The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, October 03, 1935, Image 2
Salmon River Area Will Be Explored Gorge Surpasses Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Washington.—The Salmon river canyon In Idaho, one of the largest primitive areas in the United States, with a gorge surpassing the Grand canyon of the Colorado In depth and Bteepness, will he ex plored and photographed soon h.v the Salmon river expedition of the National Geographic society, ac cording to an announcement made by Vice President John Oliver La Gorce. The expedition personnel Includes Philip J. Shenon and John C. Reed of the U. S. Geological survey; Maynard Owen Williams, staff rep resentative of the National Geo graphic society; Robert Marshall, naturalist; D. Worth Clark, and two local boatmen. Travel Upstream Impossible. “The Salmon river, which winds through rugged central Idaho, has been truly designated the 'River of No Returns,'" the announce ment continues. “The falls and roaring rapids of the swift stream, and the sheer cliffs and rugged nes8 of the canyon, make travel up stream Impossible. Downstream navigation can be accomplished only In stout, flat-bottomed boats, rein forced to withstand numerous col lisions with boulders In the rap ids and low falls. “The source of the river Is In the rugged sawtooth mountain range of southern Idaho. For many miles It flows north. About 20 miles be low the town of Salmon It turns westward to enter the main gorge. The Salmon river expedition will begin its exploration at Salmon early In October, working down the river through the main gorge to the lower gorge. The latter begins at Whlteblrd and extends abont 50 miles to the junction of the Salmon and Snake rivers. Subjects for Color Camera. “The wildly beautiful main gorge of the Salmon river Is one of the loneliest regions In the country. For 150 miles along a deep, twist ing canyon the only settlement Is an occasional cabin. The rushing torrent has cut through several thousand feet of lava (low's and deep Into older formations beneath. The canyon’s great depth, 6,000 fee< In places, permits scientific study of formations more than a mile below the original surface of the main body of granite rock. “The walls of the canyon Itself are brilliantly colorful On Big Greek, In the canyon area, are ex First Chronometers Are Shown in London Museum London.—Four of the famous chronometers mude by John Harri son, which were the first Instru ments Invented to solve the marin er’s problem of “finding the longi tude" are on view at the Science museum at Kensington. They huve been lent by the British admiralty. Harrison, according to the mu seum, was the first to make an In strument capuble of keeping suffi ciently accurate time Ht sea, and It was with these same chronome ters that he won $100,000 offered by the British government In 1714 for a method of determining a vessel’s longitude to within an accuracy of 30 miles, at the end of a voyage to the West Indies. In 1761 Harrison was successful. His fourth chronometer had aided In the navigation of a boat to Ja maica. and at the end of the voyage It was found to be In error by only live seconds, w’hlch corresponds to an error In longitude of one mile. He won the $100,000, the final In stallment of the award being paid him In 1773. The first three of Harrison’s chronometers, which were valuable contributions to the science of nav igation, were large clocks, each weighing 50 pounds. The one which won the prise, however, was small er, resembling a large watch of •boat five Inches diameter. 'W tensive but little known prehistoric Indian picture writings that have not been studied. “In addition, the forests and flow ers of the region are expected to provide excellent subjects for the color camera. In the Salmon and the Clearwater mountains, bear, mountain goat, mountain sheep, deer, elk and moose roam far from the usual haunts of man. In addi tion to salmon, there are several varieties of fish, including the rare red fish trout. “The Salmon river area has an interesting historical background, beginning with the Lewis-Clark ex pedition to the Northwest in 1805. Stories of Indian warfare, pictur esque early settlers and exciting gold rushes lend glamour to the region. Scenes of earlier gold rush days are again being re-enacted in this section of Idaho. The granite rock, known as Idaho Bnthollth, through which the Salmon river cuts Its way, Is similar to that of the Coeur d’Alene region, source of most of the state's mineral wealth." Penny Wedges Wedding Ring; Hammer Is Used Mansfield, Ohio.—A hammer and chisel were part of the equipment Itev. Hayes M. Baker, Mansfield, used at a wedding. The minister asked for the ring, and a nervous bridegroom brought it forth, only to find a penny tightly wedged in It. The ceremony was delayed while Itev. Baker got a hammer and a chisel to knock the penny loose. Execution Chamber Uses Two Methods ■ ' ■ * North Carolina Will Use Gas and Electricity. Raleigh, N. C.—Newer than the gns-electric railway ear Is the gas electric death chamber soon to be completed In North Carolina’s cen tral prison here. The combination death house was designed by engineers of the state highway and public works commis sion. i The new chamber Is being In stalled wltliln the present octagonal death chamber at the prison. There will be a panel about three feet high and nine feet long, In front of double, shatterproof plate glass, through which wit nesses may watch the execution. The Interior will be of bolted and welded steel plates. The exterior will be covered with terra-cotta tile except for the glass observation windows. A special walkway will connect the chamber with "death row." Two heavy doors, like refrigerator doors In this walkway will form an air lock and one door cannot be opened unless the other Is closed. A prisoner will be strapped Into the chair, ns In electrocutions, and a Jar tilled with hydrochloric acid will be placed under the chair. Directly above the Jar will be a rack containing five pellets of cya nide of potussium.* After the doors are locked and senled an electric button will spill the pellets Into the acid. The first Inhalations of the result ing cyanide-hydrochloric add gas will cause unconsciousness and death will follow almost Immedi ately. Then an exhaust fan will drive the gas out through a special flue through the prison roof. The doors cannot he opened until the gns Is exhausted. more attractive sets for fall. A cable stitch Is employed for the model shown. It’s a topping good style worn with a skirt of checked woolen as pictured. In the other knitted outfit the effect of the vivid ly colorful striped and plalded Jack et blouse In contrast to a deep-hued monotone skirt Is heightened by the solid color belt which runs through a wooden buckle flint corresponds to large wooden buttons. The popu lar Ascot muffler appears here, as It will with great frequency In fall and knitted wear. -I..— .- ■■ I Pupils Are Guaranteed Good-Looking Teachers Rockford, 111.—Teachers who are not comely need not apply to Super intendent William W. Ankenhrand for Jobs. “All public school pupils are entitled to good-looking teach ers," Ankenbrand said. Indicating one look often Is enough to disqual ify a teaching applicant. SMART NEW KNITS By CHERIE NICHOLAS The knitted twin Bet looms up more Important than ever on the fall fashion horizon. Comprised of a long-sleeve cardigan worn over a slipover this* combination has be come Indispensable in the wardrobe of the well turned out woman who Is fully aware of Its utilitarian aspects and Its casual smartness. Fancy stitches Individualize the Model Soviet Plane Makes 7-Mi!e Flight Moscow.—What is claimed to be a world record for flights by model airplanes was established by Valya Knpreichuk at a re cent aviation show. His miniature plane ascended to a height of 2,900 feet and was seen for 32 minutes. After this It was lost to view. The flier who took off to look for it found It two days later, un damaged, several miles from the starting point. All Readers “Go Blind" on Every Line of Type Minneapolis. — The eye "goes blind" at least three times while reading a line of type. Tests made with a camera developed by Dr. M. A. Tinker, of the University of Minnesota, showed that the aver age person's eye made about five little hops over each line and that the eye was blind for a fiftieth of a second between the hops. The best readers make three or four stops twelve times in covering a line of type. Find Amphitheater of Ancient Roman Times Budapest.—Parts of the paluce of the first kings of Hungary were dis covered at Hsztergom and the spades of workmen later struck on the remnants of an amphitheater in Ac quincum, the old Itoman city that occupied the shore side of Buda pest. The amphitheater covers a large area and its extension vies with that of the amphitheaters of Verona and Arles. “Traveling Family McDaniel” Fills the Deck Here's the line-up of the “Traveling Family McDaniel.” Getting the K. It McDaniel family on board the Matson liner Lurline at San Fraticiscc for Honolulu was something like loadin'! the ark Noah wasn't there to do the checking but they came by two and two from Ardmore nnd Tulsa. Oklahoma, and Abilene. Texas. They were not all McDaniels but they were related one way or another and when they assembled on the deck they occupied the major portion of it SEE Nand HEARD around the V NATIONAL CAPITAL; By Carter Field FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington.—Tammany Hall, so vital to any plan for carrying New York for Franklin D. Roosevelt next year, has not the slightest reason at the present moment for desir ing the President’s continuance In office. It has gotten so little pa tronage that it Is Inconsequential. On the contrary, most Tammany leaders feel that It was Roosevelt and James A. Farley who were re^ sponsible for Tammany’s not hav ing the tremendous New York city patronage at the present moment. For It was a Roosevelt lieutenant. Joseph V. McKee, who ran with the tacit blessing of the White House and the more open support of Farley for Mayor on an Inde pendent ticket, thus bringing about the election of Mayor Florello H. La Guardia. And the President has been almost as friendly with La Guardia since the latter’s election as he has with certain other Repub lican Progressives, notably Senator Robert M. La Follette. Even this Is not all that Roose velt and Farley have done to Tam many. When Roosevelt was gov ernor he went after the administra tion of Mayor James J. Walker, aided In Its being shown up In spec tacular fashion, and finally forced Jimmy Walker out Tammany never held this against Roosevelt Its leaders are always practical. They knew there was nothing else Roosevelt could do, un less he abandoned all hope of be coming President They knew that to pick a fight with Tammany has always been good national politics. And besides, while many of them were sorry personally about Jimmy Walker, they put their own man In as mayor, and the Hnll continued to flourish. But It must be remembered that for the two years preceding this, Tammany had been deprived of any share of state patronage. Tammany rather expected this of a Presidential candidate, but when Koosevelt’s protege, Herbert H. Lehman, continued to starve the ti ger, despite the fact that A1 Smith had supported I>ehman, the griev ance began to grow. This would have made no differ ence if It had not been for the La Guardla election, which left Tammany without federal, state or city Jobs to dispense, In fact, at the lowest ebb of Ith power since the Civil war. Always Dangerous But that does not mean that Tammany will be weak in the next election. By no means! If the rec ord of past campaigns is a safe guide, Tammany when furthest from the putronage trough, is al ways the most dangerous. Nor Is this due to desperation, or to the Idea of fighting with one's back to the wall. It Involves other ele ments which very few people out In the country, to whom the very word “Tammany” Is one of appro brlum, understand. But It Is a thing which a very brief conversa tion with any old New Yorker will confirm. The point Is that when Tammany Is in power at the city hall every thing that goes wrong Is blamed on the Wigwam. By the same token, when Tammany Is not In power at the city hall, everything that happens which does not appeal to the voters Is an asset for Tam many. Moreover, and this will surprise folks west of the Mississippi espe cially, most people who have lived In New York for a few years, and have had a chance to contrast Its administration with that of other cities, believe solemnly, whether right or wrong, that the taxpayer in New York gets more for his money than do the taxpayers of most other cities in the United States. The writer is not attempting a statement of the merit or lack of merit of this contention. He Is stntlng a political fact, which can be easily demonstrated by a few conversations with New Yorkers on yonr next visit to the metropolis. Hope for Bonus Payment of the oonus In full not long after congress meets In January, while not a certainty, li considered at least probable. Pres ident Roosevelt has made no def inite commitments, despite the fact that certain American Legion lead ers have been giving that Impres sion. No one really doubts that he will again veto the measure. The change In the situation as compared to last session Is tiiat the Presl dent Is not expected to turn on any thing like the heat to prevent his veto front being overriden that he did last time. Without so much Presidential pressure, congressional experts say, there Is not much doubt that the sennte will follow the house In overriding the Chief Executive's dis approval. In fact, this theory Is commonly accepted In congressional as well as Legion circles In short, official Washington believes the bo nus will be passed months before the national conventions meet in June. Bonus politics is one of the queer exceptions to general rules. It has come to be generally accepted that it does not hurt a President to oppose bonus payments. But just as generally it is believed that voting against anything the sol diers want is little short of sui cide for a senator or member of the house. This theory may or may not be accurate. It has never been ade quately tested. But,* whether opposing the bonus contributed or not, the senators and members of the house who attempt ed to stand by Presidents in oppos Ing the bonus were killed off by their electorates one after another Curious Complication There is another curious compli cation to the present situation. Sev eral senators are known to have told the bonus lobbyists that they would vote to override President Itoosevelt’s veto if that one addi tional vote would put It over. This Is not just putter by the lobbyists. Two senators, whose names the writer is not permitted to mentiou, have confirmed such reports. They told bonus workers later that If it could be demonstrated next time that one more vote would do the trick, they would produce. At least two such senators, tell ing about it afterward, said they would probably have to ’’vote with the boys” next time, adding that it is always the last vote before elec tion that counts. Both senators in question are coming up for re-elec tion next fall, and both are ex pected to have hard fights. By making that hallway pledge they removed in advance any grounds for the Legion leaders making any drive against them, in fact, both fully expect to vote for the bonus next time, and for the bo nus to pass over the Roosevelt veto, thus eliminating any possibility of repercussions for them at the polls. But last time they did not feel strong enough to risk the Presi dent’s ire when he bore down on them to sustain the veto. They were interested in bits of that $4, 000,000,000 work relief, for in stance. Not to mention several other possibilities of Presidential favor or disfavor. Next time, the understanding on Capitol Hill Is, there will be no threats from the White House, not even Implied ones. Morgenthau’s Trip Rumors persist that the trip ot Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thnu to Europe is not just u pleas ure excursion, despite his emphat ic Insistence. Silver senators espe cially attach far more significance to it. They insist he is seeking an international agreement for the re monitizatiou of the white metal. They point out that more than usual pains were taken to hide the recent conference between Mr. Mor geutlmu and Montagu Norman, fa mous and mysterious head of the Bank of England. J.ills visit is alleged to have oc curred at Bar Harbor, Maine. Mon tague Norman slipped into that Down East resort with not eveu a society column mention of his move ments. At the same time Morgen thau, alwuys a dutiful sou, real ized that he had not seen his fa ther for several weeks. Henry Morgenthau, Sr., by a curious co incidence, was also at Bar Harbor. So the secretary of the treasury slipped up to Bar Harbor and paid his parent the long deferred visit he owed. So much the silver senators know. They add that they also know that the British financier and the head of Uncle Sam’s treasury had a pro tracted talk—so protracted that it was the subject of much clatter in the servants' quarters all over Bar Harbor next day. Nobody even claims to know- what they talked about. Montagu Nor man is famous for suying absolutely nothing to his interviewers. Mor genthau is not quite so taciturn— but almost. Shortly thereafter Morgenthau announces a pleasure trip to Spain. What the silver senators think is that some very important finan ciers. and some of the leading finance ministers of Europe, will also suddenly decide that a brief rest In Spain—away from all the excitement about Italy and Ethl opla—Is just what the doctor or dered for them. What they earnestly hope is that Morgenthau will be able to persuade them how much it would be to tlie advantage of all con cerned for there to be an interna tional agreement on silver. Behind this desire on the part of the silver senators—and behind the possibility that Mr. Morgenthau may he going to attempt Just that —is the discouraging fact that the administration silver program has rather bogged down. 6—WKC Sorvto. I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Fine New Jail Newspaper Prestige Easy to Buy Who Is the Man? Not much Ethiopian news. You could hardly expect it with our Arthur Brisbane own white-black prize-ring war comiieting. What e v e r happens. Ethiopian tribes men will bene fit The emperor, Haile Selassie, is working on re forms. doing away with abuses that Mussolini pointed out and promised to cure. He opened a substantial con crete Jail outside of Addis Ababa to replace the old Jail. There, ac cording to Dr. von NViegand’s cablegram to Universal Service, “live prisoners sometimes remained chained to those who had died tor days.” Newspapers in Pennsylvania, 2fiT> of them, have celebrated "press pres tige” this week. Governor Earle tells the editors, presumably shiv ering with delight and surprise, about “the important part that newspapers play in the lives of our people.” It is as important as the part played by the people’s eyes and ears, and might be taken for granted by now. Napoleon knew about it when he said that, if he allowed freedom of the press, his power would not last six weeks. Stalin, Hitler and Mus solini could make speeches about it. The newspaper is a mirror in which the public sees itself, the newspaper's owner and the civiliza tion of the moment. Interesting re flections of that civilization may ap pear soon in dispatches from Ethi opia and from London In case Mus solini should send his first 500 air planes in the dlreetfon of Bucking ham palace, the house of commons. Downing street and the Bank of England, with the message: "What do you think of explosive and mus tard gas sanctions? The pathetic thing in Journalism, as in politics, is the lack of names that the people know. Millions of Americans read newspapers with no faintest conception as to the char acter of the man whose newspaper they read. It might be called "an onymous nonentity." There are ex ceptions. The most important and Influen tial newspaper by far, in propor tion to circulation, is the so-called "country newspaper," smaller dail ies and weeklies. Their readers know who runs them, and those readers, not liv ing In city apartments, with a can opener, buy everything from the paint on the roof to the cement in the cellar floor, from the piano and radio In the sitting room to the car in the garage. Berlin says the Nazi pnrt.v plans, forcibly, to buy out all Jewish firms and businesses, suggesting that “ambitious Aryan business men will get great bargains.” One idea Is to allow “Aryan” employees to take over Jewish businesses with govern inent backing. They might take it over, but what about running It? Anybody may buy a business; mak Ing it pay is another Job. The Republican committee will have “nn important meeting” now a really big, first-class, "bang-up” meeting In December, to put “pep” Into the 1030 cnmpaign. The question Is, “Who is your man?” Americans want to yell for some body. They have not been trained to yell for an Idea. Who is your man? What is his name? Amusing situation In Europe! England sends her gigantic fleet to the Mediterranean, heaviest dread naughts, submarines, airships; parks them around the rock of Gib raltar and at the entrance of the Suez canal; sends additional sol diers to the Island of Malta. Mussolini puts his convenient is land, off the coast of Greece, in a state of siege, with submarines, air planes, cutting the Mediterranean in two, Isolating the big English fleet in the western end. Then England, having shown an ardent desire to tight Italy, sends official word that she really hadn’t any war with Italy In mind, her feelings were hurt by the Italian i newspapers. That is why she sent her fleet. DeWolf Hopper is dead at seven ty-seven, too soon. He worked to : the last, talked over the radio in the afternoon, and was dead at 6:30 next morning. He should find a good seat reserved for him in the entertainment that lasts forever, in a better world. He spent his life working to make people smile and forget their sorrows. 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