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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH They Lived Under Z Days Woman Wins Fourth Diploma at Age of 79 Mrs. JOSE, CALIF. Bacon Bailey,' seventy-ninhas received her A. B. degree after four years of study at the San Jose State college. It was her fourth diploma from the institution, having received her sheepskin from the general elementary division in 1896; her kindergarten primary credentials g secin 1902, and a 1914. in ondary degree SAN Lura ADVENTURERS11 CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! e, home-makin- Mountain Doom By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Hello Pearling Industry Fast Losing Its Old Glories everybody: Johnson of'Brooklyn, N. Y., has two hobbies, and one of them was bound to get him into trouble sooner or later. Sams hobbies are skiing and mountain climbing and two more dangerous sports I dont know of. You know what sort of a game skiing is. of a bunch of ski jumpers doesnt Anyone who has ever seen a news-rehave to be told its a good ideh to pay up your insurance before you try it. Mountain climbing is a little rtiore than twice as dangerous as skiing. Its a yarn of mountain climbing with which Sam busts into the club as a Distinguished Adventurer. For a good many years, Sam has lived el abroad, chiefly in Italy. And one day in July, 1931, way up in the Italian Alps, he had a little adventure that almost culminated in his living nowhere neither in Italy nor anywhere else. a life cycle differing from the day observed almost since time began, two of Chicago University physiologists lived for 34 days in the depths of Mammoth cave, Kentucky. Attempting a cycle of living, Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman, director of the experiment, was unable to break habit, his periods of sleep and wakefulness away from the remaining normal. His assistant, Bruce Richardson, completely adapted y himself to the week and enjoyed deep sleep for as long as five consecutive hours, even during periods of normal daytime. Dr. Kleitman is shown checking the machine which registers the movements of the sleeping Richardson. To determine whether man could adjust himself-t- o 24-ho- ur 28-ho- ur Climbing the Doufoure Peak. 24-ho- ur On that July day, four Italians a doctor, a lawyer and two engineers along with Sam, himself, set out to climb the Doufoure the highest and most difficult peak in the Monte Rosa chain of Alps. They started out without professional guides, for all of them thought they were sufficiently expert at climbing to get along without them. That says Sam, was the first mistake. Sam takes time out here to explain that it was absolutely necessary to reach that peak before eleven a. m. For from that hour to one in the afternoon the sun is at its height, melting the snow and letting loose great avalanches that come crashing down the mountain-sid- e carrying thousands of tons of rock, dirt and ice along with them. The five men climbed until daybreak. ,And all at once, Sam says, the strenuous work we had done climbing to this point, was well rewarded by the magnificent spectacle that unfolded before our eyes. The early sun was shining on Monte Rosa and because of some phe- No Foreign Power Will Connomenon the whole mountain chain became a deep rose color the hue trol Historic that gives those peaks their name. We kept on going. By seven oclock, after trying to make headway in snow two or three feet deep in places, WASHINGTON, D. C. No foreign we seemed still to be a great distance from the peak. That didnt worry us. From the position we were in it was next to impossible to judge dis- power will control the island of Anticosti, at the mouth of the St. Lawtance or even our direction. But by nine oclock six-da- Dominion of Canada Will Retain Anticosti Island XTV of to Mac- Finally, soon after the beginning of the Nineteenth century, Anticostis oddest character came into the BREAKS A RECORD past them. To build a fire, says Sam, is impossible. There is nothing to bum. o Nor is there any other protection from the temperature, or from the icy blasts of wind that sweep the mountain all through .the night. They climbed for two more hours and by that time they, were all but exhausted. They stopped to rest on a ledge of rock, and suddenly a terrific avalanche roared past them not a hundred yards away. It was eleven oclock the deadline for mountain climbers the time when they ran for cover if there was any cover to run to. The slide, says Sam, crossed the path of the trail we had made coming up. If we had been delayed just a few minutes I rather believe our bodies would now be reposing on some glacier under a thousand tons of rock and ice. We didnt dare travel after that. From then until three oclock we sat huddled on the ledge expecting every moment to be carried away by another avalanche. At three we started out again, trying to find the lost trail. We didnt find it and to make matters worse, the sun was sinking rapidly and it was getting colder by the second. sub-zer- Took Refuge in a Cave. The situation was serious. Sam and his companions decided something certainly should be done about it. But what? None of them knew. They held a consultation and agreed to hole in for the night take a chance on being alive in the morning. Three men rose to find a suitable place to dig in, but two of them lay still on the ice too exhausted to move on. With difficulty the others got them to their feet. Practically carrying them, they moved on across a glacier, looking for a cave. Although they didnt know it then, it was that move that saved all their lives. They found a cave and huddled into it. They didnt dare go to sleep. had run out by that time, and Theyd freeze to death. Their food supply the gnawing pains of hunger added to their intense misery. The sufferBut at six in ing of that night, Sam says, no one could ever describe. across ice toward five the black saw figures moving the morning they them. The black figures were five professional guides. Down in Macugnaga someone with a pair of powerful binoculars had seep them as they pushed across the last stretch of glacier. Thetoguides men of remarkreach them before it able endurance had climbed all night long was too late. They literally carried the five men down the mountain and rushed them to a hospital, where one member of the party had, a leg amputated, another a hand, and a third, all the toes of both feet. But didnt have to do any work on him. luckily for Sam Johnson, the sawbones WNU Service. Copyright. Cameras Barred by Village Hating cameras and loathing photographers, villagers of Staphorst, in east Holland, have forbidden strangers to take pictures there. Two young visitors who were taking snapshots recently were knocked down and badly beaten. Staphorst is a picturesque place, the people wear quaint costumes and the houses are painted pale blue. The villagers recognize all this, but resent the invasion of their privacy by candid camera Many Moth Families Most people call moths butterflies, yet there are about nine times as many moth families as butterfly families. Because butterflies fly by day, while moths are night flyers, the former are common sights to the most casual observer. There are, however, numerous ways oi telling them apart. Butterflies fold their wings high "over their backs when at rest, while moths fold theirs down flat. Butterflies have antennae, while those oi moths are feathered. club-shape- d explorer-trade- conflict. delegation of forestry experts, including military and naval officers. Anticosti, now an island appendage to Quebec, has changed hands many times in its career, points out a bulletin, from .the National Geographic society. Last leased in 1926 by the Anticosti Pulp and Paper company, it A terrific avalanche roared France, presented Anticosti r Louis Joliet. For a decade Joliet enjoyed fur and fish trade with nearby Indians, till he and his wife were made prisoners by Sir William Phipps raiding party in the current French-Englis- h rence river, Prime Minister Lost and Cut OS by Avalanche. kenzie King recently assured the By nine oclock that peak didnt seem any nearer than it had at Canadian house of commons. The seven. They knew they were lost then and they were thoroughly fright- statement answered an inquiry conened. They were at an altitude of about twelve thousand feet, and a cerning a reported option of sale night spent in the intense cold at that level was pretty sure to be fatal. given by the islands present holders after a visit from a German - TENNYSON SCION 8 Spot 1 JOLO, P. I. The glories of the pearling industry in the Sulu sea are fast fading. European rearmament and world depression have left little money in the pearl market, according to Jack Marco, who has been buying Sulu pearls for 16 years. Eight fishing boats are carrying on a business that a few years ago occupied 70 vessels and 700 men. Pearls once valued at $10,000 are now worth a tenth as much. Moros were the worlds best pearl divers until the advent of diving suits, and Japanese are gradually replacing them, Marco said. Moro swimmers could plunge to the bottom of the sea and collect oysters for three minutes before returning to the surface for air. The Japanese have adapted themselves more readily to modern equipment. baseman of the Boston Red Sox, bangs a single ever second base in a game with the Detroit Tigers to break the consecutive hit record of 11 made by Tris Speaker in 1920. The hit was Pinkys twelfth consecutive blow. has served in reverse order as a pulpwood empire, a rich mans social experiment, a pirates stronghold, and an explorers reward. A Dramatic Biography. Roughly in the shape of a great whale, its tail in the St. Lawrence river and its head in the Gulf of St. Lawrece, Anticosti island is about 140 miles long and averages 35 miles across. It is a sportsmans paradise, with cool, brisk summers. Great forests of spruce bring green down to its very shores; game fish fill its streams, and flocks of ducks and geese stop off there regularly on flights north and south. So conspicuously placed and accessible is it that for the past 400 years this island has been the scene of mans activities and experiments. In 1534, Jacques Cartier, seekto the ing that mythical short-cEast, first officially recorded the island and called it lie de lAssomp-tioAlready, however, Basque fishermen, familiar with this region from early fishing trips, had described it as Antecosta, or island before tfife coast the name which still sticks, slightly changed in spelling. In 1630, a grateful king, Louis picture. Called a sorcerer and a pirate, Louis Olivier Gamache was also a Frenchman with a sense of humor. Natives - believed that demons helped him rob passing craft, and told tales of brimstone smells and blue flames that followed his ship over the water. Colonizing Fails. There was little humor connected with the enterprises that followed the death of the colorful Gamache. The island was almost barren of fish and game when Menier, a French chocolate manufacturer, bought it, taking possession in 1896. Interested in the possibilities of social experiment, Menier not only built himself a luxurious chateau and turned his domain into a valuable game preserve by importing deer, beaver, rabbits, elk; he also planned and developed farming communities, lobster factories, and a village equipped with hospital, school and church. He even built a railroad line and a canal. Later, realizing the potential industry in products from his forest land, he embarked on woodpulp production which, however, proved in time to be uneconomic and was finally abandoned. In 1926 the island was taken over by its present holder, reorganized as the Anticosti Consolidated Paper cbrporation, Menier retaining only his home and certain sporting For a while Anticosti rights. boomed, its population rising to more than 4,000 souls. But physical conditions here make lumbering operations hard. In winter months, ice is a problem; Harold C. Tennyson, great-grands- on nineteen-year-ol- d of Alfred who poet, English Lord Tennyson, is making his first visit to the United States. Arriving in New York, yonng Tennyson left for the West coast to join his father, the present Lord Tennyson. communications are uncertain. Records show that in the last three quarters of the Nineteenth century, more than 130 ships were wrecked on its treacherous reefs. Anticosti, however, with its long history of abandoned enterprises, is still a graveyard of hopes. Its population has sunk to mere hundreds, mostly lighthouse keepers and their families, with a few fishermen, and attendants for fox and muskrat farms lately developed." Cat Has Five Ears LONDON. A cat that has five ears is owned by Mrs. Selwyn Oxley of Ealing. The cat has a group of three ears on one side of her head and two on the other side. Motherhood at Ripe Age of 16 ut n. rnnTnnrinMmnimiijmj. Here is Lizzie, a sixteen-year-ol- d Spitz dog, with her newborn male pup, both of whom are doing well. Dog breeders in Detroit, where Lizzie lives, had never heard of a dog so old having a pup. A humane society officer said that a sixteen-year-ol- d dog is about the equivalent of an d human. Mike Vella, Lizzies owner, named the pup F. D., because it was born when President Roosevelt was making a radio speech. eighty-year-ol- |