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Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14
Radio, Flashes
Will
Take Radio With
Them Into China

The third Asiatic expedition of
the American musoum Of natural
history Of New York under the
leadership of Roy Chapman An
drews, will carry into the heart of
China full equipment of radio
apparatus in order tnat this caravan
of exploration may always be in
touch with the news of the world.
The expedition left San Francisco
on the Pacific mail steamer Presi-
dent Lincoln March 7. J. B. Shac
kelform cinematagrapher Of the
party, will also handle the wireless
equipment which was especially de
signed for exploration work. Dr.
Mu, radio pioneer Of the Celestial
republic, has already offered to as
sist the exploration party and has
rendered his laboratories to the
Americans. Incidentally DR.. Mu
reports that China is now support
ing five broadcasting stations each
presenting daily programs.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14
MANY NOVELISTS
PICK CHARACTERS
FROM REAL LIFE

Where did the author find such
character, is often the question
of people while reading modern
novels. Because OF this question
the New York Public Library has
published a pamphlet of list of
novels with characters based on
real persons.
The following list is a condensed
version of this pamphlet:
1.-The Flame of Life' by Gabrielle
D'Annunzio, the novel that drove
Eleonora Dusc into retirement.
1.-The Beginning of Wisdom" by
5. V. Benet. In this novel and in
Young People S PRIDE the char
acter Johnny Chapman is evident
ly John Farrar, oditor of the Book
man.
"Shirlcy" by Charlotte Brontc.
Drawn from her sister Emily.
"Thc Way of All Flesh" by
Samuel Butler. Ernest Pontifex is
himself; Theobald and Christina his
father and mother; Alethea, Miss
Savage, Butler S best woman friend.
''Tho Prodigal Son" by Hall
Caine. Includes incidents, some of
them discreditable, in the life of
Dante Gabriel Rossctt.
"The Gilded Age" by Mark
Twain. James hampton is Colonel
Sellers; Orien Clemens, Washington
Hawkins; and Squire Clemens, the
judge.
Noted Characters
Barnaby Rudgc" by Charles
Dickens. Mr.. Chester was drawn
from Lord Chesterfield. "Bleak
House" Boythorn is Walter Saw
age Landor; Harold Skimpole, Leigh
Hunt. Harriet Martineau NAV have
been the model for Mrs. Jellyby and
William the Fourth for Mr.. Turvey.
drop. David Copperfield." Dick
ems is David; his father, Wilkins
Micawber. The original Dora was
one Maria Beadnell, who reappcars
in a fat and coy incarnation as Flo
IA Finching in "Little Dorrit." "
"Felix Holt" by George Llliot.
Gerald Massey, the socialist poet,
was probably her model.
"TAo Girls" by Edna Fcrbcr.
Rutherford Hayes Adler is suppos,
ed to be I. L. a. (Franklin P.
AdamS). $50 Big. Dallas O'Mara
is said to be drawn from Ncysa Nc
Mein.
"The Honorable Pctcr Stirling"
by Paul Leicester Ford. Grover
Cleveland was his model.
"Thc Red Lily" by Auatolc
France. Miss Bell is said to be
drawn from Vernon Lee, the Eng
liSh author,
''Thc Light that Nailed" by
Rudyard kipling. Contains por.
traits Of Frederick Nillicrs and other
war correspondents,
"Thc Moon and SiNpcncc" by
w. Somerset Mausham Strickland
is drawn from Paul Gausuin, the
French painter,
"Tho Age of lnnocence' by
Edith Wharton. August Belmont
and many other notablcS Of the so
cicty of the period have been
Idc-t.t.c4 W Gc4de!y Ul the uo'e.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14
Secretary Says
Radio Improving;

Secretary Hoover with his usuoI
perception lays stress on the 1,,ct
that one of the most important
radio developments is not of an
apparatus but of an attitude. Broad
casting is developing discriminat-
ing audience.
It's clients are not minded to give
their concentrated attention to the
mere flotsam and ietsam dumped on
the sea of the atmosphere by those
who think that any noise will do
if it makes a sufficient vibration.
The motion pictures had to 90
through the same winnowing pro,
cess.
AT first the public was victimizcd
by rubbish, 1t rose up and protest
ed. Every day as Hoover says, the
radio is striving more closely to full
fill the popular requirement of bet
ter service.
So many worthy attractions are
now competing for the possession
of the ether at convenient hours
that by a natural process of suyi-
val the dross is eliminated.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14
TWO TEAMS PLAY
TONIGHT FOR THE
BASKETBALL TITLE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Mar. a.
Two middle western teams will
grapple tonight for the 1925 A. A.
[. basketball championship. The
east and near east lost all chances
at claim for trophy last night
when the Monon five, Lafayette,
Ind, lost to Washburn College, To-
peka. The finalists are Hilliard, st.
Joseph, Mo-, and Ashburn College,
Topeka.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14
VALLEY POULTRY
BREEDERS PLAN
BETTER FL0CKS

A countrywide organization of
breeders of purebred utility poultry
was effected at meeting just held
at the farm advisors office in
FL Centre. The members of the
association include some of the
foremost poultry raisers in lmper-
ial Valley.
L. n. Deyo of Acacia was elect
ed president of the new association.
Mrs. Ernest Oliver of Mt. Signal
was elected vice president, and A.
Martin Of McCabc was elected sec
rctary-trcasurcr. An executive com
mittcc consisting Of n. B. Denham,
Imperial, +. n. Deyo, c. J. Rus
sell, Mrs. Ernest Oliver and A..
Martin was also elected
A constitution, by,laws, and a
set of rules and regulations were
adopted by the members, who plan
to start active work Immediately.
The purpose of the association,
according to Z. N. Deyo, is to i'm
prove the purebred poultry breed.
ing business in Imperial Valley by
several months. A better market
will be developed for the extra
high quality eggs, chicks and breed
ing stock developed here in the
valley. Members of the association
Will be assisted in getting better
breeding stock. A purebred utili-
ty poultry show, and cockercl auc-
ton sale are also planned.
Monthly Inspection
Membership in the association is
open to any breeder or fancicr of
poultry in Imperial Valley, accord
ing to Dcyo. A membership com
mittee will be appointed who will
Inspect the flock of every person
before being admitted to the asso-
citation. The association aims to
offer to the public in Imperial Val
Icy the best eggs, chicks and breed
ing stock available, and in order to
do this rigorous monthly inspections
of the fiocks and yards of all mem
bers will be made so as to force
the maintenance of Il high stand
ard of quality.
The executive committee Will
meet in the farm advisor s office
Friday night to consider plans Of
operation.
A general meeting of members
has been called by President Deyo
for Tuesday March II at 1880 p. m.
i'll the farm advisor s office, court
house, FL Centre. All breeders and
fanciers of purebred poultry al I'M
perial Valley are invited I'd at
tend this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14

w. II. Anderson, Clark county,
Oregon, a noted pear grower has
pollcnized his Bartlett pears for -
years with one graft i'll each tree Of
Fall Buffers pear.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14

Nampa, Idaho, is placing adyer,
tiSements in national magazines call
ing attention to the wealth Of agri-
cultnrc in that section.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-14

THE battery which powers a
L radio set is frequently slipped
out of sight in some dark corner
Of the room. When such is the
case there is no easier way to
take hydrometer reading or make
sure that connections are tight
than by the use Of a pocket flash.
light. The battery shown above
. was kept beneath the piano and
all the owner had to do was to
pull it within reach and use his
fashlight.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-25
PHYSICAL AND LABOR
 PROBLEMS ABOUND IN
 SPITZBERGEN MININ C

LONGYEAR CITY, Spitzbergen, Aug 2. (P)-Mining in Spitzbergen presents peculiar features that are not met with anywhere else in the world.
 It is a long tramp from Longyear City to the mine entrance across a boulderstrewn valley between two snowcovered mountain ranges. In the spring, the slowly melting snow turns the valley, really a moraine, into a morass of slush- and mud, with rapid little watercourses winding their way towards the jford.
 Working gangs are hoisted in open cable cars 800 feet up at an angle of some 50 degrees to the main gallery, which opens out on the mountainside and looks from below like an ugly black bear.
 From here, galleries run horizon tally thru the heart of the noun tan, with an exit on the other side. Thus there is a constant supply Of fresh air, and the temperature with in is constant; about five degrees of frost all the year around. There is a markable absence of dust which is kept down by shoveling in snow from outside. This snow never melts, and it helps to keep the air pure.
 Pillars of solid ice, said to be millions of years old, and many feet thick, form reliable natural sup ports for the galleries, which are reinforced by wooden balks.
 The company's engineers are proud of their American electric traction equipment which conveys the coal from the bowels of the earth to the outlet high up on the mountainside, whence an endless chain of tips car ries it down to the distant harbor. Much safer, they say, than the ben zine cars used in the Swedish mine on Braganza Bay at the end of the Bell Sound further south. Not long ago, a benzine tank exploded there, fortunately during non-working hours. No one was killed, but the coal became ignited and that mine has been burning for weeks
 This is really our worst time as far as labor is concerned" said Sigurd Westby, Spitzbergen manager of the Great Norwegian Coal compa- ny, to an Associated Press cores pondent discussing ways and means
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-25
Wages of Motion Picture
 Directors Vary Widely

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 25. (P)- An explanation of the wide variance in amounts of the weekly salaries Of motion picture directors was given here recently at 2 meeting of film executives.
 The average salary received by the "top-notch" director apprOximates $2,000 weekly. Other directors-many of them new in the industry-are paid lesser amounts, ranging as low as $75 week.
 One producer in speaking on the question How much is director worth?" said "A director who does not know every detail of the motion picture game is expensive at any price. One who does know is worth $2,000 week because he will save his salary dozen times in the cost of production.
 Through the inexperience of a di- rector, studios sometimes are com pelled to retake the work of many weeks This means that the cost of keeping the company and the mechan- ical staff on the sets for the extend ed length of time was greater than the difference between what the producer paid his small salaried di- rector and what he would have to pay top notcher."
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-25

of recruiting operating staffs, all of whom have to be imported, since there are no Spitzbergen natives" speaking.
 "At this time of the year, when the first boats begin to arrive from Norway" he went on, many of our fellows get the homing instinct and there's no holding them. They have to sign contract for at least one summer and one winter, but nothing vii keep them once the ice breaks up and there is a chance of going home. Oh yes, many of them come back after they have spent their money at Tromso or elsewhere. Min CTS wages run to about 30 kroner per day; they are charged four kro- ner for board and lodging and there are no opportunities for spending money here. Amusements in the way of movies, wireless parties and social entertainments are provided for them free in the winter time, so every man has his little hoard by the time the sun reappears above the horizon late in April"
 People who have spent four con- secutive winters in Sptzbergen are pretty rare.
 Coal is king in Spitzbergen and everyone talks in terms of coal, which is no wonder, seeing that the exist ence of all the thousand odd inhabi- tants of these islands is dependent upon the production of that commod- ity, since the whaling industry was ruined many decades ago by reck- less slaughtering methods employ ed by the hunters.
 Of ten mining companies which own land in the archipelago the principal concerns, two Norwegian, one Swedish, produce over half a million tons annually, all of which is used in Norway, Finland and Nor thern Russia for domestic and in- dustrial purposes.
 It was the late John NJ. Longyear, of Boston( Mass, who, together with his friend. Frederick Aver, located some 25 years ago the most promis- ing coal fields in these parts, which are estimated to contain 500,000,000 tons, or about one-quarter of the to- tai supply supply to exist, as far as is known, in all Spitzbergen.
 Much of the Spitzbergen coal is of a porous kind, which incidentally is the reason why fire which start ed some three years ago in one of the local galleries is still burning. It has been found impossible to ex- clude air wholly from this seam, and when an Associated Press cor
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-25
Copenhagen Buys Statue
 Ancient King for $6O,OOO

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 24. (P- What is possibly the oldest statue in the world was recently purchased by the Copenhagen Museum for $6O,- 900. The statue was dug up in the of Notifications in Mesopotamia and represents King Gudea, who ruled in Bagash in southern Mesopotamia about 5000 B. 0.
 The ancient relic was exceptionally we'll preserved and was first taken to England, but the London National Museum is not buying any more an- tiquities at present aad the statue passed to Copenhagen.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-25
Wants Son Buried In
 Uniform with Badge

LOS ANGELES, Aug, "A (R-Pa- trolman Wiley B. Smith died yester- day from bullet wound received Sat urday, when he was shot through the lungs in a running fight with bandits who robbed the Gellman Branch Bank, taking $19,O00 in cash and securities.
 Smiths mother arrived from Miami, Arizona, a few hours after her sons death. She said, 'T want Wiley bur- jed in his uniform and wearing his badge. Ever since he was a little bov he wanted to be a policeman"
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-25

respondent visited the place recent ly a thin vapor was seen now and again to be rising from the smould- ering interior of the mountain. Work at this particular spot is of course at a standstill.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

A spectacular celebralon oi lls &c
1sotb anniversary of the battle OF
1'ayinpt0n and Concord was held last
week at Concord. Sham battles ana
an impersonation of Paul Revere ana
William Dawes. jr., in their famous
ride of a century and half ago were
features of the celebration. wee
President Dawes, a descendant OF tne
William who rode with Paul revere
and Gen. John J. Persnlhs' ie'i GU
took part in the ceremonies:
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Prof II. f. Cotterman, Prof. r.. w.
Carpenter and J. S. Blackwell of the
State Department OF Education are
TO represent the university and State
at the regional conference of the
Northeastern division of the Asri-
cultural Vocational Association in
Boston on May Is.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Benefit Program Given.

Friendship Circle gave a tea and
musicale for the benefit of Florence
Crittenton Home Friday afternoon at
the University Women's Clubhouse.
The informal program of vocal,
violin and piano selections was rem
dered by Mrs. Rowland Dyer, Miss
Beryl Loughlin, Miss Virginia Hefty,
Miss Sara Lerch, H. @. Smell, Mrs.
Arthur Fast, Mrs. William F. Meyer,
Mrs. Kathryn Peoples Murrell and
Roy G. Beall.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Educational.

A survey of eight leading news.
papers of the East by students of the
University of Pennsylvania disclosed
the following percentage Of space on
the first page for different classes of
news: Politics and government, 3S5
per cent; news Of crime and the courts,
22.5 per cent; accidents and disaste
14.5 per cent; business news, per
cent: stories of art and science, per
cent: news of society, religion, obit,.
uaries and sports, / per cent. ssN1r
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Art.

John Singer Sargent. famous
painter, who died recently in England,
left a small estate, it is believed, be-
cause during his lifetime he was
exceedingly generous and often gave
away large sums. The will has not
yet been found, but Is believed to be
in the United States. Mr.. Sargent is
supposed to have made it before leav-
ing this country for England in the
midst of the German submarine war
fare. 1t is not known whether the
painter intended to bequeath some
Of his works to the Nation.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
in New York, definitely has decided
against acceptance of the art treas
ures Of the late Senator William A.
Clark of Montana, which was be-
queathed to that institution upon the
condition that they would be housed
and exhibited as a unit. Now interest
in the matter centers whether the Cor
coran Gallery of Art in Washington
will take the collection, which, under
the terms of the will, would go to the
local institution under the same con-
ditions-in case the Metropolitan de-
clined the gift. Acceptance of the
gift now lies with the board of trus-
tees Of the Carcoran, which has until
June to decide.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Current News Events
Summary of Important National Foreign and
Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the
Convenience of Students

affect the agricultural and industrial
work now carried on by Quakers and
Mennonites.
An airplane reached Washington
last week carrying two grand pianos
from New York, and almost stimuli
taneously with that event in aviation
the Pullman Co, which builds and
operates Pullman cars all over the
country, announced plans for building
Pullman aircraft, which would be oper-
ated by regularly organized CONNER
cial air lines over long routeS-Such
as from New York to Chicago or from
Chicago to Miami. Fla.
Germany is electing President to-
day. While the campaign has been
unusually lacking in the features
which usually attend a close political
race, correspondents from Germany
report that the feeling Is running
high and that disorders are predicted
on election day. The prize lies be-
tween former Chancellor Marx and
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, with
the odds favoring the former.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution holding their thirty-fourth
annual convention here, voted to erect
within the near future new conven-
tion hall at cost of nearly 81, 900, 900
The additional hall has become neces-
Sary because of the increased member.
ship in the organization. The present
Continental Memorial Hall will re-
main, the new building to be erected
Immediately in its rear.
The effort by minority of the Ship
ping Board to stop the sale of Gov
ernment ships to the Dollar Line of
San Francisco by joining in a suit for
injunction was blocked last week in
the District Supreme Court, when
Justice Hitz dismissed the suit. The
president had SO far interested him
self in the split in the Shipping Board
as TO address a letter to Chairman
OConnor, asking him about the diff
lerences among the members. Neither
the letter to Mr.. O'Connor nor his re-
ply was made public
IL all depends upon the point of
view. While British investors who
lost heavily when their schemes to
unload bootleg liquor in America went
awry are bemoaning their appalling"
losses the American public generally
Is sitting back and having a good.
nearly laugh over the accident. Sir
Frederick Hartwell left England a
month ago to superintend the unload.
ing on American shores of his seventh
and largest consignment of spirits.
but the activities of the Coast Guard
prevented unloading the liquor and
much OF 1t was lost. Many Britishers
VINO invested in the venture have lost
heavlly, 1t is stated, but they are re-
ceivlng small sympathy from newspa-
pers in England, which unanimousIy
decry the efforts of a friendly nation
to make money by breaking the laws
of another.
An attempted coup by revolutionists
who hoped to overthrow the exciting
government in Portugal was brought
to quick end last week when govern
ment troops defeated the revolu-
tionlsts with heavy losses and captur-
ed their leader
Evening star., 1925-04-26

strain on relations with that country
1t is stated, and Mr.. Culbertson will
go to Rumania prepared to iron out
some of the existing differences. His
work on the Tariff Commission has
given him wide experience in handling
financial aspects of international re-
lations.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Science.


| Through an invention which reduces
! the bulk of insulation on telephone
! wires, the American Telephone and
| Telegraph Co. has announced that a
| single telephone cable, scarcely more
than two inches in diameter. will be
made to carry twice it's present maxi
| mum capacity of 1,200 simultaneous
| conversations.
The first of a series of experiments
| to determine what's in the clouds
| above Washington took place last
week when a naval plane rose to a
| height of 3,400 feet above the Capi-
! tai and took meteorological observa-
| tiorfs to assist the Weather Bureau
| in making more accurate forecasts
The experiments are to be continued
| several times a week.
Scientists are still STUDYING. and
will be for years, some of the results
| of their observation of the eclipse
| January "a. The Bureau of Standards
here has already reached some conclu-
sions. The suns corona, or the
| radiant mantle of material which sur
! rounds the great orb, is made up
| partly of solid or liquid material. and
is not wholly gas The existence of
an element in the sun, tentatively call
| ed "coronium," which has never been
| found on the earth, is fairly well es-
| tablished. A new method for timing
eclipses, worked out on the phe-
| nomena of light, has been worked
| out for predicting the eclipse of
January 2S, 1927, when the next great
| eclipse of the sun will be visible in
parts of Europe.
In an interview in Omaha, Nebr.,
last week. Brig. Gen. Amos Fries,
chief of the Chemical Warfare Service,
| expressed the belief that the next war
| will see comparatively few deaths, be-
cause chemists are now working with
the idea in mind of incapacitating
| armies and cities, not to kill human
beings. Temporarily disabling men
will put them out of commission and
win battles, he said.
The invention which enables a pic
| ture to be sent over telephone wires
and reproduced at the other end is to
| be put to practical use very soon. ac.
cording to recently announced plans
! or the telephone company, which is
to inaugurate regular picture send.
Ing service between New York Chi.
cago and other large Eastern cities.
The service will be used extensively
for the quick transmission of pictures
for newspapers, it is expected, while
one bank may send a check or draft
! to another bank, though in cities far
apart, within the space of few min.
utes. The possibilities of the service
are virtually unlimited
The Navy plays a trump card in its
| announcement last week of successful
tests with 5-inch rapid fire anti-air-
craft gun with largely increased range
| and firing speed over the type now in
use. With this gun, it is stated, II
would be difficult for an airplane with.
in range to escape being hit. Recent
tests with the old-style anti-aircraft
| gun indicated that it is an easy mat.
ter for plane to escape destruction
Tests with the new gun will be
| watched with interest as another
! move in the battleship VS.. the airplane
/ controversy.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Ciiuiics.

Speaking at the annual luncheon
of the Associated Press in New York
, City, Vice President Charles G. Dawes
delivered another stroke in his cam.
paign for revision of the Senate rules,
which now permit of unlimited de.
bate. He characterized the movement
as non-partisan, non-sectional and pa.
triotic.
He thus states the whole point at
issue: Shall the Senate continue un.
changed its existing rules, which ad.
mittedly make possible at times the
exercise by a minority, or even one
Senator, of power to block the purpose
of majority of the Senate to legis.
late?"
1T is important" he said, that the
Senate's rules give every Senator a
square deal, but is imperative that
they give the American people a
square deal"
William s. Culbertson OF Kansas
vice chairman of the United States
Tariff Commission, has been chosen
by President Coolidge to be Minister
to Rumania. The debt question and
treatment accorded some American
corporations doing business in Ru.
mania have placed something of a
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Walter Bromley of Pocomoke, Md,
of the senior class has been selected
for graduate work in the dairy hus-
bandry department.