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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-05-17
~ NOTES OF
.N SCIENCE MI
MIL AND ~ES
y 1MENTlON

Inc french army Will purchase no
fewer than $50 aeroplanes during 1912.
Tests of human bones show them
to be so per cent stronger than hick-
DRY.
An Italian university professor
Claims to have found radium in or
binary dew.
A noiseIess aeroplane being tried
out by the British army is SO quiet that
its motor cannot be heard so yards
away.
German postal authorities are ex-
perimenttng with a small three-wheel-
ed automobile for the use Of letter
carriers.
An ingenious German baker utili-
zes a windmill to mix and knead his
bread as well as to grind his grain
into -four.
In Siam there are three kinds Of
grape fruits. all seedless. One kind
has red meat. Two kinds are sweet
and one is sour.
1t requires five big volumes to &C
commodate a new condensed diction-
airy for the blind, printed at Vienna
from raised type.
DR.. ]. H. Smith is said to have in
vented a Photographic printing paper
capable Of reproducing in natural col
ors from suitable negatives
Japanese scientists are experiment.
ing with the ginseng plant in the hope
Of maturing it In four or five years
instead of six, as now required.
The worlds largest dry-dock has
been completed at Belfast, Ireland.
1t is $50 feet long and 100 feet wide.
All told, it was eight years in build
ing.
There are 80 dental surgeries for
school children in Sweden, Great bene-
fit has been derived from them, the
children showing marked improve
ment.
Carodoc Roberts, on whom Oxford
recently conferred the degree of doc
tor of music, for an oratorio, worked
at a carpenters bench only a few
years ago.
Men of science have not yet decided
whether microbes are plants or ami
mails.
According to a Partisan physician,
premature badness is the result of
some teething trouble.
For arguing that our world is only
one of many, Giordano Bruno was
burned to death in Rome in 1900.
A French expert estimates the
chance of mistake in Identification by
of finger prints at about one
in II, 000, O00, 900.
The Chinese pen is a brush made of
soft hair, which is best adapted for
painting the curiously formed letters
of the Chinese alphabet.
A bees wings are said to beat tbs
air at the rate of 100 strokes a sec
ond, while the insect can travel a dis
lance of 80 miles an hour.
Photographically to measure and
record the vibrations of a machine or
building is the purpose of a. simple
apparatus invented in England.
A special equipment for study of
the corrosion of non-ferrous metals
has been established at the Univer-
sity of Liverpool by the ~corrosion
committee of the Institute of Metals.
A method of planting eyelashes and
eyebrows has been developed by a
French surgeoR
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MAKE SOLID GOLD CASTINGS
Dentists Have Clever Method Of Sc
curing Piece of Metal Which Is
Free from All BloWhoIes.

By ALBERT F. BISHOP. in the Scien-
tifc American)
Dentists have a very clever method
of making solid gold castings. A train
OF gears is employed, which revolves
a spindle that carries two jointed
arms. The outer end of one arm has
an Enclosure where the little mold is
placed, while the other arm carries a
counterbalance. Just in front OF the
mold is a fireclay block, followed to
receive the gold which is melted with
the blowpipe. The gearing is rapidly
worked by hand, revolving the melted
golI, which is forced very quickly into
the mold. Owing to centrifugal force,
a very solid and clean-cut casting is
made, which is free from blowholes.
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mud. There were IS feet of mud, and
between them and it were these thin
planks that might keel over at any
moment and send them to a sufocat,
ing death. And behind was the hidden
spring OF destruction that might loose
its slime again, food the tunnel and
capsize the planks like cookie shells
On a turbulent sea.
When the man on the first plank
reached the wall on which the natives
were huddled he called to them:
You've seen the way I've come.
Well. I'm going back. but I'm leaving
the planks for you TO follow on. Crawl
along the planks as much like a snake
as you can
Slowly the men on the planks slid
back, leaving the wooden line behind
them. Slowly the natives followed.
Nobody spoke. The black mass IN
derneath looked as hard as a rock, but
was as soft as porridge and trembled
horribly.
AS each man reached the end plank
he vas hauled in to safety and car.
ried half-fainting out OF the tunnel.
The rest dragged themselves YEARLY
on. When the last native arrived his
mates thought he was a stranger. His
hair was perfectly white.
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Feminists There Think of Higher
Things Than the Mere Right
to Vote.

In striking contrast with the WON
ans propaganda in England is the
feminine movement in France. The
feminists are not greatly concerned
about the vote. So little do they care
about it hat they have not broken a
single government window. AS for
smashing the windows Of inoffensive
tradesmen, they would starS aghast
at the suggestion.
The feminists of France think of
higher things than the mere vote.
They want to be the equals of men
in other things. In the higher profess
SONS particularly they do not see why
the monopoly OF them should be in
vested in mere nan So they are leav-
ing the vote alone and going in for
the professions.
The ranks of women doctors, wom-
en- lawyers, women artists and women
professors are increasing every day.
But a feminist triumph OF a novel
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CORPSE IN TWO COUNTRIES

A Russian smuggler was shot re
Gently by Cossacks just as he was
crossing the Austrian boundary, not
far from Czernowitz. The body fell
across the frontier, the head in Rus
sian territory, the trunk on the strip
of neutral ground which forms the
frontier, and the legs in Austria. No
one is competent to lea with the re-
moval of the body, as it fell in diff
ferent countries. 1t was left lying
unburied, the head guarded by Gus
sacks, the rest by Austrian gendarmes.
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Woman Movement in France

kind has to be recorded. A m
has been admitted as an assistant as.
tronomer IN the Observatory OF Paris.
She is Mile. Edmee Chandon. A bril-.
liant mathematician, she was studying
FOR her ~doctorate, and asked to be al.
lowed to enter the observatory. She
proved herself so capable an observer
that the authorities concluded that her
services should be retained. The coun.
Gil of administration of the observa.
tory unanimously passed a resolution
appointing her to the position of as.
sistant astronomer. There is a great
Joy IN the feminist ranks over her
appointment, for the women realize
that Mile. Chandon has furnished an
other proof why their movement
should be respected.
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ANTIQUE BABY CARRIAGE

A veteran" baby carriage, or more
properly speaking coach. which is
known to be some 200 years old, and
the only one of its kind in the coun-
try, was sold at a public auction in a
Pennsylvania town, the other day. A
resident of P~ottstown, Pa, purchased
it for $l21.50, for the purpose Of send
ing 1t to San Francisco in 1915 for
the Panama-Pacific exhibition. The
little vehicle resembles a miniature
stage coach of colonial days.
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PIN IN THROAT SEVEN YEARS

Seven years Ago.. while a Cedina.
Ohio, woman was dressing one of her
children, she swallowed one of a set
of baby beauty pins. set with a pearl.
The pin was unlocked and lodged in
her throat. Physicians were unable.
however, to extract it. During a Sc
we're coughing spell the other night
she coughed up the pin, and other
than suffering a slight irritation of the
throat she is none the worse.
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BIG BATHTUB FOR BIG MAN

A welI-known resident of Au Sable
Forks, N. Y, whose herculean frame
makes him a conspicuous figure at
all times, has received a bathtub z
feet 4 inches in length, 4 feet deep
and weighing 1,940 pounds. The giant
tub will hold 500 gallons of water,
and is made Of solid porcelain four
inches thick. After two steel Orders
We're put in his house to support the
tub, the owner was able to battle in
comfort, hitherto having had to take
his bath in sections, as he stand six
feet four inches and weighs about 400
pounds.
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HOTEL" IN ENGLAND

The first guests" arrived recently
at the new hotel for habitual Grim
inals" at CamphiIl, Parkhurst, Isle OF
Wight. Prisoners who have gained
the privileges OF living in the hotel"
meet together for meals, although a
warder is neal at hand. A large re-
ception room has been provided for
the convenience of prisoners who de-
sire to receive visitors.
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TO BUILD TELEPHONE LINES
Farmers In Any Community Can Con-
struct Own Communication at
Very Little Expense.

The cost Of a mile Of telephone line,
exclusive Of the poles and labor which
can be supplied by the farmers them
selves, is about 81. This is a line US
in 80 poles to the mile and for the
construction of which about IL miles
Of wire are required.
For a full metallic system the cost
is about $14 per mile, and the cost of
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WHERE A BATH is A LUXURY

Although travellers in America are
prone to regard hotel rooms with bath
as a necessary adjunct to travel, it is
quite different in Holland, where
rooms with bath are unknown. When
a hotel guest begs the privilege of US.
ing the tub. a maid appears with tow
els and soap, draws sufficient water of
about the right temperature, and then
locks the faucets. The hotel charges
40 cents for the luxury. By taking
the %precaution of shutting off the wa
ter the hotel prevents a possible trav.
cling companion from sneaking in and
enjoying a bath without coming across
with another 40 cents.
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FROM NEWTON'S APPLE TREE

A log of wood. supposed to be part
Of the famous apple tree in Sir Isaac
Newton's garden, has been presented
to the Royal Astronomical Society.
London. According to tradition the
scientists attention was directed to
the subject of gravity by the fall of
an apple from the tree.
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NEW GUARD RAIL FOR BERTH
Invention, Sadly Needed in Railroad
Trains, Recently Patented by New
York Inventor.

An invention that was sadly needed
is the guardrail for upper berths in
railway trains, patented by a New
York man Among the numerous OBJ
j~ections to the top berth is the oppor-
tunities for rolling out and dropping
into the aisle and the difficulties of
getting into it, Stout men and timid
women find the latter performances
trying. The invention here shown
consists of a guard rail running the
length of the berth and just high
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Cause of Glacial Periods,

Another suggested cause of glacial
periods is that they have been due to
the shifting of the Milky Way, such
as is known to have occurred. AS
Stunning that much Of the earth's heat
m from the stars, DR.. Rudolf
Spitaler finds that the change of po-
sition in relation to the Milky Way
might have given a very different dis
tribution of temperature from that ex-
listing at the present time. The stars
are not only crowded in the region of
the Milky Way, but many of them are
Of the hottest type.
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New Berth Guard Rail.

enough to prevent falling out, yet not
high enough to be an annoyance.
Pivotally mounted at one end of this
rail is a ladder, which normally lies
back across the berth, but which can
be lowered to a vertical position when
the owner of the bunk desires to climb
into it., which he or she can do with
ease.
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FORTUNE FOR FARM HAND

A Welsh farm hand has Just been
informed that he had been left $780,
900 by a relative who went to America
some years ago. and there amassed a
fortune. The lucky recipient is EN-,
ployed on a farm at Tynllwyne, near
Hay, Breconshirs.
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Chair of Copyriuht.

Berlin.-The worlds first professor,
ship of copyright is about to be estab.
lished at the University OF Leipsic.
where the center of the German pub
fishing trade is situated. The chair
will deal not only with literary and ar
tistic copyright, but also with every
thing connected with industrial patent
rights.
The first occupant will be Professor
Planitz of Leipsic, who is a we'll
known specialist on the subject.
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CHANCE FOR PHILATELISTS

1t is announced that the little prin-
cipality of L~ichtenstein, situated be-
tween Switzerland and Vororlberg, in
the Tyrol. is to issue it's own stamps.
In effect it will do away with, or at
least modify the existing convention
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In making the mold, 1t is necessary
for the dentist first to make a pat
tern. This is done by filling tbs cav
fty in the tooth with wax. A wire at
tached to the pattern holds it in place
while the clay mold is being made, as
shown in n Of the figures. When
the mold is complete, the wax is melt
ed out. Another figure shows a Sec
ton Of the mold as when placed on a
rotary arm, also the block in which
the gold is melted.
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RiQQest Gun In WnrId

The biggest gun in the world is a
16-inch b~reechloading rife designed
for the sea coast defense of the Unit
ed States and its insular possessions,
the first n completed being intended
for the Panama Canal.
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Indirect Benefit.

Sorry you couldn't attend our BAN
quet last night, doctor. 1t would have
done you good"
Thank you! 1t has done me good.
! have just prescribed for three of the
guests"
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Increase of Population.

Professor MCGEE, a noted scientist,
figures from the present rate of in
crease that in 200 years from now our
population will be over a billion, and
the total population of the world will
30 twenty billion.
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Cake Cause Of Divorce

Atlanta, Ga.-Because his wife would
not satisfy his fondness for cake,
Richard Davis. Jr, obtained a divorce.
Six hours later Mrs. Lena Hugely be
came his bride with the understand
ing that she was to bake cakes daily.
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OutdeneraIed.

What did you do with all the get
rich-quick money you landed?" asked
Mr.. Famm.
Lost It," replied Mr.. Flimm. "A
fellow invented a get-rich-quicker
scheme and lured me into it." !,
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AS the result Of a letter written by
Miss Bridget Brannagan" to the dis
trict council of Dunshaughlin, County
Meath, Ireland, complaining that there
were too many unmarried men in that
district, 50 bachelors received an I'LL
timatum from the council that they
must marry within three months or
leave their cottages. The men we're
not much dismayed, for there are plen-
ty of pretty girls in the district. one
Of whom is shown in our illustration.
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hours, about 5,840 tons a year; in a
fully developed, healthy adult it beats
about 70 times a minute.
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By ALBERT F. BISHOP. in the scien-
tihc American
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21
\ HEALTH.

l fill this cup TO ~ made up
OF loveliness alone,
A m of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon,
To whom the better element
hnd kindly stars have given
A form 50 fair, that. like the air,
'TlS less of earth than heaven.
Her every tone is music's own,
Like those Of morning birds.
And something more than melody
DWellS ever in her words:
The coinage Of her heart are they,
And from her lips each flows
AS n may see the bufdened bee
Forth issue from the rose.
Affections are as thoughts to her,
The measures of her hours:
Her feelings have the f~ragrancv.
The freshness of young flowers;
And lovely passions, changing oft,
So fill her, she appears
The image of themselves by turns
The idol Of past years,
| fill this cup to n made up
OF loneliness alone
\ IN Of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon
Her health, and would on earth
there stood
Some Of such a frame,
That life might be all poetry,
And WEAKNESS Il name
Edward COate Pinkne'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21
FOURTH DAYS WORK
IS VERY WELDON
MethOdists Home Mission So
cIety Transacts Business
on Fourth Day of Session:
Officers Chosen
tBy ID. T..

Weldon. n. G.. May 1S.-The fourth
DAY $ session of the Woman's Home
Mission Society was one of the mos,
interesting of the meeting and most
OF lhe delegates We're in their seats
Wnen the president. Mrs. John. called
the convention to order. Devotional
service was conducted by Mrs. +. G.
Duncan. Of Raleigh, who read for the
morning lesson the third chapter of
irst John, "Behol what manner of
love, etc.
It was truly inspiring when those
consecrated women Joined in with
glad hearts in singing the opening
hymn, Love Divine. All Love Excel
ling"
On motion Of Mrs. Duncan the
chalr appointed a committee of seven
TO meet with the committee Of the
orel2n Missionary Society to con
slder the question now being strongly
dSltated OF uniting The two societies
Mrs John to be chairman Of the
committee. She appointed Mrs. Lee
Johnson. Mrs. +. c. Duncan, Mrs. ].
G. Fearing. Mrs. y. L. Edgerton. Miss
Lille Duke. Mrs. Charles Miller.
From the report of Mrs. j. G. Fearz
ing it is found tina the total member
ship Of the Home Society is 3.1O1. ~
increase Of $40 over the previous
Year. number Of papers Il leafIers
distributed. 5.105. amount Qf monaI
sent TO Conference secretary for dnor
~S2.10T.10. increase Of s1aS51 ar,1n.
Of money sent To treasurer f,,, GO
ciais. s1.+10.46. increase OF S4lnpp-
expended for local work - a.. -
increase Of s791.35. f'oo
MIS- earring reported IS new ~.
In her splendid talk on The co,a
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21

eli meeting IN Washington citN. she
said: If [ were called on To- say
what was the most beautiful and I'M
preSslVe thing | saw in the wnole
council meeting. it would ht tina
solemn service of the consecration Of
tne deaconneSSeS and missionaries by
BISHOP Hendrix. After they had
oeen presented by Miss Bennett they
knelt IN silent prayer and then on
pended Knee sang Take My Life and
Let II pc C~onsecrated. Lord to Thee
~IaIneo1atefy after Bishop Hendrix
nad ordained them they each with :.
glad heart and shining countenanca
told how they had been led hy tho
i1oly spirit into this work" CON
Llnulng her interesting report Mrs.
Fear1nS said: 4 cannot express to
you the joy and inspiration Of being
able TO attend this council meeting
ana TO come in touch with the strong
spirit OF unity among the workers.
the home and foreign Interests
pienued into one and practically All
me leaders sounded the note Of world
wide Missions
one or the most ~intercstin1 and
Instructive features Of the morning
conducted by Miss Mabel Read. She
IS thoroughly familiar with any cues
ION presented both in the hpn4c and
foreign field and her talk wax ALWAYS
most instructive
Iurlher reports were received from
a~uSlllarleS and these were followed Nv
q Round Table on local ana social
ueparlinent questions, c~onGucted ~
Mrs. w. H. Speicht.
onl1lvating a girls soul j. j. i'm
J1ttIiHIif - & q iJ, -
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21

from that State, Governor Mann. OF
Virginia, with his staff and last but
not least little Miss Claudia Lyon.
daughter Of Colonel Cecil Lyon. Re
publican National Committeeman
from Texas, sponsor of the Texas.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21

News Tpbmngc %mpxh Mis- haa1 Lyon daughter Of Cecil Sn FepmHcn National Committeeman
An naom size can Md by cnparngn with the men walking on the, ladder and working the
building it is interesting to- compare he new Texas with the old Texas which was nuhdn 1892 and which
ar smmomhm rd mna N@ was shot to pieces and sun ng gun practice last spring The Old t
wy ama foot beam m ad a Hn Of m m. feet She viii take he anrt zoo tons md vn
penN-"n "% She will be the first sp to carry fourteen inch guns of which she has ten Her building has
s " 5Smp" 1 ES hg h hH the N Hx hMn bh% % Apn 1 n 1 H1 yM H oxn Mar EITsa n@ x xm Mnn
construction and i'll not launched until sonnet time in July
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21
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II you sufer from Epilepsy, Falling Sickness.
SpasIns; or have children that do SO. my New Treat
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-21

~,ullNatlng q girls soul j. ,e i'm
10 as educating her ha-Gs and
her mlnd.'-Star-etana
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-10-11
WAR ON IN EARNEST
STATES IN THE BALKANS PLAN
TO MOVE ON TURKEY.
Four Hundred Are Slain in Battle Be-
tween 5ulgarians and Turks
on the Border.

London, Oct. 5.-Fighting which began
on the Bulgarian and Servian frontiers
has been renewed with increased Wig
or, and the war III the Balkans is a
reality.
The Balkan governments are rush
ing with all possible haste the compile
ton of their mobilization plans and a
formal declaration of hostilities is now
waited to set the augmented and COM
bined forces of Bulgaria. Greece, Ser
via and Montenegro in motion against
Turkey.
The advance guard OF the Bulgarian
army is advancing on Adrianople, but
serious resistance is being met with
en- route. Several engagements have
been fought. The entire Bulgarian
army will follow this route into Tur-
key, it is believed, as a straight march
from Adrianople would bring the
troops to Constantinople. Four hum
dred troops On both sides are reported
slain in battle at Harmanli, in Bull
garia. 81 miles north of Adrianople.
With the Bulgarians active In north
Eastern 1uIheyI lHS oeTVIdnS nave as
sumed the aggressive on their own
border in northwestern Turkey. and
the Montenegrins are active on the ex-
IRENE northwestern frontier. Three
battalions of Montenegrins have
crossed the frontier north of Skutari.
Across the line they were joined by
the Mallissori tribesmen. and the two
forces are advancing to meet the
Turkish troops. Thus Turkey is har-
rassed at three widely separated
points.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-10-11
NINE DIE IN AUTO COLLISION
Wild Car Hits Two Others at Fair
mount Park, PhiIadeIphia-over
Embankment With Six.

Philadelphia, Oct. S.--Nine persons
are dead as result of the terrific
collision between three automobiles
on the edge of Paramount park, Sun
day One of the cars, which is re-
ported to have been running at high
speed. struck another car which was
hurled against third The wild"
car, containing six men, crashed
through railing on bridge and fell
forty feet, killing all its occupants.
Three other men in the second car
also met death by the force OF the
collision.
The dead: Robert A. Boyd, Edward
Shaw, Jr., Daniel Wilkes, William II.
Lawrence, Gordon H. Miller, Leon
Nevin. Jesse Holmes, Robert Giefel,
Ernest Shofield All are residents OF
Philadelphia.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-10-11
De PALMA HURT IN BIG RACE
Bragg Is WInner--ltaIIan Badly in
Jured In Accident on Last Lap
of Auto Classic.

Milwaukee, Oct S.--Ralph De Pal
ma, in desperate effort to win the
Grand Prix race, was perhaps fatally
injured Saturday when the Mercedes
car he was driving crashed into Caleb
Bragg's machine, travelling 100 miles
an hour, and overturned. Tom Alley,
De Palma's mechanician, escaped
with minor injuries.
Bragg's car leaped from the tangle
and carried It's driver to victory.
De Palma suffered fracture of the
left hip, broken rib and abdominal
injuries. Surgeons said he had a
fighting chance" for recovery.
Bragg's victory without De Palma s
competition was decisive. His time
for the 410 miles was 5:59:25, an
average of 69.3 miles per hour
Erwin Bergdoll. the Philadelphia
millionaire. was second.