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RARE FOSSIL IS DISCOVERED

Skeleton of Uintatherium

· WASHINGTON, Dec, 8 (UP)-Prize fossil find of the senson, a nearly complete skeleton of the elephant-sized six-horned beast known as Uintatherium, which dominated the primitive forests about 30 million years ago, has been dug up in southern Wyoming by Dr. Charles L. Gazin, Smithsonian Institution palcontologist.

Bones of this strange giant mammial are common enough, but a skeleton with only a few parts missing is one of the great- est of scientific rarities. Dr. Gazin's find Incks only one hind leg, part of a foreles, and the neck vertebrae.

The yard-long skull is in require as much as a year. exceptionally good condition, al-woods of the West in mid-Eocene Uintalheres probably dominated the though the lower jaw is con- time, approximately 30 million years. siderably crushed. There is also ago, an elephants dominate the forests' a second skull, including one of Indin to-day. They were nearly of the beasts saber-like down-as large as elephants, although their nearly 10- pointed tusks about a font long cabled those of a giant rhinorceros,

general outlines · more

were not at all However, they closely related to either, or to any other animal now in existence. Their whole fine passed - suddenly out, of existence, many millions of years age- one knows why.

The skeleton la expected to become one of the prize exhibits in the U.S. National Museum, after it has been freed from the matrix of hardened clay in which it is embedded, and properly mounted up. This work may

"Let's Swim To England" Torpedoed P.O. Shouts

"COME ON, MATES. THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENG- LAND-LET'S SWIM TO IT." WITH THIS SHOUT A NAVAL PETTY OFFICER DIVED INTO THE SEA FROM THE TROOP. SHIP MAHOMED ALI EL-KEBIR (7,527 TONS), TORPEDOED IN THE ATLANTIC.

Most of those on board had been sent off in lifeboats or on rafts, but some of the boats had been smashed by the torpedo's explosion, and there was no room left for this petty-officer and about thirty other officers and men.

They followed him into the sea, but they did not have to swim as far as England. British warships have a way of turn- ing up quickly when they are badly needed.

The men in the troopship showed their own initiative and the ship's parade-ground steadiness when she officers have id that their cheer- was slaking.

ess and jokes helped to It was dusk when she

hitimony lives. Many men were turning in for the night.

They walled calmly for the order to take to the boats, although the deck was canting dangerously. Then, one after the other, detachments got their orders to man the bonts. They! did it as if they had been carrying i out a pepcetime drill.

Heavy Swell

Naval ratings acted as boatkeepers, A heavy swell was running. It was dimeult to handle the boats and one capsized...

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JOHN ROOSEVELT SIGNS-John Reasevalt, 24, youngest son of the President, registers for draft at Nahant, Mass. Teachers acting as registrars drew lots for privilege of fill- ing out his card. Miss Mary Shoa, right, won.

Americans Are Proud

Of English

Blood

IN this war nations may remain neutral; but the people of those nations do not, said Miss Dorothy Thompson, the American publicist, in a talk which was recorded in London and broadcast. "You, fighting there on the British Isles, are fighting not only for the security of all free men, but for all our dreams of a better future," she said.

"And you will win this war. You will win it because, although England can lose a war, mankind

cannot lose a war.

The world isn't going to live on Hitler's terms. In all your distress and suffering be sure of that. The world knows its enemy,

women

December 9, 1940.

New Airway

Among Good Now the Nights

Neighbours

By LUIS J. ZALAMEA United Pross Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UP).— The creation of a "good neigh- bour skyway" to foster closer hemisphoric relations is being planned by the Inter-American Escadrille an organisation de- voted to promoting the ideals of continental solidarity using avia- tion as a medium.

The Escadrille has a twofold plan to bring the Americas to closer understanding and friend- ship:

Firstly, by bringing together, In-an- International organisation, the thou- sands of private fliers in the United States and the American republics, and by fostering the instrucion of new pilots; and Secondly, y

by providing an inter- national afrlane to be known as the "Good Neighbour Skyway."

It is hoped that the skywny will set in motion an ever-increasing stream of private airmen who will help materially to "shrinit the hemis- here into a community of neigh- Jours." This stream will be swelled ay the many pilots now being trained In American colleges and in Latin America.

"

The importance of the skyway in the hemisphere defence. plans. is evident, according to Escadrille of- acers who estimated that $150,000

scheme under government super- would be needed to organise the

vision.

Keep-at-it Badges

Morale Of 1,500 GIRLS GET

Britons Is Praised

About 1,500 girls und 500 men -the entire staff of a north- working west shadow factory for the Air Ministry—are to re- ceive the new "Keep-at-it" badges, for staying at work dur-

A victim of the Nazi invasioning raida,

fres.

the

"Over here we are a mixture of Few of us have thought to races. recall our English blond, but to-day we are proud of li. We brag of it." Miss Thompson said that while

They will be the first people the the whole world was struggling to- of Holland, a Dutch journalist

wards a better light, there was a who arrived from London re-north to wear the badge, which is realization that we had not used our cently is convinced, after what silar to the circular torget on the resources as we should have done.

he has observed, that the Nazis wings of our Hurricanes and Spit- Must Right Wrongs.

will never succeed in breaking We

By sticking to their benches until "We all have bad consciences. all know that it is a crime that in the iron nerve and moralo of the their Air Ministry-trained roof spot- fer warns them to go to the base- A line of £50, with five guineas the Twentieth Century, and before British people.

and imposed by Newcastle ihls war began, men

He is 53-year-old George Winkel, ment shelters, these workers have

saved.

40,000 work-hours ir thirteen Economisch Levenes should be unemployed, or living in economic expert of the recently on

is also the author of a book He the economie conditions of Holland these and her colonies, printed in 1935.

He stressed that the Nazl air at tacks on Britain will always fail to shake the population, whom he des- cribed as fost thinking and always harping on their old saying "We lose every battle, but the lust."

Everybody was absolutely confident of a final victory, he pointed nut.

corts, was Magistrates

at their Newcastle branch nun-qutely clothedly fed and inade-Archief van Netherlands Kolonien.nly when the roof spoli ing at their

The democratic world is paying stripped paper at a price in excess of that permitted under the Price of for it complacency about

things, and Hitler knows how to ex- Goods Act.

It was stated that the basic price plolt nur bad conscientes."

were nisol was kl. a roll, and sellers

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The fast boat was not lowered but floated all the deck, The fe-saving rafts were launched.

The naval ratings showed equal Defendants were charging 3s. a roll. steadiness; but of a different kind. A director said that owing to n The troops stood fast awaiting mistake 3s, was charged instead of orders, but the ratings acted on: 2s,

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GERMAN BROS. ARGUED AS PLANE FELL

This is the story of two Ger-| man brothers, who sel out to raid England in the same air. craft. One of them is dead, the other a prisoner.

SHRIMPS BOMBED

UP THAMES

an electric horn to show t burnters are overhead ca tr put down their tools.

ounds .nemy rkera

They have never been in the shel- ter for more than twenty minutes at a time.

Sald 0 works official: "The workers here are magnificent. They front line 35 are as much in the soldiers are. Some of the girls have asked if some machinery could be put in the shellers so that they needn't stop at all."

The

Alt

CANADA'S NEW FLAG Reports reaching the Port of Len-

new Royal Canadian don Authority show that Gravesend Force Flag has been flown for the ohrimpers, who usually have to go first thee at the station of one of the In one of the mass raids by for their catchies, are

right down into the Thames Estuary Canadian squadrons now in England. now having It is similar to that of the K.A.F.. the Luftwaffe over the Thames big hauls just off Gravesend. Ap-with the Union Jack in the top maple Estuary area, their machine wasparently the bombs falling in the right-hand corner, but the badly damaged. It meant a sen ure driving the shrimps up the leaf replaces the red del on a white forced landing. ·

Below them was a village.

One brother, desperate to strike a last blow for the Fatherland, decideri that the best thing they could do was

to crash their machine into

The other refused to take civilian life so

a clear wantonly. He saw field ahead, and wanted to risk n landing there. As the plane

feli

Lower,

the two brothers argued.

river.

background.

Malaya Wants Reserves

Of Anti-Malaria Drugs

Interruptions in the delivery to Malaya of supplies of

But the one who had some little quinine and certain synthetic drags have prompted the Malaria decency held out. He would not crash the plane into the village.

So the other, as well as the third member of the crew of four, jumped with their parachutes.

Advisory Board to advise estate agencies of the necessity of

building up reserve stocks.

At a recent meeting of the Board, a member stated that the

The plane crashed just beyond the delivery to Malaya of supplies of village:

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few months.

The position'so far as quinine sup-

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concerned could be rectified by their laying hospitals and dispensaries

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as lu

those

down a year's reservė 'supply. Two newspaper offices were

There was still time to do that, and damaged during recent night order full, crcularize estate agen- nction the Board could usefully ralds on London,

on the question. One was the office of the

Some co-ordinating centrol organi- "Daily Herald," the other that zation respe

responsible, for giving manu- facturers sound Information of the "Evening Standard."

A high explosive bomb drop suppiles required in Malaya seemed

not only desirable but important. ped on the roof of the "Evening

For the

purpose of estimating Standard" office, narrowly miss-requirements it was necessary to ing two "spotters," and pene- draw attention to the fact that drugs trating a 160,000-gallon water- of the atebrin class were used not only tank, which prevented an

malarin but for its out-

precht of break of fire.

That was an important point be was cause, although a reasonably accurate estimate of the quantities required The bomb that fell near the for treatment could be made from "Dally Herald" offer shattered aofficial statistics of malaria admis number of windows and did some slons to Government and estate hos- damage to the office buildings. ↑ pitals, it would be much more difficult Nobody WIB Injured by ofther to estimate the amount used pro- bomb, and the publication of bath phylactically. newspapers proceeded without delay.

Some of the

damaged,

machinery

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