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The Washington times., 1925-05-25
$4,000 school
DEDICATION
PLANNED
0aithersburg, Md. Ceremony
to Be Attended by Arch
bishop curIey

ROCKVILLE, Md, May 25.--St
Martin s parochial School at Gathers.
burg, this county, recently COM
pleted at cost of approximately
SIS, 1000, will be dedicated at 8
o'clock next Thursday afternoon.
The cornerstone will also be laid
and Archbishop Michael ]. Curley,
of Baltimore, will officiate at both
ceremonies. A special musical pro-
gram viii be rendered by a large
choir. Solemn benediction will fol-
low.
Randolph c. Edwards, of Rock
vile. has been granted an absolute
divorce by Judge Robert 3. Peter,
In the circuit court here, from Mrs.
Minnie F. Edwards, of Gaithersburg,
on the ground of desertion. The
couple, so the bill stated, were mar
ried July 26, 1919, and lived together
until March rs, 1922. Two children,
Randolph c. and Lucille Virginia.
aged four and three years, are now
with their mother.
Rockville apparently doesn't think
much of the reported purpose OF
converting the Rockville fair grounds
into an amusement park and per-
sons living in the immediate vicinity
OF the grounds are understood TO De
considering ways and means of pre-
venting the use of the grounds for
the purpose indicated. The grounds
have been leased for the summer to
q resident of Washington. who, it is
said, expects to install various
amusement devices.
The County Commissioners have
about completed the county's ex-
pense budget for the year beginning
July 1 and are ready to fix the
county tax rate.
Although exact figures are not
available, it is known that the
county's taxable basis has shown a
marked increase during the year.
In a squabble over funds raised
at a chuch benefit near Poolesville
Q few evenings ago. William Fair
fax, colored, so it was represented,
became so strenuous in objecting to
certain disposition of the money
that his arrest followed. He was
found guilty in the police court here
of disorderly conduct and paid a
fine of $25 and costs.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01
The of All Fish, Which Can Flash Through the
at a Speed of Eighty Hour

Many dogs are wonderful runners.
Even a heavy Newfoundland has been
measured as running thirty-five miles an
hour.
Certain dogs are unequalled as long
distance runners. Horses would die if
they tried to cover the same course in
the same time. The Canadian dog derby,
run over a course Of 200 miles, was won
by "Shorty" Russick's team Of huskics in
twenty-tbree hours, forty-fve minutes
But the ideal airplane, based on Lieut.
Bettis's performance, would have been
one-third the way round the world in that
time.
There are many machines built for
speed that excite our admiration, especi-
ally the automobile, the fast locomotive
and the motor boat. They are all left far
behind by the arplsne.
The best Official motor record for one
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comparison does not tell the whole story
of airplane superiority, for if the motor
car had had to cover the 200 kilometres
(about 80 miles) of the air race course,
its average speed would have been much
lower.
But dc Palma, in an unofficial trial on
the beach at Dayton, Fla, claims to have
reached 235 miles an hour.
The motor boat has recently astonished
the world by showing its ability to beat
the fastest American passenger train. Gar
Woods famous high-speed motor boat,
Baby Gar w, tearing its way through the
Hudson River, beat the Twentieth Cen
tury Limited from Albany TO New York
by margin Of thirty-six minutes.
The power boat completed the 1873
miles in 17S minutes, averaging 46.5 miles
TO the hour. II, however, the train had
made its schedule time of three hours
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

the United States Army, has "anni-
hilated distance" in a new sense by
making $50 miles an hour in his sirplane
at Mitchell Field.
From now on every distance on the
face of the earth can be covered within a
few hours.
At the speed at which Lieut.. Belts flew
he could go from New York to Chicago
909 n1iles-in three and three-quarter
hours. He could fly from New York to
San Francisco-2,446 miles-in ten
hours.
He could reach London-3,s12 miles
in fifteen hours, or if he merely wished
TO cross the Atlantic, he could make it
from land to land in five hours less.
The entire distance around the earth is
only $4,000 miles. At the speed made
by Lieut.. Belts, he would 60 around the
earth in four days and four hours
The aviatOrs achievement has an i'm
portsnt bearing on our international prob
lens. The journey from San Francisco
to Yokohama-5,223 miles-could be
made in twenty-one hours at Lieut. Bettiss
speed. From San Francisco TO Honolulu
., 4l5 mles-coUld be made under ten
hours, which might be a great advantage
70 the United States.
a gale of eighty miles an hour, such as
blew the other day, wrecks ships. shakes
houses, blows trees down and is hard to
walk against. But the army aviator few
at more than three times that speed.
The attainment Of extreme speed in the
air is the greatest proof of mans superb
al br AM rcl- for. 4bp H.
bert Spencer lays down this rule as the
starting point Of MS system Of philosophy:
The lowest animal and the highest ami
mai present no contrast more striking
than that between the small self-mobility
Of the one and the great self-mobility of
the other"
In the course Of evolution man has
worked his way up from the crawling
snail and the tortoise until he can ~
through the upper air with more than
the speed Of sound
Lieut.. Bcttis'- speed is not the maxi
mum ever attained, but It is referred 70
a. the highest made in a contest Of this
importance. Lieut.. Afford Williams. Of
the Navy, has an unofficial mark Of 3O2.3
miles an hour Bonnet, the Frenchmau,
maze 275, and Belts himself had gone
266.
ing IN marvellous manner year by year.
Avistors have now added nearly one hun
dred miles an hour TO the record Of 1920.
In 1916 the Bristol bullet" that few
eighty miles an hour, was the fastest In
the following year came the "SOpwith
Camel" that made 10 miles.
With the present scout planes the "dog
fighting" carried on in the air during the
war would be impossible. There would
not be time for one plane 10 sight i,s gun
on another. Marvellous TO say. the pres
ent plane moves quicker than the sound
of itE motors. Evolution is rapidly pro-
crossing to the plane without wings.
II is declared certain by experts that
man will be able 10 20 much faster than
Lieut. Belts within the immediate future
probably as fast as 500 miles an hour.
In that case, all the time calculations
mentioned will be hslved. II will be pos
slble 20 60 from New York TO San Fran
cisco in five hours, or TO London in ten
hours.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

Discussing the subject of increased
speed, French aviator writes:
Major Bonnet, who holds the French
speed record, promises to reach 500 miles
in the near future. Yes, but by doing
without his radiators and his landing gear.
This is an avowal that he is considering
nothing but stunt.
But, nevertheless, we cannot give up
our efforts to go quicker and quicker. We
must have new mechanical Improvements.
What shall they be?
"A new motor, accommodating more
power with a smaller mass? Possibly.
1t is even certain; we have the use of
the gas turbine in sight. Extremely inter-
esting laboratory experiments with it are
now being made.
But at the same time We should ex-
pertinent, at whatever risks, in high alti-
tudes, where there is little air resistance
TO be overcome. And then what will be
the speed? Six hundred miles an hour?
Yes, almost at the outset.
But here a theoretic limit appears.
Whatever the motor, even in an absolute
void, the flyer can never make a speed in
excess of half the velocity of his exhaust
gas. That is the principle of the rocket.
LET US put this exhaust speed at $500
feet second. This will give to the ideal
rocket airplane a limit speed Of 1,24O
miles per hour!
"The search for a top speed is not so
impractical as it seemed at first. The
margin is still great, TO be sure, but not
50 much so as TO forbid us to hope that
it will be reached in our own generation"
Those are the views Of a Frenchman.
Il L l.. L =.
army and navy airmen, it is reasonable
10 expect that the extreme speed may be
attained sooner than he expects America
invented aviation. Franc" then took the
leading place in developing the science.
II should be the natural ambition Of all
Americans to see our country foremost
again in this science, which must make US
the dominating factor in world events.
Lieut.. Bettis's achievement leaves all
The birds far behind. The swift, the vUl-
fure. hawk. the condor. once famed for
their speed, are slow-pokes compared TO
the American airplane. Up to the inven-
ton Of aviation the bird was always
spoken Of a the swiftest Of all things,
living or inanimate.
The speed Of the bird was the ideal
that man always dreamed Of and never
expected 20 attain. Do YOU realize that
the American aviator has hoWn three
times as fast as the fastest-known type
Of bird?
The swift. large variety Of swallow,
is said to be tho fastest of all birds
Colonel r. Mcincrtzhagen, in report
published by the Smithsonian Institution
sayS.
ut is known that swifts travel great
distances in search Of food and ascend
great attitudes. In the Atlas mountains Of
Morocco, in the Himasyas, in Crete and
Palestine, 1000 or 5000 feet Of altitude
and fifty miles or 50 in distance seems
nothing compared to these incompatible
flyers.
Con a small island off the coast Of
Crete ! was recently given a good exhibi-
ton Of what an Alpine swift can do
was watching some Of these birds feeding
round cliffs on which several of Elesnora's
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over him he would have seemed to be
standing still, or even going backwards,
for the airplane would have finished the
course before the horse had gone one
third of the distance.
The speed Of a trained man runner still
cXcitcs admiration and draws crowds TO
watch it. The best record Of the cele-
brated runner, Paavo Nurmi, Of Finland,
is one mile in four minutes, ten and one
quarter seconds. That speed bears about
the same relation to the horses speed
that the latter does to the airplane.
The fastest dog over short distance
is the little whippet. One Of these ami
mails, over regular eighth Of a mile
course, has made the distance in twelve
and one-half seconds A racehorse has
made the same distance in eleven and one
hsld seconds. beating the vhippet by
second.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

and ten minutes, the motor boat would
only have won by five minutes. In any
case, the motor boat established its posi-
ton as faster than the train over long
run, and the fastest object moving on the
face of the waters.
The locomotive was long the swiftest
engine made by man. II is hard to meas
ure train runs, since the highest speed
can only be made on long, straight run
without stations, and such runs are rare.
In an experimental test a locomotive
has made 120 miles an hour. In
fact, the attempt to attain the highest
theoretical speed is being abandoned as
dangerous and impractical. 1t is in the
air that such attempts have the greatest
practical value.
Most persons have admired the speed
of fish as they dash through the water
Their performances are particularly won
derful, in view of the fact that they must
force their way against medium much
heavier than air. A remarkable sight isl
to watch school of porpoises swimming
around ship. They can easily pass the
swiftest Ocean steamship.
Recent observations have proved that
the fastest of all fish is the terrible BAR
racuda, of Florida and West Indian
waters. Attention was recently called
to this monster when one of them bit a
young woman bather in Florida so teri
ribly that she bled to death.
The barracuda, which attains length
of four feet or more, is slender fish,
built especially for speed, with a long,
head and formidable rows of teeth. Care1
full observation has shown that the bari
racuda can flash through the water at 4
speed of eighty miles an hour. But that
is very slow compared to the $50 miles
an hour of the airplane.
From the earliest times, the tortoise
has been proverbially noted as the slow1
est of animals Encountered and bowed
down by its bony carapace, the tortoise
is doomed by nature TO move slowly. Tho
small box tortoise, which has the powell
of drawing its head and legs entirely intd
its shell when pursued, is the typicallY
slow member of the family.
A tortoise is said to be making it4
maximum speed when it covers forty feet
in an hour. Strange to say, in ancient
times the tortoise was considered quite 4
racer, for did not Aesop describe it al
beating the hare in race by its steadi
ness? But, perhaps, Aesop was a nature
faker.
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mile is 1923 seconds,
made by Ralph de
Palma. 1t should be
added that there are
many records almost
equal to this. The win
ming airplane would
have covered that dis
lance in twenty-five
q, ~ m - m Il q Dnt tI.t
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

Hghtful falcon Is
no mean flyer,
an d as t h e s e
swifts pass d
their cliff the fall
cons would come
out against them
like rockets. The
swifts would ac-
CELEBRATE and be
out of sight be-
fore the falcons
were well on
their way"
There is a rec
ord Of a swallow
flying from Rou-
baix to Paris
160 miles in
one h our and
70 rty minutes.
That is LOG miles
an hour.
But what is
that to the air
plane speed of
$50 mile s an
hour.
The fastest ami
nal over a course
of any length is
the horse. There
are many records
of horses cover
ing a mile in
about a minute
and a half. Prob
ably IN G best
time on record
was made b Y
the horse Billy
Warren n t h g
Harlem II a n d i
cap-one mile in
the amazing time
of one minute
and twelve Sec
onds.
The horse Billy
Warren seemed
to the spectator
On that occasion
to be- flying, but
if Lieut.. Belts
could have circlcd
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01

The Snail,
Together with the
Tortoise, Holder
of the Low Speed
Record in the
Nature Kingdom.
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water is the Ndclng WotofDoat OF
Baby Gar w Tin the Centre of the
J. This Boat Beat the Twentieth
Limited from Albany to New York
.rgin of SO Minutes, Averaging 46.5
Miles an Hour. But a Horse Like
Billy Warren (Left) Would Leave
Baby Gar Far Behind. This Horse
at the Harlem Handicap Ran a
Mile in the Amazing Time of 1
Minute and IL Seconds-Nearly
60 Miles an Hour. But Billy War.
rem Himself Would Be "Distanced"
by Ralph De Palma, Who Has At
tanned Speed of 235 Miles an
Hour in His Racing Car. And
Faster Than Amy Racing Car Will
Ever Be Is the Aeroplane, Which
Recently Attained Speed of 1923
Miles an Hour. This Extraordi-
nary Record Was Made by Lieu
tenant Afford Williams of the u. S.
Navy, and 1t Is Nearly Three
Times as Fast as the Speediest
Bird-the Swift Upper Right
Can Fly.
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81 ls-5. y gs.tlT. s'-.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
SPANISH UNIT OF GRAND.
CANYON P. T. A. MAKING

-
The name Progress Unit" might
well be given to the Spanish branch
of the Grand Canyon P. T. A. They
are the fastest growing part of the
organization. English classes proceed
regularly twice a week at the school
house. Cooking. and sewing. classes
are now to be started and the unit
holds regular meeting for all mem
bers on the first Monday in each
month.
At the meeting held a few nights
ago plans were discussed for the re-
mainder of the year, one more COM
nittee was appointed and especial at
tention given to the subject of the
formation. of library for the branch.
NJ. r. Sandoval was appointed
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee. Mr.. Sandoval with Ard Loya,
chairman of the membership commit
tee, are the mainstays of the organi-
zation.
Mrs. S. G. Stephens, president of
the local P. T. A., presides at all meet
ings with Mrs. Ennis as secretary.
At the beginning of the year off
cials Of the unit were chosen from the
Spanish branch itself but these Off
cials chose to resign to become heads
of committees, believing they could
do more in this capacity. This sys-
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
SALT RIVER VALLEY
FEELS HEAVY FROST

Heavy frost appeared in the Salt
River valley Monday, the first re
ported this season and ten days earlier
than last year. it is stated in a re-
port made by Robert @. Grant, chief
of the United States weather bureau
in Arizona. The temperature did not
drop as low as go degrees, however.
and no damage has been reported.
The weekly report issued by the To-
cal weather bureau shows that low
temperatures still persists at Bright
Anrel on the north rim Of the Grand
Canyon. A temperature of seven de-
grees below zero was reached last
week and snow to the depth of SIX
inches is on the ground. The tenn
perature on the south side of the RIM
is much higher with 10 degrees above
being the lowest reported.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
HOTEL co. INCORPORATES
FOR $4,5OO,OOO in DEL.


The New York Times of October %
contained a statement Of the incor-
poration of the Arizona Hotels and
Transportation company, with head
quarters at Wilmington, Delaware. 1t
is capitalized for $4,500,000, and pa
pers were filed in the state capitol at
Dover. The Incorporating was done
by the Corporation Trust Co. of
America.
This is the company that Vice
President Paul Shoup of the Southern
Pacific Railroad company stated would
be formed for the purpose Of building
q number of tourist hotels and lodges
in various points in Arizona, one of
which he said would be in Holbrook.
While the Southern Pacific is not
named in connection with the new or
ganization, it is generally believed
that the company will support it.
The chain of hotels mentioned by
Mr.. Shoup was doubtless that which
viii be constructed soon by the Ari-
zona Hotels and Transportation conn
pany, the president Of which is James
Woods, executive vice-president Of the
Mac. e. Bowman Hotel company,
which own the Biltmore hotels that
span the continent, one Of the finest
Of which is the Biltmore Of Los An
geles, where Mr.. Woods resides. The
president and managing director
of this new Arizona company is
Charles Baad, the manager Of the Los
Angeles BiItmore. The McArthurs of
Phoenix organized this Arizona COM
pany. It is generally believed that
the Southern Pacific company will
support this Arizona company, al
though there is no information yet
available on this subject,
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
DEMANDS RED COATS
FOR DEER HUNTERS

Because Of the fatal accidents con-
nected with the big game hunting sea-
son, the Chaves County ON. M
Game Protective association is going
to present bill to the next state leg
islature, making it an offense to go
into the woods hunting big game
without wearing a red cap and vest.
Hunters, returning to Roswell, report
many narrow escapes this year. One
man was killed and three seriously
wounded during the past season. Local
sportsmen declare that a restricted
hunting area and an ever increasing
army of hunters has made it very
dangerous to venture into the woods
during the big. game season without
wearing some distinctive garb.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
'PINONS SCARCE THIS YEAR
OVER IN NEW MEXICO

Zunl reports mat the Indians are
all out gathering pinons and their
pueblo is practically deserted. It is
said the pinon crop is not neavy this
year, but the price is up and it pays
to gather them. Last year dealers
could buy them for eight cents per
pound but this year they have not
been able to get any for less than is
cents per pound.
In Flagstaff its different. There are
many of them. An Indian recently re-
ceived sos for what he had gathered
in a short time.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
SENATE FIXES VERDE PROJECT
HEARING ON NOVEMBER q

~ A special hearing by members Of
the United States senate committee
on irrigation and reclamation will be
held in Phoenix on November 27 to
hear testimony regarding the Para
disc Verde irrigation project, it was
stated in a telegram received here this
morning from United States Senator
Ralph H. Cameron.
The question was scheduled to have
been heard when the committee was
in Arizona recently, but due to lack of
available time the hearings were de-
voted entirely to Colorado river ques-
tions.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

ton Of the temporary rates until aft
Ell the close of the present quarter
the members decided that their recon-
mendations would have to await that
information.
Postmaster General New told the
commission that from the best infor-
nation obtainable from fifty Of the
largest postoffices the departments
guess would be that the temporary
rates would increase annual revenues
about $32,0O0,000. This represents
slightly less than half the amount by
which congress has increased the pos
tai payroll.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
POSTAL RATE BOOST
TO BE MADE REGULAR

Recommendations to congress on
permanent postal rate legislation to
replace the existing temporary stat
ute, will be deferred at least until
next February by the joint congress
sional postal commission.
The commission was instructed at
the last session to report early next
month but since the postoffice depart
ment reported that it could furnish
no accurate estimates on the opera
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
ARREST PAIR IN STILL. RAID
OVER THE C0CONINO LINE

Federal dry raiders returned to
Prescott Monday afternoon with a
one-still, two-man catch they had
made near Ashfork, just across the
line in the hospitable county of Coco
nino.
The men were Robert Haglet and
Robert Harper, according to the
names under which they were booked.
They had copper still Of about ten
gallons capacity and small quantity
of liquor.
Pending the next sitting of the fed
eral grand jury here in the spring
they may be held or admitted to bond
by the United States commissioners
court-Prescott Journal Miner
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

tenn has proven most satisfactory.
Grand Canyon accomplished a great
deal in this work last year and this.
year can not help but succeed with
such good beginning.
Grand Canyon. received a big boost
in this line in the P. T. A. year book
for Arizona this year.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
GOOD PROSPECTS

whats tickling Hickey so?
"A bootlegger offered him a COM
mission for new customers, SO Hickey
by way Of joke, gave him the mem
bership roster Of the Civic Dry En-
forcelnent League"
"Well?"
To-day Hickey got a commission
check for $780,"
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
Glass Bottles in 1903.

The first manufactured product TO
he exported from the American col
onies was glass bottles, made in a fac
tory in the woods near jamestown
Va, before 1908.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

No matter how well you actually
are, if you think you're sick you've a
good chance Of feeling that way.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

The fellow who looks everybody
straight in the eye. gives folks little
chance to talk behind his back.
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