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GIANT REDWOODS IN CALIFORNIA TREES REACH MAJESTIC HEIGHTS
TIMBER 2,000 YEARS OLDER THAN CHRISTIANITY
(By Frank Lyman).
last month, summoned for wear- ing a dress having the appearance. of a police uniform at Esher.
to is Signor Ludovico Toeplitz de THE coast redwoods of Cali- Founder's Tree, standing on Talgarth- Colin Stewart King, of Tala Gran Ry. the Italian Aim producer,fornia are older than Chris North Dyersville fat in Humboldt
who was D'Annunño's Foreis tianity. Those of the high Sierra County, is 354 feet tall. car along the was driving his
Signor date back something like 2000 However, one of the Sierra. Portsmouth-road. Esher, when he Secretary in Flame and
Grandi's comrade-in-armas in the years further.
cousins, the California Tree in Signor Hong Kong, Tnesday, Dec. I. 1936, was overtaken and stopped by an-Alpini daring the war.
Thus, the oldest of the coast General Grant National Park, is other car.
Hels Toeplitz's grandfather
an redwoods had sprouted when $10 feet high. A man wearing a policeman's
Austrian official, and the name is Pompeii was destroyed by Mount There is a difference in their The Tragedy Of The helmet and tunic got out of the pronounced "Terplitz," as in Ger Vesuvius belchings in A.D. 79 lumber content, and it has been
car and told him that he had ex- Civil War
can
up area.
car,"
дят.
*
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and some of them were 300 and estimated that while a big, cosst
Sierra
to
automobiles
Bark of these trees, which pro-
to a
from one-quarter foot thick in the case of the coast
maximum base diameter two feet in the Sierra tree.
Forty Feet Diameter redwoods and from six inches to
ceeded the speed limit in a buil Italians with alien-sounding more feet tall when the founding redwood has lumber sufficient
"The "policeman" examined wit-names are common is Italy owing fathers were gathering to write for 20 five-room bungalows, It is difficult to believe that)
to the centuries of foreign domina-the American Constitution.
redwood would produce Madrid
long hold out ness's licence, and said, "That is tion of that country. Signor When your Aunt Sus2 M or double that number. against the pressure of all right; you must be more care- Suvich, for instance, who till Uncle. Eb arrives to view Cali- the Nationalists' attack
Allful in future. He then went back cently was Foreign Minister andfornia's wonders, or you're just
6,167 Tons Weight made to to his own car. appeal has been
is now Ambassador in Washington touring for your own
And as for weight, the “largest pleasure, living thing in the world." the Burgos by the British Govern-
In "Fancy Dress"
has a purely Slavonic name.
there are many other interesting General Sherman Tree in Sequois "He could ment to restrict the bombard-
not start his
facts about these remarkable National Park, would tip the ment of Madrid to military continued the witness, and I got LESS ENIGMATIC?
trees to add colour to your travels. beam of a great imaginary scale objectives. It is right that out and assisted him,
One of the chief things to know "I naturally thanked him for It seems that the true history such an appeal should be made,
eral thousand of the Sphinx is not to remain for is that the coast redwood is like at 6,167 tons. It would take sex- as it was right that the British letting me off.”
As Egyptologists its Sierra cousin and yet dif- "There were three other men in ever a mystery. Government should have sug-i
balance it. authorities in the
.car. I became suspicious, continue to dig round it they find ferent. The former tapers bean- THE LEKTROLITE AND gested. to the
objects which help to unravel the tifully to a spire. the latter is texts them from the ravages of FLAMELESS Madrid to release at least the and reported the incident"
thrust skyward like an impresare, is GLOLITE
Beard told the court that he was mystery.” womenfolk among the thon- FUNCTION LIGHTERS.
sands of hostages held as sus-out with some friends celebrating Prof. Selim Hassan's latest dis-sive col.......... INDOORS AND
OUT-pected enemies of the Republi- the fact that he had just come out covery of a stele, or tablet, im-1
humani-of hospital. regime. But
portant as it is, will however, EQUAL can DOORS WITH
tarianism has had short shrift The uniform he wore was one hardly clear up the matter. It only of the coast tree is a little more Scientists know the coast tree EFFICIENCY.
the Spanish Civil War. used for fancy dress functions. He confirms the inscription on a pre than 18 feet, that of the Sierra as Sequoia sempervirens, the
stating slightly more than 40. Except for the successful had looked upon the incident as a viously discovered stele
sempervirens meaning “alwayz efforts of the British Charge joke.
that the monument was erected in
The coast redwood has the ad-living." and the Sierra tree as d'Affaires, Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes.
honour of Ra, the Sun God.
vantage in height and one, the the sequoia gigantes. Sequoia is in lessening the nightly Madrid
These continued excavations cer-
taken from the Indian chief of toll of executions in the last
tainly do not add to the impres-
that name. siveness of the Sphinx. To-day few weeks, and for the recent
the great figure loses much from you were caught by two policemen fog. They extend from just north exchange of prisoners in the Basque country at the instance
the fact that a large part of the with your hand actually
gentleman's pocket. What could of the California border to a little body is well below the surface.
south of the Big Sar country in of the International Red Cross,
that your lawyer say in your defence?" public opinion outside Spain)
Most of the illustrations
*Yer worship," said the prisoner Monterey and are rarely found one sees show only the head and earnestly, "That's wat I'm curious to more than sixty miles inland. has been singularly ignored by
shoulders. Even the photograph in know." both sides.
one of the Egyptian rooms of thei British Museum is quite out ¡date.
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He was fined £5 and costs.
PIT ENQUIRY "SCENE"
Heated Altercation At Hearing
The time has not yet come to sum up the history of the Civil War. Even when Madrid
There was a heated altercation has fallen its former Govern- ment will have handed on what between Sir Henry Walker, Chief remains of its authority to Inspector of Mines, and Mr. J. A those who in theory or in fact Hall, control the large area of Spain representative when the public
are
a Yorkshire mineworkers'
.
Your Daily Smile!
The man in
same offence
of
The
The magistrate smiled. "But you know perfectly well that
*
*
* The Betrayal
the
Coast redwoods like rain and
Likes Altitudes
The Sequoia gigantea likes al- The room was filled with little girls titudes and is found from Talare in pink pinafores and pigtails. They County, in which Sequoia Na- ast in rows at wooden desks as quietional Park is situated, to Placer as mice. The lesson concerned coins
of the realm, and they had been County near Lake Tahoe, where
isolated grove through the entire range, from farth-ja smail,
still Curiosity
stands. Altitudes the dock had been ing to sovereign.
at which it One little miss, however, was sie grows are from 3,000 to 8,000 feet of which the focal point is aquiry into the Barnsley pit dis-there many times before and for the
Her gaze was There
still aster was continued last month.
each time-pocket-gularly inattentive Barcelona. forces opposed to the Nation- After medical evidence had been picking and there seemed to be no fixed on a playful sparrow on the above sea level.
The range of the coast redwood alists elsewhere in Spain, given that of the 58 men killed 55 reason why he should not be sent window-sill, and she had no thought
is thus about 450 miles, that of The magistrate for coins.
Suddenly the teacher pounced upon the Sierra redwood about 250. notably the miners of Asturias, bore evidence of carbon-monoxide to prison again.
her. Placing a ha crown on the Closest large redwood groves but it is in Catalonia that there poisoning, Mr. Hall was question asked him whether he had anything is Ekely to be the most whole-ing a witness when Sir Henry told "Tus, yer worship," caid the pri- desk, she exclaimed:-"What's that?"
**Eads," came the instantaneous) "T'd like this 'ere case put Soner. hearted resistance to any cen-him he had already had a reply.
reply- tralised Government which Mr. Hall exclaimed: "I wish youjorf fer a week My lawyer's ill." General Franco may be able to would give over interrupting. Sir! Iset It has been among Henry!"
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This is the lication, af
Sir Henry: You mind your own
and it is this which has made Mr. Hall: It is not fair for youl 2 strong Government as to continue interfering.
opposed to a merely ruthless
Sir Henry said: "You are not
Government-an impossibility putting questions. You are mak-
in the past. Gen. Franco has ing deductions."
not merely to capture Madrid
in order to have all Spain at his feet: he has either to per- suade a Spain even more dis- united and embittered than before the Civil War to accept him-and this is clearly out of
EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAYS CARTOON
the question or else to sub- The Wonder Worker
due all Spain and hold it down
by force. Madrid may fall toi
ť
NHE American". Hondini took
him within a few hours or a{ This unue from the French
few days, but neither side will
zzagician, Houdin, whose trze Robert. (1805-1871).
feel that the struggle is over.
What aims has Gen. Franco amewat if he is successful? An in-Robert-Hondin is the originator of formative article by Mr. Valen-most of the magic tricies used to- tine Williams recently publish-day, like the inerhaustible bottle ed in the Daily Telegraph and bar, the horn of plenty, air described the many factions suspension, handkerchief magic, Alfonsist, Carlist, Fascist and etc.
In 1856, when the Algerian Moderate Republican -ROW united under Gen. Franco's tribes threatened to rebel against Their differences the French domination, the Paris Bent Houdin to command have been temporarily shelved, Government
"to demonstrate the just as upon the other side Algeria Socialists, Anarchists, Syndi-superior magic of the white man calists and Communists have at to the chieftains of the rebellious last stopped their bickering for tribes. The Frenchman met and the allegiance of the "Left" in easily defeated all Oriental magi- order to continue the struggle cians and as a result, the revolt against the "Right."
To was nipped in the bad and the picture this struggle in quite tribes surrendered. This is simple terms as a war between caly example of magic used as a Fascism and Communism is to modern political factor.
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