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ball lay down in her cage. She put her
beautiful head on her forepaws and
looked out at her children with tran
quill, serene eyes. And. knowing her
babies were safe and beside her,
Fireball calmly went to sleep as
peacefully as if she we're a house cat
in her own favorite chair!
Fireball is now with an American
circus. and her two children are
favorites at the St. Louis Zoo. And to
me, of all the leopards l ever captured
in over twenty years experience. or
all l ever shall capture. Fireball will
be my favorite. For / have never
seen any animal exhibit such ad-
mirable qualities of mother love.
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charging buffalo, a good man can deal
with; but who can withstand the
attack of a pack of jungle dogs?
Wild dogs he shouted. Run,
Holati, run, thou beautiful gazelle.
Run like the devil, thou wart-hog'
And on Colo and the worthless
Holati ran, while the dog-pack
gathered and took up the trail . .
ran and ran until. with aching lungs
and bursting heart and reeling brain,
the two sighted the good White
Frangi's camp, put on last squirt,
stood each his bottle of beer before
the Frangi's tent, and lay down at
the winning post to die"
Tommy felt for his pipe.
No, | didn't drink the beer"
What exactly did you do?" en-.
quired.
Soaked the labels off the bottles
and stuck them on the chests of Colo
and the others. Decorations - in a
double sense. Victoria Crosses. And
they died happy.
Then stuck the bottles up and
shot 'em. And contemplated shooting
myself.
: mo - wish had never gone into
Abyssinia," he added, as he puffed
at his pipe.
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black men running for dear life. These
two were notorious slave dealers.
said Sayed Ali Burgash to Mar
brouk ben Hassan: Bet you can't
hit the man in front before l do the
man behind him. or words to that
effect.
Both slavers raised their rifles.
''Sayed Ali Burgash shot very well,
indeed, taking Holati through the
elbow with a bullet that not only
broke his arm but ploughed across the
edge of his diaphragm; while Mar
BRONX ben Hassan, in way, fired
better; for though he did not really
wound Colo. the bullet creased him,
Ccrossing the back of his neck. and
grazing the spinal column without
breaking it.
Both runners fell, and there was
a hideous crash - of glass - as Gojo's
bottles struck the boulder against
which they were hurled when he COL
lapsed, unconscious.
. Both Arab gentlemen roared with
laughter, clapped each other on the
shoulder, and began to wrangle as to
the amount that Sayed Ali Burgash
had betted Marbrouk ben Hassan
that he wouldn't shoot the leading
man before Sayed Ali Burgash shot
the second.
Colo recovered first, came back to
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A Dozen of Ale
Continued from page -four

life, as does a man who has received
an inadequate blow upon the head,
took stock of the situation. and per-
pended.
Should he, best man of the lot,
arrive alone, bearing two bottles -
and thus, not exactly cover himself
with glory, but wear small rag of it
sufficient for decency? Or should he.
less selfishly, give one bottle to Holati,
so that at least one would arrive if the
other should meet with an accident?
"Of course it was not likely that
accidents would happen. None had
ever happened to Colo - but one
never knew 5. So he kicked Holati
up, tied the hand of the wounded arm
about Holati's neck. plastered his
shattered elbow we'll with clay, took
Holati's spear, put one of the bottles
in his good hand. and bade him run.
"On the two ran. -.
And shortly thereafter Colo got
fright; realized that an accident might
happen after all. For a dog, lying
asleep under a tree. raised its head
and looked at them, arose, shook itself,
and barked. Not village dog but q
jungle dog, wild dog; and to Colo,
who knew his way about, this meant
- DEATH
"A lion, a man can deal with; a
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PNangS cut down vines and creepers
as if they had been twine. We fol-
lowed every cut-back of Fireball
from the point where we had first
found her in the tree. We traced every
spoor and claw mark for miles through
the dank ooze of the forest floor.
If you've never beat your way
through the breathless heat of a
tropical jungle at high noon you won't
understand. The temperatures above
hundred degrees in the shade, and
the shade is as damp and humid as
sea-bottom. Sweat pours down your
body and your face, drips in your
mouth. blinds your eyes with smart
ing sting that burns like fire. Leeches
bury themselves in your naked flesh
and sink through your wet clothes.
Brambles scratch your skin and I'm
seen thorns tear at your face and
hands. It's rough. tough going. and
unless you had an object you'd quit
after mile of it.
Well, | had an object - to find
Fireball's cubs. And l found them!
In the most unlikely of all places -
in hole followed out under a tree
Mud-caked leopard tracks led to it,
and when reached in my hand was
skeptical and unconvinced. Leopards
usually make their den in rock forma-
tions, and had little faith in this hole
among tree roots. But soon changed
my mind.
What changed it was sudden
swipe that felt like hot poker dragged
across the back of my hand. Instinc-
tive young claws had struck out
against an alien.
ALI" l called. We've got them!'
Carefully felt for each of those two
clouded leopard cubs by the scuff of
the neck and put them in a burlap
sack. BY the way they struggled and
fought could see that eventually
they'd be as savage fighters as their
mother.
Back in camp I'd had a small cage
prepared, and it was with sigh of
relief that got my two babies into it.
AS clouded leopard babies, to me. at
least, they were as full of monetary
potentialities as the quintuplets. In
the animal market they were just
about as rare.
They were so hungry and healthy
they were perfectly willing to take
canned milk through bamboo tube
"a process which usually requires
infinite trial and patience with young
animals When with my own hands l
had fed them both nourishing meal
| knew | could bring these leopard =.
twins back to America.
But Fireball was still cutting up
furiously. She was pacing her cage
with undiminished savagery. barring
her fangs, snarling wildly at every
movement or shadow that crossed
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tower TWO hundred feet into the misty
air and the unseen sky And from
them all hangs a swaying network of
vines and Creepers that sometimes
makes progress practically impossible.
For full day we tramped and
fought our way through this sort of
jungle. We hacked down vines with
barangS - sharp Malay knives like a
small sword - and we beat our way
through brushwood and thorns that
tore our clothes and scratched our
flesh
We followed every leopard track,
old and new, that we came across.
Some merely led to waterholes, Others
vanished into impenetrable thickets.
And of them all not one led to lair
or den that might be Fireball's.
was detected that night when we
finally got back to camp. | was even
more detected when Ali, whom | had
left behind, reported to me:
"Kuching no eat, tudn. No eat
thing. Only walk up and down cage
and roar loud"
He didn't need to tell me Fireball
was roaring. had heard her quarter
of mile away. intent and fierce. with
all the blatant savagery of her wild
home in her snarls. realized that
might lose valuable leopard. Unless
Fireball could be induced to eat she
would certainly die. And her cubs,
somewhere out in the denseness of the
jungle, would also die
am not a sentimental man. My
business doesn't allow me to be. MY
business is merely the capturing and
bringing back alive of wild animals to
the ZOOS of America. But have never
wilfully harmed or injured an animal
in my entire career; have too much
love and respect for even the most
savage of them. And | resolved that
night that unless | found Firebalrs
cubs mex, day would turn her loose.
| knew that once free she would 90
back to them, nurse and save them.
lspent a second restless night. Fire
ball continued to belch forth fury and
defiance. She was like a mailman who
has determined on revenge or suicide.
Never have seen leopard like her. A
hundred and fifty pounds of sleek
animal dynamite exploding itself end
lessly against an immovable object
that was a man-made log cagei She
was superb in her struggle, snarling
phantom endlessly moving in silver
moonlight behind shadowed wall of
black bars.
Next morning l lay down the law
to my boys.
We've got to find that kuching's
den." l said. Il want you to search
as you never searched before. Pass
over nothing. Look everywhere. Now
get going!'
We literally tore that Jungle apart.
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moving glance in the remaining glim-
mer of twilight showed that she had
recently been nursing her young.
Ada. tuan - yes" All agreed
Young kuchingS somewhere. l know
ali time there no demons in jungle"
laughed. But | was relieved my
self. Fireball's restlessness and fury.
coupled with the swift-falling dark
ness. had gotten a little under my
skin. was glad of the explanation,
and was delighted with the idea of
cubs. If | could find them it would
mean neat profit. Clouded leopards
are rare and valuable, but a pair of
clouded leopard cubs would bring
tremendous sum.
slept very little that night. One
reason was that Fireball continued to
keep the jungle alive with her screams
and snarls. She never relaxed for
moment after that one glance of
hatred she gave me. Hour after hour
she kept up her fierce, terrifying
serenade of hate.
| would have stayed awake with
out Fireball's symphony of rage. For
| was planning ways and means of
finding her cubs. 1t was a rare oppor-
tunity. and | didn't want to muff it.
| knew now why Fireball had taken
to a tree instead of staying on the
ground during my pursuit. She had
a lair somewhere - with her cubs
in it - and she didn't want to lead
me to it.
In the morning called my boys
around me. Fireball was still a sleek
mass of fighting animal fury and
muscle.
This kuching has cubs" l said.
And we're going to find them.
They're in a den somewhere in the
jungle nearby and we've got to get
them"
BY this time the magnihcence of
Freball was beginning to tell on me.
She was so splendid in her fight to
get back to her children that admired
her tremendously. | wanted to find
those cubs - to keep them from
dying and to give them back to their
mother as much as wanted them
for myself.
Spread out" l ordered my boys,
"and follow every leopard track you
see. Some of them have got to lead
to a den"
Unless you've seen jungle you
can't imagine how many animal
tracks there can be when you're look
ing for them. Jungle turf is soft and
wet. and animals pretty generally fol-
low beaten tracks to water holes,
making in places tremendous con-
fusion of spoors. However, it's pos
sible to trail a certain animal long
distance through the jungle. but when
there are many animals of the same
species with the same spoor it's diff
ficult
The jungle is dark. There are four
distinct layers to it - the tough grass
that grows close to the earth, the
higher bushes and underground that
spread like clotted mat. the low
hanging trees that spring up every
where, and the giant durian trees that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-30
POTHEEN APLENTY s''N' OPENS MINES OF
 IRISH FOLK LORE

DUBLIN, Mag 30.-Glasses of whiskey, for which the Free State Government stood treat, played an important part in the making of the photograph records of Irish folklore, now carefully stored in State archives in Dublin.
 Crooners and jazz orchestras will be listened for in vain when pos terity plays the discs. Instead the records will keep alive for all time something of the "ould Ireland'' which is passing.
 Simple old Irish fishermen, aged cottagers and centenarians- are the artists whose names figure on the labels of the records. There are more than 200 of them. each giving fragments Of Gaelic legends, songs and dialects of vanishing generation Three years were spent at the work.
 Perhaps the most important equipment the collectors carried was an assortment of whiskey. It was necessary to ply it in gen. erous doses to loosen the tongues of some of the subjects Others oi them refused to. go near the re- cording instrument unless the par ish priest went with them.
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 in 48 States. The actual work Of or ganizing houSe-to- house canvasses, obtaining definite pledges for re- pairs, and putting property owners in contact with material dealers, contractors, and architects, has largely been the work Of the vo,un- teer staff in every locality. f
 Local better housing committees receive no funds for their opara- tions from the Federal Housing Ad- ministration. Each community fi- nancas it's own program, many with the assistance of the local Emerg- ency Relief Administration in pro viding canyassers and clerical help CTS. Tn many sections canvassers re- ceive compensation from retail trades. a ~
 Committees vary in size from a hundred or more to less than half a dozen, depending upon the popu- lation of the community in which it is functioning. Canvassing organ izations range from paid forces of trained men and women to carpen- ters and bricklayers on relief or volunteer salesmen representing the building supply dealers; fs%
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-30
Petitions Are
 Being Gucplated;; ;a 5. Dantci Tonight ei'y {

4lAf lAs i .AI 1t tfs 4 t1 sft t+t1tl ttff fhfi sCcntinued circuiation of peti- ti6ns aS'kingl flic City < Council and the Mayor dtc oipervise "a vrsc oH all mine workers on the quotticn an to whether they de- sire to- feturn tD work, hppaS- emily was the only activity to- day{in the Alaska Mine Work crs' Un.1n wallseut at the Alas ka Jtne7n Gold Mining Com pany.a .eaiers iaG. siassr,esl.
 lAhncsisdccnent of the petition wac iniade yestcrtiay, but Iieith- CT span. ors Of the petition nor unicn icadery had statements to make today. ,.s, 4y,5s,3
 Meanwhile, plans were com pleted for the ulioh-sponsored public dance at Moose Hall at 8 o'clock T tonight. Novelty :, en- tertaihme mt fiiinlbers and speeches will intersperse dance music, union officials said aft CT q meeting of that group last night Charlie. FCrozier is in charge of the dance.
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rounds" he said. Why, I actu- ally laughed to myself along about the seventh round because I knew that a lot of folks were worrying about them"
 In his we'll conceived plan of bat tie Tony stressed the importance of conserving his energy and did only what pedaling was absolutely ne cessary.
 He made Ambers fight just the way he wanted him to, For the most part Tony stood in the center Of the ring and just kept turning enough to meet the whirling ad- vances of Ambers. His tactics made Lou do all the leg work and let him conserve his own precious leg pow CT.
 Not only did Canzoneri outsmarl Ambers but he almost completely disarmed the youngster with his cold, confident manner.
 A couple Of years ago Ambers acted as Canzoneri's sparring part her, so the latter. took full ad- vantage of the situation and shook Lous confidence by treating the youngsters best efforts with utter disdain. Tony offered his chin as a target but even then AmoerS could not reach him.
 First To Regain Title
 After some 127 bouts stretch ing over a period of 10 years Can zoneri has earned a unique place in the history of the lightweight class. He is the first 135-pounder to regain his championship.
 Tony weighed about 85 pounds when he first laced on pair oi gloves and set out to make his mark in the amateur ranks in New
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The grand little veteran Of the ring, Tony Canzoneri, easily proved himself the best of the present crop of lightHeights when he defeated Lou Anbers in Is rounds and earn CT his fourth title. Canzoneri also has held the featherweight, light weight and junior welterweight crowns.
 Tony regained the championship he lost to Barney Ross in 1883 after holding it almost three years. There may be some question of the New York Boxing Commissions right arbitrarily to designate the Can zoneri-Ambers bout as for the title but most ring fans will accept Can xoneri as a deserving champion.
 Tony was a fine champion be- fore Ross took the crown from him and, with Barney out of the light weight picture, will dignify the throne again until someone takes it from him.
 Net A Single Mistake
 Tn scoring over the youthful Am bafs. Canzoneri fought well nigh perfect fight. He didn't make a single mistake in the entire Is rounds and never forced his aging legs beyond their limit.
 Tn his dressing room after the bout, the champion laughed and joked about his legs.
 Those legs were good for 40
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LdtOnia's Shortened Derby May Be Re-run of Kentucky
 Classic; 1t Is On Saturday

LATONIA, Ky May 28.-Turf- dom may see the Kentucky Derby run over again here June 1.
 Every starter in the classic of Churchill Downs, from Omaha on down the line, has been nominated for the 53rd running of the $15,000 added Latonia derby on that day.
 Whats more, after 52 years at a mile and a half, the Latonia this year will be run at a mile and a quarter-the distance of it's fellow Kentucky stake.
 A Chance For Everyone
 For tandem 1t may pc chance to second-guess the Kentucky Der by; for the horses, chance to re- deem themselves; for Omaha, a chance tc erter the select few, win nsrs of both the Kentucky and La- tonia derbies, and the $5,O00 extra that goes to any Latonia winner which also had copped the Louis vile event.
 Early running of the Latonia Derby in meeting opening May 26 and ending July brought de- cision to trim the distance quar- ter of a mile from the historic length of Old Englands Darby.
 Who'll See Nellie Home?
 Sixty-three 0 m in t ons have been made for Latonia's outstand- ing race, among them, besides Omaha: Roman Soldier, Whiskolo Nellie Flag, Boxthorn, Tutticurio Psychic Bid, Plat Eye, Blackbrder Whopper, Commonwealth, Sun Fairplay, Morpluck Mccarthy, To- day, and Weston
 It may be Nellie Flags turn, too after failing in both the Kentucky Deloy and the Preakness.
 Only one lilly has won the Ken lucky Derby, but four have wor the Latonia-Fiji in 1884; Handy Mandy in 1927; Gowell in 1913; anc Los Angeles in 1888 by running { dead-heat with White, a colt, anc then taking the mile-and-a-hall runoff.
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HUGE UNPAID FORGE ASSISTS
 FILA PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3o.- For every paid worker in the na- tion-wide Better Housing Program of the Federal Housing Administra- ton there are 90 volunteer workers helping the movement to revive the durable goods industries and the construction industry as whole, according to the Administration.
 Figures released here by the Ad- ministration show that there are only 2,769 paid employees, while there are 25O,00o volunteers backing the program.
 From the outset Of the Better Housing Program, labor business, and industry have enthusiastically ccoperated in the furtherance of the work. In local communities a greater portion of organization work was carried on by civic-spirit- ed citizens under the guidance of representatives of the Housing Ad- ministration. At national headquar- ters the greater majority of major industries have maintained at their own expense representatives who work hand in hand with the vari- ous divisions of the housing organ ization.
 During the Spring of 1885 more than 1000 trained men from various industries participated in a series of educational meetings held in key cities throughout the country to ac- quaint retailers and independent dealers, as well as the general pub lie, with the far reaching bene- fits to be derived from moderniza- tion and repair projects. At the same time, industries pledged per sonal modernization projects and campaigns within their own con- cerns to educate their employed personnel in the purpose of the Better Housing Program.
 Rural communities h ave also shown much cooperation in the program, and hundreds of unpaid workers have carried on the tasks in local better housing committees
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-30
COLORAb6 SfARII T06lW bRI6
 ONE ElMlIo|.R|||IE|;1R'y. ORE;
Dutch Clark, Famed Play CT, Will Compete in
 Pro Sport Again
By LoUDON KELLY (As-ociated Press Sports Writer)


 DENVER. May 3o.-The flying Dutchman'' will set sail on pro tassional football seas again next fall. A@ Nas se
 Earl CDutch) Clark. colorado's lone football America, for d time torn between an offer of a coaching job here and desire to yank on grid togs again, is ready for at least one more season of play in pro ranks ti 4sN
 He was quarterback with the De- troit Lions last fall He will return at reported salary of $6,5oo and promise of steady efnploymerit in Detroit when the season is over.
 Declines Ss,OOO
 Tn deciding to slip on the harness once more, Dutch declined a con tract from the University of Colo 'rado Ss basketball coach and assist- ant football coach at a salary Somewhat less than $3,0bo.
 Clark was cage coach at the university this year. It was his second try at c6aching since his graduation from Colorado College, where he was picked as aIl- America luartcrback in bis Jiinior year. He csached football basketball and baseball at the Colorado School of Mines in 1s33s34. 5
 Fast, tricky, a beautiful passer and long distance Kicker Clark is without argument the greatest foot ball player ever developed in Colo rado College circles.
 Rarc,y Gets HHrt
 Besides his other assets, Clark is nearly indestrnctible in combat. He was hurt in play last season, but before that had had time called for him only orice--in his high school days at Pueblo, Colo sssst n9si Clark will be succeeded as bas- ketball mentor next season by tvrrest, (EfUsty}iN Cox, whb < has held down an assistants post at the University of Kansasa4i wi There isRa Mrs. Clark to whom Dutch" will bring home, his, pay ciidrks next fall There is also a young male Clark born while Dutch was working to win bas- ketbail games at Colorado last wittcr.'
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Orleans. Fighting as a flyweight he was forced to give away plenty of weight and reach. Four years of ex- perience in the amateurs and Tony decided to make his bid against the boys who fought for money.
 Canzoneri isn't exactly certain of the number of bouts he has taken part in but he does feel that from each effort he took something in the way of knowledge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-30
FORMER ALASKAN MINER
 RETURNS TO MOOSE PASS

Since he was at Hope in 1898, Jim 'Bazard has acquired high standing in the mining world out side, says recent Seward Gate way, but lie has always Kept in mind a quartz property that he located { years ago in the Moose Pass Hope country. This he brought to the attention of capital with the result that he and his brother George, another Hope miner of s7 years Ago, landed at Seidovia re- cehtiy, with an outfit to be trans ported into the Turnagain Arm district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-30
LIEUT.. AND MRS. ANDERSON
 HAVE TAKEN KIRK HOUSE

Lieutenant fl. A. Anderson, U. s. Coast Guard cutter TallapooSa, and Mrs. Anderson, have moved to the w, B. Kirk house on Gold Street formerly occupied by Commander and Mrs Fletcher w Brown, dur ing the latter's absense in the south.
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MARRIED AT FAIRBANKS

Miss Iris Tomlinson and William F. Walthall were married May 12 in Fairbanks at the home of MT. and Mrs. J. D. Crawford The bride had arrived the previous day from Seattle MT. Walthall is an en- gineer with the Fairbanks Explora- tion Company at Fox where they will live.
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First-gtade pupils oi a school in curritiick county, North Carolina, obtained pig only few weeks old and cared for it under the sup ervisidn of their teacher until it ikss .e ~. tai~l. a ssa4-a
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The American leagues current leading home run sluggers-Zeke Bonura. Jimmy Foxx and Bob John- son-all are right hand batters.