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ALL ENDEAVORS FAIL
TO SOLVE MYSTERY
MISSING WARSHIPS
WAHINGTON, "D. C., April 23
More than one thousand American
naval men have gone down to watery
I graves in a score of vessels that
have disappeared from the face of
the earth, without a trace. Prom
the brig Reprisal lost in September,
1777, to the tug Conestoga, that dis
appeared in the Pacific in 1921, there
is a chapter of naval history on which
the navy department is able to throw
but little light.
Outstanding among the unaccount
ed for craft in modern days is the
naval collier Cyclops, concerning
which there is a maze of fanciful
theory, but no official fact.
During a wide stretch of years,
from the Civil War period to nearly
the Worlt^ War era, naval annals
are devoid of entries concerning lost
ships. Three have vanished from
the seas since the beginning of the
present century, however, in spite
of the much vaunted safety to be
found in modern apparatus of com
munication. Many of the lost ships
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Three Endurance Runs
Show Stamina of Horse
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—
Interest in horse's, eclipsed with the
advent of automobiling, is believed by
members of the American Remount
Association again to be in ascendant.
They point to the three big endur
ance races for 1925 in Idaho, Colo
rado, and Vermont, as proof.
At Boise, Idaho, some time in Sep
tember, a 300-mile endurance test is
to be held, under the auspices of the
Boise Chamber of Commerce and the
adjutant general of the Idaho Nation
al Guard. Members of the Ameri
can Remount Association expect the
event to be similar to that held there
last year when it occupied the week
of September 14, was based on Boise
and consisted of a 60-mile stretch for
five consecutive days.
The Colorado endurance ride will
be held at Broadmoor, Colorado. Sep.
21-25, inclusive. This event also
will be over a total course of 300
miles, extending 60 miles each day
lor five days.
Later in the fall, on October 19, a::
a yet undecided point in Vermont,
the 1925 eastern endurance ride will
begin. Brandon, Vt., is being favor
ed in the selection by a special com
mittee which has the location in
hand. Regulations will be similar to
those which governed last year’s ride
except the reduction in weight from
225 to 200 pounds.
This ride will be 300 miles total,
divided into five days ot 60 miles
each. An effort is being made to
make it international this year, by
seeming Canadian entries.
Radio Protects Mariners
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Making Rugged Vancouver
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SEATTLE, April 24.—Radio has
brought a notable measure of pro
tection to vessels approaching the
rocks of the west coast of Vancou
ver Island. Last winter not a ship
equipped with radio was lost in this
graveyard of the Pacific, while in
.past years the toll has been as high
as ten wrecks and numerous deaths
to passengers and crow.
The improvement is due to the
building of three radio telegraph di
rection finding stations on and near
the island, which, by working togeth
er with a ship with wireless, can fell
the vessel her exact location and
guide her safely to port.
The mouth of the Sfrait of Jaun
de Fuca is but 15 miles wide and
here tides and winds come from all
directions. Vessels coming to Pu
get Sound from any point on the Pa
cific must head straight for the great
: body of Vancouver Island, 300 miles
i long before turning into the strait.
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Famous last words: “If he don't
dim his 1 won’t dim mine.”
were last heard of in the vicinity of
the West Indies. The department
has listed these vessels as missing
without a trace, and abandoned hope
for their recovery:
Reprisal, lost September, 1777;
General Gates, 1777; Saratoga, 1781;
Insurgent, 1800; Pickering, 1800; the
Hamilton, 1813; Wasp III, 1S13; Ep
ervier, 1815; Lynx, 1821; Wildcat,
1829; Hornet, 1829; Sylph, 1839; Sea
Gull, 1839; Grampus, 1843; Jefferson,
1850; Albany I, with 210 men, 1854;
Levant II, with 210 men, 1860; tug
Nina, sailed from Norfolk and never
heard from, 1910; collier Cyclops,
with 293 persons comprising 14 of
ficers, and 222 men, and 57 passen
gers, sailed March 4, 1919, from Bar
badoes, West Indies; and tug Con
es tago, with four officers and 52 men
from Mare Island, Cal., for Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, 2922.
Naval vessels have searched the
seas for tidings of these missing craft
but their fate remains a mystery.
Naval officers consider the case of
the Cyclops unusually puzzling, for
she was equipped with radio and ap
parently encountered no storms, her
captain last reporting all well and
fair weather. She was 542 feet long
65 feet beam and 19,000 tons. Theo
ries exist that the Cyclops was im
properly loaded and split in two; that
her machinery was disabled and her
radio put out of commission and that
she was scuttled, and that an enemy
submarine destroyed her, but official
information regarding her is wholly
lacking.
Florida Grapefruit Finds
Good Market in Germany
HAMBURG, April 24—The grape
fruit will soon be as popular in Ger
many as the orange, if the American
Department of Agriculture and the
Florida Citrates Exchange have their
way. They are cooperating in put
ting the grapefruit over in Germany
and already the leading fruit defi
ers of Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Mu
nich and other cities carry this Flor
ida product.
A freight steamer loaded exclusive
ly with grape fruit arrived here in
February and this shipment is to be
followed by regular consignments.
CREDIT FOR SERVICE
WELL PERFORMED DUE
SENTRIES OF THE SEA
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.—
Annually the coast guard is writing
new and thrilling chapters of marine
history by its protection of life at
sea and its war on rum runners, but
between times it also is attending
successfully to a multitude of small
duties about which the public hears
nothing.
One of the most unusual requests
ever received was from the head of a
religious cult for specimens of the
purest “sands of the sea" wanted to
heal bodily and spiritual ills. A
station in the vicinity of Catfe Hat
teras, without passing on the cura
tive qualities, has agreed to supply
pure sea sand as requested.
The department of agriculture call
ed upon the coast guard to locate
a place suitable for bee culture, un
der prescribed conditions, and free
from objectionable vegetation. A
propitious spot was found near In
dian River Inlet on the Delaware
coast. Samples of marine growths,
j “singing sands” and other objects
gathered, upon request, by the coast
guard. Many times it has wrestled
'with the question, “What is the most
dangerous part of the coast?” pro
pounded by some curious correspon
dent.
Messages in bottles washed up on
the beaches are coming to be written
into the logs of coast guard sta
tions with progressing frequency. Re
cently one was picked up in a whis
key bottle, the writer of the com
munication saying he had been shang
haied aboard a rum craft and was
being held against his will on rum
row.
Restoring lost children to their par
ents, protecting wrecked property,
fighting forest fires, aiding children
to get to school through coastal
stormstricken regions and assisting
surveying parties, all are among the
odd jobs in which the coast guard
has had a major role.
The illiterate misses some good
things; but think of the rotten things
he escapes.
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the Alaska Shop. tf
AMERICAN PASTIMES
WINNING FOOTHOLD .
CONSERVATIVE ITALY
ROME, April 24.—Serious students
of the drama in the United States
who complain loudly of the growing1
tendency of the moving picture, and
(point to the subordination of the
stage to the silversheet as an indica
tion of America’s provinciality and
uucouthness in matters of art, have
no Italian brethern in anus to check
the growth of popularity in Italy of
all moving pictures, and especially
those from the United States.
The fact is that, while there are
few people here who consider the
cinema a form of art, the moving
picture is carrying everything before
it and is rapidly becoming the favor
ite form of amusement of a large
section of the population of the big
ger Italian cities.
Rome, for example, with a popula
tion under 1,000,000, and burdened by
weighty conventions and traditions
of dignified rejection of modern fads
already has about thirty movie hous
es, many of them quite large, and
usually filled to the doors. And sev
eral weeks ago, the Supercinema,
seating 3,500 persons, was added to
the list. This house, like several
other large ones, shows the best
American, German, French and Eng
lish moving pictures. It is said to
be the largest in Europe and it cer
tainly is one of the most beautiful.
And the moving picture has brot
with it advertising on an American
scale to support the already strong
tendency toward Americanization felt
in many walks of Rome life. The
billboards are plastered with hug*
posters and the newspapers filled
with display advertising to boost the
films.
The radio is coming slowly but
surely into its own in popular fav
or. Jazz just manages to stumble
along in the city of the Popes, but
the cross-word puzzle is having clear
sailing.
j The only man who yearns for a
i younger wife is one who doesn’t
realize how darned old he looks.
If you are wrong and know you
are wrong and everybody knows you
are wrong, there is no salvation ex
cept dignity.
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