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MEDF0K1) MATT, T1MBUXE, MEDFORD, OREOOy, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1929.
World's Worst Water Passage Navigated
bicycling popular with mary
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 3).tween the Canadian mainland orul
The Xorthweat PaHMijce, aim of i Greenland, No f-'hlnewo nuzzle. Ik
explorers for 400 years, wan navl- more intrlcalo than thin laliyilnth
gated this pant summer. j which blocked the eariy explorers'
Three boatH established enntlnu-j attempU to reach China.
ouh communication along the Icy "The chorlest water piuumRe is
straits of North America' north-! up Kox Channel, thioiiRh Fury and
e in most coast, according to a re-jllecla Htrnft between Melville pen
port brought to Montreal by a rep-j lnulu and IlafMn hand, up the
resontntivo of the Hudson Jiuyj'Jul of Jtnothfa, through liellot
company. ' strait between Jtooihfa. peninsula
Kornml or Thlnl Time? and North Somerset Island, south
."V h ether t ho achievement I of Victoria Island to Amundsen
mnrkM the second or third time Gulf.
the Northwest I'uskukc has been "I'.ut explorers have found that
forced In open to debate." says a; a loncer way around is the short-
bulletin from the Washington. 1.
C. headquarters of the National
Geographic society, "but that does
not dim the brilliance, of the ex
ploit. "North, Central and South Amer
ica 400 years ao confronted Kur
opean explorers with a lino as
solid as a first -class football line.
Columbus and Ha I boa vainly trie I
to drive through center to reach
est way through the Northwest
Passage. The best route seems to
be through Davis strait, up Ilaffln
bay, in through Lancaster sound
and Its westward extension, Har
row strait, south through Pen
sound and Franklin strait to the
lane of water between bulky Vic
toria Island and the mainland.
Water Orien Shallow
'Forcing the Northwest Passage
tho BOal, which war India. Xlaso:-1 will probably never be more thai!
lan finally made a sucreHSful ru-l I an explnlt. AlthniiKh the ehtn-
IL1UVE
PEET CO. INCREASES I
' DIVIDEND RATE!
AMERICANS IN OPERATIC DEBUT
around left end. Encouraged by
Ills sucnesH Cabot, Froblsher, Da
vis, Hudson, I loss, Parry, Sir .John
Franklin and others tried to circle
the right end of the 10.000-ml!
continental land line. All failed.
nels nro yet to bo charted in de
tail, the waters nro known to 'e
shallow In many places. Amund
sen got the C.joa through but often
there was only a few inches of
water underneath her keel. Onlv
Only One I tout Putlicil Through j the airplane can open up this
"Only one small boat has ever frozen archipelago to civilization.
Railed completely around the K"- J Pilots are already flying their
encrusted, island-filled north sho.'? j planes Into the snowy wilderness
of North America. Gjoa Is the; braving temperatures ah low as !'
boat's name. It Is preserved In ri j degrees below zero.
Ran Francisco park, having been i "England gave a reward of $"".
presonted to the city by Amund-, 000 for the discovery of the North
sen, the Norwegian explorer, who t west Passage to Ailmlral Kir Pub
took three years to sail the "- j ert McChire who sailed fn from the
foot vessel around the North west and had to abandon his ship
American 'Horn.' Th.it was l!ifl3;nn Itnnks Island. Ho and his crew
to III 05. j were rescued by another oxpedi-
"What Is the Northwest Pas-j (Ion coming front the east so the
sage? admiral received the honor fur dM-
"From St. Johns. capital, of i covering the Northwest Passag?,
Newfoundland, to Point Harrow. I although he did not sail it in a
northernmost Alaska, Is 4.000, boat
miles. The shorn lino between i
these two points Is roughly a j passage has been reported ac
airalght tine: Labrador, Pngava, ! compllshed with three ships; the
Sou)liamptnn Island lying In Hint llnyehimo out of Vancouver, whlc.li
month of Hudson Hay, the north! Is wintering In Cambridge hay on
cm borders of Koewatln. Macken ' the south short of Victoria Island,
ale and Yukon torrltorlo. and thfiiinfl tho Fort James from New
Alaska coast, facing the Heraifort I foundland, which came through
sea. The first 1,000 miles olomr Lancaster ttouud, nnd Is fast In
the Labrador const, Is easy Kolngthe Ice at GJoahuven, King Wil
nnd the next 600 miles through liam Island. The two ships nro
Hudson strait to the entrance of j only 2."i0 miles from each other, j
Hudson bay Is sufficiently open 'n A motor Schooner of thq Hudson i
summer to warrant Canada to. Hay company made the trip from i
build n wheat port at Churchill. : one to tho other, thus completing)
Likewise, the 1,000 miles of wu-ltho Northwest Passage transit. j
ter from Point Harrow, Alask.i.i "Modern exploits In. this region
southeast Into Amundsen Gulf in lake on greater importance in
summer lime receives whalers and' view of tho death penalty .Nature
Hudson Hay trading honts. .has laid on many who have at-1
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Aeaotlated I'rtin l'ht,lo
C.'cycllnj Is a favored snert vith Mary Pickford. screen actress,
who is '.psr.ding a vacation in Pari3 vith her husband, Douglas Fair
banks. Che is shown riding along the Champs Elysees.
the plate elli-rent eoiiKUim-il by tile t.lnffre. Ly.-iutey and Kranrhet d'Ks
iitber tubeM In the reeelver in ndtli- , prrey are t receive the rar3
tliin In an a. e. i iirient, anil, mra- j honor or having .street named for
Hlonnlly what tire known us spealt- ihem In their life lime. All are
or field Mini bleeder eiirrems. I virtually eerlaln inn of fliinl rest.
I "One of the principle problems ; K pi,,,.,.,, thP invalldes. close
I In reetHylni.' lube llenimi and man- o the bodies uf Xapoleiin anil
The recent attainment of the j ' ' '"' r- i .-, h.
i'mu in ii minimum, as ims curreni ... ..
intiuduii'H hum and shortens the
life of the tube. A good rectifying
tube 1h probably the best single In
surance of reliable reception."
HAVANA V) May L'0. 1.130. has
been set fitr t he opening of 1 :t0
luih'S of additional pavement, on
the Central highway. This wLllWn marketln
j
i ;
An Increase of twenty-five perl
j cnt fn the regular dividend ' rate 1
tif the Colgnte-Palmollve-Peet com- I
pnTiy was announced today by
Charles S. Pearco, president of thoj
company.' A quarterly dividend of
cents a share, or an annual;
dividend rate of $2.50 a share on j
Hie common stock, will be paid on ;
January 7. to stockholders of rec- :
ord December 18, according to the t
.company announcement. The form- I
ei rate was $2 annually. j
The directors, in voting the 25 i
per cept increase, took the post-1
tlon that the satisfactory progress I
ui" the company since the merger!
of the Palmolive-Peet company !
nnd Colgate & company on July!
1, 1928, justified the higher rute. j
Kales records of the company
will show an increase of all lead-1
Ing brands in 12D over 1!28, a(
sli-tement Issued by the company ;
declared. j
Commenting on the Increase in j
dividend rate, Mr. Pearce stated: I ' "
'-"During the past six weeks we j hensive line of commodities,
have often been asked for an opin- been of particular advantage
ion on business conditions, but further extending the market
have withheld our comment, until j foreign countries,
our ideas could take a more tans-j
ible form than mere words. j
"The Increase In our dividend j
rate is the best evidence of ourj
f:ith in tho business of the com-1
ing year."
Mr. Pearce pointed, out that the!
earnings of tho company for the j
third quarter of If 211 are more j
than twice those of the correspond-!
ing three months of If 28. the first j
quarter of the consolidation.. The
net revenues for the 1 0211 period
totalled t:i.2"8,277 as compared
with $1 ,r.t!4,l 1 2 In tho same
months a year ago.
Lessening of distribution as well
as production costs resulted from
the merger, along with economies
As.tfn t'Umt firn.i t-l.itli.
Two American girls arc among new operatic stars this ye.-.r.
Eleanor LaMance (right) of Jacksonville, .Fla.. made her opirj'.is
debut in Manpn Lescaut at the Metropolitan in New York. Gladvs
Swarthout (left) ot Kansas City makes her debut in Philadelphia
IVAN FLEE! DURE
EMPLOYEES
10 AID MOTORISTS
"While service stations ns a gen
eral rule are regarded by the pub
lic as places where gasoline mry
be purchased, employes of 1m
Van lricet-Durkee. Inc., chain of
stations, which extend from tho
Mexican line to the Canadian bor
der on the Pacific const, also make
it a policy, to intelligently remind
the customer that the use of tho
proper kind of oil Is an important
factor in his motoring pleasures,"
declared Knbcrt Collier of Van
Kleet Durkee, Inc., In a letter re
' ceived here by local Van-Fleet-nurkeo
service station1 organ l.a
i Hon.
i "The average automobilist Is not'
( In the least impressed that our
J agents wish to sell hini oil, but
1 he is interested when an attend
I ant shows a personal interest In
his car. This interest can bo man
ifested In no better way than the
IS
STOT.P, Germany (IP) General ,
j recommending of a proper lubri
leant. Van Kleet-Durkee operators
"7" j make It a policy to explain the ac-
Ifas.gjuni. Afterwards he helped thejthm of oil in keeping tho "moving
in Austrirms to stem the Hussian Parts of the motor separated hv
in : drive In the Carpathian region. n oil film and how it mu-st be
: Later again he had to face thojhmvy enough to stand up under
j British tank attacks near Camhrai heat and high speed, and yet light
on the western front. I enough to flow readily into the in-
J finitesimal clearances; just what
A.MI'KICAXS IH'V Al.l; grade of oil is best suited to his
. PASSION" pl.AY SKATS j particular motor considering speed
and construction detalla.
OIUCtlAMM icursAU ff That "The motorist does listen when
America has bought up Ob.rnm- ho ls to,(! how one PH''Har oil
, does not break down, burn or
mergau is the latest report from , ., u,.1.I..t- ,nt, itl, ,Kiit ..,.,
I ......... ,r, ,.,ir .o linn IVnilllH
Hies through tho action of the en
gine as readily ns anmo other oils
the business management of the
! t 'CtO PiiHKimi I v.
George von der Marwltz, who died Americans, it fs declared, have
on his estate near here at the ago ( engaged the greater pari of tho
of 73. was said to be the only ( 1 "lO.OOO places available for the
German officer of rank who net- performances planned for July
ually saw the Eiffel Tower during land August.
the world war. At the head of; liccuu.No of this condition and
a cavalry patrol, he rode to within l the demand fro mother foreigners.
due to centralization ! 20 miles of Parts, just before tlio'tha management has decided to
PAIC1S (Pi The five living mar
dials of France Fnyinl
ve a
l Santiago do Cuba nnd Plnnr lol 'J'earce Mated. '1 he merger, by glv-i
Petnin, ' I'tio. 'Ing the company a more compre- ' lb
It was von dor Marwit. who led I the home folks In May, June and
e Kaiser's cavalry through llel- Septemhei.
When he is given a picture, of tho
consumption of oil in tho engine
he has been given something of
value and this is a long step to
ward gaining his friendship and
future business."
Western North Caroline has
more than GO artificial lakes which
vary in si?. from; npo to -1000
3C
1Z
dilneso Puaxln of ItlaiuLs
"That lenves the 1.400 miles h-
tween Amundsen Gulf and Houlh - f
ninpton Island as the real ob
stacle. "Franklin Territory, an Canada
has named It, In honor of Hlr
John Franklin, Includes tho maxe
of Islands lying off the 1,4 00 mlb'S
of coast choking tho waters ho-
tempted.tho passage. Sir John
Franklin's party numbered 12f, all
uf whom were lost. Henry Hud
son, who sailed up the Hudson
river nnd who discovered Hudson
buy. was put nut In n small boat
off Labrador with his young sou
and some sick Bailors by a mutin
ous crew, nnd they perished In the
Ice filled sea."
Hy KIcluit'ri Massnck
; RW YOItK. One morning of
the year IR07, tho literary son of
a New York bUhop stopped hi a
Broadway hook more to look over
the latest Importations from Kiw
lnnd nnd to chat with tho pro
prietor. 1 ..
vVs he spoke of Italian lltoratu.e,
rt rourtly stranger Interrupted. He
Had known puraonally the po-t
the hlshop'fi son had mentioned.
The New Yorker was Clement
loore, future author of "The
Night Before Christmas." Tlu
stranger wa Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Mozart librettist. That winter, n.v
der Moore's patronage, the la
Pontes were, the social l!on of
Now York.
This anecdote U nanaled in Ar-
thur Llvlngston'H Intrnditctlou to
the "MemohH of Lorenzo 1 1
Ponto' recently translated from
the Italian hy Klliabeth Aobott.
Porn into a Jewish family nf
Oeneda, Italy, Pa Ponte was a
product oT the times that guve (he
world Glacomo Casanova. In fad.
Da Ponte wan a friend of Casa
nova. Gnco. on hi way to Dresden,
ho had remembered that CaMinova
owed him several hundred florin-.
Da Ponte, therefore, "ventured to
pay him a vlult In hope of oh
tulnlng all or part of the money
due me."
"I went nnd Wa well received."
he wrote, "but soon ohervlni that
his purse wa tenner than mine.
I could not put him to tho morti
fication of asking for something
ho would have been unable to nlve;
so after a v I 1 1 of three or four
days 1 decided to go on to Dres
den. As had luck would have Ir.
lio asked permlslon to nccompauv
me. aa far an Toepllti. n city some
10 or IS in I lex distant from the
ostato of Count Wnldmein, who
libmriun nnd friend Cnsanov.i
was."
Thf bad luck wat that Da ponte
had to buy another horso and
driver, the new horse ran nwav
nnd threw them out, he lot $10
when he Hold tho eqitlpnRe, and
finally Casanova, who acted a-
brr.ker In the naif, kept two
quins for hlmnelf.
, Oivuinvn' Pnl
Da Ponte'n momolm. further
more. Indicate that the writing of
romantic tales about one' or if wa
nn old Italian custom. For hi
story, like Cnpanova's famon
ntitobiogrnpliy, contain several
nmntory scenes. 1
Da Ponte, however, put behind
Mm (ho Hf .of n ndvsnpircr whn
ho cam (0 Aerlrii. Jlfrt ihe
port profpftsor lived A useful life
nnd helped introduce tn this roup-,
memoirs as a record of gallant nd
vtMttures more or less founded on
fn ei. but mliinted to suit un event
ual reader's taste."
Be that as It may, Livingston
adds that "to call him. In hlsj
Kuropcan phase, n Casanova Is at ;
once to slander and to overpraise'
him."
"Ho was not," Livingston pays. J
"even in Kin ope, a charlatan, a j
swindler and a sharper . . he j
was. rather, at the worst, a usurer;
and a speculator, handicapped by.
n large dose of native honesty and.
a tender heart."
As for Casanova, S. Guy Kndore !
has attempted In a recent book
named for him to assemble lhe(
k now n n ml u n k n o w n facts of his
life. He shows the libertine to
have had certain noble qualities
and Inclines to the belief that he.
was something of a novelist when 1
It came to setting down his ad
ventures, j
Modern "Memoirs"
An obvious spoof on tho mod - J
ern revelations of amatory nd ven
tures is "F.x-Husband." the anony
mous nnswer to the no longer!
anonymous "Kx Wife." Its cpl-'
sodes are too ludicrous to be any
thing else but fiction.
Visitor Pays
Compliment to
County Road Work
C. II. Boediger of Taeoma. rep
resenting the Texas company, 'n
publicity work, was In the cHy
Friday on business and was n call
er nt this office. 1
Mr. Bocdigfr I a great booster'
for the Pacific Northwest and
Pi Id n high compliment to the.
wonderful highways In Oregon-and
the work done by the state high-'
way commlsKion and the eounitcs!
throughout tho state, Butler being
the pioneer county In road build-,
Ins- '
Our Special Offer Ends Saturday Night
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YES
Paying SPOT CASH
FOR THE OLD TIRES on YOUR CAR TRADED ON
SPECIAL CARE IN
Tlio Khiirt Uf 'hiinr(rrllp nf
innny rorlirvlim iiiIick Is due In the
uiiukiiiiI Mtrn In plili'i'il up this til hi".
nwnrUlnit to WiiUrr II. Krnlit,
clili'f enRinprr nf ih Ari'Hiriis
Hiiilln Tuh ooinpany of Newark, ;
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put, surh n Ih lypp ilto, Inipnsrs 1
sppcnii rrqirrmrni in nmuuriir
jurf," ilrrtarr Mr. Khihl.
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are taking in lots of Tires
giving a Cash Allowance
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