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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER JAAJ By y&ineur Edward W. Pickard Western Newspaper Union Mrs. Simpsons Divorce Is Made Absolute ATRS. WALLIS SIMPSON was granted an absolute decree of divorce in London, and within a few hours Edward, duke of Windsor, was on his way from St. Wolfgang, Austria, to visit his fiancee at the Chateau de Cande near Tours, France. The former king of Great Britain had been waiting impatiently, baggage packed, for word that Wallis was entirely free, and he lost no time when his solicitors telephoned him from London. It took only 25 seconds to make absolute the decree nisi which Mrs. Simpson obtained last October 27. The kings proctor had been satisfied with the ladys behaviour in the interval, and Sir Boyd Merriman, president of the divorce court, personally granted the decree along with a lot of others. The date for the wedding of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson has not yet been announced, but it probably will be in the week beginning May 24. Edward was willing to wait until all the coronation hullabaloo was over for he did not wish to annoy his royal brother in any way. London Getting Ready for the Coronation U'ROM all quarters of the earth men and women of much, little or no importance were flocking to London for the coronation; the diplomats were trying on their new knee breeches; the peeresses were buying wigs to make their coronets fit more comfortably; the officials, troops and horses were being rehearsed in their parts; the proprietors of parade seats were desperately trying to dispose of them at cut prices; and hotel managers and tradesmen of all sorts were preparing to make lots of money out of this thoroughly commercialized affair. One most disturbing feature was the strike of the London busmen. It disrupted traffic just when the city was filling up with visitors, and those persons as well as hundreds of thousands of residents of the city and its suburbs were compelled to get about as best they could. New Constitution for Ireland Is Published EAMON DE VALERA, president Irish Free State, made public his proposed new constitution for that state which is to be ratified or rejected at general elections and a plebiscite probably late in June. The document declares all of Ireland, its islands and territorial seas, included in the national territory, and Eire, ancient name for Ireland, is designated the official name. Ireland is declared a sovereign and independent democratic state, and no mention is made of Great Britain. The president is to be elected by direct vote for a seven year term. The Roman Catholic church is given special recognition, but other churches also are recognized and freedom of conscience and practice of religion is guaranteed. Titles of nobility are prohibited. Support of home life is pledged, no and the constitution declares law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage. Divorce in other states under civil laws would not be recognized in Ireland. Ulster, the northern part of Ireland which does not belong to the Free State, received the proposed constitution cooly, evincing no desire to unite with the Free State. We definitely prefer our position as citizens of the United Kingdom, said the Ulster commerce minister, John Milne Barbour, and this seemed to be the prevailing sentiment. Big Strike Is Started in Hollywood Movie Plants of the Federated ELEVEN unions with Picture Crafts, about 6,000 members, went on strike in Hollywood, Calif., and the great film industry there was in serious difficulties. The strikers counted by the Screen heavily on Actors guild, but that body, which has 5,600 members, delayed action until it could confer with the producers. The guild already had presented a number of demands regarding working conditions and hours and overtime pay. Pat Casey, labor relations expert for the producers, said the strike would not curtail operations at any of the nine big studios and ventured the opinion that the dispute could be settled in a reasonable and sensible manner. He claimed that no more than 1,500 of the Hollywood movie industrys 40,000 employees were involved in the points at issue, and observed that no questions of wages or hours had been put forth by the striking unions. The film companies have indicated their unwillingness to settle the issue of the closed shop and union recognition until they know what demands in the matters of wages and hours may be made by their workers. Fifteen of the largest hotels in San Francisco were practically tied up by a strike of 3,500 employees. The strikers were given the active support of 13 unions. They insisted that hotel owners had refused to agree to preferential hiring and a five day week for clerks, although other groups of hotel employees had been awarded such conditions. Moscow-Volg- a Canal Is Opened by Stalin Neutrality Act Signed by the President action of CONGRESS completed measure just neutrality in time, for the old one expired on April 30. The draft of the act was sent by airplane to the President and he signed it aboard his yacht is- in the Gulf of Mexico. He also sued two proclamations, one prohibiting the shipment of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to belligerents in Spain, and the other adding certain articles of war to the proscribed list. ' V' jr L J Announcement on of AWAS-- s Vs , , v radio Beacon ., .. ,s V. .V v.v v v Xss - :v. .s s W."s . v ,Y f Position reported sinking ship, as much I' I possibly " v, ; as 50 miles from I V" i her true position. I' J by XsiVs , is ' v This steamer receives the distress signals, but having no radio compass, is unable to tell the direction from which they come. She can only proceed to the incorrect position and so is unable to find the sinking ship. i ' s . t AS their Su- preme court bill by three more Democratic members of the senate judiciary committee seemingly made it certain that body would report the measure adversely to the senate. The line up at this writing is 10 to 8 against .SttttSk s Senators J. C. of J The steamer that .s shown above picks up the distress call on its RADIO COMPASS, which tells the direction of the SOS; therefore her navigator disregards the reported position, and is able by means of these radio beamings to steer directly to the foundering ship, regardless of fog and storm, and save her crew. S S V V Vessel in distress broadcasts the SOS call, giving also the latitude and longitude of her position, wrongly stating it to be at the Doint marked the bill. The three who openly joined the opposition were Mahoney WV" WWj COT.WVyiW.WMIiW Senate Committee Against Supreme Court Bill O- Wyo- ming, Pat McCar-re- n of Nevada and Carl Hatch of New Mexico. With them in opposition are King of Utah, Van Nuys of Indiana, Burke of Nebraska, Connally of Texas, Austin of Vermont, Borah of Idaho and Steiwer of Oregon. Those committed for the measure are Ashurst of Arizona, Neely of West Virginia, Logan of Kentucky, Dieterich of Illinois, Pittman of Nevada and Norris of Nebraska. McGill of Kansas and Hughes of Delaware, still noncommittal, were counted as being on the administration side. The committee agreed to begin voting on the bill and on proposed amendments on May 18. day was fittingly chosen House Majority Refuses the opening of the Moscow-Volg- a to Practice Economy canal, one of the greatest Democratic leaders in physical undertakings of the soviet WHILE congress were disputing over Russian govern- various proposals for achieving the ment. For four years economy demanded by the Presi2 0 0,000 prisoners the house without a quiver have been working dent, the second deficiency bill, on the project, these passed The Demo$79,200,000. carrying including not only crats called it an economy measure Russians, but also because the appropriations were 19 Finns, Letts, Eston- millions less than the amounts ians, Poles, and asked by the department heads. But Ukranians. Many of 15 of those 19 millions represented them were political merely a reduction in the 30 million prisoners. appropriation asked by the bureay Josef Stalin, dic- of internal revenue, for the refundtator of the soviet ing of processing taxes collected ununion, and President M. I. Kalinin der the agricultural adjustment act. were the chief figures at the official The it was pointed out, was celebration of the opening of the moresaving, a deferred economy in that canal. This waterway, part of the the 15 millions will be included in plan to make Moscow actually a the next budget. seaport, is 90 miles long, has eleven locks, twelve large dams, and util- President Goes Fishing izes eight large lakes and man-mad- e of Gulf Mexico in reservoirs. The canal begins on the Volga sev- CENATORS, representatives, de-partment heads, and almost eventy miles below the city of Kalinin else in Washington officiala where eryone dam (formerly Tver), large c station have been dom were worrying themselves over and constructed. The lake formed there expenditure reductions, taxes, rishas been named the Moscow sea and ing prices and falling revenues, and is ninety miles long with an area of Supreme court reformation. But President Roosevelt was gaily sail205 square miles. ing the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, angling for tarpon. He was on Rebels and Fight Basques Presidential yacht Potomac, the Fiercely Near Bilbao which he boarded at New Orleans; his vessel was escorted by three deSOME ofof the most desperate the Spanish civil war was stroyers, the Moffett, the Schenk taking place in the struggle for Bil- and the Decatur. At Galveston Secbao between the sturdy Basques and retary Marvin McIntyre set up a Gen. Emilio Molas veterans, reputtemporary White House, and Mr. edly mostly Italians and Germans. Roosevelt planned to land at that The insurgents had promised not city when he got through fishing. to bomb the center of the city but bombarded its environs heavily Hamilton Fish Moves to from the land and the air. Disregarding the protests of Gen- Amend Our Gold Policy 'T'HIS is the outstanding finan-cieral Franco, Fascist chieftain, the blunder of the New Deal, British and French governments undertook to remove from Bilbao said Representative Hamilton Fish a large number of women and chil- of New York, Republican, speaking of the administradren. These refugees were taken tions policy of acaway by merchant vessels while cumulating gold at British warships guarded outside $35 an ounce, or Spanish waters. Franco maintained Bilbao was a military objective nearly twice the cost of production. and that neutral nations had no Mr. Fish thereupon right to evacuate the civil populaa resoluintroduced would a lift this burden as from tion tion forbidding the the Basques and permit them to concentrate on the defense of the Treasury to purchase any more city. gold from foreign at more countries War Department Bill Is $25 an ounce. than Biggest Since War Time The American taxpayers, deESISTING all efforts of the clared Mr. Fish, under D the ruinI'- would-b- e economists, the major- ous gold policy of the President and ity in the house passed the War de- the secretary of the Treasury, have partment appropriation bill carrying become the angels of Europe, and $416,400,000 for the fiscal year 1938. are now engaged in helping to fiThis is the largest army bill ever nance these countries in their mad passed in times of peace. armament race. All of the nations As passed the measure carries of the world including Soviet Russia increases in the pay of the army have naturally unloaded their gold totaling $5,861,000; clothing and upon us at exorbitant profits, which, equipage, $5,500,000; military post if we tried to sell back, we probconstruction, $5,400,000; ordnance ably could not get 50 cents on the service and supplies, $5,800,000, and dollar. National Guard, $1,600,000. This insane and costly gold polThe bill provides more than two icy is almost on a par with the high millions for the acquisition of land financing of John Laws Mississippi at Mitchel field, N. Y.; Kelly field, bubble. The American people have Tex.; at Tacoma, Wash., and at been turned into milch cows, to be West Point, N. Y. milked by every foreign country,, MAY hydro-electri- al - ' Rescuing Vessel Locates Ship That Gave the Wrong Address. ing extended throughout the world and radio direction-finder- s are bt most magnificent of all ing placed on more and more vewas built before ssels, recently even on fishing craft. dawn of New Testament There also are direction-findin- g sthistory, but the most remark- ations on shore which give radio able of navigational safeguards has bearings to ships asking for them. come only in the past few years. Distance Finding on Great Lakes. Day and night a monotonous drone of dots and dashes goes out A simple arrangement for diover the sea, penetrating the thick- stance finding is now in use at a est rain and fog, to help bring the number of stations, especially on the Great Lakes. The radio signal voyager safely home. essential are radiobeacons and the sound signal are synchrToday equipment on our most important onized to be sent at the same ilightships and lighthouses, and ap- nstant, and the difference in the paratus for receiving radiobeacon transmission time, as measured by signals is carried on all modern pas- a stop watch, gives the approximate senger liners and many other ves-sg- distance of the vessel from the station. This is easily computed when Thus, after more thant2,200 years, it is remembered that sound in air we approach the solution of one of travels approximately a mile in five mankinds oldest problems. The seconds. The distance, therefore, lofty Pharos of Alexandria, erected is roughly the time lag divided by the Ptolemies near the mouth of by five. the Nile, has never been surpassed A comparison of me number of by any other lighthouse in height or Great Lakes ships which stranded in fame. Its name became the the four years preceding the word for lighthouse in the Romance during of with the numuse radiobeacons, languages; the French use it in ber for the four years following, inradiophare (radiobeacon). dicates a 50 per cent reduction; But the signal which this magnifi- also the saving of time by vessels cent tower gave to mariners was taking radio bearings is a large the light and the smoke from an factor in economical navigation. open fire. No progress was made The dramatic use of SOS calls in in marine signal lights for many of the sea is centuries. Only a hundred and dangers and tragedies to familiar e Radiograms enough. twenty-fivyears ago tallow candles are burned in the famous Eddystone and from friends on shipboard Radio also serves lighthouse near the English coast, commonplace. the coin transmitting and until 1816 the May Island light, navigation imoff Scotland, still used a blazing rrect time, a service of prime of longdetermination portance in coal fire to guide ships. Nearly all the major advances in itude at saa. lights and fog signals the electric When wrecks obstruct channels, incandescent the lamp, or when storms drag buoys from light, the Fresnel lens focusing the their normal locations, radio affords beam in the horizon of the mariner, a valuable means of broadcasting the fast revolving light making it such urgent information. Radio also possible still further to gather the transmits reports from mariners rays into powerful beams, and the who observe defects in navigational fog bells, followed by the whistle, aids. siren, and diaphone have been deA vessel equipped with a radiveloped within a little more than a can take a bearing on ocompass century. another sending radio signals,at Only in the last 30 years has so and thus ship its direction determine necessary an aid been employed as sea it would method same the by the lighted buoy, boon to the navishore. on use radiobeacon gator who must bring his vessel into This with a of bearings between taking port at night through treacherous of ship and ship diminishes the risk shoals and narrow channels. helps also collision in fog, and it Only the Radio Signal Is Certain. one ship to find another which may The most notable advance was be in distress. The rescue of the made 15 years ago, when radio- crew of the British freighter Antinoe beacons were placed by the United by the United States ship President States lighthouse service on Am- Roosevelt in in Janubrose Channel lightship and two oth- ary, 1926, is a notable example of, er stations in the approaches to New this use of radio bearings. York. Thus was solved an age-ol- d master Capt. George Fried, then problem. Only the radio signal penetrates fog and rain that blot out of the Roosevelt, immediately the the most brilliant light. It can carry changed his course on receiving the its message of safety through SOS, and radio bearings onminutes. were taken every 15 storms that drown the most powerfound He the Antinoes position as ful whistle. error, Above the pilothouse of a modern given was some 50 miles in bearings, liner you will see a small rotating but, steering by the radio abou coil antenna mounted on a metal he reached the Antinoe in hau a and three six hours. After frame. This coil receives radio25 men beacon signals now sent out from days heroic struggle, the rescued. were of Antinoe the sinking important lighthouses and lightships more than 120 of them on the Tragic loss of 42 lives, through coasts of this country. for taking radio lack of o In approaching the coast, the nav- bearings,equipment is shown in the wreck of a very coil with this ship igator picks the Alaska, which sank the up a radiobeacon signal perhaps year that radiobeacons came wt the four dashes from Nantucket use. Shoals lightship, or the single dots One August day in 1921, the from Ambrose. By rotating his rain a dense fog off Cape Me diocompass coil until the signal bu docino, California, picked up an the fades away (taking the minimum it is called), he determines the di- call from the Alaska. Having whi rection from which the signal no device for telling from help, for comes, even from distances of direction came the call ten how for the Wahkeena cruised more than a hundred miles. sinking Anyone who has stood on the deck before she could find the of a liner in a dripping fog, and Aldska. ten has wondered at the courage of the Today, of course, all outside ana radio, use navigators going ahead toward the ers and lightships . unseeable, must realize what a number of isolated light statio and some tenders are equipped w blessing this is to tense nerves which greatly how valuable is this gift of science to better navigation and to safety cilitate reports and orders in em 1 s n at sea. gencies. And the lightkeeper Radiobeacon systems now are be no longer is so lovely. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service. THE 1s oil-vap- or mid-Atlant- ic An-tin- Wah-keen- radio-telephone- s, a, I I |