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Show THE $l'GAK FRIDAY, BULLETIN HOUSE M.VRCH 25, 1938 I HEW NICKEL WILL HONOR JEFFERSON LEAGUE TO SPONSOR Displays Likeness of Long Tom end Monticello. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION League to make the event one of outstanding interest to both merchants and buyers. Washington, D. C. Time ticks on again at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. 'When the key to the mechanism of the double-faceclock over the east entrance was restored recently, the instrument started to mark time once more, and its cannon ball weights again started their seven-da- y tour down the wall past indicators for days of the week, says the National Geographic society. An indoors dial looks down on the accomplishments of a pioneer educator, large-scal- e farmer, architect, and diplomat, who also found time to wrte the Declaration of Independence and to be twice President of the United States; the other dial of the same clock faces outward, meeting sightseers with the challenging reminder thac they are being given the same number of minutes per hour that it allotted Thomas Jefferson. New Niekel Shows Shrine. It is predicted that more Amer-can- s than ever before will see Monticello' within the next year. No matter how far away they are from the third President's Virginia home, all they need is one bright new nickel. The new nickel, now being designed to retire the vanishing buffalo which has borne the burden since 1913, is to wear a likeness of Long Tom Jefferson on one side and Monticello on the other. VAn American coinage based on the decimal system instead of the British shilling and crown, the hall clock that did extra service as outdoor timepiece and weekly calendar, and the unique architectural features of the country home he designed are among the products of Jeffersons inventive mind. It is wonderful, was a Jeffersonian remark, how much can be done if we are always doing. That he was practically always up and doing before sunrise during his 83 years, there is hardly any more convincing proof than Monticello. The house crowns the leveled top of a Tittle mountain (monticello in Italian) near the eastern rim of Virginias Shenandoah valley. Visible below is Charlottesville, the city which has grown around the University of Virginia' of Jeffersons bounding evidence of his hope that the best way to prevent tyranny 'would be to illuminate the minds of the people at large. The view is curtained in the blue distances of the 'Western Territory far beyond, for which Jefferson wrote a bill abolishing slavery and requiring that it would remain forever a part of the United States of America. The spaciousness of the Monticello prospect made it seem quite possible for everyone, to find room for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as Jefferson proclaimed in his birth certificate of a nation, without encroaching on any other persons liberties. Ingenious Trickery. From blueprint to weathervane, Monticello is a rare example of ingenious trickery. It looks like a cozy domed bungalow, while it is y mansion with actually a extensive wings. The basement floor and corridors to flanking office cottages are almost invisible from the front, for they are buried under terraces and receive their sunshine from the rear. There are thirteen bedrooms in the house, and not a single bedstead; alcoves provided with wall hooks for mattress supports of rope were Jeffersonian subr. stitutes for the then stylish His own bed was in an alcove open on two sides, so that he could roll out directly into either his study or his bedroom. The weathervane on the roof of the east portico was extended through the roof to markers on the ceiling, visible from indoors, so that the canny statesman could learn which way the wind blew without venturing into it. Long before the first trolley doors opened automatically, Jefferson equipped his tall glass French doors with the doubledoer trick of moving in unison at a touch on either one. Surprising furniture, such as revolving tables and adjustable desk, contributed to the impression of a home with every possible novelty for convenience's sake. "Novelty attended the very christening of Monticello, for possibly the first use of the name in Jefferson's own records was a reference to some experiments with cherry tree grafting. d ; A special committee of business men from the district was selected at a meeting of the board of directors This committee will have special meetings and formu- late definite plans to be made for the Birthday Celebration. gadget-inve- ntor, SCIENTISTS TIME Weeks Headlines LIGHTNINGS SPEED Uce Worlds Tallest Buildin-- y Monday. March 21, 1938 . Bill passed Million, dollar Navy in Making Tests. by congress. New York. Lightnings speed has An estimated 800,000 Jewish men, been measured by scientists at 10,-0or women' and children are hiding miles a second. They used the Ger- 00 trying to flee from Austria as man black shirt troops take full control of the country. LOCAL Utah's blizzard Sunday tied up traffic on roads and wind caused considerable damage to electric lines and trees hi Salt Lake city. worlds tallest building for a lightning rod, the 1,250-foEmpire State building in this city. This structure is struck by bolts from the clouds more frequently than any other known place on earth, according to Karl B. director of the lightning laboratory of the General Electric company. It acts like a needle to draw electricity.- A motion picture camera, on top of a skyscraper half a mile from the Empire State, has caught every flash for three years. New facts have been discovered. The most interesting, Mr. McEach-ro-n said, is that a tall building uses a tongue of fire to wheedle lightning. Frequently before lightning hits the Empire State a spindling flame leaps upward from the top of its tower, almost a quarter of a mile up. The flame does not go all the way to the clouds. It reaches like a snake striking at something far beyond its length. It guides the lightning that always follows, crashing down the tower. The scientific importance of this, said Mr. McEachron, is to prove that the shape of an object on earth will often decide the direction of the initial lightning stroke. Lightning usually strikes downward. A cloud starts it. But the Empire State building many times pops at the clouds. The camera settled a long controversy. The dispute was about which' direction lightning branches, up or down. Pictures showed both directions. The Empire State evidence shows that the branches will go in the direction of the original stroke. This original stroke is not seen by the human eye. It is a series of d flashes, each about 200 feet long. These, one after the er, seem to drill a path in the air for the main stroke of fire. Each lance proceeds a little farther than the one before. , Often, McEachron asserted, there may be 30 of these lances before a flash. Occasionally they take a hundredth of a second to build the pathway. They can start either from earth or from the sky. They explained, McEachron said, the ripping sound in a thunder clap. ot - -- Tuesday, March 22, 1938 President Roosevelt removed Dr. Arthur Morgan as chairman of the , Tennessee Valley Authority. The 'World's Jewish congress today addressed a petition to the League of Nations' council appealing for league action regarding the martyrdom of Austrian Jews. LOCAL A lady jaywalker tells a local police judge her opinion of the grade of justice she is handing out Saying the sentence and also She that the judge is rediculous. spent one day in jail for this opinion. Wednesday, March 23, 1938 President Roosevelt in a speech at Gainsville, Ga., blamed the selfishness and greed of a few citizens 'for retarding the national recovery. Three thousand people have been held as political offenders since the Austrian-Germa- n union. LOCAL Three miners trapped behind a fire in a tunnel at Marys-vilUtah were brought out today. Two died shortly after being rescued and the other is in a critical con- e, dition. Thursday, March 24, 1938 the strongest warning since 1914 Great Brltlan today served notice to the world that If Belgium, France or herself were attacked it Would mean war. Japan watches U. S. Navy plan with anxious eyes. v LOCAL Contract awarded for the building of the Deer Creek Dam. The amount allowed is 82,189,096. lance-shape- In - (Continued from Page 1) Mm K. ' E. Jensen, Brig-- , ham City, Miss Addle McCausland, logan, Mr. and Mm Adam Anderson, Provo, Stanley Schubacb, Mm H. C. Bradbury, Logan, Virginia Rose, Sec. D. of R, Midvale, Mrs. Priscilla. Gale,. Mm Belva. Smoot, Mrs. Nellie Smoot Poulton, Sugar House Relief Society, Mr. and Mrs. R. Jackman, Mr. and Mrs. Schade, Mm A. B. Waldemar, Mr. A. G. Stain, Mm Anna Hoggan, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Curtis, Mrs. . Lewis R Wells, Mn. Joseph C&ulam, Mr. J. 8. Anderson, A. J. .Hagen, Principal Irving School, Mr. and Mrs. Brady, Mm Rebecca Scott, Mm Roy Scott, .Mr.. and Mm A. G. Clawson, D. D. Grand Master I. O. O.F., Mm Matilda Youngdale, Mr. and. Mrs. Arnold A. Reiser, Mr. and Mm b. P. May, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Brady, Mm Pearl ' V. Parkinson, Mr. and Mm .Nora Stores, Mr. and Mm E. S. Wheeler, Mrs. Walter Scott, Mm Rebecca Monday, Mm Eva Neber, Mm Delia Bell Franklin, Mr. and Mm Frank Hall, Mr. and Mm Wayne dark. Master Ben dark. Miss Irene P. P. Rebecca, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Schade, Mm E. C. Folger, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tuttle, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roberts, Mr. and Mm Charles E. Soelberg, Miss Leah Hoggan, Professor L. A. Glddlngs, P. G. M., I. O. O. F., Mm Ira Stray-tClerk, Canto Colfax I.O.O.F., L. D. Strayer, Miss Lilia Bell Frank-lyMr. and Mrs. Clarence Naylor, Magna, Ernest A. Nelson, Mrs. Ben Squires, Mrs. Willard Squires, Palo Alto, California, and Mr. and Mm Carl Nelson. It was a most pleasurable occasion and that worthy couple were the Joyftal recipients of congratulations from their many friends. Mr. and . Sud-heim- v, n, U. S. Government Guards Wisconsin Boys War Ray; Somewhere in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin a farm boy with a penchant for monkeying around with old batteries, wires, coils and other junk found in any farmers tool shed, was reported under the eagle eye of armed guards. The guards were said to be from Washington, on hand to protect a from prying eyes. thingumajig H. E. Taylor, president of the National inventors congress, revealed the boy had invented an electrical ray which will put out of commission any electrical apparatus within eight miles. He said perfection of the instrument would give the United States the strongest weapon in existence because it would nullify the many electrically-powere-d machines of modem warfare. Taylor refused to divulge the youth's identity, or the location of his farm home. During experiments, he said, the ray, emanating from equipment fashioned from an old, discarded battery radio set, stopped the engines of all automobiles within the range of a pair of field glasses. The engineers communicated with the War department officials, Taylor said, and on subsequent visits to the farm representatives of the Inventors congress have been refused admittance to the grounds by armed guards vigilantly patrolling the property. . . James Bell, deputy city clerk in charge of the marriage license office over in Brooklyn, has figured The law, he said, to think chance a couples gives things over. Many of the couples, so long 8S they have to wait, have the ceremonies performed in their own churches. Others have time to clear their heads after parties am decide thqt marriage is a serious thing instead of a lark. So he holds it out. 72-ho- ur . five-ce- . . . . four-stor- four-poste- - Traveler Robs Hotel to Catch His Train in North PrincC Albert; Sask. Commercial travelers en route to the northern Canadian mining town of Flin Flon usually get a little sleep at Hudson's Bay Junction while waiting for the northbound train. One chilly morning when the train whistle blew its final call, a traveler dashed: out of the hotel into the wintry weather swinging his suitcase in one hand and a porcelain water jug in the other. When he reached the train, the conductor shouted: Hey, you, you're taking the hotel crockery I I know, shouted the traveler, but my teeth are frozen in th darn water jug! Love Ranks as Cause for Flunking Exams San Jose, Calif. An official bulletin of the San Jose State college ranks love as one of the 10 commonest causes for students flunking out in their examinations. Time is given as the only cure. Petting is classed as common cause. an-oth- er U. S. LEADS WORLD IN RUBBER-MAKIN- G Only Germany and Russia Can Compare, Says Expert New York. Research chemists in the United States are credited with putting this country in the lead in an international race for development of synthetic rubberlike materials. Dr. II. L. Trumbull, writing in the Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering magazine, declared the competition among the worlds major powers is heightened by the fact that every great industrial nation depends for its supplies of raw rubber on sources thousands of miles sway. While chemists in this country have been developing synthetic substances, scientists in other nations have been engaged in a scramble to produce similar materials. Dr. Trumbull said. He declared that only in Germany and Russia have there been any achievements which compare with those in the United States. German Substitute Used. German chemists have produced a material known as Buna rubber and this substance has for months been specified in place of natural rubber in goods purchased by the Dr. TrumGerman government, bull said. Buna has been made available in several grades, each of which in some respects is said to excel natural rubber. The imposition of an import duty of 1V marks per kilo on crude rubber is said to be for the purpose of raising money for additional factories for synthetic rubber production in Germany which the German government hopes within the year may attain a volume of 27,000 tons. The Russians are reported to be making synthetic rubber from alcohol. Published results show that their product is inferior to natural rubbers. In the United States, scientists have developed several rubberlike materials which are finding a wide variety of applications. A recent advance of importance is tiie production and fabrication of Koroseal, a novel, synthetic composition in many respects resembling cured rubber, according to Dr. Trumbull, who, as manager of tiie chemical laboratories of the B. F. Goodrich company, aided in its development. Little Affeeted by Sun. It does not require vulcanization to give it elasticity. It withstands long exposure to ozone and oxygen, and is practically unchanged after two years in sunlight. It is more inert than rubber to the action of corrosive chemicals, even withstanding prolonged immersion in chromic or in concentrated nitric acid. This novel elastic material seems designed to be used to best advantage where rubber is not at present being used. Another synthetic material is known as Neoprene. In many ways this product, developed in the DuPont laboratories, resembles rubber more closely than other of the newer synthetics. It has found many interesting applications and serves the rubber industry as a raw material which may be used in compositions with or without rubber. TOWNS IN BRITAIN HAIL U. S. DOUBLES LOOK YOUR BEST ' FOR EASTER U. S. and English Namesake Cities Exchange Gifts. Now is the time for your EASTER PERMANENT London. More than fifty British towns are maintaining contact in various ways with mure than six hundred of their namesake towns in the United States. Usually the contacts take the form of Christmas and other anniversary gifts, but in some cases they have been more substantial. Several years ago a factory in a Mass., established Ipswich, branch In its mother town of Ipswich, England. Football teams of the towns of Worcester, Mass., and Worcester, England, have met three times during the past few years. Worcester, Mass., also has a suit of armor presented to it by the English Wor- IRENES cester. When Salisbury, Md., celebrated its bicentenary in 1932, one of its guests of honor was the mayor of the Englisu Salisbury. In the same year the lurd mayor and lady Dpr-cheste- r, Britain Claims Victory in Battle on Muskrats London. The British ministry of agriculture has emerged victorious from its war on the muskrat, and has reported that, apart from one stray specimen found in Cheshire in 1936, the pest has been extinct in this country for some time. Thus finis is written to a campaign that cost Great Britain thousands of pounds, and even involved special legislation in parliament. It was a Bohemian noblemans whim that introduced the muskrat or musquash into Europe, and so began a trail of destruction that cost millions to remedy. In 1905 this nobleman imported a dozen of the rodents from Alaska so that they might breed in the waterways of his estate. It was a costly whim. Seven survived the journey and then began to breed the female can produce as many as 150 young in a year. They spread everywhere, swam the Danube, and invaded Germany and Switzerland. Recently it was estimated that there were in central Europe. It was in 1917 that muskrats first reached England, being imported for fur farming. Despite every precaution a few of the rats escaped. By 1932 it was estimated that 2,000,-00- 0 were at large in England. Oh May 1, 1932, Britain officially declared war on the rodents. 100,-000,0- Detroits Zco Is Most Visited in United States Washington. The 144 municipal attract approximately visitors, according to a survey by the national park service and the national recreation associations. The most popular zoo in the country, the report indicated, is Detroits, which is visited each year by more than 8,000,000 persons, St Louis, Kansas City and Cleveland each attract 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 visitors each year. The largest zoo, in point of acreage, is in Evansville, Ind., with 380 acres. Tulsa, Okla., is second with 250 acres. Lincoln, Neb., has 105 Pott Trader Keeps Cow acres; Kansas City, Mo., 80 acres, St. Louis, 77 acres. North of Arctic Circle andJacksonville, Fla., comes first in Kotzebue, Alaska. Kotzebue, far the number of mammals, counting north of the Arctic circle, now has 511 specimens among its zoo popuwhat local residents didnt think lation. Next are Cincinnati with even Warren Ferguson could fur- 467 mammals; Milwaukee, 333; St. nish a fresh milk supply. Louis, 313, and San Diego,. 300. When Ferguson, proprietor of a Detroit leads with 1,375 in the chain of trading posts and the number of birds, followed by St. worlds farthest north air service, Louis with 1,096; Denver, 1,055, and pays a visit "outside, he is most San Diego, 1,000. Sarasota, Fla., zoo enthusiastic about fresh milk. has the largest number of reptiles, Last summer in Seattle Ferguson 2.000. St. Louis and San Diego have I'm going to 337 and 300, respectively. suddenly decided: have a cow. Physical difficulties were consid- Famous Cafe Has Joined erable, es winter temperatures at Kotzebue range about 50 degrees List of Paris Memories below zero. That would be disasParis. After Foyots which closed trous to a cows lactation system. last fall, another famous Paris But Ferguson purchased a west- landmark has passed in the closing ern Washington Jersey with a good of the Cafe du Croissant, gathering production record, and shipped her place of newspaper men for generato Kotzebue together with e large tions. It was in this cafe, 146 rue supply of alfalfa hay and dairy Montmartre, that Jean Jaures, leadfeeds. er of the Socialist party, was asIn the late summer bossy grazed sassinated on July 31, 1914, a few outside in the abundant grass, but days before the outbreak of the at the first freeze Ferguson moved war. The bullet holes in the her into a specially built barn, ered bench were untouched where she'll wait until spring. Its until the cafe closed. walls are lined with bales of hay. Jaures, Leon Blum's predecessor And adjoining her stall is a glowing leader of French Socialists, was as oil burner, to keep springlike temthe first of the newspaper among peratures inside. An airplane me- men to make the Cafa du Croissant chanic services her. a habit. It came in time to be the one place in Paris where Communists, Socialists, conservatives and Druggist Bowls 65 Years St. Louis. Age is no handicap for royalists argued in peace. Bitter Charles H. Hahn, royalists such as Leon Daudet and one bowler. Maurras had friendly druggist, has Charles since drinks there with the most milibeen knocking over 1872. He plays regularly. tant Communist writers. 30.000.- 000 leather-cov- eighty-six-year-o- ld ten-pi- ns r 12040 So. 11th East. Hy. 7946 k Irene Stewart - Genevie Haivon If may- oress of the English Manchester visited the Manchesters of New Hampshire and Connecticut, taking with them a plaque carved with the city arms for each of their namesake towns. Lincoln, Neb., has sent a similar plaque to the English Lincoln. Not long ago the English Bristol distributed a film of its activities to its numerous namesakes scattered throughout the English - speaking world. York, Bedford, Dartmouth, Gloucester, Dover, Reading, Rochester and Windsor in England are all in intermittent contact with their American doubles. zoos annually BEAUTY SALON . Give History of Painting Up to Sixth Century A. D. Ithaca, N. Y. Unearthing in Anti- och, Syria, of a unique series of mosaic floors which furnish a his- tory of painting from the First to the Sixth century after Christ was announced at the annual meeting of the Archeological Institute of Amer icq at Phiadelphia by Dr. F. O. Waage of the department of classics of Cornell university. As recorder of the Princeton expedition, which for six years has conducted excavations in the ancient city. Dr. Waage will exhibit photographs of the mosaics. The mosaics copy paintings of early masters and were executed with remarkable craftsmanship. The varicot-t- a egated bits of limestone, terra and glass retain their original colors. Banquet Courses Depicted. The expedition, supported by the Worcester,. Fogg, Baltimore and Louvre mu icums and Princeton university, carried on excavations at and at Daphne, a suburb, last spring and summer. The activities were under the guidance of M. Jean Lassus of the French institute at Damascus, assistant director. Among the mosaic floors found in panel of Daphne is a Third century, Narcissus, probably and a striking panel of a striding lion set in an immense field of patterned flowerets. The latter, of the Fifth century, is Sasanian in all reAnlioch-on-the-Oront- es well-preserv- ed spects- Other mosaics were uncovered by. a trench dug in an effort to clarity the relation of several mosaic rooms found during past seasons. ' Out-- standing among these were another Narcissus, richer in its pictorial setting than the first, although of about the same da.te, and in the adjoining triclinium a realistic representation of the courses whieh constituted a Roman banquet. One of the panels shows artichokes, pigs feet, eggs in egg cups and bottles of wine. Once Thriving City. ' The villa which yielded these mosaics was partly covered by a lat- er villa of the Fifth century, important for its almost complete plan. Sections of two streets running at the first right angles near by give town-plan evidence of a quadrated in Daphne, thereby fixing the corners of four city blocks and furnishing a possible starting point for systematic excavations there in the fu- ture. Antioch,, near of northwestern the Turkish border Syria, was one of the largest and wealthiest cities of tiie ancient world during the Roman empire and a populous town of great strategic importance during the period of the Crusades.' A meeting place of East and West, with a mixture of influences and ideas making fertile ground for the generation of new combinations and inventions, Antioch figured largely in tiie formation and dissemination of styles of architecture, painting and sculpture characteristic of the Early Christian and Medieval periods. Allahabad, India. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, veteran Hindu leader, and a Tehri state priest named Shastri are living in a specially prepared chamber under tomblike conditions in an effort to obtain rejuvenation. The treatment is under guidance of Tapsi Bishandas, reputedly one hundred seventy-tw- o years old. Malaviya claimed that after one weeks treatment, his waistband was reduced, his hand tremor disappeared and he was able to sleep peacefully, again. The priest was reported to have recovered his eyesight and lost his wrinkles. Womens Hats Funny Way Back in 1880s Albion, N. Y. Miladys hat long has been a target for humor. Fifty, years ago the Orleans Republican had this story: "Womankind is already beginning to prognosticate about fall bonnets, ar.d worry whether to have them constructed on the eight-stor- y principle, with basement and stepladdcr attachment, with a veranda. or one-sto- ry cr . |