Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-09-22
This Week
By ARTHUR BRIsBANE
France Looks Ahead
Snake and Spider
Sharp-Shooting, New
The Restless Philippines

Berlin says France is arranging to
lend n hundred million yen. Jap
anese money. to the new republic of
Nanchukuu. where H Chinese puppet
| governs in the interest of Japan.
Japan would guarantee the loan.
Germans believe that France considers
ii important TO help Japan establish
a strong position on the southern
boundaries of Russian Siberia.
The French are wise in war matters
and able 10 look ahead.
Tragic happenings In ST. Charles.
Ill Scientists watched a ~ten-ineh gar
ter snake held prisoner in the web of
a black spider The spider wrapped
its silken ropes. much stronger in pro-
portion 10 size than any steel cable
made By man. around the snakes head
For n days. tie snake, alive, strug-
gled yainly TO escape.
Tbe spider. apparently not strong
enough TO kill the snake. daily wrapped
more spider web around it.
Kind cruelty TO animals" sympa-
thizers protested and the snake was
freed.
Science said the spider was entitled
TO prove what he could do. 1t was a
small male spider of the interesting
kind that. according to Fabre. French
naturalist. enjoys a dangerous honey
moon. The female usually kills and
devours him when The honeymoon Is
over and sometimes before 1t starts.
A new kind of sharnrshooting Is de
yeloped. more important to this Il
fry's safety than anything else. moi
excepting sentimental peace talk.
Lieut. f. W. OfConnor. army air
corps. establishes a worlds record for
consecutive hits with bombs from a
height OF 5000 feet. He aimed eight
bombs at a small circle N the ground
Seven reached the mark the eighth
fell just outside the circle.
One flyer. with N helper. In a
bombing plane costing less than $780,
coo. shooting as we'll as that could
hare destroyed seven battleships.
costing s50.OO0.OOO each, destroying
also their crews
Spain. now building up an armada
of the air. shows her intelligence.
She will find that more useful than
the old floating armada sent against
England and Elizabeth.
Our patriotic fellow Americans in
the Philippines seem uncertain as to
their desires Recently they have been
telling us they would separate from
the United States entirely. TO be free
and independent. Then 1t occurred
to some that If they did that they
would not be able to send sugar and
other products here without paying
duty, also that they would have mo-
body to build roads and public schools
for them.
Now Guillermo Capadocia, from the
Island of Negroes, says: I'VE want
to run the Americans out of the Philip
pines" simultaneously. he. with five
hundred associates waving red flags,
carrying banners reading. Long live
the Soviet republic = demands a cast
dole. payable weekly. 1t Is a compli-
Gated situation there.
Campers a Elrama. Pa, digging
Into n hillside. uncovered skeletons of
human beings that lived In America
thousands of years before the noble
redman came, supposedly from Asia.
These earlier Americans. according to
scientists examining their skulls, had
more intelligence than the Indians
that followed them They were -doli
cocephaiic.r which means long head
ed" and their skull bone was thin.
which indicates that they had been
thinking for a long slime. But their
jaws were heavy and primitive. show
ing lack of balance.
Invaders from Asia. probably better
fighters, wiped them out.
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