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The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
Mistress Of Monterey
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ued, you love California. Why do
you stand in the way of her further
development, Why do you impede
the progress of Mother Church?
Why, oh, why. do you not lend
your assistance, your influence to
the founding of that mission on the
Santa Barbara Channel which is so
dear to my hearth"
He took a step toward the Gov
ernor, with outfiung hands; impas-
stoned, eloquent.
FACES avoided the missionary's
eyes, which met his only at mo-
mentS like this. and which burned
with fanaticism unfathomable to the
soldiers understanding. He felt mis-
cradle, small; shriveled. cringing
monster groveling in the path Of a
flaming archangeL
He rolled his eyes helplessly for
another point on which to rest them
than upon the fervid missionary. A
good, round soldiers oath would
have helped him. He hesitated to
mouth it, but whispered it to him.
self, gaining strength from its pun
gency.
II can not promise you that mis-
sion." he replied shortly. There is
already a presidio established at
Santa Barbara. and more soldiers
can not be spared for mission"
And why not? Two soldiers out
of a whole garrisonl Only two, to
establish a mission! What could be
more Important"
FACES patience fed.
Good Father. you attend to your
I affairs Of the Church, and will at
tend to mine of the State! Only two
soldiers you say. l need every So
dier in the province, and more be-
sides to protect California.
The priest turned on his heel. and
walked into his house. The Cover
nor followed him firmly.
Pho, an Indian boy. was lighting
the candles.
'Begone," ordered the priest.
The bcy cast frightened look at
the angry faces distorted by tho
candleight. and scuttled out. Priest
and soldier faced each other across
the table.
''You know well I am a good
churchman." continued the Cover
nor. II am not a pious man by ma
ture. but in my lenience with you
Franciscans in California have all
most overstepped my authority.
Why. in Mexico. they call me a
frailero. priest lover!"
They do misjudge you" muir
INJURED Sierra with touch Of sar-
casm.
mo more than you do. l have
done what I could for the Church.
and for these worthless Indians.
who, in my mind. seem better off
in their native savagery than living
under the yoke Of slavery which the
Church has laid upon them"
ITO BE CONTINUED
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
| Strange Facts
I Sounds Can Be !
Q Photographed .

CURPRISING as it seems, it is
- possible to take pictures of
sound. A flame can be made to
vibrate in unison with a sound
wave and the vibration of the
flame then be photographed with
the aid of a revolving mirror.
Such photographs are useful be-
cause they help to identify the
overtones of musical instruments.
Closely allied to the subject of
sound is the science of acoustics,
that branch of physics which has
to do with making sound easily
and distinctly heard in large
rooms, halls, or out-of-door meet
ing places. In the construction of
theaters, churches, or concert
halls the matter of acoustics is
of great Importance. A room is
said to have poor acoustics when
sounds from the front cannot be
heard clearly in every part of the
room or when troublesome echoes
are produced. Echoes are caused
by the reflection of sound waves
from large, smooth surfaces-in a
room, from walls, floor, or cell
ing. If the room is so construct
ed that there are no large sur
faces of wall, the echo is broken
up into small waves, none of
which is heard by the listener.
Smooth surfaces can also be bro
ken up by curtains or by rear
rangement of furniture, thus i'm
proving the acoustic properties of
a structure with reasonable ac-
curacy from the architects plans.
Notice how strange your voice
sounds in a large empty room
without furniture, curtains, pic
lures and carpets. In the same
room, completely furnished, your
voice sounds more natural. "
That is a simple experiment in
the science of acoustics.
g Britannica Junior.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24

them. I think they can be happy
here. / am. The living quarters at
the presidio are not so bad. and
oh, Padre, what garden / have
plantedl Hundreds of peach trees,
and figs. and pears. And I have a
vineyard that is doing well in the
sandy soil around the presidio. Yes,
il is home to me. and must be to
them"
God grant that it may. And your
wife-she is not used to pioneer
ing?"
FACES frowned and began pluck
ing his beard.
That's the rub. She isn't. But
Rave written Viceroy Mayorga.
and Felipe de Neve. to persuade her
10 come. She can not withstand
them. The Dona Eulalia. my wife.
is years younger than I. and when
we married in Barcelona. she was
a reigning belle. I never could un-
derstand why she married rough
old soldier like l am. But she did,
and here she must come"
"Of course she must. And she
will. Wives, submit yourselves to
your husbands All, Senor Ell Gober.
nadorl How easily your plans &c
forward. You have but to com.
mand, and 10, the deed you have
commanded is done. while -
The Governor took the priest
arm, and the two walked out into
the little garden in front Of the
priests quarters. There was great
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
Odd Fish Wear No Glasses, but They Are
Equipped With Bifocal Seeing Ability

feet" he says, probably is like
pair Of bifocal glasses, except that
the fish uses both near and distant
vision at the same time"
There is one drawback: The
''four-eyed fish," as these speci-
mems are called, swims exactly on
the water line. with one pair Of eyes
looking up and one pair peering
down. The result is that the fish
gets his upper eyes dry, and this.
said Mr.. Chute, ''interferes with
clear vision" There is only one
way out, and the fish thought of that
years ago. He ducks himself.
Even scientists think it is pretty
strange, these four-view fish who
look at the sky and the water all at
once. But in their new tanks at the
Shedd aquarium the fish can feast
their four eyes on the name science
has given them. The card reads
"anableps anableps." and it. does
two things 1t distinguishes them at
once from other anableps.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24

The Shedd aquarium. Chicago,
has no fish that wear glasses. But
recently it did the next best thing
It got a shipment Of fish with four
eyes and bifocal seeing ability.
These fish are only six inches
long" said Director w. H. Chute,
"but they are of unusual interest
because of their remarkable eyes.
Each eye is divided horizontally in
to two sections. The upper section.
projecting above the fish's head like
the eyes of a frog. is adapted for
vision in the air."
This makes it almost impossible
for the fish to get fit in hats, but
is handy for seeing birds of prey.
Then there is another set Of eyes,
the lower ones. They are quite diff.
ferent in appearance, and are short
sighted for vision in the water, or
looking at other fish.
What it's like to have four eyes,
no one pretendS to know, but Mr..
Chute ventures guess. THE ef'
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
Spectrist Poetry

DURING the second decade Of
~ the present century there was
a sudden growth of new schools"
of poetry and art, among them such
cults as Futurism, Vorticism, Cub
ism, Dadaism and Pholyphonic
Prose.
So in 1916 when the publication
of 'Spectra: Book of Poetic Ex-
periments" was announced, it was
hailed with delight by the "eman-
cipated souls" who were struggling
for new methods of self-expression.
The authors of this volume were
Anne Knish" and Emanuel Nor
gan" and Immediately they had a
host of imitators who wrote the new
Spectrist poetry Nobody could un-
derstand it, of course, but that
made it seem all the more impor-
tant.
Then the whole movement was re-
vealed as a hoax which had been
fathered by two authentic poets,
Witter Bynner and Arthur Davisson
Ficke, who used this method to sat
irize the current fad in new poetic
cults. But, in a sense, the joke
was on them. For those who had
been duped and had become dew
otees of "Spectrism" insisted upon
continuing to write their verses in
that form and to perpetuate the
new movement, which still flour
ished among some of America S
intelligentsia.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
A Tremendous Power

The inertia of habits is one OF the
most tremendous powers Oh earth
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
Nature Faker Par Excellence

THE modern champion Of all writ
L ers of nature fakes was un-
doubtedly Lester Green" Of Pros
pect, Conn. No matter how pre-
posterous his yarns, which several
metropolitan newspapers printed
for the amusement of their readers,
there have always been some peo-
pie who have believed them.
When he told how a setting of
hens eggs, which he had found in
a block of ice taken from flooded
meadow. Matched out chickens COW
cred with fur instead of feathers.
a Canadian farmer wrote to him
and wanted to buy some.
When he declared he had dis
covered the fluid responsible for the
curl in pigs tails and his wife had
obtained beautiful permanent waves
by rubbing it on her hair, Mrs.
Green" was flooded with requests
from women for samples of this
magic fluid.
When he told of spraying his apple
trees with glue, which not only pre-
vented the apples from falling but
also preserved them in a fresh con-
dition on the trees throughout the
winter, both American and Canadi-
an glue manufa cturers wrote to ask
what kind of glue he used. hoping
to get good testimonial" One
Boston firm even sent a repre-
sentative to Prospect to investigate
| his stunt.
And these are only very few Of
the marvellous achievements Of
Lester Green" who was, by the
way, the brain child of c. Louis
Morrison, Prospect correspondent
for the Waterbury Comm Repub-
American.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
REVEILLE

In one Of the annals of California
history. there are these paragraphs:
Turn no,o TO The Northern coasts,
20 the Bay Of San Diego. Whose roateT,
had lain for more than a century and
half undisturbed by European keel.
Dhoss shores had knOwn no tread Of
IRON heel since Sebastian Vircaino
sOaS there. The native inhabitants yet
preserved traditional remembrance
Of ,chite and bearded visitors, kept
aLive perhaps BY an occasional runlOr
SOGfied overland from the southeast,
md by distant giimpses Of the Unite
eOiHged gaiIeoH tohich year after year
bore ITS oriental treasure dotcn past
Ibis port, which, so far as can be
enet0n, Cas never entered. And nOrU
ehe aboriginal solitude is TO be for.
ever broken.
e. On the 29Lh day Of April, 1909,
she San Carlos, otherwise called The
Golden Fleece, comes in sight.
On bOGrd Oere Lieutenant
Pedro Foges,' sOith twenty-five Catalan
0OLuHteers.
Pronounced Foh'havx
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
Historic
HOaXes
90
The Gold Machine
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
@ Western Newspaper Union.

a LCHEMY. the profeSSed art Of
transmitting baser metals into
gold. has been one Of mans dreams
for ages. But it remained for a
Connecticut Yankee to give it a
practical application which, meta
phorically speaking. lined his pock-
cts with 100000 worth Of gold OBJ
tanned from credulous investors in
his gold accumulator."
This was the invention of Pres
colt Ford Jernegan, once a minis
ter Of Middletown, Conn, who in
terested Arthur W. Ryan, jeweler,
in his plan for extracting gold from
sea water. In February, 1897, Jer-
negan lowered into Narraganset bay
in Rhode Island, his gold accurnu-
lator." fiat box containing small
battery, quicksilver and other
chemicals and constructed so that
the sea water flowed over the quick
silver. When the box was raised "a
hours later what appeared to be
gold was discovered in place OF the
quicksilver and the jewelers. tests
proved to his satisfaction that it was
real gold-$2 worth.
So he joined with Jernegan in
forming a company and selling
$500, 900 in stock. A plant was built
at Lubec, Maine. and the two "ac-
cumulators" began bringing up
increasing amounts Of gold This
went on for more than year. Then
in July, 1898, Jernegan went to Eu-
rope and at the same time an en-
ployee named Charles f. Fisher
disappeared. The "accumulatorS"
ceased to produce gold, for the very
good reason that Fisher, who was a
professional diver. had been placing
the precious metal in them before
they were brought to the surface.
When the fraud was exposed, the
directors of the company, who
had been made victims Of the
fake. gave back the profits they
had made and eventually the stock
holders recovered about SO per
cent of their investment. There
was some talk Of trying to extra
dite Jernegan from Europe, where
he was living off the 5000, 900 he
had obtained from investors, but
nothing ever came of it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24

:anch quite remote from Hollywood
and recently the hinterlands have
claimed Myrna 10y. Charles Win
ninger, Kay Francis, Clark Gable,
Robert Taylor and Carole Lombard.
There is no unemployment prob
lem these days among the Holly
wood studio hairdressers. Extras
appearing with Norma Shearer in
"Marie Antoinette" require the
daily services of one hundred and
fifteen hairdressers, who draw to-
tai wage of two thousand dollars.
Il
Rumor has it that several of Ray
Bolger's best scenes were cut out
of "Rosalie," but he does not care
any more because he is to be re-
warded with stardom in "Snug Har-
bor." Audiences at the preview of
the "Goldwyn Follies" were so en-
thusiastic over Phil Baker that Sam
Goldwyn ordered his salary doubled
on his next picture. Third of the
trio on wnom good luck smiled this
week is Frances Dee. Paramount
was so impressed by her work in
wells Fargo" and her current
Marching Herds" that they have
given her a glamorous role opposite
George Raft in Racing Form"
ODDS AND ENDS-DOn wilson,
lack Benny's announcer, plays himself
in" Radio City ReveLs" -. Fred Astaire
and james Cagney are inseparabLe pals
these days. Euer since Cagney revived
his old days as a hoofer in Something
to Sing about" he has been dance mad
Henry YOungmGn long on the Kate
Smith hour made tremendous hit in a
HOLLYWOOD night club tUih the result
that YOU will be seeing him in motion
pictures soon :. Dick Po,0eH is dis
satisfied with his radio program and
threatens to rUaik out on i. if he is not
girev more authority Ouer ,OIla! ap.
pears on the program
e Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24

able playwright; mama is Billie
Burke, a stage star given to fits Of
weeping; Judy Garland the swing
singing daughter, Fanny Brice the
maid, and Jones, the chef. With the
aid of the maid and chef. Judy
tries to bring some order into the
chaotic household.
Il
Walters up at the Arrowhead Lake
lodge where many Paramount COM
panies go on location think that mo-
tion-picture acting and strange
tastes in food go together. Fred
MacMurray demanded maple syrup
on his cottage cheese. John Barry
more puts pepper on his oatmeal.
Gladys Swarthout eats whipped
cream on boiled cabbage, a peasant
dish she learned to eat as a vocal
student in Hungary.
Il
Because CarOle Lombard does not
like turkey and cannot eat It with
out an expression of disgust, a prop
erty man on the Fools for Scan
dali set had to fix up something that
looked like a turkey leg, but wasn't.
for a scene of hers. He just stripped
a turkey leg, wrapped it with coast
beef, and Carole was able to play
the scene with required enthusiasm.
Hollywood players, equally weary
of crowds, are joining back-to-the-
farm movement. For some time
Barbara Stanwyck has lived on a
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-24
STA R !
: DUST :
: Movie . Radio :
t** BY VIRGINIA vALE*+4

Judy GARLAND, Fanny
- Brice and Allan Jones,
those persistent favorites of
the Good News" radio hour
threaten to become top-rank-
ing stars in motion pictures,
too, as soon as Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer releases EVERY
body Sing"
Unlike recent screen musicals
that buried their stories under pom
derous sets and armies of dancers,
this one makes the story all-impor-
tant and just introduces song num-
bers and gaudy sets incidentally.
It is a tale Of frenzied family.
Papa is Reginald Owen, an excit-
Evening star., 1938-10-22
FRANK B. KEYES DIES;
VETERAN BUSINESSMAN
Vice President Of Electrotype
Company Had Suffered
Heart Ailment,

Frank B. Keyes, SO, of 34l2 Lowell
street NV. vice president and gen.
eral manager Of the Potomac Electro
type Co.. manufacturers of printing
plates, died yesterday of heart disease
IN Homeopathic Hospital. He had
been Ill about 10 days.
Mr.. Keyes began with the COM
pany as salesman some 80 years
ago and had been vice president and
general manager more than 20 years
A native of this city, he was edu-
Gated in public schools and at Emer-
son Institute here and at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa.
Mr.. Keyes was member of the
Columbia Country Club, the Rotary
Club. University Club, Washington
Lodge Of Elks, Congress Lodge of Ma
sons and the Capital Yacht Club. He
Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary
B. Keyes, and son, Paul B. Keyes.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Monday in Gawler's chapel, 1850
pennsylvania avenue NV. Burial will
be In Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-10-22
QUESTION OF SAFETY
OF ISLANDS RAISED
Independent Philippine State
Would Need League or Other
Aid, Speaker Saws.

Membership in the League OF Ma
tions, guaranteed neutrality, or alli-
ance with some great power will be
necessary to protect an independent
Philippine state, DR.. Diosdado M. Yap,
former publicity aide to the Philippine
resident commissioner, declared in q
lecture at Catholic University yes
terday.
1T is conceivable" DR.. Yap said,
that weak and struggling Philippine
state might survive separation from
the United States if it could be sure
of freedom of foreign interference.
But the Far Eastern areas offer no
such guarantee The problem of self
protection and self-preservation will
be with the Filipinos.
The only hope. is therefore, mem
bership in the League Of Nations, to-
gether with an internationally guar
anteed or neutralized status, or per-
haps close alliance with some great
powers Membership in the League is
obviously Of considerable value, but it
can offer little security to a weak state,
specially in the Far East. With regard
to the possibility of naturalization,
many Filipino leaders believe that in
dependence can be jointly guaranteed
by all the great powers with Far East
ern interests. They argue that the
islands are so centrally and so strategi-
cally situated that all these powers
would rather join in the policy of neu-
traliZation than risk the safety of their
existing possessions"
Evening star., 1938-10-22
TENEMENT JEWELLERS
'COERCED,' is CHARGE
Representative O'Connor Says
w. P. A. Agents of La Guardia
Influenced Them.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Representa-
tive John J. O'Connor, only casualty in
the New Deals purge" campaign,
charged in campaign address last
night that relief Investigators under
Mayor La Guardia" coerced tenement
dwellers into voting against him in
last months primary election.
The veteran Tammany politician,
who won the Republican nomination
but was defeated in the Democratic
primary by James H. Fay, New Deal
candidate, told the Metropolitan Re-
publican Women's Club:
Every one of Mr.. La Guardia's in
vestigators and agents got into the
tenements of my district l6th con-
gressional. Manhattan), and as they
delivered the checks to those poor, un-
fortunate people they said: This will
be the last check you get if O'Connor
is renominated.
Asserting there were Hundreds of
such cases." Mr.. O'Connor added that
on primary day he had seen w. P. A.
workers marched to the polls by the
hundreds. carrying slips Of paper di-
recting them how to vote against me" "
Unless you people," he continued,
"and people throughout the country,
send men to Washington who have
the same views as I, we're not going to
get out Of this. The have-nots are
going to take everything from the
haves."
Evening star., 1938-10-22
BIRTHS REPORTED

James and Jane Rideout. jr.. boy.
3eorge and Audrey Sartor. girl.
w. Lyle and Alice Sturtevant. girl
Lucien and Dorothy Shaw, girl
ROBERT and Isabel Avery, boy.
Eordyce ana Evalyn Minnick, boy.
Elcie and Louise Long. boy.
Albert and Carrie Stacey boy,
John and Carmel williams, boy.
Emerson and Dorothy Ford boy.
Vito and Edna Perruso, boy
Lester and Mary Arey. boy.
Robert and Helen Morrow, girl.
Richard and Phyllis Meyer. girh
GEORGE and Kathleen Armijo, girl.
Hampton and Sophie Peed, girl.
William and Mary Moose, girl
Herbert and Versie Carson, girl
Raymond and Evelyn salkeld girl.
Madison and HiIda Nichols. girl.
Harvey and Jennie Boyd. boy.
Seibert and Pholia Mann. boy.
Edwin and Gilmore Dun, boy,
Elwood and Margaret Redman. boy.
Ernest and May Weaver. boy.
,Hilis William and Madeleine Johnston. jr.. boy
Leonard and Sylvia Sisco boy.
Arvin and Mildred Patterson. boy.
Don and Garcia Burrows girl
kenneth and Lille Bergstrom, girl.
Walter and Alta Foss.. girl:
Thomas and Reba Ladd. girl
walter and Hiida Kefauver, girl
William and Alice Brown. boy.
Arvin and Clara King. boy.
Joseph and Lille Butler. girl.
samuel and Ethel Green. a"S; Soy. .'f''
Sylvester ana Alice Campbell, boy.
ksonsr1 and 3iiiie wssfiter. wsfit' sisi. pI'
Edward and Mary Brooks, girl.
Evening star., 1938-10-22
James Premises 'Emancipation.'

BUTLER, Pa, Oct. ~ (R.-Judge
Arthur H. James, who claims the
Republican party has signed = new
emancipation proclamation" led
Republican candidates for Statewide
officers into Pittsburgh today for more
campaigning and some relaxation.
Judge James, the party's candidate
for Governor, declared in an address
here that the Earle Guffey machine
has put upwards Of 100000 Pennsyl-
vania men and women into political
bondage
An emancipation proclamation has
been signed" he said. offering free
dom from this political slavery for
these unfortunate neighbors of ours,
who are in want through no fault of
theirs and who have been kept there
by the blunders Of the Earle admin
istration.
That emancipation proclamation
is the Republican platform. The Re-
publican party offers these destitute
people freedom from political bosses
and from macing. 1t pledges the
divorcing Of politics from relief and
from other State assistance. 1t PROM
ises adequate help promptly extended.
Further and still more important,
it points the way to . renewed indus
trial activity which will provide Jobs
for all those now idle who want work" :"
Evening star., 1938-10-22
CAPT. WILSON IS DEAD
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Retired Employe Of Printins
ONCE Was 66-Funeral to
Be Held Monday.

Capt. George Grower Wilson, es, re-
tired employe Of the Government
Printing Once, died yesterday at his
home, 1882 Spring road NV, after 4
short illness.
Capt. Wilson was retired in 1885
after Al years service 1T the print
ing ONCE. At the time he was fore
man Of the monotype section. He
served In the District of Columbia
National Guard from 1894 to 1915,
rising to the rank Of captain. He was
on duty with the Guard during the
Mexican border trouble prior to the
World War.
For many years Capt. Wilson was a
member of the Columbia Typograph-
ical Union and served rs its dele
gate to the Central Labor Union. He
also had long been active In the In
dependent Order Of Odd Fellows, at the
time of his death being secretary of
the Federal City Lodge. He was
secretary Of the Veteran Printers As
sociation and a member Of the Asso-
citation of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District of Columbia.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Georgia P. Wilson; two sons, George
G. Wilson, jr, this city. and Wheeler
Wilson, Denver, Colo; two daughters,
Miss Stella G. Wilson, this city, and
Mrs. Oliver Miller. Houston, Tex, and
four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day, the hour and place to be an
nounced later. Services will be con-
Quoted by the Independent Order OF
Odd Fellows. Burial will be in Ar
lington National Cemetery with full
military honors.