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Show Golden Gate Fair Extends Welcome Couple Find Fortune After 25 Year Work Cobalt, Ontario. Two brothers, who worked a claim near here for almost 25 years, found a fortune in a stone which turned out to be a silver nugget weighing approximately a quarter of a ton. , They had regarded the stone with detached interest, and once even worked 3 trench within 20 feet of it. Then one day the sun glinted on the stones frosted surface, and Michael Burke made a closer examination. The nugget was expected to average more than 5,000 ounces for Burke and his brother, Joseph, when assayed. It was believed to be a float tom away from the main body of ore by age-ol- d geological disturbances. -- Murder on Soochow Creek By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter TT ERES a tale from China, where life is cheap. Theyll kill I 1 you for your shoes in that desperate, country. Or theyll kill you for nothing a all. Ive sten Chinese killed by the dozen over there for no reason, as far as I could see, but just for the sake of killing. In no country in the world, except possibly revolutionary Spain, is death spread with deep to defeat the New England frost. The Vermont-NeHampshire boundary is the longest,, and posto be sibly the longest-disputeSince 1920, recent in marked years. six other state line disputes have such a careless hand. been settled by the Supreme court and Commissioner Gannett. ArkanYes, life is cheap over there in China. Many a man has been killed for something that wasnt worth a Chinese dollar. But our Distinguished lines drawn for about 10 sas Standing before a giant facsimile of the great seal of the state of mileshadeach Adventurer of the day Milton Weaver of New York City saw the time California along the boundaries at Sacramento, Zoe Dell Lantis,. pretty 1939 Golden Gate Inwith Tennessee and once when his life wasnt worth two cents. it shares which ternational exposition pirate girl, extends an gesture Minnesota-Wisconsi- n That was in February, 1932. Milt Weaver was in the United of welcome to California visitors and an invitation to walk the gang- Mississippi. A States Marine corps then, and the Marines were stationed in Shangplank leading to Treasure Island, site of the exposition in San Franhai protecting our nationals and the International Settlement durROOKIE MAKING GOOD cisco bay. ing the fighting that went on between the Chinese and the Japanese. over-crowde- d, half-starv- ed w d, Along the Shores of Soochow Creek. Old Boundary Squabble we Marines Says Milt: You probably remember the little dug-obuilt and all the warlike atmosphere that surrounded us along Soochow creek? And Milt is right about that. I sure do. I spent a lot of time down there when the fighting was going on over in the Native City, and if I saw Milt Id probably remember him, too, for I talked with a lot of those and stood guard along the creek. Milts boys who garrisoned that dug-oadventure, though, is one thing I missed, and Im glad Milt has given me a second chance at it a second chance to put in on the wire and tell it to the world. It was a cold morning that one in February and Milt was patrolling his post along Soochow creek. Outside the walls of the International Settlement a furious battle was going on between Japanese troops and Chinese soldiers. Refugees were seeking safety in the Settlement by the thousand, but they werent allowed to enter at night. The patrols along the boundaries had strict orders not to let anyone enter before six a. m., n but all night long' Chinese refugees many of whom couldnt pass the inspection at the bridges kept trying to force their way through the patrols and get in behind Settlement walls. . At the Mercy of the Chinese. v It was about five in the morning when Milt saw a sampan, loaded with Chinese, making its way across the creek. Imme- diately Milt shouted to them to go back, but on they came until the nose of the boat touched the shore. Then Milt saw he was in for an argument maybe even a little trouble. But if hed known how much trouble it was going to be, hed have sounded the alarm - and called out the guard before he tried to do anything else about ut ut Vermont - New Hampshire Limits Clearly Defined. Washington, D. C. In 1912 Vermont and New Hampshire decided to ask the United States Supreme court where one begins and the other ends. Now they know. Finally approved a few weeks ago was Special Commissioner Samuel S. Gannetts report on the boundary line which follows the of the Connecticut river between the two states. Actually, 206 disputed miles of line were surveyed, from which the whole boundary was marked beyond doubt or terror-stricke- 238-mi- le gs question. This, says the National Geographic society, is the last word in a boundary squabble which has caused bloodshed, engendered a refusal to admit the free republic of Vermont to the United States until 1791, and inspired Vermonts flirtation with a Canadian union. It even involved efforts to split off a sepa- - it. As the boat touched shore Milt stepped aboard and began telling the coolie who ran it to turn around and go back. I had to do this in sign language, Milt says, because the coolie, apparently, didnt understand English. The coolie appeared to be doing what I told him. He was trywhen a small tugboat came along and ing to swing the boat around rammed into his sampan. ' At the same time it pushed the sampan out into the middle of the stream, making it impossible for me to jump ashore again. And then, all of a sudden, the demeanor of the .Chinese in the boat changed. A few seconds before Milt had represented authority, with a guard of soldiers at. his call. Now, out there in the middle of the stream he was alone helpless and darned well those Chinese knew it. They began swarming toward him, babbling, gesticulating, threatening. Milt saw what was coming saw that he had one chance to get away, and that was to jump aboard the tugboat. He turned toward it, and then a thing happened that put him completely at the mercy of the occupants of the sampan. As he turned toward the tug, a puff of smoke, full of fine bits of coal flew straight in his eyes. He was blinded! It was only for a few moments, but during those Tew moments of blindness Milt experienced the worst fear of his whole life. The natives, seeing him helpless, rushed him and a man that gets mobbed by a crowd of Chinese natives has darned little chance of getting out alive. PRESENTED AT COURT Desperate Fight on the Sampan. at me with bamboo sticks, says Milt, trying came They to push me overboard into the filthy waters of the creek. I knew I was doomed if I let them get me into the water, for once ' I was in it they would push me under and hold me there until I drowned. I blew my whistle for help. I had a pistol in a bolster at my hip, but I couldnt see to shoot it. But I also carried a baton like a policemans nightstick and I began swinging it around my head as best I could. Miss Lydia Fuller of Boston, Milt says he doesnt know how he managed to stay on his feet all daughter of former Governor and through the hullabaloo. He could feel bamboo poles poking at him, Mrs. Alvin T. Fuller, was among and he could feel that his own stick was doing some damage, too, for 12 American women recently preevery once in a while it came in contact with something that felt like a sented at the Court of St. James, coolies head. But little by little he was being forced back toward the edge of the sampan. Milt was getting desperate. Another step or two and hed be overboard. He was thinking of drawing his pistol and firing blindly into the mob, when suddenly he heard English voices on the bank, mixed ini with the native shouting and cursing. That stopped the coolies. A minute before, Milt had been a lone, hated foreign devil. Now he was backed by authority again. They put the boat back to shore, and Milt was helped ashore by English policemen and a few of his own pals, the American Marines. They gave Milt first aid treatment for his eyes, and for the cuts and bruises he had received, and Milt says he was mighty doggone glad to get his feet back on the ground of the International Settlement where good old American, British and French law and order were in force and life was worth more than a couple of plugged Chinese pennies. WNU Service. , , Marshal Fochs Tomb The tomb of Marshal Ferdinand Foch in the chapel of St. Ambroise in the Invalides is in the form of a memorial above a marble sarcophagus. It was designed by the sculp- Indians Married on Trial Indians usually married on a trial basis. The man was expected to provide the home and provisions while the squaw was to cook and raise the maize and vegetables. If each performed his duties well, the marriage became permanent, ut if one or the other fell down on the job well, they just separated. For example, if the wife failed to have the meals ready when hubby came in from a hunting trip, all he had to do was to walk out, and in so doing he was a free man again. And vice tor, Paul Landowski, and consists of a group of eight poilus, who bear on their shoulders a bier covered with laurel branches on which lies the effigy of the marshal in his uniform of war days. On three sides of the base are reliefs showing the armies of his command. On the fourth side are the dates of his birth and death. versa. j receive the taxes on riverside paper, lumber, and pulp mills, and the huge hydroelectric plants from whose dams on the Connecticut river power lines carry electricity throughout much of New England. Vermont is awarded a new island or so and some new exclusive tax clients. New Hampshire wins the expensive duty of maintaining most of the bridges. The upper Connecticut is a little river, and would hardly have worn out the boundary line if left to itself. Except for sevits rocky route, twisted eral and slow, has changed little since a lively logging industry filled it with rafts of timber from low wooded mountains on both sides. Now logs must Come down to the pulp mills by truck or rails, for the' river is blocked by ten power dams in its career as a boundary. Because height of the river is now almost completely controlled by these dams, the natural low water mark was lost and had to be fished for. To establish it, a survey of the river had to be supplemented by old maps and blue prints. Bely on North Star. "Accuracy of this survey was Early guaranteed by starlight. American surveyors worked with the compass, which varies even during a day in the same place. This survey was checked every three or four miles by reference to the North star. With transit, surveying rods, and chains, a single commissioner and his small field party of engineers settled a boundary which had baffled three commissions before 1792 and had caused bitter fightwell-behav- ed cut-off- s, 200-mi- le freshman out, Gibby Brack, fielder of the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose play during the early part of the National league season has earned him a regular job with the team. Brack has been effective with the bat and his defensive play has helped strengthen the Dodgers limit was fixed for about 17 miles, surveyed in winter on the ice around Duluth. The capricious Mississippi necessitated a survey between Louisiana and Mississippi, confirming Louisianas claim to about 12 square miles in dispute. Texas has required the most boundary doctoring. A new line between the Lone Star state and Oklahoma was run for 134 miles along meridian. The rethe sult was one of the straightest and most accurately determined boundaries on record, and it pared off 45 square miles of Oklahoma to enlarge Texas. On the Texas-NeMexico boundary was run one of the crookedest lines possible, requiring five monuments per mile to keep it from getting lost in its own meaning. As. the actual line between Ver- ders. Part of the line between Colmont and New Hampshire is usual- orado and New Mexico is still unly submerged, it was not practical marked, and uncertainty exists over to mark it with monuments on the bits of the and the of Columbia boundspot. The line is indicated by 91 Virginia-Distrireference markers, bronze plates aries. Otherwise, state lines in the on granite shafts planted five feet United States are pretty definite. th w Texas-Arkans- as ct Heroic Fliers Get Mackay Award where they made their formal curtsies to King George and Queen Elizabeth. t rate state between Vermont and New Hampshire. VThe newly approved boundary apparently changes no ones post office address, transfers not a single e parcel of ground, and will necessitate no changes in maps on an ordinary scale. The Connecticut rivers west bank has in remile-squar- cent years been the accepted boundary, and the new line merely marks off the west banks original low water mark before dams were built to alter the rivers flow. Bridges and Taxation. The result has been to allot Vermont jurisdiction over a few more bucketsful of river in one spot, several tubfuls more to New Hampshire in another. It may now be definitely known at which ripple Vermont regulations govern trout fishing and where New Hampshire game laws apply. The true basis for a boundary dispute this late in history is the problem of .bridges and taxation. It is 9 question of which state shall Capt. Richard E. Nugent, left, is shown receiving the Mackay trophy from Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, in Washington, D. C., on behalf of himself and eight other officers and enlisted men for the most meritorious flight last year. The occasion was a flight from Langley field, Va., to Allegan, Mich., during heavy fog, thunderstorms and overcast skies. The trophy is one of the army's highest awards for heroism. |