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Show THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN (BT 8:30 Sugar House vs. Edgehill The Highland Stake M Men will 9:30 Highland Park vs. rarleys play each Thursday evening as previously announced at the Edgehill. Bye Wasatch Gym, 15th East and Blaine Avenue. December 23 The following la a complete schedulo 7:30 Wasatch vs. Highland Park of the first half. 8:30 Emerson va. Parleys 9:30 Stratford vs. Sugar House December 2 Bye Edgehill 7:30 Stratford va. Highland Park 6 8:80 Sugar House vs. Emerson January 7:30 Stratford vs. Parleys 9:30 Edgehlll va. Wasatch 8:30 Highland Park vs. Edgehill Bye Parleys 9:30 Emerson vs. Wasatch December 9 7:30 Parleys vs. Edgehlll Bye Sugar House 8:30 Wasatch vs. Sugar House will Thero also be a game at 6:30 9:30 Emerson vs. Highland Park Bye Stratford each week. The teams playing this December 10 1 game will be announced the week 7:30 Stratford vs. Emerson before. Mayas alone were among the ancient races that did not Jcnow the value of gold. Very little gold was found in their great ruined temples that vie for sun with the chicle trees in the Yucatan and Central American jungles, and although nuggets have been found lying near the sites of the southern Maya cities, the working of gold into jewelry and religious objects had not been considered a part of their culture. When an earthquake broke open S' temple at Copan, Honduras, and disclosed tombs filled with gold ornaments, the Central Americans were placed in the same category with the Aztecs, Toltecs, and Peruvians of the Inca empire for appreciation of the yellow metaL In Old World annals, the story of mans quest for gold has been traced back to at least 2900 B. C. in Egypt,' when under the first dynasty there occurred the first recorded washing of gold. It was not long before man was aware that gold is to be found in practically all rocks and in the sea water as well. It is fairly definite that the Mayas were in touch, commercially, with people of a somewhat similar culture in Costa Rica, who made the delicately carved gold frogs and butterflies that are in a New York collection. Little by little, notes a correspondent in the Detroit News, the theory .is being established that the peoples of Central and South America carried on a flourishing international trade, not unlike that of later times, and it seems probable that the gold found in the Maya country was an Import from ; other shores. I .'Elephant Seldom Licked in Battle With Animals , The story of the elephant is a story in superlatives. Not only is .he the largest land animal, but careful checking of facts points to the elephant as the probable real king of beasts, according to Guy Jr., in the Chicago Tribune. .There are few reports of his having been defeated in mortal combat by other creatures. He is almost invulnerable to attack and clever in his actions. Among his peculiar attributes are his trunk, which serves both as arm land nose; his great tusks, which, have been known to attain a length of llVi feet and to weigh 293 pounds; his pillarlike legs, which appear jointless as he stands erect; his thick hide, which gives him the name pachyderm, and his head, in which his smallish brain is protected by so many surrounding bony .cavities that only a very carefully aimed bullet can reach it. Mur-'chi- e, i Daniel Boone Born on Farm Montgomerys History of Berks County in Pennsylvania says: jDaniel Boone, . the famous Kentucky pioneer, was born in Exeter township, Berks county, on October :22, 1733, on a farm which is about one mile north of Baumstown. Ills father. Squire Boone, then owned and occupied the farm, having bought "it in November, 1739. He and his father and family left the township in 1750 and migrated to North Carolina ; and thence, some years afterward (1769), he led a party into the unknown regions of western Virginia, beyond the mountains, where he distinguished himself by his boldness, his experiences with the Indians, his narrow escapes and his successful career as a pioneer. He died at Charette Village in Missouri, on September 26, 1820, aged eighty - six years, eleven months, four days. : I The Blue Goose Until only a few years ago, the blue goose was generally looked upon as the mystery bird of the American flyways. It traveled freely with snow geese, and in the fall flights was always associated with them. In the spring, the two species were often together, which caused 'bird people to conclude that the snow goose was nothing more than la blue goose grown up, according to a writer in the Detroit Free i Press. By L. L. STEVENSON Efficient though it may be, the New York police department in its efforts to solve crimes and bring criminals to justice, at times runs into what seems to be a blank wall. For instance, there was the slaying of Joseph Bowne Elwell, nationally known bridge expert, who was found shot to death in his West Seventieth street apartment. That was sway back in 1920, yet the crime hasn't been solved. The police found numerous clues but all apparently led nowhere. For years they worked on the case and, theoretically at least, are still working on it. One man confessed but it was soon shown he didnt do it. ' Then, three years later, came the strangling of Dot King, the Broadway butterfly.. Kansas Red Wheat Came The reputation of a prominent and Two-GallHoard From man was blackened a bit wealthy 1374 In a colony of Mennonites, by the case but Jier slayer, as seeking religious freedom, departed well as whoever killed Louise Law-so- n from Casiov, Crimea, to find homes a little later, is still at large. in Kansas. A patriarchal and agri- So is the slayer or slayers of Arcultural people, knowing nothing of nold Rothstein, big time gambler the conditions which they must face and friend of politicians, who was in the new country, they took along shot to death in a n hotel everything they thought they might in November, 1923. need, including household goods, implements, and what at the time may In more recent times, there was but have seemed unimportant, of the "Pumpernickel later was to prove most important of the slaying who was killed last NovemKing, all, two gallons of the peculiar hard ber. His name was Morris Erde red wheat ct the Russian steppes. as a baker he made a fortune This wheat was of the type familiar and which became so depleted by the to them, recites a writer ih the Kanthat a bakery on Grand sas City Times, and they had no depression was street his only business. He inway of knowing it would be an novation in America. Those two lived on that same street. Sunday he started for his place gallons of grains were literally hand- morning, of business ind a few days later his a one at time, by grain picked, was found in the courtyard of children, each grain being body the apartment where examined for color, conformity and he lived. One arrest was made but the necessary flinty hardness. Near Hillsboro, Kan., the wheat the suspect was exonerated. .Then was planted. At that time soft there was Blind Joe who was wheat was the type grown in this killed last May. He ran a little section and in the high plains it was radio establishment on Avenue A a crop so unreliable that attempts on the lower East Side and lived in to grow it had practically been one room behind his place of business. He was found with his head abandoned. Surprisingly to the crushed in There by a hammer. Mennonof the American neighbors was no sign of a struggle and nothites, the Turkey Red wheat, as it was known, flourished remarkably. ing had been stolen. The police Additional acreage was sown the held it to be a revenge slaying. No arrests have been made. following year, from the seed fursucnished by the first crop, and its The slaying of Justice John cess was so great that American farmers began to acquire the seed Fiancis ONeil, of the Municipal and sow it. Mills had formerly been court, which occurred last April, of the burr type in Kansas; they now was spectacular. It occurred right began to be converted into the roller on Sixth avenue' at Twelfth street. type necessary for the harder grain. Witnesses saw a man, whom they By 1385 the demand for the new described as stocky and wearing a wheat was so great that a Mennon-it- e tan polo coat, come up behind the miller sent to Russia for an en- judge, draw a long knife and stab tire carlot of it for distribution. him twice jn the back. Justice ONeil staggered and his assailant The Kansas State college agricultural department experimented, de- ran along Twelfth street toward the original Fifth avenue and disappeared. The veloped and cross-bre- d Turkey Red into a variety of im- judge managed to reach his home and then St. Vincents hospital, proved forms. Land which had been considered where he died a few days later. fit only for grazing was broken in The case was on newspaper front western Kansas, Nebraska, Oklapages for days. The police labored homa, and in the Texas Panhandle diligently. But the man in the polo and eastern Colorado. By the time coat is still enjoying his liberty. of the World war, the Southwest could literally lay claim to being Justice Joseph Force Carters disthe bread basket of the nation. appearance, which took place seven years ago, cannot be put in the crime category. But it is an examJail Romance Flowers of how even the most exhaustive in Wedding Behind Bars ple search may come to nothing. A Tulsa, Okla. Love has found a sensation followed the vanishing of way, so Patricia Gamble, eighteen, the judge. Ilis description was sent Detectives over the and Mack E. Funkhouse, twenty-fiveverywhere. have been married in Tulsa world ran out various leads. A large man well known and easily recogcity jail. Their entire romance occurred in nized wherever he might go, the jail, via notes and smiles, since Pa- Crater case is still open on the potricia was locked up on a vagrancy lice books. He smiled and waved charge, and Mack was sentenced his hand to friends on Forty-fift- h street. Then he stepped into a taxifor driving while drunk. I loved him the first time I saw cab. Even the driver of that cab him when he served me lunch in hasnt been found. the jail dining room, Patricia says. Ive loved her since she first Disappearances are by no means winked at me and pressed a note uncommon in New York. They avinto my left hand while I served po- erage 70 a day. But 98 per cent of tatoes with my right, Mack ad those who disappear are found. At mits. that, there is an average of 500 each Permission for the jail wedding year who vanish completely so far was granted by the judge, and the as friends, relatives and police are jailer and police served as attend- concerned. When a person is reants. ported missing, the missing persons bureau continues to keep the case open so long as there remains the him or her. slightest hope of finding Statesman Busy C Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. A statesman, plagued by authors who sent him their books to read, Prosperity in Garbage had a regular form of receipt Calif.i-Th- is city has Berkeley, mailed back, stating: Mr. found a new means for gauging the intends to lose no time in perusing growth and development of a municyour book." ipality. Its increased revenue from garbage last year was 5.54 per cent. John Ruskin Saying When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their Fires in Schools work, as the color petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithExceed Five Daily fully helpful and compassionate, ail Kansas City Mo. School buildtheir emotions are steady, deep, fire at the rate of more catch ings perpetual, and vivifying to the soul a day, Dr. David J. five than a3 is the natural pulse to the body. soil chemist of the chief Price, John Ruskin. of Agriculture, told Department the National Safety Congress convention here. Gulfweed From Gulf Stream Most fires start in the basen Gulfweed is an seasaid Price, who investigatment, weed of the genus Sargassum. found New London, Texas, exed the in large patches in the Gulf Stream of last spring which took plosion and the Sargasso sea. It was for30 lives. Annually than more merly thought to cover the sea enschool fires cause $5,000,000 loss, occurs in but tirely only actually and in recent years 800 lives have drifts. Numerous air sacs that look lost less in 39 outstanding been like berries make the weed float on disasters. the water, on mid-tow- Men-noni- te e, olive-brow- 27, 1937 Colonial Post Plan in Use Before Revolution Highland Stake Basketball Thursday, Egdehill Gym Mayas Interest in Gold Revealed by Earthquake was It once, believed that the SATl'llDAl", NOVEMBER Long before the Revolution, a colonial post system had been established. According to Old Post Bags by A. F. Harlow, in the early servants, acquaintsettlements, ances, merchants, peddlers, friendly Indians and ship captains were the casual postmen, some making a charge for their services, some carrying letters free. Shipmasters about to sail from either England or America often hung up a bag in some tavern, in which letters for the other side were to be deposited. When a vessel arrived, some member of the family would be sent on board to inquire for mail. The letters not thus delivered would be taken by the captain to a coffeeHence the house on the wharf. habit grew of depositing at the letters also gowharf ing by land to and from other parts of the country, these being carried by whatever means the landlord found available. It became customary to address one's correspondent at the leading tavern of the community. Thus several years before there was post office or post rider in the colonies, a rude, slow, unsafe but neighborly system of letter delivery had sprung up. The first legislative action was taken by Massachusetts in 1639, appointing Richard Fairbanks' house in Boston as the place for depositing letters to be sent overseas or brought from there. The Continental congress in 1775 made Benjamin Franklin the first postmaster general and the following year he was succeeded by his Richard Bachc. coffee-hous- e son-in-la- Attracted by such features as push button tuning, eloping panel an I specially designed acoustic chamber, this couple is evincing great inter a la Western Auto'a 1938 Western Air Pe trel radios. Said ta olier tho great ai radio values in the West, this entire line cf radios is now on display at tl. local Western Auto Star and tho manager invites inspection cf them cn i local Western Auto Store and the manager invitee residents to see ant bear these now sets, believing they vil! be cmaisd ct the low prices at which latest radio improvements can Is purchased, .... . Friction Matches Were Invention of Druggist The friction match was invented in 1327 by John Walker, a druggist in Durliving at Stockton-on-Teham, England. His matches were made of a compound of chlorate of potash and sugar mixed with powdered gum arabic to make it adhesive when applied to a splinter of wood. They were ignited by drawing them rapidly and under considerable pressure through a piece of folded sandpaper. Such matches were first sold in London under the name of lucifers. Lucifer, often used as a general name for matches, is one of the names of Satan and is derived from Latin lux, fero, (to (light), and es bring). ' An Englishman named Isaac Holden made crude sulphur matches about 1833. A French physician and chemist named Saugrain, who settled in St. Louis about 1800, showed William Clark and Meriwether Lewis how to make matches before they started on their long journey up the Missouri river in 1804.' The Frenchman dipped ur-tipped splinters of wood into phosphorus and produced flames without difficulty. He then sealed a supply of phosphorus in tin boxes for safety and showed the explorers how to make their own sulphur-tippe- d sticks. These, of course, were not true friction matches. sulph- Rsnsom Note Some inhabitants of New Amsterdam, whose children and kindred were held by the Indians, petitioned the city court, on March 20, that means be raised by a general collection or otherwise for ransoming the captives. The court at the time approved and recommended the matter for speedy action to Stuyve-saand the council The latter now order a contribution in cloth to be made by each merchant of the city for this purpose. From Stokes's Iconography of Manhattan Island, dealing with the year 1656. nt .... - Cause of Tornadoes Tornadoes are caused by the sudden rise of very hot air. Other air rushes in to fill the vacuum created, begins to whirl. The rising air d is cooled, forming the clouds which identify tornadoes. The winds whirl with the speed of a rifle bullet fast enough to really shoot a straw through a wooden plank. When the vacuum inside the funnel passes over buildings, they literally explode. The home of the tornado is our southern states, Africa and Australia. funnel-shape- Black Tulip Mania Three hundred years ago, tulips which previously had been brought from Constantinople via Vienna and France, became a mania in the Netherlands. Dumas the Elder describes this tulip craze in his novel, The Black Tulip. Dutchmen lost their usually sensible heads over the new flower, speculated wildly, and sometimes spent their frugal savings for a single bulb, some of which cost 13,000 florins apiece, or about $5,000 in American money. National Geographic Society. ! ! : I "Easy on the Eyes as well as More Pleasing to the Ear, is a phrase that can well be used in describing the Bibles Got Their Names recently Introduced 193S Western Air From Errors of Printers Patrol Radios, declared Mr. J. W. Bibles Halliday, manager of Western Auto Several curiously-namc- d which have become famous received Supply Company's Sugarhouse Store their names from typographical er- today in inviting local residents to rors or archaic words which they visit the store and inspect the new contain, or from some special cir- models now on display. cumstance in connection with them, Distinctly Easy on the Eyes Is says Pearsons London Weekly. There is,, for instance, the Bug the new Cabinet beauty, reflecting Bible. This Bible, Coverdale's, ol jreatcr craftsmanship; and the wide the year 1535, is so named because variety of styles and finishes which Thou allow tho Psalm 16 is translated: buyer ample opportunity shalt not neie to be afrayed for Lo satisfy style preference for a radio AuthorThe eny bugges by night. ized and Revised Versions both read ' o harmonize with the furnishings in my room of the. house. terror in place of bugges. The Discharge Bible, an edition "Easy on the Eyes in still another printed in 1800, contains the word way are the new Western Air Patrol discharge for charge in I Tim- Models, continued Mr. Halliday. I discharge thee before othy 5:21: use of larger dials, and the Through God . . . E-- Z Vision .instrument a sloping ediThe Murderers Bible was an model, tion of 1801 in which the misprint panel in the popular murmurers farsighted designers have- made it for murderers makes Jude 16 read: .These are possible for even nearsighted people murderers, complainers, walking to see at a glance any station on the after their own lusts dial from any point in the room. The misprint of the Parable of "Pleasing to the Ear is really an Vinethe Vinegar, instead of the added Mr. Halliunderstatement, to name the the Vinegar yard, gives is of Bible the new Resona-lon- o Bible; and the day in speaking an edition of 1810 in which the word Acoustic Tone Chamber, likelife in Luko 14: 28, is printed wise found in the Console wife. new tone chamber This model. There is a more generally known life-litone work the Breeches Bible, which brings breath taking, has been the cause of more queries fidelity, reproducing the orchestra'! to editors' of newspapers than most deep bass notes without annoying other subjects of intriguing arguoom; and blending the more brillibement This Bible was notes of tbe soprano or chorus ant cause a passage in Genesis was rennto true studio perfection. dered: The eyes of them bothe Twitters are due for relief, Dial were opened . . . and they sowed made and Mr; Halliday stated, "for Radio's big together, themselves breeches. This occurs news for 1938, Electric Tuning, la in every edition of the Genevan Biincorporated in several of the splenble, but not in any other version. did new models now on display. Slow, tedious, inaccurate hand lialing la now replaced with instant tuning acCranberry Thrives Best complished by merely pressing a in Acid Peat, Muck Soil desired station. Immtton for your The cheery little cranberry, once called crancberry because its blos- proved performance results from the soms resemble a crane's headland fact that in Electric Tuning, the neck, is not modest in its require- station is automatically tuned in ments. with exact precision. g land satuIt demands "Most popular with local residents rated with water; prefers acid peat Is console the beautiful new or muck soil. There must be reservoirs to constantly feed thirsty fields model, in which is incorporated all the latest and most desirable featthrough miles of radiating canals to flood marshes quickly against kill- ures. In this model i3 found the ing frosts and as a measure of insect control, states a writer in the greatest evidence of the trend Prairie Farmer. Loward making operation of the new It must have winter protection. Just before heavy frost, reservoirs jets easier and simpler for the listare opened and vines covered ; they ener. Still, another convenience availlie snug through winter beneath a and several blanket of ice. They must have a able for use with this blanket of sand, too, one inch thick other models in the new line ia the atop the ice, to settle gently but remote control device which enables firmly around vines in spring when the ice goes out to absorb heat and the listener to operate the radio help keep frost away; to discourage from any convenient, nearby chair. weed growth; to give old runners a also chance to reroot and thus renew the Push button, electric tuning is featured in the remote control arbog. Marshes are drained in the spring ease of operaand from short mother vines new rangement, bringing shoots creep. Buds swell and send tion to an all time new high. out a short shoot upon which pink Of major Importance to purchaswaxen blossoms bloom. When petia the als fall, tiny berries emerge to grow ers, concluded Mr. Halliday, and plumpen. Slowly their color fact that Western Auto Supply Comfades from green to creamy white; in its new line of Western Air to coral pink, while the rare and pany vigorous flavor develops within. Patrol Radios, brings to the public Gathered, dried and boxed, cooler tbe finest embodiment of the years weather turns the berries full flabest features, at prices easily within vored and a rich, ruby rpH the puree reach of everyone. f v-, , 13-tu- be - ... Wife-hat- er 13-tu- be ke so-call- figge-leav- Ilumbie Pie To eat humble pie is an expression applied to those who suffer- a setback or submit to humiliation. It probably comes from the word um-bl-e, applied to the heart, liver and entrails of the deer. In olden times these were the perquisites of the huntsman, and they would be made Into a pie, whiph would be served to the huntsmen, humble retainers, and their poor dependants, while the lord and his guests ate venison joints and pasties. Thus to eat humble pie was to take a back seat at the feast i es low-lyin- 13-tu- be r T |