SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Byrd’s Ship Boasts
Remarkable Record
Service and Adventure
Written Large in Log
Washington.—"The Rear of Oak­
land,
sturdy
steamship
which
brought Rear Admiral Byrd and
members ot bls expedition safely
back from their year long vigil in
Antarctica, has a name that stirs
the hearts of sea dogs.” says the
National Geographic society.
“Gales and high seas of three­
score years have whipped over the
broad decks of the barkentlne. but
like punches bouncing off the un­
yielding shoulders of a heavyweight
champion, all have 4>een turned
■side.” continues the bulletin.
“Adventure and service to man­
kind are written large In the pages
of the Bear log-book. No polar ex­
plorer lives who Is not familiar with
her stout career, and several there
are who have paced her staunch
oak decks—Byrd, Greely, Stefens-
son, Amundsen, and Capt. ‘Bob'
Bartlett, to name a few. She waa
the first to meet Lieutenant Gree­
ly marooned on the Arctic ice in
1SS4.
“Her crew maintained law anil
ord^r in the frozen outposts of
America during the Alaskan gold
rush, long before radio had come
into general use. Her commanding
officers were often called upon to
conduct funeral rites and marriage
ceremonies during the long period
of her service In the U. S. Coast
Guard, from 1S80-1928.
Built In Scotland.
“Whaling men knew and loved
her for the occasions on which she
went to their rescue In the Icy fast­
nesses of the North.
When the
bark Napoleon was wrecked In the
Ice near Cape Navarln. Siberia, the
Bear put out to sea Immediately,
following a route described on a
piece of board passed from one na
tlve village to another.
“She has schooled many salty
seamen In the uncharitable ways of
ice, wind, and ocean. A dozen of
them reside tn the City of Wash­
ington today. Rear Admiral H. G.
Hamlet, present commandant of the
U. S. Coast Guard, served three as­
signments aboard ‘the old Bear' as
he affectionately recalls her. His
assistant, Capt, L. C. Covell, was
the skipper of the Bear in 1925 and
192«.
“A barkentlne with auxiliary
steam power, the Bear waa built
at Greenock, Scotland, In 1874, for
service In the whaling trade. Con
structed of solid oak. she Is strong
ly braced to cushion the shock of
Ice. She is 200 feet long, weighs
703 tons, and has a depth of 18
feet, and a beam of 32 feet. When
the United States government want­
ed a real boat to bring Greely out
of the Arctic, the Bear aeetued a
logical purchase.
"Reinforced with additional beams,
iron straps, and Australian iron
bark, the Bear, commanded by
Lieut. W. H. Emory. U. S. N.. and
a volunteer crew of navy men, set
out with a relief expedition under
Commander Winfield Scott Schley.
Schley was the commodore who la-
New York's "slave markets" are
In the Bronx.
Every day colored
women, old and young, line up at
Westchester avenue and Southern
boulevard and at Prospect avenue
and East One Hundred and Sixty-
first street, to sell themselves Into
temporary bondage at so much an
hour.
Ragged,
down-at-the-beel.
hungry, they await the appearance
of possible purchasers of their
services sometimes with chatter and
laughter bnt more often with grim
silence. There Is no assurance of
employment and the walk to and
from Harlem la long, especially
when the stomach Is empty and the
shoes so thin that feet all but
touch the concrete.
The “slave
market”—those who line up and
wait supplied that name—Is the last
hope. If the employer doesn't come
along, there will be more hunger
and possibly eviction, since Harlem
landlords do not care to wait tor
their rent
• • •
Those who make purchases at the
“slave market" are housewives of
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May Be Preserved as Histor­ Into the sitting room, and posed for
Innumerable pictures.
Since bl«
ical Monument.
New York.—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
recently revealed a plan to restore
the old Coolidge birthplace In Plym­
outh, Vt. where Calvin Coolidge
became President by kerosene light,
for preM-rvation as an historical
monument. His widow states In the
June Good Housekeeping, that John
G. Sargent, attorney general under
Coolidge, heads a committee now
proceeding with the project
“There could be no more fitting
memorial to our thirtieth Presi­
dent," Mrs. Coolidge says, “nor one
which would be more In keeping
with his natural taste. Undoubted­
ly be gave some consideration to
the matter himself and for that
reason made extensive repairs. In
building the six-room addition to
his fathers bouse, he was particu­
lar that no change should be made
in the original structure.”
Coolidge's only monument today
Is a simple five-foot granite stone
In the Plymouth cemetery, similar
to that of his son. Calvin. Jr., but
Plymouth Notch Itself, with Its
country store, church. Coolidge
homesteiifi and cheese factory. Is
so Identified with Coolidge that It
attract* tourists In Increasing num
hers.
“While Father Coolidge was alive
ne welcomed visitors to his home,”
Mrs Coolidge relates. “Invited them
Rescued Qr««ly.
“Speed and ruggedness made it
possible for the Bear to reach the
Greely party first. Her arrival was
none too soon. Only seven of the
25 men who set out with the ex­
plorer were alive when the Bear
crew reuched them In the summer
of 1884. There are few more thrill­
ing tales than the story of this gnl-
la nt rescue In Hie frozen Arctic.
Greely was brought back to Ports­
mouth, N. H., In August on Commo­
dore Schley's boat.
“The Revenue Cutter service,
which Is today U. 8. Coast Guard,
received the Bear for service In
Alnskan waters and the Arctic
ocean. Here began Its long career
of rescue and patrol work, after
which It was donated to the City of
Oakland. Calif.
"Admiral Byrd bought the Roar,
now the Bear of Oakland, tn May.
1932. Refitted at Boston, It sailed
with the Byrd Antarctic Expedi­
tion II."
Lights of New York
Plan to Restore Old Coolidge Home
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t«r led th« famous Flying Squadron
against Cervera during the Span­
ish.American war. The Th«tla and
the Alert went out after Greely
with the Rear.
bxll , stevenson
the vicinity.
Shrewd tn bargaln-
Ing, desiring to make every penny
count their offera are always low.
Follows an auction of aorta. But
the one with work has all the ad­
vantage.
Household tasks may
await another day but hunger—and
landlords—won't In the end, there
la capitulation alnce need makes It
seem better to take from 12V4 to 15
cents an hour for hard and heavy
work that In good times brought 50
cents an hour, than It Is to walk
back to Harlem penniless. Also
the employment Is only temporary
and there is always the hope that
there will be a change for the bet­
ter.
• • •
One of the biggest reasons for
the existence of the “slave markets”
Is the fact that there are practi­
cally no Jobe for colored men. Jobe
such as porters, waiters, washroom
attendants, mesaengers. etc., that
once were Oiled only by colored
men have been taken over by whites
since the depression. Harlem moth­
ers and wives, as well as single
women, have always worked. But
present conditions have placed an
additional burden on them.
• • •
Speaking of colored people, there
was tho little girl In the school out
at Long Island who told her teacher
her name was “Fee-mal ee" Jones.
Asked to spell the flrat name, she
replied, "Female." It seems that
when she was born, her parents
were nnable to decide on a name, so
at the hospital the blank was tilled
In (Female) Jones. The parents
taking that as official, from then
on called her, “Fee-mal-ee."
death the housekeeper has con­
tinued to admit callers as generally
as her time and strength have per­
mitted. Women in the vicinity have
brought pieces of their handiwork
for sale. I think that Mr. Coolidge
refrained from placing a ban upon
this because he realized how much
It meant to these people In an out-
of-the-way community to realize a
e. B«ll Smdlcsta — WNIT SarvlM.
little pin money."
The
Coolidge
correspondence,
THE SIGNAL
written with proverbial Coolidge
caution. Is already filed In the Li­
brary of Congress. Charles A. An­
drews, treasurer of Amherst col­
lege, In the same issue of the maga­
zine says Coolidge once said to him:
"They will not find any 'Dear
Maria' letters among my papers. I
did not have any private or semi­
private correspondence. 1 brought
nothing home with me.’"
A typical non-committal Coolidge
letter is quoted:
"My dear Mr.
Field: Thank you for your letter
of the twenty-first Instant. I shall
certainly have your views In mind
when I come tr act upon this mat­
ter. Calvin Coolidge."
Mr. Andrews also recalls this
prophetic statement Coolidge made
four days before his death:
“1 am too old for my years. 1
“Th« hostess «aid the affair was
suppose the carrying of responsi­ to he strictly Informal."
bility as 1 have done takes its toll.
“That makes the girla drew up
I'm afraid I’m all burned out."
all right all right”
French Fear Curse
in Man Made Gold
agnln to see another demonstration.
Dunlkowsky explained that ale­
planes could be brought down with
his death ray by using two streams
Paris.—Wilt the world welcome of ray an nd crossing them on the ob­
the Invention of n powerful dr nth ray ? ject alined at, thus producing a
How will men greet an Invention short circuit. He tried the trick on
which will permit anyone to pro­ a toy airplane and It burst Into
duce gold at home cheaply?
flames.
Will not these discoveries mean
the end of our civilization?
These are questions thst French­
men In all walks of life are asking
themselves these days as the result
of the announcement of Jan Dunl-
kowsky, Polish engineer and "mod­
ern alchemist.” thnt he tins achieved
the two discoveries.
Ho has al­
ready proved to one expert his abil­
ity to make gold cheaply, and he
has demonstrated to Journalists the
effectiveness of his death ray, on a
reduced1 scale.
Everything In Franc« ends In
laughter, but the French amusement
at Dtinlkowsky's original experi­
ments Is beginning to be turned
Into a feeling of annoyance.
During those two years thst
Dunlkowsky spent In a Paris prison
for having falsely claimed that he
could produce gold, the public
laughed good naturedly at him and
looked upon him as Just nn eccen­
tric. During those two years Dunl­
kowsky was allowed to leave his
cell and visit a city laboratory,
where he worked to prove that he
was not a swindler.
Takes Rsfufl* In Italy.
After serving hie time, Dunlkow­
**Th«r«'e always some curious
sky took refuge with his family In
a villa at Saint Remo. Italy, where mosquito around when a girl says 'If
he continued hie experiments. He you don't Ilk« It you can lump IV"
wanted eventually to prove that he
waa not a fake and then have hla Alibi Runa Speeder to
conviction In the French courts re­
Hospital, Then Court
versed.
Recently Mnltre I^grand. his at­
Cleveland. — A
“perfect alibi“
torney, announced that Dunlkowsky failed, so John Gilbert had to ap­
had achieved his goal.
Monsieur pear before Police Judge Jacob
Bonn, a chemist attached as expert Stacel to answer charges of speed­
to the French law courts, went ing 04 miles nn hour down an East
down to St. Remo. He «pent six side street here.
When a motor
hours In Dunkowsky's villa apply­ cycle policeman stopped Gilbert,
ing the Pole’s method to auriferous the latter said he was taking hla
earth. At the end of th« experi­ wife to a hospital. Huston sped
ment Ronn Issued a statement de­ ahead of the Gilbert car with siren
claring that In his opinion the screnmlng, clearing the way of
At the
technique devised by Dunlkowsky traffic and pedestrians.
did In fact extract a larger quan­ hospital, attaches said Gilbert had
tity of gold from the earth than made no reservations, doctors said
would be possible by methods now In nothing was wrong with Mrs. Gil­
use.
bert, and Huston booked Gilbert for
Bonn said no fraud was possible. speeding.
He made a careful examination of
the apparatus beforehand.
The Mouse Broadcasts Howls;
earth brought by Bonn was divided
Police Operator Frets
Into three lots.
Dunlkowsky’«
Wichita,
Kan.—A mouse broad­
“Zeta” rays and then complicated
chemical processes were used on cast for two days over Wichita's
the first lot of earth, as the result police station, practically driving
of which two small globules of gold Dispatcher “Blog” Crosby nuts. No
one knew the cause of the distor­
emerged.
The second lot produced no gold tion that made the radio howl until
because It was not submitted to the Rergt. Ray Mitchell got to looking
Zeta rays even though It underwent about. He found the dead mouse
the same complicated chemical proc­ In th« transmitter.
See Civilization’s Fate at
Inventor’s Mercy.
esses as the first lot The third lot
was submitted to the rays but to no
further treatment. This lot Is be­
ing sent to Paris for examination.
Tell« How Rays Work.
Dunlkowsky explained the action
of the Zeta rays as follows:
"The bombardment of the gold hy
the rays causes ft to mature from
Its ’embryo form’ In a quarter of
an hour instead of the great num
ber of centuries required for thia
transformation hitherto."
Bonn says the Dunlkowsky« have
been living hy their gold produc­
tion for the last two years.
Not content with hla gold mak
Ing. Dunlkowsky suddenly offered
to France the invention of the death
ray in exchange for his rehablllta
tlon In a rehearing of the trial
which condemned him for fraud In
connection with hla Invention for
extracting gold from auriferous
earth.
The same newspaper men who
had been crowding Into the villa to
make gold now crowded back In
Makes “Face” at Sister
and Disjoints His Neck
Nelson. Calif.—8mal) Curtis Ter­
rell. to frighten bls young sister
Albertlne, "made a face at her." 8o
perfect was small Curtis Terrell'»
pantomime that he not only sent hl»
slater screaming but he also threw
a neck vertebra out of Joint, and
had to be taken to the hospital.
Bowler, 80, Roll» 555
Memphis. Tenn.—Memphis bowl
era, celebrating In honor of their
oldest adherent of the sport, were
treated to an exhibition by Jim
Kelly on his eightieth birthday The
elderly man rolled three games—
100. 171 and 224—for a total of 555
Houu Built in 1793 Razod
WInstun-Saletn, N. C.— a 142 year
old landmark has been lorn down
here. It was a nine room house
built In 1793 hy Romelus Tesh. It*
umbera, all baud hewn, were re
ported ' remarkably preserved.”