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Wreck Of Jeanette
Caused Amundsen’s
Polar Flights
SEATTLE.—Arctic navigator* re¬
turning here from their summer in¬
cursions into the North by way of
Bering Strait recall that the wreck
of the Jeanette originated the inapir
ation for the latest attempt of Cap¬
tain Roald Amundsen to float a ves¬
sel across, or near, the North Pole.
Commanded by St. George Wash¬
ington de Long, U. S. N., the Jean
ette moved into the Arctic through
Bering Strait in 1879, and after pass¬
ing Wrangell Island was locked In
ice. She crumpled and sank June 13,
1881, after 22 months in the pact.
Part of her crew perished in strug¬
gling over the ice to the mouth of
the Lena River, in Siberia, and
more died in trying to find a human
habitation. One of the survivors
was Chief Engineer George W. Wel
ville, who later became an admiral.
Three years after the crumpling,
casks from the Jeanette were found
on the coast of Greenland, giving
evidence they had passed across the
Arctic ocean.
Amundsen’s first drifting exploit
was in the Gjoa to make the west¬
ward passage of the Arctic above
North America He completed the
voyage in 1906. Next, in the Fram,
he went to the other end of the earth,
discovering the South Pole, December
16, 1911.
The explorer again started for the
North in 1922, this time in the Maud,
propelled by crude oil and sails.
While away, he made two attempts
to reach the Pole by air. In the sum
mer of 1923, a plane, which'he had
carried with him, wrecked it landing
gear in trying to rise at Wainwright.
On May 21, 1926, Amundsen and
five others hopped off in two planes
from the Spitsbergen Islands to fly
over the pole. The six returned June
18 in one of the planes, the other hav¬
ing been wrecked 150 miles from the
pole.
Amundsen, now 53, is preparing to
reach the North Pole in a dirigible.
Judge In Small Deb¬
tors Court Tries
Cases By Telephone
WICHITA, Kan.—David Leahy
Wichita, “dean of Kansas
men," is one judge in the
States who tries cases by telephone
He is judge of the "small
court,” permission for the establish¬
ment of which was granted by the
legislature. *
A telephone rings in a Wichita bus
iness house.
“Hello. This is Judge Leahy.
want to get your testimony in re
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gmtti to the Jon** ft. Jon** e*se.”
And to th* testimony 1* taken,i to b*
incorporated In the court records and
uacd a* the basis for a decision.
The “telephone oases" are decided
by Judge Leahy after all the evi¬
dence is collected, and then hie decis¬
ion is mailed to the principals.
Judge Leahy's courtroom is a poor
place for a lawyer. He himaelf re¬
ceives no compensation for his ser¬
vice, and legal lights are barred from
admission unless they wish to be mere
spectators.
Even the courtroom is' abandoned
in the summer time. Most of the
cases decided this past summer were
heard on Judge Leahy’s front porch.
The seat of judgment was a rocking
chair; the defendant and plaintiff took
their places at the counsel tables—
the front steps.
In the 200 cases “tried" since the
institution of the court—without cost
—not an appeal has been taken from
Judge Leahy's decision. Only per¬
sons whose controversy involves a
sum of $20 or less are admitted to
the court. Many potential cases are
settled “out of court” by Judge
Leahy’s getting the principals togeth¬
er and talking it over with them.
Wichita’s charitable judge acts as
a judge even outside of office hours.
Recently two prominent eastern au¬
thors found themselves embroiled in
a controversy over the color of “Wild
Bill” Hick's hair. “Wild Bill” noted
frontiersman, was an intimate friend
of Judge Leahy when Kansas was still
In short trousers.
The controversy was referred to
the Kansas newspaper man. “Wild
Bill’s hair was straw-colored,” read
his decision. “The old wood-cuts
make it look dark.”
“Presiding over small debtors court
seems to take the judgment of a Solo
mon,” observes Judge Leahy, “but it’s
only plain, common sense."
Jake Gosnell Goes
Back To His Farm
PICKENS, S. G.—Jake Gosnell,
federal prohibition agent for several
years has retired from the service
rather than “do prohibition work in
Georgia with men of a character that
I* consider a disgrace to the profes¬
sion,” he announced today.
Recently, after the reorganization
of the federal prohibition enforce¬
ment service, Gosnell was ordered by
P. M. Caudle, in charge of the district
office at Greenville, to go to Georgia
for work.
Gosnell said here today that he told
Mr. Caudle that he would retire from
the servoice rather than work with
the men whom he would be associat¬
ed with in Georgia. He has assumed
the role of a private citizen on his
farm near Pickens.
Defects In Army
War Ammunition
- Stock Disclosed
WASHINGTON.—Defects in the
war stock of army ammunition now
held in reserve are disclosed in the
annual report of Major General C. C.
Williams, Chief of Ordinance, made
public today. They are due- it is
said, not alone to deteriaration in
storage, but to “hurried war design
or hurried war production,” and have
been discovered as a result of the
careful infection, system including
laboratory tests set up since the war.
About one-third of the reserve
ammunition is overhauled annually,
the report showed, making sure that
the whole stock is inspected and test
fired at the proving ground in per¬
centages of each lot every three
years. General Williams did not in¬
dicate the extet nature of the defects
except to say that deterioration of the
“explosive elements” is most marked.
“In connection with the rapid pro¬
duction of £he ammunition- to meet
the emergency of the war,’’ the re¬
port pointed out, “it was necessary
to adopt new types of explosives, to
permit new and more expeditious
methods of manufacture of existing
types, and to use new methods in
loading the explosives.”
The condition of the reserve stock
of ammunition has been a growing
source of worry to the War Depart¬
ment and a project for building up
>the reserve through a ten year re¬
placement program has been worked
out which involves around $300,000,
000 .
Efforts during the year to develop
a cross- country, ditch jumping cat¬
erpillar tractor ear for reconnois
sance work were without success.
General Williams said, but remark¬
able results were obtained with “a
Ford touring car chassis, equipped
with balloon tires, bucket seats and
a low speed auxiliary transmission.
The machine ‘ apparently fills the
military requirements,” the report
said.
A "noteworthy achievement”
through application of X-ray appara¬
tus Jo study the structure of steel
and other metals was reported from
Watertown, N. Y., Arsenal. Defects
not otherwise have been discovered
in castings running up to two and
one-half inches in thickness, the
working having been extended to ex¬
perimental testing for commerical
concerns with the arsenal apparatus.
The new high pressure steam power
plant line near Boston was among
those so examined.
At the Aberdeen, Md., proving
ground, General Williams said, im¬
portant research was being conducted
by means of a camera obseura in a
scientific study of the flight of bombs
dropped by aircraft. The experi
ments were started as an incident to
the testing of the bombs but have dis¬
closed data which “will permit the
plotting of the trajectory and develop¬
ment of a suitable range table for
use by aircraft troops.”
Frog Steals Romeo’s
Stunt in Wooing
LONDON.—The love song of the
frog is rendered much after the fash¬
ion Romeo employed in enticing Jul¬
iet to the balcony. Shifting the scene
to most any pond or marsh, the prin¬
cipals strive for the same effect.
A fine young bull frog “who would
a-wooing go” squats in a clump of
reeds or on a bank, Dr. Kingsley No¬
ble, the American scientist, told the
London Zoological Society, and in¬
flates his throat until it resembles
the dew-lap of an operatic tenor.
“The song works like magic,” the
scientist said “Within a short time
the lady frog appears and will ap¬
proach the source of the enchanting
melody, as if trying to pretend that it
was all because of idle curiosty.
But if the singing cease3, the lady
frog stops perfectly still. More bull
frog music will lure her on once
again.”
Damp and patient night vigils in
swamps and marshes of New Jersey
and New York convinced Dr. Noble
of the part the vioce of the bachelor
frog played in his courtship.
Had “Let Them Out”
Ax actor in a stock company playing
ia an inland town sent a suit of eve¬
ning clothes to the tailor with In¬
struction to “let it out.” He left the
suit for some time, but, needing it in
a hurry, he went afer It himself. “How
about my clothes?" he asked. "Most
successful," said the tailor, rubbing
his hands. ‘Tve managed to let them
out several times at a dollar each
time.”
Comforting
First Traveler (to companion wh#Q
(heir si* being roasted fer a cannibal
flwmt)—WsU, old friend, tor the first
time in my life I am now assured of
being lov*d for myself alone—Pari*
Bite.
Says Science
And Religion j
Have No Fight
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—“Science and
religion have no conflict and no right¬
ful quarrel," said Dr. L. C. Glenn, of
Vanderbilt University, today in an
address on “Evidences of the Theory
of Evolution” before the Tennessee
Academy of Science.
“The problem of how life has de¬
veloped is surely a scientific one to
be studied and solved solely by seek¬
ing the facts in the case,” Dr. Glenn
said. “It has unfortunately become
mixed in the minds of many with re¬
ligious ideas, and many erroneously
belive that evolution rules God out of
the universe. Geology, however, look¬
ed at right, furnishes no support for
atheism, for the student, of what God
has done can not logically ignore the
existence of God, whose works he
studies and whose thoughts he thinks.
“One might readily reject Darwin¬
ism entirely without in the least af¬
fecting his entire belief, in the fact
of evolution of life,” he declared.
“When once the fact of the long,
long succession of life has been grasp¬
ed and one realizes that through un¬
counted millions of years, thousands
and thousands of species of succes¬
sively higher animals and plants have
been coming into existence, one after
another, firing for a brief while and
then most of them disappearing en¬
tirely, the question of how much life
has been produced becomes an inevi¬
table one,
“Only two answers are conceivable.
According to one, the Creator made
each of the countless millions of spe¬
cies, according to a plan by a separat¬
ed act of creative power and no one
was related to any other one.
Through millions of years, as old
species became extinct, He was creat¬
ing new ones to take the place of
those that had died out.
“According to the other answer,
the creator in the beginning creat¬
ed a single form of simplest life,
but endowed that form with a mar¬
velous capacity for development and
change so that descended forms
through all the geological ages have
been able to adapt themselves to an
ever-changing physical environment,
and develop in harmony with it, thus
giving rise to the myriads of extinct
forms of the past and all of the count¬
less forms, or species, of the present.
“Geology presents abundant evi¬
dence to enable one to choose between
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two answers. On the separate
theory it is strange that the
succession of species through geolo
time is always in the order of
progressive development from the
simple to the specialized, never in the
reverse order.
“The geographic description of both
animals and plants now and in the
past have in many cases no explana¬
tion through separate creation but
are plain and simple if evolution has
occurred.”
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