an errr TILT AT TRISTE mS —
Lights of
BRING MEDICAL Aib
TO ISOLATED AREA
- FIND MONSTERS OF
“Women Nurses Do Splendid |
Work in Hill Country.
Washington.—The novel method by
which a smali group of women nurses
have In six years brought medical care
to a remote rural urea, typical of
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PREHISTORIC ERA
Unearth Bones of Two Specier
of Dinosaurs.
Washington.—Two hitherto unknown
| prehistoric monsters, members of the
in the semitropical swamps of north- |
i
many in the United States, where noe |
doctor could make 2 living and the
people were too ignorant and por te
care for themselves, are described in a
study just published by the commit
‘ee on the cost of medical care.
The report gives a glimpse of one
of America’s still existing frontier re-
gions in the back country of Ken
tucky, where social and health condi
tions were all but medieval, and
where it costs & dollar a mile to bring
‘t doctor into the wilderness on a visit. |
great dinosaur family, who wallowed
ern Montana over 75,000,000 years ago,
have just been described from a col
lection of fossil bones gathered hy »
Smithsonian institution expedition.
Palaeoscineus rugosidens, the scien
tific name applied to one of the ex-
tinct reptiles, belonged to the armored |
dinosaur group, and at the tip of its
five-foot tail carried a bone-like mass |
weighing 50 pounds. According to the
expedition group, the mass might have
been used as a weapon, with which to
In a part of this district the Fron
tier Nursing service maintains its
health outposts, whence nurse-mid
wives ride out on horseback to com:
bat squalor, ignorance and disease.
The study, by Anne Winslow, execu
tive secretary of the service, tells how
these women have succeeded at mod
erate cost in providing midwifery
nursing, surgical, medical, dental, hos
. pital and social service for the region
First Survey in 1914,
The portion of the frontier on whicy |
che service operates lies in Leslie,
Perry, Clay and Bell counties. The
protect the rear from enemy attack, or
perhaps to brush aside the huge moe
auitoes of an earlier day.
Study of the other bones of th
beast shows, according to Dr. Charles
W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate
, paleontology, that the tall extremity |
| could not have been used for such a
| purpose,
tail even with an extreme effort,
huge ball must have been dragged
along the ground much as a convict
drags heavy steel ball manacles. In-
vestigators state that the reptile might |
have become stuck in the mud by his
| heavy appendage, and unable to work
organization was established through |
the work of Mrs. Mary Breckenridge,
a graduate nurse who made the first
survey in 1014, with a view of deter
mining the health needs of the region
and devising a way to meet them. Her
visit was followed in 1925 by a survey
in Leslie county by Miss Bertram Ire
land, who worked in conjunction with
the state board of health of Kentucky,
to check up on unreported births and
deaths,
Miss Winslow writes: “There wa.
40 physician in Leslie county. and in
ane contiguous area of three counties
surveyed there were 13.000
without one registered physician, In
this area it took the nearest doctor
six to twenty hours on horseback to
reach a patient. Necessarily, the av-
erage fee of $1 a mile was prohibitive
for all but a few families; the average
total income per capita was under $143
a year.”
“Epidemics of typhoid fever, dips.
sheria and smallpox occurred frequent:
| tion to a one ton mass of slow moving |
body, and a six-horn skull with the |
people |
1g," Miss Winslow continues. “Owing |
to their ignorance of any form of
sanitation, the people were riddled |
with hookworm,
Nursing Service Is Born.
After Mrs. Breckenridge had visites
she region she declded, writes Miss
Winslow, “that the health of moth-
ors and children was the most urgent
problem and that the situation called
for trained nurse-midwives, who might
combine a program of public health
-and bedsida nursing with midwifery.”
The Frontier Nursing service grew
sut of this belief, It consists at pres-
«nt of 28 nurses on duty at nine nurs-
ing centers. The service maintains | to any desired angle within a range
AD 18 bed hospital, built three years of nearly 45 degrees. The fuct the en. |
ago,
Scattered through neighboring cour.
des ure a few doctors who can be
free remained for the institution to |
1nearth him after ages of waiting.
The other animal, Doctor Gilmor.
says, had a thick bone plate protec-
name of styracosaurus ovatus, con
stitute its claim to the hall of fame.
Specimens of closely related specie
show that this great creature prob-
ably had, in proportion to its weight.
the smallest brain of any animal (hat
ever lived on land. The enormous
skull, six feet long, contains a space
for nerve tissue only about the size
of a man's fist,
To imagine a Texas horned toa.
magnified 100 times, Doctor Gilmore
says, would perhaps present a picture
of the elephantine monsters that tram-
pled the foliage laden mud of Mon-
tana in the days of the great dinosaurs.
Formidable and ferocious as the ani-
mals appear, their food consisted of
plants and vegetable matter.
Movable Motor to Boost
Seaplane Speed Records
London.—Speeds of 500 miles an |
aour may soon be attained by the use
of “movable” engines in racing sea-
planes, according to the inventors of
a new type of engine mounting for
aireraft,
The mounting is an outgrowth «.
xperiments connected with the design |
and construction of the British Schnei.
der trophy racers which last autumn
put up a world's record of 407.5 miles
an hour,
In experiments the engine is mount
«d on a pivet permitting the engine
and its propellor to be tilted upward
| gine and propellor can be tilted up-
~ealled upon whenever necessary, and |
there is a surgeon in the nearest
town, 23 miles from the hospital,
In their last fiscal year the nurse.
of the frontier service attended 9,736
‘people In 1,851 families, making 47,827
visits altogether,
“The total cost of the service wa:
410,406.49 for the year, averaging
$10.92 a patient, but the 9,736 patients
served were able to pay only $3,367.43
of the total.
- Air Pilots Drop Papers
* to Lonely Homesteaders
V Bi Paso, Texas.—Johnnie Martin
“4nd Paul Carpenter, air line pilots
who fly between this city and Los An-
geles, are welcomed daily by lonely
homesteaders over whose property
they fly.
Martin and Carpenter, although the,
sever have met any of the homestead-
@rs, know practically all of them by
name, the result of letters of intro
«duction to the airmen.
The two flyers drop daily papers t.
«he homesteaders, One woman wrote
them asking they write the correct
time on the next paper they dropped
her.
“My clock has stopped,” she ea
»lained.
New Federal Prison to
Have No Walls or Bars
Anthony, N. M.—The usual safe
guards that prisons have to keep con-
viets inside will be lacking at the new
$350,000 federal detention home being
built near Anthony.
There will be no outside wall, ne
guard towers, no machine gun nooks
and no alarm siren.
* .Evenn the familiar pack of blooa
aounds used to track escaped men will
be missing.
“The government does not contem
slate any such things as breaks or
riots,” E. J. Brandt, one of the archi
tects, sald.
£ays 55¢c Freight on
Hide He Sold for 60c
St. Marys, Kun.—A Kansas farmer,
Ralph Hilton, has a real souvenir of
the depression. Hilton recently killed
.a calf and sent its hide to a Topeka
tannery. The hide brought 60 cents.
The freight was 55 cents, Hilton re
weived a check for § cents. He
framed it.
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wards so as to be well clear of the
water has enabled the designers to
shorten the undercarriage so that the
| wings of the airplane almost rests on
In this way the air resist- |
ance and weight of the undercarriage |
the water.
have been greatly reduced.
Grapes Are Kept Fresh
by Hungarian Inventior.
Budapest.—The press reports that
Mussolini has instracted the Italian
consulate in Budapest to furnish him
with details of the Hungarian inven.
tion by which grapes may be preserved
perfectly
months. Mr. Bernhart of Kecskemet,
the inventor, has been able to prove
its value and can offer experts grapes
picked last October which have lost
none of their juice. Adoption of the
method is expected to prove a boon
to grape growers,
Barber Wins Razor
Hartford, Conn.—Paul Composte, 2
member of the Master Barbers’ asso-
ciation, was gratified when the judges
of a prize waltz contest awarded him
the first honors. When he saw his
prize he dropped it into the Connecti-
cut river. It was a safety razor and
hlades,
pr prir r D rbrrs ritoriord
Monte Carlo Forms
Antisuicide Club
Monte Carlo.—An “antisui-
cide” club has been formed here
to prevent unlucky gamblers
from taking their losses too se-
riously.
Persons of all nationalities
who try their luck at the casino
are being asked to join. Simi
lar clubs are being formed at
other gambling resorts on the
Riviera. A series of suicides
prompted the idea,
Monte Carlo has long been no
torious for its supposedly large
number of suicide cases, To kill
this unfavorable impression, en:
sino authorities have gathered
statistics to prove that the sui
cide rate here Is the lowest in
the world.
They claim that the suicide
rate in Monte Carlo Is ten per
1,000 population each year com
pared with thirteen per 1,000 in
the United States,
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TRAVEL CRAZE NOT
Passport Bureau Is Making
Plans for Big Season.
| Washington.—Stock markets may
collapse, jobs may dwindle, but the
| eager American tourist, it appears
still spends money inspecting ue
rorners of the earth.
Down in the State department pass
| port office they are planning to in
crease their force of clerks. Spring
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scores of tourist laden ships will sai!
for strange harbors. Passport sta-
tistics show more Americans traveled
abroad in 1930, despite the depression.
than in 1929,
Little Decrease.
Officials see little diminution so far
| p 1 nd f Jncle |
| this year in the demand for Uncle | was 0 round up some dudians.
{ Sam’s travel cards.
| Last year 209,211 Americans re-
| ceived passports, as compared with
| 103,372 in 1920. In both years our
| citizens mainfested a wider urge to
| travel than in 1928 when prosperity
was moving along under full steam.
| And more than ten times as many
| Amreicans wander aboard now than
| In the last post-war year, 1014, ac
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By
WALTER
NEW YORK TRUMBULL
It was at the Coffee House club that
Ernest Poole, the novelist, told me
this story. He said it was true and
that he had written it about ten years
ago, but that 1 might tell it again.
Perhaps you never read it or heard
it. I never had. Mr. Poole said it
was told to him by Mrs. Hoover, either
during or just after the war. At any
rate, there was a young fellow from |
| Texas whose father had known Buf- |
is Just around the corner, and soon | falo Bill,
From hearing of the lat
ter's tours and exploits, the young fel
low got an idea that Europe might
still be fertile ground for some sort
of wild west show. He had made a |
bit of money in the cattle country,
probably $2,500 or so, and decided |
that was sufficient capital, if things
|
were managed right. His first move |
He |
| picked Carlisle graduates; educated
| go into it on a percentage basis,
| on a foreign jamboree? In 1920, the |
| Commerce department estimates, they |
scattered $517,000,000 about the globe.
| and in 1928, $516,000,000, The 1930
| figure is not complete, but officials er
| pect it to rival that of 1929,
“Went Tourist.”
The depression, however, has had
me effect on trevel,
The Commerce |
department, delving into thousands of |
| pleasure and
more persons “went tourist” in 1050
husiness trips, found |
than in earlier years, when first-class |
accommodations were in wide demand. |
Nevertheless, Commerce department |
researches were surprised to find
spending “per class” was much freer
last year than the one hefore,
in the first two months of this yea.
che State department issued about
2,000 fewer passports than in January
and February, 1920. But this is ex-
plained in part by a recent ruling
prolonging the life of passports. Many
persons went abroad without applying
for new ones.
Forest Rangers Start
Drive on Wild Horses
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del Pino and Bear Springs regions
west of here that forest rangers hae
enlisted the Jemez Indians to kill
| them off.
In the fight to exterminate the wil.
aorse, the rangers have found that
for the first time the mountain lion
has a value. Heretofore considered
injurious animals and particularly
disliked by stockmen, the lions are
giving the forestry officials co-opera-
tion in killing off the horses.
Santa Fe, N. M.—Wild horses have |
| vecome such a problem in the Cerro |
For many years the wild horse. |
| aave made their headquarters in the |
Bear Springs country. Continued ef-
forts to have the Indians co-operate
in exterminating them only recently
met with success by forest rangers,
But to gain their co-operation, the
angers also had to educate the Jemez
Indian as to the advantages of horse
meat. Some of the “educated Indians”
did not take kindly to the idea.
| So far the hunt has not been sue
| cessful, as the horses have to be
| hunted on foot and are wilder than
| deer, The governor and council of
| the Jemez pueblo, however, have
agreed to hold hunts at Intervals last-
ing about a month until the horses are
exterminated.
Science Makes Great
Strides in Fight on T. B.
New York.—Medical science has
made vast strides in its relentless bat-
tle against the “white plague,” latest
mortality figures show.
A Metropolitan Life Insurance com.
sany bulletin reveals that frem 191¢
to 1920 the tuberculosis death rate
decrensed. In some sections the de-
crease was 32 per cent and In others
it ranged up to 62 per cent.
The bulletin represents a survey o.
<0 states and says that without ex-
ception the death rate declined every
year since 1910. The urban decline
exceeded the rural. Only five states
reported an Increase in deaths in the
rural districts.
The figures disclose also that work
ers In the least favored economic elas.
made the greatest improvement. Street
and sewer cleaners, longshoremen,
stevedores, janitors and building em-
ployees are listed in this class.
Germany to Fire Science
Rocket 12 Miles in Aix
Berlin.—The first rocket will he
dred into space from Berlin®s rocket
airport at Reinckendorfwest in April,
It is only a baby projectile, less than
seven feet high, but it is expected to
attaln a height of ever twelve miles.
It will be driven by a mixture of oxy-
gen and gasoline.
The rocket will be fitted with scie.
tific recording apparatus, from which
valuable Information {is expected.
Based on these results experiments
summer,
First U. S. Glass in 1639
Boston.—Glass was first manufac
tured in America at Salem, Mass, In
1639, according to results of research
presented by Mrs. Charles F. Hutch.
ins to the New England Historic
“ienenlogical soclety.
will be renewed on a large scale this
Indians who knew their way about
and would understand the scheme a
e
Texan had a show cowboy suit, with |
silver buttons on the chaps and all |
the trimmings, and each Indian got |
hold of a war bonnet and ether things
an Indian might be expected to wear.
So away they went,
* »
When they got to Europe there
vas enough money left to feed them
and buy a few ponies. They gave |
shows and began to do pretty well
As fast as they accumulated any sur |
plus they put it into more ponies, and
began to collect other animals. Final
ly, they secured a couple of gentle
old lions. Customers over there didn't
appear to know that African lions do
not roam the American Indian coun:
try. The show was becoming quite
an enterprise. By the time they
reached Vienna they had a big tent !
and small tents and all sorts of
things. It looked as if they were go
ing to clean up. But it happened to |
be late in July, 1914,
No sooner had they pitched their |
sents and made ready for the perform-
ance than they thought they heard a |
great crowd approaching. It looked |
as if the show was going to sell out, |
but the approaching throng turned
out to be soldiers, marching in mili
tary formation, rank on rank. They
went by, and for days soldiers
kept going by. By this time, the
cowboy and Indians had discovered
that a war was in progress. Nobody
came to the show but the animals kept
on eating. They tried to present the
lions to the zoo, but the zoo declined.
Finally, they fed the ponies to the
lions and themselves lived off the
tents, translated into food. The time
came when they had nothing left ex.
cept their costumes. With these and
the help of a friendly consul, they
made their way toward a port, which
was the first step in the direction of
home.
In Hoboken, N, J.. there lived a Rus
dian family, The boy of twelve had
heen born in the United States and
in 1914 it was decided it was time |
he went to see his grandmother in |
Russia, His ticket was purchased
and he was shipped over plainly
marked for his destination, and with
$50, in dollar bills, sewn in his
clothes in ease of accident. Shipped
from point to point, he came within
sight of Russian territory just two
hours after the border had heen
closed. Frightened, he protested in
English and the little Russian he had
learned from his parents. A kindly
old Russian soldier, who was on
guard beyond the barricade, told him
that things were unsettled in that
part of the eountry; that he would
not be allowed to eross the border:
that the best thing he could do was
to make his way to Hamburg and get
on a boat for home.
He was a smart child and manage
© get to Hamburg, but there he was
tol® that the navy had taken over all
the ships and none were returning to
the United States, Then, he did not
know what to do. He had to spend
his dollar bills, one by one, for food.
but he slept in the park. There came
a rainy, misty morning when he woke
on his park bench thoroughly disconr-
aged, lonely and hopeless. It was
pretty tough for a friendless little
boy In a foreign land, with a war go-
ing on and every one too occupied to
pay any attention to him. Suddenly,
out of the fog across the square, he
saw stalking toward him an American
cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat, fol-
lowed by ten Indians In war bonnets.
The little boy gave a joyous, thank-
ful cry. He had been taken to cir
cuses and wild west shews and he
knew that here were friends from
home. His troubles were over.
(@. 1932, Bell Syndicate.) ~WNU Service,
Eagle Drops Calf
on Roof of Auto
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Ray-
mond Harvey had a narrow es
cape from death when a 75-
pound calf crashed out of the
sky through the top of a tour
ing car in which he and three
other rabbit hunters were rid.
ing.
The calf had been dropped by
an eagle which the hunters then
shot. The bird wes over 7 feet
from wing tip to tip.
Harvey was slightly dazed for
a time after the ealf hit him,
HEHEHE KHOR
NEEDS PRISONERS
Program of Model Institu- |
tion Handicapped.
San Francisco.—Wanted, 212 pris-
oners. Tiat's what Col. George McD,
Weeks might advertise about his model
prison out in San Francisco bay. He
Wasn't enough prisoners,
For Alcatraz, army disciplinary bar
racks out on an island within the city
limits of San Francisco, is unique for
many reasons: Out of its 388 pris-
oners, only one is there for life, only
one prisoner has ever made a really |
getaway, and every man |
successful
works eight hours a day and four
hours on Saturday.
It's a place where there is running
hot water and lavatory in every cell.
steam heat, shower baths, library, pic.
ture show, and every facility for the
orisoners.
Under new army regulations a post
commander may keep at his post
. guardhouse any prisoner within cer-
| tain bounds, and therefore only the
worst cases are sent to Aleatraz. Last
vear the barracks returned 12 men to
duty after accomplishing with these
prisoners the aim of their imprisor
ment, discipline.
Water Hauled by Barge.
The island is. handicapped in all ite
| activities by the fact that it has no
fresh water, and all water must he
hauled by barges from San Francisco,
| The island uses 125.000 gallons a day,
obtaining the water from two supply
ships,
An old Spanish fort, the origina.
‘ortification protecting San Francisco,
Alcatraz, which hecame a military
prison in 1858, has on duty under arms |
only two men at a time, although
within three minutes 180 persons can
he armed to deal with any emergency
Ranking high in importance in any |
onsideration of the island is the kind |
i of food the prisoners get,
A sample
menu consists of corn flakes and milk, |
bread, coffee, and butter for break.
fast ;
ers, fried beefsteak, fried onions
mashed potatoes, brown gravy, let-
tuce salad, french dressing, pickled
beets, raisin pudding, bread and coffee
for dinner; bhaked macaroni and
cheese, dill pickles, doughnuts, bread,
and coffee for supper.
Now this menu does not cost Uncle
Sam 34 cents a meal, but 34 cents a
day!
And recently they had turkey foi
their Sunday meal at Alcatraz,
The island has an auxiliary garden
over on Angel {sland where fresh vege-
tables are raised. Keeping men busy
is the specialty of Colonel Weeks, who
attended school In San Francisco,
served here with a company from
Vancouver Barracks, Wash., during the
fire of 1906, and was attached to the
Presidio during the exposition of 1015,
But he needs 212 more prisoners to do
all the work he'd like to have done.
Colonel Weeks and his adjutant, Ma,
James E. Slack. find that the morale
of the men is the better. as well as
their appetites, for eight hours” work.
The colonel thinks Alcatraz may he
oeautified by growing of grass on the
hitherto brown slopes and eliffs. The
men in the prison agree with him and
have worked heartily to carry out his
ideas,
Uniform of Black.
The prisoners are dressed in blach
aniferms and hlack sailor eaps made
from war O. D. material dyed black.
The prisoners have a complete tailor
shop where their ciothes are repaired
and pressed, a shoe shop, plumbing
shop, printing shop, typewriter repair
shop and furniture shops. They also
have a laundry which serves all the
posts around the bay.
Pride of the island is the furnitur.
department, where skilled men repair
antiques and build reproductions of
the best of Hepplewhite, Duncan
Phyfe, Sheraton and other types.
The prisoners are allowed to sei
cheir products to army and navy offi-
cers, and have all the orders they
can fill,
Those in productive eapacities ar.
allowed $2 a month for their work.
The balance of what their industry
brings in goes Into a general welfare
fund. A recent purchase of $3,500
worth of talking picture projection ma-
chinery was made from this fund.
Among the features of the prison i.
its lighthouse, towering 214 feet above
sea level. The light is visible 21
nautical miles. This lights gives a
flash for .5 of a second, and is off for
4.5 seconds. It is of 80,000 candle
power,
Assignment to Alcatraz is consi.
ered one of the best to be had in the
army by its officers and men, accord
ing to Major Slack.
As for the prisoners, well, there.
¢he words of the only lifer on the
island, Joseph Soliwode, “Since I have
to spend my life somewhere, this is
about as good as any prison I'd ever
care to he in”
Youthful Peers Await
Maturity to Take Seat:
London.—Britain has 82 peers who
‘annot take their seats in the house
of lords because they are not of age.
Many bearers of old titles are still
playing with their blocks, among them
being Lord Wraxhall, three, and Lord
Montagu of Beaulie, five.
Lord Gainshorough is eight. Lor
ilnig, son of the Inte British army
commander, 1s thirteen. The earl of
Shrewsbury and Talbot, who is pre-
mier earl in the peerages of both Eng
land and Scotland, is seventeen, as is
Lord Gormanston, premier viscount of
RKeotland,
rice tomato soup and creck. |
| fried breakfast bacon, hot cakes, sirup, |
YOUNG ANIMALS
FOUND IN THE WOOD:
1 has caused the Game Com
Joi ion to Jue a notice c¢ at
ntion to the illegality of turing
or possessing sucn ratory
Persons wno pick up and take
home the young of any protectec
wild creatures are opening them-
| selves to prosecutioa just the same
as those who deliberately attempt
[to trap them. Anyone finding very
| young or crippled birds or animals
| should immediately get in touch witt
| the local game protector who wil
| make proper disposition of them.
The Commission cited a few re
| cent cases where young gra uir-
| rels have been retained in oy
The little animals were secured dur-
ing timber cutting operations anc
taken to the workmen's homes rath-
er than being placed in another nest-
ing cavity. Even very young wilc
| creatures found in the woods by
| hikers or campers are not “lost” as
many persons suppose, and if let
alone will be promptly administerec
to by their parents. The probability
in most cases is that the adults are
| never very far away and may have
been frightened upon the approach
of the human intruder.
In the more settled communities
of the State, where gray squirrels
have become rather tame in some
instances, traps have been deliber-
ately set for them. Also, last year,
a great many fawn deer and bear
cubs were picked up in the woods
and taken home by persons who
| thought they were doing a kind act.
In most cases this interest, although
sincere, results disastrously for the
little creatures.
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TALLED! A dozen
merry faces grinned
from the school bus to add
to Tom Kirk's consterna-
tion. The engine certainly
was broken down.
Visions of frantic parents
leaped in Tom's mind.
“A pretty mess!” he mut.
tered.
“Shin up the
pole and call for
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ful “We'll be here
all
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night!”
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