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OREGON STATE NEWS Howe A bout: Britain Would Buy Island?
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In the good old summertime, young
fashion plates become sun-worship
Possession of Sleepy Little Timor Said to Be Needed by ers 1
And for the fastidious two to eight-
Great Empire as Link in the Projected
year-old, who wishes to devote all
Europe-Australia Air Route.
attention to boating, bathing, and
basking, rather than to seams and
buttons, here are the newest cre
The British government is report John Smith Pocahontas life-saving ations in playtime fashion.
ed by a news dispatch from London episode in Virginia, Timor shows lit
Not following, but leading the
to be Interested in Timor island of tle effect of its contact with the vogue of the elders, the youngster
the East Indies as a possible sea and western world.
these days who would be really In
Sir base. An offer of $25,000,000 to
“ About 300 miles long and averag the swim, must have a two-piece bath
150,000,000 may be made for the Is ing CO miles in width, the island has
land, it is declared. The eastern part hut few settlements that even can
of Timor and a tiny nick of the west be called township. Even Koepang,
ern part now belongs to Portugal, capital and largest port on the Dutch
and the remainder to The Nether or western end of the Island, has
lands.
only 5,500 inhabitants; and Dili,
"Timor Is the eastern ‘Jumping-off which is the chief town In the east
place’ of the Sunda Islands, that ern, or Portuguese portion of the Is
chain of land spots which is strung land, can account for only 3,500 per
out from Sumatra eastward toward manent residents.
the north coast of Australia." says a
"There are no railroads on Timor
bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) and one of the best roads of any
headquarters of the National Geo great length is a horse trail that
graphic- society. “ It is about 300 traverses the Island. No cable links
miles from the Timor coast to Aus It with other islands. Steamships
tralia. Timor is thus a vital link In that touch other East Indian islands
the Europe-Australia air route.
stop at Timor ports to deliver cotton
“ Although Timor had a Portuguese goods, oil and wine, and to take
settlement on its coast more than a away coffee, copra, hides, cacao, ing suit in the newest all-wool knit
century before Capt. John Smith shells, wax and sandalwood which ted weave, gay in white, red, or navy.
with his band of English colonists are the leading exports. And now and Felt tabs attaching top piece to
disembarked at Jamestown; and al then an occasional visitor off the shorts add the jauntiest of fashion
though the Dutch landed or the Is
beaten tourist path walks down a touches.
land about the time of the Capt. steamship gangplank bent upon roam
And what more fitting fashion for
ing over the mountains and through the fastidious sun-worshiper than a
valleys where live most of the is- seersucker sun-suit as gayly striped
GIVING EFFECT OF
laud’s 800.000 Inhabitants— largely a as a stick of candy. Red, green, or
SLIMNESS TO THE
racial mixture of Malayan, Polyne blue jstriped suits— with fitted waist
line and a catch-all pocket which is
sian,
and Papuan blood.
WOMAN OF WEIGHT
perfectly Indispensable for precious
“ The natives are divided into many
stones gathered along the beach, w ill
tribes, ruled by chiefs whose jealousy
Complete, Diagrammed Sew Chart of neighboring leaders, and land-grab be worn this year wherever two to
eight-year-olds are gathered for a
Included.
bing habits, frequently have caused
quiet game of leap frog.— Carolyn T.
bloody clashes. Bows and arrows
Radnor Lewis In Child L ife Maga
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and spears are the war weapons of
zine.
the natives. For hunting game, they
use blow guns and small darts.
Your local dealer carries Ferry’s
“ While the loin cloth still consti Pure Bred Vegetable Seeds. Now
tutes the entire wardrobe of the men only 5 cents a package. Adv.
of some of the tribes, other tribes
men wear two-piece cotton garments
E v e r y o n e a C r im in a l
and turbans. The women don color
There is no such thing as a born
ful sarongs and shawls. From the criminal, according to Judge Amedee
appearance of exposed arms and oth Monet, of Montreal. “ The only dif
er portions of the natives’ bodies, It ference between the average citizen
is evident that tattoo artists are kept and the prisoner in the dock," he
busy in Timor. The tattooing is done
says, "is that the latter has been
with crude instruments and dyes caught. Otherwise, everyone Is a
which sometimes cause blood poison criminal in some way or another.”
ing and death.
“ There appear to be no limits, oth
er than wealth and inclination, to the
number of wives a tribesman may
have. The native home Is a round,
one-room, wooden structure with a
KEEP C O O L
roof of grass or palm-leaf thatch, and
SAVE TIME
not too clean inside or out. To ap SAVE WORK
pease the angry gods and to avoid
SAVE MONEY
destruction by evil spirts, the tribes
with th e
men place palm branches before fruit
trees, houses and growing crops. Ag
riculture Is carried on with crude,
'"THIS Coleman Self-Heating Iron will
primitive implements; and, although
* save you more time and work than a
there are many streams on the is
$100.00 washing machinel It will save your
strength . . . help you do better ironing
land, irrigation is hardly known.
easier and quicker at lesa cost.
During the dry season vegetation
I n s t a n t L l t f h t l n t f . . . no heating
with matches or torch . . . no waiting. The
bows to the torrid sun even to the
evenly-heated double pointed base irona
extent of the trees losing their
garments with fewer strokes. Large glass-
smooth base slides easier. Ironing time ia
leaves.
By ED H O W E
I
O FAR as my reading goes no one
Seaside A h a result of a hearing
has ever more candidly, intelligent
at Seaside by the state highway corn- I
ly or fairly discussed the relations of
mission the Oregon Coast highway
married couples than Silerius, who
will be routed through Seaside on
lived near the time of the most famous
North 7th street.
outrage on women recorded in history:
Eugene— The Eugene water board that suffered by Sabine women who
will expend $35,000. on a SERA pro were carried oiT by invading soldiers.
ject, laying new water mains in the Some authorities claim Silenus him- I
city, in the event that the project self was a general in the conquering
is approved by the state committee. army concerned, and that a screaming
Dufur— A fter a brief illness David Sabine woman was delivered at his
Stuart Young, postmaster at Dufur tent as his part of the loot.
As near as can be learned from the
for the past 19 years, is dead. He
was widely known in Wasco and vague history of that time this wom
an, so violently courted, became the
Sherman counties.
third wife of Silerius; and although
Roseburg— Roseburg will extend carried from her own country to a
an invitation to the United Spanish strange one by a conqueror, with no
War Veterans of Oregon to hold their other preliminary than being suddenly
1935 convention in that city. This seized by rough invaders, she was so
year’s convention is to be at Eugene, capable in looking after her own In
July 24.
terests that her abductor later murried
Albany— Ravages of rust and the her; Indeed, she became prominent
Hessian fly are taking heavy toil of and respected in the inhospitable city '
grain crops in Linn county, accord in which her husband lived.
ing to County Agent Mullen. In some
In his memoirs Silerius gives the Im
fields the yield will be reduced as pression that his third wife pleased
much as 90 per cent., he predicts. him more than any of the others, to
Dallas— The Folk county Pomona two of whom he was married with
grange has adopted a resolution in elaborate ceremonies, and after very
favor of abolishing the lower house sentimental courtship. In writing of
of the state legislature because of his experiences with women, Silerius
the belief that, with the senate only, I tells In a rather amusing way of the
the legislature would be more e ffi gentle and cunning arts his third wife
exercised in bending him to her will,
cient.
and I get the impression that she loved
Albany— Complete registration re
him more sincerely than any of the
turns at Albany college indicate a
wives he acquired in a more conven
total of 215 students, of whom 112 [
are men. The college has always [ tional way.
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had more men than women stu
What
part
of
your attention do you
dents,
except during the W orld [
give to your own business? Say you
War.
ure merchant, lawyer, doctor, mechan
Grants Pass— Twenty carloads of
ic, farmer. What per cent of your en
salmon cases have been shipped from j thusiasm goes to your business, and
Grants Pass to San Francisco to be
what per cent to politics, vacations, j
relayed to an Alaska canning com- |
clubs, automoblling, radio, moving pic- j
pany. In the shipment were 150,500 j
tures, welfare work, social affairs? f
cases, which will hold 3625 tons of
Many a good business has been I
salmon.
wrecked by its head man neglecting j
Echo— Harvesting in the Pilot
it for other things. It is charged that j
Rock and Echo districts of Umatilla ! one of the most notable of American
county is expected to begin a month j commercial enterprises is on the rocks
earlier than usual this year, proba- | because its head, In receipt of an enor
bly by the middle of June. In other | mous salary, neglected It for outside
parts of the county it w ill begin | activities. The same principle ap- I
about Ju'y 1.
plies to those occupying fifteen, twenty
Salem— James M. Burgess, em- I or forty-dollar-a-week Jobs. Very few
Americans mind their own business.
j
ployed for four years in the depart-
ment of education at Salem, has
* * *
been chosen superintendent of the
A doctor connected with the govern-
Mllton-Freewater public schools. He ment says that 71 per cent of the hos-
w ill succeed Silas Gaiser, who w ill | pitnl cases now being cared for by the
take his place at Salem.
government were not cases that in any j
T o improve Ecola park the state way could be traced to the great war; j
highway department will establish j that the Veterans’ Disability act was
a camp of 50 homeless young men in the greatest stenl ever put over on
the near future. The old community the American people.
Here Is another startling tllustra- j
house used for years by the Glisan,
Lewis and Flanders families will be tlon of the waste anu dishonesty in
repaired and maintained so that hik American public affairs; in this case, j
ing clubs, Boy Scouts and other or In relieving twenty-nine men honestly
ganizations may use it during week entitled to relief, the politicians, re
lieved seventy-one not entitled to It.
ends.
The figures hold in everything else
In American public nffairs. I have no
Sim mill Being Built.
Sisters- Another sawmill to rut doubt that for every twenty-nine dol
lumber for Dant & Russell la being lars the government necessarily spends
built on Green ridge, with a capacity in its operation seventy-one dollars
for cutting 35.000 board feet a day. are wantonly and villainously wasted.
The only way for the government to
A1 Combs of Coquile is building the
mill, which w ill bo ready to run properly balance the budget Is to cut
off 71 per cent of taxes already levied,
soon.
Graceful lines can do more than
and wasted. Instead of adding new
diet to make the heavier woman look
burdens.
Flax BP Inches High.
illm nnd stnnrt. Every line in this
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Dayton— Much o f the flax sown
dress has been planned to overcome
I
do
not
know
Just
when,
but
some
[
February 20 In a 6
acre field In
the look of heaviness. It’s better to
of
these
days
I
Intend
to
confess
1
am
the Clarence llndger farm In the
make a dress for yourself, when by
Grand Island vicinity measured 39 as tired of my writing as others are. | doing so you can get this effect you
and
no
longer
hold
on
to
the
coat
tails
Inches In length Tuesday, which Is
want. Here especially a graceful
above average length of the crop at of the drunken world In attempts to
rever, comfortable sleeves and well
better
It.
harvest.
And In my final notice I think I shnll 1 planned lines do the trick. We sug
gest a printed cotton with small fig
pay
the people who have dismissed
Tw o Big Cougars Killed.
ures. (The larger figured designs
Gold Beach— Two more cattle- me a good many compliments. Mil
should be left to slender women). It
lions
of
them
nre
admirable.
My
final
killing cougars were taken o ff their
will be good of plnin material, too.
ranges lust week. Vic Miller and message to them will he: "Keep the
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few
good
things
you
have
accent-
j
Jack Fry got an eight-foot cat from
In sizes 34. 3d. 38. 40, 42, 44 and 40.
the middle Kuchre-ereek section and pllshed, and try to accomplish a few
Size 30 requires 3-S yards 30-inch
Bob Miller brought In a similar fe more. All the comforts and pleasures
fabric nnd *4 yard contrasting.
line from the vicinity of the Williams we hnve came ns a result of men sue-
Send FIFTEEN CENTS In coins or
ceedlng
In
doing
a
little
better."
ranch, about ten miles back on
•tamps (coins preferred) for this pat
I ’ lstol river.
tern. Be sure to write plainly your
When I know what women expect
NAME. ADDRESS, the STYLE NUM
Shingle Mill Sold.
of men. I am willing to grant It. Just
BER and SIZE.
Wheeler- The Shiningor broth how much nttentlon front men do
Send your order to Sewing Circle
ers’ shingle mill, owned and oper women decide Is proper? I have been
Pnttern IVpartment. 232 West Eight
ated by Frank Shtnlnger nnd hia In doubt at times. . .
There Is In
eenth St., New York.
sons, has been sold to Markham & my town a woman who Is very strict;
Callow la g g in g company. Markham she promptly resents the slightest fa
A Callow operate a large logging miliarity from men. nnd frequently
camp on the coast highway, 12 miles talks Indignantly of their boldness.
north of Wheeler, where there Is One day I learned, from the private
plenty of cedar.
talk o f the women, that a friend of
mine had squeezed her hand, and that
Wheat Shipments Bound.
she was very mad about It. Later,
Portland— An Increase of nearly when I was In her company, the name
BOO per cent, in wheat shipments in of the hold wretch came up. and 1 feit
April, 1934, over April, 1933, was that she would vigorously denounce
reported fo r Portland today by the him She didn’t know 1 had heard of
Merchants’ Exchange. Last month, the affront offered her. but I was cer
3,034,649 bushels went down the riv tain she would express a very unfa
er, compared to 614.153 for April, vorable opinion, knowing she was very
1933. Flour movement for April wss strict . . . And this wss what she
10,000 barrels above the correspond ssld: "He Is the most entertaining
ing period last year, with a total of man I ever met In my life."
334,135 bushels.
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“ I f the reported purchase is con
summated it will not be Great Brit
ain's first possession of Timor. In
1707 the British attempted to drive
out the Dutch, then dominantly In
control of the island. At first they
failed. Later the British succeeded,
and the Dutch flag was lowered.
Portuguese influence then swept the
island until 1814, when, by treaty, the
Dutch resumed their old status.
“ Today the Dutch portion of
Timor is about 5,000 square miles
with 3(30,000 inhabitants. The Por
tuguese portion is 7.335 square miles
with about 442,000 people. Both por
tions nre mountninous. Many peaks
are more than 6.000 feet high. Mount
Rameau, near the center of the is
land, rises 9.600 fe e t"
reduced one-third. Heats itself. . . use it
anywhere. Economical, t o o . . . costa only
V ti an hour to operate. See your hard
ware or housefurnishing dealer. I f local
dealer doesn’t handle, write us.
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