The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, July 29, 1920, Image 2

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    RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF
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Tlio fltnrt of the inntigural parade
Left to right In tlio lend nro Generals
West Is Magnet
: For Immigrants
tf-
i
Majority of Ellis Island Arrivals
Drawn to Industrial Centers
. by Higher Wages.
IRISH GO TO NORTHWEST
Women and Children Predominate
Work Increased by New Laws Gov.
rnlng Aliens Europe Loath
U Let Them Qo.
New York. Tlio Htienin of Immigra
tion flowing through Ellis iNlnnd hns
jteen notlcenbly deflected from Now
Tori: city to Inland centers during the
last twelvo months, nnd nfllclnls give
this ns ono explanation for tlio fnct
ithnt tlio city's 1020 census wns only
B.021,121 Instend of tho 0,100,000 ex
'pected. Ofllclnl statistics regarding tlio desti
nation of arriving nllens nro sent to
(Washington to ho tabulated and digest-
led. For this reason destination figures
tfor the last twelvo months were not
invallahle. Ono who most closely
watches nllen "nrrlvnls Is J. F. Howe,
(Official money chnnger. Ho Is quick
to notlco nny unusual movement In the
tflow of Immigration.
To the Manufacturing Centers.
Mr. Howe asserted that money ex
ichnnged for Immigrants whose destina
tion Is Now York city does not amount
to 1 per cent of tho amount exchanged
for those giving other parts ns their
destination.
"In former yenrs," snld Mr. Howe,
("Immigrants poured Into New- York
jclty by the hundreds of thousnnds.
'They nre now going to manufacturing
centers such ns Pittsburgh, Detroit
ind Akron, Ohio, or to the coul nnd
iron mining regions.
"For tho most part those nrrlvlng
Ihero now wero In Amerlcn before the
war, nnd nro acquainted with the conn
ttry nnd nttrncted to sections where tho
(best wnges nre pnld. Hefore tho wnr
in mnjorlty of tho nrrlvnls had only
Ihniiy Idens ns to where they were go
lng or whnt wnges they were to re-
icelve.
"Another Interesting fnct Is the
ichnngo of location of some of the
irnces. Not bo mnny yenrs ngo most
lot the Irish nrrlvnls flowed Into Mas
jeachusetts or scattered nloug the North
Atlantic penbonrd. Now they nre going
jlnto Oregon. It Is notlcenble, too, thnt
inoro aliens nre going to Cnllfoniln
Mlinn ever before."
In Jnnunry 24,000 nllens arrived
here; Februnry, 22,000; March, 20,000;
i April, 80,000 ; May, 40,000, and In Juno
lup to nnd Including the 10th, 31,000.
(Superintendent linker of Kills Islnnd
lentil this Immigration wns made up
mostly of women, children nnd return
ling reservists. These Intter nre most
jly Italian's, nnd tho figures for this
month will show that most of those
I who left America to light for Italy
Jhnvo returned.
Tho fnct thnt no great number of
Imnlb ullens Is arriving hero does not'
WAR HEROES ROBBED
Conspiracy in the War Risk In
surance Bureau Unearthed.
Men Involved Were Handling Claims
of Crippled Soldiers for
Compensation.
Washington. A conspiracy of em
ployees In the war risk Insurance bu
ireau to defraud voterans of compen
sation tluo them for disabilities sus
Itnlned during tho wnr hns been un
i earthed by tho United States secret
! service, according 6 announcement by
I tho trehsury department.
Three arrests hnvo been mnde, Tho
j names of the men a r res tod were not
j rondo public.
"All thoso concerned In this out
trngo will bo prosecuted to the limit of
'the Inw," snld Secretary of tho Trens
ttiry Houston, In a statement Ismied
ylicre.
Inaugural Parade in Mexico
In lliu cnpltnl of Mexico nt the Inaugural
Jacinto Ticvlno, Obrogon nnd Hcnjiiuiln
menu n luck of desire to come to Amer
ica, the Immigration olllclnls say. Huth
er It menus thnt European govern
ments nro not willing to further de
plete the male adult population by nl
lowing It to emigrate. Tiro Intending
emigrant Is finding It dltllcult to get
passports 'under the new Immigration
laws. Also ship accommodations nro
harder to obtnln.
Ift'foro tho wnr from four to flvo
thousand nllens arrived nt this port
ench dny, or ubotit 1150,000 n mouth.
Notwithstanding the' falling off In ar
rivals, however, Superintendent linker
snld tho work probably Increased. This
Is because of the changes In the law.
Not only do nrrlvlng nllens have to
pass examinations ns to moral nnd
physical fitness, hut they must pass
n literacy test and be armed with pass
ports vised by tho Ainerlcnn consulnr
ngent nenrest their homo nnd Indorsed
fjy the American authority nt the port
of embnrkntlon.
Under amendments to tho Inw cer
tain persons nre now exempt from the
literacy test nnd nil of these must be
detained to prove thnt they nro en
titled to exemption. Again, many wom
en nnd children are coming to relntlves
here, nnd these must bo detained until
siuii relntlonshlp Is proved.
TURKISH WOMEN
BREAK CUSTOMS
No Longer Shy, Veiled Creatures,
but Work With Men in
Many Lines.
SPECIAL SEATS FOR WOMEN
Only the Very Old Men Rash Enough
to Sit Down In the Same Car Seat
With a Turkish Woman
Leaders Educated.
Constantinople. Turkish women nro
no longer tho shy, veiled crentures
who passed their time In tho seclusion
of the hnrem nnd wero never seen by
foreign men. They still cling to the
veil. But tho streets In Constantinople
nnd other Inrgcr Turkish cities nro
filled with women who have tlielr veils
thrown back from tlielr faces. They
nre highly ornamental and becoming.
Most Turkish women don't want to
abandon them In favor of hats. Hut
there nre many sorts of veils nnd the
smart, black bilk veils which some of
tho women wenr nre very fetching
when draped nrtlstlcully over tlielr
hair.
Car Seats for Women.
In the railway and street cars thero
are spoclal seats fqr women, but the
flimsy curtains which nro supposed to
screen them from the gaze of men nro
usually drawn back and It Is not un
common to sec men standing In tho
The men Involved In these crimes
wore engaged In the task of handling
clulms of ex-sold lers for compensation.
Tho method employed, as reported by
tho secret service, was substantially
as follows:
A soldier, presenting his claim In per
son, was ndvjsed by one of the con
splrntors who handled It thnt he wns
entitled to $200 or $100. At the same
nine the employee denounced the fact
that tho award was so small.
Taking tho mutter under further
consideration, he told tho claimant
that ho thought ho would bo able-to
put through an award for u greater
amount, hut tint, of course, ho would
wunt to shnre In tho excess payment.
Tho clnlmnnt agreeing, n check for
tho larger amount wns mndo out. Tho
truth wns thnt tho soldier was enti
tled to tho larger amount and to the
full proceeds of tho check.
The cottnge Is a palace to tho poor.
City
of President D. Adolfo tie In Hucrtn.
Hill.
Mother Found Two Children
Playing With Blacksnake
Missing her two children, Mrs.
George Mend of Susquehanna,
I'd., located them In a Held near
by. Her four-year-old son wns
astride n blncksniiku more than
three feet In length, nnd his sis
ter, Olndys, three years old, wns
striking tho snake on tho head
with a switch.
The youngsters were laughing,
nnd the womnn snld 'the snake
seemed to be contented. Tlio
reptile glided away nt sight of
tho mother.
RAIDS NET FORTUNE IN BOOZE
35,000 Gallons, Worth $1,000,000,
Seized In New England Slnco
January 1.
linston. Federal prohibition agents
In New Knglnnd have seized more
thnn .15,000 gnlltvttfr of liquor nnd alco
hol, vnlued at $1,000,000, In raids con
ducted since Jnnunry 1, according to
William .1. McCarthy, federal prohthl
tlon enforcement ngent for this sec
tion. In addition, thousnnds of gallons of
beer containing more thnn half of 1
per cent olcohol have been conn's
cutcd. The liquor Is stored In eight ware
houses here awaiting removal to
Washington.
-
compartments for women. Only very
old men, However, nro rush enough to
sit down In the same sent with n Turk
ish womnn. Turkish women seldom
go to a theater where there are men.
Special matinees and evening perform
ances are nrranged for women only.
The war has done much to break
down tho burrler between Turkish men
and women. The women were noedpd
so bndly us nurses nnd relief workers
thnt the government had to avail It
self of tlielr services. Anil now It Is
regarded ns quite proper for men nnd.
women to be associated In nil sorts of
charitable nnd educational works.
Consequently ninny women who were
formerly forced to content themserves
with seclusion In n homo where fancy
work nnd French novels were the only
diversions nre devoting their time to
hospitals, nrphnnnges and other phil
anthropic Institutions.
Educated Women Leaders.
Women who have been educated
abroad or In the foreign schools In
Turkey nrt tho leaders In thli move
ment for grentcr freedom for their
sex. Their broad experience In win
work hns Interested many women In
politics, and they have openly played
n great part In the nationalist move
ment. In tho Constantinople American
Woman's college the Turkish girls
lake great Interest In basketball nnd
other nthletlo gnmes, and tho effect
upon women who have come under for
eign Influence Is making the old life
of seclusion nnd Inactivity unattrac
tive to younger Turkish women.
CHEROKEE BILL'S AGE 123
Fought With Bow and Arrow Against
British In 1812 Enlisted
at Fifteen.
Grand Junction, Col. Cherokee
Hill, veteran' of the plains nnd sol.
dler In the wnr of 1812, hns Just cele
brated his ono hundred mid twenty
third birthday nt the county homo
here.
Cherokee Hill Is the only niimo ho
knows. In the enrly dnyn ho fought
with bow ami arrow with the aborig
ines and even useii unit primitive
weapon, ho says, when he fought do
llrltlsh In 1812. Ho enllsfcil In tho
army when he was fifteen yars old.
lie was born .luiie 0, 1707, nnd was
twice listed -In tiro United States
census as tho oldest native of Amer
ica. The nget Indian recently made a
cap for himself out-of the down of
cattails, and wears this proudly when
he hobbles along the streets Villi the
aid of a cano ho has o.vned since tin
Civil war.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF:;
Timely News Culled From All
Part3 of the State, Reduced
for tho Busy.
v
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED
Sntistlcs s'fiow that Nebraska lm
l,:t."S farms of less than twenty acres,
l,r."i8 farms of from twenty to fifty
acres, 12,(518 fiirins of from fifty to 100
ncres; 1:1,01(1 farms of from 10(1 to
171 acres: -I l,2:i:i farms of from 17" to of funnels petition to form n county
Mm acres: 1.'1.128 farms of from WW) (o flin11 reati mid Employ n county
!)!)!) acres, jind :i,8(17 farms over 1,000 "Kent, the counly board Is required to
acres In area. The total number irf Provide funds for the work. This the
farms In the state Is 12i),7S. K has HH counly hoard refused to .do. A
more farms of between f()() and 1.0(H) I Wl,t f mandamus to compel the board
acres than any other state In the union H" (1 so "'as secured by the farm hu
mid Is second to Texas In number of I mi,, nniWthe county board appealed
farms of fiOO acres or more. It ranks
third In farms of,, more than 1,000
acres In size.
The now, railroad that Is being con
sidered north and south from Oil
hertsou through Wallace, will end on
the north at North Platte, total of 01
miles. The railroad will open up some
of the best farming territory In the
stale. Fanners now have to haul their
wheat 2." to 110 miles to n railroad.
The estimated cost of the road Is
?20.000 per mile, Including one engine
and two cars.
There are !!)." prisoners In the state
penitentiary lit Lincoln. Since the
first of .Inn miry, 1020, 1-11 have been
sentenced to the Institution, from
which It Is concluded that crime is In
deed on the Increase. The pen's regis
ter shows thnt most of the lately con
victed are between the nges of 17 and
2."i. wllh an average of 21.
Three young girls, Ilerthn I.lndkugle,
1.", and Kdiui I.lndkugle, l.'l, of Tier
shey, nnd I.lln Mason, l.'l, of North
I'lntte, were drowned while wading In
the Platte river south of Norh I'lntte.
Miss Laurel Masqn, 29, In an nttcmptt
to rescue the girls almost lost her life.
The river Is from ten, to thirty feet
deep where the accident occurred.
Nebraska hns 78,000 ncres of sugar
beets this year, us compared to 04,800
acres last year. The present acreage
Is nearly nineteen times greater thnn
that In 1010. The state ranks fifth,
being exceeded by Colorado, Michigan,
California ami Utah In the order
named.
The State Itouril of Equalization has
ordered the county boards of Nuckolls
and Holt counties to rescind tlielr ac
tion In cutting down the valuation of
the two counties us reported by their
county nnd precinct assessors.
Tho state capltol cnniinls.slnn Is op
posed to nny attempt to bring plans
for the new state capital into politics,
and hns deferred ull action on the
(apltol plans until lifter the November
election.
A neur tornado swept over Nellgh,
damnged a carnival company showing
In the city to the extent of nearly $10,
000, unroofed several houses, uprooted
trees and injured crops In the district
quite badly.
Petitions are In circulation In Kear
ney county requesting the county
board to place before tlio voters 11
proposition to raise funds for resuming
the annual county fair.
Crop conditions In Valley county
and In the sand hills of Carfleld and
Greeley counties are the best ever
known, according to a Mirvey Just
completed.
A hydro-electric plant Is to be built
nt Hebron In the immediate future nnd
it Is thought It will mean cheaper
light and power for people of the city.
Preliminary work for paving several
streets at Ord has been completed iid
It Is expected the work will be entirely
llnlsheil in a few weeks.
A sixty-three mile an hour wind"!
swept Vnlentlno nnd vlclnltyjho other
dny resulting In some damage to city
property and crops.
Business men of Wahoo hnve orgnn
Ized n country club. A trnct of hind
east of the city hns been purchased for
club grounds.
Virtually nil nrrnngoinentH have
been made for holding a harvest fes
tival at Shelton, August 17 and 18.
A terrltlc hall storm stripped corn
In an area of about ten miles square
southwest of .luulntn.
Fire caused' by lightning destroyed
the AVhltuker's opera house building
at Harvard.
Pluns are under way for the con
struction of a new up-to-date hotel at
Pawnee City.
Plans to make the livestock exhibi
tion ono of tho lnrgcsriii the stnte are
being made by the ofllclnls in charge
of the 1020 Thayer' county fair, which
will be held at Deshler, August 111 to
September 3.
Josef lilnzkii, sentenced to life Im
prisonment for beating his wife to
death with a harness tug In Cherry
county, March 0, 1010, must servo his
term, according to 11 decision of the
ituto supremo court upholding the ac
tion of tho Cherry county district
court. Ulazka had applied for a new
trial.
Farmers between Urady Island nnd
ICearno' report heavy dnifiago to
crops us the resuU of the hall storms
last- week.
Fire destroyed tho electric light
plant at Clatonla, entailing a loss of
$10,000 and leaving the village In dark
ness. It will be rebuilt.
A list of stockholders of the Union
1'ncltlc railroad, deposited with the
State Hallway Commission nt Lincoln,
In accordance with the state law, con
tains 117,000 names and weighs eight
pounds. The list Is on thin pnper ond
closely typewritten. " '
I fiOVernnr MfTCnlvIn line laann.l o urn.
cliiiiiathrt, designating Tuesday, Sep-
(inner ji, ns n special election day,
, on which the constitutional amend-
l incuts, proposed by the constitutional
convention, will be voted on. There nro
forty-one proposed nniendnients. All
amendment adopted Will become ef
fective In 11)21. One exception to tills
Is the equal sull'rage iinieiidiiient which
Is to be operative immediately upon
proclamation of Its pnssngi This
should permit women In Nebraska full
suffrage regardless of federal ratifica
tion by one more state.
The state supreme court upheld tho
county farm bureau' net passed by tho
1010 legislature In the J tall county
case. Under the law, when a number
l0 UIP supremo court
In a reply to tho Standard Trade
Service of New York, the state labor
department at Lincoln declared there
Is ut present .suillelent farm help to
meet all demands In Nebraska, and
thnt there will be a surplus of labor
for construction work, after the
harvest. That publication states that
It Is making 11 survey of labor condi
tions throughout the country.
In order to repair Cedar county
bridges damnged by unprecedented
Hoods' this spring and to replace tlioso
entirely swept away the county board
has voted to draw on any fund allow
able to meet the emergency. The task
confronting the county since enrly
spring exhausted the bridge fund some
time ago and prompt action was neces
sary to meet he crisis.
The secretary of state nt Lincoln Is
sending county clerks copies of the
ballot for the special election Septem
ber 21. Knch county will have to sup
ply the ballots for the election on the
adoption of the constitutional amend
ments as prepared by the constitution
al convenlon and bear the expense of
the same.
At a special election held In school
district No. 41, embracing the village
of Hubbell, the proposition to Issue
bonds In the amount of ?2r,000 for tho
erection of n new school house carried
by a vote of 00 to ".".
During n severe electrical storm nt
Hastings lightning struck the Ingle
side state hospital horse barn result
ing in 11 fire which destroyed the build
ing together with eighteen head of
stock. The loss totals about .$7,000.
Holt county boasts of having the old
est democrat In Nebraska and, per
haps In the entire middle west. He Is
John Jasper IMvl, 10S years old, halo
and hearty and anxious to vote for Cox
and Itoosevelt at the fall election.
The llnnl day's admission of tho
Chautauqua at Plattsmouth were re
quired to tide guarantors over from
having to stnnd a deficit, nnd It Is
quite likely tlio city will not have n
Chautauqua next year.
After cousTderlng ti proposition to
Install a sewer system at Chappell It
was decided the- venture would place
too heavy a burden on the tax payers
and the project was abandoned for the
time being. x
Chase county again promises to lead
the state In wheat production per acre
as It did In 101(1. Many farmers nro
predicting that the average yield this
yenr will be forty bushels per acre.
Hetween fiOO and 700 persons are
expected to attend the annual encamp
ment of the Patriarchs Militant of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
West Point, beginning August 1.".
All" Nebraska railroads have petition
ed the State Hallway coiunils'don for
Increased freight and passenger rates
to become effective September 1. The
iimomit was not specified.
The greatest wheat crop In the his
tory of Scotts HlufT county Is being
harvested this week. The yield prom
ises from 10 to 2."i bushels to the ncre.
The; first load of Hnll canity wheat
was uinrKeteti at .urana isinuii nisi
week, ond brought $2.07 per bushel. It
tested 01 pounds.
Old-time residents of Furnns county
predict thnt the whent yield this yenr
will be the heaviest ever known In tho
district.
Work on the stnte-nld -road south of
Greeley Is progressing, three miles of
new rondwny hnvlng already been
rnmtiliitml
The Methodist Episcopal church nt
Puwnee City which was badly dnni
nged by fire recently Is being rebuilt.
The cornerstone for the new Method
ist church nt Nellgh wns laid Sunday,
July 11. A Inrge crowd attended.
Work on the new M. E. church at
Lodge Pole Is proceeding without a
hitch. The' lnylng of tho cornerstono
for the structure Just recently by the
Masonic order of ChuppelL. was n
grand nlTalr and will long be remem
bered by the congregation.
Fred .lunge, living near Niobrara,
Is probably tho first 'farmer to enter
the aircraft field In Nebraska. Ho has
purchnsed an nlrplauo from tho Ne
braska Aircraft company at Lincoln.
He purchased the nlrplnne for pleasuro
and nlso for expediting business be
tween his fnrm and town.
Tho baseball championship of south
western Nebraska will be ..decided at n
tournament nt Holdrogq September 1
to fi. Twelvo teams nre entered.
The hnll storm which swept por
tions of Lincoln nnd Custer counties
the past week destroyed approximately,
$100,000 worth of crops, It Is said.
Hemlngford was visited by a disas
trous fire July 11, resulting In the de
struction of n hotel, roller mills and
several other buildings, and for n
tlmo threatened to wipeyout tho busi
ness district. .The loss IS 'placed nt.
$.-0,000.
OLD BATTLE LINES
Evidences of War Thick in Vicinity
of Ypres.
Shell Holes Beginning to Grow Green,
but Battered Twiks Are Every- ,
where In Evidence on the j
Scenes of Slaughter. ' -j
Leaving Zeebnigge.the first dnys
Journey by motor takes the visitor
something more thnn a hundred mile",
with Ypres as the turning point and
every variety of war-stricken lands
and recovering countryside on the way
there and back. It .vas 11 point moot
ed with wearisome frequency in tho
real days of the phAe when it wag
"functioning," as ono would have said
and among front-line troops. In tho
salient, whether tley would ever cure
to come buck mid see that foul place
under a peaceful aspect. Agreed,
there were thfte at home who might
he tiiken, not without profit to them
selves and the world In general, over
tlio low ground under Kemuiel, or
where Passcliendaele looked dowu on
the swunips, unil there were not a
few of tho nruichiilr gentry whose
Instunt presence would hnve been wel
comed. Hut, for himself, It was tho
common verdict of the uiiiti In tho
niudhole thnt, once out of It, Wipers
and he could be the best of friends
nt a distance, snys u writer In the
Manchester Guardian.
Hiding Into the plnce from which
rises the battered tower of tho Cloth
hall, li tho high dny and under a
burning sun; coming, too, unscathed
nnd unfenrful from what was unmls
takably the direction of "No Miiii'h
Land," ono had to question such it
verdict, and finally, under the stimu
lation of a hundred quickening memo
ries, nllow the appeal. For tho In
terest or Ypres nnd of nil tho ground
In front of It would not be denied.
The plnce wns like Itself In n degree,
hnrd to credit.' And If only some
mimic hud been there to reproduce
the shrllt crescendo of nn nppronch
Ing shell one would undoubtedly have
taken cover. Going out 'by the .way
of the Menln gate and turning up into-
the high rond to Poelcnpelle, with first
Uooge and then St. Jullcn, with Pns
schcndnclc rolling up to the skyline as
1 background, Is to pnss Into the field
of nn endless bnttle from which noth
ing hns been clenred but the dend;
mil though elsewhere something hna
already been done of thnt "concentra
Uon" of graves which Is to give our
:lcod an orderly nnd Instlng memorial,,
they still lie here, for the most part
In the 8cattej:cd resting places to
which the hurried hands of their com
rades consigned them.
The shell boles begin to-grow green,
Dtit It Is only n beginning, .nnd If the
trenches are almost unseen ns one
joes down the rond, were -they ever
rery clearly defined here? It Is n long
time before n plnce Is reached from
which no bnttered tanks can bo seen,
jnd now nnd agnln Uiey stnnd three
or four deep on the very edge of tho
road ditched In their first nttcnipt
at the mud. To look bnck on wnr nt
Its worst, with nlmost nil Its evidences
out present slnughter, one could
scarcely better tho viewpoint of this
rond. A few miles -farther, and the
murdered forest of Ilouthulst, with.
Its ncres of stricken trees and not a
live one. gives n now edge to terror.
There Is something" sound "'In the
notion thnt ono enn see the hnttlo
fields In n dny; the repetition would
give no new tone, but Intrlnsicnlly the
snme Impression. As n lesson Ypres
nnd Its province could not bo sur
pnssed. Coming out at Dlxmude, be
nlnd whnt wns nn nlmost permanent
boche, line, the enr returning to Zee
bruggo comes ngnln Into n country
tvhlch Is olive. For the hlntcrlnnd of
Helglum has returned quickly to It
self. The army huts which servo la
the broken nrens as shelter for those
tvho have returned to the shnttcredN
Tillages, give pjnee hero to cottages
ilrendy substantially repaired, and
the frugal cultivation fef the soil goes
forward with" nn energy nnd resource
fulness typlcnl of no cluss In the world
m much ns the Helglnn or French,
peasantry.
Avoiding Lily Embargo.
A new and curious Industry, It Ibh
predicted, Is soon to bo born In Van
'Oliver, H. C, because of the embargo- '
ulaced this year by the United States
department of agriculture on nil Jnp
nneso nursery stock packed In Jnp
inictfe soli. This decree wns Intended
to stop the Importation from the Is
land of Formosa of lily bulbs, ordi
narily brought Into this country nt
the rate of $25,000,000 worth n yenr.
Hut the trade Vlll not be suspended,
nurserymen of Vancouver declare.
The bulb trofllc will bo deflected, north
ward to this seaport, Just nlTove the
boundary; and hero the bulbs will -bo
removed frofy the soil In wlTlch they
crossed the Pacific. They will then
be repacked In Canadian loam, and
10, free from "Japanese soil," will be
qualified for entrance Into the United
States, Populnr Mechanics Magazine.
Oxygen Device Tested.
.Because of the possible disastrous
failure of iln ulmnun's oxygen supply
apparatus at great altitudes, tho
United States bureamof standards has
devised a rellnblp method of testing
tho equipment In the laboratory. All
the conditions of high-altitude flights
nro accurately- reproduced, says Pop
ulr.r Mechanics Magazine In un Illus
trated nrtlcle Appearing In Its July is
sue. Decreased pressuro Is obtained;
.'iy Inclosing the equipment In a bell
Inr conno.Ued to nn air pump.
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