Cleveland courier. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1896-1975, September 27, 1929, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextChinese Have Armored Trains in Manchuria Not to be caught unprepared, the Chinese military authorities have rushed a number of armored ears, such as the one shown in the picture, to the scene of the recent encounters with Red Russian troops, near Harbin in north¬ ern Manchuria. Remember When the Ladies Dressed Like This? These members of the California Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs In convention at the Hotel Huntington, Pasadena, Calif., added zest to their proceedings by adopting costumes of three decades ago for “Gay Nineties” day. New Wind Beacon for the Airmen Maj. Francis Boyle, Capt. L. H. Palmer and Capt. Dudley Howard, left to right, inspecting the new windage beacon undergoing tests at Bolling field. This revolving beacon with the wind direction indicator was invented by I ajor Boyle and is so designed as to throw a colored beam down wind for a distance of from one to two miles as an aid to pilots making landings at night. Jackie, Crippled, Uses Wheelchair “Jackie,” pet of a Dallas (Texas) family, recently run over by an auto¬ mobile, pulling himself along the “road to recovery” in a wheel chair con¬ traption built especially for him. ____............ CLEVELAND COURIER. TO PROTECT BANKS Hector Fuller is here holding a Thompson submachine gun at the Bankers’ Industrial exposition in New York. The baby machine gun weighs hut nine pounds thirteen ounces, hut is capable of “spitting' 1 a stream of 300 bullets a minute. JACK QUINN QUITS •Tack Quinn, one of Connie Mack’s veteran pitchers and who aided ma¬ terially this year in bringing the Ath¬ letics to the top, has announced hi$r retirement. Mad Woman’s Achievement A square of rag, inscribed in ex¬ quisite needlework with a clearly read¬ able message nearly i,000 words long, was among the exhibit at the patholog¬ ical exhibition at the British medical congress at Manchester. The worker was a madwoman who imagined that she was Eve, and the needlework de¬ scribes her hallucinations. The most astonishing thing about it is that it was all done under the coverlet of her bed, to conceal it from the nurse. She intended it as a message to God. SOL NOT SO GOOF AS WEATHER SE7R Sun Spots Have no Signifi¬ cance, Says Bureau. Washington.—Old Sol recently has staged his big parade of plain and fancy sun spots, but has not yet been able to establish himself as a relia¬ ble herald of mundane weather, in the opinion of official forecasters here. •<% The period when the sun exhibits the maximum number of spots, recur¬ ring at Intervals of approximately eleven years, is now passing. Al¬ though the sun spot demonstrations in recent months have engrossed in¬ terest of scientists and public in all parts of the world, the United States weather bureau sees no new and de¬ pendable evidences that sun spots af¬ ford reliable basis for weather fore¬ casting as pseudo-scientists have al¬ leged from time immemorial. “This bureau has given careful at¬ tention to studies of solar phenomena, but does not know of any study that has established a definite relation be¬ tween weather conditions and sun spots," Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the weather bureau, said. “It- would be exceedingly difficult to establish such a relationship,” he explained, “because of the rotation of the earth and sun, and also because at any one time there are many kinds of weather occurring in different parts of the earth. How may one de¬ termine which particular kind of weather might theoretically be corre¬ lated with a sunspot which might at the time exist We would welcome any rational demonstration that sun spots control the- weather, but so far this has not been proved, and some of the efforts to do so have been ab¬ surd. Keep Record of Spots. Doctor Marvin said that the bureau possesses information concerning sun spots going back to the early Chris¬ tian era, and that a complete detailed* record of sun spots is available com¬ mencing in 1740. This record has beeTi graphed by bureau scientists nnd shows that the number of sun spots goes through cycles of eleven years, this approximate period elapsing be¬ tween recurrence of the maximum number of spots. This maximum falls roughly in the latter part of 1028 and Carly in 1920. The record shows that In some months as many as 250 spots have been visible, while in others there may be none at all. The longest pe¬ riod when the sun was unspotted was twenty-three months from 1809 to 1811. “Some scientists hold the view that the eleven-year, period Is the result «f gravitational action resulting from movements of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, but other authorities con¬ tend that the spots could be explained by Internal action of the sun,” Doctor Marvin said. Seek Cause. “Recently the bureau published, on Its merits, a study of the planetary hypothesis of sun spots by Dinsmore Alter of the University of Kansas, which sought to show that short period fluctuations in the spottedness of the sun could be correlated with the movements of Venus, Mercury and the earth. Other scientists entertain the theory that the sun spots may be meteors which strike the sun.” The fact that spots may he observed on the disk of the sun arises from the fact that these areas are supposedly gaseous formations, relatively colder than other parts of the sun, and there¬ fore appear as “spots,” due to their darkness, relative to the surrounding brighter area. Youth on Trial Spin Does a Lot of Things Modesto, Calif.—The parents of Max Denny, sixteen, planned to buy a car, so the youth took the machine out for a trial spin, accomplishing the fol¬ lowing results: Cut off the towns of Escalon and Riverbank from electric power for one hour. Cut off the towns of Oakdale and Knights Ferry for 30 minutes. Blew ill the fuses of a Pacific Gas and Electric corporation private tele¬ phone service serving Escalon, River bank, Oakdale and Knights Ferry. Imperiled automobile traffic on Mc¬ Henry avenue by knocking a 17,000 volt power line from a pole. Shattered a high-tension power line pole. Wrecked the automobile. Caused himself to receive several minor cuts and bruises. The youth lost control of the car and struck the power pole, which car¬ ried both power and telephone wires. Deer Enters Window and Routs a Camper Whitehall, N. Y.—Although hun¬ dreds of deer were killed in the Adi¬ rondack's during the last hunting sea¬ son, many deer are seen by woods¬ men, it is reported. Crashing through windows and glass doors, terrorizing campers, breaking ornaments and playing havoc with in¬ terior camp decorations, a buck deer broke Into corages at South Bay re¬ cently. A camper was frying fish for dinner. He let out a yell as the deer came through the window, splintering the pane. The deer thrust at him with tiis antlers. The man took refuge on the oil stove. The deer went tearing through the cottage and out the front room window. : LIGHTS "'gfASS i ; of NEW YORK ; Clubby Folk The new edition of Club Members of New York contains the names and addresses of 30,000 members of 44 men’s and women’s clubs in the met¬ ropolitan area—and circulating library and book-of-the-month club member¬ ships are not counted. Reading from left to right, the organizations start with the Ardsley Golf club and the Automobile Club of America, and end with the University club and the Yale club. * * * Champion Joiners Brig, Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt afid Harry Payne Whitney are the cham¬ pion joiners, belonging to 17 clubs each. Clarence W. Mackay, Irving Berlin’s father-in-law, comes next by paying dues in 16. Among the women, Mrs. John T. Pratt—Alderman Ruth Pratt—tops the list with six member¬ ships—and there are only six wom¬ en’s clubs listed. The New York A. O. Is most popular' of all, having 5,500 members. * * * Protect the Weak A new society Is thriving in a pub¬ lic school in Greenwich Village. It has been organized to protect the weak and helpless, and to relieve suf¬ fering of dogs, cats and horses. The children patrol the streets and see to it that every stray cat is allowed to prowl unmolested in the garbage cans that line the street curbings. They are curb cats, not alley cats; for there are no alleys. The children keep a keen lookout for any kind of cruelty, and a driver who whips bis horse in the neighborhood will surely be re¬ ported to the S. P. C. A. And if he leaves his wagon for a moment, tils whip will be stolen and added to the children’s large collection. * * * Three cheers for Democracy! Sin gle-handed, and with no influence whatever, one unimportant and impov¬ erished citizen has made a supposedly soulless public utility do his bidding. For almost two years be has com¬ muted (o Long Island. Every day during most of that time he got caught in the jam before the train gates in the Long Island part of Pennsylvania station. He noticed that his train was usually on Its track, all ready for passengers, five or ten minutes before the gates were opened. If they’d only open the gates earlier, he thought, there would be no crush to get through at the last minute. He innocently asked the station master how long before train time the gates should he opened. “The rules say they should be opened 15 minutes before train time, except in rush hours,” said the station master. For several weeks the downtrodden commuter made notes. Even outside rush hours, he discovered, the gates were seldom opened earlier than seven minutes before train time. “Why?” he asked a platform man. “Well,” said the platform man, “the train crew’s pay doesn’t, start until 15 minutes before the train leaves, and by the time they have signed up and punched the clock and taken their positions at the doors, five or maybe ten minutes have gone by.” “Olio!” said the commuter. So he wrote a letter to the transit commis¬ sion, detailing what he had learned. “For a few dollars more," he said, “the railroad could increase its pas¬ sengers’ comfort.” The transit com¬ mission was right on the job. *It sent its inspectors to verify the com¬ muter’s complaint, and then called the operating heads of the road on thp carpet. The gates now open 15 min¬ utes ahead of time, except when the rush-hour headway makes it impos¬ sible. (© by the Bell Syndicate, fnc.) Saws Way Into Jail and Begins Sentence Lebanon, ind.—Emmett Scott, forty six, started three months’ sentence and a new record at the Boone county jail here. So far, to Scott belongs the distinc¬ tion of being the only man ever to saw his way in to serve a sentence. When Scott arrived to do his tiute be found that the keys had been lost and the doors of the institution locked against him. Under instruction from Sheriff Sandlin he got busy with a hack saw and opened up the gate to the bull pen. OOOOOOCHKmOOOlMXKKHJOOOOOj Raises Tombstone for Wife to Aid His Suit Budapest.—When Mrs. Jo hana Rudl, during a walk through a Budapest cometery, found a gravestone on which she was anounced as dead and her children, mentioned by name on the stone, as In mourn¬ ing she decided to start a po¬ lice investigation. Within a few days she learned that, wishing to milrrj again and finding it necessary in some ^extraordinary way to prove to the object of bis affec¬ tion bow devotedly be could love a woman, her divorced husband had erected the mon ?, ument. It was to show his in 0 tended wife how he cherished § the memory of any woman who 9 did him the hone- of accepting 6 $ ^oooooooooo&ooo&ooo&oooooo biro -as a husband. 9 RARE BIRDS TAKEN OFF TEXAS COAST, Collectors Get Specimens oCj Queer Species. , Corpus Christ!, Texas—An HarperJ expedi¬ tion headed by Dr. Francis under the auspices of the Academy of} Natural Science of Philadelphia, haa| been visiting several islands off thei Gulf coast of Texas to collect speci-l mens of birds and other animal tifei peculiar to this region. During tbeiri stay they gathered 230 specimens off birds and 45 specimens of rodents. Many rare specimens of birds were obtained on Lydia Ann island, three miles north of Port Aransas. This| island, about two square miles, Is not! inhabited. bird, which It had was there spread that of a frigatej wingsj a seven feet six inches was killed. Thai frigate bird nests along the southern coast of Mexico early in the spring. It migrates north and returns in the winter. When tired, it perches on some tree or other tall object. Frigate Bird a Pirate. The frigate bird gets its food by floating lazily above the water, where it robs a gull or tern of the fish he has caught. Other specimens taken were an oys¬ ter catcher, a clapper rail, which re¬ sembles the prairie chicken with a long bill, and a turn stone, a small member of the snipe family, which turns over rocks with his bill in search of food. Another specimen was the skinner, a bird about ns large as the laughing gull, it also has a long beak, the lower jaw being about three quarters of an inch longer than thei upper. When hungry, it Skims along quiet water with the lower jaw im¬ mersed to catch small fish. The cor¬ morant, often called water turkey, swins completely submerged. There are about ten species of terns,, some of which were captured hy Doc¬ tor Harper, the roseate, the gull hilled, the black and the Arctic tern. The party also took a roseate spoon¬ bill, commonly called flamingo, a beau¬ tiful rich pink bird. The stilt, resembling a large snipe. Is able to wade in water eighteen inches deep. The curlew, whose long) bill is flexible, presses it into crab holes and fetches forth its meals. Horned Larks Captured. *' Several larks were taken by the ex¬ pedition on the north end of Mustang] island. According to Doctor Harper, these are subspecies of the meadow lark and are found In this country only. Several of the horned larks were also added to the collection. One peculiar fact concerning ro¬ dents was noted by the scientists. The Islands visited by the expedition are known to have been completely sub¬ merged several years ago. Yet a large number of rodents are on these islands. Ground squirrels, rats and gophers are the most common. The rat family Included mice, cotton, red and kangaroo rats. Snakes and lizards were taken from all the Islands visited, and on Lydia Ann island signs of an iguana were reported. Pitcher Is Modest About Hi^ Heroism Memphis, Tenn.—It takes more nerve, in the opinion of Robert Russ, fourteen, “to stand up there and put ’em over the plate when the bases are loaded and nobody out" than to dive forty-three feet Into n river and save a drowning companion. Young Russ, who is credited with diving from a bridge over the Ten¬ nessee river at Guntersville, Ala., re¬ cently to save Harry Smith, fifteen, Is pitcher for a local playground team. He had just finished pitching a game in which he struck out seven batters but lost, 6 to 5. when he re¬ luctantly consented to being “inter¬ viewed.” "Aw, gee! I just jumped in and pulled him out,” Robert said. He did not tell how he had jumped while several men looked on, that he him¬ self was severely injured hy striking a log in the dive, or that, ft took him twenty minutes to pull young Smith to the banks. Seeks $15,000,000 in Hulk of Lost Vessel New York.—The $15,000,000 gold bullion treasure in the sunken hullc of the liner Egypt off the coast of France will be the object of a deter¬ mined salvage effort to he launched soon by Capt. Henry L. Bowdoin, vet¬ eran sea diver. Captain Bowdoin announced that his attempt to raise the gold was backed by local capitalists, and $150, 000 is said to have been spent on the project. The gold, which lies in 400 feet of water, has been sought, by many treasure hunters, but the depth has prevented success. The Egypt sank on May 20, 1922, 20 miles off the French coast. Al! Behave in County of 280,000 Population Fresno, Caiif.—Deputy Sheriff Wil¬ liam Hulsey, Fresno county’s jailer, said here that he wouldn’t be sur¬ prised should the miltenium prove to be just around the corner. Deputy Hulsey’s remark followed forty-eight hours without booking a new prisoner at the county Jail. All Fresno city prisoners are also ac¬ commodated In the county bastile. Fresno has a population estimated to be about 80,000 and the county has approximately 200,000 persons.