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Show -- tp HAWAII IS NAVAL KEY TO PACIFIC Importance of Islands as Fueling Base in Deweys Time Exists Today; Pearl Harbor Vital to Defense of Our West Coast Pugilistic la do Laxe as Interpreted Old New Orleans. MADISON SQUARE A Duel With Death" By FLOYD GIBBONS . sir, no matter how much I talk about the danger rides on freight cars, there are still lads hooking of ELL, take their chances on the rear end of a romping will oho Collin Hanson of Lynn, Man., the latest Distinguished d coo-thto win his spurs on one of those square, ride along on the taQ ot an Iron horse. It was In the sum-(- ( M bere'i eight-wheele- high-scho- gi u jbtf began by hitching rides In automebllea, but by the time gey reached Columbus, Ohio, they were wondering if they yaoMat make faster time and cover mere territory If they bopped V a freight or two. little bit afraid of those freight trains at first, but every' jbej side-doo- r Dual itemed to work out aU right In no time at aU the bid carried them to Amarillo, Texas, but by tha time they got Sere Co111" says they were two of the moat miserable boys you ever saw. They were hungry, and tired, and dirty, and everything else that goes pull-Bia- Plea with ink nabk the life of a hobo. Ihe open road and the gypey life wasn't what it waa eracked up to be. They wanted to get borne again, and the sooner they get Acre the better theyd like it. Be back to the railroad yards they west. Nidi In their haste to get homo again they rode day and night. They anived in Kansas City on August 18, so tired that they could hardly keep tbair eye open. But still they werent going to waste any time. A freight train was It was due to pull out at eight being made up in the Kansas City yards. I going to be on And (dock that evening. tired or not, Collin end Hank Madison were it On Top of a Swaying Box Car. about twenty other fellows waiting tor that train, but when it finaflycame there wasn't a slngle reeferl coalcarj'cattlacaf or 1st ear in the bne The whole string consisted of sealed box cars, and that meant that anybody who boarded it would have to ride the roof m o the coupling between the cars. Host of the hoboes shook their heada and pissed it up. They could wait for more comfortable accommodations. But Collin and Hank wanted to get home. Paying no attention to be example of older and mm experienced heads, they climbed aboard. They climbed to Use swaying reef ef a bex ear sad tried to wake the best ef it Hank had a rope. Be tied it areead his waist, fastened It to the eat walk, and fell aaleep. Collia sat up and reda that way for about six hours. The night wore on and the sky started turning gray in the east CoHn was dead tired and the cold morning air was chilling him to the bone. At last he got up and crawled toward the front of the car. There were aidl ! od 5 old-tim- 01 tetter I 1 Woke Up fo Find Himself Falling. n amali platform up there, about four feet down from the place where the brakeman stands while he turn the brake wheel Collin crawled down and sat on that It was warmer between the two cars and he began to get drowsy. Colha says that if anybody bad told him he could fall asleep sitting on such a perilous perch he would never have believed it BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID! Host everyone has had the experience of dreaming that he was falling through the air. Thats a pretty terrible sensation. But bow would you feel if you woke up and found that it was true? Bow would you feel If you woke up to find, as Collin Hanson 4id, that you were falling between twa box cars rolling along ver the tracks at 35 or M miles an hour? Id Ike to be able to tell you how Collin felt It I could put that into words I'd probably be describing one of the freatestlrights in all history. There was a be top of the car JEF, I ol M ia, OTN tJw niti alia. PM I Caught the Rubber TWt Air-Hos- e. There wasnt In Mother two seconds any time to think about d be on the ties under the grinding wheels of the train. He fell forward, face down, a little to the right of the coupling. Hia fifht shoulder and hip bumped against it and be felt himself being turned on his back. it haw rtlMl reached out to clutch at anything that might and his left hand closed on the pin bar a thin steel rod the end of the car ahead. Then he had rolled aft the coupling and was falling toward the Instinctively, his arms arrest his fall, t ran down D ground. HERE WAS A JERK 0N 1113 LEFT ARM THAI ALMOST PULLED 0F ITS SOCKET. HIS RIGHT HAND WHIPPED OUT AND HOLD OF THE RUBBER THAT HANGS BENEATH vpvJtUPUNG- - THEN HIS FEET HIT THE GROUND, AND IN THE coupLE SECONDS COLLIN KNEW WHAT IT MEANT TO BE rr AIR-HOS- E fighting for life. Asilis !eet hit the ties the sole and heels of his shoes were ripped off had been made of paper. . is body felt as if it was going to be yanked In hall that brain ain S10 trough his armpits and hia hands ached from the strain bemg put uPn them. But he held on desperately raced, groping for a way out of his predicament. For rt while his Only One Way to Save His Life. n to get instant he thought ef throwing himself sideways in an clear of the wheels. One look told him he would never ke it. Then he hit un upon the only thing in the world that could save him. rms were almost being wrenched from his body. His body was jS'ng along far underneath the car. Wlth one tremendous effort he managed to swing hia right leg ... over coupling. H. ,gel lhat tew seconds till he got his breath and hia k"8 way trenvth an(I then he climbed up to the top of the car. .... . ad been lon time since I had prayed, Collin said, "but I sat rw J) right there and spent a long time thanking God for sparing bt my jjfe And I think it was a pretty good idea, at (? C!'fort MU Service e.V8t? 0,8 fir,t reular mail sePrv CaHfrnia was tublishw ea- - United Sttes min!Llk?U!0tie, Inaugurated a Cymr,y 'overnmcnt express. Private Otters newlSPatChe 01 Carrled' btt 'harge between San Francisco and san bf two ,oldier 00 horseback town ;,rh Slled bom the aTn,etl mg Ule?fnn nrTS nncho h 10 J?" rted badcrto had ben Monday CWornu of gold meet of mi r,',k 1118 Mnd4ysrMeet- at Dana Eul 0biP- - they Ech ,oldier the Thr t0 trorn which ther ta tim P01"1 rriVifl U 01 lowing tier, to the discovery pM,ltated the establish-route- . 0fflc department ,upPantd this orig- - rv;e that Service. NU The Skin's Heat Meters that measure the temperatures of stars, used to test the heat of the human akin, show that contrary to popular belief, colored skin la virtually no better protection against beat than white complexions. Although black paint absorbs heat it la found that black human akin absorbs no more of it than white. The star meters, which pick human heat rays at a disupthe and thus do not upset the tance skin's natural response by contact show that man's skin measures beat changes as sensitively as the most delicate thermometers. A normal person can feel a temperature rise at a rate of kss than one thousandth of a degree per second. His subconscious faculties are awara of the change within three seconds and immediately eet his akin heat teg ulators to work. Recently at a Garden festival with Copyright WNU Sorrloo. my old friend, John Kennard, once of New Orleans, where he practiced law In the grand manner and moved among the aristocracy, I was much regaled by his 'description of the Corbett-Sulliva- n mill lhat rocked the cation to 1883. 'In those days, said John, the manly art, a purely masculine entertainment, one might say, waa ASK YOUR DOCTOR THIS conducted on a high scale and attended by genUemen only. The thought of my lady sitting in the New Orleans Olympic club, under a rain of rosin dust and within sound of the gong, was preposterous. Not until I cams to New York, year afterward, waa It my lot to behold a woman parked within sight of tha squared circle, there to be thrilled at a knockout as delivered by tha abysmal brute. However, we menfolk made no bones about turning a prize fight into a Roman holiday with all Its pomp and ceremony. WeU I remember the announcement that John L. Sullivan, then world champion, would fight Gentleman Ask Him Before Giving Your Jim Corbetl the California panther, Child on Unknown Remedy to a finish. An added feature. In tha same ring, on succeeding days. Practically any doctor you ask will warn: give your child unknown matched Jack McAuliff with Billy remedittDont wiihoui asking gour dodor Myer and George Dixon with Jake first." Skelly. A Fistic Carnival at $50 When it comes to the widely used per ticket for the three battles, $10 children's milk of magremedy for Dixon-Skell$13 for McAuliff the world is and $25 for the main event between nesia, the standard of established. For over half centuiy John and Jim. many doctors have said PHILLIPS Socialites Make Splurge Milk of Magnesia. Safe for children. No other is quite like it As a member of the highly social Boston club. It had been my . 'Keep this in mind, and say PHILpractice on previous occasions to LIPS MILK OF MAGNESIA secure prize ring tickets for my when you buy. Now also in tablet form. Get the form you prefer. But see that associates. The Olympic club fawhat you get is labeled "Genuine vored us with choice seats provided my requirements were made known Phillips Muk of Magnesia." well in advance. With considerable alacrity, I made up a list which ALSO M TABLET TOtMi totaled $1,860. We pretty much monEach tiny tahUt blhaaquiratatit opolized thtr chairs in the ringside of i tampon ful o I fenumo section, distinguished on that occaPhillips' Milk sion from the back rows and bleachrfMacamt ers by several coats of fire cracker red paint. 'To further celebrate the carnival spirit that had seized upon us we m,lkof ordered at a cost of $350 a special magnesia at to Pickwick be served the dinner club, from which point we were driven in five horse-draw- n carrySingle Grains alls to the Olympic club on Canal A little and a little, collected tostreet, some distance from the cenbecome a great deal; tho ter of the city, In a quarter not gether,in the barn consists of single heap well policed. Fact is, grains, and drop and drop makes particularly 'twas the custom of roughneck the inundation. Saadi. prizefight patrons upon leaving the club to seize upon other peoples vehicles, throw cab drivers from their seats and drive away with an For Fifty Years Family amateur on the box, the passengers waterand songs popular singing Physicians Have Used front chantys. To guard against any Denver Mud such reprisals directed at the boys earn l lb ranotu why lust Tlu h in the red chairs, I engaged at $25 a hundreds ei houaswiTss hasp a s e to our el carry-allMckus Dsotst Mud ia (ha private detective guard casat for Cnt aid la ceapsatioa. that we had hired at a cost of ebsat colds, bronchial Irritation, $100 for the night burns, bruisas. or skin irritation, it on. eoaar and as how just spread Mighty "John Ls Waterloo. quickly reliai comas. Another little item was $15 for AT AU DBUG STORES boutonniers set at the right angle Practical sire. 25 Family ala a. 50 in our dinner coats, then in vogue (or all championship affairs at the Olympic club. You need not draw upon anything other than your imNervous? agination in order to visualize the YOU Sleepless, Mott women tt Ord of New forty-odmagnificence period of their livet need leanians in dinner coats, decorated a tooic like Dr. Pierce' Favorite Prescription. with gardenias and seated in bright Mm. J. Q. Adams of 366 red chairs around a ring containing Warren Are. Pocatello, aaid: I couldn't of ahd Idaho, Corbett Sullivan the persons cep well at nleht and engaged in a finish fight for the everything teemed to get Head on my nerves. heavyweight championship of the aches associated with world. Can you see them? functional disturbances made me very miserable. I used the 'Prescription' as a tonic, Perfectly, and never a calmer then I had a good appetite and felt imbody of men. You must have been proved ia every way. Buy now I magnificent. With the exception of one memWNU W 537 ber, retorted Kennard, who, at the end of the second round, asked me how it happened that there were SALT LAKES NEWEST HOSTELRY only two principals and four referees in the ring. As a problem in Oar lobby to delightfully air optics that question to this day recooled during the soauaer months I unanswered. However, mains far Nadia want you to know that otherwise Inry NBatOn XOO Wiaar-2Q- O the delegation from the Boston club beyond criticism. ""How was the fight?' If you ask me, nothing to brag about. Sullivan came out of his comer like a tornado bent on wiping out the California stripling in one devastating onslaught Corbett like a feather in the path of a tornado sidestepped to safety and kept for twenty-on- e rounds, HOTEL never at any moment in danger, lefts Into and Johns right sticking -face it wlll. Bostons Boy saw the handwriting on the walL The San to $3.00 Hafoo Francisco phantom cut him down to Sulwhere of Tha Hotal exhaustion the point Tanapla 8rhn ha. a blahly daairabla, blandly nlaa livan, weary but willing, though will always flnd lt (IwsTm and puffing sank upon his wlala, anpssaty aoanfortabla. aad thaaisaably ireaabla.haw saw ahsaa. broad haunches, wiped the sweat term aadanuad why this batsl lor out of his eyes and was counted HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ' Taw saw slaw a, pa ail a to wk,a out. exclaiming while still seated, W o mark of OMimeOem a Tm sorry I lost the fight -Glad an at (Ms bemmtilml tteaHOy American won.' ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. 8nrlc, uehM were a nulat one-ha- lf lYntH(we -- In a Hurry to Get Home Again. anal Boil five large sweet potatoes and cut them crosswise into inches pieces one and in thickness. Lay in pan and put two tablespoonfuls of butter, cut In slices, over them; then three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls of molasses, and cook in oven for; ten minutes to get nice and brown. ante-bellu- nd another lad. Henry Madison, abort summer vacation. I, f at that just alter Collin had been graduated from started out to see America first In 1934, GARDEN MANHATTAofN dbesA bragging about the manner and magnificence with which fistiana conducts its bashing affairs. The latter-da- y fans who hail the heavy, welter, light and feather weight nobility know not of the past glories. i Theodore Roosevelt used map similar to the one above to convince members of congress of the United States' seed for the Hawaiian islands as a naval base. Emphasising the situation of Admiral Dewey at that time, he declared that the nation that controlled the islands would have the naval supremacy of the Pacific. By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON INTERNATIONAL agreement Japan is prohibited from fortifying any of the islands mandated to her by the League of Nations, though she is rapidly absorbing much of northern China on the Asiatic mainland. The United States has established a naval base in the Hawaiian islands and made it practically impregnable. The United States is now planning another fortified naval base in the Aleutian group in the north Pacific. BY great sand bar. In 1907 President Roosevelt recommended the improvement of Pearl Harbor for a naval base. Since that time the United States has spent more than $20,000,000 on Improvements and fortifications. Today the entrance la open and easily navigable by the greatest ot Americas fighting ships. In the harbor all the ships of the American navy of today or of the future could anchor at one time; during the celebrated Pacific maneuvers of May, 1933, a total of 160 United States war vessels, Including 12 of the giant capital ships, was moored or anchored at one time. Around tha harbors shores are stored vast quantities of fuel oil and warehouses have been erected that contain great quantities of munitions. In Pearl Harbor is an enormous dry dock, with facilities for repairing vessels of all types. All of this constitutes America's number one naval maintenance plant Fort Kamehameha, not far off, is an important auxiliary for land defense. Pearl Harbors protection consists of a number of batteries of great guns located so as to prevent a landing on any part of the shore line of the island guns of such caliber and capacity as to make the near approach of any fleet to the island practically impossible. Boasts Largest Army Pest. As an air base its great fleet of sea planes can command the waters from the Aleutian islands on the north to Pago Pago in the Samoa in the south. These defenses are manned today by 25,000 of America's fighting force. Twenty thousand of these are of the army and 5,000 of the navy. The army post, some 20 The United States has established commercial air baaes on Middeclaredwar:n.Spain..A(lmlral. way, Wake and Guam IslandsT'anff Dewey, with an American fleet, was has established sovereignty over in far eastern waters, with all several small Islands in the south ports immediately closed to AmerPacific, which, with the naval sta- ican warships. Coal for the ships tion at Pago Pago in the Samoan and provisions for tha crews were group, will form commercial air more than seven thousand mllea bases between Honolulu and New away on the west coast of AmerZealand. ica, provided Dewey did not deThe American congress has feat the Spanish fleet and capture agreed to surrender sovereignty over Manila. the Philippine islands and establish The department of the navy Inthe Philippines as an independent formed Admiral Dewey that war naUon, but retaining an American with Spain had been declared, and naval base in the Islands. ordered him to take Manila. How Naval Race la On. he accomplished it ii one of the Two years ago Japan repudiated most familiar stories of history. Theodore Roosevelt, then assistthe Washington naval treaty which limited her naval strength to three-fifth- s ant secretary of the navy, realized of the naval strength of the under such circumstances what the United States and Great Britain, control of the Hawaiian islands and since that repudiation has been would mean to the United States. pressing naval construction with the With all the vigor of which he was avowed purpose of creating a navy capable he backed the efforts of equal to that of either the United Lorin A. Thurston, the Hawaiian States or Great Britain. representative at W a sh i n g t o n, The Washington naval treaty ex- forced action on the part of Speaker pired on December 31, 1936, and Reed, and the joint resolution reniw both the United States and ceived a majority vote in both England are building warships with houses and became effective July out restraint and with the purpose 1JJI898. Thurston had been determined to ratio be of maintaining the tween their navies and that of win over Speaker Reed. Ha solicited the aid of Mr. Roosevelt, Japan. Very briefly the above represents drawing up a rough map showing the international conditions In the the distance an American fleet Pacific at thi time Now Japan would have to travel from port to is seeking a treaty with the United States that would stop the building of island naval stations, or the fortifying of island bases in the Pacific, and to such a treaty America is saying no. Sentinel of CoasUlnes. wjaot& The Hawaiian islands constitute the hub of the Pacific ocean wheel around which aU the conflicting in terests of the Pacific revolve. The Hawaiian islands represent the basis of aU defense plans for So long as our western coast. America holds Pearl Harbor at Honolulu there la practically no danger of any attack on the shores of our western coast states. The big guns in the fortifications at Honolulu afford more protection to San Francisco than do the guns at Presidio, the American army ata . MiaAiwtortS4.Jiw,w..WNni tion overlooking the entrance to the Golden Gate, Honolulu has been referred to as Jn the shadow of Diamond Head, happy bathers froUc on the beach the Gibraltar of the Pacifier Tt is at Waikiki. Concealed in an extinct crater in Diamond Head are a not that, but it is the Malta of the number of the big guns that defend Honolulu, Pearl Harbor and the Pacific. It is a protected base Island of Oahu. behind leave not any enemy dare when attacking the American main- port in the Pacific. He made it miles out of Honolulu, recently comland or the Panama canaL clear that while our fleet could car- pleted, is the largest of America's The Hawaiian people first asked ry enough fuel to cross the Atlan- army posts. At Schofield barracks that the Islands be annexed by the tic to Europe and return, no fleet and its subsidiary forts, 30,000 men United States in February ot 1893, in the world could carry enough to may be quartered. The American navy can operate following the forced abdication of make a round trip across the PaQueen Liliuokalani on January 17 cific. Operating from a base in from Hawaii. If operating against o that year. President Harrison Hawaii however, our fleet could an enemy in the Far East Its base was favorable, and sent a treaty cross to the Asiatic coast and re- is nearly 2,500 miles nearer its be the case objective than would of annexation to the senate for rati- turn. -fication. Before the senate had takRoosevelt caused a huge waff if operaling from- the Ameriean is If mainland. was it defending Ameren action. President McKinley map to be created along these ican or withshores the Panama canal he and to showed promptly and it lines Reed, repeatinaugurated drew tha treaty. It waa not until ing what Thurston had told him. no enemy would dare advance bePresident McKinley was In the Reed was sufficiently won over to fore capturing and destroying the White House that a new treaty permit the annexation joint resolu- American fleet at Hololulu, a thing was prepared, but as it could not tion to come to a vote. It received it would be practically impossible command the needed a majority in both bouses and be- to do. That is a part of what the little vote for ratification in the senate, came effective July IX 1898. Island territory lying far out in the the .. administration followed the Harbor Coat M Millions. Paciflc ocean represents to Amerprecedent set at thr -time of Ihe waa In 1884 that the United ica. In a recent address General It Introand Texaa of annexation States first obtained the concession Smedley Butler proposed that the duced the treaty as a joint resolu- of Pearl Harbor as a coaling sta- United States withdraw from Hation which needed only a majority tion. Tbe harbor, just outside tho waii and leave the islands to whatof bouses both in congress. vote city of Honolulu on the Island of ever nation might want them, or Haw Hawaii Was Annexed. Oahu, was ideally situated for that could first take them. Such a stateA majority vote' in the house was purpose. It was completely landment would not have betn popunot easily secured. The speaker, locked, and Ua narrow entrance waa lar at any place on the est coast, was opposed and guarded by sharp coral reefs. Thomas B. Reed, nor' would it have been made by d At the time of annexation fourteen any one who had a really Intelligent all hia powerful influence to years later the magnificent haven interest In the safety of America. prevent lt coming to a vote. In April of 1898 tha United Stat, waa still blocked, however, by a C Viiton Newspaper Union. v .o. two-thir- -- Phillips mad-cin- I rnd2?mj Temple Square IMP red-jowl- ed luw J NU I |