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Divers Training for Submarine Rescue Work
tflere ever * )e another disaster like the sinking of the submarine S-4, a skilled group of navy divers,
specify tutel*' of trained mtm Vvlio in Washington worked the for S-4 submarine arid S-51 rescue wrecks, work recruits will be ready trained to to rush work to the in scene. depths Daily, under 300 the
on are as great as
feet. M r i b e photograph shows Chief Torpedoman L. G. Michaels (center right), explaining the functions of a
diver# dress to members of the rescue class.
"VTPW* of “the United St ates marine engineering camp on- Fork mountain near the Rapidan river in Virginia,
where President Hoover will fish during the summer months. More than 50 marines in charge of Capt. C. A. Phillips
were building the President's' camp.' * *
Monument to Germany’s War Dogs
Prof. Otto Richter, promfnenf Ger
man sculptor, with his fine monument
to the Red Cross dogs who served
heroically in the World war. The
memorial will be placed either in the
Tiergarten or Unter den Linden,
Berlin.
He Is “Pigeon King” of Chicago
Harrj Lane, treasurer of Orchestra hall, Chicago*. has a hobby and is
named failed"'to’fecTfBe “The Pigeon King.” For years as part <5f his' -daily routine he has
never tifds' at least‘a pound of grain. --
CLEVELAND COURIER
BREAKS DISCUS MARK
When it comes to spinning the wood¬
en platter they call the discus, Ed
Moeller of Oregon universily is hard
to heat. In a recent meet against the
University of Washington he spun the
discus 160 feet 1 inch, breaking the
accepted world’s record.
CLAIMS 155 YEARS
Cfiejck Hafai Rabat, venerable Arab,
who claims he is 155 years of age. He
-is 4;eeft<if wind and remembers the de¬
tails of an Arabian massacre of 1811.
He remembers when George the third
was king of England, when Louis the
sixteenth was king of France,, and
knew Napoleon when he was only a
young artillery officer. •• V
MAHARAJAS, BEGUMS
AND NIZAMS SECURE
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Picturesque Indian Rulers
to Keep Jobs.
Washington.—The recent report of
the Indian states committee opposing
the federation of the Indian native
states and the British administration
la India, tends to perpetuate the pic¬
turesque rulers of the hundreds of lit¬
tle and big states in the giant penin¬
sula of India.
According to a bulletin from the
Washington (D. C.) headquarters of
the National Geographic society, these
rulers, although they have adopted
western dress and customs for many
occasions, still are among the most
colorful potentates of the East.
Fortunes in Jewels.
‘‘Consider the maharaja of Patiala
In festive array if you would have a
true picture of eastern splendor and
color,” the bulletin continues. “He
wears a diamond tiara from which
hang loops of diamonds, pearls and
emeralds. Around his neck is a three
row pearl collar and, on his breast,
an emerald breast plate. His coat Is
of rich brocade, and his hand rests
upon a diamond-ldlted sword sheathed
in a velvet scabbard studded with dia¬
monds. On his fingers are diamonds,
rubies, emeralds and pearls.
“Patiala’s maharaja is outshone by
other princes in the splendor of their
jewels. One ruler has a carpet of
pearls, 8 by 10 feet. Maharaja Hol
kar, of Indore, lias a carpet of gold in
his throne room and tall gold chairs.
The gaekwar (prince) of Barodn’s
treasure, includes gun carriages and
cannons of gold. White bullocks, with
silver-capped horns and brocaded trap¬
pings, convey these cumbersome car¬
riages through the streets in official
parades.
“Until a few years ago the ruler of
Bhopal was a woman, the begum.
Bhopal is a Mohammedan state and
its woman ruler made pilgrimages to
Mecca, and also visited England.
There she was protected from ‘infidel’
eyes by an enveloping cape which
gathered around her head, with lace
trimmed’slits for her eyes.
“Perhaps the most novel banquet
table in India is that of the maharaja
of Indore. A miniature landscape of
flowers and trees Illuminated by re¬
volving colored balls adorns the table.
A tiny electric train runs around its
edge on a small track. The train con¬
tains seven coaches, one each for car¬
rying brandy, port, sweets, nuts, choco¬
lates, cigars and cigarettes. At the
end of the meal, the maharaja starts
Vhe train by pressing a button at his
place, and it stops automatically at
the slightest touch of a guest who
wishes to make his selection.
“The nizain of Hyderabad, the rank¬
ing Mohammedan prince of India and
probably its richest ruler, has the
largest harem in India. His house¬
hold, including all retainers, numbers
7,000. Hyderabad was once known as
Golconda, a famous market for dia¬
monds In ancient days, and the ni
zam’s personal collection of jewels Is
worth millions of dollars.
Colorful Courts. r
“Although lacking in quality and
quantity of Jewels, the retainers of
the rajahs, in their voluminous tur¬
bans and richly colored coats, are al¬
most as picturesque as their rulers.
Corps of nauteh girls wear fortunes
tn heavy gold ornaments, and are pic¬
turesque in their brilliantly-hued skirts
and pastel-tinted saris. Even the ele¬
phants of state take to color and jew¬
elry. Their tusks are cut off and
bound with brass rings. In some
states they are provided with solid
gold ankle bands, and are tattooed
with shawl effect on their foreheads
and ears. One ruler has a solid-gold
pavilion mounted on the back of his
favorite elephant, and others gild
these howdahs and hang them with
gorgeous trappings and tapestry cur¬
tains.
“The maharaja of Udaipur has
some famous dancing horses. These
are pure-bred horses, caparisoned in
gold-covered bridles and brocade sad¬
dles, which prance with careful steps
to the sing-song music of their Indian
accompanists. These dancing horses
are popular and may be found In the
stahies of many of the Indian princes.
“Despite the enormous wealth of
the princes and other potentates of
[qdia the masses of the people live i.i
ppverty.’’The average individual in¬
come of India’s 300,000,000 people is
estimated at less than the equivalent
of $25 annually. British rule has
brought two blessings to India, the
building of railroads which avert the
regional famines which, In the past,
dealt death to' thousands, and protec¬
tion of her northwest border against
Invasion by marauding tribesmen.”
Deputy Sheriff Kindly
Gives Thief a Lift
Billings, Mont—Walter Scott, negro
porter, will be very careful with
whom he rides in the future.
He left a barber shop, where he was
employed, taking some hair tonic, ap¬
pliances, and loose cash with him.
Catching a ride out of town the fol¬
lowing day, he was forced to take to
the road again when the truck became
bogged In a mud hole. His luck held
out, apparently, as he approached
another car that had stopped on the
road.
Scott was given a ride to Hardin,
then escorted Into the police station
there by his kindly benefactor, who
happened to be a deputy sheriff from
Billings who had heard of the Barber
shop robbery. - _
FAMOUS GEYSERS
ARE ACTIVE AGAIN
Yellowstone Park Wonders
Back to Life.
Washington.—After eight or nine
years of comparative quiet, unusual
activity is- now being displayed by
two of the largest geysers in Yellow
stone National park, the Giant and the
Giantess, according to reports recent¬
ly received at the Department of the
Interior.
The Giantess, which played only
once during the summer of 14)28, lias
played twice since the beginning of
the present calendar year, with a
22-dgy interval. During the second
eruption it played for over four hours.
The period during which water was
erupted lasted only about 50 minutes,
the rest of the four hours being given
to steam and enough accompanying
water to form a fine mist coming
down.
From these two eruptions it is hoped
this geyser is coining back to activity.
The average height of tlie Giantess’
eruptions is from 300 to 250 feet. Un¬
til recent years it has usually played
two or three times a season.
The Giant geyser, which used to
play every eight or ten days, during
the last few years extended the time
between eruptions to a month or more
and lost summer and the year before
only played at night when tourists
were not able to see it. It also has
played twi-ce so far this year, at one
time throwing water to a height of
180 to 200 feet for a period of 02 min¬
utes. Sometimes the Giant throws its
water as high as 250 feet. Until the
adwwt of the new geyser in the park
the Giant 1ms been classed as the
greatest existing geyser since the old
Excelsior, which played out in 1800.
The new geyser, which as yet has
not been given a special name, sud¬
denly broke out last July. It appears
to have continued activity without in¬
terruption through the winter, al¬
though close observations have been
impracticable under winter conditions.
Its.crater, which resembles that of the
old Excelsior, measures 90 by 140 feet.
Its tube may be measured to a depth
of 74 feet below the surface, one foot
deeper than that of the Giant. Dur¬
ing the latter part of the past sum¬
mer it erupted once .in every ten to
fourteen and one-half hours, the pe¬
riod of eruption lasting from four to
six tiours. It has been estimated that
about 700,000 gallons of water are
thrown out in one of its four and one
half-hour eruptions.
Escaped Monkey Has
Fun With Train Crew
Reno, Nev.—No. 9, the fast mall
train of the Southern Pacific, was made
a monkey of when it rushed through
eastern Nevada, according to train¬
men going through here.
When the train left Ogden there
were 14 monkeys In a cage on one
of the baggage cars. When the train
readied Lakeside there were only 13
monkeys In the cage, while the four¬
teenth, not satisfied with the manner
In which the train was proceeding, was
out doing its best to help.
The monkey sca'mpefed over cars
and under cars and the GO-mile-an
hour rate of speed maritained by the
train had no terror for the animal. For
200 miles the monkey played tag with
the train crew. Then at Carlin the
animal left the conveyance and played
games with Carlin residents. Most of
Carlin’s population turned out to help
capture the truant, and it took all of
them to do it.
Eventually Mr. Monk was overtaken
and placed on No. 19 of the Southern
Pacific for transportation to San Fran¬
cisco. The monkey was none the
worse for its vacation.
Indian Tribe Claims
$17,000,000 From U. S.
Havre, Mont.—Assinihoin Indians
are preparing to wage an intensive
battle to recover $17,000,000 they claim
Is owed them by the United States
government. They have appointed
Everett Sanders, former secretary to
President Coolidge, as their leader in
the fight to succeed James Good, who
resigned his post us Indian leader to
join President Hoover’s cabinet.
The Indians’ claims Is for unoccu¬
pied lands and unpaid annuities un¬
der the treaty of 1851.
Popular for Dog*
Bridgeport, Conn.—Bridgeport dog
owners, who once preferred the names
of “Fido” in large majorities, now are
turning to more distinguished canine
names. Scrutiny of dog license rec¬
ords here revealed “Lindy” and “Mus¬
solini” threaten to eclipse “Fido” as a
pet name.
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* Coeds Prefer English; *
* Men Pick Economics |
* jji Cambridge, Mass.—English is * |
the most popular subject among
* * college girls tt and economic.- £ £
among men, a survey con
* ducted at Harvard and Rad *
* cliffe Is an accurate barometer £
* Twenty-eight per cent of Rgd- S
* cliffe girls are concentrating ii u
!jj English, of Harvard compared with 16 Seven pei i= :!
* cent men.
* teen per cent of the Harvard 0
* students are majoring in eco ;' * :
* nomics, while less than 3 per
* cent of the Radcliffe girls have *
* shown preference for that sub *
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MAN WAS TRYING TO
FLY BEFORE CHRIST
Experiments With Quee*
Devices in Ancient Times.
New York.—Although authenticated
records show that man first rode the
air successfully only 140 years ago,
aviation as an Idea Is at. least 2,300
year old.
Indications are that men were ex¬
perimenting with fantastic devices
for the conquest of the air long be¬
fore the birth of Christ, according to
a "compilation of ancient chronicles
made by the Golden Boole.
Although the narrated flight ot
Archytas of Tarentum in 400 B. C.,
recorded by Gellius, is regarded large¬
ly as a flight of imagination, It Is ac¬
cepted as an indication that even then
men were attempting seriously to imi¬
tate the birds.
“Many men of eminence among the
Greeks, ami Favorinus the philoso¬
pher,” soys Gellius, “have in a most
positive manner assured us that the
model of a dove or pigeon, formed in
wood by Archytas, was so contrived
as by a certain mechanical art and
power to fly, so nicely was it bal¬
anced by weights and put in motion
by hidden and enclosed air.”
Da Vinci’s Plan Scientific.
Ovid’s story of the fall of Icarus
shows that the ambition was still alive
in the First century of the Christian
era, as does other mention of man¬
made wings and ships modeled after
birds.
At about the time that Columbus
discovered America, Leonardo da Vin¬
ci gave his famous and scientifically
sound plan for a flying machine. “A
bird is an instrument working accord¬
ing to mathematical law, an instru¬
ment which It is within the capacity
of man to reproduce with all its move¬
ments, though not with a correspond¬
ing degree of strength, for it Is defi¬
cient in the power of maintaining
equilibrium,” he said. “To attain to
the true science of the movement of
birds in the air, it is necessary to
give first the science of the winds.
. . . Unlees the movement of the
wing Is swifter than the movement of
the air so pressed, the air will not be¬
come condensed and the bird will not
support itself.”
But even before Leonardo, Roger
Bacon in the Thirteen century con¬
ceived the idea of an artificial bird—
an idea which is the subject of ex¬
perimentation even today, the Golden
Book article points out. Bacon set
forth that ‘‘an instrument may be
made to fly withal if one sit in the
midst of the instrument, and do turn
an engine, by which the wings, being
artifically composed, may beat the air
after tfie manner of the flying bird.”
The compilation also contains first¬
hand accounts of the two ascensions
by which the Montgolfier brothers and
Pilatre de Rozler proved the prac¬
ticality of the first hot-air balloons in
1783.
First Successful Flight.
On June 5 of that year at Annonay,
France, the Montgolfiers sent up their
first balloon, a bag 110 feet in circum¬
ference and weighing 300 pounds.
Without a passenger, it shot up to a
height of 0.000 feet in ten minutes,
and traveled a mile and a half before
it descended gently to earth.
On October 15 of the same year, In
another machine built by the Mont¬
golfiers, de Rozier rode the air for the
first time successfully, stoking the fire
which heated the air within the gas¬
bag with straw and wool. —
“After a few trials close to the
ground, he desired to ascend to a
great height,” says the account. “The
machine was accordingly permitted to
rise, and ascend as high as the ropes,
which were placed there purposely to
detain it, would allow, which was
about 84 feet. There M. de Rozier
kept the machine afloat four minutes
and twenty-five seconds by throwing
straw and wool into the grate to keep
up the fire. Then the machine de¬
scended exceedingly gently.”
Fish Liars Club Now
Issuing Liar’s License
Waterloo, N. Y.—Prompted by a real
need, the Liars club of Waterloo now
issues a liar’s license.
It all started when W. Fred Bacon,
an attorney, returned from Florida
with a story, accompanied by photo¬
graphs, of catching 88 fish totaling
800 pounds In a single day. He was
Immediately awarded a card of honor
by the'Liars club.
But the. lying became so rampant
that the executive committee decided
to issue a card permitting its mem¬
bers to falsify. The card allows reck¬
lessness with the truth in all matters
pertaining to fish or fishing for the
current season. The grand seal of
Ananias is affixed to the document.
Link Ancient Egypt
China in Snake Rites
.Stockholm.—Belief that the Chinese
during the Stone age had the same
kind of snuke worship as the inhab¬
itants of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia
and Russian Turkestan, was expressed
by Prof. J. G. Anderson, Sweden’s
foremost expert on Chinese archeology.
Professor Anderson based his belief
o the discovery of the cover of a
Chinese grave urn made during the
Stine age in China.
Around the head of the figure of the
urn, and down the man’s back, Pro¬
fessor Anderson found twined a
plaited braid of snakes corresponding
almost exactly to snake designs found
on Stone age objects discovered in
northern Africa and io the Near East.
