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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03

The continent Of Australia was not
discovered until just before the Ameri-
can Revolution. Louis de Torres, sail
ing from Peru in 1905 thought the
northern Queensland coast was an
other of those island groups-the
Marquesas, Soloman, New Hebrides-
through which he had passed. The
Dutch proceeding from Java several
times met the west and north of Aus
tralia, but reported a barren wild
country inhabited by barbarous, cruel,
black people. Abel Tasman, in 1912
found Van Diemens Land, Tasmania,
and left in disgust. In 1858 William
Dampier, an English buccaneer, landed
in West Australia, and the following
year mapped the coast. In his report
to King William he described the land
as SANDY and waterless." with stunted
trees. inhabited by "the miserablest
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
in the path, a lattened figure with

in the path, a flattened figure with
face pressed against the earth as
though he were endeavoring to look
through it. / had seen dead men be-
fore; I had seen scores of them upon
the battlefield Now other flgures-a
woman and child-lay before me;
and now five men upon single glib
bet, and boy Of ten or less hanging
by vine around his neck, his slim
bare feet pointing pathetically toward
the earth. Every house was down
burned or crushed as though giant
hand had pressed upon them, and
every occupant was dead.
went through the awful length Of
that silent village-which must have
had three hundred souls-with
dreadful desolation Of death around
me, and dropped to my knees at the
end Of the street of terrors and raised
my face to the grazing sky. A figure
rose up beside me, rose up slowly, the
horribly emaciated figure Of an aged
man whose unseeing eyes were fixed
upon space and whose thin lips were
forming faint words. "My wife," he
whispered, "and the two boys-and
girl" He was silent moment.
"Gone, all gone!"
'Who did it?" I inquired. "In the
name of God, Senior, who could have
done this thing?"
Morales" he gasped. He drew in a
long breath for one last effort, raised
right hand in half salute, and
whispered: "Viva Bolivar!''
Now, like man possessed, I got to
my feet and ran through the wood;
ran madly, wildly, stumblingly, fren-
ziedly, wringing my hands and calling
down the curses of God upon people
who would do so atrocious a thing.
Through the long night 1 went, raving;
until I fell at last exhausted, and
awoke with the blessed sun upon my
face.
With much labor, for my body
seemed to be the habitation of a hun
dred aches, l got to my feet and stood
in wide road. Thanking the road
was broad ragged hedge, over which,
a man leaned, who considered me with
mild concern in his blue eyes. He
pointed the long barrel of gun in
my general direction; upon his head
he wore wide sombrero, and on his
profusely freckled face a friendly grin.
eli, towhead," said he, and while I
stared, marveling, he continued: "are
beds so scarce you must sleep beside
the road and pillow your head upon
a stone?"
Name of Cd" I gasped, for the
horror of the night still bore upon me.
"Humph, French" He thought
moment. ooh, well, if it's French you
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03

want here goes -. though it seems
little odd that an Irishman from
London should be speaking French in
Venezuela to an American"
was sure then that l was awake
and that the figure beyond the hedge
was no apparition. II am not French"
1 explained, though I have lately
come from France. You gave me SO
severe shock that reverted to the
tongue of my mother, thing often
do. Besides, / have just left village
of death, and the terror of the thing
is still with me-
"Tucayan," he said Morales passed
that way two days ago. Such is the
Spaniards method; no man in his
path is left alive"
"The last man in Tucayan died in
my arms" l said, "and with his last
breath he whispered, Viva Bolivar = Z"
"Simon Bolivar has so great hold
upon his people /. he will win,
some day." His blue eyes went over
me appraisingly. think l read ap-
prevail there. "Tall," he unused, with
shoulders, and a light in the eye knows
the woods and the sea, / take it, and
may have had turn at soldering.
May 1 ask you who you are?"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
THE STORY


At nightfall. in the old city Of
New Orleans, In the year 1921,
Loren Garde, recently an officer
under General Jackson, Is sur
prised by the appearance of three
figures, in ancient Spanish cos
tune, two men and woman
whose beauty enchants him. Re-
senting the arrogance of the
elder Of the two men, Garde
fights a duel with him with
swords, and wounds him. After
ward he learns his opponent is
Adolfo de Fuentes, colonel in the
Spanish army in Venezuela. Gar
de fees from gems d'armes, TAX
ing refuge in a garden, where he
overhears a plot to overthrow
Spanish rule in Venezuela. Dis
covered, he fights, but is over
powered, recovering conscious
ness to find himself prisoner
on the Santa Lucrecia, Spanish
ship bearing contraband arms
and ammunition for the Vene-
zuelans under Bolivar. On board
are the conspirators he had over
heard, the lady Of his love, her
brother Polite, and De Fuentes.
An attempt to seize the ship
fails. From the girl, Garde learns
her name is Dulce Lamartina. He
does not tell her of his love, but
feels she is not Indifferent to
him. The vessel is wrecked dur
ing another attempt to seize it,
and Garde, thrown overheard,
reaches the Venezuelan shore,
alone.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
Grain Went Wrong Way

James c. Carver remodeled a large
building at Madison, Wis, to manu-
facture cattle feed. Friends were
invited to witness it's first production.
Carver pushed button. Wheels
turned. Workmen poured great sacks
Of grain into hoppers, but nothing
came out as the finished product. The
building was searched from top to
bottom without discovering where
the grain was going. Carver went to
the roof. There out Of ventilator
spouted the mixture, and the wind
scattered it afar. A workman had
diverted the ground grain into the
wrong pipe.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
Tigers Breeding in Mexico

In 1913 circus was wrecked in
Mexico. A Bengal tiger and two
tigresses escaped in the wreck and
never were recaptured. In the 20
years since many little tigers have
been born and reared in the noun
tains of the region where the three
were first unintentionally liberated.
They are at home in Mexico and dis
play their traits cunning, cruelty and
large appetites for the flesh Of other
beasts. 1t is possible that in a CEN
tury's time tigers will become COM
mon in Mexico.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
Telephone Courtesy

A western hospital has made itself
known as friendly place." largely
through It's attention to telephone
calls. Superintendent know how
many calls come in each day and how
anxious most Of the people are who
make inquiry concerning some relative
or friend. This hospital has realized
that this is the time to treat people
the most carefully in order to make
a good impression.-The Modern Hos
pital, Chicago, Ill
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
FOUGHT Fire With Melon.

A truck loaded with watermelcns
that Walter Griffith was taking to
market skidded off the highway near
Wenatchee, Wash, and burst into
flames. With no water available,
Griffith had an idea. He hurled wa
termelons at the blazing truck. They
burst and spouted water all over the
blaze. The twenty-third melon put
out the fire.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
RISKS TAKEN BY
MEN OF SCIENCE
Research Involves Every
Kind of Peril.


tacular winners of Victoria crosses,
and it is not their fault that every
line of research does not involve the
risk of death or mutilation. When
such a subject does present itself,
however, the Investigator seldom hes
itates, says the Montreal Herald.
A case in point is that of Van
Camper Hellner, famous big-game
hunter, an authority on deep-sea
fishes and a valued member of the
American Museum Of History. The
curious subject he has chosen to in
vestigate is: which sharks really at
tack human beings, and their meth
DDS in offence and defense.
To get to grips with his inquiry
he sailed some time ago to the Bahia
mas with the expressed intention Of
swimming in shark infested waters,
armed with dagger. With him went
cinema operator, whose job was to
film the experiments from the want
age point of glass bottomed boat.
The result may be to prove that the
viciously named tiger" shark is real
ly quite harmless to human beings,
thus relieving the apprehension of
swimming in tropical waters.
OF general interest was the task
undertaken last winter by members
of the German anti-seasick commls-
sion. They spent several months
travelling in two state motor ships
plying between the Baltic ports Of
Swinemunde and Pillau, route no.
torious for it's rough passages. Dur
ing the voyages they Investigated. by
experiments on themselves and other
passengers, the efficacy Of many So
called seasickness remedies.
Two or three rather eccentric re-
search inquiries come from the
United States. One Of them, car
ried out by an efficiency expert, re-
suited in the Notwithstanding conclu-
sion that typists do their best work
while seated at pink desks.
Just why Prof. g. 81. vansell, Of
California university, weighed the
breath Of a hive of bees would be
rather difficult to explain. to non
scientific audience. But he did it,
and the world is now in possession Of
the information that the average
hourly loss Of weight by perspiration
of the whole hive Of bees is, in win
ter, 36 millionths Of an ounce, and in
summer rs times as much.
Five eminent scientists of America
are devoting a considerable portion
of their time to studying a single
baby. They want to find out why
she laughs, bowls, plays with her
toes, sucks her thumbs, refuses to go
to sleep, and does, or refrains from
doing, the hundred and one acts of a
baby's normal existence.
The extreme of American eccen-
tricity is represented by the regis
tration, last year, of the Noah's Ark
exploration fund, in the state of Illi-
nois. This body will have it's work
cut out. The last heard of the ark
was about A. d. ZIG, when flash
of lightning was said to have de-
stroyed the Ararat monastery which
contained what were alleged to be
the relics of the ark. And the site
of Noah's vineyard, which used to be
pointed out to visitors at Arghuri,
was destroyed by an earthquake in
1910. So the administrators of the
fund have no light task before them.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03

Explorers Too Ready to "Pass Up" Australia

people in the world" A hundred
years later the English scientific expe-
dition under Captain Cook revealed
the presence of wide belts of fertile
land, and his landing at Botany bay,
Sydney, April %, 177O;wesulted in an
other continent for the British crown.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
Family Secret

Family Secret
Teacher-Where does wool come
from?
Boys-Sheep.
Teacher-What is made from It?
No answer.
Teacher-Well, for instance, what
are your trousers made Off
Willie volunteers MY dads.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
Didn't Dare Rrag

"Does your husband ever brag
what a good cook his mother was?"
asked the caller.
mo" smiled the young married
woman, che knows I know his father
died of indigestion"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
w. N. u, Portland, No. 4e--1s31.
Just the Man

Magnate- man who marries
my daughter will want lot of
money.
Suitor (hopefully)-Well, sir, no
body wants it more than I dol
London Humorist.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03

1t is hard to tell which there is
the more delight in: Neglecting
what one ought to do or doing 1t.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03

Even a baby learns that what was
"cute" when it was a year old it gets
spanked for at two.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
Not the Thing

whats the matter, John?"
"Stung by hornet"
"That can't damage you much"
II know, but don't like these
tactics"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03

The chiropodist believes in tight
shoes-for others.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
NEWS|ES.
LIKE YO-YO

And now even The washington
Times carriers have taken to
Yo-Yo. This latest Filipino craze
seemed to be just the thing and
the boys have taken Yo-Yo enthu-
sisastically.
The Washington Times today
presented 1000 carrier boys with
genuine Duncan Gold Seal Yo-Yo's
and now the discs are flying
everywhere. ~
Ali washington has turned to
this fascinating psstime and al
ready Yo-Yo seems to get the
first call everywhere you 60.
What is this thing called Yo-Yo?
Merely a string of wooden discs.
but when this combination gets
working together its really almost
unbelievable the things they can
do.
What is the dearest thing on
earth,
That till my soul Nth joy and
mirth,
MY Yo-Yo.
What takes the place of my best
girl -...
Is treasured more than any pearl
And sets my senses in a tUhirl?
MY Yo-Yo.
What keeps me busy day and
night
And makes me exercise Dith
might?
My Yo-Yo.
I'll clasp it tightly to my breast
And tDllen I take nty final rest
All I'll desire to take Is
My Yo-Yo.
City and Suburban homes for sale
. . all sections all prices
are advertised for sale IN today'S Clas.
sified Section,
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
ARL|NGTONSPAN
BIDS ASKED
BYK|NNFER
Washington Street Approach
Grading Halted Pending
Contractors Offers

Work of grading the Washing.
to-: street approach to the bridge,
tn route which will open up
arlington county to the heavy
traffic expected to pass over the
bridge and the Mt. Vernon
-oulevard next year, has been
stopped by c. L. Kinnier, direct
ing engineer Of Arlington county,
to permit construction companies
to bid upon the work.
The work was started by the
county engineering department,
employing local men, after agita.
ton of several years on the part
of more than a score Of civic
associations. and the decision to
let a contract for it's completion
Genes as surprise.
The action of the engineer in
adv -rtising for bids probably
comes as the result OF the board
of supervisors action last meet
ing in letting contracts for the
layi~3 of curbing and cutters in
Virginia Highlands to a Washing.
ton concern.
The boards action on that
occasion was taken over the pro-
test of Supervisor B. M. Hedrick,
who maintained that the county
should undertake the work and
thus give employment to local
men.
It was supervisor Hedrick, in
whose magisterial district the
Washir gton street project IS
located, who gave the ordecs
under which the country engineer
acted IN starting work upon the
road.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
ARSENIC AIDS CANCER WAR
F a m US Specialist
Reveals Success
OF Treatment

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ~
ONS0.-"It seems to be q splen.
did discovery. I only hope
medical science will receive
It with an open mind and
give 1t . fair trial."
DR.. Walter B. Coffey. famous
San Francisco cancer specialist,
gave that statement to Interna-
tional News Service today when
shown dispatches telling Of an
announcement by two distin-
guished Toronto scientists.
The scientists, DR.. Arthur C..
Hendrick, prominent Toronto
surgeon, and Prof. E. F. Burton,
Of the physics faculty Of the
University Of Toronto. announced
they had obtained remarkable
success against cancer through
interavenouS injections Of a col
loidal solution of metallic arsenic.
DR.. Coffey, chief surgeon Of
the Southern Pacific railroad
and the Dollar Steamship Com
pany, is co-discoverer with DR..
John D. Humber, of the Coffey-
Humber extract, which has been
amazingly efficacious with can
Ger patients at experimental clin-
les here and at Los Angeles.
DR.. Coffey added:
"The treatment announced
by DR.. Hendrick and Prof.
Burton is all the more remark.
able in that it involves arsel.ic.
We have always found arsenic
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
COUNTY POLICE.
. SECLUDE TWO
WITNESSES
Former Policeman and Deputy
SheriffS Among Nine
Under Indictment

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Nov. q.
With the development today
that testimony before the Anne
Arundel county grand jury
which resulted in presentments
against former officials and
bondsmen for alleged graft
operations came from persons
involved in the Bell Grove
Inn case, county officers are
preparing for an open war be-
tween the two factions in
volved.
Last summer Baltimore police
raided Bell Grove Inn and the
operator of the resort was SEN
fenced to prison. It Is now said
the faction involved in the Balti-
more case has turned States evil
dence against a group which is
said to be operating other dives
recently raided.
2 Witnesses Secluded
Two witnesses who are said to
have testified before the Grand
Jury in the recent Sleepy Valley
Inn raid, near Jessups, are being
secluded by county officers who
fear that open gun play will re-
suit.
The Sleepy Valley Inn is said
20 have been operated by a wo-
man who gives the name Of Mrs.
Jean Cumming and a man by
the name of Robert Malone, for
mer Government Printing Office
employe in washington.
Six of the nine indictments are
the result of the probe Of vice
conditions in the county. much OF
the evidence being supplied by wo.
men who were given suspended
sentences by Judge Robert Moss SO
they could testify before the prob
ing jurors.
Protection Charged
The women were charged with
operating disorderly houses in the
county. They claimed they had to
leave Baltimore County because
the cost Of protection there was
50 high.
Those indicted on vice charges
include: Harry E. Melvin. former
police magistrate at Linthicum,
malfeasance In office: Deputy
Sheriff Chris Ballman, malfea-
sance in office: Patrolman Rufus
Grempler, bribery: Patrolman Jo-
Seph WilkerSon, malfeasance in Of
flee, bribery; a man known only
as "Dr. Stewart" in connection
with the operation of a disorderly
house; Michael kid" Julian, car
rying concealed weapon.
Others indicted include Morris
Legum, obtaining money under
false pretenseS, conspiring to OBJ
Struct justice; also Patterson Col
feltt, ownership Of two slot ma
chimes; also Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Proutt, assault.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
Virginia Beach Head
Surprised at Charges

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 81.
Mayor C. E. BARGE, Of Virginia
Beach, claims to be surprised at
charges made by Governor Pol
lard that there is open gambling
at the Virginia resort. Governor
Pollard recently declared gam
blers were showing "open rebel
lion" against the State laws. ad-
ding:
II have given the local au-
thOritieS a chance to enforce
the law and they have fallen
down. But the law is going to
be enforced, 80 help me GOd!"
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
COUNTY PUPILS
STUDY PLAN
IS REVISED
Curriculum, Revolutionary in
Scope, Is Mapped Out for
Montgomery Schools

A revised course Of study which
is revolutionary in scope has
been worked out for the Mont
gomery county schools by Edwin
w. Broome. superintendent Of
schools, and Miss Margaret Ans
dell, county Red Cross nutri-
zionist.
Under this plan the children
from the first through the sixth
grades will be given q theme
to work out and will 60 out to
nature and try to learn what
they can instead Of just listen
ing to teachers and reading from
books.
To Use Microscopes
Microscopes will be used by
the children in their studies,
something that heretofore was
not attempted in classes lower
than high school.
The work has been divided up
into three phases.
Variety of Studies
The first consists of the field
work, the second the study Of
what experts have found, while
the third deals with health, in
cluding physical, emotional and
mental well being.
In the revised curriculum, the
science program has been worked
on in the past two years, and
has been developed in co-opera-
tion with the Curriculum Re-
search Bureau Of Teachers Col
lege Of Columbia University, New
York.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27

City and Suburban homes for sale
all sections all prices . .
are advertised for sale IN today'S Clas-
sified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
Machines Displaced
Bu Citu to Aid Idle

LYNCHBURG. Va, Nov. 27.-
Hand labor is to replace lnacnin-
cry on the Florida Avenue road
Job here. so that employment
may be given to a larger number
of laborers who prefer work to
charity.
The project is to start Monday.
A big cut is to be made with pick
shovel and wheelbarrow instead
Of with steam shovel and trucks.
The city is offering eight hours
work a day at Is cents an hour.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
FINED $40 IN THEFT
Staff Photo

William Brown, 1858 Columbia
Rd. N. w., forfeited $40 in Police
Court today on a charge of
stealing newspapers from a rack
at Eighteenth Street and Colum-
bia Road Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
PHARMACISTS TO MEET

The District Pharmaceutical
Association will hold its memorial
meeting for thu late Wymond H.
Bradbury, at Corcoran Hall of
George Washington University,
Tuesday at 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
Accident Costs Life
Of Duck Hunter, 19

BALTIMORE, Nov. q. - John
Kirchner, 10. of this city, was
shot and killed today at Bengies.
Md. He was hunting wild ducks
with four other youths when his
gun discharged accidentally, the
shot entering his chest.
The Washington times., 1931-11-27
OFFICIALS TO ATTEND

Miss Blanche A. Corwin, home
demonstration agent for Mont
gomery county, and Albert A:
Ady, assistant county agent, Will
attend the State grange meeting
to be held in Salisbury, No.
next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21

Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Pope of Bay
City, Mich, are also in Washington
for the convention and are at Ward
man Park Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Minturn T. Wright of
Chestnut Hill, Pa, are at the Shore
ham Hotel for an indefinite stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred M King of
Wheeling, w. Va, are at the Shoreham
Hotel for q stay of a few days.
Mrs. John williams of the research
department of the Medical Interpreter
of washington will return to her resi-
dence on South Dakota avenue north
east shortly after serious operation.
Mrs, williams Is expected to go to
New York at an early date to meet
her sister, Dame Ruthen, widow of the
late Sir Charles Tamlin Ruthen GA. M.
I. G. Ed Of London and Ruthen, North
Wales, and viii return with her for a
visit to their Welsh residence at
Ruthen, North Wales. She anticipates
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taking up medical research work In
London, Berlin and Paris for the
United States medical fraternity.
Mrs. H. r. Hatfield, accompanied by
her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hatfield
of Berkeley, Calf, are spending several
days in the Capital, and while here
are at the Dodge Hotel.
Mrs. Joseph A. Massie of Winches-
1ro.,.i.,,,oa -, xuo,,,+,, po,o1
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plnia for visit as the house guests Of
Mrs. Wilmer Biddle.
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Mrs. Catherine Filene Dodd, who has
been III In the horne OF her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Lincoln Filene, In Boston,
viii return TO Washington next week
TO spend q few days before sailing for
Bermuda January 81
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Mrs Walter A. Wells had quests
lunching with her yesterday at the Carl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21

: Mrs. Virginia White Speel was host
ess to a small company at luncheon yes
terday in the crystal room Of the VIII
lard
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Mrs. Kuhn to Be Hostess
At ARTS Club Tomorrow.

AT arts OHuD IUmUFFUW'
ART Glass, Old and New" will be the
subject of the talk at the Arts Club to-
morrow evening. Mr. A. z. Marshall
will be the elubs guest of honor and
speaker He will illustrate his subject
by slides and q rare exhibit of examples
of sine glassware for art and architec-
tural purposes. Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn
will be the hostess. -------