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FRENCH SCREEN IDOL
Sneeze Ga» Rid»
Boat» of Stowaway»
Washington.—"if airplane» and etti
Manila. — Mani!»'» fame up
ch-nt cameras bad been In use fur mam
anil down the China comrt as a
making three quarters of a cent ury
good port for beach comber»,
j ago when American boundary trestle*
where »towing a^wiy on army
I with neighboring muntrle* were adopt-
transport* I* easy. I* passing
ed pnd certain state line* were agreed
away.
i upon. Uncle Sum could rest easier
Sneeze gas, furnished by the
’ about the title to 111* old homestead,"
chemical warfare service of the
. suy* a bulletin from Washington bead-
I'hlllppine department of the
| quart, r* of the National Geographic
United State* army. 1» forced
"Incidentally three genera-
■octet.-
Into the hold of every transport
lion* of surveyor* and map draftsmen
for
period of 21 hour» Ju»t be
would I ive been spared much futile
fore departure, thus making the
trlbtilalb a. nnd thousand» of dollars
hold uninhabitable.
in litigation would have been saved.”
Not a single stowaway wm
The bulletin point* out that a suit
Mlle. Odette Jacqueline, youngest
found on the trans|>ort Thomas
of many years* standing is t»efure Hie
‘ star In the French him*. She 1* one
when It touched ut China < n Its
United State» Supreme court to de
of the few French aetre»s«i that cun
last trip. On previous trip», the
termine the correct river boundary be
be compared to Mary Bickford. She
discovery of fifteen or twenty
tween New Mexico and Texas near El
Is eighteen years of age.
was not uncommon.
Through a drtie whhh ha* recently been launched m CHRaK'» !<» funil»h radio set» for dlsaldid war veteran*, Pano, and that a similar problem con-
cany of the hoRpItal* curing for those men have been supplied with sei*, which have proved to be a great source of centing the International boundary be
t.ti rtalnmeut to the putietit* nml help pas* the time awuy a» they He In ttielf cut* day after day.
ninety-nine one-hundredth« of hl* cot
tween Texas and Mexico along the
Itio Grande river Is to be attacked by island a surveyed line lias since been ; ton. But when he plucked the lint
fact that the acid et<he* more easily United States army photographers who recognised a* the international boun-1 from the row or two nearest the fence
will snap aerial views of the dlspu'ed dary between the United States and । he ran foul of the federal customs
tn some directions than In other»
a smug-
Externally the large, single cupper territory.
Mexico. Cuitlvated fields reach this ; laws and technically became
crystals differ little from the lisiini
Recently
United
»1er.
Rivers
Poor
Boundaries.
Um- at many points.
Some
-.............................
metal. X-rny analy»!«, however, fur-
customs
officials
brought 1 “It I* In this valley from El Paso
"Rivers ura popularly m-Heved to1 States
urti
n
■ nislie* conclusive evidence that
conktltute Ideal boundaries." continues charges against a cotton fanner on the southward for some GO mile* that
I cr. still ha* been produced.
they make bold I Island for importing cotton without a Uncle Sam, with Mexican co-operation,
the bulletin.
Davey, by tnetms of special apparatus. Unes wltii one Jurisdiction on one bank
The charge* raised in the will try the exfierlment of photograph
»11* able to prove flint iie had one and another on the other. Rivers that mind* of most reader« a picture of a ing Ids border from alrp^me*. It is
crystal.
farmer-smuggler
bringing believed that a photographic record of
‘stay put' do make unsurpassed boun lawless
Cop|»>r crystnlllze* in Hie fu< e-cen , daries; but unfortunately there are loads of •bootleg' cotton across the j the river and its near-by landmarks
will be Invaluable in the future. Any
Several Interesting result* have tei rd cubic system. I. e.. the atom« are, streams or parts of them that wander, line under cover of darkness. — - ------------
ch ge* in the
been obtained with the large crystal*. arranged nt the Corners of un Itmig j *o to speak, all over the geographic matter of fact the farmer had inad- I disagreements as to cl.
Innry cube, with another atom In thel lot; and more exasperating and unsat vertently set hi« field feme some four river cun easily be checked up either
Unexpected Facts
|H>n*-ll, if ginn a Jerking nmtuli. center of each face, in studying ths| isfactory boundaries hardly could be feet south of the International line. ‘ by measuring from the Iwitions shown
Im r* bend* a* easily as
single crystal. Doctor Duvey revised! devised. Such are strea is flowing be When be harvested hl* crop he merely 1 In the picture map or by snapping new
ni . tody, N. Y. <’i
■ me wu* ; It i-Humd bi- bent back, how over. the method of examination »>• that the I tween low bunk* through brond, flat, followed the entirely proper routine ' pictures and comparing them with
an be tM-nt doul.lv
Iger, but which require strength Io any more easily Hum a »Imitar piece large crysthl was used, rather ttmn alluvial valleys, especially in seml- of ull Ids farmer neighbor* In picking! those of 1924.”
The *pecim«n| artd regions where there 1» little vege- I
.. .ghten again, are expected lo cad of ordinary cupper When thu copper crystalline powder.
a greater underaluuding of the Is a »ingle erystnl all «f the atom* are wn* swung »lowly back and forth tation to assist In holding unruly wa- J
vpertlca of metal*.
The bar*. arranged In column», equally spaced. through an angle of 30 degrees, with] ter* to their channel*.
Inch arc really »ingle cry*t*l* of When the bar I* bent thq spacing I* the edge In the path of the X-rays j
"Much controversy has arisen since !
produced In the changed; the
copper.
on the ln»i<k* I Tlie rotation of the single crysta. the creation of the United States over
of the General curve are pre mi I together, und Hive i produced the same effect a* using al
the water boundaries separating our-
Si heuri lady, N. on the > sit side
I 'citric compuuy
■ spread »part, stationary |*>wderrd sample. mid al territory from that of Canada, from
t . and luve been objected t<< tunny
ami the crystal pattern was received on a »tnrlonnry the St. Croix river at the nonh< istern ;
nd* of examination», with the rev- tructure 1* altered. The bar become* tilin. At the same time a moving filmj corner of Maine to the Rainy river of
»Uun of numeron» unvxprcird fai t*. an ordinary piece of copper of smaller
used, mounted on the fumable northern Minnesota, the westernmost
Knowledge aleiul the pruperth-» uf crystal» faring In all direction*.
with the crystal.
If the specimen! stream boundary along the nor:hern
Rodgers of the United States navy
> tat* hn* been limited In the past to
if th« aarface of -Hie larga crystal bud not been a single crystal no lines line, But the disagreements have been 1
Explorers Die in Effort to »¡»ent 19 days on Wrangell island.
f simili cry» I» nicked or d.-nted Hie structure in would have ticen
on the
ervutlon* of mu
over the selections of these streams: !
In
1913 Villijalmur Stefansson.
».
i'lie usual p
•
Land on Icy Isle.
the neighborhood 1» changed la the rnovHble film
agreed upon they have remained
heading an expedition for Canada to
osety
uniform once
It
«ame way. |i I* similarly nff«> ted by have affected the
lines, running in their arcus-'
explore lands and waters of North
aitine mint or polishing. When one of the iy The line* were obtained, however | fixed
turned wooded and rock-bound courses. ■ Seattle, Wash. — Wrangell Island, America, went from Seattle via Nome
apparent
ut ’ a
calculation*
based
on
a
compari
rife
in
story
of
tragedy
and
of
unfin
and
I* pol I »bed it
ucce
“Not so with the Rio Grande, which ’
►reme I» known, take off a mil or
» nt a Huw. Even »on of the two negative* «hqwed that forms the most extensive river boun ished projects, lias attained the status Into the Arctic ocean in the Karluk, a
2&0-ton steamer. The master of the
then the structur. of the dew surface the axis of the crystal was parallel dary of the United States, and. save of a Russian possession, to be ex-
Karluk was Capt. Robert A. Bartlett,
but slightly » it bout »nuppina. 1« nlterud. The eulidltlon I* ri-medled with the direction of cooling the-lngot
plored
and
exploited,
according
to
dis
II. single by etching away the surface with the I
It I* difficult to foretell the result: for some 20 miles along the lower Col patches which the soviet government master of the steamer Roosevelt tn
Investigations
orado. constitutes the only interna-
which Robert A. Peary went uortb to
zinc crystal* show that nn une cry*- usual urli) lutili
Which will follow a study of large
tlonal river boundary In the South. i as allowed to reach the western reacii the pole in 1909.
t*I i f the metili can be dr
appears metal crystals. It has been thought
vorld.
This river, crossing numerous patches I
Tlie Karluk was caught in the Ice
*!x time* It* length in om
The first white man to sight Wran-
to be rougi). There seem* • be al- | for several year* that such specimens of alluvial valley lands, keeps Unde
near Point Barrow, Alaska, and on
in another direction II I» extremely ternate dark and light lines Tl»e nt* | would have nnaxiiected properties
Sam on pins and needles. He can . g II Island, so fur as reeorded, was September 20 Stefansson led a hunting
t<> tlw ami now the prophesy Is substantiated
pearunce of. the Hue* i* d
never be entirely sure during certain ! Ci tain Kellett of the British ship party ashore over the frozen ocean.
upon liow
seasons whether he will wake any day - H< aid, in 1849. He didn't 'and. He He never saw the Karluk again. She
"w ith
uruin" or
to find bls supposed boundary marker thm jht the 1- nd, which Is 70 miles was carried westward in the ice.
e of r.n<
usimi
nst It.
where It was the night before. Es- > Ion; an 1 33 tnuea wide and which lies
John Hadley, a British navigator,
■ally a collection of
peclally Is this true where the river i 110 mills north of Siberia and 300 one of the crew, is among those who
¡ Minting in nil «ilr ■Hon*. *o that the
i
ihe
latitude
of
Bering
strait,
approaches the Gulf of Mexico and
omblned qimllUe*
have told the story. When the ice be-
where the accumulation of waters was ; t of an arctic continent that gan to squeeze and crack the vessel.
Is In the different
the small >
proved nonexistent.
from Its long drainage basin makes has I m
ie same hold» true
al direction
'sland In that vicinity was the captain gave orders to abandon
A sm.
spring floods cut Irresistibly across
Indu*trial Middle Weit Is Big 1 from frandtih-nt stock promotion.
her. This was 60 miles north of Her
Tlie highest per capita loss of any | bend*. Farms nnd ranches have thus mimed >> er his vessel. On Herald ald Island. The crew made camp on
Huge Crystal Produced.
,
ge»t
Lo»er.
been shifted over night from American island the Stars and Stripe? recently
town
dr
group
of
town*.
$40,
was
re
A single crystal of copper seven-
the ice.
pqrted by seven adjoining towns In to Mexican Jurisdiction nnd vice versa. was hoisted by Capt. Louis Lane, mas
Ten days later Captain Barrett sent
e:glith» of »n Im h in dl»nietvr ami six
ter
of
the
gasoline
schooner
Herman,
York. The industrial Middle 1’ennsylv anla. The combined popula
“In the rich alluvial valleys extend
Indie* long, a» well »» numerous
the first and second mates and two
nnd Indiana. tion of nil of these town* Is about ing for miles above and below El Baso after lie had made a vain attempt to
West,
Michigan,
»mailer crystal» of Hie Mime mulnl.
seamen to Wrangell Island to cache
reach Wrangell Island.
t.sve been produced by Dr. Wheeler I’. Is probuldy tin e 1 heaviest loser in the Kl.tXM). Two cities of 41MXX) popula tlie river has had equally marked
provisions. This party camped on the
Interest
in
Wrangell
Island
appar
ojieratlons of the Hop. one In Michigan und one in Ohio vagaries In the past, but changes are
Ihivry of the research laboratory. country by the
ently dates back to 1828, when natives lee near the island, waiting for a piece
of
the
control
of
each
reported
a
loss
of
Jl.lKtO.tsxt,
o:
fraudulent
stock
promoter.
according
few
now
because
These crystal’, obtained by modlfleii
of water to freeze over so they could
flood waters only a short distance reported such an island to Admiral
lion of the method, ilivl-cd by Dr. B. to a nation-wide »lirvey now being ^2*► per capita.
go ashore. The ice carried them Into
Baron
Ferdinand
Petrovich
von
Wran
national vigilance
It Is a significant fact, however, Lou above the city by the huge Elephant
W. Brldgruin of Harvard university, undertaken by tir
Allver- ’ E. Holland, president of the Associated Butte dam of the United States rec- gell, a Russian governor of Alaska. eternity.
ara mmli larger than any previously committee of the Associated
On March 12 Captain Bartlett suc
From the city of Baron Wrangell tried vainly to reach
Hsing l'lubs of the Worfd
Advertising Clubs of the World, said lamation service.
ceeded in landing the rest of his party
the
island.
El
Taso
northward
for
approximately
The survey Is based upon the an in lommentlng on the survey nnd its
.ery graduni lientlng and ciadlng
From Kellett’s time the Island was on Wrangell Island. Six days later
20 miles the Rio Grande forms the
pure copper In rm electric fu run ce swer* to n questionnaire sent out to objective of "Investigate Before You
called
Kellett until Capt. Thomas he left over the ice for Siberia, accom
boundary,
theoretically,
between
Texas
usine**
bu
remi*
nnd
forty
Invest." tiint although !*» per cent u!
the surre*« In predite-
I.ong
of
the whaling bark Nile, out of1 panies! only by an Eskimo.
nnd
Nev
Mexico.
This
boundary
Is
liiindred
chambers
of
the organisations reported losses it.
'•■«•►«ary amount of nearly
Ing them.
Stefansson, bereft of his vessel, had
New
London,
Conn., happened around
not
the
Rio
Grande
of
today,
however,
pure copper, In the form of n Lar. was commerce In every state in the coun their communities during the lust year
but that of 1880 when the dividing line there In August, 1867. He also failed turned his energies to proving that
try.
It
revealed
that
tlie
per
capita
through
fraudulent
or
highly
specula
placed In a dosed cylindrical carbón
men could travel several hundred
stock loss throughout the country Is tlve Investments, 75 per cent of this was supposedly settled for all time. to land, but he dearly saw and de
■ rmlble »nd slowly
miles over the surface of the arctic,
It
is
the
disagreement
over
the
loca
lineated
the
shores,
which
for
the
Hie electric furnace, If molten tnetnl about »6. nnd that the group of Indi number believed that their educattonul
tion of this ‘Rio Grande of 18o0’ that most part are banked by masses of Ice living on the lee and killing seals for
Is cooled quickly th* resultant mass vidual* who )>ny the Idgbest toll are and vlglliince methods had proved ef
has
brought about the pending suit be that come and go. He called it Wran- food and fuel, He led his party to
mine
and
factory
worker»,
chlefiy
of
fectlve
In
reducing
fliem.
I* composed of very simili crystals;
tween
the two states in the United gell Island, after the baron, whose safety.
If the melt Is cooled slowly ihe cry* foreign birth.
Although the aggregate stock losses
Stefansson considered
*
that Great
States
Supreme
court,
cognomen Is scattered around south-
Next to Michigan. Ohio and Indiana, throughout the country are now about
Britain had a good claim on Wrangell
stuck,
eastern
Alaska,
and
the
name
the
industrial
East
—
Pennsylvania.
"The
vagaries
of
rivers
when
Inter
the melt so slowly that only one cry«-
SGOU.lSMl.OOO n year, Mr. Holland esti
The first recorded landing on the Island, which he predicted would prove
ini was produced, nnd that Included New York, Miissnchusett*. nnd. to a mates that In tlie next two or three national Unes are affected sometimes
les*
extent,
New
Jersey
—
I*
the
heav
Island
was by a party from the United an invaluable station for aerial trans
the entire melt. The atom* had pien
years, with adequate public co-opera lead to queer results. South of El
portation.
ly of lime In which to arrange them- iest loser In Hie country. Tlie old tion In the "Before You Invest — Paso tlie Rio Grande some years ago States revenue cutter Corwin, August
Another expedition, promoted by
South
and
the
agricultural
Middle
12.
1881.
►elves ns they desired to build up it
Investigate" movement, this amount branched In the alluvial valley and en
Stefansson. was led to the Island in
West
of
Iowa,
the
Dakotns,
Kansas
The
next
year
a
party
from
the
Across this
»Ingle crystal rather Hum n multitude
will have been cut in half, and 8300.- closed a large Island.
1021 by Alan Crawford, young son of
and Nebraska are relatively Immune immi . imhi will be turned buck into the
of small one*.
a Toronto professor.
pockets of the American public.
Lands on Island.
The next summer Capt, Joe Bernard
of Nome, in the gasoline schooner Ted
Sapphires and Emeralds
dy Bear, tried to reach Wrangell island
Intrigue English Women
with provisions for the colony. Ice
extended so far from the island that
London.—Sapphires and emerald»
he did not come within sight of It.
have become Ihe most popular Jewels,
The following summer, 1923, Harold
apart from the cver-fa*hlonable dia
a young Scotchman, led a party
monds nnd pearls, among English
to the Island in the gasoline schooner
women, according to West End Jewel
I »onaldson.
for some unaccountable
TS,
Last summer several efforts were
reason, there is little call for rubles
uide by American and Canadian ve*-
nnd umber and Jade have lost much of
s. Is to reach Wrangell Island, but the
their popularity of a few years ago.
lee was the worst that old-time north
Flexible platinum bracelets, studded
erners had known, and all attempts
with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires
failed.
nnd rubies, are fashion'., latest Jewel
It was left for a soviet army trans
ry fad.
port, the Krasny Oktibr (Red October)
Princess Mary is said to have been
to make her way up the eastern coast
responsible for Hie sudden popularity
of Siberia from Petropavlovsk, thread
engagement
ring
of emeralds. Her
Bering strait and, pressing through
was a particularly beautIful emerald
the Ice. reach the island August 20,
and created an Immediate nnd press
1924. She hoisted the Russian flag.
the
atones.
Then
It
demand
for
Ing
was discovered Huit sapphires com-
Horae for 26 Cent»
blned strikingly with tlie green Jew
Stroudsburg, Pa.—How tue automo
el*, und they also Jumped into favor.
idle has supplanted the horse was 11
One feature of the new fads, nc-
lustrated here recently when a hors«
cordlng to Jewelers, Is the pasahig of
was sold at public auction for 20 cents
the choker necklace of pearls or large
Joseph
H. Kerr, district deputy grand
•at
Dune,
has
been
trained
to
guard
the
post
office
at
King
Tro .per, a
metal or colored bead*. Ropes of
street Southall. Middlesex. England, and during business hour* he Is on duty master of the Grand Lodge of Masons
pearls,
hovve-er,
aru
as
popular
as
Premier Herriot speaking nt the dedication of a monument to Uio men of
of Pennsylvania, owned the horse.
behind the grille. At lunch time lie does his guarding on tlie outside.
ever.
the 1 »itchy of Luxemburg who served In the armies of France.
Produces Huge
Copper Crystal
Wrangell Island
Scene of Strife
FRAUD IN STOCKS HAS
COST COO MILLION DOLLARS
Monument to Luxemburg Heroes
Thieves Shun This Post Office