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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
BIAS BAY IS LAIR
OF MODERN PIRATES
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Suddenly Polite
Why? He Is Prepared
Thought for Atheists
Strange Hangings
How politely Germany Is treetsdr-
suddenly, by the “victorious allies”!
———Recently Germany
was kicked around.
all her money taken
by the allies, French
and English sol
diers camping on
her territory at her
expense, the Ver
sailles treaty stern
ly enforced. ,
a change
now 1 England sends
a clever statesman
to talk It over with
Hitler the moment
he throws the Ver
sailles treaty on to
the rubbish heap.
France Is almost polite jn messages
to Germany. No more threats; no
more “Do as we say!"
Sinister Activities Masked
by Agriculture.
Washington.—The odd pirate “in
dustry” of Bias Bay, China, where 70
children were spectacularly rescued
recently by British warships and air
planes, after they had been held by
pirates for two and a half days, Is de
scribed In a bulletin from the Na
tional Geographic society.
“For many years the district around
Bias Bay has had an unsavory fepQta-
tlon as the headquarters of pirate
gangs who infest the China coast,” says
the bulletin. “Outwardly the 10,000
people of the Bias Bay region are
peaceful farmers, but agriculture mere
ly masks more sinister activities. Bias
Bay residents are always ready to
Lights of New York
fry LL STEVENSON
Chemists Seek Means of
Slowing Down Oxidation
Arthur Brisbane
You know what causes this. Hitler
lets it be known that he has been
preparing for a war in case anybody
wants one; that Germany has a well
drilled army of half a million men and
an enormous fleet of commercial air
planes that could drop explosive bombs
and poison gas most conveniently.
In other words, Germauy is pre
pared, willing, ready and able to fight
If anybody insists .on it
So nobody insist*.
There may be a lesson there for this
country, that, If attacked, could only
throw a few lumps of gold at the
enemy and plead: “Please be nice."
- JElylna is JLke human life in thl3,_
you do not see what it is that pulls you
along through the upi>er air.
You look at the three engines, stick
ing out into space ahead of you, and
see no sign of power, nothing to ex
plain the speed and climbing power or
what It Is that keeps you aloft.
The propellers move at a speed that
makes them invisible. You know that
you move, but do not see what moves
you.
4 "lergyman might find a text
for utheists in that. Your athe
ist, or gentleman from Senegam-
bia, would say: “Do not talk to me
of a trinity of propellers that haul me
to my destination and my destiny. If
there were any such propellers 1
should see them.”
In Austria, Nazis are supposed to
have murdered~TTigAAasrfian ^chatTggi-
lor, Dollfuss. Now the government
that succeeds Dollfuss will hang 17
Nazis as a start. There is nothing
novel In that. Where you have dicta
torship you have wholesale killings.
They go together.
The Interesting thing is the method
of hanging in Austria. They have no
"drop" which causes the criminal to
break his neck by the Jerk of his own
weight A.jispse Is put around the
criminal’s neck, and as he hangs “as
sistant executioners” pull ar his feet
until he chokes to death. It must
be a disagreeable spectacle, even for
the “assistant executioners.”
lan<| booty from captured ships and
to dispose of it through regular re
ceivers of stolen. goods.
How $hips Wars Boarded.
“During the old sailing days these
freebooters usually stopped pussing
ships by the simple method of stretch
ing a cable between twb junks; then,
as the rope was caught by the victim's
bows, the junks could be swung along
side, so that the boarding of a vessel
was an easy matter.
“With the coming of ^ steamships,
their technique changed to boarding
the steamers as passengers and, vat
the right moment, taking possession,
then forcing its officers to sail the
ship Ibto Bias Bay for looting. When
riding a Chinese coastal steamer to
day, one is comparatively safe from
these piratical attacks, but he has the
'eellng of being aboard a floating jail
or prison ship, because the first-class
quarters and the bridge are usually
separated from the rest of the ship
>y heavy Iron .grills, and all the ship’s
officers are 1 armed like policemen.
“Many thrilling tales are told of
pirate raids on coastal shipping, fea
tured by unusual bravery against
heavy odds. Officers sometimes use
deep-sea leads and other ready wea
pons in pacifying pirates, and British
judges at Hongkong and Shanghai
deal quick justice to captured out
laws. Death is the penalty for cut
throat leaders.
Women Lead Pirates.
“In these South China waters, too,
are other pirate groups,- some led by
women, who specialize on fishing fleets
and lighterage Junks. They are dis
guised as fisherfolk, and, if they do not
loot their victims, they exact a heavy
toll for ‘protection.’
“North of the Bias Bay region, and
directly astride the Tropic of Can
cer, is the important seaport of Swa
tow, long closed to all foreigners, but
now a busy shipping point for linen
embroidery and laces. - Nearly
Swatow’s exports go to American
markets.”
Gay lives those members of.the po
lice narcotic squad lead. For 1|»-
stance, Detective Thomas Mason?
Three months ago, the situation in
lower Harlem having become quite
bad, he was sent out to get the higher
up in a dope ring; With that order,
Mason disappeared and a dirty, ragged,
shifty-eyed figure with -A drooping
shoulder appeared on uptown side
streets. Soon the peddlers accepted him
as. “one of us.” He engaged in yari-.
ous small deals. Then peddlers and
addicts alike began to have hard luck.
One by one, they were apprehended,
their supplies confiscated and varying
prison terms meted out. When 64 had
been arrested, there was panic. It
wasn’t only shortage of supplies that
caused the trembling.— A mysterious
shadow hung over the racket, the only
explanation being that someone on the
inside had turned stool pigeon and
was selling out his friends. ‘
Oxygen, which gives ns life, is
also man’s greatest Industrial ene
my, notes a writer in the MontrAl
Herald. The air we breathe con
tains one-fifth oxygen, and this gas
is a highly corrosive substance.
When a house burns down it is
simply combining with the oxygen
in the air. When soap turns brown
on a chemist’s shelf It la merely an
other Instance of the corrosive qual
ity of oxygen Bnt it Is the tootor
Industry that suffers most from the
ravages of oxidation. Its two chief
organic essentials, rubber^and pet
rol, are especially susceptible.. Thou
sands of pounds worth of these ma
terials have been utterly wasted
owing to the action of air—and
now the scientists have struck back
They hav^ been experimenting with
the - develoiynent of substances
known as antl-oxldanrs These com
pounds when mixed with any prod
uct, slow down oxidation to such an
extent that Ip** usefulness and life
are increased tenfold.
SOFT WATER BEST
Now York state mnitatlon officials
figure that It is profitabls to under
take the softening of any water sup
ply having a hardness of over 160
parts per million, since there is a
saving la soap, plumbing repairs,
fuel and clothing.
SNAKES KILL EAC& OTHER
la a battle between a cobra aai
a mamba in London both wore se
verely bitten, the mamba being (ha
first to succumb, and the cobra dy
ing while trying to swallow its dead
enemy, each falling vltflm to thn
other's venom.
NoW Relieve Your Cold
“Quick as You Caught It
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a Taka a BAYER AmWn Tab
Maks aura you sat the BA^
Tablets you aak for.
Learned professors tell you the say
ing “beautiful but dumb" Is silly, un
true. On the contrary, beauty and -In
telligence go together. Also, there Is
no intelligence thaMs not beautiful In
itself. ‘
Follow Intelligence up through the
animal kingdom. Your female gorilla
is a horribly ugly creature. The chim
panzee, more Intelligent, Is less ugly.
The lowest female savage, horrible to
look at. Is less atrociously ugly than
the female chimpanzee, and so on all
the way up.
Convicts at work in a California
county road camp, in Elizabeth can
yon, rebelled “because they had do
bashed-brown potatoes" for breakfast
It was a substantial breakfast—prunes,
cereal, griddle cakes, but no hashed*
brown potatoes.
Men change. When Parmentier, for
whom the excellent potato soup, pot
age Parmentier, is named, brought the
first potatoes to France nobody would
eat them.
An Jntefiigent king ordered the nobles
at court to wear potato blossoms in
their buttonholes in the spring.^ Imme
diately the common people said, “Pota
toes must be good” and ate them.
The name suggested for a new state,
that would be number forty-nine, Is
"AbsarokaT*"* name and state to be
created by putting together western
North Dakota, the northern third of
Wyoming and one row of counties
• along the southern border of Montana.
That dreadful name chosen for this
forty-ninth state, “Absaroka," is the
name'of the Crow Indian nation.
As long as it Is -to be one of the
United States, why not select a United
States name, Lincoln, Edison, or some
other with a meaning?
Mason, with the arrest of, the »mall
fry, reported progress. But he wasn’t
satisfied—the big shot was still at
liberty. Finally his weeks of inten
sive work were rewarded. He located
the man he believed was the main
source of supply. A deal was arranged,
the suspect setting the meeting place.
That pleased Mason since he knew the
source of supply would be nearby. So
when he passed over his money and re
ceived the goods, he threw bis arms
around the peddler’s neck. The ped
dler, thinking Mason the stool pigeon
who had caused all the trouble for his
customers, put up a battle. But Ma
son's signal brought assistance and the
dope peddler was taken to the hos
pital. Search of a nearby basement
revealed $15,000' worth of drugs.
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Mason, the dirt washed from his
face, the stoop goue from bis shoul
ders and bis eyes again steady, is back
on regular routiner^ What his next
assignment will be, he doesn’t know.
None of the members of the narcotic
squad do. That’s why I said they lead
gay lives. But maybe “gay” Isn’t the
right word. , .
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Remaining In Harlem for, a little
while longer, there was that eight-
foot alligator which your volunteer
snow shovelers captured in a man
hole. It was quite an adventure am
furnished a thrill for the entire neigh
borhood since alligators, especially
eight-foot ones, are a novelty even in
Harlem where so many strange things
happen. One of the snow shovelers
leaped down into the manhole onto the
reptile's back. The alligator, a bit
numbed by cold and ice dumped into
its dwelling, didn’t do much until it
| .had^een hauled up with a clothesline.
Then it went into action. The snow
shovelers did likewise with their tools
in trade and soon the alligator was en
tirely null and void. It didn’t seem to
have much value dead, so late the
Wyoming From Airplane I san,e night, It was hauled away on o
1 department of sanitation truck and
probably ended at Barren Island.
Pictorial Signs
- So that travelers from all parts
of the world may understand, pic
torial signs have been erected at
Parkeston Quay, Harwich. England,
a telegraph pole Indicating the tefe
graph office, a trunk the baggage
room and a big question mark the
Information clerk.
m Drink a full kU« of i
trsatmant in Thom.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 00 years aj
They regulate liver and bowels.—A<
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Labor
It ta not what the world has to
offer you, but what you have to
offer the world, that makes you
success or a failure. A determined
soul can do more with a rusty mon
key-wrench 'than a loafer wll]^p
compllsh with all the tools in a^ma
chine shop.—Grit
Constipation Troubles
Thedford’s Black-Draught is made
of the dried, ground-up leaves and
roots of plants that act on the bowels
when they are sluggish or consti
pated. For refreshing relief when
you need a laxative, take this de
pendable, purely vegetable medicine.
“I was almost down; was bloated,
and had gas pains until I was in a
bad fix,” writes Mr. J. W. Dillard, of
Jonesboro, Ark. “I had heard so
much about Black-Draught, I wanted
to try it I began taking small doses
after meals. I found it was helping
me. I have regulated my bowels.”
THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT
For ufmoMingfy Fart
Remember Directions
in These Simple Pictures
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The simple method pictured hen it
the way many doctors now treat
colds and the aches and pains eoMs
bring with them!
It is recognized as a safe, sunt
QUICK way. For it will relievo aa
ordinary cold almost as fast as yo«
caught it.
Ask your doctor about this. And
when you buy, be sure that you get
the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets.
They dissolve (disintegrate) almost
instantly. And thus work almost in
stantly when you take them. And
for a gargle. Genuine Bayer Aspirin
Tablets disintegrate with speed and
completeness, leaving no irritating
particles or grittiness. *
BAYER Aspirin prices have been
derisively reduced on all sizes, so
there’s no point now in accepting
other than the real Bayer article yon
want.
3 If throat is sore, crush and stir S
• BAYER Aspirin Tablets in a third
of a glass of water. Gargle twice. This
eases throat soreness almost instantly.
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U. S. Will Count Elk in
Jackson, Wyo.—Airplanes have been
pressed into use as flying chapels for
wedding ceremonies and have been
used to spray potato fields, but now
government officials are planning to
employ one In counting elk.
In the Jackson Hole country, a
plane will be used during the taking
of the annua] spring census. Elk In
the government game refuges will be
tallied on the ground, but the animals
Curiously, while snow shovelers were
engaged in an alligator battle Id Har
lem, a border patrolman was doing
the same thing down In McMlllen,
Texas. The Lone Star alligator,
killed with a rifle, was only six feet long,
however. Despite that. It was held
to be the largest alligator ever killed
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which take to the hills will be count
ed by plane.
An extremely Accurate count,* offi
cials said, can be Tnade from the air
by those familiar with the habits of
tbe elk. Most of the flights will be
made in late afternoon, when tbe
herds come down from the hills.
The census may settle tbe argu
ment between those who claim that
too many were killed this season and
those who believe that the herd is In
creasing fast enough to justify a large
kill.
Between 3,000 and 3,500 elk were
shot this year.
Aged Doctor Attends
Sixth Generation Birth
Shelby, Ohio.—Dr. M. T. Love, who
has practiced medicine lh^ Shelby Baby Alligator Broke
in the Rio Grande valley. Thus,
Harlem alligators are bigger. Whether
they are better, of course, is open to
question.
Reptiles of various kinds are not
uncommon in the City of. the Seven
Million. Only the other evening, a
gentleman, after a somewhat liquor
ish party, ou returning to his mid-
town apartment, encountered ou the
stairway what looked like a snake
about five or six feet In length. Not
being a man easily fooled, he kicked
the snake out of the way and thus dis
covered that It wasn’t imagination.
When he was revived, he learned that
one of the pets of a vaudeville actress
who dwells on the upper floor had
started out for an airing.
C. Bell Syndlette—WNU Service.
more than forty-five years, has Just
attended ihe-hirtA of Ihe first child in
the sixth generation of a family he
began treating more than forty years
ago. • •’—~— “
In the Ws Doctor Love had a pa
tient of the name Stofier, then more
than eighty. Stone’s daughter, Mrs.
David Hanna/us, Mrs. .Ben Hooker,
mother of a baby girl, were all pa
tients. The physician has attended
ten families of flye generations, but
this was his first of six generations.
# Old Grindstones Found
Noth Loup, Neb.—Ancient grlnd-
1ns stones, believed used by sonx>
primitive Inhabitant of Nebraska, have
been unearthed here.
Postal Clerk's Slumber
Northampton, Mass.—Afthe witching
iour of 4:30 a. m. things are usually
quiet, especially in a small-town post
office, but—
- Louis E._Dragoiu night clerk at tbe
local ipost office, was awakened ^-by a
strange,, crawling disturbance nearby.
He was startled by wbat at first seemed
to be a monster with Its jaws wide
open gazing at him. He peered once
more and, sure enough, It was a. hun
gry alligator—about a foot long.
The baby alligator, addressed to a
Smith college student, bad escaped
from Its cage.
m MOTHER SUFFERED WTH
the same Things, vue harmm ^
THE DOCTOR SAID SHE HAD
COFFEE-NERVES. SO SHE
Switched from coffee to i
aostum anD rr made a
HAPPIER, HEALTHIER WOMAN
OUT OF HER ! ^
THE NERVE
OF HIM/ TELL
HIM TO MIND
HIS OWN
Business and
SCRAM/
THE llEXt MORNING
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HAVE BEEN PRINM*] IU TRY
IDO MUCH COFFEE.
WONT YOU PLEASE
DRINK POSIUM THIS
MORNING AND STICK
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Two Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Switx
from East Orange, N. J., with twenty
alleged accomplices, accused of spying
for Russia, will be tried in Paris within
a few days. The Switses and others
ire accused of Informing "a foreign
power” of French secrets concerning
high explosives, planes built to .fly
through the stratosphere and across
the Atlantic In six hours, wad “cheml-
■oil warfare secrets,” which aaeans rec
ipes for more deadly gases. v
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Shrine to St Peter
V Erected on Galilee
Jerusalem. — A new Catholic
shrine dedicated to the institution
of the primacy of 8L Peter has
Just been completed on the western
riiore of the Sea of Galilee, be
tween Capernaum and the Mount
of the Beatitudes.
_ The chapel was constructed as
a memorial to Holy Year, marking
the 1900th anniversary of the death
of the Saviour, and It la reputed
to stand oq. the place mentioned In
the Gospels where be instituted the
Primacy of St Peter.
Few Visitors to Spain
' Discover Columbus' Port
Paloa, Spain.—Few visitors to Spain
discover this village near Seville, al
though ^it is from here that Columbus
sailed to discover America. Today
Palos has a colossal statue erected to
bit memory in 1929, the gift of Amer
ican friends to Spain. The tomb .of
Columbus is in the CathedraT of Se
ville, third largest in the world, and
his sarcophagus is borne by four onor-
mous bronze figures, representing tbs
ancient kingdoms of Leon.
Aatslopo Rsfago PUnn
* Bend, Ore.—A vast antelope Yefugs
of 814,000 seres, capable of harboring
10,000 antelopes. Is being planned Is
the Hart mountain s^nntry under ltd
era) supervision. .
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B OB, I knew cofEee was bod for
children—but I had no idea
it could have such an effect on
Dad!”
"Certainly—it bother*’lota of
that way, Fran. The caffein in coffee sets
their nerves on edge, keeps them from aleeping, -
gives them headaches or indigestion."
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