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Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
Britain Tests Oil Air
Motor to Halt Fires

Uondon.-The British air minis
trv,s new aim is to have a complete
feet of freproof planes. The recent
endemic of crashes and fires has
demonstrated the need for serious
research into the question Of pro-
tecting planes from fire. 1t there
fore is to be speeded up and in the
next few months public trial flight
will be staged with a new model
nIane. which, it is said, it will be
impossible to fire in any circum-
stances.
Incendiary shells will not burn it
if they hit it in midair. No fire will
break out if it crashes, even though
the fuel tanks are shattered. 1t is
an all-metal plane fitted with heavy
oil engines. No gasoline will be
used. The heavy fuel oil will not
ignite in the event of crash.
The engines have been tried and
they develop a power which indi-
Gates that they will be a success
when they are installed.
The oil supplies that will have to
be carried will make heavier load
than in the case of a gasoline mo-
tored plane, but arrangements are
being made to overcome any handi-
cap that this might cause by in
creasing the power.
If the demonstration flight is a
success steps will be taken to intro
duce these freproof planes in large
numbers into the construction pro-
gram now being undertaken.
Experiments with fireproof planes
for civil flying also are being car
ried out, and before long it is like
" that they will be adopted for gen.
eral use.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
England Links Rise of
Trade and Marriage Gain

LOndon.-Cupid is winning in his
battle with depression. Marriages
are on the boom. Eight persons
are married for every seven a year
ago. Men and women both are
marrying younger. Widows are re-
marrying at the rate of 10000 a
year.
With more than 1000 brides and
bridegrooms going to the altar
daily, sociologists believe that the
improvement is due to improved
Industrial conditions and better
housing facilities. This latter con-
sideration no longer provides the
obstacles that it did a few years
ago. Anyone with a reasonably
certain job can find means of financ-
ing small house instead of liv-
ing with the ''in-laws."
A modern tendency, however, is
for wives to hold positions longer
than hitherto. In some cases they
earn nearly as much as their hus-
bands.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
First Chronometers Are
Shown in London Museum

London.-Four of the famous
chronometers made by John Harri-
son, which were the first instru-
ments invented to solve the marin
er's problem of finding the longi
tude" are on view at the Science
museum at Kensington. They have
been lent by the British admiralty.
Harrison, according to the mu-
scum, was the first to make an in
strument capable of keeping sufii-
ciently accurate time at sea, and
it was with these same chronome-
ters that he won 100000 offered by
the British government in 1714 for
a method of determining a vessels
longitude to within an accuracy of
80 miles. at the end of a voyage to
the West Indies.
In 1761 Harrison was successful.
His fourth chronometer had aided
in the navigation Of boat to ia
maica. and at the end of the voyage
it was found to be in error by only
five seconds, which corresponds to
an error in longitude of one mile.
He won the 100000. the final in
stallment of the award being paid
him in 1773.
The first three of HarriSon's
chronometers, which were valuable
contributions to the science of nav
igatiOn, were large clocks, each
weighing so pounds. The one which
won the prize, however. was small
er, resembling a large watch of
about five inches diameter.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
Wider Uses Being Found
for Insulin Treatment

Toronto.-Insuiin has many more
uses than that of treatment for
diabetes, DR.. c. FL. Best. professor
of physiology at the University of
Toronto and co-discoverer of in
sulin, told the Canadian Health as
sociaticn.
''The stinging sensation which
results from the application Of In
sulin IN nondiabetic eases provides
definite therapeutic value" he said.
Gases of insanity where the pa
tient refuses to eat also have been
aided by small doses of insulin, for
IT stimulates hunger. Persons af-
fficted with anesthesia have also
been assisted to recovery
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
40 Unpublished Victor
Herbert Songs Revealed

New York.-The existence OF
more than two score Of Victor Her
bert melodies which the public has
never heard was disclosed by the
late composers daughter.
They are contained in three un-
produced Herbert operettas and
have been in the possession of Mrs
Ella Herbert Bartlett since tie
death Of her father III 1924.
Only one of the unproduced op.
erettas Is complete. 1t is called
..The Lavender Lady" and was writ.
ten In 1914, shortly after 'The
Only Girl" was produced.
"Of course. the book is out
of date. now" said Mrs. Bartlett
"but the music Is still fresh and
the score remains Just as he
wrote It."
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
Picture Life Quarter Of
Mile Below Sea Surface

Saint-Raphael, France-A motion
picture study of life quarter Of a
mile below the surface of the Medi-
Il ranean has been undertaken by
Jean Painleve. son of the late
French statesman Paul Painleve,
near here.
The young scientist has a diving
sphere three feet in diameter with
windows Of fused-quartz glass.
Half a mile down there is no 9TH
er light than that provided by lu-
minous fish, all plant life ceases and
all animals are believed parasitic.
carnivorous or cannibalistic. For
specimens of life at that depth,
Painleve depends upon the use of
steel ner trans
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
NEW METHODS
OF EXECUTION
North Carolina To Adopt a
New Gas Electric
Device
UNCONSCIOUS DEATH

Raleigh, n. C.-Newer than the
gas-electric railway car is the gas
electric death chamber soon to be
completed in North Cardinals CEN
trail prison here.
The combination death house was
designed by engineers of the state
highway and public works commits
sion.
The new chamber is being in
stalled within the present octagonal
death chamber at the prison.
There will be panel about
three feet high and nine feet long,
in front of double, shatter-proof
plate glass, through which wit
nesses may watch the execution.
The interior will be of bolted and
welded steel plates.
The exterior will be covered
with terra-cotta tile except for the
glass observation windows.
A special walkway will connect
the chamber with death row." Two
heavy doors, like refrigerator doors
in this walkway will form an air
lock and one door cannot be opened
unless the other is closed.
A prisoner will be strapped into
the chair, as in electrocutions, and
a jar filled with hydrochloric acid
will be placed under the chair.
Directly above the jar will be
rack containing five pellets of cya-
nide of potassium. After the doors
are locked and sealed an electric
button will spill the pellets into
the acid.
The first inhalations of the result
ing cyanide-hydrochloric acid gas
will cause unconsciousness and
death will follow almost immedi-
ateIy. Then an exhaust fan will
drive the gas out through a special
fue through the prison roof The
doors cannot be opened until the
gas is exhausted.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
SCIENTISTS STUDY
RADIATION OF SUN
Secret Of Rays Effect on
Life Is Sought.

Tucson, AriZ.-Scientists have
launched here an expedition into
mysterious worlds Of sunshine
which may revolutionize business
and agriculture.
For one year, the rays Of the sun,
which obviously affect every human
being and virtually every field of
work, will be mapped daily at three
experimental stations, one at the
University of Arizona, another at
the Arizona State Teachers col
lege and the third at Hermosillo,
Mexico, writes Gordon Gordon in
the Chicago Herald-Examiner.
DR.. L. f. Miller of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota is conducting the
tests, the most extensive ever I'M
dertaken in the study of the sun
by science. He will use a highly
sensitized instrument which he re
Gently perfected and which records
on charts every factor which influ-
ences the rays of the sun, such as
the passage of invisible clouds, con-
ditions in the stratosphere, atmos-
pheric pressure, different types of
clouds, temperature and humidity.
Many Groups Aid.
Financed by the Rockefeller
Foundation, many scientific groups
throughout the world are aiding in
the undertaking, including the Gug-
genheim Airship Research institute
the Air Ministry of Great Britain
the United States Weather bureau
and the pineapple industry of Ha.
waii.
Every living particle of life is
affected by the suns radiation,
Doctor Miller pointed out IF We
can discover just the factors con
trolling those rays, whether in the
sun itself or in the stratosphere OF
in the clouds, we could benefit man
kind a thousand ways.
"A thorough knowledge of the
suns radiation might make pos
SlUlC GOnLIOl ONtI lHc NlldI flldUllus
in foods, the proper growth of al
plants, curative and preventive
treatments in medicine, the de
terioration of materials in buildings
and bridges and the coatings OF
those structures. visibility in flying
and long-range weather forecasting
The benefits are seemingly without
number"
Instrument Sensitive.
Doctor MilIer's instrument, which
many scientists believe will provide
the key to the secrets of the rays
consists of a hollow sphere which
is set in a highly-evacuated quart;
bulb.
''Tllis is placed on the top of al
observatory or other high point,
he explains. 1T is connected Will
a cable to . recorder in a labora
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16

pa two sons, William Paynter
Orr 3rd. of Wilmington, and Rob
ert orr, a student at Princeton
University; one daughter, Mrs.
laird Eugene Todd, of Salisbury,
Nd. one grandchild, Emily Hunter
Todd: one brother, Captain Robert
u orr u. S. N, retired, of Lewes
and Florida, and two sisters, Miss
Margaret H. Orr and Mrs. w. D.
w Hall, both of Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
CONTINUED From Page Two)

about leaving the hotel, we asked
for our bills and were informed
that Mr. Mills has attended to that,
and ordered the entire expense
charged to him.
PERSONALS
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ed Hoffecker of
Baltimore, Md, are on a week or
two's visit to relatives in town
Mrs. S. A. Fowler, of Whining
ton, is visiting her children here.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cosgriff AMI
daughter, Sarah, are visiting
friends in Middletown.
Mrs. John S. Hoffecker, of Viii
mington, is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Audrey Vandever.
DR.. John w Cooper, of Chester
town, was the guest of DR.. T. C.
Moore, Monday and yesterday. He
was en- route from Philadelphia but
could not get through to Chester
town until this morning.
Editor Phelps of the Record, an
nounced in his last issue his depar-
ture for the South to be gone for
several weeks during which time
/ the paper will be in the charge of
F! L. I. Handy.
Miss Allie F. Smith, left on Sat
urday for Centreville, Md, and Bal
timore and will probably be gone
until the return of Spring.
KENTON NEWS
The new school building has been
accepted by the committee, and
school opened therein. Miss Katie
Graham is the assistant and prom
ises to make capital teacher.
The Downs Chapel Literary So
ciety will debate the question
Resolved: That the pulpit is bet
ter field for eloquence than the
bar: Affirmative, N. H. Griffith, D.
S. Clark, John Hutton, NC. Smith,
r. E. Contwell, A. Slaughter, D. F.
HAZEL; Negative: w. D. Wilds, H.
Shaw, S. R. King, ]. w. Griffith, H.
GRIN, and ]. B. Hutton.
| COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
DIR. H. J. Wilson Of Dover, is ly-
ing dangerously i'll from overwork.
Postmaster Stewart of Milford,
is arranging at his own expense
for the delivery of letters to the
business men of that town.
Rev. DR.. Underwood, the pastor
of the M. E. Church at Milton, and
his wife have both taken out lie
enses to practice medicine, the only
instances of the kind in the coun-
try.
Mabee and English, who, with
William E. Burnett and wife, and
the wife of Mr.. Mabee, arrived in
Wilmington to organize a temper
ance campaign in that city in the
Odd Fellows Hall under theN aus
pices of the w. c. t. U.
The Hon. Joshua Davis, and ex-
Judge of Pa, died on Thursday af-
ternoon at the home of his son the
Rev. A. D. Davis, pastor of the M.
E. Church in F'rankford. Judge
Davis was born on the coast of
Main in 1795 and was 80 years of
age. He had lived under every ad-
ministration of this government,
and had served in the war of 1872.
He was a pensioner because of that
service to the government.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16

tory below. AS the temperature
varies with changes of the intensity
of the solar variation, a thermo
couple measures and transmits the
values to the laboratory. 1t is so
sensitive that it records clouds
which can't be seen with the naked
eye and it is able to differentiate
between every type of cloud.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
g:,:Is JR;
Is IA;TLEVES
/ services Largely s1.,as as-
\ Conducted ,ss by BlsN'p
Esiipp' Cook, Saturday
| 0g HEART ATTACK

..,vices for DR.. william Z
r. Is slII. Jr., veteran physician scntn
p or, ,,r ,o,rs,idsnt of the state
b, I, ~ 4.sith, we're held ID satst- s. u
..s'on { n'r At 2 o'clock IN =
ssai.cOpal . Church b9Nsen be%es,
/. EPi,s'ili 81 Philip Cook, Bishop Rf,o
,'s'onaI Ssn DiOcese Of Dela, 4,
Epl'sep Spiste q Interment will
Y. ! church cemetery -. I.
! thursday morning at MS
.. n the Hotel Caesar |,
P'n. ..,.,s he and his wife had
n Wy. ..l1g ne Winter, after an
p -.-oraI months from a
.o1dition. He suffered !
|.tack late last Summer ana !
..rirp when he suffered
|. .t.acS on December 70
/ g Years old. DR.. Orr was
1 rsTss his father was the
Eiriam Paynter Orr Leading
IN Il the town. The family
q t5sre since colonial days.
|, stepded public and priv ate
| ,tsre He was a graduate
/ pennsylvania Military Col
\ Chester, Pa, the UNI teu
| Military Academy at Vest
'.nd received his doctors de-
4 tbe University of Pennsyl-
Ia had practiced in that
Il years. Dr.. Orr was asso-
Dsvsician with the late Or.
Nm Hickman, and later head
tsu from 1884 to 1894 Of the
lrine Hospital at the quaran-
tstiun on Cape Henlopen,
Iuring the cholera epidemic
gUection Of ships from the
hides and other points OF the
before they were allowed to
he port Of Philadelphia. DR..
b president Of the Sussex
Company. He was actively
Id with the Republican
and was a member of the
tutiOnal Convention. He was
lg supporter of Colonel Hen
'Ont during the political con-
,etween Col. dupont and ],
! dAddicks early this century.
! a member of the Board OF
rOmmissioners many years.
rch affairs he had always
3 prominent part and had
vestryman of st. Peters
tant Episcopal Church for
han 80 years. He was sen
r1en for more than An vaorc
lng are: His wife, the former
! B. Beck, Of Millersville.
Smyrna times., 1936-01-16
Oadcst Breed Of DOG

The Ivicene dog. a greyhound OF
the BaIearie islapds, has been
called the Oldest breed of dog NV
ing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-10

about this illogical fact: Lindbergh
was young, handsome, unmarried,
modest, poor, with an adventurous
and obscure past.
The fact that he was the first man
to fly nonstop from New York to
Paris in a heavier-than-air machine
was only an excuse to make him the
flying hero. If he had had a hare
lip or had been heir to $3O,OOO,OOO,
the populace would have kept on
looking until they found the right
hero. But he filled the bill and it was
unnecessary to consider other appl1-
cants; he simply took the sign, Hero
Wanted into the shop with him and
the boss has never hung it out agln.
It would appear that this same sit
uation holds lin other competitive
fields. Gene Tunney was a better
boxer than Jack Dempsey, and also
had, / suspect, more brains and
charm But the idol of the prizeflght
public had been chosen. Tunney coulo
never dislodge Dempsey, even by
beating him. The public picks its man
and then proceeds to be pretty STUB
born about suggestions for the job.
Why, then, do men and women
keep risking their necks to fly the
Atlantic? 1t can't be simply to prove
that human beings can be brave. It's
heads that are dubious, not hearts,
always.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-10
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE.

Under and by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Vance County
made in the Special Proceeding en-
titled Mary Dale, Administrative of
the estate of William Dale, deceased,
vs. Mary Dale, Ernest Dale Andrew
Dale, ct al, the same being No. $685.
upon the special proceeding docket of
said court, the undersigned commits
sioner will on Monday the 26th day
of October, 1886, at II o'clock noon
offer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, that certain lot of land ~
ing and being in Henderson Town
ship, Vance County, North Carolina
adjoining the lands of East Street.
Lee Williams and others, and parti-
cularly described as follows
Begin at a stake on the North side
of East street, 100 feet from Pinkston
street and Lee Williams corner, and
run thence along Williams line North
ward $50 feet, thence parallel to East
Avenue as it runs where it crosses
Pinkston street, rs feet to Thorne cor
ner, thence along Thorne line $50 feet
to East avenue, thence along East
avenue to Pinkston street, 100 feet
front, to place of beginning.
This .25th day of September, 1885.
A. A. BUM, Commissioner
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-10
E;fNe1g1
YORK
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ISQIszEGHGWE4[U
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New York, Oct. 1O-The captains
and the kings depart-and also the
transatlantic filters in the role of
Heroes and Heroines.
Like the Farley special printings
or postage stamps, ocean hoppers
have lost glamor by successive re-is-
Sues Flying nonstop from Europe to
America is still a perilous undertake
ing and it is still fraught with much
| the same elements of Romance that
were present when Lindbergh took his
chance
But the Colonel really needn't fear
fading of his halo-the fate of other
immortals in the realm of sport. Ode
spite all portentous talk about "me-
theological data" ocean jumpers re-
main in the same file with Babe
Ruth.) 1t is as if no one now could
pay any attention to the achievement
7Of Jesse Owens for marve1ing at
the time of the first speed demon in
the first Olympic games-remember
the boy who won the. hop, skip and
jump feature in Athens meet, in 776
3. c.?
Newspapers report the various
the entries separately identified. in
the minds Of deaders, as thy swarm
over the ewfoundland marshes: but
that, I think, is half habit City edi-
tors can't forget that first epochal
blast, the greatest circulation natural
since the False Armistice, when
Indy landed at LIE Bourget. They for
get a repetition is impossible until
Mars signals party Arrived Safety"
1t grows interestingly difficult to
he absolutely hreathess about the
bravest Atlantic f,jerc when octo-
genarians and babies are boarding the
Hindenhurg every few days for a
sail to Frank or'-on- Main through the
sane thin air. What is Mrs Beryl
Markham doing at the moment, any,
how? And her feat, all equations
weighed, was almost equal to Lindy'se
And can you name me offhand the
second man to fly the Atlantic after
Lindbergh? The third? The eighth?
Harry Richman is holding forth at
the Hollywood to capacity crowds,
but then Harry Richman is skillfull
and ingratiating entertainer and I
can't remember many vacant tables
when he warbled ditty before he
ever started shopping for ping-pong
balls. I much doubt that his newly
acquired glory as a double-crosser of
the Big Pond would keep him en-
ployed at $4,000 weekly for more than
one week In two years-and it is a
somewhat sad prediction to make
customers in the deluxe bistros over
which Harry will be presiding as
dramatically as ever will have grown
little vague over whether he made
the return trip in the Lady Peace or
the Normandie.
But they will have not the slightest
doubt of his ability to put over the
song about the chromatic values of
moonlight on a June night. I don't
think anyone will contend that in that
same not-to-remote day Lindbergh
will be remembered as the co-inventor
of the mechanical heart by those
same patrons. No. Indy seems to
have cornered the glory market in
the realm of transatlantic flying
and everything in that sphere since
has had the faint aura of anti-climax.
And he will continue to hold his
corner long after the average citizen
tends to identify Hauptmann in news
paper brain-tests as a former COVER
nor of New Jersey and Hoffman as
a brand of ginger ale. 1t was a COM
bination of many factors that brought
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-10
States Gas Tax
Law Among Best
Continued from Page One.)

laws require every refinery, every
bulk plant and every railroad, truck
line or steamship line to report all
shipments to us, even before they en-
ter the State, it is very difficult for
any gasoline to get into the State
without our knowledge and without
our collecting the tax. We are also
troubled with very little dilution of
gasoline So on the whole, our posi-
ton is much better than that of most
states"
When asked if it was possible to
keep as close a check on gasoline
shipments made by tank trucks as
those by rail or water, Mr.. Maxwell
said that there was very little differ
ence, since the tank trucks had to
get their gasoline either within the
State, where the tax is paid at the
loading point, or in Virginia or South
Carolina, where they must pay the
taxes in those states unless they de-
clare in advance that the gasoline
is to be sold in North Carolina. In
all cases where truckers make this
declaration in order to get released
from the Virginia or South Carolina
tax, the North Carolina gasoline tax
division is notified, so it can collect
the North Carolina tax.
"Albout the only trouble we are
having now is the dilution of gasoline
by individual filling station opera
tors" Maxwell said. But we are keep
ing a closer and closer check on these
stations and are rapidly breaking up
this practice"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-10

-
and more jobs had been created.
THAT means national economy in
the best sense" the President assert
ed, adding that cit also means more
purchasing power
Defends Tariff Program.
President Roosevelt hit the cam
paign trail to Nebraska today after
a night speech at ST. Paul in which
he asserted figures on growing con-
sumption of better, farm prices" prov
ed the New Deal reciprocal tariff
program was benefiting American in
dustry and agriculture.
The presidential special laid a
southern course through Iowa en-
route to Lincoln, Nebraska, for a
two-hour afternoon stop before pro-
ceeding to Omaha, where the chief
executive will deliver an address on
agriculture at p. M, central time
tonight.
Ii will be the first nationally broad
cast speech of his 5,000-mile western
stumping tour
Addressing a huge outdoor crowd
from the steps of the Minnesota State
Capitol last night, the President de-
clared trade meant commerce flow
ing in two directions
cit is not a one-way street." the
President said, adding that every
American ought to remember the
home truth that when America and
other nations lacked up" their tar
ifs and imposed embargoes and i'm
port quotas, farm prices throughout
the world dropped to their lowest and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-10
TODAY'S YESTERDAYS

Oct. 10, 1799-The British ship La
Lutine laid a nice nest egg for any
one desiring to hatch it. She sank
in the North Sea shadows off the is
land of Ter Schelling, while bearing
the equivalent of 100000 in gold
ingots from the Bank of England to
Hamburg to stop a financial panic
in Hamburg. It's still there. The
panic was stopped by the news that
the gold was on the way to bolster
Hamburgs failing banks. 1t didn't
have to get there.
Oct. 10, 1913-Forty tons of dyna-
mite rumbled in one mighty blast,
the last obstruction at Culbera divid-
ed, and waters of Atlantic and Pacific
joined in the Panama Canal for the
first time. This was only a minor
discharge of dynamite. Exactly %
years before to the day. total of 282-
730 pounds of dynamite was set off
in one blast in an area of nine acres
at Hell Gate, New York harbor, to
dispose of Flood Rock, maritime
menace.