Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1932, Page 89

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 28 1932 4 = T T I [Bictures N THE MAP IMHUANIA — ¢ DRAWN STANLEY 8y : NEwLanD (12) THIEF RIVER FALLS, MINNESOTA , HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY flwo WOMEN-WARRIORS BY THE NAME OF JOAN PLAYED IMPORTANT PAQYS N THE HISTORY OF FRANCE . THE MORE FAMOUS OF THE TwoO WAS JoAN OF ARC ; THE OTHER WAS JoAN DE MONTFORT WHO LIVED 1N BRITTANY 1N THE 14™ CENTURY. 1IN THOSE DAYS BRITTANY WAS NOT PART OF FRANCE AS IT1S TODAY, BUT AN INDEPENDENT DUCHY RULED BY ITS OWN FEUDAL LORD. IN 1341 JorN JIL, DUKE OF BRITTANY, DIED, LEAVING NO CHILDREN . COUNT DE MONTFORT, THE DUKE'S YOUNGER BROTHER, CoNSIDERED WIMSELF THE RIGHTFUL HEIR YO THE DUCHY AND THE TITLE BUT A POWERFUL FACTION ADVANCED THE CLAMS OF THE DUCHESS OF BLOIS, A DAULGHTER OF THE DECEASED OLDER BROTHER OF THE AATE DuKE ofF BRITTANY. THE ASSALANTS ATTACKED HENNEBON WITH ALL THE CRUDE ENGINESOF WAR OF THAT PERIOD:. “THE DEFENDERS RESISTED WITH DESPERATE VALOR AND BEAT OFF EVERY ASSAULT . THE SIEGE WENTON —— DAY AFTER DAY THE FRENCH CATAPULTS, HURLING HUGE- STONES, BATTERED THE WALLS . Fool> RAN LOW M THE TOWN. MANY OF THE HALF-STARVED DEFENDERS FELL ILL, — © — L DRAWN BY KATE Carm (10), 509 FLoRIDA AVE., N.E., X, WASHINGTON, D.C. TO SEE THE BOLD> AND |NDEPENDENT DE MONTFORT COME WNTO POWER, AND AT THE SAME TIME SEEKING TO MAKE BRITTANY DEPENDENT ON FRANCE,OFFERED T AID THE DUCHE $3 OF BLOIS WITH A LARGE ARMY. WITH THE MIGNT OF FRANCE ARRAVED AGAINST NIM, COUNT DE MONTFORT OBTAWED THE PROMISE OF HELP FROM THE KING OF ENGLAND. 14 THE WOMEN OF HENNEBON AT - JOANS COMMAND TORE UP THE PAVEMENTS AND FROM THE WALLS RURLED THE STONES, YOGETHER WITH QUICKLIME AND BOILING WATER DOWN LIPONTHE HEADS OF THE FRENCH. Wi VICTORY APPARENTLY CLOSE AT HAND, THE FRENCH GENERAL OFFERED TO SPARE THE LIVES AND PROPERTY OF THE BURGHERS, IF- THEY WOULD LAY DOWN THEIR AQMS AND> GIVE UP THE TOWN . THE KING OF FRANCE SENT AN ARMY TO OCCUPY BRITTANY AND OUST DE MONTFORT. 1N THE FIGHTING AT NANTES THE COUNT WAS CAPTURED AND CARRIED OFF Yo Paris THEM THE FRENCH MARQCHED AGAINST HENNEBON.™* ONE DAY WHILE ALL THE FRENCH WERE ASSAILNG ONE SIDE OF THE TOWN,JOAN AND A FEW FOL~ LOWERS DARINGLY RODE ouT FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE AND BURNED THE FRENCH CAMP! SOME OF THE DEFENDERS, WHO HAD GIVEN UP HOPE WISHED TO SURRENDER ON THESE TERMS, BUT THE COUNTESS PERSUADED THEM TO HOLD OUT FOR THREE DAYS MORE . o mEBQASKA. ——— e | DRAWM BY | Goapon F: VaRs (8), 811 ‘~ b ! 7 THE CouNTS WIFE, Jo AN DE MONTFORT, A YOUNG AND SPIRITED WOMAN, TooK HER HUSBAND'S PLACE AT THE HEAD OF THE BRETON FIGHTING CEFEND THE TOWN TO THE LAST MEN AND PREPARED TO OPPOSE THE INVADERS . SOON THE FRENCH APPEARE ANDLAID SIEGE TO HENNEBON, —* CuTOFF FROM THE TOWN, JOAN AND HER MEN OUTSTRIPPED THEIR PURSUERS AND FOUND REFUGE AT THE BRETON PORT OF BREST, MANY THIRD DAY A LARGE FLEET OF ENGLISH SHIPS, CROWDED WITH SOLDIEQS, SAILED INTO THE HARBOR . THE BAFFLED FRENCH HASTILY RETREATED: HENNEBON WAS SAVED ! | | Lawrence Parx, I/ NapieRr AveE., ERIE,PA, — * I i%’/ 1 DRESSED FRoM HEAD To POOT IN SHINING ARMOR , THE HEROIC C(OUNTESS RODE THROUGH THE STREETS EXHORTING THE GOOP CITIZENS OF HENNEBON TO MAN. . WITH 500 MOUNTED MEN FROM BREST, THE COUNTESS RODE BACK. To HENNEBON AND AT NIGHT DASHED INTO THE TOWN BEFORE THE BESIEGERS COULD STOP HER . NotLonGg AFTERWARD THE ,COUNT DE MONTFORT WAS SET FREE AND RETURNED Yo BRIT- TANY AND THE BRAVE YOUNG WIFE WHO HAD CARR|ED ON FoR, HIM SO COURAGEQUSLY, ~——— o Ilill AT Heat of Flames Gauged temperature of a flame is one thing, the grading of which is beyond the capacity of the eye to gauge. A heated solid plainly indicates even to the inexperienced a fairly ac- curate guide as to the temperature, but a flame which appears hot may actually not burn the hand, while another appearing to be none too high in temperature might be of an extreme heat. To determine by eye the temperature of the flamc, the Bureau of Mines has worked out a system of charts and a process which will give an accurate test without resort to a ther- mometer device, Temperatures of various de- grees arc represented through the colors ob- tained from solids heated at definile degrees yvide a basis for comparison. To the lames to be tested, sodium is added which off a yellow color. The. intensity of this termines the temperature; and by com- with the corresponding shade in a lid the degre= is detcrmined with ease. Appalachian Forests Hit by Carelessness HE Southern Appalachian region has a rich heritage from Nature, which is fast being depleted through the wasteful practices of careless forestry. Experts of the Forest Serv- ice believe that a permanent and highly prof- ftable income could be obtained from this region if what is left of the timberland be op- erated on a basis in which thought for the future control as well as immediate profit would govern and if lagd already laid waste by carelessness should be planted to bring again a stand of timber worth lumbering. The region offers, under proper manage- ment, a continuous annual production of six billion board feet of lumber. Such a steady flow of lumber would mean prosperity for the States in which the forests lie. Altogether, in that area,,there are about 60,000,000 acres of natural forest land. Of this amount less than 2,000,000 acres are in the National forests and less than 2,000,000 are in virgin timber. Much of the rest has been cut over and recut over with disastrous fires adding to the devastation. The present practice is to set up a smail portable mill and cut everything in sight. No prdection is afforded young trees and after a mifl has reaped its harvest nothing follows but a scrub and brush growth of no value. In the region, fully one-third of the hard- woods are suitable for paper pulp and the bark of many of the trees offers tanning materials that now are keeping twoscore firms in op- eration extracting it. Chestnut trees are fairly common through- out the asea, but they are rapidly falling vic- tim to the blight which threatens to wipe out this tree entire'y. Washington’s Con /fidence T the zero hour of the Revolutionary War it is related that George Washington, re- turning to the army after a brief absence, was greeted by a concourse of the people of the little town in which he was to spend the night. A crowd of children gathered about him, “ree peating the acclamations of their elders.” Washington’s party perforce was obliged to halt by the throng of young Americans who pressed around him, all wishing to touch him and calling him father. The general was deeply moved. A confident light shone in his eye as he turned to his nearest companion, Count Mathieu Dumas, friend of Lafayette and Rochambeau and like them a soldier for free- dom in the New World, “You see,” said Washington, “we may be beaten by the Eng- lish in the field, it is the Jot of arms, but bew hold there the arm that they will never con- quer.” Altogether, the incident affords omne of the unforgettable scenes, one of the memor= able vignettes, of the great struggle for um_