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Latest Vessel to
Skim the Ocean
Half Ship, Half Plane, It
Will Use Gas Derived
From Sea.
Paris.—A French naval engineer
named Jean-Paul Michel has invented
an ccean liner that is half ship and
half airplane.
The new ocean vehicle, which is
called The Greyhound of the Sea, is
guaranteed to have a speed of 50
miles an hour and to cross the Atlan
tic in 60 hours,
It is unlike any other boat or uir
plane that has ever been built, al
though an Italian company at Genoa
is now constructing a “mystery boat”
aleng somewhat the same lines.
Driven by Two Air Propellers.
The Greyhound of the Sea will be
driven by two big air propellers at
the bow, just like an airplane or
seaplane, and instead of riding
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through the water like a ship it will
glide over the top of the waves. There
will be an air rudder and also a water
rudder, but there are no under-water
prepellers. The ship has large skids
underneath to help it slide across the
waves,
“l know exactly how it will per
form when it is finished,” Michel, who
is a graduate of the leading French
technical school, explained the other
day.
“l have been testing out different
models for almost fifteen years, and I
finally found one that fulfilled-all my
expectations, : 7
“The first big experimental ship,
which is about 150 feet long and has
accemmodations for thirty persons, is
now being built in my shipyard near
Toulon, It is more than half finished,
and the first thing I am going to do
when it is all ready is to take a trip
to New York. I am going to make it
in two days and three nights.
“I think my invention will upset-all
existing ideas about navigation, and
particularly the propulsion eof war
ships.”
But the strangest thing about The
Greyhound of the Sea is that it will
carry practically no fuel aside from
a little oil for an emergency motor.
Michel also has invented a process
of exacting sodium from the sea,
transforming it on beard ship into a
gas and using this gas to run a spe
cial motor he has adapted to It, but
Kiss in the Dark Gets
Freedom for Prisoner
Paris.—A kiss in the dark got a
Frenchman out of prison the other
day.
The prisoner, Fritz Gabril, had been
behind the bars for two years and had
several more to serve, His wife came
to see him. At the leavetaking in the
dark corridor Gabril and his wife em
braced with especial warmth, the
parting kiss being so movie-like in
length that the guards noticed it and
were moved.
Gabril had a slip of paper in his
cheek., It passed his wife's lips dur
ing the embrace. On the paper was
written :
“Tomorrow, during the recreation
hour, I will jump over the wall, Have
a vehicle waiting for me on the other
side of the moat.”
Mrs. Gabril had the vehicle, Her
husband got away and hasn't been
heard of since.
Jazz Pays
New York.—The king of jazz com
mands money befitting royalty. Paul
Whiteman and his orchestra have
signed a contract to play In a chain of
theaters for forty weeks at $12,000 a
week, Paul will get half.
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Exacting ..
New York.—May Cristie, who has
written seventeen serial novels, ex
pects her husband, John Stamatiadis,
broker, to support her.
the details of the invention are care
fully guarded.
The most important room-on board
his new ship will be a big laboratory
near the stern, where a chemist will
be constantly on duty te supervise
this chemical process.
He claimg there is such an abun
dance of this fuel in the ocean -that
he could travel on it as long us his
ship held together, but just as a pre
caution he is going to install a little
Diesel motor and take on a little fuel
oil, this precaution being omitted after
the new system has been fully tried
out.
In appearance The Greyhound of
the Sea will look something like a sub
marine, with horizontal fins at the
sides, riding the surface of the water.
Top Will Be Entirely Enclosed.
The top will be entirely enclosed ex
cept for a promenade deck near the
stern. The ship will be smokeless, of
Diagram of Frenchman’s Invention
The Greyhound of the Sea.
course, It will not be able te fly, al
though at high speed it should simply
skim across the whitecaps.
It is being built of very thin steel,
in order to be as light as possible, and
it is diffictlt to foresee how it will be
have in a heavy sea. :
The high speed will be attained by
reducing friction with the sea rather
than powerful motors.
The key to diagram printed here
with is: 1, captain’s post; 2, captain’s
kitchen; 3, officers’ lounge; 4, radio
room; 5, aerials; 6, dining room; 7,
bar; 8, passenger cabins; 9, prom
enade; 10, anchor room; 11, crew’s
quarters; 12, pantry and bakeshop;
13, kitchens; 14, baths; 15, laboratory ;
16, lifebeats; 17, rudders; 18, propel
lers; 19, propeller shaft; 20, motors;
21, sodium transformer; 22, food sup
plies; 23, refrigerator; 24, fresh
water; 25, fuel; 26, skids.
Caters to Motorists;
Pastor Fills Church
London.—*"Sunday motorists who
wish to call in at my church can park
their cars in the drive and use my
garden,” announced Rev. W. H. Ridg
way, vicar of Tarvin, recently :
As a result of the invitation, which
includes the right for motorists who
accept to have their lunch in the
vicar's garden after attending services
at the church, every Sunday there is a
long row of motor cars in the rectory
drive; and the vicar preaches to a
crowded church,
Vicar Ridgway's idea also encour
ages motorists from the city to visit
the ancient churches in the neighbor
hood through which they pass and,
with this object in view, the vicar is
planning to form a sort of motoring
guild of which regular members will
be a nucleus of sporting churchgoers.
Doctor Dresses Own
Injuries, Saves Baby
New York.—~Diphtheria of the
larynx threatened to choke the
life out of Jane, the baby daugh
ter of Policeman Hugo G. Geis
sele, Maplewood, N. J.
An immediate operation,
known as “intubation,” was all
that couid save her; Dr. D, J.
Poia, ten miles away, started
to Jane's bedside in an ambu
lance, with Miss Marion Raltzel,
a nurse, and Gustave Schmidt,
driver., Another vehlicle cut
across Schmidt's course. The
ambulance swerved and crashed
into a steel trolley pole, a com
plete wreck. Its occupants
were severely cut and battered.
The young physician, never
theless, applied emergency dress
ing to his companions' injuries
and his own, then comman
deered an auntomobile, which
rushed him and the nurse to the
Gelssele home. He and Doctor
Demarest successfully operated
on the baby.
HERALD, FOLKSTON, GEORGIA.
Honeymoons by Air
Popular in England
London.—Many more women
use the airplane service be
tween England and the conti
nent than men. There has been
a large increase in the number
of young honeymooners who
travel by air rather than put
up with the &iscomforts of
cross-channel steamer travel.
Close observers say that the
women seem much more at
home several thousand feet in
the air than the male passen
ger. Increased facilities for
flying now make it possible for
the wealthy woman to leave
Croydon in the morning, fly to
Paris for shopping, and be back
in England in time for dinner.
Several well-knowh society
women have made several such
trips this season.
Northwest to Celebrate
rruit Industry Jubilee
Yakima, Wash.—The Pacific North
west fruit industry this autumn will
celebrate its diamond anniversary. It
was in 1852 the first apple, plum and
pear trees were planted in the Pacific
states and they came from a nursery
in Towa.
In that year a traveling nursery
brought from Henry county, lowa,
grafted trees which were set out near
Milwaukee, Ore. From these the pres
ent orchards were gradually devel
oped. :
The fruit trees and shrub train con
‘sisted of two wagonloads of Towa dirt
in charge of Henderson Luelling,
Many of the original orchard trees set
out in Oregon 75 years ago are grow
ing and bearing fruit,
Wild Pigeons Boon, Not
Pest, on Western Farms
Chehalis, Wash.—Wild pigeons have
been exonerated. Farmers near here
who complained that unparalleled
flights of these birds had caused heavy
damage in their grain fields now find
that they were saved a worse scourge,
that of grasshoppers.
The wild flock alighted in the fresh
ly harrowed fields where oats and
wheat were sprouting to devour em
bryo grasshoppers emerging from the
ground. In a newly plowed tract the’
larva was uncovered and immediately
wild pigeons arrived to clean up the
pest.
Since the grasshopper danger was
averted the pigeens have migrated to
Canada to nest.
Cattle Become Wild
on Alaskan Island
Kodiak, Alaska.~—~Three hundred und
fifty shorthorn caitle browse over the
mountainous surface of tiny Chilikof
island, 200 miles out in the northern
Pacific ocean from Kodiak.
More than 40 years ago the Alaska
Commercial company, a development
concern long since extinct, stocked
the island with a few head of tame
cattle for experimental purposes. On
the little isle with a surface of only
20 square miles, the cattle have de
generated from inbreeding and have
become thoroughly wild, but the herd
continues to thrive, Alaskans say the
experiment at least has proved that
cattle can be grown In the region.
U. S. Sailor Weds Belfast
Girl After Mail Courtship
Belfast.—An interesting romance
reached a climax recently when Wil
llam McKnight of the United States
destroyer Borle married Sophie Phil
lips, an attractive Belfast girl, The
palr corregponded since they first met
two years ago, when the U. 8,8, Pitts
burgh was at Belfast and one of Me-
Knight's companions married a Bel
fast girl,
Curfew for Cats
Perry, N. Y.~A curfew for cats 1s
desired by the Garhead Kennel club,
It has petitioned the town's super.
visors, pointing out that degs must
be confined at night, while cats wan
der all day, killing birds, then how! at
night,
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Work on “Movie” That
Audience Doesn’t See
The movligomg public, unfamiliar
with the making of a moving picture,
has no idea of the time and labor re
quired to produce a film that runs an
hour or two in a theater, according
to Lillian Gish, famous American
screen star, who says, in an article
in Liberty, “You buy a ticket at the
box office, find a seat, and watch a
picture for a while. Then you get
your hat and walk out. In two hours
you have witnessed something which
may have taken us eight months and
a million dollars to make,
“You have seen a woman walk
across the screen,” continues the ac
tress, “pause at a window, and turn
to stare at a man coming through a
door, It takes 40 seconds to show you
that scene—and it may have taken us
40 hours to get it right. We may have
done that one bit of acting a hundred
times in rehearsal, and a dozen times
before the camera; and that is only
one of a thousand episodes in the
play.”
She Fools Doctors
After lying in a hospital at Spring
field, Mass., for six months, paralyzed
from the walst down by a bullet which
gsevered her spinal column, a woman
now 18 on the road to recovery. hysi
clans operated at the time, but ex
pected her death within a few days.
They say there is no similar case
on record.
Rolling stones gather no moss, but
they are nobody's stepping stone,
KEEP AWAY FROM CALOMEL !!
IT IS QUICKSILYER ~ MERCURY
Never take calomel, It I 8 mercury—-
a dangerous drug. If you are constl
pated, billous, sick, headachy, stomach
sour, meals don't taste right, hot days
make you drowsy and lazy, take Dod
son’s Liver Tone, That's all you need,
Calomel salivates, That's why you
have to take galts the next day to get
it out of your system go It will not eat
your bones, You have to stay at home
a day to recuperate from the shock it
gives you. No wonder Dodson's Liver
Farm Co-operation
The farmers of western Cunada in
less than four years have established
the largest co-operative wheat organ
ization of its kind in the world.
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“When my baby began teething she was
sickly and didn't sleep well at night,”
writes Mrs, Horace Deal, Jr., Route D,
Statesboro, Ga. *“One day a friend tolt‘
me about Dr. Moffett's Teethina and since
1 started :ivinhit to my baby she sleeps
fine and hasn’t been sick a day. I wouldn's
be without Teethina for anything.”
Teethina is a blessing to anxious mothers
who are constantly worried IK their little
one’s fretfulness during teething periods
and in treating colie, gas, diarrhea, constie
pation and other stomach troubles.
Teethina gently, safely and ‘po-ltlnlr
removes all thonoul waste from the
stomach, quie lr relieves feverish condie
tions, inflammation of the gums and makes
baby sleep better; yet it contains no opie
etes or harmful drugs, taking the place of
oils and dangerous soothing syrups.
Physicians and nurses recommend Teethe
ina and all druggists sell it. Price 80c.
Bend for sample package and
FREE! useful Booklet -g;uz l’-bla.
C. J. MOFFETT CO., Dept. W 3, Columbus, Georgia
Builds Better Babé
W. N. U,, ATLANTA, NO, 32..1927.
Popularity
“A good chef gets more than a col
lege professor.” “Why shouldn't he?
A lot more people take his courses,”
Tone Is 8o popular, All you do I 8 take
a spoonful at night. By morning you
are cleaned out good, head is clear, you
feel as light as a feather; you are not
glck, no danger of galivation, and you
can cat anything you want, Think
of that, ,
Get the big bottle of Dodson’s Liver
Tone from your nearest store, 'They
all have it, Kheep it in the house so
you will have It handy to take nights
before going to bed,