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seriously sick sent to it. The company imported
tons of qunine year. Finally after army had
given their lives and at cost of than $50
money the road finished
But it is not well known that the turnover of eng
neers the line is tremendous.
they quit Probably they're afraid of being kdded But
Higgins stubbonly declares that he whether
he is believed not.
Il know what saw, says Higgins, "and it sober
and more than And believe me- brother don't aim
to anything like it again.
1T like this. When you get to Candelaria which
is just whistle stop in the jungle but be quite
place when they building line there's
able clearing in the bush That's where the old
used to be- right along the line only knows
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Where Butter Is Worth
. == More Than Gold e


TO be found anywhere in the world.
On this occasion the interior of the
lamasery is veritable museum,
where statues of people. animals. land
scapes and flowers are all made OF
fresh butter.
The most accomplished monk-artists
Of Kounboum are engaged daily 70.
three months in these butter works.
keeping their hands continually in icy
water. so that the heat OF the fingers
does not disfigure their reproductions.
As their labors take place in mid
winter, the operators suffer terribly
from the cold. The work is assigned
20 different artists. each an expert in
his lneA
Paintings and sculptures in famous
lamaseries throughout Tibet serve as
models The flowers and designs in
has-relidf. of colossal proportions, rep
rcg,ut pvgyy phaSf,. of Euddbisfir his
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NAD Of ghosts, the specters of the thousands
- upon thousands of white and brown rnen who lost
- their lives building it's 226 miles today seriously
hinderng operations the worlds most expensive
railroad"
- Thestory- told recently when still shaking and
jittery from his experiences Andrew L. Higgins, a
boomer American railroad engineer by plane down
the Amazon from Porto Veho Para after working for
year the famous Madeira -Mamore Railroad, which
links the upper Amazon with northeastern Bolivia.
Il quit" Higgins abruptly told his friends in Para. 1t
good job, he explained far the work and pay
and living conditions concerned But continued
there spot had TO pass about midnight
driving nuts And defy anyone to engine
that line very long and be able it. know people
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N eastern Tibet all that gIitters is

III IOl EOlu y DulleT.
U In this mysterious land Of the ST.
Fan fresh milk is never used. Tibetans
believe this substance is unhealthy, SO
all that is produced is Immediately
churned into butter for which the
Mongols have an Unsuitable appetite.
Butter in Tibet is begged. borrowed.
bartercd and burned. II is nodded into
altar offerings. consumed i'm lamps.
and eaten and worn Pressed into hard
little bricks it becomes the medium OF
exchange. the natural currency of the
country. Housewives keep receptacles
Of II hanging in the kitchen for years.
its aging rancidity being highly priced
Both men and women smear them
selves with the greasy substance
during the winter months until they
figuratively reek and shine with IT,
Their tea q kind of strained soup, is in
VariablV ',hOilcd" and "buttered "
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contract from the Bolivian Government to build it.
Work actually started in 1873 but in less than two
the appalling loss of life from fever jungle hazards
and hostile Indians, who didn't want the strange iron
monster putting through their home jungles caused the
abandoning of the job Already thousands of forgotten
graves dotted the jungle cearngs along the short right
of-way.
Nothing done further until Bolivia ceded the
territory of Acre to Brazil by the Treaty of Petropols in
1903 Brazil agreed to build the railroad
outlet for the commerce Of northeastern Bolivia
pensaon for the ceded territory In 1907 Brazil let the
contract to syndicate of American engineers and
capitalists
Thousands of workers were hired and hundreds of
young engineers went into the deadly bush. Workers
pershed by the thousand and of fine young
engineers staggered out of the jungle blind with fever
to die in the company hospital at Candeara left their
arrowperced bones to rot in the Jungle The mortality
the four that the road under construction
high 90 per The Candelara hospital during that
period handled than 10000 cases-and only the
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how m a n y poor
devils are buried
there.
I'VE used TO slow
d o w n com / n <
through Candelaria
because now and
then there'd be a
stop signal set for
us. Those were the
standing orde r s.
I'd been on the run
several weeks be-
fore anything out
of the way hap
pened. Naturally.
I'd h e ard yarns
here and there that
some funny things
went on along the
M & M but, shucks,
you'll hear those
roundhouse yarns
about the Pennsy
or the UP. l didn't
pay them any at
tention.
This night I'm
talking about, how
e yer, l slow e d
down when / got
n e a r Candy and
when we came out
of the bush and
into the clearing
near the village
the moon made it
as bright as day.
And, so h clip
me, what / saw
[ h ere made me
give one yank on
I h e Johnson bar
and send old 304
through Chat clear
ing like a bat
outta hell. After
wards I wondered
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tory The features Of disciples invested with
wonderful expression and the attitude is natural
The Feast of Flowers reflects dazzling briancy at
night being extravagantlv illuminated but all these
terpieccs exhibit for only single evening
BY dawn the collection OF scupturcd butter is thrown
down the ravnc where hungry await their feast
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In Si-Fan is located the historic Kounboum Lamasery
where 1000 yelow-mered lamas continually
precepts OF Buddhism. The great monastery surmouuts
the bluff OF precpltous cliff. devout pilgrims
from the rcmoest part of Tartay journey year
honor the Feast Flowers the most curious spectacle
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say there's no such
thing as a ghost,
but they can't tell
me that, for I've
seen whole armies
of 'em, and not
just once either"
He q g scrib e d
how, about mid
night, on every
run between the
terminals of the
short line railroad
he passed the little
village of Candle
laria. 1t was there
that the uncanny
and gruesome APP
partitions, w hic h
finally drove him
back to the coast
from his job, used
to suddenly appear.
Maybe it's just a
coincidence, sa y s
Higgins, but the
fact remains that
at Candelaria there
are the graves of
[ h o IL s a n d s and
thousands Of work.
ers who died of
fever, snake bite,
dysentery, poisoned
b o w gun darts
and other causes in
building this little
known jungle rail-
road.
The history of
the Madeira = Ma
more Railroad goes
back to 1870 when
Colonel Charles +.
Church, a former
engineer officer in
the United States
Army, obtained a
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1888 by American wesy Great Britain Rights Reserved
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4 january 10, 1913
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Transfers

Joseph Roger Wetherald, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph John Wether-
aid, Berwyn, Nd, from prefiight
school at Chapel Hill, N. c., to the
Peru 0nd) Naval Air Station.
c. j. Kent, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. C..
j. Kent, ST., 1852 Trinidad avenue
NE, from preflight school at Chapel
Hill, N. c.. to the Glenview GllD
Naval Air Station.
Edward r. Hunt, jr., son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Edward r. Hunt. 4438 Gar
rison street NV. from preflight
school at Chapel Hill to the Glen
view Ill) Naval Air Station.
Peter P. Boccabella, son of Alex
ander Boccabella, ll48 Oates street
NE, from preflight school at Chapel
Hill to the Glenview Gll) Naval Air
Station.
A. v. Barry, jr., son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. V. Barry. 2l33 street NV,
from the preflight school at Chapel
Hill to the Glenview Gll) Naval Air
Station.
Elliot Kaitlin. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Solomon Kaitlin, 432 Lamont street
NV, from aerial gunnery school,
Laredo. Tex. to bombardier school,
Big Spring. Tex
Donald Hillock, 20, son Of Mrs.
Nelson Hillock, 452l Forty fifth
street NV. from Chapel Hill to
Glenview ull) Naval Air Station.
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Arranging for Dance in North Africa Proves Complicated
Characters Include Lovely Mudemose|Ie and Gonoster

be a really magnificent night club,
or rather ex-night club, built like
pavilion out over the water. The
dance floor was open to the sea
with place for an orchestra at one
end and small bar on one side.
Nine. Q. was the owner and she
said we could have 1t for $40. M. O.,
her father, confirmed this. Andre
and Albert, her young sons, con-
firmed this.
The old man turned to me then
and said. where are your blackout
curtAins?" Or the French equiva-
lent. I thought my weak French
had betrayed me when he repeated
the question and pointed to the
open end of the pavilion, about 200
feet long and about 20 feet high.
We had to furnish canvas to black
out the whole end Of the place.
Complication" my friend con-
tributed-
We discovered that the local
French garrison might have some
canvas that would do the job. We
arranged an interview with the cap
tain of the garrison. He turned
out to be pleasant middle-aged
man, on the Caspar Milquetoast
side, who volunteered to find suf-
ficient canvas for us.
"Now the girls" I reminded my
friend.
"Complication," he contributed.
More inquiries and We found it
could be done this way: First we
must print invitations, in French,
requesting the honor of your pres
ence at the dance, etc. The invita-
tions then had to be distributed to
the girls OF the town. Nine. @.
volunteered to distribute 100 of
them. Twenty we gave to a wine
merchant who knew some girls.
Mile. NJ, who worked in the local
bakery, issued so for us. The rest
we passed out ourselves by just CIV
ing them to every good-looking girl
we saw on the streets.
I hitch-hiked to a. nearby town,
searching for a printer. and found
M. c. on Rue Bah Carthagene, but
by that time it was noon and all
could get from him was "Apres-
midi" knew what he meant. It
was the old French two-hour lunch
period. I came back at 2 o'clock,
made the deal and finally got my
invitations at 4:30.
When I got back, I stopped by
the Casino to see Nine. @.
m. Hendley." she said, do you
have permission from the light COM
pany to turn on the lights? You
must have permission"
where, why, how2" was about all
I could muster for this bit of news.
It turned out that had to make
another trip to that nearby town to
the electric company and ask spe-
cial permission for nghs. This I
did, finding the company in the
middle of the native section after
q morning Of hunting. interviewed
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Coral Reef Shell
Contributed to
Smithsonian

SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC Delayed) An amateur
sea-shell collector got the thrill Of
. lifetime recently.
One of his finds now rests In the
Smithsonian Institution In Wash
ington.
Steamfitter (Second Glass; Glen
Hall, U. S. N. r., of Banks, Greg,
discovered an odd shell formation
resembling twin cornucopias re-
Gently while searching the coral reef
here.
A few days later he gave the shell
to DR.. v. d. p. Spicer, . Smithsonian
representative, who was aboard q
transport In the harbor.
Hall received = letter Of thanks
from Paul Bartsch, curator Of mol
lusks and cenozoic invertebrates,
who identified the object as . rare
fusinus.
Evening star., 1943-11-28

There were plenty OF good looking
girls there. with their families. All
the men and officers sampled the
vino and danced and had a good
time. The French loved the SPAN
sandwiches we served them. All in
all it was a good party.
Nine @. introduced me to a lovely
girl, Mile. D.. whose first words to
me were, IN. Hendley, I am a very
lonely girl"
"Oui," I said, think.
So much for the dance. The cli-
max still, puzzles me. Here's what
actually happened the next morn
ing.
I was being nice to Mile. D. when
the mug in the turtle-neck sweater
turned up with lawyer, three gun
men, his idiot brother to get their
share of the nights profits.
The next thing I knew I was in
the middle of the argument. Nine
@. got hysterical and passed out. !
Evening star., 1943-11-28

six officials. paid $40 deposit, got
a receipt. gold trimmed and suit
able for framing, and a meter box
size 2 feet by foot by l and 4
which had to carry back with me
to be installed by an electrician
whom had to contact later.
But things were moving along.
The wine was not hard to get
M. M. had his winery not fal
from the Casino. He spoke Eng
lish to the extent that he knew
what Cheerio meant land used it
whenever possible). The cheapest
wine in the house cost 10 cents .
quart and all you had to do was
furnish the barrel. We compro-
missed. I furnished one barrel and
promised to return the other to him
in the morning. We bought 14s
quarts of Vim Rose.
We said "Cheerio."
I saw the bakery for the bread
We had put Buffet Gratuit'' on the
invitations figuring that free food
should get somebody to the dance
l argued with the ice company for
an hour before they promised to de.
liver the ice. AS 1t was, they de-
livered it at o'clock in the after
noon. We had no place to keep it
and 1t melted before night.
We were told that the Casino had
no glasses. We would have to buy
them.
Clay glasses, just big enough to
hold swallow of wine, cost IL cents
and involved another hitch hiking
trip and several hours of dealing in
the Casbah, the native section.
About this time a character of the
Charles Boyer type, in turtle neck
sweater and grey felt hat, came
snooping around the Casino. He
was accompanied by two thin, dirty
Frenchmen smoking 6-inch long
cigarettes. They kept at the ap-
proved distance behind him as If
they had been seeing American
gangster movies and practicing.
He is a very bad man." Nine.
@. said to me. Every bad"
Albert contributed, "Gangster, big
gangster."
I waited to see If he was going to
approach me. But he only sampled
the wine then left with his hench-
men trailing.
The climax came the next day
as far as he was concerned.
Two hours before the dance we
happened to think about the piano
That is easy" Nine. Q. said
The cafe down the road has one"
AS I walked up to the cafe saw
a British lorry taking the piano
away. They had made previous ar
rangements. It also happened to
be the only piano in the town.
I called the orchestra-after. ]
had wept in the streets of that little
African town.
The sergeant in charge assured
me they could get one.
So, the dance actually happened
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Washington Officer Takes Part
In Rhuburb Over Enemy Lines

trains, an enemy wireless station
strafed some bivouac areas and an
enemy airfield.
At 300 miles per hour they busted
the brush of the Apennine Hills
sweeping low through the valleys
swooping just high enough. to clear
the hilltops. They had to recognize
each landmark in one split-second
glance or miss it altogether.
Streams, trucks, bivouacs, air.
fields, transportation and communi-
cation facilities were their meat, but
they had to cut it themselves.
Through varying degrees of flax
and small arms fire, they flashed
right under enemy fighters in some
instances, counting only on their
speed and the surprise element to
see them through; having only the
wink OF an eye to spot a target
recognize it, push the nose down a
bit and press the trigger.
With the six .50-caliber machine
guns on each ship splitting at every
target sighted going and coming
the Rhubarb boys made a long
sweeping circle through enemy ter
rltory and sped homeward. They
were lucky they made it and enemy
transportation was sufficiently scared
to stop most of its moving until to-
night-just that much more delay.
The Rhubarb got its name back
when the RAF fighter pilots made
target of opportunity" sweeps owe,
France in the early days of the war
They few so low that some one said
they clipped the tops of the rhu-
barb patches.
Small arms fire is our biggest
hazard" said Second 1t. William
M. Fox Of 1000 37th street Sc.
Washington, D. c. "The ferries
don't have time usually to swine
the big guns into position but the
rifles and machine guns cut loose
quicker and their racket warns the
gunners on ahead"
A dachshund pup came bouncing
into the room, his stomach drag
ging the ground. He's the property
of Maj. Charles F. Cassidy, jr.
of Denver, Colo, the squadron
commander, and Is the outfits mas.
cot. His name is Rhubarb because
Maj. Cassidy explained, ''he al.
ways operates at minimum alti.
tude."
Evening star., 1943-11-28

for my safety. I say that not
only to you, but to every one who
may feel as you do. The safety Of
the individual must be forgotten.
1T is more than a patriotism
which sustains me, and many others
feel as I do. We are thinking of
all the folk who live in our world
today. Even those whom we must
hight, our enemies, take part in the
pageantry Of our ideals.
They only fight us because they
are enslaved by q cruel and false
tyranny of thought. When they
are freed of that tyranny they may
join us In q new and vigorous at
tempt to make ourselves great and
free. If you, and our other mothers
and fathers, believe this our safety
becomes trivial in comparison with
the safety Of society.
Somehow, Mother, I believe
fail to teach you where our strength
lies, not because you can't under
stand. but because I am unable to
see myself as important as you
think me.
II remain a mere, simple man,
one of many, doing a job or prepar-
ing for one for which we have no
feeling except revulsion, only be-
cause conditions have come upon
us in these days which we cannot
and will not tolerate.
Il used to think of myself as the
center OF the entire universe-I
confess 1t now How I wanted to
be thought brilliant! But when
the suffering and fears of others
threatened to become our agonies,
I saw that I had already been
wounded without pain or scar; for
when our brothers are hurt we too
are hurt-they suffering immediate
hurt, we suffering after hurt, the
pain Of remorse that we did not rec
ognize them as our brothers.
If you can believe these truths.
all Of you, then you will not fear for
me, nor my comrades"
Evening star., 1943-11-28

Official Marine Corps Photo.
musics join the band with their
drums. During inspection he stands
by the inspecting ofdcer to call the
men to attention.
After blowing taps, Corpl Brown
doesn't return to his barracks. He
remains on watch in case of an
emergency. He is permitted, how
ever, to doff his shoes and shirt and
catch nap in the guardhouse.
Other duties consist of blowing
taps at funerals and rehearsing the
band.
Nevertheless. his music duties do
not keep Corpl. Brown from basic
Leatherneck battle training
In case of an emergency, he is as
signed to station with a mortar
section. His bugle and drums then
become extra weight and are put
aside in favor of the rife.
Corpl. Brown enlisted January 10,
1910. His wife, Mrs. Teresa Brown,
lives in Washington. He formerly
did duty at Paris Island, S. c., and
the Washington Navy Yard.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam j.
Brown, live in Leivasy, w. Va.
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Promotions
Majors.

Joseph R. Didden, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George A. Didden, 139 Twelfth
street Sc in England.
Mclean F. Whitcomb. in England.
Harry L. Smith, "a, of 6804 Denton
road, Bethesda, Md, with Air Forces
In Italy.
Richard L. Trainor, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. M. K. Trainor, l345 Ee--
yon street NV, and husband cf
Mrs. Maude M. Trainor, l017 Tavs-
sig place, in England.
John H. Murphy, son of Mr.. 2~I
Mrs. Thomas R. Murphy 3717
Brandywine street NV. with 80
Antilles Air Command at Puerto
Rico.
First Lieutenant.
Richard G. Murphey, formerly Ct
1418 Oak street NV, with the Army
Air Forces at San Juan, P. r.
Second Lieutenants.
Frank c. Braugh, q, son of Mrs.
Frances NJ Fox, 205 Bates street
NV, at Hondo Army Airfield, Tex.
Francis B. Netherwood, 20. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas B. Neither
wood, 1895 Rodman street NV, at
San Marcos Army Airfield, Tex.
Rodney R. Day, a. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roger S. Day, 4S31 Delray
avenue, Bethesda, Md, at Hondo
Army Airfield. Tex
Edwin Wilbur James, 1776 Massa.
chusetts avenue NV, at the Amer.
lcan School Center in England
John Proctor Hewitt, 9421 Coles
vile road, Silver Spring, Nd, at
the American School Center In Eng.
land.
Charles L. Parish. son OF Mrs.
Bessie Parish, 702 Fifteenth street
NE, at the Midland (TexD bonn
bardier school
Roy Earl Waller, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond E. Waller, 31O4
Douglas street NE, at the Childress
(Tex) bombardier school.
Henry c. Eslin, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry c. Eslin, 1853 Massa-
chusetts avenue Sc, from the San
Angelo TEX bombadier school.
Milton L. Klein, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Klein, 430 Emerson street
NV, at the San Angelo (Tex)
bombardier school.
Robert B. Marsden. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Marsden Bethesda
Station, Md, at the Big Spring
(TexD bombardier school.
Jack Rosey, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Rosey. 2939 Twenty-eighth
street NV. at the Big Spring (Tex.)
bombardier school.
Thomas E. Cooney. 26. wife Mrs.
Shirley M. Cooney, 602 North Hud-
son street, Arlington, Va, at GUAM
tico
Charles F. Batchelder, 81. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward D. Batchelder,
1918 Stephenson place NV, at
Quantico.
Charles w. Robertson, %, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Robertson, 5122
Fulton street, at Quantico.
Technical Sergeant.
Charles V. Morgan, wife Mrs. Do
loreS Morgan, 1926 Newark street,
with Army in European theater.
Sergeants.
William H. Tripp, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer F. Tripp, 22l5 r strees
Sc, in England. {.
Joseph L. De Navas, son of Mrs.
Isabel De Navas, 1880 Eighteenth
street NV, in England.
Fred c. Reece of Vienna, Va, at
San Juan. Puerto Rico.
Technical, Fifth Grade. So.
Howard E. Gasch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Gasch, 915 Emerson
street NV, in England.
Corporals.
Thomas r. Robertson. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Robertson, II
Nicholson street NV, in England.
Robert K. Taylor, 19. son OF Mrs.
Maude M. Taylor Of Clifton, Va.
in England.
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Moody, Finn, StoIIines
Get Gunner's Winos

HARLINGEN FIELD, Tex-Three
men from Washington recently COM
pleted the flexible gunnery course
here and were awarded gunner s
wings. They are Navigation Cadet
David w. Noodle. son Of Mrs. Helen
M. Noodle, 2401 Calvert street NV,
and Bombardier Cadets Matthew j
Finn, son of Mrs. Eva r. Finn, 1912
Twenty second street NV, and
George D. Stallings. son of DR.. and
Mrs. James H. Stallings, 5146 Ne
braSka avenue.
Evening star., 1943-11-28
John H. Murphy Advanced
To Major in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, P. R.-John H. Muir
ply, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
r. Murphy, 3707 Brandywine street
NV, has been promoted to major
in the Army Air Forces here.
Maj. Murphy entered active duty
in August, 1941, and was assigned
overseas in November, 194l. He is q
graduate of Georgetown law school.
Second 1t. Richard G. Murphey,
formerly of 14l8 Oak street NV,
has been promoted to first heuten-
ant in the Army Air Forces here at
Antilles Air Command headquarters.
Before entering the Army Septem.
ber l6, 1941, at Camp Lee, Va, 1t.
Murphey was employed by the In
terror and War Departments. He
was commissioned from OCS at
Miami Beach, Fla, and was as
signed overseas in March. He Is q
communications officer.
Fred c. Reece of Vienna, Va, has
been promoted to sergeant in the
Army Air Forces here. Planes of
the Antilles Air Command, of which
Sergt. Reece is a member, fy daily
patrols over an area extending from
the western tip of Cuba to the equa-
torial belt of South America, an
area so times that of Virginia,
Evening star., 1943-11-28

Hdu 10 Help Mile. -. put ner TO bed
and call the doctor.
The three strong arm boys kept
wandering around me and smoking
their cigarettes and taking threat
ening poses right from the movies.
I was worried, frankly.
They left after two hours of shout
ing and threatening and I still don't
know exactly what was happening
because my French could not cope
with the fast conversation. AS much
as I could discover was that they
ran sort of protective association,
Chicago style, and also had a mort
gage on the place.
They said they were coming back.
Nine. @. was still unconscious
when I left an hour later.
I went back to the ship and found
we had sailing orders 50 couldn't
keep my date with Mile. D. that
night. What happened I don't know
But the Coast Guard threw a
dance in Africa and were social sue
cesses. That much do know. was
there.