The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 150, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 29, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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Pioneer Relate* True Tale
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them to say ‘Good morning.' ”
The greatest moment of his life,
he said, was when the admiral
respect her wishes, at the same
time maintaining her new policy of
refusing to recognize any polar
claim that has not been permanent-
ly settled.
Briefly, the new Byrd expedition
has a two-year job. Leaving in three
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kidneys are (a)
and
newspapers constant reports of this
unique land-staking junket into the
ice-crusted wilderness.
There’s only one catch to It. An
eagle-eyed reporter recently discov-
ered that congress appropriated
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By CLYDE PEARSON
toy Western NewefMiM-r Union .»
N SOME future day • the
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Concise Report
DES MOINES, IOWA.—A police
radio squad, armed with sawed-off
shotguns, their car siren scream-
ing, rushed to the rescue of an east
side conftiunity reportedly terror-
ised by a mad dog. The erew re-
ported back to headquarters by ra-
Summer Reaches Washington
When Congress Leaves Town
maintained.
Proposes Observatory. < . . .
, . of too much wo:
Admiral Byrd to convinced the
settlement would be practical. Early corpuscles
id matter in the shape of kidney
tubes) in the urine.
Dr. A. Naeraa in the Scandina-
Modern Pioneers i
a small airplane.
Many scientists are now consider-
ing the possibility of a permanent
settlement. Whether or not such
colonization ia made depends upon
the expedition’s findings regarding
the antarctic’s value as a future
source of minerals, as a fishery
source and as an observation post
for meteorological predictions. Con-
gress will then decide from year to
year whether the colony should be
TODAY'S
up the body and ur*|T||
warded off di*-
Byrd Expedition I.eaves
In Mid-October for
Two-Year Slav.
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ships, two of them owned by the
government and the third—the vet-
eran ’’Bear of Oakland’’—leased on
a “dollar a year” basis, the party
will establish three bases. One will
be at Little America, Byrd’s old
camp in Marie Byrd Land. Another
will be at Palmer Land, which is the
hook extending out of Antarctica to-
ward South America, just west of
the Weddell sea. The third will be
midway between the two in what is
unexplored territory.
Caa Stay Two Years.
In early spring, when the long ant-
arctic night has passed, the three
parties will set out in sleds and dog-
teams to explore the frozen lands of
the interior. Unknown territory will
be mapped and data will be sought
concerning important mineral re-
sources. It has been established def-
initely that these wastelands con-
tain coal, and probably other min-
erals of more immediate value to
the United States.
About 180 men will make the trip,
80 of them remaining at the three
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Black Hills Man
Tells the Story of
Wild Bill’s End
settlement in the antarctic,
proceeding across the South
pole next day to complete his
During his overnight
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Letter* in Wrong Box
Arrive 5 Year* Late
LITTLETON, N. H. — Better
late than never. Miss Jeanne An-
ti sdale of Pasadena, Calif., and
Mrs. H. E. Busted of Somerville,
Mass., mpst have been surprised
recently to receive letters written
to them in 1933 and 1934.
The letters were in an old rural
mail box, having been deposited
there by summer boarders.
Eels on Fish Ladders
Are Snared by Indian*
LEWISTON, IDAHO—Indiana in
this district got a rich harvest of
eels at the Clearwater River dam
during the salmon run this spring
and early summer.
The eels were caught with nets
when they attempted to climb th*
fish ladders at the dam Indians
came with gunny sacks and went
back to their tepees with all the
eels they could carry.
The Indians consider fried or roast
eels a real delicacy.
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Exercise and
The Kidneys
It has been thought and taught
that exercise' was harmful to the
kidneys owing to the great amount
of wastes resulting from exercise
which the kidneys would have to
remove from the blood. Evidences
irir being put on the
too many red blood
(b) too many
'casts’* (little casts or molds of sol-
'co AUNG A, CALIF.—John Tay-
lor. pioneer resident of the Black
|Hills, who recalls the shooting of
[Wild Bill Hickok, famous two-gun
(frontier marshal, as clearly as if it
'had happened yesterday, Is think-
, ing of settling down now that he has
reached the age of 88.
Still an active real-estate opera-
tor, Taylor has a clear memory of
the historic events in which he took
part during a lifetime spent in fron-
tier settlements. His friends say
he can dive from the high spring-
board as well as the average youth
of 20
The most Interesting of his many
stories is the tale of the shooting of
Wild BUI Hickok, whose feats are
part al th* Wild West of tradition
and Action, in Leadville, S. D.
Quarrel Led to Killing.
While Hickok sat in a saloon play-
ing poker and Taylor stood talking
to his friend, Tim Brady, on a near-
>by street corner, Jack McCall, a
(miner, entered the bar and shot
Wild Bill. The two men had quar-
reled over a gambling debt.
A moment later McCall, gun in
.hand,'came running down the street
to where his horse was fastened to
a hitching post only a few feet from
■Taylor and Brady. A loose cinch
and a slipping saddle prevented him
from getting on the animal.
With Taylor, Brady, the bartend-
er and saloon frequenters in pur-
suit, McCall ran on down the street.
His pursuers cornered him in a gro-
cery in the next block and, for want
of a jaU, held him prisoner there
until his trial the next day.
Taylor said he and others placed
the body of Hickok on a door and
carried it away for burial, The next
day Taylor sat in the rude log the-
ater while McCall was tried by a
jury of miners without benefit of a
antarctic, without saying anything
specifically about getting it back.
Speaking privately, several mem-
bers of the party thought this would
be a good idea in case war envelop*
the civilized world during the next
two years.
But Admiral Byrd says no on*
need worry—the expedition is com-
ing back if it has to walk over th*
ice like Eliza.
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• By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
T IS hard to understand
how the idea started that
cold tub or shower bath * .
! the first thing in the morning
was good for the
health, hardened
Cold Shower
May Do Harm
Bfe-To Individual
in June he pointed out that antarctic
weather stations should be constant-
ly occupied with staffs, changed
from season to season.
“Th* south polar region is a
weather breeder for th* whole world
south of the equator and indirectly
affects us in the north,” he said.
“Data collected there, studied to-
gether with that from other parts of
the world, will be of much practical
importance. It should enable our |
scientists to make long-range weath-
er forecasts with an accuracy great-
er than anything we know now.”
At antarctic coal mines, and in
the vicinity of gold, silver and other
deposits expected to be found there,
he expects permanent settlements
will spring up within the next SO
year*.
Predicts Aviation Bases.
Admiral Byrd thinks antarctic avi-
ation possibilities are enormous.
Just as Russia and several other
nations have considered a Europe-
North America airline via the North
pole, Mr. Byrd thinks the time is not
far distant when planes will cross
‘the South pole regularly flying be-
tween South or even North America
and Australia.
And so for the next two years we’ll
hear lota about the antarctic as the
expedition’s ships come and go, and
Patience Reward* Judge;
Old Bill for $200 I* Paid
FORT WAYNE. IND.—Th* day
was hot and the receivership report
being read by J. Robert Newkirk to
Judge Harry H. Hilgemann was long
and boring.
Twice Judge Hilgemann interrupt-
ed to point out that he would be
forced to reread it all when he re-
tired to his chambers. Couldn't for-
mality be done away with, he aaked.
“Just a few more pages,” Newkirk
answered, so th* judge settled back
in a half-listening mood. Suddenly
he cocked his ear.
“T--- to one Harry H. Hilge-
mann, a member of the Allen coun-
ty bar, for legal services, $200,”
droned Newkirk.
“I suppose you want the court to
check off that 18-year-old bill, too,”
• the judge interrupted. “I’d forgot-
ten all about it.”
“No, Your Honor. This outfit has
made a comeback. We have the
money and here’s your check.”
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FHA BEPVC .
HOMCtlC,
Washin' • . 1
- »“jncan Colony
many?
When we awake
the body is really at
its lowest point of
fuel. The temperature is low, the
blood pressure low, the heart beat
slow and not as strong as at any
other time. To make the body, in
this low condition, undergo th*
“shock” of a cold bath is like lick-
ing a person when h* is down.
On* In Four Have Resistance.
However, there is the individual
cepted. At the time he was 58 and
one of the oldest members of the
expedition.
He said that it was worth while
visiting the pole if only to see th* "7"°" ".
T7 1 claim on the basis of permanent set-
vAt. Vaaw thn.. 1 tlement. And it may run into a
you know those | pack of trouble
Conflict With Argentina.
Hoping to Stai
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jury of miners without benefit of a
judge. The miner was acquitted
twhen the jury could not agree, but,
taken into custody a month later,
he was tried and sentenced to death
by a judge in Yankton.
Knew Calamity Jane.
Taylor’s first contact with Calam-
ity Jane, famous frontier dance hall
hostess who later became his close
friend, was in a Custer City bath-
|house. He was in a tub in one room
while Jane and a woman compan-
ion were bathing in an adjoining
compartment. Through the thin
wood partition, he said, floated some
ot the most colorful profanity he
Jtad ever heard..
Taylor was in Philadelphia when
he joined a band of adventurous
men who were among the first to
jenter the Black Hills territory. When
on December 29. 1898, Custer City
iwas founded, he was named on a
committee to stake out its bounda-
ries. The group did the work with
tape line and stakes.
Elected coroner of Custer City,
Taylor was the first man to hold
that job in the Black Hills. He was
a friend of Poker Annie, cigar-emok-
jng woman gambler, and the Dalton
brothers, notorious stage coach rob-
bers. In New Mexico territory he
played cards with Billy the Kid
shortly before the Kid was involved
in a war between sheepmen and
cattlemen and became an outlaw.
signed to cross snow-covered crev-
asses, the greatest peril of antarctic
land travel. It has 10-foot wheels
•quipped with tread* on th* cater-
pillar tractor principle and is driven
by a brae* of diesel engines.
Th* boat carries three or four
men with ample supplies for several
months. On it* roof will be strapped'
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camps for at least a year. They
will maintain sufficient food supplies
for two years, however, because the
shifting ice packs may delay the
returning expedition.
Every modern scientific weapon
will be at the party’s disposal,
thanks to a $340,000 appropriation
by congress and assistance of the
new United States antarctic service. I (about one in four) who, because of
Contributing to it* personnel ar* the inborn or acquired resistance, can
interior, state, war and navy de- take this cold bath, have a brisk
partmenta, the coast guard and sev- rub, feel a good reaction without
oral private scientific organizations, any “let down” during th* day.
Build Snow Cruiser. An idea used by many who wish
Th* most novel Instrument will be the refreshing reaction to the
a 45,000-pound snow cruiser being cold water without too much shock
developed by Dr. Thomas C. Poul- Jbe system is to run a few inches
tar, second in command of Admiral °* hot water into the bathtub, stand
Byrd’s last antarctic expedition and | h? it for a minute to let the heat
This °* the water strike the large blood
giant craft, which wiil\ravel atop of the ankles and then step
the. ice, is 55 feet long. It is de- J0*0 th* cold water shower. Th*
heat of the water, by adding
warmth to the blood and a little
more speed to the circulation, pre-
vents the severe shock of the cold
water. A brisk rubdown stimulates
the circulation and the benefit of the
morning cold shower is felt all day.
Those who are thin, have thin
blood, or a poor circulation would
do well to avoid cold shower* or tub
baths unless prescribed by their
physician.
Dust Bowl People Tell
Stories of Wind’* Speed
LAMAR, COLO—Southern Colo-
rado farmers, embittered by years
of attempting to raise crops in this
section of th* dust bowl, neverthe-
less evidence humor a* they explain
improvised test* for measuring the <
velocity of th* wind and intensity of
the storm*.
“I always depend on the goatskin
method,” on* gnarled man of th*
soil said. “We wet a goatskin in-
side the house in the morning and
hang it over the keyhole. If the four
of us can’t hold it there it’s too
darn windy to try to work in th*
fields.”
His test, however, was disputed by
bang their adjournment gav-
els and send the ' thundering
herd of legislators back to
their home stamping ground*.
But by the same token summer-
come when it may—brings a new in-
flux to Washington. It is then that
tourist business reaches it* peak,
drawing thousands of summer-vaca-
tion, Christmas-bills-finally-paid-off
visitors.
But modern Washington summers
have lost the out-to-iunch touch that
one* made the city a haven for those
who sought escape from th* mad-
ding crowd. Since 1932 a hug* crop
of new administrative office* has
grown up, keeping much of the city’s
population busy without letup. Once,
in th* d*ar dead days, all govern-
mental office* automatically adopted
a shorter work day immediately aft-
er congress adjourned. Even to-
day, despite the growth of new bu-
reaus, longer lunch hour* and brief-
er day* are the rule.
Investigators Stay On.
Still another harsh note breaks
the Potomac’s stillness this sum-
mer. As in all summers preceding
election years, the current between-
session spell finds investigating com-
mittees hard at work. On* reason
is that their member* can draw big
headline* without competition dur-
ing the news-less dog days of lata
summer.
This summer’s committees will
be headed by Texas’ Rep. Martin
Dies, who reopens his investigation
of subversive activities. The new
house committee to investigate th*
national labor relations board will
provide • bit mor* entertainment
Such affairs will not interest the
tourists, however. Preparing for a
boom season, the board of trade has
made plans once more to cash in on
a $60,000,000 annual business.
Washington tourist business comes
from all over the world. It is esti-
mated that only 5 per cent of for-
eign visitor* to the United State* fail
to see the city. Hence th* profes-
sional guides who speak French,
German, Italian.and Spanish. The
tourists' favorite meccas are the
Smithsonian institution and Nation-
Ranger Remain* Alone
On Lofty Fire Lockout
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST,
CALIF.—Millard R. James, a rang-
er, spends all but two days a month
“sitting on top of the world”
alone in a cabin perched atop the
8.200-foot Needles Rock—most pre-
cipitous fire lookout station in the
West.
His only exercise is climbing th*
narrow wooden stair* up the needle-
shaped rock. Material* for the cab-
in’s construction were carried up
th* rock piece by piece after being
transported from th? nearest road
by Dack animBl. < *
ANTARCTICA—Shaded areas
show the section claimed by
Argentina and that which Ad-
miral Byrd’s party will explore
during the next two years, pos-
sibly ttaking out land claim* for
the United State*. At shown on
the map, U. S. and Argentine
interests cloth in part of this
tection. Right: Admiral Byrd.
ease.
A* a matter
of fact, the morning cold bath
does much harm to -a great
many, not because there is
I anything wrong with a cold
shower and a brisk rub first thing
in the morning for a strong, hardy
individual, but because the average
I individual is not strong and hardy.
The reason so many feel that
despite the discomfort and shock
th* morning cold tub or shower bath
is helpful is that after the bath and
rub there is a “braeing” reaction
for a short time. However, one or
two hours after-
wards there is a
| 01 feeling of tiredness
land depression
which they do not
know is due to the
? f cold bath-
Why is the nwm-
ing cold shower a
mistake for so
vian Medical Journal, Stockholm,
states that as a certain number ot
red blood corpuscles and hyaline
casts (little plugs of proteid mate-
; rial) are found in the urine of nor-
j mal individuals, there is great inter-
j est in the various amounts of these
[ cells and casts. The question arises .
whether physical exertion produces
an increase in the number of red
blood corpuscles and casts normal- j
ly present in the urine and whether
other kinds of casts besides the hya-
line may appear under the same
conditions. In order to learn exact-
ly what happens when exercise is
taken, Dr. Naeraa made sediment
counts on 35 specimens of urine
from 12 men who took part in a six-
day bicycle race in 1934.
Sediment Study Made.
Dr. Naeraa states that his studies w
on the sediment of the urine of these
men who had indulged in this se- /
vere exercise for six days showed ’
no signs of any failure or breaking ‘
down of th* kidneys, as there was
no increase in the blood corpuscles
or hyaline caqts.
The belief that exercise, by creat-
teg wastes, would swamp the kid- (
as the magic of wireless brings your ney* with work as they removed , ‘.
--------------------. - -- - ( these wastes from the blood is un- I
founded, according to Dr. Naeraa’* ’ 1
findings. a
It is of course true that when the I
heart begins to fail there is consid- >
erable congestion of the kidney*. It «
is likewise true that severe exercise >
will put too much work on a failing 1
heart. Thus exercise in one withta 3
failing heart, because of con^estionl 1
and damage already present in tbk/ |
kidneys, might readily cause further ( 1
damage. i I
However, the average individual J
need not fear that exercise i* goi
to damage his kidneys because
extra waste* manufactured
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the Naval the southern tip of “We wbrlcl,
bringing precious ore* out of
Jacobson said he had been all over snow-covered mountains
1 shipping them back
home by plane and boat.
If this idea seems far-fetched
* i 129,999,999 Americans, it
to doesn't to the other one
—Rear Admiral Richard Ev-
elyn Byrd. Come October
and he’ll head out of Boston on his
third trip to the South pole, the first
such expedition to be financed by
the government since the intrepid
Captain Wilkes was given a vague
CONE HOME — Metropolitan
Police Officer Edward Brown
puthet his tix feet, nine and one-
half inches against the famous
bronze doors of the senate, closing
up for a few months now that con-
gress has left town.
al museum, the capitol building
(whose chambers still echo the past
winter’s angry debates) and the
White House.
These Draw ’Em, Too!
Following dose in . popularity
com* Mount Vernon, the tomb of th*
Unknown Soldier, the bureau of
printihg and engraving, the Wash-
ington cathedral. Supreme court, li-
brary of congress, federal bureau of
investigation, Pan-American union
•nd the Lincoln memorial.
Most popular method of inspecting
the city is via the sightseeing bus.
Thus tourists visit the White Hous*
and other historical spots at the rate ___ ,.1WU
of 8,000 * day, listening to guides fund* to send an expedition'to tho
reel off an unintelligible spiel and
crack stock jokes, many of which
deservedly draw no laughs.
Though August is the peak month,
tourists will continue to pour in
through September and October. By
November 1 the species becomes al-
most extinct, remaining thus for the
next six month* until May again
beckons the patriotic American to
hallowed ground
r.
Veteran of Navy O ~
c? r> iL r> 1 New York to Australia may
Z)eC8 Doth rOieS gpend the night at America’*
---—-
I* Happy at Accomplithing
Lifelong Ambition. trip.
------ visit he will chat with Amer-
PHILADELPHIA John Jacob- (can colonists who spend six
son, 71-year-old retired navy vet- i to seven month* a year
eran, sits Tn his chair st the Nava!1 --------———---*
home content, for he has “achieved
my lifelong ambition."
als during my lifetime in the navy, 1
but that congressional medal is one
they don’t hand out very often.”
Born at Tromso, Norway, Jacob-
son came to the United States
aboard a British bark at the age of
17. He enlisted in the navy in 1898
and served in Cub* during the w b w hl t d
Spanish-American war. Then he at-
tempted to settle down, but failed Partmant wlU make «*ary effort to
and became a member of the Bald-
win-Ziegler polar expedition. Re- !
turning from the Arctic, he again
enlisted in the navy, and served un-
til 1925. He is one of th* oldest men
holding membership in American
Legion.
the world, but did not feel content and
until he had reached both polar I
regions.
In 1900 he was a member of the
Baldwin-Ziegler expedition that *°
made an unsuccessful attempt t_
reach the North pole, and 27 years
later he was with Admiral Richard
E. Byrd in Little America.
Jake, as he is known to his ship-
mates, served in the navy from 1903
to' 1925. He volunteered for the
Byrd expedition in 1926 and was ac-
commission by congress in 1838 to
“explore new lands.”
It will be the first attempt by any
nation to establish a polar land
penguins. ' I
"Say,” he said, "you know those uemeni-
darn thing* are almost human, wad-
-nd gesturing much as
for the United States all of Mari*
Byrd Land and the adjoining James
Ellsworth Land, which together in-
Clude iOmt 500’000 mU«’ He ab°
° a medal on hopes to explore (and possibly
rJZHivAH » onnd m.nv mod I d*Im) Part th* Weddell S*a Quad-
L rant, and it is here that he will run
against. Argentina’s claims. A*
shown on the map, that nation main-
tains her right to a sector extend-
ing toward the pole from the Faulk-
: land islands. The territory to also
claimed by Great Britain.
Inasmuch a* Argentina’s friend-
117 ASHINGTON.—Summer’*
VV almost over for most of
America, but for Washington
it's just started. Moon, sun and
climate to the contrary, the na-
tion’s capital knows only one
unfixed period of summertime
each year.
It starts the instant- speak-
ers of both houses of congress
several neighbors, supporters of the
“log chain” test.
"We just bang a heavy log chain
from the eaves of our ranch house,”
one of them explained. "If it stand*
straight out horizontally we know i
we’d better stay inside.”
A Lamar pastor, too, has his dust-
bowl standards. He said only one
thing should prevent his flock from
attending church.
"Stick your hand out," he direct-
ed. “Cup it for a few seconds, then
bring it down to your side. If you
can see where your hand was you’re
excused for staying home.”
Boy Run* Away 6 Time*;
Say* He Cannot Resist
NEW ORLEANS.—Mrs. O. S. Rob-
ertson is having trouble with her son
again. He's got the wanderlust.
It’s a deep yearning, said O. S.,
aged nine. He can’t overcome it.
It has made him run away from
home six times.
Th* last time O. S. came home, he
was apologetic.
"I love you better than anybody,”
ho said to hi* mother by way of
breaking the ice.
“Then why do you run away, O.
S.?” Mrs. Robertson asked.
“I don’t know, mama,” O. S. said.
A few days later he said he had
the old feeling again.' Mrs. Robert-
son only sighed and went about beat-
ing up • cake. Maybe that would
hold him a while.
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