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Western Australia Now in Spotlight Breaks With Commonwealth by Two to One Vote. Washington. ? At the polls and at her gold mines western Australia's ac tivities have drawn the spotlight of news. With the deflniteness of a two to one referendum she hus recently proclaimed her secession from the commonwealth, suggesting the first break In the confederation of the six Australian states that has existed for 32 years. Although authorities maintain that the action can have little effect, he cause there is no governmental ma chinery allowing any state to with draw. yet western Australia's protest has been made. An outburst of gold fever, too, Inspired by the present high prices of that metnl. has awak ened new nctlvlty at .her one-time boom mines. "Western Australia, comprising ap proximately one-third of the whole island continent, has made rapid strides in its century of development," says a bulletin from the National (ieo graphic society. "Especially during the last half century, it lias seen sig nificant progress, yet vast areas in Its 975.020 square tulles are desert and waste land. Had Boom Like California. "(Jo1 "lining gave the land Its first boom. . ih.oorlle, Coolsnrdle, Kimber ley, and other gold fields poured mil lions Into the world's cotYers. In 1003. when It reached its highest point, western Australia produced $4.'l,0o0,000 worth of the precious metal. In 37 yenrs of its greatest activity, its mines enriched the world's gold sup ply by *77.">tOOO.(XHl. "Kalgoorlle, with Its famous '<?old en Mile' and other nearby mines, mushroomed almost over night into a roaring camp, and became much like San Francisco In '51 or Dawson In '00. Former President Hoover, as a young mining engineer, once worked in this rich mining district, and suc cessfully put many 'sick mines' into profitable operation. "As gold production waned, west ern Australia, once known as 'the land of sin, sun, and sand,' became a new land of promise through its wheat fields, forests, and cattle and sheep grazing areas. Today, however, Kal goorlle is again taking on many of the aspects of a rip-roaring mining camp, and many of the 'swnggles' or 'sundowners' nre again plodding the sun-parched regions to set out new claims. A chemical syndicate is also reworking to a profit old tailings and poorer dirts. It is doubtful, however, that western Australia will ever again produce the quantities of gold that it once did, yet some of the old pros pectors are always hoplnp that they will one day strike it. rich. Important Wheat Region. "In less than a quarter century of agricultural development western Aus tralia Increased her export of wheat from $35 to $35,(00,000 Of the slight ly more tjian four and three-quarter million acres of land now under cul tivation, nearly four million acres are devoted to the growing of wheat, with a recent yield of more than 53,500,000 bushels. "On inor? barren areas graze more than 9,800,000 head of sheep and 800, 000 cattle. The wool clip furnishes the largest export next to gold and wheat. "The cities nlong the west const aro not large. Perth, the capital, has only a little more than 200, (XX) popula tion. Many of the others live only by virtue of their position as exert ing centers for the cattle and sheep country. Broome, along the northern part of the coast, Is one of the most Interesting because of the fact that It Is one of the few 'Asiatic' towns lu the 5)8 per .cent British-born popu lation of Australia. There live many Japanese, Chinese, Malays, Filipinos, and Koepnngers from Timor, who. are engaged in the pearl and pearl shell Industry. "Western Australia may well feel a certain Independence from the rest of Australia because she is more or less Isolated by a grent desert region 500 miles wide and l.(XX) miles long. Air services and the transcontinental train system with Its branches, how Berlin Drug Store Is 275 Year* Old , Berlin. ? Berlin's eldest drug store, v and one of the oldest In Eu rope, recently celebrated Its two hundrejl and seventy-flfth anniver sary. Among its famous customers have been Bismarck, "The Iron Chancellor"; Theodore Fontane, and the poet, Wllhelm Raabe. The shop Is the "Elnhorn Apo theke," In the heart of the old city. Through Its almost 300 years of history It has changed little In ap pearance.. The show-window dec oration remains pretty much as It always was, with fantastic old remedies, such as "Devil's Dirt," "Dragon Blood," and "Vitriol of Iron" still on display, If not much In demnnd. ever, do link up many of the towns In western Australia and bring them Into close communication with Can berra, the new capital, and cities on the eastern coast. "Despite the fact that the western province does have much barren waste land and In some cases has had to pump water through 3."0-mile lengths of pipe line, It does hold promise for grent development In the future for there are many areas still unexploited. Also, with a climate ranging from tropical to temperate, a fairly wide range of products can he grown successfully." Body That Opens Up Like a Book "The Body Book" In the Hull of Science at A Century of Progress In Chicago reveals the workings of the human body In sections, like opening up a huge book page by page. The spectator Is the operator of this visual medical wonder and every nerve, tissue, muscle, bone and organ passes before him like an Interesting adventure story. Cave May Link Indians to Asia Man Stalking Moose Makes Interesting Discovery. Edmonton, Altn. ? Deep 1 11 a weird solitude known as Dead Man's valley, where hot springs encotirnge exotic plant growths in odd contrasts to the firs and pines of the North, a trapper has found a cliff dwelling which may definitely link North American Indians with Mongol tribesmen. Fid Clausen, known as "The Lone Wolf of the liarrens," made the dis covery. While trailing a wounded moose he encountered a pathway down the face of a cliff. Turning down the path he came to a giant room cut from the rock, some 75 feet below the crest of the cliff and lf>0 feet above the val ley floor. An aperture permitted light to en ter the room. Clausen discovered a chlmncy cut through the rock to the upper surface of the cliff. Animals apparently had used the room as a Flyer Reports on Ruin* Under Dead Sea Surface San Francisco. ? An It. A. F. officer stationed at Abukir reports that while flying over the bay ho saw ruins be low the water, says the San Fran cisco Chronicle. Fisherman confirmed the existence of two groups of ruins, each comprising several columns. 1'rlnce Omar Toussoun undertook In vestigations with the help of a diver. Several columns were Identified . standing on the bottom In three fath oms of water and apparently of red granltfj, ''he diver brought up several ' ft(kd?nentl of stone^ one of which proved to he h finely chiseled head of Alexander the Great, apparently de signed *jt a wall adornment. An It. A. ^. officer sfaMohed at Am mail while flying over the 'sou'' part of the Dead sett sortie tittle . go distinctly saw a town lying beneath the water. The surface of the sea Is nsuaily ruffled and Covered With scum from submarine bitumen deposits, but oh this occasion It was exceptionally calm and clear. It Is surmised that the o'rlftlh 6t tTia story of the destruc tion of dodom and (loihorrah may here be r*teaTed. ? refuge and resting place for centuries. The trapper did no'; remain long In the place. Anxious to make his way t ick to camp, he did not take time to search for tools or Implements which might have heen left In the room. He did make an examination which as sured him that the room had been hewn from tho rock by humans, and was no natural formation. Prof. K. A. Corbett, of the Univer sity of Alberta, an authority on North American Indians, said that the dis covery might be of greatest Impor tance. It may substantiate a theory that Mongols left their Asiatic homes 20, 000 years ago, crossed the Hering straits, traveled to the Mackenzie riv er district, then spread southward along the eastern slope of the Kocky mountains to populate this continent with aboriginal tribesmen. Fate of France in Saar Waits on Vote in 1935 Paris. ? Two years hence, France will know the outcome of a wager in KING OF MARBLES Aaron RutHHh. of Summon. I'm., Kflatwl in regnl atiito on hlR throno n# king of th? marble fthootern aft er he hftd won the .national marble* champlomihlp held In the Hlnger ?ta dltrm, ()c?ftn City, N. J. '< volvlng billions of francs represented by her stake In the Saar valley. The 1935 plebiscite will determine whether the 7.'l8 square miles will he French territory, German, or whether the 780, (MX) Inhabitants remain under the League of Nation* Jurisdiction. French newspapers are filled with articles emphasizing the vital value to France of the Saar basin and calling upon the public to Interest themselves. The Saar, once regarded as the i "powder barrel of Kurope," today buys approximately two billion francs worth of French goods annually. Under the j Versailles treaty, France became sole j owner of the coal mines In the terri tory, but if the plebiscite results In a return to German rule, France stands to lose ber Saar trade, and likewise the preferential position of her indus trialists who have established them selves throughout the district. Militarily Snarbrucken. chief city of the district, is strategically Important as It Is a Junction point for six of the ten important railroads between Ger many and France. The present offl cial concern is due primarily to the re cent demonstrations by youthful Nazis at Snarbrucken, the government fear ing the population may vote for o change merely as a change. Trapper, 83 Year* Old, Says He Has No Future Ortonvllle, Mich. ? Ilenry Ftoden bough, an Oakland county trapper for 72 years, has decided that his vocation has no future. I "Hut I guess I'll stick with It until I'm a hundred years old and then re tire," Kodenbough, eighty three, said recently, lie set his first trap when eleven years old and caught marten, mink, gray fox, and muskrats. "Hut, of course, there is a lot of j fun to trapping. I had a trap line <15 miles long when I was a young man and 1 covered It every day." I)esplte his advanced age, Koden bough still covers a two-mile line dur ing the trapping season. During the depression, however, much of his time has been spent In explaining the In trlcncles of his trnde to unemployed men. Boy C?tch?i llu|? Fith Sarasota, Fin.? A fourteen-year old boy, Robert Hrundage of Columbus, Ohio, landed the heaviest tarpon In the annual tournnment here, when he gaffed ? 120-pounder. This Week / b Arthur Brisbane Our Armor Plate Gone More Pay for 1,000,000 The Laeh in England A Deadly Rat Army The chief Italian flyer, General Hal bo, with his moat Important pilots, lunched with president Roosevelt at the White House and wondered, perhaps, that such a big country should have such a little White House. They have bigger public buildings than that In Rome, and Mus solini Is building more of them. The polite Italians expressed de light at everything and added a wreath to the grave of the Unknown Soldier. General Balbo makes light of his countrymen's marvelous achievement, saying he was tired of flying over the Mediterranean and decided to stroll over to Chicago. Nevertheless, his is the most remarkable flight ever made, and one most important to the future I of aviation and of war. It Is as Important to this country as the invention of gunpowder was to the nobles that wore armor plate and. found that bullets would go through It. Our "armor plate" has been the | 1 ! Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and we j know now that fleets of airships can I fly over them. Approximately 1,000.000 workers In this country have had their salaries Increased, and. to a great extent, re stored to the 1020 pay level. The pay increases applied to 700.000 textile workers. This army of 1,000,000 with the old buying powers restored, and with the other millions to follow, accompanied by a more plentiful distribution of dollars, will,, under wise management, settle the depression problem. Trail ing the gold standard for good times is a good trade. When the British dislike anything, they try to get rid of it. Two young Britishers, fii^t of the kind In that country, confessed recently to rob bery with sa wed-off shotguns. Impor tation of the American idea displeased the British Judges. They sentenced the young men to long terms In prison, but first each young gentleman was lashed with the cat-o-nine-tnils. When the lashings were over, both were understood to remark that they would do no more robbing with sawed-off shotguns. The cat-o-nine-tails destroyed the glamour of crime. In this country, when we don't like anything, we talk about it. Every -possible misfortune appears to attack the unfortunate Chinese, j Now a frightful plague of rats sweeps ; the southern part of the province of Anhwel, in Eust Centra) China. The rats have polluted the water supply and threaten famine, while na tives appeal for outside help, unable to fight the swarms of vermin. Even this government might be in terested, for a rat plague means other plagues, such as Asiatic cholera, and such things sometimes travel far and rapidly. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, appointed by President Roosevelt to help regulate wages, hours and other working con ditions, appears to be a rugged sort of person, using rugged English. When certain "best minds" object to his plans for restoring general prosper ity, he doesn't say that they repre sent "a doubtless highly conscientious element devoted to constitutional niceties." He calls them "the chiselling fringe," and warns them to "stop chiselling." The British reaching out for busi ness are perfecting an agreement with Russia, under which ltusslan pur chases will be Increased in England, especially purchases of heavy machin ery. Russia Is canceling her business with Germany. Stalin does not like Mr. Hitler's denunciation of Commu nism. Spain, It Is said, will recognize Rus sia and endeavor to do business with that country. Five Americans, arrested !n Spain for an alleged fight with the civil guard, are amazed because such n fuss is made about it. "Why, in New York, that would be Just a night court matter." Many Americans would be surprised to know the respect with which law and Its representatives are treated In Europe. There crime Is taken seri ously and the kidnaping or "snatch ing" Industry doesn't even exist. Eu rope believes that the public should I set the example of respect for law. In Paris, Doctor Calmetta, scien tist of the Pasteur Institute, rej^rts the growth of cancer iti the white rh't stopped by injecting venom from a cobra. Cancer In I he white rat sue | cumbod after twelve Injecfrons of venom, ten of which, given nil at once, would have caused death. This can cer treatment was discovered by I)r Adolph Monae-I.esser of New Vork. One poison offsets another. Salvar san treatment, which conquers one of the worst blood diseases. Involves In Jectlng arsenic Into the tissues, enough to kill the germs, not enough to kill the patient. Malaria germs are used successfully to cure ciises of paresis. Some ono will find a remedy fatal to cancer growth, but not fatal to tha eancer victims. #, IMS, hy Kin* Pa**ire? SynrtUat*, I MS. WNljWflM Blouse of Cotton-Crochet the Rage By CHERIE NICHOLAS VVf OUI.DN'T you Just lovo to own one or several of those smart, cool, attractive and very practical in er cor I zed-cot ton hand-crochet blouses which high-class specialty shops are showing this season, to wear with the now-so-vogulsh linen (par ticularly black linen) or pique suits? Well, why not be the happy possessor of Just such? They are so easy to make and Inexpensive (when home crocheted) and ure they good-looking ! As to hand-crochet. It's the rage Just now. C'hlc Pnrlslennes simply dote on It, wearing blouses of crochet with their best-looking suits, and gloves, the cunnln^est affairs you ever saw, with flare cuffs, the whole thing done In a dainty lacy stitch. Holts, too, and pocketbooks and hats all of crochet, while their frocks are trimmed with designful crochet insets and -entire yokes and edgings and such. The group of clever blouses In the picture cannot hut prove an Inspira tion to those who feel the urge to crochet. The vastly Important thing about using mercerized cotton for those blouses Is that it washes so per fectly no matter how colorful it be. Of course you are going to have a hard time deciding which of the blouses pictured to copy. We think the model on the standing figure Is particularly good-looking. It's "darling" when made in a pastel shade to match the skirt, although It is Just as effective in contrast ? pale blue cotton crochet blouse with a pink pique or flannel skirt, or. If you like monotones, a pink crochet blouse topping a pink linen skirt, a matching linen swagger coal completing this most intriguing three some. Oh, there is no end to the staging of effects which can he done with these hand-crochet blouses. It is the handsome shell stitch which makes the aforementioned blouse outstanding, also the tricky picot (crochet) tlnisli Ing at the neckline. The eye-satisfying little sweater with its pert cap sleeves on the seated figure Is crocheted in blue and white cotton, Intermingled so as to give it a sort of tweedy effect. The fashionable high neck of the striped-yoke blouse shown to the right below, also its wee puff sleeves, make i this model a smart item In anyone's wardrobe. The buttons at the belt are a happy thought, avoids streteli Ing when V?u sli p the blouse over the head. The young woman who's head and shoulders above the group are pictured. Is very, much In crochet attire. 1 1 or blouse Is a perfectly stunning affair crocheted In the popular tile! stitch, bright orange with white. The white sports hat crocheted of mercerized cot ton has the soft, easily draped brim which is becoming to nil types of faces. A band of mesh stitch suggests new height for the crown. I ?. 1933. Western Newspnptr Union DOTS IN THE MODE l?T CHEKIK NICHOLAS I It Is surprising how persistently ' (lotted effects keep In the mode. T<v day, polkn dots, from medium to tre mendous fiin dots, nre. If possible, more fashionable than ever. Paris de signers especially exploit the dotted 'theme. To be sure, the costume pic tured Is rather extreme from nn A mer lon n standpoint, yet It go??s to show how French couturiers nre placing emphnsls on dots. Another fashion which loses not In fnvor Is that of blnrk nnd white. As the aeason pro gresHcs It Is nppnrent tbnt blnck with white Is as much In the limelight as ever. The tight fitting sleeveless black velvet Jacket and the self fabric gloves n^e the blgb spots of this costume Jackal EniamhUi The Jacket frock In developed In nil the fabrics of the moment ? summer sheer crepes, printed crepes, chiffons, linens, pique, eyelet embroidery nnd ether cottons. ONE BLACK DRESS IS FOUND ENOUGH Blessed nre ye who have one good blnck silk dress nnd linlf a dozen sets of collars and cuffs, six hatbands, two hats, three pairs of shoes and ?wo pairs of gloves with detached cuiTs. With a rounded or V-neck f<rr the dress, any number of diversified collars ? size, shape and color ? may be applied, being careful to choose the correct hatband, gloves, cuffs, shoes nnd purse. With the hats, shoes ami gloves Mack and white, or perhaps one set in a brown, beige or a medium green, you can do wonders with constructing a wardrobe suitable for all occasions. One evening gown, with two or three different Jackets, Accomplishes rnlra cles and makes one realize that orig inality nnd Ingenuity are having n big inning. New Fall Coats Are Rich in Elaborate Fur Trim The new coals shown in early fall displays are richly trimmed with fur. many of them having both collars nnd upper sleeve accents of sliver, stone or blue fox. astrakhan or Persian lamb. Their silhouettes are generally almost straight, while their hemlines are from 7 to 11 inches from the ground. The frocks shown with them nre designed of soft wools or pebbled crepes with simple bodices, natural waistlines nnd slender skirts. lUnrk, red. brown nnd deep green are the favorite hues for early fall. Summer Corset* of Soft Rubber Bid for Favor It Isn't fair to keep talking nhout the top layer of fashion nnd extolling Its virtues while taking the more oh scure Items for granted. And right now there Is considerable news next to the skin. A summer corset has made n bid for fashion's favor. It Is made 01 soft rubber ? no stays or things to crnmp your style ? ftnd Instead of belli# cut so long all the way down to give thnt sleek line over the hips and upper part of the thighs, sections are clipped out nently back and front nnd th* legs slip through rings like garter* making n perfect fit.