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Burial of the "Status Quo" in the Saar One of the most Impressive events of the celebration In the Sanr after the plebiscite was the burial of "Status Quo.'' The Hitlerites marched In jubilation through the snow-covered streets. Floods Take Heavy Toll in Nova Scotia a | j ? ? w Receding flood waters at Halifax, Nova Scotia, bared n toll of one person dead, one missing and an appalling property loss. The Hood, heightened by rain and a midwinter thaw, inundated a number of communities to a depth of several feet, causing residents to abandon their homos for higher ground. Several rescues were made by aid of rowboat and canoe. The photo was made In the Shubenacadle district which bore the brunt of the flood. The canoe became a popular means of transportation as refugees went to and from their homes, salvaging whatever they could carry away, | Progress on Great Norris Dam The penstock tubes of the Norrls dam; one sectioitof the darn which will reach a height of 230 feet at this point, showing the downstream end of the two huge tubes through which the waters of the Clinch river will flow into the turbines to furnish the power to generate electricity for the plant PIGMY RACE FIND A1 Elliott Gaumer, twenty-one-year old amateur archeologist of Culver City. Calif., returns from the waste- j lands of southern Utah with a num ber of archeologlcal treasures In the [ j form of skeletons, mummified bodies, j baskets, tools, beads, etc. Gaumer made his startling discovery by tracing down a tale told him by an old desert prospector who related to Gaumer a strange story of miniature houses built in the side of cliffs in the desert bad lands of southern Utah. AUTOMOTIVE HEAD Muskrats Cause Wreck of Power Plant The railroad bridge al Hudson. Wis., over the St. Croix river which was damaged by a cave-In of the river hank thought to have been caused by muskrats tunneling under the hank. In the background may be seen part of the wreckage of the Wlllrow Itiver Power company's plant which was completely destroyed by the cave In. William Stout noted aeronautical engineer and authority on aerodynam ics and streamlining, was elected pres ident of the Society of Automotive j Engineers during >u national session i at Detroit Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1?A. ?. Giegangack, new public printer. 2?Eighteen thousand homeless In southern floods. 3?National Guards* men quell uprising in Louisiana against Huey Long's policies. Lumberjacks Stage Their Own Tilt Scene at the first annual blocking contest at Lincoln, Wash., with some of the West's best lumberjacks entered. These blocks are pine and marked with chalk like you would cut a pie and it takes real skill to hit the line and strength to put the ax through the block with one blow. After the block Is cut it looks like a cut pie. Otto Johnson, second man on the right, is the champion blocker, winning by two blows. NEW FOOTBALL COACH Maj. \V. H. (Kill) Britton. who suc ceeds Maj. It. It. Neyland as football coach of the University of Tennessee. Neyland has been transferred to the Panama Canal Zone, being an army offi cer on active duty. Britton Is not new to the university, as he has been end coach for the past nine years. San Diego Prepares for Big Exposition San Diego, Calif., prepares for California Pucitic International exposition. With tnany buildings already prepared for exhibits, and other units rapidly taking form in the hands of thousands of workers, completion for Its opening on May 29 Is assured. Some 29 nations from all parts of the globe will take part and the Installation of big exhibits from nil parts of the United States will commence shortly. Photograph shows the Avenlda de Los Palacios. Scene from the Tower of the Science of Man. HITS LUMBER CODE United States District Judge Alex ander Akeruian of Tampa. Fla., in de nying the government an Injunction to prevent Logan A. George, local lumber dealer, from operating Without observ ing the lumber code provisions, has rendered a decision that holds the wage and hours provisions of the NRA lum ber code unconstitutional. Sodium Sulphate Deposits Chemical analysis ot the newly dis covered sodium sulphate deposits at Grenora. N. D.. reveal the chemical Is more than 93 per cent pure, according > to University of North Dakota minerol ogists. They believe P.e deposit <s the largest and purest yet found in the United States and estimate there are 20.0UUJIU0 tons in northwestern North Dakota. Christens New U. S. Destroyer Mrs. Edward C. Dale of Philadelphia acting as the official sponsor for the U. S. S Dale, new destroyer addition to the navy, as the vessel was christened and launched at the Brooklyn nary yard. With her is Rear Admiral lates Stirling, Jr. 1 ? TREMENDOUS TRIFLES & By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A WOMAN'S HAIR IT WAS long and brown and lus trous?the hair of twenty-three-year old Jane McBea?and those who saw and admired Ic little realized that the destiny of a nation would be woven into Its silky strands. But that was before Gen. John Burgoyne invaded New York in the summer of 1777. Jane McBea was visiting in the home of fat Widow McNeil near Fort Ed ward that summer. She had been warned of the danger from Burgoyne's Indian allies but she refused to go to a safer place. Her lover, David Jones, a Tory, was coming back from Canada with the British. She intended to wait for him. But she waited too long. A war party entered the cabin, dragged the two women out, placed them on horses and started to take them into Burgoyne's camp. Then two Indian warriors be gan quarreling over possession of the girl. Suddenly one of them turned, shot her and as she fell from the sad dle his scalping knife did its ghastly circling around her head. When the Indian exhibited his gory trophy in Burgoyne's camp the general was furious. But his rage was noth ing compared to that of the New York Patriots. "Remember Jane McBea!" became a rallying cry. Patriot propagandists spread the tale and that master propagandist of them all. canny Benjamin Franklin, made good use of inn stirring up sympathy throughout Europe for the American cause. It is impossible to estimate ex actly the results of war-time propa ganda. But there is no doubt that the story of Jane McBea encouraged Pa triot morale at a time when it was very low and had a part in bringing about the final victory in our fight for freedom. ? ? ? QUI VIVE? NIGHT shrouded the St Lawrence river that September night in 1759. Under its cover a fleet of boats filled with soldiers floated silently down the stream. Gen. James Wolfe was embarking upon a desperate gam ble to gain a foothold on the plateau above Quebec where he could force his enemy. Marquis de Montcalm, to come out in the open and fight To do this he proposed to lead his army over a secret path winding up the steep cliffs that rose from the river. As his boat passed one of the jutting curves of the Palisades, suddenly the sharp voice of a French sentinel cut through the darkness! "Qui Vive!" In that breathless moment the fate of the North American continent hung in the balance. Discovery meant an alarm and the certain repulse of the expedition before it had reached it* first objective. Then: "France!" It was the voice of Captain Fraser, a Scotch Highlander, who spoke ^ French. "A quel regiment?" demanded the sentinel. "De la Reine," replied Fraser, nam ing a French regiment which might rea sonably be expected to be abroad upon the river that night. Apparently satisfied, the sentinel said no more. So Wolfe's soldier-filled boats passed on?down to the foot of the secret path, up which they scram bled and surprised the sleepy guard at the top. Then they deployed out on the Plains of Abraham. The next morning, Montcalm came out from his walled city to attack them and the Battle of Quebec followed. It brought death to James Wolfe but It also broi?ht the victory which decided that the English, not the French, were to rule North America. It might have been different if a French-speaking Scotch Highlander had not been in a boat on the St. Lawrence the night before. ? ? ? SILICON SILICON Is the most abundant solid element In nature. Young James Ab bot MacNeil Whistler, a cadet at the United States Military academy, may have known that once. But if he did, he forgot it So one day in 1854, when he was writing an examination in chemistry and was called upon to de tine silicon, be Just had to "make a i stab at 1L" His guess wasn't a good one. He was "found" in chemistry?that's West Point phraseology for "found deBclent." Also he was "busted out" of the acad emy, thereby ending what should have 1 been a promising military career. Both his father, George Washington Whist ler, and his grandfather, John Whistler, bad won distinction as officers in the , Onited States army. * Bnt as it turned out. the dismissed J cadet won even greater distinction in another field. He became one of Amer ica's finest artists?the painter of the world's most famous "Mother" nic'ure. Perhaps there were other errors in j his chemistry examination paper. But we have Whistler's words for it that "If silicon bad been a noxious gas, I might bav^ been a famous general to ds y." C. Western Newspaper Union.
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