Nebraska Newspapers

    MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1938.
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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
Ihe Plattsmouth Journal
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FOUR SKELETONS FOUND
SEALED WITHIN TREE
LONDON, (UP) A mystery of
the jungle is disclosed in the Col
onial Office's report on the state of
Brunei, Borneo, for 193G.
The bones of about four persons
were found completely enclosed in an
artificial cavity in the living trunk
of a ttee. The tree, which was about
four feet in diameter, had fallen in
the ordinary course of nature when
the discovery was made by a sawyer.
The age cf the bor.es was estimated
at about 50 years, and an examina
tion of the tree suggested that not
less than 50 nor more than 100 years
a po a panel of six feet in length had
been removed from a side of the tree
and the heart hollowed out to contain
the bones, the panel being: then re
placed and redrafted on the tree
a irain.
MEN RISK LIVES TO SAVE
CAT ON 4C0-FT.
CLIFF
LONDON (I'lM On his way home
one night Fred Burrage, of North
Devon, heard a cat meowing from
t10 400-foot Watermouth Cliffs. It
was dark and he could see nothing,
to he went home to bed.
ile lay awake, however, thinking
of the animal's plight, and in the
early hours he roused two neigh
bors and took them to the cliffs with
him.
They lowered him down the cliffs
in tho darkness and. after a search,
he found the eat stranded on a ledge
1:00 feet down and brought it to
safety.
WORKER AT SAW ESCAPES
INJURY THROUGH 37 YEARS
nUKMERTOX, Wash. (UP) Rear
Admiral K. B. Fenner, 13th naval
district commandant, paid honor to
George Seit'ert, 60, millman in Puget
Sound navy yard's boat and joiner
shop.
"I wish to congratulate you upon
the good record you have establish
ed," said Admiral Fenner. "Your
record for 37 years you have been
here is wholly without adverse com
ment or criticism."
Seifert completed his life of labor
at the saw with all his fingers in
tact on both hands.
TOWN HAS 143 EXILES
MANSFIELD. O. (UP) One hun
dred forty-three former Mansfield
ians are in "exile" from their home
city. Their alleged crimes, on file
in municipal court, condemn them
to immediate arrest should they ever
return to Richland county. Crimes
listed range from murder to trapping
1'ur-bearing animals out of season.
None on the list ever have been lo
cate! DINNER FLOWN 1,500 MILES
ADELAIDE. Australia (UP) The
guests of a hotel at Katherine, in the
far "outback" Northern Territory of
Australia, rat a Sunday dinner which
is ilown 1.500 miles to them. The
hotel has arranged with an Ade
laide catering ilrm to supply the
necessary food by the regular plane
that calls at Katherine.
HOSPITAL SERVES CITY WELL
PASEDENA. Cal. ( UP) Since the
Pasadena Emergency hospital was
opened here in 1923 a total num
ber of patients, exceeding the popu
lation of the city, has been taken care
of there. The hospital has received
102,010 accident cases alone.
CANADA HUGE METAL EXPORTER
OTTAWA, Out. (UP) Led by
nicel and platinum, Canada supplies
approximately 25 per cent of the
world's output of the eight major
metals, according to a statistical re
port released by the Bank of Canada.
Canada exports 23 per cent of its
base metal output.
PALESTINE POPULATION RISES
JERUSALEM (UP) The popula
tion of Palestine increased by about
4,000 to 1,320,872 iu the third quar
ter of 1937, according to the current
bulletin of vital statistics. The in
crease, was partly due to seasonal
migration.
SOPHOMORES CALLED WORST
COLLEGE "CLASS CUTTERS"
TROY, N. Y. (UP) Sophomores
are the greatest offenders in "class
cutting" at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Dr. Ray Palmer Raker,
assistant director, reports.
"Generally speaking," he said, "the
"the freshman is too timid to risk
it (cutting classes), the junior feels
a little too grown up, and the
senior, now deeply in love with his
alma mater, sees his last year pass
ing altogether too fast to deny her
any time."
A "follow-up system" which stops
cutting before it becomes a habit has
kept absentees at an unusually low
average at It. P. I., Dr. Baker announced.
HUNTER KILLS WOLVES
FROM SPEEDING ICE SLED
WARROAD, Minn. (UP) The
latest fad in wolf hunting is shoot
ing them on the run from the door
of a speeding air propeller ice sled.
The practice was started on the
Lake of the Woods by Charlie
Springsteel. Equipped with skis, the
sled is more than a match for the
fastest wolf. It is capable of up to
GO miles an hour.
Wolf bounties ($6 for cubs and
$15 for full-grown animals) make
this form of hunting profitable, too.
Springsteel fires at the wolves by
holding his gun in one hand, while he
steers the sled with the other.
E0LT PISTOL INVENTED
TO SLAUGHTER ANIMALS
VANCOUVER, B. C. (UP) A
"captive-bolt pistol" which may revo
lutionize present methods of killing
animals in slaughter houses will be
demonstrated here by Inspector
George Hood of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
before a group of city officials.
The pistol fires a bolt, which pene
trates the brain of the animal, caus
ing instant death, and then recoils
into the barrel. The weapon, which
is in the hands of the S. P. C. A.,
was manufactured in England.
BALLOT FRAUD TO COST
5-10 YEARS IN PRISON
UTICA, N. Y. (UP) Because he
registered under assumed names in
eight election districts, George Flans
burg, Utica painter, must spend the
next 5 to 10 years in prison. lie was
found guilty after testifying that he
was intoxicated and ciid not know
what he was doing.
EREAD BAKED IN COLORS
CLEVELAND (UP) Colored
bread that adds a bright touch to
bridge parties and luncheons, and
tends to make children's school
lunuhcs more tempting, is baked by
two brothers, joint owners of a
bakery here.
SHERIFF SPREADS TEARS
BRIGHTON, Colo. (UP) Guests
at a Business and Professional Wom
en':? card party went home in tears
here when Sheriff Louis G. Ballard
accidentally dropped a tear gas bomb
from bin pocket in the lobby of the
Elks club, where the party was held.
MINE MULE KICKS' OFF
WALENBURG, Colo. (UP) Paul
Martinez has decided to "drive" his
mule from a different vantage point
after being kicked in the face. Mar
tinez was driving the mule in the
Maitland mine when the mule balked
and "let fly" with both feet.
TAELES TURNED ON JUNKMAN
SANTA CRUZ, Cal. (UP) Robert
Sheffer increased considerably his
stock of junk when hi3 auto-trailer,
laden with junk, crashed a guard
rail and ran away. The trailer was
added to the junk pile after that.
WILL SEEK RE-ELECTION
DES. MOINES, la., Feb. 1 (UP)
Governor Nelson G. Kraschel ended
speculation over his political aspir
ations today by announcing he will
seek the democratic nomination for
re-election for a second term as gov
ernor of Iowa.
FLOOD BLAMED FOR COM
PANY'S $2.35 IN
'RED'
PUEBLO, Colo., (UP) The mys
tery of a $2.35 shortage in the ac
counts of a creamery here which ap
peared in May 1915, has been cleared
up, but the shortage will continue to
exist.
When the lock op the strong box
in the safe at the creamery needed
repairs, it was necessary to remove
the box from the safe. A faded check
for ?2.35 dated May 15, 1915, was
found stuck to the top of the little
! iron box.
The check had apparently slipped
through a small slit at the top of
the box where it lay from 1915 to
June of 1921 when the Hood came
and the safe was under water. The
water covered the chcL-k and left it
stuck fast to the metal when it dried.
The check is faded but plainly visible.
To cash the check, it would be
necessary to take the strong box to
the bank.
! LASE TO RUN IN PENN
CLUB INDOOR MEET
PHILADELPHIA (UP) Donald
R. Lash, Indiana distance runner,
was entered the indoor invitation
track and field carnival to be held
i in Convention Hall, Feb. 11, accord
ing to Lawson Robertson.
Robertson, who is manager of the
indoor meet sponsored by the Bonn
Athletic Club, said Iash probably
1 .-1.1 . . 4- C.i ili.. c- i A r 1
WUUU irompciu in nil.- iii..-o-..iivi-.jui.
race of about u mile distance.
Lash, holder of American records
of two miles, three miles, four miles:
and 5,000 meters will vie with other
stellar runners such as Glenn Cun-
I ninjr'iam, Archie San Romani. John
1 Woodruff and Gene Yenzke, who have
been invited to appear.
PILGRIM FATHER SHAFT
MISPLACED BY 7 MILES
NOR WELL, Mass. (UP) A monu
ment purchased SO years ago to mark
the grave of a Pilgrim father is
seven mile.? from his burial place
and in another town.
Selectman Herbert A. Lincoln says
the monument, erected in Hingham.
was abandoned in Norwell en route
to Siituate when ox-cart teamsters
found the load too heavy. lie says
his uncle. Selectman W. Irving Lin
coln of Scituate, may have the
monument provided Xorwell is paid
for upkeep and transpotration costs.
HERALDRY COLLEGE ERRS
021 KANGAROO'S TAIL
MELBOURNE (UP) An English
steamship line operating here, as a
centenary gesture, had its coat of
arms revamped by the College of
Heraldry, and as a further gesture
to Australia had a kangaroo includ
ed in the new bearings.
Now Australians complain that the
College of Heraldry evidently never
saw a kangaroo as they got the
beast's tail entirely wrong.
JUDGE UPHOLDS RIGHT
TO BET IN CARD PLAY
BOSTON, (UP) Municipal Judge
Joseph Donovan has upheld the right
to play cards for money.
"People have a right to play cards
for money, so long as thev are nt in
a place that is a gambling nuisance
and regularly re. oiled to as -such,"
he ruled in dismissing charges against
1G defendants
ROCKING OF BABIES HALTED
LONDON (UP) Mothers can no
longer rock their babies in West
Middlesex hospital and they are com
plaining. Since the maternity wards
were opened eery bed has had a
tiny swing cot close beside it so that
mothers were able to rock their
babies. But in all the wards now the
cot:j have been wedged so that they
cannot be rocked.
SURGERY SEEMS PAINLESS
LUBBOCK, Tex. (UP) A Lubbock
man wat.-hed a surgeon remove a
goiter from around his windpipe, and
said he felt no pain, altho no anes
thetic wan administered. He did not
even flinch" when the muscles and
skin were sutured after the oper
ation. FARM FOOD SURVEYED
TOPEKA, Kas. (UP) The typ
ical farm family buys $38 of food
stuff each year and produces its own
food to the extent of $50 a member,
a survey by Printer's Ink Monthly
reveals.
PASADENA PERFUME-MINDED
PASADENA, Ca!. ( UP) The
board of supervisors is considering
a project for the growing of com
mercial perfume plants in Southern
California.
CORNELL OPENS GRID
COACHING SCHOOL IN JUNE
ITHACA, N. Y. (UP) A six-day
coach ing school on the modern meth
ods of football training will be con
ducted by Coach Carl G. Snavely and
Trainer Frank Kavanagh of Cornell
University this summer.
The school, which is expected to
attract student coaches throughout
the cast, will be in session from June
27 to July 2.
The course will present intensive
study 01 the techniques developed by
the Corne'l stall and other outstand
ing coaches of the country, and will
include a practical consideration of
the care and treatment of athletic
injuries.
Snavely directed two training
schools while head football coach at
North Carolina University, and was
! football technician during one sum
mer in the Marshall College and Vir
ginia coaching srchool.
WOODEN COINS EAGERLY
TAKEN BY COLLECTOR
RIPON, Wis. (UP) Math J. Lau
dof took some wooden nickels, but
it was only to gratify an obsession
for collecting oddities that has made
his Peebles farm home a virtual
museum.
He has gathered 3.000 books,
specializing in state and federal pub
lications, but never reads them. Row
upon row of whisky bottles from
different parts of the world line the
upper hallway of his home, but the
master of the place "does not drink
a drop" of intoxicating liquor.
"I just collect the junk for the
fun of it," Laudoff explains.
He is in his middle 40s, but so
far hasn't "collected" a wife be
cause, he says, he hasn't "had time."
PLUMS IN SASKATCHEWAN
FLOURISH DESPITE COLD
DEGINA, Sask. (UP) Plums real
juicy ones grow north of latitude 53
in Saskatchewan.
James Watt Meteor, Saskatchewan
farmer, has thorn to prove it. Several
years .vo "Watt bought plum pits from
r.n agriculture college. Bv 1032 his
trees were bearing fruit. Now he
harvests a plum crop as large and
lurious as any harvested in British
Columbia. So heavy is the yield that
it pull.; down the brandies of the
trees where plums never grew be
fore. BOATMAN BURNS CRAFT.
HOPING TO END JINX
RODEO. Cal. (UP) Glen Hilton.
Sacramento boatman, knows when
he's had enough. When his motor
boat beached here, he got out,
drenched it with gasoline, and toss
ed in a match.
"Let it alone," he shouted to
would-be rescuers. "It's bad luck.
It nearly killed nie a couple of times."
The boat burned to water's edge.
DOG EARNS $350 A SECOND
LONDON (UP) A dog which was
bought for $10,000, Ralleyhennessy
Sandhills, won for his owner, Mrs.
(Varna, of Wimbledon, $10,000 in
29.39 seconds. The dog won that sum
in the Whit" City 500-yard event.
For every yard he ran he earned $20,
or ?35 0 a second.
WATER SURVEY BY PLANE
OTTAWA. Out. (UP) Airplanes
have bein used to speed up a sur
vey of water resources in the west
ern drought areas, according to a
report published by the Royal
Canadian Air Force. Two Air Force
planes were sent to photograph some
of the worst sections.
TOWN'S FIRE SIREN FREEZES
! ARROWHEAD, Alta. (UP) Ar-
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I Ul'. lit'illl 13 11UL it t'l V lilJC IU u
winter. When the home of Albert
Siinmie caught fire no alarm could be
sounded and the building was a
total loss. The town lire siren froze.
JOBLESS YOUTH BUILDS AUTO
CLEVELAND (UP) Laddie Can
ker, 22-ycar-oId jobless machinist,
built his "Canker Special" a long,
low and swanky-looking multi-make
automobile with $200 and two
years of work.
CAPE TOWN HAS 300,330
CAPE TOWN (UP)- The popula
tion of Cape Town grew from 293,
180 in 193C to 300,330 in 1937, ac
cording to statistics issued by the
Medical Officer of Health.
SCOOTERS RACE "DOWN UNDER"
WOY WOY, Australia (UP) In a
five-mile scooter race here, the win
ner attained an average speed of
11 Vz miles an hour, covering the dis
tance in 2 6 minutes.
RIVER PEARLING DOOMED
TO BE LOST INDUSTRY
PRAIRIE DU CilEIN, Wis. (UP)
Martin Blazek is the sole survivor
of an industry that once flourished
in the upper reaches of the Missis
sippi river.
Blazek can remember the days
when the river was "full of clam
boats" and thousands of dollars in
pearls and shells were taken from
the muddy bottom of the channel
yearly.
Now Blazek is the only "clammer"
still in the business and business
is not so good, lie admits.
"There's still a living to be made
at the trade, though," he maintains.
"I earn from $2 to $3 a day from
sale of my shells, and once in a
while I find a pearl."
Blazek said he found two pearls
recently. One he sold for $16 and
the other brought only $3. He said
that a few years ago they would have
been worth $150 each.
"This business does have its ad
vantages," he said. "There isn't any
competition."
HUNTERS RESCUE DOGS
FROM TREACHEROUS ICE
AM HER ST BURG, Out. (UP)
Capt. Charles Hackett and Herbert
Courtney, 17, are heroes.
They risked their Jives on the
treacherous ice of the Detroit river
to rescue two hunting clogs from a
drifting ice floe. The dogs, caked
with ice and almost frozen to death,
were sighted by Courtney drifting
down the middle of the stream on a
huge block of ice.
Courtney and Hackett ran across
the ice, pushing a rowboat until
they reached open water, where they
finally overtook the drifting floe and
rescued the ice-clad canines.
WHY ATHLETES PAST 30
ARE OLD, IS EXPLAINED
CLEVELAND (UP) A highly
technical reason fcr loss of athletic
agility by persons passing the age of
30 was advanced here by Dr. Virgil
Hallidav. anatomy instructor in the!
Still College of Osteopathy, of Des
Moines.
Lack cf outstanding athletes over
the "nucleus palpostis ot tlie inter
vertebral disk," he told a meeting of
Ohio osteopaths.
These elastic disks lose their
sponginess in persons past 30 there
by reducing the pleasure of ex.ercise
as well as agility, he said.
DYNAMITE UNDER BED
NEVER WORRIES SLEEPER
MONTREAL (UP) Sleeping with
dynamite under the bid is common
place to Mrs. J. O. B. Petersen of
Montreal.
Mrs. Petersen has spent the sum
mer in Greenland with her husband
since 1931 and in the primitive con
ditions of an Eskimo settlement slept
in a one-room house which also
functions as a storehouse.
The dynamite had to be protected
from freezing, "so we put it under
the bed," she said.
TOWN HAS ENGAGEMENT BOOK
ELLSWORTH, Me. (UP) This
town has established a "community
engagement book." The book has
been placed in .Fred Scott's store.
Any group planning a public enter
tainment enters it on the scheduled
date. Other groups will then know
that this date has been taken and
conflicting dates will be avoided.
W0YMING RAISES SHEEP BAR
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UP) A spe
cial quarantine proclamation issued
by Gov. Leslie Miller of Wyoming
prevents South Dakota sheep from
being shipped into Wyoming before
they have been dipped in a special
disease-killing solution.
MOUNTAIN APPLES THRIFTY
LINDSAY, Cal. (UP) Mountain
apples are a heavy crop in the or
chard of the J. E. Garner ranch near
here. An example of heavy bearing
was found when three dozen perfect
ly formed apples hung from a three-foot-long
branch:
THIEVES DUPE DEATH WATCH
LEBANON, Mo. (UP) Thieves
took advantage of a death watch
over the body of Mrs. Artemissa
Mizer and stole a flock of Buff Or
pington chickens. Persons in the
house heard a noise outside but did
uot investigate.
MASKED BOB WHITE RETURNS
TUCSON, Ariz. (UP) The masked
bob white which was exterminated
in Arizona 40 years ago is staging
a comeback under the watchful eye
of the U. S. forest service.
LOYALISTS TAKE OFFENSIVE
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, Feb 5 (UP) An official com
munique said today that loyalist
forces taking the offensive to Granada
province in the southwest had cap
tured a key hill.
In the Estramadura sector it was
announced the nationalists attacked
Mounts Santa Maria and Miron, oc
cupying the latter. The insurgents
were repulsed elsewhere, the com
munique said. Rebel air raids con
tinued along the western MediteY
ranean coast taking a large toll of
civilian casualties.
LENS TO BE "ALUMINIZED"
INSTEAD OF SILVER COATED
PASADENA, Cal. (UP) Experts
at the California Institute of Tech
nology have decided that the 200
inch telescope mirror now being per
fected there will be "aluminized" in
stead of silverized, as has generally
been done in the past. Dr. John
Strong of the Institute's faculty has
developed a method of vaporizing
aluminum atoms on the reflecting
side of the big "eye" which will
leave a film cf only four-milliouths
of an inch thick.
LITIGATION MAY DOOM
HOUSE BUILT IN 1G50
WEYMOUTH, Mass. (UP) The
oldest house in Weymouth, built in
1G50 by a son of the town's first set
tler, soon may be razeu.
A 15-rocm building, the house was
modernized 40 years ago, Lut still
retains hand-hewed beams, wooden
pegs in place of nails and hand
wrought hardware.
The house was ordered sold by the
court because cf litigation over set
tlement of an estate.
BANANA EATER BOASTS
52 DOWNED IN 20 MIN.
SYDNEY (UP) The addition of
a banana eating contest to the next
Olympic games would enable Aus
tralia to make a still greater Olym
pic showing, it is believed here.
Mcrvyn Walmsley of Coraki
just broken his previous record for
banana eating by disposing of 52 in
20 minutes. The first 25 were eaten
in 5 minutes.
All cf the bananas were evenly
graded ranging from 6', 2 to 7 inches
in length.
PEACEFUL SMOKE ENDS
IN SHATTERING BLAST
REGINA, Sask. (UP) George
Lowry, town constable of Woodrow,
Sask., filled his briar pipe and settled
back, in his chair for a peaceful
smoke.
Suddenly a loud blast shattered
his pipe, scattering ashes, tobacco
and bits of pipe around the room.
Constable Lowry had somehow
misplaced a bullet and stuffed it in
his pipe with the tobacco.
MUCH-PUBLICIZED PHEASANT
SHOT DOWN BY HUNTER
MONSON, Mass. (UP) Gone are
the car-chasing days of East Hill's
cock pheasant, but its death, unlike
that of many a car-chasing dog, re
sulted from the blast of a hunter's
gun.
The bird's habit of chasing auto
mobiles made it the subject of pic
tures and articles in sports maga
zines. TAX COLLECTING TRAVELING JOB
CARSON CITY, New (UP) It
takes traveling to collect taxes in
Nevada. Liquor Tax Inspector Wil
liam Kelly Klaus has revealed that
in the two and a half years he has
been in office he has traveled in tin;
line of duty SI, 000 miles, or a dis
tance equal to more than three times
around the world.
PIGEON SETS FIRE TO BARN
CANTON, N. Y. (UP) A pigeon
caused a fire which destroyed a
$3,000 barn 011 the farm of Fred
Scott, near here. The bird, fright
ened by Scott's entrance into the
barn at night, knocked a lantern
from his hand, setting fire to the
hay.
HERE'S RIP VAN WINKLE
PUEBLO, Colo. (UP) Rip Van
Winkle, a former resident of this
city, is a butcher in a Burbank, Cal.,
shop. He sold a turkey to Mrs. Mary
Christmas, who was visiting in Bur
bank. OLD WINE FOUND IN CAVE CITY
MOSCOW (UP) Wine distilled
four centuries ago has been discov
ered in Georgia in the Soviet Cau
casus during excavations at Vardzie.
a "skyscraper cave city" cn the shore
J of the turbulent river Kura.
BLIND OHIO PENSIONER
GETS MONEY FOR DOG
DES MOINES, la. (UP) The
state of Iowa carries the "seeing eye"
dog of one of its blind pensioners
on the books at $2 a month.
That amount is added to the pen
sioner's check each month for support
of the dog.
Mrs. Bessie Regcl, director of the
blind pension fund, did not disclose
the pensioner's name.
GIRLS TRY "DISCIPLINE MONTH'
BERLIN (UP) A "month of dis
cipline" is being organized for mem
bers of the German Girls' Acsocia-
(ion at Had Oeynhausen. The local
leader of the association has decreed
that all members must attend meet
ings every night for a month to take
a course which includes training in
deportment and in the art cf wear
ing clothes.
DEAN READY FOR RELEASE
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 5 (UP)
Dr. Conley Sanford said today that
the Rev. Israel II. Noe whose 22-day
fast ended when he collapsed on
January 24 was in condition to leave
Baptist hospital.
Noe when admitted to the hospital
for intravenous feeding weighed only
100 pounds. Today he weighed 137
and was eating toliJ foods.
SHOOS THE HOUSE
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 5
(UP) Patrolman Henry Wkkcnbcrg
was ordered to investigate a report
of a disturbance at an address on Col
fax Avenue North, last night. Ho
returned with the following:
"No disturbance. A fat lady just
rolled over in bed and shook the
house."
RECREATIONAL LITERACY
STRESSED BY WPA DIRECTOR
NEW ORLEANS (UP) "Recrea
tional illiteracy" is more dangerous
than intellectual illiteracy, John
j Zimmerman, director of the WPA re
has 'creational division for Louisiana, said
in a talk here. WPA clients are
! taught to dance, as we ll as to paint.
sing and participate in athletics.
DOGS TO BE INOCULATED
EL CENTRO, Cal. (UP) With
the constant danger of epidemics of
rabies being started by dogs that
have been bitten by coyotes, a sys
tem of dog clinics is being establish
ed throughout the Imperial valley
where all dog and pet owners can
have their animals inoculated against
rabies.
CHERRY PITS IRK U. S.
BOISE CITY, Ida. (UP) Because
more than one cherry pit for every
20 ounces of cherries was found in a
shipment of 10S cases here labeled
"Pitted Sour Cherreis," federal au
thorities attached the entire lot as
misbranded in violation of the drug
and food act.
SAFE ROBBERS WORK HARD
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (UP)
Burglars pried looso a 150-pound
safe buried 2 inches in concrete and
took the vault and contents away
with them when they
mid-Hudson river oil
bu rglarized
company.
APPLE MEASURES 15 INCHES
HUDSON, N. Y. (UP) An apple
measuring 15Vt inches in circum
ference was exhibited by Nathan
Larry, of Stuyvcsant Falls. Larry
jsaid he found the apple in his father's
orchard.
CITY'S CANNON DISAPPEARS
TWIN FALLS, Ida. (UP) A state
wide search has been ordered for a
300 pound cannon that formerly
graced the city park. It was a relic
cf the Spanish-American war.
BAY STATE PORT OF FISHING MEN
BOSTON (UP) Although New
England once rated the fishing in
dustry as a mainstay, it is now esti-
maieu mat 0 per cent of the
men
fish out of Massachusetts ports.
CANADA MISSES SLUMP
MONTREAL (UP) Canadian
business is holding up veil in spite
of low purchasing power in western
drouth areas, according to the last
report of the Bank of Montreal.
STEER STRANDED IN TREE
SANTA P.O.? A. Cal. (UP) The
Northern California fioodj kft a
ctctr stranded in a tree 70 feet above
the ground, and a 700-pound rock
lodged in another.