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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH o .mrnim ' By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter TTELLO, EVERYBODY: AA 1. Is gasoline a stronger explosive than dynamite? 2. How many acres of floor space are there in the Capitol in Washington, D. C.? 3. Is it true that the Golden Gate The Laws Injustice. bridge would sink instantly if it should be destroyed by enemy SANTA MONICA, CALIF. bombardment? it happened in another 4. How does, a nautical mile country, wed say," What curi- compare with a land mile? 5. Why is Wall street so called? ous ideas foreigners have of Answers enforcement. l$w 1. According to Dr. George A footpad with an evil record held up a victim. A bystander saw the Granger Brown of the University crime, identified the thief. The ruffian was held under indictment. But he could give bond. The specb John Barclay Jhmkd about; HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI Than Drowning Charles Quinones of Bronx, N. Y., sends in a yarn that sets a new high for horror. Charley Quinones had a mighty queer adventure. It was .one that gave him a choice between two deaths. One of them was drowning and thats no fun. But horrible as drowning was, it wasnt half as bad as that other horror the one that was waiting for him up above. -- Charley is a Porto Rican who has come to the States to finish his education. Its a tale about his native land that hes going to tell us today. A good many years ago on April 9, 1927, to be exact Charley and a bunch of other lads about his own age, started out to do some dynamite fishing. They all lived in the town of Jajardo, on the northeast tip of Porto Rico, and the sea was not far away. They chose a spot called El Faro because of a lighthouse that stood on the hill above it. El Faro was on the shores of a tidewater lagoon where the fish, at high tide, were large and numerous. Charley and his friends took along food, a pan to fry fish in and several sticks of dynamite to catch the fish. Fishing With Dynamite.' The tide came through the lagoon at El Faro at a pretty rapid clip. JtpWas at the time when that tide was just turning that dynamite fishing was best, for if they waited while the tide ebbed, the fish would go out with it. They attached fuses to their dynamite and one of the boys threw it into the water. There was a momentary hush, followed by an explosion. The water heaved and trembled. A great wave shot up from below the surface, and with it came fish hundreds of them of all sizes, species and colors. They had to act quickly after that. If they didnt get those g fish immediately the tide would carry them away. Half a dozen of them dived into the water and began gathering up the ones on the surface. Charley Quinones followed them but instead of going after the fish on the surface he took a long, deep dive toward the bottom of the lagoon. ' -- swift-movin- Between the Devil and the Deep. The little fish came to the top after an explosion, but the bigger ones sank to the bottom and it was the big ones that Charley was after. Charley had made a good dive, but there was no time to lose. The current was even swifter down near the bottom than it had been on the I surface. He saw a big fish and another and half a dozen more. I took too the were but to he take two, slippery. tried they says, largest one within reach and turned my head toward the surface. But at that moment I saw something that made me change my mind. It was a ghastly sight that Charley saw up there above him. Up near the surface, directly over his bead, he saw something white swimming back and forth. A second look told him what it was and his whole body began fairly crawling with horror. That white thing np there was a SHARK ! Huge Shark Was Terrifying. The sight of it almost made me faint, and there Says Charley: arent enough words in any language to describe how terrified I felt. The monster was swimming close to the surface and he .seemed to be to the top of the eating the dead fish that our explosion had broughtI up ever seen, and had sharks of one the was He biggest huge lagoon.. from where I was I could see his great mouth with its rows of horrible sharp teeth. fraction of a second Charley saw and thought all those things in awould have eaten him shark That He knew" he couldnt swim upward. down there under the But he couldnt stay minute. a than alive in less water long, either. He had to have air. Already his lungs were beholding his breath already his head ginning to ache from the strain ofwant of oxygen in his lungs. was spinning around giddily for .... Never in his life had Charley been in a worse spot, in those moments of cruel apprehension, he says, now 'I never thought the human body and the human mind were capable of standing so much torture. My ears were ringing madly. My about to burst. My heart was beating lungs felt as though they were I couldnt. , but to cry, violently. I wanted ' The water down there at the bottom was dark and gloomy. Un on the surface, a dim figure, now, in my blurring eyes, the monster still hovered. It seemed that he was waiting patiently the expression, for me to come up. Many times I had heard in literally that I was there and the and Deep, Between the Devil same predicament. Desperate Push to the Surface. no one could help And what made matters worse was the fact that ever been behas than alone anyone more alone me out of it I was I took a last and breath any longer, fore I believe I couldnt hold my with all the with feet, swimming my Pushing madly desperate chance. was hardly surface. It the toward I shot in me, left was strength that me. But I shark the before water got of the possible that I could get out choice. had no other a violent blow I heard a splash-f- elt Up I went. Their, suddenly from a huge body and lost consciousness. on the beach, his friends all When Charley came to he wag lying had seen the shark swimming around on the him. They around grouped bottom. They thought sure surface and they knew Charley was at the could. One of the boys got did what they but a they was goner, out on the water and it floated hule the beach, Piece of driftwood from a to the surface The was. as ust coming Charley shark-jstruck at the and in doing so had run smack into Charley hark out noSfdyhasfigured yet.who was the most frightened by that and COUTheTthlrSyoai2g0felfowsrI had dragged Charley, half drowned, to the says thats the last time hes been swimming in . Offering Information on Various Subjects of Michigan, gasoline as an explosive has 10 times the explosive power of dynamite. 2. The building has a floor area of 14 acres. The structure stands in a park of nearly 50 acres. The dome is 387 feet in height. 3. It is designed so that it would immediately sink to the bottom of the channel and not congest the harbor. 4. It is almost 800 feet longer than a land mile. 5. A wall, the northerly defense of the city, once ran along it. Home Heating tator was Hints de- tained as a material witness a gentle way of saying he was locked up, exactly as though he had been the criminal. Well, he was guilty of being poor. Six months later came the trial. The defendant, having been out all that time on bail, looked hale and hearty. The prosecutions witness was produced under guard, pale and sickly from close confinement. It didnt help his health any when the crooks attorney browbeat him, yelled at him, practically accused him of perjury. The citizen sued the state for false imprisonment, for loss of wages, for separation from his family, for all hed suffered. Under the statutes he had no standing. They threw his case out. Meanwhile, the convicted crook had been released by the parole board and was free as a bird. Aquatic Novelties. INTERESTING discoveries were made in Hawaiian waters by govFor fear ernment ichthyologists. the similarity of sound may lead to wrong impressions, let me state that this department has nothing to do with Secretary Ickes, although, since ichthyology pertains to fish, Mme. Secretary Perkins might possibly have a contrary view on this point. Because they do say there are moments in the cabinet when all is not sweetness and accord. However, the point is that Uncle Sams piscatorial sharps dredged up a fish that is most delectable for six months of the year, but poisonous the other six months. So at least theyve found a creature emblematic of the California climate. Let this be regarded around here as treason, I will state that Im as loyal a native stepson as any that ever came out of Iowa, having been here long enough now to join in passing resolutions endorsing the scenery and at intervals uttering three loud ringing cheers for the sunsets. . Also let envious Florida refrain from gloating. To typify Floridas climate that fish would be good only four months of the year and powerfully hard to put up with the rest of the time. Lecturing Adventures. ALABAMA is a sect which forbids its converts to laugh or even smile. Now I know who it was bought out the house when I delivered a humorous lecture down there. The other day a chap asked me why I didnt go back on the lecture platform. I told him Id appeared in practically ever sizable town in America, and, though it was years ago and probably popular indignation had abated now, still I wasnt taking any chances I was waiting for some new towns to be built. 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