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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930
PACIFIC FLEET
BIDS FOR SPEED
CROWN OF WEST
Vancouver, B. C. (LP) While
steamship lines on the Atlantic are
building feverishly for supremacy by
construction of larger and faster
liners a milder form of competition
Is being enacted on the Pacific.
The Canadian Pacific Steamship
company Is bringing to this coast
a new palatial liner which out
shines anything In regular service
on the trans-Pacific route.
When the Empress of Japan, the
modern version of the once proud
clipper built liner of the same
name, arrives here on August 19,
a new race for trans-Pacific trade
will be commenced.
The largest and fastest liner en'
gaged in regular traffic on the
schedule of the company giving as
frequent a service between the Far
East and this continent as Is
given by other lines with ft greater
number of ships.
The acquisition of the Empress
of Japan will give the company a
fleet of four liners on the trans-
Pacific run. The fleet comprises the
Empress of Russia, Asia, Canada
and Japan.
While the Bremen and Europa are
speed champions on the Atlantic
the Empress of Japan on this coast
will bid for the blue ribbon of the
Pacific.
The Empress of Canada at pres
ent hold the record of eight days
10 hours and 9 minutes from Yoko
hama to Victoria. The nearest
that any liner has come. to this is
10 days.
The Canada and the Japan will
pace each other for the speed crown
as they both have the same type
engines and are capable of 21 knots.
The Empress of Japan is a twin
screw oil-burner of 25,000 tons. It
is 640 feet In length, 83 feet breadth
and 56 feet deep. Passenger ac
commodation will be 268 saloon, 164
second, 100 third and 640 steerage
making a total of 10HO.
In keeping with the war time
tradition the liners are of a grey
ish white color, ben;j they have
been called the greyhounds of the
Pacific, reminiscent of the time
when these huge vessels carried
guns fore and aft to give protec
tion to the passengers and be ready
for emergency If pressed Into ac
tual wartime service.
ON TRIAL IN NEW YORK
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Mas Wtil went on trial In New York charged together with 67
other persons Including a producer, atage manager and actora, with
having committed a misdemeanor in placing on Broadway in October.
1928, "Pleasure Man," which was raided as an Indecent play and
eloied.
BROAD YAWN
Boston, IIP) Henry Brown re
quired hospital treatment after he
had yawned too enthusiastically.
His jaw was dinlocated.
Famous Passion Play is
Given Every Decade to
Fulfill Ancient Pledge
Berlin (IP) Oberammergau's Pas
sion Play, which Its sponsors hope
will be viewed by some 160,000 pay
ing guests during the coming sum
mer, has not been the same mys
tery play throughout the 300 years
of its history. Albeit, despite its
various changes, the 1930 presenta
tion will be much closer in the sim
plicity of Its form and the coher
ence of its movement to the orig
inal of the 17th century than was
the elaborately allegorical Passion
Play of the early 18th century.
The oldest text of this religious
drama Is found in a manuscript of
the Augustine monastery of Saint
Ulrich dated In the 15th century.
As given at that time the drama was
purely an ecclesiastical mystery play
presented by the monks on certain
holy days. It has been described
as "a sort of secular and divine
service and worship combined." Pat
ently it was of necessity simple
in form and In presentation, but
when it was later taken up by the
residents of various villages In Ba
varia and Austria for production
Its scope was enlarged. Even after
its Initial production In Oberam
mergau In 1634 the text of the play
was materially altered.
Again a century later extensive
and fundamental changes were
made In the play when it was vir
tually rewritten by a priest of the
Ettal Monastery. He set the spoken
parts In verse of 12 -syllable lines,
embroidered the theme with alle
gorical figures and songs, changed
the instrumental music and Intro-
CENTENNIAL OF
REAPER TO BE
OBSERVED 1931
Raphlne, Va. VP) A little farm
hop In the Virginia hllli wll have
an Important pert In the celebration
of the lOutb. am versa ry ol the
reaper in 1931.
It waa there that Cyrus H. Mc
Cormlck constructed the 'contrap
tion' that was to revoluuonlae ag
riculture and give to the world cheap
oread.
The first reaper waa crude, but
the principle remains the same In
the efficient machines of today.
Celebration of the 100th anniver
sary will be national and possibly
international In Its scope.
Virginia, naturally, will be Inter
ested In the 100th anniversary, al-
though It has long since given place
to the mid-west as a leader In grain
production. .
A model of the first crude ma
chine Is preserved in the state mu
seum at Richmond.
Cyrus Mccormick was one of the
many who toiled on farms, swinging
the old-fashioned "cradle" through
the wheat on his father's acres In
Rockbridge county, Virginia.
He profited by the mistakes of
his father, who had sought unsuc
cessfully to construct a harvesting
machine. His father's plan of a
machine to be pushed was aban
doned. Instead AfcCormfok nHnntori a mtL
ting blade on the side. Then fol
lower! the flj,vir.A if mnaraU lh.
StflllU to rtlftm them In iuHnn nn
ltlon, and arms to gather the fallen
sialics, me machine floundered
along the field, a "joke" to some of
the neighbors. But It worked.
The McCormlplr hnmr law In th.
Slienandoah vtllev u .m, ha
known In alter years as the "gran-
nary oi me coniederacy" because
of its productiveness.
the first to present a play per
formance of th Passion Play. In
th year 1133 when a pestilence.
Drougni in oy tne armies partici
pating In the 30 Years' War, swept
over Central Europe it reduced
th population of Oberammergau
by half or mora. Survivor in the
village made a solemn vow that if
Ood would spare them from fur
ther ravages of th plague, they
would present the Passion Play
every 10 years. This they have
oone wim unfailing fidelity since
1634. In the first 50 years the play
was produced In the fourth vear
of each decade, but since 1880, with
one or two unavaidable exceptions,
it has been performed in the tenth
year or every decade.
MAN IN THE MOON
HAS PUMICE CHEEKS
MEARS STUDIES
FLYING TO SPEED
GLOBE CIRCLING
duced many devices then slmlllaar
to tne Italian operatic stage. All
this, however, was cut bodily out of
the play at the beginning of the
19th century when another Ettal
priest, Father Ottmar Weiss, wrote
a new text, restoring the Dlav to
a strict agreement with the biblical
account of the life of Christ, thereby
maxing iuii use or the dramatic ele
ments fundamental to the story of
Christ, which Father Weiss believ
ed needed no artificial aid or adorn
ment. There have been many
changes since the time of Weiss, but
these have all been of a minor na
ture and have not substantially al
tered the text as he wrote It.
The Oherammergauers were among
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STEAL THE PATROL
Saurnis. Mass. ip whn tni
authorities were conducting a
liquor raid, somebody stole the po
lice patrol wagon which had been
parked outside the house.
Camden. N. J. (IP No one Is
watching the return voyage of Rear
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd from
bis An tart Ic adventures with more
expectancy than John Henry Mean,
America's famous round-the-world
racer,
Mears, whose greatest aim In life
apparently, is to circumnavigate
th globe faster than, any other hu
man being. Is hard at work here
mastering the art of flying in prep
aration for his next attempt to
bring back to the United States the
record for globe circumnavigation,
Ee wants to be a capable pilot
before next June when he and
Bernt Balchen, Rear Admoral
Byrd's famous co-pilot, will attempt
to lower the record of 21 days made
last year by the Graf Zeppelin for
a round-the-world flight. Balchen
is at present with Byrd but Mears
expects him here about the end of
May to complete plans lor the
flight.
Bill Day, operations manager here
for Ludlngton Plying Service, who
I teaching Mears to fly, said the
New Yorker is going to make a
"corking good pilot." Day is a war
time flier and has been an Instruct
or most of the time since. He has
been with the Ludlngton people" for
the past year as operations man
ager at their Camden field.
Mears, who has made two pre
vious round-the-world records,
knows full well the strain on a pilot
in such an undertaking and he Is
determined to be fully capable of
taking over the controls from Bal
chen periodically during the pro
posed flight which will Include
considerable transoceanic flying.
The next attempt by Mears and
Balchen will be made in a Lock
heed Vega monoplane. This plane
is capable of exceeding 176 miles
per hour with a cruising speed of
140 miles per hour.
Among Mears' accomplishments
In circumnavigating the globe in
the record time are his 35-day rec
ord in 1913. In that speed test he
employed trains, steamships and a
short hop in an airplane which end
ed In a forced langlng in Puget
Sound.
In 1921 Mears and the late Cap-round-the-world
time to 23 days,
tain C. B. D. Collyer lowered the
They used the "City of New York,"
a Falrchlld monoplane, for the ma
jor portion of the trip. Collyer was
killed In a crash Id Arizona some
months after while attempting to
establish a new transcontinental
record.
specially picked German troupe.
Knowing the usual excellence of
Reinhardt productions, and his In
sistence on methodical as well as
artistic preparation, the theater
goers will have the opportunity of
making an interesting comparison
between French and German atage
productions. .
Medford, WU. U Leon Blom
berg and Neil Vetter, Medford
trappers, have collected state boun
ty on their 14th wolf killed this
winter in Taylor county.
AWAIT REINHARDT
Paris, (LP) French theater circles
the forthcoming visit of Max Rein
are looking forwafd with interest to
hardt. billed here to appear with a
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