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The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
FACTORIESVS.
AUTOMOBILES

During recent years, the indus
trial accideHt fecord-both as t
> frequesscy and severity of accl
dents has steadily declined
More and more manufacturin,
companies are operating montl
after month without single mis-
hap. Unless all signs fail, 1881
will witness still additional i'm
provement over the preceding
years.
During the same period, the au
tomobile accident record ha:
grown steadily worse. More acci
dents occur-and result in graver
injuries. 1t now seems likely that
the death toll for 1896 will be the
greatest in history, and will pass
the $4,000 mark,
Why should factories grow
more safe while highways grow
mare. dangerous? 1t can be ar
gued that constant progress Is be-
ing made in guarding hazardous
machinery. So it is-but con
slant progress is likewise being
made in improving cars and road.
ways.
The real explanation of the
anomaly can be expressed in two
words: The human element,
Factory manegements have been
unsparing of time. money and ef-
fort 10 installing safety conscious
ness" into workers. The congen-
italy careless employe, who risks
the lives OF other AorkInen as
we'll as his own, merits and re-
ceives dismissal. A workman
who won't absorb the doctrine Of
Never take d chance" has 40
place in a modern factory.
the mOtoriSl, on the other hand
is not so restricted. II he wants
to be reckless. il is up to him.
True, we have traffic laws-but no
state or city can employ enough
peace Officers TO keep a check on
all drivers. And il is an unIor
.unate fact that the most reck.
ess driving practices are usually
punished with only small fins.
Men who would instantly fire d I
workman who Was Careless ia op-
Grating some machine, daily rlsk |
1Ozens OF accidents while driving.
Nor until public opinion forces the {
notOrist to think safely and drive Z
afely' will the automobiie accl I
lent toll be nIedSuredbly reduced
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Why Trousers Cuffs Are Used

At first men found 1t convenient to
turn up the bottom of their trousers
to prevent them from getting muddy.
1t was regarded as temporary meas
ure and the cuffs were turned down
again when the wearer came indoors
out of the muddy streets.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Worlds Most Dangerous Road

The worlds most dangerous road is
the Karakorum route over the Hima-
laYa mQuntains between Chinese Turk
estan and India. 1t reaches $4,000 feet
in height, says Golfers Weekly, and
for long distances Is very rocky and
only a foot or two In width. How
ever, caravans travel 1t regularly de-
spite the fact that on each trip they
Lose about 30 per cent of their ami
mails, aaost of which are killed by fall
ing over cliffs.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Pacific Bottom

Pacific ocean bottom rock is different
freR rocks found anywhere else, wheth-
er en- land or under other oceans. 1t
appears to be the earth's real founda-
Hen rock, sverlaid elsewhere with
0taer deposits which are missing
throughout the area Of the worlds
greatest ocean.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Italy's Deserts

Italy already possesses a great em.
pire in northern Africa, many times her
own size, but unfortunately 1t is a
desert empire, of little use economf-
cally and useless as an outlet for her
surplus population.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Gibraltar Current

At the Straits Of Gibraltar, where
there is a shelf of only IT'S fathoms
depth, the surface water down to about
70 fathoms Is always flowing into the
Mediterranean. Below that depth it
flows slowly out.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
MFs


Paint is mixture of solid particles
(called the psment) and a liquid
(called the vehicle) which dries solid
when spread out in thin layers, pro-
tecting and decorating the surface to
which it clings.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Land Can Stray

In the world-faMed Vale Of Cashmir,
between the Middle and OuterHim-
alayas, are maay neating islands where
1t sometimes happens that mans land
may be lost, strayed or stolen.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
How to Tell Good Sheetinr

At ''white goods" sales one way of
telling good sheeting is to rub the ma
terial between the hands and then hold
it UP to the light to see the amount of
fuzz raised; better sheetings in gen
eral have less fuzz. textile specialists
say.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
First Rings Useful

Ihe first rings were seal rings with
which the wearer made the impression
OF an engraved design to seal letters
ana documents. There were taliaaan
rings and rings OF healing, and thu
sinister poison rings.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06

The first 7. H. C. A. was organ
izea In 1851 at Boston and Montreal,
patterned after similar organization
which started in London, England in
1914. The first international conven-
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Island Called Modern Paradise

NaurH island in the Pacific is only
eight and half square miles in. area
but is said to be modera paradise.
1t is without public debt and maternal
mortality.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Why Birds Can Roost on Wires

Birds roost on telegraph wires with
out being electrocuted because they are
not in contact with the ground or
return wire and therefore the current
does not pass through their bodies.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Indians Use Elow-Cun

The PaweRwa Iadians of South
America are said to go almost naked
and TO use the blowgun with poisoned
darts.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06

"We allus maguified de importance
of our own doin's," said Bncle Eben.
"a man wifi funny story on his mind
imagines dat everybody ought to stop
work and listen"
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Celebes Island Narrow

Ceebes island Ia the Dutch East
Indies is 800 miles long and yet so
narrow that no place Is as far as 70
miles from the sea.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06

Brazil measures s,2S5.319 square
miles, exceeding the size of the United
States by more than 100000 SQUARE
miles.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Portuguese Opened Ethiopia

The Portuguese were ts kst to
open HP Ethiopia to the Tsrld, La the
Sixteenth century, after Ethiopia had
been lost to view for nearly 1,,eOO
years.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
Amin ais in Ethiooia

Squirrels, hares and monkeys range
Ehi0nia 70 heights Of 10000 feet
The Fort Peck press., 1936-08-06
First Colony in Central America

~SIOHy III III .S"
The arst colony Ia Central America
was fouaded by Columbus In 1892 in
Costa Rica, where he left his brother
Bartholomew.
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
ZiOncheck'S Reform
Promised BY Bride

for office again this year, despite
reports that his party was lrked
by his escapades, and she is going
to sort Of be his campaign man.
ager.
Plans for the honeymoon are
still indefinite, she said, depend
ing on when Congress adjourns.
Then they will probably motor
west-thought not at 10 mules an
hour, she insisted-and she will
have her first view of the State
of Washington, her new legal
residence.
AS yet, Mrs. Zioncheck-al'
though the Representative called
her Miss Nix" when he telephoned
her and arranged to meet lat our
usual place at Nineteenth and F
Streets no wedding ring
They'd didn't have time to buy one
yesterday when they decided to get
married, she explained.
The couple first took out a Ii
cense in the District, but the min
lister they selected at random from
a list had left the city, so they
could not use the license. So they
motored to Annapolis and were
married by the Rev. Paul Diehl
pastor of Trinity Methodist Episco
pal Church-the groom borrowing
50 to pay for the license.
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
FL00DC0NTR0L
COST STUDIED

President Roosevelt has disclosed
that he is trying to work out
Q satisfactory system Of appor-
tioning the cost Of flood control
work among the States and local.
tiles, the Federal Government and
private interests benefited thereby
The National Rivers and Har'
bors Congress meantime wound
up its thirty.first convention by
indorsing as sound and needful'
l13 flood control and navigation
projects in two score States, cost
ing 1927 million dollars.
The projects committee Of the
congress promised further consid'
GRAFTON Of 80 projects and rejected
So as lnsufficiently advanced to
warrant approval.
The President, at his press con
ference, said much flood damage
would be avoided by wiser use OF
land.
Agriculture Department tests
he remarked, have shown tn a
wooded ground absorbs seven
times as much rainfall as a plowed
field.
The President declared the Fed
eral Government will continue to
bear the major costs of flood con-
troll work in large rivers and har-
bors, but that States and localities
will have to share the cost of
damming headwaters and small
streams. g..
Necessity for a congressional
declaration on the Federal flood
control policy was stressed In a
report unanimously adopted by
the convention. It stated:
annual loss in lives and prop
erty Of the people in the valleys
of its streams, large and SMALL.
have attained . magnitude
which can no longer be disre-
Rarded."
The Washington times., 1936-04-29

Representative Marion A. Zion
check, the newlywed of the House,
although he still won't admit 1t,
is going to be a reformed char
acter.
And you can take the word Of
his bride Of yesterday, the former
Miss Rubye Louise Nix, Public
Works Administration employe,
for that.
The BRIDE tall, slender titan
haired girl-who is ri years old,
as compared to his IS. doesn't
approve of 70-mile-an-hour speed,
such as placed him behind the
bars last week.
And while he can drink as
much beer-and he served plenty
in his office today while still pro-
Tossing ignorance as to his nup-
tialS-he can drink hard liquors
"only occasionally" says Mrs
Zioncheck.
She doesn't intend to be the
boss Of the family, she said, but
on the other hand there are Ger
tain things which must be agreed
upon by mutual consent-ano
speed is one of those.
And furthermore, he is to run
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
$4,000 BON D
FOR WEISS IN
WENDELCASE
Said to Have Called
Detectives Son
Kidnap Brains

NEW YORK. April 90 GNSJ.
Harry Weiss, one Of five men in
dicted in the alleged abduction Of
Paul Wendell, was held under $780,.
900 bail today when he pleaded
not guilty before Judge George M.
Martin.
Wendell, disbarred Trenton at
torney, claims he was kidnapped
and tortured into signing q So
called confession" later repu-
dated, to the kidnapping of baby
Lindbergh.
In setting hte high bail, Judge
Martin observed:
Perhaps 1t would be better
for this man to stay in jail for
the time being for his own pres
ervati0n and good health"
Called Master Mind"
While police sought to trap
Ellis Parker. jr.. in Newark today,
Weiss was telling District Attor-
mapping and torture of wendell.
Brought back from YoungS-
town. Ohio, the indicted cab
driver was subjected to an all
night grilling in Geoghan's office
Confession Claimed
At the conclusion Of the ques-
tioning, the district attorney told
reporters:
"Weiss made . full cOnfes-
sion. It corrObOrates in almost
every detail the story told BY
Wendell himself"
While Geoghan was predicting
the arrest and indictment of
seven more PRISONS, apparently as
a result Of the information pro
vided by Weiss. the police. con-
WINGED that Parker has no inten-
ton Of surrendering voluntarily,
were busy laying Q trap for him.
Bleefeld Hunted
At the same time there were
reports that another trap is being
set in Philadelphia for Murray
Bleefeld, who is also under in
dictment for the kidnapping.
Weiss, who is q, is reported to
have told the police he was prom.
ised a job as a New Jersey State
trooper or crime investigator" If
he would participate in the abduc-
ton Of Wendell.
He admitted that he. as well as
everybody else involved in the alb
duction, had taken part in the tor
ture of Wendell. Particularly lurid
was his description Of Parker's sup.
posed role.
Five times Wendell was com.
PEELED to write out confession
that he, and not Bruno Haupt.
mann, killed the Lindbergh baby
and each time it was rejected
Weiss said.
On two occasions, Weiss de
clared, young Parker telephoned
to a New Jersey official to consult
him about various points in the
confession. Both times a meeting
between the Jersey official and
Parker at the Pennsylvania sta
ton was arranged. The sixth
draft, weiss said, was satisfactory
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
BATTLE RACES
AT SASABANEH
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page II
that the Italian high command
warned news correspondents they
must be ready to fight in their
own defense.
The battle ragged throughout
the night before the Ethiopians
finally were compelled to retreat.
Shortly before dawn the Italians
hurting hand grenades and chsrg-
ing with bayonets, completely
routed their enemies.
600 Philippians Slain
Daylight revealed about 800
Philippians had been moved down
while charging Italian machine
gun positions. other bodies.
blown to pieces, were scattered
about the floors of caves.
Ten Italian officers were killed
and % wounded.
Torrential rains and mud from
flooded rivers rendered the newly
constructed roads in the southern
war sector useless, and did much
to impde Gen. Rodolfo Graziani's
drive toward Sasa Baneh and
Dagah Bur. Italian troops hud!
died in the shelter of tents while
engineers struggled to construct
bridges across the Giarer and Fa-
fan rivers.
The two bridges, constructed
against great odds, will enable
General Frusci's motorized col
urnns to push on to the attack.
There was every indication that
Ras Nasibu and his warriors would
resist to the end.
Spies and prisoners told italian
commanders that RaS Nasibu has
ordered his officers to shoot down
any of their men displaying cow
ardice.
A check up of the first three
days of battle showed casualties
during that period mounting to
staggering proportions. The Ital'
ians lost 1857 Askaris killed and
wounded and II white officers
killed and wounded. Twenty-one
Italian officers were killed and
16 wounded.
Thirteen italian airplanes have
been heavily damaged by the
Ethiopians' machine guns, al.
! though all were able to return
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
Woman in Red Sails
For Native Rumania

NEW YORK, April 20 (I.N.S.J
Insisting she feels no bitterness
Mrs. Anna Sage, the woman in
red" who put the finger" on
John Dillinger, was deported 20
day on the President Harding.
She will go directly to Hamburg
and thence. by train, to her home
in Rumania, which she left many
years ago. Unless she pays the
difference. she will make the trip
in third class,
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
Alice Longworth
Is Picked 10 Run
For Vice Presidency

FLINT, Mich, April 20 GN.S).
A model Republican national con-
vention' of 500 high school stu
dents here picked Gov. ALT M. Lam
don of Kansas as its presidential
nominee.
His running mate, as picked by
the students, would be Alice Roose-
welt Longworth. Governor Landon
was given the necessary majority
Of 1922 delegates on the third ballot.
Interest became so keen at one
point that one students was re-
ported knocked out in an argu.
mert.
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
Day i'm Congress

Senate
Meets at noon to resume de-
tate on chain store bill.
House
Meets at noon to vote on tax
bill and consider a resolution for
appointment of q select commit.
tee to study Government reor.
ganization.
Committees:
10 A.M.-VeteranS Committee,
Florida pensions investigation.
open.
10 A.M.-Public Lands Commit.
tee. Mt. Olympus National Park,
open.
1890 A.M.--Appropriations sub.
committee, deficiency. executive.
1890 I, A.M.-Military Affairs
subcommittee. real estate and
construction. open.
1880 A.M.-Post Office sub.
committee, special delivery mes
sengerS. executive.
1880 A.M.-Judiciary subcom.
mittee, Constitution Day, open.
1890 A.M.-RoadS Committee,
super-highway commission, open.
3 P.M.-Patents subcommittee,
copyright and designs, executive.
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
Poultrymen Play

The Kolker Poultry team will
play the D. c. Paper tossers to-
morrow in a regularly scheduled
Prince Georges County Softball
League game. The game will be
played at Eighteenth and Otis
Streets at s p. m. Max Stern will
hurl for the Poultrymen.
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
safely to their bases. Five italian
pilots were wounded.

safely 10 GL1cu bases. f1VS 1C&llaO
pilots were wounded.
ROME. April 20 UN.SO.-Ad-
vancing approximately IS miles
due south of Dessye, an Italian
motorized column has reached
Macfud, Is miles north of Anko-
Der and only about los miles from
Adds Ababa, it was announced
in today's military communique.
This column is pushing south.
ward east of a much larger motor
lied unit, whose progress beyond
Warra Hailu has been recorded
in previous bulletins.
While italian officials admitted
the Fascist armies so far had
failed to capture SaSa Baneh, the
communique said "detachments of
Libyan troops defeated the enemy
in the Sulu Valley" and that
"intence activity Of patrols 81 in
progress along the whole line Of
the southern front"
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
If You Suffer With
Kidney Trouble

Headache, backache, unusual thirst are
symptoms that point to kidney trouble.
For over 80 years physicians have en-.
dOrsed Mountain Valley Mineral Water dl"
rect from famous Hot Springs, Arkansass
Phone for free booklet today.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
MET. 1862. 14O5 X st. n. W.
The Washington times., 1936-04-29
Treasury Condition

international News Service
Treasury balance as Of April q,
,502,725,413.35; internal revenue,
$3,442,495.31: customs receipts,
$29,116,5O1.35.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28
LIFE LARGE AND SMALL

Some interesting reflections on the
size of living things are made by the noted
scientist, Julian S. Huxley, in magazine
article. Many Of the facts which he re-
ing.
When we speak of living things, in
the broad sense, we must include the vege-
table kingdom, so the largest living things
are to be found among the big trees in
California. These, incidentally, are also
the oldest, with an age of around 5000
years. no. ~
These trees, some weighing nearly
1000 tons, are massive indeed when conn.,
pared with the largest animal, the whole,
whose weight seldom reaches more than
100 tons. Yet large elephant could
rnaneuver inside whales skin.
Most wonderful is what we find
among the smaller orders of life. We can
see flea, though with difficulty catch
him, yet $4,000 would weigh scarcely an
ounce.
Some CT the insects which are hardly
visible to the naked eye are fitted out with
comp md eyes, nice nervous system,
three r3lrs of legs, veined wings and
striped muscles" Tiny birds weighing
only . ans, or about as much as 10
large ants, fly thousands of miles during
their migrations And ants, by the way,
are the strongest living things in proper
ton to their size.
Man is about halfway in the scale
between large and small mammals, and
when grown he contains about a hundred
million cells. He requires all his brain as
we'll a. his strength to cope with the. great
animals on one side and the insects on the
other And then there are the microbes
to worry about.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28
TAX-EXEMPTION PRIVILEGES UNFAIR

Taxation! What an ominous sound
that word is beginning to have for millions
of citizens.
Whenever government goes into any
line of business new taxes are demanded
ard old business that cannot compete with
government goes out of existence and the
taxes it paid are reacsessed to remaining
taxpayers, for government enterprises arc
generally tax-exempt.
This fact is becoming better under
stood every day and is the reason for a
growing sentiment to make publicly-owned
business enterprises pay identically the
same taxes that are paid by privately
owned industry.
When government goes into business
it has stepped outside the function of gov
erning and the excuse for taX-exemption
privileges no longer exists. If state, NUM-
private citizens, it should not be granted
tax-exemption and public subsidy priv
ileges denied to private citizens.
Government-owned business enter
prises should stand on their own feet and
be subject to the same regulation and
taxation as are applied to private bust
ms.
1t is just as necessary to protect the
public from inefficiency graft or over
charging by politically controlled and
operated business as it is in a privately
owned business.
Whenever any person or any enter
prise escapes taxes, all others have to pay
for the tax exempt, privileged few.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28
WEATHER FORECAST
(Till 8 D. M, Sunday

LII p. H., OuHudyJ
Key West and Vicinity: Mostly
cloudy with occasional rain to-
night; Sunday partly cloudy with
scattered showers; somewhat cool
err; moderate shifting winds, be-
coming northeast or east.
Florida: Cloudy with occasional
rain in north and central portions
this afternoon and in south and
central portion tonight; Sunday
partly cloudy with scattered show
ers in extreme south portion;
cooler tonight in central and
northeast portions; rising temper
ature Sunday afternoon in extreme
north portion.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Moderate northeast
winds over north portion and
moderate shifting winds becoming
northeast or east over south por-
ticn and partly overcast weather
with local showers over3 south and
central portions tonight and over
extreme south portion Sunday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28
THE COST OF WAR

1t is estimated that the World War
cost the United States to date 81 billion
dollar and that before it is paid for in
full the total cost will be more than 100
billion, or about the present value of all
the states west of the Mississippi
The 81 billion already spent is too
great a sum- for the mind to comprehend
One writer tries to illustrate it, but very
vaguely, by saying that if someone had be-
gun throwing away dollars at the birth of
Christ and had continued to throw them
away at the rate of one minute until the
present time without stopping for rest or
sleep, he would only now be starting on
the second billion. Then to throw away
the remainder of the 81 billion would take
an additional $4,000 years.
This vast sum, if invested at per
cent interest, would yield an income of
more than two and half billion year, or
enough to run the Federal government in
approved bureaucratic style.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28

Pacific coast, moderate to heavy
snow in the northern Rocky Noun
tain States, and light rain or
snow in the eastern Lake region.
Temperatures have risen in the
Plains States, and have fallen in
the Gulf States and most eastern
districts, except the north Atlantic
States, and central and southern
Florida, with readings 20 degrees
lower on the middle Gulf coast.
There has also been a marked fall
in temperature in Montana,
Helena reporting a minimum read
ing this morning o. six degrees.
G. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28

Bill asked Jake II he was in favor of
the divide-the-wealth plan. Sure, said
Jake. If you had thousand dollars in
the bank would you give me half asked
Bill? Certainly. If you had dozen cows
would you be willing to give me six? Sure.
If you had forty acres of land would you
give me twenty? Of course. And if you
had two pigs would you divide? No, you
dern fool; have two bigs.-Buffalo,
South Dakota, Times Herald.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28
WEATHER CONDITIONS

The northern disturbance has
moved eastward to the Gulf of st.
Lawrence, Eastport, Me-. 1852
inches, ard another disturbance
has moved into the northern
Plains States. Huron. s. D., $3.50
inches; while weak high pressure
area. crested over Tennessee, over
spreads most southeastern dis
tricts, Nashville, 30.12 inches.
Rains have occurred during the
last "a hours in Gulf west dis
tricts from eastern Texas east
ward over northwestern Florida
and thence northward over the
Atlantic States: being heavy in
portions of New England, Boston,
Mass. 1.OS inches. There has also
been moderate rain on the north
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-03-28
IMPROVEMENTS FOR ley WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
2. Bridges to complete Read to Main
..e,r land
"A Sr7e Fort
4. Hotels "a Apartments.
s. DR., ng Pavilion.
G. All ~ rts-Eand end Sea.
q, T. Consolidation of County and City
C6Yernm IT'S.