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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH Hamburg Is Bi Free Port and Part of Its Great Harbor Leased by Landlocked Czechoslovakia. Announcement that Washington. landlocked Czechoslovakia has leased a sector of Hamburgs vast harbor Geris a reminder of two aspects of which always manys proud port arouse Interest among American visiWashtors, says a bulletin from the of the ington (D. C.) headquarters National Geographic society. ' "Hamburg is a free port, and Hamexburg Is a free city," the bulletin sees he And who Hamburg plains. quickly learns that both appellations have practical consequences. "The visitor starts forth, wisely enough, to see Hamburgs best advertised spectacle, Its harbor. He finds it has not been overrated. It Is one of the most amazing Industrial spectacles in the world; that vast sweep of cluttered water, pierced by hundreds of land fingers separating the rectangular water sheets which are basins, skylined by monster skeletons of mighty ships In the building, often d by the chimney outpourings of myriad factories. "For six miles along the broad Elbe, from the sea, ex75 miles tend the massive docks, the hippodrome landing stages, the intricate Jumble of cranes, derricks and elevators. The landing stages are necessary because Hamburg has an open harbor, accessible to the tide, in contrast to the dock-basiand floodgates of the port of London. Ferry for Sightseeing. A ferry is the proper sightseeing vehicle. For the port Is a area, strewn with every type of modern vessel, from the Gargantuan S. S. Europa (still under repair from the ravages of a mysterious fire) down through lazy barges, alert yachts, energetic motor boats, chugging tugs, and busy ferries. You have your pass, of course, inquires the master of the circular ferry the circular applying to the trip, not the craft. A pass, what for? "A part of this harbor Is a free port, sir, patiently explains the boatman. And you will wish to come smoke-screene- up-riv- back. You get your pass, your boatman threads his way for miles and miles through a floating traffic, but orderly, jam that makes crossing Fifth avenue seem child play to the - landlubber mind. You visit the free port, then your ferry heads back toward your embarkation place. On the way you pull up at what seems to be a customs house, displaying a sign which marks the free poet limits. You show your pass; the boat is searched. T see how it Is about that pass, a passenger admits. But why the search? Obviously we havent aboard a bale of cotton, or a tractor, or a nice, new American auto. Ah, no, but one might have mind you, I am not saying you would have one might have a bottle of English whisky somewhere about, tactfully explains the boatman in his painstaking English. Just like home, succumbs the Pigeon Plays Piano or Dances to Tune X k American. Turbo-Electri- VVHV"H44r mili-tantl- e ar n lt e s, Liner Is Launched c Harvards varsity hockey team will 14 games, with the possibility that, two more may be added to tlie play schedule released recently. The first game was with Boston university. A e series will be played with Toronto, Boston university and Dartmouth, and the best two out of three with Yale. two-gam- liner S. S. Santa Clara as It was brought back to dock at Camden, N. J.,. after sliding down the ways at launching. The new boat will be placed In the regular service to Peru and Chile via the Panama canal. The new turbo-electri- c TEXAN DEMANDS RETURN OF SITE; ITS NOW PORTLAND the Mayor Theatens Unless City Offers to Suit Settle. Portland, Ore. Mayor George L. aker has received a letter from C, " Davis, Sundan, Texas, threatening suit If Mayor Baker does not settle r the 1,000 acres on which Portland is now laid out Davis pointed out in the letter that e is the only hair Living for the and and that he was willing to be feasonabie about a settlement, he does not "want to cause any excitement in your city." The letter said: write you in regard to some have in your city no doubt are aware to fact you have in your city a very large track of land at belongs to me, now as I am the ay hair living 1 am writing you to ae if you are willing to Join vine In . and I Some Sport in Bringing the Youngsters Into Limelight. All Big Ten basketball fans are familiar with the capabilities of Stretch" Murphy, Ted Chmielewskl and all of the other famous veterans of the league, but the stars of tomorrow will come out of the present the melody. sophomores, and there may be some sport In bringing these youngsters into range of the spyglass now. Purdue has a good prospect In liner on entering a narrow harbor. Wooden of Martinsville, the Johnny In these office buildings are eleIndia rubber man of Indiana prep vators which have dispensed with basketball from 1925 to 1923, who Is doors and operators. They run on the chain principle like buckets in a a master dribbler and is expected to into a floor guard of the type well. They do not stop. One hops develop on or off as the buckets pass his of Don White and Windy" Robbins. floor. If one forgets to alight at the He has a great eye and specializes In sudden charges under the basket, right floor, no harm dona Stay on, and the passenger will be carried ending with an elastic bounce that around the top, or bottom, of the puts him In scoring position. Billy l.lygrave, the tallest man on shaft, as on a Ferris wheel. the Indiana university squad, standing y Industrial to Its finger tips, 3 Inches tall, looks like the so, Hamburg is a beautiful city. 6 feet It leaves a confused impression of regular back guard on the Hoosier team. Minneapolis and Venice. For the ABill Newbold, who received lster river, en route to the Elbe, splays mention while playing at Rushville, wide in the midst of Hamburgs busiInd., is Notre Dames best sophomore. est quarter, giving it the unique specHe Is tall, fast and good on defense. tacle of great office buildings, fine hotels, fashionable shops, all along the He scored ten points In the opener lake front Clerks in the great, gray with Kalamazoo and Is slated to fill stone building which Is the office of the position left by Frank Crowe, all-stforward for the last two years. the Hamburg-America- n line, glancing Reg nildreth of Valparaiso, Ind., Is up from their ledgers, can look out over a glistening sheet of water, playing regularly at forward for Iowa. flecked with tiny yachts, motor boats, He is also a baseball star, likely to make scurrying ferries, racing shells, and shortstop on the nawk nine next spring, succeeding Willis Glassgow. canoes; with swans and sea gulls hovering about. A little old cowbell is becoming as Front on Lakes; Back on Rivers. famous a victory token in the South By night the hotel visitor can view little brown from his window the moonlit water, as the Minnesota-Michigarimmed by thousands of electric bulbs, jug. Since 1924 the bovine neck ornaand see tiny, firefly points of light ment has been the prized emblem of the victor In the Georgia bobbing ail over the surface. At one corner are huddled hundreds of gridiron combats. Possession canoes, their occupants reclining on of the token has changed with regucushions, listening to the concert of larity, neither team having been victhe Alster pavilion. This sprightly torious two years In a row since Ed cafe, or coffee house, along the lake F. Cavaleri of Atlanta put up the front, gathers its daytime patronage clanging trophy. from the great department stores of the opposite side of the street Rugby, according to a university If many of Hamburgs offices and failed In America because It president, homes front on the lakes, others open taught a lesson we already knew too their back doors on canals. Especialwell to pass the buck; get rid of the ly the shops, where barges creeping ball. Football, says he, demands holdthrough the narrow waterways that ing onto the ball and doing the best link the Alster and the Elbe serve as you can with it. Whether that statedelivery vans from docks to retailers. ment Is unquestionably true or not, Under the Elbe Is a tunnel. Two the fact remains that all sorts of sport parallel tubes supplement two mighty tend to raise the ethical standards traffic. But bridges in the trans-Elbgenerally among the people who are they are not approached from a level interested in them. causeway as in our Hudson tunnel. Huge elevators carry pedestrians, veOne of the fallacies that creep conhicles and cyclists dont forget the Into reports' is tinually cyclists from the street level to the the the team is being put that premise meOf entrances. course tunnel the up just like a real college varsity for thodical German has counted the pasactual competition. The catch Is the One tubes. sengers through be used, a months record shows the ratio of 850 what style of play is to open, forward passing game; shifty, to 150 9 and every cyclists pedestrians a power attack or a kick and wait for vehicles. But of all the strange sights of tlie breaks? Obviously the players selected for one style will not do for Hamburg, the strangest, perhaps, are another. the uniforms of the trades unions. One Nagurskl of the Gophers, who played type of ships carpenter wears a shirt fullback nearly all of the time this V cut with a that penetrates nearly to the belt line. He has a tiny jacket, year for his team, is used frequently although and flaring trousers of corduroy. An- at tackle on the other branch of the carpenters' union the New York Evening Posts poll for brought him 148 is distinguished by velvet corduroy Its 48 as a tackle. to a as back points jackets and trousers and high silk As a matter of fact, of course, everyhats. And a third variety one may body knows that the Bronk would have identify by earrings! been a better end than anything else, If the needs of his team had not required him to perform at other positions. One-thir- Letter to FROM SOPHOMORES j- dress as loyally as it guards the ancient rights .and privileges of the free city the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. There are only three German survivors of that mighty Hanseatic merchandising chain of the Middle ages Bremen, Lubeck and Hamburg. Of these three the mightiest Is Hamburg. Once the senators of Hamburg were elected for life. Their rule of Hamburg was as autocratic, to our modern way of thinking, as that of the Doges of Venice. That has changed now. There is a house of burgesses, giving a legislative balance much like that under the United States Capitol dome. Senates Secret Sessions. The senate sits in the town hall. Perhaps you have heard of the famous Ratsweinkeller, beneath the central building, with its jolly stone Bacchus frankly enthroned at the entrance to a vestibule adorned with stained glass window portraitures of the John Paul Joneses of maritime Hamburg. You climb aloft The peculiar walls catch your eye. They seem to be of solid wood, most delicately carved and beautifully decorated. Closer examination shows some to be of felt, pressed to the hardness and likeness of wood, with the intricate patterns Imposed by a matrix. And after a banquet hall that conjures up memories of the belted burgesses, the staunch merchants, and the gentlemen adventurers of medieval times you come upon the senate chamber. Oue feature strikes a home note in the American bosom. This senate, too, has secret sessions. But wiien It does it retires from the chamber with the visitors gallery and the press gallery into a smaller chamber that has just one entrance. That entrance is guarded by two massive doors of incredible thickness. And before eaph of the double doors it posts a guard. No eavesdropping, even through a madouble barrier of inches-thichogany ! Torpedo Boats, Jobs ar.d Jails. Hamburg once withstood the attacks of Danish kings. It kept aloof from the Thirty Tears war which cut down the prowess of so many Baltic cities. Away back in the time of Maximillian I it entered the German confederation as a free city, on a parity with other German states. Only yesterday, in its history, in 1923, it experienced a Communist uprising that left a deep impression that Hamburg citizens remember, nnd bullet holes which the city's buildings attest. How was it put down? a visitor inquired. Torpedo boats sailed into the harbor. The senate saw that all the leaders were given good municipal jobs. But they .were locked up on demonstration days, was a citizens reply. Architecture Modernistic. Dating back to Charlemagne, Hamburg is Germanys rsost modern city. Almost modernistic. The fire of 1842 left few traces of its medieval archiSome of its newer office tecture. buildings have spiraled sides, in northern search for sunlight; others have contours that make them loom up in Hamburg vistas like a giant o'cean Bargain Counter1 of Baltic. But, all joking to one side, as one of your homeland humorists puts It, you have just seen one key to the prosperity of the foremost continental port The huge free port, with its mammoth warehouses, cluttered with silks from China, beef from Argentina, eoffee from Brazil, harvesters from the States, all bearing addresses for Baltransshipment to strange-name- d tic ports, none to pay a cent of duty into Germanys treasury. d of Hamburgs harbor, you later learn, Is given over to this free port; in its zone are employed some 20,000 of the citys 110,000 industrial workers. Hamburg entered the German customs union In 1888, thus enabling It to sell its own goods to Germany, tariff free, but Its canny senate maintained its free port privileges, which arrangement makes It the great transocean department store of the Baltic. A senate in a city? Yes, a senate which clings to its stiff Spanish Gegiua, Sask. The only pi- : geon pianist In Canada Is owned by the J. Smith family of Est-Hn. Sask. The moment he is - in the house Buddy," the fara-Hy pet, hops onto the piano and begins to walk buck and forth across the keys. When a pianist begins to play Buddy" is always present and dances upon the piano to the strains of a settlement, if you are I will make it worth your while. 1 do not want to cause any excitement In your city. I believe If you will join me we can come to some terms. "No If you are interested let me know at once then I will have my atty then get In touch with you & If you city does not want a peaceful settlement 1 will go a head & file my claim but I do not want to do that if I can do other wise. I will tell you how mutch there is In it, the track contains 1000 acres you city 'i siting on today. Advise me at once what yon want to do. I am willing to'what is wrighL Hoping to here from you real soon. Five Applet, Five Dayt Pontine, Mich. For stealing five apples Wilfred Smith, eighteen years old, was sentenced to five days In the county Jail here. . Pennsylvania Basketball Team basketball stars Mayor Walker May Get Yacht Hoover Refuses New York. The Mayflower, pleasure yacht of five Presidents, but discarded as too great a luxury by President Hoover, may be handed to Mayor Jimmy" Walker as a Christmas gift by a Santa Claus committee of bis wealthy friends, the understanding being that title to the craft be vested in the city and that it take the place of the Macom, the official welcome boat It was said that negotiations for the purchase have been carried on so quietly that even Inner pircles at the city hall know nothing about them. It Is officially conceded, however, that the Macom has outlived its usefulness Nothing more than' a sublimated tugboat; it is not considered large enough for the mayor's committee of welcome and their guests. Besides, it cannot keep up with the usual river parades. Grover A. Whalen and others on the ' city reception committee have felt as Macoin humiliated the dragged aloug In the wake of other craf Duke university, baby member of the Southern Conference, will make its first serious bid for Dixie laurels in the 1930 football season, having booked five games with conference foes. This season Dukes only conference opponents were Louisiana State, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Tlie Blue Devils will meet South Carolina, Kentucky, Washington and Lee, North Carolina and North Carolina State next fall. Tennessee hasnt been beaten on its ' home field In four years. Its the bunk." Thats what Harry Kipke, coach of football team, Michigans varsity thinks of Glen Warners plan for scoring gridiron games. Kipke found only two faults with the rules as observed the past season; he think3 a fumbled lateral pass should be dead at the point of fumbling and that a kicking team should be allowed to run with the ball after having one of Its punts blocked. Warners scheme of counting one point for each first down and abolishing the point after touchdown would work unfairly and would put a premium on the team that can make firet down in its own territory, but can't gain an inch after passing midfield, Coach Kipke said. The kick after touchdown requires of the whole perfect team, and theres no reason why It should be erased from the rule book." It took eleven years for the Ford-haeleven to beat Boston college, and the New Yorkers have the goal costs as tokens of the trlumrV Left to Right Captain Loblcy, McNIff, Ullrich, Brodbeck, Magner, PeterTanseer and Sanders of the University of Pennsylvania basketball team. The players are practicing for a series of intercollegiate games with the best teams in the East. son, Betty Keeps Fit Baseball Games Played at Night at Des Moines Baseball at night Is the new feature of the game for 1930. ft Is to be played in Des Moines next season for the first time. This was announced by Lee Kaiser, president of the Des Moines club. We have had engineers of the biggest electric companies on the job and plans are completed to play our games next season after dark, said Kaiser. They have guaranteed to produce daylight for us by their newest methods of lighting, which are a great Improvement over the flood lighting system used In the last year or two for night football games. In Des Moines we have lost money the last two years. But If we can play ball at night, when the people can go, we feel sure It will be a success. These electrical engineers declare they can make it as light as day. Were going through with 1L It is our plan to play all the weekday games at night and to play Sunday afternoons by daylight. If it Is golf and business that Is keeping men away from our ball games, they will have no excuse next summer because the games will be after business hours and they cant play golf at night. I look for our adventure to revolutionize the game." j Cop Makes Real Catch in Gotham Wilkes-Barr- e It has often been said things come to those who wait, and Dick Horn, pohefty copper on the Wilkes-Barr- e lice force, Is the monumental example of that old axiom. Richard, the policeman, had a day off recently. He went to New York to watch his favorite New York Giants play the Cincinnati Reds in a double program. It was an ideal day for baseball, and Richard, the copper, accepted the warm sun for the chance to sit out in the bleachers. The copper hung his coat over a rail. During the afternoon, Outfielder Allen poled out a home run into the stands. A thousand hands went high into the air the fans wanted the base, ball. The policeman sat quietly by he wasnt excited over the spheroid coming into the stands. High into the air it was hit, and then it began the descent as Allen raced around the bases. It was an exciting moment. Hands reached out, but the ball fell on the edge of the rail, and lo, and behold, It fell Into the pocket of Dick Horns coat. The Wilkes-Barr- e patrolman returned home, the proud possessor of a baseball he secured In a most unusual way. Display at Caliente son of Fair Play Display, and Cicuta, which races for Walter J. Salmon and Is trained by Tom J. Healy, has been shipped to the inaugural meeting of the Agua Caliente Jockey club. The announcement of Displays going to the Mexican course for winter racing was made by James Coffroth, the Agua Caliente general manager. ld Booth as Cager Betty Robinson, worlds champion woman sprinter, keeps an edge on her' speed during the winter months by skating near her home In Rlverdale. Fred Schulte, the Browns young outfielder, Is one the fastest men In basebalL If Havana enters the Southeastern league it will put a club of native stars on the field. They have many. Catcher Ike Danning has been bought by the Baltimore club of the International league from Tulsa of the Western. University of Iowas new stadium, constructed at a cost of $500,000, is 30 feet below the level of the surrounding terrain. Charles (Casey) Stengel, manager of the Toledo Mud Hens since 1926, has signed to lead the team in the 1930 pennant chase. ' Joe Beckett, the former heavyweight champion of Great Britain, is writing his autobiography. Joe spent most of his ring career on his back. In order to give every football fan a good seat, it has been suggested at Princeton university to have a revolving stadium or a revolving gridiron. Tlie Big Three of the worlds champion Athletics, Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw and Rube Walberg, hit a home run apiece during the 1929 season. A polo tournament was played recently In Peiping, China, by more than ten British American and French teams from Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin. Eddie Wineapple of Salem, well known in New England as ball and basketball star, has as a pitcher with Washington. a southpaw. " Mass., a base- signed He Is The late Joe McGlnnlty, Iron Man" pitcher, hit 41 batters with pitched balls in 1900 but led the National league hurlers that season with a winning percentage of .769. He later mastered control. ' Col. Dan McGugin, football coach at Vanderbilt for 26 years, Is the dean of the Southern conference and has the best reeord of any coach In the group. nis teams have a winning percentage of about .850. . Alble Booth, Yale grid star, as he reported for the first practice session for candidates for the Yale basketball team. Otis Brannon, sold by the Browns to . Hollywood of the Coast league, served with the SL Louis American league club for two years, as a regular second baseman in 1928 and as a reserve in fielder last season . |