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the United States, with Mexico and
Central America thrown in. He re-
members an adventure that befell him
osce just outside Tampico, Mexico,
when he and Capt. Frank M. Hawks
were making some maps for the oil
companies there. Hawks was at the
suck, and his open cockpit biplane had
Just taken off for the. mornings jaunt
to 1900 feet, the altitude from which
the map was to be made.
Suddenly there was a terrific com
motion under the motor hood. The
hood broke away from its fastenings
and fiuttered up and down in spasms.
Cat from underneath came a fve-foot
diamond head rattleSnake. which
sithered along the sleek surface Of the
cowling, making straight for Hawks
nose.
The pilot Immediately realized what
had happened. The snake had crawled
inside the hood, probably to get out of
the sun, at the Tampico airport When
the motor warmed up, the exhaust
manifold became hot and the snake
had moved away from it. lazily But
on the take-oT the snake had been
thrown violently against the sizzling
hot manifold. Snakes resent being
treated like that. This one decided
Hawks was to blame and came at him.
Snake Takes to Grass.
Hawks held the ship In a steep dive
with one hand. reached for the fire ex-
tinguiSher with the other and let the
snake have it, right in the eye. BY the
time the snake could see again the ship
had landed. Hawks and Smith got out
and legged it across the clearing The
snake sticking out its forked tongue in
q gesture Of derislon, dropped of the
lower wing and writhed away into the
grass.
There is another aerial photographer,
sydney O. Bonnick. who remembers
Mexico bit too vividly. He was drying
SOME film after a weeks hard fiying
over the Jungles, when q local reVolu-
tion broke out. without warning the
camp was surrounded by olive-skinned
poems with enormous sombreros and
WelK oiled rifles. The commandante
streaed in, pulling at the tips of his
waXed mustaches, and told Bonnick he
was under arrest. Bonnick shook the
developer of his hands and asked to be
let in on the gag But II was no gag,
as glance outside showed. The local
army was drawn up around his plane
and his supply shack. He would be re-
Quired, the commandante told Bonnick.
to take an officer up over the federal
lines and make some pictures Of the
federal army. Bonnick refused, bluntly
The commandante was sorry, but
Bonnick would have to do it; otherwise
he would be kept under gard until the
revolution was over. So Bonnick paced
the floor about ten days.
Finally corporal's guard marched
In and tod Hpnniek 10 follow them.
f5a, tg$Hed he WAS gokrg Ia hG kaotsse ..
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New Discoveries.

Visitors at the General Electric
House of Magic are shown q number
of wonderful demonstrations of the
application of recent discoveries in
electricity which are spectacular and
puZzling. There are the door that
opens at a knock, the incandescent
lamp that lights with match, the
coin that cries out when any one at
tempts to remove 1t and now they have
the sound that no one can locate. By
speaking or blowing into an ordinary
telephone tranSmitter the visitor starts
an ordinary buzzer, and the location of
the sound offers no problem At an
other verbal command to the trans
mitter pure 1,000-cycle note, emanat-
ing from tuning fork, fills the air and
every effort of the ordinary visitor to
locate the sound fails. Regardless of
the actual location of the tuning fork
the result Is the same. The starting of
both the buzzer and the tuning fork
by spoken command Is dependent ON
voice Impulses transmitted In q pre-
determined series. The harsh, rasping
note OF the buzzer has no standing
waves, so called, and like most sounds
or noises, Is made up of notes having
different frequencies. This being the
case, the sound waves striking the two
ears are unequal or different and bv
unconsciously rotating the head a
listener fixes on the location of the
sound. In the case of the pure rote
no matter In which direction the haaS
k turned, the frequency of the mote is
the same-it has standing waves-snd
seems TO come from all directions a
once. ss
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d. A. R. ACTIVITIES

The State Executive Committee met
December 5. The State regent, Miss
Helen Harrnan, as well as several other
State officers and committee members
were In attendance. Miss Harman stat
ed that 284 District Of Columbia D. A.
RS were in the party that attended
the yorktown celebration on the steam
ship Southland.
The Conservation and Thrift Com
mittee reported AZ chapters have sub
scrlbed to the trees for the Washington
Grove, which is to be planted in con-
nection with the George Washington
Btcentennial celebration.
announcement was made of the first
State conference Of the Sons and
Daughters of the Republic, to be held
at Wilson Teaches College, December
II. Upon the recommendation of the
State Historic Committee, it was voted
that d. A. r. marker be placed upon
the grave of DR.. Stephen N Balch in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Two real daughters OF the Revolu-
ton, Miss Sarah Pool and Mrs. Mary
Pool Newsome, of Gibson, Ga, were
adopted as protegees of the State ex-
ecutive.
1t was voted to expend the unused
moving picture trailer fund for the
purchase of some historical picture for
the use of the District Of Columbia
D. A. r. The vice-president general
Mrs. David D. Caldwell, presented to
the executive portrait of George Wash
ington, which will be hung in the Dis
trict D, A. r. room in the Hay-Adams
House.
Resolutions on the death OF Mrs
Frank Foster Greenawalt, State regent
OF the District of Columbia in ls14-l5
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things like that did happen once in a
Whlle. And when they marched him
beside blank wall he was sure of It.
He listened anxiously for the command
70 halt, it didn't come, and the cor
porals guard kept marching until they
had taken Bonnick before the revolu-
tlonary general, who announced that
the photographer was a free man!
When his work in Mexico was COM
pleted, Bonnick few up into the back
woods of Labrador in six jumps, and
there mapped thousands of square
miles that had never seen an airplane
before. He has just returned. His ad-
ventures give one an idea of the itin-
Grant nature of the aerial photogra-
piers job, Here today and a thousand
| miles away tomorrow
Mexico has been good hunting for the
aerial camera for the last several years.
! Until very recently that country was
almost totally without maps to guide
the horde of miners, oil drillers and
| engineers who had begun to tap its
enormous mineral wealth Since most
Mexican scenery Is a heart-rending
combination of mountains, jungleS, for
ests and swampS, these men could not
spend the weary years required to map
their concessions in the usual way
with surveying crew on the ground.
The aerial camera, whisking over these
distractions at 100 miles an hour. was
the answer. Capt. Smith has mapped
300 square miles of mountain and
jungle on IL fast flights, and had the
map ready within 80 days of the start.
Solves Engineers Problems.
There are times when the mapping
camera has solved problems that have
stumped engineers for a generation or
more. One of the most spectacular jobs
a mapping camera ever did was the
Yaqui River Dam survey. For a quarter
of a century engineers had been try
ing TO put up a $6,000,000 irrigation dam
across this river. The Yaqui Indians
who had a reservation around that
point, are bitter enemies Of the white
man and the Mexican government had
isolated them on this lonely plateau, a
six-week trip from civilization by pack
mule. Engineers, with characteristic
stubbornness, decided that the huge dam
had to go right in the middle of the
Yaqui reservation. When the Yaquis
| heard about 1t they took their rifles and
! stood guard over the pass by which the
white man must get in.
Year after year the need for the dam
became more urgent, but the Yaquis
never relaxed their guard. Fir rally the
| government decided to design the dam
anyway.
| An aerial mapping concern from Los
Angeles sent crew down to look over
! the situation And from an altitude
Of 1000 feet, out of sight and out OF
| hearing of the Indians, they mapped
the whole river course Then q firm OF
| engineers m New York skyscrsper de-
n1tgped the dam down TO the last cubic
knxA 4 oon0nfe md caanlhtn6 IL
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Princess Intrigues Europe.

Europe is much intrigued by a thor
oughly modern young woman who is
TO occupy throne in India. She is
Princess Abida Sultan, eldest of the
three daughters of the Nawab OF
Ehopal, one of the delegates to the
Round Table Conference. Bhopal is
the only state in' India in which the
crown always devolves upon the eldest
cnild, irrespective of sex. Hence
Princess Abida Sultan is the heir ap-
parent and would succeed to the
throne, even II the Bhopal had q son
now, Eighteen years of age, she drives
ner own car, plays tennis well and is
an accomplished musician.
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Dog, Late, Goes Home BY Bus.

Being late to ride home with its mas
Yer Goes not bother a dog of Edinburgh,
ocotIand, The master, a contractor,
VISITS Haddington three times a week
ana nus pet rides in his automobile
WI Nun MN, then explores Haddington on
LIS own II 1t does not return to the
car !. Ia Time TO ride back with its owner
:. sUSs 70 the bus station and when
~ n,,. r;@no nbogp bus draws W proupptv
Evening star., 1931-12-13

five men in America who can take an
aerial camera to the North Pole or the
Equator, do all their own darkroom and
printing work, make maps md bring
back an accurate scientific record. Ex-
pedition work demands a good working
knowledge OF geology, topography, car
tography and several other things, and
uncanny ingenuity. Those who can
meet the requirements are In constant
demand
Army Has Experts.
The Army Air Corps, naturally, is
looked upon as 8 source of supply for
mapping experts. Two officers have
come to the front in recent years as
acknowledged eXperts-Capt. A. w.
Stevens and Lieut.. George w Goddard,
Each has done good deal of scientific
expedition work. Stevens and Lieut.
Walter Hinton of transatlantic fame
invaded South American tungleA To
explore the headwaters of Brazilian
rivers. Goddard undertook a dangerous
mission in the Philippines, landing at
Weird-soundlng places and studying lost
Malay and Polynesian races.
Lieut.. Goddard, inventor Of the spec
tacular method Of night aerial photog-
raphy now used by the Army, nearly
lost his Ife-and Stevens nearly lost
ms too-lust before sailing for the ORR
ent on this mission. They had gone
up, with two civilians representing a
fiashlight-poWder concern, to test night
flash bombs. These bombs hold about
40 pounds Of highly explosive powder
one OF them fell out of the bomb rack
soon after the plane had taken off from
Dayton, OHIO, one darn night and ex-
ploded beneath the planes wing.
Ihe result was as bad as a direct
nlt W1th an anti-aircraft shell, It
Jammed the controls and threw the
plane INTO a convulsiye skid. Lieut.
Eugent Q. Batten, one of the Air Corps
most skilled pilots, was at the stick He
nearly wrenched the steel tubing apart
trying to free the controls while the
snip ploWed downward through the
darkness.
Felt Floor Give Way.
Back Of him in the planes interior
Stevens felt the floor give way beneath
MIN and grabbed for a pair of bracing
wires. You can still see the marks Of
those wires in Stevens palm.
Goooard was knocked to the rear and
iell semi-conscious on the floor, His
Ioot went through the fabric fuselepe
ana stuck there. Beside his head was
the mole In the floor. Nobody could
cross 1t to rescue him; his foot, thrust
through the fabric, was the only thing
mat Kept him from falling into space
me others, clinging to the tubing that
was not bent out of shape by the blast
waited breathlessly while Batten
wrehched and jerked at the controls.
me snip Wobbled about in crazy
lurches; Somehow Batten brought the
Gitippieo :! plane under control and landed
1t without further injury to his mas
sengerS. H''~
one of the foremost requirements for
an aerial photographers job is the abil-
IVY 10 laugh at danger Working on the
rooI OF the world, bending over intri-
ea'e Gu instruments in temperature of
ao or. 90 degrees below zero, hopping
from fever infested jungles to the bit.
M eoh Of tbs Arceac, he mast sake
e00 - theG eogne.
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Sits Tight on Chair.

SiSo Uai ShAAs
Through all the sudden twists and
turns Smith sits calmly on his little
folding chair, squirting through the
camera sights and paying no attention
to the leaps and dives of the ship. Bar
rows is secure in his safety belt, but
one of the unsolved mysteries of the air
is what holds Smith fast TO his chair.
Yet Smith has spent more than 1000
hours in the air over New York City
alcne, and has never fallen out of the
plane yet He carries parachute quite
trom force of habit.
Smith has left his New York office
several times in recent years to take
part in tropical surveys for scientific
expeditions, such as the University of
Pennsylvania archaeological visit TO the
Asye country.
Ehne ars not xfns toan Inn n
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cially equipped cabin monoplanes with
all sorts of queer contrivances in them
Has Ingenious Installation.
w. A. Kuenzel, one Of the expert
news photographers, has an ingenious
installation The interior of his plane
Is padded and upholstered in soft
leather. There are luxurious, deep
cushioned chairs for guests. But Kuen-
gel himself sits opposite the cabin door
on plain, fiat pine board. The door
has most Of its area cut away, so the
cameras Snout can move about in q
good sized circle. Beside his ear is a
voice tube that connects with q set of
ear phones in the pilots helmet. The
camera itself is slung from spring
suspension support, so that its weight
Is removed from KuenZers forearms.
Capt. Smith does not believe IN 80
much luxury. He is a pioneer among
nylng camera men and does not find
modern improvements necessary. A trip
with him is something to shudder
about. He leaves the door completely
off his cabin monoplane and sits on a
folding camp stool, holding the forty
pound camera between his two steel
muscled fists.
Smith himself is an expert aviator,
and he knows what the ship ought to
be able to do R. C. ("Kiddy') Bar
rows, his pilot, sees that the plane does
it, They may know what they are do
ing, these two, but to a visitor riding
with them it appears that they are
trying to toss him out of the empty
door. ] have had to grab windowsills,
clutch framework and even brace my
feet against the side wall to keep from
diving out into 10000 feet of empty
air.
Evening star., 1931-12-13
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Famous Actresses and Actors,

In connection with the temperance
OF Maude Adams on the American stage
IN the distinguished company of Otis
SKINNER, the Public Library calls at
tention to the following books on ac-
tresses and actors. AL of the books
may be borrowed from the Central Ii.
prary many of them from the neigh
borhood branches,
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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-28
THREE IN CO. JAIL
UNDER HEAVY BONDS

Three men, giving their names
as George Franklin, VIM. Estes
and Roy Camel, are held in the
county Jail under $4,000 bonds
apiece pending their hearing on
September End.
The men, who came to Poplar
on a train, cashed a forged check
for $3.50 on Ben Zimmerman who
lives in the Divide community.
The check was cashed at the Dan
ielson brothers clothing store.
The men were arrested at a dance
at the Poplar pavilion and taken be-
fore Justice Turner for arraign-
ment. Several articles were found
in their possession which lead
to the belief that they are wanted
on more serious charges else
where.
Tuesday the men were finger
printed and had their pictures
taken. These will be used for
Identification.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-28
Fred LaRoque Home
From Minnesota II

Fred LaRoque is home for a
two-week's visit and intends to re
turn to Minnesota U at the be-
ginning of the college year. He
has just a little more than a years
work to do to complete the four
years required to get a degree.
Fred is a graduate of Wolf Point
high school and has made an ex-
cellent record, both scholastic and
athletic. He is majoring in chem
istry and mirroring in athletic
coaching. He has won high honors
for the u as a member of the
track team, and wears the covet-
ed IN" and is a member of the
M club, no slight distinction in
a university with 1880 students.
He is working his way through
college which is another high hon
to his credit.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-28
STOLEN N. OAK. CAR
FOUND NEAR VIDA
BELIEVED TO BE SEDAN USED
BY GRENORA BANK BAN
DTS FRIDAY

The finding of an abandoned
Ford Sedan near Vida Sunday
led to a search this week through
northern McCone county for the
four bandits who last Friday held
up the bank at Grenora, N. Oak,
getting away with about $4,000.
The car which is a Model A has
a maroon body and red wheels,
which is the description of the
car used by the bandits at Gren-
ora. 1t was stolen a few days ago
from the garage of Nels Ahlness,
Rhame, N. Oak, a dealer. Another
car was stolen at the same time,
but has not yet been located.
The sedan when found was I'M
damaged except for a hole shot in
the top, the accident believed to
have happened when the bandits
tried to take out the shells from
a defective gun. Cushions, head
lights, rear tires and other parts
had been removed, either when
the car was abandoned or later.
The engine number correspondent
to that of the car stolen at Rhame.
There was some gas in the tank
indicating that the a had been
abandoned deliberately, the pas
sengers possibly transferring to
the other stolen car. Mr.. Ahlness
and his son came from Rhames
Tuesday and recovered the aban-
doned car.
Oscar Lee, sheriff, Deputy Cor
don and A. ], Gronna, states at
torney of Williams county were
here Tuesday in connection with
the case. Mason Knapp, sheriff
and Herbert Rounds, deputy, of
McCone county were also here.
Sheriff Henry Lowe and Todd
Stanley were out Tuesday assist
ing in the search for the bandits,
but found no clues.
This same gang is believed to
have been the ones who broke in
to the Westland Oil bulk station
warehouse at Medicine Lake on
Thursday night, taking a barrel OF
high test gasoline and other goods.
At the Continental Oil station
there a supply of oils and greases
was taken.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-28
COURT
HAS BUSY SESSION

Judge John Hurry of Glasgow
presided at law and motion ses-
sion of court here Wednesday in
place of Judge Paul. E. S. Koser
was here from Plentywood.
Judge Paul has decided that, as
an economy measure, there will
be only one sitting of law and
motion session of court each
month instead Of two as formerly.
A divorce was granted Lula
Jones from Roland Jones and the
plaintiff was allowed to resume
her maiden name, Lula Merrick.
In the suit of A. H. Gray against
the City of Wolf Point, which is
for collection on an old warrant,
the case was submitted to the
judge and taken under advise
ment.
In the matter Of the guardian
ship of the Femme children, Mrs.
Femme was allowed $40 a month
each for the support of two minor
children.
Thomas Bets His Medicine, a
minor, was formally adopted by
his grandparents Cyprian Dog and
Good Night Dog. Dan Mitchell
acted as interpreter. The decree
of adoption was signed by the
court.
In the suit of Roosevelt County
against John Anderson. former
sheriff, for malfeasance in office,
a demurrer was taken under adj
visement by the court.
The suit Of NJ. B. Fargen "a
gainst Nate Green was taken I'M
der advisement.
The divorce suit of VIM. Daw-
son against Florence Dawson was
started and continued until Sep
TENDER 9 when there will be a
special sitting of the court presid-
ed over by Judge Hurry, Judge
Paul being disqualified in the
case.
A number of other matters came
up for attention of the court in
the various cases we're not
completed.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-28
VIDA WINS In
WEIRD CONTEST
RAGGED BUT INTERESTING
BALL GAME; POPLAR g
LOSES s TO 10

Playing on neutral ground, at
Wolf Point, the Poplar and Vida
ball teams entertained a good
sized crowd with a lengthy and
fantastic exhibition of the national
game last Sunday. 1t was a well
balanced mixture of good and bad
batting, pitching and fielding by
both teams. This is shown by the
statistics of the game-the hits,
runs, errors and strike-outs all
lowering around the ten or a doz-
en- zone.
Vida started with a rush and
took a commanding lead in the
first inning. Then they laid off for
four frames while Poplar kept
popping away at the old apple and
pushing ga run over frequently.
By the sixth the McCone sod
busters we're thoroughly warmed
up and boiled over to the extent
of half a dozen runs while the In
dians had to be content with their
usual one The Vida clubbers bat
ted clear around the clock and
had a fine start on another lap.
Dick Crow was roughly handled
and, had Poplar brought Elder to
the firing line at the beginning of
that inning he might have revers-
ed the fortunes of the day. Elder
pitched the last two innings and
BANKED the southsiders while his
teammates accumulated 4 count
ers off Melvin Singleton who was
sent to the mound for Vida when
Dye got a Charliehorse in his leg.
Poplar was right on her way to
the tie-up station when they ran
out Of innings.
The whole Vida team was off
form and Poplar was not at her
best either. There was plenty of
roofing, ioshing and umpire roast
ing. The last applied almost en-
tirely to Trenne of Poplar.
Both teams were short a man
and agreed to borrow from Wolf
Point. jacob playing with Vida
and P~rendergast with Poplar.
Next Sunday Poplar plays the
Wolves on the local diamond. They
are hereby warned that if they
commit 10 errors they will have
no bacon in their lunch bucket
when they go home.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-28
Newspaper Man Has
The Spirit That Wins

NJ. D. Easily, publisher of the
Big Flat News, at Turner, Blaine
county, was a visitor at this Of
flee Thursday, while enroute to
Lane, a station on the Sidney
branch of the Great Northern,
travelling on foot when there is no
chance to hitch-hike.
Here is a mar who has the grit
and spirit that is bound to win.
He has a wife and II children
(six of them still at hOme) and a
newspaper that is gotten out on
a Washington hand press in a
small, branch line town. Because
of lack of business he recently
moved his paper and outfit from
Hogeland to Turner. The Big Flat
country has suffered the misfortune
OF two bad years and newspaper
ing is not so good. SO Mr.. Easily
has secured a position as teacher,
an occupation he followed several
years in this part of Montana. He
says he must earn money to keep
the paper going until better times
arrive. He has faith his field will
develop into something worthwhile.
He says Mrs. Easily would also
go out to earn if a suitable wo-
could be found to keep house
for the children. Two daughters,
high school students. would in
that event, get out the paper.