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CWLLT.Efl CFFEHIO A3 CJLX
A verj unusunl nhotocranh ehowlni Al Wilson of Loa Angelen, CtU about to change from plane to plane many
hundreds of feet In the air. Standing on the upper wing of the lower plane. Wilson grasped the lower wing of the
upper plane ond swung himself to It. absolutely unaided. Of the many plane-changing feata performed recently 'It
la cafe to assume that this la the most daring. Wilson waa In the aviation corps of the army.
CHINESE ON WAY HOME WITH RICHES GATHERED IN CUBA
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tlcct Remarkable Refuge in the
World in Danger From
Hunters.
KXt RJLHE SFEHES THERE
Mrd Reservation Is Under Control of
the Oepartfpent of Agriculture
Protecting the Birds There Is
Precarious Business.
Washington. Sticking out In the
Pacific ocean 000 miles beyond Iiono
lnlu la a group of little islands, the
largest not more than two square
miles In area, and several of them
barely rising abore the waves at high
tide. Yet on those Islands are many
hundreds of thousands of birds and
among them are at least six specie
auk, they recall, was exterminated by
fishermen. The rarest of all the species
that exist ouly In the Laysan group
Is a duck-like bird, excellent for food,
and therefore most likely to be shot
by fiftbennen.
Rare Birds en Island.
The species that neat there and no
where else are the Laysan teat, the
little Laysan rail, the Laysan honor
eater, the Laysan finch, the miller bird
(a small warbler), the Hawaiian tern,
and the Laysan albatross. Other spe
cies that nest principally on Laysan
and adjneent Islands and would be
In danger of extermination If molested
there, are the red-tailed tropic bird.
toe black-footed ubatrosa, the gray-
backed tern, and the sooty tern.
The number of Individuals of the ex
elusive species In 1911 were estimated
to be : Six oC the Laysan teal, perhaps
100 of the miller bird, 300 of the
honey-eater. 2.000 of the rail. 2.700 of
Pwefcle ttrikera Seek Re
Wives After Mayer
Beaten.
Pueblo. Colow Children aa mtrety
for ball la something new 4a Colorado.
Five women were among those ar
rested bere following a riot In which
Mayor Mike Studxlnskl waa knockesl,
down and severely beaten by striking;
steel workers. Husbands of Uie wom
en made frantic rttempts to obtain
ihelr release on bnnds, saying they
needed the women to "keep the bom
fires burning," and one man. who could
not raise the 1200 bond required, took
his three little children o the police
station and offered to leave then ta
custody as surety for bis wife' ap
pearance In conrt. The offer waa re
fused. Later he women were re
leased on a cash bond of $1,000 given
by the strike committee.
The rioting followed the attempt
reopen the Mlnnequa steel mills, closed
since July. Austrian women stoned
the workers who tried to eater the
plant.
Group of 56 Chinamen Just landed In New York from Havana, Cuba, where they acquired large fortunes. They
are ou tlielr way home to China via Montreal and Vancouver. , -
SKIING AT ST, MORITZ
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PRECIOUS ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SHOWN
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HIGH HEELS CAUSE DEATH
Pittsburgh Woman Mangled by Eta
vator After Her Shoe Catches
In Deer.
Pittsburgh, Pa. High heeled shoes'
dragged Mrs. C Steffler, aged forty"
two, to a slow death when she was
crushed beyond recognition between an
elevator cage and the shaft wall In the
North Park apartments. No. 204 East
North avenue, where she resided.
Mrs. StefTler waa hurrying through
the hall going to the elevator' when
John Gibson, the elevator operator, In
formed her that be would carry her
up after he had answered a telephone
call. As Mrs. Steffler stepped Into the
waiting car her high heeled shoes
caught between the elevator and the
floor. In an effort to extricate herself
she fell forward, grasping the cable
of the cage which started slowly to de
scend to the basement, pinning her
between the steel cage and the wall.
Albatross Wings Plied in Old Guano Shed, Laysan Islands. Evidence of
the Extent to Which Poachers Have Killed These Birds. The Wings
Stored Here Were Evidently Intended for Shipping, but Never Had
Been Cured. .
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Secretary Lansing delivered an address on Americanism to the bureau
chiefs of the state department, opening the original documents on the Consti
tution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence to emphasize
his statements. The photograph shows a page of the Constitution.
SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE FISHERMEN
Skiing la one of the most popular ; I
winter sports at St. Morltz, Swlteer- i
land. The , lady on skis shown here : ;
Is Vlscountea Ufflngton, daughter-lu-1 1
law of the earl of Craven.
. Fight Cause of Bean Blight.
Of many attempts to bring the bac
terial blight oX benns under control,
the most successful at the Oklahoma
agricultural experiment station has
"been the use of aged seed. It was
known that the bacteria retained the
power of growth for only a limited
lime, and infected seed was saved for
, experiment. Seed four and five years
" old never produced Wish ted plants,
ihe low percentage of germination
however, making Buch seeds valueless
for practical bean growing. Seed two
hnd three years old has also given
t.ntit-frf nlnnts. with one exception.
nnd that Is attributed to accidental , J.
Infection. It is concluded the use , ; ,
. hson aeed two or three years
old will yield blight-free plants on un- i AiV
t aufficlent dla- iIk . i.
, lllicvitu i"v - KW::4( w: IS
tnnce from other bean patches, to vrf'--y.:
avoid accidental Infection. Seed of
.these ages have a percentage of germ
fnntin sufficiently high for practical
ii nil yrnxTT i'inriTiiM a
not found anywhere else In the world.
In 1911, one of those species was rep
resented by six birds all that were
left as the sole means of perpetuating
the species, and they concentrated on
a single little island, where one man
might kill them all In one minute's
shooting.
That species the Laysan teal has
fortunately Increased until there are,
by estimate, thirty-five individuals.
For the United States department of
agriculture, for a few years, has con
trolled the Islands as a bird reserva
tlon the Hawaiian Islands reservation,
It is called. But protecting the birds
there is a precarious business. The
possibility has existed always that one
or more of the rare species might be
wiped out in a day.
Albatross Destroyers Arreated.
By way of illustration, this: One
day in 1909 the crew of the cutter
Thetis found an old shed absolutely
piled full of albatross wings. A search
revealed the fact that 23 plume hunt
ers had landed on Laysan Island and
had killed at least 300,000 birds. The
men were captured, taken to Honolulu,
and formally arrested. Since that time
there is not known to have been any
repetition of such depredations, hut
it Is always imminent.
' Just now many fishermen largely
nationals of countries other than the
United States are extending their op
erations from Honolulu out to the re
gion of the bird reservation. Landings
on the Islands are constantly immi
nent, and such landings would be a
menace to one of the most remarkable
bird-breeding places In the world. The
bureau of biological survey, having
direct charge of the reservation, Is
calling attention to the fact that dis
turbing the birds on Laysan or any of
the smaller Islands Is forbidden, and
announcing that the reservation will
be protected, by whatever means are
necessary, for the benefit of all the
peoples of the world.
. Laysan, the largest of the group. Is
one of the most westerly of the Ha
waiian islands. It has an area of about
two square miles, and within it. con
forming generally to the coast line, is
a large lagoon. This island is one of
the most populous bird-breeding places
on the globe, literally hundreds of
thousands of birds resorting there to
lay their eggs every year.
Specialists of the biological survey
call attention to the fact that the
ostensible occupation of fishermen
does not mean that men may not be
very destructive to birds. The great
the finch, and 180,000 of the albatross.
Indications are that, while the teal
has Increased, the other species have
probably decreased.
The islands composing the reserva
tlon are Laysan Island, Ocean or Cure
island. Pearl and Hermes reef, Lystan
ski or Pell Island, Mary reef, Dowsett
reef, Gardiner Island, Two Brothers
reef, French Frigate shoal, Necker
island, Frost shoal and Bird Island.
ftUSS REDS SELL CZAR'S GEMS
Lenine Government Trading In Hal
land Through Germany to
Avoid Blockade.
Amsterdam, Holland. The - Lenine
government In Russia, balked by the
world financial blockade from sending
money abroad for propaganda par
poses, now la conducting an extensive
traffic in confiscated Jewels through
Germany to Holland markets, accord'
lng to the Handelsblad, which com
ments on a charge that the com
munist member Llaser of . the Ana
I sterdam council" offered the Russian
1 emperor's diamonds for sale.
50 Year Old
Cache Found
Stefansson Discovers Supplies
Left in 1850 to Aid III
Fated Franklin.
RECALLS TRAGEDY OF ARCTIC
Food and Clothing Found to Be Almost
in aa Good Condition as When
Placed There by McClln
tock in 1853.
A fishing bout arriving in Boston, Mass., a mass of ice after a trip from
the banks. The fishermen suffered severely and fished ouly with the great
est difficulty. . i . ..
Invents Typewriter on
Which to Write Music
. Wichita, .'Kan. Will Kansas
wonders never cease? A type
writer on which one can suc
cessfully write music Is the In
vention of H. P. Flauth, a com
poser of this city.
The machine Is said to have
135 characters which can be
written on, below or above the
staff. The typewriter differs
from the ordinary model only In
that the printing surface of the
roller is flat. (
Flauth Is understood to have
worked more than 18 years cn
the Invention.
New York. Of interest to all who
have heard the call of the North and
the lure of exploration Is the an
nouncement that Vilhjalmur Stefans
son found the abandoned cache of Sir
Leopold McClintock, commander of
the Intrepid, In the Arctic after a
lapse of more than half a century. It
was Sir Leopold McClintock, In com
mand of the ship Intrepid, who found
traces of the voyage of that unfortun
ate explorer Sir John Franklin. He
built a cache on Melville Island, pre
sumably between 1850 and 1854, when
in quest of tidings of Sir John Frank
Un and the members of his Ill-fated
expedition in the Arctic. w
Located by 8tefansaon.
The McClintock cache was located
by Stefansson, who reports that he
found everything In almost as good
condition as when placed there In
1853. Articles of clothing be found
particularly well preserved and much
better in quality than the clothing of
today, and the food and supplies left
In the Arctic cache by Commander
McClintock and bis men also were
well preserved, despite the severe
weather known to prevail In the Arc
tic regions.
Documents and a list of the con
tents of a cache built In the far North
by Commander McClintock and other
data also were found by Capt. Joseph
E. Bernler, In command of the "Arc
tic" expedition of 1908-1900. A tablet
erected on Dealy Island by Captain
Kellett and Commander McClintock
In 3852-1853, whose vessels were lost,
also was found by Captain Bernler
and re-erected, with his own tablet,
on Tarry's Kock, commemorating the
aanexlng of the Arctic archipelago In
1909. On the tablet found by Captnln
Bernler were the names of the ships
navigated by the explorers "H. M. S.
Resolute, Henry Kellett, Esq., C. B.,
n. M. S. V. Intrepid. F. L. McClintock,
Esq., Comm. Wintered 1852-1853. S.
82 12 (true). Door of Depot House
(with direction given). Record will
be found In house."
"Lieutenant McClintock," says Cap
tain Bernler, who was commander of
the Intrepid and second In command
to Captain Kellett, early showed his
great activity by making sledge Jour
neys of a hazardous nature across
Melville Island from the locality In
which the Resolute and Intrepid were
frozen In near Dealy Island. Tha
tracings made by McClintock around
the shores of Melville , Island and
Prince Patrick Island, on foot, added
many hundreda of miles to the coast
surveyed under Belcher and Kellett.
The cairns established by him be
tween 1852 and 1854 are mentioned in
his reports with the papers found at
Dealy Island.
Built Half Century Ago.
It I? probably one of these calrna
that was discovered by Stefansson
and built by McClintock more than
half a century ago.
Continuing, Captain Bernler says of
McClintock: "His subsequent career
In navigating the waters In , Lady
Franklin's yacht Fox of Peel sound, .
Regent Inlet, Bellot strait. King Wil
liam Island and around Montreal is
land and Boothia peninsula are well
known. HI brilliant achievements -
and discovery of definite information
regarding the fate of Franklin point
to htm as the most fortunate of all .
voyagers wno pursued tne most re-,
markable search known In the his
tory of navigation." , ,
One of the doenraents left by Mc
Clintock In a copper tube and. nnder a
pile of rocks was found by Captain''
Bernler. Another was found outside
from Its resting place by a polar
bear, for It bore the marks of the paw
of an animal of considerable size.
Much of tbe Information found tn
these documents waa utllUed by Cap
tain Bernler while cruising through
northern seas In the Arctic.
Enjoyed His Own Funeral.
Hlllsboro, -Pa. James H.: Houser.
seventy-five years of age. Is all ready
to die now. In fact, he has already
burled himself. Believing funerals
should be enjoyed while llvtng. he haa
had his staged bere recently. Many
friends attended. They sang "Nearer,
sly God, to Thee," and a lot of other
funeral songs after a minister deliv
ered Houser's burial services. Houner
has prepared his own obituary. lhe
ceremony was held at a chnrcb and at
the Houser home,