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Seward daily gateway., 1929-07-01

A change of moon took place Saturday which was not so good.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-07-01

AT meat anu nuvHHs else sn the Frye Bruhn Meat M,.rket.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

the volcano top. The refrigerator also preserved vegetables, fruit and meat so that the 122-mle journey 10 the grocery store and back might be made less frequently. A gasoline engine, which was brought up the mountain side, piecemeal on donkey back, and generator supplied cur rent for the refrigerator.
 A man setting up a solar radia- tjon observatory has to be a Jack of-all-trades," says Mir. Hoover "Greely and l were carpenters, plumbers, mechanics. electricians and farmers alternately
 "One night We heard noises that sounded like a lion," he said telling about the leopard. "and next morn ing three of our chickens were missing. Then We suspected our visitor to have been. q leopard and the following night set a big itrap. The leopard got into the trap, but went off, trap and all.
 Grcely's Lucky Shot
 Next morning we trailed him and finally located him in a crevice. | fired, Wounding the leopard. which at once leaped toward Us. We were on ledge. The animal just barely missed the ledge, and, as it tumbcd down the rock, Greedy fired and killed it. Although neither of Us was injured, the experience taught us mover 10 go after leopards with Q - rifle"
 The ringhals cobra, a snake that grows 10 six feet in length, was q frequent visitor at the Mt. Hrull- karos observatory. More than half a dozen were killed near the house. Snake bite serum is kept in the ice box at all times. Once cobra coiled itself on ;he front porch. An other time. as MT. Hoover entered the Storehousc he felt moisture on his cheek and looked up to see a ringhals cobra lying above the door. The snake had spit it's poison at him. He ran out, got his gun, and killed the snake.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

The ringhals cobra shoots it's venom as well as injecting it with the fangs. The poison shot through the air is not dangerous to humans unless it gets into the eyes.
 Hottentots Like Walking
 The expedition kept an auto truck in q garage half way up the moun- tain. Every ten days someone would drive to keetmanshoop for supplies and mail On these trips the driver always took "black boy to walk back in case of acci- dent. The Hottentots have no use for work, but they do not consider walking work. Fifty miles in a day they consider a nice jaunt. Hence the emergency black boy" on the truck
 When MT. Hoover broke an axle in the sand of q dried up river, the Hottontot servan trudged off 2o miles for help.
 At other tines this dry river wa4 a raging torrent and on one occa- sion cut them off from Keetman- shoop for six weeks
 Getting water and supplies up the mountain proved a great trial Alt Rrukkaros was chosen because O. the lack Of rain. The roof-cistcrn system yielded some water, but not enough. Two loads of water daily were brought mp from q water hole on donkey back
 Complicated Computations
 Taking of observations generally occupied the morning from soon after sun up until 9 or l2 o'cloc5. The rest Of the day was spent .n computing the results obtained by three instruments, each dinercnt. The computations require six hours or more.
 The intricacy Of the computations may be judged from tho fact that once the data for six film exposures of solar radiation intensity have been taken. the figures have to be corrected for depth Of the atmo- sphere, ozone. water vajor. dust in ;he air, absorption il the mirror re-
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2o 192o

radiation, the variation of which is the subject of this study.
 While individuals are only con- scious of such variation in radiation as earth itself brings about through the procession of the seasons, evi- dence of the variation in the strength of the sun itself is not far to seek. Smithsonian authorities think there is a definite connection between variation in solar radiation and changes of weather. The ob- Serratory Mir. Hoover esta ablished on Mt. Brukkaros. South West Africa may some day help warn Chicago of q coming drop in temperature.
 G1 Miles From Grocery
 At Brukkaros the Hoover party lived 2,00o feet up a mountainside and 61 miles from a grocery store The nearest white man, a German missionary, lived eight miles away Their nearest neighbors were Hot tentots, whose beehive houses dotted the plain. Because the observatory stands within Hottcntot rescrva- ton Mr. Hoover had to get pcrmis- sion to hunt springbok from the local chief of the Hottentots, who is known as captain.
 Isolated on q dry mountain, sur rounded by African natives. the expedition was nevertheless in con- stant touch with civilization. The government of South West Africa. which built the 3-room corrugated iron homo on the rocky mountain .top, ran a telephone line connect ing with keetmanshoop the nearest town. A radio, a Christmas gift from the National Geographic so- cicty brought them cable news Of the United States and the rest of the world via the station at Cape Town, although static interfcred in warm weather.
 \ "Home MaGe'' Refrigerator
 The second year the observatory staff received the mechanical parts of an electric refrigerator. They built a refrigerator around this unit. Thereafter ice cream was served on
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

ing the shouts and laughter. will make Christmas this year q real one. The favorite White House dogs Pat big Irish wolf-hound belong ing to Mrs. Hoover. and Yukon, white husky with blue eyes. will add their own gruff Christmas greetings to the merry making. There probably will be two trees one in the east room for general callers to sec and the other in the private quarters of the president and his family on the floor above.
 Church on Christmas forming. a noon dinner and q quiet afternoon with q few old friends will complete the day.
 The Coolidges always had small tree decorated with stars and angels in the east room. The , was no need Of q special family tree. There was only John to come home from col l@ge and he was little beyond the family tree age.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

Washington. Dec. 20 Pl-An old fashioned Christmas such as has not been celebrated in the White House in many administrations will make the holidays this year radiant.
 Children, for the first time in years. will gather round the brightly lighted tree and pull presents out of stockings in the early Christmas dawn.
 Little Herbert Hoover TIT will clutch his woolly dog with the same Slec as other youngsters in millions of home all over the land. A doll m pink or blue bonnet will bring smiles 10 the face of little Peggy Ann Hoover, aged 8, who is her Srandfathcr's pride.
 For the White House "chldren" will be home for the holidays-Hcr- bert Hoover. Jr., his wife and two children from California, Allan Hoover from Harvard business school and the two children of Mrs. J. H. Large. sister of Mrs. Hoover. Both are in their teens.
 some of the old nciGhbors from inc former $ street home of the HooNcrs may be invited in with '1cIr children for Christmas eve or at some time during Christmas day,
 Tho honinS spirit which draws "aldcrcrs from far corners of the earth will be symbolized in the lights shining from the White House W'ndoWs tho night before Christmas, President and Mrs. roover have aI- ways made much of the day, no matter in what distant land tbav nave been. For the president, espe- cially the sentiment of the day holds powerful appeal.
 This, coupled with the presence of children in rooms which have hero tofore been Nolidav-festiyo hut Iocr.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

Hoover. their four year old daugh- ter and Fred A. Greedy. a fellow scientist, who have just returned to Washington from south West Africa.
 Killing a charging leopard with a e2-caliber rifle says M. Hoover, was the most exciting adventure Of their lonely post. The ringhals cobra in Cident was a close second. The copra spit poison in MT. Hoover's face.
 sun Observatory Atop Volcano
 Alr. Hoover was field leader Of the National Geographic society cx- petition in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution to esta blsh a solar radiation observatory on top of Mt. Brukkaros, a dead volcano Of south West Africa
 Betty, Mir and Mrs. Hooycr's daughter, was enc and one-half years old when they went out to es- tablish the observatory. Now she is four. A flock of chickens and a COW were her only playmatcs for three years.
 The Hoovers and Mr. Greedy were relieved by Louis o. Sordahl and Mrs. Sordahl and A. G. ITroiland, who arrived at Mt. Rrukkaros to carry on the Worl: ot shooting the sun" six times day.
 Reports From Three Continents
 The work of the expedition was to st mp an observatory which would make reports similar to those made by Smithsonian Institution solar ob- scrlatOries in Chile and at Table mountain, California. The three ob- Servatores on three continents are reporting daily variations in the heat of the sun that reaches the earth. Every activity on the face Of the earth is dependent on the suns
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

tlection, absorption in the blacI; strip used in the instruments, and absorption in the prisms.
 At Brukkaros the expedition had on an average of 240 clear days per year. The observatory, Mir Hoover believes. may prove espe-
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

cially valuable because it's reports accentuate deviations in conputa- tions reported from California and Chile. These variations have put the scientists on the trail of some unknown factor governing the check on the suns radiation.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20
OBSERVERS OF SUN
 BACK FROM EXILE
Members Of African Expedition Relate Exciting Experiences

Washington. D. C., Dec. 2O.-F'or 'hrte years home was a corrugated iron house on top of a sun- -blistered solitary mountain in an arid coun- try for W. A. Hoover and Mrs
New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

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New Britain herald., 1929-12-20

The long wearing, shape re- taining fabrics-new in pat tern and shades-special value at this price. Hun dreds to choose from-see our displays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-29

result was the same NJ Beaver
Dam when William B. Hilkert sent his
iron tee shot scuttling into the leaves
at the 156-yard fourteenth hole, far to
the right of the green, and then, teeing
up another ball, played 1t with such
skill and unerring Judgment OF distance
that the ball holed out.
The yarn might properly be entitled
when Is an ace not an ace? Tor
Hilkert scored an actual ! ON the hole,
but his score card read 4, for this
tricky one-shot fourteenth. It happened
H Ike H :nts a anS 4 At T te
fourteenth, which probably Is the best
Of the one-shotters on that splendid
second nine at Beaver Dam, Hilkert
sliced his ball far to the right. The
members Of the match had been having
some trouble with lost. balls, due to
leaves on the course and in the rough.
Believing that possibly his ball might
be lost and in order to save time In
case 1t was lost, Hilkert teed up another
ball and hit 1t with his iron. To his
amazement, in view Of the poor results
Of the previous shot, the ball carried on
a dead line to the edge Of the green,
hoped a couple Of times and diSap-
peared In the hole.
Naturally TIilkert didn't want to find
the other ball, for his jubilation was
quite excuSable under the circum-
stances. But caddie, poking around In
the leaves, found his ball, and he was
required to play it. He put It on the
green and holed out for q 4. With the
second ball, and penalty Of stroke and
distance, he secured an actual 3. So
he was robbed both Of his ace and Q
score q stroke better than he made with
the second ball. Under the rules Of
golf, however, he was required to search
for five minutes for his first ball, al
though he was not required to search
in the spot where he thought 1t might
Larkin's stunt probably was the most
remarkable ever recorded in this sec
tor of the bunkered country. He put his
ball at the seventh hole at Elkridge out
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Barnett and Hunter Opposing
Today for M. Il. Links LalreLs

Club a ditch crosses the fairway. II q
ball goes in 1t from the tee 1t may be
dropped without penalty. Hunter
stepped up in the afternoon and car
ried. 1.-THE ditch by IS yards. The ninth
hole is $50 yards long. In the morn
ing Hunter reached the green with
drive and No. iron, and in the after
noon, when the ground was harder, ne
was over the green with a drive and
No. iron. The putting greens were
lightning fast and all the competitors
had trouble keeping their approach
puts near the cups.
AS expected prior to the tourney.
Mrs. John N. Hodges, who won the
womens championship tourney of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association last
week at Columbia, yesterday annexed
the qualifying round in the women's
championship of the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps Country Club. registering
a fine "a to lead the field by nearly
paired in the first flight, but the VIM
ner of that flight will meet her later IN
a challenge round for the club title.
Here are the pairings for the first
round in the four flights today, with
the qualifying scores:
MRS 9. dsrlinston tlis5. MS John ":
uI4J, Mrs. e. L. King di4> vs.. MIS- ".
Mrs Frank ' 4 k keste e cles Denni' uo'' vs.
Second night1Mrs ". j.. REED GID vs.;
drunst Gan vs.; Mrs; r; I; Martin 900.
sl22!. Mrs; 3. IT,, 2 Merchant d22) VS.. Mrs.
Third T1 fkiSsht1M MIS- M B. CARRIER ,12s, VS..
MIS- gs, r. MeNeill fi25l, Mrs; < N Gardner
Carroll (l26) VS.. Mrs. D. B. Gibner $50,
MRS. Mrs; " VAS Porter daD VS.. Mrs. F. F.
Fourth G4iight-Mrg, C. A Blakeley tI4al
Phinney Gss) VS.. Mrs. 8. B. Spaulding
136), Mrs. r. r. Glass (135) drew bye.
Four matches were played in the
competition for the Siamese Cup yes
terday at the Chevy Chase Club, with
the following results: Gen. Charles G.
Treat defeated Walter G. Dunlop by
default; D. D. L. McGrew defeated DR..
William B. Mason, / up; Maj. o. S. Al
bright defeated P. s. Ridsdale, and 2;
John H. Clapp defeated Robert Stead,
jr., 4 and 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-29

It is odd that the Boston Amer
leans went out into the draft to
get a first baSeman in the same
year that the Boston Nationals
did. The Red Sox drafted Bill
Sweeney from Toronto. Thus the
International League loses two
first baSemen if the players are
retained by their new bosses.
Sweeney was out in Fort Worth. Jake
AtZ who bosses the Fort Worth club,
thought Sweeney would be a success in
the majors. So did Moriarty, then the
Detroit manager He tried Sweeney
at first but Sweeney was elbowed over
to Toronto when Detroit made a trade
with the Canadian team.
Land in Same Town Again.
Base ball shifts players around in
entertaining ways. Both Neun and
Sweeney have been Detroit first base
men and both are landed in Boston
for 1880, although in rival clubs. When
Neun was doing his best for Detroit
new top. His collapse from a very
desirable first baseman to one not so
desirable was a hard blow to his ad-
mirerS.
The Braves have needed third base
man for some time, and they drafted
Rollings from Hollywood. Rollings once
played with the Red Sox. He flashed
like danger light in the Spring when
the Red Sox were practicing in the
South, but dimmed when the regular
II the Braves want Rollings very
badly they may let Lester Bell 90. Bell
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whether or not golf interferes
with business is entirely dependent
on the individual" said the ma
tional open champion. eff a man
plays every day and lets the game
dominate his thoughts to the ex-
clusion of his business, naturally
his business is going to suffer. TO
this extent I can see how golf
would interfere with business.
But the average golfer doesn't DO
that, He goes out several times
week-say Saturday and Sunday-and
IL a better man for It when he sits
down at his desk on Monday"
Bobby Jones then spoke a. few words
Of advice to his fellow golfers on how
to get the most good out Of golf.
"a man ought to play golf for the
fun he finds in the game" he said.
MANY don't, however. They want to
make a good score, and in their con-
Germ to do so don't get as much pleas
ure out Of golf as they otherwise would.
The average golfer ought to have his
enjoyment of the game on each shot:
The Joy Of golf lies In hitting the ball
card. Whether q man reaches the
green in five or six strokes, he has had
his fun II his attitude toward the game
Is right"
While on his way to Pebble Beach,
Calf, In September to play in the ma
tional amateur golf tournament, In
which he had the unusual experience Of
being defeated In his first match, Bob
by Jones stopped over In Hollywood. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-29
WESTERN UNION B0WLERS
HERE BEAT BALTIMOREANS

Man and woman Western Union
Telegraph Co. bowlers of this city de-
feated teams representing the Baltimore
offlce OF that company in matches roll
ed in the Monumental City.
Washington girls defeated the Balti-
more lassieS by "a pins, arnasSing TO-
tai of 1877 to 1898 for their opponents.
Washington'S first man team de-
feated Baltimore;s regulars, 1.695 to
1898, and the Capital City quint also
was victorious when the man reserve
teams met, 1885 to 1903.
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CLEVELAND ROLLERS SET
UNOFFICIAL WORLD MARK

CLEVELAND, October 20 R.-A
new unofficial world tenpin doubles
record for organized bowlers was be-
lieved established here by Marty Mullen
and Walter Ward Of Cleveland. The
pair spilled the pins for total Of ], 495
for three games.
The individual scores Of the two gave
Ward a total Of 79l, with games Of 247,
ass and 289, while Mullen accounted
for 704 pins with games Of 22l, 226
and 257.
According to unoficial records, the
worlds mark had previously been held
by Frank Corauna and Joe Floss Of
Buffalo, who upset 1,453 pins a few
years ago.
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Business Not Hurt BY Golf Says Jones
G[enna Collett to Try
For British Title Again

NEW YORK, october 20 B.-
Glenna Collett, four times winner Of
the American women's golf cham
pionship, has decided to make an
other attempt to lift the British
title, which so far has escaped her.
She is planning trip to England
championship.
Miss Collects brilliant showing in
the 1928 championship when she
lost the final match to Joyce Weth-
cred prompted her to make another
attempt. Last year she covered the
first nine holes in "a strokes, a per-
Torrance which Bobby Jones has
called lone of the finest holes Of
play in any championship" to lead
her opponent by up. She finished
the first IS holes Of the match with
a rs, but faltered on the next round
to lose the match.
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Golfer Holes Second Tee Shot,
Finds First Boil, Makes a -Four

Of bounds, teed another ball and holed
1t for an actual 3, with stroke and dis
lance penalty and won the Maryland
State open championship by q single
stroke. So there you are. No man can
tell what will happen in this game Of
golf. The ball must end somewhere and
why not In the hole?
It reminds us of an incident that oc-
Cured while we were playing In a game
with H. King Cornwell of Columbia last
week. Cornwell is good putter-in
fact, q fine golfer-but on this day he
was putting unusually well. He canned
no fewer than three puts Of more than
20 feet in q row. A member Of the
match made some "catty" remark about
this lucky Cornwell fellow putting his
head OF, and King innocently replied,
MY idea Of this game Is to get the
bali in the hole in the fewest number
of strokes. play for the hole. and 1t
goes In. Ish't that the right idea for the
gamer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-29

w YASHINGTON'S longest hitter
M of a golf BALL. Monroe
wv Hunter, professional at the
Indian Spring Golf Club,
and Bob Barnett, the popular
red headed little Chevy Chase pro who
sticks like the proverbial leech and gets
better as the going becomes tougher
were playing today at the Suburban
Club of Baltimore in the 36-hole final
round for the match play championship
of the Middle Atlantic Professional
Golfers Association. Victor yesterday
in a surprisingly easy match with the
g0ssd hitter 1T the OF Ma91anS
Club-Barnett was hardly expected to
overthrow the gigantic Hunter in the
final round, for Hunter played % holes
of the difficult Suburban Club course
yesterday in three better than even
fourS, a feat which would have beaten
the best ball of Barnett and Spencer.
Barnett defeated Spencer by a 10 and
the Maryland Country Club slugger and
romping through the first nine In "a
strokes to close out Spencer on the
thirty-seventh green.
Hunter, with II over the morning
round, was only up on the determined
Alex Taylor Of HagerStown, who shot a
rs to keep within striking distance Of
the mighty man of Indian Spring. But
In the afternoon Hunter drew away
from Taylor to win by and z, un-
corking the most spectacular shot Of
the day on the 430-yard tenth hole. At
the tenth tee Taylor was 6 down, and
Hunter pushed his tee shot into the
rough at the right. Then he topped
his spade mashie shot badly, knocking
the ball only about IS yards. Taylor,
meanwhile, had put his second shot
within 10 feet of the hole and had
every expectation Of winning and re-
ducing Hunters margin by one hole.
But the gigantic Indian Spring pro, who
is popularity supposed to be weak with
the intermediate irons, took out a
mashie niblick and holed a 100-yard
shot for a birdie 8. Instead of being S
down Taylor was down and the end
came quickly after that In justice to
Spencer, it must be said that he was
of his game, but all the more credit
belongs to Barnett for sticking closely
to his task and not only holding his
lead but increasing it. After lunch
Barnett gave Spencer little chance to
come back, for his golf over the first
nine Of the afternoon round was his
best effort Of the day.
Several Of Hunters tee shots were
tremendous. About $40 yards from the
tee Of the third hole at the Suburban
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is the warmest admirer of Rogers
Hornsby in the National League. He
says Hornsby taught him a heap. Bell
never plays ball as well as he does
for some team on which Hornsby Is
also playing.
Cubs last Spring. He didn't. He
played in 139 games for Boston and
he failed to bat as well as he had in
previous seasons. II Boston wishes to
sell him this year it will not get as
much money as might have been OBJ
tanned last season. It isn't certain that
the Cubs want Bell. There Is one
young infielder on the Chicago team
by the name of Clarence Blair who will
be lot better ball player next season
and he may get regular job on the
infield.
Braves to Be Rebuilt.
The Braves will be modernized. Bill
McKechnie, who Is to manage them,
Is revolving In his mind certain changes
out Of which he hopes to start with an
infield and an outfleld that will have
the ability to cover ground.
The right side of the Boston infield
was porous last season. Rabbit Maran-
vile played his head of at shortstop.
Today he is the Unfolding marvel of
both major leagues In 1914 he was
member of a championship team and
in 1928 he was member Of another In
the National League, while in 1929, dur
ing the early part Of the year, he was
playing shortStop at 20 while some of
the younger men who were eating
bread and jelly when Maranville was
a star were simply outclassed by him.
(copyriEht, 1922
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WOMAN'S ATHLETIC CLUB
WILL: MEET NEXT WEEK

A. general meeting Of the Capitol
Athletic Club, wonnan's organization,
will be held next Tuesday night after
basket bali practice in the Wilson Nor
NAL School gym, which Is available for
the clubs players every Tuesday night
from 8 to 8 o'clock. Swimming In the
pool at the old Y. w. G. A. also has
been announced for the members Of
the club.
Any girl interested in either sport Is
urged to communicate with Mrs. Edith
ment 701, between $3.50 and 8 pm.