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IWuriou. New Vessels Will
Cost $150,000,000.
Iondon.--WIthln the not two years
a, fleet of 60 luxurious ships, worth i.
Masf 1150,000,000, will be making their
first ; voyages over Che routes of the
British empire. Sereral of them will
go Into service this year. - v
;. This new chapter: In shipping nay
be said to have started with the maid
en royage; from Southampton to the
Cape of the new Union Castle motor
ship Stirling Castle, and the launching
of ships now on the-stocks la to be fol
lowed by the laying down of other keels
iwhlch will help to keep the nnemploy-i
latent barometer from rising. - ur'-"
Keating completion on the Clyde are
two steamers for Bombay and a fruit
carrier passenger motorshlp: for Ja
malca. On the Tyne are a passenger
and fruit carrier motorshlp for Now
Zealand and a similar vessel for Sooth
Africa.-k , YtX, -v . ,
The Blue Star Line is navlng three
iTefrlgerated cargo and passenger ships
Kf 11,000 tons each built at Blrken
(head, while the Orcadea, a 24,000-ton
(passenger ship, Is being built for the
Orient line at Barrows-ln-Furnesa.
Belfast, which is making a bid to
tcontlnue as the center of the world's
busiest shipbuilding firms, Is construct
ing no fewer than ; eight ' passenger
ships, all of which are destined for the
Empire routes.
i These include the 25,000-ton Athlone
(Castle for the Union Castle's Cape
run; two passenger and cargo motor-
hlps of 15,000 tons each for the same
kompany's around Africa service; an
111,000-ton motorshlp for Melbourne and
ta lO,000-ton cargo and passenger motor:
Whip for the Lamport and Bolt line.
Parent Are Sought by
Frerich Battlefield Waif
London. An unknown JmgllsHmifn
holds the only possible clew tojthe
Identity of Louis Albert De la Rue,
who, as a child, was found oh a French
battlefield In 1918.
The youth, now living at Bruges, Is
seeking the help of English authori
ties in his search for his parents.
In the soring- of 1918. when he was
jibout eighteen months old, De la Rue
was found by a British officer on the
Ballleul-Hazebrouck road just when
the fighting for Ballleul was at its
fiercest The officer took him to Rou
en, where the Sisters of Our Lady of
Tpres took charge of him. He was
christened Louis fjfor Francel), Albert
(for- Belgium), George (for the Brit
ish officer), and De la Rue (meaning
"of the street"). ,.",
; And from that day to this young
; Mr. "Of the Street" has known no
I more about himself than his disco v-j-ery
In the front line. ,
I He want to fin-the officer ;who
saved his life, hoping that bis rescuer
i-can remember the exact spot and date
he was found, and that the Informa
tion will provide him with clews in
the search for his parents.
jOmission Keeps Turkey
) and San Marino at War
! IstanbuL A recent incident has re
jvealed the fact 1 that the republic of
San Marino Is still at war with Turkey.
' The manager of a Turkish agricul
tural institute recently spent a few
months in Europe In connection with
scientific studies. When he crossed
Into the territory of San Marino he
was 'greatly astonished when? he
was arrested as an undesirable na
tional of a country as war with the
republic.
In. 1019 San Marino Joined Italy In
a declaration -ot war on Turkey, but,
owing to some omission. It was invited
neither to participate In the peace
negotiations nor to sign the treaty of
Lausanne with Turkey,' -
' Subjects of 'the 'republic of 8an
Marino In Turkey have always been
treated as Italian nationals.. . , ,
Italy Organizes Troupes
? for Unemployed Actors
Rome. The government baa come
ito the aid of unemployed actors by
organizing 12 first-class dramatic com
panies.
Other traveling groups also are to
foe organized. -' Another assistance to
actors has been, provided, by model
contracts drawn up with , government
approval by the Theater and Cinema
federation, s. . - v
A ' bureau for organisation of the
theatrical season has been established,
Besides adopting regulations for flnan-
ielal arrangements between impresarios
and theaters, it will, direct region en
terprises. . '
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Kansas City, Kan. Joblta " Pteena,
four years old, attracted by the frost
sparkling -on a, steel pole, put her
tongue to It for a taste. It war 15
jmlnutes before police could thaw her
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7C0 HILES AN HOUR
Expert Works onH Plane to
"Send to Moon."
Bluebonnet Suit
Scent Factory Staff r
. ' Irisr-ae From Colds
,, Loughborough, ; . England There
Is a factory here where'one-half of
the staff never gets colds or Influ
enza. The other half are no more
Immune than anyone else ; It Is a
sccat factory, and for five years no
man or g".rl wori:!rj: la tie ti:'.z
and labeling roots has had a cold.
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Washington. Jules Verne's fantastic
story of a trip to the moon by rocket
may be nearer reality than many be
lieved. : .
Dr - Robert H. 'Goddard, who has
worked 15 years on a liquid propellant
rocket, reported that his experiment
al ships had reached S top speed of
700 miles an hour and that he hoped
Soon to surpass this record.
, - HIa. work was so exceptional In this
previously neglected field " that three
years ago CoL Charles A. Lindbergh
helped the Clark university physicist
obtain a grant from the Guggenheim
foundation, t After experiments In a
specially-constructed laboratory at Bos
well, New Mexico, Doctor Goddard
broke a self-imposed silence to discuss
his process to date and the problems
yet to be solved.
s Beats Plane Record.
Already Doctor Goddard has attained
a speed which Is more than double
that, bream taking record set by Sir
Malcolm Campbell when he blurred
across 'the flats near. Salt Lake City.
Utah, at slightly better than 300 miles
an hour. The fastest seaplanes,
stripped down to tremendous power
house motors with . gnat-like wings,
still have to streak along at 500 miles
an hour. ,
Yet fellow scientists are not certain
that this extraordinary .speed ot 700
miles an, hour can be maintained long
enough to throw a rocket out Into space
where the earth's gravitation would
not pull it back again.
The "motor" used by Doctor God
dard Is powered by a combination of
liquid Oxygen and gasoline.
, Discussing ihe chamber or "motor"
Of the rocket ship, Doctor Goddard
said the one decided upon was 594
Inches In diameter and weighed five
pounds. The 'maximum lift obtained
was 280 pounds and the period or com
bustion usually exceeded 20 seconds.
The lifting force was found to bo
steady.
Problems which still have to be con
quered before Jules Verne's fantasy
can come true include stabilization
and construction of a ship that Is
lighter than the present experimental
rockets which weigh from 08 to 8f
pounds.
Us 8mall Gyroscope.
Best results so far have been ob
tained by Inserting a small gyroscope
in the rocket This la the same de
vice that is seen In some -children's
mechanical toys or on ocean liners
which attempt to overcome the rolling
motion.
"Inasmuch as the rockets started
slowly, the first few hundred feet of
the flight reminded one of a flsb swim
ming In a vertical direction," wrote
Doctor Goddard. In a section describ
ing actual test flights.
''The continually Increasing speed
of the rockets, with the accompany
ing steady roar, make the flights very
Impressive. In two flights the rocket
left a smoke trail and bad a small,
Intensely white flame Issuing from the
nozzle, which at times nearly disap
peared with no decrease in roar or pro
pelling force."-
The white flashes below the rocket,
he said, were explosions ot the gaso
line vapor In the air.
Doctor Goddard said that the great
est height obtained In any of the tests
was 7,500 feet He. said he wanted
to work out certain fundamental con
struction problems before attempting
a celling record." "
Besides the Guggenheim foundation,
Doctor Goddard'a experimental work
has been Supported by Clark univer
sity, the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington and the Smithsonian Institute.
'Deaf Spots" Are Erased
"Vbjr New Amplifier Device
Los Angeles. Success In giving 95
per, cent perfect hearing to half deaf
persons was announced by researchers
seeking a scientifically Ideal ear ampli
fier. Delighted, smjles of persons hearing
the high notes of an opera for the
first time Iri their lives are rewarding
the. researchers,' Prof. Vern 0. Knud
sen, and two graduate students, Nor
man v Watson and Ludwlg Sepmyer,
who have spent a year and a half on
the project at the University of Cali
fornia. '''.,'-,'.
? They seek to place mechanical hear
ing aids .on the same prescription
basis as eye glasses, promising great
relief to the hard of hearing, who are
estimated at 8,000,000 Iff the United
States alone. . w:, . .- i
, Discovering that most of such afflict
ed persona hear some notes perfectly,
but are deaf to others," Doctor Knudsen
built an amplifier that will pick, out a
certain range of tone and amplify that
alone. yv
Minnesota's Timber-Cut
K Sets a Seven-Year High
St Paul Twenty thousand axes are
making a miniature thunder in Minne
sota this winter, with the timber bus
ness better than it has been In seven
years. . . . 3 1
The temperature has touched JJO be
low aero? swamps and tote roads are
strong enough to bear the. tractors th
f thla .moSarn .woods raid.
- IL, 7. Thornton, state surveyor gen
raL . estimated that 50,000,000 board
ftst of timber win be taken, a 850
per cent Increase over the average cut
t tr.e last Ave years. ,
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Eleanor Akers. Texas Centennial
Exposition Bangerette, doffs her cus
tomary chaps and 10-gallon hat to
wear this bathing suit made of blue
bonnets, the official state flower. The,
Exposition, a $25,000,000 World's Fair,
opens in Dallas June 6.
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Second Actor No good plays 1 Just
you wait until our ball team gets Into
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Mint Be Crasjr
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"Well, her name isn't Polly and she
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