davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-01-13
hiding. He can run faster than you

hiding. He can run faster than you
can and longer than you can. There
is no escape from him, once he sets
out to catch one of you. The best
fighter among us is no match, for
him alone. I tell you, friends, our
tribe is in danger. It is in the
greatest danger it ever has faced.
I have called you together to make
this plain to you and to get your
ideas as to what We, should do"
For a few moments no one spoke.
The worried look on the faces Of
the older rata had SEept into the
Evening star., 1939-01-13

follow, but this mink who has found
our den can follow where any OF you,
even the smallest, can CO."
But if he does not see us hide
how can he find us?" squeaked q
sharp-nosed young rat.
"A mink does not have to see In
order to follow" retorted the gray
old leader. "You cannot move with
out leaving q scent which he can
follow by means of his wonderful
nose. All he has to do Is to find
where you have been and then
follow straight to where you are
Evening star., 1939-01-13

faces of the younger rats. Finally
SCARED old fighter spoke 1T seems
to me-" said he, there Is only one
thing to do, and that is fight. What
one Of us alone cannot do, all Of US
together. can. I propose that the
next time this enemy appears We
all attack him together"
To this all the rats agreed.
Evening star., 1939-01-13

was no worry. 1t was plain to see
that they felt confident of being
able to take care of themselves.
Never in all their lives had they
met an enemy they could not run
away from and he knew they didn't
believe such an enemy existed.
knowledge of life is obtained
only through experience" he began.
"You who are 80 sure you can hide
from this new enemy are confident
because you are ignorant. Cats
and dogs you do not fear because
you oan 20 where they cannot
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Elephant Kidnops Man

After being taken for ride by
q rogue elephant, John Sapper of
Marandellas, North Rhodesia, is re-
covering. Sapper visited a native
village, but found that the beast
had destroyed the huts and caused
the villagers to flee. Sapper fol-
lowed the animals tracks. His hat
and rife were found about three
days journey from the village. IS
wife has received word that the ele-
phant carried him 20 miles into the
Evening star., 1939-01-13
TwizzIer Answer

A transport truck passed the gun
tractor Aftoe hours and 16 minutes.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON W. BURGESS.

When one of the young robber
rats at the meeting of all the rats
in the big barn which Billy Mink
had visited boasted that he never
had seen any one he couldn't hide
Evening star., 1939-01-13
jungle. He was then kept prisoner q
by q cannibal tribe and escaped tos
the friends home in the wilds.
Coincidence
BY WiIIord
Trademark q pplisd
For q 8. Patent Once
.By Mormon Marsh
By Bud Fisher

SAN FRANCISCO F-Police
thought they were being kidded
when John Dodge Of 10 De Soto
street reported ne had lost his Lin
coin car.
Later he thought the same thing
about them when they reported 6nd'-
iug ton Austin street.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
King George Helps
Queen. on Wardrobe
Blue VIII Predominant IN Her
TraueL Outfit.

LONDON.-Blue, the color which
matches her eyes, will predominant
IN the spring wardrobe which Queen
Elizabeth is now collecting for her
Canadian and American tour.
1t is King Georges favorite color
and he likes to see the queen wear
ing it.
Mayfair dressmakers and mili-
ners have visited Buckingham pal
ace with designs and patterns of
material. The queen showed all the
sketches to the king and made her
decisions with his assistance. No
matter how fashionable a style she
will not wear it unless the king APP
proves.
Helping the queen to collect her
outfit is quiet, dark-haired Gather
inc Maclean, personal maid to the
queen since she was schoolgirl at
CLAIMS castle. The queen calls her
"Catta."
1t is rs years since Catta left her
cottage home in Scotland to enter
the service of the queens mother.
She has been with the queen ever
since as dresser and trusted friend.
She is practically the same build
as her royal mistress and so is able
to save the queen much of the trou-
BILE of fitting by acting as stand
in" to try the finished garments.
Catta will have to pack more than
90 complete new outfits to take
across the Atlantic.
There will be gracefully cut
dresses of fine wool georgette with
long coats to match, the blue en-
semble trimmed with the new gray
blue smoky" fox fur which Canada
has lately produced. Printed silk
and chiffon afternoon gowns for for
NAL receptions will have soft flower
designs in pastel shades.
Then there will be at least three
all-white party ensembles like those
which won such admiration when the
queen visited Paris. One is of ex-
quisitely fine white Nottingham lace.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
THERE are some men stin alive

THERE are some men stiH alive
i who can remember business.
Business is department stores and
writing letters in an Office. If you
take your secretary out on dates,
you get lousy tipping.
Wall Street is where people who
went to college lose their money.
A seat on the exchange costs thou
sands of dollars, but a good Morris
chair is actually twice as comforta-
BILE.
Exports and imports are impor-
tant. Bananas are imports and are
especially tasty on cold cereal. If it
comes to a showdown, it's better to
put the milk on your cereal and save
the cream for your coffee. Too much
peanut butter on toast is sickening.
Almost everything is business.
This includes selecting colors for jel-
ly beans, renting bath houses, and
manufacturing combs with fine teeth
at one end and wide teeth at the
other. If you put water on your
hair, use the fine end. Also, if your
head itches.
Big Business are men with stiff
collars going to Washington. It
means high laundry bills, but starch
Is cheaper than dividends.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
CIR ISAAC NEWTON discovered 9

CIR ISAAC NEWTON discovered a
- lot of things accidentally about
physics. Sitting under a tree, he
got bopped on the head by falling
apple. So he thought up gravita-
ton. Gravitation is all right for
anchors, but it certainly is hard on
acrobats. or when you drop your
best dishes.
Physics has more to do with
wheels than chemistry, which is
mostly boiling. Chemistry is no
good at all, for instance, when a
street car gets stuck. If the motor
man has any sense, he's learning
how to drive a bus in his spare
time. It isn't hard on him because
he'll have to wear practically the
same kind of a hat anyway. You
can't fiatten a penny under a bus,
though.
All heat comes from the sun. But
the sun is gradually getting popped
and soon we shall be in the dark all
the time instead of at night only.
Those will be great days for the
night clubs!!
| Fan dancers look swell.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
CALIFORNIA; Gold Output
for 1888 to Set Record

SACRAMENTO, CALF. -Califor-
MAS gold output of $45, 304. 900 last
year-more than FIVE times that of
1929, when the entire state produced
but S8,526, 703-may be even bigger
this year, according to the state di-
vision of mines.
And, mining experts agree, if the
present pace Of production is devel-
oped, all-time high output may be
surpassed within few years.
This tremendous increase in the
production Of the precious metal
caused optimistic mining men to
hope that within a few years the
states yield will reach the figure Of
$8l, 1874, 700, which was established in
1852, when many of the richest holes
ever discovered were opened during
the bonanza days of CALIFORNIA;
famed gold rush.
Last years gold yield is attribut-
able to various factors, mining men
say, including the following:
Maintenance of the S35 per ounce
government controlled price, addi-
tional development of deep mining,
reopening of former producers, re-
sumption of hydraulic mining on
large scale and substantial increases
of output at lode, quartz and gravel
mines.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Hoe Displaced
By Machinery
Mechanical Devices Prove
Efficiency in Sugar
Cane Fields.

NEW ORLEANS.-The roar of
tractors and the rattle of strange
machinery sounds the death knell of
the hoe, the pillow, the mule, the
machete and the Negro in this ma
tons broadest sugar cane fields.
The latest of additions to sugar S
machine age" is the mechanical
hoe and stubble digger invented by
G. D. Longman, owner of a 200-acre
plantation near Franklin.
Longman's 100-pound machine
performs a delicate task it was be-
lieved the Negro and his sharp hoe
never would surrender: It breaks
the crust around cane stubble in the
spring, it combs out the grass and
1t gives the young cane 'air" to
grow.
Successful Tests.
Allan Ramsey Wurtele, Annapolis
graduate, announced last year the
successful tests of a mechanical
cane cutter that cut, topped and
trimmed the cane as fast as 100
Negroes could do the. work.
Mechanical plows never have
been a problem on sugar planta-
tons. Tractors and gang plows
work perfectly on the level, long
rows. Several years ago "plow
hands" felt the growing competition
of the tractor and pillow.
Now the mechanical "hoehand"
and the cane cutter offer insur-
mountable opposition to the $1,000
or more Negroes who make their
living from sugar cane.
Mechanical cultivation obviously
is cheaper. It ends a time element
that is important in the growth Of
cane. In the spring it is necessary
to hoe cane as soon as possible
that it may attain as much growth
as possible before summer drouths
set in. In late fall, a freeze can
plunge a planter deeply into debt
overnight. Sometimes in the spring
and fall, labor is not plentiful and
money is lost. It has always been
thus-a successful crop was depend
ent upon available labor.
Does Work of 50 Men.
The hoeing machine does the
work of so Negroes and 100 mules !;
the cutter the work of 100 Negroes.
Thomas Darlington Macauley of
Northampton, Queensland, Austria
liza, and Abby j. Stevens of Buena
Vista sugar plantation and factory
near Tucuman, Argentina, along
with 100 sugar planters recently
watched a completely mechanical
sugar plantation demonstrated near
Franklin.
The mechanical hoes fingers
pulled the grass from stubble and
the cutter harvested cover quota"
cane, frost-bitten and as hard as
wood.
Macauley obtained rights to man.
ufacture the cutter in Australia and
Stevens said he would recommend
adoption of both devices in Argen-
tina.
Eventually, planters predict, al
most all of the Negroes who hoe and
hand pillow the sugar crop will be
thrown out of work.
What will become of them, sugar
men-their crops and profits re-
stricted-don't like to discuss.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
South Carolina Seeking
Thrifty Dutch Farmers

COLUMBIA, S. Clutch farm
ers possessing sufficient capital to
finance the undertaking will be aid
ed in settling in the southern part
of South Carolina by a non-proit
corporation that has been chartered
here.
William Montgomery Bennett of
Charleston, S. c., one of the incor>
porators, said he understood there
were approximately 100000 farm
ers in Holland who were seeking q
place 10 make their home.
Another incorporation of the Meth
erlands-Carolina association was D.
G.. Boissevain of Amsterdam, de-
scribed as leading broker by Ben
nett. Bennett said Boissevain Wis
tied South Carolina a year ago and
was impressed by the similarity of
water, soil and climatic conditions
with those of Holland.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Jig Saw Used as Hobby
Results in Distinction

WAILINGFORD, VT. - Birney
Batchellers hobby of making things
with a jig saw has gained him dis
tinction.
Beginning at the age of IL, now,
at 70, he carves beautiful furniture,
holds the degree of doctor of science
from Middlebury college, has so pat
ents on pneumatic tube systems, and
has been given medals by France
and the Franklin Institute of Phila-
delphia for the development of these
systems.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Mobile Jails to Serve
Australian Hinterland

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIANS
crime in Australia is not sufficient
20 JUSTIFY the construction of iails in
every town and hamlet mobile po-
nee stations are to be used instead.
these Will consist of mobile police
patrols, the truck being fitted with
camping gear, extra water and gas
oline tanks, handouts for the pris-
oners and all of the facilities of a
permanent police station.
Ihey VIII be sent to the place
where crime has been committed,
ana once the prisoner is caught the
truck will be used as a police sta
tion and prison until his time is I'D.
and the services of the station are
needed elsewhere.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Name Collector Finds
New Ones for Babies

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.-w. E.
Richardson is a collector of one
of the most common things in
the world, but probably no other
person has a hobby similar to
his. He collects names, the
odd, the unusual, the different.
Feminine names not common
.ly heard include Clydil, Amrial,
Whine, DeMilla, Berdeen, Lieta,
Venece, Painline, Camolia, Wan
do, Vita, Glennia, Balia, Nome,
Showanda. Harpolicy, Dace and
Suda.
Among the more unusual
names given boys are Merando,
vesselius, Oralanda, Ineal. Vale
ia end Relyea.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Maxi Order Fixes Right
Angle at 100 Degrees

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mathemati-
clans, engineers and scientists must
throw away several of their meas
uring instruments and tables as the
result of decree just published by
the Reich ministry of the interior.
This decree provides for the divi-
sion of the circle into 400 degrees
instead o. the traditional $50, as q
concession to the decimal system.
Thus a right angle in Germany no
longer contains 80 degrees. but 100.
One one-hundredth of the new de-
grees will be called minute" and
one-hun redth of this a second"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
War Spurs Dog Sharn poo,
Curbs China's Soap OUTPUT

WASHINGTON.-Since the Jap
anese excursions into China there
has been lag in the production of
laundry and toilet soaps and a cor
responding recovery in the pro-
duction of dog shampoo. This was
the report of the United States COM
mercial attache at Shanghai to the
chemical division of the department
of commerce.
Department experts would not
venture to account for the phenom-
ena, but said they felt it was sig
nificant.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Texas NAV Subdiyide

Texas. under the joint resolution
of congress for its annexation, ap-
proved March 1. 1845, may SUBJ
divide its area into any number not
exceeding four additional states Of
convenient size having sufficient
population, which shall be entitled
to admission to the Union.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Johnny Cake Traced

Johnny cake" is said to come
from Journey cake so called be-
cause in the days of Daniel Boone
no man left the settlements without
his sack of cornmeal, the prime
ingredient of Johnny cake"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Hi Ho on 'Darwinian Theory

THE Darwinian theory said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "is very
much like good advice. It seems
all right enough for people in whom
you're not interested, but doesn't
help much for personal use"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25

Norway's North cape, goal of
tourists, enjoys a Gulf stream
climate. Water never freezes there,
although it is in a latitude a thou
sand miles north of Labrador and
500 miles nearer the Pole than
Alaska's Yukon.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Mother, Son, Romeo, Juliet

AT least once in stage history the
roles of Romeo and Juliet, the i'm
mortal lovers of Verona, were
played by mother and son, says
Golfers Weekly. The 19-year-old
Lewis Hallam Jr. played opposite
his mother. Mrs. Douglas, in Phil
adelphia theater in the autumn of
1859.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Painted While Lying on Back

Pope Julius II assigned Michel
angelo to paint the frescoes for the
ceiling of the Sistine chapel in the
Vatican. Much of the painting had
to be done while he was lying fat
on his back on a staging of his own
design. ,
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Earliest Cultivated Fruit

Grape seeds at least 5000 years
old have been found in Egyptian
tombs and it is believed that the
grape was the first fruit to be cul-
tivated.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Originated Service Flag

The Service flag was originated
during the World war by Capt. r. F.
Queisser of Cleveland. Ohio, in hon.
or of his sons.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Herbert,s whispering willows,

Whispering Willows" Victor
Herbert's composition, was dedicat-
ed to the patrons of Willow Grove
park. near Philadelphia. The COM
poser often said that the park
was the loveliest he had ever seen.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Wrong Name and Nation

Catherine the Great. most famous
Empress OF Russia, was not a Rus
sian nor was her real name Gather
inc. She was born at Stettin, Ger
many, and her name was Sophia.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Valparaiso Dates to 1885

Valparaiso is Spanish for Vale of
Paradise. The city of the name is
the chief seaport of Chile and dates
back to 1885.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
An Able Man

To become an able man in any
profession, there are three things
necessary-nature. study and prac-
tice.-Aristotle.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25

Most Sparsely Populated in France
Rasse-Alpes, a region in the north
east part OF Provence, is the most
sparsely populated in France.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Daisy Means Innocence,

In forigraphy, the ancient Greek
and Roman language of flowers, the
daisy means Innocence"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
vitamin A in Swordfish Liver

United States bureau of fisheries
experts say that one teaspoonful of
swordfish liver oil contains about as
much vitamin A as 80 pounds of
butter or 160 dozen eggs
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Gigantic Buddha In Japan

The giant bronze Buddha in Nara,
Japan's oldest city, is so large that
a fun-grown man can easily pass
through one of its nostrils.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25

The crust of earth consists largely
Of granite. which is 20 miles thick
in places.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-08-25
Life Insurance Long Age

Life insurance originated IN the
days of Rome.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
Il Duee May Turn on France for Colonies in
 Sunday Talk GERMANY AND JAPAN
 SHAPING WAR pA(T
Berlin Levies Fresh h. come Taxes to Pay h.
 ereasing Overhead

LONDON, March 25.-The Gov- ernments of Europe today looked to Rome where Premier Mussolini may give some indication of what the Nazi and Fascist powers hope to do next.
 Il Duce makes an important ad- dress tomorrow and there is some belief he might enunciate Italian demands on France for African col- onies.
 If he does, there is likely to re- suit another high tension period similar to that of the last ten days during which Hitler obliterated Czechoslovakia. regained Memel land and thrusting the Nazi econ- omic machine to the Black sea with Rumania's economic pact.
 There is a possibility, also, that England may conclude formation of triple entente with France and Russia and then make separate agreement with Poland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
 EXTENSION
 INDICATED
Unions at Seattle Give Mo- flee to Alaska Canned
 Salmon Industry

SEATTLE, March 25.--Offic- ials Of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific announced they will picket packers in the AL. aska Canned Salmon Industry who don't "conscientiously neg ctiate agreements with the un- ions affiliated with the Fedora tion."
 Te date, picketing has been confined to the AFL Cannery Tendermens' Union who have picketed the three cannery tend CTS of the P. E. Harris Company and saiiings were prevented when CIO Lcngshoremen would not handle cargo for the ships.
 A. E. Harding Executive Sec retary of the Maritime Fedora tion Of the Pacific said the af- filiated unions embracing the picketing policy are Alaska Fish ermens' Union, United Fisher mems Union of Copper River, Shipwrights, Radio Telegraphists, Marine Cooks and Stewards Unions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
Given as 10 What
 Foreign Correspondents Do
 Send 0uf, US. News Breaks

country. It has censored press. Nevertheless the stories sent from here to Japan are strikingly in har- mony with stories printed in Am erican papers The former ambas- sadors comment in the first dis patch, not before printed in this country, throws new slant on Jap anese reaction to the Guam affair
 Acted With Common Sense
 The dispatches, slightly cut down read:
 Washing ton-I believe in the cmomon sense of the American peo- pie, were the last memorable words the writer heard from the late Am bassador Hirosi Saito, who lived in this country for IS years as diplo- mat.
 These words can be taken as his firm belief in the people of the Uni ted States. Saito had many friends among the Americans in all walks
 (COntinued on Page Sixl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
SPOUSE BREAKS
 DOWN; ADMITS
 MURDER OF WIFE
Confesses When Freedom Is Only Probably Few
 Hours Away

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 25.- The body of socially prominent Mrs. Eudora Cunningham was dug up to- day from deep sewer grave alter her husband broke his stubborn IS day silence with a dramatic last minute confession to the crime
 The confession came just few hours before a scheduled habeas Corpus hearing which would have ended in freedom for Roger Cum ningham, husband of the dead Wo- man.
 The well known FILA inspector broke down and directed police to his wife's body, telling police that he killed her in fit of rage by strangling her.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
Japanese Wdrships Start Bombardment of Coast
 Near Shanghai CHINESE REPLYING,
 VIGOROUS MANNER
Defenders Continue to Hold Wuing After Week
 of Bitter Fighting

SHANGHAI, March 25.-Japanese warships today resumed smelling of Chinese ports after four days of action, off Ningpo, south of Shang- hai, causing the heavy population to jam roads out of town as they fled in fear of Japanese landing parties.
 Foreign reports stated that the Chinese were replying vigorously and making any immediate landing of troops unlikely.
 Japanese reported that heavy fighting was continuing in Kiangsi Province west of Lake Poyang and stated that more than thousand Chinese have been killed east of Wuning.
 The Chinese forces continue to hold Wuning after more than a week of bitter fighting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
 I50RDERED,
 ONE FRONT
Temporary Truce Declared Between Hungarian,
 SIovdkian Troops

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia. March 25. 5.-Semi-official sources said an armistice has been ordered in east ern Slovakia where Hungarian and Slovakian troops are engaged iy border fighting.
 It is understood that Germans is trying to smooth out the dispute regarding boundary.
 Nine Hungarian bombers dropped 50 bombs and part of the town of Spiseka is reported to have been destroyed. Casualties are not given.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-25
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Peo- pie curious about what foreign cor respondents in America send to their home papers overseas will be inter ested to read dispatches sent from here about news breaking in this country.
 Not long ago Hirosi Saito, former Japanese ambassador to the United States. died in his apartment here after lengthy illness The last man to interview him was Masuo Kato, Washington correspondent for Dom ei, the Japanese News agency. A translation of his story of that in- terview-the story he sent to Dom ei in Japan--is included below, along with the story he sent when Presi- dent Roosevelt supplied a cruiser to take back to Japan the ashes of the dead envoy.
 Japan is one of the three axis nations repeatedly scolded by this