THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1958,
FEATURES
YOUR PUZZLE
CORNER
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Say Uk instead of yest
31.cav4.
5 This gore with eggs
7 You buy coal by this
Sit again.
10 What you twreathe.
1 Come 1.
13 Answer (að,)
14 Father.
10 South Dakota (ab.)
17 Toward.
DOWN
1 New Hampshitre (ab. Į
2 Boat paddlc.
3 Received.
4 Upon
6 Intends.
7 You're this after playing hard
Take a chair,
11 Finish
12 g moke.
13 While.
15 What you should make hap-
pen to your homework
FIND THE OBJECTS
The Puzzleman has hidden a number of things whose tantes begin with the letter "M" in this pleture How many can you
Ind?
MOO!
NEWSPAPER FUN
ADD-A-LETTER
and
in":
and
Add a letter to "father" have "something to couk add another lejer to this have "o bridge""; add nother letter and have "something that happen to you if you're
bad."
HOW MANY?
How many four-letter words een you make of the letters an the wond CAREFULY
The Puzzleman thinks there are 12 words, but you may nev me than he does.
TAKE THE TAIL OFF
Take the fall off a five-feller word for "10 look they n lyn.ething the sky
Take the lid of this word bu have a shit wond by "a roll- Fond-deg; take the tall ut | gum am have an abbreviation As a stiret,"
(Solutions on Page 20)
FOR
BOYS
YOU AND YOUR PALE MAY PUT DO, GLUES THROUGH ME, BUT YOU'LL TAKE ONE RIGHT(
THROUGH THE
HEAP!
A True Adventure In The Roaring West
Famous Armed
Lawman Quelled Fifty Men With
MORE THAN ONCE, As a rule, the profit wis IVE Wyatt Earp, fam spa
grant than the dum veg b cane bal towns like Wichita fawat. of the West, des
to bat le huga- monstrated 1 hat knowing queed stung cowboys. But how to quell
bad man with a look and a word wat more feelive than a lead-
a
This Stampiting six gun.
Caused A Big Fuss!
10
, what R fuss Wa
caused by this stamp.
I heated the el war bes
21.
hard qes, then who were killers and desperadoes,
So Wichda ploptel the ans varvad aule "No guns in town." Wh_a_combnys forget to dis-
Fath 4.fle!
into Wieta or walke The ot The benne. Wyatt and other lawmen
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raini in he Miseomri. ard
Wanted befale in wastern Kan a with Pat Mus'erson, Billy D.xen ard other
But one conschaty kook exep- fama scouts and cowhots.
ite The
1 was Manny Clemenis, 1 x bail man, who Can- served
marshal of it it in beat to have fis Dodge City, Kansas; Tomb pun take a kya gent wearing alune, Arizonn; and several a un bidge other down. In 1874.
he was deputy tween East and West Germarshal of Wichita, a roar many to a peint that strain.
ing cattle town which then ed the tense relations be
had 1,200 permanent resi
tween them Lo danger dents. point.
To star, with, the stamp win Issued by Wel Germany,
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shows dve people heading west, with their heads down 15 though again a strong wind.
The stamp fun memorates the sending to the West, Germans whose lands were attached Lo Poland afte World War 11
To reach Western Germany, they he to cross Easter--Di Communist Germany. And that Is where the strong wind is supe posed to have me them.
implication being,
The
tried
that to
Like Abilene and Dodge City, Wichita was a recej tron centre for great herds of cattle drvca murch from Texas to the railroads which
wak ship them to market, South
The Arkansas of River at Wichita were great tamps of rowings and their herds.
NO GUNS RULE
And on payday. the cowboya enme her us a the bridge into town and "stood Wirhti on its head."
THREAT
temp
"W. 1 back unt 15 town apart,” said Manny, wao had quite a few notches on
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trouble.
When
he Turd Manny was get- deg a mob together to tear up wchita, he slapped as she gui
nach day and went st takes his past at the town-end
the bridge
The businessmen of Wichita to Wyn!: and offered to p. They knew what to ex- once the cowboy got out it hond.
Wyatt picked ten men and told them to stand behind h'm of defence. Pa
a seront the Thea b instructed. the rest of the busnessmen to go to their
store
themselves with
J
stolguns and pistols and bc ready, in case he
shot
down.
Was
OLD METAL IS
STILL
the Commitinis's PROSPECTORS in
torer the freedom
where to s'ny
they
fornia are looking for
LIVELY
Italy.
are
Cali- ported from Spain and
Stane of the mines there aver 2000 years old, with miles and miles of underground pas- sageways.
a mineral in use for thou- sands of years ns well fur that new thing called uranium.
JLY
Mines in America are cutting down on costs by using auto- matle machinery, powered
serkers were.
As slomp Colicctors in Western Germany lined up for first-day purchases of the new stamp, an express letter from
Not gold, for gold is hard the Communist governmen
to find now, East Berlin reactio
even in that the West GANTIEL
postia tor-general, Eldorado. There is a special demand for that lively known as quick-
THIS IS A GOOD party Siegfried Balke.
stunt. for it's a real laugh maker. It's fun to try at home, too, with just the family.
The letter cold: “Our people, melal in Eastern Germany accept the silver. new fronters of peace. stamp will anger ihem. Please
withdraw 15"
This
electricity and gas.
by
Electric motors help to crush the ore and hft it to hugu bins, whence it is fed by grov- lly intu Rus-heated rotary The heat frees the Its seientific name is mer- quicksilver, turning it
Into H that is
bry cury, after the name of
A vapour But the West German
sucked Say that you can take an er- dinary newspaper and place it
fans through cooling ernment did not withdraw it supposed patron diety
of eletrie
tubes, and thus comes trickling on the floor in such a way that
And the same day—lası August the arts and sciences.
forth the shiny liquid metal of two people standing on it wit 3-ho East Germans turned not. be able to touch each othert everybody of trains
Considering how useful mer so many uses.-By Mark Wilcox. CFUSSING Here's how you do it. Put the
from Western Germany into cury is in both these fields, it paper on the floor in a dour- the Communist
and a well named. Compounds of way. Close the door, with one
searched
them rigorously for mercury go into a lot of things, person on each side of the door. propaganda material such us like paints, drugs. explosives,
They
Bro standing on
lights, batteries, car- tho the disputed stamp. It is per- clcetrie paper oll right, but
14. cannot forated
printed the penter's levels, and other pre-
by touch each other through the | offsoi-litho process and costa cision Instruments. closed door.
7. in London.-J. A. A.
100
"ZOO'S WHO
MANY THEORIES ARE ADVANCED AS TO HOW CONEY ISLAND, NEW
NORIA, RECEIVED
†TS NAME, THE
ONE MOST GENERALLY
NOCEPTED 15 THAT THE
DUTCH
SETTLERS
NAMED IT KONIJN
EYLAND
MEANINGCRABBIT (SLAND)
BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER.
OF RABBITS FOUND THERE.
"NEW GUINEA TRIBĖSMEN VAI
FLESH OF THE TYTHON AS FOOD, ITS THE KODIAK SKIN AS MATERIAL FOR FRUM HEADS SCANHOT CLIN
For these purposes American Industry uses annually 50,000 "flasks", or iron cylinders of mercury, containing 70 pounds cach. As the United States is buying 60,000 finsks a year, for
its steekpile of critical materials, the world prie has chut because of this demand.
up
A Word
Finally the cowboys come silk og andes the badge, with lats in the land. Citments pint In each hand and at 1.ant 50 armed TEL WOR men behhid him.
ODDS: 50 TO 1
At the cort of the bridge Wit Earp walled out alone
to met them.
Wyatt made to move to draw rither of the guns he had Hopp d on his hips, but every- CLE tem Tuxas to Nebraska bk hard of Wyatt Earp's speedy draw and deally n
Mauny taited ten steps from
sold Earp. "put "Manny." ang bergans and take your friends hack across the river.“ Manny hesitated, with Earp's fe in th tolance.
He blinked his eyes, swal. tow and turned to his fot- lowers. "Coine on, boys. No 165 geth ourselves shot up
for folishness." Ite turned mround and walked back.
m
Wyatt walked back to the ten who supported him. "How'd you da 11?" one of them mikel.
one
Wyatt winked. "Manny knew that no matter how many slags 1 took, he'd get
right through his traini. Ho wasn't brave enough to go through with it, knowing I could shoo! him dead."
Wyatt Earp demonstrated
many times that he was never afrakt to die. As a result he livert to a ripe old age, dying in 1926, in California in bed.
--By Пus Winterbotham
AN AMUSING AND A WORD
*
TRICK GAME
con-
MIND reading trick cd. But when he decides to put that is effective doesn't down the one that he's
centraling on, he wit! pause for require any props or sleight a second between number and of hand.
namo Note which number this Instead, all you use là is. Then when he is Onished, your two oyes.
pretend to study the sheet very seriously before you look up First, request a volun- and announce to
which
of a persona
ways
No wonder the Defence Minteer to concentrate deeply name it is. erals Exploration Administra- tion is now spending more than on the name $300,000 on searchers for new then announce that you Words that can be spelled two deposits, and old mines are be- cah define just who this la Can rocily be amusing. Ing reopened.
-even if he tries to make For instanceIn the rhymes Some of these mints were in the feat confusing by mixi below. operation in California long being it up with the names of fore gold was discovered, but other persona, had to be shut down because the rising cost (bł, production mado their operation"
Unpront üble. The New Idrih mine
180 fmiles southeast of San Frans SHED and the historic. Back Inine, near the railroad loop. In the Tehachapi Mountains, ard now, being WOHLA FALLON those
What words are wo busting? A hostre is hover ridden A bo does not mako honey, To prove your ability, pro- There's no such thing da eyesite, dura paper and penell and re- A heart is not a bubny quest how to write rog How could there be a play.
down, Somewhere among them must be placed the one No one rows with an ore.
them? on which he is concentrating. Kings do not rain people—
ham must be numbered. Or count 1, 2 or as the is up.
Can't string & buent for cooking) Now watch him while he Curt harar here à bodij writes and you'll discover that pay tur fair, redd papar Mercury.comes from a red- the number will follow tho. Or try to rite a wrong! diai oro" editod činnabar, triosį, name very quickly, az "' får" as
of which hay hitherts been fine! all the wronk ones are. conbern»
(Anawer on Paru 20)
AND
GIRLS✩✩ ✩
ANYONE FOR TURTLE
SOUP?
NE OF THE strango mothers of the animal world is the Loggerhead turtle.
She measures three feet in length and will weigh na much .. 400 pounds. In- stend of feet she has seal. liko flippers, because she is
marine turtle.
There are 2 malls on each flipper which help her in digging L nest for her
eggs.
All through the year the Loggerhend lives in the Gean, coming up occasion- ally for air and n sun bath.
In Florida, on moonlight nights in May or June sho et-mes to the shores and struggles
the sandy up beach with her Alippers until she gets above the tide
Then she scoops
A line, hollow in the sand and lays her eggs.
The Loggerhead has many
including enemies,
muli. When her little ones hatch. many of them never reach their ocean home. Turtles are used for food and their eggs for commercial oil,
So because of this, nature has taught her to lay many CHES.
After the mother Loggerhead lays her eggs she covers them
When with
crisscrosses soud, over the spot to obliterate any trace of them, and ziz Ka back to the sea. This mother never sees her little ones,
LOOK, NO TEETH
Turtles have sharp, hard becks that can cut like a chisel, but no teeth. With these beaks they cut up their food, and the snapping varieties could chop uft a finger.
These men were trawing for Ash th North Carsitila, bui thetr catch was a 400-pouna turtle the largest malo Loggerhead on record, so far na is known,
Some are scavengers. fish, etc,
both meat and Others ent vegetable matter, and some are strict vegetarians,
The
years ago. This is the largest fose land turtle. A three-ton
of marine turtle fived millions years ago in a sea that once covered the stale of Kansas,
Turtles make very nice peta. They from
voices of turtics are mostly squeaks, but there is a
can be trained to Cat Wood Turtle that whistles.
one's hand. But pond A fos:ll turtle that walked turtles, like most water turtles, three feet high and measured have
swallow to
their food seven feet in length Uved in under water. northern
-By Ida Smith
India 176 million
Clothesline Mutiny
-The Getaway Failed Bécause the Wind Let Them Down
By MAX TRELL
WBG wash
All the day. clothes were scrubbed and rubbed and rinsed and squeezed. Finally, they were hung on the line to dry.
A Uttle later, Knorf and Hanfd, the shadows, were walk- Ing across the back yard where the clotheslines
strung were between the trees when they they heard som.cone
thought
There are over 300 species of turtles. The Innd turtles have legs and rect, while the water calling them. turtles have variously shaped Alippers. All sperles lay their eggs in dry ground.
Waving its Arm
They looked around. A shirt
Those that live strictly on was waving one of its arms at dry land are called tortoises, ❘ them. Marine and semlaquaife species
"My friends" it called down are called turtles. Fresh water spccles, especially thase that to them from the clothesline, have market value, are chlied "would you mind helping me?" terrapins.
the
8дмоў
"The clothes pins are plaching
me," said the Shirt,
to fly away with the wind. Although this was the first They've all seen a good deal of theekb ever the world, for when All of them hibernate during time that a shirt had
winter. The water species spoken to them, Knurf and worn, they go wherever the busy themselves in mud, while Hanid asked what they could do people to whom they belong cafe the land species burrow into to help.
to take them. "Well," said the Shirt, "t's "But it's different with frie, Some Large tortelses live just a little thing. Would you I've never been anywhere, longer then any other present-mind loosening those two clothes insist that you loosen the clothes
plus on my shoulders? They're plas and let me fly away!" day creatures.
pinching me."
the sand.
Among the 300 varieties are found sizes ranging from the small musk turtle of three or four Inches 10 the huge Leatherback that measurca eight feet and weighs over 1,000 pounds. Thiere are numerous shell patterns and colours.
Somo turtles live in groups, white others prefer to Ive alone.
REALLY GET AROUND
I
Khorf sold: "You stay right "Oh dear," said Hanid, "I'm where you arel" afraid we can't do that"
"Why not?" asked the Shirt "If we loosen the pins," said Hanid, "you'll fly off clothes with the wind."
Dancing And Kicking
Hurdly had Honid said this; when a handkerchief, two pairs
Henld said: "Every piece of clothes that's hanging on this line must stay here!"
"Not" chied the Sheet, "I'm off to see the world!" And it flipped and it flapped-and pulled loose from the clothes pinal
Away it went, sailing over the great of socks and a pair of blue backyard fence like a dungarees all started waving white blid. and dancing and kicking at once.
"Loosth More turtles are found in the
our clothes pins!" Fast than in the West, but They all sected to be shouting, there are turtles in every couḥ- “We all want to fly away,” try in the world except. climates of continual winter.
Turtles
ןן!
"Certainly
not, you silly aro cold-blooded Clothes" sald Hanid. animals and become sluggish Way down at the end of the When the weather in cold.
"Wait for us!” cried the Sairi.
He pulled and he lugged and he soiling aftor the Sheet, went waving his arm like wings.
The Handkerchief fluttered away next. It looked like a lacy butterfly.
Like Balter Dancers
clothesline was a large white bed
Next went the Socks, They They love to take sun baths, sheet. It was as clean an snow Sometimes desert tortoises and that had just fallen on the top ran through the air, jumping other land varieties will sun of a hill where
wonderful no one ever and spinning like themselves on the warm asphalt walks,
ballet dancers. of the highways.
The most widely distributed turties are the Painted Turtles,
They Go Everywhere
Lust of all went the pair of blus Dungarees. It kicked out "Young man and young lady," its legs, It did somersauïts, When grown they are from the Sheet sold to Knarf and It danced,
Hanid, "It may not be wise for seven to 10 inches long.
Most turtles are meat enters, the Shirt and the Socks and the Over the fence went all the feeding On worms, insects, Dungarees and the Handkerchief Clothes.
Rupert and the New Boat-33.
Ji takaa Santa Claus a long time to recover from his laughter, but de, anche alts up and wipes his
Oh dents of dear, it's the best joka lyk over, hårrd 1** he Whispers White « any litla cowboy D'you know white Tau va dong ?: Rupert naked för a
nics boat and you width down AN ICE-BOAT 1 To think of the trouble, we'va'had" designing, one when we didn't know what
in-ligat win BROTHER Solut spreads like wildare and wood the lube people are all laughing kindli capiring round and round Rapărt."
But the sheet got caught on in buch, and the Shirt wound its | arms: Ground-
a telephone polo and the Handkerchief dropped Di a cat.
The two pairs of Socks tripped over a flower pot and the blup | Dungaroos tried to dunon over the roof but bumped against the chimney and sild down the riễn spout to the ground.
The wind blew away all by itsoif.
Oned more the Clothes were picked up and hung back on the clothes, fíno,
HỌN dear,!! Koert and Harla beard the Bhiri Myldg, hoje: those clothes pidi plačl. 198ře than ever."
But..
the bed sheet Han Worse, kiitis Di sil it had
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