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One man against untold menace...fighting to save his people...speeding serum through the sky. ways...giving of himself that others might live... climaxing his amazing career with a miracle that thundered his deeds to the worldi

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THE

Dionne QUINTUPLETS

COUNTRY DOCTOR

JEAN HERSHOLT.

JUNE LANG

SLIM SUMMERVILLE MICHAEL WHALEN DOROTHY PETERSON Photographed under the technical supervision of Dr. Allan Roy Dafor

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Directed by Henry King

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FORTUNE FOR SISTER

Jerusalem. One of the

Jews.

OF BRITON WHO TAMED NIAGARA

Ryde (Isle of Wight); June 28. STANLEY HOLLAND, of Lueton, Herefordshire, who harnessed Niagara Falls to provide water for the town of Niagara, has left the bulk of his fortune of £400,000 to his sister Ethel. She kept house for him for twenty-five years,

Miss Holland visited Ryde re- cently to nurse another brother,

an invalid, who lives here. Her Aerial

bachelor brother. Stanley, left

his English home forty-one Ambulance

years ago

Ha body is being brought

back in the Aquitania, in which Saves A

he had planned to go to England for his annual holiday.

"My brother AAAA a brillant young man

when he went to

Woman

DOCTOR'S ARCTIC

ADVENTURE

An Arab sheep-keeper outside America," another sister, who is "Everybody type of staying here, said. Arabs who consider their subsistence thought he had a great future at unwise to go threatened by the invasion of the home, and was

abroad. But he carried out many the big engineerling works in

A doctor whose practice lies Rocky Mountains and other places, jamong the snows and mountains "We are surprised he was such of the Arctic Circle naturally a rich man, for he had given finds his greatest problem is much money to charity and the getting to his patients. Church. Eihel and. he were de voted to each other."

Golf

At 96

ROCKEFELLER Sailors'

LIKES THE GAME

BUT HE HATES

TO LOSE A

BALL

WHEN John D. Rockefeller, the millionaire, who still plays golf at the age of ninety- six, misses a putt, he only says: "Shame, shame, shame." never forgets to say the three times.

He

word

Dreaded

Enemy

WORM THAT IS A

MOLLUSC

Boat, sled, ox-eurt, reindeer, all talte their turn, but the greatest book now is the aeroplane.

It has proved its value even more | in getting patients to hospital, and Dr. Einor Wallquist In "Can the Doctor; Come" (Hodder and Stoughton, 10s. Gd.), reintes that it has already won the entire confìrience of the hardy Lapps among whom he works

He describes how It was responsible For saving the life of Anna, "a fine- looking woman, tall and handsome. Nordic in type and elastie in cirri- age."

Anna was thrown from her sted Scientists in San Francisco while driving along the frozen Bay have for the first time been lakes, and her injuries were such that was necessary. able to watch the shipworm, the an urgent operation sailor's enemy for more than ll and did not seem in the least Bight "Anna lay qulte During the 2,000 years, at his destructive troubled by the unfamiliarity of her work.

mode of travel... By and by 1 him "rasping" felt that Auna's pulse was growing They have seen way the hardest wood with long rows weaker and inore irregular. She af finepointed teeth, only visible under was plainly sinking fast.

"I had a terrible feeling of being the microscope, and more like a file than teeth as human beings know locked into a cage in the clouds, and was tormented by the knowledge that

could de nothing."

them.

But the plane was in time, and Anna was hurried to the operating theatre.

They have been able to prove also that he disdains the use of any chemi- eal to help soften or dissolve away the wood, and have found the final proof This, and other details of J. D.'s of his technique in the minute radiat- "It was with difficulty that I re- game, have been told to the B.U.P. bying scratches which he leaves at the tained my self-possession as she Joe Mitchell, the professional who end of his burrow.

looked at me with her calm, intel- taught him to play golf, after the The shipworm can digest wood, as ligent eyes and asked, 'Do you think nid man had decided that the game of well as merely cut it away, growing I'll wake up again, doctor?"" quaits had bèctime too tame,

it from about a hundredth of and when Anna returned to her own But the operation was successful, inch in length, when he first attaches Fims if to the wood, to (in gome people she was full of gratitude for cases) as much as four feet. Only the machines to which she owed her the smell of greenheart" wi

and the poi-life. sonous alkaloids of

Although Mr. Rockefeller did not take up the game for health reason

almits that it has made him feel better than any other game he has ever played. The real reason why he took up the Royal and Ancient pas

put him off-but neither in these, nor other analogous

time was because he wanted to surrent effect permano the deter-

prise his wife.

Mrs. Rockefeller never found out

'LEMONADE' OFF. OCEAN BED UNSOLVED MYSTERY~ OF THE ANTARCTIC A 33-year-old mystery of the ocean is being investigated at

DAMAGE THROUGH THE AGES

All this is recorded in a pamphlet "Marine Boring Animals," issued that he was taking lessons, as be the Natural

by used to send a carriage for Jacob Museum

stated, shipworm." it is Mitchell to

come and instruct him his first

been an before eight o'clock in the mornings,

enemy of seafaring men nailed the sens. It while Mrs. Rockefeller was Rtil! since

attacked tho triremes of Athens and asleep.

the gulleys of Venice, It

it rotted the timbers and it caused anxiety in the F the Natural History Museura

followed South Kensington. which wooden shipbuilding the Great War. In the dyker of Hol-

WORKS HARD

"I never had a pupil. iu nil my af-

ty years of gulf who worked as hard at the game as Mr. Rockefeller did in those first few weeks." a -Mitchell. "Not many mornings did I get away before 10 or 11 o'clock.

believed in getting his "And he money's worth. I charged him tho regular fee of £1 an hour, which was pretty steep' in those days, and he Raw to it that he got full value.

Tot

It is the riddle of how a mixture

謅

and it has more than once threatened of chalk and lemonade came to be disaster, to a nation, and in many formed into a mineral 13,000 to parts of the world it still defies all

lic resources of the harbour en 15,000 feet beneath the surface of

the Weddell Sen in the Antarctic. gineer."

Another peculiarity of

shipworm

How did the clirie neid of activity is that, though a timber pile

lemonade, normally found only in plants. And is way to may be literally riddled with their

deep burrows, no dalpworm will ever cross

ocean bed? Janother's path. They normally bore

Why should chemically combined For example, when he was on the jalong the grain of the wood, but on

lemonade be found only at the practics tee, he did not lie to at and approaching within an inch or to bottom of the, Antarctle?

while one enddy returned the a burrow will turn off at right balls he had it. So he always jungles. Brought six, seven or eight "caddies Yet, though it will turn, it is not to the tee, and had them returning.not a worm. It is, in fact, à molluse, balls in relays.

and a nearer relative to oyster than to the "fonthly worm" of Mr. Gilbert Chesterton's verse.

"He always had one caddy forming sand tees, and consequently there

was always a ball ready for him to hit."

There was no "19th hole" on the course. J. D. in a strict teetotalle", and he offered his guests ginger ale, and nothing more.

.SURPRISED WIFE

Mr. Rockefeller was surprised one

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PRESIDENT BUSY

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SHENANDOA

struggle in which special privileges have been sought for the enrichment and aggrandisement of the few at. the expense of the rights of the

common man."

Mr. Cummings in a speech replied Great Meadows, Vir., July 4.

to the charges that New Dealers by Dedienting the Shenandoa. Nailonal enlarging, Federal power threaten Park, President Roosevelt praised the American form of government, the Civil Conservation Corps. He He said, "Ameries was not finished said that conservation of human when the Declaration of Indepen-

material

The Was resources and

dence was issued. That day Anerl "compelling reason leading to the

We are no longer a en began. bask of putting the idle on the

nation whose problema are merely land."

local."

Following the dedication the Pre- sident proccodest to Monticello,- United Press,

lle contended that it was not the theory of government but the times that had changed. "There are many influential and intelligent citizens in- In Jefferson's Footsteps,

dulging in fears largely artificial Monticello, July: 4. that something terrible is happening Speaking to Reveral thousand hear in America. They seek to interpret era on the lawn of Jetterson's home, the laws of the Constitution in such to cheek rather than President Roosevelt called the nationja fashion ne to "relight the sacred fire of free-Lo guide the flow of life, flinging dom," which President Jefferson had themselves athwart the currents of existence, ordering them pause. kindled.

Those futile gestures bring only dis- The President shunned politics appointment and bitterness to those and confined his remarks mainly to indulging in them, Nothing is bap

The problems raised are so fantastic that the museum experts confess themselves baffled. Yet there is no doubt as to the authenticity of the specimens, and their story is almost as strange as their mystery.

They were brought up by the Scotia Antarctic Expedition in 1902-4 in the course of a series of depth-soundings in the sen In question. At that time the scientists of the party were more interested in the depth of the ocean bed and in the character of the mudelogy of Jefferson. ile drew at-pening in America except that it . tention to the form of government growing and insisting on not fosing of which it was composed.

that Jefferson had established as the its freedom in, the process."-United Ever

since then, therefore, the system under which, America has Preus. mineral specimens have remained in lived and grown." He appealed for

American Holiday Takes Wie possession of Mr. A. Earland, who continuation of Jefferson's spirit in

Heavy Toll tas responsible, at the time for the youth as a necessity in modern de investigations. They have now comemocracy. Recalling The 1.770 as a gift from him to the muscum. patriots he observed that the source

Washington, July 4. of their greatness lay in their. new The July holiday deaths exceed- OTHER SUBSTANCES

ed the one hundred and are mount- sense of freedom.

Ing rapidly every hour with the "Theirs were not the Gods of greatest crowds on highways and at since the

day when he challenged her to ONE of the strangest "swaps" game. "Why, John," she maldi, “golf in the history of international len't a game you can just start play trade has resulted from the Ing; you have to have lessons."

German Government's prohibi- "You drive, and then I'll show tion of the export of currency. you," he replied.

In return for large shipments lemonade mincial, they, Include a In addition to the mysterious chalk-

When ho, hit a nice drive down the

of of the Standärd Oil Company second substance, normally of animal Things an They Were but the Gods resorts of any week-end middle of the faleway, Mrs. Récke-

of New Jersey has accepted or plant origin, which again has never of Things as they ought to Be depression began. 40,000,000 harmoniens. feller's surprise was genuine, and she

before been found as a mineral, and a They used new means and models to said: "I might have known it. You

Shyly. Mr. Walter Teagle, presi-third type of material which has never build new structures," always do things better and more dent of the company, revealed to-been found beneath the. sen, though Introducing President Roosevelt, 160 will drown. easily than anyone else."

day to his stockholders the details common enough on land. of this remarkable bargain,

TWO FOR EVERŸ BOY"

her."

Son served

Actuaries forecast that, at least 1300 will do during the week-end from automoblie accidents, and that the Jefferson Memorial Foundation's

Firework, fatalities were few but The history of the specimens has President, Mr. Stuart G. Gibboney, dozens were injured. As she said this J. D. winked at Joe Mitchell and shook his head on

Al Venzie, Maine. William Mc-. been fully re-examined. X-rays hove called him "a worthy successor of "WO are using." he said, been used to test their structure, and

Jefferson." He halled President Kenna, n 40-year old shell-shocked much as to say: "Don't you ever tell "derious ways of getting, our the most delicate methods of chemical Roosevelt's. "devotion to the cause veteran, was deranged by exploding money. We have bought some analysis have established their chem of the common people whom Jeffer crackers and seized an axe with J. D.'s only economy, was in

and trusted."--United | which he brained Eugene Prouty, cal nature beyond doubt. And, in the the ships and we have now enough end, all that the museum experts can Presa.

aged 53. matter of unlis. He did not mind harmonicas to give two to every may is that they are fully satisfied as

Donald Watson, aged 11, of buying lots of clubs, but he was boy in the country!

Tammany Hall.

Philomath, to the facts.

Ore.,

rendered thrifty about balls.

He was unable to say to what

New York, July 4, speechless for life when a tin can. horrible User tho

"One of the few points which seems harmonicas

President Roosevelt in a message chattered by a cracker severed his his partners when they drove into would be put. They cannot be em- certain, a representative of the Morn read in the Tammany Hall when vocal cords. the rough only looked for the ball ployed in sounding an optimistic that the Weddel! Sea cannot have mary of the founding of the Society feast 87 dend, of which 62 are due ing Post was not at the museum, "la commemorating the 150th anniver-[ A United Preen survey shows at for a minute or two, and if they did note in the oil industry, which, been dry land at the time the organic of Fammany, said, the torsofto automobiles, 22 to drowning, one not find it they dropped a new one on Mr. Tengle said, was suffering materials were formed. Its present the freedom of this country is the to freworks and 12 to miscellaneous the fairwny and played on."

from an excess of crude oil and depth is much too great.'..

story of a long and continuous aceldents-United. Proso. "Huh," said Mr. Rockefeller, as he petrol in storage, DAN The only other certainty is that Mr. resumed poking in the grass for a Tou milion barrels of petrol Enrland's name will be immortalised. missing ball, "they must have barrels have been added to the storage The chalk-lemonade mineral has been

since the beginning of this year: named "Earlandite."

A caddy once told him that two of

of money."'

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