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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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." \
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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.
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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.
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"Rest Robber"
7 hours on a
Beauty Rest I
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Perhaps YOU CAN'T AFFORD A FINE HOME |
BUT YOU CAN AFFORD TO . SLEEP
ON THE VERY SA ME MATTRESS MILLIONAIRES
CHOOSE FOR THEIR
HOMES.
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HOME FURNISHING COMPANY f
EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME v ift '
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