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General Franco has directed that the old fortress, reduced to a pile of rocks and mortar, be kept as nearly as possible in exactly the same condition as when his troops rescued 1,400 insurgents from it in the fall of 1936. The ruins have become a source of revenue to the Nationalist gov eminent. Hundreds of persons who visit the old military school daily pay an admission fee of two peToledo, setas. Expect Tourist Trade. war is over the Nationalists take it for granted they will win Toledoans count on the ruins attracting thousands of tourists whose pesetas will not only benefit local merchants but also help the Nationalist government pay the cost of the war. guides relate in detail how insurgent soldiers and their families held out in the castle against artillery bombardment and dynamite mines from July 21 to September 27, 1936. d From the outside the fortress appears to have been totally destroyed. But within the wreckage has been carefully propped and put in condition for sightseers to view the relics without hazard. In one comer of the building, buried under a pile of rock, remains an unexploaded dynamite mine. The guides explain, however, that the explosives probably have deteriorated. Tamed Into Museum. What was formerly the commandants office has been converted into a museum. Two American-mad- e motorcycles are exhibited ai the power used by the besieged insurgents to turn the grist which ground the wheat for their bread. The exhibits include machine guns, rifles, crutches made from brooms, hard bits of bread baked in an oven which the insurgents built in one of the basements, and automobile batteries, from which a radio was operated. The telephone through which the commandant, Colonel Moscardo, now a general on Franco's staff, informed the besiegers that his band would be blown to bits rather than surrender is prominently displayed. Exhibited with it is another telephone, described as the one through which the besiegers talked to Moscardo. It was through this telephone that the Reds told Colonel Moscardo they would execute his son unless he surrendered," the guides relate. He refused to surrender and the Reds shot his son. When the Red-beret- thick-walle- 0 k,. PIRATE ACTIVITIES STIR FRENCH TARS TO DEMAND ACTION Destroy Them or We Strike Is Threat of Sailors; Urge War Tactics. Paris. French sailors and maritime workers, who have complained constantly during the last six months about piracy on the seas and lack of security for themselves, have petitioned the government once more for effective defense against attacks such as that which blew the British Jean Weems out cf the water off Catalonia. Seamen became skeptical about the Nyon agreement system of protection when double attacks sank one French freighter, the Oued Mellah and an air French dispatch boat stationed at Minorca, within the space of ten hours. Whereas before French seamen were content to ask the government to provide radio control and to be firm with the aggressors, now they call for preparations similar to those provided during the World war. Urge Destroying Plane Bases. In the seamens paper, Journal de la Marine Marchande, one writer staled immediately after the at- of New York by LL STEVENSON Lights Frond though they may be of it, New Yorkers are if they can afford it continually availing themselves of means of escape from their city. Those means are avail- Airline. c four-maste- Pause at Pago Pago. st li-.- e ft ut work-huntin- An expedition to hunt the last herd was found at San Antonio. Poles Are Put in Place Then came word that the herd had crossed the Rio Grande into Mexiby Charge of Dynamite co. The buffalo hunters grew suspiHatteras, N. C. Ingenuity is cious and finally disbanded. bringing modernity to the lonely natouter banks of North Carolina, II. P. Attwater, uralist of the day, checked on the where a coastal national park is legendary herd. He concluded that planned. Builders of a the buffalo were a myth. power line from Hatteras to Avon were puzzled as to how to get poles set up. A hole cannot be dug in Kansas Dogs Are Sissies; the loose sand. Hunters Cannot Explain So the engineers drive a hollow pipe into the soft sand and send Dodge City. Kan. Something had down a small charge of dynamite. once to the City, Dodge happened fuse is fixed and the pipe the After home of the bert hunting dogs on the pole is set upright on removed, the prairie and the scene of two or over the dynamite and the ground meets. national three coursing there held by grappling hooks. The Either the dogs are victims of is set off, splitting the sand, charge a thrill or a isn't coyote easy living and the pole drops into place before any more. sand can fall back into the hole. More than 500 men and women theThe main difficulty is making the the other were on a coyote roundup down straight. In case drop pole day. They were accompanied by it doesnt, the pole is pulled up and to from coursing dogs enough dogs, another hole is dynamited. the ordinary run, to round up all the cyotes in the county. Convicts Enact Own Play When a coyote was flushed, the The Fish San Quentin, Calif. dogs gave a few feeble steps, may- was the name of a skit written and then once or twice, be yelped enacted by inmates of San Quentin dropped back. The dog experts of penitentiary. The play dramatized the community can't explain it. the agonies of newly arrived One coyote was captured. well-kno- Manuscripts 200 Years Old covered in Church. a freedom from confines of stone ganization which ordered the attack. and steel. A the friend told me of I ask that aerial patrols chase meeting a deer while wandering pirate planes, shoot them down if along one of the less frequented if not follow to but them possible, paths. Fort Washington park, in their base. Once such bases are uptown Manhattan, is another refidentified they should be destroyed uge for the city weary. It has been to the last shred, to the last man. spoiled somewhat by improvements. It doesnt suffice in attempting But at that, a rabbit bounds across to halt Mediterranean piracy to kill your path now and then and there the aviator who is under orders. It are many squirrels. But it was a lot is necessary to strike the organizabetter when those paths were meretion at its heart. To those who ly trails. Inwood park has also been say this would mean war, I ask what improved. But there is still a bit country, Spanish or foreign, would of the wild about it. thus admit its complicity before the entire world? The sight of a lad with a pair of Would Arm Merchantmen. skis, riding downtown in tlie subThe National Federation of Mari- way this morning caused me to retime Trade Unions suggests that the member a slide I took some years merchant marine be armed at once ago. West One Hundred and Eighty-firstreet had not been built up so that they could effectively defend themselves as they did during as it is now, especially i.i upIt informed the town side of that hill, which is a the World war. government in a special com- young Alp. On the way home one munique that must answer at once cold winter night, I stopped at before the French seamen if it se- Broadway and bought a peck of poriously intended to protect them tatoes. Then I began the trek to Riverside drive with the wind whisfrom attack. We say tling about my ears. Nnt knowing The note terminated: squarely that our comrades have that youngsters had iced the sidehad enough, exposed every day to walk for coasting purposes, I startthe barbaric acts of pirates known ed confidently down the hilL When or unknown, and will manifest our I reached the bottom, with my feet feeling shortly by refusing to take in the air, the sack held only one any ships to sea, unless some ac- potato. The rest had arrived ahead tion is taken to protect ships sailing of me though I did make excellent in the danger zones. This is the time. last warning we will give. The next time we will take action ourselves. Formal evening clothes have Seamen have formerly protested staged a remarkable comeback. Not against the fact, which they say so long ago, a young man equipped they can prove, that orders have with a dinner jacket was all set for batbeen given to all any social affair he might wish to teries and all ships to fire only warn- attend. Now, as observation here ing blanks on pirate craft which is and there has shown, tails and white believed to be on an attacking mis- ties are the thing. Toppers are also sion. They insist that the pirates far more common, especially in themust know this fact and have there- ater lobbies on fifpt nights. Possifore become daring again in the bly silk hats would be more numerous were not modern taxis so low-cMediterranean. that the tall hat, instead of beSeamen openly affirm that they worn, has to be carried on the ing shortin attacks an increase expect of the lap ly, following the proclamation by and white male passenger. Tails ties, however, ara for nationalists of a blockade on Medslim. I've found that out. the cities. iterranean Spanish Outside a dingy Sixth avenue employment cgcncy, the usual crowd Legend as to Ghostly unhappy faces was gathered Herd of Buffalo Is Upset of about the bulletin board scanning Austin, Texas. Research work- the offerings of jobs. As often hapers for the Texas game, fish and pens, the offerings were neither nuoyster commission have discovered merous nor attractive. A pitchman a record of ghost buffalo herd appeared and set uj his stand. that 40 years ago created a wide in- Shabby figures, glad of any divercentral Texas sion, moved closer to see what he terest among sportsmen. had to sell. Wild buffalo had disappeared Here you are! shouted the from Texas several years earlier pitchman. "Get this gadget for a because of the depredations of pro- - dime. It cuts work in half and fessional killers. Then in 1894 a ; At that point, he lost most of his g sports magazine reported that 40 audience. or 50 buffalo still roamed the wild area of Val Verde county along the Sure, Subway eavesdropping: Rio Grande. As the story circu- hes a swell guy liable to swell up lated, the herd grew figuratively and bust at any minute. larger. Used as Steps in Another States-New-Zeala- far-awa- WNU Service. RARE MUSIC FOUND BY PITT PROFESSOR Washington. D. C. As airlines weave an air web over the Pacific, isolated islands become important land fails. Although the Samoan islands, on the United route, long have been important among the Pacific possessions of the United States, King-ma- n reef, like Wake island on the Snn Francisco-Chinroute, was uninhabited and of little use before it was chosen as a stop for the reSacent test flights of the moa Clipper. The new route, says the National Geographic society, brings the Antipodes two weeks closer to the United States. The schedule calls for a three-da- y jump from Honolulu to Auckland. Kingman reef, 1,037 miles southwest of Honolulu, is the first stop on the 4,409 mile outward flight d from Hawaii. There, a schooner, Trade Wind, serves as a floating airport. The vessel is equipped with a radio station, weather bureau, end refueling facilities. Limited land on the tiny reef leads to the possibility of mooring a floating hotel in its coral lagoon. Some high ground, however, promises eventual improvements such as a station and storehouses. able all year around. During the winter there are snow trains which take ski enthusiasts up into the Berkshires. Or passengers may be just plain snow lovers tired of the dirty samples or bare streets of the town. Fishing boats over at Shecps-hea- d bay go out all winter though their patrons are not so numerous. Some seashore hotels remain open the year around. Likewise mountain hotels and boarding houses. Winter sports are the lure to the nearby or y even hills. There are cruises to warmer climes. They fit almost any pocketbook. Then too there is Florida, only a few hours away by air. Or Southern California if a longer trip can be taken. I still get a kick cut of thinking of dinner in New York and luncheon in Hollywood, though because air travel is so common now, that is old stuff. Bell Syndicate. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ISOLATED ISLANDS BECOME IMPORTANT Trans-Pacifi- Escape from New York either winter or summer is possible for those without means or leisure. A tacks: The Nyon accord was a step in nickel will take a city sick man or the right direction but it is too tim- woman up into the open spaces of id. It admits the right only to at- the Bronx. The ferry fare across tack the individual airplane or sub- to Interstate park on the Jersey side marine which has carried out the at- of the Hudson is also only five cents. tack. It does nothing about the or- On the high cliffs, there is real anti-aircra- BrilETfV About 1,500 miles south of King-ma- n reef, propellers will pause at Pago Pago bay, best and safest harbor in the Samoan archipelago. Pago Pago (pronounced Pango Pan-gis on rugged Tutuila, one of six volcanic islands which make up American Samoa, lying east of British Samoas chain of eight. An immense volcanic crater forms the harbor of Pago Pago. Important chiefly as a naval base, American Samoa is administered by the Navy department; the commandant of Pago Pagos naval station functions as governor. Samoan treaty of 1878 granted to the United States the right to establish at Pago Pago a coaling and supply station for her naval and commercial vessels. Samoans, purest of Polynesians, prove this relief station wisely choand sen. Gentle-voice- d their very characters spell out relaxation. No echo of the motor's drone is the Polynesian dialect, called the Italian of the Pacific. Since tradition names British Samoa, as dispersion center of the Polynesian race over the Pacific ocean from Hawaii to New Zealand, it is not surprising to find an excellent type in Pago Pago. Light brown of color, of splendid physique, and of regular features, they maintain mental and social standards that are high among Pacific peoples. They are simple, honorable, hospitable generous, folk, but brave fighters when neceso) easy-livin- g, high-power- ed Dis- Pittsburgh, Pa. A cache of rare musical manuscripts, hidden for almost two centuries in a church in the village of Lititz in eastern Pennsylvania's Lancaster county, has been discovered by Theodore M. Finney, lecturer in music at the University of Pittsburgh and director of Pitt's famed student band and the men's glee club. Mr. Finney made his discovery last summer. He said the music had been written between the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812 by composers who were communicants of the Moravian church whose members fled Germany to come tc country around Bethlehem and of course, to be dubbed Pennsylvania Dutch. None of the music save what was written by the Moravian musicians before they migrated to America has ever been published. It is in the classical tradition of Mozart and Haydn. Some of the pieces are religious anthems. Others are in symphony and chamber music arrangements. The Pitt teacher explained: It is unusual in violation of the tradition of its times because in the Eighteenth century the churches of New England considered any music, except the singing of psalms, sinful. No one in New England would have dared suggesting an orchestra might play in a church. But in the little towns of eastern Pennsylvania it was done every Sunday. A large percentage of the Mora vians must have been skilled musicians, for many of the pieces Mr. Finney found would prove severe tests for the ability of even a professional of today. Moravians liked music, he said, and indicated in their writings they didn't think much ot the New England style of unaccompanied singing of hymns in which every member of the congregation carried what was his own idea of the tune, One Moravian critic referred to the Massachusetts church music as the woeful shrieking and squalling of the congregation. He said the manuscripts will probably be turned over to the Moravian church's seminary at Bethlehem, and kept there. Sa-va- ii, sary. Artificial Leg 39 Inches Long Is Without an Equal New Orleans. The longest and largest artificial leg known to J. E, Hangar, Inc., artificial limb makers, has been sent to E. C. Bledsoe of Bastrop, La., 7 foot 6 inch giant, The leg is 3914 inches long and weighs 9 pounds 9 ounces. The average artificial leg is 28 inches long, The shoe, which matches the one worn by Bledsoe, is size 22. The shoe is 1514 inches long, 514 inches wide and weighs 21k pounds. C. W. Apperson, manager of the firm, said in the 76 years the company had been in existence, records show it had never before been called upon to make such a large leg. e Bledsoe is years old, a farmer and woodsman. He weighs 267 pounds. Ha has removed the front seat of his automobile and drives from the rear seat. A tree fell on him in November, 1936. Blood poisoning set in and tlie leg was amputated at about the middle of the calf. The artificial leg, however, straps to his knee and thigh. It is natural in such a climate where wants are few that Samoans do not like to work. Their food is breadfruit re easily produced: quires no cultivation; bananas, taro, and yams demand little more than planting. Pigs and chickens are raised, but reserved for banquets and festive occasions. ' Fishing Is Not Work. Although reluctant to toil in towns and country, Samoans will paddle canoes all day while The women, too, enjoy collecting clams and catching shellfish. Often the men spend a whole day spearing fish along the reefs. Equally enthusiastic are both men and women about song and dance. Robert Louis Stevenson described their steps as vulgar and unNew Pi and Qs Urged attractive, but the dancing is never an Aid to Composition indecent before foreigners. With no factories in American Buffalo. The reason many people Samoa, the chief product and only find it difficult to put their thoughts export, copra, is prepared by the on paper is that their handwriting primitive but satisfactory method cannot keep up with their ideas, of spreading the coconut meat on according to Dr. Walter V. Kaulfers, mats in the sun to dry. Womens of Stanford university, who advohands weave these mats with swordcates streamline English spelling like leaves from the pandanus plant and handwriting. From Samoas solitude to New Dr. Kaulfers told the National Zealand's gateway and greatest city Council of Teachers of English, is approximately 1,800 miles on the which held its annual meeting here, proposed air route. Auckland is that he favored a system of shortthe grand entrance to a veritable hand and simplified spelling. treasure house of natural phenomeHow much better it would be if na spouting geysers, smoking we could be taught from the start mountains, and boiling springs of to use a kind of shorthand that hills, would make it possible for any one therapeutic value. Forest-clarich in timber trees and bush scento write down an idea as fast as he ery, frinre the city's boundaries. could think," he said. And Auckland is the natural outlet for one of the most productive counSoldiers Build Radio tries in the world. On the trade Hamilton Field, Calif. Built enroute of the Panama canal, it is a tirely by two United States army busy seaport with an excellent haramasoldiers, a powerful bor. teur radio station, capable of short"In 1837 the site of Auckland was wave transmission to anywhere in but a fern-cla- d gully. Two years the world, is nearing completion later Captain Hobson arrived, and here. in 1840, as governor, raised the British flag over the settlement of Auckland. Here was New Zealands Coeds Spend 2 Hours scat of government until Wellington became capital in 1864. More Daily Before Mirror concerned with commerce than polCanyon, Texas. A student at itics, Auckland now engages i nuWest Texas State Teachers colmerous industries shipbuilding, lege here said the 130 girls in timberher dormitory average two hours converting, and trie manufacture of daily before the looking glass. ammunition, sashes and doors, The girl, who prefers anonymrope, twine, pottery, brick, tile, varfor obvious reasons, said the ity nish and boots. schedule runs about like this: 30 minutes before the first morning Signpost Erected class, 10 minutes before lunch, London. More than 150 tons of 5 minutes after lunch, 30 minconcrete have been used to make utes before bedtime with the reGreat Britain's largest signpost mainder of the two hours conthe aerial signpost just completed sumed by interim primping or in the meadows at King's Langley, getting ready for dates. Herts. forty-thre- sea-fishin- g. at d 500-wa- sugar- fruit-cannin- -refining, 150-To-n g, tt 25, 1938 Poor Eyes Never Earned Good Wages ' 0 1st FIXATION There Image a malcular eye. 2nd FOCU- S- Ima-- s fairly well defined. There should be FUSION a single mental ImpressUm. COMFORT The conscious attention must be five to concern Its self with meaning and Interpretation. Dr. W. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST of Clinic Foundation Member 1030 East Cl:t South SUGARHOUSE JEAN RENEE' School of the Dance REGISTER NOW "DANCE TO BE HEALTHY" 1201 East 21st South St. Hyland 5168-W Buy Only GOOD COAL Call Hyland 2520 B CASTLE GATE BLAZE ABERDEEN KING COAL a BLUE D O Agents for Sentinel Stokers & re jin red Stoker Coni r LOBBS on the JOB SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. 2191 Highland Drive Ily. 2520 Toronto, Ont. The climate of Canada was hotter than the tropics 400,000,000 years ago, according to: Madeleine Fritz, of the Royal Ontario Museum of Paleontology, and now an age of drouth is foreseen! by Dan .McCowan, Canadian natur- - . alist ' Dr. Fritz says that between three hundred and four hundred million; years ago coral reefs abounded on' the southwestern fringe of Ontario, and sponges lived in the seas over! Hamilton; sea lilies, a kind of shell- fish, flourished on the present site of Petersborough. The prairie provinces, about the i driest place in the Dominion, were j a great inland sea 50,000,000 years i ago, she theorizes. McCowan blames the recession of Rocky Mountain glaciers for drouth conditions in western Canada. If; the glaciers keep on receding in the : next fifty years as they have in the last half century the rivers will be nothing more than rivulets, he believes. J I I Metal and Rubber Alloy Is Perfected by German ' Berlin. A new alloy called made of metal! Schwingmetall, and rubber and joined by a vulcani- zation process, has been discov-- 1 ' ered by German technical experts. The alloy, it is said, can be used in the manufacture of china, as a ready shock absorber when used in bedplates; shipbuilding, to lessen vibration caused by propelling machinery; elastic couplings of great' simplicity and safety, and rubber springs for lorries. With the help of the alloy, vehicles running on rails can be fitted ' j ! : i with rubber-sprun- g wheels, the tires being held to the wheel with' rubber rings. Through this method , rail vehicles run silently even onj curves. Sailors Girls Wear Souvenir Garters South Africa. Many are wearing souvenirs of the British navy in the form of garters bearing names of units of the fleet. A sailor aboard the Amphion, which recently visited Durban, is responsible for the new fad. He made the garters out of tally ribbons and sold them to his mates, v.!:o gave them to girls. Durban, South African girls |