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a. " *i ^:*f'-^ •\ .<•' >* 1 M1**. : k ' fr* ^>;>v*?> **r* ,V'V E**s Thursday, November 25,193? wv*f BAD MONEY IS CUT ° ;•;• ONE-THIRD IN YEAR ilVoManry Also Reports hentM • Raid# on Stills* Washington.--Counterfeiting was reduced during the past fiscal year . less than, two-thirds of the preyear's volume, 500 more moonshine stills were seized, and liquor smuggling was kept down to a negligible figure, the Treasury announces in reporting on the work of its various enforcement agencies.-, Whereas in 1938 the amount of counterfeit notes turned over to the secret service by banks and innocent recipients was $736,670, and the value of spurious coins Was $67,- 535, the respective amounts in 1937 Were $487,643 and $64,750. In addition, $122,767 in notes and $2,253 in coins were seized in 1937 from counterfeiters themselves. The increase of 512. in the number of stills seized was accounted for by stronger enforcement, with an increased personnel in Alabama and Georgia. Figures showed that stills captured in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia totaled 6,620 out of all the 18,l4l captured. Alabama led with 2,460. Mponshining must have been a very poor investment in Maine and Vermont, for in each state only one still was seized. The only large increase in the number of captures was in Alabama, where 1,091 more stills were raided than in the previous year. For the rest of the country there was a decline of 944, with most of the states sharing in the decrease. Treasury statisticians estimated that moonshiners lost $3,977,179 through capture of their products and equipment, automobiles, etc. In all, 29,476 whisky makers were arrested. Rum Row seerfts to have been wiped out by the coast guard, which seized only 11 vessels, as compared with 34 the previous year, liquor seizures declining from $176, 890 in 1936 to $2,176 in 1937. Only half a dozen persons were arrested as compared with 48 in 1936. v The bureau of narcotics ended the year with 3,469 arrests, seizure of 3,9C2 ounces of narcotic drugs and 115 automobiles, as compared with 3,333 arrests and seizures of 3,280 ounces of drugs and 109 automobiles in 1936. -J s * J . i T" P. ff- *\= iM .,--£&&» rr Ur: v..^ w&i * %',f" ft"V*--VA.V "2* yf * „ ^ 'l 1 ^ i 4,4 * fa ff~ S f) k,f 'rM? -:'- T;$ •st THE HOSBUBT , 1 >. V < ' , . ^•* \ -4* -,%* .v-%.v * « " •' < ftflr •* ' FLAINDXALXB j' t: BtS EVIDENCE \S* While crossing a railway bridge one afternoon, a small boy was astonished to see two freight train* Tunning on the same line and about to crpsh head-on. He stood on the bridge and witnessed the crash. A few dfprs later, says London Answers Magazine, the railway officials learned that there had been an eye-witness and brought the boy to London to be examined. "Now, then," said the official who was conducting the inquiry, "I understand you saw the two trains crash. What were your thoughts at the time of thetcrash?" "Well, sir," answered the boy slowly, "I thought it was a rotten way to run a railway." COME ACROSS "What is the latest subscription campaign for?" "For a relief fund for those who have given to relief funds." A Tribute Danny, along with many other little lads, went to school for the first time, and like many other little boys* fathers, Danny's father asked him how he liked his teacher. "All right," was the reply. "Is your teacher smart?" teasingly persisted the questioner. "Well, she knows more than I do," admitted Danny.--Louisville Courier- JournaL Prehistoric Race Once Lived in Kentucky Caves Lexington, Ky.--Evidence of a prehistoric race of cave dwellers that buried its women and children and cremated its men has been discovered by University of Kentucky anthropologists in rbck shelters of eastern Kentucky. The anthropologists--Profs. W. S. Webb and W. D. Funkhouser--completely excavated the Newt Kasch shelter in Menifee county and reported it differed greatly from caves in surrounding counti63. There was a decided dearth of flint, pottery and bone but an unusual amount of vegetable matter and some surprisingly fine fabric. The excavating party was puzzled by a series of large pits dug in the subsoil instead of in the ash beds as was the usual custom. It was believed the pits were used for storage purposes. Other features of the cave were several masses of matting, cane grass and fragments of textiles. It was believed they were used as mattresses or possibly as bags for transporting food to the shelter. Only one burial site was found in the shelter proper. Located between two large boulders, the grave contained the fragmentary remains of a male infant.. . In no other shelters in Kentucky have graves containing male bones been found, although large numbers of female skeletons have been discovered. Honey Bees Will Supply Yucatan With Vinegar East Lansing, Mich.--Julio Rendon has returned to his native Yucatan prepared to make vinegar from honey, after conferring at Michigan State college for a week with Dr. F. W. Fabian of the bacteriology department. He intends to breed bees whose honey will be used almost exclusively in manufacturing vinegar which he will offerJor sale. "In this country, vinegar is produced from cider," Rendon said, "but in Yucatan we have no fruits available ior making cider. The vinegar made in Yucatan is very poor." , Dr. Fabian added that throughout the tropics it was difficult to obtain proper acetic fermentation, and that in Mexico vinegar sold for 90 cents a pint. Much of it is imported from the United States. Philadelphia Hospital Has a Run on Twins Philadelphia. -- "Three sets of twins arrived at St. Agnes' hospital within five days. A pair of boys arrived on a Friday, sons of Mrs. Lucy Karsey, and on the same day a boy and a girl were born to Mrs. Emelie McCarthy. Four days later, another pair of boys made their appearance, this time* to Mrs. Mary Alesandrini. ' Kale Emn Anxions to Sit • »phe male emu, which takes com* ptete care of the young birds, sometimes starts to sit upon the nest even before the female has laid the eggs- Does Not Favor Holiday Twins ' The government does not provide specially for the education of twins, triplets^ etc., born on the Fourth of July of any other legal holidajf. ^§5 ^ Read tb* Want Ads Ambitions Mary, Qaite Ceatrsry "Well, Mary," said the mistress. "I'm sorry you want to leave me. What's the reason?" Mary remained silent, twiddling her apron and blushing. "Speak up! Is it something private?" "No, mum--please, it's a lancecorporal."-- London Tit-Bits Magazine. Moving Picture Wife--It's the furniture people come for the piano. Husband--But I gave you the money for the next installment Wife--Yes, I know dear; but don't say anything. I'm going to pay uiem as soon as they get it downstairs, because I've decided to have it in the sitting-room* Helpful Grocer Mrs. Barker--How does it happen, Mr. Sghmitzer, that you sent me only 11 oranges -when I ordered a dozen? Grocer Schmitzer-*-You see, Mrs. Barker, one of them was bad. I knew you wouldn't want it, so I threw it out. Couldn't Help It Joe--I hear your brother lost his job because he fell asleep so often. Bill--That's right, but he isn't naturally lazy. Joe--No? Bill--No, he was counting sheep at stockyards. *" LOOPING THE LOOP "When you want to reach a girl's heart what line do you take?" "I've found the belt-line the best." Noise Eliminated ,"You charge more for board than you did last summer." "The place offers more rest and comfort," answered Farmer Corntossel. "There ain't any election for guests to sit up all night and argue about." Quick, the Salts Amateur Gardener--I think your mistress is going to have wistaria against that trellis, Jane. Jane--'Eavens, sir! 'Ad I better go and fetch the smelling salts?-- London Humorist. A Question of Values "What did father say when you told him you were going to take me away from him?" "He seemed to feel his loss keenly at first, but I squared him with a good cigar." Farming Agricultural Professor -- How many kinds of farming are there? Smart Student--Four--intensive, extensive, pretensive and expensive.-- Stray Stories Magazine. Gillete Go! Barber--What's the matter? Ain't the razor takin' holt? Victim--Yeah, it's taking holt all right, but it ain't lettin' go again.-- U. of P. Punch BowL Don't Hatig by Suspenders "I wonder why they call these things dressing-gowns? You can't dress in one of them." "Well, you don't take a bath.in a bathrobe, do vou?" Cicada's LOT* Call Can Be Heard for Fite Miles lbs malt 17-year locust, or cicada, weighs at maturity just about one-tenth of one ounce. Yet he is equipped with a sound-producing apparatus that can be heard, under favorable atmospheric conditions, at a distance of five miles, notes a writer in the Washington Post. It is the insect's love call; the call to its mate wherever she haippens to be at . the moment. And if she is within a five-mile range-- the range of his voice--she is expected to distinguish it from tens of thousands of other cicada love calls, all drumming simultaneously, and hasten to his side. The noise is made with the aid of the insect's hollow abdomen, on which he beats a rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, somewhat like a gorilla beating its chest. The cicada's "drum" is one of the most complicated inventions of , Mother Nature. Its sounding board is a tympanum set on the abdomen. The beating is donf by a vibrating muscle. Only the male cicada can make this drumming sound. The female has no love call. But she has, instead, a radio receiving set inside her head and this she tunes to'the sensitivity necessary to pick up the love call of her mate. ^ The .male actually has two drums fastened to his abdomen, and to each of thein is attached a strong muscle which the insect can tighten at will. Each drum is a piece of thin membrane free at one edge, and by rapid vibration of them a sound is produced that has been likened to drumming on a tin pan. The 17-year. locust enjoys only six weeks of open-air lite and then dies of old age. There are about 90 distinct "broods" of the 17-year locust in the United States, appearing in different years. Fire Was an Old Way of Flashing Night Messages Fire was early adopted as a means of sending messages by night. A flaming branch, wave4 about the head, became the forerunner of complicated systems of signaling with torches. An arrow, dipped in pitch, ignited and shot into the air, was the first step toward 'modern rocket signals. The campf i r e i t s e l f , u s e d o r i g i n a l l y f o r warmth only, led the way for the development of far-reaching systems of beacons. The lantern hung in the tower of Old North church, Boston, as a warning to Paul Revere, is one of the classic examples which Ameri can history affords of the use of lights for signaling at night. Beacon fires are said to have carried the news of the fall of Troy to Argos. They helped to provide the communication that gave solidarity to the vast Roman empire. They were used extensively by the Gauls. One of the most dramatic records in communication history tells how the news Of the sighting of the Spanish Armada, in 1588, was flashed^ from hill to hill and tower to tower^ from Plymouth to London and other parts of England by means of flaming beacons. ; * CHICAGO SlfoCK SHOW WILL OPEN THIS WEEK Chicago, Nov. W--America's biggest farm congress, the International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show, will open here next Saturday morning in the International Amphitheatre. The exposition Will be in progress for eight days, from November 27 to December 4. It will be the 38th anniversary of this largest annual showing of live stock and farm products. Furebread beef cattle breeders from 25 states and three Canadian provinces will exhibit a total of 1346 animals. Shorthorn and Aberdeen-angiis herds will be sent from 19 states and Canada, and Herefords will be here from 12 states. They will be coming from such distances as Texas and Alberta, the state of Washington and New York. Sheep breeders from 16 states and Canada, representing a territory from Ontario to Oklahoma and Massachusetts to Montana will send exhibition flocks for the competitions of eleven different breeds. Farm youths from 12 states will compete on the opening day in a junior liva stock feeding contest. They will exhibit a total of 405 baby beeves, lambs, and pigs of their own raising:, most of which havr been prize winners at State and County Fairs. 1 A total of 465 draft horses, representing five breeds, will be: exhibited by breeders in 13 states, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec; and swine herds have been listed by stockmen in ten states. - Farmers from 85 states and six provinces of Canada have made entries for the 19th International Grain and Hay Show, which will be held coincident with the livestock exposition. The spectacular awards are the corn and wheat championships. The winners will be crowned "Corn King" and Wheat King" of the year. Livestock feeders in 15 states, Ontario and Saskatchewan will exhibit over 300 carloads of cattle, sheep, and •wine in the exposition's carlot competitions, which comprise the largest showing' of prime market animals to be seen at shy exposition in the world. •- > V t* • Mint the Nation's Stream M t; i *!r " £ j* hrt A.,'( V/ J* ' .s "• wC? 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