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The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
FROM REJECTION OF
 OIL PERMITS

Notice of appeal to Secretary John Barton Payne, of the interior depart ment from a rejection by Commission CT Clay Tallman of three applications for oil leasing and prospecting per mits has ben received by the register of the Juneau land office, from Otis B. Kent, attorney for the Alaska De- velopment Company. The three claims were located in the Yakataga district by Big Mike" Sullivan, w. H. Chase, and E. J. Davis of Cordova and appli- cations for permits filed on August 25, last year.
 MT. Boyle passed the application to the commissioner of the general land office at Washington, D. C., who on November 1, formally rejected them on the ground of "contiguity of claims" in violation of regulations is- sued by Secretary Payns prohibiting issuance of more than one permit for claims located in the same geologic structure.
 Several specific points are ad- vanced by Mir. Kent, in his notice of appeal to Secretary Payne. In com mon with others who have recently appealed from rejections based on the same regulation, he claims that "the contiguity of claims" prohibitory provision cannot in justice to either the territory or to those who are seeking to develop possible oil fields therein be made applicable in Alaska for the reason that it is impossible to determine positively that any two claims are situated on the same geo. logic structure when in fact there has been no prospecting or exploration sufficient to determine whether or not an oil field in the true commercial sense is in existence That, it is contended, can only be proven by ac- tual exploration.
 MT. Rents notice of appeal states his grounds as follows:
 T. The applications antedate all other claims with which they may be found to conflict.
 "2. That said applicants o9Powo vo
 "2. That said applications when submitted to the register of the gen eral land office at Juneau conformed
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31

exactly to the raies then in effect: and that the rights of the claimants hereunder should not be prejudiced by the retroactive application of amended regulations thereafter made effective.
 8. That the regulations insofar as they limit the number of permits which may be granted on single geo. logic structure, are inapplicable to a nonproducing area such as that with in which these claims are filed.
 A. That considerations of public policy not only justify but require the application of more liberal rules in cases of permits such as those herein involved than like considera- tions would make necessary in the case of an operating lease
 "5. That the Yakataga district is so inaccessible that the cost of de- velopment will be prohibitive unless an area in excess of that prescribed by the regulations as applied in this case is made available for prospecting operations.
 "6. That the appellant has expend- ed more than $15,000 in preliminary surveys and other work on the tract for which permits are claimed and is prepared to expend such further sum as may be necessary to establish the character of the field therein em- braced."
 MT. Kent declares that those com posing the Alaska Development Syn dicate are American citizens and are actuated by an earnest desire to de- velop the territory of Alaska and is In no sense prompted by spirit of stock speculation and jugglery.
 This is believed to be the first ap- peal to be taken up with the secretary of the interior, although two others have been taken from the ruling of Register Boyle to the commissioner of the general land office The claims in the present case, to some extent, according to MT. Boyle, are in conflict with those of the Alaska Consolidated Oil Fields but this conflict did not fig ure in the rejection of Commissioner Tallmah.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
TWO STEAMERS LEAVESEATTLE
 FOR CORDOvA

SEATTLE, Jan. 31 (by Associated Press) The Northwestern sailed for Alaska Saturday morning with 121 passengers, the Cordova passengers being:
 c. E. Quinton, A. R. Feels, H. Hos- kins, R. B. Bidjelow, D. Kulov, F. w. Sommers and wife, D. c. Fairman, A. F. E. Devieres, Alex Thompson, Mrs. P. F. Claveau, Mrs. R. S. Nickerson, F. Wallace, Wm. Noel, John Killgal- lon and wife, Gus Kindland, Win. Holmon and 21 steerage.
 The steamship Watson sailed Sat urday morning carrying 91 passen- gers. Cordova passengers are: A. c. Hamilton, w. J. Scott, Geo. Ryan, and one steerage.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL. INTEREST
 AROUND TOWN

Mrs. P. F. Claveau is returning to Cordova on the Northwestern, which sailed from Seattle on Saturday
 Al Hamilton is homeward bound on the Admiral Watson from a trip to the states.
 Several people were badly shaken up in coasting accidents on c. avenue yesterday afternoon.
 Harry Nelson and wife write from San Diego, Cal, that they are enjoy ing the sunshine and will remain there for some time.
 Miss Ethel Anderson injured her back yesterday while coasting and is receiving treatment at the general hospital .....
 The freighter Cordova' arrived in port early yesterday with mail and freight.
 
 Mrs. R. S. Nickerson is a passen- ger for Cordova on the Northwestern to join her husband, who is pastor of the local Presbyterian church.
 Chas. k. Quinton, who has spent the past couple of months In Seattle, is returning to Cordova on the steam ship Northwestern. .."..
 Miss Ethel Graham, who has been housed for some time through ill., ness, today resumed her position in the business office of the Blum O'Neill Go.
 F. w. Sommers and wife are re- turning on the Northwestern from a pleasant trip to the states. MT. Som mers is station agent at Mccarthy for the Copper River railway.
 The steamers Northwestern and Admiral Watson are both on their way north, having left Seattle Satur- day morning at g o'clock and 10 respectively.
 Don c. Fairman, organist at the Empress theater, who has been spend
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
ROCK ISLAND ROAD
 TO CUT DOWN FORCE

DIES MONIES, la, Jan. 31 (by As sociated Press) The Rock Island road has announced 20 per cent reduction in its working force in this district effective February 1.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
s. S.S.LATOUCHE IS BEING HELD
 AT NANAIMO

.NANAIMO, Jan. 31 (by Associated Press) .-The steamer Latouche of Seattle is being held by customs of ficers, who said they found 14 cases of whisky aboard the vessel at Lady smith, The commander is charged with failing to report the presence of the liquor to the customs officers
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
SUMMARY OF WEEKS
 EVENTS IN IRELAND

DUBLIN Jan. 31 (by Associated Press).-An official summary of events in Ireland for the week end ing January 24 says there were AZ attacks on police with seven fatali- ties, five of which were assassina- tions, and 43 raids on mails.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
CORONA DAILY TIMES. MONDAY JANUARY 3l, 1921

ing his vacation at Pacific coast and Canadian cities, is coming home on the Northwestern, having left Seattle Saturday.
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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
MAY USE MAGNET
TO Raise SHIPS
Submarine Invention Passes Sal
wage Test of the British
Admiralty.
LIFTS IS TONS Of METAL
Believed That Much of Steel and
Metals Lost Through Operations
Of German Submarines May
Be Recovered.

Misunderstanding with submarine
magnets for allied ships which strew
the bottom of the North sea and the
English channel may be attempted on
a large scale In the near future II an
invention recently placed at the dis
pOsal Of the British admiralty proves
to be practicable I'm deep-sea salvage
operations. 1t Is believed that the de-
vice may recover much Of the loss in
steel and metals caused by the subma-
rines. 1t is also probable that 1t may,
to some extent, replace the deep-sea
diver.
Will Lift is Tons.
The submarine electrO-magnet" Is
octagOnal In shape, three feet in width
between the opposite sides, two and
half inches I'm depth, weighs seven
hundredweight, and is strong enough
to lift 16 tons Of metal. In salvage
work three magnets will be employed
simultaneously, I'm order to get a good
hold on the larger sections of armor
plate.
Gigantic seachtigbts will first be
turned on the wreck, and after the
vessel has been blown to pieces by ex-
pRsives the magnets VIII go down to
search for anchors, chain cables and
pieces of metal j The power will be
sufficient to raise all fragments of
metal, even though they be encased in
wood.
The mechanical divers possibilities
were demonstrated recently at an ex-
hibition at the Albert docks Silver
town, attended by representatives of
the British admiralty, the Port of Lon
don authority and the salvage and
shipbuilding companies. Into 80 feet
of water were thrown several steel
Orders weighing two tons, some gas
cylinders, castings, q section Of rail-
way switch and other metallic objects.
Brought Up Orders.
Swung by a crane, the magnet divtG
and, to the amaZement of the wit
nesses, came up with the steel Orders
glued to its under side. The operation
was repeated until the last piece of
metal had been raised.
At one stage of the demonstration
there was lively competition between a
human diver and the diving magnet.
The steel railway switch, owing to It's
peculiar shape, could not be located
until diver had gone down and placed
the magntt in contact with the rails.
"The magnet is not intended to sup
plant divers" said Mr.. Neale, head of
the Neale Magnet Construction com
pany, in charge Of the development of
the invention. ut will b9 of value
chiefly In cases Of wrecks In deep wa
ter, or silted up, where divers cannot
go.
"It will also be used for loading and
unloading vessels. discharging metallic
ores, lifting machinery and loading
steel sections from rolling mills. A
current of 16 amperes, at pressure
of 22O volts, supplies the power"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
NEW TOY FINDS MUCH FAVOR
Partisan Children Hail With Joy Idea
Which Has Been Imported
From Central Borneo.

The latest toy which Partisan chill
dren are buying, and which threatens
to displace the scooter in popular ia
vor, is modern form Of the old
dumping stick
The new jumping stick" which is
called 'pogo," is more scientific than
its predecessor, which was nothing
more elaborate than single silt with
two rests for the feet.
1t Is made with an india rubber pad
and with strong spring, which ena-
bles Its possessOr to take q series Of
leaps without jar.
The pogo was first found in use, in
a primitive form, among tie Dyak ma
tives of central Borneo, who gave 1t
that name. 1t was q stick with
cross-piece, on which certain favored
young men used to perform kind of
dance at sacrificial ceremonies.
AS the chiefs took charge of the
pogos after the ceremony. hiding them
until the next occasion for their use,
1t was very difficult to obtain them,
but French traveller who saw the
dance in progress, described them on
his return to Paris. From his rough
sketch the new Paris toy has been
made.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
TOO STARVED TO BE HUNGRY
There Comes q Final Stage in tho
Horror, When Taste for Food
Is Lacking.

cannot quite bring myself to tell
tales Of famine horrors-the monkey
faced, pop-eyed babies tugging hungrily
at the cold breasts of dead mothers ly-
ing on the frozen ground; the piteous
old women and the stoical men; the in
credibly deformed starving waif whom
picked up outside Of the city of Using
kiangpu; the boy on the wall Of Chin
kiang who was carrying home
starved cat for food, and in response
to a query, tried so hard to sell 1t to
me as delicate mOrsel, and such
general concomitants as the incidence
of smallpox plague with the famine.
One of the unexpected aspects of
work in the famine camps came when
l was accompanying Mrs Paxton of
Chinkiang as she made rounds to dis
tribute medicine to the sick among
the hungry. AS a matter of fact,
relatively few persons ever die in
famine directly from actual hunger,
but rather from diseases induced by
malnutrition.
Obligingly, Mrs. Paxton freely trans
lated for me as we went along, and we
found, in pathetic paradox, that the
commonest request of these starving
creatures was for medicine to give
them an appetite! Even when they
succeeded in getting bowl of food
from the relief station, ran the re-
peated tale, they could not eat it,
having no taste for food.
To us this meant, obviously, that the
sufferers had reached the final stages,
where craving for food had passed
away. They were not hungry, be-
cause they were starving William
T. Ellis in the Outlook.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
HAS ADDED TO VOCABULARY
Gabrielle D'Annunzlo Is Credited With
Making Important Additions to
the italian Language.

Commander Gabrielle d'AnnunziO has
become coiner of words. Aside
from having special dAnnunzio
dictionary compiled and published by
some enterprising Italian publishers
to assist his leaders in knowing the
meaning Of words not found in the
ordinary dictionaries, the premier
Italian poet and adventurer lets very
few weeks pass without promulgating
some new addition to the Italian vo-
cabulary.
The former dictator of Fiume Is In
a quiet retreat. Various pilgrimages
are made to him by men who were
adventurers with him In the Quarnero
enterprise. Some Of them asked him
for q new name for cognac He said:
There is but one name for cog
nae and that is 'arzente,' which signi-
fies that 1t is the very force of the
wine."
He inquired how the people Of Flor
ence were taking his suggestion that
the name Of Florence be changed from
the present Italian name of Firenze to
Fiorenza, meaning "a city of flowers"
The pilgrims stated the people of the
town welcomed the idea and may
adopt his proposal.
The poet Is doing little literary
work while there are no more Flume
fields TO conquer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
American Chemists Have Accomplished the Wonders
Which Ancient Chemists Strived for by the
Utilization of Coal Tar By-Products
No. w
THE ALcKEMIST'S DREAM
(Told In Eight Sketches)
BY JOHN RAYMOND

Through the literature OF the an
clients runs the absorbing story OF the
alcneInist's pat;cut search for the
tombstone which would transform all
base metals into pure gold, and the
never-ending quest for the elixir which
would restore youth to the aged and
would cure all human ills. The alchc-
mist, driven from cellar to garnet and
often put to death, had an elemental
knowledge OF chemistry and vaguely
dreamed that it could be made to per-
;orm wonders.
1t was Ben Jonson's alchemist,
Subtle, back in the early seventeenth
century who planned ito change ak
that is in my house to gold, and early
IN the morning to send to ali the
plumbers and pcwterers and buy their
in and lead up; and to Lothbury for
al the copper And more than that,
oy means of this magic elixir, in eight
md twenty days he planned to trans
form an old man of four score into a
prattling child.
Certainly, chemistry has not sue
cecded in performing these marvels.
The philosopher stone still is an un-
known quantity to science, buried, per-
haps, with the pot of gold at the rain
bows end, and the elixir of youth is as
deeply hidden as OH that far-off day
when De Soto set forth so bravely
from Spain to find it in the new world.
But chemistry has accomplished won
ders by the utilization of coal tar by
products which contribute to every
phase of Our daily life. Take the
fairy glass of the chemist and look in
to this rather uninteresting substance
coal.
We put kettle of it over fire and
we see leaving at various times what
the chemist calls the Crudcs-benzone,
toluene, xylene, napthalcne, phenol
anthracene, carbazol, and some others.
But these are the most important.
Some are clear liquids, some are
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
DYE W0RKSl.,

OF these intermediates, one line oe
treatment will produce drugs, another
high explosives, another poison gases.
still other perfumes, food havors and
Photographic materials. Some have
varying peace and war time uses with
out further treatment. 1t should be
noted that some of these crudes re-.
quire as many as fifteen manipulatioRs
to produce a given compound and in
each manipulation by-product Is
produced which again must be made
into something useful in order to avoid
waste.
1t is because of this treatment and
retreatment of coal, crudes and inter
mediates that it is so easy to convert a.
dye plant into factory for the pro-
duction of high explosives or poison
Gus gases almost over night.
Germany was indeed farsighted.
back in 1889, when she took advantage
of Perkins discovery, and began the
development Of a gigantic dye industry
so that she might never be without the
crudes and intermediates SO essential
to success in war or peace.
Germany developed the synthetic
dye industry, just as she developed
other industries, to create employment
and wealth for her millions. But.
through these developments she learn
ed the value of chemistry, of chemicals,
and Of chemists themselves. She real
lied early how dependent her peace
development was on chemistry and
she soon saw the value Of chemical in
dustries to war. Germany saw that
the manufacture of dyes required much
chemical research and also that dye
making made use of the waste prod
ucts from the coke ovens, themselves,
necessity to her iron and steel in.
dustry. She saw its value in the pro-
duction of explosives, gases and fer,
tilizers for her fields. This foresight
gave Germany forty year start on
the United States, and the rest of the
world.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
Bear islands History.

Midway between Norway and Spitz-
bergen, Bear Island thrusts its head,
known as Mount Misery, above the
cold waters. The whole island, save
for moss and lichens, is almost des-
titute of vegetation. Long ago 1t was
Joined with the Spitzbergen archipela-
go the continental shelf upon which
the island sits shows drowned valley
deepening to 200 fathoms; this marks
the course Of an ancient river system
that must have drained an area
larger than the present basin of the
Volga.-Scientific American.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16
FERTILIZER FOR FRUIT TREES
Nitrate Of Soda and Acid Phosphate
Applied In Circle viii Produce
Best Results.

The fruit tree fertilizer most gen.
orally In use and producing the best
results during recent tests by lead
ing orchardlsts, consists of FIVE pounds
OF nitrate Of soda Tor four pounds Of
su,phate Of ammonla) and Ave
pounds Of acid phosphate, applied ID
circle under the outer ends Of the
branches Of the trees and worked into
tie soii about four inches deep.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16

beautiful crystals,
but all are brought
out of the black
coal tar by the
magician's W a n d,
which is S m ply
fractional distilla-
ton; that is, catch
ing and condensing
the vapors given of
at various tenlpera-
lures.
Now, what of the
crudes? Add nitric
acid. or any one of
hundreds of chemi-
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-16

calls, and either heat
or cool as the case
may be, and we get
a host of other COM
pounds described
as interme di a { e S.
Although some of
the. crudes and
many of the in
t e r m e d iates are
u S C full as such,
the real develop
mcrh begins with
the chemical treat
ment of the interme-
dates. With many
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-04-30
FALLS 1870 FEET AND LIVES
Man Drops Into Six Feet of Water:
Breaks Nothing but High Diving
Record, " - e..

San Francisco.-Instead of being
center of funeral services, John War
rem, timekeeper at the Hetch Hetchy
dam building site, is trying to learn if
ne holds a new diving record. He did
a drop of 100 feet into only six feet
of water and broke nothing other than
the record, if that. =
There is bucket swung on q fall
that carries out of the Hetch Hetchy
dam pit to the cliff side, and in which
it has been the practice Of workmen
to make the trip down from cliff to
pit, as the empty is returning. John
was making this ride.
The bucket got tangled in a guy wire
and, of course, tilted. Before it could
clear and right itself, John was spilled
and sliding down an air current.
He hit the water either head first or
feet first. No one knows, John least of
all. When the mourners gathered to
pick up the remains John blinked,
shook his head and told the boys to get
back to work or he'd mark them up for
time lost.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-04-30
GREENLAND is MOVING WEST
Danish Scientists Figure 1t Has Trav-
eIed e75 Miles in 100000
Years. ...

Observation-Disclosures is slowly
moving in westerly direction. Ac-
cording to observations made in 1907
by J. P. Koch of the Danish Mylius-
Erickson scientific expedition, Green
land was three minutes further west
than in 1870, when German expedi-
ton made astronomical observations.
In both instances the same northern
latitude was found. Therefore, Green
land moved west 1888 yards in 81
years.
The first observation Of the longi-
tude of Greenland was made in 1923.
Comparing the findings in 1928 and
1870 one arrives at the conclusion
that Greenland wandered" ten yards
westerly every year. That tends to
show that Greenland and Norway,
now about 875 miles apart, once were
connected, the separation taking place
$4,000 or 100000 years ago.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-04-30
HONOR FOR HIGHLAND MARY
Admirers Of Robert Burns, Scotch
Poet, Remove Body to Its New
80. Resting Place. -

Greenock, Scotland. = With great
solemnity the remains Of Mary Camp
bell, Robert Burns "Highland Mary"
were transferred from the Old West
kirk yard here to a new grave in
GreenOck cemetery. g.
The removal was necessitated by an
extension of local shipyard.
From the spot where Mary was
buried 1874 years ago the coffin was
borne reverent1y on the shoulders Of
representatives Of Burns clubs from
all over the country to it's new rest
ing place, and a large crowd Of Burns
admirers attended an impressive fu-
neral service.
The monument which Burns admir-
ers erected on Mary's grave in 1912
covers the new tomb.