"TO MILLIONS
Working 385 Feet Deep on
| Ship Sunk Off Alaska
in 1900.
Seattle.—Three million dollars. In
gold—possibly four millions—are al-
most within the grasp of a little band
of adventurous men toiling in a sal.
vage expedition which, if successful,
will set a new record in marine annals.
Three hundred and eighty-five feet
down in the sea they are working.
Only the strong room of the steam.
ship Islander, sunk 30 years ago in
Stevens passage, just south of Juneau,
Alaska, remains to be torn open be-
fore the salvers reach their goal.
They hope to break through the
steel-plated wall within the next few
weeks and lift the treasure to the sur-
face in the triumph of man’s ingenu-
ity and perseverance over Neptune.
J Working Perjod Brief.
The work, conducted by more than
a dozen Seattle and Olympia men, has
been going on since the summer of
1929, but the working period last year
was brief, and the job could not be
resumed until late in June this year,
because of adverse weather. Their
expectation is that the next month wiil
gee their job virtually completed, for
they are tolling day and night at their
task.
The hull of the Islander, about 235
geet long, has been explored thorough-
3y by the divers, pieces of baggage and
the like have been brought up and the
preparations for the last assault on the
treasure store have been completed.
Something new in diving equipment
48 being used. Instead of the old-fash-
foned diving suits, the men are employ-
tng an ingenlous device contrived and
patented by two Olympia divers, Carl
and Albert Wiley, after years of ex-
perimenting, thanks to which the diver
has a mechanical arm to do his work
while he sits comfortably in a little
barrel-like cage.
He has a telephone headpiece
elamped to his ear, and a mouthpiece
hanging before him, so that he can
eommunicate with his fellow workers
on the scow anchored above the sunk-
en hull. Thus instructed, the men
above can swing the contraption about
on the sea bottom or in the hull’s in-
terior, as the diver directs.
Seventy Lost When Ship Sank.
The incessant wash of the tides, ana
¢he voracious toredo, the tiny marine
pivalve that is the plague of ship and
dock, have eaten away the decks so
much that access to the interior is
easy, but the steel sides, though rusted
and incrusted with marine growth, still
hold together, except where the ship's
back was broken when it hit a reef in
a storm early in the morning of -Au-
gust 15, 1900.
Seventy-dives were lost. A few were
saved. The divers, prowling through
the skeleton of the ship, have come
upon whitened reminders of the human
toll. Perhaps a score of skeletons
bave been found More, doubtless,
will be discovered when the ruins of
the storerooms are opened.
Be
Demonstration Against
War Is Postponed Year
Berlin.—The most impressive and
anique anti-war demonstration sched-
uled for this year will not take place.
The big get-together of German and
French ex-combatants on the san-
guinary battlefields of the Chemin des
Dames, which was to be held in Au-
gust, has been postponed for one year,
the United Press learned from “Reichs-
panner” officials who spensored this
demonstration in co-operation with
the French “Union Federale et Fed-
eration Nationale des Combatants Re-
publicains.”
Big unemployment in Germany is
the chief reason for the postpone-
ment of the meeting. German ex-com-
batants find it extremely difficult to
save up enough money for the jour-
ney, despite liberal aid from the treas-
ury of their large organization, the
#Reichsbanner.”
Delay in the ratification of the
Young plan was an additional factor
which made for the postponement, it
is declared.
Plane Speed Record
for Women Claimed
Los Angeles, Calif.—The world’s air-
plane speed record for women was
claimed by Mrs. Florence Lowe Barnes,
Pasadena aviatrix, as a result of a
flight in which she was timed at an
average of 196.16 miles per hour over
a measured mile codrse.
Amelia Earhart set a record of 184.5
miles per hour a year ago.
Boy Demands Official Rescue
Pueblo, Colo.—Tony Mahalich, who
had fallen into the water, refused to
‘ae rescued by a group of boys nearby.
When they attempted to drag him
from the water he yelled for the po-
tice, declaring that if he had to be
rescued he wanted it done right—by
the officers.
Soldier Finds Own
Name in Cemetery
Glasgow.—Private Donald J.
McKay, Argyle and Sutherland
Highlanders, wonders who lles
in a grave bearing his name and
number in the New First Cewm-
etery, Cambrai.
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Beer Mug as Weapon
Banned in Bavaria
Munich—Beer steins, ash
trays, table cutlery, soup bowls
and other normal fitments of
restaurants must be removed
out of sight whenever a political
party hires a beer garden or
restaurant for a mass meeting,
according to a police order is- ¢&
sued and effective throughout
Bavaria.
The measure has been taken,
it Is sald, in the interest of pub-
lic safety, movable objects hav-
ing been found too tempting
when some point of an argu-
ment needs driving home. There
is nothing like an empty beer
mug in the hands of a pot-
valiant citizen for silencing a re-
fractory opposition, and & good
ash tray goes a long way.
Modern Living Blamed
for Low Birth Rate
Washington.—The continued de-
cline of the birth rate in the United
States is traceable directly to the
change in living conditions and other
economic conditions, according to the
chief of the bureau of vital statistics,
Dr. T. F. Murphy. The increasing
popularity of apartment house dwell-
ing, which is comparable to the cliff
dwelling of other ages, is largely re-
sponsible for the slackening in the
birth rate, he said.
Many of these large apartment
houses do not allow families with
children to lease the apartments, he
said, since the noise of children play-
ing might prove a nuisance to other
lessees. It is seldom that these houses
are equipped with yards or play-
grounds, he said, and this is not an
inducement for child rearing.
Another potent factor in this de
cline is the increasing number of mar-
rlages where both husband and wife
work, Doctor Murphy pointed out, and
since the standard of living of the
wage earner today has been raised |
to such an extent that a family can-
not live on the salary earned by the
ausband, the necessity for the wife |
vo go out to work has arisen.
each year.
fwin Crack Shots
Celebrate Birthday
Stockholm, Sweden.—Sweden’s mas
ter shots, Maj. Wilhelm Carlberg and
Capt. Eric Carlberg, twin brothers,
nave just celebrated their fiftieth
pirthday, although not together be-
cause the former lives in Stockholm
and the latter in Teheran, Persia.
where he is employed by the Swedish
match interests. Eric also has served
three years with the Persian gendarm-
erie. :
As early as in 1906, at the Olympic °
games in Athens, the markmanship
skill of the twin brothers was pro-
nounced and brovght many prizes to
Sweden. Two years later, at the
games in London, Wilhelm won three
gold medals and three silver medals
in pistol shooting, while Eric won
two first and two second prires. Wil
neim also captured the world cham-
pienship in revolver shooting in 1913.
“Save My Biscuits” Plea
Is Answered by Firemen
Albany, N. Y.—“Fireman, save my
piscuits!” cried Mrs. William J. Gary
as she returned from the grocery to
42d the lock had snapped on her
door.
Locked out and knowing the bis
cuits were rapidly passing the brown-
Ing stage in the kitchen oven, Mrs.
3ary rushed to a neighbor's telephone
and called the fire department. The
fire laddies dashed on the scene, hoist-
ed a ladder to a window, and saved
—the biscuits.
Start Fight Against
Collectors’ “Summons”
Madison, Wis.—Letters issued by
cedlection agencies which are mislead-
ing because of their likeness to a court
sammong have won the disapproval of
the Wisconsin Bar association. The
commission decided to start a cam-
paign against use of these letters and
has warned that prosecutions may fol-
low if the abuse is continued.
Tough Sleeper, Did You
Say? Here’s Champion
Peekskill, N. Y.—John W. Kearns'
Jdumber in a garage was suddenly dis-
curbed when a light truck driven by
W. L. Williams ran over his legs. He
was taken to a hospital, but after it
was ascertained no bones were broken
Kearns indignantly demanded he be
permitted to leave. He was able to
walk out unassisted.
Pool Closed to Save Clothes
Crewe, England.—A child en's pad-
Ling pool has been closed here on |
Sundays because of the risk of Sun
day clothes being ruined and the fact
that some nearby residents objected
to the noise of childish laughter on
+he Sabbath. .
~ Greetings From the Sky
Londen.—Sky greetings will enliven
f.ondon's summer nights when the
Travel Association of Great Britain
and Ireland projects on the clouds
“f,ondon welcomes {ts visitors” in Eng-
lish, French, German and other lan-
guages,
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dow in time to see
were open.
Too late to pursue,
occupants
thirty bushe
tion of on the ceiling. He ran to the win-
the tail light of a retreating
truck and in a glance saw that his barn doors
the farmer telephoned his
neighbors and the sheriff. It was not more than
half an hour before the truck was haited and its
captured. They had attempted to steal
bh of wheat, harness,
of farm implements.
Dissemination of data concerning
birth control plays an important part | °
fn keeping down the birth rate, he |
anid, and this widespread campaign is
increasing
and a variety
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| There Can Be Months With-
out a Full Moon.
Moonless month is the name popu-'
larly given to a month in which no
full moon falls, says an article in Path- |
finder Magazine. Under our present
. calendar February is the only month
| that is shorter than the lunar cycle
and consequently it is the only month |
which can have fewer than four moon
phases. The missing phase, however,
need not necessarily be the full moon,
but may be any one of the four. Like-
wise five phases of the moon occasion-
ally fall in the other months,
The average time from one full
moon to another is 2934 days, and the
time from one phase to another varies
from less than seven days to more
than eight. About every six years
February has only three moon phases;
it is, of course, without a full moon
much less frequently. In 1866 Feb-
ruary had no full moon, while the
preceding January and the following
March had two full moons each.
This remarkable sequence, astron-
omers estimated, will not occur again
for 2,500,000 years. February was
without a full moon in 1885 and 1915,
and from approximate computations
made by the Naval observatory there
will be no full moon in February 1934
and 1961. Februaries without new
moons or either of the other two
phases occur at about the same in-
tervals, but, of course, in different
years.
Why Moon Is Kept From
| Obeying Law of Gravity
Two forces, working in opposite di-
rections, neutralize each other and de-
termine the orbit of the moon. Like
any other moving body the moon tends
to follow a straight flight path. If
the gravitational pull of the earth
were suddenly annihilated the moon
would move away on a straight line
tangent to its flight path at the in
stant of release. The earth is con.
tinuously pulling the moon in from
this tangent path which it tries to
follow. If the speed of the moon were
reduced it would move in closer to
the earth, Mere motion of an object '
For in-
stance a bullet fired from a horizontal
does not overcome gravity.
gun will start to fall immediately and
will fall at precisely the same rate
as another hullet of the same size and
weight dropped from the hand at the
same elevation. But the force which
moves the moon is working against
gravity and it depends on speed.—
Pathfinder Magazine.
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A Wise Saying
“A man who has sense enough to set
simple things in their true light,” says !
Dr. BE. T. Bell, “turns the whole
world upside down.” Up to the time
of Galileo, even mathematicians be
lieved small bodies fell faster than
heavy bodies. But Galileo climbed to
the top of the Leaning Tower of
Pisa, let fall two balls of different
weight and size, and they struck the
ground simultaneously. That simple
| fact revolutionized mathematics.
i Why Drive Nails Into Tree
A query which comes to my desk
asking what to do for pear trees
~ which blossom and do not mature
. fruit and where the color of leaves
is dull, calis to mind that years ago
when a small boy my father sent me
to thé garden to drive some nails into
one of the pear trees there to meet
the same condition, and it proved suc-
cessful.
Those nails as they rusted supplied
the iron which was deficient in the
soil. I am reminded of this in read-
ing that one of our scientists advises
putting iron salts in holes bored into
- pear trees where the leaves are dull
in color and the trees show lack of
vitality.
This has been the practice for gen-
erations in Europe. Bring a fruit tree
into healthy condition and it will pro-
duce fruit provided the blossoms are
certilized.—Portland Press-Herald.
Why Sunset Is Brilliant
The Naval observatory says sunset
colors are caused by the excess of rays
of long wave-length, red and orange
chiefly, which pass more readily over
the long path through the dense low-
er strata of the atmosphere, which
must be traversed at sunset, than the
short wave- :ngth blue and violet rays,
which are obstructed not only by the
atmosphere, but also by dust particles
and impurities suspended in it. The
finest sunset colors are produced when
there is the greatest amount of dust
and impurities in the air through
which the sunlight passes. No sun-
sets are perfectly colorless.
Why Insect Pests Flourish
Whence came our present insect
pests? Most of them came from for-
eign countries. And they come here
without their natural enemies. In
this way the balance is disturbed,
wholly in favor of the insect. An
insect in his home land is often so
harmless and obscure that his pres-
ence is not even noted. This is be-
cause his natural enemies keep him
in his place. But transplant this little
bug to America, give him plenty of
rich food and no enemies, and he will
show what the biological laws of re-
production mean.
Why Covered Bridges
It is stated that the chief purpose
of covering bridges was to protect the
bridges themselves against the weath-
er, and not to serve as a shelter for
travelers. This protection added many
years to the life of a wooden bridge,
at a time when lumber for the roof
and sides was cheap.
Why Airplane Ride Cools
Aside from the motion, there is a
second reason which makes an air-
plane ride cool: For every 1,000 feet
ascended there is an actual drop of
three degrees in temperature.
Why Lobster Turns Red
A lobster turns red when it 1s
boiled because the result of the effect
of ‘boiling water on the coloring mate.
rial tn the shell, and is a chemical
| change.
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Private Ownership
| |
: Private Ownership is the Basis
of American Economic Life
FARMER was awakened | Thirty-six million people have deposits in saving
one night by the reflec- banks. Sixty-five million have policies of life insur-
ance, the results of individual effort. Every owner
of a farm, of a house, of a security of any kind is
virtually interested in maintaining private owner-
| ship and private operation of property. Public
ownership would be ruinous and every tendency
towards such action should be strongly combatted.
Our unparalled progress has been brought about
by individual effort.
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