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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940 Russ Station 2 Miles From U.S. Is Planned for Scientific Research, Including Weather Study. WASHINGTON, D. C.—A new Rus sian “Arctic station” is being es' tablished on Big Diomede island, in Bering strait between the mainland of Alaska and the mainland of Si beria, according to news reports from Moscow. “Arctic stations’ have been set up at various points in the Soviet Union’s far-flung icy domain in recent years. In May, 1937. such a station was established on the ice within 10 or 12 miles of the North pole, and later drifted southward. The various stations are announced to be set up primarily to facilitate scientific research includ ing studies of weather. “The new Russian station on Big Diomede island is within sight of U. S. territory,” says the National Geographic society. “Big Diomede’s companion island, Little Diomede, on the U. S. side of the Siberian- Alaskan boundary line through Ber ing strait, is only two miles south east. But despite this short dis tance, it is noon Tuesday on Big Diomede when it is noon Monday on Little Diomede. This is because of a man-made ‘time fence,’ the Inter national Date Line, which has been traced between the islands and on southward, dividing the Western and Eastern hemispheres. Islands Sparsely Settled. "The two rocky islands rise al most exactly in the middle of Bering strait, where the easternmost main land tip of Asia is 55 miles from the westernmost tip of Alaska. In clear weather one mainland head land is visible from the other. The weather is usually misty, however, in this region just south of the Arc tic circle. Heavy fogs hid the is land from their Russian discoverer, Vitus Bering, when he first passed them on his way through the strait which bears his name. When he lat er sighted one of the islands, he gave it the name Diomede because the date, August 16 (1728) was St. Diomede’s day in the church cal endar. “Little Diomede is a two-mile-long oval rock rising steeply 1,000 feet from the waters of Bering strait. Big Diomede, to the northwest across the U. S.-U. S. S. R. frontier, is larger, higher, and steeper. Few er than 30 Eskimos live on Big Di omede, but the village climbing the rocky slope above the narrow boul der beach of Little Diomede has more than 100 inhabitants. In sum mer most of the Little Diomede Es kimos sail over to Nome, Alaska, tor seasonal work. Eskimos Live Frugally. “The rocky surfaces of both is lands are covered with dark, scaly lichens, except when summer brings blooms of blue monkshood and the walnut-sized ‘Eskimo potato.’ The only animal life is the host of auk- lets, puffins, kittiwakes, and other Arctic birds that breed on the steep slopes. Occasionally a fox or white bear roams out over the ice from the mainland. The Eskimos on both islands live frugally on fish, sea mammals, and birds, the latter caught in long-handled nets from rock blinds. “On the trail of pre.iistoric Eski mo migrations, the National Geo graphic society and the Smithsonian institution jointly sponsored an ex pedition in 1936 which visited both Little and Big Diomede islands. Ev idence from kitchen middens on both islands showed that this was the route by which Eskimos entered America from Asia, presumably some 2,000 years ago, bringing with them the ‘Golden age’ culture of what is known as the ‘Old Bering sea’ period of Eskimo history. It Refugees to Canada From British Isles Gracie Fields, famed British comedienne who has been entertaining Tommies at the front, shown among some of the British refugee children brought to Canada. Right: Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands holding one of her children on train at Halifax, while F. E. H. Groenman, Netherlands minister to Canada, holds her eldest child. The royal party will reside temporarily at a vacation resort in Canada. O Thornton W. Burefess CHATTERER DOES A LITTLE SPYING f"' HATTERER the Red Squirrel watched Jenny Wren out of sight, and all the time he appeared to be in a brown study over some thing. The truth is, he was thinking of something Jenny Wren had said and wondering how he could turn it to his own advantage. You know Jenny had been gossiping. Yes, sir, that is what she had been doing. She had been gossiping about Bully the English Sparrow and Mrs. Bully, and she had mentioned the fact that "If be comes over here I’ll show him what is what!” boasted Bully. they had six eggs in the nest they had built in the house .they had stolen from Skimmer the Swallow. The very mention of eggs always set Chatterer’s mouth to watering. And Jenny had said that there were six of them! He shut his eyes and tried to picture six eggs in his mind. The more he did this the more his mouth watered. "I must have a look at this Bully and his wife,” thought Chatterer. “I knew that a couple of strangers had come to live in the Old Or chard, but I hadn’t given them any is highly probable, although not yet proved, that by this same route man first entered the American conti nent, by some pre-Eskimo migra tions of the ancestors of the Amer ican Indians.” Unnatural Natural Enemies attention. If they are not too big it may be—it just may be—that some thing will happen to those eggs, just as Jenny Wren wished.” There was a wicked twinkle in Chatterer’s eyes as he thought this. Later in the morning Chatterer visited the Old Orchard quite as if he. had nothing in particular on his mind. He jumped from one old ap ple tree to another, and every time he came near a nest he came in for a round scolding. But he didn’t mind this. He was used to it. He scolded back, and to have heard the noise you would have thought that a dreadful quarrel was in prog ress, when really it didn’t mean any thing at all. But Bully the English Sparrow and his wife, who had moved out from the city, didn’t know this, and they promptly bustled out to see what was going on. Bully noticed right away that Chatterer didn’t offer to go very near any of the nests, so right away he made up his mind that Chatterer was a coward. “If he comes over here I’ll show him what is what!” boasted Bully, and strutted up and down for Mrs. Bully to admire his bravery. Now, Chatterer was far too sly to get into needless trouble. When he saw the size of Bully he grinned in contempt. He wasn’t afraid of a little fellow like that. Not much! It was going to be ( easier to get those six eggs than he had thought. Still, it was foolish to make more trouble than was necessary. Even a little bird could hurt some times when thoroughly angry, and then, again, birds had such an un comfortable way of helping each other. Somehow he had a feeling from what Jenny Wren had said that the other birds would not help Bully if he got into trouble, but they might, and it was a great deal bet ter to wait until the coast was clear. So Chatterer kept away from the house of Bully the English Sparrow, but all the time he was spying. That means that he was watching all that Bully and Mrs. Bully did. He was learning their ways. You see, he was planning in that cunning brain of his to try for those eggs when Bully was away from home, and so he was learning by watching just how Bully spent his time. That night Chatterer chuckled as he curled up in his snug bed. “To morrow,” said he, “I will dine on eggs—six eggs! Um-m-m, I can al most taste them now!” ® T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. This picture shows three natural enemies of the animal world, a bird, cat and dog enjoying a bit of food with the trite remark by the photographer, "Huh, if they can do it, what’s the matter with Europe?” Racing Pigeons Serve Valiantly for R. A. F. LONDON. — Nearly 4,000 racing pigeons were supplied during one month to operational aircraft of the royal air force coastal command through the agency of the National Pigeon service. The pigeons are carried on coast al reconnaissance aircraft as an ad ditional means of cqmmunication in an emergency. Of 14 messages re cently sent every one reached its destination safely. One of the most gruelling flights by these “feathered airmen” was made by a bird which was released from the neighborhood of Stavan ger, Norway. Despite unusually unfavorable weather conditions, it reached home safely, having flown nearly 250 miles across the North sea. Woodpecker Drillings Backed Up by Bees KINGSTON, N. C.—It might be something new in the building game, but: Some woodpeckers came along and drilled holes in the columns of Mrs. C. Felix Harvey’s home. Very soon, some bees swarmed by, spotted the holes and began storing honey inside the columns. Record of Indian Trek 500 Years Ago Found BERKELEY, CALIF.—An anthro pologist’s successful four year search for the rare old document known as the Codex Fernandez Leal, picturing a Mexican Indian migra tion some time between the Eighth and Fifteenth centuries, was hailed today as a signal contribution to early Mexican history. The document, about nine feet long and so fragile it suggests an Egyptian parchment, was made from so-called wild silk, experts say, and painted with mineral and vegetable colorings of astonishing brilliance. It is said to be at least 500 years old. The search was conducted by Dr. John Barr Tompkins, research fel low in anthropology at the Univer sity of California. The codex was found, wrapped in brown paper, in a seldom visited comer of the Crocker First National bank’s stor age vault in San Francisco. It is to be turned over to the Bancroft library here. The codex pictures a long migra tion of an unidentified Indian tribe from a point in what now is Guate mala, northward through the Isth mus Tehauntepec. Experts say the tribe may have been the Cuicatecan of the Aztec period, whose descend ants still live in Oaxaca. Ups By V.V. some Hollywood beauties do, but try this exercise instead. Start near the wall and climb up it with your feet until your heels go as high as pos sible. Be sure the weight is on your shoulders. Feel the blood run to your head. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) There’s Always a Catch EXETER, CALIF J. P. Wells and family enjoyed eating the 26- inch trout he brought home as proof of his fishing prowess. Next day he learned that if he still had the fish to exhibit he would have won a fine casting rod. NAZI REFUGEES FROM EUROPE START LIFE ANEW IN IOWA WEST BRANCH, IOWA. — Far from the battlefields that once were their homes, a number of European refugees are rebuilding their lives here in the quiet of the Scattergood War Refugee hostel. Fifty men and women have en tered the hostel to prepare for life in this country since 24-year-old John Kaltenbach took over the old Quaker boarding school a year ago to give refugees from European oppres sion a new chance in a new world. As soon as they have been taught to serve usefully in this country, they leave the hostel to take up their lives where they left off when forced to flee from persecution. “We have former factory man agers, judges, attorneys and other professional men, all banned be cause somewhere they were of Jew ish extraction. It took nothing more than a great-grandmother or father to do it,” Kaltenbach said. The occupants work in gardens, take care of tasks of the hostel, study English, economics and other such subjects and engage in any other work useful in their little com munity. Many of them still have relatives in Europe. Representative of the group is a Russian emigre from Germany. A soldier of the czar during the World war, he was captured by the Germans. After the revolution in Russia he remained in Berlin rather than live under a Communist gov ernment. He became the Berlin representa tive of an American motion picture company and became moderately successful. Then the purge sepa rated him from his family and even tually brought him to the United States and to Iowa. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—Future historians, dredging up the story of the wreck Of European civilization, will find that some of these tragic events . were precise- Propheciea More i y described illuminating Than before they Later Spot News ^ appeped ‘ Some of these prophecies may be more illuminat ing than later “spot news” accounts. There’s Henri de Kerillis, French Nationalist deputy, recently arrived in Ottawa in behalf of General De Gaulle’s die-hard committee. On December 22, 1939, M. De Keril lis published in his newspaper “Epoque” a minutely detailed ac count of a conspiracy to oust Pre mier Daladier and install Marshal Petain in that office. He wrote: “The object of this conspiracy is to convince the greatest and most famous of military chiefs—Marshal Petain—that he must resign himself to accepting the premiership in a government of national union in which the most notorious defeatists are to be included. According to the conspirators, the old marshal un consciously will have to play a role analogous to that of Hindenburg, opening the road to Hitler in a mo ment of discouragement. And by his presence alone, he will neutral ize our military chiefs.” In Ottawa, M. De Kerillis says, “Marshal Petain is not a traitor. He did not know when he capitniated that he would go to war with England, tomorrow with the United States, and the next day with Russia. He did not know that when one is in the hands of the Germans one cannot stop.” As a journalist and nationalist deputy, M. De Kerillis has been a spokesman for French Nationalist opinion for many years. He was a lone voice supporting General De Gaulle in 1934, when the latter was pleading for a mechanized army to meet the German onslaught. He has vehemently denounced both Communist and Nazi subversive in fluences. In a review of his activi ties, one utterance of Adolf Hitler, as reported by Dr. Rauschning, has been pertinently quoted: “Our strategy will destroy the enemy from within and oblige him to conquer himself. Everywhere in the country of the enemy we will have friends who will aid us.” A/fR3 CLARA ADAMS rides air- planes because she “loves to watch clouds.” Her flight on the first stratoliner from New York to „ _. Los Angeles 26 Years a First rounds out Flighter,Yet Shy her first 26 Of Control Stick ^ ar f as “first - flight- er.” She has flown in planes, glid ers, Zeppelins and free balloons, on notable first flights whenever pos sible, but has never touched the con trol stick. She says she has no in terest in mechanics or mechanical problems. She is the widow of George L. Adams, a millionaire tanner of Pennsylvania who died in 1929, leav ing her an ample fortune with which to indulge her favorite pastime. Mrs. Adams was bom in Cincin nati, the daughter of Walter Grabau, a music teacher. In 1914, at the age of 15, she had her first plane ride at Lake Eustis, Fla., with Wal ter E. Johnson at the controls. Since then, her mother has complained that there’s no keeping her down to earth. She was a passenger on the first transatlantic trip of the Graf Zeppelin in 1928, and in 1932 on the giant plane Dorn ! *r Do-X on its flight from Rio de Janeiro to New York. In 1936 she crossed the Pacific on the first China Clipper; and, also in that year, she was on the ill-fated Zeppelin Hinden burg when it crossed to this country. She saw it burn a year later. In 1937 she made a round- trip non-stop flight from New York to Bermuda, and July 15 of last year landed back in Newark after a flight around the world in 16 days, 19 hours and 4 min utes—a record for globe girdling. She is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and has what she describes as a “string- bean figure suitable for flying.” She has gray eyes and reddish- brown hair, dresses simply and at tractively. ♦ TT IS perhaps just as well that *■ Carl Brisson, Danish film star, has landed safely in America. He once popped the Crown Prince Wil helm on the nose, and there’s no telling but that Herr Hitler has that somewhere in his bring-up file. Bom Carl Pedersen, the big, handsome Carl Brisson was welterweight champion of Denmark at 15 and later middleweight champion of Eu rope. After fighting 72 professional ring battles, he became a star of vaudeville and musical comedy. He discovered Greta Garbo R ATTERN De TF YOU have weight to consider, you couldn’t choose a more at tractive and becoming fashion than this gracious, softly detailed dress (8679) with high-cut front panel that diminishes the waist line and flattens the diaphragm. It fits beautifully over the bust, thanks to gathers at the waistline PAETH ENT and beneath the cleverly shaped yoke. The bow at the deep neck line adds a soft, dressy touch, without fussiness. The skirt is classically plain and slim-hipped, with moderate fullness at the hem. Make this for bridge parties, luncheons and club affairs, choosing chiffon, georgette or voile, with frills of lace or ruffling. And for all its expensive, distinguished appear ance, this dress is easy to make. Pattern No. 8679 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires, with short sleeves, 5% yards of 39-inch material without nap; 1% yards ruffling. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Waoker Dr. Chicago Enclose 15 cents in coins lor Pattern No Size Name Address Renown Blooms and Dies AH your renown is like the sum mer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.—Dante. 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