Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

'^Highlights in Uniuersai's no. 30 NATURAL PRY ICE foRMfS IN IMPERIAL VALEEV, California JOHN HIX July 15, 1933 = No. 3 0 of "Strange As It Seems" contains an unusual amount of interesting and unbelievable shots compiled by Nathan Hahn and Fairbanks from the famous newspaper cartoon by John Hix. It is graphically described as usual by Gayne Witman. It starts off with an interesting man who is upholding a family tradition. I.For 60 years various members of the family of Charles Gableman have held important offices in Wave r I y, Ohio. They have also been the town's newsboys. Gableman is now both the Mays’.' and the newsboy, the newsboy part being perhaps the most important with over 800 deliveries to be made every day. 2. The sacred bull of Japan draws thousands of people from all parts of the country every day. It is said to have strange healing properties so that when an afflicted part is toughed by the hand which rubbed the sacred bull, a miraculous cure is effected. 3. An unusual scene of the home life of the octopus. Mama octopus standing guard over the millions of eggs from which will presently emerge the baby octopii. Her sinuous tentacles weave in among the mass of eggs and pluck out all foreign matter or egg eating parasites. A microscopic view is shown of the embryo octopus inside the egg. 4. In Imperial Valley, California, where 100 degrees in in the shade is nothing unusual, a natural well of dry ice freezes any object brought near it. Its normal = 23 temperature is I I 0 degrees below zero. 5. The first pictures ever taken of the Hopi Indians as they perform their secret rites in an underground chamber in the region of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, include some remarkable views of the Canyon itself. The walls of the Canyon were formed by a river never on a higher level than it is now, the Colorado. The river never eats its way any lower because that part of the U. S. is constantly pushing upward. 6. The Yucca plant, a hardy form of cactus of our own western deserts, depends for its propagation on a tiny white moth. The moth cannot live without the plant. 7. T h e horned toad about whose longevity fabulous tales are supported by facts, is shown as it is being hermitically sealed in a brick mortar. Ninety days later, the brick is broken open, and Mr. Toad hops out, apparently none the worse for its imprisonment. 8. Mexico, land of queer foods, has one very popular delicacy which is cut from the heart of a form of Mexican cactus — soft little worms very much like a denuded American caterpiller. These worms are cooked in oil, done up in little packages and sold. 9. Arthur Hubell, an Oklahoma City youth, can expand his waist full 40 inches without any discomfort by the simple expedient of inserting the tube of an auto pump into his mouth and having himself pumped up. UNIVERSAL WEEKLY V r\\ CfM.ES 6AEIEMAN is TrtE MAYOR AN0 TriE NEWS 80V Of WAVERLV, OHIO .... COLORAOO RIVER ** WHICH CUT Trit 6RA.N0 CANHON WAS NBJER ON A HIGHER LEUEL A THAN \T IS NOW . . . ■gefotfe ano AfTer / ARTHUR rtumu , Oklahoma Ciitf , CAN ERRAND Hi«S wAlsT H-O INCHES -gy pumping HIMSELF fULl OF THE NUCCA DEPENDS Tiny for existence Ano the MoTR C OULO not live without THE PLANT. . . John Hix , creator of “STRANGE AS IT SEEMS ” draws the illustration for No. 30. It can be had for your lobby , from the Supply Department.