Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1931 — Page 19

MAY 1, 1931

BIRDS' INCREASE REVIVES HOPE FOR JURVIVAL New Refuges Opened Up to Restore Sanctuaries in Europe. £v Science Service BERLIN, May I.—From many lands In Europe come encouraging reports of the Increase of birds, notably on Islands and in restricted areas set aside for sanctuaries and breeding grounds. The response of some hard-pushed species to protection gives good hope of their survival, and even for some degree of restoration. One very notable bird paradise Is the salt-marsh region of the Camargue, at the mouth of the Rhone in southern France. One bird that breeds here, the stilt, is found all the way from Spain to southern Russia. Here also may be found numerous nests of the flamingo, whose only other European breeding-place is in Spain. New refuges have been opened up In Germany also. On one dunecovered island off the coast of Schleswig, where thousands of seabirds breed, the number of nests almost has doubled since 1927, when the area was set aside. On the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein there are a number of tide-swept islands known as “Halligs” that make ideal homes for birds, particularly avocets. These also have been set aside as national bird sanctuaries. In a reedy marshland in Holland, known as the "Noorder Meer,” on the south shore of the Zuyder Zee, near Amsterdam, two notable and very rare species make their home. These are the purple heron and the spoonbill, of the former there are about seventy pairs, and of the spoonbill about 125 pairs. Far to the north, in the Arctic ocean, west of Finland, is a great colony of puffins. They nearly possess the land, and burrow their nests down into the earth to more than arm’s length. But they have their troubles. They are persecuted by two species of gulls, one of which attacks them bodily and often kills and eats the puffins, while the other species, the Arctic longtailed gulls, robs them of their legitimately acquired prey of fish. HARVARD TRADITION APPARENTLY DOOMED Old Board Walk Webwork Giving Way to Macadamized Paths. By United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May I. One of Harvard’s choicest traditions seems doomed. It has long been a custom at America’s oldest university to lay board walks along all paths in the college yard at the start of each winter. The complicated webwork of board walks measures approximately six miles. When these walks were removed nt the end of the past winter it is understood that before next winter all the gravel paths will have been macadamized, making the laying of the boards unnecessary. SHOE BOX POSTOFFICE El Paso Received Its Mail 42 Years Ago by Pony Route. By United Press EL RENO, Okla., May I.—The first postoffice in El Reno was a shoe box. El Reno, now a city of 10,000 people, received its mail forty-two years ago by carrier on horseback from a neighboring village. The carrier placed the few letters in a shoe box in one corner of a tent and each “boomer” helped himself. Off the Algerian coast are 5,000 square miles of shallows, rich in fish, that hardly have been touched so far.

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First Bourbon King Won Throne During Days of Religious Wars

Henry the Great Battled Way to Crown, Ruled With Rare Skill. This Is the second In Milton Brenner's series of five articles, telling of the famous royal House of Bourbon in Europe, the monsrehlsl rule of which has been ended by the exile of King Alfonso of Spsln. BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager. NEA Service (Copyright. 1931. bv NEA Service. Inc.) Henry IV, the first Bourbon king of France who ruled from 1589 to 1610, lived in an age of religious ! intoierar.ee. marked by bitter fights 1 between the Catholics and the : Protestant Huguenots. He had to fight for the throne, but as soon as he won it, he displayed kingly skill in ruling the country. France prospered so that he often is referred to as Henry the Great. From the time of Henry until Just the other day, a direct descendant of the royal House of Bourbon always had been on some i European throne. The royal rule ! of the Bourbons ended with King Alfonso XIII of Spain leaving his throne. Reared As Protestant Henry was reared as a zealous Protestant by his mother, then Queen of Navarre. Asa young man, he was chosen chief of the Protestant army and so aroused the hostility of Catholics that he was marked for death in the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. His life was spared on condition of professing himself a Catholic. For three years, he remained virtually a prisoner at the French courtfTiut in 1576, he escaped, made his way to a camp of the Huguenots in Gascony, repudiated his enforced conversion and resumed command of his army. When Henry 111 died at the hands of an assassin in 1589, Henry the Great was the nearest lineal male descendant of the royal house of France. Succeeded by Bourbons Previously, the House of Valois had been the throne, but now it was succeeded by the House of Bourbon. Being a staunch Protestant and having been declared ineligible to the French crown by the Pope, a few years previous, Henry IV was unpopular, with the greater part of the nation, and the Dukes of Lorraine and Savoy and Philip II of j Spain were ready to dispute his ! claims to the throne. Henry soon swung into aggresive warfare, capturing city after city. At last he besieged the important city of Dreux. Opposing 15,000 men with only 8,000, it looked hopeless for the first \ of the Bourbon rulers. Fought Hand to Hand But he leaped on his horse, charged the French and Walloon lancers, and dashed through the long lances. He fought furiously, hand to hand. His example inspired his men. At the end of two hours his rivals were in disorganized retreat. Even so, it is probable he never would have won the throne, if he had not accepted the advice of his friend, the Duke of Sully and formally professed himself a Catholic on July 25, 1593. This was followed by the surrender of most of the important | cities, including Paris, although the | war was not ended until 1596. Two years later peace was concluded with Spain and in the same year, Henry signed the famous i Edict of Nantes which gave the Protestants freedom of worship, ad- ; mittance to all schools, representai tion in the French Parliament and | in general equality with the Catholics. Ruled With Rare Skill This ended the religious wars and may be said to have marked the beginning of religious tolerance. Henry was now free to bring about

Henry IV, the first Bourbon king of France . . . Alfonso XIII of Spain was the last of his line.

internal improvement of the kingdom, so thoroughly disorganized by civil wars, and this he did with rare skill. He built roads and canals and opened up new sources of wealth. France had never been so prosperous and the national debt was re-

MOTORISTS ADVISED TO CARRY AMMONIA Best Antidote for Carbon Monoxide Fumes, Says Authority. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, May I.—The well-accessoried automobile should carry a bottle of ammonia as antidote for carbon monoxide fumes, says Dr. Adrian Hava, authority on carbon monoxide poisoning. Dr. Hava said that when a person becomes overcome by the fumes of the exhaust, artificial respiration is the treatment and ammonia is the antidote. A cloth saturated with ammonia should be waved before the face, until the patient revives. UNEARTH OLD IRON POT 2,000-Year-Old Object Is Found In Sweden, Imbedded In Sand. By United Press LINKOPING, Sweden. May I. A 2,000-year-old iron pot measuring more than twenty inches in height, has been found near here, deeply imbedded in sand. In spite of its age the vessel is in good condition. According to archeologists, only two similar pots have been found before in Sweden. AMUSEMENTS

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duced to less than one-sixth its previous figure. After ten years of achievement, King Henry was struck down by the dagger of Ravillac, a religious fanatic, at Paris, May 14, 1610. Nineteen previous attempts had been made to assassinate the king. The assassin was put to death with horrible torture. The reign of the first and possibly the greatest of the Bourbon kings of France was over. Next: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

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TRUCE CALLED BY GREEN, DOAK AND PRESIDENT Labor Chieftain Ends Feud, Lunches With Hoover and Secretary. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 1.—The six-months-old feud between William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor on the one hand, and President Hoover and his new labor secretary, William Doak, on the other, was terminated officially today when all three sat down to lunch in the White House. Green broke with the chief executive when.Doak was appointed last November. He thought a federation man should receive the cabinet post, and said so. Mr. Hoover then answered with a vigorous defense. The luncheon invitation was sent

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Brave Pair By United Press DETROIT, May 1. —Somewhere in Detroit today axe two old ladies looking for Jobs, equipped only with a canary and an umbrella. The pair, Mrs. Lydia Fox, 70, and Miss Adele Dutcher, 76, disappeared from the home of Hobart Fox, where they had been living, because they didn’t want to leave Detroit and go to his new home in California. “We’ll earn our own living right here,” said Mrs. Fox. So the two skipped away, Mrs. Fox carrying the canary in its cage, and Miss Dutcher the umbrella. Police, assisted by Fox, were seeking them.

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