HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-08-11, Page 7B'YKD TO SUBMIT
/ DATA ON FLIGHT
TO GEOGRAPHERS
Cc’.zmander’s Story to Be
' Published in National
Geographic Magazine
New York—-Commander Richard E.
Byrd is preparing the data gathered
on his flight to France for publication.;
The report of the voyage of the;
America, which will be virtually of-,
fleial, will be submitted to the Nation-!
al Geographical Society for publication < in the National Geographical Maga-j
zine. The first, and perhaps the only • article, will be about C,000 words. |
Seme of the official America re
cords were lost, one being a record of.
tho times at which the ship arrived at
certain points and which Jjjso con
tained copious weather data that could j
not be incorporated m the log.
Several logs were kept, Commander
Byrd said,
his was the
North Pole
things in it
ljsbed," he raid.
The barograph^ official aeronautic
record of approximate times and alti
tudes, was turned over to Porter
Adams, president - of the National
Aeronautical Association. Its read
ingswill be disclosed later.
Commander Byrd’s temporary head
quarters in the McAlpin Hotel was the
mecca of “cronies," a« the commander
calls them. One of the first to ar
rive was a young newspaper man who
“quit his job of writing pieces for the
paper" and “got himself a job” on the
Chantier,-on which vessel he stoked
coal on the voyage to Spitsbergen and
back. Several other young men who
had got humble jobs on the Chantier,
c-hiel:y for adventure, sauntered into
the commander's room.
Commander Byrd later will have a
conference with James I-I. Kimball,
New York meterologikt, who supplied
the America with weather charts that
proved of great value to the flier.
Balchen, and Bert Acosta, Byrd’s fly
ing companions, slept late. After
breakfast, Balchen. set out for the Kok-
ker plant at Teterboro, N.J., where lie
served as a tcot pilot during the past
year.
Lloyd W. Bertaut! and J. D. Hill,
who are preparing to make a flight
to Rome, called on the commander to
disews the proposed voyage. Asked if
he knew when he was to be awarded
the distinguished flying cross, Com-
mander Byrd said he didn’t know he
was to be given that decoration.
Cno was kept by him. *
same one he used on Ills,
flight. "There’s some that will never be pub-'
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Wife—“I saw the doctor to-day,
dear, about my loss of memory.” Hus
wife—band—“What did he do?”
“Made me pay in advance.”
Boy—“Do you know, dad,
some parts of Africa a man
know his wife until he marries her?”
Dad—“Why single out Africa?”
that in
doesn’t
The worst thing I can see about
Sinclair Lewis’ new' book is tli$.t it is
about ten times as long as the long
est sermon we ever heard.
“You. are a peach.” The maiden
hung her head. “I—I’d rather be a
pair,” she answered. The invitation
cards are now out.
Wife fat resort)—“Oh, Robert, isn’t
it lovely here where the green waves
andcome rolling in?” Hub—“Yes,
the greenbacks go rolling out."
he tells me the price of ham, cheese,
butter, and eggs. What does your boy
talk about?" ■»
Second Girl—“Oh, my boy’s a tram
conductor-, and is inclined to say, ‘Sit
closer!”—Western Christian Advo
cate.
it
inquisitive friend,
shook his head,
replied, “I didn’t break
Just Dissolved.
“Is it right that you’ve severed your
engagement with Miss Overmarte?”
queried th.e
The man
“No,” he
off.”
“Oh! She broke it off?”
“No,” was the answer again.
“But it is broken off, isn’t.it?” per
sisted the curious one.
“Oh, yes,” explained the moody one,
with delicacy. “She told me what her
milliner’s yearly bill was, and
her how much a week I get.
our engagement just sagged
middle and gently dissolved.”
I told
Then
thein
True Story of Chinese
Lootings
The true-story of the havoc-wrought
In Nanking, China, .by the raids of the
Red soldiers of the Nationalist army,
Is told by Margueritte Harmon Bro,
writing in “The Outlook” of July 20th.
“No one can explain away the
thing’s which happened,” she writes.
“We had eight relatives in Nanking
that day. In front of ,me lie letters
from them and personal friends. One
friend lay for hours in a coal-bin cov
ered with coal while her faithful ser
vants joined in the reviling of foreign
ers in order that they might stand
near to protect her and finally. lead
her to safety. Another friend and
his wife lay under a pile of wood for
two hours, having left their baby—
dressed in Chinese cloths-—with its
nurse. They were finally rescued by
university students, who paid for the
privilege -twenty dollars to each of
“■Uie assembled soldiers-. The princi
pal of a girls’ school was- huddled in
a corner covered with old clothes
while her students sat on her to pro-
• tect her. An American wife of a
Chinese returned student was hid in
a beggar’s hovel. Another American
girl was hid in a haystack for twelve
hours after she had been shot,
dron had clothes and glasses
from them. . .
“The folly,
tragedy of a mob-
cus that day in Nanking,
was seen
a mantel
hand he
dangling
French clock. Another soldier was
so enchanted with the magic power of
a telephone that he tore out the re
ceiver and thrust it into his pocket
>, for future use. Another held a
foreigner at the point of a bayonet,
demanding the man write a chenne;
the foreigner wrote too slowly for him,
x bo he grabbed the whole book of un
signed cheques and made away. Ano
ther ate bath gaits, mistaking them
for foreign candy. A university pro
fessor lost tho accumulated library
and home Curntphings of a lifetime. [
But a loyal servant hunted him out,
the next day and presented what ho ’
had been ab'-’e to rescue from the ruins ■
—three shoe-strings, a college mortar
board and a motto which proclaimed
‘The Beauty of the Home is Order.’
Tips from a Toie.m.
An expedition' Of Tulane University
into the highlands of Guatemala has
discovered a tribe of log worshippers
who designate a piece of wood as the
head of a community, and ask it
•^-questions ab?ut the future. We have
‘Something like that in Washington.—
Judge.
Chib
torn
the ignorance, tlie
■all were cons pi cu-
One soldier
preserving' the symmetry of
lie had just looted; in each
carried a candlestick and
from his teeth was
r
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what is a post-graduate?” A
Who graduates from one of
Waiter—“Mr. Gray has left his
brella again. I believe he would
get his head if it were loose.”
um-
for-
Jud-
kins—"I dare say you are right. I
overheard him say yesterday he was
going to Switzerland for his lungs.”—
Belfast Evening Telegraph.
Country Doctor (to friend taking
him on a joy ride)—“It doesn’t matter
how fast you drive. I am keeping the
village constable in bed with influen
za.”
Admiring the’ View.
Country Cousin (after prolonged in
spection of building operations)—“I
don’t seo the sense of putting statues
on the top of your buildings.”
City Cousin—“Statues? Those are
Dot statues. They’re brick-layers.”—
Hardware Age.
Boomerang.
Browne—“Did you give your wife
that little lecture’“on economy
talked about?"
Baker—“Yes.”
“Any result?”
“Yes—I’ve got to give up smoking.
—Answers.
Roped and Branded.
Suitor—“Well, Tommy, congratu
late me, your sister has just promised
to marry me.”
'Pommy—"That’s
promised mother
ages ago.”—Passing
■ “Pa,
follow
thoso correr pondonco Schools, I sup
pose.”
Already nm.ny a college graduate of
this year knows why It is called ‘'com
mencement'.':.
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“Two silk garments, with Mabel
side, lost by’sales-woman. Reward.”
“Party who took new broom from
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nothing said about the matter.”
“Reward offered for the recovery
of body—believed to be drowned. Can
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“Governess wanted who would
company a musical lady going to
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The country doctor lives a life
seldom sensational. One night lately,
however, Dr. Albert Patrick of Mar
celine, Mo., awoke from a deep
dream of peace to play a role seldom
cast outside the cinema. So, at least,
said last week’s hews from Los An
geles,
What sent Dr. Patrick hurrying out
of his house, into his flivver and into
the night, was a telegram asking him
to meet a train at the railroad sta-1
tion, Not many trains stop at Mar-
celine, Mo., least of all the ponderous t flier that groaned to a halt this night, I
dropping off brakemen with lanterns
and a worried conductor.
Dr. Patrick left his flivver runnlng-
for the emergency, and hurried for
ward with his small black grip at the
ready. • ’ '
“I’m Dr, Patrick, did you want me?”
“You bet, hop on,” said the con
ductor.
Hopping, Dr, Patrick followed his
leader into a Pullman filled with hush
ed excitement. He was led to a man
violently ill in “. drawing-room. As
Dr, Patrick beat forward to begin an
examination, the long train trembled
and jolted. It was moving forward.
“Stop the train,” cried Dr. Patrick,
alarmed. “I can’t leave home.”
“Sure you can,” said a stout gentle
man. “Be calm. Just go ahead and
'tend to Mr. Flinn.”
"But my Ford’s still running
there by the platform,” pleaded
Patrick.
“That’s all right. We’ll pay for
gas.”
“And anyway I haven’t a night-shirt
with me.”
A bald, intense man answered: “If
you get Mr. Flinn to the point where
you dare go to bed, I'll lend you my
pajamas.”
. Dr. Patrick surrendered his whole
attention to the sick man. The train
tore westward. The bald, intense
man wrote out a telegram to Mrs.
Albert Patrick of Marceline, Mo.:
"Dr. Patrick is accompanying us to
I,os Angeles to care for a patient.
He’ll be home soon.”
(Signed) Cecil B. DeMille.
What Mrs. Patrick said to herself
about this telegram, she alone knows.
What was the matter with John C.
Flinn, heaiT-of the Producers <Sd Dis
tributors' ' Corp., is a professional
secret. But some of the sights and
sensations Dr. Patrick experienced in
the next few days are now part of the
history of* Marceline, Mo.
For Dr. Patrick’s abduction was by
a whole trainload of cinema folk hur
rying to a coast convention. Mr.
Flinn's recovery-was rapid and happy.
And to reward virtue in true cinema
style, Mr. DeMille and friends took
Dr. Patrick for a thorough inspection
of filmland, including even a Mack
Sennett bathing beauty scene. And
they gave him, together with his
ticket back to Marceline, Mo., a fee
whose proportions will not be ap
proached until Marceline, Mo., breaks
out with simultaneous epidemics of
mumps, colic, babies and pink eye.
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Summer Noon
White lily clouds
In violet skies;
The Sun is at .
HiB highest rise.
The Bee doth hum,
Every bird sings;
The Butterflies
Full stretch their wings.
The Brook doth dance
To his Own song;
The Hawthorn now
Smells sweet and strong.
The green leaves clap
Their wings to fly
Like birds whose feet
Birdtime doth tie.
Sing all you Birds,
Hum all you Bees;
Clap'your green wings,
Leaves o nthe trees-
cents
Medi
Tlie Boomerang
A deadly weapon is the boomerang
in the hands of Australian savages.
Who made the first boomerang no one
knows, Some say an Eskimo boy
found that a stick thrown at a bird
came back to hijn. Put we ffo knoV
that the boomerang has been used for
ages.
There are several kinds of boomer
angs. The first is called “Tootygundy
Wumkum,” and it is used in warfare,
ft goes straight to the spot for which
aimed, and then fahs^to the ground.
The second is the “Trombash.” This
is used in hunting wild birds and it
flies farther than an arrow. The na
tives of Abyssinia use it in war time.
The Trombash is called “Marudwul-
len Wumkum” by the Australians.
The third, the “Gome Back” or "Bun-
gll Wumkum,” can be made to de
scribe a circle of 35 yards without ris
ing more than twelve feet in the air,
when thrown by an expert.
The boomerang ordinarily used ’ in
shows or exhibitions is shaped some
thing like lhe blade of a curved sword
with one side convex, is 30 ox 40
inches long, two to four inches wide,
and half an inch thick. It is grasped
I nthe right hand (with Convex side
up) by a handle that is slightly rough
ened. The thrower takes a few quick
steps forward and throws tho boom
erang straight in front of him. Leav
ing the hand, the boomerang # at once
turns into a horizontal position and
going at great speed it. revolves
around its own axis as it goes into the
air. In returning it curves toward the
left, describes an eclipse, gradually
loses momentum and falls within a
few paces of the starting point. To
the onlooker it seems to hang motion
less in the air at the point of turning,
but this is because the eye is not
quick enough to follow its movement.
On its return the boomerang is either
allowed to drop to the ground, or
caught in a net, since Its force is still
so great that it might injure the hand
if the thrower attempted to catch it.
Some boomerangs are so shaped
that they will rise 200 feet in the air.
The Arunta savages of Australia have
•a peculiarly ornamented boomerang
that is not found with any other tribe.
It is carved with curves and grooves,
<With mountains and caterpillars, in
raised design painted with red ochre.
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Celebrating fa
‘“Otf'l&rthday
COHNNUIONUEWION of all time
Toronto onvabio jjC m7*** Sept<10*
A N entirely new
11 and awe-inspir
ing Grand StandSpec-
tacle “CANADA”
presented by 1,500
performers. New
Agricultural Pavilion
—an 8 acre extension
to the C.N.E. Coliseum.
New$160,000 Diamond
Jubilee of Confedera-
tionEntrance.and the
$50,000 World Champ
ionship Swim, Wed-,
nesday, August 31st.
These are only a few
features of the great
Confederation Y.?ar
Programme.
Write Department of Publicity, Canadian
National Exhibition, Toronto 2, Ont,
for pictorial booklets,
!
A witty correspondent defines a
flirtation as “a spoon with nothing in
it.”
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In Summer When Childhood Ail
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old news. She
she’d marry you
Show.
Sardine Packer.
First Girl—“My boy’s a grocer, and
Might Be
Farmer—“Yer go to th’ big agger
culture college, don’t yer, my lad?”
Visiting Student—“Yes; I graduate
next year.”
Farmer—“Thet’s fine—yer can give
me a good name fer my cow then.”
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Own Tablets in the houso may feel
that the lives of their little ones are
reasonably safe during the hot weath
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Poison Ivy Relieved by Simple
Compound
According to James F. Couch of
the United States Department of Ag
riculture, victims of poison ivy will
find quick relief in a 5 per cent, solu
tion of potassium permanganate,
which can be made up by any drug
gist. The solution can bo swabbed
on the poisoned places with a bit of
absorbent cotton or a soft cloth. The
permanganate leaves a brown stain,
which can be removed by washing
with a 1 per cent, solution of oxalic
acid, a 1 per cent, solution of sodium
bisulphite—or even with plain soap
and water.
If tho skin has been very much
broken by scratching or otherwise
and is raw, the oxalic acid will cause
a temporary stinging.; in this case
soap and water are preferable for re
moving stains. If the skin Is very
tender the solution of potassium per
manganate may be diluted with water
before using.
Amateur Scientist—"Do you realize
what wonders there are in a drop of
water?”
I epaht
one.”
water?”
Friend—"Yes; my wife and
our honeymoon looking at
‘What, gazing at a drop of
“Yes. The Niagara Falls.”
Minard’s Liniment relieve? EJackache.
remembered
was unlock-
turning the
I’m on with all,
This present hour;
Things far-away
Have lost their power.
—WK. H. Davies, in “Nature Poems.”---------------------
Careless.
Suddenly a dreadful thought occur
red to Mallinson. He had started out
for the local cinema in company with
his wife, and suddenly
that the coal-cellar door
ed.
So he went back, and
key in the lock, put it in his pocket
and retraced his steps to the cinema.
On returning three hours later he
found a neighbor in a state of great
indignation.
“What’s wrong?” Inquired Mr. Mal
linson.
“D’ye no ye lia’e locked ma
wife in your coal-shed?” was the un
expected reply.
Minard’s Liniment for burns.
A barrister was cross-examining a
rather innocent-looking countryman.
“So you had a pistol?” the barrister
asked. “I had, sir.” “Whom did you
intend to shoot with it?” “I wans’t
intending to shoot <anyone.” “Then
it was for nothing that you got it?”
“No, it wasn’t.” “Come, come, sir!
By virtue of your solemn oath, what
did you get the pistol for?" “By
virtue of my solemn oath,” said the
countryman, “I got it for t'en-and-six-
pence!"
I believe in punishment—a whipping
if necessary—but I do not believe in
executing any one.—Henry Ford.
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