New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1923, Page 28

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Aviles is making ready to move the | bones of one of her proudest Castilians and most noted héroes, Adelantado Pedro Menendez de Aviles, to a new and more pretentious sepulcher. And, since de Aviles was the founder of St.| Augustine, oldest white habitation on the American continent, that city has Peen asked to send some of its natives to Spain for the ceremonies. So confident s Aviles that the invi- tation will be accepted that one of ler sons, Don Angel Cuesta, a million- aire in his own home town and for 30 years a resident of Tampa, Fla., has «gailed for Spain to welcome the Am- erican delegation when it arrives for the celebration in August. In fact, numerous entertainments and festivi- tles for the St. Augustinians are al- ready being arranged over there, ac- cording to cables received by Spanish newspaper correspondents in this eity grom Don Jullan Orbon, director of the ceremonial. Invitation On Its Way The invitation to St. Augustine is| reported already on its way. Another invitation to the United States govern- ment, with a request that it dispatch a gunboat overseas for the occasion, is reported to have been tendered | through Alexander P. Moore, ambas- sador at Madrid A third invitation is sald to have been sent to Senator Fletecher of Florida, asking him to| have the battleship Florida designated | for this mission \ Adelantado Pedro de Aviles was a haughty adventurer in the relgn of King Philip 1T whose | name appears in the almost-forgotten histories of mora than one American gettlement | He was born at Aviles, in the prov fnce of Asturias, In 1519 and, iike many of the aristocratic youthe of his day, the casties of his ambitions lay to the westward where Columbue, the Talian to whom Queen Isahella had been godmother, had but recently found fame and fortune. He joined the navy, became a captain-general, | served his king in daring enter prises and in 1560 1anded in prison, disgraced Menendez Governor of Cuba But Columbus, too, had been dis- graced once, #o this young Spaniard kept heart. In five vears he regained the king's favor and shortly was ap-| pointed governor of Cuba and Vierida with orders to colonize the la eountry. With a proud armada of 19 ships and 1,500 men, de Aviies sailed from Cadiz in 1685 A storm scattered tiv expedition. Only seven of the ships reached Florida. Ten weeks from the day they embarked, de Av Bt. Augustine and, after massacring mamsly all of a colony of French Pro- | Menendez many r flee founded \ 2N testants that clung precariously to the | dominion was established over Florida. banks of the St. John's river, Spanish dominion was established over Flo- rida. On subsequent expeditions Menen- dez ralsed the flag of his king over a post on Fort Royal Bay, South Caro- lina, and founded a mission on Chesa- peake Bay. When the Indians anni- hilated the latter colony in 1572, the founder sailed his ships up the Chesa- peake and Potomac and slaughtered hundreds of the red-skinned natives. His career ended at sea, for he died soon after being placed in command of an armada which was destined to descend upon the Netherlands. BERLIN SUBWAY SHYLOCKS 10 W00 THE FICKLE MARK Since Decline of Currency Exchanges Have Been Set Up at Every Turn. Berlin, June 8.—8ince the mark be- gan palpitating uncertainty from one day to another-—indeed, from one hour to another—RBerlin has under- gone a mushroom growth of small exchange establishments algng streets all over the city. The tourist, look- ing for a place to convert quickly his good American dollars, English pounds, or other currency, does not need to make a lengthy search, for he runs into a money-changing booth at almost every turn, even in the mid- way promenade and driving sections of the boulevards. Now an enterprising Shylock h hit upon the happy idea of setting up exchange shops at transfer points on the underground and elevated ways. The logic is simple business men enters his home sta- tion and buys a morning paper; he finds the mark is rising, or fallin his office may be a half hour aw: too far to permit keeping pace with the exchange; at the transfer point he can sell “short” if necessary, or buy at a liberal margin, without necessity of waiting his train's arriva down town The first of these ments to put in an appearance is at the metropolitan sub-division® of Schoeneberg, where trains from the fashionable west end meet those from thd traders’ residential district in sonthwestern Berlin, The authorities have granted an exchange dealer a 10.year lease on a tion. The basic annnal rent will be 750,000 marks (about $20 when the contract was made), changeable in accordance with changes in the buy- ing power of the mark (OURSE T0 BE CHANGED new establish Yellow River in China Broke Banks Two Years Ago and Made Path——Will Be Put Back The Yeilow river, waterws damage Peking, June China most treach canged incalenlab t channel, is to be when it broke its bank two and made a a to it oueand uilding on to increas ago retury teer original conree gaged is ex- aborers are nd it the of Avkes, pects to 2 rail- | The alert | part of the sta- | New | vears | Four- | numbes | | W. H. Mallory, executive secretary | | of the China International Famine Relief commission, estimated the cost of corralling the Yellow river at $1,500,000 Chinese cufrency, of which sum the. finance commission of the government relief bureau has pro- vided $360,000. Hundreds of square miles of ter- ritory north of the old river bed in| the vicinity of Kung Chia Pa was flooded during the spring of 1921 by the breaking of a dyke and thou- sands of families were made home- +less. Since then the district has | been only sparsely repopulated due to fear of a recurrence of the catas- trophe. AMUNDSEN T0 MAKE FLIGHT 10 ARCTIC Will Invade “Blind Region” and Undergo Great Perils | Bergen, Norway, June 8.-—Roald ‘.\mundsfln, the famous Norweigian ‘Arctic explorer, will attempt his haz- |ardous air fiight from Point Barrow | |in Alaska to Spitzbergen at the end {of June, it is announced here. Be- |tween these two points he will trav- |erse what has hitherto been the Arc- tic's “blind region”, a territory of | hich nothing whatever {s known, The greater part of this blind sector lies directly between Point Barrow | d the North Pole, [ Will Encounter Many Dangers Experts In polgr work consider that one of the greatest of the difficulties, Amundsen will have to contend with will be that of orientation—the de- | termination of his latitude and longi- [tude while under the fiight. Assum-| |ing that Amundsen starts from Point| Barrow under ideal conditions, and in | lue course finds himself directly over | the Pole, he will, according to as- ! tronomic theory, have south on all| sides of him. It is of vital Impor-’ ance that he start his southward |course along the right meridian, rnrf |although in whichever direction he | flies it will be south, the following of | a wrong meridian may lead him along the fey wastes of tha Greenland nhm( |and or even across to Siberia . Another danger, according to polar experts, is that he may find himself | over the open sea between Greenland | |and Spitzbergen, which is some 350 miles at this point, und entirely out of the routes of any vessels employed | |in Arctic work. Spitzbergen is no- torlous for the thick fogs which sud- and completely envelop it in the course of a few moments, and| here again lies a danger The success or failure of the adven- turous flight, polar navigators say, de- atmospheric conditions, | one——engine failure, of | | jan; denly pends upon and on these conrse, excepted CINDERS FOR SALE | A. H. Harris —encral Trucking— TEL. 99 WEST ST, . 1238-3 OOKED | FOOD SHOP 118 MAIN STREET MUTUAL BUILDING Don’t suffer with the heat in your kitchen this hot weather. Let us supply you with the es- sentials for your meals and you will not only avoid the heat but will also savée money. SATURDAY SPECIALS Royal Dutch Mustard, 2 bottles 25¢ Brookfield Butter, 46¢ 1b. 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