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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Sunday Morning, November 10, 1929
PAGE ELEVEN
OUT
DOORS
SECTION
IE IEB
IS HT VATICAN
Father John Hagen is Only
"Subject" of Yankee
Extraction
Bv HUDSON HAWLEY
Associated Press Staff Writer
VATICAN CITY (AP) One
lone citizen of American origin
and he a naturalized one stands
out among the 618 'sub3ects" of
the new Vatican City State.
He is Father John Hagen, S. J.,
director of the Vatican Observa
tory. Born an Austrian, and nat
uralized American while at
Georgetown university, he has
been fulfilling his function at the
Vatican for about a quarter of a
century.
Out of the 518 citizens or sub
jects, 3 89 headed by. the pope
himself are of Italia norigin, al
beit Pius XI wa3 actually torn an
Austrian subject, his birthplace,
LJesio, near Milan, being under
Hapsburg domination at the time
he came into the world. The Swiss
in iew oi tneir cemury-oio. priv
ilege t of furnishing the Papal
guard, come next with 113, while
the French have 11. Thi3 last
number includes their nation s
'Cardinal of Curia," His Emin
ence Alexis Lepicier.
Germany has five Vatican citi
zens headed by the venerable Je
suit, Cardinal Ehrle, librarian of
the Vatican. Spain has two, one
being Cardinal Merry del Val,
former secretary of state and now
archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica.
Austria and Holland, with one cit
izen each, are represented by
their two curia cardinals. Their
Eminences Fruewirth and Van
Rossum.
The only pther two nations to
be represented b yone borrowed
citizen each are Norway and Aby
ssinia. The latter shatters all be
liefs in precedents by being a Jew.
This singular citizen of the
Pope's own Btate will not remain
much longer In the faith of his
fathers, however. Before the
constitution of the Vatican City
was effected, Hagos Fessuh, na
tive of Alitena in Abyssinia had
already announced his intention
v of becoming a Roman Catholic;
and being attached in a special
capacity to the Ethiopian semin
ary which is on Vatican-soil, was
directed to remain there pending
completion of his spiritual pre
paration for baptism and the suc
ceeding sacraments. Once he has
-been admitted to the church, the
Pope will reign over 18 subjects
who are 100 per cent Catholic.
The students of the Ethiopian
seminary itself are no tcounted
among the denizens of the Vati
can, since their residence is only
transitory. For disciplinary and
administrative purposes, though,
they will be nominally under the
sway of the Governor of the city
state until the completion of their
studies. -
Two new citizens have been
born within the- Vatican confines
since Feb. 11, 1929, when it was
proclaimed a sovereign territory.
The children of other citizens for
the present attend schools in Ital
ian territory, that Is, In Rome It
self. In a short time It Is intend
ed that the Vatican shall have its
own primary grammar and high
schools.
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By WILLIAM R. KUHNS
(AP Feature Service Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) Great Am
erican cities have spent hundreds
of millions widening streets to
make room for 25,000,000 auto
mobiles and catch up with the mo
tor age.
City planning commissions es
timate that this expense will be
doubled or tripled before the
problem of traffic congestion can
be solved.
Now the rapid growth of air
transport threatens to complicate
their task. If city streets were
unprepared for motor cars, city
architecture and real estate are
leen to be still less adapted to air
travel. - fliai
Science Divided as to Age of Meteor Crater
That is One of the Wonders of Arizona Desert
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One of the most unusual sights in northern Arizona is
the "Shell Hole" or meteor crater that is situated near
the tows of Winalow. This immense hole in the
ground which was evidently made by the falling of a
meteor thousands of years ago is four thousand feet
across at the pit of the crater and COO feet deep. In
a mine shaft that has been sunk by scientists to get
at the body of the meteor lies under tons of sand the
InUroatioaAl Kawsraci
conglomerate mass that is believed to be the meteor
itself. Inset is Joe Miller, a Navajoe Indian guide
with a piece of the meteor which he found at the
bottom of the mine shaft The town of Winslow has
profited to a great extent by the presence of the crater,
as it lies near the great Mogollon Plateau, which is
one of the most beautiful sights in Arizona and at
tracts thousands of tourists every year.
THE NEW YORKER
AT LARGE
By DEMING SEYMOUR
NEW YORK The daughter oi
an Ohio family came to New
York this fall bearing letters of
introduction to Important people
and seeking a chance to dance on
the stage.
Small, gingery and easy to ogle,
she soon was in the pony ballet
of a broadway musical show.
She touad a one-room apart
ment just to her taste in Green
wich Village. It was in MacDou
gal Alley, in one of those remod
elled buildings that used to be
horse barns and carriage sheds for
Washington Square mansions.
She wrote her mother enthusi
astically about how well she was
getting on, and a few days later
that estimable woman sent a terse
and worried letter to a New York
friend.
"I wish," the mother wrote,
"you'd see what on earth has
come over Ann. I can't make ont
from her letter she says she's a
pony and Hying In a stable."
The ranks of the bad guessers,
Architects throughout the coun
try are studying how to create
space for landing fields In con
gested regions where space is val
ued by the Bquare inch.
If cities had been laid out to
accommodate heavy motor car
traffic, they believe the principal
thoroughfares would have been
wide enough to be roofed for
landing areas. With conditions
as they are few spots remain in
congested sections of any city af
fording space for prospective air
terminals.
Francis Keally, designer of
many recent . airports, believes it
would be possible to utilize the
space above bridges, piers and
railroad yards. He regards piers
and railroad yards as specially fa
vorable because passengers would
be able to make conve
nient connection with steamships
and trains.
Airport architects are agreed
generally that landing areas for
large planes must remain on. the
outskirts of terminal cities. Con
sequently their various plans -for
roofed over areas are made with
the views of accommodating small
taxi-planes only.
One report has been circulated
that several architectural pioneers
are working on plans for a huge
building which would provide
enough roof space for a small
landing field.
already filled with theatre produ
cers who couldn't see in "Street
Scene" a successful play, have
been augmented by publishers
who turned down the American
rights to Erich Maria Remarque's
German war novel, "All's Quiet
on the Western Front."
Remarque, It seems, first offer
ed his novel to Fisher, predomin
antly the great publisher of Ger
many, who refused it after his
manuscript readers had recom
mended its publication. Then Re
marque took the script to Ullsteln,
who decided to publish it against
the advice of his subordinates.
When "All's Quiet" began to
attract attention in Germany and
England a reader for a New York
publisher got a copy, perused It,
and urged his chief to acquire the
American rights. That eminent
informed him brusquely that the
firm wasn't Interested in any Ger
man novels.
Another New Yovk publisher
read the book and passed it up on
his own responsibiltiy. A third
rather liked it but held out for a
better translation.
Meanwhile the president of the
Boston publishing concern which
finally brought out the book In
the United States had seen enthu
siastic reviews of it in a Berlin
and a London newspaper. On the
strength of the reviews he bought
the American rights to the novel
without even having read it.
Suggestion Gratis
William Fox is opening on No
vember 1, a Broadway theatre
which will show nothing but news
reels.
Now If somebody will start a
newspaper that contains nothing
but rotogravure sections . . .
Suburb and Proverb
The ..office manager was in a
suburban hospital, after an opera
tion for removal of gallstones.
"I called on him last night,"
said the stenographer. "I'd al
ways wanted to see the part of
the city where his hospital Is -so
I killed two birds with one
gallstone."-
MULTNOMAH'S BIG
NOT
SHAH
ENOUGH
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8
(AP) A suggestion that the
Multnomah county delegation to
the legislature be requested to
make a fight for a larger per
centage of state market and au
tomobile licenses fee moneys was
made by members of the tax su
pervising and conservation com
mission today at a hearing on the
county road budget,
They, sfid that it was ridiculous
that Multnomah county should be
required to pay 86 per cent of
the state road tax and receive
back only 10 per cent and that
the county should receive only 25
per cent of the automobile license
tax that its motorists pay back
for road purposes.
RADIOPHOTO IS
USED j m. D.
Diagnosis Conducted of Case
Located 7500 Miles
In Distance
Heard Along
Auto Row
R. H. Maden, manager of the
F. W. Pettyjohn company in Sa
lem, went to Portland Thursday,
returning with a new Nash demonstrator.
The new Nash 8 has been re
ceived by Portland distributors
and the F. W. Pettyjohn company,
local agency for Nash, expects to
have these 1920 valve-in-head
eight cylinder Nash models with
in a few days.
Chevrolet salesmen have start
ed to think about Thanksgiving al
ready. To each salesman making
his quota of "feathers" a turkey
will be given. Ever ynew car sale
counts five feathers, while every
$100 in used cars counts twofea-thers.
BERLIN (AP) An American
patient soon may be able to ob
tain Instant advice from any sur
gical specialist in Europe, or vice
versa, by submitting his case by
radiophone, together with a ra
diophoto. Preliminary experiments were
made in Berlin by Dr. Justo Lijo
Pavia,' Buenos Aires ophthalmolo
gist, who used rcdio to consult
Prof. Mariano R. Castex, Argen
tine scientist,- In the case of a
young patient dangerously ill.
First, the patient's eyes were
photographed, and the pictures
prepared for transmission by radio
7,500 miles to the specialist. It
took hours of strenuous testing
at the Nauen station to get the
equipment ready, but once ad
justed it functioned faultlessly.
A Small 'group, including the
Argentine minister, Restelli, ga
thered at the Berlin Central Tel
egraph office to witness the first
wireless diagnosis of a surgical
case.
"Through to Buenos Aires"
came the flash. Dr. Pavia took
up the telephone and read to Pro
fessor Castex the history of the
case. ,
"Photos follow immediately."
Dr. Pavia said. There was silence
for about IS minutes, and then
came the reply from Prof. Castex
that the transmission had been ex
cellent and that in his opinion
the malady was incurable, which
was the conclusion already reach
ed.
Soon the recording machine
here began to roll out another
picture, this time from Buenos
Aires. It was in the handwriting
of Professor Castex and said:
"The radlophoto is so splendid
that I could have made my diag
nosis and prognosis from it even
before hearing the clinical data.
My cordial felicitations. Mariano
R. Castex."
Northcott
Not Very
Talkative
SAN QUENTIN, Cal. (AP)
Gordon Stewart Northcott has
lost the bravado that marked his
entrance to state's prison here.
The youth, awaiting action on
his appeal from a death sentence
for the slaying of three boys on
the "Wineville murder farm,"
spends the time playing checkers.
His contribution to the conver
sation consists of two words:
"Your move."
Mrs. Sarah Louisa Northcott,
whose dramatic plea of guilty In
Riverside failed to save young
Northcott, and who now is serv
ing a life sentence within 100
yards of the cell occupied by her
son, spends two hours each morn
ing washing the windows of the
women's prison, after which she
sits along and stares into space.
Only once have mothor and son
met since their arrival at the pen
itentiary. That was Febuary 13
of this year, the day following
Northcott' assignment to a eell
The mother, had been there since
January 1.
Geographical Lap"
The two elderly women direct
ed their ticket broker to get them
seats to Elmer Rice's new com
edy, "See Naples and Die."
It wasn't their fault, pt his,
that they landed among the
thighs and plumage of that rowdy
revue, "A. Night in Venice."
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VALLEY MOTOR
Best Values This Week
Model A Ford Tudor $525
Model A Ford
.Phaeton ......,..f.:....$425
1 926 Ford Fordor .... $285
1 926 Ford Coupe .... $215
; 1927fChevrolet '
Coach $365
1 927 Essex Super-6
Coach'..: $375 -
Corner Center and Chemeketa Tel. 1995
Chevrolet Serves Longest News Route
Here with Old Faithful Mountain in the background, is the
car that, for the past two seasons has been daily delivering
between 600 and 800 pounds of newspapers over a 160 mile
route in Yellowstone Park. Residents of the park's isolated
camps and hotels are dependent on this service for their home
town newspapers. During the past two years the Chevrolet
has traveled 42,000 miles. The daily jaunt is completed in
five hours driving time.
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DAMASCUS (AP) Both in Sy
ria and Persia progress is being
made on several new lines of rail
ways. In this country the French High,
Commission is drawing plans for
two lines, one from Horns to Fal
myra, the legendary city of ruins,"
with branch lines to Damascus,
and the other from Nissibin, pres
ent terminus of the Baghdad rail
way, to eir-es-Zor n the Eu
phrates. In Persia an American German
syndicate is pushing the Trans
Persian line extending from the
Caspic Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Although ther are not nllnweri
by Warden James B. Holohan to
meet, they are permitted to com
municate by letters which are
censored.
The mother Is silent concern
ing her own predicament and Is
making no efort to change the
life sentence passed after her fu
tile plea and assumption of guilt
to shield and save the boy. Her
only Interest now is in the suc
cess of young Northcott's appeal.
A decision is expected this winter.
BUNCOMBE
HOT
BOOSTS
HI
By OSCAR LEIDINO
(AP Feature Service Writer)
ASHEV1LLB, N. C.-(AP)-The
ringing of school bells in North
Carolina is announcing new vic
tories in the campaign for edu
cation in a state which has bad
an illiteracy percentage of nearly
10 per cent.
A movement in a single section,
Buncombe county, is helping to
show the other 47 states, all
blighted to some extent with illit
eracy, how to dispel finally the
pall of Ignorance.
"Thar she is. Bud," cried one
man, swelling with pride at his
first accomplishment with pencil
and paper, "Thar's my name. I
can't read her, but I can write
.her."
Under an active crusader, Mrs.
Elizabeth C. Morris, a day and
night vigil has been mounted to
roster such enthusiasm, a vigil
stretching from the Blue Ridee
mountains to sweeping planta
tions.
Basing their attack on the pro
position that "a parent taught
means a child in school," the ed
ucators have battled ignorance
until, by the time the new census
is taken, they expect to have less
than 1 per cent of illiterates in
the county. ,
President Hoover appalled by
the ignorance of a mountain ur
chin who trudged into his week
end camp, set forth to bring en
lightenment to the region. North
Carolina embarked on the same
mission nine years ago on a
broader scale.
In less than a decade, 6,000
people have been taught. Child
ren attend the day schools and
at night older people learn read
ing and writing.
The average age of the night
school pupils is 30 years, though
there Is one patriarch, Obadiah
Washington Surrett, known as
"Uncle Ob." who began learning
after his' eightieth birthday.
Through his influence more than
100 descendants are going to
school.
Skeptical at first, the illiterates
soon lost their prejudice In their
interest to explore the new world
ROME (AP) Vacation colon
ies, established by the government
entertained 228,180 children this
summer. The province of Milan
took care of 29.600 of its young
sters, and the Roman reglop was
host to 13,309.
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