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The Swan a Most Savage Bird i Condensed From Coronet, Frank E. 1 Crott) One day last April the body of teayear-old Eileen Foreman wai fouud floating In a shallow poud uear her home tn a suburb of Manchester. Eugland. . Police were at a loaa to account for the tragedy! The child had drowned In water only waste deep, yet there was no evideuoe of foul play?no sign ?f struggle no footprints but her own on the muddy shore, and no trace of au accidental slip Into the water. Suicide was possible, but highly Improbable. vrilVjr Then a newspaper account of the mystery mentioned the fact that a solitary swan lived In the pond. Immediately the police received letters and phone calls "putting the Anger" on Mr.-Swan as the murderer. This aeemed incredible, but In the next few days the police studied up on a wans. They decided that Eileen must have stood on the bank and loaned ovet to admire the feathery lord of the pond, whereupon the Bwau caught her*dress In its beak, pulled her into the water, and drowned her. This was* not just a handy explanation to advance in the absence of a human attacker. The swan, so beautiful In outline, so graceful In motion, m at times, the nastiest customer for its siig *ttd weight In the antmat kingdom. Tts elegance conceals a savage nature combining the treachery of the snake, the ferooity of the wildcat, and the tenacity of the bulldog. One ' afternoon' In August, 1936, Frank Thomas went fishing in the Thames near Reading. Terrified cries downstream brought him on the run to find four swans pulling a small boy into midstream. Thomas plunged in and managed to get the lad away from hi8 attackers, bringing him to shore half-drowned. The hoy had been tossing pieces o cake to the swans. Suddenly two of the birds seized hit* pants legs and dragged him into the water. The others pecked savagely at the helpless; child, and a peck from a swan is a dangerous blow. In battles between swans and dogs, the swans nearly alwhys win. When a fox terrier rushed a female swan sitting on her nest on a bank of thej Clyde near Glasgow last May. the head of the family swiftly Intervened. The female left everything to her consort. and he justified her confidence by knocking "the Invader sen"e*?88' with beak and wings. "Then, picking the terrier up by the neck, the swan took it into the stream and drowned R People living near HempBtead Heath pond during the. summer of 1930. were mystified by the disappearance of four pet dogs. The animals fate became apparent, however, when witnesses saw a fifth victim dispatched by Hercules, ap old male swan. Hercules left the water as soon as he saw the dog, an Irlah terrier. They joined battle' at once, and for Ave minutes the terrier gave a good account of himself. Then the hlrde ad vantage tn weight and weapons began to tell, and he beal the dog In , Inert maes. When two boys rushed ,o the rescue, Hercules hauled his op ponent Into the pond and administered the finishing touches heyond In terference. _ On a June day In 1925, Jean C P was cycling along a road near Mett. Suddenly a swan crashed dow him and bowled him over With two vicious thrusts of the beak, t e broke Carpln's nose and blinded his right eye forever. On July 16, 1*20, a seven-year-old hoy named Eric Baumer, the son or a-Mortmund manufacturer, went w^d 1b* in the River 8tever. HU nursemaid but under a tree twenty feet way on the bank, watching him. In a few mlnutee, three sWane came float In* around a bend in ^he river and swam up t0 ^e youngster. They formed a semicircle around him, and for a few seconds Krlc and the swans tared at each other. Theu the uurae sensing trouble called to Eric and got up and started toward him. She hud taken but a step when the center bird Innged at the child A?d grabbed his shirt. The lWrifled girl dashed forward, but one^ofi(1i$ other [Swans left the water to meet her on shore. While she tried to dodge past the big bird its two mates dragged the boy farther out into the stream. The nurse ran to get help. ' She fouud two meu who rushed bactf with her to the river, but the swaus, still mauling the boy, were out of reach. Neither of the meu could swim, and I they could not get within twenty! yards of the murder belug enacted before their eyes. When a boat arrived -half an hour later, little Eric was beyond saving. Such is the crime sheet of the Jekyli and* Hyde of birdland?the beautiful feathered savage- which will go for anything and which when it can get its adversary in the water,1 seldom comes ofT second best. Commenting on- this article, a noted ornithologist writes: "It Is true that swans can be quite formidable, but I in JuBtlce to these graceful ornaments j -ol-our ptuda and riYera it should he said that the chance of.a child's being killed by one is infinitely less than that of being atruck by lightnlug." ANNUAL LEGION CONVENTION TO BE HELD AT FLORENCE (P The Twentieth Annual convention of the American Legion, Department of South Carolina, will be held in Florence, S. C., beginning July 10 and running through July 12. Florence Is making great preparations to take care of the largest crowd ever assembled at a Legion gathering in South Carolina. Legionnaires from far and near will assemble to enjoy the festivities and take part in the program for the three days. The guest speaker for Monday will be Honorable Douglass McKay, President of the New York Title Insurance company, of New York. Mr. McKay is in outstanding insurance man, and has been very active in the affairs of the American Legion In New York State. Also appearing on the Monday program will be Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secr^'ary of Commerce, formerly of iftarlon. The main speaker for Tuesday will be James F. Daniel, Jr.,' of Greenville, S. C., National Vice Commander of the American Legion. Why No Visit To 8outh Carolina? The New Deal has its candidate for the United States Senate, marked, labeled and branded for public identification and recognition in Kentucky. The President is going iout into Kentucky to lend him a hand in his contest. The New Deal has its candidate in Georgia similarly marked, labeled and branded, and the President is going to Georgia to say a good. word for the opponent of the present Senator George. o ! K the New Deal really, as has been claimed by one of the candidates for the United States Senate in South Carolina, has its man in the thick of the light across the line from us, why does the President not include South Carolina in his friends-helping trek ? South Carolina has a right to feel itself to hpye been Presldentially slapped.?Tuesday's Charlotte Observer. ' V " ON THE SUM? IN PERSON Direct from the Paramount Thoolre New York City "The Trumpet King of SwW .-a1 " - - ^ j - LOUIS . f ARMSTRONG m 9 and hi* famous - ORCHESTRA F?attfHna SONNY WOODS? MIOQE WIULIAM% "RED" ALLEN -xt ' ?^ ? -- ifAQE 8HOWS KF 2:30?o: 00-^7 JSO^IOjjOO frfllCES: ?Matinee? AdulU 40c Children ?,V*** Children^....;? no ^7 TUESDAY. JUUY iz _ ^ ||AR0LINA THEAT FIND UTAH PLATEAU SCENIC WONDERLAND Rock Painting* an4 Dii>o?aur Tracks Revealed. Salt Lake City,?Geologists returning from exploration of the vast and desolate KaiparovHits plateau in southern Utah found it a scenic and archeologic wonderland, where they discovered: The tracks of a dinosaur embedded in a sandstone slab. Numerous ancient rock paintings in which the swastika is a prominent feature. A "mountain of tire" that h?m b?en burning for centuries. Five members of the Utah Museum society composed an expedition that set out into the 600-milasquare wilderness of deep-out canyons and high, almost inaccessible table-lands. Byron Davies. student archeologist, said the rock paintings, several thousand years old, were found on towering vermilion cliffs twenty miles southeast of Capnonville.' "Among the subjects of the paintings, remarkably "vivid and well preserved," he said, "were characteristic square-shouldered men, a woman kneeling, a large red German cross, fourteen human hands in various shades of red, green and yellow, huge butterflies, a number of swastikas, and two human figures ?a man and a woman?exercising on a sort of trapeze. ?ur second day out we discovered some perfectly preserved dinosaur tracks on a slab of ripplemarked sandstone of the Wingate formation. This was significant because other footprints of fos&il monsters found in Utah are in the younger series of the Mesozoic era. "There was one mountain at least a thousand feet thick partially met* amorphosed by the burning of its coal veins. Millions of tons of clays, shales and sandstone have been melted into a muse of the most complex colors imaginable. "Further On we saw this burning ( j process in operation. From a se- t , ries of abysmal cracks all along the top of a mountain smoke billows up from ancient but still-living fires. As the smoke comes to the surface ; it deposits on the rocks a yellow, j waxy material which, contrasting j with the blackened surfaces, heightens the 'inferno' appearance." The expedition, Mr. Davies said, j disclosed that there was an amazing 1 wealth of untouched scientific material throughout the Kaiparowits plateau. Abandoned Rail Coaches Converted Into Dwelling Niagara Falls, N. Y.?Two abandoned railroad cars which several years ago carried tourists along the now extinct Niagara gorge route, have been converted into a snug dwelling by an enterprising Niagara Falls bus driver. Willard Lockhart, unable to get a loan to build a house on a lot he owned, seized upon the opportunity to purchase the bodies of the cars for $50 each. After having the cars set parallel to each other on a cement foundation he had built, Lockhart, during his spare time, replaced the old floors with hardwood, redecorated and painted both cars and blocked, out some of the windows. The vestibule of one of the cars, serves as a kitchen with an electric range and other modern equipment. The remainder of the car'is used as a parlor. The other car is parti? tioned into three bedrooms. " I Weather Man Points tc Cat as Fair Forecaster Amarillo, Texas.?H. T. Collman, weather man who has been on the job for 28 yerira, places a lot of faith in cats, telephone poles, fiddle strings and in the weather. "4 house cat is a fair forecaster at times," Collman said.* "When a - cat puts on heavy fur in the fall, you can look for a hard winter. When a cat wants to eat all the time. It's a good sign a cold snap is on the way. But if the cat eats little or refuses to eat in winter months, ifs a good sign of continued warm weather, | - ^Tou can go pretty far by telephone wires, too. tt a telephone line sings, and sings loudly, you can look for a cold spelt <* . \ / i Dove Sates Largs Appetite Rutland, Vi.?A dove flew into the ' home of Frank M. Capeless end ate four0plates of chocolate pudding, a pound bar of gutter and the contents of the sugan bowl before it was ejected. y , . - - - I Wedding Parades Out, ^ Police Chief Rules Lorain, Ohio.?A wedding ia a> - very happy event, agrees Police Chief Theodore Walker, but hebelieves it no occasion for eh** dangesing the lives of sane and, non-participating citlaens. % decreed . "Blissful brides and grooms and hilarious attendants mustJ ~ call a halt,to their post-marital . parades through* the city^jvith ; ^torns tooting madly, a half-dozen f- cars speeding in 1an unbroken ? line, loud"cheerthg and w?ef; manifestations of unusual happinass.J,,~ gt* Health Is Problem Of While People lu au article written for the Survey Graphic I>r. Thomas Parran, Burgeon General, United State* Public Health Service, nays: "Health 1* the problem of the whole people. Tuberculo la and syphilis because of their prevalence and preventablllty are today's greatest health problems. My early I Intelligent treatment of the individual. we cau check the spread of both I diseases In the uatlon as a whole. If t*a determined an effort were made against human tuberculosis as has been made to eradicate bovlue tuberculosis by conjunction of federal and ''atate action, in a single generation we could bring It down to the level of typhoid fever which now la luconsld-, arable as a causa of death. If as con-' certed au effort were made against syphilis as has been made against the boll weevil, we could stamp it out as a pubUo health menace In only half a generation, for, we have somewhat better tools against It. To do this moans putting Into effect the same basic program for both diseases,1 Which Is; Find all cases early, treat all patients, continuously, considerately, competently until they are ^cured. "Disease Is ao respecter of persons. .Yet in the nation at large tuberculosis and syphilis are menaces because treatment Is frequently dependent upon thp status of the persons. We could not exist as a nation?half slave and half free. We cannot exist as a nation?half whole and half digeased. "Let us develop our life-saving practice to a point which Is comparable with our life-taking armaments; let us begin where there is the greatest useless loss of life, which Is among our negro citizens. Let us attack the great plagues of tuberculosis and -syphilis among them and among ourselves simultaneously and systematically for a final victory. Lot us bo realistic enough to take the short cut to the attainment of that victory by intelligent team work with the negro himself. "Until the economists show us how we can equal material opportunity lor each child, let us at least make sure that each boy and girl born an American, whatever his race or parentage, has an equal opportunity for life and health. We have no defpnse, unless *11 are safe among us." I There are about 40,000 Eskimos in' the entire Arctic. CANADA'S FRIENDLY ACT. The quadrant of Admiral John Paul Jones,""FAther' of the American Navy, was formally presented to President Roosevelt by Mayor D. Lawrence MacLareu of St. John, New lirunswlck, as a gift to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. The presentation was made on June 2, 1938, when' the President addressed the graduating class at the Naval Academy. There 1h an Interesting history attached to the relic. After the death of the naval hero, his quadrant was given to his grand nephew, Simon Graham, who came to Canada from Scotland and settled at Rexton. N. B. Graham's son gavo the quadrant! to D. L. MacLareu, father of the present Mayor of St. John, Mayor MacLaren, In company with Sir Herbert Marler, Canadian minister to the United States, presented tho relic to President Roosevelt. This friendly action on the part of Canada had the warm approval of Prime Minister MacKenzle King, who expressed himself as pleased that a Canadian restored this historic treasure to the United States. The Incident | will further promote, the friendly re J latlons existing between our two ' countries. During the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor lit* Laren's father wrote the Chief Executive, offering to give the quadrant to the United States. Thin letter never reached the President. Some White House aide, whose'"racial and rellgMous views evideutly bore no love : either for the Father of the American Navy or His Brltannle Majesty's ^reat Northern Dominion, sent the elder MacLaren a moat discourteous note rejeoting the generous offer, In this day of conquest, greed for ; territory, suspicions, hatreds, undeolared wars and the like, it is gratifying to And the United States and Canada in Buch complete accord. In fact, in view of our coffimon interests, closely similar democratic principles, and almost identical idelogles of government, it is rather difficult to de-'. termine just where the United States < ends and Canada begins, as borderfortifications and armed soldiery are, happily, absent. Mayon volcano in the Phllllpptnes, is again active, after being quiescent or several weeks. I fOR' yOUR ( pROTtcriON ^ - r ^ x * Are You a Saver with Us? 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