Sundown Stories For The Kiddies Parkin* By MARY GRAHAM BONNER “Santa Claus packed the toys Into his deep, deep, huge sleigh. He put the things In first that he wduld deliver last. The reindeer were Jingling their bells, eager to be off. Great Boy’s tail was wagging and he was barking with excitement, running back and forth for Santa, carrying packages in his mouth. He knew Just how to carry tl.em, too, so they would not be hurt in any way. *'Im going to stop off in Puddle Unshed there. The Puddle Muddlers Muddle and get all the presents I will assist me. Oh, it was such a help having that half-way place this year. I coul fly down to the ritfra and villages and eet the children’s letters and make many extra toys In that empty house. “Then I could finish many pres ents which I wanted to leave In toy shops—some for parents and un cles and aunts to give to children, and some lor the children to see so they'd know how to describe what they wanted. I’ll stop off and get these things, too. Are all the toys in now, Great Boy?!’ “Bow-wow, yes!’’ barked Great Boy. "Are- the ■ candles -and-fruits• and nuts ready for the stockings?” “Bow-wow, yes!” ’Arc the mittens and sweaters and skates and sleds all ready?” “Bow-wow, yes!” “Then we’ll be off. Goodby, Great Boy. I’ll see you Christmas morn ing!” Great Boy wagged his tail with a special Christmas-time wag (even more than ever) and barked: “Mer ry-bow-wow Christmas!” Duke Sends Checks To Retired Pastors DURHAM, Dec. 22.—(AV-In be half of the Duke endowment, Duke university Monday mailed 271 Christ mas checks totalling $19,000 to su perannuated Methodist minis Lers of North Carolina or their widows. President W. P. Pew, of Duke university, sent greetings to each recipient, reminding them of the purposes of James B. Duke, “who made possible these Christmas checks and who both lived and died! In the beautiful hope to do some permanent good upon this earth.” James B. Duke for a number of years before establishing the en dowment In 1924 customarily sent Christmas checks to the aged min isters of the Methodist church, and provided through the endowment to continue the practice. One hundred and 21 checks were sent to aged ministers of the North Carolina conference, and 150 were distributed in the Western North Carolina conference. Each confer ence’s share was $9,500. Age Jumps With Death OBERKAPFEL, Austria.— (IP) — Johann Bruckner died without knowing nold old he was. He thought: he was 96, but records proved him to be 105. FOR THOSE WHO LOVI FINE THINGS My Hobby Box, containing 2Z binds, selected from 12 Hollings north packages. SI.50 the lb “fkt MontUit Picltp # These lovely Candies are espec ially decorated for this occasion l 2, 5 and 5 Pounds ot SUM) and 5150 the lb. MtmotUi of the out Soutk t i j I SUTTLES DRUG ‘ STORE Uncle Sam’s New Gold Gibraltar A medieval-modem fortress is the government's new $600,000 gold depository at Fort Knox, Ky., shown above. Beyond the steel fence, which may be electrified, and the guardhouses, lies an open moat. Turret openings in each of the “pillbox" towers located at the four comers of the building are protected by bullet-proof glass and steel armament. The vault within, where Uncle Sam’s $10. 000,000,000 gold hoard will be stored, is made of steel which gives off poison gas under a torch. It can be flooded. Early American Statesmen Shown In Archives. Murals WASHINGTON, Dec. 32. — Fifty early American statesmen, promt* nine in drawing up the nation’s two most historic documents—the De claration of Independence and the Constitution—are portrayed in life size in two murals accepted by the Government for the new Archives Building. The murals, the work of Barry Faulkner of New York, will flank a shrine especially designed and erected for the preservation of the two original documents. In recent years the Constitution and the Declaration of Independ ence have been in the custody of' the Librarian of Congress, who has displayed some hesitancy about! turning them over to the Archivist. • A special law of Congress will be necessary to effect the transfer. I Added Argument Members of the Archives staff I are confident that the new murals will be an added argument in con- { vincing Congress that the docu-1 ments should be placed in the spe cially designed and electrically pro tected shrine now awaiting them. The murals,.H feet .by,34.;feet in size, were painted on “canvas in the artist’s New York ctudlo and brought here in finished form. The Declaration of Independence mural shows Thomas Jefferson and his committee, composed of Benja min Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston, submitting the Declaration to the presiding officer of the Continental Congress John Hancock. Other Commtttess The group is surrounded by members of other Important com mittees which influenced the Con gress in its formulation of the De claration, including that responsible for the Articles, of Confederation. In the second picture, Madison 1s depicted submitting the Constitu tion to George Washington and the Constitutional Convention. Sur rounding the central figures are members of the committee on the first draft of the Constitution, the committee on the final draft and the oommittee on compromise. Both murals have a similar classical background. Giant Volga Sturgeon Is Aid In Soviet Celebration WASHINGTON, Dec. 33.—Soviet Russia chose to celebrate Its new constitution before Washington of ficialdom, diplomacy, society, and the press gallery Dec. 10 with the biggest fish that moat people had ever seen in an edible state. The receptions at the Soviet Em bassy — that sumptuous mansion that began as a Pullman palace from which Frank O. Lowden was to have gone to the White House, served briefly as Tsarist and Ker ensky headquarters, and In 1933 came into the hands of the USSR —have become famous for their magnificence. But in the honor of the new constitution, moat pre vious records were broken. First there was the fish—a seven foot sturgeon from the Volga, weighing 400 pounds, cooked in sec tions (but only cooked a little) and artfully put together again, tricked out with sculptured decorations. But the caviar, copiously replenish ed in enormous silver buckets, the roast meats, the lobster newberg and hot viands, the ices, pastries, cakes, and varied beverages, all made a picture seldom equalled in a capital that goes in very litle for big, lavish receptions. Immense re freshment tables were on three floors of the mansion. . The Russians ere unusual In an other respect—they Invite great numbers of newspapermen and wo men to their festive herds. Now it Is a Russian-made ham, now a mu sicals, now a reception, as last night. But Washington official fig ures, diplomatists, and society lead ers, also crammed the ornate lialls. Many came from New Tark. Strikingly notable In the throng was the new Ambassador of Spain, black-beared Fernando de Los Rios, with his wife and daughter. Joseph E. Davies, recently appointed American Ambassador to the Soviet Unton was there with Mrs. Davies. Over the balcony above the grand in this splendid mansion — under staircase—chief architectural note which many people lingered to watch the rich scene, hung the hammer and sickle flag of the So viets. Upstairs the private dining room of Ambassador and Mrs. Troyanov sky was open; its ancient carved buffets painted with peasant scenes, its massive table and square back ed, box-like chairs, and upon the table was the final touch — many dozen gorgeous long-stemmed roses in deepest crimson hue, their red flames made luminous by a well contrived lamp. Lai Kilowatt Is new Honor As Best American Hired Man CHICAGO, Dec. 22. — how ot make Cal Kilowatt do more jobs 'or the farmer was shown here at a meeting of the American So :lety of Agricultural tEngineers. Electricity Is proving Itself a good aired man In a great variety of new ways, reported J. P. Schaenser, rep resenting the Committee on the Relation of Electricity to Agricul ture. Mr. Bchaenzer recently re turned from a tour of the country made to study new uses of power on the farm. Here are some he round: By operating a breeze machine, In the form of an airplane propeller placed on a tower in orchards, electricity Is keeping frost out ol the lowlands by circulating warmei air Mowing drops of water off ripe cherries when the moisture might cause cracking it left on the fruit too long. In the southern Sierras where dry hot summers make farm home* uncomfortable, farmers have devis ed a simple air-conditioning device with the aid of electric fans. Th» scheme Is to place two screens wtti excelsior between them near a win dow, let water trickle through frorr above, and set the fan to work w the inside of the screen. Air is ' drawn through the window, through thq wet excelsior and the air of the | room is cooled by evaporation. ! This is succesful In dry areas, but would not prove practical In sections where the summer air h humid, said Mr. Schaenser. RURAL ELECTRIC BOOT HELPS HARKERS ISLAND RALEIGH, Dec. 22.—>—The gunman was cold. Anyhow, he held up and robbed J. J. Hill while the latter was walking home. The stick up man took only Hill’s overcoat, leaving him his mone/. UJhat to Brownell 4 Gift Box With Each Purchase 97c8 ^ $2.25 HOUSER - BREWER Brownbilt ; Shoe Store Fanning In India Benefited By Tests At New Institute NEW DELHI, India.—A new ag ricultural research institute costing 270,000 pounds has Just been opened here to replace one at Pusa in the Province of Behar, destroyed by earthquake in January, 1934. The Pusa station was built 30 years ago out of funds donated by Henry Phipps of Chicago, U. S. A. Lord Linlithgow, the British vice roy, presiding at the opening cere mony in New Delhi, expressed ap preciation of the original founder’s munificence and said that in its new home the station would possess facilities for even bigger public serv ice than it had already rendered. New Crop Experiments In particular, it would be able to undertake the experimental grow ing of a variety of crops by irriga tion, a condition of the utmost im portance in modern India. The transfer of the institute from its old home to its new one has been a work of considerable dimensions. Many delicate instruments had to be conveyed with as little vibration as possible. For this purpose a circuitous route was chosen so as to avoid the ne cessity of railway trans-shipment Included in the transfer , was a group of mgre^ than, 1,300 persons comprising the institute’s staff and their families. Another item was a herd of pedigreed cattle. The com plete transfer was successfully car tied oat between May and Septem ber. Hie Institute in its new home ha 800 acres of land of which 375 acre are under buildings and pastun while the rest is laid out for th growing of crops. Water for lrrlga tlon is pumped some miles from th River Jumna, upon the banka < which New Delhi stands. CCC Quota > ! 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