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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH SEE SPIRITS OF Strong Favorite of Quilt Makers CRATER VICTIMS lost their lives in Miharas crater despite every effort to put a stop to the suicide craze. The crater Is seven miles around and it Is not humanly pos Able to net-ithis vast territory as have been other suldde-trystlnplaces. n free to keep close watch OB the course of the ship. The condition of the engine Is entirely In charge of the ships engineer. Nearly all of the many Instruments, gages, dials and Indicators are banked In the engine room, which Is In the center of the officers By GRANDMOTHER CLARK Japanese. wing. No. 7 is truly a symbol of the steps ahead which hare been made In transcontinental air travel. France Is link- The Artists Conception of Ship. Below, Maxim WILLIAM C. UTLEY world, with America in the is entering a new and era of transportation. It might be called the Era of Realization of the Fantastic. Not so many years ago in fact within the memory of children still in school covers of magazines of the science and invention type were filled with artists startling conception of great flying palaces, then weird in appearance, which were to tie together the far ends of the earth in Blase passengers were the future. shown reading newspapers, playing while their chess or even shuffle-boar- d great winged carriers cleft the clouds far above the vast expanses of ocean. Novels of highly imaginative fiction, typified by the Mars stories of Ed-- , gar Rice Burroughs, bristled our spines with high jinks on other planets where the members of scientifically superior civilizations flew about the faces of their respective planets in spectacular hops of thousands of miles at a time. Such wild literary entertainment we were wont, for fear of appearing too silly to our neighbors, to leave in upstairs bedrooms, reserving the space on the library table for Dickens. Thackeray, Edgar A. Guest and the family Bible. And while deep In our hearts we thought It was swell" reading, we knew that It was really impossible stuff! Yet, before the year is out, regular scheduled passenger service will be In effect between the United States and China. Not flying palaces, perhaps, but at least flying hotels will soon link the newest and most progressive of the great powers with the oldest and most mysterious of nations on another side of the world. Surprising enough, the giant ships of the air look very much like .the artists conceptions which graced the sensational press of a few years back. Most surprising of all, we accept the real thing witli far less amazement than we did its imaginative forerunner. . Now that the New Era is actually upon us, we accept with little wonder the faf 'that German engineers are planning the construction of q transatlantic air liner that will carry 1,500 persons. This flying boat will be literally a hotel on wings. It will sacrifice none of the comforts of the great ocean liners, with their sport decks, entertainment facilities, etc. . Ship Cars by Air. There will be elevators from deck to deck. There will be room for travto take their own automobiles elers across the sea with them. Garages will be provided for these ; special hoisting machinery will lift the cars up into the plane. The ocean steamship has Its supply of life boats to turn loose from the mother ship In case of emergency at sea, and the proposed flying boat will not be outdone in this respect, either, for room will be provided to house smaller auxiliary planes. These will take off from the surface of the body of the great plane, being speeded on their way over the sea by a powerful catapult which will assure their getting into the air. This ship may sound a little fantastic to us, but by this time we are used to having fantastic new contraptions accepted as practical .facts almost overnight. The German designers promise us that such a flying ship as this will be ready for travel over the ocean in the very near future. Hardly less spectacular is the American marvel of the skyways, Flying Clipper No. 7, which Is now completed as the first ship ever designed speIt cifically for transoceanic travel. will begin service, probably on the route across the Pacific, some time this summer. It is now finishing tests which so fay have proved it to be equal to the bullying of the elements and the once forbidding distance be By THE Transatlantic Plane Planned In Germany. Right, Gorki, Russias Largest Plane, Which Crashed, Kilijng 48. tween continents. With Its inception Into" service the period of pure experiment will be over. None of the comforts of rail travel need be sacrificed aboard the clipper. Soundproofing of all passenger com- partments reduces motor noise so that it is no greater than the unannoying noise of a pullman car. The passenger deck, 43 feet long, has a. celling six and one-hal- f feet high, so that even tall men need not stoop In walking. Thirty passengers and a crew of five can be carried. The spacious lounge and dining room seats 10 at a time. For sleeping, the passenger seats can be converted into 12 single and six double berths; in case of a "full house there are four double berths available in the lounge. . So far it has not been decided how to apportion the available space fo passengers and cargo. This may depend largely upon the popularity of air travel. For exbe will it possible with one ample, scheme of distribution to carry 12 passengers, the crew, and a cargo of 2.200 pounds on non-stoflights of 3.000 miles. The clipper has four engines, whose 3.200 developed horsepower can climb 1.000 feet a minute with a load of 51,- 000 pounds. The planes cruising speed at 12,000 feet is 103 miles an hour, but it can do ISO and more if necessary. It can soar more than four miles p high. Safety Clipper Watchword. Safety has been the watchword in the design of the clipper. If one of the engines should fail, the other three could finish the flight, carrying the 51,000-pounburden. Even if two of them should go dead at the same time, the remaining two would maintain the altitude long enough to allow the captain and his men an oppor-- . tunity td make ready for any emer. . gencies. The sea holds no terrors for this remarkable slop. It could make a forced landing In a stormy sea with more ease than the gray gull it resembles. It can land or take off In a sea with waves running five feet high. Former clipper ships have been assisted in the water by pontoons suspended from the wings. No. 7 has a supporting device, new to American design, which is called a sponsoon and might be likened to an additional wing. This sticks "out a short distance from each side of the body at water level. It serves to house the fuel tanks, also. The 'No. 7 Is larger in every respect than the clipper, ship which .recently flew from California to Hawaii and back again. The latter's four engines are each of 700 horsepower, totaling 400 less than the No. 7. It has a 114-fowing spread, weighs 19,000 pounds empty, 40,000 pounds loaded," and Us maximum cruising range is 3,000 miles. The new clippers wings are 130 feet from tip to tip. It weighs 23,100 pounds empty and can add a useful load of 27,000 pounds. Its maximum range is 4,000 miles. If mileage between stops were reduced, the ship could carry 24 passengers .and a pay-loa- d amounting to several tons to Europe over the route made famous by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. With normal stopping periods included, a ship of this type could fly from New York to London In about 33 hours, averaging 100 miles an hoflr. That Is less than the time required to go from- New York to Chicago and back by rail. The traveler could leave New York late Saturday night and be in London In time to start the business week first thing Monday morning. like Instead of a pilot and our land transport planes have, the clipper ship has a captain and a navivessel. gator, for it Is an ocean-gojnAutomatic Flying. Most of the flying is done by an automatic pilot that leaves these two d - t, g Irish Chain quilt can be round In almost every collection, und quilt makers will make at least one of these simple chain patterns. The single, double, or triple Irish Chain has one, two, or three blocks In the chain. The background Is white and the squares are a solid blue, red, or other dark mixed colors to give contrast The squares In this quilt measure 1 Inches without seam, and they are appliqued on two different nine-inc- h blocks; one all checked, the other with a square In each corner. These are asser led alternately to give above effect. blocks are used across Seven top and nine blocks on side. With a border quilt will measure finished about 72 by 90 Inches. This quilt Is simple to make but cutting of patches and blocks must be accurate to produce good results. This quilt Is one of the 33 popular quilts shown In book No. 23, which will be mailed to you upon receipt of 15 cents. Cutting charts, instructions and valuable Information for quilt makers will be found in this book. ADDRESS HOME CRAFT CO., DEPT. D., Nineteenth and St. Louis Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Inclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply when writing for any Information. lipper n Curling up in the smoke which rises from the crated of Mihara, Japan's famous suicide volcano, the ghostly Images of three girls were seen by terror-strickevillagers on the Island of Oshlma. Remembering that Mihara rose to fame as a lovers death tryst following suicides of three high school girls, the villagers said the specter of the girls was an 111 omen. Frightened, the superstitious said the volcano's nushi (master) was about to rise from the land of fire" to lure visitors to jlgoku" (the abode of the devil). Three days later visitors from Tokyo, Just across the bay, swarmed to the Island, partly out of curiosity and partly because it was Sunday and the islands natural beauty and warmth attracted them. At 10:30 a. m. about 100 spectators were gathered on the spot from which persons committing suicide plunge to their death. Suddenly r ran young man, scarcely twenty-five- , forward and flung himself headlong into the crater. As the spectators, horrified and speechless, looked at each other, another man, a few years older, came out from the throng and, without saying a word, walked as though In a trance and dropped into the fiery pit Nervously the spectators moved away, afraid that some unseen hand might pull them Into the smoldering Inferno. Suddenly another youth, about twenty-threran to the edge of the crater, stripped himself of his kimono and, with nothing on except shorts, stepped over the brink into the world beyond. Hardly had the talk of these suicides died down when, two days later, three more men flung themselves into the abyss, one after another, as many spectators looked on. The police have decided that hereafter all visitors to the Island will be questioned before being permitted to land. Those suspected of suicide intentions will be barred from landing. All visitors must buy round-trifares. Officials of the home office In Tokyo are frankly pessimistic. Last year more than 800 persons n ing up even its most distant colonies with the French capital by means of ships of this size, one of which has already been, completed, the This ship Is the largest seaplane in the world, with a wingspread of nearly 50 meters and engines which develop more than 5,200 horsepower. It weighs 37 tons and has a crew of eight. It has several first-clas- s cabins, each with two. beds and a private bath. Above, Ghostly Visitors Bring Fear to g Two Discarded Pens give you one good free, guar. 1 yr. Enclose3c stamp. MailtoBroe Pen Exch. 3922 S. E. 48th Ave., Portland, Ore., Adv. rebuilt fountain pen Sleeves Painted On Women In Nanchang, China, who insist upon wearing dresses with sleeves shorter than those prescribed by the authorities are taken Into custody by the polica where the sleeves should end. The police usa paint to match the color of the dress worn. cnaHBEl sattJfc S' U Owen Possibly He tta Did you fill your date last night? Moore "I hope so. She ate everything In sight" e, Service has already started between the French capital and points In French Colonial Africa. The Netherlands have ordered new Douglas planes for transcontinental lines. Service has been going along on schedule for some time between the United States and various South American points served Airways. The Graf by Zeppelin is so regular in its schedule between Germany and Brazil that no one mentions its arrivals and departures any more. Burning .sore. cracked, Use Isolated Islands. relieved.and healing aided soon Since early this year, American uuith safe, soothing- Be But Pedantic Dont ships have been busy carrying Speak good English and people will all kinds food, clothing, cows, chickens, tools and building materials get used to you and like it to once isolated islands in the Pacific ocean, so that they can be converted into habitable landing stations ; In the most Important. of all the new sea routes, the one from the United States to China. The longest hop on this Journey will be the one from California to Hawaii, a distance of 2,400 miles, to be covered in a little more than 17 hours, as the clipper commanded by Captain Musick covered it a few weeks ago. From Hawaii, the planes will hop to Guam, Wake, Midway, the Philippine, islands and Canton, China. Strangely, the Chinese government has not yet agreed to let the American planes- have a terminal in Canton, or anywhere else In China. This difficulty, which probably arose from the Chinese fear that "the Japanese government will expect the same privilege, is expected to be Ironed out .before the landing station's are all completed and the route Is ready for service. There is good reason for Japan, as well ns. several other nations Important in the world of commerce, to he For the completion of the alarmed. air route to China will probably mean the beginning of a new dominance of the Ciiina trade by the United States. It will bring the Chinese market closer to this country than even the European market. England, France and Holland air services have attempted to lay the plans for air services to China, but have been stopped at the Chinese border. Germany alone of the European nations has been able to get in with air lines. We hold this advantage: rapid and uninterrupted flight Is possible across 'the . Pacific, while land flights from European nations to China face the obstacle of frequent stops for inspection when crossing International boundary lines. Russian Marvel Crashes. With all the clipper ships considered perhaps the most unusual of all the Rusgiants of the air was the sian ship, the Maxim Gorki. It weighed 42 tons, carried 03 persons, had eight engines of a total of 7,000 horsepower, flew 150 miles an hour and cost 000. In .It were a complete photog plant, graphic studio, a an electrically driven rotary printing press .capable of turning out 8,000 ..hour, a radio broadnewspapers casting studio, talking movie equip10 telement, a resteurant-loungphones, an observation saloon, business offices, sleeping quarters and a sound amplifier system. It wa3 used, of course, for Soviet propaganda purposes. 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