The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1938, Page 15

& TIHE WILDERNESS TOWARD HIGHLIGHTS Ok FAMOUS FICTION el ASTo = MOHICANS ILLUSTRATED BY J-CARROLL MANSFIELD VING RESCUED MAJOR HeywARD,CORA AND ALICE MUNRO AND DaviP GAMUT FROM MAGUA AND HIS HURONS, THE scouT, HAWKEYE , WITH UNCAS AND CHINGACHGOOK., LEADS HIS FRIENDS THROUGH WILLIAM HENRY ..... UNDER COVER OF A FRIENDLY FOG HEYWARD AND HIS COM- PANIONS SLIP THROUGH THE FRENCH LINES BY \WAY OF A WOODED RAVINE: ... == ——7 Quick now/ { RUN FOR THE FORT { BEFORE THIS MIST CLEARS AWAY 7 SRS i A\ ep-A BrowN E= \y BEFORE GONG TO BEP - CREDULOLIS HOUSEWIVES \Q | OF MEDIAEVAL \ USED TO SETOLITA BOWL OF MILK IN THE KITCHEN,HOPING \\ O TOATTRACT BROWNIES ... : ACCORDING TO BELIEVED TO BE- KINDLY,HELPFUL. | LITTLE ELVES, WHO “» THAT NIGHT THE WEARY FUGITIVES REST IN A RUINED BLOCK HOUSE, WHILE THRELESS OLD CHINGACHGOOK GUARDS THEIRQ SLUMBERS Qui VIVE ? QUI VA LA 25 ARRETE / ETESVOUS AMISZ] DE FRANCE ? - = g 7 b _ @€ F0G LFTS AND THEIR PRESENCE 1S DISCOVEREY BY FRENCH AND INDIANS WHO CLOSE IN UPON THEM - =X A SHORTLY AFTERWIDNIGHT THEY RESUME THEIR FUIGHT TOWARP LARE GEORGE .- AT DAWN THEY COME IN SIGHT OF FORT WILLIAM HENRY, BUT TO THEIR DISMAY FIND IT BESIEGED BY THEY ARE SAVED BY ATIMELY SORQTIE OF A DETACHMENT OF 5, BND THE THE ROVAL AMERICANS, AND THE GAN THE FORT UINS THE FRENCH AND INDIANS . MONTCALM LIES BEFORE THE FORT WITH AN ARMY OF 10, ITH A FEELING OF VAST RELIEF WARD SEES CORA AND ALICE THE ARMS RESTORED TO OF THEIR FATHER ,COLONEL MUNRO. ~«BUT THERE 15 LITTLE HOPE OF REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVING IN TIME , AND THE FORY SEEMS DOOMED TO FALL. ...... .us FIRST DECADE OF THE 20™ CENTURY SAW IMPORTANT ADVANCES IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION AND ARMAMENT ANDP RADICAL CHANGES IN THis DESIGN OF BATTLESHIPS ........ ABOVE 1S THE U.S5.5.NORQTH DAKOTA ,ONE OF THE FIRST DREADNAUGHTS. THIS MIGHTY “BATTLE-WAGON AND HER SISTER-SHIP, THE DELAWARE, BOTH BUILT IN 1909, HAD A DISPLACEMENT OF 20,000 TONS AND A SPEED OF 21 KNOTS = EACH CARRIED TEN 12-INCH GUNS,WITH A SECONDARY BATTERY OF FOURTEEN S5-INCH AND EIGHTEEN SMALLER GUNS AND TWO SUBMERGED TORPEDO TUBES - THE ODD-LOOKING CAGE MASTS WERE AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE OF AMERICAN DRBADNAUGHTS .......... ool - «