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OL 52—No. 169 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933 SINGLE COPIES. FIVE CENTS
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JERAL WAGE
IfANCE NOW!
OOSEVELT AIM
js and Cut in Hours
Moves Nearer After
Week-end Trip
XT agreements
Sold be voluntary
8v THOMAS L. STOKES
led Frea Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. July IT. (UP) I
~ n; Koosevelt’s plan to
L * rukistry into a general
,r- r ■ raise wages anil re
,r .u,jking hours moved f ar
id night as the result of
• week-end developments.
V'v. his return from a cruise
K tl;i. Sequoia, during whicn
rii-us-eil the project with Gen.
,, s. Johnson* national recov
* s,nistrator. the president
executive order blank
pj, the whole textile industry
jrr code for the cotton tex
e iu-try which goes into ef
■ Vm.r the executive order, the j
E: textile units—rayon, throw- '
E f .in thread, and silk—are |
Er- !•* days to tile objections
E heard' by Johnson's admin-1
E,- n. This procedure is a sam- j
E.fwhat the president desiiesj
E. : ve done by other groups of <
E . through voluntary co-|
Err.. to shorten hours and j
E ,.u_es. No compulsion is i
E.'-_ ■ The other textile indus- I
E iiready had sought inclusion |
Evr the textile code. |
[Today. the plan to bring all in- |
fctry into similar voluntary co-1
^rative agreements will be laid ■
ifore the cabinet advisory corn
ice in charge of the industrial!
lanery program. An important |
snouniement. it was learned last |
feht. will follow that meeting. j
Tre president and Johnson dis
ced this big voluntary agree
i-r.t "push,'' which will be car
lea on with somewhat of the fan
kre of the liberty bond campaigns
Iar-.nj the v.ar through “four
linute” speakers, at their cor-:
frence yesterday aboard the
a t. Johnson flew down from
ia>n ngti»n yesterday to join the
fce'.iential party.
I The executive order last night
liso n’.ide Johnson's position as
at.oni’ recovery administrator!
|k’ ranent. Hitherto his organiza- '
Sen r.aii i>een on a 30-day basis.
The president modified his ear- J
ier code on the cotton textile
ke to make it run indefinitely
ftstead for four months as orig
I v f.x-:. though the president
stains the right to suspend op
ration o: the code at any time,
he recovery act is limited to two
*ars.
Une her change was made in
e text.:- code. The president, in
s order iast night, rescinded part
a previous executive order
| h required that existing wage
perentials be maintained above
fre new minimum wage, which is
r- n the South and $13 in the
r'flh. j’he order turned the ar
PB?vment of these wage differ
over to the planning com
Bi'.te Hi- the industry set up by
Be code.
L4ff VIOLATERS
PROSECUTED
Esquire Miller Points to
to Results o{ Citizen
ship’s Cooperation
^peaking to a representative of
■r* Times-News, Esquire W. L.
*i!!tr <aid today that the cam
rai?p for more co-operation of
'• citizens with law enforce
nt officers is bearing fruit. He
‘I a case where prompt action
the citizens of a Henderson
,n*v community and the prompt
ise of the sheriff’s office re
*a‘l*d in arrests and court con
ations in more than half a dozen
Cas*-S of law breaking.
-L^tjuire Miller stated, also, that
“orts to make it appear that he
•as been criticising the law en
°ice(nent officers for failure to
their duty, are wide of the
r‘UrK. His efforts have been di
ctedt he said, to securing the co
operation of good citizens and the
enforcement officers and these
,rr&rts. he believes, are already
faring fruit.
PLAN CHICAGO TRIP
(.»• l- an^ *^rs* Q’ Ledbetter
bast Third avenue, are visiting
:kir daughters in Edneyville
their house is being repair
J ‘ On Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
_yde Mallard were dinner guests
J. Ledbetter and Miss Ber
jna L. Ledbetter. Mr. and Mrs.
•«*<i better are leaving this week
G* ? to Chicago and the
ure*t aakes.
Hold Widow of
Slain (i:'ngster
Mrs. Frank Nash, widow of the
gangster slain in Kansas Citys
union station massacre, is shown
as she was questioned by depart
ment of justice agents at Kansas
City where she is held under $25,
0U0 bond on a charge of obstruct
ing justice. Mrs. Nash is allaged
to have tipped otf Nash’s pals that
he was being returned, via Kan
sas City, to Leavenworth prison,
from which he had escaped.
LEGION PLANS
BEAUTY SHOW
Miss Henderson County To
Be Sent to State Beauty
Pageant
A beauty pageant will be con
ducted at the high school audito
rium under the auspices of the
Hubert M. Smith post of the
American Legion on the evening
of July 24, according to an an
nouncement today.
The purpose of the contest will
be to select the most beautiful
young lady in Henderson county
and the winner will be awarded
the title of Miss Henderson Coun
ty. She will receive a silver lov
ing cup and be given a free trip
to Wilmington, where she will
represent the local post in the
state-wide beauty pageant to be
staged at W rightsville Beach on
August 18 and 19.
The winner of the state-wide
contest will be designated Miss
North Carolina and will be given
a free trip to the world’s fair at
Chicago during the 1933 national
convention of the American Le
gion. __
Automotive Meet
For County Set
Mew Talkies for Them To
Be Shown July 19
Shipman’s garage will be host
this week to the entire automo
tive maintenance trade of Hen
derson county, in a big automo
tive meeting' featuring the Per
fect Circle company’s new talking
pictures, “Thru Traffic” and
4 Highlights of Ring Engineer
ing.”
These two new productions
produced by Warner Hrothres
Pictures, Inc., are the successor
to “Endless Channels” which was
shown to over 158,000 automo
[tive men throughout the country
i last year.
| This meeting will be held at 8
i p. m. July 19 at the Skyland
I hotel.
—
Hoid 3 on Slot
Machine Count
Three defendants were bound
to the county recorder’s court
this morning by Mayor A. V. Ed
wards on charges of operating
slot machines.
They were George Byrd, Walt
er Green and Hulett Young, all
colored, and bond was set at $20(
each.
W. B. Laughter was assessed
the court costs on a charge ol
being drunk and disorderly. Hil
liard I.iverett was given a 30-day
suspended sentence on a charge
of being drunk and disorderly.
Four boys from the G. C. C
camp, charged with disorderly
conduct, were turned over to
camp officials for punishment,
They were Glen Dancy, Foy Me
Jones, James Williams and Law
rence Staton.
CHANGE IN TAX
ON SALES WILL
BE EFFECTED
Maxwell Indicates New
Plan to go in Force on
August 1
ONE SCHEDULE FOR
SALES LESS THAN $1
By J. C. BASKERVILL
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Waller Hotel
RAI.EIGH, July 17.—The sales
tax law will work more smoothly
and both the public and the mer
chants will be better satisfied
when three major changes are
made in the sales tax regulations
to become effective August 1,
Commissioner of Revenue A. J.
Maxwell said today. While these
changes have not yet been defi
nitely worked out. it was indicat
ed they will be as follows:
First, Only one schedule will be
set up for the division of the tax
on sales of less than $1, instead
’ of the four schedules now con
tained in the regulations.
Second, Merchants will be al
lowed to assess the three per cent j
sales tax on the aggregate or j
cumulative total of a series of |
sales instead of upon each sep-j
arate article sold, as is required |
in the present regulations.
Third, The department of revc
\ nue will supply the placards to
'the merchants which the lawr re
quires must show the schedule in
use and announce that the prices
charged include the three per
ceni suit's iua.
While the question of making
it mandatory for all merchants to
show both the selling price of an
article and the tax as two sep
arate. items was discussed, tho
merchants are by no means as
much in favor of this as they
were. Commissioner Maxwell indi
cated, with the result that no
change in the present ruling,
making this optional, is now ex
pected. Many merchants are
j finding that the showing of the
sales price and tax as two sep
arate items rather than merely
showing one price that includes
j the sales tax, is proving to be
! bad sales psychology and that
; they are losing business as a re
1 suit. Many that started out show
ing both the price and the tax as
j two items are changing over to
■ the single price system. The ad
I vertised price including the
J amount of the sales tax.
' “When I announced the first
[regulations that went into effect
July 1, was careful to point out
that they were purely experi
mental and temporary and sub
ject to change from month to
month,” Commissioner Maxwell
said today. “1 was admittedly
doubtful as to whether the vari
ous schedules set up for dividing
the tax on amounts of less than
$1 would work out, and we are
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ASSOCIATION’S
B.Y.P.U. MEETS
Miss Ethan Pressley Is
Chosen President for
Ensuing Year
At the annual meeting of the
I Associational B. Y. P. U. conven
tion held Saturday afternoon and
evening at the Refuge Baptist
church, the following officers were
•elected by the organization for
the ensuing year:
President, Miss Ethan Pressley;
vice-president, Miss Martha Hug
gins; secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. 0. J. Smith; junior and in
termediate leader. Miss Izorah
Reese; chorister, Junius Huggins;
pianist, Mrs. Delno McCall; pastor
advisor, Rev. W. H. Ford.
Those participating found espe
cially enjoyable the program of
the day built around the theme,
“Looking Unto Jesus,’” and im
pressively rendered.
Afternoon features included the
devotional section of the program
conducted by Miss Martha Hug
Igins; B. Y. P. U. reports from the
! different church units; a stirring
message to young people by Da
vid Mashburn, assistant pastor of
the First Baptist church; confer
ences led by Miss Ethan Pressley
and Mr. Mashburn, and a recrea
tion hour conducted by Miss'Elva
Pressley. A picnic supper was af
! terward enjoyed.
i At reconvening at 7:45 p. m.,1
, a second devotional exercise was
I conducted by Miss Marie Case.
The banner award was made to
First church association at Hen
dersonville, with Valley Hill stand
ing second in contention for this
honor, while an enjoyable mes
| sage was delivered by the Uev.
IW. H. Ford, pastor of the First;
church, this city.
‘Greetings, America!’
Leader of the first mass airplane flight across the Atlantic, or. the
long and dangerous journey from Italy to the world fair at Chicago,
General Italo Balbo. Italy’s’ air chief, is shown here as he greeted
America with a typical Italian gesture. '1 lie picture was taken at
Cartwright. Labrador, where Bulbo and the men aboard Ins 24 planes
first touched the soil of the American continent. General Lulbo
started smoking his cigaret, with which he is shown here, before his
take-off from Iceland and extinguished it, pocketed its stub, and re
lighted it upon disembarking at Cartwright. 1 hat s his piactice on
every hop. __
ITALIAN FLIERS GIVEN GREAT
OVATION AS GOAL ACHIEVED
CONFERENCE IN
TEST TUESDAY
_
Americans Will Try Out
Sincerity of Europeans
Tomorrow
By HERBERT MOORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July 17— (UP).—
The United States delegation to
the world economic conference
planned last night to force a
showdown Tuesday t.o ;Tcst Eu
rope’s sincerity.”
The plan, as revealed to the
United Press by a spokesman for
the delegation, will revolve upon
the silver agreement program of
fered by Senator Key Pittman of
Nevada.
United States delegates gave
strong indication that they sus
pect a scheme on the part of the
European gold bloc to frustrate
this plan as a tactical maneuver
to cause the United States to re
veal its stabilization policy.
The Americans have no inten
tion of tipping their hand on
stabilization—even if President
Roosevelt at- Washington would
allow them to, which is doubtful
—and they intimated that if the
gold bloc proceeded with its re
ported plan, the United States
might go so far as to decline to
participate in the conference when
plenary sessions are resumed late
this month.
Pittman worked all day Sunday
on the draft of a new silver plan
embodying four major points and
containing a basic eight-power
agreement. This he plans to oner
for consideration by the monetary
committee of the conference to
morrow. .
“This agreeent furnishes a test
of Europe’s sincerity,” the Ameii
can spokesman said.
The revised Pittman plan is
designed to overcome the objec
tions of Holland but there was
general fear among American del
egates that Holland would ron
tinue obdurate.
Pittman conferred last night
with the governor of the Rank of
China. Presumably he sought the
advice of the financial expert 01
one of the great silver countries.
It was indicated last night also
that the United States delegation
would seek an international agree
ment on the regulation of copper,
a currency metal virtually ignored
thus far by the parley but regard
ed by delegates as of importance
to the United States second only
to wheat.
NEGRO CONFESSES TO
BRUTAL AX MURDERS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 17.
(UP).—Birmingham police said
Jesse Patterson, young employed
negvo, arrested early today h®d
confessed to the brutal ax murder
of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Crosby and
burial of their bodies in shallow
graves on their farm near Colum
bus, Miss.
-Pay Tribute to Own Dead;
Take Off for Return
on Wednesday
Bv SAM KNOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, July 17.—{UP).—
General Italo Ilalbo and 95 fliers
who represent the glory of mod
ern Rome witnessed yesterday the
grandeur that is Chicago’s during
its century of progress exposi
tion.
From early morning until late
at night, General Balbo and his
men were feted, praised anil
cheered. They stood, resplendent
in their white dress uniforms, be
fore dignitaries of the city, state,
church and nation.
The young Italian air minister
led his aviators first Sunday to
the world’s fair, the exposition
which was the goal of Halbo
when he took off from Orbatello,
Italy, a fortnight ago in the
greatest mass flight attempt mod
ern history has known. The great
aerial adventure was brought to
successful conclusion before a
throng of perhaps a million per
sons when the fleet of 24 planes
set down safely on Chicago har
bor late Saturday.
At the fair, its brilliant color
ings and architecture in remark
able similarity with the silver
sheen of the Italian seaplanes
themselves, the Italians paid
formal calls on United States
Commissioner New', Governor
Henry Horner of Illinois, and
President Rufus Dawes of the ex
position. This group, with Mayor
Edwards J. Kelly of Chicago, had
extended the city’s official wel
come to Ilalbo under floodlights
in Soldier field Saturday night
at ceremonies which followed the
arrival.
From the world’s fair grounds
the aviators went to Holy Name
cathedral where Cardinal Mun
delein said a mass of thanksgiv
ing and lead to the fliers a cable
gram from the Pope felicitating
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STREET WORK
RECOMMENDED
Resurfacing Main and 7 th
to the Depot Favored
by Walker
The resurfacing of Main street
from Second avenue to Seventh
avenue anti Seventh avenue from
Main street to the Southern rail
way station has been recommend
ed to the state highway commis
sion by J. C. Walker of Ashe
ville, district highway engineer.
Funds for this work would be
supplied from a half million dol
lar appropriation provided for
towns in Western North Carolina
from federal funds.
The recommendation must be
approved by the highway commis
sion and the federal bureau of
roads before becoming elfective.
The work to be done in Hen
dersonville would cost between
$39,000 and $40,000.
LITHUANIANS
CRASH AS GOAL
BEING REACHED
Found in Forest in East
Germany, Where Plane
Had Fallen
BODIES DECLARED
TO BE IDENTIFIED
MERLIN, July 17.— (UP).—
Two airman were found dead in
a wrecked plane near Soldin to
day and were officially identified
as Stephen Darius and Stanley
Girenas, Lithuanians who attempt
ed the flight from New York to
Kovno, Lithuania. Their crashed
plane was found in a forest near
Soldin.
KOVNO, July 17.—(UP).—
Eager throngs awaiting arrival of
Stephen Darius ami Stanley Gire
nas, Lithuanian-American fliers
due from the United States, be
came restless early yesterday as
hours passed beyond the time of
their expected landing.
Enthusiasm of Lithuanians for
the first attempt to link the Uni
ted States and this tiny Baltic
Sea nation in a flight had been
stirred to a high pitch when a
plane believed to have been the
Lithuania-bound Bellanca was re
ported sighted over Pomerania
late last night.
Aviation officials here an
nounced, on the basis of that re
port, which they released official
ly, that the aviators would land
here at 3 a. m. (9 P. m. Sunday,
EDT).
Darius and Girenas were last
definitely reported when they left
the North American continent at
Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland,
at 3:30 p. m. EDT, Saturday.
7000 Ire idle
AT HIGH POINT
Several Furniture Plants
Running Under Indi
vidual Agreements
HIGH POINT, July 17. (UP).
Fifty seamless hosiery and furni
ture plants, employing 7,000
workers were forced into idleness
today by a peaceful strike of al
most 3,000 operatives. Silk and
full-fashioned hosiery workers did
not join the seamless operatives in
the strike and only half of the
furniture workers are involved.
One hosiery mill operated half
an hour then closed after most
of the workers had failed to re
port. A crowd of 500 strikers had
[gathered around the plant.
Several furniture plants were
1 operating because managements
had reached individual agree
ments with workers of each mil!.
The strikers seek a 25 per cent
increase in wages and abolition
of the stretchout system and
shorter hours.
Stroke Is Fatal
To Jno. W. Slater
John W. Slater, a native of Tra
vis City, Mich., died this morning
shortly after midnight as a result
of a heart attack.
Mr. Slater was a retired busi
ness man of Travis City. He came
to Hendersonville in 1921 and had
made his home here since that
time. At the time of his death he
1 was residing near Osceola Lake.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed today pending the
arrival of a son from Michigan.
REQUISITION ISSUED
RALEIGH, July 17.(UP).—
Governor Ehringhaus has issued a
requisition to Governor McAllist
er of Tennessee, for the return
of Jim Allen from Madisonville,
Tenn., where he is under arrest,
to Graham county to face an in
dictment for larceny and receiv
ing. _
IS FOUND GUILTY
WAYNES VILLE, July 17.—
(UP).—Homer Brown today was
found guilty of first degree mur
der in the' slaying of his wife,
Nellie Lowe Brown, on June 20.
A mandatory sentence of death in
the electric chair will be passed
later in the week.
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
WASHINGTON, July 17. (UP)
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
today pleaded not guilty to the
charges of violating the federal
corrupt practices act in the 1928
presidential campaign.
Flies Plane at 12
I
Lorraine Bowman of Burbank,
Calif., above, is only 12 years old,
but she made a successful solo
airplane Might at Salem, Ore., the
other day. She can’t get a license,
though, until she is 1 <>. Her fa
ther, Les Bowman, is a transport
pilot and plane salesman, and her
I mother also holds a transport pi
lot’s license. _
ALTON BANKER
IS HOME AGAIN
Did Not Suffer From Treat
ment at Hands of
Kidnapers
By LELAND L. CHESL.EY
United Pre** Staff Correspondent
ALTON, 111., July 17.—(UP).
August Luer, wealthy 77-year-old
bank president, last night rested
at the country home of his son
alter his release by kidnapers
who held him captive for five
days.
They refused to say whether a
ransom had been paid or not al
though it was authoritatively
learned that originally Luer’s ab
ductors’ had demanded $100,000
ransom, but had later reduced the
figure “somewhat.’’ County of
ficials understood a payment had
been made, but were uncertain as
to the amount.
| Luer, who was dragged from
his home by two men and a wo
man who invaded the house on
the pretense of making a tele
phone call, apparently had suffer
ed no serious results from his
confinement.
Released three miles south of
Collinsville and directed to a
nearby roadhouse, Luer timidly
broke in upon the merrymakers
and asked to use the telephone.
“I’m August Luer,” he said.
“The kidnapers pushed me out of
a car about two miles over the
hill. Can I come in please? I’d
like to telephone my son.”
After the connection was estab
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BRACKETT HAS!
LOWEST SCORE
Rotary Cup Holder Cards
an 82 as Qualifying
Round Began
Dr. W. E. Brackett, defending
champion in the tournament for
the Rotary golf cup, turned in
the lowest card in the qualifying
round of the tournament yester
day over the course of the Hen
dersonville Golf and Country
club.
Dr. Brackett carded an 82 to
lead R. L. Whitmire, Dr. J. G.
Bennett and C. Iv. Hoover by two
strokes. These three players
turned in cards of 84.
Twenty-two golfers were quali
fied today and two others have
signified their intention of quali
fying this afternoon. The field
of 24 will be divided into three
flights of eight each, unless more
players qualify this afternoon.
The tournament is still open
for local and visiting golfers if
they qualify this afternoon. Par
ings will be made tonight and
posted at Jackson’s Pharmacy.
Scores in the qualifying round
were as follows: Dr. Brackett 82,
jC. K. Hoover 84, R. L. Whitmire
84 Dr. J. G. Bennett 84, Dr. It.
C. ’Sample 90, L B. Prince 90, W.
P. Andrews 90, H. B. Crowder
96, C. M. Ogle 97, J. H. Lampley
98, O. P. Smith 98, W. B. Hodg
es, E. W. Ewbank 99, Dr. J. L.
Weddington 100, O. C. Fuller
100, Jim Grey 100, J. W. Duff
100, Fred Sudduth 101, E. E.
Lott 102, A. S. Truex 103, J. A.
Woodward 105, E. R. Sutherland
III, C. L. Grey and G. T. Feagle
of Valdosta, Ga.f will qualify this 1
‘afternoon.
IS HEADED FOR
HALFWAYMARK
OF WORLD TRIP
13 Hours and Nine Min
utes Ahead of the Post
Catty Time
ROBOT PILOT" MAY BE
OF NO HELP TO HIM
MOSCOW, July 17.—(UP).—
Wiley Post, continuing his swift
flight around the world in an at
tempt to break his and Harold
Gatty’s record of 19111, took off
at 5:15 p. m. today for Novosi
birsk, Siberia, almost midway
across Siberia and approximately
1,580 miles from here.
He stopped at Moscow only
three hours whlie minor adjust,
ments were made on his plane.
When he left he was ID hours and
nine minutes ahead of the Post
Gatty record.
By FREDERICK OESCHNER
United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, July 17.— (UP).—
Wiley Post, well started on Im
projected world solo flight, was
delayed last night by a leaking
oil line on his monoplane Winnie
Mae. The trouble forced him to
land at Koeningsberg, East Prus
sia.
The veteran Oklahoma pilot,
who flew from New York to Ber
lin in 25 hours, 46 minutes on the
first leg of his attempt to girdle
the globe in six days, was en route
to Novosibirsk, Siberia, when the
necessity for repairs forced him
down.
He assured the United Press in
an exclusive telephone interview
from the air field at Koeningsburg
that nothing serioos was the mat
ter with his plane.
Post’s Oklahoma accent puzzled
airdrome officials, who asked the
United Press correspondent to in
terpret his “brand of English’’ for
tnem.
“He speaks a brand of English
none of us here understands,” lhe
airdrome manager complained
quizzically.
“I’ll be all right,” said Post
when he reached the phone. “Just
let me go to bed.”
Explaining the trouble which
forced him down, Post continued:
“I experienced engine trouble
between Koeningsberg and Kovno
(Lithuania) and decided to return
and land at Koeningsberg to have
it fixed. It’s only a leaking oil
line. . . ,
“I’m going to get some sleep and
leave here at daylight,” he said.
The Oklahoman laughingly re
jected the offer of this correspon
dent to translate his English for
airfield officials.
“Thanks but I don’t need any
help,” he said. “My trouble is not
serious and I can get along with
sign language. I’m going to try
to catch a little sleep now and
plan to get away by about three
_ tf
ci.ni.
(Three a. m. at Koeningsbeerg
would be 10 p. m. in New York).
Although his voice seemed to
indicate fatigu,e, Post assured the
correspondent he was neither tired
nor hungry.
“But excuse me now,” he broke
in, “and I’ll get along and attend
to my engine.”
Airdrome officials then return
ed to the telephone and said Post’s
start probably would be delayed
until 4 a. m. (11 p. m. EDI).
They said Post appeared most
chagrined at the loss of time.
They said their understanding
was that the trouble with the Win
nie Mae was with the robot pilot,
which Post had counted upon to
relieve him of much of the strain
of flying the world circuit. They
said this device was so complicat
ed that repairs there were impos
sible and that Post might be com
pelled to fly the rest of his long
course without the robot's assis
tance.
Post’s flight across the Atlantic
was without untoward event, he
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TO GUESSES
Who was
Floyd
Collins
?
Representatives
a' WHAT NATION
HAVE WON MOST
Nobel Awards?
What is the name
OF THIS ISLAND?—
For correct answers to these
questions, please turn to page 3,