« * PRINCE’S FAILURE
TO WED AGAIN IS
WORRYING LONDON
LONDON March 18.—Illness ot' the
King, while creating no alarm, has
revived interest in the succession and
discussion on. the subject of the
Prince of Wales, whose continued
avoidance of the matrimonial state is
the periodical subject of public spec
ulation.
Rumors attribute to the prince no
desire for the king business and pref
erence tor a life of freedom, which
he enjoys with such evident zest.
Fortunately the problem of his fu
ture is of no immediate concern, for
King George enjoys admirable health
and carries his sixty years with con
spicuous youthfulness.
Parties arriving from the westward
on the Starr report fine weather dur
ing the past five weeks. They ex
pressed surprise at the death of Hugh
Dohenn>\ manager of the Shismarof
ranch of the Aleutian Livestock Com
pany, stating that he must have died
from exhaustion rather than cold.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES.
KETCHIKAN. Mar. IS—Prices for
fresh halibut 10 and 5 cents; salmon
IS, 12 and S cents.
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Uniform Pay for
Teachers Sought
CINCINNATI, March 19.—Teach
ers of equal training and experience
should be paid on the same basis,
regardless of the grades in which
they teach, Jesse N. Newlon. superin
j tundent of Denver, Colo., schools, de
| dared today at a session of the de
partment of elementary school prin
cipals of the National Education so
ciety.
Teachers of today, whether in the
kindergarten or advanced grades,
should be familiar with the social
; sciences and the arts and must have
ja costly professional training, he staf
fed. and salaries must be sufficient
! to provide for personal growth.
Results of investigations which
showed many old teachers lodged in
poor houses and insane asylums, that
the income of the unmarried woman
teacher during the earning period is
usually too small to provide ade
quate funds for old age conditions
and the need of a home for retired
teachers were outlined before the
executive department of superinten
dents by Olive M. Jones, public grade
school teacher, of New York City.
She said that a recently appointed
advisory board including represen
tatives from every state, was consid
! ered the means of financing the in
' stitutions other than by pensions of
| the teachers, which she said were in
| adequate.
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KIDNAPPED DOCTOR
ESCAPES CAPTORS
TELLS OF BEING DRUGGED AT
CHICAGO HOTEL FOUR
WEEKS AGO
NEW ORLEANS, March 18—Dr.
Paul George Hildebrand, of Mil
waukee, Wis., who described him
self as a chemical research expert,
told Mayor Andrew McShane tonight
! that he had been drugged and kid
napped from a hotel in Chicago four
weeks ago and did not recover con
sciousness until .he found himself
a prisoner in a farmhouse in south
eastern Texas. He asked the mayor
to assist him in communicating with
his wife and business associates in
Milwaukee.
Dr. Hildebrand said he had met
business men at a Chicago hotel and
had several drinks. After leaving
the hotel he entered an automobile.
This was the last he remembered, un
til he awoke in the Texas farmhouse.
He said he was requested to make
certain chemical demonstrations for
his captors, but refused. He escaped
in an automobile used by his cap
tors. He came to New Orleans and
being without funds appealed to the
Mayor.
A description of the man was sent
to the mayor of Milwaukee and it
was identified by C. P. Tinkham, a
prominent lumberman of that city, as
that of Dr. Hildebrand.
It is foolish to be unkind to strang
ers. Our neighbors are the ones who
tell on us.
A career sounds better, but it isn't
as comforting as a regular job.
The happiest people are those who
have nothing to worry about except
static.
Read Frye-Bruhn’s adv in this issue.
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COLUMBIA BASIN REPORT
WILL BE RELEASED SOON
SPOCANE, March 18.—The report
of reclamation service engineers
to the Columbia basin survey com- j
mission of the department of the j
interior will be made public in a!
few days, it was stated here recent- ■
ly by Harry Lindly, of Seattle, pres- j
ident of the Columbia Basin Irriga
tion league, who passed through
Spokane on his way home from
Washington, D. C., where he con
ferred with interior department of
ficials concerning the project.
He expressed entire satisfaction
with the engineers’ report, which,
he said, embodies five alternate
plans for water supply. He was also
pleased, he said, with the manner
in which interior department offi
cials received the report.
Resignation of Francis M. Good
win as assistant secretary of the in
terior and his acceptance of a place
on the department’s commission to
survey and appraise federal reclam
ation projects is to the benefit of
western reclamation, Mr. Lindly
declared. Mr. Goodwin, as a mem
ber of the commission, will visit
this state some time in May, he
said.
Slow Lumber Movement
Blamed on th eRailroads
SEATTLE, March 19.—Slow move
ment of lumber recently was caused
by railroad betterments and not by
decrease in demands, H. E. Byram,
president of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul railroad remarked to
day.
He declared that the larger rail
roads had made enormous improve
ments since the world war and ad
verted “apprehension among lumber
men because winter buying of lum
ber has not been so heavy this year
as was anticipated in view of the
shortage in stocks in the interior.”
“Better railroad service the coun
try over,” he explained, “is causing
buyers of the bulky commodities,
such as lumber, coal, steel and rion,
to purchase more for current needs
and less for the future.”
You can’t pick the hicks. They act
most important at a fashionable re
sort.
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FIND ANIMAL LIFE
FIVE MILES ABOVE
LEVEL OF THE SEA
MT. EVEREST EXPLORER TELLS
HOW BEASTS PROTECT
BODIES FROM COLD
LONDON, March 18.—Remarkable
natural life on the mountainous Tib
etan plateau, 20,000 feet above the
sea level—where the atmosphere is
so dry and rarified that the skin and
nails split and the ordinary decom
position of flesh is prevented—is de
scribed to famous naturalists and
scientists by Major R. W. C. Hing
ston, at the Royal Geographical So
ciety here.
Major Kingston was the official
naturalist to the 1924 Mount Ever
est Expedition, which came so near
to conquering the world’s highest
mounatin.
Small spiders, which live at 27,000
feet above the sea and which prey
upon each other to live, were among
the phenomena described by King
ston, who in referring to them, said
that this was the highest altitude at
which any life is known to exist.
These were found 4,000 feet above
the last vegetation and far above the
Himalayan snow-line.
Find Grasshoppers
“We found grasshoppers at 18,000
feet, nearest the farthest limit of
vegetable growth. We frequently saw
the magnificent lammergeyer ( the
Tibetan vulture), soaring around the
mountain at 20,000 feet, while w*
found bees, moths and butterflies ar
21,000 feet, spiders at 22,000 feet
and choughs at the immense height
of 27,000 feet.”
Major Hingston described to his
audience how the mammals of the
mountain were protected by thicker
coats of hair than those of the plain
which was very necessary because
of the terrifically high wind which
sweeps across Everest at all times.
There were herds of goats, with hang
ing coats of hair, like kilts, around
their legs, while at 12,000 feet up
there were pigs covered with thick,
rusty-colored hair.
Butterflies High
i Butterflies haunted the passes up
| to 17.000 feet. Their wings were
■ stiff and rigid and not easily torn,
and their bodies were furry. When
resting they pressed their wings
close against the ground to avoid
! the cold.
I Some of the birds had specially
| modeled bills for digging into frozen
j soil for hibernating insects. Burrow
j ing and hibernating were the great
| means by which many of the ani
mals escaped the extreme cold,
j Many of the birds formed comrnun
| ities with the mammals. Little birds
j associated with the mouse-hares, and
! there was perfect confidence between
j them. 4
| At greater heights on the almost
barren mountain, was an association
of choughs and wild sheep. The
choughs sit on the wild sheep’s backs
i where it searches for insects in the
j animal’s hair.
Dignity is a mask men use to con
ceal their weaknesses.
The petting party starts before mar
riage; the parting pet soon thereafter.