‘ EARS ON SHIPS
WILL REDUCE
DANGER AT SEA
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (by Associated
Press).—In olden times when Chinese
Shipbuilders designed and constructed
their lateen sailed craft for war or
commercial purposes, prominent and
ofttimes ferocious “eyes” were located
on either side of the bow.
Today modern America; now the
leading nation in ship construction, is
proposing to equip her merchant ves
sels with “ears,” the location of which,
like the eyes on the Chinese junk, are
on the ship’s bows, but under instead
of over the water. While superstition
induced the Chinaman to equip his
ship so it could “see” its enemies and
work, its way into a safe port through
shoal water, hidden rocks and through
crowded waterways, science has de
signed the “ears” for the same pur
pose.
With the destroyer Breckenridge
equipped as a demonstrating ship, 40
or more representatives of leading
steamship lines had an opportunity to
see amd test the efficacy of the listen
ing device. It is now a government
controlled invention, used on fighting
ships during the war as a protection
against submarines and officially des
ignated by the navy as “the M. V.
type, hydrophone.” Its object is to
disclose in surrounding waters the
-■% presence of other craft, to foretell the
approach to shoal waters, apprise the
navigator of the vicinity of lightships
equipped with submarine bell signal- i
ing devices. It is expected also to dis- j
close with a remarkable degree of ac-!
curacy, the depth of water wherein
the ship so equipped is floating.
The appartus . includes 48 hydro-j
phone receivers located in a tank of
water in the bow of the vessel so that
an equal number is on either side. In
the test the sound of the propellers;
of a steamer five miles distant was,
*■ heard. The depth of water is ascer
tained by listening to the noise made
by the propellers of the vessel carry
ing the hyrophone -as it is echoed back
from the bottom of the sea. In depth j
beyond 100 fathoms, however, the
hydrophone refuses to record, it was
^plained, but as a majority of colli
sions occur near a coast line and at
congested harbor entrances, the in
ventors and officers of the navy pre
dict that its adoption wrill remove
many of the hazards of navigation
now induced by fog.
Dr. H. C. Hayes, formerly of Swarth
more college, said the device had been
installed on the transport Von Steuben
and one one occasion probably saved
the ship from running aground on the
Dong Island shore during a heavy fog.
Dr. Hayes also claims that the inven
tion will enable a mariner to locate
icebergs, through the reflecting back
tfe the operator from the submerged
% portion of a dangerous berg the sound
of the operating ship’s own propellers.
DWELLING SHORTAGE
AT RIO DE JANEIRO
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 2 (by As
sociated Press).—The municipal au
thorities have offered unusually fav
orable concessions to builders in an
effort to overcome the shortage of
dwellings which is called the most
serious the city ever has faced. One
construction company has offered to
build thousands of wooden houses of
a type heretofore unknown here
' PINK BOLL WORM VERY
^ DESTRUCTIVE TO COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 2 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The pink boll worm,
more destructive to cotton than the
boll weevil, is to be steamed. Poison
ing has failed to kill the pest but it
is expected that steaming will do the
job and make it possible for oil mills
to handle seed from infected terri
tory.
Sun Maid Raisin Bread, always a
favorite at the City Bakery.
The Alaskan Grill caters to partic
ular people in high class bakery
goods. 20-tf
Meals well cooked and properly
served at the Alaskan Grill. 17-tf
Graham Broad fresh every day at j
4 the City Bakery. I
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Best coffee in town served at the ,
City Bakery.
WOMEN GIVEN
CONTROL OVER
ROBBER ROOST
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 2 (by As
sociated Press).—A woman mayor,
Mrs. Grace Miller, now rules in Jack
son, the population center of the Jack
son’s Hole country which long was
famous in fact and fiction as the re
sort of outlaws, cattle rustlers, horse
thieves and other bad men of the
west that once was. For what is said
to be the first time in history, there
is not a man in the city hall of an
American municipality; for a city ad
ministration composed entirely of
women has been sworn into office as
a result of the recent election. There
is not a man in Jackson’s city hall.
Jackson is a diminutive city—with
a population of not quite 300. Per
haps no other section of the United
States is so far isolated from the rail
roads and from all-year traffic. The
nearest railway station is 75 miles
away, and from November until May
the highway to that station is virtual
ly impassable. Surrounded by the
high mountains in the range south of
Yellowstone national park, the resi
dents of Jackson make little or no at
tempt to travel during the winter
months.
It was in Jackson’s Hole that the
bad men made their last stand against
the advancing wave of civilization 30
or 40 years ago. There they flocked
after stealing cattle or horses or other
robberies or hold-ups and banded
themselves together for mutual pro
tection.
Today Jackson, itself, has surren
dered to the feminist movement and
made a clean sweep of every male
officeholder. The only explanation
given for the overturn comes from the
editor of the Courier, the city’s sole
newspaper, who says in his paper: “It
is thuoght the novelty of being the j
first city on record to be governed en
tirely by women helped them to secure
such a complete victory.” The editor,
who was himself a candidate, accepts
the results without repining, but says
the women surprised even themselves
by the result.
There was no unusual campaigning,
no special issue at stake, nor was
there an unusually heavy vote. Mrs.
Miller defeated Fred Lovejoy for
mayor by a vote of 58 to 28. Four
women were elected members of the
city council over four men candidates
by about the same relative vote.
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Have you an old hat? Take it to
Peyser and have it made like new.
you’ll be surprised at the result.—Do
It now!—Phone 188—He’ll do the rest.
ONE PIECE RADIUM
WITH GREAT VALUE
BOUGHT BY DOCTORS
DENVER, Colo., Aug. 2 (by Associ
ated Press).—What is said to be the
largest piece of radium in the west
was purchased recently by 18 leading
doctors of Denver for $56,500.
It is to be used in surgical and med
ical treatment. This particle of radium
is to weigh one-half of a gram. There
will be a plant built in Denver for the
preservation of this valuable mineral,
costing about $5,000. The life of ra
dium is estimated at 2,500 years.
Approval of the government of the
purposes for which the radium were
to be put had to be obtained as the
government controls the rare mineral.
TAX PLACED ON SCHOOL
STUDENTS FOR FAILURE
BOSTON, Aug. 2 (by Associated
Press).—Masaschusetts Institute of
Technology has placed a tax on
scholastic failures. Hereafter stu
dents who fail or show a deficiency in
a study must pay $5 for each short
coming. The rule has aroused a pro
test from the undergraduates, who are
supported by some members of the
faculty, Leonard M. Passano, profes
sor of mathematics, taking the side of
the students, wrote a formal communi
cation to the executive committee in
which he argued that professor and
student are jointly involved in such
failures. He suggested that instruc
tors be fined with students for each
failure in their classes, if the rule is
to hold.
CHINAMAN SEES AUTO
FIRST TIME IN LIFE
MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 2 (by As
sociated Press).—Hat Young Gow
came to Missoula recently and saw
for the first time in his life, the auto
mobile, the street cars and the local
“sky scrapers” six stories high. Hat
Young Gow came to Superior, west
of Missoula, along with many other
Chinese in the days *of the gold rush
thither, in the ’60’s. Lately reports
came from Superior that he was in
need in his cabin outside of the town
and several “old timers” there brought
him to Missoula.
Advertise in the Daily Times
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