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[k^eamlr ror:Q BRAK E8 TAK E THE SPOTS LIGHT?Oo you llk? to ml whirling wheel* go around 7 Crowd* Ilk* thie exhibit In th*g Flr**t?n* Building at thai World'* Fair which depict* howl rapidly modern brake lining.! fWad* at th* Flrcaton* factory at| Akron, can atop * car. Charming girl* t*ll about brakaa. Th* Air Balloon tir** ihown In thl* brak* exhibit are mad* right th*r* In th* cam* World'* Fair Building. Minn it ***n*a y/ . s/7\ WORLD'S 8ERIE8. |i 'DETROIT OUT. 1 FIELDERS ? Left P to right: Cotlin, v White end Fox. ' ^ j lilSTERS? They'll belj (brother and alatar ? k? Clara " C I a r a n c e " ^ 8chretkengo?t, at left, a "girl" for nearly 20 yaara, who may become a boy thru one of the moat daring operations over to be' performed. A surgeon'a knife will seek to transform the dwarfed girl into a normal young man^-?.z^ GEORGE 8PLEVIN,"to I* survivor" of a stocking-foot marathon recently run from the Battery to the Bronte, N. V. City. He wore the new "No. 88" si(k super sock for men, guaranteed to keep your feet off the pavement even If you can't afford shoes. Plymouth Pants Co., purveyor of gents trouserings in the Gay Nineties, startled transaaAtlantic passengers by %having a brave mariner! / sail single handed 1 across the Atlantic with >o words "Plymouth ^*5? Pants" on the mainsail OfcC of his dory. What will America's press agents . think up next ? FOUNTAIN OF BEAUTV?Bathlmj form human fountain, a fea tur? of marino pageant and "Tournament of Lights" at Long Beach, California. - *-x: mi 11 hi "rimiiiii iiiftwiitriianitrt'rsfi'i it <?> SECRETARY OF WAR SEEKS GOLD? George H. Durn, in his . youth, was a gold prospector, and on a recent visit to his property at Park City, Utah, he put on his old clothes, and wielded a gold pan again. THE CAMERAMAN had to resort to double ex-j posure to record the astonishing ability of Clar-J~ cnct M. Willard, "The Man Who Grows." At left! of the handsome porcelain electric refrigerator In the Leonard Company exhibit at the Century of Progress. Mr. Willard appears at his normal level. The second exposure shows how he looks following hi* amazing growing act. Mr. Willard can be seen In the air conditioned theatre which Is a feature of tho exhibit in the Plert-ical Gulldlnn American Trade Dollars Were Meant for the Orient ! The trade dollar l? a silver coin that was brought Into existence In 1873 for export to China and other oriental countries to compete with the Spanish or Mexican dollars in circulation there, j It was renlly a device for promoting the exportation of American silver. Silver In this form was readily accept- i ed because of the government gunran- / tee of its weight and fineness. These j coins were Issued from 1873 to ' Inclusive. Trade dollars also entered very largely into the trade of the Pacific const states and territories, and later circulated extensively in every other state and territory. They were not intended b\ emigres* (u be legal tender hut through an error, the authorizing act made them legal tender for h i! in *> ufi to s.-lt The legal fender (juality. however, was withdrawn l?v a Joint res.dution of eongres'i. approved .11; 1 \ id.'. 1^70. aiel the coinage of trade dollars was limited to such numbers as Ho- Treasury department deemed silllicie:11 f. r the export demand. They were f.nally retired tinder an act apprised February IP. In^T. 'I rude dollars of 1 ss.",. l ss i ami 1 S8.~> are more rare than those coined during the other years, and if in proof condition command a premium. Pluto, Ninth Major Planet, Billions of Miles Away I'luto is the ninth major, planet of the solar s\stern. of the fourteenth arid fifteenth magnitude. The existence of this body had been predicted ^ In l'Jlo by the late Prof. Percival | Lowell. Lowells calculations were , based on the erratic behavior of Neptune, which was. then the farthest known planet; the discovery was made In March. 1030, by Clyde W. j Tornhaugh, assistant at the Lowell ol>- ( servatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. The event I created a sensation, and it was re- | ported that years of study would he needed to determine the facts Skep- [ tics In scientific circles suggested that the body was a comet, or that its discovery near the predicted position should he regarded as accidental. It Is stated that the orbit of Pluto Is from 2,800,0110.000 to 4,000.000,000 miles from the earth, from the orbit of which It Is Inclined 17 degrees. Calculated to he smaller than the earth. Pluto Is Invisible to most telescopes 1 because It Is not self-luminous and, being perhaps the most distant object In the solar system, receives very little light from the Bun. , Insane Once Believed to Be Devil-Possessed Since we know so little of the Inner workings of the humun mind, Insane asylums are really only places where the mentally ill are kept. And yet when one compares these Institutions and the care given to the Insane with methods used formerly, the least one can say Is that the Insane are now handled reasonably. rhlllpjK? Pinel, born In 1743, was not only an apostle of reasonableness as well as of human goodness, but possessed the medical training needed to cast aside the Ignorant superstitions regarding the insane. In those days in Prance, nnd In fact all over Europe, the Insane were Hogged, were believed to be possessed by the devil, were loaded with chains and Imprisoned with ihe sick and criminal: As-head of the I'icctre hospital In 1793 and as director of the Snipe: rlere In 17'.Pinel cast aside the chains of the Insane Inmates, substituted warm baths for the cold water immersion and instituted many reforms that seem only natural us. Claude Lillingsston also has offered to readers of Hygein Magazine the biography of Philippe Pinel, another of the "Pioneers of Medicine.'* Short Story of P?per About the time of Alexander the Great, paper began to be manufactured from an Egyptian plant called papyrus, whence comes the name pa per. It became so valuable that the exjxirt of. paper from Egypt was prohibited. The Greeks and Itomans did not have the secret nnd so they commenced to make use of skins prepared for the purpose. The product of sheepskin was railed "parchment" and that of calves was called "vellum." Finally these pieces were made up Into a continuous roll arid called "volomen,** which Is the origin of the word "volfrme." .Infill* ffiesar was responsible for making writing material In the form of pages, which was more convenient thnn the great roll. In inscribing the papyrus the ancients made use of a piece of bamboo cut much in the shape of the pen as we knew It. Allendale Man Pardoned Governor Blackwood has issued a full .pardon to Ilenry Brown of Allendale, convicted in 1930 of housebreaking and larceny. The pardon was Issued to restore citizenship lost by serving an 18-montha sentence. I [ Indian Women First to Make Marvelous Laces Feminine tourists to South Amerl-< can cities find keen delight In the beautiful laces which are used In profusion bj women of Spanish blood throughout the entire world. Strange as It may seem, however, many of the laces found in South America nre not of Spnnlsh origin, but were made by the Indian women long before the coming of the conquistadores. A particular lace which might well be mistaken for a cobweb, so fine is its texture and design, has been made by the Indian women of Paraguay for so long that its origin Is lost In the obscurity of legends. Ir. takes much time and Infinite patience to make this lace, known as ' nutiduti. and only those who have i known the art from mother to d nigh- j ter really know low to do It. The nnndutl lare is to be found I only In Paraguay. No ruber .utry makes It. an>| many buyers are -ont | from other countries in South Amer-'j lea to purchase it. In Paraguay, frequently whole vil- j lages are employed In the manufacture of these laces. If you pa*s the i half-opened door of one of the I runes j In these villages, you will see all the , women of the family, from the young | girls to the old grandmothers, bending over the frames making thee# laces. I Crushes Plotters Moving swiftly and surely, Col. ' Fulgencio Batista's little army on Wednesday smashed plotters who picked September 4th to overthrow the Cuban Government. Two young1 Cuban officers captured by Batista have been tried by military court and sentenced to death for high treason.' No Food Shortage Dr. Frederick C. Howe, consumers' counsel for the agricultural adjust- . ment administration, declares that! there is no food shortage; that there is no cause for hysteria. He warns that price-gougers will be summarily dealt with. Says Strike Unjustified George A. Sloan, president of the; Cotton Textile Institute, declares that I the impending nation-wide strike In the cotton textile industry "is not justified by the facts which have been , established by impartial government j economists." \ ' K H General News Notes The 'trial of Samuel Ihaull and 17 I co-defendants, for alleged misuse of | the mails in selling corporation se: curities, has been set to atart in Chicago on September 13. Insult's attorneys have been fighting for a separate trial for their client, but Judge Wilkersoti, who will hear the trial, has denied such motions. Secretary of the Treasury MOrgenthau has passed down an o.rder to government architects to cut out all "gingerbread" trimmings in the planning of federal buildings. It is said that plans for all federal buildings are being held up by the secretary until he can go over them and prune out all unnecessary and costly details. Future federal buildings are to be severely plain and practical. The dead body of Miss Faye New, 19, missing Howard college co-ed was found in a cornfield near Irondale, Ala., after a'search of several days, with her throat cut. (She had been missing from her home in Birmingham for two or three days. Harold Taylor, a friend of the girl, is being questioned by the police, as he was the last known person seen with her. Rev. R. H. Askew, Four-Square Gospel evangelist, has confesed that his alleged kidnaping from Goldsboro, N. C., was faked and that he wrote the letters to his wife demanding a $25,000 ransom. The evangelist disappeared August 13 and four days later turned up at a Nashville, Tenn., police station with a weird story that he had been held.by three men in a big green automobile. WM Ceelrel ^ In the face of the ravage* of the drought, farm administration officiate have under consideration limitation of wheat production in 1935 to 2,000,000 | or ntore acres under normal production. Capone On Inland "Scarface Al" Opone, former Chicago gang lord, and 42 other convicts were imprisoned amid utmost secrecy ! in the new federal prison on Akartraz Island in >San Francisco Bay. To Benefit Through Loans A broader use of federal Loans to assure farmers that eventually they would get as much for their crops as they did on the 1909-1914 average is predicted by farm administration officals. i* . James Dugan, business agent of the painters' union of Chicago, won a wild race for his life against a machine gun squad which attempted to kill him on the atreeie of Chicago. At the first volley Dugan bent low^ver the wheel of his car and raced for a police station, as the gunmen kept firing at him. He stopped his car and dashed into the police station amidst a final volley. ' A jury in a court at Richmond, Va., brought in a .verdict of first degree murder against Walter Lagensa, alleged member of the "Big George" Phillips tri-state gang, after a trial lasting less than 13 hours, for the killing of a Federal reserve bank mail truck driver there last March. 8. Lagenza was sentenced to die in the electric chair oil October 22. The jury was out but 36 minutes. BeqmeoU (Mwly Strli, J. A. Frier, president of the 6oot| Carolina Federation of Textile Work, ers, requests that members ot ^ textile unions in this state leave their jobs, post picket lines when sad if' national cqtton mill strike is calW and act doberly, avoiding bolster^ nesa and violence. Arrant Kidnap Suspect Jdaurice Monier, 84, of New Vmb" was arrested Wednesday by detects on the charge of threatening to kid. tnap the two daughters of Will*^ Fox, fprmer motion picture msguaU. unless he wae phid 160,000. Monier was held in default of >25,000 bail Plan Cat Island Probe The future* of the nudist colony on Cat inland in Beaufort County *m be investigated by Cover nor Bled, wood, after many requests from mini at era and others in the state. Tobacco Bales Help Farmers Many Georgia farmers have wip^ out .their entire production debts with the proceeds from the sale of their tobacco,^according to a statement i?. sued by the Farm Credit Adraiaistrs. tion, and many (South Carolina pd North Carolina fgrmers will be a)>l? to do the, same, it was said. Orders Rate Reduction The iSouth Carolina Railroad Commission has ordered the Chroliul Power A Light Company, of Bswleigh, N. C* to put into effect new rate schedules designated to save cotton mills in this state approximately 8 per cent of their present monthly payments. Only 5c a DAY .. I Stands Between . . . 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