features as Colonel Pella, commandant of the army barracks at Malmaison, Varzaru and four army Rumania for life for espionage, degradation. One of Most Dramatic Stories of Lost Riches. Mexico Clty.—Twenty years ago, fa German dreamed of a hoard of hid den gold. Now he has found a tunnel which he believes will lead him to the treasure of a long-dead King. The scene of this Is in the hinter- land of Mexico, and the story 18 one of the most dramatic in the annals of lost riches. : Twenty years ago Ernesto Loeck was a rising business man in the Ger man town of Dusseldorf, He was then just turned forty, apd his dil gence and acument were enabling him to put by what promised to be a hand some little competence, About a year after his wife died he had a vivid and remarkable dream, The scene was the crest of a high mountain, and along a narrow track wound a leng line of light-skinned and scantily clad Indians. They marched in single file, and on the shoulders of each was borne a roughly made hide sack—a sack containing gold, The carriers seemed to disappear Many Changes in Commer- cial Geography of World. Washington —Important engineering projects of 1931 wrought many chang in the commercial world, according to a bulletin from the National Geographle society reviewing the outstanding construction plishments of the year. “The year saw the greatest hi construction program in the history o the United States” savs the balletin, “hecause of a liberal expenditure pol- tcy by federal, state and local gov- ernments. More than 11.000 miles of federal aid highways alone were un der construction at a cost of over a third of a billion dollars. “Cuba contributed the tacular single highway project of the year when in February threw open for use the 700-mile paved motor geography of accom ‘hway ¢ most spec- she Grp rr re rr rere POTPOURRI i “we BR Emery Dust Emery, which hag for cen- turies been used for polishing gems, stones and metals, 1s found In large boulder-like masses, It is an Impure corun dum composed chiefly of alumi- num and quartz. It will not melt and acids will not act on it. In crushed form It is put bands for attachment to polish Deir ‘va pdr) on . " ing machines, (B® 1932, Western Newspaper Unloa) Oil pr Peel ODD THINGS pd “ Dir ry Sian OF A HAM DEALER — in Richmond Va. cian 2 Qe: [IW FS prem HAM SELLER road extending from end to end of the island. “At Washington, the United States government brought almost to comple tion a model modern automobile road, built In preparation nial celebration of the birth of George Yer + from the home of for the bi-centen- Washington. It is the Mount Memorial highway, extendin National Capital to the first President, the “The Mount Vernon roadway is wide lanes of traffic, and Is ve on each side parked strips of lawn, flower beds and No road mportant Is permitted to ay ‘blind.’ The have staggered enough for four to ha 1 shrubs, however uni cross the highs least important road CTOs. Ings, Others must safety Islands. The roads are carried on ornamental viaducts. cross between important cross over the highway Hudson River Bridae, “The most notable engineering event of the year was the completion in Oec- tober of the Washington Me- morial bridge across the Hudson river between New Jersey and Manhattan {sland. This bridge with a span of 3.500 feet is the longest suspension bridge in the world, Only a few weeks later, the near-by Kill Van Kull bridge between New Jersey and Staten island sleted, the longest steel arch Its length, 1.652 foot, one Ind h, by two feet, one inch the length of the arch In the George was com bridge In the world exceeds Sydney Harbor bridge, Australia, also virtually completed in 1931, “In Africa, a new combined highway and r wis put into opera. tion the Nile near river's pv from lake torin. As a result of this comple vay bridge in Uganda across int of issue THERE REALLY 15 4 n SANTA CLAUS] is 15 HOW HE ” LOOKS = AND HE LIVES AT SLATER, MO. NOT THE NORTH POLE = RE LS. rn « KTH Po % Nd. lbw oo 1 Alig 2 ho G ERAT oe Ve Lin 44748 Toe TOWER OF FRELSERS KIRKE~ -in Copenhanen- HAS A STAIRCASE ON THE OUTSIDE A LETTER MAILED IN PEKIN, ILL. 7 AFTER K22 pM. \ (20 MULES 10 i" v REACH PEORIA - - QMUES Away / Ti Latest for Milady a A The very latest for milady is this ribbon striped kK net, posed over tea rose satin, mat hing the net in the bertha. It is featured with stiffened ruffles at the skirt bottom, creation of black tion, the first railway train entered Kampala, one of the leading cities of Uganda, “The outstanding of the year was Welland eanal in Canada between Port Colborne on Lake Erie and Port Weller on Lake Ontario * At one point is siphoned under eanal that of the completion New the Welland river the canal, “In was major landslide of the year, was quickly cleared away. “Work was begun on the huge Hoo ver dam project on the Colorado river near Las Nev, dams were completed, Including a wa- terworks dam near Calgary, Can. ; the dam on the Osage river In Missourl : the Saluda dam near Colum. bia. 8 C. and the Tijunga dam, near Los Angeles, “Important railway construction probally led all other engineering activities In wide distribution through. out the world. Of great significance was the building of a railway section in Belgian Congo which made it pos. gible for the first time for passengers and freight to move by rall across Africa from Lobito on the Atlantie to leira on the Indian ocean. The line opened up rich copper mine areas in Katanga, Belgian Congo, and in north ern Rhodesia, Bermuda Gets First Railway. “One of the most interesting bits of rallway building was in the Bermuda islands, where a line 20 miles long was opened to traffic. It is the first railway to be built In this old British colony. Legislation has heretofore prohibited railways In these islands, “In the Malay peninsula, a rallway wns opened along the east coast, establishing communication between Singapore and the border of Siam's long southern tail, “Of immediate economic Interest wns the opening for grain shipments canal frat Panama the The November the temporarily closed hy slide Vegns Numerona agnall for the first season of the railway into the heart of the mountain, and watching them was a tall man of noble aspect. Just as the dream faded there seemed to appear written on his brow In letters of fire the word Cal zontzin, The dream was so vivid and made so great an impression on Loeck that he began to wonder whether history had any record of a man named Cal- zontzin. A long search revealed that it had. There was a Tarascan king of that name who was ruling in a part of Mexico some 400 years ago, and who had vanished with gold worth £30,000,000, Now, after 20 years of search, Loeck has found on the summit of La Bates de Oro a narrow under ground passage, He is confident that that tunnel will lead him to the hid OF INTEREST TO THE HOUSEWIFE If you like maple sirup use It in stead of sugar to sweeten whipped cream. * * ® from linen, let It stand then wash To oll rub until it In warm water and soap. » - . machine a little lard, Appears, remove it with the stain dis To prevent the contents of a casser- ole baking to iickly, put a piece of oiled paper unde he cover befor: pul ting u put Into which house rove the To warm over a frult pu has aiready been stean the tog When a young makes the mistake of marrying young, it is the mistakes he nev. er repeals, LOO ¥ ’ one oj - Ag RS I= heiress if he gives her the right sighs. from Canada’s western wheat region to Churchill on Hudzon bay. Of geo. graphic interest, with economic results to follow later, was the virtual comple tion of a railway through northern On tario to the southern extremity of Hud son Day at Moose Factory. “Rails were pushed ahead steadily, adding to the world's railway mileage in such widely scattered regions as Finland, Drazil, Turkey, the Philip Nova Scotia, Argentina, Algeria, Colombia, Manchuria, Japan and Ecua- dor, “In the United States an imporiant link was built In southwestern Penn. gylvania; a cutoff from the southwest corner of Kansas into New Mexico: in the Texas Panhandle’: in nerthern California, and In & number of other Western states, A short, but im portant line was built In southern Nevada, connecting the site of the Hoover dam with existing railways, “In the Netherlands, the first ‘polder’ of the vast Zuyder Zee reclamation project was put intomige. These 33,000 acres were reclaimed from the sea aft. er remaining submerged since 1284." pines Arms Meet Delegate Dr. Mary Emma of Mount Holyoke been appointed by to be a Yoolley, president who has Hoover States college, President of the United ¢ disarma member delegation at th nt coufer- ence in Geneva, FW He WT Ue He FW WH HH We We Fe We We Ue He We He We Ye POVERTY AND OLD AGE By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois. ® HX HRB NRHN RNN FERRER XRANRR BREF EER LEH LRHR RETR TR THAD w It was comietent, him, Resp heavily force in and a of 1 tion, Brewster's he best wes kness gave no thought to the fu he did not know the meal ters Newspaper Union) Skaters Training Under the able direction of Bill Tay- lor, veteran coach of speed skaters, the United States Olympic specdsters are doing some very serious training on the lce at Speculator, N, ¥Y. Two of them are shown doing a little trick work. 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