‘Bellefonte, Pa., June 11, 1926.
THREE ARE GIVEN MEDALS
FOR DEEDS OF HEROISW
Rescues From Fire, Snow and Water
Basis for De Molay Life-
Saving Awards.
Kansas City, Mo.—Heroism medals
for saving lives have been awarded to
three members of the Order of De
Molay by the grand council of that
organization. Those honored are Wil-
liam H. Elkins of Baltimore, Md.; Ar-
thur F. Whitehead, Norfolk Downs,
Mass, and Samuel Pierce, Alameda,
Cal. Announcement was made by
Frank S. Land of this city, founder
and grand scribe.
Elkins saved the life of Mrs. Bar-
bara Wagoner, Baltimore, when the
excursion steamer Three Rivers
burned in Chesapeake bay, July 4,
1924. With the fire raging on all sides,
he lowered himself from the top deck
of the steamer to the lower deck,
hand-over-hand down a rope, with
Mrs. Wagoner clinging to his waist.
On the lower deck life preservers
were secured and they jumped inte
the water, where he supported her
until picked up by boats from the
Allegheny.
Whitehead and a companion, Joe
Dodge, rescued Max Englehardt, keep-
er of Tip Top House, Mount Washing-
ton, in New Hampshire. when he was
overcome in a blizzard, October 13,
1925. Englehardt, fearing the house
would be blown down, wrote a short
note saying he was starting for the
bottom: of the mountain and left in
the raging storm. Several hours
later Whitehead and Dodge arrived at
Tip Top House, found the note and,
fearing for the keeper's life, started
rout to find him. After a search of
several hours they found him in a
snowbank with just his head and one
‘hand protruding. Dodge went for aid,
while Whitehead, half carrying and
‘half dragging the old man, started
down the mountain. He kept Engel-
hardt from freezing to death through
physical exertion until met by the
Tescue party led by Dodge.
Pierce saved the lives of Mrs. Anna
Cushing and six-year-old Frances Ha-
worth of Alameda, February 26, 1926.
The girl had fallen from a sea wall
into San Francisco bay and Mrs.
‘Cushing went to her aid. Both were
struggling in the water when Pierce,
attracted by the screams of Frances’
playmates, plunged in, brought the
child to safety and then Mrs. Cushing.
The De Molay heroism award was
recently created by the grand council.
Climbs Mt. Washington
in Gale With Dog Team
Pinkham Notch, N. HM.—Mount
Washington was scaled by dogsled for
the first time in history recently when
Arthur /T. Walden, veteran musher of
Wonalancet, drove his six giant cross-
bred huskies to the summit and back
in a little more than 15 hours.
Starting from the Glen House at
€ o'clock in the morning, after a 70-
mile gale had thwarted his first at
tempt, Walden fought his way up the
eight-mile carriage road to the sum:
mit in approximately eight hours,
The start was made under ideal con
ditions, with almost springlike weather
in the glen, but the wind rose later in
the day, reaching gale force when the
bronzed driver and is handful of fol-
lowers climbed above the timer line.
The high wind made exceedingly
wreacherous going after the half-way
house had been passed. Long stretches
of solid ice and heavily crusted snow
were cncountered on the bare upper
reaches of the mountain «nd more
than once the men were forced to don
ice creepers and help the dogs in their
struggle against wind and slippery
incline,
Leading the team was Chinook, vet
eran of a score of big northern dog
derbies, who, although supposedly
pensioned at the outset of this season,
was brought from retirement by his
master for a last chance to make
sled-dog history. Included in the
team was Koltag, son of Chinook.
“eo - 1
Find Fish Still Used
: as Candles in America
‘Washington.—The history of light-
mg from such crude beginnings as
“when the Shetland islanders mac: a
torch-lamp by sticking a wick in the
throat of the very fat stormy petrel
forms the subject of an interesting
manuscript just completed as the
fruit of years of research by a Smith-
sonian scientist, Dr. Walter Hough,
head curator of anthropology.
Doctor Hough reveals that animals
have played a surprisingly large part
i in furnishing light to man. A very
. fat little fish, called the candle fish, is
tburned like the stormy petrel by the
¥mdians of the northwest coast of
‘America. In the tropics of America
the natives used to build cages to
hold the great light-bearing beetle or
firefly for illuminating purposes. But
whales and seals have made the larg-
est contribution, of course, in supply-
ing lamp fuel. Up to the discovery
of petroleum in quantities in 1859,
they provided the major portion of
the world's lamp oil.
Another Champion
Lexington, Ky.—Clalms were laid to
the world's championship for eating
raw eggs by George Pollard here af-
ter eating 25 In 15 minutes. George
won a $5 bet also.
"BLACK CHAFF" 18
TRACED TORUSSIA
Appears in West After Be-
ing Brought Here in
Wheat Shipments.
Washington.—Wheat from southern
Russia, brought to the United States
for the purpose of pushing the wheat
line west into the dry plains of Kan-
sas and the Dakotas, smuggled in
with it a troublesome disease known
as “black chaff,” according to report
by Dr. Erwin F. Smith, which will
appear in the forthcoming issue of
Science.
The disease, which is of bacterial
origin and manifests itself by a dark-
ening of the husks and beards of the
wheat, appeared in the wheat fields
of the West several years ago. No-
body knew whence it had come, but
since it grew in the hard-wheat area,
most of whose grain was of recent
Russian ancestry, Doctor Smith put
forth the opinion that it had come ir
with the seed wheat.
Find Disease in Europe.
Recently his opinion has been con-
firmed, for the same disease has been
found in a number of places in the
great wheat lands just north of the
Black sea, where Mark Alfred Carle-
ton gathered seed wheat for the
United States Department of Agricu’
ture nearly thirty years ago.
Doctor Smith, however, does not
attach any blame to the work of this
explorer, but believes that new plants
should be grown under quarantine
when first brought to this country so
that lurking diseases may be detect-
ed and excluded. Of Mr. Carleton's
work he says:
“T have always considered Mr.
_Carleton’s work to be the most far-
reaching and practical piece of work
ever done by the bureau of plant in-
dustry, since in a district in our West
stretching from Texas to North Da-
kota and covering several degrees of
longitude, through his energy and
ability, we now grow annually 100,-
000,000 bushels of the Russian hard
wheats, where previously we did no?
grow any.
Carleton but only to point out that if
our government were as intelligent as
It ought to be (few governments
have much foresight) we should now
have agents scouring the whole
world studying all sorts of crops and
crop diseases so that in future when
we import valuable ornamental
plants and food plants we may do so
without at the same time bringing in
their parasites.
Would Have Protected Seeds.
“Had we known of this Russian
~heat disease in 1889 we should have
[Imported the Russian hard wheats
more slowly and grown the plants in
quarantine first and so have avoided
introducing the parasite along with
the grain. In similar ways we might
have avoided the introduction of a
dozen very destructive parasites
which have come to us from the old
world in the last three decades. The
United States, even at the present
time, is very derelict in making ex-
plorations in foreign countries for the
benefit of its citizens and the con-
servation of its industries. but if we
would lead the world we must change
our policy. Japan is the only coun-
try thoroughly awake to the need of
foreign exploration. Her scholars are
in every quarter of the globe. dozens
of them picking up every grain of
information possible for use in the
mother country. It is much to be re-
gretted that we have not already
adopted the same far-sighted and
commendable policy.”
Lxpect Stones to Bare
Egyptian Idea of Death
Berkeley, Cal.—Religious beliefs re-
4arding life beyond the grave, held by
Egyptians more than 3,000 years be-
fore the birth of Christ, may be re-
vealed in inscriptions on stones just
discovered in the University of Cali-
fornia museum.
Two stones on which inseriptions
were carved served as the jamb and
lintel of the tomb of Sennetum, which
was explored by archeologists about
the time the Civil war ended. Senne-
tum probably was an officer of the
ancient king of Egypt and served as a
guardian of the Valley of the Kings,
where the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
was invaded by scientists.
He may have been the founder of
an hereditary line of keepers whose
duty it was to guard the tombs from
the depredations of grave robbers, a
form of outlawry that is as old as
mankind itself, says Dr. H. F. Lutz,
professor of Egyptology. He expects
to make known a translation of the
Inscription soon.
Device Warns Flyer
Near Ground in Fog
London.—By means of new inven-
tions air pilots are able to steer safely
to a given point in the thickest fog,
Flight Lieut. H. Cooch has informed
the Royal Aeronautical society.
By means of delicate instruments
in the cockpit a pilot is kept auto-
matically informed when he is within
1,500 feet of the ground, and the loss
of every foot of height as he de-
scends is also indicated.
Other instruments show the aviator
just what part of the aerodrome he is
over, after he has arrived in the vicin-
ity of his destination, so that he may
land in safety, though he may not be
able to see the ground until he has
actually alighted.
“] write this not to condemn Mr.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will
spell words both vertically and horisomtally. The first letter in each word is
tadioated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will
£11 the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number
“yertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next
one below.
tiomary words, except proper names.
No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are die-
Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical
terms and obsolete forms are indicated im the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
2 2 HN LR
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13 143 16
17 1 29 20
21 22 23
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29 30 PBL 1 32 3
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(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal. Vertical.
1—Father 1—Talking bird
8—Sun god 2—Period of time
5—Scandinavian legend
7—To shove
9—Woods
11—Middlewestern state
13—Atmosphere
14—Hostelry
16—Anger
17—To chop oft
19—To. attempt
20—To request
21—To open a keg
23—High in the scale
24-—Ramping up
25—Pig pen
87—Kind of bird
29—To purchase
80—Not many
32—Torn cloth
34—Chart
3$5—Rald
37—Gazelle of Tibetan plateau
39—To desire eagerly
41—Proper
44— Weird
45—The weight of a container im
which something is weighed
46—Note of scale
47—Addition to a letter
3—To hasten
4—To help
5—To get dirty
6—Ember
7—Companion
8—Listen
9—Note of scale
10—A child
11—Tool for opening a lock
12—Point of compass
15—One who snares animals
18—Social gathering’
20—Platform in a church
22—Remuneration
23—Conjunction
25—A repast
28—Bets
29—Foundation
30—Enemy
21—A bunch
33-—Departed
34—Mother
36—To cook in a skillet
36—=8till
33—Preposition
40—Anger
42—Head covering
Solution will appear in mext issue.
Printing.
In ancient and medieval times in
Europe books were made by hand
copying of manuscripts; that was the
nearest approach to printing known.
It is China that we must credit with
the first printing at a very early date,
the Chinese having originated as ear-
ly as 50 B. C. a method of printing
in ink on paper by means of wood
blocks. It was not until nearly a
thousand years later that printing in
this manner came to be extensively
practiced.
When we speak of the origin of
printing, however, we are thinking of
printing with movable type; in other
words, the invention of the printing
press. And the name of the real in-
ventor of typography is shrouded in
a quarrel that has continued for hun-
dreds of years, kept alive by the con-
temporary supporters of the original
claimants to the honor of this won-
derful art.
The dispute has now been narrow-
ed down to two names, Laurens Jans-
zoon Coster of Haarlem, Holland, and
John Gutenberg of - Mainz, Germany.
Coster is said to have invented mov-
able types of metal in 1420, which
were stolen by one of his workmen
and carried to Mainz. Gutenberg is
known to have experimented with
printing at Strassburg in 1439 and to
have carried on a printing business in
Mainz from 1448 until his death,
about 1468. Upon the sacking of
Mainz, printing was suspended, and
the workmen and pupils scattered
throughout Europe knowledge of the
art which until that time had been
kept a secret.
The first press in England was set
up in 1477 in Westminster by William
Caxton and one found its way to this
country, then the “Colonies of North
America,” and was set up at Harvard
college in 1639. This “press” still
continues under the name of the
“University Press.”
A Needle Mystery.
“A Western Kansas man found the
proverbial needle in the straw stack.
How it got there he don’t know, but
after he slid down the stack it requir-
ed an hour, for the surgeon to get
the needle out.” So records the Sa-
lina Journal. It was probably a need-
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