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Show THE Thursday, January 30, 1930 PATENT OFFICE SNOWED UNDER Enough Devices Await Sanction to Occupy Staff for Six Yearn. Washington. Inventive minds la nation have seldom. If ever, been so active as now. according to tbe records of the United States patent office of the Department of Commerce, The general trend continues towaed conserving man power and adding to tbe comfort of bumanltj through new ma80 great la tbe activity chines. among Inventors at tbls time that the patent office Is six years behind lu Its work. There are 111,757 applications, reKUt raexclusive of trade-mar- k tions, now pending, and otHcluls say these alone would occupy the entire patent office staff for six years. A more liheral attitude by congress toward enlarging the personnel lu this governmental work Is looked to as one solution of tbe problem of bringing the work up to date. The division handling applications for patents on carbon chemistry processes, dyeing, . explosives and sugar and starch formulae, bas in the past been the w5-etlv- e few moii Ufa It has 3.050 appli- cationsBefore II the largest nuraIn any division of the " ber finding patent office work. This activity Is attributed to the growth of the American industries mentioned since tbe World war. Checking Up. Tbe patent olflce bas G2 divisions. Only three of them have less than 1.000 applications to Investigate. Most of them have more tfcon 2.00, The most minute details of new In ventions have to be compared with those of hundreds of similar devices already patented. This process, officials say, consumes the greater part of the time required for a patent Investigation. Ou Tuesdays they announce the patents New York, New Jersey granted. and Pennsylvania are the most pro ductive of new devices because of the great numbers of men engaged in mechanical work in these states. Aviation has proved a fertile field for inventors, the main object of most of them being tbe perfection of a plane which can rise Into the uir from a stationary position. A successful design for this type of airplane would eliminate the neces sity for spacious landing fields and carry aviation terminals Into the centers of population. A great many types have been patented. A patent was granted on Novem ber 26 for a new lifting mechanism for aircraft. Invented by George P. Wagner of New York city and assigned to the Air Line Transportation company of Philadelphia. It Is in the form of either an airplane or a dirigible equipped with air nozzles for forcing air. The reaction of the air currents from these is said to lift the machine from the ) ground. Mr. Wagner holds that with his mechanism the lowering- of the plane also could be controlled by similar manipulation of the air currents caught in the nozzles of the era ft "8 body. An airplane helicopter Invented by Walter L. O'Neill of New York It, city was patented this month. too, is intended to reduce the space take-offIt necessary in airplane units, one lias two on either wing, which are operated from the central, or body, part of the plane. The application states thnt by controlling these units the plane can be raised fromonea position for verfor horizontal flight to tical flight Interest In Aeronautics. Applications for patents now pending In the office of J. II. chief of the division of aeronautics of the patent office, number 1,194. The major part have result-from the national Interest in aeronautics and its mechanical development, but some relate to marine vessels. The sprend of commercial aviation and the air mall service (tie 1 Drive Horse 250,000 Mile. With U.S. Mail T! After ear-S rylng the duly mall over a si rural route for more (law twenty-si- x years, Iteone has retired fred. sixty-nve- . with his own computed record of having driven a distance equal to more than tea times the circumference of the earth. Ginger. Alfred's faithful little, red horse. helped blm to deliver themail for eighteen years before she retired with her mas- Rntrlav (tt prompted Robert 3. Ormand of Bessemer city, N. (X, to design aa apparatus to enable aircraft to pick up cargo. Ills device, patented November 20, Is a tower ou which projections are placed to connect with hooks trailing from a plane. Air mall service has been provided to some sections by dropping bags from planes, but no method which would provide return service is yet In general use. Devices to accomplish this purpose have been under Investigation by air mall contract ors snd the Post Office department. Itefrlgeratlon, hearing and alr-conditloulng Inventions have been numerous during recent months. Among the latest patent awards Is listed an system in vented by Claude A. Bulkeley and Lachlan W. Chllff of Buffalo, as the Niagara Blower com igned to -it is a impuned appa pany, ratus," the petition states, "which could be used In homes, hotels, and apartments, for Individual rooms." Knclosed In a housing with a refrigerating apparatus, the apparatus has au inlet and outlet and means for forcing air Into the room to be conditioned, and would be automatically responsive to the temperature in the room. Two refrigerating devices were patented by Max Alex of Davenport, Iowa. Heating as a means of creating Is used In both these systems. A for refrigerator cars was patented by J a urns D. Huston of Imperial, Calif. The device Is a blower thnt carries chilled air from Ice bunkers at either end of tbe car. Another patent on fruit-ca- r was obtained refrigeration by Signor Mattlas Backstrom of Stockholm, Sweden, and assigned by Dim to the Electrolux Serve! corporation of New York. It would provide for automatic means of creating vapor and circulating tt through a car. Although many new patents have been grunted on electrical, gas and other types of refrigeration, the patent office division which has charge of Investigating such devices, head ed by C. U. Shaffer, still has 2,539 applications before it. The division on heating devices, that of W. N. has 2,420 " applications Holmes, awaiting Investigation. A Submarine Lifter. Recent submarine disasters may have served as the inspiration for ter. ' ?' & - s- . brick-layin- One of Uncle Sam's Steel Watchdogs J 4 i .ixSSssssSs! .. Sue, ..! r 8t AL; irtmiiintfil H"tmnll iHnli 1 i T - st - 'S The United States Steamship Arkansas swinging down the East river at New York, under Manhattan bridge, on its way to the Carib bean sea to participate in the annual winter nmnuevers. The large representation of ships end men sent from the Brooklyn navy yard leaves tnat spot comparatively deserted as the navy shifts to the southern waters. FUNDY TIDES MAKE VORTEXES THAT GIVE U? FEW VICTIMS Col--wel- l, Old Washington Oak Preserved in Georgia St Marys, Ga. Through the efforts of George D. Pratt, president of the American Forestry associa- tion, who visited St Mary with JVrs. Pratt and Mr. and Mrs. Obld Jf'l tier, two famous old trees, the Washington tree and the first pecan tree in the state, have been entered in the Hall of Fame. The old Washington tree, the only surviving tree of three planted nt that time, bears an historical legend. On the day that Gen. George Washington died word was and rapidly sent over the country, when heard at St Marys a funeral service was held. A coffin was brought np the St Marys river and landed at the dock, and accompanied by soldiers with muffled drum beat and manv sorrowcarried to. this ing citizens, was and burled with spot in St Marys nil funeral rites and ceremony. Three trees were planted at- that time, and to . this day only one is remaining, called the Washington tree. This old oak has ror many years stood there unknown until the visit of Mr. Pratt who, being intensely Interested In Its history, had same brought up before the Historical society, where later It was entered in the Hall of Fame at Washington. Pictures of this have grand old oak and write-up- s appeared In various magazines over the country since then. The other tree, the first peenn tree In the stnte, is also of great note. Over a century ago old Capt. Samuel Flood, who was on a schooner plying between New York and Charleston and St. Marys, found a keg of nuts floating In the He picked It up and water. brought It to St Marys, planting pome of the nuts, and this old tree, the first planted. Is still remaining. d twist and bore, seethe and boll. Rafts of kelp, devil's apron, or odds Swallows Everything Within Its Reach in Mighty Unescapable Gulps. Whirlpool d Washington. The famous tidal currents of the Bay of Fundy create few stranger phenomena than are to be found In the whirlpools that lie between the southerly tip of Deer Island, N. B., and Eastport Maine. These mighty vortexes are formed on the flood or Incoming tide by the converging of two powerful currents. One moves up the main channel island, turning past Campohello near Eastport and flowing onward into St Andrew's boy and the St. Croix river. The other rushes in through Indian river, as the passage between Indian island and Deer Island Is known. Near Deer Island Point the waters pour over a shoal Into an Immense chasm on the bottom of the sea. Coast and geodetic survey chart 801 gives the depth of the shoals as 30 and 42 feet while all around are depths of from 300 to 400 feet This unusual topography of the sea's floor produces A series of unruly whirlswift-movin- g pools. At full tide these are particularly wonderful to behold. They Montana Once Home of Mammoth Animals s S ts g sj S Baker, Mont Further proof that Montana was the habitat of mammoth animals before glaciers slowly crept over the North American continent was added here recently with the discovery of a huge Juw bone by George Clark, rancher, In the Coal Creek district. The bone was shaped much the some as a human Jaw bone but about seven times large. Several teeth were secure In the jaw; the chewing surface of one molar measured nearly eight Inches. The bone Is 32 Inches in length. fas m and ends of driftwood and miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam are swallowed In mighty and gulps. Beautiful majestic merciless I One whirl, the "Old Sow," Is feared even by the fishermen. It has an estimated depth of from 50 to 100 feet although no person knows absolutely how far below the surface Its gargantuan gyrations extend. "Old Sow" reverses thnt aphorism to the effect that what goes up must come down, except that here, the fishermen assert, what goes down does not necessarily come up. Or If It does. It may be In unrecognizable form. Many years ago this vortex claimed as Its victims a staunch little Deer Island fishing schooner and the three men aboard. The vessel was returning from a salt-fis- h trip. The whirl swallowed the lucktess schooner In one ravening gulp. The men were drowned almost In sight of their homes. unes-capabl- e Civilization Wiping Out Eskimo People Ottawa. Like the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon, Canada's roly-pol- y Eskimos are gradually being wiped off the earth by civilization, according to officials here. There are about 6.000 of them dwelling In the northern vastnesses of Canada, and all are especially susceptible to tuberculosis, grip, whooping cough, measles, chicken-poand other diseases Introduced to the Arctic by the white man. but propagnted there by the unsanitary conditions under which the natives - live. j S S S NEPI1I. UTAH Pace Three News Notes Conception of "Uncle Sam" Goes Back to 1812 OLD DOCTOR'S IDEA ' IS BIG HELP TO It's a Privilege to Ltvt In ELDERLY PEOPLE UTAH Claar and cold Is Cache The thermometer registered 43 degrees below se(p at LewUton and 13 below at Logan Tuesday night, end Wednesday tt was 28 degrees below cero In Logan. OGDEN Report of the output of 34 canneries, representing 20 companies, la the state of Utah shows apW38,9!i3 canes, representing proximately $3,000,000. last year, according to figures released by Robert C. Nye, secretary of the Utah Canners association. A reward of $20 has PRICE been oIered by tbe Carbon County Fish and Game association to anyone who submits evidence leading to the conviction of any hunter killing pheasants or quail. A number of the birds have been killed tff recently, according to O. Acord, bead of the committee. Utah In 1929 proSALT LAKE duced over 4,500,000 pounds of excellent honey, practically one-hal- t of which was exported out of the state, D. W. Hillman, state apiarist declared in an address before the twelfth annual meeting, Utah State Beekeepers' association which was held at the Newuouse hotel. LEHI Roads Into Cedar valley remained blocked throughout Tuesday, the task of clearing them going elowly, and many miles yet uncleared. For the second consecutive night, the friend and relatives of the Cedar valley students, attending the Lehi high schools, careS for the marooned children. LOGAN the device patented by Anthony O. Petrla of South Chicago, III., on which a registration wus approved November 2C It Is a buoy equipment which would release buoys and raise the submarine to the surface. Mr. Pet rig stated In his that the automatic operation of the buoy equipment would make possible the recovery of sub marines within a short time, and thus save lives that might be lost through delay. Among the numerous safety devices recently patented was one In vented by the Gustnf David Sund strand and assigned to the Sund- strand Engineering company of Itoekford, PI. It would automat ically start and stop an electrically operated oil burner by means of an controlled by a electromagnet switch which would be governed by the failure or Increase of energiz ing power. To Replace Man Power. Inventions to replace men with machines are listed among every week's patent. For a machine s patent was granted on November 20 to Jasper N. Youngblood of Fletcher, N. C Ills device Is composed of a carrier with a releasable brick holder fitted with attachments to line up the bricks A po before they are released. tato digger, equipped with a con veyor for loading, was Invented by George W. Bruce of Osseo, Minn., and assigned to the Bruce Manufacturing company of Minneapolis. City dwellers would save labor If they used his machine for scrubbing floors, asserts Knut Leopold Morltz of Umea, Sweden, who was granted a patent on a brush and mopping arrangement, operated In push-car- t fashion. pre-cool- S. $ valley's weather allotment. (? . s. power-controlle- d I TIMES-NEW- With the long range rifles supplied by the white traders, the Eskimos transform a natural wild life paradise Into a land of famine. One thing In tbe Eskimo's favor In his fight with new conditions is the fact thnt generally speaking he has no Inherited craving for liquor. Government officials hope early preventive measures may save this simple but admirable race from MONTICELLO week some 800 During the past turkeys were delivered to the Utah Poultry Producers' association at the Moab Garage warehouse for the January trade. Due to the heavy storms throughout Che county, some farmers were unable to deliver their birds and the shipment iu much lighter than expected. PROVO The annual fish and game report of the Uintah national forest registers 650 elk, 1975 deer and 125 black or brown bear In this district. The report shows decreases in some species, and the entire extermination of 40 head of mountain Jheep because of the transfer of the Granddaddy lakes district to the Wasatch forest. SALT LAKE Water prospects for the state areuch better now than at this time last year, according to information available in the office of the state engineer and the state highway offices. Measure ments on Utah lake show that there more water in were 70,000 acre-fee- t the lake January 1, 1930, than on January 1, 1929. SALT LAKE Over two million pounds of the 1929 crop of turkeys were shipped to eastern markets by the Utah Poultry Producers' asso ciation, it was learned recently with the announcement that the January turkey pool of the association to tals seven carloads, or 175,000 pounds. The shipments of the 1929 crop nearly doubled a record which no western state has come near to reaching. SALT LAKE Utah shipped approximately S000 carloads of fruits and vegetables In 1929, as compared with 4194 carloads In 1928, accord ing to the annual report of Leonard S. Fenn, supervising inspector of the state and federal shipping point inspection service in Utah. This was a decrease in the total number of cars shipped, but an increase in the number for which the inspection service was used. VERNAL The severe weather is causing hundreds of quail and phea sants to seek shelter on farms and in barnyards within the city limits. The Vernal Gun and Rifle Club, Boy Scout troops, farmers and Indi vidual residents of Vernal are co operating in feeding the birds, Sacks of screenings are being sent to all communities of the county, Sheepmen are compelled to haul feed to their desert flocks because the snow is crusted. LOGAN Golden Raleigh's Doro thy 694S95, a purebred Jersey cow in the herd of the Utah Agricultural College, has completed another official production test In which she yielded 617.66 pounds of butterfat and 11,783 pounds of milk in 365 days. Dorothy was started on test when she was 5 years and 11 months of age, and, with this rec ord, again qualified for the register of merit of the American Jersey Cattle club. OGDEN W. H. Anderson, Weber county fish and game warden, re ported recently that he had found a number of birds dead as the result of freezing. ,The birds included quail, jaybirds and pheasants. They were found in the foothills east of Oguen. The death of the birds Is attributed to the fact that they have not been getting sufficient food. A large number of game birds have been fed during the recent cold snap, but it has been found impossible to care tor all of them. In 1885, Dr. Caldwell made a for which elderly people the world over praise him today I Years of practice convinced hira that many people were endangering their health by a careless choice of laxatives. So be began a search for a harmless prescription which would be thoroughly effective, yet would neither gripe nor form any ' habit. At last he found it, Over and over he wrote it, when fie found people bilious, headachy, out of sorts, weak or feverish ; with coated tongue, bad breath, no appetite or energy. It relieved the most obstinate cases, and yet was gentle with women, children and elderly people. Today, this same famous, effective prescription, known as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, is the world's most popular laxative. It may be obtained from any drugstore Russian Cobbler , Made ' Good in Surgeon's Role Although he bore the nickname of "The Slasher," sick people In the Ukraine used te hurry to Comrade Doctor NelbkL chief surgeon of a group of Soviet hospitals at Kiev. lie had COO major operations to his credit, and his nickname was well deserved by the ruthless vigor with which be wielded the knife. But whatever Doctor NelskI did he always sewed up his gnping Incisions with admirable neatness as neatly as a cobbler stlchlng uppers to a sole. Doctor Nelski's career as a surgeon Is now ended. lie has been sentenced to six years' Imprisonment, for he confessed bis real name was Ivan Kolesnlkov and his true profession shoemaklng. Eight years ago he stole the diploma and paraphernalia of a certain assassinated Doctor NelskI and decided to palm himself off as a surgeon. Hospital officials testified thnt he was a man of practical enlclency and stoutly praised "The Slasher." They are, however, also being tried to see whether they have taken bribes from the shrewd cobbler, Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Shakespeare. toed The creatoi of "Untie Sam" Is un known. The cliuracter first appeared In publications during the War of 1812. The type la e genial Yankee trader of the time: the beard, the hat, and the cut of the clothes, are of that ierlod. The earliest recorded uxe of the name Uncle Sum for the United States government pears to be In the Troy (N. V.) Piatt of September 7. 1813. The Post used It In a phrase which already had some jwpular currency. and explained that "the letters U. S. on the government wagons, etc.. are supiosed to have given rise to It." At first the nickname was employed only In the anti-wa- r papers, and In a derisory sense. The cartoon concep. tlon of Uncle Sam did not arrive until a little later. There seems to be no ground for a popular story ascribing the origin to "Uncle Sum" Wilson, a government Inspector In tbe War of 1S12. Denver Boy is every, morninp- Get poisons r'eea-a-min- t, oat of the system jf a Winner iSp 1 Jib THI GENUINE j FOR CONSTIPATION Every mother real Izes how Important It is to teach children good hubits of con duct but many of them full to realize the Importance of teaching their children good bowel hab its until the poisons from decaying waste held too long In the system have begun to affect the child's a bone spavin, ring bona, splint, curb, aid bona, or similar troubles; gets bora going sound. Absorbln acta mildly butqulckly. Lasting results. Does not blister or remove hair, and bora can be worked. At druggists, or postpaid, f 2J0. Korsa book S free. from-- 9-- naer Mr: t3 a vrr ha Pleal horse with boo apaTio. Now aound m dollar; not Work ma daUr. lama Watch your child and at the first sign of constipation, give blm a little California I'lg Syrup. Children love Its rich, fruity taste and It quickly drives1 away those distressing aliments, such as headaches, bad breath, con ted tonguo, biliousness, feverlsh-nesfretfulness, etc. It gives tliem a hearty appetite, regulates their stomach nnd bowels and gives tone and strength to these organs so they continue to act normally, of their own accord. For over fifty years, lending physicians have prescribed It for half sick, billons, constipated children. More than 4 million bottles used a year shows how mothers depend on If Mrs. G O. Wilcox, SS.r5H Wolff St, Denver, Colorado, says: "My son, Jackie, is a prize winner for health, now, but we had a lot of trouble with him before we found his trouble was constipation and began giving him California Fig Syrup. It fixed him up quick, gave him a good appetite, made him sleep fine and he's been gnlnlng In weight right along since the first few days, taking It" To avoid Inferior Imitations of California Fig Syrup, always look for the word "California" on the carton. f. W. VOUNQ, UKWthe. Undelivered Good money used In poll-tics?- 6lulymnSI..Spmx'iM, wia. The Ideal Vacation Land Sunshine All Winter Splendid roads mm m Wrltm Crm A HPcilQi W. N. "Comparatively little," answered SenSorghum. "But there Is a scandalous amount of It wasted." 1. Freedom from Friction. . 2. A "Carry-Over- " Film by Metal t Penetration. were "oilier" than mineral oils could ever be, but were impractical for use in internal com does thia by jeparatinf the metal surfaces, bustion motors which operated at high temand theoretically keeping them separated peratures. under all operating conditions. It may amaze containing the Finally the you to know that many oils frequently fail to "oily" property lacking in mineral oils, was 1 e, do this. isolated. And a method was devised for comThink how this "separation "of moving bining this essence with highly refined mineral is . wall or oils. parts accomplished. The oil forms a "film" between opposing surfaces and it it Only Conoco Oils Are upon thia film that the reputation of every oil r Germ-Processe- d must rest. Tbe film is thin, of course, for it This Gives. must ride in the tight crevices of bearings, Them Penetrative Lubricity cylinder-walletc. But it must also be of it must cling tenaextraordinary strength Continental Oil Company now owns the ex. . . the or ciously pressure of your motor clusive right to g for North will squeeze and hurl it from tbe vital points, America. 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