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COMMERCIAL FIELD
FUTURE SUCCESS
OF AVIATION
(Bv Associated Press) ■
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Petitions
from chambers of commerce and sug
gestions from members of Congress
for extensions of the air mail service
are being received daily by the post
office department, the requests being
I based upon representations by busi
ness who believe they see in the air
mail the greatest single promise for
the saving of time and the increase of
efficiency that has appeared in recent
I years.
Pending legislation by Congress,
postoffice authorities acknowledge re
ceipt of the petitions and then turn
toward the capital to await the enact
ment of legislation that will perma
nently establish the transcontinental
and other air mail lines. Passage by
the House recently of two bills deal
ing with the air mail service has
brought the question to the front rank
of discussion among senators and rep
resentatives.
Roth the La Guardia bill, authoriz
ing the postmaster general to “oper
ate and maintain air mail service in
any part of the United States and ter
ritories that he may from time to
time indicate, and the Kelly bill, au
thorizing contracts with private firms
for the transport of air mail at a cost
not to exceed four-fifths of the reve
nues derived from such air mail,”
| Avere recently accepted by the House.
; The bills may become a law before
1 the adjournment of Congress on
j March 4.
The immediate significance of the
La Guardia bill is to legalize and to
| make permanent the present govern
I ment operated New York to San
Francisco air mail while the Kellv.
I ®
! bill will prepare the way for private
(operation of this and other routes, and
thus actually introduce the era of
commercial air transport.
Debates in Congress and discussion
by both senators and representatives
are believed to point toward the early
expansion of the air mail and are said
to indicate that Congress is arriving
| at the conclusion that one way to es
tablish aviation defense is to develop
: commercial flying, and that commer
cial flying can only be brought about
j by actually putting government planes
I to work.
Recent debates brought out that
during the last two years and ten
months the government planes on the
transcontinental air line have flown
in excess of G,000,000 miles and have
carried 2,050 tons of mail with a loss
of 125 pounds. Or estimated in num
ber of pieces, only 5,000 of the 160,
000,000 letters transported were lost.
Since July 1, when the postoffice de
partment began its night flying, thru
mail from coast to coast has been car
ried in an average elapsed time of
33 hours.
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 22.—An iron splinter
one millimeter long was removed
j from the eye of a locksmith, with the
|aid of a gigantic magnet. The splin
jter had been in the patient’s eye for
three months before it could be lo
cated. Eleven sittings during each of
which the splinter, which was in a re
mote corner of the eye, was brought
forward a little farther, were neces
sary to complete the operation.
Dr. Paderborn the oculist in charge,
was particularly concerned about re
moving the splinter as the locksmith
had lost one eye 30 years before by
a similar mishap. The experiment
with the magnet was regarded as one
having little prospects of success but
was the only alternative to complete
| blindness.
| Both patient and doctor are rejoic
| ing over the success of the experi
| ment.
LEAD PRICE ADVANCED
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The Amer
ican Smelting and Refining company
today advanced the price of lead from
9.60 to 9.75 per pound.
orrect this sentence: “I helped
elect you, said he, “but I’m not look
ing for an appointment.”
The idea was to wash veterans
bureau linen not fami linen.
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW_CO^ NEW YORK
NEW HEAD NAVAL ACADEMY
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton, in
command of the Battleship Division
3, in the Pacific Fleet, who has been
; selected by the Navy Department
to succeed Rear Admiral Henry B.
Wilson as superintendent of the Na
val Academy at Annapolis.
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French Coal Mining
Reported On Increase
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 21.—A record pro
duction of coal was turned out in
France during October, 4,000,000 tons
being reached in a month for the
first time. The exact output was
4,103,516 tons, as compared with 3,
>837,378 for September.
The average daily production in Oc
tober was 151,982, as compared with
144,6S0 tons in January of this year;
136,661 tons in October, 1923, and
136,147 before the war. The number
of miners has increased from a pre
war figure of 203,000 to 302,000 in Oc
tober, 1924.
: The illiterates desbrve but a half
j portion of pity. Only half of the
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ART FOREIGNERS
PARIS, Jan. 22.—The American j
buyer permeated the debate in the j
French chamber when the sale of the !
Beauvais cartoons or patterns was
discussed, and the debate turned on
the advisability of the state selling
any of its property, especially objects
of art. The American’s omniverous
powers of acquisition were pointed
out, and a statement made that soon
European articles of value would be
reposing in America.
Deputy Henri Auriol instanced a bed
of Marie Antoinnette, the work of
the cabinetmaker Georges Jacobs.
This bed, he said, was sold by the
state furniture depositary, some 40
years ago because it was infested with
bedbugs. It brought a f<-w francs and
today it is in America.
Not long ago some Sevres vases
were sold by the state at Versailes.
One of them, a very fine specimen,
stood nearly six feet high, and was
formerly the property of Napoleon,
whose portrait in profile it showed
It had been in the Grand Trianon and
was not kept because it had a few
small cracks. It was sold for a few
hundred francs and repaired by a Pa
risian antiquary who got 8,000 francs
for it from an American collector.
One reason w’hy the bootlegging
business is crow’ded is because the
jails arn’t.
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SELDOVIANS ARE FACING
ACUTE COAL SITUATION
SELDOVIA, Jan. 22.—Seldovia is
at present experimenting a prolonged
cold spell with the additional detri
ment of an acute coal situation. Bad
weather has made it almost impossi
ble for the local coal merchants to
go after the black diamond supply,
which is located on the Homer
beach.
CHINA BE ADMINISTERED
ON MODERN LINE IN FUTURE
PEKING, Jan. 21.—The progressive
abolition of territorial China, through
the law of modification on modern
lines to be administered by a mixed
tribunal in which the selection of for
eign judges would be left to the dis
cretion of the Chinese government
was advocated tonight by American
Minister Sherman, at a dinner of the
Anglo-American society.
Possession is nine parts of the law
and 99 per cent of what interests the
lawyer.
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