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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH Byrds Ship Boasts Remarkable Record $ and Adventure Written Large in Log Service The Bear of OakWashington. which steamship land, sturdy brought Rear Admiral Byrd and members of his expedition safely back from their year long vigil In Antarctica, has a name that stirs the hearts of sea dogs." says the Rational Geographic society. Gales and high seas of threescore years have whipped over the broad decks of the barkentine, but like punches bouncing off the unyielding shoulders of a heavyweight champion, all have been turned aside," continues the bulletin. Adventure and service to mankind are written large In the pages of the Bear log book. No polar explorer lives who Is not familiar with her stout career, and several there are who have paced her staunch oak decks Byrd, Greely, Stefens-son- , Amundsen, and Capt. Bob Bartlett, to name a few. She was the first to meet Lieutenant Greely marooned on the Arctic Ice In 1S84. Her crew maintained law and erder In the frozen outposts of America during the Alaskan gold rush, long before radio had come Into general use. Her commanding officers were often called upon to conduct funeral rites and marriage ceremonies during the long period of her service In the U. S. Coast Guard, from 188(1 1028. Built In Scotland. Whaling men knew and loved her for the occasions on which she went to their rescue in the Icy fastWhen the nesses of the North. bark Napoleon was wrecked In the Ice near Cape Navnrln, Siberia, the Bear put out to sea Immediately, following a route described on a piece of board passed from one native village to another. She has schooled many salty seamen In the uncharitable ways of Ice, wind, and ocean. A dozen of them reside In the City of Washington today. Rear Admiral H. G. namlet, present commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard, served three assignments aboard the old Rear' as be affectionately recalls her. His assistant, Capt. L. C. Covell, was the skipper of the Bear In 1925 and 192a with auxiliary "A barkentine steam power, the Bear was built at Greenock, Scotland, In 1874, for service In the whaling trade. Constructed of solid oak, she Is strongly braced to cushion the shock of Ice. She Is 200 feet long, weighs 703 tons, and has a depth of 18 feet, and a beam of 32 feet. When the United States government wanted a real boat to bring Greely out of the Arctic, the Bear seemed a logical purchase. Reinforced with additional beams. Iron straps, and Australian Iron bark, the Bear, commanded by Lieut W. H. Emory, U. S. N., and a volunteer crew of navy men, set ont with a relief expedition under Commander Winfield Scott Schley. Schley was the commodore who later led the famous Flying Squadron against Cervera during the war. The Thetis and the Alert went out after Greely with the Bear. ' Rescued Greely. "Speed and rtiggedness made It possible for the Bear to reach the Greely party first Her arrival was none too soon. Only seven of the 25 men who set out with the explorer were alive when the Bear Red Tape Is Fatal to Python Dust, Spray Halts Most Beautiful of Capitals 14-Fo- ot which San Diego. annoys people, killed a python. With five other pythons the snake arrived from Singapore for the Pacific International exposition. The bills of lading were sent In error to Chicago and customs officials would not let the snakes off the boat. By the time the bills of lading arrived the python was dead. The others were sluggish and thin, but will live. Red-tap- crew reached them In the summer of 1884. There are few more thrilling tales than the story of this gallant rescue In the frozen Arctic. Greely was brought back to Portsmouth, N. IL, In August on Commodore Schleys boat. The Revenue Cutter service, which Is today U. S. Coast Guard, Mouse Broadcasts Howls; received the Bear for service In Police Operator Frets Alaskan waters and the Arctic ocean. Here began Its long career Wichita, Kan. A mouse broadof rescue and patrol work, after cast for two days over Wichita's which It was donated to the City of police station, practically driving Oakland, Calif. Dispatcher Bing" Crosby nuts. No Admiral Byrd bought the Bear, one knew the cause of the distornow the Bear of Oakland, In May, tion that made the radio howl until 1932. Refitted at Boston, It sailed Sergt. Ray Mitchell got to looking with the Byrd Antarctic Expedi- about. lie found the dead mouse In the transmitter. tion 11." Washington By WILLIAM UTLEY C. WHEN ffisl A'. zb: three-fourth- Connecticut Cuts Out Old Blue Laws T",!TPJ Severe Penalties Dropped for Many Offenses. Hartford, Conn. One by one, during the 300 years that Connecticut has outgrown Its orlglnnl settlement founded by a small band of pioneers from the Massachusetts bay colony, the blue laws" which ruled with an Iron hand have been erased from the statute books. The tercentenary celebration of the state sent many poring over the pages of history. They found In early days that the death penalty could be Indicted for: Stealing an ear of com from l neighbor's garden. Blaspheming God. A youth sixteen years or more to strike or curse big parents. To son. be a stubborn or rebellious Return to the colony after being banished as a Quaker or a Roman Catholic priest Witchcraft, treason or adultery. The Snbbatn was strictly observed. One wag not permitted to saunter about In the garden, kiss his wife, or a mother kiss her child; all household duties were abandoned, except eating. The general court dealt severely with scandal mongers. Early offenses were punishable by fines. Repeaters went to the stocks and chronic offenders faced a magistrates court after a public whipping. The magistrate's court Invoked the death penalty. Before the laws were reduced to writing, the town crier announced them In a public place at regular Intervals. In case It was found a law had not been made for some specific offense, tbe violator was Judged under this concluding clause In tbe fundamental law of the colony: For want of a law In any particular case he shall be Judged by the word of God." There Is no record of such Judgments. Cattle Brand by Shaw for Texan Collection Tlalnvlew, Texas. Two years of patience have been rewarded and Marlon Peters, Plalnvlews collector of cattle brands, Is In possession of a brand drawn by George Bernard Shaw, stormy English author. Peters first request met with a reply that branding was cruel. Then how would Mr. Shaw do RT Taint It on, you Idiot Ton can put your name on your handkert chief without nsing a poker, cant yon 7" Shaw capitulated and Finally drew the brand. Further, he even drew a cow for the brand. Peters collection now contains brands drawn by President Roosevelt, Will Rogers and Postmaster General James Farley. red-ho- These Pigeons Jump to Maturity in Four Days Here It Is, just what every woman covets a versatile and hat that can be rolled In tissue and packed In a bag Instead of having to carry a troublesome hatbox on your week-entrips this summer. Choose this "rounder" bat (It goes tbe rounds tbe whole day through) In black or white or any of the pastel or smart dark shades It Is made of narrow grosgraln ribbon stitched row npon row. It proves Its versatility In that today It has a drooped brim, tomorrow with t deft touch of Its wearer It can be a Breton sailor, or perhaps a youthful, type or some other style tuned to time and occasion. With the tailored ensemble below In the plctnre yon see a new and decidedly chic feature barrel initials on the leather bag. Santa Barbara, Calif. Pigeons Jumped from babyhood to maturity In four days under pituitary gland treatments In an experiment at a hospital here. Under normal growth pigeons do not develop lacteal glands, the sign of maturity, until they are several months old. Birds six weeks old. Just leaving their nests, developed the lacteals In four days when treated with tbe pituitary hor- v if , p A Aerial View Showing the New Buildings Recently Erected in Washington. been built for them and them aloue In the shadow of Capitol hllL It will mark the first time that we have ever seen all three departments of our government legislative, executive and Judicial In homes of their own. It will be the climax to the architectural and building program that la making has made Washington, D. C., the real show place among world capitals. The new Supreme court building, the additions to the Library of Congress, the new and already famous Washington triangle and other building projects will, when all of them are completed, make the beautiful city on the banks of the Potomac unique. The Supreme court went about Its business of getting ready to move In a manner unceremonious, to say the least. Although a large crowd filled the old chamber In the Capitol building on that final day, there were no trumpet blasts and no weeps. Perhaps that was because the court Is not nnnccu tomed to moving, having been sort of kicked around from pillar to post, from cellar to sitting room, since the nation was born. Deciding to move, the court opened up the family bureau In fact quite a few bureaus and threw out a few things it allowed might NoJust as well be kissed good-by- . body In the family wanted them all nine Justices turned thumbs down. NRA, they felt, was bad for tbelr Constitution. As Breckinridge Said. Right there would have been a great spot for the words that Vice President John Cabell Breckinridge senate spoke as the thirty-fift- h moved out of these same quarters to let the Supreme court come in on g 4, 1859: We leave this chamber, bearing with us, unimpaired, the Constitution we received from our forefa- January off-fac- e Army Lands First Planes on Boulder Lake 43-to-n Bean Leaf Hopper Found Copper Compound Good Protection If CLEAN BROODER IS Applied Early. CHICK INSURANCE "V the Supreme Court United States last session In the Capitol building In the early days of June, the event was an Important one in the history of Amerieau government. The nation's highest Judicial body "than whom there Is none whom er" when It comes to Interpreting the law of the land, performed Its last official function In the bor rowed quarters It had occupied for s of a century. When the October session begins Mr. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and his eight associates will move Into the magnificent $10,000,000 edifice of white marble that has thers, he said. The Supreme court bore away the Constitution In Just that state, but made no speeches about 1L The Gander Is Constant court had preserved the ConstituCompanion of Man tion after sitting In many places. Itoyalton, Wls. Senile ganhad been In Philadelphias IndeIt mones. der of doubtful ancestry, believed pendence hall. It first moved Into Guinea pigs are next In line for tbte to be old enough to vote, Is the Capitol building In 1800. it unusual pet and constant comspeedy development was In the basement then, and there panion of Charles Frey, retired John Marshall established the right farmer and former village presiMakes "Face at Sister of the court to void all laws passed dent of Royalton. Freys gander which do not abide by by and Disjoints His Neck the congress embodies all the characteristics Constitution. It was there that Nelson, Calif. Small Girtls Ter- Justice of s dog. He waddles at his masTaney delivered the courts rell, to frighten bis young sister opinion In the famed Dred Scott ter's heels all about the barn a "made face at her." So Albertine, yard, does sentry duty In front case. The recent decision against of the bouse, heralds tbe apperfect was small Curtla Terrells the New Deal has been regarded not only sent his pantomime that be proach of Intruders with shrill qnlte as Important be but also threw sister screaming and disand cackling hissing, When the British burned the Capa neck vertebra ont of Joint and itol devotion. plays building in 1814, the Supreme bad to be taken to tbe hospital. court was obliged to meet In the home of the clerk of the court at 206 Pennsylvania avenue, S. E. In ) 1819 It moved Into a room on the . gronnd floor, vacated by the senate, which took up quarters directly above this room. The Supreme court again followed the senate In 1S59, when that body moved again. The court retained those quarters until the end of this last session. Worth Waiting For. If the court bad to wait a long time for a home of Its own. Its members will tell you the wait was worth IL The majestic columns of Its new white marble building rise against the green background and trees in an architectural beanty surpassed nowhere In the wonder Capital city of the world. Facing the Capitol, it occupies a site that has been, In the order named, that of a hotel for the men who earlier governed the nation, the Library of Congress, and a Civil war prison. Solidarity and security are the Immediate Impressions the visitor gleans from the building. Sentinels This is one of tbe group of first planes to land on Boulder lake, a fleet of Douglas amphibian planes of the at the head of the steps are two SOth squadron, 19th bombardment group, from the United States army general headquarters air force at Rockmarble blocks, among the largwell field, San Uiego. est ever brought to Washington. dog-llk- e "a Bejond the eight Corinthian columns, 5114 feet high, are great bronze doors which weigh 3,000 pounds each. A hall lined by 30 columns, each hewn from a single block of stone, leads to the justices chamber which, at their own request, was made only 00 per cent larger than the old chamber In the Capitol. Still further on are the private offices of the justices, paneled In oak. There are also offices for the attorney general and solicitor general. In the courtyards are garages, and elsewhere are the plant which keeps the brow of justice cool, dining rooms and library space for the 379,720 volumes of the law. Also facing the Capitol and aiToss the street from the Supreme court excavations are under way for an addition which will nearly double its size. It Is already the e world, by fur, largest library with nearly 10,000,000 pieces. The Federal Triangle. But below Capitol hill, half way along Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to the White House is the most ambitious part of the new Washington. It Is the Federal Triangle, built on the former site of the old Central Market ground which In the early days was merely a swamp. On the tip of the triangle, which Is eight blocks long and through whose 20 miles of corridors 17,700 government workers already pass In the administration of their daily duties. Is the National Archives Gibraltar debuilding, a signed to withstand the ravages of time. It Is the first safe and fitting citadel to hold the records of the nation, many of them yellowed with the centuries that have passed. It was built to Inst forever. Its foundation Is a scow of reinforced concrete, five feet thick. This Is set on 5,000 concrete piles which vary in length from 15 to 35 feet Should the waters of the Potomac swell with flood, the scow would not go sailing, for down in Its center are two electric pumps and a steam turbine which automatically keep the water at a constant leveL In the most severe emergency Imaginable, the steam turbine would go to work with almost power enough to pump out the whole Potomac river. To find the eternal stone to protect the documents of our patriots, the builders of the National Archives building went to the granite quarries of Chelmsford, Mass., and opened up an entirely new and gigantic bed of limestone near Bedford, Ind. From Bedford they cut two great limestone blocks of 120 tons apiece and, finding they would have to reinforce bridges and enlarge tunnels all the way to Washington, they cut them down to 90 tons each. When they arrived at the Capital there was no conveyance big and strong enough to transport them to their destination, so they were shaved down again to CO tons each. The two blocks now stand guard at the main entrance. On one of them has been sculptured the figure of a Roman gladiator standing sentry, on the other a mother and her child with a sheaf of wheat In the background. All documents which enter here get their last glimpse of sunlight and their last breath of outside air as the doors close npon them. Inside they are fumigated; there are no windows In the building; all light is artificial and nil air Is mechanically conditioned to preserve the life of the archives. As slick and severely molded as the department It houses Is the new building of the Department of Justice, across from the National Archives buildings. It Is a temple of man-mad- e Inset, New Supreme Court Building. aluminum. Nearly $450,000 worth of the lightweight metal has been used In Its construction. This same metal would have cost $8,500,000 in the days when the aluminum cap was placed on the Washington monument In 1884. Doors, elevators, f casts, stair railings, window frames and lighting fixtures are of aluminum, and there is a large fountain of the same metal Home of the G" Men. The building is of limestone and granite, and the architectural keynote Is Greek. Visitors in throngs already are ogling through its two miles of corridors, for the recent nation-wid- e drive against crime has publicized the G men as tough gentlemen who dont stop to fool, but shoot criminals first and ask questions afterward. The G man is rapidly usurping the gangsters place as a romantic figure and his headquarters are a Mecca for the curious. Across the street, where the Harvey Oyster house used to tickle Abraham Lincoln's prairie appetite. Is the new home of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, one of the largest of them all, and nearing completion. Other members of the new Triangle are the Post Office department building, which Is headquarters for the acthities of a personnel that has expanded from 32,320 to and the Labor department building, enriched hy the artistic fruits of the Public Works of Art subjects. At the base of the Triangle Is the colossus of them all, the new Commerce building. Department Into It went 2,000 carloads of Hoosier limestone, 150 tons of Connecticut granite, 1,400 tons of marble from Missouri and Vermont, and more stone from Minnesota, Colorado and Georgia. The 13,000 concrete piles used to support the structure would almost stretch from Chicago to Milwaukee. In this giant edifice are stored and compiled all of the endless records the Department of Commerce keeps, and constantly renews, concerning almost anything you could possibly think of travel, invention, harbors, trade statistics and a host of other and related subjects. Also here is the world's largest camera for reproducing maps and the records of the millions of patents that have been Issued. There are no furnaces or bailers In any of these Washington buildings, for they are heated by a central plant All of them are kept cool and pleasant In the summer time by equipment such as we find In the modern metropolitan theaters. The central heating plant keeps 71 buildings, with a total of 380 acres of floor space, warm and comfortable. It is the largest plant In the world used solely for the production of heal Into Its six boilers, each five stories high, pour 27 tons of coal an honr. Vet there Is no smoke to deface the gleaming white city that Is our Capital; the dirt Is removed from It by electricity. The hungry hollers on a cold day eat up nearly COO tons of coal And one man stokes all the boilers. His effort Is not much more than you would exert In keeping the home fires burning, for the machinery does his bidding. Jets of water under great pressure swish all the ashes away to a grinder which reduces them. About 14 loads are carried away for use In parks, cinder paths and jobs every day. These are only the Important few of the many new buildings which are transforming Washington Into a modern Rome and Athens combined with many new wonders and beauties that are not even hinted at in classic history. 237,-60- 0 fill-i- n Q Western Newspaper Union. B, L gist. EntomoloH Shropshire, Assistant Sur-veIllinois State Natural Histor, WNU Service. deIt Is too early in the season to leaf bean hoppers termine whether will be plentiful enough to cause serious damage to the bean crop this freyear. However, the hoppers 50 per by the reduce crop quently cent, and adequate preparations for with dusting or spraying the beans a copper compound will be good crop insurance. Unprotected beans yielded 50 per cent less than those that had been sprayed or dusted In tests conducted at the Cook county branch experiment station of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. A copper dust containing tobacco and gypsum Is one of the dusts and sprays that has proved effective In controlling the leaf hopper during the tests. It was applied at the rate of about 20 to 25 pounds to the acre. Applications were made five times, beginning as soon as the plants were well above the gronnd and continuing until five applications were made. Bordeaux spray also The proved effective, but was not quite as good as the dusL Nicotine sulphate spray had little value In controlling leaf hoppers: Bean leaf hoppers do not hibernate In the garden regions of Illinois, but migrate to the beans late In the season. They constitute one of the worst enemies of beans and frequently Infest gardens in heavy numbers. Sanitary Quarters a Safeguard Against Disease. By Roy 8. Doarstyne, Head Poultry partment. North Carolina Slate lege. WNLJ Service. DeCol- Protecting baby chicks from will go a long way toward reducing their death rate. The chicks are Infected by picking up the tiny eggs of the parasite which causes the disease. The eggs a infrequently found on the ground and In the brooder houses when older birds of the flock have been Infected. To control the disease all Infected chicks should be killed and burned or buried deeply. Thoroughly clean out the litter or sand from the brooder house at least every other day and replace with clean dry sand about oue third of an Inch deep. Continue this frequent cleaning until the disease is checked. Feeding and drinking containers should he sterilized every few days with boiliug water, since ordinary disinfectants are of no practical value In controlling this disease. If the weather Is not too hot, confine the chicks to the brooder house for at least seven days to keep them from picking up coccidial eggs from the ground outside the house where diseased chicks may have ranged. Meanwhile, plow or spade the Infected runways. If possible, so as to bring uninfected earth to the surface. Otherwise, the chicks should be provided with an uninfected range by some other method. Cut Grass Hay Early Is Avoid tracking germs Into the Recommended by Expert brooder house or placing la the The leading slogan about grass house any material which may be hay Is to cut it early.' Disregard Infected. Keep up the chicks vitalfirst bloom and second bloom ity by feeding a balanced ration of timothy, and cut as soon as the and caring for them properly. heads and completely out . . . Hay cut early will contain 8 per cent or more protein, and Is much more Treating for Worms Is palatable to the dairy cow. It Is Necessary for Summer cow hay. If the meadows were ' chickens on clean ground Raising fertilized this spring with ni- Is the recommended practice to keep trogenous fertilizer, there will be a flock free of round worms, and an even higher percentage of pro- to reduce Infestation of tape, caeca! tein in the hay (as protein Is made and gizzard worms. Nevertheless, a from nitrogen) and, of course, a lot of flocks have more or less serihigher yield. . . . Cut your hay ous worm Infestations at this time. two of and get qualcrops early Late summer treatment means ity hay. If a good Job of worm removal that This is a statement made by Prof. Is done, the pullets will mature L. A. Keegan of the Rhode Island much more rapidly than even when experiment station. It may be said only mildly infested. Also, they that several experiment stations will flesh up properly If well fed ihave been paying more attention to and not only be ready to lSy during making good hay from timothy and will lay other grasses and Invariably reports the high price period, but now and of Instead only regularly are to the effect that through fermust do. tilization and early cutting, a hay then, as the thin pullets Individual bird treatment with the Is produced which Is much superior to that grown on meadows not rich standard drugs for killing the worms be deterIn nitrogen and cut late. Hoard's present (which should mined by examination by one who Dairyman. knows poultry worms) Is the recommended practice, though flock Feed for Work Horse treatment may be effective. WalOne of the poorest bits of econ- laces Farmer. omy on the farm Is to try to save on the feed of work horses, says a Poults writer In Pathfinder Magazine. It In the best of Bronze turkey Is a common error as feed supplies d or get low to Increase the quantity of flocks, a few poults occur each year. roughage and lessen the amount of concentrated feed. An Idle horse There has been much speculation can eat enough roughage to supply among turkey breeders as to the It can .Its needs for proteins, vitamins, and cause of this variation. minerals, but a working horse can- scarcely be due to atavism because not If deprived of an adequate White or Slate turkeys have not of tbe amount of concentrated feeds the been used In the make-uwork horse begins to draw on the bronze breed, the Bronze having body fat for energy needed, and been derived from the wild turkey, when that Is exhausted It begins to and the White and Slate in turn esdraw on the muscles with the re- tablished from sports of the Bronze. sult that efficiency Is constantly de- Many breeders believe that they are creased. If this condition contin- the result of an Intensive breeding ues a complete breakdown Ig Inevi- for color and It is alleged that table. The work horse should be where they are used as breeders fed chiefly on grains and other their offspring usually are of better easily digested concentrated feeds color than those from the better with only enough roughage to keep colored breeders. Missouri Fanner. the digestive tract In good order. Off-Color- ed slate-colore- light-colore- p Cross-Breedi- Habits of Canary Grass ng Poultry fowls of pure-breCanary grass does have an under- for the purpose of securing greater ground stem and spreads similar to vigor and vitality In the first genquack grass. It Is our experience, eration of the progeny, and of maksays a writer in Hoard's Dairyman, ing It possible to distinguish the that It does not spread as rapidly as males from the females at hatching, quack grass and we have been told has become a measure of considerby those growing It that It Is not able popularity within recent years. as difficult to destroy as quack Both Increased vitality, leading to grass. It has been customary to greater gains In weight In the male sow canary grass on low land that chicks kept for broilers, and better Is not particularly suited to culti- production in pullets kept for laying vated crops and where when once are claimed as a result of such established there Is little reason for crossing. There Is more question of the validity of the latter claim, plowing It up. however, because of lack of evidence In sufficient volume to lead to Around the Farm positive conclusions. Rural Garden celery originated In Germany. Cross-breedin- d r. Czechoslovakia is trying to stimu- Bronchitis in Chicks Infectious bronchitis of poultry attacks baby chicks. frequently There is no cure. Sick chicks will g Minnesota Is the leading state of the Union. gasp for breath and have a watery discharge from the eyes. It Is best No less than 31,000 specimens of to separate the sick chicks and keep plants known to exist In West Vir- them In a warm place with an Inginia are housed In the herbarium of crease of humidity in the atmosthe College of Agriculture at Mor- phere. Soothing drugs such as menthol, camphor, beechwood cregantown. osote, etc., vaporized from water Blowflies are a warm weather enhelp relieve the condition, but canemy of the sheepmen. Maggots de- not be considered a cure. Irritating veloping from eggs laid by the fly agents such as sulphur, chlorine, In dirty wool, or wool wet with etc., do not bring relief. If chicks Brine are extremely Irritating to go through the disease they will be Immune to It thereafter. sheep. late Interest in sheep raising. barley-producin- |