New Aircraft Carrier Joins Pacific Fleet
WILL FIGHT BAER
James J. Braddock. New Jersey, des
ignated by the New York state athletic
commission as the leading challenger
for the heavyweight title, has been
signed by Madison Square garden to
meet Max Baer, the champion, in a
15-round battle for the title.
> 1?Mrs. William A. Becker of<$
Summit, N. J., who was elected presi
dent general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. 2?The navy's
newes? aircraft carrier, Ranger, steam
ing into San Diego harbor to Join the
fleet. 3?View of Honeymooners' Nest
at Niagara falls after the recent fall
of many tons of rock, the sixth such
slide in the last three years.
"Ranger"7 Is
Mystery Craft
The aircraft carrier "Hanger," newest
pride of the United States navy, shown
above as It steamed Into San Diego
harbor to Join the fleet. Because of
her special design, the "Ranger" will
carry as many planes as either the
Saratoga or Lexington, though she Is
only half their size. The "Ranger" is
listed at only 14,500 tons. Details of
the craft are carefully guarded.
The navy now has four aircraft car
riers with the "Langley" completing
the quartet. Plans announced last
year, however, call for the construction
of two more The "Yorktown" is to
he completed late In 193G, and the
"Enterprise" will take to the water ii
early In 1937. ** s
Modern fighting racties are making i:
these vessels increasingly important to J
the "first line of defense." n
ENVOY TO COLOMBIA
William Dawson, who has been serv
ng as American minister to Ecuador !
ince 1930, has been appointed min
ster to Colombia. Lie is a native of
linnesota and has been in the diplo- |
oatic service about sixteen years.
(Norris Dam Gate Is Swung I
nto Place
Construction
[s Rushed
)n Project
A gate weighing 15 tons is photo
graphed as it is lowered into place be
tween two sections of the Norris dam
on the Clinch river in Tennessee. Now
a year ahead of schedule, the $34,000.
000 project will be completed in 1930.
The Norris Dam is one of the ad
ministration's major construction proj
ects. The concrete section of the
structure will have a height of 253 feet
from foundation to roadway, a base
width of 210 feet, and an over all crest
of 1,800 feet. An earth section at the
east end has an additional length of
302 feet. When rhe reservoir Is filled
an area of 35,000 to 52,000 acres will
be inundated. The area thus covered
is capable of forming an artificial lake
covering some 80 square miles with a
shore line of more than 800 miles.
Two 55,000 kilowatt generating units
will be installed in the Norris dam
power house.
Traffic Violators Don't Like This
In Lot Angeles the police have devised a new "torture" for violator* of the
traffic rules. Caught lumping a signal or missing a boulevard atop, one of these
"Traffic Violator" stickers Is put on the windshield for a month or two, and a
second offense means a sura trip to jail.
QUEEN SHENANDOAH
Mis* Nell* "Veverka, twenty-year-old
daughter of the Czechoslovak!*!! min
ister to the United States, was select
ed to reign over the Shenandoah Apple
Klossom festival as Queen Sbenandosh
XII. She Is seen here among the mag
nolla trees In Potomac park. Wash
ington.
TREMENDOUS
TRIFLES
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
A SHOT SPOILS A PLOT
TT WAS only a little "four-pounder"
* and the small cannon halls which It
flred at the British sloop. "Vulture."
as she lay at anchor below West Point
couldn't possibly have Injured her even
if they had hit her. But those same
cannon balls were destined to expose
the treason plot of Benedict Arnold,
to send MaJ. John Andre to his death
and to save the United States the three
years' work and the three million dol
lars it bad spent on the fortress at
West Point, not to mention their sav
ing the Patriots' cause from coming to
a. sudden and untimely end.
The "Vtilture" had come up the Hud
son, bringing Major Andre, adjutant
general of the British army, to estab
lish contact with Arnold, aud to per
fect the plans for his handing over
West Point to the enemy. Andre was
put ashore to meet Arnold at the home
ture" dropped anchor to await his re
turn.
A certain Colonel Livingston regard
ed the presence of the enemy ship as
something of an insult He asked CoL
John Lamb to lend him a gun and some
powder. Lamb wrote to bim "Firing at
a ship witb a four pounder is in my
opinion, a waste of powder; as the
damage she will sustain, is not equal
to the expense."
But Livingston persisted until he got
the gun. Then be opened Are on the
"Vulture" and his bombardment was so
annoying that the "Vulture" shifted her
moorings and dropped farther down the !
river.
When Andre was ready to return, the
oarsmen hired to row bim out to the
British ship were too lazy to go the
extra distance. So the only thing to do
was to send him south by land. Smith
provided plain clothes and a horse,
guided him for a short distance, then J
sent him on his way. But Andre got i
lost, blundered Into the hands of three
American militiamen who turned him I
over to a Continental officer. The re- |
suit is history?the betrayal of Ar
nold's treason plot and the saving of
West Point
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FACE ON THE COIN
T^TNG LOUIS XVI of France lost
his head twice. The first time i
was over a very trifling annoyance
but It led to the second time when he j
lost It over the block of the guillotine.
And that was permanent!
When It became certain that noth
ing could stop the French Revolution
the king decided to escape from the
Tulleries with his family. On the
night of June 21, 1791, a big coach
trundled away from the palace with
the members of the royal family in
side.
At the little town of Ste. Menehould,
it was necessary to change the horses, i
Beyond Menehould was a regiment of
royal troops ready to escort the king
across the frontier. The journey was i
almost over.
But the grooms at the post-house
were slow and the king, tired from the I
strain of the long ride, was irritable, j
For just one moment his majesty !
raised the curtain of the coach win
dow. He wanted to see how much I
longer the clumsy grooms would delay 1
his departure.
Among the bystanders idly watch- |
ing the torchllt scene was Drouet, the t
village postmaster. He saw the face j
in the window. But no! It was im- |
possible. It could not be the king of
France. Drouet reached Into his ;
pocket and took out a coin that had |
just been minted. The face on the
coin was the face he had seen in the j
coach.
As the equipage turned off the main
road and lumbered north through the
Argonne forest Drouet pursued it.
Reaching Varennes, he roused the
agent of the Commune. The arrest of
the royal fugitives followed an hour
later. Soon the king was on his way
back to Paris with his queen, Marie
Antoinette, for a tragic interview
with Monsieur Guillotine.
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A CHANCE REMARK
FSAAC MERRIT SINGER was the son
* of a millwright and he wanted to be
a machinist. So he became one, also a
successful inventor. Soon he was inter
ested in the possibilities oi the sewing
machine which was then being talked
a Ka lit Ho Kapta 11* I) H ?-lil fp..m "
and worked for eleven flays, eating
only one meal and sleeping very little,
lie got a machine assembled, but It
would not work.
Singer toiled late Into the night, and,
then, lost In discouragement, started to
go home. The friend wt!n had lent
him the money was with him. The
two men walked through the streets of
Boston silently. The tinal trouble with
the machine had been too much. It
would not make 'ight stitches
Worn out with the long strain. Singer
stopped to rest on a pile of boards out
side a deserted bonding. Suddenly the
friend said "It strikes nw peculiar!
All the loose loops of thread were on
the upper aide of the cloth!"
In a flash the Inventor saw the way
out of the trouble. They turned at
once back to the shop and Singer fum
bled with the tension screw . , .
It worked! His machine sewed perfect
stitches.
& W??t?r* Siviptpar Csloa.
Plan Pharos of Columbus
Move to Create Monument to Great Sailor in World
He Discovered; Island of Havti Selected
as the Most Appropriate Site.
Some brief descriptions have come
down to us about one of the Seven
' Wonders of the ancient world, the
Lighthouse of Alexandria.
It was built on the Island of Pharos
in the harbor and was connected
with the city by the Seven Furlong
bridge. Accounts placing the height
of its tower at GOO feet are believed
to be overdrawn and 400 feet is re
garded as more probable. Built by
Sostratus of Cnldus. it was begun un
der Ptolemy 1 of Egypt and was fin
ished under Ptolemy II. Its cost being
; placed at 800 talents, which by some
valuations might be the equivalent
of as much as $1,000,000.
From the Pharos of Alexandria is
traced an addition to languages and
an Influence on lighthouse and also
; on other architecture. The word
Pharos came to be applied to light
iiuust's geucraiijr auu wiui auixic
change iD spelling Is of common
usage in certain modern tongues,
while pharology became a technical ,
terra for lighthouse building. The
! first of the lighthouses In western
Europe, built by the Romans, was
called the Pharos of Dover, while the
minarets of Mohammedan mosques
symbolize lighthouses* and in the
earlier ones we possibly may see ,
what their model, the original Alex- ,
andria structure, looked like. Some .
influence on the steeples of Chris- .
tian churches is discerned by writers. ,
An example of special dignity and i
worthiness is accordingly followed In ;
elaborate plans for creating, in the j
western hemisphere, a like wonder of
the modern world in a monument -to <
Christopher Columbus. Its site will i
not be at any modern Alexandria?
at any of the great ports of the New i
world he discovered, but on the Is
land of Haytl, on which he landed :
during his very first voyage, where
he established the first American col
ony and where his remains were bur
led In 1536, 30 years after his death.
During the partial occupany of that
island by Americans of late the proj
ect has been advanced to a stage
where success seems certain.
If the plan Is carried out as con
templated, no other undertaking will
be representative of the New world
In as complete a sense, for It Is pro
posed that every western national
government, large or small, shall con
tribute to Its $2,000,000 cost. A de
sign for a noble structure has al
ready been made, embodying special
precautions against a Caribbean peril,
the original Pharos having been de
stroyed by an earthquake In the Thir
fppnth ppntnrv.
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To some It will seem Important to i
know whether the remains of Colum- i
bus still rest In the ancient cathe- S
dral of Santo Domingo, in the
Island's second republic, and some
recent works of reference print as
authoritative the version of the r
Spanish government as to their re- t
moval years ago. The bare state- I
ment that the wrong tomb was fc
opened and the bones of one of g
Columbus' sons taken away, and not t
those of Columbus himself, does not 3
seem very convincing, but if the
data preserved by those called In
as observers during an examination
at the cathedral som years ago are b
accurate, a mistake was made by a
the Spanish. Insignia, lettering, o
other small evidences indicated that s
the tomb which had been opened a
was undoubtedly that of the son and a
that another tomb now holds the s
few fragments of Columbus' bones s
and the observer! were men of Intel
ligence. including high ecclesiastics,
officials and others.
But whether or not their opinion
was correct, this Is an appropriate
site for many other reasons, and
what could be a more appropriate
form for a monument to the great
est navigator of all than a splendid
pinnacle carrying a perpetual light
for the guidance of bis successors
on the seas? This will be more than
a flame seen afar for directing those
who ply the ocean. It Is also de
signed for those plying the upper
air. Aviation Is now farther ad
vanced than was the lore of the sea
In Columbus' time. Probably air
routes aloug the 3hort parallels of
latitude in the Inclement North will
jlways be follow*d, but distance Is
much less Important than safety to
iviatlon. making miles by the hun
Ireds In an hour.
May we not believe that the favor
ite routes of the future will be along
:he warmer, milder, safer parallels
:o our southern ports; that the skies
lo be "whitened" by flying craft will
ie skies to the south and that the
Pharos of Columbus, looked for by
rionw on orp nn dark niirhtg and
stormy nights, will be a wonder and
preserver vouchsafing In the Carib
jean blessings to the imperiled
greater even than those of its
iredeeessor of the Mediterranean.?
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Rubber Turf for Racers
Tested at a stadium near London,
?ubber turf is being used to surface
he track on which greyhounds race,
t is claimed that the material gives
setter footing after a rain than
;rass. The rubber turf also will be
ested on football fields.?Fopular
Mechanics Magazine.
Russian Auto-Sleigh
A worker in the Molotow automo
dle factory of Russia has invented
n auto-sleigh that runs on spokes
r feet Instead of wheels, and In
tead of wheels at the back there
re two pairs of skiis that move
long special grooves in the chas
is and then press at the snow and
hove the car along.
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