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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-24

and airplanes can be accurately con-
trolled by wireless and without inter
ference from any other wireless save
that at the guiding source.
Although very little has been
heard as to what the army and navy
In America is doing along this line,
it is definitely known that England
is bending every energy to accom-
plish this end, and has launched a
tremendous naval air program.
At the end of the great war the
British battle cruiser Hood stood
alone as the greatest fighting ship
ever constructed. Several sister
ships were building and naval ex.
perts believed that England would
continue with this class. To the utter
amazement of most authorities, how
ever, she scrapped those under way
at a dead loss of more than sS,00o,o00
and began the construction of great
air and submarine fleets.
England Strong For Planes.
In the latter part of 1920 at the
GuiSdhal air conference in England,
Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary
of state for war and air. revealed as
founding heighths in aviation for
which Great Britain was reaching.
He declared that huge planes driven
by steam. with great central engine
rooms, planes with automatic control.
and planes which could land in every
small space, enabling the tactical
movement of troops, were to come
shortly. The wireless-controlled plane,
he declared, was already in existence,
England's problem then being to make
this control noninterfereable. 1t is
this noninterference feature that Mr..
feathers claims to have invented.
In France, too, every announcement
is given aviation. In that country
subsidies are set aside by the govern
ment in order to encourage flying.
Japan has been the last OF the nations
to grasp the possibilities of air de-
Tense and attack. but is now making
up for her backwardness by a great
squirt in that direction.
Japan has bought scores Of planes
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Clothes Pins Saving
Factor For Woman
Hit By Lightning

CUMBERLAND, Md, July
23.-Wooden clothes pins acting
as partial conductor of light
ming probably saved the life of
Mrs.. Lena Deremer, Of Hazen,
who was struck through the
right arm during the heavy
electrical display and storm in
that vicinity.
Mrs. Deremer was in the
act Of removing wooden pins
from clothing strung along a
wire line near her house when
the flash Of electricity charged
the line with great intensity,
sending the current into Mrs.
Deremer's arm through her
finger tips. She, was stunned
from the shock and her arm was
badly burned. That her injury
was not more serious is attrib-
uted to the fact that she had
hold of the clothespins instead
of the wire.
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that in battle prior to the bombing
attack that 100 pursuit planes flying
at as miles an hour. which is many
hundreds of feet second, would
swoop down on the ship and wipe out
the anti-aircraft fire from her decks
in less than a minute, with twenty
five and fifty pound bombs, and that
with these small bombs would be
flung tubes OF poison gas and liquid
fire. And in soothing, the critic fur
Their overlooks the fact that instead
OF barren decks, there would be hun
dreds of tons of high explosives and
shells about, ready to be loaded into
the guns.
or course these explosives would
be under the protection deck. But
the least tongue of flame reaching
down would be disastrous and no one
knows whether or not the 1,000-pound
bombs did or did not reach past the
protection decks of the Ostfriesland.
Ii is probable, however, that they
did. AT any rate, under actual battle
conditions, not two or three planes.
but $50 would come in a division and
1t is doubtful IL any amount Of armor
could Withstand the pounding it
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Tilted VET BURNS
HER DADS BARN,
THEN KILLS SELF
ex-Yank Seeks Revenge on Girl
BY Thrust at Father-leaves
Note Confessing.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. July 2S.--
Spurned by the girl he loved. Donald
Keller, world war veteran, gassed
overseas, Wednesday night set fire
to the barn Of her father. Franklin
Kline, prominent farmer near here.
The building burned to the ground
with eleven horses and cattle, all
the seasons crops and large
amount Of farming machinery, entail
ing total loss OF $11 900.
Yesterday morning Keller's lifeless
body, with two bullets near the heart
and another in the brain. was found
several miles from the scene OF the
fire. "A note which he left showed
that the deed had been carefully
planned and that. after he set fire TO
Tie barn. he wrote the missive which
gave minute instructions for his
funeral. which he asked the Amer
icen Legion TO conduct and at which
he asked that his pastor preach the
sermon.
Several days ago he told Miss
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-24
Must Haze Air Armada Her Giant Deadnaugs
Are Useless Bombing Sho Wireless Control NeU Menace

.f~o,,, v,ry,.rd .rd ,r.nv ernArt. frovy,
the latter country are now In the ORR.
snt teaching the little brown men the
tactical use OF wars latest horror.
~ the use OF ms torpeIo. M
ONehi claims inst ~ eneMy BID I'll
% put OUT OF comm,sslon -. .ar AZ
tne contro,ans VICE. @
see. ne 9oc,Ares .na. an .ns
pisn WIN ~ ssa ~ e
torpedo to the snips Win tne accu-
racy OF 2 compss. Inc sorpeoo
20 constIucteo tnat
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all in the little knot OF on
lockers were attending funeral; ~
II one OF their dearest friends was
being buried. and they could not be.
heve 1t. AS the sharp PROV OF the YES.
sci vanished the group turned ana.
without a word, walked aft At the
stern Of the vessel the men stopped
and looked expectantly at one another.
Finally General Menoher said:
Il guess MAYBE the navy'll get it,
airplane carriers now"
Mitchell Made Good.
1t wasn't much OF speech. But
II was very able reflection Of what
= az going on IN every mans mind
al the scene; that America must I'm
iediately arm itself with a great
Get OF airplanes. both for offense
nd defense II II Is 10 keep itself up
- one OF the great world powers,
Or Flying 'Bill" Mitchell, America g
bnly aerial general, had made good
ais boast that: THE sirplane is
mightier than the battleship."
But scarcely has the shattered
Ostfriesland found a snug resting
place In the ocean depths, when word
comes that the manner in which she
WAS attacked IL now obsolete.
John Hugh O'Neill and Ward
Leathers. Two engineers from New
York. claim that they have perfected
inventions which viii utterly out.
class the slow means of attack prac.
ticed by the heavy aerial bombers OF
today.
O'Neill declares that by the use
OF metal fuel he can drive a torpedo
through the water at a speed of &C
knots an hour and a submarine sub
merged at speed OF forty knots
Leathers asserts that he has invent
ed means by which both torpedoes
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,,na,r ;,,,t &c m thir4 49,, ~ bursting
shaII ,a,,,a 49,, ,rn,,, q e;a,t Hardiav.
paea u,hich ~ aana,,varad ,,ntii TOO
80. an t,.. s ~. .,ane,,, ~,
le ~, i.s i,ius, gnu ~. s;;,,o
ens spsueu nun. w .sor,aa
anu VI a'iauo eii,laA " .ne p e.,,,
aIice-a sort oi ueiiahl iare"ei tioiii
the army ar service.
Sunk In 10 Minutes.
True. 400. 400 500. $50 pounds had
-, s, 49,. .A, ,,,,,,,,
ueeh o'oppeu oh '"e "'ho
bringing serious damage. Even 900
FOUNDERS had hit souarely on her
decks and bridgework and she still
stayed af1oat Rut the point IL that
the shin was SUNK and sunk in 10 min.
ntes and 40 seconds. bv bombs com.
petent to do the work. Tho army and
navy officials. Cabinet officers and
foreign attaches who witnessed the
bombing. know now that a z. oOO-pound
bomb OF high explosive. dropped
within fifteen wards of a modern
dreadnought will sink II. That il the
''coId fact" as General Menoher. the
chief of the army air service. put il.
At the last session of Congress
Brigadier General Mitchell. assistant
cnlel OF me army aT service aP-
fairs Committee and declared that
the modern bombing nlane dominat.
I'd the modern dreadnaugbt. Despite
the fact that the then Secretary of
the Navy. Joeephus Daniels. told the
COMMITTEES he would be glad to stand
npon the bridge of any ship while
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N. Y. Lovely, Says
Blue Crusader;
Didn't Go Broke
ny international News Service.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 23.-
sour pilgrimage to New York was
the result of a flash of inspiration
that came to US in answer to
prayer. 1t was great success"
This is the way Noah w. Coop
.er describes his trip as chairman
Of the Methodist Sunday law cru
SADIE committee to Washington to
see President Harding and Con-
gress, urging the passage of a ma
tional Sunday law.
I'VE got along lovely" Cooper
declared. 1--WE had heard so much
of the anti-blue law men that we
wondered what would happen to
us. We went like Christ's apostles,
charmed, without two suits of
Clothes. But we took money enough
to bring us back. ] wonder II we
ought not to have stayed and con-
tiEued the crusade"
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tected by an air serYlce-aad m1gnty
the flesh and blood OF the navy, JUST
as the infantry in the army. And
surely no one say that we can
now get along wthout infantry pc
oa,,,r,n 80 ad,1,no;ra ,eoon. ga n,,t
II to route with machine gun fire.
That latter point was brought out in
the great war and ali comoatants an
swered II by building moro airpiancs
10 uriVe OH the enemy planes when
they appeared Tor their maraudins
WORK.
EVERY nation must nave It's navy,
especially America. In time OF war
navy must be on hand TO keep open
the channels OF commerce.; to keep
open sea lanes to its shores, in order
to obtain needed imports; to transport
troops II need be, in fact. to do scores
OF things that only a navy can do.
But to keep safe those ships of the
navy we now have and those that may
be built In the future, these new facts
must be faced: j. Battleships OF all
classes are easy prey without aerial
protection. q. A squadron OF 150 bomb
ing planes ana 100 pursuit planes can
SINK TOUR oruauhaughts.
HeheIH Mitcneii 10 responsive Tor
me latter statement. MS critics nave
.ouno MN 10 De rlgnt In MS conten'
ions SO iar, sno mere - every reason
W oeieVe he 10 cofrect III MS latest
o''ei ''oi'.
Profection Cost Small
The number of planes which the
general claims would blow IN four
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-24
BEES IN HEART OF TOWN
BLOCK TRAFFIC AN HOUR

BOHEMIAN. Mont, July 23.-Sev-
eral huge swarms OF bees suddenly
swooped down on the busiest section
yesterday and all traffic for several
blocks ceased for more than hour.
Finally city street foreman, by
pounding with a hammer on a shovel,
managed to attract the bees TO park
a short distance away. Then traffic
and work were resumed
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Rosie Kline, the object of his unre.
quilted affections, that n tragedy
might follow IL she continued 10
spurn him.
The note disposed of various per.
sonal effects and said. THE only
way to get this burden off my neart
was to put myself out OF the road
and to burn the barn. God bless YOU
all. The words 1 leave to you ALL
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New York Inventors De-
clare Planes and Tor
pedoes Can Be Directed
With Unerring Accu-
racy Against Ships BY
Aircraft Thousands of
Feet Above or From
Shore Stations Many
Miles Away.
BY WIN. s. JEwETT.
Li.utenant, o. Il. G. Air Service.

Lieutcnant. o. X. g. Air Service
1t would seem that with the sink
ing of the former German battleship
Ostfriesland, by airplane bombs off the
Virginia Capes, Thursday. Congress
and the people of America must
surely have been awakened to the
danger facing this country il it's mill
tary branches are to continue with
toy air force.
Perhaps literally the air force we
now have In the army and navy is not
a toy, but against the other great ma
lions which are preparing for the next
war by building mighty armadas OF
aerial craft. to the neglect OF naval
vessels. 1t Is.
Ostfriesland cannot point the way to
the menace which now hovers over
us, it is doubtful II anything can. In
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-24

would receive In bur scant five
| minutes.
Now that the value OF the airpiane
has been proven beyond AL question
as u protective arm, next comes the
problem OF providing the saIue means
as an attacking arm. Without doubt,
| Congress will Immediately take steps
to see that the army and navy are
provided with enough airplanes to pro-
tect the coast. AT the present session
when the army and navy appropria-
lions were made. the "big ship men
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~N0 hhIN
Two bombs
0 u n X I h .
on ce great
German sea
nghter.
They were
- 3 90 O
-.
u y 80.
weight ana
carrie d
about I quo
20 n ~
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Obsolete Without Protection.

Many radical friends of aviation
iaimed that when the air service had
concentrated its ability to sink dread
laughts. the swan song of big
hips would have been sung. Not at
all The air service has simply DEM
)nstrsted that big ships must be pro-
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
SEVERE SHOCK FOR JIMMIE
That the "only Girl" Was Not
So Very Different

He had taken Her to the big foot
ball game of the season. She was the
most wonderful being in the world, Of
cOurse-such good sense, so under
standing. He had taken many girls to
games in his college days, but this time
1t was different. She was not only a
pal, she was the interesting mystery,
and she had promised to marry him.
They were seeing their first game to-
gether.
Came an exciting two minutes when
the Navy had but a yard to gain. He
didn't breathe till it was all over, then
shaking her arm, he shouted hoarsely:
'Wasn't it great? Did you ever see
such defenSe?"
Glowingly and Understandings she
replied:
Jimmie, look at that love of a hat
on the Army side; isn't she stylish |
York Sun.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
MAN SPENDS IL
YEARS IN BED
invalid Who Adopts MODE Of
Living by Choice, Has Brit
tie Bones.

LOndon.-After u years Of lying in
bed in n London hotel, a man, other
wise normal, resents being annoyed
with questions regarding his strange
case, and says there is no reason why
be should explain his lying In bed any
more than anyone else should explain
why they get up every morning and
rush about all day.
In comfortable financial ciEcumstan-
ces. the man adopted his strange mode
Of living, and now he never leaves his
bed except to go to his bath every
morning while the bed is being made
up and aired. He takes two meals a
day, which are served in bed. and he
has grown nearly two inches during
his II years of rest.
Twelve years ago, when he was
about forty years old, the stranger, ap-
in the best of health. rented
u room at the hotel, took to his bed
and has been there ever since. Occa.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
HOW DOCTORS
TREAT COLDS
AND The FLU
First Step in Treatment Is q Brisk
Purgative With Calotabs, the
Purified and Refined Calomel
Tablets that are Nausea
less, Safe and Sure.

Doctors have found by experience
that no medicine for colds and inhu-
enza can be depended upon for full eff
fectiveness until the liver is made thor.
oughly active. That is why the first
step in the treatment is the new, nausea
less colonel tablets called Calotabs,
which are free from the sickening and
weakening effects of the old style calo-
mel. Doctors also point out the fact
that an active liver may go a long way
towards preventing influenza and is one
of the most important factors in en-
abling the patient to successfully with
stand an attack and ward off pneu-
monia.
One Calotab on the tongue at bed
time with a swallow of water-that's
all. No salts, no nausea nor the slight
est interference with your eating, pleas
ure or work. Next morning your cold
has vanished, your liver is active, your
system is purified, and you are feeling
fine, with hearty appetite for break
fast. Druggists sell Calotabs only in
original sealed packages, price thirty
five sents. Your money will be cheer
fully refunded if you do not find them
delightfuL-(Adv.)
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
HORSE FOLLOWS THE HOUNDS
Old Timer Will Leave All Peaceful
Work Behind When Fox
Hunt Is On.

West Chester, Pa.-Caleb NJ Har-
vey of Locust Grove is the owner of a
farm horse which enjoys vacation
each year while the fox hunting season
is on. Just now it is consuming good
oats and getting into condition for the
spring blowing,
One day last autumn the animal was
pulling a horse rake, according to
witness, when pack of hounds pursu-
ing a fox came along. 1t Immediately
resigned its work and started after the
pack. Fences, hedges and bitches
formed no obstacle to its passing and
soon it was with the pack and portions
Of the rake were scattered about the
township.
It remained until the fox had been
driven to earth and then proceeded
hOmeward. 1t went to Its stall and is
still there. In his younger days the
animal had been one of the best fox
horses in this section, but Harvey was
not aware of the fact until he had ex-
pended some good money to discover
1t.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous. irrita-
BILE and may be Respondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that Dr..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions
Many send for sample bottle to see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do for
them By enclosing ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, you
may receive sample size bottle by Parcel
Post You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores-Adv.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
Has NEWSPAPERS Sent Up Daily

ionally his puzzled relatives visit him
and he receives much correspondence.
He has the newspapers sent up to him
daily and orders all new books as they
appear. Once month a barber goes
to the hotel and cuts his hair and
trims his beard.
Naturally the long rest has had its
effect on his body. The doctors say
the bones have become so brittle
through inactivity that it would be
necessary for him to move carefully if
he changed his mode of living. His
skin seems normal when the hand is
passed down his arm, but a reverse
motion reveals a rough, scaly surface
which is a recent development and
which the doctors cannot explain.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
WOMAN LEADS
DOUBLE LIFE
Real Estate Operator of High
Reputation by Day, Vam-
pire at Night.
is BRUTALLY SLAIN
Nude Body, mutiIated Almost Beyond
Recognition, Discovered on Out
skirts Of Los AngeIes-Po-
lice 5affled by Murder.

Los Angeles.-By day a business
woman of impeccable commercial rep
utatiOn in Los Angeles; by night
habitue of gambling dens and queS-
| tiOnable resorts. This is the remark
able career of Fay SudOw, whose nude
end mutilated body was recently
found in a suburb of Los Angeles, a
case which has furnished the police
an unusual example of feminine DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. A dealer in
real estate. noted for her business
sagacity, Mrs. SudOw built up a for
tune estimated at half a million dol
lars, which goes TO a SiXteen-year old
daughter, Lucille.
BY day the woman dressed as other
business women dress quietly and con-
servdtively. By night she adorned her
self in costly gowns and jewels and
then launched into a night life Of
wild debauch, accompanied by men
and women with whom she would
have no contact during the day.
Bernard SudOw, the woman'S husband,
hdlu DetH eSlIdIlBeu from HIS VIE LOT
several years.
Took Trips With Male Companions.
The police, in unravelng the story
Of this strange woman, found that she
had, at various times taken long trips
with different men. They have found
some of these men, but as yet have
secured no real clew as to the per-
son who lured the woman to a clump
Of trees, beat her to death, stripped
the body of clothing and then horribly
mutilated the face.
The nude body was discovered by
John Hudson, a resident of Los An
geles, who promptly notified the pc
lice All the clothing had been car
ried away, and it was with difficulty
that identification had been made.
Hudson was warned by some I'M
known person not to attend the cor
Oner's inquest, and the warnings made |
such an impression on him that he
eft the state and went to a remote
town in Arizona, where he was later
coated by the Los Angeles police, to
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
Arrested When Mail to
Both Wives Became Mixed

When a Philadelphia postman
delivered a letter intended for
wife, No. l at the home Of wife
No. 2, the latter's suspicious
were aroused, so she caused the
arrest of Walter A. Mcneil,
thirty-five years old of Harrl-
man, Pa, on a charge Of big
amy.
Rev. Mr.. Gillette, the marry
ing parson," who has figured In
a number of domestic flascos,
and is now being sought by the
police, ofliciated at the second
marriage, when Mcneil is said
to have married Catherine King
err on october 81, 1920. She said
that she had learned that Nc
Neil was married for the first
time in 1908.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
SAVE LIVES OF CHILDREN
Teachers Hold Up Wrecked Roof Of
School Until rs Little Ones
Escape.

Oconee, Ga.-Heroic devotion of
three women teachers saved the lives
of rs school children during the lorna
do which partly wrecked Oconee, Ga.
One end of the school building
crumpled under the drive of the wind.
and the roof sagged down over the
heads of the children. The teachers
held the roof up while their charges
escaped through the gap, and then
leaped to safety themselves.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
Discovery of a Law.

II understand you have discovered
the law of gravitatlon," remarked the
nelghbor who happened to be passing
the orchard.
"Yes," replied Sir Isaac Newton /;
"and good job / consider 1t. There's
one law that won't require a big APP
preparation and an army Of deputies
TO enforce It."
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
Used Private Wire to Get pruos.

Raleigh, N. Gin urgent need of
medicine, T. A. Turpee, an amateur
wireless operator, living on farm
seven miles from here, sent an rs. o.
s." call over his private wire to drug
store clerk In town and had his order
promptly filled
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
Cut in, All Right.

Redd-Whats the matter with your
face?
Greene-Oh, was being shaved to-
day and l started to tell the barber
story.
81 see, and he cut in did he?"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31

evenings on the
streets, In the
aters, or in au-
tomObiles. l don't
See how they can
grow up with any
serious sense of
the responsible
ties of life"
Il suppose there
ought to be q
law" rejoined the
loW-DroWed man.
1T is time to call
a halt. Well may
we ask, whittier
are we driftingi