The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 54, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1933 Page: 2 of 4
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WHAT-- 1 DON'T
NEED TO HELP ?
NO DEAR-- l
WASH DISHES
A NEW WAY,
NOW. t’ll BE
THROUGH IN
A JIFFY i
THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Will Be Largest Non-Rigid Airship in World
Held down by a huge weighted net, the gas bag of the new army blimp, TC-13, presents a striking picture as work
on the ship is completed by the Goodyear corporation at Akron, O. The blimp, which will be the largest non-rigid
airship ever built, will be based at Langley field, Virginia, following the completion of test flights.
Hail New Future for Com Alcohol
Nebraska legislators and business men celebrated the arrival of the first carload of corn alcohol to be shipped
into the state for motor fuel use. Prosperity is expected to return to the corn belt as a result of the congressional
bill making the use of corn alcohol in gasoline mandatory.
Launching of a New Treaty Cruiser
’.LARGEST FAT MAN
The new 10,000-ton navy cruiser, U. S. S. New Orleans, sliding down the
runway at the Brooklyn navy yard in. colorful launching ceremonies. The
ship, constructed in accordance with the London naval treaty, is 588 feet over
;all. with a beam of 61 feet. It carries 17 guns, 6 torpedo tubes, and 4 airplanes.
Catching Mermaids for Neptune
rather Neptune requi^eci a number of beautiful mermaids for his retinue
at the aquatic pageant at Long Beach May 6, so bathing girls were put to
jiwork netting them. Miss Adeline Angove was the first, one caught.
Oxygen Aids High-Flying
Airmen and climbers fitted with ap-
paratus supplying oxygen can go safe-
ly to a height of 9y2 miles, according
to European scientists, while without
oxygen the limit is less than four
miles.
Black^jSear’s Nursery
When a female olack bear ■ want®
her cubs out of the way for a while
she send them up a tree. And she is
a good disciplinarian, for they will
not come down again until she calls
them.
Joe Raggio of Philadelphia is con-
sidered the world’s largest fat man.
He weighs 750 pounds and has not
been out of the house for fifteen years
because he is too big to get through
a . doorway. He eats 12 pounds of
spaghetti each day and 7 pounds of
hot dogs, 1 gallon of coffee. 3 quarts
of ice cream and 60 to 70 hard-boiled
eggs. It takes 8 yards of cloth to
make his pants and 5 yards for his
shirt.
STILL RULES AIR
Eugene Octave Sykes of Mississippi,
whose fitness for the post of federal
radio commissioner transcends all
party lines, has been reappointed b,v
President Roosevelt. He was first ap-
pointed by President Coolidge in 1927
when the position was first created,
and was reappointed by President
Hoover.
Indian Magic Is Used
to Bring North Wind
When the Cree Indians, of the James
Bay region of northern Canada, tie a
bunch of birch bark ribbons to a dog’s
tail and set the bark on fire, it is not
done in deliberate glee to cause the
animal pain, but is one of the most
spectacular “magics” employed by
these Indians as a means of conjuring
up a north wind, according to an
anthropologist of the Catholic Univer-
sity of America. After a thaw a north
wind is considered especially desira-
ble because it causes a crust to form
over the snow and makes it easy to
watch the movements of wild animals
and to capture them.
The . Crees are scarcely more con-
siderate of their children than of their
animals when a north wind is at stake,
for another of the magics employed for
this purpose consists of sending a
naked small boy forth into the cold
to defy the wind god. A milder meth-
od is to go out and swing “bull-roar-
ers” and other devices that make
sounds simulating winds.
But should any or all of these three
methods fail the Indian need not be
discouraged, for there are many more
“magics” he can try before deciding
that. Boreas does not intend to respond
to his supplications.—Detroit News.
Width of Gulf Stream
From 50 to 150 Miles
The gulf stream flows out of the
Gulf of Mexico between the coast of
Florida and the Bahamas, and then
northeastwardly along the American
coast. Its width, in the narrowest por-
tion, is about 50 miles, and its depth
some 2,000 feet. After it has passed
between the Bermudas and the coast
of Carolina, it is divided into several
streams, about 100 fathoms deep and
altogether 150 miles wide. Its temper-
ature up to this point is several de-
grees warmer than that of the sur-
rounding ocean.-
Beyond the fortieth parallel of north
latitude and the meridian 60 degrees
west, the gulf stream can no longer
be distinguished from the rest of the
ocean drift by temperature, motion,
color, saltness or otherwise. It has
no further separate existence, but is
lost in the general drift of warm wa-
ter from the southwestern Atlantic to-
ward Europe—a general phenomenon
having little or nothing to do with
the gulf stream proper.
Wishing Pool Hoards Coin
There is still one spot in the United
States where Americans throw their
money away. A crystal clear pool in
New Mexico may in time be filled with
pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
that somebody didn’t want. It is the
famous wishing well of Carlsbad Cav-
erns, where a coin tossed in the water
is supposed to bring enough good luck
to last a life time. The tradition was
launched a number of years ago, soon
after the Caverns were made a na-
tional monument, and the bottom of
the pool is already well covered with
coins. The government makes no ef-
fort to recover the money, and the
pool seems destined to hold ultimately
a young fortune.
A Herman Mystery
In the city of Ansbach, Germany,
there is a new museum containing an
extensive collection of data on the boy
Kasper Hauser, who appeared at Nu-
remburg in 1S2S when about sixteen
years old with a note from an un-
known-laborer, saying the boy, when
an infant, had been left at his cot-
tage. An Englishman, Lord Stanhope,
made him his protege and took him
about Europe seeking his parents, and
finally put him in a private school at
Ansbach', where he was kept in a dark
room, and ^vas never told who fed
him. In 1833 he was stabbed mysteri-
ously and died three days later.—
Washington Star.
Variety in Reptiles
In size, the largest of the dinosaurs
exceeded one hundred feet in length,
according to the Scientific Monthly.
An actual skeleton of one of these
huge reptiles in the United States
National museum in Washington,
known as diplodocus, measures over
seventy feet in* length and stands
over twelve feet high at the hips.
The smallest dinosaur known is but
a little larger than a chicken, and Is
remarkably bird-like in its structure.
It walked around entirely upon its
hind legs, the body being balanced?
by a long tail.
Still Good Doctrine
Other republics have failed because
the citizens gradually grew to con-
sider the interests of the class against
the whole.- For when such is the
case it mattered not whether the poor
plundered the rich or the rich ex-
ploited the poor; in either case the
end of the republic was at hand. We
must resolve not to fall into such a
pit. This great republic of ours shall
never become the government of plu-
tocracy and it shall never become the
government of a mob.—Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Key Is Still Lost
An educated reader of the serious
periodicals of Europe and America
can hardly have arrived at the age of
forty without having been invited to
consider every conceivable solution for
the problems of this wicked world.
The history of mankind is the cease-
less repetition of various fairy-wand
movements, none of which has ever
achieved the end in view.—American
Spectator.
“Foolishment”
By FRED BURROWS
©, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Servieo
CAM JACKSON opened the door of
° the safe slowly, but thankfully. In
the safe was a certain paper. On this
paper appeared the signature of a
number of hotheaded young men who,
in the heat of their indignation at
what they considered a wrong dealing
on the part of the government, had
signed this document pledging them-
selves to overthrow tlje government.
Since signing the document the young
men had all seen the error of their
ways. Now they were exceedingly anx-
ious to destroy the evidence of their
foolishness. And Jackson, in enter-
ing this office and in opening this safe,
was acting for the young men of
whom the • main leader was his
younger brother.
The office in which Jackson was now
standing and the safe was now open-
ing were those of Claude Lagrange, a
shyster lawyer, who had been largely
instrumental in working the young
men up to the point of signing the
paper.
The minute Jackson had opened the
outer door of the safe and then the
thinner door inside he flashed a pocket
light on the safe’s shelves and com-
partments. These were filled writh pa-
pers. Seeing the great quantity of
material he must go through Jackson
impatiently jerked the papers forth
and began examining them carefully.
At last he found the paper he was
searching for and caught it up with
a sigh of relief.
At this instant a dim figure rose
from a crouching position in front* of
the window, flashed a light full on
Jackson and cried:
“Hands up !”
“Walk over to that table in the cen-
ter of the room, put that paper in the
center of the table, and then sit down,
but keep your hands up!” went on
the voice.
And now Jackson thrilled to the
sound of the voice. There was no mis-
taking the identity of the person is-
suing the voice—it was Clara Fergu-
son, a recent newTcomer in the city,
-with whom Jackson had fallen violent-
ly in love and who had told him one ■
evening not so long ago that she re-
ciprocated his affection.
“Clara!” cried Jackson.
“X—yes, it’s me,” came Clara’s
-voice. “Oh, Sam, I’m so sorry it’s you.
I’ve got to—to arrest you !”
“Arrest?” cried Sam. “I don't un-
derstand this at all.”
“Don’t you see?” cried Clara. “I’m
in the federal secret service. The
government heard about this conspir-
acy these local young men were
mixed up in and sent me here to find
out all about it.”
Clara in the secret service? There
had always been some mystery con-
nected wfith her occupation from the
time she arrived in the city. So she
had been detailed on the case? There
had been rumors of a secret service
agent being on the job. That was one
of the reasons why .the young men
had been so anxious to recover that
damning paper and why Sam, in or-
der to keep liis younger hrotlier out of
trouble, had volunteered to get it.
Slowly Sam took his seat at the
taole, his face blanched, his heart
beating rapidly. As he seated himself
Clara switched on the lights in the
room and then seated herself opposite
him. As she did so Sam threw the
paper to the center of the table in
front of him.
“Clara,” said Sam, “this is a fearful
mess we’re,An. How can I ever ex-
plain the whole thing to you?”
^‘I’m sorry—dreadfully sorryshe
said. “I had no idea it was going
to be you when I got the tip that the
paper was to be taken from the safe
tonight. But, Sam. I’ve got to see to
it that you’re taken to the proper au-
thorities.”
“But, Clara,” Sam protested, “I’m not
in this thing myself. I simply came
here to get a paper my younger broth-
er signed in a moment of foolishness.”
"Now we’ll have to go,” she said.
“Stand up!” she commanded, her voice
strained and husky.
It was while Sam was slowly rising
that an amazing interruption oc-
curred. Through the open window a
bulky woman rushed into the room.
Sam recognized her at once. She was
Hannah—Clara’s colored “Mammy,”
who had come with her to the city.
“What’s this hyah foolishment? Miss
Clara, I done followed you, ’cause I
thinks you-all mighten get into trou-
ble. And I done hear you—I was lis-
tenin’ on de fiah escape. And what’s
.this hyah foolishment, huh?”
As she spoke Mammy caught up the
paper from the center of the table.
Calmly she drew a match from a ca-
pacious pocket, struck it and set fire
to the paper. •
“Mammy, put that out at once!”
cried Clara angrily.
“Huh, yoah ol’ mammy knows what’s
bes’,” cried Mammy and calmly ig-
nored Clara.
Fascinated, Sam watched the hungry
flames eat up the paper—the only ex-
isting evidence of his young brother’s
and his brother’s hot-headed chums
foolishly planned conspiracy. And as
the last hit of paper was consumed
Sam looked across the table at Clara.
He saw in her eyes a look of inex-
pressible relief.
Then Sam went around the table
and caught Clara in his arms. As he
did so he heard Mammy muttering sat-
isfiedly to herself.
“Huh, jes’ plain foolishment!” said
WHEN BIRDS COURT
Song Is the most conspicuous fea-
ture of bird courting. Males are the
best singers, and they do most of the-
singing. They employ their songs
chiefly in courting the females, and
usually cease singing—like modern
husbands—as soon as they have won
their brides, and started their fam-
ilies. Song sparrows and red-eyed
vireos may continue their music even
during the moulting season in August
or September when other birds are
usually silent. The females of a few
species sing as well as the males,
but their songs are always more
timid. Female cardinals, purple
finches, and a number of tropical
American wrens sing operatic duets
with the males during the courting
season.—Missouri Farmer.
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv.
Love’s Miracle
The greatest miracle of love is
the cure of coquetry.
How to train BABY’S
BOWELS
Babies, bottle-fed or breast-fed,,
with any tendency to be constipated,
would thrive if they received daily
half a teaspoonful of this old family
doctor’s prescription for the bowels.
That is one sure way to train tiny
bowels to healthy regularity. To
avoid the fretfulness, vomiting,
crying, failure to gain, and other ills
of constipated babies.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is
good for any baby. For this, you have:
the word of a famous dodbr. Forty-
seven years of practice taught him
iust what babies need to keep their
little bowels active, regular; keep
little bodies plump and healthy. For
Dr. Caldwell specialized in the treat-
ment of women and little ones. He
attended over 3500 births without
loss of one mother or baby.
Dr. W. B. Caldwell's
SYRUP PEPSIN
A Doctor's Family Laxative
“Now dishwashing
is no job at all’’
—she tells husband
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jiffy. I can do all our dinner dishes—pots
and pans and every thing!—in 15 minutes.
It used to take me at least twice as long
before I changed to Rinso.”
You’ve used Rinso for washing clothes.
You know how it soaks out dirt—saves
scrubbing — gets clothes 4 or 5 shades
whiter—safely. Now try it for washing
dishes 1 See how it makes even greasy
pots and pans come shining bright in a
jiffy, Rinso will save you time and work
three times a day. It will save your
hands. You’ll be so thrilled, you’ll use it
for all other cleaning!
Cup for cup, Rinso gives twice as
much suds as lightweight, puffed-up soaps
even in hardest water. Get the BIG
household
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BIGGEST-SELLING
PACKAGE SOAP
Cheapest and Best
Ask your dealer for Daisy Fly
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tracts and kills all flies. Neat,
clean, convenient. Lasts all
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Removes Dandruff-Stops Hair Falling
Imparts Color and
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WNU—L
17—33
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 54, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1933, newspaper, May 8, 1933; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth894896/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.