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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LAYTON. UTAH Tho n (lit Maritime Day Recalls Ships That Pioneered in By elmo scott watson Trans Atlantic Traffic Mussolini Goes Through unco-ordtnate- Mn8solInl's men entered Addis Ababa, driving out the Ethiopian bringlooters, ing safety to foreigners, Including our own minister. ra-rlo- us e K'. " 4 v- - vy, ;v O - h A A - Q oil V VfF If ' Vf- v by direct that government officials display the flag on all government buildings on that day. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. Done in the city of Washington this twentieth day of May, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-threand of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and e, fifty-sevent- h. the document which added another day to our calendar three years ago and pave us another ocenslon for an ant nual nation-wid- DC1I waS J red-lette- r ctle-bru- e Ion. that Since time the observance. of Maritime day has helped make Americans Increasingly conscious of their heritage as a seafaring people and of the status of the United States as one of the principal maritime nations of the world. Although the recent launching of the Queen Mary has placed Great Britain, the traditional "Mistress of the Seas, ahead In the race among the nations to have the "largest, finest and fastest" ocean liners, yet the fact remains that all of these floating palaces trace back to the products of American Ingenuity and Atnertcan daring more thnn a century ago. For the Be de France, the Bex, the Europa, the Le'vlataan and .the Queen Mary all of them are lineal descendants of those first crude little steamboats which John Fitch, Robert Fulton, Samuel Morey, William Longstreet, Elijah Orms-bee- , Oliver Evans, Robert R. Livingston, John Stevens and Janies Rumsey built and operated In the streams of the eastern United States. And the captain of a- modern "luxury liner" who guides Its 60.000 tons of steel across the Atlantic ocean In less thnn a week Is but following the trail biased by a Yankee skipper with his boat when he rnnde his epochal voyage 117 years ago and took three weeks to do It - 850-to- That man was Capt. Moses Bog ers of New London, Conn., and we celebrate Maritime day on May 22 of each year now because on May 22, 1S19, his ship, the Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga., on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus mak lng a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transporta- tion." Although Maritime honors day primarily the achievement of the Savannah, its celebration each year serves to recall the names of other ships which have played a part In the development of traffic. Despite the fact that Capt trans-Atlanti- c t v ? killing and Record-Breakin- Arthar Brliban Trip g Early In August, 1833, she left Quebec for PIctou, in the Northumberland strait, where she remained a few days coaling, storing, repairing engines, and awaiting passengers. Eventually, on August 17, she steamed out of PIctou harbor for England. Her master was John see her. Her arrival was the signal for Informal parades, and drinking sibilities of steam transportation across the ocean, other Americans sprees of a klnJ never before Been In the city. were slow to follow bis example. . But the welcome given to the Daring seamen though they were, clipSirius was as nothing compared to they clung to their because and they arpers packets that which greeted another ship gued that such ships were chenper when It arrived In New York; the ' . to operate, since the steamships , That very next day, April fuel and machinery took up too During the voyage the starboard was the famous Great Western, des much precious cargo spnee, and engine was disabled and the vessel tlned to become the first steamer that they were snfer because of less sprang a leak.' After 25 eventful regular trips across the At dnnger of fire and explosions as was days and nights the Royal William antic and thus inaugurate .4 new the case on what the Indians hnd arrived at Gravesend. Ten days era Iq ocean transportation. But the called the big fire canoes." Inter the vessel was sold for $30,000 thing which aroused tins wildest en-- . The British, however, saw great and Chartered to the Portuguese thuslasm among the' citizenry Of steam government as a troopship. New York on that April day. 08 possibilities In In 1S34 the ship was bought by the years ago was the fact that .the navigation and since they did so much to develop It, It Is ohly fair, Spaniards, sent to Gravesend to be Great Western1 hnd arrived only 17 on Maritime day, to take note of converted. Into a. and, lours behind the Sirius, despite the the Ysabel Segunda. Later fact that she left England 11 days their ships which pioneered In linking America and Europe more close- she retured to the Spanish coast, after her rival. That Hiennt she hard ly together. There Is a special rea- and on. May 5, 1S30, In the Bay of made the crossing In 13 days! son for doing this In the case of one San Sebastian, she earned the disMoreover, It had been a which can be regarded somewhat as tinction of being the first steumer of and the city staged much crossing" an American ship" since she was war to fire a hostile shot I 1810 the same kind of celebration which built and operated by our Canadian she was sent to Bordeaux for repairs t was to on' nearly a hundred put cousins. That wns tho wooden but was converted Into a hulk. Her years Inter In ' welcoming another the Royal William, engines were, transferred to a new trip across the Atlantic. which made the first crossing of the ship of the same name, which ultiLieut, .James llosken,' It. N.,. Atlantic UBlng steam all the way. mately sank off the Algerian coast of the Great Western, was The Royal William, built at Que- during a violent storm in 1SG0, the Colonel Lindbergh of his day. After the voyoge of the Royal Honors were showered upon, Mm. bec, wns launched In April, . 1831, and towed to Montreal to he fitted William, the next Important event Ie and his officers were wined and with engines developing 200 horse n' steamship history dined with an extravagnnee never power. Her cost wheh ready for sea was the arrival In New York on lefore known In the history of New was $73,000. Her dimensions were: April 22, 1S38, of the British ship York. Guards had to be stationed length over all 170 feet; depth of Sirius, for which has also been around both the Sirius and the hold 18 feet; breadth over paddle? claimed the honor Of being the first Great Western to keep souvenir boxes, 44 feet. She wns orlglnnlly bont to cross the Atlantic uhlng only hunters from tearing them to pieces. Intended to ply between Montreal steam for propulsion. (Although a There were pitched battles between and Quebec and Nova Scotia, and memorial tablet In the Canadian the police and the revellers who the enterprise of building her wns house of commons comm'eraorntcs the stormed the. quays In their attempts, carried out by a group of Quebec the feat of the Royal William ns be- - to get near the vessels. ' ' The Sirius may have been a wonPRESIDENT HOOVER der to behold with her- length of 178 (United , feet; beam bf 2314 feet, tonnage of 10,000 font 03 afld speed, of ICO knots a day. 70S lonq But the Great. Western was a mnr-ve1,300 Pdl.nq.rt She was the largest and fastest JO tnoH'ipsrt . thing afloat.. She was 236 feet long, HE DE FRANCE bad a beam of 5S14 feet and. a ton-- , (Prnc) nage of 1,310. Her two engines were 44.000 tom of furnishing "50 horse powcapable 7S0 loot lonq and Rh'e traveled at the er, Indicated, l,2S0 poiiongort 210 knots, a day. rnte of terrific 23 lno ipood Before the Sirius returned to England shq- advertised he passage REX lltety) In the New York newspapers. lutes . 47.000 tom . For a cabin they were $110, IncludI6S foot lonq & 1.050 pmionqor ing provisions and wine," and. for 26 kno ipood second cabin $SO, with provisions and wine." James Gordon Bennett EUROPA .(Gofmonjl wynt to Europe aboard the Sirius ' 10.000 tom on her return trip, a .Journey of 965 foot longwhich he was always proud. 2.200 poitonqoti 26 knot! When the Great Western started ipni for' England on. May 7, New York gave her nearly as great .a send-ofas Its Welcome hnd been. Fof every' LEVIATHAN one realized that (bis mqtked the (UnitoJ $Ui beginning of. a new epoch In mari60.000 tom time history. Two years later the 907 Foot lonq Great Britain. the first. Iron ocean ' 2,500 pouonqort Hner and the first steamer driven by 24 Snotl ptd a sqrew propeller across the ocenn. was launched In England. In 1SW0 also the Cunard line obtained the backing of the British government (n the form of a profitable mall contract and In that year th& Cunard ship Brlttanla, the first bf a. line of splendid ships which Jiare 'since CUEEN MART (Groot rilin) 73.000 tom, t.OII loot lonq. 2.500 pouonqon, plied the. Atlantic, arrived In Bos32 knoH ipood ton. there to he greeted by much the same enthusiasm as .had greeted, How thf Competition to Build the Largest, Finest jmd Fastest Ocean the Great Western In Nw York. Liners Has. Gonfi Forward During Recent Years. By 1S30 thb Cunard steamers had and Ilallfux merchants, assisted by lng the first to "use steam all the taken the best passenger trade away A grant from th.e gevern-moway," some historians assert that from the sailing ships and Ameriof Jiwer Canada. Amsng the the Royal William, like the Savan- cans realized that they niust also shareholders appear the names of nah. ffequently resorted to sails.) resort to steam if they wereto hold three Cunard Urol hers, one of wlmm on their own with the British. Their The Sirius had left Liverpool later founded the present Cunard March 28 and first steamers, built for for out Queensput Ul& . service, proved to be too slow to town, Ireland, where, after refueling, After three moderately sneefssful she set out for America on April 4. compete with' the English lines but voyages, til 1$31 to Halifax and In- llar.dly had she quit .Queenstown in the fifties the famous American termediate ports she laid up Tor the when her crew mutinied. Any at Collins line began operating a fleet winter. In 1S32, owing to h pholeya tempt to cross the Atlantic by steam of swift, luxurious steamships which epidemic, she made only one voyage, alone was plain suicide, so the sail outstripped their British rivals and and her owners became bankrupt. ors declared, and they refused to go succeeded In recovering a large part In the spring of 1S33 a new head. But the mutiny was put down of the Atlantic passenger trade. was formed, which purchased and the vessel continued on her way, The modern era of ocean liners the vessel and. for a time, used her The Sirius arrived off Sandy Hook In dates from 1875 when experiments for towing and local excursions. the late afternoon of April 22 am; proved that steel hulls were strongThen In June, 1S33, she sailed on a ran upon a reef. She had to wait for er, lighter and more buoyant than trip to Boston, where she was en- the Incoming tide to lift her from Iron. Again the Cunard line piothusiastically received as being the this reef and It was not until ten neered with the Serria, the first first steamship fiylng the Union Jack oclock at night that she reached liner, to enter a United States port. which was built In 1SS0. The next the Battery. On her return to Quebec her ownvesEven at that late hour, everybody Innovation was the ers decided to send her to England who was able to do so hurried to sels, having two propellers and two for sale. It wns on this voyage that the wsterfront to catch a glimpse o sets of machinery. The City of New she made history, demonstrating to the steamship that had made the York, put Into service In 1SS2, was the world the feasibility of navigatacross the ocean In the recon the first of this type to cross the Attrip ing the oceans by means of time of 26 days. Sailors and other lantic. The adoption of the twin vessels, notwithstanding denizens of the waterfront built screw made sails obsolete and the the declaration of critics that they huge travel pitch fires on the beach near modern ers of might as well talk of making a voy- Jones where the Sirius was began. Wharf, age from Quebec to the moon." C Wwt.ro Vhttmdw CnlcxL tied up, so that the populace might doses Rogers had shown the fast-sailin- pos- g 23,-183- trans-Atlant- ic non-sto- p paddle-s- teamer, non-sto- p cora-mnnd- trans-Atlanti- er c $'! V - - mh, . y - f nt , traus-Atlao-ti- com-pan- y steel-hulle- d trans-Atlanti- c twin-scre- steam-propelle- 0 wounding of them, marching steadily ahead through 250,-00- sAtLl:LL.fy( Citizens of New York Gather at The Battery to Welcome the Great Western at the End of Her Across the Atlantic in 1838. (From a Contemporary Print) in me do hereby issue my proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe May 22, 1933, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places, and I here- VT millions, IJUL, - fwriaarai Whereas in Public Resolution 7, approved May, 1933, it is stated that on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga., on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation ; and Whereas by said resolution the President of the United States is authorized and requested annually to issue a proclamation, calling upon the people of the United States to observe May 22 of each year as National Maritime Day; Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested " d trans-Atlanti- c c dangeroUS .val- Origin of Accordion The accordion, Invented by an Austrian named Damian in 1829, Is a larger development of the mouth organ. The true accordlorf can be played In only one key, that In whlch.lt originally Is pitched; and the brass keys In the tonic and domThis Instrument inant chords. never Is used er music, of serjous character, although It Is popular among the peasantry of some Eure-peacountries. The Is an Unproved andolabo-raf- e . form of 'the Instrument. n leys and high mountains, driving out. the Ethiopian armies, that were directed by skilled soldiers from Turkey, Scandinavia .and elsewhere. Thosd Impressed fry the high qhalltles of Ethiopias Arab ruler will note that in the great crisis his presence of fnlnd remained.. The Associated Press says he took with him on tie British boat the Imperial family' Jewels, many cases of gold bullion and gold coins." On bts way from Addis Ababa to the British ship he stopped to take all the ..cash from the treasury and customs house at slave-tradin- nt . with Joy; and no wonder. In seven months Mussolini has conquered Ethlo-pla- s t) A I Barlng-Gould'- Rome went wild g rag-ba- Practical Selassie Snake Killed One Which End of the Gun? Until 1819 no law was passed In congress which affected the An act then adopted, though applying to all passengers, was ln reality a law regulating Immigration, because then nearly all 151.. sengers were Immigrants For sev-- ' eral years a large percentage pf iq persons starting fer . the .Unite,! States had been dying en "route, lng to lack of provisions ari t,g. cause of overcrowding on shipboard. The purpose of this. law jvai fo overcome these evils.. "It provided that only two passengers could be taken On board vessels .coming oj. going, from . ports . of the United States for every five tons of anch vessel, and that a sufficient supply of water and provisions must . carried for the use bf the pqxseil ' gers and. the crew, .. lmml-gra- education, but to others education aggravates the confusion. A totally ignorant person with a limited range of Ideals is accordingly often a far more valuable member of the community than one whose head Is stuffed with odds and a ends, new and old, Nature has not furnished every brain with sets of boxes In which to sort its Ideas; but education of a proper sort should be directed to the Inculcation of mental tidiness, and not to the accumulation of articles which serve only to make the confusion worse confounded. From s Winifred." Rev. S. THIS WEEK -- Va First Immigration Lavra To think clearly is not given to all By some It Is acquired through g plaao-accordl- , Speed Then and Now With regard to speed the road needs of today are vastly greater than 20 years age. In 1914 a speed of 30 miles an houe was a good clip. At that speed, about 50 or 60 ffeet of road Is needed to stop a car. Buf at todays common ctuls-4n- g speed of 60 miles an bout about 270 feet .are needed to brjng. a cab to a full stop, or five times more space than was required In 1914. ' 'Excel at.Foz Rancher t. .Scottish breeder? 0 foxei of the supplied pore than entries at a recent London. exhlM tlon. The silver fox Industry start ed tn Scotland 'about 13 years ago,. The climate is said to Have torn thing to with the sallent.'sdceesj of fox ranches In that country, but It Is conceded that their progrrss ! due largely to. good mapa.geinent, one-thir- d r' Famed . T Mina . Discover Thq famous Escalante mine, filj. Sen ln he fastness ql Hie Santi Catalina m.ountalps qf . southern Arizona for 'more than two centuries, Is reported to have been, ye, located by three Phoenix prospectors. This rich gold mine Is .more popularly knpwn as the mine tfltb . the lroh ddor. . An Electric Pelite that .tastes, the acidity ei Juice character And Indicates whether a'pples, obapges qnd other fruits ' ' . Popularity Growing DIrqda'wa. The Saddlq horse now l'more' and. vegetables are ripe, has been popular than It has been slpce the Invented by an electronic ehglneef. a In. ' Florida, also reccrrds the arid contents of preacher, who thoughfif his duty adyfint of the automobile. There.' It tea and coffde. It Is called to now are the 500,000, according to let rattlesnakes bite hint to ' ' ' . . . shew the power of God, actually Departmdnt of Commerce, more did let the snake bite hl'nl with than, twice, as ttany as 20 years Unusual Name out first removing their fqngS. He so. The shrbb known as .thfr'flowny is dead, the Jury sald, by the bite so named because.lt shadblow ,1s olca'nic V of a rattlesnake, through fils own Crises . domes into blotrm ln April and May .carelessness,- The Hawaiian Volcano observaat '. about the time the common The poor fanatic 'succeeded orfly tory reports that about .20 Importhe costal In proving the power ef. rattlesnake tant volcanic crises have occurred American shad ascends ' . to . rivers volIn of The spawn. . 20 laws the the universe during the last poison. years could hardly be suspended to' Juscanoes Kllaiucai Mauna Loa am Seek Preservative tify the whim of one Hualalla, or about one a year. ' . ; fanatic. . A . clear, transparent vaterpfoof solution that can be sprayed on pre-- . . Tiniest Baby It .a difference, even, to A baby In California only one foot hlstorlo masonry walls to preserve the No. 1 Public Enemy, them Is sought by the national park long and' weighing less than a pouno ve" 'bandit, whjch when born is said to have a goo-service for nse ln the .cliff dAellpr '. way the gun Is pointed. Mr. Kar-pl- s Chance to survive. The Infant Is and pueblo ruins. . is taken, much alive, with .no normal ln every way except In size, struggle, .beyond holding a straw Establish Nursery hat over . his face' to baffle pho' A device well-meaning elec-trynx- . well-meanin- g nia-kp- . . tographers.' Much efficiency In cash rewards; DIHInger defied all the "Guen"; fl reward was offered, and a .red haired, lady 'delivered him to the bullets,' and got $5,000,' Whether the .$7,000 'reward offered for Karpis tempted some friend of that cduragevus one re- mains to be seen. . The- - criminal js' In business .for money, and when he can sell a friend for $5,000, that seems prefer able to..rlsUing his owq llfe. , The reward system should be extended . $5,000 reward for evidence Resulting Ip arrest and cenvictlon of any murderer. . - - - '2. CL" iK-- Jf. 4 t Tlw Carnegie Institute announces srft a "new law of matter' having to do with the IcoheSlon of Infinitesimal particles of matter within the atom. If It werqnot for that law, according to .scientists, :the universe .would consist of nothing but light hydrogen gas." That should tntei .est politic-labwho, .after the big conventions, will live, until November, In a universe consisting of something lighter thaq light hydrogen s 1 Dollars .Saved . OH England's cew king, Edward the . Eighth, Is said to'be engaged tQ marry the Princess' Alexandrine Louise of Denmark, twenty-on- e years old,' the English kings third cousinl The uncle of the young lady says he and her fqther know noticing of' It. Nevertheless, It .Is (llfflcnlt to believe that King Edward will remain a bachelor, whether he hiarrlea this charming young prlntess er sojntf other, possibly a gbod healthy young Scotch girl, Jf one available could be found. coara-geonsl- y Two mlssruhlod Mexicans decided to ring bells of the ancient mission church at Juarez, Mexico, to celebrate the nomination of a National Revolutionary candidate for governor of Chihuahua. The pious ladles of Juares thought those old bells should not be rung for any candidate, and It became necessary for troops to rescue the from the Infuriated bellringers women, giving a good Imitation oi Euripides Bacchae. When women start they mean It. revoln-tlonar- y man-huntin- g 0 Kins ratur W NU Syndicate Srvio jn. . .ffiotf spoilage . . Marketing leftovers 1 and delicious . . . . Sealed-in-ste- ' . Dr. Waltqf Emerson Briggs, who teaches dentistry In Tufts college, says "women cat take arty klnd'of pain without a whimper." Women endure pain more than mem Childbirth hqs taught them to suffer and endure In Isolation. Man show his heroism preferably In crowds, (n squadrons, platoons; often he would not do that .If It did not take more .courage to stay behind alone than to go ahead with' the others. !,.. . . . el G. E. THRIFT UNIT In both Monitor Top and 'Flat Top Models. performance' guaranteed. ar , things tg eat. . . , ' , . , ; . 1 , 4 , 1 Before Varmr weather.comes on, ".cide - NOW to have frigerator. an-electri- de-- re- - c Easy terms can be.-ar- . - . ranged. Once you enjoy electic refrigerator advantages, you'll never do without it. Phone us. Electricity Is The Biggest Bargain In The Home OTAKI POWER 0KIir (5. .. |