iE | wi Ts] SH it nears completion. vy, N. J., showing the U. 8. 8. Indianap- the American navyg as beam of 063% feet and Washington.—The five American de- gtroyers now under construction will be the fastest and most powerful ves- sels of their class ever built in the United States, according to naval offi- clals, ‘hese war vessels will have a designed speed of 36% knots, or ap- proximately 40 miles an hour, com- pared to the present 35-mile speed of the fleet's best destroyer types. The new warships will have five five-inch guns, compared with four four-inch gins on the rapidly deteri orating destroyers on the naval list According to Rear Admiral E. B, Lari- mer, chief of the bureau of ordnance, the new vessels excel the present boats In speed, stability, armament, greater engine power, and seaworthl- ness, The new have center line gun and torpedo positions, thus increosing the fleld of fire, power op- erated ammunition hoists, new control’ apparatus, and improved pedo control machinery. Whereas the Carry no machine guns at all, the new ones will come equipped with five 50-calil and three The horsepower of the new destroyers will be 42.500, 1 radius of action larged. Of the 100 needed by the fleet to modernize its destroyer tonnage, four are building. laid down this summ all. Seven others now and one appropriated for were pi holed by President Hoover. Naval officers that an experimental flying boat and a geater pursuit plane have been veloped which represent a distinet ad- vance over earlier types. The bomb- ing plane has four engines and without maata a load can travel 3,000 miles. It can vessels also fire tor- old destroyers 30-caliber machine guns. speed boat also has been but One more will be authorized stated also single de- Touch of Distinction Either a bright sweater blouse or a small wool hat to contrast will go far this season toward giving the spring sult distinction. Both together make an ideal way to complete an en- semble, especially when there is no trouble .about matching fabrics, and even color considerations are minor matter.—Woman’s Home Companion, go 1,000 miles with a load of 4.000 pounds of bombs and return. The pursuit plane will have a speed of 212 miles an hour. British planes now in use for pursuit work have a maxi mum speed of 214 miles an hour. Four of the big flying (nown As pa- trol planes, will be bulit next year, according to naval plans. hoats, “The bond which has fallen further. est below par is the matrimonial bond.” OF INTEREST 10 THE HOUSEWIFE Do not put too much wax on floors A little makes a better-looking . - » * 1 w» we ’ 3 * wax and plenty « polishing floor, Never leave fresh fish soaking in wa- ter. Too much soaking destroys the flavor and makes the fish flabby. » » * When washing greasy dishes add a few drops of ammonia to the water, The work will be more quickly and thoroughly done. ® * » Celluloid place cards will please the thrifty hostess, They come in silhou- ettelike cutouts and are dainty and at- tractive and can be used than once, more POTPOURRI Color Blindness Some persons are unable to dis. tinguish colors and are therefore called “color blind.” This defect may be inborn or a result of long strained attention to colors. It is incurable and no glasses have ever heen perfected to remedy it. Extreme cases can distinguish no colors other than black and white, but the majority are color blind to only one or two colors, (0. 1932, Westarn Newspaper Union.) New York.—A new record for the number of astronomical parties ob- serving a total eclipse of the sun will be set on August 31 of this year, when the moon's shadow passes across east- ern Canada and New England. Word has already been received of 16 Institutions whose representatives will be In the path of the shadow, and probably a number of others will also gend astronomers to make observa- tions only possible when the moon hides the sun. Hundreds of other professional and amateur students of the heavens will go to see this rare phenomenon, generally regarded as the most Impressive of natural spec- tacles, Eight of the sclentific parties now planned are from American institu tions, two from Canada, four from England, and one each from Russia and Japan. The path along which they will be located is about 100 miles wide and passes south of Hudson bay, across Quebec, over the St Lawrence river from a point about eight miles west of Montreal to one about twenty- five miles east of Three Rivers. Both of these cities are therefore well with- in the band of totality. Entering the United States, the path Is across northeastern Vermont, all of New Hampshire except the southwestern corner, southwestern Maine, the northeastern corner of Massachusetts, and Cape Cod. The shadow will cover all of the Atlantic const between Salem, Mass, and Boothbay, Maine, The most northerly accessible point from which to observe the total eclipse is Parent, Quebec, on the Canadian National rallway, about 185 miles northwest of Montreal. Two expedi- tions, those of the Dominion observa- tory at Ottawa and the Royal ob- servatory at Greenwich, England, are expected to make this town thelr headquarters. At Sorel, Quebec, rence river, close to path, the expedition from the McCor- mick observatory of the University of Virginia will be located, the St. Law. the center of the on Astronomers of McGill university at Montreal will make observations from thelr own city, where they will be joined by a group from the University of London. Astronomers from Cambridge univer sity will go to Magog, Quebec. Most of the parties located in the United States have chosen the vicin. ity of Conway, N. H., including North and and Fryeburg, Maine, as observation points. Groups from the Lick observatory of the Uni- versity of California and t Swarthmore Center Conway, ohservatory of Fryeburg. be a party from the Van of Wesleyan uni Representatives from the institute, Philadelphia, will to Conway, plans The observatory will go to Near Center Conway will Vieck versity. ‘ranklin go a little further according to group from the Perkins of Ohio Wesleyan university will lo- cate at Douglass Hill, near Maine. At this same location a party from the Royal Astronomical soclety, London, Other expeditions from Mount Wilson observatory, the University of Indiana, the Kwasan observatory of ohservatory west, tentative Loki or Senago, will be the the Kyoto Imperial university, Japan, and the Central Astronomical observa- tory at Pulkova, Russia, are expected, Most of the observations to be made by these astronomers, If cloudy weather does not make the elaborate preparations in vain, willl be photo- graphs of the solar corona. The co- rona is the outermost part of the sun, go faint that it ig generally invisible because of the great glare from the light of the igpner part. When the golar disk 18 covered by the moon, at the time of a tolal eclipse, the corona becomes visible, In addition to direct photographs, in black and white, natural color and motion, made through cameras rang- ing from small kodaks to huge as tronomiecal instruments as much as 83 feet long, spectroscopic photographs will be made of the corona to deter mine its composition and motion. Oth- er spectroscople observations will be of the flash spectrum, seen when the last sliver of sun Is visible just before the moon covers it, or when the first bit reappears just after the total phase Is over. tions give valuable information about the sun's atmosphere, completely Such observa observations to be at be photographs of the shadow bands appear on the ground before and after the total eclipse, and of the shadow of the moon as it sweeps over the earth. One ob servation that has engaged the atten tion of astronomers at recent eclipses will be lacking, This is the photography of stars close to the sun, to determine thelr light is deflected the solar gravitation, as predicted by Einstein, will be no stars sufficiently bright in the sun's nel of the Au- gust Still other tempted will which however, whether by There ghborhood at the tin eclipse. THE FORMALITY OF MARRIAGE By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois. 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