NEW INVENTION TRIMS
RAILS OF MOLTEN STEEL
CHICOGO, June SO. (IP)— A new
master barber is in tiie field, he who
shaves steel rails.
For many years the manufacturers
of rail steel reinforcing bars waited
for some genius to devise a machine
that would remove the splinters from
the rails, a work which heretofore
had been done by hand. It is a ne
cessary operation before the rail can
be passed thru the rolls.
As the rails were removed from
the great piles in the storage yards
and started on their journey to the
furnaces, crews of men with chisels
and hammers trimmed off the splin
ters that car and engine wheels de
veloped along the edges of the rail
head.
While the cost of this work was
not excessive, as common labor
could perform it as well as skilled
workmen, it slowed up progress.
It was a Canadian who solved the
problem and developed the rail shav
er. This machine now is being in
stalled in one of the Chicago mills
of the steel products group. Tests
have shown that it will do all that
is claimed for it.
As the white hot rail tumbles from
the furnace it passes forward to the
slitting rolls that separate it into
head, webb and flange. Just as the
end is gripped by these rolls, an in
genious arrangement of powerful
knives, set close to the rolls, is au
tomatically put in operation. As the
rail moves forward these knives
shave off all splinters and projec
tions with the ease that a keen razor
passes thru a stubble of beard.
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Believe That Address
of Cook Spoiled Plans
SEATTLE. June 29 (£*)—Many del
egates ascribe the refusal of the
Council last week to assent to the
proposals of Palmer for a continu
ance of government aid in the mer
chant marine to the address of Cary
YV. Cook of San Francisco, a steam
ship operator who spoke immediately
after Palmer. Cook opposed the sub
sidy flatly and emphatically said that
Americans would understand the mer
chant marine better when it regarded
a ship like a wheelbarrow, merely as
a means of transportation.
ROBERT LAFOLLETTE, Jr.,
WILL SEEK FATHER’S SEAT
CHICAGO, June 29 (/P)—The Jour
nal says that Robert M. Lafollette,
jr., would soon announce his candi
dacy for iiis father’s seat in the sen
ate.
WHEELER EXPLAINS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 29 (/p)—
Senator Wheeler stated that he was
informed an effort was being made
in Spokane to indict him or some of
his witnesses in the Senate hearing
and Montana trial.
Fire Destroys Little
Rock, Near Olympia
OLYMPIA, June 29 (JP)—Fire be
lieved to have originated in a vacant
house virtually destroyed the business
center of Little Rock, 12 miles south
of here. Ten buildings including the
Northern Pacific depot burned. It is
estimated the loss was $40,000.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR TWO
TACOMA, Wn., June 29 (£>)— Chas.
Kinney and Arden Lloyd were con
victed Saturday for the murder of
Harry Schmidt, who was killed Feb
ruary 7th in bank holdup, and were
given life imprisonment in the peni
tentiary.
Rooevelt Brothers Have
Secured Many Trophies;
OYSTER BAY, June 29 (/?)—A let
ter informed Mrs. Theodore Roose
velt, husband and brother of Kermit,
leaders of the Field Museum party
in Central Asia had obtained fourteen
specimens of rare birds in the moun
tainous country above .Srinagar, in
Kashmir.
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Damages Awarded In
Bank Robbery Case
TTACOMA, June 29. (#>)—A jury to
day awarded David W. Nadeau, one
of the four Tacomans arrested for
the robbery of the Citizens’ Bank at
Anacortes, April 14 last, $850 dam
ages against Sheriff Matt Starwich of
King county and. Sheriff Conn of Ska
git county and their bondsmen. Na
deau sued for $50,000 for false im
prisonment.
HONGKONG, China, June 29 (JP)—
The banks of this city w'hich closed
because of the strike have opened
again.
Joseph Berks of Decatur, 111., was
found dead with his radio head set
over his ears.
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ed in the center of the herring and halibut industries and has three fine general stores, hotel, salmon cannery, public school, Baptist orphan
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