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The Washington times., 1919-05-29
Aero Fire Department
To Fight Forest BIazeS
Is the Latest Novelty
Copyright, 1913,
BY R L Goldberg.

mountains to the mouth OF Mill creek,
thence back to the base.
The second route starts at March
field, circles east over Beaumont and
Banning, covering the south slope of
the Angeles front near the head of
Mill creek, then turning south along
the southwest slope OF the San
Jacinto mountains, covering the
headwaters OF the San Jacinto river
in the Cleveland National Forest,
thence back to the base at March
field.
In each route two planes will
operate, one starting at 10 o'clock
each morning. the other at 1 o'clock
in the afternoon, thus covering the
routes twice a day. Each OF these
patrols is about one hundred miles
in length.
To Use Parnehufea.
Reports of nres located will be
made either by parachute dropped
over a town, the finder to phone them
in: by special landing to phone in at
telephone box reporting stations; by
returning to the base, or by radio
phone.
Fires will be located by squares
drawn on duplicate maps, one In the
possession OF the observer, the other
in the forest supervisors office.
If the tests and demonstrations
prove satisfactory, as experts declare
they will. a vast expansion Of this
means of forest protection over other
States will follow.
The planes to be used on the Cali
fOrnia routes are Of the Curtiss
JN-4-H type, and are equipped with
radio. A base Is being established
at Warmers Hot Springs. where tent
hangers and a radio station are now
being erected.
The altitude at which the planes
will operate will be determined by at
mospheric conditions, but when posi-
BILE will be at a height OF 5000 or
5000 feet, which will give a wide
range OF vision.
In addition to the alrplane patrols,
system of radi-phones Is being
tried out in reporting forest fires. A
station has been set up on Mt. Hood.
$4,000 feet high, with radio-phones at
the various ranger stations. 1t had
previously been the custom to string
telephone wires. but these were in
constant peril OF falling timber and
were hard to maintain.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
SEN. HITCHCOCK TO BOOST
LEAGUE WITH AIR CIRCUS

Senator Gilbert N. HScheoex. for
mer Democratic ehairr4sn OF the
Foreign Relations Committee, Is en-
route to Springfield. Ill, where he will
Join the flying circus Of the League
OF Nations and stump the county in
support Of the PRESIDENT x.
Among the SPEAKERS In the party
are former President Taft. DR.. A. Law
renee Lowell, president Of Harvard
University; DR.. Stephen S. Wise.
George w. Wickersham. former At
torney General. and Hamilton Holt.
Senator Hitchcock will speak In
Springfield Thursday night, and then
proceed to meetings at Kansas City,
No, and Omaha
Administration forces are endeavor-
ing to start q back-hre on the oppo-
sition to the League OF Nations which
Democratic members OF Congress re-
port to have found widespread in the
Middle West
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
KAHN MAY GIVE MILITARY
BILL TO HOUSE MONDAY

Chairman Kahn OF the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee, expects 10
give his peace-time military program
to the House next Monday. He has
obtained permission to speak then on
his observations abroad and their
relation TO the future military policy.
Kahn plans to push through q mill
tarY appropriation bill-since il
should be passed before July with
out any reference TO military policy.
then give the latter phase extensive
consideration during the later sum-
mer months.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
TO nIsCrss sHIP POLICY.

Representatives of Pacific coast
ship yards will confer today with the
shipping board relative to the boards
action in suSpending or Cancelins
large numbers of contracts awarded
those plants. Senator Jones of Wash
ington, who arranged for the confer
enCe. sold that - per cent of the con
tracts with the. yards either had been
suspended or Cancelled. and that a seri-
Gus situation was threatening at the
plants, where from 100000 to 160, 900
men normally were employed.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
SUFFRAGE DEBATE
WILL START SOON

Agreement is being sought today
whereby the Senate will begin debate
on the woman suffrage resolution
early next week, probably Tuesday.
If this can be accomplished, suffrage
leaders believe the question can be
disposed Of without long discussion.
they said today.
If the opponents Of suffrage decline
TO agree to let the resolution come
up, the new woman suffrage commit
tee will meet and report it out, thus
getting it on the calendar. whence it
can be called UP by a majority vote
of the Senate.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
EK-CROWN PRINCE
ON MYSTERY TRIP

THE HAGUE. Hay 2s.-Ths Ger
man former crown prince Unexpectedly
left wieringen yesterday with two
Dutch civil officials in motor car
to a post boat, which conveyed the
party to Ewycksluis a total distance
of ten miles. where another automo-
bile containing two other men was
waiting. states a copyright dispatch
to the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The five of them then disappeared
in a cloud Of dust. sEhey had prob
ably gone fishing or hunting. yet the
movements Of the Crown Prince, in
the present state Of Germany, are al
ways viewed NTH suspicion
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
CHICAGO SCHOOL BOARD
FIRES" ITS $4,000 CHIEF

CHICAGO. May 20.-Chicago's 70
Gently appointed superintendent of
schools. Charles Il. Chadsey, whose
salary was fixed at $4,000, was re-
placed yesterday through action Of
newly appointed school board. by
Peter 4. MOrteSen.
\ political contest is back of the
change. Mr.. Hhadscy. IN more than
two months incUmbenry. has never
received any OF his salary.
Mr.. Loeb formally notified the new
board that he considered all its aC-
tions illegal. He is expected to carry
the dispute into the courts.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
BLANT0N TO FIGHT FUNDS
FOR EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

Congressman Thomas l.. BIanton of
Texas assailed the United Statos
Employment Service on the floor
of the House, when he spoke against a
rider on the agricultural bill which
would give SlO,OOO.OOO to the employ
ment service.
There are SCI highly-paid Officers
in this service in Washington " 10
said. IF this rider goes through 7
know. on reliable authority. that these
officers intend to raise their salaries
materially.
II want 10 put the House on notice
now. 1hat every time this rider hobs
up. ] intend to night to knock il our
if possible
Mr.. Blanton charged that the leg
islation is intended for only few
persons.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
ELECTION COMMITTEE TO
TAKE UP BERGER'S CASE

Victor Berger's right to a seat in
the House viii be taken up by the
Special Elections Committee June II.
Congressman DallinEer. Msssachu-
sets, chairman, announced TODAY.
Berger has been assured a full hear
ing and the right TO offer all evil
denCe he secs fit, Dallingcr said.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
COSTS $3.50 A DAY TO LIVE
IN PETR0GRAD, is REPORT

Workers in Petrograd are unable
TO live on less than 500 rubles a day
the State Department was advised to-
day through Swedish press reports.
Before the war a ruble was worth
so cents. Food ratiOns, the report
said, have been further reduced for
workers. The last health report at
Petrograd showed an average of one
thousands deaths a day out OF a
100000 population.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
PICNIC FOR MINNESOTA YANKs.

Minnesota soldiers, sailors, and
marines will be given a picnic by the
Minnesota girls employed i'm ii1e vari-
Gus government departments, at
Great Falls on Saturday. The party
will leave Thirty-sixth and VI streets,
between 4:30 and p. N.
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
MAJOR HERON no SPEAK.

Major V w. =. Heron. liaiSon officer
with the British military mission. viii
speak 'on Empire Day" at A meet
ing OF the British and Canadian Pa
triOtic Society To he held at Perpetual
Hall, 11Ol r street northwest. Satur-
day night. The speech viii be fol-
lowed by moving pictures and re-
freEhments
The Washington times., 1919-05-29

The aeroplane FIRE department has
arrived.
On June 1 the War Department will
begin an airplane patrol in Califor-
MIA to watch for forest fires.
The patrol has been evolved through
the efforts of the commanding Off
GERS OF the army balloon school at
school at March field, Riverside, Cal.
Under the new plan a captive bal
loon is to swing high above the for
est as a 'watchtower" OF the skies,
while two aeroplanes circles over a
given beat and the observers contin-
ually watch for telIta1e smoke signs.
The observation balloon will float
at a height OF about 5000 feet above
the balloon field at Arcadia, and an
observer will be on duty from a. m.
to 2:30 p. m. each day. He will be
furnished with a map of the front of
the Angeles National Forest from La
Canada to San Dimas canyon and can
probably give adequate lookout serv-
ice as far north as the crest of the
San Gabriel watershed. The student
detachment learning observation. now
stationed at MI wilson, Will also rem
der lookout service. Reports OF fires
from both. the balloon observer and
the Mt Wilson detachment win come
in by phone to the balloon school at
Arcadia and will be transmitted to
the forest service at Los Angeles. so
that quick call for the fire-fighters
can be made.
HaIf-TOn Water Truck.
In addition to the lookout service,
one and one-half-ton truck.
equipped with a fifty-gallon tank Of
water, shovels, canteens, axes, and
observation-disclosures, will be kept at
Arcadia and will be available for in
slant service. The truck is to be
manned by ten enlisted men from the
balloon school and will become a
unit OF the fire-fghting forces under
the Forest Service.
The two aeroplane patrol routes
have been laid out starting and end
ing at March field. twelve miles
southeast of Riverside. The first
route covers a circle. touching on its
west the east edge of the area COW
cred by the observation balloon and
zigZagging east, in and out of the
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
CUTS TO Be MADE
IN NAVAL BUDGET

Large reductions In approprla-
tons asked by the navy for the next
fiscal year will be made by the House
Naval Affairs Committee, Chairman
Butler and other members predicted
today.
No desire is evinced to impair the
efficiency and fighting strength Of
the navy, despite Secretary Daniels
high hopes for the League of Nations
cutting down large naval expendi-
lures by nations. But the conviction
is strong in this committee that many
of the estimates can be slashed con-
slderably so as to help relieve the
burden on the treasury. Besides Butler.
Browning, y. J.: Riordan, ~ Y:
Hicks. y. Y; Britten, Ill: Oliver.
Ala, and Stephens. Ohio, are among
the members favoring reductions.
They do not belive IL is necessary
to keep at full war strength, prac-
tically all the fighting craft in COM
mission during the war, as acting
Chief OF Operations Mexican has
recommended,
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
Calls Old ships Tubs.

at costs nearly S75O.OOO a year to
keep some Of our old ships in com
mission, and they are nothing more
than tubs" Butler said. why can't
these be put IN reserve?"
Mexican favors using the older
ships for training. One or two out
of-date battloships probably will be
used as targets. he said, as there is
no other use for them.
The committee also seems 10 fav-
or reducing the complement recon-
mended on all the ships to an abso-
lutte minimum. a. it costs about 81 200
yearly to maintain each man. Sew
eral members. inClYiing Representa-
tive Oliver, Alabama, believe the
complement figures suggested by
Mexican will overcrowd the vessels
The Washington times., 1919-05-29
COP. CHIEFS
WILL PROBE
SPENDING Of
50 BILLIONS

Republican leaders in the House
have started In to find out what the
Government did with the nearly
100000 spent during the war.
The introduction of a resolution to
investigate expenditures in the War
Department. by Representative
Graham, Illinois, was the opening
gun in the series, it was stated by
prominent Republicans today.
Democrats, anticipating such a
move, have placed members of
recognized ability on committees
which win have the work to do.
Committees on expenditures in the
Government departments seldom as
sumo importance, but during this
session they promise to be the
esnter of q battle royal for weeks
b come.
Probe Food and Fuel Boards.
Demands. made on the floor Of the
Hopse, for some accounting of the
800, 900. 600 turned over to President
ton. also. The Republicans plan a
special committee to delve into &C
counts Of the Food and Fuel Admin
tstrations and the War Industries
Board. Committees now constituted
cannot reach the three war agencies,
q is said.
~Dollar-a-year" men probably will be
brought in to tell what they know
about Government expenditures. Vast
ohEnrhad fhrnn1h 90
the war volunteers" have attracted
the attention of five or six House
committees, IL was learned 4
There were indications, too, that
many members would like to know
reasons for appointments of some of
the volunteers. This applies also to ,
scores of high ranking officers in the
War Department who, Congressman
Moore OF Pennsylvania asserted, are /
drawing more salary now than ever I
before in their lives
"NS Limit" On Game.
Chairman Graham's committee will /
not he content with statements (
from the men in control at the War 4
Department" leading Republicans de- .
elAred. /
1t purposes to drag into the lime
light practically all persons who had
large dealings with the department
through contracts Committeeman
said there would be no limit" on the
game.
According TO present plans Of -1e
Republicans, the next department TO 1
be tagged win be Labor. Frequent /
references on the House door this
week have made plain the majority
Gde intends to probe salaries in the
Labor Department The National
War Labor Board. with its scores OF
S3aminefs. investigators. and attor-
nays has drawn IRE on several occa-
sons
See Attack on BurIeson.
Democratic leaders admit they an
delpate an attempt 'to get some
thing on Burleson" will be made.
As a result, Congressman Byrnes of
Tennessee and Congressman Humph-
reys OF Mississippi have been assign
ed to the Committee on Expenditures
IN the Postoffce Department. They
believe that IL a move is made 10
overthrow the Postmaster General il
viii come from that committee.
Republicans already have planned
TO go into affairs Of the Shipping
Board. This investigation, however.
was said to be aimed at raising the
lid on the shipbUiIding contracts let
by the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Following this. some House mem
bers believed. the trail might lead
back to the Shipping Board itself. but
the general disposition appeared to be il
against disturbing il unless revela-
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British Stand Ready
to Help the American
Relief Workers in East

ConstantinopIe, June 21.-The An
gio-American entente is no idle
dream. Out here in the Near East II
has taken practical form. Wherever
an American needs help, wherever
. representative or groups of Amer
lean relief workers need lift there
bobs up a courteous British officer or
soldier intent on cementing the en-
tente.
Do American Red Cross personnel
need to transport supplies or per-
sonnel from Athens to Rome to Con-
stantinople, to Asia Minor, to Sa-
loniki, the Rumanian coast? There is
room aboard a British destroyer,
"subchaser" or motor lorry. For
meals and transportation no charge
is made.
The Balkan traveller strikes a
lonely town in mid Siberia. British
officers take him or her into their
mess. They speed Mr.. or Miss Ameri-
ca on his or her way with liberal
supply of canned goods for the trip
and place a motor truck or car at his
or her diSpoSal.
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the ship looked like toy boat, it was
such long way off. Soon it had en-
tirely disappeared in the gloom, and
then Dorothy gave sigh of regret
at parting with Uncle Henry and
began to wonder what was going to
happen to her next.
Just now she was tossing on the
bosom of big ocean with nothing to
keep her afloat but miserable
wooden hen-coop that had a plank
bottom and Slated sides, through
which the water constantly splashed
and wetted her through to the skin!
And there was nothing to eat when
she became hungry-as she was sure
to do before long-and no fresh wa
ter to drink and no dry clothes to
put on.
Well" I declared" she exclaimed,
with a laugh. You're in a pretty
| fix, Dorothy Gale, can tell you! and
haven't the least idea how you're
going to get out of it,"
AS If to add to her troubles the
I night was now creeping on, and the
gray clouds overhead changed to
inky blackness. But the wind, as
IL satisfied at last with it's mischie-
vous pranks. stopped blowing this
ocean and hurried away to another
part OF the world to blow some-
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The Girl in the Chicken Coop

The wind blew hard and joggled
the water of the ocean, sending rip
pies across its surface. Then the
wind pushed the edges of the rip
pies until they became waves, and
showed the waves around until they
became pillows. The pillows rolled
dreadfully high: higher even than
the tops of houses. Some Of them,
indeed, rolled as high as the tops of
tall trees, and seemed like noun
tains; and the CULTS between the
great billows were like deep val
leys.
And this mad dashing and splash
ing of the waters of the big ocean,
which the mischievous wind caused
without any good reason whatever,
resulted in a terrible storm, and a
storm on the ocean is liable to cut
many queer pranks and do a lot of
damage.
At time the wind began to
blow. a ship was sailing far out
upon the waters. When the waves
began to tumble and toss and to
grow bigger and bigger the ship
rolled up and down, and tipped side
wise-first one way and then the
other - and was jostled around so
roughly that even the sailor-men
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after the hired men and to take
care of the farm, while he travelled
far away to Australia to visit his
cousins and have a good rest.
Dorothy was eager to go with
him on this journey, and Uncle
Henry thought she would be good
company and help cheer him up; sc
he decided to take her along. The
little girl was quite an exceptional
traveller, for she had once been car
ried by a cyclone as far away from
home as the marvellous Land of Or
and she had met with a good many
adventures in that strange country
before she managed to get back
TO Kansas again. So she wasn't
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had to hold fast to the ropes and
railings to keep themselves from be-
ing swept away by the wind or pitch
ed headlong into the sea.
And the clouds were so thick in
the sky that the sunlight couldn't
get through them; so that the day
grew dark as night, which added
to the terrors of the storm.
The captain of the ship was not
afraid, because he had seen storms
before. and had Sailed his ship
through them in safety; but he knew
his passengers would be in danger
if they tried to stay on deck, so ne
put them all into the cabin ard told
them to stay there until after the
storm was over. and to keep brave
hearts and not be scared, and all
would be we'll with them.
Now. among these passengers was
little Kansas girl named Dorothy
Gale, who was going with her Uncle
Henry to Australia, to visit some
relatives they had never before seen
Uncle Henry, you must know, was
not very we'll, because he had beer
working so hard on his Kansas
farm that his health had given way
and left him weak and nervous. sc
! he left Aunt EN- at home to watch
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bottom of the coop, which sup
ported her -.ly enough.
why, I've got a ship of my
own!" she thought, more anus
cd than frightened at her sudden
top of a big washrdlshrdlshrdls
change of condition; and then, a:
the coop climbed up to the top of 6
big wave, she looked eagerly around
for the ship from which she hat
been blown.
1t was far, far away, by this time
perhaps no one on board had yet
missed her, or knew of her strang'
adventure. Down into valley be
tween the waves the coop swept her
and when she climbed another cres
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JUNE Fl, 1919.

tiently await whatever her fate
might be.
BY and by the black clouds ROLL
ed away and showed blue sky
overhead, with a silver moon shin
ing sweetly in the middle of it and
little stars winking merrily at Doro-
thy when she looked their way. The
coop did not toss around any more,
but rode the waves more gentle-al-
most like a cradle rocking-so that
the floor upon which Dorothy stood
was no longer swept by water COM
ing through the Stats. Seeing this.
and being quite exhausted by the ex-
citement of the past few hours, the
little girl decided that sleep would
be the best thing to restore hel
strength and the easiest way IL
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thing else; 50 that the waves. not
being joggled any more, began to
quiet down and behave themselves.
1t was lucky for Dorothy, 1 think.
that the storm subsidized; otherwise.
brave though she was. / fear she
might have, perished. Many chill
dren. in her place. would have wept
and given way to despair; but be-
cause Dorothy had encountered so
many adventures and come safely
through them it did not occur to
her at this time to be especially
afraid. She was wet and uncom-
Portable, it is true: but. after sigh
ing that one sigh 1 told you of, she
managed to recall some of her custo-
mary cheerfulness and decided to pa
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which she could pass the time. The
floor was damp and she was herself
wringing wet, but fortunately this
was a warm climate and she dfd
not feel at all cold. So she sat
down in corner of the coop. lean
ed her back against the stats, nod
ded at the friendly stars before she
closed her eyes, and was asleep in
half minute.
Editors Note: Our next story
The Yellow Hen" or THE Yellow
Hen" who talks just as we humans
do. Read of Billina's and Dorothys
venture on the open sea, their land
ing on some strange land. and the
finding of the Golden Key" What
mysteries do you suppose this
Golden Key" will unfold?
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FASTER THAN COBB

New York.-Baseban sharps in
New York believe that Ross Young,
the young Texan outfielder of the
Giants, is a faster base runner than
Ty Cobb. Young is speedy on the
paths, covers his position in fault
less style, making hard catches look
easy and is in fair way. If he keeps
up his present hitting. of being the
National League champion batsman
this year.
The spectator., 1919-05-13
Won the Mutual Life Field Club Contest

Mr. N. E. Burrow. Dist. Man ager of the Mutual Fife Ins. Co. hos been notified, by George T. Dexter. Second Vice President, that he has won in the contea, Field Club trip to Atlantic City. N J. which will meet the latter part of June. Mr. Burrow ex- pects to attend the meeting. and anticipates . delightful time Mr.. Burrow has won severa trips to the Field Club meeting, and is one of leading producers in insurance writing in the Nut. ual Life Ins. Company. of New York,
The spectator., 1919-05-13

ular favorites. he maintained a dignified reserve. unique and in- dependent. Mir. Colburn lived to see the cause of prohibition, which he loved SO well and for which he battled for weary years. apparently against insurmount- able obstacles. become the party slogan of every party, He lived to see a wave of temperance sweep the county, state, and nation. His work is finished. When the roster of the truly courageous and loyal temperance advocates of Arkansas is made. the name of Claud c. Colburn we'll appear among them emblaz- oned in characters of living light.
 Like a sturdy oak that has W Withstood the fierce tempests of the years, he yields at last in the fuilness of age, his work well done.
 May the mantle of his ideas fall upon the shoulders of others who will wear it as worthily as he.