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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Subterranean Wonders Hidden for Ages Discovered by Guides at Mammoth Cave ' THE CHEERFUL CHERUB I love tHe. night so N dey. to I almost hete go (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) eyes of scientists end the nation over have been turned toward Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. For there the National Park service has just announced the discovery of THE a w I love the cheerful By JOHN MAC DONALD to sleep And miss some time. that way, IWH. network of galleries, subterranean streams, avenues, and geological formagardens tions that for countless centuries have lain hidden from the yes of man. The new discovery is said by park authorities to be the greatest find since Mammoth Cave itelf was first entered by pioneers' in 1799. far-flun- soft end deep, -- g (Consolidated Features Snapping the United States liner, America, new queen of the American Merchant marine, through the Narrows, into YORK. daverns has been a closely guarded ice employees. On October 10, 1938, four excited cave explorers, exhausted and coated with mud, came up out of the depths to report that they had just gone through Purgatory to Paradise. The four discoverers were Carl Hanson, his son Pete, Leo Hunt and his cousin, Claude Hunt. Their find developed out of an expedition up the black recesses of Roaring river under Lee Ridge to catch eyeless fish for display. Tears of Search. 20 For years explorers had sought in vain to get beneath Lee Ridge. Because of its proximity to Mammoth Cave ridge and its similarity in size and topography, they were certain that beneath it lay a network of channels like those of Mammoth cave. Years of disappointment in this search made the guides cautious about announcing their find. They confided first only in Martin L. Charlet, cave manager, a veteran of nearly 40 years experience at Mammoth cave. Their complete story, revealed for the first time, is ait amazing account of hardship, cl underground rivers which threatened to trap them hundreds of feet uffijerground, of tortuous crawling, Stooping and twisting through na: past gaping pits, domes and finally of a yawning cavern lfcich stretches for miles into a new world never before trod by the footsteps of man. Since then park and cave officials and engineers have followed the twisting trail of the four explorers. For months every main avenue in the new discovery has been explored, surveyed and checked by ihese men, who today verify it as ihe greatest find at Mammoth cave in 140 years. Above, a view of one of the passageways in the vast, network of caverns, avenues and pits found by domes, Mammoth at Cave, Ky. guides Said to be the greatest find since the discovery of the cave itself in 1799, this subterranean wondert land has lain for ages unseen by man. Below, across a crystal and sand carpet t hitherto untrodden by man, the explorer plods his way, figuratively leaving his foot - steps on the "Sands of Time" newly-discover- ed While public showing of the new shrieked. The car BRAKES dizzily, then left the pavement to hurtle against a tree. Not long before, its driver had taken a few drinks and stepped out into the rain to race for home. He was driving all to make right Until that curve. 'he-faile- d Newspaper stories of the accident would probably attribute the drivers death to "driving while drunk. But enforcement officials and highway engineers who must work to prevent such accidents regret that the explanation isnt as simple as that. An automobile accident is a lot like a winning poker hand or a Stan-nar- d losing one, according to J. Baker, traffic safety consultant with the National Safety council. Suppose youre sitting in a game and draw a straight flush. You win the pot. Did any one card contribute more to the winning hand than the rest? Of course not. It took all five cards to complete the flush. The same test should be applied to a traffic accident, Baker exDarkness, rain, intoxicaplained. if any one of these curve a tion, circumstances had not been present, the accident probably would not have happened. This fundamental analysis will be one of those presented by Baker in the course he is teaching '.at.' the National Institute for Traffic Safety Training at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from August 12 to 24. The course will be one of win to be taught at the institute by the nations outstanding traffic authorities. Now lets look at our sample ac floral pat- gypsum simulating treasures unearthed by the discov- tern found in natureevery hang in clusery will be a comparatively 'simple ters of buds and rosettes, some with matter, it has been determined to petals 18 inches long. make haste slowly in preparing the new Scenic wonderland for sightseers eyes, according to R. Taylor Hoskins, acting superintendent of Mammoth Cave National park. It will probably 'be about two years before the work is completed. This, he says, is because of the intricate engineering problems and development of protective devices. Before a single shot of dynamite was fired at the site of the proposed work entrance, observations were made above and below the surface to. detect .any possibility of disturbance to any of the delicate formations from concussion. The construction of trails, entrances, exits, placement of lights, and scores of other matters that contribute to the safety and comfort of visitors must require care and patience, Mr. Hoskins says. Gypsum Paradise. The guides who made the discovery consider its outstanding spectacle to be the great profusion of gypsum found in one section which they have called Paradise, and another which they identify as Little Paradise. Here for hundreds of feet one may walk through a garden of gypsum flower? that decorate , walls, ceiling and floor. Great bursts of Singl e Factor Seldom Causes Auto Accident, Expert Reveals .By EDWARD DUNCAN 0 cident again said Mr. Baker. The circumstances darkness, rain, intoxication and a curve are familiar. It is possible, even probable, that the darkness, rain, the curve Or the cars speed had as much to do with the accident as the drivers degree of intoxication. If we keep statistics on that same curve for a year, we may find that 20 drivers missed it and piled up in accidents, and that of the 20, only 4 had been drinking. So we put a safety engineer to work on the curve. He studies all the statistics on the accidents that have occurred. Perhaps the curve will be straightened out a little, or obstructions to the view may be removed. Possibly the engineer finds that the crown in the surface around the curve gives a reverse bank which throws into a ditch any car taking the curve at more than 45 miles per hour on the right half of the road. . . This is. changed. . ; . The following year we find that only five drivers missed the curve, and that four of these had been drinking. The number of drivers who cant negotiate it safely has been reduced to a minimum to those who are grossly careless or quite drunk. It is true, saidnMr. Baker, that one factor alone seldom causes an accident. But it is equally true that if any single factor which contributes to motor vehicle accidents can be called a joker or wild card in our poker game analogy, it is intoxication. The car and the highway can be improved for the safety of sober drivers, but when a joker or wild card is introduced in the form of a drinking driver, things can go wrong anywhere any time. ... Mineral deposits on some of the crystalline gypsum blend into a variety of pastel colors to create the effect of a fairy castle built of candy. One grotto covered with formations like rock candy, pink honeycomb, peppermint stick and taffy, particularly appealed to the discoverers who call it the Candy Kitchen. Snowball Formation. In one section of the cave white ovals of gypsum cling to the walls like hundreds of snowballs, while others, forced off by the thrust of new crystals , forming underneath, clutter the cave floor. . Flaked gypsum covers part of the cave like a white sheet. Here and there it has peeled back into folds and curves, creating patterns of every description. Thin banded lines in a variety of colors are etched into the white background. Crystal gypsum on the floor of the cave, mixed with red sand, makes the walk-wa- y sparkle like a jeweled carpet. Sand banks for hundreds of feet are covered with crusted gypsum like a snow drift caked by a hard wind. Below this crust is sand. the pepper-re- d Throe Main Avenues. ' Three main avenues constitute the major part of the newly found cave network, though dozens of smaller in every channels spread direction. Largest of .the three, which the guides call simply Big avenue, extends fully 7,000 feet. It is unequaled by anything previously known, being comparable only to the great Broadway avenue of Mammoth cave, except that it is more evenly cut, in straighter lines, and holds to its vast dimensions more consistently. Throughout its length it maintains an average width of 50 feet and a height of 30 to 35 feet. Walls and ceiling for hundreds of feet in Big avenue .are glistening white with flaked gypsum or studded with gypsum crystals. Frequently the ceiling has Been water-cin the shape of great capitol domes, rotundas or cones; the limestone fringed with creamy-whit- e a web-lik- e tracery in red, rust, black or brown. Fossil avenue, so called by guides because masses of crustaceans are imbedded in its walls, is distinctive for the uniformity of its carving and coloring. It runs for nearly a mile at right angles to Big avenue. A thin layer of sparkling gypsum gives $iis limestone channel the apd tunnel. pearance of a Another link in the network is tentatively called 'Onyx avenue because of its stalactite and stalagmite formations. Although only about 1,200 feet long, 12 feet high, and 15 feet long, it is in many respects the most beautiful cave in the new discovery. Here at one time swirling currents of water etched out intricate limepatterns in the ' chalk-whistone to leave an endless array of grotesque contorted shapes.. The bed of a pond here is encrusted with simulated cave pearls. Of the travertine formations, fixe most unusual is a solid rimstone wall, 42 feet long and 4 feet high. It forms a natural dam across one large avenue where for centuries it had held back an underground lake. . . - fan-wi- se ut white-washe- te WNU Service. and so on to her dock, Capt. Giles Sted-ma- Chester. master of the new leviathan, handled his ship as deftly as a lad would handle a toy. Indeed, in his various maneuverings of the 35,000-to- n luxury liner on her maiden passenger-carrying trip from Newport News, Va.f Captain Stedman evinced sheer delight in putting his new charge through her paces. The 900 guests, United States senators, shipping magnates and so forth, must have cast their thoughts back to days when amid mountainous waves and winds ranging from gale to hurricane proportions, this young skipper he is only 42 years old peron the formed deeds of daring-d- o deep, deeds that have gained for him a gold medal from the Italian government; the United States navy plaque cross; the silver from the British admiralty; the Treasury department gold medal and other like testimonials of high courage and skilled seamanship. There was that tumultuous day October 20, in the 1825, when the President Harding, of which Stedman was then chief officer, steamed to the rescue of the Italian freighter, Florio, beaten down and sinking. Stedman stepped to one of the lifeboats and called for a volunteer crew. Every man jack of the distressed crew was saved, i Two years later, westbound an about. 1,575 miles from New York, the wireless operator brought Stedman a message from the British freighter Exeter City. The craft had lost her captain, third officer and two seamen hnd was sinkinl. The seas were a veritable witchbroth, the wind shrieking at hurricane force. No possibility existed for the survival of a small boat in such a sea. So Stedman maneuvered his vessel sufficiently close to admit of a line being shot aboard the distressed freighter. With tackle thus rigged, a lifeboat was lowered from the American Mer-chant and pulled' to the sinking , vessel and the crew saved. The seamanship involved was said to have represented one of the finest exploits in American annals. Last September, commanding flie United States liner Washington, Stedman rescued the entire crew of the British freighter Oliver grove, torpedoed by As a youngster, deciding upon a sea career, Stedman joined the United States Coastguard, where in the first World war he saw two years' hazardous service in convoy work in the Mediterranean sea and English channel. When peace came, Stedman enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute, of Technology for course? in marine engineering. He joined the United States Line in 1922, was made a chief, officer in 1925 and at the age of 34 received his first command. n, life-savi- mid-Atlanti- .cQhw quarantine True Son of Old Yankee Breed Of Shellbacks News of the first penetration of the hidden labyrinth of limestone secret, known only by a few cave guides and officials and park serv- WNU Service.) ng c, Ig-naz- io U-bo- at. Qi0O(JO0 DEPARTMENT, PERSONALS EVERY WOMANS FRIEND Dr. Murrays Hygienic Powder. Sample by mail. 10c (coin). MURRAY MED. CO., UN Melrose Ave., BOLLYWOOD, CALIF, His Own Returns Any, surprises among birthday presents? Yes. Wilson ghve me a book I lent to Brown six months ago. The moth leads an awful life: he spends the summer in a fur coat and the winter in a bathing suit. His Privilege Winkleby How dyou go on when you and the wife have an argument ? Dyou ever have the last word? , Baggleton Yes always. I apologize. Recount Marriage Registrar Lets see, todays the sixteenth, isnt it? Film Star Say !. Whats the big idea? Its only my ninth. DOES SAVE Do you find it more economical to do your own cooking? Oh, much! Since I have been cooking my husband only eats ! what he used to. . He Knows Are you going to put a Paint sign on your gate? Certainly not! Do you think want finger-marall over it? ks I ' Ample Warning A woman at one of the sales was struck on the head by a piece of plaster which fell from the ceiling. She had begun to talk about damages when the shopwalker led her outside, pointed to a large notice, and said, You see, madam, we distinctly warned you ! Looking up, the injured one read: NOTICE! THESE PREM- ISES ARE COMING DOWN! , ONE of the most DEFOHIT xm mm 0 llliiLo. Crring epella, Irritable 4na to functional monthly pain ihould And areal woman's friend la Lydia E.Piak-haVegetable Compound. Try ill m hard-boile- d this reporter ever knew LjfdaLFfcMsasSSS was a bookish college dean who albut swung from ways spoke softly, WNU W 3340 sJmewha Colonel Peek of Cheerfulness Wears Marines a Full this picture is Cheerfulness 1' is also an excel1)6 Bushel of Spunk Peck of the lent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the U. S. Marjnes, who gives quiet emphasis to plain words in Shanghai, heart. Samuel .Smiles. as the Japanese menace the foreign areas end .tension increases. The Japanese seem to think they In need an incident, and Colonel Peck isnt' at all likely to provide one but he doesnt back down. When he is in mufti or inWHEN kidneys function badly end1 formal dress, he is rarely withsuffer a nagging backache, y you out a book In his pocket and with dizziness, burning, scanty or too never without his pipe. He may freauent urination and getting up at or may not read Bergson, but night; when you feel tired, nerveus, ell upset ... use Doan's Pills, he thinks like a man of action Ewan's are especially for poorly and acts like a man of thought. working kidneys. Millions of boxes He won the Victory Medal for ere wed every ywr. They eta recoin-h-e Gallantry" in the World war hat- country over.'Ask year ties of tiie and neighbor! St. Mihlel, and the Medal of the Purple Heart for doubling in a. negotiating and fighting In He graduated from Annapolis in 1815 and Is 48. S3 -- sera 3 OflllE fhnrgg , Meuse-Argon- ne 1 Latin-Americ- BMEWBQgl s |