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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Rubber and Tin In Malay States Are Rich Prize Vital Area Controlled by British Supplies Important Products For U. S. Industries. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) (Colorful Singapore, Britain s largest foreign naval base, is well known as the source of important world news. Less is known, however, of the vast Malay peninsula, at whose tip Singapore's wharves load hundreds of ships with large supplies of rubber, tin and other riches of Malay, the Netherlands, Indies and Thailand. Because this section of the globe is now more than of vital interest in the news of the day the article below was prepared.) b picapproaching 13 making tures for Metro shes still the wonder of the studios because shes so well. That means a lot in Hollywood, where a stars illness can be so expensive for a studio. r Well, Shirleys diet has always included plenty of vitamins and minerals. And Walt Disney has cre- - dense, jungle, plantation owners in the d Malay States of southeastern Asia are producing more than a third of the worlds rubber supply. Much of the output is sent to the United States, for this country is not able to grow the rubber which its factories turn into tires, hose, mats, balloons, and a thousand-and- -' one other articles. Why ' does rubber flourish in the Malay Peninsula? Geography gives us the answer. Rubber trees need plenty of rain and hot weather. The Malay States are just north of the Equator, and their climate is one of the hottest and dampest in the world. Similar climate makes rubber production profNetheritable also in the near-b- y lands Indies. WNU Service. sub-de- (Exclusive to Western Newspaper Union and Copyrighted by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) On land which 50 years ago was a tiger-infest- its Shirley health that inspired the British Ministry of Foods to ask Walt Disney for help. Studio experts say that in all the years that she was making pictures for 20th Century-Fo-x she never suffered from the numerous ailments children usually have, and now that shes PERHAPS ed CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT PERSONAL DOCTORS REDUCING SYSTEM Information and weight chart free. Write VITALIX CANTON, 8. D. British-protecte- BABY CHICKS White Leghorn and New Hampshire chicks d from hens in central Calif. Discount on orders placed now. Write for RIPON HATCHERY, Ripon, Calif. prices. blood-teste- MACHINERY WANTED BE PATRIOTIC The above map explains In detail the source of the important products obtained on the Malay peninsula. Most important of these supplies as indicated are, rubber, tin, pineapples and other tropical farm products. reportedly could use Japan, already entrenched in French many of the products now going to the United States and Great Britain. Indo-Chin- a, Peninsula. The ore is dredged from tremendous open pits. Along with tin, miners dig for smaller amounts of gold, iron, manganese, lead and Supply From Brazil. The latter is vital for The first rubber plants were tungsten. filament used in electric the making the to from States Malay brought bulbs. light 60 Brazil about years ago, and it soon became evident that they would The laborers who first mined the grow well there. Now the Malay re- tin and who did much of the work gion far surpasses Brazil in rubber of clearing the jungles were not the native Malays, but Chinese. The latr output, partly because its plantations are readily accessible to railter came to the region in large numroads and seaports, while Brazils bers, and now make up about of the Malay States popularubber trees are far inland in wild tion of some 4,000,000. country. It was no easy job to clear mile d The Malays, short, after mile of underbrush and with straight black and thick-se- t, trees from the Malay jungles So hair, are a clever people, but like that plantations could be developed. many of hot countries, residents Snakes and wild animals tigers, elthey are not overly industrious. One ephants, buffaloes, and rhinoceroses reason is that food, clothing, and were a constant menace, and ab- shelter are not hard to obtain. Many original savages threw poisonous of the Malays wear only a jacket darts at the workers. Large jungle and a skirtlike sarong, live in clusareas, however, never have been ters of bamboo or thatched huts built cleared; some parts have not even on piles, and eat little besides rice been explored. and fish. Long before plantations were laid British Development. out to grow rubber, pineapples, and Development of the Malay States other tropical farm products, the been in the hands of the British has Peninsula was an important Malay since Sir Stamford Raffles, an ever source of tin. From its mines still comes about a third of the worlds Englishman who envisioned a great tin supply. Some of the tin cans future for the region, founded the in your kitchen cupboard were port of Singapore in 1819. Its site made from this Malayan ore, for on an island at the southern tip of the United States mines virtually no the peninsula yas then part of the jungle, but now Singapore has grown tin. into a colorful, cosmopolitan city, Tin From Mountains. The tin ore is found in the heavily one of the worlds leading ports. Its importance as a shipping cenwooded mountain ranges which rise like a backbone along the Malay ter is derived from its situation. two-fift- hs brown-skinne- 60-fo- ot Resources of Nature Offer Opportunity For Unlimited Production in United States 9 By WHEELER McMILLEN (Ur. UeUilten is president ot the National Farm Chemurgic Council, which has as its ob- jective the advancement of the industrial use ot American farm products through applied science. Ho explains below some of the principles of chemurgy in relation to the future of tbs United States.) There is a single fact in science that has far reaching significance for the future of the United States. 1 refer to the fact that of the entire composition of nearly every plant growth, whether it be a pumpkin, an ear of com, or a walnut tree, roughly 98 per cent of the substance is manufactured by nature from at- mosphere and moisture. Only about 2 per cent, onthe average, is actually extracted from the soil. In other words, the resources we say are derived from the soil are actually derived, by the miraculous action of sunshine, from the atmosphere and moisture. Within the borders of the United States may be found nearly every known combination of the attributes of plant growth of temperature, of soil characteristics, of rainfall and humidity, of altitude and length or intensity of sunlight. We have air and rain and sunshine available in illimitable and inexhaustible quantities. The significance of this fact is that there need be absolutely no upper limit to the potential production of the United States, except the limit imposed by human ignorance of how to take full advantage of the INDUSTRY NEEDS MACHINE TOOLS Lathes, Chucks, Drills, Presses, Milling Machines, Grinders. Help yourself and National Production by giving us complete description, lowest price, serial number of your idle machines. We will pay cash or trade. laws of nature. These superabundant possibilities for the production of raw materials from air, moisture, sunshine and soil, are unlike those of mineral production. Conceivably the stores of wealth nature had deposited underground may in some distant century become exhausted, or become too inaccessible for economical use. Plant growth, on the other hand, is renewable, usually annually, with each cycle from seed to harvest. Within the Twentieth century, two important new tools have been developed for the utilization of our plant raw materials. The art of the organic chemist, a Twentieth century art, has added enormous importance to plant substances as industrial raw materials. With this art crops need no longer be regarded merely as sources of clothing and shelter. The chemical industries take the crops for their cellulose, proteins, starches, sugars, and oils, and convert these compounds into innumerable superuse. ior products for every-da- y the chemist is Alongside organic the plant geneticist, with his art of improving plants for specific purposes. He has made it possible for the first time to grow crops to industrial specifications, as is actually being done with cotton, soybeans and other plants. food, Ships traveling between the Pacific and the Indian oceans pass it. Singapores wharves handle not only Malay rubber and tin the latter is smelted in the city but the riches of the Netherlands Indies and Thailand. The British have fortified the port as their largest foreign naval base. Fatal Horse Malady Studied for Effect On Human Beings New fears that horse sleeping sickness, which has already killed tens of thousands of American horses, may also be transmissible to human beings were indicated in reports of a recent study by the American Foundation for Animal Health. The reports are based on deaths in Minnesota, Texas, and Eastern seaboard states, in areas where equine encephalomyelitis (sleeping sickness) has been prevalent. In one of tiie eastern states two individuals who were handling horses afflicted with sleeping sickness were stricken with a disease that was identified as human encephalomyelitis. One man died and the other recovered. ,rx In 1938 a number of acute cases were reported among children along the East coast, with an extremely Examinahigh rate of mortality. tions revealed the presence of a virus which was believed to be the eastern strain of horse sleeping , sickness. This was followed in the same year by the discovery of human cases of equine encephalomyelitis in Minnesota. These, however, were traced to a different strain of the virus, the western strain. Still later, similar reports were received from the Pacific coast and this year fresh reports ot cases in human encephalitis have; come from Minnesota, Texas, and other states. As a result, authorities are warning that horse sleeping sickness may be transmissible to man, although they are unwilling to say that this is definitely the case. In fact, horse sleeping sickness is still It kills a highly baffling disease. thousands upon thousands of valuable horses every year, yet veterinary scientists are still not sure of the exact means by which it is transmitted. They believe it is passed on by the bites of mosquitoes and other insects. The only known protection for horses, to date, is by immunization. This, year veterinarians are vaccinating horses against the disease with a new concentrated form of a vaccine developed from chick embryos, and report better than 95 per cent immunity in field usage. However, vaccination of this type should be done before a horse is stricken by the disease, it is said. Authorities are urging that in areas where horse sleeping-sicknesis raging, persons working with horses should exercise care in handling the animals, and should be particularly watchful against mosquitoes and other biting insects. s Osborne Machinery Company Fifth and Harrison SHIRLEY TEMPLE ated three new characters Doctor Carrot, Clara Carrot and Carroty George, to be used in a drive to get the people of England to eat more carrots! Young women workers in the Worthy Tests What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love. Bishop Westcott. ftxrfhi na- tions Capitol are about to be glorified on the screen; evidently the same idea hit several studios at once. Paramounts version, of the life and times of the young ladies I will be called Washington Escapade. Metro bought a story called White House Girl, by Ruth Finney, wife of a newspaper man. Every so often somebody has to screen Rex Beachs The Spoilers. It was done in 1925 with William Farnum and Tom Sanchey staging the fist fight that made it famous. Paramount did it in 1930 with Gary Cooper. Now Universal will make it once again this time with Randolph Scott and John Wayne in the roles, and Marlene Dietrich as the heroine. San Francisco PITH At tho first sign of a cold, make up your mind to avoid as much of the sniffling, sneezing, soreness and stuffy condition of your nostrils as possible. Insert Mentholatum In each nostril. Also rub vigorously on your chest. Youll it be with the way Mentholatumdelighted combats cold misery and helps restore comfort. Jars or tubes, 30c. MEN.THOUATUM he-m- an Another re-ma- ke scheduled for the near future is Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, which was last made by Paramount, in 1934, with W. C. Fields, Pauline Lord and ginia Weidler. This time little lyn Lee will be the child lead. Thread to Cable Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we can not break it. Horace Mann. Vir- Caro- That wont be just gibberish that you hear the actors speaking in RKOs Valley of the Sun; its really Apache. Producer Graham Baker hired Chief Chris Willowbird to make phonograph records in which each speech was spoken first in English, then in Apache. Then James Craig, Antonio Moreno, Tom Tyler and other members of the cast settled down to study the records. If you suffer from monthly cramps, headaohe, backache, nervousness and distress of Irregularities caused b; functional monthly disturbances try Lydia Plnkhams famous for Vegetable Compound relieving pain and nervous feelings of women's "difficult days. Taken regularly Lydia Plnkhams Compound helps build up resistance against such annoying symptoms. Follow label directions. TRYING I WORTH Elizabeth Bergner, one of the most famous European actresses to work in Hollywood, has just com- WNU W 4941 pleted the first of her films to be made. Its Paris Calling, a story Judgments and Watches of the betrayal and fall of France. Tis with our judgments as with Miss Bergners European pictures our watches; none go just alike, Esr yet each believes his own. Pope. include Catherine the Great, cape Me Never, and Dreaming Lips. She became famous as one of Europes leading stage figures before she made pictures. The movies are an old story to Frances Robinson; at the age of four she played Lillian Gish as a . child in Orphans of the Storm. More recently, she appeared in Smiling Through. Now shes left pictures for the radio; shes the giddy debutante in the airs version of the delightful My Man Godfrey. A girl is in Alexandria, Va., getting background material for a murder trial. Shes the daughter of Jane Crusinberry, who writes radios The Story of Mary Marlin, now in its eighth year. Mrs. Crusinberry is a stickler for accuracy, and the dramatized trial takes place in Alexandria, so young Jane was sent off with a candid camera and a notebook to help her mother out. May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action Modern life with Its harry and worry. Irregular habits, improper eating and its risk of exposure and infecdrinking tion throws heavy strain on the work of the kidneys. They are apt to become over-taxe- d and fail to filter excess acid and other impurities from the blood. 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