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Mexican soldiers have been drafted by tne government to carry out the huge road building program which Mex ico has undertaken, and which has resulted In the construction of more roads In Mexico during the last two years than were built In the previous century. Soldiers shown above are working on the newly dedicated section of the International Pacific highway between Nogales, Ariz., and Sonora, Mexico. GEORGE WASHINGTON HONORED BY ITALY 4> Turin Names Bridge for Our First President. Washington. ? Celebration of the George Washington bicentennial has echoed In Turin, Italy, where a recent ly. completed bridge spanning the Riv er Dora has been named for the first President of the United States. "Turin (Torino)) haB features that remind one of American cities of a half million Inhabitants," says a bul letin from the National Geographic society. "It Is well laid out with wide streets crossing one another at right angles and many busy squares and spacious parks embellished with from one to four statues. "A traveler strolling down its clean streets In the shadow of well-kept buildings Is hardly aware that Turin and Milan, Its neighbor, make up the so-called 'Industrial Twin Cities' of Italy. Out of Its huge factories roll automobiles that traverse the 'famous boulevards of the world, and the prod ucts of - the silk and cotton mills, leather-goods factories and machine shops find their way into world mar kets, ? rr;V Qreat Industrial Center. "American Industrialists marvel at Turin's industrial Importance when they stand on the banks of the Dora and Po rivers which flow past the city. Neither stream is navigable for large commercial craft. No industrial city of a half-million Inhabitants in the United States is without water transportation at its disposal. "Construction of good roads and the Increasing use of motor trucks In northern Italy have aided Turin com merce in the last decade, but to the railroads goes the greater part of the credit for the city's Industrial and commercial prestige. !? "Because it is the first large city in Italy near the Italian end of the Mount Cents Alps-piercing tunnel, nearly all rail-borne commerce enter ing Italy from the west, passes Turin. Italian railroads radiate from the city connecting with lines that touch nearly air great cities of Europe. Before the St Gotthard tunnel was bored, Turin was Italy's leading railroad ,center. Now It is second to Milan. "But the traveler Is not long in Tttrln until he is assured that the city is not wholly absorbed in Industry and the transportation of Its products. In fact, its numerous art galleries, splendid church buildings, museums, and libraries lead one to believe that Its Industry is perhaps only a means to acquiring and preserving art and diffusing knowledge. A Treasury of Art. "The Royal palace, which Is a mute reminder of the days when Turin was th? capital of the kingdom of Sar dinia and capital of Italy." Is a treas ure ctaeftt of historic paintings, hand some statuary, frescoes and tapestries. In one portion of the building there Is an armory where historic suits of armor and implements of war are on 1 > 1 ?' ~ r. i . i "Dead" Man Sat Up So Undertaker Quit [ Wllfcabeth, N. J.? J. F. Martin, Jr., Is a tfoofl undertaker, but he knows hie limitations and his place. When a corpse sits up and looks him over, Mr. Martin Is through. Mr. Martin was summoned to" 008 Court street when police reported finding Peter Huhjn, seventy, dead with Wrists and throat cut, a rope dangllfaft sbove him, and a suicide note asking that bli body he ere mated. rJ.' ' ? tit, when Mr. Martin went to get the body, Mr. Hohn groaned and sat up. So Mr. Martin went away and an ambulance took Mr. Bfahn to Aletian Brothers hospital, . where It was said his condition was ? . display. The cathedral adjoining the palace .contains a well-executed copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper.' Another of the prized possessions of the edifice Is a piece of linen which tradition holds is a part of the shroud in which the body of Jesus was wrapped. "The Turin Academy of Science has a picture gallery with many works of such famous artists as Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Raphael, and a Mu seum of Antiquities where' are pre served ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to 1G00 B. C. The Museum of Ancient and Applied Art contains an interesting collection of musical in struments, ornamental leather, medals, enamels, ivories, and wood carvings and one of the world's unique collec- j tions of painted glasses and Crystals i which records the history of glass painting through the ages. Art ob jects in clay, sculptures In marble and collections of stones, and terra cotta also are on display. "The Mole Antonelllana, the sky scraper of Turin, was built as a Jew ish temple, but It now Is a national historical museum where a collection of trophies, flags, weapons, uniforms, and manuscripts Illustrating the strug gle for a united Italy, is preserved. This building is the highest walled structure in Europe. Its walls rise to within 10 feet of the height of the Washington monument. "The traveler in search of ancient landmarks In Turin Is disappointed. Turin was quite a town when Hanni bal destroyed it in the Third century hefore the Christian era. Later It was the site of a Roman colony, but of this settlement only one of the four great gates of Its wall remains." Invents Device to Test Earth's Radio Activity Pasadena, Calif. ? An amazing array of devices have been evolved at the California Institute of Technology here to test the radio-activity of the earth. Dr. Robley D. Evans seeks' to de termine with them the amount of ra dium in rocks In order to discover how much of this activity must be discount ed In studying the action of the cosmic ray, discovered by Dr. Robert A. Mll likan, head of Caltech. Included In Doctor Evans' equipment is a furnace that will make granite boil like water ; scales that will weigh one million-millionth of a gram, or one thousand-millionth of a pound of ra dium, and an apparatus so delicate as to chase atoms of radium through a definite channel In order that scien tists may count them. Doctor Evans pulverizes a granite boulder, heats it to a temperature of 8,700 degrees Fahrenheit, and the rock boils like water. The temperature Is measured by an electric device affected by light rays from the lava. The heat forces out of the gasses formed the "negative electron. When the electrons are permitted to reunite with the gasses, they pass Into deli cate scales, where the radium atoms knock negative electrons from the atoms of air which are within the tube-like scales. By watching the electromer, the scientist knows from Its reading how many atoms are passing through. Winged Rocket Tested Berlin. ? Ability to control the direc tion of rocket flights was claimed by Rudolf Tiling, rocket engineer, In a t?st from Templehof airdrome. Parrot Eats Cash Revere. Mass. ? Mrs. Verna MInson lost $35 when her pet parrot chewed her purse to pieces. COMEBACK OF CZAR IS BALKED Coburg, Germany. ? Marriage here of the Princess Slbylle of Saxe-Coburg to Prince Gustnv Adolph Oscar ended a situation that promised to play a big part In the affairs of the kingdom of Bulgaria. It all centers around the dethroned monarch of Bulgaria, Czar Ferdinand, who, at seventy-two years, still has hopes of returning to his throne at. the expense of Its present occupant, his son, Boris. When Ferdinand was exiled he came here to live. Princess Slbylle, then a mere child, became his favorite among all tho little royalties who found the old fellow a fairy godfather. As she grew up Ferdinand, eyeing the fruit less quest of King Horls for a bride among tho royal houses of Rurope, conceived tho Idea that If Boris mar ried Slbylle the way would bo paved for his own return to Bulgaria and ? who Knew? perhaps to his throne. Boris had his eye on Slbylle at the time, but he grew suspicious of his father eventually and turned l>ls at tention to the Italian royal house whose eldest daughter, Olovanna, final ly became his bride. This was a blow to old Ferdinand, for It effected an al liance with the one nation which was most Instrumental In seeing that he lost his crown. Ferdinand was persistent, however. Falling to see Boris marry Slbylle he fancied It might be a good Idea If she became the wife of his second son, Prince Cyril. Slbylle might yet wield Influence enough to lejt him go back to Bulgaria. Again It looks as tf Ferdinand was to be disappointed. ? Prince Cyril, ac companying Boris In his wooing trips to Rome, fell in love With King Kmanuel's younger dnughter. Maria. She was too young to marry Just then, - bat now ihe il not and format an nouncement of their engagement is ex pected soon to confirm rumors that it has been arranged?further strength ening the Italian-Bulgarian bonds and handing out another wallop to Ferdi nand's hopes. For alt that Sibylla either cduld not or would not advance those hopes by marrying one of his sons, Ferdinand proved a good sport when she was married the other day. Meet and Wed Same Day Fort Worth, Texas. ? One morning Albert H. Graves and Miss Virginia Wright met at a soda fountain here. At noon she was wearing his fraternity pin. By nightfall they had eloped to Oklahoma and were secretly made man and wife. One Vacation in 21 Years Stevenson, Wash. ? For 21 years Da vid Wesseln, janitor at the courthouse, han been on the Job continuously seven days a week, holidays and all. He cently the commissioners grahted him two weks off with pay. NEW CUBAN ENVOY . . .".J v ? . ':T'V Dr. Oscar Otntaa, tho new ambaa nador of Cuba to the United Stated, who ban assumed hla duties In 'Wash ington. He aucceeda Dr. Oreatea Ferrara. I This Week I ^Arthur Brisbane Hie Mongol-Ape Girl Bewildered Wall Street Woman's Day Bootleg Unemployment Crime, woman's weakness, man's duplicity and other things unpleasant are old. In Otter Tail county In Min nesota scientists have found what re mains of a seventeen-yeur-old girl's murdered body. She was "partly Mon golian, partly ape." Somebody, pre sumably also part Mongol and part ape, killed her 20,000 years ago and threw her Into a glacial lake. A nick in the shoulder blade shows where an arow or spear went Into her right lung and probably through her heart. There are worse things than that In our modern crime. How far are we really above the Mongol-ape? Wall Street recalls the old Canadian lady who used to say : "I tell my hus band I don't know what to tell him." Wall Street doesn't know what to tell the speculators. American Tele phone Telegraph declared the reg ular dividend at the rate of 9 per cent, and instead of going up, the market went down. Wall Street Is as difficult as the watch belonging to the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's tea party. The dormouse said "he puts the best butter In his watch, but noth ing seems to please it." This Is woman's day, and as Mrs. Eddy Bald when this writer Inter viewed her lopg ago. "It Is the day of mind over matter." Amy Johnson Molllson, who recent ly married the British flyer holding the record from London to South Af rica, has Just beaten her distinguished j husband's record across the Desert i of Sahara. She made a hop from Oran In Al geria to Gao, 1,400 miles further south, I In 13 hours and a few minutes. The British empire may be totter ing, but English girls are not totter ing. The "unemployed bootlegger prob lem" may be with us soon If the plan Is carried out to free from prison all Jailed for violating prohibition laws. Qovernor Rolph of California says that as soon as his state's overwhelm ing vote against prohibition Is certi fied he will free 1,000 convicted of bootlegging. It will be hard for the 1,000 to accustom themselves to "$30 a week," and harder still to find the $30. Newcastle, Pa., develops a new Idea. Gentlemen that steal milk bottles left on doorsteps go early before the milk Is delivered and Bcrlbble a note asking for two extra quarts. The customer and milk man know nothing about It, until settling time comes, weeks later. It Is an old idea started In Wall i Street. Down there, the financial genius scribbles a note, ordering tens of millions more shares of stock. The customer doesn't know anything about that until some time later, when set tling time comes. This depression Is settling time. On the site of the great Hoover dam the Colorado river for ages has ruBhed with its millions of gallons per min ute through the high rock walls of a narrow canyon. It follows that path no longer, for man's engineering genius has turned the river aside, forcing it to run through an artificial tunnel, dug in one of the ca .yon's rocky sides, almost a mile high. Where the river once rushed through a channel cut out of solid rock by the water ages ago everything is dry. En gineers and workers at the great dam, undisturbed by the torrent, will pro ceed to erect a wall that will hold back billions of gallons of Colorado waters to be used as man may decide, for Irrigation or power. When the wfall Is finished the tunnel will be closed, to open at any time when water behind the dam needs lowering. Colonel Turner, Los Angeles pilot, establishes a new California champion ship with a new east-west flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific In \2 hours 33 minutes, beating by two hours the record of Frank Hawks. This is big news. The world awaits something to end this depression and the flying machine may do it Steam started one great boom after Waterloo, the gold rush in '49 started another, electricity, used for light and power, started another, the automobile started the recent great boom, which war's squandering raised to a frenr.y. For men the most Important thing Is life, and next comes movement. The perfected airplane, America to Europo In ten hours, New York city to San Francisco or Seattle to Jacksonville. Fin., In ten hours, may start the next big boom. The German cruiser Karlsruhe, first to visit an American port since the war, received In New York harbor a grand reception, guns booming, air planes flying overhend, flags displayed. The war In over and a German battle ship should be treated like any othei foreign battleship. It might he better however, to -reserve artillery sa)ute? and flag display* for great passenger and other commercial ships In which Germany excel*. A. lltt, by Kin* F*?tur?? S^aiWMa, IM Novel Furs Styled in Novel Ways By CHERIE NICHOLAS FUil tushluns are Holding the center of the stage. The program they are presenting is not only spectacular, but it Is Interesting becuuse it makes use of novel peltry In novel ways. The fact that designers are showing so venturesome a spirit to do and to dnre makes fur artistry almost breathtak ing this season in its exploitation of the unusual. This flair for clever fur arrange ments Is evidenced in the models pic tured. The very good-looking costume to the left emphasizes the entry of panther skin In the list of fashionable new furs. The younger set ndore this fluttering fur. The rich green of the cloth which fashions this coat con trasts the tawny tones In the fur most offectlvely. Speaking of spotted furs, an out standing play is being made In this direction, smart I'arlsiennes wearing not only dresses and coats trimmed in either panther, leopard or ocelot, but touches dlrcreetly enliven their hats as well ns being mnde up In such ac cessories as belts and pocketbooks. A leading couturier goes so far ns to create a >tunnlng evening gown of white satin bordering the decollete neckline with a band of leopard. trimming the black wool cont showto to the right In the picture the designer does that which is being re peatedly done this season? works two kinds of fur together. In this Instance black astrnknn nnd snowy ermine make n striking combination, thus ac centing the black-and-white then>e which Is as popular ns It ever was, and perhaps even more so. The cas ual grace 0f the ermine scarf-end in trigues the eye nt n glance. The high standing astrakan collar Is topped with a Jaunty beret which has a drape of matching fur encircling Its crown. The placing of myriads of little cloth ruffles row and row from above the elbow to the wrlstllne Is characteris tic of the trend to make sleeves an outstanding feature of every costume. Incidentally we might mention that the dress underneath this modish coat is made of printed satin, the same be ing n fashion highspot In the realm of fabrics this season. In describing the charming muff and capelet set which centers this attrac tive trio there is not much needed to be said as it speaks volumes for itself In the way of chic. You may vision It as of gray curly lamb of high est grade, if you wish, contrasting velvety brown cloth for hrown with gray ns a featured combination. Metal burtons, of course, nnd n metal belt, for metal accessories are fashion's boast at present.. <P>. 1932 Wpntern NowKpapor Union. IF YOU CROCHET By CniCRtK NICHOLAS Vlctorlnn charm la the keynote ot this wlnter'H fashion. One of thetdean which prevailed In those (lays of yore was that of "crochet edgings." Well, It's crochet edging which trims this dainty little hedjacket. All you need Is a ball <1W) yards) of mercerized cotton, a number eight crochet hook and three-fourths of a yard of flat crepe, for It Is made of two pieces of stlk tacked together at the shoulders and sides. Cut the silk In two straight pieces (lOVfc by 27 Inches) wllh the golvedges running the long way. These can be used nt the hot torn and so avoid hems. On the other three edges of both pieces baste hems as narrow as possible. The first row of crochet will hold them In place. Crochet di rections are available at most any fancy work department whore you buy the crochet cotton. The quaint little clerical bib (? also crocheted of mer cerlxed cotton, In an open mesh pat tern with tightly crocheted border. II Is simply and qnlckly made, and now that young girls are wearing nun col lain and similar neckpieces a collar crocheted as her# Illustrated will add chic to the tllk or woolen costume. CORDED WEAVING LEADS IN FAVOR There Is a distinct corduroy lifflu ence In the winter's fashions. Wool, wllk, velvet and mixtures all show a tendency to corded weaving. It Is not confined only to clothes for sportp wear, as formerly, but ap pears in clothes of all varieties. Many of the newest evening dresses are of a corded velvet which approaches cor duroy In weave, but Is sheer In tex ture. Corded woolens, launched in Paris last season, are already established as classic materials. They are favor ites for the sturdy type of coat or suit which Is destined for wear in difficult weather. Dressmakers iike the possibilities they offer In design, for a slight change In the direction of the cords, by means of adroit cutting, can work a whole design Into a costume without the addition of any ornnment. Change Hairdressing to Follow Dress Style Changes In dress styles, and espe cially those that have taken place this season, demand a decided change In hairdressing. An inferiority complex of the worst sort Is lying in wait for the woman who attempts to wear those chnrmlng shallow-crowned hats thnt leave al most the entire back of tho head bare, unless she speeds with winged feet to an authorlly on hairdressing, one well schooled and of |nn? experience In making the hair conform to fashion and beauty. To enhance the chnrm of a woman's hair and face, and to blend them with her clothes Into n picture of beauty, requires unusual talent ? a sculptor'* knowledge of plnstlc form nnd a paint er's feeling for delicate colors. Waffle Weave Is Latest for Street and Sports In street and sports dresses the mn terlal Is the new thing. H1IU crepe* again resemble rough woolens. This season one new material Is known ns "triple sheer," being three times the thickness of georgette crepe. The waffle weave, modeled nfler thai well known breakfast dish, is new and smart. Light *nd DNrlf Rtrong contrasts of light and dsrk are Inevitably effective? light collnrs on dark dresses, dark collars on light dresses; dnrk Jackets with whlt? skirts; white coats with dnrk dressea