New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1930, Page 25

NEW BRITAIN DATLY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1930 PILOT DISCOVERS | BACKWARD PEOPLE I§ Forced Down Among Semi-| Savages 01 Mexican Coast Mexico City, Jan. 10. (P—Cruisinz | up the P ic coast on the far south of Mexico on the regular Guat mala City-Vera Cr air run, rd Varian, Mexican Avietion Company pilot encountered an experienc: that migly nave befallen a wan- dering Spaniard in the sixteenih century, Storm clouds settled on planc until Varian was forcec down within a dozen teet of the sea. at which point he decided to land and think it over. But while looki for a dry. firm part of the beach the clouds and fog met the sen, and he sat down immediately on a soft narrow sandbar a quarter of & mile from shor His ne mishehaved in the son gand and headed for the Pacitic whereupon he applied the left land- fng-wheel brake and ground-looped A two-gallon thermos-jug, which comprised part of his emergeney rations, likewise exceuted the loop- the-loop, completing its course by | bouncing off the k of Varian's head When Varian recoverced a half he found that time hail ward several cen s crippled plane was surrounded a score of fl\mmlg{\l\’ primitive Indians, dressed in breach cloths and speaking a strange langvaze, | Varian had landed at the cin | primitive fishing village in a dred miles of coast line of the of Chiapas lary was aboui two and ifter some time, he na who had been ““ou who likewise knew a few words. All tift other Indians s only a nat ialect, probably Mayan, da < four or five centuries. For two days, until his compan- s plane, Varian livel ans whose life has ad- vanced practically none at all since sish conquest sole dlet was fish from the Tacific and cakes nd tortillas made from corn, which was ob- rading dried fish for terior point fifty miles cross A great swamp. the villagers prepared (o eat they pulled in a fishing net made of twisted fiber, collected the catch and threw them into a larse receptacle. which appeared to have be wit in from a ship- the native drank s liquid formed by v and then picked fish meat. Varian pass.g oup and_ lived off unsei goned fish until help came. He re ported the natives treated him witl, every courtesy giving him freely ot everything they had cxcept foba co. which they rationed out cai- tiously because of its sca They made cigars by crumpling vy tobacco leaves and wrapping the dust into a whole leaf, which was lighted from their ever-hurning campfire. Two days after Varian had been rescued #nd 1 returned to Vera Cruz, there arrived at that city the telegram which he had dispatched by in Indian runner to the nearest telegraphic point, advising his su- periors his predicament and lo cation. The dispatch bearer hal crossed the swamp to the nearest inland town. from which place n horseman had carried the telegram to a farther inland railroad point. Textile Factories Valued Too High by Assessors Boston, Jan. 10 (UP)—The great- est single factor in the so-called ex cossive taxation of the textile indus- try is that as<essed values of cotton mills in Maszachusetts are higher than their present-day values, an- cording to a statement today by th National Association or Cotton port of its contention the| m cited ents made by Jienry Long, = coimission [ corporations and taxation ¢ was quoted as sayving that he knew ance in Massachus textile property chang 1ds has brought the assessed valy even where the assessment was mittedly low as of 1 conditions prevailing 10 years ago.” am forced to the opinion,” was quoted as sayin, that the board of assessors of every city and tcwn of Massachusetts must reco; nize that the value of all of thesc properties is low.” ‘ | Drink Cod Liver Oil [ If Skirts Are Longer | Towa City, Jan. 10, (®—It is cith- er shorter skirts or dail cod liver oil for the gir a to Mate Giddings, instructor of home economics at the University of Iowa. Long skirts shut out the sunlight, gays Miss Gidding: and this me J & dearth of vitamin D, which may also be had from cod liver oil —if you like it that way In the cities, especially she points out, 75 per cent of the ben fit from the vitamin D in the sun’s rays is shut out by smoke, dust and fog. This makes long skirts part larly harmful to the metropolitan Musicians Out of Luck But Dentists Fare Well Geneva, Jan. 10. (®-—Musiciar of all intell workers, 4 fering most acutely from unemploy- ment the world over, according to occupational experts of the Interna- tional Labor Office. Next comes tha- atrical artists Development of mechanical mu- sic in all its forms and the absenr of regulation in the exercise of the profession are given as chief causes or the musicians’ distress, Dentists are the most fortunate of the white-collar 1olk. The report gays that unemployment among them is virtmally non-existent throughout the world. 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