1956-01-28 — Page 18

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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i

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

WYRT xxxpert

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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