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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
LUKE RINKER
AT SALTLAKE
Arrives from Overseas with Other
Wounded Companions.

Luke Rinker, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Rinker of this city, arrived in
Salt Lake Saturday from overseas,
with other wounded companions, and
will be stationed at Fort Douglas un-
til discharged. His picture, together
with those of three wounded compan-
ions, all from Idaho, appeared in Sun
days Salt Lake Tribune, and while
he looks like the same old Luke, he
is bigger, manlier He has fallen
among warm friends, as the following
letter from Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff Patten
to The Index indicates:
"Please find enclosed a clipping
from the Salt Lake Tribune of one of
our Emmett heroes. We say "our
hero" because we are as proud of him
as any Emmett citizen can be-. We
made q rush for Fort Douglas as soon
as we found out he was here. We had
the pleasure of having Luke and his
buddy, Mr.. Henderson from st. An
thony, Ida, to our house for supper
this evening. They sure had some IN
teresting experiences to tell us.
"Luke is recovering from his wounds
nicely and sure looks fine, as his pic
ture will show-"some man." When
YOU get through with the clipping,
please give it to Mrs. Rinker and tell
her that while her boy is in Salt Lake
he will not want for anything. Our
home is sure open to him"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Emmett Woman Dies.

News of the death of Mrs. Lucia
j. Sabin at the home of her daughter
Stella in Los Angeles, Calf, on jan
uary 26, came in a letter this week
from Miss Lynn Judd. The older
residents of Emmett will remember
Mrs Sabin as being for many years
a resident of this city. Her husband
plated one of the additions to the
city which yet bears his name. The
letter conveying the information also
stated that = daughter Was born to
Mrs. Sanford, formerly Stella Sa4
bin, on January l6.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Shriners to Entertain

The Shriner's Club of Emmett have
issued 300 invitations to their Valen-
tine Day ball, Friday, February Ia,
and brilliant affair is in store. The
invitations are being sent to MEM
bers of the Shrine in all neighboring
towns. The club extends cordial in
vitation to all Masons and ladies',
Eastern Stars and returned soldiers
to attend without the formality of an
invitation. Elaborate decorations are
contemplated by the committee in
charge and the ball room will be a
scene of Oriental beauty in keeping
with the history of the order.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
From Berle Kelley.

The following letter was received
last week by Harry Shropshire, Jr.,
from Berle Kelley, in France:
Dec. 26-Dear Pal: What slouch
/ am at writing. / should have an
swered your letters long ago. The
only excuse l have is that we have
been rather busy the last four
months. What mean is, really busy.
But having wound up the watch on
the Rhine and put out the Hohenzol-
lern cat, we are taking it easy for
the time we have to stay here to see
that Fritz doesn't get another attack
of Kultur.
Yesterday was our big day. We
had a good dinner and in the after
noon an entertainment and Christmas
tree with present for every man.
drew pipe. A few of the Christmas
boxes from home got here in time to
be given out. That certainly put a
smile on the faces of the lucky ones.
The pictures you sent sure looked
good, especially as l got them at a
time when our chances of getting out
with a whole skin were about as slim
as ever saw them. We were on the
Argonne front at the time and it GER
tainly was no health resort. We are
located now in little village between
the towns of Ahrwiler and Bad Naue-
nahr, both summer resorts on the
Abr river, about fourteen kilometers
from the Rhine We are billeted in
the German houses here. We get
along with them very well by letting
them strictly alone. The people seem
to have all they want to eat, but there
is very little extra. Anything to eat,
such as candy or cakes, costs small
fortune.
Well, Shrop., as it is getting late
and we arise at $50, must close.
Give my best regards to all friends.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Back from Scotland

Robert Sproat and daughter, Miss
Jean, who recently arrived at Boise
returning from a visit to the old home
at Dumfries, Scotland, spent Saturday
at the home of Mr.. Sproats daughter,
Mrs. Andrew Little. Miss Jean re-
turned to Scotland about 10 years ago
and has completed her education there
and in London graduating in music
with the highest honors. Mr.. Sproat
went to Scotland from his Fairfield
home soon after the beginning of the
war, keen to do his bit. Being refused
entrance to the army he went to work
in a munitions factory that he might
have live part in war activities. Mr..
Sproat has made several return visits
to Scotland since his adoption of
Sunny Idaho as his home but is now,
as always, delighted to be back to the
land of his choice.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Getting Ready for Work

Machinery for the construction of
the drainage system down the valley
is arriving at Falk, and the big dredge
is expected daily. Work will start on
the lower end of the ditch. Geo. w.
Knowles has been employed as super
vising engineer and surveyor by the
contracting company.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Tunnel Nears Completion

w. H. Sisler, who has the contract
to line the long tunnel on the Canyon
canal with a coating of cement, re-
ports that he will complete the work
next week. He is now cementing the
floor.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06

tages as to climate, soil, pleasant and
homelike surroundings and its attrac-
tiveness as a place in which to live
are unsurpassed, and should have
great weight in making the selection
of site for this home for Odd Fell
lows.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
New Bridge Over Canal

The Farmers Cooperative Canal
Company is building new bridge over
the canal on Wardwell avenue, under
the supervision of Cal Burt. The new
structure will have cement abutments
and will be eight feet wider and two
feet lower than the old one.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Disabled Soldiers

A. o. Sutton is desirous of obtain
ing names and information concern
ing returned soldiers who are disabled
that they may have the opportunity OF
securing training offered by the FEEDER
al Board of Vocational Education.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Sells Town Residence

A. Hoistad this week sold his resi-
dence on Second street to Richard Sut-
ton, who will take possession March l.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Next Lecture Course Number

The next number of lecture course
will be given by Miss McLaren, reader
and impersonator, in Liberty theater
February 10. This is Miss McLaren's
second appearance and she will un-
doubtedly be greeted with full
house, as she was strong favorite
at her first appearance.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the CONNER
cial Club will be held Tuesday evening
Of next week. A complste new set OF
officers are to be elected. and it IS
hoped tAere win be . full attendance.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
In the Race

Emmett will make an offer for the
proposed l. o. o. F. home at the regu-
lar meeting of Emmettsville lodge
Monday evening. A comsnittee was ap-
pointed to secure an option on several
2e-aers tracts near III city Is alto
for The Institution. EMmstt's adyan-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Is the Official Paner

The board of county commissioners
on Monday accepted the bid of The
Index for the legal printing of Gem
county and made it the official county
paper.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-06
Ftsn sefrt. Ges. Simon.

Prum, Germany. Dec. 22.- Dear
Dad: Well, here ne are at last loeat-
Cd in this littla town (ah6ut $500 peo-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

American station. This, too, is drawn
clear across the chart and at the point
where it crosses the line from the
European station is the exact location
of the airship. In other words, the air
SHIPS exact latitude and longitude are
read directly from the chart from the
position of the intersection of the lines
upon it.
Such is the method of navigating an
airship. Its remarkable virtue lies in
the fact that it is absolutely unaffected
by any terrestrial conditions, such as
fog, rain, mist, haze, thunderstorm or
change of temperature Moreover, it
has the added virtue of becoming more
correct the nearer land is approached.
There are, however, several tre-
mendous difficulties that have been
overcome in developing this apparatus
In the first place, the coils that can be
used on an airship are so small that
the amount of current they pick up is
infnitesimal and with ordinary wire
less apparatus would be completely
useless.
AS it is impossible to utilize "aerial"
wires usually associated with wireless
stations for the purpose of direction
finding, it became necessary to develop
receiving apparatus that would mag
nifty the minute currents picked I'D by
the cable, SO that they could be used
to advantage for navigational purposes
This is done by the "seven-valve
amplifier" developed and perfected by
Captain Chandler of the naval section
of the British Royal Air Force. 1t is
based upon DR.. Lee de Forests in
vention-the Audion
The remarkable and astounding
feature of this development of the
Audion is that it takes up and magn-
iles currents SO minute that no human
computation can comprehend them
There is no apparat known to sci
ence delicate enough to measure them
How then can such a minute cur
rent be utilized? The best way for
the lay mind to understand is to COM
pare the action of the seven-valve
amplifier with the action of soldiers
rifle.
When soldier pulls back the ham
mer Of his gun before firing, he
transfers energy from his own body
and stores it up in the spring that
controls the firing action Of hiA xifls,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

This energy remains stored up in the
spring until it is released by pressure
on the trigger, and the gun fred Now
the amount of pressure on the trigger
is very light, really only enough to
release the stored up energy in the
spring. This pressure of itself would
never explode the cartridge.
1t is just this kind of action that
enables the seven-valve amplifier to
magnify the weak currents received
by the direction finder, and so make
aerial navigation possible. These cur
rents, while too weak to be recorded
of themselves, are yet able to release
the stored up energy in the machine
controlled by the amplifer until a suf-
ficient amount has been obtained to
record their presence
There are other factors that have
to be taken into consideration with
this system, but they are chiefly Of
a correctional character, and too tech
nical to be explained in such an article
as this. For instance, the steel stays
and wire bracing of the airship have
the peculiar property Of rejecting
electro magnetic waves This if not
carefully corrected would make q seri-
Gus error in the calculation.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Striking Paregoric

\ N amusing anecdote is going the
L n rounds in connection with the
search for petroleum in Derbyshire.
England. 1t is reported that Lord Cow
dray is beginning to bore in various
places, known to the drilling profess
sion as wildcat wells. His agent found
promising indications in one locality
presumably Foxstones), and forward
ed a bottle containing a sample of the
first crude petroleum from the pros
pect. Being in somewhat of a hurry.
Lord Cowdray handed the bottle to
one of his servants. The man started
out with the bottle and note. but
stopped to visit his family on the
way, He suddenly remembered his
errand; and, picking up from the shelf
what he thought was the same bottle.
hurried out to deliver it. In the morn
ing Cowdray received from the chem
ist telegram to the effect that con-
gratulations were in order in view of
the greatest find Of the century. add
ing "You have struck paregoric -
Engineering and Mining Journal.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Eliminating Steam

DAILROAD electrification is still
IN looked upon by the general
public and by railroad men as
having its chief merit in re-
lieving cities and tunnels of the OBJ
noxious smoke and cinders belched
forth by the steam locomotives. Elec-
trical men have in recent years en-
phasized the economy Of electric train
service and in paper presented by S.
I. Doda before the Western Railway
Club this Is very strikingly shown
AS reported in this issue, Mr.. Dodd
cited figures proving that 100000 900
of the 140,000,000 tons of coal now
burned annually by our railroads could
be saved by general electrification. In
view of the continued, if not increas-
ing, need for conserving the fuel re-
sources of the country for future gen.
erations, the urgency of attacking the
problem and at least checking this
gigantic annual waste should be given
prompt and careful attention. - Elec.
tSSooI RsvtetA
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Sleepless Eyes!

4 Ii fishes which sleep do so with
n their eyes open, as they are not
provided with eyelids. and cannn.-.
therefore, close their eyes. From ex-
perience made it was discovered
that some fishes have no preference
for the night time, but sleep equally
well during the day, says a writer
in "The Post-Intelligencer," of
Seattle.
They may be observed resting
quite motionless for periods, ap-
parently in sleep, except that. hav-
ing no eyelids, they are unable to
close their eyes to exclude all in
fiuences from without.
The hare also sleeps with its eyes
open, for the simple reason that its
eyes are unprovided with eyelids.
Instead of these thsre is a thin
membrane which with certain birds
folds like curtain in the corner of
the eye, and, by an instantaneous
action, flies back when sight IS re-
CURED, leaving the eye Immediately
and fully open for the exercise of
sight.
Some birds. such as the eagle,
also have this membrane, which,
when at rest, lies in the corner Of
the eye, folded up like drawn cur
A~S~
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
How the Rigid Dirigible R-34 Navigates

This remarkable fact has been made
possible by utilizing the peculiar prop
critics of the electro magnetic waves
which are the medium Of transmission
in wireless telcgraphy. These waves
have a purely directional effect upon
closed coil of wire.
If we take q coil of wire wound on
a suitable wooden frame it will be pos
sible to obtain signals from any wire
less station-with suitable receiving
pparatus-provided the edge of the
coil is pointed direct toward the send
ing wireless station. The moment the
coil is turned in either direction away
from the station the signals cease to
be recorded upon the receiving instru-
ments
Now that is the fundamental fact
upon which the remarkable "direction
finder" is based There are, however,
several complicated details that enter
into consideration when making an
observation" with it.
For the present we will describe
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

how the navigating officer of an air
ship locates the exact position Of his
ship and lays out it's course upon his
charts. We will assume the ship to be
crossing from England to Cape May.
n. J., and that it is halfway across
the ocean, or, in other words, it is in
35 degrees west longitude and As de-
grees north latitude.
Our ship Will be going forward
through the air at speed of seventy
miles an hour 1000 feet above the roll
ing waters of the Atlantic. From this
altitude the ocean appears fairly fiat
with peculiar white markings, partially
shrouded in a grayish haze.
In the operating cabin the navigat-
ing officer is poring over a track chart
of the North Atlantic, while the wire
less operator is slowly moving a
wooden frame, with wire wound around
it, through a few degrees of its circle.
In front of the coil a spirit compass
points its needle perpetua.ly toward
the magnetic North Pole.
Presently the wireless operator picks
up we'll known European wireless
station engaged in sending out news.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

He fixes the coil at the correct angle
and then carefully notes how many
degrees to port or starboard the bear
ing Of the coil reads. This is carefully
noted in connection with the compass
reading and the information turned over
to the navigating officer.
The latter has before him the official
book of the International Radio Con-
vention, giving him the true positions
of every wireless station on land in
the world He therefore knows the
exact latitude and longitude of the
wireless station heard by the wireless
operator.
Upon his chart he marks this posi-
ton down, and then, following the we'll
known navigational formula for deter
mining the unknown angle, he obtains
a great circle bearing from the wire
less station. The great circle line he
obtains is drawn clear across the chart,
and he knows that somewhere upon
that line the airship is located, but
cannot with this one observation de-
termine just where.
The wireless operator now turns his
coil completely around and listens in
for some station on the American coast.
The same process is gone through and
a great circle line obtained from the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Closeup view of broken stern frame

cast steel stern frame (the casting
which supported the rudder), for
just above the uppermost gudgeon
the whole section of the stern frame
on which the rudder was hinged was
cracked through at position where
the frame was hollow but thick
walled and measured almost two feet
in diameter.
In handling this injury a mechani-
cal repair was considered out of the
question, and there remained only
the alternative of making a thermit
weld or Of purchasing an enormous
ly expensive new casting and INSTALL
ing it at a cost of many thousands.
Although the fracture was larger
than that of any marine weld ever
before made, the fundamental diff
culties of such an operation were
not serious. This process, therefore,
finally was chosen.
Thermit, it may be explained, is
mixture Of aluminium and iron
oxide. This mixture can be ignited
by means Of special ignition powder,
and on reaction produces superheat-
ed liquid steel and Stag aluminium
oxide) at q temperature of approx
imately 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.
This thermit steel is sufficiently
hot to dissolve any metal with
which it comes in contact and ANAL
gamates with it to form a solid,
homogeneous mass when cool.
In making the weld in question a
scaffolding and working platform,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
The thermit reaction

twenty feet above the floor of the
dry dock, first had to be constructed.
Next three-inch gap was cut out
of the steel section at the location of
the break with an oxy-acetylene
torch. The space thus formed be-
tween the parts later to be united
then was filled with wax, to serve as
pattern. This pattern was sur
rounded by a large mould box, and
the sections heated redhot by means
of gasolene and compressed air
torches, directed through openings
in the mould. This operation of pre-
heating also burned all the wax out
of the mould, thus forming a space
for the molten thermit steel later
to enter.
Two large crucibles, each contain
ing 700 pounds of thermit, were sus-
pended above the mould box. As the
time approached for setting off the
spectacular, dazzling white reaction,
the impending fireworks" attracted
the attention of several hundred
naval officers, sailors and civilian
employees, and the steps at the end
Of the dry dock served as a great
amphitheatre for the audience.
Both crucible reactions were set
off simultaneously by stationing a
man on a ladder at each crucible. On
signal, each man ignited, with red
hot rod, the teaspoonful of ignition
powder which lay on top of the ther-
nit; then, as the reaction started,
jumped down and retired to safety.
About forty-fve seconds was all
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
.HE British rigid dirigible R-34
will fly from England to Cape
l. May, N. j., this week by way

will fly from England to Cape
N May, N. j., this week by way
Of Newfoundland. The total
distance of more than 5000 miles will
be flown without a stop. Weather
makes no difference.
Those are the main facts Of the official
attempt Of the British government to
fly across the Atlantic with a Fighter
than air" ship, and no stops.
There is, however, an interesting
point in this attempt that has been
carefully screened from the public, pri-
marily as a secret Of the war. but
chiefly on account of its highly tech
nical character. That is the question
OF aerial navigation.
How can q giant airship CARVING
thirty men be steered on true course
across the Atlantic?
At the altitude it must travel q oooa
sun observation is practically out of
the question, owing to the difficulty of
obtaining a clear and we'll defined ho-
rizon, so necessary to determine correct
solar angles. This has been definitely
proved in the case of the NC seaplaues
and Hawker's attempt.
In the event Of cloudy, hazy or misty
weather sun observation is entirely i'm
possible. 1t may certainly be stated
that the ordinary methods of naviga
tlon employed ON shipboard are almost
impossible on aerial craft crossing the
Atlantic.
Fortunately the navigation Of the
air has been placed on u sure and ac-
curate basis by ono of the most re-
rarkable inventions of the war. 1t is
possible for tho navigator Of an air
ship to obtain tho true position Of
his craft irrespective of any weather
conditions. Moreover, this "position"
will have a smaller percentage Of error
than the best sun observation ever OBJ
tanned by the navigating officer Of a
ship at sec
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
NHE huge 526 foot army
transport Northern Pacific
ran aground in dense fog


transport Northern Pacific
ran aground in a dense fog
only 800 yards from shore
off Fire Island, Long Island, N. Y,
on January 2, and readers will re-
call the vivid newspaper accounts of
the thrilling rescues, by breeches
buoy and overturning lifeboats, of
her three thousand passengers, in
Guiding many wounded soldiers.
Finally the successful efforts, al
though not until over two weeks
later, of a fleet of tugboats in easing
the steamship off the sand shoal, al
lowed her to proceed to New York
under her own steam.
Since the Northern Pacific was
pulled off the beach her history
seems to have escaped public notice.
When the Northern Pacific was
finally perched safely high and dry
on the ways of a 3o-foot deep dry
dock in the New York Navy Yard
she underwent Physical examina-
ton" which hardly required an ex-
pert to diagnose some of her in
juries caused by the waves when she
was stranded. Her interior ma
chinery was badly disabled and her
turbines were thrown out of align
ment. A great many Of her plates
were badly battered and had to be
replaced with new plates. In addi-
ton to this, the problem arose as to
what should be done with her huge
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Radio Indi-
Gators for
PLANES

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New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Can the
w or1d
Starye?

VX ILL the time come when
w the world cannot feed its
inhahitants9 Not, accord
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Complete thermit weld

allowing the molten steel to escape
into the mould. When the weld had
cooled, it was examined and found
entirely satisfactory and fit for SER
vice.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Potential Paper Pulp

Twenty million tons of paper
pulp can be produced annually from
lndia's bamboo and grasses, declares
recent estimate.-Popular Me-
chanics.