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Harry (“Indian”) Miller, proprietor of the Indian zoo and museum at Canyon Lodge, was bitten on the face early this morning by one of the gila monsters of his collection. He was rushed to Winslow for medical attention.
The reptile’s teeth were buried on each side of Mr. Miller’s nose and upper lip, and the unfortunate victim was compelled to tear the animal from his face, leaving seven gashes on his nose and face.
East and Westbound Mails Delivered This Morning by Planes Arriving In Nation’s Largest Cities.
NEW YORK, July 2.—(Associated Press.)—Dark-to-dawn air mail service between America’s two greatest cities became a reality today. Cleaving the night along a beacon lighted highway the government’s mail planes transferred letters to and from New York and Chicago between the close of one business day and the opening of the next. Two eastbound air couriers, aided by a stiff wind bettered their schedule of 8 hours and 15 minutes—in one case by two hours. The same wind held back the westbound planes. One completed its assignment in a little more than the allotted time. Accidents to the other emphasized the differences the airmen nightly must overcome.
Immigration is discussed from a somewhat unusual angle in an article entitled “Back to the Ditches” in The Baltimore Sun, which says:
“Hundred percenters, Nordics and scions of our fine old families, sooner or later will be interested in the fact that foreign unskilled laborers are departing from these exclusive shores in much greater numbers than they are arriving under the two per cent quota immigration laws.
According to figures announced by the National Industrial Conference Board, during the first ten months of the law’s operation there entered the country 27,908 immigrants. During the same period 44,750 left, giving an actual loss of 16,842 for the ten months.
On the face of it that looks be a victory for the hundred percenters, Nordic blondes and scions of our fine old families. America certainly is going to be for Americans at that rate. But before the cheering wakes the echoes among the rocks and rills, deep woods and templed hills—it might be well for the pale-faced patriots to be sure they are reconciled to horny hands of toil.
When Tony and Mike and Ole have left America for Americans they are leaving not only the blue skies and pleasant vales but innumerable picks and shovels that must be swung and flipped if sewers are to be laid, streets and roads mended and railroad rights of way maintained.
Who is going to do the dirty work when the brunettes of Southern Europe go home to live in affluence and leave the blondes with nobody to dominate but more of their kind?
If any one thing is certain, it is that all of us can’t be gang bosses. Nor can there be a cessation of all forms of unskilled labor. That is the broad base of the industrial pyramid which has been the privilege of the Nordics to shin up with grace and agility, leaving the olive ants to bend their backs under the load.
But climbing will be more difficult when there is competition of Nordic against Nordic and increasing shortages of imported labor make it necessary for industry to draw upon native stock for pick swingers and shovel slingers.
That may have its benefits to society, however. After swinging a pick all day the Nordic will be less likely—to carry a torch all night.”
The Milwaukee Leader, Milwaukee, WI, July 1, 1925
Keaton and Koski Opposing Twirlers in City League Game Tomorrow.
The Moose and Elks are scheduled to play at 2 p. m. tomorrow afternoon at City Park. Keaton is billed to hurl for the Bills and Koski will probably occupy the mound for the Moose.
Although the Elks will be crippled by the absence of Bobby Coughlin, star backstop of the league, they are confident of maintaining their winning stride. With five straight victories under their belt they have visions of leading the league in a short time and expect to climb another notch tomorrow.
Kings Bay. Spitzbergen, Monday, June 22—(AP)—Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and the other members of the expedition which recently made an ineffectual attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane from Spitzbergen, will sail tomorrow from King’s Bay for Oslo, Norway. They will take with them the seaplane which brought them back from the Arctic Circle to Spitzbergen.
Monhegan Island, Me., June 22— (AP)—The schooner Bowdoin, which left here yesterday noon with Lieut. Commander Donald B. MacMillan and other members of his Arctic expedition, was well up the coast of Maine today. With fair weather, friends of the explorer here believed she would be off the Bay of Fundy by nightfall.
Newark, N. J., June 12.—(AP)—A live lobster, scarlet in color, arrived here today in a shipment from Portland, Maine.
The authority on shell fish at the American Museum of Natural History in New York when notified said that a red lobster was a freak among lobsters, similar to the albino among humans. He stated that the museum has a blue lobster and asked that the red lobster be presented to the museum.
News of First Serious Accident of Speedway Season
Thrill for Throngs Arriving Early for 500-Mile Race—Driver Uninjured.
DURAY’S SPEED BURST STANDS AS RECORD
Noted Personages Here to Witness World’s Greatest Motor Classic
Bricks Cool and Experts Predict New Mark.
By Blythe Q. Hendricks
First serious accident at the Speedway this year occured today when L. L. Corum crashed into the wall in one of Ralph De Palma’s cars Which he was to drive in the 500-mile race Saturday.
Corum was not hurt. The car will be out of the race.
News of the accident provided an advance thrill for the throngs arriving early for the race.
The accident occured shortly before noon at the first turn. Corum was driving at better than 100 miles an hour when his car, De Palma’s “Bobtail” Miller Special, skidded and turned completely around, stradling the inside retaining wall.