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Show mmMlMn nji 4- Up-to-Oats Smuggling by Airplane and Suhrnar'mu WASHINGTON. Smuggling and rum-running on ;i large scale by airplane uiul submarine is looked for in the very near future by Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revenue, and by other government officials unless preparations are made in advance to defeat the twentieth century smugglers. smug-glers. The attention of the treasury department de-partment was particularly directed to this new danger of employing modern methods in smuggling by the accidental acci-dental capture of an airplane that came across the Canadian border into northern New York with several cases of contraband liquor. It was entirely owing to an accident, however, that this capture was made, and the ofli- cials of the government have no doubt that large quantities of contraband liquor have reached this country already over the same air route. There is reason to believe that some venturesome pioneers of this new mode of smuggling through the air have already landed several thousands of dollars' worth of semiprecious stones from the topaz mines in Mexico, somewhere some-where in the interior of the United States. At any rate, the menace to the national revenues has become so immediate that Secretary Glass has decided that he will ask congress for transfer of 600 airplanes and hydro-airplanes from the army and navy to his department and funds enough to create an effective air patrol. Later on he will ask also for the transfer from the navy of a large fleet of boats specially designed for chasing submarines, in order to protect the seacoasts and estuaries from the danger of smuggling by submarines. Extra! All About the Wonderful Island of Yap WHAT about the island' of YTap, in the far-away Pacific, which may become a possession of the United States as reparation for the sinking of the T.iisitjmhi and is wanted bv the American navy for a cable and wireless sta- tion? "Yap," the National Geographic society says, "the westernmost of the western Caroline islands, is situated about 500 miles southwest of Guam and 800 miles east of the Island of Mindanao of the Philippine group. It has a population of about 7,000, and was the administrative center for the western Carolines, the Pelew and the Ladrone islands. The Germans had made plans to locate a wireless station there, but were prevented when Australian Aus-tralian troops captured the island in October, 3914. Yap is strangely old and strangely up to date. Its inhabitants are still in the stone age of progress. The natives are strict prohibitionists. Bachelor clubs closed to the women dot the islands. Food and driuk and clothes nil grow on trees. "The chief decoration of the male is a string of pink shells made into a necklace, and since no man is rich enough to own such a treasure the best ones are loaned out for such a period as the wearer may choose to be dressed in the height of fashion. As there are no button holes, the man may wear two bouquets in each ear, a sort of corsage bunch in a large hole in the lower lobe and a small boutonniere in a smaller hole in the ear higher up. Shell cuffs made of conches add the finishing touch to the correct attire." Other details given are that "large money" of the island consists of millstonelike mill-stonelike disks of limestone from Babeithuap, 400 miles to the south, and one of these disks is four feet in diameter. Such a piece of currency may be worth 10,000 coconuts. Slept on Outpost Duty and Pardoned; filade Good ONE of the two American soldiers sentenced to death for sleeping on outpost out-post duty in France and subsequently pardoned by President Wilson, was killed in the great Aisne offensive in July, 1918, and the other was twice wounded and finally honorably discharged. dis-charged. This was disclosed by an exchange of correspondence between Secretary Baker and President Wilson. Private Forest D. Sebastian of El Dorado, 111., twenty years old, was killed in the Aisne battle. Private Jeff Cook of I.ulia, Okla., aged nineteen, nine-teen, was wounded in the same battle, but recovered to again light gallantly In the Argonne offensive, where he ru-I ru-I reived his second wound. In w riling the president of the gallant conduct of the boys after the president had pardoned them, Secretary Baker said : "You will recall that early in 1018 four death sentences were presented to you from France; two for disobedience of orders you remitted to terms of imprisonment, and two young boys, Sebastian and Cook, who were convicted of sleeping en outpost duty, you fully pardoned. "It will interest you to know that upon restoration to duty both made good soldiers. Sebastian died in battle in the Aisne offensive in July, 1918. Cook was wounded In that battle and restored to health in time to fight in the Meuse-Argoiine battle, when he again fought gallantly and was for the second time wounded. He has been now restored to health through medical attention and has been honorably discharged from the service." "Kismet" it Is filled -says the Turk. And the great war seems to give weight to the saying. Tercentenary of the Pilgrims in Three Countries TIIU tercentenary of the Pilgrim Fathers is to be celebrated next year in England, the Hulled Stales and Holland on an extensive scale. The prin-,.; prin-,.; , ,., i penis in the overseas program are: May and June Meeting and cere- I ' CrT) yA monies at Scrooby, Austerllehl, Boston, Bos-ton, Cambridge, and other ibices, to celebrate the origins of the Pilgrim movement. Visit of British and American delegations to Holland (date lo be fixed). Meetings at Amsterdam, Ley-den, Ley-den, ltelftshaven end The llagu", to ccaiuneinorale Ihe sojourn of the Pilgrim Pil-grim fathers in Holland (lllOO-O) and their departure for the new world. August, 4 to Sojiiomher 10 Cele-bralions Cele-bralions at. Southampton, Plymouth. c!c, to culminate In the sailing of a New Mayllower from Southampton and Plymouth, carrying reluming American delegates, and also a I'.ritish and Dutch committee, to America, via P.osloti, Mass. September-October Celebrations in America. Peception hi New Plymouth, I'.oslon, elc, followed by receplion In New York ami tour of the Uniled Slates. November 0-1 1 Celebration throughout. English-speaking world In honor of the Mayllower pact and of the planting of free lust II til Ions In America. Last Thursday In November 1'niversal celebration of Thanksgiving day. I ie, -ember Universal celeliral ion, Including memorial church services of the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers at: New Plymouth. Popular celebrations during 11)20 will. It: Is hoped, Include pageants; Inauguration of monuments, university functions, cHtiibtishmetit of locture-nhipo, locture-nhipo, ucliolarsblps, elc. |
