Feline Mrs. Dionne Didn’t Like the “Hospital”
••Mrs. Tailspln," mascot of the Newark airport, was mighty proud of her newly born quintuplets, but like
Mrs. Dionne of Canada, she didn't seem to care for the neat little hospital provided for them.
Reach Middle Mark
Cooling Giant Lens
^ _ _ __
Process Automatically
Controlled at Every Step.
Coruing, N. Y.—The halfway
mark in perfecting a gigantic 200
Jnch telescopic eye—man’s great
est effort to solve the mysteries of
the universe—has been reached
without mishap.
The temperature of molten glass,
slowly cooling in specially con
structed annealing ovens, has been
reduced to 785 degrees Fahrenheit
from a high of 2,015 degree Fahren
heit, Dr. George V. McCauley, physi
cist in charge of the casting of the
mirror, disclosed.
“All is well at this point and we
expect It to continue,” Doctor Mc
Cauley said. The telescope is be
\ ing made for California Institute of
Technology and will be set up on
Palomar mountain.
First Cooling Is Rapid.
After casting the glass December
2, 1934, the temperature was re
duced with comparative speed to
842 degrees. Doctor McCauley re
vealed. It was then raised to 932
degrees and kept there until Janu
iary 21. Since then the tempera
ture of the largest single piece of
glass in the world has been lowered
1.4 degrees daily to present defects
in cooling.
The intricate and varied precau
tions taken by scientists and engi
neers in charge of the cooling of
the mirror to prevent a faulty prod
uct were related by Dr. J. C. Hos
tetter, director of research and de
velopment for the glass company.
"The entire regulation of the pres
ent treatment of the disc, which Is
perhaps the most important phase
of the construction, Is directed from
a control room 50 feet from the
annealing oven or kiln,” Doctor
Hosietter explained.
Ten Automatic Controllers.
"Ten automatic temperature con
trollers, electrically operated, keep
the disc at the required tempera
ture. Inside the annealer Is a
squad of electrical ‘detectives’
called thermocouples scattered
about the oven. Each of these In
genious devices knows every second
of the day and night the exact tern
30-Year-Old Woman Is
Already a Grandmother
San Jose.—A grandmother at
thirty—and the mother-in-law of
Jose Santa, one of the world’s larg
est fighters—is the distinction
claimed by Mrs. Frank Olivera of
San Jose.
Mrs. Olivera became a grandmoth
er when her daughter, Mrs. Jose
Santa, eighteen, became the mother
of an infant son on Easter Sunday
in Lisbon, Portugal, where the San
tas now reside.
Mrs. Olivera, when only eleven,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theo
dore Ennes of Newark, married
Frank Olivera, who is now in his
early forties. Marie was her first
child, born when Mrs. Olivera was
not yet thirteen. She has three
other children. Frank, sixteen; Al
vena, fourteen, and Alvin, seven.
JiMarie, wife of Santa, was only
sixteen when she married the fight
er in September, 1932.
Ohio River Catfish
Ate Officer’s Watch
Louisville. Ky.—A watch that
spent several weeks in the
stomach of a six-pound catfish
vhas been returned to its owner,
jhatrolman William J. Lowmnn
of the Louisville police depart
ment.
Lowman said that he lost the
watch while fishing some weeks
ago.
The watch was found In the
fish hy Arthur O. Weiser, who
■ cently caught It on a fishing
pedition.
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perature. It reports constantly to
the master electrical controller.
"In the control room each day
the man in charge of operation
changes the signals on each of the
ten controllers. He does not change
all at once, but in series of three
hour Intervals. When nny particu
lar thermocoupler inside the an
nealer signals to the control room
the slightest variation from the
temperature which has been set the
heat in this section is automatically
adjusted.”
Astronomers believe the telescope
will disclose unimaginable and al
most unbelievable truths of the out
er universe to the human eye.
Doctor Hos(etter also disclosed
that an 85 inch mirror for the Uni
versity of Michigan was cooling per
fectly and probably would be com
pleted in about five months.
Dog Sleds Still Popular
for Transport in North
Edmonton, Alta.—Airplanes may
be revolutionizing development of
the Fnr North, but the old-fashioned
dog sled still Is mighty popular.
John Mntheson, veteran Edmon
ton ship builder, will testify to that.
Every winter, when the demand
for boats Isn’t so hot. Captain
Matheson turns his plant to con
structing’ sleds.
Ordinarily, Matheson’s plant
turns out 200 to .‘100 orders. This
winter, (100 were built—an all-time
record.
London Tower Moat to Be
Children’s Playground
London.—The old moat of the
tower of London will be converted
Into a playground for children, ac
cording to present plans. A pag
eant dramatizing the great fire of
London and the theft of the crown
jewels by Colonel Blood In 1671
will be given from May 25 to June
8, and the funds raised will be
used to make over the area.
Lights of New York ny l. l. stevenson
Something appealing about sev
enty-eight-year-old James E. Wash
burne’s tight to come back. Six
years ago, he had 15 candy stores
and a large factory. Today, he is
selling candy in Times Square with
a sign dangling from his neck. But
instead of mourning about what the
depression did to him. he Is looking
to the future. The candy he sells
is his own invention and only his
wife and he know the secret. It Is
made from vegetables and is non
fattening. The public likes it well
enough for his wife and him to
live—and to hope. In the future, he
sees advertising and the extension
of his business from Times Square
to the nation. He got the idea for
the candy late last year and began
selling it at Christmas time. Not
until a family friend happened to
run into him did his wife know
that he was peddling the product
of their home kitchen on the street.
He was ashamed to tell her. But
with the knowledge, she turned in
and helped him more than ever.
• • •
Eighteen years ago, Mr. Wnsh
burne went into the candy business.
He had ideas both as to candy and
merchandising. That both were
sound was proved by the fact that
the one downtown store, in which
the start was made, grew to 15 and
a factory. One of the stores was
on Fifth avenue. It occupied a
9 by 18 foot space but the rent was
$18,000 a year. The receipts, how
ever, averaged $1,000 a day. The
Washburnes, besides a big town
apartment with an annual rental of
$4,700, had two New Jersey shore
summer homes and a farm. Three
NEW GREEK ENVOY
Dimltrios L. Slclllanos is the new
minister from Greece to the United
States.
months ench year they took a Flori
da vacation. With an Income of
$50,000 a year such things did not
make much difference. But hard
times came. Candy business dropped
off at on alarming rate. One by
one, the stores closed. Finally,
there was one left on Sixth avenue.
Then that joined the others, and
there was no more income.
• * •
To meet obligations and to live,
Mr. Washburne sold all his posses
sions except the farm which is
heavily mortgaged. Mis wife’s jew
els, said to have been worth $100,
000, were also sold. Now they are
living in a one-room apartment
which is also the candy factory.
Mr. Washburne is sure he can come
back. lie has the candy formula
and though seventy-eight, can still
dance a jig.
• • •
Libel laws haunt authors and
playwrights. Careful as they may
be in creating a scene or a char
acter there may be some resem
blance to an actual happening or
a living person and then comes a
case in court. Mark Twain’s Col.
Mulberry Sellers in his “Gilded
Age" kept bobbing up here and
there after the book was published.
That tlie writer coined the name is
no defense. Playwrights have lost
suits because they named some vil
lainous character and a righteous
person by that same name, un
heard of previously, has brought
them into court. Ring Lardner
solved the problem by naming char
acters after his friends. In Eng
land, the laws are even more se
vere than in this country. De
spite that fact, John van Bruyten,
English playwright and novelist,
who plans to spend the summer
here finishing a new novel, seeming
ly invites disaster by obtaining
names for his characters from tele
phone books and directories of the
section where the scenes in the book
are laid.
Not long ago, Van Rruyten, who
wrote "Flowers of the Forest” In
which Katharine Cornell Is appear
ing, did get Into trouble. In "Re
hold We Live," there was a woman
who never appeared on the stage
but who throughout the play was
talked about as a disagreeable,
bridge-playing person. Nothing hap
pened during the London run of the
play but when It appeared In print
it came to the attention of a wom
an of the same name. Alleging that
she had been ridiculed and slan
dered, she threatened suit, demand
ing damages and the destruction
of the edition of the play. Eventu
ally a compromise was effected, an
account equivalent to the cost of
reissuing the volume with the name
of the character changed, being
paid to her favorite charity. But
Van Bruyten still uses the same
method. j
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Not Posed
By MOSES SCHERE
© McClure Newspaper syndicate.
VVNU service.
□G COULDN’T face her, looking
so pitifully weary as she held
out the crumpled Inindred-dollar
'bill.
“Listen, Daisy," he said finally,
“don't usk me to take It, Please,
please, go back to England. Go
back to your folks. I’m uo good. 1
married you live years ago, and for
four <>f those years you haven't
even had enough to eat. Go back
there, sweetheart. 1 can’t, can't
take the last of your rainy-day
money and sink it In this shop, and
watch It go the way the rest of it
went.’’
She stood and looked at him for
a long time. Then site went slowly,
drearily back to the two little
rooms.
She said, ‘‘You arranged every
thing, Tommy?*'
“Yes. The Caribbee — sails at
noon.” He tried to smile. “Pay
them at the pier. There’ll be just
enough left to get you home after
you land on the other side. . . ."
She said. "I love you." with her
lips, not making any sound. Then
she walked out of the door.
When he realized that he was
standing and looking at the sharp
edge of tils pocket knife, he re
coiled. Not that—ever. He looked
around wildly.
There was the tricky little cam
era with which you snapped people
ns they walked down the streets.
You gave them a coupon with n
number, and one In a hundred
would send It back with a qunrter
for you to develop the negative.
The gadget had cost him plenty—
cost him Daisy, perhaps. Hut he
locked the store and ran out with It.
Ten o’clock. She’d be gone In
two hours, and gone, he knew, for
good.
“Just send In the coupon, madam.
The picture will be perfectly nat
ural—not posed, you see.”
That one’s the kind who wouldn’t
want a nnturnl-looklng photo
graph. I’ll hnve to be careful about
types. Eleven-ten. Twenty. Thir
ty. Daisy’s still here—she’s on the
ship, and the captain Is looking al
his watch. She still loves me; If 1
didn't know that I’d walk out In
front of that trolley car . . .
there’s a man, there’s a good type.
Why, It’s his honor, the mayor.
Ills honor wouldn’t send him a
quarter, but he'd just watch that
slow, heavy walk In his finder.
Ah, he’s stopped—some men have
come out of n car marked “Press”
and are talking to him, very re
spectfully. And the mayor Is deny
ing something; he’s fumed his hack
on the men and is walking on, a
little faster.
What’s this? Some one else is in
the finder. Some one who’s picture
had been in the papers ns much as
the mayor’s—Big Dan Murphy, the
opposition boss, the sworn enemy
of his honor. Snap! Got them
glaring at each other. Snap! Got
both their arms waving. Snap! Big
Dan’s fist is in the mayor’s face!
Snap! The mayor is on the side
walk with blood running of his fat
chin and Big Dan Is turning on
some one else! It’s the men from
the Press car; they’ve suspected
something and had their camera
ready—they were behind the two.
Maybe they were in time and may
be they weren’t. Pig Dan’s two
hundred pounds Is moving toward
that camera like a charging ele
phant. Snap! Got him! Got him
as he lifted the instrument and got
him as he slammed It down and the
creamy-white film spilled out ami
spoiled.
The newspaper reporter who had
been smart enough to scent the
trouble hut too much in a hurry
to take two cameras, opened his
mouth to swear. Then he saw some
thing that caused his mouth to re
main open—a man with a dinky llt
ale picture-taker who was calmly
taking shot after shot of the
mayor's battered bewildered face.
When the newsman descended
upon him he was dazed. They
grabbed him.
‘‘Did you get it—get the whole
fight?”
Slowly his eyes opened wide as
he realized what be had done.
“I got It.’’
“lie got It! He got it!” There
was a lufiipy chorus. Then strict
tin si ness.
“Here. Hop Into (lie car. It’s
worth five hundred to us. Get In,
get in.”
Tommy suddenly looked around
wildly. Where was that clock?
Tiie official pulled bis hand down.
"All right, I’ll make It seven hun
dred; hut It’s near press time, hur
ry up.”
Tommy stared. It sank Into his
mind. He looked up for the clock
again—there it was. an electric
clock in the window of a telegraph
office.
There was time!
"Eleven thirty-five!” he cried
aloud.
The officln] stepped hack, looked
at him, looked at his camera, looked
at a rival car marked “Press” which
was speeding toward them.
"All right. Eleven hundred and
thirty-five. It’s robbery, but come
on—get in.”
"Walt—just a minute.” Tommy
was back in the world now. "The
pictures are yours at that price.
But lend me a dollar first, will you?
I’ve got to send a telegram to the
Caribee.”
Celebrate Birthday of
Oldest Sunday School
The world's oldest—nnd largest
—Sunday school has Just celebrated
Its one hundredth and fiftieth annl
| versary.
This Is Stockport Sunday school,
which has been carried on contlnu
| ously since the seventeen-eighties,
| and In the same building since 180b.
it was founded by the Methodists,
but was nonsectarian, and hundreds
of thousands of youngsters have
been taught in It. At one time Its
membership was over 0.000; even
today It Is over 3,000.
Hut Stockport, though It may claim
to possess the oldest Sunday school
still functioning today, wasn’t quite
the first in the tlehl. That honor
belongs to Gloucester, where, three
or four years before the Stockport
venture was launched, the first mod
ern Sundny school was Inaugurated
by Robert Ualkes. a printer, and
Rev. Thomas Stock. Reading and
writing were taught along with the
Bible In the early years of the
scheme, and the first teachers were
paid.
Before that both Luther and John
Knox had made experiments with
Sunday schools, hut the real begin
ning of tlie great movement which
we know today was the Gloucester
experiment of Unikes and Stock.—
London Answers.
New Window Class Bars
Heat Rays From Room
Window glnss has been developed
wldch takes the heat out of sunjjght
hut permits the light to pass. The
heat-absorbing glnss contains Iron
and objects viewed through it have
a greenish-blue color because some
of file red rays of sunlight have
been removed. Small amounts of
Iron In glass absorb ultra-violet and
Infra-red. the bent rays of sunlight.
The visible pnrt of sunlight contains
only one-third of the bent in tin*
sun’s rays and the new glnss cuts
out the Invisible rays but permits
most of the visible rays to pass.
While the heated glass might he ex
pected to raise tlie temperature of
MOTORISTS WISE
SIMONIZ
MAKES THE FINISH LAST LONGER
Keeps Gars Beautiful
for Years
Ahrayt Insist on Simonii and
Simonlt Klaanar—and anjoy
tha plaasura of driving a
naw looking ear for yaars.
If you want your car to sparkle like
new again—and stay beautiful . . .
Simoniz it and do it right away.
Simonizing is easy. The new, im
proved Simoniz Kleener quickly re
stores the lustre to the finish. Simoniz,
although easy to apply, is hard for
weather to wear off. It protects the
finish, makes it last longer and keeps
the colors from fading.
a room ns a whole, the effect on a
person In the direct sunlight is much
less than for ordinary glass. The
glass is particularly suited to of
fices and factories.—Popular Me.
chnnics Magazine.
Morning...
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For YEARS I’ve suffered
sick headaches in the morn
ing. I didn’t realize until
the doctor told me how
many women are bothered
with too much acid, and he
recommended Milnesia
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using Milnesia I’ve felt like
a new person. Haven't had
a cold either, because when
you pet* rid of the acids
you don't get colds.
• • •
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cause indigestion, heart
burn and sick headaches.
Each wafer is a full adult
dose, children—one-quarter
to one-half. Pleasant to take.
Recommended by thou
sands of physicians. Buy
a package today — at all
good druggists.
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sale » farms, nearly all In Taylor county,
Iowa. These farms rnmca from 80 to S40
acres. All are harKalns. Some are well Im
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