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Pan American Road Steps Nearer to Realization May Ultimately Link Alaska With Argentina. Washington. ? The longest road proj ect In the world ? the Pan American highway ? moved ahother step nearer to realization recently when congress appropriated $1.1(00,000 to enable the United States ,to co-operate with Latin American nations In surveying and constructing this new link between tile Americas. The sura of $75,000 was also provided for a continuation of reconnaissance surveys lu both Cen tral and South America. "Caravans were trading over the an cient 'Silk Routes' between Asia and the Danube long before Europe ever heard of America. But despite amaz ing growth of transport In the Western world, to this day no wheel has ever rolled from North to South America ? not even from the Klo Grande to I*an-. ama," sh.vs a National Geographic so ciety bulletin. "Yet for years men have dreamed of a great Inter-American highway which might connect Alaska with Ar gentina. Links of such a royal road already exist. Even over many regions In Latin America air passengers can look down on sections of such a high way, used by mules, trucks and motor cars. How to connect these separate links, how to bridge the gaps formed now by mountains and Jungles, Is the problem to which many governments In the Western hemisphere give In creasing thought. "Mexico, for one. Is hard at work on her link. So swiftly has she pushed construction that the 800-mile stretch from Laredo, on the Rio Grande, to Mexico, D. I<\, has already been often traversed, and Is to be officially opened as an all-weather road within a few months ? to which function Secretary of State Hull has been Invited. Traffic to Mexico Grows. "Incidentally, tourist traffic from the United States to Mexico has grown ?normously In the past two years. In 1933 about 40,000 Americans visited Mexico. Traffic so far In 1934 Is even heavier, and hotels are crowded. For mal opening of motor roads will vast ly Increase this. "With a total length of some 12,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, more than 4,500 miles, over a third of the proposed Inter-American highway, Is now usable by motor cars In all weather, chiefly In the United States, Canada, Mexico and Panama. Some finished stretches are also In use In Alaska, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil. Although most of the roads which could bo Joined to form South America's part of any such great high way are already passable In dry weather, only Insignificant stretches are usable In wet weather. "Because of our own trade Interests In Mexico and Central America, as sources of needed raw materials, nnd markets for our manufactures, the United States is moat Immediately con corned with the opening of the motor road from our southern border to Panama. This section Is, In fact, the kej to early completion of the whole project. . "At the request of the State depart ment, the United States bureau of pub lic roads, aided by highway engineers of the Central American countries con cerned, has made a reconnaissance sur vey of the route from here to Panama^ Of the 1,BOO miles of highway through I Central America, about 500 miles are open to all-weather traffic. Needed Supplies for United States. "The survey points out that a road through Central America would pene trate regions that could supply the United States with such needed tilings as rice, cinnamon, camphor, quinine, rubber, copra, vegetable oils, gums, hemp, etc. "In further study of trade ad vantages such a road to Panama would bring us, made ,ln co-operation with the Department of Commerce, the Unlte<J States bureau of public roads' report says: Though these countries, and the Caribbean region In general, have been regarded as lilgh-productlon cost areas, the cause of this Is trace able primarily to lack of cheap trans portation, and not to any Inherent difll culties of resources, or man-power. ?Jt' ?> I N Hot Springs Girl Hailed as Prodigy Hot Springs, Ark. ? Railed as one of the outstanding child prodigies of the age, Janet Qrant, eight, of Hot Springs, has been Invited to appear In recital In Washington by the International Art Forum. Janet spurns jazz, concentrating on the music of the masters. At four and one-half she played Beethoven. At five She mastered Bach's compositions. She Is a master of both violin and piano, performing on both with awazln? technique. Despite her unusual feats In music, she is a normal, unspoiled child. She weighs 1)0 pounds, Is active, healthy and Is advanced In studies as far as the normal fifteen-year-old. Adequate highways connecting with the present short water hauls will do much to remedy existing deficiencies. These apply chiefly to agriculture, which will douhtlopajdominate this re gion for centuries to come; yet they niso pertain to lumbering, with vast hardwood forests thus far undevel oped. and to mining, with mineral re sources still undetermined.' "With the funds recently made ayall able by congress, a definite location survey of the road as far as Panama, and a reconnaissance survey of the section from Panama to Argentina, will be mude. Such a survey through South America would be highly useful to each country traversed, as a gulda to future rond-building programs." Tries to Save Stratosphere Records* Capt. Albert W. Stevens, who leaped to safety with the two other members of the stratosphere balloon Explorer when it fell, Is shown chopping away parts of the gondola jn the effort to save some of the scientific instruments. However, they were destroyed by the crash. Finishes His Fiftieth Reading of the Bible New York Physician Is Proud of His Record. New York. ? Bible stories never prow old to Dr. William Woodward, osteo pathic physician and bookseller of Yorkers, who recently completed his fiftieth reading of the Bible and cele brated his seventy-seventh birthday, fit the same time. Having no favorite passage, Doctor Woodward alwnys reflds the Bible from cover to cover, both the New and Old Testaments. As n student of the Newton Theo logical Institution In 1873, Doctor Woodward began reading the Bible. A friend told him biblical passage* could be easily memorized If one read them over 25 times. Although he had little .success In committing the Scriptures to memory, he became so Interested In (he Bible he has continued reading It since that time. By 192") he had read It 40 times, and remembering that by 1034 ho would complete his fiftieth year as a Mason, HE'S A FIREMAN! Loudon's lljo/non bro no\V outfitted with aabestos umbrella* a* welt m with* the regulation unbent on mitt*. Thus they are protected from falling embers anH afe able to approach more closely to a burning structure. f. V ; , ' * ' *?" . he deckled to make his readings of the Scriptures correspond. Although he reads leisurely, as a rule, he once finished the Bible In 18 days, devoting as many as 12 hours a day to It. lie regards the Rlble as the word of Cod, literally true throughout. In his own words : "Too many people now, and especially In New York city, read the Rlble Rolely to disprove Its truths. If there were fewer hypocrites In the Christian church, there would he less talk about the Inaccuracies of the Rlble." Among his varied achievements, Doctor Woodward looks with pride on his degree as doctor of osteopathy, his law studies, his editorship of the Charleston News, and his 00 articles for the Encyclopedia Americana. Prehistoric House Sites Along Missouri Studied Lincoln, Nob. ? Following the cold trail, left centuries ogo across the Midwest by ancient mnn, Dr. Karl II. Hell, of the University of Nebraska, and five assistants are using two and one-half months of the summer near Wynot, Neb., to study prehistoric vil lages. They are studying the remains of seventy-five antique habitations, the latest clew to the riddle of the origin of tribes which roamed the prairies hundred of years before Europeans appeared. I)oct,or Hell found the house sites last summer on a bluff overlooking the Missouri river. The land there nevfcr has been plowed and the de pressions, two or three feet deep, show up plainly. Some are sixty feet across. California Silver Mine It Now Turning Out Gold Ilandshurg, Calif; ? One of the world's richest silver mines now turn lng to gold I To have produced $10, 000,000 In sliver In ten years, and now to develop gold ore that is running from $!H) to $000 a ton, Is a record belonging to ortly one mine In the Unit ed States. That 1s the Kelly sllVer ?mine In the famous ItAndshurg district, says II. K. Hoyer, general manager. The mine whs located In 1010 where for years miners had tramped over rich outcropping silver ore In search for gold. On the first shipment of ore, the smelter company felt so doubtful about Its value that they asked for a guarantee on the cost of smelting.. That shipment of ore avernged from $300 to $f>00 a ton. Later from one shaft, 22 to 17 feet, the mine produced $300,000, which was the richest silver ore ever sent to the smelters. And this whole development has been ninde on the original $2,T>00 outside capital and out of the mine It self. Gold Miners in Brazil Can Sell Only to State Klo De Janeiro. ? By xlecree of tho government all gold mined In the coun try will he purchased exclusively by the Banco do Brazil for account of the natlonnl treasury at the quotation pre vailing at the time In the Interna tional market. The government decree vests upon the Banco do Brazil nil responsibility as to the purity of the metal pur chased. Those engaged In tho mining of gold In any form are required to file with the bank a monthly memo randum stating the quantity of metal extracted and the stock on hand. No Kold can be ofTered for wile to private Individuals and any who break the law are subject to heavy fines and Impris onment. World Trade Made Gains in 1933, Says Geneva Oeneva. ? World trade Improved dur ing 1933 for the first time since the depression started, statistics of the League of Nations showed. Volume was a shade greater than In 1032, Trade hn raw materials Increased R l>er cent and manufactured article* something less than 2 per cent. Trade In foodstuffs decrensed R per cent be cause of the Increased self-sufficiency of consumer nations. There was a decrease In value of world trade, as compared with 1032. This waa due to lower prlcea, ns vol ume was greater. Parts of Ancient Motor Do Farm Work for Texan Temple, Texas. ? Frank Beverly, KI1 leen farmer, has put the part* of an ancient automobile at work doing chores around his farm. A windmill, mnde from automobile parts, Is the centrnl unit In Beverly's machinery. It mny be connected with a generator that chfirges afr batteries, lighting hla home and outhouses. A second belt from a mill tnms s waahlng machine, a third saws wood, and yet another powers * thrashing machine. SEEN HEARD ?round th? National Capital MBBx CARTER FIELD Washington. ? Desire of the adminis tration to prevent the "few profiting ' at the expense of the many" ? the avowed ? reason tot nationalizing sli ver, will enable foreign speculators to reap a rich harvest, while depriving American speculators of such an op portunity ? If ? the world price of sil ver follows the course now generally expected. The treasury has been doing Its ut most, in the period between adjourn ment of congress following the pas sage of the silver act and the nation alization of silver to prevent Ameri can speculators taking advantage of the situation. Many requests to trans fer money abroad for purchase of sil ver in London were declined. Prior to the passage of the sliver act the treas ury had Insisted on a stiff tax being included on any profits made on sil ver. This was fixed In the law at 50 per cent, despite the Insistence of the silver senators that the regular Income taxes would give the government a considerable revenue from any such . profits. The real cause of the sudden net of nationalization was the discovery by the treasury thot American specula tors had found a way to effect pur chases on the London market despite treasury refusal to permit transfer of American funds to London for that purpose. ' The system was surprisingly simple, and was being worked In volume right up to tTle moment of nationalization. The point was that certain stocks. In cluding International Nickel, had their registry offices In London. S^ an American speculator, wishing tovbuy some silver In London and denied treasury permission to transfer funds there, could buy 1<H) or 1.000 or 10.000 shares of International Nickel on the New York Stock Exchange. Then he could ship the certificates to London direct or by way of Canada, and soil the stock In London, taking of course pounds sterling In payment. The ownership of the stock would be transferred In the London office, and the American speculator would have his pounds in London with no strings on them leading back to the American government. So he could use those pounds to buy silver. Treasury Wakes Up Purchases of silver through this maneuvering of International Nickel and other stocks with registry offices In London had run Into a good many millions of dollars when the treasury here found out what was going on. Wires were hot In the next few hours after this discovery between Secretary Morgenthau and the President, and the order was rushed out Just In time, It Is learned, to prevent tremendous fur ther operations of this character. Brokers at once stnrted to figure nut a new way to beat the restric tions In the nationalization order, and skim some of the cream represented by the difference between the nation alization price? barely over f>0 cents an ounce ? and the alleged objective? not less than 70 cents for silver all over the world. There were complications enough before, one of them being that silver as traded In at Ix>ndon is of n different fineness from sliver as traded in In the United States. Some brok ers hold that the International Nickel route Is still open, despite the na tionalization order. Hut the real objection of the brokers Is that speculators In Europe, In Japan and In China nnd India are free to buy silver at the present world price, counting on the obvious objective of not only the United States government but that of Croat Britain to put the world price higher, whereas the re strictions make It hard for any Amor lean to profit, even by paying the f>0 per cent tax Imposed In the silver law and such Income taxes as would re sultf ' Fort Peck Project Both army engineers and reclama tion officials were startled at Presi dent Roosevelt's comment. In his speech at Clasgow, that some 8f>,0(X) acres of land would be Irrigated by water from the Fort Peck project. The point Is that the project was not de signed or planned as an Irrigation project nt all. It was designed for two purposes. One was flood control. The other was to provide n navigable channel for boats and bargo lines on the Missouri river. Obviously, engineers and reclama tion officials point out, water cannot be used for both keeping If chnnnel nt navigable depth throughout the length of this very long river and for Irriga tion of gome Rr>,000 acres of land In the vicinity of the reservoir. What they think happened la that the President, aghast at the dnst storms over deserts whero> fertile farms used to be, leaped to the conclusion that water ou the land was far mor* Important than a navigable stream, especially an most of the area Is al ready served by more railroad ca pacity than there Is any likelihood of being tested by bumper freight offer ings for yenrs to come. All of the other projects which the President visited on his return trip were primarily Irrigation projects. So there are some who think the Presl dent Simply made a slight slip In dis cussing the Fort Peck project. But . a much more reasonable as sumption, according to friends of the President here. Is that Mr. Roosevelt Is convinced that the drouth problem Is far more important than any ques tion of maintaining k channel in the river. Obviously also, they point out. the second purpose for which the proj ect wus planned ? flood control ? would ? served Just as effectively by di verting the project to irrigation. Farms Come First Wate* Impounded behind a big dam for the purpose of preventing a flood on the lower river can be used in either wity, they say. It can be re lensecT, as originally intended, at times when the water level down stream is low, or It can be distributed on arid land. Ttie flood oontrol funcCion would | bo served in either event. It Is Just a question of whether the water would be more valuable-used for Irrigation ?'than if used for keeping the channel navigable. When the President realized this he decided quickly, his friend# hvre say. that the drouth aspect was lar more important than the transposition diffi culty. For one thing, they nssert. the drouth 8 tuatlon Is new, and very menacing, whereas the transportation problem would merely be adding something to transportation facilities already ade quate. There is very real fear on the part of many observers of the present drouth situation that this year may not see the end of It. The rainfall in the whole affected area has been subnormal for ten, years. Maybe the curve will start swinging upward next year. But maybe not. No one knows. the winds which formerly brought rain to this region by way of the Mackenzie river .valley, 'and which this year were diverted eastward, down the Hudson Ray route, should continue to blow that way next vear a bom ,'t8 """ ?I Ills Is the real explanation of Presi dent Roosevelt's dream of the huge forest belt so much discussed lie wants some plan which would prevent the northern Middle West from being turned into a desert If It should de velop that a change In the wind cur rents points in that direction. ciV Uny, rale' if the upper Missouri e> should become permanently more arid than It has been, there would he no particular use for ft navigable waterway up the Missouri. Duce Does Not Want War The most amazing thing about the alleged threatening war clouds in Ku rope, from an Inspection of which the writer has Just returned. Is that Mus solini Is even more firmly In the saddle than at any time since his amazing | rise to power, and that apparently the duce does not wish a war at this mo ment. So despite all the bad news from Vienna, following on the heels of the bad news from Berlin, the strong prob ability Is that there will be no war for some little time to come. Instead of provoking a' war. the as sassination of Dollfuss actually drove the two most hitter enemies In Eu rope?Italy nnd France ? into each other's arms. Kach was equally deter mined that Germany should not ab sorb Austria. It Is the first time that Italy and France have had a common objective for twenty years or more leaving out of the picture the agree ment which brought Italy into the ; \NorTd war on the side of the Allies. Rut let no one think that the tem porary agreement of Italy and France means the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The feeling is still there. .is still nourished by a controlled press In Italy especially and It Is apt to provoke the next war. Italy still feels that she was badly cheated at the council table at Ver sailles. She thinks she got nothing like her Just deserts. S.'ie believes I' ranee got the lion's share. The most encouraging feature Is that no other nation agrees with Italy In this interpretation. All her neigh bors to the east think she got far more than she deserved. British Fleet Ready Nothing was printed about It In the newspapers in Europe, but Britain managed to got quite a fleet together In (J reek waters, with a general boll day cruise Idea, during the trouble* In Austria. The big airplane carrier Furious, with ten destroyers, cast an chor In ( orfu, the northernmost Greek Port, right ncroKs the Adrlatle from the Important Italian ports of Ihir! and Rrlndlsl. PeMmp* there was no connection? official statements mean so little? but American tourists returning through northern Italy nt the time were aghast nt the movement of Italian troops up toward the Austrfnn frontier. In ort* there was every Indication of trouble, so much so that thern was n widespread rumor In Europe that art,,, ually the announcement" of the news of the killing of Dollfuss wan con cealed for nt least forty-eight hours Hut there wan no popular excite, mont In Italy, it was Just "mnnonv ers None of the tragic working up of the population to fev?r heat which preceded the breaking out of the World war. In other words Mussolini had the sit lotion In his own hands. The Italian people would follow him to war In a moment If he decided that It was necessary. Me does not have to resort to any propaganda In advance - Tt continues to be the most ahsolute'rnlo n modern times. Italian after Itniin,, Interviewed by the writer, would de nounce most of the other countries hut, pinned down to such a pertinent Hitler0" "L,rt W,,nt I tier, ?n,,d reply. "Mussolini know, %?i wm ?"?? . Copyright? BRISBANE THIS WEEK. Herr Goebbels Brags One American at Rest Mother Was "Mean" Another Hapsburg In Berlin. Herr Goebbels, minister of propaganda, praising Hitler, says, "There will be no kaiser or king." He might have added that none Is needed, since In Hitler Germany has a kaiser, king and dictator, "three-ln-one." Herr Goebbels boasts: "Hitler does not Btart the day asking 'What do lead ing1 bankers say?' Rather, bankers be gin the day asking 'What does Hitler say ?' " Germany has no monopoly of that condition, Herr Goebbels will be sur I prised to hear how many baukers and other gentlemen In this country, who once thought they had money, begin I the day asking, "What does Koosevelt suy ?" j One American at least Is out of hi* troubles forever. Mr. Mcdloek, forty | eight years old, rents cotton land in 1 Greenville county. South Carolina, and ! thought he knew how much cottoj be i ought to plant to pay rent for his farm. After he had finished planting, govern ment Inspectors measured his cotton Ileitis and ordered him to plow under three acres. He had gone beyond his allowance. Medlock complained to his I family for two or three days, then I went behind the barn and shot himself through the heart, deciding that he, In J stead of the excess cotton, should he I "plowed under." Little Nora Ruth Nlciforos may with j confidence recite the prayer: "For j give us our trespasses, as we forgive j those that trespass against us." lie cause she had been disobedient, her mother, as shown in court, held the six-year-old child's lingers over a gas ilatne, "burning them severely." The ' child's mother, sentenced to days In : Jail, was treed when the little girl told i the Judge: "1 love my mommy. 1 ; Was a bad, bad girl and picked things I up alter she told me not to. She never I was mean to me before." It Is to he hoped that the mother will never be "mean" to her again. Prince Von Starhemberg, in a pri vate conference, saw Dictator Musso lini, and gossips suggest that Mussolini will encourage Austria to restore a | Hamburg, the young Otto, to Austria's throne. Otto, young heir of tlie Hapsburgs, Is extremely good looking, would deep ly Interest nny movie director. Rut, why people as Intelligent as the Austrlans should think of Inking on another Hapsburg after what the I last Hapsburg did to them l? hard to understand. There is little enough left of Austria now. Do the Austriuns want Italy or j Germany to take that little, or divide It between them? Never adopt a plan unless you know All about It. William Bryant, In the Louisiana penitentiary, read about IHlllnger's "escaping from prison with the aid of a toy pistol, made of wood, terrorizing guards by the dozen, taking away tholr weapons." A newspaper clipping about that pistol was found on Bryant's body after he had been shot dead, frying the snme "wotoden pistol" escape method. Bryant and his follow convict, Wil liam Chandler, whittled out two toy pistols ? two surely would he better than one. They nnd eleven other con victs that followed them were all killed, wounded or caught. It Is a pleasure to hear from the United States Chamber of Commerce that there are "only" seven millions out of work In this country. Mr. Green union labor head, says ten mil lions, hut the chamber says that Is "exaggerat Ion." On the other hand, statistics show that one family In every ten in New York city Is "getting home relief.'* which is oTir substitute expression for the dole. In New Y'ork 071.800 persons ?r? on the dole, 7,!trt0 more than the previous highest record. That does not indicate diminished unemployment. Government says It will "bnr profi teering" on food, following the drouth. Many administrations have said that, many times, but there Is no "bar." Where there is n scarcity there will be profiteering, nnd tlicre la a scarcity. Secretary Wallace says It will In crease the cost of living 0 to 7 per cent next winter. Sikorsky, who made the biggest pas senger plane now flylrtg successfully, the S 42 Brn/.lllan clipper, predicts "Wi ton alrcrnft," three times a? big ns R 42. The .VI- ton. heavier than air ship will come, puss nnd seem like n toy com pared with real airships of the future. Columbus. In his Mny caravel, might have predicted s Rnlllng ship KM) feet long. He could not have dreamed of a ship l/KX) feet long, driven by steam. The San Franrlsco Chamber of Com merce, reasonably, objects to removal of the government's gold from Cali fornia to Oilorado, with "earthquake hnr.hrd" offered as an excuse. Cali fornia wonders, If the government's real reason wns fear of attack from ?cross the Pacific, why It does not say a*. ft. King F>Miiro? flyildlotU, In?. WNU linlli