignment. Medical aids to insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco say there are as many mutilated faces in the insurgent army today as in the British army at the end of the World war. Dr. Sheehan began a tour of insurgent military hospitals in San Sebastian, in Saragossa, and in Associated with Dr. Salamanca. Sheehan is Dr. Robert McIntosh, professor of anesthesia at Oxford university, England. Many of Francos soldiers in most urgent need of plastic surgery were wounded in hand-to-han- d fighting. There has been more personal combat, with slashing knives and bayonets, in the more than a year of Spanish strife than in most modern wars, according to military experts. Rock Falls, 111. Abolition of the collection plate in the Rock Falls Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. R. M. Furnish, pastor, has more than doubled the churchs revenue. with doubling the Together church's revenue, the pastor believes the innovation has created a more devout feeling among his congregation. Instead of contributing to Sunday collections the members are visited each month by a collector and a definite sum is paid toward support of the church. Each parishioner knows at the beginning of the church year what he will be expected to pay and thore not members of the congregation may contribute voluntarily hy dropping whatever sum they with into a Mnaii box kept in the vcetibule of the church. A sensitive microphone, - brass of the movement's framework. In that year, notes a writer in the Washington Post, Nicolas Facio, a Swiss watchmaker working in London, patented the idea and practice of using a piece of hard stone with a drilled and polished hole in it for a bearing for a pivot. These were at first used only at the balance pivots, but the advantages of jeweling were so evident that it soon became customary to jewel some of the' train holes in the best qualities of timepieces. The direct advantages of jeweled pivot holes are two, the bearing is more durable and the pivot runs with less friction. The first named advantage is due to the hardness of the stone, and the second is due to the fact that hard stone takes a higher polish than soft metal can take. For the better grade of watches, jewels are made of ruby and sapphire. In the less expensive watches, garnet is the material most generally used, because it is so much softer and hence less costly to work to shape. When synthetic corundum (ruby and sapphire material) was introduced for the manufacture of gemstones, for a very long time manufacturers of watches hesitated to adopt it for making jewels, in the meantime giving the new material thorough trials in practical use. The result of these trials was to satisfy the most conservative that synthetic sapphires and rubies are equal to natural stones in every quality called for in watchwork; and synthetic stones are used practically to the exclusion of the natural as raw material in the jewelmaking trade. Nearly all of the watch hole jewels used in all countries are made in Switzerland. Pallet stones and roller jewels are generally made in each factory for its own watches. ton, Calif. Astronomers have discovered a supernova, or exploding star, which may mean the creation of a new planetary system. Dr. F. Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology first photographed the celestial phenomenon August 28. Since then the manifestation has been the subject of repeated observations at the Lick observatory. The supernova has received the designation N. G. C. 4182, which places it outside the stellar system in which the earth has its place. The supernova at its maximum apparent brightness was only about h of that of the faintest star visible to the eye. It had an estimated brilliance of 250,000,000 times that of the sun, but its radiance was decreased because of its great distance from the earth, estimated at 3,000,000 light years. It is difficult to conceive of the brightness of this new star. A supernova was found in the center of the Andromeda Nebula in 1885. That particular supernova was estimated to be 20,000 times brighter than the sun. Placed in our own stellar system, the 1885 star from a distance of nine light years would appear 100 times brighter than a awe-inspiri- AUTO LOANS and full moon. If it could be put in the place of the sun it would give 100,000,000 times the light of that sphere, and in a space of one month at maximum brightness it would radiate as much light as our sun does in 10,000,000 years. . The supernova now under observation has an estimated intrinsic brightness of 250,000,000 times that of the sun. The spectrum of the new supernova can be photographed with a spectrograph. This is the first time that such a phenomenon has been "Uncle Sam," Name Given photographed. The cause of the outburst of a to Grant at West Point nova is not known definitely, but one President Grant was named Hi- noted astronomer, Stromberg, sugram Ulysses, but by a curious error gests the possibility that it is the he became known in history as making of a new planetary system. Ulysses Simpson Grant. When he No known supernova has appeared was about seventeen years old, in the earth's stellar system. he received his appointment to West Point Military academy through Radio Carries Voice of Congressman Thomas L. Hamer. Grant had been familiarly known by Birds From Lair to Disc his middle name, and Hamer, who Ithaca, N. Y. The first attempt to was sufficiently acquainted with record the voice of any bird on film him to know that, gave the young means of radio has been proby candidate's name as Ulysses S. nounced successful by ornithologists Grant. Simpson was the maiden at Cornell where the first university, of name his mother, and also was records ever made of the voices of borne by one of his younger broth- Atlantic petrels were tested. ers. This circumstance, according Albert R. Brand, of the laboratory to a writer in the Cleveland Plain of ornithology at Cornell, pioneer in Dealer, was probably the origin of g recording, sought the petthe error. rels on their own doorstep. With the Grant applied to the West Point aid of an assistant. Brand traveled authorities and later to the secre- in his sound truck to northern tary of war to have the error cor- Maine, ferried across to the island rected, but somehow it was never of Grand Manan and arrived withdone. He did not press the matter, in six miles of Kent island, where and his associates at West Point Bowdoin college maintains a biopromptly adopted the initials U. S. logical laboratory. and called him Uncle Sam, a A mile from the laboratory, nickname he retained to some ex- among the rocks on the outer slope tent in the army. He was graduat- of the island. Brand found a colony ed in 1843, and his commission and of Leachs petrels in burrows which diploma both styled him Ulysses S. they dig in the loose soil. Grant, by which name he was alA mile of telephone wire was laid ways afterward known. from a short-wav-e radvt st?i:on it Grant was bom at Point Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio, April 27, bird-son- INSURANCE . NEW and USED CARS Radio Beam May Render Lighthouses Obsolete But Beal Berlin, Germany. Blind naviga- tion by means of radio houses may in future guide ships all over the seas, instead of light houses. Values Better Cars for Less i MORGAN MOTOR FINANCE CO. Radio houses sending directional beams, are said to be safer, mare reliable, and can be operated under any weather conditions at day or h night. Also, they ordinary lighthouses and lightships. These facts were pointed out here during the international sea marks congress. 8 702 So. Main St. out-reac- Was. 6105 Grant Morgan, Mgr. 1 WmJ23aL-MM!UW- XiJ one-sixt- Waitress Tipped by Mail paigiV'or the nations allied agi um. Napoleon. Chardon, Ohio. Elizabeth Shaw, a waitress, received a letter from A born adventurer, writes a corArlington, N. J., containing a twenty-frespondent in the New York Herald ive cent piece. For the girl Tribune, he embarked for Venezuwho waited on me and whom I ela not long after his discharge, to offer his services to Simon Biolivar forgot to tip, the sender explained. in thok.jvar for independence. Bolivar made him surgeon general of Old City of Ghent Has his military hospital. Dr. Siegert Annual Parade of Nuns later settled in a town on the river Once a year the ancient city of Orinoco, practicing as physician 1824 he first made Ghent provides a show that can be and surgeon. In seen nowhere else on earth. It is use of an article which he termed Aromatic Bitters. Its popularity the procession on the day of Ashis friends, fast among spreading At the that of Virgin. sumption two sons over what his took later in Babcock time, writes Frederic become in his a had industry major the Chicago Tribune, the nuns of part of the world. the Twelfth century Beguinages Later, to escape the peril of popour forth from their walled and moated refuges and, with heads litical disturbances,' the brothers took the industry to Port of Spain bent within their white veils, permit the tourists and natives to watch in Trinidad in 1875. them parade solemnly through the streets. Explaining Humus The Benguinage its names oriHumus is partly decomposed orexinto came a still gin mystery ganic matter from plant and animal istence in the days of the Crusades, when hundreds of the citys residues. Organic matter contains fathers and sons lost their lives on many potential plant nutrients the battlefields of Palestine. With which, gradually decaying, liberate no men to marry them, the widows compounds that in contact with vaand young women took refuge in rious mineral end particles set free these religious houses, but took no otherwise insoluble and so unavailvows. To this day the same rule is able plant foods in the soil. Confertilizers observed and each member is free! centrated, ready-mad- e to return to the noisy life of the are frequently lacking in organic city whenever she wishes. Further-- ! matter and so their own value is greatly increased if their use is supmore, the Beguines pay taxes. American visitors often remark plemented by humus. Soils g lacking that the Beguines of Ghent are thej humus are low in They pack easily, formprettiest nuns" to be found any- -; capacity. a hard and they are poorcrust, ing unconscious1 where. Although quite of this esteem, these women, many ly aerated below the surface. Sources d of them from excellent families, are of organic material are mushroom soil and manure, spent not there because no one asked to nathat is, raw peat: devote their them. They marry tive and cultivated peat peat sheltered lives to prayer and nursing the sick of the poor. Each con' ' vent cottage of the Beguinage is Fox Snake Shakes Tail named for a saint, and over the porlittle is known fox about the Very tal of their little city within a city snake, except that when excited it are the gospel words in Latin, I may vibrate the tail rapidly like a was a stranger and ye took me in. rattlesnake. It is entirely harmless, In their spare time they make lace and usually not pugnacious. j so beautiful that bits of it can be, found in every corner of the globe. Kipling's Autographs The late Rudyard Kipling once was asked by his grocer to pay his Bitters Were Introduced bills by check. Mr. Kipling did so, by a German Adventurer then noticed the checks never came back from the bank. He investigatJohann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, born just before the Nineteenth cened, found the butcher was selling Since tury, in Silesia, Germany, went to the checks as autographs. Berlin to study medicine and later the author rarely autographed anyserved as an army surgeon with the thing, his name on a check was East Prussian infantrv. in the esm- - worth more than the check itself! water-holdin- well-rotte- peat-mos- s, 1 , 1822. King Is Father The word king originally was n from the cynixig, cyn meaning a tribe" and ing" meaning belonging to." In ancient times, says Pearsons London Weekly, families were grouped into clans, clans into tribes, tribes into nations, and each tribe or nation had a head" or father." Gradually the word cyning merged into "king. And queen" comes from a Greek word meaning woman, which is equivalent to mother." Anglo-Saxo- Ferocious Baboon The Hamad ryas baboon, which hails from northern Africa and Arabia is one of the toughest customers" in the animal kingdom, according to a writer in the Washington Post. Sullen and ferocious, it travels in packs, eats anything it can capture and kill. Even lions evade battle wit!i them. The Egyptians dedicated this animal to their god, Thoth, who stood for letters, invention and wisdom, but just why nobody seems to know. Church Abolishei Its Collection Plate; Gains V5LSrE j ute'iaooralory to tne petrel couony. trith a parabolic reflector, was attached. N: When the petrels gave their croaknote3, the microphone picked up ing Supernova Found to Be 250 the songs, which were transmitted to the radio station, thence across Million Times Brighter. the six miles of the bay of Fundy to the sound truck waiting on the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilisland of Grand Manan. drilled in the With Cube Steak Siu 6:30 a. m. till 8 p. in. Forget-Me-N- THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN Black Drink Used by Indians There is considerable question as to whether the North American tribes knew alcohol before it was introduced by the whites, but they were familiar with some quite effective substitutes. Among them was a brew of the leaves of a certain species of holly which is common in the Southeast. This was the celebrated black drink- of the a concoction with a real intoxicating effect. 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