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The Alamance gleaner . ' j VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY JUNE 9, 1932. NO. 18. MERCURY DEPOSITS FOUND IN ARKANSAS w asnmgton.?uiscovery or deposits i of mercury in Arkansas adds another Important metal to that date's list of mineral resources. "New domestic mercury deposits are important because more mercury is used in the United States than in any other country, and more than one third of the domestic consumption now must be imported from Europe." says a bulletin from the National Geo graphic society. "Mercury has been known for at least 2.500 years, but its wi?lc use is a development of recent centuri^. To day it is employed in about a thousand ways. "A thin stream of the silvery liquid metal sealed In a glass thermometer tube has long been man's aid In de termining temperatures; in barome ters, weather forecasters depend upon 1t to foretell changes In weather; in altimeters. It aids aviators to deter mine how high they are flying; and marine engineers use It in meters to estimate the flow of water. "Mercury often does its best work where man least expects it. The life of many a sleeping voyager Is guarded by huge lighthouse beacons that re volve on floating mercury bearings, and many toothaches have been avoid oH Kr nnM a. cIIkai> omolrrnm tooth fillings made possible by mercury. The life of dry batteries is prolonged be cause mercury protects their zinc plates. The golfer plays on velvety greens and the farmer harvests healthy crops because a small quantity of mercury, mixed with fertilizers, kills insects that attack plant roots. The ship own er cleans the scale from the boilers of his ships with mercury and covers the hulls with paint containing mer cury because H thwarts the rapid growth of barnacles. When fashion decrees that felt hats should be 'nap py.Mhe hat manufacturer produces the desired effect with mercury. "In many ways the metal loses Its Identity In various kinds of mixtures. It Is In milady's rouge box and Hp stick* case where It is available to produce synthetic pink cheeks and red lips. The 'silvered' mirror Into which she peers to apply her cosmetics Is In reality, a 'mercuried* mirror. "Alwwt one-third of the world's sup ply of mercury Is used In the drug and chemical Industries. It helps to produce soda used in the manufacture of artificial silk and Is an ingredient of some dyes. "It Is mercury that produces the green lights and helps to produce the blue lights In colored light advertis ing signs. Because It Is dependable In maintaining even temperature dur ing oil distilling operations. It Is an Important 'tool* of the oil industry. "As a safe, dependable detonator for explosives. It was one of the so-called war minerals during tne world war. In peace times its detonating uses are legion. It helps to blast tunnels through mountains and gouge cuts for railroads and highways, razes tree stumps and stones to clear land for many purposes, loosens limestone, granite and barbie from quarries for new buildings, and dislodges minerals from mines. "Itadio programs are amplified In American living rooms by radio tubes in the manufacture of which mercury had a part, and many electrical de vices used In modern buildings were produced with the aid of mercury. One of the most outstanding recently de veloped uses of mercury is In power plants. The new plant uses mercury vapor Instead of steam. "Now and then mercury Is found In Its liquid metal state but more often It appears in a red mercury-sulphur ore called cinnabar, from which the metal Is extracted by a roasting process. "Mercury Is known to exist on every continent but most of the world's sup ply comes from Spain and Italy, with Spain leading In production. The mines which give Italy second rank among mercury-producing countries are situated near Trieste and In Tus cany. The United States is third on the mercury production list, with Cali fornia leading the 'mercury states' which Include Oregon, Nevada, Wash ington, Texas, and Arizona. The metal also is mined In Alaska. Mexico, Canada, China. Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Algeria, Japan, Rumania, New Zealand and Australia. Peru once was j ad important South American source i of mercury, but production censed sev- | ernl years ago." , ! Statistics Refute "Weaker Sex" Idea Washington.?The "weaker sex" Idea has been overthrown, oKi daily. Public health records show that: Girls have a lower mortality rate at birth and during child hood. They beg'n to walk at six weeks to two months before their sup posedly stronger brothers. They begin to talk from two to three months earlier In life than the boys. Women can stand more pain than men. The statistics came from numer ous searchers and hospital tests recorded in the health service and census tiles. ''Varmint" Hunters Busy in California As part of a drive to rid an area within a radius of 00 miles around San Franeisco of wild beasts that destroy domestic animals, the state "varmint" hunters have been very busy in Marin and Mendocino counties and bagged a number of bobcats, black bears and coyotes. Some of them are here shown with a bobcat that had been killing calves on a dairy ranch. U. S. Plans Library of Crime Washington.?The most ambitious am] far-reaching program of scientific criminal identification ever undertak en Is being quietly pressed here by the bureau of investigation of the United States Department of Justice. Under a new division of Identificat ion and information of the bureau, a nation wide campaign, in which 4.000 police departments and other agencies are co-operating, is under way to build up in Washington an exhaustive na tional library of finger-print redbrds and other crime data. Already finger-prints of 1,750,000 male and female lawbreakers have been secured, classified and filed, and 1,700 cards are being added every day. Over 3,500,000 cards containing names and aliases of criminals already have been collected. Against this unprecedented assem bly of crime records Scotland Yard is said to have only 500.000 sets of fingerprints. Under the new plan, wherever an infraction of the law oc curs in the United States, even though a minor offense is involved, duplicate fingerprints, with accompanying data, are immediately sent pn to Washing ton by the local police. There search of the files is made to determine whether identical prints are ^already, on file under the same name, or some alias. So efficient is the classifying and filing system that the average search requires trQT?-frdurthree trr frwer minutes. Often the offender Is discovered to have committed a xfrime in another part of the country. Out of every 100 sets of prints sent to Washington pre vtous records ore found in 37 cases and data on the offender's past life is reported back to the local author ing within 4S hours. Beginning July 1 all applicants for United States government Jobs will be required to submit to fingerprinting. Out of 1,000 applicants for Christmas postal Jobs the government found that 14 had criminal records, as revealed by the fingerprint division. The army has found 55 criminals out of 1,000 enlisted men. Cross of 1,000 Pieces Brockton. Haas.'? A carved cross, two feet high and containing 1.000 separate pieces of wood, was made by Daniel St It! lis. No twine, pegs, glue or nails were used. Control Plane Traffic With New Light Pistol Washington.?A "spotlight'* for air traffic control has been perfected by the aeronautics branch of the United States Department of Commerce. The projector, which resembles an overfat pistol, works on the same prin ciple as ground traffic lights at street crossings. It throws a red or green beam and thus can be used to signal a pilot whether or not to land. Of course, other forms of signaling may he devised. Col. Clarence M. Young, assistant secretary of commerce In charge of aeronautics, recently conducted a flight over Washington to Jest the new pro jector. An assistant stood on t lie ground holding the light while the plane flew from 2,000 to 3.000 feet over head, and at as great a distance as six miles from the airport. The projec tor operator manipulated the trigger ; which controls the light, and the beam shifted from greed to red and red to ' green. By means of sights the oper- J ntor could spot the plane and direct j the beam at It The beam was clear ly dlscernable to the OCtuiiariis nT the : plane. The department's new device gives a bourn of 37.000 cnndlepower, which makes It visible day or night at great distances, and even though the visi bility be poor Hcr Jes of Monkeys Lay Siege to City of Delhi Delhi, India.?A monkey plugue dis rupted Dehli's normal life as thousands of chattering, screaming monkeys In vaded the city from outlying districts. A special' monkey officer was ap- i pointed to deal with the situation. He and his aides captured hordes of screaming prisoners and dumped them outside the city limits, but the m ?n- i keys returned Immediately. The Municipal council rejected a proposal to establish a monkey house near Delhi, on the ground that it was Impractical. Meanwhile the monkeys ^dominated the city. < v GIFT OF ITALIANS This fine statue of Christopher Columbus Is the gift of the Italian residents of Chicago to the Centnry nf Progress exposition. It trill cost S0O.OW) and trill hare a permanent site in Chicago. Whefi in Venice Royalty Does as Venetians Do WHEN the king and queen of Italy visited Venice to take part in the opening of the International Ex hibition of Art they boarded a gon dola and lead the gorgeous procession which Is here seen passing the famous Ducal palace. Children's Story By THORNTON W. BURGESS To do a thing that must be done There's usually more ways than one. TIUS means, of course, that If one way fails you shouldn't give up and think the thing cannot be done. You should try to find some other way. Often It will be a most unexpected way, a way that you discover by acci dent. There was the case of Busy Bee and her fellow workers when Buster Bear found their storehouse and began to rob it of their honey. They had done their best to drive him away. They had used the sharp little lances in their tails for nil they were worth If It had been anyone but Buster Bear they would have succeeded In driving the robber away. But though they fought as hard as they could, and stung with all their might, they couldn't drive Buster away from that honey. To Buster's way of thinking that honey was worth all the pain of the stings. And then, quite by accl> dent, they discovered o way of getting rid of him. Some of them flying about found Furmer Brown's Boy watching what was going on, and In the blind ness of their uriger mistook him for aonther enemy, and promptly treated him as they had treated Buster Bear. Now Farmer Brown's Boy has no such thick skin ns has Buster Bear. At the first sting, which felt as if a red-hot needle had been thrust Into him, he jumped from his hiding place. Before you could say Jack Robinson half a dozen bees had stung him and a cloud of them were about him. He for got his Interest in Buster Bear. In fact he forgot all about Buster Bear. He had but one though:, and this was that he couldn't get away from that j~ place quick enough. It had suddenly become altogether too hot a place for L hlra. He let out a yell. Yes, sir, he ? let out a yell, aud it was a good loud yell. Then )ie started to get away 0 from there as fast as his legs would w take him, and'he didn't care how much p noise he made In doing it. Now Buster Bear had been so greed- tl Down He Came to the Ground With a t Thump. That Would Have Knocked j the Wind From Anyone but Buster j Bear. \ ily stuffing himself with honey that he * had had nt thought for anything else, j He had no idea that Farmer Brown's j Boy was anywhere near. Usually his ears and his nose are ever ready to , warn him of the presence of others, , but tliis time his ears were filled with ( the angry hum of the bees, and his nose was clogged with honey. So he had not heard Farmer Brown's Boy approach, and he had not smelled him. This Is for Salvage, Pearls or Sponges EMIL KULIK, Inventor, explaining bU deep sea salvager, the cblld of bis brain, to Miss Esther Taffel, at the fourth International Patent exposi tion In Grand Central palace. New York. The queer-looking apparatus Is suit able for deep-Ma salvaging, undersea photography and pearl, coral and sponge fishing. FRENCH PASTRIES rHE beautiful small cakes and pas tries which are so attractively dec rated and we find so expensive when re come to purchase, may be pre ared at home with little work. There are several kinds of founda Ions, the puff paste, chow paste (this s the kind used when making cream ufTs), then the cake foundation and hort bread pastry. Almond Slices. Spread the entire sheet of cake with turt jelly or jam beaten to a paste, hen cut It Into strips three to four aches long and one and one-half Qch.es wide. Spread the sides with elly. Top each with a heavy meringue nude with two egg whites, eight ta ?lespoonfuls of sugar and one-fourth easpoonful of almond extract. Ar unge with a pastry tube, then sprin kle with powdered sugar and top with ill redded almonds. Place In a slow iven to lightly brown. Neapolitan Squares. v Cut the cake into two-Inch squares, ipread half the squares with apricot lam, currant Jelly or orange marina ade, cover with the squares and press together between boards until firmly lolned. Now spread the sides with jelly beaten to a paste with a few Irops of water and dip each Into fine ly chopped coconut. Ice the tops with a thick chocolate Ichig and in the cen ter place a halved maraschino cherry, cut side down; add stem and leaves uf citron or green Icing. Fruit Pastries. Cse the cake foundation, cut Into strips, squares or rounds, put together with a custard cream of orange, lemon or Jelly. On top of each place a halved pear or peach which has been cooked until transparent In a heavy sirup, using one cupful of the Juice nnd three-fourths cupful of sugar. While cooling haste with this sirup as this will give a nice glaze. When the fruit is arranged pipe a border of whipped cream, sweetened and fla vored. nil around the sides and top. (? 1S32. We?t*rn Union.) Then right Into the middle of his en joyment broke that wild jell. He couldn't help hearing that Now, as j-ou know, the one thing Buster Bear fears Is man. He knows nil about the dreadful firestlcks which no one but man carries, and at the least suspicion that man Is about Bus ter runs away. If he were cornered and couldn't run he would fight as bravely as the bravest, hut he Is n Arm believer In the "old saying that in-' <Dh, tTTfrvarwrrj?Kin "iPvp-oT'StTiT another day, when man Is concerned. The Instant he heard that wild yell he forgot everything but that he was caught In a bad fix. He was caught up a tVee and that was no place for a betr to be with a man about, even thoufh that man were only a boy. He lost till Interest In honey. He had but one thought, and that was to get sway from there as quickly as ever he could. To climb dow n would take too long. So Buster Just simply let go and dropped. Yes. sir, that Is what Buster Bear did. he let go and dropped. Bus ter's bones are not like other bones. They are not brittle and easily broken. The branches below broke his fall somewhat, and he broke the branches. Down he came to the ground with a thump that would have knocked the wind from anyone but Buster Bear. And the Instant he touched the ground he rusbed through the Green Forest as If the Old Nick were at his heels. Sammy Jay and Drummer the Wood pecker saw It all Farmer Brown's Boy 11 ?? ON BEING A BORE By DOUGLAS MALLOCH I AM cot what you'd call a clam; *? 1 don't know what to do about it. 1 am at times the great I Am, Not merely say it, fairly about It, And fill the family with shame, A self-made man of self-made fame. The things I know, or think I know, it seems I'm always telling some one. it seems I am a Dora, though I must admit I'm not a dumb one. I think I am a wit so bright. And people say that I'm half right My little jokes I like to crack. And people always laugh politely, And yet they say, behind my back, I should converse more eruditely. Last night, invited out to dine, I swore no more I'd try to shine. So, when there came a painful pause, I kept as silent as I meant to; And I must say the dinner was About the worst 1 ever went to. I didn't say ten words. I guess. And all the others eveD less. IS. till. Douxlu Malloch.>?WNU Servlea. All Made of Cotton x uiB msiuuie, ueaigueu copcviun; for wear at summer resorts. Is entire ly of cotton. It has one of the new shorter swagger coats In red, match ing the eyelet embroidery on the white bastlste dress. running for all ho was worth In one direction, stumbling as he ran and slapping at angry bees, and Boater Bear tearing off In the opposite direc tion with a little whimper of fright with every jump, his face and coat all smeared with honey, and dirt and leaves sticking all over him. It was so funny that they laughed until they almost made themselves sick. But Busy Bee and ber fellow work ers wasted no time chasing either Farmer Brown's Boy or Buster Bear. They promptly fell to work to save what honey was left and take It to another storehouse which they knew of. And this Is how It happened that Buster Bear got only half a feast 1 after all. <Cl.lt>!. byT. W. nvrscss)?wrftjSsrrlcs. i mwwL**, I - ? - - ?J "Marriage It a risk," aayt meditat ing Meg. "and a girl doesn't have to marry a human skeleton to have a slim chance." (?. 1112. B?il Syndicate)?W.VTJ ferric*. 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